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Astrodrift Racing update 1.062 released

I have just updated the game, adding various new features and UI improvements as well as numerous small bug fixes.

Download from the Play Store:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.CreepiesGames.AstrodriftSpaceRacing

- Upped the number of AI opponents from 5 to 7.
- The 2 new AI's run slower for a more spread out field.
- Added a 'best position' star to the in game UI.
- Some ships are now heavier than others.
- Ship 2, tracks 5 and 8 star times lowered.
- Fixed an annoying respawn location bug where you would sometimes respawn further back than intended.
- Other small bug fixes

Coming soon.
- Track 13, a twisty base set in an asteroid field.
- More tracks
- Achievements
- IOS support

It's now available in a few more countries.
Australia, India, Ireland, Malta, New Zealand, South Africa ,United Kingdom, United States

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Problems reaching Internet sites

Hello,

I have a OnePlus Nord 10 Android 5G phone.

When I try to use the Google search app, or the Chrome browser, to log into a website,

I am not successful, and I receive the error message below.

But if I try to log into the same sites using the Firefox browser, I am successful.

Are there any adjustments that I need to correct this?

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Thank you

S22 Ultra cannot send MMS/photos

The messaging apps on the Galaxy S22 are a big mystery to me. The default app is titled 'Messages' and is NOT the app with the "..." as the icon, it's the other one, looks like a scribble scribble scribble.
When I try to send pictures to people in the new app, I get an error: "Message not sent: service not activated on network"
If I set the default app to the other Messages app (the one with ...), I briefly see that same error message.

If I forcibly disable the newer messages app and reboot the phone, I am able to send photos, but the problem is, the Icon to get into the SMS/MMS app is only found when you go into Settings->Apps->Messages and select 'Open App' from the settings screen. There appears to be no way to get the icon for that app to the Apps screen or to the home screen, and disabling the new messaging app kills that icon.

I like the new chat/message app because it has chat like features and uses wifi for some functions but the inability to send and receive MMS/pictures makes it useless.
I did try a reset network settings from the reset screen to no avail. I kind of prefer not to do a factory reset on the phone because of data loss (not everything is backed up despite being connected to Samsung Members and Google!)
Googling the error message also gives no useful results.
TIA for any insight.

Which Galaxy 4 watch?

I'm looking online and comparing the various Galaxy Watch 4 models. I'm curious which model folks believe is best - Watch 4 or Classic? The Classic is definitely heavier and bigger, but I'm worried the non-Classic is too small for me - I'm 6'1", 240lbs (not a small guy). I'll wear it to the gym, that's one reason I'm worried the Classic is too big/heavy. It's a balance between the non-Classic being too small and the Classic being too big/heavy for the gym.

What are your thoughts? Anything beyond size I need to consider with the models? (I'm hoping to make it to an ATT store to handle them.)

Can A Hacker Control My Phone Remotely?

I am new to this forum. Also, I am not that tech-savvy and need help from someone who is. I believe that my phone was hacked. Can a person remote in and manipulate my phone without me knowing? I know that it can be done on my PC or laptop remotely by Geek Squad when I give them permission. Geek Squad can remotely control my entire computer just like I can while sitting in front of it.

Thanks for your help!

Slow SD card access, should I upgrade?

Hi, ever since updating to android 11, accessing files in the sd card has become really slow. I know that this is a common issue with the update related to the new file system or whatnot, but I have thousands of photos and image files in my sd card and loading them everytime was a pain in the arse no matter what gallery app I use. I have tried moving all the files to a faster sd card but the difference was negligible, it's still slow. I still hasn't found a proper solution to it. So I'm thinking of buying a new phone with newer, better hardware but,.... would that give me some clear performance upgrade or will sd card access still sucks on android 11 & 12?
Btw, I'm using Realme 6 now.

Thanks....

Recommendations for Real 30W wireless charging pads

Bought a couple of Belkin 30W GaN, PD wall chargers, and they work fine for fast-charging when I plug the cable that came with the Pixel 6 Pro directly into the phone, but the pads I bought, which claimed to be "Qi-Certified 30W Max Fast Charging Pads" will charge wirelessly, just not rapidly, as seen in the desktop or lock screen charging status.
Can anyone recommend some real 30W Wireless charging pads that will work here?
Thanks!

Choosing default clock/alarm app in Pixel 6 Pro

Selecting default clock/alarm app.

I have been really happy with this app called "Alarm Clock Extreme", which I used on my old phone an LG V30.
My favorite thing that it did was that I could just "hey google, set an alarm for 15 minutes" and it would set the alarm, and make the progress/countdown visible on the lock screen and when I drew the top notifications bar down.
The standard clock app, will allow me to create the alarm, but I can see the progress/countdown, and have to open the app and go into the alarm window to see how much time I have left.

I tried several ways of making Alarm Clock Extreme my default app, but can't seem to get that same performance out of it. There is an option to disable the built in system clock, but I am worried what that might do. I was hoping that with no other other clock apps to handle the request, that it would default to alarm clock extreme.
Any Ideas?
Thanks! (I probably could have said this in fewer words. Sorry)

How can an uninstalled app contain the original user data when re downloaded?

Advice appreciated please.
After using the UK "The Times" app for years but had become expensive I chose their European option which was much cheaper, easily cancellable, but required payment only via Google Pay.
Have been using it for a year, but decided to change to a new UK subscription. Google Pay sub was cancelled.

I uninstalled the app (after deleting cache and data) but on downloading the app again from Play Store, I find that the original account data is still there, showing the Google Pay sub information.
And as the app opens it shows "checking Play Store purchases"! And it does seem that this may be the core of the problem, since normally one subscribes direct to the Newspaper.
There is no "logout" option.
Have tried several times, but can't get a pristine app.

How can an uninstalled app contain the original user data when re downloaded? From where is it picking up the information?

I have asked The Times for their help, but in the short term 4 days) they have been unable to come up with a solution.

I have the same issue across 4 different Android devices, phones and tablets.

Advice appreciated please.

Apps Layout Question

Hello,

I am building a social media app, and for the chat fragment I am using a cardView inside of a recylerView for each “post”. Basically like Twitter.

I need someone to point me in the right direction. I want the user to be able to make a post. The post could be text only, but I want the user to have the ability to add photos.

Here’s the question: I want the user to be able to post up to 4 images in a single post. How do I handle the layout file/files when the user only adds one pic, or two, etc… Do I need four different layouts? Is the a library/plugin that deals with this issue? I added a ROUGH draft of the layouts that are possible. Thanks for the help. I hope it wasn’t too confusing. Please lmk if I can clarify anything. Thank you.

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Help Trouble syncing Onedrive & Google drive files with desktop

Lately, either they don't sync from desktop to phone or vice-versa, or it is delayed for a considerable length of time.

I have several word files I regularly update on the desktop. I launch Onedrive & Google drive, the systray icons show they synced, but hours later when I go to my phone, either one or both have not updated.

I just shared two screenshots a little while ago from my android Photos app to Onedrive. I could then see them in Onedrive, I then launched Onedrive on my desktop, the systray icon said everything was synched, but they were not.

I went back to the phone, went to "one" of the screenshot files, and selected "Make available offline". Finally they both emerged on in my desktop Onedrive folder.

I never had to do that in the past, and I also don't understand how making only one of them available offline allowed them both to sync.

I have bunch of youtube links I shared on my phone with with onedrive, The showed up as text files, and never synced to my desktop. I just now had to select them all, and "download" them to my desktop.

Google assistant search

Samsung Galaxy s10e

Firefox is my default browser, I have both a Firefox google vicesearch widget and Google assistant voice search widget on my home page. When I do a search with those, I'm taken to what you would expect, multiple results on a google search page.

When I do a google assistant voice search, instead of opening the google search page with the expected multiple results, I am taken to a random website that hopefully relates to the search criteria.

I'd like the assistant to behave like the widgets, or perhaps a suggestion of another assistant that will do this?

App Inventor Android studio emulator

Dear Members,

I am asking for your kind support. I have problem with Android studio emulator. The emulator always stops. It is quite annoying as I want to test the application that I am building. I have a pac with 8 gb ram. There is nothing else which is running in the background. I have an error system message saying: emu system i386 quit unexpectedly. Most forums says to change the graphic setting of the virtual device to software but that did not help neither.

I have been reading many many forums to make it work but no luck. I even tried to install windows on my Mac to try running android studio. But I did not succeeded. Attached you can find the log of the sys error. Anyone who could help me I highly appreciate. Thank you, Attila

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galaxy a21 issue

I have the galaxy a21 and for the life of me i can't get it to save a number when i get a call that i want to block. i now have a life line so getting them is not a real big deal like it was with tracfone but i hate getting the dam scam calls so if i do not know the person i want to block every single call.

now the best i can do is write the number then navigate to settings and then to block calls and then enter the number and hit the plus sign to block them.

on my old lg k20 all i had to do was swipe the number left or right i forget now but then that showed the block number and then it was done.

on the a21 even when i see the number calling i do not get the option to even block it then i tried with the wife calling me to see how to figure it out. plus i have a message that says i blocked your number so don't call again and i do not have that option during a call like i had on the lg k20 phone.

so does any have an idea how to do this? one time i managed to get the number into some type of clipboard and then when i went to the blocked calls section and the blank number line i pressed that area and the copy-paste came up and i hit paste and the number pasted and that was easy but i can't even get that to work anymore. so if i can get that to work it would save lots of time and headaches.

could this issue be a tracfone phone issue? being that i got it from tracfone and as a tracfone, and then unlocked it for metro use. if so how can i get the phone to be a metro phone? can i reflash the firmware to make it a metro phone?

i did find out that anonymous numbers can't be blocked? but the numbers do show up in the call log so do anonymous numbers also show up in the call log? if so that may be why i can't copy those numbers to past in the block section and i have to enter them by hand?

any ideas thanks

Someone cant tell me which stage the bootchart end ?

I want to optimize the boot time for android10, so I using bootchart tools to build image below. But I don't know which stage end?
I search Internet someone said the bootchart just show the time after init process not include bootloader and kernel, and I don't know what stage it end.
And another question is where every using bootchart I get different time in bootchart ?
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Help RCS Messaging intermittent

I figured I'd try here since I had no luck on Reddit. My wife's 1+9 Pro on Net10/AT&T won't stay connected to RCS. It works great for months, and then suddenly switches to Connecting.... and stays there. We've tried enrolling in Messages Beta, force quit/clear cache, clear cache for Carrier Services, reboot, uninstall/reinstall Messages, uninstall/reinstall Carrier Services, turn chat off and on again, re-verify the phone number....nothing seems to work. We have 2 Pixels in the house on 2 different carriers, and they work fine.

Is this possibly an APN issue with Net10? Anything else to try?

Help Tolino Tab 8 doesn't boot - recovery mode not working - how to flash

Hello!
I am having problems with a android device. Namely Tolino Tab 8

It does not boot.
On start the error message reads
"Secure Boot Violation - Invalid signature detected. Check secure Boot Policy in Setup"

Then I can't do anything but turn it off again.

When I try to do a hard reset / enter the recovery mode via VolumeUP+PowerOn there is no difference. It behaves like I just turned it on with the PowerOn Button.

So I want to flash it via Dnx Mode (VolUp+VolDown+PowerOn). That's the only action I can perform on this thing.
I downloaded some android 5.0 recovery package from medion.com but on windows and on ubuntu I get error messages because of fastboot (on windows it says "fastboot.exe wrong file or filename" on ubuntu "bash: ./fastboot: No permission")

Can anyone help me with proper instructions on how to flash the thing? Somehow I am too dumb to find it by myself. Sorry.
Thank you very much for your time and every effort :)

Cannot connect T9 Box to 5GHZ Band on Router

I purchased a generic T9 box that said it was compatible to both 2.5 and 5.0 bands on my Ausa dual band router. It will connect to to 2.5 but the 5.0 either does not show up or shows as disabled when I search for networks. I have had no problems connecting all my other devices to 5 ghz. I need that because the 2.5 speed is about 28 mps and 5 is 160 mps. link to item on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07HD4VW1C/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Help!

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