texts: Samsung Galaxy S5 upgraded Chrome version from 55 to 73. adb logcat not tracking network calls

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I am developing automation test suite for monitoring Chrome browsers network calls on Android mobile device. My code was working fine with Chrome v72.

After upgrading Chrome version to 73. My code is not working. In debugging I realized that adb logcat is tracking browser network calls.

Output with Chrome v55 for adb -d logcat|grep "timesofindia":

03-30 16:27:48.586 16802 16802 I chromium: [INFO:CONSOLE(199)] "city for the weather data..Ahmedabad", source: https://m.timesofindia.com/cityweather_js_v2.cms?v=2406 (199)

Output with Chrome v73 for adb -d logcat|grep "timesofindia":

Nothing

Do I have to change some configurations for fixing this issue? Please help me.


texts: Run adb command inside the terminal emulator or programmatically without root

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Is there a way to run theadb backupcommand on the device itself without using a ᴘᴄ computer ?

Of course when I try to do it,adbcomplains the daemon isn’t started and it fails to find a device.

u0_a192@klimtwifi:/ $ adb connect localhost:9999
* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5038 *
* daemon started successfully *
unable to connect to localhost:9999:9999
u0_a192@klimtwifi:/ $ adb connect localhost:5038
connected to localhost:5038
u0_a192@klimtwifi:/ $ adb shell
error device not found
u0_a192@klimtwifi:/ $


texts: How can I determine if a device is really running Android?

texts: In our area there is gadget called "IRobot" which the supplier claims has Android 1.4 inside. I am afraid that it might be a "fake" version of the Android OS. I do not have experience with Android so are there any guidelines I can use to check that a device is really running Android? Also, is there a way to check if a version of Android can be updated?


texts: This may sound a bit lazy, but does anybody know of an app or a method that can automatically reboot one's phone? I sometimes forget to reboot it daily (I like keeping my OS fresh).


texts: Is it possible to get an answer to a silent sms from a turned off phone?

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Silent SMS
Silent messages, also known as “silent tms”, “stealth sms” or “stealth
ping”, are employed nowadays to locate a person and thus to create a
complete movement profile. They do not show up on a display, nor
trigger any acoustical signal when received.

I heard it is also possible to get an answer to such a silent SMS from a phone that is completely turned off (sure there must be some energy in the battery still)
How would that work?


texts: Any Android keyboards that operate & feel like you're using an iPhone iOS keyboard?

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I've been using iOS since iPhone 1 and now am on iPhone 5.

Hence, at times I find bunch of Android things confusing and unfamiliar.

So, in addition to launcher's that work well for iPhone users, I'd like to find suitable way to make the keyboard comfy/ match an iPhone user.

Is there any launcher app that behave like Iphone?

One of the primary interactions one has with the phone is its keyboard which comes into play with every app i.e. messaging, notes and so on.

Few times I considered moving to Android and just felt out of place using Android keyboard.

I do not like the Swype keyboards etc as well.

Given that Android supports variety of custom keyboards, I was hoping that someone replicated the exact "typing feel, interaction & look" of iPhone iOS keyboard on Android for people who are coming in from the other side.

I do not really care for the "look" but would like to have "it feel" as if I am wearing the iPhone "glove" that fits well.

I'm not just looking for color and shape, but "behavior" & "responsiveness" and full emulation/ copying of iPhone keyboard behaviors E.g. How the iphone letters of "pop up above the key" around when pressed.

I'm sure there are other intricate behaviors that someone with a fine eye or UI/UX insight would be able to observe and then maybe replicate/ hack towards Android.


texts: Can I access my Android through ADB if the phone can only get to the fastboot menu?

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I would like to recover message attachments from a Pixel 3 that died recently. (Yes, I should have had them saved and backed up, but I missed that option for message attachments.)

However, the phone is minimally functional. If the phone could turn on, I could sync those files and be done. It also appears that I need to turn the phone on to enable usb debugging for ADB. I can reach the fastboot menu by holding the power and volume down buttons, but if I try to go past that into "Start" or "Recovery Mode" or even "Rescue Mode," the phone powers off again.

While in the fastboot menu, I can see that a Pixel 3 device is connected by usb to my computer. I have installed Android Studio, Android SDK, and the Google USB drivers. The phone appeared as "LeMobile Android Device" at first, but after changing the driver to Google's it is now "Android Device"--"Android Bootloader Interface."

Running adb devices returns an empty list even while Device Manager shows it is attached (probably because I can't turn the phone on and enable usb debugging).

I'm out of ideas, and am looking for ADB tips to try. What can I try next? How can I get the phone to start or to get access to the phone without leaving the fastboot menu?

Thanks.


texts: How do you keep your phone vibrating indefinitely?

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I'm suspecting that the vibrator in my phone is not working properly. Before opening the case, I'd like to diagnose first. I need to make my phone keep vibrating for a while, say, like 2 minutes or more. I haven't found any good solution other than calling this phone with another.

I'd like to keep it vibrating without generating other sound, e.g. ringtone when someone calls you.


texts: Remove app notification when app opens from launcher

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I have looked all over the place and cannot seem to find a way to automatically remove an app's respective notification upon the app opening from the app launcher. In iOS this behavior was just a given but, in Android the notifications remain even after opening the app.  If I open the app from the notification, the notification is cleared out, but I may not want to open the app from the notification because it may take me to a part of the app that I don't want to go to (like directly into a particular email rather than the inbox).

I am on a Note 9 running 8.1.0.  Not rooted.


texts: What is the effect of "power saving mode"?

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Android OS from ICS and above has a "power saver mode" by default (I own a samsung)
What does this mode actually do?

If it reduces clock speed of cpu, then by how much?

How does it attain this power saving? By limiting cpu? Gpu?


texts: How do I fix my NATPC M010SE (Allwinner A13) touchscreen/WiFi/camera?

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My tablet wasn't booting at all but my dad managed to install this firmware update, now the touchscreen doesn't work, or the WiFi, or the (front) camera. Any help? I've tried installing some TS drivers but these are designed for a specific Jelly Bean ROM, not ICS (which my tablet runs on).

I've tried flashing the suggested the Faaast JB ROM suggested in the forum post where I found the TS drivers but I can't seem to get into update mode (and I've tried holding down the volume up button and then the power button and then plugging in the USB connection and pressing the power button lots or just holding it down - I've also tried sudo adb reboot-bootloader with the device connected but it just reboots it, not into the bootloader.)

Edit #1: I can get into the bootloader with the command previously mentioned but it is in Chinese...can anyone give me a link to a translation somewhere? Because Chinese doesn't use the Latin alphabet I don't think I'll be able to type it into Google Translate...

Edit #2: Windows 8 doesn't have a driver to connect to the device and I have no idea how to get it. Can I flash the ROM using Ubuntu (because Ubuntu can detect the device)?


texts: chroot: can't execute /init.sh: Permission denied - Error while want to start linux on Android

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Introduction:

I formatted a SDCard in ext4 and copied an ArchVersion on it to run it from Android like in this guide (step 7). Of course my device is rooted and I am running the following scripts and commands in the Terminal Emulator as superuser.

Device-info:

Phone: Sony Xperia Z1
Model number: C6903
Android version: 5.1.1
Build Number: 14.6.A.1.236

Issue:

After executing sh storage/emulated/0/linux/linux.sh 2> storage/emulated/0/linux/output.txtthe device ends up in Android again because the command chroot /data/local/mnt /init.sh can't execute /init.sh: Permission denied.

linux.sh:

#!/system/bin/sh

export LINUXROOT=/data/local/mnt
export TMPDIR=/tmp
export HOME=/root
export USER=root
export PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin:$PATH
export TERM=vt100

sh ./mount.sh # works fine
sh ./stopandroid.sh # works fine

echo "******* Your chroot-environment is starting now ********"
chroot $LINUXROOT /init.sh # can't execute /init.sh: Permission denied
echo "******* You exited the chroot-environment, unmounting... ********"

sh ./umount.sh
sh ./startandroid.sh

echo " ## DONE"

I already found some posts about this issue together with LinuxonAndroid and BusyBox. I do not use LinuxonAndroid and installed BusyBox from Google Play Store which should solve the problem when running another BusyBox-version what I do not.

Like it is stated here it may require to chmod 0755 /data/data/com.zpwebsites.linuxonandroid/files/busybox which is not possible in my case, because obviously the folder com.zpwebsites.linuxonandroid does not exist.

So I searched for busybox inside /data/data, found one file and changed permission: chmod 0777 data/data/stericson.busybox/files/bb/busybox.

I also changed the permissions of init.sh: chmod 777 init.sh

I also tried to run the command chroot /data/local/mnt /init.sh in the terminal with the same result.

After these changes I really do not have a clue whats wrong.

Any suggestions?


texts: Nexus 4 (Android 4.3) doesn't have "Advanced Settings"

texts: The majority of tweaks I see people mentioning online are in the "Advanced" settings panel, which my Nexus 4 lacks. Also missing are "Lock Screen" settings. Why are they missing from my Settings app, and how can I get them back? (preferably without having to mess around with custom ROMs/Cyanogen mod)


texts: Is it possible to run fastboot in a recovery mode shell (without connecting to PC)?

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I have a method for unlocking the bootLoader of my HP SlateBook x2 running Android v4.3 consisting of:

Booting into recovery.
Connecting to PC via USB cable.
Sending the command fastboot -i 0x03F0 oem unlock to the Android device.

But this device has an incredible problem: it sells without USB cable (LOL), so I have no USB cable at all.

But I have installed TWRP recovery, that includes a root command-line shell. So, as long as I can not connect via ADB bridge by using USB cable nor ADB via Wireless (the recovery mode does not detect the Wi-Fi card), I was wondering if it would be possible to use this shell to send the fastboot command from recovery mode in the stand-alone device (without any connection to PC, as long as it is not possible).

Any ideas, please?


texts: How to stop Whatsapp messages coming in lock screen

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I am using a mobile which is having Android Marshmallow. Whenever someone is sending a Whatsapp message to me when the phone is locked. The message is showing up in lock-screen as plain text.

So anyone can just pick up my phone and press the unlock button and they can see what someone texted me without unlocking the phone.

How to stop this from happening?


texts: Are there any custom ROM's for the Pantech Crossover?

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Possible Duplicate:
  Where can I find stock or custom ROMs for my Android device?

I can't find any ROM's that support the Pantech Crossover, since it's not a very popular phone. Are there any?


texts: Is there a shop like Cydia on iOS for Android?

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Most apps in the Google Play store have a free version and a paid version. On iOS there is a shop called Cydia, where you can try out most apps for free before you buy them in the App Store.

Is there such a store for rooted Androids as well?

I know of the store F-Droid for free software

  F-Droid is an installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software)


texts: Google Pixel 4a 5G AT&T branded vs. non-branded from Google Store

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Is there any technical advantage to ordering the Google Pixel 4a 5G from AT&T as opposed from the Google Store if I use the AT&T network?
Years back, I remembered that AT&T didn't support a bunch of features (like Wifi calling and some others) when you purchased the generic version of a Samsung phone. These features would be supported on the AT&T version of the Samsung smartphone.
Is that the case when I use the Google Pixel 4a 5G purchased from the Google store on the AT&T network or is there no difference?


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I used to have this problem with my Nexus One on T-Mobile, and now have it again on my Samsung Galaxy SII on Sprint. It seems like about every other MMS message I get will fail to download. It'll just sit in that "downloading" state forever. (Note: it is not actually a pattern of every other time.) I have the stock Android messaging app that comes with the phone.

I have found dozens of threads about this out there on various Android forums, but all of them seem to be pre-ICS and so I don't have the settings the solutions refer to. The solutions all seem to be really esoteric, too.

If I can make it stop getting "stuck" that's great, but I figure the easier question is as posted: once it gets in that stuck state, how can I force it to restart the download? That'd be enough to fix the issue for me.


texts: Android calendar data storage & transfer

texts: How can I transfer ALL stored calendar data (android, HUAWEI MATE 9 app) to Samsung galaxy note 8? Transfer has  been possible only for last year's data (2017). Not all previous years' data in calendar could be moved to new phone. I have used the "Smart Switch" app on both phones.


texts: Problem with apps. Going from iPhone to Android

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I had an iPhone and am switching to Android now.

When I sign into my Gmail, will it show all my iPhone apps on my new Android device?


texts: creating a pseudo sd card by partitioning the main drive of an android phone

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It seems like it's possible to mount the SD card of rooted android phone on a PC while the phone is connected to the PC via USB. This would be great for me because I want to keep essential files saved on my phone, edit them from the PC when I need to and bring them with me wherever I go. Unfortunately, the phones I want the most (nexus 4, HTC one, HTC one x with 64gb) don't have SD cards. Is it possible (on a rooted phone with cyanogenmod) to partition the "HD" on a phone without an SD card and then use that partition as described above? (The format of the partition is not very important to me.)

Will the solution suggested here[1] make it possible to mount the .img file on the PC while the phone is connected via USB?

[1] https://android.stackexchange.com/a/27146/29982


texts: How to run "parted" command in terminal emulator on my android smartphone

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Updated question (2018/2/20)

Thanks to grawity's answer and comment, my question can be updated.

My final goal is to acquire detailed partitioning information (including the start and end address of each partition on my android phone), either using fdisk or parted.

How to "install" the parted command into my android smartphone?
Can I use fdisk on a Linux system or on Cygwin on a windows system? Knowing that fdisk brought by BusyBox can't handle GPT.
(If so, maybe I could post another question.)

The original question (2018/2/19)

I have installed Busybox on my smartphone, and I want to acquire detailed partitioning information, including the start and end address of each partition on my android phone.

I can use fdisk command, but maybe because my phone's disk is GPT instead of MBR, command "fdisk -l" shows no output.

So I want to use the command "parted". But I don't have it on my smartphone. How can I get it?

I've traveled to GNU website of "parted". But what I can download is only source code. Do I need to compile that? If so, how do I compile that? Can I compile the source code with MinGW on a PC with Windows system?

If I get the "parted" file, where should I put it to make it work? Is it under /system/bin?

I haven't found a usable "parted" file yet. Is it because of my bad google skill or the file has to be compiled differently for different devices?

I hope to find an official version of the "parted" file.

EDIT (2018/2/19)

I do know my storage is GPT because fdisk -l /dev/block/mmcblk0 tells me.
And I've read on the net that fdisk can't handle GPT, while parted can. I'm just not sure why fdisk -l is showing nothing.

fdisk -l /dev/block/mmcblk0

Disk /dev/block/mmcblk0: 15 GB, 15634268160 bytes, 30535680 sectors
1908480 cylinders, 1 heads, 16 sectors/track
Units: cylinders of 16 * 512 = 8192 bytes

Device             Boot StartCHS    EndCHS        StartLBA     EndLBA    Sectors  Size Id Type
/dev/block/mmcblk0p1    0,0,0       0,0,0                1   30535679   30535679 14.5G ee EFI GPT
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary


texts: Right to Left English for left handed people

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I have a big phone (Moto G). I'm left-handed, so everything on the left of the screen would be so much more convenient on the right, and vice versa.

But wait, Android 4.2 introduced Right-to-left (RTL) layouts! The problem is that I don't speak any RTL languages, just English.

My understanding is that Android sets whether it's LTR or RTL, and any app can read this setting to display an appropriate layout. Can I set my Android device to be right to left while still using English?


texts:
I am attempting to root at RK3188 Mini PC I bought from amazon.
I believe I have found the drivers, but cannot figure out how to connect a USB cable to the device to connect to my PC to root.

Please see pictures below:

http://i.stack.imgur.com/SgauW.jpg

http://i.stack.imgur.com/gLxA9.jpg

As you can see the device has a:
HDMI port,
Charging port,
USB port,
Audio port,

The device takes 2 Amps to power, through the charging port.  I could try connecting a microUSB (?) to usb cable to the PC, but I believe it will not be enough to power the device as USB ports only supply up to 500mA.  I could also try a USB A to A cable, but I also fear damaging both devices.

Any suggests appreciated!
Thank you!

Update
Used the micro USB to USB adapter and found the device powered on from a computer USB port.  Still confused as the device needs 2A to operate.


texts: How to disable the guest feature WITHOUT having to be the only user

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How can I disable the guest acount feature on my samsung galaxy s6 WITHOUT having to delete all users (other than me, the owner) or disabling the multiuser feature completely. I want to have users other than me, but I don't want the guest account. My device is rooted.

I found this other question. This question is not a dupe because the answers to the other question do not say how to do it without requiring myself to be the only user.

(My android version is 5.0.2, and my goal is to prevent anyone with physical access from being able to log in using this guest feature, and I don't want to encrypt my device or install custom recovery)


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I have Google backup turned off permanently, however my contacts are still backed-up somewhere to Google cloud. I discovered that yesterday from another device that offered me to recover my contacts from a current backup.

I'm perplexed because when I open Google Drive app, it says that my device is not backed-up.

Questions:

Where are the contacts backed up? On G-Drive, or elsewhere in my G-Account?
What more can I do to prevent Google from downloading my data to its cloud?

Details:
I have LG G6 (LG-H870, Android 8.0.0). In the Settings I have set:

Backup > Google Backup > Backup to Google Drive: Off
Users & Accounts > Auto-sync account: On, otherwise my (non-Google) e-mail is not synchronized, but:
Users & Accounts > my-google-account > Sync: all four sync switches are Off

In the Drive application:

Left menu > Backups: "Your device is not backed up"

My other phone is Xiaomi Redmi 4. Here:

Settings > Google > Restore contacts> Device backup list: It offers me to restore my contacts from LG-H870 created today. When I proceed, all my contacts are really restored.

The Google documentation for contacts backup,
https://support.google.com/contacts/answer/7199294?hl=en
instructs how to turn-off contacts backup.

The description of Settings > Backup > Google Backup > Backup to Google Drive says that:

  "Backup includes: Apps and app data, call history, contacts, device settings"

Edit: I've verified that my contacts are not in Google Contacts for my account.


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I'm doing:

pm clear com.twitter.android

And expecting to be log out from twitter app. But it is not working. I also tried to clear every app package with pm list packages -f, in case twitter store login key in some other system app.

But this didn't work too.

I tried also to remove all folders from /data/data/com.twitter.android

And I still logged in


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I use the YouTube app on my smartphone.

I want to know how I should proceed to search on a specific channel.

Because every search I make in the application takes into consideration all the internet sites.

And that's exactly what I do not want.


texts: Clicking Android's Back button launches a previously running app

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Sometimes, when users click Android's Back button to exit an app, the app exits, but a previously loaded app will suddenly start running (even though the user launched the current app directly from the launcher).

Is there a solution to fix this?

In the comments below, a specific example was requested...

Here is a specific example from a friend's device: He is running Lightning Launcher on Android KitKat.  He will play Sky Force 2014 and then after playing for a while, will launch another app to do something else.  When he exits the other app (happens with various apps) by pressing Android's Back button, Sky Force 2014 loads up again.


texts: How to Delete Voicemails from VVM App Using Tasker

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I have a Tasker program which first seeks out T-Mobile visual voice mail, using root, and then copies them to the internal SD card.  From there, they are auto-synced to a Dropbox account. The copying and syncing work fine, but I'm having trouble deleting the original messages in the /data/data directory.

The problem seems to be that the voice mails can be deleted, but the VVM app still shows them. They show up as voice mails, but with the play button greyed out, implying there's no audio file anymore. The other information, like caller, date, time, and message length, is still observable in the app.

The process for deleting the messages is simply to use a File Delete command within Tasker, again referencing the /data/data/... T-Mobile directory. Trying to delete the entire directory doesn't work.

Is there a way to remove the messages from the VVM app as well? Perhaps by using an intent?


texts: Is it possible to control refresh rate/frequency of Android phones camera

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I recorded a video of my TV screen using my android phone's camera but I was unable to stop the flickering TV screen. I tried different modes and effects in the camera app.
On searching for the reason I found in this Superuser post that the reason for this is difference in refresh frequencies of the TV screen and the camera.
So is their any way by which I may adjust the frequency of my phone's camera?


texts: Always see last-viewed group in Contacts

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Whenever I view Contacts it always defaults to the full list.

Is there a way to make it show the last-viewed Group of contacts? Or at the very least a specific group?

Thanks for any help!


texts: Questions regarding receiving 3G calls on my IDEOS

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My Android device is 3G capable, but does not have a front-facing camera. I am on a 3G network and I don't see any "video call" option in contacts. I'm wondering if I will be able to receive video calls so that I can just see them or maybe show my primary camera (back of the phone; the only camera) to them?

Also, if that was possible, can I toggle the camera off/on DURING the 3g call?
And does "data packet" need to be enabled to receive 3G calls?

EDIT: My device is Huawei IDEOS u8150 running Android 2.2 and if 3G video calls are not supported, can I find some custom ROM suitable for mine that can do this with the existing camera or some other workaround?


texts: Using android devices as wired webcams for computers?

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I have got myself a new phone, and I wonder - if I could use it as a webcam.
I know there are WiFi apps to stream video, but:
 1. My Wi-Fi network is slow (1-2 MiB/s max)
 2. The resolution, framarate and bitrate of video form these apps is very limited

Since I can access the device through ADB console via USB connection - I wonder if I could stream the video that way into my Linux PC, to then use it as a webcam in OBS Studio for preview and capture?

I wonder if there are apps that expose the phone as a webcam device that can be fully controlled from a PC (exposure, focus, zoom etc.).

If not - do you think creating such an app is even possible?

I guess hardware H.264 encoding is not a problem on the newer phones (mine is OnePlus 5T), and the webcam interface supports that - so it should even manage to push through 4K 30 FPS video if the bitrate is optimized for USB 2.0 transfer - right?

I'm thining about this, becasue the phone I have capures better video than my Logitech C920 webcam, however with the webcam I can do things I cannot do with the phone:

I can store and restore camera settings from PC easily (exposure, focus, zoom, white balance etc.)
I can preview the video in realtime on a big screen
I can capture it with whatever program I want (mostly OBS Studio)

Would it be possible to expose phones in a way that'd make PCs see them just like webcams so we can use them this way? It doens't have to be wireless.


texts: Hack ICS browser to restore "menu button exposes URL field"

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I just got a Galaxy S3, and I'm finally being forced to confront an aspect of ICS that I've hated from the moment it showed up on my Xoom: the fact that pressing the 'menu' button no longer drops down the URL field, and instead you're forced to scroll all the way back up to the top and pull it down to get at it.

Is there any known way to re-enable the original behavior (press the menu button at any time, see the "url" field drop down in editable form regardless of whether or not the page was scrolled all the way up to the top)?

Yes, I know about the "Labs" shortcut of swiping from the side. I find it extremely awkward and frustrating to use. Like many things in ICS, it uses gestures that lag in their initial visual presentation, then exhibit hair-trigger sensitivity for their selection and confirmation behavior. Half the time, I'll begin the swipe to bring it out, then give up 150ms later when it doesn't appear (only to have it show up after I've already let go), and about 25% of the time, my thumb ends up triggering the wrong target after bringing it out.

Update: pressing and holding the 'menu' button semi-works, but not quite. Sometimes, it makes the URL bar visible and selects the URL, but fails to bring up the actual soft input area (Graffiti). Sometimes, it makes the URL bar appear, makes the soft input area appear, then hides the URL bar the moment I let go of the menu button. For the moment, the problem is somewhat moot... I installed Chrome, and quit using the stock browser altogether due to the remote-wipe vulnerability (in the semi-naive hope that Chrome's alleged non-permission to make phone calls might prevent it from triggering).


texts: Insufficient storage updating Android app

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Every time my Nexus S attempts to update Chrome, It displays an error stating "Insufficient storage available". According to "Manage apps" I have 412MB of internal storage available, which should be more than enough.

Searching Google turns up plenty of people with the same issue, but no definitive answer.

How do I get Chrome to update?


texts: I'm with Virgin Mobile; should I buy Unlocked or Sprint-locked?

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I'm looking around at buying a Samsung Galaxy S5, and learning quite a bit about what GSM and CDMA are while I'm at it. In that respect though, I have no idea what Virgin Mobile is, though I know Sprint is CDMA, and the Galaxy S series, from what I understand, seems to be GSM. Virgin sells them, though, so I assume getting an S5 will be fine. I'm just wondering which one, locked or unlocked, will provide me with the easiest process when setting up the S5- or whether there'll be a difference.

I did read  from Virgin's help site: "Your non-Virgin Mobile phone needs to be unlocked to work on the Virgin Mobile network."
Not sure how relevant it is.
(From the last question in the Get Started section, about halfway down the page)
http://www.virginmobile.ca/en/support/sim.html?province=ON&geoResult=failed


texts: What is the difference between CFAutoRoot and CFRoot?

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I wanted to "root" my Android phone. Therefore I went to the XDA forums to download the root package. I found two versions of it: CF Auto Root and CF root.

I thought one has to modify the kernel to obtain permenent "root" rights. Therefore it was justified that the CF Root package is nothing but a modified kernel. However, I didn't quite understand what the CF Auto Root does that is different? Isn't it also a modified kernel??

What does the author mean when he says this:

  CF-Root (non-Auto) are manually built rooted kernels and/or flashables
  that usually provide more than “just root”. CF-Auto-Root is built on
  an automated system that I am constantly improving that takes a stock
  recovery image and returns an automated rooting packages. These
  packages are designed to install and enable SuperSU on your device, so
  apps can gain root access, and nothing more.

What does he refer as "automated" system??


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I have a Samsung Galaxy S3. A few days ago I noticed that the phone shut down on it's own, but when I plugged it to a charger it showed that the battery still had 20%. When I removed the battery I noticed that it is slightly swollen. Those look like signs of a busted battery to me.

Now, I bought a replacement, put it in, but the phone doesn't start or charge (not even the red diode is lighting). I've taken my phone to the store where I bought the replacement thinking that I got a broken battery, but the seller tested 2 other batteries (one no-name brand and one original Samsung battery), but neither worked. What does work however is the busted battery. I want to continue using my S3, but I'm at a loos as to how to fix it.

My best guess is that the battery level meter in the phone got decalibrated by the busted battery and the voltage levels on the good ones way too different for it to work.

Any advice?


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Is there a way of preventing an Android device from waking up/staying awake when a USB is device is plugged in?

I know Windows allows this in device manager. Is there a similar setting in Android or can I accomplish this via changing configuration over ADB/fastboot?

Actually, I'm using the LAVA SimulCharge adapter to connect power and a USB device. When the power is lost, I dont want android to stay awake.

UPDATE

Video to explain the issue
https://goo.gl/photos/FQxKmDRWKqxbwgPb6

Screen timeout set to 5 seconds to demonstrate.
Screen lock set to none (but same with swipe or PIN. Just will show the lock screen instead)
Pressing the power button turns off the screen momentarily, but wakes up almost immediately.
Sometimes After about 5 minutes of this, the EasyCAP light stops blinking and the screen turns off, but the device battery level drops about 10% per hour while its "asleep" unless the OTG adapter is removed.
Removing the power cable from the OTG adapter end (instead of the wall end as I did in the video) lets the tablet sleep properly.


texts: I originally solved a calendar sync problem using a post in the forum by deleting Google account and then adding. The calendar sync worked, but I realized I was missing all of my google contacts. After trying some things I still have no contacts (have restored them on my laptop so they are showing there) and now I have a sync error on both contacts and again in calendar with nothing showing in either.


texts: Installing custom recovery using Odin will erase data or not?

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My phone's model is sm-g5108q(SAMSUNG G5108Q Galaxy Core Max).

I'm going to install custom recovery on my phone.
But I can't found custom recovery package suitable my phone.
So I prepare custom recovery package similar version.

Installing custom recovery will erase data?
Is there any problem others?


texts: Which apps cannot be disabled (without root)?

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I need to know more about disabling built-in apps. Some apps can be disabled, but there are some which has "disable" button disabled.
Is there any way how to find out which apps cannot be disabled? (I know that disabling some of them (e.g. settings) doesn't make sense, but some apps look OK for disabling and it is not possible for them too). Is there some other problem with disabling them? (I heard that some of them enable themselves with restart of phone).

Thanks a lot for answering.


texts: How to install apps directly to the external sd card on the samsung galaxy y?

texts: Everytime while downloading apps from play store an error message occurs saying:"error while downloading insufficient space".what should i do to overcome this type of problem..can anyone help me out.I have already tried by installing "Android SDK" trick but it does'nt be helpfull because..... i think it works on windows 7 and i have windows 8.


texts: Icons are very pixelated with some icon packs

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I'm using Aviate at the moment and was trying to apply a new icon pack. While some packs are fine, most are awfully pixelated on my phone. In the following screenshots, the top screen is my 3.5' phone and the bottom one is my friend's 4.5' phone. I'm using "Blitz icon pack" here, but many other packs do this. "Sense 5 icon pack" for example, works fine on my phone.

Is this a hardware limitation? Is android incapable of anti-aliasing icons when they get resized?


texts: What does "Battery Use" tell and how is it implemented?

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I have several questions about "Settings -> About Phone -> Battery Use", mainly because I don't understand what exactly those items mean.

(1) Does "Cell standby" indicate the energy used by the radio communication with the towers when there is no voice/data communication?

(2) What does "Phone idle" indicate?

(3) What does "Android System" indicate, energy used by the OS code execution?

(4) What does "Mediaserver" indicate?

(5) What does "Android Core Apps" indicate?

(6) It also lists energy consumed by individual apps. I'm wondering if those items only include the energy consumed by CPU+RAM+Flash, because the energy used by display+wifi+cell is already listed separately without breakdown to apps. Am I correct?

(7) How does Android measure energy used by individual hardware component? For example, to measure energy used by display, does it measure by voltage and current or just measure by the time the display and/or backlight is turned on? If the latter is the case, how does it handle different hardware?

(8) How does Android measure energy used by CPU/RAM/Flash of each individual process? I guess for CPU, it may use exampling and find how long each process occupies the CPU, just like many performance profilers do. But for RAM and Flash, it seems to be very expensive to measure it on-line.

(9) Is information in "Batter Use" accurate? :-)

Any help would be highly appreciated. Thanks!


texts: Sharing decryption keys from OpenKeychain

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I want to create keys that I can use to sign & encrypt files, and share the decryption keys so people can read the encrypted files and see my signature.

I've successfully created an encryption/signing key in Alice device, and I'm able to encrypt messages and files with it that I can decrypt in Alice device.

However when I try to share the keys I get an .asc file that when imported on Bob's device, has a orange ? icon, and when try to decrypt the encrypted file, I get "No encrypted data with known secret key found in stream!"

Any idea what I might be doing wrong?

Screenshots (click images for larger variants)


texts: How to re-activate android device (with another email address)

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I have an android device (registered to my gmail account), which I want to give to someone else.

What steps do I have to take, so that the device is no longer activated/registered/linked with my email address, and can be re-activated with the other person's gmail account?

What happens with any apps installed on that device (bought using my account)? Should I remove them manually?


texts: See caller info without unlocking on Moto G 2nd gen

texts: In my Moto G 2nd gen, when a call arrives I can hear the ringtone, but the screen is black. I can't see who's calling. In order to see that I had to unlock my mobile. Is there any fix to this?


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Could I connect to a device over USB ADB, get a shell and then launch a VNC type graphical connection where I can use that device?

I have a android device at a customer remote premises and I want to flash a new rom then configure the device graphically, I have the flashing part covered but then I will need to be able to get the screen


texts: android boot with forceencrypt take a long time

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I am building cm-13.0 for oneplus bacon here. I want the ROM to encrypt on first boot, so I changed the flag in Android fstab file (device/oneplus/bacon/rootdir/etc) from encryptable to forceencrypt.
Before:
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/userdata     /data           ext4    noatime,nosuid,nodev,barrier=1,data=ordered,noauto_da_alloc,errors=panic wait,check,formattable,encryptable=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/reserve4
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/userdata     /data           f2fs    noatime,nosuid,nodev,rw,inline_xattr                            wait,check,formattable,encryptable=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/reserve4

after:
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/userdata     /data           ext4    noatime,nosuid,nodev,barrier=1,data=ordered,noauto_da_alloc,errors=panic wait,check,formattable,forceencrypt=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/reserve4
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/userdata     /data           f2fs    noatime,nosuid,nodev,rw,inline_xattr                           wait,check,formattable,**forceencrypt**=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/reserve4

and it worked, but the first boot took more than 2 hours. And I read on android development site (https://source.android.com/security/encryption/index.html)

What we’ve added for Android 5.0 Created fast encryption, which only
encrypts used blocks on the data partition to avoid first
boot taking a long time. Only ext4 and f2fs filesystems
currently support fast encryption. Added the forceencrypt flag to
encrypt on first boot.

How can I avoid this long boot time?
Note: if I keep the flag "encryptable" and boot the device then go to Settings -> security -> encryption and click encrypt, it will take less than 7 minutes for the process to finish. Why is it so long?


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In the Gmail app I have several mail accounts. Today this problem started to occur (it worked fine for months before).

In one mail account the sent messages got stuck. They are in the Outbox folder marked as "Queued". Every now and they they change to "Sending" and then back to "Queued". The other accounts (different servers) work fine. The server type is IMAP+SMTP. The outgoing server settings are identical to settings used on a laptop (Thunderbird app) where they work fine. The laptop and phone are in the same WLAN.

Is there some hidden log or anything that would give a hint? There are no error messages reported at all.


texts: Recovery Mode Does Not Work On Lenovo A390

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I Have a Lenovo A390 and I'm having trouble going into the recovery mode. Everytime I boot into recovery mode, a dead android icon with a red triangle appears and nothing happens.

The icon is like this:
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I waited 2-3 minutes and still nothing happens. What should I do? Should I install a custom recovery? Or what? I'm on stock and my phone is rooted, I rooted it using framaroot.
Please Help Me.
Thanks. :)


texts: I want to password lock my "Applications" settings, but no other settings

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I have an AppLock program that locks certain apps with a PIN.  In order for the app to have any effectiveness, I include Settings as an App to lock.  Otherwise, I could go to Settings -> Applications and simply kill the task.  The disadvantage to this is that if I lock Settings I cannot do simple tasks like Calling Settings and Display.  I would like the ability to fine tune exactly what settings I lock.  Is this possible?

I'm running Froyo on a Samsung Captivate.


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I've been running Link2SD on a year or so with no issues. I use an 16GB SD card with a 1GB second partition. I have most of my stuff linked to SD, but a few apps I just left on the first SD card partition. Within the past week or so, it seems I've lost my first partition. When I go to Storage Info in Link2SD, it shows the same stats for /mnt/sdcard and /data/sdext2. All the apps that were on my first partition are missing, along with all my music, pictures, and application data. File explorers on the phone just show the stuff from the second partition, as well.

When I connect via usb to a pc I can see all the files and folders on the first partition, so it is there and I can get to them via the phone's usb connection.

Is this a link2sd isssue or a "funny" with mounting the SD's first partition?

Any help gratefully accepted.


texts: How do I disable auto-sync in HTC Sync 3.3?

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Where in HTC Sync is the option to disable synchronization upon connecting the phone to the computer?

There used to be plenty of options in the old versions of HTC Sync. By old versions I mean versions like 2.0 that came with my phone. This is the version I have been using for two years now. I just thought I would update to get all the latest bells and whistles. But little did I know that the newest HTC Sync version is just one big splash screen with a picture of my phone on it and one big SYNC button. And it is very resource hungry.

I am downloading the new HTC Sync Manager right now. But I don't think it's compatible with HTC Desire or other older HTC devices. I think it's mainly made for the HTC One series of phones. So I don't expect much from it, but I'll give it a try anyway. Are there more sync options in Sync Manager than in the regular Sync?

What's a good alternative to HTC Sync that I can use with HTC Desire? Which ones are popular? I don't want anything too fancy. I don't need anything that's too much resource hungry and media focused. Just plain sync tool (PIM).

Update: HTC Sync Manager doesn't even start

The first time HTC Sync Manager started it was scanning my computer for media files. I aborted the operation and went to settings to change the language. It prompted me to restart the program so I clicked OK. It restarted and got stock at the splash screen. Now it does that every time and the only way to close it is to terminate the associated process.

Great software indeed... it should not stop working just because the user changes the language in the settings. Looks like I will have to install it all over again to erase any conflicting config files and such.


texts: How can I set a custom ringtone for a contact when using Google Voice?

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I use Google Voice for all incoming calls. When someone calls me, their contact information (picture, phone number, name) shows up on the screen. However, the ringtone that is used is not the custom ringtone assigned to that contact, but the default ringtone. What can I do?

My phone numbers are currently stores as ########## with no leading 1. I'm not sure if this matters.


texts: Where does LineageOs store update files?

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Back in cyanogenmod, updates were downloaded to the cmupdater directory.
Then I could easily use twrp recovery to install the Upgrade.

But where does LineageOs store its downloaded upgrade files?


texts: What is involved in installing Android onto a device?

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I just picked up a Viewsonic G-Tablet.  It's got killer hardware specs and is running Android 2.2 but it's barely usable because of this terrible TapUI that's crippling the device.  I have been following a thread at the XDA forums where users are attempting to root it and get a custom ROM installed, but I'm wondering how hard it is to just wipe it clean and get the stock Android 2.2 running on it.  The people who have rooted and blocked most of the TapUI report losing access to their settings, which I guess is heavily integrated into the TapUI.

Is the problem that Android 2.2 doesn't support specific hardware and someone needs to create a ROM with all the necessary drivers?


texts: How can I export audio recording files with bookmarks from samsung voice recorder app?

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I have a Samsung S8+ phone. I use the voice recorder app a lot and I also add several bookmarks to each file. Now, my phone is out of storage space and I need to backup my old recorded files to a computer. Although I know how to find the m4a files in my phone storage, I cannot find the corresponding bookmarks for each file.
So, my question is:

where can I find these bookmarks in my phone storage? If it is embedded in m4a files, how can I see them on my windows PC?

if it is only seeable in the same app, does it mean that if I move the files into my computer, I can access the file and its bookmarks whenever I move a copy of it to the recorder app to my phone?


texts: Is it possible to change interface language to Hebrew?

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Is it possible to change the GUI language to Hebrew in an Amazon Fire 7/8/10 tablet? To clarify - not the input (keyboard) language, but the interface itself.
[I am assuming Fire OS questions fit in this forum. If you think there is a better place to ask, please let me know]


texts: Restoring purchases made with In App Billing

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How can I switch the Play Account used for in-app billing?

No matter which account I "activate" in the Market app, all in-app purchases only go through the first account which is contrary to the experience when purchasing normal apps.

When purchasing normal apps, the billed account is the one that was active in the Market app at the time of purchase.

This causes a problem as I am also unable to restore my in-app purchases unless the account that made the purchases is the primary account on the device.


texts: How can I re-flash stock firmware for my Nokia 6.1?

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I've developed an issue since the last Android 10 OS update where the phone doesn't charge unless it's in 'USB Controlled by device' mode, which it usually fails to switch to. I'd like to try flashing stock firmware to it, as resetting to factory default didn't fix the issue.
I've tried downloading a stock firmware file and using the recovery mode option to install from SD card, but alas the timestamp on the file was older than the current OS, and so it refused to downgrade.
Since I'm a complete newbie to the android hacking world, I'm looking for an easy to understand solution to install a fresh stock firmware / ROM (not sure what the nomenclature difference is) or failing that, backing up the existing firmware and re-installing that. Naturally, the phone isn't rooted nor is the bootloader unlocked etc, nor do I currently know how to do those things.
Any assistance would be much appreciated.


texts: How can I enter an English unlock password when the keyboard is Arabic?

texts: How can I unlock my tablet that my password is in English and the keyboard is in Arabic?


texts: How do I add another keyboards into Remix OS (Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand Keyboards)

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I have a problem which are I cannot add another keyboards namely, Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand. I cannot change the Keyboard from English language to Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand languages.
I have tried Khmer Smart Keyboard, Cambodia Keyboard APK and Phum Keyboard for Cambodia keyboard;
Keyboard ManMan, Gadgetdoor Thai Keyboard, Thai Gingerbread KB and Thai Pack Without ALM97774503 for Thailand keyboard.

My host OS is Windows 7. I use VM-ware player to run Remix OS and Remix OS is marshmallow.
How do I add another keyboards into Remix OS please?

Kindly please help me out. Any suggestion, I would appreciate it.


texts: Video player for H264 videos for Adam/Tegra2?

texts:
It seems that the Adam is not fast enough to decode my H264 videos. With some players I get unsync audio, some skip video frames. Even usual PAL size (something around 500x300, far from HD). Ok, Those may have non-basic profile, but I think they are main-profile (most use CABAC, though).

The players I tried include

MX Video Player -- best results, but can not keep up with most H264 vids
VPlayer -- good results
RockPlayer -- often recommended, often tried, no good results.

As you can see, all freely available ones. I would like buy one, If I would know that my videos are handled properly.

Can you suggest a video player that really uses Tegra2 hardware decoding capabilities and therefore will decode the H264 videos nicely?

(Is it important to know that I run Adamcomb on it?)


texts: How can I change my homepage on the S4 new software version 5.0.1? I don't like the update, the colors and how things have changed. Normally I'm all for an update but this sucks!


texts: How do I make my profile icon use the same image on my google profile?

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I'm currently using Nexus 6P with Marshmallow. I have not added other profiles on my device.

Why does my profile icon not share the same image used on my Google account? I recalled this working on an earlier android version (maybe Kitkat or Lollipop) but it only took effect after adding more users. I might be remembering this completely wrong, though.

Is there a way to make the image share what is already on my google profile?


texts:
This occurred to me while updating Windows laptop. Each version of Windows gets bigger, much bigger in size compared to the extra benefits to "average Joe (or Jane)".

Question: What is the size of pure Android version starting from 1.0 to current 6.0 (less the skin added by OEM) and key benefits or improvements (for the average user) added in each Android version ?


texts: Is there a way to Modify Recovery Menu Options?

texts:
Hi guys I am setting up an android system for a company, one of the requirements is that "employees can't factory reset/ wipe out data of a device". I have already done the proper implementations on the OS itself. however I was looking throught the recovery.img and boot.img files to see if I could modify any xml file or anything to hide or set password auth for the factory reset and wipe options from the recovery. I know a guy with knowledge would be able to activate it back, however the average employee barely knows what recovery is, so it's really unlikely.

It does not matter what type of recovery is needed to achieve this whether its an stock recovery or a twrp or cwm one. any ideas?


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I'm using aDOSbox to play some classical games. This in turn uses SDL library, one of the thing this library does is emulate mouse. It's the same library, that is also used by ScummVM.

I've got it set up to be quite usable for left-click (I'm using "tap or hold"), but I'm having trouble getting right-click to work decently. I'm using default settings, which is doing two finger tap. However, very often it'll get recognized two as single ones instead. The best option would be to use hardware button, however I'm using Galaxy S II, and all hardware buttons are reserved.

Any suggestion on best settings to use?


texts:
I've been using CyanogenMod 7.1 since it became stable, and one feature I miss is the Low Battery alert. I've often come home from work, thrown my phone on the desk and forgotten to plug it in. When I try to check the phone for messages later, it's completely dead. The battery has run out with no warnings whatsoever.

On previous ROMs (stock and Darky's) I got a notification sound and a dialog that said the typical "your battery is running low" yadayada. Now there's not even a notification in the status bar.

Is this typical behaviour for CyanogenMod, or should I reflash?


texts: My Samsung galaxy s5 seems to be half rooted

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I recently factory reset my rooted Samsung Galaxy s5. The problem that I am now having is that to apps such as my Internet browser and androad pay disable features on the grounds that my phone is rooted, but other apps such as supersu do not act as if my phone was rooted.

How should I fix this problem. I am currently experiencing all the disadvantags of rooting but none of the positives so a fix in either direction would be great.


texts: Change Settings.Global.AUTO_TIME to always be 1

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I want my android apps to believe that Automatic Time Zone is set to ON even though it actually is not. I read that Automatic Time Zone is detected using Settings.Global.AUTO_TIME variable, which returns value 1 if Automatic Time Zone is ON and value 0 if Automatic Time Zone is OFF. This variable is read using the below line

Settings.Global.getInt(getContentResolver(), Settings.Global.AUTO_TIME)

I read that this variable can only be set by a System App. Is there a way to change this variable somehow? Can I write an application that allows me to change this variable? Can this be done by rooting the android device? Is there a way to do this without rooting?


texts: I want to know if android supports virtual memory concept.I know windows supports virtual memory but what about android? Do our android phones store less used data out of RAM?


texts: JavaScript doesn't work on Chrome 58 on Android in offline mode

texts: I have a single-HTML web page with embedded <script> tags. When I view the offline version of this page in Chrome 58 on Android, JavaScript event handlers are not executed. (When I connect to the internet and reload the page, JavaScript starts working again.) How can I get my JavaScript back without a working internet connection on Chrome 58 on Android?


texts: How to consistently take a picture using a voice command

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Using a samsung galaxy s8, android version 8.0

I'm able to occasionally take pictures with "take picture" but it works about 25% of the time. If in selfie mode with the front camera and the camera app has identified a face with a yellow circle, "say cheese" seems to work about 33% of the time.


texts: How do I figure out which version of Android is supported on my device?

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I am a Pixel 2 that is running Android version 9.

I also have a much older Nexus tablet.  I get an update on my tablet almost every day but it is only for Androids version 5.1++.

Why can't I upgrade to version 9 on my tablet too?

Is there some sort of hardware limitation and if so, how do I figure out what the latest supported version for my device is?


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What does "Add to Queue" mean in "Play Music"?  I've seen an answer elsewhere which said "it adds to the current play list."  That answer makes no sense.  What "current play list?"  There is no such concept in the application.

For example, I'll start the application and no music is playing yet.  I'll go to my playlists and pick one.  Again, no music is playing yet.  Then I can pick "add to queue."  Nothing happens.  I have no idea what that just did.

I then select a song to start playing, and I'm on my way.  I still have no idea what the "add to queue" accomplished.

I'm using the Samsung S4.


texts: How to make an application to ignore updates?

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In my rooted LG Optimus One (a.k.a P500) running stock 2.3.3, I have few Google's applications preinstalled.

When updates are being checked, notification for presence of updates are included for these applications as well.  Since I am not using Wifi, I have to pay for every Kb and would like not have updates checked for certain applications alone.

Please note: I do not want to block checking of updates totally, but only for few applications that I would like to choose (that could be either through Wifi or GSM).


texts: Is there an application or a method to test the positioning on Android only by wi-fi access points?

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I need to test positioning  only by wi-fi access points.But when I turn on geolocation on my Android device the position is calculated by GPS+ GSM + Wi-fi. My device  doesn't   give the option to save it and only determine by the wi-fi networks.
So is there some way or application that will give such an opportunity to use only Wi-Fi  access points for positioning?


texts: I am trying to create a TWRP backup of my phone, but I don't have enough storage space to create the backup.  Is there some way to backup directly to an external drive on my local network, like I do with PC backups, or is that not possible on Android?


texts: help on activating VoLTE in Moto X force

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I had recently had a hand on my friends Moto X force 1580. The phone works on android 7.0. I went through web found out some guys claiming to make Moto x style to work on VoLTE i followed the same procedure but had no luck. Following is the procedure that I went through.

1> Dial ##4636##
2> A hidden menu would start select Phone Information
3> in this window there is a switch that says VoLTE provisioned this by default is off turn this on
4> restart the phone.

I tried this number of thimes but it turns back off every time.
can any one help.


texts: Where can I download the stock clock apk for LG G3?

texts:
I deleted the stock clock app on the LG G3 (Model D855) without knowing that I need it for the Quick Circle Case to correctly display the Clock Faces when the lid is closed.

Do you know a place where I can download the stock APK file, it goes something like "com.lge.alarmclock", the easy access from Google Drive is not longer working:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3dApvWjgNoKVmU5cjlUMFdwbW8/edit?usp=sharing
not working

I tried doing the hard reset but the app did not get back.

Or if anyone would be so kind to back it up for me, I would deeply appreciate it.

Thank you in advance for your time and help.


texts: Can't access internet anymore while on phone call

texts: I spent over 40 minutes on the phone yesterday with a Verizon "tech" trying to figure out why I can no longer access the internet while I'm on a phone call. She asked me everything about my telephone and then had me take out my battery and reinstall it and told me she would call me back in 2 minutes. By the time I turned my phone back on she had called and left a message telling me, thank you for calling Verizon and if I have any other questions that I could call customer service or go online and check the website. She was a total waste! She took the opportunity to get rid of me I guess because she had no idea what she was doing. I asked her if we could go through the operating system apps to see if maybe something had changed but we didn't do that. Does anyone have any idea how this happened. Thank you


texts: how do I disable my screen lock pin on my galaxy tab 3?

texts: I added a screen lock pin number on my galaxy tab 3 but my children play the games and I am not always around to enter it.  How do I disable it?


texts: How to solve "insufficent space on the device" error on Samsung Captivate

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I have a Samsung Captivate, running the stock Froyo ROM, rooted.  When I try to install a large app from the Market, I get the error "insufficent space on the device", for apps of ~40 MB, with 700+MB free.  I first noticed it with "Jelly Defense" on Google's Christmas-week sale, but you can see it for yourself if you try the free "Reiner Knizia's Labyrinth" which is also quite large.

This is a common problem -- just Google it and you'll see dozens of posts around the Internet going back almost a year. From those posts, I've tried two free apps that are supposed to help, "Market Fix" and "Cache Fixer", but neither has done the trick yet.  As I understand it, both are supposed to re-mount /cache as a loopback file on the SD card.  I don't know why they don't work.  If anybody has fixed this specifically on the i9000 series (SGS1, Captivate, Fascinate, etc), please let me know how!


texts: Need only one icon in the top notification bar for multiple Gmail accounts

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I am trying to figure out how to have only one notification icon on the top notification bar for an incoming e-mail for any of my multiple Gmail accounts. This was the way Gmail worked on my phone prior to the 2.3.5 Gmail update.

Now, at any given time I can have up to four little Gmail icons on my top notification bar which is an pain.

Is there any way to change it to the way the notifications worked before?

That is, one icon for all my accounts, and if I receive an e-mail, it sends me to the main accounts page.


texts: Why do my Android text messages (SMS) take minutes to send?

texts:
I recently bought my first Android phone, HTC Desire Z with Android 2.2 (Froyo).

I imported all my old Nokia E71 SMSs using the Athg2Sms Android app (after converting my Nokia CSV text file to unix-ending format). All 2,000 incoming messages and 200 outgoing messages were imported.

When I try to send a message my phone practically pauses with a modal dialog box saying "Please wait...". This message can appear for 30 seconds to several minutes.

Naturally waiting this long is ridiculous. If I press the Home or Back button the message sending is cancelled and the message goes into "Drafts".

My Nokia phone would accept a message and transmit it in the background.

Have other people encountered this unacceptable sending freeze and have they found a method to fix it? (Note, no answer recommending me to clear out my inbox is acceptable - a tiny inbox is not required for a Nokia phone, neither should it be for an Android phone).

Update

(I'll edit this section as more evidence comes to light).

As per @Michael Paulukonis 's recommendation below I deleted my e-mail accounts and switched to K-9 for e-mail. Since then I've noticed that some of my SMS sends are extremely quick, like 3 seconds. However some are not - some still take over a minute. I still have 2,000+ SMS messages on the phone but perhaps the time-to-send is related to thread length - if I know any more I'll update here!

Update 2

After a month of having the phone was getting ready to throw it at a brick wall with the frustration of being forced to stand like an idiot waiting for the f*@#ing phone to unfreeze when sending messages. I'd even tried backing up all my messages using "SMS Backup & Restore", deleting all messages, and restoring again. Finally gave up and switched to Handcent. Shame on HTC for developing a truly horridly buggy application.

Update 3

I've been using Handcent for a while. This program masks the problem in that it accepts a message as soon as you press "Send" - however the message still takes a long time before it is ready to be sent over the radio - so it appears that the underlying problem must be with the Operating System (is my guess). The good news is that messages are not turned into drafts but it can still take a long time before a message is actually sent.

Update 4
On Christmas Day 2010 I downloaded a system software update v1.72.405.2 onto my HTC Desire Z in the UK. Sent ~30 messages so far, maximum delay has been 6 seconds. Seems like this system update fixed this major bug! I will update over the next week or two to confirm/deny.


texts: When I try to install an update on angrybirds epic rpg,it says "app not installed" what does that mean?It takes up 105.9 mb I have 500 mb left on my device.I have an android tablet.


texts: How to prevent sleep while installing lots of updates?

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Whenever I need to install a bunch of updates, I find myself sitting next to the phone/tablet and tapping the screen every 20 seconds, else the updates never complete.

There must be a better way! Right?

What I've got:

Sony Xperia Arc S, with 4.0 - pretty sure the updates stop when the screen goes out.
ASUS Transformer Pad, with 4.1 - will have to re-check whether the updates stop now that you guys mention they are expected to carry on.

How I'm connecting: Wi-Fi.


texts: Does Samsung has a feature like second space in Xiaomi?

texts:
In Xiaomi we can do second space.

Put certain password we go to first space.

Put another password and we go to second space.

Xiaomi also support dual apps, which is a different feature.

Combined, I think we can have like 4 Whatsapp account per phone.

What about samsung?

Do we have second space in Samsung?

I've heard some devices allow for multiple users sharing a phone.

Say you do regular whatsapp in one device. You do your secret businesses on another user. If someone forces you to open your devices you will just show your first user.

Note: Samsung seems to have ways to allow multiple users on the same phone
https://eu.community.samsung.com/t5/Tablets/Multi-User-switching-accounts-something-you-should-be-aware-of/td-p/1316185

However, there is no way to hide that extra users from say cops.

Android in general can
https://android.gadgethacks.com/how-to/android-basics-set-up-multiple-user-accounts-same-device-0168597/

However, there is no way to do it like second space.


texts: Add usb to ethernet support to tablet Teclast t20

texts:
i would like to allow my tablet Teclast T20 to connect to ETHERNET via USB.

I already own a USB to ETHERNET ADAPTER, that i use succesfully with my windows 10 laptop.

It is an ASIX AX88772 USB2.0 to Fast Ethernet Adapter, and i found that for this adapter is available a driver (source) in ASIX website

ASIX AX88772 USB2.0 to Fast Ethernet Adapter Drivers

that should work for Linux and Android.

But when i connect the adapter to my tablet using an OTG Usb to microusb cable, and connect the ethernet cable to the adapter, nothing happens.

Searching on the web, i found that with Teclast T10, that is and older version of my tablet (that was without 3G module), was possible to connect to ethernet via a similar adapter with same chipset as mine : UtechSmart USB 2.0 to 10/100 Ethernet Network Adapter (Model US-USB2-E100).
Take a look here (min 5:55)
Video

My tablet Teclast T20 has cpu MT6797X (X27) and runs on Android Nougat 7.1 and has connectivity WiFi + LTE
The Teclast T10, instead, has cpu MT8176 and runs on Android Nougat 7.0 and has only WiFi connectivity

So perhaps the kernel is different and the drivers pre-built in the kernel are different.
How can i check if an USB to Ethernet driver is already built in the kernel of my tablet?
And, if it is not available, how can i add the driver to my tablet? I know that i should have the sources of my kernel, but i think it will be difficult to get them from Teclast.
Any suggestion?

Thank you!
Lodovico.


texts:
I am running Android 4.4.2 (KitKat) on an Nexus 4.

A day before I changed from Dalvik to ART, and after the restart, I noticed that the Sim Toolkit is missing!

How do I get it back?


texts: Stop App from controlling the brightness of my screen

texts:
I was on a flight watching movies on the United App. Around 8pm my screen dimmed. It dimmed a lot, to the point of being unwatchable.
Pulling the notification pane (where the brightness slider is displayed) would not let me move the brightness slider. I thought that maybe the auto-brightness was screwing with me. I went to settings, shut off the auto-brightness, and manually turned up the brightness. As soon as I re-entered the United App the brightness fell to the same level.
If I had to guess, the App turned down the brightness to keep you from disturbing other people. The problem is that the levels were too low.
How do I override the App so that I can actually see the movie? Is there a permission that I can change or another App I can use to turn the brightness back up? (Modify system setting is set to "Not Allowed")


texts: Phone stopped working, Cant turn it on, Solid red light, weird r/g/b/w stripes

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yesterday i had a videochat call from messenger. I had this call about 2mins and then i saw i've got 8percents of battery. My phone usually drops from 8% to 2% but this is not the main problem. When i saw i had 8percents, i plug-in the charger to the wall and then plug-in the micro usb cable to the phone.

After connecting, i got red diode but isomething very weird happend to screen. On screen, there was multiple white/r/g/b (Like few on top, few on bottom but i think in the middle it was ok) strips and the aspect ratio of screen was too weird. It was mooved to right bottom corner.

The phone stopped responding so i pressed down power button for 10secs to turn off the phone. However, when i want to turn it on back, the phone was completly dead. I tried charging it from wall like 10 mins, then from computer like 30 mins but nothing worked. I left the phone charging over night about 8hours but still nothing.

//Before trying this i removed sim-card and sd-card//

I tried all variants like power +volume-up +volume-down, power +volume-up, power +volume-down, volume-up +volume-down but nothing worked.
//I tried to hold it down like for 15-30secs, 20secs, 1minute, pushing it while charging but still nothing//

Phone: ZTE NX597J
I bought it 4months ago so i think i must go to repair shop. However, some ideas? :D

//When i connect the phone to computer or wall, i have SOLID red light. It does not blinking//
//I cant remove the battery//
//The buttons like home, back and list of applications running on backround is from android so i cant make any different variations exept for power, volume-up, volume down//


texts: Videos working on my website do not work when viewed from Android browser

texts:
My website has videos which are in MP4 format and work well when viewed from a Google Chrome browser. But when I try to load my website from the browser of an Android OS, the video doesn't show up. Is there any thing else I need to do in order to make it work? Actually the site is not done by me, so I have no details about how the site is built. I just
wanted to know if anything special needed to be done in order to make videos work in the Android browser.


texts: Memory almost filled by Android System and Google Application

texts:
I recently bought my first smartphone, a Sony Xperia T2 Ultra (D5303).
It has 8 Go of total memory space and I add a 16 Go SD Card.
Android System (5.1.1) takes 3.58 Go and Google/Android/Sony Applications take 4.19 Go.
There is less than 300 Mo of free space.
I always have a warning message that says that the memory is nearly full.

There is a lot of application that I never use (Google+, What's new, Docs), but I can't uninstall them nor move them to my SD card.

What can I do to have more free memory on the phone ?


texts: As an admin, I deleted first all the members of the group, left it and then deleted the group. Can the other members still see the messages?


texts: How can I customize the actions associated with my Moto Droid's hardware buttons?

texts: I want to be able to redefine what the hardware buttons on my Motorola Droid do.  By buttons I mean the 4 capacitive buttons on the bottom: Back, Menu, Home & Search and the Camera button and Volume buttons on the side.  I have seen several apps that allow you to change what the Camera and Search buttons do but I want the ability to redefine them all.  Can this be done?  If so, how?


texts: Set wifi connection as metered in Android 5.0

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I'd like to set specific wifi connections as metered, since I do not want e.g. Google Play to update apps via public wifi (limited volume and bandwith, competing with my and - for politeness - other people's laptops).

I have a Samsung Galaxy S4 with Android 5.0.1, Avast running, no root and no special modifications from my side.

I have tried quite some days to find a native Android way to do that, but failed so far - please prove me wrong! The suggestions I found so far on Android Enthusiasts go mainly into the following directions and did not work (other Android versions, or see below). I'd rather prefer a native android solution, if necessary a 3rd party app would be fine if without rooting.

many solutions end at a "3 dot" (⋮) menu somewhere in data usage menu pages - it seems not to exist on my phone/Android version. Found nothing comparable (incl. left menue button next to the start button etc.)
restrict background data - I do not want to restrict the app (Google Play) in general, but only a specific network.
NetGuard app - same as 2., does not seem to be wifi-specific (and not sure if I should put an app with in app purchases in such a central position)

Thanks in advance!


texts: Can I change how my Gmail account is displayed in the Android Gmail app?

texts: In the Android Gmail app, when you have several email accounts configured, you can switch between these in the menu to the left. Any IMAP account you add, you can assign a name to. When you add a google account, it assigns the email address (e.g. me@gmail.com) as the name by default. I'm wondering if I can change that name to e.g. "Personal" or "School", etc.


texts: OnePlus One stuck in boot after resizing screen and DPI tweak

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My device: OnePlus One, CM 13.1.1, not rooted

Since the the strip above the on screen nav buttons is gone (no touch screen anymore) I was trying to resize the screen AND tweak the DPI accordingly as clearly explained here by Firelord. Unfortunately, instead of resetting to 500 DPI I've inserted 5000 DPI and obviously the OPO doesn't get past the "Cyanogen - Mod Ready" boot screen.

Error from the OSX terminal:

Libero-358:android Libero$ ./adb shell wm overscan reset
Error type 2
android.util.AndroidException: Can't connect to window manager; is the system running?
    at com.android.commands.wm.Wm.onRun(Wm.java:81)
    at com.android.internal.os.BaseCommand.run(BaseCommand.java:47)
    at com.android.commands.wm.Wm.main(Wm.java:46)
    at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit.nativeFinishInit(Native Method)
    at com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit.main(RuntimeInit.java:256)

Any suggestion to get my OPO back alive (beside whipping myself for being such a dumba*s...).


texts:
I have tried a lot to unbrick my Lenovo Vibe Shot. Now I am helpless and looking for some workable solution:

I used Lenovo Smart Assistant to download a proper firmware so it turned out it is:
z90a40_USR_S363_1606250500_Q202533.1_ROW.zip

I tried to use Lenovo Smart drive assistant to update ROM or Device Rescue, but both wont detect phone. The phone default Lenovo recovery can be loaded by pressing VOL+, VOL- and power button, and then releasing power button
when logo appears. I used an Update.zip in 8GB mem card and used the option: ‘install update package’ then it complete the process 100% I was happy that I was going to get my phone unbrick

After trying a lot of things I realized the actual problem is with
partition table of its internal memory, so whenever I try to connect phone
via USB cable to PC and turn it on simply with power button or trying
with fast boot mode (VOL - and VOL + then pressing power),
it shows all the following partitions that are write protected. So is
there any way I can forcefully remove the write protection and delete
all these partitions ??? I have tried with Disk part as well but
no luck. Plz help
PS if some one wants to read more about this problem, plz check
following thread of mine that is still unreplied:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/help/unrbick-lenovo-vibe-shot-z90a40-t3505789


texts: Phone stuck on boot screen after root and recovery - HTC One M8

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Need help with rooting and installing LineageOS. Have done this before on Nexus 5, but today something went wrong with HTC M8 and now it's stuck on boot screen
I can get into bootloader using Power and volume keys, but any other options as Recovery, Factory reset brings me to just boot screen

Did a root and installed superSU successfully
Flashed recovery and install
Something went wrong while installing LineageOS and did a reboot and since then no progress


texts: is there a common symlink in android multi-users, access use's `root directory` ？

texts:
On test tablet.
There are two users:

/storage/emulated/0/AAA  --onwer
/storage/emulated/10/AAA  --nomal user

My attempt:

adb shell "ls -l /storage/emulated/legacy/AAA" file dot exist.  --failed
adb shell "dumpsys activity | grep -E "mUserLru" | grep -Eo "[0-9]+\]$" | tr -d "]""  find the current user_id     e.g.: 10.
Splice string the path string.Format("/storage/emulated/{0}/AAA","10").  --succeed ,but it's too complicated.

I want to find a simple way.
like a common symlink or adb command,
When different users log in, can use the same method to access different root directory.Thanks.


texts: incorrectly receiving DNS settings from AP when connecting to public wifi

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I had to fly recently. The flight had in-flight entertainment through gogoinflight, but I couldn't access it on my phone while everyone around me could.  I thought the problem was with the router but I couldn't access the public wifi in the destination airport, either.  I couldn't even open the wifi login pages to accept the user agreements. Nothing seemed to work!

Cellular internet works fine.  Wifi at home works fine.

On another recent flight, I also took my laptop so I could check network settings against my phone's settings.

# ip addr

yielded the same subnet and same gateway

# ip route

yielded the same routes, too.
(from memory)

# ip route
172.19.131.141/23 dev wlan0 proto kernel dhcp scope link src 172.19.131.0

from my laptop, the login page, or airborne.gogoinflight.com was in the 172.19.134.x subnet, but that should be fine based on the route's mask (/23).

for good measure, I added a 0.0.0.0/0 route through wlan0 but still nothing.
At this point, it looked like my phone knew how to get at IP addresses, but there was a problem with the DNS settings.
I checked DNS settings in /etc/resolv.conf on my laptop:

/etc/resolv.conf
--------------------
nameserver 172.19.(something).(something)  <--essentially, the access point transmitted the DNS to my laptop correctly and I was able to resolve addresses without problems

on my android phone:

/system/etc/resolv.conf
------------------------
nameserver 8.8.8.8 <--because google and android...
nameserver 8.8.4.4 <--because google and android...
nameserver 172.19.(something).(something)  <--essentially, the access point transmitted the same DNS server to my phone when I connected.

Even though I know it doesn't matter, I removed the WAN dns entries to google for good measure and made the resolv.conf file match my laptop's, but to no avail!
I tried multiple browsers (Chrome and Firefox), too,  to make sure it wasn't a browser setting.

any ideas?


texts: How do i view my apps on Samsung Files (android 11)? I want to transfer an app but don't know where to locate it

texts: If someone knows where apps (downloaded) from google play store can be found, thanks. Could it be not viewable on Samsung files?


texts:
I was adding songs into my Google Play Music on my Nexus 5X and noticed something: The song icon is incorrect. Look at the following picture:

As you can see, I imported the song "Faded", but the icon is the cover of another song#, which is incorrect.

# The icon is correct on my Win7

Note: Here's what I've done so far

Rebooted my Nexus 5X
Re-downloaded the music for serval times
Cleared the Google Play Music cache
Cleared the Google Play Music data

Please help me fix this issue, any help will be appreciated.


texts: Does android encryption encrypt free space?

texts: The situation is that I used wipe without encrypting first so that people can still recover data. If I now encrypt and then wipe, will the free space also get encrypted so that no one can recover anything?


texts: Galaxy S3 GT-I9300 version 4.1.2. stuck and freeze

texts:
I have Galaxy S3 GT-I9300 version 4.1.2. Lately it freezes very often and only a restart helps solving that.

I ran Factory data reset, but it does not help.

I don't know how to solve the problem. I bought it less than 1 year ago via E-Bay so I don't know who can help me.


texts: What do all these letters/numbers in early Samsung ROM file name mean?

texts:
This question covers early Samsung ROMs if your ROM looks like this example G930FXXU2EREM_G930FOJV2ERE8_TUR.zip then see this updated question here

I'm guessing the first 5 letters/numbers are for the model of the device I8160XXLL2, but what after that? Is there any guide to understand what exactly they mean by these letters? I'm confused it seems sometimes they repeat the model of the device twice?
I8160XXLL2_I8160QXXL3.zip
I8160XXLL2_QXELL3.zip


texts: App that enables the missing charging light and notification light in Samsung S10, S10 Plus and S10e

texts:
I moved from Samsung Galaxy S6 to Samsung Galaxy S10e, and found out that there's a fundamental functionality missing:

There are no indicator lights (AKA LED light) for different cellphone states.

This means:

No indication lights for new notifications (in Samsung Galaxy S6, it's e.g. blue light for messages, white light for Whatsapp messages, and so on).
No indication lights for charging state (in Samsung Galaxy S6, red light is for charging or battery below 15%, green light is for full charge).

I'm looking for an app that compensates this unfortunate lack, with one important requirement:
It should work even when "Always on Display" functionality is off - as it was on Samsung Galaxy S6.

Is there an app that enables this?


texts: Stop WPS Office from recovering deleted files

texts:
Occasionally, I'd see a message that says WPS Office has recovered a deleted file or something like that. I suspect often times, WPS just does it without even letting me know it has recovered files. I really don't like it doing things for me without my consent. How do I stop WPS Office from recovering files? I have gone through the settings in WPS Office and found nothing of the sort.

This is on a Huawei GR5 2017.


texts: Can’t enable the developer options of Samsung Galaxy Tab

texts:
I have several time tap on “Build Number” for 7 times but it does not show any toast message and also not enable the developer options.

Where can we find the USB Driver for the Tab.

I have Samsung Galaxy Tab(GT-P1000).


texts:
When I tap a number in Chrome Mobile my default Dialer app opens and shows the below screen. I struggle finding out how to actually dial the number, there is no button for that at all. I've been scratching my header of this for a while now. Is it a user interface bug? Or is it me?

I'm running Android 5.1.1 + Cyanogen OS 12.1 using the Mono Tropicalgreen theme on a Oneplus One.

Screen1:

I can either create a new contact or send an SMS, but there is no 'dial' button. Pressing the back button brings me back to Chrome.

Screen2:

The options panel doesn't give me a 'dial' action either.

Screen3:

The other panel doesn't give me a 'dial' either.


texts:
Can anyone recommend a good way to backup Android devices?
Ideally I would like to do this wirelessly and, not only backup my data, but also my user settings. Is it possible to backup an image of an Android device - so that one doesn't even need to reinstall apps?
It would be particularly useful to hear from users that have restored backups, as to how easy, and complete, their processes were.
Thanks


texts: my sons tablets has a pop up  saying unfortunately, the processcom.google.process.gapps has stopped.  This wont allow us to  do  anything. it  seems to  be causing a problem with signing in to  his google account. any  help  would be great


texts: How do I migrate from one SD card to another one?

texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  How do I switch my Android device's SD card without causing problems?

I just moved to Android from iOS. My new droid is Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo V which came with a 2GB SD card. This card is almost full so I want to get a bigger and faster SD card. I have installed many apps on this SD card so I'm wondering how I can move all the content of the old card to the new one when I finally purchase it. How do I do this?


texts: I have a galaxy grand prime.when i try to reboot into recovery mode with 3 button combo, clock mode dosn't start. it booted normally.how to solve this.


texts: Sony XPeria Arc: How force DNS resolution with a specific host?

texts:
I've made my website and it can be accessed only through specific domain name.

http://my.specific.domain.name.

And of course, you have to change your /etc/hosts configuration and add

my.specific.domain.name 192.222.222.222

to make it look to the right IP.

Any idea how to do this on a Sony XPeria Arc?


texts: How to disable flashlight in lock screen in Lollipop on Xcover 3?

texts:
Since upgrading my Samsung Galaxy Xcover 3 phone to Android 5.1 Lollipop, I've noticed that the flashlight keeps getting turned on in my pocket. Apparently, pressing the "Xcover button" on the side of the phone will now toggle the flashlight on and off even in the lock screen.

I've tried to find some way to turn this behavior off, but I'm not seeing anything in the settings that would look promising. My attemps to Google for a solution just yield instructions for enabling flaslight access from the lock screen on versions prior to Lollipop.

Short of getting a more robust case for my phone, how can I keep my pockets from shining in the dark?


texts: How do i change the way contacts display?

texts: My contacts are in list form but my favorites are a thumbnail with a picture, etc. How do I get my contacts to change to this display?


texts: How to fix "No SIM" issue after flashing stock ROM?

texts:
After using custom ROMs on my Motorola E4 Plus (Nicklaus) I figured out that there's no such custom stable ROM to install, so I recently flashed my device with stock ROM (Motorola Nicklaus MTK (XT1770)) but ended up with no sim support.
I tried to reset the networks but it didn't help me at all. I also reformatted the device and flashed with region specific stock ROMs too,
but that didn't help either. I flashed TWRP too. It showed OK while flashing using ADB, but recovery mode shows "No Command".
The problem is, currently I'm unable to use the stock ROM or to go back to those custom ROMs. Bootloader is unlocked. Every change has been executed properly as expected but not working on phone.


texts: How do I check the DNS settings for my mobile data connection?

texts:
Let me be specific on this: I am not asking how to change my DNS settings or how to set up alternative DNS servers. Google has provided quite a few links with suggestions how.
For some reason I'm trying to troubleshoot, my mobile connection's DNS settings don't seem to be working anymore -- I can connect,and I can ping IP addresses, but DNS lookups don't seem to be coming through and I'm trying to find out why.
Normally, the first step is to see what settings I'm receiving via PPP, but my Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 does not appear to have an obvious "list received PPP settings from APN"
Every attempt at searching the app store for an app that I hoped would let me review my DNS settings instead only offered me ways to change them, which is useless to me at this point.


texts: Android 4.3 - No internet access, unable to connect to the proxy server error

texts:
My Lg nexus 4, received the android 4.3 update last night. I didn't do much on it, opting to sleep peacefully knowing that I had the latest and greatest in android software, but this morning I noticed that I cannot access the internet either via the web browser or the play market.

Chrome complains "unable to connect to the proxy server" regardless of what site I try to go to. And the play store says "No connection".

However, I do have a connection, I can use gmail to send and receive messages and I can use whatsapp and twitter and a few other apps.

I have checked the network settings for both my 3G and wifi, and there are no proxy settings or anything enabled.

Does anyone know what the problem might be?

EDIT:

Does this happen on both WiFi and mobile data? YES

What apps have trouble, and which do work? Chrome and the play store as far as I can see are both troublesome. Other apps work i.e. my whatsapp can send/receive messages, twitter works and so on.

What's the color of your signal bars in the notification area? Blue, full signal on HSDPA.

EDIT 2:
I think this may be affected by some setting left over from a rogue app. I have played with VPN apps and proxy setting apps in the past (a few months ago) so perhaps the new 4.3 update read some of those settings and configured things incorrectly?


texts: I just inserted a new 16 GB SD card in my AT&T Galaxy S5. I'm trying to format it but it's asking me for a pin and I don't know what it is its not the last 4 of my phone number and it's not my last 4 of my ssn. Please help!


texts: MTP sync on LG Spectrum --- kill with extreme prejudice

texts:
I have an LG Spectrum, running ICS, and I always keep the USB Connection Type on Charge Only. Lately, for some evil reason, whenever I connect the USB cable to a computer, it bloody ignores my setting and decides to do Media Sync (MTP) instead.

I've searched for (and will continue to search for) ways to prevent this, but I've not found much, and what I did find didn't apply to my situation. (E.g., I couldn't Stop MTP in Running Apps, because it wasn't there.)

I don't know the MTP is, but I want it off my phone completely. I don't want the blasted sync. Ever.

Any ideas?


texts:
A week ago, my sister gave me her Samsung Galaxy Ace S5830I. She said that she could not call or text anyone and could not receive anything. I looked around on her phone and on the Internet to find the root of the problem. I found that the phone had no IMEI number. I typed *#06# in the keypad of the phone and a box appeared. It had the words "IMEI" but there was no number under it. When I go to Settings > About phone > Status, this is what it says:

Network: T-mobile UK
Signal strength: -83 dBm 14 asu
Mobile Network type: UMTS
Service state: Out of service
Roaming: Not roaming
IMEI: Unknown
IMEI SV: 01

I hardly know anything about Android, so could you please explain everything simply?


texts: Wil my HTC Desire auto-adjust for daylight savings?

texts:
Daylight savings is about to end, I was just wondering - will my HTC Desire auto-adjust for this?

Thanks!

(Need to set my alarm tomorrow morning and want that extra hour of sleep!)


texts: Removing all google data except the play store

texts:
My main android device is a phone. I recently aquired a tablet which I don't really use for email, calendars, etc. Therefore I want none of that data on the tablet.

I have disabled sync for all entries under my Google account, but the emails/calendars/hangouts which were already synced remain on the device.

How can I remove my emails/calendar entries/hangouts/etc from the device while keeping the play store credentials?


texts: How can I attach a file to an MMS message?

texts: Can I attach files to an MMS message? I am looking for a way to attach files like doc, pdf, or zip and send them over MMS.


texts: Galaxy S3 Active Sync is not working, any help?

texts:
I cant sync my business email on my Android mobile (a Galaxy S3 with Android 4.0.4).

I tried to set up a business email account but all I get is unable to connect to server after I'm done with the set up. I'm pretty sure server and configuration details are correct.

I'm trying to connect to Microsoft exchange 2010.

Any idea how I can fix this issue?


texts: Samsung GALAXY Tab 10.1 sch-i905 stuck at the load screen

texts:
I have a Galaxy Tab 10.1, Model SCH-i905/U from us cellular (image1).

In order to root it, and after an internet search I flashed the device, corrupting files left and right. That's when it can't even start up anymore. It is stuck at the load screen Samsung GALAXY Tab 10.1 (image2).

 [4
Click images for larger variants if needed :)

I have tried about every method on different forums and I am unable to find the factory firmware for this specific model or get it back to stock.

I can get to downloading mode and use Odin. The only file that this software show “PASS” on green is PDA_SIGNED_P7105.tar.md5. Before, it was just stuck at the boot screen with yellow triangle.

I followed the method with PDA_HC31_EG01Ba_AP352081user_CP1033580_LTE20110704_0708.tar but that was failed. Then it won't boot up and stays in infinite boot-looping on "Samsung" logo. I can't get to  fast-boot. recovery give me error message in image below:

photos (click images for larger variants)

Update: I've already checked with Where can I find stock or custom ROMs for my Android device? Unfortunately, I still couldn't find a fitting ROM. All hints are welcome!


texts: How to synchronize birthdates from contacts with google calendar on HTC Hero?

texts: I'm aware of the fact that the standard contacts/calendar app does not support birthdates synchronization (Android issue 1211). But may be there is some third-party software which can make those synchronized for me?


texts: How to remove white circles around Android icons?

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Can anyone tell me how to get rid of the white circle that appears around all the freeform app icons? It seems like a terrible design aesthetic in this case where there is no other solid white in the GUI. I am running an Xperia XZ1 with android 9.0 and there is a setting in the launcher for 'add white circular background' that does nothing when turned off. Maybe I need to downgrade my version of android to 8.0 in order for this setting to work?

by contrast, on a moto g 1st gen running lollipop, the homescreen appears beautiful with all the freeform icons intact. Why is Android taking this path of degrading design?


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When I lock my screen, or when I minimize an application such as Youtube, it has been stay on pause state, but when I minimize an application on Win or Linux, it continue to process,

How can I continue a process with halt/pause?


texts: Cannot take screen lock with password off

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On my Samsung Galaxy S3, when I try to take off the password and change to swipe everything is greyed out so I went to clear credentials and that also is greyed out.

How can I remove the screen lock?

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texts: How can I find my Chrome bookmarks from Windows?

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I dropped my Galaxy S4 SGH-M919 running KitKat not rooted and the screen broke. I can connect to PC using a USB. I was able to copy all the other data I needed using this method. But I had a few bookmarks in Chrome i would like to copy. I can't find these files anywhere I look.
I don't have my android chrome synced to anything. And I can't set that up at this point. Is there any way this is information is findable?


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In my contacts on my Samsung phone I have a contact that I cant "star", other contacts have that star you can click on to make them a favourite but this one contact that just isn't there. I've tried creating a new contact but it just won't let me make her  a favourite.
Any idea why?
Thanks.
Edit:because I can't add comments.  Its a Samsung S10e OS ver G970FXXU9DTJA


texts: Differance in installing a rom from a different country

texts: What are the differences in ROMs that are from different countries? Like for the S4 GT-i9500 4.3, There are some many country versions. Is it just localization differences? or something at system level?


texts: Does 'installation unsucessful' apps occupy space in SD card

texts: After downloading some of the apps from google store I get a notification stating phone memory low and subsequently the installation gets failed.My question does these not installed app files get stored somewhere in my SD card and occupy any space?If yes,how can I delete these files.


texts: Moto G4 Rooted stuck on TWRP recovery loop

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New to rooting androids so if you could help that'd be awesome.

Moto g4. Android 6

I unlocked my bootloader fine, and flashed TWRP.img and installed supersu

I had everything running fine but then I decided to try and get rid of the amazon bloatware with
rootjunky's tutorial (cant post links)

I ran:
fastboot flash oem oem.img

And my phone has been in a boot loop ever since.

I've tried clearing the contents in TWRP, going to boot "System", reinstalling supersu, pretty much everything I could find the last hour, no luck.
Everytime no matter what I do, my phone boots into TWRP.

Any help?


texts: “Insufficient storage available”. Ok, but where?

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When I upgrade an Android application from Google Play, it gets downloaded, then the upgrade stops with the message “Error: Insufficient storage available.”

Yet none of the partitions seem to be nearly full. The app is about 10MB, and I have about 100MB free on /data. Here's the output of df (omitting /mnt/asec):

Filesystem             Size   Used   Free   Blksize
/dev                   171M    32K   171M   4096
/mnt/asec              171M     0K   171M   4096
/mnt/obb               171M     0K   171M   4096
/cache                 469M     2M   466M   4096
/efs                     6M     3M     3M   4096
/system                503M   329M   174M   4096
/data                 1007M   895M   112M   4096
/storage/sdcard0        13G     4G     8G   4096

This is happening on a rooted stock 4.1.2 image from Google.

I've read other questions on this site, such as Why can't I install apps when I have enough storage?, insufficient storage error while updating installed apps [duplicate], and others, but they all concern situations with only about 10–20MB free, whereas I have a 100MB safety margin. Unlike Something is secretly eating up my Acer Iconia A500 internal memory and I need help finding it and What can I do to manage my phone's internal storage?, I'm not trying to figure out which files are filling up a partition, I'm trying to figure out which partition is filled up.

So how can I figure out which partition this “insufficient storage” message is about?


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I'm trying to make a camera tracking of a video make by my Samsung Galaxy S3 (I9300), but I can't find info about its focal length, sensor size, etc. so the scene and camera match exactly what was used when filming.

I think that maybe ok to use default settings but if some one know what need to be set for the Samsung Galaxy S3 could be very good, so things get more accurate.