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How to completely back up everything on phone

My Android phone has 16 GB internal memory, of which 15.97|GB is used, and a 32GB SD card, of which 1.62GB is used. The phone has recently stopped doing many of the things that it has always done satisfactorily (e.g. read e-mail, and allow me to see and edit SimpleNote notes), and it won't let me install any more apps. I have moved all the apps that allow me to do so to the SD card, and all the files that I am allowed to move to SD card, but this still hasn't created enough room in memory. I guess (but don't know for sure) that the problems I am experiencing are due to lack of memory, which is a bit silly since the SD card has masses of spare space. I have found some instructions telling me how to configure the phone so that it uses the SD card as main memory, but before I try this, I need to be able to back up the complete phone, apps, files, e-mail messages, texts, SimpleNote notes, Roboform logins etc., so that if something goes wrong I've not lost everything, and if the upgrade works successfully I can reinstall all the apps that I need and restore all their accounts and files. Does anyone know the best way to do this, given that I can't install any new apps?

Thank you - Rowan

How to Install Samsung Clock app on smartwatch

I have a samsung galaxy s22 and a movado connect smartwatch. I want to have the alarm from the phone clock app ring/display on the smartwatch.

I am running the samsung clock app on the phone (instead of the google clock app which I have uninstalled). The Samsung clock app is not listed in the play store on my smartwatch (nor on the phone's native play store).

Is there a way to get that samsung app on the smartwatch?

I'd use the google clock app if I could but there does not seem to be a way to remove the samsung app from the phone. And if you run both apps on the phone, setting an alarm on the google version auto sets the alarm on the samsung one, so every time the alarm goes off you have to turn it off twice. And if you set the alarm on the samsung version it won't display on the watch.

Any ideas? Thanks.

[Paid] Tanky Extended

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Do you like Tanks? So do we!
Therefore we've made one awesome tank game specially for Android!
Try to beat challenging levels, with various enemies and goals to reach. Beware for the big boss though...

Features:
- Crazy tank battle game
- 2D retro graphics
- 5 intense battle scenarios
- Pickups and power-ups
- Various enemies to conquer
- A lot of fun with your gun
- Completely free and NO advertising

Download:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sixdots.tankyextended
https://six-dots.app/tankyextended

Help Cannot find large print date app.

Trying to find an app that shows only todays Date. All I get when searching is weather, time & date, or dating apps. I cannot find an app that puts on my android phone just todays date in large print. I need to see the app LARGE big nothing else not the time not the weather just today filling up the screen big huge gigantic today's date. It is totally not out there cannot find just the date only the date nothing but the date in BIG print so I can SEE it.

It's always included with something else and to small print for me to see with my old eyes.

[APP] Moda - Icon Pack

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Beautiful glass icons with magic illumination.
All icons size 192x192 the drawn manually and therefore will appear on your screen just fine
Convenient control panel in which you will find beautiful wallpapers specially created for icons, the function of requesting missing icons


★ More than 3300+ highly detailed icons
★ 10 QHD Cloud Wallpapers
★ Request icons tool for order you missing icons
★ Dynamic calendars

Supported launchers:

• Action
• Nova
• Smart 3(icons only)
• ABC
• ADW
• Apex
• Aviate
• CM
• Evie
• Go
• Holo
• Holo HD
• Lucid
• M
• Mini
• Next
• Nougat
• Solo
• V
• ZenUI
• Zero

Help I'm trying to root and upgrade my LG GPad 8

I appear to be stuck at the same place as @BroIjustwannaroot in trying to root and upgrade my LG GPad 8.

I am able to send the recovery, but not write it.
Code:
Sending 'recovery' (15366 KB)                      OKAY [  0.487s]
Writing 'recovery'                                 FAILED (remote: 'unknown command')

@James L Here's the output from `fastboot getvar all`
Code:
(bootloader) version:0.5
(bootloader) secure:yes
(bootloader) version-baseband:
(bootloader) version-bootloader:
(bootloader) display-panel:
(bootloader) off-mode-charge:0
(bootloader) charger-screen-enabled:0
(bootloader) max-download-size:    0x20000000
(bootloader) partition-type:cache:ext4
(bootloader) partition-size:cache:    0x38400000
(bootloader) partition-type:userdata:ext4
(bootloader) partition-size:userdata:    0x290c00000
(bootloader) partition-type:system:ext4
(bootloader) partition-size:system:    0xc0000000
(bootloader) version-hardware:rev_10
(bootloader) variant:msm8952_b3_tmo_us Toshiba 16GB
(bootloader) serialno:LGV52141ea5bcc
(bootloader) kernel:lk
(bootloader) product:msm8952_b3_tmo_us
(bootloader) unlocked:yes
all:
Finished. Total time: 0.021s

Backing up Phone files

Im trying to backup files on my phone's external sdcard to my PC. I have it connected via USB cord. When I view my phone file contents on the sdcard some of the folders are white and say 0 byte content. Yet on my phone all the folders are fine. I don't understand why it's happening. I have some very important folders that I want to backup on my computer but can't because many of them show up as white and corrupted

The first two screenshots are how the folders appear on my phone.

The 3rd pic is how they look on the PC

Any suggestions on how to correct this.

I have a Moto e5 and a Windows 11 laptop.


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Phone Recommendation

Hi,

I want the cheapest phone I can get that I can install an app from Google Play on.

I already have an iPhone, but Apple has banned all apps related to vaping. I want an Android phone so I can install a vaping app on it.

This phone would be exlusively used to run one vaping app.

Can this be done without carrier activation? My carrier is Xfinity mobile so I guess I could activate it and just turn cellular data off.

I assume eBay is where I could find the cheapest unit - any suggestions on what model(s) I should look for?

Thanks

[App] Darts Scoreboard: Scorekeeper

Dart Scoreboard App is designed for darts lovers.
With this app you can easily count points while playing X01 darts games with your friends. App calculates all points, statistics and automatically determines the winner. In the application you can choose players, the number of Legs and Sets, the game mode and the number of points 301, 501. It is also possible to save games and play them later. Download and track game results with this easy-to-use and free darts calculator.

Darts Assistant: Scoring App - Apps on Google Play

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Pondering for a new cell phone..


Milo Williamson Android Expert
Thread Starter
Nothing is currently wrong with my Moto edge so far so good, since I bought it three years ago, so as I kept the rule of thumb of knowing about the entire drills of this:

~ Vibration app I always found was SetEdit, pretty useful tool to turn off all the hapatic feedback in thumbprint for the bio sensor.

~ User friendly and can easy glide throughout several apps, switching back and forth with ease, sure some does shut off when my cell does the screen off timer down to zero pretty much, but delevopers does not know the pain we do unless we complain on play, or wherever you download the most of the presumtious.

~ I am able to turn it off and on, with the sms notifications popping up and telephone missed calls, and I abseolutely love YouMail ever since.

~ Minus the edge pop ups on the apps snap, it is a pretty functional cell over all, but here is what I mostly fret.
Of my mind plugs it in almost every night after it hits up to around 77 percent or below, it takes sometimes to charge it, even with the default cable, that it takes up to a few minutes more to juice it up, but...



I can pretty much dl everything from my play accounts and have it set up with my new cell, I have not looked into the market much these days, but what is your honest opionion of myself purchasing say a Galaxy Fold?

Pondering for a new cell phone..

Nothing is currently wrong with my Moto edge so far so good, since I bought it three years ago, so as I kept the rule of thumb of knowing about the entire drills of this:

~ Vibration app I always found was SetEdit, pretty useful tool to turn off all the hapatic feedback in thumbprint for the bio sensor.

~ User friendly and can easy glide throughout several apps, switching back and forth with ease, sure some does shut off when my cell does the screen off timer down to zero pretty much, but delevopers does not know the pain we do unless we complain on play, or wherever you download the most of the presumtious.

~ I am able to turn it off and on, with the sms notifications popping up and telephone missed calls, and I abseolutely love YouMail ever since.

~ Minus the edge pop ups on the apps snap, it is a pretty functional cell over all, but here is what I mostly fret.
Of my mind plugs it in almost every night after it hits up to around 77 percent or below, it takes sometimes to charge it, even with the default cable, that it takes up to a few minutes more to juice it up, but...



I can pretty much dl everything from my play accounts and have it set up with my new cell, I have not looked into the market much these days, but what is your honest opionion of myself purchasing say a Galaxy Fold?

Sudden unwanted change to SMS & phone number display

This has never been this way until today. I looked at my list of recent PHONE calls and numbers were listed that had not called Exploring this, I found that every text message I had received a text message from was listed in my recent phone calls list.

Then I checked my text messages (I don't even use text as a rule, don't like that tiny keyboard) and every phone number listed in my contacts, over 2000, are listed in there the same as my contacts list is in the Phone list. Never before and I did not make any changes.

I do not want to see notices for text messages at all, ever, let alone in my list of recent PHONE calls and I do not want my 2000+ contacts showing in the text message program. Notices for text has never been enabled on my phone. I check them about three or four times a month, too much BS comes in from that service.

Why is all of this and how do I stop it?

Phone won't carrier unlock. Boost Mobile claims it is already unlocked!

I purchased a Samsung Galaxy A32 5g from Boost Mobile in Oct 2021, and used it with Boost for over 12 months. On Nov 24, 2022, I asked Boost tech support to domestic unlock the phone so I could switch to a different carrier. I met the free unlocking eligibility requirements, and I was told at the time that the phone was already unlocked. I trusted this, until the time came to pop in the new carrier's SIM card around Dec 6, when the phone told me it is still locked!

Hours on the phone over the past week with Boost tech support produced no results. I did get two tickets opened which were shortly closed without action because Boost support thinks the phone is already unlocked. On my end the phone clearly states that it is locked. If I go into settings > connections > more connection settings it says that the Network Lock Status is "locked," and if I try the new SIM I get a popup saying the phone is indeed locked and to contact customer support. I've tried the usual advice - put the Boost sim card in and wait, reboot the phone, shut the phone off for 60 seconds and then turn it on, perform a factory reset.

I've tried a third party unlocking service for $50 (The Unlocking Company) and they told me they can't give me an unlock code for this phone, and they wanted $65 more ($115 total) to send an unlocking kit. I said no to this and they told me the $50 will be refunded.

I'm pretty irritated because now I'm in the position of having to buy a new phone for the new carrier, and probably selling the old one, still carrier locked to Boost. A new, unlocked Samsung Galaxy A32 5g costs $279.99 when purchased from Samsung. Has anyone had a similar experience, or does anyone know anything else I can try?

I suspect the problem might be that the network is telling my phone that it can unlock, but my phone is not correctly getting that message for whatever reason. So maybe if there was some way to change the phone settings so it would get the message or forcibly "re-check" unlock status...

Galaxy tab S5e losing internet access

Hi I have a Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e, model SM-T720 running android 11.

Recently I have moved house, so new ISP and new modem/router. I'm from the UK and typically you get given a modem/router combo unit from the ISP which I have used many different variants of as I have moved house over the years no issue. This one had some issues when I first moved in so I purchased another wifi router to connect to the existing one.

My phone (a galaxy s10+) and PC both connect and stay connected to the wifi no issues and remain connected to the internet. My tablet however will occasionally drop internet connection. It will remain connected to the wifi network but will simply not get any internet from it meanwhile the PC and phone are fine. I can change network to the other router but I still have the same issue.

I'm at a complete loss as to what to do, there is no way both routers can have the same issue but this is also the first time I have had the issue with the tablet despite using it on a number of different wifi networks.

Also if I use my phone (that's connected to the wifi) as a hotspot I don't have the issue.

To summerise

ISP>>>ISP modem/router>>>Tablet Issues

ISP>>>ISP modem/router>>>Wifi router>>>Tablet Issues

ISP>>>ISP modem/router>>>Phone>>>Tablet Fine

History of the mafia [FREE] [GAME] [CARD]

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History of the mafia is a Reigns style card game.

Rule the mafia by making decisions with the swipe of a finger.

You play as a mafia boss dating back to 1920. With a flick of your finger, you decide the fate of people, cities and even countries. Make your decisions by opening new decks of cards. The non-linear story can lead you to different endings, so each playthrough will be unique. You can develop a plan to rob a bank, give an interview to a famous newspaper, manage labor unions, rob a military warehouse with weapons and much more.

The storyline touches on the real history of the mafia, references to famous films and games, as well as the original story.

Features:

- Non-linear plot. The answers can take you anywhere.

- Developed characters and original soundtrack.

- Economic component.

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Google Play won't let me sign in with another account

I have had several Google Play Store accounts over the last few years and deleted all one today. It is an account I have never used at the Play Store before.
  • When I try to access the Play Store, the first thing I see is "Google. Verify it is you. You were signed out of your Google Account. Sign in again to continue"
  • So I tap NEXT
  • The next screen has the name of the deleted account with no option to change it. Under that, it offers a clickable "Forgot email?" link and a "NEXT" button.
  • I tap NEXT.
  • The next screen "This account was recently deleted and may be recoverable. Click NEXT to attempt to restore this account." And at the bottom of the screen, it displays a link to "Use another account". I do not want to recover the deleted account so I choose "Use another account".
  • Next screen: So here is the road block. I am offered a screen again where I am not allowed to change the name of the deleted account and if I tap "Forgot email", I am presented with a message telling me where to go to recover the account. Again, I do not want to recover the account so I tap "CLOSE". If I tap NEXT, I am taken back to the screen mentioned above that tells me the account was recently deleted.

So I'm running in circles.

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