• After 15+ years, we've made a big change: Android Forums is now Early Bird Club. Learn more here.

Updated

Hot New

Updated

 Browse

Help Where do you find out how long a phone will get updates for?

nickdalzell
I actively seek out phones that NEVER get updates. I personally hate updates. A lot of them change things that should be left alone, or totally re-arrange functions in the app forcing me to relearn everything again, which annoys me, or flatten the UI which I outright despise. Using older phones guarantees I'll never have my flow interrupted by a prompt to 'please update this app to continue using it' or be bothered by a full-screen dialog saying 'a new software update is available for you phone'

I consider lack of updates a feature. However, there's tons of FUD out there that people will get hacked just by using old software. I can assure you that unless you're stupid, that will not happen. In fact, a lot of phones well out of support completely still support some modern apps including payment apps like Walmart or Kroger, and one example is the Galaxy S5. That's 8 years of support. Android support is actually better than Apple. Since Play Services can be updated without the need for an OS update, apps will be supported even on old versions of Android for the foreseeable future, while an iPhone that is a year out of date will have many apps up and stop working asking the user to 'update to iOS xx to continue using this app'.

So while OS support is lacking, app support is not. Also, continuing to consume by buying new phones when your old one works perfectly fine (despite not getting updates) is bad for the planet. e-waste is a horrendous problem that will not be solved by recycling alone. We have to all reduce, reuse, then recycle, in that order. Also, our wallets are bigger when we stop buying new things we don't need.
Click to expand...

Help SOLVED: Where's Android Auto?

The_Chief
My Android Auto, connected by Bluetooth to AAWireless, worked on my drive this morning. It is very frustrating - especially since Google has killed off the phone version of Android Auto.

My only suggestion is to unpair and forget your phone on your Jeep. On your Z Fold 3, unpair and forget your Jeep in Bluetooth settings. Then in Apps, go to Android Auto, clear cache and data. Just nuke it all and restart the phone.

Then start up your Jeep and pair it back with your phone, fingers crossed. If you still have problems and it's a carrier-branded phone, you may want to contact your carrier and report the issue. Then contact Samsung and report the issue (both to the tech support reps and by submitting an error report in the Samsung Members app.
Click to expand...

How To How to Answer Phone

R
It seems to me that everyone has known this for a long time. It's very simple and easy. It seems to me that, on the contrary, in Apple phones, it is difficult, and you can easily get confused. Stupid combinations appear on the screen, which is unclear where to press. That's why I like an android. Lately, I don't even have to answer phone calls very often. There was a time when I was just starting my business, and I was on the phone all day. It was a very difficult time. Now TMC.net is doing this for me. It's actually very cool and makes my life a lot easier.
Click to expand...

WhatsApp chat file; copy, edit and print????

Hadron
You seem to have a very short list of apps you can export to. I just tried on my phone and it offered options including a PDF writer, different email apps (I don't know what "memo" is), upload to Google Drive or other cloud services, even a file manager (to choose where I wrote it to). The list of options can be scrolled, and on my phone ends with "more" which does what it says.

The simplest way is probably to save it to somewhere on the phone and then copy over USB (email is possible if it's not too large, but if there are a lot of media, or just a couple of short videos, it could be too large for that).
Click to expand...

Add values from an array brought from firebase and display them in a label

E
I am doing my project in ionic 6 with angular and a firebase database. I need a typescript function that adds the values fetched from an array that are extracted from a collection in firebase.

Code: 
   async getGastos() {
        const uid = await this.auth.getUid();
        const ruta = 'Usuarios/' + uid + '/Gastos';
        this.firebaseService.getCollection<Gasto>(ruta).subscribe(res => {
            this.gastos = res;
            // this.gastos.forEach(gasto => {
            //     gasto.monto_gasto;
            // });
        });
        this.setTransc()
           }
//Function to fetch the data from the "expenses" collection, the "expense_amount" column and add this data to the "setTransc" function

Code: 
   async getIngresos() {
       const uid = await this.auth.getUid();
       const ruta = 'Usuarios/' + uid + '/Ingresos';
       this.firebaseService.getCollection<Ingreso>(ruta).subscribe(res => {
           this.ingresos = res;
           // this.ingresos.forEach(ingreso => {
           //     ingreso.monto_ingreso
           // });
       this.setTransc()
       });
   }

//Function to fetch the data from the "income" collection, the "expense_amount" column and add this data to the "setTransc" function

Code: 
    setTransc() {
        let sumaGastos = 0;
        this.gastos.forEach(gasto => {
            sumaGastos += gasto.monto_gasto
            console.log("ggg", sumaGastos);
        });

        let sumaIngresos = 0;
        this.ingresos.forEach((ingreso, i) => {
            sumaIngresos += ingreso.monto_ingreso
            console.log("iii", sumaIngresos);
        });
    }

    async todo(){
        await this.getGastos();
        await this.getIngresos();
    }

"setTransc()" function to sum the values of the array, then the "todo()" function has an await since the elements return a promise before being displayed.

It should be noted that I need to press a button for the values to be operated because I don't know how to do it in the background to show it directly in the next view.


hnEfb9G

Thanks in advance and sorry for my bad English.
Click to expand...

Attachments

  • Status app.png
    Status app.png
    149.3 KB · Views: 95

How to replace the default Google account with one of the other Google accounts on Android 10 phone

S
Hello,
I searched the web for this and from all I found the instructions if I understand correctly, are that the first Google account I create on the phone becomes the default and to change that I have remove all my Google accounts by going to 'Settings' then 'Google' then ' >' then 'Manage accounts on this device' then select each account and choose 'Remove account' and finally add the desired default account.
But I would like to know what happens if I remove only my default Google account from my phone when I have multiple accounts? I guess Google have to use one of the other accounts as default but which one?

Also when I go to 'Settings' then 'Google' then '>' Google shows a list of all Google accounts with the default account on top of the list separated with a line from the other accounts. There, if I press on any of the other accounts, I'm sent back to the previous screen 'Google' and the chosen account is now displayed on the place of the default account. This looks as if I'm replacing the default account with one of the other accounts just like that but I can't find anywhere on the web if that's actually what it is.

I will greatly appreciate your help with this
Click to expand...

Can't Set Up ATT Email

S
I just want to say thank you for your detailed reply to my 2nd message. I am going to confess that after I had installed bluemail and went to set up my sbcglobal account suddenly I remembered that ATT had wanted its users to set up an email key, which I had done. When I used that as the password then I was able to set up the account fine with bluemail and probably that was the problem all along. However, why didn't Yahoo (manages ATT email, as you probably know) just tell me that my password wasn't right!!!?? It would have saved me a ton of hassle.
You are so right about the Android issues. Every time I search on-line for a solution to some problem, it takes many tries to find a solution that actually works with my phone. Samsung's help is not all that helpful. I will follow your suggestion to use the Samsung back up. I had, some time back, used the Verizon back up and when I had a problem with my contacts, even a Verizon technician on the phone could not retrieve my contacts backup even though we could see that I had made the back up. So I definitely gave up on that!!
Thanks again!!
Click to expand...

Can I recover with dead screen?

Hadron
The important question is whether it's just the display is dead or whether the touch function is dead too? Because if the touchscreen is operating you may be able to unlock it blind, if you can remember exactly where the keys/pattern dots on the lockscreen are.

Otherwise you might be able to do it if it supported USB OTG: I have recovered data from a phone in that state, entering a PIN using a USB keyboard (using cursor keys to select the numbers, practicing with a phone whose screen did work) and then further fiddling to pair a bluetooth mouse (so that I could drive the phone while mirroring the screen to a TV via USB). It took a lot of patience, but it was possible. However the problem here is in the words "if it supported USB OTG", because as far as I can see from some web searches this phone does not. And if it doesn't then you've no way of inputting any instructions to it if the touchscreen is dead.

Of course if the files are on a removable card then it's easy: remove the card and stick it in either another phone or a USB card reader. If you already have the phone set up for ADB and the computer pre-authorised you might be able to do something that way, but few people do. But if you have to unlock the screen to set anything up then you are probably out of luck unless you can get it repaired (without it being factory reset - official service centres tend to do that with all repairs).
Click to expand...
Load more

Filter

Back
Top Bottom