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    Help Keep getting unidentified sound that doesn't seem to be a notification

    Recently, my Samsung A13 with the stock OS and the latest updates started periodically making a sound I've never heard before. It sounds very much like an electronic version of a house key being dropped into a shot glass. I have a notification history app, but nothing appears in that list...
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    Help How to permanently remove "Mute all sounds" from Samsung Galaxy A13?

    I liked my Samsung Galaxy A21, but the glue holding the case together lost adhesion. I used my Likewize insurance, and they sent me a Galaxy A13 as a replacement. Problem is, this is a shitty phone with a weird OS (Android 13 with silly features). The most irritating problem I'm having at the...
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    Help How to restore skin tone of emojis that got changed against my will?

    This morning, when I turned my Samsung A-21 on and prepared to send a text with an emoji, I was shocked to see that the skin tone of all the "People" emojis had been changed to dark grey. I'm running Kaspersky Anti-Malware, but it didn't report any infections. Anyway, how can I change the skin...
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    SOLVED Can I disable ALL notifications but texts?

    I've got a Samsung A21 (not A20 but that was the closest match in the site's list) with Android 10 using Boost Mobile (US), and it didn't take me long to grow to hate it, or at least Android 10! I get roughly 150 utterly trivial notifications per day -- complete with sound! It notifies me of...
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    What does downward arc with moving circle mean?

    After following grick's instructions in the rooting thread, I've been seeing an infinite loop of a downward arc (sort of like a "frown") with a circle moving from right to left. What does this mean, please?
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    Unable to reduce touch sensitivity

    My ZTE Z981 is far too touch-sensitive! I can only rarely swipe down to the app I want without hitting at least a few other app buttons along the way. Instead, I want it to require a deliberate finger "punch" to launch an app. But the touch sensitivity setting refuses to move to the left lower...
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    Help How to backup phone while unable to get past startup logo?

    For the first time, suddenly my Samsung Galaxy Light can't get past the startup logo screen. I've tried removing the battery / soft resets, but that doesn't work. So unless someone knows of a better solution, I'm going to need to perform a Hard Reset. But obviously I'm going to need to backup...
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    How to prevent a number being shown when I launch Phone?

    Starting recently, whenever I launch the Phone app, a number is already preset in the number field, and I hate it! How can I prevent this? Thanks
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    Suddenly nothing's responding

    What to do now that all of a sudden even major Android core components are not responding? Even fundamental things like Google.com and "Process System" are reporting "Not Responding" error messages. This started out of the blue. The last change I made was to de-root the phone about 6 weeks ago...
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    Audio problems after reset & restore

    I reset my Galaxy Light (running Android 44.2) because when an incoming call arrived, the .m4a ring tone -- which had been playing perfectly for years -- cut off after no more than 1 second, followed by silence. I also rooted the phone for the first time before the reset so that I could install...