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WiFi Connection Issue

svim
OK, on a browser app you don't rely on for much of anything, go into your phone's Settings >> Apps menu, find and open that browser app's listing, tap on 'Force stop' and then find and tap on 'Clear data'. Using Clear data wipe's that app's cache and any of its settings/config files, essentially returning the app to its original, first time used state. Now using that browser app try and see if that elusive login page pops up.

Another thing to try that sometimes will work get that captive portal login page to show is to use an IP address directly. You need to know the source router's IP address though. Common ones to try are
192.168.0.1
or
192.168.1.0
or
10.0.0.1
or
10.0.1.1
One of those 'might' work, they're common defaults but don't be surprised if none of those work as using a different gateway IP address is itself a common security measure.

The issue that might be confusing is when you're trying to get on someone's WiFi network, you just choose the detected SSID of the WiFi network, enter its password, and then you should be all ready to go. But with a captive portal your device can just connect itself to that public WiFi network as that itself has no password, but there's an added step where you need to use that login page in a browser to then be able to get access to the Internet.
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Mysterious Outgoing Calls

superfast48
I was looking at my call call history and filtered to: Recents > Calls to Show > Outgoing Calls

In my recent outgoing calls, there are several calls to a contact whom I do *not* regularly call. These calls are happening unbeknownst to me. In other words, something is making the call - I physically am not.

What could be causing mysterious outgoing calls from my phone? Hacked? Software error?

This happens with only this same contact and has been going on for some time...

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App breakage?

Milo Willamson
Hadron said:
Well Milo did say that it was what Mike described, which is simply old apps not being compatible with newer operating systems. Which I've met a few times, though I've also got apps that haven't been updated for 8 years and work fine on Android 10. It will be things like what API calls they use: if the app relies on something that's deprecated it will stop working. Nothing you can do about it apart from stick with an old OS (and then find you can't install newer apps) or find alternative apps. This happens all the time with all computers.

That said, I am relying on Mike's post for the understanding.
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Thanks, I was wondering that of where the limitation is of stopping and starting up apps :)
I think my comp is around six years old.
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Help [SOLVED] How to add icon/shortcut for embedded app?

GameTheory
MoodyBlues said:
I've deduced that there must be an analog of *nix's command line arguments
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You are correct. It's using the am command in adb shell. Looks something like this..
Code: 
adb shell am start -n com.package.name/com.package.name.ActivityName

I wreckon there's probably an app that lets you launch custom commands to launch your apps or hidden components.

Can also be thrown into a script.

MoodyBlues said:
In fact, although I now have access to SE Text Editor, I can't actually -do- anything with it. It opens, has a drop-down menu for font settings, but no way to start typing. There's a back arrow in the top left corner, which just minimizes the app. Oh, when I first open it, there's a brief error message: "Uri data is null!" Thoughts?
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Hmmm this one kind of hard to explain as it's app developer jargon, but I'll try.

Activities are like each of the different screens in an app. Every activity must be declared in the AndroidManifest.xml(manifest) within the app. The activities feature simply lists them all from the manifest for you to choose from.

The catch is that some activities are not meant to be screens for the user to view directly and therefore can make the feature hit or miss.

MoodyBlues said:
I'm partial to glassy transparent looks.
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Me too! :D
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What is com.samsung.android.app.telephonyui

Hadron
It's a pre-installed user interface, part of the operating system, so nothing she should be concerned about (I'm assuming that you are checking this with her knowledge and consent and asking on her behalf).

The name "telephony UI" implies that it's the equivalent of what's called "in call UI" on most Android devices (Samsung do like to rename things), but not having a Samsung phone I can't be sure that it isn't connected to the dialer instead/as well - if it were then checking the call log or similar could also activate it. Incoming calls would activate it too (including those that disconnect immediately, which I had a spate of the other year - I assumed some scam or other and ignored them).

It's not obvious that there should be other triggers, but you might have to ask Samsung to get a definitive answer (if they would answer at all). I can't test how the equivalent in my phone behaves because for privacy reasons I have all of that Google activity logging turned off.
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Help iTunes Equivalent for Android Devices?

svim
Needs to be noted that Apple recently announced it will be killing off iTunes as it's own multi-function service and just let all its features just move into their own discrete ones.
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/apple-kill-itunes-wwdc-2019/
https://www.npr.org/2019/06/03/729290123/itunes-death-is-all-about-how-we-listen-to-music-today

As for Google Music, it sounds like your audio library was still in the stages of being uploaded. Confirm that's all done and then see if the app is still taxing your phone's resources so much.
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