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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?

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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.

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`#Enter your adb location
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