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Android 13 fonts

I've just changed to a Motorola g84 5G phone running Android 13 and I
use dark mode wherever possible. I use the Microsoft launcher. I carried
everything forward from my old phone using Google and Microsoft launcher
cloud backups. I've just spent the usual long time setting up the apps
again and my old eyes are taking a hammering from reading settings,
particularly trying to find settings which will enable changing existing
fonts - I can change some of the sizes, but not the font.

One of the fonts used by the new phone (particularly for popup warnings
and instructions) has what I can only describe as "double" and/or
"hollow" letters - the only one I could find to illustrate it is the
Windows font Colonna MT regular. At the tiny sizes on the phone and
particularly as it is often used all in upper case, it is all but
unreadable to me. I didn't see it on my old phone (Android 11 and
Microsoft launcher) at all.

Can anyone tell me a) (out of curiosity) what font it is and b) how the
hell I get rid of it?

Place to download mainstream apps other than Google Play?

I had to change country on my phone to download important apps to use in the country I was living in for a couple of months.

I'm back home now but Google won't let me change back to my original country for a year!

I have important apps to download and use but Google Play states they're not available in my country, which of course is the country I was in.

I think this is absolutely nuts and I'm assuming there was a way to avoid this while downloading the needed apps but it's too late now.

I'm also assuming there's no way around this with Google, other than maybe registering everything under a new Gmail account.

Therefore, is there a website where I can download well known apps without using Google Play?

For example, I'm in the UK and I need to download the EasyJet app.

Thanks very much and hope you can help.

Fire TV Power On proble

Have had Fire TV for months..worked properly. Recently, when I power on the TV, it would not open to the Home Page but to the last app I had used, If I had shut it off without returning to the Home page, it would power-on to that app, and it would be running a movie, tv show that I had never selected. I checked the Power-on setting, and it was set to Open Home Page. I did resets, checked for updates, etc., no difference. I called was on the line with a CR who was apparently new, and had difficulty understanding my problem. After being on hold forever, he suggested resetting to factory, but said he doubted that would solve the problem, and I would have to re-download and set up everything. There were several posts about this on another forum, but the thread was closed, and there was no solution. I have Fire Sticks, and they all work fine. This is, at the very least, an annoyance, altho otherwise things are working properly.

Mouse for games - fails to work in some

I plugged a USB corded mouse into an OTG adapter into my Android's USB. It works fine in the OS, in the game Merge Mansion, and in the shopping app AliExpress. But the two games within the AliExpress app, the mouse is ignored. Is there a way games can access the touchscreen input directly so they don't see a USB mouse? Can this be corrected somehow? Would a bluetooth mouse work better?

I tried the emulator Octopus (an Android app which makes the mouse behave as the touchscreen in the game), but Aliexpress closes quickly within it, just as it closes quickly within Bluestacks on the PC, it seems to hate being fiddled with.

Samsung Fold5-One UI 6.0 Beta 3 is up!

Seven days after Samsung's release of their second Fold5 Beta test firmware for Android 14, One UI 6.0, they are rolling out their third Beta test release, ZWJ8, to enrolled users.


Build = F946BXXU1ZWJ8

Download = 711.97 MB

Build date = 16 October 2023

Camera version = 14.0.00.30

Security patch = 01 October 2023


It is a FOTA, (Firmware Over The Air), update and you can check... Settings > Software update... to see if it is available for you. Alternatively, you can connect to the Samsung PC suite, Smart Switch and check via that.



Software information

FOLD5 BETA 3 ZWJ8 Screenshot_20231019_045252_Settings.jpg

Combined roll-out to eligible international, F946B, and U.S.A. unlocked, F946U1, devices.

See, also... Wipe Cache Partition, Repair apps & Galaxy App Booster

Cybertruck Launch on November 30th, 2023! [OFFICIAL]

It's officially official: the Tesla Cybertruck is set to launch on November 30th!

Further details released by Tesla to investors:

It's technically a "delivery event" which means orders would need to come prior to November 30th, however, it's likely those deliveries will be limited to insiders and VIPs. I'm thinking that the official Cybertruck specs and pricing will be announced on November 30th to the public while the VIPs pick up their Cybertrucks.

As it turns out, I pre-ordered more than 1 Cybertruck accidentally, so I guess it's time for me to make a decision very, very soon.... hmmmm.

The event will be at Giga Texas at Tesla HQ in Austin, Texas:
1 Tesla Rd, Austin, TX 78725

Based on Tesla's financial reporting the company is set to deliver 125,000+ Cybertrucks in 2024 but the waitlist for pre-orders is rumored to be in the millions. So for those not yet signed up to buy a Cybertruck, you could be waiting years to get a brand new vehicle. However, given many of those signups have occured over several years, it's likely a good number will opt for a refund rather than to fill their pre-order.

Did you pre-order a Cybertruck? Interested in buying one?

Is Fitbit Premium worth it?

The Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro came with a few great promos:
  • 6 months of Google One
  • 3 months of YouTube Premium
  • 6 months of Fitbit Premium
I got the Pixel Watch 2 so the Fitbit Premium concept intrigued me.

The subscription model is largely about "offer it free and hope they forget to cancel". If I don't cancel Fitbit Premium, it's about $100/year for something that's actually geared towards my health and wellness. So I'm giving it a shot.

Does anyone have Fitbit Premium that particularly loves it? Hates it? Suggests something else?

Now what I really need to do is sift through any other subscriptions to cancel! Netflix, Disney+, etc... I have too many for sure.

samsung galaxy ace style

help! I downloaded any firmware for Samsung Galaxy Ace Style (the firmware I downloaded is "SM-G310HNXXU0ANI2") with Odin and maybe even in the wrong way and when the operation was finished the phone restarted in bootloop (at this moment the firmware that is on the phone is still the same "SM-G310HNXXU0ANI2") and now I'm trying to download the latest firmware for that device again with odin only that once the operation is over odin says pass (the operation was successful) (the new firmware I downloaded is the most recent "SM-G310HNXXU0APA1") but after that the phone continues to restart in bootloop so I send the device into recovery mode and above it says that the firmware has always remained the same as before (the firmware is the previous one "SM-G310HNXXU0ANI2"). what should I do now? help!

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Accessing learned words in Samsung Galaxy keyboard

Hi! I'm currently sharing a phone with someone who's being pretty shifty and I just need some help.
I was typing an email address in the search bar of a browser on the Samsung Galaxy a12 we share when a whole bunch of suggestions popped up. They were all usernames ( @username ) in the suggestion part of the keyboard and when I hit the ... to view more, a whole lot of others showed up as well. I went to write them down but the problem is I only got to click on two of them before they ALL stopped showing as suggestions in the keyboard.
I'm not sure if it was an accidental glitch and I was never supposed to see those suggestions pop up at all, but the fact that they did means they've got to be stored SOMEWHERE in the phone... Right? Is there any way to access that data- anything I can try? Is there a way to hide the "learned words" that I don't know about? Could they have installed and hidden a whole separate keyboard altogether? The keyboard is just the Samsung keyboard, not GBoard and the phone is not rooted. Is there a way to do that myself in order to access that data?Any help would be really appreciated, thank you!I tried looking up the answer for this already but I'm not really getting the answers I need.

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How to stop Play Store from updating itself in Android 5.1

Hello, Android forums. I have a very towering question I need to stop the Play Store from updating itself, not its apps. I need to do this because of towering size constraints on my phone. Then your Play Store versions, or way too big, and need a way to stop them from updating themselves. The old versions work fine and I. And I don't know why it updates itself. I do not. I do not need a solution on how to stop updating the apps. I need a solution. I have to stop the Play Store from actually updating itself. Because the new Play Store versions are way too big. I am also using a ZTE blade A452 (And no, I cannot root my phone I have tried and I cannot There are too many risks)

Bluetooth Range (Galaxy Buds & iPod Touch)

Hi,
As above, I use my galaxy Buds with my Galaxy S10 phone and mostly with my iPod touch.

I tend to keep the iPod in a chest pocket in my jacket when travelling to and from work.
It is literally 15 inches from where the buds are secured in my ears, how, when bluetooth range is claimed to be anywhere up to a kilometre, do I get a break/ drop out in the connection if I turn my head to either side whilst walking or standing at a bus stop?

I am not aware of any problems that should arise from the devices being cross platform (Android/ iOS) or cross brand (Samsung/ Apple), so does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

Moto G7 Power

I discovered yesterday that my phone is not only ancient, it no longer has the caller ID block option. I wanted to make a call and remain anonymous and the option to turn off the ID was gone from the list.

After talking to a salesperson at a Boost store I was informed that my Android 10 OS was 3 systems behind the times as Android 13 was the stuff now.

Motorola does not support this phone anymore and I am concerned with safety, although all I do with it is play games, (I used to get phone calls when I was working now the phone has not rang in over a week), no steaming and no banking or other personal business.

I go in to the Boost store today for some info on a new phone and a "retired person" plan that sounded real good over the phone yesterday.

Will report back on the deal zone !

Samsung Fold5- One UI 6.0 Beta

Samsung have started rolling out the One UI 6.0 Beta test firmware in the U.S.A. to unlocked Fold5, F946UI, devices that have signed up.

Build = F946UIUEU1ZWJ2

Download = 2739.42 MB

Security patch = 01 October 2023

N.B.
Because beta test releases are not certified, you will find that things like Google Wallet, banking apps, may not work until there is a stable release.

Help New phone is replacing all SD card contents with "abcd.iso"

I ordered a brand new phone, an UMIDIGI G1 Max, and everything was perfect, until it briefly lost contact with the 64gb SD card I had in it. The card contained about 46 GB of music and cartoons. Once the phone rediscovered the SD card it said it's capacity was only 2 GB and all of its contents had been replaced with a single ISO file titled ABCD.iso. I have tried four different cards from four different brands and I've gotten the same results on all of them. Two of them were new and two of them were cards that I've used reliably for several months without a problem. Each time, after mounting the card, the capacity is listed as only 2 gigabytes and, whether it was empty or not, after formatting, there still exists the single .iso file titled ABCD.iso. I have not tried a factory reset because I only discovered this problem after creating about 150 links contained in folders on my homepage that I use for work, and the thought of having to redo it all again makes me sick! I searched high and low online for information about this particular situation, but all I can find is a ransomware virus by a similar name. I want to stress that my situation is not the ransomware virus titled ABCD! Although this may be related, this is something different than the ABCD ransomware virus. I appreciate any tips or insight you may be able to provide.

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