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Best IP Camera App for Chromebook

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Billybronco said:
It will not see my cams if I do a auto search and same results if I try to input the data manually. I have several differnt ip cameras. They all pop up on my andriod using the camhipro app, but that app does not work on the chromebook. Does the chromebook need some special software or extentions? Even if I try plugging in the ip address it says adobe refuses to open.
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chromebooks uses a modified emulated version of android for certain apps. the actual os is chrome os which is different then the chrome browser......which might be a way to use your cameras. have you tried using the chrome browser? does your cameras have a web page in which you can access them?
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Playing music from Music Folder on phone

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Clementine_3 said:
A friend uses Rocket, I've not heard him complain or say he has issues. I use PowerAmp and it works just fine (paid version). I'm guessing there are a decent number of apps to try, I'm just not up to date on them.
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Thanks for replying. My main concern is will a given Android Auto compatible music player, play music that I've placed in my phones local music folder. It appears that Pulsar may, and Rocket may; I'll probably just need to try them.
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No USB Icon in Notifications

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puppykickr said:
Pull down your quick settings menu.
Find the little pencil, the 'edit' icon.

Tap that and then scroll all the way down to find the quick setting tiles that are not active.

Perhaps the USB quick setting tile is there, and can then be moved up into the quick setting tiles that are active.
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puppykickr, Thanks for the suggestion. I looked, but it wasn't in the edit-mode either. I actually didn't think so because it does even show when it's active and connected.
It's become less important since I used the developer-mode to set the default to 'Transfer files'.

X.
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Apps Emulator process is immediately killed in Android Studio

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Hi,

I have installed Android Studio in a new laptop, and now I cannot get AVD to work. When I try to run a device, I get a message
Code: 
"The emulator process for AVD <AVD-name> was killed"
 immediately after launching the device. I have tried with API 29 and 30. I have installed the following tools
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If I try to run the emulator by command line I get:

Code: 
C:\Users\Nuno\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\emulator>emulator.exe -avd Nexus_6_API_30
emulator: Android emulator version 30.6.5.0 (build_id 7324830) (CL:N/A)
handleCpuAcceleration: feature check for hvf
added library vulkan-1.dll
Failed to open /qemu.conf, err: 2
HAX is working and emulator runs in fast virt mode.
emulator: INFO: GrpcServices.cpp:315: Started GRPC server at 127.0.0.1:8554, security: Local
emulator: INFO: EmulatorAdvertisement.cpp:93: Advertising in: C:\Users\Nuno\AppData\Local\Temp\avd\running\pid_11172.ini
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C:\Users\Nuno\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\emulator\qemu\windows-x86_64\qemu-system-x86_64.exe: error while loading state for instance 0x0 of device 'goldfish_pipe'
Failed to sync vcpu reg
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deleteSnapshot: for default_boot
VCPU shutdown request
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emulator: Saving state on exit with session uptime 25 ms
VCPU shutdown request

I think everything is the same as what I had in the other laptop, expect in this one I am using HAXM. But if I unistall HAXM, I cannot launch a device in AVD, and I have to install it again. I don't know if it is related to the issue.

Any ideas?

Thanks, Nuno
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Need new Note

John Jason
mikedt said:
My experience was quite different. for a start I had no problem with carriers. I just swapped my SIM from my Huawei Mate10, I'd been using for over three years, into the new Note20 Ultra, and up it came showing China Unicom 5G service. :) And that's the same SIM I've actually been using for six years now in various phones. That was originally micro size, and I trimmed it down to nano size for one of the Oppo phones I had.

As for the camera, I don't think it sticks out too much, and it seems to be well protected by the silicone case the local Samsung store gave me with the phone. I also used Smart Switch to transfer apps and data from the Huawei to the Samsung, and the only other things I had to do was to sign into various accounts again with a new device, like WeChat, AliPay, etc.
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Very interesting!

First, I had no idea that one could just pare down a micro SIM card to the nano size. Wow!

As for the Smart Switch, I had both phones connected to my home wifi, and I told the Note 20 Ultra to go for it, but after half an hour of trying it never connected and I gave up. But something strange happened. My old Note 3 was rooted and I had an app on it called Root App Delete. Well, Root App Delete is now on my Note 20 Ultra, and there's only one place it could have come from. Yet nothing else from the Note 3 made it. And for kicks I launched Root App Delete on the new Note 20 Ultra and tried to use it to delete a Samsung app that I didn't want, and it popped up a message that it couldn't do so because it required root (the new Note is not rooted). But it also gave me a link that it said would root the phone. I didn't try it, but someday I might.

It has taken me all day, but I have almost everything now installed on the new Note. Most of that time was not installing the apps but trying to remember user names, passwords, account numbers ... gah! The Smart Switch would probably have saved me a lot of work if it had worked. And regarding that, maybe my Note 3 was just too old.

The only big thing left is getting a case to protect the cameras. I had the idea that a case+battery might be a good idea, but most of them just stick on the bottom of the back of the phone and leave the cameras without any protection at all. But I did find this one:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/124477874869?hash=item1cfb75a2b5:g:hJ0AAOSw-u9fN1y6
There is no brand name on it, and it costs $45 for 7000mah, plus it ships from China.
But maybe I should just get a case and a separate battery. Fortunately, there is no rush.
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It's 2021 & we still can't get good quality video/images iphone to android

svim
The issue you're having is a long-standing problem involving transfers of photos and videos as text message attachments. It's not just an Android vs Apple thing, nor is is it directly a RCS vs iMessage matter. Back when email was the more popular way to exchange attached media files, it was only a minor issue when it came to really sizable attachments (higher res files). So 20 MB files were easily transferred, and it made no difference what operating system was on either end (sender or receiver), nor was which email service (i.e. Gmai to Yahoo to Hotmail to whatever). Email protocols were standardized as an industry standard.
But now text messaging is the norm, and it's full of incompatibilities from the start and continues even now. Proprietary standards and protocols prevent seamless interactions, and competing corporations care more about intellectual property much more than they care about their customers/user base. So text messaging, which often takes place only through cellular network exchanges, has a lot of limitations when it involves interactions between different carriers. File attachments are limited to under 1MB with a lot of carriers. So this problem has been around before RCS even came into existence. And that's a big factor in your problem with high res files being automatically scaled down to low res files in transit. As for RCS, Google has been really pushing that to be the text message standard protocol, essentially replacing SMS and MMS, the two protocols that remain as the only standards that all text messaging services support. The problem being SMS and MMS are very, very dated protocols and both have only basic capacity in today's technology. RCS is a modern protocol that is actively developed and supported but currently limited only to the Android platform as Apple has so far refused to support RCS in its iMessage app. So the benefits to RCS are only in the Android side of things. Conversely, Apple's iMessage protocol is also actively developed and well supported but it is limited only to Apple owners. Apple refuses to allow any other platform to use its iMessage standard.
When it comes to a RCS to RCS exchange, file size limits aren't an issue, but keep in mind not every Android text messaging service includes RCS support and not every cellular service support it.. When it comes to iMessage to iMessage exchanges then file size limits aren't a significant issue either. Even though RCS is not Open Source, Google does make its api open for any platform to use. Apple opts not to. So the bottom line falls back to the MMS and it's limited abilities to handle current technology. It's still the most common way for all the different cellular services to exchange file attachments.

If you want to send high res to others, copy it into an online file storage service (Google Drive, MS OneDrive, Dropbox, SpiderOak, etc.), obtain the sharable link for that file, or for a folder with multiple files in it, and just include that link in your text message. Your recipient can view or download the high res content using the link.
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