In alt.home.repair, on Mon, 14 Dec 2020 20:35:41 -0700, AJL
wrote:

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
wrote:

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Well this page calls Your Phone Companion a legacy app that has been
replaced by Your Phone, but the Android app store only has Your Phone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, but it also displaye my photos and pretty big too. I
needed 5 of them and I could copy each one to the clipboard. So far size
was not a problem. Thanks.

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.

Your Phone Companion looks pretty good. I'm going to install it,
even though my next phone is not on the list, with a link at
https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...oft.appmanager


I hope I don't like it so much I won't be able to change phones.
Reviews since Dec. 1 up until Dec. 11 have been pretty bad. This is
Companion, not what you wrote about.

Another problem, Again, like with MyPhoneExplorer, when an app needs
a program on the PC, it's hard to find what it is or where to get
it.


Phone's in the other room. I'll let you know if I get it working.

Yes, I did.