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Samsung J2 pro will not update software?

It's certainly possible that a low-end device might not have received any updates. All phones stop getting updates at some point, and budget devices stop getting them sooner. Samsung have recently become quite good with updates for their higher-end devices and even mid-rangers, but it's possible that a 2018 budget device that was only released in some regions might have been neglected.

But to check, I looked on Sammobile.com to see whether such an update existed. They list 2 SM-J250G variants for Australia, which they call OPP and XSA (neither of those obviously says "Telstra" to me). Both are showing 7.1.1 as the most recent firmware version. In fact, contrary to what GSMArena says, I haven't found any SM-J250 variant in any country where anything higher than 7.1.1 is available (the search interface doesn't let me look at a list of all variants in all countries, so I've just tried half a dozen or so, but it's the same story with all of them). So to be honest it's not looking good, especially since Android 8 came out in 2017 (so before the J2 Pro was released, though again it's not uncommon for lower-end devices to be released with older OS versions) - if they have not released an update by now it doesn't seem very likely (though my old Note 10.1 tablet did receive a surprise OS update after a 2 year gap - Sammy can be capricious about these things!).

Help Cannot find Android/data/com.android.providers.media folder.

I'm using LG V50 ThinQ, which runs Android 11. I thought my album thumbnails are corrupted, so I want to delete albumthumbs folder. But I could not found Android/data/com.android.providers.media folder on the app X-plore. Should I connect via computer to find and delete com.android.providers.media folder?

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Voice to Text wo google?

Milo. Thanks. It took me a couple days of trying things and waiting for answers to tech questions to companies but none replaces the Voice to Text engine in android. Even Dragon dictates into its own notepad and then you would copy and paste that into your texting program. SpeechTexter does similar but also says that it uses the google engine for what it does. Well what good is that? That's probably why all these apps say they need network connection permission to operate.

Even if I could get the google engine to only work in offline mode only and not interact with google servers that would be acceptable but I don't see how to do that. Not that I'm doing anything secret just that I think it's a good idea to get google out of the loop in as many ways as possible, while, yes, still being on an android, even google, phone. Is there no way to do that?
Depending on how good of a speaker and clear your voice is, mine jumbles when speaking even to my google assisstance :)

Re: 3GPP

For the FE-ICIC and/or CRS-IC features, what does the channel estimation algorithm look like? Is the interference cancellation only on the interfering cell(s) only or are there multiple iterations that include both the serving and interfering cells? How many iterations/what is the stopping criteria? How is it different between colliding CRS and non-colliding CRS?



For the NAICS or other non IRC based techniques that suppress intercell interference, what is the receiver that is used? Is it iterative interference cancellation or a reduced complexity maximum likelihood (R-ML) detector? If iterative interference cancellation, is the decoder within the iteration? Are there any techniques in the iterations which are suboptimal but are meant to reduce complexity? If R-ML, which particular R-ML technique is used? Please provide details if you can about the specifics of the reduced complexity technique.



Same question as above but for the SU-MIMO and MU-MIMO receiver.

Thank you VERY much!

"loved" texts repeating

Loved I doubt there's much you can do apart from ask the iPhone owners to stop, or switch the group to a cross-platform system like WhatsApp which would work the same for everyone. To your phone these are presumably just ordinary messages, and treated as such.

The problem is that iPhone owners will be communicating via iMessage, which is an IP-based message system, so for them it will be sending a custom flag to make an icon appear. But to non-iOS devices it sends regular sms, and it seems that Apple have chosen to send copies of messages for likes rather than just not send this stuff to non-iOS users. In other words it's a poor implementation by Apple. I doubt they have provided an option not to send these to non-iOS users, but you'd need to look through iMessage settings to see.

Of course people could complain to Apple, but since it took several years and a class action to get them to provide a solution to their iMessage deregistration bug (which put people off switching) it's unlikely they will do anything to make it less annoying for non-iOS users - they may even think that some of their customers will believe this is a problem with other platforms rather than a bad design by Apple and so it will help lock them in.

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