The settings interface was destroyed by the Android 12 update. Instead of one swipe and one touch toggle for turning wifi, data or Bluetooth making it quick and safe to do at a red light or stop sign, the interface takes two swipes to reach, then touch, then a SLIDE BUTTON! Who thought this was a good idea? What have you done to drivers, to the visually impaired, and to the just plain impatient types? Why, Google, why?

How much time does it take to get stable update when I opt out of android beta programme?

I currently subscribe to the basic DirecTV service with one add on that is costing me $186.74 monthly. I'm taking a serious look at YT TV. They offer a lot fewer channels with their basic package but mostly provide what the wife and I watch. A few new channels that we don't get now and few we watch aren't included... the normal rub when changing services. The differences between the two that can't be ignored is their pricing. YT TV offers their basic package for $73 monthly with a three month discount incentive for new subscribers. Not considering the discount, my savings per year is almost $1,400 if I were to switch to YT TV. That, my good forum friends, has my attention.

My question to subscribers are just how reliable is their service? What sort of download speed do I need to have for seamless video streaming to two different TVs and the normal device that share the bandwidth? How dependable is their online DVR service and can one FF through commercial breaks? Can multiple channels be simultaneously recorded? Basically I'm asking your opinion on their service. It makes financial sense to make a change to YT TV but not if the service stinks.

I thank you in advance for sharing your opinion.

I am looking for free data encryption app.
So far my searches have turned up articles that describe non-free apps and network/email encryption.

All I want is a easy to use data encryption app.

Hi,

I've started a new job and the person before me left their work phone (Nokia G11), however they didn't remove their password. I've tried booting into recovery but it gets stuck on a screen which says "Android One" and "FASTBOOT MODE" in the top left corner and it won't progress any further.

I can turn the phone on and get to the pin unlock page, but that's it.

Does anyone know how I can unlock/reset this phone? There's no data on there I want to keep, just need to fully reset it. The problem I'm facing is USB Debugging isn't enabled so the PC won't recognize it.

Thanks.

What does the purple paint on trees mean? RVers, if you see purple paint on trees, stay away

Because of problems I'm having making calls on my LG K20 Plus, T-Mobile support is recommending a straight trade-in to a moto 5G (2022). What's the general feeling about that model? Or would I be better off with a different model (or brand)? I appended this to another thread but no one responded so I'm putting it here anew.

Hello,

I noticed recently that all the pictures on my phone has been classified in categories (cars, cats, accessories, etc...)
I don't use any cloud storage (at least not that I'm aware of) and turned off every possible features I know that improves privacy.

My question, is this classification was done by the app itself (locally on my phone) or did my pictures were analyzed (read sent) to a cloud service of some sort to do this classification?

Thanks

Hi Guys,

Could you please guide me to find out the running process of the Android devices.. I have used the given below method to find the running process, but it will return only the current running process..

Process process = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(new String[]{"sh", "-c", "ps"});
OR
List<ActivityManager.RunningAppProcessInfo> runningAppProcessInfos = getManager(context).getRunningAppProcesses();

Hope this forum will guide me for the right direction.

Regards,
Avdhesh

Can the Samsung update be ahead in version I er Google play
Should I update app versions in the Samsung update that ref Google play will it update from Samsung store over Google play
How do they get out of sync?
sonnerie samsung S23 ultra

I'm currently trying to figure out if I change my number that I have now what happens to my messages/scheduled pending messages?

I think what im trying to do is less common. At a specific time of day, I want the time to move ahead by X hours, then at a later time, back to the original time. I can do this on a pc using a python script. How can I do it on a phone? I tried using a vpn, changing the geographical location of the ip and hope the phone would automatically detect that time zone, but it doesn't. Any ideas? Thanks!

I recently upgraded from a S21 to a S23. I traded in the 21 so the data transfer was done at the store. I had gigs of video and pictures on my phone, all of which were backed up on google photos, so when it got to that part of the transfer rather than wait hours to move things I didn't need moved I told them I should be good at that point.

I did that because I thought all of the call log and texts had been transferred. When I opened the new phone everything appeared to be there.

As it turns out they had been restored via the Verizon service and it was only the last 90 days of messages. I don't delete emails or texts generally, so I had years of messages on the old phone.

If I don't recover them it's not that big of a deal obviously, but it's a little annoying. I realize it's my fault for not doing a more thorough check while I was there, so at this point it's on me.

In my google drive account I can see that there is a back of the old phone. However it seems I'd have to do a hard reset of the new phone to restore it. Not a huge deal, but if I can avoid spending a couple/few hours doing that and getting the new phone and apps all set back I'm all for it.

So with all that out of the way, is it possible to extract the back up data from my previous phone's backup and get the sms messages out?

I've tried demos of several programs that are supposed to be able to do this, but when I ran scans on my Google account with them they didn't come back with any data. I can't remember the names of the programs off the top of my head, but I tried several of the top ones that were suggested when I googled this.

Any suggestions? I know it's a first world problem, but if there's a solution I'm happy to hear it lol

I can't recall how to change the setting where I don't need to press the ok button after putting in my unlock passcode.

Zep

The main thing I'm looking for is the ability to store "offline" data such as passcodes for physical equipment and other data besides usernames & Passwords. I'm currently using an Evernote file for this and have been for years but I know those aren't encrypted so I would like to upgrade to something that is. Any suggestions will be much appreciated.

Zep

I have a new, rooted Pixel 7 and Google Fi is my service provider. The reason the phone is rooted is to run AdAway - everything else is normal.

I noticed that when the phone indicated a 5G connection, Google Maps stopped working - no update on zoom in, no ability to give directions, etc. I did some searching and it was suggested to clear the cache and the data. I did this and Google Maps again seems to function properly when 5G is indicated.

However, I noticed the same issue with Enjoy Sudoku. When 5G is indicated, it cannot download a new puzzle and will not create one locally. While I could, again, clear the cache and the data, I would prefer to not do this because (I suspect) that my history would be lost.

So, the questions are this: Why on earth is the phone behaving strangely when there is a 5G connection? Are there any changes I can make to make this issue go away? Is there anything I can do, other than clear the cache and the data, so that Enjoy Sudoku works? Thanks.

I want to root my oppo reno6 pro 5g (CPH2249) with Android 13

How i can root my Android 13 oppo phone i don't know how to root please help me

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I am getting below error in my new Android studio version, when I want add floating EditText. I need to add this android.support.design library if I add this in gradle file
This is errors which i'm getting in logcat

Unable to resolve dependency for ':app@debug/compileClasspath': Could not resolve com.android.support:design-v7:28.0.0 Open File Show Details

Unable to resolve dependency for ':app@debugAndroidTest/compileClasspath': Could not resolve com.android.support:design-v7:28.0.0. Open File Show Details

Unable to resolve dependency for ':app@debugUnitTest/compileClasspath': Could not resolve com.android.support:design-v7:28.0.0. Open File Show Details

Unable to resolve dependency for ':app@release/compileClasspath': Could not resolve com.android.support:design-v7:28.0.0. Open File Show Details

Unable to resolve dependency for ':app@releaseUnitTest/compileClasspath': Could not resolve com.android.support:design-v7:28.0.0. Open File Show Details

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Note: I referred more links I tried all solutions even though I didn't get solution.

Okay, so I'm not a ”software developer”, I just program as a hobby. But I'm currently developing my own media player. I'm using AppGameKit by The Game Creators and I believe I'm running Android 11 for anyone that finds that information relevant. My player is designed to find, load, and play audio files in a certain given directory.

This given directory, the basic ”Music” folder that automatically appears in the internal phone's memory, will have folders inside it that contain audio files. My app is designed to delve into that Music directory and identify/count/read all subfolders/files regardless of their names. My app works as I have programmed it to.

HOWEVER: If any changes are made to any of those files or folders then my app cannot detect them and the whole app fails... ... ... for a period of time. The kind of thing I'm running into is that my app is designed to be versatile in reading that directory, but if a folder is added or taken away, or if one of the files are renamed, then the app crashes. But if I put the phone down, or better yet go to sleep for the night, then I'll pick it up in the morning and the app will run fine again with the new folders/files. Without me actually changing anything with the phone or the app.

So my question is this (assuming my choice of software isn't the issue): is anyone familiar with maybe a service or app that Android runs in the background that keeps a record of the system's directory tree that updates itself at certain intervals? Maybe my app depends on something like this that just isn't ”updating” when I need/expect it to. I've already tried clearing the media system app and restarting the phone. All it did was reset my ringtone. And I tried clearing the cache on my own app, but it doesn't seem to help. It's just so bizarre to me that everytime I introduce new files to my app it crashes only to be fine an hour or whatever later. But any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks.

I have a new Pixel 7 phone and two game programs on it are behaving VERY oddly. The games in question are Classic Words (basically Scrabble) and Unscramble Letters (which finds Scrabble words from letters).

The problem with Classic Words is that it is playing combinations of letters which are not words, see http://pairofdocs.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/ClassicWordsErrors.jpg. The five combinations of letters ‘circled’ are not English words. Why the heck is the program playing them?

The problem with Unscramble Letters is that it is completely screwing up the values. In this example http://pairofdocs.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/UnscrambleLettersError.png, the proper values for the words are: redub 8, bedu 7, brede 8, breed 8, burd 7, drub 7, etc. How on earth can it be getting the values wrong?

I am particularly puzzled because both programs ran just fine on my Pixel 3XL. What can I do to make these work properly?

So just recently within the few days, when getting into this machine, I get a black screen of death, but after logging in, I did try trouble shoot it a few minutes ago, lets hope after a soft and quick reboot that problem just stays off... hmm... I am the irony, sure I want 15 seconds shut off into lock screen off my droid, but with my p.c., want it on all coffee in the universe hahahaa

I am using Google Contacts on a Google Pixel 6. Is there any way for me to periodically archive my Google Contacts list to a file AUTOMATICALLY?

Is there any tool that would let me selectively re-import individual entries in the saved copy of the file? The latter is very important as I never want to restore hundreds of Contacts all at once. If not, then am I stuck having to manually create an import CSV file by manually editing a manually created export file?

What other key Google resources should I be backing up to files on a computer?

I just published my fifth game, although in the Google Store you only see three. This fifth wants to be the beginning of a series of games of a single level, that is, you do a level and the game ends, if I see that there is interest I will continue creating OLOs (2, 3, 4, etc...) Well the The game itself consists of passing 50 obstacles, to date my 27 friends have not managed to finish it, and they are players with a long history. I encourage you to see if you are able to finish it. I leave you the link


Google Store

Our brand new 2 person project Word Game is now available on Googleplay. We've added a ton of features, unlockable characters, and a variety of levels for players to complete. Below is a brief summary of our new game!

Word Bravo is the ultimate word search puzzle game for anyone who loves brain teasers and word challenges. Embark on an adventure to discover hidden words in a variety of beautiful and immersive landscapes.

Unlock over 150+ characters known as Wordies during your journey and collect rewards on the go! With hundreds of levels and thousands of unique puzzles, this game will keep you entertained for hours!

Features:
- 140+ Characters (Wordies) to unlock
- 500+ Levels to complete
- Over 37 Game Centre Achievements and in-game rewards to collect!
- Daily missions and rewards to collect and earn
- Challenge your brain and vocabulary!
- Compete for the top in our global leaderboard


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