WOW, what a weird problem!

Just a few days ago, my phone started hijacking every Bluetooth call and sending it to the earpiece. That completely stopped all hands-free calls, in and out. The vehicle's infotainment screen showed the "Privacy" icon lit up, meaning that the call was being routed to the earpiece in Private Mode.

TL/DR: unpair your vehicle in the phone's settings; delete the phone in the vehicle's settings; restart your phone and vehicle; and pair it all back up again

A quick call to the dealership revealed that, in virtually every instance, Private Mode is a function of the phone, not the vehicle. Since I couldn't find a Private Mode setting on the unlocked Z Fold 3, I spent upwards of 45 minutes on the phone with a (clueless) Samsung tech support gal. She wanted me to install an app so she could get into my phone and see what I was seeing, and I refused... it shouldn't be necessary. Just tell me how to turn this off! Since there is no Private Mode setting on the Z Fold 3, she exhausted her troubleshooting screens, and apologized.

I decided to continue troubleshooting on my own and got in the Darling Bride's car. Had trouble connecting: in disgust I just unpaired the phone and forgot the vehicle, rebooted and started over. Paired & connected, placed a call to her phone and it worked fine on Bluetooth.

I then got in my car and made a test call - Private Mode kicked in within seconds! I unpaired my phone, forgot the vehicle, rebooted and started over with my SUV. Paired & connected, placed a call to her phone... and it worked fine on Bluetooth!

Bizarre problem but if you run into it, try this method as a solution.

i have a free line thru the wife's account and also the a21 tracfone that i unlocked for metro but i hate that phone. so i'm looking at some phone on metro but they say free with a new line. i see some nord n10 and n20 phones but when i click on the item it tells me to visit a store for the ord n10 and click to buy for the n20 but can anyone tell me if the wife can go to the metro website and order that phone and have my free sim setup to it or maybe get a free line installed and then turn off the free line i have now?

i want to get rid of the a21 as that is a terrible phone. and i hear better reviews on the nord n10 and n20. i prefer the n20 for the greater storage.

does anyone happen to know if she can do this?

i have teh a21 and everytime i connect it to the pc so that i can get photos from the phone to the pc without the phone making me allow it? there must be a setting on the phone that i'm missing that will allow usb connections without making me allow them all the time. i have tried file and phots and even midi and i still have to allow the connection.

or is this a windows issue that i have to go intot he pc and change a setting? thanks

Dungeon is RPG game based on D&D rules.

- Explore dungeon
- Battle enemies
- Collect treasure
- Defend against traps
- Defeat Boss

Google play:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/detai...n_15663095

Website:
https://dungeon-website.herokuapp.com

what are your guys thoughts on this phone, it may be a possible future phone for me but not sure yet ?

When I'm in another app like Gmail and long press something to get the context menu and then tap web search, it always opens up in the Google app. Is there a way to get that to open in Chrome instead?

Apparently dialling **67*[number]# forwards all calls if busy to [number]

I can’t get the code to work. I’m in the UK. I dialled **67*[number]#

where [number] is a FULL landline number including the area code, starting 012. Should I be using an international one? Start with 44? Omit the 0? When I do it as above I get “Call forwarding when busy for all basic services. connection problem or invalid MMI code.”

I'm now using OpenOffice, LibreOffice, and Google Word/Sheet (Web version) but they all have a problem, it takes quite a few seconds (on average 6-7 seconds) to open up and load a file, it's really painful and annoying, especially when I have to deal with a lot of different files every day.

I'm on high-speed stable broadband so I think it's not the problem of internet speed, my CPU is i5 as well, and 8GB RAM, which should be more than enough.

Is there any way to solve this problem? Or it just always takes time to open any word or excel files so there is no way to get the problem solved?

So when I go to Google Translate on Chrome app and translate from any language to any and press the speaker to hear how it's pronounced, this crackling sound comes out. How to fix that? Only happens in Chrome!

How to donate your Flickr images to Crowdsource? When I go to Crowdsource to help Image Label Verification, there's a name of the user the picture is from and it shows their Flickr profile.

According to this article, NO:

https://www.slashgear.com/910451/why-you-need-to-stop-closing-apps-on-your-android-phone/

And I understand the premise. Modern smartphones have a good bit of RAM with which to run the operating system, apps and actively work with data. Older phones, or low-budget models, may be more limited in their capacity - as a rule, though, phones are built with plenty of RAM to manage day-to-day tasks.

The idea behind closing apps we no longer need is to "free up RAM" as if that will make our phones run better, or faster. That's simply not true and, as the article implies, closing frequently used apps can actually slow it down.

RAM is the amount of temporary, operating memory your device has. Storage is where user data is saved long-term... much like a hard drive on a computer. If you have room to spare on a 256 GB hard drive, getting a 4 TB drive will only give you a lot of empty space that may never be used.

Likewise, if you only use about 4 GB RAM to do everything you need to do on your phone, getting a phone with 12 GB RAM will simply leave you with a lot of extra memory you don't need. Closing apps to free up even more memory becomes counterintuitive.

Old habits are hard to break: I'm one of those "old guard" Android users who remember the days of 256 MB RAM on the original Motorola Droid. Back then, judicious use of memory was a way of life. Now that modern smartphones have 8, 12 or more GB, this old dog needs to learn new tricks and stop closing out apps.

Looking for someone who has Tracfone ( a few years old) that has beach pier as default wallpaper. Could you please post the picture? It should be the full resolution that you can get with app called "get current wallpaper". I have attached the low res photo and the app to get the photo. Thank you.

FYI if you use Samsung Pay, and go to the Galaxy Store to get updates and see Samsung Wallet there, do NOT uninstall it! I found out, seconds too late, that Samsung Pay is now Wallet... now I get to set up ALL my cards again!

Is it possible to get a firware files to solve a bricked boot?
I think it is a remarked M1 Motorone m7135 android 6.0 model.
Someone knows if is possible to find some main firmware to reload it?

How can I change the number of rings before voicemail. This *#61# is not working.

When I want to choose one of my 2 numbers to call this number again it shows number for the lower number but not for the upper, even tho both have numbers shown for them.

How does separate app sound in sound assistant work? When u tap on the Bluetooth icon for one device it sometimes works as it should, and switches media from that app to BT speaker and leaves others to play on the phone. But now, most of the time it takes both app sounds to BT device or to device sound, it doesn't separate it.

Reddit predictions " says " No apps can perform this action ", but now opens Reddit and still shows this pop-up...

My personal YouTube playlists I've created with my own videos don't have a thumbnails and I can't put any

When I go to Google - settings for Google apps - connected apps - connected apps don't show up there as they use to.

How to remove shared file from Google Drive, there's no remove option ?

Google has no idea which device I'm using. I've removed all devices I don't use months ago and it still thinks I'm using one of those 2 previous ones and rarely the current one, what should I do?

Art
VM Version: 2.1.0
Java Home: /system
Class Path: .
Boot Class Path: /apex/com.android.art/javalib/core-oj.jar:/apex/com.android.art/javalib/core-libart.jar:/apex/com.android.art/javalib/core-icu4j.jar:/apex/com.android.art/javalib/okhttp.jar:/apex/com.android.art/javalib/bouncycastle.jar:/apex/com.android.art/javalib/apache-xml.jar:/system/framework/framework.jar:/system/framework/ext.jar:/system/framework/telephony-common.jar:/system/framework/voip-common.jar:/system/framework/ims-common.jar:/system/framework/framework-atb-backward-compatibility.jar:/system/framework/tct-framework.jar:/system/framework/tct-sdk.jar:/system/framework/tct.telephony.support.jar:/system/framework/tct-telephony-common.jar:/system/framework/tct-datahub-sdk.jar:/system/framework/tct-theme-sdk.jar:/system/framework/tctui-widget.jar:/system/framework/mediatek-telephony-base.jar:/system/framework/mediatek-telephony-common.jar:/system/framework/mediatek-common.jar:/system/framework/mediatek-framework.jar:/system/framework/OPCommonTelephony.jar:/system/framework/mediatek-ims-common.jar:/system/framework/mediatek-ims-base.jar:/system/framework/mediatek-telecom-common.jar:/apex/com.android.conscrypt/javalib/conscrypt.jar:/apex/com.android.media/javalib/updatable-media.jar:/apex/com.android.mediaprovider/javalib/framework-mediaprovider.jar:/apex/com.android.os.statsd/javalib/framework-statsd.jar:/apex/com.android.permission/javalib/framework-permission.jar:/apex/com.android.sdkext/javalib/framework-sdkextensions.jar:/apex/com.android.wifi/javalib/framework-wifi.jar:/apex/com.android.tethering/javalib/framework-tethering.jar

Also my IMEI number says NO PERMISSIONS AFTER ANDROID 10
AND SMITH MICRO HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH THIS AS WELL AS AWS

My home screen used to have the icons right up against the edge of the screen, but a couple months ago, an update indented them over 1 inch from the edge.

Is there a way to put them back against the edge?

Also, I hate the way the folders open up now. The window is smaller with fewer icons, and I have to scroll over to see more. Is there a way to fix this as well?

My watch face is available on the google store:
Viking Watch Face

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fr.thema.wear.watch.viking

I know how many of you likes to customize their watch face.

With this one, you can select colors of each elements, and choose your favourite viking design.

You can choose the data displayed in the 3 widgets (more than 10 different indicators : daily steps counter, weather, heartbeat, battery of watch & mobile, unread emails...).
Or associate the widgets to "complication external data" to display any data you want from your favourite applications installed on watch.

Many other options available: set screen time, 3 different ambient modes, wetc...

I hope you will like it!