Hadron said:

I don't know from your description whether this is the default system notification tone: on my s21 that's 5 notes rather than 4

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Just to update, I was wrong and it is 5. Since turning on the notification history I have identified one that made the sound without a message. It was Samsung keyboard. God only knows what triggered that but I went back into show system apps in Notifications and found it, along with a load more that I didn't see first time around. I've turned them all off. That was the only one that's popped up since the initial clearout so it's looking good.

I much prefer Q4OS + Trinity DE. It is one of very few modern distros that caters to those of us remaining who miss skeuomorphism. If I wanted a flat UI I'd go back to MS-DOS or CP/M.

Also, bonus points for having Amarok 1.4 over the monstrosity it turned into.

At work we had three employees at one time that had freshly upgraded to S9s, from S3/S4s. All three ultimately did the 'moisture warning' issue and wouldn't charge unless you used wireless.

I still blame USB-C. I have had a hostile relationship with it ever since it became 'mandated' without my approval. Literally NOBODY asked for this.

The 'moisture detected' error was pretty well-known at the time the S9 was the latest thing. search for 'Galaxy S9 design flaw moisture detected' and you'll get tons of results. It's a well known issue. None of the the mentioned phones EVER got wet.

My main gripe with Type C is that it usually always says it's charging but it drains while it says so. I can't trust it. Never had issues with Micro USB at all. EVER. Always worked if it showed it were charging. Even if you got the 'Battery with X or ! inside it' error it would still charge, just slower than normal. I wouldn't wake up to 18% 'charging' like today.

Micro USB also never had Android Auto issues with my Galaxy S5 either. Now, I'm lucky if I don't have to unplug/replug the damn Z Flip 4 five times before it works. The rest are either my Pioneer deck being blank, or it showing 'no signal/icon with ! inside it' and no connectivity (while the outer display shows plenty of signal) or it not responding to touch/voice control.

As harsh as it sounds, I feel whomever decided that USB Type C was a good idea needs to be lined up and shot. Change for change's sake. Micro USB was never an issue if you aren't an idiot. The little USB symbol faces up, for those who don't know. Even when Apple (and Samsung) had that wonky 30-pin connector, there was a visible icon that showed the 'up' side. But hardly anyone read the frelling manual to know that and blamed the wrong person for being an idiot.

Back in 2014 when Type C first launched (on the Nexus 6) the whole selling point was 'it's reversible!' and that was one of the 'remarks' that CrApple fans used to brag about their lightning connector, 'but you can plug it in either way!' So I always figured that was why USB-C happened in the first place. I wish everyone would stop looking to Apple for advice, or who to follow. I wish Android just remained its own thing like it was in Android 2.3, Gingerbread.

ocnbrze said:

your link does not work. a factory reset will do nothing for your facebook account. and just an fyi to get messages from facebook, you need facebook messenger app. it is not done via facebook itself.

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I use Netguard No Root Firewall, and just turn off the wifi/mobile network connection to anything you don't like, be it Google, Facebook/Meta, or Microsoft or Samsung what have you. It's as simple as tapping the wifi/network icon till it shows a slash through it.

Each time I get a permissions request, and disable one or more, it asks about them again on further launches, although sometimes you get a 'don't ask again' option as well.

An app will usually run if you deny the notification request on first launch, but will nag about it each time you open it. It's treated a bit differently than simply turning notifications OFF in settings--Apps--App name.

A more modern issue I deal with is 'this app has been closed because it has a bug [ok][clear cache]'. I find that happens a lot on One UI after Android 13, and so far my only workaround has been to either live without the app in question or disable battery optimization in settings. This is very different from '[app name] has stopped/keeps stopping'

There are so many things that modern Android does that it makes my head spin and long for the simple days of Android 2.3. Today, we get pop-ups (screen overlays), toasts (little bar at the bottom that merely annoys me) bubble notifications (similar to iOS) and icons that clutter the status bar (a problem with Android as a whole, since the beginning, never have liked it).

For example, a way to fully turn off OTA updates is by disabling the screen overlay permission to Software Update and FOTA Updates and anything with the word 'update'. That has completely disabled my phone's ability to interrupt my flow by deciding at the most inopportune time to say 'hey! a new update is available!' hoping you hit the wrong button.

Yes both connected via home wi-fi. I found that your method is supposed to work for Chrome but it appears it only works for tabs open on a PC to sync to a phone. So it's looking more and more like I'm out of luck for get these tabs synced the easy way and will have to do it the hard way. I do appreciate you chiming in.

This seems to happen with certain older apps I still like to use, and only on Android 13/One UI 5.1 devices. It's not a crash, because then it'd say 'app has stopped/app keeps stopping' instead. In this case, it shows 'Angry Birds has been closed because it has a bug' which appears to be a Device Care issue, perhaps it's not liking the resources it wants to use, or it's using too many bits of RAM/CPU, in either case, Device Care is closing the app assuming something is wrong. However, if running Android 12 or below, with One UI 4 or below, it runs without an issue.

Angry Birds 1.6.2 isn't the only time this has popped up, but I do not know how to circumvent the issue. I've turned as many things off in Device Care as I can, but it still happens. The wording 'has been closed' vs ' has closed/stopped' indicates something actually shut the app down, not the app actually crashing. I have had apps crash but the wording is very different, saying 'ES File Explorer has stopped'.

Does anyone know any method to circumvent whatever idiot proofing Samsung has apparently enabled that is shutting apps it thinks 'has bugs' down? I know for certain Angry Birds 1.6.2 has NO bugs at all. It ran fine until the last security patch that upgraded One UI from 5 to 5.1.

EDIT: Fixed the issue by setting battery optimization to unrestricted. Stupid Samsung!!!

You've downloaded an APK of this app and it's not installing?

If you try to install the APK from My Files, you will probably see something saying 'security policy has prevented My Files from installing this app' with options to allow or deny. If you tap allow, it will present some prompts with 'allow once' or 'allow all the time from My Files' and then work. It's no different from having to check 'unknown sources' in older versions of Android.

If it's saying something like 'This app has been closed because it has a bug' that's stupid Samsung Device Care closing it because it doesn't like the app. I have not found any method to circumvent that particular error, it's not crashing because then it'd say '[app name] has stopped' or '[app name] keeps stopping'. The 'closed because it has a bug' has something to do with Device Care thinking something is wrong with the app, maybe it's using resources it doesn't like, but either way it shouldn't even happen, but that's Samsung for ya.

Thank you for the response. I finally fixed the issue by deleting the exchange account from the phone and then reinstalling the exchange account. I believe that somehow the exchange account data became corrupted,

This error message maybe resulted from some exception of an app or background service.

I like rooting for the Padres and they are good enough were they are aired beyond a stream service now and then. I'll be rooting for them when and if I get to see them.

dorolisamelrose said:

This is intended for ease of reading and listening to e-books. 🤔

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its not for all e-books. it is for "Read and Listen" ebooks.....see my previous post.

it seems my pixel 8 only uses the google keyboard for unlocking immediately after a reboot. if I just bring my phone out of dark/sleep mode then my installed keyboard is used.

I wonder how many are still left who remembers or knows how the whole NORAD tracking Santa thing got started?



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I swonney I keep reading the title as 'flip 4'.

At one time Samsung devices if set to auto download on wifi would only let you bypass updating for like three times then it'd force it. The only solution was to turn off auto download over wifi. If you turn screen overlay permission off the updater 'app' it disables the pop-ups. Doesn't stop it from still counting down and updating if set to auto download over wifi though.

I say that about a lot of things, such as streaming services, preferring my collection of DVDs, Blu-Rays, and VHS tapes over paying multiple subscriptions to 'have it all' and end up paying more than a monthly cable price in the end, but people just look at me like I got two heads.

But the reality is the first severe thunderstorm hits, knocks out their internet, and they're sitting staring at a black box while I can still enjoy a movie on VHS or a TV series on DVD.

I also make sure my offline library extends to my phones and tablets and laptops. I got one Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 (2012) filled with my entire Amazon book library. No wifi needed. Original, factory loaded app too. No forced updates or DRM.

My phone has 2K of MP3s on it. Don't need to rely entirely on streaming.

The exceeded connections limit was just one of the many issues I had with Thunderbird. I just went back to what worked for me and still works today. I'll use what continues to work for my entire life if possible. While 3G shutdowns might have killed my HTC Thunderbolt, they can't come into my home and force me to upgrade my wifi router. If the servers for my accounts ultimately break compatibility to those apps I am comfortable using, I'll find other means. I don't give up. I fight constant change. If I'm happy using what I have been for years, just let me do that.

These days, I only consider buying new if 1) the old solution truly does not exist anymore and 2) if it's an actual improvement over what I've been doing. Colour TV was obviously an improvement over black and white TV, but I don't see the improvement with a 4K or other TV that will break in a couple of years when all the content I prefer to watch is standard def and just looks ugly on a modern TV.

Modern cars are too full of screens and 'smarts' I don't want. Plus are totally uncomfortable on long trips. My girlfriend lives 540 miles from me. I still am looking out for an old Buick LeSabre (the last to keep the truly-American couch-like conservative interiors and floaty rides until the marque got replaced) to replace my Saturn ION. I don't like my back being sore or my butt going numb because every car made today is stiff as a board and rides like a military Jeep in that you feel every bump.

If a 'modern' solution just takes something that worked fine and was simple and just makes it endlessly frustrating and worse than it replaces, well, it's not an improvement I want. That's more common now than it ever has been in my entire life.

In the old days (well, if you consider 2009 old, it's still yesterday in my view) there were 'alternative' sites you could plug a YouTube URL into and let it play so even if your browser were 'unsupported' (which wasn't always an Internet Explorer thing, it used to blacklist and block Netscape 9 because it wasn't Firefox to Google) you could get past that. At one point Metacafe was how I viewed YouTube videos that were either country-blocked, private, or blacklisted because they hated Windows 98 SE (I never liked Windows XP so I kept 98 SE going until the rise of SSL pretty much ended it)

Using DDG isn't any harder than Youtube, if you keep the 'video' tab bookmarked, and just search your video there and play it without having to leave the site. It's pretty instant, and it works also for other platforms if you're into the Tiktok or Facecrap.

I pretty much am forced to do it that way if using any Windows 7 machine because today's YouTube is so full of code that even with 8GB of RAM, and a four-core i5 isn't even enough to have it load less than 10 minutes with the browser saying 'not responding' a few times before you can click anything.

It's only useable with an SSD-equipped system. I don't fully trust SSDs. "spinning rust" can always be made to work, while when an SSD dies, it dies for keeps. I will always trust spinning rust more. I got systems well over 30 years old that work fine with their original HDDs. I have already lost a couple of systems due to SSD failures. One is still in the 'dying' phase which means waiting two hours to boot Windows 10, and opening an app like email takes 30 minutes.

A good example of a 'failing' HDD being brought back. Try that with a dead SSD:

ocnbrze said:

reading? is it a graphic novel?which one?

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Wrote back in the early days, of where wonderman and Nick Fury was white.

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