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  1. RhinoCan

    How do I determine owner of number receiving texts from my phone?

    Thank you, Augie! I've turned off the SMS messaging for Google, Google Play Services, and Phone just like the guy who created the post. I also sent STOP to 7723. I'll check in a couple of days and see if that has worked. If it does, I'll turn the three apps back on, one every few days, until the...
  2. RhinoCan

    How do I determine owner of number receiving texts from my phone?

    Sorry for the long delay in replying; life's been frantic the last couple of weeks! The number to which the SMS messages are being sent is 7723. The service provider is Koodo Prepaid here in Canada. My brother has the same kind of account at the same provider so I looked at his usage data and...
  3. RhinoCan

    How do I determine owner of number receiving texts from my phone?

    The SMS messages aren't costing me anything since my plan has free texting so cost it not the issue. However, it bothers me greatly that my phone is sending texts without me knowing about it! It's even worse that I have no idea how these messages are being sent or what the message content is...
  4. RhinoCan

    How do I determine owner of number receiving texts from my phone?

    I was going through my usage history on my phone and found something very odd: my phone sends text messages WITHOUT my participation! Every day, it sends 5 texts at 1 minute intervals to the very same 4 digit number. It is NOT me that is sending those texts! I often go weeks without sending a...
  5. RhinoCan

    How do I determine source of notification?

    I'm trying to help my brother with a problem he's having with his Moto G Power phone running Android 11. This morning, his phone started ringing roughly every 2 minutes but neither of us could figure out WHY. He couldn't think of anything he'd done to create a notification and I couldn't see...
  6. RhinoCan

    Update to Android 12?

    My brother bought a brand new Moto G Power (2022) a few days ago. It is running Android 11 and seems to be running fine. Does anyone know when an upgrade to Android 12 becomes available for this phone? My Google Pixel 3 has been on Android 12 for months so I assumed an upgrade for my...
  7. RhinoCan

    Help How safe are Uptodown and ApkPure?

    An older app that I need is not available in Playstore but *is* available on Uptodown and ApkPure. Is it safe to download from Uptodown and ApkPure? I really don't want to brick a phone by downloading something full of malware! I am under the impression - correct me if I'm wrong! - that...
  8. RhinoCan

    Basic question about Playstore

    I am trying to help my brother download an app he needs for work. It's called Motive (formerly KeepTruckin) and I found it and installed it, no problem, on my Pixel3 running Android 12. However, my brother's phone is a much older Sony Experia and when I try to find the same app in Playstore, it...
  9. RhinoCan

    Changing phone to vibrate on calls

    I've just acquired a reconditioned Pixel 3 and am trying to figure out a few things. Apparently, this model didn't come with a manual and guessing hasn't solved my problems yet! This phone is running Android 11; my previous phone was only running Android 8. On the previous phone, I could easily...
  10. RhinoCan

    Minor mystery

    I've just acquired a reconditioned Pixel 3 and am trying to figure out a few things. Apparently, this model didn't come with a manual and guessing hasn't solved my problems yet! This morning, I had a bit of a mishap that has me puzzled. I simply turned on my phone swiped left a couple of times...
  11. RhinoCan

    How do I do a screen cap?

    I've just acquired a reconditioned Pixel 3 and am trying to figure out a few things. Apparently, this model didn't come with a manual and guessing hasn't solved my problems yet! How do I do screen captures in the Pixel 3 running Android 11?
  12. RhinoCan

    File transfer via USB cable

    I've just acquired a reconditioned Pixel 3 and am trying to figure out a few things. Apparently, this model didn't come with a manual and guessing hasn't solved my problems yet! I'm trying to transfer a few files from my Windows 10 laptop to the phone, which is running Android 11. The problem...
  13. RhinoCan

    Help Can't recharge phone

    I have a Samsung Galaxy A5 (2017) bought new in 2017. A few weeks ago, I suddenly found myself unable to put the end of the charging cable into the charging port; the USB-C connector would not quite go onto the bit of circuit board in the charging port (sorry, I'm not sure of the vocabulary for...
  14. RhinoCan

    How do I block calls from private numbers?

    I've been awaken by calls from private numbers well before I normally get up for the last two mornings and I find that I can't get back to sleep after that. I don't know if both calls were from the same person or two different people that coincidentally called at almost the exact same moment...
  15. RhinoCan

    Phone doesn't ring on incoming call - sometimes

    I'm trying to help my brother with a problem he's having with his phone. He's experienced some situations where the phone doesn't ring when someone calls. For example, the other day, he happened to have it sitting face up on his desk when a call came in and he noticed the screen change. Another...
  16. RhinoCan

    RSA Fingerprint dialog

    I have messed myself up and need some help to be able to resume debugging a webpage I wrote which is misbehaving in some of the browsers on my phone. I have a Samsung A5 (2017) and Samsung phones apparently have some special challenges in getting connected to laptops for debugging, as...
  17. RhinoCan

    Really Basic Question

    I'm actually embarrassed to ask this question because it is very basic but I honestly don't know the answer. When I'm at home with my Android phone connected to my home WiFi, are the calls I make and receive coming in via WiFi or are they still coming in via cell towers? I'm trying to figure...
  18. RhinoCan

    Updating Android

    Can a phone update to newer versions as long as it meets the minimum requirements for that version - like memory, maybe processor speed - or are phones effectively capped to never be able to install later versions of Android? My main reason for asking is that my brother recently hauled his old...
  19. RhinoCan

    Why is the Internet suddenly not working on my phone?

    I have a Samsung Galaxy A5 (2017) and it's worked very well for the year and a half that I've had it. This evening, it won't access the internet any more. I'm baffled. I've probably messed it up myself. I was fiddling with various settings to try to troubleshoot a problem earlier today and may...
  20. RhinoCan

    Amber Alerts on Samsung A5 (2017)

    Is there any way to stop Amber Alerts on my phone from signalling again and again and again until I click OK? I have a Samsung A5 (2017). My area, Ontario in Canada, recently implemented a system of sending Amber alerts to all smart phone owners in Ontario. That's great and I support the...
  21. RhinoCan

    Android update is failing

    I'm trying to update my copy of Android Studio from 3.3 to the latest and greatest version but the update fails. Here's the full text of the message(s). (I'm not too worried about the second message; I see it's just a warning of some functionality being deprecated at the end of the year.)...
  22. RhinoCan

    ViewPager questions

    I'm starting to design my next app. It is basically an app to model a 50/50 draw. A 50/50 draw works by selling tickets to people that belong to an organization; they buy as many tickets as they want at a fixed rate, then one of the tickets is drawn at random and the winner gets half of the...
  23. RhinoCan

    Android studio cursor behaviour

    I just did *something* in Android Studio (3.1.4) that messed up my cursor behaviour. Suddenly, I was getting a cursor that was more than one line tall, the behaviour of that cursor also changed substantially. I did this once before several weeks back and had a devil of a time getting out of it...
  24. RhinoCan

    SettingsActivity Questions

    I recently decided to add a few preferences to my app. In researching how to create the Settings, I read about the SettingsActivity template that comes with Android Studio and decided to give it a try. I was pleasantly surprised to see how much of the work it does for me. My preferences are, for...
  25. RhinoCan

    Scratch files in Android Studio not working

    I often got a real benefit from scrapbook pages in Eclipse so I did a bit of digging and found that scratch files are the equivalent in Android Studio. I found a short video that told me how to create them - see - and tried creating a very simple one. Within a file named scratch.java, I created...
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