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Prediction: Auto and related industry..

my friend got a used Tesla.. 2016 P90 S- series.

the power and acceleration.. is crazy!!
the amount of control of the car via computer is great!
i can see how it was designed.. from ground up .. an electronic device that is used for transportation.

other car makers are working from the angle... Car with electronic add-ons.

in my opinion... i can see the future.
and here are my predictions: 20 yrs from now.
1. Electronic cars .. will be 97% of the cars on the road.
2. Auto-pilot will be in all cars. (95%)
3. most (60%) people will NOT own a car. they will pay into a service to use a pool of cars.
Just use app on phone.. less than 5 mins.. a self-driving car will show up.
anywhere! any style car you need (car/van/truck).
then you can drive or let the auto-pilot take you.
monthly fee- (estimated about - 1/4 of a car payment)
no insurance, no maintenance
4. Auto- insurance companies will reduce to...1 or 2 insurance providers
Auto-Service provider will insure their own cars.
5. because of the auto-pilot .. accidents will be reduced by 95%.
6. Repair shops.. autobody shops... tire shops.. will also greatly be reduced. few here and there.
7. there will be 2-3 car makers in the world.
8. Taxi service - Uber - Lyft - dead!
9. auto rental.. Enterprise - Hertz - dead!

LOL.. well.. only time will tell.

Android TV BOX K220 M8 box

so I have been an android user for years but I only have limited knowledge of android tv and tv boxes.

So I have been given this box its has an M8 logo on it but everyone I have contacted that sell M8 boxes say they have never seen this box before, at the moment it is running a rom from entertainment box.

All I want to do is get the clock and remote working again but I can't find anything about it on line.

Any help would be great.
Android version:
4.4.2

Kernel version:
3.10.33

I have uploaded some pics of my system info.








Recommendation for voice assistant

I'm currently trying to find a handsfree assistant app since Google assistant throws an error saying it's not compatible with my phone for whatever reason. So im looking into other options, just trying to find an app that will recognize the button push on my handsfree device. I have a Supertooth HD bluetooth and it connects to the phone just fine, I can end a call by pressing the button on the unit, so the connection is solid and works. But when I click the button to send a command, nothing happens. So my thinking is mainly because there's no app installed to get that command to be recognized. I was going to test Lyra from what i found, but if anyone could recommend some of their favs, that would be great. Thanks!

Help Call connects, phone lag

Hi, I have been having this issue with my phone running Android 8.1 where when a call connects, the speakerphone buttons don't become available until a few seconds into the call. I'm more for one to hit the speakerphone immediately upon connection, but that doesn't seem to be an option with 8.1 Has anyone else had this issue? Thanks!

New here

Hi all, I just joined the forum and am looking forward to posting. I have been a long time iPhone user who recently got my first Android phone the Kyocera Duraforce Pro 2. So far I have been very happy with the phone and OS, definitely have to get used to the differences between the two OSes, but i'm getting there. I also have a Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet. Thanks and I'm looking forward to seeing you all in the posts!

Data Saver

Can someone please explain to me how the Data Saver user interface works? I gather that this function keeps applications from sucking up data over the phone network when it's not necessary.

Do the switches "off" mean that an app will get data via WiFi only? How does this relate to the "Data Saver" on/off switch? Are they (even the ones switched off) only protected from sucking data when Data Saver is on? And if

  • an app's Data switch is off
  • I'm off WiFi and have data turned on
  • Have Data Saver turned on

If I want to use an app that needs data (E-mail, for example) when I'm off WiFi, will I have to find my way back to the switches and turn an app's "Unrestricted Data" switch back on before it will work? Or does opening the app allow it to get data via the phone network?

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App Inventor Execution failed for task ':app:bundleReleaseResources'

Hello. i have a problem i have this error message

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':app:bundleReleaseResources'.
> 1 exception was raised by workers:
com.android.builder.internal.aapt.v2.Aapt2Exception: Android resource linking failed
C:\Users\Lietotajs\Desktop\android\app\build\intermediates\incremental\mergeReleaseResources\merged.dir\values-v26\values-v26.xml:7: error: resource android:attr/colorError not found.
C:\Users\Lietotajs\Desktop\android\app\build\intermediates\incremental\mergeReleaseResources\merged.dir\values-v26\values-v26.xml:11: error: resource android:attr/colorError not found.
C:\Users\Lietotajs\Desktop\android\app\build\intermediates\incremental\mergeReleaseResources\merged.dir\values-v26\values-v26.xml:15: error: style attribute 'android:attr/keyboardNavigationCluster' not found.
error: failed linking references.

Static WLAN does not work & whats the menu key on wondows keyboard

Hello

WLAN without DHCP (static) wount work.
IP: 192.168.0.28
Gateway:192.168.0.254
DNS1:192.168.0.254
DNS2:192.168.0.254
PrefixLength:24

It says that is is connected but its offline. Setting must be OK ?
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Secondary I have a windows keyboard + mouse on my android stick and I cannot zoom in chrome.
It should be the followinbg keys: Menu+I / Menu+O , but I dont know whats the menu key on the windows keyboard. Win-Key+I/O does not work.

Whats the menu key on win keyboard or how to zoom with win-keyboard on android chrome ?

Thanks for answer. Andre

"Used Telephone"

There is one Google activity named
"USED TELEPHONE" is showing now a days on my Moto g3 phone and next day this activity disappeared from Google activity means if it is 29th april today then "used Telephone" will show but when I check my google activity on 30th April for the 29th April then this activity. "Used Telephone " won't show. why this is happening and for what this activity "used telephone" is showing?

Help Playlists keep disappearing, Android P, unmount remount?

I've got an Android One phone, Xiao Mi A2 with Android P. My playlists keep disappearing. I'm using JetAudio Plus. I emailed them about the issue and Jet Audio said:

''JetAudio use system’s media library to show the playlist to user and this system media library is managed by system. That means if your playlist gone some reason, applications can not show that to user. In most classes, it because SD card un/re-mount events. So please check why your device un/re-mount your sdcard from time to time.''

My phone does not have an SD card slot. What should I do to permanently fix this problem? Thx,

Is it possible for my internal 64gb memory to get unmounted and remounted without me knowing?

How To Give WPS Office SD Card Access?

I just put wps office on my phone because I need something to write draft emails before sending them and it seems to be the best thing I can find.

But it seems to have a problem using my SD card and my phone has precious little memory of its own.

The phone asks me to give it write access when I try to save to the SD card. I click 'grant' and then it goes to another screen where it says to show and select SD card then tap the select button at the bottom..

but I see no SD cards with select buttons or otherwise.

I googled and found a post about google preventing saving to external SD or something but it apparently related to android 5 or earlier. I have android 7 here it tells me.

How can I fix all this? Or is WPS office problematic and I should be using something else? (that's also free).

Android car radio USB storage default

Hi guys,
I have just bought an android double din head unit for my car, it works really good but I want to plug in a usb stick in the back of it and make it default to store to. Eg I have pandora app on it and want to download any songs I like to the usb stick as the head unit only has 5 gig free and this is the reason I want to use the usb stick to keep build in memory free.
Can i set this to be default ? If so how? Am running Oreo btw.
Cheers guys

Can my samsung s3 GT-S7560M be upgraded from 4.0.4?

I have a samsung s3 and did a factory reset on it. It now has android 4.0.4 on it. Is there any way to update this to anything newer, as the one on it does not work well at all. I tried a program called kies? All it does is show my phone is connected, there is no way to update it with that. I tried through google store, but it seems those are fakes and ad based spam. Just trying to figure out if this can be updated, or is it good for paper weight?

How to acces all files of rooted device, with broken touch from PC

Dear all,
i have a Samsung Galaxy tab 2 10.1 Tablet which is rooted, but with a broken touch screen (it looks perfect, but i cant swipe click or select any thing. The device has no password, or swipe code.

If i connect the tablet to a pc, i can access many files on the internal memory as well as those on the sd card. But i think not all. I would like to copy all the files, and apps in the hope i can still recover some of my data and particularly some notes from a note taking app, which i could not find among the files to which i have acces.
1 Is it possible to some how see and access all the files, and apps installed on the tablet?
2 Would it be possible to get some how remote access from a PC to the android, such that i can click around with my mouse in stead of using the broken touch screen?
Any suggestions would be welcome

Stop search results that default to local device features?

I apologize if I'm posting this incorrectly, it's my first time on this forum. I love the stock Google search and it's assistant features and have almost no complaints about it so I don't want to switch my search but I would like to know how I can stop it from defaulting to a function relevant to my local device and its features/options, like when I search for torch, or Torchlight, it just turns on my flashlight instead of bringing up results related to the game or movie or whatever I'm actually looking for....I have had other instances of the same problem but can't think of any off the top of my head. it wouldn't be so bad if the relevant feature was just included in a list of search results but it just performs the action and gives me no results. Always enjoy learning about the inner workings of these things so any insight is appreciated, thank you in advance.

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