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Touch and hold / long press, and slight finger movement

As for google maps, yesterday I almost collided with a car, being distracted by maps telling me FIVE times to turn right at a simple t-junction. I think the instructions were something along the lines of:

In 300 yards turn right onto the A71.
In 200 yards turn right onto the A71.
In 100 yards turn right onto the A71.
Turn right onto the A71 then continue 30 miles.
Continue 30 miles.

Seriously?!?

Is Go Keyboard safe?

A keyboard app can do a lot more that just report how often you open the app: it can pass your card details, passwords or anything else you type back to the developer. So it's fair to be more cautious about a keyboard.

Plus what you may not know is that since the earlier posts were made the "Go" apps were pulled from the Play Store over security concerns, so don't be too quick to assume that words of caution are based on prejudice! The few that can be found now have a new name for the developer: whether this is the same dev under a different name or someone else hijacking the defunct branding I don't know. Of course some of the recent "improvements" in the Play Store make it much harder to find out anything about the app developers.

(Unfortunately almost every change Google have made in the last decade has made it harder for people to make responsible choices about apps before installing - they pay lip service to security, but they clearly don't want people to think about it for themselves.)

Move file from Download to folder

Yeah, BTW, pdf file format is not the ideal format for sending in a text message and that is why you are experiencing such issues...
Convert your files to jpg files and tada!
Now you can send them in text messages no matter what folder you have them in.
Danny
Thanks. Apparently the PDF format was not allowed for text messages. Converted to PNG, and voila, it worked. I didn't have an email address, which would allow PDFs to be attached.

I would like to root my Android S8+

You don't say whether your phone is a North American model (qualcomm processor) or a Vast Majority of the World model (exynos processor). This makes a huge difference to how you root it or even whether you can, and what ROMs or mods are available for it once you have.

These different models may have the same marketing name, s8+, but are different phones internally, and mods intended for one will not work on the other, so it's very important to use the right software for your phone.

And yes, you can save the original ROM if you can unlock the phone and install a custom recovery without modifying it. But that's not enough to return it fully to stock software, for that your best bet is just to reflash it with a full set of official software. Even then it will be clear that the phone had been modified, since rooting will trip the Knox "E-fuse", and software that checks the Knox status will detect your phone as having been altered.

Also if you use any apps that don't like running on rooted phones (payment apps, banking apps, some media apps) make sure that whatever root method you use does allow you to hide the fact that it is rooted from the specific apps you care about.

In short, do your research before you try to change anything.

Storage manager (SM) Partitioned Micro sd card but how to mount the extended partition

I only skim read that I'm afraid (wide text format is awkward to read on a phone), but there are a couple of observations I'd make:

1) When you set default install location to sd (fat32 format) all it ever moves is the apk and some of the shared object files. That's how that is designed, the bulk of the installed app will indeed remain in internal, this is normal.

2) I've never used adopted storage (format sd card as internal), but certainly the higher-end Samsungs don't support it, and I wasn't aware that any did. If you use some trick to enable it then as that is unsupported there can be no guarantees of it working correctly.

3) The phone software is written to mount a single sd partition on boot. If you partition the card it won't look for a second partition. This is how all android phones have always been. Mods that use a second partition include extra software to mount the additional partition (originally init.d scripts, though I think that was deprecated years ago), so if all you've done is add a partition it's no surprise if the phone doesn't use it. Unfortunately it's 5 years since I last played with root so I'm not up to date with such things these days (the things extra partitions were used for generally required root).

Android 12 update. AVJE. NOVEMBER security patch

Samsung have begun rolling out an update to stable users on Android 12. The AVJE release has the November security patch.

So far, the European models, F936B, are receiving this update.

Build date = 24 October 2022

Build no: = F936BXXS1AVJE

It is a FOTA, (Firmware Over The Air), update and you can check... Settings > Software update... to see if it is available for you. Alternatively, you can connect to the Samsung PC suite, Smart Switch and check via that.

As far as we know, the November roll-out date for Android 13 is still on.

New App: MyWeigh: Simple Weight and Food Intake Tracker (Version 1.1.1)

MyWeigh is a simple weight-tracking tool. I needed to lose a few pounds to feel more attractive as I was getting ready for my sister's wedding. That's when I downloaded the Reverse Health app to go through an exercise program and get a personalized meal plan. You may be interested in visiting the informative website https://reverse.health/ to learn more about weight loss. Since I was already using the MyWeigh app at the time, it was easy for me to keep track of my nutrition. Knowing how your food intake affects your weight will take you one step closer to your ideal weight.

Formatting SD Card As Internal Storage

Well support for formatting microSD cards was added to the base Android operating system back in 2015 with Marshmallow (vers. 6.x) so it's an integral function in the OS but not every manufacturer enables it in their phones. Don't bother looking for it in your Galaxy Tab A, Samsung doesn't enable it their products. Don't know about Xiaomi though, as @ocnbrze suggested to you, look in your Settings >> Storage menu to see if the option for Portable and Internal are there. It really does vary a lot because some manufacturers will allow it in some models and not others, or not at all. A lot of Motorola phones do, but not all.

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