winternicine said:

It was a real wakeup as to what level of intimacy we form with these gizmos. I've spent roughly 10 hours just slowly going thru all the debugging attempts(and inevitable successes) and it's damned sobering. They got access to every, single device I own(almost)thru my apps and synced accounts and... It's a creepy feeling. Oh yeah, if they did indeed flash me, do you think there might be a copy of the boot image in the passal of new system files that have appeared. Btw, thank you. I'm not going to sleep better, but at least I'll sleep.

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I think you should probably be far more creeped out by the way outfits like Google and Facebook try to track everything you do, no matter what device you use, no matter whether you log into their services or not, and the effort, financial, technical, legal and political, that they put in to working around or limiting any restrictions on this. The fact that the device's software updater has full privileges isn't a surprise, and is nothing in comparison to the activities of the main surveillance capitalist corporations. And if you believe the BS they spout about data being anonymous then I've a bridge I'd like to sell you (one newspaper recently showed how "anonymised" location data could easily be used to identify individuals involved in the invasion of the Capitol in Washington, for example, and many researchers have shown how easy it is to "de-anonymise" the "anonymised" datasets these companies gather).

If your device was reflashed that was just an automated procedure from your OEM's or your service provider's servers (I say "service provider" because if you have a device that was bought on a contract and the service provider had added their own stuff to the ROM then it will be them rather than the OEM who actually updates your device). There would be nothing personal, nothing to do with your data, it would just be that after your device's block of IDs hit their update server and it connected to the network that process could start.

When you talk about "Eastern" language on the message though, that's surprising: update messages should match the language you have set for the device. The fact that the manufacturer is for example Korean does not mean that any dialogues about updates should be Korean. So if you saw a message that wasn't in your normal language that is unexpected (though it may depend on the device and its history).

00Mohammed99 said:

Hi

I have rooted my phone and I want to upgrade android to 6.0 or 7.0 version.

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The Samsung Galaxy S5 is now 7 years old and no longer supported by Samsung.

The last official update for the S5 series is Android 6.1.

Depending on your phones model of S5 and its CSC code, ( see #1.2 and #1.8 of 42 Galaxy S5 models - Dummie Guide), you can download and install Samsung stock firmware from SamMobile by downloadind it and using Odin PC suite and the instructions shown on the site. If you install stock Samsung firmware it will unroot you and you will need to root your phone again.

Alternatively, you could install a custom ROM such as LineageOS, which is still updated and is currently on Android 10 and running the latest Android Security patches. Just download the ROM for your device version and install it by following the instructions on their site.

WARNING! Installing firmware or flashing ROM's is for competent and experienced users and could, "brick", your phone. Please read all the details and instructions in the above links, carefully and thoroughly, before proceeding.


ironass motto... "Flash in haste... repent at leisure!"

Sadly I concur, if they were in the phone's internal storage.

If they were on a removable microSD card that had not been formatted as internal storage then no problem: remove it from the phone, stick it in a card reader, attach to a computer, run your favourite file recovery software. Job done. But if it was on the phone's storage, no. You may find someone pop up to recommend such-and-such "phone recovery" software, but I'm still waiting to see evidence of one of these things working that is clearly not coming from someone connected to the software developer.

antywantyuk said:

AFTER UPDATE TO VERSION 11
MAPLE PLAYER OPENS BUT , CLICKING PLAY NOTHING HAPPENS
anyone have this problem?
tried clearing cache
reset app prefs

still persisting

reluctant to reinstall as this means the pain of saving years of built up playlists

anyone experiencing the same problem??

cheers , hoping for a work around rather than reinstalling the app

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This player?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/....player_jb&hl=en_US&gl=US&showAllReviews=true

Looks like there's quite a few users complaining about it not working with Android 11. Which is very likely something the developer would need to fix with an update.

Yes, you'll have to do a factory reset and format the card as FAT32 on your computer (or use a new card).

I was Barnes from using Whatsapp on my phone itel s 16

well... I wouldn't have got this far without having the app in the first place.... although I really like super backup, it falls short with restoring from google drive, kinda goes into this rabbit hole with reason or logic, guess if have to download file so be it, been using file manager, v1-200827, its a pain to use for something like this, will be searching for a better file manager type app

Hi,

I have written application where i have aidl module included and also service which calls aidl functions. I want to build library for aidl module in .aar format and apk for my application in single build. How can i do that?. Please help me to resolve this issue so that i can build library (only for aidl module)and apk .

Thanks in Advance,
Cl

Hey thanks for that! We appreciate all the support and comments that are given.

Hoping to build a better app through everyone's suggestions.

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im still on marshmallow revisiting my htc one m8 : - | i missed the front speakers : - | for the most part it still performs well while on high performance mode : - | as usual of course that means the battery drains in no time : - |

That is the only device I have - my tablet without a pin to break it in ^_^

Yeah never heard of anything that losing Blue Tooth either, I have my hearing aids pretty much synch on and off throughout the days too,
Guessing it varibles throughout what you used the Blue Tooth to attached it... Hmm...

One drive, never trust that... Yeah it should be one account, like through your Google account, twitter is just an off brand anyways.
You can reset both of your passwords really quickly.

Not a problem, was thinking the same thing, if you made it as a text folder yourself and knowing the story behind it, then yeah you could just back it up and stole away inside your hard drive. So it will become safe and sound. But if it is connected through the app then yeah that would be great.....

Rob said:

Can you confirm you're talking about this app:
https://androidforums.com/apps/internet.524/

Solution #1: Chrome Extension
The easiest way to get your Internet Bookmarks from the Samsung Internet app from your phone onto your Desktop or Laptop computer would be to download the Samsung Internet extension for Chrome. This will allow you to view and sync these bookmarks directly.

While you're at it download our Discussion for Google Play extension to easily allow you to discuss apps/games from the Play Store more easily.

Solution #2: Share (Export & Import)
There's a good chance you want to export these bookmarks for direct use elsewhere- you can do that, too. It's just a couple more steps.

• Open Samsung Internet browser for Android
• Tap the "Star" icon on the bottom middle
• Tap the "Share" triangle
• Select All Items you want to share/save as bookmarks
• Tap the "Share" triangle at the bottom
• Save the list to an app of your choice

Give this a shot and let us know what works!

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#1 Absolutely does not work. It certainly allows you to view you Samsung Internet bookmarks on Chrome, and allows you to sync your Chrome bookmarks TO the SI browser, but under no circumstances does it allow you to sync SI bookmarks TO Chrome.

This is a conundrum for many, and there does not seem to be any simple solution for this, save for expoting one bookmark group at a time through the share function. Even if you try "select all", it will still on;y pick up bookmarks that are not in folders.

Think I fixed it.
Uncheck "Don't show pop-up notifications" under DND->Hide notifications
I wouldn't refer to icons as "pop-up" but seems to work now

dorlow said:

This is for alerts I'm sending to myself from a windows server to my phone via text. I get a ton of texts just telling me it's still online or that queues are getting high. It would be nice if I could have a rule that said if the system is completely down, leave it in the main folder. Butit periodically sends me heartbeat messages so I knwk its all good. I don't need to be notified every time I get one of those and I'd rather them not flood my text inbox.

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Maybe it's something you could devise with Tasker or MacroDroid? That can parse and sort messages based on the keywords or strings in them.