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Inbound/Outbound Wifi calling

I'm currently on Cricket wireless. I have an unlocked Moto X4 andriod one phone. Of course since this is not a Cricket branded phone I can't use their wifi calling feature. My issue is that in some area's where I have absolutely no cell service I do have access to wifi. I do have a google voice number which is forwarded to my cell number and understand I can make just about any call using the wifi with various calling apps but I'm having issues receiving calls. I'm a bit confused about google voice app vs google duo app vs google hangouts app. As of today, the only way I can receive a call (via my google voice number) on my Moto X4 phone in areas that I have no cell reception but do have wifi is through the hangouts app/hangouts dialer. Will the google duo app or google voice app not allow someone to receive wifi calls when there is absolutely not cell recetion? I have tried both but not luck. I can call out but not receive calls. And getting another app (facebook messenger, whats app etc.) means both parties have to have it installed. Just curious. Thank you.

Help How to know is my s7 with broken screen is working or not ?

Hello everyone.
I have samsung Galaxy S7 with broken screen, It doesn't show anything. And I need to know If the device's hardware is working and just the screen is crashed, or the device is totally dead. Because I want to buy a new touch screen and replace it.
I got the phone from my firend and he told me that the phone is working and just the screen is broken.
When I plug it on the charger it shows the red light at the top leftة but when I try to to turn the phone on, NO SIGNAL OF WORKING. No welcome tone is heared, No lights...
And when I plug it to my laptop it show "usb not recognized".
I am confused.

Weird intermittent screen blanking (multiple devices)

This issue began for me or became noticeable to me over the past few days. what happens is regardless of what I'm doing the screen will go black for anywhere from 1 to 5 seconds. sometimes it's very brief but the blank interval seems to be getting even longer on the long blanks over time. I'm running the latest stock firmware that the network offers .. its an LG k8 last year's model but I have also noticed the same issue with and older aldi branded Bauhn tablet which I think is also running some form of the Android version 6 software. I did try and Google this but I did not really see anything quite that the symptoms of getting and it's. It doesn't seem to matter what apps are using or what I'm doing at the time. Its not making my devices unusable but it is irritating a.f.! It has done it three times since i started writing this post... Make that FIVE.
Anyone else notice this? Am I missing something fundamental?
cheers

P.s. first time poster, sorry if theres already been a post or discussion thread dealing with this.

Help How see all images on Smartphone

I'm using Xiaomi phone. And when I go to stock folder manager - images
I have all images on one place. No date info just all photos and that's great.

On Nokia phone, how can I see all photos like that?
Google photos sort all images by folders. I tried install that Xiaomi folder manager, and I can see all photos, but they are separate by date, I do not wanna that.

I wanna, all photos and no date info grouped.
Any app can do that, and no ads. Gallery or some folder manager.

Compass

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Compass is free app for navigation and orientation.
Compass shows direction relative to the geographic cardinal directions.
It's an easy way to determine direction of a true magnetic north.
Compass can be used for most of your outdoor activities such as travel, camping, hiking or boating.
Unlike analogues, this compass has a light design - in sunny weather it will be easier for you to see it on the screen.

Features:
✔ Shows true magnetic north
✔ No internet connection required.
✔ Free to use now

Caution!
✔ Do not use the app with magnetic covers.
✔ Periodically you need to calibrate your phone by waving the device in a figure 8, two or three times for preventing direction error.

Google Play link


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Help Screen Broke - Need Help

Hello Everyone,

I need some help with my phone, please.
I have a Huawei Ascend Mate 7 (TL-10). The screen broke when the phone fell.

The thing is, the screen was working just fine even after cracking. The touch was performing as it was before breaking. Then after a day, I clicked on restart and the phone shut off but didn't switch back on.

Now, the phone is switched off. The charging LED does not show. I tried connecting to a computer to at least get the data out if possible, but that didn't work.

Now, guys, I need help determining my next step. Where I live, I cannot go to just any shop and get the screen replaced because not only do I NOT trust these shopkeepers but also, they are pretty much inexperienced to be polite. I do not want to risk damaging the phone in attempt to replace the screen.

I can open the phone myself but I need a new screen and I have talked to people who sell them. They said they offer check warranty - meaning they will connect the screen to my phone and see if it works and hand it to me then. Otherwise they aren't responsible and neither are they responsible for if the screen doesn't work after installation or some time at home. And for this I have to take my "opened" phone to them for them to check the scree since they have no other ways of checking it.

Concluding, my question now is - is there anything wrong with the phone or I can just replace the screen and it'll be back being perfect again? This is scary cause I have data in the phone and I need to, at least, get that and other stuff like whatsapp account if (God forbid) the phone does not work.
Is there a way to get my data and accounts from the phone's current status?

Please respond as soon as you can and please let me know anything that can help me out here.
Thank you so much

Help Messages by Google Taking Large Space

So my phone running Android 9 was running out of space. I went to the settings and found out that default Messages by Google LLC had a heavy 1 GB+ cache.

I never get MMS messages, and regularly delete some SMS. I have around 50 threads right now and none of the threads expand to more than 60/65 previous messages.

So what might be the issue here?

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SD card Mount issue with phone (not SDcard)

Hopefully someone can help me nobody seems to have an answer to this question or even seems to talk about it my phone was working fine it's still alright I use the Poweramp program and have for years I refuse to use any other program because of how great it is when it comes to my subwoofers speakers or any other person's Car Bluetooth speaker stereo system or otherwise. Problem is not the SD card but the slot that you put the card in those couplings of copper or whatever that the SD card sits on for it to write data with the phone so it registers what's on the SD card one or two of them are messed up so it even if the card is in it doesn't register my music no formatting the SD card isn't going to do anything already tried no going into my music folders under that particular amp and selecting it also isn't something that will work already tried that also and none of the other things that I have read are relevant whether it be using special programs through your PC Etc I'm pretty tech-savvy so I guess what I'm wondering if there is a way to go in and fix that part of the slot so that the SD card will start reading the data from it again this phone is pretty new and I'd be pretty upset if I had to replace it simply for something that tiny

T-Mobile (USA) update 9.0.13

A new update, 9.0.13, for the T-Mobile (USA) carrier minority variant of the OnePlus 6T has begun rolling out.

Changelog:
  • Android July Security update


Camera version is yet again the same old 2.9.43
(You can update to the most recent global camera version 3.0.43)

This is the 8th T-Mobile (USA) update in 281 days

(N.B. This update is only for the T-Mobile (USA) minority carrier variant and NOT the global OnePlus 6T model)

See, also...

T-Mobile 6T to Global model Conversion (WITHOUT unlocked bootloader/SIM unlock!)

Books for kids

So I'm looking for some recommendations for my 6 year old daughter. She loves adventure and fantasy books. Her favourite book this year has been The Creakers, which I also enjoyed.

She loves stories that build suspense, giving her something to look forward to the next night. Sadly she likes David Walliams books which I don't, they are hard work, badly written and not interesting to read at all!!

I wonder if she would like one of these old school adventure books where you choose different options throughout the book. Do they still make them?.. Mmm :thinking:

Issue with ST TMobile

I've been using Straight Talk for years now and I've always bought phones from Ebay and activated through ST. The past phones I've gotten were AT&T network based and I've never had network issues until recently when I bought a TMobile Samsung S8. I can make calls and texts but I miss a lot of inbound calls or I won't receive a text until hours after its sent (not all the time but daily). I live in a large city so I'm confused how TMobiles network could be so shotty. I need to get a solution in case there's an actual emergency and someone needs to contact me. I'd hate to buy a brand new AT&T based phone just to solve the problem so I'm wondering what options I have. If I did buy a phone off Ebay how would I know I'm getting strictly AT&T because most of them include TMobile in the description of the listing? Any help would be appreciated

Apps OneTimeWorkRequest: After setting the input merger to ArrayCreatingInputMerger, the code inside doWo

This main code:
Java:
package com.example.app3;

import androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity;
import androidx.work.ArrayCreatingInputMerger;
import androidx.work.Constraints;
import androidx.work.Data;
import androidx.work.OneTimeWorkRequest;
import androidx.work.WorkManager;

import android.os.Bundle;

import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        OneTimeWorkRequest o1 = new OneTimeWorkRequest.Builder(MyWorker.class)
                .setInputData(new Data.Builder().putString("name", "number1")
                        .build())
                .build();
        OneTimeWorkRequest o2 = new OneTimeWorkRequest.Builder(MyWorker.class)
                .setInitialDelay(2, TimeUnit.SECONDS)
                .setInputData(new Data.Builder().putString("name", "number2")
                        .putInt("number", 2).build())
                .build();
        OneTimeWorkRequest o3 = new OneTimeWorkRequest.Builder(MyWorker.class)
                .setInputMerger(ArrayCreatingInputMerger.class)
                .setInputData(new Data.Builder().putString("name", "number3")
                        .build())
                .setConstraints(new Constraints.Builder().setRequiresCharging(true).setRequiresBatteryNotLow(true).build())
                .setInitialDelay(2, TimeUnit.SECONDS).build();

        WorkManager.getInstance(getApplicationContext())
                .beginWith(Arrays.asList(o1, o2))
                .then(o3)
                .enqueue();
    }
}
MyWorker.java:
Java:
package com.example.app3;

import android.content.Context;
import android.util.Log;

import androidx.annotation.NonNull;
import androidx.work.Data;
import androidx.work.Worker;
import androidx.work.WorkerParameters;

public class MyWorker extends Worker {
    public MyWorker(@NonNull Context context, @NonNull WorkerParameters workerParams) {
        super(context, workerParams);
    }

    @NonNull
    @Override
    public Result doWork() {
        int number = getInputData().getInt("number", 0);
        Data ret = new Data.Builder().putInt("number", number*2).build();
        Log.e(getInputData().getString("name"), ""+number*2);
        return Result.success(ret);
    }
}
After starting the application, I see the following in logcat:
Code:
08-03 23:57:16.188 26949-26968/com.example.app3 E/number1: 0
08-03 23:57:16.226 26949-26965/com.example.app3 I/WM-WorkerWrapper: Worker result SUCCESS for Work [ id=ec6086ea-b8d4-41e6-9bff-936fe2c157b3, tags={ com.example.app3.MyWorker } ]
08-03 23:57:18.046 26949-26974/com.example.app3 E/number2: 4
08-03 23:57:18.047 26949-26964/com.example.app3 I/WM-WorkerWrapper: Worker result SUCCESS for Work [ id=93a8312e-aa31-41d0-97b2-35d4d49668db, tags={ com.example.app3.MyWorker } ]
08-03 23:57:18.050 26949-26964/com.example.app3 I/WM-WorkerWrapper: Setting status to enqueued for a0fc4f5c-a9da-4bfd-b91a-428e5c67c56b
08-03 23:57:20.076 26949-26965/com.example.app3 I/WM-WorkerWrapper: Worker result SUCCESS for Work [ id=a0fc4f5c-a9da-4bfd-b91a-428e5c67c56b, tags={ com.example.app3.MyWorker } ]

What could be the problem? It seems to me that something is wrong with the code. I tried to do this:
Java:
if("number3".equals(getInputData().getString("name"))) {
            int[] nums = getInputData().getIntArray("number");
            assert nums != null;
            Log.e("TEST", "" + nums.length);
        }
But nothing happened because the code just doesn’t want to run and nothing is clear from the documentation

caldav calendar

Hi im looking for (free) application thats alows me connect to caldav server (baikal).
Url is look like http://companyweb.com/dav/cal.php/calendars/<username>/<calendarid>/ (autodiscovery is not supported).
I already tried some applications like "Caldav Sync Free Beta" or "Blue Mail" but with no success.
Tried url modifications:
Code:
http://companyweb.com/dav/cal.php/calendars/<username>/<calendarid>/
http://companyweb.com/dav/cal.php/calendars/<username>/
http://companyweb.com/dav/cal.php/calendars/
http://companyweb.com/dav/cal.php/
On pc (with thunderbird) work first perfect

Thanks for any sugestions

Android System Apps from 2008 - Is this normal?

Hello all

I recently got a S10 and when using an app like EZ File Explorer I noticed that I have 379 system apps but only 10 of them have been updated in 2019. The grand majority of them, 369 to be exact, have a modified date of December 31, 2008.

Is this normal or is this some kind of virus? Help would be appreciated.

I am running Android Version 9, Security Patch from 7/1/19, Verizon network with the latest security update 5 installed.

NestedScrollView does not scroll when RecyclerView scrolls

Hi friends, I have a RecyclerView in NestedScrollView. I set the size of the RecyclerView according to the screen size of the user. In this case, the recyclerview layout_height is 700dp, for example.

In this case, the problem is; The NestedScrollView does not scroll while the recyclerView is scrolling, and the nestedScrollView.setOnScrollChange method is not triggered.

What I want is; When scrolling on the recyclerView, NestedScrollView is also shifted and the nestedscrollView.setOnScrollChange method is triggered in any case. I've shared the layout below.
Is there anyone who can help?

Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<androidx.core.widget.NestedScrollView 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:id="@+id/nestedScrollView"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    tools:context=".MainActivity">

            <LinearLayout
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="match_parent"
                android:orientation="vertical">

                <androidx.appcompat.widget.SearchView
                    android:elevation="10dp"
                    android:id="@+id/searchView"
                    android:layout_width="match_parent"
                    android:layout_height="100dp"
                    android:layout_margin="4dp"
                    android:layout_marginStart="8dp"
                    android:layout_marginTop="8dp"
                    android:layout_marginEnd="8dp"
                    android:background="@color/colorAccent" />

                <androidx.recyclerview.widget.RecyclerView
                    android:id="@+id/recyclerView"
                    android:layout_width="match_parent"
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                    android:layout_margin="4dp"
                    android:layout_marginTop="8dp"/>
            </LinearLayout>


</androidx.core.widget.NestedScrollView>

Help Cannot find music files in phone storage or SD

Hi

I use the Amazon Music app and I have downloaded quite a few albums/songs from it.

On the Amazon Music app, they are showing as downloaded. They appear when I look at my 'offline music'. I am able to play them when I am not connected to the internet.

When I look in Samsung files and search for my songs, both in the phone storage and SD, I can find only a handful of those songs on the SD, it's like the rest are not there. But they MUST be, how else is Amazon Music accessing them?
Also, the Google Play app can only see the same handful of songs.

According to Samsung and Google there are songs that are not there. According to Amazon they are.

I've checked download and temp folders and the songs are not there.
I've cleared the cache partition, it did nothing.

Any help you can give?

SOLVED IT: The songs that I have downloaded through Amazon Music but not bought get added to some folder somewhere that I cannot access to prevent me playing them on any device/app other than Amazon Music (since I am technically renting the music through Amazon).
Once I have paid for the album it gets moved to an accessible folder, as I now own it and can do what I like with it.

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