Category Archives: Fitness & Health

Training in Quarantine – Day 306

Today’s been raining, windy, sunny, rainy again and repeat all day.

Managed to get a walk in between the rain and wind phases

Finished reinstalling my apps and had a few issues with location. Waze and Google Maps had trouble locking onto GPS and found out that even though the option to allow location “only while app is running” was available, I needed to set the permission to “at any time” otherwise they would lock on.

Citymapper had no issue

Just Eat still has issues and does not have a “at any” level for location permission, so I just use the postcode for that.

Most of the apps are now working. A few will not install from Play Store, presumably they’re not built to support Android 11 yet:

  • WeChat
  • Fenix 2

For Fenix, I went back to Plume (I had previously paid for the Premium version and that works fine). I installed GBoard so I can put gifs into my tweets again (one feature I really liked from Fenix)

WeChat, I ended up sideloading from apkmirror and it worked fine.

Training in Quarantine – Day 305

Decided to finally action the upgrade notification on my phone and Lineage OS wanted to update from Android 10 to Android 11.

The upgrade went off without too many issues, but I then found out Open Gapps had no package fro Android 11, meaning I had to resort to MindTheGapps — a minimal package that only allows Google Apps to work, but doesn’t actually install any. Consequently the Google Apps I had installed via OpenGapps decided to stop working as a result. I had to uninstall and reinstall everything from Google — Search, Notes, YouTube, Maps, Home, etc.

But fortunately everything else seemed to work. Camera MX decided to stop working, so I’ve gone back to CameraZoom

There seems to be a nice feature in Android 11 where if an app does not use a claimed permission after a period of time, Android will automatically remove that permission. Useful for applications which claim more permissions than they really need.

I also went round the torched fence and managed to get a pic of the new fence

Covid Jab

I have now finally had my first covid jab. It took a while queuing outside the centre before I could get in and go through all the checks and stuff.

I got the AZ vaccine

I finally got my jab in my right arm (I’m left handed) and it immediately started to sting. I did not need to wait 15 minutes as that was only required if you were driving. I took the bus in.

Training in Quarantine – Day 301

Moderately cold today, but comfortable to walk in. Did some shopping for more dairy milk on the way home.

Also, I finally got the notification for my covid jab, and I managed to book in for tomorrow and the second jab in July.

In other news, my Curve card had some fraudulent transactions against it which I have been talking to them about today. The transaction is now reversed, and also on Monzo (on which the transaction went to), so we are now even, but to be safe, I blocked and have requested new cards for both.