If Google backups are in a md it backs up sms
Is there a way to restore SMS from Google backup without wiping and retiring phone and then it asks if you want to restore backup?

Also I noticed mms messages for mms pictures is an option if you choose a level deeper than just sms backups. But if you have never cleared your SMS conversations it can save a lot of data of old picture that can chew up Google drive space from many years of conversations

Anyone know how to purge messages older then say a year so backups and space on phone are not wasted

My carrier, having updated its network, says my phone will not work much longer. I tried to buy an appropriate phone from them but they are out of what I want and have no idea when it might be available again.

I can buy it elsewhere, from several sources. They say, the same phone from other sellers may not be compatible. They can only tell by checking the IMEI, which of course I can’t know until I buy the phone.

Is this marketing propaganda or real? Why would the phone manufacturers be making/selling phones “unlocked for all US carriers” that will only work for some? How likely is it that by buying a major brand, common model, phone I will end up with something unuseable?

I want to have a box drawn around a work or paragraph. I use an s22 ultra

I got a new phone a week ago. It's a Samsung s23+.
I can't make any purchases through Google. It just keeps telling me I need to secure my account. I have gone through their instructions probably 50 times, and when I go to check, it says there's nothing wrong.
I even called a phone number in California, spent over an hour on hold just to talk to some guy who didn't know anything.
I would appreciate any help or suggestions.

How can I add extra phone numbers to my account without adding a line?

I don't need a secondary phone with an extra number. I just need additional phone numbers (that preferably forward calls and texts to my primary number).

To be fully transparent: I'm signing up for Twitter Blue but my personal account is attached to my personal phone number. Twitter will not let me sign up for Twitter Blue with that phone number, saying it's already in use. It also will not allow me to use a Google Voice number or other "temporary" numbers saying they're not valid phone numbers.

This question is specific to Verizon, but I assume people with AT&T, T-Mobile, etc... will have a similar question. If there's way to accomplish this WITHOUT getting and paying for an extra number, I'd love to hear your suggestions!

EDIT: At one point VZW had an app for that:

But it's since been discontinued:

Not to mention $15/month for a number + $84/year for Twitter Blue = $WayMoreThanIWouldSpend.

I have an old android phone that I would like to use for things other then a phone.
No SIM card, just Wi-Fi.
The phone is alive, old installed apps work.
When I try to access Play Store it wants a "Google sign-in". It has prefilled my gmail address as the Username and asks for a password. I give it the password but it won't authenticate it.
I can use the same username and password to log in to Google Play on my desktop or tablet.
What can I do?

Note, this is an old Verizon phone.
LG Vortex.
When I try to add it to my Google Play devices I am told to use Google Maps on the phone. Google Maps is not installed on the phone so that won't work.

Hi. When I take a picture with my S23 Ultra it does not appear in Google Photos on my computer until the next day. With my old Note 10 I could go to Accounts and sync Google Photos but that option isn't available on the S23. Having to email pictures to myself in order to access them on my computer the same day is such a nuisance!

I'd appreciate any ideas.

Thanks.

RadioTime is a super simple app for listening to radio stations around the world.

Listen to music anytime and anywhere on your phone or in the car. It's free to use, and doesn't require you to create an account!

Here's why you should try out RadioTime:

• Material You design
• Background playback
• Android Auto support
• Search stations by name
• Favorite list
• Shortcuts
• Sleep Timer
• Dark mode
• Dynamic colors

Get it on Google Play:

Preview:

One of my favorite movies is Escape from Shawshank, The Healer, The Apprentice of Avicenna, and the Scrubs series.

Of course, these are just my favorites. In reality, the list is long.
I think the topic will be of interest to anyone looking for something to watch in the evening.

I just installed Read Mode on my Pixel 3a XL (Android 12). I like it a lot. The only problem is when I need to go to another app or deal with a notification then come back to the article I was reading Read Mode doesn't remember when I left off and goes back to the top of the article. Is there a fix for this?

I wish to add my own banner ads to my Android mobile app. Not AdMob ads. I've searched high and low for a tutorial on how to do this but I cannot find one. I'd be grateful if anyone knows of such a tutorial as I have spent a lot of time trying to figure it out but without success.

Thanks,

John

I have a Pixel 6 pro, and every time I receive a call, by default the output is set to "Phone", which it should be, but I can't hear anything. The only way I can get audio is to click on the audio output options (which gives me three options (Phone, Speaker, Galaxy Watch4 Classic), select either of the other options, then switch it back to phone and it will immediately start working.

Now you may think that it must be by default just connecting to my watch which is listed in the options (despite the fact that it displays "Phone" as the selected option). However, there is no audio coming out of my watch at that point. If I were to manually select my watch, then the call starts coming through on there (just as it would if I were to answer the call via my watch). But until I select another option, there is no sound coming out of anywhere, my phone, phone speaker, or watch.

Note, this doesn't seem to happen when I make calls, only when I receive them.
Equally, no other audio is affected in this way, when I'm watching videos or listening to podcasts or music, it plays through the phone speaker as standard unless I connect a bluetooth speaker or headphones, or manually select another output device.

It doesn't mean I can't receive calls, but does mean there's a frustrated period of a few seconds where I have to answer a call, switch the audio output, then switch it back again, before I can hear the other person, meaning I also miss the start of what they are saying.

Any thoughts on what it could be, I've had this for probably around 6 months.

My setup is as follows:
- Phone: Google Pixel 6 Pro
- Android version: 13
- Android security patch: 5th March 2013

If you're curious, my watch is the Samsung Galaxy Watch4 Classic (Z11L) SM-R880 running One UI 4.5, system version 11, and Wear OS version 3.5

Could you please help me find these notification icons? The P one is not PayPal (I think so). Also, why they appear on the bottom of the notification center?
S10+ Android (12).

Hi

I am trying to switch on VoLTE via the method below But VoLTE is not there. how can I activate it on Samsung A70? is there a code like on poco f4 I can use?

Tap on Connections.
Tap on Mobile networks.
Toggle on VoLTE calls.

I need to buy a new cell phone. I’m considering the Samsung Galaxy A14 5G; it is at the extreme upper end of what I can reasonably afford. I have a very important requirement that is not mentioned in any specifications I have found; I don’t know if the feature is universal. It is that the phone produces a WiFi hotspot for internet access of another device, such as a notebook computer, and that it also allows tethering via USB for internet access.

I realize that the carrier contract must allow such use, that isn’t my concern. only that the phone must be capable of it in order to be useful to me. Is there any way to be sure before purchase?

An unrelated question
I see “One UI Core 5" in the specifications. What does that mean?

Why does play store show there is Google assistant there for us to download? Isn't the app already pre-installed in all Android phones? Or am I missing something?

Ngày trước tôi hỏi "nam sinh năm 2002 mệnh gì?", Chat GPT trả lời là Thổ, trong khi nó là mệnh Mộc mà )))

So my girlfriend accidently cleared our chat going back to October on her phone. Is there a way to export my chat with her back over to her? I exported my chat to her but I don't know what to do next.

Here's a screenshot of what comes up (plus a bunch of images from the chat excluded):



I would like to fix this for her, because she lives in the UK and her and I are trying to get her US citizenship and the USCIS is going to want to see those chats as proof so while I have the originals on my phone, she doesn't aside from what I sent in the above image which I exported to her.

Any help or suggestions but be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

I have an older 4G smart phone that I had to give up using a little over two years ago because it isn’t LTE capable. It is an HTC One running Android 5.0.2. I have no direct internet access of course but I can connect the phone to WiFi.

I’ve been using if for some audio playback, using its built into the Android system audio player. It is easy to copy audio files to the phone and hassle free to play them. Now I want to play audio books borrowed from the library. This requires a special player, Libby, which comes only from the Google Play Store. I never before used the Play Store on this phone.

I started with the Play Store icon, then signed on, which appeared to work. There is no longer any requirement for entering ID or password and, as far as I can see, there is no option to sign out. Right after I signed on there was a message across the top of the screen saying something like “unable to access Play Store content”. It has not been repeated.

What I get now is a blank screen except for a search dialogue across the top. I’m not certain if it is part of Play Store or just some search engine for the web. When I key in Libby I get a list of several Libby software things, all of which may be for the same library program. If I select any of them, the system goes into perpetual busy state with an arrow head snake chasing it tail in a circle. Maybe if I waited long enough it would time out but so far I haven’t had the extreme patience necessary for that.

The above procedure works as expected on my current, connected phone.

What occurs to me is that Play Store has since been updated and will no longer work on such an old version of Android or maybe with such an old version of the Play Store program. I find no way to update the Play Store program and, for certain, there is no HTC Android update for the phone.

Are there any other possibilities, in particular ones that might work on this phone?
Am I correct in believing there is no such thing as a generic Android system that might be used to update the Phone’s OS?

There's has been a few news articles about airline delays due to a staff and pilot shortages. Didn't think much about it.

My wife book a flight a month ago with United. Going from Chicago O'Hare to Minneapolis to visit her brother and sister in law.

The flight was scheduled to leave at 12:55, so I got my wife to the airport at 10am. After 4 delays her flight is now scheduled for 6pm . She checked the schedule board and she said numerous flights were delayed. We had bad weather this morning but that has all cleared this morning. This is crazy

HOW DO I TURN OFF THER SETTING IN DEVELOPER SETTINGS FOR OVERLAY #2:1920X108,320 DPI

can i navigate by bike using a cell phone gps getting no data,only preloaded maps?

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I'm very pleased with the zoom feature of Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra!
I was already happy with the landscape photos I took 3 weeks ago of sunrise


But really haven't tried the zoom feature until today. Since it was a nice sunbreak, (5pm) I got all set up to take pics of birds, squirrels and the minute I sat down, it clouded

️ over.

I said what the heck, I'll see how this works with the zoom with deep shadows with the clouds, no sun. All shots were sitting down at the table. Look for the red dot (feeder) on the tree from where I was sitting... that is how far I zoomed (digital zoom) 20-25 yards to the feeder.

The sun was just disappearing here and cloudy with the woodpecker pics where the red dot is on tree.

Zoomed into the female and male Northern Flicker woodpeckers. First the female was there, then the male kicked her out. But as soon as he saw me, flew off, so only shot I got.

All shots were resized for web/email size for posting. I did take some with the B700 Nikon superzoom of the female woodpecker, so I'll compare the shots tomorrow and post them.