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Make sd card default storage for screenshots

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krhall3273 said:
Hi all, I would like to make my SD card the default storage location for my screenshots. How can I make that happen?
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Go to settings, scroll down to advanced features, scroll down to screenshots and screen recorder, scroll down to save screenshots in, select the arrow at the top to go to SD card and hit done at the bottom. When you are finished and return to advanced settings under screenshots and screen recording, you should see that the default storage location is the SD card. Good luck. Worked fine with my Galaxy Note 20 Ultra.
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Finding someone to root Droid Maxx 2 for a fee

ocnbrze
Jorabi said:
1. If I see "Fastboot (Secure), Device is LOCKED, Status Code: 0", does that mean that even the carrier cannot unlock the phone?
2. If the carrier can do it, can I just waltz into the carrier's local store and ask them to unlock it?
3. Will unlocking the phone delete all the data? (An online remote rooting service is telling me it's not possible without a factory reset.)
4. Instead of rooting, is there a way to backup a phone including all system and hidden files without rooting? Then examine the files from their backed up location?
5. Should I have started a new post with this comment?
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1. carrier unlock and bootloader unlock are two different things. the "device is locked, Status 0" means that you have a locked bootloader. it will need to be unlocked first in order to root. so yes this is why kingoroot will not work.
2.a carrier will not unlock a bootloader for you. they may allow it, if they so choose. like moto can provide you with unlock codes to unlock the bootloader save for verizon's moto's
3. yes unlocking the bootloader will delete data. not sure if kingo Root will though.
4.nope
5.no you are good. this is your thread so that's up to you.

edit: sorry i did not respond sooner. had a super busy week.
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Help Is installing Rocket Player safe?

svim
This is a nine year old thread so it's important to keep in mind that apps and how they're developed and supported has changed quite a bit since then, and Google's Play Store as evolved (or devolved to appease the Google haters out there) into a very different repository. Also, app Permissions are very different now than when KitKat and Lollipop were the current versions on our devices at that time.
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gps

svim
You might find this 'GPS Status & Toolbox' app useful:
play.google.com

GPS Status & Toolbox - Apps on Google Play

Get a faster GPS fix! ...and so much more...
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It isn't likely to occur but just in case some kind of GPS connectivity glitch does pop up this app has some helpful utilities that might help fix the problem. And it's a nice compass that uses GPS coordinates with your phone's sensors to show direction and leveling.
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Resurrecting an Old Android Phone

iBowToAndroid
petecal said:
I have an old android phone that I would like to use for things other then a phone.
No SIM card, just Wi-Fi.
The phone is alive, old installed apps work.
When I try to access Play Store it wants a "Google sign-in". It has prefilled my gmail address as the Username and asks for a password. I give it the password but it won't authenticate it.
I can use the same username and password to log in to Google Play on my desktop or tablet.
What can I do?

Note, this is an old Verizon phone.
LG Vortex.
When I try to add it to my Google Play devices I am told to use Google Maps on the phone. Google Maps is not installed on the phone so that won't work.
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Google continuously deprecates old Android versions, for security purposes. Currently, devices have to have Android 5 or higher in order to be supported by Google Play
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Is there a way to restore SMS without wiping phone

iBowToAndroid
Ericbarker306 said:
If Google backups are in a md it backs up sms
Is there a way to restore SMS from Google backup without wiping and retiring phone and then it asks if you want to restore backup?

Also I noticed mms messages for mms pictures is an option if you choose a level deeper than just sms backups. But if you have never cleared your SMS conversations it can save a lot of data of old picture that can chew up Google drive space from many years of conversations

Anyone know how to purge messages older then say a year so backups and space on phone are not wasted
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You can't restore from a Google backup via anything other than Google's official restore process.

But, you can use a 3rd party app to backup and restore texts - "SMS Backup & Restore" is great, You can even give it a date range to back up from
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