Could be RIFA-madness, aka a failed, venting RIFA capacitor. Those are usually used for filters and aren't vital to the system functioning properly. However, I'd be looking for the bad one and unsoldering it from the board to avoid not only the smell but a potential fire hazard.

This YouTuber had a RIFA go poof on a monitor on video, yet the monitor kept going.
Compaq DeskPro 386s first (and last ?) look - YouTube

Usually a phone only gets locked for a few reasons (assuming this is like a PUK or PIN2 lock)

1. Inserting the wrong SIM for the phone (wrong carrier, aka, a Verizon SIM into an AT&T phone)

2. Attempting to bring a prepaid handset to post-paid (most in-box prepaid phones sell super cheap but depend on being activated for a month or so on the prepaid plan to pay off the subsidized cost before they'll accept a post-paid SIM)

3. Using a feature phone from who knows when, locked to Tracfone (which runs proprietary software such as their 'airtime balance display') on a non-Tracfone carrier such as AT&T.

4. Entering the SIM PIN incorrectly 3-5 times. (usually this happens because user goes to security, sees 'SIM LOCK' and hopes it's more secure than the factory screen lock, and doesn't know the original SIM PIN which it will ask for)

5. Attempting to use a 'found' phone on your own SIM, which forces remote lockout (but that usually only happens at the Google account side, and it's called 'factory reset protection' and obviously doesn't involve such a hardware lock)

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codesplice said:

I seem to recall that Google changed a lot of Accessibility policies for Android 13 to cut down on apps which were abusing those privileges. I wonder if there are some further tweaks that the developers will need to do to make sure that their apps will continue to function.

I don't use any text expansion apps (I've found that defining shortcuts in the personal dictionary directly in Gboard covers my use case without needing any external tools), but I do use a few other apps that tie in to the Accessibility API - most notably my password manager, Bitwarden. I haven't noticed it stopping working after a while (or following a reboot) so wonder if it's using a different piece of the API or something.

It's encouraging that the Octopus Typing developer was able to reproduce the issue. Hopefully that means they'll be able to find and implement a fix.

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My password app, Roboform, also uses Accessibility along with 9 others. On my phone, each app's information has settings under Permissions. One being "run at startup". Unfortunately, even with that Permission "on", Texpand doesn't restart. I also use the Google keyboard but because of what I do, I need more than Google keyboard can provide. I used to use Smart Keyboard Pro and that had the text expander in it. I got so use to it, that it is very difficult to do without it.

I've used one called X-Plore File Manager for several years that will do this with a million other options, also, I can't remember if I paid for it or if it was free.

Are you using the default text messaging app that came with your Galaxy A12 or a third-party alternative texting app?
It might be a matter where there are two places to check, the Notifications menu in the Settings menu, and the text messaging app's Settings menu if it has its own notifications options.

I have the phone dialer set as my left side shortcut on my lock screen, but every time I open it, it keeps opening to the keypad even though I have set it to "open to last viewed" screen. If I open the phone dialer from the apps list it opens to the recent calls screen, but doesn't when I open it from the lock screen. How do I get it to open to recent calls screen using the shortcut on the lock screen?

Nope. When i turn on the screen this allow me to unlock with my fingerprint, without asking any pin, pattern or password.
Problem is : when i touch the screen nothing happens, fingerprint sensor will not lit. I i turn on the screen, even if turn off after, then i touch the screen and i can unlock with my fingerprint just.
Sometimes the sensor will not respond to read when i touch screen. Like i have no fingerprint sensor, like is dead, nothing happen until i turn on the screen. After this will again work as should for a while

I try to be clear.
I have the screen off. I touch the screen, fingerprint sensor will lit and will un lock my phone. But sometimes touching the screen, wich is off, will not lit the sensor and sure will not unlock. But if i turn on the screen, with power key, and wait for screen to go off than i can touch again the screen, the sensor will lit and read my fingerprint and unkock my phone. Did i make myself clear ?

You might have to do a hard reset which will delete your data.

https://www.hardreset.info/devices/redmi/redmi-note-9/

Them new Fangled apps ( in old man voice )

Thanks for this but it's strange/good happened - now it works the way it should: i have google drive with its own PDFs and android documents with my downloaded pdfs! i hope it will stay that way for good...end of this case ...

We've had the super-duper high end Sleep Number bed; the super-duper high end Tempurpedic bed (we'll never buy another split king mattress); and we tried Casper but it was just mushy. The mattress industry doesn't make it easy to find the best bed, either.

So many Android phones are organized a little differently in settings. If you can't find it as @Dannydet said then you can search in your setting with "unlock" or it may belong to other options like Biometrics and Password.

The WhatsApp app is a third-party, user installed app, it is not a pre-installed app with restricted system-level permissions. So you have full access to all user-level apps no matter if your phone is rooted or it isn't.
Simply because you can edit a file using a terminal app doesn't mean your phone is actually rooted, all it means is you're learning how much more extensive a command-line interface can be. Or in other words, editing a file with user-level permissions does not require your device to be rooted while editing a file with system-level permissions can only be done with your device is rooted.

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Found it on my settings finally. Thanks anyway

ZionGardner said:

I usually install the wallpaper directly from the gallery. Before I install it, I save the photo to the gallery, adjust the scale, and select the needed area on the image. There are several services with beautiful and quality wallpaper pictures.

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yes but on the z fold 3 and z fold 4, you have to be on the either the front screen or you have to unfold the phone to have the wallpaper you want on that screen. you can't choose the front screen wallpaper when the phone is unfolded.

i mainly use zedge for my wallpapers.

maybe a cable going from mini usb (or type c, not sure what your phone uses) to hdmi and hook the phone up to the tv. some phones will not allow this kind of connection. the issue would be the touch screen. you can't use a bluetooth mouse as your phone is not paired with one.......unless you have a mouse that is paired, you are screwed there.

if that does not work, then your only options are to either get it fixed or get a new phone.

rootabaga said:

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.

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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".

I don't think that many of them are from when the other person's phone is locked. The commonest one is "someone sent me a screenshot and I see these icons I don't know on it".

spman said:

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)?

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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.

IJustwasnttofixit said:

yep tried that and nothing. I'm looking at this thread to see if this could work. https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/...-using-fastboot-method.4005779/#post-87586965

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so fastboot commands needs adb setup. it also needs usb debugging enabled on your tablet. if it was not enabled than both adb and fastboot will not work.

You can try this out...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=alirak94.gmail.com.volumecontrols
It has volume settings for each that you can save

Don't forget you will also have the only phone with 5 (five) GB of RAM and a Jan 2016 SoC that can't get out of bed in the morning.
My Moto E6 Plus with a Helio P22 can run rings around it on Geekbench.

Also for the money, you get a box included in the box, or maybe just a box

I wonder if they sell these much.