Samsung S9+ Phone problem.

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#320208 17-Jul-2025 23:11

Problem very recently started. When I select a contact to phone I get a popup message "To use this feature, you need to allow permission in Settings". The link in the popup takes me to Group Sharing. When I check my settings all the appropriate permissions are set.

Wassup?

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#3395110 18-Jul-2025 07:10

Did Perplexity or ChatGPT give you any useful suggestions? I copied your question in and it had a few things to try, but I see no point copying and pasting AI replies in here.

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#3395557 19-Jul-2025 12:58

Thanks. I hadn't thought to try Perplexify. I have done now and followed suggestions. Cab't perform one of the suggestions..ClearData.

Incidentally the prob is spasmodic,only sometimse doess the popup appear.

I'll try Samsung Forums.

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#3395563 19-Jul-2025 14:40

Did I miss something? If all we're going to do is tell people to use Perplexity or ChatGPT when a question is posted, we may as well give up on forums. The whole point of a forum is to crowdsource from people who might know the answers, or have experience finding their way through problems to an answer, and then have a repository to search later.

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#3395565 19-Jul-2025 15:13

What app are you using for phone calls?

Are you using the standard Samsung app, the Google Phone app or something else?

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#3395571 19-Jul-2025 16:42

Have you restarted the phone?

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#3395575 19-Jul-2025 17:42

gehenna:

Did I miss something? If all we're going to do is tell people to use Perplexity or ChatGPT when a question is posted, we may as well give up on forums. The whole point of a forum is to crowdsource from people who might know the answers, or have experience finding their way through problems to an answer, and then have a repository to search later.

It's worth a check first I reckon, to see if it helps. I put the question into Perplexity first and it had some useful basic suggestions to try. AI is why Stack Exchange traffic has dropped massively.

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#3395592 19-Jul-2025 20:02

timmmay:

gehenna:

Did I miss something? If all we're going to do is tell people to use Perplexity or ChatGPT when a question is posted, we may as well give up on forums. The whole point of a forum is to crowdsource from people who might know the answers, or have experience finding their way through problems to an answer, and then have a repository to search later.

It's worth a check first I reckon, to see if it helps. I put the question into Perplexity first and it had some useful basic suggestions to try. AI is why Stack Exchange traffic has dropped massively.

Think you missed the point

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#3395603 19-Jul-2025 20:40

Ok, ok, I get it. I was just trying to be helpful - I had done the search on Perplexity myself when I saw the question and gotten some useful ideas, I just didn't see any point doing a copy and paste. I almost always try gen AI before asking a question, unless the answer is an opinion or experience based.

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#3395688 20-Jul-2025 13:32

timmmay:

Ok, ok, I get it. I was just trying to be helpful - I had done the search on Perplexity myself when I saw the question and gotten some useful ideas, I just didn't see any point doing a copy and paste. I almost always try gen AI before asking a question, unless the answer is an opinion or experience based.

and some people ask on forums even though there are other potentially faster ways to get an answer. that way works for them. your way works for you.

Check AI will be the new LMGTFY