So I got a 32-GB gray Prime from Best Buy that I'm going to be returning tomorrow. Do I just have to do a factory reset to wipe everything from my Prime? Thanks in advance.
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Yeah, factory reset will wipe personal data and return it to the "first boot" status.
Google kinda sucks and you cannot simply delete the device from your Google marketplace account, but you can hide it. Hiding will remove it from the various menus when downloading/purchasing apps.
arrrgh said:
Yeah, factory reset will wipe personal data and return it to the "first boot" status.
Google kinda sucks and you cannot simply delete the device from your Google marketplace account, but you can hide it. Hiding will remove it from the various menus when downloading/purchasing apps.
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How do you hide the device?
Yup! Just make sure all the cables are in the box and do the reset. I returned mine due to a minor screen botch. It wasn't much but I didn't pay 500 bucks for a defect that was an eye sore on white screens.
Just be prepared to get a million questions from Best Buy. They looked at me like I was trying to steal their first born when I returned mine.
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How do you hide the device?
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Go to https://market.android.com/account
And then click the settings tab. You should see all your registered devices, click edit on the right, select "Hidden in menus" and then click update on the right.
arrrgh said:
Go to https://market.android.com/account
And then click the settings tab. You should see all your registered devices, click edit on the right, select "Hidden in menus" and then click update on the right.
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I don't know about you but if I select to Hide one phone another then gets altered to Shown.
I have several phones/tablets which no matter how many times you try to hide it then automatically changes one of the others to shown.
It's like playing cat & mouse with Google Account Settings.
Returning mine tomorrow, too. Unfortunately it has screen issues. At the left and right end of the screen for about 1cm there is some visible whatever, I suppose it is glue which not disappeared. It's only clearly visible at grey or darker backgrounds (like the IMDB app for example), but I dont pay 600€ for a tablet with such screen issues.
Replacement will take 1-2 month according to Amazon.de...
Beards said:
I don't know about you but if I select to Hide one phone another then gets altered to Shown.
I have several phones/tablets which no matter how many times you try to hide it then automatically changes one of the others to shown.
It's like playing cat & mouse with Google Account Settings.
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I know. Annoying. It's been a bug for a few weeks now.
AmesCell said:
I know. Annoying. It's been a bug for a few weeks now.
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Well, at least I know it's not me.
Thanks left.
Beards said:
I don't know about you but if I select to Hide one phone another then gets altered to Shown.
I have several phones/tablets which no matter how many times you try to hide it then automatically changes one of the others to shown.
It's like playing cat & mouse with Google Account Settings.
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Same thing happens to me. It will only hide one device!!!! I hope Google will fix!!
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I was on a 5 hour flight earlier today, and while I was on the flight I got bored with my nook so I started trying to figure out the different settings that anycut can create shortcuts to..... Beware don't do it. 2 of them did nothing because of an error, and the last one I did said "you do not have permission" then my nook rebooted and erased most everything...
Except, the hacker keyboard was there, the search button said it was not installed, and I couldn't use the unroot.apk because I no longer had superuser access.
Doing the 8 failed boot attempts got me back to square 1, and I also figured out how to bypass the out of box experience. I didn't have wifi and it also bypassed my registering my nook.
FYI: to bypass at the factory startup screen, hold volume up and tap the lower left then the lower right hand sides of the screen in that order... A button will show up that says factory, click it and then hold the volume up and tap the lower right hand side of the screen. Another box will appear then you can click "skip oobe".
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Doing the 8 failed boot attempts got me back to square 1, and I also figured out how to bypass the out of box experience. I didn't have wifi and it also bypassed my registering my nook.
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This will probably halve your battery life (which should be 8hrs+ with wifi, 10 without).
what will halve my battery life? not registering?
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what will halve my battery life? not registering?
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I believe one person (at least) had this experience and the general belief is that not registering caused some B&N service to constantly run in the background. If you see otherwise, please let us know.
Is there an app that I can run to view to monitor this?
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Is there an app that I can run to view to monitor this?
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System panel from the android market
dabuttrumpet said:
FYI: to bypass at the factory startup screen, hold volume up and tap the lower left then the lower right hand sides of the screen in that order... A button will show up that says factory, click it and then hold the volume up and tap the lower right hand side of the screen. Another box will appear then you can click "skip oobe".
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This is AWESOME! How did you discover this?
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I believe one person (at least) had this experience and the general belief is that not registering caused some B&N service to constantly run in the background. If you see otherwise, please let us know.
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I thought we have successfully debloat all the bn svc, didn't we? It's kinda moot since the ota seems to not care if you have registered or not.
On another note, i noticed the owner and account name in my settings menu changed to "unavailable" after i debloat. Anyone has any ideas?
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This is AWESOME! How did you discover this?
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I was desperate on the flight because now I didn't have anything to play with.
When my device originally reset, the oobe was giving me errors because I had deleted the devicemanager.apk to hopefully stop updates. But doing so made it impossible for me to get past the registration screen because necessary files were missing.
Did a google search on my iPhone while on the plane to figure out how to get past the startup registration and wifi process
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Is there an app that I can run to view to monitor this?
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Well you can just time battery usage and watch it go down, but yeah there are various battery programs to track it (betterbatterystats etc). It's not "a little bit" - it's almost halved. Sure, go test it and report back. More data points are always useful
My first android phone is SGS3 and ...
I have so very many questions I dont even know where to start. Just like it said in the video I am a noob so this might even be in the wrong section.
For the starters a few questions come to mind (and yes, I did use the search button, viewed tens maybe hundreds of forum pages) so please would someone be so kind and help me with following
1] In the browser, when I click bookmarks, I find local but under that two other empty folders with my gmail adress but both empty. How do I remove them?
2] How to properly setup mail for exchange. I have my gmail and hotmail accounts added. Sometimes they work sometimes they dont and how the widget updates is really beyond me.
3] One thing that really bothers me since I like to keep my devices clean and arranged is uninstalling apps and games. I noticed that after uninstalling some files remain.
4] Another thing is that mostly with trial versions of apps, I cant seem to find them anywhere in my files folder therefore I cant check if after uninstalling all the junk is removed.
Besides that I can say that the phone is pretty good although the build and the pentile is kinda let down but enough has been said on this forum on that subject.
Thank you for your answers.
In the browser, when I click bookmarks, I find local but under that two other empty folders with my gmail adress but both empty. How do I remove them?
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Honestly, I recommend using Google Chrome. You can download it from the market.
The folders with your Gmail address are for sync across devices. Afaik it can be disabled by System Settings->Accounts&Sync->[Email address]->untick "Sync Browser"
How to properly setup mail for exchange. I have my gmail and hotmail accounts added.
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What ROM are you on? System Settings->About phone. ALEx-Builds have issues with Exchange (at least mine always did).
One thing that really bothers me since I like to keep my devices clean and arranged is uninstalling apps and games. I noticed that after uninstalling some files remain
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The same issue as on all computers... messy apps. The files on the sdcard do not really belong to the app so Android cannot delete them automatically. I agree that it's a terrible chaos after trying out several apps which is very annoying. Sadly that issue is present with all computers including GNU/Linux, Windows, ...
Another thing is that mostly with trial versions of apps, I cant seem to find them anywhere in my files folder therefore I cant check if after uninstalling all the junk is removed.
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You cannot see the app installation folder since the system hides them. All you can see is the before-mentioned junk.
The files in the correct folder (=the one you cannot see) are always correctly removed.
although the build and the pentile is kinda let down
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You must have very good eyes to see the difference between Pentile and RGB matrix. Are you even sure you relaly know what the difference is and what it means for you?
new also to SGSlll
I'm also new to the SGSlll and I have a the same questions that were answered and it helped a lot but I got a couple of my own if it's not to imposing to ask,
1) Somehow the green call button that used to be beside the number or the name of the contact in the logs section disappeared and I know I can swipe to call it, but I would like that button back because it is easier for me. I don't know whether this was gone from the recent update.
2) why is there some games and apps that I can't find in play store, I tried to DL them from the Internet and it said you can't DL them in your country (Egypt) is there anything I could that will allow me to DL them?
3) Is there any ways to create a folder so that I can put all the games together for example??
Thank you very much and sorry for the inconvenience as I said am still new to andriods.
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You must have very good eyes to see the difference between Pentile and RGB matrix. Are you even sure you relaly know what the difference is and what it means for you?
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Yeah I know what I am talking about and thanks for the answers
Yeah I know what I am talking about and thanks for the answers
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The only RGB Amoled I can compare the S3 to is the S2 and it's very obvious on first sight that the S3 kicks the S2 with sharpness and detail.
(I'm not including the S1 which is far below both in terms of resolution)
) Somehow the green call button that used to be beside the number or the name of the contact in the logs section disappeared
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Have you checked the Settings? I'm not on a Samsung-Rom so I cannot test for myself.
I can recommend Go Contacts EX (free in Play Store) if you want a fully customizable Dialer.
why is there some games and apps that I can't find in play store
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Restrictions can be imposed on multiple levels
- Hardware specs (notably display resolution)
- Android Version
- Hardware name
- Country
- Carrier
In your case it seems to be the country. There are multiple descriptions on XDA and other sites, but afaik all of them include using a Proxy server. It's not trivial but unfortunately the only method for accessing them from the Play Store.
Is there any ways to create a folder so that I can put all the games together for example??
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Not on the stock launcher afaik. You can create folders on the home screen but not in the app drawer.
There exist several other free Launchers in the Play Store capable of creating folders, try them out.
d4fseeker said:
3) Is there any ways to create a folder so that I can put all the games together for example??
Thank you very much and sorry for the inconvenience as I said am still new to andriods.
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You can create folders in the apps drawer by clicking the left menu button > edit. Then drag an app (you should be able to see an empty folder icon at bottom left corner) and mount it over the folder icon. The app will now appear in a folder. Rest of the apps can be moved to the folder as well and you can name it whatever you like. Be sure to save the setting at top right corner. This folder can also be dragged to the home screen menu. Hope this helps.
Thanks a lot for the replies everything helped except,
Have you checked the Settings? I'm not on a Samsung-Rom so I cannot test for myself.
I can recommend Go Contacts EX (free in Play Store) if you want a fully customizable Dialer.
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Yes I've checked settings and nothing and I do know about Go Contacts but that's not what I need. I event did factory restore settings to see what went wrong and nothing don't know what to do really.
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You can create folders in the apps drawer by clicking the left menu button > edit. Then drag an app (you should be able to see an empty folder icon at bottom left corner) and mount it over the folder icon. The app will now appear in a folder. Rest of the apps can be moved to the folder as well and you can name it whatever you like. Be sure to save the setting at top right corner. This folder can also be dragged to the home screen menu. Hope this helps.
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That works well, did not know this. Personally I like to use Apps Organizer by Fabio Collini (on the Market for free). It also gives u the opportunity to create folders with your themed apps (i.e. games / tools / navigation / ...) The advantage here is that you can select your own icon for the folder to go on your home screen. Especially if you have a lot of themed folders (like I do) you can create a much nicer look this way.
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Thanks a lot for the replies everything helped except,
Yes I've checked settings and nothing and I do know about Go Contacts but that's not what I need. I event did factory restore settings to see what went wrong and nothing don't know what to do really.
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The call button on the right side was removed in the LFB update. Samsung probably thought it was redundant and I agree with that. They could have made it optional though.
At the moment there's no way to get that back unless you replace that particular apk (dialer.apk maybe) with the older version of it.
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The call button on the right side was removed in the LFB update. Samsung probably thought it was redundant and I agree with that. They could have made it optional though.
At the moment there's no way to get that back unless you replace that particular apk (dialer.apk maybe) with the older version of it.
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Thank you very much for your help, I also think they should have made it optional :good:
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The only RGB Amoled I can compare the S3 to is the S2 and it's very obvious on first sight that the S3 kicks the S2 with sharpness and detail.
(I'm not including the S1 which is far below both in terms of resolution)
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it sure is better than s2 i know.
another thing thats bothering me is that in my sgs3 and whole android so much stuff is synced shared dropboxed and other virtual sharing stuff that I feel like my own phone isnt private anymore.
so much stuff is synced shared dropboxed and other virtual sharing
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That's fully configurable. Dropbox doesn't upload anything except you actually tell it to.
Go to Settings->Accounts->Sync and disable the Sync accounts and settings you do not need or want.
I'd recommend syncing Contacts+Bookmarks through Google and using SMS Backup+ to sync call logs and SMS.
With those present, even a lost/broken device would be acceptable in terms of data loss to me.
Im usually pretty good at figuring tthe smartwatches out. but how do you get to the different screens on the watch? whe i turn it on i get on screen with instagram .calculater etc. when i swipe i get to blank pages. ive accidenttly stumbled across other screens with other things on them but i have no idea what i did to get there! is there a manual for how to use this watch? or can someone give me some basic instructions please???
I suggest you hold the bottom button down till the task list comes up, then swipe left to kill OUI2.0 launcher. When you do that, you will get a screen where you can select from available launchers...pick the little house with the android in it. Things will be more familiar then.
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I suggest you hold the bottom button down till the task list comes up, then swipe left to kill OUI2.0 launcher. When you do that, you will get a screen where you can select from available launchers...pick the little house with the android in it. Things will be more familiar then.
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thanks i will give it a try. how do i load the playstore on here or also others? when ii hook the watch to the computer it says on th watch that its a drive but it dont show up on computer screen ..ive tried on windows 7 and 8.1 not visible. is there another way i can get the playstore on the watch? and also is there a gmail app on here? where is it? i found the reg. email app.
trent999 said:
I suggest you hold the bottom button down till the task list comes up, then swipe left to kill OUI2.0 launcher. When you do that, you will get a screen where you can select from available launchers...pick the little house with the android in it. Things will be more familiar then.
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when i hold the bottom button down long press all i get is a black screen that says "no recent apps"
That is because you haven't installed Google Apps yet, which is part of installing the Play Store. Check around XDA for installing Play Store. I haven't redone mine since I got it in early February, so I can't walk you through it.
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thanks i will give it a try. how do i load the playstore on here or also others? when ii hook the watch to the computer it says on th watch that its a drive but it dont show up on computer screen ..ive tried on windows 7 and 8.1 not visible. is there another way i can get the playstore on the watch? and also is there a gmail app on here? where is it? i found the reg. email app.
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Patch your watch. The patch installs Play Store.
Lokifish Marz said:
Patch your watch. The patch installs Play Store.
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i'm dumb. how do i patch my watch?
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That is because you haven't installed Google Apps yet, which is part of installing the Play Store. Check around XDA for installing Play Store. I haven't redone mine since I got it in early February, so I can't walk you through it.
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ive kinda check around and i found the apk for the play store and DL it to my computer, just dont know how to get it on the watch since the computer wont recognize the watch as a drive even though the watch says its set up as to be a drive.
also how do you find the gmail appp on the watch? is there one? i set up my google acct on the watch, but i cant find an app on the watch for gmail.
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i'm dumb. how do i patch my watch?
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[INFO] Everything Umeox x201 (TrueSmart, AW-414/420, AX-3, XTouch, etc..) sticky. Both methods are listed in "Kernels, Patches, MOD packs, ROMs" section of the sticky.
Sorry but have to be blunt. Using any x201 unpatched is extremely dumb. Unpatched, a hacker, malware and even malicious websites can remotely steal your info off the device an then brick it.
Lokifish Marz said:
[INFO] Everything Umeox x201 (TrueSmart, AW-414/420, AX-3, XTouch, etc..) sticky. Both methods are listed in "Kernels, Patches, MOD packs, ROMs" section of the sticky.
Sorry but have to be blunt. Using any x201 unpatched is extremely dumb. Unpatched, a hacker, malware and even malicious websites can remotely steal your info off the device an then brick it.
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went there. not being a developer, its all a little greek to me. i really am afraid to start screwing around with the watch without knowing what i am doing. i also dont know if i should get a sim card or not before i attempt anything. anyone caare to help me root or patch my mod and walk me thru it so i can get this watch up and running?
It doesn't get any simpler than this.
Most of the guides here for the x201 are done in such a way that you do exactly what the instructions say. Except for some rare cases, 99% of the time there are issues is because somebody skipped a step or did the steps out of order. The other part of the problem is people think "OMG new tech! It must be scary and complicated" when in fact the core concepts are the exact same as a computer. Install software, click button(s), wait, done.
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It doesn't get any simpler than this.
Most of the guides here for the x201 are done in such a way that you do exactly what the instructions say. Except for some rare cases, 99% of the time there are issues is because somebody skipped a step or did the steps out of order. The other part of the problem is people think "OMG new tech! It must be scary and complicated" when in fact the core concepts are the exact same as a computer. Install software, click button(s), wait, done.
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OK Well i got my yahoo mail set up. also got google play store on by emailing it to myself and then installing it. also found some apk's that i had from my zwatch that work on the omate: Aquamail, Easy uninstaller, Battery meter.
Two BIG questions: why does the watch have 2 sets of screens? the main screen set(which seems to be the default) with the blue background and the other set you get to by swiping down thats got a dark grey background with similar apps but has folders and more apps. i'd like to make that my default) but everytime you push the bottom button, it goes to the original blue default screen. same when you turn off and on the watch, it defaults to the blue set. how do you get rid of that blue default screen set. also is there a gmail app or do ii have to DL from play store? and is there a call log app? i cant find it if there is. THANKS!!
So you didn't install any patch. Not good. Almost every bit of info you just put on your watch (passwords, usernames, contacts, etc.) is now accessible by hackers, malware and malicious websites. Your watch can also be bricked remotely as well.
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So you didn't install any patch. Not good. Almost every bit of info you just put on your watch (passwords, usernames, contacts, etc.) is now accessible by hackers, malware and malicious websites. Your watch can also be bricked remotely as well.
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i dont know how to do the patch and im afraid if i screw it up i will brick the watch. can you explain the 2 sets of screens to me?
wmandel said:
i dont know how to do the patch and im afraid if i screw it up i will brick the watch. can you explain the 2 sets of screens to me?
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plus i cant get my computer to see the watch as a drive. i tried it with windows 7 and 8.1 and no luck. so i cant patch it unless i can get the computer to see the watch.
You don't need your computer to see it as a drive to patch it. Where did you read that you did?
Windows does not have to see any phone as a drive to recognize that it's there.
Getting your watch to be seen as a drive on your computer
Connect watch to PC
On the watch either a screen will pop up with a button saying "Turn on USB Storage" or "USB Connected" shows up in notifications
If you do not get the popup tap on "USB Connected" in notifications, the popup should now appear.
If none of these things happens the most likely cause it that the dock is defective.
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i dont know how to do the patch and im afraid if i screw it up i will brick the watch. can you explain the 2 sets of screens to me?
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There has been less than 5 reports of somebody actually bricking their watch and it wasn't from running either patch. The worst that happens is that you have to flash factory firmware to the watch. In the instances of people bricking their watch it has been because of flashing untested firmware that they got from somewhere other than myself.
The two sets of "screens" are launchers. You can either clear the defaults for the primary launcher or factory reset your watch.
I keep accidentally deleting cards and they don't seem to come back. How can I get them back?
Thanks!
You can't. Dismissed = dismissed (thank god, otherwise al the duplicate notifications would drive you crazy)
jmed999 said:
I keep accidentally deleting cards and they don't seem to come back. How can I get them back?
Thanks!
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I sort of depends on your cards. I lost my Stock quote cards and had to do a Google "Quote XRX" search. That restored my card for stocks. It's tied closely to your search activity, so do some searches and see if that restores the cards you're looking for.
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You can't. Dismissed = dismissed (thank god, otherwise al the duplicate notifications would drive you crazy)
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That's not true. Also the watch prevents duplicate cards...
Usually just search for it in order for it to reappear. Weather gone? Say "How's the weather?". Calendar gone? Say "What does my schedule look like?" And so on...
If it was an app that had a card just open the app again.
You might also try refreshing google now on the phone if it was a google now card.
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That's not true. Also the watch prevents duplicate cards...
Usually just search for it in order for it to reappear. Weather gone? Say "How's the weather?". Calendar gone? Say "What does my schedule look like?" And so on...
If it was an app that had a card just open the app again.
You might also try refreshing google now on the phone if it was a google now card.
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You're right about that, but technically that means refreshing the notification (and thus the input may be different/updated). It depends on how you look at it (perhaps i'm splitting hairs now )
How do I refresh google now on my phone? I've looked but don't see a refresh button. I've googled the weather like 10 times and the weather card still isn't showing up. Same for stocks. What a pain!
jmed999 said:
How do I refresh google now on my phone? I've looked but don't see a refresh button. I've googled the weather like 10 times and the weather card still isn't showing up. Same for stocks. What a pain!
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That's weird, this usually works for me. Is the weather showing when you asked for it or does it just do a google search? And is the weather card still on the phone? You can refresh google now on the phone by swiping down when open and at the top.
Do your searches for the relevant card, give it some time. It will reappear.
Thanks Devs, from my LG G2
I understand some of the above frustrations with cards. For me I really like the weather on my watch face and wish there was a watch face that had weather (temperature) built right the face (not a card). I have accidentally swiped away my weather card and sometimes it takes hours for it to reappear.
Hoping over the next few weeks, devs will start making 3rd party watch faces (if it is even possible).
madgalaxy said:
Hoping over the next few weeks, devs will start making 3rd party watch faces (if it is even possible).
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there's already quite a few out. go look over in the thread that has been created just for this
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there's already quite a few out. go look over in the thread that has been created just for this
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Thanks for the heads up; did not even notice that thread. Wish they had a category on Play for "Android Wear Watch Faces", would make it so much easier to discover new content.
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Thanks for the heads up; did not even notice that thread. Wish they had a category on Play for "Android Wear Watch Faces", would make it so much easier to discover new content.
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And that also exists, in the form of this app
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And that also exists, in the form of this app
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Not a fan of 3rd Party stores - but thanks for the heads up!
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Not a fan of 3rd Party stores - but thanks for the heads up!
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me neither but it has way more apps than the category in google play. and you can filter by categories, eg watch faces
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me neither but it has way more apps than the category in google play. and you can filter by categories, eg watch faces
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Why do y'all not like 3rd party stores?
Is there any kind that actually works? I keep fishing around on Google play and everything is either old, doesn't work, or is full of sh*t, or a combination of all 3.
Welcome to XDA
If you're running Android 9 or higher simply do a factory reset. There are no known rootkits that can worm out of the user partition, once that data is wiped so is the malware.
Don't reload it again after the factory reset.
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Welcome to XDA
If you're running Android 9 or higher simply do a factory reset. There are no known rootkits that can worm out of the user partition, once that data is wiped so is the malware.
Don't reload it again after the factory reset.
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Thank you for the welcome. Sorry bout the late reply. I don't suppose there's another way is there? Im literally fresh out the box, I've never done a factory reset.
Michael Romanov said:
Thank you for the welcome. Sorry bout the late reply. I don't suppose there's another way is there? Im literally fresh out the box, I've never done a factory reset.
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You're welcome. The other way is to find the malware and delete it completely.
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You're welcome. The other way is to find the malware and delete it completely.
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Which would be how? Would I need a app or something for the pc? And if so do you have any recommendations? I have the mixsilver file manager on my phone (pixel 6 "Not pro"). Would there be a way I could find it thru there? Also my device is not rooted. So would I need to root? I'm sorry if this gets on your nerves. If so tell me, won't hurt my feelings. I'm literally a noob at this stuff. I've been trying to teach myself and just do trial and error but im getting in over my head and don't wanna accidentally brick my phone or worse.
What makes you sure you have spy/malware? Or do you mean adware?
Cheers
Tom
With Avast or AVG Antivirus you can do a pretty good scan of your apps, even system apps if you want.
For Factory reset see here https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/4596836
or go here on a PC (you need your Pixel connected by usb to the PC then): https://pixelrepair.withgoogle.com/carrier_selection
tom1807 said:
What makes you sure you have spy/malware? Or do you mean adware?
Cheers
Tom
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Chrome ****tin out 3 gigs of data a day. I have unlimited so it's not that big of a deal but still.....and some of the options I had in settings like "permissions, enable/disable, clear data/cache" that I know for a fact I had not too long ago are now greyed out or nonexistent. Also sometimes when I bring up "location" thru the settings menu everything is supposed to be "off" but there's 2 or 3 that look like they are switching back to say "off" as soon as the page shows. 1 of them outright takes several seconds to display any "on or off" setting at all. I've found a "Verizon" system app on my phone, some kind of Samsung telephony thing. And it seems like I can input a change to settings or something and when I look at my phone in the morning everything I had set up is back to it's previous settings.
psi78 said:
With Avast or AVG Antivirus you can do a pretty good scan of your apps, even system apps if you want.
For Factory reset see here https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/4596836
or go here on a PC (you need your Pixel connected by usb to the PC then): https://pixelrepair.withgoogle.com/carrier_selection
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Thank you. Umm.....stupid question but I've never done a full reset before so.....how and would I need to move my apps to another storage or could I just go back thru the play store and redownload? And any paid apps and subscriptions?
It probably explains all that in those links doesn't it?
Just do factory reset and you are okay.. Then start using phone as new..
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Chrome ****tin out 3 gigs of data a day. I have unlimited so it's not that big of a deal but still.....and some of the options I had in settings like "permissions, enable/disable, clear data/cache" that I know for a fact I had not too long ago are now greyed out or nonexistent. Also sometimes when I bring up "location" thru the settings menu everything is supposed to be "off" but there's 2 or 3 that look like they are switching back to say "off" as soon as the page shows. 1 of them outright takes several seconds to display any "on or off" setting at all. I've found a "Verizon" system app on my phone, some kind of Samsung telephony thing. And it seems like I can input a change to settings or something and when I look at my phone in the morning everything I had set up is back to it's previous settings.
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For what it's worth, the Verizon system app comes with the phone in case you use a Verizon sim.
If you end up clean flashing or factory resetting, I would not restore any apps from backups. I would reinstall everything fresh or you could just be putting the malware back on your phone, if that indeed is what you have.
Michael Romanov said:
Thank you. Umm.....stupid question but I've never done a full reset before so.....how and would I need to move my apps to another storage or could I just go back thru the play store and redownload? And any paid apps and subscriptions?
It probably explains all that in those links doesn't it?
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Just redownload them. Google remembers your bought apps or subscriptions in your Google account, so as long as you use the same email/account for logging in to Playstore after Factory reset you're good.
Your contacts normally are also synced to your Google Account, so you get them back also then.
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Just redownload them. Google remembers your bought apps or subscriptions in your Google account, so as long as you use the same email/account for logging in to Playstore after Factory reset you're good.
Your contacts normally are also synced to your Google Account, so you get them back also then.
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Thank you. I was worried it wasn't gonna remember me.
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For what it's worth, the Verizon system app comes with the phone in case you use a Verizon sim.
If you end up clean flashing or factory resetting, I would not restore any apps from backups. I would reinstall everything fresh or you could just be putting the malware back on your phone, if that indeed is what you have.
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But that's the thing. I don't use Verizon I use sprint which is part of t mobile. That's why I just don't get it.
Michael Romanov said:
But that's the thing. I don't use Verizon I use sprint which is part of t mobile. That's why I just don't get it.
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It comes with the phone by default just in case you do use Verizon. Basically that app helps give the phone Verizon support, of sorts. It's disabled by default if you don't use Verizon so there's really nothing to worry about with that app.
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It comes with the phone by default just in case you do use Verizon. Basically that app helps give the phone Verizon support, of sorts. It's disabled by default if you don't use Verizon so there's really nothing to worry about with that app.
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Man thank you. There's stuff on here that I don't understand and I've been thinking it's something I've downloaded or whatever. I'm new to all of this.