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Alcatel 3v from metro

Hmm. Still seems as though my Alcatel 3v 5032w experience still tops them all.
I personally wouldn't wish this phone on my worst enemy. I purchased one in April. From April to May I managed to go through 3 of these phones. Day one the phone kept shutting off on me in the middle of anything and everything I was doing. Never wanted to keep the network. Settings never would remain as I set them. I holla back at Metro and me being the poor folk that I am, having put everything I had into getting this stupid phone, didn't have the money (and still don't) to replace it with something different. So Metro exchanges the same phone again. Rude metro peeps made me pay for a whole nother sim which I found out latter to be totally unnecessary. Low and behold that one did me the same. I call, I cuss, I complain and this time they order me one from their 'warehouse'. It does just the same for me as well. Now that I've had to endure this phone for about 8 months now, it almost seems as though it's gotten better to deal with over time. Perhaps my tolerance for it's crappyness just leveled out?
Anyways I wish I knew how to root this thing. Or already how to update the apps that are on it. And an i the only one? There's like 277 system apps on this phone that over half of them aren't even useable.

Can I use Tasker to turn on and off 4G?

Hey! Just saw your reply. Didn't realise you had replied.

2 widgets - I could live with.
I wasn't sure if you meant I CAN do in Tasker... or if I can get widgets that do one of the single functions?

Let me know. Thanks.

Tasker will allow turning on or off various airplane mode items in response to an event, such as a shake of the phone, see screencap, perhaps something like that would do the tricksc_11-21-20_45736.png

Help How do I recover folders and files (docs, images) that disappeared from my gallery and sd card

You seem to have multiple things going on.

First, it appeays that you are in the habit of moving your SD card from device to device.
This is a bad habit.
Get a separate card for each device, and leave it there.

Second, strange and sometimes bad things happen during the updating of apps.
Generally, I also update if one is available, but if the update does not affect my device or has no interest to me (always check the changelog) then I usually will not take the update.
There is an old saying- that you don't update software that is working properly.

Most of the problems I have ever had with software came right after...
you guessed it...
an update.

Now, this may not even be your issue at all.

How did you purchase your SD card?
Was it a name brand from a brick and morter store?
Or was is an 'el cheapo deluxe' in a twin pack that was on sale online?

There are many, many fake cards out there, that are sold as having much more memory than they really do.
They will fill up way before expected, and then crash or lose data in other ways.

For files/folders to just up and vanish off of internal memory is quite a different thing.

Unless something is wrong with the device, you did a factory reset, or deleted the files yourself, then it is exceedingly rare to just lose data.

That is why I suggested the other gallery.
Not only because it is a superior app, but because it may see these files that you cannot otherwise find with the apps you are already using.

Another app you could try is by the same developer, Simple File Manager.
Use the three dot menu in the upper right, then select 'settings'.
Then select 'show hidden files'.

Simple File Manager (A simple file manager for browsing and editing files and directories.) - https://f-droid.org/packages/com.simplemobiletools.filemanager.pro

The idea here is that you may have (hopefully) inadvertently hidden these media from the apps that you have been using, and that these apps will still see the files.

The other reason for you to try these apps is so that it is easier for me to help you, as I (and others on this forum) use the same apps myself- and am completely unfamiliar with your apps (or device for that matter).

This would put us on more common ground.

x96q and lg tv remote

heres the problem

android box x96q max
tv lg oled c8
via hdmi 1 cec not selected

the tv remote keeps changing the tv channel on the android box when i hit enter
no devices are linked to tv.

racking my brains, all i can think is the lg is on the same frequency as the android box

anyone any ideas

cheers

Yeh, could be the TV and Android box are using same IR codes. I think, disable the IR on the Android box, like cover its IR receiver with duct tape so it doesn't "see" the TV remote, and use a Bluetooth remote for the Android box instead.

S20+ Tele Image Resolution is Fake - Only a 1X Optical Lens!

I don't take the DXO Scores as the Bible of Camera ratings, but I find it useful as an information source for relative comparisons between devices. A lot of phone users, especially the younger generation, tends to get very caught up in spec numbers and ratings. Very few people actually fork out $1000 for a new phone. They just pay their monthly fee to cover their service and phone payment and pay $1500 for the phone over 2 years.

These same people might take a DXO score of 120 compared to 116 as an indication the 120 phone is significantly superior to justify in their mind the reason they should upgrade, when in reality the average user wouldn't tell any difference. It reminds me when digital camera sensors started advertising more and more megapixels. The buyer going into Best Buy gravitated towards the camera with more MP, "more is better" is the general way people think and the manufacturers gear their designs and marketing towards that. Later, people digging deeper come to find out, in most cases, more megapixels = more noise. The latest marketing spec hype is the 120hz screen refresh rate in phones and the talk that "oh no, the new iPhone is still only 60hz!" And you go onto YouTube and find all these comparison videos where they have to show the comparison with the video shot at 120fps and slowed down to 1/4 the normal speed to see the difference and talk about how much more "buttery smooth" the phone is! (Umm reality doesn't happen at 1/4 speed.) In most cases, the user would be happier if they left the phone at 60Hz and gained an extra hour of battery life. LOL. But 120hz sounds better than 60hz. More is better.

which devices opens the captive portal page in the browser and which ones opens it in the webview ?

the webview is so limited and if the page opened in it .. there is no way to get out other than closing it and opening it manually ... i want add some functions to my captive portal page that require a browser ... so i want to know if the devices that are common here opens it in the webview or the browser through some list or something.

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