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Hi, im in love with this watch. But before I buy it, I need to know how its going with apps. Is there anywhere to see what apps which are available for the gear S2? Or can any of you who got it, give some kind of point of view on the amount and quality of the apps?

nkolsen said:
Hi, im in love with this watch. But before I buy it, I need to know how its going with apps. Is there anywhere to see what apps which are available for the gear S2? Or can any of you who got it, give some kind of point of view on the amount and quality of the apps?
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With the "Samsung Gear" App, you can go to the "Samsung Gear Apps" Store.
I count 152 apps in category"Top Free"
and 300 in "Top fee-based".
I'm waiting for good apps...
Screenshot from the store:
http://fs5.directupload.net/images/151022/2kt25rtd.png

keffi said:
With the "Samsung Gear" App, you can go to the "Samsung Gear Apps" Store.
I count 152 apps in category"Top Free"
and 300 in "Top fee-based".
I'm waiting for good apps...
Screenshot from the store:
http://fs5.directupload.net/images/151022/2kt25rtd.png
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Okay, thank you.
So its more than the 25 that someone posted But cant see anything in the gear manager if you havent got a connected device :-/

keffi said:
With the "Samsung Gear" App, you can go to the "Samsung Gear Apps" Store.
I count 152 apps in category"Top Free"
and 300 in "Top fee-based".
I'm waiting for good apps...
Screenshot from the store:
http://fs5.directupload.net/images/151022/2kt25rtd.png
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Yeah, but how many of them are really apps? For like 1 normal application You get like 30 watchfaces. With kinda sucks.
To answer the main quesiton - there are few apps atm. Like translator, file manager, text viewer, some 'making notes' apps, like four mini games (flappy bird, pong, cube runner and some firefly), maps + navigation using google maps, calculator,YT streamer to watch movies - that one is a little pointless, but looks cool - and that's like really all of it.
Some of them are just ported from GearS - there are working, but are not compatible with bezel and not really design for circle screen. Still You can use them, that's for sure.

KubixRevan said:
Yeah, but how many of them are really apps? For like 1 normal application You get like 30 watchfaces. With kinda sucks.
To answer the main quesiton - there are few apps atm. Like translator, file manager, text viewer, some 'making notes' apps, like four mini games (flappy bird, pong, cube runner and some firefly), maps + navigation using google maps, calculator,YT streamer to watch movies - that one is a little pointless, but looks cool - and that's like really all of it.
Some of them are just ported from GearS - there are working, but are not compatible with bezel and not really design for circle screen. Still You can use them, that's for sure.
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OK. So its more or less just as poor as for the gear 2.....

KubixRevan said:
Yeah, but how many of them are really apps? For like 1 normal application You get like 30 watchfaces. With kinda sucks.
To answer the main quesiton - there are few apps atm. Like translator, file manager, text viewer, some 'making notes' apps, like four mini games (flappy bird, pong, cube runner and some firefly), maps + navigation using google maps, calculator,YT streamer to watch movies - that one is a little pointless, but looks cool - and that's like really all of it.
Some of them are just ported from GearS - there are working, but are not compatible with bezel and not really design for circle screen. Still You can use them, that's for sure.
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Thanks for the information. So if I understand correctly.. there's now a Gear S2 application that lets you navigate using Google Maps instead of Nokia Here maps?

I haven't found Google maps please let me know where if it exists
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rawdaddymagraden said:
I haven't found Google maps please let me know where if it exists
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Hi, in the Samsung Gear Apps you find the "Maps for Gear" or "HERE"

talalalal said:
Thanks for the information. So if I understand correctly.. there's now a Gear S2 application that lets you navigate using Google Maps instead of Nokia Here maps?
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It is using Google Maps API, yes. But not the app itself. On the watch You can see Your position on the map, even screens from street view (not really dependable) and instructions similar like with Here Navigator.
You need to open the main on the phone as well.

KubixRevan said:
It is using Google Maps API, yes. But not the app itself. On the watch You can see Your position on the map, even screens from street view (not really dependable) and instructions similar like with Here Navigator.
You need to open the main on the phone as well.
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Thanks for this! Do the instructions appear in relation to your gps location (i.e. real-time turn by turn directions)/

talalalal said:
Thanks for this! Do the instructions appear in relation to your gps location (i.e. real-time turn by turn directions)/
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Yes, as I said before - the same way like in Navigator (see example below), but with yellow background and a little more info.
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Question Minimum face options

Does anyone know why the watch faces are so limited for the Galaxy watch 4? It seems odd that they didn't have more developers working on these before the release. For me, looks like only a total of 30. Am I missing something?

Wear os isn't that popular in my understanding but since this watch is using it I'm willing to bet that more devs will transition working on wear os instead of tinzen watch faces

Now seeing alot of familiar faces in Facer!

You can install Facer and Watchmaker and have a LOT more than only 30 Watchfaces. Plus the possibility to create a watchface by yourself.

I imagine as time goes by there will be a lot more. There were a lot of great faces on Tizen and some of those developers are doing Wear faces now. My favorite developer for Tizen faces (Matteo Dini) has actually done quite a few.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/dev?id=7920922820385858766
I have only been able to install these from Browser on PC for some reason. When you buy one it gives you choice of what to install it to. I have the Classic which is "Samsung SM-R890".
I suspect there are a lot more Wear faces out there as well but I really have not looked. I pretty much use MD faces exclusively.

mmeidl78 said:
You can install Facer and Watchmaker and have a LOT more than only 30 Watchfaces. Plus the possibility to create a watchface by yourself.
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Be careful with facer it drinks battery life...on your phone and watch

mmeidl78 said:
You can install Facer and Watchmaker and have a LOT more than only 30 Watchfaces. Plus the possibility to create a watchface by yourself.
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Not all that glitters is gold! I have a Watch 4 Classic 46mm. I haven't tried watchmaker yet, but I have tried FACER and MR TIME. On Facer, it's pretty much all pay-as-you-go, or hourly demo versions, or you can sign up for a paid subscription. Even getting the ads out of the app requires you to pay. The completely free watch faces are very few and not even that nice, but what's worse is that the values returned by the pedometer, heart rate, temperature, etc are all wrong in the free apps I've tried. I ended up uninstalling the app.
MR TIME gave me sync problems between app and smartwatch (companion app and on smartwatch regularly installed) and it's also very similar, but slightly inferior to FACER, so I uninstalled it too.
I then tried to find other Watch Face on the Google store, but it's all strictly paid. I tried installing a few demo apps, but it wouldn't display the pedometer, heart rate and other sensors. I wrote to the developer asking why. He replied that I need to enable "complications". Thanks, I answered that, complications can only be enabled after purchasing the watch face, they are among the "PREMIUM ONLY" otions. In other words, the only thing left really to try for free is the time display
The Galaxy Store was and is great, both for structure and content, at the moment it was a huge loss for me to go from the Active 2 to the Watch 4 Classic as far as the store is concerned. We'll see what will happen in the future...
Greetings

I only use Watchmaker. Facer has to much ads and payments and abo for me.
For watchmaker I only payed (i think 5 EUR) one time. Sure you can also make abo etc. but I prefer to use my own made Watchfaces. So no more money to pay and right now my watch I got 72 % battery since today morning (6 o'clock) with activated AOD (shows time digital and analog).
The watchface shows time, date, steps, calendar, weather and battery and even has shortcuts to 2 apps.
I've made a few more (copys) of existing watches or watchfaces. That's enough for me.
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mmeidl78 said:
I only use Watchmaker. Facer has to much ads and payments and abo for me.
For watchmaker I only payed (i think 5 EUR) one time. Sure you can also make abo etc. but I prefer to use my own made Watchfaces. So no more money to pay and right now my watch I got 72 % battery since today morning (6 o'clock) with activated AOD (shows time digital and analog).
The watchface shows time, date, steps, calendar, weather and battery and even has shortcuts to 2 apps.
I've made a few more (copys) of existing watches or watchfaces. That's enough for me.
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Nice watch face. For your use, you may be better off with the Galaxy Watch Studio

Don't like the Studio. Tried it but it is full of bugs. Weather is missing, Complications doesn't show correctly at the watch etc.

mmeidl78 said:
Don't like the Studio. Tried it but it is full of bugs. Weather is missing, Complications doesn't show correctly at the watch etc.
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I have tried watchmaker just now. For my use, I don't intend to create my own watch faces, at least for the moment, it's even worse than the other apps tried before: every time I go back, or touch something inside the app, a screen of ads appears and fills the entire display. There are just 10 free watch faces, but they're horrible.
All that's left to do is wait and see how the situation evolves. The transition to Wear OS it's a strong and bad hit for those who, like me, comes from Tizen and Galaxy Store.
Greetings

cyberz said:
I have tried watchmaker just now. For my use, I don't intend to create my own watch faces, at least for the moment, it's even worse than the other apps tried before: every time I go back, or touch something inside the app, a screen of ads appears and fills the entire display. There are just 10 free watch faces, but they're horrible.
All that's left to do is wait and see how the situation evolves. The transition to Wear OS it's a strong and bad hit for those who, like me, comes from Tizen and Galaxy Store.
Greetings
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There are a lot more than 10 free faces. Like hundreds to thousands. You can find them outside of the app at different sites and on reddit. I think you need to use the paid version of the app ($5 or $7 or something), but, before you complain, that's less than 2 cups at Starbucks or less than a lunch at McDonald's for something you'll potentially look at on and off for hours a day. And it's one time. (I see people complain about non-free apps too often. Sorry!)

drzeller said:
There are a lot more than 10 free faces. Like hundreds to thousands. You can find them outside of the app at different sites and on reddit. I think you need to use the paid version of the app ($5 or $7 or something), but, before you complain, that's less than 2 cups at Starbucks or less than a lunch at McDonald's for something you'll potentially look at on and off for hours a day. And it's one time. (I see people complain about non-free apps too often. Sorry!)
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So I should do as you say everywhere, 5€ here, 7€ there, another 5€ on another site and so on, with closed box, that is without knowing what I'm buying? No thanks.
And If they are of the same quality as the ones I tried...blurp, anyone would be disappointed.
Another thing to consider is battery consumption.
How beautiful was the Galaxy Store ... I was tempted to sell the watch 4 and go back to the previous model for the complete absence of a dedicated market, as instead has Tizen and I'm not the only one to think this ... But it's still early, we'll see how this new Series 4 evolves.
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Question Is it really WearOS 3 from Google??

Is it??
Or is it a hacked version of WearOS 2 to run on Exynos soc? Or maybe even Tizen hacked to look like WearoS?
Just don't get why Google aren't releasing WearOS 3 until at least. Q1 next year, not even for Fossil who they own, yet Samsung try to give the impression of Wear OS without ever saying Wear OS 3.
Show me a screen shot from a watch that says Google Wear OS 3 and then I'll believe it. Until theen it's a con.

I'm not getting it until everything is clear. Samsung is known to cut corners and keep quiet about it

More like a hacked version of tizen to run Google things

Consipracy theories everywhere.
It is running on android 11 (version used for Wear OS 3.0).
Wear OS 2.XX is running on android 9.
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IanRad said:
Consipracy theories everywhere.
It is running on android 11 (version used for Wear OS 3.0).
Wear OS 2.XX is running on android 9.
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Maybe tizen was always based on Android but with Samsung's edits now they've just taken the skin off it

spart0n said:
Maybe tizen was always based on Android but with Samsung's edits now they've just taken the skin off it
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Both Wear OS and Tizen are based on Linux kernel.
History of Tizen goes back to mid 2007 (Moblin) so it's actully slightly older that Android.

Not convinced until I see a screen shot that clearly says Google Wear OS 3!
Keep trying!

Charge your Wünschelrute and power Crystal Ball...
Or you use brain and look into APK Apps... and other Threads like here:
Watch4 ADB Commands - Disable/Enable/Uninstall/Restore system app, Install/pull Apps
Hello Everyone, I hope you all are good, So I see some on you wondering about how to uninstall, reinstall, install, pull, enable and disable apps for the watch, so I decided to make this thread to address these different scenarios, this is based...
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Firmware and Combination Firmware and FOTA Delta and CSC change and...
Looks like it could be harder since Tizen... A Stock Firmware for netOdin/Odin not available yet... B Combination Firmware not available yet C FOTA Delta File for study I have...
forum.xda-developers.com
Its okay if you wait for magic...
Nanonano...

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Wear OS version TBD ?

Glad I'm not the only one who thought this was the biggest con job they pulled over us! Google being lazy and forgotten the existence of wear os....and samsung gave them an easy out...
Where's that week long battery life they talk about? That's the one thing I hate about the w4....the abysmal battery life....

dreamtheater39 said:
Glad I'm not the only one who thought this was the biggest con job they pulled over us! Google being lazy and forgotten the existence of wear os....and samsung gave them an easy out...
Where's that week long battery life they talk about? That's the one thing I hate about the w4....the abysmal battery life....
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I am getting maximum a day only and sometime even less.
With heart rate off and hardly done any excercise.
Display itself is taking at least 7% battery per hour even if I am idle.
If I put any fancy colorful watch face, it drains toooooo fast.
Gw4 lte. 44mm

pocoag123 said:
I am getting maximum a day only and sometime even less.
With heart rate off and hardly done any excercise.
Display itself is taking at least 7% battery per hour even if I am idle.
If I put any fancy colorful watch face, it drains toooooo fast.
Gw4 lte. 44mm
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It's usually an offending app or usage of LTE. Make sure to set LTE always off....and turn it on only when you need it. In my case Spotify was eating up battery life like crazy....and now I force stop Spotify when I'm done using it...
I have HR set to continuous and spo2/snore for sleep measurement, no AOD, raise to wake enabled and usually an hour of fitness with 30mins using GPS.....gives me 40hrs of life

dreamtheater39 said:
It's usually an offending app or usage of LTE. Make sure to set LTE always off....and turn it on only when you need it. In my case Spotify was eating up battery life like crazy....and now I force stop Spotify when I'm done using it...
I have HR set to continuous and spo2/snore for sleep measurement, no AOD, raise to wake enabled and usually an hour of fitness with 30mins using GPS.....gives me 40hrs of life
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Is there any way to on/off lte in single click, from tiles maybe? Or do we need to go to setting>Connection> Lte every time?
Also in the drop down menu if you click add button "mobile data' will appear, what does it do? Even if we turn it off, cellular icon still appears. I assume it is data only on/off and not calls???
Also for 40 hours backup we need to use some dark watch face right?

Question Watch face Issue (White Text Clock)

Hi guys
Need some help. Since the last update 9 Feb. I have this weird thing with custom watchfaces. It renders correctly... But as soon as the screen goes off (sleep) the watchfaces changes to this in the picture. And stays like this?
I don't have AOD enabled or anything. I'm. It sure if it's a setting somewhere... But the stock faces is okay.
It's driving me crazy hehe. Not sure why this is happening...
I need to basically uninstall and reinstall the face but then it happens again..
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Maybe this ongoing pain for many:
Annoying digital clock getting in the way all the time
Hi all, I tried to look for a thread of this issue but could not find one. Any time I use Google Assistant or get a notification for which I need more than 5 seocnds to read, I get this annoying digital clock screen which covers the...
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galaxys said:
Maybe this ongoing pain for many:
Annoying digital clock getting in the way all the time
Hi all, I tried to look for a thread of this issue but could not find one. Any time I use Google Assistant or get a notification for which I need more than 5 seocnds to read, I get this annoying digital clock screen which covers the...
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Thanks alot.. I wonder if it's the same issue? I only start getting it from the latest update...

https://www.reddit.com/r/WearOS/comments/soivxf
Found it

^^rac said:
https://www.reddit.com/r/WearOS/comments/soivxf
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yep they quack it up. Now like 99 % of watch faces from play store dont work can confirm that complication issues too from reddit comments ;P
And now even stock samsung watch face has a problem with keeping aod alive i get black screen instead of aod from that watch face few times today and no my watch was unlocked all the time so it was not a sensor/lock screen issue but Samsung mess : /
@^^rac
nope its not the same but yes they mess it in last update i get simmilar result with one watchface yesterday when i was looking for some working aod watchface ;P

berni502 said:
yep they quack it up. Now like 99 % of watch faces from play store dont work can confirm that complication issues too from reddit comments ;P
And now even stock samsung watch face has a problem with keeping aod alive i get black screen instead of aod from that watch face few times today and no my watch was unlocked all the time so it was not a sensor/lock screen issue but Samsung mess : /
@^^rac
nope its not the same but yes they mess it in last update i get simmilar result with one watchface yesterday when i was looking for some working aod watchface ;P
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They will have to fix with a patch or something... Alot of faces affected....

It think the original poster of this thread is posting a different (but possibly related) bug than what others are following up on. I believe most of this is about using AOD and sometimes the screen is not updating in ambient (low-power) mode. While this is happening to me, as well, I have not seen the white digital clock appear on my AOD display, ever.
In any case, and I am not sure it will make any difference, but I did report this to Samsung through my Samsung account by opening a "my questions" with the following (most of which from my posting on the other thread on this forum):
After the recent R890XXU1EVA8/R8900XM1EVA8 firmware update, I am experiencing major problems with the always-on display:
There are times that when in lower-power (ambient) mode, it is NOT updating any information on the screen (analog or digital). If I touch the screen, do the "wake up" wrist move, or touch a button, it immediately updates everything. It is unpredictable and intermittent. Prior to this last update, it ALWAYS updated the AOD screen in any condition. Now when I glance down at the watch, I am not sure if that is the actual time or not. And that defeats one of the main purposes of having AOD.
Worse, at other random times, it resists waking from low-power mode, even when pressing a button. I have to press several times and there is a long delay before it goes full-awake, updates the screen, and gives me control. Sometimes when it is acting like this (as if the face is "frozen"), it also doesn't automatically adjust the AOD screen brightness to environmental conditions, either.
And it is not just me. Many others are reporting this on the xda-developers forum:
Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 gets new straps, faces...
FYI, a few items for our Samsung Galaxy watch 4 ⌚: https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-galaxy-watch-4-straps-2022-3103478/
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And on Reddit, one user suggested this as a possible root cause:
“For watchfaces that make use of WatchFaceService.Engine, the onTimeTick() method is called once a minute to update the watch screen when in ambient mode. This allows the watch to display the correct time, even when the user hasn't interacted with the watch recently. After the latest GW4 system update, the onTimeTick() method is no longer being called while in ambient mode. This seems like a newly-introduced bug, but could just possibly be a misguided attempt to save battery.”
I would appreciate it if you would look into this, because it is absolutely ruining my experience with your product. Thanks

crxssi said:
In any case, and I am not sure it will make any difference, but I did report this to Samsung through my Samsung account by opening a "my questions" with the following
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Well, that was a waste. I got an Email saying I had to report it through "help" on the website. So I went there and did a chat and had to escalate to a "pro" who could take the information for a ticket. Now I have a ticket number. Who knows if it will get anywhere from there. But at least I tried (twice).

crxssi said:
Well, that was a waste. I got an Email saying I had to report it through "help" on the website. So I went there and did a chat and had to escalate to a "pro" who could take the information for a ticket. Now I have a ticket number. Who knows if it will get anywhere from there. But at least I tried (twice).
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Thank you for going the mile for us.
Im spamming update button, but i have a sneaky suspicion, its going to stay like that. I dont tink its a bug, but rather an enhancement or something. (You know Samsung)
I think the watchmakers will need to update their watches to not use that stay awake function thing....(All my old favourite watch faces broken :'()
Hopefully im wrong......... LOL

I have this same problem still, even after latest update a few days ago, it's so frustrating that I can only really use Samsung's watchfaces at the moment! Does anyone know any sort of workaround?

morley636 said:
I have this same problem still, even after latest update a few days ago, it's so frustrating that I can only really use Samsung's watchfaces at the moment! Does anyone know any sort of workaround?
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Hi there...
Yes I hear your pain. Same here. I was so excited to see that 107mb update... Immediately tested those watchfaces. Still the same
I started using Watchmaker watchfaces working well. Very good repo of free faces aswell....
I still hope for a fix... Maybe the next one. So sad

Question How can I stop battery drain on "screen off"?

I'm happy with the battery performance, but only when the screen is on. When I use the phone mostly with the screen on, I get good SOT(6-9 hours), but with the screen off, the battery consumption is terrible. How can I pull this down?

Probably a cloud app; try temporarily disabling Google play Services, Google backup is a dependency as is Playstore, Gmail. Some apps also need it to run. I enable it once or twice a day. Disabled saves 1+%@hr.
Trashware social media apps like fb, WhatsApp etc shouldn't be installed. It all adds up.
6 hours SOT with a 5002 mAh battery isn't good, 9 hrs is fair to poor. That said all Samsung's should be optimized for best performance.

Thanks for your opininon. Are you saying we shouldn't use Whatsapp? Is it real solution?

Unfortunately, because of SD 8 gen 1 limitations (probably worse on Exynos variant), about 6-7 hours SOT is best you're going to get on the S22 ultra.
Try the following guide here & see if it helps your battery life.

I have the Exynos version. My phone has a SOT of about 10 to 12 hours. Rooted and bebloated. I do have the brightness very low though.
Android 13.
OneUI 5.
Latest.
Lightly debloated.

That's interesting. I guess depends on what apps the phone is using during SOT.......
Mind sharing your battery usage breakdown screenshot?

TheKaptan23 said:
Thanks for your opininon. Are you saying we shouldn't use Whatsapp? Is it real solution?
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Real as it gets. All social media apps should never be installed. Many should even be logged on to. WhatsApp track record is stunningly bad.
Lots of users means its got a huge bullseye on it even if they try to secure it, it will hacked again like the sun rises in the morning... for sure. Meanwhile phishing scams run under the radar and count on you screwing up. And many do.
You got to ask yourself one question,
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TheKaptan23 said:
Thanks for your opininon. Are you saying we shouldn't use Whatsapp? Is it real solution?
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No really. The problem is that all the apps developed by Meta (Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp) are power hogs. Meta does not care if it chews up battery. The primary reason is that Meta is shoving ads in your face. Even when your screen is off, those apps are running in the background. Meta is not the only offender. There are plenty of other app developers that do the same thing.
Also, there are different "flavors" of Android. Each OEM implements it differently (even within the OEMs). This makes it less cost effective to customize their apps for each OEM. There is only one flavor of iOS and iPadOS, so it is much easier to tweak it for iPhones and iPads than it is for Android devices.

I understand. Thanks. I have another question. You said you turned off google play services. When I turn it off, notifications do not work and many applications do not work. How do you overcome this situation?

TheKaptan23 said:
I understand. Thanks. I have another question. You said you turned off google play services. When I turn it off, notifications do not work and many applications do not work. How do you overcome this situation?
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It doesn't effect any notifications for me that I use except Gmail. Most my apps run without it. I tend to shun those that do.
Some of the Samsung apps take the place of Google apps, no need to run both.
If killing Google play Services helps at night it's likely Google backup Transport running.

Hello, I have something to ask about. I need to know if there is any ability to store a system application variables usin adb. Imagine that I want to open my settings app and do something mabye a confirmation dialog will be shown in order to say something such as alert for something supposed that I did click on OK, i the normal case this alert will never be shown even if you clear the settings app data or clear the cash, is there any way to use adb to store the settings app data before opening it the if anything as the previous senario happened I can restore the settings app to the moment before clicking on the OK button or even before this alert has shown

TheKaptan23 said:
I understand. Thanks. I have another question. You said you turned off google play services. When I turn it off, notifications do not work and many applications do not work. How do you overcome this situation?
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Many apps that "need" Google play Services are Playstore pay apps. This can be circumvented by first allowing the app to activate, then firewall blocking their internet connection. Firewall block Playstore as well although it should be disabled except when needed.
If an app doesn't need internet access to function it should be firewall blocked anyway.