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Blank photos?

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mikedt said:
Check what format your photos are in. Because on some devices, the default is now HEIC for camera images and not JPG. On my Samsung Note20 Ultra, the default is HEIC. It could that your whatever it is app is not recognising HEIC images, but the stock Huawei photo app does, and may be why you're seeing blanks. If it is HEIC, you can probably change it back to JPG in the camera settings.


I believe HEIC(High Effeciency Image Compression) was originally introduced with the iPhone, but is now available on Android as well. As it's a more efficient compression than JPG. However some apps may not recognise HEIC as valid image files, and so need to be updated.
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Nope. It's nothing like that. The photos appear sometimes but more often they don't add it's very frustrating
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updating to gingerbread 2.3

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Hadron said:
A factory reset does not change the operating system version. If the OS has been updated before the update it will remain updated after the update.

All a reset does is wipe the user storage. This removes any apps you have installed, clears their data, and also clears the data of system apps (and hence returns their settings to default). It will remove any updates to system apps made since the last system update (as the updates live in the same storage as user-installed apps), which will return all system apps to the versions that came with the most recent system update. But the Android software itself is unaffected.

The name "factory reset" is a bit misleading: it returns the phone to "factory" state in that there is no user data on it after the reset, but it is the state that a phone with the current system software would be in when leaving the factory, not the state that particular phone was originally in. A system update overwrites the existing system, so the phone no longer has a copy of Android 2.2.1 that it can return to.

In short, back up anything of importance to you as that will be lost, but don't worry about the operating system version changing.
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Thank you very much for your long answer! I appreciate it. I have learned a lot. And it is good news, as well.
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Help Trying to connect Pixel 6 Pro to My Wi-Fi

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No - that did not happen. T-Mobile put the sim card in it and then asked for my Google password. They installed an app called CopyMyData. Then told me they could not get the app to work because their network was too busy. Said to come home and do it. But you have to be connected to wi-fi to use the app. My Google contacts did sync when I connected to my pc with my charging cable. Otherwise I had an out of the box Pixel.
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Recommendations for lesser-known web browsers?

Hadron
This is Android, so there is no actual Safari browser (i.e. the Apple browser). There are a few browsers that use versions of the Safari logo and try to pass themselves off as Safari, but they are fakes. Personally I would avoid a browser that is pretending to be something else - given that people use the web for sensitive things anything that casts doubt on the developer's honesty is a red flag for me.

I personally use Firefox mainly, though I have a number of browsers installed. It works well enough for my usage.
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90s Music / Bands

puppykickr
Type O Negative was great.
Danzig was another favorite.

The Misfits had some of their best stuff. (Yes, I love the stuff with Danzig, but Graves is great, too.)

https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/misfits/digupherbones.html


However...
I absolutely dispise the heroin addled Seattle crap that has plagued the radio and juke boxes ever since it took over the scene, and still putrifies the airwaves with multiple indistinguishable bands that sicken me to death with the most boring 'music' ever.
Nothing like band after band playing slowly (because they are 'nodding' off) in drop D with singers that sound like constipated cats.

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