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Help Purchased Note 9 Pro Max By Steven lash San Diego

ocnbrze
Steven lash San Diego said:
Hi,

I have purchased Note 9 Pro Max last week. I have been facing some problem while using phone, sometime its touch not working properly and its just 3 days older how come i overcome this problem. Any suggestions and help really be appreciated.

Thanks,
Steven lash San Diego
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factory reset it. if the issue still exists after, then we can mostly rule out software issue.....which means that you most likely have a hardware issue. i would then get it replaced via your warranty.
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Adding ROLE_ASSISTANT capability to your app

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I just read that we can now add the assistant feature to our own app. I've added this intent in my manifest:

<action android:name="android.intent.action.ASSIST" />

And then trying to capture the audio input (using the MediaRecorder APIs) when I speak into my Bluetooth voice remote, but just getting silence. It seems like I need to add this role, RoleManager.ROLE_ASSISTANT to my app. Any ideas how this can be done? Thanks in advance
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GrapheneOS best security question

M
9cc3985ae3094d8b said:
I'm not sure I understood every question correctly, but I tried my best:

Apps isolated by Insular shouldn't be able to grab your personal information. But AFAIK they will still be able to grab device-specific information (like your IMEI).


This is up to you. But given how privacy conscious you are, you should probably go with the Graphene as main phone.


It most certainly is safer not to use aurora apps - in general. Simply because of their proprietary nature.


Other than the facts, that
1. no WiFi-AP can log your Android-phone's MAC
and
2. all apps on the A-phone that like to log the MAC of the connected WiFi will log a randomized/useless MAC (if Graphene is setup this way),
I see no real privacy benefit in this.
This is still not an effective tool against WiFi triangulation, because your phone will still gather the MACs of all other surrounding WiFis.
And if your necessary apps phone home, all data they gathered still runs off to the companies.
Of course, when combined with Insular, the data they are able to gather is limited.
In this regard, I don't think there is much of a difference between connecting the A-phone through Graphene or connecting it directly.


In theory, by connecting the phones, malware could spread from one to the other.
But again, it depends on you and how likely you find such a scenario.
You should probably do a lot of reading on the threats you find the most important/areas where you see yourself at risk.
That way you gain an understanding of what to do/avoid and a general sense of how likely certain things are/how much effort adversaries would have to invest.
You really need to figure out your own, personal threat model. There is no one-size-fits-all solution.
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Thank you very much again for youre great advice!!

The things you mentioned make sense to me, and i will search about more information about the important areas where i want to keep my privacy.

I have still one question haha. In GrapheneOs it says it randomizes MAC adresses. GrapheneOs also metions that it does not WIFI triangulation. So in fact this means every time when i connect via wifi it looks like it is a new phone right? Or does it not work like that way? Because i think the Big Tech company's still can find my imei number (maybe more work) but still possible right?

And the second question is. What if i don't make connection via Wifi and only via 4g/LTE? Does it still creates randomized Mac adressess. And what are the pro's and con's with working with Wifi/Wifi "small hub" and directly from a prepaid card 4g/LTE?

Thank you very much.
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Hi. How can i lock app drawer

Hadron
What do you mean "lock app drawer"? Lock it so that new apps can't be added? That doesn't make sense. Lock it so it can't be opened? Just remove the icon from your desktop (but I can't think why you'd want to do this). So can you explain more clearly what you are trying to do?

In any event, the app drawer is produced by the launcher app, so unless you tell us what launcher you are using we can't help. If you aren't aware that you are using a launcher then you are using the one that came with the phone, in which case you'll need to tell us what phone you have.
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Ringtone won't change

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ocnbrze said:
does it just stay the same? is it the same one before the update? are your ringtones on your sd card? or internal? are you sure you still have them?

just curious try using zedge. its a free wallpaper and ringtone app. its what i use for my ringtones.
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The phone has the ringtone I'm trying to use, I try to apply it, the phone says its been changed but the ringtone
I get is something that is on the phone ever since the update. I can't change it to any ringtone at all.
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Need Recommendations On A New Phone

svim
Patrick Henry said:
Thanks for the heads up on that. It says they have coverage in my area and I can use my phone. But if they're contracted with t-mobile there's a lot of places around where I live that it doesn't work. I live in a pretty rural area of GA.

Edit: I checked phone compatibility again and expanded it. It's saying my phone is VoLTE compatible. But this is the reason cricket is saying that it isn't.
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Yeah, coverage and which carrier you use is a big problem here in the U.S. Depending on where you live it can be a non-issue or a real pain. If T-Mobile's cellular network is too spotty for you, best stick with AT&T's service (or a MVNO that's contracted with AT&T). The issue with the carriers and their respective cellular networks is a pretty complicated matter, and there is no phone that can work with all of them, at least not be fully functional. There's a cellular radio chip in every phone, and they're also made to work with just some bands/frequencies. So some phones will of course be fully capable to handle 2G, 3G, 4G/LTE for some cellular networks (corresponding with the carrier or carriers the phone is by design intended to work with), but when it comes to other carriers, perhaps only cursory support for 2G and 3G but not 4G/LTE, or some other combination of the three (... with the added issue being 2G and 3G networks are or are in the process of being eliminated.)
This article discusses the bands the major carriers rely upon, with some handy charts:
https://www.phonearena.com/news/Che...on-T-Mobile-and-Sprint-use-in-the-USA_id77933
And this frequency checker site might reveal more details on your phone to help determine your next move to a new phone or a different carrier:
https://www.kimovil.com/en/frequency-checker/US/huawei-honor-6x
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To Scam or Not to Scam

MoodyBlues
puppykickr said:
So what info was exchanged that assured you as to whom you were speaking?
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Easy. I logged in as we spoke, and they told me the exact amounts, dates, locations of the charges in question, which I compared to what I saw in my account. They also told me previous legitimate charges, dates, etc., which also matched my actual activity. Some random scam artist wouldn't have known any of that.
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No location services?

puppykickr
mikedt said:
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Where I am, China, quite frankly I don't think there's any need for a radar detector, although they are legal here AFAIK. All speed camera, traffic light camera locations are publicly documented, and so all one needs is just a mobile phone running a satnav app, and that gives plenty of warning when one is on the roads.
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How does this work for mobile units in police vehicles?
And woudn't I also need location services to function on my device in order for any such app like that to be useful?
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I tried to reboots my Samsung Galaxy tablet S2

ocnbrze
also i have a tab s2, but it is the nook version......and my battery life is terrible now. it is what i expect out of a tablet that came out in 2015. devices these days only last as long as their battery will give them most litium-ion battreries have a life of about 3-4 years.....so this device is way out of that range. if you are into dyi, you can go to https://www.ifixit.com/ for guides, tools and supplies on how to change your battery.

not sure what size tab s2 you have but here are the links:
https://www.ifixit.com/Device/Samsung_Galaxy_Tab_S2_8.0
https://www.ifixit.com/Device/Samsung_Galaxy_Tab_S2_9.7
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Nearly locked myself out!

MoodyBlues
The_Chief said:
Wow, @MoodyBlues , that's a bizarre situation that has to involve a corrupt digitizer.
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Nah, just my sweet, adorable, can't-do-anything-wrong-in-Mommy's-eyes little girl, Joy Noelle. :D

I've heard of butt-dialing and butt-texting - but that would lend a whole new definition to butt-wiping...

:p
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Indeed! You know, when it was happening, all I could focus on was figuring out how to stop the noise without accidentally wiping my phone. I never even thought to look at where it had been when it started automatically pressing itself, to see what caused it. I routinely put this phone face-down on my bed, because at night its pretty blue lit circle on the back is nicer to look at than the display (which lights up when there's motion). But it's normally on a pillow next to me. This was, I think, the first time I'd ever put it on the bed itself, face-down. I always have a bunch of...stuff...on my bed (various remotes, my old phone, my tablet, an apple, mail), so there's no telling what caused the pressing. I did LEARN from it, though! :o
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