Soooooooooooo went out just Christmas shopping, for my friends grandkids, we just went around and getting snacks mostly for doing the sugar cookies decoration ya know.. :: sighs::: December's right?

Nope

svim said:

Where do you reside? Here in the U.S. Verizon is the only major carrier that still supports the CDMA standard. Elsewhere GSM is the common default. So unless you intend to use Verizon, or any MVNO carriers contracted to Verizon, CDMA isn't really an issue. Even Verizon is gradually just letting it fade off into history.

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I am in the US. Thanks for letting me know that. When I saw that on the phone description I thought it would be more of an issue than it really is based on what you are saying.

puppykickr said:

Yes.
There are two systems in the USA, GMS and CDMA.

CDMA has supposedly been on its way out for a very long time.

There are devices that are compatible with one or the other, or both.

Obviously the ones that have both abilities will have more apps and hardware on them to be able to work on both systems.

This amount is nothing in terms of reality.
It is nice to have a device that will work anywhere because it is not dependent upon only one system.

You could do some traveling to somewhere that you have no service.
A quick trip to a store, and a SIM card for any local provider will work for the time that you are there.

You could find that you wish to choose carriers, and the ability to use both systems increases your options about who your service can come from.

All major US cellular companies use one or the other system.
The smaller companies just rent the use of the towers from the big providers.

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I appreciate this information. Since you said this I think I will try to find a phone with both or if I can't see one of those just get a GSM phone.

FINALLY! I have been trying to figure this out for years, Thank you, makaiguy.

As far as I know, there are numbers that get on these sort of lists.

Apps like TrueCaller use these user and other provider lists to block calls and/or give a message as you describe.

There are other apps that do the same thing.

You may try contacting whoever is running symuch an app to see if there is a way to get the number off the list.

I dont have any more details, as it was years ago that I had any experience with such an app.

If I remember right, there was an option in the settings to contact the developer(s) or the people with the lists to get a number removed.

I have resolved issue. Thank you all for the help

Since that mp3 file just keeps restoring itself when you delete it, that could be just some app is stuck in some kind of one-off glitch. All apps have their own folders that are essentially not visible unless you're intentionally trying to directly view them, and given that file is only a few bytes in size it's likely to be something like sound effect some app makes as an indicator of some function (i.e. tap on an app button and there's a chirp).

In this instance finding the source app is going to be a challenge but if it is just a glitch, have you just restarted your Pixel? A restart often fixes a lot of occasional glitches that pop up. If you have and that file continues to keep restoring itself, then it's a matter of trying to determine the source of the problem.
How quickly does that file restore itself after you delete it? A few minutes? A couple of days?
-- If the former, try what @ocnbrze suggested, restart your Pixel into its Safe Mode, delete that mp3 file, and see if it returns. If not that's an indicator some app you've installed is the culprit. It helps narrow down the list apps to look into but if you have a lot of installed apps you're still stuck with what could be a tedious project to determine just which app. Start going through your apps in batches using Force stop and Clear cache until you find the app in question, then do the same individually, that batch, to find just which one.
-- If the latter, Safe Mode isn't a practical option, using a smartphone in Safe Mode for an extended time is more than just annoying, it will involve issues with basic functionality (i.e. apps syncing with their online services).
https://www.hardreset.info/devices/google/google-pixel-6/safe-mode/

admin@speechlogger.com
Here's their email address.
It looks like they haven't updated it since 2020.
Good luck

phone : samsung s 20 plus, tablet : samsung galaxy tab s7 plus

sassy1217 said:

does anyone else's date keep disappearing off the home screen on a Samsung Galaxy 22 plus?

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on your homescreen? are you using a widget? where is the date being shown appear at? on your actual homescreen? in your notification bar?

i agree with @Dannyde. i would most definitely talk to your carrier about this.

Donna Tavis said:

This is the little box that pops up on the screen when i get a call..i don't see where i can delete a log or anything.. I'm trying to avoid going to the Bettis store!

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set the phone to safe mode. and have someone call you. if it does not popup in safe mode, then it is something that is not part of your system apps. it is most likely a 3rd party app. it might have been installed from another app that you might have recently downloaded.

if this is the case you will have to delete your most recent apps one by one, until you find the culprit. the best thing to do is start with the most recent app and first delete its cache and data. once that is done, you can then un-install the app. do this with the most recent and then work your way back until the issue does not happen again.

my mom purchased a game awhile back. and she kept getting a to do list type app that kept popping up randomly. we had to uninstall 4-5 apps before figuring out the bad app. it was a candy crush like game (can't remember what the exact name was).

You can install Go apps even without the Go Edition of Android.

The differences between Google Go and the normal Google app are: (as I have experienced, anyway)

1. No 'hey Google' support. You have to open the companion app 'Google Assistant Go,' another app install entirely, to get the functionality of the Assistant, but even with that, there is no 'Hey Google' support with Go apps.

2. UI is a basic, bland bright white, hard on my eyes. It has hardly any support for 'cards' or 'the feed'. It won't remember where you parked, for example.

3. Its storage and RAM footprint are 1/3 what the normal Google app is.

4. Google Assistant Go, its companion app, won't accept many of the commands that the full Assistant does. You can't control smart home devices, control Wifi or Bluetooth, or find a song via song search. It's essentially the modern version of 'Google Now' in that it is basically voice search with few features.

If you needed to use those to overcome a storage issue (I just turn updates off and stick to what comes with a device, works perfectly fine--not like they're actually adding things to it these days!) you'd have to uninstall updates and disable the Google app itself in settings. Some modern Android versions don't uninstall the updates/clear data by 'disabling' the app anymore like they used to, so you won't get your space back on Android 12+ just by disabling the app.

BTW, Play Store is a bug-ridden mess. A lot of the times it claimed I had insufficient storage to install/update an app it was wrong. A lot of times it deemed a specific app 'incompatible with my device.' I've proven it wrong both times by sideloading the *.APK of the app I attempted to use Play Store to install for me. A lot of times using an app store is more frustrating than doing things the geeky way.

Martin Young said:

Speechnotes has started adding unnecessary periods whenever I pause in the middle of a sentence. It's a pain to have to delete these periods as I go. How do I make it stop?

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This is STILL an issue on some platforms. Speechnotes don't seem at all responsive to customers. I'll search for an alternative.

I have a Flip 3 and a Note 10+ and I get the same issue with the crapple Iphones. I just don't worry about it because I don't think there is a fix or I am just too lazy to see lol

Dannydet said:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.riteshsahu.SMSBackupRestore
Playstore link....

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One of the last few "Original" android apps I still use going back to my EVO 4G days around 2010!!

If a phone has a Mediatek CPU in it, you're lucky if you get one Android version update or even a security patch. This is still an issue for the budget A-series line of phones. The Galaxy A01 (2020) just last month got Android 12!

As for old stock remaining in stores far longer than they should, I was still spotting Motorola RAZR VIII's as 'GoPhones' (AT&T) as late as 2011! I never had one so I bought one then to try out--turns out it was only good for phone calls as GPRS, which those used for data usage, had been EOL since 3G became a thing. So I didn't have that phone long. Wasn't so much fun without at least the ability to send MMSs.

In 2017, there were still Samsung Galaxy SIIIs sold on a Sprint MVNO here in town. I think for $49. There's also an LG Rebel 3 collecting dust at a nearby Dollar General store (I don't think it even supports VoLTE)

In 2019, Dollar General was still selling the Samsung Galaxy Centura on Net10 (Tracfone, for $10 each). The Centura was a 3G only GSM smartphone running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.

None of that holds a candle to the time capsule that K-Mart (The Saving's Place!) was in 2016. You could walk in and still find new, in-box (as well as mostly broken demo displays) of the NEW Nintendo 64! Oh but it gets better! You could also still buy the AT&T Trimline landline telephone! But still, more! VCRs, anyone?

I miss K-Mart....

those photos are great. games looks good, but we need some context on what we are looking at. what is your game about? how do you play it? and just a couple of photos is all you really need. you posted way too many in my opinion. look at the example i linked you to in my other post. the games developer only posted a couple of photos with a brief description and a linked to the app.

Sorry for ressurecting the thread but apparently this can still happen so it is worth it to have a solution out there!
For the past two weeks I had almost exactly the same problem - tiny old TV which worked like a charm with Chromecast 3 and then a bigger "better" Panasonic Viera. Wouldn't budge. And finally, after miles and miles of reading crap like "Check your Wifi" or "Try different HDMI port" i finally stumbled upon an article on How To Geek about the HDCP mechanism and how it mostly makes normal users' lives difficult, instead of preventing piracy. And how to circumvent it in case it's the root cause - and it was, and the fix is tragi-comic - you need a cheap, active HDMI splitter that works with HDCP-enabled devices, yet, essentially circumvents it, because that what's causing a perfectly fine Chromecast to not talk to a perfectly fine TV set. I bought mine online for under 9 bucks. It's a square, metal, black box. No bigger than a box of cigarettes, with one HDMI in and two outs, and an external power brick. Works right out of the box, no configuration needed. As an added bonus, let's your single Chromecast be attached to two different devices at the same time if you ever needed such a thing.
God, that was frustrating!

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Noted. I'm just putting together a small list of what people are going to have to do to use the APK file I generate - it sounds like they'll all need to acquire a better file manager. Thanks again.

ok thanks everyone for your help.

codesplice said:

There's also this official announcement which accurately details which features are coming to which phones:
https://support.google.com/pixelpho...are-features-have-arrived-to-the-pixel-family

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I agree. Your article is more accurate.
Thanks for the better information.

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