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Motorola Moto E (2020) XT2052DL Files Not Displayable

Hi got this phone and I was impressed with the size, great voice to text quality, and price.

However, one of the most important features is to plug it into my computer and access the files.

I was unable to do this. Motorola tech support could not help me nor Tracfone's nor someone from Bestbuy (not Geeksquad). I had to return it and thought the other phone I would buy would be equal in quality but it was a smaller Samsung with bad voice to text and a higher price.

At first, I thought it was some new Android 10 OS problem, but then the samsung had asked me something and I was then able to see my files viewing them from Windows Explorer (Win7).

So there was something about the need to access the authorization on the phone first and it's accepted then phone lets itself be read. Does anyone know how to get back into that if it was bypassed or just any more about this process.

Obviously some tech support did not.

Help Serious issues with my Note 9

Hi,

So I asked someone if they could figure out why my battery suddenly stopped holding charge and was draining so fast and he said sure, but then ruined the phone.

About 25% of the apps crash when I click on them. He figured out that if you install an older version of the app most of the time it worked, but I didn't want the older version (forever), so when I tried to update them, again they wouldn't work.

And why would an older version work? That makes no sense.

I've done many things to try & fix it like:

1. Reinstall them
2. Restart
3. Called my cell carrier. They said everything was fine & obviously if I can connect to the net, there's nothing wrong there.
4. Turned on the data saving (I think it was called) setting
5. I tried to update the OS which I hadn't done in months & it won't install. The phone restarts as if all is done & it comes up with install. I've done that 3 times.

I do NOT want to have to reformat the entire phone. It's ridiculous.

Any way you can help?

Thanks

Voice notes

A51 is my first Android. In my environment, I make voice notes all day long as I drive about my business, then transfer them on my computer, where I listen to them while working there entering information into various programs: time & mileage logs, QuickBooks, Outlook, etc. It is very inefficient to have to try to transcribe directly from the phone.

How would I 1) make a one- or two-tap access to be able to record a voice note on the A51, then 2) transfer them to the computer for transcription. I freely admit my ignorance here. If there is a way to record a voice note that will automatically be transcribed and saved as a file I can transfer to my computer or emailed to myself, that will be even better.

My old Blackberry gave me a two-tap access to record a note, something I could do with barely a glance at the screen, and then the desktop software automatically connected to the BB and mapped a drive to it, so I wrote a tiny batch file to move my voice notes from BB to computer very simply. All it required was a double-click on an icon on the desktop. As obsolete as BB technology was, it provided very easy--that is few-step--ways for me to do the things my particular business requires. And as exciting as the whole graphical world of the Android/iPhone is, my business needs do not benefit from the bells & whistles; in fact that, is largely a distraction; I need the phone to be able to feed information to me while at the computer where all the relevant business applications reside.

Anyone on Matrix?

I just recently discovered Matrix.org and the beautiful Element client. Combined, they offer secure end-to-end-encrypted communications between individuals or even large groups wrapped up in a well-designed and easy-to-use interface. I'm a pretty big fan so far.

It also seems to have rated well on ProtonMail's recent write-up of various WhatsApp alternatives:
https://protonmail.com/blog/whatsapp-alternatives/


Anyone else on the Matrix network? Hit me up:
https://matrix.to/#/@codesplice:matrix.org

Smart Switch auto-sync

The A51 is my first Samsung phone. I installed Smart Switch to do my one-way sync of Outlook contacts to the phone. But I have to manually start the sync. Is there any way to configure Smart Switch to auto-sync when the A51 is connected to the computer or at least when it is connected and I then open Smart Switch.

Or is there different product than Smart Switch that will allow auto-sync of contacts from Outlook to the Galaxy upon physical connection and/or opening the app?

Help enabling downloads through webview (Kotlin)

Good day. I'm new to android development and I'm trying to develop a simple webview application, picked a nice template and went through the steps and made good progress, I managed to load my site fully and enable javascript, that works as intended, however I'm not able to make the app download anything, I host a few pdf files that should open or download through it, but nothing happens.

I looked at a few answers here and it is to my understanding that I need to specifically add a function for that, could you give me a hand? I have tried multiple different code and tweaking them, but I wasn't able to get it to work, here is my base code:
Code:
package com.logista.test.ui.home

import android.os.Bundle
import android.view.LayoutInflater
import android.view.View
import android.view.ViewGroup
import android.webkit.WebResourceRequest
import android.webkit.WebView
import android.webkit.WebViewClient
import android.app.DownloadManager
import androidx.fragment.app.Fragment
import androidx.lifecycle.ViewModelProvider
import com.logista.test.R


class HomeFragment : Fragment() {

    private lateinit var homeViewModel: HomeViewModel

    override fun onCreateView(
            inflater: LayoutInflater,
            container: ViewGroup?,
            savedInstanceState: Bundle?
    ): View? {
        homeViewModel =
                ViewModelProvider(this).get(HomeViewModel::class.java)
        val root = inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_home, container, false)
        val myWebView: WebView = root.findViewById(R.id.webview)
        myWebView.webViewClient = WebViewClient()
        myWebView.settings.javaScriptEnabled = true
        myWebView.loadUrl("https://www.example.org/")
        return root
    }
}
I believe I should be adding
Code:
import android.app.DownloadManager
And tweak this
Code:
        // Set web view download listener

        web_view.setDownloadListener(DownloadListener {
            url,
            userAgent,
            contentDescription,
            mimetype,
            contentLength ->

            // Initialize download request
            val request = DownloadManager.Request(Uri.parse(url))

            // Get the cookie
            val cookies = CookieManager.getInstance().getCookie(url)

            // Add the download request header
            request.addRequestHeader("Cookie",cookies)
            request.addRequestHeader("User-Agent",userAgent)

            // Set download request description
            request.setDescription("Downloading requested file....")

            // Set download request mime tytpe
            request.setMimeType(mimetype)

            // Allow scanning
            request.allowScanningByMediaScanner()

            // Download request notification setting
            request.setNotificationVisibility(
                    DownloadManager.Request.VISIBILITY_VISIBLE_NOTIFY_COMPLETED)

            // Guess the file name
            val fileName = URLUtil.guessFileName(url, contentDescription, mimetype)

            // Set a destination storage for downloaded file
            request.setDestinationInExternalPublicDir(Environment.DIRECTORY_DOWNLOADS, fileName)

            // Set request title
            request.setTitle(URLUtil.guessFileName(url, contentDescription, mimetype));


            // DownloadManager request more settings
            request.setAllowedOverMetered(true)
            request.setAllowedOverRoaming(false)
            if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.N) {
                request.setRequiresCharging(false)
                request.setRequiresDeviceIdle(false)
            }
            request.setVisibleInDownloadsUi(true)


            // Get the system download service
            val dManager = getSystemService(Context.DOWNLOAD_SERVICE) as DownloadManager

            // Finally, request the download to system download service
            dManager.enqueue(request)
        })


        // Load button click listener
        button_load.setOnClickListener{
            // Load url in a web view
            web_view.loadUrl(url)
        }

    }
Taken from here: https://android--code.blogspot.com/2018/03/android-kotlin-webview-file-download.html

I did the basics, renaming the function accordingly and such, but it gives me quite a few errors when building the app, for instance uri isn't defined, cookiemanager isn't defined, environment isn't defined, build isn't defined, and such, could you give me some guidance?

Shortcuts

Although I have been supporting various Android devices for clients, I just finally made the move from my ancient Blackberry (don't laugh--my mobile device needs are extremely few but very detailed!) to a Galaxy A51.

Now I am trying to figure out how to make super-accessible shortcuts for a few things. For starters, I need to know how to make a one-tap or two-tap call forward. I do not want my cell phone ringing when I am in my home office; I want all calls to come to my home office so I can keep my home phone headset on and manage one device all day instead of two, with no concern about battery life. So I set up call forwarding that I enable before I head home after every field project. But this requires all of this:

Wake it up (button on right side)
Tap the phone
Tap the menu (three dots)
Tap Settings
Tap Supplementary services
Tap Call Forwarding
Tap Always Forward
Tap Turn On (or Turn Off)

To put this in perspective, to forward on my BB, all I had to do was swipe up, then hold down one pre-assigned shortcut key on the keyboard for three seconds. To unforward, the same, but a different key. It was so simple, I could do it virtually without looking at the BB but perhaps for one second to ensure I had the right key.

How would I configure a single- or two-tap for forward or un-forward?

Help Something keeps turning on "color inversion" with my Galaxy S21+ 5G

Something keeps turning on color inversion with my Galaxy S21+ 5G???
I turn it off in Settings/Display/Visibility Enhancement/Color Inversion
But an hour later or few hours later or even a day later it turns back on???
This has been going on for a week and when it turns on everything looks terrible... messes up my maps too.

EDIT:
This started since I installed Notification light / LED for Samsung - aodNotify
When I uninstalled the app it stopped doing that.

Help Flipboard. How to disable

I tried calling tech support, pinching, etc, etc. There is no way to do this. They even tried smart tutor but they ended up saying it was impossible. So when my computer illiterate (relatively) wife gets to that point, she isn't able to see how to do it. I don't know how I did it before but google doesn't help. There isn't a way to get to the check box that everyone is talking about. Can someone show me how with pictures? TIA

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