also what phone do you have?

Clearing the cache and rebooting did the trick! Thank you all for your help. You guys are the best.

F-Stop is great, thanks! Basically behaves like my old Gallery.

GameTheory said:

I've been using Musicolet for some time and has been great. It's feature rich with no ads and does resume playback. (4.7 stars)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.krosbits.musicolet

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Downloaded and trying this one now. So far so good. Thanks

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Brian706 said:

That looks like the one.

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It does to me too. thanks. i didn’t think before to search in Google Play store on my (i)Phone.

Here is a Samsung link for transferring your backup to your new phone. Good luck.

A slower, but FOSS app that can do the same thing (although it's not quite as simple) is Video Transcoder.

There are not as many options, but the app is smaller and is more purposeful for this.

It is also ad-free, but it is much slower in the conversion.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/protect.videoeditor/

Note:
You can use a firewall to block internet access to apps that you do not want ads on.

https://noroot-firewall.en.uptodown.com/android

This is an excellent option for apps that do not need web access in order to work.

If you do get ads after the firewall is running, then clear the cache of the app with ads.

YouCut only shows ads after you have made your changes and select Save, as far as I know.

Textra should work fine for SMS/MMS.

If you want something less limited than MMS (which limits the size of media significantly) then I'm afraid they are going to have to use a different app for this group. I do that with various friends and family groups where we have a mix of platforms. Of course it helps that in the UK many providers charge (excessively) for MMS, which has the result that most people here just don't use MMS. And as iPhones will fall back to MMS unless everyone involved is using iMessage, and iPhone users are no keener than anyone else on being charged 40-65p to send a low-quality photo, there's never any serious question of them using it unless they know that nobody in the group will ever use anything other than an iPhone .

Alvaro Vargas said:

In the end, I ended up using Services in order to overcome this issue.

I created a service class with a couple of inner threads that manage the Bluetooth connection. So, when I change activities, the main activity gets unbounded from the service, the Bluetooth connection persists, and finally, on the newer activity, I call a reference to that Service class I am using, binding later on to it and resuming communication tasks to the external Bluetooth device using the previously created socket.

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By any change, can you please share the code? I've been looking for the same solution but no luck so far :'(
New to coding here, would really appreciate your help

I hate curved edge displays.
My two newest devices have them, and they are an absolute nuisance.

I enjoy laying in bed while playing with my phones, and these stupid phone edges are ultra sensitive and just holding the device triggers tons of unwanted screen touches.

This makes most operations difficult with both hands on the device, and even more miserable with only one.

Uh where is the intro?

Try moving your files to your SD card to free up the space on your phone.

also on friday i went to Total Wine and More and loaded up with beer, booze and cheap cigars for today.

I opened the tablet again and booted it up. I then removed the battery connection and the tablet stayed up. I looked at the battery info in settings and it still showed good and 100% charged. You said that is just a vague voltage measurement, I guess it's just in reference to whatever it saw previously since the battery was no longer connected.

I decided to just re-connect the battery again. I did this because I noticed when I took the connector off it seemed as if it may have been "up" a tiny bit on one side. I put the connector back on and pressed on it really hard to make sure it was completely flat. I pulled the cord and the tablet stayed up. I put the power cable back in and put it in a "charging" mode and the battery now reflected only 58% charged. I charged it to 100%, ran it down to zero and charged it again. My wife, (this is her old tablet, she also has a newer one but uses the old one for a couple of things and when her newer tablet is recharging), and my grandson have been using it over the weekend and all is good.

Bottom line is that I apparently did not get the battery connector pressed down all the way the first time. So dumb user error caused by my eye site getting older and poorer that I didn't see the first time that the connection was up a little bit on the one side.

I thank you very much for all your info and help. It was greatly appreciated.

I'm wondering if you should look more into Bluetooth settings than audio controls. Generally, audio is a fixed, background process, and just assuming, it sounds like (bad pun intended) that you need to reset the Bluetooth connection when switching between listening to audio playback and voice interactions.

Have you looked at any Bluetooth-related options in your phone's Settings menu? That leads to a question if there is a discrete app for your hearing aids or is it just a matter where they're linked to your phone just using its standard Bluetooth menu to pair them up together? What model hearing aid do you have?

The last phone I rooted was an HTC 10 EVO (Bolt), but that was to install some Pentesting and forensics apps that need root to work - I used to be a cyber security writer & courseware author/trainer, now reitred.

A good website must be here.

The_Chief said:

I walked into a fast food restaurant to get food. I had to yell around the plexiglass snot-guard to get the order in, and hoped it was right because I couldn't understand the cashier's muffled voice. I got the total and broke out a $20 bill.

The cashier slid a small plastic tray across the counter and asked me to put the bill into it. I did: then watched her pull the tray back, two feet, to her... where she picked the bill up and made the change. She placed my change in the tray and slid it to me.

I asked her, "how is that tray somehow disinfecting the money as it goes from my hand to yours? And if it's not, and we're handling the money the same way, why are we even using this stupid thing?" She explained that someone at CORPORATE implemented the policy. That explained everything.

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Totally!

But just in case, it may very well have to do with security as much as anything else.

Limiting personal contact between employees and customers has been increasing for many years.

There may even be discounts for the insurance that the business must pay for to be in business.

People working for minimum wage are being viciously attacked by 'customers' at their places of work.

Unfortunately, if this happens to you and you retaliate in self defense or in any way, you will most likely lose the job.

On the other hand, the dumbing down of prospectives for these jobs, the promotion of 'Thug Life', affirmative action programs, along with multiple other issues, has made it almost as possible to be violated as a customer.

It is no longer possible to hire the best prospect for any job, because either that job application does not exist (no one filled it out at all, or not the right person for the job) or because the government is forcing the hire of a certain type of person.

This is one reason why we shop online, and that will yield even less jobs as time goes by.

'Go woke, go broke' is going to get us all in the end.

PayPal is an easy-to-use payment app with a great mix of features. It makes it easy to send payments or receive money from friends and family or pay for goods and services. Once you've set up an account, you can use the app or a web browser to manage your transactions, been using it for quite some time now

I created a channel for your app. Good luck!!
https://androidforums.com/apps/c-compiler-code-widget.20141/

Thanks. I downloaded the app. I'll check it out.

even i think that!

Settings>display>navigation bar

Which clipboard capabilities are you missing?

Actually one way in which they have recently copied iOS is that Android 12 now warns you when an app has accessed your clipboard (which is illuminating: I've uninstalled a couple because they accessed the clipboard when I was doing nothing that would need them to do so. Given that people use it to copy sensitive information an app just deciding for itself to see what's in there is not on).