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S7 died in its sleep

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We had very similar with my wife's S7 except it died when awake. In our case it stopped dead as she was trying to switch off bluetooth when she heard me driving up as she didn't want the phone to pair with the car. The phone showed absolutely no signs of life at all. There was no indication of charging. It didn't respond to press and hold power or power and vol-down or any of the other combinations of home key, vol-up, vol-down, power, plugging in cable etc that you read on the internet. It was dead as a post. She couldn't go long without the phone so we took it to an expert the next day who instantly diagnosed an internal hardware fault that he was unable to repair. It would need a mainboard repair or replace which would cost more than the phone was worth. So we replaced it (with a Samsung A71) and swapped over the SIM and SD and most of the data restored itself from cloud or SD.

The story doesn't end there... After a couple of days I tried charging again and the charging LED was lit, and charging graphics came up. I let it charge right up and it powered up OK but after a few minutes of frantically trying to upload the data that we lost, it died again. The back of the phone was warmer than it should be. I figured that whatever internal fault the mainboard had was causing it to heat up and discharge the battery too fast. So for my next attempt I put it in the freezer overnight. On next re-start, I put it into flight mode and only turned on wifi - needed to upload data. This time we recovered a few photos before it died again. After a few more attempts, I found that I could get all the lost photos off it by freezing it, charging it from frozen to about 30% then powering it up while still cold. I switched off all wireless functions then sat the back of the phone in ice water with a USB drive in the USB port and copied all the files we wanted directly to the USB drive. This was much faster than wifi and clearly wasn't taxing whatever part of the hardware was faulting and causing it to die. I think the ice water helped to keep it cool for longer operation but if I needed to do it again, I'd fashion a waterproof shield around the top half of the phone with aluminium foil and blu-tac so that more of the back of the phone could be submerged. As it was, I needed the USB port above water and if I let the top of the phone dip under the water, the wave of water would activate the swipe down from the top of the screen.

Our fall-back position would have been to send the phone away for a chip-out data recovery for which we were quoted $180NZD with no guarantee of success. This wasn't worth it for the data involved but we were happy to be able to recover what we wanted ourselves.

Good luck if you have the same issue - and try the same fix. Our new phone is setup much better for doing regular backups to the cloud.
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Android 3D Apps for Real-Time Vehicle Hailing

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Dear Android Developer Forum,

If anyone is interested, we have
3D android apps for taxi and delivery hailing
for developer testing.

Perhaps of interest for the forum
is the fact that the android software uses
IEEE Power & Energy Society Multi-Agents,
Telecom packet switching technology,
and was introduced by our staff
to a Graduate Department of Computer
Science in Canada in 2008 - before the
well-known taxi and delivery companies.

If interested see multiagentclub.wordpress.com,
and if you are interested in the technical topics
of android real-time taxi and delivery vehicle
hailing, and digital packet switching for
video clip and vehicle sensor-actuator communications,
we are interested in having a discussion.

Respectfully,
JACK
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Casting without internet

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bcrichster said:
I use a "Miracast" device.. looks kinda like a roku stick but doesn't require any internet connection. So the ScreenCast function should be 100% as long as your device is old enough to still have it in the OS, or you have a custom ROM installed.. since Google removed it from their coding sources to make a monopoly push with their ChromeCast devices.
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Thanks for the insights ... seems my LG G5 may be compatible but also seems Miracast isn't a long term solution when I upgrade my phone. Guess I'll try the wired solution.
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Galaxy S10 wallpaper puzzle

J
Hi all,

I hope somebody will be able to help me here because my S10 behaviour is sending me nuts.

I have an S10, on 3 network in the UK. A few weeks ago it started to change its wallpaper. Every day a new wallpaper. This affected the lock screen too.

I don’t want the phone to do this. I want the wallpaper and lock screen to be what I select and to stay that way.

I cannot find anything in the settings to control this.

Does anybody know what I need to do to revert back to a “|normal” wallpaper and lock screen?

Julian
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Question about Apps update

puppykickr
Jacques Wegier said:
I do not want my apps to Auto-Update. I just want to get a notification about available apps updates in the form of a dot with a number on the Icon of the Google Play icon. I will update manually the apps I wish to update..
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There are other app stores that can give you better notification results than Google PlayStore.

In fact, any of the other ones that I use.

But, because there is virtually always something(s) updated every week, there is nothing wrong about checking it that often.

Google only recently changed their notifications system for Google Play.
Honestly, it was bothersome before, and now it just plain sucks.

And in all reality, I quickly became tired of constantly being pestered with notifications to update apps, so I have no notifications on for any of the four app stores that I use.

Unless there is some malfunction with an app, there generally is no real hurry to update software that is working.

Did you ever know someone that would work on something so much that eventually it just broke?

That is more common than you might think in the world of software.
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[Best App] App Lock Fingerprint Vault - Hide Photos & Videos Locker

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Anavil Soft said:
<font size ='4'>App Lock - Fingerprint Vault Hide Photo &amp; Videos</font>
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The Best Fingerprint Applock 2020 to protect Apps by Fingerprint with Photo Vault and Video Locker.
If you're looking for yet another level of security for your Android mobile, let AppLock - Fingerprint Vault help you out. This is an incredibly easy way to keep prying eyes out of app-specific data. It's free and does an outstanding job of locking down whatever apps you want.
Choose Applock Fingerprint vault Hide Photos &amp; Videos because:
- You can protect your privacy very securely with lots of features!
- Girlfriend/boyfriend is trying to go through all your private stuff when you&#8217;re away from your phone.
- Children are not able to change the setting of your phone and mess up your data.
- You don't need to worry about your friends borrow your phone to play games.
- Never worry about your private data may be read by some other apps.
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Applock-Fingerprint Vault is a one of the simplest App locker without unnecessary settings and functions. Protects your application by simply logins with a password, fingerprint (if available), or pattern. To prevent protection from triggering too often, you can set up a re-blocking timer.
It not only helps you protect your apps but you can also use this app to protect hide photos, videos, audio, documents, your contacts, your privet List with an AppLock.
You can Hide this app Icon so your partner never knows about this app or you can cover up this app with a calculator app icon to prevent opening this app by your partner.
Intruder Selfie future is awesome it Take a photo of intruders who trying to break into your phone and record the time and data in AppLock for check
AppLock - Fingerprint Vault can block access to Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and auto-sync switches.
This Applock also has advanced security settings.
  • These include the display of a system error message when entering locked applications, the invisibility of the AppLock icon, and the constant changing of the positions of the numbers on the password entry screen. These options will help confuse an attacker.
In addition, AppLock has a large selection of lock screen themes.
<font size ='3'>---------------App Lock Main Features--------------</font>
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<font size ='2'>&#9733; App Lock: No one can find out your secrets!</font>
- Lock up your Facebook, WhatsApp, Snapchat, Messenger, Gallery, and other important apps that may leak your privacy.
- Secure password protection to lock your favorite apps.
- Use pattern or digital password for locking/unlocking apps.
- Customize your lock mode; lock different apps under different circumstances.
- Prevent children from playing games or buying unwanted things.
- Support fingerprint.
&#9733; Fingerprint lock supported
- Fingerprint, password level, random keyboard.
- Re-lock: Immediately, back to home screen or when the screen is off.
&#8203;
<font size ='2'>&#9733; Hide Photo &amp; Video</font>
- Hide your pictures &amp; videos easily from a gallery, album, or photos.
- Fast and intuitive photo viewer.
- Unlimited Photo &amp; Video can be locked
- Keep snoopers away from private videos.
&#9733; Hide File Vault
- Keep your personal File in a safe space.
- Hide your any format files.
- Unlimited Files can be locked.
&#9733; Intruder Selfie:
- Take a photo of intruders who trying to break into your phone
- Record the time and data in AppLock for check
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<font size ='2'>&#9733; One-Tap to Enable/Disable AppLock:</font>
- Open AppLock App than tap upper right corner on Setting, to enable or disable AppLock
&#9733; Clean and Small Size
- Clean UI and small size app.
&#9733; No Storage Limitation
- Using 'App Lock' you don't face any storage limitation for your hidden files if your phone memory has enough storage space.
&#9733; Low Memory Usage
<b>&#9733; Large Number Collection of Pin and Patten Lock Themes </b>
&#8203;
<font size ='2'>App Lock - Fingerprint Vault (video locker + Photo Vault)</font><font size ='2'> App allows us to save and hide images (photo vault) and videos (video locker) from 'Facebook &amp; WhatsApp Directly to Applock', users can share and save files using the 'share' option externally</font> <font size ='3'>.</font>
This is a Must-Have App. for protecting your privacy by hiding (Keepsafe) each of the media files using a password, Patten, and Fingerprint! You can easily manage the folder lock or albums of safe gallery &amp; view, move &amp; export pictures.
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Locked Phone

Puddy Tat
Well, for a nice wrap up, I went to Best Buy and the Geek Squad to see if they could do anything with this phone. They were booked up for the day and then some. Also stated it usually cost over $100.00 to get one unlocked. So I wandered over to the phone section with thoughts if getting a new phone. While waiting for other customers, a guy walked up and asked if I needed some phone help. Well, yes I do. I told him the problem and he took the phone and looked at some fine print on his phone. I don't know what he did, but the phone unlocked. The pattern was gone. I got a thought that he knew someone from Samsung and had "secrets" on how to fix my phone. Thanked him a ton and went home and reset up the phone with all the "stuff" in my old one. So now my Samsung Galaxy S20 FE purrs almost as good as my cat. All you have to do to get things working now days is to know just what you are doing.
.....And no screen lock of any size, shape, form or what ever. Not going through that nightmare again. Nothing really important on phone anyway.
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Google maps: using with YouTube + how to avoid an area

puppykickr
Waze only needs that much space if you download a ton of maps for it.
Just download what you need.

I will say that I would rather go by the sun on a cloudy day, or at night for that matter, than ever try to use Google Maps for so much as getting an ice cream cone 1½ iles away!

Google Maps has steered me wrong every single time I ever tried it.
I literally would rather fold up a paper map properly WHILE DRIVING than ever infuriate myself by boinking around with that crAPP ever again.

Seriously.

Blindfold me and put me on the railroad tracks, and don't let me move until I solve a puzzle first.

That is better than Google Maps.
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