I'll close the thread now. Since the above poll did not remotely reflect the national vote tally, no one wins the Hawaii vacation.

Thanks for explaining crappie or crapple.
The Tap Yes worked once yesterday, but not working today. When I choose to get a security code, they never work ("Wrong Code") Where Google sends a list of codes, they don't work either. Again with the "wrong Code".
I guess I have to stick with text message.

Wonder of wonders, the thing somehow reset itself. It seems to be working ok. I guess we were lucky this time.

Wifi would have nothing to do with the phone being paid off or even whether it has an active account. You should still be able to use your wifi even with no SIM installed, just not for Wi-Fi calling.

It's important for me to understand what "bloatware" you're talking about. Did you get your phone from a cell provider? If so, they are notorious for pre-installing and re-installing bloatware... er, "featured content" - Verizon being one of the worst offenders. Most of it (games and their own VZ garbage) can generally be uninstalled or disabled. It's one of the main reasons I always buy my phone unlocked, straight from Samsung.

Here's the downside to disabling updates:

Android is a complex operating system and there are some pretty naughty people out there in Internet Land, looking for vulnerabilities in the Android code they can exploit. There are also good guys trying to do the same thing, so they can alert Google. It's a race: when the good guys find a problem, a security patch is then sent out to manufacturers and carriers to close that vulnerability. Unless you never get online with your smartphone, either on Wi-Fi or cellular data, those are really important security patches that are included in the regular updates that go out. If you deliberately disable updates because you don't want to deal with bloatware or OS features you don't need, it's only a matter of time before your phone is so out of date that it becomes a target for the naughty guys. Anything from keyloggers to a complete takeover of the device is possible. There may be better ways to solve your problem.

Fox Mulder said:

Yes because having the hotspot turned on means the wifi radio in the phone is on and that will draw more power even with no devices connected. How much more is hard to say but anytime you have the individual radios enabled (cell, wifi, Bluetooth, NFC) it will increase battery drain to some degree. Data being passed will increase the drain more.
To find out the actual impact on the battery you would have to try it but as I already stated it would be best to have the phone on a charger while using the hotspot.

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Ah, thanks for that, Fox Mulder. In future, I shall not switch the Hotspot on until I am ready to use it (even though sometimes, I forget to take my phone upstairs to the study, and must go back down for it). When the tethered computer is in use, the phone is always put on the charger.
With appreciation for your help,
S.

Good news, everyone...the tv is ok. Except for the scratch thing, it's fine. The batteries were in the remote wrong. Now we can change the channel and the volume, hooray. I'm glad I thought to check that before I spent any more money on it.

That might be. I think, though, that the real reason was that some silly idiot didn't make sure that Shizuku was actually running before attempting to use Canta. Whether it really cans those nasty, needless apps shoved at us mainly by carriers or just removes them from active duty is another question...

And if it fails a week after you get it the staff will invent excuses to deny you warranty cover (what Tesla have been doing this year with a lot of new cars, widespread enough that it's clearly a company policy).

And if it's anything like what he's done with his social media company, everything you type will be used to train his Large Language Model and you won't be able to opt out of that from the phone itself.

So now they're older and just turning tricks, lol!!!

treb1797 said:

This works great on any blowup doll as well. Just ask @ocnbrze

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i don't know what you are talking about.

Just buy the damn thing already. Jesus H. Christ....

I have a similar problem. I got a Moto G Stylus from Walmart for about $60. It's pretty new but the volume rocker switch is kaput. Since I don't ordinarily mess with sound it would be no big deal EXCEPT...the slider appears randomly and it's at full blast. No matter how many times I tug it down it goes right back, and I never know when it's going to happen.

Yeah, they really needed to explain that one: the assumption that a 4G phone will continue to work is perfectly reasonable, and really only people who follow this stuff closely are likely to know why it might not be.

I was checking out the phone and found that it had sonehow downloaded a bunch of garbage. It said 100 apps (not counting system and such). I deleted more than 20 and dropped % storage used from 33 to 25. Most of them claimed to come from mobile services. How do we prevent this? Also, the phone is supposed to restart at 7 pm to receive an "important" update, just more bloatware. How do we prevent that?

Contact Google and they should be able to help you recover her account.

I live in middle Tennessee and 4 hours from the nearest Navy base (and it's the Navy personnel command). I was at a veterans function in tiny Cowan, Tennessee and told a couple of old ladies that I'm retired Navy. You'd think they would pick up on the word "retired" but alas....

They told me they didn't know there was a Navy base in the area. I couldn't resist it. I told them that we had a very small submarine base on the Duck River (pictured below). They believed me! I put my finger to my lips and told them it was a very small sub base, very secret. (I didn't clarify that the sub base was very small - I sort of implied that the base was for very small subs. Disguised as crawfish.

triplemaya said:

UPDATE!
Thanks for the help everyone. Got there by going through music files -> delete all -> bin -> delete.
Finally.

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Wow.

treb1797 said:

Will this work on my .... Nevermind 😗

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yes.....give it a try. let us know if that worked for you

Go Wings!!!

PitCarver said:

Till death do us part.

Probably right. I've already lived through the "Death" of a lot of good apps that have been abandoned by the original creative team. For years I kept an old version of a certain file manager that was sold to the Chinese.
Old games that are no longer supported on the newer versions of Android.

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Likewise.

Rgarner said:

It's defective and then some. I just avoid it, but it won't return the favor. That vertical slider appears out of nowhere. It"s very hard to get rid of, and almost impossible to change the setting, because it goes right back to where it was. How do I fix it?

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Maybe checkout iFixit: The Free Repair Manual

As this may have the relevant repair information, as well as tools and parts required for the phone or tablet.

Another wifi thingy that pops up everywhere even in the middle of the forest?
Meh..

Wax Bean Tycoon said:

I have all notifications (that I want on) set to on. I have placed yahoo email app and Gmail for Unrestricted battery usage.
But doesn't matter because phone goes into doze mode and I don't get the notifications, at least not for sometimes 10 minutes, 20 minutes after an email arrives. In many cases I wouldn't care, but if there is movement in front of my security camera, I want to be alerted asap, not 25 minutes after lol.
This is a widely experienced thing I'm reading online with doze mode. charging the phone turns doze mode off, and I get all my notifications in a timely manner while plugged in. Also, there are some work-arounds with forcing doze mode off, but it if you restart your phone, it re initiates I guess.

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Oh you mean sleep timer, yeah mine dozes off after fifften seconds, maybe people are busy.