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Sony Xperia SL

J
Hi, can you transfer photos from your old Sony Xperia SL to the computer via USB cable? You can try it as below:
1: Connect your Sony Xperia SL to the computer via a USB cable.
2: Slide down from the top of the screen and tap the USB connection, select Media transfer mode (MTP).
3: On your computer, go to file explorer and click your Sony Xperia device. Find and open the "DCIM" folder that stores your photos.
4: Drag and drop the photos you want to transfer them from Sony Xperia to computer.
Hope this will be your help.
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Calendar Sync

Hadron
Presumably these events were not synced, just stored in a "local" calendar on the phone. If they were synced to some account you need to set up the same account on the new phone.

If they are unsynced then you need to install a calendar app on the old phone which has the option to export them. Not all do, though in my calendar app collection Business Calendar has this, don't know about Google Calendar as I don't use it. This will export the selected calendar's events to either an ics or a vcs file, can't remember which. Copy the file to the new phone and import it there (may also need to install an app that supports import/export there).

The other option would be to move all of the events to a synched calendar, but I don't know whether you have a bulk way of doing that - otherwise it would be very tedious if you have many events.
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[SOLVED} Pedestal sink stopper stuck

olbriar
MoodyBlues said:
Personally, I think baths are gross. I already felt that way anyway, but after re-watching an episode of "Extreme Cheapskates," it was reinforced big-time! This one family (two adults and two teenagers) all use the same bath water, one after the other, starting with Dad. By the time they showed the youngest in the tub--and the mother's voiceover was saying 'we don't have cooties, we never get that dirty....' the water was BROWN. Brown!! Ugh.

Oh, and it's COLD water. They don't believe in using heat, either.

I used to bathe my Great Danes in the tub, but using the hand-held shower, i.e., not filling up/stopping the tub. In the summer, they were bathed outside (in the sizzling 100+ degree heat). I haven't taken a bath in decades....nor do I want to! The next time I have someone here who can fix the trip lever, maybe I'll ask them to do that. Or not. I don't really care. I've lived in this house for 16 years now, and haven't needed to use the tub for bathing since my grandchildren were babies--they're both in double-digits now!
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I trimmed a multi million dollar home a few years before retiring. One of the slick things they installed was a pet shower. It was walk in and larger than a tub shower. Not only did it have a hand held shower outlet, it had a number of shower heads that imitated a gentle rain fall.
It had two benches so one could sit while bathing their dog. It was slick!!! I had a Saint Bernard for a decade or so that was a real treat to bathe. He was as big as the tub and left little room to get in there with him and impossible to bathe from outside the tub. When I saw that pet shower I thought how wonderful that would have been back in the day. The German Shepard and the mom and pop Dalmatian weren't a problem and their son begged for a bath.
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Looking At Contacts Backup Products

Hadron
Why bother? Every android contacts app I've ever met has an option to export your contacts. This will write them to a vcard file, which is a standard format understood by any contact management software (so you can load it into any contact management software you have on your computer too). So do an export, copy the file to a computer over USB, job done, no need to purchase anything.
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amcrest ash21-b camera question

C
i got 2 of these cameras the ash21-b cameras and it turns out someone attached to the amcrest app and the other one i managed to get connected but then it failed. and i can't delete them from the app ro amcrest site.

my question is this, does or has anyone here managed to re the firmware on ip cameras s they can be used on computers? as it turns out these are for the app and the cloud service but i'm betting someone has figured out how to root them so the can be re-programmed for some other app fo the computers. these will not run on the amcrest search tool. the search tool see them but will not fully connect to them for computer viewing.

my tiny cam app see them but will not connect enough to the either.

i figure i might as well give ti a try and if they get bricked i'm not out any more than i am now. amcrest will not reset them for me nor will they delete them from there app.

thanks
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How to force a specific network operator?

Hadron
So a Samsung. Yes, that's what it looks like in my home region, sounds like it's the same when roaming.

Unfortunately what I don't know is whether other options were removed in Android updates, removed by Samsung, or are hidden somewhere really obscure. But I can see no sign of such things on my phone (also Samsung's version of Android 12), whereas they definitely used to exist in other brands with Android 2-5 (can't recall for 8-11, barely used 6 or 7).
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Help Solution for unworking screen but working phone?

ocnbrze
Well you are asking for trouble on your banking and email. Are you sure you don't have passwords for them? Seems kind of odd that they don't make you set one up. I would never trust an app that does not make you have one. Are you absolutely sure about this?

If anything I would hop on a computer at least and setup some kind of password protection now, before you do anything else.

And I can't think of anything else you can do at this point other than a factory reset.
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Help What's your average battery usage.

Gilmour
That drainage happened on may 9th. The next day May update came out so I haven't had any battery drainage since update.

I forgot to mention that on my 9th. I had very odd auto brightness behavior. It would go to peak brightness all the time even in the shade. I did restart it a couple of times but still acted abnormal. Luckily a nice waitress at the bar let me used her wireless power bank(she didn't know that she had that feature on her power powerbank )
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Unknown Icon

nickdalzell
Depending on how modern your phone is, there are some A-series phones with Android 11 that auto-activate power saving when the battery level drops to a certain level (usually around halfway). It's called 'Adaptive Power Saving Mode' and is in settings buried somewhere (I hate One UI).
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Power Button on Old Galaxy S4 Failed

nickdalzell
I know Amazon sells used S4s (I got two S3's from them, an S4, and an S4 Mini) so you could potentially part one out (they only have tiny little screws holding everything together, not glue like a modern phone thank goodness!)

I am not the only one who favors older phones and I'm glad. Every phone today is either too darned big or a functional downgrade. (i.e., bland UI, no headphone jack or expandable storage, or removable battery, ya know, what makes Android different from Apple?) I refuse to live in a world where every device is a homogenized, every phone looks alike since 2015 stagnant mess.

I want variety like we had in 2007-2013 back.
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How do I delete Play Next on smart tv- permanently ?

Hadron
melani78 said:
its a Blaupunkt - but Most android Tv's have this - I can not find the app for it - if it is a system app -then even harder to find and remove - https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/...tent-from-your-play-next-queue-on-android-tv/ - I think system apps are hard coded into TV ?
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So is it an app at all? If you mean "how do I stop it playing the next programme after the one I'm watching finishes?" that's likely to be a feature of the particular streaming service - quite a few of them do that no matter what platform you are viewing on. So if that is what you are asking about you'd have to check the settings of each service's app for an option, and if there isn't an option you are stuck.
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What have I done??

nickdalzell
I'm glad I ain't the only one who loves their old phone, although mine is an HTC Thunderbolt I got in 2020 via Amazon. There are ways to prevent unnecessary battery drain (I also got an S5 lying around).

Go through the apps list in settings, and check the little 'restrict background data' on each app. Turn master Sync off except for email and Google account, and NEVER use Wifi. For some reason, turning on Wifi on an S5 makes it run super hot and drain like mad. I think when the S5 was new, data plans weren't all unlimited so the TouchWiz interface kinda hard-coded a limit to background data usage.

Also, DO NOT update your apps. Newer versions not only eat up storage, but demand more CPU/RAM and background usage and kills battery faster. Also runs slower. Once I got back 2GB and uninstalled all the updates, the phone could manage a day or two of standby usage, and 3-4 hours of SoT.
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