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What is causing this problem

So how are you trying to install these apps? Are those things download links for the apks, or links to some app store? What app are we looking at in your screenshots (the app you are running, not the ones you are trying to install).

If you are you downloading apks from some site and then trying to install them (i.e. not using the Play Store) you'll need to give one of your apps the permission to install apks on your phone. Look in your "Security and privacy" settings for "install unknown apps" (or just search settings for "install") and this will give you a list of apps that are capable of installing others. Tick the switch to give one of them the permission and see if that fixes it. Personally I prefer to give it to a file manager rather than a web browser: to me it always seems very insecure to let a browser install apps, since the browser is the app that is most likely to be exposed to malicious websites that might take advantage of this (whereas if the browser can't install apps the worst that can happen is that an ad or site can download an apk to the phone but can't install it).

If those links are doing something else, then please tell us what. Because that's the problem here: I can see that these are screenshots from your phone, but I don't know what app you are running and what exactly it is trying to do, just that it clearly isn't the Play Store.

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I'm not one for being an early adopter, at least in terms of hardware. And I get the impression that that goes for most people in this forum.
The reason AF exists is because of Early Adopters. From the G1/Dream and Droid to Nexus, Galaxy, and Pixel... the entire community was founded on the tech enthusiasts exploring next generation tech. Not everyone becomes an early adopter but that is what drives interest.

If you're not an early adopter but you want insight on newly released products, where do you turn? To early adopters. To some extent it's a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Robotic people talking through my hearing aids..

can you reset your hearing aids? is there an app involved on your phone? maybe try and delete and re-install it......or....maybe it is your hearing aids themselves. can you talk to your doctor about it? maybe your insurance will allow you to switch them out.
I have deleted the app a few times, I have rebooted the hearing aids throughout the ages on end, it is when someone does call me first, and have to reset the phone call.

Samsung Happy 1st Birthday Fold4 & Flip4

so the question is, is the hinge that much better on the fold 5 as advertised? does it affect the feel of the device? like when it is in your pocket?

i love my fold 4. i am almost certain that i am glad i did not upgrade. and i am very anxious to see when the tri-folds will arrive, if at all.
Tough one mate!

Is the hinge better... Yes, I believe it is but only time will tell.

Does it feel any different in your pocket... No.

Is it worth paying £1,700 to update from Fold4 to Fold5... Probably not.

I think that the Fold6, Google Pixel Fold2 and OnePlus Open2 will be the ones to watch next year. ;)

Help Need a phone worth having

Remember when phones actually packed even more features than last year's model? when an upgrade was an upgrade? When UI was decent to look at instead of a poor copy of Tandy Deskmate? When we had actual choice and variety over the illusion of choice today?

I remember. I was there. 2010. We had more phone options, keyboard sliders, sliding media controls, candybars, flips, smartphones like the N95, more than two Mobile OSs such as WebOS, Symbian, Meego, and even phones that fit inside your pocket? yeah. i miss those days. Today it's three names which exist, all looking the same, with the only unique options being the Galaxy Z Flip or Fold, the rest relying on name recognition, such as Nokia, but only being that in name only and not fooling anyone with more than two brain cells left, and no features. today feature removals and gimmicks such as USB C which nobody even asked for, exist, but we do the same things today with phones that we did in 2010, yet the 2010 phones feel more like the upgrades. Too bad carriers decided against the will of the people to kill off the 3g networks and non voLTE networks and force anyone such as myself to get something they hate, when they already had something they loved, to make the world even more homogenized and samey.

I'm sick of it. We don't have choice, but we depend on the smartphone, so we are forced to buy whether we want to or not. We cannot vote with our wallet unless we want to ostracize ourselves from society overall. you can't even apply for a job without a smartphone today.

There is literally no reason for WebOS and Meego to not exist. Meego is open source for crying out loud as it's Linux. WebOS got open sourced after HP killed it. why is it only Apple or Android? Competition breeds innovation, but corporate interests hae reduced the options and therefore cause this stagnation and there seems to be no way out.

Is it so hard to find a phone with a sliding keyboard, a skeuomorphic UI, and VoLTE support while still offering a removable battery and headphone jack? I find it totally laughable that phone makers cite 'helping the planet' by not including a charging brick, but go out of there way to promote e-waste by sealing the battery inside where you're more likely to break the phone trying to even open it, or actively oppose right to repair like Apple does, by for example, disabling Touch ID if you replace the screen. The most 'green' tech is tech that survives, not tech that's disposable. There is literally zero reason to not expect the 30 year lifespan out of something, that was once the standard. We used to demand things built to last. When did companies decide that satisfying consumer demand no longer matters? I really don't understand it. We have the power, they seem to disregard it. They only care what shareholders want, when they should care what WE want. That worked fine for decades until something changed overnight in the 80s.

Typed this on a vintage Dell Latitude D6500, from 2010, which runs Q4OS, which has a desktop environment that's a fork of KDE 3 with all the period-correct apps. But still supported in the modern era. This laptop only set me back $50 at a vendor mall, but has far more features than a modern laptop. It even has NFC and an sd card slot, and a DVD writer. When I am pushed by futurists to a world I hate and want no part in, I fight back by finding vintage solutions to each and all problems, often which feel like upgrades in comparison. While they want a world in which we 'own nothing and be happy' I will own everything, and they will be pissed.

Troubleshooting- Images Not Displaying Properly on Android phones.

There does seem to be an issue where some photos are getting cropped but it also seems to be conditional. More vertically oriented photos are more affected, while more squarely shaped photos are not. I'm assuming this is due to how you view the site on your phones, either in landscape mode or portrait mode, and if your web browser app refreshes completely or just partially if you change orientation on-the-fly.
Most desktops and laptops will be situated with the display being in landscape mode (longer horizontally, shorter vertically), but with a mobile device it can be set to alter automatically between one or the other. (Personally I find that annoying and leave my phone in portrait mode all the time.)

Screen cap 1 below is from a desktop PC (Slackware and Firefox ESR browser), screen cap 2 is from a phone (OnePlus running 12 and the Firefox Focus web browser app.) Images alter the same way viewed through Chrome.

When you state, "...specific images from my posts aren't loading correctly" could you be more descriptive in just what you mean? Blank boxes for images? Distorted? Faded? Too saturated?

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Help What version of Android did the notification changes happen in?

Bear in mind that it might be that Huawei carried on using their own notifications rather than Google's, and that is the reason it still worked that way with Android 10. I'm pretty sure I remember people complaining about Samsung before then, and certainly Google introduced their notification badges in Android 8 (I checked), so flashing back might not do it (though we can hope).

Lavilier wireless microphone compatibility

The hearing loss worse than thought and waiting two weeks for your aids are both typical. Be prepared to have sensory overflow to start with. The improvement will blow your socks off. :) You will hear sounds that you had forgotten about hearing. The two things that I was miss hearing and didn't realize was the birds chirping in the trees and the sound of my auto tires on the road. You are in for a life improvement and I'm glad your insurance is helping. No matter the cost, you are worth the investment.
If you would like to discuss hearing loss or have any questions about hearing aids, here is a link to a discussion thread on AF.

Photo Viewer from USB

Not suggesting that you change your ways but most everyone backs up and views their phone photos via a cloud service. They are easy to view on all of your devices and are protected from loss. Being as it's such a popular option, there isn't a concerted effort to provide an easy means to view photos off of portable storage. I would suggest what tablet might be more accommodating to your viewing desires but I don't have a brand / model that I'm certain will fill your desires. Good luck.

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