not sure how to help you other than to recommend doing a factory reset, changing your passwords and setting up 2-step verification on all accounts where possible.....that is if you are truly hacked.

hacking is not as simple as it used to be. it is much harder to do. someone can't just access your phone that easily. you or someone would have to download and install an application for remote access. so unless you handed the phone to somebody unsupervised, i doubt it is hacked.

now after a factory reset make sure that you are not installing all of the same apps you previously had. some apps do come with malware mostly in the form of adware. but there can be other malicious malware that can be installed as well.

everything on your phone is set up as applications and every process has an app associated with it......so 500 system apps is not surprising.

i can't explain all of the other stuff you posted. if the police are not alarmed, i would pay no heed to everything else.

i am truly sorry you lost your job. and i hope you have not completely lost your mind yet....lol

i'm no shrink, but i think talking this out with a professional might help your state of mind. i'm not saying you are crazy or that i do not believe you. i'm just saying that it helps if you have someone professional to talk to. i'm a big advocate of taking care of your mental health. i just started using Better Help. it is not free, but well worth it.

If you want a new phone right away check Best Buy, Target, and Walmart for any unlocked Blu phones, some models are around $50 - $80.

But for a temp phone I'd get a used one as recommended above.

Thanks for all the replies. Appreciate it.

That's not much to go on.

What's different about the ones you can see and the ones you can't? Are they in different folders, and if so have you told Photos not to look in some folders (or do the folders have a hidden file called ".nomedia" in them which stops it looking)? Are the ones you can't see downloaded rather than taken with the camera, or things that have been deleted from the device, or...? Has it always been like this or have some images suddenly disappeared? Or gradually disappeared? Are the missing images in the internal storage or on a microSD card, and if they are on a card how long have you had it and where did you buy it from (because a lot of cheap cards are "fakes", which claim to have more space than they really have, and data stored on those are likely to be overwritten)? Can other gallery apps see them? Can you see them with your file browser?

Basically there's more than one possible reason why not all of your images might show, so the more information you can give the better the odds that someone can figure it out. Some of the questions above are just trying to narrow down the possibilities, others are asking about specific problems that might occur.

Predictive text is a feature of the keyboard app, not the operating system, so your options will depend on which keyboard app you use. Hence checking the keyboard app's settings is the best place to start.

As @ocnbrze says, wiping the keyboard app's data is the quickest way to make it forget everything - as long as you aren't using one which backs your data up to "the cloud", in which case you should make sure you wipe anything there too.

But if you are thinking about giving the phone to someone presumably you would factory reset the whole phone first(*)? In which case that will wipe anything it has learned from you and remove any link to your accounts (and delete the keyboard app itself if it isn't the one that comes with the phone). Therefore there would be not need to specifically clear the keyboard data.

Of course if you just mean lend the phone to someone for a few minutes then we're back to wiping the stored vocab. If there are specific words you don't want it to suggest most keyboards allow you to remove specific predictions (try a long press on the word when it comes up as a prediction). If there aren't too many that may be the best solution, since that usually stops it predicting them again, whereas if you just wipe everything many keyboard apps will immediately start learning from what you type once more.

(*) Remember to remove your Google account from the phone before resetting, otherwise the next owner will need your userid and password before they can use it.

I have boios on my sony xperia. Sometimes it's useful

yep i can confirm that is samsung pay.....though that is going away to samsung wallet.

https://www.sammobile.com/news/sams...ay-samsung-pass-store-cards-ids-digital-keys/

Thanks ocnbrze. LOL! I forgot I even posted this. Can you please be a little more specific? The only setting I see that might do that is "Reset to Default Settings".

this one is thru metro pcs but i see boost mobile sells them as well. thanks

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The specs (memory and storage space) seem decent for your head unit. Can you access the standard android settings menu? Go to storage and clear the apps cache and any apps you want to remove would be good. That would speed it up a bit. Also looking at your specs it's only a dual core so it would be deemed as old unfortunately. So the processor might not be up to the task and installing / updating apps on it will slow it right down.

Yes, it is ok for me I'm just going to watch movies while traveling and I'll use google maps for locations! I bought the Xiaomi PAd 5 and it is so good, the display is nice and the performance is really smooth with snapdragon 860! For protection, I'm using a film screen guard from Gadgetshieldz because the display is big and getting unnecessary scratches!

puppykickr said:

Have you installed any screen orientation apps?
Maybe one that lets you put the screen in an orientation that it normally would not do?

I use one that has a habit of turning itself on whenever the device is restarted.

I use Greenify to turn it off automatically, so it does not bother me anymore.

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I don't really use any apps, maps now and then, chrome a lot, gets calls, WhatsApp, Facebook buissness suite, messenger etc I don't use anything out of the ordinary generally.
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Hey! I would like to thank you for this app. Great job!

Svim, Thank You, It works

ocnbrze said:

never heard of them. but they have plenty on Amazon which has a good return policy. if you do not like it just send it back. spigen is always my go to as i have said before. i would give them a go. they quite a bit more on some cases though. but to me, its worth it. they have saved my very expensive z fold 3 from certain ruin.

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I tried out the Spigen kickstand case and while the rest of it is pretty solid the kickstand itself is the worst I've ever encountered. Can't use it in portrait mode and it isn't stable in landscape. Of well, no company gets it right 100% of the time.

And look at what was just announced!
https://9to5google.com/2022/06/22/montblanc-summit-3-wear-os/

I have a 2018 Ford Explorer Platinum running the Sync3 infotainment system. I had no problem plugging in and getting Android Auto until the February 2022 security update. That broke it. As stated, I can unplug my Z Fold 3 from the cable, immediately plug in my Darling Bride's Note 10+ and Android Auto starts right up. That eliminates the head unit and cable, leaving only the phone.

A quick look in the Samsung Members app Community shows dozens of users, all owning newer model Galaxy phones, experiencing the same problem. I sideloaded the Android Auto 7.7 version that fixed the S22... it doesn't fix the Z Fold 3. Now I'm on the very latest: the 7.8.1223 beta and it doesn't work. Of course, sending error reports and log files to Samsung is an exercise in futility because the files don't show enough data. They keep wanting me to set the logger buffer size to 16MB - but the Z Fold 3 has a maximum buffer size of 8MB.

Airbender said:

Found them! I had to uninstall, then re-install

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When i read first massage, I wanna advice you re-install app

Does the Pixel 6 not have the option to turn off the gestures and use the old-style buttons instead? My wife's Pixel 5 (running android 12) does, as did my old Pixel 2, so I'd expect the 6 to be the same. Maybe search the settings for "gestures", since that's where it used to be on my Pixel 2.

To be honest I use the buttons myself, simply because it is faster and more reliable than the task switching gesture (swipe up and pause is unavoidably slower, and even as someone who is comfortable switching between UIs I find it more error prone than any other navigation method Android has had in the 12 years I've been using it).

I currently have a Galaxy s21, and I don't have (and have never heard of) this "press where the home button should be" function. It doesn't exist on my phone even if I use Samsung's launcher (I tested that after reading this), and I've never met it on any previous phone (though I've not owned older Samsungs). So I'm not optimistic about this one: my guess is that it may have been a Samsung addition that Samsung have dropped at some point since the Note 8 (they do that).

I've never used the Samsung keyboard, but there are plenty of keyboards which offer theming (including high contrast boards and outlined keys) and height adjustment. Are you sure GBoard can't do that? I don't have it installed currently so can't test myself. I know SwiftKey can, if you want something with a decent predictive text engine and aren't allergic to Microsoft (no worse than Google or Samsung in my book).

Sandy Shaw said:

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Went into settings - Display and set to LIGHT and VIVID. White Balance set at full on to WARM. Max for R and G and half way for B. Adaptive Brightness is on. Brightness set at 50%.
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So what you're doing is apparently going into your A52's Settings menu and changing Display options but it's important you keep in mind that this affects your phone's screen. Or in other words, the changes you make affect how everything appears to you on your phone so this may change how your pictures appear but it also involves everything you do on your phone. You're changing the phone's display properties but not correcting the actual photo files themselves (the former can always be changed back again, just re-do what options you changed, the latter will be more involved.)
I'd recommend to instead look into do some color correcting to either a) tweaking your Camera app to make changes in how your resulting photos appear and/or b) use a good, fully extensive photo editor app on your phone or application on a computer. This way, your photos themselves will show more of those reds whether you're viewing them on your phone, or on a different mobile device, or on a computer, or when you send them out to friends and family. When you just try to make the phone's screen different, the photos will look different too, but that's just when you're using your phone. If instead make your photos look different, that makes your photos look that way no matter they're being viewed.

If you do want to optimize your phone's Camera app, use the Settings menu in the Camera app (... just to differentiate that's your Camera app's Settings menu, not your phone's Settings menu. The former will only affect the Camera app, the latter affects your phone's display)
https://downloadcenter.samsung.com/...01083/SAM_A526_EN_UM_OS12_041322_FINAL_AC.pdf
(see pg. 46)
Skip using the preset Modes, those are each set up to meet specific criteria for specific situations that aren't necessarily going to apply to something like bringing up the 'red' tones. Select the 'Pro' mode where all the camera options are at their defaults and it's all on you to manually tweak what options to alter and how much or leave as is. Spend a lot of time experimenting and take lots of test shots to get more familiar with that changes what. A lot of things will require a balancing act on your part -- i.e. if you change the aperture to boost lighter areas that may make the darker ones too light or too muddy.
It's not going to an easy task to make those pictures you take to capture those same images you see out in the horizon. There's a fundamental difference between how a smartphone camera sensor captures photo images and how our eyeballs take in what we see.

My son came over and cooked burgers on the bbq. My daughter is out of state. With my new wife we have a bun in the oven! A girl!

Yes, I have spent many hours on the phone with them with no fix

I didn't say a thing....

Hadron said:

A golfing app? That's grounds for divorce right there

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How dare them lol