Jetzt ist es passiert: Ich muss eines meiner Android-Geräte zwecks Reparatur zum Service-Center einschicken. Das bedeutet natürlich einen „Factory-Reset“ vor dem Verpacken, was ein vorheriges (gutes) Backup impliziert. Zwar erstelle ich regelmäßig diverse Sicherungen (etwa automatisch mit Titanium Backup), aber habe ich wirklich an alles gedacht? Wird die Wiederherstellung ein „Kinderspiel”? Vielleicht sollte ich die Chance auch gleich zum „Aufräumen“ nutzen. Oh, und was ist mit der ganzen „Bloatware“, die ich mühselig ausfindig gemacht und deaktiviert habe, und den deaktivierten „Auto-Starts“? Wieviel Handarbeit kommt da auf mich zu, wenn ich mein Gerät wieder habe?

Aquaris-dev is a group of independent Android developers whose members voluntarily work on bq Aquaris devices as official maintainers of the LineageOS Android custom ROM. We aim to provide the newest version of Android (LineageOS) for as many of the latest bq Aquaris devices. We contribute our work to the LineageOS project (previously, we worked on CyanogenMod).

5,2 Zoll FHD-Quantum Color +-Display
Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 626 Octa Core, 2,2 GHz
16 MP- und 8 MP-Kamera, Frontblitz
3100 mAh-Akku Quick Charge 3.0

Häufig ist auf herkömmlichen Android-Geräten eine Menge an Bloatware vorinstalliert – also Apps die man nicht braucht und gerne loswerden möchte. Viele Nutzer glauben man bräuchte dazu Root-Rechte. Dem ist allerdings nicht so. Ihr müsst lediglich den sog. Developer-Mode (Entwickleroptionen) aktivieren und euer Android-Gerät via USB-Kabel mit dem PC verbinden. Danach könnt ihr euer System über die Android Debug Bridge (adb) ansprechen.

Open Camera is an Open Source Camera app for Android phones and tablets. Features:

Option to auto-level so your pictures are perfectly level no matter what.
Expose your camera's functionality: support for focus modes, scene modes, color effects, white balance, ISO, exposure compensation/lock, face detection, torch, antibanding.
Video recording (including HD, taking photos while recording video, time lapse).
Handy remote controls: timer (with optional voice countdown), auto-repeat mode (with configurable delay).
Option to take photo remotely by making a noise (e.g., voice, whistle), or by voice command "cheese".
Configurable volume keys.
Optimise GUI for left or right-handed users.
Zoom via multi-touch gesture and single-touch control.
Option to lock orientation to portrait or landscape for photo or video. Upside-down preview option for use with attachable lenses.
Choice of save folder (including support for Storage Access Framework).
Disable shutter sound.
Overlay a choice of grids and crop guides.
Optional GPS location tagging (geotagging) of photos and videos; for photos this includes compass direction (GPSImgDirection, GPSImgDirectionRef).
Apply date and timestamp, location coordinates, and custom text to photos; store date/time and location as video subtitles (.SRT).
Yes you can take a selfie (also known as front camera), includes support for "screen flash".
Support for (some) external microphones.
Widget to automatically take a photo after launching.
Support for HDR (with auto-alignment and ghost removal) and Exposure Bracketing.
Support for Camera2 API: manual focus distance; manual ISO; manual exposure time; manual white balance temperature; burst mode; RAW (DNG) files; slow motion video.
Dynamic range optimisation mode for better quality photos.
Support for Mi Band 2 & Amazfit Selfie.
Small file size.
Completely free, and no ads in the app. Open Source.

I did the backup using TWRP, transferred it to my laptop, wiped the device, sent it in, got it back, copied the backup to the phone, restored it and... Was locked out of the device, it would not take my password anymore. Well, it seems that happens, just delete some files and it will be fine.

The linux-based open-source mobile operating system Android is not only the most popular mobile operating system in the world, it’s also on the way to becoming a proprietary operating system. How is that?

While the core operating system is still released as part of the Android Open Source Project, the majority of core apps are not. It gets worse: More and more libraries and APIs are only available on phones that run various Google apps pre-installed, effectively locking third-party apps to the Google ecosystem. For these reasons Android is described as being a “look but don’t touch” kind of open.

At this point, several popular open-source applications like the secure messenger Signal already require some of Google’s proprietary libraries to be installed. Increasing demand in the free software community in addition to severe problems in Google’s proprietary software discovered by the Android modding community, have led to the development of a free software clone of Google’s proprietary core libraries and applications - the microG Project was born.

Although most microG components are far from complete, users are amazed by the results. Free software users got extended application support, privacy-caring users can reduce or monitor data that is sent to Google and especially older phones can expect some battery life improvements. microG is not only used on real devices, but also replaces Google tools in test emulators and is even used in virtual mobile infrastructure.

Let me introduce the Xposed framework, which gives you the possibility to modify your ROM - without modifying any APK (developers) or flashing (users)!

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