vortexal

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[–] vortexal@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I would consider doing that but I'd rather not have to go through the process of re-downloading all my apps and re-customizing my phone just because I disabled a potentially important app.

[–] vortexal@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 weeks ago

I forgot to mention these in my previous comment but I've added some information about the app in my post. As for that app that you mentioned, I've never used ADB commands before and I don't want to risk bricking my phone, so I don't know if I'm going to use it.

[–] vortexal@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 weeks ago

It's not the account that I'm worried about. It's hard for me to explain what I'm actually concerned about. I guess an example would be that the SIM card becomes invalid or something. One of the phones where I disabled Mobile Services has an effectively permanent error at the top of the screen that says "invalid SIM card".

[–] vortexal@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes but it's still possible and I have yet to see someone mention that they were able to disable it and still use their phone service.

[–] vortexal@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

I would try but I don't want to disable something if I don't know for sure that it's safe to disable.

[–] vortexal@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 weeks ago (13 children)

I'd try that but I don't want to end up finding out that disabling it permanently disables my phone's service. My phone's service is through Tracfone and they are the developers of the app.

[–] vortexal@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 weeks ago

Ok I figured out that you don't actually have to setup Shizuku to use Canta. The only problem is that Canta doesn't provide a description for Mobile Services. It just provides the package name, which I searched for online, but the only thing I can find is that it's specific to Tracfone devices.

[–] vortexal@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 weeks ago

I actually can't uninstall it but I just using my phone's settings app and either remove or disable it depending on what that phone allows me to do. Canta seems pretty complicated to use but I'll try it and see what it tells me.

 

Most of the android phones I've had came preinstalled with something called "Mobile Services". I normally remove it because it just keeps randomly installing apps and games that don't want but I've never had an active phone plan on those phones. If I disabled it from my phone, would I still be able to send and receive calls and texts?

So far the only thing I have found out is that "Mobile Services" is an app that is only preinstalled on android phones who's carrier is Tracfone.

Edit: Even though I wasn't able to get an answer, I've decided to just disable it. I wont be manually testing it and I wont be updating this post with results. I no longer care at this point and I wont be responding to anymore comments about this.

[–] vortexal@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I've been using Fennec F-Droid, which is based on Firefox. I mostly use it because I want a non-chromium based browser and Firefox and it's derivatives have browser extensions on android. I chose Fennec F-Droid because, while I could be wrong, it seems to be slightly smaller and run slightly faster than Firefox.

[–] vortexal@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

There, I fixed it. It took me a while to understand what the problem was but I figured it out.

[–] vortexal@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

The Reddit community is part of the reason I stopped playing RuneScape a few years ago. The in-game community was fine for the most part, as players would mostly keep to themselves or just talk with their own groups. But the subreddit would get super offended/aggressive towards each other for the stupidest things and the mods always seemed to make things worse.

I've always been of the believe that all online games with subscription services should always be $60 a year at most. If you do the math, $60 a year per player is way more than what single-player games make and maintaining/updating online games doesn't require as much work as making brand new games either.

And yes, I'm aware of the whole thing with the bonds and how they technically allow you to play the game for free but, at least compared to the old prices, they aren't as efficient as just buying a member and Jagex makes more money off of them. So, I still think that Jagex shouldn't change the membership prices.

[–] vortexal@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I haven't been paying to much attention to the news but I've heard that other, non-NATO, countries have threatened some of the countries that are just simply giving aid to Ukraine. So, I'd assume that those other countries would get involved in some way and just make things worse for everyone.

 

For example, if I wanted to always see rows 5, 10 and 15, as far as I can tell, I would have to freeze every row from 1 to 15. But is it possible to only freeze the specified rows so that if I scrolled down, the first four rows could be 5, 10, 15 and 20.

 

I'm not sure what fixed it because I tried multiple things yesterday, but it shutdown normally last night.

 

Edit: I was able to run some benchmark tests, so I don't need help with this anymore, but after running the tests, I'm pretty sure my computer is having hardware issues. I don't really have any other options, though, so I just have to deal with it.

The computer I was using stopped working and I had to switch to a different computer but despite having a significantly better GPU, games are performing only slightly better. I want to benchmark test the GPU to see if it's a potential hardware problem or if something else is causing a bottleneck.

 

Her phone is having two issues:

  1. Texts from other phones are received several hours after they were sent when she's away from home, texts that she sends always go through instantly. If she's at home, she always gets texts instantly.

  2. Her phone keeps coming up as "offline" on some other phones.

As I stated in the title, I'm not familiar with phones, so I have no idea where to even start with this. I have done nothing more than a google search that didn't give me any results relevant to the issues.

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