You'll have to do a factory reset on the device since she's messed up the default settings

ocnbrze said:

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.

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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.

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.

Welcome to Android Forums @Developer_Ar I moved your thread here for best support.

Neither straight from my windows ten.

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?

i am not a developer, but i found this in a google search:

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).

Confusing.
But I will get it sorted out.
Thanks,
WV-Mike

I would just like to know he’s done it before and I feel like such a dumbass staying

Imranseo41 said:

Which cell phone is he using? Tell the Brand's name and Model.

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it’s a Samsung galaxy

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.

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.

Oh yeah, already pulled out the most valuable ones of course.

That problematic app is "Camera from Google" (com.google.android.apps.cameralite versionCode 32664).

Problem solved… by installing Open Camera v1.51.1.

Hello

olbriar said:

Hello @Amir Elahi and welcome to Android Forums. I moved your thread to the Dev area for best assistance.

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Hi @olbriar
Thank you! I wait for the answers

Can't help you with devices, but I just switched to Boost Infinite at $25 per month for life, unlimited talk and text, 30 gig of high speed data. Taxes, add .78 cents.... Uses AT&T cell towers.
Perfect service, no dropped calls or dead spots.
No contract either.

Oh my Phonax has a build in step counter. But lately somehow the program keeps kicking itself off, I wonder why..

mikedt said:

Well quite frankly I don't think that's going to happen. In Oppo's case it was probably costing them too much $$$ in customer support, bricked device warranty arguments, along with unhappy customers. That was from the many posts I read back in the day on Oppo Forums, now discontinued. If you knew what you were doing as a tech enthusiast, and had sufficient knowledge of the issues, they were usually okay.

The Oppo Reno6, it's a reliable and competent phone from what I've seen, but if you want to root and hack it...Good luck! You're on you're own...no devs. no fun.

For my own uses now I just want a reliable smart-phone that always works. so I have a Samsung these days, unrooted and unmodified of course. The Oppo Find7 I had running CyanogenMod, would occasionally take a dump and reset itself for no apparent reasons. Along with so many, especially banking and financial apps, that will not run on rooted and modified device.

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That's why cell companies moved to a 6-month to 1-year policy hold on carrier/sim unlock code release. Plus the whole rope in your business for the minimum. Reliable or not, I enjoy the challenge of Rooting devices. Especially the less common devices, but I'm in Rooting and Upgrading handsets as a hobby. Android Programming. I'm currently working on an OP Nord N200 5G, Revvl 6 5G, iPhone 8, and an old LG L38C. My Custom without Root - Samsung Galaxy A14 5G - is about the only one I'm not trying to root at the moment, but it's still under carrier lock. and it's still the best option.

DhairyaGosai said:

Ok thanks for advice i surely think about that

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If you want to learn how to Root, I suggest learning how to run Platform-Tools (adb and fastboot commands for Android shell/programming). Not sure what chipset OPPO is but learning how to use MTKClient commands as a backup (Also for Android shell/programming if for Mediatek Devices). Rooting can and will brick your device, or get it stuck in a bootloop. So, learn the different reset modes for your devices and learn how to flash the stock ROM to repair any damage you do. NOTE: Rooting also makes your warranty null and void, so any damage caused to the device by rooting attempts is solely the owner's responsibility. Do so at your own risk. But I think it's pretty fun myself. Good luck.

The limitation you are referring to is part of Samsung's responsibilities, they do not provide this data for external usage in their SGW6 firmware unfortunately. But I am waiting to get my own SGW6 to see if I can implement a workaround for this limitation

While I don't have one, olbriar, my wife does.
She's not one to download a bunch of apps to play with, she does do the Facebook and YouTube.
When she first got it I was fairly impressed with it's performance but the lack of an MSD slot worried me. She takes a lot of pictures of our grandkids and has run out of space several times and had to clear out a bunch. No, she doesn't backup to Google and doesn't want to.
It's got a good camera that takes awesome pictures.
As long as she can get me to move her pictures to another drive I think she's gonna hang on to it until it dies.

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Hi Everyone,
My wife has been playing with the settings on her Samsung A22 (wish she would stop doing that) and now every time she powers it off and then switches it back on, it asks for the PUK code. How do I change it back to a simple pin code?
Many thanks.

Yes to Nova launcher, have used it for years and never a problem. Ditch the stock launcher and give it a try