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Help How to stop automatic android updates in stock android phone?

I have Xiaomi A3 which runs stock android ver 9. I would like to know how to stop automatic android updates as i don't see an option to disable it (iam guessing stock android doesn't give that option). Is there any service or background app that i can stop which will make these android apps to not get installed automatically? (i am not asking about google play store app updates but about android system updates).

Where is wallpaper stored?

I transferred everything from my Note 8 phone to my new Tab S5E (with the Smart Switch app)
The wallpaper from the phone (my own "aurora" image) came over to the Tab.
I want to find and save that aurora image so that I can play with other wallpapers, and be able to put the image back again if I want to.
I can't find the aurora image.

So, I'll ask, where are the wallpaper images stored? (and are they .JPGs?)
(Or, how can I download a copy of the existing wallpaper? and existing lock screen background image?)

Also, how do I set an image for the lock screen that's different from the main wallpaper?

Many thanks in advance,

Carl

Be careful what you search for..

So I have just purchased an old style 2 blade safety razor and was looking for some tips on the best methods on YouTube.

I never completed the search after what came up as I was typing; from falling about laughing. Good job i was not shaving at the time!
:D:p

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Help Charging

When the phone is turned off and charging, I know I can press the power button to see the battery level but is there another way without pressing power button to see the level (or that it's charging/or done)?

my other phone Alcatel 7 had an indicator light and when the phone was turned off and charging, the light would come on and go off when done charging

cleaner app caused boot loop?

hey guys i have a mpto e5 supra and i fhink i had a cleaning app that caused a boot loop, i also have another phone with the same App that was boptlooping, but that phone was Able to Activate safe mode, once it loaded up it said something like clean master has stopped, so i uninstalled it and then everything was fine, now this bootloop was activated by plugging in my phones, i also im not sure if i was using power clean or clean master, also this problem happened in pretty together, one phone bootlopped last night and the moro bootlooped today, now as for my moto i had to reset it because i couldn't get into safe.mode,now if one of apps is causing a boot loop it could very well perminatly break ppls phones, id really like to know how to activate safe mode from either fastboot or boorloader, or from the boot animations, i saw some Google pages that said hold down during boot animations but that didn't work, in advance thank you to everyone who looks into this and trys to help

But I have been using my phone...

I have a Samsung Galaxy J4 and it has really been giving me problems. My biggest concern at this point, is I've had developer options enabled for a while and this has never changed.... When I go into background check, most of my primary apps like phone, messaging, Facebook, device care, etc., Which I use daily show May 2nd or April 16. Other apps that I also use daily, show second, minutes, or hours ago. What would cause this??

Help Phone connection via USB and MTP

Hi there // Hello there!!
I'll explain you my bad experience nowadays. My phone is a Huawei Honor 7C (LND-L29) and i'm having some troubles with it. When I connect it to my PC, the menu for USB connection appears and I select Media Transfer. At this point all good, but the problem is that when I select it, phone automatically selects Charge Only... I've developer options activated and I've selected by default, use MTP but also happens the same thing, when I select it, this one returned to Charge Only...

Could anyone help me?? It's so sad to cannot transfer files via usb for this reason...

Thank you

Do I have a virus?

These are screenshots of my calendar synced to my alternate Google account, is this a virus or some weird email spam thing? They don't extend past October. Freaking me out.

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How do I remove birthday entries

I have a note 8 with Verizon, previously I had Sprint. Somewhere along the line a bunch of birthdays got added to my calendar. I use Outlook on my PC and I have a few contacts where I have entered their birthdays and these are the only birthday entries I want on my phone. When I open the calendar on my phone and see several birthday entries for a contacts where I do NOT have the contact in Outlook (Outlook is synced with my phone via Akrutosync, I only sync contacts, calendar, task, I do not sync my emails).
  1. How do I determine where the birthday entries that I don't want came from?
  2. How do I stop them from getting in the calendar on my phone?
  3. How do I remove the entry in the calendar?
On the phone I'm using the calendar that was made available by Sprint/Verizon, I've never used another calendar on the phone.

I was able to delete a few of the birthday entries by a long click on the entry and selecting delete but for most this is not an option.

Where I do have a birthday in Outlook 2013 on my Win10 PC I do want those in my calendar on the phone and my PC.
Thanks

Fix noncharging JBL Flip4 speaker

My friend's Flip4 ordinarily shows that it's charging by having a blinking white dot under a nonblinkng blue circle, then 2 dots, etc., until it's fully charged at 5. It's not doing that. Instead it's sometimes 1 dot, sometimes none, blinking or steady, and the circle may be blue or white. I tried looking online for help, maybe a manual. I did find it but the pages are not enlargeable and the hieroglyphics are indecipherable. Please help.

Error twrp

The twrp recovery it's bugged, when i start my device (Samsung galaxy tab 3 lite sm-t110) apered de icon or de twrp and t'he screen become purple, and then enter a loop, I can't use the recovery of my device and i can't not use the twrp and my pc dosen't detect de device.
There is some way to install a recovery without using on the device?
Thanks

Strange Allowed Device in Nearby Devices

My husband's Galaxy S7 has an allowed device (to connect to your phone) under the Nearby devices setting. It reads as follows:

Nearby devices
Allow Linux/2.6.36.4brcmarm+,UPnP/1.0, Portable SDK for UPnP devices/1.6.25 to access your phone?

Under content to share, all boxes are checked, including videos, pictures and music.
We don't recognize such a device, but it must be nearby? Could someone please tell me what this device may be and where/how to look for it?

Thanks.

External Hard Drive

Hi all,

I have an A5 (2017) and wish to be able to look at my Windows PC's photo folders whilst away from home. If I buy something like this:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Portable-E...al+hard+drive&qid=1569689914&s=gateway&sr=8-4

will I be able to copy my photos (and documents/spreadsheets for that matter) on to the drive and read the files on my phone via USB cable? Would there be any difficulty in transferring Windows-based files to an Android-formatted device?

Thanks,

Ian

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