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Find lost phone

A funny thing happened in email. I was checking spam just in case of phone alerts and there was a message about somebody getting into his facebook account with an apple phone. As far as I know he has no such account or at least he doesn't use it and no way apple.

Phishing spam!
Do not answer that e-mail!

Plus, your friend seems like the type that should live close to a payphone.

How to get notifications to ear buds

It it working as desired, or not?
If not, it is most likely a setting in whatever media app you are using at the time.

For instance, BlackPlayer (a music player) has an audio setting called 'focus'.
This is where you can adjust the response to notifications while listening to music through the app.
I figured it out. With Samsung ear buds my phone could be on silent or vibrate and I could get notifications through my ear buds. With the new ones my phone can not be on silent or vibrate.

Help Can't get bubbles to work in Whatsapp

It's a new feature in Android 11. It's based on FB messenger's chat heads.

I do have an Android 11 device myself, A Samsung Note20 Ultra I bought last month. Anyway I just found Bubbles in the advanced notifications settings. It was OFF, so I turned it ON, and will wait and see what happens. I don't use FB Messenger either, and I receive most messages via WeChat, which I don't know if it does this Bubbles thing or not.

Help Xfinity Information Buried Deep In Galaxy a10e

I am trying to watch the NBCSports app on my Samsung Galaxy a10e and it says my subscription doesn't include NBCSports even though it does. I deleted both the Xfinity Stream app and the NBCSports app and deleted my cache and history. Upon reinstalling the NBCSports app, when I try to verify Xfinity as my provider, it automatically says I do not have a subscription even though I never entered an account and the Xfinity app is not installed. I am convinced that this login information is embedded somewhere and I want to delete it. Any other provider I choose it asks me for a username and password, but if I select Xfinity it's just automatically accessed somehow. Please help

The site that the app takes you to recognizes the device you are using.

Your device identifies itself to every site you browse.

Try logging in with a browser instead.

If that fails, try it again while using a VPN.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/ch.protonvpn.android/

Problems with Google TV

You stated that you are adding subtitles.

How/when/why are you adding subtitles?

Maybe he means downloading separate subtitle files, e.g. .SRT files from sites like https://www.opensubtitles.com/en

I've only done this myself for movies to show to the students occasionally, where they need English captions for things like Harry Potter movies. Then what I do is use Handbrake, to burn the subtitles into the video(hard captions), to play them on the classroom PC and large screen.

But usually if one is using a player like VLC or Kodi, they can use the separate subtitle files and display them in the videos.

Proximity sensor problems Huawei p30

I think it does have both sensors, because before the factory reset they did tests and they worked. The problem begins after formatting and it was not necessary to do it because the Huawei was clean, without information from the previous person, only with a google account and that is why I wanted to start the cell phone from 0. I think it could be updated at the time factory reset to emui 10.1 and maybe this generates the error. Can be?

Is this proximity sensor related to facial recognition?


Facial recognition is always done with the camera, and on many phones there are separate proximity sensors in the bezels.

However on a P30, the front is pretty much all screen with minimal bezels, there's one small notch for the camera, and no other obvious lenses or sensors. I guess this phone is using the camera as a proximity sensor during phone calls. Why it isn't working though, no real idea, except perhaps a software problem?
p30.jpg


I've got a Huawei Mate10 here, and that definitely has a proximity sensor in the top bezel, next to the camera. I also have a Samsung Note20 Ultra, and that's similar to the Huawei P30, it's all display, with no obvious proximity sensors, apart from the camera hole in the display.

What's your favorite thing about the S20 plus?

I switched to smasung from meizu. I like the screen of this phone the most.

Meizu, I just don't see much of them these days, and that's here in China, unlike Huawei, Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, Samsung, Apple, etc.. Meizu hardly has any retail presence at all now.

About six years ago I nearly bought a Meizu phone, but what put me off was their highly customized version of Android, Flyme OS, which is basically made to look and work much more like Apple iOS. I've even been to the Meizu HQ and factory in Zhuhai, to do some English corners.

Help Bluetooth codec

For information, here's a list of BT headphones and headsets that officially support aptX.
https://www.aptx.com/product-listing?product_category=7


I have played with the audio settings in developers options before, and had the same experience as yourself.

I figure that I don't have an app that is able to make uae of such settings, and so they revert to the default
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Usually it's the BT audio device itself, either they support certain codecs or they don't. All BT headphones and speakers must support SBC though, as that's in the specs for the A2DP stereo music profile. Other codecs are optional for manufacturers, like aptX licensed from Qualcomm, or LDAC licensed from Sony.

Cannot record calls with Lg Stylo 6 Android 10

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I ended up going with an LG K92 5G with Android 10. No issues recording at all. Very strange. Of note, I noticed that Cube would not appear in Play for my phone but would appear for every other phone. If I emailed myself the link through Play, then I would see "not compatible with this device" on the Stylo 6.
Are you saying that cube ACR is not showing up in the Play store for your Stylo 6?

Android Java - Change View

Hello,

I made a simple app to change view to another view.

I trying to change android view to new layout but then i start it its crash on the botton i made in MainActivity, trying to run the code below.

And my MainActivity
Code:
package com.example.changeview;

import androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity;

import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    Button SecondActivityButton;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        SecondActivityButton = findViewById(R.id.GotoSecondActivity);
        SecondActivityButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View view) {
                Log.d("myTag", "Change to SecondActivity");


                Intent switchActivityIntent = new Intent(MainActivity.this, SecondActivity.class);
                startActivity(switchActivityIntent);

            }
        });
    }


    public class SecondActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
        Button backButton;

        @Override
        protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
            super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
            setContentView(R.layout.activity_second);

            backButton = findViewById(R.id.activity_second_button);
            backButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
                @Override
                public void onClick(View view) {
                    Log.d("myTag", "Change to Main");
                }
            });
        }
    }
}

And my AndroidManufest.xml
Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    package="com.example.changeview">

    <application
        android:allowBackup="true"
        android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher"
        android:label="@string/app_name"
        android:roundIcon="@mipmap/ic_launcher_round"
        android:supportsRtl="true"
        android:theme="@style/Theme.ChangeView">
        <activity android:name=".MainActivity">
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>
        <activity android:name=".MainActivity$SecondActivity"
            tools:ignore="Instantiatable">
        </activity>
    </application>

</manifest>

Error Code:
Code:
--------- beginning of crash
2021-07-02 09:12:48.787 4667-4667/com.example.changeview E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main
    Process: com.example.changeview, PID: 4667
    java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to instantiate activity ComponentInfo{com.example.changeview/com.example.changeview.MainActivity$SecondActivity}: java.lang.InstantiationException: java.lang.Class<com.example.changeview.MainActivity$SecondActivity> has no zero argument constructor
        at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:3365)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:3601)
        at android.app.servertransaction.LaunchActivityItem.execute(LaunchActivityItem.java:85)
        at android.app.servertransaction.TransactionExecutor.executeCallbacks(TransactionExecutor.java:135)
        at android.app.servertransaction.TransactionExecutor.execute(TransactionExecutor.java:95)
        at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:2066)
        at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:106)
        at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:223)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:7656)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
        at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:592)
        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:947)
     Caused by: java.lang.InstantiationException: java.lang.Class<com.example.changeview.MainActivity$SecondActivity> has no zero argument constructor
        at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Native Method)
        at android.app.AppComponentFactory.instantiateActivity(AppComponentFactory.java:95)
        at androidx.core.app.CoreComponentFactory.instantiateActivity(CoreComponentFactory.java:45)
        at android.app.Instrumentation.newActivity(Instrumentation.java:1253)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:3353)
        at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:3601) 
        at android.app.servertransaction.LaunchActivityItem.execute(LaunchActivityItem.java:85) 
        at android.app.servertransaction.TransactionExecutor.executeCallbacks(TransactionExecutor.java:135) 
        at android.app.servertransaction.TransactionExecutor.execute(TransactionExecutor.java:95) 
        at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:2066) 
        at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:106) 
        at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:223) 
        at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:7656) 
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method) 
        at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:592) 
        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:947) 
2021-07-02 09:12:48.880 4667-4667/com.example.changeview I/Process: Sending signal. PID: 4667 SIG: 9

Can someone help me out? Thanks for your time

Comparing Samsung A42 to Samsung S21

Was that the original FE? LOL. I had forgotten about that lesser - batteried? Note 7 model. Can't have been many around. From the embers of a disaster rose another flop that probably nobody could sell, or travel with as you say.

I'm very happy with my Poco F2 Pro which has very similar specs and screen to the S20 FE 5G, save for missing out on 120hz, OIS, IP68, wireless charging and longer updates.

I did receive a semi major upgrade yesterday (MIUI 12.5) with efficiency and performance, gesture and graphical improvements. I had been waiting for that.
Xiaomi make good stuff and I may get suckered into buying a third model soon with their weekly price drops :(



I found it interesting how Samsung kept going with their FE(Fan Edition) series phones, especially after the Note7 recall debacle. When they re-released the Note7 as Note7 FE, with a reduced battery capacity. Because the Note7 FE just gave me visions of arguing and explaining to airport security and airline staff, about what FE is.

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