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Hard to believe this is the first Kitkat installation question, but I don't find any. Sorry if it's a dupe!

I feel like I'm too stupid to follow directions, but can you guys help me out here -- what am I doing wrong: I want to update my Nexus 4 from stock 4.2.2 ROM to the new 4.4 following these instructions. Note that the phone is rooted and runs Clockworkmod - I'm guessing this causes my problems but I need help to fix that.

I've got the downloads extracted and added the path to the bootloader so I can run the commands. But at the step that says Reboot into the bootloader and run the appropriate flash-all script it just says waiting for device forever.

The phone is in bootloader mode, but it's running Clockworkmod so I am guessing this is the problem?


texts: How do I change the lock Pattern !!!! - Lenovo A7000

texts: i have lenovo A7000, and i had recently had performed a reset, but, after setting the pattern, now i want to change the pattern as my brothers know the pattern. so, whenever i go to security settings and try to change it, the screen becomes repetitive and asks me to confirm the pattern infinite times, after giving the correct pattern too it again asks the same.... i cannot the change the lock as there is no screen to set it on the different modes like pin etc. what should i do ??? i tried clearing the certificates but it is grey and i dont want to hard reset or format the phone now.... pls tell me the correct way to go through it......


texts: No sliding (gesture typing) feature in Google Keyboard for Ukrainian language

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I can't type words via "sliding through letters" in Google Keyboard when Ukrainian language is chosen.

Is it OK? What may be the reason? No "sliding" support specifically for Ukrainian language?

I have Moto G with Android KitKat.
I tried on both 2.0... and 3.0... versions of Google Keyboard...


texts: What will happen if I flash the Pixel Android P Device image on my Nexus 6P?

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I just finished watching the Google I/O 2018 keynote and boy did it get me hyped up about Android P! For the last half hour or so I've been scouring the internet looking for some way to flash the latest preview using the Pixel system images here: https://developer.android.com/preview/download

Only problem? I don't own a Pixel device. All I've currently got on my hands is a Nexus 6P which Google recently dropped support for and made no mention of during the keynote.

Which leads me to my question: What will happen if I flash the Pixel Android P preview device image on my Nexus 6P? Will this brick my phone, or will everything still run ok? Now, realistically, I'm not trying to find out if someone has already tried this (duh), but I was hoping someone with a bit more knowledge could tell me if this is even remotely possible.


texts: Remove recent texts from phone contact screen

texts: Nexus 6 Android 6.0.1. Somehow I managed to turn on a function that displays my most recent texts when I access the contact screen. I don't want that info displaying every time I access a contact. How do I turn it off? Thanks in advance folks!


texts: How to activate internal mic during phone calls when using headphones with a USB-C to audio dongle?

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I would like to use my Samsung Galaxy S20 phone with my quality studio headphones for phone calls. Since the device does not have a 3.5 mm audio socket, I am using a USB-C to 3.5 mm dongle. The problem is that when the dongle is plugged in, the phone expects the audio recording to come from the headset's inline microphone, while disabling the built-in microphone.
Is there a way to set the phone to use the internal mic while using external headphones through the dongle?
I tried a couple of dongles and all have the same issue.
Update: Phone is Samsung Galaxy S20, Android version 11, not rooted.


texts: What is meant by the Nexus S being a "developer Phone"?

texts: I have heard lots of times that the Nexus S is a "developer phone". What exactly does it mean?


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Samsung phones, Galaxy Note running ICS 4.0.3 in particular has System Storage, USB Storage, and SD Card.
I wanted to know if I encrypt my device by going to Settings - Security - Encrypt Device.  Will it encrypt the "USB Storage" as well aside from the System Storage?


texts: ES file explorer, how can I get the complete folder path?

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Sometimes ES file explorer will open directly into a folder, for example if I download a file, it will ask if I want to open the files containing folder.
I select yes and then get something like this:

Unfortunately this doesnt help me if I need to locate the file using another application.
I tried the dropdown (the little blue triangle below "adobe acrobat" in the picture), but this only gives the history of previously visited folder paths.
How can I get a full path of the current directory in ES explorer?


texts: Installing samsung galaxy s3 neo stock rom on ssamsung galaxy s3

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can I install samsung galaxy s3 neo (GT-I9300I) ROM on Samsung galaxy s3 (GT-I9300)....
If yes then please tell me how?


texts: LG G4 Interruptions: How do I prevent my phone from randomly going to "priority only?"

texts: Priority only will go on randomly (probably a couple times a day). I don't have any "downtime" scheduled. Anyone else facing this issue? How do I fix it? Thanks.


texts: Digitizer turns off when palm is on screen: want to stop this

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I'm working on an algorithm for palm rejection for an Android writing app. The idea is to find features of palm touches versus stylus touches that will allow me to reject the palm touches and keep the stylus touches (without having to use a special stylus) in my app. Unfortunately, my phone won't detect any touches at all when my palm is on the screen. I Googled around about this quite a bit and played with my phone's settings to no avail.

Is this just a hardware thing, or is there some software solution or setting I can change?

My phone: a Galaxy S5. I have also tried this on a number of Samsung tablets.


texts: Completely exporting a WhatsApp chat, including media and voice messages

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I have a chat with a lot of voice messages, pictures and chat messages that I would like to completely export to my laptop, so that I can listen to the voice messages, view the pictures and read the complete chat history.

The 'email chat' option only exports a small portion of the text and voice messages and just 8-10 pictures. As for the 'back up chats' option - I don't know what to do with the created files - as far as I understood from googling, they are meant to be read by WhatsApp itself - not by you on a PC/Laptop.

Thank you for any help!

Update:

Kind of a solution: Decoding the WhatsApp encrypted backups - link


texts: MIUI : How to move data to external SD card for installed app in Xiomi devices

texts: I have been trying to figure out how to transfer the data of the apps installed in my Xiomi note. It pretty clear in other android devices where we can go to the app settings and open the installed app and transfer the data to SD card by selecting move to SD card but this option is not available in MIUI.


texts: Can I use wifi or Bluetooth to get the same kind of connection to my phone that I can with USB?

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I have a new Samsung Galaxy S5 running Android 4.4.2, and I also have a laptop and desktop computer, both running Ubuntu 14.04. In order to access or transfer files from phone to computer, I can connect my Samsung by USB easily enough, but I thought I might be able to do something a little cooler using either wifi or Bluetooth.

My phone always connects to my home LAN whenever I'm at home, so if there was a way to make it appear on the network automatically every time it was in range, that would be sweet.

My laptop I'm often using at hotspots where I probably couldn't connect them via the LAN. So maybe for my laptop, some kind of Bluetooth connection would be best. I'm actually typing right now on my laptop, and I paired the phone and laptop together, so I can select to "Send files" from the laptop to the Android, but that's about as convenient as emailing it to myself. I really want to be able to open the Android internal SD drives like they were drives on a network.

This could be two questions, one about connecting my desktop by wifi and one about connecting my laptop by bluetooth, but I'm asking them together because it may be that maybe one approach works best for both scenarios. Or maybe I have it reversed and wifi would be better for the laptop and Bluetooth for the desktop.

In short, what is the best wireless way for me to make my Android phone always available to my computers so that I can transfer and access files to it? I'd ideally like to have the drives show up the same way they do as when connected by USB, so that I can do other things like syncing my music collection (with Banshee or Clementine) and possibly other tasks.


texts: How do I add bookmark on Android (Firefox or Chrome) so it appears on PC

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Both Firefox and Chrome has sync features, but they dont seem to work the way I want. Both Firefox and Chrome is having a top level grouping of the bookmarks, "bookmarks on PC" and "bookmarks on Android". And from Android the PC bookmarks are read-only. I can see them and visit them but not edit them or extend the collection with more bookmarks.

How do I add a bookmark from my Android device (in Firefox or Chrome) to my PC (Firefox or Chrome)?


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Hello I have a android system that I am trying to find out whether I can get USB bluetooth dongles to work on it.

Device info:

Model number: Telechips m805s tcc8925 NAND v7 board
Android version: 4.0.4 (v0.4 2013-04-11)
Kernel version: 3.0.8-TV Root@ubuntu #171 Wed April 10 22:56:21 oft 2013
Build number: Full_m805_8925-eng 4.0.4 imm76d eng.Root.20121022.190818 test key

It has the option for bluetooth in settings.


texts: How to share internet via Wifi hotspot/USB tethering on Xperia SP?

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I am unable to share my mobile internet connection via Wifi hotspot or USB tethering to a laptop. When enabling the Wifi hotspot, the laptop connects to the Wifi just fine, but whenever I try to access a website on the laptop it ends in an error; on the phone it works fine. Same issue with USB tethering: The laptop connects just fine, but internet itself isn't shared.

Now I've isolated the issue as coming from the phone itself:

internet works fine on the Sony Xperia SP
same SIM card on a different phone: sharing internet connection works fine (the type from the phone company was adamant they can't block this from their side)
connecting phone to home Wifi and sharing that internet connection via USB tethering to a laptop works fine
using a different SIM card on the Xperia SP and I still can't share the mobile internet connection

The only thing that comes out of it is that for some reason the Xperia SP somehow is incorrectly configured and doesn't share mobile internet access via Wifi/USB.

Which settings should I check on the Xperia SP to ensure that sharing mobile internet connection works?


texts: why does my mouse act like a home button

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When i connect my Bluetooth Mouse or Wireless and I press right click or press down the scroll wheel it acts like a home button.
I tried changing Bluetooth AVRCP Version to 1.3,1.4,1.5,1.6 nothing works.


texts: Opera off-road mode: Automatically switch on for mobile but off for wifi

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I like Opera's off-road mode, especially the fact that I can disable loading images specifically for it, but when on WiFi, I have to manually disable it, which is an extra step.

Is it possible to set Opera to use off-road mode for mobile data, but switch it off when on WiFi?

Note: I've tagged this with Opera Mobile because only Opera Mobile and Opera Mini tags are available, but I'm talking about Opera for Android.


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Someone sends me an email with a phone number, address, etc.  I want to add it to my contacts.  I'd think it would be somewhat simple, but it is quite difficult.

I can click on the phone number, call it, hang up before it rings (ick!), go to call history, long click on the number , then add to contacts.
Of course then I still have to manually type in the address, etc. Going back to the email and cutting and pasting as multiple operations isn't so nice either.

Is there an easy and efficient way to do this?  Some app maybe?  Or am I just doing it wrong?

If relevant, my device is a T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide with Android 2.1


texts: Play Store - "An unexpected error has occurred. Please try again later."

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I've been having this issue since I bought my S7 Edge over a week ago. I am unable to add a payment method or do anything involving payments on both my phone and play.google.com.

When trying to add a payment method, or even redeem a gift card, via play.google.com I get this:

And when I try adding a payment method via my phone I get "We couldn't complete your request. Please retry or try again later." regardless of when or how many times I try.


texts: Galaxy S2 keeps periodically showing "Refreshing SIM data" toast

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I have a rooted Samsung Galaxy S2 running the stock Samsung ROM (no custom ROMs ever).
Of late, I notice that every few minutes, a toast pops up saying 'Refreshing SIM data'. If the screen had been blanked earlier, it reactivates, and this is annoying, especially at night.
I don't know if this is relevant, but only recently I got 3G activated (Vodafone, Bangalore,India) and it didn't happen before.

Anyone seen this, and is there a workaround or fix?

Update - Have upgraded to 2.3.5 Gingerbread and with different kernels (Ninphetamine and DarkyROM SuperCore) but it makes no difference. I wonder if it's because of the service provider.


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Can anyone help me out and tell me what the icon circled in red is please as I have no idea
Thanks in advance


texts: CyanogenMod installer won't connect to internet

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As per screenshot below, I have been unable to proceed with the CyanogenMod Installer (Windows).
This is what I get:

Having internet troubles? Please check your network connection.

Screenshot (click image for large variant)

I've tried adding extra inbound and outbound exceptions for Cyanogen Mod Installer (%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Temp\CMInstaller.exe) in the Windows Firewall (accessible from Control Panel), but it didn't help.
I am not behind a proxy. And there's nothing wrong with my Internet connection : I'm accessing all other online content.

I'm using Win8x64, and trying to install CM on my Samsung S3 GT-i9300.

Has anyone encountered the same issue?

*UPDATE: I tried running the msi installer via an admin command prompt, didn't make any difference.


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Possible Duplicate:
  Is there a zoom and timer functionality on Nexus S camera?

Is there any app that will let one use a time-delay shot with the phone's camera on Android 2.3.5? The default camera app doesn't seem to have time-delay shots, as far as I can see.


texts: What to do about app that starts using excessive storage space?

texts:
I have noticed that sometimes an app will start using an excessive amount of space.

For example, I've recently seen a few examples where the Amazon app was using over 350MB of storage.

One solution is to clear all the data for the app.  But then the user must reconfigure the app from scratch.

Is there any way to fix this issue without clearing all the data for the app?


texts: Save and hide notifications and then show them later

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Is there any way I could hide notifications from certain apps entire, but then have them appear later at some specific time or event? Essentially, I'd like to contextually delay notifications intentionally.

I know there are plenty of apps that can log notifications, or even roll them up into a single notification. Theses are very close to what I want, except I don't want the notifications to be intercepted at all times, and I don't even want to see that notifications have been blocked until some predetermined time or I check on them myself.

I'm pretty sure I'd have to hack together a solution, maybe using Tasker to prevent some of these apps from working and hiding the notifications from these notification loggers.

I'm on a stock, unrooted Galaxy S8 (Android 7.0).


texts: Are there any benchmarking apps that measure how smooth scrolling is on a certain device?

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The one thing I think that IOS (and Windows 8 as well) still has over Android even after all these years is smoothness in scrolling. After a while you don't really notice the difference until you start using an iphone side by side and realize just how smooth it should be.

Jelly bean made things better and recently I bought the new Nexus 7 and 4.3 seems to have improved things even more. Aside from just "feeling" it is smoother, are there any benchmarking apps to verify this?


texts: How to install Amazon FR app alongside Amazon (US)

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This might be as simple as: It cannot be done.

I am an American living in Europe. I have an android phone with multiple accounts (one for each country where I reside).

I would like to be able to install the Amazon FR app alongside the regular Amazon app (US).
Attempting to do give me the following error: duplicate provider authority

Can I get around this?

Update: Each app as well as each URL (amazon.com vs amazon.fr) provides a different set of vendors, items, previous orders, order tracking, invoices, etc.  Both apps are in the Google Play App store and you can search for the Amazon FR app but you can ONLY install it if your logged in account while accessing Google Play is registered in France.


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I have a Nexus 6P and just got a car with android auto, i use my phone and most of my things with English language (i'm used to English for tech) even tho i live in a Spanish speaking country.

Now heres the question, is there a way to set Android Auto to Spanish for example without changing the entire phone setting? Other people than me might want to use the head unit and would have to use English.

And then here's another interesting thing, when using the TTS feature to read messages, obviously its impossible to understand anything when reading Spanish with an English voice but what happens if i have messages in both Spanish and English, wouldn't it be nice to have it auto detect the language and use the appropriate TTS system regardless of the phone language?


texts: Device not allowing the use of non-English for the screenlock password

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I am facing very unclear behaviour on Motorola devices w.r.t. setting its password in non-english language (Hebrew).
Let me explain scenario:

Settings -> Language & input -> Google Keyboard -> Input Language -> under 'Active input methods' -> Hebrew checked.

Now, Move back to Settings -> Screen Lock -> password -> choose your password -> Password contains illegal characters. (After typing few Hebrew words, so unable to set password)

Settings -> Language & input -> Language -> Set 'Hebrew' as phone language.

Now (All in Hebrew language), move back to Settings -> Screen Lock -> password -> choose your password -> Password contains illegal characters. (After typing few Hebrew words, so unable to set password)

I am not getting why it's showing me this behaviour. In fact, after changing phone language, I should be allowed to set password based on my desired language.


texts: How to download .docx document to the phone from Google Drive?

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Currently using Google Drive version 2.18.252.01.45 and I have a .docx document in my drive that doesn't download to the phone as a .docx document. It downloads as a .pdf document. I tried looking for options similar to those found in a web browser which allows you to 'Download as', but the Android app doesn't have that option. It automatically converts the .docx document to PDF and then downloads it.

Any way to download a document to Android from Google Drive in its original format?


texts: Can your carrier tell which sms app sent a text?

texts: When I send a text through my messenger app, it arrives. When I send it through the smsgateway.me app, it does not. However it shows in my messenger app as sent. Can the carrier tell and filter out those messages?


texts: How to revert to tabbed overview in Chrome?

texts:
I recently updated my Chrome for Android (currently on v68) and noticed that tapping on the box icon (next to address bar) gives a tab list instead of SystemUI type overview that Chrome used to give. See the two images below for comparison.

I know that I can get that same view by swiping downwards from the address bar but I'm habitual of getting it from that box icon.

So what can I do to get back that view from that box without reverting to a previous version of Chrome and without switching to an another browser (unless it is Chrome based)?


texts: Is it possible to use the Kindle Fire's browser in a full screen mode?

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So we got a Kindle Fire at work today, and I've been playing with it a bit to see what all it can do. One thing that I thought would be neat is to try our new web-based application in the Fire's Silk browser to see how it stacks up against some of our other devices (like my Xoom and the Galaxy Tab 7).

In general it's okay, but it's starting to really bug me that the status bar is always visible when I'm using Silk, instead of filling the whole screen. There's also a tab bar at the top that I can't get to go away, and the bottom menu bar appears to be persistently visible. When you read a book, all of this goes away and then you bring it back by touching the screen, and I really like the full screen look.

Is there any way to run Silk in a "full screen" mode, specifically one which hides the top status bar? I checked around in the settings and whatnot and haven't been able to find anything. Bonus points: Is there a way to hide the tab bar or the bottom menu bar similar to the book reading app?


texts: Insufficient Storage Available During Update

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Preface (TL;DR)
I know the issue of insufficient space has been discussed in various contexts but I have not found anything that specifically addresses the circumstances and issues that I am facing, so I am hoping to get some feedback that would help me better understand what is going on.
I have an HTC EVO 4g from Sprint running Android 2.3.5 (Gingerbread) which has been unlocked using the Dev patch provided by HTC. Although it is rooted and I can apply a custom ROM to it, I have not done so yet for several reasons I won't get into but my issue should be independent of that. This phone is by far (in my humble opinion) one of the best and most stable piece of hardware that HTC has produced to date and I couldn't be happier with the phone, hence why I have not upgraded to a newer device. I know the older OS is a turn off to many and I agree that I wish I was running a higher version but most of them don't honor the latest drivers available which means you lose 4G functionality among other things. So I have stuck with it for now until such time as an updated drivers are released (doubtful but one can hope).
I have an 8 GB SD card (7.39 GB usable) and 4.05 GB free - since I move anything that has the option to run off the SD card to external storage. I have 500 MB internal storage (427 MB usable) and a little over 60 MB free. I have never had issues updating anything since the space present has always been enough to install or update before moving stuff to free more space.
The problem
Recently when updating apps it often gives me the insufficient storage available message – but it makes no sense to me.
Storage facts:

external SD with 8 GB (4 GB free)
internal storage with 500 MB (60 MB free)
example problematic app: apk size ~6 MB / installed size 11.46 MB

Detailed problem (again: TL;DR)
Specifically the app that is giving the problem recently is Lookout Security & Antivirus which has never been an issue and is only 6 MB and change but it will download it and when attempting to install pops that error. I don't get how a 6 MB file that has never had issue updating on less than 40 MB space is now giving me problems with over 60 MB free? The baffling part is that occasionally it WILL actually update just fine without issue and I have checked my cache and stuff, nothing there, no other apps running that would hog space or anything, so what's wrong? How can I mitigate this? Another bizarre thing that started to happen is that internal apps like Facebook which are bloated on there whether I like it or not and I use rarely are giving me problems too by issuing the invalid page file error. I mean what?
So what's going on here? What is wrong or what can I do to make it right so it stops being stupid like this? As I said, NEVER had a single issue with this phone, EVER, but in the past month it has driven me absolutely NUTS. I have even uninstalled applications that don't provide the move to SD option to free up nominal space and it stabilizes for like 2 days and then bam, back to square one even though it has more space now. I am at my wits end and I would appreciate the help; especially not being a novice this is even more mind boggling to me.
UPDATE: 10/26/13 @7:45 AM
The application updated normally without giving the error and it did so while the internal storage had only 43 MB (as opposed to the 60 MB when it failed numerously). This lends itself to even more confusion as to what is going on. The ONLY thing that was done in the meantime was that I rebooted the phone (actually more like I was low on power, shut it down and when I connected it to the charger, turned it on)


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I'm interested in locking down an Android, so the user can only access a particular app (bonus points: only allow them to access the browser app, and only allow one website from within that).

How might I go about doing this with minimal work?

(I work for a school, and am considering using some androids as roll-marking devices)


texts: Getting Black screen when i play youtube videos in youtube app

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I've BSNL Penta Tablet with 2.3.7 installed in it. Whenever I tries to watch Video in YouTube Application. It does play the video with audio only. Only Black screen appear in the video tab but never displayed.

What could be the reason for these kinda weird behaviour?

Is the YouTube App have some bug or BSNL Penta tab is have some issues in it?

YouTube is the must app in any Tab as it gives everything you want from big screen.

Can anybody please tell me how to fix these issues?


texts: Android restarts when I press "Turn on USB storage" button

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I have a tablet with android 4.2.2 installed on it.

I was able to connect this tablet to my laptop before, but recently when I press the Turn on USB storage button, android restarts!

My laptop op is Ubuntu 14.04 TLS

What is the problem and how can I fix this issue?


texts: I have a Samsung on7 phone which works on android 6.0.1 marshmallow. I want to root my phone but I'm not able to root my phone with any third party software. I always get the error message "root permission acquiring unsuccessful." Is there any other way I could root my phone?


texts: How can I set the keyboard and language in Android, and how can I add more languages to the device?


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I have an obscure Android phone (Orion Pro x500a). I have another question which led me to ask another concerning custom recovery files.

Since my phone is rather obscure, I can't find a custom recovery file for it anywhere. I've looked into things like ROM Manager from CWM as well as other tutorials, but none give examples of the process used to create that custom recovery file.

Is there a way I can do that myself using something like the Android SDK or flashboot? Or, is the recovery based on the chipset of the phone and can I simply find a compatible recovery file based on that?


texts: Different user interface than usual on Facebook app

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Whenever I download the Facebook app for my Android phone (Motorola Razr D3) it shows up normal for the first time but then changes to a strange interface and then stays that way.

 (Click picture for larger variant)

I've tried deleting it and then downloading it again and again but it keeps changing back, what is this? What should I do?


texts: Will a factory data reset make my camera working again?

texts:
I was having low memory on my Sony Xperia phone and while emptying space, I removed some files related to the phone camera. Since then it is showing the following error on starting the camera -

  Error - Camera not available.

I would not like to delete all my personal data unnecessarily, otherwise.


texts:
I have just installed the latest version of the Android Studio. I now have adb and fastboot available through the platform-tools.

When I run adb backup -all I get a "Bus error: 10".

What's wrong here? Is there a problem with the lastest version of the Android Studio?

FYI, I am running on Mac OS X Yosemite (10.10.4), rooted Android v4.4.4.

Cheers!


texts: Is there an Android video chat client that displays video stream and text messages at the same time?

texts:
I'm looking for a video chat app for Android, but I'm unable to find one that can display the video stream and text messages at the same time, it's either one or the other.
I tried for example Google Hangouts and Skype and both have this problem.
Screen estate should not be problem since it would be used on a tabled with external keyboard

Is there another app in the market that allows this? If possible I would like also to be able to call Windows clients.


texts: how to create a watch later list for netflix app?

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Til now we can only: add to list, like or dislike a video.

Adding to a list is not really useful because netflix app wont hide items we have already watched, so we lose a lot of time browsing a long list of things we have already watched, almost pointless, I dont do it anymore...

Like or dislike makes no difference either, doesnt help (each of) us, wont hide, not even mark/highlight, the item either...

Do you know any tricks?


texts:
My questions are concerning Whatsapp.

If I send a message, there are three indicators - one tick,two ticks and two blue ticks. If I delete it when it's still being sent (one tick),will the second side still be able to read it?

By the way, is there an option how to change or delete a message in a short period of time after sending it? (As it is possible at gmail?)

Thanks a lot.

Axessa


texts: How can I uninstall a device admin if the Deactivate button doesn't work?

texts: I am trying to uninstall CM Security. It's a device admin, so I go to Settings, Security, then Device Administrators, and try to uncheck the box next to CM Security, then a screen comes up listing the privileges the app has. The options are Cancel and Deactivate. When I click Deactivate, the button depresses, but it does nothing. I can click it as much as I want, and nothing happens. How can I deactivate a device admin when this problem occurs?


texts: Difference between Android version in regions

texts:
I installed stock ROM for Android 4.4.2 for Colombia region this April. Today while I was surfing the web, I found out that my Android version is slightly different from the one that I saw on web (both devices were the same).

How is this possible? Do the features of updates depends on region?


texts: On the Android print screen, I only see American paper sizes (Letter, Legal etc.). Is there a way to add or switch to ISO sizes (A4, A5 etc.)?


texts: How do I install Google Chrome on a Kindle Fire?

texts:
I'm tryhing to install any version of Google Chrome on Kindle Fire using instructions here -- https://www.technipages.com/kindle-fire-how-to-install-google-chrome-via-apk-file.  I have followed all the instructions up to the point where I actually have to download an APK file, evidently needed to install Chrome.  However, I'm confused about which file I need.  On Chrome's site, all the files they list are for Android operating systems ...

https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/chrome/

In as far as I'm using a Kindle Fire, I don't see any APK files on the site appropriate to a Kindle.  Where do I find such a file?


texts: Changing language from hardware keyboard in ASUS Eee Pad Transformer TF300T

texts: Today I have updated my Asus Eee Pad Transformer TF300T to Android 4.1 and was very disappointed. On Android 4.0 I used Ctrl+Space in Russian ASUS Keyboard to switch input language between English and Russian, and now it's not working! Just pop up notice that language was changed but language stays Russian. I've tried to use other languages, but all of them do the same. Restarting device does not help.


texts: how to get battery percentage back in status bar, Android 7.1.1

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I have a Samsung Galaxy J2 Pro running Android 7.1.1, and Samsung Experience version 8.5.

How do I get the battery percentage into the status bar? I am sure it was there until yesterday (unless I am going crazy) and now it has disappeared. Yes I have tried turning it off and on :)


texts: Reviving my Bricked Tablet via adb and Samsung's Download Mode

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Okay, here's the story:

I have a Samsung Galaxy Tab S 8.4". The OS doesn't matter, because it's gone. I had lollipop 5.0.2, decided to root it. OK, rooted it fine. Then decided to get CyanogenMod on it. Welp, when I was wiping it, I accidentally deleted the CM install zip with the rest. I was using TWRP to install the thing, but then I couldn't access it. So, I got Odin and tried to install that and the Clockwork mod. No help, and now Odin throws the "nand write start" error, which, from what I can tell from Google, mean my partitions are screwed up. (Edit: I re-flashed TWRP, and there was no error, but there is this error when getting ClockworkMod. Probably a messed up tar.)

Long story short, all I can do is use the Samsung Download mode, I have Odin, and I may have messed up my partitions.

I do have an adb backup, which means if I can get adb to recognize me device, I can roll it back.

adb seems like the best way to go, which is why I titled the post as it is.


texts: How do I get rid of the many sticky notices about my hotspot with tethering?

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I'm using a smartphone as a WiFi hotspot - and connecting a PC to it with a USB cable. As I plug the cable in, I get a first notification bubble:

USB debugging is on
Tap to turn off USB debugging

I don't want to get this every time I connect!... and even if I do - at least I want to be able to swipe it away. No such luck.
Now, I turn on the hotspot. This gives me two more notifications:

Tethering or hotspot active
0 connected devices
Tethering or hotspot active
Tap to set up.

then I turn on USB tethering (which I also don't understand why I can't get to default to on); that yields another notification:

USB tethering is on
Tap for more options.

So, four different notifications, none of which I can swipe away.
What can I do to:

Make them swipeable-away?
Make it so that they don't show up in the first place, or at least
Make it so that they disappear a short while after appearing?

Notes:

My phone is a Xiaomi 9 SE, running MIUI 12.0.2, that's based on Android 10 QKQ1.


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In past versions, I used to delete all files in /data/dalvik-cache to clear the dalvik cache, which is the only directory that shows up in TWRP log:

Wiping /data/dalvik-cache

In Lollipop and Marshmallow where Android uses ART VM, the dalvik cache is often a gigabyte or so big, and more if you installed a lot of apps.

In Nougat, however, with 200+ total apps (system + user), the dalvik cache folder is less than 800 MB as large, so I doubt it contains all dalvik cache: some must be residing at somewhere else.

How do I clear all dalvik cache? They're useless when backed up in a recovery.


texts: does ATT ZTE Z831 Android disable the internal storage option

texts: My son just got the  ATT ZTE Z831 Android and I am putting in a 32GB sd card. I was wondering if this phone has an internal storage option.


texts: Windows 7 fails to see my Samsung I9300 Galaxy S III

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I use Windows 7 SP1 x64 Ultimate and a Samsung I9300 Galaxy S III (rooted Android 4.1.2). When I plug the phone to the computer's USB port, I can't access the phone through Windows Explorer.

I installed the latest Samsung USB drivers. I used to be able to access the phone through Windows Explorer before somebody SIM unlocked the phone. I'm not entirely whether the process to SIM unlock created the issue but it occurred pretty much at the same time.

Samsung drivers seem to be correctly installed:

I have this issue with two different computers. What can I try to fix it?


texts: Why does my Android phone constantly tell me "Restricted By Device Administrator"?

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Recently, my LG phone started kicking me out of browsers, I'll go to sites like Bing Translator, but it goes further.
I can't do anything with Google except open YouTube: can't add accounts to my device. It won't even allow me to log in to Google Account except with FF pre-2018 versions.
Web searches didn't answer this nor any SE sites. Most search results are about Microsoft, the few about Android I already know & don't touch any solution/answer.
I've never had this problem with my LG until the past calendar month or 2 ago.
Is this sudden problem connected to LG shutting down all smartphone services soon?
I'm very limited as to what can fill here so ask me for any details below.
LG Phoenix; Android 7; Secure. Patch Lvl. April 2018; Kernel v.3.10.49


texts: Notifications barely appearing (Nexus 6P)

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I have been having this problem in which some apps (examples would be Business Calendar 2 and Telegram) don't show notification properly. The do appear, but only for a split second and then immidiately disappear, without even making a sound. It's a problem with these apps because the way I use them notifications are pretty important to me.

I've been reading a bit and managed to figure out that it might be either an issue with the android version (which I don't believe it is, since it's the latest version and I haven't heard the same problem from any of my friends), or a specific app that prevents other apps from showing notifications. Is there any known app that does that? Or is there another possible cause for the symptoms?

Any ideas for a fix would be great, thanks


texts: Does Android L Developer Preview fix the mm-qcamera-daemon problem?

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I have a Nexus 5 running on Android 4.4.4 Kitkat, and the mm-qcamera-daemon problem appeared today for the first time (I don't have the usual culprits like Snapchat or Skype).

Does Android L Developer Preview fix this issue?


texts: Why does my Milestone Droid erroneously report a drained battery once every few weeks?

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Every so often, my phone (Motorola Milestone, firmware 2.1-update1) decides that the battery is almost drained and that I have to turn the phone off.  This may happen just a few hours after charging it, and a subsequent restart confirms that yes, the battery does still have a charge, still at 70-80% capacity.

This tends to happen every few weeks, and it's been happening basically ever since I bought the phone a few months ago, so I'm pretty sure it's not a charge memory issue, especially when combined with the fact that the problem is intermittent and very infrequent.

Does anyone know why this might happen, and what I could do to fix it?


texts: Do I need to reinstall the OS before using adb restore?

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Assuming I did a full backup with

adb backup -system -apk -shared -all -f "backup.ab"

And then went into the recovery on my phone and wiped it completely.  Do I need to reinstall the OS before using adb restore or must I install the OS first?

I ask because I'm in a bit of a bind where I was on the latest CM12 and backed up before attempting and failing to upgrade to CM13.  When I try to reinstall CM12, only an earlier snapshot of CM12 is available.  If I try to restore with adb after installing the snapshot, com.android.phone fails continuously.  I am wondering if the newer CM12 is still in backup.ab.


texts: Where's exactly the NFC area in the Nexus 7 2013?

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I've had a Nexus 7 2012 and in the tiny manual there was an indication on where exactly I should touch my phone on it to get NFC communication - near the "e" in the back. That worked great, as I know the NFC area on my Nexus 4 is somewhat in it's middle, but... In a big device like a tablet that's not a guarantee.

However, I have trouble doing the same in the Nexus 7 II. I touch my phone's back to its back but the connection is bad, it comes and goes before I can actually beam stuff... I've tried touching the phone in several different places but didn't get better results.

Where's exactly the NFC touching point on the Nexus 7 II / Nexus 7 2013?


texts:
I found an app called "GlanceViewMk" within my notification and sounds settings menu. If I allow it, "GlanceViewMk will be able to read all the notifications you receive, which may include personal information such as contact names and messages sent to yo. It will also be able to dismiss these notifications or select actions related to them."

What to I gain by allowing this?


texts: Installing app from google play in my SD Card

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I like hearing to songs through tuneQ app (Scosche), which I had downloaded from Google Play. tuneQ is a music player.

Unfortunately the player lists songs present in my Internal Memory. I want to install the tuneQ player in my SD card so that I can have access to all the songs in my SD card.


texts: Mirroring and duplicating the screen to 2 monitors with Samsung S20 via HDMI

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I am trying (without success) to mirror my S20 through hdmi to my monitor and duplicate that screen to another monitor. Or in a different words, mirroring my S20 to 2 different monitors.
Does anyone know how can I do this?


texts: How do I go back to the old tab switcher on Chrome?

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I don't know when this happened but in the latest version of Google Chrome for Android, I can't swipe down from the 'open tabs' button to get the card UI of all open tabs and switch to or close the tab I want.

What I see now when I swipe down from the 'open tabs' button is an ugly list containing a list of all open tabs and it always starts at the top so I have scroll all the way down to close the most recently opened tab.

Does anyone know how to go back to the way it was? Maybe there's an experimental flag I could enable or disable?


texts:
I own Xperia Mini Pro which has Android 2.1-update1.
I noticed Accessibility settings in my phones settings.
What are these settings and why these settings are required ?
I opened these Accessibility Settings. I can see an option "Accessibility" with a unchecked check box in disabled state. It always in disabled state. I don't know when it is going to be activated.


texts: Google Navigation forgets/ignores "Access to my location" setting - Nexus 4

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Every time I attempt to use Google Maps Navigation on my stock (rooted) Nexus 4, I get the Searching for GPS screen.  The phone never finds GPS though.

I've found that if I go to Settings>Location Access and switchAccess to my location off and on again the Navigation app finds GPS instantly, every time.

Nevertheless, the next time I try to use navigation, I will have to do this again.

Has this been reported as a bug anywhere, or is there a fix?

I'm on Android 4.2.2.


texts: How do I escape a crash/reboot loop without losing data?

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My Motorola Atrix 4G (MB860) is stuck in a crash/reboot loop. I believe it is running Android 2.3.6, but the phone doesn't stay on long enough to confirm.

It seems this is a common problem (why is that?), but most of the potential solutions I've seen on the Internet haven't been particularly helpful. I can't seem to boot into Safe Mode, because I instead get stuck at a "Starting RSD protocol support" message that does not progress. I have tried clearing the cache, but that has no effect.

I have had this happen in the past, but in those cases I was able to escape the loop by powering down the phone on purpose and restarting it manually. That solution is not working this time around.

I have a lot of data on this phone that I would like to at least be able to salvage before I have to wipe the phone with a factory reset (if it does indeed come to that), but the phone does not stay on long enough for it to detect a USB connection or for me to turn USB debugging on to access it with adb.

I have not modified the phone in the past, but I would be willing to do so if it meant that I could get adb working. I would prefer, however, to get at the source of the problem and delete any offending app file that might be causing this to happen (if such a file can be determined).

What is going on here? Why does Android even allow this sort of thing to happen? And why is it not easier to get into Safe Mode?

I suppose those are the more academic questions in this situation, but my primary concern is: How can I gain access to my files to back them up before having to do a factory reset? Or is there another way to escape this crash/reboot loop?

EDIT (2013-02-14):

To be clear, let me elaborate on what I mean by "crash/reboot loop" in this case.

When I power on the phone, it goes through its normal display of the Motorola and carrier screens. Then the lock screen begins to load, as it normally does. It seems to me that it takes longer than usual for it to detect a cell signal and identify the carrier network (AT&T), but I can't know for sure.

At this point, if I don't unlock the phone, it will eventually reboot on its own and continue to loop through this process until the battery dies. But if I do unlock the phone, I am immediately greeted by a series of "Force close" dialog boxes informing me that the following processes/applications have stopped unexpectedly:

com.motorola.service.main
Google Partner Setup (com.google.android.partnersetup)
Google Play Store (com.android.vending)
Webtop (com.android.portal)
Bluetooth Share (com.android.bluetooth)

I generally have to select "Force close" on the first few in order for the next few to appear, though the Bluetooth one appears immediately on top of the Webtop one. The phone will generally reboot immediately after the Bluetooth error appears. If I have the phone plugged into my computer via USB, I will get a USB connection notification immediately before the phone reboots. I should also note that the com.motorola.service.main error occurs multiple times. (If I "Force close" it, it reappears in between the other errors.) The Google Partner Setup and/or Google Play Store errors sometimes appear multiple times, as well.

EDIT (2013-02-20):

I'm still having issues, so I thought I'd go through the whole thing again, looking for new information. It turns out I missed one key part about booting into Safe Mode: You have to wait until the boot ANIMATION starts before holding both volume buttons down. (Then you keep holding until a long vibration occurs.)

Anyway, when I booted into Safe Mode, things got worse, not better. The phone didn't even stay on long enough for it to complete the Android initialization!

I don't know what that means, but maybe it's another clue?


texts: How can I used my old whatsapp account with new sim

texts:
Good day,

My old sim is expired and I bought  new one , I forgot to change my number in whatsapp before I formeted it...

It is possible to retrieve my old whatsapp account?

Thanks


texts: Connecting USB Type C Flash Drive to Samsung Galaxy S9

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Just bought the Kingston 64 GB DataTraveler microDuo 3C flash drive. The drive has both USB Type C and USB 3.1 port.

I tried connecting the drive directly via USB Type C port but it did not list the external storage. However when using the Samsung OTG it did recognize the drive.

The drive with dual port seems point less if the phone doesn't recognize the drive without OTG. Is this limited to only Samsung phones? Are there ways to connect the drive directly without the OTG? I have seen couple of videos on YouTube which reviewed the drive by connecting to phones without OTG. Thanks.


texts: Android phone lost, Data wipe after password change

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Here's an urgent situation regarding phone robbery:

My android phone (note 8) gets robbed and as far as i know it has not lost its way to some general person. It was robbed by force, so people handling that can misuse it, so am very concerned.
It all happened in a very unexpected fashion and very fast. In a hurry to secure device, i immediately login to my nearest computer when possible (after 15-20 mins), googled how to clean the lost device and followed the steps. From the very moment it showed these two options:

a. ) Play Sound

b.) Enable secure and erase

I repeatedly click on enable 'secure and erase', google showed an alert that a request to secure and release has been sent.  But i guess robbers would have switched the phone off, so google might not have been able to delete it immediately.

I read that as a first step, i must change my account password. So immediately i changed my account password from the phone.
Meanwhile, i kept trying for secure and erase and searching for other safe options. On searching for how would i confirm if the device have been wiped, i came to find that after 'secure and erase' google supposedly sends an email to ask for further multiple options.

Now here's my concern:

Having already changed the password, when those robbers do turn the phone on, will google would be able to still secure and erase the phone? Or have i hurt my own cause after changing the password immediately.

The emails contain lots of personal information as i have been a heavy user of email on phone and of professional email as well. Also the phone's gallery contains more than 2k photographs of family members and close friends. Am really concerned about this. I know similar question have been asked before but the answers to that arent very clear. So I'll be really greatful if on or more of you can share any further information on this.


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My Moto E 2nd Gen (Lollipop) mobile keypad is not opening when I try to type a message or try to chat or search contacts. Google Voice opens "Tap to speak", which is not working either. "Language & Input setting" is not opening and shows "Unfortunately, setting has stopped".

I have cleared cache memories and restarted my mobile. I do not want to factory reset it.  What should I do?


texts: why my Gyroscope/accelerometer work only in portrait mode?

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I have a Galaxy S Advance Gt I1970, running under Android 4.1.2 (official update). the problem is when i try to play games that require the phone sensors, for example Angry Birds Go or Frisbee Forever, the player always go to the left, but then i tried "Ridiculous Fishing" which is also a game that require sensors and it works perfectly but this game doesn't rotate the phone to the landscape mode, then i tried an application called "accelerometer test" and the result was as expected, i can control the ball when am holding the phone in portrait position bust when it's in landscape, everything is missed up. Any advice please ?

thank you


texts: How to mimic tilt & shake controls in BlueStacks?

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I am running BlueStacks (beta-1) on an old Windows laptop which doesn't have accelerometer & gravity sensor.

Many Android games support physical key mapping using which I can use physical keyboard of my Laptop to play Android games. If a game doesn't support key mapping, I can still play it.. not always effectively, but I can play it. Tap, long tap, swipe is fine with mouse.
When it comes to tilt & shake controls, many games like Ripetide GP allows to switch to touch-based controls. The problem arises when tilt & shake controls are mandatory. For example, I can't play Temple Run after few meters because of that.

How to mimic tilt & shake controls?

Update:
My laptop features free-fall protection which I guess utilises some kind of accelerometer. I don't know how accurate it is in non-linear dimension, but can it be utilized with BlueStacks?


texts: Enable USB debugging through recovery mode and ADB sideload

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This is a follow up question to this one. Basically, I intend to somehow use this command to remove the lock screen:
>adb sideload customROM.zip

But, the customROM.zip should be something like described here to enable USB debugging. The problem is, those steps are incomplete:

Steps to Enable USB Debugging Using Recovery Mode

Unzip the stock ROM.

Within the extracted folder, you will find the system.img well extract it too using Ext4 Unpacker

Also, extract the Update-SuperSU.v1.65.zip file.

Now open the folder where you have extracted the system.img files

Grab any .apk file from this folder and change the extension from .apk to .zip

And Copy the RSA Certificated to the Update-SuperSU.v1.65 folder (delete previous files if exist)

Also, copy the build.prop to the system folder located within Update-SuperSU.v1.65 folder

Locate the update-script file within this folder and edit it using Notepad++

You need to update the build.prop file after adding the following line at the bottom
persist.service.adb.enable=1

Next step is updating SQLite Database

Which can be done by adding the following code to the update-script file
sqlite3 /data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db "UPDATE global SET value=1 WHERE name='adb_enabled'"

Cheers! You have Enabled USB Debugging
Now you can install your custom or stock ROM using ADB – USB Debugging

Although the above steps seem incomplete, they look convincing that there might be a way to modify a stock ROM to enable USB debugging by:
>adb sideload modified-stock-ROM-which-just-enables-USB-debugging-and-does-nothing-else.zip

Is there any better explanation than those steps?


texts: ES File Explorer "Save to" doesn't work with Google Drive; "That operation is not supported"

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Trying to move a downloaded Google Drive file to the SD storage on my tablet.

Select the file in Drive
Choose "Send File" from the ... menu
Choose "Share with ES Save To.."
Choose path and Select

Result:   "This operation is not supported".

What does that mean?  Is it a bug in Google Drive or a bug in ES File Explorer or a bug somewhere else?

P.S. Android 5.1.1 on Nexus 7 tablet (the original version) and yes, all of the above software has been kept up-to-date.


texts: Notification images appear in Google Photos backup

texts: Why are images that appear in my notifications starting to appear in my Google Photos? How do I stop it?


texts: My Galaxy tab 4 has been stolen, it has a password on it but I know this is possible to bypass by factory reset. If the person has done this is it possible to still locate. Has it got an internal serial number which maybe Samsung could locate.


texts: how to prevent accidental factory reset in android?

texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  How can I disable or password protect my device's 'factory reset' function?

is there any way to prevent the factory reset? like password protection? I basically need to protect my phone from resetting when it lands on thief's hand.


texts: Can't unlock pattern on a MediaPad 7Lite!

texts: My son has a MediaPad 7lite and he has forgotten the pattern to unlock his device. The device is linked to his Google account.  When we tried to ask for help via the Google account, we discovered that his password works on other devices but not on his MediaPad? Is there any other way to recover the pattern that he created? Can anyone help us out please?


texts: Can't boot into recovery or downloading mode on galaxy player. Is it hardbricked?

texts: I have a galaxy player 5.0 -old build and everything, but I like to experiment with it- and i wiped cache and did a factory reset and tried to reboot, and for some reason wouldn't want to boot up. So i just killed it, and tried to re-flash the stock firmware(had been rooted and some other stuff), and it failed, and now it just has a pic of [phone--triangle with !-- computer]. I can't get it to go anywhere- recovery mode, downloading mode, can't even turn it off without taking the battery out. My question is, am i done for? Is it hardbricked?


texts: How can I share from my image gallery on Facebook?

texts: Do I have to install the Facebook application on CyanogenMod 7 RC3 to share on Facebook from my image gallery?


texts: I'm in a weird predicament with my Nexus 5. I rooted easily when I first got it then 5.1 was rolling out and I really wanted to upgrade and did, then I was able to reapply the root access but didn't really use anything required root access enough to care. Now my OTA is ready for 5.1.1 so I clicked install (when the notification popped up) and it went into the recovery bit which is the twrp mod and cuts of the rest of the install process. I think. Can i remove twrp without losing my phones data and apply this update or is there an easier work around perhaps? My boot loader is also unlocked, I just really can't be bothered to flash a new ROM (although cataclysm looks fun) and then sort out all my apps and settings again.


texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  What is ClockworkMOD Recovery and what is it for?

I'm trying to use the Rom Manager to partition my SD card (so I can increase the storage size for my apps, since it natively installs to the first available partition which is known as "internal" and the rest of the sd card is "sd"), however, it asks me to install the ClockworkMod Recovery first. If I choose to install, will this install to the emmc or the sd card? I remember reading somewhere that installing ClockworkMod will void the Nook's warranty.


texts: How to open links directly in Firefox full browser?

texts:
In some apps (Google News, Read - Simple RSS Reader) when I tap on a link, it won't directly open in Firefox but in a simplistic viewer, supposedly also by Firefox. From there I only have two choices, close the viewer (which brings me back into the app) or open the actual Firefox browser. The problem is that all plugins are disabled in this viewer, so I always need two taps to open a link from those apps. How can I disable this viewer?

I have Firefox 68.3.0 installed, but the problem has existed for a long time.


texts: Block calls for everyone except for contacts

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Is there a way to block (or mute) all calls except for those on my contact list?

Im using android 4.1.2 o samsung galaxy s3 mini, thanks in advance


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I rooted my phone with SuperSU ZIP, and I want to update the app, but I didn't find it on Google Play. I also tried manually creating this URL but it returns 404.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.supersu

What should I do?


texts: How do I change the home screen's Email icon to go to GMail instead of the default Email app on the Samsung Galaxy S?

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On the bottom of the home screen there is an icon for EMail. I don't ever want to use the default Email app. I only use GMail and would rather use the Google GMail app. How do I change where the icon goes and how do I remove/disable the other app?

at&t Captivate (Galaxy S)

Android 2.1


texts: Dialer lags when making a call in Yu Yureka running Lollipop

texts: I upgraded my Yu Yureka to Lollipop using the inbuilt update, and ever since I am seeing a lag while making calls. It takes up to 10 secs to show the call screen after I make the call. I tried clearing the app data, but no luck. Anyone else facing this issue? Any help would be appreciated.


texts: Where are downloaded .apk files of applications stored in BlueStacks?

texts:
I have downloaded and installed a heavy file lately on BlueStacks. Now I want to uninstall bluestacks but don't want to have to download the same software all over again.

If I could locate where the downloaded apk has been kept (I downloaded the file through playstore in BlueStacks), I could copy it and keep a backup on my windows so that I can copy it over to any other android emulator.

Any help on that?


texts: ADB installs apps for all users. How to force it to install to main user only?

texts: I have a LineageOS 17.1 system on Pocophone F1, unrooted. When I install an apk through USB using adb, adb not run as root, the app is installed both on my main admin user and on a secondary user on my phone. How do I force adb to only install the app for my main user only?


texts: Pixel 2 Android Phone to Lenovo Windows 10 Bluetooth Won't Pair

texts: My Pixel 2 Android phone WILL NOT pair via Bluetooth with my Lenovo ThinkPad Windows 10 laptop PC.  I have tried everything including uninstalling antivirus/firewall software on both devices.  Neither device detects the other device over Bluetooth.  Both devices detect all other in-range Bluetooth devices.  I have disabled the AirDroid app on my phone.  Of course both devices have Bluetooth enabled via their respective Settings selections.  I am at my wits end and want some help fast.  I am about to conclude that Microsoft Bluetooth doesn't want to talk to Google Bluetooth and vice versa despite the fact that Bluetooth is an open standard accepted throughout the industry.  Are there additional steps that need to be taken in order to make both devices "discoverable"?  I tried to install a Microsoft app on my Android phone in order to establish a Bluetooth link but the app wanted to take over my phone and I decided not to go through with the installation.  Any advice on this matter is welcome.


texts: Is it possible to "share" google photo shared albums without making it public for everyone?

texts:
Shared Albums in Google Photos seem like a good idea. For example, if me and my friends all go to the same party, I can create a shared album with them and suddenly, they can see my photos of the event too.

However, it seems the only security for who can view a shared album is in knowing the URL. Is it possible to specify exactly who can view my shared albums? Something similar to google docs, where you can grant access to certain users only.


texts: Moving contacts and messages from Windows Phone 8.1 to Android

texts: I currently have a Nokia Lumia 520 running Windows Phone 8.1. I am migrating to an LG G3. How would I move my contacts and messages (texts) from one phone to another?


texts:
I need to be able to make an iso file of the /mnt/sdcard and /data/ directories on both rooted and nonrooted phones(for forensic analysis). Older phones I can mount to my linux machine and run mkisofs and it works perfect. However on newer devices I can't seem to mount the devices.

Android has dd built into the shell so I can use that to create an iso of the directories as well. However besides the sdcard I can't find anywhere that I have write access on the system for non rooted phones.

So my question is where on an android system can I get write access while in the shell other than the sdcard and the data directores. A broader question would be to solve the problem of either mounting the device or making the iso file from outside android's shell.


texts: Why does android has only one zram but linux distros use many zram equal to the number of cpu cores?

texts:
Most android roms have only one zram device [zram0] but linux distros use many zram like zram0, zram1 ....
Why is it like that? Does using many zram consumes more power or adds complexity? what's the exact reason?


texts: Changing vibrate length of default email app on galaxy s2

texts: I have connected the mail app from the galaxy s2 to my email (exchange). The notification (which I have set to vibrate) is just a very short vibrate. It seems very likely that I will often miss this notification (unlike the gmail app for example which vibrates for a much longer time). Is it normal for the vibration of the default mail app to be very short? And if so, is there a way to change that?


texts: It seems like key repeat lags--not picking up multiple quick keyboard strikes. Is this Android specific or Hardware specific?

texts:
On my HTC Thunderbolt, when I type the same character twice, it seems like there is a lag.  The response time is off compared to my iPhone 4G.  On my iphone, the only touchscreen that I used up until the Thunderbolt, you can quickly type without worrying about your keystroke not being read by the phone has having striked twice.

I am interested to see if others have had a similar experience with their Android phones--being a little slow on the key repeat issue.  Would this be something particular to a settings or just a UI convention?


texts: Moto G 2nd Gen Touch Screen Stopped working

texts:
I have a Moto G 2nd Gen (2014) and the screen is working but will not respond to being touched. I dropped it today, only so that it fell about an inch, and it does have a silicon case, and nothing broke, but the touch screen has stopped responding. After this, the touch screen has worked for two brief instances, and then stopped working.
EDIT: This seems to be when I squeeze the area around the connector to the screen, (the position according to this guide).

I have already tried rebooting it by holding down the power button for 10 seconds, and factory resetted it by using the volume keys in the Android Boot Loader. Can I fix this myself or do I need to send it back to Motorola?


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I think I have a memory leak on my phone. So I installed Termux then htop via pkg. When I opened htop, I could only see two processes--what seemed to be the instance of Termux, and htop.
How can I use Termux to access the rest of the phone, but without rooting (I want to still do banking on my phone)?


texts: How to open Facebook app with page share link?

texts: I am sharing a page in FB, when the link is opened in mobile it opens the particular page in browser and not in FB app. I want that link to open FB app with the page displayed in it.


texts: Scrolling behaviour for apps (in general)

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I have a HTC Desire and I've realised there appears to be, for most apps (in general) 3 types of scrolling.

Drag/pull with finger and the contents scrolls (slowly) depending on how much you've moved your finger
'Flick' your finger across the screen and the content scrolls (relatively fast) and slows down towards the end
"Do something" and the contents scrolls insanely fast - usually goes to the end of the content...

My question is what is what do I do to 'activate' #3?

Reason is, every now and then I somehow activate #3 (often when I don't want it) which makes it very annoying. But sometimes I do want to scroll insanely fast right to the bottom/top of the list/page but end up just flicking multiple times (very annoying again). Would be nice to be able to control/choose which scroll type I need.


texts: Error: Process aborted, when installing zip in Moto Razr XT910

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I rooted my Motorola Razr XT910 already, then I followed the process and everything went excellent. But when I wiped my data, cache, and the dalvik cache, and then choosing install zip, I received the message that the process aborted!

I realized that I didn't backup and reset. So my ROM (the last one) was gone! I thought to transfer other files for the ROM I wanted to install, but everything said that it aborted! All of them.

Every time I plugged my phone LED color was white. I thought it means that there is no battery, and the computer isn't strong enough to charge the phone.

I plugged it into the wall and it turned on showing Motorola's logo (happens every time you turn it on) and remains stuck on that logo.
I plugged it out and the logo was gone.
I plugged back in and the logo showed up again, so I thought it's just the battery. After 12 hours and more the logo was still there.
I plugged out the phone from charging, and the logo stayed there.
I plugged it into the computer and the white LED light lit up.

How do I resolve this highly problematic issue?


texts: S6: Folder is empty when trying to view the files on PC, display broken

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So my phones display recently died and trying to view it on my PC leaves me with an empty folder...
The phone is still on and running though, only the display is broke
There are different solutions to this, I link them below:

Galaxy S6 Folder is Empty on PC

There must be a way to operate the phone from my PC, right?

Would be happy if someone could help


texts: How top copy files from Android (8) to PC, when large number of files in folder?

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I recently bought a NAS to store family photos, and I've just realised that my phone (Pixel XL) no longer supports USB Mass Storage, but just MTP.

I've got about 7400 files in my DCIM folder, and it seems impossible to browse this folder properly in either Windows10 or Unbuntu.  Windows takes and age and then explorer.exe simply crashes.  Ubuntu also takes forever and isn't really usable.

Is there anything that can help here?  (I've seen solutions using debugging mode but, is there a 'normal' solution?)

Thanks


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What should I do so that the Memory card in my phone works only in my phone? Also, I should be able to connect my mobile to a PC through a USB cable and completely see/edit/organize the data on my memory card.

I want this to prevent anyone from gaining physical asses to my mobile, removing the memory card and getting asses to my sensitive data, by using the memory card with some other device.


texts: How can I get Facebook and Google contacts to sync in 4.2?

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In the People app (i.e. Google Contacts), the "Accounts" area has an option for adding Facebook contacts, which I've checked. In Settings->Accounts->Facebook, I've checked "Sync Contacts," yet it doesn't look like my Facebook contacts are being synced. I have the Facebook app installed and logged in. Is there something I'm doing wrong? This is on a Nexus 4 running Jelly Bean (4.2.1).

Ideally, I'd like to import/sync Facebook contacts into Google Contacts without using third-party apps, and without installing an address book replacement.


texts: Voice to text stops recording abruptly in google keep

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I've recently been trying google keep for its speech to text feature.  The problem I'm having though is that it only records a couple of seconds then stops.  Usually about 2 to 7 seconds.  Is the problem likey with my phone, or is there some setting I need to change.  I assume I don't need to upgrade $ to make notes that are longer do I?
Also I tried it several ways and made sure my fingers aren't on the screen while I'm recording, so I don't think I'm accidentally tapping the screen to stop the recording.
Thanks


texts: Voice of turn by turn navigation alternating between male and female

texts: Sometimes the voice will be the female voice of Google text-to-speech and sometimes it will be the one from SVOX TTS, which is a different one. What should be causing them to alternate and how can I make it stop?


texts: How to download a specific part of any online streaming videos on Android phone?

texts: I'm using an Android phone. I watch action movies online in it. I always want to download only some particular scenes of the movie. But I don't know how. So I download the complete movies which are very large in size and I cut specific parts of it using softwares. But I want to download only some parts of the online videos which are very small in size as compared to the whole movie. So my question is, is there any way to download parts of online streaming videos on Android. I'm not talking about YouTube videos. I'm taking about videos from movie websites.


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I got a notification which was shown in my notification bar on my Google Nexus 5. As soon as I clicked on the notification an app opened and the notification has been removed from my toolbar. With the trick described here I am able to see that passed notification but I cannot open it (see screenshot).

Is there a way to open that notification again so that the app leads me again to the content belonging to it?

Screenshot (click for larger image)


texts: Update Market Application to Google Play Market Application

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I have the problem with latest update which re-brands "Market" app
to "Google Play Market" app.

At one moment "Market" icon disappeared from both home screen and applications.
I was seeking for the solution to that, found some (weird at the time) "Play Market" update installed
and have uninstalled it. This brought back "Market" application.

Later I have seen that this was a silent patch which I should not uninstall!

Problem is, that, when I start "Market" app it ONLY displays following page in browser:
https://play.google.com/about/android-developer-policies.html

I am stuck here with this page, and the app is not updating again to "Play Market"

Does anyone know how to resolve this?


texts: Is there a way to download applications from the Android market for offline installation?

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Possible Duplicate:
  How to download apk file on PC from market?

Is there a way to download an Android installation package from the market so that it can be installed offline at a later time (e.g. from an SD card)? This might be useful for backing up applications so you don't have to search for and download them all again. It could also be useful setting up multiple devices or just sharing an application with a friend in an area without network access.


texts: remove locked by android device manager message

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I have played with Android device manager and I have blocked my phone. I have deblocked but everytime my phone enters into standyby it apears me the message "locked by android device manager" and I have to enter the password again.

Do you know how to remove this message?


texts: passwords on restricted accounts (KitKat)

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I created a restricted account on a nexus 7 (gen1) with KitKat for my 9y/o daughter.

She has worked out how to add a password to the restricted account. I understood it wasn't possible to this, but seems I was wrong.

Q. Is it possible to retrieve the password from the main account?

Q. Is it possible to prevent a password being applied to the restricted account?


texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  How can I fix the GPS on my Samsung Galaxy S?

I've got a Samsung GT-I9000 (SGS1), it was on a pretty old stock firmware. I upgraded and rooted it with Odin and installed CyanogenMod 9 and the Icy-Glitch Kernel.

However I can't get any GPS signal, if I'm in Google Maps it keeps saying something like "Searching for GPS" (original on German "GPS wird gesucht").

I know that it did work with the old firmware when I got it.

What can I do to get the GPS back working?


texts: How can I tell if my installed Android version, not CPU, is a 64 bit or 32 bit one?

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As long as a 64 bit CPU is supposed to execute 32 bit programs, it is sometimes hard to know which one do I have installed on my device.

There are programs that require this knowledge, like the Xposed Framework installer.

What could be considered the proper method, whether be it ADB, command-line or software?

I used to do on desktop Linux:

 sudo uname -a

Maybe there is some equivalent for Android?

Further data:

Some programs that should inform about this are not clear enoguh for me. This is a example of some AIDA64 report. Even when it shows 32 bit, is this info about the operating system? I would say it is just about the hardware:

(Click image to enlarge; my AIDA64 is in Spanish)

  Question extended to this other


texts: Opening JPG under Android/data//files/docscan-sdk/.../documents// not possible

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With the app of my health insurance, I am able to upload bills and other data via scans / photos of the corresponding document. In order to have my own repository of transferred bills, I want to access the corresponding files. However, and regardless of the access method (Android file manager, copy to PC via USB or FTP), I cannot view the corresponding image. At the same time, all file metadata (file size, access permissions, ...) looks "promising", i.e. it has reasonable file size, R/W-access is granted, time stamps correspond to scan / upload events, opening these files with notepad results in the usual garbage you'll see when opening image data...

Actually, I only want to know how I can view this data.

The curious, but Android ignorant me would also like to understand what is happening here. What do you need to do, to have image data available for everything but viewing?


texts: Can't turn WiFi off from lockscreen status bar options - Action Not Allowed [Nougat]

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Recently updated my moto g4+ to nougat and now I'm not able to toggle WiFi and some other actions from lockscreen status bar.

Are you guys having the same issue? How to fix it?
follow the attached screenshots if you couldn't understand my issue.


texts: Possible Virus; Eratic Behavior on Galaxy Pocket Neo

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Some time ago(a few months) I've bought a Galaxy Pocket Neo from a local internet store, which isn't really famous (actually everyone I asked knew nothing about it). It turned out to be a branch of mobileshop.eu, which was also unheard of by me or anyone I know. I'm saying this because I cannot be sure whether the OS itself was bought infected or with a backdoor or something like that.

After several weeks of using, I've noticed rapid battery drain overnight, from 70% to emptying(the phone was turned off when I woke up). Not sure whether it's important, but sometimes, when I turned it on again, I got report that battery is on 252% or similar numbers - I assumed wrong calibration. The weird part is, when my phone 'survived' the night (happened a few times), and I tried to use it in the morning, it felt like I was fighting with someone to control the phone, like someone was tapping on my screen - except no one was near me. I solved that problem once by turning it off (took me a couple of minutes, the other one was fast), and when I figured out I could just remove the battery I used that 'technique' (duh, mornings). Then I'd just turn it back on and it'd be normal, for the rest of the day. After a few days I've started turning off wi-fi&sync (mobile data was always off), and my battery only have lost a couple of percent. When I turn them back on in the morning, it's normal.

The thing that persisted is the silencing of the phone and/or putting it on vibration. I'm sure that didn't press the button accidentally or something, that can happen even when the phone is just sitting on the desk. From what I've noticed, the screen doesn't turn on, but I hear the vibration. Cannot tell whether that happens overnight, since my phone is usually on vibration/silenced during that period of the day. I've checked the app permissions, didn't notice anything weird (if you could instruct me for what to look, I'd be grateful). Only non-play app I've installed is the Youtube Downloader from github.

So, does anyone have any idea what I'm dealing with? I'm quite new smartphone and Android user, but I know my way around desktop PCs/Linux/Java/some C and experimenting with them, so any help is welcome. If it is a virus, what is the best way to remove it? From what I've read, the Android antiviruses aren't really effective (and if there are any that could help me, please list them), and custom ROMs should erase everything (I'm ready to take that step if needed), but are there any more options? Rooting the phone and uninstalling everything? If it's a bug or something I'm missing in settings, please notice me, preferably with instructions how to fix it.

Thanks.


texts: How to restore SMS from sms.vmsg backup?

texts:
I made a backup of my contacts and SMS on an Android 6 phone with what I think is a stock Backup & Restore app. I ended up with two files: contact.vcf and sms.vmsg.

However, my new phone (Android 7) doesn't have any preloaded Backup & Restore app. I managed to import contact.vcf via the address book, however the messaging app doesn't seem to have any option to import backed up SMS.

What can I do with this sms.vmsg file to resotre my SMS?


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I have a mac, and I want to delete all the music on my phone and replace it with all the music on itunes in my mac. I've done this before, but it is not working.

For some reason, my music is not in the music folder...

This is odd, because I do have lots of music on my android device. Here is my android file manager on my actual android LG G3:

So I do have music, but it doesn't show in Android File Transfer. Also, when I try dragging my music from finder into the empty music folder in Android File Transfer, only one song transfers, and it doesn't actually show on my LG G3...

How can I fix this issue and properly transfer music from itunes on my mac to my android LG G3?


texts: Autostart mobile hotspot when starting smartphone

texts:
Is there some way to autostart the mobile hotspot once turning on the smartphone?

We have an external device relying on a mobile hotspot. We need some way to always run mobile hotspot when the phone is alive.


texts: Get Internal Storage path for pulling over ADB

texts:
To clarify, by internal storage I'm referring to the folder that's shown to you on a PC when you connect your device.

I can use adb shell pm list -f -s/-3 to get the paths of system apps and user apps respectively. I don't know how I can find the internal storage path though.

From my 5 minutes of googling I've found it could be at /sdcard/sdcard0, though I've yet to see that in any official documentation and I have no clue if that's consistent across phones/android versions.


texts: How can I connect my Logitech "unifying" controller, to my Android device over Bluetooth?

texts:
Logitech's Unifying standard seems very similar to Bluetooth(same 5-device limit, similar range, similar specs from what I've read on the Internet).

I'm trying to connect a Logitech F710 wireless controller, to my Android phone over bluetooth.

It works if I plug the "unifying" USB dongle into a USB OTG cable(micro-USB to full-USB converter) and plug said OTG in my phone. It works fine(fiddling on the controller moves things around on-screen. But I need it to work without plugging into the phone's MicroUSB port...

I've got a Samsung/Occulus Gear VR(that connects to the phone's MicroUSB port.

But when I hook up the OTG cable to my Gear VR's charging Micro-USB port, it just doesn't work. I've read on reddit that if you prevent the Occulus app from starting when you plug in your Android device(I'm using a Note 5), then the Gear VR's charging port also registers that stuff.

So any suggestions?


texts: Change Android Shashlik simulator physical keyboard layout

texts:
I installed Shashlik an android simulator for linux. It has minimal interface. The only way to interact with it through adb.

I want to change the physical keyboard layout. currently English, I want to change the language(Not system language)


texts: Tablet shuts down due to low battery when battery meter is above 10%

texts:
I have a Nexus 10 whose battery-level estimation seems to be inaccurate:  when the battery meter gets to around 10% to 15% remaining, the tablet will abruptly shut itself down the way it's supposed to when it's about to run out of power.  Yesterday it happened just a few seconds after I got the 15% warning (asking if I'd like to turn on battery saver); at other times, I get no forewarning at all.

When I plug the tablet in and turn it on again, the battery history graph shows an abrupt drop to 0%.  I'm assuming this is a calibration problem:  the battery really was close to 0%, but the software thought it was at 15% for some reason.  I've read that draining and recharging the battery should recalibrate it and resolve the problem, but this has been happening for nearly a year, and the battery has been drained and recharged many times, yet the problem persists.

The tablet is currently running stock Android 5.1.1, though I think the problem started back when it was running 4.4.  It's rooted, but I haven't used root to change any settings that might relate to power management.  (I basically just use it for Titanium Backup.)

Is there a way to reset the battery calibration so that the meter is accurate again?  Or is it likely to be a hardware problem, caused by something like a sudden voltage drop in the battery itself?

It's worth mentioning that I used to keep the tablet plugged in nearly all the time, before I learned that keeping a Li-ion battery constantly at full charge is bad for it.  I've also accidentally drained it completely a few times (not many) even before this problem started.  Plus, it's more than 2.5 years old.  So the battery is probably not in peak condition.  (Its capacity still seems decent overall, though:  I'd been watching streaming video for several hours before it shut down at 15% yesterday.)


texts: Is there a way to enable monitor mode on my Samsung SM-G350 device?

texts:
Let me explain the situation : I have a old SM-G350, perfectly working. I just removed all Google/Samsung preinstalled things to make it look "clean". My goal was to install Linux on it, and I've done this by running Debian 8 on it with "Complete Linux Installer" app. So, all is working fine here. By SSH, I manage this Debian with my PC. My phone is rooted.

I ran into a trouble today : I was trying to enable the monitor mode for the wlan0 interface. With airmon-ng I ran the following command :

airmon-ng start wlan0

And I get this error message :

bcmsdh_sdmmc - [phy10]mon0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device

So, I don't know what to do. I've tried this :

Messing around with various commands (like "airmon-ng check kill")
Looking for another driver for the Wi-Fi chipset (no significant results, but I think this could help)
Looking for another ROM, like Cyanogen, but I don't know if the monitor mode will be available with it (http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/development/cyanogenmod-11-galaxy-core-plus-sm-g350-t3284322)
Trying BCMON app, but the monitor mode failed (by the way, I saw that custom scripts could be available)

Any help would be great, I'm totally lost here !

Further information

If I run netcfg, I get the following output.

rmnet0 DOWN 0.0.0.0/0 0xffff8080 00:00:00: 00:00:00
rmnet1 DOWN 0.0.0.0/0 0xffff8080 00:00:00: 00:00:00
rmnet2 DOWN 0.0.0.0/0 0xffff8080 00:00:00: 00:00:00
rmnet3 DOWN 0.0.0.0/0 0xffff8080 00:00:00: 00:00:00
rmnet4 DOWN 0.0.0.0/0 0xffff8080 00:00:00: 00:00:00
rmnet5 DOWN 0.0.0.0/0 0xffff8080 00:00:00: 00:00:00
rmnet6 DOWN 0.0.0.0/0 0xffff8080 00:00:00: 00:00:00
rmnet7 DOWN 0.0.0.0/0 0xffff8080 00:00:00: 00:00:00
rmnet8 DOWN 0.0.0.0/0 0xffff8080 00:00:00: 00:00:00
rmnet9 DOWN 0.0.0.0/0 0xffff8080 00:00:00: 00:00:00
ip6tnl0 DOWN 0.0.0.0/0 0x00000080 00:00:00: 00:00:00
lo UP 127.0.0.1/8 0x00000049 00:00:00: 00:00:00
sit0 DOWN 0.0.0.0/0 0x00000080 00:00:00: 00:00:00
p2p0 UP 0.0.0.0/0 0x00001003 02:12:36: ed:7a:b4
wlan0 UP 192.168.1.24/24 0x00001043 00:12:36: ed:7a:b4
tunl0 DOWN 0.0.0.0/0 0x00000080 00:00:00: 00:00:00


texts: When exactly does the data gets wiped out once bootloader is unlocked?

texts:
I've heard as well as experienced that unlocking the bootloader of an Android device wipes the device's data completely, and makes it like the stock one. However, I'm interested in knowing when exactly does this data wipe take place?

Does it happen when we issue the command:

fastboot oem unlock

or, when booting into the Android after completing the last step?

I've asked my question because this question is concerned with recovering data (seems to be from an unlocked device) and an answer it received is:

  You could flash TWRP recovery (not sure if available for your device) which has an in-built file manager and and terminal and move files to any usb storage.

My point is, hypothetically, in such case I would first unlock the bootloader, and then flash the custom recovery without rebooting fastboot. Then I will boot into the custom recovery directly from fastboot.

Now, would I be able to see my data or not, and when exactly would this wipe happen?


texts:
I have Karbonn A9, Android 2.3.6.

When making calls the screen turns off and comes on pressing the power button. But sometimes it fails to come on, forcing me to restart it by removing the battery. Any clues?


texts: How do i detect my android phone on my PC? While installing custom rom i think i deleted some key file and not the phone is not getting detected

texts: While installing custom rom i think i deleted some key file so now my PC is not able to detect my android phone, nor I have any saved roms on the phone to recover. I do not have SD card slot but have clockworks recovery software so if someone can tell me how i can make my PC detect the android phone it would be great.


texts: Is it possible to receive an incoming call while tethering on an Android phone?

texts: Is it possible to have a 3G tethering session and receive an audio call at the same time? Is this the function of the phone or the mobile OS or the carrier-network?


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I'll be taking a vacation next summer, and on the cruise data use is sold per megabyte. If I JUST want to check e-mail on my android device, how the heck do I do that? How do I prevent all the other apps on my phone from accessing the wi-fi (cellular will be turned off, or I'll be using my wi-fi only tablet).

My objective is to limit network use to just the one or two apps that I really want to see results from. I can't seem to find anything in the settings that would allow me to do this.

Is there any way? I'm probably willing to root my tablet if necessary.

Devices available are the moment are a Droid 4 phone, and an Acer Iconia A200 tablet.


texts: Any security difference between root based firewall (AFWall+) and non-root based ones (NetGuard)?

texts:
What are the technical differences between root based firewalls (like AFWall+) and non-root based firewalls (like NetGuard)?

Is there any impact on the security effectively provided by such software?

I've already checked a bit in NetGuard's source code to make myself an idea, but I think this may still be a good question and I'm interested to get other people's analysis on the subject.

I would like to restrict such question to the core technical feature provided by such software (like the kind of firewalling: stateless or stateful, are there any hardcoded exceptions, the robustness of the code handling untrusted packets, etc.) and not on secondary features or anti-features they may have (ads, tracking, cosmetic, ...) unless they concretely affect the core objective of the software.

In other words: no rants please ;) !

In case there are limitations, it might be worth mentioning if they are implementation specific (the consequence of some choice made by the development team) or a consequence of the technology used (relying on very different systems, it is possible that one has to cope with limitations that the other does not have).


texts: OnePlus one stuck in CyanogenMOD recovery CM13

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I wanted to factory reset my OnePlus one to its factory settings. My OnePlus one is completely stock, no bootloader unlocked and no USB debugging enabled.
After the factory reset was completed the phone rebooted itself, it entered recovery mode and there was no way out of there, it would just boot back to recovery. Just before it enters recovery mode it shows and android error for a split second; "No Command"

-I did a factory reset from within the recovery menu, took a long time but didn't work, still only the recovery menu.

-I wiped the cache, didn't work.

-Then I installed the SDK kit on my Windows PC, got ADB working and entered the sideload option in the recovery menu. Sended the latest CM13 Beacon zip to the phone. It told me that it was installing but after completion it just disconnects from ADB and shows the Recovery screen. Navigating to "Apply Update" and then instead of "Apply from ADB" I can also pick: "Choose from emulated" but that just sends me back to the main menu.

Rebooting, rebooting to bootloader, it all gives me the Cyanogen Recovery screen


texts: screen not working properly on my tablet

texts: I have a brand new 10.1 inch tablet, made in china. The screen doesn't respond to touch as much as it should, a few other little things and I can't work out some of the onscreen operating icon/button things. The resellers suggested I start with Android Central Forums, as this is the only Android devise they sell so they don't know the answers. I joined up with A.C.Forums, but can't work out how to post. Help and/or advice would be very much appreciated. Thanks


texts: Cannot upload arbitrary files using Chrome

texts:
Using for the first time latest Chrome (v30.x) on Android 4.0.4 ICS on a 1st Gen. Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet. To my huge surprise am not able to upload any files other than images or camera videos? In any webmail when I click attach a list of apps is displayed that includes Gallery, Camera etc. But the in-built file manager (My Files) is nowhere to be seen. Thinking there was a problem with it I tried many other file manager apps but none of them show up either. In stock Android browser though the in-built file manager is visible and allows me to select and upload files with any extension.

What could be wrong with Chrome and if possible how can I fix it?


texts: my moto g, 2nd generation (XT1068) got stuck in a boot loop, not going past the motorola logo. How to solve this problem?

texts: My motorola device keeps restarting with a specific interval and off again after showing the motorola logo screen.I have tried to reset my device but the device is much unresponsive.Used this article for instructions . The instructions are not clear in this article.


texts: Why is "insufficient storage" wrongly reported when installing an .apk via adb?

texts:
I have an HTC Desire running Froyo. It is not rooted, nor have I installed any custom ROM.

I get an "Insufficient Storage" error when I'm trying to install an app via adb/eclipse. The .apk is only 300KB, and the phone reports 14MB free of internal storage, and 2.2GB free on the SD card. (I have just uninstalled a few large apps to make sure there's plenty of room.)

It is obviously completely wrong. There's easily plenty of room in the 14MB of internal storage for my 300KB app.

What can I do to fix it?


texts:
I just tried to connect my Nexus 5 to my Computer via USB but it does not show up anywhere. There is no sound of a device connecting and the Device Manager doesn't list a new device when I plug it in. MTP and USB Debugging are enabled. The cable I'm using it not the original one, but was advertised as a charger + data cable. I've tried connecting my device to both my PC and Laptop, but neither shows anything, but the device starts recharging as soon as I plug it in.

Anything I could've missed? Drivers? Settings?

Thanks in advance


texts: What browser is used on old Samsung Galaxy?

texts:
What browser is used on the Samsung Galaxy S5, Galaxy S4, Galaxy S3 and Galaxy S2? I am testing my website on those models using BrowserStack but am experiencing problems. I think one of the HTC models is using the same browser because I am experiencing the same problems on it too.

Here are my test results:

https://www.browserstack.com/screenshots/b54b853ab379aae6088e14cae4de4a09ae45fc93

OTOH, Google Nexus appear to work for the most part.


texts: How do I download an app from another country?

texts: I have a Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini and when I go to download certain apps and it will not let me because 'it is not available in my country', however other people within my country have these certain apps and I am confused.


texts:
I have 32 GB sd card with two partitions. First is FAT partition has size 29 GB, second is ext4, nearly 3 GB (counted by Linux computer). But Android is showing that:

root@htc_a51ul:/storage/ext_sd # fdisk -l /dev/block/mmcblk1

Disk /dev/block/mmcblk1: 31.9 GB, 31914983424 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3880 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

              Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks  Id System
/dev/block/mmcblk1p1               1        3554    28545024   c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/block/mmcblk1p2            3554        3881     2620416  83 Linux

First partition have 27,21 GB on Android and second only 2.49 GB.
When I sum up blocks of both partitions (which are bytes) it's equals 29,72 GB. But sd card is 32GB. Why the difference?


texts: How do I install the OWASP ZAP certificate as a trusted system CA on Bluestacks?

texts:
I have a rooted bluestacks android. I would like to use ZAP to monitor its SSL traffic.

I exported ZAP's SSL certificate as a .cer file ("----- BEGIN CERTIFICATE .... ------ END CERTIFICATE -------"). Now I wish to imported this certificate into bluestacks.

The way I found was using an apk called "Root Certificate Manager". However, when I try to import the .cer file I get an error response saying the ".cer" extension isn't supported.

I guess I need to convert it but I can't find the right format to convert to.


texts: Why isn't my Android not charging at night?

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I have a Motorola Turbo 2. It's not charging properly at night. Yesterday I woke up and the battery was at 1% even though I had it looked up to the charging cable. Last night my phone was fully charged, yet this morning it was down to 45%. I kept it looked to the charging cable.

How do I find out if my Android's battery is defective or the problem is with the cable?

Is over charging a phone's battery damaging to the phone?

Thanks for your help.


texts: I can't upgrade my S III software from 4.0.4 to 4.1.1

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Samsung have released the 4.1.1 update for the SGS III and I am trying to upgrade my software from 4.0.4 to 4.1.1, but my Galaxy S III keeps saying:

  The server is busy or not available now, try another time or use the
  PC Kies to upgrade it.
  When I used the PC kies it gave me the message shown in thi pic below :

Is there any way to solve this problem? I'm very eager to upgrade my phone Jelly Bean.