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  1. droidros

    Different ring tone for contacts and non-contacts?

    I would like to set TWO different ring tones. One for anyone in my contacts list, and the second one for everyone else. I know how to set the ring tone for individual contacts, but I can't find a way to set one for all contacts and another for those who aren't in contacts. Is there any way to...
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    Cannot remove icons from home screen

    This is for the Lenovo Tab M8 (8 inch tablet ). I am having an odd problem. I cannot remove icons from the home screen because there is no remove or trash indicator anywhere when I move the icon around. Saw a post complaining of the same problem from a couple of years ago and the suggestion was...
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    Looking for an 8-inch tablet with high resolution

    My 8-inch Asus Zenpad Z580C is 5 years old and still running Android 5.0, which can't be updated. I have to keep freeing up memory to play games and it often crashes but it has the best screen resolution (2048 x 1536) I've seen Graphics are sharp and colors are vivid. I am trying to find...
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    S Pen doesn't work with some games

    I have the Note 10 plus and so far love it. However, I am a bit disappointed with the S Pen as it doesn't seem to be supported by all apps. I play some casual games and it only works on a few. I also find the hard tip very slippery on the screen so hard to use with any of the drawing apps such...
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    WeChat restore connection error

    Hi, I recently got a new Note 10+ and am trying to transfer my WeChat history from my old device to the new one. I also have WeChat PC running on my Surface Pro and have managed to back up the chats from the old device to the PC. However, I am unable to restore it to my new phone. Whenever I...
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    Notification badges not showing

    I just got my new Note 10plus yesterday and love it. However, I cannot get notification badges with number count to show up for any app. I have checked several times to make sure the option is turned on in Settings. I should also note that I am using the Nova launcher and have them turned...
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    S10, S10+, Note10, or Note 10+?

    I apologize. I had posted this earlier but I seem to have posted it as a reply to somebody else's thread - or else it got moved somehow. My first couple of smart phones were Motorola and I really liked them. Then I switched to a Samsung S5 (?), then back to Motorola, Moto Z, which has given me...
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    Selfie Camera that shows non-mirror preview?

    Is there a camera app that will show you how a selfie picture is actually going to turn out, not the mirror image? The actual picture never turns out the way the image looks on screen because the screen image is a mirror image.
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    Cannot swipe screen unless I'm holding the phone

    Hi, When my Moto Z is lying flat, on a table for example, it will not accept swipe input. That is, I cannot swipe left or right to a different page, or pull down the menu from the top. It just opens the app where my finger is trying to swipe, as though I selected the app instead of swiping the...
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    Camera app that shows a non-mirrored selfie

    Hi, When taking a selfie, it never comes out the way it looks on screen because the image is mirrored. My default app can take a picture of the mirrored image, but that's not what I want - I want the actual picture to be the right way round. Does anyone know of an app that can show the...
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    Camera App Interface

    Something changed with the latest version of the default camera app. The icons and shutter button are overlayed on a darkened background which takes up a quarter of the screen! This makes it difficult to frame a wide (16:9) picture because the overlay partially obscures the right side of the...
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    Google Photos won't delete photos from device

    I have a Motorola Moto Z and the default photo app is Photos. I am storing my photos and videos to the SD card by default. When I try to delete a picture, I get the following message: Can't delete 1 item. Photos doesn't have access to delete items on your SD card. Go to the Gallery app to...
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    Need help using Hasselblad Moto Mod camera

    Has anybody had any success taking pictures of the moon using the Hasselblad True Zoom? I know very little about photography but adjusted the settings based on some information I found on the Web. I am able to get a fairly decent (though small, even with the 10X zoom) picture on the screen, but...
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    Phone dialer app with call status indicator

    I have a Moto Z and am looking for an app to replace the stock phone dialer/contacts app. The problem I'm having is that when I'm on a call, if I change the screen (e.g., press the home button or swipe left or right), I no longer see anything to indicate there's a call in progress. Sometimes...
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    Can't tell when phone is in use!

    When I'm making a phone call on my Moto Z, if I leave the screen where the big red button is showing, I can't tell that the call is in progress. It was never obvious but there used to be a tiny phone icon in the status bar at the top of the screen; now even that seems to be missing. Sometimes I...
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    Phone icon not obvious when phone is in use

    Maybe I am having this problem because my eyes are failing me, but sometimes when the phone is in use and I somehow switch screens, I don't see a phone icon. I might not even know that the phone is still connected - this can happen if I have inadvertently dialed someone, switch to another call...
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    Any way to create voice-to-text messages?

    I am terrible at text messaging because autocorrect is always substituting what it thinks I meant instead of what I typed - even if I have typed a perfectly normal common word spelled correctly. My daughter, who has an iPhone, asks me why I don't use voice input instead of typing. Well, because...
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    Can't move photos to SD card

    I have a Verizon Moto Z, which I bought at the end of December, with a 32GB SanDisk SD card installed. It is the same one I had used in my previous phone, a Samsung S5. When I used it in the Samsung, I was able to set it so that photos would be stored on the SD card by default. I thought I had...
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    Help - Camera Error

    The camera on my Moto Z (Verizon edition) has stopped working. I can open the camera and it seems fine. But as soon as I take a picture, it gives me the message Camera Error Please restart camera. I have tried clearing the cash, force stopping the camera, powering down, etc., but nothing...
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    Help USB Device Not Recognized

    I think this is happening since the Lollipop update, but it seems I would have come across the problem earlier. Has there been some other update since Lollipop? When I plug my Samsung S5 into my PC, I get the popup error message USB Device Not Recognized. I went to Samsung website and...
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    Help S5 with Lollipop update - problem uploading photos to Cloud

    When I take photos on the S5, I share them to the Amazon Cloud. That way, I can access them from my PC or Kindle Fire HD. This worked fine with my Motorola Droid Maxx and with my new Samsung S5 - until I updated to Lollipop. At least, I think it's since the OS update. Now, even though I seem to...
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    Help Portrait orientation photos and videos not rotated automatically

    All the pictures I've taken in portrait mode are being displayed in landscape mode and I have to rotate them clockwise manually. Even the video came out oriented incorrectly but I don't know how to rotate it. This did not happen with the Droid Razr Maxx HD. Is there some setting I've missed?
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    Accessories Is it safe to use a standard micro usb charger?

    The S5 comes with the weird double-port charger and the instructions give dire warnings about using not using an unapproved charger. I bought my S5 at Costco and they gave me a standard micro USB car charger. I'm assuming it's safe to use -- is it? What is the purpose of the second (tiny) port...
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    Help How do you stop automatic downloading?

    When I buy any music, it immediately starts downloading the entire album to my KFHD and I don't think I hit Download All. I tend to buy the Big Box classical albums that have, like, 100 tracks, so I don't want to fill up my device!! In any case, I want to pick and choose from the 100 songs. How...
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    Music player with sleep timer?

    Hi, I'm looking for a simple music player with a sleep timer for my Kindle Fire HD (i.e., the music turns off after the set amount of time). The stock music player doesn't have a sleep timer. I've downloaded a couple of alarm clock apps that let you wake up to music - but they don't let you go...