Finally parted ways with this phone back in February! I learned a lot with that phone and the Nexus 4. Good times.

ocnbrze said:

i know some people who have their dogs on a raw meat diet. not sure what cuts of meat they get, but it does sound more expensive.

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The concept of creating dog food with flavors like sirloin or filet mignon is primarily a marketing strategy aimed at appealing to pet owners rather than the dogs themselves. Dogs do not have the same nuanced taste preferences as humans, and their primary considerations are usually based on smell and texture.

While dogs do have taste buds and can distinguish between different flavors, their palates are not as complex as those of humans. They are more attracted to the smell of food rather than the specific flavors. The use of terms like sirloin or filet mignon in dog food branding is meant to suggest high quality or gourmet ingredients to pet owners who may be more likely to purchase such products.

Samsung have begun the roll-out of the stable Android 14, One UI 6.0 release. First to receive it are the international devices, G9**B.

It is a FOTA, (Firmware Over The Air), update and you can check... Settings > Software update... to see if it is available for you. Alternatively, you can connect to the Samsung PC suite, Smart Switch and check via that.

Software information

The turkey did not cook right on the time although after like oh...Two in the afternoon was fully baked.
I had a turkey and guach sammich for dinner, I could not eat the entire thing, after doing some sides..

ocnbrze said:

what? might help others.

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Very strange location: Settings -> Notifications -> General / Do not disturb -> General / Schedules ==>> Flip to Shh – set to off

Here is a unique word search game. Can you see it?
There are 100 levels total and a side story. It is maybe possible to rest your eyes with it

peterh337 said:

I did actually find the auto exposure options in the factory camera app, in the PRO mode.

Not sure they work correctly, or usefully. But better than nothing. Now I need to sort out why the PRO mode gets auto cancelled after a while.

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I was puzzled when you said that Pro mode didn't do AE, because it clearly does. Of course it mislabels the exposure compensation feature as "EV", which are the units you adjust exposure in but as such both the actual (auto) exposure and any compensation you apply are both in EV and so it's a poor choice of label (if they employed any photographers in their camera team they'd know there is a standard exposure compensation symbol).

ocnbrze said:

let us know if that helped or not.

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I will but not until next week.

AugieTN said:

Wife picked these up. They are from Canada.I first tried chicken flavored potato chips in France, and they were the best flavored potato chip I have ever tried. Why Lays hasn't brought this flavor to the states is beyond me. They are delicious.

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I'm still trying to figure out the chicken 'n waffles thing and you want me to give these a go?

Fox Mulder said:

It's an identity crisis- logo is Daily Net and URL is Early Bird.

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Probably a sign of the times....maybe the bird is "transitioning"

I think this "Android TCL TV" is probably a smart TV with the "Android TV" platform built-in, so according to that list you quote it should be supported. But I've never seen one in real life (either a TCL TV or any "Android TV" device) so can't say anything more than that.

I'd start by looking at Settings > Apps > No Root Firewall and seeing whether there is a battery setting in there. If not, try searching the settings.

I'm being imprecise because settings change with both android version and manufacturer, so not knowing what phone we are talking about means it's impossible to say where the setting will be (e.g. I'm using a Galaxy s21, and Samsung are about the worst of the lot for rearranging the Settings in their own way).

A Samsung account is a different thing from a Google account, though it may use the same email address. So having that account associated with the same GMail address doesn't mean that it is receiving your GMails.

And all android phones will have a Google account, even if they don't use the GMail app. So that one is also a red herring (and don't remove it, because that is the one your contacts etc will be stored with, as well as your Play Store account).

Are you receiving multiple notifications as well as multiple tones? Because if other email apps were receiving the messages you should get separate notifications from them, and be able to read the same email in all of them. And when you changed your tone in the GMail app did all of the multiple tones change? If they did then that would suggest that it's the GMail app generating multiple tones rather than different apps doing this. I can only suggest checking the GMail app's settings (including making sure it doesn't have something screwy like the same account synced multiple times - something I've never heard of and wouldn't have guessed possible, but we're dealing with something screwy here so why rule anything out?). Unfortunately I don't use that app myself (it's disabled in fact) so am not familiar with its settings.

Rob said:

Am I being a nitpick or should that be Editor's Choice or Editors' Choice? Seems like the most ironic of typos lol

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It depends:

• One editor: Editor's Choice
• Multiple editors: Editors' Choice
• Illiterate editor(s): Editors Choice

Of course this all depends on the phone still having power (though if you allow Google location history I guess Find My Device might be able to tell you where it was last seen).

PixelCodes said:

I did "format data" and it didn't work.
Then, I factory reset after I found out that it didn't work.

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you are going to have to flash a firmware update(stock rom) and start over.

I would also like to recommend Malwarebytes. ☕

Rob said:

What would you name the bot?

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The new name of the forum gives me an idea for the bot's name: "Bird Bot"!

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Yes right now am playing it but it really is a great game. But since it is terminated no new levels had been added to the rest since 2015.

The Kodi forums are back up and in this thread (Kore 3.0 feedback) it sounds like the dev removed the IMDb link due to the site being unreliable. So it was an intentional change. But other's are asking for the feature to be reinstated or at least offered as an option and I posted the same request.

Thanks for everyone's help but I guess it's in the dev's hands now.

Most likely you can't

rabbit42 said:

Android should make a phone with a better graphics card and with a screen that is slightly wider than normal phone. It should have a slightly bigger memory core. Mobile gaming is on the rise more than ever I just think it would be smart to roll something out ahead of the game. Also because In all personal opinion I absolutely want Android phones to always to better than apple products even though it's not that hard for them. Lmao

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There isn't a company called "android" that makes phones. Google provide the base Android OS, manufacturers who wish to use it customise it to their hardware. So any company that wants to make a specialist gaming phone is free to do so (the OS is provided free, though if you wish to integrate Google services there are conditions), provided they believe that there is a commercial case for doing so. But "Android" won't because "Android" as a manufacturer doesn't exist.

So far nobody in the industry has concluded that this is a proposition worth investing in. You may think they are wrong, you may or may not be right, but it's a gamble that nobody has felt worth taking. Bear in mind that unless you are one of the market leaders the margins in this business are tight (companies the size of LG have pulled out of making phones because they couldn't make a profit), and a niche device will need to command a high price to be profitable, which then cuts the sales potential, making this a tricky balance to get right.

As a technical matter, when you say "with a better graphics card" I'm afraid no phone has a separate graphics card. The SoC (System on a Chip) includes a GPU, and the manufacturer uses that. I don't even know whether it would be feasible to do anything else, i.e. whether any SoC has the necessary connectivity to drive an external GPU (there's no obvious reason to include that in the design, and components integrated into the SoC have advantages in terms of bandwidth and latency). If there is an SoC that can drive an external GPU, and if anyone makes a suitable external GPU, that will be a more expensive solution. If not then you need to make a SoC with a more powerful graphics system, in which case don't you think that the existing SoC manufactures already try to do this?

If you think you can do better you had better have very deep pockets, because SoC design and manufacture is a job for the big boys. So far precisely 2 phone manufacturers design their own SoCs: Apple and Google. Apple have done it all along, Google have only started recently and have yet to catch up with the established manufacturers in most respects (their chips rely on a lot of Samsung IP), and if you think about how much money Google have to burn that tells you how difficult this is to do. Others use SoCs from specialist designers, with Qualcomm leading the game in performance vs power, and Samsung, MediaTek and HiSilicon all lagging to varying degrees (I didn't count Samsung as a manufacturer who make their own SoCs because strictly speaking their processor manufacturer and phone manufacturer are separate companies, though part of the same group, and their best phones actually use Qualcomm SoCs rather than Samsung ones).

So in reality your best bet for a gaming phone is to use the same Snapdragon processors that many current Android flagships use already, and hope that there is a sufficient market for a "slightly wider" phone with gamer branding. And then you hit the other problem that if your device is sufficiently different from the mass market for this to make a difference you need to persuade the game developers to write for your phone rather than just writing for the much larger market of "slightly narrower" phones.

It would depend on the eSIM I guess. The data-only ones I use don't include a phone number, so any texting would have to be via a data connection of some sort. I'm sure you can get some with regular telephony too, but that didn't interest me: I'd have to tell people a different number to use for a week, if they sent me a text they'd pay international text prices, just didn't seem worth the effort.

However I very rarely use SMS these days anyway: with MMS being both inadequate and (on many UK tariffs) expensive, while SMS is quite limited, like a lot of people I've moves most of my messaging to third party internet-based services (WhatsApp, Signal etc). So to be honest I never even bothered checking how/whether I could make that work.

Abhista800 said:

Please how can I change sdk version on rooted phone without bricking your device?

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