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

No idea how I missed something so easy/obvious. Thank you.

Welcome to AF, I think

svim said:

BlackBerry KEY2 - Full phone specifications

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.

where is this number in whatsapp? is it in a chat? or call?

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!

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.

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:

you can then just download the photos to your computer.

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.

Conversely, I've found NetGuard to be functionally better than NoRoot. Perhaps NoRoot has a nicer user-interface but that's a subjective call. My bias is I prefer to use an app that works better than one that looks better -- i.e. NoRoot doesn't support IPv6 connectivity.