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Help Notifications not shown anymore when display off

Hadron
I don't have this device, but I'd check your always on display settings (also called Ambient Display) or lock screen (which, on my Pixel running Android 11, is where this stuff is now rather than in a separate place).

But I'm not expert on this: I decided that I didn't care for always on displays (and that the little icons weren't much use to me) and turned it off 4 years ago. But my phone is old enough that I still have a notification LED, which I always found more useful but which manufacturers have decided we no longer want (and, as is often the case, have all followed each other so there is no choice in this available any more).
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Phone shows "no internal storage left"

puppykickr
As an avid user of 'poop' phones, let me toss a wrench into this mix.

My devices are no better than yours, as far as specs go, and yet I am not having these issues.

You say that the apps you have on the device have no real important info, correct?

If so, this is good.
Because what I am going to suggest is the installation of at least one app, and possibly more if need be.

All that you need to free up is about 30MB for an app that should work great on your device.

So pick an app that you can easily rebuild, and remove it to make some room quickly.

With any luck, you will gain loads of space and be able to put the app right back again.

Luckily, I can provide a link to an older version of an app that I use- that should mesh perfectly with your device.

Keep in mind that cleaner apps have horrid reputations, and I only offer this one because it has no ads and that because of the age of your device the features of this app should prove extremely useful.

https://systweak-android-cleaner.en.uptodown.com/android/download/1633705

The cleaner and the duplicate finder are the most important, and the file manager will order things by size for you.

This app will allow you to see what is taking space, and delete as you wish.

Tap on any item to load it, to see if you really want to delete it.

Things like thumbnails kill memory space on devices like yours and mine.

If it turns out to be masses of thumbnails, let me know, and I will describe how to keep them from coming back.
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Help Music plays when phone call is received

mikedt
ondroid_user said:
I have been experiencing an issue that's kind of rare but I can seem to figure out where the issue lies. I used to think it was with a specific app like WhatsApp or Spotify but recently I have been using Signal and Mixcloud and experienced the same issue.

What happens is I will have my music playing in my car over bluetooth, if i get a call through WhatsApp or Signal then answer the call the music will stop for a minute but then start playing in the background. It's relatively quiet but I can hear it playing. I have tried crashing the music app and the music will stop for a minute but then out of nowhere it will start playing again. If i try to pause the music, it will pause for a few seconds and then play again. what is even more strange is yesterday i had no music playing and got a call and the music started playing. The only thing i can do to stop everything is crash the chat app or hang up the call and call the user back again.

I currently have a Pixel 5 and last year i had the Pixel 4xl all with different OS versions. This is leading me to believe it has something to do with the Android OS all together.

It is very rare that this happens but is very annoying when it does.

Any thoughts on how to fix this?
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I did have this happen a couple of times with an Oppo Find 7 running a custom ROM, Android 5.11, but that was about 6 years ago. Never had happen with any phone since, so can't suggest a fix for you.
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Initial Setup

Hadron
Dannydet said:
If it's running Android it needs a Google account
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If it's running stock Samsung Android it needs a Google account.

Now unless you are going to get into custom ROMs (assuming this device is even rootable) that's a meaningless distinction, but it is possible to have Android without Google (my old HTC One is now completely Google-free, though it's very much a backup/toy device now rather than my daily driver - and actually I've not found time to play with it much in the last year or so).
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S6 to S10 google(and Samsung) back up/restore...no text restored.

J
ocnbrze said:
samsung smart switch backs up most things except for text messages. and the same goes for google. next time use SMS Backup and Restore for all of your text messaging backups.

so sorry without your old phone, you have lost all those conversations.
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I was afraid of that. I was hoping I could drag and drop from the folder copies on the PC to the new phone and they would be recovered. Thanks
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Help Xbox One Controller lag with bluetooth

T
Hey so I bought
Meiyiu for Xbox One Wireless Adapter Controller Wireless Adapter with USB Interface for PC to play on the computer as well on the tablet I pluged it into the tablet to see if it would work and it dose the strage thing is after I did this the controller had no lag even after removing it and uusing the blue tooth im not sure why or how but bein playing games no problems no lag
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Disney+

ocnbrze
so a good point that was made on Kevin Smith's podcast.........which is the fact that Disney+ does not dump all of the episodes all at once like Netflix does.

at first i hated it. but now after Mandalorian and WandaVision release the episodes on a weekly basis. i really love it. it brought back what i was used to growing up where you get a cliff hanger and have to wait the next week to see what happens next. the anticipation makes me more invested in the series.

now that Falcon and the Winter Soldeir just dropped i can't wait for next friday!!!!!

what do you guys think? do you like to stream everything at once? or do you like what Disney is doing with the weekly episodes?
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audible post your favorite story

ocnbrze
ok i just finished the first 3 in Danoldson's White Gold Wielder trilogy and thought it was ok. the narrator was not bad, but i thought that he lacked emotion at times which made it boring at times.

i just started Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series in the Wizard's First Rule and the narration is sooooo much better. i have read the series many times. this is the first time listening to an audio version of it.

if you have not read the books i highly suggest you do. it is a really good fantasy series. Terry Goodkind does a great job at character development.
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