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Help S20 Ultra Going Berserk!

MightyFurcules
So, quick update:

Did a full FDR yesterday, and took the rest of the day on and off reinstalling all of my apps and files and doing all of my customizations (I do a lot of that, so setting my phone always takes a long time!). So far, so good. Still adding apps or reconnecting with Bluetooth devices and whatnot. We'll see how it goes.

I might still contact Verizon about it, just so I've opened a case and given them a heads-up. If it ever happens again (hopefully not!), I can say that it first happened less than a month into owning the device, and have the service ticket to back it up.

Thank you again for the help... if anything changes, I'll keep you updated!
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Apps Questions for this section

codesplice said:
As I mentioned earlier, I'm not a developer so I won't be able to actually answer your question.

If you click on the little star icon at the top of https://androidforums.com/forums/android-development.28/ then the subforum will be added to your Favorites list, which appears below the My Threads section on the left. That will make it easier to view other development questions or to post more of your own.
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Thank you. I've done that.
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Wifi Authentication Problem

svim
So support for CyanogenMod has been discontinued, which version is your Galaxy Alpha running?
Could you be more specific about your WiFi problems?

If it's just not some configuration/set up matter, some other more extreme options are to move on to Lineage, but I don't know how well Alpha phones are supported so that may or may not be a fix for your WiFi issues, whatever they are:
https://www.cyanogenmods.org/forums/topic/download-lineage-os-16-for-galaxy-alpha/
or just re-flash your phone with a stock Samsung ROM, which would return your Alpha to its original, non-rooted state with a stock Recovery. But a stock ROM will assure all your phone's hardware has its corresponding drivers and firmware to function properly, along with all the necessary software.
https://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/search/galaxy alpha/
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Install custum system, on unlocked bootloader

F
I got it to work with install another system on the phone !

Model phone MT6570

step 1:
Download: https://www.needrom.com/download/blu-studio-j2-s590q-2/
step 2:
Format the hole phone (with MT6570_Android_scatter) from step 1
step 3:
Load the new (MT6570_Android_scatter.txt) from the step 1
step 4:
From the real Firmware (https://www.needrom.com/download/i11-pro/)
step 5:
Change the real preloader, lk, boot, recovery, logo, md1img, secro, cahce, userdata
step 6:
Load the system.img from step 1
step 7:
Wait for boot up

Hope the helps other :)

It works for me !
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How do you get androidx to work?

Hajile
How do you get androidx to work?

I've recently picked up mobile programming again and it seems kotlin is now the one being used?

Anyway, i've looked up some tutorials and i'm having some issues.

One of the tutorials is on handling rotations and to save the previous settings, it uses

val pref=PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(context).edit()

I get a deprecated warning, and apparently you're now supposed to use androidx, but when i tried it, it doesn't show up (see first pic).

I tried looking up other tutorials on how you install it and you're supposed to use a checkbox at the splash screen, but that's not on my screen either (see second pic).

So what are you supposed to do?

I've been at this for two days and pretty much every tutorial, (even the ones on getting started) that comes up in the search and each of them just assumes, androidx is already working. Any help would be appreciated.
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Replacing Android OS on Samsung Galaxy S20

Hadron
Where are you? A European Exynos S20 will probably be bootloader unlockable, but I don't know whether that's been done yet. A US Snapdragon S20 almost certainly won't be. So if you are in North America you should decide which is more important to you, the s20 or Graphene, because it's extremely unlikely you can have both.

Yes, the Samsung has a proprietary camera app. Very much so. I'm not a Samsung expert but I'll be surprised if you can make the Samsung camera app work on Graphene. Manufacturers who modify the OS heavily usually make their own apps depend on their modified framework, and installing a different ROM will of course remove all of that.

The "One UI" is part of Samsung's OS build. That will also go if you install Graphene.

Do you know whether anyone has actually built Graphene for the S20 yet? It's obviously not one of the officially supported devices, but not owning an S20 I've not kept up with what, if any, ROMs exist for it at present - there are however no development threads for it at all over at XDA, which isn't promising, though someone has posted instructions for rooting the Exynos s20+ with Magisk (which is just rooting the Samsung ROM, not replacing the OS).

(Sorry if the post is making presumptions when I assume that you are not planning on building Graphene yourself. I'm just assuming that someone with the knowledge to be able to do that would not be asking some of these questions).
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galaxy S8+ no sim detected after update

A
i updated my phone wont up in the morning and the sim is not detected, sim works on any other phone. cleared cache, reset phone, even flashed with odin. nothing works,

also getting these weird error msg from recovery mode.

#fail to open recovery_cause (No such file or directory) #
#report recovery cause is [unknown] #
Support single-sku
File-Based OTA
Supported API: 3
e: unknown volume for path [/ odm]
e: unknown volume for path [/ vendor]

# MANUAL MODE v1.0.0#

remove failed dir ‘/system/carrier/ATT/priv-app/AttIqi_ATT’ (No such file or directory)

E: [libfs_mgr] is_dt_compatible (): firmware info was not valid : '/ proc / device-tree / firmware / android / compatible': No such file or directory
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Login Demo - Programming Newbie

A
I am trying to create a small Android login app using the following code:

package com.example.logindemo;

import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.EditText;
import android.widget.TextView;

import androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity;

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

private EditText Name;
private EditText Password;
private TextView Info;
private Button Login;
private int counter=5;
private TextView Alert;

@override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

Name=(EditText)findViewById(R.id.etName);
Password=(EditText)findViewById(R.id.etPassword);
Info=(TextView)findViewById(R.id.tvInfo);
Login=(Button)findViewById(R.id.btnLogin);
Alert=(TextView)findViewById(R.id.tvAlert);

Info.setText("No. of attempts remaining: 5");

Login.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener(){
@override
public void onClick(View view){
validate(Name.getText().toString(),Password.getText().toString());
}
});
}
private void validate(String userName, String userPassword){
Alert.setText(userName + " - " + userPassword);
if((userName=="admin") && (userPassword=="1234")){
Intent intent=new Intent(MainActivity.this,SecondActivity.class);
startActivity(intent);
}else{
counter--;
Info.setText("No. of attempts remaining: " + String.valueOf(counter));
if(counter==0){
Login.setEnabled(false);
}
}
}
}

The problem is when I enter "admin" as the username & "1234" as the password, I don't get logged in & instead the counter gets decremented by 1. Where am I going wrong?

Thanks
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How can i change the number of icons in the pull down menu

puppykickr
That is your quick settings menu, and the icons are quick setting tiles.

There are two stages, one appears with a small touch or swipe, that brings down the first few. Consider these to be your 'favorites', the ones that you use the most.

The second stage, which appears with a full downswipe, is all the rest of the quick settings. There can even be more than one page of them.

First, bring down only the first stage, the favorites, and count how many are there. Keep this number in mind, so that you put this amount of the most used first when you edit.
To adjust what settings are there, pull down the whole thing, the second stage, and look for a small pencil icon. That is for editing.

You can now long press and move them to rearrange the quick setting tiles.

To eliminate a tile, long press it and move it to the very bottom.
There should be a line that is labeled to the effect of 'Drag tiles down to remove'.
Also, if you see tiles below that line that you would like to add, long press them and bring them above the line.

You may need to play with it a few times to get everything just right.

Be sure to pick the appropriate number of favorites, and put those at the very top.
That way they will be the most accessible.
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Help I solved it myself Locking and unlocking the phone

I
markdoc said:
There is an obscure setting under
General - Lock Screen & Security - Secure Lock Settings - Smart Lock(unlock setting) - Then there are 3 choices: On body detection, Trusted Places & Trusted devices. I had forgotten that I had played with these a while ago. I had entered my home address in trusted places and I couldn't lock my phone at home. It took me a while to finally find it.
Thanks for trying.
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Ahh ok awesome at least you got it man, and my pleasure!
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EasyMoney Personal Money Manager (Updates & Announcements)

J
wyelkins said:
Well the answer is yes. This app does everything that EasyMoney did and more. There are a few bugs but it is getting better as it is getting updated on a regular basis for now. Worth a look and worth the price in my opinion.


Edit.
They keep adding and fixing and releasing. Now the process to move your EasyMoney data is seamless. Everything is moved over.
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Hello Wyelkins

How did you transfer your transaction over to expense IQ? I have been using easymoney v1.6.6 for years and just recently found out about IQ. I tried to restore expense IQ from easymoney data but it says my data version is older/different. Please help
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Whatsapp restore questions?

Hadron
I doubt that the first 2 are possible. I'm sure you'd need to modify the android app for the first, the second may depend on what deal WhatsApp have with Google or may be internal to WhatsApp's systems. Either way I can't see how they'll have left something accessible to the user.

For Q3 I expect that as long as you copy your older backup somewhere safe yourself you can just copy it back into place and restore. I know my brother had to do something similar restoring to a new phone, but as it wasn't me did it I don't recall all details.

Q4 I don't know.

Q5 the answer is almost certainly no, unless you can get the other party to send it to you. Restoring deleted files on Android is a mug's game, and "end to end encryption" means WhatsApp don't keep a backup for you.
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