texts: Internal storage missing: Nexus 7 16G down to 5.8G TOTAL

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My Nexus 7 now believes it has only 5G internal storage. It's shown in storage properties.

I noticed it after factory reset, and then a 4.3 update (I remember getting 4.3 OTA update twice, is it possible?)

I installed ClockworkMod recovery (back when it was on 4.2), but never rooted it.

No storage space analyzers show hidden files or such. Rebooting doesn't change anything.

I found /sdcard/0 directory with a content of my previous sdcard before a factory reset, deleting it freed some space, but total is still at 5.8G.

I found one complaint about a similar situation, but it's drowned in a simpler problems and was never answered.

df output:

Filesystem               Size     Used     Free   Blksize
/dev                   487.4M    32.0K   487.3M   4096
/mnt/secure            487.4M     0.0K   487.4M   4096
/mnt/asec              487.4M     0.0K   487.4M   4096
/mnt/obb               487.4M     0.0K   487.4M   4096
/system                639.8M   515.7M   124.1M   4096
/cache                 436.0M     7.3M   428.7M   4096
/data                    5.9G     2.7G     3.2G   4096
/mnt/shell/emulated      5.9G     2.7G     3.2G   4096
/mnt/asec/com.teslacoilsw.launcher.prime-1     2.0M    84.0K     1.9M   4096
/mnt/asec/com.loudcrow.goodnightmoon-1     5.0M     3.4M     1.6M   4096

cat /proc/partitions output:

major minor  #blocks  name
   7        0       2111 loop0
   7        1       5229 loop1
 179        0    7467008 mmcblk0
 179        1      12288 mmcblk0p1
 179        2       8192 mmcblk0p2
 179        3     665600 mmcblk0p3
 179        4     453632 mmcblk0p4
 179        5        512 mmcblk0p5
 179        6      10240 mmcblk0p6
 179        7       5120 mmcblk0p7
 179        8        512 mmcblk0p8
 179        9    6302720 mmcblk0p9
 179       32       2048 mmcblk0boot1
 179       16       2048 mmcblk0boot0
 254        0       2110 dm-0
 254        1       5229 dm-1

mount output:

rootfs / rootfs ro,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw,seclabel,nosuid,relatime,mode=755 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,seclabel,relatime,mode=600 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,seclabel,relatime 0 0
selinuxfs /sys/fs/selinux selinuxfs rw,relatime 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw,relatime 0 0
none /acct cgroup rw,relatime,cpuacct 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/secure tmpfs rw,seclabel,relatime,mode=700 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/asec tmpfs rw,seclabel,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/obb tmpfs rw,seclabel,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
none /dev/cpuctl cgroup rw,relatime,cpu 0 0
/dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/APP /system ext4 ro,seclabel,relatime,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/CAC /cache ext4 rw,seclabel,nosuid,nodev,noatime,errors=panic,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1,nomblk_io_submit,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/UDA /data ext4 rw,seclabel,nosuid,nodev,noatime,errors=panic,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1,nomblk_io_submit,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/fuse /mnt/shell/emulated fuse rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1023,group_id=1023,default_permissions,allow_other 0 0
/dev/block/dm-0 /mnt/asec/com.teslacoilsw.launcher.prime-1 ext4 ro,dirsync,seclabel,nosuid,nodev,noatime,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1 0 0
/dev/block/dm-1 /mnt/asec/com.loudcrow.goodnightmoon-1 ext4 ro,dirsync,seclabel,nosuid,nodev,noatime,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1 0 0


texts: Android 9 "battery fully charged" icon flickers: What does it mean?

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With my Samsung S10e phone fully charged, when I unplug it from USB then re-plug it in, the "battery fully charged" behaves like this:

appears and disappears a few time quickly
stays visible for 5 seconds
appears and disappears a few time quickly
stays visible for 5 5seconds
appears and disappears a few time quickly
stays visible forever

Question: What does that mean exactly? In particular, is it an indication that there is a kind of problem with the hardware or software?


texts: How do I add a "skip backward/forward" button to my Kodi on-screen display?

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When watching DVDs with Kodi on my Android device, the on-screen display offers the following buttons (tried both pre-packaged skins):

|<: Skip backward one chapter
<<: Rewind
>/II: Play/Pause
>>: Fast forward
>|: Skip forward one chapter

I'd like the << and >> buttons to "skip +/-10 seconds" instead of doing an analog-style rewind/fast-forward.

How can I modify that behavior? My Kodi version seems to support that feature in general, since I can modify the skip steps in Settings/Videos/Playback.

(I'll be extra thankful if you suggest a solution where I don't have to fiddle around with a text editor on my phone, but I'm willing to accept that, if there is no other solution.)


texts: How to recover video that was cut off due to being out of space?

texts: I have an HTC One phone. I was filming a video and in the middle of it, it stopped recording because I ran out of space on my phone. It says that it does not support playback of this kind of video. I am assuming that all the content is there, but it did not write to file properly or something along those lines.


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I take hand written notes on my Samsung Tablet S3, as well as my Samsung Note 8 phone, using the S Pen.  Both are on Android 9.  Palm rejection and other accidental touches are mostly rejected, but not perfectly.

I would like to have a way to turn off the capacitive touch screen (that registers finger touches) but leave the S Pen detection on.  In this state, the tablet or phone would respond to the S Pen only, and ignore all other screen touches.

I know there are apps that can perform this feature, but they mostly come with unacceptably broad permissions, including full access to the network, reading contents on the device, etc.  This seems like something that should be built into the OS, but I have not found it.

I should add that I own a paid version of Tasker, but am not very good at programming it, in case someone has a good solution for Tasker.

Any advice or hacks?


texts: "Low on space" message, but nothing appears full

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GalaxyS (SGH-I897), running Android 4.0.4
Short problem description
I keep getting "Low on Space: Phone storage space is getting low" error in my notifications bar, but neither the SD card nor the phone appears to be close to full.
More Details
Please see below for screenshots showing the error, and also showing that both internal storage and SD card storage have plenty of space.  Nonetheless, this error notification has been persistent for 2 weeks, and sometimes I even get an error when using gmail that says it can't sync because there isn't enough space.
This similar thread recommends the tool DiskUsage, which I installed, but the numbers reported by it match the numbers in the screenshots below.
Is there some other storage device besides internal storage or the SD card that I should be looking at?  Maybe a subsection of the internal storage?
How can I fix this?
Error Itself:

Internal Storage, 1.4G Free:

SD Card, 7.5G Free:


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Is there any difference in "wipe" (from the recovery mod) and factory reset from the android OS?

Does factory reset/wipe remove the custom ROM?

I need to know because after doing the "ALL wipe" from ultrajack recovery, I flashed a ROM. But the old boot animation, the system apps all remain!!

How can I fix this? or should I manually remove the system apps by mounting it as Rw. etc etc?


texts: Does power saving help when screen and data are off?

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I'm wondering how much impact power saving has when the screen and WiFi and cellular data is off?
I'm in the habit of turning power saving off whenever I unlock my phone and back on when I lock it, and I'm curious if that's really worth the hassle. My usage patterns are:

WiFi, cellular data, bluetooth off whenever not in use, and off when locked. (nearly always)
Location/GPS off at all times (never use)
No social media apps and minimal third party apps, so notifications are few.
I never use Ultra power saving

It seems like the only possible difference is CPU or disk I/O, but with the phone idling how significant is that?
My phone is Samsung Galaxy J1 running stock Android 6. Thanks


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So, the audio output jack of my Samsung Note 5 just broke and it costs too much to get it fixed locally.

Would I be able to use the micro USB port as a replacement for my audio jack assuming I had a micro USB to AUX adaptor?

Phone Model SM-N9208
Android Ver. 7.0


texts: How do some android apps remember that this is not the first time they are being installed?

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Some android apps are can remember whether they were installed on the same device earlier. Suppose you uninstalled an app a year ago. After one year if you install that same app again, that app will be able to recognize that it was installed before on the same phone.

This technique is used by online applications to permanently ban users from ever creating a new account again if they have been banned from using the service once. When such users create a new account by reinstalling the application later, these apps are able to detect their "first time presence" and send this information to servers so that user can be banned again.

How they do it even after clearing their data and uninstalling them completely? It means they keep some file somewhere in the phone, which is not deleted after uninstall. How do I disable this detection?


texts: Why custom roms are .zip filed than made as .ftf

texts: I am asking about Sony Xperia devices and I dont know this suites other brands or not. The custom roms provided by the ROM cooks were .zip files where we need to flash the kernel and then the rom zip to install. Why the roms were not made as a .ftf file so that it can be flashed easily via flashtool?


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I read a lot about rooting android, that it is risky, that I can mess all and get my device completely dead and nothing can be done about it. So my question -- why all these phones can't be just mounted? If I mess up my system with root, I always can boot with live-cd or write disk image directly to /dev/sda. After all, I can just mount broken system and repair it.

Why android to not support it? Is it some real technical restriction, related to flash memory or something, that differs between phone and PC/Notebook?


texts: Not getting current location even if Location Services are enabled

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Device: Samsung mobile phone
Android: 4.0.3

My Location Services are enabled, but I am not getting the current location. When I restart the phone, it works.

What could be the problem here?


texts: Is it possible to use Recent Apps to close all open apps less the one I want to stay open?

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I have a scenario, or many, where I end up opening a ton of apps, and later on want to close them all at once, but keep 1 or 2 open. As an example, I use WhatsApp at home, and as we all know you cannot use the web portal without the app on your phone being on. So ideally I would have wanted to be able to use the Recent Apps feature of Android to close all apps, less say those selected as 'keep on.' And then if I really wanted to close them, I could then go into Recent Apps and manually close them.
Is there perhaps an app would allow me to script such a task, or any other solution?
I'm running Android 10 on a Galaxy A71 5G
Thanks in advance.


texts: Browsing play.google.com without opening Play Store

texts: When I try opening play.google.com in Google Chrome, it redirects to the Google Play Store app. I want to access the Play Store from my browser so I can easily get links to different apps for sharing. Thanks for being such a helpful group!


texts: Is it possible to intercept and override sensor events in Android?

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I want to intercept sensor events in Android and override (fix) transmitted data. Is it possible?

The solution should work for all applications using that sensor.

UPDATE

I need to override magnetometer and accelerometer.


texts: Swype keyboard does not show, after changing to Swype keyboard and locking screen

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Device: Samsung Galaxy Grand
Android: 4.1.2

I downloaded Swype keyboard and selected it for use. After that, I locked my screen and tried to type my password, but the keyboard is not opening. Now, I can't use my phone.


texts: I have recently rooted and installed Blisspop rom to my Tab S.  I decided to revert back to the stock rom.  I download the rom for the UK and applied via Odin.  Download completed and the tab rebooted.  The tab is now stuck with the Samsung logo.  I can reboot in Odin recovery.  I have tried to download openrecovery-twrp tar expecting to see and use TWRP when going into recovery but I don't.  Help!


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I have a Galaxy Tab 4 SM-T230, but for some reason it will not turn on WiFi or Bluetooth. The slider goes green for 2 seconds then turns itself off.

I have Googled this problem and it would appear it is a common problem, but for the life of me I can not find a solution.

I have:

done a full hard reset
performed a restore from files saved in December
started tablet up in safe mode
I have removed the 32 GB memory card and powered down the device then started the device up without the memory card

Despite all this, the Wifi and Bluetooth do not work. I am beginning to think this is a hardware problem rather than a software issue and assistance appreciated.


texts: Bought a cheap android tablet, how can I install GMail, Play Store and the other Google apps?

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Possible Duplicate:
  How can I install the Google Apps Package (Play Store, …) on my Android device?

I met the IFA here in Berlin on the last day. This was a great chance to buy one of these simple cheap chinese no-name tablets. I wondered, a smallweight tablet with HDMI, Bluetooth, hd display and a dualcore! cpu. I got it for 70 €. But at home i surprised, ohhh, no Market, no Gmail. Tried different ways to install these apps. Every time force close.

I'm using Ubuntu as my workstation and looked with adb for the device. Found one, good! The command lsusb gives me

Bus 001 Device 031: ID 18d1:4e22 Google Inc. Nexus S (debug)

And now, i would like to install google apps like market and gmail. For this i've downloaded the gapps zip file. No chance to install one of this apk files after unzipping. Does anyone have an idea how i can achieve this?


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My team and i are trying to connect an android phone to a wifly board. We are having trouble getting this to connect. Can anyone verify certain phones that do not support this or do support this functionality and what we must do to be able to perform this connection? We have tried a few things and still not working. Please assist! Any help or suggestions are greatly appreciated. If you need further information let me know.

Thanks in Advance!


texts: Does Android support the single-user mode runlevel?

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Since Android is powered by a Linux kernel it should support booting in single-user mode.

Which version of Android supports single-user mode and how is one able to start an Android device in this mode? Any references?


texts: How can I enable USB debugging on my HTC One with Android 4.4?

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I have recently updated my HTC One from the stock 4.3 firmware it came with to the stock 4.4 firmware via an OTA update. Since this update occured, I am no longer able to connect to the device with adb for the purpose of installing apps in development on a Windows laptop. adb devices tells me no devices are found HTC Sync Manager is also unable to detect the phone.

However, I am able to transfer files via MTP, something I was unable to do on 4.3 while USB debugging was enabled. Additionally, Windows detects the phone and installs drivers for the device (recognised as "HTC One" though some resources seem to indicate it should appear as "My HTC"). When USB debugging is disabled, it also installs MTP drivers. When USB debugging is enabled, it fails to install MTP drivers and states that the device was disconnected during installation. This does not appear to have any impact on the functionality of MTP however.

However, I have USB debugging enabled under developer options, I have my Android SDK completely updated and HTC Sync Manager fully updated.

I have tried:

Different USB cables which did not work.
A different phone (my old HTC Desire HD) which still works over adb.
Uninstalling and reinstalling HTC Sync Manager & Drivers.
Using a USB 3.0 port
Not using a USB 3.0 port


texts: Hide my device type when connected to Wi-Fi

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I have seen that many scanning tools and commands show that my device is a Samsung.

Is there any way to mask my device type into a different device or into Unknown?. My Galaxy S5 mini is rooted as well.


texts: Android Facebook Sync doesn't activate in System"Accounts/Sync" Setting

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I re-added my Facebook app account to "Accounts and Sync" (in System Settings) but it won't activate sync. The button stays grey.
Sync of overall phone is on. This is after a delete and reinstall of the App.

I have Huawei m931 running Android 4.0.4. Here is what I did:

Reinstalled app on phone, after clearing cache+ data, signing out of chrome.
(not sure correct procedure).
New username/Email of my Facebook account is same as my primary Gmail/Chrome email address.

Of note is I have 2 gmail, and 1 Yahoo accounts on phone.
Also, the phone's number is used in both gmail accounts for security alerts (don't know if is relevant)

Help!, am new at this


texts: My Samsung Galaxy S2 on Gingerbread was set to use Handcent as the default ringtone picker, and I accidentally changed this back to the built-in ringtone picker. How do I get it to use Handcent again? I went to Handcent, cleared the checkbox and marked it back again, but it didn't help.


texts: How to expand system partition? [Xiaomi Mi 9]

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How to expand system partition?
I'd need at least ~600MB more for OpenGapps package I'd like.
Many thanks in advance!
Here's log from parted
cepheus:/ # parted /dev/block/sde
GNU Parted 3.2
Using /dev/block/sde
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
(parted) print
Model: WDC SDINDDH4-64G (scsi)
Disk /dev/block/sde: 6442MB
Sector size (logical/physical): 4096B/4096B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:

Number  Start   End     Size    File system  Name           Flags
 1      24.6kB  57.3kB  32.8kB               multiimgoem
 2      57.3kB  90.1kB  32.8kB               multiimgqti
 3      90.1kB  123kB   32.8kB               secdata
 4      123kB   156kB   32.8kB               limits
 5      156kB   262kB   106kB                bk41
 6      262kB   393kB   131kB                qupfw
 7      393kB   524kB   131kB                qupfwbak
 8      524kB   786kB   262kB                apdp
 9      786kB   1049kB  262kB                msadp
10      1049kB  1180kB  131kB                vbmeta
11      1180kB  1311kB  131kB                storsec
12      1311kB  1573kB  262kB                bk42
13      1573kB  1835kB  262kB                devcfg
14      1835kB  2097kB  262kB                devcfgbak
15      2097kB  2621kB  524kB                aop
16      2621kB  3146kB  524kB                aopbak
17      3146kB  3670kB  524kB                uefivarstore
18      3670kB  4194kB  524kB                catefv
19      4194kB  5243kB  1049kB               cmnlib
20      5243kB  6291kB  1049kB               cmnlibbak
21      6291kB  7340kB  1049kB               cmnlib64
22      7340kB  8389kB  1049kB               cmnlib64bak
23      8389kB  9437kB  1049kB               bk43
24      9437kB  10.5MB  1049kB               keymaster
25      10.5MB  11.5MB  1049kB               keymasterbak
26      11.5MB  12.6MB  1049kB               bluetooth
27      12.6MB  13.6MB  1049kB               dip
28      13.6MB  14.7MB  1049kB               catecontentfv
29      14.7MB  23.1MB  8389kB               bk44
30      23.1MB  25.2MB  2097kB               bk44
31      25.2MB  27.3MB  2097kB               cateloader
32      27.3MB  29.4MB  2097kB               uefisecapp
33      29.4MB  31.5MB  2097kB               uefisecappbak
34      31.5MB  33.6MB  2097kB               toolsfv
35      33.6MB  35.7MB  2097kB               abl
36      35.7MB  37.7MB  2097kB               ablbak
37      37.7MB  41.9MB  4194kB               tz
38      41.9MB  46.1MB  4194kB               tzbak
39      46.1MB  50.3MB  4194kB               bk45
40      50.3MB  58.7MB  8389kB               fsg
41      58.7MB  67.1MB  8389kB               spunvm
42      67.1MB  75.5MB  8389kB               hyp
43      75.5MB  83.9MB  8389kB               hypbak
44      83.9MB  101MB   16.8MB               gsort
45      101MB   134MB   33.6MB               dtbo
46      134MB   201MB   67.1MB               ifaa
47      201MB   268MB   67.1MB               logo
48      268MB   336MB   67.1MB  ext4         dsp
49      336MB   470MB   134MB                boot
50      470MB   493MB   23.1MB               bk47
51      493MB   671MB   178MB                core_nhlos
52      671MB   1007MB  336MB                modem          msftdata
53      1007MB  2617MB  1611MB  ext2         vendor
54      2617MB  6375MB  3758MB  ext2         system


texts: Flashing English ROM on Korean Samsung Galaxy S3

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I got my Samsung Galaxy S3 (SHW-M440S) but it was bought from South Korea. At first, it was all Korean. But after some time (or some tweaks), I managed to set it to English. (No, I am not a Korean).

Can I flash the firmware to a real English version (using ODIN or any other software)? I entered the model number because I might do something wrong but everything is in Korea (SHW-M440S firmwares).

Another problem on my phone is, it will only send an SMS if it has 80 or less characters on the message.


texts: How do I use ADB Input Events for users, other than phone owner?

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I can easily automate input events using something like this:
adb shell input tap 300 300

And I am doing this, indeed, to automate configs exporting process for some owner installed apps.
Although, I would like to automate configs exporting process for apps installed by other phone users, but I had no success, so far. This is because other users can't enable ADB.
My phone is using Android 9 (Lineage OS).


texts: Disable Save As Pdf Option In Print Dialog

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I would like to disable or remove the Save as PDF option on the following print screen, is it possible in anyway? A solution with MDM capabilities or programmatically is acceptable.

What i tried so far is,

Checked for a solution on the Android Application Programming side but as far as i see it is not possible.
Checked the list of applications installed on the device to identify if this feature comes with a "print-service" application such as Cannon's or HP's print service applications. But did not see an app something like "Save as PDF print service", also this feature is not listed in settings->print-settings->print-services.


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I was testing various Android web browsers (but I think the stock one is fine) and noticed that the MS "web safe" fonts (Trebuchet, Verdana, Tahoma and the like) were displayed with substitute fonts. It took me quite some time to notice, which means that it is a minor annoyance.

Out of curiosity, I was wondering if there was an easy way (I'm not talking about rooting here) to install these fonts. A quick Google search did not help me.

Anyone?


texts:
I have this tablet, MSI Primo 91 and just recently I booted into recovery mode in order to wipe the cache. On restart the tablet gets stuck in the manufacturer boot animation and refuses to boot up.

I then tried to reboot into recovery mode when the android laying on its back pops up. The recovery options won't show up.

This guy here.

The device restarted and gets stuck yet again in boot animation.

I visited the website to download the firmware. I followed the ritual described in the pdf instruction file and I couldn't  recover the tablet.

Right now, I just as stuck as the tablet. How can I fix this?


texts: Acer Iconia B1-710 connecting to TV using HDMI

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I've tried connecting my Acer Iconia B1-710 to the tv using a USB/HDMI cable but the tv will not recognise the signal!

What else do I need to do to get the image to appear on the tablet and TV simultaneously


texts: Is it possible to change maximum battery capacity to a lower value?

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AccuBattery says my phones battery health capacity is around 80-90%. Android and all other devices naturally keeps charging to 100%, even though it will only be 90% charged. To me, this seems to be the reason some capacity ranges might be unstable and the phone quickly die when it reaches 15%, because it tries to stretch the capacity without knowing it is doing it. So the question is, is there any simple apps to just replace or use a different battery percent viewer, or some other options, that lets me set the maximum capacity to the health of the battery? So in that way it will be as stable as it was when it was new, still charge to max, but rather spread the 90% health on 90% capacity and then dont have any sudden drops and unstable battery life.
Prefered non-root options or any launchers with these options, but if there exists a root-way i would love to know it


texts: Insufficient Storage - SD Card used as Internal Storage

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I've formatted my SD card to be used as the internal storage on my LineageOS phone (Android 7.1 - HUAWEI Y5).

When I attempt to install anything from the play store I am unable to. Accessing the files through any file manager shows the SD card and Internal Storage merged as one (36GB total).

What can I do? Is there any application, Xposed module or Magisk module for this situation?

PS:Typed on my phone, hasn't been checked for grammar or spelling mistakes.


texts:
I have an Amazon Kindle Fire 2nd Generation (Tate). A few years ago I installed the Pacman KitKat Rom.

Recently I tried installing a few new roms. However I didn't like any of them because they don't have multi user support. So I decided to reinstall the Pacman KitKat Rom.

I have installed everything correctly, but on startup it says:

"Encryption Unsuccessful – Encryption was interrupted and can't complete. As a result, the data on your phone is no longer accessible. To resume using your phone, you need to perform a factory reset. When you set up your phone after the reset, you'll have an opportunity to restore any data that was backed up to your Google account."

It gives the option to reset tablet, but the same error comes up again.

I have tried booting into TeamWin recovery and reinstalling the rom as well as doing a wipe of everything, but the error message persists.


texts: How to read comments to app of another country?

texts: Google Market allow me by default to read only comments of my country (Italy). Unfortunately not popular application have only few or even no comments. How can I read comments from other country (USA, UK, etc.)?


texts:
My device is so laggy so I downloaded CPU - Z to check my CPU

and I see 50 - 70% CPU load

I tried Cache deleting and RAM Cleaning but it's still using a lot of CPU

Are there any Add-ons so I can see which of my apps are Using my CPU?

sorry my grammar, English isn't my first language

Device: Samsung Tab 4

Model: SM-T231

Rooted: Yes

Busybox: Installed


texts:
Hi guys when I try to call scp from terminal emulator it invokes sftp, I have scp installed (along with ssh and sftp) in /system/bin folder.I know it's working correctly because typing just scp gives me the usage info but calling

  scp file user@ip:target

Gives the error sftp: illegal option - -x

Please help!


texts: 'fastboot reboot' works but not the other fastboot commands

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I know most MediaTek devices don't support fastboot, but I have a Canvas Knight (MT6592) which does reboot into fastboot mode when I use adb reboot bootloader.

Here, fastboot devices detects my device and fastboot reboot reboots it. But if I try:

fastboot oem device-info : ran for over 10 minutes with no result. I finally stopped it using Ctrl+PsBrk.
fastboot oem get_unlock_state : ran for 2.24 minutes and ended up with this error:

FAILED (status read failed (Too many links))

fastboot oem device-info : after (2), this also gives an error imediately:

FAILED (command write failed (Too many links))

fastboot devices : ??????????????? device
fastboot reboot :

rebooting
FINISHED: -0.000s

However, the device doesn't reboot until I force it to using the power button.

Any idea what the problem is? I know that fastboot is unsupported and it may have problems, but if it is unsupported shouldn't it not work at all?

(No problems on the computer end. Same commands on a Nexus 9 work perfectly, and after rebooting the phone fastboot devices and fastboot reboot works, but then again the same problem)


texts: Google Apps - can be uninstalled and replaced by your own preferred system applications

texts: Can we all change the basic system apps installed on our phones? (e.g. contacts, phone, messaging etc.) And replacing it with new applications that can't harm and destroy the phone's stock rom?


texts: Why won't Android recognize my micro SD card and how can I get it to?

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I have an Acer Iconia A1-810 that is running stock Android 4.4.2 and I have a SanDisk Ultra PLUS A1 16 GB microSD card. I am having so much trouble getting the tablet to recognize the card. If I have an SD card that is filled completely with zeroes, then Android should still be able to detect it and have some option to format it, right?

I have tried these things:

Totally wiping the MBR: I slide it into the micro SD slot, it makes the clicking noise for the locking mechanism, and the message I see up in the notification bar is "Removed SD card" (I just inserted it!!!). Going to Settings > Storage, under SD CARD, there is only one item and it is grayed out. The grayed out item says in big letters "Mount SD card" and the smaller text beneath it says "Insert an SD card for mounting". There is no option to format the card.
The micro SD cards's only non-zero bytes are 0x55 and 0xAA at offsets, meaning it has a valid MBR (albeit with no partitions set):  I slide it into the micro SD slot, it makes the clicking noise for the locking mechanism, and this time the message says "Damaged SD card". I pull down the notification panel and see that the smaller text below "Damaged SD card" says "SD card is damaged. Try reformatting it.". I click the notification item. Now in Settings > Storage, there a re four things': a blank bar that would normally show the card's data is divided up into, used space (it says it's calculating), total space (calculating), and finally an item for unmounting the card. Once it is "unmounted", the mount item is white/pressable. I press, but each time the mounting option will fail and the button will go back to being pressable and saying "Mount SD card". Once I leave settings, however, and come back to it,the option looks as it does in #1.
MBR has one unformatted partition set to type 0x0B (FAT32): See #1.
MBR has one partition entry set to 0x0B AND the partition has been formatted with mkfs.vfat: See#1.

What's going on?

Update: Formatting the whole SD card with FAT32 (no MBR) makes the device recognize it, but when I reboot it goes back to the above happening.


texts: Is there any method of installing Xposed framework on non-rooted devices with stock recovery?

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I am trying to figure out if there is  a method of installing Xposed framework on stock ROM without custom recovery (e.g CWM or TWRP). The conventional method that I am well familiar with is installing the framework via Xposed app on a rooted device.

I researched a bit and most workarounds were promising although not successful:

According to this source, the method involves setting the system partition writable then pushing the necessary files via adb commands however fails with Permission denied errors. I suspect bootloader issues (which seems to be locked) here but not very sure.

The other way, described here doesn't need custom recovery. This involves installing a third party application (FlashFire) to flashed unsigned .zip but unfortunately seems to require root (from description).

The last one involves using new systemless xposed framework but the problem is that it supports android 5+ versions.

So is there any convenient way of installing xposed framework on stock recovery without root?

Edit

Following important discussions raised in comments, I guess I have to explain why I want to bypass root-based installation procedure, it's because the device in use is not rooted, so I need to use a non root installation mrthod.

Contrary to the comments however, some users have used Xposed without root:

  Xposed only needs root access when you install it, then everything
  else is completely transparent to the user because the framework acts
  as a separate conduit to the system -- it doesn't go through the usual
  SU channels

Also the device is running Android 4.3 stock


texts: Wi-Fi sleep policy when mobile networks are turned off

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I have a fairly expensive data plan and I don't want my phone to use any of it, so it turned off mobile networks in Settings. When I access the Wi-Fi sleep policy setting, it says it switches to mobile networks when wifi sleeps.

Is that really the case? Does wifi sleep policy override the setting that disabled mobile networks, and eventually use them?


texts: Does the ICS Email app allow you to get notifications on folders other than inbox?

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I have set on a IMAP account on my ICS android. I have some of the mails filtered to go to different folders. Is it possible to receive notifications the other folders? It is annoying, when I read some important messages one month late.

The is another similar question, but it is mainly for gingerbread, and also they end up discussing mostly the gmail app. Feel free to close as duplicate, if you choose this as not fitting.


texts: How to disable limit of pattern attempts to unlock Android 2.1 device?

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My unlock pattern is long and secure.

I don't want to wait for 30 seconds when I try to enter it inaccurately (it is tricky), also I don't want it to be blocked after 20 tries.

How to make it to accept patterns ad infinum? (I have the root access)

Tried NoLock - it disabled the screen completely.
Tried SkipLock - it behaves the same as standard pattern screen.

Are there applications for alternative locking? Mat be there is one where you enter digits instead of patterns (without attempt counter, of course).

Ideal lock screen for me: 16 buttons (plus "Emergency call") which I press without any indication. When the password occurred as substring the device is unlocked. Example: password: "59B13F", I press: "59159595B13F59B13F and it is unlocked. Without even the need for erasing mistyped password, can just type and re-type fast and carelessly.


texts:
My phone has been infected with viruses for 6months now.

At first it was just a virus in disguise called "settings", but then it spread to my browsers opening many different sites. I had to disable my browsers. And now there are 3 other viruses on my phone. One called "clockwallpaper", second is the "lake worth isd". It creates a fake duplicate of an app that I'm using, and after I closed that duplicated app, the original app starts lagging and then crashes. It also activates the silent mode of my phone. The third one is called "system", which pop-up tons of ads that is really annoying. It also makes an app that I'm using to lag and stop working.

I tried to use Malware Bytes and Bitdefender antivirus softwares. At first it was good and they removed the viruses, and I thought the viruses will be gone permanently. But I was wrong, after an hour or less they get installed again, even I have an internet connection or not.

So I performed a factory reset on my phone to get rid of it.

And they were gone. But then later on they get installed again and my phone was now like before.

Please help me!


texts: Is is safe to remove the stock email and calendar app on Cyanogenmod or AOSP?

texts: Is it safe for me to remove the stock email and calendar applications on from Cyanogenmod ROM? I'm using Gmail and Google Calendar so I don't have need for the stock ones. I could simply disable them but if I removed them entirely, I might be able to save a bit on space on my system partition.


texts:
I'v just temporary root my phone.

And here is the question: how can I change app grants for root access, if I already press allow, with "remember" checked?

And also I want to know is this screen(that appears when some app what access to root user) build-in android OS or this is third part app?


texts:
I've heard there are some Android alternatives. Like miui or Cyagenmod or Mozilla OS. I have Galaxy S Advance (GT-I9070) and i've heard Samsung is not going to provide any updates for my device. So, i got a few questions i should ensure before i done something stupid:

if i install something from the mentioned above, shall i lose my guarantee/licenses?
if i decide to install the software, should i perform some rooting of the device or something?
if i do decide to install the software, what's the best one which shall not slow down my device (as i noted android 2.3.6 to be slow)
could i use ICS update and shall it slow down my device or not?


texts: Technique to adjust the camera flash intensity without using Android's Quick Settings panel

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I'm looking for a technique that will allow the user to adjust the intensity of the Android device's camera flash when it is used as a flashlight.
Many Samsung phones (such as the Samsung Galaxy 6) let the user adjust the intensity of the flash used for the flashlight by long-pressing on the flashlight icon in Android's Quick Settings panel. If there is some way to create a shortcut to what gets launched by that Quick Settings panel tool, that would work.
Alternatively, perhaps something along the lines of creating a special shortcut or using Tasker, but neither is a requirement.
Related: Flashlight app for Android that can adjust the intensity of the camera's flash (light)


texts: Can you read a USB flash drive from an Android phone?

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I have a Samsung Galaxy S (i9000) with Android 2.1.

I am wondering if it can read a USB flash drive. It will be really useful to copy files across USB drives so you don't have to carry laptops around.

I think if there is a cable/converter to plugin a USB into the phone and there is an app to read the connected USB drive, I don't see why it can't be done.

The problem is do the cable and app exist?


texts: How to sync non-picasa folder displayed in Gallery app?

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I often use Instagram to add effect and frame to my photos.

Then, there is a folder named instagram appearing in Gallery; but that folder won't be synced with my Google account i.e. on another Android device signed in with the same account, I don't see that folder.

So my question is that how I can have it synced?


texts: How many hours long "continuous video" can you shoot on Huawei P30 Lite 2019 model?

texts:
I want to shoot an extremely long video (almost 6-8 hours). Is the Huawei P30 Lite 2019 model BLE able to do it?
If not, for how many hours will it last?


texts: How to prevent Internet access in NetGuard, "Allow" checkboxes greyed out

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In Android 6, I want to prevent some apps from using the Internet, so I installed NetGuard. Let's say for instance that I want to prevent Sky Map from accessing the Internet. Where should I click?

As you can see, Allow Wi-Fi when screen is on and Allow mobile when screen is on are greyed out for some reason, I don't know whether it is normal or not.
Unchekcing Apply rules and conditions does not prevent Internet access to the app.

Rooted CyanogenMod13


texts: How to modify Bash shell prompt in Cyanogenmod?

texts: Has anyone had any success modifying the shell prompt in Cyanogenmod? Presently, # is pretty useless, it would be much nicer to at least display the working directory. Also, is tab-completion possible?


texts: How can I tell if a car stereo's controls can be used with my Android phone?

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I'm thinking about getting a Pioneer DEH-2200UB, which advertises itself as having controls compatible with iPods. I will be using it with my Samsung Fascinate in my 2005 Honda Civic. Is there any way to tell if a car stereo is compatible with Android Phones (by compatible, I mean the controls can be used to control my Winamp player, or as a last resort, the default player)?

Note: I am asking for a general solution, not one specific to my particular car/stereo/phone combination (though feel free to give me a specific solution in the comments).


texts:
If a file called .nomedia gets put into a directory, the Media Scanner skips that directory, e.g. sprite images.

Does that also work if .nomedia is a folder?


texts: Windows 10 crashed. Reinstalled and now need to install fresh BlueStacks. Can I get the old instances somehow from the Windows.old folder?

texts: I had BlueStacks running on Windows 10 and then I got the Blue screen of death.  I need to reinstall windows.  My existing BlueStacks will be save in Windows.old.  Is there a way to "move" the old instances back once I reinstall Windows and install a fresh BlueStacks again?


texts: My Galaxy S has had a software upgrade and now it only types digits on the 3 x 4 keypad

texts: I have tried a factory reset and messed with all the settings, no luck. I even tried an external keypad app. It just keeps texting numbers when I use the samsung 3 x 4 keypad even when its on the ABC setting. Please help!!!


texts: How to enable 3G video calls on Android smartphone?

texts:
re.:

How to enable video calls on Android smartphone ?

In pre Android times it was easy to make video call on a standard phone, featuring small screen.

Today video call functionality is not supported by most of makes, models of Android smartphones, for unknown reason.

Ok, you need to establish 3G/ LTE data conectivity for video streaming as extra add-on- communication channel.

Ok, I have 3G data transfer enabled and still no support for making video calls.

I am not interested in third party video calling apps.

I am aware, few smartphones by Samsung support video calling functionality.

Is it due to licencing or for another reason.

If video calling was supported by default 10 years ago and promoted at Barcelona Mobile Congress, so why today video calling in Android smartphones is not supported or disabled by 99% default.

I read a lot on this subject on the Internet but all I need is to have video calling enabled in my smartphones

and I can pay extra fee.

Let me know your opinion and solution ( not interested in third party apps supporting 3G video calling)

thank you

BTW

I was told (need to test it first) that Samsung 3G video calling enabled smartphone can video call my smartphone to enable 3G video calling on-the-fly, showing camera icon to click to pick up a call.

If this is the case, so in theory, any Android smartphone can support 3G video calling ( 3G connection established and paid by third party)

BTW2

I read related questions and answers
one asked 8 years ago
Questions regarding receiving 3G calls on my IDEOS

another asked 3 years ago
How to video call

and still clear why no 3G video calling support on newer Android smartphones,
since what is claimed:
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"
 what you are looking for is the operator backed 3G-324M solution that is available on most 3G phones (not including iPhone or Android).
"


texts: Will rooting or flashing relock my unlocked Android device?

texts: I bought an Haier w718 online from China. It is unlocked but they didn't put Google Play on it. If I root it or flash it will that relock the phone?


texts: Where is the Light Sensor of Google Glass?

texts:
The GDK document says that light sensor is available on Google Glass. But the document has no information about where the sensor locates on the Glass.

It seems that there are two possible positions:

In the front with the camera.
On the inner rim with the mysterious sensor which provides wink detection feature.

Anyone knows which is the source the Glass gathers light data?


texts: What causes latencies in the 1-10 second range?

texts:
I use my mobile phone as access point now and then. Both home and abroad I have regularly experienced extremely high latencies (10000ms) with fairly low packet loss (5%).

What causes this?

I have read How can I reduce latency while tethering? but that only answers what I already know: That it is due to wireless at the carrier.

So the question here is to get more details.

I never see the above behaviour in a wifi net (I will typically see loads of dropped packets, but a reasonable latency lower than 1000 ms), so something else is going on.
If I only get 5% loss, I imagine there is some store-and-forward going on: Where does that happen? Why can packets not be passed on for 10 seconds, but still not be lost?

If the carrier wanted to do something about it, what should they do?


texts:
I would like to make a quick note using voice command.
Something like: "OK Google" ..."make a note" ..followed by the message itself.
Preferably using Google Keep but I am open to suggestions.
What the voice command might be?

I tried several variants of make/take note, or just note, all recognized correctly as far as individual words go, but usually ending in launching Chrome web search or in giving me selection of application to handle note, where "Keep" is one of them. But even after selecting Keep, which is not persisted by the way, it is still not very straightforward to actually dictate the note. There must be a better way.


texts: How to rotate emulator screen (not device orientation)?

texts:
Some apps run in landscape orientation, but sometimes allow you to see some picture in higher resolution by displaying it as portrait-oriented full screen image. Those are mostly games that allow you to tap character's portrait in profile to see it - Soccer Spirits, Chain Chronicle and and pretty much any other game that features character art as one of its draws.

IRL you supposed to turn your device to look at image, but how can I do that on Genymotion or any other emulator? It does have button to change device's orientation - i.e. internal state on what device thinks about it and will automatically turn screen accordingly, but it obviously doesn't help with apps that have fixed orientation.

Is there any way to just rotate emulator window?


texts: Micromax canvas juice 3 plus q394 reboots after every 5 minutes of use

texts: Im using Micromax canvas juice 3 plus q394 from long time but from few months it overheats and restarts consistently every five minutes of use, i used all hibernate apps as well as memory, cache cleaners app but none of worked if anyone know how to solve this problem please your answer.


texts:
The Gallery app is now using face recognition on my images. Is this sending my images to the Samsung server? Is Samsung stealing my pictures and uploaded them to their server? How do I uninstall this app?

Here is the settings view per request below.


texts:
On PC, you have your standard romaji keyboard, and when you enter "ka" it automatically converts it to the corresponding character, instead of having straight hiragana keys.

Can one do that on Android ?


texts: How can I know if my Android Tablet supports Wi-Fi N?

texts:
How can I know if my Android Tablet supports Wi-Fi N and speed up to 150 MBps?
I don't have any description covering that in device specifications.


texts: How to make full backup of encrypted Lollipop Nexus 5 device?

texts:
This guide describes how to make full backup of whole memory block.

My N5 is encrypted with Android 5.0. As far as I understand new mechanism, it envolves dependency on some external data taken from separate hardware component (part of encryption key). Is it guaranteed that it will not altered after I factory reset and flash Android 4.4 ? And even if it's ok, is it possible finally to restore such backup ? (May be /dev/mmcblck0 is read-only or otherwise restricted due to way hardware-accelerated encryption/decryption works.)


texts: Samsung Galaxy S : Why can't I set cursor position in text boxes in browser?

texts:
When using the default browser on my Galaxy S, I can't see a cursor in text boxes that have focus. With no cursor I don't know where letters I type will appear. This seems to occur on all sites I have tested. Can someone with this phone confirm there is something wrong? Note that the address bar at the top is fine and behaves as I would expect.

Input method is the Samsung keyboard. No third party apps or firmware installed. Feel free to ask questions if you need more info. Thanks


texts:
My trusty old 16GB micro SD card that has been with me through 4 phones is finally full. So I figured no biggie; I'll just buy a new (64GB) card, copy all the files down to my PC (which has no card reader, just USB ports), then up to the new card.

The issue I'm having is that copy step. I have the card in a Note4, connected to a Windows 8 PC via USB. I can see the card, but if I just try to drag-and-drop copy folders to my PC, it invariably ends with a dialog saying:

"A device attached to the system is not functioning".

I'm guessing its on largeish files, as I've noticed .mp4's in particular will just cause Windows explorer to go out to lunch and never come back when I try to copy them individually.

It seems like this ought to be the simplest thing in the world to do. What am I missing?


texts: Receiving a call downgrades to 3G/H permanently?

texts:
Some background

I'm using my Nexus 5X running Android 7.1.2 as a wifi access point for my computers. I'm subscribed to an unlimited 4G plan, no upper limits. I got the phone last Fall, which is also when I switched from a wired ADSL connection, and this has been a consistent problem.

The problem itself

Whenever I receive a phone call, the mobile signal downgrades from 4G to H and speeds drop significantly (as one would expect). This isn't a problem in itself; 4G is exclusively for mobile data. But after the call has ended, the phone can't reacquire 4G until I restart it or turn off tethering for a long time. Turning mobile data on/off to reacquire the connection does not work.

What now

Obviously having to reboot the phone every time I receive a phone call is bad, so what can I do about it? I don't use my phone or Android a lot so I might just be missing something obvious here.

Not working

Toggling airplane mode does not restore 4G
Toggling mobile data does not restore 4G


texts: I want to transfer Injustice Gods Among Us saved game from ios ipad to my android

texts:
I have been playing Injustice: Gods Among Us on my iOS on the iPad and now I have an Android phone and I want to tranfer the saved game to my Android, characters, challenges, cards, money... all of that.

Is there any way I can do it?.
I have downloaded the game already, I only need the data.


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I have a Galaxy Core Duos that I was playing with. It is stock rom, unrooted. However, I installed one app which is crashing the phone after startup. So I cannot use the phone anymore and I need to reset it.

However, I would like to save some data from the phone before. Especially the contacts, which unfortunately haven't been synchronized completely before this app caused crashing.

Is it possible to access my contacts data somehow via ADB from the bootloader/recovery menu? I didn't have ADB enabled in the settings, though. Or is it maybe even possible to uninstall the app from ADB from bootloader/recovery menu?

Or what else could I do?


texts:
I just bought a Canadian region Xoom, and have been able to access it via MTP using Gnomad2, but Banshee refuses to recognize it, despite having the libmtp extension installed. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

OS: Fedora 14, amd64


texts: Samsung Galaxy S6: Back button presses by itself

texts:
On my Samsung Galaxy S6 (Android 6.0.1), sometimes the back button starts firing by itself, hence closing the current app or going back on a page. Other times it's like a ghost press on other parts of the screen, so that e.g. the menu opens by itself. Often this happens in bursts, making the device unusable.

It's a common problem, as seen here:

https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s6/help/s6-pressing-button-self-capacitive-key-t3146253
https://forums.androidcentral.com/samsung-galaxy-s6/519860-galaxy-s6-capicitative-back-button-spamming.html
https://forums.androidcentral.com/samsung-galaxy-s6/556632-back-button-issue-ghost-pressing-constantly-how-can-i-fix.html
https://eu.community.samsung.com/t5/Smartphones-Tablets-Wearables/S6-back-button-self-pressing/td-p/160823
https://forum.xda-developers.com/s7-edge/help/random-screen-presses-button-presses-t3599821

Users report as possible causes:

Device overheating
Use of data connection (perhaps causing #1)
Hardware problem (interference from speakers on the capacitive touchscreen)
Moisture (triggering false contacts on the capacitive touchscreen)

In my case, I've noticed it happening especially when I use the Twitter app, which makes large use of the phone capabilities. Running Smart Manager and closing all running apps sometimes solves the issue, so it might really be #1.

Users suggest possible solution (none of which are working):

Factory reset and/or cache reset
Let device cool down
Disable data and/or WiFi connection
Lower volume speakers to less than 75% (?)
Dial *#2663# and do a TSP FW Update (General)

Anyone found a definitive fix for it?

I've had this happen to me on 2016 (hence the post), then the problem disappeared by itself, now in 2019 it's back, more annoying than ever.

Note: Related to an older Galaxy model: Galaxy S4 back button pressing itself


texts: How to send all internet traffic to a SOCKS5 proxy server in local network?

texts:
I got the inspiration here. It looks like AFWall+ is able to create a NAT forwarding policy to keep all traffic going through a SOCKS5 proxy and fool Google apps into thinking they are not connected via a VPN (Google apps implement additional security measures when connecting via VPNService and if you are in China you will not pass the security check - the security check requests don't go through VPN, so they will EOF because GFW will kill these requests, read more here).

So my question is, if let's say I have a socks5 server running at 192.168.1.1:1088 which tunnels all connections via vmess protocol (aka V2Ray) to remote servers in the US, how do I create my custom script? I have tried:

IP6TABLES=/system/bin/ip6tables
IPTABLES=/system/bin/iptables
ULIMIT=/system/bin/ulimit
PORT=1088
SERVER=192.168.1.1
$ULIMIT -n 4096
$IP6TABLES -F
$IP6TABLES -A INPUT -j DROP
$IP6TABLES -A OUTPUT -j DROP
$IPTABLES -t nat -F OUTPUT
$IPTABLES -t nat -A OUTPUT -o lo -j RETURN
$IPTABLES -t nat -A OUTPUT -d 127.0.0.1 -j RETURN
$IPTABLES -t nat -A OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 53 -j DNAT --to-destination $SERVER:$PORT
$IPTABLES -t nat -A OUTPUT -p udp --dport 53 -j DNAT --to-destination $SERVER:$PORT
$IPTABLES -t nat -A OUTPUT -p tcp -j DNAT --to-destination $SERVER:$PORT
$IPTABLES -t nat -A OUTPUT -p udp -j DNAT --to-destination $SERVER:$PORT

This does not work. So:

Did I create a wrong script? How do I create a script that does what I want to do?
Are there other settings that I should enable first? I didn't tick any app so I assume that means all app go through custom script, right?


texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  Service for sharing list of installed apps

Is there an app that would allow one to see my installed apps and if they like any to click on it and have it install on their computer?


texts:
I have a Sprint Nexus S 4G running ICS Cyanogenmod 9.  I want to run 2.3.6.

In CWR I've backed up, wipe/erased, wiped Calvik cache, but when I go to install my Sojus 2.3.6 file I get Installing update, Installation aborted.

I don't know why and I feel like I'm missing something obvious.

One thing I noticed about the 2.3.6 package sojus-gwk74-factory-4a34b67a.zip is that in it there is image-sojus-gwk74.zip which is the largest file and what I put on the Nexus S' SD card.

There is also radio-crespo4g-d720sprkh1.img and bootloader-crespo4g-d720sprke1.img which I didn't put on the SD card (or maybe I did, but I can't see them from the install from zip section).

Is there something else I am supposed to do with those files? Perhaps I am supposed to run fastboot before I go to recovery mode in CWR?

Model Number:
Nexus S 4G

Android Version:
4.0.4

Baseband version:
D720SPRLC1

Kernel Version:
3.0.31-cyanogenmod-ga64c18e  android@thebeast #1

Build Number:
IMM76I

Mod Version:
Apex v1.1.2

My problem is the exact same as this guy's: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1429669


texts: Is there a command or application similar to ipconfig?

texts:
I would like to see my network addresses on my phone. On Windows I can use ipconfig for this and ifconfig on Linux. But how can I see this information on my Android device? Is there an application or command for this?

More specifically I would like to see what IPv4 address I get and what IPv6 address I get or if I don't get one.


texts: How do I make my phone stop starting in charge only mode when I plug it in?

texts:
I did something with developer mode and now whenever I plug my phone in it wont let me access the files until I pull down the task bar and tap on "Charging via USB" which brings up a window where i can change it to "Transfer files". But I have to do this every time and it's so annoying that I basically don't transfer files to/from my phone any more.

In settings > system > developer options I disabled USB debugging, but it didn't seem to change anything.


texts: I was playing with the developer options on my Droid Turbo, and I think I accidentally hit Force RTL Layout, which crashed System UI. I tried rebooting and now it also says "Unfortunately, System UI has stopped". I cannot access any apps or settings, even in safe mode. Is there any way I can turn this setting off or reset the developer options, maybe through a computer? I would like to not have to do a factory reset. I am running Android 5.1


texts: Save a pdf opened in an app to local storage

texts: I would like to save a pdf which I can access through an app called student advisor Student Advisor. There is no option to save it as a pdf in my local storage. Is there any way I can store the pdf in my local storage. The pdf is Class 11->PDF->Math.


texts:
I can't run android-x86 (4.4 RC2) on my notebook (dell inspiron 1501) well

the first problem is :

Graphics : Radeon Xpress 200M

my /proc/fb : 0 ATI Radeon 5975

I can use at most 1024x768x16 (vga = 791)
but my native resolution is 1280x800x32 and if I use this in kernel (or even 1280x800x16) it shows A  N  D  R  O  I  D and graphic ui doesn't show up. just a blinking underline in the middle of page. and I can write terminal commands  like cat /proc/fb there !

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the second problem is :

I can not turn on my Broadcom 802.11g Network Adapter in android-x86

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if there is a release of android-x86 (preferred : 4.0+, second choice 2.3+) or a way to solve it please tell me

Thanks

EDIT : installed 4.3 4.2 4.0 still no luck


texts: Is it possible to estimate the ideal number of CPU cores for Android phones?

texts:
I'm thinking that with the way we typically use Android phones, run a single app at a time, fewer faster CPU cores are better than many smaller (slower) cores.

Does Android really benefit that much from the current octa-core phones?  How long before we see 16-core Android phones, and will that actually be useful in a phone?

I keep thinking that 4 fast cores, or 2 very fast cores, seem ideal for the kind of things we do with Android phones.  Is it possible to determine some ideal number of cores, or at what point it simply does not make sense to add more cores?


texts:
I checked the permission of su with ls -l, and found it doesn't have the setuid bit set. This is different from common desktop Linux. Is there any reason behind this difference?

The su binary was installed using supersu on an experimental Nexus device with factory ROM.


texts: How to enable device administrator for exchange after user has declined

texts:
it appears that a user has declined the device administrator prompt for an exchange email account on samsung galaxy. It doesnt prompt anymore just displays a message about requiring a device administrator, but in the setting>location & security>device admin there are no options at all and nothing displyed.
 Is there another menu option somewhere to enable the device administrator for exchange after it has been declined?


texts: Samsung Galaxy Note 4 won't get out from recovery booting

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I got a problem with my Samsung device and now I've no idea how to fix this, hope anyone want to help me in fixing this problem.

So this thing started yesterday when I just went in to Recovery Mode to "Wipe Partition Cache" and turn my phone off.
1)When I tried turning my phone on, it doesn't go to normal boot but it go to "recovery boot" I dont't know why, restarted, unplugged the battery and turned on my phone again but it won't make my phone get out from recovery boot.

2)Now I'm trying to flash my phone with Odin, when I tried to flash it says "There is no PIT partition", "There is no PIT Binary", how to fix this ?
I've tried to download and used the pit file but it didn't worked.

please help


texts: Connecting to own proxy with self-made CA certificate not (properly) working

texts:
I have a Squid proxy installed with HTTPS/SSL support. When I install the generated CA certificate in Firefox and set the proxy, everything looks good -- that is, I can see all the HTTP(S) requests the Squid log files. It also works fine when I install the CA certificate in my emulator (Android 9) and set the proxy. Again, see all the requests in the Squid log files, i.e., the requests made by the browser or the apps that use the proxy settings.

However, when I do the exact same steps on a real device (Samsung A30s with Android 9), I have problems. Well, I still see all the requests made by the browser, but not the ones made by apps (and thus they yield connection errors). OK, I still can see the CONNECT request in the logs but no other requests (e.g., GET, POST). So the apps are definitely using the proxy settings. (I know that some apps like Facebook ingore the proxy settings and connect directly to their server; they still work fine, of course).

The odd thing is that everything was working on an old Android 6 phone. Here the same apps where working perfectly fine using the proxy and relying on HTTPS requests. Now I have a newer Android 9.0 phone and all apps so far fail. The apps obviously use the proxy (seeing the CONNECT entries in the logs) but seem to not not use/acknowledge the installed certificate.

Can the newer Android version be an issue? Maybe permissions? Can it be that the newer Samsung phone has some bloatware that requires additional settings or something (the old phone was a OnePlus with an almost stock Android version as far as I know)?


texts: Whatsapp: Export chat with media does not work properly

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Whatsapp 2.20.108 on Android 9

I try to export a chat with media. I export it either to gmail or gdrive. (please note the difference: You can backup and export to gdrive. I'm interested in the export functionality)

For some chats, it works; but for other chats, only a few media are exported instead of all. Also the chat messages are not always exported properly. For example, for one chat, only messages after June 2018 are exported, but not the older ones.

What's going on here? Can this be changed?
I want to save all the chat text and all pictures, videos, audio, documents.


texts: How to quickly extract archives on android?

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After spending a few hours on annoying file management apps and the various archival apps. I can't find a quick way to do this. Most of these are built like users are supposed to use them for the PC. The quick PC extraction of Right Click "Extract All / Here" is pipe dream on android.

How can i go about to do this?
Can I find or force an application to extract everything it finds at a certain location and extract it where it is.

I looked for some solution that automatically extracts archives upon download, but thats convoluted even on PC (but at least doable - do a command line and if you want trigger it by a folder monitor change). Couldn't make any headway on android for sure.

How would you go about easing your time with archives on android. Dumping them all in one place is fine by me so long as I don't have to go through annoying managers for every single archive i get.


texts: How do I hide closed boards in the Trello Android app?

texts: I see all of my closed boards and is a bit annoying not knowing what is what. Is there a way to hide them all?


texts: How to prevent Motorola Cliq from factory reset upon startup?

texts: I have a Cliq (MB200) which I successfully rooted. I would like to permanently disable the Motoblur application which always appears at startup. Until now I've been using the "#eebluroff" code to temporarily disable it, but this causes an automatic factory reset the next time the phone is rebooted. There must be some way to prevent this from happening... any ideas? Thanks!


texts: Does Mobogenie for Android install adware on the phone?

texts: Has anyone used Mobogenie? It looks like a very useful way to control an Android phone from a PC, but I found one review that says it installs adware in your browser. However, it wasn't clear if this was on the PC or on the phone.


texts:
I have a Galaxy S7 which I purchased from Virgin Mobile a few years ago. Recently, because of international travel to Mexico and Canada I had it unlocked and now have an AT&T account. However, when I traveled to Mexico, the roaming feature is grayed out and it never connected to a network. The SIM worked, connected to the Mexican network, in another Android, so its not the SIM. As a last resort I factory reset. The Virgin Mobil splash screen came up, so apparently some settings are still in ROM. AT&T Tech Support verified a correct account configuration (roaming enabled)

Is it possible to reset this portion of the ROM?  I'm thinking the Intl Roam feature is disabled in the same manner that the splash screen wasn't blown away from a reset.

When I came back to the USA, the phone worked, but i had to manually set the data network access point.


texts:
Assume you lost your Pebble watch in somewhere your room. You can find it by asking someone calling you but assume you cannot do it. You just have your Android phone.

Find My Pebble Application

I think the application does not work. You install the application. I appears under your Applications in your phone. The front-end of the application contains only Settings and Delete. Settings does not work. You cannot Find your application by the app. You have to each time install and uninstall the application to find your Pebble. I think this kind of logic stupid. I am using Pebble Classing with Samsung Galaxy S4 GT-i9506 Android 5.0.1 Lollipop. Similar problem of the application also recorded here

  Agreed that not having to unload and load would improve the concept.

The front-end of the application is also buggy, crashing to open the Pebble-settings page too to get the view "Settings/Delete" in your phone.

How can you find your Pebble smartwatch with your Android phone?


texts: How do I change call recorder file destination?

texts:
By default my call recordings are saved on the internal phone memory, in the Sounds directory.

How can I change this, e.g. to the external SD card?

(Android 4.1.2, Omega ROM v49, inbuilt recording option)


texts:
It showed a few months ago, before I upgraded to ICS. It changes its color depending on wallpaper.

Anyone know how to fix it or what caused it?


texts: Is it OK to remove this SaleTracker app?

texts: I was going through apps I could uninstall and discovered this app called "Launcher" which lives in /system/app/SaleTracker.apk. Googling for the APK name suggests this is some sort of malware (checking with MalwareBytes didn't seem to confirm this) and should be removed, but I'd like to have a second opinion before removing a system component.


texts: How to remotely log into google account?

texts: I lost my phone and the person who found it, logged out of my google account. Is there a way to make my devive log into google account? (so that i can use "find my phone" to find it.)


texts: Accessing SIM Toolkit in Android settings spawns duplicate SIM card entries?

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I don't recall ever visiting this menu before. But I tried it today and this heppened:

Settings -> Wireless Settings -> Sim & Network Settings -> Click on a sim (SIM 1 or SIM 2, this one is dual sim) -> Scroll to the bottom of the list and click on SIM Toolkit.

This opens up an empty Sim Toolkit menu (which seems to stay empty no matter how long you leave it (tried several minutes)), and when you go Back out of it, you see a couple of new SIM entries have appeared in the list of the current SIM's menu. They each have a checkbox slider thing next to them, but if you tick one slider, in a sec all of them will get ticked.

Does anyone have any ideas about how to proceed with fixing this?

[EDIT] I realised SIM Toolkit is an app. I can force-close it, but I can't seem to be able to clear its data or cache.

[EDIT2] I managed to Freeze it, rebooted, but the existing sim duplicates are not gone.

[UPDATE] Device model: OnePlus 2. Rooted, w xposed framework.

PS: Sorry for the huge image. I assume it only scales horizontally...


texts: Google and Chrome - are they independent?

texts:
I have a Hudl 2 tablet and am running out of space. I have just bought an SD card but it seems I am very limited with what I can move to the SD card. Also it seems I can not install new apps directly onto the SD card. So I am trying to delete as much data as possible from the existing apps.
I am considering deleting all data from the Google app but am concerned it may be linked in some way to the Chrome app and I do not want to lose my Chrome bookmarks or any ids/passwords I have in Chrome.
Will deleting all data from Google affect in any way anything I have in Chrome?
Thanks.


texts: Why isn't this allowed? I'd like to use my brother's old phone to get on the Internet. It's the same model as mine (ZTE ZMAX PRO). He just recently passed away, and his last phone is being returned to the carrier.


texts: Is there a way that you can set an Android Vivid to delete messages of the number you select

texts: How can you set an Android Vivid to delete text messages after a certain number that you pick


texts: Where are built in sound file images (album art) showing in music player? (path)

texts:
Hi and thanks in advance

Samsung Galaxy S 3 Mini, gt-i8190n, android 4.1.2

My problem: there are preinstaled/default/built in images for sound files that appear in Music Player (they're ugly for me)

That's what I write about.

My question: where can I find them, what is the path to the folder with them, can they be accessed without rooting, can they be switched?
I don't need to nor I want to change album artwork with any app, I don't need to have  album artwork matched with every sound file, I'd just like to switch up those random built in images to some that don't hurt my eyes with their ugliness :P
And I'd really, really like to know where they are and what is path to them, even if I won't be able to change them, but at least to satisfy my curiosity, and I'd appreciate an answer with those informations the most.

Please and thank You :)


texts: How can I store my Google maps (and maybe directions) offline when previewing directions?

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I want to ask directions when I have a Wifi connections, then preview the route and store the maps offline for the entire route - so that when I'm underway I can just let GPS pick up my location and show me a map (and preferably the directions).

I can store single maps if I'm not in directions preview, but can I do it while I'm previewing directions?

I found these posts with many alternatives but first I'm looking for a solution in the Google Maps app itself.


texts: How to mount a tmpfs directory that would be allowed to be read and written to by any app? (root available)

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I am trying to create some volatile (tmpfs) storage for my Android, to avoid clutter.
I am trying to follow the previous questions:
making manually mounted partition folders write accessible to all apps
and
How to bind mount a folder inside /sdcard with correct permissions?
The way I am doing is by adding an "init script" into a magisk "service.d" directory:
# cat /sbin/.magisk/img/.core/service.d/001-tmpfs.sh

#!/system/bin/sh
while [ "$(getprop sys.boot_completed)" != 1 ];
do
  sleep 1
done

su -mm -c mount -v none -t tmpfs -o size=4g,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime,context=u:object_r:sdcardfs:s0,uid=0,gid=9997,mode=0777 /mnt/runtime/write/emulated/0/Download/tmpfs-cleared-on-reboot

Seems plain and simple, only doesn't work in the sense that the folder is mounted successfully, and files disappear after a reboot, if copied there by root. But an ordinary app cannot copy anything there. FX Explorer, for example, says "Access was denied."
It does work though if I set setenforce 0, which seems to indicate that there is a SELinux problem.
The only relevant error in dmesg looks the following:
[ 3181.763111] [20200731_13:36:57.002188]@1 type=1400 audit(1596173815.897:12245): avc: denied { create } for pid=5870 comm="Thread-139" name=233339202D5370656E63657220477265656E62657267206F6E20696E7472696E7369632076732E20696E737472756D656E74616C2076616C7565732C206F766572636F6E666964656E63652C20616E6420686F7720746F2061637475616C6C79207570646174652062656C6965667320696D70726F76656420617564696F2E6D7033 scontext=u:r:untrusted_app:s0:c104,c256,c512,c768 tcontext=u:object_r:sdcardfs:s0 tclass=file permissive=0

It appears if I try to copy some file into this directory.
ls -lahZ /mnt/runtime/write/emulated/0/Download/ gives
drwxrwxrwx   2 root everybody u:object_r:sdcardfs:s0   40 2020-07-31 13:25 tmpfs-cleared-on-reboot

ls -larhtZ /storage/emulated/0/Download/
drwxrwxrwx   2 root everybody u:object_r:sdcardfs:s0   40 2020-07-31 13:25 tmpfs-cleared-on-reboot

Which is strange, because the other files in the directory have permissions like this:
drwxrwx--x   2 root sdcard_rw u:object_r:sdcardfs:s0 4.0K 2020-07-30 20:04 pdfs-scientific_papers-toread

the group is different. I am not sure whether this is related or not.
But anyway, I cannot copy anything into this directory as a normal app.
I can copy stuff there as root, and it disappears on reboot, as expected. But where is the permissions problem?
This is Android 9 on OnePlus 5t.


texts:
Recently I have rooted my Android phone to third party custom ROM. After rooting, I have gone through many articles which says rooting cause serious security issues.

Now my question is: how safe is my Skype? Can anyone access my Skype account? Can anyone record the video conversation of mine? The provider of custom ROM has any hold or control over my phone?


texts: Is there anyway to upgrade to jelly bean while internal memory and resetting

texts: I have a Samsung Galaxy S3 with ICS. I want to upgrade my phone to Jelly Bean OS, but I don't have a good enough WiFi connection or enough knowledge, so I want to take the phone to a phone repair center to be upgraded. I have lot of sensitive files on it. I cant remember where some of them were in My phone. Is it possible to upgrade it to Jelly Bean while factory resetting the Phone, because the repair people should not have access to internal files ?. I can do this in my old phone by completely removing everything but I don't know about Android phones.


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I'm trying to run commands in a script that needs to be run as superuser. I tried doing this with here documents but wasn't successful. ( I used to be able to use it with tsu in Termux).
Does anyone know a reason why it shouldn't work or a way to get it to work.
Here is the code that used to work but doesn't work anymore.
#!/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/bin/bash
... begining of script Just some regular commands

sudo touch s
tsu << EOF
    echo "Test" > s
    exit
EOF

echo after here doc

The results currently from this script is
echo "Test" > s
exit
after here doc

The 2 first lines should not appear at all and they should be in the file s. But the file s is empty.
I have also tried the following code but with the same results.
sudo touch s
sudo -s << EOF
    echo "Test" > s
    exit
EOF

echo after here doc

I have also googled this and haven't found anything to help me. All suggestion work in regular linux but not in Termux. Here is one example of what I have tried.
Any suggestion or help will be appreciated.


texts: Nexus 7 refuses to pair with in car audio?

texts:
I have a Nexus 7 running Android 4.4 and an in car stereo unit (Alpine CDE-178BT). I have enabled bluetooth on both devices but they refuse to pair with each other.

If I attempt to initiate the pairing using the Nexus 7, it starts connecting, I am prompted to allow the device to pair on the Alpine unit, but upon allowing the pairing to take place on the Alpine unit, the device drops into the "paired" list on the Nexus 7 but doesn't connect. Subsequent attempts to connect by tapping on the car stereo in the bluetooth paired devices list on the Nexus 7 resumes in a momentary attempt to connect and then the entry resetting back to its "paired but not doing anything" state.

If I attempt to initiate the pairing using the Alpine CDE-178BT, after making the Nexus 7 temporarily visible and searching for bluetooth devices using the Alpine unit, I see an entry for the Nexus 7 but any attempt to pair with it just results in a generic "Failed" message on the car stereo.

The car stereo works fine for connecting to an iPhone/iPad/other iOS device and older (pre version 4) Android devices, it is just Android devices running a more recent version of Android that it experiences issues with.

What steps can I take to attempt to resolve this issue?


texts: Samsung Keyboard of keybinding of switching input methods

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How do I disable the 'Shift + Space' keybinding of Samsung Keyboard, which triggers the toggling of input methods? I use a physical keyboard, and it is quite easy (and annoying) for my system to misinterprete my ' Capital letter followed by a space' into switching the input methods.

Also I don't want to root my device.


texts: How do I sent an "over-sized" video via my Anrdoid?

texts:
When I try to e-mail my 10-minute videos to my gmail account, but when I try to attach the videos the phone gives me this error: 'File is too large and cannot be attached'.  Can't reproduce because my Android is hooked up to USB, but I'll edit--

S3x--

What's any convenient way to upload/send a video without having to get out the USB?  Can I do it without using any 3rd-party apps, or at least using safe 3rd-party apps?   Youtube is an option, I believe, but I want to have a hard copy on my PC for editing.  Attachments are more convenient.


texts: Is there a way to remove the Guest account?

texts:
Lollipop has put an emphasis on multiple users, which is just irksome on a personal phone. I don't need a guest account and I don't need a bright blue user icon reminding me I could be someone else.

I've disabled adding a guest from the lock screen (really a sensible default?!), and I've logged in as guest, pulled down and clicked "Remove Guest". But back in my normal account I still see the guest account icon when I pull down the top bar and click the blue user thing.

Is there a way to completely disable the guest feature?


texts: S Galaxy mini 2 rebooting every 12 seconds... I'd like at least to save some data!

texts:
A pair of months ago I bought my first smartphone, so I am quite the noob. Suddently last week it decided to restart every 12-13 seconds (literally), as long as I don't remove the battery, and I can't find a solution on the internet. Of course I could give it to the support, but they warned me that by this way I'll lose all my data, while I'd like to save at least some. On the internet I found a couple of people with my same problem and no answer (if we exclude the "I left it in its frenzy the whole night, when I woke it was resolved", which in my case mysteriously didn't work) can you help me?

DETAILS - Samsung Galaxy mini 2 GT-S6500, no SD

THE INCIDENT - I was playing a game when it freezed (no answer from any button short of the 8 seconds forced shut down), as it had already happened, so I pressed the "off" button and started waiting, since it usually worked; I fell asleep, and when I woke up the screen was on and black. When I restarted it manually it started the evil madness. I had not installed any new app, or so I remember.

FAILED TREATMENTS
- Can't enter recovery mode by holding Volume up (+), Volume down (-) and Home button and then power on the phone. Nor does any combination of Volume, Power and Home work in any way...


texts:
I'm 100 percent sure that it's possible because I managed to do it a few months ago, but now I do not know (don't remember) how to do it again. It looks like someone can help here.

Thanks in advance.


texts: Can one app read text field(s) of other apps?

texts:
I was wondering if it is possible in Android to write an app that runs in the background and gets the text entered into a TextField of another app. More concretely, is it possible to have an app run in the background that allows to obtain the content that is typed in the textfield for sending messages in WhatsApp or gtalk? Imagine for instance that before sending the content through WhatsApp, I want to preprocess the text and only then send it, but this pre-processing shall be somehow automatic.

On a desktop this is possible to build but I am not sure if one can build this for Android phone devices. Maybe one could catch all inputs done with a keyboard that are sent to a certain app, but I guess this is not possible to prevent keyloggers etc. Is there any alternative to achieve this goal?

I would like to do it without rooting the phone.

Essentially, what I want to do is to have a keyboard where the user can type using the standard english letters but the typing is automatically translated to hindi text + some annotation added after each word.


texts: Galaxy S5 G900V startup failure with inconsistent symptoms making troubleshooting difficult

texts:
o/

My Samsung Galaxy S5 suddenly and quickly started deteriorating a few days ago. I did also install a software update from Verizon about a week ago, but what's odd is how the symptoms worsened gradually. (Why would software do that?)

It started with occasional, random power-offs. No worries, I just rebooted.
Later, some of those times I started seeing "SECURE FAIL: KERNEL" in red. 1 or 2 extra reboots, though, and I'd be good to go.
Yesterday, the phone shut off a few times, taking more reboots to get things going.
Now, sometimes the power button doesn't respond (not even the vibration). When it does, sometimes nothing shows up on the display. If a display shows, it might hang on the Samsung GALAXY S5 "Powered by Android" loading screen—but that's not as common.* More common is simply going to that "SECURE FAIL: KERNEL" screen. I've been rebooting for an hour now—probably 20+ times—with no success in getting a full boot.

* This screen actually says "Custom" as well, with an unlocked padlock icon. But I've never rooted a phone, nor done anything "custom." I read something about ART vs. Dalvik and that it's normal for this phone. Plus, that started showing up months ago, so I'm guessing it's unrelated.

Given the variety of symptoms—from the power button not responding to this "SECURE FAIL: KERNEL" message, and also the gradual degrading of successful reboot attempts, am I correct to conclude that this is more likely a hardware issue than software, e.g. the update to Lollipop, if that's what it was?

Some other notes that may contain clues for the more experienced:

I did manage to get into recovery mode once, and wiped the cache.
The other two attempts left me with a screen saying "SECURE FAIL: RECOVERY".
Sometimes the phone seems to start up by itself after 10+ minutes of not being touched, having a black display, and no indicator lights.
While plugged in and in the above state, I don't see the green battery charging animation. Maybe that means it's not really "off" but stuck in some software block or loop.
Once I did see the battery animation, and the battery was at 88%, so I think the battery's okay.
This is a S5 G900V that I purchased new from Verizon in October 2015.

Thanks in advance. I wish it would start up properly just once so I can get some data off the phone's memory.

An interesting development.

While typing this post, it got past "SECURE FAIL: KERNEL", but froze at the Samsung logo animation. Then, the display went black, while the blue indicator light stayed on. A few minutes later, the phone restarted itself, passed the Powered by Andoird screen as it usually does, and hit "SECURE FAIL: KERNEL." I rebooted again, and saw something I saw only once before, "SECURE FAIL: Modem."


texts: Chrome redirects to messenger on Samsung mobile

texts:
I have been getting redirect notices on my Samsung Google Chrome browser with a link to messenger.  I once installed messenger but I have never used it nor do I even have a Facebook account.

But now it makes it appear like I am using play store secretly use messenger and my spouse believes I am secretly using messenger. I need someone’s help...here is the last link
https://www.google.com/url?q=chrome-native://recent-tabs/&usg=AFQjCNGr_fE_CEo3dlMRGaW3TnfE3S3U6Q


texts: Broke screen, how to perform Nandroid/TWRP backup blindly?

texts: I have broken my HTC One (M8)'s display (and probably more) while attempting to replace the battery, and I'm selling it via eBay for parts. How do I attempt a full Nandroid backup with TWRP and then wipe the device securely, blindly? I have no screen whatsoever in the device, as the original one is broken. I had TWRP installed, as I mentioned. Is this possible via adb or fastboot? They seem to be working. I have S-Off and can get to the bootloader via commands.


texts: Samsung Galaxy Gio isn't being recognized via USB

texts:
I've been using Samsung Galaxy Gio for about 3 years, I have no problem in connecting my phone to my old PC. But I've just move to the new laptop, now I can't make my laptop to recognize my device.

But now I use USBDeview to view USB devices connected to my computer, I see this:

which clearly says that the device is successfully connected to the computer.

I also hearing "Device connected" sound effect multiple times after I plugged in the device.

I have Samsung USB Driver version 1.5.33.0 installed. (Downloaded from XDA Developers)

How can I fix this?

Regards,
Sarun


texts: Unfortunately google play store has stopped

texts: I installed Android 6.0 on my one plus x phone last week. Now I see these errors pop up, "unfortunately google play store has stopped" & "unfortunately google play services has stopped". I searched so many websites but no use.  How can I fix this?


texts: Unable to open Wikipedia app on Android TV

texts:
I have Mi TV 4a pro and I want to open Wikipedia app on it. I had installed Wikipedia app on TV via pendrive but when I open the app it crashes. Is there is any way?

Further I had installed chrome browser on TV and when I search on it then it works fine and show results. But how can I open the links? Like when I search "mathematics", it shows Wikipedia link in results but how do I open that link? (As I have TV remote not a mouse to click on link)  Please help.


texts: How to receive call and force that call to ring indefinitely to the caller but not the receiver

texts:
My ultimate goal is to handle incoming calls that are obviously robospam, in such a way so that the robocaller cannot detect that this is a valid phone number with a real human at the end (including voicemail). If the robospammer detects that it is a valid number, they will record it for future spams. So I want that number to ring and ring indefinitely, and not go to voicemail.

Most importantly, even if they have prior knowledge that I have picked up and hung up, or they left voice mail in previous attempts at reaching a live human at this phone number, I still want to send the call to the "ring indefinitely" state, and not go to voice mail, such that the caller hears the ringing, but the receiving phone stops ringing. The reason is that eventually the robospam problem has increased to the extent that, by my current practice off simply allowing all of them to go to voicemail (e.g., flipping the phone over to trigger the proximity sensor logic which then pushes it to voicemail), means that I have the ever increasing burden of listening and deleting the voicemails that are obviously spam. And that is a waste of time and distracting.

So, is there a way to configure a Samsung Galaxy Note 8, under the AT&T carrier, to allow me to ring indefinitely, and not go to voicemail, and not be answered with some automated message? I'm not interested in rooting the phone.

Various Contact and Phone Tools - Android App Overview - IzzyOnDroid has a listing of related apps, but none are exactly what I'm after.


texts: How can I detect if my phone is in a "Normal calls are restricted by access control" state, blocking incoming and outgoing calls

texts:
Sometimes this error occurs on my cell (a Lenny 2 with android 5.1). I'll only notice the error when I try to make a call, there are no obvious warnings that something is erroneous i.e. signal strength is fine - perfect.
I can't receive calls then either, this can be pretty bad as you can imagine.

I tried the standard things, resting to factory defaults, only using the stock apps, updating everything, contacting phone manufacturer and network provider to no avail.

When the error occurs, its easily fixed by switching into airplane mode for a sec and back again.

What I would like to do:

Create a small app that periodically checks if I can do a call or can be called i.e. checking if the device is connected to the network correctly.
And if something isnt working correctly, it automatically does the airplane-mode switch.

Is there a method for doing such a test, without actually dialing a
number?


texts: I have an unrooted galaxy S6, Verizon, and Android 5.1.1 on it.Each night I fully charge my phone,  and it never leaves my pocket after 6 am or gets used until 2 pm. At 2, the battery may be around 90% or it may be at 50% without any use. I discovered the battery was much lower if I had Wi-Fi on,  even though I was never connected to Wi-Fi. Battery chart in settings says Google services or Google play services used all the battery.Please help,  I've tried everything I can think of,  and I'm usually good at this sort of thing.


texts: There is a program for Android, WifiKill, which disables wifi internet access of some neighbor peers connected to the same wifi AP. How does this program works? ARP poisoning or some other techniques?


texts: My Samsung Galaxy S3 keeps on restarting every time

texts: Why does my Samsung Galaxy S3 phone keep on restarting every time. It's getting worse. Now even without touching the power button it starts by itself. What might cause this and how do I resolve it?


texts: When I uninstall updates of system apps is it persistent?

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I don't want some apps updated (especially some of built-in apps). If I uninstall updates in settings is it for good or only to next phone restart?
(I want to have auto updating in google play enabled)

Thanks a lot for answering.


texts: I once had to log in my Google account on my friend's phone and I  delete my account on his phone. Is there any way for me to remotely delete my Contacts on my friend's devices?


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A friend of mine purchased a ZTE V768 Concord from ZTE. It was not under any contract, but it is still locked to use any foreign SIM-card anyways.

We are far away from the US, so is there any way to unlock it?

I know those services like this, but I don't think those could provide me an unlock code, can they?

So, any way to unlock it? Thank you!


texts: Locked out of my Samsung Galaxy Player 5.0

texts: I have been locked out of my Galaxy Player. When I clicked on "forgot password" it told me to log in to my Google Play account. I forgot my password to it too. I need help to figure out how to change my password to it.


texts: How to do port forwarding over Android USB tethering?

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So, for the time being I'm stuck plugging my phone into my PC and using USB tethering to connect to Wi-Fi.

One of my games requires port forwarding for online play, and I'm having trouble getting it to connect. I've gone to my router settings and forwarded the appropriate ports from the phone's internal IP address, but still nothing. Here are the ports needed in case it helps:

DirectPlay7 47624 47624 TCP/UDP
DirectPlay8 6073 6073 UDP
DPlay7&8 2300 2400 TCP/UDP
Outlaws 5310 5310 TCP

I've also been fiddling with Telnet and ADB, but to no effect. Any suggestions?


texts: How to access the microSD card on Asus Transformer?

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Is it possible to access the microSD card on an Asus Transformer or is there some way to mount this so it is accessible remotely?

When connected via USB to a PC the SD card in the keyboard dock is available but the microSD card in the main tablet is not.

I have read some articles for similar Android devices which mention that the microSD card is mounted but I can't seem to see it.

It would be good to not have to remove the microSD from the main tablet every time I want to copy files to it since ejecting it isn't exactly easy!

Edit I've used the rather nice http://code.google.com/p/swiftp/ FTP tool, from this I can't see the microSD card either.

Edit Part Deux I've actually returned the Asus Transformer as there were too many problems with it, whether these were Asus problems or Honeycomb problems I couldn't determine. caveat emptor


texts: Moto G on cyanogenmod 13 has a black screen but phone seems to be running in background

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I have the CM13 installed on my Moto G (Falcon).

Last week, I left the phone on charge longer than usual and I came back to find dark screen. I have tried restarting it and I can feel the phone vibrate when it powers back on, however I cannot see anything on the screen. When the phone is "on" or I press the lock button, it goes from the shade of black to a shade of gray.

I have tried connecting it to the adb but adb shell doesn't recognise any device.

The phone must be working though as the alarm goes off every morning.

I have tried looking at several solutions on the web with little success.

Any help is appreciated.


texts: How to backup app in adb without using "backup"?

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My Nexus 6 has a completely broken screen, but other parts of the phone seem to work fine. It is rooted, CWM recovery installed and USB debug enabled. Now I want to copy some of my old data to my new phone. The problem is:

I cannot unlock the screen since the screen is broken, so booting normally doesn't work. adb devices -l shows nothing since the phone is screen locked.
CMW recovery has a touch interface, so I cannot use that either.
I managed to enter the stock recovery mode and I can pull data using adb. But I can't run adb backup because it asks for confirmation on the screen.

Does anyone have any idea what should I do? Is there a way to backup without using "adb backup"?


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My smartphone has sensors those:

Step Detector                                   | Qualcomm                         | 0x0000001e | on-demand         | no batching support | last=<0.000000>
Step Counter                                    | Qualcomm                         | 0x0000001f | on-demand         | no batching support | last=<0>

I think , when I shake phone (or when walk), Step Detector is running and send a data to applications.
If I'm right, I can send a fake event with ADB connection. But I can't find anything about this.

For example:

  adb shell sendevent StepDetector


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I have an android phone(1) on 2.3.3 and a tablet(2) on preorder that will be on 3. (And a bad gadget habit.)

Can I, when the tablet arrives, uninstall paid apps on the phone and install them on the tablet? It feels like I should be able to since I've paid for a copy of the app linked to that Google account it shouldn't matter which linked device it's on. (Why? Some stuff I've paid for will look better/be more useful on the tablet.)

I've looked online, but most people are asking about moving paid apps from broken phones (ie when they can't uninstall from the first device) or trying to run the same paid app on multiple devices which is piracy/cheap.

(1) nexus one
(2) xoom


texts: I have a Moto G first generation that is stuck on the M boot screen.  I have tried going to recovery and wiping cache but the cache wipe does not complete even after hours (it stays on wiping/formatting cache).  Is there a way to back up what's on the phone without it booting (so I can then try the factory reset)?  Thanks!


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I bought my phone originally in China so I installed all the Google Services later.
Now I have some problems left:

When I'm searching for my location on Maps it doesn't really work

But more important for me:

My Google Calendar won't sync (and apparently neither my contacts), look at the screenshot - this was after I pressed sync and everything else synced:

Anyone an idea what I should look at in order to find out why after pressing sync those two didn't sync and what I could do about it?


texts: Can't set cortana as default voice assistant

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I have a Samsung Galaxy S3. I recently downloaded Cortana for android. There are multiple articles showing how to set her over Google now as default voice assistant. None seem to apply to my phone.

Is it simply not possible, or am I just doing it wrong?

If it's not possible, which Samsung Galaxy series does it start at? S4, S5?

If it's possible, please provide details of how to go about it. Because simply holding down the home button does not give me the option.

Thanks,

Alex


texts: Phone repeatedly boots (restarts by itself) when kept on hard surface

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I have got a Xperia SP C5302 which began to show problems from yesterday. It is repeatedly getting restarted by itself whenever I am placing it on any kind of hard surface(ex: table) but works fine when I am holding it in hand or keeping it on top of mattress.

What I have tried -

Did factory rest couple of times but nothing fruitful.
Did a software repair through Sony PC Companion but it didn't work.
Tried googling in and around but no good result as of now.

Phone is running stock rom 12.1.A.1.205 Android – 4.3 Jelly Bean

Let me know if any further information is required from my side.


texts: How join an existing Google Meet meeting from widget, with an URL?

texts: We have a regular "chat" meeting in our group, and we use a Google Meet URL for this meeting, always the same, and we meet at known times a day. I've just received one list with all meets code. How can I insert this meet from my schedule without any e-mail? How can I create "widget" with this received link?.