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Re: Tutorial: How to use a PC to find (& kill!) a rogue Android activity & its offending package

From Victor <victorheyne@notreal.org>
Newsgroups comp.mobile.android, alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.os.linux
Subject Re: Tutorial: How to use a PC to find (& kill!) a rogue Android activity & its offending package
Date 2025-06-23 10:39 -0500
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On Sun, 22 Jun 2025 20:50:57 +0100, J. P. Gilliver wrote:

>>>>> Also keep in mind any android on the internet is updated every month by
>>>>> Google for the kernal modules no matter how old the android phone is.
>>>>
>>>> Did that start at some specific version of Android? I'm pretty sure my
>>>> Android 4.3 - it was a Doogee - never received a single update.
>>>
>>> Android 10.
>> 
>> The whole process actually started earlier, with Android 8.0 (Oreo).
>> 
>> Treble: Android 8.0
>> https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2017/05/here-comes-treble-modular-base-for.html
>> 
>> Mainline: Android 10
>> https://www.hexnode.com/blogs/android-project-mainline-everything-you-need-to-know/
> 
> Does that mean, should I ever buy another Android 'phone, I needn't 
> worry about ensuring it's later than 10 (or possibly 8), as it'll 
> automatically update? (Obviously I'd have to check processor, memory, 
> and so on.) What are they up to now?
> 
> (And have they stopped naming versions after confectionery? I think it 
> was something like toffee-apple when I got mine.)

https://www.esper.io/blog/what-is-project-mainline

No. It doesn't mean that the phone is fully and completely updated. 
Because there are other components on a phone other than core modules.
Although it does mean dozens of core modules are fully updated monthly.
For any Android 10 and up phone that connects itself to the Internet.
The list of core modules grows appreciably with each Android release.
There are currently about 40 Project Mainline modules updated monthly.
They are the core components that Google updates (not oems or carriers).

And Google stopped the candy naming convention back around Android 10.

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Tutorial: How to use a PC to find (& kill!) a rogue Android activity & its offending package Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-06-19 22:23 +0000
  Re: Tutorial: How to use a PC to find (& kill!) a rogue Android activity & its offending package Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-06-20 00:49 +0000
    Re: Tutorial: How to use a PC to find (& kill!) a rogue Android activity & its offending package Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-06-20 06:49 +0000
      Re: Tutorial: How to use a PC to find (& kill!) a rogue Android activity & its offending package Jeff Layman <Jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2025-06-20 10:39 +0100
        Re: Tutorial: How to use a PC to find (& kill!) a rogue Android activity & its offending package Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-06-20 18:57 +0000
    Re: Tutorial: How to use a PC to find (& kill!) a rogue Android activity & its offending package "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-06-20 11:34 +0200
      Re: Tutorial: How to use a PC to find (& kill!) a rogue Android activity & its offending package Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2025-06-20 11:06 +0000
        Re: Tutorial: How to use a PC to find (& kill!) a rogue Android activity & its offending package "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-06-20 18:58 +0200
      Re: Tutorial: How to use a PC to find (& kill!) a rogue Android activity & its offending package Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2025-06-20 11:09 +0000
        Re: Tutorial: How to use a PC to find (& kill!) a rogue Android activity & its offending package Ivano Rossi <Ivano.Rossi@nospam.tin.it> - 2025-06-20 20:53 +0200
          Re: Tutorial: How to use a PC to find (& kill!) a rogue Android activity & its offending package "Jan K." <janicekoziol@nie.ma.spamu.prosze.com> - 2025-06-20 19:00 +0000
            Re: Tutorial: How to use a PC to find (& kill!) a rogue Android activity & its offending package "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-06-20 21:39 +0200
              Re: Tutorial: How to use a PC to find (& kill!) a rogue Android activity & its offending package "Jan K." <janicekoziol@nie.ma.spamu.prosze.com> - 2025-06-20 20:34 +0000
                Re: Tutorial: How to use a PC to find (& kill!) a rogue Android activity & its offending package "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-06-21 00:43 +0200
                Re: Tutorial: How to use a PC to find (& kill!) a rogue Android activity & its offending package "Jan K." <janicekoziol@nie.ma.spamu.prosze.com> - 2025-06-21 02:20 +0000
            Re: Tutorial: How to use a PC to find (& kill!) a rogue Android activity & its offending package "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2025-06-21 14:23 +0100
              Re: Tutorial: How to use a PC to find (& kill!) a rogue Android activity & its offending package "Jan K." <janicekoziol@nie.ma.spamu.prosze.com> - 2025-06-22 14:00 +0000
                Re: Tutorial: How to use a PC to find (& kill!) a rogue Android activity & its offending package Victor <victorheyne@notreal.org> - 2025-06-22 09:07 -0500
                Re: Tutorial: How to use a PC to find (& kill!) a rogue Android activity & its offending package "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2025-06-22 20:50 +0100
                Re: Tutorial: How to use a PC to find (& kill!) a rogue Android activity & its offending package Victor <victorheyne@notreal.org> - 2025-06-23 10:39 -0500
                Re: Tutorial: How to use a PC to find (& kill!) a rogue Android activity & its offending package "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2025-06-23 23:26 +0100
                Re: Tutorial: How to use a PC to find (& kill!) a rogue Android activity & its offending package Victor <victorheyne@notreal.org> - 2025-06-23 21:50 -0500
                Re: Tutorial: How to use a PC to find (& kill!) a rogue Android activity & its offending package "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-06-22 19:41 +0200
                Re: Tutorial: How to use a PC to find (& kill!) a rogue Android activity & its offending package "Jan K." <janicekoziol@nie.ma.spamu.prosze.com> - 2025-06-23 16:08 +0000
  Re: Tutorial: How to use a PC to find (& kill!) a rogue Android activity & its offending package Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-06-20 23:46 +0000
    Re: Tutorial: How to use a PC to find (& kill!) a rogue Android activity & its offending package Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> - 2025-06-21 10:49 +0100

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