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How to be brilliant and an idiot simultaneously.

What are the specs for the old one? I'd love to get something basic for my wife to use so she doesn't keep taking mine. ;)

Asus TP410UA-DS71T Vivobook Flip 14 Touchscreen Laptop, Intel Core i7 CPU, 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD, Windows 11, Star Grey.

FYI, I took a closeup of my "fix".
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Help Remove google account question?

Same.

What is google messages?

Do you mean now your mom new phone and old phone both are logged into the same google account? Will that make a mess if 2 phones are login together to the same google account? If you are using google account backup on both phones, would that be messy since 2 phones are doing backup to a same google account?

Do I need to stay logged in Google Account during using Samsung Smart Switch to transfer data from old phone to new phone? What is the difference if I do a Samsung Smart Switch to transfer all data from old phone to new phone during google account logged in (in the old phone) vs google account logged out (in the old phone)?
goggle messages is google's texting app.

yes right now both phones are logged in to the same google account. and no it won't mess up anything. smart switch will transfer data from one phone to the other. its not saving both to the cloud, its a straight up transfer. it took about 10 minutes to do. its pretty easy to do, but i had the Best Buy salesperson do it for me cuz i'm lazy and they offered to do it for me.

no you do not have to be logged in to google for smart switch. but you will have to do an extra step on your new phone which is to log in to google after the transfer. but if you stayed logged in on your old phone, the google data gets transferred over. so like i said its just an extra step if you do log out.

What apps are these icons from?

If it's anything like my experience with Facebook in 2011, You can clear them all you want, but you'll get dozens more minutes later. I had like 400+ friend requests, I'd wager many of them bot accounts, back then. Since their whole 2FA crap began, I can no longer log in to see what the current state is. It literally refuses to work, won't let me reset. Guess that's a good thing!

It had separate notification icons for likes, comments to posts, etc. It was a mess. The last login I had was on my Note 10.1 tablet in 2019, November, and with an old, outdated version. The News Feed was broken, but I could still access one page that made for great reading. Never participated much. It was just as awful though with the notifications and I had to disable all of 'em. Eventually they enforced a weird form of 2FA that doesn't work (at least, it alienated the heck outta me) and that app logged out and ceased to login again, and I can't login with a laptop either. I think it went like, to reset my password (since to them it was not secure enough--nothing like making one so convoluted that it requires putting it on a post-it note on the monitor--real secure bruh!) I had to have it send a code to my phone number, but that number no longer exists (was last on my ZTE Merit in 2011!) so I'm SOL.

Facebook did two things for me:

1. Learned what FarmVille was; got me into mobile gaming at the time

2. Most important, it's how me and my girlfriend met.

Today, it no longer has a purpose in my life. FarmVille is dead, so are many mobile games I actually liked (I got APKs of a few that still work, such as the original Angry Birds and Plants vs. Zombies) and the relationship with my girl is just as strong as ever so I'm not looking for another.

Txt files saved on phone?

Where on the phone the files are could be important, but "My Files" isn't a location, it's an app. It should be able to tell you where the files are though. I don't use it because there are better file managers (true of most built-in apps), but I guess if you find one of the files, long press to select it, then look for the little 3 dot menu button one of the options will be "details" or something like that. That should tell you the "path", i.e. where in the filesystem the file is.

".txt" just means it's a plain text file, tells us nothing about the content. The "log" part in the first on suggests it's a log file from some service or whatever. Probably harmless to remove, but unless it's large it's also of little importance. One whose name is just a date can be anything, so where on the phone it is will be the only way to judge whether it is of any importance, unless you just open it up: if you click on it that will tell you whether you have any app installed that thinks it can read plain text files.

Fast Notepad files location on Chromebook

Hi.

I found a thread about the location of the Fast Notepad files, but it didn't help me at all. I found some app files under Play files/android/data, and according to the thread I should find a folder named "com.taxaly.noteme.v2", but it's not there - I can identify the apps that all the folders belong to and fast notepad isn't one of them.

I have several notes on it so it has to be somewhere right? I have a Chromebook CB311-9H-C5KP (N17Q8). Where else could I look for them? I need to reset my chromebook to factory settings as it's being glitchy, so I would greatly appreciate any help I can get. I'm attaching a sreenshot of the folder although I don't see how it'll help - the "Color.Note" you see is for another notepad app called Color Note".

Thanks in advance!

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Help What is wrong with connections

WiFi calling works just fine on my Galaxy s21. My daughter had weak signal in her last place and used it all the time (s8 and s21). So it definitely does work reliably. However as we're in Britain we are not using the same cellular or broadband provider as the OP, and our phones won't have Verizon-modified firmware. So if one of those is a factor then I've no idea.

Deleted wifi connection

It's not an option to access the router's setup for me. My phone is getting ip from router like everybody else. There is a mac address defined as a privallage user, bu luck, at first connection my phone took that mac adress, I was using internet without limitations, I deleted the connection from my phone and reconnected. Now I have a different mac adress with no privillage. I want to find out my old random mac address, if I can find it, I will change my phone's mac address and gain unkimited internet again. Is there a file in the android system that old connections or mac addresses have been stored?

So when you have random MAC addressing enabled in your phone, it's the Android operating system that determines the random addresses. You do not have any way to set it up to what you specify. So hypothetically, even if you were able to magically find out just which MAC address your phone was showing at that time whenever someone set up your phone to use this router's WiFi access, that particular MAC address is irrelevant. You are not going to be able to duplicate it anyway.
It's still a matter where you need to either A) disable random MAC addressing in your phone and have whoever is in charge of this router's maintenance and upkeep to reassign your phone a new WiFi access now based on your phone's actual MAC address or B) leave random MAC addressing enabled on your phone and convince the router's manager that they should allow your phone to use DHCP instead of assigned IP addressing so it makes no difference which MAC address your phone might be emitting.
You can keep trying to mess with your phone but it's how the router is configured that's the source of your problem.

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