Phone RealMe X8, Android 15. New.

In previous RealMe and Android, I could easily create "widgets" (i.e. shortcuts) to the home screen showing selected contacts. One widget for calling, another for text messaging. Now, I cannot figure out to create the same.

So far, the only option afaik is to press an empty space on home screen and the option to create a widget pops up. I select that, then on all available widgets, I scroll down to contacts. There, there's two options. Either to create a widget containing four of my favourite contacts (which means I have to open contacts and tap on the star to the right of the contact I deem as a favorite...gah!!!). If I do so, these four contacts appear in a narrow "frame", so small that the huge "icons" (why so damn big?) for each of the contacts don't fit. All I can see at first is a tenth of one of them. No way to expand the "frame".

The other option in the widget section is to select a single contact and have that as a widget on home screen. Fine. But the widget then displays a huge "icon" (i.e. a photo of the contact or the first initial of the contact's name) as mentioned above.

In previous phone with Android 12 or 13, I simply open contacts, held down finger on the contact I wanted on home screen, and slid it left or right (I'm lying. Actually I had to first select the phone symbol, slide that, and then select the message symbol and slide that too.

But then, I had shortcuts on my home screen for calling or messaging the few contacts I normally need to contact.

Sorry for elaborate text. But I really miss this feature and would very much appreciate if anyone could steer me in the right direction to achieve it.

Cheers,
Dan

Happy Thanksgiving Day Eve.

I am going to a family get together tomorrow and may not get to pass by here tomorrow, sooo.

Happy Turkey Day to all !

I have had many Android phones, including several Samsungs, and have always been able to copy files from my Windows PC.

However, just got an S24 and I am struggling!

I connect it to the PC with a USB cable and nothing happens. Normally, the PC would recognise it and offer some options.

I can go into the phone settings and under "USB Settings" I can see "USB Controlled by" with 2 options "Connected device" and "This device".

There are also options under "Use USB for" and one of these is "Transferring Files / Android Auto", but all the options are greyed out and cannot be selected.

I am guess I need to do something else - can anyone point me in the right direction, please?

Thanks

*UPDATE* Sorted - it was the cable!!!!!

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I got a new Xiaomi phone, and would like to know if there is a way to…
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When I leave my car and Android Auto disconnects, music automatically switches from the car speakers to my Pixel 8 and keeps playing on the phone. I don't want that and it didn't used to do that. I just want playback to stop completely when I exit the car.

I’ve checked Android Auto settings (there's no “resume media” option) and the Google Assistant settings (there's no “Media continuity” option either).

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This seems to be a complex topic. I use hearing aids, and the sound quality is excellent for me. BUT the people with whom I speak on the phone hear too much and/or too loud background noises. For example, papers wrinkling, television. There's no noise cancellation nor suppression as when using the phone alone.

There are articles on changing call settings on these Androids, but my two phones do not have them on Android 14.
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The only setting I could find is "hearing aid compatibility" and that is turned on.

Many users state that hearing aids don't have true noise suppression, so if this is a problem, use the phone, not the aids, for voice/talking. Again, what I hear is fine.

Anyone here know how to reduce background noise for bluetooth-attached hearing aids using a Samsung A54 cellphone?

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