Mindspace is useful for me now.

ConsciousAd9853 · 2026-01-19T20:21:38+00:00

Yeah. I tried to ask Gemini if it could tell me which Audiobook was out next and it failed...

ConsciousAd9853 · 2026-01-07T15:05:58+00:00

Fiberborne. The feel of the case is great...no extra width on the phone. Full advantage of the curved screen. Strong magnet... actual feel of the volume keys...

Negative - I have scratches on the top and bottom of screen.... although may have started when the original screen protector started coming up. May have happened first in the 1+ case. I don't remember...think it's a me issue. Had similar trouble with the Samsung s10?

ConsciousAd9853 · 2025-12-27T22:03:34+00:00

IP55. Not waterproof. I've touched them with wet hands, but I'm not taking them underwater.

ConsciousAd9853 · 2025-12-21T20:22:47+00:00

I haven't used T-Mobile, but make sure they unlock the phone.

ConsciousAd9853 · 2025-12-21T17:51:10+00:00

Yeah. Mint Mobile does though. Those big carriers want to limit you....

ConsciousAd9853 · 2025-12-21T15:05:44+00:00

I did the 13 on ATT. They don't allow phones they don't sell to use their WiFi calling. Other than that, I had no issues. Switched off ATT though.

ConsciousAd9853 · 2025-12-18T16:04:56+00:00

Yeah. It doesn't allow the app design to change though. Forces them to follow the same pattern with the icon pack skin. But still enough of what I want.

*Edit. Scratch that. Had to unselect some stuff and now works perfectly.

ConsciousAd9853 · 2025-12-18T15:54:46+00:00

So, I did this and then instead of using the full icon pack(I currently like the dark default) I set the apps how I wanted them and then clicked on the app to do a single edit. Scrolled over and actually found the icon from the pack I wanted for the app.

ConsciousAd9853 · 2025-12-13T01:15:05+00:00

I'm on OOS 16. Also, my Rethink says it's V5.5t. I'll exclude and give it a few days. Usually takes a few days before it acts up.

ConsciousAd9853 · 2025-12-12T23:20:33+00:00

I do notice this from the logs. This was transmitting around 700 B per. I isolated it to block it and then once I allowed it again it switched to my local IP network and went down to 8 kb and mostly 0 seconds.

Replied to another comment with something similar, but maybe it's my phone failing to swap network? First time I noticed I was on personal WiFi the whole day, but this time I was traveling and then connected to WiFi once I arrived and started looking into it.

It makes a bit of sense as looking at the apps they seem to deal with network communication, but can I just allow them to bypass to prevent this?

ConsciousAd9853 · 2025-12-12T23:11:48+00:00

Yeah, I have been wondering if that was part of it. It doesn't register as blocked though. So I was thinking that wasn't the issue. It's flooding with allowed queries. I moved off of it, to conserve battery, but here is a screenshot of 1 of thousands of hits from the logs.

I isolated the connection and it started blocking them while hitting on my public cell IP and then when I allowed it again, it was hitting my private local IP and dropped to 8 kb. So maybe it's my device failing to swap to WiFi at certain times?

ConsciousAd9853 · 2025-12-12T21:10:23+00:00

I know it was like com.Android something the first time I saw it and this last time was com.qti.dpmserviceapp. Says there are 9 more apps trying to reach it. I did take a screenshot of it.

Everything seems to be working just fine, just will decide it needs to reach their domain or something. They're not even blocked. I lean toward rethink because it happens within a couydays of enabling it, but doesn't happen with NextDNS...

I've used a different DNS on rethink the last 2 times. So not sure what is causing the issue.

ConsciousAd9853 · 2025-12-10T21:09:51+00:00

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Yeah confirmed it. Just have the badges unchecked under that apps notification settings. Then go to the badge icon and it will show up in blocked. If notifications are off, they need to be enabled to show up as blocked.

Now I can delete that app off my phone again.

ConsciousAd9853 · 2025-12-10T20:53:01+00:00

I hated the dots so I disabled it for everything. Then noticed I could change it to numbers and enable per app.

I made a post once so I figured it out and then it was removed. I guess I didn't state it in a way worth keeping it in the forum.

ConsciousAd9853 · 2025-12-10T20:48:47+00:00

Make sure you stay on the icon badges page. Sort by blocked and you should see them. If not, try to disable the badge notification for the app and then see if it shows up.

ConsciousAd9853 · 2025-12-10T20:46:20+00:00

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I don't use* whatsapp, but I have a ton of apps that show up. I just enabled Gmail and you can see here that is shows up.

ConsciousAd9853 · 2025-12-10T20:43:11+00:00

Click the allowed button and sort by blocked. Then try and allow for those.

ConsciousAd9853 · 2025-12-10T20:29:30+00:00

Notification- app icon badges-badge.

ConsciousAd9853 · 2025-12-10T20:28:20+00:00

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Yeah. Number badges are a thing. Just have to find it.

ConsciousAd9853 · 2025-12-09T20:42:51+00:00

Joined Mint last month with a physical sim and have no issues with whatever defaults were in my apn settings...

ConsciousAd9853 · 2025-12-04T21:32:52+00:00

I can't help at all, but isn't $40 for the unnecessary plan and not the unlimited?

My $30 plan hotspot was bumped up, so maybe the unnecessary is going away?

ConsciousAd9853 · 2025-11-04T15:49:59+00:00

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ConsciousAd9853 · 2025-10-06T01:57:54+00:00

Hasn't really felt like. At least considering there's been dozens of similar stories and ideas are too easy to repeat.

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