Sideloading Android apps will become such a hassle that the practice will effectively die.

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[–] 92 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (11 children)

Something else that I only found out from comments on another thread about this is that once you start the 24 hour timer, you have to allow unverified apps within one hour after the timer stops. If you miss this one hour window you have to wait a full 24 hours again. And it will not give a notification when the 24 hours is up, you need to set your own alarm.

EDIT: found the thread where others are talking about having to wait an additional 24 hours after missing the one hour window https://lemmy.world/post/51966349/25850937

To clarify - the one hour window is how much time you have to turn on the setting after waiting the 24 hour timer. As in, you have one hour to push this button. If you miss this window to turn the setting on, you have to request to turn it on again and it resets the 24 hour timer.

Once you turn the setting on you can select the option to turn it on forever.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    This needs to be posted everywhere on lemmy before it happens.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I've corrected you a couple times now because you keep repeating the wrong info.

    The one hour widow is where you have to TURN ON the setting after waiting 24 hours. You will not get a notification for when the 24 hour timer is up, you have to set you own alarm.

    Once you turn on the setting you can have it on indefinitely.

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  • [+] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)
  • [–] 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    You are confusing 2 things

    1. After the 24 hours waiting period is up you have 1 hour to turn the setting on or you have to wait 24 hours again to have the opportunity to turn the setting on. This is not noted in any docs, I only heard this from another Lemmy thread where several ppl confirmed this happened to them.

    2. Once you turn the setting on you can select if you want it turned on for 7 days or forever.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago*

    Ohhhh, I was misunderstanding you

    I'm just gonna delete my comments cause now your comments make very clear what the correct understanding of how it works is. Sorry for all the clutter I just stress a lot about misunderstandings, it's a social anxiety thing 😅

    Thank you for correcting me!

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    On Zdnet it says "Now the user is ready to install apps from unverified developers, and they’ll also have the option to enable the approach for seven days or allow it indefinitely." What I understand is that it's a one-off thing, am I missing something?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago

    I just did it. After the 24 hour timer you have to answer a question - turn this on for 7 days or turn it on forever. If you turn it on Forever its one off. I assume if you do t for 7 days only you have to go thru the 24 hour waiting period again if you want to turn it on again.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    Can confirm. I restarted the phone and waited for the 24 hours to be over. Forgot about it because it was a day later and life. By the time I did remember it was too late and I had to restart the phone all over again. So stupid.

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    [–] 117 points 1 month ago

    Sideloading Installing

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  • [–] 77 points 1 month ago

    Installing* Android apps

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  • [–] 26 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    the company’s analysis found sideloading is responsible for “50 times more malware from internet-sideloaded sources than on apps available through Google Play.”

    Yeaah, sure...

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

    I never heard of grandmas side loading apps... but plenty clicking a link to the playstore and getting all kinds of garbage... 🤔

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    This mechanism, which Google calls Advanced Flow, won’t be part of the open-source element of Android, but will instead form part of the closed-source, proprietary Google Play Services platform.

    Graphene is safe for now, then, right?

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  • [–] 27 points 1 month ago (7 children)

    Every savvy user will make this the first thing they do on a new Android phone.

    As an iPhone guy — say what you will about my savviness — it’s the first thing I’d do on a new Android phone.

    But I don’t want a Pixel, I want that new Fairphone. In green. I just don’t have $650 laying around to piss away on a phone.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    That green is nice...

    A shame that theres basically no used Fairphones on the market - I'd love to give it a whirl and use pmOS with it, but I also dont have $650 :(

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (2 children)

    I bought a used one around a month ago for messing with pmOS. FP4 was the cheapest but I think I also saw used FP5 ones

    Maybe look around markets in other countries?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago* (1 child)

    Where'd you end up finding it? Swappa has nothing, their forum doesn't really seem to have many people selling (only looking for components)

    I guess swappa has a few for... $500-600 :(

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    Hm. "Swappa", $... I guess that might be of little help but I've got mine on Allegro - those fitters are set to only used. 600 zł is ~$150

    Swappa is the only thing like eBay in your area? Where random people just sell used stuff?
    Maybe Vinted? I don't use that one but, from an article about tabletop games, apparently not only clothes are sold there

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Literally WHO ASKED FOR THIS

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

    Can it be bypassed by setting the phones date ahead of time? It works on Samsung devices that force you to wait 7 days to unluck the bootloader

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