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Hacked, and I know this sounds crazy

But when I chat with Verizon on my phone, or even call them, it's not really them. My ex boyfriend, as it turns out, and unbeknownst to me while we were together, is quite the hacker. It makes sense, his parents owned and then sold a software company they built for 17 million dolars about 10 years ago, and he was babysat by being thrown i front of a computer. He used to get paid fr playing World of Warcraft, he was so good, but then the not so nice breakup and I am really suffering. He was arrested in Florida for drug possession and he blames me, and has been trying to get even ever since. Hes stole my iPhone and knew the password. I had bought a note 9 right before that, and was planning to take it back and get my iphone activated again. He manages to get access to the note 9 and had it for hours whie I thought someone else had stolen it, steals my iphone and said he sold it but I think he kept it, and broke the screen (front and back) on my note 9 so i could not take it back. At first it was just someone getting into my google account and deleting pics and vids and changing settings, then it evolved to me trying to pay traffic tickets by phone, changing car insurance policies by phone, and calling verizon a million times for help, and it turns out, noone of these people had ever heard from me. Who was I speaking to? Most recently, my note 9 went missing, and I ordered a new one from asurion. The one they send has the IMEI and serial numbers blocked off the back of the phone. When I called to explain, the rep was so rude that it could not have been a real rep. Then a man called me saying he was from verizon and I caught him telling two lies and then some random woman calls. They are not real verizon and asurion reps. Who are these people? Then the other day, I get pulled over and the officer sees a bong in the car that is not mine. I might be facing criminal charges for that. Tongiht, I noticed there are gouge marks on the passenger side door where someone was able to pry the door to my car open and likely got in. I have n idea when that could have happened though. I feel like I'm going insane. Can anyone offer any advice or has ever heard of something like this happening? My mom believes me because she heard the verizon people and I think they have compromised her phone too, but what I thought was just a pissed off ex, now seems to be a group of organized hackers. Did he sell my information to someone thats trying to steal my identity? I sound nuts, and no one belives me, except for my poor mom, who is now probably hacked too.

16Gb total storage, Apps only 3Gb, yet no more space

Dear fellow A3 users,

I'm very puzzled by my phone. My apps only occupy 3.3 GB and my phone has total storage capacity of 16GB. I removed all musics, downloads, photos and movies, I cleared any cache files.

And I only managed to get 1.7GB.

How do 3.3 Gb of applications take 14.3 GB of space?
Here is my memory breakdown in the storage menu:
Documents 7.05MB
Images 7.94MB
Audio 4.57MB
Videos 548KB
Applications 3.3GB

Total should make 3.3 GB, maybe 3.4GB, but not 14.3 GB!

How is this difference explained? It's quite relevant for me because every time I take a little bit too much pictures and movies with the phone, I can come close to memory limit pretty quickly and unavoidably my phone becomes slower and slower over time.

Best regards!

Help Recovering files from a blackscreened OnePlus 6

Hi!
Long story short, i broke my screen. The problem now is that i want all the pictures from the phone, but now i can't enable file transfer from the phone. All the solutions i could find online requires debugging, but i don't know how to enable it now with a black screen. It seems like the touch is working.
So is there a way to recover the files remotely with a computer or are there other solutions?
Thank you in advance!

Continuous location sharing problems.

I have a Galaxy S7 Edge, (I don't think this pays into my problem) and my partner has a Galaxy S9.
We share our locations with one another, and are both also on the same lookout mobile security account to locate, lock, and wipe our devices should they ever be stolen.
The problem is , they can see me consistently, but I consistently cannot see them in google maps location sharing, nor will their phone show it's location for me using lookout mobile security.

The seems to be rather random, but frequent. I was looking at their phone, and noticed a message in google maps, "location not being shared" or "Location not updating" or something like that with a "fix" link to the right.
Once I clicked the "fix" link, (button) suddenly they appeared on my google maps location sharing.
it worked fine for a day or so and now we are back to them becoming invisible in both maps and lookout mobile security.
I've turned location on, set it to high accuracy, calibrated it, and restarted their phone, but still not matter what i do a some point their phone will disappear from google location sharing.
Any ideas on how to permanently fix this, or what it's cause might be, and why it appears random?
Thanks!
PM

Apps Is it possible to publish an Android app on behalf of a customer?

Hi all.

As a software developer, I develop a white label app that is then branded for my client.

Is it possible to publish the app on behalf of my client so it's under their Google PlayStore account? Will this allow them to respond to customer reviews on the PlayStore?

If it's possible, I believe the client requires to have a google account, but what type of an account and I how can I push the build from my dev account to their account so the client can publish it?

Confused!!!

I know with out a doubt that my phone is hacked and it's all my fault actually. I allowed someone to borrow my phone but didn't think she would do such things to me. I'm trying hard to figure out how it's done so I can actually have a phone that I can use without her and anyone she chooses to do so knowing everything I do. I would also love to have a Google, Gmail, Facebook and messanger account that I could continue to use for more than three days. In reading many many topics of Android spy apps,hacker guides ECT. It all seems very possible. There are 135 apps on my phone it says, I have downloaded probably 10. Many many app files that seem to be normal for Android operating systems but I know she and others see all text and messanger messages, able to forward calls, allow calls to go and come, block calls and much more. I've read everything on how to see if your phone is hacked. My phone behaves exactly how a 'hacked' phone would behave. I've literally had my identity stolen and have become paranoid to no end. I have had this phone less than a month and now while looking at my Google Play under library it reads like my old phone plus this new one. I DIDN'T USE THE SAME GOOGLE ACCOUNT AND USED MY BOYFRIEND'S NAME!!! I'm almost at the point of throwing away the phone forever!!! I'm begging that if anyone can help guide me to a possible answer or to someone who can figure this out please help me. I'm at my wit's end

The liar

Yes my phone has been taken over by my husband. We have straight talk and some how my account now shows his number. And his account shows a tutorial for both his phone and mine. I cant do any thing without him getting it. Not that i do. But now i see that i have read only contact in my phone. Not only that but i am blocked at ever turn. I have seen ark.mirror in his activity and also com.tct dialer and contacts email and exchange. I am not computer smart. I have asked over and over for well over 3 years now about certain thing and i know in my gut he has been lying. I really need to figure out how to bust him so i can make a decision about my future. But i need proof of my gut feelings before i can do this. Ive been with him 24 years and i know but cant prove that he is a liar. Please anybody out there help me out. Im so tired of this. I just want to be able to show him i truly know befor i exit. Cause once i have my proof i can walk with him knowing that he cant lie anymore..

Why can't Google Play Music discern Music from audio books?

All Audio book readers Libra Vox, Gutenberg, GuteBooks, can discern the difference between Music files and Audio Books but Google Play Music cannot! You never find music in the books listed in any reader but you find Books in your music listed in Google Play Music??? What makes the readers so special that they can display the proper audio files, but Google has their head up their butt and just don't care?

Help Visual Voicemail Nightmare!

Hi there! I'm a casual android user! And over the past three days I've been trying to solve a problem! There is a notification on my screen registered under "Call services" New Voicemail
and when I click on it to get it off my screen it calls my voicemail.

I'm unable to swipe it off. The only options it gives me are to "snooze" it and to stop receiving notifications from call services. Even which I check that I don't want notifications this one stays anyway. I'm at my witts end please please help me solve this!!

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Verizon slowing phone down?

My 2014 Samsung S5 galaxy phone, purchased from Verizon, has worked as expected until the last couple of weeks, when its response to any "request" began to slow down greatly. The battery can be fully charged, 100%, and the phone will show only a blank white screen for as much as 2-3 minutes. This does not depend on location - different places indoors, different buildings, outside, etc, are all the same. A "wide area network" of WiFi is available to me, and when the phone is on the WAN (WiFi) it shows the same slow-down. Once I get the sign-in screen, it may take from one to fives minutes after I press the Home button to access the main screen. Once the Home screen is available, it may take even longer - 5 to 10 minutes - before I can access email, or Maps, or any other app on the phone.

My guess has been that the phone is somehow wearing out. But I know that some phone suppliers have slowed down older phones, to encourage customers to "upgrade" to newer models. Does anyone know of Verizon doing this?

External storage

Since there is no internal slot for extra storage, I was told that I could buy an adapter for the USB 3 slot I have done that. I have inserted a large SD card I can see the SD card through a file manager, but I cannot get any music app or picture app to recognize that external storage.

I want to offload my pictures and music to the external drive.

I can click on the individual music files, and individual picture files, and I can hear and see them without problem. But no manager seems to be able to use them. I cannot even find a place to ask the Android system to move the applications to the external drive.

Has anyone had this problem, and if so what is the solution?

Google Pixel 3 XL with Android 9

Strange problem

Hi everyone.I had xiaomi redmi go and it was ok for my needs but problem was that when it was charching sometimes it would start to behave like one second there is power next second there is no power than there is power etc.Like someone was thurning charger on and of.I gave it to my baby brother and bought samsung J3.Everything was ok until yesterday when same problem happend with this phone.It just goes on and off like someone is constantly taking it of charger and next second puting it back on.What could it be.I am sorry about my English it is not my first language.Thank you.

App Inventor cannot find the declaration of element 'manifest'

Hi i have this problem - cannot find the declaration of element 'manifest' in my androidmanifest.xml

Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:versionCode="0"
android:versionName="1.0"
android:compileSdkVersion="28"
android:compileSdkVersionCodename="9"
package="com.myapp.myapp"
platformBuildVersionCode="28"
platformBuildVersionName="9">

<uses-sdk
android:minSdkVersion="16"
android:targetSdkVersion="28"
android:maxSdkVersion="28" />

<supports-screens
android:anyDensity="true"
android:smallScreens="true"
android:normalScreens="true"
android:largeScreens="true" />

<uses-permission
android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />

<uses-permission
android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" />

<uses-permission
android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_WIFI_STATE" />

<uses-permission
android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION" />

<uses-permission
android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />

<uses-permission
android:name="android.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE" />

<uses-permission
android:name="android.permission.WAKE_LOCK" />

<uses-permission
android:name="com.google.android.c2dm.permission.RECEIVE" />

<uses-feature
android:glEsVersion="0x20000"
android:required="true" />

<permission
android:name="com.myapp.myapp.permission.C2D_MESSAGE"
android:protectionLevel="0x2" />

<uses-permission
android:name="com.myapp.myapp.permission.C2D_MESSAGE" />

<application
android:label="@ref/0x7f0c0020"
android:icon="@ref/0x7f070169"
android:name="android.support.multidex.MultiDexApplication"
android:debuggable="true"
android:allowBackup="true"
android:hardwareAccelerated="true">

<meta-data
android:name="com.google.android.gms.version"
android:value="@ref/0x7f090005" />

<meta-data
android:name="com.google.android.gms.games.APP_ID"
android:value="@ref/0x7f0c001f" />

<activity
android:theme="@ref/0x01030007"
android:label="@ref/0x7f0c0020"
android:name="com.mayourgames.bozolee.PTPlayer"
android:screenOrientation="0"
android:configChanges="0x80">

<intent-filter>

<action
android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

<category
android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>
</activity>

<activity
android:name="com.heyzap.sdk.ads.HeyzapInterstitialActivity"
android:configChanges="0xca0" />

<activity
android:name="com.heyzap.sdk.ads.HeyzapVideoActivity"
android:configChanges="0xca0" />

<activity
android:name="com.heyzap.sdk.ads.MediationTestActivity" />

<activity
android:name="com.heyzap.sdk.ads.HeyzapProxyActivity" />

<receiver
android:name="com.heyzap.sdk.ads.PackageAddedReceiver">

<intent-filter>

<data
android:scheme="package" />

<action
android:name="android.intent.action.PACKAGE_ADDED" />
</intent-filter>
</receiver>

<uses-library
android:name="org.apache.http.legacy"
android:required="false" />

<receiver
android:name="com.heyzap.mediation.handler.IntergrationsReciever"
android:enabled="true"
android:exported="false">

<intent-filter>

<action
android:name="com.gameofwhales.action.Response" />
</intent-filter>
</receiver>

<receiver
android:name="com.fyber.inneractive.sdk.mraid.IAMraidKit"
android:enabled="true"
android:exported="false">

<intent-filter>

<action
android:name="com.fyber.inneractive.sdk.intent.action.REGISTER_KIT" />
</intent-filter>
</receiver>

<receiver
android:name="com.fyber.inneractive.sdk.nativead.IANativeKit"
android:enabled="true"
android:exported="false">

<intent-filter>

<action
android:name="com.fyber.inneractive.sdk.intent.action.REGISTER_KIT" />
</intent-filter>
</receiver>

<activity
android:name="com.fyber.inneractive.sdk.activities.InneractiveInternalBrowserActivity"
android:configChanges="0xda0" />

<activity
android:theme="@ref/0x01030007"
android:name="com.fyber.inneractive.sdk.activities.InneractiveFullscreenAdActivity"
android:configChanges="0xda0" />

<activity
android:theme="@ref/0x01030007"
android:name="com.fyber.inneractive.sdk.activities.InneractiveRichMediaVideoPlayerActivityCore"
android:configChanges="0xda0" />

<receiver
android:name="com.fyber.inneractive.sdk.video.IAVideoKit"
android:enabled="true"
android:exported="false">

<intent-filter>

<action
android:name="com.fyber.inneractive.sdk.intent.action.REGISTER_KIT" />
</intent-filter>
</receiver>

<activity
android:theme="@ref/0x0103000f"
android:name="com.google.android.gms.ads.AdActivity"
android:exported="false"
android:configChanges="0xfb0" />

<receiver
android:name="com.google.android.gms.analytics.AnalyticsReceiver"
android:enabled="true"
android:exported="false" />

<service
android:name="com.google.android.gms.analytics.AnalyticsService"
android:enabled="true"
android:exported="false" />

<service
android:name="com.google.android.gms.analytics.AnalyticsJobService"
android:permission="android.permission.BIND_JOB_SERVICE"
android:enabled="true"
android:exported="false" />

<activity
android:theme="@ref/0x7f0d0127"
android:name="com.google.android.gms.appinvite.PreviewActivity"
android:exported="true">

<intent-filter>

<action
android:name="com.google.android.gms.appinvite.ACTION_PREVIEW" />

<category
android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
</intent-filter>
</activity>

<activity
android:theme="@ref/0x01030010"
android:name="com.google.android.gms.auth.api.signin.internal.SignInHubActivity"
android:exported="false"
android:excludeFromRecents="true" />

<service
android:name="com.google.android.gms.auth.api.signin.RevocationBoundService"
android:permission="com.google.android.gms.auth.api.signin.permission.REVOCATION_NOTIFICATION"
android:exported="true" />

<receiver
android:name="com.google.android.gms.cast.framework.media.MediaIntentReceiver" />

<service
android:name="com.google.android.gms.cast.framework.media.MediaNotificationService" />

<service
android:name="com.google.android.gms.cast.framework.ReconnectionService" />

<activity
android:theme="@ref/0x01030010"
android:name="com.google.firebase.auth.internal.FederatedSignInActivity"
android:permission="com.google.firebase.auth.api.gms.permission.LAUNCH_FEDERATED_SIGN_IN"
android:exported="true"
android:excludeFromRecents="true"
android:launchMode="3" />

<activity
android:theme="@ref/0x01030010"
android:name="com.google.android.gms.common.api.GoogleApiActivity"
android:exported="false" />

<service
android:name="com.google.firebase.messaging.FirebaseMessagingService"
android:exported="true">

<intent-filter
android:priority="-500">

<action
android:name="com.google.firebase.MESSAGING_EVENT" />
</intent-filter>
</service>

<service
android:name="com.google.android.gms.tagmanager.TagManagerService"
android:enabled="true"
android:exported="false" />

<activity
android:name="com.google.android.gms.tagmanager.TagManagerPreviewActivity"
android:exported="true"
android:noHistory="true">

<intent-filter>

<data
android:scheme="tagmanager.c.com.mayourgames.bozolee" />

<action
android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />

<category
android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />

<category
android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
</intent-filter>
</activity>

<receiver
android:name="com.google.android.gms.measurement.AppMeasurementReceiver"
android:enabled="true"
android:exported="false" />

<receiver
android:name="com.google.android.gms.measurement.AppMeasurementInstallReferrerReceiver"
android:permission="android.permission.INSTALL_PACKAGES"
android:enabled="true"
android:exported="true">

<intent-filter>

<action
android:name="com.android.vending.INSTALL_REFERRER" />
</intent-filter>
</receiver>

<service
android:name="com.google.android.gms.measurement.AppMeasurementService"
android:enabled="true"
android:exported="false" />

<service
android:name="com.google.android.gms.measurement.AppMeasurementJobService"
android:permission="android.permission.BIND_JOB_SERVICE"
android:enabled="true"
android:exported="false" />

<receiver
android:name="com.google.firebase.iid.FirebaseInstanceIdReceiver"
android:permission="com.google.android.c2dm.permission.SEND"
android:exported="true">

<intent-filter>

<action
android:name="com.google.android.c2dm.intent.RECEIVE" />

<category
android:name="com.myapp.myapp" />
</intent-filter>
</receiver>

<service
android:name="com.google.firebase.iid.FirebaseInstanceIdService"
android:exported="true">

<intent-filter
android:priority="-500">

<action
android:name="com.google.firebase.INSTANCE_ID_EVENT" />
</intent-filter>
</service>

<provider
android:name="com.google.firebase.provider.FirebaseInitProvider"
android:exported="false"
android:authorities="com.myapp.myapp.firebaseinitprovider"
android:initOrder="100" />

<meta-data
android:name="android.support.VERSION"
android:value="26.1.0" />

<meta-data
android:name="android.arch.lifecycle.VERSION"
android:value="27.0.0-SNAPSHOT" />
</application>
</manifest>

GPS Daemon system app?

Pre-installed Android system app. GPS Daemon. What is it? Didnt notice it till my NetGuard firewall brought it to my attention. Cant find it or make any changes to it in the app settings on my device. Any insight? Anyone know what it is or what it does or how to configure it?

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