Try perusing through your A5's Settings menu. There's a Notifications listing to tweak options for the notifications in general, and probably more specifically if you open up the 'SmartThings' app menu in the Apps menu, that's where there are options that pertain just to that app. You can alter how you want things like notifications and app permissions accordingly.
You might find it useful to just sit down and go through all the options in your phone's Settings menu. It's a good way to get familiar with your phone's particular feature set. Note that there are often a lot of contextual options and sub-menus, and some of them need to be accessed in different ways (... some use a gear icon, some a three dot icon, some a hamburger menu, some Google apps/services now just use your account icon. Android user interface rules are pretty chaotic.) Just be careful not to alter too many things at the same time, or at least document what you change. Sometimes you disable an important or necessary service so you want to be able to just enable it again.
You might also want to look through the User Manual for your model:
https://downloadcenter.samsung.com/content/UM/201607/20160706025757976/A500_UG_CA__E2.pdf

Hey there.

Well I decided to swap out the battery and naturally as it often is with technology, I was able to access the boot menu, reset the phone, wipe the data cache and get the damn thing working aha

You really should not put apps onto an SD card.

They take a performance hit, whether you notice it or not.

Also, as you have seen for yourself, the space you can save is minimal at best.

Pretty much, you are trying to put 10lbs of potatoes into a 5lbs bag.

The best thing,for any device is to keep the user memory at around 70%.

That is because apps grow as they are used, and when theyare updated.
Some space must be left available for this, and remember that the system apps are always running too, so they will also need some more space sometimes.

This fact became extremely clear to me when I got a new device and had not filled it with myfavorite apps yet.
The apps that I had put on it, that were the same apps as my other devices, would get much bigger on the new device, and faster.

Why?
Well, because there is more space for them to use- and so they do.
An app on a device that is already overfull will be compromised and not able to grow as is intended.

Yes, this situation sucks.
Memory is a premium.
Yes, I have been in your position, what with the low cost devices that I use, that have limited resources.

The simple solutions?
A device with the memory required to handle all the apps that I want, ie. $$$- or multiple devices.

For $40-$50 I can get another device, and have great performance for my apps.

A bit of a pain?
Sure.
But nothing compared to trying to move apps around with poor results and then constantly monitiring (or trying to) how much memory each app is using.

I have resisted the urge to get a tablet, as they cost much more than a phone that has better specs.

Use your SD card for personal media- pics, videos, documennts, etc.

Use the internal memory for apps.
If there is not enough room, then you need less apps or more memory.

Still, your best option is to stop trying to use any file manager as a way to access media.

File managers are designed to do just that- manage files- moving them, renaming them, etc.- not to view file after file.

Open your media in a media player to do that.

Simple File Manager Pro and Simple Gallery Pro are both excellent choices that work well together.

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

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

Get a SD card, I'll try to post the rest sometime later, a quick internet search or a look on the forums here might be faster though. I'd hate to post the wrong info even though I'm pretty sure I know the answer.

It's been quite awhile lol.

My phone does it by itself, it might be a carrier feature not sure. It just says spam detected, view or dismiss.

Just checked the hamburger menu to see if it was a setting, it says spam & blocked but only shows the messages no other options.

https://specs-tech.com/en/Comparison/zte-blade-a5-2020-vs-zte-avid-579/

I hope others here will verify better, but I suspect the 579 does not support USB OTG connections (On the Go), either because of the hardware or that it runs Android 10 Go Edition (a slimmed back Android OS similar to Nokia 2 series and others).

That link is the closest I can find to verifying that.

ZTE removed most of the specifications on their site.

This also means, as I can recall, the device won't support usb flash drives or MHL TV connections.

Definitely check for OTG capable devices if you want to replace.
GSMArena is usually the best source of detailed device info, but I couldn't find your device listed there.

I want to add some special sound effect on my phone while unlock/lock.

Hello guys, im new here and in android dev. I am making an app for a school project its basically an user created event app, users can create and apply/register for events. The front page should display all events and if u are logged in you can apply/register for any event on the homepage. I am using firebase for backend. My question is how to display event data on the homepage? Without manually making 10 blocks , i want every event that user creates showing up on homepage. With register button of course . Please help❤️

Hello abilnf, have you managed to access the audio stream of the ongoing phone call communication?

On which platform do you listen to and download audiobooks? If you are an Audible user, you can only play them on limited devices because Audible files have DRM protection. If you want to play your audiobooks on many players without limitation, you should use some tools to remove DRM protection first.
Speaking of the useful tool, you can use DumpMedia Audible Converter to remove DRM protection and convert your files to some common formats. It has a fast conversion speed and won't cause quality loss.
After converting, you can play your Audible books on many players. And you have many choices to select.

mikedt said:

I'm not a dev of course, so my advice maybe limited. is your app is trying to override automatic display brightness setting, to dim the display down? Is it happening on certain Android versions, like the more recent ones, e.g. 9, 10, and 11?

One point "block blue light from your screen". Android has that built in, called "Eye Comfort" or similar, in the device's Settings. With various options for it.

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That was one idea in my mind too, but before trying it out I thought let's try doing it manually and I reduced my brightness to the lowest but the popup still came, and it makes sense. The ambient light sensor detects the surrounding light and if it's too bright, it is going to show that popup. Most of the devices are Android 10 and 11 as I can see from stats. And, I know there is a built-in eye care feature in most devices. But they are targeted toward reducing eye strain and protecting eyes. The motive of my app was to help people suffering from migraines. I did good amount of research and there is a specific color of green that helps people with migraines a lot. So hence this app.

Hi!
I am making an app that needs to set the ringer mode to silent, when i run the AudioComponent.Ringer Mode Silent block an error occurs:
“Not allowed to change Do Not Disturb State”, both in companion and in apk.

I granted all the required permissions but still doesn’t work.
I’ve also tried to grant Access to Do not disturb state from the phone’s settings but i haven’t found my app in the list.

Tested with two phones: Samsung J7 pro and Samsung S8+, both with android 9
Thanks
Aakil Working at The Next Hint

sarah9599 said:

What is that pink heart notification for? It is on my boyfriend’s phone
Thanks

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we get this question everyday. the problem is that there are millions upon millions of apps out there....especially ones with a heart icon. so unless it is something like facebook or youtube, most of these threads go unanswered.

a heart icon could be anything from a fitness app to a dating app. its a pretty generic icon.. the only true way to know for sure is to either trust him or just ask him.

groston said:

puppykickr - did are you suggested, but am still getting the popup notification...

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Yeah, I have a newish poop device that is doing the same thing.

I have not found a way around it yet.

The damn thing forced an update during a restart around Father's Day, and all that was updated were a bunch of Google crAPPS that I do not even use, along with about 20 apps that I do not want updated at all.

Security update my @$$.

I also got a bunch of spam in my e-mail inbox as well.

Total poop.

I had to uninstall all the updates to the Google apps and find the versions that I prefer of the others.

I was severely POed about it.

I went through my apps, and discovered that some of the system apps that I could not disable were able to be disabled if I went to Advanced, Battery, and then Disable was able to be used.

This at least allowed me to prevent the forced update from occurring, although I have not yet been able to prevent the pop up notification.

Tonight I will install an app that identifies what apps are producing toast notifications.

Toast Source.

https://m.apkpure.com/toast-source/pl.revanmj.toastsource

I have used it before with great results, although for different reasons.

Hopefully I can identify the turd and eliminate it or at least the screen feces it produces.

maybe it is. you can always send a report to google and inquire, rather than read a lot of speculation over the internet.

to help, i just setup the google assistant and once i did, and accepted the new privacy blurbs (that is associates certain thigns you say with their partners blah blah blah...) i was able to access the google assistant by voice. i attached a screen shot of the setup screen that starts the process. perhaps you can try this too..

Well I don't see that a

Lina dhes said:

No, after restarting my phone it becomes normal. But after some use it comes back to its messed up state. I still don't know what's going on.

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Well if it is still happening, you can either learn to live with it...or .. You can do a factory reset. I really do not see any other solution for you.

Today, I completed one that is 'normally' unsolvable. Took a lot of effort, combining various clues, etc. While I did solve the puzzle (Hard 292), I haven't the foggiest idea of how I might translate my mental gymnastics into computer code...

Ginanefa said:

To be honest, I do everything through a telegram

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Thank you Ginanefa. I was a iPhone user since last 10 years and have purchased my S21 Ultra just two days before. I have zero knowledge on Android world.

Will you please explain a little on what is Telegram? Is there any link that I can follow?

Hey there,

We've built a game with Unity and are trying to implement Play Services. When we build a development build with Unity and test, the play services tooltip pops up and shows that we have logged in and achievements/leaderboards work correctly.

As soon as we build a production build, it stops working. No pop up, trying to manually trigger a login doesn't work. Nothing.

We've added our SHA-1 key from the play console to the play services config and cloud API oauth creds.

For a few days now we've been completely stumped and can't seem to find any guidance outside of it being an issue with the SHA-1 key which we've done everything we can think to do with.

Any other suggestions? Any easy way to debug production builds without integrating something extra?

Thanks in advance!

That's what I thought as well about encrypting APKs I thought it was worth a shot to double check It would have been wonderful if Dahlvik could directly execute encrypted binaries (with HW acceleration)... Like it's common use in the automotive industry to prevent reverse engineering. I think I'll encrypt the senstitive parts of the C/C++ library using Android keystore systems for safe key storage, load the (encrypted) sensitive lib parts in RAM, decrypt them and execute from RAM - Not the optimal solution from security point of view but still better than nothing. I'll also obfuscate the Java code as well, Thanx for the information

1. Android studio successfully recognized my device Xiaomi Redmi 9A

2. I found in my device 3 options related with USB debugging and turn on its. Forth option I try to set on and off, no result. This is all developer options of Redmi9 https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/18AOk8QvcOWNTKwagifWFJUfohZdJ6bm6

ocnbrze said:

https://www.androidgreek.com/how-to...-mi-flash-tool-download-xiaomi-mi-flash-tool/

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Thanks but this is for Windows only.

On every car system I've had, Bluetooth audio always works fine, along with controlling the audio directly from the car controls. Multiple phone manufacturers too....
So I'd say you're gonna be fine.

boyboyds said:

They cannot block anything at the network level.
But I think I found a simple solution - I will change my number tomorrow.
This should work, I should have thought of this right away.
There is some inconvenience in taking this road for obvious reasons - but it is OK.

Thank you for all your replies, I appreciate them all.

-BBDS

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Will they not also charge you money to change phone numbers?

The carriers are complicit in these spam calls and texts.
That is why it will never stop.

The idea that people are being charged to receive such tripe is confirmation in the carriers' part in the spam.