If you’re like me, you live-and-die by the notifications on your phone. Between my email, reminders, calendar notifications, social network alerts, and the various other ways my phone says “Hey, check this out,” I would be utterly lost without my phone’s notifications. As such, you can imagine how frustrating it was when certain apps on my OnePlus 5 stopped giving new alerts. At one point, even email notifications weren’t happening unless I opened Blue Mail and refreshed manually.

Robert Triggs / Android Authority TL;DR Google will make EROFS the default read-only file system in Android 13. The file system was originally developed by Huawei. Only devices that launch with Android 13 and Google’s services will make the switch. Google is making an interesting — and potentially controversial — decision with Android 13, deploying a file system developed by Huawei. According to Esper, Google is planning on including the Enhanced Read-Only File System (EROFS) in Android 13, making it the default read-only system.

Longtime fans of the massively popular Plants Vs. Zombies franchise will be elated to know that the developers just dropped a teaser advertising their upcoming game Plants Vs Zombies Heroes: The Lawn of a New Battle. Player will have to choose which side they will be on this time: the rugged plant life or the tireless zombie horde. Assisting both sides will be special characters with useful abilities, so you can build your team with strategy and tact.

Do you remember back in high school when your geometry teacher stated that you would one day need to know how to calculate the area of a space?Well, that day has come, and it’s likely that you’ve forgotten the formula. Fortunately for you, All-In-One Calculator from MINDBOX has your back, packing in pretty much every conversion tool you might need and more. All-In-One Calculator is much more than what meets the eye.

TL;DR A developer has created an Android app that lets you test your phone’s water resistance. The app uses your phone’s barometer to detect changes in pressure levels. Water-resistance used to be a niche feature on smartphones, generally relegated to Sony devices and rugged phones. Fast-forward to 2021 and it’s not uncommon to find IP ratings on a ton of flagship phones, with even mid-range devices getting in on the action.

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Welcome to Wallpaper Wednesday! In this weekly roundup, we’ll give you a handful of Android wallpapers you can download and use on your phone, tablet, or even your laptop/PC. The images will come from folks here at Android Authority as well as our readers. All are free to use and come without watermarks. File formats are JPG and PNG, and we’ll provide images in both landscape and portrait modes, so they’ll be optimized for various screens.

Should LG and Google pop the champagne? According to an unofficial tally, the two companies could soon celebrate the sale of the millionth Nexus 4. But is this a performance to be proud of? Or should they better keep it to themselves? Before we dive in, the tally comes from an XDA Developers user who found out that, by plugging a Nexus 4’s IMEI number into an LG web app, they could access information about the device, including a serial number that is supposedly the device count.

The Blade Vec 4G is one of the newest members of ZTE’s Blade family. It sports a quad-core Qualcomm processor and a crisp TFT 720p 5 inch display. With a good price point and 4G connectivity this phone is worth checking out. ZTE is one of the top 5 mobile handset and smartphone manufacturers in the world. It has a large range of devices to fit almost every budget. The company recently released the ZTE Blade Vec 4G, an affordable 4G smartphone with a 5 inch, 720p HD display.

Following up on the Z11 Mini and Z11 Max, ZTE-owned Nubia launched the new Z11, a high-end, “borderless” device with gorgeous styling and a starting price of $375. The leaked render from January was only partially correct: the Nubia Z11 does feature an edge-to-edge screen, but it does not come with a dual camera or a curved glass back. Instead, the device features a more conventional, but attractive aluminum unibody available in gray, silver, and gold.

PC to Android video streaming is a very niche market, which may make it difficult to find such an app and get it to work properly. That said, we went to the Play Store in search of some of the best PC to Android video streaming apps there are, and we’ve returned with some great results! As usual, if you’d rather watch the video than read, just head to the bottom of the article.