Yeah figured as much. I will just upgrade my phone soon. Thanks for the help guys.

Later

I'm not aware of any Android-wide policy which requires third-party app developers to release to you the data you created within their app.

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Hi, I'm trying to flash a VIVO Y20 but I'm not sure what firmware to flashing program to use,

Could someone please assist,

Thank you

ok another question when i paly games i get 2 icon type buttons in the tray one brings up called game booster and one seems to lock the screen these are not on my a21 that is 9 months old and running the same OS 11 so it has to be on this phone somewhere and when i do the how to turn this off online i get lots of ideas and noe work. none of the suggested way are on my phone. there has to be a way to just get this gone. i disabled game launcher and a bunc of other things and it failed so i reset all the permissions so i would not get so far into messing the phone up and forget what i did.

also how do you take bixby off the phone and gone forever? it is a useless app, about as bad as alexa and hey google. so i had it disabled but it un disabled when i reset the permissions. can't turn off the framework notices or force stop it or disable that part

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Tyvm. But Does/can network service provider / telecom of a cell phone record all the voice calls of a user even if any law enforcement did not ask them to do any such thing against that user? If so then for how long do they keep the data stored before erasing completely?

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I worked for BT for several years, and I know that telcos such as BT do not routinely record phone calls. Not unless there's a specific request by the police, and they must have a warrant. This is in the UK, other countries and jurisdictions maybe different.

Of course there are things like ECHELON, PRISM, and TEMPORA, so could be nothing is really private from law enforcements and govt TLAs.

Dammit, I thought of 'Find Device' about 10 seconds after I signed out the strange phone.

Not anymore at all since the last FDR a week ago.

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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.BlueFoxMobileGaming.TheSecondLight&hl=en_US&gl=US

My Pixel 6a works great on both cell coverage or wifi calling (it seamlessly switches between them.)

..Tom

It was an easy fix, besides not so sure why you are all paranoid, I just tend to the colors folder mostly

I use the Google Podcast app on my Samsung Galaxy A4 Lite. Most of its 32GB storage is full and I think this might be partly because when I remove podcasts from the app, they might still be in my tablet somewhere. I notice that if I look at the storage for the app in Settings, it is the same figure before and after I delete a bunch of podcasts. Do I need to find them somewhere else in the tablet?

Yeah, bud.
Luckily we here at Android Forums will still help out in any way we can, even if it's regarding a fruity phone!!!

Glad to hear you sorted it out!

I wouldn’t say I like such models. As for me, those are outdated. I only divide watches into two categories; the useful electronical ones and pretty. I use good watches at the gym to see how many calories I have burned, what was my heartbeat, and other helpful information. While, I use pretty ones to go to the office, for meetings, celebrations and going out. I buy the last category in luxurious brands and pay thousands for them. I put them in a pretty watch winder too. And that watch you posted is somewhere in the middle; pretty useless

I love Mahjong. It's so relaxing. Who else?

Scammers and spammers send out automated robocalls, every day, by the countless thousands. If a human being answers a call, and actually interacts with it (such as pressing 9 to be removed from the call list - never do that), the value of that number increases on the market.

That said, I can't think of any legitimate reason why anyone would be paid to verify phone numbers as valid. If a person wants messages with coupons or discounts, they should be able to opt-in by providing their own number. My 2c

Normally they are straight, that one has bends in it, like olbriar says compare it to the other one an straighten accordingly.

It should be easy to bend by hand, may want to lay it on a flat surface and use a hammer to gently shape it back to where it belongs.

I am known to the US authorities, specifically the TSA.

Timestamps get stored in each photo file's metadata, and there's an inherent problem involving how different platforms interpret and display metadata. Windows prioritizes that data the way Microsoft prefers, Android the way Google prefers, and on top of all of that there's a really big issue in that any storage media using a FAT-based file system is simply not able to handle file metadata in a proper manner (microSD cards use either FAT32 or exFAT by default). The FAT file system goes back to the 90's, it's now obsolete and simply isn't able to support today's technology.

So there are OS issues, that only get amplified with the limitations with the FAT file system of a SD card.. An example being, the timestamp in the file's metadata will be something like 2022:10:05:16:35:36
or year:month:day:hour:minute:second (note that UTC is the standard for time zones)
If you have a few thousands of photos in your photo library, in a purely logical, numerical sort using that timestamp is simple. But we humans don't necessarily use logic. Here in America we prefer month, date, year and a 12-hour clock tied to time zones to view that same metadata, so doing that same kind of numerical sort involves some background conversion. Now add in how Microsoft and how Google interpret the timestamps in a file metadata, all diluted by FAT limitations. You're using two different operating systems and different ways to check your file dates.
In an ideal world, you would be able to use all your devices (computers, laptops, mobile devices, etc.) that are fully compatible with each other or are all using the same operating system, but here in the real world there are too many commercial interests, profit motives, and just plain tribalism in mindsets. That leaves us to cope with compromises and workarounds with all of our gadgetry.

I'll tentatively suggest you try the Simple Mobile Tools Gallery Pro app instead, it's a pay-for version but only a $1.29
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.simplemobiletools.gallery.pro&hl=en_US&gl=US
The point being, it has a much, much bigger feature set than the Gallery app. Be sure to go into the app's Settings menu to set it up accordingly to customize it to your particular needs -- i.e. there's a lot of options as to how you want the set the date appearance. Year-Month-Day or Month-Day-Year or Month/Day/Year and more, and use the display Sort icon in the top menubar.

If it could use a picture from the gallery then anyone who got hold of the phone would have access. That would be a very bad idea.

Nova launcher prime since my first days of getting an android....

Well my Padres took the 5 seat yesterday after beating the Giants, now we have a 3 game series with the Mets.