Hi, so I recently bought a Galaxy A50. When I brought it home and started looking around through the apps and settings, I noticed somethings that sort of alarmed me. I'm such an incredible noob about all these sorts of things I really don't know where to start. I'm hoping someone here has answers or can point me in the right direction. I just wanted to add right off the bat that the sales people who sold the phone to me came off a little fishy in the store, so I was a little uneasy from the get go. I can elaborate if anyone's interested. One peculiarity that underlies this entire post is that while in airplane, it seemed that some things were still able to open/access the web.
First off, I took the sim card tray out, and it didn't look like the stock sim card tray I saw in Youtube videos. For starters, there's a circle in the second sim slot that's not in the stock sim tray from the video. It also differs from the stock sim tray in the video in that there appears to be metallic bits at the end. As a precaution, I taped up the second slot and put it back in the phone. The odd thing is, when I took the sim card tray out again after putting the tape on, it there were indents/impressions in the tape right where the circle is. This is the video I used as a reference for a stock sim card tray: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RprD9McCwc4
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Second, there's an app called SIM Card Manager that doesn't appear in the apps menu. It only appears if you search for it. The permissions it has seems pretty gnarly. But you can only see the full permissions if you click the 3-dots. At first blush, it has no permissions.
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Third, the configapk app was also a little fishy. From what I gathered, configapk tells the phones which apps to autoinstall as part of the carrier/manufacturer setup. The weird thing is, when I click disable and confirm the disable, I get a weird popup asking if I want to replace the app with the factory version.
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Does anyone have any idea what's going on? There's some other minor issues I won't waste your time with unless you think this is a sign of something. How do I dig deeper? Thank you all so much for any info you can offer.
EDIT: I figured out how to do images.
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Didn't realize there was a restriction with posting outside links as a new user. I will update as soon as I can.
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After getting more familiar with the site, this may not have been the best place to put this. Somehow I missed the giant Developers only warning in the title. I will ask a mod to move.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RprD9McCwc4
This is the video that I used as a reference.
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Hello all,
Today I was playing with my phone and suddenly on the middle of my phone touch screen area stop working, first I didn't notice that alot but after playing more I have notice it more when I'm not able to open a link into dolphin Brower at middle of the screen, then I marked that location and open home screen but some how that area work fine there even I downloaded some dead screen area detection apps and did lots of test and all area of screen act and working properly...
I have notice that issue in dolphin Brower and system option area when they come to that particular point...
Please may anyone experience this if yes then any suggestions?
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Peole here are reporting that this works
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1131649&highlight=dead+spots+on+touchscreen
thanks for reply, I tried and not able to solve this issue...
below is the screenshot of my phone which i took it using dev tools of jelly beans setting, here you clearly see that on specific area touch not working horizontally but if i move my finger fast vertically i am able to draw line or touch screen work.
Any help please?
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It's a bit of a dodgy fix but you could try this. It's worked for a few people.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=27595402
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Moto warranty -> sell -> buy a good phone(
I had exactly same problem with my Atrix.
Exactly means exactly same location and dimensions of nontouchable area.
I tried everithing, was thinking about touch replacement but finally realized 99% I will end up with nonworking device.
Solution (depends)
-go to Motorola site and check if your atrix is still under warranty.(mine was more than year old but still on warr.)
-fill out online form for repair/replacement.
-back up your data and erase from device.
-send your atrix to them (dont send wires, battery, backcover, sd card, sim and orig.box) dont warry about unlocked bootloader, custom rom, etc. - they dont care.
-receive a new atrix. this will be a new device not fixed yours.
with build # 4.5.141 with UNLOCKABLE butloader.
-You may try to call Att for sim unlock code but this is useless. Go to cellunlock.net and buy code ($19.99 with discount code).
-get rid of motoblur account activation -
http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-1027994.html
-Sell this useless junk on ebay
-Buy real phone (nexus, s3, note ?)
good luck
So just tonight I keep having a screen appear on it's own called enhanced features. I keep hitting decline, but it keeps coming up while in the middle of doing other things. Anybody else have this issue, or how to make it stop?
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can't really help you with this because I never see or hear about this features but would be helpful if you could provide your phone model and your cellphone provider.
T-mobile S6 Edge. This thing keeps opening even though I keep hitting decline! It is getting annoying!
Tmoblie variant here. I don't see this in settings or popup. Maybe it's an app you downloaded?
yeah, i'm using U.S. T Mobile SG6E right now too but never come cross of this popup.
I'm having the same problem as of an hour ago...5:30pm Eastern US time. Galaxy s6 32 gb on T-Mobile...nothing new downloaded.
Me too, just started about 11:30pm PST. Realllllly annoying.
Super annoying. Glad I am not the only one. I tried removing my Samsung account and that didn't help. If anyone figures out how to stop this please respond!
Happening here too. T-Mobile S6 Edge
use titanium to disable it then.
This is affecting non-rooted stock devices.
There isn't a clear thing to disable, anyway.
Edit: Mines gone away on its own
Edit 2: Nope. Still here.
Yeah, I'm not rooted so can't use titanium...
Not to mention, I don't know what is causing it to pop up...I wouldn't know what to disable.
Not rooted here and haven't seen it, I'm on international variant unbranded
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Non-rooted t-mobile variant here. It just started for me last night and It is aggravating as hell.
I've declined it every time and I can't figure out how to permanently stop the madness.
Is there any one who has successfully disabled this after it started?
Still happening here...horribly annoying. Someone help!
Have you guys just tried to hit accept? Instead of decline.
And what happens when you hit the back arrow on the top left? Does it just take you back to the settings homepage?
I don't want to accept. Yeah, I've tried that back arrow and nothing happens expect it exits the screen.
Here is the link that goes to terms and conditions:
http://static.bada.com/contents/legal/global/default/general_esu.html
I am on an international version purchased in Hong Kong. Do not have the same pop up but do have other which are very annoying as well.
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I don't want to accept. Yeah, I've tried that back arrow and nothing happens expect it exits the screen.
Here is the link that goes to terms and conditions:
http://static.bada.com/contents/legal/global/default/general_esu.html
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Well that sucks.. I'm on tmobile, and still have yet to see this.
But come on... just hit the accept button, what could possibly happen. [emoji48]
So I was messing around with a Galaxy On5 that Straight Talk had sent me for free. I was rooting it and along my journey I found myself in a very strange mode that I would like to figure out how to return to. The phone booted up with some arrows along the bottom, or gears and said Factory something. It was some strange developer test mode or, something along those lines. It was a weird home screen with blue(I think) squares and abbreviations in them. There was a long stretched green battery bar at the top with segments. There was also some strange applications, but notably, and the reason I want to get back into this, there was what I believe to be the default AM/FM radio app. This app was different from the ones you find by 3rd parties, it had an older appearance and did not require anything to be plugged into the phone jack to work. It also worked quite well compared to other radio apps. There were a few other test type features like vibrate and what not. This was not safe mode, as it almost looked like a completely different operating system. Is there anyone who can give me any insight as to what the heck this was? I have tried Googling all kinds of things to try finding something similar but nothing at all, just the typical Recovery and Download modes which I am already familiar with.
Can you post an image? Screenshot or taken with another camera.
It will be very helpful If someone recognizes it.
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Can you post an image? Screenshot or taken with another camera.
It will be very helpful If someone recognizes it.
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Unfortunately I was unable to get a screenshot or picture when this happened.
How did you get back from.
Its surprising no one had found this "easter egg" before.
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How did you get back from.
Its surprising no one had found this "easter egg" before.
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I think it happened when I flashed a rom. I can't remember I was messing with the darn phone for hours. I might try to replicate it though, haven't decided if I want to risk losing my root.
I figured out the mode is called Factory Binary and is triggered by flasing a firmware I found with odin in AP.
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Edit, after hours of research, I realized it's not some 'secret' mode or anything, it's simply a factory testing software.
Too bad I couldn't pull the AM/FM app from it through, would really like to use it.
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I figured out the mode is called Factory Binary and is triggered by flasing a firmware I found with odin in AP.
Images won't embed properly. Using prntscr
Edit, after hours of research, I realized it's not some 'secret' mode or anything, it's simply a factory testing software.
Too bad I couldn't pull the AM/FM app from it through, would really like to use it.
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Hi everyone,
I've just moved from my trusty LG G6 to a new SAmsung S9 Plus UK version (Exynos 9810) and so far I'm pretty happy, love the screen, the responsiveness and it's a lovely looking phone although slippery as a fish without a case, managed to find a good case/screen protector combo but took a while. Have gone for the Whitestone Doma which is an awesome screen protector but was really frustrated to get bubbles in the glue which shouldn't happen..
Anyway Its only really day 3 or 4 and I realise things may change in time but have some observations and wondered if anyone here could help please.
1) Standby drain, seems like many people have this so have downloaded Package Disabler Pro for Samsung and I am experimenting but its not anywhere near as good as my G6 at the moment. Guess this is trial and error but have already disabled much of the Samsung stuff, I'm a little apprehensive when it comes to system packages though as you never know if its going to mess things up completely.
2) On both the AOD and in the android shutter if I get 2 notifications from an app, they both show separately, I have a Xiaomi camera and if I get more than one alert of movement all notifications are separate and I wanted to know how to nest them so it only showed me once that I had notification for that app.. (hope that makes sense) cant find any way to do this. This isn't the problem of double notifications as I've seen but I hope you get what I mean.
3) LG has a built in service called Smart Settings which basically says things like if you go out of your current location turn Wi-fi off , when you get back into your location turn wifi on, if you start this app, turn on bluetooth, if you plug in headphones start this app.. etc..
It appears theres nothing like that on Samsung so could anyone recommend a 3rd part app that may help me achieve this as I miss it.
4) Does anyone know if S9 Plus will get 8.1? or will it go straight to P..
5) Forgot to add, I have a different photo viewer installed, I use F-Stop but for some reason in the camera app when you take a picture and press the gallery button it always defaults to the Samsung gallery app. Does anyone know how this can be changed please?
Thanks for listening guys, any help appreciated.
Wayne
1. Give it a couple of weeks for the system to settle. Just use it as it is without disabling any apps.
2. I don't know if you can do that system wide. I know some apps have that option.
3. Try LLama
4. No idea
5. Open settings and search for "default"
There you should be able to set default apps
I've provided a screenshot so you can see how it looks like
Hope it helps
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I own a Verizon Galaxy s9+ and A galaxy tab s3. For the past few months I've noticed strange things going on with my phone and for at least 6 months on my tablet. Even factory resets don't solve this. I feel like I've googled everything to no avail. I started to think I was just crazy, until the other day I went to add a new account to my phone, an email account, and noticed something strange under accounts. I don't see any abnormal accounts under "accounts" in settings, but when I click "add account" there is a strange icon with no title next to it, like its hidden, and it has the green circle next to it like its been added, but I can't click or see what it is. Please help! I used to be super nosey on my bfs phone and now wondering if he's had something on mine for a while as well?? Thank you!!
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Hi , I'm not sure but I think maybe some spy app is installed on your phone : / . Check if your phone has Official firmware .
To do that , follow this video instruction :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT0wTpJDw50
First time I see something like that ...
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I own a Verizon Galaxy s9+ and A galaxy tab s3. For the past few months I've noticed strange things going on with my phone and for at least 6 months on my tablet. Even factory resets don't solve this. I feel like I've googled everything to no avail. I started to think I was just crazy, until the other day I went to add a new account to my phone, an email account, and noticed something strange under accounts. I don't see any abnormal accounts under "accounts" in settings, but when I click "add account" there is a strange icon with no title next to it, like its hidden, and it has the green circle next to it like its been added, but I can't click or see what it is. Please help! I used to be super nosey on my bfs phone and now wondering if he's had something on mine for a while as well?? Thank you!!
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A factory reset will not help with many spying apps. Best you can do is send the device back unless have an unlocked bootloader. Then you can format all partitions and add apps back one by one.
To be honest. If something is like this is needed. Then move on. The relationship was already dead.