Settings-->>Connections-->>more connection settings-->>Nearby Device Scanning-->>switch off.

Keep in mind that if you use headsets or car audio, they will no longer 'auto pair' anymore, making it necessary to pull phone out, unlock and reconnect manually each time, which can become rather tedious. It won't net you any battery life either.

Symbol of phone with check mark is often the notification for 'your phone has downloaded a system update/new software update available'. At least, that's what it is on a modern Samsung phone. Sometimes when it's checking for an update over-the-air at random you'll see the icon show and vanish.

Please Please please Google sort this. I don't have this spoken notification setting and I know it's not just me because of how many posts there are about this issue all over the internet.
When there's a notification chime you can press the action button to listen - Google Search
This is beyond a joke and not acceptable.

XWidget also has a ton of the Samsung widgets (I am not sure if they ever updated to fix the bug in Android 12+ where the widgets stop refreshing though).

Samsung Internet and Samsung Notes will install on any phone, not just Samsungs. Samsung Health also works on non-Samsung phones. You won't get Messages, Gallery, Contacts, Phone Dialer or the like as those depend on specific OneUI APIs that don't exist on another phone. You can possibly find alternatives that are similar, but like my attempt at "Samsung-ifying" my Nexus 6, you'll end up with a half done attempt that won't ever feel right or complete.

I am not sure why you didn't choose another Samsung phone, such as one of the A-series, as they're cheap, work well and have the same UI design.

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• Dynamic reflection of the sky in lakes
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• Animated butterflies
• Large air balloons
• Shimmering stars and meteors
• Battery-efficient performance
• High-quality textures
• 3D parallax effect
• Three types of animated birds

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Please ignore this post. The problem seems to have gone away.
but I can’t find a way to delete it.

Noobie here. I installed Android Studio flamingo and followed a couple of tutorials on youtube. My latest effort involves experimenting with the Recyclerview. I have tried running it on a couple of different virtual devices and it runs OK until I try to launch the activity that has the Recyclerview. Then I get this error:

Failed to measure fs-verity, errno 1: /data/app/~~pmpCKyqulePUBHTy7ke96g==/com.example.recyclerdemo-480zG4iexej-Wk4snRDEjQ==/base.apk

So far I have not been able to find enough info about APK files to even know where to look.

Can someone help please? Much appreciated.

I finally got the 'slide to unlock' back via an app called Espier Locker i6. Found it online. So there's that at least. Also got a lot of apps and a launcher that at least restores the default iOS 6 UX and status bar.

Agreed but I have met with many a mod who hates folks who is a thread 'necromancer' and avoid it.

animesharma said:

While trying to root my samsung galaxy j7 ,I flashed other devices twrp file using odin3 then when I pressed volup+home+power its not going forward and not showing twrp logo.Then I tried to flash correct twrp file using odin ,it is failing to do so.What shoul I do now .

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like @Brian706 mentioned you will need to try and flash a samsung firmware. you need to go to Download firmware updates for your Samsung mobile phone and tablet and get the correct firmware that is specifically for your device. dont make the same mistake though. flashing the wrong firmware can screw the phone up even more. you will need odin to flash the firmware. details on how to flash it will be in the download part of the site.

once you have a working phone then you can try again using the correct twrp for your phone.

edit: what is your phone's model number?

There's about three of those EcoATMs here in various places, two at Walmarts and another in our dying mall. All three are dead/broken. The two at the Walmarts fail sometime during the 'evaluation phase' and give up, the one at the mall got vandalized, someone busted the LCD and cut the cables out. It's still there but obviously out of order. I've heard of folks buying phones from them but never saw that option on the ones at Walmart.

They get negative reviews online for giving very little for even a modern phone. I think TechRax from YouTube destruction fame tried to see what it'd give for an iPhone X and Xs Max back when those were the newest thing, and I think $150 was the most he could get. The UI is horrendous and features this goofy robot avatar who spouts off noob instructions and 'facts' that are not even current, such as referencing the phone from Saved by the Bell.

If this was indeed after a system update (which reboots the phone) it will require your PIN on a restart. If you forgot it that sucks and you have to reset it. Although the PIN is also enforced after 72 hours (if using a fingerprint sensor) so forgetting it is sorta odd and should only happen if you made it needlessly complicated (like that string of numbers from a particular Star Trek: The Next Generation episode)

Kirby are super cheap secondhand. Even a more modern one. I swear soon as they show up at vendor malls or Goodwills they're selling for $49! Sometimes you get lucky and the box of attachments is duct taped to the vacuum.

Electrolux still exists?! I haven't seen them since the rather high-tech model we once had (from 1984 with tons of indicator lights) got taken apart by myself when I was little and a bit too curious.

I once had to install that monstrosity on a laptop to allow me to play Flash content (namely, FarmVille and Gardens of Time--their respective iOS and Android apps had long since stopped working) after another corporation decided to up and kill it. It was a slow, unstable mess. Didn't help I was attempting to run it on a Vista machine with only 2GB RAM, but obviously it was too much for the specs of that system. I was able to at least SEE Gardens of Time and play a couple levels (had to restart from level one sadly) before it failed to work thereafter. There are two games called 'Gardens of Time' today, and the one that shows up on a modern device is not the same game. The one I remember was set in the Victorian era and was a Facebook game at one time, similar to FarmVille. I forget the developer, but Disney had rights to it for a while. That game no longer shows up on a search, only a game with the same name that has nothing in common. I miss that game personally. Like FarmVille, it died with the death of Flash, and the death is so involved that even installing an older copy on Windows Vista can't bring it back. Can't use any of the self-contained players either because those games depend on their internet servers. I wonder how NewGrounds is coping?

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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Mountain Landscape Live Wallpapers immerse you in the serene beauty of heavenly landscapes, where the grandeur of mountains and the depth of lakes blend in perfect harmony. Enjoy the captivating beauty of nature with Mountain Landscape Live Wallpapers.



Feel the tranquility of this idyllic spectacle, where majestic pink sakura delicately hangs over picturesque lakes, creating a sense of serenity and peace.




Now, with the Mountain Landscape Live Wallpapers app, you can meditate anywhere and anytime, combining the pleasure of observing enchanting mountain landscapes with the soothing sounds of nature (quick double-tap anywhere on the screen to play/pause the sound).



The automatic day and night mode system allows you to enjoy the app at dawn, noon, in the radiance of sunset, and at any time of the day as the lighting changes.



Key Features:
• Detailed customization options
• Automatic background change over time
• Nature sounds and nightingale's melody (quick double-tap to toggle sound playback)
• Animated sky, clouds, and rainbow
• Dynamic reflection of the sky in lakes
• Moving 3D camera (tilt your device for a 3D effect)
• Animated butterflies
• Large air balloons
• Shimmering stars and meteors
• Battery-efficient performance
• High-quality textures
• 3D parallax effect
• Three types of animated birds

Immerse yourself in the beauty of mountain landscapes with Mountain Landscape Live Wallpapers. Let this app turn your device into a window to the magnificent world of mountains and lakes. Allow yourself to enjoy the glitter, shine, and beauty of live wallpapers wherever you are.

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).