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Unable to connect to a computer

Good afternoon,

I am trying to root my Galaxy s7 edge: G935F or my Galaxy tab A 2016: T580 with odin, but both aren't being recognized by my Windows 10 computer. They do charge but don't seem to recognize my computer either. However my computer does recognize my Galaxy s5 neo and my Galaxy A5 2017. I've searched a lot and tried everything i found.

Which involves:
Different computers, ports, cables; and I consistantly get te same error.
Original cable
manualy install drivers, removing all usb drivers and reboot computer.
factory reset
Enabling developer options, usb debugging and usb configuration is set to Media Transfer Protocol.
I switched off selective usb interruption in my computers power management and dissabled quick boot.

Are there other things I could try, to make the computer recognize my S7 edge or Tab 2016. The only thing I could find, is that the ports of the devices itself are broken. Since both devices behave and charge normally I doubt this really is the case.

Since my main goal is to get one of the two rooted, maybe someone knows a way to do this without the use of a usb connection. I geuss one-click root methods don't work on these devices and I wasn't able to find something trough micro sd or a wireless option.

Thank you in advance

Help with texting ...

Hello,

I have a question about my J7.
It's about typing text.
In most (or all) phones there is a tool built in like T7. That helps you to type text faster, cause many words
appear in the bar already when you have typed the first 3 or 4 letters.
I have the impression that in my Phone that help only works when I use the English language.
I am Dutch and then It seems that I can't use it.
Do I have to manage some settings and how do I do that?

Can anyone help me please?

Thanks in advance.

binding a service to multiple activities

Hi,

I'm developing a music player app, it's my first Android app ever so I'm navigating these waters. So far everything is going decently, a few hangups, etc., but still getting there.

So my question: I have my music service playing and I need to control it from several screens. Think "Google Play" app, "Spotify", were you can do the normal pause, resume, next, prev, etc. from a main category page, a song detail page, and others. I did some googling, and I found the following reference on Stackoverflow:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30648766/binding-a-service-to-multiple-activities

While it may seem legit enough, but one subcomment said this is a bad pattern to store variables in the Application itself, use persistence, etc. My question: Does the SO answer make sense, is it correct, or is there a better way I should do this?


Thanks

why my phone gets different time to charge to full

Hi, it is weird.
Normal current is available in all my plugs used for charging.
but i find it peculiar that it takes some times to charge 5 hours to become fully charged and at some times it takes normal three hours.
i bought the phone on 2016. i changed the charger usb and battery to new ones from samsung service centre and approved dealers and confirmed the genuinity of the products.
Why it is so? how to check, if my board is working properly all times. give clues

Dissatisfied

Hello. I'm dissatisfied either with Android or the Moto Z2 phone, I'm not sure which. I've had Android phones pretty much ever since Android began, but never have I had a phone that behaves like my current phone. I hate the phone so much I'm getting rid of it, but that leaves me to wonder is it the phone or is it Android. Do I cross over to the other side and get an iPhone, or go back to Samsung?

This Moto Z2 pops up applications I have on the phone at random times. I could be watching a Xfinity TV app and out of the blue, my GHIN app will pop up. At times, the app that ties to my car hijacks the phone. Sometime I can't even get into the phone. I use my thumb print to gain access and sometimes it won't recognize my thumb. You would think it would pop up the password screen but it doesn't. It will do nothing.

Are these symptoms of Android, or are these symptoms of the Moto Z2. I think I would prefer to stay with an Android phone, but I've very close to going to iPhone.

I would welcome others comments.

[MOD]- Google Apps "PICO" GAPPS Package - Latest Release!

So originally this was remodded for my GamerROM OS for the nexus 6, but wanted to share it with yall in case you all wanted a package that installed pico but did NOT include "GoogleTTS" as a pre-installed system application.

To be very honest i really thought it was hard to modify a gapps package due to its weired installation method, but after data mining & learning more on how it works, i can force the installer to what to install just flash as a normal zip after you flash a OS and should work on all devices and i fully tested it before i released it!


Download: https://mega.nz/#!pBYHhAKI!QXpP8SLqTIZrhdz9bwmXqdo6B58R3JzwaL1xDju4zfU

Help

So, I'm wanting to turn off parental controls that is now affecting my apps.

It wouldn't even let me download this forum app.

My mother said she didn't set it up and neither did i. It's asking for a pin, so I find a Google play pin thing and change the pin. Go to settings, try to turn off parental controls. Tells me I have to put the pin in. When I put the pin in it says it incorrect when I know it isn't.

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Help Phantom alerts

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A couple of times I caught a quick glimpse of the alerting app before it disappeared, and both times it happened to be the NBC4LA app. I checked its notification settings but didn't see anything odd.

It's happening more often, and it's kind of annoying.

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Android encryption real? Or like iOS?

Sorry for my poor English skills:

So far I've thought that iOS is safer than Android when it comes to physically accessing the data on the device.

I use iOS with a 6-digit PIN code. I found out that some computer programs (like PhoneRescue) can extract my notes, photos, contacts, calendars, and more from my iPhone without having to unlock the iPhone.

I wonder if this can also happen with the Android encryption technology?

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Hi

I have a Garmin Forerunner 25 fitness watch paired with my Huawei P20 Lite phone. All works flawlessly most of the time but sometimes the watch and phone refuse to connect even though they are In range. The strange thing is that the Bluetooth icon disappears from the watch but the Settings screen shows that Bluetooth is still on. The only way I have found to get phone and watch to connect again is to turn Bluetooth off and on again on the watch. I have been in touch with Garmin regarding this and all they said is that the problem is with my phone. I find this difficult to believe because the only way to get things working is by doing something on the watch. I am no expert in those things so it could be that Garmin are correct. Do any of you have any suggestions of things I could try?

All the best

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So this isn't technically about the Gear 360, but about the Gear 360 Action Director software for editing it all together. I have a couple of videos of events I shot in VR, but I wanted to insert images and titles in it. Apparently either that isn't possible, or I don't know the trick. Every time I try, I have to select "Panorama" mode and that messes up the VR video. Is there no way to insert a flat image or text in a VR video without one or the other messing up?

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