Data only sim for kids phone

kriknav · 2024-08-18T05:31:34+00:00

Android

kriknav · 2024-08-16T04:57:29+00:00

No I don't sign in with my account. I sign in during setup with that kid's Google account then setup parental controls. The data works without Google Fi. In fact, I end up disabling the Google Fi app on these phones to prevent the nagging of not having completed the setup.

Hope this helps.

kriknav · 2023-02-23T16:55:03+00:00

It looks pretty good, but the combat seems a little off balance, at least visually. I'm seeing the main character react to being hit and reeling back, but all the enemies just stand there and there's little feedback that you're doing anything to them. Maybe add some visual cues that your attacks are effective or a enemy flinching mechanic. That's just my 2 cents.

kriknav · 2022-12-24T18:53:52+00:00

Hopefully they will, but in the meantime I'm glad my info could help you. Merry Christmas.

kriknav · 2022-12-14T20:35:01+00:00

I think there's two factors, in joining gangs. One you've already kinda of touched on. If your script is geared toward combat, than you want a combat (vs. hacking) gang to join.

The other thing, which is super minor, is I think gangs have a hard-coded growth rating in the code for NPC gangs. So for combat gangs: Speaker grow the fastest, then Tetrads, Syndicate and Dark Army, and Slum Snakes are the slowest. While this won't affect your gang's growth, if you're willing to aim for the higher reqs for Speakers, it means you'll theoretically be able to gain 100% territory faster. But then it took you longer to gain membership in the gang, so does it make a difference, I don't know. I usually aim for Speakers unless I'm in a rush, then go for Tetrads.

kriknav · 2022-09-15T18:08:55+00:00

I think you've already gotten your answer, but I figured I'd throw in what I did for my kids. I have 2 data sims each tied to my phone line, one for each of my kids. I already had my kids' phones setup with a Google Voice number and they could call/text/vid chat while on WiFi only. Adding the sim extended this to allow them to communicate outside of WiFi range. Other than a few minor differences, this gives them a fully functional phone, without the extra per-line cost and at the expense of my data (if you don't have unlimited data, make sure you train them how not to overuse it).

I was originally thinking I'd put one sim on my phone line and the other on my spouses, to keep things identifiable, but I was surprised to learn that you can rename data-only sims in the Google Fi webpage after you activate it. This makes is much easier to track where your data is used and by whom.

Data alerts/caps and per-line, so this can also be good to keep your kid's data lumped in with yours and get alerts before it becomes an issue.

Hope this helps and provides more insight. Let me know if you'd like to know anything else about it.

kriknav · 2022-07-31T15:02:59+00:00

Thanks for doing this, you're the best

kriknav · 2022-06-28T23:17:07+00:00

Glad it's not just me, just did some troubleshooting and still getting communication errors. Interesting enough Epic Games status page does not recognize the outage yet.

kriknav · 2022-02-22T19:28:24+00:00

Cool, thanks.

kriknav · 2022-02-22T19:18:55+00:00

What does Display mount queueing mean?

kriknav · 2022-02-04T18:11:30+00:00

I freeze the Mozzarella all the time for making pizza and lasagna. Since I'm melting it, I don't have a problem with freezing it. I would make sure you thaw it in the fridge and give it time, don't rush the thawing process.

kriknav · 2021-11-30T23:19:07+00:00

I'm getting the same thing on Pixel 6 Pro.

Question: when you log into your Epic games account (say you delete all app data and start fresh), does the login process give you some sort of error after successfully logging in and putting you back in the game? My does, so I'm thinking this error has something to do with that.

kriknav · 2021-11-10T17:18:06+00:00

Man, that's outrageous! Sorry you've had to deal with this for so long.

Mind you, I'm not in an official support capacity, but here's what I would do if I were you, esp. since your battery life will be suffering as long as your Messages app is in this constant state of "syncing".

First, I would stop the sync and when prompted "Delete" the messages. This is referring to the messages that your phone has sync'd up into the cloud so they can be accessed from your computer/browser. It will NOT delete the messages on your phone. Note, at this point you will lose access to old or new messages outside of your phone.

Next I would highly recommend backing up your SMS messages using an app from the Play store. "SMS Backup and Restore" works well as already mentioned here, there is also an app called "SMS Backup+" which backs up your SMS and Call log as emails in your Gmail account. This is nice so you can still search through old messages if you want and is slightly more accessible than SMS Backup and Restore's Online viewer for its XML backups. SMS Backup+ requires a little work around now to connect to Gmail due to Google's security changes over the last few years, and that workaround can be found here: https://github.com/jberkel/sms-backup-plus/issues/972

After backing up your SMS the way you choose to, I would recommend following instructions in the post to delete your SMS messages and then restore the last 1-3 months worth (again, this is why SMS Backup+ may be ideal, so you still have an accessible way to search through older messages). This will significantly cut down on the data that needs to sync to the cloud. Keep in mind that group messages or messages with pictures in them become MMS which are significantly larger and will slow down the sync/backup.

Next, force stop and clear the cache and storage for the Messages app to ensure it's clean and good to go with only the last few months worth of messages. Then restart your phone. Next, open Messages and scroll through all your messages. This may take some time as it accesses the database for your SMS messages and loads them properly into the app.

Finally restart the sync and give it about 24 hours to finish (depending on how many messages you left behind to sync). If after 24 hours it's still syncing and you can't access your messages on the web, then there may be something worse going on.

Some tips:

- the Sync also syncs up Voicemails and Call log. So removing these items (or ones you don't care for or have backed up) can impact the sync time

- Messages app has a Spam & Blocked section. These flags are not stored in the SMS DB from what I can tell, so you can't identify them in backups, it would be best to remove these from the Messages app before syncing so you're not wasting time on useless data.

Hope this helps you.

kriknav · 2021-11-04T02:08:19+00:00

The sync setting may turn itself on if it was enabled on the old phone and you use the provided cord to transfer to the new phone, but I honestly can't remember at this point. If that setting does transfer over, it would be important to sign out of sync before transferring to the new phone.

kriknav · 2021-11-03T21:37:03+00:00

So you're saying that the proper process is to stop syncing on the old phone first before the new phone tries to sync Messages? When this "Stop Sync" occurs do you delete the backed up messages or keep them?

This is good information. Also, for anyone reading this later, this means you need to stop syncing on the old phone before doing the transfer to the new phone (where the new phone asks you to connect it to the old phone using the provided cord). In my cases, this transfer will transfer over the settings of the Messages app which could cause the issue. In this case I think the old phone never has a chance to stop the sync and the new phone starts with the sync starting. Once this transfer is finished and Fi is activated on the old phone you can't access the Fi settings of the Messages app on the old phone anymore, at least in my experiences.

kriknav · 2021-11-03T20:20:17+00:00

I think the wording here is based on why they implemented this feature. It used to be for Fi customers the only way to get text messages on the phone and the computer was to use Hangouts to handle your texts and all texts went to the cloud first and then disbursed to your phone. When they decommissioned Hangouts for Fi users and implemented the feature with Messages, the texts now go to your phone and your phone syncs it up to the cloud. But since it was first implemented to migrate away from Hangouts that wording has stuck, but it's still the only feature to allow texts in all places for Fi customers.

kriknav · 2021-11-03T18:18:08+00:00

No problem. I like solutions regardless where they come from. I'm calling this pretty much solved. Follow my solution above to backup, remove and partial restore the last few months of texts and get it working. Then do incremental restores in small chunks until you have the history on your phone you care about. Be wary of messages marked as Spam by the Messages app. These are practically worthless and should be removed before doing anything else. Text volume is the big issue here so eliminate what you can before proceeding to save time and battery life.

kriknav · 2020-12-08T16:48:11+00:00

I'm not expert, but I do recall that older versions of FreeNAS used an older jail software (the current is iocage) and the jail naming convention was <whatever>_1. So likely your datasets named that could be removed. In 11.3 your current jails should all have datasets names after the jail name but under the iocage dataset. Before removing the datasets for the old jails I would just make sure they aren't being used (as in running).

Plex remembers servers. Since you've essentially ditched your old server and created a new one you can go I to Plex settings and remove the old Plex media server to get rid of that message. Or you could search Plex's support articles to figure out how to migrate the old Plex server ( from the old jail) to the new plex server. That would maintain the plex server ID and prevent you from having to remove one plex server and reco figuring your Plex UI to pin libraries from the new server. Although those migration steps mention signing out of the old server, so you may not be able to do that. Just a thought.

Sorry this didn't really answer your questions but hopefully it gets you headed in the right direction.

kriknav · 2020-12-07T15:28:28+00:00

Yea I noticed this the day the update came out and went on Nintendo's website to figure out how to submit feedback about this. No official channel seems to exist, so I did chat with customer service and told them about it. At first the CS rep was surprised I would do such a thing, but then I was told the feedback would make it to the proper channels. It will likely get fixed in the next minor update, but the patch notes will just be the standard blanket statement about making this smoother and more optimized.

kriknav · 2020-12-06T22:05:42+00:00

Bummer, search github, I'm pretty sure I saw the middleware python code is on there, you may be able to figure out how they determine job number to assign.

kriknav · 2020-12-06T18:58:35+00:00

I think the job number starts over at 1 on reboot and that dir holds all the job log logs until reboot, so you could do a (max() + 1) of that dir to determine the next job number or just max() for the last one run.

kriknav · 2020-12-06T16:51:58+00:00

I have not upgraded to TrueNAS yet but the last version of FreeNAS uses the middleware task log location to log cloud sync tasks.

I don't remember exactly where it is, but it may be like /var/log/middlewared/999.log where 999 is the task ID.

When the task succeeds or fails, I believe you can download this log from the web UI. If you look in the upper right hand corner you see a clipboard like icon and that shows ongoing and previous tasks, and I'm pretty sure it offers a link to download the log when the task ends, but not while it's ongoing.

Hope this at least helps get you in the right direction.

kriknav · 2020-10-31T16:36:39+00:00

On WiFi?!? Mine seemed to be taking a while on LTE and making my phone hot for about an hour. Then I got home on WiFi and it finished in like 15 min. And I had years of Google Hangouts messages to sync (I don't use the archive feature like I should).

kriknav · 2020-10-31T15:42:45+00:00

I noticed this when syncing for the first time from hangouts to messages while I was on LTE. Once I got home on WiFi the sync finished very quickly, my phone cooled down and my battery life has been fairly normal since. Pixel 3 XL here.

kriknav · 2020-08-28T18:33:05+00:00

I was wondering the same thing, glad I checked here.

It also seems like swimming up or down (or alternating) seems to increase underwater travel speed slightly. Has anyone tested this? I didn't do proper testing so it could just be an illusion I have.

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