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You mentioned being happy with you Z2 Force, Motorola is making some good phones and at reasonable prices, with running relatively clean versions of Android so a phone like their latest offering the Edge Plus might something to look into:
https://www.gsmarena.com/motorola_edge+-10119.php
Not at £1,000 I am afraid. I am far to cheap to spend a grand on a phone.
For the rest of the info - thank you. I knew there was a website that listed features

I have ordered a Ulefone Armor 7 which as far as I can tell ticks all the boxes I want. Surprisingly enough the newer ones didn't tick the boxes which seemed a bit wierd

I shall see what its like when it arrives

Sean

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App notification

Actually looking again those aren't even notifications: they are not in a bar at the very top of the screen. It looks more like a widget or bar of app icons, which also explains the consistency of the icon themes.

But if those are from an icon pack then it's impossible for anyone to say what the specific app is, since they won't be the original app icons. I should have spotted this sooner, as it's something I do myself...

Unlocked Phone- Is It Really Possible?

Thank You Madasa for these caveats & suggestions.

Following your suggestion, I've been studying the Chinese brands that you mentioned. So far, it seems one gets very good specifications for reasonable money. I will assume tech support is non-existant, but there's always Android Forums to the rescue. (And the people here have given me far more useful support than the manufacturer of my existing phone possibly could.)

The Poco X3 NFC that you mentioned looks amazing for the money. The only place I've found it for sale so far is eBay, shipped form China. I couldn't find the pricing & purchase information on the Mi site. Hopefully soon a US vendor will have it.

I had a moment of guilt about buying a Chinese phone until I searched where the USA brand names & Nokia (Finland name) brands are physically made. (So much for that guilt.) I was surprised to find the Moto name is now owned by Lenovo & Nokia name is owned by a different Finish company.

Thankfully, my wife let me hijack her phone so I don't have to be in a giant rush to choose. Soon, but not an emergency.

Built in screen recorder privacy issue...

I think what you are seeing is Android trying to preload your most recent/most used apps. Part of the OS memory management is to keep as much memory active as possible to make the device responsive and efficient. It's not actually running but simply cached in active memory. If any part of the screen recorder is needed by any other app as a shared service, it will also be listed as "running" when it's actually not.



Understood! Thank you very much!! :)

Who got 11?

As I suspected, all I see on my head unit is a USB error when I unplug my phone. No wireless Android Auto for this boy. :cool:

Wireless Android Auto has been available on Pixel phones for about two years now. Android 11 makes it available on other phones (once they get 11), but you still need a head unit which specifically supports wireless Android Auto - or that clever dongle that's doing the crowdfunding thing.

Not surprised, but really hoped it was otherwise, lol. Article i read said 'one of the 500 models it is available on' and there is NO way 500 cars have *wireless* AA. So yea, that was a bit misleading.

how to keep apps running

Is your phone plugged into a charger while you do this?

If so, you can use a setting in the developers options (stay awake) that will keep the screen on (and the device active) while the phone is charging.
Keeping the device awake will keep the app(s) active.

The cool thing about this is that you can then turn the screen off, but the phone will still stay awake with the screen off.

I have a couple of ways to turn the screen off for when I am doing similar to what you want to do, but don't need/want the screen to be on- just having the sound on and having the device stay active so that the app(s) don't close.

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