texts: How do I switch between multiple users in KitKat via Lockscreen?

texts:
I am using CynogenMod CM11 R22 on Xiaomi Redmi 1S phone.  I enabled multiple users using adb:

cd /system
pm get-max-users
setprop fw.max_users 3
echo "" >> build.prop
echo "#" >> build.prop
echo "# ADDING USER TO SETTINGS" >> build.prop
echo "#" >> build.prop
echo fw.max_users=3 >> build.prop
echo "" >> build.prop
echo "" >> build.prop
echo "" >> build.prop
echo "" >> build.prop

I can toggle between users using Power menu,  but I want to show them on Lock screen.  How can I do that?


texts:
In the past I could connect to a proxy by entering the proxy's settings in the APN settings or Wireless settings.

However, now android seems to ignore my set proxy - after hitting Save it disconnects from 3G for a few seconds (I have no internet access), and then it connects again as usual.

To check it I also set a fake proxy (fake address/port) and it doesn't fail to connect - it just ignores my settings.

I have Android 5.0.2, so I tried to find some info about lollipop having this issue but with no luck. Maybe someone can confirm it, or has some sort of a solution?


texts: When I go to school and try to connect to the wifi network (with my Blu Life One X) it doesn't show any of the networks. The thing is that when I am at home I can see and use the wifi network and at school many times I'll see other peoples wifi hot spots available. So do you think this is a problem with my phone or with the school somehow? All the people I know were on the network last year and have no problems but due to an update that came out I had to forgo all of my saved networks. I appreciate any insight that I can get on this thank you.


texts: Samsung Galaxy S3 will not turn on. Can this be fixed or can I retrieve photos?

texts:
My Samsung Galaxy SIII is doing the following: I cannot get the phone to turn on, the side power button does not do anything. When I remove the battery, and put it back in place, the phone vibrates once and then displays the startup screen of "Samsung Galaxy SIII" for two seconds, before going black again. The battery of the phone is charged. I have tried connecting the device to a power source and it doesn't do anything.

Is there something I can do to fix the phone/get it to turn on?

Is there a way for me to recover photos/notes stored on the phone's internal hard drive?


texts:
Everyone complains about locked bootloaders on phones.  From reading the bootloader seems to be code stored on the partition which /boot is mounted.  Once the phone is rooted why couldn't one just delete what's on /boot and put their own stuff there.  When you do an OTA and it update the boot loader I assume it just writes files to this partition.

In a Linux distro I can replace grub which is stored in boot with LILO or whatever by simply replace the files in /boot and write the PBR to the head of that partition to then boot into LILO.  When the PC boots it looks at the MBR which tells it to look at the active partitin (persumably the one with /boot), chain into that and read the LILO code at the head which then does stuff with all the other files in /boot.

How do android devices boot differently that prevents that?


texts: How to remove MUTE (4-letter word "mute") icon?

texts: I have a new android phone. No sound from its speaker. On the upper-right screen. there is a MUTE (4-letter word "mute") icon. The Setting no good unmuting. Any help is welcome. Thanks.


texts: How can I get exchange email subfolders on my Samsung Galaxy S3?

texts:
Does anyone know how I can access exchange email subfolders on my Samsung Galaxy S3?

I have set my Samsung Galaxy S3 up with my corporate exchange 2010 server and it syncs all the inbox emails, calender appointments, and contacts without problem but I cant access any of my email subfolders.

This device is running Android 4.0.4.


texts: How can I use phone speaker while headphones in

texts:
How can I output the audio through the normal phone speaker while plugging my headphones?

I'd searched a lot, but seems to find nothing except this answer and it didn't work on Nexus 6 nor Note 3.

Actually I need to use my headphone as mic pnly and the normal phone speaker to output sound.


texts: How to Right-click in Chrome Remote Desktop?

texts:
I want to right-click in host OS Windows 8.1 using Chrome Remote Desktop app. How to do this?

Android platform: Nexus 7 (Android 4.4.2 KitKat) - No OTG Mouse attached


texts: Force Calendar App to stay on current day and switch dates when the day is over

texts:
I'm using a calendar application at work to display the Conference Room status. It works just fine on the "today" view but it will not switch days. So if today is the 30th, tomorrow the tablet will still display the 30th. It won't switch to the 31st.

I did notice that the app switches days when the volume button is pushed.

So my end goal is to either schedule a volume up/down button push at 1am every day or a "today" screen tap.

Unless any of you know of any calendar app that will automatically keep up with the current date. I've downloaded and used those other conference room calendar display apps but my boss prefers the view of a calendar in day mode.

Calendar App:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.withouthat.acalendar

Device is always on, never sleeps or locks. Screen is always on that app on "today".

The tablets we bought:
https://www.groupon.com/deals/gg-asus-memo-pad-10-16gb-tablet-3
ASUS MeMO Pad 10" Tablet with a 1.6GHz Quad-Core Processor (ME102A-A1-GR).


texts: Gallery application replacement for adding text based Photo Notes

texts:
The Samsung Galaxy SIII Neo stock Gallery application has (and other models do too) an option to set a Photo Note when you're viewing a picture. When you select it the picture rotates via some OpenGL animation, and you can scribble on its back. But the space is limited, whereas attaching a note using the virtual keyboard would make it possible to enter a virtually infinite string of characters inside the EXIF data. Beasies the fact that I'm not even sure how to view the scribbled notes (or EXIF data!) once you transfer the picture to the PC (perhaps someone can explain), this feature would be really useful.

Anyone know how I can make use of the feature I'm after?


texts: Mobile Lost and some one else is using the mobile with a different sim

texts:
I need help to track the person who has my mobile.

My account(email) is still linked with google play on that mobile.
I can install apps from my browser from google play account.

Is there any app that I can install from google play and find the location/sim number from my browser.

Or

Erase SD memory card from browse.


texts: How Do I Get the Phone to Automatically Open My Gate for Package Delivery?

texts: The intercom dials my number and the phone needs to press '9' to open the gate (the call disconnects when it does). I want it to do this by itself any time someone uses the intercom (I can't answer when I sleep or am driving or on silent etc.).


texts: How to grant certain apps root permission through ADB?

texts: I have an Android TV box (4.4.2, armv7), and I can login the device as root by ADB (local network). What I want to do is to give certain apps root permission. How can I do it?


texts: Settings -> About phone -> Battery use bug?

texts:
When I open the "Battery use" screen it says that the phone is on battery for 14663d 4h 34m 53s, which is clearly wrong. The graph shows a linearly descending line. What is the problem? Why does the phone display these values? As far as I can tell the feature has been working correctly so far.

I have tried restarting the phone (I've removed the battery for a short time too). The phone is a Samsung Galaxy S Plus with firmware version 2.3.5.


texts: Galaxy Tab Multi Device App Installation

texts: I am planning on having a few labs of Galaxy Tabs (60+ tabs), and I need a way to manage all of these. Primarily I need a way to automatically install apps on all of these at once. I know there is a solution called Meraki but it won't install the apps for you it just sends a notification and the user has to install individually install the app which is kinda useless.


texts: Disable window animations when the menu option is missing?

texts: How do I set Window animation scale and Transition animation scale to Animation off when  the option to do so is not available on my ROM (though it ought to be). Specifically it should be under Developer options in Settings but all of the User interface options are missing.


texts:
I had an android where i could reject calls with the home button. Default behavior in lock mode with unanswered call.
With my new phone that doesnt work anymore.
I can see the option to set Answering calls with the home button.
But  I want the opposite action.
When the phone is in the pocket and i need to immediately reject a call when i forget to put the device in do not disturb mode, the only button that solves that issue is the home button.

Is it possible to have the home button set to reject calls ?

SAMSUNG S7   (NOT rooted)

EDIT: I tried using tasker, but there is no Home button event condition.


texts:
I have a Beaglebone Black which runs Android. It has a 1GHz CPU. Bu when I read it's clock speed from adb I got 300MHz. I'm using following commands:

cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq
cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_cur_freq
cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_max_freq
cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_min_freq
cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_min_freq

All of them returns 300000. I'm using Android image from Texas Instruments. Is tehere a problem? Is my Beaglebone Black running on 300MHz or is it just a system error? I try couple of apps to learn my CPU speed. All of them says 300MHz. But i think they are reading those files too.


texts:
Can I see a recently added contact if she is online?  Say she has not accepted my invitation.

Thanks.


texts: What happened to my detailed battery stats on my Asus Transformer Pad?

texts:
I have an Asus Transformer Pad tablet (TF300T). As with any other Android device I've owned, when I go to the settings menu and tap "battery", it gives me a detailed break down of which apps and processes are eating my battery power. Well, at least it used to do that.

Nowadays, when I visit the battery settings, only 3 power consumers are listed:

ScreenWi-fiTablet Idle

Here's a screenshot:

Why aren't any of the apps I've been using listed? And what about system processes?

One possibility that occurred to me is that nothing that is using less than 1-2% of the power is being listed, and all my apps are below the threshold. However, that seems unlikely to me as I've played dynamic 3D games and used other CPU-intensive apps at times, and after doing so I've checked the battery activity and they still don't show up.

Before taking this screenshot I was using Pocket, Feedly, Mantano Reader Premium, Chrome, and Words with Friends for hours, alternating between them. Surely some of that should be shown here, right?

When I check the battery activity on my cell phone (A Galaxy Nexus), I see Pocket has used 6% of my battery, and maps has used 3%. And I don't even use those apps on my cell phone nearly as much as I do on my tablet. Yet my tablet is completely silent about them.

It also occurred to me that this problem may have started when I upgraded my tablet to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean about 3 weeks ago. But I can't be sure, and I don't know what to do about it if that turns out to be true.

Can anyone tell me what happened to my battery usage data, and if there's any way to fix this going forward?


texts: The acrylic cover to the camera cracked open while in my pocket, now the camera is degrading. Is it possible to replace the camera on a Galaxy S3?


texts: Let's say i create a custom group on Android (We will call it GID 5000) and i want to add users (apps) to this group, how can i manually add the app's UID to GID 5000 ? If possible, without touching the APK.


texts: Android phone will not show all WiFi access points

texts:
I have a LG-D686 running its stock factory installation of Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean; modified somewhat by the vendor to support a dual-active SIM card transceiver. Normally this phone has had no difficulties finding and connecting to WiFi Access Points.

However, I now work in an office whose WiFi Access Point is not showing on my Andoid phone.

This is what I know:

The office WAP is not an ad-hoc wifi hotspot. It is an always-on Linksys LAPAC1750 Pro.
The office WAP is visible from my Windows 7 work laptop and from other colleagues' iPhones. I've not checked if anyone has an Android Jelly Bean phone in the office.
My Android shows up most but not all access points in the building. There are approximately 15 - 20 access points visible from my Windows laptop using Xirrus Wi-Fi Inspector; depending on the time of week. Android Wifi Analyzer shows that as much 80% of laptop-visible WAPs are visible on my phone.
The office WAP has a decent signal; more than most WAPs that are showing up.
If I create a non-ad-hoc wifi hotspot on my laptop (using Connectify); this hotspot will be visible if the laptop is not in the office and invisible if the laptop is in the office!
No obvious and evident differences between visible and invisible WAPs other than the office access point is the only one in this building using channel 12.

What might I do to resolve this WAP visibility problem?


texts: What can cause the Oct 2011 OTA update of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 to fail?

texts:
I'm using a Galaxy Tab 10.1 3G (GT-P7500), Android 3.1, Baseband version P7500XXKG7, Build HMJ37 P7500XWKG9, rooted. (I got it with 3.1 and TouchWiz preinstalled.)

A few weeks ago, I got a notification about an OTA update. The only information I get about this update is:

Update details (9.61MB)
Improved stability.

Trying to install this update reproducibly fails. It downloads, then asks me whether to install. I confirm, and it tells me that it will reboot the device. The device reboots. During the reboot animation, I see a low-resolution progress bar that runs until about 25%. Then it reboots again, I enter my PIN and it tells me: "Failed to update firmware. Try again using PC software (Kies) or visit a Samsung service centre". It does not give me any details as to why it has failed.

I connected DDMS to the device during the update, but (as expected) it doesn't show anything during that phase. I don't know how to get any additional reporting as to why the update failed.

I can't connect the device to Kies either. Again, it doesn't report the problem. Kies notices when I connect the device, then says: "Reconnect the device in Samsung Kies (PC Studio) mode.Current connection mode not supported by Kies." (sic!)

What can cause an OTA update to fail?


texts: OSX - Android Emulator closed because of an internal error:

texts:
Trying to run an emulator via a fresh install of Android Studio on a new MacBook Pro and the emulator fails to start with the error message below.

I have attempted re-installing HAXM, re-installing Android Studio, creating a new AVD - all with no luck.

Has anyone experienced this issue and found a fix?

Edit: About This Mac shows: Display = Radeon Pro 555X 4 GB Intel UHD Graphics 630 1536 MB. The current drivers installed are only those that came pre-installed with the machine


texts:
I am trying to run a standard AVD (ARM, empty layout, other settings as proposed by Android Studio) on the emulator. Enabled -verbose, -debug all and -show-kernel modes.

The emulator boots, but ends up in complaining that it cannot connect to a certain socket (127.0.0.1:1970). I tried to open a TCP socket at this port, and got a message from SDKCtl multi-touch - it is trying to establish an handshake.

Does anybody know a workaround, or may at least explain what SDKCtl exactly is, and what it is trying to connect to?

I am on a Mac with El Capitan.

UPDATE

I found a workaround. Just use, when starting the emulator, the option:

-screen no-touch

At this point Android boots (very slowly), the device screen is not empty anymore, but a "process system isn't responding" message appears, and the system stays there.

SECOND UPDATE

In the log from the emulator, I noticed this error:

goldfish_fb 9010000.goldfish_fb: coherent DMA mask 0xffffffff is smaller than system GFP_DMA mask 0xffffffffffffffff

THIRD UPDATE

If one does not issue the -screen no-touch option, and waits a lot, in the end the virtual device boots, with the "process system isn't responding" message. At this point one may click on "wait" on the device message. And then the device seems to work. But the errors in the log are still there.


texts: How to enable unsafe volume warming in android 7?

texts: I have a Huawei P9 lite smartphone with android 7. I disabled the unsafe volume warning by accident and I cannot find any settings to enable it again. I checked settings and then sounds, however, I cannot find an option to enable it again.


texts: WhatsApp notifications - Notification Bar - J3

texts:
Samsung J3 - Android 5.1.1 (Lollipop)
Regarding WhatsApp notifications....On my previous phone (Samsung Galaxy Trend) When a new WhatsApp message comes through....

The phone vibrates
A number "1" shows up on the WhatsApp icon
The little WhatsApp icon shows up in the top left hand corner of the phone.

This configuration is exactly how I wanted it...

I seem to be having some trouble replicating this exact configuration on my new phone (J3).

Can anyone assist?

Thanks


texts: I have a HUAWEI honor 3C.  I am downloading facebook Messanger but play store displayed device not have a sufficient memeory while 308MB internal memory is free.  I clean cache memory but didn't work. Please help me out.  Thank you.


texts: How to unroot a GSM Galaxy Nexus without reverting to the stock ROM

texts:
I recently rooted and unlocked the Bootloader on my Galaxy Nexus — direct from Google — using this method. Upon doing so my phone reverted to the stock Jelly Bean ROM I had just after upgrading. All of my apps and settings were removed. I've downloaded and setup all my apps again, and I want to unroot my phone in order to properly use Google Wallet.

Will unrooting my phone with the Galaxy Nexus Toolkit wipe my phone and restore the stock Jelly Bean ROM?


texts: WhatsApp Messenger zero-day exploit: How to upgrade?

texts:
It turns out that WhatsApp Messenger is affected by an exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability, which can be used to take over the phone with "zero clicks", by placing a call using specially crafted packets:
The Register:
It's 2019 and a WhatsApp call can hack a phone: Zero-day exploit infects mobes with spyware
also
The Verge:
Update WhatsApp now to avoid spyware installation from a single missed call: NSO Pegasus spyware can turn on a phone’s camera and mic and collect emails, messages, and location data
and, originally the Financial Times (sadly, paywalled):
WhatsApp voice calls used to inject Israeli spyware on phones
Reading the article from The Register:

A security flaw in WhatsApp can be, and has been, exploited to inject
spyware into victims' smartphones: all a snoop needs to do is make a
booby-trapped voice call to a target's number, and they're in. The
victim doesn't need to do a thing other than leave their phone on.
Engineers at Facebook scrambled over the weekend to patch the hole,
designated CVE-2019-3568, and freshly secured versions of WhatsApp
were pushed out to users on Monday. If your phone offers to update
WhatsApp for you, do it, or check for new versions manually. The
vulnerability is present in the Google Android, Apple iOS, and
Microsoft Windows Phone builds of the app, which is used by 1.5
billion people globally.

Ok, cool. I'm not in the target population of poor sods protesting their nasty governments or nasty sods protesting their governments by different means, but I want to upgrade anyway.
Facebook gives out this mini-advisory:
CVE-2019-3568

Description: A buffer overflow vulnerability in WhatsApp VOIP stack
allowed remote code execution via specially crafted series of SRTCP
packets sent to a target phone number.
Affected Versions: The issue affects WhatsApp for Android prior to
v2.19.134, WhatsApp Business for Android prior to v2.19.44, WhatsApp
for iOS prior to v2.19.51, WhatsApp Business for iOS prior to
v2.19.51, WhatsApp for Windows Phone prior to v2.18.348, and WhatsApp
for Tizen prior to v2.18.15.
Last Updated: 2019-05-13

Note that CVE-2019-3568 is not (yet) in the NIST database: CVE ID Not Found.
Now, I'm a bit confused. I have checked the WhatsApp application version on my Samsung:

Start WhatsApp
Go to the menu with the triple dot (︙)
Select "Settings" in the menu that appears
Select "Help" in the menu that appears
Select "App Info" in the menu that appears
You will see something like "WhatsApp Messenger" Version 2.19.134

(Why is this so complicated? Google should demand that applications deposit their version string in an easily perusable database, as sanity would command. Anyway...)
So I have Version 2.19.134. According to the Facebook advisory, that should be good.
But when I check in the Play Store, I see "Last updated 10 May 2019", i.e. before the weekend. No version information is given here, somebody in the design office needs to be given the lash. And is there a change log somewhere?
Finally, when I go to https://www.whatsapp.com/android/ I am told that I can "Download now" Version 2.19.137, which is three minor ticks up from the version I have.
So:

Should I just not worry because I'm at the safe version (about which I have now contradictory information).
Should I just wait until WhatsApp Messenger updates itself (which presumably will happen soon, or maybe can be explicitly triggered).
Should I install the version at https://www.whatsapp.com/android/ instead of using the Play Store (I'm not even sure that would work).

Update
For added lulz, the "Update Notification" screen: It shows that Whatsapp Messenger has been updated "2 days ago" (i.e. somewhen around Monday), but doesn't give the new version number and coyly doesn't really say anything about any security problem.


texts: Nexus 7 gets stuck in loop and does not boot

texts:
Recently tried to update to Android Lollipop. It downloaded the update but upon restart never installed Lollipop. Kept it for a few weeks and restarted it, could not load after that and the tablet keeps getting stuck in a loop from powering up it shows the bubbles then restarts, sometimes gets stuck on the bubbles screen for hours until the battery drains.
Tried restarting the bootloader and doing a factory wipe but still nothing, just made things worse (lost all my data for nothing). What can I do to make it boot properly?


texts:
My android phone connect to VPN then immediately disconnects, I tried most of VPNs on Google Play Store but it's not working.

OpenVPN connects barely and disconnects in less than 1 minute, my network is good and I can connect VPN on my laptop with my network.

01:06:43.695 -- EVENT: CONNECTED info='ir443391@nl.ovadd.com:800 (134.19.177.20) via /UDPv4 on tun/10.11.3.202/ gw=[10.11.3.201/]' trans=TO_CONNECTED
01:08:09.304 -- EVENT: DISCONNECTED trans=TO_DISCONNECTED 01:08:09.321 -- EVENT: CORE_THREAD_INACTIVE
01:08:09.322 -- Tunnel bytes per CPU second: 0
01:08:09.323 -- ----- OpenVPN Stop ----- –


texts: Using Remix OS(Android-x86) terminal shell to turn off the touchscreen

texts: I have recently installed Remix OS on my PC, and now it's like a craze. Nothing worked. I always think it was the problem with the touchscreen, because EVERY operating system I used on my PC, the mouse jumped everywhere. But on Remix OS, it isn't like that. The mouse didn't jumped. But I have a more serious problem. It won't accept any input that uses mouse, and I have to use the keyboard all the time. I found on the system the terminal, which I think can be used to turn off the touchscreen. Is there any way I can turn off the touchscreen using adb or echo?


texts: I always back up all line chats regularly to google drive. When line is re-installed I tried to restore the chat but it says "No chat history backup found". Does anyone know how to deal with this?


texts: Tmobile my touch 3g (HTC Magic) doesn't give option to mount USB storage anymore

texts:
I have a Tmobile MyTouch 3g. When I connect it via usb to my 64 bit Windows 7 machine, I do not get any option to mount for USB storage as I typically have in the past. I also do not get any option when connected to my Windows XP work machine.

I have tried getting the mytouch to dismount/mount the sd card under settings and then replugging in the phone with no effect. Not sure if there's anything else under settings I could try.

When I look in Windows 7's device manager under USB there's an "Unknown Device" listed. I "uninstalled" this device by right clicking and saying "uninstall". Then I reattached the mytouch 3g and all I got was "unknown device" again.

There appears to be a couple of forum posts on this issue, including here and here but none of them have been helpful. Only the last one seems to accurately 100% describe this problem, but nobody has responded to the post.

How can I fix this? I'm hoping it doesn't involve resetting the phone to factory defaults.


texts: "Add widget" option not appearing on home screen

texts:
I would like to add a widget to my home screen. According to the official help page, I should touch and hold an empty space, and then tap "Widgets". However when I touch and hold an empty space on the home screen, there isn't any "Widgets" button, all I see is "Home settings" and "Wallpapers". However, I found a screenshot on internet where that button is clearly visible, the problem isn't that I'm looking in the wrong place.

My phone
Screenshot of someone else's phone I found on internet

So it seems like this "Widgets" buttons exists on other phones, but it's disabled on my phone for some reason. I tried googling for why this button could be disabled, but I couldn't find anything related to my problem.
I also tried clicking on "Home settings" to see if there was anything related to widgets in there, but there wasn't. I also tried opening the settings app and searching for "widgets" in the search bar, but it didn't give any results.
In case it matters, I'm using a Motorola Moto E6i.
Why is that "Widgets" button disabled and how do I enable it?


texts: Phone call: Audio works only with speakerphone or wired headset

texts:
The following issue with my Sony Xperia ZR (running CM 11-20141112-SNAPSHOT) started a few days ago:

When I initiate or receive an ordinary phone call, I can't hear the other side through my earpiece and the other side can't hear me either.
When I plug in the wired headset, I can use that without problems.
When I activate the speakerphone button during the call (without the headset plugged in), I can communicate with the other side.
I also have a "click" sound effect for locking and unlocking the phone and this sound effect is now also only audible through the headset.

Here is what I tried:

First of course, I checked my profile and volume settings to make sure they are on Default and the in-call volume turned up.
I re-started my phone multiple times, sometimes with, sometimes without the headset being plugged in.
I thought that the headphone jack might be broken, i.e. that it thinks the headset is always plugged in - especially since I use the headset a lot for listening to audio while walking. But as soon as I plug in the headset, the Apollo audio player app starts, suggesting that the headphone detection works fine. Unfortunately, I haven't found a way to see if the software thinks that the headset is connected or not - is there a headset icon or similar I could enable?
So I thought it might be a software issue.

I installed the Sound Manager app which allows to adjust all volume settings and
found that it behaved a bit strange when I touched the In-Call Volume slider, causing a sound blip coming out of my earpiece. Also the volume "overlay" (or whatever you call that window that pops up when pressing the volume rocker) became visible, but sometimes only its icon, not the slider itself.
After adjusting the volumes through that app, I could make a test call without headset and without the speakerphone enabled which worked fine. Also the phone (un-)locking sounds were working again.
However a couple of hours later, when I unlocked my phone again, I didn't hear the click and doing a test call I realised that the problem had re-appeared.
So I went back to the Sound Manager and adjusted the sliders once more, this time no strange effects as in 4.2 before. And no click when locking/unlocking and no audio through the earpiece & mic during my next test call.

Short of completely re-setting my phone (which I'd like to avoid), is there another way of debugging this issue? Does CM have a way to tell the headset detection status?

Any other things I could try?


texts: How can I backup and restore Cyanogenmod 12.1 rom installed on my Samsung Galaxy 2 i9100?

texts:
Cyanogenmod(12.1)'s recovery has no backup or restore option. As I read in the answer of a previous post, CyanogenMod recovery is basic, so we should flash another recovery. The easiest way would be to use rashr, Fashify or GooManager to install CWM or TWRP. Unfortunately, these solutions don't work on my i9100.

An other answer in the same post says : "Especially for Galaxy S2. I stuck with Cyanogen Recovery for a couple of days. Neither Rashr nor Flashify worked for me. In the end, reflashing a TWRP kernel (Apollo 9 light) with Flash Gordon did the trick."

My questions are where do I find this TWRP kernel and how do I install it ?


texts: I have the Galaxy S4. Is there a way to turn off the Autocomplete on the dialpad so that the numbers that I dont have saved in my phone won't pop up?


texts:
I have a text file somewhere on the SD card.

How can I create a shortcut to this file on the "desktop" to open it immediately?

(HTC Wildfire)


texts:
I rooted my Dream/G1 last night and finally gave up on modding it (not for good mind you, but for the moment) and opted instead to just restore it to factory settings via Settings > SD card & phone storage > Factory data reset, which did solve all the problems I was having with multitasking (and not being able to answer it, etc.)

Curiously, I still seem to have root on the phone, despite having reset it. I'd love to understand how that is possible! Superuser Permissions is the only non-stock app still on the phone, and I'm still able to use su to gain root privileges from adb shell. Is this because BusyBox installs to my SD Card?

My phone works just fine, so this is hardly critical, but the whole exercise was/is about knowing my phone better and this is most def. a mystery. Thanks!


texts: How do you move an app from the internal sd card to the external sd card

texts: Can someone answer my problem? I have a digital2 deluxe II tablet containing an internal storage of 1.97 gb and an internal sd card of 3.74 gb and it's kinda full and my problem is I have an external sd card of 32 gb and everytime I press move to sd card it moves the app to the internal and I can't move it to the external sd and it's kinda annoying can somebody help? Note: no rooting please


texts: Reducing bandwidth while using Facebook chat

texts:
I live in place where the data charges are extremely high (~0,70€ per MB in Ethiopia, for example.)  If I wish to chat on Facebook, data charges rack up quickly due to the standard Facebook app's bandwidth use: always updating the stream, downloading all of the images and profile pictures, etc.

Is there a way to restrict or minimize bandwidth utilization while using Facebook chat, basically only transmitting the text data?  3rd-party apps would be fine as well.

PS: I already tried to download imo.im from the Google Play market - but this one is not available in Ethiopia.


texts: How can I transfer SMS messages from my old iPhone to my new Android phone?

texts: I think my previous SMS are stored somewhere in iTunes, can I get them back and store them in my new Android?


texts: How can I access files on a Seagate GoFlex Satellite wifi or Kingston Wi-Drive?

texts:
My final goal is to programmaticaly access files on a Wifi/USB storage device, like a Seagate GoFlex Satellite wifi or Kingston Wi-Drive (preferred because less expensive).

The storage devices are made to be connected to a PC by USB and also can be connected to Android (and iPhone) by wifi.

Once connected, it is possible to put files on the hard drive over wifi using a custom Android application provided by the manufacturer (like Kingston Wi-drive or Seagate GoFlex Access™ app)? How do they do this? Can I access on my filesystem with program like Astro ?


texts: How was the bootloop fixed on OnePlus 7?

texts:
This is a weird question , in the sense I recovered from the boot loop but don't know why and how and hoping I get some pointers from the possibly incomplete information.
I recently applied monthly update on my OnePlus 7. For those who aren't aware , OnePlus downloads the complete ROM instead of update if it detects root or unlocked bootloader (good thing). This is applied as local update. Before applying the update, one needs to uninstall those Magisk modules which aren't a part of the Magisk repo to prevent bootloop and switch slots in Magisk as per the OTA upgrade notes.
I had done this several times and this time it went fine and it booted up normally. Yesterday, I needed to reboot for a totally different reason and on doing so entered into a bootloop. Long press  power didn't shut down the device and none of the usual key combination tricks worked. Fortunately, after a struggle, I managed to get into recovery mode of device using  power +  vol down. My first suspect for the bootloop was that I had was that I was careless by not uninstalling non-Magisk repo module , so here's what I did after fast booting into TWRP

Cleared cache and rebooted with same result.

Flashed this zip to enable Magisk core only and rebooted. No luck

Switched slots hoping that the pre-update slot would boot up but again no luck.

I was resigned by this stage to doing a factory-reset since I couldn't think of any other solution. Since the full ROM was already there on the device , I tried installing it through TWRP ( I know it won't work, since it is not a fastboot ROM, but then I was ready for factory-reset). It showed installation in two stages , stage 1 was successful but stage 2 stopped mid way with a warning fstab not created (IIRC) . This flashed twice. Again tried to reboot , no luck.

Booted into TWRP and again disabled all Magisk modules and rebooted, Bingo, it worked ! (I may have switched slots, don't recollect as I was reckless enough to try anything)

I am sure trying to flash full ROM had something to do with revival because on booting I had a stock kernel, instead of custom kernel. Of course, I had to flash Magisk and modules to get back to business  but luckily data was intact.
Long story to make sure no facts are missed. Now my question in two parts:

What else could I have tried?

How did flashing the ROM (unsuccessfully) help?


texts: How to measure sound decibel in Android?

texts:
Since Android device can play music using in-built music player or using external apps such as YouTube or TuneIn Radio, I wonder if it is possible to "measure" the sound being played by Android through earphones/headsets?

For example: I am using Google Music App to play music through headset/earphone. Is there a way(any tool or app)to know how much sound in decibel it is generating? Already checked Sound Meter, but it seems to be monitoring only the external sound/noice around phone , not really catching the sound output from earphone.

As discussed in this Health.SE post, there seems to be health implications (related to hearing loss etc.) if one hears the music at higher decibel volume. Hence, its better to check what sound level you are hearing your music at for safer media experience.


texts: Transfering lot of images from device to windows

texts:
Hello Android Community.
I need to transfer something like 15.000 images from the internal memory of my Redmi Note 7 (Android 10) to my PC (Windows 10 46 bit).
I'm trying to transfer these using the (stock) USB cable, the problem is that it seems just impossible to complete the process as I 'm having (in order):

File not found error.
Path not avaiable errors.
Device not responding.
Explorer.exe freezes.
Other random errors.

My question is if there is another and less painful way to transfer these data (maybe using a linux virtual machine?).
I tried using  even google drive but it does not show my photos even if they are under backup with google photo (maybe i'll post a question about it).
Thank you.


texts:
I like a couple of Internet radios that I'm currently able to listen to using CorePlayer under Windows Mobile, VLC and WMP on PC. I own the .m3u files for both www.radio21.ro and www.vibefm.ro, but when trying to open with different players they won't get played. NSWPlayer crashes, RockPlayer says the file can't be played with System Player.

Any tips?


texts: Is it possible, that old smartphone becomes slow simply because it is old?

texts:
I have 3.5 half year old Samsung / Google Galaxy Nexus i9250. The phone has become so slow after that time, that it is simply being unusable. Launching any application, as simple as Gmail or Calendar takes 2-3 seconds, sometimes even five. Pressing Home button needs 4-5 seconds between press and really showing up main screen of my launcher (Nova Prime).

When I purchased this phone, it was simply lightning fast.

I have about 50 applications installed, of which about half is used (15 from time to time and 10 daily) and the other half, never used or used once per 2-3 months. Because I change my attitude very rarely, I have installed these applications in 2012, when I purchased my phone and haven't installed anything or nearly anything ever since that. I would describe this as changing 1-2 application per year.

Because of above, I can hardly accept, that my phone is slow, because I installed too many applications during that 3.5 year period. We can assume, that I'm sitting on the same apps set for past 1-2 years. It is also hard for me to belive, that 50 apps, of which half is nearly never used is enough to visually reduce performance of such phone. Even though it is quite old, its hardware isn't that weak, as I assume.

I of course did a full factory reset once or twice, installing only the same set of applications, as in 2012, after that. It brought little or no help and little or no performance gain. This has actually "killed" me, because I was more than sure, that full factory reset will return this phone to a level of performance and speed close to the days, as it was brand new.

The only theory, that comes to my mind -- though very strange and unbelievable -- is that my battery is old, its performance is far lower than when it was brand new, and thus it powers all hardware with lesser voltage causing its overall performance to degrade.

I know, how stupidly this theory sounds, but it is the only one, I managed to come with, in given situation.

Assuming that number of installed applications and overall usage style of my phone hasn't changed over past 3.5 years of using it, is there any reasonable reason for why it is so extremely slower than it was, when it was brand new?


texts: Samsung Galaxy s10e requires password every few days, is it possible to disable safely?

texts:
Galaxy s10e, protected by a very long password and fingerprints.
I specifically went for a very long password intending to only type it in after restarting the phone.
In fact, the phone requires entering the password every 2 ish days, which, I read, is a standard practice with Android.
However, in the security settings I was able to find "Other security settings - Strong protection" that reads:

Encrypt your phone using your secure lock type
After restarting, you'll need to unlock your phone using your pattern, PIN, or password to access features other than calls, messages, and alarms.

That setting is on, and I believe it is this one that requires the password every so often. And it would appear from its wording that if I disable it, the phone will be unencrypted.

Am I correct in that assumption? Will disabling that setting make the phone unencrypted? (I don't want that.)
Is there a way to disable asking for the password every so often with Galaxy s10 specifically (as opposed to stock Android) without compromising the device encryption?

At the moment it feels like this feature works to weaken the phone's protection, not strengthen it. By asking for a password every so often, it pushes me to go for simpler passwords that are easier to type in.


texts: I have Osmand running on Huawei Y560 with 5.1.1. Osmand was running in internal storage. I have performed "move to SD card" operation. Currently maps folder is set to /storage/emulated/0/Android/data/net.osmand.plus/files. Looks this folder is in internal memory anyway. I'm trying to change folder to /storage/sdcard1/osmand , but Osmand complains that it can't write to this directory. How to place maps to external card?


texts:
I've Moto E with Lollipop 5.1 updated. This Version of OS gives me troubles like Disables Networks, Doesnot go in Wifi Settings etc., since a week ago. Before that, its working good only. Warranty for this mobile also expired. So that, i have tried to install my Older 4.4.4 kitkat Version to my Moto E using this Tutorial.
Downgrade from Lollipop to KitKat for Moto E

I've done all those steps mentioned in the downgrade process. I've used the some resource files mentioned in that youtube page. But problem arised in the final process of Downgrade.

After formatting process, it gives me error that "Invalid Signed Image" & "Preflash Validation Failed". I Could not find out any solution for this issue. Now my phone has no OS. SO Can anyone suggest me to Boot OS to my Phone?

Any suggestions will be greatly helpful to me..


texts: Is there a way to launch app via terminal in the background?

texts:
Is there a command to launch an app via terminal and have it start in the background?

Something like the "&" in Linux...


texts: Can Android tablet read external hard drive and if so which formats?

texts:
Can an Android tablet read external hard drives and if so which formats?

I have a Samsung Note and tried accessing a hard drive but failed. I've been told that if I format my 1TB hard drive to FAT32 then I can. Is that correct?


texts: I have downloaded 3 new games: Idle Slayer, Shadow Hunter and Archero. They are all small games that don't require that much space or graphic processing. I was able to play them for 3 days with no issues whatsoever but out of nowhere they started to crash. I open them, it shows the title screen for a second and it closes entirely on it's own. This problem doesn't happen with any other games or apps I previously had installed. I have a Huawei Mate 20 Lite, it has 25,40 GB of free space out of 64 GB and 4 GB of RAM. I clean up space weekly. I cleared the caches of all the previously mentioned games and it still kept happenning. So I uninstalled Archero and Idle Slayer because I knew I had them connected to Google Games so I wouldn't lose progress. When I reinstalled them they worked but when I closed them and tried to open them up again, they had the same problem of crashing and it's been that way ever since. My phone's not old, it's been 1 and a half years since I've bought it and I haven't installed from nor visited sketchy websites. My software is up to date and it's not a problem of internet, I've checked that angle too. Can someone please shed light on what I can do to resolve this issue? I quite enjoy these games and I worry it'll affect future installments to my phone. Thank you from advance.


texts: Activating a new phone that is the same as my last phone on google account

texts:
i'm not sure if this question has come up yet. If it has, i've yet to come across it.

I've got a new phone and the same old phone number.  My new phone has a new sim card too, though i don't believe that has anything to do with apps...

My new phone is identical to my old phone and my google play account is so smart that it thinks i've got all these apps installed that i don't have.  that includes "google play."

Since i've got these things installed, i'm unable to do it again so i can't access google play setting to remove the "installed" apps in order to re order them.

What's a good solution besides never buying google products?


texts: What is an Android dock? When is a phone considered "docked"?

texts:
In Android's "daydream" settings, you can set "When to daydream" to "While docked" or "While charging." What does "Docked" mean? The only products I've seen that are sold as android "docks" are just stands that are shaped to prop up the phone at an aesthetically pleasing angle while charging - the phone doesn't know if it's in such a stand, though. I haven't found an Android equivalent of the music-playing docks that the iPhone can connect to.

The developer documentation describes 4 types of docks: Car, Desk, Low-End (Analog), and High-End (Digital). (The documentation implies that #3 and #4 are subtypes of #2.)

So, what is a dock? How does the phone decide if it's plugged into one, and which kind it is? What can docks do - play music? Can they do other things? Is there some sort of open standard defining how an Android phone talks to a dock (if that's even possible)? Can anyone point to example products representing each type of dock?


texts: Samsung SM-N910F - What firmware should I use and is there any danger in using a "branded" firmware?

texts:
I read a lot before posting here but everywhere I looked I could not get a straight answer for my question.

I have a rooted Samsung SM-N910F (Galaxy Note 4) currently running 5.1.1, N910FXXU1POK1 (Nordic, NEE), LMY47X.N910FXXU1POK1, factory unlocked. I wan't to upgrade to 6.0.1 and have found a lot of threads on how to do this.

However some sites are using United Kingdom (Vodafone) firmware and still saying that as long as the model is a Samsung SM-N910F there should be no trouble updating.

Is this true? If I use a "branded" firmware, will it affect my phone if it is factory unlocked?


texts: Music only plays for a second and then ends?

texts:
When I successfully copy my music to my SD card, each song only plays for a second and then continues onto the next song. I was able to remedy this by copying each song over individually, but obviously this is untenable in the long-run. Might this be an issue with my new SD, am I copying too fast, or what else might it be?

I was able to replicate this for skipping to the center of a song. I can't hear an entire second, but it does seek to the center of the song and play a bit of it. If I try to go back to the beginning of the song after every skip, the Music Player eventually crashes.

For any of the mp3s with these issues, if I restart my phone it deletes these songs.


texts: Does Samsung Galaxy Tab 3(SM-T211) have radio facility?

texts: I purchased Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 (Model SM-T211) and I am searching for Radio in the Home Menu. Does the Tab 3 have radio functionality?


texts: Anki - Next card review in <-36.2 years?

texts:
Was playing around with AnkiDroid, learning US of A state names as a test run. I just started today and AnkiDroid gives me the following options for cards I've seen already:

Again >1 minute, Hard 20 years, Good 50 years, Easy <-32.6 years

THat suppose to be normal?


texts: Accessing android Marketplace from desktop android capable phones in office

texts:
We have some android capable desktop IP phones in our office, is there an app that i can download to my phone that will allow it to access the Android marketplace. There is currently no way to access the marketplace, we have to manually download the apps on a card and upload them to the phone.

Any ideas would help, thanks.

UPDATE: I know how to download and install apps to the devices, i am looking for an app that will allow me to access the marketplace from the desk phones so i dont have to manually install via an SD card.

I searched the forums and wasnt able to find the answer I wanted.


texts: How to extract icons/iconography from APKs

texts:
I just want to know if it's possible to break open an APK (say from Facebook, Twitter, Periscope, Instagram, YouTube) to get their unique iconography sets (for personal UX concept works and uses only, their copyrights is all on them). Whether it's a sprite, individual PNGs, SVG files, or even better font glyphs? Where could I find them? Most of the time they're on assets, but most of the other time they're not? Where could I find them and extract them?

Thanks


texts:
does anybody know what's the meaning of that icon ?
I have a new oneplus one since several days and today this icon appeared in my status bar.


texts: How can I tether my phone's network to my pc?

texts:
I tried the "Android wifi tether" app and "Clockworkmod", both are not working. I am looking for free solution.

I am using LG Optimus Black and is 2.3 root.

I tried the "Android wifi tether". I can enable the "tether" on my phone and its icon change color too but I cannot find anywhere I can connect to this claimed wifi hotspot network in my Windows 7. I opened the Network and Sharing Center and cannot find any possible wifi. Strange enough, my pc doesn't seems to found any wifi.

I tried the "Clockworkmod" app. It works sometimes but most of the time failed. Some days I can connect my phone's network with it and most other days can't. I tried turn off my anti-virus and firewall too. Here is a example log:

C:\Program Files\ClockworkMod\Tether
"Local Area Connection 2"
Checking arguments...
Setting IP Address, mask, and gateway.
netsh interface ip set address name="Local Area Connection 2" source=static 10.0.0.1 255.255.255.0 10.0.0.2 1
Element not found.
Setting DNS server.
netsh interface ip add dns name="Local Area Connection 2" 8.8.8.8 index=1
The object is already in the list.
netsh interface ip add dns name="Local Area Connection 2" 8.8.4.4 index=2
The object is already in the list.
Adding Windows Firewall Exception
netsh firewall set allowedprogram program="C:\Program Files\ClockworkMod\Tether\win32\node.exe" name=Tether
IMPORTANT: Command executed successfully.
However, "netsh firewall" is deprecated;
use "netsh advfirewall firewall" instead.
For more information on using "netsh advfirewall firewall" commands
instead of "netsh firewall", see KB article 947709
at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=121488 .
Ok.
Starting Tether...
C:\Program Files\ClockworkMod\Tether\node-tuntap
opening tun device: null


texts:
I have got a 1 terabyte external hard drive, and I would like to find a seamless way for my android device (an HTC one mini) to be able to access that hard drive.

In the old days when I wanted to do "cloud", I would plug such a device into my always-on-always-connected-to-the-internet linux and just share the device -- let other machines mount it. Of course this still works fine -- but I don't know how to do this via Android, or via Windows.

Nowadays we have cloud solutions like Dropbox, which works great on my Android device, but I have limited storage space (unless I pay -- but I already paid for the external hard drive).

Ideally I am looking for something with the simplicity of Dropbox but with everything under my control. I considered git for a while, and there are ways to get an android device to run git, but you seem to only have a limited end-user experience, and you seem to have to actually upload projects rather than being able to access them from afar -- and my android device doesn't have that much memory.

I tried sparkleshare, but I can't find a client for Android.

I tried every option that ES File Explorer offers, but they all seemed to involve losing control of the cloud storage.

Is it possible to do this via LAN somehow? The problem is that my Android device will typically be moving from wireless network to wireless network and will not always be on the same network as the external drive.

Basically I think I am asking for a way to plug a terabyte hard drive into my phone in a wireless way. This problem has surely been thought about seriously!


texts: Pandora starts playing, un-prompted, in middle of the night

texts: Samsung GALAXY S-6 with operating system 6.0.1. I use the sleep function on Pandora and it works well. However, the application starts unprompted at random times during the night. Not good, solution?


texts: Nexus 5X can't connect to internet over cell connection; X on signal strength indicator

texts:
I have a Nexus 5X, which I've had for 2 years and used without any serious problems until today. It is now running Android 8.1. I have Ting as my carrier.

I'm having a strange issue. Most of the time, I see an X over the signal strength indicator, and if I try to connect to the internet, it takes a long time and then tell me the site can't be reached (see the first screenshot).

Here is the strange part: if I connect to a WiFi connection, everything works fine and the X goes away (see the second screenshot). If I disable WiFi, the X comes back and I can't connect. I can't stay connected to WiFi everywhere I go all the time, so I'd like to fix this problem.

I tried googling for problems like this and tried everything that was suggested: I restarted my phone multiple times, I removed and reinserted my SIM card, and yes I'm sure I have mobile data enabled.

Does anyone know why this is happening or how to get my internet connection working like before?


texts: Can the Termux environment be put on an external SD card?

texts:
I would like to install my termux environment (usr folder) to an SD card. is this possible?
I have seen this post Can I install packages to external SD card on Termux in Android?. From what I understand the problems mentioned there is only if you want to install individual packaged to the SD card. I'm looking to install the wholr usr folder.


texts:
I wanted to see whether WiFi-assisted GPS gave me better results indoors than GPS alone, so I went to Settings > Location > Mode and selected "High accuracy" instead of "Device only".

This prompted me to turn on Location Services and give Google access to my location at all times, which I don't really want to do long-term, but I allowed it to see what happened.

My GPS was no better, so I set my phone back to "Device only" mode. However, a couple of things have changed now which makes me suspicious that Google still thinks it has my permission to use Location Services to get my position:

If I select "High accuracy" again, I do not get another permission request.
If I turn Location off completely and back on again, it defaults to "High accuracy".
The Location icon is permanently in my status bar; it used to go away when not using e.g. Maps.

How can I rescind the permission I gave for Location Services to track my position, and get back to the state my phone was before?

Edit: I have a Moto X Play, stock ROM (pretty much vanilla Android 6.0.1).


texts: What privacy sensitive metadata does an APK package contain?

texts:
What information possibly sensitive information is included in apk files?
The obvious metadata are of course the fields in the signing certificate. But what about (absolute) file paths, user names used on the machine where the apk was built and similar information?


texts: Configuring GMail to use system email accounts

texts:
Version 5 of GMail just arrived on my phone, and I was excited that now I'm able to use all my email addresses with it. But it seems like I have to add them all manually, although they are shown under Settings -> email and work just fine with the stock app.

Is there some way to use the already entered data in GMail 5? I'm afraid that in future versions it could rely on the system information and introduce some confusion where to change the settings, so I would like it to rely on the system settings from the very beginning.


texts: How to Transfer Files on to a Phone When PC No Longer Recognizes it?

texts: I just finished setting up a 128gb MicroSD card as internal storage for my Samsung device. However, I tried to copy files from the back up I made for the SD card on to my phone but now my PC shows neither the internal or external storages when I plug in the phone. I'm assuming that the reason is that I made an SD card as internal storage and the PC can no longer recognize the file format or device type or something like that. Is there a way to make it so I can still transfer files to either the internal or external without making the SD card portable. Or are there any services or apps that I can install besides a cloud service (like Drive or Dropbox) to wirelessly transfer the files on?


texts: Gifted Android Huawei Media Pad hard reset not working, what to do?

texts: I was gifted a Huawei Media Pad, Model BG2-W09, from an elderly woman who no longer used it, and have factory reset, and tried to hard reset it to no avail. I would like to use it, but the how-to guides have all failed me. Please advice, ladies and gentlemen. it would be greatly appreciated!


texts: Viewing File System through a Windows Laptop

texts:
I have a HTC Desire X running Android 4.0.4 (not rooted).
When I connect my phone to my Win7 Laptop, from my laptop, this is the filesystem I see

LOST.DIR (Empty)
Android\data\com.htc.album.thumbnails\

00,01,02,03,04,05,06,07,08,09,11,12,12_720,carmode

\DCIM\100MEDIA (Empty)
.data\mail\attachthumb (Empty)

Where is the rest of my file system? The OS, the programs etc?
Is there a way to view it from my laptop?


texts: How do I disable the Mobile Hotspot feature?

texts:
As far as I can remember, some carriers disable this feature. Now, we have a few dozen phones that we want to deploy to some schools and we would like to disable this feature.

How do I achieve this? A few guesses that I have would be to add/edit something in build.prop or some hidden Android API (can't find any here).

Update: I figured it out a long time ago. The solutions here do work gracefully and the phones behave properly. Normal WiFi is not affected (because hostapd only manages the AP). Upon testing, the worst that happens is

2018-12-04 23:12:23.680 3207-3753/? E/SoftapController: Unable to open connection to supplicant on "/data/misc/wifi/hostapd/wlan0": No such file or directory

in the logcat.  At the same time, the mobile hotspot setting switch flips back off automagically.

What I did was just rename hostapd to something else. Moving/deleting/changing permissions would also work.


texts: What will I lose if I manually upgrade Galaxy Tab 7" to Honeycomb 3/3.1?

texts:
I have a Galaxy Tab 7" WiFi running Android 2.2.1. This particular device will be used for business purposes (I am working on developing some local custom apps for my department), and I would much prefer to use Honeycomb instead, due to the encrypt device support.

However, reading around I understand I will lose some functionality if I manually upgrade. What will I lose?

Also, as an addendum, if I upgrade but it does not work out, I assume I can do a factory reset. If this is incorrect, please let me know.

Thanks!

Jared


texts: Android raw Memo files from PC back to android

texts:
I used file transfer to copy the contents of my Galaxy S5 to my PC, thinking I had effectively "backed up" the data, then traded in the phone.

I had important notes about my daughter's first year (milestones, etc) saved in the Memo app. And of course, I'm now realizing I hadn't backed it up properly.

There seems to be a way to be able to get the files, as indicated in this post:
Anyone know where memos are stored on a Samsung Galaxy S6?

I can work with XML files, and have tried to pay someone to extract this data, but nobody seems to understand what I've done or what I need. These memos are so important to me ... can anyone with expertise recommend a professional that I can pay to solve this?


texts: How to startd the AVD manager without starting android studio

texts: Use AVD Manager without Starting Android Studio this question is the same as mine, but the answer does nt work for me. There's no executable to launchd AVD manager on my SDK directory (I'm on ubuntu). Could it be that things changed? The only thing I can find is /home/lz/Android/Sdk/tools/bin/avdmanager which is just a command line script, not the GUI that I want to launchd


texts: Disabling the notification tray in Android L's (5.0) lock screen

texts:
I think that this is a rather large security issue that has come with the release of Android L. I've always had a password on my lock screen for as long as I can remember, but in Android L it becomes nearly useless.

After locking my device I noticed that I can still pull down the notification tray from my lock screen with which I could toggle Wi-Fi, bluetooth, and data.

If someone was to steal my phone, they could easily turn off any wireless connection even with the phone locked - preventing me from tracking my phone (I realize that they can just turn off the phone and use fastboot to flash a new ROM onto it, but let's assume they're not that smart).

Am I just missing some magically hidden setting to disable the notification tray in the lock screen?


texts:
I have problem with anything working through HTTP/HTTP (i guess) when I'm connected to cellular data (it's ok on WiFi), like apps like Instagram, Google Play, Shazam, i can't surf the web too.
But apps like Telegram and Spotify which is working through socket (i guess) is working well.
I thought that problem is from DNS settings and tried an DNS Changer app but it didn't solve the problem.

Problem appeared after few weeks since installing CyanogenMod 13 on my phone (Nexus 5x in this case) and after it i've tried different ROMs/SIM Cards/Kernels/Tweaks to fix it it was not effective.

I had the same problem on my S4 Mini since installing CyanogenMod 13, and it still has.


texts: Second partition can't be mounted (link2sd)

texts:
I'm trying to partition my external SD card (32GB SDHC), so I can link application to the second partition with link2sd. Now the problem is that, no matter what filesystem I use, link2sd can't create the mount script/fails to mount. I tried FAT32, FAT16, ext2, ext3 and ext4. Same result everytime, I tried formatting it with MiniTool Partition Wizard and ClockworkMod Recovery. I made the first Partition a FAT32 primary and the second partition an put in filesystem here primary partition. I also tried diffrent sizes between 256MB and 4GB.

I'm on Cyanogenmod 10 running on an Samsung Galaxy Ace (I-5380).

Edit: It seems like the question is quite popular. If you have the same issue, try the things that I said I tried above. In most cases this resolves the issue, my accepted answer is for a silly not so common cause for this issue.


texts: Is It Possible To Completely Swap Storages On Kitkat 4.4.2?

texts: I'm using a rooted Samsung SM-G313HZ Galaxy V device with Android Kitkat 4.4.2 OS. Is it possible to completely swap storages on my device so that every single application and game will read their data on extSdCard by default like jelly bean does? In simple words, /storage/emulated/0 is /storage/extSdCard and /storage/extSdCard is /storage/emulated/0 like on the image i attached.


texts: Rooting A Nexus 5 and Concerns Regarding Over The Air Updates?

texts:
I am planning on buying a Nexus 5 for Christmas, to which I intend to Root it, so that I can use Rooted Apps eg Titanium Backup which would otherwise be unavailable to me.

If I root the device, but do not flash a custom rom or kernel, and instead keep stock android KitKat 4.4. :-

What happens when an OTA update occurs from Google ie to 4.4.1?

Do I lose Root and Rooted Apps ?

(Correct me if i'm wrong, if I Root the Nexus 5 and flash a custom rom, then the OTA updates would come from the XDA Developer for the specific custom rom you are using, rather than from Google).


texts:
I have noticed a label in my Gmail with name Call Log. And it contains the some Call Logs of my Phone. I haven't created that Label. I thought it was because of the Mails synchronization. But the same thing isn't happening now-a-days. The Call Logs label mail box contains the information about only few days. After that it stopped logging the Call Logs information.

I want to synchronize the Call Logging information on my Gmail. How to do that ?


texts:
How do I create a repeating task in Jorte? I don't want to create a repeating event - just a repeating task.

For example, say I want to create a task "Grade papers" that will happen once a week. It's not an event, it's a task.


texts: Cannot read from encrypted external SD Card - writing works though

texts:
I have a new phone with Android 7 Nougat. After cleaning up the old phone and copying all data from the external SD card to my laptop, I inserted the card into the new phone. It reported an error, and I had to format the card. I checked security settings, and set the phone to encrypt the card.

Using Android File Transfer (Mac only) I copied data back to the card. Using Total Commander or Asus Filemanager or any app I cannot open the external card, and I cannot open any files.

Asus Filemanager sees the card as 08AF-6412, but it has no files. Still it reports that 10GB is used of this 32GB card. If I copy a file to it, it says there is not enough space.

I've formatted the card twice, one time formatting it on my laptop to another filesystem to force the phone to format it again. That didn't help obviously. At some point I saw the option to move pictures and movies to the external card, so I did. The files disappeared. When opening the card on the laptop, the files were there, so it worked kind of.

When I open the settings menu and go to the storage settings, then open the advanced settings, I can see the card, its folders and files. I see that files I wanted to copy are created but no data is copied, so 0 bytes.

Anyway, I've found out that you can use the external SD card as internal memory with an ADB format option. So I've installed ADB on my laptop, enabled USB debugging and authorized the device. Then I followed the instructions, and still it doesn't work.

Questions

How can I get external storage to work?
Encryption is required!
If the external card works as internal memory - that's even better!


texts: How can I run an installed system application that doesn't appear in the app list?

texts:
I have a rooted Android device and have a couple of pre-installed System apps in the /System/App folder that do not show up in the normal App list.

Using various file explorers, I can "look inside" the APK files or view and change information on them, but if I try to open them, I'm prompted to install the app which then gives me a warning that it will replace the existing app and it's settings.  This leads me to believe these apps are already installed and functional.

Is there a way I can just run these apps instead?

I do not want to Install, Replace, Move, or Remove anything which is all I can find via Google.  I just want to run the existing pre-installed app that has no icon in the app list.

As a side note, I tried using ES Explorer and created a shortcut on desktop to one of these APK files, but opening it from the desktop shortcut just prompts me with the same Install and warning about replacing the app.


texts: Quickly input frequent used phrase by choose-and-paste

texts:
Is there any application that can enhance the clipboard, so that I can quickly input some frequent used phrase by choose-and-paste?

Use case:

I need to input my email address to a field in an application. I recall my frequent used phrases list (by some kind of operation), choose my email address, then it is pasted into the field.


texts: Is there any way to make a backup from download mode?

texts:
I have an Idol 3 phone with a broken power button and a broken touch screen. I am only able to boot into download mode by holding down the volume up and down buttons while plugging it into the charger.

Is there any tool that will allow me to make an image of the internal memory on my phone instead of flashing it? Can QFIL do it, or is that just for writing data?


texts: How to use Mozilla Location Service as network location provider?

texts:
Mozilla Location Service (MLS) can derive a location from cell towers and wi-fi networks in the vicinity, just like Google's network location service.

But how can I configure my Android system so that it provides MLS to apps just like the Google network location service is provided now?


texts:
The answer to how to download PDFs leads to a link describing that Dolphin mini uses google docs for opening pdf  and other documents.

From a programmers perspective this is a nice solution - the content is just passed to a web-service that displays the content on the browser.

But what if you do not like Google to read your pdfs at all?

What if you want to download a pdf, but the links to do so is generated so you can not press longer on it to start a download instead?

So as a follow up this question arises: How can I completely disable that google-docs-feature in Dolphin Mini?


texts: how to install custom rom on mmx bolt a35

texts:
I want install the dream xperia a35 custom on my mmx a35.
I downloaded the base rom and main rom but how to install them in cwm recovery how to install the base rom and then main rom if base rom can be installed by install zip from sd card but how to install the main rom when where can i need to reboot mobile to install 2nd zip
give me both procedure with links detailed
thank you


texts: Changing the default login credentials to internet on my samsung phone

texts:
I bought a Samsung galaxy chat phone a few weeks back. I experienced difficulties downloading whatsapp at the workplace, where we have access to wifi. As a result, I enlisted assistance of a technician, who ended up using his credentials to login to wifi, and successfully downloaded whatsapp and few other apps into the phone.

Each time I have to login to wifi at work, the login screen comes with the technician's username and (the dots at the password window - for) his password. I have to delete these each time before typing-in my own, and it is rather inconvenient, even frustrating. How do I get rid of these default credentials of the technician and have mine (or blanks) instead?

Will greatly appreciate your assistance.
Thanks
Silas


texts: How to make my Android device forget a PC?

texts:
I am running Android 10 on Realme 2 Pro.
So, I am having a lot of trouble connecting this device via USB for file transfer.
I don't know what's the problem. I have tried enabling and disabling USB debugging.
One thing I recollect is that one day I connected it to a charging brick which it recognised as a USB connection instead of AC and I clicked on file transfer.
Since then and before, I haven't been able to connect my device via USB. One day it connected to somebody's PC and that gave me the idea if the Android can forget previous PC, it might work. Is there any solution?


texts: My son playing with my phone used up the number of times the lock pattern allows. Now my phone is locked. I use a Gionee Dual sim phone with 4.1 Jelly Bean. Any suggestion???


texts:
Not able to flash android N preview system.img in Nexus 6P

Android N preview (Nexus 6P "angler")

Build : angler-npd56n-factory-1ce5ccad.tgz

fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-angler-angler--03.55.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot flash radio radio-angler-angler-03.67.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
fastboot erase system
fastboot erase boot
fastboot erase recovery
fastboot erase cache
fastboot flash system system.img

error: cannot load 'system.img'

fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot flash cache cache.img
fastboot flash vendor vendor.img
fastboot reboot

Already tried below options

fastboot -S 512M flash system system.img
fastboot -S 1024M flash system system.img
fastboot -S 2048M flash system system.img


texts: Opening incognito tab in chrome when swiping on chrome icon?

texts:
As you all know that Nova Launcher allows assigning swipe actions to icons on home screen. For example I have attached the swipe action on the dialer to call home directly.

Now I am trying to assign the activity to chrome so that when I swipe the chrome icon it opens the chrome in incognito mode.
I have tried assigning the activities from chrome but it does not have separate incognito function.

So I was wondering to any of you guys know anything of this sort can be done.


texts: "Access Point Name settings are not available for this user" on unrooted 1st Gen Moto G. Help, please?

texts: I recently did a factory reset of 1st Gen Moto G, after which the mobile data stopped working . In trying to fix the problem, I noticed I couldn't change the APN settings, and when I go to that option in the settings menu I get the message "Access Point Name settings are not available for this user". Does anyone have any advice on how to fix this?


texts: Is it possible to write android application using Google Web Toolkit?

texts:
We are writing simple web application using GWT(Google Web Toolkit).  Now we should have this application cloned on Android and iPhone.
I don't know about the iPhone but may it is possible to have  same GWT application running on Android?


texts: Some Google Apps Accounts Stuck On "Waiting for Sync"

texts:
I have several Google Apps (Free Edition) and one traditional Gmail acct set into my Nexus 4 (stock 4.2.2). All accts use 2FA (2 factor authentication).

Using the gmail app, all (GApps & Gmail) but two (both GApps) of those accounts are able to retrieve/sync emails successfully. The settings on the Forwarding and POP/IMAP are identical for all accounts.

I've tried removing the accts, force stop & clear data on gmail app, then recreating both accounts. I've tried leaving (for long periods of time) the auto-sync checkbox ON for those accts. I tried the fix outlined in this video (Auto-Sync data was already enabled, but I disabled, exited, then re-enabled).

What else can I try to get those two accounts working!?


texts: How do I pass signal strength info from a phone to a tethered tablet?

texts:
I regularly tether my Wi-Fi Xoom to a Galaxy Nexus. In the interest of preserving the phone battery I normally leave the screen off, however this can be frustrating when the connection drops since the Xoom reports a full Wi-Fi signal regardless of the 3G connection's strength.

Ideally what I want to do is replace the Wi-Fi signal strength symbol with the mobile's connection strength, however I'm anticipating it would have to be an extra icon in the "system tray" of the tethered device.

I'm now going to speculate about how it would be done *: Wi-Fi explorer reports the Wi-Fi signal of the connected device, presumably by dynamically writing the system data to the HTML file it serves. Something similar, paired to an app that reported the results in the system tray/dock area would do it.

* I think this is still in scope since it might help with an answer. It isn't a coding question since I'd never be able to build this!


texts: How to get contact from stolen Android phone?

texts:
I already read Recover contacts and images from stolen phone. And that answer did not work for me. I have explained it on the question.

My android phone was stolen. I need to get all contact of my phone. I had enable sync in that phone.

When I visit https://contacts.google.com/, it has only a very few contacts (seems like below 10% and all them has an email too). How can I get all contacts?


texts:
Phone: Samsung Galaxy S3, Mobile data enabled, APN configured for T-mobile

Applications: MightyText, BrowserTexting

Internet connection is working, i can use browsers, gtalk, IMO, etc. The problem is some applications cant connect to their respective servers.
Both apps work when on WiFi, but not when using mobile data connection.

The question is how to debug this problem? Is there a way to see what the problem is, see the request, responses?

Update:
The behaviour seems to be sporadic. While the above mentioned apps have never been able to connect, now Imo is having problems signing in.

Help please


texts: Does android keeps a system log about location and networks?

texts:
I'm working together with the local authorities to try to identify where a phone was during the last few days. Some pictures were taken but GPS was turned off. Is there any clue that we could get from the local logs about the location of such images, like available networks? If so, where should we look at?
Device using: Android 8.0


texts: How do I bypass the Verizon activation on a Samsung Fascinate?

texts: I want to use a Samsung Fascinate (model SCH-I500) in WiFi only mode for development and testing purposes. The device has been factory reset and boots to the Verizon activation screen. How do I bypass activation? Do I need to root the device?


texts: Browser to use in 3G with optimized (in size) content retriaval

texts:
I need a browser to use when running in 3G due to the fact that its speed in my country is far for nice especially in some areas.

My wish it to have a browser that does not download images, video, ads by default but only text. It should still keep a decent pagination.

Then, if I see an image description that interest me, I would like to click and allow download only that image.

Do you know if does exists a browser with these options?


texts: Stop the nag notification for enabling texts on Hangouts?

texts: Pretty much every time I get a text message, Hangouts gives me an annoying notification asking to handle my text messages (which I don't want to do). Is there a way to disable it?


texts: Samsung Galaxy S5 turns on when fully charged and never turns off

texts:
I just 'upgraded' from the Samsung Galaxy S4 to the S5. Both use similar Android 4.4.2 Touchwiz software, but the new one has some odd behavior. I set smart screen sleep (or timeout, how it's called) to on and put it to one minute. I do have the Developer Options revealed, but the "Stay awake" is not checked.

I'll describe some situations:

Phone unplugged, unlocked -> Sleeps after 1 minute idle.
Phone unplugged, locked -> Sleeps after 1 minute (or even less) idle, no matter if I have notifications or no.
Phone plugged in, unlocked -> Sleeps after 1 minute idle.
Phone plugged in, locked, manually woken up (pressing some button) -> Sleeps after one minute.
Phone plugged in, locked, woken up by some notification -> Rings, displays the notification, and never sleeps until I press the lock / power button.

I tried to minimize the problem by minimizing the notifications I get while it sleeps: turned off WiFi, blocked messages, etc. But there is still one problem. I charge my phone overnight. Plug it in at evening (22:00), at about 1:00 (night) it finishes charging. The "Battery full" notification appears, and also the popup saying "Close the charging cover for water protection" fires up. And after that, the phone does not timeout. And when I wake up, the phone is very hot. I bet it's not OK. And also, from my knowledge, static images burn into OLED displays. I really don't wanna break my phone by charging it at night.

What I have tried:

Restoring and leaving developer mode off.
Resetting to factory, twice.
Tried letting it on silent with and without vibrate.
Tried putting some apps to block notifications.
Tried changing all the power, timeout and sensors options.

Nothing stops it from lighting up and never lighting down at night, and overheating itself. Any ideas?


texts: Where do Android apps save their working state?

texts:
Where do apps store their working state?

Occasionally an app will crash, or I'll get the Android message that X app has stopped responding ("Do you wish to close?"). In either of those cases, after the app has crashed/closed, if I then switch back to the app via the switcher, the app's state is restored right in the middle of where it was previously, as if it had never closed.

However, if I were to close the app myself, such as closing it from the app-switcher view, or the phone rebooted, the app will start fresh, with no state saved/restored whatsoever.

I'm wondering if there's a way to manually save an app's working state, so you could restore the state manually within the app when you want, without the assistance of the "App isn't responding, do you want to close?"


texts: Question about data storage after deletion of app

texts: I am using Android 6.0.1 though i'm not sure that would make a difference with my question. So my question is after an app has been uninstalled through Settings --> Apps and then clicking the "Uninstall" button after selecting the particular app is there, in general, any evidence left on the phone that the app was ever installed? Secondly, if so how can that evidence be removed? Sort of like how a browser has a "browser history" after you've visited sites is there anything analogous in a history or a cache of some sort that can be recovered to see that the app was once on the phone and OS (barring a sophisticated forensic analysis). If i were to hand the phone to someone who is tech savvy or knows their way around android would they be able to ascertain that the app was once there?


texts: Does adb shell RUN_IN_BACKGROUND ignore really works?

texts:
I did
./adb shell cmd appops set com.whatsapp RUN_IN_BACKGROUND ignore
for lots of apps in my android. However, when I go into the app settings, I still can press "force stop". Does that mean the app is still running in the background, even if I setted it to ignore?
How can I see the apps running? adb shell ps shows too much thing and I don't know which ones are the apps.
Also, will these settings work after reboot?


texts: How to remove an image saved as wallpaper from lock screen android 4.4.2

texts:
Micromax Canvas 2 colors with android 4.4.2 is my first smart phone and im finding my way around slowly. Please can someone urgently help with my issue below?

Recently i saw an image on a website of google chrome and i clicked on the image and pressed save image. I got a message saying image downloading. later i opened the image from gallary did some size changes as it requested then made it my wallpaper for lock screen.

However I am unable to remove the image now from the lock screen and go back to default image. Please can you help me understand where is the image stored for me to go ahead and delete this image so that it goes back to the default option of the phone, when it allowed the default wallpaper in the screen and if i played an App called Saavan it would put that albums image as the lockscreen image automatically.

Kindly advice.

Regards.


texts: Error message when upgrading Galaxy S to Froyo

texts:
So I finaly got a copy of Windows and installed VMWare on OS X
After fidling with driver issues etc. etc. I got the Kies software to recognize the Gallaxy S

After Kies had downloaded the upgrade files and started (an image of the Android raking leaves on the phone screen) this message pops up

"failed to convert to upgrade mode"

Does anyone know what the problem is? and how to get around this?


texts: Virtual Router software is keep on disconnecting

texts: I'm using the Virtual Router from my laptop to connect my android mobile through WIFI. It's connecting properly but the connection is not extending more than 5 - 6 minutes. Is i have to change any settings in the mobile? OR is any other software providing this kind of service. I have SAMSUNG Young Model number : GT-s5390, Android Version : 2.3.5.


texts: Moto E5 plus Phone stuck in bootloop, won't charge, can't access recovery mode

texts:
I have a Moto E5 Plus bought over a year ago. Everything was working perfectly until one day it just started having battery problems. The battery would charge and show 67% but as soon as I removed the charger it would trickle down to 52% then to 47% and so on within seconds. Soon the phone would work only when plugged in.
Now the phone won't turn on at all, and when I try to, it gets stuck in bootloop, not getting past the blue screen Moto logo.
I can access the bootloader by pressing the power button and volume down button. It says battery (ok) in the info. OEM locked.
I can't access recovery mode because I select it and it just goes back into the bootloop when plugged in. When I take the charger out and try to access recovery mode, it just shows an exclamation mark in a yellow triangle ⚠ with a red circle around it. Also I can only access the recovery mode like 1/10 times. I know you need around 70% battery for recovery mode but I can't charge the phone at all. I power off from the Bootloader menu but when I plug the charger into the phone it just goes back to bootlooping. I left it on the whole night, I wondered if even in bootlooping it would at least manage to charge. Nope, it didn't.
The phone only managed to switch on to go into bootloop when the charger is plugged in, without the charger the screen flicks on like an electric seizure for barely a second.
The phone isn't rooted, nor have I tried to root it ever.
I tried the LMSA and used the Rescue option from the Bootloader screen (because that was all I could access) but nothing worked. Still stuck in bootloop.
I came across this stock android flashing thing but I've never done that. Will it solve the problem? Can it be done from the bootloader screen (without accessing the recovery mode)?
Please help


texts:
I have installed GO Launcher and GO Locker. Now, when I updated them, they got an error.

The problem is that, nothing shows up when I press unlock button (I have Nexus S). So, there's nothing I can do with the phone. There's no display at all. I know the phone is running in the background. I get the tone when I get a message.

I tried to call my phone hoping it'd get unlocked for answering that call. It did get unlocked, but when I answered the call, it got locked again. No display again. But, when the phone was still ringing, I got a Force Close dialog for GO Launcher EX ( not for GO Locker ).

I restarted the phone (removed the battery). When the phone started, it was locked (using the default Android locker). When I try to unlock it, the screen doesn't work.

Now, I am unable to use my phone. The first thing that I'd like to do is change the launcher without starting the phone itself. Is that possible?

Or do I have to restore the factory settings? If I can restore factory settings, I must be able to do so without starting the phone? Can we do that? In Nokia, we can do that by pressing some key combination and restarting the phone. Does that apply here too?


texts: Screen permanently black with broken proximity sensor and Proximity Sensor Accelerometer App

texts:
My phone's proximity sensor is broken and constantly signals "covered". The screen turns black when I'm called.

I installed an app Proximity Sensor Accelerometer to solve this and played around with the features.

Now my screen is permanently black.

How can I disable or uninstall the app? Maybe remotely? Maybe install another app remotely to fix this?

I don't have usb debugging enabled on the phone. Plugging in the charger doesn't reactivate the screen.

Device: Sony Xperia Z2, not sure of Android version


texts: Already S-Off, need root on HTC One M8 Verizon

texts:
I'm relatively new to Android and I'm just trying to get root on my HTC One M8 Verizon device. I've successfully used the SunShine utility to S-Off, but I'm just really confused about what to do next to get permanent root. I don't care about custom ROMs and I'd really prefer not to have to install TWRP if I don't have to. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

FWIW, I've got the Android SDK and associated tools (adb, etc.) installed, and I am successfully able to connect to my device. Just don't know what to do from here.


texts: Can't find some apps in play store while others don't work

texts: After I factory reset my s4 some apps was reinstalled easily, while others didn't work as it used and some can't be found in play store(youtube downloader). All music downloader won't work. I had simple mp3 downloader before now it doesn't work. I need your help


texts: Any OpenSource SOCKS proxy server for Android?

texts:
I am looking for a SOCKS proxy server I can run on my Android phone. I could only find some commercial apps, but would prefer a FOSS alternative.

It does not need to be an app: a binary I can run from adb shell would work as well, but I'd prefer it if it does not require root.


texts: I have a pop up every time I open my phone

texts: Can someone please tell me what app is causing this pop up every time I open my phone? It's annoying, because I have to click on it every time just to use my phone. I've attached a screenshot.


texts: S4 Wont turn on unless removing battery then turns off after 2 seconds

texts:
So, my Galaxy S4 turned off randomly today during charge. I attempted turning it back on via the power button but it would not respond.

Then I tried taking out the battery and replacing it, the device vibrates with the Galaxy S4 logo showing up for about a couple seconds, then the screen goes blank again.

I even tried placing a battery from a different S4 - still doesn't work.

Anybody know what's wrong with my device?

Edit: Flat Surface trick doesn't work. It vibrates sometimes but then it turns off.


texts: Hacker's keyboard v1.38.2 doesn't show any suggestions other than "Android"

texts:
I downloaded and installed Hacker's keyboard v1.37 some months ago. It was functioning as expected and the experience was great. Then, I upgraded it to v1.38.2 and set the settings to the same for what I had for the old version.

The problem with he new version is that it doesn't show any suggestions. The only suggestion that I see when typing is "Android" and nothing else.

What do I need to do in order to fix it?


texts: Faster way to copy slot B back to slot A after update

texts:
After update into Slot into B, is there any way to mirror the contents of B back to slot A? So that both slots have the same versions.
How do copy complete updated slot B back to slot A efficiently?


texts:
I bought an Asus Transformer tf300t tablet. It runs on Android 4.1.

I really need the multi-user feature of the Android 4.2.

I read that Asus will provide an upgrade for all the Transformer series to Android 4.2, but there isn't any official announcement.

Should I wait for this hypothetical upgrade or install a CyanogenMod ROM right now?


texts: Ideal charging / discharging percentage for maximum battery life?

texts:
One of my friends has a relatively new Samsung smartphone. He has this app that notifies him whenever the charging is up to 80%, and tells him to unplug the charger.

He tells me that it will increase the number of charging cycles for his battery. He says that if he lets it charge all the way up to 100%, it will mean he has to replace the battery of the phone more often.

Is this true?

Somehow, I feel this is a thing of the past. I thought the internal architecture of batteries these days was made so that it wouldn't drop too low or too high. (In other words, when the phone is at 100%, it isn't really 100%. It's what the battery can safely be charged to in order not to degenerate too much.)

Here's a related answer which taught me something about this.


texts: when sending text it directs me to use skype instead why

texts: when i try to send a text to someone new it sends me to skype. why. SayI get a call and want to send them a text it sends me to skype instead of allowing me to send a regular text message


texts: The phone randomly shuts off when it gets around 30% power.  Verizon says it's a software issue.  Thoughts or solutions?


texts: Asus EEE Transformer never gets a GPS fix unless I reboot it

texts:
I have an Asus EEE Transformer (not the prime) that has unreliable GPS performance. I usually just fire up Google Maps in my car and use the navigation but the tablet always gets stuck with "Searching for GPS". This can go on for over 30 minutes in which the tablet either won't get a signal at all, or might get one every once in a while, update the map, and then go back to "Searching for GPS".

I have tried the following things:

Done the same navigation with my Nexus One in the same car and it has no problem receiving a signal right away and finding it's location so I'm pretty sure it's not environmental conditions.
I tether the Transformer to my Nexus One for internet so at first I thought using the "Use wireless networks" for location was just trying to get the location from the phone but toggling the option on or off doesn't seem to make it work worse or better one way or the other.
The amazon reviews don't seem to indicate an overwhelming problem with the Transformer with GPS.
I have tried the tips in this forum thread on the transformer forums.
I've tried installing GPSfix and using that tool but it doesn't seem to help.
Android version is 3.2.1, GPS version is 5.5.8, and Build # is: HTK.US_epad-8.6.5.19-20111107

So far the only reliable means to get the GPS working seems to be to shutdown the tablet and fire it up again, at which point the GPS and Google Navigation works right away, which leads me to believe that it's a software or configuration problem rather than a hardware issue.


texts: How to let phone calls from a specific number bypass 'Do Not Disturb'?

texts: I often turn on 'Do Not Disturb' mode, especially at night. I would like a few specific phone numbers to be able to bypass the Do Not Disturb if they call me, so that I can be altered in case of emergency. Is there any way to do it?


texts: Installing the Xperia Keyboard on non-Xperia devices

texts:
I recently went from a Sony Xperia phone to a Huawei P10 Lite.

I very much appreciated the Xperia keyboard I had, and would like to install it on this phone.

I thought that it would work on all Android devices. However, when I download the APK from apkmirror and try to install it, it says that it is not compatible with my phone.

I have tried to install an older version of the Xperia keyboard, but still without luck.

Does anybody know if it is possible to install the keyboard, and if so, how?


texts:
Using the backup and restore function with adb (as discussed in Full Backup of non-rooted devices) there is no progress available and often it is very hard to follow the adb logcat output as long there are much more background events than the BackupManager.

While backups often takes up to 1.5 hours (on my Nexus7) and restore often gets stuck or takes up to 2h i'm asking myself

is there a (native, i.e. w/o root) way to

get a progress while taking a backup
progress on restore
statistics (bytes written per second), estimated time for backup/restore etc.

any tools (adb wrapper?!) available to archive this?


texts: Device boots normally, but cannot enter recovery or fastboot

texts:
I have secondhand Vodafone Smart Tab 4G. It seems to me that previous owner messed something up.

The device boots normally but I cannot enter either bootloader, fastboot, or recovery. I have tried HW combinations, RebootManager software, and ADB commands. I would like to restore the device to factory defaults, but I have no idea how to do that.

I can connect by ADB:

~ $ adb devices
List of devices attached
1b54ef6a    device

But if I try either adb reboot bootloader, or adb reboot recovery, the device hangs on "Powered by Android" logo. If I try adb reboot fastboot it just normally reboots.

Trying to restore factory defaults from settings or running system update, the device reboots and hangs on "Powered by Android" logo.

Also the device is rooted.


texts: What happens if I uninstall the Google Settings app?

texts:
My android device frequently runs low on free memory space.

Can I delete the Google Settings app?

I want to install a game but it is not installing what should I do?


texts:
A friend had about 60 photos that were very important to her, because she is planning to use them in a lawsuit.

She wanted to upload the photos to Google Drive and then delete them from the phone, but apparently she deleted them before the upload was finished (only 3 photos were uploaded).

Is there a safe way to recover the deleted photos? From what I can read on the internet, there are apps such as DiskDigger that will help recover deleted files, but I am worried about something: if I start doing stuff on the phone which involves moving things in memory like installing new apps, am I not taking the risk that the photos will be "hard-erased"?

What should I do? Thank you for your advice.

Details:

Phone is a Samsung with Android 4.42
Application used to take/handle photos is Camera (Google Photos not installed)
Memory used is internal memory. There is 142Mb free space available right now.


texts: How do I get return key back instead of emoji (Oreo)

texts:
I am trying to use messenger with the default Google keyboard on my stock Pixel1 using messenger. Somehow it got hosed and now instead of enter on the keyboard it shows an Emoji (in blue). If I hold down on the emoji I see the enter button but this isn't what I want. I want the enter button to be the default. I tried switching the keyboard to Dvorak and switching back. I have tried everything I can find.

How do I switch a stock Oreo device from having the emoji button to the enter button?


texts:
is it possible to get location via a cellular network if the device doesnt have a data plan?

or does it need a data plan to be able to get location via a cellular network?

is a data plan needed to get location via a cellular network?


texts: I would like to know if Google Talk works like Gmail where it actually pushes your messages onto your phone instead of the phone pulling periodically.


texts: installing apk in /system/app with android 5.1 or higher (simple adb push doesn't work anynore)

texts:
maybe this is a newbie question, but I'm struggling to find an answer...

I need to install some apk as system apps.
In past (up to android 5.01) I was used to just adb push to /system/app and everything was working fine.

I found out today that since Android 5.1 this doesn't work anymore as apps in that directory are not anymore simple apks but they are folders with an arm directory with actual apk and other files.

How can I now install as system apps the apks that I have?

I have sources only for 1 of them.

thanks in advance for your support

regards,
blackdir


texts:
On Android v7

click Phone
click the Contacts icon (two human silhouettes)
click [Create new contact]
create new contact

Contact is added and shows up in the list. It also shows in the Google Contacts Web UI on a desktop as well as in Gmail.
However, searching for this contact from the Phone app fails to find it.
The Contacts app is able to find it just fine, just not the Phone app. I installed two other third-party contact searching apps and they find it just fine. It's only the Phone app that has trouble.