love this thing, acts like a proper point-and-shoot kinda. Also the photos are edited if you couldn't tell, not how they looked straight out of the camera.
this phone really really acts like a bigger camera sometimes :p
I bought a refurbished laptop a few years ago, no issues until it crashed very recently and I am unable to restart, only getting a "preparing automatic repair" and "diagnosing your PC" loop.
I would like to re-install windows (I may be able to fix it other ways but I just want a clean install) and I need to get some important files off of the ssd first
If anyone knows a method of doing this while the laptop is in this state without just taking out the ssd, that would be awesome! Otherwise, I was planning on taking out the ssd..
The only problem is I'm not 100% sure that I will be able to access the ssd after I've removed it because of bitlocker - the reason I am confused is that it says I do not have a bitlocker key if I look into my Microsoft account, so that would lead me to believe my drive is not encrypted. However since I bought it secondhand, is there a chance the original owner still has the key and it just doesn't show up on my account?
This is especially confusing because I bought the laptop refurbished off of Backmarket, so I would think it would have been totally wiped and I would have set up my own windows account (and because bitlocker is enabled by default, gotten a bitlocker key associated with my account, right?). I also don't remember that long ago so I don't have any details on whether there was an option during setup to not encrypt it or something.
I'm just wondering if anyone has any ideas why I don't have a bitlocker key on my windows account when I look, because everywhere says it's enabled by default and I don't remember messing with or disabling anything like that
Thanks!
Edit: bot tells me to add specs -_-
msi bravo 15 Radeon 6550m ryzen 7 7840hs
I am looking at buying the Japanese version of a Sony Xperia 1 V, and I'm wondering how well it would work on Cricket, if at all.
From what I can find, it has the hardware to access 4 out of 11 LTE bands that Cricket runs on (4, 5, 12, 17 and 66) and 2 out of 5 5g bands (n5 and n77) *source from Wikipedia list of cricket bands and Sony specs for the phone
I live in Eastern US and I need a network nerd to convert those numbers into how well this phone should run on this network, if at all, and any other possible issues I could run into when trying to put a US carrier on a Japanese phone.
Thanks!
It seems like I can get the Japanese version (XQ-DQ44) a lot cheaper even with shipping - I have AT&T (Cricket Wireless) and from what I can tell, it doesn't have some of AT&T's bands and I'm not sure which ones are that important.
does anyone know for sure how well it would work for me? Eastern US if that matters.
Thanks!
Edit: Deciding between this Japanese version of the V and the mark IV so if anyone has any opinions on if I should just get a IV that's actually configured for US bands then please tell
Edit 2: It seems like LTE bands 4, 5, 12, 17 and 66 and 5g bands n5 and n77 are the only ones the Japanese version has the hardware to access - if anyone is a network nerd could you tell me how good coverage that is, and how likely the phone will be able to support a cricket sim card/phone plan?