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Can I separate my phone numbers on my android from my gmail account?

To arrange the ones you already have - tap the avatar on a contact, (you may have to click edit) tap the 3 dot menu and select 'move to another account', click the one you want to move it to. This can be done from anywhere.
To save a new contact - if you're in contacts or the dialer there is s drop-down at the top with your accounts, pick the account to add it to. If you're in Gmail it will add to the account you already in.
The phone app does pull all contacts with phone numbers regardless of where they're saved but Gmail only pulls/uses contacts saved to that account.

switching to Verizon, is that a mistake?

I moved to an area where my Verizon's iffy. ATT is the carrier of choice in my new area. I have another line on my phone with a local ATT phone number, keeping the old Verizon number on another esim. ATT downloads and reception are remarkable, here. Verizon is unremarkable. I am currently running a T-Mobile trial. It is very unremarkable here.

I knew ATT was the service here, because I tried Cricket. I needed ATT over Cricket because I do virtual work and if the cable goes out? I'm dead in the water, so ATT is unlimited without a cap. I need that.

App or Service for broadcasting GPS location

Google Maps and Life360 both will. I found Life360 to work better with iPhones in the mix but Maps works really well too (location sharing). 360 has a free plan that may be perfectly adequate and it will actually follow you around, maps updates every minute or so. 360 has a lot of permissions and sharing going on, Maps does too but it's Google so you probably are already granting them all of that.

Grand X Max + OFFICIAL LOLLIPOP UPDATE FROM ZTE!!!!!!!

But can't you just load another camera app to replace the stock version?
And can a third-party camera app be loaded at the system level when the phone is in a temporary rooted state?
Can the phone be rooted again with third party software after the update is complete? -- I think I have read of a couple terminal apps that put your phone into a rooted state allowing read and write privileges to the phone which I assume would allow access at the system level.
just an fyi that member posted that in 2016. i doubt you will get a response. not familiar with your phone, but there really was not much in terms of a dev community for your phone. all i saw over at xda was how to root the phone. probably, but you would need a cracked version or pirated version of the app. the phone is rooted but not the app.

and looks like the only thing i can find uses kingo root to root the phone:

but why do you want to root this phone? it is so old now.

Go to website by clicking url in file

Saw this post today and just created a simple proof-of-concept PWA (progressive web app) to solve this need for you. You can add it to your Android/iOS home screen and works offline. Works better on desktop though, but if you are using the Samsung keyboard, open the keyboard actions menu and go to Text Editing to click the "Paste" button to paste some text with urls in it. The site extracts the urls automatically and makes them clickable.

LinkMod

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The phones with the best / most accurate compass sensor

I came here from the future (2023) to tell you all that what Android calls a "compass" is really only a simulator these days. Unless you pay for a top of the line android phone - your "compass" is software, using WiFi signals and other data to simulate your location. The hardware version of a "compass" is called a magnetometer and it took me two hours of searching to figure out that my Galaxy A13 does not have one. I am disappointed because I can't contribute to CrowdMag when I only have a "simulator" on my phone. It also points to a larger looming problem with smartphones getting too smart for basic efficiency and people believing they can do things they, in fact, cannot.

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