McAfee Anti-Virus/Internet Security.

ocnbrze said:

Huh?

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They are saying that they are "dumb as a rock" (see their username).

@IMdumbasarock55 your camera options won't be the same because that post was back in 2012 and so your camera app won't be the same. Manufacturers tend to use their own camera apps, so what settings or options it has will depend on what phone you have (which we don't know). But I would look for anything in the settings or controls that selects "effects" or "filters". My Samsung has nothing in the camera app's settings, but the camera user interface has a "magic wand" icon that allows you to choose filters (which include a few black-and-white or greyscale options). So if nothing is obvious, maybe try touching some of the icons and seeing what they do!

An older Pixel might do what you want, though some phones sold through service providers may have locked bootloaders so you'd still need to check that.

I'd buy a bit newer than an original or a 2 though, if you can find it at a sensible price. The batteries on those will be shot by now, which will limit what you can do - my Pixel 2's battery died in late 2021, and when I tried to charge it a few months later to play with it the battery immediately swelled-up and popped the display out.

But what's the relevance of travelling to Europe and unlocking the bootloader? Your Pixel 7 will work fine over here, and as already said if you want to use a European SIM in it then a bootloader lock is irrelevant, it's a service provider lock ("SIM lock") you need to avoid (and you really do need to avoid it with a second-hand phone, because the carrier may well refuse to provide the unlock code to you because you aren't the customer who bought the phone from them).

dj_nick_t said:

Hi all.
Can I setup a mobile data limit and restrict any unauthorized changes with a password, similar to the old Datally app?
Thanks!

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Yes, you can set your data limit and restrict unauthorized changes.

• To Set the limit open the settings of your phone.
• Go to Network and Internet.
• Tap on Data Usage and Turn on the "Set data limit" button.
• Now Set the Data Limit you want.

To restrict any unauthorized changes: Go to "Set data limit," > "Limit on this device." Now Set your Password to restrict any changes to the data. limit.

Ok, I figured out how. For the benefit of posterity, here is the way. Long press/press and hold an icon. When it gets jiggly, look for the little menu with the remove trash can. Press that and icon begone without having to chase it all over the screen. I now have only the camera one.

You don't actually need to make this into such a major problem for yourself. You have the option to manage your own personal calendar and there is no reason to include other, externally-sourced calendars when you find their content unnecessary. Stop trying to force something to work that isn't doable, you're just frustrating yourself for no practical reason. (To do what you keep trying to do requires you to become a skilled programmer/developer, and for you to root your phone. Then you need to peruse through the appropriate cal directory buried within the system file structure and edit just the specific .ical/.ics file in question.)
Instead, just go into your Calendar app's Settings menu and disable all the other calendars you don't want leaving just your own. Now edit which holidays and events you want shown, and set each one up to automatically show up yearly (... or monthly or whatever). You also have the ability to set up how often their Notifications get shown.

Try going to your phone's Apps menu and tap on the Google app itself to open it. In the upper menubar tap on your user account pic and then in the resulting page tap on Your data in Search. The should be an array of options and settings, including Web & App Activity, that relate to that Search Bar widget.

Thank you, Augie! I've turned off the SMS messaging for Google, Google Play Services, and Phone just like the guy who created the post. I also sent STOP to 7723. I'll check in a couple of days and see if that has worked. If it does, I'll turn the three apps back on, one every few days, until the messages start sending again to figure out which of them is the culprit. I'll post back here when I've figured it out.

Fierio said:

Hello, developers.
I am a student wanting to create an app which will run as a non-root firewall (netguard) and then route to one's choice VPN provider (openVPN). I haven't been able to try, yet, as the teachers want me to find out why nobody has done it yet before getting it started on how we think we would do it.
I have heard that the main issue with doing this is IP tables will take long to do, and thus isn't worth it.
Is this accurate and if so, why would this be the issue stopping me?

I imagine that this would work, if i were able to just do both of the previously mentioned app functions on one app,

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I have successfully incorporated a VPN along with a non-root firewall on Android systems. There is only one catch. You must use 2 Android devices. I don't know about anyone else but I'm a collector of devices. I currently use 2 tablets 4 Android phones. Only 1 my Galaxy A52 having service. I use Proton VPN and no-root firewall.

My setup is as follows. One Android device Running Android 11 is used as a bridge. I have installed PDA Net on it. This allows me to share my home WiFi over the same channel. This device runs the ProtonVPN free service out of the Netherlands Netherlands. Note that the free service only allows 1 active user.

My other devices run No-root firewall with their own set of specific rules. When they connect to the Android hotspot, they tunnel out through the VPN connection like regular traffic.

Along with the Brave web browser and the GPS Emulator emulator simulating travel routes, my true location and information is secure.

I hope this helps anyone that reads this.

I don't want to be told what to wear, what to eat, what to think, what to buy, and who to be. The internet is continuing to control the populations across the world. I can never disappear from the net, but I can at least make what data it has on me obsolete. This time around the Kool aid will be delivered same day shipping..

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The stock one I had for about whenever I can remember, having it on my tablet, it is really excellent..

treb1797 said:

It was the end all be all when you called your carriers customer service department if you were having phone issues. If that didn't fix your problem you were pretty much screwed because after that they didn't know sqat, at least that's how it was with Verizon.

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Yeah I remember pulling out my battery duration of bowling a few times... Seriously Verizon and their customer service.... wat? Goes like oil and water.

Log back into your router's setup page, reset the SSID passwords for either or both the 2.4GHz and 5GHz networks, and use (even just temporarily) simpler passwords. Then connect your phone, using the newly created passwords, to whichever network to do your restore. You're unnecessarily limiting yourself by thinking your phone can only connect to one or the other. Since you changed the password before, just change them again.

From what you say I suspect that the battery is dying, though diagnosing without having seen the device is always uncertain. But if you've taken scissors to the charging port and it no longer works then it sounds highly likely that you've damaged the port as well (charging ports contain relatively delicate electrical contacts, so sticking hard foreign objects into them is risky).

Can't say what a red flashing light means because that type of thing will depend on the device.

So yeah, I'd say get someone to look at it. If it is just the battery and charging port then these things should be fixable (but make clear to the repairer that you don't want it reset: manufacturer's service centres tend to do that, smaller shops probably not but best to make sure). And please take a backup of anything important as soon as it's working: if data are only on the device they can easily be lost if anything happens to it.

dvake said:

Hey
How do i hide location from game developer?

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Depends on how they are tracking your location, and whether the game requires that to work.

An offline game that does not require location should not even ask for the permission. If it does then you can deny the permission, but frankly I would avoid an app that wants location access when it's not needed for its function (note though that with some apps and some Android versions you may need to enable location for bluetooth features to work, so there may be reasons an app wants location access which are not obvious).

An online game will be able to infer something about your location from your IP address (though not very precisely: it tells them more about how your provider organises their infrastructure than about where you are, and may be hundreds on km from your actual location). But that will tell them what country you are in, so if that is what you are trying to hide then a VPN would be the simplest solution.

At the other extreme, something like Pokemon Go needs to know your precise location to work, and there's nothing you can do about that apart from not play.

What do you mean that an apk file is crashing? And apk is an app installer package, not an app, so do you mean that you are unable to install from apks? If so, where are you getting them from?

If you just mean that apps are crashing, has this just started (i.e. did the same apps work previously)? Has anything changed (updates, phone got wet,...)?

Dannydet said:

See? Proves I know jack *hit about politics!!

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Democrats want to spend where it would help individuals and families.

The "once called" Republicans want to help any corporation, or wealthy donor, either through tax cuts or regulations. See Iowa for example, enabling so many violations of US child labor law that it's ridiculous.

sirron said:

Yeah, just hoping someone recognized it

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I wish you luck then

spyder said:

Thank you.
You have a really good point. Honestly, I hadn't even considered as I was going on impulse thinking I could over clock it. It's horribly slow (my daily is a pixel 7, so....).
Any advice to speed it up or smooth things out a bit would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks Again

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chuck it off a cliff. it should fly faster than it will run.......LOL


not much you can do as far as speed goes. it can only go as fast as it's processor can run it.

Maybe it's this?
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My understanding is that Media volume is music, video, and such. It's not a notification. More like the call volume.

I paid myself 100.01. I did it to self-comfort. I hate losing.

My 2-year flirtation with foldables is ending. While it's still the best phone I've ever owned, the Z Fold 4 is just too thick to fit into many of the specialized phone mounts I have. I'm selling it and getting a Galaxy S23 Ultra like the Darling Bride's. It'll be the first candybar phone I've owned since the Note 10+! That's really the big complaint I have with the Z Fold (well, that and their plummeting values) and wish you all well with the Z Fold 5 or whatever you end up with. It's an awesome device!

UPDATE:

I put my Z Fold 4 on ebay with a 10-day auction; and it's heartbreaking how the Z Folds drop half their value as soon as the seal on the box is broken. A phone not even 9 months old is lucky to draw $850... I'm quite happy with the S23 Ultra. I vaguely recall the huge screen, but this screen is more than adequate and this onboard S Pen makes up for it. I'm glad you folks love the Z Fold: but keep it until it wears out because the resale value will disappoint you.

Greetings - thanks for any help you can offer -- I downloaded a React Native template from instamobile.io but I cannot figure out how to load the files as a project in Android Studio -- Can anyone help me understand this? I'm so grateful for any help you can offer...

Thank you