my phone doesn’t have ir or 3.5mm, and when I charge it laying flat at night on my bed side table the cord floats free off the edge so I can see the screen and turn off the alarm in the morning. With the cord on the other side it would be supported, not stressing the port on the motherboard and be closer to where my cable come up from behind the table.
I’ve kept my old TCL phone around as a remote at home bc the app worked so well and was easy to use. I just realized it’s not available in the Play store, nor apk pure for historical availability. I cannot hold down the icon to share. When I browse the file explorer I see the app but it doesn’t give me anything to view to copy… I wish I could share it!!
It’s frustrating. My phone is fairly new, but also has the IR emitter. In a perfect world, I would set it up as a “TVbGone” type setup. Unfortunately all the apps have disappeared from the play store. Also, all the GitHub repositories are so old they don’t work with modern android.
Why? My outlet is lower than my phone in almost every instance, so my voted going down towards the charger makes the most sense.
Besides, my IR Blaster, mic, and 3.5mm jack are at the top 😁
Look at this fancy motherfucker with his fancy motherfucking headphone jack…
Hell yeah 😎
Mine is above where I tend to charge my phone.
Might just be a me problem
What do you have? A Samsung note 4? Wasn’t that the last phone that had a ir blaster?
My Oneplus 12 has one too.
I have a xiaomi 14 which has one, I think the non western brands have them still
I’m jealous lol I miss mine
is samsung considerd a “western brand”? what does this even mean?
I guess they means non-Chinese/Chinese aligned.
Alternatively, they could mean the ones popular in or marketed to the west.
Yeah I basically meant ones that are commonly marketed/sold to the Americas/europe
Yes
I’ve got a ulefone 27T pro. It carries a lot of weird functions, despite being a modern phone.
my phone doesn’t have ir or 3.5mm, and when I charge it laying flat at night on my bed side table the cord floats free off the edge so I can see the screen and turn off the alarm in the morning. With the cord on the other side it would be supported, not stressing the port on the motherboard and be closer to where my cable come up from behind the table.
Have you found an app that still works with an IR blaster? My phone has one, but none of the apps work anymore.
I’ve kept my old TCL phone around as a remote at home bc the app worked so well and was easy to use. I just realized it’s not available in the Play store, nor apk pure for historical availability. I cannot hold down the icon to share. When I browse the file explorer I see the app but it doesn’t give me anything to view to copy… I wish I could share it!!
It’s frustrating. My phone is fairly new, but also has the IR emitter. In a perfect world, I would set it up as a “TVbGone” type setup. Unfortunately all the apps have disappeared from the play store. Also, all the GitHub repositories are so old they don’t work with modern android.
Same, it didn’t dawn on my flashing LineageOS that my IR may not work. Several F-Droid IR apps are terrible
Edit: https://f-droid.org/packages/us.spotco.ir_remote is about the only semi decent, but for TCL you have to do custom remote which takes some work.
You can also export and import which might save you time