From: V@nguard.LH
bad sector wrote:
> Screen's gone nuts, no control, forced restart is no fix.
> Never dropped, no water, hardly used at all, no service
> center within a parsec, the best that 20 minutes of
> help-chat could do was was to give me a link to go open
> an online account. I go there with TOR brwser and it's
> 'access denied'. FUCKING OUTRAGEOUS!
Just because you want to be anonymous via Tor doesn't mean a website has
to accept your terms. Their property, their terms. You are a user, not
an owner. All Tor exit nodes have been mapped. Same for VPN exit
nodes. Any website can use the mapping to blacklist visitors using Tor
or VPN. Try not hiding to see if they then accept your connection.
Restart does not reset the phone. If you have malicious or untoward
apps, they can still load on the restart, especially if configured as a
service or a sticky app. The OS will reload those should you try to use
an app killer: you use the app killer to force stop and unload other
apps, but some apps reappear, because that is how they are defined.
Some apps allow the Google platform codebase to spew ads, and that means
the app may end up showing fullscreen ads that obliterate the phone's
screens making the phone unusable until the fullscreen ad is exited.
The app authors indemnify themselves claiming it isn't their code
showing obstructing fullscreen ads yet they are the pipe that spews that
crap. I consider as malware any app that permits fullscreen ads.
Clicking on the "X" close button in a fullscreen ad can run a script, so
the untoward app could proceed to do more shit on your phone when you
try to close it. Use the Back nav button on the phone to get out a
fullscreen ad, if the Back nav button is still accessible.
Have you yet tried a factory reset? That is not a restart. A reset may
be your only remaining available troubleshooting step. I came close to
doing a reset on my phone until I discovered the app that was fucking up
the usability of my phone. I was able to disable it, clear its cache
and data, and uninstall it. My phone was usable again. Ever since then
I've been much more cautious what apps I install on my phone. Too bad
there is something akin to VMware Player or Virtualbox in which to test
apps while isolated inside a virtual machine (and without rooting).
No mention of the brand and model of your phone. If it has a
user-serviceable battery, maybe it's about time to replace it. All
batteries are chemical, and chemicals that change state will wear out.
Do you eventually see 100% when you leave the phone plugged into power,
and try to use the phone while it is still plugged in? If you're stuck
with a phone with a non-user serviceable battery (it is permanent, and
requires dismantling to replace, and possibly some soldering, and
damages adhesives and the butyl seal), you'll eventually have to replace
an old phone. You didn't mention how old is your phone, but then the
battery could be older than how long you have owned it (i.e., the
battery's age is based on the manufacture date, not the purchase date).
According to https://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_z_flip5-12252.php,
the Flip5 was released in August 2023, so the battery could be about
2-1/2 years old no matter when you bought it. That should not be too
old for the battery, but aging also depends on the number of charging
cycles. Can you see the battery charge level (just an indicator, not
very accurate, since it is based on voltage, and not Coloumbs) either
during a startup screen, on a lock screen, or whenever the screen has
gone "nuts" (whatever that means)?
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