About a month ago, I dropped my Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra about 10 cm above my sink, and it got a small dead pixel on the left edge near the top. The problem is that it has affected the whole area below the impact point, doing so that every time the light intensity gets too bright, for example, if I am accessing a white webpage with light intensity of 100%, the area below the dead pixel just turns black. But if I have the light intensity set to 10%, I can see the screen but the bottom area is still flickering. I thought I could live with it, but I can't use my phone outside if I can only have the light intensity on 10%. I know it's something to do with the screen, but I think it's weird that the top works completely fine, and everywhere beneath the impact point is broken. So I hope that it could be a loose cable or something and not the whole screen that has been destroyed due to a small dead pixel. My question is, do you think it could be a loose cable or another thing I could fix without buying a new screen that costs 270€? Because if that's the case, I think I will just hold on for another month and switch to a new phone.

Using s21, most recent update 01/04/2022. This has been happening for a while. When I use the Google search bar widget (not the chrome app), the first time I type something into the search bar, it'll either quick close and reopen the keyboard and then I can continue typing, or it'll just close my keyboard and I'll have to hit the search bar again to continue typing. This usually alternates between being fixed with one software update then re-broken in the next, but not always, and it only happens in google. Nothing I've done has fixed this, and it only happens on the first search when I open google, it won't do it again until I close and reopen it.

I am currently trying to figure out another way to access my Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra's Secret Menus accessed via the dialer codes. My phone cannot open almost all of the dialer code, probably due to restrictions. I figured out how to open the Phone info(The one with the preferred network Setting) menu via an intent, but I'm now trying to look for the other ones like 4636 and 9090 I then realized I just need to know the package and the class and that stuff to open it. The question is, what are the packages. I'm basically looking for what package is opening all of these secret menus, and how to execute the dialer codes through that package via intents, or if there is another way to open these secret menus without the dialer. Please know that I don't actually code intents and use something like automate or Macrodroid to run intents. I am on a un-rooted device, and have no way to access adb. Basically what I'm doing is trying to configure stuff with 4g/5g while just seeing all the menus and what they offer. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

When I try to share my location in Google Maps on my Samsung Galaxy S21 FE, I get the following error message: Roughly translated, the error message means "Location sharing is not enabled on this device". Next to it is a link labeled "Beheben", which means "Fix it". When I click on that link, the link is replaced with a spinner for about 1 second, then the "Fix it" link just reappears, and nothing else happens. **Why is Google Maps unable to fix the problem, and how can I fix it myself?** The issue seems somehow related to my Google account, since I *can* share my location when logging in to Maps with another Google account. What I already tried: * Check my Google account settings: Everything there looks fine to me. * "Send feedback" to Google: Done (at least) twice in the last months. No reply. * Ask on the Google community forum. Won't work. (More or less) the same message as in this question here results in *"Failed to post. Content violates Community Policy."*

My screen stopped working. Both display, and touch. I can connect it to a dongle with HDMI and USB ports.I get the display out, as seen below. When I connect mouse or keyboard, I get the "device connected" sound. But no matter what I press, drag or click, it doesn't seem to make a difference, phone stays locked. I didn't have an option to unlock my phone using accounts.samsung.com enabled on that device, something I regret, but can't fix now. If it matters, I unlock using the symbol method. I have a face unlock enabled, too, but I lost about 23kg / 50lbs and it stopped to recognize my face. I was "just about to" re-record it. Another thing I should've done to save me from being in this situation, but didn't and can't fix now. I need to unlock it in order to migrate Google Authenticator and Signal to my new phone. It can only be done with QR code. I would also gladly retrieve newest messages, but only the Authenticator and Signal are things that I would be seriously inconvenienced loosing, everything else I have backed up in more than one place already, or is not that important.

I want to start using my Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra as a computer. I'm also planning to buy an ultra-wide 49-inch monitor that I want to display the Samsung screen on using DEX mode. I want to connect the phone to the monitor using a USB-C cable. I'm talking about a monitor having screen dimensions of 5120x1440 or something very similar, e.g. [Philips 499P9H](https://www.coolblue.nl/en/product/826182/philips-499p9h.html) . I haven't purchased the monitor yet because I want to know first whether the built-in video card of the Samsung Galaxy S21 is powerful enough to handle the resolution of a 49-inch ultrawide screen. Does anyone know whether this smartphone can handle such a widescreen? It needs to be able to fill the entire screen, not just part of it.

How can I get programmatically when the phone was manufactured? Is there any framework, instrumentation or toolset like Windows [WMIC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Management_Instrumentation) that allows unequivocally get hardware parameters of the device? I found [this question](https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/120623/how-to-get-the-manufactured-date-information-in-android) but it is old, related to Motorola and has no answers, that is why I decided to ask a new one. I am seeking solution for Samsung phone, but vendor-agnostic way will be way better. I know about [IMEI way](https://www.imei.info/news/how-know-production-date-my-mobile/) of checking the production date, but I want something more accurate that can be a double check. Thanks.

To describe the issue better I need to define the word "total uptime". We all know what the uptime is: a number of hours since the last reboot i.e. the amount of time when the phone was on. I want to know the same number but throughout the entire device lifetime, I want to know how many hours (days, weeks) the phone was powered on **since the production date**. Is there any programmatic way to obtain this info via ADB or any other toolset? Can a battery health be an estimator? Does it have any measurable metrics of wear? I am interested in all ways, both for rooted phones and not. My device is Samsung S21, but I'm interested for generic way which will work for all vendors.

I've managed to fall into the lake three times last week.
Yes, I'm trying to learn to sail a Laser dinghy The cameras on my Samsung S21 Ultra now contains small droplets, and cannot take proper photos. **How** do I get the **moist** to go away?

In twitter, when scrolling thru tweets containing youtube links, bluetooth automatically attaches to the link ready to play it. This interrupts whatever was being listened to, even though I dont click the link to actually listen. Is there a way to prevent bluetooth anticipating my wanting to play the youtube in that way, so it doesn’t interrupt until I actually click the video link?

I have an ergonomic wireless Bluetooth mouse from Microsoft that I use when using my Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra in Dex mode. The speed of the mouse cursor is very high by default and I want to make it move slower. How do I do this in Android and preferably in Dex?

Often I can't see any files in DCIM\Camera on my Galaxy S21 Ultra running Android 12. Last night it worked and I copied multiple GB of videos / images, then it didn't work the next times I tried. I've tried the following steps: - Rebooting phone and computer - Uninstalling the phone in Device Manager under Portable Devices - Updating the USB driver using the ... menu in Smart Switch - Updating the USB driver by downloading directly from Samsung - Enabling USB Debugging mode and rebooting (this made things worse so I had to turn it off) - Changing the USB mode to charge only and then back to "USB for file transfer" - Changing the USB mode to "USB for image transfer" Any ideas on how to fix this?

I cannot for the life of me work out how to delete a PWA from android (on a Galaxy S21). Google's own support page says that it should appear in my apps list, and I should be able to uninstall it like any other app . However, it isn't listed there. There's no menu in the PWA from which I could remove it. I've tried removing the shortcut, but the pwa is still installed. I can't find anything relevant in Chrome's menus, or anywhere in Android's settings pages. I've tried going to chrome://apps as you can on desktop, but the page doesn't seem to exist on android. Any tips?

I read on https://www.sammobile.com/news/galaxy-s21-custom-backgrounds-video-calls-duo-teams-webex-zoom/ : > Galaxy S21 smartphones offer custom backgrounds during video calls via Cisco Webex, Google Duo, Microsoft Teams, and Zoom. This is currently incorrect as the S21s, or at least most of them, do not support custom backgrounds during video calls Microsoft Teams. As for Zoom, the quote is misleading because Zoom has being providing custom background support since at least the Samsung Galaxy S9 and Android 10. Can one add a virtual background with Cisco Webex and Google Duo with a Samsung Galaxy S21? If it depends on the S21 version, then my main interest is the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra (US version).

I read contradictory statements. E.g. https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msteams/forum/all/background-effect-on-samsung-s21/8ecfca7a-d025-47ee-9cb7-abcea99fa68f : > Hi, I just got my new Samsung S21 phone and I'm surprised the background effect is not available on my teams app when I join a meeting. Does anyone has similar situation ? vs. https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/01/28/galaxy-s21-users-can-apply-custom-backgrounds-and-snazz-up-video-calls-on-duo-zoom-teams-and-webex/ : > We've been able to confirm that these custom video effects are currently only available for four apps: Google Duo, Zoom, Microsoft Teams. Can one add a virtual background with the latest version of Microsoft Teams on Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra (US version)?