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Pixel Contacts App & Microsoft 365 Accounts

Hadron
I don't actually use MS contacts, even though I do use Nine, but can confirm the same behaviour here: the Pixel contacts app will not offer me the option to add contacts to my Exchange accounts. Funnily enough contacts sync was turned off on my Nine also (though since I don't use its contacts that may have been a choice on my part), but turning it on and rebooting made no difference . But I can't say for sure that this is new because I never stored contacts in any of my Exchange accounts.

(I do notice that the Pixel app does offer device-only contacts, which I'm not sure it always did.)

You can change the default phone app, so if you can find a phone app that allows you to use a different contacts app that would solve it. However my alternate dialer, Simple Dialer, still takes me to the Google contacts app rather than Simple Contacts, which I also have installed but which also does not let me save to the Exchange accounts.

Of course if you just need to add a phone number it's easy: copy the number (which may require starting to add a phone or Google contact) and then create a MS contact using that.

Unfortunately it works the other way too: Nine only shows contacts from my Exchange accounts, so you can't say just create a device-only contact and them import it to your MS contacts book (I don't have Office 365 account details on my phone, but assume it would be similar to Exchange accounts).
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Is there a file manager app which compares folders?

Trom
Can't think of anything, but .. think outside the box. When you plug your telephone into your computer, your pc sees it as just another drive. If this is something that you'll not need to do on a frequent basis, just make a perl, awk, or tcl script to do the comparisons, that's pretty straightforward, should take just a few minutes.
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Help All Google related Services not Working

ObamaLemon
ObamaLemon said:
For the last two days, any application that relies on google services or the google play api in any way has been unusable. This includes chrome, maps, gmail, the play store, any sort of location using app, and even google's calculator. The first time I noticed this problem was when I closed google payments after my phone reported it was using too much battery in the backround. After that, the signs started showing.

First, everything google related was taking forever to load, almost always just crashing. For example, chrome crashes while it tries to load a page, and if maps doesn't immediately crash, it shoes a blank map with the regular UI elements. My battery has been draining extremely fast, however, I don't know how I can view all backround processes like I would on windows. Even some apps that have little to do with google suffer, like discord taking 30 seconds to bring up a keyboard and for typed text to show.

I think something happened to google play services, but I can't find any way to view it (idk if it's an app or something?). If that's not the case, it could also be some sort of crypto mining virus. I used another browser to download bitdefender to do a scan, but nothing came up so idk.

I rarely go to forums, but I am truly stuck. Any advice would be appreciated.
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So I saw an option called uninstall updates, and while I didn't want to do something I couldn't undo, I didn't know what else to do. I took a leap of faith and that fixed it. Thankyou very much to everyone who responded!
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Help White Rectangle at bottom of screen

P
HI I seem to have a similar problem on an s8+ With me it always happens when I push the home button. this makes the phone unusable as that is what I need to do to enter the pin code before I can do anything with it. Prior to that, after a reboot, the display shows ok in that area of the screen, with the usual screen display with the time which is what made me think it must be a software problem.. The 2 phone shops I've been in tell me the display is broken even though it does work ok as I've described... They havent given 'me an explanation of why it works ok some of the time.
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Help Service mode null

mikedt
abc8773 said:
Typed *#0011#
nothing pops up in ServiceMode , neither those MTK engineer mode. Help please i goota restore my imei :(
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I believe *#0011# is specific to certain Samsung phones only, also "MTK" means it's for MediaTek SoC based devices, which Samsung doesn't usually make, and there is no "MTK engineer" mode on Galaxy series phones.

What phone have you got there exactly, make and model?

As for restoring the IMEI, you mean it's blank? That can happen if you root and flash an incorrect firmware for your device. And presumably that's what you've done? A fix for that is to re-flash either the correct manufacturer firmware or custom ROM for your phone.
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Isn't it mandatory to download google-services.json file after updating SHA-1 and SHA-256 keys in fi

S
I am using Firebase for notification purpose and using Google SSO in my app. Google SSO was working fine with debug and release apk generated from my machine. How ever it was not working in the app downloaded from playstore. Then I went to my Play Consoleaccount and copied SHA-1 and SHA-256 keys and added them in Firebase. Then Google SSOstarted working on Playstore Version as well. Even though I didn't download and update google-services.json file after updating the Playstore's SHA-1 and SHA-256, Playstoreversion is working good.

But when I updated Debug and Release key store's SHA-1 and SHA-256 keys, I had to download the updated google-services.json.

My doubt is, isn't it mandatory to download google-services.josn file after updating SHA-1 and SHA-256 keys in firebase.?
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HACKED again

J
Thank you for the info man but I'm a hundred percent on this one. I understand it's they got to be within 10 feet or 30 feet whatever but that is definitely a possibility being in my I'm in my car. But I think you did fill me in on something I don't think it's that I think it's something else. Thank you for all the info keep helping non technology-savvy people like me out man
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Android: How Can i Create Files in another Application's Package?

A
I am developing a custom Watchfaces App in Which i have to Copy/Create Watchface .bin files in Android/data/com.xiomi.hm.health/files/watch_skin_file/59/ into these directory without this my custom watchface app will not be able to apply custom watchfaces. I am new to android file storage development and does not know much about it. but i know that android have made some changes in storage in android 11. Can anyone tell me how can i do this in Android 10 as well as in Android 11. Please guide me exact ways and write sample code. Thanks
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Android 12 lock screen digital clock numbers too big

Kevin-B
One partial solution: if there's a notification icon on the lock screen, the clock shrinks to a smaller, more normal format. I happen to have an app with a persistent notification, so my clock is always smaller and (to my eyes) easier to read than my spouse's identical phone. Also makes it easier to tell our phones apart!

You might find a weather app or something similar you didn't hate with a persistent notification. I'm not a fan of persistent notifications ... but right now I kind of like it.
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How to design a bulletproof phone backup system?

svim
fabyoga said:
H...

The way I see my ideal multi-phone setup working, I see the following five measures to prevent the above five consequences:

1) All phones would have 2FA authentification app installed; hence 2FA will be ensured at all times
2) All phones will be esim based; this will ensure that in case of a lost phone, the SIM number can be immediately transferred to the backup phone
3) All phone will have "Google find your phone" installed; this will allow me to delete all data from any phone remotely, even after losing access
4) Currently most of my data is already cloud-based; my photos are backed-up in google photos; I think this would be covered
5) I think this is the only missing link right now. Ideally I would like to have an app, that allows me to sync the app setup on multiple devices, such that all apps I install on device 1 are automatically installed on device 2 (either auto sync in fixed intervall or on demand).
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1 -- 2FA isn't tied to any phone nor an Android matter, it's implemented by each online service that requires some kind of user login authentication. The issue being not very online service uses it. So it's not an app nor a service that can be installed, it's dependent on each online service to enable it.
3 -- There's a substantial number of people who oddly and perversely own Android devices but also detest and hate Google. They don't want to have services like Find My Device enabled because they simply do not want to Google to be able to track them on a real-time basis and the remote access features it provides is considered to be an invasive violation of their personal space.
5 -- Apple has a very comprehensive backup and restore that's integral to its platform, but Apple also maintains a tight control over its platform both from a hardware and a software aspect. Android is too diverse and multifaceted though so even things like the base file system can vary between one manufacturer to another. So creating a universal backup/restore utility is a tall order. Samsung's Smart Switch isn't as thorough as Apple's Time Machine but close, and it only applies to most but not all of Samsung's product line, and some cursory support for a limited number of non-Samsung devices. But outside of that, actually developing a universal Android backup/restore is going to require something along the lines of AI (Artificial Intelligence) that can scan and categorize incoming content (read a phone's internal storage), and then output that content into a potentially very different directory structure so that content gets copied into the appropriate folders and such, and all basically on-the-fly. Basically that's what happens in our heads when we have to manually transfer the content of an old phone to a new one. (i.e. music files on an old phone in a 'Music' folder get copied into the 'Audio' folder that's in the new phone.)
If you stick with the same manufacturer for all your phones whenever you upgrade to a newer one, you'll have more luck finding a manufacturer's auto-transfer utility. Otherwise, it's just a matter of waiting for the some software development to come along with a workable solution.
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