Samsung rolls out home screen widgets for the Galaxy Buds and Buds+

The Galaxy Buds and Galaxy Buds+ plugins for the Samsung Galaxy Wearable app are reportedly getting an update that brings new home screen widgets to help users easily control the TWS earbuds. As per a recent post on Reddit, there are two new widgets for each pair of wireless earbuds. The first widget shows the current battery level of both the earbuds and the charging case, while the second widget allows you to easily turn on the Ambient Sound mode and lock the touchpad.

As you can see in the attached image, both the new widgets have two different themes —  white and black — and the Widget settings also give you the option to manually set the opacity of the widgets. Additionally, the Widget settings also include a toggle that will automatically match the widget’s theme with the system theme. This means that whenever you switch on the One UI dark mode on your Samsung device, the widget will automatically switch to the black theme and vice-versa.

Galaxy Buds plug in New features pic.twitter.com/TJkjhRRk7G

— Sleepy Kuma (@Kuma_Sleepy) June 2, 2020

In case you haven’t received the new update yet, you can follow the Play Store link below and download the latest Galaxy Buds or Galaxy Buds+ plugin on your device. Max Weinbach from our team has already received the update on his device and has shared the screenshot included in the featured image. As a few comments on the original Reddit thread point out, the update isn’t available for all users right now and you might have to wait for some time before the update finally arrives for your device.

Galaxy Buds Plugin (Free, Google Play) →

Galaxy Buds+ Plugin (Free, Google Play) →

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Source: Reddit

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[Update: Possibly this month] Brave Browser Android dev says the team would like to add extension support in 2020

Update 1 (06/02/2020 @ 02:30 AM ET): Brave Browser might finally add extension support this month. Scroll to the bottom for more information. The article as published on December 17, 2019, is preserved below.

When it comes to web browsers, Android offers users a variety of different options. Along with Google Chrome, Android users have access to a plethora of great third-party browsers like Kiwi, Vivaldi, and Brave. These browsers offer some amazing features like native ad-blocking, Chrome extension support, cryptojacking protection, and more. But what helps Brave stand out is that it gives you the option to support your favorite websites (like XDA) by watching ads. For this reason alone, Brave ranks among the best third-party browser apps out there. However, its lack of extension support forces several users to rely on other browsers as well. But this might change in the near future.

In a recent comment on Reddit, a developer from Brave Browser’s Android team has revealed that the browser might get extension support next year. The comment was posted in response to a query submitted by a user and in response, the developer wrote, “We would like to add extensions support on Q1-Q2 2020”. While this still doesn’t confirm that the browser will get extension support in the first half of next year, it does reveal that the team is willing to work towards adding the feature. According to the official Brave Browser FAQ, the company didn’t add extensions support in the browser as it introduces API and performance limits while also raising security concerns. Nonetheless, it’s great to see that the team is willing to work on bringing a highly requested feature to the browser.

Source: Reddit

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Update: Brave Browser could get extensions support on Android as early as this month

Developers working on Brave Browser have a working prototype of the browser with extension support. They are targeting a release as early as the end of this month.

yes, we are targeting end of June. That’s a working prototype pic.twitter.com/7Hhn3rdkPJ

— Serg (@SergZh_) May 19, 2020

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Nubia Play may launch internationally as the Red Magic 5G Lite

Shortly after the launch of the flagship Red Magic 5G in March this year, Nubia unveiled a new mid-range gaming smartphone called the Nubia Play 5G in China. Powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 765G chip, the Nubia Play 5G featured a 6.65-inch FHD+ Super AMOLED display with an impressive 144Hz refresh rate and 240Hz touch sampling rate. The device also packed in up to 8GB of LPDDR4z RAM and up to 256GB of UFS 2.1 storage, along with a massive 5,100mAh battery featuring 30W fast charging support.

The Nubia Play 5G went on sale in China at a starting price of CNY 2,399 (~$340) on April 24th, but the company has still not revealed any official information about its international release. However, thanks to a recent tweet from leakster Sudhanshu Ambhore (@Sudhanshu1414), we now know that the device will soon be launched internationally as the Red Magic 5G Lite. The tweet cites certification listings of the device spotted on the Global Certification Forum (GCF) and Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC), which confirm that Nubia will be launching the mid-range Nubia Play 5G as a “Lite” variant of its flagship Red Magic 5G.

As per GCF & EEC, the “nubia Play 5G” will globally launch as “Red Magic 5G Lite”.

This phone was recently launched in China for 2399 Yuan with some crazy good specs.
Snapdragon 765G, AMOLED display with 144Hz rr & 240Hz tsr, 5100mAh, 30W fast charge.#RedMagic5GLite pic.twitter.com/cjAnEFWuXb

— Sudhanshu (@Sudhanshu1414) June 1, 2020

Since the device has already received certification for an international release, we expect Nubia to officially launch the Red Magic 5G Lite in the next couple of weeks. Based on the device’s pricing in Nubia’s home market, we suspect that the Red Magic 5G Lite might be launched at a starting price of around $350-400 internationally.

Nubia Red Magic 5G Lite specifications

Specification	Nubia Red Magic 5G Lite
Dimensions and Weight	171.7 x 78.5 x 9.1 mm 21og
Display	6.65″ FHD+ (2340 x 1080) Super AMOLED; Notchless display with thin top bezel 144Hz refresh rate 240Hz Touch Response Rate 4096 auto brightness adjustment levels
SoC	Qualcomm Snapdragon 765G: 1x Kryo 475 (ARM Cortex-A76-based) Prime core @ 2.4GHz 1x Kryo 475 (ARM Cortex-A76-based) Performance core @ 2.2GHz 6x (ARM Cortex-A55-based) Efficiency cores @ 1.8GHz Adreno 620 GPU
RAM and Storage	6GB LPDDR4X + 128GB UFS 2.1 8GB + 128GB 8GB + 256GB
Battery & Charging	5,100 mAh battery 30W fast charging via USB PD
Rear Camera	Photo: Primary: 48MP Sony IMX582, f/1.79 Secondary: 8MP wide-angle Tertiary: 2MP Super Macro Quaternary: 2MP Depth Sensor
Front Camera	12MP selfie shooter
Other Features	3.5mm headphone jack Bluetooth 5.1 Dual-frequency GPS 5G SA/NSA Pressure Sensitive capacitive buttons on side frame In-Display Fingerprint Scanner
Android Version	Nubia UI 8.0 based on Android 10

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Source: GCF, EEC

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Unofficial LineageOS 17.1 brings Android 10 to the Realme 1

As most of you should already know, the Realme brand has its roots in OPPO, which is itself owned by BBK Electronics. The Realme 1, the first smartphone under the Realme brand from before the company spun off from OPPO, ran ColorOS, a customized Android software designed by none other than OPPO itself. To differentiate their devices from their parent company, Realme introduced a new interface called “Realme UI” which is built on top of Android 10. However, the OEM has no plans to deliver the Realme UI/Android 10 update to the Realme 1, although the phone is still getting regular security updates on its Android 9 Pie-based ColorOS 6 firmware.

Realme 1 XDA Forums

As expected, though, XDA’s aftermarket development community has come to the rescue. XDA Senior Member Invincible-Venom has compiled an unofficial version of LineageOS 17.1 for the Realme 1 which brings a close-to-stock Android 10 experience to owners of this phone. The availability of the kernel source code as well as the existence of an official bootloader unlocking method certainly helped the developer in this venture. Apart from a few quirks such as broken USB tethering and SELinux set to permissive (which is a major security issue we hope to see resolved soon), the current builds can be used as a daily driver.

It is worth mentioning that this particular build of LineageOS is a source-built ROM and not a Generic System Image (GSI), though arguably many custom ROMs these days have roots in GSI. Both the CPH1859 and the CPH1861 variants of the Realme 1 are supported by the developer. You need to flash the latest version of the stock firmware (CPH1861EX_11_C.49) and use the TWRP compiled the same developer before installing this ROM. There are some known incompatibility issues with Magisk, so users are advised to stick with Magisk versions 20.1 or 20.3.

Unofficial LineageOS 17.1 for the Realme 1: Download ||| XDA Discussion Thread

The associated device tree and the vendor tree are available on GitHub. A built-in OTA updater was initially planned as well, but the developer has abandoned it for the time being. Now that a somewhat-stable version of LineageOS 17.1 for the Realme 1 is here, we hope to see the fruits of this effort available to the community in the near future.

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TCL’s next entry in the TCL 10 series may be a 5G phone for Europe

TCL recently launched the TCL 10 series of devices in the United States for under $500. The 10 series is TCL’s second attempt at selling self-branded smartphones after the TCL Plex. Available now are the TCL 10L and TCL 10 Pro, both of which we reviewed a few weeks ago, but the company also announced the TCL 10 5G, which is poised to be one of the cheapest 5G smartphones in the U.S. when it launches later this year. Thanks to a new listing on Google’s Android Enterprise Solutions Directory, we’ve learned that there may be another new device in the TCL 10 series, the TCL 10 SE.

Earlier today, the TCL 10 SE made was added to Google’s Android Enterprise Solutions Directory. This is a list of devices that Google maintains that people can use to find out what enterprise features a particular device supports. Not every device added to this list is officially certified as an Android Enterprise Recommended device, though.

In any case, according to the filing, the TCL 10 SE has a 6.5-inch display, 4GB of RAM, 128GB of storage, and runs Android 10. It also has a fingerprint scanner and supports NFC connectivity. The filing also includes a (rather low-resolution) image which gives us a glimpse at the design of the smartphone. Based on the render, we can see that the TCL 10 SE will have a pretty thick chin at the bottom and a teardrop-shaped display notch cutout. The device shown in this render doesn’t match the TCL 10L, 10 Pro, or 10 5G, so we’re pretty certain that it’s a new device entirely. The “February 26” and “20:20” time shown on the lock screen widget suggests that TCL may have intended for this device to be shown off at MWC 2020 followed by a launch shortly after, but obviously, things haven’t gone as planned this year.

The reason we think the TCL 10 SE is headed to Europe is because of the phone’s model number, T766H_EEA. The ‘EEA’ at the end of the model stands for European Economic Area and is a common code for phone OEMs to designate devices or software builds made for Europe. As for evidence suggesting this device will support 5G connectivity, in the screenshot uploaded to Google’s Android Enterprise Solutions Directory, we can see a 5G icon in the statusbar. As this is an official render of the device from TCL, we don’t think the placement of a 5G icon is an accident, though anything is a possibility.

The design of the TCL 10 SE does seem to be very budget-oriented, so while we aren’t sure about its pricing or chipset, it could be running something like the rumored 5G Snapdragon 6-series chip (via GSMArena) or the MediaTek Dimensity 800, although no smartphones have launched with the latter chipset outside of China yet.

We reached out to TCL about this listing and a TCL spokesperson gave us the following statement: “We cannot comment on rumored or unannounced products.”

TCL may have quite an interesting device in the works if they manage to keep the price really low. 5G as a technology is here to stay, and any phone helping to democratize the technology is welcome. TCL has done a great job of that with the TCL 10 5G which will be launching for around €400 very soon.

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Bootloader unlocking method has been found for the Sprint LG G8 ThinQ

The LG G8 ThinQ received its stable Android 10 update back in December of 2019. The Sprint variant of the phone (model number LM-G820UM0) quickly followed suit as it picked up the same update a month later. However, the Korean smartphone OEM hasn’t whitelisted this device for official bootloader unlocking, thus users can’t install third-party custom ROMs like LineageOS or even flash a Generic System Image (GSI) on the carrier-branded LG G8 ThinQ. Thanks to XDA Members BrandonB1218, j4nn, vlad48, Antintin, Luis Rosado, and Brigantti, there’s now have a working bootloader unlock method for the Sprint LG G8 ThinQ. However, the method isn’t as straightforward as one would expect.

LG G8 ThinQ Forums

The method relies on a privilege escalation exploit that XDA Recognized Developer j4nn recently used to achieve temporary root access on the LG V50 ThinQ. Porting the exploit to the LG G8 ThinQ was rather trivial due to the internal similarities between these two phones. The next step was to utilize a leaked engineering bootloader from the LG V50 ThinQ that allows you to unlock the bootloader without generating any token from LG’s unlock server. You can then gain permanent root access as well by patching the stock boot image with Magisk.

In case you are running the latest 20f build of the stock Android 10 firmware on your device, you have to downgrade to 2oe (or lower) by switching to the inactive slot as the vulnerability used by the root exploit has been patched on newer builds. To make things easy, the community has worked on a package consisting of all the necessary components for carrying out a downgrade, a script to backup low-level bootloader related partitions, and a TWRP build for the LG G8 ThinQ. We strongly recommend you thoroughly follow the guide linked below because messing with your device’s partition may not end well for inexperienced users.

Sprint LG G8 ThinQ Bootloader Unlock — XDA Download and Discussion Thread

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OnePlus Launcher 4.4 announced with a new App Switcher and Quick Search gesture

OnePlus has been working on bringing some big changes to the OnePlus Launcher. As you probably know, the OnePlus Launcher is the company’s default launcher that ships on its devices. It’s much more than just a 3rd-party launcher you would install from the Play Store. OnePlus Launcher 4.4 brings a new App Switcher UI along with some additional features.

OnePlus Launcher 4.4.2 has actually been in beta since April, which is when we first wrote about the new App Switcher. The new App Switcher, otherwise known as “Recents,” makes the app preview cards smaller and more uniform. The bigger change, however, is the app icon and how you access the overflow menu.

The app icon was previously shown above the card along with the app name and a three-dot menu icon. Now, only the name of the app is shown above the card. The icon has been moved to the bottom and you can see the icons of previously used apps as well. These icons are scrollable and that makes it much quicker to switch to previously used apps that may be a bit further back in the list. To access the overflow menu, simply long-press on the card. Lastly, the “X” button has been replaced with a “Close Apps” button.

Next up is the new Quick Search feature. You can access the Quick Search by pressing and holding while you swipe up to access the app drawer. OnePlus says it’s easy to do this gesture with one hand. The text box is immediately in focus and you can begin typing. Quick Search is useful for finding things on your devices, such as folders and apps.

Lastly, according to Android Police, OnePlus Launcher 4.4 also adds support for Android 10’s freeform windows. To use the feature, you’ll need to enable Developer options on your phone (go to Settings > About phone and tap the Build number repeatedly. Then go back to System > Developer options and look for the “Enable freeform windows” toggle and turn it on. You’ll also need to reboot your phone. To put an app into the freeform mode, tap and hold the card in the App Switcher and tap “Freeform” in the menu. Now you can drag the window around the screen.

OnePlus Launcher (Free, Google Play) →

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Source: OnePlus

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