Recent content by zuben el genubi

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    Keeping My Email Private?

    If you want a free encrypted service, check out Protonmail. The 3 Most Secure & Encrypted Email Providers Online There is a good explanation of using Gmail with Protonmail which should answer your question.
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    Keeping My Email Private?

    If you are using Gmail IMAP, yes. I would have put one of my gmail accounts in Aquamail, but Google wanted permission to scan everything in Aquamail - I don't use Gmail for anything but Play store. I said no, and removed Gmail app from phone. Google doesn't like it, but I'll buy apps from a...
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    OxygenOS 4.5.11 rolling out.

    That's the way the downloads were posted on the Oneplus 5 site. With instructions on how to use computer to install. As Zips or download to SD card. I'd regard those files you talk of as being more of something like betas judging from a post on the Oneplus forum today. Someone who got the...
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    Shh Its a secret

    If they don't, then carriers do. https://www.hardocp.com/news/2017/10/16/verizon_att_allegedly_selling_your_phone_number_location/ So far, ATT and Verizon. No report of TMO or Sprint. Saw another article that says info, including phone # and IMEI get sold to the highest bidder. All it needs...
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    OxygenOS 4.5.11 rolling out.

    4.5.13 is now a regular OTA update to the phone. You don't have to do zip.
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    OxygenOS 4.5.11 rolling out.

    Very good, thank you for understanding. I see that 4.5.1.1 is now onsite for download. Will they also do the update OTA? The bit about Oxygen recovery is confusing me.
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    OxygenOS 4.5.11 rolling out.

    You are right about the Motorola forum. I do know that rollouts take time and can go by country. "Is rolling out" sounded like it was starting somewhere currently. Maybe you should have started by saying you were notifying the VPN people which is also fine with most others. I have no problem...
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    OxygenOS 4.5.11 rolling out.

    Not on the US page it isn't Downloads - OnePlus.net Not on my phone, either. Anyone posting about updates should include where they live - EU, Asia, etc, If you look in the MXPE forum, N is rolling out everywhere but US after announcement. Just announced by US users recently. Lots of disgusted...
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    Can i retrieve my contacts after factory reset without backing up to Google? Can my phone numb

    If you can export as a .VCF file you can save them where you want. Only thing, it's only name and number, not address, ringtone or any other notes. I leave one file in the phone's memory, and copy the other to computer.
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    Can't stop Google Play Music even though disabled

    If all that fails, check your manual or call the dealer. It could depend on which music app the car maker decided to have as default. There might be a list of choices for default in the manual, too which you have to hunt for. Did you buy the car new? How old is it? The other half's 3 yr old...
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    Android Central Biased Toward the Iphone?

    I don't think the camera in my Oneplus 5 is very much of a slouch. I have apps that use the camera as a DSLR so I go in between. I rarely shoot modes, so haven't done much except low light which does work. I think a lot of users prefer the simplicity. I've seen people with very expensive DSLR...
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    How to say some punctuation

    For some reason - new Oneplus 5 didn't have a keyboard. Tried to SAY an email addy and got stuck at the @ sign. Just for grins, tried saying ampersand, and it didn't get that either. Didn't believe Google could be that dumb. I wasn't able to log into Play. I finally did a reset, and then got...
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    Android Central Biased Toward the Iphone?

    I have seen both, and from a fairly don't care viewpoint, both OS have their good and bad points. I have an iPad. I bought it for some things that Android doesn't do. It allows me to save instruction videos from a site I belong to on the iPad itself. Mine is wifi only, so I can't download...
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    Anyone interested in a Subscription?

    And some of the old "regulars" have also quit posting. No longer feel welcome. We don't do the Twitter 140 Characters and we find typing on phone a pain. (It doesn't understand my voice anyway)
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    Does OnePlus make good phones?

    No, Skeye works perfectly well, and so did Vortex. Probably didn't like the no enhanced location and no other permissions.