A week or so ago, I purchased a Samsung S23 Ultra as a replacement for my Pixel 3XL. Prior to buying the phone, I reviewed a number of on-line guides about rooting said phone; but when it arrived, I was unable to make any of those procedures work. I posted here and learned that the new Samsung phones cannot be rooted.

My next plan is to get a Pixel 7Pro and root it. I have seen some on-line guides about rooting that phone, but given the experience I just had with the Samsung phone, let me simply ask this: Can the Pixel 7Pro be rooted?

Hope this is the right place. I'm trying to create location sharing between 2 android phones ((mine and child) and an iphone (wife). All 3 should see the location of the other 2 and all 3 should send/receive location alerts. I'm failing miserably.
I've tried location sharing in Life360, Google Maps, and MS Family safety. In all 3, my phone never shows movement. I always appear at hone on the other two devices. The other two devices are inconsistent - sometimes showing correct location, sometimes location is off by a mile, sometimes showing at home regardless of actual location. None send/receive notifications even when one of us enters a location alert area. Best I can tell, all 3 apps were/are set up correctly.
Are there a generic Location Sharing settings for android? That's the only commonality I can see.

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Does anyone who has this phone, not the stylus model, know if it has an led notification for calls, emails, and text msgs? Thanks for any help.

I have a Samsung Galaxy A50
It runs Android 11
I also run the Google Contacts app version 4.2.24.508113282
Everything works fine.

I'm trying to understand where physically, the contacts that I create, are stored on the phone.
And woul appreciate a little education.

Scenario one:
Let's say that I create a new contact.
Across the top of the screen, there is a "Save to" value that contains my GMail address by default.
I fill in all of the appropriate information.
I tap on "Save".
Syncing works just fine in that in a moment or two if I go to "contacts.google.com", I can see my newly created contact.
Question:
If I could, where would I look on my phone to find the newly created contact ?

Scenario two:
Let's say that I create a new contact.
Across the top of the screen, there is a "Save to" value that contains my GMail address by default.
I fill in all of the appropriate information.
But this time before I tap on "Save", I tap on my email address in the "Save to" field of the UI.
I get a drop down menu that shows my GMail address as well as "Device".
I choose "Device".
Of note, right below the Device selection the following is displayed. "vnd.sec.contact.phone".
Finally, I tap on "Save".
Where can I find THIS newly created contact on my phone ?
I searched for "vnd.sec.contact.phone" on my phone, but have not been able to find anything with that name.
By the way, this newly created "Device" contact does NOT get synced to contacts.google.com even though I have turned on "Also sync device contacts".
Why would THAT be ?

I got a tablet teclast t40 pro and I would like to add new gestures like two tap to turn on the screen. But this device came with few default gestures.

I went to settings > system > gestures



Is there a way to add more gestures options?

I always considered myself a fair horseshoe pitcher. I always gravitated to the horseshoe game at picknicks and parties. The game seemed fun enough and I was as good or better than most I played with or against. (perhaps I was more sober) Years ago a friend came by and said he passed by a park in town and there were a bunch of horseshoe pitchers playing. We both grabbed our shoes and drove up there to kick some butt. We were immediately in awe of the level of competition we were witnessing. We had stumbled upon the Kansas State Horseshoe Tournament and the A class was currently pitching. I saw horseshoes pitched like I had never imagined. They weren't playing to 21 points but to 40 and a competitor only scored when his opponent happened to only throw one ringer instead of two. I had never witnessed such skill with each player throwing more ringers in a game than I had thrown in my life. Often they would pitch down and then back a number of times before someone missed throwing two ringers.

I had to get involved. I joined the two local horseshoe clubs (one club hosted tournaments and the other leagues) I practiced every chance I could in an attempt to be as good as I had witnessed that day at the park. I even put in an official horseshoe court in my back yard and installed lighting so I could pitch at night. I was all in. Being a doer and not a watcher, I was soon an officer of both clubs. It was rewarding but also demanding. It consumed all of my time taking care of the park's courts (24), running the leagues, organizing tournaments, and trying to keep everyone happy... participants as well as club members. I even talked the city of Wichita into having a novice based tournament as an official event of their annual River Festival Celebration which I hosted for 18 consecutive years. That tournament would see near 300 "back yard" pitchers each year.

Burn out, yep, I suffered major burn out. Though it was fun I got used up. I never improved my game to the A class level. The best year I pitched, I averaged 45% ringers. It wasn't the last year I pitched. I finally walked away from the sport and the obligations. I tried pitching again last summer but between the time of absence and the time now on my body I quickly became frustrated and put my shoes up.

I hope that I haven't bored you with this narrative. Horseshoes is a wonderful game that can be enjoyed at any skill level. It is a relatively cheap sport to play and is accommodating to all ages and sex. Much like bowling, leagues are handicapped so everyone has a chance to win. Tournaments are classed in groups of similar ringer percentage so the competition is comparable . And there is always that picknick or party where horseshoes is something to play for bragging rights or perhaps a beer.
Don't laugh off horseshoes. If you haven't played, give it a try.

Hi folks!

Pretty much the title... I've made another attempt to develop & release Android app because I'm curious if it's still possible to hit the jackpot and get piece of cake from the market. I can tell this is tough, as Google Play Store is flooded with apps and it's difficult to get organic downloads. What's your experience guys? Is there some trick that works for you to get more traffic?

Long story short, app helps to:

Photos Map, the app that allows you to see on a map where you've taken your photos! App will help you to geotag photos, group photos by country or place, create albums, view and edit EXIF metadata and many more. With Photos Map, you can access and manage your photos from local and cloud storages.

Click to expand...

I've made sure that I deliver quality app and focused first to give value to the users. I've also created landing page, to build trust with users. My business model is simple: app offers 2-week trial period with all its features for free, as I don't want to put ads into the app. After trial period ends, user must purchase full version in order to continue using the app.

I would be grateful if you could give me some advise and honest feedback about the app.

Link to the app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.veaware.photosmap
App's website: Photos Map - see where you've taken your photos

Rooting a new phone shouldn't be difficult and I did root my Pixel 3XL years ago. I found this guide, How to Root Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra via Magisk [New Method], and it makes sense. However, my issue is with Step 1 - unlocking the bootloader. I followed the instructions shown, but 'OEM unlocking' was not visible. I did some more looking and found this guide How to fix the missing OEM unlock in developer options on Samsung devices - KrispiTech, tried Method 2, and that didn't work.

What on earth should I try now?

Hi
How i can change analog clock in android interface to this numbers




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Like Roman number in this clock

Have done the backup.... But when trying to restore, and then boot back to system the device just "hangs"

Android 11 and TWRP for that version of Android Help???

Thanks

My issue is that I will turn on airplane mode to play a game uninterrupted and then if something happens I'll forget to turn off airplane mode until I try to use the internet.. possibly a day or more later. Does anyone know of an app that will remind me every configurable minutes while in airplane mode that I am in airplane mode? Or something that will let me put the phone in airplane mode for a configurable amount of time and then automatically turn off would work also.

Okay so I have several old Android phones in a drawer full of old electronics cell phone junk.
One of them is a Samsung Captivate Glide. I haven't used it in years. Since like 2015.
However, last night I was looking to use an old phone just for its camera. I plugged in the Capitivate Glide and charged it about 4 hours.
Then I realized what I had forgotten- years ago, this phone's display screen had shorted out. The phone is still operational, but you can't use the screen or see anything, its just blacked out.
So the phone is essentially useless. Bummer.
Okay here's where it gets weird.
I put the phone away, in its old box and put it back in the drawer yesterday.
About 1:00 am tonight, I heard what sounded like carillon bells. Familiar, carillon bells. But coming from where?
I hunted around, and discovered that the SAMSUNG PHONE WAS PLAYING, inside the box, inside the drawer. At top volume. A YouTube video, of carillon bells.
Now, several days before, I had downloaded a recording of carillon bells to my desktop PC off YouTube. But this video was on my PC.
Why would that recording, be playing on the old Samsung phone, all by itself? Inside the box, in the closed drawer?
Again, I can't access the screen or anything, and haven't loaded anything on it for years.
I'm completely baffled by this.
I plugged the phone in to the Desktop via USB, for the first time ever----- AFTER it was playing the bells.
I can still access the files on the phone.
But I didn't find any video or music files on it that had been loaded since 2015.
Has anyone heard of anything like this before? Its extremely creepy.

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this is why you should get an android phone vs an iphone. this story is pretty scarry.

this is also why, you should setup two step verification.

Thank you for reading my post.
"moto g stylus 5g" how to create a home screen shortcut to a txt file on the phone's sd card?
I did this once before but I can't remember how I did it.

Android application forced to terminate when any policy changes on Google Admin Console are pushed to ChromeOS.

Is there a permission that needs to be added to the Manifest file for my application?
Is there a runtime permission that needs to be requested?

Hi, in my Galaxy S20 (Android 13 with One UI v5.1) the company name is missing in the phone recent list.
This is very annoying, as I deeply rely on this information to manage my business phone calls.



How to have also the company name being displayed in the phone call list ? Regards

According to technology reporter "Mental Outlaw": Apple's been snooping through the private photos of iOS users, even with iCloud (Apple's cloud storage) turned off. If true, this is very disappointing! This is behavior you would expect from your creepy uncle, or Google, not from Apple.

hello i have same problem with poco x2 smartphone it is still running on android 10 update and the phone is just unbearable now to use
anyone here who can help me with this

i want to change carriers to genmobile...is there a simple way to unlock from verizon?
[i've never had an account with verzon...it's an ebay phone that's locked to verizon]
re: htc rezound
the genmobile sim card is activated, but the phone gives an error of "sim card from an unknown source"
i bought it hoping to at least listen to music on wi-fi with the "beats" audio, but i can't even get to the playstore, because it says "server not responding"
lurk a durk lurk : )

Hi, I bought an unlocked ATT Samsung S20 last summer. I'm in Canada and the phone has been working with no problem. I have not received the One UI 5 update nor the Android 13 update. I checked with Samsung Canada and they referred me to Samsung US, they said that I should be patient and wait. After checking online I'm getting the feeling that the phone has to be on the ATT network. Does this make any sense? Does anyone know if this is the case?

I can't wait for Spring so I can get my stuff out!