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I ended up having to do a factory reset. My son keeps downloading games and something went wrong. I tried deleting the game but that didn't work. At the I had to do it because a pop up wouldn't allow me to do anything.
Thanks for letting us know that you solved it, and how.

Now you might want to set Parental Controls so you're the only one who can install apps from the Play Store. 'Sorry, son, but these are the new rules!' :D

Nursegonecrazie

First thing to try: change your location mode to "device only", i.e. turn off all of the wireless network-based location and just use GPS. Do you get the correct location then?

If so the problem is that Google's database of what wireless devices are where is out of date. Maybe your cellular network has changed something, maybe someone has moved a WiFi network from one location to another, maybe Google have just screwed-up their database, but it's some wireless source being in a different location to where they expect that is confusing your location. These things usually get fixed after some interval.

Conversely if the problem persists when only using GPS, try switching to "low power" mode (if you still have it: it was deprecated in Android 9). That uses only wireless location. If that then behaves correctly it would suggest a fault in your GPS system.

If neither makes a difference, I don't know. Maybe back up and try a factory reset, see whether it clears some corrupted data (I usually prefer to be more surgical, but don't know precisely what to clear or whether you'd be able to anyway). You could try clearing the system cache first, just in case that's enough (saves the hassle of setting everything up again if you are lucky).

It's also conceivable that there's a fault with your phone that you cannot fix yourself. But let's hope not. The first suggestion is the most common cause of these things.

Can't turn off youtube captions

Ok I can, when I'm watching a video and there are captions I hit ol' 3 dots and select 'turn off captions'. Done.

But one or two videos later, there they are again. Somehow turning themselves back on. Please help!
I don't see captions, but it could be because I have it disabled on my account. On a PC I went to the youtube website and in "Settings > Playback and Performance" I disabled captions.

The youtube app on your phone has the same setting under "Settings > Captions". I don't know if disabling it in one place over the other is better.

In both of the above you have to click your avatar in the top right corner to get to the settings.

TCP client send only first char to server

Hello ,
I have a strange problem
I'm trying to send string using TCP client .
I can see the string that I want to send is in the right length (about 15 chars) , but on the server side I only get the first char....
I thought the prboem is in the server code (which is not) so I have also check with WireShark - agian I only get the first char

what is the problem?

private void initViews() {
txtBarcodeValue = findViewById(R.id.txtBarcodeValue);
surfaceView = findViewById(R.id.surfaceView);
btnAction = findViewById(R.id.btnAction);



btnAction.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
@override
public void onClick(View v) {

if (intentData.length() > 0) {

Thread thread = new Thread(new Runnable() {

@override
public void run() {
try {

String server_ip = "My.Server.IP";
int server_port = 8888;

String messageStr = intentData + "!" + Number+"!"+ name+"!";

Socket clientSocket = new Socket(server_ip, server_port);
clientSocket.setSoTimeout(2000);// I thought maye this is the problem - didn't help
DataOutputStream outToServer = new DataOutputStream(clientSocket.getOutputStream());
BufferedReader inFromServer = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(clientSocket.getInputStream()));
outToServer.writeBytes(messageStr + 'n');
ServerReply = inFromServer.readLine();

///need to write a function that check the response

clientSocket.close();


} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}

finally {


}
}
});

thread.start();



}
Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),ServerReply,Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
// finish();

}


});
}


anyone?

Thanks ,

Moving apps to sd card.

Thanks all for replying,
@Hadron:
2) I've configured my SD as default memory, one of the apps I installed was huge (~1GB, Here we go map, and I use it offline, that's why it's huge), after installing 4 apps, the phone said out of memory when tried to install next one.
3) Thanks for the tips, it's good to know to not format SD as internal memory.

Android G7 slim Q

Welcome to Android Forums. I don't know what app you are using to rename your files. If you haven't experienced the problem before while using whatever file manager you are using, the culprit might be a lack of storage space.
I truly do not have an answer. I hope someone can assist you.

ROOTED

I don't know much about phones. What does Molly in the phones about phone section mean?
What I'm asking is this some kind of Root application? Is this the Version name????

Yeh, it could be a version name. Some Motorola Moto E4s were called "Perry". I've also seen "Jenkins" in some Chinese phones and tablets as well, which i think is the build system they used for the firmware.

Suggest you post some screen-shots, will give us a better idea of exactly what you've got there.

The Rise and Fall of the headphone jack

OT

If you're buying any new LPs now, they'll have been pulled from a digital source anyway. The signal source for a modern record cutter is digital storage, and not reel-to-reel tapes these days AFAIK.

Also any studio recording made in the last 20-30+ years, is likely to have been done digitally anyway. CDs sometimes have "DDD" on the label, to indicate a completely digital process was used to produce it.


I always find the digital vs analogue debate interesting. :)
Yes, we know CDs are digital. Hadron mentioned that above as well. The thing is you can get higher quality sound from a FLAC over a CD. Not that one can discern the difference, but the facts remain...
https://www.cnet.com/news/what-is-flac-the-high-def-mp3-explained/

LPs used to be considered better because they were already analogue therefore not needing to be converted to digital. Digital formats need a digital to analogue converter(DAC) which even our phones have.

Odd feelings, like Twilight Zone

A reply to all. I don't know what happened but this sites format changed and my app for this site is gone.
Nothing's changed here that I'm aware of. Your app...it just disappeared? I never use it; I just use a browser. Does that work for you?
I can no longer download games either.
Do you mean from the Play Store, or...?
I sent a pm to the moderator a week ago to no avail. I also get no more notifications like i used to.
Post on the Suggestion Box & Feedback board; all the mods check it.

Just wondering, did you upgrade to Android 10?

New Note 10 just deleted ALL my saved texts!

First thing: have you tried rebooting the phone? There's no reason a service interruption (which is what this sounds like, as phone calls also stopped working) should do this, but if it's a glitch it might be that the SMS app is not displaying the messages rather than their being gone, in which case a reboot may fix it.

You could also try just installing another SMS app (e.g. Textra) and see whether it can see them (all SMS apps use the same database, so if one has lost sync with it maybe another would be able to see it).

If they really are gone and phone is new, can you re-transfer them from your previous phone or restore them from your backup (i.e. redo whatever you did to copy them in the first place)?

If they are actually gone and you have no backup, they are gone. There are many SMS backup tools available, so if this is important to you I'd recommend using one, but it won't help with this, only in future.

Galaxy S4 Keeps Shutting Off With Full Battery

The S4 model was released in early 2013, if you haven't replaced the battery since then and it's the original one it isn't surprising to have quirky problems with it at this point. There's good and bad to replacing the battery though. The good part is the S4 has a user replaceable battery so it will be really easy to swap batteries -- just remove the back cover and the battery is right there, you might be able to just use a fingernail to do the whole process. The bad part is any after-market battery you buy for a S4 will be pretty dated too. No manufacturer continues to make new batteries for really old phone models, there's no financial benefit to do so, even on a small scale. So any S4 battery you buy now will have sat in storage completely idle and not maintained for years. A smartphone battery will age quicker when in active use but they also age, at a much lessor degree, when they're not charged at least periodically (after several months or annually). Just be sure that wherever you buy your replacement battery that there's a dependable replacement/restocking policy in the event you need to go through more than battery to find an adequate one.
https://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/premature_voltage_cut_off

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