Recent content by hgmichna

I bet they disabled it because it does not work reliably. I don't have an HTC phone any more, but when I put my phone, a OnePlus One, on my desk at work, it sometimes does not lock. I only have enabled on-body and location (home). This is a fairly big security issue, in my view. If a phone...

Let me revive this oldish thread. What has been written is a half-truth. It appears to be true that phones usually survive a hard power-off. However, this leaves the question why Android normally performs an orderly shutdown when the battery level reaches 0%. Obviously the Android authors aimed...

Yes. If only you could restore a Nandroid backup on an unrooted phone, it would. But you can't. No. Yes.

There is no choice. Many people just haven't understood it yet. Check this article: "Buy Nexus", particularly the security issues and the last chapter. In short, all non-Nexus or non-AOSP devices are inherently unsafe to a frightening degree. Note that some manufacturers have begun to issue...

Thanks for your otherwise very good information, but this remark needs a correction, even after months. Both printers and the human eye have a much higher resolution than that, unless you are talking about a passport photo. I personally am not happy that Google modifies my photos. If they had...

Android 4.2 did not change anything. I just tried the news apps you recommended. They are all good and usable. I did not like Pulse, because it does not allow me to create my own news channels. I did not like Flipboard much because of its weird user interface. News Republic seemed pretty good...