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Help Is there a way to do this?

MoodyBlues
Welcome to Android Forums, Dwarvo!

The weakest link in this scenario is, as Hadron pointed out, the wife--not the phone's security.

I can't think of a single approach, including combinations, e.g., fingerprint plus PIN, that will guard against the wife giving the daughter the code. You said the daughter takes the phone at night. What's to stop her from holding her sleeping dad's finger on the fingerprint scanner? Right, nothing!

Really, your friend's best solution is to stop telling his wife his code--either that, or put the phone in a safe at night...but I'll bet she knows its code, too...
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Help How can I know the date when I save someone in my contacts?

lunatic59
The contact was saved in your Google Contacts? I'm not a WhatsApp user so I have very little knowledge about it, but I'd have to assume that WhatsApp must have permission to read and write contacts, and that WhatsApp has a trigger to automatically add contacts. If it bothers you, you could revoke the permission from WhatsApp or find the setting to turn off automatic contacts.

As far as finding the time of the contact, you'd have to contact the developer of WhatsApp and see if there's a log for app activity being written.
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New math

Milo Willamson
I kind of wondered the old age antie "Never trust anything you have read" makes me wonder, if you read and believe in everything, then why does it always lie to other people, why we must lie to each other like that instance? Maybe there is a hotline for the world of errors? Could of be the hackers own fault??
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Help Samsung s9 note keeps going back to home page

M
MoodyBlues said:
You're welcome! :)

So it sounds like something recent has caused this [annoying] problem. Can you recall any new apps you installed around the time it started? Take a look at your app history (which should show newest first) and see if that jogs your memory.

What you can try is uninstalling, in reverse order of how you installed them, any apps that may be the culprit. One by one see if that fixes it. (And if you zero in on the guilty app, please post its name here, and post on its Play Store page, explaining what it did. These will help others.)

Since the problem started several months after a factory reset, I agree with @ocnbrze that that may be your next step. I know it's a hassle, but if it fixes the problem, it's worth it. Be sure to save any important files before factory resetting.
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Thanks I'll post updates if I fix the problem.
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Help V10 Boot Loop

I
AMOCO said:
I know you might loose everything,But try a factory reset.
Master reset with hardware keys
A master reset restores the original factory settings and may delete your personal data on the internal storage, such as downloads, ringtones, images, apps, contacts, and Visual Voicemail. It does not delete data stored on the SIMcard or SD card.



If the device menus are frozen or unresponsive, you can master reset using hardware keys.



  1. Back up all data on the internal memory.
  2. Turn off the device.
  3. Press and hold the Power and Volume down buttons on the back of the device.
  4. When the LG logo appears, quickly release and then re-hold the Power button while continuing to hold the Volume down button.
  5. When "Factory data reset" appears, use the Volume down button to highlight Yes.
  6. Press the Power button to confirm.
  7. When prompted to "Erase all user data and restore default settings," use the Volume down button to highlight Yes.
  8. Press the Power button to reset the device.
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This did not work for me because it just reboots and stays stuck on the LG logo splash screen for several hours and never get's to the main icon screen. Is there any resolution to this madness?
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Apps Android in-app purchases huge drop

mikedt
meannn said:
around 70 now 3-4. But english countries are ok
just some asian countries the purchase rate dropped so much. Probably Google play they are trying some design chanegs or button etc whatever hope it will be fixed.

@mikedt did you see some changes on google play when purchasing ?
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I haven't needed to purchase any apps this year, so I wouldn't have noticed any changes. When I did purchase I used a Google Play voucher I bought in the UK. I actually live in China, and Google Play isn't available here officially.
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Trying to send a calendar to my daughter

lunatic59
I'm assuming you are sharing a Google calendar?

Open your Google Calendar in Chrome https://calendar.google.com and in the left column you will see a list of your calendars (My Calendars). Click on the three dots next to the calendar you want to share and select 'settings and sharing'. Under the 'Share with specific people' section you should see your daughter's email. If you see it, then you're all set.

Now, your daughter must also go to her calendar page and accept your invitation and then turn on your calendar to display. Once you do that, then she should see it.
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Navigationview and framelayout problem

N
i'm trying to set a layout for tablet for an app that has a drawerview and framelayout
but i'm getting some issues
toolbar is overlaped by statubar and the statutbar color on navigationview is different from the one in framelayout

this my layout code for tablets
Code: 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:orientation="horizontal">
    <android.support.design.widget.NavigationView
        android:id="@+id/nav_view"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_gravity="start"
        app:headerLayout="@layout/nav_header"
        app:menu="@menu/nav_menu" />
    <RelativeLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent">
        <android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout
            android:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:id="@+id/toolbar_layout"
            app:elevation="0dp">
            <include
                android:id="@+id/toolbar"
                layout="@layout/ToolBar"
                app:layout_scrollFlags="scroll|snap" />
        </android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout>
        <FrameLayout
            android:id="@+id/ContentFrame"
            android:layout_below="@id/toolbar_layout"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent" />
    </RelativeLayout>
</LinearLayout>

the output in the attached image



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Hadron
The problem here is that if there was a way you could bypass this then a thief could do the same, rendering the lock screen useless.

Some phones will prompt for an alternative authentication, such as your Google login, if you get it wrong too often. Some will reset the phone. I don't know which your phone will do, so can't recommend trying that.

One oddity: you say it asks for a password but then says "wrong PIN"? It might be that Lenovo have messed up their coding, but I'd expect it to be consistent about password vs PIN. So which is it asking for, a password or a PIN?
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Help Phone stuck in a boot loop

Hadron
ADB could be used to retrieve data, but the problem is that you need to be able to boot into android in order to use it (or have a custom recovery, but you won't have that if you've not been modifying the phone and even if you can unlock the bootloader to install one that would wipe the phone, defeating the point of doing it).
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Apps How can I create an App like Appblock or Forest?

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I'm currently using Android Studio to create an App.
I want one of the features to block apps, after you activate this by clicking on a button.

So that the app moves in the background, after clicking the button and when you open for example Youtube, it pops up and says something like: "Deactivate this program first".

The basic idea is of course a Clicklistener on this button to start the program
But know I want to know, which commmand you have to use so that the app is permanently supervising, which app you are opening/ have openend, even though the app moved to the background.
Some kind of Clicklistener for this (in the example:Youtube) exact app.

I'm fairly new to App programming :)
Thanks in advance.

Example Apps
https://www.forestapp.cc/
https://www.appblock.app/
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Help How to transfer files from PC to SD card formated as adoptable (internal) storage?

J
smarko1983 said:
It was better solved in earlier versions of Android where we could transer just the app data to SD card, considerably freeing space. Now, we are requiered to transfer the app + data, which causes all kind's of problems.
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It's Google's way of punishing us for daring to use LOCAL storage, rather than submitting ourselves to Google's cloud.
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