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How can I free up storage on my S8?

What happens when you try to move files?

You say that you cannot, but we need to know exactly what you have tried and what app(s) you are using.

Generally, stock apps basically blow chunks- so it may be that if these are what you are using they are full of excess crap.
Plus, the device is pretty old.
Your best bet at this point is to probably ditch as many stock apps as you can and disable them, clearing their data as you do so.

Replace them with
https://www.simplemobiletools.com/
to make it easier to manage the device.

At the very least, start out with the Simple Gallery Pro

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.simplemobiletools.gallery.pro/

and the Simple File Manager Pro

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.simplemobiletools.filemanager.pro/

The device is close to five years old now, so it might be fine for an auxillary unit to use at home, or for other non-crucial use.

It will work fine on just Wi-Fi if need be.
Thanks for the information. I will try to apply it. Thank you again!

Additional App Repositories For F-Droid

As I am sure some here may have noticed, I will get an app from F-Droid before any other appstore.

And as I have a tendency to post large amounts of links to apps there, it has sometimes been an issue when the app link is from a repository not on the F-Droid site or included automatically with the app.

So tonight I thought I might try to remedy some of this by posting some more links, lol.

First, for the official F-Droid app itself, and then for some additional app repositories to be added to that app to increase the amount of apps available.

F-Droid (The app store that respects freedom and privacy) - https://f-droid.org/packages/org.fdroid.fdroid

https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/repo...7B6D966BE743BF0EEE49C2561B9BA39073711F628937A

https://archive.newpipe.net/fdroid/...97DB914A2751FDA1D02FE2039CC0897A462BDB57E7501

https://mobileapp.bitwarden.com/fdr...CC47C561C5726E1C3ED7E686B6DB4B18BAC843A3EFE6C

https://microg.org/fdroid/repo?fing...EB6DAB39B73157451582CBD138E86C468ACC395D14165

Install F-Droid, open it, make your initial settings, then tap each of the repository links above.

Which Mobile CPU Snapdragon or Exynos GPU gives good performance bechmark compared

The camera's processing is what it is, unless you output raw and process it yourself (which some camera apps allow, some don't, but it's a much slower workflow so wouldn't be my first choice with a phone). But I'm not even thinking about quality of interpolation: handling of noise, tone, saturation, contrast, not over-sharpening, these things matter more for the image than simple pixel count. All phones use small sensors and are increasingly reliant on computational photography techniques, such as taking many underexposed pictures rapidly and combining them (stuff which you, as the user, never see going on). And spec sheets don't show any of this stuff. This is why I say that the way to judge a phone camera is to look at the pictures it takes and decide whether they are good enough (independent reviews or photos taken by users, not samples produced by the company themselves - more than one company has passed-off photos taken using professional cameras as phone samples).

But as a general point, you can never get 64MP images from a 48MP camera or whatever. Sure, there is upscaling software of increasing sophistication out there (the more sophisticated tools cost around $100 for a license, and require a real computer rather than a phone), but you can't create information this way, it's still just using a mixture of interpolation and using learned patterns to insert guesses at the detail that isn't recorded.

More seriously, don't assume that higher resolution = better camera. Most of these "64 MP" cameras produce 16MP output by default (pixel-binning, 4 pixels -> 1), while "48 MP" defaults to 12 MP. And while they generally have a mode that can output the full resolution, don't use it in anything other than bright light and don't assume that it will resolve as much extra detail as it sounds (I've looked at samples, such as in reviews on gsmarena.com, and often low-contrast detail, such as foliage, is smeared away by the noise you get with many small pixels, each of which is not collecting much light). And if the lens is not sharp it won't matter how high resolution the sensor is. So as I say, I judge phone cameras by the images they produce and not from specs.

(Also, as a final comment on phone specs, remember that a 64MP sensor only delivers 15% more resolution than a 48MP sensor, which is about the limit of what is perceivable when looking at an image of a reasonably large screen, and probably completely invisible when looking on a phone screen. This is because resolution improves as the square root of the number of pixels. And at this level differences in lens quality will matter far more than differences in pixel count).

I think I can't really advise on the last points because your usage is so different from mine. I hardly record video at all, so sequential write speed doesn't matter to me, and hence I have no reason to know whether these different things make a difference in reality - though UHS 2.1 is old technology, so presumably that's the manufacturer cutting costs. As for battery, I'd try to find reviews which test the actual battery life of the device rather than just look at the capacity: your table shows a longer battery life for the Poco despite a smaller battery, which can happen if the components are more efficient, but the question is how did they test the battery life (i.e. does their test reflect what you would use it for)? So maybe find some other reviews of these devices and see whether they agree about which device has the best battery life (e.g. GSMArena's reviews report a better battery life for the M51 than the X3 Pro, which makes sense for a larger battery and a more efficient processor). But also try to judge what you want in terms of battery life, and how that compares to other factors: unless you are like me, where one factor trumps all others to a huge extent, it will be a balance of factors, in which case "what is good enough?" is as important as "what is best?".

Slide from one html page to another

I am making an android book app with java using web view and my pages in html. As I am new to this, I am trying to find how to slide from one html page to another instead of clicking buttons. please if you know how , set an example because like I said I am new to this.

here is a link to the app I made if you want to have a look(its very small for testing purposes, with 3 pages).

https://github.com/Philip2021-Gr/book-app-sliding-between-html-files

So far no one gave me any reliable answer that refers to a rookie like me in coding nor i find a video tutorial that saws how to do that with html pages that are stored in your assets folder.

I hope some one sees this tread and try to help me cause I am struggling for weeks now with this problem.

Trasferimento chiamate di numeri a scelta

Hello, this is an English speaking site, please use Google translate to translate your question, cheers

Translation.

(Hello everyone, I have a question that I ask here because I own a MI 11lite, but which I assume about any terminal. I have not found anything on the forum or on the internet in general that can help me.
Let me explain briefly, I have an address book made up of personal numbers and work numbers, not being able to change the number I would like to be able to forward 8 work contacts to another terminal with another number. Is there any setting or app that allows me to do this ??
Thanks )



Ciao a tutti, ho una domanda che faccio qui perche possessore di un MI 11lite, ma che Presumo riguardo qualsiasi terminale. Non ho trovato nulla sul forum o su internet in generale che mi possa aiutare.
Spiego brevemente, ho una rubrica composta da numeri personali e numeri di lavoro, non potendo cambiare numero vorrei poter inoltrare 8 contatti di lavoro verso un altro terminale con un altro numero. C'è qualche impostazione o app che mi permette di fare questo??
Grazie

Help Mirror A7 camera view to Tab A tablet

If you get the F-Droid app, and install the Izzysoft repo, you can try out spyNet Camera.

https://www.f-droid.org/

https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/repo...7B6D966BE743BF0EEE49C2561B9BA39073711F628937A

Sorry, I could not provide a more simple link.

The app looks promising, however.

Plus, you will have the bonus of F-Droid and the awesome Izzysoft repository on it!

Storage is shrinking despite having apps installing to SD card.

Ditch the whole idea of moving apps to the SD.
It was a bad idea to begin with, for a myriad of reasons.

A device that old (any device, really- even modern) will only function well with as much open memory as it has RAM.

Keep your used memory at 70% or below, and put your personal media (pics, videos, documents) on the SD card.

Does connecting to computer via USB reduce smartphone's battery lifecycle?

Well yeah, that's going to affect the overall lifespan of the battery but it's also very dependent on how long you're leaving your phone plugged in to that USB port, and there are a lot of variables.
-- Which type of USB port you plug into is a factor -- USB 3.x ports can supply more amperage than USB 2.x ports
-- A typical USB cable is going to have wires/connectors dedicated solely to power transfer and to data transfer so your phone is always going to automatically link itself to receive power, essentially a lower-level firmware function, but data transfer connectivity is more of just a software thing (how your Android OS is configured and if you, the user, initiate something like file sharing or remote access).
-- Your phone's battery has a set number of life cycles and that's a given. A very loose, very generic number that's commonly used is 500 or so. But each time you charge your phone, that's not just minus one life cycle (i.e. 499), it's an accumulative matter so if the battery gets a 25% charge every time you plug it in than it takes four times to equal one life cycle down (4 x .25 = 1), or if only 10% each time than it would take 10 times to be the equivalent of one life cycle down. Whittle away one life cycle at time from that 500 number and that's approximately how long before your battery will last. Keep in mind while every battery has a life cycle limit, that 500 number is more of a low-balling estimate. Most will last longer, but that's also dependent on how your charge your phone. If you run it down to single digits of a charge each time, that's going to drastically reduce it's overall life.
-- A good source on learning about batteries in general is the Battery University site. Its articles get updated on a regular basis so you're much less likely to read out-of-date or inaccurate facts there, something that's often a big problem online.
https://batteryuniversity.com/articles

So you need to take in all the variables involved that apply to your particular situation, and then see if it's actually something to worry about. If you do a lot of file transfers and leave your phone plugged in for long periods of time, it may be something to consider. If it's just a matter of a few minutes each day, the numbers don't add up to anything significant.

Hook, Line and Sinker: the book

I agree. There should be some kind of Library of Congress for images. Maybe some day there will be. It shouldn't be this hard to find a book. Maybe I'll get lucky at some garage sale.
Considering how obscure it is, if I were you I'd just spend four bucks and buy one on Amazon. I think your odds of stumbling upon it at a garage sale are about as remote as walking on the face of the sun. :o

Complains about Android Studio 2020.3.1 patch2...

Hi everyone,
My name is Stephane,
I'm 54 years old and I code since 1992.

ASM, C, COBOL, SQL, Visual Basic, Java, Python for my rpi4,
a little bit of C++ and C# and HTML, PHP, Javascript, CSS.

I learned VB with win95 and early Soundblaster card.
The introduction in the visual programming era was astonishing.
(early voice recognition milestones btw)
At that time, It was war between Soundblaster VS AdLib.

I worked on a Risc6000 and C language. The lab was ENORMOUS !!!
24 inches crt on all desk like 10 of them, The heat was elevated I would say.
X was the only window manager in Unix available. It's was 1997~.

so IDE's... I know a lot.

Is there someone that ever used Microsoft C IDE or Borderland Turbo C
in this forum :) let me know.

So complains below.

Android Studio
Artic Fox 2020.3.1 patch 2
(coding in Java for API 23)
I7 labtop with 16gb ram
hp zbook 15

number 1. I am working on apps that use internet/network resources...
so each time I start a new "empty activity", I must modify
AndroidManifest.xml to include

<uses-permission blabla ...

Sorry but I have to do the mod. each time ?
that's a nono would you say?.

any suggestion ?

number 2. Simple url call to a php...
Documentation is a nightmare !
We can go back to 2015 in youtube or websites
about OkHttp and URL object declaration.
I even tough that buying a book about Android Studio
was a good idea... du!
I even tried the option cleartext in AndroidManifest and an OBSCURE xml
in res/xml/ folder referenced by Android Manifest file.
So I need a way to make sure I'm using the
good information for my version of Android Studio (I would say current)
and the API and my goal for my project.

URL url = new URL("http://somesite.com?zetestparam=temp")

I tried in Java and Kotlin, try-error for 3 weeks... :( that's enough.
(I uploaded a java source file example)

number 3. Option "alt+enter" auto import resources...
(a bug in my installation ?)

The option "alt+enter" auto import resources when pointing the
mouse in the code window is not available so I need to search
each time for the proper import line of code to insert. Jezz... this is a tough one :(

number 4. The option to copy the project to another folder...
Let's say that you've created a small activity and your would like to branch
in 2...
you cannot simply copy the folder to another place because
the first line in your java source is "package com.something.bla.bla"
Java code / public class declaration must have a single location.

number 5. Kotlin code should highlight in a different color/theme ?
I mixed java and Kotlin. I'll eventually try integrate C ? That's a problem.
In PHP, I can mixe css, html, a curl call, a exec call to a C bin.
that's becoming a problem.

So far, that's my 2 cents of information and requests.
I'm a newb to Android Studio and Java programming.

Like they say in Japanese « Sumimasen » It's my fault
I'm sorry about my long mail
Stephane

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