Trom said:

In the past year, Louis Rossman, (sp?) an Apple repair guy and YouTube personality, has been all over the country advocating for right to repair, including my home state of Washington. Wish I could've met him, seems like a straight shooter.

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That may be exactly the guy I had in mind.
I'm not totally sure, but it very well could be.

Marcoponte said:

I have a Galaxy A40 with Android 10 installed. After a system update i'm not able to synch WMP playlist to my smartphone. I see a playlist in the Playlists folder but it is empty.
Please advice
Kind regards

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Man, WMP de-syncs from Android at will; Windows, historically, has never gotten along with Android. My cure? Run Tails OS. Or, be brave and run Oracle Virtualbox with Github wares. When I had to deal with this, I had to go back in the drive in Settings and reload Windows from the most recent backup, and it would sync again.

I got fed up with Windows. Now, my phones and computers use Spotify. It's a helluva lot more convenient, and you only have to "keep what you need" for offline playing, etc.

As a recording musician, I've used Cakewalk with Winblows to record and master tracks. But listening to the masters in Windows is a huge letdown, not to mention latency in the audio while tracking.

I hope this helps you, instead of coming across like opinions... best of luck.

LW

illenicK said:

Thanks man! You're the best! I appreciate the assistance!😁😁😁😁

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When you're right, you're right! Lol

I don't see how rooting will help. Your phone doesn't have access to their inbox except via WhatsApp's servers, and rooting your phone won't give you privileged access to them.

WhatsApp have a time limit for deletion which is quite short (WhatsApp themselves say "about an hour"). So when you are dealing with messages from years ago you are a long way outside that range. I don't know whether WhatsApp even keep the links they'd need to identity and delete a message delivered 2-3 years ago, and if they have those records they will have the timestamps that tell them when they were delivered, so I can't see how messing with the clock on your phone would change that.

In short, I'm sure you are wasting your time here.

wcmasters98 said:

So, I'm trying to tether my Acer Chromebook to my mobile phone using 4G data connection. My laptop shows connected with a strong signal but I have no internet on it. My phone shows that my Chromebook is connected. It makes no sense b/c both devices show they are connected with a strong signal. My phone is an LG X Charge android OS. What could be the problem?? Thanks!!!

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Did you purchase the phone from the carrier, or is it unlocked? Do you use a VPN?

I am very new to android programming but I want to read a json file using async task, which seemed to work properly when I used a json file that was on a website (using http connection), but now I would like to do the same thing with my own json file. I have an assets folder called 'assets' where I've put my jsonFile.json.

I tried to open it using getAssets().open(), but that doesn't seem to work. Also my listFragment class (from which the loadJson is called, does not contain a context, so I can't parse the context from listFragment onto loadJson.

Is there anyone who knows how to help?

Thanks

Those of you who have a good experience with metro congrats. Not exactly sure how you received special attention.. I have been a metro customer for 4 years. I have also paid for the extra hand set protection. I am a single mother of 4 and have unexpected bills that pop up on the time which is also why i chose prepaid service . I do not know why they even offer insurance because no matter how they soup it up to you and make it sound it is shit. There is no point in paying the extra money i did especially for my sons phone. When he ran his phone over i tried to call and see what i had to do to get his phone replaced the deductable was more than a new phone is for one and then i bought a unlocked phone from a individual and they refused to allow me to activate it because it wasnt a metro phone. So i bought another phone and after atleast 20 calls to.customer service and them telling me the number had been switched well that was over 5 months ago in which i have paid the bill every month still cant use the phone. It clearly.shows the number has been switched to the phone i currently have but for some reason not one person at metro can understand clear english. But then i waa put out of work due to corona virus i called and ask for them to please allow me 3 days until i received my check to pay. After 12 different reps I got a guy who when i ask him if he could just assist me in unlocking my device so i could take my phone else where he agreed to give me the 3 days i needed and also assured me my device was unlocked. As aggravated as i was i still politely thanked him and expressed my appreciation that he helped me. But low and behold the next morning my service was off and so i said forget this crap im going else where. Ha funny whatta know my device is still locked. So today i tried to go pay my bill although i seriously hate metro these days i cant afford to purchase a new phone at the moment and cant take it elsewhere because there reps dont even have enough sense to simply unlock a device. So i really didnt have a choice except to stay with metro at the moment but when i went to pay my bill my phone number is no longer recognized. I cant call customer service because when it ask for my number it immediatwly says cant find that and to make sure im entering the number i tried both numbers on my account and got the same mesaage. They no longer offer chat. It says they cant connect you at this time. Store hours are only 6am to 11. And further more than that i purchased both devices at the morganton store but when i went there about the whole insurance thing she told me i didnt purchase them not just at the store but at any metro store. Funny thing was the same ignorant lady arguing that with me was the one who had sold me both phones same day. I have patiently dealt with all this crap and now all i am asking for is to pay my bill and hell cant even do that. I understand there hours or call reps may be short due to the virus shut down of everything but just as they as a company felt no reason to help a 4 year customer for liency for just 3 days when i was quaratined at home awaiting my corona virus test results and truly needed phone service for contact with my kids being i couldnt be around them, why should I be expected to once again be without my phone service because someone somewhere in that tangled web of genius's has caused not one but two numbers on my account to not be recognized leaving me no way to pay my bill. Why should I be expected to understand that they have absolutly no way online or by phone or app to contact anyone to just fix my bill so i can pay it. Just as they expected me to do without a phone while i was being quaratined and allowed no exceptions regardless and expected me to figure it out. I expect them as a company to uphold their word and customer service help even in their state of emergency especially when their online portals are denying that my numbers even exist. Regardless of what is going on since their expectations of their customers are still expected then they should expect no less than for their customers to expect them to make sure they have a way for things like this to be handled. So that being said those of you who have had good experiences with metro good for you. As for the rest of us I have sent proof of all that i have said to the news station since i cant get ahold of them maybe they can.

Hello,
I want to ask for your help.
I have an old 10 inch tablet that I use as an ebook.
However, for a few days, the tablet cannot boot and only the Android logo appears and can only be turned off with the reset button.
I tried to enter recovery mode to get back to factory settings, but failed. I probably don't press the right combination of buttons.
I will ask for your help, guide me on how to do this to save a tablet that is incredibly convenient for me.

The tablet is model RK30SDK and is running Android 4.1.1

Thanks in advance to everyone who responded!

What are you doing with it? Where are you using it? It is impossible to even guess without information. Heck we don't even know whether it's a Exynos or Snapdragon model.

Things that generate heat:

* charging
* heavy CPU use
* large data transfers (mobile data more than WiFi, and I'm sure 5G more than other forms)
* the display, with higher brightness = more heat (using outdoors on a bright day with auto brightness will be the worst case).

If you are doing more than one of those things at the same time they add up.

If you are not doing those things, look in the settings to see what is using power - that should give some clue.

Tony Me said:

That is awesome. Will the same think work on the firestick 2nd gen?

For now I am just going to use the UBS drive for additional storage. I have a small 4G drive that I am going to use until the 32GB USB drive comes in.

How can I safely remove the USB from the firestick ?

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Well basically you don't. Because if you do pull it out, you remove the storage that those apps are installed on and are using, and non of those apps will work.

If you do set removable storage for internal use, to expand app storage, it's formatted and encrypted as EXT4, which can't be used and read by anything else, except the device that created it.

Morgan007 said:

Is the Razer phone 2 receiving Android update?

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according to gsmarena.com Razer Phone 2 the phone is upgrade-able to android 9, Pie.

it might depend on your carrier as well. you can check for updates somewhere in your phone's settings. it should be somewhere around the "about phone" options toward the bottom of your settings list. if there is no update, then there you go.

Steven Rice said:

I never heard of Cydia either. I tried to YouTube it, to do what you're saying. But, I couldn't find it. If it's not too much trouble, can you please try to tell how to do it?

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did you see the guide i posted earlier. it is pretty detailed. take a look at it and ask questions here.

Suggest you try Photorec. https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec It is completely free, and I've successfully used it to recover deleted pictures and videos.

Trpea said:

I appreciate all of the advice. The end result is I am still very sad about all of this. Diskdigger wants you to buy the pro version even though it found the photos/videos and when I went to recover them in the trial version ..it turned my videos into small images ..1 per video. This wouldn't be so bad but these were very small videos of my mother - who is 80 and my older sister. Knowing this program was able to find them but now only giving me a small sample of the video - hence ..compressed photo really makes me sad. My phone is unlocked but I have no clue if that means rooted or not. I wish there was a way to rollback the phone to a previous date, like restore does in Windows. Is there a way or any more suggestions guys?

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I don't use Windows myself, I'm Mac and Linux, but doesn't Windows completely delete the originals when you do a Move rather than Copy in its File Manager?

I have this issue with my pixel 3. The screen will go dark, just black out. The phone will be fully charged working great and then poof dark screen, unresponsive phone, sometimes the issue last a few minutes the longest to date was 2.5 hours, fortunately I have a spare phone.
The phone eventually rebooted

Rob said:

Is there a directory that shows the total updates from Samsung for other models? Can't seem to track it down. None of my updates thus far have included the "Improved performance- camera" segment.

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Not that I am aware of Rob.

I guess, like you, I got my Software Update link, https://doc.samsungmobile.com/SM-G988B/BTU/doc.html, from...

Settings > Software update > Last update > Link

Samsung seem to be compartmentalizing their updates to specific models, branded/unbranded and region.

So far, we know 2...

Exynos, unbranded, U.K. SM-988B/BTU = https://doc.samsungmobile.com/SM-G988B/BTU/doc.html

Snapdragon, Verizon, USA, SM-G988U1/VZW = https://doc.samsungmobile.com/SM-G988U1/VZW/doc.html

Probably, around 40-50 more to go.


[EDIT] Playing around a bit, I came up with these official Samsung changelogs for the various models and regions...

Exynos, unbranded, U.K. SM-988B/BTU = https://doc.samsungmobile.com/SM-G988B/BTU/doc.html

Exynos, unbranded, France, SM-988B/XEF = https://doc.samsungmobile.com/SM-G988B/XEF/doc.html

Exynos, Orange, France, SM-988B/FTM = https://doc.samsungmobile.com/SM-G988B/FTM/doc.html

Exynos, Bouygues, France, SM-988B/BOG = https://doc.samsungmobile.com/SM-G988B/BOG/doc.html

Exynos, unbranded, Paraguay, SM-988B/UPO = https://doc.samsungmobile.com/SM-G988B/UPO/doc.html

Exynos, Optus, Australia, SM-G988B/OPS = https://doc.samsungmobile.com/SM-G988B/OPS/doc.html

All identical changelogs for the Exynos model, so far.


Snapdragon, AT&T, USA, SM-G988U1/ATT = https://doc.samsungmobile.com/SM-G988U1/ATT/doc.html

Snapdragon, T-Mobile, USA, SM-G988U1/TMB = https://doc.samsungmobile.com/SM-G988U1/TMB/doc.html

Snapdragon, T-Mobile, USA, SM-G988U/TMB = https://doc.samsungmobile.com/SM-G988U/TMB/doc.html

Snapdragon, Sprint, USA, SM-G988U1/SPR = https://doc.samsungmobile.com/SM-G988U1/SPR/doc.html

Snapdragon, Sprint, USA, SM-G988U/SPR = https://doc.samsungmobile.com/SM-G988U/SPR/doc.html

Snapdragon, Cellular South, USA, SM-G988U1/XAR = https://doc.samsungmobile.com/SM-G988U1/XAR/doc.html

Snapdragon, unbranded, Puerto Rico, SM-G988U1/PCT = https://doc.samsungmobile.com/SM-G988U1/PCT/doc.html

Snapdragon, Verizon, USA, SM-G988U1/VZW = https://doc.samsungmobile.com/SM-G988U1/VZW/doc.html

All identical changelogs for the USA Snapdragon models, so far.

Snapdragon, Open China, China, SM-G9880/CHC = https://doc.samsungmobile.com/SM-G9880/CHC/doc.html

Snapdragon, unbranded, Taiwan, SM-G9880/BRI = https://doc.samsungmobile.com/SM-G9880/BRI/doc.html

Snapdragon, KT Corporation, S. Korea, SM-988N/KTC = https://doc.samsungmobile.com/SM-G988N/KTC/doc.html


This is a very rough guide to the various model numbers and the regions/carriers I have found so far.

Model #

SM-988B = Global (most countries of the world unbranded/lightly branded, boot logo, etc: )

SM-988N = South Korea (SK Telecom, LG Uplus, KT Corporation)

SM-G988U = USA (T-Mobile, Sprint (cdma), Comcast, Xfinity Mobile, Verizon)

SM-G988U1 = USA & Puerto Rico (unbranded, AT&T, T-Mobile, Cellular South, Tracfone, Comcast, Sprint (cdma), Bluegrass Cellular, Nextech/C-Spire, Xfinity Mobile, Puerto Rico

(The SM-G988U models are carrier locked U.S.A. versions)

SM-9880 = China (Open China, Taiwan, Hong Kong)

I have two firesticks (2nd gen and a 4K) with both using a OTG power Y cable.

I can access the USB thumbdrive on both and access the files.

But I can not find a way to safely eject or unmount the thumbdrive.

If I unplug the drive I get an error message saying to go to my firetv/settings/storage and select USB to eject.
But there is no USB listed in any settings menu

If I plug the thumbdrive into the computer I get an error and it scans and fixes it.

How can I safely remove the USB drive from the firestick?

Finally sussed it
It was my themes have managed to reset them thanks

The shape of the icon suggests it's a message app, but that's all I can say.

It's probably quickest to just ask him/her.

What does that mean? If an update is available you can download and install it (Settings > General > About Device > Software updates on my old Samsung. If that doesn't work but the update exists you can download and install using a computer. But where does "forcing" come into it?

A Telescope?

Hello to you... if you've read the answers to your thread starter, then you will be safer.

If you meet people in the know here, or at XDA, you can be assured that you can trust the information, as well as the .apk download... ask anyone who uses these, and you will find my assessment to be truthful as well.

If you're a novice, try F-Droid and Github. F-Droid is very trustworthy, but at other sites like AC, Github and others - you can get the SHAFT of BRICKDOM if you aren't careful... especially in apps like Discord, or any virtual box app for PCs.

I got started 'doing the root thing' back in early Gingerbread right here in AF, a DECADE ago. But ever since ICS 4.0, the so-called "TOS" from ops like Google changed. I would get trusted .apk files, and prior to root in a Samsung, for example, I used Odin to get files in; prior to getting TWRP to replace my phone's bootloader, that is... and brother, I bricked phones many times. Many times. But...

Chat up MoodyBlues, @ocnbrze or Revenant Ghost - as most of us are great traffic cops - and you will see that wherever we tell you to go and get good files... you will be safe (if you follow directions EXACTLY). Rave on with your Android, & be careful out there with Bat Corona -

LW

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Talk to @ocnbrze - if there is anyone to help you, it'd be he. He's also one of the better traffic cops here; if AF can't help you, he'll tell you to go to XDA Developers. In the end of all things, a smartphone with root and applications from Github or F-Droid is a very good, and PRIVATE thing.

Best wishes, Anu -
LW

On my Windows PC, I created an AVD( Android Virtual Device ) tablet in AVD Manager. My Windows 10 has both LAN connection and WLAN connection.

Now I wonder whether the AVD can browse internet web through its WiFi connection.
If yes, how to enable this feature?

Thank you. Have a good weekend.