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Virgin mobile to straight talk number port please help

So recently my phone completely broke and I can't use it so I decided to buy a straight talk phone and when I went to activate it it asked if I had an old phone number if I wanted to port so I typed in my old phone number then i went through more steps and it said it will take a few hours to 2 days to port it and it's been a day and a half and nothing happened. I'm worried I have to do something on the phone I can't access and I'd like to keep my old number please can someone explain on what happened or if I just need to wait longer and it will automatically work? I hope. Thank you!

Mobile Hotspot Authentication Error

I am having an issue with my mobile hotspot with Verizon. Getting an authentication error when trying to connect. It has worked before on my S8. Now not working on my new S9. I contacted Verizon they put me through some test and also replaced my phone with a new one and I am having the same issue. A support ticket has been issued and they say this is an ongoing issue with Samsung devices within the past 2 weeks. Is anyone else having the same issue?

What in the world is WindsongAOB

We are testing an application using MS App Center. The application is built in Xamarin.

We noticed in our analytics that there were a large number of devices downloading the app whose device is "WindsongAOB". See screen shot below.

Our offshore team says that this a device model that only goes up to Android 6 - users cannot upgrade to 7 or beyond. They say that this chart shows us that many people are downloading our app but are not able to use it because our support only goes back to 7.

We have not completed the coding such that the app will not even be able to be downloaded unless the device is running Android 7 or above.

But in googling around I cannot find what this "Windsong" is? Is there really devices out there with that name or OS version?

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(resolved) Fine volume control

I've got a Moto One Power running latest version of Android P. How can I get fine volume control? Currently the volume level is either too high or too low. Hitting my volume button just once makes it go from too soft to too loud. I've looked at fine volume control apps but they're all very old and haven't been updated in years. How can I get fine volume control on my Android? Let me know if this post needs to go somewhere else. Thanks,

RAM consumption with empty application

Good afternoon.
Moto G5S, Android 8.1, 3GB RAM
An application has been created that displays " Hello, World "in the center of the screen.
Java:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.constraint.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"
    tools:context=".MainActivity">
    <TextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Hello World!"
        app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent" />
</android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout>

package com.example.debugtest1;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.os.Bundle;
public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
    }
}
At startup, the Profiler shows 32.8 MB of RAM:
Others: 1.5
Code: 5
Stack: 0.3
Graphics: 14.7
Native: 7.4
Java: 3.9
Allocated: N/A

Given that this app is actually empty, is this normal?
Is it possible to reduce memory consumption?

Display Erratically functioning

Dear Forum,
I am having two android phones and two laptops out of which , one Acer Aspire laptop does not have wifi and hence using the laptop with my Sony xperia phone in USB hot spot mode for internet connection..

By the time when I tried to open the other laptop ( Dell Vostro 1510, having wifi facility) with my Samsung J110 smart phone, the phone functions erratically like, display gets jumping,; changed to other pages automatically,
changes the day and date inspite of having automatic setting, making call to a number available in contact list. During that time, no keys will be working to stop it etc.So finally, I have remove the battery .

When I switch of the other laptop, this phone gets alright and I can use it for either in wifi mode or USB hotspot mode.
Tried with debugging not enabled also, had not helped.
Request through the forum whether somebody will help me to set it alright.
Thanks

Introduction

Hello, Android Forum Members,

Feel Happy to join with Android forums.
I am K.Solaimalai, 64, male, from India and retired recently from my mechanical industrial profession.

I am having very basic knowledge in technology and started learning day by day about latest technology, Computer smart phone functions and Very often, I am in trouble with my Laptop and android phones and getting sorted some of the issues through Youtube or with browsing.

Now that , I think,I can enjoy the support of many forum members in resolving many of my issues.
Regards

Help Earphone controls issue

Good day to all,

This is a minor issue, but an issue that I've had for a few years and I thought I would ask here if anyone knows any solutions. Basically, certain earphones/headsets use (volume) controls that work separately from the internal controls of the Android system, and the following problems arise:

1. Usually, according to the manuals of a lot of these headsets, you have to press one of the buttons mutliple times to change the song. This does not work.
2. According to Android, you have to hold the volume button to change the song. This of course also does not work if the headsets use their own controls.
3. More recently, when I restart Spotify or the phone, the volume of the headphones will jump back to 100%, deafening me when I try to play something. I think there were also a few other issues, I can't recall right now.

I am thinking that the easiest solution would be to just force the headphones to use Android's controls, but I don't know if that is possible. Is it?

I could give you the model names but I have had this happen with different phones, different earphones and different Android versions so I know it's a general issue. A law just got instituted where I live that forbids holding a phone while riding a bike and I bike to work, so I can no longer use the phone's buttons, so I would really like to figure this out :)

Apps I'm trying to run a project, but there's this error

Launching lib/main.dart on SM M205F in debug mode...
Initializing gradle...
Resolving dependencies...
* Error running Gradle:
ProcessException: Process "/home/neeltron/Desktop/How-to-Build-a-Biomedical-Startup-master/android/gradlew" exited abnormally:

BUILD FAILED

Total time: 0.825 secs

Failed to notify ProjectEvaluationListener.afterEvaluate(), but primary configuration failure takes precedence.
java.lang.IllegalStateException: buildToolsVersion is not specified.
at com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkState(Preconditions.java:173)
at com.android.build.gradle.BasePlugin.createAndroidTasks(BasePlugin.java:558)
at com.android.build.gradle.BasePlugin.lambda$null$4(BasePlugin.java:526)
at com.android.builder.profile.ThreadRecorder.record(ThreadRecorder.java:81)
at com.android.build.gradle.BasePlugin.lambda$createTasks$5(BasePlugin.java:522)
at org.gradle.internal.event.BroadcastDispatch$ActionInvocationHandler.dispatch(BroadcastDispatch.java:93)
at org.gradle.internal.event.BroadcastDispatch$ActionInvocationHandler.dispatch(BroadcastDispatch.java:82)
at org.gradle.internal.event.AbstractBroadcastDispatch.dispatch(AbstractBroadcastDispatch.java:44)
at org.gradle.internal.event.BroadcastDispatch.dispatch(BroadcastDispatch.java:79)
at org.gradle.internal.event.BroadcastDispatch.dispatch(BroadcastDispatch.java:30)
at org.gradle.internal.dispatch.ProxyDispatchAdapter$DispatchingInvocationHandler.invoke(ProxyDispatchAdapter.java:93)
at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy15.afterEvaluate(Unknown Source)
at org.gradle.configuration.project.LifecycleProjectEvaluator.notifyAfterEvaluate(LifecycleProjectEvaluator.java:82)
at org.gradle.configuration.project.LifecycleProjectEvaluator.doConfigure(LifecycleProjectEvaluator.java:76)
at org.gradle.configuration.project.LifecycleProjectEvaluator.access$000(LifecycleProjectEvaluator.java:33)
at org.gradle.configuration.project.LifecycleProjectEvaluator$1.execute(LifecycleProjectEvaluator.java:53)
at org.gradle.configuration.project.LifecycleProjectEvaluator$1.execute(LifecycleProjectEvaluator.java:50)
at org.gradle.internal.Transformers$4.transform(Transformers.java:169)
at org.gradle.internal.progress.DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.run(DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.java:106)
at org.gradle.internal.progress.DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.run(DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.java:61)
at org.gradle.configuration.project.LifecycleProjectEvaluator.evaluate(LifecycleProjectEvaluator.java:50)
at org.gradle.api.internal.project.DefaultProject.evaluate(DefaultProject.java:628)
at org.gradle.api.internal.project.DefaultProject.evaluationDependsOn(DefaultProject.java:699)
at org.gradle.api.internal.project.DefaultProject.evaluationDependsOn(DefaultProject.java:691)
at org.gradle.api.Project$evaluationDependsOn.call(Unknown Source)
at build_75n56u0l23gg540dtryo0z527$_run_closure2.doCall(/home/neeltron/Desktop/How-to-Build-a-Biomedical-Startup-master/android/build.gradle:20)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
at org.codehaus.groovy.reflection.CachedMethod.invoke(CachedMethod.java:93)
at groovy.lang.MetaMethod.doMethodInvoke(MetaMethod.java:325)
at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.metaclass.ClosureMetaClass.invokeMethod(ClosureMetaClass.java:294)
at groovy.lang.MetaClassImpl.invokeMethod(MetaClassImpl.java:1024)
at groovy.lang.Closure.call(Closure.java:414)
at groovy.lang.Closure.call(Closure.java:430)
at org.gradle.api.internal.ClosureBackedAction.execute(ClosureBackedAction.java:70)
at org.gradle.util.ConfigureUtil.configureTarget(ConfigureUtil.java:160)
at org.gradle.util.ConfigureUtil.configure(ConfigureUtil.java:106)
at org.gradle.api.internal.project.DefaultProject.configure(DefaultProject.java:983)
at org.gradle.api.internal.project.DefaultProject.configure(DefaultProject.java:988)
at org.gradle.api.internal.project.DefaultProject.subprojects(DefaultProject.java:971)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
at org.codehaus.groovy.reflection.CachedMethod.invoke(CachedMethod.java:93)
at groovy.lang.MetaMethod.doMethodInvoke(MetaMethod.java:325)
at org.gradle.internal.metaobject.BeanDynamicObject$MetaClassAdapter.invokeMethod(BeanDynamicObject.java:382)
at org.gradle.internal.metaobject.BeanDynamicObject.invokeMethod(BeanDynamicObject.java:170)
at org.gradle.internal.metaobject.CompositeDynamicObject.invokeMethod(CompositeDynamicObject.java:96)
at org.gradle.internal.metaobject.MixInClosurePropertiesAsMethodsDynamicObject.invokeMethod(MixInClosurePropertiesAsMethodsDynamicObject.java:30)
at org.gradle.internal.metaobject.AbstractDynamicObject.invokeMethod(AbstractDynamicObject.java:163)
at org.gradle.groovy.scripts.BasicScript.methodMissing(BasicScript.java:83)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor26.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
at org.codehaus.groovy.reflection.CachedMethod.invoke(CachedMethod.java:93)
at groovy.lang.MetaClassImpl.invokeMissingMethod(MetaClassImpl.java:941)
at groovy.lang.MetaClassImpl.invokePropertyOrMissing(MetaClassImpl.java:1264)
at groovy.lang.MetaClassImpl.invokeMethod(MetaClassImpl.java:1217)
at groovy.lang.MetaClassImpl.invokeMethod(MetaClassImpl.java:1024)
at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.PogoMetaClassSite.callCurrent(PogoMetaClassSite.java:69)
at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.callCurrent(AbstractCallSite.java:166)
at build_75n56u0l23gg540dtryo0z527.run(/home/neeltron/Desktop/How-to-Build-a-Biomedical-Startup-master/android/build.gradle:18)
at org.gradle.groovy.scripts.internal.DefaultScriptRunnerFactory$ScriptRunnerImpl.run(DefaultScriptRunnerFactory.java:90)
at org.gradle.configuration.DefaultScriptPluginFactory$ScriptPluginImpl$2.run(DefaultScriptPluginFactory.java:176)
at org.gradle.configuration.ProjectScriptTarget.addConfiguration(ProjectScriptTarget.java:77)
at org.gradle.configuration.DefaultScriptPluginFactory$ScriptPluginImpl.apply(DefaultScriptPluginFactory.java:181)
at org.gradle.configuration.project.BuildScriptProcessor.execute(BuildScriptProcessor.java:39)
at org.gradle.configuration.project.BuildScriptProcessor.execute(BuildScriptProcessor.java:26)
at org.gradle.configuration.project.ConfigureActionsProjectEvaluator.evaluate(ConfigureActionsProjectEvaluator.java:34)
at org.gradle.configuration.project.LifecycleProjectEvaluator.doConfigure(LifecycleProjectEvaluator.java:70)
at org.gradle.configuration.project.LifecycleProjectEvaluator.access$000(LifecycleProjectEvaluator.java:33)
at org.gradle.configuration.project.LifecycleProjectEvaluator$1.execute(LifecycleProjectEvaluator.java:53)
at org.gradle.configuration.project.LifecycleProjectEvaluator$1.execute(LifecycleProjectEvaluator.java:50)
at org.gradle.internal.Transformers$4.transform(Transformers.java:169)
at org.gradle.internal.progress.DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.run(DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.java:106)
at org.gradle.internal.progress.DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.run(DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.java:61)
at org.gradle.configuration.project.LifecycleProjectEvaluator.evaluate(LifecycleProjectEvaluator.java:50)
at org.gradle.api.internal.project.DefaultProject.evaluate(DefaultProject.java:628)
at org.gradle.api.internal.project.DefaultProject.evaluate(DefaultProject.java:129)
at org.gradle.execution.TaskPathProjectEvaluator.configure(TaskPathProjectEvaluator.java:35)
at org.gradle.execution.TaskPathProjectEvaluator.configureHierarchy(TaskPathProjectEvaluator.java:60)
at org.gradle.configuration.DefaultBuildConfigurer.configure(DefaultBuildConfigurer.java:38)
at org.gradle.initialization.DefaultGradleLauncher$1.execute(DefaultGradleLauncher.java:161)
at org.gradle.initialization.DefaultGradleLauncher$1.execute(DefaultGradleLauncher.java:158)
at org.gradle.internal.Transformers$4.transform(Transformers.java:169)
at org.gradle.internal.progress.DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.run(DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.java:106)
at org.gradle.internal.progress.DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.run(DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.java:56)
at org.gradle.initialization.DefaultGradleLauncher.doBuildStages(DefaultGradleLauncher.java:158)
at org.gradle.initialization.DefaultGradleLauncher.doBuild(DefaultGradleLauncher.java:119)
at org.gradle.initialization.DefaultGradleLauncher.run(DefaultGradleLauncher.java:102)
at org.gradle.launcher.exec.GradleBuildController.run(GradleBuildController.java:71)
at org.gradle.tooling.internal.provider.ExecuteBuildActionRunner.run(ExecuteBuildActionRunner.java:28)
at org.gradle.launcher.exec.ChainingBuildActionRunner.run(ChainingBuildActionRunner.java:35)
at org.gradle.launcher.exec.InProcessBuildActionExecuter.execute(InProcessBuildActionExecuter.java:41)
at org.gradle.launcher.exec.InProcessBuildActionExecuter.execute(InProcessBuildActionExecuter.java:26)
at org.gradle.tooling.internal.provider.ContinuousBuildActionExecuter.execute(ContinuousBuildActionExecuter.java:75)
at org.gradle.tooling.internal.provider.ContinuousBuildActionExecuter.execute(ContinuousBuildActionExecuter.java:49)
at org.gradle.tooling.internal.provider.ServicesSetupBuildActionExecuter.execute(ServicesSetupBuildActionExecuter.java:44)
at org.gradle.tooling.internal.provider.ServicesSetupBuildActionExecuter.execute(ServicesSetupBuildActionExecuter.java:29)
at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.exec.ExecuteBuild.doBuild(ExecuteBuild.java:67)
at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.exec.BuildCommandOnly.execute(BuildCommandOnly.java:36)
at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.api.DaemonCommandExecution.proceed(DaemonCommandExecution.java:120)
at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.exec.WatchForDisconnection.execute(WatchForDisconnection.java:47)
at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.api.DaemonCommandExecution.proceed(DaemonCommandExecution.java:120)
at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.exec.ResetDeprecationLogger.execute(ResetDeprecationLogger.java:26)
at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.api.DaemonCommandExecution.proceed(DaemonCommandExecution.java:120)
at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.exec.RequestStopIfSingleUsedDaemon.execute(RequestStopIfSingleUsedDaemon.java:34)
at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.api.DaemonCommandExecution.proceed(DaemonCommandExecution.java:120)
at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.exec.ForwardClientInput$2.call(ForwardClientInput.java:74)
at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.exec.ForwardClientInput$2.call(ForwardClientInput.java:72)
at org.gradle.util.Swapper.swap(Swapper.java:38)
at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.exec.ForwardClientInput.execute(ForwardClientInput.java:72)
at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.api.DaemonCommandExecution.proceed(DaemonCommandExecution.java:120)
at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.exec.LogAndCheckHealth.execute(LogAndCheckHealth.java:55)
at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.api.DaemonCommandExecution.proceed(DaemonCommandExecution.java:120)
at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.exec.LogToClient.doBuild(LogToClient.java:60)
at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.exec.BuildCommandOnly.execute(BuildCommandOnly.java:36)
at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.api.DaemonCommandExecution.proceed(DaemonCommandExecution.java:120)
at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.exec.EstablishBuildEnvironment.doBuild(EstablishBuildEnvironment.java:72)
at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.exec.BuildCommandOnly.execute(BuildCommandOnly.java:36)
at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.api.DaemonCommandExecution.proceed(DaemonCommandExecution.java:120)
at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.exec.StartBuildOrRespondWithBusy$1.run(StartBuildOrRespondWithBusy.java:50)
at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.DaemonStateCoordinator$1.run(DaemonStateCoordinator.java:297)
at org.gradle.internal.concurrent.ExecutorPolicy$CatchAndRecordFailures.onExecute(ExecutorPolicy.java:54)
at org.gradle.internal.concurrent.StoppableExecutorImpl$1.run(StoppableExecutorImpl.java:40)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* Where:
Script '/home/neeltron/development/flutter/packages/flutter_tools/gradle/flutter.gradle' line: 27

* What went wrong:
A problem occurred evaluating script.
> Could not find method google() for arguments [] on repository container.

* Try:
Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.
Command: /home/neeltron/Desktop/How-to-Build-a-Biomedical-Startup-master/android/gradlew app:properties

Finished with error: Please review your Gradle project setup in the android/ folder.

Space.. it's big!

This is a daft thread. :cool:

So any sci-fi fan has heard the term "light years away" etc etc and then off zooms the ship with its warp drive and appears at its destination moments later. Now I've always wondered just how far a "light year" is but never got round to it.

I finally did today and it blew my mind..

1 light year is a mere 5,878,625,373,200 miles away!!! :eek:

So with this in mind I thought "how far is Proxima Centauri", our nearest star. Turns out that is 4.22 light years away or 24,807,799,074,904 miles away.. :oops:

These are crazy figures, especially when you think that our furthest probe in space is the Voyger 1 probe that is travelling at around 38,000 miles per hour (in 2014) it would take the probe 17,500 YEARS !! to reach 1 light year away from planet earth at it's current speed.. :eek:

My goodness space is BIG, it's enough to give you an anxiety attack. :p

Android radio on my bmw

Hi,
First of sorry if this is not the right place for my question but I have searched in the forum and couldnt find any other place.
I have installed one of those android radios on my bmw.
I have rear seat monitors also.
My question is the only way I can send video to the rear seat monitors is with the pre instaled app on the radio wich name is only “ video”.
Is there any other apk that allows me to choose the output?!
The android version is 7.1.
Thanks for your help.

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