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Help what all is backup locally in the daily 2 am whatsapp backup?

I understand that there is a daily local back up held in db.crypt14 files. What exactly gets backed up here? chats and media (including images, documents and videos)

and what about the optional Google backup - what is backed up there (i do see an option to exclude videos)?

Thanks
first off i do not use whatsapp.......but i'm pretty sure that it backsup any data on the app, mostly your chats. and i'm not sure on google drive, but i would assume it is the same.

curious as to why you need to know?

Samsung Galaxy Tab s5e mouse scroll problem in OneDrive

I just realized the interaction/relationship between mouse/keyboard and the tablet goes beyond what I realized. Just a guess, but maybe it's related to one of the recent software updates?

Can someone describe what they can expect in the way the tablet allows the mouse/keyboard to behave, in comparison to things that may be done in Windows? The tablet limitations?

One example I find it that, in a Chrome Google search, I have no vertical scroll bars. "Sometimes"., sometimes not, I can gently press the left mouse button on the right side of the page, and scroll in the same fashion as if I was using my finger to scroll.

Another case is in my android settings, i.e., if I select "Connections', those settings are not in a subfolder, but in a panel to the right. The problem is, the keyboard on functions in the right panel. There is no way to select the settings categories with the keyboard. The mouse scroll button functions in that right panel, but not on the left. I did discover that when I hover the cursor over the righmost side of one of the category boxes, a very thin scroll button, about in inch long, appears.

Something kinda similar to that looks like it happens on the right side of the google search window. Ther's a sight protrusion, as if the mouse hover is unhiding a scrollbar, but whatever it is, it has no scroll function.

I haven't had tine to scout out more examples, but I'm suspect I will find some.

What's wrong with my looping phone?

Just going by your description on what happened, a very offhand guess would be the internal storage media chip failed, triggering a boot loop and then eventually a complete failure.
When a smartphone gets stuck in a boot loop, the most common problem is the installed Android operating system can no longer be loaded into RAM when the phone is starting up. That Android OS resides on the internal storage so a software-based boot loop is due to something corrupted the OS enough that it can't be read from the internal storage, and a hardware-based boot loop would be due to something like the internal storage chip failing, or some other vital component on the logic board itself failing. In that case, the Android OS can't be accessed at all. The boot loop is just the phone trying to start up, but it can't access the OS so it just gets stuck in its boot up process.
A software-based boot loop is more common, with a hardware component failing not so common. But it can happen. But you it doesn't seem like you have a lot of options in this situation. You might want to take your phone to a trusted phone repair shop to have them look it over, but be sure to get estimates on pricing. It might not be worth spending money on this phone and you might want to look into buying a new one instead.

Regarding discharging the battery to 0%, that's typically a very bad practice with any smartphone battery. That might have been something to try with a Ni-Cad battery 15 years ago but battery technology and development with Ni-Cads has changed quite a bit since that time, so stop doing that.
For a smartphone, manually discharging it to 0% likely killed the battery. A typical Li-ion smartphone battery requires at least a 5% minimum charge to stay functional. For some better insight and factual info on this:

Help Zoom in problem

Unable to find it, what is the equivalent of the triple tap in Samsung A32 5G?
Google is YOUR friend...


Words Soccer

I would like to introduce my new online game Word Soccer. The principle of the game is to make more words from the available letters than your opponent in six rounds.
In each round you can also get a yellow card if you don't use each of the offered letters at least once, or your longest composed word is shorter than your opponent's longest word.
For each red card, you then lose one of the letters offered in the next round.
Primarily, the game should only take nouns, but the dictionary is unfortunately not yet fully fine-tuned as I'm not from an English-speaking country, but if there are problems, you can either double-tap the unrecognized word to suggest it be added to the dictionary, or conversely, you can double-tap a word that has been recognized by your opponent and shouldn't be to suggest it be removed from the dictionary.


The game is part of https://hryprodva.cz/en/hlavni

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Help A blank notification always pop up

There is a blank notification that always pop up. I dont know where it came from and what it does but everytime i watch a video and it pops up, it automatically mutes my phone's volume. I have to lower up or lower down the volume to unmute it again and again. Please help, do i need to reformat my phone or factory reset? It has all my work's login authentication
yeah, I was facing this issue too....and while I was surfing for solutions I came across your problem...but I solved it!!!!!!
As the notification appears pull down the quick settings menu and press and hold the blank information I will give you the info and show the system utilis app and turn off its notification using the slider button beside.....done!!!
pls drop a meaasge in case you can't

Blu contact blues

I guess he didn't. My friend got it with a lot of apps still there when they probably would have disappeared. The guy must have been really disgusted with it. Why isn't there an option to export contacts, not just import them? Is the phone really that cheap?
do not know why there is not an export option.

and with tech.....you get what you pay for.

if the contacts are still on the phone, he can go to the play store and search for saving contacts.

here is my search:

do not know if any will be available for your friends phone or not.

Backup Samsung Android Phone

i use samsung smart switch. it backs up most of my app and its data, but not all. i would use sms backup to backup and restore your text messages. and make sure your google account is all sync'd up. this will make sure that your google contacts and your photos are all saved to the cloud.
I backup my contacts and photos separately so not so worried about those.

I installed SMS Backup and performed a backup to Dropbox within minutes. Very user-friendly.

Otherwise I would just like to capture apps, app data, widgets, layout, settings, Wi-Fi / Bluetooth connections etc and backup to Dropbox or a USB connected drive and be able to restore to a new phone. Are these all captured via the following backup mechanism?

Settings-> Accounts and backup - Smart switch -> External storage transfer

Memorial Weekend

It was a fun day here. I had lawns to mow and it rained early this morning which changed my plans. I went over to my son's house and saw all my kids then dashed home and mowed five lawns. Took a quick shower and ran back to the party just in time to eat burgers and dogs. Had a few brewskis and came home. The weather was so nice that I took the bike out for a ride. When you have high seventy temps and no wind in Kansas, you had best get out and enjoy it.

Happy Memorial Day everyone.

Green, sometimes Black, Screen - How do I transfer Photos and Files to Replacement?

My screen is totally black now and unresponsive though every thing else seems to be working. I am hearing notifications, etc. I am hoping that when the replacement arrives that maybe smartswitch will work without input from the broken screen. I don't think I had/have Google photos.
Well let's hope that using Smart Switch when you're phone was at least minimally usable will have made at least one full backup on your data, and to an external source, like a computer. If that is the case, you should be able to use the Smart Switch utility on your new phone to restore your previous data.
Keep in mind that except for a few exceptions (i.e. WhatsApp data) that Smart Switch will be able to backup/restore your entire user account. Then it to from an old phone to a new one. Apps like Google Photos only pertain to photo and video content so that would only be part of your all your data.

If you don't have a Smart Switch full backup however, that could be a problem. The other alternative is to do a direct phone-to-phone transfer of your user account but that involves being at least some ability to do things on your old phone. It is a user interactive process, and on both phones.

Android Recent Photos vs Google Photos

I didn't respond because I'd never seen anything on my phone called "Recent Photos". But then when I read your thread I wondered whether this might be something to do with the Samsung gallery app (which, despite owning an s21, I don't use at all), and opening that app, pressing the 3 line menu and selecting "Recent" does give me a timeline view of images on my phone. Is this what you are talking about?

(I might add that my Samsung Gallery is also an old version because I don't update Samsung apps that I don't use, so may look different to yours as well).

Personally I doubt very much that "recent photos" is actually a folder. Different gallery apps can show different collections of images, ordered by time, by folder, sorted into photos and videos, or whatever, but when a picture shows in a timeline view or a folder view, or in your Gallery app vs Google Photos, it will be the same file in every case. So if you delete it in one place it will be gone from them all.

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