Recent content by Android Dude777

I just ignore it. Every day, when I turn my phone back on, a screen appears asking me to update to One UI 7. I don't click on the "Later" button (in case that takes me to a page that wants to schedule a later update time). Instead, I just hit the "back" arrow button at the bottom of the...

Thanks for the helpful responses. If there are any on this forum, I would like to hear from other Samsung owners re: whether I can just continue to ignore the notifications for the One UI 7 update and it won't be forced on me somehow.

I am not here to debate the value of Samsung's One UI 7 update. From what I have read, many like it and many don't. I just want to know if there is a way to not allow this update to be downloaded and installed on my phone (Galaxy A15 5G). BTW - I have turned off "Auto download over Wi-Fi" in...

Great! Thanks!

Thanks! I'll check it out. What's the difference between free and pro versions? (other than cost and ads)

A friend of mine has a Moto G Power (2021) phone and needs a way to export and store her Google Messages app text messages on a computer and then import the messages into a different phone and have the messages stored and usable in Google Messages app on the new phone, and doesn't want to use...

I figured it out. On her computer, in Outlook, I found an old gmail email referencing her phone setup.

Nothing listed there. And it is only "account", not "account and backup". I don't know where "backup" is

It shows nothing but my computer for each of the three gmail acct's. It appears to be limited to what devices are presently logged in and others that were logged into in the past 28 days. And it only shows my computer, which I presently was using to log into the gmail acct.

A friend of mine has an android phone and almost never logs in to the gmail account associated with her phone. She has three gmail accounts, and one of them is the account associated with her phone, but not sure which one it is. Is there a way to tell? What if she logs into the wrong Google...

Thanks. Your settings interface looks a bit different than mine. And on the Samsung Gallery Settings screen, under the "Stories" heading, it shows only one thing: "Customization Service". And under this heading, it says "Not in use". And when I tap it, it takes me to a page where I can log...

That will stop the app from telling me what it's doing, but it will still be accessing my pics and making "stories". What I want regarding this app is no more access to my pics and no more stories. Until that happens, I actually want notifications, because I want to know what it is doing.

I have a Samsung Galaxy A15. I have a third party Gallery app that I use for my pics, and I have turned off all permissions for the Samsung Gallery app. But periodically, I get a notification that the Samsung Gallery app has accessed my pics and put together a musical pictorial of certain pics...

I have a Galaxy A15 5G phone (Android 14). Today I got a notification stating that permissions and notifications for apps that haven't been used in three months had been turned off and and I think it also said that temporary files were deleted. I know that I can go to individual apps and turn...

Is there any problem with uninstalling and reinstalling Google Messages app? That's a lot easier to try than getting a new sim card.