Hadron said:

(I put "antivirus" in quotes because there are no Android viruses. There is malware, but "virus" is a specific category of malware, and I hate it when developers misuse terms for marketing purposes.)

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Me too. Of course, they're marketing straight to window$ users--those folks who believe that viruses are a nasty, but ubiquitous, part of using computers.

Linux users, like us, know better.

There is Blacklist Blocker, available on F-Droid.

Unfortunately, it is no longer maintained, but still works on my 8.1.1

Also, most new Androids have built in settibgs that allow the user to restrict calls to the contents of the contact list.

ApkPure has this app.
And they also have another app called Xapk Installer.

Xapk Installer does all the uncompressing and installing for you.

If you backed your contacts up with Google you could just restore them.

This place seems to impact my choice in trying new things too.

Darwinized said:

No worries. I tried all that (except upgrading to Android 9), and none worked. I ended up doing a factory reset on the phone and it works OK now.

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Sorry for the reset. I always hate having to do that, but glad it worked.

So this is protection against unauthorised SIM changes (which might be just a simple radio switch you ticked once and forgot about)? I'd expect that if you have a SIM PIN active it would ask for that every time you restart the phone (and I'd not expect a new SIM to have a PIN set).

Have you tried your usual lockscreen PIN or your Google password?

That member (who had posted between Danny and Mike, since deleted) was simply copying the last line of my earlier post. Which is what all but one of their posts does (the exception may be copying from a different thread). Some of their posts have links inserted, though not this one.

Draw your own conclusions. I've already invited the mods to draw theirs.

Please post the exception.

As a user of the first-generation Pebble, yeah, there's not really anything else on the market that comes close - which is kind of amazing considering how long ago that watch was released. My focus lately has been on Wear OS watches... but I do hate how bulky they are and how they've gotta be charged pretty much every night.

I think a Fitbit is probably going to be the closest to the Pebble even without font size adjustments.

David Tan said:

Don't think there's any alternative other than BlueStacks. You could install the Android OS onto your system though.

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Yes, you could run Android x86 but apps and games on playstore are compiled for Arm not x86. You could however use libhoudini but I'm not sure of its performance as it is similar to emulating Arm.

If it's Verizon, think you'd better check with their BYOD site.
https://www.verizonwireless.com/prospect/bring-your-own-device
That should tell you what you can use, and about activations.

Somebody else who's actually in the US, may be able to give more details.

could be a software issue where a factory reset might fix it. it could also be hardware where a battery replacement might work.

i expected some issues at launch.....it will get worked out. i ordered my bundle and it should be here tomorrow.

Ok this is kinda off topic but I encrypted my sd card on my phone its a moto from cricket just a cheap phone and Ive reset it multiple times its not the best phone but its good enough for me and ive never encrypted it and of course the one time I do my phone crashes I had to take it up to cricket because my 128gb sd card wasn't working on anything and they couldn't fix it without some out of this world fee so I kept it in my drawer and I came across this and was like ok maybe this would work and I loaded it up and tried this sd card formatter I didn't think it would work but it was worth trying intead of buying another $70 sd card at bottom dollar and it worked it didn't work on quick format but the overwrite format it did thank you all I don't think I would have fixed it on my own.

You are exactly right thank you, I am hitting the mute button inadvertently. I tried a couple of different dialers after you mentioned it but after dialing it switches to the phone screen which is where my problem is.

MoodyBlues said:

Just a wild guess here, Kurt Pattinson, but I'll bet the people who wrote the posts in this thread--almost 10 years ago!--have long since hit on solutions.

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ohh my fault, i didn't notice about the time, i just search out questions and suddenly bump into this ))

PurpleRain63 said:

Thank you very much NightAngel79. Much appreciated.

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You're welcome! Thanks for sticking around!

Use a carrier that offers caller ID.

Phoenix1974 said:

Lol, I've got that for one too but one I posted isn't my my stuff

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I am set.

Thanks guys, yeah it's the sim I had with my last phone for 2 years and maybe even the one before that lol. I'll pop into a 3 store and get it swapped

InCalAgent is an LG app, not sure what it's for (if there were a second "l" I'd guess it was like the "InCallUI" you find on most phones).

For LiA Informant check this thread: https://androidforums.com/threads/lia-informant.1215313/

Hello, new to android phones and I need some help. I have a S7 Edge that started doing something weird. If I go to a specific person, their text messages will show for a few seconds and then the message part goes blank and just shows an white screen, like the messages disappear. If I send a text, or back out of the app, the messages will show for a few seconds again, but then disappear. I tried restarting, I tried clearing the cache. Neither work and I don't know what else to do. It's my girlfriends number, which makes it worse because I text her the most. Did I mess up a setting or is this a known bug that has a fix? Any help or suggestions would be a great help! Thanks.

Thanks Hadron that is what I needed to know.

Which device and carrier?