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What Android smartphone feature disappeared and should make a comeback?

For me, there are a few obvious candidates:

• Headphone jack

• MicroSD card slot

• Notification LED

• IR blaster

• Charger in the box

• Removable battery

You can only bring back one.

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Daily Superthread (Jun 25 2026) - Your daily thread for questions, device recommendations and general discussions!

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Has anyone successfully run a local LLM on Android without cloud? What's your experience with on-device AI inference performance?

I've been experimenting with running a small LLM fully on-device on Android (Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, 8GB RAM) using llama.cpp via NDK/JNI. No internet connection needed, everything processes locally.



So far I've tested Llama 3.2 3B and Phi-3.5 Mini with Q4_K_M quantization. Getting roughly 15–20 tokens/sec which is usable for a chat assistant.



Curious if others have done something similar:

\- What devices have you tested on and what performance did you get?

\- Have you tried GPU acceleration on Android (Vulkan/OpenCL)?

\- How do you handle the \~2GB model file distribution? Bundled in APK vs downloaded on first run?



Seems like on-device AI is becoming increasingly feasible on flagship Android hardware. Interested to hear others' experiences!

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Notice: "EX File Manager" by Ace Mobile on the Play Store is a 1:1 clone of the banned ES File Explorer

Hey everyone,

​Just wanted to put out a notice about an app that just showed up on my Google Play Store homepage: EX File Manager by a developer named Ace Mobile (Package name: com.ace.ex.file.manager).

​I downloaded it to check it out, and it is basically a 1:1 copy of the classic ES File Explorer—the UI layout, the sidebar, the diagnostic features, and the overall navigation are completely identical.

​Right now, it definitely feels like a work in progress. A lot of the deeper settings are still hollowed out, and there are several pending features that are currently non-functional, such as the classic gesture options which are listed but can't be configured yet.

​This puts it in a really interesting spot. For context, the original ES File Explorer was permanently banned from the Play Store years ago due to severe legal and ethical violations, including massive click fraud and data tracking by its parent company.

​Honestly, if this app turns out to be genuinely safe and isn't just "Part 2" of the old ES team trying to sneak back onto the store under a shell developer profile, this would actually be great news. Like a lot of people, I've been looking for an app that looks and functions exactly like the old ES File Explorer ever since it disappeared.

​However, given the structural identity to the original code, it’s worth keeping an eye on. I wanted to put this on everyone's radar so people can check it out, see how the development progresses, and hopefully verify if it's safe to use.

​Link for anyone curious: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ace.ex.file.manager

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