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Help When WiFi Is On, Get Notification of Voicemails

Hi Al!
This is a new behavior on my ZTE Maven using Android 5.1 on AT&T.
When I turn on WiFi and connect to any network, even at home, I get a notification of 2 new voice mails. (Always 2 voicemails) It stays even after WiFi is turned off.

The only way I can clear the voicemail icon on the home screen is to call voicemail and learn that there are no new messages. Then I re-boot the phone. After it boots, I get the voicemail notification again, but it then leaves by itself.

Do any of you know what is causing this and how to stop it?
Thanks for your advice. It is appreciated.
Enjoy Today!
Paul

Root for call recorder ...?

I'm no android expert, so please excuse the wordy and perhaps simplistic question ...

I have an old S5 running on Android Marshmallow (6.0.1) on which I have the call recording app, ACR. It works fantastically well, and I rely on it heavily for various reasons. I also stopped updating the app after notification from the developer that they were having to make changes due to Google's new security policy, and all was well in the world. Recently I managed to crack the screen on the S5 and, although it is still working and held together with a screen protector, I decided to get a new phone and went for the budget Samsung Galaxy A10 for a mere £140. Problem is, it runs on Pie (9) and call recording is almost totally restricted.

However, I watched this video -
- (cued up for the relevant bit) and find that call recording is actually built into android, but deactivated in some regions due to Google's security policy (IDIOTS!). I haven't tried the app on the new device, but am assuming it will not work as the developers say it doesn't. So I am considering rooting the phone in the hope that this will allow me to change the settings and enable the android call recording feature within the phone itself.

I've never rooted a phone before and have heard warnings about it, so I have a few questions:
1. I know it will possibly void the warranty, but if I don't care about that, is rooting generally reasonably safe? Does the danger largely depend on what you do to the phone once it is rooted?
2. Is there a good step-by-step guide to rooting for the A10?
3. Is it definite that rooting will allow me to make changes to uncover and enable the stock call recording facility within the phone itself?
4. Is there anything else I should consider?!

Thanks in advance ...

Phone charging vs phone powering

I have a simple question: When I plug in my phone while it is on to charge, am I:

Charging the battery only, phone is being powered only by the battery
I am powering my phone and only charging the battery with excess current available from the charger (e.g 2.1amp USB charger, Phone drawing 0.4amp at current use, battery is being charged at remaining 1.7amp)
Another way to phrase the question potentially could be: If I were to open my phone an remove the battery, could I still power it by the USB port?

Background: I have a use case - Enduro riding and using my android phone for my main electronic navigation. I have a USB charger on my bike (1.0 amp and 2.1 amp port) but seems when I plug in my phone to navigate, despite getting 2.1amp, the battery is still slowly draining. What is the matter here?

I have toyed with the idea of taking an old phone and flashing it with a base android ROM and only installing my navigation app, remove the battery (weight), only powering by USB, and basically making it a nav device only.

If all power from the USB has to pass through the battery (charging) to power the phone, and you only use it tethered to a USB charger, what happens when the battery is thoroughly finished?

I look forward to all your comments Thanks

Disparity beween two Samsung devices

Devices: Galaxy J7 Core; Galaxy Tab A8.0
Android version for both is v9,
Issue: Contacts list: On the J7, I have a full page of entries available including Email, Work (address) phone, option to add further phones. On the Tab I only have "Phone" with no option to add any further details - most importantly, additional phone numbers.

See attached picture.

This may be a User error but I'd appreciate some help.

Regards
Bearium2

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[WatchFace] X-Force Watch Face

My new watch face is released:
X-Force Watch Face
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fr.thema.wear.watch.xforce

As always, a lot of features available: In the free version, you can set custom colors to elements, change the display format of the date & time, display weather and use the displayed shortcuts, and even more.
If you unlock the premium status, you will benefit from the full experience, with 3 widgets to customize (complication or internal datas), custom shortcuts, secondary timezone, more than 30 background, interactivity, and a lot more!

I hope that you will like it!

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App Inventor Displaying multiple sensors readings on screen

Hello,

I am trying to display multiple sensor readings on screen (accelerometer, magnetometer, etc.) in its own line of text. I can change the text onscreen for one type of sensor (accelerometer), but not another sensor. I registered both sensors as Listeners, but don't know how to update each one separately inside the onSensorChanged function. This has to be done in Kotlin, not Java.

MainActivity.kt
Code:
package com.example.sensorlistener_kotlin

import android.annotation.SuppressLint
import android.content.Context
import android.hardware.Sensor
import android.hardware.SensorEvent
import android.hardware.SensorEventListener
import android.hardware.SensorManager
import androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity
import android.os.Bundle
import kotlinx.android.synthetic.main.activity_main.*

class MainActivity : AppCompatActivity(), SensorEventListener {

   lateinit var sensorManager: SensorManager

   override fun onAccuracyChanged(p0: Sensor?, p1: Int) {
   }

   @SuppressLint("SetTextI18n")
   override fun onSensorChanged(event: SensorEvent?) {

       label_accelerometerX.text = "X = ${event!!.values[0]}"
       label_accelerometerY.text = "Y = ${event.values[1]}"
       label_accelerometerZ.text = "Z = ${event.values[2]}"

   }

   override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
       super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
       setContentView(R.layout.activity_main)

       sensorManager = getSystemService(Context.SENSOR_SERVICE) as SensorManager

       sensorManager.registerListener(
           this,
           sensorManager.getDefaultSensor(Sensor.TYPE_ACCELEROMETER),
           SensorManager.SENSOR_DELAY_NORMAL
       )

/*        sensorManager.registerListener(
           this,
           sensorManager.getDefaultSensor(Sensor.TYPE_MAGNETIC_FIELD),
           SensorManager.SENSOR_DELAY_NORMAL
       )*/

   }
}

As the end result, I want to display X,Y,Z components of accelerometer, magnetometer, and gyroscope on screen in their own line as follows:

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activity_main.xml
Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:layout_margin="16dp"
    tools:context=".MainActivity">

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/label_accelerometerX"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="@string/accelerometerx"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/label_accelerometerY"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="@string/accelerometery"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="@id/label_accelerometerX"
        app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/label_accelerometerZ"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="@string/accelerometerz"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="@id/label_accelerometerY"
        app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/label_magneticX"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="@string/magneticx"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="@id/label_accelerometerZ"
        app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/label_magneticY"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="@string/magneticy"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="@id/label_magneticX"
        app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/label_magneticZ"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="@string/magneticz"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="@id/label_magneticY"
        app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent" />

</androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout>

Stylo 4 VS. Q Stylo 4

I've had my Stylo 4 from Straight Talk for about 8 months now, and I absolutely love it. Problem being, the version of it that I have seems to be a completely different phone than what I see in review videos, as well as what's described in various articles. I keep seeing "Q Stylo 4" pop up more frequently than not, whereas mine is just a Stylo 4. The Q is solid black, whereas mine is blue with diagonal silver stripes. Mine also doesn't find anything when I check for updates(currently on Oreo), although every list I've looked at insists that the pie update is out for the "Q". My question is, what's the difference? Is it because mine is through Straight Talk? Even MetroPCS and Cricket have the update. I'm so confused, because I had always assumed that the phone itself would essentially be the same, regardless of the carrier. Any kind of answer or explanation would be much appreciated, as my own research keeps coming up empty, and this is quite literally my last resort.

Android Studio - Java (not kotlin project) - Make bottom navigation as picture

Hi, i would want develop with android studio the bottom navigation view as this:
image.png

how can i start for building this. I thought with new project with bottom navigation view...but i'm not so where to start....

I tried this plugin

https://github.com/armcha/Space-Navigation-View

but I don't know how to enlarge the central icon and remove the round border.

Any helps ara appreciated.

Thanks
Cris

running android on my network

i have 3 tablets and a lg cell phone. on all the tablets and phone i have an app for viewing my cameras. i'm trying to get faster speed from them but when i connected them up to my router using cat5 cable and a usb to cat5 adapter they all ran slower than they did on wifi.

1. lg phone 7.0 ran 6 mbps wifi 5mbps adapter
2. 3 tablets all ran 13 15 and 25 mbps wifi and 4 to 6 mbps on the adapter. i have 2 adapters i got from walmart and they were about the same.

so is there any way to get speed from a tablet that is better using cable connections over the wifi connections. my router is 2.4 ghz b/g/n capable. it i can find out what tablets if any can do this i will get one for monitoring the cameras. so if anyone happens to know what android version works or what tablets work better on cat5 cable over the wifi please let me know. or even a ipad although i do not have any experience with them or a kindle of any kind. it makes no difference to me as long as i can get speed to them form the network. when i do a speed test on my pc from the network now i get 55 mbps and if i plug it into the modem i get 112 mbps, they tell me my network switch i holding that back as it is a 10/100 switch, so i have a 10/100/1000 in the mail now and can retest that when i get it. i expect the network speed to go up thru the new switch.

but i need to get some more speed into a tablet for better viewing my cameras with. thanks.



[FREE][GAME] Archimage - card trading game from old Might & Magic

Hello dear Android users!

Let me introduce port of card trading game from old good game known Acromage from M&amp;M universe.



https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.freecode.lite&amp;hl=en_US

Game rules:
You start with 6 cards and small amount of resources. You can move card up (for play it) or down (for discard). Unless card has text 'play again' each move ends your turn. At start of each turn you got more resources (white text). Goal is to destroy enemy tower or build your tower to 100.

Key points:
1 Multiplayer! Yes you can play with your friends or other players around the world!
2 More than 200 different cards!
3 Lost of offline bots - so you can enjoy the game even when you offline.
4 Fully free!

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Apps Webview app image upload not working

Hi,

I created a very simple webview app in Android Studio (I'm a website developer so not really an app developer).

The site is a standard html5 css3 site that allows skiers to sell and buy used ski gear, so it uses auction technology.

Part of the listing process involves clicking an 'Add Images' button which allows users to navigate to images on the devices/cloud storage, but, on the Android webview app all I see is a button that says 'Choose Files' (NOT 'Add Images', which is weird), but when I click it nothing happens, which means that the app is essentially useless as is.

I obviously need to tweek the code (I use Android Studio 3.5.1), but I don't know what code to tweek.

Can you help?

Code below

Activity.main.xml

Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    tools:context=".MainActivity">

    <WebView
        android:id="@+id/wb"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent" />

</RelativeLayout>


MainActivity.java

Java:
package com.shnohdotcom.shnoh;

import androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity;

import android.os.Bundle;
import android.webkit.WebView;
import android.webkit.WebViewClient;

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
     private WebView webView;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        webView= findViewById(R.id.wb);
        webView.loadUrl("https://www.shnoh.com/");
        webView.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
        webView.setWebViewClient (new WebViewClient());
    }
}


AndroidManifest.xml

Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    package="com.shnohdotcom.shnoh">

    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />

    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />

    <application
        android:allowBackup="true"
        android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher"
        android:label="@string/app_name"
        android:roundIcon="@mipmap/ic_launcher_round"
        android:supportsRtl="true"
        android:theme="@style/Theme.AppCompat.NoActionBar">
        <activity android:name=".MainActivity">
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>
    </application>

</manifest>

CPU X Old version sought

Looking for an old version of CPU X that placed an icon occupying four spaces on the home screen that displayed memory, battery, temperature etc. Sadly I let it update by mistake and have not been able to find the old version.
If someone can point me to the version with this feature it would be much appreciated.
TIA, John.

Shut off the heat

I don't mean the whole thing, just the register that some idiot stuck up on the ceiling. It has a sort of lever that's supposed to slide, but it doesn't. I used wd40 on it, with no luck. How do I fix this thing? I don't want to shut off the rest, only that room. Once again, I'm "not allowed" to post a pic.

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