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How do I view/manage my devices from one of them?

T
I was recently looking through my Android devices from my PC, and an extra unkown phone had appeared as signed in. I used the PC Google page to sign out on the odd device but it still appears as signed out of course.

I want to keep an eye on it to see if it gets signed back in, and then change passwords etc.

However I can't work out how to view and manage all my devices from an Android device if I'm not near a PC.

I go to the Google app but can't work out what to do then.
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Just had a scary Linux moment!

nickdalzell
I had left my gaming rig on for a month this Summer just in case I want to quickly play some games to de-stress after work (I also keep it offline to avoid updates, and don't play multiplayer PC games anyway). It's a CyberPower PC that I wiped Windows and put Linux (Ubuntu GamePack 20.04) onto it. Other than one game (Flight Simulator 2020) everything works well.

I recently shut it down to clean the dust out, and it was a proper shutdown (sudo shutdown -h now) and it indeed powered off fine. A little over a month later I felt like de-stressing with some Farming Simulator 17, First bootup, black screen, nothing, not even the CyberPower PC logo. That's fine, it's done this before, something about DisplayPort. Turned it off, back on again. Saw the logo this time, GREAT! But oh, it's not. Now it's stuck at the spinning boot logo. Hit ESC. It's showing a ton of messages about MDATM (RAID?! I ain't got no raid!) and then it freezes after showing that my /dev/sdb2 filesystem is 'clean' right after a message saying 'recovering journal' and the message before that 'Gave up waiting for suspend/resume device'

Huh? I know I did a halt command, not a sleep command! That's gotta be a mistake! I couldn't have 'broken' Linux just by a darned shutdown could I?

Tried the noresume boot option. Well, now that message is gone, but it still freezes 'recovering journal' and 'filesystem clean'.

Try recovery boot. OK so now I can get a prompt. Tried an FSCK. NOPE, it gives up outright ain't gonna have none of that! Odd, I've done this before and it worked fine with the force flag, ain't gonna touch my SSD huh? OK I'll try something else.

Read some posts online that this type of boot freeze can be a full or almost full filesystem. Huh? The SSD is 250GBs and I know I ain't used all that up yet! Plus this system has never gone online since I installed all my Steam contents over a year ago! Ain't nothing changed bruh!

But I went along and humored the Ask Ubuntu post. "df -h". Sure enough my '/' which is /dev/sdb2 is showing as ZERO bytes free. HOW?! I didn't do nothin! I try deleting everything in /var/log and /tmp. Got 1GB back. But still showing as 'zero bytes free' (0% of 16GB on /) What is going on here?

A few hours later, and long past my game time (about time to go to bed! so much for de-stressing, now I'm seriously worried that many hours of gameplay and tons of mods are now gone!) I stumble on a post that uses tune2fs to give root 0 bytes 'reserved' whatever that is. I try it, and WOW now it boots normally! Quickly run BleachBit as admin and remove any packages that I don't need, and now it's back to the 3/4 used state.

What happened? This system never goes online and there's nothing running that should be eating space up. Nothing changes except me saving games which only affects my /home partition. I don't have any clue what filled up root or if I should worry it's gonna happen again? Maybe I should just keep this system on a UPS and on forever?
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Keep needing to reboot Moto E 2020 phone

R
Our Moto E 2020 (less than a year old) goes into "emergency mode" on its own every couple of weeks - sometimes every few days. No calls or texts can come in, No calls or texts can go out. The only way to get the phone working again is to shut it off and turn it back on again. It is not in airplane mode. Do not disturb settings are turned off. This can't be normal. We can't rely on the phone. We find out when go to make a call or send a text.

The phone is on Verizon pre-paid. Is there anything that can be done to prevent this from happening.
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Help Add New Apps to Home Screen?

sachertorte
I just did a factory reset on my Note 3 which I have not used in years. I am going to use it as my main phone when traveling, using another SIM Card for data access out of the country. On my Z Fold 4, there is a Home Screen setting to enable or disable adding new apps to the home screen. As I am adding new apps to the Note 3, it is automatically also adding them to the Home Screen. Can I stop this on the Note 3? I have looked for a setting, but so far, no luck.

Danny
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Assign a unique tone to a specific notification sender??

M
I have a dilemma I hope someone can help me solve. It's a two-fold problem.

1. I would like to be able to assign a unique tone to a single notification. Example: I get notifications from work, at all hours. They come in the form - alert@XXXX.net . It's not important what the tone is, just that it's specific to the example shown.

2. Once the above is accomplished, for times when I'm sleeping, I would like to be able to silence all ringers and notifications except for the above, alert@XXXX.net

3. In a perfect world I would like to easily turn this off and on for those days that I'm not working.

I'm guessing it's pretty easy to do, I just haven't been able to figure it out.
For what it's worth I have a Note 10+, all updates completed.
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Help Android Auto on Xiaomi - Low resolution image casting

T
Hi,

i would ask you an help about a problem related to Android Auto.

Assumptions:
Phone: Xiaomi RedMi Note 9S
MIUI Version: 13.0.1
Android Version: 12 SKQ1.211019.001
Android Auto Version: 8.0.6.623354-release
Car Head Unit: Sync 3.4 on Ford Puma St-Line X

One week ago i purchased my new car. Everything was perfect, but when i tried to connect my Xiaomi to the Head Unit through Android Auto, i realized that the screen casting had an awful image quality: Android Auto seems in low resolution, and sometimes appear some colour artifacts (photos attached).

So, i tried to understand if the problem was my Car Head Unit, or my Xiaomi. I connected various phone to the Head Unit, and in those cases the connection and the display quality were perfect.
Aswell, i tried to connect my phone to different cars, and to the Android Auto Desktop Emulator, and i kept having always the same horrible quality image.

So, from this i got that the problem was my Xiaomi.
I tried everything: with different USB 3.0 Type C cables, i tried entering developer options and change the resolution, i tried the Debug USB mode, i tried deleting and re-installing Android Auto App, and i tried aswell to download a newer beta-version of AA... nothing worked.

But i discovered something: i tried to connect two other Xiaomis... two Xiaomi RedMi Note 10. I imagined that, being the same phone, they would have had the same results. But...

Xiaomi RedMi Note 10 with MIUI 13.0.3 and Android 12 SP1A = no problems, perfect screen casting
Xiaomi RedMi Note 10 with MIUI 13.06 and Android 12 SKQ1 = low resolution, like my Xiaomi RedMi Note 9s
Alle three phones had both the same Android Auto version (8.0.6.623354-release).

So.. it's possible that my Android Auto problem comes from the Android 12 SKQ version?
Someone else had my same problem? There is a way to fix this, or, maybe, to change the Android version from 12SKQ to 12SP1A?


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Apps MySQL connect and query

S
Hello dear helpers,
I'm new to app development and with the help of a youtube tutorial I started an app that should connect to an SQL server and query data, but now I get an error that I can't sort and hope for help from you.

Code MainActivity.java:
Java: 
package com.huth.system;

import androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.TextView;

import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.ResultSet;
import java.sql.Statement;

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
    Connection connect;
    String ConnectionResult = "";
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
    }
    public void GetTextFromSQL(View v)
    {
        TextView tx1 = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView);
        TextView tx2 = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView2);
        try {
            ConnectionHelper connectionHelper = new ConnectionHelper();
            connect = connectionHelper.connectionclass();
            if(connect!=null)
            {
                String query = "SELECT * FROM `app`.`app_user` where id='1';";
                Statement st = connect.createStatement();
                ResultSet rs = st.executeQuery(query);

                while (rs.next()){
                    tx1.setText(rs.getString( 1));
                    tx2.setText(rs.getString( 2));
                }
            }
            else
            {
                ConnectionResult = "Check Connection";
            }
        }
        catch (Exception ex){
            Log.e("error2", ex.getMessage());
        }
    }
}
Code ConnectionHelper.java:
Java: 
package com.huth.system;


import android.annotation.SuppressLint;
import android.os.StrictMode;
import android.util.Log;

import java.sql.Connection;
import  java.sql.DriverManager;

public class ConnectionHelper {
    Connection con;
    String uname, pass, ip, port,database;
    @SuppressLint("NewApi")
    public Connection connectionclass(){
        ip= "*******************";
        port = "*****************";
        uname = "*************";
        pass = "****************";
        database = "************";

        StrictMode.ThreadPolicy policy = new StrictMode.ThreadPolicy.Builder().permitAll().build();
        StrictMode.setThreadPolicy(policy);
        Connection connection = null;
        String ConnectionURL  = null;
        try{
            Class.forName("net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.Driver");
            ConnectionURL = "jdbc:jtds:sqlserver://"+ ip + ":"+ port+";"+ "databasename="+ database+";user="+uname+";password="+pass+";";
            connection = DriverManager.getConnection(ConnectionURL);
        }
        catch (Exception ex){
            Log.e("error", ex.getMessage());
        }
        return connection;
    }
}
error massage:
E/error: I/O Error: Unknown packet type 0x63
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pls help me :)
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Samsung Galaxy S 22 Plus or Ultra

C
Hello. I am considering buying a Samsung Galaxy S 22 Ultra or Plus. I have listened to a lot of reviews that say that the Ultra is not recommended as it tends to run hot. I have also read that the S 22 Plus is better and doesn’t run as hot. I am wondering if this issue of running hot has been solved by any updates, etc.. If anyone would like to recommend one phone over the other (or a Samsung 2-3 years old that’s better, I would appreciate that also. Thanks.
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Help How to disable blinking notification icon in peek display?

P
I cracked the screen on my phone (moto g power 2021) and bought the the exact same model to replace it. Both are running the same Android 11 build.

On the Peek Display, the old phone shows a simple icon for notifications, e.g. new email. The new phone shows a flashing icon for notifications with "Tap and hold" above it. (See photos below.)

The flashing/blinking icon is annoying, but I can't find a setting to make the Peek Display use a plain non-flashing icon like my old phone.

How do I configure Peek Display notification to use just the icon and not the blinking/flashing icon with "Tap and hold" above it?

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peek_screen_old.jpg
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Unlock question

H
I have a Galaxy s10. I have requested an unlock from AT&T. The only thing I received was a photo saying it was unlocked. It also said that they would send a text or email. I didn't receive either. Reading other unlock posts, I noticed talk of an unlock code. Do I need one to finalize the unlock? Is there any way I can tell if the phone is unlocked?
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z fold 3 screen protector wore out

ocnbrze
so mine started to separate right where the crease is. so now the crease used to be not noticeable, until now. i went to my Samsung experience store and i had to either wait up to 4hrs nearby for walk-in help or wait for 2 weeks for an appointment. i opted to wait 2 weeks as it is not really a pressing need.....just sucks is all.

anybody else's protector wearing out like mine is?
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Can't get HDMI output - SOLVED

D
I have an S21 5G and I'm trying to connect it to an external monitor. I have tried a USB-C to HDMI cable with no luck on two monitors. I looked at quite a few YT videos that said to use a USB-C to HDMI adapter with an HDMI cable. Those just arrived with the same results, no signal detected. At this point it either has to be a setting on the phone, or some simple user error. I can't find any HDMI settings for the S21. I am on Android 12. Some folks say go to Settings -> Connections -> More Connections -> HDMI, but my phone does not list the HDMI option. All I see are "Nearby device scanning", "Printing", "VPN", "Private DNS" and "Network unlock".

What am I missing?
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4g status goes away with wifi enabled.

U
I'm trying to figure out why my 4g indicator goes out with wifi connected. If I have a 4g signal and then enable wifi, the "4g" goes a way. I still get full signal but it does not indicate its 4g. The phone does not support wifi calling, so if that is it, maybe that is why. Incidentally the cell signal is crap at this point. I do not get any usable service. To use my cell service I have to turn off wifi.
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