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Help A30 will not download apps or some app updates via data

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Had to buy a phone from the local post office after my first gen pixel's screen de-laminated due to the battery swelling, can't wait for the parts to arrive, this older phone still beats many newer ones.

Bought the A30, it was the highest quality phone they had ...for apps download and update I have set all settings to "Download over any network" and even tried "Only Use Mobile Data" to see if that helped ... yet many Apps still won't download and some won't update and simply display "Waiting for WiFI" which I won't be able to gain access to until I drive 94k's to the closest town with a WiFi Hotspot that my Mobile network supplier has at certain points in that town. and just now while I'm writing this it once again turned off it's WiFi Hot spot capability and I need to go to the phone and turn that back on so I can keep typing this post and continue to gain access the internet from my Laptop, this is seriously stupid!!!

Seriously Samsung, how long have you been producing phones and how many more do you sell than Google?who manage to get the software workinh smooth and with very few glitches such as this, people like me need to report to the governemnt as I've been laid of and am recieving government support till more work comes my way and I can't with several apps, freeking unbelievable!!!!
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Galaxy Z Flip at Best Buy (We’ll notify you when it’s ready to ship)

olbriar
It is the bending over that's the problem. My Note easily resides in my pocket. I have to bend over, squat down, or even get on my knees to do a lot of my work. That is when I notice that it's just a little taller than my pocket. I would simply use a belt clip case but I'm wearing a full size carpenter's apron that leaves no belt space exposed. I'll likely go a full 360 case of some sort and carry the phone in my apron. Not at all ideal but a work-a-round. My S8+ shot craps just a couple of months too soon. If I could have waited for a replacement, the fold phone would have been under serious consideration for it's carry size. Plus... face it.... it's cool tech! I'm not in the least displeased with the Note 10+ I bought. It does everything I need and does it quite well. It is a cool phone and I'm very pleased with it. Maybe I can influence the little woman to upgrade to my Note :) :)
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How to send touch tones with Android Auto (or hands free)?

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Hi there,

Is there a way to send touch tones when hands free? (Either with Android Auto or just using the phone directly hands free.) I know how to insert them into a contacts phone number so that isn't my question. Just want to be able to navigate a menu system without touching the phone.

(I'm new here but have searched for keywords and couldn't find anything relevant.If a thread exists please feel free to point me to it.)

Thanks,

..Tom
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How do i share an existing folder on Google Drive/Dropbox with my phone?

Milo Willamson
TriggerCut82 said:
Hello,

I use an app called Easy Voice Recorder to record my song ideas on my android phone. I want this folder to be shared on the cloud, so I can open them seamlessly on my desktop at home.

I've tried installing both Google Drive, Dropbox and PCloud, but non of them seem to want to share an local folder that's already on my phone. They just use cloud folders ore something. Those, I can't direct the wav file storage to.

How can I share a path like: Xperia L1\Delt internlagring\EasyVoiceRecorder via dropbox, or make a folder I can direct my sound record app storage to?

I really hope I don't have to copy the indivitual files from the EasyVoice folder to one of the cloud folders in order for this to work. In that case, this is not time saving at all.

Hope to hear from someone.

-Bjørn
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That is really easy, I use drop box all the time, what you do is click right where it saids "Share the file" with the right triangle open up with three circles, and send to someone else, but they must have an account on dropbox :)
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Travelling

svim
The Location function typically relies up three things -- GPS, local cellular towers, and local IP addressing. GPS being the most precise, with cellular requiring at least three local towers for some kind of triangulation to work, and IP addressing being the loosest as they can only define certain regional locations.
Time is adjusted on our devices by periodically syncing up with various online time servers, like time.nist.gov, and there are countless numbers of them but they all reference to the UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) atomic clock in Greenwich, England.
The two are inter-related but not dependent on each other -- i.e. you can use a VPN to be connected via WiFi to a different country but still have the local time being where you actually are.
Since your tablet doesn't have cellular connectivity, it of course can't use cellular towers so that leave GPS and IP addressing. If you typically leave GPS off than if you at least use it with WiFi connectivity at some point it will sync itself with a predetermined time server. No clue as to the time interval your Huawei tablet is set to sync with a public time server though. Could be hourly, could be daily, or more.

As for rooting your device, be sure you're prepared in advance for its drawbacks too. Yes it allows you more access to system-level tasks but it's not the magic fix that a lot of people tout it is. Rooting gives you the ability to delve into the operating system a lot deeper, but it does not also automatically give you the knowledge.
https://phandroid.com/2019/02/23/5-reasons-why-you-shouldnt-root-your-android-smartphone/
Root your device because you have specific reasons to. In your example of the Set Time Zone being greyed out in the Settings menu, rooting your device won't just magically enable that setting for you. You'll need to learn specific CLI commands, along with what system files to edit. Just as an example, the relevant time server info will be listed in /system/etc/gps.conf
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How do I Switch a CDMA/GSM S5 Verizon to AT&T

svim
Just to add, keep in mind that 3G is currently being phased out so within a couple of years it's going to be 4G and up only.
https://prepass.com/2019/06/10/how-saying-goodbye-3g-may-affect-trucking-and-you-2/
https://www.business.att.com/content/dam/attbusiness/briefs/3G-faq-messaging.pdf
And just for reference, here's a table on what bands the cellular carriers support:
https://www.phonearena.com/news/Che...on-T-Mobile-and-Sprint-use-in-the-USA_id77933
(T-Mobile and Sprint may change due to the possible upcoming merger)
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Vpn isn't working Properly on Samsung J6

mashrur4597
svim said:
You can only have one running, active VPN service at a time. Using multiple VPNs will just create connectivity problems.
Try going into your Settings >> Apps menu, tap on the Force stop button and then the 'Clear data' button, and then Uninstall for each of the VPN apps you have installed. Then be sure to restart your phone. (... don't skip that Clear data step, you want to remove all the config/settings files too) Now pick just one VPN service, install and configure its settings to see if your phone can get online access normally again.
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I have 1 Vpn have installed everytime I try.
I just went through 2-3 vpn apps when my premium version wasn't working
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Android expert needed!

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Sorry for not seeing any of these responses earlier! I figured I would get a notification if there were replies but I must have missed them. I appreciate you taking the time to respond.

I am sorry that I took the initial post, asking whose phone I was inquiring about, the wrong way. I am just frustrated in general and shouldn't have taken it out on you. I have just had experiences where people knew the answers but didn't tell me because children deserve their privacy and freedoms. They obviously aren't parents. This isn't about porn, or sending nudes or whatever else people usually associate with phone "spying". Believe me, porn doesn't get hidden as well, which is what makes this suspicious activity more concerning. Anyway....

I wrote my original post linked to the Vault app I was referring to. I'm not sure if it's visible to people are they see the post... but it's called nq Vault.
I'm not sure how to describe the desktop clock app other than it's listed as "com.android.deskclock" When I try to look up it just seems like a normal clock but how much it appears in the activity feed and the times it's used are never for setting alarms/turning alarms on or off... even checking the time this frequently doesn't make sense... So that's why I asked. It could very well be a normal clock app (again, I have never used an android personally so I have very little detail or even knowledge to help explain things any further).

As far as the frequently contacted, when I go to contacts I see that as an option to choose and that is where I see this one lone e-mail address. I looked at my gmail account as well and I have that option to see too, so I'm not sure why you wouldn't have it in your gmail account.
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Ten years later; still works

NightAngel79
doogald said:
I should say that, first, it's not really usable - you cannot activate a phone this old on Verizon anymore (and it was a Verizon-only phone.) I had to airplane mode the phone to get it past the activation step (this phone is so old that the tap the four corners trick doesn't get past activation.) Second, yes, you'd have to be really, really desperate to use this as a phone or a smart device of any sort, even if you could activate it. (I was actually amazed that I could log into a Google account - if I were Google, I think I'd be blocking Eclair devices from actually connecting at this point.)

Just pointing out that ten years after it was released, the thing still actually works.
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I love that it still works, but yes, not actually *usable* by todays standards. HTC was a beast, and I wish it still was.... :'(

Unforgiven said:
This thread makes me want to post a pic of my OG Droid that's still rocking to this day as my daily alarm clock.
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I still have my OG Incredible.... I wonder if it boots up still :)
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Help Did I buy a fake sd card?

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Rukbat said:
1) Install SD Insight (free at Play). That'll give you an idea of what the card is. (Manufacture date - which can't be 1.1.70 - if it is you know you have a counterfeit card, manufacturer's number, etc.)

2) Install h2testw on a Windows computer, use a card reader if necessary, and see what's in the card. If it was really a 32GB card programmed to claim to be 64GB (normally they'll use 2GB or 4GB cards for that), the program will tell you the real size of the memory card inside the SD card (which is more than just memory).

I know this is now moot for you since you sent the card back, but if you're going to buy SD cards you should have those 2 programs available first. (I went through a rack of "32GB" good "brand name" cards in a big box store. Out of 12, 2 were counterfeit. Even with a magnifying glass, we couldn't see any difference in the printing on the card or the packaging. But both "32GB" cards were 4GB memory chips.) If I buy a card, I pay for it, then install it and run SD Insight on it before I leave the store (and make sure I have no other SD cards with me). If the card is fake, I have a discussion with the manager or owner. They can strip-search me if they want (that'll cost them more than they make on cards in 5 years), but they'll refund my money, replace the card or the sheriff will execute the judgement I'll get in court against the business.

Counterfeiting memory cards should be a felony. Unfortunately in most places it's just "give him another card". And that's why it happens - the loss/benefit ratio. If you get caught you don't lose anything. But you can sell hundreds of $2 cards for $100 and tell the people who don't know any better that their phones must have corrupted the cards, and they should get their phones fixed.

It's like the "antenna boosters" the industry used to sell (I refused to even deal with the people offering them to dealers) - the ones you pasted under the battery. They "improve" your - oh, not your, the seller's ... uh, bank account. They sold for $9.95 each. If the dealer wanted to really win you over as a customer, he'd take you aside and let you know that - and this was only for you - he'd give you the card for $5 - 50% off.

They sold tor $10/thousand - that's a penny apiece. And if you bought large lots - say $100,000 - that would cost you about $100. That's 1/10 cent each. For $9.95.

And they did as much to improve your signal as praying to Zeus does.

People only rip people off because the people who get ripped off allow themselves to get ripped off. If everyone who got ripped off called the rip-off artist out, we'd need a lot more prison space.

Oh, in the future, give yourself a fighting chance with SD cards. There are only 2 manufacturers (everyone else buys reject chips and programs what's still working to show) - Samsung and SanDisk. And, IMO, Samsung is too expensive for the same quality. So I buy SanDisk. So far I've had one bad one - I broke it trying to put it into a phone. It still works, the coating is a bit chipped. (I'm 71 and my eyes aren't what they used to be.) I'd bet 50/50 that SanDisk would replace it if I asked. And I buy retail, since I don't need many cards, so they never heard of me. But I've heard that they've replaced counterfeit cards that were made to look like theirs. And they rewrote their firmware (there's firmware in those little cards) to fix a problem that a phone manufacturer caused. Not their problem, but they put forth the effort to make their cards work in those phones. That's the kind of company I choose to give my money to, even if it costs a little more.
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still works in 2020.excellent description. jesus bless
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creating custom layout overlaps in android

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I wanted to create a Navigation bar like drawer that held some custom resources and custom widgets which would allow me to put them using constraint layout but this is not provided by android.

How do people create their custom libraries to do that? For example consider this navigation bar (check time code 1:15), it consists of a custom transformation for it's layout, manages layout overlaps and stuff like that. He gives a source for that here.

Please give me a pointer how is this acheived or what knowledge is required to be able to do this. I'm willing to do my bit of research but I don't know where to start or what is used in achieving this. Is it done using OpenGL ES? Canvas drawings? ANY HELP AT ALL would be greatly appreciated.
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