Whether you like it or not, please make use of the Menu > Help & feedback > Send feedback option in Chrome to let the devs know what you think about the bottom navigation bar. I personally love it as it puts things within easier reach of my thumb, but I know a lot of people don't particularly care for it. The Chrome team can use your feedback to help influence changes like this in the future.

For now, you may be able to control this behavior by modifying flags, but this isn't without some risk. Flags are meant to be used by developers and not us commoners; they're experimental in nature and may break or disappear without warning. They can be fun to play with and get a feel for what may be to come, but they shouldn't be relied upon as a permanent solution.

That said....

Still can't find the themes setting for Google or gmail to activate dark mode. My daughter has a note 9 and her gmail app is set to dark. My note 10+ is all dark themed except for Google and gmail. What am I not seeing or doing?

Thank you both.
Actually, I have now found the setting for which I was searching.
Settings / device care / battery / settings (3 vertical dots at top right) / Fast cable charging (at bottom of list).

I have the same problem. I've seen people complain about it for years. It's odd that google doesn't fix it or at least use the line that it is a feature. I assume the people that work there experience the same problem.

schraensky said:

Will I get all my stuff back if it's all backed up

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it's all depends on how you back them up. A hard reset will delete data. It's basically a factory reset. So if you have your photos, videos, and other files backed up to your computer, you should be fine.

I wonder how many here start to use Flutter ?

I need some help literally Stripping an S8 or Note 5. Many times I have rooted devices for my own use however, I have never tried to take away many of the main device functionality on purpose.

Situation:

I have an older brother whom is Autistic and now 46 years old. Music is his thing, there is no other for him. I'm 40 and when I was a child he had 200 some odd cassette tapes. Listened to them all day. The writing was worn off all of them. But let me tell you he would dump out this chest of tapes, you could ask him for an artist he had in that huge pile, and in a matter of seconds he would pull it out. That is one of his special gifts.....

Now a few years ago we got him to go to Cd's which was quite a feat on it's own. Now he carries a discman and 150 Cd's. This is getting harder and harder to keep up with. We tried getting him to use a tablet but he would touch something and get frustrated as it was too much for him to operate.

MP3 Players:

This is what we are currently wanting to try. He can read and write, so that is not an issue. The very basic ones have no display, the others that are larger and easier to read (his vision isn't the greatest as he has lost vision in one eye) BUT, they also have bunch of other stuff that he can get into where we may have the tablet issue above again...... Everything he has is on mp3, 4000+ no streaming ability needed, or BT.

FINAL:

Is there ANYONE that has a solution? I need basic MP3 player via a phone completely stripped to the core or one that someone knows that they can get the other apps out (books, etc.) Forcing a phone into a kids mode maybe with no bloatware would be great as well. I have an S8 and Note 5 that mean nothing to me.

Comments welcome and any help would be appreciated.... Dallas TX.....

Steve

Never mind. I guess it just got out of whack. The trick was off, on, push second button to pair with device (and of course have the phone ready).

Anyone with the OnePlus7Pro

Where did you buy this OnePlus 7T? Because it might be a grey import, specifically a China variant that's been unofficially re-reflashed and something may have gone wrong with it. If you only just bought it, definitely see about returning it for replacement or refund.

https://www.techinthebasket.com/one...al-sim-frosted-silver-cn-ver-with-google.html
OnePlus 7T HD1900 8GB/256GB Dual Sim - Frosted Silver (CN Ver with Google)

OnePlus variants intended for China come with Hydrogen OS that doesn't have Google services in it, as opposed to Oxygen OS for international markets.

ItsTheSmell said:

I've checked the battery usage data and WiFi has used 15% but I never use WiFi. Why is WiFi being used when all my AP are switched off?

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So buried in location services is a switch for Wifi Scanning. In battery usage wifi used the same amount as RF while it was off. Switched it off and got a lot more battery life from my dying battery.

@Xavier Black, you hit the nail on the head..

I'm hoping someone can help with my query.. I've tried searching, youtubing and hammer none seem to give the desired result.

I have an Acer e380 (Liquid E3) which will not get past boot. I have attempted to download, clear cache partition and again hammer, however none worked. My issue is that I have many photos on the phone I want to retrieve before doing a master reset. Now I have a new phone so I dont care about fixing it, however those photos are irreplaceable.
I finally manager to do a backup from root which stored onto an ad card. The only official way of me getting this back is now doing a full data factory reset and doing a restore from the .backup file. However I dont trust it and want to peek inside the file on my windows machine to see if all my pictures and stuff are in there.

How can I unpack the .backup file it created in windows?

Please help
Thanks
Mik

Ok I am now thinking of backing up the whole card and formatting it. Reckon that may help?

working fine for my needs but am sure those that are married to smartphone will need a battery charger connected fulltime LOL

Switch to Textra as your default messaging app. It has the option to blacklist any sort of sender

mikedt said:

I think the solution to that problem, is to buy a new PC, or at least upgrade the CPU and mainboard to one that supports VT-x or SVM hardware virtualization.

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Thank you

Why are you using a firestick on the smart TV?
https://www.samsung.com/my/support/...arrange-delete-apps-on-your-samsung-smart-tv/

James L said:

Post a picture of the screen. Or let the battery die, plug the phone into the PC via a USB cable and try download mode.

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I have the same problem as this guy describe: https://forum.xda-developers.com/ga...y-bootloop-t3996925/post80803883#post80803883

I tried the solution they provides, but they don's seem to work.

I have used 3G Watchdog bug no longer supported.

Best replacement. Want to know which apps are using my mobile data, by day/week/year. Enter my data limits and monthly contract roll over date and get warnings when near limit. Don't mind paying.

I have faced this problem last year with my previous Lenovo phone. I use Instagram's camera instead.

Welcome to Android Forums, wasiu rashid!

Your question doesn't seem to have anything to do with this thread's topic, storage, so I'm not sure why you posted it here.

There's always a link/button at the top of a forum page to create a new thread. In the future, that's the best way to get help for your issue.

As @ocnbrze asked, what exactly is this "tcl502u" you have? What is its Android version?

Edit: a quick search yields several results--in Chinese. But it looks like a phone, not tablet. Where's @mikedt when you need him?!

Ok...
So I think I'm being stalked by the government lol. Look it up, gangstalking, the whole thing sounds ridonkulous.

I've had a couple of questions I couldn't get answered though.

At one point I thought I was going through a sextortion case so I ripped the battery out of my Galaxy S8. I'm lucky if it gets a 30 second charge on the wall considering theres no battery.

Now this phone I ripped the battery out of shows up as TWO UNIQUE devices on the playstore.

Also the S10 I upgraded to has an IMEI number that apparently starts with random.

Any help would be appreciated, kind of at a loss at the moment. I'm so far in the hole money wise it isn't even funny.

yep.......nope you should be fine. as long as you have a strong wifi you are good. at work our wifi sucks and keeps going in and out of signal which thus drains battery in general.

I saw posts that said to plug it in and let it boot loop then try turning it on normally after a hour. If the bootloader was unlocked you would have more options.