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How to take credit cards?

Yes, I have a personal account with my debit card and credit card registered to the account, so when I buy something I can use my debit card or credit card to fund the purchase. Paypal takes the money from whichever card I nominate and then deposits that money in the Paypal account of the seller so in effect the seller has received a card payment but via PayPal. If the seller has a business account they will pay commission and that needs to be taken into account. But business accounts are principally for commercial enterprises. The benefit of Paypal is that you are able to make payments to family and friends completely free of charge so if your handyman is also a friend you can pay him as a friend who is doing you a favour.

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Thank you very much for the information provided

Apps Background Location Limitations

codesplice, as I've said, the new system doesn't work. Two weather apps I heavily use written by professional developers no longer work. One leaves me at at my origination during my entire 500 mile drive. Thursday morning I found myself trying to get it to update while approaching what appeared to be heavy rain in the Des Moines area. I hit the location update button several times to no avail, force stopped and restarted it several times, findally did a hard reboot on my phone. It never updated my location.

The other app that is radar only correctly loaded my position on startup (meaning the phone was receiving gps from the satellites). But that's all it did. It used to follow me for the entire 535 mile drive. Now it will only update when I press the gps icon. I'm forced to press the gps icon ever time I want an update.

Friday on my return to Minnesota, one app previously mentioned showed me in Kansas, the app I use as my backup log in case the ELD goes down showed me in St. Paul (not even close to where I was), the tracking app I wrote was the closest. It said I was 10 miles away. None of the apps were accessing my current location, even when I was finally able to manully update the log book app by pressing on the location button (which is illegal while driving).

Thanks for responding, but I have better things to do with my time than to try to write apps for a system that professionals can't get to work.

Dear Phone Makers,

@Trom

I am actually using a mobile for a base.
I use an old Cobra 77x that I installed a power supply from an old camcorder on top of it.

It puts out about 19w at full modulation, and still only deadkeys at 4.25w.

I also have an old handheld, a 40 channel that puts out 5w.
No way that thing was safe to hold up to your head and use, lol.

I have an external mic for it, and hook it to other antennas like you do.

I built a full size (18 foot) center feed halfwave dipole and can talk 13 miles even if it is on the ground (bottom tip is about a foot from touching ground).

This is far from ideal, as that antenna would need to be about 36 feet above ground at the feedpoint for best results (0° take off angle).

Of course, being center feed makes this basically impossible.

But even on the ground, the feedpoint is still 9 feet up and it is super easy to tune, as I mounted a telescoping radio antenna onto the bottom tip.

I actually use television coax (RG-6QS, for satellite TV) for this and my base- at the lengths that I need it has less loss than if I used the 'proper' cable.
I can get 50 foot lengths with ends attached for $6 or so.
There is some math involved to find the right length of coax to offset the difference in resistance, but it seems to be worth it.

Which company new 5g smart phone have adoptable storage

bro firstly thanx for replying and sharing your precious time and knowledge...bro I need to install 200-400 apps tools for graphics logo cartoon video editing designing animating graphics logo designing and archetectural designing apps and plus other sound editing camera editing apps social digital marketing seo not for entertainment but for profesional works....as on move mobility ita easy to produce edit and work while travelling

Now reason to install on external micro sd.card is that firstly it output huge files as a short 4k video is if 500 mb -1000 mb or.more and while editing we have to save 10-20 samples which will fill 20gb-30gb withing 30 min on single project so it better to save on micro sd card.... Secondly 200-400 apps will be install for effects or not daily use for seldom use once in a month or weak...on certain effects and randomly used be saved on internal memory.

Sounds like you want to do a rather heavyweight work-flow there. Quite frankly I wouldn't want to attempt this sort of multi-media production on a phone, and would use an appropriately specced laptop instead, using something like Adobe Premier, Sony Vegas, or Apple Final Cut(Mac only) for the video work.Also 200-400 apps? What apps will you actually be using for example?




They mention HTC. But HTC has been out of the smart-phone business for a while now. As for anything else, like Samsung, LG, Sony, Huawei, Honor, Xiaomi, Oppo, etc. I'm pretty sure non of them support adopdable storage, well not without rooting, and other modifications.

android app to send image via email fails with file not found or permissions

I am creating an android app to send an email with attached image. The mail arrives with no attachment. I have tried three ways to create the file. and three ways to send. the code returns exception "filenotfound" or some permission error. Below is an extraction of the code.
manifest has:
<code>
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />

private File storeImage(Bitmap image) {
File pic = new File("picdefulet.png");
String filename = "pic.png";
try {
switch (1) {
case 1:
pic = new
File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory(),
filename);
break;
case 2:
try {
File dirFile = getCacheDir();
boolean result = dirFile.mkdir();
pic = new File(getCacheDir(), filename);
} catch( Exception e){
Log.e("BROKEN", e.getMessage());
}
break;
case 3:
pic = new File(filename);
break;
}
try {
FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(pic);
boolean result = image.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.PNG, 100, out);
out.flush();
out.close();
} catch( Exception e){
Log.e("BROKEN", e.getMessage());
}
}
catch (Exception e) {
Log.e("BROKEN", e.getMessage());
}
return pic;
} // end storeImage
String msgtext = "#22 Please warn/fine/terminate the user \\n\\n";
Bitmap photo = (Bitmap) data.getExtras().get("data");
File fileThing = storeImage(photo);

Intent emailIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
emailIntent.setType("multipart/alternative;");
String[] recipient = new String[2];
recipient[0] = "roySpin@royweil.com";
recipient[1] = "roysoin2@royweil.com";
emailIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL,recipient); // recipients
emailIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "Scooter Illegaly Parked");
emailIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, msgtext);
if (!fileThing.getPath().isEmpty()) {
switch (1) {
case 1:
Uri pngUri = Uri.parse("file://" + fileThing);
break;
case 2:
Uri pngUri = Uri.fromFile ( fileThing);
break;
case 3:
pngUri = FileProvider.getUriForFile(
getApplicationContext(),
getApplicationContext().getPackageName() + ".provider",
fileThing);
break;
default:
throw new Exception("Invalid case for assigning pngUri");
}
mailIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, pngUri);
gtartActivity(emailIntent);
</code>

All Links Text Display as 'Followed' in Bing Search Results

I have Galaxy Tablet and am using Bing to search in Opera Browser.
All result links color is the followed color. And I do mean all.
It seems to be only when using Bing in Opera.

I would like to continue to use Opera because it has a Night Mode feature
which utilizes a dark background everywhere which I can't find on an other Android browser.



Any ides why this is happening?

James

Incoming Calls

I tried that, but it didn't work. Probably because my phone isn't plugged in when in the car playing music. I already have an app called "no screen off" which is always turned on. But yet, when I recieve a phone call and hang up… still goes to lock screen. If I make the call myself, after the call is ended, the phone doesn't go.to lock screen and returns to regular open screen. However… every once in a while, when I make a call, it will go to lock screen. And having to log back in to control music ir use assistance, while driving is too dangerous. Thanks for the proposes ootiin though. To.me, this feature.is stupid if you wanna remain "hands off" while driving.

Moto G Power (2020) Phone App/Calling Randomly Stops Working

It sounds like you might be expwriencing a type of throttling by Verizon.

As Straight Talk is renting tower space from Verizon, during busy times Verizon will give preferential service to their own customers at the expense of other carriers renting from them.

This issue can be more apparent when Verizon is still using their antiquated (for some time) CDMA cellular system, as it can support less users than the TDMA/GMS system that AT&T (and who rents from them) use.

Help How to fix 'Encryption Unsuccessful' error in LYF wind 6?

Phone model : LYF LS-5009 (wind 6)
Problem : Unable to boot in system due to Encryption Unsuccessful Error

Things i tried to solve this problem : 1) Reset the phone from recovery mode ( wipe all data)
2) Wipe all cache
3) Installed Software again ( firmware flashed)

I saw one more error in recovery mode UI : E: Failed to mount /cache (Invalid argument)
E: Can't mount /cache/recovery/log
E: Can't open /cache/recoveryg

Etc............
I am attaching all the photos of problem here.

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Help Finding a Lost Phone

Thanks for the replies. I just "spoke" with a Samsung agent using their text chat system and was told that if I registered my Google account before I registered my Samsung account when I first set up my phone (2½ years ago!) that I'd need to use the Google app rather than the Samsung app. But I could "fix" this if I deleted my Google account. Fat chance of that happening! So guess I'll be using Find My Device, although it wasn't already on my phone. I just downloaded it from the Play Store.

You could delete the Google account from the device, set up the Samsung Find My Mobile, and then re-add the Google account.

You are only removing the Google account from the device, not deleting anything in the account or the account itself.
(You can have the same Google account on many different devices at the same time, or not.)

Even if none of your devices have the account on them, the account still exists- unless you actually delete the account from Google.
(Even then, it is dubious if they actually delete your info from themselves...)

This means that you can shed the account from any device, and then put it back on whenever you choose.

Firebase authentication succeeds and yet doesn't work

Hello, I've ran into this problem today and it drives me nuts, any help would be appreciated.

I'm using Firebase authentication with email and password, the user is created and appears in the Firebase console, but FirebaseAuth.getCurrentUser() as well as task.getResult().getUser() returns some Default user and not the one just created.

I've checked the currentUser immediately after registering a new user, after registering and moving to a different fragment, after putting the app in the background, after killing and restarting the app, after using firebase sign in method...

Everything seemingly works otherswise, the firebase methods (sign in and register with email and password) result success and as I said the user shows up on the firebase console.

I tried deleting the Firebase project and creating a new on for the app, it didn't help.

There's nothing in the logcat whatsoever that indicates something is going wrong in the process. The only firebase related logs I see after registering\logging in are:
2021-10-01 18:48:44.409 11933-11977/com.app.app D/FirebaseAuth: Notifying id token listeners about user ( Ap5hU8qtQdcTdO4KwQbqA3xxrvV2).
2021-10-01 18:48:44.410 11933-11977/com.app.app D/FirebaseAuth:Notifying auth state listeners about user (Ap5hU8qtQdcTdO4KwQbqA3xxrvV2 ).

Loose micro USB socket

Not very relevant, but I had a port problem over some months with a Nokia 7 Plus, where I had to hold or prop the cable and USB C plug at an increasingly critical angle to get it to charge.

Turns out, after a search, this was a common problem for this and 1 or 2 other models because the metal of the port was sub standard and prone to warping or expanding.

Within the 2 year warranty Nokia were terrific and arranged DHL to collect and deliver to Hungary! from London. Overall about 7 days, but necessitating a cheap phone purchase which I struggled to afford at the time.

They replaced a whole charging board, which sits across / attaches to the bottom of the main motherboard. It also came back with a few other features so they must have flashed the whole thing.

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