puppykickr said:

That is not true at all.
The devices and service are 100% free if your household makes 130% or less of the poverty level.

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Good point.

Check your actual Google account settings, not just in Maps.

Much Thanks

spman said:

I have Samsung Galaxy Note 8.
What if the update fails and corrupt the phone (e.g. black screen, stuck, unable to access something...)? Is there a way to rollback/uninstall the update?
For example in PC there is a way to full backup and roll back to previous version if the Windows update fails or weird stuff happens after the update, I am thinking of similar backup in Android.

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as suggested by @svim , use Samsung's SmartSwitch to backup your phone. you can even save the backup to your computer.

Never mind, I do have downloaded the take out, it comes through four different sections, yeah I kind of started blogging forever ago, but you know what though, I think that was in the past, when thought I had free time on my hands.

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The pictures sit in my Gallery looking perfect - nothing to be corrected using any app. Only when sent by email or posted to a web site, etc, do they often arrive inverted.

Used to be a great email app. I am not sure if the original dev is still supporting or not.

The update just landed for my UK BTU this evening.

Screen protectors came today.
Install was typical. I did install the back also, but I might remove it if I find it interferes with pics.
The flash is cut out, but the lens are covered.

I changed to a Samsung Galaxy S6 Lite and it has the same problem. Very odd. (Just posted to the S6 forum.) I can play with pictures upside down at my end but I post pictures to sites like Trip Advisor and they end up being displayed upside down. There is no way to get them to correct it. It must be an Android system issue.

Some decline in capacity with time is to be expected, though 7% in 1 year seems a little high with protective measures (e.g. the 85% charging limit) in place: that's marginally above what my previous Pixel 2 did with no option to turn fast charging off (except using an old charger) and always charging to 100%. And that was measured by the same app, so hopefully as comparable as such estimates can be between different phones. Of course if you've not been using Accubattery from the start you don't know what the initial capacity estimate was: batteries vary by a few %, and you can get one that's slightly below nominal capacity as well as slightly above, so it's also possible that degradation is overestimated.

The usual thing is to check for any apps that are consistently using more power than they should - something that is complicated by the fact that different apps definitely estimate app usage differently!

Maybe an s21U owner will show up to give a more direct comparison.

PankyDonalds said:

Try downloading the Google Drive app and delete it through it

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I have... I'm doing it from the app, nothing.

You mean something like this: https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/best-bluetooth-trackers/

I don't know whether these things would work for that purpose (e.g. whether they maintain a sufficiently continuous connection). Otherwise a cheap fitness tracker would be the most obvious thing (doesn't even need a screen for this purpose). In the early days Fitbit used to sell one that could be clipped to clothing rather than worn, but they discontinued that long ago and I don't know whether anyone still makes such a thing. Obviously a device like this would need recharging maybe weekly rather than running for months or years the way a tracking tag can.

(Like others here, I've no experience of smart lock: I find the fingerprint sufficiently little hassle to use that it's not worth weakening security for me personally, so have never even tested it).

Sunny K said:

My s21 went nuts on me, turning off and rebooting itself in safe mode until I gota message on the screen telling me I had to do a factory reset. There was supposedly no way around it. Went to an AT&T store and the guy backed up my phone and did the factory reset. Problem is no matter what I do these super important notes I had saved in SimpleNotepad are gone. I was able to find some from sheer fishing around on my phone some of the notes but not the two most important ones. I'm desperate here guys. Can someone help me out as to why these notes restored? Also all of my photos and videos are gone too. Ugh. Can this get any worse? I don't know know how to even get down to the root level of my phone or if there's any sort of decent/easy to navigate software programs that might save me. Is it even worth calling AT&T Tech Support?

SUNNY

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Evernote dumped 4 years worth of Journaling, a 5 or 6 randoms left out over 100 entries. I'm sure i am at fault, but they don't make it easy to ask questions. I gave up on getting ahold of someone representing Evernote. Better known as Ever JOKE. sorry if off subject or whatever but i, in good conscience, had to pass on my experiences.

Windows file recovery software would have worked on Android 2.x, where the phone's storage was mounted as USB mass storage (i.e. same as a flash drive - which also meant that the phone couldn't access it while you were copying files). Since 4.x its used Microsoft's Media Transfer Protocol for file transfer, which does not give the computer the same level of access to the storage device. It may look superficially the same on Windows, in that you can open it in Windows Explorer the way you would a flash drive or portable hard disk, but it isn't the same thing. I don't use Windows with my phones (I barely use Windows at all), but I've not heard of regular file recovery software working since this change was made (about 9-10 years ago).

The trouble with the apps that claim they can do it is that it's very hard to find testimonies of success from real users who are not connected with the apps.

It's an interesting solution. Thanks for sharing with us.

Go to (on your S21 phone) - SETTINGS > BATTERY & DEVICE CARE > click 'BATTERY' > MORE BATTERY SETTINGS > PROCESSING SPEED. Here you can set to 'Optimized', 'High', or 'Maximum'

gary ogden said:

No option to change it.

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Have you tried Google photos? In Google photos slide shows is under animation and you can stylise how the slide show appears. You can even add music...... check it out.

You should use Google photos more, it's way better than most galleries as that is not up to android, but up to the phone manufacturer.

Anastasios Hadjistephanou said:

Hi everyone,


I own a Samsung Note 10 and a Xiaomi 11T 5G. On my Samsung I have the option, when I have open apps and the phone is ringing, instead of giving me a pop-up screen or a floating window answering the phone to have it in full screen. Now, because Xiaomi’s pop-up screen for answering the phone is way too small, I’d like to have the option switching to full screen instead of pop-up or floating. Is there a way doing that?


Thank you all in advance

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If it's not in you phone settings, then there is not much you can do.

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