maker5 said:

Looks stuning! I want to play it

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It's now available for FREE on Google Play, enjoy!

I have never had that question as response.

noshabarehman said:

I am also searching for it..

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"It" being the software suggest above? It is very easy to find at the play store and possibly at apkmirror.com and/or Apkpure.com

Netbase said:

Hi

I have a Samsung A23, (will be buying additional 49 after this is figured out and configured) I want to remove all software on it, add 1 communication app to the main screen (which will work via wifi) there will not be any sim card installed, I want to block/disable any installations of apps etc , including social media, browsing the web, and giving the user the phone without a google account on it (don't mind using one to implement this, then removing it), the mobile will be used only for corporate use, to receive and make calls, hence the reason for this

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated

Thanks

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Sounds like Knox Manage might be useful for this. That's what Samsung designed it for, managing corporate use devices.

The QPST (Qualcomm Product Support Tools) is a software suite developed by Qualcomm for various tasks related to Qualcomm chipset-based devices, such as programming, diagnostics, and firmware updates. The "Service Programming Error" message you encountered indicates that there was an issue while attempting to program or configure a device using QPST.

Here are a few suggestions to troubleshoot the QPST Service Programming Error:

1. Check device compatibility: Ensure that the device you are attempting to program is supported by the version of QPST you are using. Different versions of QPST may have varying levels of compatibility with different devices.
2. USB drivers: Verify that the correct USB drivers for your device are installed on your computer. Without the proper drivers, QPST may not be able to communicate with the device correctly.
3. Port configuration: Open the QPST Configuration application and go to the "Ports" tab. Make sure the appropriate COM port is selected for your device. If the correct COM port is not listed, you may need to reinstall the USB drivers or troubleshoot your device's connectivity.
4. Restart devices: Try restarting both your computer and the device you are trying to program. Sometimes, a simple restart can resolve temporary communication issues.
5. Firewall and antivirus: Temporarily disable any firewall or antivirus software on your computer. In some cases, these security measures can interfere with the QPST software's communication with the device.
6. Reinstall QPST: If none of the above steps work, try uninstalling QPST and reinstalling it from a trusted source. Make sure you are using the latest version available.

If the issue persists after trying these steps, it may be helpful to consult the documentation or support resources provided by Qualcomm or the device manufacturer for further assistance. They may have specific troubleshooting steps or recommendations tailored to your device or situation.

Georgegaytan said:

If there are problems with adding a photo to the phone, then I would advise you to check whether you have enough free memory.

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did you not read the op? he was referring to web pages......so its not the phone and it has nothing to do with storage space.

isratjahan said:

So sad to know this.

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to know what? what is so sad?

I got my new glasses this afternoon. The correction is so drastically different in the left lenes that they make me a bit dizzy. I'm basically three and a half hours into wearing them. It was just terrible at first and I contemplated wearing my old glasses so I could safely drive home. My brain is starting to figure it out now. A sudden change in distance, for just a fraction of time, is awkward but then is fine. It took my left eye three years for the its vision to degrade to such an extent. It will take a bit of time for the correction to be accepted. I'm guessing it will be just as awkward when the cataract is removed.

Has anyone here had cataract surgery? I have briefly talked to two people that have had the surgery and they spoke well of the procedure and results. I'm not exactly certain what I'm in for but I'm looking forward to it.

nope, you will need to get that button repaired first. check ifixit.com or have a professional repair the phone.

maybe taskers.....but why not just make sure that your google account is sync'd? google backs up your contacts thru the cloud.

Thank you my Darling Clementine!

Thanks Syica. I will look into that first one [Easy Contact] you recommended.

> just saw that is a phone-to cloud-to phone backup. I want to backup to my computer; the I could then restore it to the same phone or a new phone as I wanted. I definitely do not want to put it on cloud somewhere. But I appreciate your replying.

Just to conclude this thread, I didn't get time to figure out why my phone wouldn't flash, so I just left it. Then miraculously a week ago the Settings seemed to just start working again! I hadn't done any updates or tinkered with anything they just started opening again. Baffling.
Thanks for everyone's help.

And back then HTCs would have had a cache partition (I don't know whether the current ones do because it's a long time since I've even seen one. Ironically, after a long hiatus, they've just announced a reasonably-priced, reasonably-specced U23, but I left them when they started only making large phones and this one has the same problem).

switabh said:

How much time does it take to get stable update when I opt out of android beta programme?

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that question kind of depends on development. here is the tentative schedule for android 14:

What phone do you have? I can turn on these things with one swipe and one touch (same for 11, 12, 13), but these things do depend on the manufacturer. I think Pixels have an extra step for WiFi/Data because they have these behind a generic "internet" button on the notification slide, but I thought BT was still just a simple (and large) toggle button.

Anyway why the heck are you fiddling with these things when driving (even when stopped)? Most people will just leave them on anyway, so I suspect the impact on most users is less than you think.

Incidentally, since you are new here:
1) welcome to the forum!
2) just in case you don't know, this is a forum for android users, it's not run by or affiliated to Google. So you can ask questions or just vent about frustrations here, but Google won't take any notice (though to be fair there's no evidence that they take any notice when people contact them directly either ).

have you looked in the play store? there are plenty of encryption apps available:

what kinds of data are we talking about? passwords? certain files or folders?

mikedt said:

If I had friends who were that shallow and petty, quite frankly I'd be looking for some new friends.

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yes..

Oh On topic: Since my steaming cuts off like twenty minutes, but I am glad they last over about an hour and half,but I am wondering if there is a groovy Youtube downloader for my windows for converter, not looking for worms or anything bigger then Demin showing off the legs, kind of deal, but I am looking for that classy lady look that cannot bring you down, of a downloader converter for it, any recommendations, again not looking for anything warm.

Android network programming involves developing applications that interact with network services and APIs on Android devices. It allows you to establish network connections, send and receive data over the network, and handle various network-related tasks.

Here are some key concepts and components related to Android network programming:

1. Networking APIs: Android provides a set of networking APIs to facilitate network communication. The primary networking classes are part of the java.net package and include classes like URL, URLConnection, HttpURLConnection, Socket, and ServerSocket.
2. Internet permission: To access the network in your Android application, you need to declare the INTERNET permission in the Android manifest file.
3. AsyncTask: When performing network operations, it's crucial to avoid blocking the main UI thread. The AsyncTask class allows you to perform background network tasks asynchronously and update the UI when the task completes.
4. HTTP communication: Android supports HTTP communication through the HttpURLConnection class or third-party libraries like OkHttp or Volley. You can use these classes to make HTTP requests (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE) to a remote server and process the responses.
5. JSON and XML parsing: Often, network responses are in JSON or XML format. Android provides libraries such as JSONObject, JSONArray, and XmlPullParser to parse and extract data from these formats.
6. WebSockets: WebSockets enable full-duplex communication between a client and a server over a single, long-lived connection. The java.net package provides classes like WebSocket and WebSocketFactory for WebSocket programming.
7. Network security: Android offers features to ensure secure network communication, including support for SSL/TLS encryption, certificate pinning, and secure connection protocols.
8. Network connectivity and status monitoring: You can check the network connectivity status using the ConnectivityManager class. This allows you to handle scenarios when the device switches between different network types or loses connectivity.
9. Background services: For long-running network operations, you might consider using background services or foreground services, depending on the requirements of your application.
10. Networking libraries: Several third-party libraries, like Retrofit, Volley, and OkHttp, provide higher-level abstractions and simplify network programming in Android by offering features such as request queuing, caching, and easier API integration.

When working with network programming in Android, it's essential to handle network-related tasks asynchronously, handle exceptions gracefully, and ensure proper error handling to provide a smooth user experience.

When you take into consideration how your phone updates its time that might help you find a solution to your query. Periodically and regularly a script runs to sync your phone's day/date/time service to some preset online time server, essentially similar to how your PC updates itself. Using a VPN alters online connectivity so yeah, you can predetermine the time based on its locale-based IP address, but that's not the sole issue to consider. Those online time servers are all maintaining UTC (Universal Coordinated Time), the exact time that's supplied by an atomic clock in Greenwich, U.K. All our PCs and mobile devices then sync themselves to UTC, with their respective operating systems all converting the UTC day/date/time to whichever is appropriate for all our particular locations. So when your phone is connected online via a VPN, it's the same UTC there as where your standing -- it's your phone you need to look into, not the external influences that are involved.
Try using what @Dannydet suggested, the Tasker app is quite capable doing what its designed to do.

In your instance, you'll need to set up a routine to open up Settings, go the System settings menu, open the Date & time menu, disable Set time automatically, disable Set time zone automatically, then manually bump the time two hours ahead (that step will be be the trickiest to do). Depending on your phone, it may vary on how your Settings menu is arranged. You'll need to set up a second less involved routine to just enable Set time automatically and Set time zone automatically again so your phone will start re-syncing itself again.
The Tasker app it's just an app you install from the Play Store and it will just be using the same Settings app you interact with. If you opt to set up your own crafted Python script, your phone will need to be rooted as you're going to need to disable and alter integral time updating services that automatically run at system-level.

I moved your thread to the Dev area @Avdhesh

If you never sync them with a cloud service, it would have been done by the app.

b253tn said:

So if the SD card is formatted as "internal storage" and I try to reformat it to portable storage, all app data will be wiped? Or will just everything on the tablet be wiped (both the SD card and the tablet's storage itself will be erased)? Or will it still retain some data? If so, which data will be left remaining after reformatting the SD card?



And you said not everything can be backed up, so basically if I attach an external hard drive using a OTG cable, would I not be able to back up everything on my device (including apps and their app data)? I would basically only be able to back up or transfer files to it?

Thanks

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Stop wasting your time trying to access any data stored within a microSD card formatted as Internal. If you want anything that is residing on that card, it's not going to be usable nor accessible to you. Your options are to either leave the card in your tablet or to reformat it back to Portable. The formatting process is going to wipe the card clean, that's inevitable.

In its default condition, when you originally bought it, the card's media storage was formatted with some form of FAT file storage variant, either FAT32 or exFAT. The FAT protocols being an old, proprietary Microsoft file system, that being old are minimally capable to still be usable with today's technology but having a benefit in being supported by almost all current operating systems (i.e. Linux, Microsoft, Apple, Android, iOS, etc.). But when you format a microSD card to be Internal, that's a significant change to the card's storage media. It's a) changed from FAT to ext4 and b) gets encrypted. Once the card is changed to Internal, its file system matches the same file system, ext4, as what your tablet's internal storage media is formatted to be. The encryption ties the card to your tablet, the encryption key locking the two to only apply to each other. So at that point the card, now being Internal, is morphed into a being just another internal component of your tablet's existing hardware configuration. The change to a corresponding file system and the encryption make the card usable as just a 'virtually' added amount of storage media.
So yes you have the option to manually reformat the card back to Portable (making the file system a FAT variant again and removing the encryption), but that does result in a somewhat drastic measure to your tablet's installed Android operating system. By doing this you're removing the amount of file storage it was using previously. So expect some data loss, most likely in just having to reinstall some apps.

It's really important for you to get a better understanding on how Google has been gradually changing its Google Photos into a much more proprietary, vendor-locking service. Your expectations that terms like 'Sync' have been redefined to match up with Google's current business plan. So when you use the Google Photos app, you'll be viewing your library of photos and videos BUT the actual photo and/or video files themselves may or may not actually reside within your phone's internal storage media. That's the big issue. They may or may not be on your phone, but they are all stored within your online Google account.
Using the Google Photos app on your phone will show you your entire photo/video library, a merged collection of media files both stored on your phone and on Google's online servers. But if you use a file manager app on your phone, that's only going to show you the photo and video files that are stored on your phone.
-- You can get around this by tweaking options in the Google Photos app on your phone, but that will only affect your Google Photos service going forward, it will not apply retro-actively. (Change Backup quality to Original and stay clear of that Free up device storage option.)

If you do want to have your entire photo and video library stored within both your phone and in your Google account, it's going to be a bit of a messy project. Using just Google Photos (using either the app on your phone or its web interface) will very, very time and effort consuming. So a workaround is to use the Google Takeout service to make a single, downloadable zip file of your entire collection.
Log into your Google account, deselect all the shown categories except Google Photos, and then depending on your large your media file library is it might take a while before you get a finished message with a link to download the zip archive file. De-compress that zip onto your phone and it that will restore all the photos and videos that were in your online Google Photos account. (Note at that point you'll have a messy mix of duplicates, the existing photos/videos that were already on your phone with those recently downloaded files.)
-- On related topic, using Google Takeout is a good way to make a backup of your entire Google account into a single file. And it can use user accessible file types so that's a major plus. It's also a good way to get a grip on just how extensive Google is about storing our personal files and such.
If you've been using Google for several years, don't be surprised how long it takes to do a Google Takeout backup file (could be several hours and the zip file itself several GBs in size).

If your seeing old backups of your photos and videos in your Google Drive service, for several years the Google Photos service and the Google Drive service could be linked to automatically sync your media files between each service. But Google killed that off in 2019 in its push to vendor-lock users to Google Photos.

Regarding your old text messages, don't spend too much time trying to find a solution. The odds are those are lost forever, unless you still have that Galaxy S21 phone. Trying to restore old text messages from old backup files is pointless, you can't restore data that doesn't exist.
However, if you do still have possession of that Galaxy S21 (not a backup file but the phone itself), install this SMS Backup & Restore app on both phones, use it make a export a backup file of your text messages (and phone call log if necessary), and the use the app to import that backup file into your Galaxy S23 phone.