Believe it or not, it is now 6 months since Android 15 was launched officially on the vivo X Fold3 Pro global model worldwide on the 27th September 2024. During this time the Android 15 firmware has performed well and is very battery friendly and apart for some minor bugfixes and optimizations, has caused no major issues. I only hope that Android 16, due in June, is as good.

Just trying to backup my contacts from my Galaxy A50 onto my laptop - when I look at them on the phone, there's over 4,000, but can't find them on the laptop? I see two folders, one for the card and one for phone. Any ideas how I can find them please?

vivo have begun rolling out the March 2025 security patch to their global, (FunTouch), models of the X Fold3 Pro. This update also has a number of bug fixes and optimizations as detailed in the screenshot...

Honor X6b, Android 14. Somehow I have deleted the home screen text-based clock and date. There are no widgets in this phone. The home screen doesn't respond to double-taps, just squeezing two fingers which bring up the screen as shown here. I was able to add that little clock, but it's not the same. The main Clock app has no Settings; the phone's main Settings>Display has no Clock to set up. How might I restore that nice big text clock and date?

It seems it's the ONLY Samsung A?? model that DOESN'T support the Libre 3. It didn't support the Libre 2. What's the problem?

Anyone have the latest UI 7 update yet?
If so can you share how it works on your device and what's the improvements were implemented?

How do I delete this account because I'm screwing everything up and putting posts in the wrong place and I like to start over new.

Galaxy A13. Using the clock's timer function seems so unintuitive, it's clunky to say the least. I've managed to add preset timers in the past, but I cannot for the life of me remember how! It can't be this complicated.

I press the + button, and it opens a screen called 'Add Timer' which features my current preset timers. Ok, what do I do now!? There are no options to add a timer.

Edit: Problem solved. I've been trying to add a new preset when I have a timer running for something else. Even though you can have as many timers running as you want, apparently you can't make new presets while any are running. Annoying.

I've installed platform tools, and when I cd into the directory and try to run adb devices, I get a message 'Bash command not found.' I've not had this problem previously (always on Linux PCs). I've not wanted to use adb/fastboot for a few years, am I missing something obvious/not obvious?

Greetings, after "adb sideload oriole-ota-bp1a.250305.019-34e04bed.zip" on a Google Pixel 6, followed by a successful reboot, then rooting with Magisk which has been successful every month for a few years, the phone now only bootloops to the colored Google logo,

With the phone powered down, I long-press volume down and power simultaneously, which presents a screen with choices Start, Restart Bootloader, Recovery Mode, Rescue Mode, Bar Code and Power Off. I choose "Recovery Mode" with the intention of wiping and rebuilding the device, but unfortunately it just enters a boot loop again instead of the recovery menu.

Will someone help me, please?

This GE oven actually has one of those nasty yhings. It's been mercurial at best, and now bake, broil, and start don't work. I wish I could replace the crappy thing but of course that would be impossible.

Happy St Pat's day everyone! Though I no longer party hard on the 17th, I never fail to enjoy my family's traditional meal of corned beef and cabbage. I'm not nearly as Irish as I was told but that hasn't changed my traditions. Being Irish has little to do with the USA holiday. I hope that you enjoy the day and share a smile.

I thought we needed a thread for interesting, fascinating, or simply thought provoking pictures.
I found these pictures of the moon beautiful. They are supposed to be the clearest pictures ever taken of the moon.

Android 13.

Have this "force stop app when screen is locked" activated. Works fine.

But I don't want to be notified about stopped apps each time I unlock screen. Can't find anywhere to turn the notification off.

Anyone can help?

There will be a total lunar eclipse early AM Friday 3-14-25. A total lunar eclipse is called a blood moon because the moon takes on a rich red color while in the Earth's umbra.
Here is link to a decent article and a time schedule.
What time is the total lunar eclipse tonight? Key moments, schedule, when to see 'blood moon'

Samsung have begun rolling out Beta testing for the S23 series. See...

One UI 7 Beta arrives on Samsung Galaxy S23, S23+ and S23 Ultra in select regions

When it is idle like five to ten minutes, it automatically just zooms the wallpaper and only then I can use the pop up keyboard,but there is nothing I can do.. Anyone else experiance this bug?

Samsung have begun rolling out their March security update to the Fold4 & Flip4 on Android 14/One UI 6.1.1...

Samsung have begun rolling out their March Android security update on One UI 6.1.1, Android 14...

Did list:
Updated the driver, rolled back, stretched the new settings on it,
unplugged it and replugged it, make sure it was secured within the wall outlet to my comp,
purchased a new power / monitor cord for it a spell ago.
I cleaned out my comp a few times, went to safe mode a few times,
with command prompt.
I did a disc clean up and did the disc defrag..
Device DISPLAY\HWP332A\5&945c56a&4&UID1048833 was configured.

Driver Name: oem30.inf
Class Guid: {4d36e96e-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}
Driver Date: 03/22/2016
Driver Version: 2.0.0.0
Driver Provider: HP
Driver Section: 21kd_A.Install
Driver Rank: 0xFF0000
Matching Device Id: MONITOR\HWP332A
Outranked Drivers: monitor.inf:*PNP09FF:00FF2000
Device Updated: false
Parent Device: PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_06E4&SUBSYS_82B21043&REV_A1\4&10698843&0&0008


hmmm... Any sugesstions?

I purchased a Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra and wanted to transfer all my data and setting from my older Samsung phone.
All was transferred correctly except the setting for my Outlook.
I tried to add my email accounts to Outlook on the new phone but get strange error messages that nobody seem to understand.
My email accounts (2 of them) are Office365.
I attached the screen shots of the two errors I receive.
I would really appreciate any help
Thanks,
Uri

I guess it's possible, but how? Would the original be destroyed in the process? Is it expensive?

I have my S20 plugged into my laptop. I logged in thru the lock screen. I have Windows Explorer open and I can't see my Galaxy S20 like I used to in the past.

Why can't my laptop see my S20? I guess there is some setting that should be enabled that I accidentally disabled?

So a year with a pretty weak draft and you aren't going after free agents. It's actually getting worse in Dallas as he gets older.

Good news for Samsung Fold6 & Flip6 users... the Beta Android 15/UI 7.0 is starting...

"The beta program will be available for Galaxy Z Fold6 and Z Flip6 in India, Korea, the U.K. and the U.S. starting this week, rolling out to more devices later this month2 including Galaxy S23 and Galaxy Tab S10 series. Users can apply to join the beta program via Samsung Members. The official update of One UI 7 will be available starting in April."

The extract is from the official Samsung Press Release, here...

Samsung One UI 7 Beta Rolls Out to More Galaxy Devices​

For those eligible to enrol in the beta programme, (e.g. stock, non carrier branded CSC code EUX for U.K. & Ireland), then head to your Samsung members app on your phone and sign up when available. Beta testing is for competent users as they are not always stable and such things as Google Pay are not certified in Beta.