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Help Voice typing no longer active?

I'm hoping that someone can help me recover voice typing, which seems to have disappeared from my Pixel 6. Hacker's Keyboard was previously recommended and I've become accustomed to it, but that also is non-functional. 2 screenshots are attached, one of which shows the active keyboard during text messaging.

Please help?

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Unknown app messing up my MotoG screen

Hello,
I want to delete an unknown app that is permanently active on my MotoG screen. It seems to some kind of drawing app because when I touch the screen with my finger a blue crosshair appears, and when I move my finger around the screen it leaves a thin red line behind. Also at the top of the screen is a row of numbers which keep changing as my finger moves about.
It’s been driving me nuts for weeks now I just want rid of it, if anyone can help I will be really grateful,
regards from Ron

Browser recommendation

Can anyone recommend an Android browser with a light footprint that also allows you to disable/filter ads using a plugin/extension? I did a Google search and I installed a couple of recommended browsers that allow for ad blocking - Firefox Focus and Kiwi. However, FF doesn't seem to have any ability to block and although I can go through the motions using AdGuard AdBlocker in Kiwi it doesn't actually filter the ads. So, useless.

If there is such an animal, could you please also let me know which extensions you recommend to block ads?

TIA

Help Downgrade back to older firmware

Hi sorry I don't be on here any unless I have a need an answer for something anyway I'm thinking about getting an Galaxy S7 to replace my S6. But the S7 I'm thinking about getting is running 7.0 I need to downgrade it to 6.0.1 so I can continue to use foxfi my s6 keeps eating batteries so want newest phone I can use and still use foxfi. How hard is it to downgrade from 7.0 to 6.0 on the S7? TIA!

Sd emergency

It was working fine last night. This morning when I (maybe) transferred files, it didn't show the separate folders the way it usually does. I was just about to send some more files but decided to check storage first. When I did it said that there was no sd card. I have since rebooted three times, all with the same result. The A02s was acting up.last night in terms of charging. Could this have something to do with it? This morning it was at 93% after being plugged up before 11:00 pm, but later made it to 100. Now it's at 90.

Apps Newbie: I have doubt about notifications!

Hi all.

I want to send notifications for all devices that are my app instaled. For example if I want to send a new information or promotions. So everyone that have my app installed shound be receive this push in Android.

What is the workflow to do it? I need to create a windows program to send it? Or another app that only the administrator will have? Or if have a login area, so the administration can acess inside the same app an area to send notifications?

My doubt is because I see some tutorials where only the app installed send notification. Like click in this button and send a pushup. But I want to send for everyone that have my app.
Thank you

Google assistant

I got a Samsung A70 with Android 11. I have switched on Google assist to work when the phone is locked and although Google assist does respond to 'hey google' or 'okay google' when the phone is locked I have to physically touch the on-off button to wake the phone up. Google assist is not working when the phone is in standby mode (black screen but still switched on) which defeats the object of having the hands-free hey Google in lock mode. I still have to press the on-off switch, but if just on the active lock screen where it asks for my pin it will work.

Any idea how to fix it and make it work in standby mode?

Android Security Question

Hello. I have a question for those with experience in cybersecurity. I have selected and ordered a factory refurbished Samsung S21 Ultra phone, but at this time, I am still using my Samsung S9+ that I purchased in 2018. I enjoy the conveniences of technology, and I do well over 90% of my banking and financial transactions with my phone using various banking and credit card apps, including Samsung Pay. I never connect to public wifi because I never have any cellular data problems. If I DID need to connect to public wifi, I have free Proton Mail VPN installed and ready to use.

So, I just learned yesterday, (by accident, actually), that Samsung stopped supporting the S9. I checked my phone's update history, and sure enough, I haven't received a security update in almost a year.

I know that this is not a good thing, and you now have an idea as to how I use my phone. Is this something I should be seriously concerned about, or is it not that big of a deal?

The main reason why I ask is because the S21 Ultra is Samsung's 2021 model (I know you knew that!). It's factory restored, but that doesn't change the fact that the model is going on two years old now. I'm wondering that if Samsung stopped updating the S9 after about four years, will they stop updating the S21 in around two years? I want a nicer phone for the premium features, but at the prices they cost, I REALLY want to be comfortable using it longer than two or three years, like I have done with my S9+.

Thank you for your advice.

Help with unbreaking and then rooting UMX U683CL

I've been getting help on this over at Hovatek, but it's extremely slow going; I first posted there on December 11 and it's still not resolved. This phone is a former Lifeline phone, and I've been trying to get it rooted so that I can use the Tello SIM I obtained. The problem the phone was having is that it refused to do any updates, so Tello's troubleshooting as to why it wasn't detecting the SIM was completely halted.

I did finally get to the point of rooting it. The major problem I have now is that it will only boot to fastboot mode. I can get it into recovery mode, but I get the dead android with "no connection" under it, and I've tried everything the internet has suggested to get past that, and it won't. Additionally, any fastboot command (apart from "fastboot devices") I try in ADB returns "FAILED (remote: 'unknown command'). I don't know how to get it into EDL mode from fastboot. I've tried every button combo possible, and the only one that does anything different is power + volume up, which changes it to a bright white screen. At this point I just want to do a hard reset so I can take another go at the rooting process, but the phone doesn't seem to want to allow me to. I would appreciate any help with this; I don't have a working phone at the moment because of these issues.

GPS location not available for photos off camera: Galaxy A03s Model SM-A037U

Greetings,

When photos taken with a Galaxy A03s Model SM-A037U are viewed in Google Photos the GPS data is shown.

If the same photo is viewed outside of Google photos the location information is not shown.

I use FastStone image viewer and all photos taken with my Motorola show the GPS data in the EXIF info.

Photos taken with the Galaxy A03s Model SM-A037U show no GPS information when viewed in FastStone image viewer.

How can this be fixed?
Thanks

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Need recommendation for MP3 player

I originally used Samsung built-in player, until they discontinued it. Then ‘AIMP’ but it’s a confusing interface and often not able to play files you know are there.
I moved to ‘Music Player’ initially it was fine, but now plays adverts and videos at really annoying intervals .. and you can’t quit them.

Can anyone recommend a good free basic MP3 player, for off-line playing of my own audio files.

How to prevent apps/services from restarting once closed?

On my old phone, I had powerful battery options to prevent apps from consuming battery in the background. On stock Android, however, the options seem to be more limited, which is why I use the "KillApps" app to get rid of these battery suckers.
However, I have noticed that after several hours, some apps seem to restart. I notice this on the one hand by the fact that some apps have to be closed again when I call KillApps again, despite the fact that I did not open or used them in between. On the other hand, messaging apps that I killed several hours ago sync again in the background. But I whish to keep them closed until I open them manually.
Therefore my question: How can I prevent apps or services to run in background and restart themselves, even so I already closed and killed the applications process?

Quick Persistent Icon \ Auto Fill Question...

Hi everyone, long time but love that you all are still going strong and focused! (Sorry if that was corny, long week and overtired:)

Two quick questions about two issues... I have a Motorola G Power w\ Android 11 on it, and after recently resetting the phone, noticed that along with the voicemail updates there is now a stopwatch \ clock icon at the top of the screen and on the lock screen. It's not associated w\ any other app, and will go away when I clear the storage and cache, but comes back as soon as I get a text, along with a 'welcome to voicemail' popup... The latter I'm able to get rid of with a quick swipe, but don't seemingly have an option within the voicemail app itself or any other setting to stop the clock icon.

And this is less of a thing but still a thing; some old email addresses I had on the phone before the reset keep popping up with the autofill... I went to the Google app itself as well as the keyboard settings, and couldn't find where I could remove the emails \ words in general from the autofill \ auto complete.

Thank you in advance for the time and please ask anything that might help!

"Confirm: A read report will be sent" on MMSs from one contact

This just started happening. My phone since October is a ZTE Cymbal flip phone that runs a very stripped down stock Android on it (no package installer, no APK support, no app store, no internet even, which makes it far more secure than GrapheneOS and also makes it update proof) and whenever my girlfriend sends me pictures as MMS it lags for a minute, then pops up saying 'Confirm: A read report will be sent' OK/CANCEL. If I cancel, the picture never shows. If I confirm it displays normally but the lag it shows whenever I get the pop-up which I have never seen before is the cause of my frustration since if I'm typing to her when she sends a photo, it stops me from sending any input for that minute while it produces the pop-up.

I verified on my phone that read reports are unchecked, and I had a discussion with her about what to disable on her phone (hers is a TCL, and she uses Verizon Message+, I recommended her to check the settings on that app and even use the other, stock messages app, and she has the setting also unchecked but it still does this on mine)

Only when receiving pictures. Is this RCS causing this? Am I expected to live with this now? I wish carriers would stop forcing their will on customers. It already upsets me that they won't let me use my Thunderbolt since September, but now they're messing up flip phones now!

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