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Samsung Galaxy A Series opinions

ocnbrze
vera pantano said:
I've got A 10 and one of my friends is also using A 10 . Both of us experiences really glitchy conditions on our phones. Especially, stuck and device lagging. Actually, I'm only making phone calls and texting using the phone and no heavy load on it. However, A 50 in the same product line works faster and performs well..Actually most of other friends do not have a good idea about A series..Is someone experience the same issue? Is this is a common issue on lower A models?
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https://www.phonearena.com/phones/Samsung-Galaxy-A10_id11119
https://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_a50-9554.php

so in this case it boils down to ram. the a10 has only 2gb of ram while the a50 starts with 4gb of ram with some models going up to 6gb of ram.

this will explain your lagginess of your phone. these days with the android os, you need a phone with a minimum of 3gb.....but i would recommend going to 4gb or higher in ram.

and just like with anything the higher the ram, the more it will cost you. i always say that "you get what you pay for". with lower and cheaper models.....do not expect too much of them.
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Malware/MitM/remote root that survives reset & new phone?

puppykickr
Moto0hno said:
Thanks again to everyone who's replied in trying to help. I'm facing a rather tough obstacle now and wondering if anyone has experienced this before or knows a workaround..

My wireless carrier (Cricket US) is withholding my BL unlock code, and Motorola was of no assistance either in obtaining this to be able to gain root access and install a custom ROM or flash firmware.

Has anyone experienced this with Cricket or any other carrier and found a way to force an unlock?

I'll absolutely be switching to another wireless carrier as soon as I'm able, and a word of forewarning to anyone thinking of using this service..don't. They're not worth the(practically lack of) customer support not to mention the persistent throttling.
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Figure out which system Cricket operates on.

It will be either what AT&T uses or what Verizon uses.

Get a different phone that will work with Cricket, but is also compatible with whatever service you may switch to.

This allows you to pick out a device that has and does what you want, fits inside your price range, and allows you to switch later on without having to deal with a device that 'came with the plan'.

These phones are generally equivalent to the prize in a box of Cracker Jacks or a box of cereal, compared to what you could get for a very reasonable price elsewhere.
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Does the Music app ONLY play stored mp3s?

puppykickr
MoodyBlues said:
Very interesting, @puppykickr. I just can't imagine what could cause such a ridiculously long time to load.

Ugh, I hear you! I strongly dislike orange. :(

My favorite color is blue, and all my icons on my computers, like folder and taskbar icons, are blue. Have a look at VLC's:

View attachment 145505

Much nicer, don't you think? :D
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I think it is because of the large amount of media on my device.

Other players don't seem to need to scan my device every time I open the app, only VLC does that.

It irritates me that it does it even when I turn it off in the settings.

There are other problems as well, but since I haven't used VLC in so long I really don't remember specifics.

Actually, my main player right now is Simple Gallery Pro, by Simple Mobile Tools.

It is an excellent open source gallery and media player.

But it won't play flash or WMA files, and some others, so for those type things I use X-Player from InShot.

It plays things that even VLC won't, streams easier than VLC, and only has in app purchases- no ads.

So there is really something to be said for a proprietary app that I will take over an open source app.
That is very rare, as I will often use apps that are less user friendly just because they are open source.

And yes, the blue is nicer than the horrid orange.
What about purple, or green even?
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Sd card

lvt
If a SD card ejects itself from time to time while another card works fine, you should stop using it to prevent data loss because maybe some of its internal blocks have worn out. This problem could happen to SD cards with low capacity eg. 8gb or 16gb if they have been used daily for a couple of years.
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Autonomous Cars: Not Yet Ready for Prime Time

Unforgiven
Hadron said:
I'm sure that crosswalks are easy to detect, and so only flagging pedestrians when they are on those will be a simple programming problem.

But everyone involved in authorising that, and in authorising a vehicle with that programming to travel on the road, and who didn't inform the safety driver of this limitation (because I'm sure they didn't), should be sacked and face charges. That's unforgiveable (though if you'd asked me 2 years ago to guess which company would have cut a corner like that Uber would have been top of my list).
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I look at it as an inherent risk in trying to program human thought into a machine. Humans have to think of everything they think of (and stuff they don't think of which is more scary) in every scenario and adequately program that into some machine.

And I'll circle back to saying the biggest impediment to self driving cars becoming mainstream will be lawyers. Was it incompetence or negligence? Who's incompetence or negligence? Was it really a foreseeable event? Was the critical failure the vehicle manufacturer (SAAB), the operator (UBER), the safety backstop (the human whatever), or any one of the many sensor manufacturers, developers, and whatnot. There are more than enough ambulance chasers out there to make self driving cars so cost prohibitive up and down the supply chain that it just won't work.
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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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