Recent content by maro108

You can consolidate ALL your contacts into 1 account and have them all on your phone. Then use Contacts Optimizer app to remove duplicates and duplicate entries in various contacts. Once it's done export all of them into a *.vcf file as a backup. Then delete all your contacts from google...

I updated Podcast Addict to Beta version (2025.4.2 (build 21462)) as per advice of the developer and the issue is fixed.

There are no other apps under the Settings>Apps>WhatsApp>Set as default> that you mentioned - see the screenshot below. I'm using One UI version 5.1

I tried uninstalling Podcast Addict. Then WhatsApp is automatically opening as before. After reinstalling Podcast Addict the strange behavior comes back - strange because Podcast Addict has nothing top do with messaging.

Thanks for your quick response. As you can see in the screenshot "Always" option is not available right now, only "Just once". Any other ideas?

Hi, Until today, whenever I would tap on WhatsApp Message in the Contacts app the WhatsApp would automatically open and be ready for typing in the message into the chat (see first image). Now something has changed and I'm getting a dialog and have to tap in WhatsApp icon first to open the...

Thanks for that info/link about RCS - I wasn't aware of it. Will look more into details... But Textra has that 'delivered' feature, showing when the message has been sent (1 tick), and delivered (2 ticks). The rest, big photo and video file sizes, I don't care about.

It was from the inbuilt SMS messages app. Now I replaced it with Textra which is much better and the popup windows are not coming up :)

Every time I reboot my phone and even often randomly a strange popup window comes up (see the attached screenshot). What is causing that popup and how to disable it? I'm running Android 12 on Samsung Galaxy M21