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can't update apps on my tablet

Lenovo TAB 2 A10-70F

I've been having trouble installing or updating apps on my tablet. Every time I try I get a message telling me to free up space.

I have plenty of space. Internal storage, 9.41GB used out of 16GB. SD card, 4.49GB used out of 32GB. Total 13.85 GB used out of 48 GB. Over 34GB free.

It was working fine until a few weeks ago. Then it stopped. I thought it was because memory was full. I was using only the internal memory then, and it was almost all used up. It took me a while before I added the SD card a few days ago, and I'm still having problems.

I've tried all the obvious things, such as
- restarting the device
- force stop all the apps
- clear the cache
- update the system

Help Gallery problem

Hello,

Q1. How to set a password or fingerprint lock to Samsung A32 5G default gallery, so when I press the gallery button it will prompt me for a password or fingerprint then can see the photos.

Q2. How to prevent whatsapp images and videos received from appearing in the gallery?

Thanks.

Android 12.0 TV Box T95zplus USB Camera Software

trying to recreate a solution that works with Windows laptop on an Android 12 TV Box.

With windows I use a Logitech camera (C922) and a Microsoft Lifecam HD-3000. I create 2 live streams using software call Xsplit Broadcaster to display both streams on a web page (Chrome)

I have successfully connected the 2 USB cameras, I can see them each individually in the web page. However 1 camera is inverted and I cannot seem to get it to flip over?

I'm looking for android software which i can combine the camera and have chrome browser see the stream, or at least some camera manipulation software to allow me the flip the camera image. Any suggestions are much appreciated.

Thinking about the future (phones, plans, Android in general)

Please forgive an old fart for his first post. I've searched and not found the answers to my particular questions.

My wife and I are retired and full-time RVers. Though I did not get my first cell phone until 2008 (we had pagers in the hospitals for that - everyone else could call my land line at home), I have a background in systems and programming as a second career.

We currently have the "grandfathered" VZW prepaid plan with two phones (Galaxy S10 SM-G973U1) and an 8800L hotspot with truly unlimited data. We were forced to upgrade to these phones when apps starting telling us that they could no longer be updated and would not function on the older version of Android running on our previous phones. I am very dependent on my phone now for lots of things related to the RV and RVing. We really hit the jackpot finding these phones as they have dual SIM capability and both radios in them. We occasionally travel to Latin America and it's very convenient to put, say, an Ecuadorian GSM SIM card in the phones for $8 and have phone service while we're there. The last Android version on these phones is, and will be, Android 12.

My questions are these:

1) I have found information on how long Android 12 will be supported for security updates (extended to four years according to Samsung). What I don't know is: how long can I expect apps to update and continue to function on Android 12?

2) Questions 2 and 3 are dependent on the answer(s) to question #1... when the time comes, will we be able to activate a newer (probably 5G) phone on our existing prepaid 4G account by switching the SIM cards using the "Replace Device" function? The likes of our grandfathered plan cannot be had any more and we certainly don't want to give it up! A VZW rep said yes, but I'm prone not to trust them.

3) If "Yes" to #2, is there a good, updated replacement for our S10s with similar or better specs and features? Doing some research, I cannot find any Samsung phone later than ours that has both radios. (I guess we could always keep the S10s for overseas travel purposes, but that would mean carrying around four phones rather than two).

There is a possibility that I'm worrying prematurely and that our S10s may serve us for enough years to come that the picture will change. If that's the case, please tell me. I hope this hasn't bee too long and rambling to make sense...

PS: I am anti-Apple because of their business model and locked-down, proprietary nature of their approach to their technology.

Thanks,

Rob

Help I got water on my phone and now it's stuck on "AP Fastboot Flash Mode (Secure)"

A few days ago I got water on my pants and I had my phone in my pocket. It wasn't much water and as soon as it happened I took my phone out of my pocket. My phone worked fine for a few more minutes, but then it turned off and I haven't been able get past the initial Motorola start screen. When I hold the power button, the Motorola start up screen appears for a millisecond and then it disappears. The only other thing I can do is access the "AP Fastboot Flash Mode (Secure)" but that is about it. Clicking the start, restart bootloader, recover mode, power off, and bootloader log buttons doesn't do much and I get back to the start screen that appears for a second and then goes back to a black screen. Is there any way I could fix this without going to a repair shop?

How i download a Stock Rom with a Micro SD Card?

I want to reinstall Android on an A8, but the device is not recognized on the computer, I have already tried to install the Samsung drivers, clean the connector, solder the connector, but nothing works, the computer still does not recognize the cell phone, I want to reinstall the android because I have to unlock the Google account but none of the methods are working, they all give an error, so I wanted to try to install the stock rom via micro sd card, can anyone help me?
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no hold option

Well, I have always had android...I got an iPhone.I had it 6 months and hated it. So, I did an early upgrade and got S22 ultra...loved it, but could not put a call on hold. There was no option.I called spectrum twice... called Samsung he remoted in... worked 1.5 hours. Then finally did factory reset. no good. Still no option for it. He told me to call spectrum, so I did and the guy told me they did away with the hold option. I said I need the hold option for when I am at work. He told me to go back to iPhone or turn sound down and put on mute.ughhh... so, i downloaded phone by google app and guess what, it has a hold button that works!

Pocket sized Android phone suggestions

I am in the market for a new phone. At the moment I have a Galaxy J2 pro. Sure it's old and it's cheap but it's been a very reliable and perfectly adequate phone (this is my second one) - and I'm a cheapskate. Sadly it's getting behind on the software front now and some apps (banking etc) will no longer work on it.

One of it's great features? It's a good size AND it fits easily in a shirt or pants pocket (142 x 71mm). I'm looking at budget phones to replace it with like the Galaxy A12 or A13. I'd prefer to stick with Samsung. The problem is why are they so big? They won't fit comfortably in pockets, they're too long! For example I wear work shirts and it's nice to be able to button the pocket flap closed over the phone when required.

Can anyone suggest any decent Android phones (budget price) that are still on the mid/small size? I'll give Apple one thing, they don't seem to have gone crazy on the size of their phones.

Cannot text iPhone

I recieve texts from two iPhone numbers, but cannot send to them. However, I can send to both in a group text and can send to other iPhones.

It possibly may have something to do with multimedia vs sms or Rich Text. The chat feature is no longer available in version 12 on this S10.

Any advice?

Photos Cloud toCloud Confusion

Just got myself a Google 7 Pro and of course I want to transfer all my photos and videos to it. My old phone is a Huawei P30Pro and all my photos and videos are on the Huawei cloud. I thought I had successfully transferred them to the Google Cloud but it I can't have as on the Huawei Cloud it says my Gallery storage amounts to 58.8gb and the Google photos storage amounts to 16.61gb. I really don't understand this at all. Is there a simple way I can go back and transfer everything properly.....Please ?!

Disabling Ant+ but retaining Bluetooth Lite

Is there a way to disable Ant+ while retaining the Bluetooth Lite (BLE) radio on Samsung phones? The newest generation of heart-rate monitors send both BLE and Ant+, which results in a mess if the phone picks up both sensor transmissions.

The most recent Samsung phones don't even support Ant+ any more, which kind-of solves the issue. The Samsung generation before the last, however, is problematic.

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