texts: A Bad Charger Damaged My Asus TF300t Tablets

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I bought a charger set off of Amazon.When i plugged it into my tablet it flashed and rebooted and the battery shows 0% and will not charge.Also when i hook up the USB charger the computer does not see it nor dose any screen pop up on my tablet.
I managed to mess up both tablets before i figured out it was the charger.

So I bought a different charger and USB data cable , still no good.Tried the trickle charge thing for 2 days still no good.

So Far i have bought a new fully charged battery ,same thing no good,replaced the charging/docking ribbon,still no good. Factory reset , no good.

I can boot with what battery i have left but it will not charge or go above 0%
always says "Connect Charger"

Is there any thing i can do or did the charger damage the board on the tablet?
Other than not charging or being seen by the USB everything else works.

Any feed back would be appreciated

Thanks!


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Under 'Settings - > Display', my 'Sleep' option is disabled and locked at 30 seconds (which is terrible). I have a 'Work Profile' on the phone, but this is not happening to others at the company, so this appears to be a local issue.

What could be causing this and how can I re-enable my sleep settings? It seems some other setting is affecting the sleep setting, but I can't find what it would be.


texts: I am currently on custom rom lineage 14.1 nougat 7.1 and my device is asus ZenFone 2 Z00AD.but i want to come back to stock rom but my stock rom is in lollipop version so, do i need to first downgrade to marshmallow version of stock rom and then to lollipop version ?


texts: Multiple notifications arrive all at once, from multiple apps

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I'm using an LG Nexus 5X (android 7.0, also did the same on Marshmallow), and over the last few weeks I've noticed that sometimes a load of notifications will come in at once(within seconds), say 3, 5, 10. Some quite old (hours).
eg 5x facebook, 3x email at once. A couple of weeks ago I had 20+ twitter notifications pour in in a couple of seconds.

This doesn't happen all the time, sometimes after I move or wake the phone, so makes me think its suspending notifications based on motion, if that's a thing?!

It also doesn't appear to be any different on wifi vs 4G, I have no issues with browsing or calling.


texts: Consequences of removing Launcher3's APK (com.android.launcher3)

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I have a rooted tablet with my own custom launcher which is already the default launcher. Are their any side effects if I delete the Launcher3's APK (com.android.launcher3) which is stored in /system/app/Launcher3/Launcher3.apk?

My device is chinese custom tablet with an RK3288 procesor, Android 5.1.1.


texts: ADB status offline when trying to root Kindle Fire

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I'm trying to root Kindle Fire but it always show "ADB status: Offline" when I start "run.bat". Could you help me out of this problem? :(
I tried to plug, unplug, connect, disconnect the Kindle many times but nothing changes. I'm using Windows 7 x86.


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My phone was stolen recently, and I'm trying to use my wife's old S2 as a temporary replacement.
She had a password screenlock, and she can't remember what it was. When I put in my new SIM, the screenlock is still there. Is there a way to get around it?


texts: How to prevent apps to become auto install without user interaction?

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In my mobile some app automatically install without my any action. Some times thos apps are auto install even I already uninstalled them, but every time I uninstalled thos apps are automatically install in my phone after few hours.
OS. 5.1
software which automatically install :- Reos message and music.


texts: Change week day names on specific locale

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Where Android stores strings like week day names, months, etc for each locale?
I dug into SettingsUI, framework-res, but didn't find anything related into res/values/arrays.xml or strings.xml. Could it be into the linked odex file?
I'm using a modified by me LG stock Rom KK 4.4 on a G2


texts: Switch to another keyboard language using stock keyboard

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I have an Xperia (SOL21).

How can I fast switch to another keyboard language, using the default keyboard?

I'm mostly typing in Japanese, but usually swiftly change to Swedish and English (on a non-Android device). How do I do it on Android?


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Getting error message "unfortunately setup wizard has stopped" repeatedly once after i factory reset my Yu Yuphoria mobile. Tried it many times and sometimes i could able to setup and proceed but could not find the settings icon in my menu.

can someone help me out of this pls.


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I have been experiencing excessive battery drains in idle on my Note 8. About a month ago, I used to lose about 4-5% overnight (8 hours), but now I lose about 20-25%.

I performed a fresh factory reset and after 9 hours in idle, the battery results are as shown. Note that no third party applications, besides naptime, was installed. I used naptime to keep track of whether the phone dozes. My phone is running the latest update N950U1UEU3BRA5. Can someone please share ideas as to why the phone is being so inefficient? This kind of battery loss is not tolerable.


texts: Looking for a way to use voice commands create calendar entry in non-Google calendar

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I'm looking for a way to create calendar entries in a non-Google calendar using voice commands. The built in voice command (using CM11 M8 / 4.4.4 with Google apps) only creates entries in my Google calendar and I do not see an option to change this behavior. I'm happy to use a different voice command app if that's what's necessary.

To clarify: I would like to create this calendar entry in a calendar hosted on a server accessed by caldav.


texts: Secure keyboard application from android market

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Is it safe to install a keyboard application from android market that asks full internet access permission? Will it not lead to certain security risks?

There are several free and paid keyboards that are very popular with millions of downloads. Some of them asks that permission while others do not. What is the difference?


texts: Disable connecting USB as media device with Jelly Bean

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I got a new update on my Samsung Tablet and I recognized a change / problem.
I want to connect my Tablet to my PC without connecting as Media Device. I like to transfer Files from my Aclipse ( Java ) to the tablet. For that the MediaConnection should be disabled, I guess :-)

Any hints ?

Regards


texts: How to enable USB tethering on your Android phone to Mac OS X Lion

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I want to tether an unlimited data plan on a Nexus S (with 2.3.6) via USB cable to a MacBook Air (with OS X Lion).

The articles I read imply that given Apple's restrictions, that's imposible!
Found a question for Froyo and one tethering on a Snow Leopard, but they all rely on third party apps.

Is there any hack to make it work out of the box?


texts: What is meant by "Wi-Fi Hotspot" in Android 2.2?

texts: Android 2.2 has a new feature called "Wi-Fi Hotspot" which was not available in previous versions. What is the importance of this feature? What is meant by "Wi-Fi Hotspot"? Is there anywhere that I can find information about this?


texts: Disable or uninstall side bar on android

texts: I'm wondering if it is possible to disable or uninstall this bar that I show on this image. I'm sorry i don't know what it is named that is why I included the image (click to enlarge). I'm using Android version 4.1.


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I just got a new 'phone running Android 8.10 Oreo, and I can't find the schedule power off/on anywhere.

Has the feature been removed? If not, where can I find it; I realize that this might vary by device, but there can only be afew places to look ... ?


texts: How to turn off flashing notification LED on HTC Sensation XE?

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Two problems:

The LED flashes green every now and then. I disabled all options in Setting-Display-Notification flash, but it just keeps on flashing now and then. How can I completely turn it off?
The LED flashes red when the battery is low. How can I disable this, too?

Thanks in advance! I ask this because I often read ebook on my phone, it's annoying to have the light flash.


texts: Disable Client Isolation when using hotspot

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I just moved to a new place and internet is not setup yet so I'm using my phone's hotspot to get online. While developing a Python client-server program I found out that devices connected to Android hotspot cannot communicate with each other. When I ping one computer from another I get a "Destination host unreachable" message. This must be some sort of client isolation. Does anybody know how to turn it off? Using latest crDroid on Android 9.

[UPDATE]
I run a few more ping tests and they seem pretty inconclusive. I got some hits but the results vary between 'Host unreachable', 'Request timed out' and various TTL times (6ms to 4000ms).


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I just bought a refurbished HiSense Sero 7 Pro tablet.

I have enabled Developer options and turned on USB debugging. When I plug the tablet into my Win7 PC, it fails to install proper drivers (which seems normal from the Sero7Pro rooting threads), but my computer can still see it as a media device or camera.

I have the Android SDK installed and have the Google USB Driver. I have added the vendor ID (0x109b) to .android/adb_usb.ini.

When running adb devices, the list of connected devices just won't show the Sero7Pro. It has no problem showing other devices. Similarly, the tablet will not appear in the Device Chooser menu when trying to "Run as Android Application" from Eclipse.

I've tried connecting it as Media device (MTP) and Camera (PTP) with no difference. I've also installed the SDK and ADB on another computer and had the same issue.

Any ideas? Could something be wrong with the tablet? It seems to be working just fine otherwise.

__

EDIT: The PDAnet ADB driver (http://pdanet.co/a/) finally seemed to work. Issue closed.


texts: Presenting screen in Teams for Android: Screen goes blank when I move hand near camera

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I have Microsoft Teams installed on my Andoid/Samsung tablet.
I often share my tablet screen in Teams meetings.
When I move my hand near the tablet screen, the screen goes blank (temporarily).
Why does this happen?
Is it some sort of functionality for quickly stopping presenting in an emergency?


texts: How can I transfer photos on Samsung galaxy note 2 to computer? I'd like use my new note 2 cell phone to take photos, So I want to backup all the pictures to the computer. I can't do this easily since USB mass storage is not supported natively in the Samsung galaxy note 2.


texts: How to type fractions like ⅝ in keyboard?

texts: My boss had accidentally wrote it down but doesn't know how he did that. It would be pretty helpful to find out.


texts: How to create a VPN config file for sharing with others?

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I've a VPN server and want to let others connect to it.

I'm not sure if it's possible, but I'd like to create a VPN config file with all the necessary credentials so that my friends can simply open it and have a VPN profile set up.

Is it possible to make a config file?


texts: Samsung Galaxy Note 3 : Tried to install TWRP, can't boot into recovery mode now

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I followed the instructions for the Odin install method here and and installed the twrp-3.2.3-0-ha3g.img.tar using Odin (Reboot in Odin was unticked).

Everything went fine, but when I had to launch recovery mode by holding down Volume Up + Home, and the Power button (which is the combination to boot to recovery mode) it just booted to Download mode (which is accessed by holding down the Volume Down key instead of the Volume Up)

The TWRP site says:

  Note many devices will replace your custom recovery automatically during first boot. To prevent this, use Google to find the proper key combo to enter recovery.

But I haven't been able to find anything that would indicate the key combination to have changed.

Of note is the fact that the normal Download Mode boot has the Warning screen where you have to press Volume Up to continue and says:

ODIN MODE
PRODUCT NAME: SM-N9005
CURRENT BINARY: Custom
SYSTEM STATUS: Custom
REACTIVATION LOCK: OFF
KNOX WARRANTY VOID: 0x1 (4)
QUALCOMM SECUREBOOT: ENABLE (CSB)
RP SWREV: S2, T2, R2, A3, P3
SECURE DOWNLOAD : ENABLE
UDC START

and then just the "Downloading... Do not turn off target !!"

Though when I use the Recovery Mode Boot it skips the Warning screen and it adds this line on top of all the previous lines:

Could not do normal boot.

It can still boot to the normal Android

I'm using a Samsung Galaxy Note 3, Model Number: SM-N905, Android Version 5.0


texts: Launcher3 isn't responding error on Android 4.4.2

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I am constantly getting an error on my Xolo q1010i (Android 4.4.2) saying "Launcher3 isn't responding". It gives me two options: "Wait" and "Close".

It appears when I try to open an application, but not with any specific one; it happens randomly.

I have tried doing a factory reset, but in vain.

Is there any solution to this?


texts: How to "completely" delete Xposed Framework and modules?

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I did two things to install Xposed. Firstly, I flashed xposed-v75-sdk21-x86.zip and then installed the .apk file. I can now uninstall the app itself but how can I erase the flashed file of the .zip?

Also, where are the modules stored? How to delete the modules completely?

Device is LG G3 D855. Running on Cloudy G3 ROM.


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I recently bought a Lenovo a 6000+ from flip-kart.
Now whenever I try to change a contact's Picture in Contacts, It crashes. I can select the picture and it changes. But when I press save, the phone becomes irresponsive and then gives an error message saying that

  "Contact Manager isn't responding. Do you want to wait?"

Then I have to kill it. Waiting doesn't do any good.
PS: I have changed the images before.This started this week only.
Thanks in advance.
Cleaned data and cache, used very low res pictures etc, didn't work though.


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I'm wondering if there is a way to downgrade back to the old 4.3 keyboard.  I use the apostrophe almost every sentence, and now it is gone.  Not the worst thing in the world, but it's ruining my flow.

So is there a way to go back to the 4.3 keyboard (I've not yet gotten 4.4 installed), or is there an app that works the same?


texts: Should I be worried about this strange notification from Delta?

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I got a notification from the Fly Delta app that just says "test". The icon appears to be missing. Should I be concerned about this? I've uninstalled the Delta app, but I'm unsure if I need to do more.

This is, to the best of my knowledge, the official Delta Airlines app installed from the Play Store.


texts: HDMI output flickering in Hummingbird allwinner A20

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I'm using Hummingbird allwinner a20 development board, I'm playing 1080p video on this board and working fine with 7" LCD but when I connect HDMI cable to it video and audio not playing well in LED TV also there is so much flickering on LED TV

So what are the possible cause for audio-video lag and flickering on HDMI output?

My thought is this might be problem of HDMI driver or Hardware composer in android


texts: Can a flashed rom leave behind artifacts?

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I found a few "unofficial" Lollipop ROMS floating around the internet.

I don't know how reliable are they, or how many viruses are there.

All I want to do is to play with it a little. I'm thinking of making an NANDROID backup, flashing the rom, playing with it a little (with no private information placed there), and restoring the NANDROID.

Is this safe? Can a malicious Rom writer intercept any attempt to flash a Recovery and keep itself on the phone (sort of like a rootkit)?


texts: Replies from Yahoo Mail sent from Samsung showing up in gmail account

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For some reason, when I send an email from my Yahoo account from my Samsung 8+, the replies come into my Gmail account. When you look at the email reply, it clearly says "mailto:myyahooaddress" yet it only shows up in my gmail account.

I tested it by sending a friend an email and sure enough, when they do a reply, my Gmail address shows up even though it is sent from the Yahoo account.

I checked my settings in Yahoo and no where does it show my Gmail info other than recovery account did my email address show up. I deleted it and it still does the same thing.

Why is this happening and how to stop it? I am guessing it is a setting in the Samsung phone that is causing this.


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I've recently bought a Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 with the intention of installing the LineageOS + microG distribution. When reviewing and researching which apps I need to install, I realized that at least one of the apps I need, which is a two-factor app for my credit card, requires the phone to be able to pass the (new) Safety Net check that Google added to its Android services.

I'm currently waiting for Xiaomi to finish the countdown allowing me to unlock the bootloader. In the meantime, can anyone tell me whether or not I can use apps requiring Safety Net on that ROM? Infos I found when googling are unclear and contradict each other (1, 2, 3, 4, 5). I'm not currently planning to root the device or use XPosed or anything similar, and I'm fine with possibly having to relock the bootloader. From what I've seen, the LineageOS + microG distribution includes something called the DroidGuard helper, which emulates or implements the Safety Net features, but it seems to me to depend on the device, the LineageOS version (I'm planning to install 15.1) and patch level, and the whims of Google whether or not the checks pass.

In short, the question I have is:

On a Xiaomi Redmi Note 4, running LineageOS + microG as offered on the project webpage, will I be able to use an two-factor credit card app like I linked above that requires Safety Net?


texts: How do I reset the Logitech Revue to factory defaults?

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I rebooted my Logitech Revue today by pressing ctrl+alt+delete, which I have done a number of times before. After it went through the normal boot up it went to a blank screen. And just stays there, unresponsive. The remote does nothing for any of the other devices either as it seems that the "universal" part of the remote is actually software based, not in the remote itself.

I figure that I should be able to reset the device back to factory defaults but not sure how to reset it. I am hoping that a reset will get the device working correctly again.


texts: Does the device/charger consume power after charging is complete?

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I'm a bit OCD about efficiency and I have noticed that at least one of my two Android devices tells me to unplug it after charging is complete to save energy. My questions are:

Is it true that a chargeable USB device may or will continue to consume similar amounts of power if it remains plugged in after fully charging?
Does this vary based on hardware and/or software (Is it possible my LG Optimus T phone continues to consume similar power after it is charged, but my Nexus 7 doesn't)?
If a device continues to "consume" power after it is charged, where does it go (laws of thermodynamics and all)?

In searching for my answer, I have found the following questions relevant but not entirely applicable to my question:

Does constant charging harm my Android cellphone?
AC-USB Charging Device Makes Sounds when Device Fully Charged
What component of my phone charger produces chirps and how does it do that?


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I wanted to fresh wipe my phone with a stock ROM, and well I really messed up. My bootloader was  unlocked, and like the stupid me I am, I believe I accidentally locked it again. Now, when trying to re-unlock it using

     fastboot oem unlock UNIQUE_KEY

I get the error:

     (bootloader) invalid boot state

That would be fine, if
I could boot up; when I boot up, I get a "start up failed" on my device. The absolute worst part is that I cannot flash anything, not even the stock ".img". When trying to flash anything, I get the error

    target reported max download size of 536870912 bytes
    sending 'recovery' (13798 KB)...
    OKAY [  0.468s]
    writing 'recovery'...
    (bootloader) Image recovery failed validation

    (bootloader) Preflash validation failed
    FAILED (remote failure)
    finished. total time: 0.530s

Any help would be greatly appreciated! I hope I can get my phone back and running again soon, thanks!

P.S. my fastboot getvar all returns :

    (bootloader) version: 0.5
    (bootloader) version-bootloader: moto-msm8952-B1.05
    (bootloader) product: athene_13mp
    (bootloader) board: athene_13mp
    (bootloader) secure: yes
    (bootloader) hwrev: P2A
    (bootloader) radio: 1
    (bootloader) storage-type: emmc
    (bootloader) emmc: 16GB SKHYNIX HAG4a2 RV=08 PV=E4 FV=00000000000000E4
    (bootloader) ram: 2GB SKHYNIX LP3 DIE=8Gb M5=06 M6=03 M7=00 M8=1F
    (bootloader) cpu: MSM8952
    (bootloader) serialno: -----
    (bootloader) cid: 0x0032
    (bootloader) channelid: 0x8d
    (bootloader) uid: BC936D0100000000000000000000
    (bootloader) securestate: flashing_unlocked
    (bootloader) iswarrantyvoid: yes
    (bootloader) max-download-size: 536870912
    (bootloader) reason: Volume down key pressed
    (bootloader) imei: -----
    (bootloader) meid:
    (bootloader) date: 10-30-2016
    (bootloader) sku: XT1625
    (bootloader) battid: SNN5970A
    (bootloader) iccid:
    (bootloader) cust_md5:
    (bootloader) max-sparse-size: 268435456
    (bootloader) current-time: "Mon May 23 20: 8:35 UTC 2016"
    (bootloader) ro.build.fingerprint[0]: motorola/athene/athene:7.0/NPJS25.
    (bootloader) ro.build.fingerprint[1]: 93-14-4/4:user/release-keys
    (bootloader) ro.build.version.full[0]: Blur_Version.25.201.4.athene.reta
    (bootloader) ro.build.version.full[1]: il.en.US
    (bootloader) ro.build.version.qcom: LA.BR.1.3.6-01710-8976.0
    (bootloader) version-baseband: M8952_70030.25.03.62R ATHENE_RETUSA_CUST
    (bootloader) kernel.version[0]: Linux version 3.10.84-ElementalX-G4-1.04
    (bootloader) kernel.version[1]:  (aaron@bella) (gcc version 4.9.4 201506
    (bootloader) kernel.version[2]: 29 (prerelease) (crosstool-NG 1.20.0 - L
    (bootloader) kernel.version[3]: inaro GCC 2015.06 - Cortex-A15) ) #1 SMP
    (bootloader) kernel.version[4]:  PREEMPT Sat Mar 11 14:16:55 EST 2017
    (bootloader) sbl1.git: git=MBM-NG-VB1.03-0-ge433b40
    (bootloader) rpm.git: git=a970ead
    (bootloader) tz.git: git=119e5b2-dirty
    (bootloader) hyp.git: git=119e5b2-dirty
    (bootloader) keymaster.git: git=119e5b2-dirty
    (bootloader) cmnlib.git: git=119e5b2-dirty
    (bootloader) aboot.git: git=MBM-NG-VB1.05-0-g8a1de8c
    (bootloader) qe: qe 0/1
    (bootloader) frp-state: no protection (75)
    (bootloader) ro.carrier: retus
    all: listed above
    finished. total time: 0.206s


texts: How do I recover deleted text messages and attachments on Samsung Galaxy Note10+?

texts:
While attempting to delete an SMS ad on Samsung Galaxy Note10+, I did not notice that every message in my log was checked and I deleted my entire text history.
How do I recover deleted text messages and picture attachments on it?


texts: What is the cause of this toast message starting with 文件耗时?

texts:
Since this morning I have on my phone this weird toast message, that keep appearing.

  文件耗时: 477 ms/number: 118

Does anyone have an idea what is this and how to remove it?


texts: Calculator WiFi usage on Marshmallow, Nexus 5? What?

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I have not used the calculator app.  I also don't know why it would be using the wifi or any kind of external data.  Yet behold, below:

I flashed 6.0 recently and restored some apps from an old backup, but nothing that looked like calculator.  Should I be concerned, or is this a known thing?


texts: Recovery partition on Pixel 2 'does not exist'

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I'm trying to get TWRP on my new Pixel 2 so I can get stock android with Magisk for root. My issue is according to Fastboot (just re-downloaded) there is no recovery. When I hit tab recovery does come up still. Here's my command and results:

gido5731@gido-desk:~/Downloads/platform-tools$ sudo ./fastboot flash recovery ../twrp-3.2.1-0-walleye.img
target reported max download size of 536870912 bytes
sending 'recovery' (32768 KB)...
OKAY [  0.098s]
writing 'recovery'...
FAILED (remote: No such partition.)
finished. total time: 0.098s


texts: Installing .apk as system app directly (with root)

texts: I'm wondering is it possible to install .apk file as system app directly (with root)? Without converting user app to system app.


texts: Why aren't some launchers compatible with some devices?

texts:
I was reading the reviews of the Google Now Launcher where they have stated that after installing the launcher the device has audio issues.

I did not understand how can a launcher affect the hardware output of a device because as far as I understand the launcher only gives a pure vanilla experience.

Is there a possibility that a launcher like Google Now Launcher is not compatible with some devices? (Even thought it meets the requirements of the launcher)


texts: Samsung Galaxy Pop got stuck while updating to Jelly Bean

texts: My Samsung Galaxy Pop (GT-S5570) got stuck while updating to Jelly Bean with Cyanogenmod 10.1. It sticks at the Samsung logo at the start. What can I do to get it working again?


texts:
My one year old was playing Balloon Pop on my Pixel 2 and accidentally removed a folder of icons from my Home screen. There happened to be 11 icons in that folder and I'm hoping I can easily get it back without rebuilding it manually? (Some sort of undo function or "trash" area?)

As a side note, any recommendations on how to lock the home screen icons? The icons tend to get accidentally moved a lot, though this is the first time they got completely removed.


texts:
On my Android phone, many applications that I open closes right away, returning me to home screen.

Every time I open the application, it force closes.

Now, just recently, the browser is beginning to close, but not immediately like the apps.

I have uninstalled and re-installed apps, done virus scans, and even factory reset. Nothing has helped.


texts: Where can I get a CAD model for the Moto X

texts:
I am attempting to make my own 3D printed case for my phone. I need either very specific dimensions or a CAD model of it.

I've searched around but couldn't find anything.


texts: How to turn on USB debugging without opening the mobile?

texts: On my mobile i forget my pattern lock to remove that lock using some third party software USB debugging should be enabled but it didn't.so is there any way to enable USB debugging on my mobile without opening my mobile. Internet & location services also disabled in my mobile


texts: migrating phonebook/contacts after Cyanogen mod install

texts: Trying to find a straight answer - I have 3 year old Samsung SCI 1500 and am tired of bloatware, most of which just tracks me.  I have backed up the phone with ADB.  I'd like to root it and install Cyanogen, I know this wipes data.  It appears CM does include a phonebook/contact function, is there a way to populate it with the contact info from my ADB backup?  Can't seem to find that answer anywhere.  I don't want my address list on google.


texts: Trouble updating Android Market to Google Play on Logitech-Revue (Google-TV)

texts:
When I try to go into the Android Market on my Logitech-Revue it says it needs to update, but never does. On my Acer A500 tablet the Android Market updated to Google Play, so I assume that is the update that my Revue is attempting, but failing.

Anyone else successful with the Google Play update on Logitech-Review or Google TV? Any suggestions for a work around?


texts: Default Android Browser Error Page Source

texts:
I'm wanna ask, where locate source file of default Android Web error page (that shows when for example URL address is wrong)?

  Example page (click image to enlarge)

I just found NOTICE.HTML.gz in system files.


texts: How frequently is it okay to let the battery discharge fully or as low as possible?

texts:
I know that atleast once or twice a month a full battery drain and then a 100% charge helps increase the battery life and also gives more accurate battery readings.

I was wondering, how frequently is it okay to let it drain as low as possible or to zero?

Like is it okay even if done most of the times(or all the times) or it should not be done more than like say max 5-6 times a month or so??

Thankyou!


texts: Is there a way to customize the services in the direct contact shortcut?

texts: I added a contact shortcut to my home screen, and I noticed that the Messaging icon in the pop-up changed to Handcent when I changed the default messaging app on my phone. One thing that's always bothered me is that there's a Facebook icon in the pop-up. Is there any way to customize what pops up when you press on a contact shortcut?


texts: Recovery mode wouldn't show up after installing cyanogenmod 13

texts: I have rooted and installed Cyanogenmod 13 in Lenovo vibe K5 (previously it has lenovo vibe k5 lollipop version) and since then i am trying to enter into  recovery mode by pressing "Volume up +Power button" but Its not going  into recovery mode. When i press "Volume up +Power button" it stucks at Lenovo boot logo. I have checked advance  reboot option as well in developer option.


texts: Is com.android.syshandler a malware file on Android 5.x?

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I saw various unwanted pop up ads on an Android 5.x phone. Then installed the free Sophos Mobile Security on it (from the Play Store) and ran it several times over last few days. Each time it shows some files that it either says are malware, or PUA (Potentially Unwanted Apps). It allows me to delete most of them.

But for two, there are problems. One is called UC News and keeps coming back, even if deleted. Another is com.android.syshandler. For the last one, there is not delete option. It just says that it is PUA: Adware (PUA = Potentially Unwanted App). When I click on it, it says "Potentially unwanted app: Android Ewind (Adware) identified." And goes on to list many more points about it, all negative or indicating potential for harm to the phone.

E.g. the first point says:

"A type of app which may also include third party packages, whose primary purpose is to deliver advertising content in a manner or context that may be unexpected and unwanted by users."

It has a "More Details" link but when I touch that, it opens what seems to be the stock Android browser (instead of Chrome) and that goes to a URL that gives a 404 Page Not Found error. Unable to copy the link to open in it Chrome or to paste it here.

If any more details are needed in order to suggest any steps, please let me know.

Thanks in advance to all who reply.

Edited two days later to add more new info:

More unwanted ads and also apps have been popping up - some even during scans of the phone using anti-malware software - both before and after installing the other two anti-malware software mentioned next. I also installed MalwareBytes's  Anti-Malware (MBAM) as one of the commenters here suggested. It worked to remove some infected files but could not remove two - Activation Tracker (file:  /system/app/ActivationTracker/ActivationTracker.apk - which MBAM reports as being infected by Android/Trojan.Spy.SmsThief.de) and Install Helper (file: /system/app/OLXHelper_v2.5_Lava/OLXHelper_v2.5_Lava.apk - which MBAM also reports as being infected by Android/Trojan.Spy.SmsThief.de). The two infected files it could not remove appear to be in a system partition on the phone. Then also installed Kaspersky anti-malware and ran a scan with it. It also could detect and remove some, but not others. I think the system software in the phone has also been corrupted, because, e.g. Kaspersky or Malwarebytes anti-malware give a security warning about the setting for allowing installation of packages from third-party sites being set to Yes/On. When I change it back to No/Off manually, after some time it goes back to Yes/On on its own - which seems to indicate that malware apps are actively changing it back to that.

Edited again: Also, now, once in a while, apps with names like CrazyRacer2 and Super File Manager (or similar name) are popping up without my installing them.
I am exiting them each time. But they appear again.


texts: my daughter has locked herself out of her phone. so before I factory reset her galaxy j3 luna. she's is hoping there's a way I could hook up the phone to a cpu and save her pics & other files?


texts: How to transfer a few text messages from one phone to another

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I had a Samsung Galaxy S3 which I used for some time.  After getting a Galaxy S7, I transferred all my text messages and other stuff to the new phone using Smart Switch.  However, last week I had to use the old phone again, and now I am wondering if there are any easy way to transfer the messages I send/received during that week to my new phone?  Possibly, if there is a way of transferring the messages one at a time (by Bluetooth or something) this would also be helpful, as it is not a large amount messages.

I tried to do it with Smart Switch, hoping it could somehow merge the messages from the two phones, but it would not sync messages.  Maybe because the new phone already had a lot.

Searching the internet I seemed only to find solutions for transferring everything from one phone to a new phone.


texts: Can I use a windows 10 computer with Bluetooth as a trusted device for Smart Lock?

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I have a desktop computer with an old Bluetooth 2.0 dongle and a HP laptop with Bluetooth 4.0 that I can pair successfully to my LG G3 running stock Android 5.0, but when Secure Lock asks me if I want to add that device as a Trusted Device, it fails and it tells me that I can't use that device.

Can a Windows machine be used as a trusted device at all or do I have to change some setting?


texts: What podcast apps include variable speed playback?

texts: I know about Astro Player. Any other apps that feature podcast managment and variable speed playback?


texts: Using Odin to wipe out everything and restore factory settings

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I have the Samsung Galaxy Tab 8 that has MDM installed.  I need to wipe out everything.  I was told that I need to flash the firmware.  I tried it with Odin v3.12.7 using a firmware Android version 6 from sammobile.com.  The original was v5.  It did flashed successfully to Android 6.  But the MDM is still being active.

In Odin there is an option for re-partition.  Will this wipe out everything including the Data partition (I assumed this is the partition that contain apps...)

Any suggestions?


texts: What controller is the one included in this picture?

texts: I can't make out the writing on the controller because of the picture's quality. Can anyone identify what brand and model this is?


texts: easy (command line) way to transfer a folder of photos from Android phone to Linux Debian desktop

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I have a RedMi note 7 phone model M1901F7G, running Android 9PKQ1.180904.001; I don't want to root my new phone (it is a gift from my wife, and I don't want risking bricking it).
I am an expert Linux user (since 1993) and developer (e.g. of bismon), preferring command line things.
The album on the phone contains a captchas subdirectory.
The phone is USB plugged to my Debian/Sid AMD2970WX desktop (I have sudo access to it). Kernel 5.3. X399 chipset. MSI X399 GAMING PRO CARBON  motherboard.
What is the detailed and quickest procedure to transfer the more than hundred JPEG files from the captchas/ subdirectory on the phone to the $HOME/Pictures/ subdirectory on the Debian desktop? I will do that occasionally (once a week perhaps), from home, using USB3 cable. But I want to avoid 500 clicks on phone or desktop.
I am able to transfer each individual photos (in about 5 clicks). I want to transfer a hundred of them.
I don't exactly understand the "USB debug mode". Please name free (as in beer) Android applications related that, or finger actions to enable it. I believe it is in the settings menu.
Of course I do like starting gmtp on Debian. I don't want an alternative to MTP. I just need to learn how to use it (and likewise for adb).
Bear in mind that I am not familiar with Android in practice, and that my sight is not very good (since I am 60 years old - had cataract surgery), and that I am not a native English speaker. But Unix commands, I could teach them even with moderate fever (since my first Unix was SunOS3.2 on Sun3/160 workstation at work around 1987, and I was given root and physical access to it). First Linux was Slackware, 0.99.12 kernel, around 1993 (on dozens of floppy disks, i486 motherboard). Getting X11 running at that time required kernel recompilation for the graphics card.
Take into account that (perhaps by mistake) I configured my phone in French. I cannot identify an Settings -> USB debug or Settings -> Developper Debug thing. Maybe I should by some app, but which one?


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I have just installed MIUI on my phone and when I was about to select a picture to attach to a message, I was prompted with the following:

The thing is, I don't have Root Browser installed. I also can't see it on the list of apps on the MIUI launcher. But it's being offered as an option when I choose files and it works. Can anyone explain how this is the case?


texts: How to unbrick/reflash Nexus S using stock ROM, stock tools

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I have a Nexus S that seems to have bricked itself.  I have never modded the ROM or phone, and it was totally stock.

Now, it boots right int the white Google logo and stays there forever (I let it sit like this overnight and for many hours during the day, with several hard reboots.).  The only way to get the phone to reboot from this state is to pull the battery.

I've downloaded the official Android SDK, and would like to reflash this phone back to a stock Google-provided ROM, using Google-provided tools.

Everything I've found on the internet is for ClockworkMod, Cyanogen, etc.  I don't want to mod my phone, I just want to reflash a stock image using the "official" tools, but haven't been able to find instructions on where to get the images and how to do it.

Any other help on how to unbrick this phone would be greatly appreciated.


texts: I'm trying to access Linux Deploy, Kali Linux via a VNC Client on my Android phone. I could access it but I get a blank screen.


texts:
I have a Samsung Ace, with Android 2.3.6. I logged in with GMail and now I cant log off. I searched a lot of forums etc., but no answer.

I need your help, because it consumes a lot of battery juice and internet traffic.


texts: How to replace a microSD card formatted as internal storage?

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I've got a Motorola Moto G 2 with Android 6 Marshmallow and an old microSD 8Go formatted as internal storage. Today, I would like to replace it with a new one, bigger and faster one.

BUT, I would like to save all the content (especially some app content, etc.)

Usually (with non formatted as internal storage cards) I switch off the phone, remove the SD card and copy it's whole content. But this time, the phone has to be running and thus, some folders (especially "Android") cannot be copied.

Will I lose come content ? Can I make a copy of this folder ?


texts:
WhatsApp and many other services offer URL Schemes (they work like direct links or deep links) for their apps. An example is whatsapp://.
Is there one available for Google Gmail?
I tried these and they are not working for the latest Gmail release on Android 8.1:

googlegmail:///co?subject=<subject text>&body=<body text>
googlegmail://
gmail://


texts: Bluetooth speaker and buds: Delay in playback, truncates short sounds

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Recent android phone.

I initially observed this issue just with Boom and Megaboom bluetooth speakers, but I now have Jabra buds, and see the same issue:

The first 100-500 milliseconds of audio do not play.

This is an issue if it is a language app (that says a word), or a workout app (that says "start" and then 30 seconds later says "stop") because all or most of the sound does not play at all.

What is the resolution?

I have been forced to use wired buds for language learning (which is NO fun!)

When I used apple airpods I did NOT have this issue. (I no longer use airpods because they cannot be repaired or battery-replaced)


texts: Is Google aware of multiple user profiles sharing the same Android device?

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If I create two user profiles* on my Google Pixel device, is Google (potentially) aware that both of them share the same device--as per privacy policy and/or actual implementation?
If so, is there any way to prevent Google from knowing which user profiles (identified as Android accounts) share a device, except switching to a custom ROM?
[*] As managed in Settings > System > Multiple Users as of Android 11; not to be confused with Settings > Accounts.


texts: Do running applications and background processes have any effects on Power Consumption?

texts: I need some help with android applications: Do running applications and background processes have any effects on Power Consumption of the Battery (running down so fast)?


texts: So there is probably one feature I miss sincerely and that is being able to hit the title bar on the iPhone to essentially trigger the "Home key."  Is there a way to assign this to one of the volume switchers or maybe add a fourth button to the bar at the bottom or even double tap the home button maybe.  I use it a lot and want it to be easily accessible.  I opened an xda question.  This question is almost a duplicate.


texts: HTC One crashed during update, now it won't start

texts:
My HTC One was doing a software update then just shut off. Now it won't do anything except show the red triangle with a explanation mark in the middle.

I have tried rebooting it and everything but nothing works.

How can I get my phone to boot again?


texts:
Bet you had to read that title twice.

So the title says it all really - I have a Wiley-fox, a poor little thing that has been beaten up within an inch of its life. It cant connect to my Wifi, no idea why, it also fails to recognize SIM cards, but it seems the pins for that are damaged, and I need my old photos. Of course, if you read the title (if you think about it title is an odd word) I've tried plugging it in only to get a BSOD.

While I question why this phone has come from the seven circles of hell, does anyone have any ideas on how i can take my photos and stick them somewhere that doesn't spontaneously combust?


texts: Thumbnail images and screen shots have disappeared after installing booster

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I've had this phone (ALCATEL 918) for a few weeks. I felt it was moving exceptionally slow. So, I downloaded booster.

Then, I noticed that all of the thumbnail images and screen shots have disappeared. Other then that, everything else works fine. How do I fix this?


texts: I can't use android emulator in android studio in Mac

texts: Can anyone help me run emulator in android studio in Mac? I tried to run it but it says the following as portrayed in the given image.


texts: I have rooted my phone earlier with KingoApp and then later changed the boot animation and shutdown animation with Root Browser after rebooting, it only shows the unit's logo and shows white screen for a while and then turn off. I don't think it's a bootloop, I also tried the recovery also but nothing seemed to help. Please can someone help me? My phone is Cherry Mobile Flare J1


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Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 stuck on logo screen during reboot. I did go through several threads on this and other sites, and pretty much all of them suggested a factory reset, and not a single one said it was possible to recover data later. (I beg your indulgence and patience.)

I did make the cardinal mistake of not backing up my data. I'm new to tablets, Android, everything.

Recovering some of my contacts, notes and photos is as important to me (if not more) as being able to use my device again.

Does it make any sense to try and wipe the cache only, and do a reboot?
OR
If I do a factory reset, I gather only /data is wiped. Is there a chance I can recover some files from /cache later?
Which one do I need to try (first)?

There is also a software called Android Data Recovery, which claims to have had success in post-reset data recovery. Any thoughts on this?


texts: Unable to flash TWRP recovery on nvidia shield tablet 6.0.1

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I have TWRP Recovery file in the same folder as Minimal adb anf fastboot. The '.img' file is not flashing and i'm shown the options as attached in the screenshot of the command prompt. What to do?
P.S. - I'm a beginner.


texts: Automatically insert recipient name in WhatsApp's broadcast message

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I have a broadcast list of about 115 and would like to send a broadcast message on WhatsApp and personalise the message to each person.

The message would read:

  Hi <Name>, thanks for spending time with us. Have a good day further.

I know there are codes for fonts and text effects but if anyone knows of a code that would allow me to do this I will be very grateful.


texts: Is a custom rom which is designed for rk2918 tablet will run on any tablet with rk2918 cpu

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I have 3q rc0710b tablet .. the cpu is Rockchip RK2918.
I am looking for a custom rom for this slow tablet ,to get better performance..
can I try any rk2918 custom rom ?
Where can I get best rom ?


texts:
I've recently got an HTC 10 which is running Android 7.0 and is set up to have 5 pages on the home screen with the HTC sense clock/weather widget on the central page (which is set as the default page).

I was looking for a way to set the home screen wallpaper to have a different image on each page - actually the plan was to have one large wallpaper of 7200px x 2560px (5 screens @ 1440p) split over the pages so it's effectively one large screen.

In the personalisation settings, there is an option to set the home wallpaper to have multiple pages with a different image for each page. However this option so far as I can see only allows for three pages to be defined and gives no option to set which page on the home screen is the centre one. So if I split the wallpaper in 3 pieces (lets call them A, B and C), it ends up displaying on the home screens as A B C C C.

Is there any way to change the wallpaper to have 5 different images spread across the 5 pages as A B C D E? Alternatively if I'm limited to 3 images, is it possible to change which is considered the centre page (i.e. have it display the images as A A B C C)?

I'd prefer not to do it with a separate app, but if not possible is there is free low-weight app that will allow me to do this?


texts: My Galaxy S9 will not display missed calls

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My Galaxy S9 stopped showing missed calls a few months ago and I have no idea how to fix the issue. If I go into Settings > App Notifications > Phone, "Show notifications" is on but grayed out, "Missed call" is on but grayed out, "Voicemails" is on but grayed out, and "App icon badges" is on and blue / switchable.
I really don't have a lot of apps, so I can't imagine which app is overriding the display settings. What should I do?


texts: How to turn off the vibration, which happens when phone call is connected or the camera is turned on?

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I've seemed to turn off all the vibration settings, including settings for camera application, but it keep vibrating when I turn my camera on (by pressing side button twice), the same happens when I call someone and they answer the call.

Android 10
Phone: King Kong Mini 2
I use Microsoft Launcher.


texts: Why there's no proxy support in Android browsers?

texts:
Android supports both Chromium-based and Firefox-based browsers since long now.

While those browsers have full support for HTTP/SOCKS proxies under all other OSes (Linux, OSX and even Windows), they are lacking it completely under Android. There's no setting at all to configure one.

I can easily configure a SOCKSv5 proxy on my Android device with, say, ssh -D to be used over whatever connections I have (wifi, ethernet, mobile data...), but I cannot use it with my browsers.

There's some system-wide support when you configure wifi, but that's not what I talk about. I mean the good ol' application-level proxy support. I don't want to send all traffic through a proxy, but just that for a specific browser on demand.

For the curious, I am asking this because I need and can compare results on my landline Internet link, but I cannot do the same on my mobile one.

Please, forget about VPNs which are also system-wide solutions like wifi proxies. I need to configure a proxy on a per-browser basis, just like I can do on a PC, and not a VPN.

So, why this lack?


texts: International roaming, forbidden networks, hidden sim toolkit on one plus 5T

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I have used international roaming many times before with my one plus 5T and my native Vodafone India providers roaming plan. But this time I landed in Germany and it did not work.

I've been trying to debug and even on manual network selection most of the networks appear as "forbidden". Same networks used to latch on on earlier trips. My native Vodafone provider confirms that roaming is indeed active on my plan.

I tried to reboot, reinsert the Sim but nothing works.

One of the debug steps suggested involved steps in the Sim toolkit app. This app is somehow visible under apps but I cannot seem to find it anywhere. Ideas? How can I find where it is to use it.

Even in network settings the sin toolkit option does not seem there. Other users seem to have it there. I cleared my cache but no help.

Anything else I can try to fix this?

I am on Android 8.1.0 and oxygen is version 5.1.7

Any tips are very welcome! I'm stuck here in Germany with no connectivity and my providers help desk is pretty useless.

Eg. Would inserting the Sim into another device and then back into this one help? Are there roaming related settings that need to be pushed onto the Sim?


texts:
When I opened Chrome for the first time on my tablet, it told me (among other things) that I can switch tabs by sliding on the side of the screen.....have since tried, and it did not work.

What am I doing wrong? Is there some setting that needs to be tweaked, or am I just that bad at swiping a touchscreen?


texts:
I want to move to a new phone. But Titanium Backup does not work in backing up my accounts. It always says success even though the backup is only 1KB big and has nothing in it. Is there any other app or a manual way to backup the accounts? Or has anyone a fix for Titanium?
To clearify this I'm talking about the accounts in the settings like this:


texts: How to bookmark a custom URL in Chrome mobile browser?

texts:
I have an entry URL into an app1 like

https://www.example.com/go/app1

which actually goes through a few redirects including SSO login and then finishes on something like

https://www.example.com/app1/home/session-f24a-3c29-843924fd001eea-1234

I need to bookmark the former URL (.../go/app1) because the latter cannot be directly accessed when the session expires. How can I bookmark that URL?


texts: My Nexus 6p keeps turning of when connected to wifi or cellular data

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I have a 5 months old nexus 6p and whenever i turn on wifi or cellular data it reboots itself. it works perfectly fine if not connected.
pls help


texts: How do I improve photograph quality on my HTC Desire?

texts:
I think that I have my HTC Desire on the highest quality settings for taking pictures, but the quality of the photographs is awful. Is that a weakness of the Desire, or is there something that I can do to improve things?

In response to @George_Gaal's comment below I have uploaded two pictures. The top one was taken quite a long time ago and the quality is fine.

This one was taken last week and is completely out of focus. I wonder if I haven't inadvertently changed some settings? My phone did have to get a new board after it overheated. Could it be something to do with that?


texts: Change Galaxy Tab 3 from Finnish to English

texts: My Galaxy Tab 3 is showing the Finnish language and I need to change it to English. I can't read Finnish so don't know what choices  to choose to do this. Help.I can get to Settings and that's it.


texts: Is there no option to turn off cell broadcasting messages in HTC Desire 500?

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I got the recently launched HTC Desire 500 (Android  4.1.2, Sense 5).

Since then I am continuously getting cell broadcasting messages (4 every 2 minutes). And shockingly, there is no option to turn off the cell broadcast neither in message settings nor in Call settings.

When I compared my HTC Desire X with Desire 500, I saw the option is there in Desire X but not in Desire 500. The call center people are helpless. The Customer care center people are saying its a defect in the phone's software, so we cant repair it.

So by the time the software update comes, does anyone here has any solution. It is really irritating and its sad that HTC doesn't have the solution to such a trivial issue which is actually a headache.


texts: Why is my Galaxy S notifying me about a new message when my inbox is empty?

texts: My Galaxy S keeps telling me I have a text message. I have erased my entire inbox but the notification won't go away. How do I make this notification stop?


texts: Google's location history minute by minute

texts: My phone was stolen. Is it possible to get the location history as realtime as possible from Google?


texts: Force proxy to be used by all of my android applications

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As mentioned in the title I'm looking forward to forcing some applications on my phone to use a proxy whom certificate in installed on my phone. Some applications (like Instagram, youtube ...etc) are using this proxy and I can sniff the communication between my phone and the proxy.

To make this work I need to use root permissions on my android. I found an app that may help me do this, but I want to use the terminal to achieve this.

Any ideas that could help me would be appreciated.


texts:
I have a Samsung Galaxy Tab E 9.6, which I used with the built-in Android 4. Now I updated to 6 (CyanogenMod 13) and since then the microphone is behaving really perplexing.

No matter which voice recording application I use (I tried some of them), it is muting whenever I don't speak for a split second. Of course it turns on again, when I speak again, but nevertheless, this sounds quite weird, is there a way to turn this "feature" off?

Thank you very much!


texts: How to permanently delete stored images in /data

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I have a rooted HTC Desire HD with a Custom Rom. Now, I want to permanently delete the stored images on my internal memory (/data). Everytime I run the app Disk Digger, my old crappy photos seems to show up. I tried flashing again and again and doing a a factory reset again and again but the images seems to be always there. All i want is to remove that images from my internal memory so i can safely sell my phone. Can anyone help me? BTW, the exact location where the disk digger digs is /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.2/by-num/p26.

Can someone help me here?


texts: Phone starts playing podcast for no apparent reason

texts:
This started yesterday, and I have no idea why.

I noticed my phone was playing a podcast. I've been using BeyondPod for a while, which is sometimes a bit wonky, but never had this kind of problem.

I tried playing and pausing, no dice. In fact, BeyondPod just played over the currently-running podcast. They played simultaneously. Same for any other music stuff, whereas usually when I start e.g. Pandora, the podcast or Music apps will pause themselves.

And it gets weirder. I restarted the phone. A few minutes later, podcast starts playing. Exact same podcast, playing from the beginning. I turn the phone off and on and it's good for a while, but then an indeterminate amount of time later, I notice the podcast playing again in my pocket (loud room, so I don't know how long it had been going).

It's also worth noting that the podcast plays from the phone's speakers, but if I plug in headphones it plays from them in addition.

I check my running services. I stop literally everything I can. I check battery usage. Nothing. I uninstall BeyondPod, and that doesn't help either.

The only change I've made to my phone was recently switching to ADW Launcher from the default. But even there, I reverted back to the original home, and I'm still having the problem.

Any ideas? This is getting really aggravating. It always plays the same podcast, always starting from the beginning.


texts:
I noticed I can use (with my out of the box Nexus 4) swipe for.input in English but there does not seem to be a way to use swipe for Hebrew input.
Am I missing a configuration option that enable this?
I know there are 3rd party applications that does Hebrew swipe input but I prefer not to use them if the OS provides me that functionality.


texts: Android won't start. It keeps showing Samsung Galaxy logo

texts:
It keeps showing the logo and doesn't get into Android. What do you recommend me to do?

I've tried hard reset, it didn't work.

(click image to enlarge)


texts: How can I force-link a Google contact with a Facebook profile?

texts:
Back when my HTC Desire had its stock Sense, there was an option to link Facebook accounts to Google contacts, by selecting them from the Facebook friends list.

This created fields for my contacts such as:

<HTCData>
<Facebook>id:02394985720/friendof:2103910923|id:123768123/friendof:09812387</Facebook>
</HTCData>

Now, my phone is on CyanogenMod 7. I've added a Facebook account under Synchronization settings, but it seems it only matches contacts who have the same name as their Facebook counterpart. Those who are matched get a Facebook profile link:

The other ones aren't linked. Therefore: How can I force link a Google contact with a Facebook profile? This would allow me to link contacts even if their names are different.

I'm aware of this question: how to link contact with facebook, gmail etc?, but there is no "Join" option for me, and it isn't really answered as well. I'm also aware of SyncMyPix.


texts:
I upgraded CM13 to LineageOS14.1 on a Xiaomi Note 3 (kenzo), setup everything, and decided to encrypt the phone (from settings/encrypt phone). It asked for a pattern, and then rebooted.

I never got to see a timer as seems to be expected from reading around. The phone got into a boot loop (vibrate, show MI logo, show lineage mascot for about a second, then reboot, over and over again). I left it doing this for about 40 minutes when I decided something was wrong.

I can now boot into TWRP 3.1.0-0, but any attempt to boot normally results in the above.

How can I get my phone to boot again? (if possible without losing data, I have backups, but if I can spare the hassle of reinstalling everything...).

The device was rooted, and I installed nightly lineage lineage-14.1-20170405-nightly-kenzo, along with gapps and lineage su package.

"Longer term", how do I encrypt the phone without breaking everything? Is there a bug in lineageOS (I've not seen anything on the bugtracker, except for another device (athene))?


texts: Some sites use cookies to annoy users in various ways (i.e. by nagging return visitors). Is there a way to block specific sites from using cookies in Chrome without disabling cookies globally? I know this is possible on the desktop, but I cannot figure out how to do it on Android.


texts: New android phone retrieve google calendar reminders

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I got a new phone because my old one is destroyed (never to return).

I am trying to get back the reminders I set myself using the google calendar app on my samsung galaxy s7 edge. The reminders would appear in blue on my calendar. I set reminders like, "remind me every 2 weeks to achieve such and such a task, etc., etc."

Anyway, I goto https://calendar.google.com/calendar/r to try and have a look for my reminders and none are there! I can only assume that the reminders were stored in the phone's internal memory because they certainly are not showing in google calendar on a PC... unless I am mistaken about google calendar being a cloud app.

How could @I get my reminders back?


texts: Nexus 10 / Android 5: recovery broken, fastboot not working

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So I have broken the software of yet another Google device, this time a Nexus 10, manta.

What I did:
- tried to install Ubuntu like so. It failed with

2015/07/18 01:20:36 Cache formatting was not successful, flashing may fail, check your partitions on device
2015/07/18 01:20:48 Cannot push /home/<user>/.cache/ubuntuimages/gpg/image-signing.tar.xz.asc to device: free space on /cache/recovery is unknown

the Google system (that is, Android 5.02 I believe) still boots, but
I can not enter fastboot any more, "adb reboot fastboot" results in reboot of Android, "adb reboot recovery" results in a picture of a gobot with a red exclamation mark in her chest and the line "no command" being shown after some time followed by a reboot of Android, "fastboot devices" never shows anything
I can not USB-push anything with adb (as suggested here), it fails with

.

failed to copy 'recovery-clockwork-touch-6.0.4.7-manta.img' to '/cache/recovery-clockwork-touch-6.0.4.7-manta.img': Permission denied

I can not enter superuser mode (in order to change permissions, remount rw or rectify whatever may be wrong)

.

adb shell
shell@manta:/ $ su
/system/bin/sh: su: not found

Trying to install and flash CWM from Google Play Store results in "An error occurred while flashing your recovery"
Downloading an image to be flashed onto recovery from Android is no good either because it the flash_image command is not found.
"Upgrading" from Android 5.02 (I think) to 5.1 did not change any of this.

In short, the device is not rooted (because of the update?), whatever is on recovery does not work, fastboot does not work, and therefore there is no way to root the device.

Am I correct in assuming that this effectively rendered the recovery partition/image/system unusable while the main system does not allow any modifications to the recovery partition/image/system and therefore fastboot can not be used any more and nothing on the system level can be installed or changed? If not, what must I do?

Also, would I be wrong saying that all those devices including the present one and this one (and I have a third one in the same state) are now little more than spare parts (in spite of being physically fully functioning) because the systems can't be properly used? Is it wrong to assume that Google designs its systems on purpose so that this will most likely happen if someone tries to install something not specifically endorsed by Google?


texts: Is there a way to automatically change notification ringer&volume, differentiating email, sms and calendar via profiles?

texts:
I'm aware of this question about different notification settings for different apps. But changing the settings manually like that is time consuming. It would be nice to integrate these settings into profiles so:

At night it would be nice to have SMS off, emails off and calendar on
During the day however, it would be nice to have everything on
On certain occasions, only sms and calendar notifications would be nice

... you can see the trend here, toggling different notifications on and off quickly would be a smart idea. Blackberry has had it for years. I understand that the way Android works makes this impossible. Why is there no API that allows apps to set other app's notification settings? Or would that make too much sense?

I have a Galaxy Nexus and Galaxy S3. Any solutions are appreciated. The new Blackberry has this feature but then I'd have no apps.


texts: Should I format /sdcard and /data if I want to wipe all personal data with Cyanogenmod?

texts:
I'm trying to completely wipe all personal data from my Nexus 4 with CM installed. I've seen different advice on different sites for making sure all my data is gone:

Just do 'Factory Reset'.
Do 'Factory Reset' at least 3 times.
Do 'Factory Reset' and wipe dalvik cache.
...

and so on... I'm interested in erasing all traces of my personal data from the device. It's a Nexus 4, so there is no removable storage to worry about.

My guess would be to 'wipe data/factory reset' and 'wipe cache partition' in the main recovery menu. In the mount/storage menu, I would choose 'format /cache', 'format /data', and 'format /data and /data/media (/sdcard)'. Finally, in the advanced menu, I would choose 'wipe dalvik cache'.

Is this thorough enough? Should I also choose 'format /system', 'format /firmware', etc? Are there any options I should steer clear from? I would like the phone to boot to a fresh Cyanogenmod after clearing all data.


texts: My device is grayed out on Google Play website

texts:
Recently I had some trouble with google play app - first, I was getting "connection error" when using wifi. I cleared the app chache, uninstalled updates and after I played with it a bit more, it completely stopped woking giving me the "connection error" also on 3G.

I erased my device and installed CyanogenMod 10.1.

Now the Google Play app woks great but when I go to Google Play website, my device seems to be out of sync - it is grayed out and the list of apps installed is out of date.

How to fix this? Any ideas?


texts: Why is there such a difference in thr amount RAM used?

texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  The RAM total of the apps “Running” never equals the “Used Ram” shown below on the scale

I'm owning a Nexus 7 running on 4.2.1. This is a screenshot of the amount of RAM in use. The sum of processes using the RAM is clearly less than the amount of RAM that is shown is being used. why?

 This is the complete list of running processes.

This is the list of cached processes. Also note, under developer options the maximum number of apps running is background is limited to 4


texts: Android applications need WiFi but I have only ethernet connection

texts: I have the Imito MX1 device that is working on Android 4.1. I have problem with WiFi quality (speed and reconnecting) so I use the Ethernet on the RJ45 to USB device. Unfortunately some of the applications that need Internet are not working. They are displaying communicate about lack of Internet. Is there any solution to redirect the ethernet to the WiFi device?


texts: Missing Cast icon in the Notification Center

texts:
I mean to cast my Android screen to my Windows 10 PC.
I pull down from the top, but I do not find the Cast icon, even if I pull a second time.

Can I fix this?

Using Android 8.1.0 (Oreo) in a J7 Prime.

Note 1:

Accroding to this, "Some of these steps work only on Android 10 and up."
There isn't any further specification.
According to this, without explicitly telling it, but shown in the images, I should have Cast available.
According to this, availability of Cast is "largely dependent on your phone's OEM skin... the Google Cast button... has been exclusive to Nexus and Pixel devices, even though other phones have the requisite software to use it."
One should install Quick Settings to be able to add the icon.
This opposes the implicit description above.

Note 2:
I am not certain about the relation between this Cast icon, Quick connect, Smart view, Windows 10 Connect, and the following 2 icons.

Note 3:
I actually mean to cast from Android to PC without a WiFi router, but that is a separate story.


texts: Install and update app without play store

texts: If I install an app on Android outside Play Store. Will it ever be updated? How so?


texts: Camera stopped working, how to check if it's hardware problem?

texts:
I'm quite sure this is hardware problem. I tried the following:

cleared application cache and restarted phone
tried alternative camera applications
reset phone to factory settings (still doesn't work)

There is just error message saying:

  Unfortunately, Gallery has stopped.

Now I suspect it could be Gallery app problem. I rooted the phone and used super user app to disable Gallery and than install alternative gallery app. Still not working, now error is

  Camera has stopped working

Is there any way I can check if actual camera is broken? I'm using Android 4.2.2 on the Doogee DG130?

Log file ( part about camera ):
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0-PZcQ_Q9-ZV1pON0ZlMzNjck0/edit?usp=sharing

Here is the exception stack trace from the logcat

08-19 17:03:08.098 W/dalvikvm(18229): threadid=14: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x414369a8)
08-19 17:03:08.098 D/IPCThreadState(18229): [DN #5] BR_CLEAR_DEATH_NOTIFICATION_DONE cookie 0x50840260
08-19 17:03:08.100 E/AndroidRuntime(18229): FATAL EXCEPTION: Camera Handler Thread
08-19 17:03:08.100 E/AndroidRuntime(18229): java.lang.RuntimeException: startPreview failed
08-19 17:03:08.100 E/AndroidRuntime(18229):     at android.hardware.Camera.startPreview(Native Method)
08-19 17:03:08.100 E/AndroidRuntime(18229):     at com.mediatek.camera.AndroidCamera.startPreview(AndroidCamera.java:168)
08-19 17:03:08.100 E/AndroidRuntime(18229):     at com.android.camera.CameraManager$CameraHandler.handleMessage(CameraManager.java:168)
08-19 17:03:08.100 E/AndroidRuntime(18229):     at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:107)
08-19 17:03:08.100 E/AndroidRuntime(18229):     at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:194)
08-19 17:03:08.100 E/AndroidRuntime(18229):     at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:60)

And this is entire log for last 2 minutes ( while I was opening a camera ):
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0-PZcQ_Q9-ZTW9QeTVKdk1NdEU/edit?pli=1


texts: Wi-Fi turning OFF automatically when turned ON

texts:
Whenever I try to turn on my WiFi, it shows Turning Wi-Fi on but automatically turns off. I have not recently installed any app, and earlier it used to work absolutely fine. I even tried doing a factory reset, but it's still not working. Not sure whether it's a software or hardware issue.

I am using Micromax Canvas A116 phone running Android 4.2.1


texts: When resetting tablet, Google password won't authenticate

texts: I was told to reset my RCA Viking Pro 10 but now it keeps asking for Google account verification which I have input a minimum of 10 times. It keeps saying it is incorrect. The Google password works fine on my phone but not this device. I've even reset my password. How do I get past this?


texts: Updated my Galaxy S II and know no spell check

texts: I updated the Galaxy S II with Jelly Bean and know no spell check. I have not had time to go back to the sprint store, any ideas?


texts: I turned off MIUI optimization and some features were lost and I can't retrieve them after I turn it on again.


texts: Notification Bar and Home button not working

texts:
I have moto G3 in it the home button, notification bar and recent button is not working. Tried to do factory reset but that option is also not working. tried to switch off the phone remove sim card and SD card, but still no luck.
Please advice !


texts:
I am trying to connect to our corporate WIFI network. I know that the type of the network is 802.1x because tech support told me so and I have colleagues that can connect to it using their iPhone with that type of authentication.

My problem is that my phone (Android 2.1) detects the network security as WEP and I can't override it. I tried to manually add a network with the same SSID and the correct configuration. However, when I look at the wireless networks, it says that only the detected network is in range, and that the one I added manually is out of range.

How can I fix this problem?


texts: I can't connect wifi tether network with tablet

texts:
I used wifi tether application to share internet connection in rooted xperia x8 android 2.1 version. It is work for my laptop.
I can connect this network correctly with my laptop. But I can not connect this network with another android phone or tablet.
Because this network does not appear in another android phone or tablet. What setting should I change?


texts:
I bought a new phone and everytime I save a picture from Twitter, the browser or a bbm profile it always saves in my phone storage not my SD card. I was wondering if there's a way to make them save instantly on the SD card and show in the gallery.

I use a Huawei Honor 3c running Jelly Bean 4.2.2


texts: I've found this comment: Any reason not to allow automatic updating for an app? - is that safety feature documented anywhere ? I'm about to turn on automatic updates but I don't feel comfortable doing that without a firm proof that it won't compromise security.


texts: Why has my SD Card suddenly stopped working? It is not visible on phone and I cannot format it on PC

texts:
In the morning, I tried to start my Android 4.4.2 phone. There was no response from the phone for some time, which was unusual. Then it started suddenly, and I noticed that there was a notification- 'Preparing SD Card, Checking For error'. All my apps and data installed on the SD card were missing.

After some time, the notification vanished, with the problem persisting. I tried to shutdown my phone, but in the middle of the shutdown process, the phone hanged. I waited and after some minutes removed the battery and restarted. No progress. Now, whenever I shutdown the phone with the SD card on, it hangs in the middle of the process, and I have to remove the battery. Without the SD card, the phone runs fine.

I then tried backing up the data and formatting the SD card on PC. It would not get formatted, and show the message- 'Windows was unable to complete the format'. I tried formatting with quick format on and off. Also, if I manually delete the files from my SD card, they come back after a while. Though the backup version of the data that I have saved in my PC behaves normally and gets permanently deleted if I delete it.

I scanned my SD card with two antiviruses with no result. I also tried easeUS Partition Master to format the SD Card on PC, with no result. I also tried formatting via Disk management on PC.

I would like to know the cause of this random error. The card could not have been damaged because it was securely installed in my phone when this happened. Also, I downloaded some songs from a known website the last evening, and virus could have infected my phone then, although I have previously used the website with no problem.

Please explain any possible reason why this could have happened, and a solution if possible.

I also notice that when SD card is in the phone, the battery gets consumed very fast.

Also, i tried formatting it using command prompt, and got an error message-'invalid media or track 0 bad - disk unusable'.


texts: Anyway to achieve frame interpolation or similar video processing for videos in android

texts: I was wondering if there is any way to achieve frame interpolation or similar video processing for videos in android similar to window's SVP (https://www.svp-team.com/wiki/Download).


texts:
Does anyone here know of an open source email application for Android?
Thanks in advance


texts: Do I need a smartphone with more RAM or one with a higher processor in order to load a big excel file faster?

texts:
As the title says, do I need a smartphone with more RAM or one with a higher processor in order to load a big excel file faster ?

For instance : Snapdragon 835 with 8GB RAM vs Snapdragon 845 with 6GB RAM, which is faster to load a big excel file ?


texts:
I have just installed termux in my Android 6 phone and have given storage permissions so I can read, write or compile from the terminal in the folder /sdcard/myC/ by using clang -o birthday birthday.c -lm.

However, when I try to run the executable I get -bash: ./birthday: Permission denied. I have tried compiling and running in multiple places, i.e. /sdcard/data/com.termux and have tried the command termux-setup-storage that ensures the permissions are granted to read/write. I have tried to chmod the program as well.

I should be doing something wrong because apparently the app is really good.


texts: Downloading Gallery data from Samsung Cloud Storage?

texts:
I have a Samsung smartphone and I have enabled the backup to Samsung Account option.

After doing a factory data reset today, and restoring data from Samsung account, I realize that although the Gallery app shows all the photos, they aren't accessible through the File Manager and I cannot copy them to my PC or upload to Drive (in high res).

There is a download option for ALL photos in the "More" menu in the Gallery (see screenshot). Once downloaded, it is available in the File Manager and the cloud icon disappears from that specific photo in when I am in the select mode in the gallery (see the second screenshot).

[download option] [cloud icon]

There seems to be no "Download All" option. I need to download all 500 items individually.

What is the workaround for this? I cannot seem to access Samsung Cloud storage anywhere through the web.


texts: htc explorer not loaded after factory reset

texts:
I have rooted my HTC Explorer and it worked well. Due to some memory problems, it became slow. So I did a factory reset, after that my HTC Explorer is not loading, it shows only logo screen.

What can I do?


texts: I took a few pictures with the camera on my Galaxy S, and when I viewed them on the PC (via USB) they all were on their side - obviously the camera has taken them in portrait orientation, but why would the images appear sideways when copied to the PC? Is it possible to make them save in the orientation they were taken - ie portrait if taken as portrait shots, landscape if taken when the phone is held 'horizontally'?


texts: Google Reader Not Available in International Market

texts:
I was excited when they announced the official Google Reader app but I can't get it on the market.

I am using my Android Device from Kenya, Africa and would want to know whether being in this region affect availability of apps on the market and if so, how to work around it.

I tried searching on the market as pub:"Google Inc." and this did not help


texts: On an Android phone, how to create a shortcut to read new Gmail emails with a specific tag?

texts: On my Android phone, to be specific a Google Pixel 2 XL, where I use Gmail app to receive and read emails, I'd like to have a shortcut to read new emails tagged with a specific tag. How to do it?


texts:
I have a smartphone which the camera doesn't work very well with CyanogenMod.

Sometimes (and very often), after taking some picture the camera stops working until I restart the phone.

When I try to open it, it just says "Cannot connect to camera".

I'd like to know if there are some way to "restart" the camera service, or something like that, because it's very annoying to be obligated to restart the phone everytime it stops working.

If that's somehow useful, I have a modified version of CyanogenMod 7 installed.


texts: How to get router's ip aka gateway in Android's shell?

texts:
In a normal linux environment we can do

gateway=`netstat -rn | grep ^0\.0\.0\.0 | awk '{print $2}'`

or

gateway=$(netstat -rn | grep ^0\.0\.0\.0 | awk '{print $2}')

but since Android's busybox/magisk doesn't support netstat -rn, what other commands can we use to get the gateway or router ip?


texts: How can I encrypt my external SD card on Android?

texts:
I want to encrypt or password protect on my external sdcdard.

Thus whenever I remove my ex SD card it will not allow to show any of its data without password, even if it is inserted in Computer.

Is it possible or not? If yes then how can I achieve this?


texts: Galaxy S3, 6.5GB but Insufficient storage available to update

texts:
Preface - I originally posted this on stack exchange, which is where I found the question in my first link, but I was directed to post here instead.

NOTE: I have already looked at the following link but none of the answers solved my issue. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16818049/insufficient-storage-available-even-there-is-lot-of-free-space-in-device-memor

I should add that I recently freed up a bunch of space on my phone as I described here: http://forums.androidcentral.com/verizon-galaxy-s-iii/262892-storage-space-running-out-3.html#post3477534

So my issue is that I recently was low on space and found how to clear a lot of files I no longer needed, which gave me a lot of space. But fast forward to now, Twitter and Candy Crush want to update, but they tell me that I have insufficient space. But, I have ~6.5GB free on my internal memory, so that can't be the issue.

Because I am on a Galaxy S3, I am unable to move apps to my external card (which is dumb, but whatever), but I don't see how that could be an issue, since it is reporting so much free space on the internal memory.

I am on a custom ROM (Carbon) which is CM-based, so trying the special codes in my dialer don't work, and I can't find a /data/log directory, as I saw suggested in another answer (the data directory exists, but there is no log folder). I have tried uninstalling Twitter and reinstalling it, but now it won't let it install either, so I'm stuck for now without twitter on my phone unless I use my browser (not that I use twitter much, so no big loss). I have also tried clearing my cache and dalvik cache via CWM recovery, and that didn't fix the issue either.

I'm wondering if the device for some reason still thinks it has less than a GB of space, as it did before I did as described in the second link above, even though it shows 6.5GB free in Settings -> Storage.

Note that I am able to install some apps (I installed the terminal emulator, for instance, but that's tiny), but specifically Twitter didn't want to install or update, and Candy Crush won't update (I haven't tried reinstalling it because I don't want to lose that game).

Is anyone else experiencing a similar issue, or better yet, has anyone fixed a similar issue?


texts: How to control the file system on Android from Win7 file explorer?

texts:
I haven't found any good solution for managing files on my Galaxy S2 from Win7. I've tested Kies and some other software but I'd like to be able to move files, create directories etc. through file explorer in Windows. There was some talks about installing a server also but it feels like using nukes on a mosquito. Preferably a free software that I can install?

Frankly, I was expecting that a simple connection via BT would suffice in this era of Plug & Play but, apparently, in my case, it's Plug & Prey, instead...


texts: Realme 5 (android 10) trying to boot into fastboot mode

texts:
I can't boot into fastboot mode, no key combination works, I also tried with adb command 'adb reboot bootloader' then fastboot logo flashes for a second and it boots into system!
I contacted Realme customer executive and they said there is no fastboot on this device!!!
What does that mean?
Is there any work around?


texts: Twitter on Android, missing tweets from Timeline

texts: I recently changed my phone, Twitter app was downloaded, now I find that hours of tweets don't appear on my Timeline, if for e.g., I was on 8 hrs ago it wont show tweets since then till about 10 minutes ago, there is no "show more" anymore where it would open up and show tweets that were posted during that period.


texts: I have two samsung galaxy s2 models and I want them to sync with each other completely, either over wifi or usb. I usually only use one at a time. Is it possible or is there an app already for that?


texts: APN Requires mcc and mnc but my carrier requires none

texts:
I used to specify only the Name and APN fields whenever I needed to configure my carrier's APN. I've just rooted my Galaxy Nexus with Cyanogemod and whenever I try to set the APN it prompts me to enter the mcc and mnc number's which my carrier doesn't specify.

How can I resolve this?

Thanks in advance


texts: can't install/update apps on my android phone

texts:
My Galaxy Ace 3 (GT-S7272) keeps restarting after updating the apps and removing the app after restarting. Here's what I did to solve the problem but no hope:

I tried clear factory reset and clearing the cache but it didn't work.
I tried to install the apks of the apps without google play but it didn't work.
I tried to clear the cache and remove the data of google play app but it didn't work.

What should I do now as the phone doesn't accept any new apps nor updating the current ones ?


texts:
I clicked on Profiles + Event and selected the event that I want (Net > bluetooth connection) and it shows me two input fields with Name and Address and a list of variables above.
Ok I select the variable that I want, but how do I give it a condition/value? If I enter anything else than the variable name it gives me some error about lower case characters...
Basically I want an event that matches if(%bt_name="Some device Name" && %bt_connected=true) and there's nowhere I can enter such code!
I find it baffling that there's no single example on the entire Internet about how to use this Tasker feature!


texts: How to quickly understand the Android UI

texts:
I have experience with Windows, the MacOS, the iPad and Linux UI's like KDE. I have not used an Android device however so I do not really understand how it works and compares. My general understanding is that it is similar to Gnome-like Linux interfaces, but I guess there must be some differences since Android has a layer of Java, the Dalvik/ART virtual machine, between the Linux kernel and the UI elements.

I have read the Android developer overview to the UI but that has not really helped me understand how the UI operates from a workflow basis.

Obviously I could just buy an Android tablet and use it for a few months, but I am hoping there is some way for me to understand the Android UI and how it differs from other major UIs. How can I get this knowledge?


texts: Workaround for Android 4.4 not being able to write to SD cards?

texts:
Yesterday I upgraded my Samsung Galaxy S4 to Android 4.4 KitKat and had the bad surprise that it cannot write to my SD card anymore... I know this problem is widely documented everywhere, but has any workaround been found for it yet? (Other than removing the card physically from the phone and opening it on my PC) Also, because of the KNOX flag I can't downgrade to 4.3...

(PS: Rooted or not, it makes no difference)


texts:
I'm totally new to ADB in general and I wanted to try to quantify my app usage throughout a weekly/monthly period. I used the adb shell command dumpsys usagestats
My questions with this is that

Can I specify  time range (a period of 30 days) to get the stats for ?
What does lastTimeSystem and inactiveTime mean ?

In-memory daily stats
  timeRange="9/2/2017, 5:30 AM ΓÇô 9/3/2017, 12:48 AM"
    packages
package=com.facebook.katana totalTime="25:35" lastTime="9/2/2017, 11:43 PM" lastTimeSystem="9/3/2017, 12:02 AM" inactiveTime="37:43"

I also wanted to check how much music I stream but spotify usage is 00:00 Is this a bug or is it because the app runs on the background? (I've been streaming for the past 2+ hours)

package=com.spotify.music totalTime="00:00" lastTime="9/3/2017, 1:28 AM" lastTimeSystem="9/3/2017, 1:28 AM" inactiveTime="01:09"

Is there a way to automate the log saving daily to my storage ?
In my earlier searches the dumpsys showed how many times the app was used as well. How can I get it with this adb version ?

Phone details: OnePlus2 on android 6.0.1


texts:
On my Samsung Galaxy S2, I am using Google Talk. I also use the preinstalled messaging app for SMS. This messaging app seams to read my Google account and shows Google Talk messages. Therefore I get Google Talk messages twice. Once in each app.

How can I deactivate receiving Google Talk messages in the preinstalled messaging app without deactivating the whole Google account on my phone?


texts: What is google play music and why does it constantly load?

texts:
Why does google play music start up,  and what does it do?

I have some music on my phone but am happy with the basic music player and have no need for or want to access music online.


texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  Can I install Android on my non-Android device?

I read somewhere that someone managed to get Android running on an iPhone 3G. Is there an easy  tutorial on how to do that?

It's just for testing purposes.

Thanks!


texts:
I tried unlocking the bootloader (which I apparently succeeded at.)  I then tried rooting it, which I failed at.  I just want to reset the phone back to factory settings but when I try to do a factory reset it will reboot into the (and I don't know if this is the right name for it or not) bootloader screen, where it says my phone is relocked and gives me the options "bootloader", "reboot", "reboot bootloader" and "power down"

What do I do?  If I reboot the phone will restart but nothing has been erased.


texts: Back-up Contact before Factory Reset didn't go into vCard format but .txt, how to import it

texts:
My phone is Lenovo A859.

I did factory reset. Before doing that, they told me to backup my contact and SMS, so I did. After, when I wanted to import my contact, I saw that they saved both as .zip (separated, so I have 2 zips, one for SMS, another for Contact). Meanwhile, later I learnt the Import option on Contact Setting only accepts vCard.

Then I tried to saw the .zip on my desktop. Inside there's a .txt and .mt file. I opened the .txt file. Inside .txt I found a json (AFAIK it's json, CMIIW) formatted like this: (I changed all number to 0)

{
  "local_time": 0000000000000,
  "local_number": 000,
  "local_catogary": "contact",
  "ct": [
    {
      "fs": [
        {
          "f": "-1",
          "v": {
            "familyName": "somedude",
            "givenName": "adude"
          },
          "t": "NAME"
        },
        {
          "f": "MOBILE",
          "v": "00000000000",   ---> their phone number
          "t": "PHONE"
        }
      ],
      "op": "add",
      "st": false
    },
    {
      "fs": [
        {
          "f": "-1",
          "v": {
            "middleName": "randude",
            "familyName": "dude",
            "givenName": "dudette"
          },
          "t": "NAME"
        },
        {
          "f": "MOBILE",
          "v": "00000000000",
          "t": "PHONE"
        },
        {
          "f": "HOME",
          "v": "shalalala@dummy.com",
          "t": "EMAIL"
        },
        {
          "f": "YAHOO",
          "v": "yahooId",
          "t": "IM"
        }
      ],
      "op": "add",
      "st": false
    }
  ]
}

yah, an array member of ct seems to represent a contact: its phone number, email, even yahoo ID is possible. Then inside the info.mt file was only this:

local_catogary:contact;local_time:0000000000000;local_number:000

How do I import these files to my contact? I've tried and my dear phone rejected, saying "Couldn't import vCard", something about "wrong format". Then I tried seeing Wikipedia's entry of vCard. Seeing vCard format, no wonder it's rejected...

Some things I tried:

Changing .txt to .vcf (and later understood why it won't work with this file)
Using apps from store (app went weird, won't work)

What file is this? Is there any way to import this file to my Android phone as Contact? Or should I program something to convert this to vCard format manually...


texts: How does a phone store date and time even when the battery is removed?

texts: I have seen android phones which do not ask users to set the date and time even if I remove battery and reinsert and start the phone. If I have a SIM card inside it, I understand it fetches date and time from the network provider. But what if I do not have SIM and there is no Wi-Fi connected?


texts:
I have a stock image for my tablet, and I am using DragonFace to edit it and PhoenixSuite to flash it.

The stock image flashes fine, and after the flash it immediately reboots (I don't have to do anything).

I can make changes to it via DragonFace and save it as a new img file.  After flashing the new file, sometimes it won't boot at all, sometimes it takes 5 min before it will boot.  I try many button combinations to trigger a boot.

Obviously, it could be a bad img (if I changed something critical) some of the time, but that isn't the case most of the time.  I know this because after a bit of waiting, the device does boot.  If after a few minutes there is no activity, I sometimes reflash the exact same image, and it boots (eventually).

My main question is how to shorten the long delay between flashing and booting.  It is making diagnosing my new image difficult.

Note, I disabled device encryption, and I know that works because the image flashes just fine with that modification (again, after a short wait).


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My phones have same issue i don't know if i do something wrong or what but after I connect my phone to pc and upload some files you are not able to see them on phone.

Example i upload new.apk to Downloads folder and disconnect my phone. Then going to Download folder on phone but file is not there. However if you go trough file explorer you can see file there.
Also same issue if i connect phone to pc and delete files. After disconnect and going to that folder files are still there but if you go trough file explorer wont be there.


texts: "Avoided poor Internet connection" on LG G2

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I'm trying to connect to my home's wireless router with my new LG G2 (running version 4.2.2) and it keeps saying "Obtaining IP address..." for three minutes, then momentarily saying "Saved, secured", before cycling through all over again. It does this about 5 times and then eventually stops trying and says "Avoided poor Internet connection".

It seems that the problem is only affecting my Android device. My laptop can connect; my mother's and girlfriend's iPhones can both connect; and this is the second Android device I've had with this connection issue (my old Droid 4 had it too).

I can't figure out what the problem could be. I've tried changing the broadcast channels on the router with no luck, and I'm too worried to mess around with the network settings much more, for fear of messing up the network for more devices.

On top of this, with the recent phone upgrade and data transfer, I'm at 90% of my monthly data usage, with half a month yet to go. :[

What can I do to connect to the wireless, short of getting a new phone or new router?

[EDIT 1] OK. So now I've tried using my desktop as a mobile hotspot, and this is still not working. Perhaps the most troubling part is that it isn't working even when I bypass the router altogether, and plug the computer directly into the modem. It even failed both with and without encryption.

[EDIT 2] Here is a screenshot of the Advanced Wi-Fi settings, as requested.

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texts: Error when migrating data from internal microSD to internal storage despite apparent available space

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I have a Moto G3 (Android 6.0) with a microSD of 2GB that I configured to use as internal storage. It's been working fine for years, but I want to upgrade to a larger and faster card. So, I'm first  trying to safely remove this microSD. When I try to migrate data from the microSD card to my phone's internal storage, it fails with the following message:

Couldn't move data
Data left at original location

However, I thought I cleaned up enough space, as described in this answer. I removed several apps, cleaned data and cache. The microSD reports zero apps and cached data used. Here's the current disk usage:

Android OS: 4.19GB
Internal storage: 7.68GB of 11.81GB
SanDisk SD card: 1.78GB used of 1.80GB

I checked this answer, but it seems different because there the microSD is used as portable storage, instead of internal. This answer seems closer, Droidriven says the /data partition might be the culprit:

Droidriven (reply #13):
You probably have too many apps to move everything to internal, you have plenty of storage but your /data partition probably isn't big enough.
You'll have to backup the apps and data, and store it on PC, then uninstall the apps. Then migrate what is left. Then go from there. You can put the apps and data back after you get done if you have enough space or another sdcard.

Using adb, it seems /data partition has space, though:
$ df
Filesystem               Size     Used     Free   Blksize
/dev                   439.2M    88.0K   439.1M   4096
/sys/fs/cgroup         439.2M    12.0K   439.2M   4096
/mnt                   439.2M     0.0K   439.2M   4096
/system                  2.2G     1.7G   511.2M   4096
/data                   11.8G     7.6G     4.2G   4096
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
/cache                 248.0M   242.8M     5.1M   4096
/persist                 3.9M   192.0K     3.7M   4096
/firmware               35.2M    31.5M     3.7M   4096
/fsg                     2.1M     2.1M     1.0K   1024
/storage               439.2M     0.0K   439.2M   4096
/mnt/expand/6318ae65-dd0e-47fb-be4d-522416bf8877     1.8G     1.8G    16.0M   4096
/mnt/runtime/default/emulated: Permission denied
/storage/emulated       11.8G     7.6G     4.2G   4096
/mnt/runtime/read/emulated: Permission denied
/mnt/runtime/write/emulated: Permission denied

I think this is the right track, though, it looks like something related to a partition that doesn't fit.
Where can I look for more info? Can I use adb to perform this migration? Maybe the error messages will be more detailed.
EDIT: One thing I noticed after talking to someone at AndroidQuestions' Discord is that, since before I started cleaning up space, the SanDisk SD Card always showed 0.00 bytes allocated for Apps and Cache and 1.78GB used of 1.80GB. Even after I cleaned up around 4GB of storage, it still showed the same numbers. Is it possible that the SD card used as internal storage will always show these stats because it has been allocated by the OS? Thus, it is actually already empty and I can try to eject it without data loss.
I'll give it a try and post an update later.


texts: how remove duplicate entries in music list (after reset)?

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How remove duplicate entries in music library (music player). i have factory restore (reset) still double entries of songs list, albums.

I am using android-2.2 Foryo (Samsung Galaxy 551 - GT-5510).

duplicate entries not working... :(


texts: I was going to install aptoide, but some of the permissions raised concerns for me. Why does is need my precise location, need to be able to add or remove accounts, create accounts and set passwords, find and use accounts on my device? Any help would be greatly appreciated.


texts: Samsung Galaxy S4 Mail App not syncing while set to Automatic sync(Push)

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It does sync automatically(push) only when I have opened the app. But today, eventhough I had it opened it didn't.
I would like my phone to sync auto even after I close the app.
I would also download another email app if necessary.
Android version 5.0.1


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Possible Duplicate:
  Block all sounds going out through speaker when headphone connected

I listen to music and audiobooks a lot on my HTC Incredible, and the phone rings through to my headphones, but the notification alert plays through the external speaker.

Is there any way to get it to play through just the headset like the phone ringer does?

Android version 2.2