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Help How to connect to Smartphone "hello" in local Wifi (in local LAN) via adb from window?

Assume my Smartphone with the name" hello" is currently connected in local WLAN (wifi).
Same as my Windows desktop computer.

How can I setup a Wifi (=not by USB cable) connection to this smartphone via adb ONLY BY NAME ?

Yes, I know the smartphone has an assigned IP like 192.168.x.y

How can I find out the values for x and y after successful adb connection?

How can I find out via adb connection on which port the adb android part (server) n the smartphone is currently listening for incoming adb connection requests?

Similarly: How can I find out from inside (=no adb connection required) Android (13 or 14) what the current Wifi IP and the listening adb port is?

Help Telegram no more unread

Hi,

When I scroll down to the last message in Telegram, the screen will jump and it will show "No more unread topics" text, screenshot
How to disable the screen jumping (similar effect like browser drag to refresh) and the "No more unread topics" text, I want it like Whatsapp if I scroll to the bottom message it will auto stop there and I know it is the newest message already.

Thanks

How to delete pictures in TRSH folder on Galaxy J2

I'm running out of internal storage on phone. Went into CAMERA folder, selected pictures and videos and selected "delete". It said it was moving the pictures/videos to "TRSH". But it did not delete them. My phone is still almost out of internal storage. How do I find "TRSH" and then force them to be deleted? I can't find a "TRSH" folder on the phone. I connected the phone to my computer and it doesn't show "TRSH" folder on the phone either. How do I find and clear out this TRSH folder?

Just checked - "My Files" does NOT show a "TRSH' folder

Boar Head Meat Recall

There's a big recall of Boar Head Deli Meat. 71 different meat items have been recalled. There has actually been a couple of deaths from it
Boar's Head Provisions Co. Expands Recall for Ready-To-Eat Meat and Poultry Products Due to Possible Listeria Contamination | Food Safety and Inspection Service

I have an Albertson grocery store called Jewel-Osco by me in Illinois that sells Boar Head Deli Meat. I bought their Olive Loaf a couple of weeks ago and got an email from the grocery store today. I have eaten all of the Olive Loaf, but I learned a long time ago to always heat Deli Meat up to prevent any problems, All the Olive Loaf I ate was heated up

Screenshot 2024-07-31 at 22-54-21 (1 unread) - apalandri@att.net - AT&T Yahoo Mail.png

Spigen Glas TR EZ FIT

Has anyone ever used one of the Spigen Glas TR EZ FIT screen protectors? I have never used a screen protector. Normally, I have been buying cases with a built in screen protector, but I am wanting to try a seperate screen protector because it might work better, and for the Google Pixel Fold, most of the cases sold seem to have no built in screen protector.

Danny

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Telegram question

1. In telegram the messages and photos I received and read, sometimes the sender will delete them, how to recover telegram delete messages and photos?

2. During I am not using the phone, sometimes the sender has sent messages and photos to me and deleted them before I open to read them, how to see the messages and photos that are deleted by the sender before I open to read them?

Using Samsung Galaxy A32 5G

Thanks

Factory Reset Protection. Help!

I just bought a new phone. My last phone had a terrible microphone so I decided to test the microphone on this one before I was going to keep it. The microphone was good enough. In order to test it I went through the set up wizard, which asked for a PIN number. I entered one. In order to download some software to try out the microphone, I created a new gmail account so that I could use Google Play. Once I was happy with the microphone, I turned it off with the intention of performing a factory reset and then setting the phone up properly with my usual gmail account when I had enough time. It lay in a drawer for a couple of weeks. I have now done a factory reset, but when I attempted to complete the set up wizard, it wanted to know the PIN that I had used when I was testing it. Unfortunately, I can't remember it. What can I say? I'm an old man who is losing his memory. The other option is to input the gmail account credentials, but I can't remember the password for that account. When I try to click on "Forgot password?" it responds by saying "You didn't provide enough info for Google to be sure that this account is really yours. Google asks for this info to keep your account secure." So that was no help.

I don't remember these things and didn't bother writing them down because I had intended to do a factory reset. I had no idea about "Factory Reset Protection", as I have now discovered it is called.

Is there any way that Google can unlock this for me. It is a brand new phone and I simply do not have the money to replace it. Had I known about this FRP function then I would not have fallen foul of this.

When I was asked for a PIN, can anyone tell me how many digits the setup wizard would have asked for? Is it the same for all phones with android installed? If I knew how long the PIN was I would have a better chance of guessing it.

Any ideas anyone?
Thank you in advance.

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How to display date at status bar?

Hi,

How to display date at the status bar? (status bar meaning the top bar that shows the time, battery percent etc)

The clock settings in Samsung galaxy A32 5G phone does not have the feature to show date at the status bar.

I tried these apps but they do not work, unable to show date at status bar
DateBar DateBar - date in status bar - Apps on Google Play
Date in Status Bar HD Date in Status Bar HD - Apps on Google Play

Thanks
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22 Aug 2024 update, my solution:

Good Lock Quickstar works but the date cannot be adjusted in older phones so some part of the date is blocked by the front camera for some settings. Only newer phones with newer samsung UI can adjust the date format to shorten the date so nothing will be blocked by the front camera, follow this video to customise date format (0:43min
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This app Always Visible Time and Memo works very well as an alternative to Good Lock Quickstar because I can select date format, make it small, position it above the time, so nothing is blocked by the front camera, Always Visible Time and Memo Always Visible Time and Memo - Apps on Google Play

Apps listed below works but if there is new notification the date may move to the right or disappear for some time because of new notification appearing on status bar
Calendar Status Bar Calendar Status Bar - Apps on Google Play
Date in Status Bar Date in Status Bar - Apps on Google Play
DateBar - date in status bar DateBar - date in status bar - Apps on Google Play

Dangers of Auto Renew

About 10 years ago I signed up for Spirit Airlines perks program. It was $69 a year. The only way to sign up was with auto-renew. I forget to cancel the auto-renew and got a $69 charge today, my fault for not cancelling auto-renew.

When I go to cancel the auto-renew I noted the credit number was one I used 10 years ago and have had several new cards with new numbers issued over the past 10 years. So I started Googling the issue and discovered banks will accept your old credit card number if the business had you sign up for auto-renew. They said, so it wasn't an inconvenience to the customer.

Not all businesses with auto renew will do this, but Spirit Airlines does. I think it's extremely dangerous for a bank to do this

On screen navigation button not switching between apps

Hello, my phone just began exhibiting a strange behavior:

Along the bottom of my screen, I always have visible the back button, the home button, and the one that switches between running apps. I don't know what that button is called, but on my phone it's on the bottom left of the screen, and it looks like three vertical lines.

It has just stopped working. How do I troubleshoot this?

I assume there's an app associated with on-screen navigation, and maybe I could force quit that app and then delete its cache, but I don't know what that app is called, or even if that is how you fix this.

My phone is an S23 FE running Android 14.

Thank you, as always, for your help!

Would a VPN app on my phone prevent carrier from knowing I'm using the phone as a WiFi hot spot?

I ask because my plan gives me unlimited high speed data, yet they place a limit on how much data I can use through my phone if it's acting as a WiFi hot spot.

We tend to have home ISP outages around here from time to time, so I do have to use my phone as a hot spot a few times per year, and usually only for one evening at a time.

I already have a VPN that I pay for and am happy with. If I put their app on my phone, will that prevent my wireless provider from being able to see the packets being transmitted, and thus prevent them from capping or throttling my hot spot usage?

I'm not trying to abuse this, mind you. Not trying to torrent the contents of an international film archive or anything. I just want to have uninterrupted Internet on my desktop computer even when we have ISP outages.

CrowdStrike Outage

what a crazy thing to happen that affected so many people all over the world. how did this happen? does this show how vulnerable our tech is? this was no hack or virus. this was all done by CrowdStrike themselves.


i was at a gas station and a couple of people could not use credit cards to get gas. they were only accepting cash or a Shell credit card( i was at a Shell gas station). luckily i had a Shell gas card and was able to get gas.

has anybody else been affected by this?

The Big C

Cancer is such a devastating disease. I lost my mother to cancer when she was just in her forties. My son has buried two of his best friends this year who both died of brain cancer. I understand the disease attacking the elderly.. we are all rotting out anyway. But the young children and young adults raising families seems so unfair. I imagine everyone reading this has lost a loved one to the disease. You would think that there would be some answers as to the cause and certainly hope to have some curing treatments by now. It is a killer!

My partner in business for 36 years was recently diagnosed with a very aggressive cancer. He has started chemo and will find out Monday if it is doing anything beneficial and if he has the cancer in other places in his body. He is in his late sixties so it's not like he has a lifetime ahead of him. He is a very good dude and like most all cancer victims, did nothing to warrant the path he must now walk. I can't stop thinking about his plight.

If you have a story you would like to share, I will certainly listen and I thank you for any positive vibes you have for my past partner.

Dual Sim phones..

In the last days, I had a recurrance of a texting issue. Every now and again, if someone sends me text messages and my phone is off, I don't get them. I have to call in to AT&T, then they do something. It even requires me to be off of my phone and on another voice connection with them while they fix the issue. I started to talk with the tech guy, asking him if many calls came in from folding phone users, then I tell him about how my Fold Four died, and that if it had not died suddenly, forcing me to get something that day, I would have tried a dual sim phone. He said "I can fix that. We can put AT&T on the E Sim and you can remove the Sim card so that you can use a local Sim card when traveling". I was hesitant at first because I was having a real issue at that time. We fixed the text issue and I asked him if I would notice any big changes if I do that, and he said "no", and that it was easy to change. I figured "why not", so I had him do it and so far, everything is normal. I think that in the next day or so I am going to try to go to T-Mobile and see if they can set me up with some prepaid service that I can get a Sim card for, then try using it in Dual sim mode. I would like to consider it a test run to figure out if it works well and how I need to do it, before I go on vacation. I found his approach interesting and I never considered that was an option.

Danny

Samsung Broken Z Fold 4; what to do?

Ok, so my Z Fold 4 failed, probably because of the flex cable internally. When you turn the phone on, then unfold it, it shuts off. Anytime you unfold it from a running, folded state, it shuts off. It is about a year and a half old , which I am sure it is out of warranty, and I did not have any coverage on it. Other than that issue, it is in great shape. Do you entertain getting it fixed? My AT&T technical help guy said to sell it, I believe, as those are in demand, but it is broken (he knew that). I am not really any longer sure about what he said to do with it in the broken state, as my mind was filled up from the tech. issue we were trying to solve. Any good suggestions?

Thanks,

Danny

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