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Fold4 - JULY update

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
CWF3 JULY UPDATE Screenshot_20230712_112610_Settings.jpg


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

Who's got the otg?

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.

Annoying notification

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?

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  • Poll Poll
Which brand of Android phones do you think is the best?

Which brand of Android phones do you think is the best?

  • Samsung

    Votes: 8 61.5%
  • Xiaomi

    Votes: 3 23.1%
  • Noki

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Honor

    Votes: 1 7.7%
  • OnePlus

    Votes: 3 23.1%
  • oppo

    Votes: 2 15.4%
  • vivo

    Votes: 1 7.7%
  • Lenovo,

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Asus,

    Votes: 1 7.7%
  • Google,

    Votes: 2 15.4%

Which brand of Android phones do you think is the best?
Samsung, Xiaomi, Huawei, Honor, OnePlus, oppo, vivo, Lenovo, Asus, Google, realme, Redmi, iqoo, Nokia, Motorola, Sony, ZTE

Amazon Prime Day July 11-12

so Prime Day is starting in a few hours.

anybody planning on getting anything during the event?

for me i'm not sure, i'm just gonna see what is out there and what kind of deals can be had. i'm thinking something like a bluetooth meat thermometer.

what are you getting?

Cheapest Used Phone With Great Camera

I want an Internet-connected camera with the best quality at the lowest price. I do NOT want to connect the camera to a mobile network. I will attach it to the Internet through a local WAN.

My actual use case for this will be doing time lapse photos of various parts of my yard, trying to understand how the sun hits particular seating areas throughout the day, at different times of year. I will put the phone on a tripod and let the time lapse do its thing.

Given that I do not need or want the expense of a monthly mobile phone network charge, what would be some of the best options in a used phone for this application?

"Content is not allowed in prolog error" despite valid XML

I recently changed my project to a Compose app. I safely deleted my now redundant fragments and their XML files, and removed all references to them.

Now when I try and build my file, it crashes with the error:

Code:
Execution failed for task ':app:extractDeepLinksDebug'.
> org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 1; columnNumber: 1; Content is not allowed in prolog.

The only XML file I changed that still exists is my main acitivity XML, and it is correct. I opened it in a basic text editor and there are no invisible characters. I manually deleted the caches from the .android and .gradle folders, and deleted my build folder. I'm still getting this error. What are other possible reasons for it? Here is my XML file:

Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:paddingTop="?android:attr/actionBarSize"
    android:id="@+id/content">
    <androidx.compose.ui.platform.ComposeView
        android:id="@+id/main_compose"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"/>
</androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout>

And here are the first of hundreds of lines of stack trace:

Code:
    at org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.fatalError(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLScanner.reportFatalError(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl$PrologDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl.parse(Unknown Source)
    at com.android.utils.PositionXmlParser.parseInternal(PositionXmlParser.java:287)
    at com.android.utils.PositionXmlParser.parseInternal(PositionXmlParser.java:236)
    at com.android.utils.PositionXmlParser.parse(PositionXmlParser.java:182)
    at com.android.utils.PositionXmlParser.parse(PositionXmlParser.java:98)
    at com.android.utils.PositionXmlParser.parse(PositionXmlParser.java:136)
    at com.android.manifmerger.NavigationXmlLoader.load(NavigationXmlLoader.kt:48)
    at com.android.build.gradle.tasks.ExtractDeepLinksTask.doTaskAction(ExtractDeepLinksTask.kt:92)
    at com.android.build.gradle.internal.tasks.NonIncrementalTask$taskAction$$inlined$recordTaskAction$1.invoke(BaseTask.kt:66)
    at com.android.build.gradle.internal.tasks.Blocks.recordSpan(Blocks.java:51)
    at com.android.build.gradle.internal.tasks.NonIncrementalTask.taskAction

I can only assume that perhaps some kind of reference remains to my deleted XML files, but I can't find any. Are there hidden files, and if so, how do I access them?

Make camera save photos to a project-specific place?

I am about to take a bunch of photos of stuff that belong together. The camera apparently saves all photos to a single location. Creating an album is something you have to do after the fact, in Gallery. This seems very disorganized to me and creates an unnecessary manual step with opportunity for errors.

What I would like is for every time I take a new picture, for that picture to be automatically associated with a specific project I selected beforehand - so the photo is placed automatically in a project-specific photo album or in a project-specific folder. Is this possible with some custom Camera app, maybe?

please help! "open camera" app removed the resolution of 176x144 in the newer devices, please help me bring it back

please help! "open camera" app removed the resolution of 176x144 in the newer devices, please help me bring it back



the "open camera" open source app uses the camera2 api for listing the avaliable photo resolutions, on older devices such as S8,S9 users had low resolutions such as 176x144 bit on the s20 and s22 that resolution isn't available.



if anyone could add that resolution to the newer devices would help everyone so much.

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What Software To Use To Remove Cookies

I'm looking for software to safely remove cookies put on my phone (I just went to a dictionary site and it immediately gave notification that it's putting cookies on the phone). My first thought was to use CCcleaner but I saw there is considerable concern about its safety (malware) and also damage its cleaning may do to the phone's files. Does anyone have experience with Avast/AVG Cleaner Pro/Cleanup Boost (I'm already using Avast Mobile Security)?

Trying to make a copy of an Android Studio Project

I'm trying to make a copy of an Android Studio Project. I did this once before in this project and it worked just fine. Basically I'm making a certain amount of successful progress on the project and then want to make a new copy of the project and work on that copy. And in case something goes seriously wrong with the subsequent work I'll have the prior version to go back to.

The problem is that I'm getting an error when trying to make a copy of my current version of the project.

As I had previously done, I right-click on the project, select Refactor, and then Copy Classes.

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That brings up a dialog where I slightly change the name (make 03 instead of 02) and I hit OK.

That starts the copy process and it goes through a whole slew of directories and folders but then an error message pops up:

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And the copying stops. The copying FAILS.

I check that directory and, indeed there's no such file. But why is it even looking for that file if no such file exists?

I had previously succeeded with doing this kind of project copy. Why is it failing now?

Is there a different way to make a copy of a project?

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Help Impossible to unlock my Redmi 9's BootLoader

Hello!
Could you help me?

I have a Xiaomi Redmi 9 that recently blocked the BootLoader thanks to FastBoot because I bought a new one and I wanted to leave it factory. This device had an old MI account that I associated with my phone. When the period of Xiaomi Cloud ended, I deleted it.

To block the BooLoader, I used the following command:
- fastboot oem lock

Now, I decided to give it another chance and thought I'd really squeeze it out. In order to do so, I thought of doing the following:

- Unlock the BootLoader (To be able to Root it)
- Root the device. (To take full advantage)

I enabled developer options, enabled the "OEM Unlock" option, and when I connected the device to my PC in FastBoot mode, I used the following command to try to unlock it:

- fastboot oem unlock

The error that appears to me is the following:

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I also tried to perform it with the MI Unlock tool. This was the result:

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In this picture, what is obscured is my old MI account ID.

Thank you for your attention!

Help My samsung A03S is rooted by who and what can i do they forwarded my msgs and calls.

So I bought a samsung A03S and a week after I lost it then I found it. I beginning to believe it was lost. When I found it I stopped getting calls and msgs, it was slower and I could hardly make phone calls. MMI codes don't work so I downloaded and device info app and it's saying the OS is rooted and most the pre installed apps are altered. This phone came out the box brand new so I no it had to of happened when I "lost" it. What can I do and can I find out by who?

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