I agree - that's important!

Here in the State of Tennessee call recording is legal as long as one party on the call is aware of it (that's me). Of course, if I call a business and the automated greeting says, "this call may be recorded for quality assurance purposes", that expresses intent to record and implies consent for me to record it, too.

Again, though, is the problem of getting a call recording app to work.

my problem is that :
this phone does not have vendor partition which i deleted cause i thought it blocks installations of other ROMs than stock. twrp also probably is bad one cause redmi go is 64bit phone but i can load only 32bit OSes from there (error 255). Most OSes found online were always stuck at boot or even were bootlooping/shutting down device/blackscreen.
why i do not want to install stock? mainly i dont want g-apps and when removing them from stock i had more bugs than next to a lake in warm day. literally - couldnt install apps due to lack of core package related to google play services (as far i remember it was forcing google play's antivirus on every local install), had more problems with calls/sms/wifi than before (losing signal, undelivered content, etc) and was this slow like almost unusable so i just NEED custom rom. second thing i want is just root but its a smaller problem cause this i can install anywhere.
i also dont want to lock back this phone from "encryption unsuccessful" cause i also was affected by this bug + i dont want relocking bootloader
my desktop with android tools runs slackware linux so installation of any .exe apps for any official xiaomi installer or scripts surely UNAVAILABLE. plain adb+fastboot+etc...
any ideas?
someone maybe have a currently working set of vendor, twrp and system partition? i dont care about android version number btw, any custom rom, really...
btw - i deal with this phone for over year

It may be possible to re-activate the S-Pen feature by accessing the configuration file through Windows. Here are some steps you can try:

1. Connect your phone to your computer using a USB cable.
2. Open the File Explorer on your computer and select your phone.
3. Locate the configuration file responsible for the S-Pen settings and make a backup copy.
4. Edit the configuration file using a text editor such as Notepad and look for the line that governs the S-Pen feature.
5. Change the value for the S-Pen feature from "disabled" to "enabled" or vice versa.
6. Save the changes to the configuration file and close the text editor.
7. Disconnect your phone from the computer and restart it.

Please note that the exact location and name of the configuration file may vary depending on the brand and model of your phone, and that editing system files can have unintended consequences if not done correctly. If you are unsure of how to proceed, it may be best to seek help from a professional technician or the manufacturer of your phone.

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Oh you mean charge the phone with the USB set to charge only, and then use its wifi hotspot to connect? That's a good workaround, but I was hoping to get the USB tether method working for it's (arguably) better security

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Depends if you are in a house without like a hotel then yea, or if you really put in some effort of being at home for a wifi hotspot.

I was tampering with my Obama phone just to end up bricking it. Now my phone is stuck in fastboot.

My end goal is to put a custom ROM on it that allows me to use it for more than a year and without all the unnecessary bloatware.

But I am ok with the stock recovery too as a working phone is better than no phone.

Thank you in advance!

I still use the Kindle app, as in the one built into the phone. It still works so long as you don't enable 2FA on your Amazon account. Although I prefer using the built-in one on my Tablet as a 7" tablet makes a better ebook reader.

Thanks so much everybody for your advice.
I am so surprised at your interest. Thank you.
The full story is that I am running a doorcam monitoting system called Doorbird. It's operated from my S20 phone. I would like a couple more permanent dedicated screens around. Doorbird sells these at £450 each !!!
I am using an old Samsung tablet P600 and an old S8 phone which are quite happily showing the live doorcam all the time 24-7.
My query to you all was whether keeping them on charge all the time 24-7 is harmful. Thanks for all the advice.

This one snuck (painfully) by: the comedian Gallagher died from multiple organ failure last November. He was 76.

I enjoyed his antics and many of his word-play riffs were impressive. (I got to see him in person once when I lived in Phoenix…luckily I was outside the splatter zone.)

RIP, Gallagher, and thanks for all the entertainment.


Obit piece from the NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/11/arts/television/gallagher-dead.html

Hadron said:

Why are you trying to remove IPv6 modules? I don't see any benefit and it could break things, so doesn't seem worth the risk to me .

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Thank you for detailed answer! I followed all your advices: created backup with TWRP and now downloading ROM zip file. I will edit it on PC.


Yes, I am afraid to crash my system. But I want to delete ipv6 module because I found some strange activity in my local network. I found that I use 40GB per mounth. It's too much, I only read a few article per day. And lost my battery very fast. I think, ipv4 is enough for me and more safe for my smartphone.

Now I search where ipv6 can be phisically located in system files.

I understood that at first, I need reset system in TWRP (complitelly delete all system files) and after that push "Install" button and choose my custom zip file with edited ROM. So..I will try

You should delete duplicate photos and files which occupied the necessary space on your device.

Try Duplicate Photos Fixer Pro : It has free and paid features that scan your device for duplicate photos and allow you to delete them to free up space.

mavigozler said:

I'm a firm believer in all the anecdotes that the FRP doesn't stop the thieves: they connect the phone to adb.exe with extra code and somehow wipe out the FRP component of the system software--I used to toy with that in the days when you could and people were motivated to root the phone.

The only thing it does is catch the legal owner of the device off guard when he does a reset and forgets what he needs to do recover/rebuild after the reset.

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that can't be done anymore using adb. there is no program that can do this. plus in order for adb to work you would need usb debugging enabled and most regular folks would not know what that is.

FRP is a very good security protocol as you are finding out. i do understand that it does hurt that very small percentage of people who forgets their account info.

the only thing i can think of is contacting motorola. Samsung has said that you can take any samsung phone into a samsung service center and as long as you can show proof of ownership, they will unlock the phone. maybe Moto has something similar.

Oh thanks for sharing, this is the game I was looking for. Ball Bounce Hero is a great game. I will download to play. You can also download more similar games at game mod apk techloky

That's what makes it funny. Granny Edna is my favorite Kit character. Even though the same voice is used for Dawn DeWitt, Paula and many others. Same personality, same obsession with the mailman, etc.

When he goes full cosplay with the dress and wig, he looks a lot like Thelma Harper (Carol Burnett Show "The Family" and subsequent spin-off Mama's Family)

It's going to come down to personal preference.
The thinner the case, the less protection.

Rasmondist said:

Thanks for sharing about this QR & Barcode Scanner app. It sounds like it has a lot of great features and is easy to use. However, it seems like you're promoting this specific app as the ""only"" one that's needed, and that can come across as a little pushy.

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Yeah, devs tend to want to promote their own apps, some more enthusiastically than others. It's all good.

Conversation is happening over here:
https://androidforums.com/threads/problems-with-adding-photos.1346136/

I'll close this so there isn't an echo.

I had to put a root CA onto all my machines since my router is from 2010 and pulling a lot of legit sites (including this one) would pull a 'This connection is untrusted' error and since I despise anyone trying to protect me from myself, I stopped that from coming up via a root cert hack.

BTW if you're using AT&T's awful DSL another error sometimes comes up for seemingly no reason. At work we still have outdated Uverse, and sometimes just pulling up Amazon pulls up the AT&T router page called 'dnserr.html' which tries to claim incorrectly that the internet is down. I had to put a manual DNS to 8.8.8.8 to bypass it. Apparently AT&T does their DNS requests via the router firmware and if something goes awry, the error page comes up.

Sadly I've had my number so long just about everyone knows it and getting a new one would make life more frustrating than the 4 hours lost to port over my existing one. So long as I don't ever leave Verizon (and LTE never shuts down) I'll be fine. My cell is only used for MMS/SMS and music these days. Phone calls are made/received on my landline. Nothing is that important enough to call me when I'm out and about. It can wait until I'm at home.

Hadron said:

Exactly: the purpose of the screen lock is to keep unwelcome people out of the phone. Though it might also help reduce unwanted "pocket dialing", rearranging of desktops, etc should your screen get woken with the phone in the pocket (it's easy for a notification to wake the screen) - though a flip case will prevent that more effectively.

But then how can you be sure you won't ever lose your phone, or have it stolen, or have a "friend" mess with it if you leave it on the table and go to another room?

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I live alone and I always have my phone on my side in a case I pretty much work and home I don't go to friends home's enough to worry about it.

Yes, it in any case is a pity (in my layman's imagination at least), why not with the 16:9 setting in the phone just crop the top and bottom information of the (4:3) image so may be 20, 25 MP would be cropped and one had the 16:9 format wit perhaps 44 MP instead of 12 MP with that 16:9 setting in the phone.

If only I had always taken pictures with my phone in 4:3 format (if I wanted 16:9).

Yes, the digital zoom / tele really is not good, I guess. and yes, that is why I want a real camera (one for the pocket, without having to carry it with me separately) since some years. But I then ALWAYS would have to care about a furhter device, take it with me all the time (and the charger with cable if necessary).

Most likely you tried to install a file that was corrupt or for a different model of phone. The phone is bootlooping because its system software is damaged and it cannot boot.

I don't know ASUS devices, but you should be able reflash the phone from fastboot mode (it will require a computer and fastboot drivers, but you've probably got that already if you unlocked and flashed TWRP). I'd guess there will be instructions somewhere in the XDA Zenfone 3 forums, either in the guides or the ROMs subforum. I'd probably recommend finding a stock firmware package and reflashing all the way back to official software, then trying to work out what went wrong.