Really Annoying Cell Phone Issue

[micky]

I've added comp.mobile.android to the list. Maybe you didn't know the group exists If this Pixel isn't an android phone, my apologies.

You could also add the Eudora group, which is mostly about Eudora, but that's an email reader so maybe they would have an answer.

I though of this, but now I don't think there is much relevance. Included anyhow: I've noticed, only with one email so far, but I haven't been checking, from a news website that includes advertising. I looked at the email and glanced at the ad, then closed the email and realized I wanted to click on the ad. I reopened the email and found a row of 3 ads but not the one I wanted. I thought it was part of the email!! I closed and opened the email two more times and the 2nd time for sure the row of ads had changed, so that means it changed the 2nd time too.

A big difference between paid adsand attachments made by the sender at the time of sending, although maybe not about this. Paid ads are added, not by my email server and not iiuc by the sender's email server??? but by something working with the sender. They, a link to them, are added long before it gets to my server, and the actual picture/ad is added, I guess when the email is opened. So the point is that in this case the embedded data, I think it's called, isn't sent to me until the email is opened.

[Marilyn Manson]

What mail client are you using?

[micky]

Eudora. Yeah it's old but I'm sure it has not changed that embedded files come in a different way from text. This usually happens before I can see it, so it probably happens to you too, but before you can see it.

The example I gave was unusual in that I noticed it, not that it happened. A very rare time I looked at an ad and also I closed the email and then re-opened it 3 more times, and looked at the ad each time.

Yes, embedded files are not the same as attachments.

And why did you delete the android group? I think this problem can use as much help as possible, so I've added the Eudora group too.

Please don't delete any groups. This post has some of my own information and my own questions, which I want to be read by people in the other two groups, and they deserve any replies I or others make when they decide what to say.

[Marilyn Manson]

I didn't delete anything. I simply clicked the Reply All button. I guess you'll have to blame it on Google Groups. In your replies all I see is this:

"In alt.home.repair, on Wed, 13 Oct 2021 12:21:31 -0700 (PDT), Marilyn Manson [e-mail] wrote:"

and

"In alt.home.repair, on Thu, 14 Oct 2021 12:53:32 -0700 (PDT), Marilyn Manson [e-mail] wrote:"

There is no mention of any other group in your replies so whatever G2 is doing in the background is out of my control.

[invalid unparseable]

My Samsung Galaxy A11 cost $100 from Tracfone and came with a month time and unlimited text and minutes. I paid $25 for a couple of gigs data. All this adds on to my original expiration date adding a month to it. I also found a "glove" for the phone for about $20 that fits the phone perfectly and keeps it from being damaged while all functions are accessed through it.

Got rid of the Tik Tok notification by removing the ap. Also found you can mute any notification.

[micky]

I think you mean Network Cell Info Lite. It's good, but Network Signal Info [light] has some additional information abouty signals, especially want I was looking for. What mattered especially to me was Network Type, which it shows now as LTE+4G 9and band name, band no. and earfcn**.

Without taking the time to check details, I can also say that although they probably give the same tower written information (other than location?), for each the geographical map of where the tower is located showed the wrong location. I know because I went to both of them and there is no tower. Hmmm, since I looked several months ago one map shows a different location for the cell tower I'm using, and now those two locations are about 4 blocks apart. (In addition, Network Cell Info even Lite shows multiple other tower locations on its map and a) it doesn't show anything at that previous location, b) at the nearest shopping center which has two towers about 100+ yards apart, it only shows one icon. c)it shows a tower about 120 yards from me whose icon envelops my house, but it shows that it's not the tower I'm using. I'm sure tht's true. No matter because mostly I'm not home when I use the cell, but it reminds me that some cell towers have signs in front of them giving the tower number. I once looked up a tower that way on the web. The one near me is on 3 or 4 corners of an 8 story building. Maybe there is a sign in the lobby?

They also give wifi information. Both apps, useful for anyone who is even 1/4 techie. It's definitely worh having both free ones.

I bought both pro versions and I dont' remember them having more about what interests me. No, I see that Netorks Signal has both signal and wifi loggoing the in the pro version. That could be very important. Maybe the other one too. Also pro versions have no ads. Only 3 or 4 dollars iirc.

**I don't know what LTE earfcn is. Mine is 2325 E-ultra Absolute Radio Frequency Channel Number.

[rbowman]

A $130 Nokia 4.2 works just fine for me.

[micky]

I guess so. So I guess this means you can't cross post when you reply and probably not when you start a thread either. That seems to limit usenet's value for you as much as anyone. And if in a multiposted thread, you get a reply from someone reading it in different ng from the one you're reading, he won't see your reply nor will anyone else in that ng, and you won't see a potential answer he might have written.

Plus technically, it has to be easier to use a newsreader, subscribe to a free or cheap news server, and read Usenet directily where none of the above problems exist, and it's much easier in general. I've used google groups when I was looking for something very old, or something like that, and I know it's sure not as convenient as a news reader.

In your replies all I see is this:

I modified my client-inserted headers 25 years ago to insert in them the ng name as well as the date, time, and name of the prior poster. Most probably dont' do that, but even for me, it only allowed one newsgrpoup name to go there. There's a box at the top of the whole page where mulyiplr destination newsgroups can be specified.

[gfretwell]

It sounds like the plan my wife is on., I don't text but I do send texts from my PC (<Phone number>@VZWPIX.COM) Sometime she gets the pictures, other time not and this is in the same house.

[gfretwell]

I still have one.

[micky]

You got cheated. My Samsung folder has 9 apps. 3 I've never opened, Samsung Heatlth, Galaxy Wearable, and SmartThings.

The others seem all to be essential, valuable apps, Phone, Messages, Voice Recorder, Email, My Files, Internet [the only browser I used], and Radio, for the built-in FM radio.

I dont' think any of these run when I dont' run them.

My MS folder also has 3, Office, Linkedin, and Onedrive. I don't use any of these either but maybe I shoudl use Onedrive. Does it backup photos I take?

My Google folder has 8. Yours has 9. I got cheated. I never used Chrome, Drive, Duo, Photos, or Google (though maybe I shoudl have used that. It was in an option in the built-in browser) I did use Maps (all the time), Youtube a couple times, and Gmail, mostly when I sent myself directions from the Google Maps on the PC.

Yes, Samsung Members (I was blackballed), Galaxy Store (A t-shirt that says Samsung on it? ), Samsung Note, probably useful if I didn't own paper, maybe a couple others I messed.

You're by far not the only one who complains about bloat, but I never had occassion to inquire about it. On this phone, I dont' see how any of this matters.

I thought the problem with Windows bloatware was it ran all the time and used resources because it was running, or interfered with other tasks. For phones, extra apps don't bother me because when they're not started, I don't think they do anything but take us some storage.

I'm using 20G for storage of all apps together, out of 64G. I have 100 apps, many (most?) I added myself. A few extra apps within the 20G doesn't seem like a problem.

I'm glad I don't have that, but I still had to dl a similar app so that google maps would stay on continuously, even though charging it is supposed to keep the screen on.

I don't have that problem. I do have a long term problem stopping most things from notifying me. And iiuc now that I have another phone, I have to start all over.

[angelica...]

Google groups does not allow its members to cross-post. It's completely out of our control.

Cindy Hamilton

[angelica...]

Technically, it's much easier to use Google Groups. All you need to do is go to the web site, sign in, and start reading and posting.

No newsreader, no news server, no configuration.

Cindy Hamilton

[Marilyn Manson]

...and you are always current on any device that you do that on.

The PC at home, the laptop on the road, the iPad in the crapper.

[Marilyn Manson]

And for my usage, it doesn't bother me at all.

[trader_4]

Could be worse. I need a new phone, was zeroing in on a Oneplus midrange one, the I discovered their thread on Reddit and what a mess. Seems Oneplus was bought by OPPO (another Chinese company) or the other way around. Result is that since Oppo is bigger, sells more in China, it looks like they are merging the next OS so that there is one, the Oppo one. Most of the Oneplus users are mad because one of the main reasons they liked Oneplus was that it was very close to stock Android. Now it's going to look like crap. Then even worse, there is one horror story after another of people having huge problems with most existing Oneplus phones when they were forced to do the update to Android 11. That started a year ago and it's still a huge mess. Everything from phones getting hot and batteries draining, Google using huge power all the time for unknown reasons, no longer connecting to the carrier, etc. And with all these phones, there is no easy way, maybe no way at all to roll back and stay with the previous version of the OS. And they all agree their customer service sucks. So now it's back to square one.

[trader_4]

See my other post. I'm looking for a new phone and was planning on getting a Oneplus because I saw similar great reviews. Then I saw what actual users were reporting on Reddit. Short version is that Oneplus was great, but they have really hosed it up in the last year and are headed in the wrong direction now after a merger with another Chinese phone makers. Besides releasing a disaster OS11 update this year, they are making all the phones look like the Chinese Oppo brand ones, no longer like OnePlus.

[trader_4]

Network Cell also shows the wrong location for the tower I connect to at home. It always shows it in either my backdoor neighbor's yard or the street right there. AFAIK, there is nothing there but houses. There is a big tower a couple thousand feet further. But curiously the map also shows a tower there, so IDK what's going on. I've always intended to take the phone for a drive and see how it changes, but never remember to do it.

[gfretwell]

One problem with GG is they can't see any post with the No Archive bit set on.

[angelica...]

True. We can usually see the replies to it, though.

Cindy Hamilton