Samsung are now rolling out the December security patch for the Galaxy Fold4 and Flip4...

I often watch them in bed and fall asleep. It's very tiresome to wake up to find the whole list has played through, or to be woken up during the night by the ongoing vids. I understand I don't have to watch playlists, but it's nice to have the option.

When I'm on Reddit, to the left of the space bar, the key is a question mark. How can I replace the question with a comma?

Able to change the shape,
able to pull them up and down,
able to make them animated.
Able to customize them without any background developer knowledgment.

So I already spend hours on end making a back up disk, with a text file to bypass for the windows eleven "You cannot upgrade this"
, even register editor earlier this morning.
My question is, even this is a really old machine, can I trick it into bypassing everything for windows eleven?

We've all been there, you get the latest and greatest phone and in no time something better comes out that puts your device in the shade, (just ask some of the Samsung Fold6 owners), and you start considering moving or upgrading.


Well, bearing in mind that the Vivo X Fold3 Pro was first released in China back in April and then went with a global model some 3 months later by replacing its Chinese OriginOS with its global FuntouchOS it is more than holding its own. The phone is both light and slim and offers a premium feel with a nice hand heft and top notch spec's.

Vivo, seemingly, threw everything at this model, including the kitchen sink. It still has the largest interior screen of any foldable, 8.03", with both the exterior and interior screens offering a peak brightness of 4,500 nits, (almost twice that of some of its competitors), and ensures the screens visibility outside, in sunlight. The 72.6mm width of the outer screen allows me to use the phone as a slab phone with ease and there is not that cramped feeling that I have with the Fold5, (fixed by Samsung in the Fold Special Edition), when quickly replying to messages or browsing the web. The carbon fibre hinge is performing well and is easier to open than the Samsung Fold's and this has strangely enough, led me to increase my phone's open usage. Even after 4 months of daily usage the hinge shows no sign of wear and tear and the crease is as barely discernible as the day I received it.

One feature that I particularly find beneficial is the super fast charging of its 5,700 mAh Si/C battery which charges from 0% > 100% in around half an hour on a wired 100W charge or just over an hour on wireless charging at 50W. Surprisingly, the phone does not feel any warmer than my Fold5's smaller Li-Po battery that charges at 25W, wired. This is a huge plus for me as I always need a fully charged phone that will last at least a day or more without charging. The Vivo X Fold3 does much more than this with a combined use for me at 67h 49m and screen on = 16h 15m showing on AccuBattery. This is not all down to the battery size and Si/C technology but also the FuntouchOS which is much more battery friendly than some other OS's at 6.1% per hour on Screen On.

I really like the fast and accurate under screen fingerprint reader on both the outer and inner screens. No more searching for the power button with the screen open or closed and having to pick the device up to access it.

Although intended for sale in India and Indonesia, these global phones operate on the Global network bands and I am currently using 5G SA in the U.K.

Bloatware on the Global model is kept to a minimum and is easily uninstalled or disabled and has all the usual Google features such as Play Store, Maps, Translate, Android Auto, etc:

Vivo are not slow off the mark when it comes to updates either and were the first to release Android 15 back in September. It also receives monthly Android security updates and bugfixes and features.

I must mention the cameras on the Vivo X Fold3 which, even though I am not a professional photographer, have produced some of my best photos and videos, ever. The 64MP periscope telephoto is especially good for zooming in and the Zeiss optics are very good in low light. Colour is realistic and not over saturated.

The stereo speakers are on a par with those on the Samsung Fold5 and produce a good sound although I do use the PowerAmp player from the Play Store on both.

The downside is that there is no e-SIM support or S=Pen capability. Also, support is currently limited to 3 years of OS upgrades and 4 years of security updates. Because this phone is not intended for sale in the U.K. and Europe, I am missing the customary 2 year European warranty and am only on a 1 year warranty.

In conclusion, I am very happy with this phone and will be looking eagerly for Vivo's next fold phone to see what innovations and improvements it brings before deciding on my next year's purchase.

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Samsung have begun rolling out the Fold5 December Android security update...

Samsung have begun rolling out the December update for the S21 series...

I have a Motorola Edge 2020 regular. The OS is LineageOS 21/Android 14. Something weird is happening with the stock file explorer. It only shows the Download folder on internal storage. It doesn't show my SD Card either. I didn't notice this because I rarely use it. I don't know when it stsrted. Possibly when I upgraded from LineageOS 20/Android 13. With the file explorer I usually use (X-Plore), it shows everything. I don't know if it's related to this, but another weird thing is happening. I have a Bit Torrent client called ttorrent. I don't know when this started either, possibly also when I upgraded from LineageOS/Android 13. But when I browse for a folder to save what I'm downloading, it opens the stock file explorer's file picker widget or whatever you call it. You just see the blank page with Recent in the top left quarter, as you see in the picture. The only items in the menus you see are file sorting and whether or not you want to show hidden files. Is there any way to change the default file explorer so I don't have to worry about this?

I just took Google Androids suggestion and switch from OK Google to gemini. Now it cannot read aloud what's clearly on my screen a Chrome web page. But OK Google did it just fine. Anybody have the same experience with gemini?

Vivo have released their Android 15 December update for the Vivo X Fold3 Pro Global model for FuntouchOS...

Version # = PD2337F_EX_A-15.1.10.2.W30

Download = 479MB

Android Security patch = December 2024

Compile date = 04 December 2024

Changelog

See, also...

Vivo Fold3 Pro-Wipe Cache Partition​

Samsung have begun rolling out a further update, GXK8, to their Fold4 devices that does not change the November security patch, GXJA, that was released last month. Exactly what this interim update, 612.50MB, covers is a mystery.

S22 5g. android 14. When I press the volume up or down key, I only get one volume bar. But can I make the full panel show up?

I saw someone get the full panel to show up with just one volume button press, in a YouTube video, but I don't know how. Maybe it's phone maker specific?

See 2 images here: https://imgur.com/a/R8PrbpQ

Samsung have begun rolling out their December security update out in Europe...

I just watched episode 1.
I like the fact that they have geared it towards kids, but this is not for me.
Anyone else have a comment?

Hi all,

I have two Samsung tablets and one of my bookmarked websites is:


I regularly have to log in because for some reason the logged in status is lost. It's the same whether I just let the tablets sleep or switch off. The techie at DS is stuck for an answer except to ask:

Could your browser have some kind of cookie prevention that stops it from keeping you logged in? Can you enable cookies, or try a different browser?

I use Brave browser on one tablet and Duckduckgo on the other. Any ideas, please?

Thanks,

Ian

My friend got plagued with 'em. I got a can of spray online and it worked great. Then they came back and the second spraying almost seemed to make it worse. Is there some kind of homemade remedy?

So I got this text message yesterday ( see below ). Is this legit or some type of spam?

I have a Samsung Galaxy Tab 5e and occassionally it goes really slow and unresponsive.

I installed an widget that shows the system state and this indicates the cpu as high levels of usage (70+%) when it is not really doing anything!

Is there a good app available that will give me information about what apps are using the CPU and how much, a bit like the Windows Task Manager?

I hope you all are ready for a reasonably pleasant (but politically nondescript) Winter Solsti-Christma-Kwanz-Ukkah!

I think that covers everything...

Two things:
(1) I always start my Christmas shopping on December 26th and, as I see things throughout the year, I buy and stash them. By the time November rolls around, I'm 90% done with Christmas shopping. I keep a document file tracking what I'm giving, to whom, for the various occasions through the year. Try it: I think you'll find that most of the holiday pressure will disappear!

(2)
You may never know what one small act of kindness or generosity will result in... such is the story of Bob May.

As the holiday season of 1938 came to Chicago, Bob May wasn’t feeling much comfort or joy. A 34-year-old ad writer for Montgomery Ward, May was exhausted and nearly broke. His wife, Evelyn, was bedridden, on the losing end of a two-year battle with cancer. This left Bob to look after their four-year old-daughter, Barbara.

One night, Barbara asked her father, “Why isn’t my mommy like everybody else’s mommy?” As he struggled to answer his daughter’s question, Bob remembered the pain of his own childhood. A small, sickly boy, he was constantly picked on and called names. But he wanted to give his daughter hope, and show her that being different was nothing to be ashamed of. More than that, he wanted her to know that he loved her and would always take care of her.

So he began to spin a tale about a reindeer with a bright red nose who found a special place on Santa’s team. Barbara loved the story so much that she made her father tell it every night before bedtime. As he did, it grew more elaborate. Because he couldn’t afford to buy his daughter a gift for Christmas, Bob decided to turn the story into a homemade picture book.

In early December, Bob’s wife died. Though he was heartbroken, he kept working on the book for his daughter. A few days before Christmas, he reluctantly attended a company party at Montgomery Ward. His co-workers encouraged him to share the story he’d written. After he read it, there was a standing ovation. Everyone wanted copies of their own. Montgomery Ward bought the rights to the book from their debt-ridden employee. Over the next six years, at Christmas, they gave away six million copies of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer to shoppers. Every major publishing house in the country was making offers to obtain the book. In an incredible display of goodwill, the head of the department store returned all rights to Bob May. Four years later, Rudolph had made him into a millionaire.

Now remarried with a growing family, May felt blessed by his good fortune. But there was more to come. His brother-in-law, a successful songwriter named Johnny Marks, set the uplifting story to music. The song was pitched to artists from Bing Crosby on down. They all passed. Finally, Marks approached Gene Autry. The cowboy star had scored a holiday hit with “Here Comes Santa Claus” a few years before. Like the others, Autry wasn’t impressed with the song about the misfit reindeer. Marks begged him to give it a second listen. Autry played it for his wife, Ina. She was so touched by the line “They wouldn’t let poor Rudolph play in any reindeer games” that she insisted her husband record the tune.

Within a few years, it had become the second best-selling Christmas song ever, right behind “White Christmas.” Since then, Rudolph has come to life in TV specials, cartoons, movies, toys, games, coloring books, greeting cards and even a Ringling Bros. circus act. The little red-nosed reindeer, dreamed up by Bob May and immortalized in song by Johnny Marks, has come to symbolize Christmas as much as Santa Claus, evergreen trees and presents. As the last line of the song says, “He’ll go down in history.”

Well, my Michigan Wolverines beat Ohio State!!!

I saw a strange error that saids "Disc already fll" I got frustrated with the cloud notifications, decended it with a "Sorry cannot access pin please search online for an app.." I did manage to sneak out via holding shift with the power icon on it, went through troubleshooting...

So my windows ten is an empty shell again.

When a user puts a micro SD Card into an Android Smart Phone to give additional storage ... questions:

1. Does the SD Card only get used when the internal storage gets full?
2. Does the SD Card have a unique identifier (much like the C: and D: and E: drives of windows)? Or does it simply make the internal storage look bigger with the same identifier as the internal storage? In other words, if say the internal is 128 GB and SD Card of 512 GB is added, would that internal storage look like one span of 640 GB?
3. If the SD Card has a unique identifier, can the user drag and drop files/directories to and from internal storage?
4. Does the user have to tell Android that the SD Card is there after putting it in the slot? or will Android know it's there and act accordingly?