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Build a basic app

Would anyone like me to build them a basic app?
Not after money, just expense, I have built 100's of apps for myself over the years and its getting easier and quicker, but it's not the same as building apps for somebody else, I can also upload it to the play store or send you the apk file.

I live near London and would love to get a job as a android developer but I am dyslexia and I am 42 years old but a strong portfolio would really help and I think this would be my only chance, intergrating github in the project would be easy if you want to see my code.

any advice would be great thanks

How to Save Google Lens Photo to Google Keep?

I take photos of plants in Google Lens, asking it to identify the plant species. Sometimes I want to save the photo but there is no function in Google Lens to save a photo. Google search tells me that Google Lens can import to Google Keep. I have both Lens and Keep installed but I see no buttons in Lens to save to Keep or "Import to Keep". How do I save the Google Lens photo?

Help This morning, my apps in the background dissapear

so i have a oukitel wp15, i suspect there was an update yesterday that i installed but forgot what it was called.

anyway, for example i use the doorbell camera app called "ring" so i can see whos on my front door. id open the app, let it run in the background if im using the other app or whenevr i switch my phone off so i will recieve notifications.

now whenever i unlock my phone, the system manager is closing these apps that i have open like ring, muzz and snapchat so i wont receive notifications.

is anyone else facing the same issue? can someone recommend fix for me please? dont know what to do, cheers

Bookmark help

Sometime back I had an issue with trying to lock my bookmarks to where they only opened onto a specific folder. It seemed to be set using the flags setting "Improved bookmarks save flow" and setting it to disabled.
All was fine until about a week ago when every time I open my bookmarks it opens to the parent folder.

Anyone have a new/current solution?

Spam A LOT

My friend made the stupid mistake of looking at porn online and now his phone is just blowing up with the crap, and of course the fake virus alerts. I think it might be from Chrome. There is a new message or five or however many about every minute. I've tried removing them for him but they just keep returning. Those pictures sure aren't family friendly. What can we do to stop it?

Soooo riddle me this..

Another 404,
my blue tooth hearing aids were working with just the mutlimedia program, shows me both are fully charge, but when I do connect with them they get booted away from my moto edge plus cell... So question is how come this is overlasping when I did not download anything third party?

Help Corrupt OS, stuck in recovery, how to transfer files to PC?

An app corrupted my LineageOS 18.1 OnePlus 7 Pro for some reason, which means I need to factory reset it. However, before doing so I wish to save my data, and have been unsuccessful so far. I have been looking into transferring via the ADB pull command, but with no success, only getting errors and 0 files transferred.

ADB debugging is enabled and I'm out of ideas. I just want my photos and files...

Thanks beforehand, sorry if I sound frustrated, but this came at an unfortunate time for me

Lost gmail account

Around a year ago I've left my gmail account, now i realised I can't log into my old tiktok account without my email since I've changed the password and changed phone numbers too.

I know my email, old password and old phone number. But I can't verify my number to get into my Gmail account. My old phone is broken and google barely has any service. So i came to the conclusion that using my old sim card might delete the phone number verification since maybe my sim card will be recognised.

I have 0 understanding of phones so is this going to do anything?

Help Google account questions

1. How does Google account work, if I have google account does it mean that every Google app in the phone is using the same Google account? e.g. Google Photos, Drive, Playstore...

2. If I do not have Google account can I use any gmail to login Playstore so I can download from Playstore? Can I use the gmail to login playstore, download app, then logout of playstore, without adding the gmail to become google account?

3. If I have Google account e.g john @ gmail.com, can I use another different gmail e.g. johnnyrobinson @ gmail.com to login Playstore?

4. If I do not have Google Photos app, I have Google account, does Google account backup contains all photos and videos? Does Google account and Google Photos backup exact same images and videos?

5. If I have a new phone, what is the difference of restore backup from Google account vs Samsung account vs restore backup by using Samsung smart switch transfer from old phone.

6. Is there something like Playstore that do not require any login?

7. How to get playstore into a phone that does not have playstore or if I wish to reinstall playstore?

Thanks.

Help Gallery help

Hi

1. In Samsung Gallery, how to remove the Albums and Stories button (tab)?
screenshot https://i.imgur.com/UOfrNDP.png

2. [WhatsApp\Media\WhatsApp Images\Sent] this location images should it auto show up in Samsung Gallery app? I notice they do not show up. I notice if I take a photo and photo appear in DCIM folder and then I select the photo and send photo to my whatsapp friend, immediately a copy of the photo appeared automatically in [WhatsApp\Media\WhatsApp Images\Sent]" folder, at this point i can see the photo in Gallery, after this point i delete the photo from my DCIM folder and i no longer see the photo in Gallery, photo in [WhatsApp\Media\WhatsApp Images\Sent] not deleted.

Thanks.

Trouble since LG software update about 2 months ago

My device had updated its software about 2 months ago and now I'm having a constant, very annoying issue. Every time I open my TD banking app, the next time i go to unlock my screen, the screen locks up and the device is rendered useless until i do a full reboot. I know the OS is not frozen because i will be able to see the screen that is supposed to be showing during the restart of the device (while holding down the screen unlock and volume down buttons). I've tried reinstalling the app and that did not resolve the issue. I'm not sure if its a problem with the app itself or the software update that was applied and i do not know how to revert to previous updates

Error message "failed to make temp file directory"

Hi and thanks in advance for any replys. I have a new Reev pro with vir 12. Android. Im having a problem with an app called workday. When attempting to view/download a .pdf I get this error message "failed to make temp file directory" I have tried all the standard workarounds I usually do with this kind of issue, data and cash clear, reinstall, permissions even installed Adobe pdf viewer. I have heard that vir 11 had some code permissions issues with external storage but not internal storage. Im not savvy with droid code but thought some one here would have a suggestion.

Help Viewing Photos Taken with Phone Camera

On the home screen when I press Photos it brings up locally stored photos (on sd card or phone memory) and then all my 100's of Google Photos stored on line, uploaded from my pc, (many years worth!!)

It is a nuisance to see all the photos all the time.

Normally I wish to only see photos taken with the phone camera, which are locally stored on the sd card in folders..

Then occasionally, but rarely, I would like to see some Google photos.

Is this possible?

U.K. Free Buds2 Pro for Fold4/Flip4 purchases 10 AUG-29 SEP

For those of us in the U.K. who purchase either the new Fold4 or Flip4 between the 10th August and the 29th September, 2022, you can claim a pair of the new Buds2 Pro, free from Samsung, on top of the other freebies on offer.

That will save you £219, although the claiming process is a bit of a rigmarole involving receipt and IMEI uploads, it can be done and the Buds2 Pro are dispatched within 45 days.

Here is the link and full instructions on how to claim...

https://2021.samsungpromotions.claims/buds2prooffer/en-GB

Accessories Samsung Fold 4 S pen

Just upgraded from a Samsung Note9 to the Fold4. I didn't know there is a S Pen Fold Edition vs a S Pen Pro. The Fold edition S pen that came with the case, does not have functions the Note9 S Pen has. I used the S pen button to take pictures on the Note9. The Fold Edition button will not operate the camera. I am looking at getting the Pro S pen, but looks like it will not fit the case I bought with the Fold4. Lookiing for a case that will hold the Fold4 and the S Pen Pro. Have not found one yet. Anyone know of a case that will hold the Fold4 and the S pen Pro?

Deleting preinstalled apps with ADB / Problem with calendar app

Hi,

upfront: sorry for this being a little bit long, but it needs the explanations...

I just found this awesome method to uninstall these preinstalled/unwanted apps from my phone via Android Debugging Bridge. Before I thought the only way to do that would be to root the device. Well, it all worked just fine, the apps are gone and I'm happy. :D What I basically did was deleting (among other apps) all the Samsung apps for the standard phone tasks (phone, messages, notes, calendar), because I'm using only the Google equivalents for those tasks.

Just one problem wasn't solved by deleting those apps - my Google calendar.

On the left you see a screenshot of Google calendar from my smartphone showing the four categories in my calendar: blue - events | yellow - tasks | red - reminders | green - birthdays

On the right you see a screenshot of Google Calendar opened on my PC. The categories match (instead of events there is written my actual name), they are synchronized, everything is fine.

The problem is with this additional "My calendar" (circled) on my smartphone, which I don't want to be there. It is not being synchronized (which is good), so I'm guessing that this is the preinstalled default "on-device" calendar. Until now, I couldn't find any way to delete it... Now coming back to the beginning about deleting the preinstalled apps, I thought that deleting the Samsung Calendar app would resolve this problem - it also didn't.

In the list of all installed apps in ADB I had four entries searching for "calendar", after deleting the Samsung Calendar app it's three:
1) com.google.android.calendar
2) com.google.android.syncadapters.calendar
3) com.samsung.android.calendar (this is the deleted Samsung app)
4) com.android.providers.calendar

Now to my questions:
a) Does anyone know how to delete the "My calendar" from my Google Calendar or better, how to delete it completely from my phone and with that automatically from my Google Calendar

b) Does this app #4 (com.android.providers.calendar) have anything to do with this or what is this app doing exactly (in German it's called "Kalenderspeicher" which means something like "calendar memory" or "calendar storage")

Thank you for your help! :)
Google Calendar Smartphone.jpg
Google Calendar Desktop.jpg

Welp..

When my secuirty patch came in the state the other day, was eating at ninety-nine restraunt in Plymouth, were my summer cottage is, it went through pretty well when dining in, after that, the chopping motion starting to act up and was using it to walk down the hill by my neighbro's place, and suddenly it was a bothersome with that motion, soooo I was left for a second just standing in pitch blackness, due to the surrounding forest, so after just turning that off, it will go bonkers when the screen uptime was at my default, around 15 seconds, and yet I did left it on with the screen time out in the cabinet I have here, and seems pretty okay for the time being. Sooo I am hoping my Moto edge plus, will make it throughout night time when I do photograph evening images...

So glad that is just a small glitch though, it has been acting odd though when charging, swiping apps running around about 5 seconds when turning from Nova launcher, and when unplugged it was better of running through the apps like they where normal.. So yeah tale of two cities.

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