texts: Make android phone as driver-free USB Webcam

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I have a video call device which only works with driver-free usb webcams attached. Since I dont have a USB webcam at hand, so I wonder if I can make Android phone (rooted) emulated as a driver-free webcam via USB.

I knew some apk could work e.g. DroidCam, but they requires extra clients installed on Windows. I do not want IP webcam or wifi connection or http or VLC to view them, but plain old USB webcam.

Please note I am not asking for apps that can read videos from OTG usb webcams. It's the reverse, making Android output videos to USB.


texts: Is it easy to remove encryption's password prompt on boot if I don't want it anymore?

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As discussed here, there are some notable benefits to phone encryption, so I'm about to try it for the first time. Before doing it:

will I be able to remove the password / lock in the future, after encryption? or will it to be mandatory to have to enter a password on phone boot? I.e. if I don't want any protection anymore, will there always be a password prompt on boot or can I disable this? (btw: I read that totally disabling encryption needs a full format / factory reset)
have you noticed a lower performance after encryption, on everyday use (browsing, basic apps, etc.)?

I have a Samsung a3 2015 with android 5.0.2.


texts: SGS 2, CM 12.1: getting a different recovery

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I have a Samsung Galaxy S 2 (or I9100). On this phone I have been running CWM with Cyanogenmod for quite a while.

Recently, I updated to Cyanogenmod 12.1. It was quite a hassle, but it works fine. The only real problem I have with it is that the recovery has changed. Now I have CM's own recovery, which misses a nand backup feature.
Since I have always used CWM, I would like that back. But maybe something else is fine too, I do not really know anyting about the world of recoveries.

This leads me to the folllowing main question: can I get CWM back with CM 12.1? And some side questions: is it even possible to just flash another recovery? Why was CWM removed from CM 12.1? Is there another alternative flash? How would it work, flashing a new recovery?


texts: Sony Experia won't let me enter my voicemail PIN

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I call my voice mail and it asks me for my PIN. After entering 3 out of the 4 digits, the screen starts blinking not allowing me to enter the fourth, then telling me I entered an incorrect PIN.

So the phone makes it impossible for me to retrieve my voicemail.


texts: Video stream from Android phone to laptop over the internet

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I would like to transfer a video stream coming from my Android device to a remote PC through the internet. I want to connect to the Android device from my PC to see what is showing on its camera.

I tried TeamViewer but it does not allow the user to access a mobile phone from a PC.

I tried Skype & Tango (Video call) but they do not automatically answer calls.

I am struggling to find a solution. Is there any?


texts: How to transfer files over WiFi without a hotspot?

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I'm looking for a way to transfer files between an Android phone (Samsung Galaxy S2, rooted) and any computer system I may need to interact with (this means preinstalled software on the computer, besides a regular web browser, is not an option) without connecting to an actual WiFi hotspot.

Essentially I'm looking for something that works the same was as WiFi direct (allows two phones to transfer files over WiFi) but that would be compatible with any computer with WiFi.

So far I have tried creating an ad-hoc connection from the phone (as I can't take the computer being ad-hoc-creating-able for granted) using Android WiFi Tether and connecting the computer to the device, testing the different modes it offers (WEXT, Netd & Softap). I have tried to connect to and from the computer over LAN, FTP and SMB without any success.

I feel like I'm missing some small step over here. I've looked through multiple other posts, but I couldn't find any that would show a way to do this without actually connecting to an already available wifi network.


texts: Autovoice stoped working till I close chrome

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When I launch autovoice with voice command, it works first time, sometimes twice, but then hangs (totally no reaction) until I do one of the two things (I switch screen to google now which was closed by autovoice, or if I launch auto voice app)

Additionally, I must say that, when I say my command correctly, sometimes google now search stays active on the screen, and sometimes it is closed by tasker or autovoice. When it stays, all works fine.

I have samsung s7, android 7.0 no root.

here is my profile, task and command if you need I can record this strange behaviour


texts: How to remove home-screens on a Vodafone 845?

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Good day,

after playing around with the Vodafone 845 (Android 2.1) icons positions I ended up with additional empty home-screens (or are they desktops, not sure for the term). What is the proper way to remove those empty screens?


texts: Combining Ghostery and HTTPS-Everywhere on Android?

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On my PC (Windows 8.1) I am happily using Firefox with the Addons Ghostery and HTTPS-Everywhere. I really like this combination so I winder how I can achieve the same things on my Android phone.

I tried the Ghostery Browser for Android which however does not bring HTTPS-Everywhere-like functionality and offers no way to install such a plugin either.
I tried installig Firefox for Android and installing the Ghostify and HTTPS-Everywhere addons. This works quite well but is not very comfortable to use and quite slow. Also, Firefox crashes from time to time and does not cache loaded tabs in a way that they can still be viewed when offline without reloading. This is my favourite feature of Google Chrome and it would be a pity to do without.

So is there any way to combine the functionality of Ghostery, HTTPS-Everywhere and the nice Google Chrome functionality and its lightweightness?

... on Android?


texts: No fetching of instant messages and e-mail after update to Oreo 8.1

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I have a Blackberry keyone that got updated last week to android 8.1, and after that update I need to open Whatsapp, Facebook Messenger Lite, GMail and other similar apps manually to receive the messages and e-mails which has been sent to me. I have checked the notification settings multiple times, and they are set to on. Regular text messages seems to work however.

So without knowing more it feels like there is some kind of syncronization problem?

These are the steps I've taken so far to try to mitigate the issue:

I've disabled the battery and data saving features that comes with android, I don't have any third party applications.
I don't have any notification applications that could interfere
I've tried using both cellular and wifi to see if there was any difference, which it wasn't
My whatsapp and messenger notifications are setup properly
I'm not restricting background data
I've restarted my phone
I've checked the native notification settings, all switched to "on"
Disabled Power Center

System information:

Android version: 8.1
Security patch level: 1 July 2018
Build: ABG044

Update:

I discovered that while keeping my phone connected to the desktop version of Whatsapp, I'll receive the messages sent to me on Whatsapp.


texts: How Can I Access My Desktop's File System Over 3G?

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I'm looking for a good solution to be able to browse my home computer and download files remotely. I've tried Gmote, and it works pretty well, but for some reason the desktop client seems to randomly shut down and I'm unable to access it until I go home and restart the client. I'd rather have a way to connect just by my IP address (I'm aware that my IP can change; I can always set up a dyndns account) and a port number, with a username and password.

I'm on a Motorola Droid running CyanogenMod 6.1 (Froyo).

EDIT: My desktop is running Windows 7 64-bit.

Any suggestions on ways to do this? Thanks!


texts: Adding a new contact skips the phonebook, goes to viber

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My grandma has a new Huawei phone that has an odd configuration. Whenever she adds a new contact, it doesn't appear in the phonebook, but in Viber instead.
Naturally when she goes to her phonebook looking for her friends and doesn't find them, even though she had added them earlier, she gets very frustrated.

Since she's pretty old, I can't expect her to figure it out on her own. Is there a way to fix this? Viber hijacking your phonebook and not letting you add any contacts is pretty annoying.


texts: What happens with updates for purchased apps after the associated Google account is removed?

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I've recently bought a new phone for my brother and I'd like to install my previously purchased apps on his device. I'm trying to understand: If I add my Google account (temporarily) on top of his account to install those purchased apps on his device, and then remove it (for privacy reasons), will those apps on his device get future updates via Play Store even without my account?

To add a bit of context, I'm trying to do this for Tasker and a bunch of automation apps I bought last week. Once I install Tasker on his phone and remove my Google account (which was used to purchase Tasker), will Tasker get future updates whenever the developer releases them, just like other apps on his device?

Also, Is there a way to transfer ownership of purchased apps from one Google account to another Google account?, For now, I'm using a newly created Google account to make and transfer purchases across all my devices (Unfortunately, this is not the case with the situation in question).

Any thoughts are appreciated, Thanks!


texts: My notification bar has suddenly become unresponsive. I have been unable to swipe down the bar no matter the orientation of my phone (regular and in landscape). I've played around with chrome to test the touch screen responsiveness and everything works fine. Is there a way I may have accidentally turned my notification bar off? Has anyone had this issue and know how to fix it? Thank you!


texts: How do I change Whatsapp tones to my own not from the Whatsapp predefined ones

texts: I want to change it to one that I downloaded off the internet but I dont know how to do that.


texts: Turn OnePlus 3 on with broken power and volume buttons

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As title suggests, I'm looking for a way to turn my OnePlus 3 on but I have the following issues:

Volume buttons do not work
Power button does not work
USB debugging is not enabled
Phone is currently off...

Any ideas?


texts: I installed VLC Player on my Galaxy S7 to try playback from an external hard disk shared via BeagleBone Black. The storage contains both x264 and h264 media. VLC plays x264 smoothly but very slowly on H.264, it keeps buffering the video and the images gets distorted. I thought the bottleneck is in the BBB so I tried running the same file from PC works perfectly. Is H.264 playback well supported on android? VLC Player is the only app with proper local network share discovery, other apps like MX Player, KMPlayer, etc. either does not support local network or setting it up is a mess.


texts: Unable to enter recovery mode & download mode

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I was formatting my Alcatel OT 918N from recovery mode. After deleting cache partition and wiping data from recovery mode I restarted my phone but then it went in an infinite boot loop i.e. it starts but right before displaying the home screen it restarts again.

Now I am not able to go in recovery mode too. When I try to go in recovery mode, my phone freezes on android logo. I have tried almost every key combination but my phone doesn't enters download mode, the only mode which comes is factory mode in which there are device testing options.

My device was running on stock ROM but it was rooted.

Please help me out.


texts: Is it possible to minimize the unlock section of the lock screen?

texts: Sometimes your widgets take up a lot of space. The unlock section also  takes up a lot of space if you use a PIN or password. Is there any way to minimize it?


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I want to run ROM files of different phone models on Android emulator in my Windows PC.
Do you know how can i do so? I know how to run standard android emulators for INTEL and ARM however i want to run production ROM files.


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I noticed sometimes in my android device.

The battery status is about 10-15%. When I plug it with its charger, it changed instantly to 85-90%.  Later on, it goes to 60-65%.

My android device is 4.4.2 with root access.

How to diagnose and fix it?

Regards

EinfoMail


texts: lost apps after backup and restore on Samsung Kies

texts: I downloaded Kies because there is a software issue on the phone.  So I backed up the phone to Kies on my laptop then did a factory reset on the phone.  Then I restored the phone from the laptop but seem to have lost all the apps.  Help!


texts: Does AOKP have USB-Debugging activated per default?

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The screen of my Galaxy Nexus is broken (also see Cannot access galaxy nexus via adb).

It seems like USB-debugging was deactivated, so my only way to recover the data is to flash a rom on the phone that has USB-debugging activated per default. I think this should work using fastboot.

At the moment the device has AOKP installed. If I reflash AOKP on the phone, will USB-debugging be activated?

In other words: Does AOKP have USB-debugging activated per default?


texts: I deleted Whatsapp before my contact receives it with two ticks. He also deleted his Whatsapp but reinstalled it again. My question is, Will he still get my message? Because after reinstalling Whatsapp on my phone the message with just one tick was gone already. Thanks for your help.


texts: How to send a text to multiple recipients with personalised details filled in from their contact information?

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Is they a way to send a text message to multiple recipients but include details taken from their contact card and have them automatically inserted into the text when it's sent? Something like the following:

  Merry Xmas [contact name]!

Where the name of the contact is filled in automatically. I'm aware that there are apps that allow mail merging of e-mails but I couldn't find any similar functionality for texts.


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I would like to stop receiving new message notifications from a certain Whatsapp group. Is it possible?

Clarifications:

I don't want to leave the group.
I don't want to turn off all Whatsapp notifications. There are other groups from which I still want to get notifications.
I don't want to just mute the notification sound. What I want is to get rid of the group's notifications entirely.


texts: Is there a way to add "special effects", or "background photos" or "sticker" to the system so that the Facebook app can use?

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Somebody was able to add the following three cats (on of the app's default photos) inside of the Facebook app to the photo before he posted to Facebook:

But I checked on both my Huawei Mate 9 and Redmi 4X, and both of them do not have the 3 cats, but just had 3 Minions, and Udemy and others:

I don't think Facebook added Udemy by default, so it looks like these kind of background or what it was called "special effect" photos can be added somehow? How can it be done?  (on the iPhone, there is no such thing but just "stickers", exactly how it works on a web browser such as Google Chrome on a Macbook).


texts: How to start an automatic slideshow of images in Gallery?

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Using Gallery I have done a slide show of images. Now I need to automatic slideshow of images. When I click "play" button it should automatically scroll and when I click pause it should stop scrolling. How is this possible?

Thanks


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Below is a sample dumpsys with Lost RAM. What is its significance in KitKat? How it can be reclaimed and used?

Total PSS by OOM adjustment:
    31841 kB: Native
               13173 kB: zygote (pid 23001)
                4372 kB: surfaceflinger (pid 23000)
                3721 kB: mediaserver (pid 126)
                3317 kB: glgps (pid 22993)
                1656 kB: drmserver (pid 125)
                 995 kB: wpa_supplicant (pid 23148)
                 786 kB: netd (pid 121)
                 518 kB: sdcard (pid 132)
                 475 kB: vold (pid 119)
                 458 kB: keystore (pid 128)
                 448 kB: /init (pid 1)
                 412 kB: adbd (pid 134)
                 254 kB: ueventd (pid 108)
                 238 kB: dhcpcd (pid 10617)
                 229 kB: tf_daemon (pid 130)
                 200 kB: installd (pid 127)
                 185 kB: dumpsys (pid 14207)
                 144 kB: healthd (pid 117)
                 139 kB: debuggerd (pid 122)
                 121 kB: servicemanager (pid 118)
    48217 kB: System
               48217 kB: system (pid 23064)
    49095 kB: Persistent
               34012 kB: com.android.systemui (pid 23163 / activities)
                7719 kB: com.android.phone (pid 23357)
                4676 kB: com.android.nfc (pid 23371)
                2688 kB: com.nuance.xt9.input (pid 23344)
    24945 kB: Foreground
               24945 kB: com.android.settings (pid 24811 / activities)
    17136 kB: Visible
               14026 kB: com.google.process.location (pid 23472)
                3110 kB: com.android.defcontainer (pid 13976)
     6911 kB: Perceptible
                6911 kB: com.google.android.inputmethod.latin (pid 23298)
    14277 kB: A Services
               14277 kB: com.google.process.gapps (pid 23513)
    26422 kB: Home
               26422 kB: com.android.launcher (pid 23395 / activities)
    21798 kB: B Services
               16242 kB: com.google.android.apps.currents (pid 23767)
                5556 kB: android.process.media (pid 7738)
   145869 kB: Cached
               41588 kB: com.google.android.apps.plus (pid 24689)
               21417 kB: com.google.android.deskclock (pid 23966 / activities)
               14463 kB: com.google.android.apps.docs (pid 8644)
               14303 kB: com.google.android.gm (pid 9115)
               11014 kB: com.google.android.music:main (pid 7716)
               10688 kB: com.google.android.apps.magazines (pid 13892)
               10240 kB: com.google.android.gms (pid 23338)
                9882 kB: com.google.android.youtube (pid 5131)
                8807 kB: com.google.android.apps.walletnfcrel (pid 8937)
                3467 kB: com.google.android.setupwizard (pid 8922)

Total RAM: 998096 kB
 Free RAM: 574945 kB (145869 cached pss + 393200 cached + 35876 free)
 Used RAM: 392334 kB (240642 used pss + 107196 buffers + 3856 shmem + 40640 slab)
 Lost RAM: 30817 kB
   Tuning: 64 (large 384), oom 122880 kB, restore limit 40960 kB (high-end-gfx)


texts: Can I do a factory reset without losing my pictures and apps?

texts: Google Play won't let me download anything, search anything, or log in. It keeps giving me an error saying I have to log in. Everything but Google Play is working just fine. I want to reset my phone but most people are saying I should download an app to keep all my info save so I don't lose anything but that's the issue. I can't download anything. So it's kind of just a circle of hell and I don't know what to do. Should I just do a factory reset and hope for the best? I've gone into my settings and checked so that everything will supposedly be backed up but people are saying it's untrustworthy and when I go to do a factory reset it says it will delete everything including the data I've chosen to backup. Should I trust it?


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can I use a USB-C to charge my kindle and still use the kindle to interrogate my add on system that uses USB 2 or 3?  I am a mac guy so I am not so good with android devices but love my kindle as I have 1000's of books on it...So this is what I first thought of to communicate with a high tech heater system on a CVD system.   The kindle worked great and runs the apk app great.   I am trying to find a way to charge the kindle and at the same time gather the data from the heater system.   Any ideas?
Thanks


texts: Google Play Services crashing constantly

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My wife has a Samsung Galaxy Note 4, she didn't install any new apps on the phone today or yesterday, but now her Google Play services is crashing constantly (like every 5-10 seconds).

We tried the obvious stuff:

Uninstall a bunch of apps she's not using
Close all the apps
Reboot lots of times

So my next step was to enable USB Debugging and Connect with ADB.  This gave me this clue when the error dialog shows up:

07-17 19:14:05.078 18130-18130/? E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main
   Process: com.google.android.gms.persistent, PID: 18130
   java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to create service com.google.android.location.internal.server.GoogleLocationService: java.lang.SecurityException: !@Too many alarms (500) registered from pid 3620 uid 10015
       at android.app.ActivityThread.handleCreateService(ActivityThread.java:3817)
       at android.app.ActivityThread.access$2100(ActivityThread.java:221)
       at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1882)
       at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
       at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:158)
       at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:7225)
       at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
       at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:1230)
       at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:1120)
    Caused by: java.lang.SecurityException: !@Too many alarms (500) registered from pid 3620 uid 10015
       at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1620)
       at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java:1573)
       at android.app.IAlarmManager$Stub$Proxy.set(IAlarmManager.java:217)
       at android.app.AlarmManager.setImpl(AlarmManager.java:484)
       at android.app.AlarmManager.set(AlarmManager.java:466)
       at irq.a(:com.google.android.gms:162)
       at irq.a(:com.google.android.gms:210)
       at irq.a(:com.google.android.gms:199)
       at idq.e(:com.google.android.gms:457)
       at idq.<init>(:com.google.android.gms:164)
       at com.google.android.location.internal.server.GoogleLocationChimeraService.a(:com.google.android.gms:107)
       at com.google.android.location.internal.server.GoogleLocationChimeraService.onCreate(:com.google.android.gms:85)
       at com.google.android.chimera.container.ServiceProxy.onCreate(:com.google.android.gms:151)
       at android.app.ActivityThread.handleCreateService(ActivityThread.java:3807)
       at android.app.ActivityThread.access$2100(ActivityThread.java:221)
       at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1882)
       at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
       at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:158)
       at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:7225)
       at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
       at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:1230)
       at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:1120)

I keyed in on this portion of the error:

Unable to create service com.google.android.location.internal.server.GoogleLocationService

So I revoked Location permissions from a few more applications, and changed the Location Mode from "High Accuracy" to GPS Only.  At that point the error message became manageable when not in an application that needs it, but still comes up very frequently if I open Google Maps.

What else should I be trying to resolve this issue?


texts: Connect OnePlus One through adb keep disconnecting

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I'm trying to switch my OnePlus One from CyanogenMod to LineageOS, and to do so I need to use adb adn fastboot. I use Fedora 28 as OS on my PC, with the latest Gnome as DE.

The usual "data" connection works fine, meaning that I can access my phone's internal storage and copy files from/to that memory. Trying to use adb, I I changed the USB mode to "charge" and enabled adb from the Developers Options menu under Settings.

As soon as I connect my phone to the PC, it looks like it is stuck in a loop of connecting and disconnecting the device. I don't see any prompt on my phone regarding the adb connection, and dmesg shows the following output:

new high-speed USB device number 31 using xhci_hcd
usb 3-2: New USB device found, idVendor=05c6, idProduct=6765, bcdDevice= 2.32
usb 3-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
usb 3-2: Product: A0001
usb 3-2: Manufacturer: OnePlus
usb 3-2: SerialNumber: 23deaeca
usb 3-2: reset high-speed USB device number 31 using xhci_hcd
usb 3-2: device firmware changed
usb 3-2: USB disconnect, device number 31

where the device number starts with 1 and goes up, and up, and up, until I physically disconnect the phone.

adb start-server (executed as root) shows no error whatsoever, but adb devices shows nothing (both as root and as regular user (not sudo)).

What's happening here?


texts: Please explain this weird response to adb command

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127|root@android:/ # find / -iname "aaengine"
find: /proc/19619: No such file or directory

I dont know why I got told about some file I never known about when trying to find aaengine file


texts: Is there any Android TV that could act as a Bluetooth center?

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I'd like to develop an app for Android TV that can control BLuetooth devices.

Is there any Android TV that could do that ?

Alternatively, could a TV box such as the Xiaomi Mi TV do that ?
http://www.mi.com/en/mibox/


texts: Just wondering how do I find which model number my galaxy s4 is? I see people writing Gt- numbers.  I can't find anything like that. Any help would be greatly appreciated Thanks


texts: How can I pipe the input audio of a Bluetooth headset into Google Now? I have Jelly Bean 4.1.1.


texts: Stuck in ''Reboot recovery 3.0(Bootloop)'' after changing dpi settings in developer options

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I am stuck in a recovery mode which is like a bootloop, on my REDMI NOTE 9 PRO MAX. I tried to search for help on internet but i am not able to understand anything.  I get 3 options on the recovery page,

reboot:whoch ends in a bootloop.
WIPE DATA:i can't wipe my data because I have important stuff in it and i don't have a back-up.
CONNECT WITH MIASSISTANT :i don't  know what that is.

Plz help


texts: Can I grant permanent access to external storage to an app in Nougat?

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I'm using OnePlus 5 running stock 7.1.1.

I use the OTG function to transfer file between my phone and my flash drive very often, and my preferred file manager is Root Explorer. Every time I try to copy stuff to flash drive, I must first grant it access.

Can I permanently grant Root Explorer access to external storage? I don't mind messing around with system configuration files (like packages.xml).


texts: How do I clear the settings of a built in app in Cyanogenmod 9 (ICS)?

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I just updated my phone (Galaxy S2) to the latest stable version of Cyanogen, and I can't set any alarms in the default clock app.  When I try to go to the screen to set the alarms, the app just crashes.  Past experience tells me the solution is the clear the app data/cache, but the problem is that the app doesn't show up in the apps list in the settings.

How am I supposed to clear these settings?


texts: Files and Data loss when sd card is changed from java supported phone to android phone

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I have changed my micro sd card from Samsung Star2 S5263 which is running on Java OS to a new android phone. Later I have connected my android phone to my PC to copy some files from the system.

And after copying, I have placed my sd card into my old phone (Samsung Star2 S5263) only to find some of the files, images and videos are missing. When I tried to open those, it says invalid file format.

Files which were absolutely fine a few minutes ago, now says invalid file format. When I have connected to the system, I haven't touched these files. Any reason why this happens? How to get the files back? (Those images are absolutely important!!)

Thanks


texts: Clear cache and data of Download Manager

texts: Google says to clear cache and data on Play Store and Download Manager when experiencing download problems. I can't find Download Manager on my Android device.


texts: Crash report: Enter key makes newline. How to send input?

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i'm trying to send feedback on an app that crashes. I run the app, when it crashes i get a popup asking if i want to report it, which sends me to a Feedback form with:

email to use
Write your feedback text field
Include system logs checkbox

After feedback text is typed Enter key just adds a newline. There's no Send button to click on, so it seems there's no way to proceed...

I've tried different keyboard apps, no luck with google keyboard, swiftkey or even keyboard pro which has a setting to force enter key to validate on some apps.

Using playstore 6.0.5, android 4.2.2


texts: Play Services 8.3.0 crashing - Android 4.4.4

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I've PAC rom with Android 4.4.4 on my n7 (2013) and sgs3 and everything is working fine.

Google Play Services on version 8.3 crashs all the time. 8.1.15.x is working fine.

Are there any solutions?

Clearing data of GPS (not the location service) didn't help: services and store.

Can I disable auto update of services?

It is really annoying to downgrade it with Titanium Backup all the time. (The crash messages are not better)


texts: How to create a link on website by long-pressing in Internet browser?

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I want to create a desktop icon to a link on a website by long pressing it.
However, long-pressing the link does not have the function "Add to Home Screen" (in Chrome) and Page > Add to Home Screen (in Firefox).
It adds the current page to the home screen, not the link pressed long.

I need this function because some website urls does not reflect the current page, but instead the early clickable link to the website does it. So having the possibility to add the url ask an icon to home screen would help me to maintain track of the articles that I want to read again regularly (so bookmarks not sufficient).

Internet browsers: Chrome, Firefox
OS: Oreo 8.0
Phone: Oneplus 3T


texts: Dual booting a tablet with Honeycomb and Ice Cream sandwich?

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Possible Duplicate:
  Can I use dual boot in my Android mobile phone?

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Since then occasionally I tried newer builds - never successfully. I habve also flashed stock rom. and then retried recent lineageos builds. No success.

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The SMS application crashes when I try to send an SMS to a three digits number. With other "regular" numbers, works just fine.
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I'm switching from a Xiaomi RedMi 3S phone (Android 6.0.1) to a MI 9 SE which I just got. None of the phones are rooted. I don't have a Google account, nor a "Xiaomi account" -  but like any phone user, I have my contacts, history of phone calls, SMS messages, and conversation on various apps, and more generally a bunch of app data.
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Note:

I'm perfectly willing to do command-line work or adapt a script if that helps.
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I do get the following output:

dex2oat I  4183  4183 art/dex2oat/dex2oat.cc:1239] out/host/linux-x86/bin/dex2oat --runtime-arg -Xms64m --runtime-arg -Xmx64m --image-classes=frameworks/base/preloaded-classes --dex-file=/home/marc/Apps/Example1.apk --dex-location=bla.apk --oat-file=bla.oat --image=out.art --base=0x60000000 --instruction-set=x86 --instruction-set-features=default --runtime-arg -Xrelocate --host --android-root=out/host/linux-x86 --include-patch-information
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dex2oat F  4183  4183 art/runtime/runtime.cc:284] Aborting thread:
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dex2oat F  4183  4183 art/runtime/runtime.cc:284]   | group="" sCount=0 dsCount=0 obj=(nil) self=0xf89a8e78
dex2oat F  4183  4183 art/runtime/runtime.cc:284]   | sysTid=4183 nice=0 cgrp=user/1000.user/c2.session sched=0/0 handle=0xf6b76700
dex2oat F  4183  4183 art/runtime/runtime.cc:284]   | state=R schedstat=( 17496280 53788 15 ) utm=1 stm=0 core=7 HZ=100
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I want to know if a system-app is able to read the data of other apps (the data stored in /data/data.) on Android 9.

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Question Summary

How do I stop Samsung Internet from popping up when I select text in Gmail and click on the 'Web Search' "button", and instead bring up something else, such as DuckDuckGo search, or Google search, but not Samsung Internet?

I do not want to root this device in order to fix this issue, because if I had to go to that level, then I would just cope with it by copying the text to tge clipboard, followed by pasting into a web search engine outside of the Gmail app.

Android version

Device Model

Detailed Problem Description

Recently, perhaps due to some Android update on my Samsung Galaxy tab S3, the behavior of the 'Web Search' popup dialog (see first image below) has changed. Before, it would allow me to search in some browser or other app, but now it pops up something called 'Samsung Internet':

This is a screenshot of what pops up when I click on 'Web Search':

Things that I tried

I have tried selecting text in other apps, and I see something different, and that difference is acceptable to me, as it is searching in DuckDuckGo search engine (this other app happens to be Firefox):

I looked inside the Gmail settings, and there does not seem to be anything there that indicates how to change the default search engine that it uses.

I looked at Settings/Apps/Gmail that was referenced by https://www.greenbot.com/article/2879150/how-to-change-the-default-search-engine-in-android.html but I did not see any indication of which search engine Gmail itself would use. My theory was that Firefox has some specific setting that can be changed, so I figured that Gmail itself would as well but that is not the case.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/bing/forum/bing_gettingstarted-bing_tips/how-do-i-set-bing-as-default-search-engine-in-my/b725b25b-3ac8-4c3e-a1ed-0a44a1769164

'Settings, choose Advanced, then Set Search Engine' does not show anything about search engines at all.


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I recently upgraded to 6.0.1 Marshmallow on my Galaxy S5 and I would like to adopt an SD card as internal storage.  However, there is no option to do this.

When I format the SD card, there is no "Internal" option, only a "Portable" option.

I am using this SD card:

I have tried formatting the SD card in windows, deleting the partition in windows, and even wiping the parition in windows.  But Android always wants to add it was portable storage.

How can I force Android to add this as internal storage?

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Would anyone know how I can remove the wonderlandads.com pop-up virus from my Nexus 5 mobile - it appears in my Chrome browser.

While there are many sites dedicated to the manual removal of the virus from PCs, despite several searches I am at a loss to find a suitable alternative solution for Android.

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I have two android devices, my phone and my tablet. In the country I live in some websites are blocked, which make some applications useless since they depend on internet connection. I tried in my phone downloading Kepard and the application works just fine, I can access any website. The problem is when I download the same application in my tablet (again, is android). And it doesn't work, I try many other VPN applications, Hotspot Shield, Hideman, hideninja, etc. and none of them worked.

I tried another Tablet (Android), installed Kepard and... It worked!. And I reached the conclusion that my tablet is the problem, and I would like to solve it, but don't know how.

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Old Chats are disappearing from my Chat-Overview in Whatsapp. I did not delete them, and they are still there: When I search for a contact and then click on them, I can see all the messages of the chat, but nevertheless this chat is missing from the Chat-Overview.

Now my problem is: One of my contacts has quit whatsapp over a year ago, so their account is not active anymore. And therefore I do not see them in my contacts-list. If only I could click (or tap) on that contact, then all the messages would be there again, I am quite sure.

But how can I open this chat, which is not visible in the chat-overview anymore and does not have a valid contact attachted to it?


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texts: Android (HTC M8) has "forgotten" my SD Card is encrypted. Help!

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Having a bit of a stressful problem. My HTC m8 (Marshmallow) is encrypted, as well as the external SD card. All my photos are on the SD card. I have lots backed up but I'm having a great trip to NYC that didn't backup to google because I was roaming (it seems). Anyway, today my phone crashed (I think the battery is failing, it turned off instantly at 14%). When it turned on, all my photos are showing a gray icon (like they are corrupted). I cannot imagine how every single photo (of thousands) in multiple folders has corrupted.

Now, I noticed that when I go into Storage options the "Encrypt SD Card" box is UNTICKED. Implying the phone has forgotten the card is encrypted and thus cannot read the images. Though I thought it was weird that it can read the directories at all, implying its doing a file by file encryption rather than a full card encryption.

Anyway, obviously I know my PIN number that I need to decrypt the phone at boot up, is there any tool I can use to decrypt the images using this PIN? My fear is that (upon some research) that this is "encFS" encryption, which uses an encfs6.xml file to read the data and consequently the crash has deleted/corrupted this file. If so, this seems like a very delicate encryption mechanism.

Something else, when the phone started up again, it had reset a few other things. My default keyboard was no longer SwiftKey, I'm getting Android "tips" for scrolling etc... Does android back that file up anywhere? Does stock android call the file encfs6.xml?

Anyway, please, anyone, help me get my photos back :(

Many Thanks


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I recently switched phones to Infinix Zero 4 running Android N and can't seem to get around the following issues:

1) My backup app (Folder Sync Pro) has not been able to complete a single backup since. The backup of small files (less than 200kb) completes while larger files fail with the error "File transfer failed 'FULL_PATH_OF_FILE' - timeout".

2) Whatsapp has not been able to complete it's nightly cloud backup. The best it has done is 61mb over a period of 10 hours.

3) I cannot access my computer via ES File Explorer over wifi. I've always been able to do this on previous phones.

My LAN is OK since I can upload files without issues via the computer. These symptoms suggest there is a problem with network handling either by the hardware, or Nougat.

Is there any hidden upload timeout setting on Android?
Is there any setting that would interfere with smb connection?


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When I open my messages list with a contact (I presume this is the same across all androids, and not my htc legend) it has the message history with that contact...if you have just received a message from them, the new message is at the bottom and you always have to scroll to it...is there a way to make it so that the new message is focused? or that newer messages are in view by default or by sorting?

Edit
Seems to be a HTC Sense messages app bug...Anyone with HTC Sense not have this problem?


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I retrieve gmail message in my android and if I retrieve email from a specfic person with the following address for instance "....@test.com" I would like to retrieve the message with another sound instead of using the standard incoming sound message.

Is it possibly to do it?

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I've got a Sprint HTC EVO 4G Wimax.  I want to get rid of the Sprint Apps to free up some space on the internal storage, but otherwise leave the phone stock for now.

I followed the instructions at the HTCdev website to unlock my bootloader and I installed Superuser from the Play Store.  If I can get an su binary installed, I can give root to Titanium backup and remove the Sprint Apps.  There is a zip file at androidsu.com that I think I can flash, but that's the bit I haven't figured out yet.

Since I've got an unlocked, but otherwise stock phone, I guess I don't have a recovery image, since if I boot into recovery mode, I get a red triangle with an exclaimation point.

What are my options for recovery images?  Is there anything besides ClockworkMod or Amon Ra?  If I go with either one, how do I get it installed?

Or is there a better way to get this done?

Update:

I Installed Amon Ra and used it to flash the su zip file.  I removed the apps that I could without breaking anything.  I didn't free up any space I could use at the moment, but I'm happy to have them gone.


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I have a Samsung Galaxy Avant with Android 4.4.2 and up until a couple days ago I've been able to copy image addresses with Google Chrome but now I don't see the option anymore. I've tried it with several different websites that I have copied from before. I am thinking it's part of an update although I didn't ever see an update notification. It's really annoying because I used that feature a lot. Is there any way to fix this?

Here's a screenshot.
http://i.imgur.com/vdcBYwF.jpg

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Last friday, my Samsung smartphone somehow performed a factory reset. I do not know why (it fell on the ground, or my son triggered something, but that does not matter now).

I noticed it when during booting, I saw the samsung letters and after that the 'let's get started' screen where I had to choose a language to setup the phone.
I lost everything that was on my smartphone including some pictures. Most stupid of course, but I know I setup google photos to automatically backup my photos. However, when I checked google online, not 1 image was there so, I lost everything that was on my smartphone. I can live with that for most of the pictures but some I would like to get back somehow.

I tried to recover my data using several apps on my computer.
dr fone for android, fonelab for android, easeus data recovery.

Dr Fone took some time before completing with saying nothing could be found because I do not have root access on my samsung smartphone.

I already looked into rooting the phone but as far as I could read, rooting would cause a data wipe which I do not.

Is there any chance / method to recover data from my phone and how should I do that? The device is a Samsung A6 SM-A600FN (2018).


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I keep getting nonification updates the I need to Update Google Play services and that Google Play services wont run unless updated, wh I click on the nonification. It bring me to Googl
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On an amoled display, in theory, shouldn't the navbar be black to reduce burn in?

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I have an LG GT540 Optimus with Android.
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Stack Exchange newbie here.  Please forgive any protocol mistakes.

I'm following a thread, but can't yet comment as a newbie, on a question involving the Google Voice Dialer for Android 4.1x - everyone commenting knows that the prior version worked fine but a new OTA push made it serious junk.  I've followed some instructions that say to disable Google Search so that the system will use Voice Commands instead, and that solution works consistently well.  However, additional instructions state that one should then re-download Google Search to reinstall it. This does not appear possible... when an app is disabled, it indicates this status in the Play Store and one cannot opt to download a fresh copy.  And re-enabling Google Search just puts the crappy Google Voice Dialer back online.

How to restore Google Search withOUT Google Voice Dialer? Comments or answers to this please?  Your help greatly appreciated.  Thanks!

Droid Bionic  4.1.2  System ver  98.72.22.XT875.Verizon.en.US


texts: Help deleting someone else's Google account from my phone

texts: My boyfriend's Google account was added onto my phone. How do I delete it from my phone and if I do, will it also be deleted on his phone?


texts: How to transfer apps, settings, etc from iPhone 6 to Google Pixel 3a without the "Quick Switch Adapter"

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I just bought an "open box" Pixel 3a that does not come with a "Quick Switch Adapter".
https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/7129740 shows how I could easily copy from iPhone to Android:

Texts and iMessages
Phone and iCloud contacts, calendars
Photos and videos saved on your phone
Apps
Many free iPhone apps have Android versions. When available, you can automatically get the Android versions from Google Play during setup.
Photos, videos, and other media on iMessages
Most music
Wallpaper
Call history

How could I migrate all of that from iPhone to Pixel 3a without the "Quick Switch Adapter"?
In these days of wifi, I don't understand why a cable would be required.


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Suddenly Smart Lock on my Nexus 7 (flo) unrooted/5.0.2 and on my Samsung GT i9300 rooted/pa 5.0.2 alpha does not work anymore.

My solution: I uninstalled the Google-Play-Service Updates.


texts: Stop cursor from moving to end of word when touching text

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The default android behaviour when interacting with editable text seems to be to move the cursor to the end of the word you've touched, regardless of your touch location.

This is undesirable in many situations, e.g. if you have a stylus or a precise hand or a big screen and big text, or custom left and right arrows on your navigation bar, or a very long string without spaces.

Is there any way to prevent android from moving your cursor?


texts: How to export phone usage time data to json/csv/sql/txt raw form?

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There are many apps like Google's Digital Wellbeing and another famous app called Action Dash.
These apps show your data about how many times the phone unlocked, per-app usage stats, no of times an app launched, no of notification etc.
How can I get all these data in raw format from my android phone?
I basically want to use python to perform some analysis on these data.


texts: How do you test the disk integrity of your Android tablet's file system?

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My Lenovo ThinkPad tablet is rather new (only a few months old), but I'm worried that it might be starting to contain some disk errors.

I just got a "Cannot read page from file system trouble ahead" error message from the LectureNotes application and I'm not sure what it means, especially since a Google for the error produced no results.

Anyways, is there a chkdisk, Hard Disk Sentinel, or something for the tablet's SSD drive that I can use?


texts: Determine ASUS Transformer Serial Number

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I'm trying to determine the model of an ASUS Transformer tablet.

In Settings -> About, I know its a TF-101 (I knew this one I bought it a few years ago). But that's all it provides under Android 4.0.3 (shown below).

However, I cannot determine if its an A20, B10, etc. According to How to identify hardware versions?, its encoded in the serial number, and its on a sticker attached to the tablet. Unfortunately, even with my glasses, I cannot seem to find it.

How does one determine the serial number for an ASUS TF-101 tablet?


texts: My Samsung Galaxy trend plus wifi wont turn on

texts: I recently bought a Samsung Galaxy trend plus and and my wifi wont turn on evey time i try to turn it on it says turning on for abit and then turns off or a second and then says turning on again but it never actually turns on. Can anyone please help me im having the same problem with my bluetooth as well. I tried the factory reset already and it didn't work anyone else have any ideas?


texts: Samsung J7 (2017): How to turn on typing suggestions yet keep autoreplace disabled?

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Not sure if I'm using the right terms here. By typing suggestions I mean the horizontal word bar that stays right above my keyboard and suggests which words I may be trying to type. And by autoreplace I mean that when I mistype a word and press space, the keyboard auto-replaces my word with what it thinks I meant.

My device appears to bundle both options into one, which either on or off:

This worked as I want it OOTB in my old Samsung J3 (2016).


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Possible Duplicate:
  How do I root my device?

I have an HTC Incredible 2. I would like to know how to remove the locked pre installed apps and what apps I need for longer battery life and to maximize memory. (cpu not storage.)

My device is S-ON by the way. I know that makes it more difficult at the least, but if there is a way I would like to know.


texts: How can I  upgrade my device without going through my carrier?

texts: Are there sites available that will allow me to upgrade to the latest version of Android without depending on my carrier?


texts: Stop old posts from reappearing in Facebook News Feed

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I've recently been given an update of the Facebook App on Android and I have noticed that in my News Feed old posts are appearing. Some as old as a week or more. Obviously the point of a News Feed is to see new things, not old stuff.

How can I turn this off so that I only see new posts appear in the News Feed?


texts: How much space do the data of apps take on the phone storage?

texts: As I am seriously out of space on my phone storage on my HTC Desire, I would like an overview of how much phone storage each app takes up. The point is that I can see how much space the data of each app takes up, but not where this data is placed, hence I cannot conclude how much space each app is taking up on the phone storage.


texts: I rooted my Samsung Galaxy Note 2.  Now I cannot get the internet on it. My purpose was to avoid paying sprint the extra 30 bucks a month for tethering to my Ipad. Now I cant even get the internet on the phone except with wi-fi. I am considering a factory restore because if my frustration. How can I give get internet without restoring to factory settings?


texts: Customize notification led color without app

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How can you customize the color of the notification LED (i.e. specify the rgb value) without using an app?

Does this require rooting? And if it does, what setting would then be used to do this?

Is there a way to manually control it? For example make it color cycle on demand for a neat effect?


texts: How to fix tablet screen that takes multiple tries to turn on?

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I have a Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 (SM-T810) tablet that still runs pretty well, except for a worsening problem with the screen. I am hoping for suggestions on what component might be the culprit.
The initial stage: Occasionally, when I pressed the power or Home button to wake it up, the screen would show multiple dark green lines. I would then press power button again to turn the screen off and then again to try to turn it back on. The screen would eventually turn on after multiple tries. It did not happen every time.
Now: It is definitely much worse now. The screen would almost never show green lines anymore but just a blank screen when I try to wake it up. It now takes many many tries. I will sometimes just give up and try again later. The problem appears to become better if I don't use the tablet several days in a row. It doesn't appear to be temperature dependent as turning off the tablet for several hours do not appear useful.
When the screen is blank, I can still use my fingerprint to log in. The touchscreen digitizer also apparently still works because I can randomly touch the screen to start playing video etc.
When the screen is on, it works perfectly and won't turn off by itself if I take care not to let it dim. Would this be a connection issue or some other component that is failing?


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I have had this single text message on my phone since June. It simply won't delete. It comes through my Twitter account and is send to my SMS, but all other such texts delete easily.

|H
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|_____!


texts: I dont know how to update android wia twrp

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I root my LG G3 month ago. I also installed TWRP recovery.

Today an Android update comes to my phone. I download the update, my phone restarts and shows TWRP. So I reboot my phone again – but again it shows TWRP!

Now I dont know what to do. Please help me to get my Android system running again. Currently, regardless of what I try, it always boots to TWRP.


texts: What does one do after typing a message but it just gets stuck on "sending"? Also, it asked something about SMS.


texts: Cannot find packet data in Samsung Galaxy S

texts: Where can I can find 'packet data' on my phone, and how can I use internet when I'm on the road?


texts: I'm using two Samsung mobiles: Samsung Young and Samsung Ace Duos. I am getting software upgrade messages. Is it safe to upgrade software and will it harm my data, contacts, messages and important details saved in phone memory? Please help me out. Do tell me the entire procedure to save my data while updating.


texts: Installing bootloader on completely wiped phone

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My phone had an issue where it wouldn't leave the boot screen, so I reinstalled the bootloader and it didn't do anything. Then I formated the ENTIRE phone, including the repair menu, and now I have no tool that allows me to edit my phone.

What I need you to tell/teach me is how to install a bootloader here now, with what tool, and where do I get the files. My phone is a One Touch Star 6010X, and now is competely clean in memory.


texts: How to delete a specific file in Android so that it can't be recovered?

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From my experience a file deleted from a computer filesystem can often be recovered unless it is overwritten with a special program (that's usually called "shredding").

Is an Android-based HTC smartphone any different? How can a specific file be deleted from such smartphone so that the file can't possibly be recovered?


texts: This account already exists on your device - Huawei Nova 2S

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I bought a Huawei Nova 2S while in China.  Installed Google Play Services 14.3.66 (com.google.android.gms_14.3.66_(090408-213742215)-14366030_minAPI26(arm64-v8a,armeabi-v7a)(480dpi)_apkmirror.com).

I then downloaded many google apps (Google, Drive, Music, Gmail, Sheets, Keep, Maps, Hangouts, Youtube) but not all of them.

** Problem **: After downloading Google Contacts I cannot use the app.  It asks me to sign in and when I attempt to do that I get "This account already exists on your device"

I have now upgraded to (com.google.android.gms_14.5.73_(040408-219655168)-14573021_minAPI23(arm64-v8a,armeabi-v7a)(480dpi)_apkmirror.com) but still no luck.  I am going to post this on Google's contacts support website so will update this if a solution is found.

-I also checked the permissions for Gmail, Play services and Contacts.  I selected "Trust this app" for all three to avoid any possible permission problems.
-Cleared app cache & data for Contacts. Re-started the phone but still no luck.

Some of the resources I've visited:

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/gmail/GO4l2n3k-1o;context-place=topicsearchin/gmail/This$20account$20already$20exists$20on$20your$20device$20contact - same issue but never solved.

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/gmail/USU0RXKwNds - again, unsolved

Next update:
Removed google account, was able to sign in to contacts, but once in it didn't sync any data and acted like I never signed in at all with the sign-in button appearing at the top of the menu again.


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How can i make root j810g.

Via adb.

Without tripping knokx i have samsung j810g android 10 u3.


texts: Yellow, Green, Red icons with contacts and with sms messages

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I have seen these icons coming in front of sms messages and in contact list. What they stand for?

These icons are just like a "clock"


texts: Samsung Galaxy Note 4 stuck in reboot loop - what is the problem?

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Here is the situation: My phone (Samsung Galaxy Note 4) turns on and works perfectly fine if I am do not click on any app.

Then say I click on some app. If I try to press too many things in too short an interval of time, then my phone restarts itself. Also if I clicked to turn on data or WiFi, then the phone reboots regardless of whether I select an app or not. When the reboot is complete, it displays a much lower battery level than it had when it turned off. Then it reboots again, and continues a few times until the battery hits 0%. Then I need to charge it up.

(*) if my phone was plugged into a charger, then this does not happen - it never reboots, and never has any issues. But if I keep it plugged into a charger all day, it effectively is no longer a smart phone, but is more of a desktop PC

Questions:

What is wrong with this phone? How can I find out what is wrong? Can it be fixed? If so, how?

Note: I am a novice, I don't know much about technology other than how to use my device for day to day stuff. It is not rooted or anything like that.


texts: So what does Cyanogen Inc shutting down mean for CyanogenMod and similar ROMs?

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So Cyanogen Inc (cyngn), known for their support for their support for CyanogenMod and their efforts to integrate Cyanogen OS into devices such as the OnePlus One, Alcatel POP Mirage, and several other devices. Cyanogen Inc just recently announced that they are shutting down their services.

What does this mean for CyanogenMod, Cyanogen OS, and the devices which originally shipped with Cyanogen OS? Will they no longer receive OTA updates?


texts: Is there a limit to how many logins through Google account?

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If on iPhone, it seems like online games can log in by Google accounts (through using Safari browser) and is limited to 10 accounts.

Is there a limit on Android?


texts: gmail label notification is overlapped by general one

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I have set up notification by label on gmail app. Label notification is working but simultaneously with general gmail notification.

When message comes to target label:

First runs label notification, then in 1 second starts general notification. And general sound overlap label notification. So I almost don't hear label notification because it is too short. And I see 2 notifications in android notification bar: both for the same email.

How to set it up to run only one sound notification?


texts: I had a message about running out of space on my GT-i9000 so like a fool I started deleting things...turns out I deleted most of my operating system is there somewhere I can download the os rather than sending back to the manufacturer (and is this the firmwear)


texts: Change application to be launched using Voice Action

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Is there a way I can change which app will launch upon Voice action? For example when I say "Listen to Pink Floyd", it currently opens Last.fm app which is more or less useless for me since Last.fm doesn't have streaming in my location.

Can I configure it to open, say, Winamp instead of Last.fm? If yes, how?


texts: Can't get rid of an Adfoc.us redirect virus

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My Android seems to be infected with a very nasty virus. Sometimes when I open links to totally safe pages (like stackoverflow) from my mobile I got redirected to a page called adfoc.us (adfoc.us/serve/?id=25497650908175) that then tries to download files like MoboMarket.apk that seem to be malware.

I tried running MalwareBytes but it only detected the .apk files that were downloaded. I tried running Avast, but I did not detect anything.

What else can I do to solve this problem?


texts: Is it possible to remove the Android smileys that replace text strings like ":)"?

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A friend of mine was wondering if it's possible to remove or replace these smileys entirely, or if they are a native function of the Android operating system that would require tweaks in a custom ROM to get rid of. Question applies to both tagged devices (S3 and Galaxy Nexus).

These are the smileys we are talking about, for reference:


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I'm trying to root the device name: Overmax SteelCore 10+ to install ubuntu touch. When i use

  $ adb devices

sometimes i get:

  0123456789ABCDEF DEVICE

  and when i type to reboot bootloader (teblet go off and on, nnormal boot android) and i get:

  0123456789ABCDEF OFLINE

So i power off and on device to get not off line and try to

  $ sudo fastboot oem unlock

And im stuck on waiting for device on tablet screen nothing shows up to accept. I have only recovery when i press volume "-" and power bution. Please help ;__;


texts: How to disable EdgeEffect when over-scrolling?

texts: When you have only one home screen or scroll past the start or end of multiple  home screens, EdgeEffect appears, as shown on the left in the image. Can this be disabled?


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I installed and use Yahoo Mail app with my Samsung A51. A certain level of ads I can put up with (for example the headline banner) as part of the free service. However, the body of messages in my Inbox and Sent are repeatedly bombarded with pop-up ads that are more than intrusive.
I have tried to disable the Verizon cookies without success. I have Adblock Browser installed but again no joy.
Surprisingly, I have not had this problem to date when I use the same Yahoo Mail in my Windows 7 (Chrome) desktop browser which has Adblock Plus installed.
Is there anything else I can do?


texts: Can I change the font color of my Google Now card?

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So in the From and Arriving on my Google now time cards, the values I put in are white. Which makes them unreadable.

Is there some way that I can change the text or card color so it is actually visible?
Thanks


texts: Can cellulardata & WiFi be on while charging? Sporadic case of meager increase in charging while both were on

texts: Last night cellular data & wifi were on. Previously IN THIS STATUS, my mobile charged 100%. Last night my mobile was in charging. To my surprise, I found charging had improved from 7% to 17% only. After this I turned off wifi & cellular data. NOW charging is improving slowly. Is this right solution? Any alternatives?


texts: How to select a set of contiguous images in the stock Gallery app?

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I am running Android 4.4 KitKat on a Samsung Galaxy SIII Neo.

I would like to know whether there is a way to select to select a set of contiguous images in the stock Gallery app. I took a lot of pictures in a flower shop with each pic displaying each flower together with its name, and there are now about 120 pics altogether. I need to select a contiguous set of pictures (by somehow selecting only the first and last pics in the whole range to select the whole range, and move the selected pics to a separate album.

How can I accomplish this on my Android phone?


texts: How third party cookies are handled in Android browsers?

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Is the default browser able to write third party cookies (on Safari/iPhone, only able to read, but not to write)?
What about other Android browsers (Firefox...)?


texts: Restrict background data for Facebook, but notifications still coming in

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I would only like particular applications to show notifications when I'm not on Wifi and those would be:

Google Services - unfortunately there are several syncs here but AFAIK we can't control individual ones
Google Search - I'm not sure what this one does but I suppose I want to keep this one up
GMail - for obvious reasons

But all of the others I would like to disable. Including Facebook.

The problem I'm having is that Facebook notifications are still being displayed on my phone. What am I missing?


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I am working on an 845 uSOM (Linux sda845 4.9.103) and want to modify USB charging/battery behavior. I'm not the most knowledgeable when it comes to working with adb, and I am not sure how to move forward. It seems that I can neither use 'dumpsys' or 'service call'. My ultimate goal is for things like:
adb shell dumpsys battery unplug
adb shell dumpsys battery set

I am told online that in order to find the name of the service I need in place of 'battery' I need to use:
adb shell service list

However, this isn't found either. Am I supposed to use systemctl at this point?
systemctl list-unit-files

yields a service called 'charger_monitor.service' but at this point I don't know if I've found something useful or I am completely off the scent. Do I need to get dumpsys on this system? I thought that if I could use adb on a device then dumpsys came along with it but maybe it is not applicable on this uSOM?


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i have found a solution of the problem of automatic turning on an android (not samsung), when battery is charging for this i've inserting the line

/system/bin/reboot

in the file

/system/bin/ipod

on android 4.2 everything worked fine. now, i'm working on 4.4 Kitkat, and the same trick didn't worked. can you tell me, what could be the problem, and how to reach a final goal: automatically turn on the phone, when battery is charging?


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I just wanted to ask how to solve this small issue with Ingress. I have normal data connection which I use to play Ingress, however whenever I try to move to a portal, the location shown doesn't change. So I'm just curious as to what should I do for my location to normally, constantly update like it should do.

I read some similar problems and solutions like updating Google maps or resetting cashe/memory etc. But if this has its own method of solution, I'd appreciate a tip. Thanks for any tips you may have.


texts: How make Android x86 6.0 RC1 32bit look like a tablet with no mouse

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I produce training video, I don't write code, and I'm not that familiar with configuring Android\Linux. I'd appreciate your help. I have exhausted online searches to figure out the following.

What I need
I need an Android x86 (4.4 or greater, preferably 5 or later) virtual device (VMWare, VirtualBox, or something else) to not display a mouse pointer and act like a touchsreen device.

Issue
I've tried numerous things, found through Google searches, and the mouse pointer is always displayed. My customer does not want a pointer, he wants it to look like a phone\t

My Environment
Windows 10 Pro x64 host computer with or without a TouchScreen
VirtualBox 5.1 and VMWare Workstation 9
The virtual computers I've setup are Android x86 6.0 RC1 32bit running as a VirtualBox or VMWare virtual computer.

What I've tried
 - In Windows 10, the host for the virtual computers, disable and also uninstall my mouse. The mouse in the virtual Android computer was still present.
 - In VirtualBox and VMWare, added lines to their config files that are supposed to make the virtual computer a touchScreen.
 - In VirtualBox, enable & disable mouse integration.
 - In Android, deleted all *.idc files at /system/usr/idc except for AV??.idc, qwerty.idc, qwerty2.idc, and touch_dev.idc (which I copied from my phone), touch.idc (which I wrote following a posting online), and made sure all listed the touch.??? = touchScreen


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I'm looking to upgrade from a Nexus 7 to a 10" tablet. I know that Google stores my purchase information so that I won't have to pay for any already purchased games again.

But I was wondering if it's possible to transfer my locally stored game data to the new device so that I can continue without loss of progress. If so, how is it done?


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My office network is connected via proxy. While I connect to the internet(via browser) using mobile Wi-Fi, it asks for user name and password. When I enter the user name and password, it connects to the internet.
But when I open Google Play store , I see 'Server error' means it could not connect to the internet. How can I fix the issue ?


texts: Xperia mini 17i update Android 2.3 to 4.0

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I try update Android from 2.3 to 4, using tool Sony PC Companion 2.1.
Tool want terminate processes wininit.exe and java.exe.
I can't terminate this processes using Far manager and Task manager.
When I accept termination of processes by Sony PC Companion 2.1, my computer is restrted.
Any ideas?


texts: From clockwork recovery mode how can you reboot from adb?

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When in recovery mode (using recovery-clockwork-touch-6.0.4.7) how can I reboot to normal (linux/android) mode using adb?
adb reboot

just hangs.  (Same with 'adb shell reboot', same with being in 'adb shell' and typing 'reboot' (which invokes /sbin/reboot, which is a symbolic link to /sbin/recovery).
The recovery mode screen has a 'reboot' menu item, but I want to do this programmatically from the host.


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Recently I installed a number of Cyanogenmod11 Themes from the Android Market. Now I want to uninstall some of then But whenever I try to uninstall it my phone soft reboots. And the theme is still in the phone.
The phone I'm using is Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini GT-i8190 running CyanogenMod11.


texts: ICS App Drawers, how to give them a name?

texts: I own a Samsung Nexus S and Yesterday I was able to upgrade to Android 4.0.4. When I upgraded, I saw that Google had created an app drawer full of Google apps, and it has the Word Google underneath it. I know it is possible to create app drawers by dragging app shortcuts on top of one another, but is there a way to give an app drawer a name the way Google has done with the Google drawer?


texts: I have Android 4.0 and I'm trying to figure out how to manually update all of my apps when the update notification usually at the top of the screen is NOT there. Can someone help me out?


texts: Erasing SD Card contents and personal data

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I have an SD card in my Droid Global or Droid X, not exactly sure which model. I go to the files and click on the SD card instead of shred files and delete all of its contents. I then go to Privacy and click the Manufacturer Reset and also click the box to erase SD Card. My phone does a hard reset, and it turns back on.

After this process, what is readable on my SD card if someone took it and hooked up to a computer or anything else?  If I hadn't done the reset, would someone be able to see text messages, phone calls, or browsing history if I've deleted them all from my phone?


texts: Keep play books audio in the background?

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Listening to books in Google Play Books read aloud and would like to know what needs to be done to keep the audio playing in the background so I load up other apps at the same time.

Rooted nexus 5 running 4.4.4


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my bank app, for some unknown reason, refuses to start if USB debugging is enabled. It can run without problem if the device is bootloader unlocked and rooted, but for some reason, the developers are checking ADB status, and if debugging is enabled (no computer connected), it tells me that I have to disable it before starting the app.

Now, since this is illogical, I am searching for a way to hide ADB status.

On my device, a Xiaomi Mi 5x, I need to VPN into China each time I need to enable ADB (they did this "for safety"/limit grey market), so I have no intention to disable it, ever.

Can I hide it, even with root?


texts: Can a Xiaomi / MIUI phone bet set to use dd/mm date format?

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I have a Redmi 4A that I bought while in China a few months ago.

It works great in English but seems to only offer a choice of only 12- vs. 24-hour time format and American date format, mm/dd/yyyy.

For all English speakers who aren't American this format is very confusing. All my other devices let me change to dd/mm/yyyy format. But so far I can't find a way to do this on my phone.

Android version is 6.0.1 MMB29M and MIUI version is 8.5.4.0(MCCCNED)


texts: How to disable forced system OTA updates (TMobile)

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I have not rooted my brand new OnePlus9 Pro (T-Mobile) but was wondering if anyone has ideas how to disable system updates from installing. I caved in and accepted the first one, because it's basically forcing me to or else - but wondering if anyone had ideas. I enabled developer options but the only option it has is "disable automatic system updates on reboot" - it doesn't allow me to completely disable system updates.
Had the 11.2.3.3.LE5ACB update OTA'd to me today.
"If you choose not to do so now, this update will take place AUTOMATICALLY between 2AM and 4AM starting May 4th, 2021. Data rates may apply."


texts: Why can the Nexus 7 display so much more content on-screen than the Galaxy Nexus?

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The Galaxy Nexus is 1280x720, and the Nexus 7 tablet is 1280x800.

I realize that the tablet is physically larger, but it's screen resolution, not display size, that determines screen real-estate.

Why is it that the Nexus 7 appears to be able to show so much more content on-screen?

EDIT - My question isn't "why was it designed this way". My question is more "how is it that it is able to show more on the screen"? PPI doesn't explain this.

Is it just a matter of the scaling?


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Last days I have strange behaviour:

No incoming/outgoing sound during calls via mobile network.
After reboot a couple of calls work find and then sound just vanishes.

Viber/skype calls are working just fine.

No external or suspicious applications were installed (actually no new applications were installed for the last months)

dmesg shows nothing related to audio system.

How I can fix the issue? What information I should dig in my phone?

I've Nexus 4 with cyanogenmod (20141205-nightly-mako) [actually before was 20141105-nightly-make and this thing started after almost a month of usage, then I tried to update, but it didn't help].


texts: I can't find files taking up space in my android phone

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I have bought Lenovo k4 note and have recently upgraded to Marshmallow. So I've 16 GB of internal memory out of which the Android 6.0 inbuilt memory app inside storage and USB setting, says 5.37 GB is OS occupied. 9.46 GB out of 10.63 GB is used. Further break down are as follows:

Apps 5.29 GB
Images 105 MB
Videos 8 KB
Audio 588 KB
Other 488 MB
Cached Data 183 MB

Which totals to 6.066 GB.

So now subtracting 6.066 GB from 9.46 GB I get 3.394 GB which I can't understand where it went.
Still after going inside file manager and clicking the view hidden files these are what I get:

Android 2.17 GB
Download 278.01 MB
Shareit 200 MB
WhatsApp 136 MB
Pictures 74 MB
Books 52 MB
DCIM 29 MB

Which comes to around 3 something GB and still 3 GB are missing.. so.. around 6 GB of files are not showing.. I am unable to find the files that are taking up space. Can anyone help please.


texts: Tasker: Switch Data Network for Different Apps

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I'm planning to switch the data network to 3G for certain apps. And once I've exited the apps, I want to wait for 30 seconds before it switches to 2G again if no other 3G apps are opened within that 30 seconds.

How do I use the "If - Else" tasks to accomplish this?

Thank you.


texts: Recovering data from broken android phone which is sent for replacement

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Sent broken android phone to Sony customer care for replacement.
I had the device encrypted with a 4 digit numeric pin. I erased it.

I found when searching on Google that data can be recovered easily from an erased android phone. But, if it has some kind of encryption turned ON, then it is a little hard to recover.

I had peace of mind that no person can look into my personal stuff and business stuff, my credit card details etc. But, today in the morning I was surprised when Google Plus notified that a photo was uploaded from the phone. Its an old phone screenshot which I took one day before 7th July, 2014 ( The day when I returned the phone ).

So, what I want to know here is, is Google photo upload got stuck somewhere for 6 days as today is 13th July, 2014 OR some person from sony staff was able to decrypt my phone? I am a little worried about my personal stuff now. Had so many accounts linked there and now I will have to log in into each google account one by one and sign out all devices.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

EDIT: Also, I had my LastPass account with offline login associated with that.

EDIT: Phone info as requested by @davidbaumann: Sony Xperia Z2 with latest version of Android which I think is 4.4.2 KiKat.


texts: I can't turn on the phone or enter recovery mode (bootloop)

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My Model: Alcaltel OneTouch Pop c7

My Problem: I can't seem to start the phone it is just showing the pop c7 logo and restarting itself

I can't open recovery or my turn off button + volume up, or down or both are again entering the boot loop

Any help please :\


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I am using LG optimus E 400.

Recently, I have rooted my Android phone. After rooting, it's not booting up now; just displaying white screen.

I have tried go to the boot loader by pressing (Hold POWER + Vol Down) but it's not working in my phone.

After some searching in Google, I found that the solution is re-installing the Android OS. How do I do that? Is any other recovery option?

Thanks.


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I came across an application named GBWhatsApp. It is developed by some unknown people and there are many sites from where you can download the APK. It's not officially on the Play Store for some reason.
It was a big surprise to me to see that using this app, I can actually chat with the people who are using the official WhatsApp application.
I did some googling and found out that it is a modded app of the original WhatsApp application. It is built on top of the original application. This means some people/developers/engineers decompiled the original APK and inserted their code and published it with another name.
My questions are,

Is WhatsApp APK so much less secure that some engineers were able to decompile its Java code successfully? And they provided a lot of new features that are not there in the original app?

I know APK can be decompiled, but if the original developer team has obfuscated the code (ProGuard, etc), then it's almost impossible to reverse engineer the Java code. How did this happen?

Also, if it is not a modded app, it means they build their own app which is similar to WhatsApp, then how they are able to send messages to the official app?


texts: How can you tell which version of an app is on your Android phone?

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I was just browsing through the AppBrain Android store and saw as one of the popular downloads Gmail.

This made me wonder how to see the version info of an application on my Galaxy S mobile phone.

How can I tell the version so that I may update this application to a new version?


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I have two Motorola devices, a Moto X2 and Moto G3, both with Android M 6.0 (Original most recent ROM without root).

I have recently noticed problems with the GPS on both devices. Google Maps and Waze many times the GPS signal drops and can not determine the location.

In my test I could find that the GPS problem happens when the Mobile Data (only 3G) are active. Just disabling mobile data and GPS back to work with good accuracy and even on rainy days.

I researched on the Internet and can not find a solution to the problem. Already restored the network connections and even restored the factory settings. Also I have been tested to work with modes High Accuracy and Only GPS. The problem persists.

The issue is the same in both devices.


texts: Can I access the Intenet via WiFi if my phone has no SIM card?

texts: I want to use WhatsApp on Samsung GT S5830 in Japan, but I do not have a SIM card for my phone. Can I use the Internet on my mobile via WiFi?


texts: Gmail App is not differentiating Read and UnRead Emails in Vivo Android Mobile

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In Android Gmail App, It has unread emails with bold and read emails without bold to identify which emails are unread. But in my Vivo V7 Android Mobile I couldn't able to see that differentiations and all the emails are showing without bold and hence this app is not so helpful for me.

Below are the steps I tried,

Cleared Cache of App.
Signed out and Signed in
Rebooting mobile
Tried al the settings

Nothing helped me. Please give a solution for this issue,


texts: How to change Opera language back to English?

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Possible Duplicate:
  How can I set the language in Opera Mini 6?

I installed Opera in a Samsung Galaxy Y. Since probably it detected that I'm in the Philippines, the language defaults to Filipino. How do I change it to English?


texts: iris fuel 50 not able to download from playstore it is showing insufficient storage but i have big storage space in SD card(2GB in internal memory and 29GB in sdcard but unable to download )


texts: How to hide hotspot icon in the drop down after lock

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Sir , I use android marshmallow and My brother always enables the hotspot also after I lock the Phone with Password
Because "hotspot setting is shown in drop down menu "  I wanted to ask how to remove it ?
From dropdown menu after lock?


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I've been using my Android phone for typing more lately, and decided to turn on autocorrect to try it out (it was off by default). While it's handy, as the entirety of the internet already knows it's frustrating to have an autocorrected word change to something completely different, and then have it be a total pain in the ass to try and get it to type what I meant to type.

For example, I was searching for 'Wifi Direct' recently, but it kept being changed to something like 'whifflefart' or something else completely wrong. Tap-holding the autocorrected word didn't give me any options, and I eventually had to type 'direct', move the cursor back, and type 'wifi', so it wouldn't consider the two words as one word. This is the most egregious one, but it's happened fairly frequently, especially for unknown terms.

The solution I'm imagining is having each autocorrected word highlighted similar to how urecognized words are, with the word being squiggly-underlined in blue or green or something. This would help you notice words have been autocorrected so you can check them before sending, and then you could tap-hold the word to get a list of other corrections or have it revert to what you typed.

I've tried to search for an app or utility that does something vaguely like this, but haven't found anything remotely relevant. I'm not really sure what this type of app would be called, though, which hasn't helped in my search... if it even exists in the first place!

I'm using Android 4.1.2, rooted, and the default keyboard.

Thanks for your help!