A Samsung account is a different thing from a Google account, though it may use the same email address. So having that account associated with the same GMail address doesn't mean that it is receiving your GMails.

And all android phones will have a Google account, even if they don't use the GMail app. So that one is also a red herring (and don't remove it, because that is the one your contacts etc will be stored with, as well as your Play Store account).

Are you receiving multiple notifications as well as multiple tones? Because if other email apps were receiving the messages you should get separate notifications from them, and be able to read the same email in all of them. And when you changed your tone in the GMail app did all of the multiple tones change? If they did then that would suggest that it's the GMail app generating multiple tones rather than different apps doing this. I can only suggest checking the GMail app's settings (including making sure it doesn't have something screwy like the same account synced multiple times - something I've never heard of and wouldn't have guessed possible, but we're dealing with something screwy here so why rule anything out?). Unfortunately I don't use that app myself (it's disabled in fact) so am not familiar with its settings.

Rob said:

Am I being a nitpick or should that be Editor's Choice or Editors' Choice? Seems like the most ironic of typos lol

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It depends:

• One editor: Editor's Choice
• Multiple editors: Editors' Choice
• Illiterate editor(s): Editors Choice

Of course this all depends on the phone still having power (though if you allow Google location history I guess Find My Device might be able to tell you where it was last seen).

PixelCodes said:

I did "format data" and it didn't work.
Then, I factory reset after I found out that it didn't work.

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you are going to have to flash a firmware update(stock rom) and start over.

I would also like to recommend Malwarebytes. ☕

Rob said:

What would you name the bot?

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The new name of the forum gives me an idea for the bot's name: "Bird Bot"!

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Yes right now am playing it but it really is a great game. But since it is terminated no new levels had been added to the rest since 2015.

The Kodi forums are back up and in this thread (Kore 3.0 feedback) it sounds like the dev removed the IMDb link due to the site being unreliable. So it was an intentional change. But other's are asking for the feature to be reinstated or at least offered as an option and I posted the same request.

Thanks for everyone's help but I guess it's in the dev's hands now.

Most likely you can't

rabbit42 said:

Android should make a phone with a better graphics card and with a screen that is slightly wider than normal phone. It should have a slightly bigger memory core. Mobile gaming is on the rise more than ever I just think it would be smart to roll something out ahead of the game. Also because In all personal opinion I absolutely want Android phones to always to better than apple products even though it's not that hard for them. Lmao

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There isn't a company called "android" that makes phones. Google provide the base Android OS, manufacturers who wish to use it customise it to their hardware. So any company that wants to make a specialist gaming phone is free to do so (the OS is provided free, though if you wish to integrate Google services there are conditions), provided they believe that there is a commercial case for doing so. But "Android" won't because "Android" as a manufacturer doesn't exist.

So far nobody in the industry has concluded that this is a proposition worth investing in. You may think they are wrong, you may or may not be right, but it's a gamble that nobody has felt worth taking. Bear in mind that unless you are one of the market leaders the margins in this business are tight (companies the size of LG have pulled out of making phones because they couldn't make a profit), and a niche device will need to command a high price to be profitable, which then cuts the sales potential, making this a tricky balance to get right.

As a technical matter, when you say "with a better graphics card" I'm afraid no phone has a separate graphics card. The SoC (System on a Chip) includes a GPU, and the manufacturer uses that. I don't even know whether it would be feasible to do anything else, i.e. whether any SoC has the necessary connectivity to drive an external GPU (there's no obvious reason to include that in the design, and components integrated into the SoC have advantages in terms of bandwidth and latency). If there is an SoC that can drive an external GPU, and if anyone makes a suitable external GPU, that will be a more expensive solution. If not then you need to make a SoC with a more powerful graphics system, in which case don't you think that the existing SoC manufactures already try to do this?

If you think you can do better you had better have very deep pockets, because SoC design and manufacture is a job for the big boys. So far precisely 2 phone manufacturers design their own SoCs: Apple and Google. Apple have done it all along, Google have only started recently and have yet to catch up with the established manufacturers in most respects (their chips rely on a lot of Samsung IP), and if you think about how much money Google have to burn that tells you how difficult this is to do. Others use SoCs from specialist designers, with Qualcomm leading the game in performance vs power, and Samsung, MediaTek and HiSilicon all lagging to varying degrees (I didn't count Samsung as a manufacturer who make their own SoCs because strictly speaking their processor manufacturer and phone manufacturer are separate companies, though part of the same group, and their best phones actually use Qualcomm SoCs rather than Samsung ones).

So in reality your best bet for a gaming phone is to use the same Snapdragon processors that many current Android flagships use already, and hope that there is a sufficient market for a "slightly wider" phone with gamer branding. And then you hit the other problem that if your device is sufficiently different from the mass market for this to make a difference you need to persuade the game developers to write for your phone rather than just writing for the much larger market of "slightly narrower" phones.

It would depend on the eSIM I guess. The data-only ones I use don't include a phone number, so any texting would have to be via a data connection of some sort. I'm sure you can get some with regular telephony too, but that didn't interest me: I'd have to tell people a different number to use for a week, if they sent me a text they'd pay international text prices, just didn't seem worth the effort.

However I very rarely use SMS these days anyway: with MMS being both inadequate and (on many UK tariffs) expensive, while SMS is quite limited, like a lot of people I've moves most of my messaging to third party internet-based services (WhatsApp, Signal etc). So to be honest I never even bothered checking how/whether I could make that work.

Abhista800 said:

Please how can I change sdk version on rooted phone without bricking your device?

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never use apps that claim that it can root your phone.
here try this guide:

but first you will need to unlock your bootloader:

tommo47 said:

Hi, welcome to Android Forums.

As I understand it, the IPhone uses Imessaging to send audio, video and picture files. Imessaging is sent using your mobile data or wifi connection and is the equivalent of MMS (multimedia messaging service).

Text messaging (SMS) uses a small amount of bandwidth within the communication channel between your cellphone and the network and is restricted to 160 text characters per message. This why even the most basic cellphone can send text messages.

To send audio, video or picture files you need to create an MMS message.

Hope this helps.

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I have always had an Android and over the last month. I have been unable to send voice recordings through text. I don't know what's going on but this is a new development

ocnbrze said:

it can't save multiple copies of things, so i do not see a need to see what is in my clipboard.

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Replying a little late here... If you turn the Gboard clipboard on it will save multiple copies at the same time. You can copy 3 different words/sentences and it will remember all 3 for you to paste.

rohansaadat2 – Thanks for the reply.

I tried installing both KingoRoot and SuperSU on my phone, since they are known to be able to proviide apps with root permission, but neither was able to run.

I do have X-Plore installed on my phone, and a *update* search under /system found:
/bin/update_engine /bin/update_verifier /etc/init/update_engine.rc /etc/init/update_verifier.rc /lib64/libupdate_engine_stable-V1-cpp.so

and a *ota* search under /system found ten files, of which
/bin/otapreopt
may be relevant.

Should I modify any of these files? If so, should I do that before or after rebooting my phone (as it has asked to be done)?

Jameswili said:

Struggling with slow Verizon S21+ hotspot speeds. Considering connecting laptop to hotspot, then Xbox via Ethernet. Any thoughts?

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So you're close enough to a hotspot to connect from your house? or the hotspot is being generated by your phone?

Why go through your laptop? Can't the Xbox connect to the WiFi of the hotspot?

Also tried searching but didn't find a match.

There are thousands and thousands of icons, easiest way to find out is to ask the person who sent it to you.

WhatHappenedNow said:

I really don’t want to be that guy but those this log line mean

that worked! At least on the s23. Thanks so much.

was looking into the logs from the from the bootloader screen and it just looks like there was an MDM and some other scripting that ensured a reset would always fail. At least I think so— pretty much a layman

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Also! I remember once hearing from a “pro” that my kernel was not an official one.

Hi thank you, tried it and sadly it didn't work... I'm not sure if that's because of textra or the other apps I'm using, but I did try sharing with multiple apps and no luck.

Thanks, I have OpenCamera. I believe the problem is in the phone's firmware and/or camera drivers because it occurs no matter which camera app I use.

Have you tried the Ronco easy and fast lyric editor?
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hm21 said:

I want to login to a game with wechat, can you help me for that ?

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did you not read his post????

mikedt said:

To err on the safe side, I'm now only doing WeChat account verification QR scans for users I've seen and know in person. As I don't wish to assist anyone who may have got banned from WeChat for spamming, or illegal activities, etc, as that might put my own WeChat usage at risk. That's how it is.

I am aware there's a black market for paid WeChat verification QR scanning...Good Luck!

If anyone just needs a general purpose messaging and calling app, I recommend Telegram or Signal, but those are not available in China(unless using a VPN).

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joshkrupinsky said:

if my phone had this option, I wouldn't have started this thread

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i am just suggesting that maybe your phone does not have the ability by design. what phone do you have?