Ampere (an app to show battery charge or discharge rate) doesn't seem to work properly for me. I'm using a Samsung A10. The charging socket is poor (rusty/dirty?), so I was checking the charging speed.

With the phone idling and the screen on, with it plugged into the charger, the battery charges at 90mA. Unplug the charger and it discharges at 350mA. So we can conclude I'm using 350mA, and the charger supplies 440mA (powering the phone and a bit left over for the battery).

But.... when I instruct the phone to run Boinc (a science program which uses the CPU to 100%), the charging speed increases to 140mA. How is this possible? If I use more power, how does the battery charge faster?

Linux Mint 21.2 Victoria is now available for install or upgrade.

I just upgraded from 21.1 to 21.2 with no problems through the Update Manager

The rules of this site allow texting-talk, and other non-standard forms of English. Perhaps it's time to reconsider. Multiple times: Someone's come to this site, and it's been difficult to understand him because of his non-standard English. I'm starting to consider just not responding when someone who (for example) doesn't capitalize the first letter of a sentence asks for help with an Android problem.

To be clear: This is not about people who are still learning English! It's one thing if English is your second language, and you have trouble with it. It's another thing if you're not even trying. And if you don't capitalize the first letter of a sentence, if you spell the word "you" as "u", then you're not even trying.

On my new S23, I can't seem to get notifications to show up on my off screen. I'm not talking about the lock screen, just the off screen. Nothing shows up when the screen is completely off. I was able to show notifications on the off screen on my S21. Does anybody know if this is not possible on the S23?

I just started using the S23. I was able to change the font style and size used on my phone but those changes didn't affect the font style in my text messages. Texts still show up in the default Samsung font. Any ideas on how to fix this?

Hello All.

I have a really weird issue with my Samsung Galaxy S8 phone. I am UK based. I used to be on the 3 network and switched recently to GiffGaff due to their very competitive international calling rates. I had no problems on either of these carriers until late last week, when I could not make or receive calls. I was able to send and receive text messages, and use the 4G for internet access.

After trying SIM cards from the different carriers, the only one that works is the one from Vodafone. It seems like the phone suddenly became locked to this carrier.

I was wondering if anyone has come across this before and if so, how did you resolve it? I suspect that my phone is going to stop working soon and I will need to replace it.

Thank you in advance for any assistance that you may provide.

A&E has a show on tonight called Kids In Cages. It's about the youth MMA program. Young boys and girls knocking the crap out of each other. Some how they call it safe, and the parents get their kids into it. If you get a chance to watch here's the link Watch Kids in a Cage | A&E

I can't believe the parents get their kids involved in this.

hi Help me find firmware for my tablet Klü lt1041 ?

So I've seen a few posts on here which have a lot of similarities to what I've been going through for the last year. About a year ago I noticed a lot of bloatware in my phone. Apps that I can't get rid of that have permissions that are completely unnecessary. When I look deeper into my system apps and compare them to a normal operating system It showed me that somehow my phone isn't running the factory version of a Google pixel. Once I started digging deeper into the problem I noticed the issue had spread to all your devices. When I brought the phone into a telus store and explain my issue the cocky employee told me this was all normal. When my card declined after I had to buy a new SIM card thanks to a SIM pin suddenly disabling my ability to use my phone I knew something was wrong. I went directly to my bank only to discover thousands of dollars of transactions sent through e-transfer in small denominations had been going out of my account. After further investigation I learned that not only was my bank account being drained but my credit cards had been billed for $25,000. This happens several more times to me the next few weeks. In total I lost about $125,000, once I reported it TD Bank never returned a single dollar of the $26,000 I lost even after my bank account had no email or phone number attached and they still managed to eat transfer thousands of dollars out of my account. Mastercard was able to refund the $100,000 in stolen charges only after a secondary phone number and email was set up and I had never heard of either of them. At that point the fraud representative took me very seriously and told me I was the first person they had dealt with where they're voice recognition technology had failed to distinguish me from another person and told me to use that in my efforts to get my money back from the bank. I could probably write a novel with what continued on from this but I'll try and keep it on point and not go into everything. I ended up going through 12 cell phones in 2 months trying to keep myself connected things kept happening like phone calls my friends had made never reaching my phone. Secondary accounts being added to my email and giving themselves admin authority. Requests were made to download all of my information off social media and through my emails and once the package was ready the passwords were all changed as well as the backup phone numbers and back up emails for log in. I have hard reset the phone over 20 times and even went in and had it professionally wiped only to have the same programs. Tellus had offered to give me free phones and return for not going to the media and causing a panic since I could see my phone was making its own network and suddenly my apps were doing things that shouldn't. For instance my Google maps had information on who lived in the homes I was viewing a lot of personal information if I was to zoom in on any Radom house. I also ended up with a 20 GB zip file that contained client data from tellus including information that is protected by privacy laws. It gave me the coordinates that phone calls were made from their account numbers their sin numbers and when I told that to one of the engineers I had spoken to she told me that only a judge would have access to that because it's protected by law and locked deep in their system. They tried to switch me to iPhone hoping the different operating system would fix the issue and that it would not carry over to that but before I had even used the phone to call anyone somehow the applications made it onto this phone as well. And it was not connected or anywhere near any device that I had used before. Brand new account that wasn't carried over just to be safe, new email I made right there, different phone number. At that point I couldn't understand what was happening. When I talk to AppleCare they passed me along to the development team and I was given privilege to use lockdown mode before it was released because I was told I had the most aggressive case of hacking that they have ever come across and they were training for this but had yet to see it. Lockdown mode helped for about an hour before it had no effect and suddenly there was custom exceptions made on the device that bypassed any security. My phone also was able to make 1500 phone calls without my consent or knowledge I only noticed it in my notifications that all of my contacts were called at once and when I clicked on it they all said they were still ongoing calls. I was burning through 200 gigs of data a day and even my smart TV suddenly had Microsoft and Google apps that were never there before and my microphone was now unusable to search for things because it said the TV was in listen mode. I tried to call every tech company and most of the time my phone would rather lock me out or it would say default route hardware 9. Anytime I spoke with anyone who understood what was happening I would never hear back from them again. I would have interactions with them through closed captioning that would turn on and not match what was playing on the TV. It would literally be talking to me and asked me to take the phone to a hospital and plug it in and report it stolen. All of this is so hard to believe but I feel like it needs to be said because I'm a pretty level-headed person with a lot of resources and I had the most trouble with this you can imagine. Government agencies all tried to pass the buck to something else, police agencies were useless and tried to pass it off to the tech companies stating that they were only law enforcement and can't deal with things on a national level like this since it was giving me information about zero day attacks on infrastructure, like Rogers wireless last July when it service is went down I was informed of this a month before it happened and absolutely nobody took it seriously until it happened on the day I said it would. National security agencies told me that unless I knew more information about ongoing future attacks that they would only be able to refer me to police agencies but after getting no help the first time I had no faith. I moved from Vancouver to Alberta for 6 months and I had no issues, I moved back 2 months ago and noticed it happening again. Was locked out of my social media once again and was unable to retrieve them, as a precautionary step I stopped using my bank accounts because of what happened last year. Once I stop trying to delete the programs the hijacking of my account stopped. All of my apps have full capabilities even though at first glance they don't. When I click on show all permissions even simple apps like flashlight have the ability to control network access and send sticky broadcasts as well as control call logs and rewrite contacts without user consent. When I had a developer look at my phone they told me that I was running a custom ROM and have never installed anything like that on this phone. So I'm not expecting anyone to be able to solve this because I've been dealing with it for over a year and for other people think it's science fiction or they have no idea of what is going on. I even had a computer programmer run home to unplug his external hard drives once he looked at my phone. I can tell that this is not a me problem it is widespread since I have Show my friends who doubted me all the same altered programs in their phones. It appears to me like the program lies dormant in a phone until The phone senses a threat to its programming or exposure. The harder I worked at trying to regain my privacy and freedom the worse the activity got. At one point I literally had the phone go half black at the top with a list of 17 files and extortion list written about it. I have gone back to my original Google pixel since every other phone I've gotten over the last 2 years seems to fall apart shortly after I start using it. I don't know why but this is the preferred phone for whatever this is. They use a lot of Google programs and to be honest I don't even understand how I was able to spot this because it's very well hidden. Everything is masked in legitimate programs but if you really take a deep look you can see how it's not what it appears. So I hope the hardships I've gone through in the last year and the story helps somebody. If anyone has any useful information please feel free to comment. I'm going to try and wipe my kernel out and reinstall the factory ROM as the last attempt. With some luck the the system updates that I haven't been getting are able to disable whatever connection this outside interference has been using. I've heard of hackers finding targets and staying with them for years. I'm just hoping I'll be able to be free of this one day. Thanks for listening

So i recently bought a cat s75 phone but in the battery settings it never shows the app drain by app, it just says battery usage data isn't available. Saw someone entering recovery mode and selecting wipe cache partition but that option isn't available in my case. Any suggestions?

We have two devices. Samsung S8 and Note 8.
Both do not display a notification in standby (locked, dark screen) mode when a new visual voicemail is received. No sound. No LED. We have to use our psychic powers to guess if there are any new VMs. Voicemails do pop-up about 15 seconds after we check for them.

The voicemail app is Xfinity Mobile Voicemail, ver2.10.0.006
Android software updated, ver. 9
Provider: Xfinity Mobile

I have (but not in this order)...
Cleared phone and voicemail data and cache, and Android cache
Disabled Do Not Disturb
Disabled voicemail and phone from battery saver and optimization functions
Disabled 'put app to sleep'
Enabled LED indicator
Enabled notifications wherever I could find them
Allowed app while data saver is on
Enabled notification reminders
Reset VM (*86)

Consulted chatGPT for a long list of anything to check. (Good list, BTW)
Asked chatGPT for more (and I got more)

Spent the better part of 5 hours both with "chat" and then a Tier 2 Xfinity agent

The agent advised me that I have an old phone and the new technology utilized by Xfinity Mobile is not compatible with such old tech.
Suggested changing to Samsung's Visual Voicemail (wherever I'd get that) and that I would lose all previous VMs.

Really? Xfinity's upgrades disable VM notifications?

I'm betting on 'user error' of some sort, although it's interesting that both phones have lost notifications.
SMS notifications work.

I'd love to learn any additional steps I might take, short of a new $1200 Samsung S23 Ultra.

TIA

DrCarl

I am unable to send or receive SMS text messages.
I have a Samsung Tab S5e.
I do not have a SIM card installed.
I use Wi-Fi for everything on this device and have used it for SMS for years.

Of course, I could enable “calls and texts from other devices” to use my phone’s connection.
All apps and the tablet itself are current with updates.
My internet connection is enabled and works fine for all other functions - on this and all other devices in the house.
Online advice asks me to contact my provider. Did that. No help.

Can anyone please help me re-enable SMS texting on my tablet?

This is new cute idle game about the world where cats sail on boats, from station to station and can catch various fantastic fish and other items.

Every child has dreamed of receiving or sending a letter in a bottle. It's so exciting when a stranger on the other side of the world can fetch that bottle and read the letter. We added this as one of the wonderful features in our game that we are excited about. You can read messages from other players and send your own. And you can also learn about the world by finding bottles with notes that tell the story of Among Water.

And the best part is that you can also meditate in the game. You can focus on your breathing, listen to soothing music, and enjoy the beautiful scenery. And you can experience the smooth change of day and night, which makes the game even more beautiful. You can watch the sunrise and sunset, the stars and the moon, and the different colors of the sky and the water.There is also the possibility of different customization. You can improve the boat, open new technologies, stations, change the appearance of the player.

We created Among Water with a vision: to make a game that is not only fun and engaging, but also relaxing and healing. We believe that games can be more than just entertainment, they can also be art and therapy.

Unfortunately, we did not have time to add to the game all the features that wanted, such as delivery of parcels from one station to another, but we will continue to work on the game and try as soon as possible to add a lot of cool features which wanted.I hope that our game will make you smile, wonder, and relax.

I hope that it will be more than just a game for you, it will be a friend. I'll be very interested to hear your thoughts on the game, what you like and what you lack.

Download for free on the Google Play - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tapteek.amongwater

Screenshots

I just noticed that Canadian Football is on CBSSN tonight 7/15/2023 at 7pm CST. Calgary Stampeders vs Saskatchewan Roughriders

TRUECALLER HOW CAN I FIND OUT YOUR SECRET PROFILE OF CONTACTS

Hello, today my smartphone Xiaomi Redmi 10 got hacked. I'm sure bc i was working when i got a Twitter notify about my tweet. The tweet contained a photo stored in the gallery. The phone nn can't access the camera, select the photo, choose in which app to share, send with messsage and reply, then. i got HACKED!
I'm not using my phone on porn site or something else. I just use for social media (Telegam, Whatapps, Twitter), to check mail e phone call. So, as im not trusting anymore Android, there is a way to install another (stable OS) to my smatphone? i tried Ubuntu mobile, but seems my Xiaomi is not supportaded

In the last couple days, I have been unable to take a screenshot. It doesn't matter if I'm in Chrome, on my homepage, or on any app...I get an "Unable to take screenshot due to security".
I can't find any setting that would change screenshot settings. Any help would be appreciated!
Samsung S20 Ultra 5G

Hello All!
My Moto G Stylus using Android 11 has some files in the Files app that I don't recognize. They are under "Downloads" and in "Documents & Other".

In Downloads, there is a zip file called 2023-07-14 02-53-13.zip. I did not click on it because I don't know where the enclosed files will land on the phone.

In Documents & Other, there are several dates with files under the dates. A screen shot of one page is attached.
Example File Names in the most recent date: DB_SONGS_LOG, PCs_M_2019, etc.
Example File Names in an Older One: 117173, 117174, Etc. Those are all numbers. When I hover, a pop-up says December 1979. (Before cell phones!)

Clicking any file asks me if I want to open it in Garmin Connect or in Magic Earth- even the one that says Musicolet Backup.
Using Garmin, I get a message: "Unable to open course". I don't have any courses saved in Garmin. If I choose Magic Earth, a blank page shows up.

Do any of you know what these files are & if I can ditch them?
Also, is there a way to prevent these- assuming they are not important?

Thank You for helping me figure this out!
Paul

Currently my app have '$' in name but when I try to upgrade my build to sdk 33 hit error and when remove the dollar sign it fixed.
Im using cordova-android 11. Anyone have any ideas ?

I have a Samsung S23 (Android 13, of course). I get a bunch of notifications from apps (and often don't clear them), and when I get a new one that I still have the sound enabled for, I have to scroll through the list to find it (if I'm lucky, sometimes I don't find it). It's a real pain because it typically isn't even near the top, and they're displayed in a seemingly random order. Is there some setting or app that gets Android to always display the newest notification on top in chronological order? Thanks.

I just got a new phone and it seems it only want to charge if i charge on new-boot otherwise it will not... Strange isn't?

In VLC app settings> advanced> under developer there's "Verbose" and it's enabled/checked, what is this settings? do I need it or should I disable/uncheck it?

It looks as though the rest of the world will not be getting the One UI 5.1.1 Beta that has been rolled out to the Korean devices, F936N, after all.

Instead, it is rumoured that an Android 14 One UI 6.0 Beta will be released in the next week or so by Samsung to their flagship phones and will be in 2 stages.

Phase 1 will include Korea, Germany and the U.S.A.

Phase 2 will be for the U.K., India, Poland and China.

See...

Samsung One UI 6.0 beta: Check if it will come to your country​