texts: I've tried doing this before, and I successfully installed Android on my Dell Inspiron 15 [64bit.]  There was one problem though. No video worked. Not on YouTube, not on the Web. Not when downloaded with any video player. Can anyone please verify an Android ISO that works well with videos and everything? I know people do it, but with which version, and what iso?


texts: How can I toggle email notification setting on/off?

texts:
I use my phone for emergency notification of critical systems 24/7.  So when I sleep, I can't just put my phone on "Silent", I must mute only my eMail notification (which I do need on when I'm not sleeping).  In this way, SMS emergency messages always go through.

But to do this, I have to press: , , , ,  and then a silent ring tone.

Is there not a simple toggle?  I've tried to make use of apps "MyProfile" and "Notification Toggle", but they don't offer toggles into the eMail system settings.

I am using a new Samsung Galaxy Victory Model SPH-L300 with Android V4.1.2.

How do I get to toggle the notification of incoming email?


texts: open-gpstracker: Export all tracks or access the SQLite database

texts:
I am using open-gpstracker to track routes. After quite some time I have collected a large number of tracks that I like to export as GPX files. The application allows to do that, however, there is no export option for all tracks at once.

I am using a device without root access. Is there any way I could access the SQLite database of the application? I also thought of modifying the source code of the opensource application to my requirements, but I am afraid of losing my data when I install the customized version of the app on my device. Am I right, that this can be a problem?

Update: I came up with the idea that I could use the ContentProvider of the application, if there is one included and if it is public. I could write another application that uses the interface to access the database. Do you think this is possible? How can I see if there is a public ContentProvider?


texts: How to display comments from devices that I don't own?

texts:
It is now possible to filter the comments in the Google Play Store using the devices you own as filter. Is it possible in some way to filter comments by devices that I don't own?

I am trying to check how some apps behave on my device because it is not so popular, and I would like to try instead check comments with other devices with similar hardware specs.


texts: Tab 2 10.1 P5100 stuck on starting screen

texts:
Actually I was downloading something when my tab 2 10.1 p5100 suddenly went off. Then the starting screen came up saying,"Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1" and it is stuck there. I tried the factory reset by holding the power and volume down button but the process says done.But still it doesn't come on completely.

Can anyone please give me some advice on how to fix this.


texts: Is it ok to charge my Nexus S with an iPhone power adaptor?

texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  Is my phone liable to explode if I charge it with a charger that came with a different phone?

I have an iPhone charger (produces 5V and 1A output). Is it okay to use this to charge my Nexus S?


texts: Can we watch "live" broadcast videos from YouTube Application

texts:
From YouTube.com in PC, we can watch live videos from here - http://www.youtube.com/live

But how do we watch them from the default YouTube mobile application in Android.


texts: Determining/stopping random phantom notifications during calls

texts:
I recently switch carriers and got a used Galaxy S4 to replace the one I would no longer be using.  The phone was already cleaned up but I did a factory reset on it myself to be sure.  The problem I have is that one or more times during a call the phone vibrates and/or beeps as though it has a notification for me.  When I check the notifications (during or after the call) there are none.

This happens almost every call, and within about the first 1-2 minutes of the call, but it is not at a consistent time.  I am not getting these phantom notifications any other time, just when on a call.  I'm not a very heavy caller, so I don't know when this started, but it has been doing it for more than a month at least.

It will happen even immediately after rebooting the phone and occurs whether using the handset or the wired headset (don't recall if I've tried it with BT).  I have disabled all in-call alerts in the settings (including roaming, data, and connection alerts) and every notification option I can find within apps (excepting the ones I need) but to no avail.

Is there any way to disable this, or at least to determine what is causing the false notifications?

Additional info:

Carrier: Sprint
Phone Model: SPH-L720
Android Version: 4.4.2
Rooted: YES
ROM: Stock from carrier (Samsung Touchwiz)


texts:
My phone is rooted with aokp build 38 on it. It is a Verizon Galaxy Nexus (toro)

There is a folder /sdcard/data that I can't make any changes to. Some of my apps are trying to use this folder but are not able to because any changes to this folder fail.

I tried deleting it but was unable to. I even used adb shell with root access and tried to rmdir, but it says "Permission Denied"

I also tried to chmod 777 to give full access to the folder, but I still was unable to make any changes to it.

I'm at a loss as of what to do to make this directory writeable again.


texts:
I have tried everything,
Knox is on,
Android device manager is on and its still not working.


texts: How to pause a movie using Video Player (Galaxy S)?

texts:
Galaxy-S (Vibrant), Android 2.1

I was watching Avatar the other day and paused it.  When I played it again later, it restarted at the beginning.  Is it possible to resume play from where I left off, or bookmark a position or something?  Or is there a different/better player that does this?  Thanks!


texts: Use an external WIFI dongle as a hotspot

texts:
Is there a way to use a wifi dongle and set up the hotspot so it uses this dongle ?
With or without root, it doesn't matter.


texts:
Since a month or two the app titles on my homescreen keep getting truncated even though there is more than enough space.
An example would be "Settings" which gets truncated to "S..."
Moving an app around the screen seems to refresh it, and after that it does show the full app name.
I've tried modifying font size, but that doesn't fix it.
The phone itself is up-to-date, and not rooted.
The same thing occurs in the menus and app drawer, but that's much less of an inconvenience.

Is there any way to turn off truncation of the app names (or if that's not possible, an app that takes over the home screen and doesn't truncate the names)?

My data:
Android 4.4.2
Acer E39 E700 Liquid


texts: Is the Google Home exactly the same as the Google Assistant?

texts:
So I'm considering getting a Google Home. I have a Nexus 6p which has the google assistant. I'm just wondering, is the Google Home basically just a device with only the Google Assistant installed?

Does Google Home offer any features or benefit over just a phone with Google Assistant?


texts: Should I change the battery of my Samsung A7 (2018)?

texts:
My phone shut off completely a few hours ago. It was at 20% and somehow it jumped to 0% and shut off. I didn't know what happened so I just put it to charge.
I had this phone for 2 years, if not 3. I've been using it everyday, nearly all day. For like 5-6 months I've been using it till it was at 20% percent and charge it till it was 90% ( I never used it till it was 0%). But in the first 2 years I used to let it charge overnight. I stopped doing this since July 2020( I think).
I tried my best to not use too much battery, I closed background apps, limited my brightness and leave it alone when it heated up( it started happening quite often for the last few months, but not that much).
It does charge normally.
I read an article about this kind of thing and what to do, and one of them was to do a factory reset. I don't want to do that.
Should I change the battery? I had this phone for like 3 years, I think I should change the battery.


texts: Prevent bloatware which gets reinstalled from starting

texts:
I had a problem with this app (I found on a package with the same name on Google Play, but I doubt it's the same thing) which kept getting installed all by itself again and again, and once istalled, it would start using my limited 3G internet traffic. My phone is not rooted and installing apps from unknown sources is forbidden. A scan with Malwarebytes doesn't detect anything.

From this I deduced that the offending app is somehow bundled by the manufacturer, so I won't be able to get rid of it without rooting (which I don't plan to do). Since uninstalling it didn't help as the app would get reinstalled, I figured I strip it of all permissions and forbid it to use background data. So far this solves my immediate problem with 3G traffic consumption.

However, I see that the app still gets started, consuming RAM (second entry in the list on a freshly booted phone, right after "Android OS") and creating storage data and cache objects. Is there anything I can do to prevent the app from getting started?

Edit: I have tried adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.freshmenu which indeed removes the package, but it gets reinstalled after a while. I have tried to search for installer in adb shell pm list packages -i com.freshmenu, and it's indeed set to null, so I could not discover the offender responsible for reinstalling. I have run adb shell dumpsys package to discover which apps have REQUEST_INSTALL_PACKAGES permission. There are 4 of them, and they don't look suspicious:

com.whatsapp (installer=com.android.vending)
android (installer=null)
com.google.android.apps.docs (installer=com.android.vending)
com.android.chrome (installer=com.android.vending)

There are 5 more apps having INSTALL_PACKAGES permission:

com.android.vending (installer=com.android.vending)
android (installer=null)
com.mediatek.datatransfer (installer=null)
com.google.android.packageinstaller (installer=null)
com.android.managedprovisioning (installer=null)


texts: Download multimedia message with WiFi calling enabled

texts:
I find that if I get sent an MMS message while connected to WiFi calling it never downloads. And retrying the download never works either.

Galaxy s4
Google messaging app


texts: How to avoid WhatsApp locking up my contacts

texts:
If there is a contact who has WhatsApp, the contact was locked from name changes and also create weird changes such as removing any white spaces in the name (even between first name and last name).  I like to keep the Whatsapp association but do not want to have WhatsApp taking over the contact changes.
What is the solution?


texts: What determines the graphics of a device?

texts: I do play a lot of games and most games settings have options to either set your graphics to low, average or high. So I'm really curious to find out what exactly determines the graphics of a phone so that I can set my game graphics according to what will work perfect.


texts:
I have my bank card linked to my NFC and since this day it is also possible to have my public transit card assigned to my NFC-chip. The thing I want to know is, is it possible to have multiple functions for your NFC-chip, like in my situation.

If needed, my bank is the ING-bank and my public transit card is from Translink.


texts: Is there an app for android that displays an error when an app or game crashes ? Because in windows, when a program crashes , an error is always displayed revealing a reason for crash. Eg. It says ' * file is missing','incompatible graphics card' etc. But  an android app quits, or fails to install without explanation. So is there an app that displays errors that explain, for example if an app needs a specific android version, what gpu works with it, or it is not an original  etc.


texts:
Is there a way to discover when my Android OS was installed? In other word: what is the age of the SO running in my phone (since the last FW upgrade)?

I have root access and I prefer not installing any extra apps to this task (altough, if it is the only way, I may install one). I already have a Terminal Emulator App.

I looked into "Settings -> About phone" and there is a counter since the last reboot, which is not what I want.

I am running Android 4.0.4 on a Sony Xperia P.


texts: How to create QR contact code from vCard

texts:
Just came across a website with a QR code that when I pointed the mobile phone camera towards it (I am using a mobile phone with Android 10), it opened a window with Name, Phone, Email, Website, Title and a button to "Import contact".
I know that it is possible to generate QR codes specific for social medias, like WeChat and Facebook and those will detect your social medias, but I am wondering if it is possible to generate a QR contact code readable solely by the camera of my mobile device, ideally from my vCard with similar functionalities as the one above, more specifically the "Import Contact" option?
If yes, how do I do it?


texts:
Back in 2015, I rooted my HTC One M7. It was an adventure; I messed up along the way, soft-bricking my phone. Eventually, though, I managed to get it working again. That was five years ago. So, I might as well have never tried to root a phone, because I've now soft bricked my Nexus 6P—and I don't know how to bring it back to working order. I seem to only ever know just enough to be dangerous.
On the Nexus 6P, the problem is that the phone hangs on the Google logo screen. However, I can boot into the bootloader and get into recovery. I've got TWRP 3.4.0.0 already flashed.
ADB does not recognize the device in the bootloader. It only recognizes the device when it is in TWRP. I am using PowerShell in Windows 10 as my terminal.
Everything went bad when tried to flash SuperSU-v2.82-201705271822. While I had done a factory reset before attempting this, the phone only reset to Android 8.1.0, the earliest build of which was 12-2018. Since the SuperSU I attempted to flash looks to have been from 05-2017 ... well ... my bad. Clearly. Rookie mistake.
This seems fixable, though. I just don't know how to fix it.
My error appears to have blitzed my OS entirely. In TWRP, if I look at the 'sdcard' partition, the only directory is TWRP. None of the Android file folders are there (Downloads, Pictures, etc.). Yet, at the level where 'sdcard' is listed, all the system directories seem to be intact.
Further, if I run 'adb shell su' in PowerShell, I get "su: not found", so my root attempt obviously failed.
In sum:

I have an unlocked bootloader
Device unrecognized by ADB except in TWRP recovery
I am not root
I seem to have no OS (but the directory structure above the 'sdcard' level seems intact)

I tried sideloading a factory *.zip from Google, but I can't do it from PowerShell with the phone unrecognized by ADB. I then tried using the TWRP ADB sideload option, but was told that my *.zip was invalid when I tried it (should I not have tried flashing the whole angler-[etc].zip?).
On XDA, I'm finding a lot of information, but it's not been helpful to me. This seems like a simple issue with a simple solution, but it's one of those "clear only if learned" scenarios, and I haven't learned.
As such, I just need some hand-holding for how to get back to a working OS. It seems that, for things being bad, they're not really that bad. If I just knew what to do and how to do it, I could get out of this pickle. If someone could teach me how to get out of this mess, I'd appreciate it.
Thanks.


texts: Where does music downloaded from Google Play go on my phone?

texts: New Nexus 6 with Lollipop. I downloaded some music from Google Play, but cannot for the life of me find where it is on the phone. I've searched through the entire thing using Astro, and can't find my music. (The Play app sees it, but I want to make one of my songs a ringtone, and apparently with Lollipop, you need to copy your file into a certain location for it to be available.)


texts: Turn Android TV Device into Public Media Player

texts:
I've got an Android TV device here and we want to use it in a public media display. We've got a few problems to solve:

1) Have the device turn on when it received power:
Looks like this would be a firmware thing and we're not going to solve it.

2) Load tons of media:
Solved: Device works great with a USB hard drive.

3) Have a Media Player app start on power up:
Solved: Using the Auto Start App

4) Find a media player that will:
a) Begin automatic playback of random media when started (no having to press play).
b) Allow really easy navigation of the USB Drive folders as albums when the only interface is a remote control.

Would really appreciate some help with finding the right media player app.


texts: In my YouTube channel name my play games account is shown, how do I hide it?


texts: cannot send mail via 3G with outlook exchange sync

texts:
i have a android 4.2.2 phone. i cannot send an email via 3G with outlook exchange sync. If i try that, he will wait until its connected with wifi, and than send it.
synchonising calander / tasks, incomming mail on just 3G is not a problem, just sending email with 3G in outlook exchange active.
Gmail, internet work just fine.
the same account on IOS is not giving any problems.

can anybody help me?


texts: Standalone Chrome to phone outside browser?

texts:
Is there any standalone version of chrometophone ? I use the firefox one.

I would like to be able to send text to the clipboard easily but with the browser extension I have to type into a form text box and then right click to send it to the mobile's clipboard. This is something I find I use very often but it's far from ideal especially for sensitive data.

Jumpnotes is another c2dmm application that does help, but it's still not ideal. I would love to see some desktop client that can do all the c2dm functionality with keyboard shortcuts.

One of the reasons I need this is that my gmail is filtered at work so if I want to reply to an email I have to scrape it out on the mobile itself or type up some text for the clipboard and paste it into a new email.

Thanks in advance for any help


texts: Where did my downloaded music on sd card go?

texts: I downloaded all of my amazon music to my SD card to switch to a new device. So I take the SD card with all of the downloaded music put it in my new phone then sign into my Amazon music account and it says I have no fricken music downloaded. I seriously need a solution to this problem before I go ballistic because after waiting for all my stupid music to download just for it to not show up on the new phone I am frickin livid. Keep in mind it shows up in offline music on my sd card on the old device. I NEED TO KNOW


texts: DeadSystemException causing Google Pixel power cycling?

texts:
I am getting this error when my phone is power cycling randomly without my control. See below for previous error logs.

06-09 11:47:24.470 1379-1379/? E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main
                                                 Process: com.android.phone, PID: 1379
                                                 DeadSystemException: The system died; earlier logs will point to the root cause

Back story:

I bought a Google Pixel online recently, and I've had an issue with it power cycling randomly.

I've followed numerous online help and suggestions from sites such as here. Here's my experience

The phone will operate normally for a week or so, then go into waves of power cycling very frequently
Safe mode stops the power cycling
A factory reset will cease the power cycling, I've done this once and assumed it had fixed it, but the issue has returned today.

I've done some android app development before so I booted up android studio to see if the debug logs could reveal the cause of this issue.

Here's the logcat debug logs pastebin.


texts: I've recently installed an automatic update on a Samsung Galaxy S7 (Android version 7.0) and since then a weird icon appeared on my top taskbar - a telephone receiver that rings, next to the 4g+ icon, ( screenshot attached) even though I am not calling anyone. Does anyone know what is that icon?


texts: ARM big.LITTLE effectiveness in custom roms

texts:
In stock roms it's obvious that the manufacturer tries to make use of big.LITTLE technology as mush as it can (cluster managing, workload distribution etc.); I'm wandering what will happen to "these under the hood optimizations" when we install a custom rom on the phone?

For example Snapdragon 652 has 4 big cores and 4 LITTLE cores and say we flash the phone with Lineageos 14; Does Lineageos can see these two sets of core clusters separately and use them as a true big.LITTLE configuration?


texts: Not able to install app using adb command

texts:
I have a broken screen in my device due to that i am not able to take back of contact and other data.

I am trying to use vysor chrome plugin which installs an app and cast the screen in to web browser.

When i try to use vysor application, i am not able to install the app in device. I am always getting below error

adb install com.koushikdutta.vysor.apk

2660 KB/s (2958940 bytes in 1.086s)
Please select on your phone whether can install the app by The ADB command?

refused to install the app by The ADB command !

I tried to install the app using pm command as well but observed the same issue.

Note : - Same issue is observed for all the apks.
Device details : - LeTv Le 2


texts: Terminal emulator's ssh trying to read /data/.ssh instead of $HOME/.ssh

texts:
When I try using Terminal emulator's ssh I get

  ssh: Warning: failed creating /data/.ssh: Permission denied.

or since 2012-08-19:

  Could not create directory '/data/ssh_client'.

But when I type:

echo $HOME
/sdcard

Why isn't ssh checking /sdcard/.ssh or /sdcard/ssh_data?


texts: Decrypting HTTPS Traffic from Android Apps via Fiddler?

texts:
I am actually trying to debug all the traffic going in and out on my phone. I am using Fiddler on my PC, and ProxyDroid on my phone to do this. HTTP traffic works fine. I am able to decrypt it completely. However, with HTTPS traffic, all I get is "Tunnel to : xxx.xxx.xx.xxx:443 ".
Any idea how do I decrypt the traffic going through the HTTPS route?

I installed the FiddlerRoot.cer on my phone through the default browser. Still no luck on decrypting the HTTPS traffic.

P.S : I am talking about traffic from apps, and not through the browser. My Phone is running ICS and is rooted.


texts: Is it possible to set DNS for mobile network

texts: I live in Canada and use an unblocking service to access US Netflix content, Pandora and Hulu. I would like to be able to use this service while not on my WiFi is there a way to set the DNS server to the ones i need for my unblocker to work for the mobile network


texts: Who makes the Orange San Francisco phone?

texts: Does anyone what company who makes this phone? I assume it's made by a 'known' company but can't find any sign beyond the Orange branding.


texts: Change / update settings of existing widgets

texts:
I am on vanilla Android 10 on a Pixel 3. When I place new widgets on my home screens some of them pop up configuration dialogs.
Is there any way to get into these config dialogs again to change the settings of existing widgets?
The only way I found so far is to delete the widget and start over with a new one. This is a pain as the configuration can be quite complex and hard to remember.


texts: Is it possible to remove an account from the Gmail app but keep the account on the phone?

texts:
I have multiple Google accounts, synced to the phone.
For one of them I don't use GMail and have turned off syncing of mail. However the account still appears in the GMail app.
This means sometimes I accidentally send email from that account without realising.

Is it possible to remove an account from the GMail app whilst keeping the account on the phone?


texts: Nexus 4 Downgrade from 4.4.2 to 4.3 Risks

texts:
So I bought my Nexus 4 last month expecting that it'll have a 4.3 OS version. However, my sister accidentally updated the version.

Now, I would like to downgrade my OS version. Following this guide:

http://www.cultofandroid.com/46632/downgrade-nexus-4-to-android-4-3-jelly-bean-from-kitkat/2/

what might be the possible failing scenarios and what am I going to do if that happens.


texts: Play DVDs on an android device (preferably Google TV) AS DVDs (no conversions, please)

texts:
I saw these two questions:

Can android phones play DVD-format movies over WIFI?

And

how to watch DVDs on my Captivate

However, neither of these questions address what I would like to do.  I have a collection of DVDs I own and have ripped and would like to play on my Android device.  I want them to play on my Android device exactly like a DVD -- with menus, etc.  I can easily do this on my PC with various DVD playing software (i.e.  VLC Media Player).  I do not want to convert the file to divx or mp4 or whatever. (as the answers to those questions suggest)  I do not want to lose the menuing and the scene-selection, etc.  Instead, I want a full 4.5 GB rip stored on my hard drive and I want to "point at that" (and over the network to boot).

Is this possible today?


texts: How do I auto arrange icons in the app menu?

texts: My device is a Samsung Galaxy Ace / Cooper. It's running on Froyo. I want to auto arrange icons in the app menu. Is there a way to do this? Like auto arrange alphabetically? Is there a built-in function for doing this? Or an app on the market for the same purpose?


texts: Is there a way to upgrade the OS on an old phone?

texts: I have an old GT-S6310N (aka Samsung Galaxy Young). I don't want to buy a new phone, because they are kinda useless for me. I use my computers for everything I do. I use my phone only a few times a year to navigate with GPS or to call somebody, but even navigation seems to be broken now. A friend asked me to develop a project, which involves a small Android service polling from the background, so I need a phone to test it while developing. She has Android 8, so I thought maybe it is possible to upgrade my phone to that version too. Last time I tried to upgrade the OS was many years ago and as far as I remember even Android 5 was not allowed. I am curious about the whys and if there is a solution to this? Rooting and maybe bricking is something I can risk. I just don't understand that how are these new Android versions not compatible with old phones, when Linux is usually backwards compatible and Android is Linux based... It just depends on the drivers and resources right?


texts: Getting back to the first-time phone transfer wizard without factory resetting

texts: During the first-time setup process, Android asks to connect my new phone to my old phone with a USB cable. I'm not ready to transfer yet but I want to test drive the phone. Is there a way to get back to that transfer wizard?


texts: How to install an application manually in the /data

texts:
My problem is that I want to be able to install an application manually without the help of the android system, ie I want to be able to install an application by copying the apk, dex and data files in the data directories, and be able to present the application as installed. Because I copied the files previously and the application does not appear as installed, if not until I restart the device.

The purpose of my question is to learn more about the system I use the most famous Android

If you know of any way to help me, I'll be happy to hear from you. Thank you


texts: Dev/Log's - login attempts and how to read the log?

texts:
My first post on here and hopefully a easy fun answer.

I'm looking for the location for failed login attempts on the device - I've looked on the device and it seems the logs are located in /dev/log/?

If this is the location of the logs, does this log the failed attempts at log ins? and if so what do these look like? I've download some logcat viewers but these seems to only read live log entries when in the app.

Would a app have access to read these logs?

Thanks for your help


texts:
When logging into the "Find My Mobile" website, why do notifications appear on the phone that I am trying to locate? I don't really want someone to know if they steal my phone that I am tracking it.
I have tried turning off notifications for "Find my mobile", but they still appear on the phone. I have a galaxy s8 and s10.
Is there any way around this?


texts: Help with moving ALL data from one galaxy 3 to a new Galaxy 3

texts:
I need to transfer everything from phone A to phone B (pictures, contacts, apps, and text messages).

How can I do that?


texts:
I hope my question is not too strange. I would like to buy the current Google Nexus 4 16GB in Germany from Google Play. But I am interested if anyone can confirm that it has English language installed in in the system languages. I am concerned that it only has German.

Thank you very much.


texts: Is data/data/com.android.browser/databases/webview.db being encrypted?

texts:
I rooted my phone (Galaxy Nexus 4.1.1 JRO03C). I am able to access nearly all files under data/data/* folder. However, a few files cannot be opened, such as data/data/com.android.browser/databases/webview.db

I suspect these files are encrypted. Is there any way to decrypt them?


texts:
I am coming from iOS to my first Android (Samsung Galaxy S7) and having hard time adjusting. The first thing that is throwing me off is lack of a calendar app.

The phone came with Samsung's own S-Planner, but I wanted to use a more native android app (so that if my next phone is not Samsung, I don't have to relearn). However I cannot find anything else installed on the device. Any online search results in various 3rd party calendar apps. So, is there no such thing as a "native android calendar app"?

Secondly, the 3rd party calendar apps have options of syncing to Gmail/Exchange/other accounts, but is there no such thing as "on-device calendar" (like on iOS)? One that isn't linked to some account online?

Thank you


texts:
My phone just updated to Android Pie, and like many hapless users I'm trying to adapt to the many changes. One thing that annoys me to no end, and that I can't seem to find any information on, is that the number of vibrations for a notification has jumped from two to five. I like having vibrations turned on for notifications, especially if I'm in a meeting or at a loud event, but if I'm getting five vibrations I'm going to assume it's a phone call.

Is there any way I can change this? Preferably back to two, and without rooting my phone.


texts: Is there a podcast app that can download podcasts so that they're available to the stock music player

texts:
I'm looking for a podcast app that will just run in the background, download new episodes when necessary and make these episodes available to the default music player.

I like to access my music and my podcasts in the same place and don't really like the idea of using separate apps to listen to podcasts and the rest of my music.


texts: App from playstore run but same apk crashes on sideload install

texts:
On my noughat device, I have downloaded app from playstore, which is running great. Extract apk from install app, uninstall it and again succussfully install with package installer. But second time on app launch, it crashes. I have analyse both installation with apk analyzer. First one showing com.android.vending as installer and application source as "Google Play". Sideload installation showing com.google.android.packageinstaller and source Unkown.

My first thought is that developer dont want to install app from unknown source to avoid MOD app or pirate release etc. and checking programatically for these parameter. I have decompile to java but no found any clue where condition is checking and exception generated.

There is a permission BIND_GET_INSTALL_REFERRER_SERVICE, may be its causing crash. I know how to decompile and some smali editing and alread change verifyinstallation method to true in smali but app still crashing.


texts: Samsung S7 - Developer options not showing after build number pressed 7 times

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Developer options not showing after build number pressed 7 times. It even says that the developer is turned on already, but when I search for it under "about phone" on the setting app, it doesn't show up. My purpose is to turn on OEM.

Can someone help? thanks!!


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I had ADB working just a few days ago, but now, whenever I try to run adb.exe, it will start the daemon successfully, and then after a couple of commands the adb.exe file itself will disappear. When I try to uninstall then reinstall platform-tools via Android Studio's SDK manager immediately afterward, the uninstaller hangs (though the window doesn't freeze) after the following output:

To install:
Preparing "Uninstall Android SDK Platform-Tools (revision: 27.0.1)".
Generating patch...
"Uninstall Android SDK Platform-Tools (revision: 27.0.1)" ready.
Finishing "Uninstall Android SDK Platform-Tools (revision: 27.0.1)"
Stopping ADB...

with the status:

Packing .installer/

However, I can't seem to find anything ADB-related in Task Manager. I tried killing it with adb kill-server, buy CMD's reply was of course that it couldn't find adb. After I restart Windows, the uninstallation/reinstallation runs perfectly well, but ADB just disappears all over again. What in the world is going on, and how do I get ABD up and running again?

Example CMD. When I reinstalled ADB after taking this screenshot and tried again, I didn't even get the * daemon started successfully message.

OS: Windows 10

Device: LG V30+ (United States/Sprint), Android 7.1.1, LGE USB driver


texts: Oneplus 2 Stuck in boot animation after root

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so I recently tried to root my oneplus 2 to be able to flash cm13 onto it. I followed the guide oneplus provided on youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZaajUEybNM) exactly and got the same results for everything except that my phone does not boot. The only differences between my phone and their guide were that I had a newer operating system (Oxygen OS 3.0.1) and I flashed the latest version for everything, also I went for the Stable version of Super SU instead of the beta. I understand that he said it would take a little time to boot, but I am assuming he doesn't mean 5+ hours.

I am still able to boot into recovery (TWRP) and fastboot but not the OS. I tried wiping the phone and installing Super SU again, but no luck. I am stuck here and don't know what to do next. Any help would be amazing and extremely appreciated.


texts: why does my whatsapp sometimes show me as having been online when I didnt log on at any stage

texts: My whatsapp often shows me as having been online as seen by the "last seen" status, when I have not been on line. Could it possibly be related to my phone Samsung A3, showing me my whatsapp messages as a preview when i receive messages, with the option to close or open message?


texts: How to Decide where Camera Shots are Going?

texts:
I cannot find any option in Settings of different Camera applications etc Nexus default Camera and CyanogenMod Camera where the pictures are going.
I would like that new pictures go to the directory SD://BTsync/Camera.
I am using Android 6 and CyanogenMod 13.

How can you change the default locations of new pictures from Camera?


texts: CamScanner - how to get image instead of PDF

texts: I run CamScanner 3.2. In earlier versions, it used to save the image as a JPG (or PNG, don't remember), but with the latest version, it always seems to save as a PDF. I couldn't find any setting to make CamScanner save the scanned thing as a image file. Is there one?


texts: Why do cell phones don't really turn off (unless battery removed)?

texts:
I've known this for a long time.
A quick google confirms that many people think the same.
Basically, that when shutting down a cell phone, the antenna still communicates with the tower. Triangulation will still work, as well as some other stuff.
Only when the battery removed, is a cell phone "really" shut down.
Not that I care but it's interesting to know why!
If possible, please provide primary sources - it's time to shut all the myths around this down!
Update, the following question has been suggested:
What is the fastest way to shutdown unrooted Android phone?
Obviously, this is semantically NOT equal.
The answer there, despite being a very detailed answer, does not provide the reason WHY the baseband processor remains ON.
For a technological feature to exist on perhaps Billions of devices, there must be a need for that... Especially since it drains battery and costs cellular tower bandwidth.


texts: How do I verify my firmware is legitimate?

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I just bought a "new" Galaxy S7, but the box was already open when it arrived.

Condition of the phone was perfect, so I don't mind if it's used/refurbished. What I worry about is whether the device has a keylogger installed or some other malware.

It successfully accepted an over-the-air update. This gives it some credibility (I don't know how indicative this is, but I believe OTA updates are only offered to stock firmware).

Samsung KNOX is enabled, and hasn't complained yet.

I've rebooted into recovery, and see the following text:

Android Recovery
MMB29K.G930FXXU1BPHJ
samsung/heroltexx/herolte
6.0.1/MMB29K/G930FXXU1BPHJ
user/release-keys

Those are real build numbers for stock firmware I have been able to find online.

I've rebooted into ODIN mode, and see the following text:

ODIN MODE
Download speed: fast
Product name: SM-G930F
Current binary: Samsung official
System status: official
FAP lock: ON
Secure download: enabled
Warranty void: 0 (0x0000)
RP SWREV: B:1 K:0 S:0

The KNOX counter (warranty void) is still set to 0. This suggests further that it has not been tampered with.

Are the checks that I have performed already sufficient? There are some further checks I would like to know how to do:

I expect anybody can just type a build number in. I would like to compare the checksum of the firmware with the real build. I also would like to check if it has been signed with a Samsung certificate.

There are no custom User certificates in its security section. But I would appreciate some way to compare my System certificates to confirm they are genuine.


texts: Android - Exchange encryption - SD card 'damaged'

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Mrs has a HTC One S, asked me to set up her work email on exchange.  No problem.  Got to the device admin-security policy part; a little bit surprised by requesting encryption & pin lock but what the heck hit OK.  Never used it before, never expected problems.

Upon further reading it looks like this process is supposed to take an hour, after hitting OK it went straight to the mailbox and failed to sync.  Rechecked pass & server settings, no go so removed account, administrator, cleared saved credentials and rebooted.

First surprise, PIN lock is still enabled.
Second surprise, "SD Card is damaged."

Did some research, my understanding security policies cannot be removed while SD card is encrypted.  Storage shows phone storage as encrypted and SD as not mounted.  Tried a few tricks like re-adding account and then then attempting to remove encryption without success.  VPN settings are nill.

This is not removable storage, so left with options in phone.

At a loss so here I am at 'phone a friend' if anybody has any idea.  Would really like to recover media from SD if at all possible.

Cheers.


texts:
I installed Full Screen Caller ID (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.androminigsm.fscifree&hl=en), but it doesn't work.

I searched about it, they say you should clear defaults of the default dialer app, but I can't find it in Manage Apps.

I have a Huawei Honor 3C, Android 4.2.2, EmoutionUI 2.0.


texts: Pressing backspace whilst typing an SMS causes the screen to exit to the "Delete by Selection" view, how can I stop this?

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As in the title -

When I'm writing a text and hit backspace, it always exits to the 'delete by selection' view for the person I'm writing to. Which is especially annoying b/c when I hit back to escape that screen, it takes me to the top of the list of conversations between me and that person, necessitating me spending either a long period of time scrolling, or exiting the menu entirely and beginning again.

Any tips on how I can get it to stop doing this? I have a HTC Desire HD.


texts: Is there an Android media payer that allows you to speed up an mp3?

texts: Is there a media player for android that can play an mp3 10% faster or slower if the user wants to?


texts: Handcent has forgotten half of my contacts

texts:
So I've noticed recently that some of my friends contact info has disappeared, at least when using Handcent.  If I get a text from them, I only see their numbers, and if I try and send a message they aren't listed in my contacts. If I use the default Text Messaging tool all of my contacts are there, and if I send a message to someone from there, I'll see it in Handcent as well, but without the contact info.

I have A Droid RAZR, running Andoird 4.1.2


texts: I restored os on my android phone, and when I go to google browser(first time on fresh os), it opened some website that I haven't visited in years. I check all settings and can't find why I got that page... Why is this, and how can I fix it?


texts: Mapping a key for calling the recent apps list

texts: I have a new Nubia phone. After I installed Google Now, it overwrote the middle key long tap so that it shows the Now screen but I became unable to switch between recent apps. Moreover, the apps like Switchr cannot show recent apps since Android 5.0. How can I remap the button or call the recent apps screen any other way?


texts: Google Voice does not provide spoken prompts

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I'm using a samsung s7 and google voice in Always Listen mode.

I can say Ok Google, then  "text john".
 It works, but  google voice does not SAY "ready", " ready ro send?"

On Straighttalk on verizon network.


texts: 'error: device not found' while connected to device through adb shell

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Trying to deodex my Samsung Galaxy S4 (SC-04E).

My device shows up upon adb devices, and I am able to successfully connect and su with adb shell. In shell:

C:\Users\username>adb devices
List of devices attached
905859f9        device
C:\Users\username>adb shell
shell@SC-04E: $ adb pull /system/app app/
error: device not found
shell@SC-04E: $ su
root@SC-04E:/# adb pull /system/app app/
error: device not found

I have no idea why I am getting this message. USB debugging enabled and confirmed, MTP on, unknown sources on (off tested as well), and latest adb USB driver installed (also tried reinstalling/updating). I have also tried rebooting my computer and device several times, and tried different USB ports (3.0, 2.0, etc).

Google searches only show me solutions for people who lacked the obvious settings (USB debugging) or their device not showing up at all upon adb devices. A device clearly is found, as it is connected to a device.


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I recently flashed my Xperia Z2, before flashing I took a backup of the Internal Memory of the phone, having an impression that the whatsapp data would be automatically restored. But after the flashing process completed and I installed Whatsapp again, I see no previous messages or data.

Does anyone have any idea on this.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.


texts:
Google released their google keyboard as an app in the market but I cannot install it. The error is "Application already exists". I am on a Att Note 1 (touchwiz\unrooted). No other keyboards are installed. Does anyone know how to install this?

edit: Despite this error message, the only option I have in my keyboard settings is "samsung keyboard"


texts: Force Android to stop asking me if I want to terminate my own app

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I've got a simple logger app that I wrote for my Android phone.  The problem is, periodically (seems like it happens every few days) when I turn on my phone I am confronted with a modal dialog box telling me that my app has consume X amount of CPU already, and do I want to kill it?  The thing is, this generally happens some time AFTER I have stopped logging and it is just sitting there doing nothing, and moreover, this is when it is on AC power, so I don't see how battery consumption is even a concern.  In any case, it is getting annoying having to constantly tell it to not kill the app.  It is more concerning to think that this might still happen if I ever enable "stealth" mode on my app to track it if it is stolen, as this would alert a perpetrator and give them a chance to disable my app.

Is there some way to disable this behavior?  If so, how?


texts: can i give root access to an app without root my phone?

texts: i have a Wiko wim lite which cannot be rooted for whatever reason, however i wanted to give root access to apps like greenify or flux or even orwall, how can i do please?


texts: Trouble with finding an app on play store

texts:
I'm using Android 6.0 (non-rooted) phone and looking for an application called call tools optinno.

Though it can be easily found by searching on net : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.calltoolsoptinno , However, I can't find on play store by searching call tools optinno or by call blocker etc.

I've also tried by entering id : com.calltoolsoptinno on the play store but didn't get.

Note: I've scrolled down multiple times but can't find the app I'm looking for.

What's wrong with searching mechanism?


texts: A lot of storage space used by 'system files'

texts:
I have a problem of huge storage space missing in my newly bought Galaxy Tab 2 tablet.

It is the 16 GB version, but even after resetting twice to factory settings, the available storage space remains at about 5 GB, with the remaining 11 GB inaccessible, because it is "used for Android system files".

I suspect that there may be back-up or batch files from the previous installations that Android does not remove when I restore to factory settings.

Does anybody know in which directories I should look, and how I can delete the relevant folders to free the expected 6-7 GB of remaining storage space that I need for my applications?


texts: Enter Issuer / Provider name manually in Google Authenticator App

texts: In Google Authenticator app, while setting up the account manually (i.e. not scanning the QR Code), how we can enter the issuer name (i.e. provider / service name like Google, Evernote, Facebook, etc..) along with an account name (generally an email / login id).


texts: (How) can I get contacts with no name to display the Organization instead of "Unnamed" on my Android phone?

texts:
I have an HTC Evo with contacts that were imported by Sprint from my old Palm Centro. On the Centro, I could have contacts with no name but a business/organization, and the contact list would use that as the display, and I could search on that field. (Handy for calling pizza restaurants!) On my new Android device, that sort of contact shows up as "Unknown", and the Organization name can't be searched.

Is there a way to get the Android contact list to mimic the Palm's (quite reasonable and user-friendly!) behavior?
Is there a quick way to copy the Organizations into the (say) Last Name field, if the above is not possible?
What is the "right way" to deal with contacts that are businesses, not people, on Android devices?


texts: Why do I get "IMS Service Has Stopped" Message after update

texts:
I've got an Galaxy S5 neo with Android version 5.1.1. and a recent Android software update has brought with it an annoying popup message that reappears 3 seconds after being dismissed.

It reads:

  Unfortunately, IMS Service has stopped

I've hunted around for suggestions which range from device cache clearance, to uninstalling Facebook Messanger/WahtsApp to taking the battery out, but none of these has helped.

Short of a factory reset which I'm very reluctant to do, is there anything else I can try?


texts: Please help! Bootloop. Can't get into recovery

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My wife, unfamiliar with rooting, agreed to update my rooted Moto C Plus when it requested an update. Needless to say, that didn't turn out well. It started booting to TWRP.

I tried finding a solution online. That led me to Troubleshooting: TWRP Boot Loop after OTA update in MOTO G4 (XT1621 Athene) where it gives the following method as a solution:

TWRP Method:

1 Go into TWRP -> Go to Advanced -> Go to Terminal: Enter

2 Please make a backup first of these files in SD card: `cp
/dev/block/platform/soc.0/7824900.sdhci/by-name/mota /sdcard/mota2
cp /dev/zero of=/dev/block/platform/soc.0/7824900.sdhci/by-name/misc
/sdcard/misc2`

3 Type this exactly: `dd if=/dev/zero
of=/dev/block/platform/soc.0/7824900.sdhci/by-name/mota HIT ENTER dd
if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/platform/soc.0/7824900.sdhci/by-name/misc`
HIT ENTER

4 Restart the phone.

On my phone, there is no soc.0 in the platform folder, instead there is mtk-msdc.0. I tried searching online for a similar solution with the folder mtk-msdc.0, but I couldn't find any,except for https://jagadgetaholic.blogspot.com/2017/06/vernee-thor-e-twrp.html.

Desperate (not knowing which file to go with), I tried dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/platform/mtk-msdc.0/11230000.msdc0/by-name/boot. That executed something. But later, when i restarted the phone, it stopped booting to TWRP. Instead, it is now just showing me this logo (Moto) screen (the one that shows first when you turn on the phone, before the TWRP) for about 30 secs or so, and then the phone restarts back to the same screen...restart... screen...and so on. Basically a bootloop, I believe it's called.

What do i do now? The fix i was looking for is one where i don't lose my files. Everything is on the internal memory. No SD card. I want to be able to get my phone to start working again without losing my files. If I could get it to start working again with everything just the way it was before this problem, i would be super grateful.

Please help!

Phone: Moto C Plus (xt1723) 2GB Ram 16 GB Internal memory

OS: Android 7

Flashing tool: MediaTek SP Flash tool v5.1644.00


texts: Can I limit Kindle purchases to only 1 device on my account?

texts: I have 3 kindle devices linked to my account for my kids to read books as well. We each buy our own books on the one amazon Kindle account however at times we dont want to share our purchases onto each others device. Can this be done?


texts:
An unstable version of Android 5.1.1 caused a bootloop on my phone. I fixed things, but after the incident the 0 directory located inside /storage/emulated/0 dived DEEPLY DOWN. Now I can't delete anything inside.

I guess it's because the path is too long. I successfully used 7zip once I had that problem in Windows, I wonder if something like robocopy or subst method is possible on Android. Here's a screenshot of me gaining root access and then trying to wipe things out which was not successfull.

Screenshot - (Click to enlarge image)


texts: One-tap audio note file that sends to email

texts:
It often happens that I want to take a quick note to self when I have my phone, so I won't forget something, but I want to do it as quickly as possible because I'm in the middle of something else. Later, when I'm doing tasks, I'll have time to dedicate to do it, or make a proper task for it in my task management software.

The shitty way

What I currently do is open up Gmail and write an email to myself. That's takes about 3 times longer than necessary, because I need to:

Unlock the phone
Open the GMail app
Wait for it to load
Press compose
Tap the first two letters of my email address
Wait for the autocomplete box to appear, which can take a long time if there's internet connectivity problems
Click my email address
Tap in the Subject field
Type the memo (in very concise words of course)
Sometimes the typing goes wrong (I swipe) and I have to correct it
Close the GMail app and lock the phone

There are 11 items in this list. I'm looking for something much shorter. Here's how I'm imagining it:

The good way

Unlock the phone
Tap the record button that's on a widget on my desktop
Say the message
Let go of the button
Lock the phone

The crucial part is that the message will be sent as an audio file to my email, so I'll notice it. (I don't want to have to check the app for it, I want it in my email.)

Is there an app that does that?


texts:
I know what safe mode does: it disables all user installed apps while it's activated.

However, I wish to know more about its internal mechanism and how and when in the boot process it is implemented.


texts: When Flashing a ROM should I back up Google Apps?

texts: My ROM distributor (Unofficial CM10) provides GAPPS as a separate flashable zip file. Will my titanium back'd up Google apps interfere/replace with the GAPPS provided after I restore my backup ?


texts: Mic is being used by some other application ( Which ? )

texts:
I have a Samsung mobile ( S9 Plus ), When I use an app called "BixBy", sometimes it does not work and message is that mic is used being used by some other application and hence "Bixby" can not function.

In such cases, how may I know that which application is using mic at present?


texts: How can I make the browser remember login credentials for Google mobile sites?

texts:
The stock browser forgets the username and password when logging into mobile versions of Google sites such as Google Search and Google Tasks. Setting Menu -> Settings -> Privacy Settings -> Remember form data and Menu -> Settings -> Security settings -> Remember passwords in the browser has no effect. Checking the "Remember me" checkbox at the sites' login forms has no effect either.  How can I get this to work?

I use a Nexus S running Android 2.3.6.


texts: My notes in Google Contacts are gone since I my new phone synced them

texts: I use the note area in my Gmail contacts to record a lot of information.  I got the new Samsung Galaxy S7 and now the notes are missing.  The Gmail contact app isn't compatible with the new phone.  It has synched across all of my devices and the notes are missing everywhere.  Google blames the Samsung Contacts app.  I did go into Google Contacts and restored to prior to getting the new phone and they are not there either.


texts: wifi is getting turned off and mobile data is getting turned on automatically

texts:
I am facing a weird scenario in my android phone since 2-3 days.

My wi-fi is automatically getting turned off and my mobile data pack is getting turned on.

It has been cost effective 2-3 days.

I have followed different questions on Android forum and stackexchange it self.

I am listing out the suggestions, i have already tried:-

Disable battery saver app
(I dont have any battery saver app installed)
Did restrict background data for each and every app installed on my phone
(As many blogs were suggesting the same)

Still am facing this issue.

Model-Micromax A310
Android Version - 4.4.2


texts: I'm using Zenfone 5 with firmware ww_user_2.22.40.53. When I try to upgarde with 3.23.40.52, it fails,saying only android 4.2.2 and 5.0 can update with this package. What should I do?


texts: When you report an app (for violation) through Google Play, does the developer have access to (any parts of) your Google identity? Does the fact that you've reported this app show up in any of your public (or private) Google records? Does Google have an official policy on that?


texts: I have a ZTE N817 and I bought a 16GB sd card for it and when I try to download something, all it says is that there is "insufficient storage on device". What should I do to get my phone to register that I have am sd card full of untouched storage?


texts: How to make a simple bookmark on HTC Wildfire S?

texts:
I am in the browser on my HTC Wildfire S.

I want to make a bookmark of the current page and save it to my desktop (main screen).

I press and hold down the URL and it gives me the choices:

share page (twitter, facebook, etc.)
copy page url

I would also expect it to give me the option "save bookmark".

How can I make a bookmark of a web page?


texts: Batch file for android that runs at startup

texts: On my windows laptop, I have a batch file which checks for a specific file and deletes it. My question is, is this possible on android, to make a file that runs at startup (without root), checks for the existence of a directory called "thumbnails" in /storage/sdcard0/DCIM", if exists, delete. Answers greatly appreciated


texts: How do you remove flash from Galaxy Tab 10.1?

texts: The browser is slow and maybe it's flash but I cant figure out how to get rid of it.


texts: How can I take a screenshot on my Samsung Galaxy Fit?

texts:
I can't find how to take screen shot on my Samsung Galaxy Fit device. I noticed that it took some screenshots and I do not know how it happened. By installing third party app it works, but I do not want to do this because they run their services in the background.

Any help in this regard would be highly appreciated.


texts: How to turn off cell broadcast in HTC desire 816?

texts:
I have been receiving about 50 flash sms a day, with my service provider name, from the number 50.

As I read here, it might be a issue with activating and deactivating cell broadcast on the phone. However, I could not find the path suggested for the deactivation (Setting/Call/Other Call Settings).

The option does not exist on this path. also it became an irritation for me. Whenever I am doing something with my device, that flash message popped up and I get interrupted.

To try deactivating this I have tried all possible steps (By blocking/deleting/stopping notification) but nothing worked out. Any ideas how to get rid of this?

Mobile: HTC Desire 816

Android Version: 4.4.2 with sense 6.0

Thank you


texts: Can I edit the hosts file on my android without root access?

texts:
I'd like to block access to websites on my Pixel 3 android device. The parental settings leave much to be desired and apps like BlockSite don't work across all browsers. (In this case - it doesn't work in firefox)

Here's what I tried so far

adb pull /system/etc/hosts ~/Documents/android/hosts

I edited the hosts file and got it ready to be transferred back.

adb push ~/Documents/android/hosts /system/hosts

This gave me error message: adb: error: failed to copy '/Users/[username]/Documents/android/hosts' to '/system/hosts': remote couldn't create file: Read-only file system

Per this post and this post, I tried a few other options.

I tried to use these commands

adb root
adb disable-verity
adb reboot
adb root
adb remount

This gave me error message: adbd cannot run as root in production builds and when I tried adb disable-verity it said: verity cannot be disabled/enabled - USER build.

I tried to use this command

adp remount

This gave me error: Not running as root. Try "adb root" first.

I downloaded an emulator and tried this command on my device

mount -o rw,remount /system
mount -o ro,remount /system

Similarly, this was unsuccessful


texts:
I've got a new phone (Samsung galaxy SII) with Android 4 on it.  I would like to be able to add Arabic support on it.  Is there a simple way to do so ?

I'm a newbie with Android related subjects, so I'm not able to handle complicated processes.


texts:
I want to know is it possible to edit a custom rom from zip and then zipping it again (flashable) to a device.  Will it brick the device?
Thanx


texts: Google Search Bar Missing (after OTA update)

texts:
I recently discovered the Google search bar which used to appear between the notification area and the topmost Widget has disappeared. Shortly before, I had received a largish OTA system update and at around the same time my father had gotten at my phone and accidentally knocked some things off the screen the way that fathers will.

Note that this is not the search widget, but the toolbar that appears (appeared) above the widgets.

I found one similar question
"Google Search Bar Widget is gone from Galaxy S5, it is not in the widgets section anymore"
but that didn't solve my problem. (The toolbar does not appear on the "Disabled" tab of App Manager.)

I have a Kyocera DuraForce E6560C running Android 4.4.2 unrooted. Any help is appreciated.


texts: "Incompatible with other applications(s) using the same shared user ID” while installing Google Play service?

texts:
I know similar question is floating on the same site, but no solution works for me.

I have been using Karbonn A26 Smart phone for the last two years, and I was not able to install run YouTube and Google+ since 2 years. Its hardware is quite ok. It runs Android 4.1.1.

Let me be clear what I am doing:

When I install and open YouTube, it says YouTube cannot work without Google Play Services. When I click on Get Play Services, it gives me error: "Incompatible with other applications(s) using the same shared user ID".
So I factory reset the phone. Then I try it out, same. I can download and install YouTube, but when open it, it keeps saying same "Cannot play without Play Services".
Same thing happens when I install and run Google+.

Installing YouTube on clean OS itself does not work.

Do I need to wipe cache? I think factory resetting must also wipe cache. What should I do to resolve this issue?


texts:
I am referring to the system-wide password autofill feature that was introduced in Oreo. In one app, I accidentally fat-fingered the prompt; instead of pressing "Fill with [autofill service]," I pressed "Disable autofill for [app]." How can I undo this? I want to be able to use autofill with that app again.

These did not fix the problem:

Changing the autofill service to Google and then back
Uninstalling and reinstalling the app in which I want to use autofill


texts: how to restore keyboard on android - to enter locked screen password

texts:
My android phone as a screen lock password. Somehow, I've ended up in a situation where the phone no longer shows a keyboard when it boots up but shows "tap to speak" and that too does not work. I click on the "microphone" icon and nothing happens.

How do I go about restoring the keyboard.

The phone is on wifi as I can hear the beeps when I get messages etc...but can't get past the locked screen.

The device used to be on my google play (GP) device list but now it does not. How can I get the phone back on the GP recognized devices.

Would appreciate any help.

my apologies if this has already been answered.


texts: After an update I cannot use my settings app it gives an error unfortunately settings app stoped working so reset my phone and now I cant do anything any help on allowing apps from unknown sources without settings app or enable usb debugging without setting any thing will help


texts: Ways to call with Google Voice without mobile service and hangout?

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Are there ways to make and receive calls with Google Voice on Android 4.4.2 and Kyocera Hydro Icon,  but without mobile service and Google Hangout?

My Google Hangout has some problem, for which I am still looking for solutions.

My mobile service's signal isn't great in my apartment. So I am trying to use VoIP over WiFi.

Thanks.


texts: How do I install the custom ROM with boot.img inside?

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I have found a custom ROM in Chinese forums for mY HTC ONE SU (t528w) model.

The ROM is zipped and the folders look like below image

I have no idea to install this ROM. Could anybody please guide me to install this. I dont know how and where to place the boot.img. I have successfully unlocked my bootloader and mobile is rooted too.

Thanks


texts: How do I transfer files to ebook reader from phone using either an OTG cable or wifi?

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I've a rooted Sony reader PRS-T1 (based on Android 2.2) and usually when I need to copy files to it, I connect it to my laptop with a USB cable. However, sometimes I travel without my laptop and have only my phone/tablet.
I tried using an OTG cable, but my phone does not seem to be able to read the reader storage.
Is there a way of transfering files to my reader from my phone without using an external sd-card?
In the past I used to connect to Dropbox in the reader's browser to download files or send the files thorugh gmail, but the browser is very old and this is no longer possible.


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Es file explorer can set the default ringtone for Alarms (this means that when you set a new alarm, xyz sound is already selected by default).  Factory "default" is set to silent.

Google Assistant will set alarms but uses the factory default sound which sisilent on my phone.

I do not like es file explorer.  Is there a way to manually do this without root just as es file explorer does without root?

Are there other programs that will do this with the system sounds.?

Btw, es file explorer will not do this with system sounds but only with my personal files.  Which is okay but not acceptable.


texts: How can I clear the cache(s) of my g2x from adb?

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I installed clockworkmod as the recovery, then installed cyanogen 7 nightly for the g2x.  I used Rom Manager to do so.  The problem I'm having is cyanogen shows the boot loading screen in an infinite loop.  From what I have read on the Internet, I need to clear out the cache on the phone, and it should boot.

I can adb reboot recovery but it does not go into clockworkmod.  Instead, it shows the icon of an arrow leaving a box - I suppose an indication it is trying to install an update.  I cannot get it to boot into recovery mode.

Is it possible to do so?  Or can I clear the cache or reflash the LG G2X using adb?  My poor phone!  I am lonely without it!

(This is a G2X - if the "tmobile-g2(s)" tag is incorrect, please remove it)


texts: How can I merge contacts in CyanogenMod?

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Can I merge contacts in CyanogenMod 7 like I was able to do in HTC Sense?

Let's that I have my contact 'John Smith', then I import contacts from Facebook and a new John Smith appeared. I want these two contacts to be merged under one single contact.

Can I do that somehow in CyanogenMod 7?


texts: ZTE StarTrail : Android Update 2.2 to 2.3.3 or an other version

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I'm new android user. I just buy un android phone: ZTE StarTrail. The current version is android 2.2 (Froyo). I would like update my system to 2.3.3 or an other version. i saw there is version each for device (HTC, Samsung ....). I don't found a version for my device. Where can I found android a version that is specifically designed for ZTE StarTrail ?

Thanks


texts: Lollipop/ART - how do I manually optimize APK files?

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I've asked this question before. After checking out logcat, it seems that the OS is looking for the odex files. I've checked the odex files of other system apps on my ROM, and it turns out they're ELF files.

For the ones asking, these are bytecode files produced by ART (dex2oat, I'm not sure).

I've observed that these files get generated on boot (Android is Starting: Optimizing App XXX of XXX).

For some reason, my phone's ROM doesn't run the optimization part. Instead, the oat files are already pre-generated and stored on the system partition. As a result, the apps that I want to pre-install don't get the oat treatment and crashes when I launch them (ClassNotFoundException since the oat files don't exist.)

How do I manually run the app optimizer? If it comes down to using the command line, how do I use dex2oat without root access/on a Linux PC?


texts: Call Automatically Disconnects When Calling

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I have a android tablet with android 5.1 lollipop in which I have an airtel number.
When I call someone using my number (not WhatsApp just normal call),  sometimes it shows "Dialling" and then automatically call ends in 1-2 seconds. Sometimes, it directly disconnects in 1-2 seconds.
Last thing I remember was that I was playing with some of the dial codes of Android. From then this problem started. Before that, I was able to make calls with the SIM which I have now & also with my old SIM


texts: Unable to choose account to share docs from

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Started using this new Samsung S9 a week or so ago and it has an annoying trait/bug in Gmail that my older S6 Edge/S5 never had.

If I choose a document or photo, from any app, to share, the system always choose the same e-mail account and the drop-down menu for my other two accounts is inactive. However, if I use any of these accounts via Gmail first, the drop-down menus appear, showing all three Gmail accounts. I can't figure this out.

Any ideas? The latest update didn't sort it either.


texts: How do I stop the home button from waking the device?

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I keep pressing the home button by accident in my pocket.

I have an S5, Cyanogen Marshmallow, rooted and xposed.

I can't find any way to stop wake on home with cm.  For Touchwiz there are xposed modules which stop this... How do I stop it on CM?


texts: Is the Samsung Galaxy S3 interface uglified by Samsung?

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Some this ago I read this article Seriously, Samsung? This is what you're calling Ice Cream Sandwich?

Is the Galaxy S3 interface Uglified as well, as described in this articles , what about Note?


texts: How to view pages saved on storage (or disk)

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I have a very simple html page that I saved on my disk on my computer. It only contains a link to an image, saved in the same folder with that html page.
I can view it without any problems on my computer.
But when I copy the page (and the image) on my phone in a folder, I can't properly view the page. I am using Chrome on the phone.
I know the phone does not have a hard disk, it just has flash memory used as storage, as computers use disks. But "disk" sounds more clear like storage memory (to me).
My page is named "page.htm" and the image it is named "mypic.jpg"
the page only contains this code:

It works very well on the computer but it doesn't work on the phone.
It looks like the browser simply can't understand links to local files, stored on the phone storage. It doesn't matter the images are in the same folder with the html page. It still doesn't understand where the image is.
Is there any fix for this?


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I use a lot of audio apps on my HTC One, like Doggcatcher, Google Music, Tunein Radio, Pandora, NPR, etc. Most, if not all, of these apps have a 4x1 widget which controls playback. These are very helpful, but I have to devote 1-2 homescreen pages to these widgets, even though only one of them is relevant to me at a time.

Is there a way to reserver a 4x1 block of space on the homescreen, and have that space filled with the 4x1 widget of whatever app is currently outputting audio to the system?

This is kind of similar to the HTC One Sense's lockscreen implementation, where it has a generic widget that shows play, previous, and next buttons that control whatever app is currently playing audio, and shows the title of the currently playing track.

I think this would be a good idea, and would be very useful to me. Is there anything out there that can support this functionality?

An alternate solution might be a generic audio widget that just shows the title track, with play, previous, and next controls, just like the HTC One lockscreen widget above. It's not ideal, as I like the app-specific functions (thumbs-up, etc.), but it would scratch the itch.


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Since I have trouble with reception on my Samsung S4 Mini, I followed this post to upgrade my Modem/baseband Firmware. So I downloaded two firmwares from Sammobile:

I9195XXUCNK1 - Latest for Norway (Telenor)

I9195XXUCOD3 - Latest for Nordic Countries

However, in those .tar.md5-files, there were a NON-HLOS.bin file, but no modem.bin? Isn't modem.bin required, or is it somewhere else (in another file in the archive)?


texts: What's the max char size you can share via Android share

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With the colornote app for I have quite large docs (thousands of lines, not sure precise char count) so when I click 'send' on the largest ones to bring up the standard android share popup the pop-up never appears.

Is there a known limit on the size of the text to share?


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What I did so far
Today I'm trying to get CyanogenMod on my HTC One X+, however I'm stuck now.
I successfully unlocked my phone and the phone rebooted and everything was fine so far.
Now I wanted to put "cm-10.2.1-enrc2b.zip" on my HTC, which I got from:
http://download.cyanogenmod.org/?type=stable&device=enrc2b
and I followed this guide: http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Install_CM_for_enrc2b. However if I booted into recovery mode I still don't boot in ClockworkMod. I also can't select recovery, because then I will get a red exclamation mark (so I don't have a ROM backup, smart of me...). So I saw the note at the bottom of the tutorial which said "fastboot flash boot boot.img", which I did, however the only thing that has changed is that if I normally start my phone it gets stuck in showing the HTC ONE logo and just freezes there. My question is: How do I get CyanogenMod working on my phone?
Summary problems

Normal booting device stays stuck at HTC ONE logo
I don't have ClockworkMod working
I flashed kernel through "fastboot flash boot boot.img" (can't start phone normally anymore)
Not sure if "cm-10.2.1-enrc2b.zip" (enrc2b is HTC One X+) is in right location of phone.
In recovery mode I cannot select recovery (get red exclamation mark)
I can still get into recovery mode and fastboot. I'm still able to send commands through cmd (Windows)

ClockworkMod
HTC One X+ is not in the list of ClockworkMod: clockworkmod(dot)com/rommanager (Can only have 2 links)
flash boot
It seems I have to rename the /system/recovery-from-boot.p (to /system/recovery-from-boot.p-bak): android.stackexchange(dot)com/questions/18932/why-isnt-clockworkmod-recovery-sticking ,
but I cannot use an app like Root Explorer anymore, because the device doesn't boot...
cm-10.2.1-enrc2b.zip
How do I get this file on the right location on the phone by using cmd commands? I already copied manually to the phone storage directly in the first folder when you open your phone. Not sure if this is okay?
Thanks
Thanks for reading this and I really hope anyone can help me. How do I get CyanogenMod on my HTC One X+? I'm a bit desperate in what to do next now. Thanks in advance!


texts: Yesterday an update came to my mobile. I updated and was installing the update an then an error occured. After that i restarted my mobile and from then on a no command screen is coming. My mobile is not rooted. Also in the downside it is showing No .zip file in internal storage. Please help asap.


texts: Gmail autocomplete -- how to clear contact suggestions when composing a new message?

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When I compose a new message in Gmail on my Android phone I'm offered several suggestions for the recipient (i.e. for the email's To: field) via an autocomplete function. These are often very old/unknown contacts which I'd like to no longer see as autocomplete suggestions, but I can't yet work out how to clear this list.

The contacts suggested appear to have come from an old list of "Other" contacts, i.e. people that I've contacted infrequently and who were not actual contacts I've added to my contact list. These only show up when I compose a new message in Gmail on my phone, and the autocomplete works as expected when on a non-Android device (laptop).

My assumption is that the Gmail autocomplete function is reading these outdated contacts from a list stored somewhere in a file on my phone which is impervious to the contact sync process or somehow not being cleared as expected otherwise -- I've tried all manner of syncing phone contacts, deleting old/other contacts outside of Android, etc. but no joy so far.

An idea I have is to somehow search Android's filesystem for a file that contains the unwanted contacts and if found then wipe that file clean. Is this reasonable, and if so can anyone suggest guidance that'll make this less of a wild goose chase?

My phone details:

Model: Nexus 5X
Android version: 7.1.2
Baseband version: M8994F-2.6.37.2.21
Kernel version: 3.10.73-ge570678
Build version: N2G47F

Thanks in advance for any help or insight.


texts: Beaglebone Black doesn't obtain 169.254.xxx.xxx IP

texts: If i connect my Beaglebone Black, which runs on Angstrom, to my computer via ethernet cable, It obtains an IP address, which starts with 169.254.xxx.xxx, for communication purposes. And I can communicate with it using TCP protocols. I can see that IP address when I use "ifconfig" command in terminal. But If it runs on Android, it doesn't obtain an IP address. Since there isn't "ifconfig" command in Android terminal, I'm using "netcfg" to see IP information and it shows that Beaglebone doesn't have an IP address. I need to somehow "force" my Beaglebone Black to obtain an IP address (like 169.254.xxx.xxx). How can I fix that?


texts: stock Contacts app: confusing or missing details

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I'm running Android KitKat 4.4.2 on a Samsung Galaxy SIII Neo device.

When I edit a contact with the stock Contacts app, I notice that:

It is not possible to set a birthday field when editing a contact. For contacts synced with Google, it is possible to add this field in the Gmail Contacts field, and then it will show up in the stock Contacts app as part of the details for the given contact. Why can't I just add this info directly from the contacts app when I add a contact.
I don't understand the Relationship field that one can set when editing a contact. For instance, I can add a relationship and select Mother from the drop-down-list, but then if I leave the text-box that follows blank, the entry is not saved. Of course, I can always select Relative from the drop-down-list and then enter the value Mother, but I don't understand what having "Mother" in the drop-down-list would be useful for (and the same goes for all other kinship values available in the drop-down-list).


texts: can someone explain how to root android phone using ubuntu or any linux distro please? There are so many app like superoneclick, z4root etc..but android is based on linux right? so it should be easy to root with linux...but how? i'm using acer liquid mini 2.2.


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My problem is a little bit complicated, I have a Razr (XT910) motorola phone, the screen is cracked and unusable, the tech support of my carrier (in Mexico) is unable to get the display from motorola...

However, what I want to do (since I need a phone...) is sell the broken display phone I have on eBay (since Motorola USA has the display) so the buyer can repair it and have a "cheap" razr, and I can buy a phone also in eBay or here in Mexico.

But to do so, I need to factory reset the phone (and if possible get my information backed up), but since the screen is cracked I don't know how to do so (The phone receives calls, and maybe the touchscreen is functional, but I'm not sure).

The specific details of my phone:

It's rooted, it has safestrap 2.x installed, it has the ICS stock rom, and CM10 (beta).


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I tried to create a symbolic link on the "internal SD card" of my Galaxy SD2. It failed with "permission denied" and I quickly realized this file system is vfat.

How can I reformat /storage/sdcard0 with a modern file system instead, like ext4?

Are there any drawbacks if I do this?


texts: What does the padlock on wifi icon in status bar mean?

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What does the Padlock on the WiFi icon in the status bar mean? I haven't seen it on my phone, but I'm curious as to what it means.

Click image for larger version


texts: I need to execute adb commands from DOS batch files, but I need to know if the push and pull commands were successful.  Do these commands return an ERRORLEVEL, or some other environment variable to determine of the push or pull was successful?


texts: How to solve the video problem in Zoom Cloud Meeting for Android TV

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I have successfully installed the Zoom meeting app for Android TV through Aptoide TV which is connected to Sony Bravio. I've also attached a camera. I joined a Zoom meeting hosted by another account, the video function doesn't work out

Failed to start the camera. Ensure that no other apps are using the camera.

Is there any workaround?


texts:
I'm a newbie so, my bad if my question is a non sense to you.
I'm currently renting a server where I installed PiHole and PiVPN. PiHole is a DNS sinkhole that I use for blocking add, and the PiVPN allows all my devices thanks to OpenVPN to get all my traffic through a personal VPN to reach my PiHole.
On PC it's great, even for laptop, because battery life is enough to support the "keepalive packets" that's allow OpenVPN to stay connected to my server even if I'm not using internet directly.
However, on Android, it's the main problem, since I'm using a VPN 24/7, and my battery is melting like snow in the sun. So the question is the following :
How can I setup an internal VPN that's redirect DNS queries to my PiHole (my server got an IP adress that's correspond to my personal DNS-PiHole) ?
I know some applications can work like "that", like AdAway (for non-root smartphone) or NetGuard.
I'm by the way rooted, and already using AdAway which is making the job, but it's more for technical challenge battery management.
Thank you for your time and your help !
Have a nice week,


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I am new to Android with a Samsung A70 ( I really like it) but struggling with one element.

Can I stop pop up of WhatsApp and Messages coming on to the phone but still get a notification of the message on my FitBit?
Its just when the phone is sat there anyone can see the message if its not on Locked Screen


texts: Hide onscreen buttons of back, home & recent apps in Keyboard apps on Moto G5 Plus

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I have Moto G5 Plus. I have enabled One-button navigation in Moto Actions using which I can use the swipe actions on home button to replicate back/home/recent apps buttons. This hides the onscreen buttons of back, home & recent apps.

But when any keyboard app is open (SwiftKey, GBoard) then these buttons appear onscreen. How can I hide these buttons when keyboard app is open?


texts: fastboot flash recovery img never completes

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My Nexus 10 stopped booting. It shows an open padlock on startup and the Google text in the middle. So I figured my son unlocked the bootloader somehow after creatively following instructions he found on youtube.
I then tried to proceed to installing a fresh rom. Saw that CM has the "Manta" roms.
I have handy the main rom: cm-13.0-20160820-SNAPSHOT-ZNH5YAO0J6-manta.zip.
I found two recovery roms: twrp-2.8.7.0-manta.img and cm-13.0-20160820-SNAPSHOT-ZNH5YAO0J6-manta-recovery.img.
I'm able to get fastboot to see my device, after doing the vol up+down / power thing. But then the command fastboot -w flash recovery cm-13.0-20160820-SNAPSHOT-ZNH5YAO0J6-manta-recovery.img never completes.

Creating filesystem with parameters:
    Size: 29783752704
    Block size: 4096
    Blocks per group: 32768
    Inodes per group: 8192
    Inode size: 256
    Journal blocks: 32768
    Label:
    Blocks: 7271424
    Block groups: 222
    Reserved block group size: 1024
Created filesystem with 11/1818624 inodes and 158176/7271424 blocks
Creating filesystem with parameters:
    Size: 553648128
    Block size: 4096
    Blocks per group: 32768
    Inodes per group: 6768
    Inode size: 256
    Journal blocks: 2112
    Label:
    Blocks: 135168
    Block groups: 5
    Reserved block group size: 39
Created filesystem with 11/33840 inodes and 4363/135168 blocks
sending 'recovery' (7860 KB)...
OKAY [  0.932s]
writing 'recovery'...

That never finishes. The tablet shows, aside from the laying down Android picture and the info, a blue line: "FASTBOOT STATUS - flash:recovery". It never gets past this.
I tried this with both the recovery img files I found.
Anyone have any idea why my Nexus 10 can't seem to complete this fastboot recovery installation? I'm doing this using Xubuntu 15.04 btw, and I don't have Windows handy. I seriously hope it isn't a Linux limitation thing. adb has always worked great. Fastboot sees and interacts with the device, so, that part should be good I hope.


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so someone tells me i need to call a few people.  they send me a vCard called contacts.vcf.  i import it.  i open my phone app and start to dial, but wait...i don't know their names.

How do i look up a recent vCard on my phone?  How do i know who's contact i've been sent?  when i navigate to a .vcf file, i can't open it.  all i can do is import it.  polaris office won't import/open it.  is there an android txt editor i can use to peruse a vCard?

yours truly,
Confused by vCards
Note 3, kit kat


texts: Error when upgrading Android 4.3 to 4.4.2 on Nexus 7 (2013) tablet

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I have a brand new Google Nexus 7 (2013) LTE tablet and first thing I did, was to check if there is any sys update for my device. It was. System reported that 4.3 --> 4.4.2 update is ready to download and install.

However, after updating and hitting button to install, I got Error message and a droid lying icon. After this my tablet has restarted and reverted back to 4.3.

The strangest part is, that I can't repeat (try to install again), because now my tablet claims, that it is up to date, though it still carries factory 4.3 system version on-board.

Is there any known reason for this behavior (not able to upgrade and then to even re-download update)?

Is there any solution to this problem, except:

waiting for 4.4.3 or
manually updating using images?

I am a rather beginner to the Android system, so terms like sideload or update radio/baseband from .84 to .97 says quite nothing to me! :[

EDIT: I read about this (not being able to OTA-upgrate to 4.4.2), but the strange thing is, that most of these sources talks about 59,1 MB upgrade image, while mine was 253,9 MB (five times bigger).

EDIT: I have cleared Google Services Framework cache and data, as suggested by dotVezz in a comment and then I was able to restart download & upgrade to 4.4.2 process.
Second attempt ended with success (system upgrated to 4.4.2), so my previous experience seems to be a one-time problem.


texts: How can I disable the Android system notification that appears after I take a screen capture?

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Whenever I take a screen capture on my Pixel (I take several each day), the system gives me a "helpful" notification that the screenshot was captured. This is a terrible user experience for me since it stops my music, dings, and then shows an alert that I have to dismiss. I trust the system to actually take the screenshot. ...but it doesn't seem to be a notification that I'm able to disable since it is at the system level.

Anybody figure out how to disable this unnecessary notification? Is it just a bug that it can't be disabled?

To reproduce: if you want to take a screen capture hold down the power and down-vol at the same time until the shot is captured, then wait for the little animation and shutter sound letting you know it was captured. After that, you'll get the redundant ding and notification card.


texts: A friend of mine tried to guess my pattern so my phone got locked, asking for gmail account and password. The thing is that i used to use a program for keyboard symbols cause one of the symbols there is $. However the phone is locked so i cannot use this program. I cannot write my password down. Am i doomed to factory reset? i can't remember if i have usb debugging enabled and my GT-B5512 is not rooted. I have literally searched everywhere for $ but i can't find it!!! Is there a way to connect my phone to pc in order to use its keyboard? Or another way to solve this?


texts: What is correct way to calibrate battery?

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I've watched videos and referred some random sites.
But I'm not sure if these steps are correct.

I used battery calibration app but that doesn't help.

I'm using Asus Zenfone Max Pro M2.
Running on stable pie.

So how to calibrate battery accurately?


texts: Are these two different phones listed in Google Drive's Backups?

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The following screenshot is from Google Drive's Backups.

SAMSUNG-SM-J327A backup

Apps: 30 apps
Call history: 94 KB - Last backup: Oct 13, 2019
Device settings: 4 KB - Last backup: Oct 14, 2019

Samsung SAMSUNG-SM-J327A backup

Apps: 32 apps
Call history: 101 KB - Last backup: Oct 13, 2019
Device settings: 4 KB - Last backup: Oct 13, 2019

They are listed as the same phone but one seems different with the number of apps.
How can I tell if these are two different phones?


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First up - I do not have any experience at all with programming in Android or Linux environments. So, very sorry if this question sounds stupid. Here is what I am looking for:

I use a USB drive in my car for music and I transfer files to this drive from my mobile using an OTG cable. There are around 600+ files in it and the music player in the car just randomly plays them. Problem is, since there are so many files, the player seldom plays the newly added ones.

Hence I was wondering if it would be possible to write a script for this - like a batch script or VBSript in Windows. When run, it would copy the latest 20 or so files, based on the date modified, to some folder, say "New". The script would be placed on the drive, preferably, and next time it is run, it would clear the existing folder and copy fresh files again.

Would this be possible?

Model: OnePlus One Android Version: 6.0.1 Cyanogen OS: 13.1.2


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A week ago I was surprised with an update of an app that suddenly changed its language from English to my local language. This kind of change is usually good for most people, however, I would like to have the option to change it back, since I was used to the English therms the app was using...

Is there a way to change it back for this app (or, maybe, select apps that would be in English) without changing the whole phone language?

This specific app does not provide an UI (or any way to provide specific configuration) where I could select the language I want (I also don't know any app that has that kind of configuration option inside it)...


texts: gallery and music player are not working

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My gallery is not showing pics and videos of SD card
So I installed quickpic which is showing every thing
My music player is also not showing my music
I have restarted the phone my times after this but it won't help
Pls help


texts: copy encrypted internal storage to pc ( in twrp mode )

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I have this situation where I had my internal storage encrypted and then by using twrp I formatted only my data( booted into twrp > advance wipe > selected data and Dalvic cache > swiped to wipe . I didn't checked internal storage) ( dumb right ) now when I am booting into twrp it doesn't ask me for password to decrypt data but i can see my encrypted internal storage in file manager

I tryed to copy encrypted content to my pc ( hoping that i can decrypt it because i know the password by which it was encrypted ) but not able to do so

what I tried is

using adb pull it gives me error remote open failed: Required key not available
using MTP it is also giving me error
twrp decrypt <my password> it fails

can i somehow recover my data ( i know the password )


texts: How to transfer files between BlueStacks and Windows PC?

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I'm using BlueStacks App Player. Sometimes I need to transfer files between BlueStacks (SD card) from/to my Windows.

I seem to find the file that stores the data in the SD card on <BLUESTACKS_DATA>/Android/SDCard.sparsefs/Store, but I cannot see the content & modify it easily from my PC.

Are there any ways to transfer files between them?


texts: Looking for stable ROM for Samsung SGH-T759

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

Does a stable Android ROM, Ice Cream Sandwich or newer, exist for the Samsung SGH-T759? SGH-T759 is the Exhibit 4G, but the older model; the SGH-T679 is the newer model with the same name.

My phone is already rooted, but I'm unable to find a ROM for it in any of the usual places (namely, XDA).


texts:
I'm using Moto G second generation. My device is unable to install Facebook app after completion of download from play store. I checked few solutions, even removed my google account, but didn't work. I have enough space on my device and a fair connection speed. This problem is occurring only with Facebook application.
Although, I tried to download Facebook from other sources but still there's problem in installation.


texts: I have what I believe to be a software problem with My Galaxy Nexus running 4.2.2. Occasionally the phone will turn it's display off, or I will manually trigger this with the lock button. Minutes, maybe hours later when I want to use the phone it refuses to respond to the power button. The screen will never come on with it. However, it will come on if a call comes through. Texts still vibrate the phone and flash the indicator. Holding the power to force the power off does not work, it requires removing the battery. Then it works like normal. Any ideas?


texts: Revert an Android phone to vanilla rom from Google

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Can we install a vanilla ROM to a non-Nexus Android device?

I have an Android phone (version 2.3.6) and I don't like the ROM installed by the manufacturer. I want to revert it to a vanilla ROM like Nexus devices have. Is it possible, and if so could you provide a guide?


texts: Was unable to install any app - how to find out what was blocking the installs?

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I was unable to update/install any apps earlier today, using either Play Store, F-Droid, or Play Store in my work partition, even though I had over 500MB free on my phone (Pixel XL running Android 9.0).

I have 2 theories about why this happened, and I would like to find out more low-level information to try to figure out definitively why it happened. I think it's happened before, as well.

Theory 1 is that the flash memory on the device is being wear-leveled, and some of it has become unusable because it has been written to too many times and is "dead", but for some reason Android, or maybe the underlying Linux kernel, is still reporting the unusable blocks as "free space". So while it looked like I had 500MB free, I really had less.

Theory 2 is that Play Store in my work partition is somehow silently causing installs on my personal partition to fail until it "gets its way" and manages to install the updates it wants to install. (This seems very unlikely to be intentional, if so - there was no warning about this in any of the terms and conditions I signed up to when I created a work partition, to my recollection. Also, it doesn't explain why even 500MB free is not sufficient to install a relatively small update.)

When I freed up even more space (by uninstalling 2 apps in my work partition) Play Store in my work partition was able to update all 5 apps that were due to be updated, when I manually hit update on them. Then F-Droid was able to update apps again. So it looks like I'm good, for the time being... oh wait, I spoke too soon, it's happening again.

The two work apps that were uninstalled then automatically got pushed to my device and reinstalled, which to me casts doubt on the theory that it was about lack of space / unusable space (theory 1).

I uninstalled them again, and now I'm able to install apps again... for now.

Can I get some additional information on what was going on using adb or something like that?

I've already tried df in termux and it's not showing me anything useful - only one partition's free space is changing. I've read through the wall of text of previous solutions but they either don't seem to be relevant or are not making a lot of sense to me.


texts: How does back up data works in doing a restore factory in android device?

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Im planning to do a restore factory in my android device but I'm quite curious about this back-up data thing. How does it work? Does back up data means it will automatically restore my apps and other files after doing a restore factory setting (given there is a choice of auto restore).

Edit by Izzy: OP refers to Google Cloud Backup, as the link to a screenshot in the comments shows.


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I am trying to add a bookmark to my home screen on my android device, but it is not working.

I tried both Firefox 38.0 and Android Browser which both have this option and none of them was able to create the shortcut. I also tried various websites to confirm that it is not a website problem, still nothing.

Is there something wrong with my phone, what do I have to do to get this working?


texts: Log with timing of system events (e,g, Flight Mode on/off)

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I would like to find out at what time my phone (running Android 8.0.0) was last switched into/out of Flight (Airplane) Mode. Ideally, this would be part of a longer log with the timestamps of the last N FlightMode events, alongside other system-related events.

I didn't find any quick solutions by searching this site and others. Is there an easy way to find out this information?


texts: Mute Phone Mic when Headphones are Plugged In?

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I saw a question similar to mine but it was 7 years old so I'm hoping there may be an update to the answer
I would like for my Note 9 running Android version 10 to mute the mic on the phone when I have my headphones plugged in. It seems like it takes sound from both areas and I have my phone setting right next to my keyboard. When I am typing while talking, the sound of the keyboard clicks are extremely loud to the listener. I cannot move my phone as the conversations are typically video calls and I am using a wired headphone connection. Additionally, when I talk while in a somewhat noisy area, the phone mic seems to be more sensitive to the background noise and quiets my voice via the headphone.


texts: Allow screen pinning automatically by bypassing the permission dialog

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I have an app that makes use of screen pinning. The problem is that, as of now, it asks for the user's permission before pinning the app. I do not want it do this - I simply want it to pin the screen without having to get confirmation from the user.

We have physical access to each device the app is to be used on. With this in mind, is there a setting or similar I can change that would disable the pinning message so that the app would pin itself without user permission?

If it's relevant, the device is running on Android 5.0 Lollipop.


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I have an HTC Bravo. Some time ago I installed Gingerbread on it and started to have trouble. If I connect to the Internet or do some memory intensive work it resets itself. Now I want to install Froyo again on my Bravo.

Can somebody guide me in the right direction, or did I burn too many bridges to go back?


texts: Contact account association with non-HTC phones?

texts: My HTC legend give me the ability to associate my contacts' various accounts in the People application (ie. email, Facebook, Twitter...). Is this a HTC only feature? If it is, is there an alternative for non-HTC phones?