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svim
ghostinshell said:
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How well does photo storage to cloud work?
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That question does bring up a significant aspect when it comes to Android vs. iPhone. With your iPhone you have a backup/restore/migrate solution that's already implemented with your device. Everything gets uploaded into your online iCloud account where if needed you just restore your phone if some problem does occur, and/or you can easily just migrate your old iPhone's user set up onto a new iPhone. With Android however, we're stuck with setting up our own backup solutions, and in the event we need to migrate from an old phone to a new one, there may or may not be easy solutions to do this successfully. (i.e. If you do opt to get a Samsung, you can use Samsung's Smart Switch utility to do full backups and restores, and migrate from one phone to another which works out better if both are supported Samsung phones. But the process is still not as seamless and thorough as iCloud. (This does highlight a notable difference between the two platforms, where Apple has almost complete control over its hardware and software, along with fundamental services, while Android is much more diverse with Google only having control over the Android OS and numerous manufacturers, carriers, and retailers inserting themselves into a less structured environment.) Also keep in mind not all the different brands of Android phones have similar backup/restore/migrate services. There are several third-party utilities in the Play Store that are developed independently that are worth looking into, but that will be matter of always doing a little research on any app you install on your own to validate its credibility and actual functionality. Google does screen out a lot of crapware from its Play Store on a continuous basis, just as Apple does in its online Apple Store, but not everything submitted by the miscreants can be found and revealed immediately so just be a little cautious about what you do install on your own.
But getting back to your query regarding online photo storage, there are well established services that work quite well. The Google Photos app is a popular choice, it's basically a photo manager app up front, but it's ability to do backups and syncing of your photo library up into your online Google account in the background is a big plus. This gives you the ability to always be able to access your photo library from either your phone or using a web interface on any web browser. If you're wary of handing too much of your data to Google, there are of course apps for other third party file sharing services like Dropbox, SpiderOak (a privacy focused service), OneDrive, etc. If you're an Amazon Prime subscriber, the online Amazon Drive is included at no extra charge (up to 5GBs).
Oh and regarding your wife amassing lots of photos, if she's just using the free, default iCloud storage capacity of 5GBs, with Android, the free, default is 15GBs.
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Help imei problem, Restoring or changing imei?

Hadron
As an aside, you say it might have changed when you had it repaired at some time. Do you know what the repair was? If they replaced the motherboard then the IMEI would have changed then. That's the only reason I can think it could happen legitimately.

It's possible that your problem may have arisen because someone else changed their IMEI. Some people do that when they've got theirs blocked (e.g. by stopping paying a contract, or because they bought a stolen phone), and if you were unlucky and someone cloned your IMEI then it would be blocked once this was detected. That's only a hypothesis, and it may be something simpler (including a typo when someone was trying to block a different number - nothing is impossible). But your service provider is the best outfit to talk to about a phone block anyway.
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Instagram API

umtblbl
Hello friends,
In Instagram, I want to show a list of those who have followed before and left the follow-up. I think I need the user's followers first. *one
And I want to be able to show a list of other users that are blocking the user. There are mobile apps that do this. *2nd
I've been researching what data Instagram gave us to solve these two problems. However, I could not reach a clear solution.
I will do the project in Android Studio, I know how to send a request with retrofit. For these two issues, exactly what URL do I need to send a request to, what can I do, ... can you give me some ideas, advice and suggestions on my research?
Below are some Instagram URLs which can help me? I guess I'm not very good at determining that, can you please help me?
https://github.com/postaddictme/instagram-php-scraper/blob/master/src/InstagramScraper/Endpoints.php
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My Girlfriend Nags me too much about my case!

ocnbrze said:
nice looks good, might have a go at it as well. let us know how you like this one.
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Will do

ocnbrze said:
nice looks good, might have a go at it as well. let us know how you like this one.
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Well it just came in, so far it's very well packaged and here is my thoughts in it

It has a great feel to it when you hold it in your hand with the Note 10+ the ports are not blocked and are easily accessible, the buttons for volume and Bixby feels very nice when you press it down.

The sides and all around the Note 10+ doesnt feel all bulky in my hand that I had to deal with my old case, and it's perfect size, the only complaint I have is where the ports are feels kinda bumpy
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The Galaxy s7

Everything is good but only one thing it suffers

Is when it was updated to Android Oreo, Oreo has a issue with draining battery a little bit faster and watching 4K videos on YouTube does lag a bit

It has expandable storage up to 64GB, 3.5mm headphone jack, 4GB of DDR3 RAM, wireless charging
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Get value and compare it to file content same value

GameTheory
LefmyHans said:
Hi ! I want to create a small program with android studio that can take a value entered by a user and compare that value to another identical value that exists in a file stored in the internal memory of the phone. If this value exists in the file, select the file in question and send it to a server... Could someone help me with that ?
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I'll post some code I use in my own apps to get you started. The rest you can figure out on your own with a little googling and asking around.

The BufferedReader is perfect for this situation. You can use it to get the contents of a file on your phone and compare the contents to a string which is what it seems you're trying to do.

Method to read file contents - getFileContent():
Java: 
private static String getFileContent(String file) {
  String content = "";
  try (BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(file))) {
    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
    String line = br.readLine();
    while (line != null) {
      sb.append(line);
      line = br.readLine();
      if (line != null) {
        sb.append(System.lineSeparator());
      }
    }
    content = sb.toString();
  } catch (IOException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
  }
  return content;
}

Using the method getFileContent():
Java: 
if (getFileContent("/path/to/filename").contains("string-to-check")) {
  // run your code here for a match
} else {
  // run code here for no match
}

Good luck ;)
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Double end cord

mikedt
FYI the JBL Flip 4 speaker uses micro-USB for power and charging. Power-banks usually have standard sized USB power outputs, it may have micro-USB and/or type-C USB as well, all depending on the particular one you've got there. For a speaker from a power-bank, you can just use any phone USB cord, provided it has the appropriate connectors.
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