I do not even bother with what's up app either, I had erased snapchat on my machine though, I do longest vids on my instantgram and fb for "historians"..

Get KDE Connect and load it on your computer and your phone. tt works like a charm with bluetooth. I have Linux Mint on my laptop

https://kdeconnect.kde.org/

Not sure if it copies the Android one or not when you select Nova as default for the first time, it's been so long.
You can back it up after you've gotten it just right though so there's that...

Spec_tech said:

@Hadron Thanks for the detailed explanation on that suggestion. Helps clarify a lot of things. Sounds like it would just be much easier to update and then, if things do end up getting worse, do a factory reset or something.

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Factory reset will not undo a system update. All it does is erase user data and apps, so sets the phone back to the state that it would have left the factory in if it had been released with the firmware that's currently installed, and does not revert it to the firmware it actually left the factory with.

The name "factory reset" is a bit misleading in that respect.

I just helped someone out with this problem. You can no longer rename while in the “recorder” app, for some reason, so instead you need to go to the “files” app. Select “audio” and then you should see all your unnamed files. There are 3 dots to the right of each file - if you press them, it should come up with several options, one of which is “rename”. I hope this helped!

V2.2.2 released.

Connection to my car (Genesis 2023 GV70). Very frustrating when it happens.

mikedt said:

A solution might be to install a custom ROM of the desired Android version. The Galaxy S7 is quite an easy device to root, I've rooted an S7 myself. and had plenty of support on XDA Devs.

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Looking on the sites looks like only the international version has roms unless I'm looking at it wrong.

Dav1d said:

Thanks ocnbrze,
yes I've checked Google and other back up "clouds"...no where to be seen. I must have inadvertently deleted them, but to be honest, I don't know how, as they were important...ah well, thanks anyway.

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if you have been letting google backup your photos and they are not there, then somehow you have deleted them.

just to double check, i would log online to your google photos,https://photos.google.com/, and double check there. sometimes you can just delete photos off of the device without entirely deleting the photo from the cloud.

Ah, I knew I'd seen the second one somewhere: it's the BBC News app icon (which has changed in the last few months).

(I do have the app installed, but I don't have its notifications turned on which is why I didn't immediately recognise it)

Where are you seeing this app? In your app drawer? file manager? phone's settings under apps?

I have the firmware from like three different sources, and also the backup of the phone itself from before I started this process, that's not a problem. I'm not sure how I'd contact them, anyway, as I don't see an email there and I don't speak Chinese to be able to call them.

Hello,
I'm looking for an SMS/MMS app that would allow me to somehow group about 20 contacts and then assign every single one of those contacts the same notification sound without having to change each contacts notification sound every single time I'm on-call.

Scenario: We have about 15 servers at work (and I have 5 coworkers on my team) that will send a message to [phone number]@[carrier].com when something breaks. At the end of my on-call period, I want to be able to either silence or change the notification sound on all of those contacts (or possibly the group....if that's possible to assign to a group) in one fell swoop without having to go into every single contact record and making 20 different changes.

I'm not referring to a group message....our pages/texts don't work like that. Each server is configured to send a text/page to our company Outlook group which sends it to 7 addresses everyone in our group all the time. When I'm not on call, I'd like to silence the pages from those 20 servers (or at least change the notification sound to something that isn't loud and annoying). I'm referring to assigning each contact to a group so that I can change the notification once. When I get a page from one server, it comes from [server name]@[organization domain]. I might not have a server page me for a full year whereas another server might page/text me a few times a week.

Are there any SMS/MMS apps out there that allows me to change a notification on a group of contacts all at once? I use a Galaxy S22+ and the standard Messages app doesn't allow me to set it up this way as far as I can tell. I'm even willing to pay a few bucks for an app that will allow me to put contacts into a group and manage notifications on the group all at once.

Thanks,
John

Davdi said:

What? Bake Mexican Families?

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I meant like Bake For Mexicians, lol

ocnbrze said:

Well if everyone has your app, than that app is installed on their device. And as you say all installed apps will get a notification......so I am not sure I understand your question.

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I found now that what I am looking is for Push Notification and not only Notifications....

Check in your Settings >> Notifications menu that the Assistant app is Enabled and then check the Battery menu so Assistant is allowed to keep running in the background.
(.....it can be a handy feature but don't be surprised when your battery's idle power usage takes a little hit. Don't forget the more things you set up to do automatically and continuously that are otherwise kept in a low-power, sleep status, it's your battery that's affected.)

beetecaste said:

Thank you for the replies. I must have misunderstood what I read yesterday, because I just read on Wikipedia that the S9 was released in 2018. So, that would indicate that there are at least a couple more months until it is officially five years old.

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It would, but Samsung never promised 5 years' updates back when the S9 series was released: they have increased the support period for the Galaxy s series since then. I believe that back when the s9 was released it was 4 years, which is admittedly still better than many manufacturers do.

GamerGirl87 said:

I am looking forward to play this! Seems like so much fun with friend.

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Thank you for the feedback.
You can send your friend an invitation link to become in-game friends and play Team mode together.
All you need to start a match is for both of you to be online.
For more information about any screen/mode you can open info icon (top right).
We are looking forward to your impressions.

OK; I understand, thank you very much!

Exactly

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Many thanks!

So nothing to worry about (de)installation, respectively installing apps for testing and removing.

I have a Galaxy Watch 5 Pro and it won't leave me alone about it! I think it's the watch and not Wear OS, though, but it will tell me to get up and walk... if I'm driving, it will tell me "great job!" Apparently it thinks I can walk 45 MPH going down the road LOL but you think it will track my indoor rower exercise? Heck no... because it's not moving, I guess... who knows

Al Fresco said:

The GPS must be in the EXIF data or it would not appear in Google Photos. Correct?
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Yes, that's correct but only conditionally. Photo files will have varying amounts of EXIF data embedded in them, with some having very extensive amounts of info (camera type, date, location coordinates, resolution, etc.) and some with only minimal info (date and file size). So no if some aspect like GPS coordinates don't already exist in a photo file's metadata, an app like Google Photos cannot magically add those missing GPS numbers after the fact.

OK, bummer. Would have been nice if it was just a router restart to fix things. So try a different WiFi network. If it's still a problem elsewhere, that might be an indicator the issue is with your phone. Since it was working fine previously, can you think of anything that might have changed approximately around the same time as when you started to have this problem?

You might want to try looking in your phone's Settings menu for a Network Settings Reset option. This reset all network related services back to their default settings so it is a bit of a drastic measure. (It's not just WiFi settings but cellular and Bluetooth so saved WiFi networks will be wiped as will saved Bluetooth pairings. You'll need to redo them accordingly as you try to interact with each again.) See pg.143 of your Verizon S10e User Manual:
https://ss7.vzw.com/is/content/Veri...sung-galaxy-s10-s10e-s10plus-en-ug-022019.pdf

It was debatable but the only time I felt Android needed 'help' like this was when smartphones were running Android 2.2 Froyo with only 96MB RAM and just logging into a Google account would bring them to their knees. Android in its early years was like Windows Vista: the OS was ahead of the hardware at the time.

Cylance mobile protect uses AI. The thing to remember however is that much malware is encrypted. So it may not stop all malware or custom malware attacks. Cylance is working with Gigamon & RSA Netwitness investigator pro to dectect custom malware attacks. Gigamon decrypts SSL traffic on the fly and is anlyzed with Netwitness.

https://www.blackberry.com/us/en/products/cylance-endpoint-security/cylance-protect-mobile

svim said:

Perhaps you're thinking about 'heuristic' functionality when you refer to behavior? Anti-malware utilities have relied upon heuristics for decades now, long before Android even existed. A lot of Android apps do implement heuristics already.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heuristic

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