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Help How do I play music from Google drive?

Google Drive can play music via the built-in audio player, but only one song at a time! In other words, there appears to be no way to automatically play an entire album from start to finish. Instead you have to manually switch to each song one by one.

I've tried searching the web for free third-party solutions, but no luck. For example CloudPlayer only works for a 30-day trial. Most other players (like VLC for instance) simply can't access Google Drive. I'd expect that Google's own Play Music app could access Google Drive but I can't find any option to do so.

Surely somebody knows how to do this. But if not, any ideas would be much appreciated. Thanks!

Note 10 battery Life

edit:Ok since i'm the OP for this thread i'm gonna change things up


If you are wondering what the battery life is on the Note 10+ with its 4300 mAh beast of a battery?
......well it's been great. Battery life is incredible. Been power using tweaking things here, tweaking things there a lot.....i mean.....A LOT!!!!!!

i mean playing with the settings, checking out some cool new apps that come included (there is one that use's the camera's depth perception feature.....i'll post a comment on it later). i have even watched movies and youtube on it. not to mention reading and writing emails and answering phone calls and text messages.......all of this at the end of my day i'm still at 20% or so.

It's runs fast and smooth.... much faster then the note 8. Haven't really played around with the camera just yet. I did take some photos when I took my dog to the dog beach. I'll post those later.

Want to check out the ar features as well.

Can't complain so far.

After thoughts of Softwear updated PCX29. 159-21

Phone is again Moto z2 force.
Pros: easy to read buttons and able to see cleary on green circles over black, the clock is tiny,
also the date ontop is really small yay, it has been annoying me since I can pretty much know what day is it.
Because of the lock screen has it in the dead center, I do not want to see it popping up consantily with the day of week it is.

It feels light weight with even heavy app of ADW launcher, able to control the apps more frequently. Easy to see directory of system settings, able to get a phone call in without the screen getting black from accidental touching the number pad.

The photos come out clearly more then, the regular blur issue I was having. Etc.

Cons:
I only found one so far.. General issue is how sort of hard not seeing the card stack on the app drawer, have to push in the square and slide all the way to the right to stop the background apps from overclocking my phone.

Any way to show who message sent to other than conversation mode?

I do not like conversation mode. I find I miss seeing emails. Ridiculous to have to search using to: what if not remember correct spelling or last name? Or to have to open each email in Sent folder to find if sent an email to someone. Is google trying to force people to use Conversation mode? This is KEY and MOST basic need in email - to see who you sent messages to. Years and years of people maki g this same request. Does Gmail staff have a market research team that gathers complaints? Perhaps hire someone over 50 that knows how to run focus groups, one-on-ones, surveys for complaints -- people who can work with your analytics team to build algorithm in predictive analytics that recommends making this option available. If does not pick up this problem need new algorithm. I use different app to receive my small bus emails and it shows in Sent folder on first line who each email sent to not who sent from which is obviously me. Most useful way of showing was old Blackberry Bold -- had column that said sent or inbox and who sent to or received from - each day could quickly scan and see if responded to each mail received. Very easy very efficient. Would seem easy as others apps do to at least just let us see recipient in Sent folder. And Google is a search company. Wants to force me to mwmorize all the strings for searching. Why not at least as Samsung native email when tap hourglass seach to from or subject and ability to sort by name

Phone calls w/Bluetooth earbuds: unable to reduce volume

When I am listening to music thru Bluetooth earbuds and a phone call comes in, the volume is deafening - no matter how low the music volume is.

Pressing VolumeDown throws the volume control dialog and the indicator tries to move downward - but it keeps spontaneously popping back to max volume.

It does not seem to be earbud-specific, as the same thing happens on LGs, Ultimate Ears, BlueAnt Pumps, and on my hearing aids.

Anybody been here?

Android 9, Note 8.

how many apps are too many?

Throughout the time I've been an Android smartphone user a common theme that's come up in conversations whenever I've had any kind of issue with my phone is the number of apps I have at any given time. It's almost always friends or significant others who say this but whenever Ive brought it up to a phone service rep I've never gotten any of them to say definitively if I have too many or not or even what is too many so I thought I'd post it to you all here who I'm sure many are more tech-savvy about this kind of thing than I am.

If just saying yes or no is not easy because there's other criteria to consider then what is that criteria and how would I determine what too many is for my particular smartphone?

I look forward to hearing your feedback on this!

Mark

A world's simplest logic programming language development platform eZ Logic

This logic programming language development platform is designed to provide a simple and convenient environment for people who have no experience in programming language development. It guides people to learn the programming language step by step. And invoke the functions through a very simple user interface, which refers to the android built-in graphic processing, touch processing, sound processing, posture control and other related functions. It allows users to lay a very good foundation in basic program learning and future app development.

This platform will provide the students on future usage of mobile phones or tablets, in addition to games, there is another good quality option that combines learning and entertainment.

Odd feelings, like Twilight Zone

Whenever I go to a different store other than my hometown stores I get this whole weird feeling. It almost feels like an episode on Twilight Zone. I feel I am in a foreign area and all the sounds and such magnify. It almost feels as though everyone else there knows I am not '' one of them ''. Paranoia ? Social Unfamiliarity ? Out of My comfort zone ?
I never felt that way when I was younger.

Odd to say the least.

Thoughts ?

Lock Individual Apps on Samsung S8

I have Samsung Galaxy S8 and I use Samsung Email App to connect with my work email (Via Microsoft Exchange account).

I am trying to figure out what is the best app to lock my Samsung Email App.
Please note that I am aware of Samsung Secure Folder – and it is NOT an option.

I have also assessed some frequently recommended software including AppLock and Norton. However after learning a few tricks from You Tube videos – bypassing these apps would not be an issue even for someone like me with very basic “unlocking” skills.


Question 1
Is there any dissent app that can provide some better protection for Samsung Email App in the event that the phone is lost or stolen? OK based on what I have seen so far a 100% protection is out of the question – but something that will be into the next level down – say secure in 60%-80% situations?


Question 2
I have also realised that in addition to Samsung Email App some other apps should be protected (e.g. Settings, Calendars etc) – is there any LONG list specifying all apps need to be locked on Samsung Galaxy.

Robert Scherzer Newbie Here

Hi Every One myself Robert Scherzer f

First of all thanks to all members on android Forums. I had a few questions related my google pixel 3
on a mobile network - preferred network type I can see only three options
1: LTE
2: 3G
3: 2G
so my question is related to 4g network - why it's not showing 4network mode on my cellphone? I spend 65k for this shit. anyone can sort out my issues?

search apps

Although Android in general is pretty good, I find there is one issue where Windows is way ahead and that is searching. Lots of apps have search programs, but when you try to find something on your SD card it does not work, only accesses stuff on your actual device not the SD card, which really is pretty useless as lots of stuff is stored on the card. One example is "Search Everything" which is very good but you can only access device not SD card. So been searching some other apps, thought I finally got lucky and found ApowerManagement, which look good at first glance, but then found there is no search whatsoever.
Another one I quite liked was called Computer File Manager, which also looked promising and actually had a Windows type interface, but again no search facility whatsoever.
I mean what's the bloody point of a file management app which cannot search anything! Tried some other apps but always the same problem either no search whatsoever or no SD card search. So anyone know of any apps which actually covers these issues?

Google GMS , Firebase APIs performance

Apiggee is a good API management platform. It has metircs to measure APIs performance. It also has dashboard to measure show APIs' performance. (see the attachements)

But based on my understand, Apigee only measures Google Cloud APIs performance, not includes google local APIs like GMS or Firebase performance.

Is there any tool / dashboard like Apigee measuring GMS or Firebase performance? What are those KPIs? :thinking::thinking:

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I have a question about Apk Extractor

Hello,

I Nokia 3.1 phone running Android 8.1. I recently downloaded the Apk Extractor app from the Play store, When my list of apps came up, I pressed on my ESPN app and I saw a notice that the app had been extracted to my SD card. Apk Extractor shows the saved path as; /storage/emulated/0/ExtractedApks/, and when I click on Saved Path, it shows the ESPN app. But when I try to find that path on my SD card or Internal storage, I do not see that path anywhere. Am I looking in the wrong place?

Thank you

Separate app sound mutes phone

I have my s8+ connected to my car radio via an aux cord. I am using the 'separate app sound' function to send Google Maps to my headset via bluetooth. The problem is that whenever I get directions from maps via bluetooth, the music going to my car radio via the aux cord gets muted. Does anyone know how to stop the music from getting muted while using the separate app sound function?

Photo editing retaining file name in original location

I currently download my photos to my Windows 10 Pro laptop from my camera's SD card and then edit them using the installed editing software. This results in the edited image retaining the original file name and file location - start with 1 file end with 1 file.
I am looking for an android photo editing app that will allow me to edit my photos on my tablet and keep the original file name in the original file location - start with 1 file end with 1 file.
Can anyone please offer any advice as to a suitable app?

Photo transfer (not all transfer)

Today I did the Samsung smart switch from my old s8 plus to a new s8 plus. Everything went great except I'm missing 300 out of 1300 photos from my old phone.

I tried seeing if I can move them onto my PC and transfer but the only folder with pictures is the DCIM folder and that isn't showing the missing pictures. Yet they are on the old phone?

Any help is appreciated.

Yeah get the Galaxy phone right now now

You should get the Galaxy phones on Sam and get it at the phone store you better get it but you can hey you can get it at 6 M store we can get it we can get it anywhere different City and adios maybe and maybe people in the dark city say that okay where you can get a Galaxy phone because he got the relation oh oh oh oh we got 9 Galaxy phone you can't at passwords in it okay actually you can you can get a phone password you can I put a Galaxy phone number like any number bye

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