i have a standalone GPS when I need it, that doesn't need the internet for any of that. ETA is a built in feature. Garmin Nuvi from 2013. Out of date but still knows where it's going. Still finds the best route in Winston Salem to my girlfriend, when Google would often pick the worst, most dangerous highway of racers just to shave 3 minutes.

there are a lot of things where the internet just doesn't belong and has cloud-based issues like missing your ETA for a while. guarantee it was some server side bug. GPS doesn't need internet, one's toaster doesn't need wifi. we need to stop putting tech where tech doesn't belong. you shoud see what battery chargers have become. Too many points of failure where simplicity and minimalism actually fits better.

Darwin 2709 said:

My side key is not working. Is there any alternatives?

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what phone do you have? what happened? do you have usb debugging turned on?

just remember, the more details you give us, the better we can help.

I often dealt with things like it more when I used a SIII, S4, and Note 3. Back then, these phones had amazing (well, to me at least) lock screen effects, water for the SIII, light for the S4, and so on. If you used a secure lock, those effects got disabled and it was just bland. So I often just used 'swipe' for unlock at the time. Unfortunately, having discovered that I somehow 'sent' random gibberish to contacts, to having 4 apps open on their own, to hearing my pocket going 'bwop bwop bwop' (back when they used nature touch sounds) as I moved around, I started using more secure lock screens. Today, those iconic effects are no longer done so you don't benefit any way from not using secure lock, visually or otherwise.

Unfortunately, if you use a standard candybar form factor phone today, you can still pocket-interact with music widgets on the lockscreen, pocket-launch camera, or enable torch and drain most of your battery before you catch it.

dvo said:

TakoStats can only show overall CPU usage (not per app/process). Moreover, it requires a further app: Shizuku, which in turn requires root or ADB magic.
So much better to use 'top' via ADB.
Setting up wireless ADB is a little awkward but has the advantage that no USB connection to some other machine is needed.

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Wireless ADB permission gets reset after every reboot though. Also TakoStats (and Cool Tools although it requires root) offer the ability to show the app using the most CPU at any given moment in an overlay which has been quite helpful in my case to keep an eye on misbehaving processes and if reqd. terminate. The former in addition also shows GPU usage uniquely plus the frames being spit out by the GPU. Top in Termux is awkward to use as the processes list gets cut out in portrait mode.

Yes, your instagram is really interesting.

This is the first time I've encountered this problem. And of course it's very hard to tell from your photo. It doesn't look like a cracked camera lens glass. It looks more like some kind of watermark. But it's kind of weird.

i don't understand why you would want to do this. but thanx for posting how you did it.

on my z fold 4 i can't even make a text without prividing a recipient 1st. so i was unaware that you could do this before. i think the saved drafts are most likely saved in a temp cache folder or maybe even in clipboard(i could be wrong in this) and temp files are never recoverable once they have been deleted or overwritten......sorry you are probably sol.

It happened because she didn't back up her files. Important files must be backed up to multiple devices (be it computers or external disks) and/or cloud services! No disk, and no computer (smartphones are computers), should be considered impervious to data loss.

good information

thoughts on the season finale?

i thought it as great. but the end leaves more questions.......i guess that is common with cliff hangers......lol
i am still curious where they go with Baylan. i only had one scene. now i know the actor playing Baylan died....so are they going to recast the role? do some cgi? just write him off of the show in season 2?

i was hoping that Shin would join Ahsoka but that ending suggests otherwise.

and lastly THRAWN is such a badass!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ok been playing this for weeks now with no issues. i only had one crash so far. it not perfect, but it works pretty damn good. sure the fps is going to be around 30, but i can deal with that. it is so much fun right now.

I was not so sure though tbh, I ran a few sfc scan nows here and there, and it worked pretty great.

Unless you want websites to send notifications maybe check Settings > Apps, find your browsers and remove their notification privileges.

There were stories a few years ago about pre-installed Samsung apps producing ads, but I've never seen that on my s21 (and while I have the adGuard add-on for Firefox I don't use a system-wide ad blocker).

If Smart Switch didn't transfer WhatsApp messages to your new phone, you can try using the official WhatsApp backup and restore feature to migrate your chat history to the new device.

Hi! This method requires that the Android device is rooted. If it is not, you will need to root the device before proceeding.
If the device is not rooted, you will need:
a computer with the Android SDK installed;
a USB cable;
the Android device that will be recognized as an ADB device.
All further steps are described in the article Android remote debugging and testing

My current version on play sttore targets 30, I have to update app on play store with 33, but will I be able to do that post 1st november ? or I will have publish one before it?

sicamore58 said:

Initially, when it came out on PC, it had problems with optimization, and I didn’t really like the plot, it seemed a little boring to me. Maybe it’s just not my genre or maybe I should replay it

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you should replay it. have you played the first game? this is the second game of the series. and i loved the plot. the burning shores dlc is also a great addition to the game.

what is your genre of games you like to play? and when did fighting robot dinosaurs get boring?

Buddy of mine with a Pixel 6 is getting the Android 14 update now

In my experience most apps put the date on all messages, except where there is a continuous exchange of messages where they reduce clutter by not putting this on every message - but if there is a gap of a few minutes the next one will get the date again. I can confirm that's how Textra, QKSMS and Samsung Messages work (I wasn't going to enable Google Messages so that I can check that one, or give Signal SMS access to check). If you really want the date on every single message then there may be an app out there that does this, but I can't say which (for most people that would not be desirable).

As for full date vs "Today", "Monday" etc, I can tell you that Textra is showing messages I received yesterday as "Tuesday, 3 Oct, 10:09" (I've not received any SMS today - I get a lot more WhatsApp than SMS these days). Again, there may be one that includes the year for messages in the current calendar year, but I didn't note this when checking the other apps (and it's a faff changing between apps these days because you have to change default app each time).

I might add that none of this is anything to do with Android 13: this behaviour has been the same for some years, and a third party app doesn't change with the Android version (the manufacturer may make changes to their app when they change major version, but I don't use manufacturer apps anyway).

olbriar said:

Glad that you figured it out and your thread will help others as to what the not so obvious symbol represents.

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That's good that my thread might help some other confused technophobe, I don't feel quite so daft now 🤣👍

Android 14 introduces advanced security, compliance and productivity features for businesses.

"S4 mini GT i9195" is the "international" LTE+NFC version of the Samsung S4 Mini. But that's also the phone the OP was using in 2021, and not the member who resurrected the thread over the weekend (who hasn't said what phone they have).

Mods that bypass payments (whether providing paid apps without payment to the developer or bypassing in-app purchases) are app piracy, and as such we don't discuss them here. The forum rules make clear that providing links to such apps can lead to being banned from the forum, so it's obviously not in the spirit of the rules to provide any support for them.

Strictly speaking, any mod, even to a free app, is going to involve infringement of copyright. Even redistributing an unmodified free app without the developer's permission does that: the fact that the developer does not charge for the app does not in itself give anyone the right to do anything other than use the app without charge (of course they may be perfectly happy for people to redistribute or even modify, but you need to check before doing so). So legally we're on shaky grounds in providing any assistance with these things unless the developer has given permission for modifications to be made (and of course we don't want to cause trouble for the forum owner).

But safety? That depends entirely on who has modified the app. Generally speaking I'd advise extreme caution: unless you are sufficiently technically competent you have no way of knowing whether the modifications include a malware downloader, a keylogger, adware, etc. It comes down to trust, and in many cases you'll be asking whether you trust someone who has already shown willingness to break laws to rip off the developer not to be ripping you off as well. Yes, some people will hack apps just to stop them tracking you or things like that, but as the person who downloads and installs it you have to decide for yourself how confident you are that there is nothing malicious in there.