Clearing cache won't hurt anything. It just deletes any stored content (sometimes this includes downloads from YouTube Music, and downloaded maps from Maps as well) but it might use more battery to redownload anything it was keeping track of before you cleared it. Google Play Services always seems to run in the background to enable things such as prefetching map data, location history, commonly accessed browser sites, server-side app updates (the very thing that enforces the 'modern' UI on the oldest version of Google Maps on my Galaxy S4 for one example---despite never having updated the app itself), and many more.

It's sorta like killing apps. It won't net any real benefits. Clearing cache (and the more involved 'clearing dalvik cache' in recovery) is an obsolete thing today.

You can sometimes bypass or tap out of any 'error' that says you NEED Play Services (and turn the notification off) and still run apps such as Google Chrome or some other third-party app that somehow thinks it needs it. The only negatives I've dealt with involved paid apps assuming they're no longer paid and won't open, or in-app purchases disappearing (if you paid via in-app purchase for the 'no ads' option in some apps), and Pokemon Go and Vi AI Personal Trainer no longer getting their required location data and breaking.

The more positive side-effect is that at one time YouTube would run in no-ad mode since it depended on Play Services to get ad data (this was in the Jelly Bean era) and Wheel of Fortune game giving free otherwise paid content without it (both produced errors demanding you needed it but tapping out of the box with the error bypassed it and you could run anyway). I'm sure those are both patched now.

1. Transfer the apk file to your computer.
2. On your computer, change the apk extension to zip.
3. Unzip the apk file using an unzip program.
4. Thank me very much.

Some people seem to want to root for no other reason than to root... that makes no sense to me. The user assumes all the risks involved, including turning their VERY expensive device into a paperweight (aka "brick"). Unless there's a really good, compelling reason to gain root access on my device, Android is mature enough to provide no such reasons. I purchase my phones factory unlocked and can use any network I want. If an app isn't available in Play Store, I sideload the apk. Everything I need/want my phone to do, it does.

ocnbrze said:

you have to hold the other buttons (the volume buttons) a little longer than the power button as stated in the link.

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i tried holding the buttons a little longer and its still booting to the lg logo screen then to the lock screen...
is there another way to wipe the cache partition without recovery?

Thanks for the help guys! I'm gonna review the Google Photos Settings and the Android Settings. And thanks for the manual! When I review everything I'll come back to give a feedback.

The best defense is - Just stop and think before you click(or tap) a link. And then don't.

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I see that RCS chat is turned on and I turned it off. Thanks so much for the quick response!

jagguy said:

hi I have android 12 and i have a pin lock screen enabled. I want to remove it but when i go to lock screen and screen lock type i enter my pin and see no option to delete, remove or none?
There is no way to remove the pin setting?

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Go to Security ---> Screen Lock ---> Swipe. Changing it to swipe removes the lock whether it be Pattern, PIN or Password.

Specifically, I am working on integrating StockFish with Android. The significant part of SF is its syzygy - directory where its tablebase is stored.These files are huge (about 1GB) and I do not want to include them in the program body. I want to allow the user to download them and specify their directory so that SF can use them. SF loads one of the files within this directory, one at a time, as needed.
StockFish is a shared library written in C++.
How can this be done with the current APIs?

Windroid said:

You disagree with what? As I said: I'm not advising him to not buy that tablet, I'm just saying that I no longer endorse it.

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i guess your view on Amazon? i buy things from them all the time. quality has been great. but this is the wrong thread for that discussion

It should from the root directory on your device. Either in "Internal storage /Music" or "SD-card /Music" (if using removable storage).

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I have an app that is built using capacitorjs. Now I have updated the capacitor js version to be 5 along with android studio updated with flamingo. Since the update, I get below error:

Dependency 'androidx.core:core:1.12.0-alpha05' requires libraries and applications that
depend on it to compile against version 34 or later of the
Android APIs.

:app is currently compiled against android-33.

Also, the maximum recommended compile SDK version for Android Gradle
plugin 8.0.0 is 33.

Recommended action: Update this project's version of the Android Gradle
plugin to one that supports 34, then update this project to use
compileSdk of at least 34.

Note that updating a library or application's compileSdk (which
allows newer APIs to be used) can be done separately from updating
targetSdk (which opts the app in to new runtime behavior) and
minSdk (which determines which devices the app can be installed
on).

I now updated compileSdkVersion to 34 in :app build.gradle file. and it works fine.

Since 34 is still in dev, will it cause problems for my app? Should I be doing this? Any suggestions?

Can someone please help here?

Noobie here.
I am working on my first app using a Recyclerview. I have an Adapter (SongsAdapter) to make it work. This is my code for the Adapter>

package com.example.musiclyrics;

import android.content.Context;
import android.database.Cursor;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.widget.LinearLayout;
import android.widget.TextView;
import android.widget.Toast;

import androidx.recyclerview.widget.RecyclerView;

import com.google.android.material.snackbar.Snackbar;

public class SongsAdapter extends RecyclerView.Adapter<SongsAdapter.ViewHolder> {
private Context context;
private Cursor cursor;

public SongsAdapter(Context context) {
this.context = context;
}
public void setCursor(Cursor cursor) {
this.cursor = cursor;

notifyDataSetChanged();
cursor.moveToFirst(); // Move cursor to the first row
ViewHolder holder = onCreateViewHolder(null, 0);

onBindViewHolder(holder, 0);
}

@override
public ViewHolder onCreateViewHolder(ViewGroup parent, int viewType) {
View view = LayoutInflater.from(context).inflate(R.layout.songs_layout, parent, false);
return new ViewHolder(view);
}

@override
public void onBindViewHolder(ViewHolder holder, int position) {

if (cursor != null && cursor.moveToPosition(position)) {

int songNameIndex = cursor.getColumnIndex("SONG_NAME");
int artistIndex = cursor.getColumnIndex("ARTIST");
int durationIndex = cursor.getColumnIndex("DURATION");
int songIdIndex = cursor.getColumnIndex("KEY_ID");

String songName = cursor.getString(songNameIndex);
String artist = cursor.getString(artistIndex);
String duration = cursor.getString(durationIndex);
final int songId = cursor.getInt(songIdIndex);

holder.songNameTextView.setText(songName);
holder.artistTextView.setText(artist);
holder.durationTextView.setText(duration);

holder.itemView.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
@override
public void onClick(View v) {
// MainActivity.varCurrentSong = songId;
// Handle the click event
}
});
}
cursor.moveToNext()

}

@override
public int getItemCount() {
return (cursor != null) ? cursor.getCount() : 0;
}

public static class ViewHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder {
TextView songNameTextView;
TextView artistTextView;
TextView durationTextView;

public ViewHolder(View itemView) {
super(itemView);
songNameTextView = itemView.findViewById(R.id.txt_songName);
artistTextView = itemView.findViewById(R.id.txt_Artist);
durationTextView = itemView.findViewById(R.id.txt_Duration);
}
}
}

At runtime this appears to work OK but the screen only shows the first record. I have tried about 50 different ideas and suggestions on how to make this work to no avail. Can someone help me out please?
Thanks

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Or turn it off during charging, which will reduce power consumption (and heating) even further.

Of course there's no point using a high wattage charger on a phone that cannot take advantage, so compatibility of charging standards is also important. Personally I'm not interested in anything other than USB-PD, since that standard works for my other devices as well and hence 1 charger does me for everything (main requirement being that it's powerful enough to use with my laptop), whereas other proprietary charging systems don't do that.

Though personally I'm more interested in battery longevity, so have fast charging turned off on my phone. I can turn it on if I ever actually need it, but that's very rare, so it makes more sense to reduce stress on the battery by turning it off the rest of the time.

jhtalisman said:

I too am looking for an app that is as easy to use but with some additional features such as not turning on via external device.

Like I mentioned I am using a workaround for now. The most annoying part is it will even play files that are stored in the "Secure Folder" if they were the last played with the app that itself is in the "Secure Folder" as separate version.

Odd to me.

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If you find a player that behaves, please let me know. I have no problem paying for an app if it works well.

An exploit? Simply because an app is popping up ads and/or prompting you to install otherwise unwanted bloatware sounds more like a common occurrence with a lot of apps, as oppose to actually being an actual exploit. Some developers will resort to doing things that may be questionably unethical but in our increasingly-perverted capitalist culture still legal to do.
If you installed an app that's too bloated with ads and crapware, just stop using it and uninstall it. It's your choice, just weigh the positives against the negatives. Not knowing just which app or apps you're referring to, hopefully there are equivalent substitutes that aren't so problematic. Or if the app has a pay-for version, the free version might be its ad-heavy version, and you just need to pay for it.
If it's an app that came pre-installed on your phone, you're essentially stuck with it. With system-level apps you can't readily Uninstall them but with some you can at least Disable them. At that point, at least they're no longer active and not able to mess things up in the background.

What phone model do you have? Did you buy it from a bigger, established phone retailer/seller (i.e. direct from manufacturer, or Amazon, or a cellular service, etc.) or from a more local source (i.e. nearby store, or a friend or acquaintance, etc.)?

So anyone else got the email you can get it for free via trade in and new number?

is this app available on the iOS version ?