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A few months ago my S7 stopped doing autocomplete on URLs in Chrome. It happened completely randomly one day for no apparent reason, without me having changed any settings or anything.

It stayed like that for a couple of weeks, and then once again, with me changing nothing whatsoever, it started working again.

My Google Drive auto-backup still randomly breaks occasionally, which started happening ages ago after Samsung pushed one of their bollocks updates to it plugging their Samsung Cloud horseshit.

If you go to Settings-> About -> build number and tap it seven times, you access Developer Mode which gives you Options Galore!

Hnngh, for Boring Reasons it's proving hard to disband my yahoo address. Which is a pain as the sweep function on Inbox is ace.

Have been through Type App, Yahoo Mail and Outlook. Suspect I will end up with the latter if I can't get rid of my yahoo address/ add it to Inbox.

Yahoo! Mail has a forwarder, if that helps.

If you don't mind paying for an app, I use Maildroid Pro, which isn't cheap, but is on sale at the moment at £5.99.

Cheers! It looks nice but I'm on outlook now, which seems fine at the mo. Provided it can bring one type of CRM email into the 'focused' inbox we should be good. Thank you for the recommendation though, will pick it up should I have further issues with utlok (typo, keeping it. The norse god of communication)

After a few days, I'm impressed with Outlook on Android. Seems much snappier than the Gmail app and the "Focussed" inbox does a much better job of only showing me the emails that matter to me (i.e. not marketing guff). Would recommend it.

As would I. The only problem I have with it is the calendar. I don't like the look of it as I find it difficult to see what I have in there at a glance.

I use Outlook for email and DigiCal for my calendar.

Definitely agree with that, I still use the Google Calendar app if I need to know what's going on.

There was no calendar functionality in the Gmail app (that I was aware of) so doesn't feel like a downgrade in that regard.

This sounds relevant to Beex interests (and iOS-bearing Beexers too)

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-04-13-friday-the-13th-killer-puzzle-review-a-surprisingly-cute-horror-show

I can't find it on the Play store

"Friday the 13th: Killer Puzzle - Android is being a little slow to update tonight! It will be available in the UK soon!"

Considering getting a new phone this year, all going well with house shit. Do I want a Pixel 2 or an S9?

What do you have now?

Is a headphone socket or SD card slot a requirement?

S6 edge


No to both

I've looked at stats and specs for both and feel like it's much of a muchness tempted to just flip a coin

NB: the Exynos CPU in the S9 has bad power management issues at the moment:
https://www.anandtech.com/show/12615/im ... -s9-part-1

That's what you get in UK S9s. Most US reviews are reviewing the Qualcomm one, which is different.

I can only offer that my Pixel 2 is awesome and I love it

Considering my current Google Support fun, I don't think I'll ever be buying a phone from them again. I started the "my battery is broken, sort it" process in September. Still waiting.

Maybe I should just stick with my s6 longer then

I'd go for the Pixel. My S8 has a number of issues that make me dislike it and the S9 will be no different. The curved screen is fucking stupid and the fingerprint sensor is straight up awful.

The S8 is disappointing, I agree. I can't imagine the S9 is much better.

I'm going to go with something super cheap next time.

Things I especially like:

1) the intro mocks F13’s overly complex back story neatly
2) the frame rate limiter can be set to 30, 60, or 666 FPS
3) the settings section has a KiKiKiMaMaMa button

Here it is: https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... .f13puzzle

The 8v1 F13 game is a lot of fun. Mr Dave, Sat, Fun Sally and I played it quite a bit on PC.

I accidentally sold my "start with a radio" perk, and then I could never find a radio.

My S7 has been mithering me to do a large software update for a few days (around 1GB of update). I acquiesced last night. Woke up in the morning and the phone was stuck in a boot cycle, never getting past the Samsung logo.

I eventually did a factory reset, which means the phone now works, but I seem to be stuck with Samsung's launcher. I try and install the Google Now launcher and apparently it no longer works with the OS version I'm running (8.0).

Is there a decent alternative/anyone else had this problem?

I use Evie as I wanted a simple, straightforward launcher and it's been great so far.

I use Evie and it crashes regularly.

Nova used to be the popular one, but I've not used it for ages.

Same. Have Google made the Pixel Launcher public like they did with the Nexus?

No. It’s just for Pixels.

Yeah Nova launcher is solid.

Cheers all. I'd gone with Evie before checking back in on the thread. Seems neat though I'm not convinced I prefer having an app search bar rather than a google search bar. Time will tell.

Huh, just had a weird Google Play moment there.

I bought a game this morning (the lovely Gorogoa) on the website at work and pushed it to my phone from there at the time. This evening I finally fire it up on the train to play a bit and decided this was the kind of thing that really needed some proper time and to be played on the big screen of my tablet. So, I uninstalled it there and then, ready to install it on my tablet when I got home.

Fired up the Google Play app on my tablet ten minutes ago and it was looking to charge me the full price again. Checked on my phone and no, it was still listed as purchased and installable there. Killed and restarted the GP app on the tablet; still no dice. Fired up the Google Play website on my PC and tried to push it to the tablet from there: "an unexpected error has occurred".

Finally it occurred to me to go to the Library tab of the "My apps & games" section of the Google Play app on the tablet and I was able to see and install it from there. So, almost a pointless moan from me there but maybe that workaround will be useful to someone in the future. At least until they fix the bug. *glares at DocG*

Hmmm. Must have been a consistency error of some weird/unlikely type. I'm probably not spilling trade secrets to tell you that Play's global architecture is complicated and has lots of layers of storage and caching. They must have gotten out of whack. You wouldn't actually have been charged twice, I think, even if you had gone through the purchase flow the second time.

BTW I'm leaving Play in a few weeks (but transferring to a job on Android.)

As long as you work for Google, you'll have to fix anything that breaks there.

Sure, that's how that works.

I recently got myself the Honor 10 unfortunately stacked with lots of EMUI bloatware (it came with a bloody spiderman game installed) really nice phone other than this.

Other than sideloading; any suggestions on the removal of said bloatware (the ones that are uninstallable on the phone)

That's not sideloading; sideloading is installing APKs. What you're talking about is installing a custom ROM. The latter is the only way you'll get rid of apps installed by the OEM into the system partition but in general don't do that. It's very easy to accidentally fuck up the security of your device and/or use some dodgy ROM with a bitcoin miner pre-installed for your convenience.

You should be able to "disable" the app, at least, which should hide it from the launcher and so on. But I'm not that familiar with EMUI.

Nah when I say sideload, I mean plug it into my computer and use the "adb uninstall [applicationname.apk]; I apologise I did state the incorrect term there.

I've flashed plenty of custom ROMs on many phones before; not wanting to remove stock because I like using Pay too much.

I figured you may have some little tasty secret to get rid but seems not

I don't think adb uninstall is any different to uninstalling through the launcher. In the app info page, where a normal app has uninstall, do you not see a disable button?

I was fairly sure I wouldn't end up being charged twice, but I didn't want to risk it purely because it seemed that a really good way of making the situation even more complicated and fucked up would be to actually try and buy it a second time.



So instead of just blaming you for issues with Play specifically, we can now blame you for everything Android related? Noice!

I am still waiting for the book I bought from Google play to arrive.

The issue with disabling them is that once disabled and all possible updates removed; it tries to update every time and once "Auto-update" is unticked when you go in and it says "45 UPDATES AVAILABLE?!?!?!?!" You then click update all and you're back to square one.

If you've got auto-updates in general turned on then surely you never need to manually choose to update anything?

If the permissions change you do, I think.

Only for apps that are still targetting API 22 or below, which is Lollipop. I doubt you have many of those. From November, you'll have none.