Here is what I’ve found so far. Remember, this entire discussion is ONLY about when there are no major restrictions (high traffic, signal interference, etc) on the basic cell phone signal

At best, my phone tests above 60Mbps, at worse, less than 1Mbps. I learned very early not to bother with video downloads unless the tests recorded above the 5Mbps that the carrier contract allows for mobil hotspot. Usually this is 20 to 50Mbps on the phone. When the phone tests high, the computer, with Firefox, using the mobil hotspot, tests above 5Mbps, almost always at 5.7Mbps. The carrier’s contract speed limit for mobil hotspot use is 5Mbps.

The Windows Task Manager is very useful for gaining insight to internet interaction on the computer. One view produces a graph of total download rate for the last 60 seconds, updated every second. The other view provides a numerical value of internet throughput for each application using the internet, also updated very frequently.

I recently found, never having tested this before, that while Amazon video downloads are running at a steady 2Mbps, I can simultaneously download files from other sources through my browser, Firefox, at almost 5Mbps, which is the carrier’s mobil hotspot speed limit. The Task Manager Performance tab show 6.5Mbps and the Process tab shows a division of 2Mbps to Amazon Prime and the rest to Firefox.

Is there any way to get moment to moment download rate information on an Android device? I would like to prepare a tablet in case I can manage to find some higher speed WiFi connection (not through my phone or its carrier) to run a test. If the Amazon Prime download rate is still 2Mbps, then Amazon must be responsible, giving me special treatment that is unlike other Amazon Prime users. If the rate is as high as the WiFi connection allows, my carrier must be the one restricting my Amazon Prime downloads to 2Mbps.

Until I switched to the new “improved” 4G/5G network and new 5G phone, under constant urging from the carrier, video downloads ran at 5Mbps according to Windows Task Manage. Now they are always at 2Mbps, with occasional variation up or down of 0.1 or 0.2 Mbps. Somebody, either the carrier or Amazon, is lying because they both tell me they aren’t responsible for the slow speed.

While my sample poll of other Amazon Prime users is small, and do not involve any mobil hotspot users, much higher Amazon Prime video download speeds were consistently reported ro me from each of them, up to 150Mbps. Thus my carrier is the 1st suspect since no other user has restrictions from Amazon, but I cannot separate the two on my computer because my computer’s only internet connection is the phone’s mobil hotspot.

AugieTN said:

I'm confused, I have never lost a contact from Google Contacts. many have been on for years without being used. I currently have a Pixel 7

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I am also confused. If the contacts had permanently disappeared, I would say either I accidentally deleted them or I am hacked. But for the contacts to "disappear" and then "reappear" looks to me more like Google's back end has a reliability issue.

Except that we've told you what will happen: it's the one thing that can make the problem worse.

You might try pulling the fuse or break the circuit to the unit and then reconnect to see if that initiates a reboot. I'm out of suggestions.... sorry

I love my cabin property but mowing around all of the trees....

This is a 50 dollar phone.
Upgrade to a better model or put up with constant crashes....

This is a 50 dollar phone.
Upgrade to a better model or put up with constant crashes....

fireTV History app crashes almost 100% on 'breaks' in the content, ie Unexplained has 5 segments and when the stream hits the breaks , 3 seconds of the next segment will show then the screen will go black with a 8 segment circle rotating and you have to back out of the program and get back into it and it will usually start back up but at the end of your segment, ie you have to rewind 5 minutes to get back to where the hang started. Very annoying...FireTV recently updated to latest version and app (through Discovery +) reloaded. All other streams are fine.

alshaikh147 said:

man first login to system version ( and click the MCU number several times then put the password ( you have to double check what is the password ) from that you have to enable both USB debugging and developer mode). then from the screen setting you have to go to build number and activate the developer mode ( by clicking the build number several time 7-10 times) then go to USB configuration and change the USB to transfer file mode. then you are ready to add whatever app you want. i can help on that if you need free of cost. at any time

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alshaikh147 said:

man first login to system version ( and click the MCU number several times then put the password ( you have to double check what is the password ) from that you have to enable both USB debugging and developer mode). then from the screen setting you have to go to build number and activate the developer mode ( by clicking the build number several time 7-10 times) then go to USB configuration and change the USB to transfer file mode. then you are ready to add whatever app you want. i can help on that if you need free of cost. at any time

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Hello how are you?
Could you help me please to add carbitlink to my car?

Excellent questions. The free repair of the 53 is independent of the 54 suggestion. Repair of the 53 is free, and purchase of a 54 is optional and is full price. I really would enjoy watching the repair, so will consider paying an independent who will allow me to watch. That might be worth the cash.

So far, no software has accessed the phone, and the software which promises it can, does not have the 53 as a selection. Seems the touch portion of the screen is dead,

Will check on repair times but probably still get the 54 for expediency and add recent info as needed.

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Thanks for information will try one at a time.
There was a problem with V12 and a setting to improve which it did.
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noshabarehman said:

Textra is a highly customizable messaging app that offers various features, including an auto-reply feature. You can set up personalized auto-reply messages for specific contacts or general replies for all incoming messages.
Is this app useful or not?

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Ah awesome thanks, I will check it out now!

Here's the latest. His phone had some message in Chinese, I guess, on the lock screen. It was in red and blue. When I checked it out it seemed to have been factory reset. I couldn't get it to take his email address at first, but it worked on the second try. When it set up the googoo account (nasty), it shoved in four extra apps. Maybe we should be thankful that they at least admitted that and the horrible things could be uninstalled. Is his phone infected? I warned him but I don't believe he's taking it seriously.

noshabarehman said:

I THINK ITS DC

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Don't be stupid, I can play AC/DC from my music collection, so it must charge with a bit of AC too or it wouldn't sound right.

Waze rocks !!

Do they play voice calls in one ear only? Because that's what the OP was asking for (2 years ago).

They also wanted a boom mic, which I know the XM4s don't have, but it was the "play calls in one ear only" that was the stronger requirement (personally that would sound very odd to me, but it's what they wanted).

I have a 14 pro and it gets hot all the time when I use it to take photos. But I have not received any notifications about overheating.

Yes, it's an obvious feature. Pixels have it, as @Clementine_3 has shown, and from glancing at a couple of other brands' online documentation I think they aren't alone. Samsung also lacks any feature to trigger DND on calendar events, which others have (though I have used Tasker for that since I got my first Android), so it does look like Samsung chose to dumb it down.

I don't know whether Bixby can be used to provide more sophisticated options, because I have that turned completely off (likewise Assistant - the data collection these things require is beyond my tolerance). But even if it can it would be very silly to remove options from the Settings and force you to use some proprietary thing like that to achieve the same result. Software has never been Samsung's strong point, but it's kinda weird that they take so much out of DND when their approach to phones is generally "stuff everything we can think of in even though most people won't use most of it".

Spec_tech said:

Alright. I've heard that from a couple forum posts and from some other users as well, but those cases usually deal with both a smart watch and an audio device. I'm not sure how that would translate to an audio receiver and a detector that, as far as i know, doesn't take in or output audio via bluetooth.

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Yeah, that's my setup, it's a Huawei fitness band, and various BT headphones and speakers. Which both do connect and work perfectly with my Samsung Note20 Ultra phone.

I've never seen or used a Pixel phone. So I don't think I can help you much more. Somebody else on AF maybe able to assist.

svim said:

Nuts, I mistakenly wasted your time on Wondershare. My apologies
Reading further this worked with the older Samsung Kies backups but Samsung continues to upgrade its encryption protocols in its newer SmartSwtich backups so this no longer applies.

This link is an interesting article on the matter, decrypting a SmartSwitch backup:

How to decrypt PIN-Based encrypted backup data of Samsung smartphones

Smartphones, which are a necessity for modern people, have become important to forensic investigators, as they have a lot of user information which ca…

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But apparently the report is based on using the SmartSwitch utility, which in this particular instance is the heart your problem -- getting that elusive phone call log to successfully import into the Phone app on your new phone. I'm out of other suggestions.

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Thats okay, was worth a try.

I asked this same question in another android forums, and a user volunteered to test restoring his S7 smart switch backup of his to his current phone, he found that the old call logs did NOT restore for him either, but everything else did.

He thinks its because of the older vs newer versions of android causing some conflict. Weird, because its just call history, its not like an old App or something

Development thread moved to the dev area for better exposure.

Hi, total newbee here. I have installed android studio and followed a couple of simple lesson projects. Now I want to move up to a database project. I installed the current java connector for mySQL along with the workbench. Using the workbench I was able to construct a database and tables with some data. The tutorial I am following talks about importing a jar file which is supposed to be part of the mySQL archive, but I cannot find it anywhere on my pc. The tutorial is a few years old and I know things have changed. So is this jar file no longer needed? Can someone help me out here?

Also, it would be helpful if someone could point me to some more recent (current) tutorials.

Thanks

How would spam get into your contact list? Just sending a message doesn't auto-add it to your contacts (certainly not by default, though one could write a phone or message app that did that). And why would anyone hack your phone just to insert a strange contact? If I were hacking a phone I'd try to not let the person know, not put cryptic clues where they were likely to find them.

No, I don't know how it got there. "Finger trouble" is usually the simplest explanation for oddities, e.g. accidentally pressing the wrong button when trying to edit, delete or block something, but it's impossible to say just from the fact that you have something in your contacts list how it got there. Try typing the number into a search engine and seeing whether anything comes up (if it's associated with some spam or scam it's likely that others will have posted or asked about it somewhere).