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    note 9 pushed to android 10; now phone shuts down instead of sleeps...what gives? Android Help

    note 9 pushed to android 10; now phone shuts down instead of sleeps...what gives? Android Help


    note 9 pushed to android 10; now phone shuts down instead of sleeps...what gives?

    Posted: 01 Mar 2020 05:57 PM PST

    ever since the update my phone will shut off instead of just going to sleep after inactivity.
    i've already wiped the phone to factory settings 3 times and the problem still persists.
    i've also noticed that sometimes it'll reboot instead of shut down....when it boots back up and asks for security pin it will start to click like a metronome after a minute or two of sitting at the security screen on bootup.

    this is refurb phone (assurion,(sp?) that i just received about 2 months prior to the update, everything seemed fine before the update and had zero problems, when the phone is actually on it's fine too, no problems, everything behaves as it should, nav'ing between screens is smooth.... for the life of me i can't figure out what is going on here and i don't have the money right now to pay out for another phone that i'm 99.99999% sure was fubar'd by the update.

    anyone else have this problem? got an idea for a fix? i've looked around and don't see this being a widespread issue...but i do admit i'm not exactly keyed into this scene anymore..kinda fell out of it after the big cupcake update...i do know this crap is making me want to get back into rooting my phone and all of that stuff.

    beyond that.....aaaaaaaarrrrrrrrgggggghhhhhhhhaaaaaa!!!! it's so freaking frustrating having to boot my phone up everytime i pull it out of my pocket or let it timeout...worse still is if something happened to my wife and kids i'd likely wouldn't find out until i noticed my phone was turned off...

    thanks for letting me vent even if i'm screwed to infinity and beyond. have a good one!

    submitted by /u/Richard_Djent
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    So my Dad passed away due to an accident can't get into his PIN protected phone for information. Any help without losing data? I assume no but wanted to exhaust all my resources.

    Posted: 01 Mar 2020 02:15 AM PST

    We have already reached out to Google support for the email but now the pin is locked for 2 hours and no chance to enter Google information.

    submitted by /u/Skoob26
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    [Help] Weird problem with my phone registering my wife's # as an international call.

    Posted: 01 Mar 2020 04:38 PM PST

    Samsung galaxy s7 purchased from Verizon. In early February I changed to At&t pre-paid (my Verizon was for my phone only, with At&t pre-paid the bill is literally within a few dollars of the same for both our phones). Ever since I made the switch, my wife's calls come across as being from maylasia. I can answer her when she calls, but in order for me to call her I need to essentially dial the numbers because my phone tries to make an international call to maylasia if I click her contact from recent calls.

    This I can live with if I have to, but I need my phone to be in working order for my work. Went to At&t yesterday and they got my phone to recognize the incoming call as my wife, but the calling out is still bugged. Just did a factory reset and the problem isn't resolved.

    submitted by /u/jormono
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    I can't get Helium to work

    Posted: 01 Mar 2020 05:42 PM PST

    My mom upgraded her phone, and now she wants all of the images from all of her text messages off of the old phone. I figured that Helium was the best way to do it because the files she wants are stored as sandboxed application data, leaving them accessible only with root or ADB, and because my mom is too stupid to make backups, I'm not willing to risk data loss by attempting to root the phone. I have Helium installed on my laptop as well as her phone, and USB debugging is enabled in the developer options.

    Helium fires up fine on my laptop and gives me the "Waiting for device" message, as I expect it should. If I plug the phone in to my laptop, I get a notification on the phone telling that USB debugging is connected. If I attempt to open Helium on the phone, it doesn't work. Sometimes, I get the application homescreen with a popup claiming that it is waiting for the desktop application and a cancel button that doesn't work. Sometimes, I get a solid white screen. In either case, the desktop app doesn't see it, the phone slows down and gets hot, and eventually I get a "Helium is not responding" popup. This has persisted across multiple attempts to wipe Helium's data and reinstall it.

    What are some things that can go wrong and prevent the Helium app from working? Is there another app similar to Helium that I could try? The phone is an LG G2 from T-Mobile (Model LG-D801) on Android 5.0.2 if that helps anything.

    submitted by /u/Windows-Sucks
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    Can someone identify the triangular icon on the left ?

    Posted: 01 Mar 2020 06:20 PM PST

    Google Play Movies stuck on Preparing to Download

    Posted: 01 Mar 2020 07:19 PM PST

    Google Play Movies Android app on my Google Pixel Slate has this weird problem where downloads get stuck on "Preparing to download". I believe I have found a solution though and was wondering if anyone could verify it. Here it is:

    • Step 1: Have a download from Google Play Movies stuck on "Preparing to download".
    • Step 2: Open your file manager and go to /Android/data/com.google.android.videos/files/Movies/ YXJh******NvbQ (Your final file location name will be unique to you and should look something similar to mine. I obscured the exact name with * ) .
    • Step 3: Delete the most recent file which should correlate with the most recent attempted download.
    • Step 4: Go into Google Play Movies and remove/stop your download that is stuck.
    • Step 5: Go to your system settings find Apps click and scroll to Google Play Movies select it then click 'More settings and permissions' click 'Storage' then click the 'CLEAR CACHE' button.
    • Step 6: Retry your download.
    submitted by /u/Trisciuted
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    Ever since new Android Update my phone won't download pictures (and more importantly memes)

    Posted: 01 Mar 2020 04:32 PM PST

    If I hit download image it displays: "SD card not found download to default folder?" And then I hit yes then it just pops the menu up again as if I didn't press anything.

    I have an S9

    submitted by /u/Lun06
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    Date and time not updated automatically after Upgrading to LineageOS

    Posted: 01 Mar 2020 10:09 PM PST

    Hi, Originally had KitKat 4.4 and then upgraded to LineageOS 16.0-20200223 (updated from 16.0-20200222) on Samsung Galaxy S5 Duo (kltechnduo) along with Google Apps (open_gapps-arm-9.0-pico-20200222). Manually changed Date & time, e.g. Feb 11 and a different time zone. Then set to Automatic Date and Time and Automatic time zone, time zone got updated correctly but date and time did not. Shutting off or Restarting the phone did not help, date was set to Feb 29! not March 2nd and time was reset but not to the correct time. Had to manually set Date and time and then checked Automatic so the phone shows the correct time.

    Thank you,

    submitted by /u/C0mpUs3rvef
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    Samsung SmartSwitch app does not work after Upgrading to LineageOS

    Posted: 01 Mar 2020 09:47 PM PST

    Hi, Originally had KitKat 4.4 on Samsung Galaxy S5 Duo (kltechnduo) and installed LineageOS 16.0-20200222 with Google Apps (open_gapps-arm-9.0-pico-20200222). Then installed Samsung Smart Switch app and attempted send/receive data to/from Samsung Galaxy S9 phone using the same app. Although tried several times got "Can't connect message" saying unable to connect to device, a network error has occurred. Using PIN option also failed, restarting and shutting S5 did not help. Both phones on the same WIFI network, and both have the same version of SmartSwitch app.

    Is there a system setting that need to be changed?

    Thank you,

    submitted by /u/C0mpUs3rvef
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    Application not installed

    Posted: 01 Mar 2020 02:09 PM PST

     Hello ! I'm using a Redmi 6A device on Android 9 and MIUI 11 and I am not rooter. Since a while now, nearly every time I try to install an .apk file, I can't, due to the same error message : ''application not installed''. It is not a storage problem, since I have more than 3GB left. I never had this problem before. For exemple, I use to have youtube vanced on my device. Now I can't install it again. I tried severals time to reset my settings and even my device, it doesn't work. I don't now what to do if you have solutions please help me. 
    submitted by /u/oignon_architecte
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    Best phone for camera + getting best quality photos off

    Posted: 01 Mar 2020 09:28 PM PST

    Hi all

    Im going overseas on my first holiday with my 1 year old

    Up to this point my wife and I have been happy taking baby photos on our phones, and using the google low quality storage option to store them, plus a onedrive sync (as i pay for storage on there)
    but i have no idea what the onedrive quality is like compared to USB copy

    However since we are on our first holiday, we want the best photos possible of the time.

    My wife has a P30 (not pro) so I think her phone will be our main shooter

    I have a mix of phones

    OnePlus 5 (personal)
    S8 (old work phone)
    S9 (New work phone)

    Or a Nokia Lumia 1020 (Old personal phone) (Not android i know)

    My personal opinion is to take the luma as a "camera" for me, and just keep using my phone as a phone, but i have no idea how the quality compares between that and my other phones.

    Im also looking for the best settings we can set on my / my wifes phones so we can get the highest quality photos

    I will have a laptop with us so I can do a usb or wifi transfer of photos at the end of each day, so we're not worried about space.

    Ideally we would want to use the default camera (so we dont have to change shortcuts or get used to a new camera) its more around getting the best photos from the camera, and getting them off the phone in the best way

    Any ideas would be appreciated

    thanks in advance

    submitted by /u/pomtom44
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    phone turns on and off, help needed!

    Posted: 01 Mar 2020 03:30 PM PST

    So I have had a problem with my phone's battery for some time (around 3 months). First my phone started shutting off when it had 15% left, then 20%, then 30% and a couple of days ago it shut off at 50%. However, today my phone turned itself off at 56% or so. I could turn it on a couple of times, but then it immediately shut off again. And then, it didn't turn on at all. I plugged the charger in, but nothing happens. This lasted for 2-3 hours.

    Then, I played with the off/on button and menu button, and after a couple of minutes, the screen turned on to the screen lock. It turned on, and I could use the phone normally again, (except for it being very slow, and complaining about not having enough memory - when I had like 1.7Gt empty space). Then after a couple of minutes, it turned off. This whole thing repeats! This is what my phone has been for the past 2 hours. The lock screen turns on, sometimes I can be on my phone for 30 seconds to 3 minutes, and then the screen shuts (?). The time decreased and decreased, and now I the screen doesn't stay on more than 10-20 seconds, I can't even put my password and it shuts down. And now it is even harder to turn the phone on (it's very random, turns on like every 5-7min).

    Now here's the question. I don't need to fix this phone, it's old, and I'm going to buy new one. But is there any way I could get my pictures and other information back?

    (or if you have some websites which have info, you can link it)

    Thank you for your time and help.

    submitted by /u/patpetpetpat
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    Galaxy S9 Plus deletes photos and videos after update.

    Posted: 01 Mar 2020 09:27 PM PST

    After the last major update, I noticed that my Camera roll just disappeared. There wasn't much in there, since I had moved stuff around not long beforehand, so I figured maybe I accidentally deleted it and didn't notice.

    Well, almost every single day, sometimes within hours, I look and find my Camera folder (and oddly enough my Screenshot folder) will just vanish. Literally nowhere to be found. I also moved some files into a new folder, thinking maybe starting a fresh Camera/Screenshot folder would fix things, and that new folder got deleted too!!

    Anyone have any idea what the issue could be or some kind of fix? It really got to me after I spent many hours today doing some video filming for a music video for my band, only to get home and find it was literally all gone. My phone never died or restarted or anything.

    Any help is much appreciated. I'm very into taking pictures and video and this is totally bumming me out knowing this is just a common occurrence now, for some reason.

    submitted by /u/yellow_slash_red
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    How To Automatically Connect Paired Devices On Android 9

    Posted: 01 Mar 2020 03:26 PM PST

    I just upgraded to Android 9 on an LG Escape Plus. On every phone I've had before once a Bluetooth device was Paired it would automatically connect to the phone when I turned it on. It's not doing that with this phone. I have to go into Bluetooth settings and connect every device each time I want to use it.

    I have looked all over for a setting to fix this, but I can't find it. Maybe I'm just being an idiot; it wouldn't be the first time.

    Can someone please help me figure this out?

    Thanks!

    submitted by /u/jjj49er
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    Facebook's messenger push notification

    Posted: 01 Mar 2020 09:14 PM PST

    Hi, i hate chat bubbles. But when i turn them off, it only vibrates a little and nothing more, i can see the little icon in the status bar area, but i can't seem to find any way to make the push notification pop up on my screen, like basically every app i have. I am bad at explaining, think how you would get a notification in apple's ios. That's how i want it. Raided google and youtube, can't seem to find it anywhere.

    Samsung galaxy s10, tho i have had this issue on other android phones.

    I have checked notification settings on app and in settings, sleeping apps battery optimizer thing.

    Help me reddit-wan kenobi, you're my only

    submitted by /u/eptix77
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    Pinning apps in overview

    Posted: 01 Mar 2020 05:25 PM PST

    Using a Moto g7 running Android 9 pi. Is there a way you can pin apps to not be cleared in the recent apps overview? For example, wanting to press "Clear all" and have pinned apps not cleared. I'm always finding myself handpicking apps to close and accidentally close apps I dont mean to.

    submitted by /u/Scpz_Jay
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    Is there a way to update to a newer version of android on a device that doesn't support it?

    Posted: 01 Mar 2020 05:18 PM PST

    Currently I'm stuck on 7.1.2 but the newer versions seem much better, is there a way to enable the update despite it not being supported? I know that I can download .apk files from google and run them so I figure there's probably a similar thing I can do for software updates. I'm using an LG K8 2018, if the model makes a difference

    submitted by /u/wumbo52252
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    Samsung Flow Alternative for MacBook

    Posted: 01 Mar 2020 09:01 PM PST

    I love the functionality I have with the Samsung Flow software (use it on my Galaxy S9+ and Windows gaming laptop) , but I've been looking for an alternative that has similar functions for my college MacBook Pro (specifically the access to texts, phone calls, and broadcasting my screen to my MacBook whenever needed). Does anyone know of a good alternative? I'd prefer one that's free seeing I don't have much of a budget with rent.

    submitted by /u/rocketgeek13
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    Changing fonts or color on widgets.

    Posted: 01 Mar 2020 02:56 PM PST

    I've just updated my phone (Samsung Galaxy S9) and when it took me to the lock screen I see that the spotify widget that usually appears on the locks screen to skip music is very transparent and hard to read. Not sure if there is a way to change the color of the text or not. I was only able to fix the clock fomt and color but I am still having trouble to fix the widget problem. Screenshot of the problem in the comments.

    submitted by /u/PolarBearDosage
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    Help retrieving old files from pixel 3a

    Posted: 01 Mar 2020 04:46 PM PST

    My girlfriend recently dropped her phone and completely shattered the screen. The phone still works as you can feel the vibrations. The phone has restarted at this point and cannot be open. Since you can't use the screen to type in the pin, and you can't use the finger print until you first use the pin. Plugging into my laptop only makes the phone appear as other devices and cannot be opened to check the files. I tried to use other methods and they all require usb debugging. I found one method where you can display the phone screen on a tv with a dongle that has hdmi. I tried this on my s9 and it worked. But plugging in the pixel 3a doesn't display anything on the tv. I feel like ive tried everything and her files might be gone for good. Can anyone help me with this?

    submitted by /u/Carlos7WC
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    "Google play store keeps stopping"

    Posted: 01 Mar 2020 08:17 PM PST

    My phone is a neffos C9, and today I go an update for the phone, I say yes and it got installed, the problem is that, after the update was done, the Google play store was not working, it kept telling me that it stopped, I erase the cache and the data, but it's not working still.

    Should I wipe my phone or there's other suggestions?

    submitted by /u/GroundbreakingIron4
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    Cannot Access Any hTTPS sites with invalid Cert - Example router/firewall "err_cert_authority_invalid"

    Posted: 01 Mar 2020 08:14 PM PST

    Im having a weird problem with my mi8 mi 8 - revengos android pie couple of weeks ago, suddenly my phone cannot access any https sites with invalid cert, meaning i cant bypass this website, no advanced button if using chrome, same with other browser such as firefox. So i cant access my router with my phone. I have tried to upgrade my revengesOS to revengeOS android 10, still same, i have tried format it, also same....

    Here is the error https://imgur.com/m8RP5ba

    Here what is should be https://imgur.com/aLAxrQF

    submitted by /u/yeopajee
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    How to make phone ring from the speaker when headset is connected ?

    Posted: 01 Mar 2020 08:08 PM PST

    1) Disabling phone calls from Bluetooth menu is not an option

    2) If you think that this can't or shouldn't be done don't post an answer.

    submitted by /u/ItsMe324
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    How to unlock old Galaxy Tab 4?

    Posted: 01 Mar 2020 07:09 PM PST

    I recently rediscovered a forgotten tablet. It seems to still work, problem is it's locked and there's no telling what the passcode is. I know I could factory reset it and erase everything. However I'd like to recover the data on it. Even if I'm unable to unlock it, is there a way to retrieve the data? Suggestions?

    submitted by /u/Kurombo
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    Can I prevent my phone screen from sleeping indefinitely?

    Posted: 01 Mar 2020 06:57 PM PST

    Is there an app to do this? Do I need to turn on developer mode? If so, how do I do that? Phone in question is a Samsung Galaxy A20.

    submitted by /u/firfetir
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