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I'm not buying a new phone just to get it working with my PC 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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I totally agree.
It will work one day
after you accidentally dunk your phone in the toilet and have to get a new one
Real programmers use butterflies
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My phones tend to get retired when the battery no longer holds a good charge, or they die of electronic rust: I'm pretty careful with my tools and toys ...
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OriginalGriff wrote: My phones tend to get retired when the battery no longer holds a good charge
That sounds awfully premature. Is that also your policy for laptops and such? I have laptops with batteries that are in such bad shape you can't even run from one power outlet to the next fast enough (and the laptops are so old it's not worth investing in a new battery - if you can even find them). Fact is, when I use one of my laptops, I'm always near a power outlet anyway...
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I dunno - it's generally ten years or so before that happens: my current phone is a Moto G Series 1 and that came out in 2013 ...
It still works fine, holds a charge for between 18 hours and 18 days (depending on me remembering to turn off location services, mostly) and is probably good for quite a few more years, though it is running low on memory thanks to compulsory Google app updates ... 
I'm not a fashion victim: I don't need or want the latest and greatest!
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Gotcha. You made it sound like it was a yearly thing as too many people do.
In your case, I'm surprised it's still happened often enough for you to say you "tend to" do it when the battery dies. With a sample of this size, you're one hell of a trend spotter. 
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I had to carry a company "mobile" back in the pre-digital age, when I was on 24 hour call to the World's Most Annoying Customer.
The batteries didn't last too long in those days, the battery tech was a lot cruder.
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OriginalGriff wrote: I had to carry a company "mobile" back in the pre-digital age, when I was on 24 hour call to the World's Most Annoying Customer.
The batteries didn't last too long in those days, the battery tech was a lot cruder.
Yeah, the battery mysteriously died just about the time the phone rang with MAC's number on the display...
I had a similar position years ago, being responsible for all production errors at the app level (so not an admin or anything, but fixing bad queries etc).
it wasn't fun, but I think it really made me a better developer--having to get in everyone's code for fixes made me learn a lot about what is decent code, and what's crap and should be avoided.
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No Caller ID in those days! 7-segment LED display, no FarceBok - heck no Google even!
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SMS are welcome...
And you can see notifications from other apps too...
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Are your headphones connected to the PC or the phone?
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Bluetooth connected to both in multi point setup...
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Yes, very well indeed...
I have my laptop connected to my NAS through LAN, in my NAS there is all my music.
Using MusicBee to play it.
Headphones are connected to the laptop and to my cell phone using bluetooth.
Whenever a phone call enters (even if I'm listening music from MusicBee/laptop) headphones switch to the phone and I can speak with the caller.
Works same way when I start a call.
I understand that, to make it work, headphones must have the multipoint bluetooth option.
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Ah, yes that I have. Calls on one device and music on another.
I thought you could make calls on two different devices.
I suspect that your problem is that your laptop tries to pass also calls to your headphones.
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I find it interesting that Windows has always gone out of its way to refer to items as "My Computer", "My Documents", "My Pictures", etc...
But now that this is for Android, suddenly it's "your" phone. Like it's a (not-so-subtle) disclaimer...
Incidentally: I'm one of the 3 people still using a Windows phone. Would it have killed them to throw in support for their own?
Not that I'd use the app anyway (based on what I understand it's for) - my phone doesn't have a SIM card.
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I have a Samsung and have been using SideSync for years. It displays the phone screen on your PC and allows you to access it via the mouse and keyboard. What MS came up with is second rate.
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Yes, Sidesync worked very well, but I'm interested in the calls feature... that did not worked with my Galaxy S7...
Being able to find a number in the internet and starting a call from your computer rocks.
The problem is that while the call is running the phone uses the main speaker and microphone... so no hands free...
I have not seen the Samsung Flow (I think that was it's name) software, so I can't say anything about it...
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This works pretty well until you have multiple bluetooth devices in play on your phone.
Then you get disconnects.
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Useful for tax time as well. I had to submit a copy of my car's registration to the State of Colorado to claim the EV tax credit. Pulled the registration out of the car, snapped a picture of it, and used this app to grab it off my phone.
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It's normal to have preferences, and to not want to see things that go outside those preferences, but there is more than one set of preferences, and there is so much oppressively divisive behaviour and talk in the West, these days, that the norm for communications is more and more becoming "I Hate [enter a group of people here]!"
IMO, there is nothing wrong with CP. It has 14,435,318 members (and counting), and they can all read the bits they want to read, and not read the bits they don't.
Kudos for changing your approach from "I Hate!" to "I'll just read the bits I want to read, and bugger the cr@p I'm not interested in". Being bigger than the hate talk is good for everyone (all 14,435,318 of us).
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Which Bill are you talking about? I have a head full of mucus, and I'm confused here...
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Least said, soonest mended.
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Try not replying to your wife and see how well that works!
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I replied! It was a perfect reply! I've done nothing wrong!
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