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Help Root, bootloader and data

svim
Rooting an Android device years ago, say KitKat (2013 ver. 4.4.x) was an easier task and there are a lot less 'friction' involved using a rooted device. Flash forward to now and it's a different scenario -- Google, the phone manufacturers, and cellular service carriers are more 'root' averse, and using a rooted device can be a problem with a lot of banking services and some apps will be a problem (i.e. you cannot load the Netflix app from the Play Store on a rooted device, you have to manually sideload the APK). Plus it's important to keep in mind that simply because rooting can allow you to do more things on your device, it does not necessarily give the knowledge. There's a much better chance you will kill some important function on your phone when it's rooted something you may or may not be able to figure out how to restore. (re-flashing the appropriate ROM is the last resort) It's also easier to just brick your device when it's rooted, and never, never forget that running a rooted device also increases the likelihood of being compromised -- rooting it allows both you and some online idiot easier access to things that were previously restricted and protected.
So be aware rooting isn't the magic fix that a lot of people claim it is -- if you're technically savvy root it but don't forget there are drawbacks, If you're just a typical user than be more cognizant about what you're doing.
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Post Software Update Changes

puppykickr
The display settings, and/or screen lock settings, along with maybe the accessibility settings.

Also check your security settings inside device administrators, because Google recently put some crapware in there that allows apps to do something with your phone lock and/or password (I removed it, so don't remember what it was).

This is exactly why I do not allow updates to my device.

In my experience, 'security updates' and the like are only Google and providers reclaiming devices that we think that we control.

Settings
Developers options
Automatic system updates
(off)

Also, if you had been running a firewall, you might have been able to discover exactly what app(s) were responsible for the update.

Then you could go about disabling, denying permissions, clearing all data, and/or whatever else can be done with such intrusive crAPPS.
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Help Recording phone calls on android 11

puppykickr
Recording of calls was nixxed a few Android versions ago, and Google is in no hurry to make it easy again.

You can, however, use an app like Dingtone that has the ability to record calls.

https://dingtone.en.uptodown.com/android

This will basically work as an extra phone number on your device, but it will use wi-fi or cellular data to make and receive phone calls.
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Two Older Android Phones I've been asked to recover

svim
Encryption of the storage media didn't become a default until Marshmallow (vers. 6) was released in 2015. Prior to that it was a matter where we would have to go into the Settings menu and intentionally enable it. But at that time, Android hardware specs were a lot more resource-starved so depending on the phone model there could be a significant performance hit involved if you did enable it (Android was late to the game and used a software-based encryption for the internal storage media. Apple has always used encrypted media in its phones, and having control over both hardware and software development has also used a more efficient hardware/firmware encryption.)
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Single command shut down?

D
OK, Thanks all. The assistance menu does work, but it just replaces the button push and hold with two taps, so it looks like there is no simple solution. I guess because it's designed primarily for phones, they haven't included a convenient shut off, or the ability to turn off redundant confirmations of actions like a computer os has.
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Droid webcam video disappear and app crash quickly after startup

mikedt
sand1 said:
I have installed droidwebcam client on android 5.5 and Windows 7 about month
ago. Finally I achieved to see the picture from my samsung galaxy smartphone on
PC droid client as well as in the Skype settings video camera. As my mobile internet
speed was slow I was unable to test the video. This week I switched to LTE mobile
internet so it is enough to stream some video. I needed to have Google
Meet talk so I decided to check it beforehand using video testing (GM preview)
in browser on this service.
Indeed after some incorrect attempts to get video (picture) on PC screen and GM preview,
I found correct way, I then stumbled upon permanent video disappearing and PC DroidCamApp crash after several seconds of rendering in Google Meet video testing screen. The error in app events logs - show the crashing module ntdll.dll (C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll) for
DroidCamApp.exe.
It happens permanently in last two days. I tried to uninstall and reinstall new ntdll,
but uninstalling and installing in cmd is not possible, but manual replacement
did not changed nothing in this crash appearing, as well as new DroidCamApp PC
client installation and re-installation the same but latest 6.5.2 version.
I also changed app adb folder with latest adb.exe, AdbWinApi.dll, AdbWinUsbApi.dll,
but no changes.
What could be the reason? What I can do? Maybe it is deeply connected with video
card obsolete issues in ntdll that is not resolvable.
I used such steps to set this video phone-pc interaction:
1) Connect Phone to PC;
2) Enable USB debugging in Android Developers Menu;
3) Open Droidapp on Android;
4) Open DroidApp PC client;
5) Setting usb option on PC client
6) Starting video;
After appearing this video could disappearing
for some time on PC client, then appear
again. But after launching Google Meet test
video, it hangs after several seconds and
cover lower part in grey of video screen.
And I cannot capture video for test.
I suppose that direct video connection in GM
in this way would be also intermittent
and closed quickly as I tested it also
for Zoom two days ago so the video screen
was also partly covered by grey and video stopped
there.
I tried first this official guide -Connect via USB (Android) -https://www.dev47apps.com/droidcam/connect/
where there is instruction to open pc client at first,
but it was more error-prone, with messages that
"check if app is ready and open" and "if the same ip"
as it also happened in another cases. And I noted that
"Allow USB Debugging" almost not appearing in case
I open android app first and randomly when I launch
PC client first, indeed month ago it happened to be.
But it seem the issue is not in the order of connecting
but in swift video disruption in Google Meet at least
and feeble video in PC client and subsequent crash
(due ntdll.dll) as it could disappear and reappear even until it.
What can I do and what could be the reason of it?
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This sounds like a classic case of "DLL Hell", which has always been problem with Windows.
FYI: https://www.techopedia.com/definition/27700/dll-hell
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Help Micro SD card Capacity

mikedt
Eric Note 8 said:
Greater then 1tb already exists for awhile now, prior they were in Asian international markets just swap over to China or India eBay and aliviaba etc. Takes awhile but they're official brands and non name brand versions too at UT own risk
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Yeh, fakes.

FYI I'm in China, and when I required a new large capacity micro-SD, I bought it directly form Samsung, and NOT Alibaba(and the 40,000 thieves), to be sure I was getting the real mccoy.
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Happy New Year 2022

I have done something odd last evening, finished a box set of the t.v. episodes of Bob's Burgers in a sitting, I never ever do that, I was with my buddy sure, but still, I put in a disc and ejected it, and let it rest on forever, but for an odd reason when watching my family puppy, I sat there drunk my hot chocolate and was really tired after getting home around one in the morning. I slept until around eleven a.m.
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