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​

Yo guys, hi, I have an S5830i Samsung ACE phone, I accidently bricked it before, I uploaded anything with correct order but not working (this time its stuck at boot animation looping instead of logo but it can show charging animation) I noticed that the guy I watched didnt use bootloader, can someone give me an bootloader for it so I can slap it onto my Odin3 and fix this phon

Yesterday a new option appeared on my phone when I was trying to send files
It was rows of microsoft details.
They were never there before Iand I haven't added or changed anything
Can you help as I don't expect to use them?

My old high school buddies and I keep a running group text to about 8 people. Periodically someone asks to be added or removed which then spawns a new group text with that person removed/added. The problem with that is people don't always look closely and use the old group text instead of the newly created one.

Is there a way to setup a single group text that you can add or delete members without creating a new group text?
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Backed up my entire 3A using "builtin" backup ; I marked to backup everything including APPS.

I see the whole backup (including APPS) on my Google Drive

But no matter how I try to restore, the apps never get restored.

Anyone???

Searching for an answer I found that supposedly Chrome could be set up to respond to the Google assistant, but I don't see it.

My gripe is that the Google app doesn't have the option to "Add to Home Screen".

After trying the Wear OS versions they felt a lot like downgrades. Oh they were fast, were OK on battery (not great) but there were things I didn't like.

1. They look like smartwatches, not like actual watches. I am far more into vintage looks and that shows with the outfits I wear, trying to live it up like it's 1958. A watch that looks like a smartwatch, or the Samsung version of an Apple Watch (because let's face it, nobody is gonna see an Apple watch and assume it's a real mechanical watch) clashes with my preferred look and outfit. The original Galaxy Watch looks like a watch, as in a real watch, and they sure don't make 'em like that anymore. Even the default watch face is heavily skeuomorphic and has a second hand movement that looks mechanical, even a ticking sound when putting it near your ear.

2. I prefer Tizen over Wear OS. Hey, I gave it a chance, and yes, Wear OS is far better than the mess 2.x was a few years ago. Unfortunately there are downsides. One, I HATE the app drawer layout. Tizen has a better one that works best with a round display and you can use the bezel to scroll it. Also, you can see the names of apps when using the bezel, and don't have to decipher some of the more cryptic ones that are on a Wear OS version. Also, there's app badges for notifications. I always preferred app badges on the icons over a notification centre, especially when the ones on both Tizen and Wear OS are broken most of the time, showing 'no notifications' when there are notifications, or showing outdated notifications. Also, Tizen's notifications can be completely viewed, while on Wear OS, a lot of them are trimmed, and tapping the notification produces 'check your phone'. I mean, can I please read the complete text message via the notification please? without my phone? That's why I wear the watch--to keep phone in pocket when I'm away from home. The watch makes it convenient to read a quick text, respond, or see the beginning of an email. Which brings me to the next complaint--an email notification doesn't show anything and tapping it also produces 'check phone' instead of letting me at least read the first few sentences of the email or the subject. Tizen's battery life is double that of Wear OS. I also prefer Tizen's keyboard, since it allows me to type a sentence with an emoji all at once. With Wear OS, it only let me send emoji only, or words only. I couldn't type this "hey babe I love you 😍"anymore. I had to type "hey babe I love you" then in a separate text send the "😍". Also, the Gboard has lousy predictive text. It also can't suggest an emoji. Samsung's Tizen keyboard has learned my habits so much it pretty much knows what I'm gonna say before I say it, meaning most messages I send are one-tap quickies that show up on the predictive portion entirely. Meaning I don't have to T9 most of the time.

3. the apps. I don't really need a ton of apps on the watch. It's just a convenient way to see notifications, send/receive texts, get email alerts, see the weather, get a glimpse of my health data, and control music. I don't WANT Google apps on my watch, and on my phone I tend to prefer Samsung's own apps over Google's. I actually love Bixby and for myself it works not only better than the Google Assistant but it can do far more than the Google Assistant. I know Bixby exists on Wear OS but I also want the Galaxy Store and other Samsung apps on the watch. I don't need Play Store or the far more limited selection of watch faces, plus, on Wear OS, all those fancy faces I purchased on the Galaxy Store aren't available. The watch face selection is crap on Wear OS, plus I hate having separate, redundant 'companion apps' on my phone for every face it does offer. Why is that still a thing?

4. "Check your phone" this comes up far more often than I feel it should on Wear OS. Even tapping an email notification produces it. I wear the watch to avoid extra screen time on my phone and to keep it safe in my pocket when out. I don't WANT to check my phone just to see the beginning of an email, the entire text message, and so on.

5. Downgraded app experience vs. Tizen. Spotify can't download, can't add tracks or search for specific songs on Wear OS's version, but it can on the Tizen version. There is also severely degraded standalone capability on the Wear OS watches.

6. I want my watch to be 'no longer supported'. I hate updates. I hate being bugged by them, nagged to install them, and forced to accept them. The OG Galaxy Watch no longer gets updates, but works fine. It can do what I ask of it and never bother me with another update ever again. On the modern watches, if there's an OTA update, the phone constantly shows a pop-up asking to install it multiple time a day. There's no 'leave me alone and let me enjoy my watch' button. You can disable auto-download on wifi, but it still bugs you on both the phone and the watch about it either way.

7. Samsung should have kept developing Tizen. Let's face it, we need competition otherwise we stifle innovation. We already have Wear OS. Why must Samsung start using it? Let's have more competition out there, please. Nothing wrong with it. Losing Tizen means less of that, and more and more homogenization. There's room for many OSs out there, not just one or two.

I'm gonna rock this watch until it ceases to function. I don't believe in obsolescence and I keep stuff until it breaks. Unless 5G ever dies off, I'm also hoping my Z Flip 4 works until I'm dead and gone. I don't see or understand the 'upgrade' of Wear OS. I can use Samsung Pay, Bixby, SMS, email, weather, Samsung Health, and get a great selection of watch faces just fine on the Tizen watch. What am I missing that would warrant buying a watch that I don't like? What does Wear OS do that I cannot do? From my short time with it, it seemed to do far less. It had more Google clutter, I wasn't certain a software update wouldn't remove Bixby one day, and it had no Samsung Email app or Galaxy Store app. The app drawer was a massive downgrade, and the rotating bezel seemed less utilized than it should be. It required 'checking your phone' far too much. Maybe everyone else out there wants their phone in their hand or in their face everywhere they go, but not me.

I was using Google Assistant to create reminders. I also used the Assistant to delete them.

Then I got this suggestion when I opened it up to switch to Google Tasks to manage them.

Now , when I try to delete the reminders, although the Assistant responds that they have been deleted, none are deleted.

Also, on the Google Tasks page, the option to delete all "completed" task does not work.

I am somehow supposed to use some voice command to evoke the Google task manager to do this?

If not, how can I revert back to the Google Assistant?

When I'm outside, the light make my screen practically "invisible" for lack of a better term.

Is there something I can about this? I have a phone case covering it.

Just bought a Galaxy Watch 5 and interested in tips on how to do things like customize watch faces, track laps in the pool (accurately), track walking, hiking, biking, pickleball. And any other fun things you've learned. Now, I'm in no way an athelete, I just like to have fun, so not really interesting in being "THE BEST I CAN BEEEE!!" Just wanna know how I'm doing in a general sorta way like accurate lap counts, good duration time, calories counts, etc. Thanks!

Oh! Had a Gear 2, 3, Galaxy Watch previously and made faces on GWS. Not a newbie.

Has anyone had problems recording phone calls on a Pixel 6 Pro with its internal speaker on using a PC voice recording app and an external mic?

PS... I live in a state with “single-party consent”.

Wife had an old tablet. Battery would last about an hour. She bought a Pixel Tablet. It's really thin and light weight. The audio is really good. I wish it had a stylus and it's a bit pricey. Happy wife, happy life.

Hi.

This night I went to sleep, left my Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 charging, and when woke up the phone was off, with the white light on. When tried to turn on, it stays in the Mi.com logo. So I think its a soft brick.

For adittional info: Lately the phone was slow, with storage at high.

Looking for answerings, I went through some tutorials. But I would like to maintain my data. The usual stuff as photos, and some info that is into a note app.

Saying that, the things arent looking well, since I never changed my OS and anything, so its probably with its bootloader locked.

I found this portuguese tutorial:

Basically it says where to download image and some files. Install adb. Enter the fastboot mode in the phone (I was able to do that) and some commands to execute in cmd. They are:

fastboot flash xbl xbl.elf
fastboot flash xblbak xbl.elf
fastboot flash tz tz.mbn
fastboot flash tzbak tz.mbn
fastboot flash rpm rpm.mbn
fastboot flash rpmbak rpm.mbn
fastboot flash hyp hyp.mbn
fastboot flash hypbak hyp.mbn
fastboot flash pmic pmic.elf
fastboot flash pmicbak pmic.elf
fastboot flash keymaster keymaster.mbn
fastboot flash keymasterbak keymaster.mbn
fastboot flash cmnlib cmnlib.mbn
fastboot flash cmnlibbak cmnlib.mbn
fastboot flash cmnlib64 cmnlib64.mbn
fastboot flash cmnlib64bak cmnlib64.mbn
fastboot flash mdtpsecapp mdtpsecapp.mbn
fastboot flash mdtpsecappbak mdtpsecapp.mbn
fastboot flash modem NON-HLOS.bin
fastboot flash dsp dspso.bin
fastboot flash bluetooth BTFM.bin
fastboot flash storsec storsec.mbn
fastboot flash storsecbak storsec.mbn
fastboot flash devcfg devcfg.mbn
fastboot flash devcfgbak devcfg.mbn
fastboot flash abl abl.elf
fastboot flash ablbak abl.elf
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash vendor vendor.img
fastboot flash userdata userdata.img
fastboot flash mdtp mdtp.img
fastboot flash cache cache.img
fastboot flash splash splash.img
fastboot erase ddr
fastboot erase misc
fastboot erase apdp
fastboot erase msadp
fastboot flash cust cust.img
rem fastboot erase config
fastboot reboot

Looking at these commands, it looks like it will wipe the data, with the command:

fastboot flash userdata userdata.img

So, if I remove this command, and try to execute the rest, it should flash the rom and dont wipe the data?
Or it can cause some more problems to the phone?

What would you guys suggest to me to get out of this situation, preferencly with my data?

Thanks.

In my company we have custom software that runs off of android tablets. this last batch is samsung active pro 4 10 inch tablets. they run in vehicles, so we have a usb c hub providing power, ethernet and a serial usb connection. I can tell that our ethernet bridge is up, but it seems like it is taking 5-10 minutes sometimes for the tablet to show that the ethernet is providing a connection. My only thought is that the tablet only checks that connection for internet every few minutes. So if the tablet checked for a connection at 10am, radio came back online 15 seconds later, the tablet wouldnt check again for 5 minutes. is there a way i can force the tablet to check more often? our drivers are frustrated that they have to wait. i'd like to say that we would put in a cbrs network or fully mesh wifi in these locations, but some of these outdoor sites are over a mile long, and in the past we've been able to accomplish our connection requirements w one main ap for the trucks and ethernet bridges, so i'd like to avoid adding 60 radios to manage on each site.

Thanks for any ideas!

My phone has been locked for fifteen days because I added a Google account to the factory reset settings. It has become linked to only one account, and I have forgotten all its information. Do you have a way to solve this problem, as shown in the picture, a Google account after a Victory reset? I want a solution, thank you

My original thread title (question) was: Why don't voice recorder PC apps record callers' voices when the phone is on speaker?

However, I would not be surprised in the least if Google modified callers' voices broadcast from the Pixel's speaker to prevent their voices from being recorded by PC voice recorder apps.

I look forward to your comments, thought, theories, and facts!

Thanks!

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Here are the particulars...

• Phone: Pixel 6 Pro with Android Version 13
• PC: 64-bit HP Envy x360 with Windows 11 Home Edition Version 10.0.22621 Build 22621
• Mic: Kingston HyperX Solocast Model SLC001
• Apps
  
  • Stefan "Heufneutje" Frijters' Audio and Voice Recorder Version 2.1.0
  • Microsoft Sound Recorder Version 11.2304.25.0
  • Audacity 3.3.1
• Recording and Playback Behaviour
  
  • The sound level meters in all three apps report suitable sound levels for me and the callers whose voices are being broadcast from the phone's speaker.
  • Suitable sound levels for the callers and me are achieved by carefully positioning the mic relative to the phone's speaker and my mouth.
  • During playback, my voice is crisp and clear, but the callers' voices are essentially inaudible, and during the very brief periods of time when the callers' voices were detectable, their speech was incomprehensible.
    
    
    
    
    
    

Samsung's 10th Android 13 update has started to roll out for the Fold4 international devices, F936B. bringing with it the July Security patch.

Build number = F936BXXS3CWF3

Build date = 26 June 2023

Android Security patch = 01 July 2023

Download size = 400.95 MB

Camera version = 13.1.00.32


It is a FOTA, (Firmware Over The Air), update and you can check... Settings > Software update... to see if it is available for you. Alternatively, you can connect to the Samsung PC suite, Smart Switch and check via that.


System information


See, also... Wipe Cache Partition, Repair apps & Galaxy App Booster

Which, if any, of the following has otg: Samsung Zfold 3, Samsung A02s, Moto G Play (2021), Blu B140DL? That last is the government version, no sd card. I would like to.get powered otg cable(s) and be able to connect directly to that Toshiba 2 tb portable hard drive, but it makes no sense to incur the expense f none of them has the capability.

I love the phone but I hate the battery life. Is there a way get an upgraded battery? I have the stock battery in it.

My wife has Samsung A22, just recently she has this notification popping up (see attachment), it is trying to get her to download antivirus from a website. As you can see she already has AVG installed on her phone. I ran the AVG but it did not get rid of it, if you clear the notification, it comes back immediately.
How can I get rid of this?

So Google Translate on Android reqwires you from the app itself to download the language that you want to translate to/from? so it's and not like Google Translate from a a browser that doesn't need to download anything?

Can someone please post a screenshot or mention the default gallery albums settings? I messed around with the settings and want to have them back to their defaults.

My OS is the latest version.

Thank you