texts: How do I get rid of the draft message that shows up when I try to respond to an SMS?

texts: When I read a text and go to respond, for some reason there is 1/2 of a text that I sent a long time ago still in the reply text box and I have to erase it every time.  How can I fix this?


texts: How to send sms to all contacts in Android 6?

texts: I need to inform all the contacts with mobile numbers in my contacts list on my new mobile number. How do I do that?


texts: test usb functionality from the handset?

texts:
I am using HTC Desire HD, I have a terminal with root permissions.

Are there any tests I can do on the USB port from the handset side?
i.e. to make sure it exists and is functional.

The reason I am asking this is that my computer (Windows 7 64 bit) does not recognize my phone when connected,
however it did recognize another phone of the same brand (but with a different rom).


texts: Firefox pops up when you clear downloads

texts:
I've ran into this problem for years. I download a bunch of pics in Firefox, and then have to manually clear the download list. When I do, Firefox is brought to the foreground.

This should not be the case, and I think it's a bug.

I can't find anything about this, possibly because the search terms are too common.

Are there fixes or mitigations for this behavior?

Currently running rooted on android 5.1 on Note 2, but this problem has occured on different devices and different versions of Android. I think 4.x and later. That's coincidental though, because Firefox only really got official about that same time.


texts:
I connect my Samsung S3 to my Mac and Android File Transfer says "Try reconnecting or restarting your device". I have restarted my phone and computer numerous times, uninstalled and downloaded AFT numerous times too but it's not making a difference.

I uninstalled and re-installed and uninstalled Kies again and that's not made a difference either.

What can be done to solve this issue?


texts: How does Android Marshmallow decide which WiFi network to automatically join?

texts:
For example I have two networks:

Two networks - one open hotspot network and one closed private network using WPA.
User has access to both networks
User has recently connected to both.
Both networks have the same signal strength.

Which network is automatically joined? Is it random?


texts: TWRP won't select USB drive with USB OTG cable

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I have a USB OTG type C cable with a flash drive connected to it. The flash drive is formatted with FAT32. The phone can see it, TWRP can see it, but TWRP can't select it. In TWRP I try to mount it but when I press the option it doesn't get selected. It says "(OMB)" beside the option, but there's several GB of space available. I have an SD card that can be selected fine. I'm running TWRP 3.3.1 on LineageOS.
How can I chose to make a backup to the flash drive over USB OTG?


texts: How do I transfer contacts from one phone to the other without a SIM card?

texts: I have no sim card and a new Android phone. How can I transfer my contacts from one phone to the other without a SIM card?


texts: The meaning of 3 axis values of magnetometer

texts: Could someone explain to me the meaning of 3 axis x, y & z of Magnetometer


texts: Android applications privacy and security concerns

texts: If a user wants to install some applications from play store, is it sole responsibility of the user to decide whether the apps may harm or not? Should the user be worries regarding permissions? For example, if an application asks permission to read contacts, can user be assured that it does not misuse that permission (like, sending to third party)? How google regulates applications and prevent malicious applications? Are all play store applications safe?


texts:
My wife has an iPhone, she goes to hamburger and "create new label".

I have a Google pixel, I don't have this feature. Or do I, and I'm just being blind?


texts: Why does Google Play Games keep auto-updating, even though I have disabled auto-updates?

texts:
Ever since the Lollipop update for my Moto E, storage space on the phone has been very tight. To make the phone more usable for the things I use it for, I've uninstalled the updates for all of the system apps I don't use. And of course, because now I have to keep a close eye on what gets installed, I've disabled auto-updates entirely in my Google Play Store settings.

Unfortunately, for some reason the Google Play Games app continues to update automatically. This is the only app for which it happens. All of the other system apps remain un-updated, and of course for the apps I do use, I have to manually update them when an update is available, just as expected.

I checked the settings for the Google Play Games app and did not see anything there that would affect auto-updating.

Why is the Google Play Games app continuing to update itself automatically, even though I have configured the Google Play Store to not do any automatic updates? How can I prevent this from happening, so that I can uninstall the updates for Google Play Games and have them stay uninstalled?

Note: I am looking for a solution that works on a stock, not-rooted phone.


texts: Nexus i9250 constantly reboots, freezes, etc

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I bought a Nexus a couple of months ago, and sometimes it restarts when I am on a call.

Other times when I am on a call, it freezes, and restarts or unfreezes after a minute.

The phone is not rooted or damaged in any way. I sent it to an official Samsung service center, and they told me that the phone was fine. They also installed new firmware, but the phone still has all the mentioned problems.

Does anyone know an application to monitor the activities of the phone, such as the restarts etc? Something like a log file?

Thanks.


texts:
When I got the phone for the first time and started it up, it showed the recovery mode and I selected reboot system. The phone had 0 battery.
I've seen lots of unboxings and the phone starts up normally.
Is there any explanation?


texts: What is the right way to close apps in Android?

texts:
I'm new to the Android platform, and this is probably a dumb question, but...

How do you close an app?

When I'm in an app, and I want to get out, I just click on "Home" and move on, but I just installed a Task Manager app, and I noticed everything is left running.

Is there a way to exit apps? Or do I need to use the Task Manager every time I exit something?


texts:
I have developed an app for a job that will be used by their customers.

Each customer (Anonymous) enters there, uses app (tablet) and then leave.

The thing is that I want the users not to leave my app on tablet.

For this purpose I have blocked back button with a pass code but still the user can press home button, multi task button, or even swipe notification bar down and go to other locations.

Up to now I am thinking of a custom ROM that allows me block or remove all this possibilities. Although may be more simple ways than a custom ROM may be available that didn't reach to my mind.

Any suggestion is welcome.

Thanks in advance. TG.


texts:
My Nexus 5 has an annoying buzzing sound when it is set on low volumes. Any application using the speaker produces this, but when I get a call the ringtone doesn't buzz at all.

So I came to the conclusion that the speaker IS NOT physically broken.

When I plug in earphones and run an application the sound is working fine as well.

What is going wrong and how I can fix this? Should I try asking Google directly?


texts:
I've a Samsung Galaxy Ace but my Wifi is always not in range.

Google Helps state:

  Use WiFi driver re-installation Code *#*#526#*#*...Reinstall the
  firmware for Wifi. Try it on other Routers as well  this is a common
  problem with Androids. as i see (seen in lot of forums people
  discussing Wifi problem of Androids) My cousin bought the same Handset
  and he is having same problem. If it doesn't help show it to your
  vendor from where you have brought it

How do I use the WiFi driver re-installation Code *#*#526#*#* ?


texts: Droid 3 Gallery Generating Errorneous Thumbnails; Possibly Due to Infinite Loop, .nomedia glitch?

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I have a stock Motorola Droid 3 on Verizon. The device is not currently rooted. I am not sure if the Gallery app on my phone is specific to the Motoblur UI.

I was testing the .nomedia trick/hack, by putting a zero-length file named .nomedia in my Downloads directory. I also cleared cache and deleted app data of the stock/standard Gallery app. it didn't appear to work, so I decided to say "screw it" and deleted the .nomedia file.

Sadly this kind of ruined things. I reopened the gallery app started showing duplicates of most (but not all) of the images. If I clicked on one, it'd only load the thumbnail with just "loading..." ontop, like it was trying to generate the full sized image. If I long-pressed and clicked "photo info" gallery would crash. If I hit delete, it would delete the entry from the gallery view with no problem. The other one of the duplicates appeared to be the real image so it loaded no problem.

Now, I could've manually deleted all the extra erroneous thumbnails, but that would be too time consuming as I had over 600-some correct images. So I decided to try a shortcut. I went to /dcim/.thumbnails and cleared the directory and I also went to /android/data/com.moto.blur.mediaprovider and cleared the thumbnails stored in that directory. When I went back to the gallery the situation got even worse. Now there's like 3 copies of the images.

My prediction is that it's generating thumbnails, then generating thumbnails of those thumbnails. I tried clear the .thumbnails directory, which had over 2000 images in there. As soon as I restarted the gallery app, it'd fill right back up again. I tried the same process and rebooting, but again, starting the gallery app causes it loop with the thumbnail generation.

I tried putting a zero-length file .nomedia into the .thumbnails directory but that didn't seem to be doing anything.

Is there something that I'm missing? I really don't want to do a factory reset as I don't have any easy way to back things up.

Also, I do not have an SD card at the moment. All of this is being put on the local storage for the phone.


texts: Galaxy S9 + Turn off text notifications while on call

texts: How do I stop getting the vibration notification of a text message while on a call.  I have already turned off "Notify during calls" but the notifications still buzz through.


texts: How come my free ram keeps getting less and less?

texts:
I have a Samsung gs3 gt 19300 running on cyanogen mod 10.2 stable version, so far it has been smooth other than the  ram problem (which I also encounter when using stock ROM)

Whenever I restart, I often have around 300 + MB of free ram (after recent apps are all cleared)  however, a few days later, I find that my free ram drops to less than 100 MB (with all recent apps cleared as well)

Well I checked the list of running services on the background and their sizes, but there were the almost the same compared to when the first day after restart, but if the running services are the same, how come the free ram drops that much? What is the problem? Is it memory leak by apps? What's the best way to handle it?


texts:
How can i download video torrents onto an Acer A200? I've tried several apps from Google Play including Bittorrent and uTorrent. I tried PotLocker as well. I don't know what else to try.
This is my tablet, which I'm less familiar with, so it is possible that it's operator error, but i believe it is a compatibility issue.


texts: Calling problem on samsung galaxy j7 prime

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so I recently installed a cuntom recovery(twrp) along with lineage os 15 on my samsung galaxy j7 prime. But after i booted it up I couldn't call anyone, it just said call ended when tried to and when someone tried calling me it said that my phone is switched off.Internet was running fine though.I tried installing lineage os 16 and several other custom roms but none of them made any difference expect to make it worse and stopping the internet too.
Then I flashed it's stockfirmware but it still didn't fix the issue.


texts: How to use Tasker to answer a private number, play an audio file to the caller and hang up?

texts:
I would like Tasker to answer any private number (without the audio playing through my phone's speaker) and play an audio file (an MP3 that says, "this phone does not accept calls from private numbers") and then disconnect the call.

Can someone help me set up a Tasker profile for this?


texts: How do I get my GPS working in Android 4.1 Jelly Bean?

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Recently I've been having all sorts of troubles with audio and GPS and the compass... I tried different ROMs, different kernels, different patches.

The short story is that after a long time spent messing around trying to get all features working at the same time, in the end I had to factory reset my phone and start anew.

Now, the current situation is that I have a rooted phone running Jelly Bean 4.1. It's freshly installed as of about an hour before writing this.

However, the GPS is unresponsive. Of course I want to fix this, but I don't want to go through the whole mess I just went through over the last few days.

So... how do I get my
GPS working without playing feature whack-a-mole? I'm taking a breath, slowing down, and I'm looking for a reliable patch or process that I can execute with reasonable assurance and no guesswork.

Specifics are that I have a Samsung Galaxy S2, GT-I9100, issued in Japan. Android version 4.1.2, Kernel 3.0.15-CM (Siyah 5.0.1), Cyanogenmod 10-20121120-NIGHTLY.

Update: The compass issue I mentioned earlier was fixed when I used the build of Cyanogenmod available in this thread on the XDA forum. So I'm now just focused on fixing the GPS.


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I have an HTC Desire HD Android device. I rooted it with SuperOneClick. I get a # prompt in terminal. adb remount fails. I'm able to remount /system with

mount -o rw,remount /dev/block/mmcblk0p25 /system

I can now make changes to /system.

The problem is that my changes are erased when I reboot the phone. This is true even if I create a small dummy file, e.g. derf.txt

Also any new apps that I install go in /data/app while the pre-installed apps are in /system/app.

Output of mount is:

mount
rootfs / rootfs ro,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,relatime,mode=600 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,relatime 0 0
/dev/block/mmcblk0p25 /system ext3 rw,relatime,errors=continue,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/mmcblk0p26 /data ext3 rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,errors=continue,data=o
rdered 0 0
/dev/block/mmcblk0p27 /cache ext3 rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,errors=continue,data=
ordered 0 0
/dev/block/mmcblk0p28 /devlog ext3 rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,errors=continue,data
=ordered 0 0
none /acct cgroup rw,relatime,cpuacct 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/asec tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
tmpfs /app-cache tmpfs rw,relatime,size=8192k,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
none /dev/cpuctl cgroup rw,relatime,cpu 0 0
/data/d /data/d debugfs rw,relatime 0 0
/dev/block/vold/179:33 /mnt/sdcard vfat rw,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,
uid=1000,gid=1015,fmask=0702,dmask=0702,allow_utime=0020,codepage=cp437,iocharse
t=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 0
/dev/block/vold/179:33 /mnt/secure/asec vfat rw,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noexec,rela
time,uid=1000,gid=1015,fmask=0702,dmask=0702,allow_utime=0020,codepage=cp437,ioc
harset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/sdcard/.android_secure tmpfs ro,relatime,size=0k,mode=000 0 0
#

Has anyone seen this? Can you explain why my changes get wiped out when I reboot the phone?

Thank you very much!


texts:
On my HTC ChaCha I've been having problems with the bottom menu keys being periodically flakey and non responsive for which I wanted to try booting into Safe Mode to see if that fixes things.

Does anyone know the key combination  needed to  boot HTC ChaCha into safe mode?

I tried a generic HTC instruction I found online i.e. hold volume down key during reboot. But unfortunately that did not work.

Any other ideas?

Edit:

Android Version 2.3.3
HTC Sense: 2.1
Software number: 1.20.720.1

Kernel: 2.6.35.10-g28523b8


texts: Installing downloaded apks from external site

texts:
I have just downloaded APK files of a software from a website to my laptop. My question is if I install this on my phone, will it be installed in the phone memory or in the SD card memory?

I couldn't find any related question, so asking here.


texts: ADB Interface driver for Sony Xperia M4 Aqua

texts: I have Sony Xperia M4 Aqua. I'm trying to connect it through data cable with my HP laptop having Vista OS. When I connect like this, laptop search for ADB Interface but is not able to find. I tried searching all around google bur couldn't find anywhere. Please help me locate the site from where I can download exact driver.


texts: What should I store on my external SD card?

texts: I have a 64G SD card to install (my first). I'd like to get a good chunk of my music collection there. What type of content make sense (efficiency) to move...or what things should I NOT move?


texts: What is Android trying to tell me with this pop up about selecting a SIM card?

texts:
I have been getting this message for a short time.  Two changes are possibly the culprit:

I switched to cricket from tmobile on a tmobile phone. Shortly afterwards I started getting these.
I have a new ROM. OctOs M, which is based on Cyanogen.

I strongly suspect #1.  I've never seen this message before it started happening, and I don't know what its trying to say.

Phone is a T-Mobile Note 2. When I started with Cricket, it was still inadvertently locked, but I worked with T-Mobile to get it unlocked.

This phone physically cannot use more than 1 SIM.

If you didn't know, "Signal" is an app by OpenWhisperSystems.  Its a replacement sms and mms app. I have deregistered and reregistered with the app, and that did not affect this issue.

I did not do a factory reset when switching to the new service, so I wonder if something is up with Signal?


texts: Web browsers returns blank pages. Apps are fine

texts:
My Samsung i9000m running 2.3.3 stock ROM from Virgin Mobile Canada (unlocked) suddenly won't display web pages.  This happens on all websites.  It sends the request, waits for about 5-10 seconds (at about 1/5 of the progress bar), and returns a blank page (clearing the progress bar).  No error is displayed.  It behaves as though the operation has completed.  It leaves a white screen and no scrolling.  (Like an empty HTML page.)

All other apps are fine.  e.g. Google Maps downloads all its data AOK.  I can even tether wirelessly to my laptop and browsing is fine there, too.  So I deduce that the data is getting to the phone.

I installed Dolphin to see if it was specific to the default browser.  Dolphin behaves exactly the same way.

I'm also a beginner Android developer.  Could this be a failure in WebView?  It sounds to me like any data received is ignored.

Short of rewriting the stock ROM is there any way to fix this?  Has anyone else seen this behaviour before?


texts: Flashed my Android and now I can't display arabic, Hebrew

texts:
I followed this tuto to flash a zip to my phone (S3 mini - Android 4.4.4 )  using flashfire to show the new emojis. All seems to work well though I noticed Arabic and many other languages are not displayed I only see boxes.

Is there any way to fix it knowing that I skipped the backup step.


texts: remove google account from android device

texts: if i sync a google account account to my android mobile, all my gmail, contacts will be synced with the google account and i can view my mobile contacts, photos from a web browser in pc by signing in my google account right. now my question is simple. if i remove my google account from my android mobile, will i still be able to view the already synced contacts and photos from a web browser in pc through internet?


texts:
I have an Android 4.2 device with the latest Chrome-Browser.
in this Browser I can set some custom flags, by browsing the URL about:flags
If I screw it up, I can go to the app-settings, delete the Chrome-Data and everything is set to default. So far so good.

My question is:
Where exactly are those custom flags saved? I guess somewhere in the /data/data/com.android.chrome directory. But unfortunately I am not able to find it. Can you guys help?


texts: Does cell service provider has ability to display ads over other apps?

texts:
I came to realize that in rare occasions when using the Android phone, Cell service provider (Mobile Network provider) shows some popup advertisements. Regardless of the app, screen I was in it always mange to draw over the screen. Recently I manged to capture the screen when it does (Se attached image).
As I checked all the app's permissions to "Display over other apps" there were nothing other than some phone manufacture related and accessibility related system apps.
I find this as an security risk as cell provider can hijack my screen. Also I don't thing this is due to a malware/adware since all the ads are related to cell network and their packages.

My question is how Android eco system enables this kind of facility?
Which mechanism or the loopwhole Cell provider might be using?
Is there anyway to disable this? (other than clicking over unsubscribe
link on ad)

As you could see in the image, I was checking emails and ad got popped over

Edit:

I do have a customer care/help app installed which provided by carrier. However I made sure it doesn't draw over apps.

Device is non-rooted, and never touched the bootloader, so might be locked.

Familiar with adb and fastboot. And adb lists the device with proper permission. However while running adb shell appops query-op --user 0 SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW allow | while read line; do echo -e "\nPackage: $line "; appops get $line SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW; done gives empty results.

Tried adb shell appops query-op --user 0 SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW allow also but empty output


texts: How to remove monkey test and time service?

texts:
I am using a Micromax Canvas A116. It's not a rooted phone. I've done a factory-reset, but still malware app existing. How to remove monkey test, time service in mobile phone? And everytime phone gets reboot and unwanted apps like get touch, paytm etc., get installed. How to resolve this?

Screenshot (click to enlarge)

I tried all the possible ways suggested in this


texts: I am using motorala g .I have problem sending contacts via SMS how to resolve it

texts: I am unable to share the contacts via SMS there no such option can anyone help me


texts:
I am using a Lenovo p70 which I flashed with AOSP 6.0 ported from Lenovo k3.

The ROM keeps overwriting the TWRP custom recovery with stock recovery (which doesn't even boot).
As far as I know this problem is caused by the fact that /system is mounted as read-only. In most cases twrp must promp you and take care about that but that is not my case.
Also I tried editing "fstab.mt6752" but it gets overwritten on boot/reboot and the default values are returned.

So the question is how do I stop the ROM (AOSP) from overwriting the TWRP?
And in case I am right, how do I make system to be mounted as read-write by default?


texts: Network Locked SIM card on Unlocked Note 9

texts:
Have a Note9 on Tesco mobile, they have confirmned it is unlocked. I can use other UK SIM cards in this.

Trying my AIS (Thailand) SIM it asks me for a PIN for the Network Unlock?

Could this be a ROM issue? Is the phone region locked?

Any suggestions?

Cheers


texts: My university redirects me to a https login page when accessing internet through wifi. This is irritating when trying to connect to the Internet from my Android phone. I was wondering whether there is some application to do logging in whenever that application is opened (storing credentials, of course)? If not, how can I create such an application? Is there any previous application created (with open source code) that is customized for automating logging into certain networks?


texts: mdev: applet not found when trying to populate /dev on android

texts:
I'm trying to install Debian on the Android 4.4 (modded with cyanogenmod) that's installed on my nexus 10 to one external sd card. I'm reading this tutorial :

http://whiteboard.ping.se/Android/Debian

I've attached the Leef microSD microUSB Connector with a 64GB sd card inside to the mini usb port of my nexus 10 as you can see here :

The tutorial talks about the The ASUS Transformer TF101 and the instructions are based on this tablet. Instead I have a tablet nexus 10,that's equipped with an internal sd card where I have installed android 4.4 + cyanogenmod. For this reason I need to know how to change some part of the tutorial to adapt it to my situation. Anyway on my desktop computer I have partitioned the sd card in this way :

Disk /dev/sdf: 64.0 GB, 64021856256 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7783 cylinders, total 125042688 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0004504c

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdf1            2048    32767999    16382976    b  W95 FAT32
/dev/sdf2        32768000   125042687    46137344   83  Linux

according with the tutorial,these are the commands that I have issued right now from my desktop pc to the tablet using the ssh connection :

mount -o rw,remount / ;
mkdir /mnt/deb ;
mount -t ext4 /dev/block/sda2 /mnt/deb ;
mkdir /mnt/deb/proc ;
mkdir /mnt/deb/sys ;
mkdir /mnt/deb/dev ;
/system/xbin/busybox sh ;
~ # echo $$
2360
/system/xbin/busybox mount -t proc none /mnt/deb/proc ;
/system//xbin/busybox mount -t sysfs none /mnt/deb/sys ;
/system/xbin/busybox mount -t tmpfs none /mnt/deb/dev ;
/system/xbin/busybox mdev -s ;
mdev: applet not found

and now I'm freezed here. I've tried to find a solution by myself with google but I haven't found the solution. This is what I have tried to do :

~ # echo $PATH
/sbin:/vendor/bin:/system/sbin:/system/bin:/system/xbin

~ # which busybox
/system/xbin/busybox

~ # find / -name mdev
/mdev

~ # cd /

~ # ln -s /system/xbin/busybox mdev

~ # /system/xbin/busybox mdev -s
mdev: applet not found

but where is the mistake ? thanks.


texts: Cant click on heads up notifications on Lollipop Nexus 5

texts:
I installed android lollipop from the factory images on googles website. I dont know if its supposed to be like this but i think not.

I cant click on the options in the notifications be it to answer a call or reply to an SMS.

I have to first swipe it right or left then go to the call or sms to continue.

Any idea ?


texts:
I use Motion Detector & Tasker to turn screen on.
It works OK ... like this:

when screen is off and Motion Detector discovers a motion it will turn screen on.
Tasker sets display timeout to 30 sec

Here is where it goes wrong ... the screen is not turn off after 30 sec but after 6-8 sec ... but when I tap the screen when it is turned on then it stays alive 30 sec.
I seems that Android can't read the timeout in Display settings which is 30 sec ... only when I tap the screen it reads the settings.
I have Android 9 & Galaxy Tab S5e.
Then I took another approach ....
I installed SETEDIT from Play to check the value of 'screen_off_timeout'. Then I ran two different test - one with Tasker disabled - one with Tasker enabled.
Taker disabled:

In 'Settings/Dislay/Screen timeout' I set to 15 sec
The display shutdown occured after 15 sec first time ... OK
When I woke the display its shutdown occured after 15 sec ... OK
In SETEDIT the value of 'screen_off_timeout' was 15000 ms = 15 sec
In 'Settings/Dislay/Screen timeout' was still 15 sec

So it seems that without Tasker it behaves as expected.
Taker enabled:

In 'Settings/Dislay/Screen timeout' I set to 15 sec
In Tasker I set 'Display Timeout' to 1 min
The display shutdown occured after 15 sec first time ... OK
When the display woke up due to a motion was detected ... its shutdown occured after 5-7 sec ... not OK
In SETEDIT the value of 'screen_off_timeout' was changed by Tasker to 60000 ms = 1 min ... OK
In 'Settings/Dislay/Screen timeout' was also changed to 1 min ... OK

So both SETEDIT & 'Settings/Dislay/Screen timeout' shows the correct values ... why is screen shut down after 5-7 sec???


texts:
I love the way my laptop indicates when the webcam is on by illuminating the LED next to the cam.
I wanted to try to get similar behaviour out of my Android tablet where it could indicate by some cue that the front cam was on. Maybe the LED blinking or something similar.
I find sometimes I may start a zoom call and then shift focus to a different app and it may not be obvious to me that the camera is still on.
Any way to achieve this? Either natively or using a third party app or script etc.
If it matters I am using the Samsung S6 Lite tab.


texts: I need to connect my samsung tablet to my laptop to use it as a drawing pad but it is not working

texts: I need to connect my tablet to my ASUS computer but it is not working.  I've tried a usb port but it still doesn't work.  Please don't ignore this text and please awnser it.*


texts: Device destroyed by BeTools flashing tool

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To start from the beginning:

I have an old device with Android 5.1 that I rooted, and attempted to install a new font, called Lovecraftimus. I added a entry to the fonts.xml file that directed font calls for Lovecraftimus to use /system/fonts/Lovecraftimus.otf. I rebooted, and was instantly cycled through an endless amount of Unfortunately, System UI has stopped messages.he manufacturer sent me the full set of .img system images, with a ROM flashing tool called BeTools. When I flashed the images to my device (following the instructions), it said it was completed successfully. However, when I booted my tablet, the screen didn't work. I got a black screen with a few white/grey lines around the edges in bootloader, recovery mode, and factory testing menu. When I booted it (it booted perfectly, besides the screen error), turned the screen off, and back on again, I got a white screen with some colored lines. I can still use the touchscreen: I unlocked it (sound), pressed the Home button (vibration), changed the brightness (backlight), and turned on the flashlight (flash).

I would flash it using ADB but it does not appear in the ADB list. I get:

List of devices attached

I do, however, get a blank media device (its SD card).

How can I fix this? I would try BeTools again, but my temporary access code expired.


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I have a Motorola G6 with Android 9 and a 32 GB mSD card (a good Sandisk one) formatted as internal storage and encrypted.

When I first used the card, I used the content migration utility to move some content onto the card and it worked fine.

Now I'm running out of space on the mSD card but I have some 10 gigs free in the phone.

So I tried to use the utility again in reverse: In Settings > Storage > Internal shared storage I tap the 3 dots > Migrate data. The screen says it will move about 4.5 gigs of stuff from the mSD into the phone.

I confirm, it shows a progress bar that jumps to 80% immediately and then I get the notification "Couldn't move content. Try moving content again".

It's been like this for weeks. I've tried rebooting many times, I've moved all the apps into the phone storage but whenever I download something, make a picture or whatever it's stored on the card and I can't affect it.

Any clue what's going on?

As a side note: say I'd want to upgrade the card to 64GB... How would I proceed, considering the current card is formatted as internal and encrypted?

Thanks

Edit: I realized a strange thing. The mSD card shows there's 13 gigs of apps even tho there are no apps on the card. There are 13 gigs of apps in the phone however. Methinks the system is confused about what is where.


texts: Is there anything similar to APNS on Android?

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Is there anything similar to APNS (Apple Push Notification Service) on Android?

(APNS uses a single TCP connection between an iOS device and an Apple-controlled server, which issues push notifications for all the installed apps on a given device, thus preventing the need for the individual apps to each maintain their own network connections for the push notifications.)

If Android doesn't have anything similar to APNS, doesn't this mean that an equivalent set of apps would always require more standby power on Android than on iOS?


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I've noticed recently that i spend quite a bit of time setting up various settings after a clean ROM install. I was wondering how could i automate this post install hassle.

Specificly im talking about CyanogenMod 11-M9 and Android 4.4.4.

I know the settings are stored somewhere when i change system settings but im not sure where exactly. And what are the possible solutions?

If the settings are stored in human-readabale text files then maybe it's possible to create update.zip that i can flash in recovery and that updates the nessesary files with my settings?
Or perhaps there is a way to create a script that i can run post install when i have set up preliminary things?

Or maybe i should just build my own ROM from sources that already includes my customized setting (tho this is problably too complex at first).

To clarify - im talking about system settings starting from setting up google account and ending in custom alarms. 3rd party app settings i can restore easily with Titanium Backup but it doesent seem TB is able to restore system settings (possibly because system is running at the time?).

I would be greateful for any tips on how to accomplish this.


texts: Sim toolkit is missing after upgrade os to Android 5.0.2

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I've upgraded my OnePlus One to 5.0.2 (CyanogenMod), but the Sim Toolkit app is missing.

Can anyone help to solve this problem, because I need this feature for mobile banking?


texts: Samsung Galaxy Ace keeps updating Samsung app store

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I recently purchased a Samsung Galaxy Ace and tried to get onto the Samsung application store on the phone.
It said that there was an update for the application so I downloaded it and tried to get into the application again.
It again came up with the update option and it keeps repeating the process...

Please can I have an answer for this as I'm not familiar with these kinds of phones...


texts: How to rename catalog of ADW Launcher EX?

texts: In Setup Catalog option, I can only choose apps, but can't rename the catalog. Is there any way to rename a catalog?


texts: How do I enforce charging only on USB and disallow data?

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The US Federal Trade Commission now suggests consumers driving rental cars not plug in their mobile phones using USB, due to security concerns.

I understand for the security of my phone and data the physical solution is best; there is no way data can be transferred though the cigarette lighter, but this requires carrying additional hardware when traveling.

Is there a way to disallow data transfer over USB within Android? My primary concern is with unrooted Android 7.0 Nougat, but I am actually interested in prior Android versions as well.

I am aware of the "Use USB to" menu that shows up under notifications with  the following options:

Charge this device: Just charge this device
Supply power: Supply power to the other connected device
Transfer files: Transfer files to another device
Transfer photos (PTP): Transfer photos or files if MTP is not supported (PTP)
Use device as MIDI: use this device as MIDI

I am able to use USB debugging while "Charge this device" is selected, which is definitely sending data over USB and is in conflict with the description. Does this mean only explicitly allowed devices can send data over USB in "Charge this device" mode? Or are there other exceptions as well?

How do I enforce charging only for USB connections like a rental car and disallow data transfer?


texts: Lost access to internal and external sd card because modified vold.fstab

texts: I just bought a copy of Samsung Galaxy S4, rooted it using framaroot, installed busybox. Then i modified the vold.fstab because the internal sd card size only 1.8gb and i want my 16gb external card become the internal sd card, after i reboot my device some of my downloaded apps was lost and i can't open play store then i open file manager its empty. So i go to recovery mode and factory reset and nothing happening, i still cant access my sd cards. The two sd card are accessable in recovery mode so i moved  my external sd card to my another samsung device and downloaded cynanogen custom rom and gapps then i moved the external sd card back, i go to recovery mode and tried to install the custom rom but it failed. I have also tried using android commander in my windows pc but it didn't  work either because it says i have no root acces. Now i have no idea what to do, can someone please help me solve my problem if anyone can i appriciated it. Thank you....


texts: Why is the FEATURED TABLET APPS tab in the Android market not present on my PC?

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As an answer to my question about applications for bigger Android screens, Daniel answered whether I noticed the FEATURED TABLET APPS tab in the PC version of the Android market.

However, on my screen, this tab is not present :

Does anyone know why this tab is not present on my version of the Android market ?

I am logged in to my market account, I have a Samsung Galaxy S and a Archos 101 tablet. Daniel has no tablet, so that can't be the reason.

I am living in Europe, so maybe it's a territorial thing ?


texts: Not all Google Apps in SuperNexus Rom on Galaxy S3

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I installed the SuperNexus 2.0 Build 4 ROM on my Galaxy S3 (i9300) last weekend. I also installed the gapps-jb-20130301-signed.zip to install the Google apps. However, that does not seem to have worked. I do not have YouTube or Google Maps. I do have Gmail however.

How can I install the Google Maps and Youtube applications?


texts: Play Store app download 100% then starts over to 0%

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I can successfully download small apps like solitaire, but when I try to download larger apps/games that are 65 MB large, it downloads 100% then it starts over until I go in and cancel the download.

I have plenty of room on my phone and it can download apps (like booster, cache cleaner, etc) from other websites. I also have restarted my phone.

What could it be?


texts: The power button on my Galaxy Nexus stopped working

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I got a galaxy nexus at Google IO, and randomly today the power button stopped working. I was on a call, used it to lock the screen after I got off, put it in my pocket, and when I got home the button wasn't working. The rest of the phone works if I plug it in to charge (waking up the screen), but the button doesn't respond. Short press doesn't lock/wake and long press doesn't bring the power menu up. What happened and how can I fix it?

I've tried pulling the battery and letting it sit for a few minutes without rebooting it, and it didn't help.


texts: How to geotag photos uploaded to google photos

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I've uploaded some photos to google photos, these photos do not have any location information in their EXIF metadata as my camera didn't have the GPS enabled at the time of capturing images.

Now I want to geotag (add location information) these photos. Since I know the location (GPS coordinates) where these pictures are taken I am looking for an option to geotag them in google photos.

It seems that the google photos app does not have any option to geotag the photos.
Is there any way I can geotag the photos from google photos?


texts: Can rooting be the cause of battery drainage?

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Its been three weeks I have rooted my phone. I have installed a lot of apps using link2sd on external sd card. I have noticed that since the rooting, the battery goes down very fast. 80% of charge goes down to below 40% overnight when on stand-by (without any data/wifi connection). Can the root be cause for that? It hasn't been even a year I bought that phone.

Note: I am using android 2.3.6 and juicedefender for improving battery usage.


texts: Phone starts ringing for caller long before phone starts ringing, why?

texts: When I call my wife's phone from my phone, I hear three or four rings through my handset before her ringtone starts.  Is there a way to reduce or eliminate this delay?  (Yes I have checked the audio file.  The sound starts instantly in the file.)


texts: Google Play Store is unable to search for updates

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I have a THL T9 Plus with Android 6.0. Google Play Store version is 8.5.39.W-all [PR]. Google Play Services is version 11.9.51. I try to install updates on phone, but I get the error message, "There was an error during update process." I can't see even new version of installed applications in the list.

I tried to force stop those processes, wipe caches, restart phone and I already updated Google Play Store client version, but none of these helped, I got same error message.


texts: Where to find a PIN lock screen that scrambles the keypad on every use?

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Is there some way to get a lock screen whose PIN pad changes number layouts every time it's used? It seems like a very basic way to thwart smudge attacks and yet my (broken?) google-fu can't find any implementations.

I'm using 2.3 Gingerbread, would prefer solutions not involving rooting/flashing new ROMs if possible.


texts: How to use "/etc/hosts" file as only DNS on Android?

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On my Android-based device I need to block access to all websites except ones are in a whitelist. I know that on desktop Windows I can list allowed hosts in the hosts file and then switch the DNS in the network adapter from automatically obtained to 127.0.0.1. And now I can access only websites from the hosts file.

I've tried the same thing by adding allowed hosts in the system/etc/hosts file  on Android and then I've added the line

new_domain_name_servers="127.0.0.1 $new_domain_name_servers"

to the beggining of the file /etc/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-hooks/20-dns.conf as described by the link.

And then I've restarted my device.

But I still can access all websites, so the solution doesn't work. And even if I just add a website to be resolved as 127.0.0.1 in the hosts file and clear browser cache, the website is still opened.

PS: I'm interested only in a solution which could be done on rooted device only (Android 4.0.4)


texts: Nexus 5x Crashed and can not enter Recovery

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My nexus 5x Crashed and then constantly starting up to the "Google" splash screen. I wanted to execute the “Recovery mode” but unfortunately without the success.

I executed the following:

1. Press & hold Volume Down and Volume Up, and then press & hold Power simultaneously until the device turns on. I see the word Start with an arrow drawn around it.
2. Press Volume Down twice to designate Recovery mode.
3. Press Power to restart into Recovery mode

Unfortunately I see the "Google" splash screen each time I do it.

What can I do to recover my phone?
Can I access the data (photos) on the phone?
What does DEVICE STATE  - locked status on the start screen mean?


texts: Bluetooth tethering from Samsung Galaxy 8 used to worked great

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I have a Samsung Galaxy 8. I use it a lot to tether my Samsung tablet which hasn't pushed an update in a long time. I found that bluetooth tethering saved my phone battery far better than wifi hotspotting. My data speeds were fine for me with blutooth.

The latest update that Samsung or Cspire pushed to my phone ruined that! Now the tablet will not stay connected to the phone by bluetooth for longer than a minute, only wifi. However bluetooth still works fine with my vehicle connection. I still feel it's a phone issue since it happened right after the update. What can I do? I'm technology challenged! Thanks for suggestions!


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I have recently bought a Huawei P20, but it cannot be updated to Android 9.

However, my old P10 has already been updated to Android 9 many months ago.

So how can the P20 be updated?


texts: Why are there multiple versions of "Phone" installed under all apps in Android Lollipop?

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Why are there multiple versions of "Phone" installed under ALL apps on my Android Lollipop 5.1.1 phone?

Menu = Settings → Apps → ALL

There are three versions of "Phone":

Phone - com.android.server.telecom
Phone - com.android.phone
Phone/Messaging Storage - com.android.providers.telephony


texts: How to allow other devices to resolve android hostname from ip?

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i have played around setting up hostname for the device, so i tried to modify net.hostname setting inside /system/build.prop file but even after device restart it gave me "android-f041ec3964ac12ad.DOMAIN" when tried php script gethostbyaddr() or even just windows promt command "ping -a IP"... so the change did not take affect... after a while i ended up contactng ZEBRA support which gave me stagenow barcode to change the hostname, but after this i lost the ability to resolve the device hostname at all... so "ping -a IP" dont show the hostname, as well as php scripts returns it as empty...
However, when i chech dhe DHCP i see the device is renamed inside the network, so it worked, but somehow i disabled otherr computers to resolve hostname by ip.
Any idea where this setting could be changed?
Device is Zebra MC3300, Android 8.1.0


texts: MI A2 my wifi not working after updating to havoc 3.5

texts: today i update my phone to havoc 3.5 but suddenly my wifi not working and im tried factory reset but my wifi still not working. should i try to downgrade to ver. 3.4? please help


texts: 2G versus 3G: Does it really save battery?

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I often hear the recommendation that fixing your device to 2G saves a lot of juice compared to using 3G.

Is that true? Or is it really a myth?


texts: How do I install a custom ROM on sony experia ray ST18i?

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I unlocked the bootloader and rooted the device already like this:
How to unlock and root a Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray ST18i with 4.1.B.1.13 But How can I install a custom Rom now on the device?

I guess I have to enter the recovery menu for it?

I tried this, but it doesen't work:

  press the volume down key a few times when your
  phone boots up. The sony logo brightens at one
  point, press during that time


texts: Server error launching Google Play store

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When I start the Google Play store, I get a white page with the message
"Server error" and a "retry" button.
logcat tells me:
03-07 11:31:29.148: E/Volley(7984): [13] BasicNetwork.performRequest: Unexpected response code 400 for https://android.clients.google.com/vending/api/ApiRequest
03-07 11:31:29.156: D/Finsky(7984): [1] 2.onErrorResponse: Metadata failed: com.android.volley.ServerError

But the internet browser and youtube both work fine.
I found the advice to remove my google account and recreate it.  It doesn't let me remove it because it says the account is used and I should do a factory reset instead.  Of course, all my data would be cleared.
I cannot install any backup app because play store doesn't work.  So no factory reset for now.
I tried to create a new google account but it fails.  It waits a while with the message "Your phone needs to communicate with Google servers to set up your account.  This may take up to five minutes.", then "Can't establish a reliable data connection to the server.".
I tried to clear the data of Google Play Store and Google Services Framework and power the device off and on.
Is it some known problem?  Anything else I can try?
I am on Android 2.3.6, Play Store displays build 3.4.7
PS: While checking the build version, Play Store crashed unexpectedly.  Probably because of previous errors.


texts: How to assess what apps or settings are causing high CPU usage from system_server process on Android Nougat?

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I am running root Android Nougat on a Nexus 6P. My battery is draining in <3hrs. When I run su -c htop it shows system_server is using >400% CPU. I have now factory reset 3 times and each time this behavior surfaces after 1-2 days of normal usage.

system_server seems to be a generic process not tied to any particular app or setting.

What Linux diagnostic commands can I use to systematically trace which apps or settings are related to this issue. I have tried things like wakelock tracking apps with no luck. I have also tried looking at adb logcat but I am not really sure what to look for.


texts: make notifcation live and be aware of event in android

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I would appreciate if you can help me about following problem.
actually i have some social networking app in my android phone.

however i will notified just about some of them as the right as new event occur.
Let me I explain it by an example, consider you are using IMO App. As soon as one of your contact send message you in that, you will be notified.

in fact notification of new event will show up in your screen, however some other app, just when show these notification that you open related app in your phone. Like Line App.

I also check for latest version and check some related setting. However i would be appreciate if anyone can help me about this problem. actually i want to be notified as soon as possible not late. let me know If there is any special setting here too. Thanks.


texts: How do I unlock the screen when forgotten password?

texts: I have a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2. My daughter put a screen lock on and doesn't remember the code. How do I unlock it?


texts: Anyone ever install a different Android OS on the Nabi 2?

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The Nabi 2 has some messed-up permissions and controls on it. I need to install another OS on it and my nephew will use it. He likes our Kindle Fire better because you can watch YouTube and Netflix a lot easier. The parental controls were a good idea, but this is way too much.

p.s., I kind of want to install plain old Android straight from Google.


texts: Every Google app stopped working and I cannot act on this

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Yesterday morning suddenly all my google apps (except partially Chrome) stopped working at the same time and I don't understand why, and surprisingly enough I cannot even act on this via the usual Google settings.

More precisely, this is a list of the issues:

Whatever thing I try to search in Google Search, YouTube, Google Maps and Google Play, they get stuck and let me wait forever without showing any result, and I have to terminate them.
Nothing happens if I uninstall the updates for these apps, leaving the preinstalled versions.
If I click on "Manage space" when selecting "Google Play Services", the corresponding window appears but disappears immediately after less than one second, thus preventing me from clearing data (for example).
If I select my Google account in "Accounts" and I click on "delete account" the account is never deleted and stays there, without generating any error message.
All the apps relying on Google services (like the apps which use Google Maps) are not working properly, some of them get even closed suddenly without generating any error message (perhaps because they get unexpected behaviour from the Google services.

So my two questions are:

Why is this happening? Do you have any clue?
How can I make my Google apps and services work again? I have the suspect there is no way to do this by just using the phone, perhaps I will need to connect it to a PC and do something via adb ?

My phone data:
Model: Huawei ALE-21 (P8 lite)
Android version: 5.0.1


texts: "Verification failed" upon startup after installing software update

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My phone installed a software update and upon restarting, I get a 'verification failed' error message. It continues "Unable to restart you device. The integrity  verification has failed. You need to reset your device to factory default settings. This will erase all your data."

The only option it gives is to 'reset device' - I do not want to do this and lose all my data!

I tried powering off and restarting in safe mode, but to no avail. How can the update be so flakey!? At the expense of all my data...?

I loaded the recovery screen and wiped the cache. But still no result.

Thank you in advance.


texts: I just pressed the power button and the volume up button in my Tab. I went into a screen called ODIN mode... It started downloading something... What is this?


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I'm trying to replace the stock ROM on my OnePlus 3 in an attempt to find out if another ROM has fixed a set of really annoying bugs present in stock. My phone is running the latest OTA from OnePlus (ONEPLUS A3000_16_170610).

I've followed the following steps:

Flash TWRP and SuperSU. Reboot several times.
Disable lockscreen security.
Boot to recovery and do a full backup.
Reboot and copy new ROM and Gapps to /sdcard.
Reboot to recovery.
Wipe dalvik, system, data, and cache.
Attempt to install the ROM. At this point, I get the following error:

Checking for MODEM build time-stamp 2017-06-27 21:43:31
assert failed: op3.verify_modem("2017-06-27 21:43:31") == "1"
Updater process ended with ERROR: 7
Error installing zip file '/sdcard/RR-N-v5.8.4-20170806-oneplus3-Official.zip'

This example is using the latest Resurrection Remix ROM, but I've also gotten the exact same error from the latest LineageOS.

What's wrong?


texts: Disable Encryption after Factory reset on Android 6.0 (Marshmallow)

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Is there any method to disable encryption after A factory reset on Android 6.0?

Regards


texts: Change Input Method without unlocking the phone?

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Recently, I've installed a WiFi Keyboard application to my Android phone. This way, since both the phone and my computer were connected to the same WiFi network, I could access the phone's keyboard from my computer.

After, the phone disconnected from the WiFi network. And got locked (I had a password set at the lock screen).

And now I cannot enter it, because I cannot enable any other keyboard than the WiFi one (which doesn't work because phone has no WiFi).

Can I enable it via adb or any similar way? Are there any solutions to this problem?

What I've tried:

I can do nothing on the lock screen, everything's blocked. The swipe
doesn't work to change the keyboard. Also there's no settings box.
And I cannot drag the notification bar.
I tried the adb shell ime command, but without luck. It doesn't seem to do anything.
me@myPC:/$ sudo adb shell ime list -s
me@myPC:/$

Additional Data:

Phone is Samsung Galaxy S3 mini unrooted. Android version is 4.4 I think.
Storage and SD card are encrypted. SD card has important data, so I can't simply wipe the phone.
I am able to enter my password in the Decryption screen as the normal keyboard shows up, but not in the lock screen.

This problem was solved. Solution:

This problem was solved by booting into safe mode, as proposed by ak11234.

I did so by holding the volume down key while powering on my device (pressed the power on button, waited for the phone logo to show ("Samsung" and the model number), released the power button and held the volume down key until the lock screen appeared).

However, these instructions vary from phone to phone. The ones described worked for Galaxy S3 mini.

You can find instructions for the most common phones that have Android on this webpage: http://www.droidviews.com/how-to-boot-android-devices-into-safe-mode/


texts: Samsung Galaxy Mini GT-S5570 Gets disconnect during firmware upgrade via kies

texts: Whenever i try to upgrade the firmware of my galaxy mini gt-s5570 via samsung kies.....first KIES starts to download the firmware...but the phone doesn't show "downloading" on screen first...but every time (8-9 times that i've tried) when the download reaches around 69%-70%.....the upgrade process halts and says"PC cannot recognize the mobile phone" then the phone gets into download mode and shows "Downloading" on the screen! and i have to reboot my phone! What do i do now? any help??


texts: File not deleted from Downloads message (but got disappeared)

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When I try to delete a file using the downloads app (Android 8.1 app), I sometimes get the notification that my file couldn't be deleted and subsequent message by tapping the notification that my file wasn't deleted.

 (click to enlarge)

But after this, the file is nowhere to be found in the downloads app, even when using a file explorer like Files Go or ES File explorer. I wonder what happened, whether my file got deleted or if not, then where is it?

I am using Nokia 3.1 Android version 8.1.0 Oreo.
This problem has been there since my phone was new and had Android 8.0 Oreo.

Any help is much appreciated.


texts: Make screen lock after call if it was locked before?

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I think that I had this feature in my Galaxy S way back in the 2.1-2.2 era, but now I can't figure it out on my Galaxy Nexus (takju, 4.1.1).

What I'm looking for is this: if I have the phone locked in my pocket and I receive a call, after I finish it, I'd expect to be able to return the phone to my pocket with no extra hassle. However, after the call I'm thrown into the recent calls list and have to back my way out from the app and lock the screen. And despite the oh-so-buttery experience of Jelly Bean, this usually means frantic back-tapping, waiting for the phone to exit to the launcher and annoyed grunts, or - if I have an app open under the lock screen - accidentally closing said program, reopening it, browsing to the wanted section and, well, annoyed grunts.

This is by no means a difficult task, but it's annoying as I have to do it every time.

Oh yeah, another thing: if I call someone and the line is busy or he/she rejects my call, the screen locks. Doesn't matter what state the phone is, you'll be thrown into the lock screen. Why? Why can't this happen after received calls?

I apologise for the ranty (is that an adjective?) tone, TGIF.


texts: Sony Xperia M4 Start Screen almost black

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After a reboot, my new xperia always starts with this screen:

I have the same problem in 'Safe Mode'.

What can I do? I want to fix this problem without a factory reset.

Edit:
I found more people with same problem on Sony's forum. I fixed reseting to factory using PC Companion: https://talk.sonymobile.com/t5/Xperia-M4-Aqua/M4-Aqua-won-t-start/m-p/1025996/thread-id/1311


texts: I want to use my phone as a GPS, but I don't want to turn on high accuracy to assist Google's wardriving. What am I to do?

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I like using my phone as a GPS.  It has all the sensors and storage and everything.  Even if I can't find a good app yet.

However (since I am concerned about leaking private data, I have turned the location setting to device only, which means it only uses the GPS radio), Waze constantly nags about turning on "high accuracy" location; meaning it wants to scan wi-fi, bluetooth, and everything else.  Which means that the OS will be shipping that info to Google/Alphabet HQ.

How can I use my phone as a GPS without assisting Google's wardriving efforts?  GPS by itself is highly accurate, or at least it was until Google decided to harvest wi-fi locations via a distributed Android network.  Or am I misremembering something?

Are these nags just part of apps, or is there something I can do to mitigate incessent nagging?


texts: I was trying my application on HTC Desire when I realized there was a problem with the app so I force stop it. Next thing is the screen freezed - HTC white welcome screen. I tried rebooting several times, but it never got into the desktop. Sometimes it restarted itself. I tried removing the battery as well to no avail. Now my phone is completely dead. I cannot turn it on and when I charge it, the red/green light is not on. What should I do? I was thinking of resetting the phone via command line or something like that. Thanks for any suggestions!


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I have a yu yureka AO5510 runs on Cyanogenmod 12.1. I used it without any problem till today morning. But suddenly it started to restarts again and again. If i connect it to the charger, the booting get completed but when it finish boot, again restarts. If I didn't connect charger, even booting is not started. The brand name is shown, again restart likewise. I didn't perform any update, didn't rooted  didn't installed any apps and didn't do anything. I can access to the recovery menu. I wiped the cache but no use. I connected it to pc in fastboot mode but not detecting. All of my important data are stored in it and so I can't erase it simply.

Things I have done so far

Remove battery and inserted again
Recovery mode -> wiped cache
Connected to laptop in fastboot but not detecting.

I checked the recovery logs and it contains something like

missing clock cycle property
IRQ32 no longer affine to CPU4
Started secondary processor

Suggestions I want

How to interact it to fastboot or adb
How to copy data from that device to laptop
How to solve the booy loop issue


texts: Are there any issues with allowing the KLMS Agent app (part of Samsung KNOX) to be restricted by Data Saver?

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I use the "Data Saver" feature to extend battery life and to prevent/reduce apps from accessing the internet when the phone/tablet is sleeping and when they are not supposed to be running.  Note that I'm not sure if that feature is an Android or OEM feature.
To accomplish this, I go to:
Settings > Apps > Special Access > Allow app while Data Saver on > Show system apps
and deselect every app... currently with the sole exception of KLMS Agent.
The only reason I do not deselect KLMS Agent is because I do not fully understand its purpose, and if there are any consequences of preventing it from being "allowed" while Data Saver is on.
From what I've researched, KLMS Agent is part of KNOX security, which is pre-installed on most (all?) Samsung Android devices.  I've read a bit about KNOX, and I've never had the time to fully understand all of the details about it.  Plus, I think it's closed-source, which makes it almost impossible to truly fully understand.
Are there any downsides or issues with deselecting KLMS Agent in the Allow app while Data Saver on list, thus allowing KLMS Agent to be restricted by Data Saver?


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I have created an Android virtual device with sd-card.

Now I want to create another Android virtual device with sd-card with same data.

Where can I find the sd-card image file?

By the way, I'm using Eclipse Juno on Windows 8.


texts: Reclaim space occupied by an uninstalled app

texts:
I have recently uninstalled Economist.
According to Settings -> Apps, it was taking up ca. 530Mb in data (from the internal memory).
After uninstalling, I did not get that space freed.

Is there any way to reclaim that space, without installing any utility app?
I have seen Clean Master is mentioned a few times. I am not certain who of those mentioning it actually tried it, successfully; and it seems to be quite annoying.

I cannot root the phone.

Related, but not providing an answer:

I uninstalled an app,but did not clear space

Manage files left by uninstalled apps?

Why my phone is always out of space recently, but I didn't install any new software (I tried

$adb shell

su -c "du /data" | sort -n

but my shell doesn't have su)

Completely uninstall an app on Lollipop

Why doesn't uninstalling an app free all the space it had used?

How can I reclaim space used by the defaul email client
(I reinstalled The Economist, to see if Settings -> Apps reported again the same occupied space, so I could Clear Data from there; but not it shows a mere 15Mb of data).

spy / invisible file occupying 4gb+ space in internal storage

Space deleted but not reclaimed for re-use

What else is occupying my android phone's internal space


texts: Google services don't work on apps but work on browser after changing SIM card

texts:
I changed the SIM card in my cell phone and Google apps such as Google Maps, YouTube, etc. no longer works, saying I was offline. Yet they still work if accessed from a web browser.

How to get the Google apps work instead of accessing from the browser?


texts: How to use the camera on my tablet android 13mP as a webcam for my computer?

texts: I tried DroidCam and USB WebCam On Tablet PIPO T9 but they offer poor quality. Can anybody suggest me way to increase the quality through above mentioned apps or any other way that I can try.


texts: Can I find which app is making certain DNS requests?

texts:
So I've been using pihole and my Android 7 phone is making some unexpected requests to DNS for a particular domain. Is there an app or technique I can use to find which app is initiating those request. It seems the Java level DNS cache won't have that info.

I'd guess one needs to intercept requests to the phones DNS service (*), recording the requested domain and the requesting app; are their hooks in Android to do that?

I don't have root.
Any help appreciated.

(* - yes I know what this acronym means!)


texts: Allow android chrome to load unsafe scripts

texts:
When any site has mixed content (HTTPS + HTTP), and when you try to open HTTP content, on Desktop chrome, it shows a "shield" icon like screen below,

This allow user to load unsafe script.

However, the above option is not coming or not available when i open the same page in Android phone's chrome browser. My chrome app version is 71.0.3578.99

Any idea how to get above pop-up in android chrome to allow user to load unsafe scripts?


texts: how do I download jorte calendar on new tablet

texts: I cant download my jorte calendar from my htc phone to my new tablet becuz the port to recharge my phone is faulty and so the battery keeps dying and wont hold a charge and according to the sprint store, that is the same port that connects my phone and tablet, so therefore I cant link phone to tablet, and the phone keeps dying,  and the sprint store says it can't save my calendar to a new phone becuz its not a goggle calendar.and i cant charge the phone to access the calendar. I need to access and download my calendar at least, even if i cant save it to my new phone. ideas?


texts: My Gmail is signed in through the app on ex-boyfriend's phone

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I had my email signed in on the Gmail app on my boyfriend's phone who is now on the other side of the country.  I've asked him a couple times to disconnect it but recently checked out Google Play and there's a bunch of new apps connected to my account. (I don't have a smart  phone.) Is there a way to disconnect it remotely without access to his phone?

Second, I've recently been flooded with spam mail, which is unusual for me.  Could this be because of that connection?


texts: Access to android usb port from chroot linux?

texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  Android chroot ubuntu - is it possible to get ubuntu to recognise usb devices

IS it possible to communicate over the real USB port of an android host when running linux in chroot?


texts: How can I evaluate availability of security updates for CyanogenMod / Cyanogen OS

texts:
Suppose I'm looking at a Cyanogen OS phone.  It seems to be very difficult to find a history of available build versions (and compare the dates e.g. to the first build of that version available for any phone, or when the security issues it fixes were released).

How can I check the quality of this support for a specific phone, like the WileyFox Swift?

Do I need to forget about complaints for community-maintained CyanogenMod... just look at commercial Cyanogen OS as a monolith, and ask how well they're doing in general?  Is there a written evaluation of this anywhere?

[I'd like to think of Cyanogen OS as more credible than vendors who go through carriers.  And only promised monthly security updates after the most glaring remote security hole a few months back.  Or who just completely fail on updates after claiming they wouldn't, because of a change in ownership.  But I can't even find marketing claims about the superiority of Cyanogen OS here, so this seems fairly wishful thinking on my part].


texts: How to prevent app A to inform about app B existence?

texts:
I've two apps, A & B.
When I start app A, it prompts me with a message:
"Please remove app B to continue!"
How can I prevent app A from reading the installed apps list.
Or is there a way to rename app B to something else?

App A is a taxi app like Ubber.
App B is the Waze.


texts: Is it possible to make screen videos on a unrooted device? The device is Sony Xperia m2 aqua

texts: Recently I want to record some screen videos like to show when bugs happen and e.t.c.Is it possible on a unrooted Sony xperia m2 aqua?If yes how?


texts: How do I insert a non-breaking space with the Android OS Keyboard?

texts: At times I insert a non-breaking space (on my Mac) instead of characters in a Last Name field when filling out forms. Is there a way to do this using the default or some other keyboard on my Nexus 4 (4.2.2)?


texts: Android ASTRO Cannot Locate Download Directory

texts:
I have placed apk in download directory.  I have also downloaded from web into download directory, but ASTRO does not seem to see this directory.  In Astro I see / etc  lib data (empty) and sd (empty).  On the other hand from windows explorer I don't see these files I see

F:Android
F:download/ with apks
F:DCIM empty

F:Android/data with some items like cache but not much.

So far searching with Astro I could not locate downloaded files in the download directory which I know are on Android.  Any suggestions.  Thanks


texts: How to install apps from one user to another

texts: I have a Nexus 10 set up with multiple users. My owner account has a lot of apps that I got from my Humble Library (so not from Google Play). I want to install these apps on one of the other user accounts, but right now I'm on a metered internet connection so I don't want to re-download these apps. Is there a way for me to transfer these non-Google Play apps from the owner user to another user without re-downloading them? Thanks!


texts:
I am trying to unlock bootloader on Desire 320, but failing on retrieving the OEM number:

$ fastboot oem get_identifier_token
...
FAILED (remote: unknown command)
finished. total time: 0.004s

I've also tried flashing recovery with TWRP directly using

$ fastboot flash recovery <recovery.img>

But that failed with security deny, error code 0x2017. I've rooted the phone using KingoRoot but that did not change anything.

I've even tried an automated application HTC Bootloader Unlocker, but this app failed on the same step as I did. Also, after investigating its logs, this app tried to read various variables using fastboot and could not read any of them.

I've also tried to update ROM directly from stock recovery using both SD card and ADB sideload, but both installations were canceled (but sideload on itself works).

The phone specs and prerequisities:

android 4.4.2, core version 3.4.67
Developer mode unlocked, USB debugging enabled (was able to send adb/fastboot commands)
Unverified applications can be installed (was able to install KingoRoot)
Cannot enable OEM Unlocking option as many guides suggest (this option does not exist in my phone)
Cannot use RUU (my phone does not have a carrier)

The question:

Am I screwed or is possible to unlock this device (and how?)


texts: Is there an advantage to powering-off the device "properly"?

texts:
There's something I've always wondered about Androids, which may or may not be causing issues for me...

What is the advantage to "properly" shutting down the device, as opposed to just yanking the battery out?

I'm well aware of various issues that can be caused on a Windows PC if I just pull the power plug... unsaved system files, data loss, even hard drive damage... but none of this seems to be at risk with an Android.

If a battery runs too low the phone can suddenly lose power (in my case, using the camera flash under 15% can do this).

The device(s) always seem to operate just fine when power is restored.

I have a theory that the startup process is faster when shutdown properly, but I'm not sure.

What's Android doing for the 10-ish seconds that it takes to "properly" shut down the device... and does it matter?


texts:
I have a problem that my android mobile is randomly working like itself making calls, typing messages, opening apps randomly.
I have tried factory reset and data wipe.

Could anyone help me out here.


texts: Why does my OnePlus One draw 60% more current if I turn off the screen AFTER plugging it in?

texts:
It's pretty simple:

If I turn off the phone's screen and then connect the wall charger, the power supply draws ~6W from the wall, and this doesn't change if I keep waiting.
If I connect the wall charger and then turn off the phone's screen, the power supply draws ~10W, and I hear a very slightly audible high-pitched noise from the power supply the moment I turn off the screen.
If I turn on the screen again, it goes back down to ~6W, but once it turns off it goes up again.

I have two questions:

What is causing this?
If it is intentional and not a bug, then what is the rationale for the cause? Is this well-known?

The ROM is CM11S 05Q.

(Yes, the charger & cable are the OEM's, and yes, I've actually measured the current.)


texts: LineageOS: run custom script (start service) at boot

texts:
Seems like a simple thing. How can I run custom script on my (rooted) android with LineageOS at boot?

Neither creating it as /data/local/userinit.d/99sshd nor /data/local/userinit.sh did not help.

The LineageOS actually states in /etc/init.d/20userinit that it will run /data/local/userinit.sh if exists, but according to logcat it does not.

The script (in my case) runs SSH daemon, which runs fine when I execute the script manually.


texts: ES file explorer is showing my Android phone's internal storage as SD Card

texts: It's been a year since I've started using ES file explorer. It was working fine before. But after some update it started showing my phone's internal storage as SD card storage and SD card as phone memory. I'm continuously updating the app. Reinstalled it some times. But the issue is always present with every update. It's too annoying.The screenshot that I've added here shows the issue. I'm using a 16 GB memory card and ES explorer is showing it as internal storage. How can I fix this issue?


texts: Can't hear people unless switched to speakerphone on Galaxy S4

texts:
I have Samsung Galaxy S4 and I cannot hear callers unless the speakerphone is on. The caller can hear me well but there is only a very faint which is inaudible sound back.

I have gone to all the settings but it does not change anything.

How can I fix this?


texts: Whatsapp backups take a lot of space. Is there any possible way to save more space without totally messing up Whatsapp?


texts:
Often, when I try to wake my nexus, the screen stays completely blank and the tablet refuses to do anything. To get my device working again I have to hold the power button for about 10 seconds, which hard resets the device. I unlocked my bootloader and installed cyanogenmod to see if that helped, but it didn't. This is extremely annoying as well as time wasting, driving me to the point where I just don't use my tablet anymore.

I have tried:

Factory resetting the device
Installing a new rom (A bunch of different cyanogenmod nightlies and snapshots)
Waiting for the device to become responsive again

A quick Google search shows I'm definitely not the only person with this issue. I'll be happy to provide more information if need be.


texts: Android updates for Nexus bought from Amazon

texts:
Is there any difference in terms of either phone features, software versions or time to get new updates if I bought the Galaxy Nexus from Amazon instead of waiting for it to be sold direct from Google in the UK?

Any reasons I should wait?


texts: Any way to make a device believe that an app was downloaded from play store?

texts: Is there any way to make a device  believe that an app was downloaded from play store, not having to turn off Unknown sources?


texts:
Is there a way to set up a backup APN logic in an Android device?
Example - if my main (chosen) APN is rejected from the network side certain amount of times (by the logic defined), the device will start attempting to connect with another defined backup APN.


texts: Galaxy S5's screen only turns on after multiple presses, and the screen has these weird lines show up when turning off

texts:
and thanks for reading this. So I've had an S5 for just over a year now. As it has an AMOLED screen, when you turn the brightness all the way down, the screen will flicker a yellow-green. This happened whenever the screen would dim on standby, and it seemed that it was normal. However, now, when I power it off, the screen does the green flicker when it's fading out. This did not happen before.

On top of this, sometimes the screen simply will not turn on. The phone is on, the lights are on, but I'll press the power button, and nothing will happen. I'll keep pressing it, and eventually it will turn on, but this could be part of an underlying issue. If anyone has any ideas, please do tell me.

Also, smaller issue: woke up one morning, and a notification came up at 3 AM saying that I was running out of storage space. Is my phone trying to kill itself?


texts:
First of all, I'm rooted. So since I have Android 5.0 on my Nexus 5 I wonder if there still exists the option to change the music equalizer.

In KitKat it was like:

I wasn't able to find any option like this in the settings, maybe someone of you knows how to get this. I don't want to use the Google Play music equalizer.


texts: How can I add a S Memo note as a home screen shortcut? When I first got my Samsung Galaxy S3 there was a shortcut which I deleted.This was not  a shortcut for the app but for a saved note.Now I can't find a way to do it


texts: Meaning of purple blinking on Sony Ericsson Play (R800)?

texts:
The phone went off and I cannot turn it on. I tried pulling battery out, but it did not help. Cannot also connect it to SEUS since it does not detect a mobile connected.

Now, when I connect a mobile on USB charger and press the power button, the screen quickly blinks for less than 1s and then then purple light keeps blinking (flashing).

The purple light is coming from the LED on the power button. When I connect the charger the screen first turn to green, I think. And when I try to turn the mobile on, the screen turns to purple blinking light.

what is the meaning of the purple light? I cannot find the meaning on the Internet.


texts: Can i customize "select an action for text" menu?

texts:
I have downloaded a dictionary application for my native language and English translation and it can work offline.

But i need it to be seen at the "select an action for text" menu when i select a piece of text on a browser, or an e book reader, or an offline browser.

Is it the business of developer of the dictionary app?

If not how can i add an app to "select an action for text" menu?

Thanks.


texts:
When I run the command

adb push file.txt /flash/Data

it writes this error message

failed to copy 'file.txt' to '/flash/Data': Read-only file system

I tried to solve it according to this page
http://android-tricks.blogspot.com/2009/01/mount-filesystem-read-write.html but with no success.

Could you navigate me and solve the problem? thank you


texts:
As I understand to "Root" a device, means to gain privilege to do all sort of things with the device, without restrictions, which probably means "root privilege".

Isn't that what "su" utility provide , i.e. root privilege ? I mean is all we need is to run su in order to have root privilege or are there any additional things, that should be done ?


texts: Can I disable the camera sound in the new ICS camera app (in silent mode)?

texts:
Android got a brand new camera app with ICS. The old camera app from previous android versions didn't play a sound when the phone is in silent mode, the new one does. Obviously this can be somewhat anoying in some situations.

Can this sound be muted?

Note: I'm asking for an answer that doesn't require a rooted device. I'm aware that I can rename/delete the sound files from the system (as documented in this question), but I'd rather not root a device just for this.


texts: How can I get Android 4.0.4 on my XPERIA Neo V?

texts: I asked some questions about rooting before but I didn't realize it all was supposed to be done on an MT11a with Android 4.0.4. I have 2.3.4, so I just rolled everything back. Where and how can I install this version? I am seeing videos (YouTube, for example) where people have this OS installed in this very same device.


texts:
android 5,1 on soyes 6,1, photos on SD card (FAT32), not on the phone storage;
when connected the jpeg don't open on mac's aperçu, announce corrupted (missing meta dates); on the phone (android) it appears normally.
what's wrong ?


texts:
I rooted my HTC Desire 2.1 and I want to turn in into secure access point.

Is there any way I can do that?

I do want to make is secure so user has to enter password to get Internet access.


texts:
I have a HTC One S and recently did a system update and am now running 4.1.1 (whatever that is called)

I have a few games that have push notifications e.g. bakery story, restaurant story. As soon as I updated these, the notifications play the sound I had set, but now annoyingly they also vibrate. I have been into the settings for each app and there is no option for vibrate.

I have searched through all the settings in my phone and can't find an option for notifications vibrating anywhere. I don't know how or why it turned on, but I want it off. The only option I have at the moment is to have my phone on silent all the time, or to turn the push notifications off.

Which means that I will lose out in the games. I know it's not very important but I have spent a lot of time on these games and it would be a shame to get rid of them.

Thank you. :-)


texts: How to use hosts.allow or hosts.deny in Android

texts:
Is there a way to use the files hosts.allow and hosts.deny in Android? I've searched over the internet but found nothing.
I have to control access of both wifi and mobile networks. And limit the access to a certain domain. Just like a firewall do. I've tried to insert some iptables commands, but the system became very slow after these commands.
Thanks in advance.


texts: How to format SD card second partition as internal storage

texts:
I formatted my SD card into 2 partition. The first one is exfat and the second partition is f2fs.
I want to format the second partition as internal storage using built in storage setting, but when I do that the whole SD card get formatted.
How do I format the second partition as internal storage without losing the first partition data?


texts: Deleted my stock phone application from android phone after rooting as a result can't call for now

texts: I recently rooted my HTC desire 728 and by mistake deleted the stock phone app and as a result, now I can't make calls ... the phone is not showing any sim signals too and when I go to sim settings it shows  process.com.android.phone stopped  ... what can I do now? I had factory reset the phone already a couple of times but the after root deleted apps are not showing up ... please help me out


texts:
Is there any way to always require the user to enter the PIN (instead of fingerprint) to unlock the device?

It seems that as soon as you add a fingerprint to the phone, now it no longer requires the PIN to unlock, just the fingerprint.


texts: Skip update during set up and go straight to Google Account sign in

texts: I've got a phone that's having problems updating to Android 9. It constantly fails the update saying "Installation Problem" with no further detail. However, I don't need the phone to update right now, I just need to get the phone onto my companies MDM platform, which I am putting on using the method of entering an afw# code on the account sign in screen. However, the sign in screen is behind the update screen and I can't skip the update during the set up process, as far as I know. Is there any method of skipping the update screen and going to the sign in screen so the MDM can be configured? I don't "need" the phone to be updated for it to go on the MDM, it'll work just fine with an Android 8 phone.


texts: Google Now screen is blank (Nexus 7, Android 4.2)

texts:
I've got a Nexus 7 upgraded to Android 4.2. When I swipe up from the home button to launch Google Now I just get a blank screen with a search bar at the top. I don't see the "Get Google Now" screen shown here or any options to add new cards.

How can I go about getting the Google Now setup screen?


texts: I just want to make app reviews in video. Some of these app's eventually will be games, so if I can mirror video to my PC and capture the audio at the same time it would be great. So, my question is : Is there a way to mirror my screen to a PC with sound?


texts: I have a Samsung Galaxy Ace running Android 2.3.6. The problem is that when I'm in the middle of internet browsing, I completely lose my Wi-Fi signal. I've tried a factory reset which didn't help, I've tried different Wi-Fi hotspots, but that didn't help either. I know it's not the connection thats the problem, as the same Wi-Fi connections work perfectly on my laptop. Any help will be greatly appreciated.


texts: ADB authorization prompt missing in Sony Xperia Z3 Compact (D5803)

texts:
I just bought a Sony Xperia Z3 Compact (D5803) and I'm trying to root it. I'm following this link for instructions, but I got stuck at the "Rooting with exploit" step as I can't authorize the connection.

I've already tried:

Restarting the ADB server
Rebooting the device
Rebooting my PC
Changing from MTP to MSC and back
Disabling and then enabling USB debugging
Disabling and then enabling 'Developer options'
Using various ADB drivers
Using different ADB binaries
Deleting my .Android folder
Deleting ADB copies in other tools' folders
Plugging the device in another port
Any combination of the above that I can think of

I can't find any other possible solution to this issue on Google. I'm hoping you guys will be able to enlighten me and finally be able to solve this.

PS: Something tells me that my PC is the problem here, as I was never able to do this with my old SGS3 either, but I ran out of ideas about what could be causing it anyway.


texts:
I have a phone with Android 4.2.2.

I want to sync my mails but not my contacts.

The problem is that it seems to be joined in my phone.

When I go to Settings > Account > Google I can activate synchronisation but not choose which one.

Does anyone knows how to do this or an app that allows this?


texts: Is it safe to use OTA update while rooted with TWRP

texts:
I have a Lenovo Tab 2 A7-10 F, in which I have installed TWRP and rooted with SuperSu. Recently it notified me of an OTA update:

  T2_A7_10F_S000057_160701_ROW

But I am not sure if I should install it or not. Is it safe to download and install this update in the aforementioned configuration or will it damage my device? And if I try to do this,  will it even install? Or should I try to find a flashable zip file???Please Help


texts: How do I root a Kyocera Hydro Shore C6742A?

texts:
I've tried one-click roots, and they didn't work, unsurprisingly.
The phone is running Android 5.1.1, which is the most recent update that it will support.
I'm willing to hard reset this phone, as a last resort. If so, there's nothing I feel I need to back up.


texts: Android Lolipop broke my enyrpted nexus 7 (2012)

texts:
I just received the update and now my device does not boot any more.
I comes to the point where I have to enter my encryption password.
The first  time it did this it said:  “Unfortunately your password is correct but your data is corrupted, would you like to do a factory reset” I did not want to do this and powered the device off.
Is there any chance to recover some of the data, before wiping?  I figured out to come up with the bootloader by pressing down power button and both volume keys, but did not get further from there.
Perfect would be some kind of USB mass storage mode while connected to a computer.
Please help

I wished this lolipop update would never have poped up!


texts: How to auto start/stop tether if wifi is unavailable/available?

texts: I use my Galaxy S as a wifi tether hotspot for my tablet and laptop, so tethering is always on (I have extended battery so it's ok). But if my phone is in the area where I have wifi internet (for example, at home) I don't need it to act as hotspot and want it to stop tethering and connect wifi. Is there a way to automatically start tethering if no wifi is available and stop it / connect wifi if wifi is available for long enough?


texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  How to remove device(s) from My Market Account?

I've two devices showing in my Google Play Account, probably because of some old ROM. I want to remove the old entry. I can't install apps to my phone through the website anymore...

I can't see any Option in the Google Play Settings.


texts: Custom ringtone for particular contact in 4.4.3

texts:
I am using nexus 5 with 4.4.3. I tried to keep the custom ringtone for contacts. I am able to keep custom ringtone for a particular contact with no problem.

But when I choose none  (ringtone with no sound )from the list of ringtone available, when the particular contact calls the default ringtone is ringing rather than the none ringtone. How to keep none ringtone.


texts: How to disable screen lock on Huawei P8 lite?

texts:
I cannot remove the lock screen on my P8 lite.

I go to Settings > Screen Lock & Passwords > Password.  There, I can only choose Pattern, PIN or Password, but I cannot tap on None.  Under that, is this: Disabled by administrator, encryption policy or credential storage.

What does it mean, and what should I do?


texts: System partition locked to read only in Android 10

texts:
Help, I don't know what I did but after installing a custom ROM, I noticed that my system partition cannot be mounted as read/write.

I tried

"mount -o rw,remount /system" command on a terminal emulator, ADB shell, and TWRP terminal

The command shows no feedback showing failure (maybe I succeeded?)

Mount it using the built-in TWRP mount function.

The system check box can be checked out (it doesn't retain its check mark on reboot)

Some apps that actually works according to sources and reviews.

Some say (Failure to mount..) Some say (System mounted as rw) some doesn't have feedback.

I don't know what to do.

I noticed this when I installed a custom ROM. I tried using another custom ROM but same thing. Also reformatting doesn't help. I don't know if this occur on the stock ROM.

For reference

Device: Xiaomi Mi A2

Android version: Android 10

Custom ROM: AICP nightly build 15.0


texts: Auto rotation, proximity sensor issues in Xperia Arc S after updating to ICS

texts: My auto-rotation and sensors was working fine in my Xperia Arc S with Gingerbread, but when I updated it to Ice Cream Sandwich via Sony PC Companion, now the auto-rotation and some sensors are not working. I have also checked it by reflashing the other custom ROM, but same problem exists there. I guess its a Sony's built-in bugs, because I have also checked other Xperia Arc S with ICS, same issues exists there. Any help in this regards will be highly appreciated! Please help me how to fix it, or any other alternate to auto-rotation and how to turn off proximity sensor manually.


texts: How can I make Lock Screen widgets work on my Galaxy S3 on Android 4.3?

texts:
When my Galaxy S3 upgraded to 4.3 last night the lock screen lost all its widgets and now immediately turns on to the password entry screen rather then the widget screen where I can slide to unlock or swipe a widget. Because of this I also lost the ability to check the temperature from the lock screen. Does anyone know how to bring back the lock screen widgets for the new update?

I have tried swiping to the left in the upper right hand corner of the screen as I have seen instructed for other phones on 4.3 and have attempted to swipe/tap/hold in other areas of the screen with no luck.  I also checked in all the different setting menu's including going through the lock screen and security settings and there where no options for lock screen widgets (that I saw) and was only able to change from a clock to personal message shown on the screen.

After playing with it some more I was able to get the ability to have widgets on the lock screen and customize them if I set it up to unlock with swipe and no password but if I have any unlock security at all the ability to have lock screen widgets goes away.

Update:
From time to time I will get text messages in my lock window or notifications that I have a lot of them so not sure what is up.


texts: How can I find a lost phone or help people return it?

texts:
I'm looking for an app like Where's My Droid to help locate a lost device.

Ideally I'm hoping there is one that might have two specific features:

The ability to display a message to the screen to help people return it, like Windows Phone 7 will have, as illustrated here.
The ability to turn the GPS on remotely to aid in the physical location of the phone. I do not want to have to keep GPS on all the time, to avoid the battery drain.

Running on a non-rooted Galaxy S Captivate.


texts: Issue a command to the camera from command line via SSH

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If I have an SSH app like SSH Droid, is it possible to issue a command to the camera to take a picture from the command line of a remote SSH client? If so, would you have an example of such a command?

SSH Droid info

  SSHDroid is a SSH server implementation for Android.
  This application will let you connect to your device from a PC and execute commands (like "terminal" and "adb shell") or edit files (through SFTP, WinSCP, Cyberduck, etc...).

The device I'm looking to use it on is ver 2.3.


texts: What happens under the hood when a network request is made by an application

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I'm interested in knowing what happens at the kernel level when an application makes a network request. While playing with strace I was hoping to find system calls like connect() to make a connection with an IP socket but instead, I found connections to local Unix sockets. From what I understand these connections may be for logging or any other system service. A lot of ioctl calls were also made which I'm guessing were for binder communication.
If the application is not servicing the request, is it being passed on to a system service using IPC which then sends back the response to the application? I was wondering if these requests could be captured at the system level using ptrace in order to monitor/block them.
I'm using a rooted device running Android 7.1.2


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I want to have my todo.txt file synchronized on PC and Android via a cloud service in both ways and instantly on change. Let's call this true instant sync. Unfortunately, I have not found a good solution yet and I don't understand why.
My setting: Markor to edit todo.txt on Android, todo-txt script to edit todo.txt on my Linux PC, official Dropbox client on both Android and PC.
In order to get true instant sync, I tried FolderSync and Autosync for Dropbox. However, I think that neither of these apps does what I want flawlessly and their precise function is not really documented. For example, Autosync for Dropbox has the options "autosync", "instant upload", "clever detection of changes" (available in the pro version) and one can also set synchronization in given time intervals, all independently of each other. What do these options do precisely? FolderSync seems to support synchronization in time intervals only, which is not what I want.
I imagine that a true instant sync solution should work as follows:

There is an interrupt whenever something is written in the shared folder .
The interrupt is associated to the sync client, which sends the information about changed files to the sync server immediately.
The sync client pings the sync server whenever its network address changes.
When another sync client uploads something to the sync server, the sync server broadcasts the information about changed files to all sync clients.
There is an interrupt whenever a packet from the sync server is received.
The interrupt is associated to the sync client which updates the local files immediately.

Questions:

How do 1--6 differ from the reality and what are the problems? Aren't the interrupts 1 and 5 already implemented on the system level?
Can I configure Autosync for Dropbox or FolderSync (+ Tasker) so that I get true instant sync which was defined above?
Do you know any other solution for true instant sync?

Thanks!


texts: Activating the Android 5 native SIP client

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Android brought a native SIP client with version 2.3, which some carriers/phone manufacturers disabled. You can re-enable it in Android 4 by setting some values in /system/build.prop.

I do have a Android 5 phone (Wiko Rainbow UP), and there are no SIP settings in sight. build.prop does not contain the

ro.config.hw_support_ipcall=true
ro.config.hide_sipcall=false

settings.

How can I enable the native VoIP client on Android 5?


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Am I not able to install Candy Crush game on my HTC Desire.

The telephone is not rooted and just hard reset
How can I solve it?