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Can anyone answer these ICS questions?

Does it rescan everything upon startup? Does it rescan photos when you take a picture? How do you put music on the phone if you can't drag-and-drop MP3s?
When you click the share button, does it still give you a list of 90 apps that are open?
If you have SIM Contacts hidden, when you SMS someone, does it show the SIM Contact and the Google Contact? When you send a SMS to more than one person, does it still make a group SMS, or does it text each individual person and update their message threads?
On Google Contacts, currently, my Contact Photos can only be as big as thumbnails. If ICS uses high-res, big Contact Photos, how does that work? Does Google Contacts have updated Contact Photos for you? Did it make you get rid of your old Contact Photos?
Thanks!

Wow a lot of questions I see there.
I can answer a few for you.
1. It does rescan everything on startup. Also checks for updates.
2. It updates you photos like if you take one it goes straight to gallery but doesn't do a full scan again. As far as I'm aware.
3. Unless I'm missing something you can drag and drop music, photos, and media into folders that you select.
You have to select the option in settings to camera (ptp)
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NatTheCat said:
Wow a lot of questions I see there.
I can answer a few for you.
1. It does rescan everything on startup. Also checks for updates.
2. It updates you photos like if you take one it goes straight to gallery but doesn't do a full scan again. As far as I'm aware.
3. Unless I'm missing something you can drag and drop music, photos, and media into folders that you select.
You have to select the option in settings to camera (ptp)
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium and Google Text To Speech ;-)
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How much it cost u? And is it worth it?
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NatTheCat said:
3. Unless I'm missing something you can drag and drop music, photos, and media into folders that you select.
You have to select the option in settings to camera (ptp)
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium and Google Text To Speech ;-)
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Less worried about this one now, since it's a Galaxy Nexus-specific issue. But thank you for your answers!!

xile6 said:
How much it cost u? And is it worth it?
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Upgraded from IPhone 3gs. On 24 month contract. Then since then I've had 4 Android phones and never looked back.
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Anyone else care to take a shot at the remaining questions? Does anyone keep their contacts on their SIM Card anymore?

thehyecircus said:
Anyone else care to take a shot at the remaining questions? Does anyone keep their contacts on their SIM Card anymore?
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Hopefully not. The SIM storage is very basic and I wouldn't recommend it as anything but an extra backup.

I keep my contacts on my SIM as an extra backup, but that doesn't stop Android from putting them in my message contacts regardless of their display settings.

thehyecircus said:
I keep my contacts on my SIM as an extra backup, but that doesn't stop Android from putting them in my message contacts regardless of their display settings.
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I wouldn't recommend relying on storing SIM contacts.
Why not just use the Google contacts for your phone (and general backup) and then also export them as a csv file (from google contacts) and store on your computer/dropbox/flash drive? You can have good backup without duplicate contacts on your phone.

I also have few questions as I`m looking to switch from iPhon 4 to Galaxy Nexus after volume bug is solved.
1) Can ICS push emails directly on the screen so I don`t even have to unlock the phone? Liks in iOS5 - I don`t need to pick up the phone or unlock screen, I can see first few lines of the email.
2) Can you set custom ringtone for incoming emails?
3) Is it possible to change how fast LED blinks and what colour for sms & emails?
4) I`m using TomTom, but Android doesn`t have TomTom. Is there turn-by-turn SatNav for Android?
Thanks

The high-res contact photos is still NO go if you are syncing with Google Contacts (GMAIL contacts) only.
If you do it this way, you will receive low res 96x96 pixels contact photos.
I know, this is ****. It's been ages we have requested this to be fixed.
But, apparently, Google won't listen.
NOTE: I read that if you synced with Google+, you will receive high-res photo from Google+. But, not all my contacts are in Google+.

rbs_uk said:
I also have few questions as I`m looking to switch from iPhon 4 to Galaxy Nexus after volume bug is solved.
1) Can ICS push emails directly on the screen so I don`t even have to unlock the phone? Liks in iOS5 - I don`t need to pick up the phone or unlock screen, I can see first few lines of the email.
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Mmm no. You can access the notifications area from the lockscreen so that you can see who its from and click into the gmail app, but it doesn't show the first lines.
2) Can you set custom ringtone for incoming emails?
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You can set a specific ringtone for each e-mail account.
3) Is it possible to change how fast LED blinks and what colour for sms & emails?
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There are certain apps that let you customize the use of the LED.
4) I`m using TomTom, but Android doesn`t have TomTom. Is there turn-by-turn SatNav for Android?
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YES. GOOGLE MAPS!!!! Its included and knocks the socks off of everything out there. (and yes it does turn by turn voice navigation).

martonikaj said:
Mmm no. You can access the notifications area from the lockscreen so that you can see who its from and click into the gmail app, but it doesn't show the first lines.
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When I drive and my iPhone is in windscreen holder, its very safe as I don`t have to take my hands off steering wheel to check who is this email from and what about.

I thought ICS was them listening! So the contact has to be stored on the phone to get high-res photos? So that means I'd have the whole SIM card contact/Google Contact/Phone Contact deal all over again? It's like they don't know how to design a phone OS sometimes...
And what's unreliable about SIM Contacts? I trust Google Contacts completely.

thehyecircus said:
I thought ICS was them listening! So the contact has to be stored on the phone to get high-res photos? So that means I'd have the whole SIM card contact/Google Contact/Phone Contact deal all over again? It's like they don't know how to design a phone OS sometimes...
And what's unreliable about SIM Contacts? I trust Google Contacts completely.
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The problem with SIM contacts is that the SIM is very specific in what it can store. A UMTS sim can store 2 numbers per person and type (I dumped my SIM with a usb sim-reader). The is no way to store a picture and all the other things Google allows you to store and sync. Sure, they could keep different databases just for the stuff the SIM doesn't support but that would just result in more problems in general and you would have a hard limit on the number of contacts set to 250.
Summary: SIM contacts are too limited to be useful today. It's only decent as a backup in my opinion.
Why are you so against having your contacts on Google contacts or just as a vcard locally? To me, Google contacts is really great as I can change my contacts from anywhere and I always have them backed up. It also makes it extremely easy to setup a new Android phone and allows me to export them to a number of formats if I need it.

blunden said:
The problem with SIM contacts is that the SIM is very specific in what it can store. A UMTS sim can store 2 numbers per person and type (I dumped my SIM with a usb sim-reader). The is no way to store a picture and all the other things Google allows you to store and sync. Sure, they could keep different databases just for the stuff the SIM doesn't support but that would just result in more problems in general and you would have a hard limit on the number of contacts set to 250.
Summary: SIM contacts are too limited to be useful today. It's only decent as a backup in my opinion.
Why are you so against having your contacts on Google contacts or just as a vcard locally? To me, Google contacts is really great as I can change my contacts from anywhere and I always have them backed up. It also makes it extremely easy to setup a new Android phone and allows me to export them to a number of formats if I need it.
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1. It'd be a hassle to delete all the numbers off my SIM. It also should be unnecessary. There's no reason why Android should be looking at my SIM after I told it not to.
2. I am not against having my contacts on Google Contacts. I have them on Google Contacts. I used to have them on Google Contacts AND my phone, but all that did is have Android list each contact three times. A nightmare!! All I am saying is, don't look at my SIM card if I say not to, or be smart enough to not list duplicates because THE CONTACTS ARE MERGED.

[Q] Transfer Iphone Whatsapp Chat History

Hi,
Does anyone success transfer iphone whatsapp chat history to Android before? Can you guys share the experience and step?

No one have experience?

maybe this will help : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=24569917

wl3gan said:
Hi,
Does anyone success transfer iphone whatsapp chat history to Android before? Can you guys share the experience and step?
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i developed whatsappmigrator that does exactly this! (free, android app)
WhatsAppMigrator: move your Whatsapp history from iPhone to Android
http://www.whatsappmigrator.com

You can download a pc tool named iPhone WhatsApp to Android Transfer to help. It lets you transfer and merge whatsapp chat messages from iPhone to Android directly on computer. Easy to use.
Hope it helps.

Transfer iPhone Whatsapp Chat History to Android
Have you backup for you data on your iTunes? If yes, you can find them in the folder which is belong to iTunes. Or you may also use iTunes to save your iPhone data and then move them on your new phone by connecting it with your computer. If you don't use iTunes, you can move your iPhone's data to your computer by using this method.
Mail it (obvious for smaller data volumes)
Use WiFi transfer - you need iPhone to be connected to the same network as the PC. On my android phone tethering and connect both the iPhone and the PC to this WiFi.
Then just use WiFi whatsapp chat history transfer on iPhone. Technically the iPhone starts a FTP server and displays the URL. You connect to this URL from the PC (via whatsapp chat historyZilla, Total Commander etc.)
But you'd better pay attention when you transfer the whatsapp chat historys, you need to make sure you have already have the backup of them. Transferring whatsapp chat historys may cause the whatsapp chat history-loss problem. Here is a post for avoiding whatsapp chat history-loss problem may be helpful for you.
You can learn more by visiting here:
http://www.iphone-android-recovery.com/

transfer Android to iphone whatsapp chat history
i have been searching online for some solution or software. i came across few but they are asked for payment. I tried Backuptrans but it would ask for license. Can anyone help me

Scorpion311 said:
i have been searching online for some solution or software. i came across few but they are asked for payment. I tried Backuptrans but it would ask for license. Can anyone help me
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wazzapmigrator is a free android app that let's your transfer whatsapp history from iphone to android. you can search for it on google play store

ark0n3 said:
wazzapmigrator is a free android app that let's your transfer whatsapp history from iphone to android. you can search for it on google play store
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Thanks for the info but i need to do it the opposite way. I want to transfer from Android to Iphone .
Btw Wazzapmigrator isnot free
Thanksmate

Scorpion311 said:
Thanks for the info but i need to do it the opposite way. I want to transfer from Android to Iphone .
Btw Wazzapmigrator isnot free
Thanksmate
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how can you say wazzapmigrator is not free?? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nbeghin.whatsappmigrator.lite

Scorpion311 said:
Thanks for the info but i need to do it the opposite way. I want to transfer from Android to Iphone .
Btw Wazzapmigrator isnot free
Thanksmate
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To transfer whatsapp chats from Android to iPhone, Backuptrans Android WhatsApp to iPhone Transfer is your choice. But it is not a free one.

cturin said:
To transfer whatsapp chats from Android to iPhone, Backuptrans Android WhatsApp to iPhone Transfer is your choice. But it is not a free one.
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Hello,
Has anybody found an alternative solution to Wazzapmigrator (as it is not free on android play anymore). I am looking to moving all whatsapp chats and media from an iphone to a new samsung handset.
Look forward to your comments.
cheers!

When I recently upgraded my iPhone 4s to iPhone 6, I was stuck with WhatsApp problem. For some people, it isn't much of an issue; they don't care about losing the old chat history and they are quite happy to start over. But I'm not one of them. So I want to transfer WhatsApp Messages from the old iPhone to the new one.
Thankfully, I found both iTunes and iCloud can give me a hand in this problem. In this post, I'll share with you three ways to transfer WhatsApp messages from iPhone to iPhone.
Way 1: Restore WhatsApp chat history to new iPhone from iCloud backup
Way 2: Transport your WhatsApp chats to a new iPhone by using WhatsApp iCloud backup
Way 3: Move WhatsApp messages from iPhone to iPhone with iTunes Backup
In the other hand, if you want to erase some of your iPhone feature you can used iPhone data eraser, this will help you in erase iphone call history, erase iphone contacts, delete iphone photos and etc.

Problems with Whatsapp on a new phone with the same phone number

I'm editing my original message. I'm keeping it below in case it provides detail but I apologize that it was too complex. Here are three simplified questions:
1) My old phone stopped working. I have a new phone. Where are old Whatsapp messages (are they stored on internal memory and thus unretrievable, available on Whatsapp servers)?
2) I have a copy of all files on my old phone. It's not recent but if I have a Whatsapp database file is there an external viewer to see my old messages? I read about a "key" but I don't have my old phone.
3) It was a month gap before I finally had a working phone. Why are messages that were "waiting" in some Whatsapp groups now visible to me only by sender and thus completely out of chronological order?
Hello,
My unrooted Galaxy Note stopped working. It was replaced by an unrooted Galaxy Note. I've kept the same number but Whatsapp is giving me problems. Thank you for any help.
1) When I installed Whatsapp on the new phone all old conversations were missing in all chat groups. Why?
2) I thought that Whatsapp autosaved databases nightly to the SD card. My SD card only has a few database files from years ago and this was on an older phone (not either of the Galaxy Notes I've owned). Why?
3) If Whatsapp stores database files to the internal memory I can't do much (as my old device did not turn on and is gone). But why then does the new phone not yet have a Whatsapp folder (or any databases) in the internal memory?
4) On the new phone now, only chat groups with new conversations were visible when I installed Whatsapp. I'm assuming that the missing chat groups will appear when they get new conversations?
5) In one chat group chronology was lost. All conversations by one sender were followed by all conversations by another. Why? It's impossible to make sense of what is being said.
6) Because of the above I thought I might remove and reinstall Whatsapp? Would I lose any "unread" messages (so far most of my messages are "unread" as I am trying to sort out why I am having so many problems with Whatsapp)? If I save a backup before removing Whatsapp would it save the "unread" messages?
7) I have a database file on an external drive from a few weeks ago. I read that attempting to merge it with the "unread" messages on Whatsapp on my new phone probably would not work. Is that correct?
8) I assume with encryption there is no way to view my old messages right (that old database file on the external drive is useless and there is no viewer to view the messages and images)? That bothers me a lot as some last communications from family members who passed away were in that important database file.
9) In the future what should I do to preserve my Whatsapp messages, pictures, and groups?
10) At least Whatsapp didn't delete all my messages that were unread. My text (non Whatsapp) messages and phone messages in the gap between sending in the old phone and getting the new one are completely gone so I don't even know who wrote to me or called me. It seems like none of that gets saved to the SD card?
I appreciate your help very much.

To update why I am asking. When my phone stopped working my new phone had none of my old Whatsapp message. Some of the communications were final messages I exchanged from people who have passed away. Is there any way to restore those messages?

nopgalaxy said:
To update why I am asking. When my phone stopped working my new phone had none of my old Whatsapp message. Some of the communications were final messages I exchanged from people who have passed away. Is there any way to restore those messages?
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When I changed phones but kept my number, I installed Whatsapp on my new phone and it asked if I wanted to retrieve my old messages and I hit yes and it downloaded them

Thank you for the reply. It didn't ask me for that unfortunately. Do you think it might be worth reinstalling Whatsapp or would I lose the messages I've gotten over the last few days if I "retrieve old messages" now? Thank you very much.

Samsung dual messenger WhatsApp program is not letting me take pictures and I don't know where the pictures are saved

Hello everyone and thank you for reading this!
Not sure if this is the right form, if not please direct me to the right spot.
I have two issues. I am using a Samsung Galaxy S9 which has an application called dual messenger which allows me to have more than one WhatsApp program running. I have my regular cell phone number WhatsApp and also my Google phone number WhatsApp. Both work great.
The problem started a few days ago when I noticed that I can't take a picture with my front camera and send it to somebody on the Dual messenger WhatsApp. It works fine on the regular WhatsApp. It takes the picture just fine, and then it disappears and then it says the file format is not supported. I was tempted to uninstall and reinstall the second WhatsApp, but I did not want to lose all the pictures that my friends have sent me.
I then realized that that second WhatsApp was not being backed up to my Google photos like the original WhatsApp. The Dual messenger WhatsApp doesn't really have a backup that I can see.
So basically I have two questions.
1. How can I get my WhatsApp front facing camera to work and not telling me that it's an unsupported file format and just take the picture?
2. Where are all these pictures that my friend sent me stored on my phone? Is there any way that I could back up my second dual messenger WhatsApp picture gallery to my Google photos?
I hope this makes sense in any help would be appreciated. If anybody knows of a better Forum, if this is not the right one, where I can post this question please let me know. Thank you all.

I am waiting for the answer, it happens to me too

I'm also facing the same issue with my note 9

Question Sync WhatsApp Business in contacts app

I use both WhatsApp (WA) and WhatsApp Business (WAB), with two difefrent phone numbers (private and work).
On my Google Pixel and XIAOMI Mi11 I have Google Contacts and for each contact I can see options to call/video-call/chat with either WA or WAB.
On my Fold 3 for each contact I see options to call/video-call/chat ONLY with WA.
Any idea?
Thnaks

Anyone?
thx

thegios said:
Anyone?
thx
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I never even knew that was an option until your question here, but mine also only shows WhatsApp and not WhatsApp Business. I only have ever gone into both apps to message people from them, not from the Contacts list on my phone.

Same, but I came from iOS, so using WhatsApp through the contacts app was never possible for me lol.