nickdalzell said:

I thought all makes and models of smartphones came out of that infamous Foxconn plant that had to install suicide nets so the mistreated workers couldn't even off themselves.

All the more reason to buy used or secondhand over new. I can't promote such atrocities today and I got everything I need for life anyhow.

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Only companies that doen't operate their own factories, and depend on an OEM such as Foxconn, e.g. Apple and Microsoft.

AFAIK Samsung phones have always been made in Samsung's own factories, mainly in Vietnam these days. And as Samsung phones are evidently being assembled by robots now, I don't think suicides or atrocities really comes into them.

Found this yesterday!

I think that next year could prove very interesting for Fold phones. By then, Google and OnePlus wll have a year of beta testing on the public and I would expect some major improvements from both. Samsung have, IMHO, coasted with the Fold5 and whilst it does offer some improvements, I could not actually make a case for Fold4 users to upgrade this time around.

Pitek said:

Dziękuję za Twój czas. Zaloguję się później z mojego komputera i też dam ci kciuk w górę. Więc nic nie da się zrobić? Z rootem i diskdiggerem też nie?

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this is an english only site.

here is google translastion:

Thank you for your time. I'll log in later from my computer and give you a thumbs up too. So nothing can be done? With root and diskdigger also not?

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there is a nandroid backup which is a complete backup of your phone. however, you need root and a custom recovery. most root methods will erase data so that is not an option. you might be s.o.l.(sh!t....out....of luck)

ocnbrze said:

ok Google......oh wait, i have to post here. i can't just talk to you on my phone?

how do i get this unknown tracker alert? is it built in?

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3 ways unknown tracker alerts on Android help keep you safe

I personally hated my beautiful lockscreen wallpapers replaced with pixelated music album art back in the kitkat days and certainly don't miss it today

I can, however, get back the water effect lockscreen like the Galaxy SIII had with a third party option like X locker though. But I am happy with the dynamic lock screen option in One UI where it shows a different animal or nature landscape with each screen wake. Satisfies that classic Nature UX itch.

I do miss TouchWiz though. I can't get back my droplet touch sound, or the full skeuomorphic UI just with themes, old apps and widgets. It will never be complete. But I do get more options for look than I would get with stock android. But I want my notification ticker text back, my green battery icon and wifi bars back, and my button shapes in pop-ups over coloured text on a rounded corner white box...Oh, and I want my phone dialer to have glossy buttons again instead of borderless numbers on white. There are third party dialer apps that offer it, but all of them instantly end the call soon as you try to dial. Only the flat UI crap apps work

ok i do not know for sure yet but i went into developer options and i found a new setting. before i had 4 choices and now i have i the default usb configuration 5 choices. transferring files/android auto usb tethering midi transferring images charging phone only. i have transferring images selected before as the others did not work. i did not have the option for transferring files/android auto before.

so i selected that and opened the file explorer and selected the a51 and navigated to the phots and they opened in large icons but reverse rder so i selected descending and they swapped around as normal so then i closed file explorer and re connected it and this time it opened large icons and reverse order. so i will give that a try a few time's and get back and let you know how it goes. i take tons of photos when i do repairs to document what i did for any issues later on. but i have disconnected the phone now 4 times and s far it looks good. i must have got an update to the developer options and that fixed it maybe?

ironass said:

Do behave @ocnbrze! You've seen the quality of my photographs on other threads.

From those who know more about photography than I, (there's lots of those), the general consensus of opinion is that although the camera hardware is the same as the Fold4, it is the processing that makes the difference. In which case, could it not be brought to the Fold4?

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I guess that depends on 3 things:
1) whether it relies on any specific features of the newer SoC?
2) if not, whether there is capacity in the device for the newer algorithms, and whether they would run fast enough to be acceptable?
3) and if the answers above are "no" and "yes", whether Samsung prefer to not implement them in the Fold 4 in order to sell more Fold 5s?

POI-2-NAV has received several important and powerful updates over the last months:
* a MapViewer (Openstreetmap) has been added.
* a powerful POI-Tagging system is now available, which allows efficient filtering of POIs
* responsiveness and stability have been significantly improved
* Day and Night Color schemes have been added

Download it (POI-2-NAV: Waypoints Helper - Apps on Google Play) and try it!

ocnbrze said:

s11? no such phone exists from samsung.....lol

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It was a while back. I thought it was a Samsung Galaxy 2, but when I search for that, this comes up: Samsung Galaxy S II specs So I guess where I put 11 it's II

rbjhb said:

From my screenshot, you can see that it shows 4G LTE. I assume that's how I'm getting data service.

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But it also has no signal bars and an explicit "no signal" symbol (that crossed-out circle). That's what's confusing: those signal bars aren't for a voice service, they are the cellular connection strength, and it seems to be zero. Is it always like that, or was that screenshot just taken at a time when the signal was zero?

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I have used the internet on the phone with Wifi turned off, and in public areas with no Wifi. As to how it can be possible to have 4G LTE data service yet not be able to make or receive calls or texts - well, that's what I'm here to find out!! It's got something to do with the fact the this US Mobile sim card is using what they call "Warp 5G" and makes calls using VoLTE rather than using "normal" cellular networks. At least that's what I've read. If someone can explain how tht all works, I'm all ears!

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LTE = 4G data connection. It doesn't have a dedicated voice functionality, so originally 4G phones had to switch to 2G or 3G to make voice calls (they did this automatically, so you wouldn't notice unless you were watching the status bar). VoLTE = Voice over LTE, which is like Voice over IP (Voice over Internet Protocol, i.e. internet calling), a way of using a data connection to make a voice call. "WiFi calling" is another example of this idea. That's the way telecoms is going: all networks are just data networks.

So the addition of VoLTE allows 4G phones to make voice calls without switching to one of the older protocols, which in turn is what makes it possible for the networks to turn those off and re-use the spectrum for newer, higher-capacity systems (4G and 5G). So if for any reason you don't have VoLTE available, and can't use the older protocols, you could still have a data connection with no voice capability. You have turned on VoLTE calling, but it seems not to be working. The question is whether that's because your phone's implementation isn't compatible with your current network's (the worst case), because there's a configuration problem (in either your phone or for your account in their systems), or because there's a hardware fault (e.g. the bad SIM hypothsis), that's the tricky bit to work out: because if all anyone knows is that it's not working that doesn't rule anything out. All I can think of is to try the ones that can be tested (clearing your network settings, asking them to check your account is correctly configured, try asking for a new SIM) in whatever order is least inconvenient and hope one of them fixes it.

(I'm going to assume that greying-out of the "network operators" on an unlocked handset is a consequence of using that network's SIM, because I've no other explanation for it. So I'm afraid I'm still going to call your carrier a control freak ).

Dannydet said:

There is no perfect sms messaging app.
There's too many variables, from cellular signal, location, personal preferences, and each individual app.
Trail and error until you find the one that works the best, really.

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So yeah looking for a way on not opped out on different photos though. Hmm...Like Error this cannot be sent.

The_Chief said:

Actually, I was hoping for the S24 Ultra but I'll shut up now

:vroam:

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Make a post about it and tag it and your wish will be your own command

Who ever heard of the Yankees being in last place? Fire the entire management!

ocnbrze said:

creating a contact group works fine for me on my z fold 4. which contact app are you using?

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I managed to work this out today, it was because some of my contacts were stored on the SD card instead of in the phone memory. When I moved them from the card to the phone I could then add them OK.

Example: Samsung Galaxy S8 Tags (Admin)



I made "Galaxy S8" a synonym of "Samsung Galaxy S8" so anything tagged "Galaxy S8" automatically becomes "Samsung Galaxy S8"

Should I leave the "Galaxy S8" variants as is or also merge them into "Samsung Galaxy S8"?

It doesn't matter much for the S8 at this point... but picking a general rule of thumb for these different variants would be helpful. I'm inclined to leave them be... (and hope they're also tagged with the main device?)?

artyP said:

Did you find a solution? I know it's an old thread. I came to this forum with the same problem and have a solution.

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What's your solution? My old "just reminder" app doesn't work any more. I've been wanting to make one, but keep putting it off because I'm lazy and it's not high on my to do list.

Unread messages are displayed with a number in several places in the phone, e.g. on the WhatsApp icon in the main window. E.g. 5 for five messages. Can the number be set to zero without the messages being displayed as read by the sender?

The term "affordable" has a different meaning in watch enthusiast circles from the general public .

Admittedly even in those circles I've not seen it used for a 30k watch...

However, watches are very personal, so I'd be wary of buying one without input from the recipient.

That's not the problem here: the OP wants to lock themselves out of factory resetting their own phone.

blueblues00 said:

Please, I’ve never seen this before. It is an uppercase M with a dot on top on the right side. Thank you!

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we get this question almost everyday. and as @Hadron said, there are just too many apps with notification icons. unless it is something like facebook or youtube, these kind of questions never really get answered. most of just throw out guesses. and like @Hadron suggested, you are better off just asking.

.....Most of the responses I've gotten in here are basic troubleshooting measures or catch-all fixes(which I appreciate). I was hoping someone would've been able to see clues in my posts that would've told them them the specific cause.....

Totally understand. I think you would need a Lineage expert to look through the log. XDA would be the place to check out for that.

I stepped out my front door leaving the comfort zone of my AC into the extreme heat and humidity. I immediately learned it was going to be a miserable day to mow lawns. Seriously, the older I get the less comfort zone I try to hide in. I've reached a point where I'm not intimidated, afraid of failure, embarrassed, etc. Those are the things that I consider my comfort zone. As an old man, nobody expects a lot from me, and I can easily surpass that. Just don't ask me to do any public speaking. I suffer greatly from dyslexia and affluent speech I was not gifted with. I used to hide that fact in my comfort zone. Nowadays I just laugh at myself and go on down the road.

Group texts will behave differently according to how your message app is set up (and possibly how theirs is set up), and worse when sending across platforms. There are 2 issues here:

1) Your Android SMS/MMS app will have a setting for whether to use SMS or MMS for group chats. These behave differently: with SMS you send separate messages to each person, and each replies to you separately. It's not really a group chat. MMS behaves the way you want (everyone received every message), but in some countries/provider MMS are expensive so it may be that not everyone sets their app to use them for groups (in the UK for example SMS have been effectively free for almost everyone for most of the century but MMS remain crazy expensive. I get the impression that in the US SMS were charged for for much longer but there was less difference between MMS and SMS). In any case, if people have their apps set differently you can get different behaviour.

2) iPhone use iMessage. Between iPhones that works similarly to WhatsApp etc: advanced features (e.g. you can see whether a message has been read, when someone is typing a reply), higher quality media than MMS supports, etc. But iMessage is Apple-only (a choice Apple made because they felt it offered a competitive advantage - or "lock in" some some would call it). So when you have a group chat that crosses platforms the iPhones will send MMS or SMS to the Android users (presumably they have a setting to determine which), and so those people end up as "separate" from the iMessage users.

It sounds like it was the second that was your main issue. In which case nothing will have changed: iMessage is still Apple-only, so will treat Android users differently.

Will Google Messages resolve it? To be honest, I doubt it. The new(ish) thing in Google Messages is RCS, a more advanced messaging protocol that behaves a bit like iMessage. Unfortunately it also behaves like iMessage in that it only works between Android devices (because Apple refuse to support it, presumably for the same reason they didn't make iMessage cross-platform). So presumably iMessage users will still send either SMS or MMS to Android phones, and Google Messages will still send either SMS or MMS to iPhone users. In fact since some Android users may not be using RCS it could actually make things more complicated (I'm one of them: I know nobody who uses it, and it doesn't work between platforms, so I've never felt it was worth enabling personally). But I certainly don't see how it will solve the problem of different behaviour between platforms.

So, that all sounds very pessimistic. What's the solution?

It might be that if everyone's apps fell back to MMS when their preferred protocol wasn't available it would all work, but if it didn't then I don't have much confidence that it will now (I'm British, nobody I know is willing to spend £0.50/message, so I've never been involved in an MMS group chat, and hence can't say from experience). Everyone I know solves this by using a third party app such as WhatsApp (or Signal, or whatever you prefer): it requires everyone to have installed the same app, but once they have it will work the same whatever phone they have, and with none of the hassle you get from different people's apps, especially on different platforms, behaving in different ways. If Apple opened up iMessage, or allowed RCS support on their phones, then we'd have a built-in cross-platform solution, but as long as they refuse to support that then you will get the best experience by using a third party system (I'm not being biassed here: I do use Apple devices as well as Android, but both of those options were rejected by Apple, not by anyone else, so I'm afraid the lack of a good native solution is their choice).