Woah, it worked! Thanks!!

I looked this up and found that it might help to reboot the device, clear gallery cache, take out and reinsert the SD card, and/or get rid of the .nomedia file. Is any of this true? I can look at the images by using Simple Files and checking out what's on sd, but it's something of a hassle.

Hi all, I am trying develop an app to show currently playing media's metadata on a TextView. I will connect two Android devices via Bluetooth (my phone and a tablet). The tablet will run my app and the phone will play music. The app will show the song title and the artist information (independent from the media player app e.g. Spotify, YouTube Music etc.) on their respective "TextView"s. At this point, I am just trying to acquire and show the media metadata on my phone. I tried MediaSessionController and NotificationListener so far but I couldn't achieve my goal. How can I get the media metadata? Also, I plan to move on to the Bluetooth part after acquiring the song title. Is this approach logical? Any suggestions will be appreciated.

My new Boxing Timer app has been released. This app was originally conceived as a multifunctional martial arts interval timer. Wide settings, timer control in gloves, if it is not possible to press it with your hands (through the proximity sensor), work in the background, the ability to set any time and any intervals, voice rounds and many more very useful features not only for martial arts, but also for running, walking and any physical activity.
The app has a premium version. Each reader of this forum who will contact the mail in the application description will receive a promotional code for a free subscription. And yet, I will be very grateful to everyone who puts 5 stars to the application. This will help me a lot. Thank you)
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mch.pavel.boxingtimer

Hello all. It has been some time about 2 years I did put this tablet away for a while and didn't bother with it until now.
The better is on its way out and I had it on for like 10 mins while doing some other checks and used 10 percent of the battery
But I have also found another problem. The buttons that are for power and volume and what I can see gone the don't work I managed to turn it on by carefully touching the two pins on the plug on the board and it worked OK but I will try and see if I cam get a replacement buttons board. It's a little but the board has gone to like paper kind of feel. I would just throught I would let you all know tho. Will update you if I get it running with the new board

Unforgiven said:

I created a channel for your app. Good luck!!
https://androidforums.com/apps/truth-or-dare-dirty-dares.20228/

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Thank you very much!

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I am using an Umidigi A9 pro phone with 128G of storage and Android 10. I want to do a factory reset to fix some problem and to get rid of many unused or junk applications. There are many entries on the web about backup and restore for factory reset. But I want to clarify a couple of things before I start the factory reset.
1. Most entries on the web suggest backup the phone to Google account before the reset. But a Google account only have 15G of free cloud storage. I have already used 70G out of the 128G storage. If I do not want to purchase storage from Google, is there any easy way to backup all Apps and storage data to PC and allow a easy restore to the phone after the reset ?
2. It looks simple that if I backup to a Google account, I can just restore by specifying the account and it will magically restore using the backup data stored under that account. But restoring from Google account backup data seems to be a complete restore. This will not help to get rid of many unused or junk applications. Is there any way that I can do selective restore (i.e. just restore what I need) ?

Well Android does dominate over Apple in the world market, something like 75% to 25%, but here in America iPhones have something like a 55% lead over Android's 45%. Even if you exclude the U.S. aberration with its really high profit margins and focus just on the world market don't forget that Android's bigger numbers are based on low to mid-range phones with their inherent low profit margins. Apple does adjust its pricing to be in accordance with a country's standard of living but on average Apple's profit margin numbers are still higher than with Android phones. So yeah, it's nice to know Android is leading in numbers of phones but Apple is making a lot more money just doing what it's been doing.

metroidRoid2 said:

1. When I make a call on speaker phone and hold it in front of my mouth, after a few seconds the screen will black out. How do I prevent this?

2. Also, when I make a call in front of my computer, many times my calls will drop. If I make a call from the living room, no dropped calls. Could Wi-fi signals interfere with cell phone signals and cause calls to drop? On the other hand, I have noticed that when the other person can't hear me, this seems to occur right after the screen blacks out. What is could be causing the dropped calls? This happens quite frequently.

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1.maybe try adjusting your screen timeout. or maybe you are holding the phone to close to your mouth that the phone thinks you have it next to your head and thus shuts the screen off.

2.have you tried using wifi calling?

Chappie said:

I thought the little green light indicates that an app was using the camera and/or the microphone?

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You are partially correct and so was I. When I first started using my phone, the green light was constantly on and driving me crazy. The longer I used the phone, the less I saw the green light. As of now, I almost never see the light. However, you are correct too. There are different green lights, differentiated by the icon within it. The microphone and camera do illicit the light with their own icons. I'm not sure which icon the light had in the beginning. If I had to guess, I'd say a battery. (If anyone knows for sure, please correct me)
I hope this helps.

ocnbrze said:

hey @Milo Williamson i'm not sure i understand what the problem is that you are having. are you talking about your homescreen? what launcher are you using?

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No home screen but the app that is built in called "Moto" that allows you to customized everything, the app itself, I can do themses on it really easy but if I do the "long" customization part like go to the text, it saids it on the main page, somehow suddenly I am able to customize it just now, but how it just glitches out and have nothing to change it forever. Huh... I was set for screen shots too.

@LJ67 here this is a much better picture:


just ask the person who owns the phone. you have to understand that we get these questions almost every day. and it is rare that they actually get answered.

i will say this, it does seem very familiar to me, but I can't place it just yet.

just because you do not understand something does not make it strange. all of the processes you listed are just systems apps running. most of them can be explained via a google search.

here is what i found for you:

Com.sec.android.deamonapp
https://grouphowto.com/com-sec-android-daemonapp/

Com.sec.android.app.simsettingmgr
has to do with your sim card

Com.wssynxmldm
https://grouphowto.com/what-is-com-wssyncmldm/

Com.samsung.android.dialer
that is your phone dialer

Com.samsung.android.incallui
https://grouphowto.com/com-samsung-android-incallui/

Com.android.vpndialogs
https://grouphowto.com/com-android-vpndialogs/

Com.samsung.accessibility
https://www.samsung.com/us/support/answer/ANS00062641/

Com.google.android.packageinstaller
https://www.makeuseof.com/what-is-com-google-android-packageinstaller/

com.android.settings
that is your phone's settings

Com.sec.android.emergencylauncher
https://androidforums.com/threads/com-sec-android-emergencylauncher.1110961/

Com.samsung.android.app.telephoneui
that is your phone app

Com.samsung.android.messaging
that is samsung messaging app

Com.android.nfc
https://www.androidauthority.com/how-to-use-nfc-android-164644/

yeah you are gonna need a better screenshot than that. at first sight it looks like twitter, but i am not so sure on that. the problem here is two fold. one problem is that picture sucks and really can't make out what it is. and second, there are just too many apps with notifications out there to be able to know just by looking at an icon. unless it is something like twitter or facebook, it is going to be very hard to know.

just ask the person what it is. 9 times out of 10 the icon is from a phone that belongs to somebody else. the only way to know for sure what it is is to get into the phone's notifications. if you can't get into the phone or ask the person what it is, then you will most likely only get guesses from us here.

we get this question on a daily basis, and most go unanswered.....but you never know.

The version of Colornote I use is from 2010, so I never get asked for any account just to open the app or use it.

If there was an old Google Account set to sync on Android 2.3 you will get errors and endless prompts to re-login as your original post shows, but you can keep backing out long enough to just delete said account and it will leave you alone. Or force it via Airplane Mode or disabling Sync. I'm quite versed in Android 2.3's way, given it's my favorite version of Android.

factory reset the phone. not much you can do on such an old phone.

if you want to root the phone you do not need kies. all root guides for your phone seems to not have working links any more. where are you getting your info on rooting the phone? do you have a link?

Turns out it was a launcher after all. No idea how that got on there. All back to default. Thanks again for the help.

FaustBottomText said:

EDIT: Yes, it's the same account.

I just tried that after reading it. Unfortunately it did not work. Thank you for trying to help me though!!

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Whatsapp also saves chats locally (and daily) (either SD or internal memory). GD backups are once a week, I think.

I will try this: if you haven't backed up to Google Drive since you erase that chat, you can restore that backup into another PHONE. In my experience, when you uninstall Whatsapp, local backups remain and when you reinstall WA within the same phone, it will use that local backup, compare it to GD and restore messages and media according to date.

Good luck!

Matching Shapes is not as easy as you think.

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It's all fun and easy at the Start, but when items are pilling up with different colors and different Opacity.. you will get stuck on your sit trying to beat your last score.

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Hadron said:

The thing that strikes me in your pictures is that there isn't space for the whole of "last seen today at xx:yy pm" to be displayed, so I wonder whether the scrolling is a consequence of that?

However I've not been able to test this because I've not been able to make that text large enough on my phone (Galaxy s21) that it won't fit! I've tried everything: setting 12 hour clock (to make the date/time longer), changing font size in the app's "chat" settings, changing system font size, changing system font style, using accessibility settings to enlarge everything, but nothing has made that string take as much space as it does in your pictures! However that's my guess at what is happening there, and I suspect that if you can shrink that text until it fits the scrolling will stop.

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Thank you for the reply.

Sorry for the late one from myself. I've been having a lot of bother going on with my PC so only now got round to replying.

What you said triggered something in my head & I finally got the answer.

Settings > Display > Font size and style > Front size (right at the very bottom)

On my old Galaxy S10 the slider was all the way to the left. On this Galaxy S20, if the very left most setting is what we'll call "1" then it was on 5. Knock the slider to the left and it solves this WhatsApp issue.

What I don't understand is why this setting wasn't transferred over to my new phone when I used Samsung SmartSwitch, but at least we got there in the end

Your article is very interesting, I got a lot of useful information from it, I look forward to your next articles. Thank.

After spending some time with 5G on my mobile data, it does speed more then even with my wifi on, hell it sometimes just boosts up even more, it works flawlessly.