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Accessories Samsung Galaxy - Try again in 17 minutes..

Tonosdellamadabb
As for the possibility of a virus causing this problem, it is less likely. Modern smartphones are equipped with security measures to prevent viruses from causing such specific problems. However, you should regularly update your phone's security software and be cautious about installing apps from untrusted sources.

If none of the steps above worked and you still can't unlock your Samsung phone, you may need to consider doing a factory reset. Make sure to back up your data before doing so, as factory reset will erase all data on the device. If the problem persists even after a factory reset, it could be a hardware related problem and you may need to seek professional help or contact the manufacturer for assistance. extra help.
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National Lazy Day 2023

olbriar
I was once called lazy by a mow customer who had asked me to trim her hedge. I told her I'd get to it in two or three days. The third day I showed up and she was just finishing trimming the hedge. I said that I'm sorry I didn't get to her job sooner. She said I can't stand a lazy man. I told her I worked 8 hours a day as a carpenter and mowed 40 lawns a week when I got home and across the weekends. I might not be prompt but I'm certainly not lazy. I was offended. Lazy is not in my nature.
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Murena Linux Phone

ocnbrze
AugieTN said:
Murena Linux Phones Murena - deGoogled and privacy by design smartphones and cloud services.

Interesting, in the U.S. they have refurbished Pixel 8 with Murena Murena Smartphones – Murena – deGoogled phones and services

It would be something fun to play with
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hmmmmm my interest is piqued. however, $400 for a refurbished pixel 5, is a bit much. amazon is selling it for $249 brand new.
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I exited download mode using SamFW FRP Tool in my Samsung A51. Now it's a black screen. Not being detected by PC!

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nocrap said:
It's a Samsung A51. Tried to flash with the correct stock firmware based on binary and region. But I didn't know the FRP lock has to be turned off before flashing a rom. So I tried to exit "custom os download screen" forcefully using the SamFW FRP tool 3.31. The option is not available in the latest version of the tool. Now I'm unable to go back to the download screen again. It's just the blue warning screen after holding "volume up+volume down+Connect PC with the USB". Whenever I click the volume up to move next to the download screen it turns into a dead black screen. The phone is not being showed up neither in the pc Devices>USB Devices nor in the odin or any other tools.
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well with odin the phone needs to have usn debugging enabled. if that is not enabled, then you can't use odin. it sounds like the phone is truly bricked. you might want to see if a repair shop might be able to salvage it, but i have my doubts......sorry.
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Is This Normal? I seem to have an unwanted connectikn

ocnbrze
topgman80 said:
I don't think it's a crazy theory at all. I'm fact, everything you've written in this post is eerily similar to my own experiences and I've never considered your AI theory. I've actually watched my laptop name change in front of my eyes in real time. I actually pulled out my phone and took a picture of the user name. It's like the Internet let's me get to a certain point, but when I am actually starting to get somewhere and find some kind of answer any device I'm using suddenly stops working. On now than one occasion I've written to, whom I thought was some hacker, a nasty message such as, " f**k you hacker piece of sh*t!" for example, and as soon as I finished writing the message My phone instantly lost all connectivity despite having full bars for network connectivity. Again, this had occurred on more than one occasion. I've lost jobs due to being late as a result of my alarm not going off. On one occasion on the day after I was fired I was sitting on the couch thinking about how the hell was I going to pay rent with my phone in my hand when suddenly my alarm went off with no sound, only vibration. It was the time I was suppose to get up for work the previous day. I checked alarm settings and they were set as the were suppose to be; recurring daily, correct a.m/p.m. setting, sound all of the way up, etc. It just did what it wanted. This happens on every device I use. I never put an old account on a new phone. I create a new email address, etc. I can create a new Gmail account on a device brand new device fresh out of the box that I've never used and seven minutes later get a message saying unusual activity has been detected even though I've never sent nor received an email from that account save the "Welcome to your Google account" standard first email.
Previously, I had thought and stated aloud that there was a massive hacker conglomerate, if you will, that was responsible only to be told I'm crazy and paranoid, and that's fine. Most say paranoid, I say hyper-aware and extremely observant. Your AI theory struck a chord with me due to the fact that I also have used fake names, birthdates, etc when creating an account on a never used, new device with zero information connected to myself and "It" follows me which makes sense if you think about it. AI can simply use facial recognition so we all that have neither the means or desire to have facial reconstruction surgery are f**ked. On second thought, those that do are f**ked too because there would be a doctor's record of that surgery that could be traced by AI.
I've had many "crazy" experiences since my eyes were opened in 2016 when I began to notice what was happening. You shouldn't feel like you're in the book 1984, we are all of us in it. Only Orwell was a little off on his timeline and AI is big brother, it's forty years later, and has a hint of "The Terminator" and "The Matrix" mixed in for sh*ts and giggles. Books and movies often give us hints as to what "reality" is or is to be such as Orwell's "1984", "Back to the Future" predicting flying cars, among many others. Make no mistake, privacy has gone way of the dodo bird. I'm in my early forties and my generation is the last there will ever be to have actually experience privacy in some form. Much like my generation is the last to have known life without cell phones, what a rotary phone is, or to have used a pay phone. Privacy doesn't exist today anywhere on this earth. Even if you were in the middle of the Sahara desert one could still be observed via satellite.
On a side note I've had even more other worldly "crazy" experiences since 2020 when I was targeted and shot at by an active shooter whom was subsequently shot by police and dying two days later. Experiences that were, to me, verified when another with whom I was speaking detailed their own "crazy" experience that sent chills down my spine because it was identical to my own.
I have never been religious. Not that I didn't believe in God. Faith or belief in a God, many Gods, or whatever has never been attractive to me. I've always been more spiritual I guess. I am of above average intelligence. I'm analytical and have always been drawn to the sciences and fascinated by the stars. I feel the need to learn how things work and how they are made. I question everything and everyone taking nothing at face value simply because it was told to me or because that's the way it's always been
I must see or experience things for myself. I'm open minded and tend to be more of a "think outside the box" type person. I look at things or circumstances from absolutely every angle or point of view that comes to mind.
That being said, the seemingly futile point I'm attempting to make without being shrugged off as "crazy" is that whether it be AI or some other force unseen or unknown to we mere humans is that we are all pawns in someone or something's game seemingly being pushed in a direction, towards an answer, or into a "reality" that we may not want. Angels, demons, and possession most certainly exist I can assure you. In fact, they are around us everyday shaping and guiding our perceived "reality." This is usually where people decide that I'm crazy and to that I must ask why. Why do most in the world believe in a God, but when someone says they've been witness to events that prove the existence of something higher than we they are instantly deemed to be crazy? Why is the idea of AI running sh*t deemed crazy? Why can't good exist without evil or evil exist without good? Here's a crazy theory for you; because God is the Devil, the Devil is God, no one can get away from themselves. Good can not exist without evil, AI controls terminators and runs sh*t, and we live in the matrix. Wtf? Crazy world we live in!!!
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i'm sorry i can't read that. is there a point in your (what seems as a) rant? are you just trying to make a point? or do you actually have issues and have questions for us?
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Fold5 - Oval plastic portion?

mikedt
ironass said:
See the Jerry Rig, "Samsung Z Fold 5 Durability Test!", video below.

At around 2' 58" in the video it shows an, "oval plastic portion for the 5G antenna".


Checked my international Fold5 model, F946B D/S, and it does not have this oval plastic portion in the frame.

Is this a peculiarity of some Fold5 minority variants?
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I unsubscribed from that channel, when I saw he was promoting and glamourizing zombie knives.
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Help Remove stuff below search bar

Hadron
1. There can't be a one click import, because Android's security model means that without root privileges one app can't access another app's database.

In principle if the stock launcher could back up its settings to the shared storage Nova could read that. But (a) I don't think it does, and (b) since different launchers have different options and settings it's implausible that they'd save in the same format, so the Nova developer would have to work out how to interpret each other launcher's backups separately. All just for a starting point, since the reason to use a replacement launcher is to do things the stock one doesn't.

2. Yes. As said previously, nothing in Nova changes anything in the stock launcher.

I fact it's not likely Nova will put icons in random positions: if you are one of the people who fills their screens with icons it's more likely that most of them won't be on the Nova home screen at all (they'll be in the app drawer, of course) and you'll have to re-add them to Nova. By default it will probably only put a few on screens (I keep my screens mostly bare of icons, and would remember if I'd had to sit down and remove hundreds of the things!).
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Any Way to Save Google Authenticator Information to Local Device?

Hadron
There are other authenticator apps out there, so another option is just to use one of them. Certainly some of them have better security features than Google: password/biometric locking of the app, encrypted backups, that sort of thing.

As it happens a major international lab I work at actively discourages use of Google Authenticator for 2FA precisely because of Google's unencrypted cloud syncing of keys, the same reason you don't want to turn the cloud connection on.
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fishdom install error

Hadron
killazsiga77 said:
the app installed as a non-package conflicts with an existing package, even if fishdom is removed, it gives this error
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And what you say three times is true? ;)

Does it do this even if you try to reinstall from the apk you used originally? That's what people are suggesting, try reinstalling that, and if it works clear everything, uninstall and see whether it works then.

Otherwise any remnant that can mess up an install is likely to be somewhere where you can't access it without root. If your device still has a cache partition (likely, as Samsung never got with the modern A/B scheme) you could try booting into recovery mode and clearing cache (just cache, not cache and data) and see whether that helps. Otherwise I've no suggestion apart from a factory reset, which you probably don't want to do just for one game.
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tns debug/build android returned with unexpected error (Nativescripts)

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Before I proceed, let me explain that I am recently employed into this new company as a junior IT support. I mainly do hardware with very2 little programming knowledge. Recently my company upgraded to a newer server and we have changed the location of the databases. However our apps are still pointing towards the old server url/location. I have been in contact with the app developers on how to change the configuration of the apk; in which it needs to be decompiled. They are engaged in a big project and was unable to assist me at this moment. Instead, they have given me the whole folder containing all the source code (Shown in the screenshot).

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I was asked to:-

  1. Change the URL setting in on of the config.ts file contained in the res folder - done -
  2. Recompile everything to APK so that the 'new' apk can be installed on our mobile android devices.
Upon reading the README file in the folder, it is obvious I am supposed to rebuild this apk app using nativescript. Please see screenshots:-

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My questions / Issues :-

  1. I have done the steps required in the README file such as:-
    a. Install [node js] (https://nodejs.org/dist/v10.15.1/node-v10.15.1-x64.msi). Make sure to use version > v10 LTS (I am now using ver v12.22.12)
    b. Install Nativescript CLI using git bash
    npm install -g nativescript
    Done
    c. Install Java SE Development Kit 8u201 Done
    d. Install [Android Studio] (Download Android Studio & App Tools - Android Developers) Done
    e. Create android emulator. Done
    f. Clone this repository. <---- How is this done correctly? Do I copy the whole project folder and place it under an active working folder to generate the apk app? Please advise
  2. Do I run the .sh script PRIOR to running the related commands in tns such as 'tns android build' / 'tns android debug'?
  3. I did a tns debug android using command prompt (Admin rights) in the folder path and received :-
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  1. I also did tns doctor just to check my configurations are correct or otherwise:-
    Screenshot 2023-08-08 174756.png
I DID refer back to the developer of this app, however he did not have any comments rather than the android apk was created using nativescript (duh!). I have also send him the exact same question here however he is not replying as prompt as I expected. Would appreciate if anyone with the expertise could assist and guide me moving forward. Many thanks.
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