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Root? Hotspot despite service provider

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Mikedt I applaud you.

Foxfi won't work but only because it's old software for older times. It seems to have had a hay day of Android 4.0, 5.0, 6.0 etc vintage.

But the same company makes PDANet+. I may have some of that capitalization wrong. Regardless, it works as a wireless hotspot to my Win10 laptop. BTW my phone is still on Android 8.0.

It has the ability to connect via USB debugging or completely wireless. I have successfully installed it on my phone and laptop and have cruised the internet on my laptop wirelessly. I didn't try the corded USB debugging.

It does cost $10 for the phone app. But it's worth that to be wireless.

The only downside is I can't get the Roku into this loop. But that's okay because I can get almost all that it can do with the laptop.

Thanks again Mike.
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Help When I deactivate an app instead of deinstalling it can I then witch of the ads of that app?

B
If this is incorrect, someone please enlighten me!
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Well, as I never have registered with my phone or logged in to download from Google, I would say there is no need to register.

The fact that you're not seeing anyone else complaining about it, and its rating is high, suggest to me that it may not actually be the source of your problem. If others were experiencing what you were, they'd most likely speak up!
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Yes, very strange. Since I removed that app the spam ads are not shown anymore at least.
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Android 10 security updates via play store

MoodyBlues
Davdi said:
whether Google are mofing to more of a Windows 10 style of support with ongoing security updates and yearly or half yearly 'feature updates'.
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Considering everything Google does, from its own servers, to its cloud, to its laptops, to its mobile OS, is Linux, if they move toward anyone's style of support it won't be window$!

Most Linux distributions, such as the most famous one, Ubuntu, have long been on twice-yearly version upgrades plus continual security and other updates. That's who I'd expect Google to follow.
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Lost contacts

Hadron
Yeah, we need more information to offer any advice.

Though frankly if it was not synced or backed-up anywhere and you deleted it from the phone I really don't think there's anything you can do to restore it. Though for most people these days if you know who you are looking for there is some way of finding out how to contact them.
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Root access

ocnbrze
GameTheory said:
I'd like to point out that Motorola is one of the root friendly brands still left. Just like a Pixel you can go to the Motorola website to get instructions on how to unlock the bootloader for your model. Rooting is easy from there.

It's been a long time since I've used a one-click app to root a phone. Those things are risky anyways. Some come with weird chinese root exploits and I just don't trust them.

Surely you must have a friend that will let you use their PC for a few minutes. By the way, you can go "big boy galaxy" and still be in the same predicament.
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Yep my note 10+ is locked down pretty tight..... there's no rooting this puppy unfortunately.
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Android 10 update for Samsung

Hadron
Two years of version updates (which these days means 2 major updates) was for a very long time the norm for android manufacturers. Samsung are nothing exceptional in that, good or bad.

Of course they can change their mind as they like. Google did: they only promised 2 years for the first Pixel when it was released, and 3 years for the Pixel 2 a year later, but they clearly extended that policy retrospectively to the older model. But I've not heard Samsung make such a promise about any of their phones.
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Wakelocks?

GameTheory
PitCarver said:
I've been especially pleased with the battery life on my V40, untill recently.
Battery stats indicate that "Held Awake" percentages are increasing.
No new apps recently to explain the increase in wakelocks either.

What do I look for to find out what's happening. I had thought I had my settings right.

Did I miss something?
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If you suspect you have a wake lock, connect your device to a pc and fire up a terminal and run these commands...
Bash: 
adb devices
adb shell dumpsys power | grep -i wake_lock
Post the output here wrapped in code tags.

The first command is just to determine if your phone is recognized by ADB. The second command does all the magic.

If there's any active wake locks, this will catch them. If the wake locks are not active at the time of running the command, then it will not catch them.
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Background data from guitar timer?

mikedt
Dan Thomas said:
I noticed an an App called " strings tuner" was using up high megabytes of background data, even though I only use it occasionally to tubne my guitar. Could it be evesdropping?
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Yeh, it could be spyware, and/or it's ads. Suggest you post the Play Store URL for the suspicious app, might give us a better idea about it. Does the app have excessive and unnecessary permissions for what a guitar tuning app needs. Does it come from China?
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Cannot send or receive MMS while on Wi-Fi

kate
Some phones can natively do MMS over WiFi, others can't. The carrier must also support it, not all do.

Up until recently you could install another texting app that supported MMS over WiFi, but requirements from Google removed that feature for recently updated apps.

One way to enable MMS over WiFi, if your carrier supports it, is to install an older version of Textra - 3.5. This version of the app was made before the new requirements from Google were in effect. You'll have to use the Install From Unknown Sources option.

Textra version 3.5:
https://textra.uservoice.com/knowle...otification-icon-colors-gone-mms-over-wifi-mm

In Textra settings under MMS enable Prefer WiFi, you might also have to switch between System and Legacy.

Not sure it it works on MetroPCS but you can try.
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Help Setting up Do Not Disturb for a large array of numbers

T
I will be working night shift on call next weekend. I'd like to just nap throughout the day and perhaps a bit a night without my phone going off at all unless it's from work.
Ideally I would just turn on DND mode and add my works number to the "exceptions' list to ring at full blast.
Unfortunately my work can call from anywhere in the building all with their own different numbers. BUT they all start with the same 6 digits, so is there a way to add a contact to my phone that would be like (123)456-**** which would cover every number from (123)456-0000 to (123)456-9999?
Would be great to just add that as a Do Not Disturb exception. I've added the numbers that do call me to my contacts as they come but there are just too many of them and I don't want to manually add 9,999 numbers to one contact.
Thanks,
-Toph
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