This was also one of the files on there. Its just so weird

Hadron said:

Go into your contacts app, view the contacts list, then go into the app's settings. Somewhere in there you'll find an option to import/export contacts (possibly under 'contacts management', but as LG will use their own contacts app it will depend where they put it). Choosing 'export' lets you export them to a vcard file (.vcf) which you can then copy to your computer. That's a standard format which you can import into any contacts management program.

The actual contacts database is in a location you won't be able to see without root (basic information security: if it was in a 'public' place any app with filesystem access would be able to copy your contacts and upload them to their favourite spam sites), so exporting them is the way to do it.

If you sync them with a cloud service (e.g. your GMail account) you can probably export them from there as well.

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Ok great I'm gonna give that a try! Thank you 😁😁😁

What horizontal line you mean? Maybe screenshot ?

Iozen said:

It's not on my phone. And no, it's not Google Fit

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What do you mean not on your phone? Nothing in notification window when you pull it down? What phone do you have? And do you have a fitbit or watch paired?

That was my guess too, since I cannot explain otherwise. Both cables seem fine, data exchange with both works with no problems.

baizhou said:

If there is no backup, you can use samsung data recovery software like Coolmuster Android SMS + Contacts Recovery to help you recover the deleted messages back. But, first you need to root your phone.

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The act of unlocking the bootloader (usually a necessary step for rooting) wipes the phone.

NightAngel79 said:

I thought I heard that mentioned a couple places. Stinks to hear, but not overly surprised wiyth such a new piece of hardware.

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Some say the reason is because of hardware thing. No more dual pixel autofocus whatever. That's sad cuz when the camera gets the subject right, the picture is out of this world great.

I think it was removed from the Play Store, and Cheetah Mobile discontinued it. So nothing can be done probably.

Xavier Black said:

Sometimes I wish there was an "unlike" button..in fact there should be one!!!

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Then what would be the point you be judging someone based on helping others then accepting it

Believe it or not, we actually had the money to come up with a fancy new charger for it, almost 30 bucks. It works great. Now we just have to get the money to put it back on because they cut it off despite partial payment.

MoodyBlues said:

Did you notice the part where you can limit how much space it uses, thereby making it unnecessary to manually clear its cache?

Its option to clear cache is generally not needed, as it obeys the limit it's given. That's more for a one-off thing if you want to clear its [user-limited] cache for some reason.

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Yes.
But all of those cache limits seem large to me.

I don't even have apps that size.

For what its worth, I see no purpose in any cache at all.

When I delete it all, my device runs great.

When my device starts moving slow and stumbling, 99% of the time it is due to a gigantic pile of steaming cache.

Small memory devices should have the ability to just not allow apps to build caches at all.

Yes, I know that the info is supposedly making the app faster and that it will just reload when I open the app again.

Frankly, I am fine with that.
But there is no need for it to just sit there and grow and grow and grow, as it winds up just slowing the device down to a crawl and then a stop eventually.

My ol'lady has an identical device.
She likes to take pictures.
She downloaded some crAPP that was supposed to do something with her photos that she thought sounded cool.

So after a week or so, she is bitching about her phone, and me for 'doing sonething to it'.

Mind you, this is a device that has 16GB internal memory, about 6¼GB is used by the system.

Her phone was non-functional.
As in non-responsive.

I actually had to go into the developers options and turn all the animation off completely.

Then I could navigate, albeit very slowly.

So, it turns out that her memory is completely full.

She has a 32GB SD card, with about ⅓ space remaining, but the phone clogged.

The phone is set to put pictures and videos onto the SD card.

I checked the file manager, and nothing seemed to be amiss- no giant files, no folders with large amounts of files, but 0 memory available.

The device crashed a couple of times, just trying to find what the heck was causing this.

Luckily, I had already installed Android System Cleaner on her device, so I closed all open apps and ran it.

There is a duplicate finder feature, and I used it.

It turns out that this turd of an app she got has been storing a copy of every single video and photo on the device- but in its own cache files in the device's internal memory.

So there was a copy of every single thing on the SD card on the device as well.

So luckily, the duplicate finder feature tells you the location of the files that it finds, and I used this info to delete the offending garbage.

As far as I am concerned, that picture app should be classified as malware.

If it wasn't for that cleaner finding those files within minutes, I would need to have located and sorted through 6GB of digipoop by hand.

Part of the problem is that she plays endless amounts of those stupid 'candy' games, where you match items and solve puzzles.

Many of these games have hundreds of texture and layout files that are stored on the internal memory.
Whatever that app was, made copies of all those as well.

As just one of these games has around 800 of these files, you can only imagine what it was like having 800 more put onto the device, and then another copy onto the SD card.

She has like 6-8 of these games, and does not delete the files when she moves on to other games.

Just because I mentioned it here, the next time I get a hold of her phone, I will screenshot her apps list from the Play Store.

I still get it and clean it out every once in a while, and update the apps she needs updated, so I will screenshot it (or part of it) then shoot the pics over to my device and send them in a message.

I've just started using Transdroid and had no trouble with the setup, but something odd is happening and I can't figure it out.

When files in a torrent are set to "priority: don't download" and I change the priority to "normal" in Transdroid, the priority updates in both Transdroid and rutorrent, but the files don't start to download. If I then go into rutorrent and change any other "don't download" file in the torrent (not one of the ones I changed in Transdroid) to "normal," all of the ones that I changed in Transdroid with start to download. Any idea why that would be happening? Anything I can to to fix it, so that when I change file priorities from "don't download" to "normal" in Transdroid, they start to download?

Have you tried just restarting your phone?
And just to clarify, when you state you can't 'get them large again' this means you have looked into the 'Display' menu in your Settings?
There should be options there referring to Font size and Display size.
If you have and those options aren't working when you readjust them, try restarting your Stylo 4 into its Safe Mode and see if you can change those options while in Safe Mode:
https://www.hardreset.info/devices/lg/lg-stylo-4/safe-mode/
If changing the font size and display resolution works out while in Safe Mode, that's an indicator some kind of third-party app is involved. Have you installed something like a launcher app or something similar?

Thanks!!
I've since called Samsung directly (I forgot that they have great customer service hours & actually answer the phone.) They agreed that the phone has been rooted (the kernel # doesn't match the model A50) & the two keys function had been altered. So now I am in the process of seeing if I can get a replacement from the eBay seller. I've now been scared off from buying "open Box" cell phones because of this. I fear that I'm going to have to shop for a new phone that is available as "new" and unlocked and in the mid-range price slot like the A50. Ugh... how time consuming...

AWS dominates the cloud services market, just over a third. That's more than the total of its competitors -- Google, Microsoft, and IBM -- combined, so it's not surprising that a lot of apps are pointing in that direction.
https://www.comparethecloud.net/articles/here-is-why-aws-still-dominates-the-cloud-market/

I don't know if you ever solved this, but the best way to do this is to go to the Apps screen, click on the ... (menu) and select Home Screen Settings. Scroll down to "Hide Apps" and it will bring up a screen of all your apps that may have check marks that would make them hidden. Uncheck any apps you don't want hidden. Then choose apply.

What little I remember of the Providence RI roll out article I saw you could get it in some shops that had a repeater but plate glass windows blocked the signal. When outside a few steps to the left or right would make you drop that signal. Providence is also very hilly and elevation seemed to play a role.
This is no where near Tesla's dream of wireless power transmission for everyone. Maybe if they can increase transmission range somehow?

Forgot to post this

Duplicate topics merged.

WA posted a new update, you can go into settings/Themes and turn dark mode off.

Is the Note 10 plus through a carrier that have restrictions on tethering or along those lines?

just because A phone is rommed or rooted does not make the phone anymore less subject to getting virus or being unsafe. it all falls back on the users actions is what causes you to get viruses just a 1 simple click on a link out on google site can do it all to where you would have been more that happy to have had your phone rooted and completely backed up and saved safely on your computer and pick up where you left off at. just thought to maybe to toss that out there
I have been a member of this android forum every since they first loaded their first site.

How to monitor Android dongles remotely. Having a App on Android Dongle and TV. Need a centralised monitoring tool similar to GSuite does for Asus Chromebit

Ok @ocnbrze and @Hadron
I was able to install the TWRP Recovery using my device's stock recovery's install method... And it worked!!!!
Finally
Thank You for your valuable time and support

RASelkirk said:

This. I've never installed anything outside PS, but have heard of trouble doing so. Were I to install from a 3rd party, is this "warning" a one time deal on install or every time I use the app? I have "Lookout", will that throw a flag each time it runs? I get bugged pretty easily by BS like this and would rather avoid it (and avoid smashing said phone).

Russ

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It is a setting, called Allow Untrusted Sources or similar.

If you leave this setting on, then the warning is a one time thing.

If you turn the setting off, then yes, you will get the nag screen again.

And Google will also occasionally pester you to turn on their 'app scan security whatchamacallit' BS.

I always decline.
Google is the number two purveyor of malware.

I know damn well that it is just going to flag anything that I installed from anything not Google. Maybe not. I really don't care what Google thinks about my apps. I don't want their opinions, if I did I would ask them. Each nag message makes that even less likely, hahaha!

I don't trust Google any more than I could throw them.

UpToDown is the second largest appstore second only to Google- and UpToDown does not appear in a list of the top 5 providers of malware.

Google is number two, second only to a shady appstore that provides cracked and hacked apps.

UpToDown is based in Spain, I believe, just for some info.

I have used UpToDown extensively, and can help you if you have any issues or questions about it.

I know the UI is not what you are used to, and it takes time (it did for me, too!) to adjust.

Right now, we are jyst dealing with this one app, so let's see how it goes.

You did say that you have it on one device, correct?

You want to find the version number of the app.
If you have the version that you like, then that is the version number to look for.

If it was updated and you don't like the new version, then you want ghe previous version.

The numbers between apps on the app stores usually match, but can be different.
We just need somewhere to start.

Also, keep in mind that updating an app is easy, and you don't usually lose any of the app's data.
But if you want an earlier version, the the newer version must be uninstalled, and all that app's data will be gone.

This only affects that one app, and only if you are 'downgrading' instead of updating.

If I remember correctly, you just want to put this app onto a device that does not have it, correct?
If this is true, then no worries, it can just be installed without an issue.