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Battery charging while using the phone

nu2andy
how easy is it to replace the battery in a Mi Note 7 and other smartphones
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My observations are that if you can see a cover which can be removed easily (e.g. Samsung S4) there will be an easily replaced battery.
Most newer "smart phones" have builtin non-replaceable batteries and this Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 I own falls into that category.
In fact there is NO reference to removing the battery in the User Guide which comprises 53 pages of info.
The Xiaomi has a bevelled edge glass which neatly fits to the body and has no access points so I would not attempt to prise or lever this apart.
The battery is 4000 mAh battery which has extremely good ratings for Standby time. Mine will last 2 full days under normal useage before needing to topup the charge.
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On-screen keyboards

Hadron
Well the biggest third-party keyboard of the lot, SwiftKey, has all of the features I listed.

I genuinely don't know what would make a good tablet keyboard, despite having owned a tablet for 6 years. They are too big to thumb type on like a phone (certainly in landscape mode - I rarely use mine in portrait) and yet vastly inferior to a laptop for proper typing. None of this is an impediment to me as I mainly use mine for reading and annotating documents using a stylus, but for typing it's the least favourite of all of the devices I own. I were going to do a lot of typing with a tablet I'd personally use a physical keyboard with it (but then I've touch-typed since the 1980s, so that will always be most effective for me).

As you say, perhaps someone else will have some other ideas.
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Help Accessibility not accessible for some apps

MoodyBlues
Christopher Clayton said:
I have found at least two ways to take a screenshot other than pressing keys.
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They must be specific to your manufacturer and/or model--I've never had any such icons. The 'volume down and power button' is universal with all Android devices. So it's the standard instruction for taking screenshots.
Regarding adding the Screenshot here I think UPLOAD A FILE may do it
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Yep, it did! I told you it would. ;)
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Use SD card as internal storage

Hadron
No, you don't need to root in order to use the SD card as internal storage: that's been a standard feature of Android since Version 6.0.

However, before you get too excited not all phones offer it. Some manufacturers specifically remove it from some of their phones. It's often the flagship models they remove it from, but if it's something you want you should check whether the specific model offers the feature (which is a question I can't answer).

As for root, check whether that's possible for that phone first. Especially if you propose to buy it from a US service provider, as Samsungs sold through them are often locked down very hard.
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Missing Text Messages

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I transferred approximately 125,000 text messages from My Samsung s7 to my new Samsung s10 about 10 days ago. Everything went smooth and I could see all my text on my new phone. Over this past weekend, I lost all of the text between my son and me, goes back for years. Not sure why? He has them on his phone. I did not delete them. He was still in my phone as a contact. We could text back and forth without issues, I just had no history on my phone.

My phone is backed up to the Samsung cloud. The last backup was last night.

1. Is there a way to restore just one person's text? or do I have to restore all text messages?

2. When Samsung does the back up each night, is it just appending the new text between backups or does it back up everything as of that time? I guess what I'm trying to determine is if the text messages between my son and me, prior to this weekend, are there or not to restore?

3. Looking at the web portal of Samsung Cloud, it does not allow me to see any details of the backup, besides date and time and size. So I assume there is no way to view text messages outside of the app on my phone?

Thanks, Shane
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WhatsD0g is back with free trial

T
Today I want to share an app that's really cool with you guys.
The app called WhatsD0g it allows you to see when a contact goes online in WhatsApp even if that contact blocked you or hid his Last Seen informations.
You get a notification each time the contact you are tracking are entering the chat window of the WhatsApp or is leaving the chat window. You will also get a history of his activity with exact timestamps of the time spent in the chat window of WhatsApp.
Please keep in mind that I am not the developer of it, I just saw the app on a website and decided to share it with you guys!
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Help Should I worry about simjacking?

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MoodyBlues said:
"But for those who need assurances, SRLabs updated its SIMTester app last month to support Simjacker scans. The app will be able to tell users if they have the S@T Browser app installed on their SIM card, and if the app has been misconfigured and left vulnerable to Simjacker attacks." Thanks for posting its link.
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The instructions for running simtest look to be way above my head. Perhaps they'll make a Play Store android app that can run the simtest tests automatically (assuming google allows such things).
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