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    Question What is your backup device?

    The answers to this question will be broad so I thought I'd put it in the ask a question section after trying to decide the appropriate section for it. My daily driver is a Galaxy S22, still runs and performs great, and is insured. But I thought it a good idea to have a backup in even i have...
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    Telling Google Assistance to "Execute Order 66"

    Sort of small talk/easter egg/fun faxt thing here, but I was fooling around with Google Assistant, and I said "Hey Google, execute Order 66" to which it shockingly replied "I'm sorry, I don't have an inhibitor chip" Just thought was a cool little easter egg lol. Would have been cool if it had...
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    How is this wireless charger for S22, is it good enough?

    It seems my charging port will need repairing, so until then, i am going to charge wirelessly. I didn't want to break bank for a wireless charger. Saw this one for ~$26 bucks. Anyone else use it? I saw some others that were cheaper and higher W output, but they were store brand so i disnt feel...
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    Does transferring photos to a flash drive compromise their quality?

    I am facing a dilemma, with no SD card slot iam using up quite a bit of storage on my device, even taking cloud services into account. I know you can buy external thumb drives you can plug into your phone to save stuff to. But if I save/transfer photos to such an external storage device will the...
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    Tried gaming for the first time on S22 😱

    Battery depreciated by 37% in about 40 minutes of game play. Woof. Better have a charger or a power bank handy if you are going to play anything graphic intensive. It was bad enough for me to uninstall COD mobile even though I like that game quite a bit.. that seems to be quite a bit of power...
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    UGH soda in charging poet. What can I do?

    I was getting out of my truck today and had the last bit of my Dr pepper in hand. I dropped sometbing and went to pic it up . When I did, a small amount of dr pepper got in the charging port and I've since had rhe moisture in port earning. I've tried cleaning it with isopropyl alcohol as...
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    Looking for external lense rigs for the REGULAR S22

    I have decided I want to up my mobile photography game and and in search of some good external lense kits that include macro shots and ones thst would be good for astrophotography. Everything I have found on Google search has been for the ULTRA. Nothing specific for the S22.... Is there a good...
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    Storage question

    I have a Galaxy S22 but I figure this can apply to many more smartphones with a USB-C port, so I decided to post here. As a lot of you have seen, I like to take a lot of photos, naturally more photos means alot more storage used than most other files. I 128 GB internal storage with about 77 of...
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    Any good alternative Facebook apps?

    I'm looking to rid Facebook as it is a well known resource hog and battery killer. I tried just getting on through tbe web browser on my phone, but that experience is pretty inconsistent. Ans especially trying upload photos via the browser is a pain-- any time I try to upload more than 2 or 3...
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    Wise to take phone out of case and let it "breathe"?

    This may seem like a dumb question, but would taking a phone out of the case every so often, such as whenever you aren't going to be moving around be a good idea, ans would it be beneficial to it by letting it "breathe"? I also took the opportunity ity to wipe the inside of the case clean as...
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    Why are my posts in threads on the forum double posting?

    Last few days when I've been posting in threads and replying to answers in posts I've made, I've been getting some odd prompts from the site upon hitting "submit" Like one will say "are you sure you want to leave? Any unsaved changes will be lost" And then I'll do another one and it will say...
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    Why are my zoom images now crap?

    After the last update anything above 10x zoom on my phone has become horrible, whereas before I wss getting decent shots. This bunny for example at about 40 feet away is extremely grainy. Before shots like thag were clean. And I haven't dropped my phone or bumped the lense against anything.
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    Is there a way to upload video here?

    I took a video at Guntersville Dam panning right to left and then left to right. I was really impressed with the stabilization as my hands were a bit shaky, but the stabilization in the camera system nullified that. I was gonna upload the sample here, it's a 30 second video.
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    First time in 5G network dor an extended amount of time, are these speeds good or bad?

    What do you think about this 5G test? First time I've had a chance to really test out speed tests in a 5G network, as my town is still LTE. Are these speeds good/average/mediocre/bad?
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    Truly happy with my S22 battery now.

    I put it on charger once it hit 10 percent. I ended up with 30 hrs total and 8 hrs SOT with the adaptive battery learning my use plus dialing stuff down when I don't need them. For this being the regular S22, I think this is fantastic. I know most of the time it'll probably be a bit less than...
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    I am guilty of this as well as far as the battery thing

    I think I fell into the same trap of thinking the battery was guaranteed to get "X" amount of life each day, when that's not the case. Am also guilty of running with what the reviewers say and unfairly comparing mine to them, without realizing our differences in usage. One way I can think of...
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    I think I found my battery killer

    It has Eemed like every few minutes I've looked in device care ive seen a 2 hour decrease in expected battery life time. And I see in the background Verizon Cloud has been goinf almost 10 hours in the background today!!!! That cannot possibly be normal. I wouls think with the way my battery...
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    Unexpected update to provide improvements to camera performance.

    https://www.droid-life.com/2022/05/20/verizon-galaxy-s22-family-grabs-performance-enhancing-camera-update/ A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one. Here's my screen grab from Verizon showing its ready for me now. I have things to so so I'll delay installment till later tonight.
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    Verizon accepted my trade in for full values assessment

    I got all the critical identifying stuff cropped out. But verizon accepted my trade in for the full assessment value of 800 bucks even though my S9 screen was cracked to hell and back lol. And also because of the issues of getting account ownership restored(which they were able to do yesterday...
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    Be wary of attempting to return your device to Verizon

    So today my phone got EXTREMELY hot(see pic) and it regularly gets up to 98-99 just doing mundane tasks such as browsing the net and posting here, and other light activity. It was a pretty day so I got outside(81 degree air temp, 88% humidity) took some photos, and as you can see, the phone...