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Phone screen won't stay off when using external battery

So, I used my Google Pixel 3 when cycling for maps and sometimes when the battery runs low I use an external battery to keep the charge.

However, there seems to be a feature that when the phone is plugged into a power source, the screen comes on when you pick up or move the phone.

The problem when cycling is that it's usually bumpy and the keeps the phone screen on all the time.

Coupled with gps on, this means that my phone drains faster than it can charge.

I've tried to change settings to turn the screen off, but it always comes on.

Does anyone know a way I can fix this?

Thanks!

Why does backup- not restore

Have never been able to get Android to restore properly.

Today needed to do h/ware reset .... so first off did full backup .... all OK.

After reset, put in Goggle & Samsung account details, along with WiFi password.
Went to backup restore .... it ran, and after about 30 min completed.

None of the home screens restored, also FB, WhatsApp, Messenger accounts not restored.
About the only thing it seems to restore is contacts.

Why is Android so bad at this ...
You expect a full backup to give a full restore.

Unfortunately, (app name) has stopped!!

Hi guys

Looking for some guidance on a really annoying problem which has started in past days on my Note 4

Whenever I try to access my Messages, Native Samsung Email, or some other apps, I get to the main screen, and then it shuts down with the message as per the title of the post

On the email, I can open the app, see the messages, even delete some, but if it try to read one, the app crashes, same with the messaging

I am not running the phone with any SD cards, cleared local caches, managed to clear the boot cache (after successfully navigating the <No command> screen..

Just so frustrated with this and wonder if anyone has any guidance or advice?

Thanks in advance
David

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Lost phone contacts not synched?

I've just spent the morning trying to get my S10 back to how it was last night after uninstalling and reinstalling several apps because of the Android System Webview bug. I was uninstalling and reinstalling all the apps that were crashing, before I found out about the bug, thinking one of them was affecting all the others and trying to find the culprit.

As a result I lost all my contacts. That has happened before. I use Outlook as my primary email. After reenabling synch contacts with my Outlook account most of my contacts have come back but all the contacts I've entered since I bought the phone a year ago are still missing.

It looks like the phone was saving them somewhere else but where? I checked the default location in the contacts app and it wasn't set. I have since set it to my Outlook account. I have a Gmail account which I only set up to register the phone but don't use it for anything else. I tried synching contacts with that but that email has no contacts saved against it. There is nothing on the SIM and only one contact on the phone (looks like it came from a banking app).

I have the phone set up to backup to google drive (on the above mentioned Gmail account) but I can't find any way to restore it. When I try to use the Samsung restore facility it just tries to set up a Samsung account. I've never had a Samsung account and don't see how setting one up will help me restore off google drive.

Any ideas on where my missing contacts have gone and how I might get them back?

dev android studio .setvisibility not working

hi i have an annoying problem with my application
i added a gif image using the droidondroids GifView and with that a seekbar i wanted either to change the ressource of the gif image according to the seek bar no luck goff.setvisibility(View.GONE/VISIBLE/INVISIBLE) not working the first it works but none after it i have a func named gifs()


Java:
void gifs(){
        if((int)(Ws) < 10){
            goff.setVisibility(View.GONE);    // cutta gifview
            ES1.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);  // android-gif-drawable
            Log.d("gifs","   "+goff.getVisibility() +"   ora "+goff.getGifResource());

        }else{
            goff.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
            ES1.setVisibility(View.GONE);
            Log.d("gifs","   "+goff.getVisibility() +"   ora "+goff.getGifResource());

        }
     

    }
i have the Ws value from the seekbar onstopTracking() and the func gifs() there too
as you can see i'm logging with Log.d and the .getVisibility() is returning that the goff is changing value but nothing on the UI

i also tried with maybe goff.setGifResource(R.drawable.es6);

my goal is to show
1-either multiple gifs but one at a time (gifs with different speed )
2- the same view but change the ressource to multiple gifs speeds


here is the code and declarations


Java:
public  class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
    public static pl.droidsonroids.gif.GifTextView giff,ES1,ES2,ES3,ES4,ES5,ES6;
    public static GifView goff;
    public static byte Ws;
    public  SeekBar temp ;     

        protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        SD=0;
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        getWindow().getDecorView().setSystemUiVisibility(View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_HIDE_NAVIGATION);
        ES1 = findViewById(R.id.es1);
        ES2 = findViewById(R.id.es2);
        ES3 = findViewById(R.id.es3);
        ES4 = findViewById(R.id.es4);
        ES5 = findViewById(R.id.es5);
        ES6 = findViewById(R.id.es6);
        goff = (GifView) findViewById(R.id.gif1);
        ES1 = (pl.droidsonroids.gif.GifTextView) findViewById(R.id.es1);

     
        temp= findViewById(R.id.tBar);
        temp.setProgress(1);
     

        temp.setOnSeekBarChangeListener(new SeekBar.OnSeekBarChangeListener() {
            [USER=1021285]@override[/USER]

         public void onProgressChanged(SeekBar seekBar, int progress, boolean fromUser) {
                progressChangedValue = progress;
                T[0]=(byte)progressChangedValue;
                Ws=(byte)progressChangedValue;
                tmp.setText(T[0]+" º");
                //graphsInit();
                //CriticalPointUpdate();
                D1[1]=progressChangedValue;
            }

            [USER=1021285]@override[/USER]
            public void onStartTrackingTouch(SeekBar seekBar) {
            }

            [USER=1021285]@override[/USER]
            public void onStopTrackingTouch(SeekBar seekBar) {
                Ws=(byte)progressChangedValue;
                gifs();
                D1[1]=progressChangedValue;
                T[0]=(byte)progressChangedValue;
                //graphsInit();
                //CriticalPointUpdate();
                D1[1]=progressChangedValue;
                Intent intent = new Intent(MainActivity.this, send.class);
                startActivity(intent);
                if(buffered[1]==1){
                    vp1=buffered[3]*256+buffered[4];
                    //Log.d("vp","vp1 = "+vp1+"   ");
                }


            }
        });

        try {
            /* Open the serial port */
            mSerialPort = new SerialPort(new File("/dev/ttyS2"), 9600, 0);
            mOutputStream = mSerialPort.getOutputStream();
            mInputStream = mSerialPort.getInputStream();

            mBuffer = new byte[128];
            /* Create a receiving thread */
            mReadThread = new ReadThread();/* Create a serial port receiving program */
            mReadThread.start();

        } catch (SecurityException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
    }

i removed other parts of the code because they are for other function like plotting and serial Comms


XML of goff and ES1

HTML:
<com.cunoraz.gifview.library.GifView
>     android:id="@+id/gif1"
>     android:layout_width="wrap_content"
>     android:layout_height="wrap_content"
>     android:visibility="visible"
>     android:layout_marginLeft="710dp"
>     android:layout_marginTop="30dp"
>     app:gif="[USER=22138]@Mipmap[/USER]/cuno" />
>
> <pl.droidsonroids.gif.GifTextView
>     android:id="@+id/es1"
>     android:layout_width="250dp"
>     android:layout_height="500dp"
>     android:layout_marginLeft="710dp"
>     android:layout_marginTop="30dp"
>     android:visibility="invisible"
>     android:drawableStart="@drawable/es1" />

Fearing the worst: What do I backup in 'master reset' circs?

Greetings,

I just posted another query to this forum regarding the very common "app keeps stopping" feature of some Android phones (mine is Galaxy S9+). My phone has that disease, and I have tried everything but the nuclear option (master reset) to fix it but have had no luck. In my other post I basically asked "What the heck else can I try besides master reset?" I would LOVE to hear something optimistic in response to that previous post, but...having tried a lot of stuff already (incl wipe cache partition)...my pessimistic/realistic gut says that we are probably heading for a master reset.

So, anticipating that worst case scenario, what do I need to know about a master reset? I know I need to backup (or lose) all my photos, files, downloads...what else? Do I lose my contacts? If so, I presume I can find instructions online on how to back those up, but maybe y'all can point me in the right direction. But what about my text conversations? Do they disappear in a master reset, or are they possibly "in the cloud" and become available to me again after the master reset? If the text conversations disappear, is there a way I can save those? I presume every single app I have ever downloaded from Google Play disappears? Am I supposed to log out of all possible Google accounts before I do a master reset for some reason?

I can't think of anything I could have possibly done to invite the Android "app keeps stopping" feature, but if there is ANYTHING anyone can think of to help me get this phone back to functional short of the nuclear option of master reset, thank you so much for sharing your wisdom!

Otherchuck

[Solved] Moto G4: Apps keep stopping in background, can't open them!

I've tried all the common fixes:
  • Reboot
  • Force stop apps
  • Clear cache and data of apps
  • Reinstall apps
  • Clear phones cache
  • Check for app & phone updates
Only option left is to factory reset but I don't want to do this. Just started today, no updates or anything seemed to cause the issue. Any help is appreciated!

Update: they pushed a patch overnight that solved the issues!

Pls help: Galaxy S9 email stopping, google stopping etc

Hello,

I know this is not an unknown problem, but I have tried fixes I have seen online to now avail, so I really appreciate any additional guidance.

On my Galaxy s9+, I suddenly started getting a "duck duck go has stopped working" message that kept popping up. I thought if I uninstalled that app and reinstalled it, maybe that would fix things. But then I noticed I was getting repeated "google has stopped working" and "email has stopped working" messages as well. I have cleared app caches, and restarted; I have done a forced restart; and have wiped the cache partition.

And yet the problem still persists.

Any advice would be very much appreciated. I really hope to not have to back up everything and do a factory reset.

Thanks!

Otherchuck

Help Apps closing for no reason

So today some apps started closing for no reason. I'll open an app and it will close right away. Some background apps will continue to close as well. Every now and then, an error message for Play Store will pop up saying it closed. The app itself opens fine. Other apps run just fine. I checked for any recent Android updates and didn't see any. Any suggestions?

Android 9
LG V40ThinQ
Apps closing: Outlook, some games, news app, others

Let me know if you need more information.

Android eleven.

Thought I would give my review on the new Android Eleven:
Big changes, the bubbles of notifications does run much smoother and able to swipe down and up within ease,
You can have as many notifications on it as much as you can, and able to silent it over, even with as much time as you can play with it. It is a hidden gem all by itself, the many reality parts is there is not a downside to it.


You can modify it via the moto app, really much easier and has a few more shapes for your app drawer, the octagon, as well as a barrel being crushed by Mario icon, that you can really dive into different fonts as well.
There is no downside to that, although in the locker screen, not the lock screen, it does show you like on Moto Z Two force a giant circle of blue light that cannot be modified, but really nice artistic touch with that, and you can sipe in and out of messages you may have missed, also get the local weather as well.

There is a draw back though, a simple missed as I have may posted in the previous post, be wear of the screen cuts as it kind of brings out giant trims around the usual screen and be advised that you could have it factory reset, but if you have your passwords memorized or have them wrote down on paper or digital notebook I have, in a secret folder, then you can to have an excellent running smooth cell phone.

A four out of five. :)

Help Galaxy S8 on Sprint, just updated now everything crashes

Please help. I have a Galaxy S8 on Sprint (now T mobile) that I just updated an hour ago or so. Now everything is crashing constantly. Waze, I heart radio, samsung email, google search, are the ones so far. I'm sure there are others I just haven't noticed yet. I've restarted of course, also tried uninstalling and re-installing apps. The apps work briefly, then force close/crash again.

Some apps seem to work, like netflix and google maps, gmail (at least when I briefly opened them for a minute - who knows, they might crash also). But i can't have half my apps not working.

My phone is unusable now please help!!! How can i roll back this update?

WTH, Firefox will not uninstall just disable

Moto Z2 Force. Firefox did not come on my phone so I installed it from the play store. Well I got sick of it (switched to Brave) and I'm doing some house cleaning and want to uninstall it. When I use the normal method of dragging it to the uninstall icon it pauses for a moment then says it can't be uninstalled and it will be disabled. I enabled it back and went through play to my installed apps there and tried again. This time it just uninstalled all the updates but not the base app, it just does the same thing and disables it. I want this off my phone as I'm running out of storage. Please help.
Thanks

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