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Help Recover WhatsApp conversations

I have a cell phone (Samsung J7 2016) that was formatted to be factory set. (without backing up in google drive whatsapp) As I read, in addition to being able to make a copy on drive, Whatsapp backups are made every day, and are saved in the SD. The fact is that in this phone they are not stored there, but in the internal memory of the cell phone, which, when formatted, erases everything.

Is there any way to recover that data?

[WatchFace] Lights Watch Face

Hi,

I released a new watch face: Lights Watch Face

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fr.thema.wear.watch.lights

As always, free to try, but if you like the design, you can unlock more features as a premium user.

You can customize a lot of settings with the free version: colors, date, format, etc...

The premium unlocks the custom data, complications, custom shortcuts, secondary timezone, and a lot more!

I hope that you will like it!

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Frustratingly Close To Amazing

I've played this a few different times now. It's 100% entertaining but incredibly frustrating at the same time.

The AI has an amazing ability to reply with comments and story-building narrative that directly relates to your input but this only works about 50% of the time. The other 50% of time the responses make absolutely no sense or lead in a weird direction.

I haven't used the option to "revert" and change the story but I'm wondering if the AI would be better off indicating to the user that the response was not understood and ask them to try inputting something else? I'd rather be told to try again than have a bad story and either go down a boring dead end or give up.

Will definitely play a bit more and would be fascinated to learn the tech behind building each of these stories. Anybody know more?

Installing Malware in AVD

Just out of curiosity, if I were to install Android malware in the Android studio AVD on my Windows 10 machine, could it spread to my PC? This might be a stupid question because Android applications can't run natively on Windows but with the complex malware these days I just wanted to make sure. I'm doing this to explore how certain malware works. Thanks in advance.

Help Need an instruction to fix my hard bricked samsung galaxy s(SC-02B)

All of this happen because I want to upgrade it into Android 4.4 (Kitkat).
1.I successfully downgraded into stock rom/firmware (froyo) by Odin.
2.I upgraded into custom rom/firmware (gingerbread) by samsung kies.
3.I root a wrong root, it's for I9000 by Odin,caused it become boot stuck,but able to fix it by wiping caches & other etc.
4.I root a correct root for SC-02B,but don't know why it make my phone soft bricked,I tried wiping caches & other etc,it doesn't work.
5.So I decided to downgraded it into stock rom/firmware,but it make more worst, it re-partitioned finished but the PIT files,it doesn't even begin to flashing it stuck for 10 mins.
6.I close Odin,remove the battery,& unpluged the usb.That what happen to my phone,it can only charge to a wall charger.A few weeks later I bought a very cheap JIG ordered from internet,it gave nothing but a heat to my phone, no download mode.So please anyone whoever encounter with this situation,please give a guide or instructions to fix my phone thank you.

Speeder Bike Racing

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Hey guys - I would like to introduce to you Speeder Bike Racing - a free and extremely fast hovercraft racing game for Android.

It was inspired by the speeder bike chase on endor from the famous space opera and was designed to provide that sense of high-speed maneuvering through dense forests on mobile devices. The speeder bike turns by tilting your phone left and right.

Play store link:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=speederbike.racing

[APP] [FREE] Horizon: All Format-HD video player

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Video Player All Format – HD Video Player is one of the best video player apps, with superb graphics, and good interaction design. It’s different from other video player apps because it supports all video formats and smart features like Sleep Alarm and jump to time. Discover our professional video playback tool now, and Play HD, full HD & 4k videos smoothly.

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Calling fellow old geezers!

I have a serious question about old TV shows, and it's best answered by geezers even older than me. :eek: (I grew up in the '60s and '70s.)

I'm thinking of shows like Perry Mason, The Andy Griffith Show, Gilligan's Island, Gomer Pyle USMC, The Dick van Dyke Show and others of that era. Some I watched in real time, others later in reruns. Adult men and women--and I mean mature adults in their 30s, 40s, and beyond--are shown in lives completely devoid of sex.

For example, on TAGS, Andy and Barney were in long-term, committed relationships with Helen and Thelma Lou, respectively. In an episode I watched today, three of those characters' actors were in their 40s.

As a child, completely naive, with no clue about sex, watching these shows and seeing nothing more than hand-holding and [usually off-screen] kissing, made sense to me as the way people in love showed affection. [Note that my parents divorced when I was very young; I grew up with my mother and grandmother--neither of whom ever dated.] Ending dates at the front door, with a peck on the cheek, seemed perfectly realistic to me! But did it to people who were old enough to know about sex? :thinking:

Back then, did 40-something, unmarried couples really act like that? Was that realistic behavior to adults watching at the time? Did they believe that 40+-year-old Barney and Thelma Lou weren't having sex? Or 40+ Sgt Carter (Gomer Pyle) and his long-time girlfriend, Bunny?

I know why they were portrayed as being strictly platonic, i.e., the network censors and the morés of the time, but did adult viewers really BUY that these characters led sexless lives?

Strange glitches

Hey y'all.

My LG Stylo 4 (LM-Q710TS) keeps clutching out. Small but very annoying glitches.
  • Wallpaper resets to default
  • Looping home screen setting keeps turning off
  • Keyboard won't stay onscreen very long.
  • Internet blinks(?)
  • Screen blinks
Basically my whole phone glitches out and resets little things.

Any ideas as to why this might be happening?

With all being said and done if I have to replace this phone, can someone recommend a good phone with at least the following features.
  1. FM tuner
  2. Built-in casting
  3. MHL capable
  4. Easy to root with need of PC

Cannot send MMS to Out-Of-Country Providers

1) Have Pixel 3a. Problem also present on my old Pixel 2
2) Using T-Mobile
3) Send MMS to phones with providers based in US (T-Mobile US,Verizon,AT&T etc) while I'm in the US-> No Problem
4) Send MMS to phones with providers based in US (T-Mobile US,Verizon,AT&T etc) while I'm OUTSIDE the US -> No problem
5) Send MMS to phones with providers based in the US while BOTH phones are OUTSIDE US -> No Problem
6) Receive MMS from phones based in US and Europe -> No problem, regardless of whether they are inside or outside their country of origin.

7) Send MMS to phones based in Europe (Vodaphone, O2, Orange, SFR etc) -> IMPOSSIBLE!

Basically, if the recipient of my MMS is using a phone from a European provider, they cannot receive MMS from my phone. They can send me MMS to me no problem.

Bonus info -> If I take my SIM card out of my phone and put it in an iPhone using T-Mobile, NO PROBLEM sending MMS to European-based phones.

Notes:
Calls and regular texts (SMS)-> No problems sending/receiving anywhere in US and Europe
T-Mobile network engineering has been ALL OVER the phone's settings.
Tried third-party messaging (textra), same problem

Loop:
T-Mobile -> It's a problem with the manufacturer (firmware?), contact HTC
HTC-> It's a problem with Google Pixel, contact Google.
Google -> It's a problem with T-Mobile, contact T-Mobile

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