Moronic Monday (Aug 26 2019) - Your weekly questions thread!

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AMD hints at how RDNA could beat Qualcomm’s Adreno GPU
https://www.androidauthority.com/amd-rdna-mobile-1022031/

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Google Expands Emergency Location Service on Android in U.S.
https://www.thurrott.com/mobile/android/212934/google-expands-emergency-location-service-on-android-in-u-s

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Redmi confirms Snapdragon 665 for Note 8, Helio G90T for Note 8 Pro
https://www.gsmarena.com/redmi_confirms_snapdragon_665_for_note_8_helio_g90t_for_note_8_pro-news-38857.php

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Android 10 release date confirmed: September 3, 2019
https://www.phonearena.com/news/Android-10-release-date-confirmed-official-Pixel_id118451

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Did anyone else's Spotify get updated to show song progress in the notification bar now?

http://imgur.com/gallery/mHtg8mV

What I'm talking about, as seen in the screenshot...

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[DEV] Major update with audio fingerprinting and redesign of my primary app - AutoTagger tag editor.

Hi guys!

Few months ago i've wanted to improve my existing app, but codebase was shitty (after 2.5+ years) and i decided to rewrite app from scratch!

If you don't know what is AutoTagger, it is automatic and batch music tag editor app!

So i felt a very enthusiastic about this idea because this way i could bring all long-requested features.

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As far this update is most majorupdate during app launch, there are a lot of new features:

* Audio fingerprinting! And different modes for tag ...

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Canalys: Baidu replaces Google to become number two in smart speaker market in Q2 2019
https://www.canalys.com/newsroom/smart-speaker-market-q2-2019

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The galaxy S7 is still receiving security updates after 3.5 years. Samsung promisses 3 years.
https://www.sammobile.com/news/samsung-august-security-patch-galaxy-s7-and-s7-edge/

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Microsoft’s Your Phone service is down just days after the Galaxy Note 10 release
https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2019/8/26/20833662/microsoft-your-phone-service-down-samsung-galaxy-note-10-issues

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Zenfone 6 Three Months Later | Best smartphone surprise of 2019
https://youtu.be/inlJ2OSoMU0

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/r/Android Ban Megathread

We have no idea what just happened, but we'll update this post when we find out. Please don't spam the modqueue with posts about this or you'll get us banned for real lol.

edit: [from Reddit Admin sodypop](https://www.reddit.com/r/ModSupport/comments/cvubnf/admins_has_your_spam_bot_gone_a_little_wild_shall/ey6h83h/)

>Yikes, so this is how robots take over the world....

>It looks like something went terribly, terribly wrong, but we've reinstated all the affected subreddits. Our apologies for...

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YouTube Music debuts new weekly playlist, tests interface tweaks
https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/08/26/youtube-music-app-design-test/

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Instagram’s latest assault on Snapchat is a messaging app called Threads: The app promotes sharing your status, location, and more with your closest friends
https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/26/20833903/facebook-instagram-threads-messaging-app-close-friends-snapchat

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10 ways Android is just better
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZYUKmDZJRU

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[MKBHD] Samsung Galaxy Note 10: But Why Tho?
https://youtu.be/pyldH6sefTQ

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GLOBALFOUNDRIES Files Patent Infringement Lawsuits Against TSMC In the U.S. and Germany
https://www.globalfoundries.com/news-events/press-releases/globalfoundries-files-patent-infringement-lawsuits-against-tsmc-us-and

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Apple, Samsung phones investigated by FCC for excess radiation: Report - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-samsung-phones-fcc-investigation-excess-radiation-report-2019-8

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HMD Global has completely replaced Evenwell battery management services on their phones (with Android P & above) with Android's Adaptive Battery
https://community.phones.nokia.com/discussion/51246/tapping-into-android-pies-adaptive-battery-for-optimum-battery-performance

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Why is Samsung so hell bent on continuing development for bixby when so many people hate it?

Curious iPhone user here who is is wondering if Note and Galaxy users have the same question.

I was listening to an Android Central podcast episode today and they were discussing the note 10+, when arriving at the Bixby topic Ara Wagner one of the AC editors gleefully talked about how it was much easier to disable Bixby entirely on the Note 10+.

This made me think that as an iPhone user I do use Siri fairly regularly, acknowledge that she is in some need of improving but I haven’t ever felt ...

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While everyone's talking about Spotify getting rid of their widget, New York Times also got rid of theirs

I am probably one of the few people who actually used the New York Times home screen widget. It showed current news in a photos slideshow. One of my favorite parts of the home screen. Saw today that the app got updated overnight, and the widget is no longer available.

There was literally no reason to get rid of this. Even if most people didn't use it, it could have stayed. I know that there isn't a way to get it back, but are there any other good "photos" widgets out there?...

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