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- TitaniumBackup - ability to monitor battery consumption - some dpi evasion apps (they sometimes work where no vpn gets through) - packet capture - Mac

- TitaniumBackup - ability to monitor battery consumption - some dpi evasion apps (they sometimes work where no vpn gets through) - packet capture - Macrodroid - view wifi passwords - edit gps.conf, wifi configs, add custom root certs, change default font, etc - ssl cert unpinner - call recording - install Youtube Vanced over original one - allow screenshots from any app - forbid quick tiles access from lock screen (holy crap, why not all roms have this option??) - block custom wakelocks - allow app versions downgrade without uninstalling them You see, half of my phone's capabilities are locked because of "reasons" by Google. But it's me who owns the phone, not them.

thargor90 4y ago
Be careful with Titanium backup. It cannot handle several modern Android things properly. (E.g. proper SE Linux file properties) I learned the hard way after the fact...
- dur-randir 4y ago
  It handled my recent transition flawlessly, but is there anything better?
  - Anon1096 4y ago
    The modern version is https://f-droid.org/packages/com.machiav3lli.backup/ https://f-droid.org/packages/com.machiav3lli.backup/
  - bakugo 4y ago
    Neo Backup and Swift Backup are my go-tos. First is free and open source, second is closed source and some features are locked behind paying but it's pretty cheap and feels more polished (only supports keeping one backup at a time though, unfortunately, and you can't browse backup files because they're forcefully encrypted).
inyorgroove 4y ago
TitaniumBackup still working fine for you? Last time I tried to restore apps on Lineage 18.1 recently in the last year most restored apps crashed until I wiped their data/cache in the settings. This basically makes Titanium a glorified app installer, mostly defeats the purpose.
- dur-randir 4y ago
  The only problem I've encountered is when rolling back updates for some apps - they'd crash after restoring them from TB, so I have to uninstall them first and only then restore. But I have a fairly conservative set of apps.
geo-matik 4y ago
Half of these I have with my unrooted custom ROM. Beside, for most you only need root once and can remove it afterwards.
- TwoNineFive 4y ago
  This is a weirdly arrogant authoritarian attitude you have against other's using their devices. By using that unrooted custom ROM, it's not like root doesn't exist anymore, you just don't have it. The people who built the ROM have root, not you. They own your phone. It's their phone, not yours. Having access to a root shell isn't bad, or dangerous, or a security risk. Not having means not having ownership of the device.
  - geo-matik 4y ago
    I had to laugh at your first sentence, that incendiary reply is almost comical.
- dur-randir 4y ago
  Even if a single use case requires root, I still need root on device, no way around that.
Georgelemental 4y ago
Stock Android allows viewing Wi-Fi passwords these days
rkagerer 4y ago
Can it stop Google Play Protect from removing permissions on apps you haven't used in a while (while still leaving scanning intact)? Unlike most people, I pay attention to and carefully configure permissions for my apps when I install them. Only to have Google tear down all that hard work a few months later :-S. Others also feel this pain: https://support.google.com/android/thread/159501058/how-do-i-turn-off-play-protect-s-permission-auto-remove-for-all-apps-at-once?hl=en https://support.google.com/android/thread/159501058/how-do-i... Not sure why the stock app hasn't got a Disable checkbox for that feature, wondering if there's a LineageOS-friendly equivalent that does.
- dur-randir 4y ago
  Yeah, I know your pain. What's worse, there is/was bug in some roms/GP versions which reset this setting upon reboot. Ugh. I don't know how to turn this misfeature off. Lineage just has a generic slider on a per-app basis, but it still requires revisiting each apps' settings page. It should be possible with lsposed, but I haven't found such a module.
- qwertox 4y ago
  You can deactivate this feature on a per-app basis.
  - josephcsible 4y ago
    Yes, but you'll have to do it for every app you ever install, one by one.
    - rkagerer 4y ago
      And unfortunately there's a several seconds long wait for the screen to refresh in between each one (at least on my phone and others' I've seen).

thargor90 4y ago

Be careful with Titanium backup. It cannot handle several modern Android things properly. (E.g. proper SE Linux file properties) I learned the hard way after the fact...

dur-randir 4y ago
It handled my recent transition flawlessly, but is there anything better?
- Anon1096 4y ago
  The modern version is https://f-droid.org/packages/com.machiav3lli.backup/ https://f-droid.org/packages/com.machiav3lli.backup/
- bakugo 4y ago
  Neo Backup and Swift Backup are my go-tos. First is free and open source, second is closed source and some features are locked behind paying but it's pretty cheap and feels more polished (only supports keeping one backup at a time though, unfortunately, and you can't browse backup files because they're forcefully encrypted).

inyorgroove 4y ago

TitaniumBackup still working fine for you? Last time I tried to restore apps on Lineage 18.1 recently in the last year most restored apps crashed until I wiped their data/cache in the settings. This basically makes Titanium a glorified app installer, mostly defeats the purpose.

dur-randir 4y ago
The only problem I've encountered is when rolling back updates for some apps - they'd crash after restoring them from TB, so I have to uninstall them first and only then restore. But I have a fairly conservative set of apps.

geo-matik 4y ago

Half of these I have with my unrooted custom ROM. Beside, for most you only need root once and can remove it afterwards.

TwoNineFive 4y ago
This is a weirdly arrogant authoritarian attitude you have against other's using their devices. By using that unrooted custom ROM, it's not like root doesn't exist anymore, you just don't have it. The people who built the ROM have root, not you. They own your phone. It's their phone, not yours. Having access to a root shell isn't bad, or dangerous, or a security risk. Not having means not having ownership of the device.
- geo-matik 4y ago
  I had to laugh at your first sentence, that incendiary reply is almost comical.
dur-randir 4y ago
Even if a single use case requires root, I still need root on device, no way around that.

Georgelemental 4y ago

Stock Android allows viewing Wi-Fi passwords these days

rkagerer 4y ago

Can it stop Google Play Protect from removing permissions on apps you haven't used in a while (while still leaving scanning intact)? Unlike most people, I pay attention to and carefully configure permissions for my apps when I install them. Only to have Google tear down all that hard work a few months later :-S. Others also feel this pain: https://support.google.com/android/thread/159501058/how-do-i-turn-off-play-protect-s-permission-auto-remove-for-all-apps-at-once?hl=en https://support.google.com/android/thread/159501058/how-do-i... Not sure why the stock app hasn't got a Disable checkbox for that feature, wondering if there's a LineageOS-friendly equivalent that does.

dur-randir 4y ago
Yeah, I know your pain. What's worse, there is/was bug in some roms/GP versions which reset this setting upon reboot. Ugh. I don't know how to turn this misfeature off. Lineage just has a generic slider on a per-app basis, but it still requires revisiting each apps' settings page. It should be possible with lsposed, but I haven't found such a module.
qwertox 4y ago
You can deactivate this feature on a per-app basis.
- josephcsible 4y ago
  Yes, but you'll have to do it for every app you ever install, one by one.
  - rkagerer 4y ago
    And unfortunately there's a several seconds long wait for the screen to refresh in between each one (at least on my phone and others' I've seen).