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Gas prices?

olbriar
I was up town this weekend and passed a number of QuikTrip gas stations. (largest retailer in my area) They have a corporate headquarters here and normally all of their station's gas prices are the same. I couldn't help but notice that pricing varied as much as a dime across the different stations. Maybe prices at the pump were the same but their signage didn't reflect it. Whatever, it is highest in my burb just five miles South of town. $2.98
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Android limiting CPU all of a sudden

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Looks like the Motorola G31 has this locked.

Me: What are the cpu clock speeds for the Motorola G31
AI: The Motorola G31 is equipped with a MediaTek Helio G85 processor. The CPU configuration for this processor includes:
  • Two Cortex-A75 cores: These cores are clocked at up to 2.0 GHz.
  • Six Cortex-A55 cores: These cores are clocked at up to 1.8 GHz.
So I ran CPU Throttling Test - Apps on Google Play because the one in your link no longer exists, and it showed it running 50% of this speed, slowing from full to half in the first minute.

ME: How do i stop a phone throttling the cpu when I do heavy work on it?
AI: Enable Performance Mode: Some phones have a performance mode that optimizes CPU and GPU performance. Check your phone's settings under Battery or Performance to see if this option is available.
ME: I can't find how to enable performance mode
AI: On the Motorola G31, there isn't a specific "Performance Mode" feature like you might find on some other smartphones.

Well that's that then. Misadvertising in the extreme. Like a 140mph car which can only do so for one minute, and will only do 70mph continuously. Pity, because Motorola is the least annoying company I've come across so far.

So why is it throttling when it's not overheating?
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[APP][FREE] Zone Monitor - monitors camera & alerts when motion detected

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Overview
I wanted an app that would use my phone's camera to monitor a particular area, and alert me via email if motion is detected. I thought it would be a good exercise to write the app myself - as well as being an interesting project, this would allow me to implement whatever features I wanted. The app is free, and there are no restrictions or ads. I won't go into all the features here as they are explained on the app's website.

The APK file and explanation of all features/settings is at:
http://www.apdroid.byethost5.com/zonemonitor/zonemonitor.html

(I no longer publish my apps to Google Play since they made it mandatory to list my home address)

Permissions required:
  • INTERNET - to send emails when movement is detected
  • CAMERA - to take photos for comparison
  • RECORD_AUDIO - the app supports taking videos as well as photos
  • ACCESS_WIFI_STATE - required to set up the app's HTTP admin interface

Known issues:
I have tested this on a few different phones, and run it for weeks without restarting on an old Motorola device. It works fine on my Google Pixel as well, but on my OnePlus 3T it crashes quite frequently and I still haven't figured out the cause of this.

Feel free to give it a try and let me know if you run into any problems. There are quite a few settings that can be adjusted so it might be worth playing around with these to get the desired results.

Andrew Parkin
Main website: http://www.apdroid.byethost5.com/

(the original project name "Motion Detector" can still be found in various places within the app, I decided to rename it to "Zone Monitor" as there is already an app called Motion Detector; I will get around to fixing these at some point)
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Screenshot being added to voice search from long press home button

tekjock said:
I want a long press of the home button to work as it use to. you long press, search box comes up, type texts or do a voice search and it searches for that. I do not want it to include a screenshot.

my wife, son and 2 friends have the same phone as me, and it does not do it on their devices. This is also happening on my Samsung Galaxy tab 8
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Try a different launcher.

hmm, Samsung you say, sorry about the other day, it was a very long hot sunny day.
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New app layout on S23 is driving me crazy

Hadron
PathfinderVN said:
Curious, does the launcher allow other changes, like the clock on home page. Just one example but imho Samsung the up[date is truly a step BACKWARDS.......
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The home screens and app drawer aren't actually part of the operating system but are provided by an app called a launcher. Each manufacturer includes their own launcher, but Android allows you to install and use a different one instead. So if you install a third party launcher you will have to set up your desktops again on that one (some do have options to import setups from other launchers, but you'll find some work is needed anyway). That said, different launchers give you different capabilities, e.g. Nova allows you to change the size of the "grid" (numbers of icons you can place on the screen), position things more flexibly, put folders in the dock, have multiple docks, etc.

So a third party launcher will allow you to have a different clock on the home page, or no clock at all if you prefer. It may not actually allow you to put the Samsung clock there, since many manufacturers produce widgets that only work on their own launcher. Some of these, such as the HTC sense clock @ocnbrze mentions above, have been copied by third parties so that you can have the same look on a different phone or launcher. Personally I prefer to use third party launchers, widgets and apps, because that way when I change phones or update the OS I don't have to change my setup.
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Android Shortcuts issue ... way to fix that so they don't need updateding all the time?

ocnbrze
ocnbrze said:
ok so are these files downloaded to your phone? or are these shortcuts from the app? because on my phone, if i download a file....say a word file or a document, i can create a shortcut onto my home screen. after an update that shortcut to that file stays the same. nothing gets broken. if it is thru an app, than that might be dependent on the app.

if you can download it, what kind of file is it? what format is the file?
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