Cosmic Ray
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yesterday
Google voice typing is superior to Samsung voice typing. You can still use the Google voice typing even if you continue to use the Samsung keyboard.
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yesterday
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This works the same way in my insurance app. There is simply no way for the phone or an app to determine whether phone use is hands free or in your hand. It can only determine that the phone was in use.
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yesterday
I suspect that as end of life for Samsung messages gets closer to reality, more straight SMS/MMS apps will crop up to fill the void.
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yesterday
Unless you are constantly listening to music, there's no real reason to keep all your music on your phone. They make rather nice, small footprint flash drives that can be kept on a keychain or worn as a necklace for easy availability when you do want to listen to music (or offload photos or personal files). Photos will take up more room than audio files, so there is also no need to keep any but the ones you look at or show most often on the phone. I have only 128 GB drive space on my phone, I don't take many photos, nor do I keep many contained on my phone. I have 557 music files which take up 2.66 GB and my images only take up 1 GB. Admittedly, my A series phone still does have an SD card, but I am not averse to the flash drive/card reader solution should my next phone not have one.
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yesterday
Good Guardians is an official Samsung App, with useful utilities (thermal guardian, battery guardian, app booster, memory guardian, battery tracker and media file guardian). Download the app and any of the modules you may find useful. You can find it in the Galaxy store.
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yesterday
Yes, I am, and always have been, perfectly content to use Google messages - from the beginning until now and likely beyond. I know about data mining and EVERY app you use does it, and you are the product in every one of them, especially those cheap people who refuse to buy a premium version and use the ad supported free apps. Ad revenue alone does not feed the developers' families. I know that Google is not reading the minutia of my text messages (if they are, more power to them for having to deal with my boring life). Am I to understand you have no Facebook, Instagram, X, or TikTok account?
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yesterday
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Once you say "everyone", you are making a generalization. Just because there is a vocal group of dissenters, does not make them "everyone". They are all individuals who can only represent themselves making statements of their dissatisfaction. I don't understand how that equals "everyone" on this app.
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yesterday
I don't know how you can speak for all 31,166,766 community members. You can only speak for yourself.
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yesterday
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Can I ask why you need the vibration for a missed notification when you pick up your phone? I mean I have it on, but it would not bother me if I turned it off. I just thought it was a neat feature, so I put it on and kept it on. Even without the vibration, you will have your notification icons to let you know you have missed notifications, even with only 3 icons and a dot, you still know there are notifications waiting to be read and the vibration won't tell you who the message is from.
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yesterday
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I don't see anything wrong with the placement of the "clear" icon in the message area. I have, on occasion, actually missed tapping the exact spot when I wanted to clear, but never accidentally hit it when I didn't want to.
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yesterday
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They should be posting on their other social media accounts, then. No need to post it here. Why is it not spam when they do it, but it's spam when others do?
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yesterday
Just a thought, you know you can move all your music files to a flash drive and insert the flash drive when you intend to listen to your music.
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yesterday
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Open the messages app, tap on your initial and scroll to help and feedback. Scroll down to send feedback, tap it and send your feedback.
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yesterday
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Audio files are generally much smaller than app files, so deleting them may not free up as much space as you think. If you have a lot of apps that you only use occasionally, not regularly or frequently, you should delete those. You can reinstall those apps when you need to use them. Apps like travel apps, etc. I regularly go through my apps to see which ones I have not been using and whether or not they are necessary to take up permanent residence on my phone. Also any apps where you can access what you need from a website don't need to take up residence if you don't use them often enough to justify it. You can shop at Amazon, for example, through a browser just as easily as through the app. Same with food delivery services. Also, do you regularly restart your phone? A weekly restart is necessary for clearing things out and optimizing. You can automate the process by turning auto optimization on and choosing your day and time to automatically restart your phone. You can download Good Guardians and the app booster module, which will defragment your files (it sounds like you have a fragmentation issue here). When app files get fragmented, the disk space analysis may be skewed, because while you may have plenty of actual space on the drive, it does not see enough "work space" on the drive because there may not be a large enough contiguous segment to allow downloads or workspace for existing apps. It is always necessary to have a least 10% clear drive space for file operations and updates, which is why you get the low space warning. Optimizing the apps will put the fragmented spaces back together. You should actually run app booster at the very least after every update.
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yesterday
We are not in the EU. The EU wants removable batteries because they want people to be able to replace their own batteries without having to pay for repair service to change the battery for them. SD cards are not necessary with today's larger phone storage. NO ONE needs to keep every picture they ever took or every document they ever downloaded on their phones at all times; and no one needs 2,000 apps sitting on their phones at all times, when they probably used maybe 20 regularly. As was said, flash drives are cheap and cloud services exist. Who in tarnation needs even one TB of storage, let alone two? If you have a terabyte or two of storage, why would anyone need an SD card? And, if either one of those options is not enough space for someone, they they have too much stuff. SD cards can still be used with a USB card reader acting as a de facto flash drive. They make flash drives with such a small footprint now, that one can keep it attached at all times.
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yesterday
The whole point of a VPN is not just for security, but to allow people to disguise their regions so they don't get bounced back to to websites for their own region when they want to visit foreign regions. I use a VPN when traveling, so when I want to visit my U.S. sites, I don't get directed to the sites for the region I am currently in (especially for shopping). There are many countries that restrict access to certain sites for certain regions, and the people in those countries find and use VPNs so they can get unfiltered news. Many free VPNs only connect to a server in the country in which the VPN was downloaded. Paying for a VPN, while could be pricey, would get you connections to servers worldwide that you can choose from. It has nothing to do with your CSC and SIM card - unless your *government* restricts the use of VPNs.
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Saturday
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Your problem is you are asking people in the store to fix a tehnical problem. They are salespeople, not tech support. Dial 611 from your phone, or call Metro and ask for tech support. It sounds as if your phone has an error in provisioning. You can also try going to your connection settings and making sure the APN is correct. Settings/connections/mobile networks/access point names. Also, in the same setting, go to network operators, and make sure select automaically is on. If it's already on and this misdirect is still happening, turn it off and choose a different operator.
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Saturday
That looks like a news briefing, not an advertisement. Do you have news briefs selected in your now bar settings?
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Saturday
I think I proved that this phenomenon of the GPS in overdrive and the battery usage statistics disappearing is definitely related. Yesterday, even for the recent abnormal high battery use percentage of GPS, my watch was draining super, super fast. I decided to reboot the watch. The battery usage went back to normal and remained so for the entire night and today. However, when I went to check to see if GPS had stopped, once again, the battery use stats were non-existent. It's almost as if the battery usage statistics being present depend on GPS being active - I don't know, maybe that is one function of GPS. I added that commentary to my earlier error reports. We'll see what happens. Given a preference, I prefer for the watch to work properly in its entirety, but if I have to choose, I'd much rather have normal battery use all the time than have the stats available. I really only need to see the stats if something abnormal is happening with the battery.
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Saturday
Do you have Google Drive or OneDrive that it could have found its way into? Again, there is no setting to allow permission to access storage because it's an implicit permission. Apps cannot function without access to storage.
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Saturday
If the OP decides to share what solved it for them, then perhaps that will work for you, as well. However, texting issues are normally a carrier issue.
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Saturday
I am sure that the video required will be acceptable if you show natural head movement. If it is not, then just use Google wallet when you need to use your digital ID. It doesn't matter which wallet you use, and you obviously already have Google wallet set up.
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Saturday
Yes, but it amounts to 7 years of updates, since Android issues a new version every year, and each time Android is updated, so is OneUI. Within those 7 update periods, if OneUI is updated, it's still part of the update cycle, but not considered the MAJOR update of the OS.
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Saturday
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I don't understand the hysteria or hype. They are just a singing group. If I ever heard anything put out by them, I am unaware. But, I didn't understand Beatlemania either.
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Saturday
How hard is it? Shouldn't be any harder than adding a credit card. You follow the prompts to scan your card as noted by @meself . Seems to be the same type of process as Google wallet has. I only partially went through it in both wallets in order to see the process, but I cannot go through to completion because my state does not yet participate.
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Saturday
Check your battery usage statistics. There are quite a few people having this issue because, for some reason, Google Play services is being abnormally active where it never used to be. If you see GPS at the very top of your list, that's the culprit. If your usage statistics disappeared, that's been happening, too. I don't think the two phenomena are unrelated. In the meantime, restarting the watch appears to mitigate this for a day or two. I have put in error reports on both things, you should too if you find either of the conditions above. I have taken to noting my battery level in the late evening and if it's below 50%, I give it a 10 minute booster charge so that it will last through the night to track my sleep. Also, prior to doing any of that, run a diagnostic on your battery to make sure it's still good.
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Saturday
They still do, but I think they are phasing it out there, too, since they are offering more storage on the newer ones. I think people need to face the reality that they do not need to keep anything and everything on their phones at all times and they can offload personal data and photos to a flash drive or other external device or cloud on a regular basis if they are running low on storage. The SD card is approaching floppy disk status as far as phones go.
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Saturday
Unless you are buying an iPhone, moving to Europe or Asia, then Google messages will be the default messaging app on any Android phone. Which is not to say that you still cannot use ANY messaging app you want (except Samsung). If you want RCS, Google messages is the only game in town. If you don't care about RCS, then any messaging app you can find in the Play store will do.
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Saturday
Yes, but that would be a tip for any concert. You all are specifically promoting BTS, not promoting a tip on how to use your camera at a concert. And, since you are promoting a band the team galaxy tag should be on all such posts.
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Saturday
I know the practical/impractical reality of a school environment. I was a tech coordinator and procurement officer in a school for in one of the largest school systems in the country for 25 years. Sometimes you have to do what you have to do, and if that's toggling the hotspot off manually, then thats what you have to do. It's a simple tap of a quick panel icon.You can automate the toggle via a routine. You can also turn the smart board off when you leave one classroom for another. Which is more inconvenient - changing the passwotd multiple times a day or toggling the setting on and off or simply turning the smart board off? If a board is off, it can't connect. If another teacher turns it on, I assume that teacher will connect, which will prevent it from connecting to your device. If a school is going to provide smart boards, they should supply the means to connect to them or they should not provide them. Once again, the ONLY way your suggestion is going to get to the developers is to put in a feedback request via the support tab. FWIW, though, I agree there should be a connection limit setting for other practical reasons.
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