It's generally easy to add Substratum support to a custom ROM, but LineageOS has made some underlying changes that make this difficult. To remedy this, XDA Forum Moderator The Flash has come up with a series of reference repos to help with forks & local builds.
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Everyone has their own story of how they found their way onto the XDA-Developers Forums.
Most of you probably found the XDA Forums when looking up how to unlock your bootloader, root your phone, and/or flash a custom ROM or kernel. We have forums for a huge variety of devices from many different manufacturers (and we're always expanding, too!) While newer versions of Android have reduced the draw towards tinkering with custom software on your phone, development is still going strong on our forums with a wide variety of guides, mods, kernels, ROMs, apps, and more being published by users like you.
But it costs money to run a forum, provide free hosting for files, and add new features for developers and users alike. That's why use a variety of ad formats to monetize the site, but we know many of you don't like ads, so we introduced XDA Ad-Free so you can skip the ads while still showing your support for XDA. Using adblock is always your right as an internet citizen, but it doesn't help us in any way.
Now, we have another way for you to support XDA: by sending us a tip. And if your tip leads to us publishing an article on the XDA-Developers News Portal, you'll get a month of …
While we would love to be omnipotent and know everything that's going on in the world of Android, it's simply impossible for the XDA Portal Team to know every little detail. We have our own sources and tools we refer to so we can stay on top of things, but there are some things that we need the eyes and ears of users like you to uncover.
Things like OTA updates for some phones, Google application server-side updates bringing new features, or something else you've noticed that you think deserves immediate attention are difficult for us to independently discover because we simply don't have every single device in every single region nor do we have enough devices to ensure that we'll always be part of a software update roll out.
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If you are lucky enough to own both a PlayStation 4 console and a Sony Xperia smartphone or tablet, then you might be aware of a service available to you: Remote Play, an app that enables you to play PS4 games on your smartphone by streaming it through your console.
Now, Remote Play on smartphones is kind of a situational feature — it's extremely bounded by your internet connection speeds on both your console and your smartphone, and setting it up right can be quite a hassle without a gameclip to hold your phone and controller together. Given it "necessitates" WiFi (it can be spoofed, though), it's also likely you'll be playing it from home anyway. But it's still useful as it enables you to continue your videogame even if someone is hoarding the TV, or if you want to game in a different room or while on the toilet. What's more, you can still reply to texts and such by using Nougat's multi-window, for example, without interrupting your game. Or, you can display floating videos on top of your game to multi-task while gaming — the opportunities are endless.
While the service is available on Mac and Windows, the Android application is sadly only available to Sony devices when searching for it on the Play Store. What's more, it will also not run on your non-Sony smartphone even if you manage to get your hands on the APK. Finally, while the DualShock 4 can be natively recognized by Android (bluetooth), driver and compatibility issues might render it obsolete if you even get Remote Play to run on your device anyway! There are some practical workarounds to this problem, though, put forth by forum users at XDA. Specifically, I'll refer to a short guide by XDA Senior Member leolawliet (thanks a lot!) to which I'll add some more detail, plus some tips and a short review of the experience. If you have Magisk (root) or are willing to flash Magisk, check out this guide to get your PS4 game on your smartphone!
ro.build.tags=release-keys. Alternatively, you can install the Magisk module provided by leolawliet in order to add it to your build.prop Also, a recent Magisk update has reportedly made it so that no changes are necessary. Either way, and as listed here, there are a couple of ways in which you can approach this should it not work for you from the get go. Regardless of which path you take, be sure to enable the Framework module and that the build.prop change is there, and reboot your device.This will make it so that your DualShock 4 will remain connected to the PlayStation 4 and be able to operate it while your screen is casting to your device. The only limitation is, of course, that you'll be constrained to bluetooth range. I found that the range wasn't much of a problem, though walls can get in the way and when being two or three rooms and walls apart from the console, microphone input and output would start to stutter and cut out (input lag wouldn't noticeably vary with changes in distance, though). Hopefully you won't need this workaround at all.
Once everything is setup, connecting to your PS4 for streaming is as easy as launching the app and pressing the PlayStation button on your controller to ensure that it connects as well. You are able to steam at a standard or high-framerate (30 or 60), with options for resolution including 480p, 540p, 720p, and 1080p. I personally found 720p to work excellently for my usecases, and 1080p also works really well for certain games or scenarios. User reports online also state that playing 30FPS games in high-framerate mode can reduce input lag. If you are playing a simple, indie game like "Risk of Rain", you can expect smooth and solid gameplay with no input lag and framelosses. I've also been able to play titles like Dark Souls III and even Battlefield 1 with no issues (except sub-standard framerate on the latter, as I was playing at 30FPS). I do have a 100mbps download and 20mbps upload connection, though while monitoring my internet I never found the PS4 nor the phone taking up much traffic, not even when prioritizing either device (you should prioritize the PlayStation 4, in this case).
I also use a gameclip to attach my controller on top of my DualShock 4 — the setup is a tad clunky as it is much heavier than your standard joystick setup, though at the right angle the additional weight is very manageable (this, of course, depends on your device). Even at 1080p, graphics fidelity is not quite as sharp as on your regular PS4, but the viewing distance helps hide some of those imperfections. If you have an AMOLED display, you'll be able to experience dark areas in games like you've never been able to before (assuming you don't have an outstanding OLED TV), something I really appreciate in titles like Bloodborne. Ultimately, though, you want to find the right balance between graphics quality and input lag — with a solid internet connection, you should be able to have unnoticeable delay at 720p, but I'd personally adjust the resolution to make gameplay as responsive as possible. Even 540p on a 5.5-inch display doesn't look too bad, but at 720p you would be getting more pixels-per-inch than the Nintendo Switch if it wasn't for the slight compression and artifacts introduced by streaming the game.
Some of my favorite use cases involve playing games while lounging in the kitchen with my girlfriend, when taking a quick break at my office, or while on the toilet (because why not?). I also resort to this when my girlfriend is watching shows our main television. I also really appreciate that I can simply hold the multi-tasking menu and instantly initiate splitscreen to use another app while monitoring the game. This is especially useful during loading screens, or while waiting for a lobby to ready up — if you leave the application without multi-window active, you will have to re-initiate Remote Play, but the game will keep doing it's thing in the background (your PS4). You can, for example, browse reddit while waiting for your co-operator to join your session, or reply to a quick text on an IM app. Finally, while watching videos on multi-window while playing is impractical, video overlays offered by apps like Twitch will not interrupt Remote Play in any way, allowing you to keep playing videogames while, for instance, watching other people play videogames.
We hope you find this guide useful — once again, huge props to the Sony Framework module and XDA Senior Member leolawliet for his workaround and short guide. See you in The Ringed City!
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In the war of home assistants, Google and Amazon have been duking it out in an effort to own your living room. Both companies have launched their own products that launch their respective virtual assistants, Google Assistant and Alexa, at the convenience of a voice command.
Google wants to expand the areas in which it competes against Amazon's Alexa. Amazon's offerings have been available for purchase in the U.K., which meant that Amazon had a regional edge with a chance to capture the market (however big the market for home assistants in the U.K. may be).
By bringing Google Home to the U.K., Google is finally expanding its presence to a territory outside of the U.S.A. The company says that it will partner with more of the U.K.'s favorite applications and services to give its customers the best possible experience. Google has also hidden a few British treats for its U.K. customers to discover, encouraging its customers to ask Google Home its favorite hobbies and foods. We can only guess what the answers to those will be.
Google is also bringing Google Wifi to the U.K. Google Wifi is a home WiFi router that works with your modem to bring security and simplicity to your home WiFi network. Google Wifi utilizes the mesh WiFi technology to provide the best coverage when utilizing multiple Google Wifi devices. You also get features such as WiFi pausing which can help you control the connected devices and their network consumption.
Google Home and Google WiFi will be available in offline stores and the Google Store in the U.K. starting April 6th. Google Home will cost £129 for one device, while additional colored bases will be available for £18 for the fabric and £36 for the metal variants. Google Wifi will be available for £129 in a 1-pack and for £229 in a 2-pack.
Do you look forward to purchasing Google Home and Google Wifi? Let us know in the comments below!
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Many users prefer using more than one audio mod to get the best music experience possible from their devices. However, this sometimes lead to compatibility issues due to multiple changes to the audio configuration file. Luckily, XDA Senior Member ahrion has whipped up a Magisk module which makes it possible to install multiple audio mods without any conflict.
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If you're not satisfied by the sound output of your smartphone, you might want to check out this Magisk module created by XDA Senior Member androidexpert35 which enables the "High performance mode" of the in-built DAC on Snapdragon-powered devices to give you the best music quality possible.
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