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Can't decide between the S22 Ultra or the Z Fold 4

The_Chief
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.
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Archived KeyBank App

Soapm
svim said:

BlackBerry KEY2 - Full phone specifications

www.gsmarena.com www.gsmarena.com

A Blackberry still in use, neat. I do miss having a phone with a physical keyboard, I'm still not completely comfortable with the now typical software-driven virtual keyboards.
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I'll tell you a secret, the job I had in corporate America started us on Motorola then Blackberry's two way pagers. You do remember pagers before cell phones don't you? Then they gave us 6200's which was my very first cell phone. I haven't owned every model because I keep things until they die, but it's pretty much the only phone I've ever carried.

I tried a touch screen for a solid month and just couldn't live without my keyboard. So I gave that phone to my daughter and we've been together since. I still have my KeyOne but the space bar skips but it's my backup. What's really sad is Blackberry took the HUB and all their apps out of the play store so the island really feels lonely. I was thinking of getting a Titan but I don't know what I'd do without the HUB. I'm spoiled by everything being in one place.
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Help Identify App by Icon?

M
nickdalzell said:
That's not an app, that's the 'finishing update' screen for Android 12. Each Android version (ever since they got rid of dessert names) has its own icon. If you were to pull the notification bar down, under that icon it will have a filling progress bar saying 'finishing update process' and eventually you'll get a pop-up saying 'your device has been updated [OK]'

The device has just gotten Android 12. Android 11, the previous version, would have had a stylized 'R' for its icon for the same reason. Android 10 had a 'Q'. These are remnants of the dessert naming scheme, with Q being for Quince Tart, R being Red Velvet, and of course, in your case, S being Snow Cone.
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Thank you!
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Unlock an HTC Phone

B
Thank you ocnbrze, I have looked at the back of the phone and I can see the following:

CE2200
Model 2PS6200 M10h

Is that of any help to you. Thanks again for coming in on my query.

obriar, thank you for your input, what you say is obviously absolutely correct. However, I'm sure that this must have happened many times, and for those who forget their pattern, there must be a way for them to get over the problem. I haven't used the HTC phone for probably 6 years or more but I thought it might come in handy as a backup phone.
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transfer video less than a minute to laptop

ocnbrze
what about google photos? as long as your google account gets sync'd so does your photos.

go here on any browser and sign in to your google account:
photos.google.com

Google Photos: Edit, Organize, Search, and Backup Your Photos

Edit and enhance photos with AI-powered features like Magic Eraser and Unblur on Google Photos. Store, organize & search your memories.
photos.google.com photos.google.com

you can then just download the photos to your computer.
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Help ANSWERED How to stop Bluetooth audio to answer a phone call on the phone?

mikedt
ThisWreckage said:
Thank you. I asked the question because people complain that they can't hear me properly when I talk over the Bluetooth headset.
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Sounds like you might need a better Bluetooth headset. :) I've got several BT audio devices, headphones(Bose & Sony), earbuds(Huawei), and a cheap BT beanie hat. And the phone call audio is good on all except the hat, which has a dreadful mic in it. But it's okay for music.
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Open A.I. to contribute to...

amp4ever
Just throwing it out there....

I joined up with these folks to do my part, you are most needed too they need all the help they can get. It is open source and the vision is to create AI that the public is allowed to be involved with. Not tech controlled by a company or the rich. They are behind, though... your aid would be most appreciated. There's lots of ways you can assist too so go check it out and see what you can bring to the table for this worthy cause.

github.com

Open-Assistant/CONTRIBUTING.md at main · LAION-AI/Open-Assistant

OpenAssistant is a chat-based assistant that understands tasks, can interact with third-party systems, and retrieve information dynamically to do so. - Open-Assistant/CONTRIBUTING.md at main · LAIO...
github.com github.com
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moto g22

the screen freezes.........I have to press three or four times to get it...........but this only happens when I lock and unlock the screen........ ..........when I format it.....................everything works perfectly........me when I don't lock the screen ........after I lock and unlock it starts ................and the unknown operator message continues on the screen............ ...... - translation... Mas isso so acontece quandro ? Ques hablas mesnsagem operadaora tu?
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BouncyCastle stopped working on Android 13

M
I have a system service running on Android which uses BouncyCastle to create a "secp256k1" KeyPair. This is the code:
Java: 
KeyPairGenerator keyPairGenerator = KeyPairGenerator.getInstance("ECDSA", "BC");
ECGenParameterSpec ecGenParameterSpec = new ECGenParameterSpec("secp256k1");

And before executing this piece of code I call the setupBouncyCastle method, which is this:
Java: 
    private Provider setupBouncyCastle() {
        final Provider provider = Security.getProvider(BouncyCastleProvider.PROVIDER_NAME);
        if (provider == null) {
            // Web3j will set up the provider lazily when it's first used.
            return provider;
        }
        if (provider.getClass().equals(BouncyCastleProvider.class)) {
            // BC with same package name, shouldn't happen in real life.
            return provider;
        }
        // Android registers its own BC provider. As it might be outdated and might not
        // include
        // all needed ciphers, we substitute it with a known BC bundled in the app.
        // Android's BC has its package rewritten to "com.android.org.bouncycastle" and
        // because
        // of that it's possible to have another BC implementation loaded in VM.
        Security.removeProvider(BouncyCastleProvider.PROVIDER_NAME);
        Security.insertProviderAt(new BouncyCastleProvider(), 1);
        return provider;
    }

This all worked perfectly fine on Android 12L, but I am upgrading to Android 13 and now I get the exception: java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException: no such algorithm: ECDSA for provider BC. Note: This is the same exception that I got on Android 12L if I didn't execute setupBouncyCastle. It seems like this method stopped working on Android 13?

If anybody has some details or an idea of what could be going on would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance!
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Help After hard resetting my phone I can’t go thru the Android initial settings.

ocnbrze
  • HTC
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Corobori said:
Ooo

How strange: the same happened to my wife’s phone. On the top of this the back camera stopped. I tried a hard reset but now I can’t complete the Android Settings process
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what is Ooo? android setting process? can you explain more on what this is. and why can't complete it? error? bootloop? screen froze?

just remember the more details you give, the better we can help.
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Eyesight problems using Android 13

nickdalzell
To demonstrate PWM all one has to do is get an old Samsung Galaxy phone (even an S5) and film it with another device's camera. You'll see similar flickering you once got if you filmed a CRT TV. While when looking at the phone itself you don't see the flicker (some people like me sorta can out of the corner of our eyes) your brain still reacts to it. Looking at any OLED long-term when I used to read ebooks on my phones caused migraines.

I never get headaches of any type when spending long hours in front of my Windows 7 laptop.
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Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra

joe71
jack58 said:
Did NOT get shipped today... third time they did this, tell me a date and didn't happen. When I went online to chat, they gave me a bunch of excuses, this time he said between 27th and March 3rd. When I signed up on the 16th I was told in 2-5 business days, on the 23rd for sure. Isn't this grounds for breaking the contract I signed as I won't have the phone in time for my vacation I'm leaving on this weekend. If phone comes then it will get sent back as I have to sign for it. All phones are paid for so I want to leave T-Mobile now... sick of runarounds.
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Wow this reminds me of the hassle with the nexus 6, my wife ordered mine as soon as it became available, she order it I think in either October or November 2014 it was supposed to be a Christmas gift, I didn't end up getting it till the end of January, first of February. I remember reading that some people waited till June of 2015 for their's
Recently I have been to a few Verizon stores and the only phones they had where budget samsung phones, one had a Z fold flip but if you wanted any of the flagship devices it would be 7-10 days
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