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When connected to WiFi at home, my Android phone randomly says there is no internet connection with the WiFi and it switches to 4G. There is no notification of this. An exclamation mark will be shown in the WiFi icon. However, reconnecting to the same WiFi solves the problem, until the next moment the WiFi is 'not connected' and that moment can take half a day or just a couple of minutes. The WiFi signal is excellent. It doesn't matter if I connect to 2.4 or 5ghz.

Now this could be a connection with my modem at home (modem is for internet, routers are connected to modem for WiFi), since other android devices (Samsung) do not have that problem. I've also tried to connect to other routers at home, but I get the same problem. I also don't experience the problem at other WiFi connections. AFAIK there is no option to not fallback to 4G when WiFi is not connected. Other than check my modem again, could there be a different approach to solve this problem?

Motorola G4
Android 7.0
Latest patch April 2018
Kernel version 3.10.84


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I have a Droid 2 Global that I got a few days ago.  Today, its notification light started flickering red.  Not flashing or blinking, but flickering.  It will be dim and then get bright randomly, but never turn off.  The light is on when the phone is on, sleeping, and even when powered off - the only way to make it go away is to pull the battery.

Here's a quick video I took; apologies for the poor quality.  When it looks like it has turned off, the light is really just very dim.

Any ideas what's wrong?  I'm having a real WTF moment.


texts: Can I enroll my device in Android Enterprise to install a root CA?

texts: My phone can't be rooted but I want to MITM my own traffic. Is there any downside to enrolling my device as a managed enterprise device and installing a certificate through the program? It seems possible, but I have not come across this solution anywhere on the internet so I was wondering if there is a downside.


texts: How do I clear the browser's auto-complete history?

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My phone keeps saving what I type into chrome or the browser. I have tried erasing the history it still auto completes if I need to retype it. I understand it great to save all the info but I have typed my credit card in one of them and its saved.

How do I clear the browser's address bar auto-complete history?


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I found that first of all System>Apps>Running is not helpful always and secondly I we stop the services, it may star again if corresponding application is running. The correct way to stop application is force stop. (that's why ram booster may not helpful sufficiently).

I've made an simple script that get the list of all user applications and then force-stop all one by one:

pm list packages -3 -f | sed /jackpal.androidterm/d > /sdcard/tbs/app2fs

while read -r line; do APK=$(echo $line | cut -d ':' -f2 | cut -d '=' -f1); PKG=$(echo $line | cut -d '=' -f2); echo "Forcing to Stop: $(aapt d badging $APK | grep "application: label" | cut -d "'" -f2)"; am force-stop $PKG; done < /sdcard/tbs/app2fs

The draw back of above command is it tries to force-stops all (doesn't matter running or not) third-party applications. But I want to do am force-stop only for the running user apps.

So, How do I get the list of all running user apps (not services)?

You may have better way to do this than my script/command, hence broadly: How can I force-stop all user applications that are running?

Note: I recommend the command-line solution. Because this type application (that can force-stop all running user apps) mostly runs constantly for monitoring which I don't like. If you've a suggestion for an app that can do such job and also favourable (should not run constantly for monitory) , then you can suggest it.


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Currently my device is running on Android 4.1.1 (JB). I have a FTP server with IPv6 address and connecting to it on my computer is just fine.

However when I try to connect to this server on my Android device (using AndFTP and Total Commander), the result is always "Network unreachable"

AFAIK, IPv6 support has been added to Android 4.0 or ICS. But I still don't know what's wrong with my device.

Can anybody tell me how can I fix it, or is there any way to track the problem?


texts: Strange icons and notifications, is there a malware in my phone?

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Possible Duplicate:
  Is this red star icon malware? How to get rid of it?
  Red Star And Green Cross Icons?

I have a Samsung galaxy nexus with official Android 4.1 running. I sometimes get strange notifications with a green + as the icon, saying you have won..., click here to..., or similar messages. Of course I would not open any of them as they immediately appear suspicious. I also sometimes get some shortcut icons on the home screen looking like games, etc. I do not find them in the app list though. I have had similar incidents before upgrading to 4.1.

Does anybody get things like these? Is this a malware living in my phone? Any thoughts would be highly appreciated.


texts: Can't make and receive calls with good signal

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Sometimes my smartphone can't make or receive calls (haven't tried SMS) despite signal being good. I can connect to LTE internet though. Turning airplane mode on and off solves the problem however it's not a proper solution because that problem can happen again and I won't know it.
Anyone can advise?
Thanks.
Samsung Galaxy A71
Android 10, One UI 2.1


texts: Do I need to root my phone to get a tcpdump?

texts: I'm troubleshooting my aCal installation and the good folks at aCal asked me for the output from tcpdump -A -- do I need to root my phone and install busybox or can I do this from a terminal emulator?


texts: Why my SD card name is not the same as I format it?

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I formatted my SD card into 2 partition. The first one is exfat and the second partition is f2fs.
I renamed the first partition as "Limbo" and the second as "Saint".
On Linux it shows both name but on the android is different, the first partition is "Limbo" and The second partition is "SanDisk SD Card".
Is there's any reason why it is not the same?
More description:
image
using Gnome disk


texts: Why some apps can't access internet using wi-fi?

texts: I've been trying to update several antiviruses, they can't find server. Duck Duck Go app can't access internet too. Google Play and Chrome works fine. I'm using wi-fi shared by my laptop, in properties: WAP & WPA2 Personal, mode -infrasturcture.


texts: KitKat issue: device turns on when plugged in

texts: Yesterday I updated my Samsung S4 to 4.4.2 (I9500UBUFNA2 - Kernel 3.4.5-742022 18-Feb-2014) via Kies 3. If device is turned off then I plug in, picture of measuring battery image appears for 2 seconds and then disappears as usual, then instead of battery level image, phone turns on. Same behaviour when I turn it off while charging: phone turns on again. I think battery level image cannot load due to a Kernel problem. Any idea ? Thank you.


texts: How to remove or find details about malicious "unknown" app that causes suspicious DNS requests

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Using RethinkDNS firewall, I observe suspicious requests for the router IP 192.168.2.1 that is labelled by RethinkDNS as comming from an "Unknown" app (whereas RethinkDNS displays the proper app for all other non-suspicious requests).
After blocking requests by the "Unknown" app, this app massively tries to connect to various IPs.
Is it correct to assume from this observations, that there is malware on my phone? If no, what else could I do to become sure about it? If yes, how to remove it?
Please excuse, that this question is possibly broad, I am egaer to learn, but I found no systematic information on how to do tackle this problem.
I am on a Google-Service free LineAgeOS with an old Android version 7.1.2 (due to their drop of support for my device Xiaomi Redmi Note 3). I am very picky about apps, and so far I have only installed OSS apps from FDroid-Repositories, but if there is a good recommendation I would also use Google store apps to solve this problem.


texts: Caller ID not displaying after android 6 update

texts: My infinix x510 has stopped displaying caller ID for incoming calls. It only displays the phone numbers  without the names. And the contacts are in my phone book.  I'm thinking it's a result of recent update to Android 6 M. Please How could I resolve this issue thanks


texts: Can I still use live.com for my contacts 'hub' on Android?

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I'm switching from a Lumia 1020 (Windows Phone 8.1) to a OnePlus3 (Android M I think).
I bought into the MS live.com setup for contacts so all my contact phone numbers and addresses and facebook maappings are there, however I also have a gmail account which is where all my email contacts are stored.

I'm worried it's all going to be a big mess, I read this already: Switching contacts from Windows Phone to Android

I did wonder though, do I have to use Google for my contacts on Android or can I continue with Live.com? Maybe that sounds a stupid idea (I'm new to android) but I do use OneNote extensively as well as Google Drive and Gmail so I have a foot in both camps.

Is a manual dump of contacts the best way to go in 2016? I was rather expecting my new phone would let me sign into my live.com account and slurp all the contacts!


texts: So my Samsung has been extremely overheating and not holding a charge. It went from 80 to 30 in under a hour. I checked the battery usage section in my settings and it say "10378" is using 81% of my battery. What the heck is "10378" and how do i stop it?


texts: If we want to give the apps fake geolocation datas is it enough to change only the GPS data or i need to change all datas that are transsmitted?

texts: When we change the GPS data using fake GPS app the cell id of our BTS still shows completely different region (the region of our real location). Isn't that enough for third-party applications to understand  that the received Gps datas are fake ? We know that most of positioning systems using hybrid thechnologies for positioning and not a specefic one .In this case if we want to give the third party apps  fake datas  is it enough to change only the GPS data or i need to change all datas that are transsmitted (Gsm,wi fi, ect.)


texts: how to have two applications play sound simultaneously?

texts:
I want the music to keep playing in the background while I practice Spanish on this DuoLingo app.
The music player stops while the duolingo is trying to play sound as of now. Is this possbile?


texts: Quick capture of www URLs to local LIFO stack of hyperlinks?

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I often come across interesting websites while looking for something else, and I want to be able to quickly "push" (i.e. capture) their URLs onto a consolidated stack of clickable links, in LIFO order, for review at a later time.  (It would be great if it were easy to "pop" links from this stack, but this is gravy.)

My current method for capturing URLs is awfully inconvenient: I choose my browser's "share" option, and email the URL to myself.  This is not only slow and cumbersome, but the captured URLs get spread over a bazillion separate email messages.

In fact, the absence of a consolidated "dumping site" for these captured URLs is the weakness of every info capture app I've tried so far: quick capture always results in one link per "node" (or email message, or "note", or whatever) in a way that makes it difficult to review the current LIFO stack of URLs.  With some of them it may be possible to simulate the "LIFO stack" effect, but this is invariably at the expense of speed and ease of capture.

Another feature of many of these apps that I found highly undesirable is that they stored the information remotely.  I definitely want to keep this information exclusively local, i.e. in my phone.  I don't want to find myself in the near future bumping into a "free storage limit" at some remote site (as with, e.g. Evernote).

Does anyone know an app that meets these criteria?


texts: Cell Phone is unresponsive, but after it ran out of power it was chargable again?

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So yesterday my cell phone was acting strange, it didn't respond to charging and/or could not turn on (no charging light and blank screen).

Today (I assume after it ran out of power), it is charging fine now.

I have a samsung S6, my question is what could the root causes be? Are there any suggestions on how to prevent this from happening again.

I presume a software glitch prevented my phone light from working and/or the screen.

Is it bad to turn on your phone while it's charging?


texts: Icon keeps disappearing from app drawer in CM9

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I installed Cyanogenmod 9.0.0 mango on my Xperia mini pro. Everything works fine...except for the built-in launcher's app drawer. What happens is that every time I reboot the phone, the rightmost app shortcut / widget / icon that I place in the app drawer keeps disappearing.

I can replace the icon and it stays there, but only as long as I don't reboot the phone. Why is this happening and / or how can I solve it?


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Since android 7, apps will not obey the user installed CA certificates anymore. So as a tester, if you want to test and verify issues such as certificate pinning you need to install the custom proxy certificate into android trusted root.

I made a research on this and found an article which does this. It basically suggests the following:

Create a custom certificate using OpenSSL
Convert the certificate to android compatible form (with SomeHash.0 extension)
Move the certificate to android trusted root /system/etc/security/cacerts/ using adb push and move the certificate to the proxy tool as well
Change permissions and own the certificate by root user.

I did exactly everything mentioned in the article and yet didn't succeed. I could see my certificate installed in the Root CA store and I have manually checked and enabled it as well.

When I connect the proxy tool, I am able to intercept all the http traffic but no https traffic with HSTS enabled. I even deleted all the certificates in the trusted root and kept only my certificate. Still the same behaviour. What might have gone wrong?

I tested this with an android emulator running on Genymotion. I didn't try it on a real physical device. The emulator was Google pixel with Oreo 8.0.

I believe this is a much needed requirement for all the testers. So any helpful input is much appreciated.


texts: I have cheap phone (apparently) working on Android 7.1, I wish to erase everything to the hardware level and load the phone with a fresh OS

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Background:

I have a USD $30 Chinese Android Phone made by a company called BlackZone, I have never heard of the company, the phone comes loaded with Android 7.1 Nougat which i believe is a little too fishy since it is nothing like the Nougat versions i have used and the storage shows folders with Chinese names which have permissions to access all data including location SIM information Network Information (seems to have root privilege). I think the hardware is usable though. I wish to erase everything from the phone to the hardware level and rebuild the phone using a verified version of Android. I have never worked in this domain before and do not know the way forward other than rooting the phone which also doesnt seem to be working. Could you fine people teach and guide me in the way forward.

Required Help

1.root the phone. (i have tried Kingo root, doesnt seem to be working)

2.Remove OS and Kernels

3.Reconfigure kernels and the ports available

4.Reinstall OS

P.S - it would also help if you could guide me to appropriate tags so that this question may reach the actual target audiance.

I am open to providing any and all information required.


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I have lately noticed that, after last updates on my Samsung S3 mini (although I am not entirely sure which ones in particular), applications simply do not close after exiting them and keep running in the background. As workaround I have to manually end all the processes from Task Manager.

I have read a couple of similar questions recommending this or that other Application Manager to switch them down but I did not understand whether this is a standard behaviour for Android phones (that I somehow never noticed) or a bug introduced.

Also, why is that so? Exit an application means exiting an application, I see no point is closing them but still keeping them running behind the back: it obviously drains the battery strongly. Is it adjustable?


texts: Samsung Galaxy S 2 new software won't connect via USB with Mac?

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My Samsung Galaxy S 2 just got updated software over the weekend and now it's completely different to use.  I've nutted out most of it but it is no longer recognised by my laptop and I can't share or transfer files via USB anymore.

My laptop is a MAC and runs OS X version 10.7.5.

I plug my phone in and then go to settings > wireless and networks > more settings > USB utilities > Connect storage to PC but nothing happens, it just tells me it's not connected to a computer.

When I try opening my Android file transfer app on my laptop it tells me that it cannot detect an Android device.

Is there an update for my file transfer app that I'm just not finding or something? I have tried with two different cables and I still get nothing.


texts: Touchscreen falsly registering multiple taps on single tap

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Half of the times my phone's capacitive touchscreen works fine, but the other half it registers multiple taps on a normal tap or on a long-press.

This malfunction happens much more often when the phone is operated while laying flat on the table (i.e. not hand-held).

When a human body part, like the palm of a hand in a normal operation scenario, is resting firmly against the back of the device the problems usually goes away.

I'd think this somehow has to do with the so called "parasitic capacitive coupling problem".

Is this something characteristic of capacitive touchscreens in general?

Can it possible be fixed by tweaking some timing parameters in the touchscreen driver settings?


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I've seem some suggestions on the internet that we can do a factory reset on the Motorola Moto G (2nd gen) by using the following commands:

fastboot erase modemst1
fastboot erase modemst2
fastboot erase cache
fastboot erase userdata

Or another variant with just

fastboot erase cache
fastboot erase userdata

Now, the fastboot CLI provides the following description for "erase":

  Erase a flash partition.

In that case, I'm worried that these commands just erase the partition, instead of reseting to factory state.

What I mean is: what this erase command actually do? It erases the partition leaving nothing there, or it restores it to the factory state?

These commands really do a factory reset through fastboot?


texts: Is it possible to prioritize wifi networks and bluetooth connexions?

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I can connect my camera to my phone over WifiI have a camera that can create its own access point, so that I can connect to it using an app on my phone.

When I activate the wifi on my phone however, it always picks my home network first, probably because it's the strongest signal.

Is it possible to configure Android to prioritize connecting to my camera's wifi, if available?

(I have the same problem with Bluetooth: when I want to connect my wireless headphones, it connects to the hifi speakers).


texts: Is it possible to create a plain text file in android?

texts:
I see lots of apps that can create "files that contain text", but the files are in their own proprietary format.
I would like to create a plain text file so that if the file is transferred to a computer, it could be opened using a common text editor, like notepad or gedit etc.
Is this possible?

device

Samsung galaxy note 2
running android 4.4.2


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I am developing an automated test script to turn off my android device and turn it on back again and then run a few adb commands after the boot is complete.

My problem is that when I turn the device off and turn it on back again, the sys.boot_completed flag is true , showing that the device is on, but any command such as adb  -s <device_id> shell returns a device not found error.

I tried inserting delays between commands and sleep for boot completion but this error sometimes shows up after a few reboot cycles.

Is there a way to automize reboot with some post-reboot sanity check ?


texts: How to disable "save password to Google?" prompt?

texts:
I am currently using a Galaxy Tab A 2016 on Oreo and the above prompt pops up everytime I log in an app. Is there a way to disable this prompt?

Thanks.


texts: Realme C2 phone bricked, bootloader locked, can't access fastboot or recovery mode, not getting connected to PC

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My Realme C2 phone has been bricked, it had bootloader locked, and I can't go to fastboot or recovery mode, it is not getting connected to PC.
After booting the phone, it shows this screen and not doing anything next.

The current image(boot/recovery) have been destroyed and can not boot.
Please flash the correct image or contact customer service to fix it.

I want to flash stock ROM but not able to do it because it's not connecting to the PC.


texts: How can I make direct phone-to-phone VoIP calls without Internet (on LAN or Wi-Fi)?

texts: I'm looking for a way to make VoIP calls between two Android devices without having any intermediate server (SIP server) or an Internet connection. Is this possible?


texts: how do I know if I uninstalled something I shouldn't have

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Epic sph-d700 rooted 2.3.6 kernel v 2.6.35.7 FC09

I wanted to free up RAM by removing some system apps.

after removing 7 of them my system started having unexpected errors.

Google play updates wont install.

Is this repairable with clockwork mod or Odin?


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I have a Samsung Galaxy i7500. The OS version is 1.5, and I believe Samsung did not publish any updates (other than a 1.6 (Donut) in one country).

Is there any way to upgrade my phone to Android 2.x?

There's gaosp. but the warning "Don't complain if your phone doesn't boot up!" is a bit disenchanting.


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I set a PIN screen lock on my Sony ST21i (Android 4.0) and forgot the code. No encryption, no root, and the phone won't show up a "Forgot PIN?" button. How to regain access to my phone? There is no important information in it, so any solution that deletes all data is fine. Help!

Edit: Didn't work:

Android Device Manager
Trying to boot into "recovery mode" using various key combinations found online


texts: How can I use my Samsung S4 phone functionality from my Asus Nexus 7 tablet?

texts: I got two android devices: Samsung S4 and Asus Nexus 7 where the latter does not have a SIM card. I'd like to use the phone functionality from the tablet e.g. calling and/or SMS but I don't know how. I paired the device using bluetooth and I tried with an app called MightyText but that never completed the setup. Is there a way to do what I want?


texts: can't connect to wifi using lineage os LG g3s (jagnm)

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i recently updated lineage os to 14.1-20171206 on my LG g3s (jagnm) and there are several issues:

1) can't connect to wifi. Apparently it's because wifi mac address got switched to all zeroes (00:00:00:00:00:00) i found somewhere that ifconfig wlan0 down should fix this but it doesn't work, mac stays the same.

another possible solution i found was this https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=70109272&postcount=5

in short:

Make an img of dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/misc
Edit it in a hex editor (details in the link)
Overwrite misc with the img
Reboot

there is just one 'small' problem: dev/block/bootdevice folder doesn't even exist.
I'm at my wits end. I would appreciate any help.

2) another small problem: for some reason if i connect my device to pc or my laptop and choose on the device to use usb to transfer files it almost instantly makes my computer to crash into BSOD.

stop code: SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED
what failed: lgandnetmodem64.sys

PS: if it's not obvious already i'm a complete noob at command line and shell

EDIT: installed 6.0.1 resurrection rom. The mac issue persists.

ALso the PC crashing got worse. With lineage at least i could connect to adb, but now if debugging is enabled pc crashes instantly when i plug in the usb.
Even though i have very little experience with stuff like this i can guess that the issue is deeper than the rom itself. Also something might be bad with LG usb drivers


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As I zip down Broadway in a bus in Vancouver, I pick up a ShawOpen WiFi signal every few hundred feet.

Sometimes, at a stop, or during slow moving traffic, this is enough signal to start a page load or download.

But, when leaving the range of the signal, and dropping back to cellular data, whatever what was going on hangs.

Is there a no-effort way to avoid this? I would prefer to not have to turn off my WiFi when I'm on a bus and then reactivate it when I'm off of the bus. I'd prefer to use the WiFi when it is stable, but if not, it should just stop attempting to use this fleeting signal for a while.

Things I've thought of:

NFC triggers (but don't think there is any NFC on TransLink busses)
multipath TCP (but I can't tell that this is ready for compilation into a custom ROM)

Maybe there is another option I haven't thought of.

I am on CyanogenMod latest for the Note 3.


texts: Andoid Nexus 5X Microphone sound too low

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Recently, about 4 weeks ago, the volume on my microphone became too low for listeners. I can hear them perfectly though.

I found somewhere on the internet (I can't remember where) that if I clear the system cache (see below), then the volume returns to normal. Which it did.

It's happened again though. So I've cleared the cache again and again the microphone volume has returned to normal.

Is there a way around this? It looks like its a software fault rather than a hardware fault.

These are the instructions I followed to wipe the cache:

Power off the phone
Hold down power and the volume down button
Use the volme up/down to select "Recovery mode" and press power button
When "No command" is displayed, hold down power and press volume up.
Select wipe cache
Restart

Currently on 7.1.1


texts: Why I do not receive Android updates for Samsung Galaxy Nexus GT i9250m?

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I have Galaxy Nexus GT-i9250m. It is currently running Android v4.1.1. I am in India. I want to know how to update my phone to v4.2 officially without rooting. I have already tried checking for updates using Settings->About phone-> System Updates.

Asked similar question in gsmarena.com but to no success. Tried solution provided there to Goto Settings-> Apps-> All-> Google services and Frameworks -> Clear Data, but to no success.

Is there any way doing it manually on Galaxy Nexus i9250m without rooting the phone? Like downloading the ROM and trying to run it.


texts: This might be the silly question but am bit new to Android world so I wanna know what does porting of rom means?wanna know in detail


texts: How to add sound in custom created boot animation?

texts:
I successfully created a boot animation but I want to add sound to it. How do I do it?
Unfortunately

  "PowerOn.ogg" in /system/media/ui

did not work.
Any help is appreciated.

                                   ##  Thank you! ##


texts: Why do Android create "Shell Folders" automatically? Can I change the shell folders?

texts:
Android automatically creates these folders in primary storage:

Alarms
DCIM
Documents
Download
Movie
Music
Notifications
Pictures
Podcasts
Ringtones

They are the default "User Shell Folders" of Android (USF is a concept from Windows). There's hardly any documents or discussions on the internet. Most discussions are about MediaProvider (and Media Scanner).

Is there something like a "registry key" that controls these folders? Can I change the default location and name of them?


texts: Cannot select "Start now" on a dialog when using app to do screen capture on Marshmallow

texts:
I just upgraded my new Moto G3 to Marshmallow and noticed that both of my screen capture apps (AZ Screen Recorder and Lollipop Screen Recorder) no longer worked. I kept getting stuck at one dialog asking for permission to capture the screen.

Cancel still works, but it wouldn't let me select Start Now at all.


texts: How to change a thermal printer’s Bluetooth baud rate?

texts:
I want to print image using thermal printer through Bluetooth from Android device.
I connect Android phone to printer (printer model: XP-318B/XP-318BM) through Bluetooth then by using BluetoothPrint app I send command to print image, the printer started to print a part of image then it stopped for half second and than it resume printer then it stops for half second then resume and it continues like this until it finish printing the image, white rows appear at the places which the printer was stopping as in the image.
First, I thought it was a programming issue, so I connect the printer though USB and then printed the same image it perfectly printed, so I'm thinking it is the baud rate of the printer's Bluetooth.
I search for two days with out any good results  how to change the baud rate.
I found these tutorials, but I couldn't change the baud rate .

“Instruction of Change Baud Rate for Bluetooth Printer (To 115200bps)”
“How to Set Baud Rate for 58mm Thermal Printer”

What can I do?


texts: Updater process ended with ERROR: 1 [TWRP]

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I was using Pixel experience 10.0 on Redmi 5A (Riva) and I decided to clean install Pixel experience 11.0 today. But I'm getting the following error on TWRP.
Installing zip file '/sdcard/Pixel Experience Riva 11.0.zip'
Checking for Digest file...
assert failed: riva.verify_trustzone("TZ.BF.4.0.5-157266") == "1"
Updater process ended with ERROR: 1
Error installing zip file '/sdcard/Pixel Experience Riva 11.0.zip'
Updating partition details...
...done

Note that:

I formatted the device with TWRP and wiped System, Dalvik, Data, Cache partitions.
I was using Pixel Experience before and my Bootloader is unlocked.
Previous version of the ROM (Pixel experience 10.0) is installing successfully.
My TWRP version is 3.4.0-0, and latest version of TWRP (3.5.0_9-0) doesn't support on the device.


texts:
I got a new phone and sometimes it's hard to hear the person on the other line. Sometimes people say it's hard to hear me. This is a high end phone and I don't think this should be happening. What options are available to change? I've pressed the volume-up arrow to the top when I'm on a call and it's still too quiet.

What exactly do the options: Speaker voice enhancement, equalizer and microphone noise suppression do?


texts: How do I bridge Android guest network traffic?

texts:
I need a way to direct all traffic from an ARM Android guest to a virtual bridge on the host.

I'm using the Android emulator binaries (built from source) and Android images built from the AOSP repository.

What I have tried:

Starting the emulator with qemu parameters to create a NIC and connect it to a host bridge (my-interface) gives a Segmentation Fault.

emulator -avd [...] -qemu -net nic -net tap,ifname=my-interface

Disabling the adbd service inside the guest did not solve the above.

From what I understand, the system uses the default interface (eth0, which is a default qemu user mode interface) for adb, which might be why I cannot replace it with a TAP interface.

Is there a way I can work around this?


texts: How can I purchase apps from the Amazon Appstore without downloading them?

texts:
I've been procrastinating on swapping out my full 2 GB SD card for a 16 GB one I have, so I can't install many apps at the moment.  It's annoying to have to wait for a download and cancel the install that the Appstore attempts, and when updating other apps it only downloads one in the background (needlessly prolonging the experience, which leads to other issues).

Is there any way I can buy an app, or add the Free App of the Day to "My Apps", without downloading and installing it?  I can't just wait and do it another day, since the daily deal obviously won't apply then.


texts: sms anti-spam application compatible with android 4.4 & hangouts?

texts: I want to block spam sms, at the same time I want to keep using hangouts for sms. Is it possible? What application should I install?


texts:
Play Store locked me out saying "Couldn't log in. This account has been disabled."

This because Play Store required that I create a Gmail account, which I did, but then I was unsuccessful in logging in to the Gmail account.

I have a HUAWEI-M931, Android ver 4.0.4.


texts: I formatted my SD card as internal storage, downloads still go to the phones internal storage

texts: Yo, I just formatted my SD card as internal storage, and the storage section says that in my device storage I have 30 GB, but downloads still go to the phones internal storage, is this how its supposed to be?


texts: Is there any way to launch an app (and keep the screen on) when a Galaxy Nexus is docked?

texts:
Using the official desktop docking station, my Motorola Xoom (running official Honeycomb 3.2) by default launches the Clock app when the tablet is docked, and keeps the screen on whilst it's docked.

The Settings app on the Honeycomb Xoom has a Dock category with two options "Dock Application" and "Dock Insertion Sound", I can't find any similar options on the Galaxy Nexus.

Is there any (preferably built-in) way to get similar functionality with an (unrooted) Galaxy Nexus using the official Samsung dock?


texts: DNS name resolution for local hostnames does not work anymore after android 9 > 10 change

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I use my android phone(s) as a wifi hotspot, clients get IPs from the 192.168.43.0/24 network.
Previously, when the phone was running android 9, internal name resolution for those clients worked fine, as those were configured to:
[root@laptop1 username]# cat /etc/dhclient.conf
send host-name = gethostname();

and nslookup laptop1 yielded 192.168.43.xxx on laptop2.
Now, after the change to android 10 (new phone), this no longer works.
It seems like it is because dnsmasq was replaced with something else in A10 (Hotspot mobile network tethering and DNS). How do I get the original behavior back? Thanks.
Rooting is not an option, unfortunately.


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I have installed and tried several of the "App Ops" starter apps from the Google Play store. When I run any of them, a dialog pops up saying "Unfortunately, Settings has stopped." and my only choice is to tap "OK". So, I still have not been able to get to the App Ops settings.

However, this app claims to work on 4.4.4.

I am running on the stock Moto G (2nd gen), Android version 4.4.4. Not rooted.

Are unrooted 4.4.4 users generally restricted from running App Ops or is there something wrong with my setup? If it is as simple as getting another app to run App Ops for me, can someone point to one that works in 4.4.4 without the error?


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Is there any way to send SMS to another device using internet? I don't want to use phone native. I want to use internet to send messages.

I'm not talking about android applications like Viber, WhatsApp Messenger, etc. If we are using those services, other devices we need to send SMS must have installed the same application. But I don't want to do that. If at all, I want to install an app only on my Android device and send SMS to other devices using internet. (other devices means all other devices which can receive SMS -- not only smart phones but also devices like nokia 1100)


texts: Why do some apps with no internet features require internet access?

texts:
A couple of apps I've installed or considered say they require internet access even though they have no obvious internet features.  One of the most surprising ones was a simple compass app.

Why is this?


texts: Zenfone 5 a501cg soft bricked - can't mount /system /cache

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I have a zenfone 5 which used to run on custom rom so i decided to revert it back to stock rom but when i wiped system cache and dalvik, it didn't go well and now i cannot start phone unless going into recovery. Twrp tells me those errors :
unable to mount cache
unable to mount system

Tried flashing custom rom again but it didn't work too. Any helps please :/

ps: my phone's usb is not working as a connector to pc i.e. pc cannot recognise the phone. please keep this in mind.


texts: Watch Coursera's videos with the video app on Jelly Bean

texts:
Coursera has a html5 based video viewer that works on the android browser on Jelly Bean, but I would like instead to use the video app, in order to have full screen and better controls.
On my Kindle Fire (first version) the Silk browser automatically opens the video with the video app and then returns to the html5 player when the video ends.
Is there a way to achieve this on Jelly Bean?

I am using a galaxy nexus S but shouldn't matter.
Thanks!


texts: My galaxy s2 was in bootloop ,  I have installed cyanogen mod 10 on it . Now I can`t see any files on my storage , when I enter camera or gallery it writes "no external storage available" . And the file manager doesnt show it too . But when I enter to that storage from recovery it shows all files . What can I do?


texts: L2TP VPN connection on Android via shell

texts:
Is there a way to open a predefined vpn (inbuilt vpn managment) connection on Android 8< via shell (on a rooted device), so it can be put in an init script?

Thanks


texts: How can i increase internal storage space,on my LG tribute?

texts: Is there anything i can buy to increase my phones internal storage? I.e. a larger sd or sim or an app for my LG tribute? Plz help always getting the annoying "low storage" i currently have a 4gig external sd...thanks


texts: Continuous input, how to undo the last movements

texts:
Samsung's continuous input method works nicely in many situations.

However, when writing rather long words as they occur in German, the input method sometimes gives up and the entire word swished so far is gone.

What is the best method to handle this situation? Is there a way to retain at least part of the word?


texts: Removing desktop panes on Galaxy Tab 10.1

texts: I have a brand new Galaxy Tab 10.1 and I can't figure out how I remove some of the desktop panes.


texts: Note 4 - won't stop announcing alarm title

texts:
When an alarm goes off, my brand new Samsung Galaxy Note 4 will speak the title of the alarm and then speak the current time.

How the heck do I disable this?

It does not speak any other things.

I made sure TalkBack is disabled. I then started disabling and uninstalling apps, but it still reads it! The clock app itself, where I created the alarm, has no options related to TTS.

I'm at a loss and about to take this phone back!


texts: Android 5: headset's button mutes an active phonecall instead of ending the call

texts:
I recently bought a phone that came bundled with android 5. It is a ZTE Blade S6. I also have bought a Senheizer MM70i which has one button.

I am sure that the first few days if I pressed the headset's button during a phonecall the action would end the call.

Then I tried the jetAudio Basic music player and now it seems that when talking on the phone pressing the button mutes the conversation instead of hanging up.

Is there a way to revert that??

I have tried installing "Degauss Headset control center" but the application states that single button action is indeed to answer/end call, so I cannot alter the action through there.

Is there any other (perhaps low-level) way?

Thank you


texts:
My phone (a refurbished Kyocera Hydro Icon running non-rooted Android 4.3) shows storage info of a sd card in picture 1. What's the path of its mounting point?

The size matching in picture 1 and 2 suggests its directory is /storage/sdcard0.

But ES File Explorer shows the content of /storage/sdcard0 isn't empty after I unmount the sd card. Picture 3 and 4 are before and after I unmount the sd card.

I can't find the sd card in the back of the phone. See picture 5. Where is it? (Update: I found the 2GB sd card, it is a little black thing, a little vague to see in the picture 5)

Thanks.

Storage as shown in Settings (left) and ES file manager

sdcard0 with both cards mounted (left, note the internalSD folder) and with the external card removed

There's an SD card inserted. Click the image for a larger variant if you don't believe

I've checked with mount and df while both cards are mounted, and with the external card umounted:

output of mount with the external mounted (left) and unmounted (click images for larger variants)

output of df with the external mounted (left) and unmounted (click images for larger variants)


texts: What are the drawbacks of moving an app to SD card?

texts:
Since I upgraded to Android 2.2, I noted some minor disadvantages of moving an app to SD card, like having to wait the SD card to be mounted after a reboot to be able launch the app.

What other disadvantages are there?


texts: Setting up Email Notifications based on time & location

texts:
I'd ideally like to only receive notifications from an email app (can be the outlook app or the generic android mail app - not gmail or inbox) at certain times of the day or when I'm not connected to our office wifi. This is an exchange account, so using the gmail app isn't an option.

I know this is possible, most likely with Tasker, but I really can't figure it out, to be honest; and have done some searching here and elsewhere on how to do it. If someone could even lightly walk me through it, that would be excellent!


texts: How to mirror Android phone on Mac or Windows for application presentation?

texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  How do I project the screen of my android phone for a presentation?

Can anyone suggest some tools which can mirror an Android phone to a PC or a Mac?

I found some apps, but mostly they are remote desktop apps. They bring desktop screens to the phone. However, I want it the other way around.


texts: How to increase speaker volume on tablet

texts: The speaker and headphone volumes on my xperia z tablet are too low. Is there any way to increase the max volume that works in 4.3 ?


texts: Would Nexus 4 bought from UK work in India?

texts: I bought a Google Nexus 4 LG make from UK, will it work in India?


texts: EMUI 8.0 Google account contact, gmail, calendar, etc sync not working

texts:
Bought a new phone. The Huawei Mate 10 pro.

No I am not using a chinese variant. And I do not have access to HiApp.

Cloud backup was enabled at startup.

Google contacts sync is not working, calendar sync is not working, weirdly though says gmail is not working (exclamation mark beside the title) but the gmail app is pulling mails.

2FA is enabled for my primary account. I thought this might be a problem, so I connected a secondary account as well. Same issues there.

Principally the services which are not syncing are, Calendar, Contacts, Gmail, Play music, google+, Keep.

Please help.


texts: How to flash scatter-based stock ROM through custom recovery

texts:
I'm using a Karbonn A52+ (Mediatek 6572) running on Android 4.2.2 (stock ROM) with root access, unlocked bootloader and Clockwork Mod Custom Recovery installed.

I have a 4.4 Kitkat stock ROM for my device which is a scatter-based ROM and needs to be flashed through SP Flash Tool. However, for some reasons I'm unable to use SP Flash Tool.

So is there any method which can allow me to flash that ROM through CWM Recovery? I have experience in flashing custom ROMs through recovery, but never flashed a stock ROM using recovery. Can I convert that ROM which needs to be flashed using SP Flash Tool to a ROM which can be flashed through custom Recovery?

P.S. The 4.4 ROM which I want to flash is known to have some bugs, like:

It locks my bootloader.
It disallows me to boot into recovery using the hardware method, i.e. Power button + Volume Up Button. The only way to get into recovery would be either through ADB or through a Reboot Manager from Play Store.


texts: Sending emoji via SMS with UTF-8 (rather than UTF-16)?

texts:
Trying to find out why emoji caused even short messages to being sent as multiple chunks I came across this question, explaining this happens because they are encoded UTF-16 rather than ascii.

My question, now is: is there a way to have them sent in UTF-8, instead? Most of the messages I send contain many latin letters and very few other characters, so they all should be much shorter if encoded in UTF-8: is it possible?

I'm running Cyanogenmod 11-M12 (Android 4.4.4) and, in case it matters, I use the SwiftKey keyboard.

In case this is not possible, is it a matter of the SMS protocol, or is it due to the OS, or even to the keyboard?

Thanks a lot!


texts: How to reset default share target on Cogi app, G3, Android 5.0?

texts:
I shared a Cogi recording, and selected Gmail as the default share target. Now I want to unselect gmail as default. I can't find any place within the Cogi app itself to do it.

Also, I tried to clear app defaults via the Settings-->Apps and Settings-->Apps-->Reset App Preferences. In the Reset App Preferences, I don't see Cogi listed in the list of apps with any preferences to clear, and the Clear Preferences button is grayed out in the Apps menu entry on Cogi.

Anything I can do? (I haven't tried uninstalling/reinstalling Cogi yet)


texts:
I am trying to install Ubuntu Touch on Vodafone Smart Mini 7(Android 6.0), I followed the instruction from Ubuntu Official site and when I hit sudo fastboot oem unlock
,press UP volume button, I get this error : FAILED (remote: Unlock operation is not allowed)

Besides this, I don't have "OEM Unlock" button in Developer Tools, neither on my main phone Huawei P8 Lite(Android 6.0), both phones bought from Vodafone store, so they are blocked in Vodafone.

A friend's Samsung J5, blocked in Orange has the "OEM Unlock" option and that's pissing me off.

As I seen from several forums, some opeartors lets you unlock the OEM, some doesn't, in my case Vodafone doesn't. Is there a way to enable this option and continue Ubuntu Touch installing?


texts: Cannot send or receive SMS on Galaxy Young Duos, someone help?

texts: I bought a Samsung Galaxy Young Duos S6102. The problem is I cannot receive nor send SMS. Sometimes, I cannot receive calls, nor call someone. I have tried rebooting my phone, changing the sim card and updating the phone's software, and at first it works, however, after a few minutes I encounter the same problem again. Can please someone help me? Thanks in advance.


texts:
I recently got a Android 9 phone, and I noticed a new section under special access called "directory access". It lists no apps

This wasn't present on my old Android 8.1 phone, so I'm pretty sure it's new

What is it for?


texts: Possible to activate security screen lock only when out-of-home (out-of-specific WIFI )?

texts:
I am quite a critic of every system which does not give a customization abilities. One of them is the frustration of using the security behaviors of phone - specifically, some of use have some of us lock the phone with either Pin-Code or Pattern or Fingerprint or whatever, having phone at home, and unlocking screen hundreds of times a day for no reason, is just out-of-any borders of convenience.
So, i've been thinking, what technical challenges or problems there were, which interfered the developers to implement a relatively easy (not a rocket science) solution, to have "enabled that lock" security mechanism, when we leave home (or specific WiFi) area?  So, at home, we wouldn't need to waste extra ~3 seconds everytime we unlock phone (maybe it's nothing for you, but in sum every day, it is inconvenient for me).


texts:
Before Android 2.2, the default email app would only show notifications if it was "off". That is, if I used Advanced Task Killer to kill it.

After Android 2.2, the default email app will show notifications regardless of me killing it.

Is there a way to get the old functionality back?

I want it to always show notifications, but only when I tell it to be "on". I know that I can change the notification settings, but that's annoying and clunky.

If there is a good alternative email app that provides this functionaly and can sync with Exchange, that would work.


texts: Why does my phone (Samsung Fascinate) have so much trouble "Searching for GPS"?

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

Whenever I try to use the "Navigation" app, I'm lucky if it takes less than 15 minutes to finish "Searching for GPS" (that is, if it finds it at all). The Magellan and Garmin GPS systems in my cars, however, find it nearly instantly. What makes my phone different, and is it something I can fix?


texts: How can I change the user agent string sent by Chrome on my Nexus 7?

texts:
Reading the reviews of the BBC Media Player on Google Play, one user said that since Chrome supports HTML5, he had managed to persuade the BBC iPlayer website to play him streams meant for iPad/iPhone devices by spoofing an IOS user agent string on his Nexus 7.

How might I go about getting the same thing to work myself?

I have looked at How can I change the user agent for the stock browser? and Method to change browser User Agent based on site but both seem to concentrate on the Dolphin browser. Also, please mention if a solution will require me to root my Nexus-7.

Incidentally, I also tried using Phoney with Firefox, but although Firefox supports HTML5 and the iPlayer website shows pages without either install flash or use external app messages, it still won't play the streams (it just sits swirling its progress wheel), hence looking for a solution for Chrome.


texts: How to backup / partition before rooting?

texts:
I would like to root my Nexus 5 but I am worried it will cause a bootloop or some other sort of problem and therefore I would like to back up all my phones data including / before hand. Is this possible?I have already tried using the adb command like this:

  adb pull / your path here

But this doesn't work and returns

  permission denied: read only file system

Is it possible using adb to backup / without having to be rooted so that I can root?

Thank you,

Isaac

Is there any way I can use adb pull instead of adb backup?


texts: What is the relation between ROM Manager, ClockworkMod and Nandroid? Which one(s) do I need?

texts:
So I understand the first thing I need to do with my phone, after rooting, is to back everything up. But I was confused about 3 of the apparently popular tools used for this.

For example, is Nandroid an application I run on a computer connected to the Android device, or on the device itself?

I understand ClockworkMod is a "custom recovery". What does that mean? Why do I need it? What does it mean to "flash" it?

Asides from browsing and installing new ROMs, how does ROM manager interact with the other two? Does it include them both, so I just need to download it from the market and be done with it?

I will appreciate any answer that can sort out the differences, with emphasis on what I, as an end-user, actually need to do, and whether there is any risk on those actions.


texts: Change language ICS spell correction (red dotted line)

texts:
I've upgraded my i9000 to Android 4.0 using CM9. I've found a major annoyance though. I've enabled spell-checking on my phone (the fancy one, with the red, dotted lines), but it appears to be available only in English, and 4 other languages. See this image:

When I switch my entire system language to Dutch, the dotted line just disappears. I've Googled around and learned that Android.com officially states: "For specialized features or additional languages, you can now download and install third-party dictionaries, spell-checkers, and other text services."

However, I haven't been able to find language packs like these. I'm dying for one, and find it hard to imagine that months after the launch of 4.0 not a single language pack has been made.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Much appreciated!


texts: How to disable message button on lockscreen?

texts: Hello I want to make this button gone, because I installed lockscreen notifications app, but if I disable in messages app notifications it not notificate when I get new message.


texts: Is there any way to split the audio and video between my phone/laptop and TV so that audio plays through my phone/laptop and video through the TV?


texts: Forgot screen lock PIN on Samsung Galaxy Note 4

texts: Logged in to device manager using gmail account. Over internet locked the phone and reset the password. Received the message on the phone that it is locked using android device manager. But when I try unlocking the screen using new pin it says 'wrong pin'. I do not want to loose data by resetting to factory setting. Can anyone help please.


texts: my micromax a35 bricked when installing custom rom

texts:
i asked a question how to install custom rom on my micromax a35
i followed the steps
.i reboot into recovery by an app
.wipe cache,data,dalvik cache,battery,states and install the zip but my recovery hang during the installation and it is rebooting at bolt logo again and again.i download the firware but i not know how to install the drivers thats why i pay rs250 to unbrick it now it is unbricked and i have rooted it again .tell me how to flash the custom rom buttersmooth dream xperia and prevent recovery from hanging
please


texts: How do you move an app shortcut between launcher screens?

texts:
So I have a few icons and folders on the leftmost launcher screen.  I want to move them to the middle one.  You'd think that you'd do it by dragging the icons to the dots on the lower left/ lower right corner, but that doesn't work.

I know it's possible to do because I've actually done it few times, somehow, but I can't figure out how to do it in any kind of reliable way.


texts: Why won't my android video player display media in the correct aspect ratio

texts: I'm using a Samsung Vibrant (Galaxy S) and when I play M4V video files, ostensibly formatted for IPhone, the device stretches the image to fit the screen rather than letterboxing.  I can't find any option to change this.  Is there a better media player or a hidden setting?


texts: “Screen overlay detected” dialog? Turned off everything, doesn't work

texts:
I started receiving the “Screen overlay detected” dialog when trying to change apps settings.

Tried to turn off all "draw over other apps" as it says here - "Screen overlay detected" dialog?, first without system and then with, but it still doesn't work.

Then, I restored apps to original settings and it just made a bigger mess, dialog continue appearing.
Any way to go back to previous settings???

Thanks!


texts: Install company's wireless certificate to Samsung Android 4.0.3. tablet

texts: Trying to install all exported windows WEP Enterprise 802.1X Wireless certificates (.p12 extension) to a Samsung Android 4.0.3 tablet. With no certificate installer, Android certificate was installed from Google Play on the Tablet. The certificate file was opened, however, the error “No Certificates to Install” was displayed.


texts: Open RemixOS system.img on Windows and edit init.sh (Faulty Touchscreen)

texts:
I installed RemixOS on my Baytrail Tablet but the touchscreen doesn't seem to work properly. It only works in the middle of the screen and the touches are registered 3-4 cm left of the area of touch. I have already tried everything I found by Googling like adding rmmod i2c-hid and modprobe i2c-hid with no luck.

But, recently under OS/BOM configuration in the BIOS I found 6 different options for the touch panel - MSSL, Ntrig, ChipOne, Focaltech, Goodix and Disable. I'd like to try each one of them, but I want rmmod and modprobe to run on every boot automatically.

I tried editing init.sh (in system/etc) with no luck. I am using Windows 7 right now. Can anyone suggest?


texts: Where are UID for each application stored?

texts:
When installing an application, Android gives it an unique UID, which file(s) is used to keep track of used UIDs and to whom they belong? I want to forcibly change application UID to ensure they are the same on different device.

I've already checked with /data/system/packages.xml. But while that contains application permissions by package name, didn't see any UID there.

If it depends on Android version, for each versions superior or equal to 4.4.4 and source to documentation to figure it out myself for future versions.


texts: mkdir based on arguments then copy files to that directory

texts:
I'm trying to create a simple script that I can run through the Android adb shell to move two specific files to a directory that is named based on the argument provided but haven't been having any luck.

#!/bin/sh
DIR=/sdcard/Download/PAD/"$1"
mkdir -p "$DIR"
mv /data/data/jp.gungho.padEN/files/data056.bin /data/data/jp.gungho.padEN/files/data048.bin "$DIR"

I run the code like this sh script.sh "unix-stackexchange"

Would love to get some help but the output is always not directory even though the directory is created, the files do not get moved.


texts: Is it possible to recover files from Nexus 5 stuck in boot loop?

texts: I have a Nexus 5 that starts up, says "Optimizing apps" and then reboots and repeats this endlessly. I just want to recover my files from the phone. Is there any way to accomplish this through Recovery mode, maybe by mounting the data folder? The only option I have for mounting is "Mount /system" but this doesn't seem to do anything.


texts: Remove stock android apps via file manager

texts:
I have a rooted HTC One (M8). I want to remove some pre installed apps like Play Newsstand, Play Movies, Fitbit etc.

I tried uninstalling them using System App Remover by jumobile, and Titanium Backup.
But after uninstalling, even removing the backup of the app, and then rebooting my phone, I find the app still there and it opens and works too. I deleted the apk of an app that was the factory version. So it's apk was not there in /data/app, I checked. So basically it reappeared in /system/app after reboot.

I read somewhere that if I delete the app folder in /system/app via root file explorer then the app will be uninstalled. Is this method ok? Or are there drawbacks? And if its fine, will it work on Android Lollipop?

If there is any workaround or alternate method, please suggest.


texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  Does constant charging harm my Android cellphone?

I am using my Xperia Active for application development. Given that scenario, I obviously have the phone connected to the laptop most of the time since I want to be able to easily test my app on the device.

The thing that's worrying me is that when I go to Settings > About phone > Status, the Battery level is set to 100% and the Battery status is set to Charging (USB).

Am I overcharging my phone? Is this bad for the battery's health? If yes, what do I do about it? I use this phone on a daily basis and I don't want the battery's performance to be affected by my development cycle.


texts: Does the Moto G7 Power support HDMI alt mode?

texts:
I plugged my Moto G7 power into my audio/video receiver, with a high quality USB-C to HDMI cable. This same cable works with other devices, such as a Lenovo C330 Chromebook. Unfortunately, I am not getting any HDMI signal from my Android device. Apparently HDMI "alt mode" is required in order to support video output from Android devices, but I am not sure if the Moto G7 Power has this capability or not.

Question: How can I check if the Moto G7 Power supports HDMI alt mode?


texts: Changing third-party websites on android device without browser extensions available

texts:
I'm searching a way on how to change behavior of some website in mobile browser.

For example:

Remove annoing Ad (specific one)
Change some elements on a website, to make it easier to read on small screen (change some css)
Make site measure how much time I've spent on it, and "block" me from using it more time per day than I've configured.

On desktop browser I'm usually solving this tasks by using extensions like TamperMonkey/GreasyMonkey (which allows me to add custom JavaScript code to page and do what I want on the page), StayFocusd (to limit distractions) and so on.

But most of mobile browsers doesn't have extensions (and it's understandable because they often writen poorly and could eat too much CPU on not-so-powerfull device).

To be honest, Firefox for Android has addons but there are very few. Just adblocking, privacy and some bugfixing extensions. No TamperMonkey/GreasyMonkey analog.

Also, I know, that UCBrowser has it's extension store, but my Chineese is bad, and the store is all on Chinesse :)

I came to the folowing idea:

Setup my own DNS server and configure my Android to use it (now it's possible without root)
Setup my own squid proxy server
Create self-signed SSL-certificate and add it to my Android's certificates storage.
For sites where I want to make some augmentations, my DNS should give IP-address of my squid-proxy (which is using my self-signed cert or generating cerificated for needed sites, signed by my self-created authority certificate)
The proxy should be loading the real site, and patch it's html files, adding my JavaScript file into it.
So I would be able to change parts of the sites, removing ads, measure time spend and so on. Everything is possible!

I have knowledge and skills to make all of the described steps (or it seems so), BUT! I don't have enough free time.

I want to know, maybe there are something like this implemented in a single service?

Or maybe you could direct me to some easier solution of the problem?


texts: Backup using ADB without root or usb debugging

texts:
I have a Nexus S (on android 4, not rooted) device who's not able to boot. It opens and get stucks to the X screen. I can only access the recovery mode.

I tried to backup data via ADB, but the phone haven't activate USB debugging so I can't connect ADB backup (and it won't show in adb devices). I can only get signal via USB when I go in "update via ADB" option, then the device show, but only the sideload connection is activated.

How can I backup the data on the phone? Or how could I activate the USB debugging mode while in recovery?


texts: On both my nexus 9 and my Oneplus One running android 5.0.1 the apk installer will pop up and show the permissions but it simply won't let me click install. It does it for apks from the internet and from the Amazon app store. The only thing that I have found is that lollipop doesn't let secondary users install apps but I don't even have secondary users on either of my devices. I searched the settings and haven't found anything, and before you assume that I am a complete fool the "unknown sources" box is checked. How can I fix this?


texts: How to get Jelly Bean Camera to use external SD card?

texts:
I just purchased a 32 GB SD card for use with my Galaxy S3 which is running a 4.2.1 rom. Certain apps like Titanium Backup I was able to switch to start using the SD card just fine, but I can't for the life of me find a setting anywhere for the camera to start storing videos/photos there. Is this possible?

I've googled lots, but all I can find is directions for older versions of Android, which aren't applicable to my setup.


texts: What are CyanogenMod and MIUI based phones?

texts: Recently I came to know about some phones which are based on MIUI and CyanogenMod. I want to know if the meaning behind it is they will get lifetime updates from MIUI and CyanogenMod or something else?


texts: Removing Alarm From Lock Screen - Galaxy SIII

texts:
I just got an updated replacement phone - a Galaxy S III. I can't figure out how to remove the alarm icon and wake-up time from my lock screen.

I need the alarm set but hate being reminded I have an alarm to go off at 5:30 am every time I look at my phone. And I need the time to show on my lock screen. Just not the dreaded alarm.

Any ideas?


texts: At what decibel does Android Pie shows high volume warning?


texts: How can I send SMS messages through PC programatically?

texts:
Or there a way to send SMSs through a PC programatically?
Alternatively: is there an android application that exposes an API over a socket (REST or otherwise) that allows one to send SMSs (and possibly other functionality)?


texts: Default calendar doesn't show any calendar; not able to create a new one

texts: My tablet runs Android 4.0.3. The stock calendar app complains that there's no calendar available, however I'm pretty sure that my calendar exists because I can read it online through other devices. I can even sync it with my Windows phone. Moreover, I don't see any button to create a new calendar. In my settings, sync calendar is enabled, and there is no problem with my Google account; I can successfully use Gmail and Play. I must be missing something... without any calendar, the calendar app is useless, uh?


texts: Preventing browser redirects on Android (and iOS)

texts:
There seems to be an issue occurring with mobile browser apps on Android and iPhone being redirected to advertising sites. This is interrupting the browsing experience.

The problem:

A user visits a website on their phone in a current and up-to-date browser such as Chrome for Android or Firefox for Android, and a mobile ad is displayed
The ad causes a redirect from the currently displayed website to spaces.slimspots.com
The slimspots server seems to check if Javascript is active and then redirects to another ad, such as a competition webpage

Many users have reported this, both on the Chrome product forum and on the Apple forums, (links in the pastebin below) but nobody seems to understand what is actually occurring. People are doing unnecessary factory resets on their phones and complaining to various webmasters about the ads on their forums.

The behavior can be replicated in a desktop browser by changing the User-Agent to a Nexus 4 and reloading a forum thread on a website (eg. xda-developers) until an offending ad appears.

Since I can't create more than two links here without gaining more reputation, you can find some useful content in this pastebin.

Can anybody provide advice on how to suppress these redirects, without resorting to a non-stock browser?


texts: How do I turn off the cascade of tones that happens every time I end a call?

texts: I have a Galaxy S phone, and every time a call ends it plays a cascading series of 4 tones.  Regardless of how my phone's ringtone volume is set - e.g. even if I have it on silent mode - these tones play.  It's especially annoying when I'm wearing my headset, which seals against my ear, making these tones much louder than the call was.  I have to jerk my headset away from my ear unless I want to endure it, and I don't like to complain, but it's f-ing LOUD.  Is there any way that I can disable this end of call sound?  It doesn't matter which headset I use; this is a function of the phone itself.  Can't find anything in the manual about it, either.


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I have a Nexus 6 that I've been using now for almost a year.

Very recently, it started this odd behaviour of turning the screen black as soon as I swipe up to unlock it.

The screen works fine otherwise - it boots fine, it behaves in bootstrap and recovery mode, etc. The rest of the phone also seems to operate 'correctly' and I can see notifications occuring in the lock screen. There is no PIN or other unlock pattern - just the swipe upwards.

However, the moment that I try to unlock it, it goes black.

Apparently, there is a sensor for magnetic covers that can become biased and cause this issue. Some have noticed this occuring after prolonged use of a cover with a magnetic clasp - and sure enough, the phone has been used with one of these since when it was new.

Any ideas on how to fix this? Both a cache wipe AND a factory reset didn't solve the issue - which would be consistent with the cause above.

Some have suggested swiping a magnet to 'unbias' the sensor, but I am not sure about what kind of magnet and how to do this. Experiments with a fridge magnet have yielded no effect.


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Recently, upon receiving an incoming call, I get a voice notification asking me to "Press 1 to answer the call".  Probably started a couple of days ago, which perhaps correlates to having received Motorola Assist updates about that time.

My initial thought was that this was Google Voice call screening.  While I do have GV installed, I am not using it nor have I even set it up.

Any thoughts on where else the calls are getting trapped out?


texts: Android: Change Samsung Galaxy Ace default message type to text (160 charactors )

texts: My Samsung Galaxy Ace default message is multimedia type messages (70 characters) and is costing me a fortune, over 10p a text (UK).  How do I change this to normal text (160 characters) which my phone company gives me 200 free text making it cheaper for me?


texts: I was listening to music on my Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini when the sound coming from my headphones got really low.

texts: The Phone is three days old, and suddenly all music coming from my headphones (yes, tried different ones, and they work the same way, really low sound) got really low. The headphones work on all other devices, but the sound on my Samsung mini is really low. My Phone is not rooted. Pls help!


texts:
On my GPE S4 (Android 5.0.1), if I change from Firefox or Google Sheets or ezPDFreader to another application for more than 1 or 2 minutes, and come back, the data is loaded again. It is not only bad for my data plan, but is also time consuming. I monitor data usage, it is not just re-rendering.

On my Nexus 4 (Android 5.0), applications in the background keep content for an hour or more. It is quite strange, as they have the same amount of memory, 2GB.

Is there a setting for this? How can I avoid unnecessary reloads?


texts:
I am using samsung galaxy fame. When I flashed cm12 my phone is unable to detect simcard when i dialed ##4636## i cannot even turn on radio there. When I chose option of preferred network it shows unknown.
The main problem is my phone shows imei number but unable to detect sim card .please help me and give me solutions over it .its my request.


texts:
I've borked something in my nexus 4 stock rom playing with system files over ADB, and my device no longer boots past the animation.

Is there any way I can make the system show it's boot process instead of the animation? Or at least a way to enable adb at this stage so i can logcat and try to identify the problem

I still can do whatever I want with the device - I have cwm and the device is unlocked but I'd prefer to fix the problem instead of backing up my files through adb for hours and reflashing stock rom

Thanks


texts: Move the pointer with the head on android

texts:
Allow me to introduce myself, my name is Stéphane, I am quadriplegic.
I am running this topic because I need help.
My disability means that I cannot use my arms. I'm looking for a system where I can move the mouse cursor with my head on an android tablet.
I found a system with OpenCv but it's on Windows Would it be possible to do the same on android ?


texts: Screen goes black after showing Samsung logo in Samsung Galaxy S3

texts:
I flashed Cyanogenmod on my Samsung Galaxy S3.  I did this process through a program called Odin.  Once I reached PASS! on the Odin screen, I disconnected my cell phone from my laptop as directed.  I did notice that the cell phone did not reboot during the process.  The cell phone did completely shut off.

The process then indicated that I was to look under Settings to see if I had a SuperSu app.  So I thought the next step would be to turn on the cell phone.  The cell phone does attempt to turn on and shows in the upper left corner recovery booting and the center of the screen says Samsung.  However, the phone goes black almost immediately and will not turn on at all.

Do you know what have I done wrong during the flash process to remove this particular Cyanogenmod?


texts: Which version of clockwork recovery creates backups as a tar files?

texts:
I have used several versions of CWM recovery on my Motorola Droid 2.
One of them was able to back up into a .tar (cache.ext3.tar, data.ext3.tar nandroid.md5, recovery.img, system.ext3.tar) as opposed to the .img files that I am getting now.

Now I can't seem to find that version anymore; can someone tell me which version was able to do that?

(Currently running v5.0.2.0 from http://www.clockworkmod.com/rommanager)


texts: My Bootloader won't do anything, when I type fastboot getvar all it stops giving the strings half way, or when typing any other command it will only give ... and nothing more. Bootloader log only shows: cmd: oem-info and nothing more


texts: How to highlight/outline buttons on Android (for TV box)?

texts:
I bought a Android TV box and the biggest problem I'm having is to use apps that wasn't made for tv cause I can't control it using the Tv box's remote control.

See this image, it's the homescreen of a tv box.

As you can see, Kodi app is highlighted in the first image, and Music app in the second, and you can move that outline using the remote control buttons to select other apps.

The biggest problem is that apps that wasn't made to Tv have not that outline. Is there any way to add it to apps that don't have it?

I've tried Google TalkBack, it does that in my phone but somehow I couldn't install in on my tv box (and it don't select just buttons and inputs by all elements in the app, like text and images)...


texts: After Firmware update keeps rebooting my galaxy s4

texts:
I recently updated my galaxy s4, and since then it keeps randomly rebooting. I have tried google for some solutions. I have tried a number of steps, such as taking battery out, clearing the cache, restarting the phone, deleting some recently downloaded apps but none of these steps have worked?

Does anyone else have any knowledge why this might be occurring? Or what I should do? Thank you.

Update 28/10/2014

After doing a factory reset the issue seems to have gone away, leading me to believe it must have been corrupted at some point downloading files/apps on to my phone.


texts: Why no native support for phone call blocker by Regex +44.* in Oreo?

texts:
There are many privacy problems in phone call blockers such as TrueCaller leaking your phonebook (thread Does TrueCalller App leak your phonebook?) in Android phonebook blockers.
I really think the support should be native.
I would like to understand why it is not at the moment.

There are many threads about the feature in non-native targets by 3rd party apps but none of those threads offer a simple, strong-security and strong-privacy approach for the problem: thread Android app to to block international calls from a particular country.

Example block function: block all UK phone numbers by Regex

+44.* so matching UK country code and any other letter after it

OS: Android Oreo 8.0
Phone: Oneplus 3T


texts:
Nexus 6P, Android O (8.0.0), not rooted.

When I long-press (or double-tap) a word in a textarea field, often the result is that much more than the targeted word is selected. Roughly two lines of text may end up selected. Obviously this makes text selection more difficult, because then I have to use the handles on the selection to resize it to just the word I wanted.

This doesn't occur every time, and I'm having a hard time understanding why/when it does or doesn't occur.

I normally use Swype as my keyboard, but I tried switching to GBoard and saw the same behavior, so I don't think it's related to the keyboard.

I've seen this behavior in Twitter, Fenix (third-party Twitter app) and Google Keep (maybe other apps but I don't remember). But like I said: not always.

I've never had this problem before Android O.

Has anybody observed such a behavior? Is there any known fix for it?

One thing I'm beginning to note as I write this post: this problem doesn't seem to occur if the text is in English; only if the text is in French. It seems a little weird but it's the only criteria that I'm able to discern for now. (I use both languages frequently; I have Android itself set to English.)

Example (screenshot below): long-pressing any word after "montre" (first line) results in this exact selection. Long pressing any word before (and including) "montre" gives the normal result (only one word selected). (In case you're wondering, the selected text has absolutely nothing to do with Google Maps.)

UPDATE

No solution found yet, but in case it helps somebody, I noticed that once this larger selection is set, you can tap a third time on the word you want to select, and then the selection will be reduced to this word. So the problem is not as bad as I first thought. No need to use the selection handles, you just have to tap three times instead of two.


texts: Galaxy S5 unable to switch to 4GLTE when Wi-fi is turned off

texts:
I have had my Samsung Galaxy S5 for about a year now and it has been working fine until a few days ago. I would use my wi-fi when I have access to it and then I would switch to my 4GLTE when I don't have access to any wi-fi. This has been working for the longest and I only had to switch to 4GLTE when I'm at working or driving. But recently, my phone would not switch back to 4GLTE when I lose wi-fi connection or even turn off the wi-fi option on my phone. Restarting the phone would temporarily fix the issue but I was wondering if there is anything else that I can do?

I got the phone from T-Mobile but I been using MetroPCS ($60 unlimited data plan) since about 2 months after using T-Mobile.


texts: Contacts disappeared after adding new google account

texts:
I am using a Google Nexus S I9023 mobile phone (Android 4.0.4). For whatever reason my google account was deactivated. So, I registered a new one and added it to the phone.
Afterwards, 80% of the contacts in my contact list, disappeared.
What happened and how can I restore them?


texts: SGS2 can't connect to PC for USB file transfer or Debugging mode

texts:
I am an Android developer and I have been using my SGS2 for a while and I was accessing the debugging mode without any problem, until I broke my phone's screen. I found a repairer who replaced the screen with another. Since that day I cannot access my S2 neither on Debugging mode, nor on USB File Transfer mode.

How can I fix this?

EDIT

It still charges when connected to PC, but no feedback in my Win 7. I tried with other computers and getting the same things ...


texts:
As soon as I connect a USB modem to android device, system grabs ttyACM0 and ttyACM1 in an attempt to open connection. As a result, the ports are blocked and can not be opened by other services. How, if possible, can I disable RIL on android to avoid having it block ttyACM0 and ttyACM1 as soon as modem is plugged in? Is it doable without having to rebuild Android?

I have tried making following changes in init.rc, as well as deleting ril-deamon service entry.

setprop ro.radio.noril yes
setprop hw.nophone true


texts: How to avoid superbrick by flashing / modding / rooting?

texts:
How is a superbrick accomplished? I am looking for advice of things to avoid and list of causes.

Such as, what if I accidentally flashed the wrong recovery? Could this result in a superbrick?

Or if I accidentally flashed the recovery into the wrong mount point / block device.

Or if power is lost during flashing?

Superbrick for the sake of this question is defined as resulting the phone getting into a state that can no longer be repaired by usual flashing. When the manufacturer service would be required to physically swap components, soldering etc.


texts:
I made an application, and I want my friend to install it from a link, but the apk file cannnot be installed on the Android phone. He has to use some file explorer to install it. But I see many apps can be installed from a link and installed directly without using the file explorer.

What should I do to my APK? Is it a signature problem?


texts: Lenovo A850 Bricked while flashing Stock Rom

texts: My phone Lenovo A850 (MT6582) bricked just now. I accidentally pulled out the USB cable when it was flashing stock ROM by using Smart Phone Flash Tool. Now it's not charging and won't turn on, like a dead phone. I can get into MTK Meta Mode by pressing Volume Up & Volume Down then connect the USB, with and without battery. But when I try to flash anything, it gives error 4032. Please help me this is not my phone and I broke it! It does nothing when I press power button.


texts: Is there any Android app which allows any family member to get my real-time location if installed ? Or is there any way to allow it ?


texts: Staying logged out of youtube in android tv

texts: I'm logged in on my android tv's google play for all my apps and such, but I share my nvidia shield tv with my entire family and I do not want them to see all my youtube history, recommendations, etc. Every so often I go to the TV and find myself logged in on youtube, I log out, but then I go back a week later and I'm freaking logged in again. How do I make sure I stay logged out?


texts: Any way to force Android to treat copied pasted images as new?

texts:
I have some art apps that only let you choose images from built-in galleries that display images chronologically.

I have hundreds/thousands of images on my tablet (organized in folders), especially older ones I want to edit. It'll take forever to find within these apps galleries.

One thing I noticed is that downloaded images appear at the top of these galleries. So I thought a workaround would be to COPY & PASTE the older image (via file managers) - so that it appears as new.

But for some reason, Android will only treat downloaded images as new - not copied pasted images.

Is there any trick to make this work? Because I'm forced to edit on Android - but it's so annoying to do simple things as in Windows.


texts: How can I prevent applications from running on startup?

texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  How can I stop applications and services from running?

I've installed some applications that I mostly like, except for the fact that they all decided they were too important not to auto-start.  None of them give me any option within the application to disable the auto-start "feature."

Can I stop these applications from auto-starting?  And if so, how?

Note: My phone is not rooted, so I'm especially interested in solutions that do not require a rooted device, but all answers are welcome, even if they require rooting the device, since I may do this eventually.

Also note: I'd prefer not to fiddle around with clumsy auto-kill features in task-killer programs, as I've found them to be incredibly unreliable on my phone (Motorola Milestone/Droid).


texts: "Android OS" uses a lot of data in background, how to turn off it?

texts:
I have already read this and
this but can't stop the automatic blackground update.

I currently use Samsung grand 2 dual (SM-G7102) android 4.3 and cellular mode.

I'm setting-->usage “Restrict Background data” but the android OS is still running the updates in the background.(see picture)
help me please.

Click image(s) for larger version

I'm setting “Restrict Background data” in 24/08/2557 but On 25/08/2557, "Android OS" was still sending out to cellular.

Click image(s) for larger version

I'm allow Facebook, Line and Messager can use cellular but don't want the "Android OS" Update. The mobile is rooted

The "android os" was “Restrict Background data”.
Help me please.


texts: Where are the links of the saved pages of Opera Mini are stored in Android?

texts: I have an Android 2.3 Gingerbread and have installed Opera Mini. I used it to save many useful pages for offline viewing and I want to save the links of the pages in a text file. So I need to find the place where the links of the saved pages are stored.


texts: Wifi turning off automatically when turned on

texts:
My phone is lenovo vibe k5:

I am facing the issue when I turn WiFi on, its turning on-off continuously!

"Scanning Always Available" Is Also Turned Off and there is not any saved network...

Still I am facing this issue.


texts: How to mimic gyroscope-Sensor in Bluestacks?

texts:
i want to play the App "Spin Commander" on my PC. For that i need to simulate the rotation of my device. Do you have any suggestions how i can do this using bluestacks?

EDIT: - Better get someone who knows what Bluestacks is....

Bluestacks is a Programm for the Computer to run Android apps on it.

In Bluestacks you can simulate an Android Smartphone

In Bluestacks you can easily simulate Phone-Tilting

I want to simulate Phone-Rotation in Bluestacks - Does anyone know how?

YES, i searched for an answer, I wouldn't ask here if I didn't.


texts: wifi only when traveling; also necessary to turn off packet data?

texts:
My son has a Galaxy S3 and is travelling to Russia. He'd like to be able to use his phone for Internet use, and Skype, when connected to Wifi. Otherwise, he doesn't want to incur extra or roaming charges for voice, text, or data.

I thought I had this figured out. The instructions I got were to

1) go into airplane mode, and then

2) turn Wifi back on.

However, I just called ATT, to verify my approach, and the person said he also has to go to

3) Applications -> Settings>  -> More Settings -> Wireless and Network -> Mobile Network -> Use PacketS Data

and uncheck "Use Packet Data"

I Step 3 necessary, even after having done Step 1 and Step 2?

Thanks,


texts: What does zipalign mean and how does it fit into how we use our Android devices?

texts:
What does "zipalign" mean and what is its significance?

When a ROM claims to be "zipaligned" what does that mean and what the difference from a ROM that is not "zipaligned"?


texts: Longer disk-encryption passwords on Samsung Galaxy S5?

texts:
I'm trying to encrypt my Samsung Galaxy S5 (AT&T) and it only allows me to use a 16-character passphrase for my encryption key.

Is there a way to bypass this or change the encryption key to something longer? This is really annoying at best and is a bad security practice to limit the size of the passphrase.

(Android internally uses the Linux dm-crypt method for encrypting the disk, which doesn't mention such password-length restrictions, and I've used it in the past with very long passphrases.)


texts: Paid app accidentally deleted and now can't re-download: says I "already own" the app

texts:
I paid for and downloaded an app from the Play Store. Afterwards, I accidentally deleted this app with Titanium Backup instead of a different app that I intended to delete instead.

Now, when I go to Play Store, it shows the deleted app as installable, and I try to install it again. It prompts me for payment info, which I enter, even though I paid for it once before (I don't mind paying twice, if I have to). But then, Google rejects my installation attempt and says that I "already own" the app.

I'm stuck, because now I can't re-download or re-install the app. How can I tell Google that I want them to either (1) accept my second payment and let me install the app again, or (2) make the APK available to me again because I already paid for it?

To be clear, I am quite willing to make a second payment. This is not about the money. I just want to re-install the app that I accidentally deleted.


texts: How does Google Now know it's listening to music?

texts:
Once you launch the Google Now app, it listens to determine if it's listening to speech/noise or a song.
What is the logical process that the Google Now app uses to identify noise vs music? I'm assuming it reads the frequency/tone of the song it is picking up through the microphone, but if not, what is the actual process?


texts: How do I dial phone numbers with extensions with Google Now?

texts:
I am helping my visually impaired brother setting up his Samsung S7 with voice commands. Google Now works pretty well for dialing, it can both dial stored contacts and new numbers by dictating the phone number.

However, often when dialing public services, you need to make a multiple choice afterwards (ie. they use extensions).

Is that possible somehow with voice commands?


texts: What is the largest HTC Desire card size?

texts:
Anyone know what the largest size of card the HTC Desire will take? I saw this question,
Maximum (micro) SD card speed class for HTC EVO? Which says a class4, so that's okay as the 32gb card is class 2.

Curious to know how well this will work, as my iPod recently died and I'd like to use my phone as a part time replacement. Anyone experimented with larger cards? I have a 4gb in my phone at the moment and it's okay, I have an 8gb card I'll test when I get home, but would be keen to know results with 16gb and 32gb


texts: Exchange service polls every minute and drains the battery

texts:
Two days ago my Sony Xperia J phone's battery began to be drained very quickly. It seems, the Exchange service has gone mad (it uses 57% of the battery time). It polls constantly, I get a new mail every minute according to it (I have only 1 new mail actually). I already restarted the phone.
It even polls when it requests a security update.

What have gone wrong? Did Google release a new version of it?


texts:
Where can I see the  file format of my SD card on Android?

I use a Samsung Galaxy s9 with Android 9.

Note a dupe because here we're talking about SD cards.


texts: Android Apps will not stop updating, no matter what I try

texts:
I've searched extensively on this and I see many threads where the advice relates to drilling into the apps individual menu list and 'un-checking' the 'Enable auto-update' box.

Anyway, I'm at my wits end here now.  For whatever reason, I do not want ANY apps to update by themselves.  This functionality has been well supported in Android for a long time now and has worked.  However, it no longer does and it's extremely frustrating - I'm turning to the collective brain here to see if anyone is able to help me at all?

Here are the details:

Galaxy Note9 (SM-N960F UK)
Vodafone contract (UK)
Android 8.1.0
Sams Exper Version 9.5

Google playstore : Auto updates is turned OFF
Samsung Galaxy Apps: Auto update apps, is turned OFF
Every SINGLE app in the Play store list has been checked that the 'Enable auto-update' is NOT checked. (this is the one that everyone seems to immediately advise upon, however I have covered this off already)

And yet, at least 40-odd apps have recently auto-updated and continue to do so!

It's driving me nuts.

Is anyone else having the same experience and - is anyone able to assist at all please?  Many thanks in advance.


texts: How to enable multi-channel sound on android?

texts:
I'm trying to setup my android box(4.4) to output 5.1 sound through my USB Sound card. It works well on Linux and Windows. but there is poor documentation on Android regarding audio devices.
I tried editing /system/etc/audio_policy.conf by changing AUDIO_CHANNEL_OUT_STEREO to AUDIO_CHANNEL_OUT_SURROUND at the usb section of the file and it still works the same way. can anyone refer me to something else to do in order to enable multichannel audio?


texts: Help in Reverting Nokia X RM-980 to STOCK ROM

texts:
I have a NOKIA X RM-980 mobile phone and I desired to install a custom ROM on it. I had choose Lovi OS 2.0 Update 1 (Unofficial-LoviOS-2.0pa.zip) + (TWRP-3.0.0-0-normandy-X.img) .

After that I decided to install Google Play (GApps_Minimal_4.4.4_signed .zip).

Problems:

After setting up Google Play with my account, it didn't worked! and
many pre-installed apps became corrupt with an error message:
"unfortunately com.google.process.gapps has stopped" .
WiFi is automatically powers every time I restart or power-up the
phone.
Camera became not working with this error message: "unfortunately
the process com.google.process.media has stopped" .
I backed-up some personal files by Moving them from SD card as a
prepare step to install the stock ROM on this phone, but they are
still appearing when I connect the phone to my PC ! and in the same
time aren't exist at file manager on the phone ???
So, I decided to rollback to the original firmware - stock ROM - by
following two methods:

(5a) Nokia Care Suite.

(5b) Nokia X Flasher.

(5c) ADB and Fastboot.

All are not working, after restart, system is restored again and again with the same status !

During this post, I tried to do something to prove my theory. I've change the desktop background on the phone and after restart, it revert back to the default one. Phone became in "read only" or "system restore" mode. that's why the stok ROM wouldn't install.

No important personal data on this phone, I'm free to totally format it.

Stock ROM info:

  Model : RM-980

  Variant : 059T9F2

  Revision : 1.2.4.1

  Manufacture : Microsoft

  Platform : Nokia X

Apart from that, let me share some issues that I found may it will help us to solve this problem.

To check the status of bootloader, I used this command:

fastboot oem device-info

Device tampered: false
Device unlocked: false

I used this command to unlock bootloader:

fastboot oem unlock

Device tampered: false
Device unlocked: true

Every time I reboot the device, it's resets automatically to locked state again.

Device tampered: false
Device unlocked: false

I think the main problem is that device is not writable. Any actions on this device was gone after every reboot.

I don't know how to troubleshoot this problem?

I really appreciate your supporting in this. I really need every help.


texts: Always-On VPN option does not list my PPTP VPN

texts:
I have successfully connected to a PPTP VPN on Android. It is configured simply with an IP address, and no MPPE encrpytion. However, it does not show up under the Always-On option.

I am running Android 4.3 on a Nexus 4.


texts: How can I wipe data with no display ( e.g. magnet )?

texts:
I dropped my phone and broke the LCD. Now I can turn the phone on ( I feel the little quick vibrate that happens when you power the phone on ) but I have no display at all.

I got a replacement with the insurance plan, but I need to send the broken phone back. How can I wipe my data? Can I just rub a magnet all over it? How big a magnet?

Any other options? I thought about trying to navigate to the bootloader's reset function without being able to actually see what I'm doing, but I won't know if I succeed or not, and there are a few menus to navigate.

I also was going to ssh to the phone, but apparently I never made it so sshd starts automatically ( doh! ).

Any ideas?


texts:
I've recently integrated AdMob into my app.  AdMob requires Google Play Services, which requires the Google Play app.

How many devices do not have Google Play available?  I'm worried about losing potential users.


texts:
According to the documentation for using Two-Pass method we have to run ffmpeg twice like this:

ffmpeg -y -i input -c:v libx264 -b:v 2600k -pass 1 -an -f mp4 /dev/null && \
ffmpeg -i input -c:v libx264 -b:v 2600k -pass 2 -c:a aac -b:a 128k output.mp4

But When I use these codes I get this error:

Unable to find a suitable output format for '&&'

And Android doesn't recognize "&& \" as an argument for ffmpeg or ffmpeg doesn't recognize such a thing on Android!

Could somebody tell me how I should do 2-Pass encoding on Android with FFmpeg?


texts: I am trying to hot spot my htc evo.  When I click on PDAnet,  it tells me that I have to terminate adb.exe.  how do i terminate adb.exe.   thank


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So, I've been having this problem; I want to use Trusted face on my HTC One (M8) stock Android 5.1, but in Smart Lock, only these options come up:

Trusted devices

None

Trusted places

None

Trusted voice

On

On-body detection

Off

The option for Trusted face, isn't there, not even grayed out. In my Trust agents, Smart Lock (Google) is activated.

The only things I have done to the phone is root it, install TWRP recovery, and changed the DPI from 480 to 430. I don't think any of these are causing the issue, as I tested the default 480 DPI, and it was working fine on Lollipop 5.0.1.

Anyone know how to fix this? I'm going to perform a backup via TWRP, then factory reset to see if the feature is back, I'll keep you all updated.


texts: How can I filter out Foursquare status updates in 'Facebook for Android'?

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I have installed Facebook for Android on my android phone.

A friend of mine is disappointed to see all the random stuff going on in the news feed.
He's particularly not interested in the Foursquare status updates.

Is there an ability to filter the news feed?
I know that Facebook, when viewed in a webbrowser, has the ability to select 'Hide all by foursquare'.

I'm using version 1.5.1 of 'Facebook for Android' (version released in Januari 2011).


texts: Find text within an email in GMail or Inbox by GMail

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Mailing list digests are generally very long.  They contain multiple emails concatenated together with an index and my traditional approach to reading a single email on the desktop is to use Ctrl+F (find text) to navigate/locate content within the email.

Android browsers typically have a 'Find on Page' function, but an equivalent doesn't appear to exist with Gmail or Inbox by GMail.  Have I overlooked something?

Alternatively- are there any apps that offer a generalized search mechanism for selectable text regions in Android or extend the functionality available from a long-press on selected text?


texts: How do I create an archive for easy extraction to /data/local/tmp/ in "adb shell"?

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Usual shar archives fail to extact in adb shell due to problems with lock directory and temporary files for HERE documents. Zip archives are also not an option.

How do I make an archive that can be easily extracted to /data/local/tmp/ out of the box on unrooted Android without busybox?


texts: Gallery opens itself on ZenPad10 while the screen is off

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I've got myself an Asus ZenPad 10 (model P023) last year, and I'm more than happy with it but there is one small issue I have with it: sometimes, while the screen is off, the Gallery app launches itself and wakes the screen up.

While not particularly a hinder, I haven't been able to reliably reproduce it; it usually happens when I put the tablet down, but not always. I know that I can double-tap on the screen to wake it up (which is a great feature), but that's about it. I have tried to swipe the screen in various directions, and tapping more than twice, each with more than one finger too, to no avail.

Note that although I'd like to know how to stop it from happening, I'm mostly curious about how it happens.

The Android version running on this is 5.0.2, Gallery version is 1.5.0.150826_3_PROJ.


texts: I have a Motorola Moto E running kitkat 4.4.4. Is there any way to link my phone to my laptop (Windows 8) and control the phone from there? Such as downloading apps to the phone via usb connection from the laptop?


texts: Dual sim phone, one with data, one without. How does the usage work when browsing on the mobile network

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So my situation is that we have two sims, one personal one business. There's no data on the business one now but can the Android phone (OnePLus Nord N10) be setup to cover in any situation that the business sim won't use its own data? If not we'll add a little data to the plan but I was hoping there was a way to share it between the sims as needed. I currently set the personal sim as the default mobile data sim.
Thanks.