In alt.home.repair, on Sun, 20 Dec 2020 00:28:10 -0700, AJL
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On 12/19/2020 11:07 PM, micky wrote:
In alt.home.repair, on Mon, 14 Dec 2020 20:35:41 -0700, AJL
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On 12/14/2020 6:40 PM, micky wrote:
In alt.home.repair, on Mon, 14 Dec 2020 15:13:53 -0700, AJL
wrote:

On 12/14/2020 1:39 PM, micky wrote:
In alt.home.repair, on Mon, 14 Dec 2020 10:34:17 -0700, AJL
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there's also another way where Windows connects with your
phone and runs the Android apps there but you're using
your laptop screen instead of the phone. You would need
your phone to be nearby.

I tried a couple of those, when iirc looking for a way to
type into the phone without using the phone.

The one that came up first I could never get to work. I
forget its name. I deduced, perhaps incorrectly, that I
needed something called adb----, and I dl'd a file from
somewhere I had not heard of, and unzipped it, and before I
knew it I had a virus. it kept bring up screens I did not
want in the browser. Now I recall that was when I first got
Vista, and I had disabled UAC. Now I don't do that.


It's not the fault of the phone, etc. that I got the virus,
and I was able to track it down and squash it.

After looking it up I see that what I meant was the Windows
"Your Phone" app. What I mentioned is apparently an added new
feature (beta?) to an old app and only available for certain
phones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Your_Phone

Well this page calls Your Phone Companion a legacy app that has
been replaced by Your Phone, but the Android app store only has
Your Phone Companion, not Your Phone (which I guess is for
iphones.)

You need the Windows 'Your Phone' app on your PC *and* the Android
'Your Phone Companion' app on your phone. They talk to each other.
I just installed them and the connection seems to be working fine.
The Android apps installed on my phone now also run fine using the
PC screen. BUT they run in a small vertical phone like window that
can't be expanded

Well, it worked. It semes to require logging in every time, unlike
myphoneexplorer,

Mine didn't. Dunno why.

Maybe it didnt' really, or maybe it's because I turn my phone off in
between. I only want to link the two once in a while so it's not a
problem.


but it also displaye my photos and pretty big too.

Guess it depends on the screen. My LT has a 12" screen and since my
phone is a + model they both end up looking about the same size.

My phone will display either a whole bunch of little ones, or one
picture at a time full screen, but this displayed 6 iirc at a time, 2
columns, 3 rows. Very convenient.

MyPhoneExploer makes it easy to copy the pictures to the PC and use
whatever I want to display them, but it's more steps.

OTOH, the other thing I really want is if I have to send long texts.
MyPhoneExplorer does a good job, but who knows, this might be better.

I needed 5 of them and I could copy each one to the clipboard. So
far size was not a problem. Thanks.

Glad it worked out for you.

So IMO my full screen BlueStacks Android emulator is far superior
at running Android apps on a PC. YMMV.

https://www.bluestacks.com/ I'm a little afraid of her machine gun.

:-) Yep, the BlueStacks Android emulator has some scary games. But
fortunately it also works well (full screen) for my favorite Android
news apps that don't have anything equivalent in Windows.

I haven't installed it yet. Those machine guns you know, but maybe
Sunday.

Well the WYPR app has all the NPR program archives in one place. I
could use that. (I'm surprised all the NPR stations don't use the same
app, with the call letters changed, but I dont' thin they do.)