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    Help avoiding unwanted screen lighting up?

    My phone lights up its display often when not called for. This is annoying at night in bed while listening to podcasts etc via the jack. It will light up, I'll turn off the display, and a minute later it will light up again. Sometimes it will stay dark/off for a couple of hours. I can't find...
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    Help Moto G6 home screen bottom Circle, Square and Delta gone missing

    A few days ago my Moto G6 updated from Android 8 to Android 9, and: My Home screen bottom controls on the G6, the circle, square and delta, went missing, and I want them back! What happened was - when I wanted to quit out of an app the Square (and then the X) stopped working. The Square would...
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    2 phones volume refused to hold setting

    Last night, both of my phones kept changing the volume by themselves. Yes they both had good charge. The first sign was the Media volume for listening to the radio in bed. Looking at the settings for Sound, I could pull the slider louder but it would bounce back to near zero. Inside my radio app...
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    Help protect headphone port in shirt pocket from rain

    I like to carry my phone(s) in my shirt pocket. Most don't have a flap and even those that do aren't deep enough to cover the end of a phone. Thus, rain, even soft drizzle, is an issue. Is there any kind of plug or case that would protect the empty headphone port?
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    prevent pocket pushes, not just calling

    So often when I take out my phone from a pocket, the camera is on, email, messaging, various other apps where I have home screen+ icons that got accidentally pushed in my pocket. Generally I'm not on wifi when the phone's in my pocket, so apps use mobile data I didn't intend, plus they have to...
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    Help need to unmount SD to install apps from Play??

    Android 6.1/Alcatel OneTouch Idol 3/SanDisk Ultra 32 GB card After changing carriers, and thus fiddling with the SIM tray, suddenly I have major trouble downloading apps and/or updating them from the Play Store. The store will throw various error codes at me. The last code was 963. As instructed...
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    Play Store apps won't install now after factory reset

    After over a year of easy Play Store installs on my Alcatel Idol 3 with 6.1, for some other reason I had to do a factory reset. That actually worked fine, all the apps I wanted restored got re-installed. But now I cannot install anything new. I followed the G directions to do...
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    Mint Sim with Alcatel - network drops

    I'm a new Mint Sim customer using an unlocked Alcatel One Touch Idol 3, and for a few days I could make and get phone calls. But now the phone keeps dropping the Network Carrier selection. After I pick one, be it 3G or 4G it will try to 'register' for a moment, then says it's done, registered...
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    Help apps start then Quit until phone restarted

    So far two of my apps, which have been faultless til now, quit right after showing their initial screen. They are HERE WeGo mapping and AIReader epub reader. If I restart the whole phone OS, Android 6.1, these apps will run again. I don't mind leaving the ereader running all the time but not so...
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