Nitrousoxide posted:

You could probably use a nail clipper as a WiFi or Bluetooth antenna.

Bright Bart posted:

Just wondering, does anyone know of a good *off-line* password manager app other than KeePass and its clones? One where you don't even need an account let alone a subscription to use. And ideally on more than one platform?

I am using BlackBerry Password Safe which is fine but I'd like to see what else is out there. Google isn't much help: it brings up apps which aren't truly off-line (i.e. Bitwarden which you can use off-line in view mode but you need a subscription and the actual entries are hosted online) and Reddit posts asking the same thing and being told that it's a fool's errand because you're taking on the security risk yourself and your phone is more likely to be stolen then breached than companies like LastPass and Dashlane are to be hacked (which I don't know is actually true and ignores other shortfalls).

Since the lists don't even mention BB Password Safe I'm presuming there might be quite a lot of options that fly under the radar.

Bright Bart posted:

Just wondering, does anyone know of a good *off-line* password manager app other than KeePass and its clones? One where you don't even need an account let alone a subscription to use. And ideally on more than one platform?

I am using BlackBerry Password Safe which is fine but I'd like to see what else is out there. Google isn't much help: it brings up apps which aren't truly off-line (i.e. Bitwarden which you can use off-line in view mode but you need a subscription and the actual entries are hosted online) and Reddit posts asking the same thing and being told that it's a fool's errand because you're taking on the security risk yourself and your phone is more likely to be stolen then breached than companies like LastPass and Dashlane are to be hacked (which I don't know is actually true and ignores other shortfalls).

Since the lists don't even mention BB Password Safe I'm presuming there might be quite a lot of options that fly under the radar.

Peteyfoot posted:

I'd like to set up a simple internet radio streaming app for an older friend who struggles with technology. I only plan to plug in four stations for them to rotate through.

Bright Bart posted:

more likely to be stolen then breached than companies like LastPass

disaster pastor posted:

I'm kind of at my wits' end trying to figure out an issue with some SMS messages and I'd appreciate any help.

I've gone from a Galaxy S10+ to an S22 to now an S24+. I've discovered that some inbound SMS/MMS did not get transferred to my S24+ by Smart Switch or SMS Backup and Restore. After further digging, I know this much: it's every inbound SMS from my time on the S10+ (which has unfortunately been traded in already), it's only the inbound because I can see my replies, Google Messages does not see them on the S22, SMS Backup and Restore and SMS Import / Export likewise do not capture them (searching the XML/JSON files for a known phrase returns no results), but if I switch back to Textra on the S22, which I used until only a few months ago, I do see them in there. I've installed Textra on the S24+, but it doesn't pull them up, so it's not that they've been transferred but are still invisible to Messages.

I don't understand why Textra can see them on the S22 but the other apps can't. I tried clearing cache and data for Messages, but that didn't work. I have to think that if Textra can see them, they must be accessible somehow and there's a way to transfer them, but I don't have any other ideas.

I'd shrug and move on, text messages aren't meant to be permanent, except that some of those messages have major sentimental value to me and I'd like to be able to pull them up without digging out my old phone. Any ideas are appreciated!

Bright Bart posted:

How do I see the recent/still open apps in Samsung UI? What I mean by this is that I open up my browser, start surfing, realize I have to look at my calendar o I swipe up and open that up, but when I'm done I want to see the browser again? Do I have to just go back into the locker and click the icon again? What if I want to see what apps are still running and close them to spare RAM?

This wasn't an issue because I was running a different loader that has keys at the bottom the the screen but it's been buggy.

Flipperwaldt posted:

Transistor.

disaster pastor posted:

Assuming you have an S24-series, the swipe mechanics on that one are the default: swiping up from the bottom and holding for a second will bring up your open apps. (If you've installed Good Lock and NavStar, you can reinstate the Samsung swipe mechanics, which are just "swipe up where that button would be.")

Echophonic posted:

Is there anything easy that will keep the screen on while certain apps are focused? I don't feel like setting up Tasker. I'm just trying to let Solid Explorer finish transfers without the device sleeping. I installed Caffeine, so I'm fine to just toggle it. It's on my Samsung tablet, but I can't make heads or tails of the modes and it's insane how reading mode isn't in the Modes section. Edit: Oh, Modes and Routines are different? Okay.

Edit: I made a mode for when Solid Explorer is open to make it landscape, but toggling Caffeine just crashes things, which isn't ideal. Routines don't offer the option, either, just a 10 minute screen timeout, which would probably be fine most of the time. Just got annoyed trying to move files from internal to an SD card yesterday.

Echophonic posted:

Is there anything easy that will keep the screen on while certain apps are focused? I don't feel like setting up Tasker. I'm just trying to let Solid Explorer finish transfers without the device sleeping. I installed Caffeine, so I'm fine to just toggle it. It's on my Samsung tablet, but I can't make heads or tails of the modes and it's insane how reading mode isn't in the Modes section. Edit: Oh, Modes and Routines are different? Okay.

Edit: I made a mode for when Solid Explorer is open to make it landscape, but toggling Caffeine just crashes things, which isn't ideal. Routines don't offer the option, either, just a 10 minute screen timeout, which would probably be fine most of the time. Just got annoyed trying to move files from internal to an SD card yesterday.

Tamba posted:

Does Solid Explorer really stop transfers if the screen is off?

You could try Total Commander instead, that one definitely transfers stuff in the background

Echophonic posted:

It throws up a notification if you close the app, so you'd think it would work, but it seems like something's killing them.

Nowher posted:

I've just installed two banking apps on my Tab s9 from two major banks and both always open in portrait mode.

Very annoying when I have the keyboard attached.

Is this just lovely app design or is there some potential reason for this? Anyway to force landscape in apps?

bull3964 posted:

lovely app design.

Search for Labs in settings, it allows you to force aspect ratios.

toothdevil posted:

Are there any good apps that allow me to control my phone through windows using a PC? (I tried microsoft's phone link thing and it wouldn't allow me to use computer audio for voice calls) I have no idea what to trust on the Play store.

Medullah posted:

If it's just calls you want to take on your PC instead of your phone you could always set up forwarding to a Google Voice number too

RPATDO_LAMD posted:

You can do it even without an app installed on the phone, here's an open source project that does it via ADB installed on your computer. Just needs you to enable USB debugging.
https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy/tree/master.
It mirrors the entire android screen to a window on your PC and you can interact with it just like you would on the phone itself by clicking in the window to send taps.

Audio works for playing music at least but I didn't test making any phonecalls.

Downside is it's a CLI tool but you can just make a .bat file to launch it instead of going through the console every time.
It even works wirelessly, but you have to either start with the device plugged in via usb or know the android's IP address on your local wifi to be able to connect. (Which probably means setting it up as a static IP in your router so it doesn't get a different address each time you come home and re-connect to the network)

Echophonic posted:

I really wish Google would quit loving with the driving mode apps. First it was phone Auto and now all the app integrations with Maps driving mode are gone. Just insane, I assume it's to force you to use Assistant to do poo poo like play music, but Assistant is dumb as poo poo and can't even send a text half the time. Like, really, I have no idea who actually tests this stuff.

Echophonic posted:

I really wish Google would quit loving with the driving mode apps. First it was phone Auto and now all the app integrations with Maps driving mode are gone. Just insane, I assume it's to force you to use Assistant to do poo poo like play music, but Assistant is dumb as poo poo and can't even send a text half the time. Like, really, I have no idea who actually tests this stuff.

Medullah posted:

You are. We are all Google beta testers at all times

Quixzlizx posted:

I was about to flip out a few months because I had to get to a doctor's appointment at an office I'd never been and I couldn't get Google Maps to go into driving mode. I finally went to the Play Store to see if I'd been Google'd, and I figured out I had to install "Maps Go."

This is all so much easier and better than just having everything in the Android Auto phone app.

RPATDO_LAMD posted: