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Help My android does not work on home wifi, but works everywhere else

Some devices have a hard time when encountering a router with the SSID for 2.4GHz and 5GHz set to the same thing (e.g. both set to MyNetwork). I ran into this some time in the past (maybe a doorbell I was testing) and simply renamed my 5Ghz network MyNetwork5G and all was good.

I'm not a huge network guru, so I don't remember or understand the particulars, but it worked for me.
Thanks for the input. I'll check into it.

Help How to use app Advance Download Manager

well, i got the app on play store but cant work around my ways. I did download one image though but thats all, no luck with a audio/video file
If any of you used this app i wud appreciate help. need detailed step by step process, explain like im a 5 year child. I want to schedule downloads of files at night... Thanks in advance.
Scheduling is really difficult with that app, new version of android 10 has kind of bugs for not allowing scheduling to work in my phone :)

Restoring an Android phone

Thanks, but I did try that and all it seemed willing to allow me to do was back up the info to a new phone. That is not what I wanted to do since I was trying to back up the data prior to a factory reset.

I was finally able to get Android File Transfer working (for some reason it stopped working, perhaps due to a recent Android update) and used that to copy the data to an external drive. I also used the built-in backup-restore functionality and will keep my fingers crossed, so to speak.

Thanks for the post.

Please Help, Stuck on Android Welcome wizard, Android 8 !!!!!

Is this phone actually online at all? Like I can't see either cellular data and/or WiFi indicators. There's NFC, Bluetooth, and something else that I don't recognise.

When you first setup an Android phone, usually it should prompt you to connect to the internet first, like connecting to a WiFi AP or using cellular data from the carrier.

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Although if it doesn't have an internet connection, it shouldn't just hang should it?
Mine did that too, when I got this copy in Jan this year, it seem vaguley familiar for me, you just need to find the right tower that is pretty close to the phone.

Suddenly unable copy files between folders

Yesterday for some reason my phone became incapable of moving or copying files between locations. I noticed this using gallery to organize albums. I tried with different gallery apps as well. I also tried with Astro file manager.

I get this error which does not return any search results other than pages about avoiding that error when programming in Kotlin. Not a single post about a user resolving this sudden malfunction.

kotlin.KotlinNullPointerException


I really REALLY do not want factory reset and have to reinstall everything from scratch.

Upgraded, can't find build tab. Project won't build.

I'm very new to Android Studio, but have been using programming IDE's for decades. I just upgraded to Android Studio 3.5.2. I don't know if this is the reason or something else is the reason, but I can't figure out how to show the build tab. It's NOT under View / Tool Windows:

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To be clear, I would like to be able to see the window that shows the spinning circles and the progress of the build. I see examples on websites like below (even though they all seem to have a dark theme). Here is a dark example of the window I'm trying to find, I *believe*. Note as well the "Build" button at the bottom. I do NOT have that. I have "Termainl" and "TODO" on the left, and "Event Log" on the right, but no "Build".

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Of course, the REASON I want to see this at the moment is that it seems my project won't build. It was trying to build before the version upgrade, and I could see the build tab and spinning icons. I could see messages on the right side (I can't find a Messages windows now, either). But after the upgrade, when I click on Build / Rebuild Project, I can't see anything at all happening.

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