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Connection issues

My new Samsung Galaxy A20 phone is having data connection issues. Many times a day it basically gets stuck on uploading data, where the up arrow is showing with no down arrow. This prevents me from getting notifications and loading apps/web pages. It will stay like this until I turn mobile data off then on again or connect to wifi or reset the device. My carrier is Metro.(never had connection issues with them before) I spoke to them about the problem and they're not being much help.

Does anybody know what could be causing this, and how to fix it?
Would appreciate any help I can get.
Thanks!

Connect to server with Files

Hey guys,

I've got a samba server, that I can easily connect to using my laptop and transfer files to. Is there a way I could connect to it and view files on the files app from Samsung? I have an S9, I like a lot of the other functionality, but would really like to do this. I know there's apps I could get, but I'd like to use the native Samsung Files app

Luck Charms ?

Anyone have any ? I never really had any as an adult but as a kid I had a few Rabbits feet but then realized how lucky could they really be if a rabbit had to be dismembered for it. I had never found a 4 leaf clover until last March. It wasn't even a 4 leafed one. It had 5 leaves ! I plucked it and dried it and decided to keep it, unwished for now.

Android Studio 3.5.0, CMake, and "External Build Files"

What command makes the Project "Android" tree show all CMake CMakeLists.txt and .cmake files used in a project in a "External Build Files" category?

This seems to show up upon invoking "Run", but not any other way I have tried. Some releases back this used to show up automatically when one sync'ed with Gradle files. Now the only thing that seems to do it is "Run" (whereas for a while I couldn't get this display at all).

This display is *very* useful to me -- and I'm left wondering if there's another way to trigger this than "Run".

Auto answer app recommendations

Hello, I'm looking for app recommendations for an answer phone app. I work on call overnight and would like an app which auto-answers calls without ringing the phone, delivers a pre-recorded message of my voice, then rings for me to answer if the caller waits until the end of the message. That way I can screen out unnecessary calls which might wake me up. I've searched around but can't find an app that meets those requirements.
Many thanks,
Liam

Android Studio 3.5 - Can't Debug Library androidTest with NDK

I upgraded to Android Studio 3.5 yesterday. I am no longer able to debug an androidTest (instrumented) on a library that has NDK sources. This only happens if there is an externalNativeBuild and the project is set to build as a library (not an app). If either of these are not true, debugging works. Depending on the emulator used, the process hangs on "Instantiating tests" and causes the emulator to freeze up, or immediately exists with the message "Cannot get process architecture". This was working fine in 3.4. I am running Android Studio on macOS. I am able to reproduce this by creating a new "Native C++" project, changing the plugin to "com.android.library" and commenting out the applicationId. Any help getting around this, and with how to file a bug for Android Studio, would be greatly appreciated, thank you!.

On-Demand Initialization in WorkManager

This page https://developer.android.com/topic...nager/advanced/custom-configuration#on-demand
says that you need to extend the interface from the Application class. I turned off the default initializer, but then I can not understand the documentation. By default, AppCompatActivity is used for the main activity, and when I change it to Application, some methods inside stop working.
Someone help me understand this moment and do it right

Battery Debate Issue after Oreo Update

Ok, there are a ton of websites and youtube videos out there dealing with the battery issue on the S9 after the Oreo update. I have done all of the minor tweaks such as clearing the cache, setting up optimization, monitoring app usage, putting unused apps to sleep, auto disable unused apps, turning down brightness and a number of more tweaks I can't even remember right now.

The two things I have not done and am very confused about are the:
A) #0228# to check battery status (which some say calibrates the phone)
B) Draining the battery to 0%, fully recharging it to 100% and repeating the process a 2nd time.

Both those things I have heard about 50% of the replies saying to do them and the other 50% saying do not do those two things.

Is there any hard core decision of if one or both of those should or should not be done? I don't want to do a factory reset on my phone, but running out of ideas as soon as I got the update, my battery power sucked. I just can't find any expert opinion on the above examples if they should or should not be done?

So confused, too much information out there...

Getting white noise when splitting PCM byte array

This is the part of the code which getting only few last seconds of PCM byte array which is recorded by AudioRecorder class:

ArrayList<Byte> local = new ArrayList<>();
if (readedBytes.size() > RECORDER_SAMPLERATE * 10) {
for (int i = readedBytes.size() - 1 - RECORDER_SAMPLERATE * 10; i < readedBytes.size() - 1; i++) {
local.add(readedBytes.get(i));
}
} else {
local.addAll(readedBytes);
}

byte[] array;
array = new byte[local.size()];

for (int i = 0; i < array.length; i++) {
array = local.get(i);
}

The problem is that, when I have to cut the first part of the array, I'm receiving only the whitenoize.Important: After this proccess I add the .wav header and this works if the array was not cut.

Wifi and Bluetooth can't be activated

Hi, I have a Sony Xperia X compact with android 8. A few days ago wifi got incredibly slow no matter which network I connected to. Then wifi was suddenly greyed out and it can't be switched on anymore. I tried to clear the network settings, rebootr factory reset and finally Sony software repair (from PC the companion softwares basically another factory reset version). Nothing. Meanwhile I realized Bluetooth has the same issue and won't activate.
Anything I can do besides judging it a hardware issue?

Please Help, Stuck on Android Welcome wizard, Android 8 !!!!!

I know maybe you can't help me, but I'm depressed about what happened to me, create many posts in every forum, I need help, please
Hi and thanks for helping me, I want to skip android setup wizard in Android 8, my phone stuck in page after select languages and this is the message:
Please wait, this may take a few minutes
I researched about skip Welcome Screen Wizard In Android I found tap 4 Corner will skip Android wizard, but it only works in Android 2 until Android 7
My Android 8 (Oreo)
how can skip welcome screen?
If I just skip android welcome screen my problem will solve
right now my phone is useless and I can't do anything with my phone, it's locked the bootloader, so I can't modify anything
just help me how can fix this issue and skip welcome wizard?
This is the video I found about skip android welcome wizard, but it's only working for Android 2 until Android 7
I need help for android 8
My Phone stuck at the activation screen:
http://ahmn.co/Upload/IMG_0161.MOV

Help Stop Android 9 from using USB stick for storage

Hello,

Just got an Android 9 TV box (rooted) and attached a USB stick with video files I wanted to watch. Later was installing some apps and come to find out, it is using the stick for app storage, even though the box has 64GB internal storage & 56GB available.

I don't want it writing to my USB stick. What setting do I need to switch to tell it to use internal storage only, and USB is for read only?

TIA!

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