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Galaxy S4 Keeps Shutting Off With Full Battery

svim
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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Help Android Pie update is coming to the HTC U11 in late May

MysticalRide
3.37.617.1 (1.28GB) ... update just came up on my U11
...but I am waiting to see (success or issues info) before installing.
Many past issues in the overseas markets - plus read the comments at the bottom of this article:

https://piunikaweb.com/2019/09/04/us-unlocked-htc-u11-android-pie-9-0-update-finally-rolling-out/

Please share if things go well or you find issues or read about issues elsewhere :)
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Samsung Galaxy Fold released September 6th

kate
mikedt said:
I even tried searching Samsung for "fold", nothing about the Galaxy Fold at all. Maybe they're just trying to forget about it, except for their "news" department
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September 6th was only the release date for South Korea.

This Samsung press release suggests the US will get it sometime in September, or early October:
https://news.samsung.com/us/galaxy-fold-launch-new-premier-service-us-consumers/

"The Galaxy Fold will arrive for U.S. consumers in the coming weeks, and will be available in Cosmos Black and Space Silver."

ocnbrze said:
do we know pricing yet? i'm too lazy to google it.....lol
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Haven't seen US pricing, but I'd guess around the same $1,980 it was originally supposed to sell for.
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Help How do I play music from Google drive?

mikedt
hurtstotalktoyou said:
Well I'm down for a different service if that's what's necessary. But Google music is demanding my credit card info and I can't do that. Thanks though.
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I've never had that happen, Google Music wanting $$$, although I've never stored music on Google. I've only used Drive for documents and the occasional ROM I've shared.
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App Selection

chrzjim
Hadron said:
To be honest I don't know precisely where under the hood this is: I'd have to dig out one of my older (rooted) devices and poke around in /system and see whether I could spot anything. Knowing Android it will be in an sql database somewhere in there.

But I am quite sure that without rooting the phone you will not be able to see it. You'll need administrator access to do something like this.

What file explorer are you using? The one of mine that offers the standard system dialogue for apks is Solid Explorer, and I just checked by setting 'use always' for the system package installer and it has definitely remembered that, even after restarting the device. Now if it's using the system dialogue, rather than handling the intent itself, it shouldn't matter what app you use, but given that my other 2(*) file explorers handle apks differently maybe it is worth trying with a different one just to see.

(*) I also have Google's 'Files' app, which came with the phone, but this is such a mess that I don't count it as a file explorer. It's honestly like they want a file explorer that hides the filesystem from you! Maybe it makes sense to former iPhone users...
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Thanks for your help and advice..
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Add app to share menu

ocnbrze
DavidG63 said:
I create csv and tsv files with no extension, or .txt extension. I want to be able to feed the file into google sheets, but it is not in the list that comes up when i select "share" in my current app. (In fact I'd love to be able to remove some of the choices the menu gives me.)
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well all i can say is that apps like google sheets will only except certain types of file. i see no way in forcing an app to except a file extension it was not originally designed for.

maybe somebody with some coding skills might help, but i do not see how you can make an app do this....especially one from google.

have you looked to see if there is another app that accepts those file extensions?
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What to commit/push to git

Savvasun
So, I have a repo on GitHub, and I've connected everything together in android studio, but now I don't know what to commit. I originally thought everything updated itself, but then realized you need to push all the changes made to Github. I found out that all the files in red are the one with changes. Once I was connected to github all the files in the project were red, so now I am confused as I don't know if I need to commit/push all the files right now, or leave them be. Also, selecting each file to commit and then pushing them sounds like a lot of unnecessary work when all I want to do is work on a project on my laptop instead of my pc.
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REVERT!! 10->9

Hadron
Ok, I think I know what happened to that "drag the button and hold" gesture. I just tried experimenting with the new gesture navigation (briefly, as it only works with the pixel launcher) and I see that swiping left/right in the gesture area does the same as doing so with the bottom button does now. So I reckon that they've just kept that gesture the same between the two modes rather than preserving the behaviour of the android 9 two-button method. It would be very Google to just focus on their new thing anyway.

The real problem I have with their new navigation, apart from linking it tightly to their own launcher, is that getting to the recent apps list is slow by design: if you have to swipe up and hold to get the app switcher rather than the drawer that is an inherently slow method. So it removes both speed and fluidity from the gesture. And this isn't just a matter of adjustment, it is inherently slow and awkward. Yet there are so many other ways they could have done this that would not have produced this problem. It's just dumb.
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