texts: DNS queries are cached permanently, how to reliably clear DNS cache on Android 7+?

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Is there a reliable, reproducible way to clear DNS cache on Android Nougat 7.0?

I know there is at least one other question like this but that one was from 8 years ago and I hope I can ask again and see what people are doing these days.

To explain a bit more my setup:

I am testing a simple web page loading in Chrome browser with Wireshark packet capture to see the DNS requests. I am also running dnsmasq on my LAN and have mapped my webpages name: mymovies to the correct IP address of the machine on my LAN that the web server is on. So http://mymovies should work and it does load.

The DNS lookups initially start with the DHCP server appending the DNS suffix (.home) so in the packet trace I see a DNS request for mymovies.home which fails because I don't have an IP address mapping for that in dnsmasq.conf. So a second DNS lookup for just mymovies appears and is successful.

Mostly I find that subsequent DNS lookups are always just for mymovies and never again for mymovies.home no matter what I try to clear the DNS cache:

I am testing over WiFi with a Moto G5 running Android 7.0 and it is rooted so I can run commands from within adb shell to the OS.

I have tried lots of things like:

Closing down Chrome browser and starting it up again.
chrome://net-internals/#dns to clear host cache and flushing the sockets too
Settings > Apps > Chrome > Storage > Clear Cache
ndc resolver clearnetdns wlan0

The only thing that seemed to work for me was turning the phone off and on again. After restart I opened http://mymovies in Chrome on the phone. The page loaded and in the Wireshark trace I see the first DNS request for mymovies.home which fails as usual followed by a DNS request for mymovies that succeeds. I then closed down that tab and opened a new one and loaded the page again.. I did this twice. Each time now I see a dns request for mymovies only.. it doesn't even try mymovies.home.

I restarted dnsmasq server and the first DNS lookup after that was for mymovies.home followed by a lookup for mymovies. But since then the DNS lookups are now only ever for mymovies. This is despite restarting the dnsmasq server a few times and trying the four so-called DNS cache clearing steps listed above.

But to confuse the matters, I tried the trick of switching into and back out of Airplane Mode. Now when I load my little test web page a few times it doesn't seem to cache at all anymore? Loading the webpage always initially gives a DNS look up for mymovies.home which fails then a lookup for mymovies that succeeds. Even after restarting the phone the DNS lookups have now stopped caching completely and it firstly tries mymovies.home every time!

I think this caching behavior is normal and expected but I'd just like a way to clear that cache so it goes back to trying mymovies.home without me having to restart the phone.

I'm not sure if the IPv6 has anything to do with things? In my router I have specified the IP address of the Raspberry Pi on my LAN that dnsmasq is running on so the router directs DNS requests to it.

I don't want the page to stop caching OR to always cache. I just want to be able to clear the DNS cache in a predictable manner so I can make the DNS request for mymovies.home appear once followed by the expected DNS caching.


texts: How do I move all the files from a folder (and subfolders) using the command line in Android 7.1+?

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I tried using this command:

find /src/dir -type f -exec mv --backup=numbered -t /dst/dir {} +

sourced from here, but error messages suggest find requires root on Android. Any other ideas as to how to accomplish this? I want only the files in the destination folder (i.e. without the directory structure, all files in one directory) while maintaining the source directory structure. I've tried Termux, Terminal Emulator, and Tasker so far, without success.


texts: Can an app installed from the Google Playstore install another app with different permissions?

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I installed an app for custom notifications from the Playstore. The app requires sensitive permissions (camera, contacts, and storage), but has no network access. When I selected a setting the app said I needed to install another app and then my phone displayed a window prompt asking if I will install an app from an untrusted source. My concern is if this app could be spyware with internet access to steal my data. Is this possible if the main app has no network access and no downloading permissions?
I contacted the developer and they told me that particular setting requires an "older API level" that is not possible for main apps to have. I am not knowledgeable enough to know if this is a valid reason.


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I have a Samsung Galaxy S3.
Every time I try to update my software/ check for updates I receive the following message: "failed to update firmware due to network or server problem. Try software update via settings>software update> Update, or try using PC Kies later"

I have tried everything but it still gives me the same messages.
sometimes I don't even try to update my software and I will receive the same message out of the blue.

Can someone please help me?


texts: How can I sync specific Google contact groups?

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My HTC Desire A8181 runs 2.2, and uses the People app to manage contacts instead of the vanilla Android contacts app. I'd like to use Google Contacts to manage my contacts and just sync with my phone, but People can't filter by group — so I end up with literally hundreds of extraneous contacts (making it a royal pain to create shortcuts, link contacts) and numerous duplicates (contacts with the same name but different email addresses cannot be distinguished).

HTC have confirmed that it is not possible to change this behaviour. So is there another application that I can use which will sync my contacts only with designated groups in Google Contacts?


texts: Steps Necessary To Update A Custom Rom To Its latest Version?

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Many a time when I watch Youtube videos regarding people rooting and flashing Custom Roms on their Android Smartphones, they show you how to carry out the procedure both in their respective videos and perhaps also in written dialogue on their main website.

However as far as i'm aware most Custom Roms do not include OTA updates, therefore one would generally have to check the XDA website for example to be notified of a newer version to whichever Custom Rom for the particular device you are using becomes available. (I believe however that the CyanogenMod Installer recently introduced maybe an exception to that general rule).

It is also the case as outlined in my first paragraph that those people who have Youtube videos about Rooting and Flashing Custom Roms, fail to do a follow up video showing how you can install the latest version of a Custom Rom they are showcasing from a previous version.

For a beginner this maybe very daunting if you would like the latest version.

I would therefore like to know:

What are the necessary steps that one must undertake to update a Custom Rom to its latest version from a previous version ?


texts: Any way to assign startup apps manually?

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Is there any way i can set up an app to start at startup? Its a ram boosyer and for some reason it does not auto start....earlier it used to..

Does moving apps to SD card prevent its auto start?

And how can i assign apps mannualy to be "Startup applications"?


texts: Can the Galaxy S2 be rooted without increasing the custom flash counter using adb?

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Normally, rooting guides for the S2 involve flashing a kernel to the device to install busybox and su. This xda post suggests a method for doing so via adb (found approximately in the middle of the first post):

adb shell mount -o rw,remount /dev/block/mmcblk0p9 /system
adb push busybox /system/xbin/
adb push su /system/xbin/
adb shell chown root.shell /system/xbin/busybox
adb shell chown root.shell /system/xbin/su
adb shell chmod 755 /system/xbin/busybox
adb shell chmod 4755 /system/xbin/su
adb shell /system/xbin/busybox --install -s /system/xbin
adb shell mount -o ro,remount /dev/block/mmcblk0p9 /system

This also seems to be the method tools like SuperOneClick use. Now I recently found this blog post indicating the above method does not increment the hardware counter in the S2 that counts flashes of custom firmware. More than that, it can also be used to install ROMs via Mobile Odin, also without increasing the counter, because they come form the device itself and not from a computer via the USB cable.

I fear to try out myself and lose my precious counter value of still 0. Has anyone tried out a method like this before and can confirm that it really does not affect the counter?


texts: Causes and solutions "UIDs on system are inconsistent... I'm feeling lucky"?

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HTC One Mini 2/Android 4.4.2/HTC Sense 6.0/Not rooted/4 weeks old

A couple of days ago i encountered this message on my phone:

UIDs on system are inconsistent

You need to wipe your data partition or your device will be unstable

[I'm feeling lucky]  (button)

...and then ensued a long day of tech support & research which i wanted to share here.  Web searching did not solve my problem directly, and while i can add a couple of insights that i didn't find elsewhere, i don't really have an answer.  Many of the information i found was from people who had rooted their phones, and therefore not directly relevant to me - i am approaching this from an un-rooted phone

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Symptoms/history

Phone crashed while browsing HTC's blinkfeed, and restarted

It limped along for a few minutes and restarted again

Phone then gets stuck at white HTC/android screen and remains there (left for several hours) - ie cannot power off, screen remains on

Later, i discovered that you can proceed beyond this screen by ejecting the sim card - this then shows the lock screen (active background, time, date etc) but on top of this is the message UIDs on system are inconsistent... and one button which says "I'm feeling lucky".  Whether you can press the button seemed to be allowed if you changed the position of the sim card - (ie if out, push it in, if in, eject it).

After dismissing the strange message, i am left with a black screen with notification bar at the top, and navigation bar at the bottom.  No apps; no widgets.  The notification bar was working, in that i could swipe down, enter settings etc.  Further, if i received a text, i could then access my messages via the notification bar, but could not reply to a text because the keyboard did not load.  Having used an app like messages or settings, i could switch between them with the bottom right navigation button as usual.  I found that i could receive phone calls, and once done so, i could dial others by switching back to the phone app.  This about sums up the functionality of the phone.

The other comment was that the phone could not be switched off.  Holding down the power button and selecting power off simply resulted in a restart of the phone.

After further investigation with HTC technical support i found i could restart the phone in safe mode, but exactly the same process happens (ie restart, ejecting and re-inserting the sim card and agreeing to the "I'm feeling lucky" button to get back to the main lock screen).

HTC technical support wanted me to do a hard reset: this can be done in one of two ways, by software (an option under settings>backup & reset>Reset phone) or by hardware (holding down volume-down and power during start up.  The software method had no effect on the described behavior.  We tried this several times.  The hardware method was unsuccessful, the phone simply restarted in safe mode.

HTC technical support finally admitted defeat, unable to think of something else suggested sending it in for repair.  Vodafone tech support also offered to send a pack for returning the phone for repair.

All comments/further info from the community will certainly be interesting, but please also see below, as i did manage to avoid sending back the phone for repair as I did eventually succeed in the hard reset.


texts: Chinese character input is translated to emoji in WhatsApp

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When inputting a Chinese character "" on WhatsApp for Android version 2.20.47, it is rendered as the emoji  instead.

My first guess is the Unicode of the Chinese character and the emoji are the same? Is there any reason behind this?

FYI: The character is typed with ChangJie, and the input code is 竹人戈一弓 or HOIMN.


texts: Contacts Storage process consumes more than 53% of battery life

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My battery doctor app points to "Contacts Storage" which is a native Android process as the chief consumer of battery life. Can't disable the process because no other app can reach or display my contacts when "contacts storage" is disabled.
Tried factory reset and things looked OK for the first week-two. Now it's back to consuming battery life like crazy.
Any app can replace this native horrid process?
Please help!


texts: Must I install ClockworkMod to install CyanogenMod on Samgung Galaxy SII?

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I want to install CyanogenMod on my Samsumg Galaxy S II. If I install ClockworkMod I think I will void the warranty provided by Samsung.

Must I install ClockworkMod or can I just install CyanogenMod?


texts: Stuck in system boot loop after TWRP installation

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I have a Samsung Galaxy S7 and tried installing the custom ROM LineageOS because what could go wrong?
Anyways I followed this guide which makes you install TWRP 3.4.0-0 under the Installing a custom recovery using heimdall section.
I did that and I can (successfully?) boot into TWRP. However when tapping Reboot -> System or trying to boot into my standard android system I am stuck in a boot loop where The Samsung logo reappears every 5 seconds or so.
Here is what I've tried:

The command  dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/fota from here
The command dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/misc bs=256 count=1 conv=notrunc from here
Wiping my entire phone from TWRP

None of those things made any difference.
I really just hope that I didn't brick my phone.


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I'm trying to update to Lollipop OTA on my HTC One M8, rooted, S-ON. I've read that it won't work with a custom recovery (I was using CWM) so I flashed a stock recovery and removed SuperSU, and that all seemed well and good but the update still won't apply. It just boots into the recovery menu(?) then stops.

Please help!


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This application has the ability to encrypt.
What method does Monospace use for encryption?


texts: Clock widgets and other widgets freezing on GS4

texts: Often when I charge my GS4 phone two different clock widgets and my GNotes widgets freeze up. I have to restart the phone to make the widgets work again. The clock widgets are BeWeather and Fancy Widgets. I never had problems with them on older galaxy. Does anyone know what might be causing this problem? Thanks!   Edit btw I'm using Holo Launcher HD.


texts: Why should I "Set up my profile" within contacts?

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When I go into my contacts (via the "People" application) I'm always prompted to set up my profile:

Apart from placing my personal details at the top of the contacts list in case I forget who I am, is there any other benefit to actually filling this information out?


texts: Are pictures lost forever if using TWRP to wipe data?

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I have the following problem: I accidentally deleted an important picture and tried to recover it;
Using DiskDigger (without root) I only find the low quality version of the picture - I read that I need to have root access to search for all pictures which I did not have - hence since I am using Android Oreo on my S8+ the only possibility I saw to root it was with TWRP and SuperSu using the way which is described here:

https://www.androidexplained.com/galaxy-s8-root-supersu/

Basically I did the following: OEM Unlock, then using the Downloadmode and Odin to put the TWRP tar file on it, then in TWRP I wiped out data, installed the no-verity.zip file and then installed the supersu.zip file and my root was successful;

Now I actually thought that when I use disk digger again, that all my pictures now can be restored (since the 'wiping' took like 10s it is impossible that all the storage got really overwritten)

Unfortunately, when running now the programme with root access I can't find any pictures I had before the 'wiping' - is that normal? Is there any way to recover it? Or did I screw it up?

One thing maybe worth mentioning is that the supersu failed to install in the first place and I played with the data format - precisely I changed the /data directory from EXT4 to exFAT and back because I thought maybe this would solve the issue;

I would be extemely thankful about any kind of comment about it - thank you so much


texts: Disable touchscreen area (root available)

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My rooted Xperia Z1 on Android 5.1 has a broken touchscreen area in the upper half of the screen.

I was able to partly solve the problem by following this SO question:
Resize screen for Dead touch zone

My problem is: The broken area constantly sends touch events. By that, I am not able to input any touch events myself.

How can I filter any touch events in the upper half of my screen?


texts: My phone doesn't boot at all after restarting bootloader

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My phone is Huawei Y3II.

Now, my phone is not starting, no matter how I press the power button.

I have tried Smart Phone Flash Tool, but it failed and it got an error 2004 - 6045.  Now, it does nothing when I click on "Download".

I have restarted the bootloader with ROM Toolbox Lite


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So I have an interesting case with android... Before I start, yes I have done factory resets, I have even tried installing a new ROM. I have replaced hardware. I have replaced the SIM card. But I still have my issue with my phone and only with this specific phone. My Samsung Galaxy note 3 has connection problems connecting with my carrier. My carrier is Family Mobile which is a T-Mobile reseller. I also own four other phones between me and my family who are with the same carrier as me and I do not have the connection issue when I put my Sim in their phones. My issue goes as follows:
My phone will randomly disconnect from data. I cannot send texts/call etc. And my phone is basically not longer registered on my carriers network. My APN setting are correct. Although sometimes but not every time when my phone disconnects, I'll see that its then registered on AT&T. Once I re-register on T-Mobile, the phone works for a short while. Sometimes when the last issue does not happen, I'll see a notification that says sign into T-Mobile and I'll click on it and push 'use-network-as-is' and the connection would work again for a short while. There's been a few times where the last two cases don't happen so I'll go into my APN setting and switch between two APNs that are registered to the same servers. Once I switch to the other APN, the networks works again for a short while, I have replace parts inside my phone and the phone still has the issue. This is the only connectivity issue that I have on my phone so that means, NFC and WIFI works just fine.


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There should be at least a console accessible since Android use the linux kernel.

Why is there no terminal emulator or console installed by default in Android OS ?

Is there a particular reason?


texts: Why doesn't BOINC use the CPU power fully on my Huawei P9 lite?

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I installed BOINC on my Huawei P9 lite.

model VNS-L31
build VNS-L31C432B414
Android 7.0 (stock)
CPU Kirin 650
RAM 3 GiB

I want the phone to run BOINC applications, when fully charged and connected to a wall outlet or PC. However it seems, that BOINC has no means to acquire all computing resources on that device. Antutu Benchmark shows no more than 68% CPU load and when inspecting the actual CPU load only four of the 8 cores are showing full CPU load the others exhibit half load and lower CPU clocking.
Battery temperature doesn't exceed 29°C, which is fairly low. (I'm not living in Siberia)

Computing performance seems to be low, too, when compared to an old Samsung Galaxy S5 with lineageOS installed. I tried to find all settings concerning power usage and so on, but there are virtually none execept power saving mode and ultra power saving mode.

When I start the stress test of AnTuTu Benchmark, the battery temperature rises to 37°C, soon. All cores show nearly full load then.

Now what bugs me is:

Is the CPU usage for background processes limited by some means?
Is it possible that BOINC applications are so inefficiently programmed, that they can't acquire enough computing resources to create full CPU load?
Can this be circumvented by rooting the phone and/or installing third party apps / non-stock ROM?

Don't get me wrong, I don't want to wear down my phone intentionally (in fact, on my old phones I don't give a s*** on that). But I want to have control over what I do on my devices.

Update

Did a test run with CPU-Z. It clearly shows, that the overall CPU-load is just 30% while Boinc running in the background. So the device must be throttled somehow.

** Update **
I added the thermal measurements from CPU-Z.
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It is rather obvious, that the temperatures can't be the cause for the throttled CPU. Anyone more clues why and how BOINC is kept from using the resources and how I can influence that behaviour?


texts: I Can't Change Album Art On Three Songs By One Artist

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I tried everything, even reformatting the phone. I never had this problem before.
The album art shows up properly on my computer.
New: I copied the songs from another phone, each song had the same profile pictures like it should, but it was still in two albums like before. When I moved the files from phone storage to the SD card via phone, the 3 songs went back to black album art and and it is still in two albums.


texts: Redirect to a login page when accessing androids tethered hotspot

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I have an android device which i want to use to provide internet to a group of people. I want to leave the wifi open but a user must acquire a username and a password to properly login to our internet.

Once a user is connected to our wifi,i want the user to be redirected to our login page. Is there an android hotspot app that can enable me to redirect a user to a custom page?.


texts: Press android version thrice took me to another screen which shows big Jellybean logo!

texts: When i pressed settings> About phone >Android version thrice quickly, it took me to another screen which displays Android version with Red  Logo. I wonder this behavior is common in all Android Flavors. I have galaxy Nexus with Jellybean 4.2.2


texts: Where in my files can I find the stock browser's Favourites stored?

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Where on the storage of my phone can I find the stock browser's Favourites?  I want to backup that folder.

OS: 4.1.1
S3


texts: I put a video in my pdf with Acrobat and there I can watch my video. But if I open the pdf on my mobile, I can't watch the video, I only see an image. Is there a way to watch videos of a pdf in a mobile? I have a samsung J5.


texts: Moto G external storage failing to show on Mac and other USB issues

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Since upgrading my Moto G 2nd gen to OS 6.0 I am having issues with USB and file transfers when connected to 3 different Macs with different OSes which all worked OK before. Sorry this is a bit long...

When I plug it in, Android File Transfer (AFT) starts up automatically but I get an error window saying 'Can't access device storage'... I find the phone is in USB charging mode only. If I change it to MTP, AFT does then show the internal storage files, but will not show the contents of the SD card.
I have also tried PTP mode (which would be more useful) but iPhoto does not show any of the (new) photos,  which it used to before the upgrade.

Additionally sometimes the Mac appears to lock up - no keyboard or mouse control - I suspect the USB circuitry is getting locked up - even unplugging USB does not clear this. The only 'fix' is to hold down the power button to reboot.

I can see the SD card contents on the phone and can copy files on/off with OTG but this is a bit of a pain.

I've not read of anyone reporting exactly these issues.


texts: how to check if my OS is not modified (is original)

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lets say, someone gave me an android phone ( with custom rom, lets say CM or etx). i did hard reset to erase alll data and usr apps.
but i am interested, how to know if that custom rom is not modified ( if i am afraid of spyware hard-coded into that os).

how to check if that system is clean from such custom modification, and is an original CM?

EDIT:
I've found interesting answer here - How to tell if phone's ROM is original or tampered?


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My OnePlus 5 after the Pie OTA update wont show the screen. after rebooting, it only shows the 'android' logo and then the screen goes completely blank(black). I can sense that the phone is turning on and working since I can feel the vibrations on the lock screen and random apps opening. I tried going to the recovery but even the recovery is blank but I can feel the touch vibrations.
Please Help!


texts: What's this option in the AOSPA stock email app?

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On my Paranoid Android ROM, that I installed because the old CM ROM I was using is dead link and I needed a ROM to run, I am configuring the Email app, but I can't understand what is the meaning of this setting:

(It's the fourth option of the notifications settings, for non-French speakers)

I have not seen it in any other screenshots, it isn't in the translation files and isn't documented anywhere.

I think it is for having a notification for each email instead than a global "2 new messages" one, but it is only an assumption.

What does this setting mean? How will the modification of this setting will change the behavior of the app?


texts: Missing language on physical keyboard options

texts: Mongolian language doesn't exist in the physical keyboard section. Is there any way to install an additional language on an Android tablet?


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My phone has an odd problem, and I don't know where to start in diagnosing it. Several apps started having problems opening, taking a very long time (sometimes several minutes) to open; sometimes they won't open at all, and a reboot will be needed. Interestingly, once the app has been opened for the first time, it won't have problems again until the next reboot.

So I reinstalled the OS, and the new one is an entirely different version of Android. And yet, the problem was not solved! So I started thinking about a hardware problem (reading the disk? using memory?), but I wouldn't know how to diagnose what it is, and if it's solvable or not. Any hints are appreciated. I understand this will not be enough information to solve it, but I will answer questions.

The phone is a Samsung Galaxy Note 3 with Lineage OS (unofficial, but the problem is present on two different, independently developed versions of the OS).


texts: Missing some of the applications while updating existing apps in my galaxy s3

texts: While updating the existing applications like Google maps, Play Music etc from the play store in my Galaxy S3, some applications like Navigation & 2 more disappeared from my phone. why is this happened? What can I do to restore them?


texts: Update ongoing notification stuck after reboot

texts: I selected to upgrade all of my applications, but my phone shut down for some reason during the upgrade. After restarting, I noticed that the upgrade was stuck so I cancelled the updates. Unfortunately, I still saw a notification that the other app were being downloaded. Even after restarting more times, clearing market data and killing the download process, the issue remains. How can I fix this?


texts: What does purple colour mean in GPU rendering profiling?

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In this video you can see lags in the Easter egg in Android Lollipop on Nexus 5

What does purple colour mean?


texts: Are there options to modify the task manager for Android's new update Lollipop?

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I have a Samsung Galaxy S5, and for the past few months I have held back on getting the Lollipop update. One of the big reasons why was because of this- not being able to go to the home screen through the task switcher button.
(by pressing on something other than the apps in the navigation window)
 I finally got it today, but I just want to know if it's possible to do this in the Lollipop update, because I used it frequently in the Kit Kat OS. I want to be able to navigate between apps and the home screen without having to ex-out all my apps or repeatedly press the home button.

Thank You for your time.


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On my Google+ Android app (version 2.1.1.219805) there is a Circle with no name. There's no one in the Circle.

When I check Google+ on the web, this mystery Circle is not there. All of my Circles are as they should be.

I've already Force Stopped and cleared the data for the app.

What's going on or, at least, how do I get rid of it?


texts: What do the two different colors mean in the Data Usage graph?

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The Google Dialer app consumed all my data in the background for reasons unbeknownst to me on my Nexus 5. I restarted my phone in safe mode. When I went to check the app data usage again (just to make sure I wasn't crazy), I saw the following:

Notice the two different colors: one a light green, the other a dark green. Why are there two different colors, and what do the colors mean?

The data usage graphs for other apps also have these different colors, so it's not just this graph that's showing like this. I assume there must be some meaning to the shading.


texts: How does one install an emulator onto the Playstation phone (Sony Xperia Play)?

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I got a Playstation phone (Sony Xperia Play) and would love to play old video games on it for free. I was hoping there was an emulator (maybe mame?) I could install on it. Is there some way I could do this?

EDIT: I'd like something that makes use of the playstation control buttons on my particular phone


texts: Always use desktop mode for specific websites on Chrome

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When I tap one of my favourite site, Chrome suggests me the link to mobile version, but I do not want it. I want to disable it only for my favourites.

I want to set the desktop mode only for some selected website, not for all

I use Chrome with Lollipop on Nexus 4. How can I disable this feature?


texts: How to safely root Samsung Galaxy Core Prime?

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In a nut shell I would like to safely root my Samsung Galaxy Core Prime or install another capable custom OS, because I really am unimpressed to the point I may return to T-mobile for the $30 LG Leon.

Last time I tried, I bricked it and had to swap for new one but they run like crap without root access.

I have rooted a few I am also trying to learn about coding and building Android apps... but I really just need help figuring out how to fix a soft bricked Android and/or how to save my info to SD  before I root so that I can get it back.


texts: Why does charging leads to battery losing charge at times

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I have a LG Optimus S Android on Gingerbread (The one on the cheaper side with least specs for an Android).

I have found that when I use the USB charger connected to my computer, at times instead of charging my phone, the battery gets drained. (Also I perceive that the battery gets drained faster than normal phone usage at such times)

While I have a fix which is to restart my Android phone. Could someone explain why such thing happens?


texts: I can't find the boot/recovery partitions on my Android phone for backup - where are they?

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I'm trying to back up boot.img, recovery.img, and system.img on my Android phone. I've found several mentions of running this command:

cat proc/mtd

and then just using dd to copy the listed mount points. Seems straightforward enough. Unfortunately, the output of that command is just this single line:

dev:    size   erasesize  name

df also doesn't list the usual "Mounted On" column, just the filesystem. This is the output of df:

Filesystem             Size   Used   Free   Blksize
/dev                   234M    52K   234M   4096
/mnt/secure            234M     0K   234M   4096
/mnt/asec              234M     0K   234M   4096
/mnt/obb               234M     0K   234M   4096
/system                640M   459M   180M   4096
/data                    1G   406M   898M   4096
/cache                 369M     6M   363M   4096
/protect_f               8M     4M     4M   4096
/protect_s               8M     4M     4M   4096
/mnt/cd-rom              1M     1M     0K   2048
/storage/sdcard1         1G    24M     1G   16384
/storage/sdcard0         7G     2G     5G   32768
/mnt/secure/asec         7G     2G     5G   32768

Some details about my phone:

It's a BLU ADVANCE 4.0
Board is Mediatek MT6572
Android version is 4.2.2
Kernel version is 3.4.5
I do have root access

So, to reiterate my question - where are the partitions? How can I find them?

While I'm not necessarily averse to using programs other than the shell it seems like I really should be able to do this from there.

EDIT: I used dd on the various mmcblk files I found in /dev/block. Most of them I terminated prematurely as they were 100MiB+, but two (mmcblk0p2 and mmcblk0p3) came out to about 10MiB each which seems more probable for boot and recovery. The contents of these when mounted are:

a directory labelled lost+found (ext?)
a directory labelled md, the subcontents of which differ

In mmcblk0p2 the contents of md are:

Two files of unknown type, one 4B one 2.0KiB, labelled MPOD_000 and ST33A004 respectively

In mmcblk0p3 the contents of md are:

One file of unknown type, 2.0KiB, labelled ST33B004


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I need to copy a file from the external SDcard to a location in the root partition, during the boot process (from init), after /data is mounted. I used Carliv's tool to add the following line to init.rc but it looks like the external SDcard isn't mounted yet at that stage:

on post-fs-data
     copy /mnt/m_external_sd/file /file

It's Android 7. How can I do that?
Thanks in advance.


texts: How to turn off USB sharing on Android (Archos 70) - Installing Android Market

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I'm trying to install the Android market to my Archos 70.

1. Load the update.img to the root of your A7HT.
2. Turn off USB sharing and you will be prompted to install an update.
3. Click install and A7 will reboot
4. Install the update and eventually go back to the setup screen
5. Go into settings, turn on WiFi and connect to your router
6. Once it is connected:
a. Open any of the Google apps (market, Gmail, Calendar)
b. Go through the Google setup screens.
c. Upon completion install: contacts.apk and GoogleContactsProvider.apk.

http://wiki.archosfans.com/index.php?title=Archos_7HT_Firmware_Knightsdominion_V3_Google_Market

How do I turn off USB sharing? I've disconnected and unmounted the Archos from my machine but it doesn't ask me to update; I've also tried rebooting it.


texts: I want to root this phone (HTC U12 life) but cannot find source rom for it. I've checked a ton of websites (including htcdev) but found nothing. It looks like, this phone has been forsaken for a while now, so I am getting kinda desperate. However, I managed to find a post on XDA showing successful root of this phone, so there is still hope.The post is dead btw. Could you please give me a clue on where to get the rom? And if you can't, maybe there is a way to extract the rom from the phone itself or port a rom from another phone like HTC U11 life? I am not too advanced in android development but ready to learn if I have to. Any help is appreciated.


texts: Upgrading Android from 4.2 to 4.4 on Lenovo Tablet B6000-HV

texts: I have tried and failed to upgrade from Android 4.2 to 4.4 on my Lenovo B6000-HV. At first using OTA method; Error in the middle of process and I have to flash with stock ROM to make it working again. Then I tried to put the files on micro SDcard; The error was failed to update.


texts: How do I revert back to stock recovery after unrooting on Nvidia Shield Tablet

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I need to update my Nvidia Shield Tablet (running  Android 5.0.1) to the latest version so that I can check if it contains a faulty battery type. To update I presume that I needed to remove root access and CWM that I installed using a guide.

I have ran a full unroot on SuperSU. Now, all that is left is to return to the stock recovery. How do I do this?

The guide I used is here.


texts: Is there a shortcut to the taskmanager on HTC tattoo

texts: I can never end a task easily on the HTC tattoo - is there a shortcut to it I can make, or an easier app to use?


texts:
I've switched from Cyanogenmod to LineageOS using the experimental build and then flashing a nightly build afterwards. This worked great except for the fact that the phone and contacts app kept on crashing. I reflashed the nightly and -- to be sure -- this time I flashed the GApps immediately after as well.

I've tried both the Gapps "stock" package and the "micro", because I thought the problem could lie within Hangouts. It didn't.

When I boot my phone up, I get android.process.acore has stopped working (or something along the lines of that; I'm using the German translation) and this message get's repeated everytime I try to open the phone, messages or contacts. All other apps seem to work fine.

Interestingly enough, I can get called. The aforementioned error message is displayed, however, I can tap on Kill app without killing the conversation.


texts: Why does Samsung GS4 pattern lock sometimes change to side-by-side layout?

texts:
I have the SGS4 SGH-M919, Android 4.2.2,  WickedV8 ROM.

Normally my lock screen looks like this:

Once in a while, my lock screen unexpectedly changes to this side-by-side arrangement:

I have not done anything to cause this change, and I am unable to find a way to change it back to normal other than rebooting the phone.
The "pencil" icon does not cause anything to move.  If I try long enough, a message will appear that says something like "your security settings prevent changes to the lock screen".  I can still unlock the phone, but the small pattern is less convenient.

I do not find anything in Settings that would control the layout of the lock screen.
Can anyone explain why this changes and how I could prevent it or change it back to normal without a reboot?


texts: How to clear an Android device without losing root?

texts:
I am considering selling an Android (KitKat) phone that is rooted.

Normally, when selling a phone, I would recommend performing a factory reset.

Do root privileges typically survive a factory reset?

If not, is there any way to really clear out everything on an Android phone without performing a factory reset?  Or will some data remnants always remain?


texts:
This is what I mean by cache miss:

  If the processor finds that the memory location is in the cache, a cache hit has occurred. However, if the processor does not find the memory location in the cache, a cache miss has occurred.

I want to see why my apps take 5-6 seconds to switch to after my phone has been idle with its screen locked, and no WiFi or mobile data. Some program running in the background must have generated a ton of cache misses and filled up the entire L2 cache with its own data.

Is there a way to see, per-app, how many cache misses are being generated?


texts: What would be a good method to find popular, low rated apps on the google play store?

texts:
Apart from just scouring through the charts and clicking on each app individually. I calculate that would take a full week to complete.

I can't find any site that lets you sort the apps by rating, making this tough to achieve... if it's possible at all.

Thanks!


texts: Is it possible to have two Android phones with a single phone number?

texts:
Specifically, I am currently using a Samsung S6, but would like a second S6 that would share the texting across both devices.  If one phone texted someone it would appear on the other phone as if that phone had sent/received the text and vice/versa.

I'm assuming that this would mean that the two devices would need to share the same phone number, but I'm open to other options of sharing the same texting on two devices, and I'm open to other devices besides the S6 as well.


texts: Why does my Samsung Galaxy S8 Active no longer "Fast-Charge"?

texts:
I bought a refurbished Samsung Galaxy S8 Active in excellent condition about 6 months ago, and it came with the standard manufacturer-provided power adapter and cable for charging (Model: EP-TA20JBE, labeled "Adaptive Fast Charging"). For the first 5 months it charged without problems - Fast Charging was available virtually every time I plugged in the phone and my battery typically charged from less than 20 to 100% in about 90 minutes.

In just the last few weeks though, charge speed seems to have diminished significantly, and my phone never indicates Fast Charging anymore after being plugged in, only Slow Charging, which variably estimates 4-6 hours to reach 100% from less than 20%. I've used the same cable and adapter the entire time and haven't adjusted any software settings. It seems as if this original cable and/or adapter have simply crapped out, for no apparent reason. Occasionally, I'll plug in my phone before falling asleep at night, Slow Charging is shown, but when I wake up 6 or 7 hours later the battery has gained only 1 or 2% charge (or sometimes none at all) even though the cable remains plugged in and the icon still indicates that the phone is charging.

I did a bit of forum searching on other sites and learned that the manufacturer-provided cables and/or adapters can age very quickly or otherwise be unreliable. I bought a new cable and adapter of the same type, but made by a third party, and tested it: no luck. Neither the replacement cable nor the adapter, together or in combination with either the original cable or adapter, seems to improve the charging speed.

I'm still committed to the notion that the problem lies with the cable or the adapter rather than the battery itself, since I've noticed nothing unusual about the battery's lifespan or other activity in any way - there's no excess heat either when plugged in or not; battery life is nearly as long as it was 6 months ago when I first bought the phone; I never use the phone for any games or movies or other battery-intensive apps, just Internet browsing and basic communications. Observing the circumstances as empirically as I can manage, charging speed seems to be the only difficulty. But I'm at a loss to explain why.

Should I trust the perception that the cable/adapter combination is at fault? Is it preferable to purchase a cable or adapter from Samsung that is identical to the one I'm using now, rather than one of the many third-party options? How can I regain Fast Charging ability - or, at the very least, the peace of mind to know that when I fall asleep, I'll wake up to a fully charged phone? I appreciate any insight you can provide!


texts: Can not install/download APPS via Play Store to my Tablet ....how can i fix this?

texts:
Over the past 2 days, whenever I try to download/install an APP via the Play Store/Market app on my TABLET, the app thinks for a while and then displays this error message:

Authentication is required. You need to sign into your Google Account.

But I am indeed signed into my Google account, and as seen if I open the menu in the Market app and click the "Accounts" button.

Does anyone know how I can solve this issue?

thank you in advance!


texts: RMNET + DM + MODEM mod usb not recognized windows 7 and windows 10

texts: I am trying to change my galaxy gt-i9500 imei. I undertand that I should edit EFS file thanks to my searches. I should connect to usb at RMNET + DM + MODEM mod (*#0808#, choose mod etc.). But windows7/10 machines cannot recognize usb device in this mod.


texts: Turn off power notification sound on LG G2

texts:
I've got an LG G2 (Verizon) and I'd like to turn off all the notification sounds for when I plug in my phone, when I unplug it, and when it gets to full power.

I've turned the system notification volume setting to zero, but I still hear these sounds.

What am I missing?


texts: Does OnePlus 5 use the same screen as OnePlus 3/3T?

texts: In the recent presentation, OnePlus CEO stated that because OnePlus thinks 2K resolution is unnecessary for a 5.5" screen, OnePlus 5 will continue using 1080p AMOLED as OnePlus 3 and 3T do. I've heard major criticism on the screen of 3/3T, so I wonder if there's any improvement on the screen of OnePlus 5.


texts: Charging speeds between USB C/USB C and USB A/USB C

texts:
I just bought the Anker power core 20100+ and it came with 2 cables.One Usb C to Usb C cable, and One Usb C to USB A.

I am just wondering which one would give me better charge speeds for my Nexus 5x or if it wouldn't matter at all.


texts: At work I use windows xp and every time I connect my HTC One for charging, I get messages that prompt me to download HTC Sync. I can't  stop these disruptive messages and there's no other way to charge my phone. Any ideas?


texts:
So today I hard bricked my week old Iocean X8, as soon as my phone arrived it came stock with a jellybean ROM so I flashed it to the KitKat ROM provided by Iocean which all worked fine but I decided I wanted root access so then I attempted to flash to the super user ROM and that's when everything went downhill.

As far as my knowledge goes a hard brick is were the phone will not turn on and the PC will not recognize the phone. I also do not believe Iocean X8's come with a recovery mode.

I have sent an email to Iocean asking for the next steps to take but they are taking a little while to reply.

Have the Android Enthusiasts got any suggestions?


texts:
I've been having issues* with my Samsung Galaxy S4 (Rooted, Echoe rom, SCH-i545, 4.4.2) lately and have been trying to figure out why. Problem is, it seems like neither alogcat nor adb can show, that I can see, device crashes - that is to say where the entire device shuts off on its own. Plus the /data folder didn't seem to have any type of panic or kernelpanic folder (Using Root Explorer).

Is there any way I can do this? Ideally finding previous logs, but if need be I think I can recreate the problem with whatever I need installed.

*The crash seems to be caused when I switch from 4g (LTE) to Wifi naturally, such as coming home and my phone automatically connecting to my (Already known) wifi.


texts: How do I send a group SMS with google hangouts?

texts: I have a Samsung Galaxy S4 on Verizon if that matters.  Thanks!


texts: Why won't my phone update to Lolli, and can I force it to?

texts:
I was totally looking forward for the update but nothing happened, even when I went to look for updates. Weird. It's a Moto X 2nd generation, with Verizon as my provider and hasn't been rooted. I have no idea why it wouldn't update, I tried looking it up but couldn't find any definite answers.
At one point since the release I have had to reset my phone, and the update still hasn't happened, so I'm sure that anything that could've been blocking it should be gone, if that's a possibility.

I have thought about rooting it, but not only am I unsure of how, I don't know how to tell if my phone'll get bricked.


texts:
For some reasons not related to the battery life, I need to disable the battery charging when a USB host is connected to my phone (a rooted Nexus 4). Taking a look around on the internet (link1, link2), it looks like I should modify a system file. I have found a series of interesting files located in /sys/class/power_supply/battery and /sys/class/power_supply/usb, that could be the right ones to be modified in order to achieve the usb charging disabling (e.g. /sys/class/power_supply/usb/present 0/1).

Has anyone tried something like that (control the usb charging via software and modify such system files)? Which is the best way to modify those system files? Should I use the adb shell or another tool?

I tried the "root explore" app in order to modify those files, however when I modified a file (after changing its permissions), it was automatically kept back to its original value.


texts: I've formatted my SD card as internal on CM13 nightly and now it won't update

texts:
So the update is stored in storage/emulated/0/cmupdater and if I try to update via the Settings it just boots into TWRP and does nothing. I tried manually browsing to flash the zip but I can't seem to find it.
Any help?


texts: On S3 Mini, Heimdall ERROR: Partition "RECOVERY" does not exist in the specified PIT

texts:
Following this guide for Samsung S3 Mini to install recovery: http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Install_CM_for_i9300

Started up in download mode
connected USB
in Terminal (Linux user), typed in
heimdall flash --RECOVERY <file-name>.img --no-reboot

The Terminal returned the error:

ERROR: Partition "RECOVERY" does not exist in the specified PIT.

What do?


texts: Motorola Blackflip Clock Doesn't Update when its Screen is off

texts:
My Motorola Backflip (Android 1.6) doesn't update its clock until the screen is turned on.  This wouldn't be a problem except that the alarm won't go off in the morning unless I'm already up and checking my phone.

This problem does not occur if the phone is charging.

Is this a setting? How can I correct this?


texts: What does the 'Failed to move application. Not enough memory' error mean when choosing 'Move to SD card'?

texts:
When I choose 'Settings - Applications - Manage applications' , and a 'Move to SD card' I get the 'Failed to move application. Not enough memory' error.

Anyone know why ?

I am running Froyo 2.2 on a Samsung Galaxy S phone.

I have 1.7GB free of system memory and 13.1 GB internal memory free on the internal SD card.

*UPDATE *

Can someone with an Galaxy S phone please confirm this ? I have seen it on two phones, and really would like to know what's happening here.


texts: Since which Android version does it detect internet connectivity on Wi-Fi?

texts:
For a project I am working on, I need to connect the phone to a WAN (without internet access) and to the 3G/4G network (to have an internet access).

On my phone (Motorola Moto M 3G, Android 6.0), the phone detect if the Wi-Fi has an internet connectivity and if it doesn't, it keep the 3G/4G for internet and the Wi-Fi for the WAN (which is what I want).

I need to find in which version of Android this functionality (Internet connectivity check on Wi-Fi) has been added to properly test it on the device. I have check all the changelog but I can't find any mention of it.


texts:
I have a SIM card completely stuck in the SIM slot of my old phone so it's asking me for the SIM PIN every time which I do not know. Opening a Samsung S6 to access the SIM-slot on MB is not the easiest thing so I'd rather not...

How can I close down the SIM PIN prompt to get into the phone?

I do know the PIN of the phone but not for the SIM

Phone: Galaxy S6


texts: Can I reinitialize specific core services?

texts:
Sometimes my phone gets into a state where one of the core functions - audio, wifi, bluetooth - is in a somehow broken state. Example symptoms:

wifi cannot see any available networks
wifi attempts to connect but always fails
other devices cannot connect to wifi tethering hotspot
bluetooth cannot see any other devices
bluetooth connection to headset is established, but no audio comes through
it is impossible to turn bluetooth on (any attempt just processes for a while, and bluetooth remains off)
audio doesn't play anything at all, not to an external device nor through internal speaker (and yes, the volume is set correctly)
audio output is stuck at very low volume

Rebooting the phone always fixes the issues in these conditions. However, rebooting this thing takes a silly amount of time, especially if you count in the initialization phase where the phone is online, but so laggy you practically can't do anything.

Is there a way to restart / reinitialize specific core services without rebooting? How?

Note: I'm not talking about turning the features on/off from settings of from a widget. It does help in some cases, but not always.

The phone is GT-S5570 running Android 2.2.1. The phone is rooted, so solutions that require root are welcome.


texts: Recipients complain they receive Text Message from me with a half hour delay

texts:
I have a G2 w/ Android 2.2 on T-Mobile and Some of my friends complain that they receive Text Message with a half hour delay. One friend is on T-Mobile and one is on ATT so I'm not sure if it's a network, sim card issue, phone issue, android issue, or if it's just their phone....

How can my friends fix this issue? New SIM card?


texts: Same phone shows different locations using Life360 vs Google Maps

texts:
My mother's cellphone shows her in two different cities on the same day. The Life360 app shows she's in Chicago, while the Google Location history shows she's in Alabama.

I think she might have given her old phone to my niece. Could both phones share location data even with different SIM cards?


texts: Is is possible to make a non-rooted Huawei U8110 (T-Mobile Pulse Mini) recognisable by the `adb devices` command on OS X?

texts:
Currently, on OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard, this is all I get, even with USB debugging enabled on the phone:

$ ./adb devices
List of devices attached

$

The phone shows up under About This Mac, and its SD card mounts and unmounts perfectly on command. I have tried several USB cables.


texts: Error: Facebook cannot download due to an error (923)

texts:
I am using my browser to access my Facebook account since I cannot access it through Facebook app. What I did was to uninstall the app and reinstall it. However, when I was trying to reinstall the Facebook app, I was receiving an error message saying

  Facebook cannot download due to an error (923).

Why is it so?


texts: How to remove "Bing" sign from Microsoft Launcher?

texts:
I would like to have my home screen as clean as possible. Is there a way to remove the "Bing" icon from Microsoft Launcher (bottom right corner)?
I've deleted the search widget, fixed the dock in place - nothing helps.
I have:
Android 10.
King Kong Mini 2


texts: How can an app access Android Pay data on a rooted phone?

texts:
According to an Android Pay engineer on the XDA forums, Android Pay is not compatible with rooted devices because of security concerns: on unrooted devices apps run in a sandbox and can only obtain limited information.

How is this different on an unrooted device as apps must request permission from SU?

Could an app trick SU into giving it more permissions than possible?

I am interesting in getting Android Pay working on my phone but have concerns about the security of my data as my device is rooted.


texts: Fastboot mode in my violet is blacked out

texts:
The thing is when I get my phone into fastboot mode, the interface is like nothing; it's totally blacked out.
I thought of connecting it with my PC and it is detecting the phone successfully. But when I wrote the commands to detect the fastboot, it isn't showing up.
I'm very frustrated that I can't change my custom recovery. My custom recovery is showing some errors so I also can't change my ROM.
How to fix this issue?


texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  Where can I find stock or custom ROMs for my Android device?

I'm looking for a good source for MT, RK and Allwinner-based phones and tablets, but I couldn't find any. Most just target specific western models.


texts: Is there a facebook app that does not read your location?

texts: I've looked at a number of facebook apps, and it seems that they require permission to read my precise location. This includes Stream, Fast, Friendcaster, and the official facebook app. Can anyone recommend a Facebook app that does not require permission to read my location data?


texts: Why do write attempts to /system/priv-app cause /system to switch to read-only?

texts:
I'm trying to write files to the /system/priv-app directory. I boot into recovery (TWRP) and run adb shell.

~ # mount /system
~ # mount
rootfs on / type rootfs (rw,seclabel)
...
/dev/block/mmcblkXXXX on /system type ext4 (rw,seclabel,relatime,data=ordered)

I can then run:

~ # mkdir /system/tmp
~ # touch /system/tmp/test

This works fine: I have no problem modifying /system. (I can also delete things from /system/priv-app.) But if I then try to write to /system/priv-app I get the following:

~ # mkdir /system/priv-app/test
mkdir: can't create directory '/system/priv-app/test': Read-only file system
~ # mount
rootfs on / type rootfs (rw,seclabel)
...
/dev/block/mmcblkXXXX on /system type ext4 (ro,seclabel,relatime,data=ordered)

Now /system is suddenly mounted read-only! Permissions and ownership are identical in /system and /system/priv-app and I'm running as root.

~ # ls -al /
...
drwxr-xr-x   18 root     root          4096 Nov 25 07:32 system
~ # ls -al /system
...
drwxr-xr-x   59 root     root          4096 Aug  5  1972 priv-app

While in TWRP, SELinux is set to permissive:

~ # getenforce
Permissive

I'm running Lineage OS 14.1 (Android Nougat) on a Moto G 2015 (aka Moto G3). It's rooted with the official Lineage su addon. I also tried Magisk and get the same result.

I've run out of ideas, and I can't figure out the right search terms, because I've tried a ton of things and have not turned anything up.

How can I enable writing to /system/priv-app?


texts: How to find an exact string on contacts either on Google or Samsung Contacts

texts:
I just migrated from Apple to Android and transferred all of my contacts.  Each one of my clients is entered as a contact and under the notes section of the contacts I enter the date when I talked to them and I also enter the date on when I need to contact them again, the dates are entered as a string with no spaces, for example today's date would be entered as February3,2021.  Every day I see who I need to call by just entering the date string into search on my contacts App., for example, tomorrow, I will enter February4,2021 and I will see the names of the people who I need to speak to.
Now that I am on Android I do the same thing but when I enter February2,2021 I am also shown February20,2021, February21,2021..... February29,2021.
I need to find a way to search for an exact string to solve my problem, I tried entering the string under " " and that doesn't work and I have not yet found a way to do this.
I would appreciate your help.


texts: Are in-app-purchases applied after an app reinstall?

texts:
If I purchase an in-app-purchase (e.g., in-game currency or content) and I remove the app and install it later, will the in-app-purchase content still be accessible?

For example:

Plants VS Zombie 2 Coins
Where's my Water additional content


texts: Multible clicks on taskswitcher to close all open apps

texts:
I'm running Android 5.0 on my Nexus 5.
Everytime I close all apps in the taskswitcher and close and open the taskswitcher again, there are still some apps open, why is it and can I turn it off/do I want to turn it off?

Thanks

Josef


texts: Reset battery status after changing battery?

texts:
If I plug in the charger of my Galaxy Nexus, I'm able to replace the battery without switching the phone off. However, the battery status does not adjust to the new battery. For example, if I replace an empty battery with a fully charged one, the phone still shows an empty battery symbol.

Is there any way to adjust the battery status to the new battery?

When changing the battery while the phone is running, do I risk breaking the phone or the battery in any way? For example, if the phone thinks the battery is empty while it's actually full, do I risk to overcharge the battery if I connect the phone to a charger?

Edit:

I just noticed the following:

If I enter *#*#4636#*#* and select battery info, it displays a charging state of 100 after changing to a new battery. So the phone notices that the battery was changed. I'd just like to see that as well in the battery icon in the notification bar.


texts:
I am trying to backup the whole android OS with all kernel files, systemfiles, efs-data and more on my rooted samsung galaxy s3 but when I open the the backupfile (.ab)  on my computer i can only see two folders:

 apps
 shared

I used the following adb-switches

 adb backup -apk -shared -all -f ~/Backups/i9300/s320150523.ab

I cannot see any OS-parts in these folders such as libraries (.so files), kernelfiles, efs-folder and so on.

And when looking at the switches using adb-help it seems only be concerned with backup the apps and systemapps, not the OS-parts.

 adb backup [-f <file>] [-apk|-noapk] [-shared|-noshared] [-all]
          [-system|-nosystem] [<packages...>]
        - write an archive of the device's data to <file>.
          If no -f option is supplied then the data is written
          to "backup.ab" in the current directory.
          (-apk|-noapk enable/disable backup of the .apks
             themselves in the archive; the default is noapk.)
          (-shared|-noshared enable/disable backup of the device's
             shared storage / SD card contents; the default is
             noshared.)
          (-all means to back up all installed applications)
          (-system|-nosystem toggles whether -all automatically
             includes system applications; the default is to
             include system apps)
          (<packages...> is the list of applications to be backed
             up. If the -all or -shared flags are passed, then the
             package list is optional. Applications explicitly
             given on the command line will be included even if
             -nosystem would ordinarily cause them to be omitted.)

If it is so that adb cannot backup the whole image - what are the alternatives?
Could an app such as titanium-backup solve this issue?


texts: How can I get dictionaries for more input languages?

texts: Ok, so I figured out I can enable other input languages through settings, which at least makes it easier to enter some special characters, but only the biggest languages have "Dictionary available". Is it possible to somehow add dictionaries for the other selectable input languages?


texts:
After update my HTC Desire to last Froyo Update, I can't see anymore Month Name or Day Of Week name.
Instead of January I see 1 and instead of Wednesday I see 2.
This happens in all my App (even Facebook).
How can I restore the names?
Do I have to root it?

My HTC language system is Italian.


texts: HTC Desire 516 dual sim ROOT FAILED (BRICKED?)

texts:
I've tried to root my HTC Desire 516 dual sim by following this guide:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/help/bootloader-fastboot-recovery-htc-desire-t2845467/page8

But obviously, I did something wrong. Now, when I turn on my phone and unlock the screen, suddenly there is a message saying "Unfortunately, HTC Sense has stopped", and I didn't make a backup and now don't know what to do. Can someone help me to fix it? I cannot do anything on the homescreen or even to get in the app menu, only in settings menu.

Also, when I try to wipe cache or go for the factory reset it returns a string saying "E: failed to mount/sdcard (no such file or directory)"

I tried to find a stock ROM for this phone but seems that there's none on the internet.


texts: I am on cyanogenmod 7 and wonder when I do usb tethering if Android is DHCP server?


texts:
I've been attempting to root my phone (Samsung Intercept M910, but that probably doesn't matter).

How can I tell that I have actually, successfully gained root? I've run a few apps which require root, and some work and some don't, so I'm unclear if I've gained root or not.


texts: Termus/Python - How to mark unread SMS messages as read?

texts: I made a simple SMS reader script with Python and Termux/Termux API (I use termux-tts-speak to read the messagees and execute the script from Termux). The script reads messages (with termux-sms-list) marked as unread. So I want to mark the messages as read after they are read by the script. How can I do this?


texts: Missing Fedex cloud print on OnePlus w/ Androind 4.4.4 / T-Mobile

texts: On my moto x 1st gen on T-Mobile I had an option when printing to print to a FedEx office. I'd get emailed a retrieval code to use at the store. On my oneplus I only have a save as PDF option in the print list (Google drive PDF viewer). I installed the FedEx app but that didn't add the printing option for FedEx.


texts: Switching app icon background from white back to transparent

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I'm using a Xiaomi phone running Android 6.0.1 MMB29M with MIUI global version 8.5.3.0 (MALMIED). A while ago I foolishly tried out some of the themes available by default, then hoped to switch back. That didn't really work, in the sense that no matter what I now do, the app icons now have a white background instead of the transparency many of them used to have.

How can I enable app icon transparency again?

Edit: I've looked at

Remove App icon background

and tried to use the first solution suggested there, but it's not clear to me how to install a .mtz file; the theme settings doesn't allow it, nor does double-clicking the .mtz in the file explorer.

Notes:

I'm hoping for an easy solution of course, but I won't hesitate to SSH into that sucker and edit stuff manually if need be.
If you need additional information, ask in the comments.
I don't have a Google Play account nor an account with Xiaomi, and would like to keep it that way if possible :-(


texts: Has anyone successfully downgraded there moto G v2 from lollipop?

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I made the mistake of upgrading OTA to Lollipop (5.0.2) since then have been considering flushing the device down the toilet:

Unable to answer incoming calls half the time.
Unintuitive UI update.
Regular drop outs when using as data hotspot.

Has anyone managed to get there phone back to KitKat and if so how did you do it?

My phone is the Australian Dual Sim unlocked retail version.

Apologies to anyone that thinks it is lazy for me not to wade through every generic answer and roll the dice on bricking the phone without at least asking if someone has succeeded (or failed) with identical circumstances.


texts: How to hide Data Saver icon in Status bar?

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I've recently enabled the Data Saver feature in Android (Settings). So far so good, but that icon  in the Status bar annoys me a lot. I prefer to have only a handful but very specific icons in my Status Bar.

I looked into GravityBox [O] module, All My... module and searched for some more in Xposed modules repository and outside but to no avail.

How do I hide that pesky icon?

I'm using stock and rooted Android 8.1 with Xposed Framework in OnePlus 6.


texts: how can i transfer downloaded music from the sd card to the internal storage

texts: The music I download gets stored into my SD card. How do I get it to store into my phone's internal storage?


texts: Is the Whatsapp backup Feature activated by default?

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If you use Whatsapp on your android phone, are the chat backup features activated by default?

If so, how is the backup intervall by default? daily, weekly or monthly? Are the chat backups being stored on the phone or on google drive?


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Is it possible to deactivate the autocorrection feature of the HTC One (Android 4.3) without losing the 'swype' feature of the keyboard?

I could only figure out how to deactivate the 'swype'-, wordprediction and autocorrection feature all together.

What I would like is to deactivate just the behaviour that unknown or uncommon words get corrected.


texts: I'm unable to toggle between Chrome Tabs

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Earlier I used to toggle between tabs by swiping left or right and clicking on the tab I wanted to open.
But know if I click on the change tabs icon, I can only see the list like this attached image. How to get back to toggling tabs?


texts: How could I set the number of Android original desktops?

texts: Android has 5 original desktop on my phone, I couldn't delete one of them. How could I set the number of desktop?


texts: Issues getting screenshots in emulator. parts of screen missing

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Hello I am wondering if anyone has ever experienced this problem.

I am trying to take screenshots of my app (or any app that I have tried) in the emulator.  When I take a screenshot quite frequently part of the screen is corrupt / missing,  like shown below, it can happen anywhere on the screen not just on the keyboard. If when using monitor to take the screenshot I can refresh and it make work and take a proper picture or another area of the screen may then get the problem blank area.

Example screenshot (click image for larger variant)

I am using android-sdk_r22.6.2-linux on Ubuntu Trusty 14.04.

My emulated device is Nexus 4, 4.4.2,  ARM cpu and any skin, no emulation options.

I have tried taking screenshots via monitor and adb but result in the same issue as seen in screenshot above.

Does anyone know how to fix this or am I going to have to take an ubuntu screenshot and crop to the android screen?


texts: Why will my Pixel 3a XL no longer take screenshots?

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I have a Pixel 3a XL phone running Android 11.
Until recently I was able to take screenshots by holding down the power button and then selecting screenshot from the menu.
However, over the past week or two, something -- I don't know what -- has changed and when I hold down the power button, I get a different menu as shown below.
I don't remember exactly when this started, nor do I know how to see a list of apps on my phone sorted in order of most recently installed.
So how can I get my screen-shot functionality back??


texts: app keystore and certs in phone storage?

texts:
is there method to view and export files from phone storage keystore?
the android app i got has the keystore to managed digital user certs, it can be viewed via UI, i wanted to view them in phone storage but could not locate them.


texts: How to copy the entire contents of an android device to a linux PC

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I am trying to create an exact copy of the filesystem on my android tablet on my PC.

The device is a rooted Nexus 7 (2013).

I opened a shell on the device through adb and attempted to create a tarball of the whole root directory, but my root access was limited to 15 minutes so there was not enough time for completion.

Can anyone help here, either by showing me how to copy the whole root directory?

*Note that I do not want a backup .ab file, only and exact copy of the filesystem


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When I open an app and then I'm dong using it I usually just push the home button. The problem is that leaves the app open and if you do that too many times it slows down your phone. My question is what is the correct way to close an app after you're doing using it without pressing the home button?

Or is pressing the home button and then sliding it away the correct way of closing an app?


texts: Can the Samsung search key be remapped without rooting?

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I'd like to be able to change my search quick-key from Google, probably to DuckDuckGo, as it has some great shortcuts, and has a short, readable privacy policy. However some cursory research suggests that to do this, one has to have a rooted phone. Can this be done without rooting?

I am running a Samsung Galaxy Europa with Android 2.2, though I'd expect the answer will apply to any Android device. I should think I'll be rooting my device anyway, but it would be good to give non-rooted phone owners a choice of search facility, if it is possible!


texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  Android Software or Device to present Application on Screen
  How to plug in an  Android Tablet and show it's screen on PC or Laptop for training session?
  How do I project the screen of my Android phone for a presentation?
  How to capture video stream from Android phone screen and show it on laptop?

I am planning to make a screencast of my phone screen.

I need to know a way to record the screen

Please note that the Screencast & Screencapture app won't work, as I only have an armv6 processor.


texts: Are Android updates signed with Google's private key or other signing techniques?

texts:
I noticed that Android pops automatically for new updates and patches.

Are these updates signed so that the device knows it's from the official publisher and not from some server spoofer?


texts: How to limit an Android app to thousands of specific devices

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I want to install a single-purpose app on a thousand of devices of the same model.

The need :

The app shall not be public therefore accessible to anyone
The app shall be installed on my 1.000 devices. Note that the devices are the same model (let's say nexus 10) but I do not want to grant access to all nexus 10 around the world
It shall be as easy as possible. I can imagine for example logging in these 1000 device with a single account and then limiting ditribution to that account, but it's quite long and might as well not be possible (limitation to the number of devices an account can have)
The app shall be updatable on all devices simultaneously
The number of devices might grow to 2.000 or even OVER 9.000


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Recently I started using VLC 2.0.X for Android. It mostly works fine, but I don't find a way to delete items from a a playlist.

When I tap on a playlist, it immediately starts playing with the first song. Dragging upwards from the bottom of the screen then expands the playlist and shows all titles. I can then drag an item out of the screen to the right and get a notification that the item was now removed.

However: if I switch to another playlist and then go back to the first one, the item is back unchanged.

I might be misunderstanding the playlists. Any idea how I can get rid of items from a playlist. I would not mind editing a text file, but I am afraid the items are in a DB.


texts: Kies unable to connect to Samsung Galaxy S3 after rooting

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After I rooted my Samsung Galaxy S3 GT-I9300 phone, I was no longer able to connect to Kies to do a sync. Does anyone know why?

I have tried to reinstall Kies on my laptop, performed "Troubleshoot connection error", and deactivated USB-Debugging BEFORE I connected my phone for the first time. But the same issues remained.

When I performed *#1234# to view SW version, the PDA option was not one of the options there.

There are no issues with my USB connections as I have no problem downloading apps from Google Play on my laptop.

Pls advise how I can resolve this issue?


texts: How to place an link of "application manager" on the home screen?

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I'm going many times daily to Application manager in Settings.

(Android 4.2.2:)
Settings --> More --> Application manager

Is it possible to put a link of "Application Manager" on the Home screen in order to avoid passing by Settings?
(I don't want to install external application managers apps)


texts: Callers cannot hear me unless I turn on speaker phone!

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I have a Samsung Galaxy S2 (SGH-S959G) and it is a Straight Talk phone (don't know if that makes a difference or not). Anyway, I have only had this phone for about 6 or 7 months.

Around August 16, 2013 I noticed that when someone calls me or I call someone I can hear them but they cannot hear me unless I turn on speaker phone. I got in touch with Straight Talk and the representative instructed me to:

turn the phone off,
take the battery out,
take the SIM card out,
clean the SIM card by wiping it on my shirt or whatnot,
and then replace the SIM and battery.

He then said to make a call, which I did and it worked.

However, two days later it started back doing the same thing by repeated the instructions listed above in the exact same manner several times and it did not work. It still does not work.

Also, when I call voicemail and change my personal settings, it will record what I say without it being on speaker. So I'm not quite sure why I am able to be heard in that manner but not when talking to someone.

Also, every now and then when I sit my phone down on a counter, the phone will just randomly turn off.

There really is no good reason for that to happen unless I was throwing it down, which I am not. I have always taken good care of my things, especially my $350 phone. It's ridiculous to pay this much and only be able to use it for 6 or 7 months.

Please Help.


texts: Best way to get Google contact images from Facebook?

texts:
I'm on Android and Syncing my contacts with Gmail/Google contacts.
I don't have a Facebook account.

And lot of my phone contacts are on Facebook where they have a profile ipcture.

Is there any way to sync my contacts and match them against those photos on Facebook based on their phone number?


texts: If I want to completely uninstall an application from the home screen or list of applications; how do I do it?


texts: Possible to share mobile internet (tether) while connected to existing wifi network?

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I have an existing wifi network and a Google Nexus 5 (un-rooted, stock android) with 3G data connection.

I would like to tether my mobile to share internet to all devices in existing network which have a custom route or proxy, maintaining default route for all other devices. This existing network also has another fixed connection (default route).

This means Android should effectively connect as a guest to existing wifi network, maintaining 3G/4G data connection and allow data to traverse through its mobile network while providing Gateway / NAT function for any devices which have an appropriate route / proxy set.

Configuration for the other devices (setting routes or configuring proxy) can be managed by hand (manually) as I am a capable network administrator.

As this is typically a consumer device, is this possible? and can anyone provide suggestions on software / howto's / information for this? Technically, my knowledge of computers networks and linux tells me this should be 100% possible, and relatively simple to achieve.

The cost of data here is not in question, I understand that connecting a mobile to an existing network could use a substantial amount of data and may impact my contract and data allowance.


texts: The web browser application on my Samsung Droid Charge has a Brightness Setting that can be accessed from the menu button while the browser is running. There is no setting to have the browser automatically use the same brightness setting as the phone, or use auto brightness. I have no idea why Samsung put in this setting without a way to turn it off! Is there a way to work around this?


texts: SP Flash Tool | Error. Status_preloader_invalid

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I am trying to write a custom recovery (TWRP) using SP_Flash_Tool but I get a Status_preloader_invalid error.
The device is "OPPO F1S" with chipset MT6755.
Here is a screenshot of the error and the scatter file I am using.
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1nyQQKPbYot_YxWwHN5lScNAEq84h-o3A
I tried to create the scatter file using Mtk_Droid_Tool but the creation button was greyed out (MT67xx is not supported) so I found a scatter file online


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I'm an owner of Android 4.2.2 device.

For a while, I can see identical apps in Settings->Apps->Running:

"Baidu IME" x 2
"Google Services" x 2
"GO Weather EX" x 3
"GO Launcher Z" x 2
"GO SMS Pro" x 2

Would they all have just two instances I would think that this is caused by two google accounts registered in the system, but why then I have three running "GO Weather EX"?


texts: Why phone sometimes (often) goes crazy and constantly lightens up its locked screen?

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In general, from time to time, my phone (Galaxy SII) lightens up its locked screen for 4-5 seconds.

I thought: the reason behind can be to show if some messages or calls are awaiting to be noticed (but, with screen locked, it is pointless anyway, because nothing is shown besides symbol entry screen).

But sometimes it lightens up the screen like 3 times in a minute, over 15 minutes.

Why it does that?


texts: scroll the background farther than half the picture

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Is there a way to let android scroll 1080px through the wallpaper to show one of the pictures every page instead of half of the picture?(https://imgur.com/Jg6fNQ1)
I want every page to be a different picture,so it has to scroll 1080 pixels to the right instead of part of one picture and another half of the other when i go to the 2nd page. I tried some apps for that but apps like five wallpapers stutter and lag too much.
The wallpaper I use: https://imgur.com/bkBsxfD


texts: Nexus 5 touch response is slow while charging

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My problem is simple. Touch response of my Nexus 5 is very slow while charging. I can't even unlock the pattern while charging. I need to draw it very slowly. My OS is Android 4.4.2.

I have been charging from Laptop USB port. I am seeing this issue for the first time on my mobile. I have used it while charging before.

I am charging with original USB cable that comes with phone. I also tried USB cable of my old nokia C5. Both responds similarly. (Earlier both worked fine).

I checked it in safe mode and problem still exists.

UPDATE 12-Feb-2014:

The above-mentioned problem occured when I connected my phone to laptop USB via stock USB cable in my college lab. After reaching home, the phone works fine, both in USB charging and AC charging.
I tried charging with both USB and AC power in my lab. And the problem exists. I even tried them with Debugging mode turned off and problem is still there.

So I strongly suspect some problem with AC power supply in my lab. Anyway to check it?

Does anyone face this issue? Any fixes?


texts: Why doesn't dictation work on GBoard in incognito mode?

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My impression was that GBoard dictation works completely locally.
https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/03/an-all-neural-on-device-speech.html
If that's the case, how come it does not work when I go incognito on Chrome? It crosses out the microphone icon in the top right of the keyboard. Did they just forget to disable that feature after they made it work offline?


texts: In-app purchase got cancelled, but money debited from bank

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Yesterday I was trying to make an in-app purchase (via netbanking as the payment option). After making the payment from the bank site, I was being returned to the app, when I was told "purchase cancelled". However, the money got deducted from my bank account. The transaction details in playstore web site shows that the purchase was "cancelled", and not "refunded". What do I need to do now to get my money back?

Please suggest.


texts: T-Mobile Sidekick 4G Keyboard - Tilde and Backtick

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I still have a G1. I love it for its keyboard. Nobody, has made a phone with a better keyboard. It has 5 rows and allows me to type the full ASCII range and then some. The keys are spaced apart and not easily fat-fingered like the Verizon Droid line of phones. I have been holding out on getting a new phone, waiting for one with a keyboard as good or even better. I had hope in the Sidekick, but upon closer inspection of the keyboard, it does not appear to have a back-tick ` or tilde ~ key. Where the back-tick should be, I see a smiley face.

On Sidekick 4G keyboard, what is the fastest way for me to type a tilde and a back-tick? The person with the least amount of actions to accomplish this goal gets my vote.


texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  I checked 'use as default' when choosing the default launcher, but now I can't start ADW.Launcher any more

I've installed and set up LauncherPro as a replacement launcher app. How do I reset the phone to use the Android default launcher app?


texts: SAMSUNG G. J710 RAM Capacity - 2GB or 3GB

texts:
In this post1 it's stated that Sam J710 has 3GB of RAM (only 2GB of RAM in India).
This post2 says that it only has 2GB of RAM.

I bought the J710 model over the net a couple of days ago, which was produced for the european market and it has only 2 GB of RAM.

So, is this a description error in post 2 or why does it tell it has 3GB of RAM?


texts: Phone doesn't work with custom ROMs after flashing Flashboot Firmware to recover from a bootloop soft brick. What could be wrong?

texts:
I have a Xiaomi Redmi 5, which I recently unlocked, rooted (SuperSu), added TWRP recovery, and then flashed a Custom mod (lineageOS). Everything worked out well, and the device was working flawlessly... I then realized I needed to repeat the process because I didn't know I had to flash Open-GApps right after the mod, for it to work properly. This time too everything was working well. I clearly had a lot of time on my hands, because I then thought I didn't want Open-GApps after all, and decided to flash a third time reverting back to the vanilla LineageOS setup. This time I goofed-up majorly and wiped the whole system and tried to reboot into a system with no OS and ended up in a bootloop...
After doing some research I then flashed the OEM Flashboot Firmware to successfully unbrick the device, and regain full functionality. Only, now when I flash a custom mod, using the same files and same process from before, the installation process goes without any hiccups, and I can also boot into the Custom mod; but the phone just switches off after a minute. This happens irrespective the Custom Mod I am trying to install (to find out if it was some incompatibility with my LineageOS, I tried ArrowOS and Paranoid Android, too).
I don't know where to begin looking for hints. Tried to use to TWRP terminal to look at the logs for hints, but nothing suspicious there.


texts: Easiest method to backup my stock and Chrome favourites so I can access them on a new device?

texts: My Samsung Galaxy S III running Android 4.1 looks like it's going to die and I was wondering what's the quickest method to backup my Favourites from Chrome and stock so that I can copy them to a new device?  Note: I don't have PC access and I'd like to keep the folders.


texts: Outlook Calendar Sync Issues. Exchange Account.

texts:
Someone asked a similar question, and I tried the answers, but they didn't work.

My problem is at some point my Android Calendar entries for my Outlook.com / Exchange account disappeared.  I have an LG G2 and have setup my Outlook.com account as an MS Exchange account, preferring that over the Outlook.com app.  I have uninstalled and re-installed the account several times.  Each time the mail and contacts show up again fine.  But the calendar contacts don't show up.  I see the account within the calendar app, and have selected the account to show, but nothing shows up.  I have also tried deleting the data for email, calendar, and contact apps, thinking that there is data cached that the Calendar app thinks it's already seen.  But this does not seem to help.


texts: What does "Download GPS assisted data only over Wi-Fi networks" really mean?

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Since I checked this option in Settings > Personal > Location, GPS finally works when no data connection is available, eg. when travelling in foreign countries. It's still slower than when a data connection is available, but at least, it does locate me when I'm standing in open skies.

However, I was wondering what this option really means: Does it mean that it will never use A-GPS to download data from the Net even when a data connection is available through GSM *?

IOW, if I'm travelling in my country where a GSM data connection is available, will Android download A-GPS data to speed things up?

Thank you.

GSM, as opposed to wifi; I don't know a better term


texts:
I just updated my Moto X to latest and greatest Android 4.4 KitKat (I even did full factory reset just to be sure) and now I'm trying to install WhatsApp Messenger but unable to do so, I'm getting following error:

  Unknown error code during application install "-24"

Please advise.


texts: I have a LG L7 mobile. From 2 days ago I have a serious problem with scanning media files. I turn on my mobile and scanning media files started scanning. after that scanning media files completed it started again and again and until know it is scanning. I do not know is it a hardware or software problem? what I have to do? please help me.


texts: ZTE android 4.4 mm text and group texting stopped working

texts: I have a ZTE Android 4.4 and my group messages all of a sudden want differentiate between each person. My mm texts show download and when I hit download it acts like it is going to open but doesn't. All of this was working fine then just changed. Please help.


texts: what would happen if there as a rooted device from the factory?

texts:
Would it be feasible to see some manufacturer of devices launching a device that comes rooted from the factory?

If the user of said device accepts the responsibility and the power of getting a rooted device would that work?

Who can be against such products?
Would Google care about it?


texts: How can I view SSL certificate information (the padlock popup in Chrome desktop) in Chrome Mobile?

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When I'm on my Desktop Chrome, I can click on the padlock icon in the address bar and see the information about my SSL connection, like the TLS version, the certificate strength, the authority that issued the certificate, and whether there's unsecured content on the website.

Is there a way to view this information on Chrome Mobile on an Android device? In case it matters, the Android version is 4.4.2, but will likely soon change to 5.0, but if it's different for both versions, I'm interested in both methods.

I tried just tapping on the padlock icon in the address bar, but it just gives the url and "your connection is private" and an option to copy the URL.

To clarify: this is all that I see when tapping the padlock:

(Click image to enlarge)

No mention of SSL version or similar stuff.


texts: What to do if I suspect my device is compromised?

texts:
I recently bought a Pixel 2 XL "open box" off eBay. The device appears slightly used, and a couple of days after registering with my Google account, I received security notifications of attempted logins in a far-away country. For this reason I suspect that the phone may have some kind of spyware or other unwanted software in it, that I want to promptly get rid of.

My options as far as a I can tell are:

Hard factory reset: my understanding is that this just deletes user data, apps and configuration, so if the malware is deeply embedded in the system files, this method may not solve the issue.
Custom image flash: this would be the most reliable method but is a little cumbersome and may brick the phone if done improperly. I've never attempted it myself and I'm a little nervous about it.
Over-the-air (OTA) image flash: which is a relatively new method, is supposed to be more reliable that the previous method with the same result. My fear is that  since this is a more high level procedure, the process could be hijacked by whatever malware I have and corrupt the new image.

Is my previous assessment correct? Am I missing something? what is the most reliable way to reset the software in my Pixel device in order to remove malware?


texts:
In Settings > Display and wallpaper, there is an option for Screen Mode with options for:

Adaptive Display
AMOLED cinema
AMOLED photo
Basic

I set mine to Basic but regardless of this setting, when I launch games, it appears to switch to Adaptive Display.  Is there a way to disable this?  I'm not a fan of over-saturated colors and would like the display to remain in Basic mode when in games and media applications.


texts: Android x86 (Lollipop 5.0.2) stuck on logo during boot

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I downloaded Android Lollipop x86 for my Toshiba Satellite L505D-S5965 and installation went perfectly. I pressed reboot when it was finished and the GRUB menu was there and I started Android. Everything worked perfectly until I got to the logo. I pressed Ctrl+Alt+F1 to see if there was anything in the terminal but I found nothing.

SIDENOTE: I got my ISO from this link since the Google Drive link doesn't work on my PC. It may or may not be broken. I tried it in VMware Workstation it did the same thing.


texts: I have read numerous posts about adding songs to the queue. My issue is I select a song and start it playing, I then select the next song and click the 3 dots next to the title and select "add to queue". I do this for several songs. I then click on the title bar and select the icon to view the queue and instead of showing the songs I added to the queue the queue now lists every song in my library not just the songs I added. What am I doing wrong?


texts:
When I open up My Files and select All Files the phone is processing for multiple minutes until i can do anything. It says Verwerken... in dutch (Processing). Once done after a moment it does the same.

It is impossible to browse the files on my phone this way. Is there a fix to this? The phone is brand new.


texts: Android: route USA device traffic over France device mobile network

texts:
I'd like to know how to best achieve the following: Use my Android phone in the USA as if I were navigating the internet from my Android phone in France.
I'm already able to accomplish simple HTTP proxying by connecting all the mobile devices via a Wireguard server and running the Every Proxy app on the France Android phone.* However some apps don't respect proxy settings so I'm looking for a more robust option.
I assume apps have no choice but to respect VPN settings, so my plan is to force all traffic from the US device over the Wireguard interface (AllowedIPs = 0.0.0.0/0), instruct the Wireguard server to route traffic from the US device to the France device, then set up the France device to enable routing and masquerading so that the US phone reaches the France mobile network.
I don't know how to accomplish the last task (enabling routing and masquerading on the France device.) Can it be accomplished? It seems that I'll need to root the device. Is it as easy as doing
iptables -F -t filter
iptables -P FORWARD ACCEPT

according to this post?
Any tips? Thanks!

ProxyDroid claims to force all app traffic through a proxy on a rooted device however I'm not sure it works well and I didn't really want to root the US device. Some apps which I want to observe might check whether they are on a rooted device and act differently.
*In the HTTP proxying setup, Wireguard clients are only routing LAN traffic over the VPN (AllowedIPs = 192.168.1.0/24)


texts: Send and receive text messages on computer using galaxy s2

texts:
I could use Nokia PC suite to receive and send SMS messages on my computer. But I could not find this feature in Samsung Kies.

How can I send and receive text messages on a PC using my Galaxy SII?


texts: Apps on SD-Card moved back to device storage after being updated?

texts:
On my Samsung Galaxy S5 (running Lollipop 5.0), I noticed the following behavior:

I moved some apps to my external SD-Card storage.
Every time, Google Play Store tells me to update one of these apps, they're getting moved back to the device's storage - and I have to push them back again to the SD-Card.

Did anyone encounter the same issue (or is this maybe just my phone)? This behavior does not show up on my old Galaxy (Android 4.1.2 - apps keep their place there, even after being updated).

Since I think, that it's very annoying to check whether apps should be moved to the SD-Card again, can somebody please tell me, how to stop this behavior or automate app2sd for specific apps?

Edit: I did not root my phone


texts: Unable to mount USB Storage of ECOO E04 Plus Android device in Ubuntu

texts:
I have two phones. Ecoo E04 Plus and  MLAiS M52.

Both running Kitkat 4.4.4.
Both phones configured the same wrt USB connect mode (USB Storage).
Both have USB debugging off.

When I connect the M52, a screen comes up with USB connected with a picture of a large Android holding a USB logo. It has a button Turn on USB storage. This all works.
Problem is, the ECOO won't popup this screen, and I can't figure out why.

Changing USB debugging check box does not fix it.

Changing USB storage to MTP does not fix it.

lsusb with the M52 connected, I get:

Bus 001 Device 049: ID 0bb4:0001 HTC (High Tech Computer Corp.)

With the ECOO connected, I get:

Bus 001 Device 050: ID 0bb4:0c03 HTC (High Tech Computer Corp.)

/etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules doesn't have anything on either.

Yet the M52 shows the screen letting me proceed by enabling the USB storage connection, but the ECOO stubbornly just sits there and couldn't be bothered to do a damn thing.
Searching the net for solution, the results were not useful in regard to MTP and PTP.


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I just bought a case for my Nexus 10 tablet (EasyAcc Smart Cover), but it seems the magnetic auto-lock sometimes thinks the cover is closed when the cover is flipped to the back side, behind the device. This especially happens when holding the tablet open in my hand, and it's easy to accidentally adjust the position of the cover on the back.

Since this false positive condition doesn't always happen, I'm guessing a simple sensitivity change might be enough to make the auto-lock feature of the cover work proprely. Another possible fix could be to have some sort of delay, os that when the system detects the lid as "closed", it'd wait for a few secs to see if it stays in closed state, and only then put the device to sleep.

Is there a way to adjust the magnetic auto-lock sensitivity?

(Nexus 10 tablet, running Android 4.2.2)


texts: I am unable to unlock home screen on Android Pie

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I've just updated my phone to Android Pie. While booting, I typed in my password PIN, and it unlocked to go to the home screen.

There when I type the same password, a "Wrong Password" error is being thrown. There is no "Forgot Password" option. How do I fix this with minimal damage?


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Possible Duplicate:
  How can I prevent my WiFi connection from glitching?

I have consistent hanging/speed issues with my Apps when I use WiFi compared to 3G.

For instance, last night, I played a move with Word With Friends and the app said "Sending Move...".  It sat there for a while so, out of curiosity, I just turned the display off and went to bed.  When I turned the display on that morning, I still saw the "Sending Move.." screen.

I closed the app, turned off WiFi (thereby enabling 3G) and then loaded WWF.  The move sent instantly.  Other WiFi apps do the same thing; Facebook for instance hangs constantly on WiFi.  Also, there are times I open up the browser and it responds with "Can't connect"...even though the icon at the top of my screen says I'm connected to WiFi.

Usually, if I take the battery out, put it back in, let the phone reboot, WiFi resumes back to normal.  However, this is cumbersome.

I realize it could be a router issue though I have other devices connected to my router and they work fine 100% of the time. (One of the other devices is my wife's iPhone :P)

Is there a way I can pinpoint what the issue is?

Or, even better, have you had this problem and have a fix for it?