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Within the last two weeks. I have started having. Issues with my talk-to-text as well. It used to work fine on my Note 8, but when I switched to the Note 10 plus it did not seem to work quite as well. I changed over to the Google Voice to Text engine like I had on the other phone. And it was working better. But then within the last 2 weeks I'm guessing during an update. It has started randomly punctuating and adding capital letters. Even worse than it did before. I am actually doing this with talk to text. Without asking for any punctuation at all, so that someone can see What it looks like? It is very frustrating. Because I use my talk-to-text extensively. When I'm in my car for safety reasons. And I feel like I am correcting it and taking longer to correct it then I would have taken just to type it out by hand. I have already spoken with my Verizon tech coach. Who suggested clearing the cache? In my app which I did and I also turned off automatic punctuation and capitalization and it is still doing it.
Brenn111 said:
What is wrong the voice to text! I have had this phone for 7 months and still I have to correct nearly every word! If I speak very slow I may get a sentence with only one error. This is an example of what I get when speaking normally... Jasper waking up be and are bargains in any says that... not even sure what this was suppose to say now. I certainly know no one by the name of Jasper & I've never used it in a sentence till now. Help!
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Screen mirroring without wifi

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Ok my samsung is a trackphone under strsight talk. I live in such a remote area i only get service with this one network, Verizon , and had yo be in a spevific spot or this network looses signal.
I had Hughesnet over 2 years ago with thier shitty sat. Wifi. Cancelledit, . Closest neighbor has secure wifi, nothing avail to me. Well i used to mirror to my roku way back but all that ceased when lost wifi.
Well if i slide down top menu an galaxy it pairs with roku, and shows trying to do thatbwith wifi. Then roku message alert says unable to perform. Latest software not available. Then after 5 seconds a continue anyway button shows and hit ok.... from there my galaxy mirrors every screen texts, anything not in as high resolution but descent... i think its,all riding my lte as no wifi anywhere. Now its problematic but minimally and hell its free.
I mirror 4 , 5 movies a week no problem . Got 65 gig plan... is this common knowledge?????
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Question

MoodyBlues
Unforgiven said:
Google is a search engine.
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Just to be clear, Google is a company--a very big one.

Its Wikipedia page provides a good summary, starting with:

"Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. It is considered one of the Big Four technology companies, alongside Amazon, Apple, and Facebook."
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Free tablet

puppykickr
mikedt said:
Could be a scammer, so be beware.
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I found the comment about the 'Indian guy' hilarious, especially in conjunction with your warning.

I had never been online or had a smartphone, nor did I want to.
It was right at the point where cellular companies were forcing the switch from 2G to 3G phones.
So, I had just bought a replacement phone, without knowing of this forced change.
Anyway, as a longtime customer, AT&T has treated me well, and as they do with forced changes like this they offered to send me a compliant device.

But, I was leery of the offer, because I was getting so many fake scam calls that I just figured that the calls and texts were some of the same.

It was always some 'Indian guy', hahaha!

Finally, I got fed up with the aggrevation and reported it multiple times.
They continued anyway, and finally in exasperation I told them what they wanted to hear and told them to send me a free phone.

So, it came in the mail and that began my Android journey.

Even better, I soon found that the phone that I had just purchased was an oddball in that I could put the 3G sim card from the smartphone into it, and it would continue to work anyway.

So, I used the Android as a miniature tablet, and was free to experiment and learn without worry of bricking my cellular device.

I still have that old 2G phone with the 3G sim, and it is now my emergency cellphone.

I also still have a cheap Android that I pulled the sim out and use as a tiny tablet on Wi-Fi.
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Blockort 80, http, unencrypted traffic

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svim said:
Non-root firewall apps rely upon a local-only VPN process where online packets get funneled through it. This local VPN is where the filtering is applied. Root-required firewall apps, like AFWall+, don't need any VPN as they have system-level access and can tie directly to iptables, the firewall service that's already integral to the Linux kernel. (non-root apps only have user-level permissions so no access to iptables.)
The issue then is you can only have one VPN service running on your device so you need to pick which suits your needs the best.
Best practice is apps 'should' rely upon https to communicate with their home services online but of course that's not an absolute. Things like user I.D. and password data should be using a secure connection but a lot of traffic (i.e. Google News updating itself on the latest articles to display or whatever) doesn't need to go through https. Even if you were to readily be able to block port 80, it's not like you can then just set each app that does use http to exchange data to not use port 80, that's something that gets set up by the developer of the app itself. All you would do is break the functionality of a lot of apps.
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Thanks Svim
Have installed a sniffer, shall remove apps that I don't trust. Its a shame they don't automatically sell phones rooted with appropriate security installed. If I could block port 80 or anything else unencrypted, I would just remove the apps that break.
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Updates for Z2 Force

Vintage Leatherneck
James L said:
You could always download the firmware and use Fastboot or mfastboot to manually update the device.
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Not one to run a challenge, I am very gun-shy regarding puters and phones. I haven't a clue how to do that.This afternoon I read posts on the net from people who ran into trouble doing that. If it is OTA I am good with that. I am concerned that this model originally built for Sprint. I have a Verizon sim. My smallest tool is a 20 lb Stilson wrench.
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Galaxy 20 vs Galaxy S20 Plus

NightAngel79
Unforgiven said:
Wow, $200 for 1/2" of screen real estate seems steep. That list has a lot of TBAs, so maybe there's more too it. My son (yeah, my 12YO son knows about the S20 phones already) :rolleyes: asked if the S20 was coming with the Samsung Earbuds. Maybe there are other throw ins for the Plus beyond the phone.
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With push for next gen sammy buds I would doubt they are free. But wouldn't that be amazing? (not ruling it out)

A lot of talk about the 'time of flight' camera function, though I have no clue what that is. Otherwise, I kinda agree. The S20 is sized same as Pixel XL right? SO I can see a premium for bigger screen and bigger battery. But 200?
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[App][Free] Tomato List - Grocery Shopping App

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All your lists will be synced with the cloud, so you can access all your shopping lists from any device using your account.

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