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    Help Encrypted SD Card removed before factory reset

    Well I was going to get caught out one day on encryption and it seems that this has happened now. I first removed an encrypted SD Card before factory resetting my Samsung Galaxy J2 Core. The phone had also been set to Secure startup. After the factory reset I attached the SD Card and the phone...
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    Help Galaxy J5 Prime incoming WhatsApp Voice Notes Recovery

    Yesterday two voice messages (I think they are called voice notes in WhatsApp) were received. Unfortunately the new 'potential' contact was blocked. This seems to have resulted in these messages being deleted at the same time. I did open (download) and hear them. I have done the following: (1)...
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    Help Nokia 1 & 3310 3G read only language capability

    I contacted Nokia by email and they told me that the Nokia 1 TA-1056 DS is the right Latam model for me as I want to use it in the EMEA and LATAM regions. I was wondering whether all Nokia 1's can read Arabic and Spanish sms as well as the standard reading and writing of English? I've...
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    Encrypt SD Card

    Does anyone know if you can encrypt (or even just create a PIN for) the SD Card only in the Nokia 1. Nokia online chat have told me this is not possible without third party software. Also would the Nokia 1 (or any other phone) be able to decrypt an SD Card that was originally encrypted using...
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    Understanding dBm and ASU

    My understanding is that the higher your phone signals dBm (decibel-milliwatts) are i.e. closer to zero the better. Also that if your ASU (Arbitrary Strength Unit) is higher the better and that both these measurements of phone signal strength are more accurate than the signal bars on your phone...
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    Android 6 vs 8.1 Oreo (Go) Battery life

    Can someone please explain this. I am using two phones for calls only (no mobile data). One is a Samsung Galaxy J5 SM-J500H from 2015 with Android 6. The other is a Nokia 1 from 2018 with Android 8.1 Oreo. I have stripped down the Nokia 1 so that it is only really used for calls with minimum...
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    LOST.DIR recovery problems

    I am having problems with LOST.DIR files and attempting to recover files in it. Recuva in Windows does not always work. I copy the SD Card to Windows and try to scan and fix problems with it but not always with much success. I tried EaseUS Data Recovery but to recover more than 500 MB it is a...
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    Tri-Band phone without 850 MHz

    Can someone please explain this to me. I am interested in buying a Philips tri-band feature phone. The phone excludes 850 MHz and therefore has 900/1800/1900 GSM. However, if I travel from Europe to South America again, will I run into problems picking up a network if I do not have a quad-band...
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    Can't upgrade SM-G570M

    We bought two phones (exactly the same model) in South America over the summer. One has picked up the latest Android version (8.0.0) and Samsung Experience version (9.0) but mine is stuck on Android version (7.0) and Samsung Experience version (8.1). The model number is SM-G570M. I also just...
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    Prime Core Battery issues - hardware?

    This phone had a bad or incorrect charger used with it before the summer. This resulted in (before) flickering screen issues and a weak battery (probably now). There are no flickering screen issues at the moment nor have there been for some time (I think this was when the old bad charger was...
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    Galaxy J5 Prime Dual SIM performance issues

    I bought the Samsung Galaxy J5 Prime Duos (SM-G570M) in August and upgraded to Android 7. Now another phone which is exactly the same model is asking for a software update to Android 9 Oreo but my one isn't and despite my prompts trying to download updates manually there is no option to upgrade...
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    Classic basic phone with 3G phone calls

    Can anyone recommend a basic-classic non android phone (I know this is an android forum...) with 3G capacity for non internet based, i.e. standard, phone calls? I don't need the internet at all for this purpose. By basic-classic I mean something the size of a classic phone and not android. In...
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    Dragging apps around the screen

    This is a really stupid problem. In the Apps section of my Samsung Galaxy J5 Prime (SM-G570M) I can't seem to edit and drag icons around the page to my own custom order. Whenever I click on an icon it immediately copies it to the home page and then provides options in a box which I barely have...
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    Classic phone contacts backup

    This is the second stage of my project! I don't need any information about android but just classic phones. I don't have experience of this but on a new classic phone such as the Nokia 130 can I backup my contacts as a vcf to an in phone SD Card?
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    Nokia 1 Contacts cannot save to SIM

    I have noticed this now as a major oversight. I cannot save or read contacts to SIM but only to 'Device' in Nokia 1. I was hoping to keep this as an offline phone. Are there any reliable free apps on Google Play that I can download and can save and read contacts to and from the SIM?
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    Nokia 105 (RM-1133) 2015 SIM Contact capacity

    Not sure about what the contact capacity on the SIM card only (not the phone itself) is for this phone. I am moving data between phones and have a new test SIM card. So far I have entered 263 contacts into a Samsung Galaxy J5 2015 phone on a new SIM card. I took this SIM card to another phone...
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    Does factory reset remove malware?

    The phone company took my phone away and I am not sure what they did with it. There was a problem with my internet connection APN which they changed. I have done a factory reset and hard reset (wipe data/factory reset) as well as a full scan with an IS suite. In addition I ran a root recovery...
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    Galaxy J5 camera stops filming at 33 minutes

    The camera on my Galaxy J5 stops filming at 33 minutes. I replaced and tested the MicroSD card thinking it was a disk error problem but now I think it's something else as this has happened on both SD cards. From what I can see and if I'm not getting this completely wrong 33 minutes represents...
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