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Where do I send complaints and suggestions on Android OS?

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I have a Samsung, so nobody will listen to me?

My Android 7 phone is great on Boinc, but my Android 11 (was 9) phone won't let most things run. WCG crashes, Yoyo and another maths project give up in seconds, and they've written on their forums new Android has a security problem. Something to do with a program launching another program is now forbidden, with no user choice! So only two projects will run and have work for my new phone - Universe and Einstein.
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Blocked on Whatsapp ?

Lococorso
Hadron said:
Does the contact show their online status? It's optional, not everyone does and someone may change their setting.

You can also turn off read receipts (blue ticks), though I don't know whether that would also turn off delivery receipts (grey ticks). Or someone might just not have read it - or might have read the notification and not opened the message (I sometimes do that, look at the notification on my watch, decide I've got the message and don't need to open the app, and I'm sure that the sender would see that as unread).

The truth is I don't know what being blocked looks like to the blockee: I imagine it doesn't tell you, but don't know exactly what you see. But what you see is not definitive, there are other things that can produce the same effect. If they continue not to read your messages at some point you may draw the conclusion that they aren't going to either, but jumping to that conclusion too soon can have bad consequences too (depending on the circumstances, which I don't know).
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Thanks for the answer. What puzzles me is that I still see the profile picture. I thought it cannot be seen once blocked.
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Help HTC One M8 stuck on boot screen...

J
maxrostron said:
Hey, I currently have an HTC One M8 and yesterday evening it ran out of battery and when I turned it back on it came up with the white bootloader screen with options to fastboot, recover etc.

Now I have been on this screen before and in the past I was just able to progress through via a fast boot with no problems whatsoever. However, this time all I can do is press the volume up button (which works its way 'down' the list - not to previous item like suggested?). The volume down button doesn't seem to be working i.e. I cannot select any options using it. The power button does work as it lets me turn my phone on or when held in combo with volume up, then it turns my phone off.

Over the past few days my power button and the volume down button have been working on and off. For example in the morning they may be working fine, but then suddenly stopped working during the day, before the working again and then ultimately the volume down button working not working most recently.

There was also an update ready to be installed but I didn't have the space on my phone to download it, so it hasn't been installed.

I don't mind performing a factory reset but obviously cannot select the option on my phone HOWEVER if anyone knows how this can be initiated by plugging it into the computer that would be great?

I am currently on EE UK. The information on the white screen is as follows.

*** Software status: Official ***
*** LOCKED ***
M8_UL PVT SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-3.19.0.0000
RADIO-1.25.214500021.O6G
OpenDSP-v48.2.2-00564-m8974_FO.1211
OS-4.16.401.13
eMMC-boot 2048MB
Aug 4 2015,19:21:49.0

HBOOT

<VOLUP> to previous item
<VOL DOWN> to next item
<POWER> to select item

FASTBOOT
RECOVERY
FACTORY RESET
SIMLOCK
CHECK SMARTSD
IMAGE CRC
SHOW BARCODE

(remember though, I can't seem to select any of these...)

Thank you so much in advance!
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I know this is an old post, but I literally had the same issue and same boot screen with my HTC Droid DNA.

I found a solution that worked for me without USB debugging or using the computer.

I kept this old phone around in case I could get into it someday to access the photos and videos on it. I would get it out every once in a while and try to get into it.

I had the same issue with only being able to hit the UP Volume button, which would move the selection down the list for some reason. The power button would not select anything, and the Volume DOWN did nothing as well.

I was finally able to get it to boot into safe mode.

Here's what I did:
1. Turn the Phone OFF (Hold the Power Button until it turns off 10 sec or so)
2. Press the Power Button and Volume UP and hold until you see the HTC Logo
3. From there it literally just booted into the Phone as normal, except there was a label on the screen saying Safe Mode.

I can't believe it was that easy...

Literally all the internet apps are too old to work with this phone, so I downloaded Android Studio and was able to save the files to my computer with the Device Manager.

I hope this helps someone recover their old photos and videos as well.

Good luck!
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Read if you lost your sound!

markdoc
michakamp said:
Hat that too . Sometimes the sound in one of the messengers disappears
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I've had similar problems like yours. I found that the location of my sound files were not in the correct folders. I had duplicate sound folders from my previous phone. I had to move the sound files into the correct folders. I found the correct folders by trial & error and eventually fixed the problems.
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Unlocking issues

svim
Well resetting a password to implement a new one without knowing the old password isn't likely. If it was so trivially easy to bypass, there's no point at all in even having one to begin with. It's a security measure to protect easy access to your user account on your phone.

Try doing a 'Soft Reset' of your phone, this will force it to restart normally without wiping away any of your data:
https://www.hardreset.info/devices/samsung/samsung-galaxy-s20-fe-5g/softreset/
If it restarts into your typical lock screen that should work out. If not and that password prompt still pops up instead, try using your Google account password (the Google account you used when setting up your phone).
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Ear scout app

svim
Just a idle suggestion but you might give some thought into trying out a different hearing enhancement app. The Ear Scout app has some questionable practices in its 'Data Safety' statement:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/datasafety?id=superhearing.app
Perhaps this HeardThat app might be a good alternative. It includes a pretty sophisticated noise filtering feature :
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.singsoftnext.deephearing
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Windows Word doc reversal?

kate said:
The two programs I linked to do not have to be installed beforehand, and do not use a Previous Versions function.

They will scan the hard drive and list files that have not been physically overwritten yet and offer you the option to recover them.
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Thanks @kate
As it happens I had just downloaded Recuva first and it was running as I started this post, but only took over 1 minute to look for the file name, or then look for all documents in C:\Users\user\Desktop where it was. So it didn't find the current file, or any document, though at the bottom of the all document search it says Found O files (661,832 ignored).

*[Also lists the C Drive in the results window as Windows 7 OS when it's now Windows 10 but I imagine thats completely irrelevant.]
*It shows Windows 10 along with the pc hardware under the Recuva top banner - so ignore that*

It doesn't seem Recuva would find previous file versions but it's the free version and I'm doing something wrong.

I'm doing it as an experiment now as I have recovered emotionally from my "loss" :rolleyes:

I'll try it further tomorrow and also Easus which I had heard of in the past. Cheers!
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Help , please...desperate

G
Hadron said:
Except that you had biometrics on, and I've never met a phone that allows biometrics without setting either a lockscreen PIN or a lockscreen password. That's one of the strange things about your situation. And once you have enabled biometrics it asks for the password every now and then.

The simplest explanation for it not working is that what you wrote isn't what you entered. That may sound daft, but since they generally don't display passwords when you enter them it's possible: if for some reason you missed the same key on both attempts (hitting a neighbouring key) you could get a password accepted that isn't what it should be. A screen calibration issue would increase the odds of this, but also the odds of making the same error when you try to re-enter it!
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If only it was easy!! I even paid $29.95 to a company called tenorshare.com because they said they could get me in, but their instructions don't work either, but they refuse a refund because they say there's nothing wrong with their program. Oh well, that's a different problem. I think the next time I'm near an 02 shop, I'll see if they can do anything.

Today my new Galaxy S22 arrived and I've set it up, switched the SIM card, and all is working well. Fingers crossed ......
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