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Galaxy s20 + 5g phone is not reliable

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svim said:
A SIM card is its own physical, minuscule logic board -- a tiny piece of plastic with a sparse amount of electronic circuitry on it.
An eSIM is a component soldered onto the logic board inside a smartphone.
Both do essentially the same thing, store your user account info with your chosen carrier. With a SIM card that info is added to the SIM card your carrier provided, and that's what you then inserted into to her phone. With eSIM, that same info is just typed directly into the eSIM chip that's already inside a phone.
An important factor is not all smartphones include support for eSIMs and not every carrier supports eSIMs. Her S20 does, but it also depends on if her carrier does too. But this is just so you're aware of what an eSIM is, she already has a SIM card and there's no needlessly switch over.

if the SIM card tray was bent in some way, that's not a good sign. Generally they're just plastic but not meant to be flexible so if it wasn't just flat and easily extendable that's not good. The little metal contacts on the edge of the SIM card need to match up directly with little metal contacts inside the phone, so something like a bent card tray will interfere with that. Thinking back, are you positively certain it wasn't flat?
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Svim, I'm overwhelmed by your kindness, in explaining all that to me! With regard to the SIM card tray, yes, it had a very slightly curved appearance, and how I'm so sure of that is that, at first, the card would not stay where it had been placed — in its correct little rectangle, in the tray. (By the way, though the phone is not up-to-date, it was brand new and had not been opened, for the box was sealed.) When I attempted to close the drawer/tray, the SIM card kept flipping out. After I "bent it straight" (as it seemed to me, anyway), it stayed in place, and allowed the tray to be pushed in. Apart from the occasional dropped connections (mentioned earlier) with two relatives (both widely spaced in the UK), everything seems to be alright.

With regard to the difficulty my wife had in seeing the smaller details of photos, in her Files app, I set the View to "grid" instead of "list" as you suggested, and even my wife can now see what she needed to see. She is very pleased about that, and thanks you profusely for the tip, as I do.
S.
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Post Your Goals: 30-Day Android Fitness Challenge!

Mr. Lucky
I am a former marathoner and used to run for Brooks shoes. I'm still in pretty good shape and weight (180 lbs), but I'm retired now and my knees are shot, so my goals are more modest. I just want to make slow, steady progress at the gym without getting injured. Unlike my former self, my upper body is in much better shape than my lower (lumbar spinal stenosis and arthritic knees). I go to the gym (schedule and weather allowing) 3–4 times a week and exercise from home as well (walking dog, stationary bike, and pushups). I have found an excellent app for pushups called (appropriately enough) Push Ups. This app is like having a personal trainer, it charts your progress, and you can either do local or cloud backup.
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Unable to screenshot

F
AugieTN said:
So is the screenshot saved in photos or your gallery, even though that security message shows up?

Are you trying to screenshot a banking or financial app?

Also found this: https://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/fix-for-error-cant-take-screenshot-due-to-security-policy/
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It's not saving anymore. The screen flashes like it's going to take, and then I get the message. And it's happening everywhere. Even on the home screen with no app open.
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New GW5

Abnsojer
First day went good. Battery dropped pretty quickly when I went swimming in the morning but, as I usually do, I topped it up during my shower after and had over 50% left when I hit the sack at 11. I can live with that! Didn't use the maps, Google, or talk on it - I usually dont - so I'm good! Now if I'm can figure out WFS I'll be set!
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How to link my iOS Clash of Clans account to my Kindle Fire HDX 7"?

ocnbrze
Loeksh said:
So, there is no way without rooting the kindle?
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just an fyi this thread was from 2015.....clash of clans should be available in the app store on your kindle fire. once downloaded you just need to link your account to your ios account. this can be done in the game's settings.

clashofclans.fandom.com

Device Linking Guide

Here's how you can play your own village on both devices. This feature can also be used to transfer iOS --> Android, or vice versa. VERY IMPORTANT NOTE: Play through the tutorial on the new device and use link BEFORE reaching Town Hall level 4 and BEFORE making in app purchases. If you need...
clashofclans.fandom.com clashofclans.fandom.com
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VLC "verbose"?

ocnbrze
james111 said:
In VLC app settings> advanced> under developer there's "Verbose" and it's enabled/checked, what is this settings? do I need it or should I disable/uncheck it?
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i would not worry about it. it has to do with logcat for the app. basically it shows commands that the app is running.
www.geeksforgeeks.org

Logcat Window in Android Studio - GeeksforGeeks

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and verbosity means:
www.merriam-webster.com

Definition of VERBOSITY

the quality or state of being verbose or wordy : the use of too many words… See the full definition
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in other words in logcat, it will show more commands pertaining to the vlc app as it runs on your device.

it is toggled on as default. i would leave as is.
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Automatic dark mode

Mr. Lucky
Easily done with MacroDroid. I just created a macro to try the concept, and it worked.
  • Trigger: Connected to wifi network (Any Network)
  • Actions: Dark Theme (Enable)
  • Constraints: (optional)
I set it to trigger upon connection to any network. It can optionally be configured to trigger only on connection to specific SSIDs. It works with just a single trigger and action, but if you want, you can limit it with Constraints. For example, you could set the macro to only trigger between certain times. Or, say you wanted the macro to run when connected to any network but one... you'd set the trigger for any wifi network (as above), but then add a constraint to not trigger if you connected to that specific network.
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How do I make it so that the phone requires a password to switch off?

iBowToAndroid
askingmoto said:
Hi, could someone tell me how can I set up a password or pin code so that my Motorola edge 30 requires it when someone tries to switch it off?

It has a lock screen now (pin) but the phone could be switched off without the pin.

Thanks!
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It's not really possible because even on a device that DOES have that option in the OS (like Samsung), there are still ways to restart or power it off without knowing the lock. Basically as long as you hold the Power button long enough, the device will force restart itself
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Fold4 - Android 14 UI 6.0 Beta

ironass
It looks as though the rest of the world will not be getting the One UI 5.1.1 Beta that has been rolled out to the Korean devices, F936N, after all.

Instead, it is rumoured that an Android 14 One UI 6.0 Beta will be released in the next week or so by Samsung to their flagship phones and will be in 2 stages.

Phase 1 will include Korea, Germany and the U.S.A.

Phase 2 will be for the U.K., India, Poland and China.

See...

Samsung One UI 6.0 beta: Check if it will come to your country​

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Fight Chromebook and win

Windroid
nickdalzell said:
If you're talking about the chromebook SSD that Garner has, well, I doubt anything important is even on it. I think the only user data that would be stored on it would be the OS (obviously), any music, photos and other documents.
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I meant salvage the hard disk for the disk itself, not necessarily for the data.

nickdalzell said:
Chrome OS doesn't really store much else to the SSD, as it's so cloud dependent.
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Depends on how you use it. I use Chrome OS (or rather, Chromium OS), and I have it saving files to the SD card. Of course, I'm using Chrome OS as Android rather than as the cloud-service-browser-in-a-box Chrome OS was originally meant to be.
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Can't see the phone screen in sunlight

Hadron
Turn so that your head is between the screen and the sun.

Many phones these days can get brighter on auto brightness than when setting brightness manually - a short-term boost for these circumstances - so if you aren't using automatic brightness maybe try that and see. But as boosting brightness generates more heat they can only do it for a few minutes at a time, and may go quite dim after that as they need to cool down to avoid damage (actually if the phone is too hot it won't boost brightness in the first place, regardless of why it is hot). But if your phone can't get bright enough the only thing you can do is shade the screen to make it more readable.
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I show up here every five years or so to ask y'all what I should do next... I'm baaaack

B
Plot twist...

After two weeks of camera no worky, today it was spontaneously healed? changed its mind? overheard that I was contemplating putting it to pasture?

This makes zero sense but will allow me to kick the can down the road for now.

Thanks to your input, I'm leaning toward another motorola device when the time comes, although I wouldn't rule out a Pixel if the price was decent.

Thanks all. Be well and see you again later. Or sooner. Who knows.
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Do you still use Facebook? Why?!

nickdalzell
I want no part in 2FA. I believe in secure passwords and not being stupid. I hate safety culture. It's my business. If i mess up, it's on me. Ain't nobody's business to force 'extra' security on me, or to protect me from myself. I am not some 4 year old kid, I'm an adult. I actually know how to think for myself and have common sense. If I'm happy doing the same thing for 20 or so years, let me continue doing things that way until I DECIDE MYSELF that things should change.

Besides, when I was using it, I lost a few accounts when the phones died (and couldn't get the codes) or the phone number changed. It was just more annoying either way. Took ten times longer to login as a result. Back then, Smart TVs would log out of things such as Netflix or YouTube often, and having to deal with 2FA made the situation worse. Today, I just enter password and go.

I also don't trust password managers. If it's in the 'cloud' (Clouds are for rain!) it's able to be hacked or the data leaked. Just ask the T-Mobile customers.

I want life to be easy and comfortable, not endlessly frustrating. That's why I stay as far away from the 'future' as possible. Today's upgrades are massive downgrades. Just look at UI design today. Everything is made like it's the 80s again. Flat UI is not 'modern'. Modern = new, and flat UI is as dated today as DeskMate and Windows 1.x. The era when updates are actual progress and offered more features and improvements has been dead since 2015, or 2013 if you're an Apple fan. Nowadays feature removals, subscription software, and forced changes are the way. Every phone looks the same with few game changers out there (Z Flip is the only unique phone I could get) and there's even less competition than there should be. There was room for Meego, WebOS, Android, iOS, and even Windows Phone. There's no reason there should only be two OSs and two OEMS left. Heck, even Tizen is gone now. I don't want to revisit Wear OS. It was bad enough the first time!

Heck, in regards to 'modern' UI design, Meego on the Nokia N9 still holds up! I wish I knew what happened there. That was in 2011 for crying out loud!
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Deleting reminders

C
I was using Google Assistant to create reminders. I also used the Assistant to delete them.

Then I got this suggestion when I opened it up to switch to Google Tasks to manage them.

Now , when I try to delete the reminders, although the Assistant responds that they have been deleted, none are deleted.

Also, on the Google Tasks page, the option to delete all "completed" task does not work.

I am somehow supposed to use some voice command to evoke the Google task manager to do this?

If not, how can I revert back to the Google Assistant?
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