Image 1 — Does anybody else ever get random texts sent?
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Does anybody else ever get random texts sent?

I've had this twice now and it seems the who called me logs flag them as scam call numbers. No apps on my phone has permission to send SMS text messages or make calls so I'm not sure what's going on (the number covered is a family member - the uncovered numbers are the strange texts that aren't in my sent SMS text history)

u/Mikes1992 — 8 days ago

Will cycling a si/c lithium battery like this extend battery cycle life?

I currently charge to 60% when I goto bed and then raise it to 65% when I wake up, I usually have 40-45% left when I put it on charge again when I goto bed the next day. It's not like it's causing me to worry about battery life or change my usage of my phone, I monitored my usage and set a mid point to cycle between. I did initially start off charging to 70% but I rarely dropped below 50% when doing this.

I did something similar on my old phone and used accubattery to monitor capacity (the app reckons I lost 0.6% capacity per year and this was cycling between 70-30% after 4 years of use) I'm not sure if the si/c battery will do as well since it's pretty much experimental tech for long term lifespan. My new phone has a 10,000mah si/c battery, accubattery is estimating around 8,880mah but it isn't that accurate and I've never had a phone that hit the full rated capacity on this apps estimates (my previous phone was 7,000mah and accubattery usually estimated around 6,200mah). I usually use this initial figure as a starting point to estimate degradation over time though if it can actually do that accurately 🤷

u/Mikes1992 — 18 days ago

What's the best way to report apps on the app store?

They're stealing Mr beasts identity to promote their dodgy app (deep fake) 😂. I've had a few different app adverts doing this... Now I make sure I screenshot them 😂

u/Mikes1992 — 2 months ago

Is it bad that I'm still using a wiper blade frame that's probably 10 years old now? 😂

It's larger than the original at 14" and I bought an 8 pack of 28" refills that I cut in half. The reason I'm still using the frame is because it's bent to follow the curvature of the window - the plastic cover was removed because it stopped me bending the wiper frame. The refills work out to around 50p each. 🤷😂

u/Mikes1992 — 2 months ago

Can gamenative/gamehub actually make games run better than they ever did on actual PC hardware?

The main reason I ask is because I got Stubbs the zombie on steam on clearance, this game always had major issues with frequent crashes (even on the OG Xbox), I played so far on my PC and it crashed allot. I loaded my cloud save on my phone and played from where I was for quite a while before it dawned on me that the game hadn't crashed once. I'd guess it's because of the DXVK wrapper since this is a known fix for performance issues in games like GTA 4. I'd like to hear your thoughts/experiences with this and if this is actually a thing. 😄

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u/Mikes1992 — 3 months ago

Issues with 1 car (upto now) in GTA 4 ballad of gay tony

Has anybody else had this issue? I think the visual bug with the lights is also causing the occasion black screen and artifact in the game. The base GTA 4 game has been running really well but I decided to boot up BOGT and found this issue. It's fine once you're out of this particular car in this version. I tried a bunch of different GPU drivers and they're all the same 😭😂

My Device is the Honor win rt - 8 elite chipset (A830 GPU)

u/Mikes1992 — 3 months ago

Will a Stanley blade scratch a phone screen? I got some new screen protectors for my phone and found out they don't have a cut-out for the front camera and the camera was really blurry with it on so...

I cut a small hole in it with a Stanley blade. I was wondering if I'm correct in thinking a razor blade won't scratch glass... I guess I'll find out when I'm due to replace the screen protector 😂 🤦🤷

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u/Mikes1992 — 3 months ago

I finally got it running! GTA 4

I tried a load of different versions, all of them crashed before loading the container/game, I decided to try out the lite version on a whim and it worked which made me decide to try the Anker version that Gemini always pointed me to and I now have the full game working (complete edition). I tried fusionfix, the game loaded but temps was hitting 98°c and the game crashed before I had chance to get to the settings and then it wouldn't open again, refreshed the game from the zip file but I'm assuming fusionfix won't work, I've heard it makes the game run better but I mainly wanted to try it out to see if I could get the temps down. I'd assume since it optimises the game somewhat maybe it'll actually have the opposite effect? This game will have to wait till winter (although I did play for 30 minutes and the battery temp was 41°c with an ambient temp of 23°c - although personally I aim to run battery temps below 40°c)

My settings are currently

Proton 10 arm64-2

Fex 20250910

Game presets

Dinput - prefer direct

DXVK 2.6-1-async

Vkd3d-proton-3.0.1

Audio driver - Pulse (but I might try alsa because I had a few ugly sounds - most from the radio)

GPU driver - Turnip gen8 v32

Plus a 30fps cap in gamehubs quick menu (although I'm not entirely sure if this reduces temps, as it doesn't in some games!)

My device is the Honor Win RT (SD 8 elite chipset - adreno 830)

u/Mikes1992 — 4 months ago

Could this chafing of the rear drum cause a sound similar to an off-road tyre at 35+ mph (changing in frequency with speed like an off-road tyre)

I thought my wheel bearing was going but the front left spun fine but the build-up of rust on the rear left drum is chafing and causes a noticeable resistance when spinning the rear wheel. The sound is from the left side but it becomes quieter when turning left.

u/Mikes1992 — 4 months ago

This is more a question born out of curiosity, but could you solder a heatsink to a processor lid?

Say you ground it back to copper, thermally insulated a heatsink (which has a copper base). Used a specialized ultra low melting point solder, heated the entire heat sink up so it wouldn't instantly pull away the heat added the solder and connected the CPU and heatsink together. Not sure if 138°c + would damage a CPU, there's other specialized solders that melt at 93-96°c (roses metal) and some that melt at 70-76°c (woods metal. although this could risk melting on top of a CPU during use? Not sure if this would be a problem, maybe the molten solder would stay where it is?). I don't plan on doing this but was just curious, would it significantly boost cooling performance? 🤷😂

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u/Mikes1992 — 4 months ago
▲ 210 r/windows7

Just got an SSD and it's saying this -

Is there any easy way to change the partition style? I'd guess I'll have to put it into my computer and change it 🤷😂 I'll wait till I have a bit of free time because I put every screw back in 🤦

u/Mikes1992 — 4 months ago
▲ 3 r/EEGB

Has EE changed their band 3 1800mhz signal? I was getting 4G on 1800mhz and today some reason it's on 2G on 1800mhz?

As the title says, I'm only getting 2G today 😭

u/Mikes1992 — 4 months ago
▲ 2 r/aiArt

I've always loved the idea of a world wide conspiracy between nuclear physicists

u/Mikes1992 — 4 months ago

I've often thought the idea of the Project Orion nuclear bomb rocket engine was flawed but would like confirmation of this.

Because it's using nuclear bombs for propulsion, it is essentially using the atmosphere as it's propellant (as a guess), wouldn't thrust drop off to zero once it got into space? Because once there's no atmosphere there's nothing to expand behind the pusher plate and all you'd really get is a massive burst of energy without any to "propellant" to push the rocket?

u/Mikes1992 — 5 months ago

Does anybody remember this game?

Relativity from an Indie developer.

u/Mikes1992 — 5 months ago

I just booted Dolphin today and getting graphics artifacts on star fox adventures

It was working fine last time I played it. I have the 8 elite chipset (phone is the Honor win rt). Tried a bunch of different drivers but have the same issue Maybe I should try a previous version of dolphin as all that has changed is that dolphin auto updated?

u/Mikes1992 — 5 months ago

I'm considering getting one and was wondering how the passthrough charging works? Mainly because recently when I've been gaming I've been using a power bank for bypass power so it doesn't run on the phones battery power while I'm gaming. To be honest the passthrough charging seems like a positive over the new wireless version for me.

Does it work with a standard 5v output power bank? I wouldn't use it to charge my phone but it works perfectly keeping my phone at the same battery level (while I was gaming it took about half an hour to charge 1% from 59% upto the 60% cap I set for bypass mode in gamehub so it's not a great charger for top-ups). I've seen some people claiming it only works with power delivery (PD) on the G8. I'm not sure how true this is?

Thanks for any info in advance 😁

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u/Mikes1992 — 6 months ago