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mercredi 11 novembre 2020

The OnePlus Nord N10 and Nord N100 will get just one Android version update to Android 11

OnePlus has turned heads over the years with its high-specced, low-priced Android handsets, and with the recent OnePlus Nord N10 and N100, you might have been thinking about where exactly the catch is at those prices. Turns out you were right to ask, as it looks like OnePlus will be offering a much-reduced software update program for these devices, including a mere single Android version upgrade.

That means that both handsets, which run Oxygen 10.5 (Android 10) out of the box will receive Android 11 as promised, but no further, giving them a far shorter natural lifespan than phones the main OnePlus range, made more acute by the fact that they both launch with an out-of-date operating system out-of-the-box. The devices will continue to receive security updates for two years, but even that is a year shorter than OnePlus’s standard offer.

The policy was confirmed in a statement to Android Central: “The Nord N10 5G and N100 will receive one major Android update and a total of two years of security updates. The plan for these two devices aligns with industry standards for smartphones in more affordable price ranges. As always, we will continue listening to feedback from our users and looking for ways to improve the software experience for all OnePlus devices.”

The discovery comes on the same day that the company released an Android 10 upgrade to the aging OnePlus 5 range, further showing that there is definitely a “two-tier” OnePlus going forward, placing them on the naughty-step alongside Motorola, which has a similar policy already in place.

The original OnePlus Nord is not affected by this policy, but it’s still likely to ruffle some feathers. Whilst it makes sense to limit support to lower-end devices in order to squeeze the maximum value out of them, it’s important that OEMs are transparent about matters like this (hint, Motorola), as it serves as a reminder that there’s more to a mobile phone than its hardware. If the N10 and N100 had launched with Android 11, it might have been a bit more forgivable, but this decision really curtails the life of these devices. Fortunately, we’re sure when the time comes, our Forum users will be only too happy to step up to the plate.

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How to Use Wondershare FamiSafe app to Manage Kids’ Screen Time 

In the United States, the average age at which a child first gets a smartphone is ten years old. Children left unsupervised have access to many different apps that could expose them to unwanted materials. Whether it’s a streaming service, chat application, or social media apps, children can be viewing any type of content or talking to strangers online. This level of access for children can be a legitimate cause for concern for many parents. The ability to monitor your child’s smartphone activities can be essential in keeping them safe.

There are many different ways you can go about protecting your family online. VPNs are popular as a way to protect your identity online and prevent your online activity from being tracked. You can also set up child-safe modes on a phone if the manufacturer has included that feature. But the best way to control and monitor what your child is doing on their phone is to use Wondershare’s FamiSafe Parental control app.

FamiSafe is the most reliable way to manage your children’s phones, even if you have many children of different ages. Help your children form good digital habits by limiting their device usage. Keep track of where they’re at with real-time GPS location data. Most importantly, keep them out of danger by blocking apps and sites that could expose them to bullying or child predators. It’s a great full-service solution to make sure your children are using their smartphones or tablets in a safe way.

Wondershare FamiSafe is available on Apple Store and Google Play. FamiSafe can also monitor Amazon Kindle Fire and Win/Mac PCs.


FamiSafe Control Panel

FamiSafe Parental Control Features

FamiSafe offers many features to help parents easily control the content on their child’s phone. The Activity Report generates a comprehensive timeline of events, showing your child’s usages throughout the day. This report is sent to your phone and is very easy to understand. You can get a general idea of your child’s daily activities at a glance. This report will show every app they’ve used, as well as the usage time for each app.

If you see your child using an app that isn’t safe, the App Blocker & Usage feature will come into play. You can remotely control which apps you want to block on the target phone, or set time limits on apps being used excessively. So during your review of the daily timeline, you might see that your child has used TikTok or YouTube for several hours. Just set a time limit on that app, and you will be able to encourage more time spent on homework or more productive activities. These restrictions can also be location-based. So when a child leaves the home, usage for a particular app can be limited or granted.

The web browser is another place where a child could get into some trouble. The Web Content manager lets you review a user’s browsing history, as well as block access to inappropriate websites. You can also keep a blacklist of specific websites that you want to restrict.

The best way to prevent your child from having inappropriate contact with people online is to use the Parental Alerts feature. This will send an alert to your phone when explicit texts or messages are detected. This is good for social media websites and chat applications. It can also detect pornographic photos, which could help keep child predators at bay.

The last notable feature is Family Locator. It’s simply a real-time GPS tracker for every phone in your FamiSafe setup. This will show you where a user is, as well as the location history of where they have been. You can set up Geofences which will alert you if a child has gone outside of the approved area.


How to Use FamiSafe on Android, iOS, and Other Devices

If you’re looking for help with setting up your FamiSafe system, these user guides make the process very simple. You will be able to find guides on how to set up a device for an adult and a child. There are tutorials for Android, iOS, MAC, or Windows devices.

When signing up for FamiSafe, you’ll be able to use third-party login services like Google and Facebook. iOS users will be able to use their Apple ID to sign up, making the process as simple as possible. When you’re ready to add a child’s device, it’s as easy as entering in a code that will like their phone to your account.

FamiSafe is a great way to manage the content that your family has access to. You can set it up to be strict or as relaxed as you need it to be. The simplicity and real-time reports are what make this such an effective system. Harsher restrictions can be put into place as a result of misbehavior, or you can grant more permissions as a reward system. Get started today by checking out the available price plans.

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YouTube Premium members in the US, UK, and soon Canada and Europe can claim a free Stadia Premiere Edition bundle

Youtube Premium is the latest Google service to lavish its users with freebies, this time in the form of a Stadia Premiere Edition for absolutely gratis. Subscribers to the service, including those who have it as part of their YouTube Music plan, can claim a voucher in the app, offering a package including controller and Chromecast Ultra, which remains the only version that Stadia supports officially. Your only commitment is that after the first month, you’ll need to pay the $12 subscription fee, but there’s no contract or commitment to do so (though it seems a bit dumb, as you won’t be able to access large parts of the service). Alternatively, you could put the controller in the cupboard and keep the Chromecast Ultra, which despite dating back to 2016, remains a handsome streaming device.

On the face of it, a free Stadia package seems like a jolly perk, but it does raise the question of how the fledgling cloud gaming service is doing – $100 is a fairly generous gift for a service that has succeeded in selling itself. We’ll be interested to see if this fairly audacious seeding program will do anything to improve Stadia’s foothold against rival services like Amazon Luna and Nvidia Geforce Now. That said, a good start would be making Stadia work with Google Chromecast with Google TV, which is not due to happen until next year, though there are several workarounds in our forums.

Google perks are nothing new but seem to be particularly prevalent right now, with Google One and Chromebooks amongst the Google products currently offering up a bit of something for nothing. So far,  based on the information gathered by GemStadia on Twitter, we’ve confirmed that the Stadia offer is available in the UK and USA with Canada and mainland Europe expected to be added in the coming days. The offer is due to run until the end of 2021. To access it, go to the YouTube Premium app, go into your account settings, click “Your Premium Benefits” and follow the instructions. If your experience matches ours, you should find your Stadia Premiere Edition lands on your doorstep the very next day.

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Several Xbox Series X users are reporting a variety of hardware issues, including smoky consoles

After two months of waiting, Xbox fans were finally able to get their hands on Microsoft’s latest consoles yesterday. However, due to an unforeseen Xbox Live login issue, many buyers couldn’t enjoy their new consoles on launch day. Thankfully, Microsoft managed a quick recovery and fixed the login issue for most users in a matter of hours. But it seems like that the login issue may have just been the tip of the iceberg. Many Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S buyers are reportedly experiencing various hardware issues with their consoles, ranging from faulty disc drives to smoke coming out of the top vent.

We recently spotted a video of an Xbox Series X dramatically emitting smoke from the top vent doing the rounds on Twitter. Since many of the comments on the video were calling it fake, we checked the Xbox subreddit to see if anyone else was facing a similar issue. There we spotted another post about a smoking Xbox Series X, with a link in the comments that led us to this Xbox Series X hardware issue thread. There is another video of the Xbox Series X smoking itself up, on Twitter.

The Reddit thread includes several reports of users receiving DOA Xbox Series X units, units that completely shut down after just a couple of hours of use, overheating units, ones that sound like a refrigerator from the ’80s, and even ones with a faulty disc drive. While it isn’t exactly clear what’s causing these issues, we suspect that overheating could be the reason behind the random shutdowns, and in bad enough cases, for the smoke. As some users have pointed out, the loud noise in one of the videos linked above could be attributed to the device installing a game from the disc.

As of now, we’re not sure whether these issues are as widespread as they may seem since the aforementioned reports only account for just a small fraction of the total Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S sales, and social media can disproportionately draw attention to just a few cases. In case they are affecting a large number of consoles, we expect Microsoft to release an official statement on the matter in the coming days.

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Bitwarden password manager adds support for Android 11’s inline autofill API

The Smart Keyboard Suggestions feature is inarguably one of the most useful additions in Android 11. The feature essentially streamlines the platform’s autofill experience by integrating inline autofill suggestions in keyboard apps and password managers. These suggestions then appear right at the top of the keyboard app, instead of appearing next to the input field. But to use this feature on your favorite keyboard app or password manager, developers first have to update their apps to support the feature. 1Password and Gbaord were among the first apps to be updated to support Android 11’s inline autofill API. And now, popular password manager Bitwarden has received support for the feature in its latest beta release.

As per a recent comment on Bitwarden’s GitHub (via Reddit user u/rodrigoswz), the password manager now supports Android 11’s inline autofill API on the beta channel. Once you install the beta update on an Android 11 device with a keyboard app that also supports the inline autofill API, you should start seeing password suggestions right on top of the keyboard (see attached screenshot). But if you aren’t using a keyboard app that supports the inline autofill API, Bitwarden will revert to the previous overlay that pops up next to the input field.

Bitwarden Android 11 inline autofill suggestions

The comment further notes that the inline autofill suggestions will be “tinted according to the rules in the InlineSuggestionsRequest” so that it follows the current theme of the keyboard app, but the theme won’t influence Bitwarden’s logo. It also reveals that the feature may not work as intended with some browsers if the browser’s own autofill functions are enabled. It’s also worth noting that the feature is currently broken in Firefox (prod and beta) as the browser keeps re-initializing the keyboard and erasing the inline presentation. However, Firefox has addressed the issue in the latest nightly release, and the fix should roll out to the beta channel soon.

In case you don’t want to use inline autofill suggestions, you can follow this tutorial to disable the feature on your device.

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Download: OnePlus 5 finally gets OxygenOS 10.0.1 with several bug fixes, September 2020 patches

After several months of waiting, OnePlus 5 and 5T users finally got the OxygenOS 10 stable update (based on Android 10) for their devices earlier this year in May. But it was chock full of issues, ranging from poor battery life to broken EIS. The update was so problematic that OnePlus didn’t even list the build for download on its support website to prevent users from upgrading to the broken release. Since then, the company hasn’t released any OxygenOS 10 stable updates for the OnePlus 5 and 5T.

In September this year, OnePlus finally acknowledged the lack of software updates for the OnePlus 5 and 5T. The company revealed that an update was being processed “at the highest priority by the product team,” but the problems still hadn’t been fixed. It seems like OnePlus has now finally managed to iron out all the issues, as OxygenOS 10.0.1 has started rolling out to the OnePlus 5.

As per a recent post on the OnePlus Community forums, the company has started the incremental rollout of OxygenOS 10.0.1 for the OnePlus 5. The update includes bug fixes for several issues that were introduced in the previous update, and it also packs in the Android security patches for September 2020. Here’s the complete changelog for OxygenOS 10.0.1 for the OnePlus 5:

  • System
    • Fixed the abnormal call recording issue
    • Fixed the de-activated alarm issue when phone was powered off
    • Updated Android Security Patch to 2020.09
    • Updated GMS package to 2020.08
  • Full Screen Gestures
    • Back gesture from the bottom of the screen is available (OP5T only)
  • Camera
    • Electronic Image Stabilization has been added, bringing you a more stable shooting experience.

As with all OxygenOS updates, the latest release for the OnePlus 5 will be rolled out in a staged fashion. This means that the update will only reach a handful of devices today. After OnePlus ensures that there are no critical bugs with the update, it should roll out to more users. Do note that OxygenOS 10.0.1 is only being released for the OnePlus 5 at the moment, but the company has announced that it will begin the incremental rollout for the OnePlus 5T soon.

OnePlus 5 XDA Forums || OnePlus 5T XDA Forums


Downloads for the OnePlus 5

In case you wish to skip the wait, you can download the recovery flashable .zip files from the link below and install the update manually.

OxygenOS 10.0.1 (Global)


Thanks to XDA Senior Member Some_Random_Username for the download links!

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mardi 10 novembre 2020

Google Chrome tests showing a voice search button in the top toolbar

Earlier this year in January, we learned that Google was working to replace the old voice search UI in Chrome’s address bar with the Google Assistant. At the time, we’d spotted two new commits in the Chromium Gerrit that highlighted a new flag called “Omnibox Assistant Voice Search” that would enable the use of the Google Assistant for omnibox voice queries. Google Chrome has now started testing a related UI change that will add a voice search button in the top toolbar.

A code commit related to the change was just merged to the Chromium Gerrit, and it added a new flag called “voice-button-in-top-toolbar” with the description “enables showing the voice search button in the top toolbar.” When this flag is enabled, and the flag for the share button in the top toolbar is disabled, a voice search button shows up in the top toolbar on the browser (see attached screenshot).

Google Chrome Voice Search in Toolbar Google Chrome Voice Search in Toolbar Flag

The description for the commit further states that if the omnibox-assistant-voice-search-flag is enabled, the new button will launch the Assistant search UI. In case the flag is disabled, the feature will fall back to the older voice search UI. It’s also worth noting that the share button flag will take precedence over the voice button flag, so if you have both enabled, you’ll only see the share button in the top toolbar.

This is yet another UI test of many in Google Chrome, and there’s no guarantee that it will trickle down and be enabled by default for users running the stable release. Google runs these kinds of tests all the time to see what users engage with the most. If this new feature receives sufficient engagement, it may be added to Google Chrome on the stable channel in a future release.

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