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Android tablet forgets settings

As far as lights go....
the light bulb itself will last longer if turned on and left on.

What wears a lightbulb out is the change in state and the change in heat.

Incandecent bulbs were cheap enough to replace, and inefficient. So it was far cheaper to replace the bulbs than 'waste' the electricity.

Flouresent bulbs worked differently, although the ballasts inside are rather pricey. It would be a hard call as to what costs more- running the lights constantly, or replacing the bulbs and eventually the ballast/fixture.

Even worse are those stupid curly flouresent bulbs that replaced the incandessents in our lamps and other fixtures. These monstrosities used rather little power, but often cost $10 each. The worst part of it was that they were advertised to last for many years, and most often you were lucky if you got one or two years out of them.

Oh, yeah, and just like the other flouressents, they too have mercury in them, so ther is that as well.
Probably better to turn those on, and leave them on. It will take a bulb like that its lifetime to burn the amount of electricity that would equal the cost to replace the bulb.

And now we move on to the LED replacements for our lamps and such.
So far, so good with these.
They use very little power, and are much more pleasing to the eye than flouresents.
But, they do have a tendency to flicker sometimes, and the cost is astronomical.

So it is safe to say that it is cheaper to leave these lights on, than to wear them out from cycling on and off.

Songs have disappeared after update

They were my husband's own songs that he put in documents, after this last update that disappeared

Anything like that, that is stored on a device, should (A) be on backup somewhere else and (B) be stored on the SD card- not on the internal memory of the device.

There is the slight chance that the files still exist, but finding them may be a challenge.

If data/files have/has been added to the device since the update, this chance is even more slight.


https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.ghostsq.commander/

Help Which app has this notification icons?

Try looking through the Settings >> Apps menu of your phone. Your Apps menu will reflect what apps are actually installed on it, and most Notification icons are going to be similar or at least closely resembling their respective App icons in some way. That's basically the purpose of an icon, to be a graphical identifier of a particular app or process, and to differentiate it from other apps/processes.

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His last activity on the forum was two years ago so it's unlikely he will respond.
If you have that setting in your phone (I don't) it should determine how long of a DTMF tone is sent when you press a keypad number during a call. Usually the "normal" setting should work but if you find a particular service or device doesn't respond properly to the tones then try the "long" setting.

security system nvr question

well seem no one here messes much with nvr systems. but just for those that stop and check i did get it to work and it took hours of messing around.

i did go to the mfg site and found this nvr and they did have a firmware file and i had to download it to a thumb stick and then open the zip file and then copy all those unzipped files back to the first folder the original zip file was in. then the nvr board found the file it wanted when i went into the update section and started the process. it changed the menu and then it found my ip cameras and let me change the un and pw and they started showing.

so it is now working. thanks

Yay! Got upgraded to 11!

Want to hear something funny? I don't use my thumbs on my smartphones! :eek: Can't use my right one--I broke it when I was 17, and the joint fused, so I can't bend it normally. So I've never used thumbs for typing (or anything else) on a phone.
This really does underline how ergonomics are individual! ;)

(Actually I'm often wary when I read the phrase "ergonomically designed": as a left-hander, or at least a left-biassed ambi, that phrase often means "not designed with people like you in mind").

Where are my contacts stored?

Many contacts apps let you select which account to view contacts from. If Samsung give you that option you can just view the phone contacts and get the full list. With 1400 of them I'd be inclined to export them en masse and reimport them to the Google account (which I see is the method @ocnbrze's article suggests) rather than move them one-by-one, assuming that they aren't mostly duplicates.

For what it's worth, you are lucky that you have the option: the Contacts app on Pixels, and I suspect Android One devices, doesn't even offer the option of contacts that aren't shared with a networked account (you can add a different Contacts app, but most users won't realise that this is possible, never mind realise that it gives them this option). This is bad because not everyone wants their details shared with Google, and I like to have the option to respect that (also why I despair of people who say "I don't care if my favourite app is mining my data", because it's not just their data that they store on their phone). Of course it's not hard to see why Google would want to remove this feature...

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