ocnbrze said:

oooops yeah you are right.....for your specific model. sorry i overlooked the model numbers.....my bad.

yeah until there is a custom rom or kernel......your solution might be the only one. i do not have your phone, but i know quite a bit about rooting and overclocking.

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Sadly its a chinese model, so Lenovo seems to not want to release the kernel sources, without which a custom Kernel wont exist.
So Custom Roms are unlikely, too.

Oh well, the way i found may not be perfect, but at least it works!
Thank you for your help!

drivers are not apps so they will not be on google play.

you need to go to the manufacturer's website to get the drivers. here i did it for you
https://www.alldocube.com/en/support/resources/

codezer0 said:

Some of it does look sketch, but at least i know that I was able to turn on the OEM Unlock setting. Which is already further than I was able to get with the wife's moto g20.

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if you can oem unlock, than you are half way there to gain root. after unlock you just need to install magisk and you should be rooted. you can even try the read/write option as well.

Thanks for your reply. I don't keep ANY information about myself on my phone and I only use a couple apps and do no banking, I do all my important stuff on a Linux PC, which is frequently updated for free. I only visit websites that I trust.I really don't see how I could be a victim of Identity Theft, except for perhaps my phone number. As for bots, What could they do to me? I think I'll take my chances and stick with Pixel 3. Many people are saying it's a better phone than Pixel 6 anyway.

welcome to AF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

lets keep this thread as an intro

here is your thread discussion on upgrades:
https://androidforums.com/threads/android-updates.1342937/

spman said:

My old phone is unable to stay on for a long time. so I quickly copy and paste all the
files in the phones to my pc. Just a simple connect usb cable to phone, copy
the files that are inside phone internal storage and then paste into my windows pc.

Now my old phone is faulty and unable to switch on, no longer able to use it.

1. Can I restore my new phone to have everything that was in the old phone by using smart switch or any other methods by connecting usb cable from pc to new phone? (note that the files inside pc is not made by smart switch, the files are just a simple copy (from the old phone) and paste (into pc)

2. How to restore the old phone sms messages history and contacts (from old phone files in pc) to my new phone?
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1 -- No you cannot at this point. You needed to use the Smart Switch utility to make a full backup of your old phone to your computer, and it's the data in that backup that will be used to transfer your user account from your old phone to the new phone. But there is an important caveat in that Samsung's Smart Switch service is primarily for Samsung devices. And it that covers most but not all Samsung models, and only a limited number of other manufacturers. Check 'Compatibility' for a listing:
https://www.samsung.com/us/support/owners/app/smart-switch
So there's some conditional factors involved and it would help clarify if you stated what is your old phone and your new phone, and which versions of Android they're running. But again, at this point, with your old phone now non-functional you can't use Smart Switch. At best you have to rely upon the backup you made and manually just restore what you can to your new phone. Keep in mind you're at a big disadvantage now and need to accept a lot of data loss now that your old phone is dead. Just drag-and-dropping files and things only pertained to the data visible and accessible via a file manager. There a a lot of things that are however stored within protected and restricted system-level directories, i.e. your text message database, phone call log history, etc. These are the kind of things a backup utility would have copied over, stuff you don't have direct access to.

2 -- As you've already stated, yes Smart Switch will include text messaging when you do a full backup. It's not quite as comprehensive and seamless as Apple's backup/restore service but Smart Switch is pretty good for the phone models it's compatible with. But now that your old phone is dead, it's very unlikely you'll be able to restore any of your text messaging history to your new phone. There is a very remote chance a recent history listing might be restorable if you log into your online carrier account but don't get your hopes up. Text messaging is not like email messaging where emails will be stored in online email servers hosted by your email provider, text messages are much more ephemeral and typically online retained by each carrier only as long as it takes to transfer them.

Hello, I'm writing from the year 2022. I have a Xperia U St25i with Android 4, which can't do anything nowadays. Pages with ROMS > Android 4 are deleted. Has anybody an idea where I could find a newer ROM?

Thanks yall I did have text set to max, and maybe that's the difference, even in the app. I can't get back to those pages to view them live, so I'll wait until I have the issue somewhere again, and drop the font size down and see what happens. Doubtless you all are on the right track. Thanks again.

Settings
Security & biometrics
Screen lock
None

If this is not available, then disable any lock that is activated.
If this still won't allow it to be turned off, then clear credentials.

This may be something Tasker can accomplish.

Thanks for the replies.

I don't use Windows myself, and I don't know Samsung Music. But you can check and easily edit MP3 metadata on your Android device with Classical Music Tagger. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.kromke.andreas.musictagger/ I've often used this app.
It says "Classical Music", but it can view and edit all MP3 metadata for any music genre.

ocnbrze said:

not much you can do about that. there is no setting or app that i know that will hide it. for me i need that pull down so i can access the flashlight as i use that a lot for my job. it is very convenient for me to not have to unlock the phone to get to the flashlight......sorry but you are just going to have to get used to it.

if you do find something that will hide it, please post it here. but i doubt there is something like that out there.

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ocnbrze said:

not much you can do about that. there is no setting or app that i know that will hide it. for me i need that pull down so i can access the flashlight as i use that a lot for my job. it is very convenient for me to not have to unlock the phone to get to the flashlight......sorry but you are just going to have to get used to it.

if you do find something that will hide it, please post it here. but i doubt there is something like that out there.

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During my research I see there are other phones models that are able to change settings to disable drop down panel during lock screen.
I guess just have to search for an app to do it. Any idea what keywords to search playstore for this problem?

Just download them from your google drive to your PC or Mac. And then plug your phone in and transfer them back over. And like others have said I'd keep copies local and back them up separately as well as on Google drive. Depending on how much you value these photos. It'd be worth the effort to make sure they're safe in few places. Cloud, Local, and on device.

Did you have a lock screen set up?
If you did, that should be a good deterrent to keep most people from even being able to access your files or use any apps. A more tech savvy thief 'might' be able to defeat the lock screen but it's still something that takes time to actually do. But for most people, the lock screen prevents them from getting to your files, making phone calls, using apps, etc.
If you didn't, than that's more of a problem, as anyone can just pick up the phone and use it. How much time occurred in between the time your phone was stolen and when you eventually used Erase device? If it was a significant amount of time you really do need to sit down and reset all the passwords for your various online accounts.
Also, report the phone as stolen to your carrier and have them freeze your cellular account on that phone. This also puts the phone on a national blacklist that all the carriers follow so the thief can only use their own WiFi for online connectivity. (But again, hopefully you had a lock screen enabled so they can even access anything.) If you leave Location enabled on your phone, you can use that Find My Device service to get a pretty good approximation of just where that phone might be.

I disable both. Keep in mind, sometimes Play Store respawns itself (goes from disabled to enabled all on its own) and starts the process over again.

I also couple disabling both Play Store and Download Manager by also side-loading an app called Netguard No-Root Firewall. That app can be found on APKPURE, and after you enable 'unknown sources' in security settings, you should be able to download that file on any browser (preferably one with its own download manager like Samsung Internet which works on any phone, or Firefox) and then use your file explorer app to select the file, and tap it. You should get an install prompt, and then tap done when you see 'app installed'

Then open NetGuard, and go to settings, advanced, and enable 'system apps' then go back and find Play Store, Download Manager and make sure both the wifi and data symbol has a slash through them. Also, since this is a phone app we're talking about here, you can also disable the wifi/data for Phone by Google as well, and then it should not only never update again, but just work as a regular old phone dialer.

The Search Bar widget is tied to the Google app while the Chrome app is the web browser. So do you have any kind of time limit set up for the Google app?
Using the Search Bar is only incidentally tied to the Chrome app as that's most likely the default for when she taps on a web site link.

Betacord360 said:

I use Google Calendar, and I can find Tasker in the settings, but there aren't any options to remove or hide it. See screenshots.

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have you tried wiping cache for the calendar? you can wipe data as well. but then you just need to make sure that your events or alarms have been backed up to google or whatever account you want the calendar to be in....cuz wiping data will erase all data from your calendar.

The article states that the issue is with the 7.8.6 update... but my Z Fold 3 is on 7.9.1. The new 8.0 version is being rolled out in stages, but should be available for sideload at APK Mirror.

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I occasionally get spam from 2 different members accounts from 2 different message boards . I am sure their phone/computer contact list was compromised and it has been years, yet every once in a while the spammers will use that list to send out their blah blah !

Since it didnt work at all, i got a new phone (samsung a53 5g)

jhtalisman said:

Is this in the wearable app on your phone or the watch itself?

In the app there is an option for either most recent first or a custom order. I am not sure how it affects the order on the watch and can't check it at the moment.

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The order I was concerned about is on the watch itself. And I found the dropdown in the wearable app - recent first or custom. I changed it to Custom and now the newest are at the end! Many thanks!! I don't remember making this change previously but obviously I did.

Confession time. I never had this issue before I changed a setting. I didn't, but should have, note it down. My hope is someone will know that setting and direct me to it.

You must mean 'weird' app, correct?

Anyway, it could be some system app or even some mal-ware thing that was downloaded.

Some apps can download and install other crap that does not go away when the original app is uninstalled.

If you cannot uninstall it from the app info page, it is most likely a system app.