I was offered by Samsung an opportunity to receive a copy of my personal data that Samsung captures. Two weeks later, I received a link to download my information. I had only been a Samsung customer for three months, and the download was over 13 GB over 21 different services they offer. The file also contained voice recordings, which I have yet been able to play them. Not even sure that I want to actually. I was sent 20 of these "images" and I have no idea what they are. They are exactly 500 MB each. I've done image searches with different programs. I've tried opening, unzipping, playing, and manipulating these files with everything at my disposal. I used about 5 different file archivers. It's a .z file with a 2 digit suffix. I read that's mostly associated with Linux. Again, I don't know. It is rather disingenuous of Samsung to "offer" me the opportunity to see my personal information in a form of media that I have no clue what to do with it. If possible, I'd like to know what this is and how can I look at its contents? As you can tell, my expertise lies in a field other than tech and software development. I may get crucified over posting this here, but I wanted an expert's opinion and this is a great place to get it. I have contacted Samsung twice with no reply.
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If ya'll don't know what it is, I give up. I've spent 3 days researching and can't find out myself. Thank you!
Try to open file with WinZip.
Thank you very much for the reply! I tried with WinZip. When I opened the WinZip app, it then in turn opened AndrOpen and the screen went a total solid gray with a status line at the bottom showing the progress of unzipping the file. Once it completes, the screen never changes from a solid screen of gray. I used another app call 7zipper and it showed typical gibberish symbols when it's not the correct format. It did show there was 37 lines of sentences or information. I will try a few more of those type apps. I wish like heck I had my Windows laptop with me. I am trying all of this on both my phone and tablet. Thanks again!
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there are a lot of threads/posts on the forum with moded phones.apk to display bigger contacts pictures, i already tried a lot of phone.apk's and none of these are working fine in our galaxy ace (FC), maybe someone can do it?
i already tried to modify the xml files, but i got a lot of errors when compiling the apk and i don't even know if im right with some values (my first try doing something like this hehe)
yes, i know there is an apk called full screen caller id, but i like more the "android" style.
examples:
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info about how to do it, here: Russian
info here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1050251
im not asking for a full screen because of contacts pictures limitations, etc. i just would love to have a slightly bigger contact picture.
thanks
stranxk said:
there are a lot of threads/posts on the forum with moded phones.apk to display bigger contacts pictures, i already tried a lot of phone.apk's and none of these are working fine in our galaxy ace (FC), maybe someone can do it?
i already tried to modify the xml files, but i got a lot of errors when compiling the apk and i don't even know if im right with some values (my first try doing something like this hehe)
yes, i know there is an apk called full screen caller id, but i like more the "android" style.
examples:
info about how to do it, here: Russian
info here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1050251
im not asking for a full screen because of contacts pictures limitations, etc. i just would love to have a slightly bigger contact picture.
thanks
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i am using Smart CallerID
i am also searching for modification of phone.apk.
this would be nice ... the only mod i managed to do with success on phone apk was changing that horrible green background ... bigger picture sizer would be awsome!
Hi everyone, I've been testing quite a few sync applications and this one in particular is called my attention enough that I purchased it: http://www.jrtstudio.com/CheetahSync
It compares by file size and modified date, and can also compare by calculated hash.
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I wanted to see if anyone here has used it, experience with it, and what do you think so far?
1051 files (anime pics, manga cbr files, music,) 1.10gb and doing ok so far here.
Moved to Android Q&A
Update: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.jrtstudio.SyncFolders&feature=search_result
Been using this for some time now and it is IMO the best sync application out there!
The developer issued an update that fixed the problem with sync job order arrangement.
So go get it... try it out.
It's worth paying for.
I have mine configured like this before i leave the house to receive from PC to ANDROID:
Job 1 - receive "My Pictures" changes from desktop computer
Job 2 - send "My Pictures" changes to desktop computer.
job 3 - receive changes of DCIM from computer.
job 4 - send changes of "DCIM" to computer.
when I come back to the house, I can switch them around to work like this and send any changes from ANDROID to PC:
Job 1 - send "My Pictures" changes to desktop computer.
Job 2 - receive "My Pictures" changes from desktop computer
job 3 - send changes of "DCIM" to computer.
job 4 - receive changes of DCIM from computer.
Beautiful. ^_^
Hi. Is there a way to sync over usb/adb instead of wifi because my phone is at work in another subnet that my laptop is connected to.
Thank you!
Could someone answer this as I'm a little confused. Below is a screenshot of my Dad's details - blurred out of course
Anyway, at the bottom you see a "Add relationship" field. If you click Add relationship, you are presented with a list of relationships. In here I selected Father. There is then an input box next to it.
What are you supposed to put in there? I've already told Google this contact is my Father, even if I put his real name in as the contact details, it still gives me that option.
At first I thought perhaps it was for Google Now. For instance, my girlfriend is down as her full name, so when I say "Call my Girlfriend" it would call her. However it seems like that isn't the case.
Can anyone explain this one to me. It doesn't seem to make any sense or have any use.
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You can add information about the relationship in this field. I agree that you don't need it for father, but what about brother? You could add older or younger. Or, what about assistant? You could have a number of them, so you can specify what they assist with.
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Still, seems a bit pointless.
It's funny as I also asked the same question on Google+ and was told that this field w to add relationships for that person. So the contacts father, mother, brother etc
I think it has more implementation coming in the future. In your case, using your dad as the example, you would choose the "Child" relationship and type your name in the text field.
The idea is that once you have populated the fields, your contacts will be linked by relationship and you will have quick access to everyone "related" to a particular contact.
Here is a post explaining how it was intended to be used: http://www.quora.com/How-do-you-use-the-relationship-field-in-google-contacts
Hopefully that helps, but who knows when it will actually be fully functional...
I personally really like this feature. My parents are both on Facebook and I need to keep their name correct on their contact card for proper syncing. However for some reason, one relationship is incorrect. Brother. Is anybody figured out how to make a correction?
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Hello. I am kind of new to this forum so if this is not the right place to post this I apologize. Anyway, I was watching a series when I noticed a big jump in the episode. From episode 10 it played 100 next, the trend appears to be 1, 2, 3,...10, 100, 101, 102....110,11, 111,112,etc, maddening.
I know I can solve this by installing a third party app. But I am loving samsung's gallery and I hate the idea of using the same app (QuickPic) for both video and image. Might there be a way to handle this natively?
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An image to get a clearer picture of what's happening. Thanks.
I gather you've never used Windows? Windows Explorer does this, too. (Or it used to, anyway. I haven't used single-digit numbering for years because of this.)
Most systems recognise the first digit first, instead of checking how many digits there are. So it will always be 1, 10, 100, 2, 20, 200, 3, 30, 300.
The easiest way to solve this is using as many digits as the largest number. So it becomes 001, 002, 003, 010, 020, 030, 100, 200, 300.
You can use Bulk Rename Utility to make this a bit easier: http://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/
I have used windows 98 to windows 8 and have never seen this. I even download manga on windows with 1.jpg numbering system and never see this problem (although I have to admit that I only viewed serial videos and comics on windows xp up.
The example on the image was downloaded on my windows 8.1 laptop and the arrangement was okay. So I was surprised that you mentioned that. I have used PCs all my life and only see this behavior on Android. The sudden change in the way my device do things is what drove me to this forum,
But thanks for the rename suggestion. I will use this workaround until android can improve its filesystem structure. It's just maddening that android does this. Even on linux which gave me nightmares on first time setup played videos on sequence even when named with 1 digit order.
It just bothers me because when we normally download rar or torrent (legal of course.) movies and images are usually using one digit ordering system. Well, at least I now understand why this is happening. Thanks for the reply.
I previously asked this on the Xiaomi Poco Forum but didn't get much help. As I have a Poco with stock rom and still locked so I didn't think you would welcome my question here. However you are very knowledgeable people so perhaps you can help.
The attached screenshot shows the window that opens after i have clicked the Trash Cleaner notification. At the bottom is the option to have Folder Names uploaded to Cheetah Mobile's database.
Cheetah Mobile are a company that admit to selling peoples data and have recently had similar apps to this pulled from the Google Play store, It doesn't seem to be delete able and I'm not sure the acceptance slider switch would actually do what it is meant to. Perhaps that's just me being cynical.
Is this as concerning as it seems?
Thanks for the help.
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I previously asked this on the Xiaomi Poco Forum but didn't get much help. As I have a Poco with stock rom and still locked so I didn't think you would welcome my question here. However you are very knowledgeable people so perhaps you can help.
The attached screenshot shows the window that opens after i have clicked the Trash Cleaner notification. At the bottom is the option to have Folder Names uploaded to Cheetah Mobile's database.
Cheetah Mobile are a company that admit to selling peoples data and have recently had similar apps to this pulled from the Google Play store, It doesn't seem to be delete able and I'm not sure the acceptance slider switch would actually do what it is meant to. Perhaps that's just me being cynical.
Is this as concerning as it seems?
Thanks for the help.
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Given the reputation of the company, if I were you, I would not use it. In fact I was using their browser before learning about the activities of the company and subsequently uninstalled it and formatted my phone.
EDIT: You are welcome here even if you are on stock, unrooted with unlocked bootloader. This is a place for learning and mutual help.