When I have that happen, it's usually someone (I'm guessing on iPhone), sending an attachment to a group thread. It shows up in the group thread, but then it'll pop up in that person's individual thread and give me that warning. Not sure if that's what's going on. I think it also sometimes happens if I'm using the browser on my desktop for messages.
While I didn't see anything promising from my quick search, you might be able to try something with Gadgetbridge and a custom entry. I found older posts talking about it, but I didn't search well enough to see if there's been progress
I think it might still be incompatible (I see a request to add it), but the play store version is a separate app based on the actual app one. The actual app isn't on the PlayStore
Yeah with permissions there is this stupid feature in Android and Google Play protect that keeps revoking permissions if you don't use an App for some time.
Also they are still constantly trying new ways to "figure out" what Apps should run in the background instead of giving the user any controll. I.m.o. there should just be a "Allow up to run background" permission you can turn on and off and which logs exactly when a app was running the background.
The short answer is that you can't without rooting. If ALL your apps use Google cloud backup, then it'll work great. But that's not very likely.
Here's what I do when I switch phones, without root:
Use Google cloud restore. This gets app data for supported apps.
Run the built-in backup and restore features for any apps that have them. A few examples of such apps off the top of my head are Lawnchair, Eternity for Lemmy, Relay for Reddit, and Signal.
Copy internal storage (like downloads, photos, etc.) using a USB cable with MTP or ADB. This gets non-app-specific files.
Your contacts app should have an export feature. If you're using your Google account to store contacts, then you don't need to bother with this.
That gets almost everything. Over the years I have mostly stopped using apps that lock data in protected locations with no way to export. The biggest problem is that there's no easy way to see which apps use Google backup. IIRC there's a way to check in your Google settings on the web but not directly on Android.
Edit: a little historical context in case you find outdated results in web searches: this used to be a lot easier. On older OSes, adb backup could pull ALL app data, and the were some user-friendly apps like Helium that used the same mechanism to back up and restore arbitrary app data. Google locked that down at some point (I forget when, maybe Android 10?) and it's not possible without root now.
If you want to keep a device that long, that I would personally suggest going for one of the new Pixels, as you would get longest possible software/replacement parts support.
Sure it won't have a headphone jack, but you can use a dongle (with a DAC) that will allow you to just hook up wired headphones. The only downside is that you cannot charge and listen at the same time.
You won't get 2 physical SIMs, and probably size will also be an issue.
I don't trust Xiaomi phones, sure they look good on paper but after hearing horror stories about their software from friends I'm not convinced it's worth the hassle.
I'm using Lawnchair because I wanted to change the default search engine in the search bar on the home screen. I might switch back to Pixel Launcher if they make it customizable.
I use Nova Launcher because I'm used to it and there's really nothing that still can replace it. There are plenty of similar launchers, but none that's as feature rich as Nova. People love to hate it because it has been acquired by an analytics company, but I have data disabled for Nova Launcher, so it can't really do anything. Even on other older phones that don't have the option to disable data for Nova Launcher, it hasn't sent a single KB of data in months. I don't think it's a problem.
I don't try to mess with their cloud backup scheme, I import the local backups manually instead. Their cloud backup is so slow and their chat transfer feature is so buggy.
They do, but they don't explicitly allow restoring from local backups directly within the app anymore. However, if you manually move the backups to a new phone or whatever and then fresh install WhatsApp on that phone, you will be prompted to restore messages from the local backup that's present.
Have you checked the official website of WhatsApp? You can only restore local backups if you are on older Android versions. On newer Androids it is only Google backup.
Maybe that's it. My dad's current phone does run an old Android version, so that might be why local backup restore worked. The WhatsApp version was up to date though. I can confirm local backups work on Android 8 and Android 11.
Looks like a notification bar. Just a wild guess, but maybe there's an invisible notification causing it to auto-display. If so, you might be able to fix it by limiting notifications for the app.
At my last upgrade, the new phone asked if I wanted to get stuff from my old phone, then walked me through it. Was a pretty decent amount of data and it didn't take all that long. As i recall, it was Bluetooth, but there was an option to use a cable.
I like to play Papers Please on my phone, I put it in endless mode to just play a little here and there if I have a short amount of free time. I also have Kingdom Two Crowns which isn't necessarily a puzzle game as much as it could be considered a strategy game
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