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Lock screen widget for Notes

Hi All,

Have been looking to find a Notes Widget that is compatible for "lock screen" widgets but have been unable to find one or any threads relating to one. free ringtone

What I would really like is to have a little a notepad that will show up just under the clock on the lockscreen to remind me each time I look at my phone before unlocking of whatever I put there (things I need to get at the shop on the way home etc).

Anybody found one? Or has a workaround solution?
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Running HTC One M8 with KitKat 4.4.2

Always-on display turns off

The Always-on display of my LG V30 no longer works in the dark. Its very annoying for many reasons as you can imagine. The AOD works fine in a lighted area, but in total darkness, it shuts off. It used to work fine, but at some point it stopped, and I honestly don't know if happened as a result of an OS upgrade or app installation or what. Anyone have any suggestions?

IMEI doesn't match on FindMyPhone

Hi guys, I've come across a problem which i can't figure out, any insight would be greatly appreciated.

I am living in Pakistan. My Samsung Note 8 was recently stolen. I had bought it brand new last year.
So today, after searching the marking i bought a second hand Samsung Note 8 again. I'm not a big fan of buying used phones but i couldn't afford a new one.

The problem i'm facing is that, the box it came in has both the IMEIs numbers mentioned on it (it's a dual sim model). The IMEIs on the box matches the one printed on the back of the phone, as well as in the "About Phone" menu, and also matches when i dial *#06#. It matches in all three places.

BUT,
When i connected my google account to it, (a new account, not the old one) and as i pull up Find My Phone, you can see an info icon or ! next to the name of the phone which gives the device's details. There, it shows a different IMEI. It's different from both printed on my phone, the box, or even inside the phone.

The other issue bugging me is, When i enter imei printed on the phone/box/inside menu, into imei.info, the SN that shows up doesn't match the Sn printed on the phone, or in the menu.

But, again, when i enter the IMEI i get from Find My Phone into imei.info, it shows the SN as the one printed on my phone. Country and region also shows different for both IMEIs.

This is still bugging me, as i've also encountered a problem in updating the phone. The phone doesn't seem to update. Software Update isn't recognizing it. This initially lead me to investigate the issue.

Has anyone encountered this issue before? what could be the reason for the difference in IMEIs? Someone please explain this to me, thanks.

WiFi calling dropping out

I've got a signal issue at home which is resolved by using WiFi calling, however it doesn't seem to be stable with it staying active.

My wife has the same issue and we had to reboot yesterday as it dropped out and it stayed all day. However while driving home and calling my wife signal for her was terrible again only to find out that the WiFi calling had turned off, despite being in on settings. I've just checked mine and mine had gone as well. A reboot fixed it again but obviously keen to find out why we need to keep doing this. A bug of some form obviously.

Accounts help

I have multiple google accounts. I usually use one but decided I wanted to access the bookmarks from the other. I added the account, nothing. I removed my usual account, still nothing. I powered my phone off and back on, disabled and reenabled chrome, force stopped chrome, still using the account I "removed". Settings, play store, all my other apps show the account has been removed but chrome is still trying to use it and won't use the account I actually want

Photo Editor

I've been using the Aviary app on the advise of a photographer friend.
Now that it's support has ended and not much of the goodies are available what Android app do you all recommend?
The features I really appreciated most were the effects, frames, text and color splash. I am a total amateur, so easy will be appreciated. The other wish I'd like would be the invert effect. I'm working on family photos, some over 100 yrs old. Our frugal ancestors tended to use pencil to describe the photos on back. I use that to pick up indentions in the photo paper.
Thx,
Marti

Help Is there a way to do this?

I am new here but I figured I could come seeking help. Sorry if this is the wrong spot. I am trying to help someone I know set up his phone so no one can get into it. Basically his daughter steals his phone at night. Every time he changes the code his wife gives the daughter his code. So, he wants to set it up so that you either have to use both fingerprint/face and code or just the face. He doesn't want to lock every app and I was reading about an app locker with guest mode but he doesn't like that idea. He wants 2 locks on his phone or just his face so his daughter can't unlock it while he's sleeping. Thanks for the help.

Sd card

Hi, i want to ask. How can i fix my sd card that suddenly become unavailable. I try to put another sd card in my phone, and it completely fine. But the other one did not working. I did not get back up any files from the sd card yet. How can i fix my sd card?

Samsung Galaxy A Series opinions

I've got A 10 and one of my friends is also using A 10 . Both of us experiences really glitchy conditions on our phones. Especially, stuck and device lagging. Actually, I'm only making phone calls and texting using the phone and no heavy load on it. However, A 50 in the same product line works faster and performs well..Actually most of other friends do not have a good idea about A series..Is someone experience the same issue? Is this is a common issue on lower A models?

My galaxy a20 has different specs than officially stated specs

I bought a Samsung Galaxy a20 from MetroPCS I decided to put antutu and cpu-z on it to check the specs and Benchmark it the official American specifications state that the galaxy a20 has a exynos7884 processor. klingelton kostenlos
However antutu and cpu-z says I have a exynos 7885. Which is basically the same thing just clocked higher. Can anyone confirm what processor is actually in the a20?
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Help Can't find Play app (factory-resetted old tablet)

I just received an old tablet with Android 4.1.1 that the person who gave it to me said had hardly been used - just sitting around for years. I suspect that he did a factory reset on it (which is fine with me), because there are no downloaded apps on it. All I need it for is one app (Behringer X-Air, to run a digital audio mixer). But I don't see Google Play anywhere! How am I supposed to install the app?

The home screen is completely empty. Touching the six-dots icon in the corner, I see 17 apps, none of them even remotely resembling Google Play. In Settings -> Apps, sliding over to the All tab, the two that could be relevant are:
  • "Google Play Services" (green android icon, not the triangle icon Play Store usually has): It says "version 0" and all the storage numbers are "0.00B". Does that mean it's just a placeholder?
  • "Sound Search for Google Play" (triangle icon): It says "version 1.0.1", so that sounds like something real, but it also has 0.00B for all storage numbers.
Even if those apps really exist on the device, I see no way to run them from Settings. The only buttons available are "Force stop" and "Disable".

Among the apps listed when I touch the six-dots icon is ApkInstaller. In theory that could be used (I've never done it, though), and googling "apk behringer x-air" does reveal several APK repositories, but I have no idea if I can trust any of them. I suppose it's low risk, since there is no sensitive information on the tablet, and once I get this set up, the tablet won't even connect to the internet (just to the mixer's wifi). But still, I would like advice before trying that.

Help Data Switching Off.

Recently in the past 3 weeks I have had my data turn itself off. First time being down. I shut my phone off/restarted, airport mode, and went by a few hours believing it had to be my provider, come to find out it was toggled off. Now again tonight this has happened again, my data has managed to get turned off. I noticed because my screen didn't timeout and my display was still on. I picked up my phone to read a message regarding data service unavailable. This time knowing from the last time I checked and my data had been toggled off.
Anyone familiar with this, glitch/issue?

Apps How to handle errors in LiveData + MVVM + Retrofit?

Hi! I have a problem with handling errors from retrofit.
MainActivity:

Java:
private void initRecyclerView() {

    mProgressDialog = new ProgressDialog(this);
    recyclerView = binding.rvTasks;
    recyclerView.setLayoutManager(new LinearLayoutManager(this));
    adapter = new TaskAdapter();
    recyclerView.setAdapter(adapter);

    LiveData<Result<List<Task>>> result = viewModel.getTasks();

    result.observe(this, tasks -> handleTasks(tasks));

}

private void handleTasks(Result<List<Task>> tasks) {
    if (tasks.getError() != null)
        adapter.setTaskCollection(tasks.getResult());
    else {
        List<Task> list = new ArrayList<>();
        list.add(0, new Task(1, 1, "Title", "Body"));
        adapter.setTaskCollection(list);
    }
}
Result class:

Java:
public class Result<T> {

private final T result;
private final Throwable error;

private Result(@Nullable T result, @Nullable Throwable error) {
   this.result = result;
   this.error = error;
}

@NonNull
public static <T> Result<T> success(@NonNull T result) {
   return new Result(result, null);
}

@NonNull
public static <T> Result<T> error(@NonNull Throwable error) {
   return new Result(null, error);
}

@Nullable
public T getResult() {
   return result;
}

@Nullable
public Throwable getError() {
   return error;
}
And ViewModel:

Code:
public LiveData getTasks() {
   return LiveDataReactiveStreams.fromPublisher(
           Observable.just(retrofitApi.getTasks()
           .map(Result::success)
           .onErrorReturn(Result::error)
           .subscribeOn(Schedulers.io())
           .observeOn(AndroidSchedulers.mainThread()))
           .toFlowable(BackpressureStrategy.MISSING));
}
App crashed with ClassCastException. I know this exception, but don't know how to wrap data correctly?

Com.motorola.lifetimedata

Does anyone happen to know what ""Com.motorola.lifetimedata" means in google activity?
Any info would be tremendously appreciated, caught spose cheating about a year ago and old behaviors are resurfacing. Her "tells" if you will and we have kids and she put fake xharge on me before to assert her will because i won custody so criminilyzing me for her benefit (daddys $) was her only remaining option which i NEVER believed she would've done. I really don't want to lose my children again I'm scared of what she might do next time cuz it would obviously have to be more than last time somebody please help

trying to find an app that can emulate the iPod via USB

Trying to find an app that can emulate the iPod via USB. Has anyone found it?

Like some very old posts I have seen, my car audio system (sony cdx-gt55uiw) has a USB port and supports iPod. Works without problem for the iPhone like it is an iPod and could play from any app on the phone. But if I use my android phone it will try to read it as a flash drive and plays the media that finds in the phone. The android phone (google pixel 2) has the File transfer/Android auto enable, and doesn't seem to send any audio thru the USB to be listened thru the car speakers, the radio only reads files from the phone as a mass storage device.

Is there any way that an app can emulate an iPod and been able to use the phone as I have used the iPhone to play Pandora/Spotify/etc..?

Earphone options for Android

Hey guys does anyone know of a pair of earphones that are shaped like the apple ones but have all the controls that work with Android devices? Particularly the V40 if that makes an impact I can't use the style that comes with the phone I don't much care for the style that. Goes inside the ear. As the apple ones the volume controls don't work only play and pause does. Thank you!

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