If your company is managing and maintaining 50 or so phones for its staff, there's likely to be someone in charge of a MDM (Mobile Device Management) service to remotely manage those phones? Which one?
If not, with that many mobile devices that should be implemented to keep employees from tweaking things to for their own purposes. Locking down the Settings menu is typical feature in most MDM services, a measure to prevent things like change date/time, installing apps, etc.

I can tell you that it doesn't comply with current Google style guidelines.

Beyond that, anyone's guess as it's very blurred. I had an impression of a game piece, but could be completely off track.

Bear in mind that there are literally millions of apps, so unless it's a common one the chances of getting an answer are slim. Your best bet is probably to ask the person whose phone it's from, but usually these queries are from people who don't want to ask (or don't trust the answer).

Sorry I meant OTA package autocorrect, ok I'll try

hstroph said:

Please take care to detail your words. I have no idea what is meant by "the it's package". Did you locate the *payload.bin file (I think it was) for your particular phone to match the OS you have installed? Maybe that's what "the oxygen updater app" does ... If so, you'd have to locate that file to follow the rest of the instructions.

If you have busybox installed on the phone, an "adb shell" from your connected laptop would make the search for the file location rather trivial. In adb shell:
find / -type f -name \*[Pp]ayload.bin 2> /dev/null

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Thank y'all for y'all's time. I ended up finding out what it was. It's used for mining

nickdalzell said:

I've also seen instances where another app's 'draw other over apps' permission interferes with the default launcher setting as well, but not sure why. Check to see if the survey app has a draw other over apps setting and try turning it off. That would be in the application manager's listing for the app, and in the 'special access' category (Android 6.0-under) or the 'draw over apps setting' (Android 7.0+)

Game Mode (or Game Launcher) is built-in, and shouldn't be interfering like this. I'm guessing this is a Samsung phone? However, if that service recently got updated it might have caused some issues. See if you can find Game Mode in the app manager and see if there's a three dot icon on the upper right corner when in the app's settings, and try tapping 'uninstall updates' if it's there. You might have to tap the same three-dot menu when in the main app manager list to 'show all system apps' first.

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Lots of useful advice there. I've checked as you suggest: both Bv Launcher (which seems to be the built-in, uninstallable launcher from the phone's maker Blackview) and Game mode have 'Not Allowed' in their 'Display over other apps' setting.

Anyway, this is hardly important in the grand scheme of things. Maybe it will fix itself at some point. Thanks for helping.

Received my Federal Tax Refund today. Eight days after filing electronically. Never got a refund that fast before.

Wasn't he the dad on the show?

Your thread was moved here for best support. Welcome to AF.

What do you think a 'factory reset' is? It warns you like three times that it will ERASE ALL USER DATA (in all caps). Sadly, Android never got the equivalent of iCloud where all your data syncs up soon after you login to your Apple ID (or in this case Google Account). That used to be a chief complaint in my transition away from Apple to Android; that all my games had to restart from level one, no progress saved, no apps backed up with the same version I used last, etc.

We could also require new members introduce themselves, but at that point, I think we're creating too large a hurdle for participation.

However, I just noticed the "Welcome E-Mail" for new members was WAYYYY outdated so I turned it off and the "Welcome Private Message" was turned off. We should definitely utilize these, too.... not only to urge people to Introduce themselves but also to give them the run down of the site and how to get the most of it.

I think we're still very much trying to reconfigure the site so I don't want to craft something just yet, but I'd love to hear opinions!

Don't install task killers, battery 'optimizers' or anything with the name 'Cheetah Mobile' in it. You'll thank me later.

Just use and enjoy it.

Otherwise known as changing for the sake of changing, much like anything else from this era.

Makes me glad I use stuff that never gets updates anymore. I'm far more sane.

I never will understand the appeal of shows such as Duck Dynasty, Swamp People or 'Hillbilly Handfishin'' (please don't look up 'noodling' unless you got vore fantasies!!!) and that last one was on Animal Planet of all things...

Hunting is non-negotiable with me. I don't want to know you or talk to you if you're a hunter. I have a zero tolerance policy for anyone who dares hurt my antlered and hooved friends.

Neither is SMS for me. It's also not reliant on having internet/data available, never forces you to update the app, and never forces annoyances like typing indicators or reading your message statuses. I love the basic, AIM style of send message, wait for 'DING!' read response. All in a nice, lovely conversational view. Why fix what ain't broke?

thank u all for your comments

Their A series is just a lag time for feature creep (or in this case, removal). For example, we got headphone jacks and expandable storage in A-series for now, but give it a few years they'll be where the S22+ are today. It just takes longer. Plus they're still too darned big. I don't want as 6.5" screen that barely fits my hands (or gesture controls that are horrid for those who've had early onset arthritis since their 20's like me...for the love of deer, please stop getting rid of buttons)

Believe me, if something worth upgrading to existed I'd be all for it. I'm not that closed minded. I just ain't seeing any real upgrades. As I said, in 2010 we had more companies, more mobile OSs and more people catered to. Today they seem to be chasing an even more narrow margin of users that they see as the 'future' and we older folks just accept it or stop using it. Just get the rapid progress and features back. We've been stuck in this stagnant rut since 2015 for crying out loud.

As for why Apple ditched PowerPC, there are plenty of theories/assumptions but none confirmed. Only Steve Jobs knew the answer and it died with him. If I had to guess, it was the last bit of the Sculley era and Steve wanted to get rid of everything he had a hand in (he took things really personal like)

It looks like the photos post 1:1 ratio, but that was only one shot for me. I moved this here to the suggestion box from https://androidforums.com/threads/caturday.721874/post-8098658 so we didn't derail that thread.

Using Google messages. I've looked and there isn't anything. I should clarify I'm only getting the one visual notification but a 2nd audible one if I don't open it.

OrKo said:

Any advancements on a root for this device? Rather than start a new thread, bump

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It can be done, but requires a paid service, and only works if the device is running firmware from February 2021 or older

If you don't actually want to sync your contacts online on your Tab S7, just go into it's Setting menu and disable syncing for Contacts.
At that point it will be your responsibility to keep the Contacts app on your Tab S7 and your online Microsoft 365 account data in sync with each other -- each time you add new or edit existing contact entries in your Contacts app you need to use the Export feature and then import that file into your Microsoft 365 account, and do the same vice-versa.

Contact Boost.
You're not going to get a better answer.
Feel free to ask other forums on the interwebs...

Alasdair Baxter said:

My phone doesn't recognise the dongle when I insert it. Apparently, I should download and install software but I cannot find the relevant software.

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Unless Logitech provides an app to enable your Android phone to interact with this keyboard, it's not going to happen. You're possibly equating Android with Windows -- with Android you won't be able to just manually install the necessary external device driver(s), that's done by a manufacturer-supplied app. With this particular keyboard, when you plug that USB dongle into a USB port on a PC, the Windows OS will be using the stock USB drivers to detect and interact with the keyboard. That dongle is the wireless interface between the two. With Android that requires an app and in this instance there isn't one.
Quit trying to force it do something it's not designed to do and just buy a Bluetooth keyboard that will just work as is.

puppykickr said:

I don't know about a mouse (I hate those things), but you can use a wireless keyboard (~$20 USD) via bluetooth with tablets and phones.

I use one for my phones, but also do not think that a virtual keyboard has to be a pain.

There are many keyboard apps that can give options that make using them very easy.
In fact, as I am typing this, I am using the virtual keyboard on my screen- using only the index fingers on both hands.
I actually can make reasonable time doing this after just a little bit of practice, and finding the keyboard that cooperates the best for that situation.

Also, the keyboards that I use are small and secure.
The small size allows for me to have multiple options available on a single device.
Things like GBoard and others are not so small, keep growing, and are not secure at all- and generally are not very user friendly.

Here are links to the ones that I have on my devices.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.vlath.keyboard/
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/dev.patrickgold.florisboard/
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.pocketworkstation.pckeyboard/
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/rkr.simplekeyboard.inputmethod/
https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/rkr.tinykeyboard.inputmethod
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.simplemobiletools.keyboard/

Personally, I find that Florisboard is the best overall, although for some things I still prefer Simple Keyboard.
Florisboard offers the most options, even allowing custom spacing between keys (which also controls the size of the keys), and there are more features in the works from the developer.

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Awesome man ! thanks for sharing. Florisboard worked like a charm.

If you've never opened it it can't do anything: an app needs to be opened at least once after installation before it can run.

Once you've granted the permission the app can use it whenever it runs, except in some cases where you have the option to grant the permission "this time only".

Some apps can run in the background (some have to do so to do their job). Others only run when you run them. Some permissions also have the option to only be available when the app is run, which I understand to be "when you are running it in the foreground".

Apps like browsers should not be doing anything in the background, and in general the sort of thing you describe should not be happening when you aren't using the app. But yes, in principle if an app is malicious and you grant it access to some data it could abuse that in the background. Of course if the app is malicious it could also abuse the permission when you are running it, e.g. if you download a flashlight app that wants access to your contacts it doesn't make a huge difference whether it uploads them somewhere else when you are sleeping or does it when you turn the flashlight on. And if you think "surely nobody would grant a flashlight access to their contacts!" that's actually why the system asks you to grant the permission: in the old days an app got all permissions it requested automatically, and many people were too uninformed, lazy or dumb to check what permissions it wanted before installing or running it (and yes, you really did get flashlight apps that wanted access to all of your sensitive data...).

By the way, the browser asks for those permissions because there are some websites for which they are needed (I never grant any of those actually: I don't want shortcuts to websites on my homescreen and have no interest in letting a website access my camera or mic). I take the attitude of "do I need this particular app to have access to these particular things?", and if the answer is "no" then I don't grant them (e.g. some people might want a weather app to show the weather in their current location, but if I don't care about that then I don't give it that access). However it's sometimes not immediately obvious why a permission is necessary, e.g. to go back to my example of the flashlight app, that probably will ask for camera access not to snoop on you but because it needs it to control the flash.

Current versions of Android now remove permissions from apps you don't use for a couple of months (so if you run them again they'll ask you to grant them again).