Hello Folks:

I want to copy some text messages from my Galaxy 15 to my PC.

I've done a search online. The first three sites I found said for recent versions of Android the texts would be in the phone in:

/data/user_de/0/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db

Using the phone's My Files or my PC's File Explore through the USB cable, there is no directory named "data" at the root of the search.

I'm sorry for my ignorance, but I don't know if these messages are SMS, MMS or RCS, if that makes a difference.

How do I get to these texts?

Thanks
Larry

Android: Google Play ​

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I'm looking for a gray fabric Raiders pack with black trim. It's regular size and was available from the NFL shop in 2020. I guess they don't have it now. Yes, I checked ebay. The closest I could get was this but the vertical zipper should be horizontal and near the top.

i am using default music player which is Mi Music and some of my albums are listed in alphabetical order and not in track order how do I fix this as I want the albums in track order and not alphabetical order i have tried everything i don't know where to download these from online

the ones that are in order are

Calvin Harris 18 Months (Deluxe Edition)
Calvin Harris 18 Months
Michael Jackson Number Ones
Sam Smith In The Lonely Hour [Deluxe Edition]
Rudimental Home [Deluxe Edition]

the ones that are in alphabetical order are

Derek and Clive - Ad Nauseam
All Over The World: The Very Best Of ELO
Best Of Bowie [Disc1]
Best Of Bowie [Disc2]
Derek and Clive - Come Again
Derek and Clive Live
The Killers Direct Hits (Deluxe Edition)
Bob Marley And The Wailers Legend (Deluxe Edition - Remaster)
Example Live Life Living (Deluxe)
Motown Anthems CD1
Motown Anthems CD2
Motown Anthems CD3
Motown Anthems CD4
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Phone RealMe X8, Android 15. New.

In previous RealMe and Android, I could easily create "widgets" (i.e. shortcuts) to the home screen showing selected contacts. One widget for calling, another for text messaging. Now, I cannot figure out to create the same.

So far, the only option afaik is to press an empty space on home screen and the option to create a widget pops up. I select that, then on all available widgets, I scroll down to contacts. There, there's two options. Either to create a widget containing four of my favourite contacts (which means I have to open contacts and tap on the star to the right of the contact I deem as a favorite...gah!!!). If I do so, these four contacts appear in a narrow "frame", so small that the huge "icons" (why so damn big?) for each of the contacts don't fit. All I can see at first is a tenth of one of them. No way to expand the "frame".

The other option in the widget section is to select a single contact and have that as a widget on home screen. Fine. But the widget then displays a huge "icon" (i.e. a photo of the contact or the first initial of the contact's name) as mentioned above.

In previous phone with Android 12 or 13, I simply open contacts, held down finger on the contact I wanted on home screen, and slid it left or right (I'm lying. Actually I had to first select the phone symbol, slide that, and then select the message symbol and slide that too.

But then, I had shortcuts on my home screen for calling or messaging the few contacts I normally need to contact.

Sorry for elaborate text. But I really miss this feature and would very much appreciate if anyone could steer me in the right direction to achieve it.

Cheers,
Dan

Happy Thanksgiving Day Eve.

I am going to a family get together tomorrow and may not get to pass by here tomorrow, sooo.

Happy Turkey Day to all !

I have had many Android phones, including several Samsungs, and have always been able to copy files from my Windows PC.

However, just got an S24 and I am struggling!

I connect it to the PC with a USB cable and nothing happens. Normally, the PC would recognise it and offer some options.

I can go into the phone settings and under "USB Settings" I can see "USB Controlled by" with 2 options "Connected device" and "This device".

There are also options under "Use USB for" and one of these is "Transferring Files / Android Auto", but all the options are greyed out and cannot be selected.

I am guess I need to do something else - can anyone point me in the right direction, please?

Thanks

*UPDATE* Sorted - it was the cable!!!!!

Android: Google Play



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We want to watch the game tonight but it's on amazon and who has that? It's a real shame how they're allowed to take something as basic as being able to view football away from people. Is there some other way to catch it for free, possibly on a regular channel? The only alternative I know is to go to a bar, but that costs money, too.

I do not want any of my photos on there at all, if I deleted them from Google photos meaning They think "Hey man lets all kill his most recent photos off his cell.." Seriously what the hell? Any sugessions?

Somebody I know lost his phone and I'm trying to help him find it. The number was called but it just went to voicemail. I have downloaded 2 of those find my device things but I can't get either of them to work. I also got an installer for xapk files. It was able to find the xapk but still no luck. Then I tried getting the find hub xapk. It's installing forever, I guess. We don't have a lot of time to waste on this nonsense. By the way, I also went to the cricket (his carrier) website and had a "conversation" with probably a bot. That was just as useless as expected. Can somebody PLEEZE help us find his phone? It's a Samsung low end but what's affordable.

vivo have begun rolling out an update for their X Fold3 Pro Global devices that not only upgrades them to Android 16 but also switches them from the global FunTouchOS to the Chinese OriginOS 6. So for those of you that wished for the arguably, superior OriginOS, then Christmas has come early!

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Hello,

I got a new Xiaomi phone, and would like to know if there is a way to…
1. Show data usage since the last reset on the home screen so I know how much I have left at a glance
2. Automate enabling USB tethering after I plug it in

Thank you.

The Northern lights were visible in Wichita Ks last night. Naturally, I missed the very rare occasion. There is a great chance that they will be visible tonight as well. It is due to an unusual coronal ejection of the sun. I'll be in place to grab a few pics if the lights make it this far South tonight. If you live in a Northern state, take advantage of your location and grab some pictures to share... please To see the lights have always been on my bucket list!

That has no date or time either, I just want to able it to read my steps accurately without any calander added with it, able to refresh them and never have it wait for the day to pass to erase the data... I tried walkdroid, pedometer and I just want something very simple. Free and little to no ads.

When I leave my car and Android Auto disconnects, music automatically switches from the car speakers to my Pixel 8 and keeps playing on the phone. I don't want that and it didn't used to do that. I just want playback to stop completely when I exit the car.

I’ve checked Android Auto settings (there's no “resume media” option) and the Google Assistant settings (there's no “Media continuity” option either).

Is there any hidden setting or workaround to disable this behavior without using Tasker/MacroDroid?

Some details:
- Phone: Pixel 8
- OS: Android 16
- App: Android Auto
- Car: 2019 BMW X5 (xDraive40i)

Thanks!

Last night we were watching the games and somebody got the bright idea to order a pizza and some wings. As the one who knows how to operate such things, I was pressed into service as the caller. By that time he was drunk and somewhat more easily annoyed than usual. I had to do some translating ("onion", "extra cheese"). Then I was the order grabber. I'm not sure who actually delivered as the stuff was just sitting there. I did notice that it didn't seem to be much for the price (almost $45 not counting the tip). It was close to 25 for the pizza, a medium meat lover with a couple more ingredients. The wings were more than $9 (8 boneless), and the big bottle of soda above 4.50. Quality was not that great and I'm not sure about how long it took. Anyway long story short is quite a while before next time. Eating there would have been out of the question because they still do that pandemic stuff such as having the drivers hanging out where people could eat. Some time ago I noticed that they no longer have the phone number on their sign. What's up with them? Didn't they used to be the gold standard?

Hello. I have an old Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 Lite (SM-T110) that runs Android 4.4.2. I believe I stopped using it around 10 years ago, maybe more.

I came across it in storage, and found that the battery is in amazingly good shape for a device this old. My first thought was to recycle it, but then I thought about how old it is, and by smart device standards, it may be considered practically "antique", or maybe "vintage", anyway?

It's definitely in worn condition, but the screen is intact: blemishes that you can just feel with your fingernail, but nothing worse. The rear camera lens looks pretty much pristine. I'm wondering if it might be worth anything to someone, or should I just go ahead with recycle?

Thank you for any advice.

Side note, just for fun. I don't visit this forum very often. My Home Wi-Fi Network is named "Earlybird"!

This seems to be a complex topic. I use hearing aids, and the sound quality is excellent for me. BUT the people with whom I speak on the phone hear too much and/or too loud background noises. For example, papers wrinkling, television. There's no noise cancellation nor suppression as when using the phone alone.

There are articles on changing call settings on these Androids, but my two phones do not have them on Android 14.
This article did not help: 4 Ways to Enable Clear Calling On Your Phone (Android/iOS)


The only setting I could find is "hearing aid compatibility" and that is turned on.

Many users state that hearing aids don't have true noise suppression, so if this is a problem, use the phone, not the aids, for voice/talking. Again, what I hear is fine.

Anyone here know how to reduce background noise for bluetooth-attached hearing aids using a Samsung A54 cellphone?

- f0rg0t my l0cal passw0rd in wind0ws ten,
what I have been d0ing is direct d0wnl0ad the is0 0n the micr0s0ft url, burning the file t0 my usb disk, I p0pped that in just n0w and it saids 0n my screen:


Err0r: bi0s / legacy b00t 0f uefi-0nly media:


this device was created by rufus:

it can b00t in UEFI m0de 0nly but y0u are trying t0 b00t in bi0s / legcay m0de: this will n0t w0rk!


t0 rem0ve this message y0u need t0 d0 0ne 0f the f0ll0wing:

- if this c0mputer supp0rts uefi, g0 t0 y0ur settings and l0wer 0r disable the pri0rity 0f CSM / Legacy m0de:


- 0r recreate the drive in rufuts and use:

* partiti0n scheme - -> MBR..
Target system -> bi0s (....)

0r erase the wh0le drive in rufus by selecting :

B00t type -> n0n b00table


n0te: y0u may als0 see this message if y0u installed a new 0s and y0ur c0mp is unble t0 b00t that 0s in UEFI m0de:


Please rem0ve this meIFEU.


What the hellbell is a meIFEU?

I have 1 Jitterbug Android phone, 1 Samsung Android phone. Each has a different number, and receives different text messages. I would like to have each phone receive calls only for the unique number, but have each phone receive the text messages for both numbers. How do I do that? Thank you.

I have a Motorola moto g play. All of a sudden, the font size for text messages is very large. Much larger than I want. I did not mess with any settings. I restarted the phone, and it didn't fix it.

If I go to settings >Display>Display size and text and change the Font Size and Display size, it does not change the font size for text messages, but instead changes font size and display size broadly on the phone.

Did a convenient update change this?