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Should I get the Pixel 2 XL or the Pixel 3a?

Hey all,
I currently have the Unlocked Pixel 1 XL, and I'm looking to upgrade my phone. The 2 XL and 3a (small one) are both in my budget right now. I'm a bit iffy on which one to get. Should I spring for the 3a (currently about 399$) or get the 2xl (~$320-$330 Renewed and Certified by Amazon)? Is there anything significantly better about the Pixel 3a? T-Mobile is my carrier, if that helps.

Contacts no longer show "mobile" "home" etc.

Before this most recent update for my Galaxy S8+ on Verizon, when sending a text message, the contacts would show next to the number "mobile" or "home" etc. Now if I look up a contact, we'll call him Bob Jones", I have 3 numbers listed. I know 1 is a home, 1 is a mobile, and 1 is a work. But it doesn't show me, so I have to go into contacts and determine which number is the cell before trying to send a text message...

Is there any way to get contacts to show what number it is when sending a text message? This new update is a real pain.. much less user friendly.

IMEI

So I purchased a liquid screen protector with insurance for my S10+. I have to register to be able to use the insurance if needed. One of the items they ask for is IMEI. They need to be able to identify the phone for a claim. Seems to be a bit excessive to me. They also ask for my model and carrier which I think should be sufficient. IMO. I've read some posts about IMEI with differing thoughts on whether someone can do anything nefarious with someone's IMEI. Just curious if folks have run into anything similar. Thanks.

Blue tooth audio problem

I have a 2019 Mazda with Mazda Connect Infotainment, The blue tooth audio is connected and it will play tracks but will not access playlists, artists etc. the error I get is "unable to read contents of device" Phone is a Verizon Galaxy s8 running Pie. any ideas on how to access the root menu of the device ?

Emulator selection

Hi folks,
I am looking into testing android apps based on emulators. Currently I am using a Nexus One Google APIs Intel Atom (x86) 480x800. My question is, what other emulators should I consider in the top 5 for my testing?
For the testing I consider:
* Apps will be working in rendering, but also accessing different sensors
* I am interested to work with different screen resolutions
* How do you manage testing different Android APIs?

Say if I have 5 emulators and I want to test API 17, 21,26, 28 then I shouldn't have to go into 5 emu x 4 Android APIs = 20 images, right?

prevent pocket pushes, not just calling

So often when I take out my phone from a pocket, the camera is on, email, messaging, various other apps where I have home screen+ icons that got accidentally pushed in my pocket. Generally I'm not on wifi when the phone's in my pocket, so apps use mobile data I didn't intend, plus they have to be Quit.

I know I could just hide the icons back into the system, but then they're submerged into my collection of mostly rarely used apps.

I've looked through the Settings for something to prevent this, any suggestions? Or does anyone know of an app that would make all icon pushes require a LONG push, or maybe a double push, and only bring up a Menu including Uninstall etc with an even longer push? Or something I'm not even imagining?

What most on android want!

Want to know if us, android users know that the majority phones silence phone internal sound under paired blue tooth! Headset! A wonderful feature. In more sound about! No sound come though the phone speakers all come exclusively the paired Bluetooth device! The Nokia of old did it... IPhone does it! Android interdruce as as an update you accept or Deny each android user can decide to keep or not I will keep, as it Is most us get sounabout for it anyhow! I want it like this

Google Keep Sync

This might not be the correct place to submit this question. However, I'm unable to find an answer anywhere else. Ever so often, when I open Google Keep, I get a message at the too that states, "Sync is off. Turn sync back on to make sure all your changes are saved." Not sure why I get this message ever so often. Ibuse Google Keep for many things. Some of which are very important. FYI, I usually have my mobile data turned off, unless I leave my home, in order to prevent over use of my 2GB of data a month plan. If I enable Google Keep sync, does this automatically enable my mobile data? And if so, does it allow all other apps to use mobile data - when needed?

- Matt

Getting could'nt load image error while trying to crop image in my app.

Hi guys please help me with this. i want to crop image which is captured from camera and save it to memory. but am getting could'nt load image error. can anyone please check this code and give me an idea where am going wrong.
Code:
private void launchcamera() {
    Intent intent = new Intent( MediaStore.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE );
    startActivityForResult( intent, REQUEST_IMAGE_CAPTURE );
}

@Override
protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, @Nullable Intent data) {
 
    //open camera
    if (requestCode == REQUEST_IMAGE_CAPTURE && resultCode == Activity.RESULT_OK) {
       Bundle extras = data.getExtras();
        Bitmap imageBitmap = (Bitmap) extras.get( "data" );
        performcrop();
        long height = imageBitmap.getHeight();
        long width = imageBitmap.getWidth();
        long filesizeinBytes1 = imageBitmap.getByteCount();
        long fileSizeInKB1 = filesizeinBytes1 / 1024;
        Log.d( TAG, "Textview message :"+ height + " , " + width + " , " + fileSizeInKB1 );
        System.out.print( fileSizeInKB1 );

        if (fileSizeInKB1 >= 500) {
            Bitmap convertedimage = getResizedBitmap( imageBitmap, 400 );
            savefile( convertedimage );
        } else {
            savefile( imageBitmap );
        }

        Intent intent = new Intent( ScancodeActivity.this, Display.class );
        startActivity( intent );
    }
}

private void performcrop(){
    try {
        Intent cropintent = new Intent( "com.android.camera.action.CROP" );
        cropintent.setDataAndType( picuri, "image/*" );
        cropintent.putExtra( "crop", "true" );
        cropintent.putExtra( "aspectX", 1 );
        cropintent.putExtra( "aspectY", 1 );
        cropintent.putExtra( "outputX", 256 );
        cropintent.putExtra( "outputY", 256 );
        cropintent.putExtra( "returndata", true );
        startActivityForResult( cropintent, PIC_CROP );
    }catch(ActivityNotFoundException anfe){
        String errormessage="Sorry your device doesn't support the crop action";
        Toast toast= Toast.makeText( this,errormessage,Toast.LENGTH_LONG );
        toast.show();
    }
}

private void savefile(Bitmap image) {
    File destination = new File( Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory(), "capture_01.bmp" );
    picuri= Uri.fromFile( destination );
    ByteArrayOutputStream bytes = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
    image.compress( Bitmap.CompressFormat.JPEG, 100, bytes );
    long filesizeinBytes = image.getByteCount();
    long fileSizeInKB = filesizeinBytes / 1024;

    FileOutputStream fo;
    try {
        fo = new FileOutputStream( destination );
        fo.write( bytes.toByteArray() );
        fo.close();
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

}

Help Help - Have a question about lockscreen

Hello everyone. I have a question about my lockscreen. It seems that no matter what method I use to have set up to unlock my phone, when I press the right side button to wake my phone it automatically goes to the unlock screen where I use my pattern and/or pass code. So, I never get to see my notifications on my lock screen because it automatically goes to the unlock screen to type my passwords. Why does it do this?

Help with Android system

I am looking for some help with the information from a System Panel Monitoring app I installed today. Some things look strange to me. I could be paranoid but.... Strange things are going on with every one of the 4 phones I've purchased and brought into this houseand my bank account and credit card was fraudulently used several times. Any suggestions or comments would be greatly appreciated. Sorry for the quality of the pictures

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cell phone consumes mobile data when mobile data is off, especially when rebooting

Hi. I have Samsung S9 plus and sometimes use it with a cellphone connection from overseas. While on international roaming, it costs me lots even if I use few kb of data, hence I turned the cellphone mobile data off (WiFi is on). I noticed on Samsung Galaxy S9 plus that even when mobile data data is off , the cell phone uses very little data especially when rebooting. After rebooting it does not consume cell data. On the other hand, I have Google Nexus 6P and it NEVER uses mobile data when mobile data is turned off, even while rebooting. I was wondering why the S9 plus "steals" some data especially when rebooting and Nexus 6P does not. Also, would appreicate an recommendation on any other Google or Samsung phone that will never use or steal data when mobile data is turned off, even while its rebooting. Thank you!

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