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Texting a contact list from Android to iPhone

Hi, I have created a group contact list (8 contacts are in this group). I have tried to send this list to everyone in the group. Unfortunately the people with iPhones only receive the 1st contact's Vcard. Those with Androids receive the whole list.
Here are the steps I use:
Open contacts
Choose intended group
Click on 3 vertical dots on top right
Chose "Share" from dots drop down list
Choose "All" on top left
Then at bottom of screen I choose "Share"
I then chose my texting app icon (Message+)
Then I fill in the "to" section with those I want to share the group list with.

Is there a way I can make sure iPhone users receive the whole list without having to download an extra app on either side?

Thanks in advance!

Upside down question mark appearing where a return/enter should be in some texts

I am using Samsung 9 on Verizon. I also tried texting on a Samsung 10+ and the recipient saw it happen as well

I have just recently found out that when I send texts to some users with iPhones and also samsung note 9 on AT&T, they will sometimes see upside down question Mark's where I pressed return. I even had a report of one seeking this who was on consumer cellular.

I have tried using the Messages+ app and the native messages app.

Does anyone know of a fix for this? I have searched the forums and did not find anything.
Please help!!

Thank you

Oppo A1K BUG: Google Contacts Notes Field Limitation Of 1000 Characters

In Oppo A1k android phone whenever someone tries to add a google contacts notes exceeding 1,000 characters limit, the remaining data in that contacts notes field gets truncated or deleted.

For example, if I create a new contact in my mobile phone and try to add more than 1,000 characters note in the Google Contacts Notes field, it does not let me go beyond that limit.

Please note that this limitation is phone manufacturer specific since I can easily add more characters (beond 1,000) in Google Contacts’ Notes field via Google’s web interface on any computer desktop or laptop/notebook at;

https://contacts.google.com

Phone Model: Oppo A1k CPH1923 (Android 9 Pie Kernel4.9.117 and ColorOS 6.0.1)

Apps Permanently remove discoverability check while turning ON/OFF BlueTooth on Android

Hi everyone!

I'm developing an Android app that is thinked to run for long periods of time. At certain moments I need to communicate with some Blutooth devices (both 3.0 and BLE) so the idea is to switch ON the BlueTooth when I need and then turning it OFF for the rest of time.

My problem come when I turn the BT ON and an alert always pops us saying about the discoverability of my device, and I wish to remove this alert.

Searching around for a solution, I tried using intents :

Intent discoverableIntent = new Intent(BluetoothAdapter.ACTION_REQUEST_DISCOVERABLE);
discoverableIntent.putExtra(BluetoothAdapter.EXTRA_DISCOVERABLE_DURATION, 0);
startActivityForResult(discoverableIntent, GlobalConfiguration.REQUEST_DISCOVERABLE);


and also reflection:

BluetoothAdapter bluetoothAdapter = BluetoothAdapter.getDefaultAdapter();
Method method;
try {

method = bluetoothAdapter.getClass().getMethod("setScanMode", int.class, int.class);
method.invoke(bluetoothAdapter, BluetoothAdapter.SCAN_MODE_CONNECTABLE_DISCOVERABLE, 0);
}
catch(Exception e) {

e.printStackTrace();
}


both unsuccessfully, standing that after BT state switch from ON -> OFF -> ON, the dialog about the discoverability comes up again.

There's a way to remove this alert forever, also after an ON/OFF of the BlueTooth?!

Thanks in advance

Dark mode

The last 2 nights around 8pm certain applications have gone dark mode. I don't know why. Instagram. Google search bar fir example
I'm on Android 9. Huawei p20 v9.1. I cannot see any settings for this

It did randomly a few months ago then stopped after a reboot

Each morning switches back to light mode.

Any ideas?

Get my album art back

Just upgraded my Samsung Galaxy S10 to Android 10 ("Q") the other day, and now I've lost all the album cover art that didn't come with Amazon Music downloads. I used to use Album Art Grabber but it doesn't work on Android 10, and the developer seems to have abandoned it.

My music is on the SD card, and whatever cover art I've downloaded apart from Amazon is in the gallery or Google Photos.
Any way to get my cover art back?

how to reset encrypted messages and block numbers

my sister has this blue life pure xl phone and she let her kids text with it and they somehow encrypted some messages. she is not a phone wis but i told her i would try to help. she is running out of space so her phone tells her and so we looked and a bunch of messages are locked and require a password. i looked in all the setting i could and i did not see any place to unlock these, so maybe there is some kind of default password or will she have to do a complete factory reset? one of the youger guys claims there is nothing she can do, but i think as a last resort she can factory reset it and all these will be gone. or does google reset them after a factory reset?

oh also she said she is getting tons of robo calls and i tried to set up blocking the numbers, but i did not see that either. so is that possible to do on that model phone. i have an lg phone and i can do that on mine, but i could not find that option on her phone. thanks

Video playback - grey sheen

Hi guys,

When I watch a movie on my Android Media box, whether it be on Netflix or say, Cinema HD for example, I seem to have an issue with the contrast. While I’m navigating around the menus using s wireless mouse, everything is fine, only when a video/movie starts to play the screen appears to lose its depth and richness only to have almost like a grey sheen appear over the picture. It’s certainly more prevalent over black, as it then becomes like a dark grey. However, when I click the left mouse button during playback to activate the player menu the colour returns to normal until the menu disappears and its back to the grey sheen again.

It’s become somewhat of an irritation. I’ve been through all the settings and I don’t appear to find anything that prevents this. Any thoughts or fixes? Thanks in advance!

How to get rid of voicemail app

I have an S7 Edge on Sprint. It has the stupid voicemail app installed. How can I get rid of it - it won't let me uninstall it? Or is there some way I can get the standard voicemail notification back - so when there is a a VM, I can pull down the status bar and just dial into my voicemail? I could live with the app if it didn't have the stupid ads. But I'd really prefer to get rid of it.

I've seen some posts around that say you can go into your sprint account and remove visual voicemail from your account features, but I don't have that option anywhere.

Google Pay not working

Hello,

I have a new Alcatel 3 2019. I have moved for an iPhone that I used for many years. Sadly upon setting up Google Pay with the directions, it does not seem to work when placed on a payment terminal. I wanted to know if I am missing something. NFC is turned on and I was in the Google Pay app.

Thank you and all the best,
All the best

Questions about my new 3a...

Just ordered (out of stock at my store) my first Google phone, the Pixel 3a.

I have several questions I'm hoping you can answer since I'll not be getting the phone until at least Tuesday:

Instead of having photos upload directly to the Cloud (at high resolution instead of original resolution), can you set the phone up so it saves your pictures/videos to the camera in original resolution instead of them automatically uploading? Then I can just upload them to my computer hard drive at original resolution.

How much does the Cloud cost if I want to have everything uploaded at original resolution?

Does Google Play (what I use to play all the music I've downloaded to my phone) come pre-installed on the 3a?

What case do you use to protect your 3a?

Thanks for any and all help!!!

TripleB67

I want to return phone and stop service

Bought a phone it worked one day. . Was going to allow replacement until I read in here is be getting a refurbished used one,,,, less then 30 days port in it doesn't even charge... Paid 60 for service I can't use.. .u know y'all comments show that y'all are not willing to pay a couple bucks for shipping on your end and don't care that we buy phones new and your saying we get USED PHONES on top of it all. Thank God I found how you really roll all go elsewhere.

Can't move any apps to sd card

I have a Motorola G7 Power. It has 32 GB of internal storage. I bought a 128 SD card. First I formatted it as phone storage. After doing this, I could move apps to the SD card. But what was weird is if I went into a file manager, it couldn't see the SD card. It didn't recognize the space at all. Also the camera app didn't allow me to save pictures to it. I just reformatted the SD card as external storage. Now the camera app allows me to save pictures to it and I can see the storage in a file manager as a separate storage location. But now I can't move any app to the SD card. Any ideas how I can move apps to the SD card or am I just stuck with one or the other?

How do I tell if a file is on my local storage or the SD card?

I have a Motorola G7 Power phone. It only has 32 GB of internal storage. I'm trying to figure out how to move pics and videos to the SD card. But when I open any file manager, it only shows I have one storage location that has the 32 GB free. I can't find a file manager that allows me to see both the internal storage and the SD card. The SD card was formatted as phone storage.

Android 10 - home screen

Hi
I recently updated my phone to android 10 and a few changes appeared in the home screen that make use a litle uncomfortable
1. When i sweep between home screens from the last to the first (circularly) the background image jump to the start and its not nice to the eye
2. I cannot create a new screen to add more shortcut, is there any option to do that?

Thanks

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