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Re: Using Windows to find hidden files on the Android file system over Wi-Fi

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Andy Burns wrote:

>> Recently I updated Android 11 to 12 and all hell broke loose (perhaps
>> because I change my GSF ID
> 
> Any other XDA users reporting similar consequences of changing the ID?

I need your advice to make XDA more useful for me.
What XDA section would you ask that question you suggest that I ask?

As on Usenet, most of the answers I get on XDA are from kindergarten kids.
But maybe I'm just asking in the too-generic XDA forum sections perhaps?

Rarely do I find someone who knows more than I do about Android on Usenet
and on XDA, and I know that I know almost nothing about Android. 

That's how sad the situation is. 

Android, for some reason, isn't like Windows, where I can _easily_ find
people who know more than I do about Windows (e.g, Paul, you, Stan Brown,
Herbert Kleebauer, et. al) but that stellar caliber of both knowledgeable
and purposefully helpful person isn't on the Android newsgroup
unfortunately. The people on the Android newsgroup are basically morons.

However, all is not lost as on the Android newsgroup, you know far more
than I know, as do very few others, such as s|b, poutnik, and a few others
whose names escape me (they're that rare).

On the Windows newsgroup, the situation is different as there are plenty on
the Windows newsgroups who know more about Windows than I ever will know.

My hypothesis is that people were professionally trained on Windows,
whereas nobody on the Android newsgroup seems to have any training at all.

XDA _should_ be different, but so far, in my experience, it's a similar
waste of time and effort to ask a detailed question on the XDA forums.

Anyway, to your point, I had long ago already asked on XDA forums about the
update, but I had asked that question only in terms of anyone having
problems with the update, and not in terms of specific people who changed
their GSF ID.

I'll add a separate question regarding the GSF ID but I don't have high
hopes that anyone on XDA knows more than I do who will respond to it.

The likely fact is almost NOBODY changes their GSF ID, so the liklihood of
me finding _anyone_ who knows more than I do about that, is nearly zero.

But hope shouldn't be lost, as remember, I know almost nothing about this
GSF ID stuff, but a competent developer on XDA "should" know all about it.

For example, a capable developer on XDA should know how apps make use of
the GSF ID and more importantly, a skilled Android developer should know
how the update from Android 11 to Android 12 (or its indexing process
thereafter) makes use of that GSF ID.

Of course, the problem could be something other than the GSF ID, but my
phone isn't all that different from most Android phones, except I don't
have a Google ID.

Otherwise, my phone is the same as all the phones out there, so that's why
my hypothesis is that there's something nefarious going on during the
update with respect to apps with GSF and their tracking of the GSF ID.

In summary, most of my posts on XDA and on Usenet are to educate others, as
very few people on the smartphone newsgroups know more than I do and even
fewer are helpful, although I must say very clearly on the Windows
newsgroup, there are quite a few people who know a _lot_ more than I do.

If you can help point me to where you'd ask that specific question on the
XDA forums to get it in the hands of proficient developers, let me know.

However, at this point, I don't expect anyone to know more than I do. 
-- 
What's sad about that is I know I know almost nothing, so what others know
is even less than nothing - which is a sad situation we find ourselves in.

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Using Windows to find hidden files on the Android file system over Wi-Fi Andy Burnelli <spam@nospam.com> - 2022-05-09 22:33 +0100
  Re: Using Windows to find hidden files on the Android file system over Wi-Fi Andy Burnelli <spam@nospam.com> - 2022-05-10 00:09 +0100
    Re: Using Windows to find hidden files on the Android file system over Wi-Fi Andy Burnelli <spam@nospam.com> - 2022-05-10 16:50 +0100
  Re: Using Windows to find hidden files on the Android file system over Wi-Fi Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2022-05-10 07:55 +0100
    Re: Using Windows to find hidden files on the Android file system over Wi-Fi Andy Burnelli <spam@nospam.com> - 2022-05-10 18:32 +0100

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