MIUI Camera code suggests the Redmi K30 Pro may launch in India under the POCO brand

Xiaomi originally spun off Redmi as an independent brand to focus on the budget segment. However, they are already vying for a share in the flagship segment, thanks to the recently launched Redmi K30 Pro (code-name “lmi”) and Redmi K30 Pro Zoom Edition (code-name “lmipro”). We even stumbled upon the names of the phone duo quite a while before the official launch event in China. We have now discovered evidence that the Redmi K30 Pro will launch in India, possibly under the POCO brand. We still don’t know if it’ll be called the POCO F2 necessarily, but since the Redmi K30 Pro is a flagship smartphone with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865, it’s a likely possibility.

Thanks to XDA Junior Member kacskrz for first finding these hints in the MIUI 11 code. He shared his findings with us and we confirmed that all of the code and files he found are indeed present in the latest MIUI Camera app. Note that the MIUI Camera app is fairly obfuscated, so the method names we will mention below are likely not the true names of the methods.

It all started with decompiling the latest version of the MIUI Camera app in the latest MIUI 11 beta. We discovered a new method called Bi that returns true if b.kb and Build.IS_INTERNATIONAL_BUILD return true.

Digging a bit into b.kb, we have found that it returns true if the model name matches either “lmi” or “lmiin.”

“lmi’, as mentioned previously, is the code-name for the Redmi K30 Pro. Presumably, “lmiin” will be the code-name for the Indian variant of the Redmi K30 Pro, as “in” at the end of Xiaomi’s device code-names tend to signify this.

The method Bi is called in another method called getCustomWatermarkDefault, where the string identified by the hexadecimal value 0x7F1000FF is also called.

0x7F1000FF corresponds to a constant named device_poco_watermark_default_text, which contains the string “SHOT ON POCO Phone”.

Thus, the device code-named “lmiin”, which we anticipate to be the Indian version of the Redmi K30 Pro, is expected to display the watermark “SHOT ON POCO PHONE”. This tells us the Redmi K30 Pro may have POCO-branding when it is sold in India. This is ultimately not surprising since the Redmi K30 4G was rebranded as the POCO X2 in India. We would hope that the true successor to the legendary POCO F1 (review) will feature a flagship SoC from Qualcomm, and it looks like that is about to happen.

Here are the specifications of the Chinese Redmi K30 Pro in case you’re wondering what to expect from the POCO F2:

Redmi K30 Pro Specifications

Specification	Redmi K30 Pro
Dimensions and Weight	163.3 x 75.4 x 8.9 mm 218 g
Display	6.67″ FHD+ AMOLED 180Hz touch response rate Max brightness of 800 nits and peak brightness of 1200 nits HDR10+ support Notchless display with pop-up camera Corning Gorilla Glass 5 on front and back
SoC	Qualcomm Snapdragon 865: 1x Kryo 585 (ARM Cortex-A77-based) Prime core @ 2.84GHz 3x Kryo 585 (ARM Cortex-A77-based) Performance core @ 2.4GHz 4x Kryo 385 (ARM Cortex A55-based) Efficiency cores @ 1.8GHz Adreno 650
RAM and Storage	Redmi K30 Pro: 6GB LPDDR4X + 128GB UFS 3.0 8GB LPDDR5 + 128GB UFS 3.1 8GB + 256GB Redmi K30 Pro Zoom Edition: 8GB + 128GB 8GB + 256GB
Battery & Charging	4,700 mAh battery 33W fast charging
Rear Camera	Photo: Primary: 64MP Sony IMX686 sensor, 1/1.7” sensor, 0.8μm pixels, EIS, OIS Secondary: 5MP, Macro Zoom Edition: 8MP, telephoto, 3x optical zoom, 30x digital zoom, support 50mm macro, OIS, EIS, four-axis image stabilization Tertiary: 13MP, Wide-Angle Camera, 123° Quaternary: 2MP, depth sensor Video: 8K video recording (resolution of 7680 × 4320)
Front Camera	20MP
Other Features	3.5mm headphone jack Wi-Fi 6 Bluetooth 5.1 IP53 water and dust resistance 5G Multi-link Game Turbo 3.0 with voice changer Multi-function NFC IR Blaster
Android Version	MIUI 11 based on Android 10

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Thanks to PNF Software for providing us a license to use JEB Decompiler, a professional-grade reverse engineering tool for Android applications.

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Kernel sources available for Motorola One Zoom and Android 10 update of Moto G7 Plus

Despite all the changes that Motorola has gone through, one aspect where the brand has continued to excel in is that their devices are suitable for custom ROM and kernel development. If you can’t get an update anymore from Motorola, then there’s a chance there may be a custom ROM for your phone on our forums. Motorola is generally good at releasing kernel source code for all the updates they put out, even if they may take some time to do so. The company has recently released the kernel source code for the Motorola One Zoom, and they’ve also released the kernel source code corresponding to the Motorola Moto G7 Plus’ Android 10 update.

The Motorola One Zoom (code-named “parker”) was announced 6 months back with features like 3x optical zoom, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 675 processor, quad cameras with a 48MP primary sensor, and more. This release corresponds to the phone’s current Android 9 Pie software, as the phone does not, as of yet, have an Android 10 update available.

Motorola One Zoom Kernel Sources | Motorola One Zoom XDA Forum

Next, the kernel source code for the Android 10 update of the Motorola Moto G7 Plus (code-named “lake”) is now available. Stable Android 10 began rolling out for the device since late January, and it is good to see that ROM and kernel developers can now work with the latest sources. Oddly, the kernel source code recently released for the device roughly 3 days ago were for the Android Pie release. We can excuse Motorola for this delay, though, since no company can currently work at full capacity due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Motorola Moto G7 Plus Android 10 Kernel Sources | Moto G7 Plus XDA Forum

We hope that the release of updated kernel source code for both devices can boost development and we can see TWRP, custom ROMs, and kernels arise soon.

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Google News 5.20 tests letting you share “full coverage” links to trending news

A while back, Google took a big step to simplify their newsfeed experience with the revamped Google News Android app. It was one of the first apps to sport Google’s new Material Theme design, and even then, it has matured a lot since it first launched. One appeal of the app includes the “Full Coverage” feature, which provides you with a handful of sources from major publications on a particular topic so you can learn more about a news topic from every narrative and perspective possible. Google is now testing an option to get this Full Coverage to more people.

An APK teardown can often predict features that may arrive in a future update of an application, but it is possible that any of the features we mention here may not make it in a future release. This is because these features are currently unimplemented in the live build and may be pulled at any time by the developers in a future build.

In version 5.20 of the Google News app, Google is testing the ability to let you share the Full Coverage section of any news topic as a link. We’ve managed to activate this feature on our end, and a “share” button is now visible while checking out Full Coverages inside the app, which allows you to share that section with other users through Google apps or other third-party apps as a link.

Sharing a Full Coverage inside the Google News app (link here).

The ability to share a link to the Full Coverage page of a story is a feature known internally as “Story 360”, and Google might be introducing it soon to end-users through a server-side update after it’s announced. The featured image shown at the top of this article is a graphic that we pulled from the latest APK, and Google will show this graphic to the user in the app to explain how this works. As of now, though, this feature is not available and we don’t know when it will be. Keep an eye on our coverage to know when this feature and the other features we recently found will roll out.

Google News: Top World & Local News Headlines (Free, Google Play) →

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Samsung and Qualcomm unveil new chips to make true wireless earbuds better

Truly wireless earbuds have become one of the most popular electronics to buy since many OEMs have removed the headphone jacks from their flagship smartphones. Two of the biggest ongoing concerns over true wireless earbuds are audio quality and battery life. Thankfully, manufacturers are quick to improve their technologies for truly wireless earbuds, so they already offer much better audio quality and longer-lasting battery life than they did a few years ago. Samsung and Qualcomm are two of the biggest companies involved in making components for TWS earbuds, and both have just announced new chips for improving longevity and audio quality.

Samsung’s MUA01 and MUB01 PMICs

The first announcement comes from the Korean manufacturer. Samsung is detailing a new Power Management Integrated Circuit (PMIC) which is already present in the Samsung Galaxy Buds+ wireless earbuds. The MUA01 and MUB01 PMICs, which are respectively for the charging case and the earbuds itself, are intended to make True Wireless Stereo (TWS) devices last longer. The press release mentions that Samsung was able to put up to ten different components together into a single PMIC, cutting the size down to half compared to its earlier alternatives. The smaller size of the units leaves more room for the battery, which translates into better battery life. Both of the units come with a microcontroller unit and embedded flash storage, which makes updating and/or modifying their firmware easier. MUA01, the PMIC for the charging case, includes support for both wired and wireless charging (under the Wireless Power Consortium’s Qi 1.2.4 standard).

Source: Samsung

Qualcomm’s QCC514X and QCC304X Bluetooth SoCs

As for Qualcomm, they’re unveiling new Bluetooth system-on-chips for truly wireless earbuds. QCC514X and QCC304X are the newest SoCs from the company for premium and entry-level TWS devices, respectively. Both of them come with Voice Assistant support and Qualcomm’s Hybrid Active Noise Cancellation (Hybrid ANC) on the hardware level. The latter allows for low-latency leak-through, meaning that you’ll be able to take advantage of noise cancellation in airplanes as well as when you’re just walking down the street. Qualcomm also promises “premium wireless sound and voice quality.” In addition, the two SoCs support Qualcomm’s new TrueWireless Mirroring technology. According to the press release, with this technology, “one earbud is wirelessly connected to the phone via Bluetooth while the other bud mirrors the connected bud and is engineered to deliver a rapid swap under several scenarios.” The premium QCC514X supports always-on voice activation to trigger the digital assistant, while the entry-level QCC304X only supports push-to-talk.

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Bring back the notification ticker with Super Status Bar

It seems like heads-up notifications have been with us for forever now, even though they were actually introduced with Android 5.0 Lollipop all the way back in 2014. Before then, though, we used to have something called a “notification ticker” that would show a preview of incoming notifications within the status bar when they arrived. Although this feature has long been forgotten, many have tried to bring back this functionality using third-party apps. We previously detailed a workaround using the automation app Tasker, but if you want a solution that’s a bit simpler to set up, check out an app called “Super Status Bar.”

For the most part, Super Status Bar serves as a status bar replacement that overlays itself on top of your existing status bar. This means it doesn’t require root access to work since it doesn’t actually replace your existing status bar. Even so, it enables a lot of customization to the UI and behavior, so there’s a lot of stuff you can do with the app besides simply enabling a notification ticker. That includes enabling a double-tap to sleep gesture, quickly changing the brightness and volume levels by swiping along the status bar, styling your status bar icons, showing a battery bar, and much more. There’s a premium version of the app that costs $1.99 and unlocks all gesture actions, styles, and lets you customize the indicator, ticker notification, battery bar, and colors.

Super Status Bar can also hide the heads-up notifications for you if you grant the app the WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS permission via ADB. We tested this on our OPPO Find X2 Pro running ColorOS 7.1 based on Android 10, and surprisingly, the app worked well despite the extensive customizations that OPPO makes to Android.

If you are interested in checking out Super Status Bar, then you can download it from the Google Play Store link right now. Also check out the developer’s forum thread on XDA if you want to leave any direct feedback!

Super Status Bar - Gestures, Notifications & more (Free⁺, Google Play) →

Super Status Bar XDA Forum Thread

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Google Play Movies prepares to add hundreds of ad-supported free movies

There are hundreds of video streaming services that allow you to watch your favorite TV series and movies at home, such as Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, and more recently, Disney+. This is one area where Google doesn’t really compete. While the other aforementioned services allow you to pay a monthly fee to access all of their video content, Google Play Movies & TV is a marketplace where you can rent and buy digital movies and TV shows individually. However, Google seems to be planning a few changes to boost adoption, in particular, a free-with-ads scheme for movies.

An APK teardown can often predict features that may arrive in a future update of an application, but it is possible that any of the features we mention here may not make it in a future release. This is because these features are currently unimplemented in the live build and may be pulled at any time by the developers in a future build.

As we mentioned before, the app currently only allows you to rent and buy movies and TV series, with just a very few exceptions of movies and shows that are straight-up made free. However, in version v4.18.37 of the Android application, we spotted a few strings hinting that Google will introduce a new free-with-ads selection of movies. One string, in particular, alludes to the presence of “hundreds of movies, just a few ads,” which suggests a big chunk of the app’s library may be made available in this new format. It’s not immediately clear, however, whether all of Google’s library will become available for free-with-ads or only just a few movies. Nevertheless, it would change radically the way the service works currently as well as make it a viable competitor to other streaming services.

<string name="athome_add_birthdate_to_watch">Add birthdate to watch</string>
<string name="athome_free_with_ads">Free with ads</string>
<string name="athome_free_with_ads_description">Hundreds of movies, just a few ads</string>
<string name="athome_introduce_free_movies">Introducing</string>
<string name="athome_watch_free_with_ads">Watch free with ads</string>

This feature is not available as of yet, but given how Google normally works, we could see this roll out anytime to Google Play Movies as a server-side update following an announcement.

Google Play Movies & TV (Free, Google Play) →

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Join the Huawei P40 Livestream Discussion for a Chance to Win One for Yourself

The Huawei P40 launch is here, as one of the most anticipated phones from Huawei in 2020. There is a great deal of excitement surrounding this phone launch, and Huawei invites you to experience it live.

Huawei will draw one lucky winner to win a new Huawei P40. Here is how you enter:

• Visit and join Huawei Community global site
• Join the P40 Launch Discussion 
• Leave a comment and participate in the lucky draw

The deadline for giveaway submissions is March 28th, 2020 at 23:59 (UTC+8). No more than 20 entries will be accepted per person, as to avoid spamming.

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