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I need a sanity check here. I was sitting on the train listening to music over 3G, and we went in to a tunnel. Lost the signal, tried to reconnect and couldn't. Now I can't connect to my phone service at all, even though

1) I have a strong signal

2) I can see my phone service in the list of available networks.

When I try selecting the network, it says it's not available to connect, and that I should try later. The thing is, my coworkers have similiar service and phones, and their works.

My question is; can the service ban my specific phone from connecting?


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I recently changed to a newer phone and currently using my old android phone as a sort of "ipod". However, it always shows the message that there is no sim card. I know this is just an annoyance but is there anyway to disable it? I am rooted running a custom sense 4 rom on ICS. Is there anything I could flash to remove this message? Or disable the cellular radio completely?

Screenshot (click for larger variant)


texts: Using Google Maps in a car with a Hotspot and a cell phone with no sim card

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I have a  AT&T Samsung Galaxy 7.
I have another AT&T phone with no sim card.
I have a verizon hotspot and will be purchasing an AT&T hotspot as i am converting to almost full time RV'ing.

Is it possible to use google maps, Waze, or any other driving app like that with my no-sim card phone through one of my hotspots as i drive the country ?


texts: How to get acces to offline YouTube videos downloaded to my Android 9 Cellphone?

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I use to download youtube videos so I can watch then offline. But I don't like the "YouTube video player". So, how could I have access to the offline youtube videos so I can open them using my video player of choice?

I have a Android 9 cell phone.


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I have a LG Tribute 5 with 8 Gigabytes of total memory. I had been getting the annoying box that says "Storage space running out". I bought an SD card and put all my pictures and music in it.

For some reason I am unable to move certain apps to my SD card. When I attempt to download apps from Google Play Store, it says "Not enough space" and gives me a list of apps to delete. Most of the apps on the list are in my SD card already. When I go to my settings and try to move all my downloaded apps to my SD card, a couple of them won't. For those couple apps, the option to "Move to SD card" is greyed out, signaling that moving to my SD card is not an option.

This is getting pretty annoying. Does anybody know what I can do to relieve this problem?


texts: Signal app - can senders see when the recipient has read the message?

texts: With the Signal app, can senders see when the recipient has read the message? I notice those two hatches but don't they just mean the message has been sent?


texts: What does this crescent shaped icon mean and do?

texts:
This icon popped up on my screen today. I don't know how or what it does and how to remove it. I have a Redmi 4a.

Does anyone know to remove it?


texts:
I use a Huawei p9 with Android 6. I notice a big problem. When I connect the phone with a Lubuntu pc trying to share files, I get e.g. that for copying 7 folders - each containing several small files for constructing html's pages - from pc to phone they are required about 10 minutes, when the total size of the folders is just 30MB!

On the other hand, when I perform the same action e.g. using instead 3 multimedia files of the same total size (i.e. 30MB), the amount of time is just 1 second (as indeed I expect).

Can someone explain why do I verify such an exaggerate discrepancy in time between the two mentioned cases? I think it may depend on the Android system (potentially by the emui p9 redesign -- otherwise every Android 6 device should have this problem!).

I  finally notice that with a more dated device mounting Android 4.2, I don't encounter that inconvenience.


texts: Goclever Hybrid 3G Update will I lose any factory apps and settings

texts:
I have very recently bought a Goclever Hybrid 3G tablet/combi.

When going on Goclever web site I saw that there was a new update which is to improve power system problem? It says that if I download the update without back up of apps and data I will lose all, so to back up externally to a PC. I am not too clever on things like back ups so I was hoping that if I download the update without backing up the apps and data would the apps and data that came with the tablet remain on board only losing stuff that I have put on or will I end up with an empty shell.
Please help.

Barry.


texts: Add NFC functionality (like Nexus S) via SDIO standard in microsd to non-NFC phones?

texts:
Google Nexus S is the first Android phone to include NFC (Near-field communication) for wireless hardware for applications such as contactless payment and perhaps proximity based target advertising.

I wonder if the micro SD card slot on other Android phones supports the SD IO standard. The SD card interface also defines an interface for devices as well as storage cards, for example a SD sized WiFi transmitter could be fitted to photo cameras for transmitting pictures to the internet as they were taken.

I wonder if the micro SD card slot also has this capability and if the NFC chip and antenna could be viable in such a form factor (and for some phones underneath the battery, but still user removable)?


texts: Huawei Ascend P7: Problem with Push Notifications

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I've just purchased 2 brand-new Huawei Ascend P7 phones and have problems with both: The Push Notifications do not work properly: messages come in delayed, sometimes only when I enter the corresponding app.

This is not restricted to a specific app, and occurs on both Wifi and mobile data. I have given all apps push notification permissions within the Notification Manager, I have also disabled Smart Power Saving Mode and enabled always-on mobile data (hope that helps keeping the GCM connection alive).

One of my phones already received the new system update to P7-L10V100R001C00B121SP01, the other one is still on L10V100R001C00B116SP3.

I've googled a bit, this seems a common problem with those P7s. Any ideas?


texts: Stream music from Android phone to PC over WiFi

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I've been searching on this site and can't find exactly what I'm looking for:
I have a PC (can run Linux or Windows) that's connected to my surround-sound speakers. When my friends come around they can listen to their music by connecting their phone to my speakers using a standard 3.5mm jack.

Is there a way that would let them connect their phone via WiFi to my PC and they could just play their music like they are connected directly to the speakers via a 3.5mm jack? One of the main requirements would be that they could use the standard music player in their phone.

Also does anyone know if this software or configuration this would require on the PC side to work?


texts: How do I stop my Moto G from pestering me about Motorola ID related things?

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I have a Moto G 4G (2nd gen?) running Android 5.1 Lollipop. I would like to disable or suppress the endless alerts I get from it about "Sign in problem"'s and "Motorola  ID unlinked" related to Motorola services, none of which I wish to use.

I thought unlinking my "Motorola ID" might do this but it just complains even more i.e. the "Motorola  ID unlinked" alert.

How do I do this?


texts: Is there a way to open Microsoft XPS documents on Android, similar to the way Adobe PDF documents have "Adobe Reader for Android"? I took a look in the Market but I didn't find anything.


texts: Samsung Galaxy S3 suddenly crashing everyday

texts:
Samsung Galaxy S3
GT-I9300
Android 4.1.2
Baseband I9300XELK1
Kernel Version 3.0.31-764725
Build Number JZO54K.I9300XXELCC

NOT rooted

For the past couple of weeks this device has suddenly started to crash at least once a day

While using an app it would freeze
After no usage for some time, phone would go on standby and will refuse to wake up.
Sometimes it would reboot by itself

Have to hold down power button and restart the device. What should I do? Thank you


texts: Why do I need to use "Android File Transfer" to transfer files from my mac?

texts: I'm curious as to why I need to download and use 'Android File Transfer' so that I can transfer files from my mac to my nexus 5. I assumed because they had a similar file structure that viewing files on one from the other wouldn't have been an issue.


texts: Stuck in LineageOS boot logo when installing on Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 global

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I booted TWRP 3.2.3-0 using fastboot, then followed #5 unlocking fastboot to install it permanently on my Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 cause of the problematic anti-rollback from Xiaomi. Next, I installed the LineageOS zip. It shows the LineageOS boot animation but then nothing happens. Even after waiting more than 1h it doesn't boot.
Things I tried yet without success:

20181016, 20181003 and 20180926 LineageOS builds
Factory reset using TWRP
Advanced TWRP wipe with data, system, cache and dalvik cache
Disabled the installing of TWRP app after flashing
Deleted dalvin cache after flashing before rebooting
Flashing using adb sideload
Install LineageOS together with corresponding OpenGAPS Zip
Waiting ~20min in boot animation, force shutdown and start manually

What worked

MoKee booted shortly after the first try without google apps

Preparation for flashing
Before flashing, I used AIDA64 with the stock MUI ROM to make sure that the codename match:

So the whyred image is correct, which matches the information I read before buying that the global version is equal to Pro, where official LineageOS builds can be installed.


texts: Google cards suddenly showing mixed languages

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This might be a small problem but it's very irritating.
My google cards are acting weird.  40% of the cards are on other languages which I have no clue of. It's sometimes Urdu, sometimes Russian and sometime god knows which one.

I have tried hitting not interested on several of these but it keeps coming up in my feed. I'm pretty much sure that I have not changed any language and setting in my phone. I haven't had any recent app installs too .

Anybody help me with this?

Thanks a lot.


texts: My touchscreen does not work, need a way to remote control phone

texts:
My touch screen on my LG GT540 gone totally unresponsive. I would like to do some final things on the phone, before recycling it. It is a rooted, runs 2.3 cyanogenmod, has usb debug switched on. Is there an app, which can control it via USB?

Please note, that all solutions, that needs even a touch on the screen won't work. And I guess I have to unlock the phone (not a security lock).

thanks


texts: Get a Config Message every day but won't install

texts:
Every day I get a Configuration Message
Application: Access Point Name
Name: MMS
APN:unet
User name:
etc.

When I chose "Full Install" it asks for the PIN
If I enter the wrong PIN it asks again for the PIN
If I enter the right PIN (0123) I get an error report
"INSTALLATION REPORT
Access Point Name: Failed"

I believe this has something to do when I added a new SIM which has since been removed.


texts: Recovering lost or stolen phone using IMEI

texts:
I have lost my android phone please help me find its location. I have tried to recover it but all in vain.

What can I do to recover it back using
IMEI ?


texts: If I generate my own custom key and sign a custom ROM, then will I be able to have root access after locking the bootloader?

texts:
So what I want to do is boot into my own custom ROM with a locked bootloader. I have a OnePlus 6T so it's possible, but can I have root access after I boot with a locked bootloader? If I replace my custom ROM's boot.img with a patched Magisk boot image, will it be possible to have root access after locking my BL?
Also, will I be able to use TWRP and flash updates through it?


texts: How to remove pattern lock without data loss?

texts:
I have intex aqua super mobile with android 5.1 os.
I aslo try google recovery find my device method but that not working.
How to recover pattern lock without data loss?
Device is not rooted.
Developer mode is disabled.


texts: Why does Google Pay require location permission?

texts:
Google Pay uses mobile numbers and UPI to transact money.

Why does it require location permissions?


texts: Lower part of the screen not responding to touch

texts:
While I was holding my LG G2 when running, sweat got into the lower right corner under the screen, leading to the lower part of the screen (about one third inches) not responding to touch. The phone can power on without any problem, and there is no problem with the display either, but I can't access to the navigation buttons (home, back, etc) and the app drawer button because that part of the screen is not responsive. I sent it to LG for warranty repair, but they returned the phone as is, claiming "liquid damage, not repairable".

My question is: Is the phone really not repairable as LG claimed? Is the damage only on the screen? Can I just buy a display / digitizer assembly and replace the screen myself?


texts: How to stream an image into camera source trough ADB?

texts:
I am trying to stream an image into the camera source of an Android 10 device through adb.
This should effect on all apps that use the camera source and not only using specific camera apps.
Thank you!


texts: Prevent Samsung S4 Screen From Turning on Every SMS

texts: How do you prevent the Samsung S4 screen from coming on with every SMS message that is received?


texts: How can I view the Android internal partition table?

texts:
I've rooted my device, put it in recovery mode, and have linked it to PC by adb shell.

How can I view the list of storage devices and partitions?

Note: fdisk doesn't work.


texts: Danger of increasing the vibration strength of phone

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Are there any dangers or possible negative consequences to increasing the vibration strength of a phone? Ideas were damages to the motor, lower battery life or increased wear leading to a shorter operating life? I don't know how likely or possible these are.

Specifically I want to use Vibration Config to increase the strength of my hopeless Nexus 4's vibration.


texts: Can't edit an event in S Planner (Samsung Galaxy SII)

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I have an ancient repeating event in local calendar.

Some time ago I had a phone repair and then restored events via Kies. Now I need to edit the event and can't do this because S Planner shows it like meeting invitation. There is no "Edit" option, just "Copy", "Delete" and "Share Via".

Is there any way to convert event from meeting invitation back to a normal event without re-creating it? Do you know some "hacking" application which can modify events in an unrestricted way like "SMS Edit" does it for SMS?

The phone is GT-I9100
Android 4.1.2
Firmware I9100XXLS8


texts: I cannot open or play song's with anything but Files (default file explorer on AndroidOne

texts:
I have a new Nokia 3.1. After putting in and formatting an SD card, I copied a tonne of music to it (in Music/ in the root folder). This is m4a and mp3 files.
Every music player app I get (Musicolet, Pulsar etc.) will not find the music automatically; will not find it when forced to rescan; will not play it when it is sent to the app via Files.

'Files' and 'Google Play' will see and play the files. Musicolet (the only one out of 10 different apps) will scan the files, pick up that they're all there - and then not update the music library or show anything.

What the hell is going on? It seems only default apps can see and play music - although not very effectively, since I don't want to pay or use internet to listen to my own collection

I've tried clearing temporary storage, uninstalling/reinstalling music player apps, restarting the phone - same story.

Please please god help, if I can't play music I may as well not own this phone. The Nokia 3310 can play music fgs.


texts: Bootloop, Stock Recovery, USB debugging off

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I'm using a Samsung Galaxy S DUOS GT-S7562 running Android ICS.

Before my phone got bootlooped, I used to change the build.prop in
/system/build.prop to add a navigation bar to it. I added qemu.hw.mainkeys=0 at the end of the texts, and did a reboot. Now my device is bootlooping.

I only had a stock recovery, and did a factory reset – but still no luck.
It only boots to the Samsung boot animation.

I tried to enter Download Mode to use Odin, but it surprised me that
I can't even go to USB state; so it's impossible for me to do it also.

And lastly, I don't have a backup either. But I found a firmware exactly for my device.

Can anyone please help me?


texts:
I changed the language of my phone (Samsung J7 2017) from Polish to French. So far so good, but there are many remnants of the language the phone was shipped in. For instance, the footer of new email, youtube suggestions, the news feed and so on are still in Polish.

Is there a way how to change the language of all system settings ? Or do I have to find those settings one by one?


texts: Location when on home wifi is wrong; can I disable using known wireless networks to get location?

texts:
I just moved to a new city and brought my home wifi router with me. Now whenever I'm connected to my home wifi network, Android thinks I'm at my old house! It's extremely frustrating. Is there a way to disable that method of location finding? Or even better, is there a way to get Google to update the location of this wifi network?

I've tried turning off Wi-Fi scanning and renaming my wireless network. What information does Android use to fingerprint a wireless network? Maybe I can change something about the network to make Android think it's a new, unseen network.


texts: How do I disable Firefox Android's popup browser tips?

texts: I'm using Firefox for Android. It keeps showing me popup browser tips at the bottom of the main screens, like bookmarks, top sites, history, etc. I'll close them, but then next time another new one appears. How do I disable these entirely?


texts:
I read somewhere (here) that in France, in order for the 4G to work ideally with all carriers, one should have a smartphone with the 4G network spec: "FDD-LTE : Bands : 1/3/7/20/28".

I am considering buying the Moto G5 model XT1685 for my brother who lives in France. According to this site, the 4G network specs of this phone read:

LTE Cat6 700/800/850/900/1800/2100/2600 (Bands 1,3,5,7,8,19,20,28)
TD-LTE 2300/2500/2600 (Bands 38,40,41)

I can't figure out whether it is a problem or not that I am not seeing "FDD" in these specs. In short: will this phone work perfectly fine in France? Thank you!


texts: Bridge Wi-Fi through router > Galaxy S3 > desktop Windows

texts:
I'm usually hooked up to a wall Ethernet port on my PC, but I'm away for a little over a week now and I only have access to Wi-Fi. The signal is just barely out of range. I can use Skype and whatnot with my poor connection, but can't browse the web.

I set up a mobile hotspot on my S3 and have a speed of roughly 5 Mbps (download), so that's wonderful, but I figure I'll run out of data quickly (I've already used 40 MB in the past minute) -- I'm unable to connect to Wi-Fi while my phone is a hotspot, so I don't believe I can continue using the hotspot without running out of data if it's going solely off of my data plan.

My phone has a better wireless card than my desktop, and can browse the web, etc perfectly -- since my phone has such a good connection, I figure I can bridge the connection from it to my PC and not have to use up my data plan. While researching why I couldn't use Wi-Fi and the hotspot at the same time, it turned out that since my phone only had one Wi-Fi antenna it couldn't handle both of them at the same time. I'm not sure if bridging the connection from my phone to my computer would require more than one -- maybe it will, maybe it won't. Is this possible?

Windows 7
Non - rooted Galaxy S3
Android Version 4.4.2


texts: How can I run a custom .sh script at each startup (without native init.d support)?

texts:
This looks like a general concern of rookie Android system players who have just rooted their phones. The most prevalent method may be throwing your script into /system/etc/init.d. If the ROM supports init.d then Voila but that's not always the case. So

How can I run my custom script at each startup? What's the user/group my script will be running as if I use your solution?

We welcome all kinds of solutions.


texts: Android Recovery is loaded instead of TWRP after flashing TWRP with Odin

texts:
There was this question here the solution to which was to boot into TWRP before booting android, so that TWRP isn't replaced by Android Recovery. I can press UP+Home+Power and go into recovery - I've not had an issue with that. But the trouble is that rather than showing TWRP it shows an android logo and it says it "updates the system" and then what comes up is Android Recovery instead of TWRP.
I'm using samsung's SM-g532g (galaxy j2 prime). It does not have an official TWRP apparently, so I'm trying the TWRP that this site suggested. I've tried it many ways: I've booted into recovery right after flashing TWRP, removed and replugged the battery and then booted into recovery, etc.


texts: How to set the quality of YouTube video on UC Browser?

texts: I am using UC Browser. I can't find any option to set the quality of video in YouTube to low or high.


texts: Why am I getting random push notifications from Venmo?

texts:
I got a Samsung Galaxy S8 not too long ago, and I can't seem to stop push notifications about random Facebook friends making transactions.

First, I am logged in, so it's not the random-public-transactions feed. These are all people I am connected to on Facebook.

These are my settings:

Screenshots (click images for larger variants)

As you can see, I've turned off all push notifications and social networks. Why am I still getting notifications?


texts: ro.adb.secure=0 device still shows as unauthorized over adb Windows 10

texts:
I recently purchased a tablet that is a cheap allwinner a33 based Chinese product. I wanted to connect to it over adb but the RSA key popup would not come up.

The build.prop shows the ro.adb.secure=0 which should mean that the device requires no rsa authentication but my Windows 10 machine still shows the device as unauthorized.

How do I get the device authorized so I can use adb?

I have no root access and would need adb to root.


texts:
Am running Android 4.2.2 on a CUBOT smartphone, but cannot sync my contacts from Gmail as the ONLY sync adapters showing in the Settings-Accounts-Google section are 'App Data' and 'People details'.
Both these apps, if un-checked then checked pretty much instantly come back with a 'Last synced 14/10/2013 09:38' (or whatever time date-stamp is accurate), but nothing seems to have changed.
I seem to be missing just a plain old 'Contacts' sync option.
Being new to Android - I haven't a clue how to progress, or where to download/install 'contacts'. Advice greatly appreciated.


texts: I'm using the free version of minimalistic text on android 2.3.7 and I can't seem to find any option for custom layout. There are references to it on the net but I can't seem to find it anywhere. Is that a pro only feature or have they removed the option altogether?


texts:
Sdcardfs is a virtual file system in Android or some Linux systems. It is implemented using FUSE.

It is called Android's 'adopted storage', is used in virtual sdcards, or protected partition areas. (For example: /storage/simulated/0)

If you try to dump an sdcard file system (ex: /sdcard) by dd command, It is not dumpable. (It does not have sectors or anything.

So, if I try to dump the parent file system (ex: 'FUSE like vFAT' on EXT4), it is not recoverable by all of commercial file recovery software. Because sdcardfs is a virtual file system using FUSE, it is not stored like a file or agglomerate something(s).

How can I dump and recover an sdcardfs file system?


texts: How can I use another phone's camera in place of my camera?

texts:
Ok, the problem is my camera's protective glass cover has wore down and now some dust has entered, causing the camera's output to become blurred. This is causing me a lot of issues currently, especially when I need to scan some QR code. For example, now I can't login to WhatsApp on my PC, cuz I need to scan their QR code with my phone.
What I want is, use another phone's camera instead of my phone's camera, just like the DroidCam functionality, where you use your phone's camera instead of your PC's camera. Are there any apps designed for this purpose?


texts:
Some time ago I owned an Sony Ericson mobile phone. It was able to store a contact on the SIM card and add information like adress or multible phone numbers.

Why isn´t it possible to do the same thing on newer Smartphones?

I heard that old phones stored multiple contacts on the sim card by creating a contat for every information and combine it in the view, could that be true?


texts: I had just bought a new Micro sd card and it worked fine, but suddenly the card physically ejects all the time, it wont sit in the micro sd reader. When I try to format the card on the on my phone, it won't finish the processes. I have tried formatting the card on my laptop, but it does not give an effect. I tried to format it on my phone, but that does not work. I also tried on my laptop with 32 byte fat32. Any suggestions


texts: Do 3rd party camera apps really improve picture quality?

texts: I've got a Samsung Galaxy Grand Neo (Jelly Bean). It has a 5 mp camera but I'm not satisfied with the picture quality. Will it help if I use another app like Camera Zoom FX or anything? If yes, then which app should I use?


texts: Facebook contact sync in Ice Cream Sandwich

texts:
The rivalry between Google and Facebook seems to have gotten in the way of a really useful feature from Gingerbread: Facebook contact sync.  Currently my Verizon Galaxy Nexus has the ability to add accounts for Google, Twitter, LinkedIn.  There is even a Facebook entry in the add account list.  However, clicking that does nothing.

I see that in 4.0.3 there are new social contacts APIs that will let 3rd parties extend this feature with checkins and posts.  Is there a way to enable Facebook contact syncing in ICS (with or without 4.0.3)?


texts: Is there a bug in the management of icon movement?

texts:
I have been using my Nexus one, Android Version 2.2.2, build number FRG83G, since December.
I had no problem moving icons on the screen for two months.

Lately, I think after the latest update asking to restart the android (several weeks ago), I noticed that I was not able to move the icons and widgets any more, that they would either refuse to move, disappear or be moved to some random folder on another screen (hence seemingly disappearing), and that even when there was a single icon on an otherwise empty page.

At first I thought it was a general bug which would be corrected by a following update, but it has been some time now, and googling for such bug did not yield any result, so that it seems that I am the only one suffering from such a problem. Any idea what could cause it?


texts:
i successfully installed twrp but on twrp reboot i selected system and now on opening nokia 3 it goes to twrp.
Only twrp can be opened not the OS (normal boot) of nokia 3.

I tried flashing stock rom of nokia 3 with sp flash tools but on starting or booting phone , it will not detect nokia 3 and red and yellow bars does not appear.
so how to flash stock firmware when i am stuck boot looping in to Twrp.
Any other way if possible please describe.


texts: Titanium freezers (hangs) on app restore

texts:
When I restore my apps with Titanium, it gets stuck on certain apps and just sits there and does nothing. The only thing I can do is go to Titanium's app info and force close it.
I have tried changing the options in preference for app processing, but this didn't help. The option for indirect install has exactly the same problem. The interactive option helps that it doesn't freeze but it still doesn't install the app. I don't want to use the interactive mode since then I will need to interact for each install.
Does someone know how to fix this? Or at least a way to make that if it can't install an app it should skip it.
Here is a list of some of the apps that Titanium freezes on.
(these are the package names)

all.in.one.calculator
cn.wps.moffice_eng
com.adobe.reader
com.awiserk.kundalias.rootboot
com.discoverfinancial.mobile
com.kts.draw
com.microblink.photomath
com.music.star.startag
org.connectbot
org.geometerplus.zlibrary.ui.android
oyw.tnc


texts: Showing make not found on adb shell, How to install make on Android

texts:
While installing a wifi usb driver on android, I run a shell command (sh install.sh) on adb shell but getting the following error

sush: make: not found Authentication requested [root] for make driver: sush: make: not found
Compile make driver error: 127 Please check error Mesg

I was trying to run it on the Terminal IDE but got the same problem. can anyone please tell me how to solve this problem (installing make on android)?


texts: Compose key on external blutooth-connected keyboard

texts:
I have a Reudo RBK-3000BT VER 1.0 keyboard connected by Bluetooth to an Android 4.2.2 phone.

Can I use a compose key feature with such a keyboard?
For instance I would type CAPSLOCK+^+o and it would input ô.

I know how to install such a compose key on Ubuntu, but no idea for Android.

I would be much more efficient than copy-pasting from Charmap every time.


texts: What is creating these gibberish files on my SD card?

texts:
I recently took my SD card out of my tablet, and put it into my laptop. However, there were gibberish files everywhere on the SD card. A few of them:

In the Alarms folder, there were two files: .fgbnm_uyivfqwpo.txt and .fgbnm_uyivfqwpo11.txt. They both contained nothing but the stirng rAa7m3BIebYuaNAiY2vVfbUMRvRym7Ym#1527480871.
In the DCIM folder, there were .redghj_jklqwpo.hgk and .redghj_jklqwpo11.hgk. They contained the same data as the files above.
In the Documents folder, there were iiy_pol_gthqwpo.mp3 and iiy_pol_gthqwpo11.mp3. They also contained the same data, and Windows Media Player encountered an error when playing it.
In the Downloads folder, there were .ertyui_opikqwpo.ziip, .ertyui_opikqwpo11.ziip, .y_androidqwpo.ziip, and .y_androidqwpo11.ziip. If I opened them as a .zip file, I got "Please insert the last disk of the multi-disk set" on all 4 files.
The Movies folder contained dgdf_configqwpo.con and dgdf_configqwpo11.con.
The Ringtones folder contained .ewsdf_oplkqwpo.kjl and .ewsdf_oplkqwpo11.kjl.

The only things in common between all these files is the contents (rAa7m3BIebYuaNAiY2vVfbUMRvRym7Ym#1527480871) and the ending before the file extension (wpo and wpo11).

Searching the files found this question (it's in French!) that just says they can be deleted.

What app is creating these files? Whatever it is I want to remove it immediately.


texts: How do I delete application sync data permanently?

texts: Is there a way I can completely remove sync data for an app and thus prevent it from syncing with my google account? For example, I had Google Fit on my other mobile, I wasn't using it at all, but it is still listed in my account to sync on this new phone, even when I dont have Google Fit. Is there a way I could completely remove its association with my devices?


texts: Samsung galaxy 3 says charging paused. Battery temperature too low

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I plugged in my S3 when it said 1% battery life and the red charging indicator light never came on, when i checked it a few minutes later it was at 0% and powered off. Immediately after that I tried to power it up and the power button did not work.  The next day it powered up but always says Charging paused battery temp too low and will not charge. I took it to a Sprint Service Center and the lady put a new battery in it and same thing. She said I need a new phone. It is only 5 months old and i dont see how this cant be fixed!

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!


texts: Pixel 3 stuck in Fastboot mode with "no valid slot to boot" when trying to install factory image

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I was trying to install the factory software image from https://developers.google.com/android/images#blueline on my Pixel 3. I downloaded the image as well as the platform-tools with adb and fastboot.

After plugging in my phone, I ran "adb reboot bootloader" which put me into Fastboot mode. After this I tried to run the flash-all.bat file, but it was just stuck on the "waiting for devices" prompt. I'm not sure what I did at this point, but I must have really messed up the phone, because now I can't even boot from Fastboot, where clicking "Start" just puts me back in fastboot with the reason "no valid slot to boot." Any idea how I can get my phone working again?

I tried putting my phone in recovery mode, but I just got "error booting boot.img"


texts: How does Google Play determine the region on a tablet without SIM card

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I know Google Play uses SIM card to determine the region on cell phones. And I know Market Unlocker and Market Enabler.

How does Google Play determine your region on a tablet without SIM card?

And how to change it? I have access to IP address where Google Play is available. And I own a credit card whose billing address is in a country where Google Play paid apps are available.


texts: Can't activate Google Play Store and can't cheat gmail account

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Can somebody help me

I had done factory reset on my phone unite A106 unite 2 micromax and now I am unable to use my Google Play Store can't create gmail account what to do?


texts: Image thumbnail shows in camera, deleted in gallery?

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I abhor this.

I had this issue on my Samsung Galaxy S3 where I would take a lot of pictures, it would show the thumbnail of the picture taken in the lower-right square linking to the gallery (so I was assured it was taking my photos). However, when I opened the gallery, my pictures were not there. I lost a whole roadtrip of photos and it turned out that the SanDisk external SD card put itself into read-only mode and I had to send it in to get it replaced.

However, now I'm on my Samsung Galaxy S7 and I took a picture today that's not showing up in the gallery. This time my external SD card is a Samsung chip. I can't reproduce the issue, but is there any way to make sure it isn't my external SD card? Or could it be a camera setting where it's only taking a temporary photo?


texts: Android 6.0.1 parse error while attempting to install Pokemon go apk 0.29.0

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I have Android 6.0.1 on my Galaxy S6 edge device and i would like to install the apk, because the google play version doesn't support my region. According to the site, the supported Android versions are:

  Android 4.4 to Android 6.0.1  (Android N will not be supported until the
  official Android release)

but still it doesn't work when I try to install the apk and get the parse error.
This is the link for the apk that I downloaded:
http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/niantic-inc/pokemon-go/pokemon-go-0-29-0-release/pokemon-go-0-29-0-android-apk-download/


texts: Use WhatsApp for one-way communication to a group

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I am a teacher. All my students are using WhatsApp. I want to create a group for my students, and hide the group members to see others' contact details except my contact details.

Also I can only post the messages and others will not post in that group. It will be one way communication for their assignments and quizzes.

Is it possible in WhatsApp Messenger?


texts: how do I setup notification rules for email in my exchange inbox?

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At my company, I get WAY too much email to endure notification on ALL items. But maybe Boss and team emails are worth getting interupted for. (then again maybe not!)
I don't see a way to do this yet.

I'm on 2.2 with an HTC Evo (powered by the speedy Qualcomm Snapdragon!)

BG: I've been a stack overflow fan for years (and don't like PhBB that much), and Just got my android Phone.
I'd like to help this site get better.


texts: How can I stop the Music app from launching when headphone is plugged in?

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I have a Moto Droid, running Android 2.2 (Froyo), although this behavior also existed on 2.1.   Whenever I plug something in the headphone jack, the Music app will start up (sometimes with a bit of a delay) and start playing something (generally Christmas music).
More often than not, I'm plugging in headphones to use Google Listen to listen to podcasts... if Listen is already running, I may end up with both apps playing at the same time.

The Music app doesn't seem to have any settings that would affect this behavior.  Is there some way, short of deleting all of the music so that there's nothing to play?


texts: ZTE Obsidian running Android 5.1 doesn't save files to SD card.

texts: When I try to update apps through Google Play I can't save the app to the SD card. In settings I chose SD card as the default drive but it still doesn't work. Is there anyway to make the system recognise the SD card? I constantly get insufficient storage space messages.


texts: Android phone powers on spontaneously during charging

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I want to charge the phone while it's powered OFF.
But it automatically turns itself ON during charging.  It may be 87% or 90% or 100%.  I don't know the exact reason.
Model = LG-K430n.
I don't like cell phone radiation and I rarely use the phone at all.  I just want it to be OFF most of the time.  This is driving me nuts.


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Possible Duplicate:
  How can I create and edit Microsoft Office documents in Android

I just bought a new Galaxy Tab P1000 and I want to open my office documents like Excel, Word, and Powerpoint.

Is there already a client like Microsoft Office for Android?


texts: How to make offline voice calls between Android phone and PC?

texts: I want to communicate with my brother who has android using my PC over bluetooth or Wi-Fi (offline), is that possible?


texts: LG G2 music player hooking into bluetooth?

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I have a 2012 C250 that I used to hook up to my RAZR MAXX, and was able to control the music (Google Play Music) from the car.

I now have an LG G2, and I noticed in the beginning that the LG player would fire up when I hit my car's commands. If i manually start Play Music, the car will intermittently recognize it, but mostly the control functions are useless. The car will still receive the audio and phone fine however.

I have rooted my phone and frozen the LG player, but no luck. All of my music is on Google Play, so unless there is an app which can play GooglePlay music that plays nicely with my car, I'm kinda stuck.

Anybody have any ideas? Thanks


texts: Can you somewhere on you phone view a list of all applications and who made them?

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In another question I was asked which Calendar application I was running on my Android 2.2 Samsung Galaxy S phone.

I found the Applications  - Manage applications setting, but that shows only the version if you click on an appication, and this doesn't show which company created it.

Is there a standard application which gives me this info: e.g. name of application,  version nr and manufacturer ?

Or if no standard application is available, any recommendations ?

It seems to me that a lot of questions in this forum should benefit of people specifying in their question which version of which program they are asking questions about, no ?


texts: Is battery calibration important for Android phones?

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I heard that battery needs to be calibrated for a first few usages. I heard that battery needs to be calibrated every 40 charge cycles. I heard that i must not let battery get too low and not overcharge it. I heard that i must recharge battery at the end of every day until morning.

Is this all true? If i only have 1/4 of battery charge, should i place it on charge if i really need or wait until it depletes? I heard that when battery is fully charged, power adapter ceases to charge it but still emits green light. If that is so, then i guess there is no problem leaving it on charge for a long time?


texts: How do I reliably access my music library in Google Play music from my car's bluetooth system

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i have a Samsung Galaxy S6 and 2015 Mazda. In general, access my music via bluetooth in my car works much better when I disable Google PLay Music and only use the native music app. However, I would prefer to use Google Play Music simply because when I purchase music from the app and download them to the phone, they are not available to the native app (or any app other than Google Play music...argh!)

So, I am using Tasker to successfully automatically play Google Play Music when it connects to the car's bluetooth, and that works very well. And the music does play.

However, and this is my specific problem, sometimes I cannot access the library screen on my cars bluetooth system, where I choose the artist, track, playlist, album, etc.

Specifically, when I try to select the library icon, it says: "unable to view the content of the connected device."

Sometimes this works, sometimes it doesn't.


texts: non-wipe non-unlock root for Android 2.3.3

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I have a Nexus S running Android 2.3.3.

IIRC on old android version such as this there were non-wipe non-unlock methods to obtain root anyway, however I wasn't able to find them right now.

Can this be done?


texts: Moto X has 5 models with different LTE bands. Does it matter which one I get?

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I want to purchase an LTE phone for use with T-Mobile.  According to Wikipedia model XT1053 is what I need... however it uses LTE bands that many of the other phones don't use.

What is an LTE band?
If I purchase model XT1055 and use it on TMobile will I only use LTE band 4, and the other ones are unused?
Is there an impact on battery life if using a phone that has a different LTE band then expected by the network?
Is it correct to say that these LTE bands are hard coded into the phone and can't be changed?


texts: Nexus 7: Unable to install factory image, stuck in

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I want to restore factory android on my Nexus 7 2012 WiFi.

I'm following the official guide.

I start the device in fastboot mode by executiong:

adb reboot bootloader

This works well.
But when I run any command that uses fastboot the execution gets stuck, eg:

$ fastboot oem unlock
< waiting for any device >

The same issue with flash-all.sh.

I also noticed that if I run

adb devices

it doesn't list the tablet. However it gets listed if I run the same command after entering Recovery Mode (I have TWRP recovery).

More details/preconditions: I used to have CianogenMod on the device but I smashed it by mistake (I removed Android in recovery mode instead of simply wiping the data). I can't find the CianogenMod image anymore on LinageOS site (there is only Nexus 2013 available) so I'm trying to install at least what is available.


texts: Sharing/tethering 3G connection between Android devices

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Is it possible to share 3G connection between two Android devices, a smartphone with 3G and a tablet with only wi-fi, for me to access the web with the tablet anywhere?

I have a Sony Xperia X8 with 3G connection, but my Nexus 7 doesn't, so I'm kind of tied to places with wi-fi routers, but I thought on using the phone to share connection with the tablet. I already do it with my notebook, although I need the cable.

Phone runs Android 2.1 and tablet runs 4.3, but I may try to install a modded ROM on the phone to update it to 2.3, if needed.


texts: How to turn off Opera Mini "discover"/"top stories" news feed?

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I installed Opera Mini and was surprised at how slow it was to open. I figured out this was because it was automatically filling the home page with "Yahoo"-style random news headlines.

I couldn't find any way to turn this off. Long-pressing on the panel of headlines didn't give any "remove" option, the "Customise" button at the bottom of the feed didn't allow turning off the feed even when I deselected every type of story, and the only relevant thing I could see in the settings menus (Advanced > Feeds) was already set to disabled.

Searching online, all I could find was people on Opera forums being snarky at anyone who didn't want this feature, or, guides for different versions of Opera that don't apply to Opera Mini. Some sources say it's impossible. Is it?


texts:
I lack proper keywords to google efficiently to know how to manually remove an app. Basically I want to uninstall Chrome, but I also want to know deeper about Android system rather than rely on a third-party app like NoBloat. I suspect one just need to delete /data/app/com.android.chrome-2 folder, but I'm not sure if there is more to be removed too.

How to manually remove an app?


texts: I recently got into an issue with my Moto z play screen lock. Pressing the power button doesn't lock the screen. I have enabled pattern lock option for screen lock. But still only after booting up it asks for the pattern. But later on when I lock the screen by pressing power button , I can unlock by just swiping the screen. Anyone knows what's the issue?


texts: Unlock device using facial recognition and go to Homescreen

texts: I have a Samsung Galaxy S4 running Android 5.0.2 stock, and I'd like to use the facial recognition in addition to drawing an unlock-pattern. This works fine, my face is recognized, but after that, only the dots of the unlock-pattern disappear, meaning I still have to swipe the screen in order to get to the home-screen (where the icons are). I'd like to go to that screen directly when my face is recognized, without the swipe-part. So what's the clue getting rid of that? If I have to swipe, faciol recognition is useless in my opinion, because if I swipe the screen or if I swipe a pattern makes no real difference. So how is this intended to work?


texts: Unable to use apps that access the Internet on wifi

texts:
I have recently had a pretty weird problem with my new LG Shine Plus which I hope you guys could help, here is what I did:

When I first sign up for the phone, I purchased a one month data plan just to try things out, everything was great and I was able to use the data plan and wifi when I am at home and downloaded quite a few applications and they all worked perfectly.

I cancelled a data plan since it cost quite a bit, however I am a student and there are both wireless networks on campus and in my residence room. As a result, I have turned off the Mobile Data Networks.

After that, all the applications, for some reason, stopped working. When I opened up the Advanced Task Killer Free, for example, it will show You must have INTERNET and ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE permissions in AndroidManifest.xml and when I tried to hit KILL selected apps, it will crash. On Bloomberg, it says android.Manifest.permissions.INTERNET permission not set in AndroidManifest.xml file before crashed, and on a whole bunch of other apps, they just crash as soon as I open it up.

However, the most interesting bit is, I was still able to access the Internet on my mobile browser (tried several website that I know I did not go before just to make sure those are not cached pages) on wifi and I can access Android market on wifi as well.

So I turned Mobile Data Networks back on in hope that would resolve the problem, but the same thing happened even with the Mobile Data Networks turned on and now I am unable to use any apps I installed  I have verified that I have the apn set up properly in there.

By the way, I have link2sd installed, but it was installed while I was using the data plan, and it worked fine then, I have also had AdBlock installed, which I have already uninstalled it and even apps without any add (dropbox) is crashing at the moment as well.


texts: How to get an alarm / warning when it starts to rain

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How can I be alerted if the weather changes? For example, if it starts raining, I will receive an alarm / warning?  This would obviously be based on some local weather feed, rather than actually detecting rain.

It would be useful because sometimes I have windows open for drying clothes and stuff, and from the room I am normally in one does not notice immediately when it starts raining.   It would be very useful.


texts: Screen mirroring with ASUS ME172 over HDMI

texts: I have ASUS ME172 tablet with Android 4.1 and an HDMI cable, and I want to project the tablet screen to my laptop. However, when I connect the cable with laptop it doesn't do anything. I didn't find any option for HDMI on the tablet. Is there a way to control the HDMI output?


texts:
I did something so stupid I'm almost kind of proud of it. I rooted my LG Optimus T (Froyo) using Gingerbreak, cleaned out a bunch of stuff, and accidentally deleted the home screen launcher. No big, I'll just install a new one... but I have a chicken and egg problem now, that requires debug mode to get out of. I can't just open settings on my phone to set debug mode. And the phone only starts up in safe mode.

So the tl;dr is this: I need to force my phone into debug mode via USB, in safe mode. If I can't do this, I will have to buy a new phone. Please help me!


texts: Can I send IMs to an AIM user through the Google Talk app?

texts: I linked my Google Talk and AIM accounts on the GMail website, but it doesn't look like my AIM buddies are showing up in the Android Google Talk application. Is there something I'm missing or is this not possible?


texts: I've encountering a problem. The problem is that i can't access my Google Play on a my Wi-fi. It is not on a particular tablet or phone. Its all the devices me an my family own. That includes 4 phones and 2 tablets. It only says "No Connection" even when the Wi-fi signals are at full strength. I don't know if this is coincidental but recently I've been receiving this notification that says "Sign into Wi-fi Network". Guys please advice immediately because how can i download awesome apps without the awesome store and i'm not planning to let 3rd party apps populate our devices.


texts: Lollipop (sony experia Z3 compact) - disable mobile data notification

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I just recently upgraded to lollipop. One thing that is annoying, is with notifications.

Most of the time I have mobile data disabled, because in most places I can connect to wifi (when I need mobile net, I just simply enable it through settings).
But now every time I turn my screen on I see mobile data notification and when I unlock it also in upper left of the screen. I don't see a way to disable it.

Is there a way to do that? Cause I really don't need that (I could really disable all notifications in main screen (that new one, before unlocking).

Update OK so managed to disable notifications on lock (in sound & notification - "when device is locked", choosing to not show any notifications). But mobile data notification in upper left corner is still up there all the time..


texts: Does deleting content on my phone affect content on Google Photos?

texts: If I delete photos and videos on my device to make more space for other content on my device, will it delete the corresponding content backed up on Google Photos or will it stay online?


texts: How to uninstall Quickoffice from HTC Nexus One

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Quickoffice 2.0-GEP is listed in my manage application lists and I want to uninstall it. It's not listed in my programs list. I am not even sure what it's used for.

When I click on it from the manage apps list all the options (force stop, cancel, clear data etc.) are greyed out.


texts: Can i use NFC for File Transfer in Motorola X?

texts: My friend is using Motorola X with NFC, but he can't transfer files through it. How do you transfer files through NFC on Android?


texts:
I have Samsung Galaxy S II with Android 4.

If I configure my phone to GSM/WCDMA (automatic) mode, I have problems when I receive or make a call. Usually I lost the call or the other person cannot hear me.

In my city 3G network is not very good.

I solve this problem changing the mode to GSM only (manually) and then make the call.

Is there a way to configure my phone to change from WCDMA to GSM automatically when I make or receive a call?

I've installed 2G/3G OFF application, but it is still manual.


texts: Strange icon with "N" letter in Note 5 phonebook

texts:
When I try to add new phone number to an existing contact, some kind of icon appears in phone number field. Please see screenshot:

Thus happens since upgrading to Android 6.0.1.  What is that?


texts:
I am using Lenovo P2 having Android 7.0. It having 5100 mah battery. In the battery usage I noticed that the wifi using power even if it turns off. I did a factory reset. But still have the same problem.

I have attached a screenshot after did the below procedures.
1) Turn off wifi
2) Fully charge the phone
3) Restart the phone just after unplug
4) Use the phone more than one day without turn on the wifi. Only use the mobile data.


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I have a Samsung Galaxy 10.1 tablet. I cleaned up some applications, deleting them via settings, and now I receive an error message when I open some applications. The message reads

  The application Google Play Store (process.com.android.vending) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again.

This error keeps appearing, usually three or four times with option of forcing close or reporting error.

Maybe I uninstalled some key file that I needed unknowingly. I cant find anything on updating this application or reinstalling factory setting only for this. Can anyone help?


texts: I have link2sd with granted root permissions and a partitioned SD card, but when I give Create Link to SD on some big app, it creates just few small files there, like 20-30mb, but the big files of the applications which some are more than 1Gb don't get moved to the second partition... is this supposed to be this way?


texts: Voice to text punctuation and new line in Spanish andorid 5

texts: Does Android 5 recognize punctuation and new lines in Spanish voice-to-text?


texts: Is there a shortcut to lock the screen orientation on the Nexus 4 with android 4.2.1? I read you can swipe down from the top right corner on the Nexus 7 but haven't found any info for the 4.


texts:
I have a problem with a site not detecting a stock S5 browser as mobile. I don't own a galaxy S5 so I asked the person who found this issue to send me the complete user agent string, this is what I got:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/28.0.1500.94 Safari/537.36

does the S5 browser really not identify itself as running on an android device? Might this be the result of some custom setting (which I'm told never happened)? How else can I identify the S5 browser as being a mobile device?


texts: what does "auto-fit pages" do in the browser

texts:
In the stock Android browser, what exactly does "auto-fit pages" do?

From my experimenting with it, the answer appears to be "Diddly-squat".

Perhaps a better question would be "What is is supposed to do?"


texts: What commands should I use to block three different ranges of ports, or to block all ports except two?

texts: I'm new to iptables and I want to block some ports. I'm using a rooted Android phone. What commands are used to block three different ranges of ports or block all ports except two? I don't want to prevent myself from browsing the web.


texts: How much of the Android filesystem is visible over MTP?

texts: When I plug in my Android device to my computer it gets connected as a media device under MTP mode. I can browse a bit of the folders on my device via my computer. I'm wondering how much of the device am I actually able to see? What sort of folders and content specifically is not visible over MTP? Does MTP have a corresponding set of file permissions associated with it?


texts: Are Tmobile using bogus DoD IP addresses (bogons)?

texts:
I recently started picking up some weird entries in my firewall log:

kernel: arplookup 26.XXX.XXX.XXX failed: host is not on local network

There are at least at dozen entries, all to different IP's within DISANET26.

I couldn't help but be curious as to what was going on so I fired up Wireshark and began capturing packets to try and find out where it was coming from.

Turns out it's my brand new HTC sensation with all but a handful of apps installed (standard google apps + other apps I've used in the past) - I don't even have it rooted yet.

Wireshark shows a Broadcast ARP packet coming from the sensation's mac address, but logs it as coming from the DoD IP in question. The target is the gateway (pfsense router).

I've found a similar discussion over at the tmobile forums with no official tmobile response: http://forums.t-mobile.com/t5/Help-General-Discussion/Hiport-connects-to-DoD/td-p/205863

I doubt I'll find someone at tmobile who will have a clue what I'm talking about but whether the DoD is involved or not there's no denying that the phone is trying to send these packets to them.

I won't sleep well until I know why.


texts: Android App to read current time out loud?

texts:
I am looking for an Android app that would read out loud the current time. For example if I'm in bed and don't want to open my eyes, I would just press a button or something, and it would read "It is now six thirty four".

Does anyone know about an app that does that?


texts:
Is it possible to set an Event using Llama, to repeat each hour that switches on the 3G connection, syncs data and then turns off the 3G connection again.

I would like to use this during work hours to check email etc without having to complete the task manually throughout the day.


texts: Persistent download notification on Galaxy S3 running Android 4.3

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My Galaxy S3 from Sprint keeps showing me that a file (a picture) has been downloaded. I deleted the downloaded file after a day or two, yet the notification still pops up and when I tap on it, it says item not found.  I believe there is a bug in the software that this keeps happening. How can I get rid of this?

Note: I don't want to get rid of download notifications at all, just this one.


texts: At the bar last night I got a number I opened a new contact under my Google contacts on my Droid Incredible and typed in the information.  But in my sub lucid state I never saved it, I would love to call this girl but the number is lost to me, any thoughts on how I might get the digits back?


texts: Can't access Google Apps (Play Store, Youtube, Drive etc) on Data

texts:
Asus Zenfone 2 Ze550ml, Lollipop 5.0, Non-Rooted, AT&T 3G

The Play Store, Youtube and Drive(which won't sync on data) Apps work perfectly on Wifi but not on Data (It shows a message saying Check your connection and try again). Maps works on Data though.

It used to work on data I remember at some point but I must've turned on restrict background data at some point, but I have since turned it off in Data Usage.
I've tried the 4 years in the future time trick, clear cache and data of google playstore, framwork and services trick, removing all google accounts from the phone one, my hosts file in etc has just one line Localhost 127.0.0.1 , all to no avail.

Anyone with any other suggestions on how I can get back use of these apps on data?


texts: adb sideload lineage.zip yields adb: failed to read command: No error

texts:
TL;DR
Trying to sideload Lineage, I hit a brick wall getting the following error:
D:\Setups\XXXXX\Lineage FP3\platform-tools_28.0.2(ADB_1.0.41)>
    adb sideload lineage-17.1-20210104-nightly-FP3-signed.zip
adb: failed to read command: No error

The phone displays Timed out waiting for fuse to be ready. simultaneously.
Setting:
I'm trying to install LineageOS on my Fairphone FP3+ using Windows 10. Through workarounds including first difficulties and exploiting the manufacturer flash all .exe, I was able to boot the Lineage recovery and start sideload. adb devices returns the following:
List of devices attached
A2XXXXXXXXX1    sideload

The phone display prints Now send the package you want to apply to the device with "adb sideload <filename>"...
Problem:
I now enter adb sideload lineage-17.1-20210104-nightly-FP3-signed.zip, paying attention on having the archive in the same folder as adb (that's the default way, even if about to change). The result was

either adb: failed to read command: Connection reset by peer with aparent restart of the recovery boot
or a adb: failed to read command: No error in the cmd, giving me Timed out waiting for fuse to be ready. on the phone. I don't trust that error as it doesn't time out by waiting but in an instant after sending the sideload command.

I also double checked and cross-switched the cable, USB port, downloads, software versions (Lineage and recovery/ADB), as well as un- and reinstalled all respective drivers.
More references:

Manage the bootloader of your FP3/FP3+
Manually install Fairphone OS on FP3/FP3+ (from part "Setting:", in the process leads to this link from above for Windows)

I also went through these possibly related questions on this site among others:

Android adb sideload command
adb sideload CM,it shows error


texts: Why is not flashing process protected by password?

texts: I would like to know why not manufacturers include a protection against flashing recovery or ROM under a password like IMEI, I mean, the devices should be protected via hardware to prevent against unwanted flashing process, IMHO.


texts: Rooting and uprading Galaxy SL GT-I9003 to ICS or Jelly Bean

texts:
There are lots of howtos online but most of them are old with rotten links (to the downloads). In addition to how to root and upgrade and where to download the files, I'd like to know the following:

Is the (ICS or Jelly Bean) kernel I need to download trustworthy (i.e. open source)?
Are there any bugs associated with the kernel?

My phone is not rooted and is running firmware version 2.2.1 and kernel version 2.6.32.9.


texts: Adding a self-signed certificate to the trusted list?

texts:
I have my own self-signed SSL certificate for a website I need to keep relatively secure. I've been able to install my client SSL certificate just fine, but I can't seem to install the server's certificate to the Android trusted list, so I always get a warning when trying to access my site in Chrome from the device.

How do I install a PEM or CRT file for a self-signed server certificate?


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I got an old HTC Wildfire S from someone, without a SIM card, but I won't need one since I'll only be using this for testing purposes. Now the first thing I did was give it a hard reset to get rid of all his old stuff, his Google account etc.
Maybe I shouldn't have. Or maybe I should have backed up everything first. So it's really my fault. Anyway, this is what I have now.

The home screen is black. There's nothing on it, no background image, no icons, nothing
There is no keyboard. Tapping in a text field does nothing
In Settings, many items give the error "The application Settings (process com.android.settings) has stopped unexpectedly"
I can't connect to my Wifi, because the WPS button doesn't do anything. (And I can't type in the password to my modem manually, because there is no keyboard to type on.)
Restart > Recovery no longer works properly; this does the same as a normal Restart instead of booting into the Recovery console

So, does anybody recognise these problems, and do you have any idea what I can do about them?


texts: Is There an iPhone Emulation App On Android?

texts: Most apps are made for iPhone but i would like to know if there is still a way to make iPhone apps work on Android? Emulator maybe?


texts: Where do I configure DNS and IP settings in HTC Desire S?

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HTC Desire S seems to have very scarce WiFi settings. I'm trying to debug a Wifi connectivity issue and looks like it might be a DNS problem. I Googled and looks like many Android devices have some "advanced" settings including DNS server addresses. I can't find anything like that in Desire S.

What am I doing wrong? How do I change DNS and IP settings in Desire S?


texts: Nougat downloaded but now not in notifications

texts: I got an over the air nougat update on my Nexus 5x phone. I downloaded it but hadn't installed it yet. Now I don't see the notification on the phone. How can I get it back so I can click to install it?  Note I already tried check for updates but no luck there.


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I am trying to use my VPS running Cent OS as a proxy via SSH from my Galaxy S3 running Cyanogen Mod 9.

I can connect to my VPS using ConnectBot. In this program I sett the Port Forward to:
Type: Local
Source port: 8080
Destination: localhost:80

I am using Firefox browser with the Proxy Mobile 0.0.10 add-on. In those options I change all the hosts to localhost and proxy ports to 8080.

When I try any web address they all redirect to the default Apache 2 screen on my VPS instead of passing the traffic through from the web.

What do I need to change? Is there something in my SSH settings I need to fix? Is it something on my phone? I know the proxy works as I can get it running via Firefox on my desktop.

Many thanks.


texts: Automatically Enable Airplane Mode at Home?

texts:
I have Project Fi and my data connection at home is spotty -- I often miss calls.  I would like to automatically enable airplane mode when I get home (by GPS probably?).  When I leave, I would like to disable airplane mode.

I have a Nexus 5X with beta 7.1.1. Any ideas?


texts: Still visible after I deleted my WhatsApp account

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I've deleted my WhatsApp account according to the official instructions.

Unfortunately I'm still visible to my friends and they can still send me messages. But with a deleted account that shouldn't be the case — at least in my opinion.

I've already contacted WhatsApp's support but to no avail. Until now I haven't gotten a response.

Do you know what I could do about this issue? Have you already experienced such a problem yourself?


texts: USB charger produces high-pitched noise while the battery is full

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I have Nexus 5 and I recently bought the European version of the PowerCube, which combines three power outlets with two USB chargers. I noticed that as soon as my smartphone's battery is full, it starts producing a high-pitched whistling noise.

It stops when I unplug the phone or when its charge drops below 100%. Neither of my parents can hear it because it's outside their hearing range. Should I be worried?


texts: Accessibility into android7 there are news?

texts:
I'm blind and I tried Android 5.0 and it seemed not very good using talkback.
Does someone know if there are many differences with the new version?


texts: How can I see which application is controlling the brightness?


texts: Clockworkmod doesn't find the update files

texts: I recently added a 16GB storage card to my phone and set it as an extension to the internal memory using the built-in tool in Cyanogenmod 13. But now, the recovery can not find the update files anymore. I can only open the /storage/sdcard folder, but when I try to open /storage/sdcard/0 to access the cmupdater folder, it says that there are no files in there. I can install updates using adb commands though. How can I fix this?


texts: android 4.1.1 network connectivity issues

texts:
device: asus memo pad mev172v

issue: Apps (facebook, play store, ym, skype, etc) cannot access the wifi network. I can browse using Chrome (except for SSL sites) and can use the Youtube app.

tried:

rebooting via safe mode
clear app cache
removing and adding accounts


texts: Stop SD card from constantly unmounting due to underpowered

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I had problems with constant unmounting of my SD card from phone when it was not on charger. The problem was with powering off some power when disabling display to save energy, but this power was needed to keep SD card mounted.

My phone is LG Optimus L1 II E410, but from what I found during my long search for solution, it is not the only phone affected.

How can I stop this from happening?


texts:
I am using Symphony xplorer w35.

I wanted to install a custom ROM on it, so I backed up the the original ROM (normally, without using CWM recovery). After that, I installed CWM recovery mode on it. Then, I wiped my data & cache and installed a custom ROM, but I forgot to backup the previous ROM using CWM! Now, when I wanted to restore the previous ROM, it is impossible!

The previous backup is a .backup file & CWM can't restore it. I have to restore it via normal recovery mode, but whenever I turn on recovery mode, CWM mode automatically comes there! How to restore my previous ROM?


texts: Set native Jelly Bean dialer and contacts for Samsung Galaxy S3

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The stock Samsung dialer and contacts (developed by Samsung) is waaay too laggy for me to use it. Actually it takes seconds to navigate through the tabs of logs, favorites or the contact list. (Got about 10 pictures and 10 custom ringtones in 70 contacts, so there's not that much data to handle.) It was actually laggy from the first time I used it. Got Nova launcher instead of the crappy and laggy TouchWiz. In my opinion, every Samsung application is a piece of something brown.

Can I - somehow - force the OS to use the stock Jelly Bean dialer and contact app, or is it got replaced by Samsung's crapware?

Thanks for the input!


texts: Is it possible to backup apk from an installed application?

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I got some huge games which I don't play regularly but don't want to delete either. Is it possible to backup those apps as apk so that I can install them offline later?
I'm not talking about backing up only the app data, many tools exist for that purpose. I want the ability to install the app again offline at a later time.
Also, this is not necessarily an app suggestion request, any method to achieve this is OK with me.


texts:
Hey everyone. I'm a complete Android newb but computer poweruser, so I found this site based on experience with StackOverflow, ServerFault, etc. Go easy on me please. :)

I just got an LG Optimus U with US Cellular. In the pull-down menu I have GPS enabled (the satellite-looking thing with the beams), but when I open Google Maps and click the compass button, it says "Waiting for location" for a while and then says my location is temporarily unavailable.

Can anyone give me some recommendations on other things to check?


texts:
I have an android device (YotaPhone 2 actually) that is in continuously rebooting state with android logo showing on main screen.

When phone wasn't bricked then was possible to boot into official recovery with usual combination of buttons during startup. After bricking it is impossible to boot into recovery. But still possible to boot to "Downloading" state.

There is no alternative firmware or recovery. They haven't open source of kernel yet, so no CyanogenMod (or something similar) for my device. And therefore no custom recovery (except official one).

I tried to flash several official firmwares (from this ftp)
with official windows flasher (which off course based on
fastboot). No result, still android logo and continuously rebooting.
I tried to use fastboot and flash only recovery. No result.
I tried to erase boot and force booting to recovery. No success.

What else ways do I have to unbrick my device?

P.S. Warranty repair isn't an option because I dropped it onto concrete floor and damaged both screens (LCD one and Eink one).

P.P.S. Payment repair also isn't an option because it costs almost as much as new phone in my case.


texts: I have an S6. I had to change my work email password, which I also get on my phone. Now phone won't show new emails, dings at me. How do I sync them up? Thanks


texts: No Recovery No System and Can't access fastboot

texts:
I have a realme 1 and i accidentally locked bootloader (fastboot flashing lock) without flashing the stock recovery.
Now i can't access fastboot or anything else.
I can connect the device to computer but the adb and fastboot commands won't work as i can't access fastboot.
Idk what to do. >.<


texts: Busted Verizon Galaxy Note 5 screen, trying to use adb to unlock

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Recently, I dropped my Samsung Galaxy Note 5 and busted the glass, lcd, digitizer, and maybe the speaker. Before, I try anything with replacing the broken parts, I would like to get the SMS database and my photos off via usb cable. Unfortunately, I can't unlocked the screen and the adb devices shows nothing on both a Mac and Linux machines for me to send a command to simulate an unlock gesture. Also, I don't have usb debugging turned on and have no way to turn it on. As a last ditch attempt, I have tried to modify the ~/.android/adb_usb.ini and /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android-rules to try to get adb working. Adb still couldn't find my phone.  I also have thought of going the OTG route but nobody that has a Verizon GalaxyNote5 has had any luck with that. What else can I try to get my data off of my phone? Fastboot?

My problem is similar to this except I don't have a Nexus phone:
Broken screen while debug mode was disabled. How can I re-enable adb?


texts:
Hello sir/mam how can i copy a link from any android app that has link inside pages

I have some whatsapp group joining link inside app
Every pages has a link of Whatsapp group i want to copy that link can u help me....
Your help is highly appreciated...

App link is

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.whatsappgroupinvite


texts: Installed TWRP recovery on a Verizon-locked device but didn't unlock bootloader: options?

texts:
On a Verizon Galaxy S3, I installed the TWRP recovery not realizing Verizon's bootloader is locked. Now it boots to "System software not authorized by Verizon Wireless has been found on your phone. Please turn off your phone and go to the nearest Verizon Wireless store for help."

Short of actually going to the Verizon store and begging them to recover this phone, what are my options for recovering from this mess? I imagine if I could just rewrite the original recovery then I could use an easy unlocker app inside the OS. I did back that up before installing TWRP so there's that.

Worth noting: through some combination of buttons I did once get this to boot into Odin(?). It said it was downloading something but never seemed to finish. Not sure if that's helpful.


texts:
Updated with more information -- please see below

I have an unrooted LG X Power running Android 6.0.1.  I have recently gone through Google Photos (using a desktop web browser) and deleted a bunch of videos, but even though Photos tells me that they will be removed from my devices, they remain on my phone, and I can't seem to get rid of them.  When I try to delete them using the Photos app on the phone, I get the error message:

  Can't delete [x] items

  Photos doesn't have access to delete items on your SD card. Go to the Gallery app to continue deleting.

But I don't even have a Gallery app on my phone! Moreover, when I use a file browser to see what's on my SD card, there is no trace of them; they do not appear in the DCIM > Camera directory (although my photos do).

Where are these videos hiding?  I suspect they are hidden somewhere in my internal storage, as I am rapidly running out of storage space, but the DCIM > Camera directory in my internal storage is completely empty, and I can't seem to find any other large directory.  Why doesn't deleting them from Google Photos remove them from my phone?  And why does Photos keep telling me to use a nonexistent Gallery app to delete them?

Edited to add: As far as I can tell, Photos does have permission to access the SD card; it says so in Preferences, and is able to save photos and videos there with no problem. It only throws up an error message when I try to delete. Furthermore, the error seems to affect photos and videos taken recently; older photos and videos (which were all taken on a different phone) can be deleted with no difficulty.

Further updates: Well, I found them!  The files are not on my SD card, but rather are in my internal storage.  But the plot thickens:

Using the DiskUsage app by Ivan Volosyuk I was able to find the files hidden in my DCIM folder on my internal storage (which is odd, because Photos keeps telling me that it can't delete them because it doesn't have access privileges for my SD card...  which it does...  but anyway...).  The folder, according to this app, contains about 5.9 GB of media.  (There's also a Podcasts folder with 1.33 GB that I'd like to get rid of, also...)  See screenshot below, then keep reading for more of the mystery!

When I try to delete the files (whether one at a time, or the whole folder at once) I get an error message:  "Error: file wasn't deleted."  No additional information about why the file wasn't deleted is provided.  See screenshots 2 and 3 below, then keep reading for more info!

To further compound my frustrations, the files (and folders) in question don't show up when I use other file browsers.  Here, for example, is what I see in Android File Transfer (see my last screenshot below). Notice that the DCIM folder exists, but is essentially empty, except for a few thumbnails; the Podcasts folder isn't shown at all.  I get similar results when I use the stock File Manager app on my phone, and when I use this other File Manager app, and when I use Files By Google: none of these apps show the existence of the files in question at all.  And yet they're there, taking up space, visible in DiskUsage.

I'm hoping that with this additional information, someone can help me figure out how to finally delete these damn files.  I could really use that 7 GB of space back.


texts:
Hopefully someone can help me.

I have a Samsung Galaxy Note II and I want to record with my external mic (rode smartlav+) but still listen to all audio from my phone via bluetooth. (Sena 20s).

For example:

All outbound audio -> Bluetooth device
All inbound -> external mic

Is that possible?


texts: Decrypting Encrypted Micro SD Card without phone

texts:
Since the release of the new Android version, has anyone had any success with decrypting the contents of a Micro SD card without the use of the phone?

I want to encrypt my card incase I lose the phone. However, I also don't want to be in a situation where something could happen and I am left with no way to retrieve contents from the SD card.


texts:
Google Maps sometimes asks me to calibrate my compass.  Last time it did so, I was in a rush and didn't bother to, and now the compass does seem a bit off.  I tried to find a "calibrate compass" setting in Maps, but I couldn't find it.

How can I calibrate the compass on my phone?


texts:
I want to save some bandwidth for my mobile data plan, is there a way I can disable loading images for Google Chrome, the way I can for Opera Mini for example?

I couldn't find an option in the settings.


texts:
If you leave the android phone idle it will lock the screen, so you need draw lines in the dots to unlock it.

But I need quickly lock the phone when I will put in my bag, by example. Basic phones I simply hold the # or * button and the keys will lock.

How do I do to get this in android phones?


texts:
I have a Galaxy S3 International Version, without any modification whatsoever.
However, of late, I have begun experiencing problems with my screen / display.

Graphics display issue
The problem goes as follows: When I pull down the notification menu on the home screen slowly, I see that the the part of the screen that is visible is being displayed in poor quality. If i continue dragging, towards the last one third of the screen I begin to see banding similar to gradient banding.
Another issue, that goes in conjunction with the one above, is that the display seems to be grainy. Say, I press the apps button and see the icons of the apps I have installed. On top, where the option exists to see 'Widgets' or 'Apps' I see a grainy band run across those buttons. Grains can also be seen when browsing the internet or scrolling a list and so on.

I am unsure as to how to solve these problems. There are a few more 'problems' that I would like to discuss, probably on a different thread.
But for now, this is the one I have.

Can someone please tell me how to solve this?

Android Version: 4.1.2
Build Number: JZO54K.I9300XXEMF6


texts: How can I get the Unknown Sources option on my Dell Streak?

texts: I want to install one application which is not in the Market. I know that if I want to do that I should switch on the "Unknown sources" option, but I don't have "Unknown sources" on my Dell Streak. What should I do to get this option?


texts: Can I hide a specific Google Now place card?

texts:
Google Now is very cool, and I like how it shows places you may be interested in nearby.

I'm wondering though, is there any way to tell it "No, I'm not interested in that place, please don't show it to me again"?

Note that I don't want to turn off the nearby places cards entirely, I want to see those, I just want to dismiss specific places and not see cards for them again.

Can I do this?

Note also, if there is a way, it doesn't necessarily need to be in Google Now, ... if there's even a way to go on the web and add the place to an ignore list or something or anything.


texts: "Restarting adb... Installation aborted." without any further details after abd sideload

texts:
I'm trying to setup a bulk of tablets with a custom ROM (as a kind of kiosk mode tablets for my company). In short all I'm doing is deleting all kind of stuff from the tablet and then I'm installing just my self-made kiosk app as a launcher app. I've already accomplished that by doing it manually on a rooted tablet. However I need to that for a bulk of tablets so I want to create an update.zip which automates that and apply it to all tablets by adb sideload update.zip.

When I try to load a minimalistic update.zip which I created to just learn and play around with the update.zip archive format I always get the following error:

The minimalistic update.zip which just creates a tiny text file in \system\ to proof that the update really has been applied can be downloaded here: update.zip

What's wrong with my ZIP? All similar questions on this topic seem to be related to signing issues, but:

i've signed my ZIP
and all the other issues get errors like invalid signature but I don't get any error message at all!


texts: Possible to view history of apps LOOKED at on Google Play?

texts:
I was wondering, is it possible to view a history of apps I looked at on Google Play, but didn't necessarily download?
I went down a lengthy rabbit hole of suggested apps and then my Play Store app suddenly crashed...
I am hoping against all hope there might be a general viewing history. I am already aware of how to see a list of currently installed apps, and a list of apps I have (ever) downloaded.
If no such list/history exists or can be cleverly made, perhaps I shall lookup apps through the browser in the future, since surely I would be able to see a history as it would appear like any other webpage visited I would think. However this would certainly be less convenient and would lack the other features and benefits that are a part of the actual app.
Anyways, thanks for your insight and your time.
Barrage


texts: Galaxy S4 Mini: Why is there no "creation mode." when sending MMS (problem sending .png images)

texts:
I can send .jpeg images via MMS but when I download an image it saves as a .png. When I send a MMS it says "media type not supported."

I read that the fix to this is going to settings > menu > creation mode and set it to warning / free. But for the S4 Mini there is no creation mode.

Can someone give me another fix or tell me where creation mode is? Thanks.


texts: Server Password changed for email on s3, unable to sign in, connection error

texts: My email worked fine on Galaxy S 3 for 3 weeks, but all of a sudden I receive a message saying "Server Password changed, sign in failed connection error". I have changed nothing and was still receiving emails minutes before this happened. Also, the same password still works when logging into Virgin Media to see email online.


texts: How can I prevent a recording from being inadvertently stopped?

texts: After I hit Record on my Android for video or audio recordings, the Stop button is too easily triggered accidentally, e.g. by the wind or physical matter (dust, paper) that manages to touch the phone screen. How can I force the phone to require more than a touch (e.g. a password) to stop or pause a recording?


texts: I have noticed that long clicking an SMS message brings up a menu containing a "Lock message" option. What does this do? I have a Nexus S.


texts: Battery draining faster after recharging on Galaxy S4 Mini

texts:
I'm struggling with my Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini. Actually the battery is very good and since I don't use my phone a lot, it lasts pretty much 2 days when I let it die and full recharge it.

The issue is, everytime I recharge it when the battery is not dead, the battery is draining very fast even though I don't use my phone.

As you can see, after I unplugged it, even though everything was off, the curve is plunging whereas when everything was off before the plug, it's almost horizontal.

Does anyone have an idea how can I fix it?


texts: How do I remove the change keyboard button in android 11?

texts: I keep hitting it instead of the spacebar and I want to remove it from the keyboard if I can. Circled in the photo.


texts:
I had a problem with my Sony Tablet S (Android 4.03) i tried to unnistalled some app and then alot of messages pop up one after another teeling that "x" application has fail, so i try to reboot, but since the tablet get stuck on the loading screen when try to initialize.

Anyone can help me to solve it without lost all the apps and info? thanks.


texts: How to connect new user to hotspot while vpn running?

texts:
I'm running marshmallow  (6.0.1) rooted. I run the following commands

iptables -F

iptables -t filter -F FORWARD

iptables -t nat -F POSTROUTING

iptables -t filter -I FORWARD -j ACCEPT

iptables -t nat -I POSTROUTING -j MASQUERADE

ip rule add from 192.168.43.0/24 lookup 61

ip route add default dev tun0 scope link table 61

ip route add 192.168.43.0/24 dev wlan0 scope link table 61

ip route add broadcast 255.255.255.255 dev wlan0 scope link table 61

So I can tether the vpn connection. My problem is once tethered no new client can connect it stays at obtaining iptables address. How can I fix this?


texts: How do I completely mute the sound in phone calls?

texts:
I don't mean I want to mute the ringtone, and I don't mean I want to mute my own microphone. I want to mute the sound of the other person on the call.
When I use the volume control during a call, I can put the slider all the way down to zero but the call is still audible - either the slider only acts on the ringtone, or the slider is capped at a minimum (non-zero) volume level. How do I make the call completely silent?
(For context: I make calls using a relay service, where I type, and a remote assistant speaks and types the response back to me. This service involves making the call on my phone, so I still get the sound of the people talking - I want to silence this.)


texts: Unable to mount /data after multiple wiped

texts:
Everytime I try to flash anything from TWRP it says "E: unable to mount /data". I have tried multiple wipes and entirely reflashing the os but everytime i finish setting up the phone after wiping it, it goes back to that error.

Phone is a Samsung J5 Prime (G570Y)


texts:
How can I protect my phone from the FREAK bug?
Phone is a Samsung GT-S5830 running Gingerbread.


texts: How to stop a phone from ringing without rejecting the call?

texts:
Sometimes I don't want to take a call, but I don't want him to know that. So I left the phone be until it stops, so it would appear that I'm away from phone or something and I miss the call. Can I silence the ringing tone and the vibration while doing that?

Info: My phone is Galaxy S


texts: Internal storage space on a Motorola android phone

texts: I only have 6 games downloaded and moved to my SD card but my internal storage is running how can I find out why that is? And how can I fix the problem?


texts: Can anyone please tell me what is the difference between the a normal Android boot vs. a hot reboot!? When I toggle the power options on my tablet to turn it off or reboot it... It says on the bottom "hot reboot"!? I have looked it up online, and nothing has giving me an understatement of the difference. Nothing clearly defines it. That would be great thank you! :)


texts: How to partial sync Dropbox contents to my device?

texts:
Is it possible to sync only some folders of Dropbox?

I have 5GB+ files on Dropbox cloud, but only want a few folders to be synced to my Galaxy Tab 7.7.


texts: Synchronizing signature from desktop GMail to Android GMail app

texts:
I need to send email from road and want my professional signature to appear. Our company policy requires use of "real" signature when using mobile email and I can't adhere to my own policy.

How do I sync my desktop GMail signature in Android? It works on my employees' iPhones, but I couldn't figure it out how to do that in Android. I know I can type a signature in, but it's just not the same as what appears on our desktops.


texts: PIE supported ssh server for android 5.1.1

texts:
I recently updated my moto E to  android 5.1.1.

When I executed dropbear binaries that used to work well on previous android versions, It showed this error :: only position independent executables(PIE) are supported.

I searched on net to fix this. Replaced linker file with patched one , but did not work.
Searched for PIE supported dropbear binaries but could not find any.

Please give a link for PIE supported ssh server/dropbear or resolve this PIE issue ..


texts: (i) above icon long press options on Pixel XL but not Nexus 6P

texts:
Whilst I was still using my Nexus 6P as my main phone, I upgraded to the beta version of Android 7.x (and more recently Android 8.x). When I long press an icon on my home screen, such as Google Maps, I get the list of shortcuts for directions home/work etc. and that is all.

If I do the same on my Pixel XL or Pixel 2 XL running the latest non beta version of Android, above the list of direction shortcuts, I see another row with an 'i' in a circle. Pressing it takes me to the App Info screen for that app.

Why is this only on my pixels and not the 6P and can I turn it off?


texts: Samsung GT-s6312 USB issue connecting to USB

texts: My samsung GT-s6312 phone does not connect to PC. Even after connecting USB cable, it gives an error to download software.


texts: Stop automaticaly switching to 3g if wi-fi drops

texts:
I have an android 2.2 phone.  The other day, I was using a wi-fi connection on my phone and had it tethered to my laptop.  For whatever reason, the wi-fi connection dropped and my phone starting using my phones 3g connection to continue the internet connection tethered to my laptop...

Is it possible to stop this from happening? i.e. if the wireless connection drops, don't use the 3g connection automatically?


texts: What is Motorola Camera app's Photo naming convention?

texts:
The Images are saved as IMG_yyyyMMdd_kkmmssSSS.jpg

Here, the yyyyMMdd part in filenames matches the first half of the photo's EXIFDate/Time data.

Can anyone please help me out with figuring out the rest of the file name and how can I extract this from the photo's EXIF data?


texts: Phone is trying to store incoming SMS messages on SIM card

texts:
My Nexus 5X has stopped being able to receive SMS messages. Every time I'm supposed to get a text, I instead see a notification: "SIM card storage is full -- No more space for SMS messages on SIM card. You may need to delete some messages."

I have never configured the phone to use SIM card storage (don't even know of such an option). When I click the notification, I see an empty list titled "SIM card messages" in Messenger.

I'm currently traveling abroad and roaming (Sprint subscriber on Chunghwa). Sprint was having an outage with international roaming for several hours; it just came back on and the problem started soon thereafter.

Running latest version of Android N.


texts: Apps don't launch in a separate "window"

texts:
When, for example, I am in the Gmail app reading an email with a link to a movie on IMDB, and I touch the link to open it, the IMDB app launches and displays the correct thing, BUT the IMDB doesn't launch as a separate app! When I display all running apps, this is what I see:

Screenshot (click for larger image)

IMDB "overtakes" the Gmail "window", and now I can't use both apps at the same time. I want the IMDB app to be in a separate "window". How to do this? Same thing with opening a Youtube link from Chrome, or any other app combination...

The device is Nexus 7 (2013), with Android 4.4.2.


texts:
Ok so guys I'm getting kinda irritated by this problem. It is telling me Unfortunately, <process> has stopped. Meaning, when I go to launcher, it says Unfortunately, Launcher has stopped; to Google, Unfortunately, Google has stopped; and so on. How in the world do I fix this?  I can't go on the launcher or settings or anything.

I wiped cache but no luck. What should I do? Maybe Restore User Data?


texts:
I'm receiving most text messages as would be expected, but it would seem one person in particular is unable to reach me. I am receiving the messages. I have the notifications telling me that I have unread messages, but when I look for their conversation, it does not exist. I was able to confirm the messages belong to them by adding them as a priority sender. A notification number was attached to their picture.

Now, I do not have this person on any sort of block list, I've check all of those, and there seems to be no reason that I shouldn't be seeing messages. This is on a Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge Plus, running Android 6.0.1 stock.

EDIT: As additional information, the message do appear on my Samsung Gear S2.

Any advice as to how I can access these messages would be most appreciated.


texts: No 3 dots option on whats app on my Samsung Galaxy Grade

texts: i don't have that 3 dots( which usually is in the top rhs) so I can't change my profile picture on my what's app


texts: Two years of operating system upgrades (Android - one) - how is it implemented?

texts:
"Android One phones will receive at least two years of OS upgrades," according to Google.

I interpret this statement as follows.

  An Android One phone will receive at least two major version upgrades for Android within two years of the device's launch date. For example, an Android One device that launched with Android 8.0 will eventually receive upgrades for versions 9.0 and 10.0.

Is this interpretation correct? Am I missing details?

To clarify, Android 8.0 was a major release; Android 8.1 was a minor maintenance release.


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I have a Motorola Moto E LTE 2015 (XT1524) (surnia) and a Lexar micro SDHC card 1000x 32Gb.

I followed this how-to install-link2sd-apps2sd-marshmallow, to put my apps on the SD card.

I split my SD card in 2 partitions for external storage:

1st partition in FAT32, primary, about 15 Gb
2nd partition in ext2, primary, about 15 Gb (ext4 gives me corrupted partition in my phone, partitioned with aParted on my phone or Gparted on my PC (Kubuntu 16.10), I've tried both, same results.)

My device is rooted, with TRWP 3.10, LineageOS 14.1-20170414 and SuperSU-v2.79-SR3 installed.
I used Apps2SD, and Link2SD, to install apps on my external storage SD card, but it doesn't work and I have this same error:

Do you think it comes from:
    - LineageOS,
    - kernel,
    - partitions' softs, flags, labels
    - Apps2SD/Link2SD,
    - SD card
    - ...

And how to fix that?

Device Details:
Phone: Moto E LTE (2nd gen) - XT1524
Android version: Android 7.1.1 - LineageOS 14.1-20170414-NIGHTLY-surnia - API LineageOS Guava (7) - bandbase M8916_2020629.41.03.21.51R - kernel 3.10.49-MPI24.241-2.35-1-g1ec3abb


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my phone samsung j4 plus is having problem when i turn on camera or flash it is saying "Another app is using the camera"
but i checked nothing in background is using these
and my flash is working only in accessibility settings (Flashing when getting notification)
i have tried these

restart,
safe boot
but nothing

please help me
thanks in advance for anyone answering


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texts: ANDROID PRINTING | Default Print Service | how to print files

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UPDATED-STATEMENT: 20190110@112441@THU Post created
UPDATED-STATEMENT: 20200109@123859@HUh Still no solution a year later as service is supposedly popular.

OS: Android 8.0.0 (oreo)
Printing Service: Android's "Default Print Service"

  A Service that's new but nobody is talking about it? Does it even work?

  Why would I need cloud printing if the printer is right in front of me?

I'm on Android Oreo which is version 8. This has introduced a way to no longer need any services outside of the Android OS and instead use it's "Default Printing Service" for printing with an Android phone.
These outside services include Google's Cloud Print, HP, Canon, Xerox, & several others.
Besides those services, you may stick with the built-in one provided by Android itself and it's called Default Print Service by Android and in order to begin using it you'll first have to enable it if not done so already.
To do this go to Settings -> Advanced -> Printing -> Select it, then enable. Now, what it'll do is search for the printers in your network and you know this by what WiFi you're on using your phone.
The problem is after the list refreshes you can' go any further it just let's you know: these are the printers in your network and nothing more. I see the printer i'm going to use to print to, but unable to do anything more than to identify that it's in my network by displaying an IP underneath it. So, I did do an online research with those responsible and that didn't help because there's no instructions as to how to print. So then, i'm left with a recognized printer not being able to have the option to print or at least show me how to get to the option to print.

My question is how do you print from Android using the Default Print Service besides just using it as a tool to view printers in your network?

PROBLEM

Android's Default Print Service only shows printers but unable to choose a printer for printing

An example of me printing is viewing a pdf document and for Android you have to either find the following options when viewing a file via cogwheel/3-button icon:
Share...
Send To...
Open With...
At this point I don't see "Default Print Service" as a selection and this is the problem

SOLUTION

None-so-far

NOTE

Finding "Default Print Service" in android may vary with different phones

Location1: Settings -> Advanced -> Printing

Files can be images to anything with text like a pdf or even a txt file