I last asked about this in 2014...On an apple phone, when I get a text alert, it shows up on the screen when the phone is locked. As an option, It will show who the text is from but hide the content of the text. Does android allow this now? Last time I had an android phone my options were: 1) show who the text is from AND part of the text (no privacy). 2) Show the text alert but do not show who the text is from or any part of the text (thus forcing me to stop what I'm doing and unlock the phone to check. 3) Or hide all text alerts. Being that I am busy at work I would like to see WHO the text is from but HIDE the context of the text. This way it allows me to either ignore the text (from say sport group buddies) or read it (from wife, kids, etc) all at the same time keeping the message private. Thanks!

Only if you set one up BEFORE you lose it. There are several options. The simplest one is to export all your data, passwords, etc to a CSV file. It's a tedious job to fill it in again but at least you can recover the data. Another one is to install a Roboform app in your cell phone that encrypts the password & supplies you with a simple code. You have to remember the code & if you lose your password, entering the code in the App will enable you to reset the password to a new one in your PC.. The old password is lost forever but who cares; you just reset it to a new one. I found all this stuff out AFTER I lost the password. I should have known better. I've had RF for 12 years, more or less & all these bells & whistles came out later. I never thought too much about it. Oh well.
Thanks for the help & listening.

Hi all,
I recently transitioned from a Nexus 6 to a Realme (Oppo) X2. Generally happy with it, except the phone saves a good proportion of my contacts locally, and as I access my Google contacts from other devices, I want thm all there - none saved to my phone. So there are two questions:
1. How to do I stop my phone from grabbing new contacts and saving them locally.
2. How to I move all my phone contacts to Google?
Thanks
Edwin

Here's a good article to read through as you start off searching for a good but relatively cheap phone:
https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-budget-android-phone/
But keep in mind the RAM issue will be tied to your budget limit. And it's all very relative -- depending on your needs and your expectations you might not even need a phone with a lot of RAM. Just my opinion but stick with any phone that has at least 4GB of RAM and 32GB of internal storage. More is better but that's the current offering for a lot budget class phones. And they're adequate for general smartphone usage on a day-to-day basis. If you're looking into high-res games and similar functionality, you're not going to be happy with a lessor phone so if that's the case you do need to up your spending limit as you'll require a phone with not just a good amount of RAM but adequate storage space plus a higher-end processor (both CPU and GPU)/higher res display.

But for the most part, a lot a of the battery discharging aspect will be also be dependent on you and how you set up your phone. If you like lots of eye-candy (multiple widgets all constantly updating themselves) and you prefer to have a lot of apps also frequently updating themselves (email app, texting app, Facebook, Instagram, etc.) than that's going to be effect the battery draw significantly. Most of these things are under your control, either by taking the time to check things in your phone's Settings menu or in each app's Settings/Options menu.
Just my opinion but Samsung phones tend to have a lot more extraneous apps and things that come pre-installed. Manufacturer and carrier installed apps tend to be cumbersome to fully remove so that's one thing. You can usually Disable a lot of them though so at least that will stop them from running in the background and taxing the battery. Of course some people actually like some of those Samsung apps so my bias against them is my own. Nokia and Motorola phones don't add the same level of fluff that Samsung does, their phones are closer to a clean Android install. And of course there's the Pixel line of phones, those are just Android as is. So you have a pretty wide range of viable choices to pick from. Don't forget to account for your chosen carrier. Not all phones work with all carriers (there are multiple cellular networks that rely upon different frequencies).

Dannydet said:

Youmail is a call blocking app that I use.
Unfortunately, spammers are able to spoof real numbers that still get through...

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Yup.
That is why Blacklist Blocker also blocks numbers with no info attached to the caller ID.

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So I created a CameraFuncs.java file. Which I setup a constructor that I passed an object of the MainActivity class so I can access all the UI objects.


my orientation listener works just fine. I have access to UI objects. Everything seems to be working just fine. Execpt when I attempt to bindtolifecycle(). It throws an error.


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Based on help from @Thagorsson, I was able to make changes to my Manifest file to allow access to external storage.

I was able to update my permissions to allow legacy access.

Because in Android Q they have disabled direct file access, they have added a work around to allow legacy support. This is, and as others have mentioned, only a temporary fix for the issue. You will need to follow the new format for saving files going forward with Android R. In my situation, I am only developing a proof of concept and will not need to worry about future versions of Android, at this time.

To make the temporary fix, do the following

set up your manifest file similar to this.

remember this is not a long term fix, and will not work when a device is updated to Android R

It would boil down to "A smooth screen is better than a cracked screen."
No S20 5Gs were harmed in this post.

Is there anyway to export my playlists from google play to another player or to a format that can be imported such as m3u ? None of the music in my playlists is purchased music. its all stuff I own that I ripped from a CD or downloaded MP4s from other places. Sme of them are quite large and would take a great deal of time to rebuild from scratch...

I wonder if some kind of update got pushed out that bricked it? It find it odd that the exact same thing happened to both of us within a day of each other. It went from working fine, to useless without me even touching it.

I have Asurion insurance on it, but turns out that's pretty much a scam. They want a $149 deductible to replace it with a used phone. I can buy used S7s all day long for $150 or less.

"Washed out" is an unusual accusation to throw at Samsung, who usually value "crowd pleasing" over "accurate" in their colour reproduction in my experience.

To be honest though a comparison video is a lousy way of assessing camera quality. Video is lower quality than still, so a reproduction of an photo in a video review can never show the full quality of the image. And if it's a video of a screen showing the photos that reduces quality further and adds 2 other distortions to the colour (the colour calibration of the screen and the colour profile of the video camera itself). So if you want to judge the quality of a camera you need to look at the actual pictures it takes, not someone's video of them. This gives 2 options: read some reviews (text & images, not video) which include full-resolution images or find a photo-sharing site which allows you to select pictures by the device they were taken with. Judging based on a video review is making a decision based on poor quality data.

Samsung often use different processors, sometimes different image sensors, in "the same" camera in different regions, both of which can affect image quality. But I've only found one processor variant for the S10 Lite so maybe you don't have to worry about that particular complication. Sadly my favourite site for phone camera reviews only does a handful of phone reviews per year, so the S10 Lite isn't included there.

One thing to remember with all reviews, still or video, is that they are made with the firmware of the time (usually the initial release). Manufacturers do sometimes improve image quality with firmware updates, but it's very rare that reviews revisit the device to update their review.

I keep seeming to have more and more open tabs on my Pixel (in Chrome). Any time I go to a new web site it seems to open a new tab instead of just using the one already there. So I may have 60 tabs open. I can close them but wondering whether there is some way to prevent this from happening?

Do you have one (or more) screen protectors over the screen?

Is there a case with a protective screen and a screen protector on the device?

Awesome find!

It was certainly a mistake: with a custom recovery this would be easy to fix, but without...

I can't help wondering whether the problem was caused by trying to fastboot flash a custom ROM zip (i.e. something that was intended to be flashed using a custom recovery)? But that's only speculation.

Best bet would be to find the official firmware for your phone and the tool/procedure to flash that. That probably requires fastboot mode, but you did imply (if I read you right) that you could access fastboot mode.