After factory resetting my device, I have switched off all the major and minor bg data on each app,
but I cannot shake the feeling what over all apps need to be filled up on my device? (motorolla 5GWU)

Even I cannot believe it has been a whole year since the vivo X Fold3 Pro global edition was released. Without a doubt, this has been the best fold phone I have ever owned. Any doubts I may have had when I purchased this device have long gone.

The crease when unfolded, remains barely discernible and like the day I received it. The innovative carbon fibre hinge is as good as new. Most impressively, the 5,700 mAh Si/C Li-Ion battery that sees me, on average, through 56hours of combined use and charges 0%-100% in just 31 minutes still shows as Healthy.

The 8.03" , inner, (unfolded), screen and 6.53" cover screen at 4,500 nits peak brightness have to be seen to be believed and perform well even in bright sunlight.

Perhaps one of the things I find most useful are the under screen ultrasonic fingerprint readers on both the inner and outer displays which have worked both quickly and flawlessly. The same goes for the built-in infra red, IR, blaster.

Last but not least, the cameras on this make even a photography dummy like myself, look good. Way better than other phone cameras that I have used in the past.

When this model first launched, I said at the time that vivo had thrown everything including the kitchen sink at it and that still holds true with features and capabilities that other manufacturers are only just starting to catch up with. In fact, for the first time ever, I am not tempted by any other fold phone, either on the market or rumoured, not even the forthcoming vivo Fold5 which is virtually identical to the Fold3 Pro but with no under screen fingerprint readers and slightly slower charging. See, here.

I can only but hope that vivo brings out a Pro version later in the year.

No hamburger menu on my new tab settings, I did nothing wrong with it...

For some reason my phone (moto g pure, Android 12) keeps accidentally muting the notification volume, so that if I am called it does not ring. I want it to ring when I am called.

To be crystal clear about which sound setting is changing, it's this one:


The setting circled in orange, which should be a bell icon as shown in the picture, keeps getting changed to a crossed-out bell. I don't want that to happen.

I don't know exactly how this keeps happening; maybe it's because of bouncing around in my shirt pocket.

I would like some way to make it more difficult for that setting to change accidentally, such as by disabling all the volume controls on the lock screen. Is there anything I can do?

I'm having a problem with the swiftkey keyboard.
It leaves a huge white space between a split in half keyboard in landscape.

Greetings, following the "Updating instructions" at Full OTA Images for Nexus and Pixel Devices | Google Play services | Google for Developers , adb sideload has met with failure. The downloaded OTA for the Pixel 6 meets the published sha256sum.

(Laptop)
$ adb devices
* daemon not running; starting now at tcp:5037
* daemon started successfully
List of devices attached
21101FDF60063S device
$ adb reboot recovery
$ adb devices
List of devices attached
21101FDF60063S recovery
(Pixel 6)
Apply Update from ADB is selected
(Laptop)
$ adb sideload oriole-ota-bp2a.250605.031.a2-e6a8072b.zip
Total xfer: 1.00x
(Pixel 6, in RED)
Warning: Previous installation has failed. Your device may fail to boot if you reboot or power off now.

Without rebooting the device, I have repeated the steps after re-downloading and check summing the OTA, with the same results.

Will someone help me fix this problem, please?

Hi everyone!
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My 1st brand new vehicle was the 1984 Pontiac Fiero, 4 cylinder, red.
I was 21 at the time, playing bass guitar in my wedding band.
So many great times with that car.

It's 1997.
Before cell phones.
What type of computer / software / email services are you using?
I'm using a Hewlett Packard computer running Windows CE 2.0!
Using dial-up to get online!
With a floppy disk!
Using Internet Explorer!
Using Hotmail for my new email account!
Using Dogpile as my search engine!
This was my employee work computer.
My, how technology has changed...

Overview
I wanted an app that would use my phone's camera to monitor a particular area, and alert me via email if motion is detected. I thought it would be a good exercise to write the app myself - as well as being an interesting project, this would allow me to implement whatever features I wanted. The app is free, and there are no restrictions or ads. I won't go into all the features here as they are explained on the app's website.

The APK file and explanation of all features/settings is at:
http://www.apdroid.byethost5.com/zonemonitor/zonemonitor.html

(I no longer publish my apps to Google Play since they made it mandatory to list my home address)

Permissions required:

• INTERNET - to send emails when movement is detected
• CAMERA - to take photos for comparison
• RECORD_AUDIO - the app supports taking videos as well as photos
• ACCESS_WIFI_STATE - required to set up the app's HTTP admin interface

Known issues:
I have tested this on a few different phones, and run it for weeks without restarting on an old Motorola device. It works fine on my Google Pixel as well, but on my OnePlus 3T it crashes quite frequently and I still haven't figured out the cause of this.

Feel free to give it a try and let me know if you run into any problems. There are quite a few settings that can be adjusted so it might be worth playing around with these to get the desired results.

Andrew Parkin
Main website: http://www.apdroid.byethost5.com/

(the original project name "Motion Detector" can still be found in various places within the app, I decided to rename it to "Zone Monitor" as there is already an app called Motion Detector; I will get around to fixing these at some point)

I hope I'm asking this question in a way that makes sense. Trying to google it has been a waste of time.
Before my S23 updated to Android 15 a few weeks ago, if I had 2 or more radio apps open (for example iheart and audacy), I could swipe down and both apps would be visible for me to swipe between them, if I wanted to switch from one app to the other. I'm not talking about playing both of them at the same time (which google seems to think I'm doing).
Since the move to Android 15, when I go from one app to the other, the first app disappears from the top of my screen, so if I want to go back to it, I have to open the app from my app list and start it over. Does anybody know if I can go back to the previous setting? Thanks.

What's a good private one that doesn't save to googoo? I suppose I shouldn't expect much from a Blu, but I do want to maximize what it can do. I don't want something that goes overboard with permissions.

When creating mobile or app designs, where do you usually get your images from?

Is it from Freepik, LottieFiles, Flaticon, Icon8 — or do you create them yourself?

Hard mode:
Name me a few of them without going to say "Nova launcher" or "Action", "Smart" or anything you can possibly look up,
I want a real independent one that I can simply modify everything.

My friend's washer smells to high heaven. She's blaming the pipes. I guess the laundry gets clean, but it doesn't pass the sniff test. Is there some cheap/easy/fast/magic fix?

Something I've noticed: whenever I copy some text I get the notification "Samsung Keyboard has pasted from your clipboard". However I don't use Samsung Keyboard (it's pre-installed on my phone, but I have always used 3rd party keyboards), and this happens straight after I copy the text, before I've had a chance to even go to where I want to paste it. So it raises the question why is Samsung Keyboard even accessing the clipboard and where is it posting the text to?

It might be harmless, some absurd, clunky design where all copies to the clipboard go through the pre-installed keyboard app (I'd not put that past either Google or Samsung). But it does create a distinct "Samsung keyboard is phoning home to the mothership even though you don't use it" vibe. Does anyone know anything about this?

vivo have begun rolling out the May 2025 security patch to their global, (FunTouch), models of the X Fold3 Pro. This update also has a number of bug fixes and optimizations for Android 15 as detailed in the screenshot.

This is the vivo X Fold3's 9th Android 15 update in 9 months.

My S23 updated to One UI V 7.0 a couple weeks ago. I have been able to change a few of the settings back to how there were before but I can't figure out how to configure the layout of my apps. I'm referring to the list of all my apps, not my home screen apps. When I would try to find an app, they used to be spread out over several pages and I would swipe right or left to view 20 apps on each page. Since the update, all of the apps are on one page and I have to scroll through the whole list to find the app I'm looking for. I pretty much had the location of my apps memorized so I could find an app easily. Is there a way to get this back the way it used to be?

Samsung have started to roll out the May 2025 security update to the Fold5.

I just noticed today that when I long press the home button, the screen flashes, I then tap the search box, then at the top of the screen, a see a search box, with a screen shot it just grabbed. Then if i say something it adds to it ,but only searches the image. I have the Samsung Galaxy s22 Ultra with Android v15, and my wife has the Galaxy s22 plus and her search works as expected. What I expect is I long press the home button, I see a search box and I talk to do a google search. ... thoughts

I don't have any special plans for the weekend beyond visiting the cemetery and calling a few vets I know. I will smoke something out Sunday more than likely. Rain is forecasted for my area all weekend.
Do you have any special plans? If you travel, do be safe. Please go out of your way to thank the veterans in your life for their service.

Jeez, been stuck not being able to login since last week!
2 factor authentication from the website was NOT sending me the authentication emails!!!!
Ugh!
Anyways, I'm glad to be back, my friends!