cannot check app update

tswmpg

Please help.

Please advise how to add a screenshot here.

other8026

cannot check app update

What do you mean? If you're saying that there was an error once when the App Store app checked for updates, that's fairly common. You may have bad connectivity or there may be an issue with your VPN or Tor if you're using that. If it happens once, I wouldn't worry about it. If it happens all the time then some troubleshooting may be necessary.

I want to add here that everything I did was asked to repeat again. I had activated this account but I was asked again to activate again. I clicked on that link but it said this confirmation linked had already been used.

Not sure what you mean by you had to repeat again. Confirming emails when registering an account is pretty normal.

tswmpg "you do not have permission to do that"

You probably tried to edit the post too long after it was posted. I think you have 10 minutes to edit posts.

tswmpg you have not save your changes, do you wish to discard them?

tswmpg There is no button for saving the changes.

If you can't edit the post, you can't edit the post. You can just accept that changes weren't saved. There's no feature to save drafts on Flarum (this website's software). I suppose there may be an extension that can offer that functionality, but we clearly don't have one like that installed.

de0u

tswmpg Please advise how to add a screenshot here.

The forum doesn't allow posting of images. If an image is available online (imgur, postimage.org, etc.) the a link to the image can be included in a post.

tswmpg

I want to add here that everything I did was asked to repeat again. I had activated this account but I was asked again to activate again. I clicked on that link but it said this confirmation linked had already been used.

I suspect my phone had been hacked and linked to another phone. After switched off the phone at night , I found the phone was switched on this morning. Photos/screenshots were deleted.

Please help.

other8026

tswmpg I suspect my phone had been hacked and linked to another phone. After switched off the phone at night , I found the phone was switched on this morning. Photos/screenshots were deleted.

This is a big thing to suspect. The phone being on in the morning isn't evidence of a hack. For all we know, you plugged it in to charge and it turned on after being plugged in. Or maybe you woke up in the middle of the night and turned it on.

As for the deleted photos thing, apps can't just get access to things, so maybe check which apps have permission to access files. Revoke that permission for any apps that don't need it. And I'd point out that if you were actually hacked, why would the hacker delete things or do some other thing that makes the hack clear? It just doesn't make sense.

tswmpg

Before I added the above reply, I had tried yo add that by edit. After add8ng that content to the original post I clock the icon for publishing. I was denied and could not do that. The following sentence appeared:
"you do not have permission to do that"

Shortly afterwards I got the following message:
you have not save your changes, do you wish to discard them?

There is no button for saving the changes.

tswmpg

The message is " App update check failed"

Asking me to activate twice is normal?

tswmpg

I did not charge the phone after I switched it off at night.
I found the phone was ON in the morning

de0u

tswmpg I did not charge the phone after I switched it off at night.
I found the phone was ON in the morning

tswmpg hackers had done other things in addition to deleting my photo/scrrenshots

Pixel phones that are off are not known to turn themselves on. Meanwhile, there are other plausible causes. Sometimes people do things when they're asleep and don't remember them. I once knew somebody who literally sent a piece of e-mail while asleep (it had mistakes in it, but just sending a piece of mail was pretty impressive).

tswmpg

hackers had done other things in addition to deleting my photo/scrrenshots

tswmpg

can this phone be hacked if the hacker know the phone number of the Sim card I use in this phone?

de0u

tswmpg can this phone be hacked if the hacker know the phone number of the Sim card I use in this phone?

Not as far as we know!

vlad

de0u well, technically, if user has some messenger associated with that phone number, someone might send malicious payload there.

which could be installed by user afterwards and be given all required access permissions by user manually (or exploit some vulnerability which is less likely but still possible).

could that be counted as "hack by phone number", i doubt.

tswmpg

vlad
Please tell me how to remove messenger (I know nothing about this, I have very limited knowledge about mobile phones).

EverettHitch

The guy is likely on about the notification from Apps app that tries to update immediately after reboot when a proper internet connection is not yet established or later on when it can not be established for whatever reason, so pretty benign. One wonders how much people speculate about such simple issue.

tswmpg

I switch off the phone every night and when I turn the phone on (if not done by itself already) the date and time of the phone is not correct.

Can someone tell me possible cause why it happened?

de0u

tswmpg That is normal.

When the phone is on, the processor has a clock running, and the OS periodically checks to see if it has drifted and needs to be corrected. When the phone is off, there is a low-quality clock that keeps approximate time until the phone is turned back on, at which point the OS will try to contact time.grapheneos.org (source) to get accurate time. If the phone does not have a network connection when it is turned on, or if for some reason contacting time.grapheneos.org doesn't work, then the time won't be adjusted.

Some individual devices keep time better when they are off than others.

vlad

tswmpg why?

tswmpg

My phone continues to receive 'App update check failed' message.

'Details:
java.net. UnknownHostExcrption: Unable to resolve host "apps.grapheneos.org". No address associated with hostname'

Please help.

de0u

tswmpg java.net. UnknownHostExcrption: Unable to resolve host "apps.grapheneos.org"

If that message occurs intermittently, it does not indicate a serious problem (security or privacy).