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Help Stuck in Bootloop (Keeps loading Samsung Logo) - Loads after Removing SIM Card

M
ocnbrze said:
actually if you can get to download mode, then you might be able to flash a firmware update. it may or may not wipe data. its been a while since i had to flash one. so backup accordingly.

https://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/

instructions on how to flash it is on the website.
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Thanks so much. I tried bt did not solve.
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Help All my files suddenly deleted

ocnbrze
Jaiwoolf said:
Appreciate everyone's help, unfortunate that I probably can't recover any of my pictures or files.
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I would recommend going forward that you use google photo's. it backs everything to the cloud and i never have to worry about my photos or videos. i can even buy a new phone and all i have to do is sign in and i have my photos back again.....granted if i want them physically i would have to download them one by one. but i have a goood data plan with decent coverage so my phone always have been able to connect to the cloud to view the photos.
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How to make your mobile application known

ocnbrze
MansaDev said:
Hello I have created an Android application which is on Play store but the application has difficulty to take off.
I would like to know how to make your application known when you are a freelance developer without experience.
I would also like some advice on the possible features I could add to a photo editor application.
App on the Play store : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appmansa.lightmaster
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just create a thread here:https://androidforums.com/forums/android-apps-games.4/

give a brief description of your app and provide any screenshots or videos of your app. you might want to click on some the other apps being offered by other developers to see how they designed their thread promoting their apps.
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OPPO A37m Contacts and Call issue

Hadron
Surely you don't have to dial them: you select them from your contact book (or recent calls list) and press the call icon? Or use the search function in the dialer and choose the recipient by name? For SMS I usually just type the recipient's name, I never enter the number unless it's one that's not in my contacts. I rarely type a number that I already have in my contacts.

If I do type in a number in local format that I have stored in international format my phone shows it as "unknown" until I press the call button, at which point the call screen identifies the contact (and shows the correct person in the call list). That suggests a different lookup method when entering a number via the keypad vs when a call is active. That is inconvenient, in that I can't select the name when I've only half-typed the number, but as I say that's not how I call people anyway (which is probably why I didn't spot this until testing just now), and I'd consider it failing to identify incoming callers a bigger inconvenience.
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Android 13 information

markdoc
ocnbrze said:
Are you going to give it a go? Sounds pretty cool. Don't know what samsung will do with android 13.
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No, I plan on waiting until the final version is released. Years ago, when I was younger, smarter & liked challenges, I would have tried. But now, I prefer smooth as possible sailing, and I try to avoid problems. Good luck, if you try. Let us know how it goes. (◉‿◠)
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Help My phone overheated and now the screen won't work

Duckster
I have a Samsung Galaxy Note 8 that I still use mostly to play games. It started getting REALLY hot, especially during charging. I took it out of it's case, turned it completely off, and I even had the battery changed. Nothing seemed to resove the issue. Someone suggested that it could be an app that is aggrivating it and causing it to run all the time in the background. I tried to shut down apps and that didn't work. I finally did a complete wipe fo the device, and so far, no more over heating. My guess is that it is like someone said above...an aggrivating app causing the issue that is now gone. Good Luck.
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Google Messages bubble colors

JLS1979 said:
Now that I think about it, I think that functionality was with Verizon's messaging app. I might need to look into a different app as Hadron suggested. I'm not super picky, I've been using Google's app for so long that is just what I'm used to, but black and brown with extremely limited options to customize - come on Google!!! I do know that the black and brown are recent changes, I think they used to be light and dark blue.
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Textra is way better, although it is like my cloud I keep most of my messenges..I keep deleting my messages and have them automatically back up on my messenger plus icon.
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Help TF201 EE Pad Update problem

ocnbrze
first off, it just can't be any android update. android os are very device specific. there is no generic android s that works on any device.

if you root the device, and get a custom recovery, then you can flash a custom rom. now keep in mind that it most likely will not be, exactly, be a higher android os. the way custom roms work is that the devs will take pieces of newer android os and incorporate that into the framework of whatever update your device last had. over course all of this is determined if the developers still have active links for their roms as your device is really old as you stated. most devs only support their links for so long.

.......so i'm not sure where you are going to get a "more up to date version of android"

i think its just that your device is now so old that most websites and apps have moved on and no longer support your device or technology. you are better off getting a new device. there are plenty of budget tablets that have a new os that will run much better than what you have.
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Accessing dashcam footage on mobile

M
UPDATE: It was your prompt, svim that cracked it! New OTG cable did not work as I wished. So, I put the Dashcam SD into the phone. It did not see it. SD card had been 'formatted' in the dashcam. but I thought why not reformat in the phone?

Everything then worked, including (so far) the dashcam in recording mode, but I need to check over time. Dashcam clips loaded into the phone and played via the VLC app.

A brilliant nudge towards the solution - thanks.
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Need old messages

svim
Given you transferred your data directly from your old phone to your new phone, and that you no longer have your old phone, that leaves you with nothing as far as storage of those older text messages. It makes no difference if you use Smart Switch or some other service as a file transfer utility. since you apparently did not do any kind of backup step there's no place for you to bother looking into to find those older messages.

Just so this doesn't occur again, start using Smart Switch to make regular, full backups of your phone's user account data to a trusted computer if you have one, or into an online storage service. Backups are important,
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Calendar reminders from SMS messages

lunatic59
stuarta said:
Ah I went into my SMS app and settings and under suggested actions I have 'Create event' so guessing it doesn't meet the criteria for autodetecting
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Depending on how the date is formed in the message, it might not recognize it as a date and won't create the link. Just out of curiosity I browsed through some old messages and unless the date included the full month/day/year it didn't seem to want to make an appointment. However if any message contained a time, it was always a link to the calendar.

Trom said:
Microsoft makes a messaging app that will do that does that stuff, but I don't remember if it syncs with google calendar or the microsoft to-do app, it's called SMS organizer
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Knowing how Microsoft and Google get along, I would guess that the default behavior for a Microsoft app to send appointments to Outlook's calendar and, if you don't have it installed, it asks you to install and create an account long before you see any options for other calendars.
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2 Months in, still some questions.

codesplice
Papamalo said:
1: In the notification bar on the desktop, where tapping "Missed calls" would take me to the phone app where I could see the calls I missed, now it does nothing.
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Are you talking about the "At A Glance" widget near the upper left of the home screen? Or the actual notification pull-down area?

Papamalo said:
3: Sometimes on different websites, using chrome, I get "flutter" where instead of being able to scroll down a page to new content, it just keeps "fluttering" the same section of the page over and over again. Anyone else experience this? ( This may be a chrome issue, but it never happened on any of my other phones)
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That sounds to me like a website which is poorly optimized for mobile devices - likely because they're too busy shoving ad overlays instead of just showing the content you're after. I don't think it's a Chrome-specific thing, but you could try a different browser to see if the issue persists.
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