Cellular

Cellphone Plan

• Monthly Fee:

  • Data (2Gb a month - would reach limit a couple days before often, 3Gb a month - would reach warning at end of month sometimes, 6Gb a month no warnings yet). Highest data usage would be Chrome (web browsing), Facebook

  • Calls (less than an hour a month)

  • Text (less than 100 a month)

  • North America-Wide Data, Calls, Text (outgoing and incoming)

    • Currently AT&T, previously Metro

  • Voicemail

Setup

• Update the OS

• SIM card (size)

• Compatible Network

  • Network Settings (APN)

  • Register SIM card (Fido)

  • Register Phone IMEI (MetroPCS)

• Wifi network passwords/Connecting

Android

Setup

• Increase font size

Fire 10 HD (2017)

• Install Google Apps (https://the-digital-reader.com/2017/09/24/can-install-google-play-2017-fire-tablets-less-5-minutes/)

• Install Google System WebView (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.webview) (needed to keep Gmail from crashing?)

• Change the launcher https://forum.xda-developers.com/amazon-fire/general/launcher-root-launcher-hijack-v2-t3561026

Apps

Android can let you pull the apps from a previous device, but only from older versions of Android - for example, my new Moto G5 Plus is running (Android 7.0) so it can't pull my Asus Zenfone 3 Laser (Android 7.1) backup from the cloud.

Productivity

• MS Office: OneNote, Word, Excel

• Google Docs: Keep, Docs, Sheets

• Keyboard: Minuum

• E-mail: Inbox, Gmail

Navigation

• Google Maps

  • Offline Maps of home region

• Taxi: Uber, Lyft

• RideShare: Car2go, Zipcar

• Transit: Transit (bus times), RideKC (local transit)

Cellphone Settings App

• myMetro (MetroPCS), Fido My Account (Fido), myRogers (Rogers)

Media

• Music: Spotify, Google Play Music

• Movies: Netflix, Youtube

• Reading: Google Play Books, Marvel Unlimited (Comics), Feedly (RSS), Bible

Social

• Facebook

• Chat: Facebook Messenger, Whatsapp, Skype

Fun

• Pokemon Go (a good benchmark for phone performance)

• Boardgames: Onirim, Race for the Galaxy, Sentinels of the Multiverse, Ascension

App Stores

• Humble, Amazon, Play Store

Android x86 (ASUS TP300LA conversion)

Config

• Use "LiveCD" USB drives

  • might need to use windows/system32/diskpart (select disk #, clean) to be able to remount them

• Houdini via enable_nativebridge (ARM compatibility) for app support (otherwise silent crash on startup)

  • lib64 via enable_nativebridge 64 ?

• Changed accelerometer directions and prevent erratic flips after resume from suspend via

  • set_property ro.iio.accel.quirks no-trig

  • set_property ro.iio.accel.order 102

• OS issues

  • Currently using BlissOS 11.13 GSM build (with Google Apps built-in) - has sleep via power button. Possibly still issues with wifi if it sleeps on its own?

  • Android x86

    • 9 has issues reconnecting wifi after sleep

    • Android 7 and 8 seem better for wifi but no full sleep - 7 seems most stable

      • Sentinels - 7 crashes on the win screen (fixed with lib64 ARM), 8 crashes starting the Kismet one-shot and 5 player games, sometimes Guise + Sentinels + big team + I can do that too

    • Oceans crashes here but OK on BlissOS (maybe it's Android 9 needed?)

  • Bluestacks (32-bit)

    • Oceans crashes here as well

    • newer Bluestacks has issues with Race for the Galaxy buttons need to double-click?