Well, I can tell you that it is not an issue exclusive to Samsung.

I use ZTE devices, and the same thing happens with them.

Glad that those apps helped out. I have them both on all of my devices.

I have a strange issue with trying to print to PDF or even to a wireless printer in that I cannot get the orientation to change to landscape. I use the following code to set landscape mode as the MediaSize.

PrintAttributes attrib = new PrintAttributes.Builder()
.setMinMargins(new PrintAttributes.Margins(0,0,0,0))
.setMediaSize(PrintAttributes.MediaSize.NA_LETTER.asLandscape())
.setColorMode(PrintAttributes.COLOR_MODE_COLOR)
.build();

printManager.print("Document", printAdapter, attrib);

If I breakpoint at the last time and check attrib, it is correct with landscape being passed into the print function.but when OnLayout is called after this, checking newAttributes passed into the function shows the orientation as portrait and not the select landscape. The only fix is to manually select this in the preview. Not ideal for the user to have to do this each time.

Now, here's the strange part. I have 2 systems with different LCD's. A 7 inch one with default resolution of 800x1280 in portrait mode timing but I change this to landscape when Android boots up. It is fixed in this landscape orientation. The second system is an 11.6" 1920x1080 with landscape mode timing. It too is fixed in this landscape mode and cannot rotate.

If I run the same application on the device with the 1920x1080 display, the printout preview is in landscape as expected but if I change the code to force portrait as a test, the preview remains in landscape mode and I have to manually select this to the correct orientation.

Printing without changing the orientation to the correct one causes the wrong orientation to be printed.

I've checked the source code for PrintDocumentAdapter and the setting for landscape should be working.

Why is the landscape/portrait mode not changing with the above code? All searches online point to this as the correct way to change the orientation but it just doesn't work. I need a solution as having the user change this each time is not the ideal way to do this.

Hi all,

Thank you for your replies. Much appreciated. After further verification of the app settings- ginally found UN and PW setup.

Not that bad. I will attempt Droid Cam as well.

Thanks again

Hmm, it does seem a bit crap.

There are apps that can require a PIN to access other apps: you could probably use one of those (on his account) to lock him out of the Settings, but you'd also have to lock him from the Play Store to ensure he couldn't uninstall it that way.

I don't have a recent Samsung tablet so can't say for sure what the options there are (I believe there are some extra options for multi-accounts on tablets, and Samsung modify Android a lot), but I can't find anything on my phone that does anything sensible like require my fingerprint to switch to the admin account. Which, as I say, seems extremely stupid (though for a company who have so many smart people on the payroll it is amazing how many stupid things Google do).

so what is exactly going on? what's up with your phone? it does not boot up? is a factory reset out of the question?

On my S10, there was an option to enable "Faster voice typing" in the GBoard which set GBoard to use the offline speech recognition by default. I liked this feature, because I found it to be much faster AND more accurate than the online mode.

On my S20, there is no such option, strangely. If I put the phone in airplane mode, it will automatically switch over to using the offline speech recognition library, but there doesn't appear to be a way to set it to this mode by default. Does anyone know of a way to accomplish this?

Nope agreed. Wife is much more serious with her phone and rightly so for the reasons you listed have a good one!

ynotamil said:

Hello Thom,
No, that doesn't work.
I searched the net & the problem is definitely with SETTINGS; not with TASKER & it is an old problem that Android still carries from previous releases. I think it was reported on release 3 for the first time;
still not fixed. I tried some fixes / suggestions that I found, but none worked so far.
Looks to me that the only solution is to flash/reset the phone.
Thanks for the help.

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I know I'm popping in late..

I had a similar issue with Tasker once, wherein I was doing some testing which involved forwarding text messages. I chose my daughter as the test forward. After finishing with playtime, I deleted the profile, but the task remained, and each text I received was going to my daughter as well. I had to recreate the profile, EXACTLY as it had been, and then delete the task and profile. Try that angle.

MoodyBlues said:

Wow...talk about a blast from the past! I read that book many moons ago...

I found it fascinating back then. I'm not sure what I'd think now!

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Eric is much older now but still preaches that belief, alongside many others, they are out there !


Ancient Aliens

https://www.history.com/shows/ancient-aliens

What happens if you do connect to WiFi?

Reboot the phone?

Find out what app is producing that notification by a long press on the notification then clear that app's cache?

All just guesses I'm afraid: I've never seen something like that. It almost looks like a system update message except it says "apps" (something your carrierhas messed with?).

ocnbrze said:

well if the do not disturb feature is not randomly turning on then it is not it the issue. have you tried rebooting the phone?

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Yes. I've learned that solves many issues, just not this one.

I must have accidentally lowered the alarm volume but I can't figure out how, especially since it happened twice in one week (and never before).

I haven't seen that. S20 5G.

Pull down and tap. You'll find out.
I think it's a text message.

Yes look for another program they are thief's, I had pay one time (livetime) for this program in 2014 that was the rule pay one time and later 2017 my account login everything was gone because they change the rules. Now you must pay each month. I have mail them several time but no answer at all.
I am happy that google throw them out.

It is possible the "peel remote" program made itself look like a pre installed program which makes it harder to find (looks trusted) and harder to uninstall.

ah sorry, my mistake, my phone is actually Y6 2017; I edited the earlier text.

There is a KRIS TV.
https://www.kristv.com/
Nothing to do with daggers or aviation though.

Thanks, I'll try that app.

Is there a way to retain - or download separately - google maps, speech to text, and maps, but nothing else google?

Here's a post that tells you how to restore the IMEI on Android, but it requires root:
https://www.digitbin.com/restore-lost-imei-number-android/

The green droid emoji are still there.

what phone do you have? you might need to flash a firmware update.

edit: there really is no need to start a new thread.....i alerted the mods let's see what they say.