texts: Internet access via external Wi-Fi adapter

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Good afternoon, colleagues.
There is:

Samsung S7, LineageOS 15.1, root, terminal, kalinethunter, drivers for AR9271 in kernel;
WIFI USB adapter Alfa atheros AR9271;
USB-miniUSB cable.

Required:
Internet access by a browser, not through the built-in wifi of the smartphone (wlan0), but through the external one (wlan1).
Tried:

turn on wifi in the smartphone settings;
delete the memorized network in the wifi settings (so that the smartphone does not automatically connect anywhere via wlan0);
in the terminal:

sudo ifconig wlan1 up (in any, kalinethunter, androidsu)
wpa_supplicant -i wlan1 -c / etc / wpa_supplicant / wpa_supplicant-wlan1 / conf (only in kalinethunter terminal, androidsu gives wpa_supplicant not found)
dhclient wlan1 (only in kalinethunter terminal, androidsu displays dhclient not found).

after that pass successfully:

from the terminal kalinethunter ping 8.8.8.8 and ping google.com;
from the androidsu terminal - ping 8.8.8.8 (if I add ip google.com to system/etc/hosts, then ping google.com also work);

But browsers (firefox, chrome) do not see the network. How can I go to the Internet with a browser (firefox, chrome) through wlan1, can you have ideas?


texts: How do I determine which app is syncing?

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I frequently see the syncing icon in my notification bar, but every once in a while it gets stuck there, perpetually syncing something.  I have tons of apps that do background syncs.  How can I see which app is performing a sync at any given time?

Edit:

The duplicate question linked below suggested OS Monitor however I have tried that app and it doesn't tell me which app is syncing.  Under the Connections Tab it lists System, Android System, Lookout and OSMonitor.  I tested it by syncing a number of apps (google apps like Reader and non-google apps like Evernote and Got To Do and it didn't show them.  I thought it might be an issue with those connections completing in the time it took me to switch back to OS Monitor but then I tried streaming some audio and it didn't seem to recognize that connection even though it was actively streaming.

On a more general note, I have found that "Monitor" apps are not very effective because they usually only monitor the present time which is indicitive of how your phone is running with the Monitor app open, not how it was acting prior to.  For example, when trying to identify performance bottlenecks, when I open the monitor app it identifies itself as the highest resource hog.

  Possible Duplicate:
  How can I know which apps are currently connecting to the Internet?


texts: Disable headphone physically in rooted phone

texts: I want to disable my headphone jack in my rooted Android phone because it is physically damaged. How can I do it? Is there any way in build prp file or any other way so that it is "physically" disabled it?


texts: Is it possible to record screens of two android phones connected to a PC?

texts: I am new to Mobile testing, Recently started using Android adb and started recording device screen using adb shell screenrecord command. Just wanted to know if we can record screens of two android phone at a time connected to a same PC using adb.


texts: Forwarding or syncing SMS to another Android phone

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I have two Android phones and I am looking for a way to foward SMS messages to another phone and let me answer with my first number. I don't have both phones with me all the time, but still want to be notified about new messages (and if possible even calls).

I need something more than a simple forwarder. Already tried apps like "SMS Forwarding" "SMS forwarder" etc. That wasn't it.


texts: How do I get the GPS icon to show in the status bar in CM7?

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Just did a fresh install of CM7 in my Incredible, it's fantastic, but whenever I turn on my GPS, it does not show in the status bar that it's on, like it does in the stock 2.2 OS.

Is there a way to enable this show it shows when it's active?


texts: How to get Assistant to look for music only on my phone

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I have about 60 gigs of music on my Samsung Galaxy S8.  I normally uses Pi Music Player, and am very happy with it.  But that's not so convenient while driving, so I'd like to control my music through Google Assistant.

However, when I ask Google assistant to say, "Play John Prine from my library", it's hit or miss whether it starts playing my John Prine collection or whether it offers up some random John Prine video from YouTube.  I can't seem to find any way to tell it reliably that I only want music from my phone.

I was about to buy a new car and enjoy the pleasures of Bluetooth voice commands so I don't have to fiddle with my phone while driving (my existing ten-year-old car does not offer me this option).  But it now appears that there's no way to do that; unless I pick up my phone and use the touch screen, the system is going to play whatever it feels like playing rather than the music that's right there on the phone.  I've put the car purchase on hold until I figure out whether there's a solution to this.  (I've also just spent an entire very frustrating day trying and failing to find settings I can adjust...)  Is there in fact a solution?


texts: Unbrick a device having broken volume rockers

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A technician checked my phone's (TCL S950/Alcatel One Touch Idol X) hardware and broke the volume buttons. I flashed TWRP recovery, because I wanted to install the latest CyanogenMod. The latter in turn bricked my device since it doesn't get past the boot animation. The volume buttons to get into Recovery or Bootloader don't work and ADB doesn't detect the device either.

What can be done to unbrick the device?


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I would like to root my Verizon Samsung Galaxy S4 SCH-I545.

It is currently running Android 4.2.2 and has Build number ending in VRUAME7.

How do I root my Galaxy S4?


texts: How many Intel CPU devices have Nougat or later?

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From the official dashboard or other resources, I cannot derive how many (if any) real commercially available devices with Intel CPU have Nougat or higher installed (or preinstalled).

As Android developer, I want to know how many regular users may suffer if I choose not to support these devices (due to ffmpeg text relocations in assembly, if you want to know why).

I don't care about the emulators, or android-x86 deeply respected community. These people have much better alternatives for video recoding.


texts: How to know on which Google account text messages (SMS) are saved?

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I have 2 Google accounts on my phone. How can I know on which Google account text messages (SMS) are saved?

I use a Samsung Galaxy S5 SM-G900A with Android 5.0.


texts: How to download synced application data from Samsung Cloud?

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My Android Samsung S7 smartphone is broken, so I wanted to access my memo which I have backed up at Samsung Cloud. I don't have another smartphone. I just need to download the data to the PC and dig the data out of the files. But I don't know how to download those data. THere doesn't seem to be a link for download:

I went to Samsung Cloud, but here also is no link to download:

How do I download this as a file to PC?


texts: I'm having trouble making a custom ringtone

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I have an LG-LS855. I don't seem to have any way to plug it in to my computer. I've made a ringtone I want to use. It's an mp3 file. I've uploaded it onto Google Drive. The only thing I seem to be able to do from my phone is play it.

I've downloaded three apps for custom ringtones. The only one that came close to helping was Tone Picker. It lets me use an mp3 from Google Drive as a ringtone. Or at least, it appears to. The phone still uses its default ringtone.

I've also figured out how to use any of the music on my phone as ringtones, but I can't figure out how to download the mp3 as music either.


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Has someone been able to connect Google Nexus 7 to Linux. I'm using Linux Ubuntu 12.04?

I've already installed mtp-tools and mtpfs but still cannot get it right. Can someone help?


texts: How can I view a .docx document using dark mode on Android?


texts: How to have adb recognizing my Nikon s800c on windows 7?

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Has anyone got ADB to work correctly for the Nikon S800C?

I've followed the instructions mentioned here, but to no avail.

I am using Windows 7, and can see a yellow alert mark in the device manager.


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Well some people here have came across this question I posted few days ago. I want to inform them that I had to reflash my phone (and I'll edit the details there as recommended by @Izzy)

Device: Lenovo Vibe C
Android: Lollipop 5.1.1

So now after a reflash I tried to root my phone again by the KingRoot app. It went fine upto 24% when I thought of disconnecting the router which it was connected to. The app showed me that a file could not be downloaded and then as it happens (on this device particularly during rooting, the phone shut down). Usually in such cases I remove the battery and reinsert it and boot the phone to continue with the root procedure but this time it did not happen. I tried twice but failed. It was after that I removed the battery for about 30s that it booted up again. After the boot the battery indicator in status bar was working in a strange manner. It first showed 50% then the next instant dropped to 2%, and remained there for about 1 hour. Then after I plugged the charger it again jumped back to 50%. In spite of this I charged the phone for rest of the evening. When I again started using it some minutes back, it started behaving strangely again. Initially the charge was 88% then it jumped down to 50% then to 69% and so on. Here are some statistical screen shots taken from 3C Toolbox.

This one from the battery section of settings app. See the ups and downs at the end.

And another problem, I see this annoying notification even when my battery is at normal temperature.

My device is 2 years old so there are no issues with the battery itself I think it is the OS files that are causing the disturbance. I think this would be a silly question (as it is not possible) Did this happen due to the kingRoot app? What may be the cause, please help me out.

EDIT

The battery files of the OS, I think these (the current_now and the temp_cool ones) probably have been corrupted in some way. Can they be replaced with files downloaded from the internet(if any). Please help


texts: ADWLauncher: Go straight to default screen instead of requiring a second "home" tap?

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I have CM7 installed, and am using ADWLauncher which comes pre-installed.

I know how to configure a "default" home screen, so that when I'm in ADWLauncher already, pressing "home" brings me to the default screen.  But when I'm in another application, pressing "home" takes me to the most recently viewed screen, and an additional tap of "home" is required to then move to the default screen.  What I want to do is be able to press "home" from ANY application and go STRAIGHT to the default screen, regardless of what my last viewed screen was.  Is this possible?

Thanks!


texts: Trying to restore SMS messages after a factory reset

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Before I did a factory reset on my LG G3 I copied everything in the internal memory to my PC (drag and drop over USB) just in case I needed any of it later. What I stupidly forgot to do was make a backup of my text messages with an SMS backup app that I use. So I'm missing a lot of text messages that I really wanted to save (some with important information).

I have all the folders that were in the internal storage, so is there any way to just drag and drop back over certain folders to my current phone to access my old SMS messages? Or were they in a folder that wouldn't show up when connected to my PC and therefore didn't get backed up via drag and drop?


texts: How to delete SuperSu and changes it made

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I inherited a Moto G3 which I unlocked and installed TWRP and a custom ROM. I foolishly attempted to install SuperSu. It supposedly changes some system files.  Now I want it off the phone. In any event, there is no obvious way for me to uninstall SuperSu and system files which were changed.

I did some Internet research. One site said I had to reinstall the stock recovery and ROM. That sounds like a lot of extra effort, and I don't think any changes got made to TWRP. As far as I can determine, any changes took place in the System partition.

My question is this:

Would it work for me to boot to recovery and use TWRP to do an advanced wipe of the Dalvik Cache, Data, Cache, and System partitions?

Yes, I know then I need to reinstall the ROM and GAPPS. That's OK, I did not make many changes I need to retain.

Thanks.


texts: how to mount /system as read/write in android?

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cannot mount /system in android with following command, anyone has a solution for this?

root@hwG7-UL20:/ # mount -o rw,remount,rw /system
mount: Invalid argument

255|root@hwG7-UL20:/ # mount -o remount rw /system
mount: Invalid argument

root@hwG7-UL20:/ # mount|grep system
/dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/system /system ext4 ro,seclabel,relatime,data=ordered 0 0

the full output for mount is:

255|root@hwG7-UL20:/ # mount
rootfs / rootfs ro,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw,seclabel,nosuid,relatime,size=970220k,nr_inodes=155384,mode=755 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,seclabel,relatime,mode=600 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,seclabel,relatime 0 0
selinuxfs /sys/fs/selinux selinuxfs rw,relatime 0 0
none /acct cgroup rw,relatime,cpuacct 0 0
none /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs rw,seclabel,relatime,size=970220k,nr_inodes=155384,mode=750,gid=1000 0 0
none /sys/fs/cgroup/memory cgroup rw,relatime,memory 0 0
none /dev/frz cgroup rw,relatime,freezer 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/asec tmpfs rw,seclabel,relatime,size=970220k,nr_inodes=155384,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
tmpfs /mnt/obb tmpfs rw,seclabel,relatime,size=970220k,nr_inodes=155384,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
none /dev/cpuctl cgroup rw,relatime,cpu 0 0
adb /dev/usb-ffs/adb functionfs rw,relatime 0 0
/dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/log /log vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1007,fmask=0007,dmask=0007,allow_utime=0020,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro 0 0
/dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/system /system ext4 ro,seclabel,relatime,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/userdata /data ext4 rw,seclabel,nosuid,nodev,relatime,noauto_da_alloc,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/cache /cache ext4 rw,seclabel,nosuid,nodev,relatime,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/persist /persist ext4 rw,seclabel,nosuid,nodev,relatime,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/modem /firmware vfat ro,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,fmask=0337,dmask=0227,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=lower,errors=remount-ro 0 0
/data/media /mnt/shell/emulated sdcardfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1023,gid=1023 0 0
/dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/cust /cust ext4 ro,seclabel,relatime,data=ordered 0 0

thanks a lot!


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could anybody explain what is this download mode?

As described in here How to root Innos A35
as I hold vol up +vol down 5 seconds and at the same time connecting the USB cable to
my computer it shows up a removable disk and unknown drivers in windows 7.

My phone is also Innos A35 device locally sold as i35 from dialog telecom.

What are those? And what is this download mode?

But unlike the recovery mode, I didn't get a screen up. Is these two modes all coming
from ROM. what kind of code is there on ROM. [Well in x86 computer I could review
a opensource bios implementation, any idea on Android ARM ?].Where that consoles
come from?

Where is uboot located? Is this download mode is a mode that programmed into a ROM, where
I could not change it?

I have read the boot procedure of a typical android phone. But can't organize the info
with this.


texts: Show Notifications missing in app settings

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I'm trying to disable app notification for a particular app. The usual method is to go to System > Apps > click on the app > uncheck the "show notifications" checkbox.

The problem is, this checkbox doesn't appear for this app, or for any of the random apps that I sampled which are installed on my phone (eg. GMail).

Am I missing something? I'm running a Samsung Galaxy (SGH-S730M) with Android 4.0.4. I found instructions (with screenshots) that look like they date back to Android OS 2.x or 1.6.


texts: App-specific passwords not working anymore under Android 5

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I am using multi-factor authentication for all my Google accounts.

I am pretty sure that I once used app-specific passwords on my Android (that time version 4 of Android) devices to authenticate.

Yesterday I reset my device and also the app-specific passwords I created earlier. I recreated new app-specific passwords.

Then, after having restarted my freshly reset Android device I tried to add one of my Google account after the other. As part of that I am, for each single account, first asked for my mail address and password. But, for whatever reason the app-specific passwords are just not accepted. Once entered I am just prompted again and asked for my password. Fascinatingly Google seems to recognize that the password is correct, because if I enter a wrong one on purpose I really get an error saying that the password is wrong.

Entering my "main" Google password works and leads me to a UI then asking for my Google Authenticator code.

Are app-specific passwords no longer support for adding my accounts on Android or am I doing something wrong?

Thanks!


texts: I can't update my Samsung SII to the latest firmware

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As soon as I connect my Galaxy S2 with my computer it detects and Kies tell me that I have an updated version available. So I press update it downloads, prepare everything, then my phone goes to "Downloading do not turn off the target" and then Kies doesn't identify my phone. I've done it so many times before, every time I had an update from Samsung I've updated the same way.

I have tried different versions (1.5.49.0, 1.5.51.0, 1.5.53.0) of "Samsung USB driver for mobile phones" but nothing resolves the problem. I have tried to reset my phone to default but that didn't resolve the problem as well. As soon as it goes to "Downloading do not turn off the target" then the same thing happens. I don't know what to do, any help would be highly appreciated. BTW, my android version is 4.0.4 and baseband version I9100BVLPE if that helps.


texts: Hardware key combinations to enable/disable TalkBack

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I have found the following gestures out options I the TalkBack settings:

I want to be able to get the double Coyle up and volume down long press key combination to toggle TalkBack on or off.

This is very useful.

(but it is grayed out)

Hopefully using it won't trigger the volume change if the user is clumsy and asynchronous presses both keys.

Thanks.


texts: Unable to install CyanogenMod on Galaxy S2 i777

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I'm trying to use ROM Manager to install the cm-10.1.3 ROM on my phone, but I'm getting the following error (from recovery.log):

-- Installing: /sdcard/bluetooth/cm-10.1.3-i777.zip
Finding update package...
I:Update location: /sdcard/bluetooth/cm-10.1.3-i777.zip
Opening update package...
Installing update...
Warning:  No file_contexts
script aborted: assert failed: getprop("ro.product.device") == "i777" || getprop("ro.build.product") == "i777" ||
   getprop("ro.product.device") == "SGH-I777" || getprop("ro.build.product") == "SGH-I777" ||
   getprop("ro.product.device") == "SGH-S959G" || getprop("ro.build.product") == "SGH-S959G"
assert failed: getprop("ro.product.device") == "i777" || getprop("ro.build.product") == "i777" || getprop("ro.product.device") == "SGH-I777" || getprop("ro.build.product") == "SGH-I777" || getprop("ro.product.device") == "SGH-S959G" || getprop("ro.build.product") == "SGH-S959G"
E:Error in /sdcard/bluetooth/cm-10.1.3-i777.zip
(Status 7)
Installation aborted.
result was NULL, message is: assert failed: install_zip("/sdcard/bluetooth/cm-10.1.3-i777.zip")

Here's info about my phone:

Model number:     SAMSUNG-SGH-I777
Android version:  4.1.2
Baseband version: I777UCMD8
Kernel version:   3.0.31-1154545-user
                  se.infra@SEP-126 #3
                  SMP PREEMPT Tue Apr 23 22:10:17 KST 2013
Build number:     JZO54K.I777UCMD8
Recovery:         ClockworkMod 6.0.1.0

In addition, I found this set of instructions http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Install_CM_for_i777, but using ROM Manager seems to be a much easier way to install the ROM. These instructions say to use the wipe data/factory reset option in CWM recovery - does this mean I should use the "Wipe Data and Cache" pre-installation option in ROM Manager?


texts: Can I empty the trash in the default e-mail app?

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The POP e-mail account I use for mobile is linked to an externally-managed anti-spam gateway.  It was starting to get too many false positives, so the other day I went through the web UI to mark a whole boatload of old messages as "not spam" to give it a nudge in the right direction.

Of course, they all ended up back in the Inbox and subsequently got downloaded onto my phone.  I deleted them, and now they're just sitting there in the trash.  All 450 of them.

I really don't want to have to delete every single message from the trash manually.  After several minutes of digging on Google I've found genuinely ancient bug reports with no workarounds.

Surely I'm just overlooking an obvious menu item somewhere and Google hasn't actually let such an obvious, gaping feature hole go unplugged for over 2 years, right?  So where is it?  How do I empty the trash?

P.S. I'm aware of the fact that messages older than 30 days are supposed to be deleted automatically.  That's not happening - possibly because they were already more than 30 days old when they were downloaded in the first place.

P.P.S. Please do not tell me to use K9Mail or any other 3rd-party mail program.  I'm sure they're great but any e-mail client that doesn't support Exchange ActiveSync is completely useless to me, and so far the only one I've found that seems to do it properly is the stock e-mail app.  Sorry if this comes across as grouchy but I am absolutely sick of seeing this "solution" posted thoughtlessly to every single forum/thread I read that happens to mention a problem with e-mail.


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My phone is a Nokia 6.1. I'd like to do a factory reset, but preserving:

my personal files
the settings of all apps
the data saved by all apps (e.g. the alarms saved by the stock Clock app)
the collection of apps (I want them to be reinstalled after the reset)

Does the "Settings -> Advanced -> Backup" Android feature do all that? If no, then what part does it do?


texts: Why am I unable to turn of USB debugging on my Galaxy Tab 10.1?

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I turned on USB Debugging in the settings and am unable to turn it off. Whenever I try to uncheck the option I get "USB is connected. Remove the cable." even though the cable is not connected.

I tried rebooting but nothing. I do not think my device has ever completely turned off. When I try to power down it has a green battery animation of it filling up. I do not know how to completely turn it off.

Anyone know how to fix this?


texts: Re-route all audio from tablet to PC-Speakers

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My setup is the following: I have a PC and a tablet (Nexus 7), and only one sound system (2.1, 3.5mm input). My goal is to play both sounds coming from my PC and from my Nexus 7 whilst it is in the (official) docking station through the speaker-system hooked up to my PC.

I've looked for a way to merge the two incoming signals but without any success (except for cost-heavy DJ equipment to mix both signals), so now I'm wondering if it's possible to simply re-route all outgoind audio via USB to my PC (both running Windows and Linux (Ubuntu)).

I'd appreciate any help you guys can give me. Thank you.


texts: Why are android devices equipped with only (relatively) little RAM?

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Currently, I can only find devices (phone, tablets or sticks) that are equipped with a maximum of 2GB RAM.  While this might be sufficient for current applications, I do wonder why there are no devices offering more RAM.

I think that having more RAM would not have a significant impact on prices, while being beneficial to multitasking several apps.

So why are there no devices with more RAM?  Limitations by chipsets?  Just the cost competition?  Making people buy new devices with 4GB next year and with 6 in the year after?

My intiuition behind this question: From CPU-power and storage speeds the android devices are more powerful than my ULV-notebook which suffices for all my work and stuff.  I do see potential in replacing my "home server" with a cheap android device.  But I do not understand why they have so little RAM, which could be useful in this context.

PS: I am aware that it is possible to create swap space on the disk and increase swappiness, but the access times are far worse than RAM speed.


texts: Hiragana keyboard on Telephone Huawei P8 Lite

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I have a problem and can not find the solutionn by myself.

I want to keep the language I have on my telephone, BUT would like to have an extra language only on my keyboard. Japanese language (Hiragana)
I wold like to switch easily etween these languages. Now I use English as an extra language, but Japanese is not listed on the Huawei P8 Lite.

Who can help me out, please?

Kind regards


texts: SGH-I337 I got recently is stuck in a bootloop. Itll post and then attempt booting and stay on the screen forever. As this phone is completely stock and never touched so usb debugging is not enabled. Factory resetting does nothing, the phone will not wipe the cache (it attempts then errors out and restarts itself). Ive tried flashing TWRP via odin but the bootloader is locked. Trying to use ADB logcat does not seem to work. What route should I take from here?


texts: Samsung Note 10.1 (2014) tablet discharges when powered off

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My samsung tablet discharges when powered off and not connected to a charger. It's too fast that i would suspect some battery self-discharge.

I am not totally sure about the state of the power-off mode, because when powered off it still displays a battery symbol, when i press the power button a short time (and switches off the display again when i press the button again).

How can i shut it down, so that it's fully off? Long Pressing Power while booting just gets it in the same state again or only reboots again.


texts: Google App "search pending" notification stuck on Marshmallow

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"1 search pending" notification from Google App is stuck on my Marshmallow phone since yesterday. Based on other answered questions about stuck notifications, I tried:

To Cancel the pending search
Rebooting my phone
Turning off and turning back on the notifications for Google App
Forcing the Google app to close
Turning off the notifications for Google App, rebooting the phone, and turning notifications back on.
Trying to search the same thing again

None of the above "solutions" worked.

I had applied the June 2016 security updates from Google last week. Not sure if this had something to do with it.

Any help in this regards is appreciated.


texts: SD card write permission issues after restoring from backup to an identical phone model

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I've been using LineageOS 14.1 on a rooted unlocked Samsung S7 (G930F) for a long time. My phone started dying, so I rebooted to TWRP and managed to take a full backup to the SD card before it died. Because TWRP doesn't have an option to include internal user storage files, I lost that partition but it didn't have much I missed - the backup contains my chats, contacts, and apps+data, and DCIM (pics) was being saved on the SD card anyway.

I bought a replacement phone of the identical model, wiped it, unlocked it, transferred over the SD card and SIM cards, installed TWRP, then used that to wipe system+data+cache, and restore all my saved partitions (except boot+baseband+EFS) to the new phone.

It worked fine, but I've found that programs such Titanium and FX file manager can't write to the sdcard. I suspect some files can't be read either, as am attempt to copy a 10GB backup folder to internal storage (18G free) failed for unknown reasons after about 6GB in FX.

So there is clearly some kind of permissions issue going on. But what?

I know the rough scenario of sd card permission changes that came in at the time of KitKat, but that knowledge hasn't helped me resolve it either.

Unlike most scenarios, I've still got the identical combination of system partition + sd card, so unless the file permissions are also locked to say, IMEI or something else equally unlikely, I'm confused why it's having such a problem, and how to resolve it.


texts: How to get the "Encrypt external SD card" option to show (on a LG Optimus F6)?

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The "Encrypt external SD card" option doesn't show up under Settings -> Security on my LG Optimus F6, or my Huawei Y301-A2.
A microSD card, FAT32 formatted and empty, is inserted and recognized correctly. The "encrypt device" option shows up, but the "Encrypt external SD card" does not.
How do I get this option to show up? This is using Android 4.1.2


texts: Is incoming/outgoing call screen customizable?

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I'm looking for a way to change the incoming/outgoing call screen (that of my Sony phone needs replacement at least because when I press a button to turn on the screen and tap the "end call" button or to see the length of the talk, the screen is turned off in a second). I've tried a couple of dialer/contacts apps and those don't actually change that screen. Moreover, the comment here suggests that this screen may be changed only on a rooted device.

Is it so? Is this screen a part of launcher? A separate app? Is rooting required to change this? Where can I grab alternative implementations? A more detailed how to is appreciated since the phone is rooted already anyway.

PS the screen I'm talking about looks similar to this:


texts: How can I `adb pull` a large file when the USB connection breaks continuously?

texts: I want to transfer a large file with adb pull, but my USB connection disconnects all the time, interrupting the transfer. How can I make this work?


texts: Does the user profile picture get synced anywhere?

texts: In Android Marshmallow, does the user profile picture get synced anywhere? If yes, where can I find it, somewhere in G+ maybe? By profile picture I mean this (image copied from http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/help/android-5-0-lollipop-user-profile-photo-t2939546)


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I have working Wi-Fi connection. I can connect to any access point in range and I have no problems with passwords, etc.

But after some time (sometimes hours, sometimes days) my phone tries to connect to access point and it fails. In Wi-Fi settings I just have "Błąd" message which in English means "Error". Then I cannot connect to any network, I'm not eve able to scan available networks - Wi-Fi is totally dead.

When I reboot phone it starts to working normally again.

My phone specs:

Samsung Galaxy 5
GT-I5500
Android 2.2 - FROYO.XWJQ3
I5500XWJP4


texts: How do I determine which A2DP codecs my phone supports/is currently using?

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Bluetooth's Audio Profile A2DP supports multiple codecs.  All devices have to support SBC (subband codec), then they can support additional "optional codecs" like MP3 and AAC, or "non-A2DP" codecs like apt-X.

Of course these codecs can't actually be used if the receiver doesn't also support them, in which case both devices fall back to SBC.

How do I find out which codecs my hardware/ROM support?
How do I find out which codec is currently in use?  (Maybe this depends on the track, too, if it passes MP3/AAC files directly without re-encoding, for instance)


texts: How to lock bootloader with stock os in moto e2?

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I have asked my to install custom rom. He unloacked the bootloader and installed custom rom.
After installed, my speakers and calling features are not worked.

I thought the problem is with custom rom. So I have thought to install the stock os again.

But I don't know how to install.
Can anyone please help me how to install the stock os and lock the bootloader again?


texts: Does Android 4.3 fix USB OTG on Nexus 4 when used with an external power source?

texts: It seems to be fairly well established that the Nexus 4 has had issues with not supporting USB OTG since launch (e.g. this bug report).  From what I've read it's both a hardware and software issue.  The hardware can't supply the necessary power and the software does not conform to the protocol in some way.  I'm happy to use a Nexus 4 with an external power source (Y-cable), which should solve the power issue.  What I'd like to establish though is, does Android 4.3 do anything to fix the software issue?


texts: Deleted Contacts on WhatsApp but Chat not deleted

texts: Someone deleted me on their contacts because I can't see their profile photo anymore. I just want to know if ever our chat box is not deleted on his/her WhatsApp app, Will he/she see changes on my profile photo or status after deleting me on his/her contacts if he kept the chat box?


texts:
I have a Huawei u8160(A. K. A Vodafone 858) which is running Cyanogenmod 7.2.

I was wondering if it supports USB host so I can connect a keyboard or a Flash drive.


texts: Is it ok to delete Tencent - Micromsg - Diskcache folder?

texts: Is it ok to delete Tencent - Micromsg - Diskcache folder in samsung S3? Its related to wechat...


texts: How can I SSH into my Android without rooting it?

texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  Is there some SSH server for android?

Are there free Android apps that would let me SSH into it remotely?

Related: Are there Android SSH client apps that would let me SSH into other computers from my Android?


texts: Deja Vu - Black screen when listening to audios or during calls in WhatsApp

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It seems that some time ago the same issue happened, I am having this issue since the last software update (2.21.5.17) in my Zenfone 6 with Android 11. Anyone else with the same issue? How did you solve that?
I tried so far removing the proximity sensor during calls, but it didn't work


texts: Finding the location of a lost android device

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I've lost a huawei p30 device.let's say somebody took it and formatted it and started using it with other accounts.

Is there any way to track it and find its location?

i have tried the find my phone of google and although it seemed to be somewhere nearby suddenly i lost it and the battery seemed to be around 50%


texts: Can I install apps to different devices from one device?

texts: I am wondering if there is a way to install and open apps on different devices I am signed onto from one device.


texts: Is there a way to automate data toggle on Galaxy S7 (Edge)

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I recently bought a Galaxy S7 Edge. I've meticulously gone through settings for notifications, sync, permissions to eliminate things doing stuff in the background as much as I can find, but none of this makes much difference to battery life. The only decent difference to battery life is made by manually switching data off before locking (and on, if I want to do something that requires data, after unlocking)

If I leave data on all the time I get about 30 hours.

If I habitually turn data off when I'm not using the phone I get about 3 days (even with regular turning the phone on and data on to check emails, do internet stuff)

(Note: I owned an iphone 6 plus before this, and that lasted days with similar use,  without turning data off)

I've tried JuiceDefender  (Which I already own for an older phone) and Tasker. Neither seem to be capable of turning the data on/off. It seems Samsung's version of Android makes that ability unavailable to third party apps.

Does anyone know of a way around this, other than rooting the phone/OS?


texts: Operating System isn't working in Onda V812

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I bought an Onda V812, a Chinese tablet. Since beginning, the operating system hasn't worked correctly.

Now it simply doesn't boot. I'd like to reset the tablet and maybe install a new version of Android to see if it works.  The Onda V812 specifications are very good so I'd like to believe that there should be a solution to my problem.

My e-mail complaints to their support team have not been replied.


texts: Can I send myself push notifications from a server without making my own Android app?

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I am making a chat box on my website that sends the text to the server which forwards it to my phone as a push notification. The problem is I have basically zero Android or Java programming skills. However, I'm familiar with how to send GCM notifications from the server. I think if I only had the device ID (and possibly a way to subscribe to the messages?) I'd be fine.

Do I need to do any Android programming? Is there a way to receive custom messages without making a new app? Or an app that already exists to do this?


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The other day my phone upgraded from Google Now to Google Assistant. I was having a conversation with a coworker and noticed my phone vibrate. Google Assistant had recorded the conversation and tried to answer a question even though I never said "ok google".

My phone was in standby and in my pocket and I'm not ok with this. Is there a way to set it so I must launch an app to cause it to start listening, like some sort of widget? Is Google Assistant only supposed to record when you say "Ok Google" or does it not need any specific phrase? Does Google Now offer better privacy than Google Assistant? If not, is there a way to remove them both?


texts: Music player showing the wrong album art

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I've just transferred over 800 songs onto my Galaxy S6, all of which have album art. I used peggo.co to download the songs from YouTube/SoundCloud (peggo automatically attaches the album art to the song).

However, all of my songs show the wrong album art, and more so, it's the one same album art from one album for all 800+ songs.

I tried deleting the offending album/songs and cleared the thumbnails using this suggested method, but now all the other songs use the same album art from a different song:

I've tried following the answers to a similar question here, but none of the solutions worked for me.

What should I do?

Edit: I think I know the issue, but I'm not sure how to fix it. All of the songs I downloaded using peggo.co set the Album Title to "Unknown" (or simply nothing), which would explain why all 800+ songs have the same album art. How can I fix this though?


texts: Galaxy SIII is displaying small-size low-quality pictures for contacts

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My brother and I have a Galaxy SIII, we both have the most recent firmware and software updates.

We both have the same contact whose picture is fetched from his Facebook profile picture.

Whenever that contacts call either of us, her picture is naturally displayed. Only the difference is that it displays a nice, fullscreen, high resolution image for him, and a tiny, about 100x100 low-res picture for me.

What can cause this? Same contact, same picture! Is this some sort of setting I need to check?


texts: When phoning, is there some way to 'say' the digits to a menu system in stead of having to enter them on the keyboard

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On my Samsung Galaxy S (running Froyo) I was phoning my voice mail system, where I have to press 1 to hear the message, 2 to erase the message ... you know what I mean.

When choosing a number I constantly have to remove the phone from my ear, enter a digit and than (quickly) put it to my ear again to 'hear' the new menu options.

I was just wondering: is there any way to say the digits , in stead of having to type them ?

That would be handy no ? Maybe , you have to press one button to start the system, but even that is preferable to the current way.


texts:
How can I reset website permissions on Chrome for Android?

I have face detection software hosted on my home server (192.168.1.7:8020), and if I go to 192.168.1.7:8020/face-detection.html I used to get a notification about my tablet camera usage. Every time I clicked "allow" it would work.

But I missed "allow" button today and clicked "reject". Now I can't find where or how to reset media permissions for this particular page/site.

I'm on Nexus 10 with Android 4.2.2 (3.4.5-gaf9c307) using Chrome 26.0.1410.58 with WebRTC flag on.


texts: Google Maps timeline feature not working - says "Can't connect to Maps, try again"

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When I was trying to connect my past timeline events, I encountered an awkward situation.

It says "Can't connect to Maps, try again".

(Click image to enlarge)

Does anybody know why I'm getting this error? Is there any way to solve this issue?


texts: Does installing and re-installing my own app affect my app's rating/ranking?

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I just released my first app not too long ago. To test it in the Play store, I installed my own app. After discovering some bugs, I uninstalled it, and installed the one I would code to fix from Eclipse. After fixing the bug, I post an update and re-install my own app from the store to test it out again.

If I keep repeating this process (uninstalling and re-installing my own app from Google Play every time I release a new version), will my app's rating be degraded? Should I strictly stick to using my own app by installing the raw version (not the one on Google Play, but the one I built in Eclipse)?

Thanks.


texts: Can one app access an app that has password protected?

texts: On my Android, there is a feature that I can set password for app that I want to. Example, let's say I set a password for my gallery and then I install new app from play store or browser and the new app want to access my gallery. Can that new app access to my gallery?


texts: I bought app when it was paid, now it is free and I have to watch ads

texts: I bought game a few years ago. I performed factory reset on android tablet because it was slow. Installed game after some time. Now I see ads. But I paid for that app? What can I do to get add free version? Or can I get refund?


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I want to flash a new ROM using the shell. (Need this later to do per app so there is no other way than shell). Here is what I tried

connected to 192.168.1.9:5555
Pauls-MacBook-Pro:~$ adb shell
root@android:/ # su
root@android:/ # flash_image
usage: flash_image partition file.img
root@android:/ # flash_image boot /mnt/sdcard/_updateboot.img
error opening /mnt/sdcard/_updateboot.img: No such file or directory
1|root@android:/ # flash_image boot /mnt/sdcard/_update/boot.img
root@android:/ # flash_image misc /mnt/sdcard/_update/misc.img
root@android:/ # flash_image kernel /mnt/sdcard/_update/kernel.img
root@android:/ # flash_image recovery /mnt/sdcard/_update/recovery.img
root@android:/ # flash_image system /mnt/sdcard/_update/system.img
mtd: write error (No space left on device)
error writing system: No space left on device
1|root@android:/ # flash_image system /mnt/sdcard/_update/system.img
mtd: write error (No space left on device)
error writing system: No space left on device
1|root@android:/ # reboot

Even if I don't get the No space error it just wouldn't boot (it is a TV dongle, so no HDMI output). Has anyone an idea how to flash ROMs from an ROM?


texts: Google Assistant Routine custom commands weird behavior

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I'm trying to setup Google Assistant Routine for my wake-up alarm. Whenever I create 2 or more custom commands, they tend to change after saving. I'm trying to add 2 commands: continue music and turn do not disturb off (both these commands are correct and work fine with Google Assistant). But whenever I press the save button and check them back, one of them changes to the other one. So I'm only getting either 2 do not disturb off or 2 continue music.

The question is: am I doing something wrong? Maybe I don't understand something about Google Assistant Routines?

My device is Xiaomi Mi A1 with latest Android 9 installed.


texts:
On Samsung S5 AFTER installing KitKat last week, the mm-qcamera deamon usage has drain down full battery in 7hours (before update 12+ hours uptime was the average.
Hopefully an urgent fix is coming. So far the key argument for me for Android was the lack or quick fix of bugs...


texts: Can't Disable Chinese apps on Samsung Note 3

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A relative picked picked up a 'Samsung Galaxy Note 3 SM-N9006' on his trip to China.

It was misbehaving so I did a reset. When it booted I noticed a few Chinese icons on the Home screen. Opening them takes me to a bunch of Chinese porn sites!

I removed the icons and an app called ChatOn but now I have 4 new Chinese apps that have been downloaded and started automatically!

When I Stop and Disable them they come back.

So what do I do? I don't trust the device as it is. What are my choices?

Root it and try to clean it that way? I don't even know how they are being downloaded. Can I trust the factory ROM at all?

Install a different ROM on it?

Thanks.

Device Info:
Samsung Galaxy Note 3 SM-N9006
Android 4.4.2
Baseband: MT6582
Build: JSS15J.N9006ZCUBMI5


texts: Google Messenger : Moto g4 / g4 plus does not show links in SMS

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As shown in the screenshot (sorry it's in French), Google Messenger does not display links under phone numbers on my Moto G4 Plus (Moto G4 has the same problem).

In this case I was expecting (like my previous phone) an hyperlink on '555507', allowing me to directly call this number.

The same SMS within the same app on another phone (Fairphone FP1U or HTC Desire 500) shows the link.

How can I configure Messenger or Moto G4 to have such links ?

Update after contacting Motorola customer service:
They say it's related to the quotes, but I am not sure at all. I have seen in my history many numbers that do not have quote, and still they are not hyperlinks. My opinion is that they link only when number has more than 7(?) digits.


texts: My computer doesn't recognize my phone, neither on ubuntu nor windows

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I own an LG-K430T, and I use it to share internet with my Desktop PC through USB tethering. Or I did it for a year straight until today, when my PC isn't recognizing my phone anymore, neither on Windows 7 nor Ubuntu 18.04.2. It doesn't even allow to share files, since there isn't a pop-up(neither in the phone nor the PC), but the phone does charge. I thought it could be my USB cable that worn off, but using this same USB cable with my sister's Huawei, it does allow to share files/internet. Furthermore, I tried with 3 different USB cables and different ports, and my phone still isn't recognized. Then, I tried it on Ubuntu, and to my surprise, it's still not recognized. So, I think it's safe to say the cable isn't the issue, nor the operative system( Also, I restarted both the phone and the PC) Then , In ubuntu, I tried to enable USB debugging followed by lsusb and nothing yet. My phone was last updated in april 2019 and its android version is 6.0, so I don't have a clue about what's causing the issue, although I'd blame the phone..

On windows,I have tried to update drivers of the 'Unknown device' on Device administration, but it says they are already up-to date

EDIT:
Answers to comments: lsusb output:

Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 007 Device 002: ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode)
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 1004:6344 LG Electronics, Inc. G2 Android Phone [tethering mode]
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 04f9:0413 Brother Industries, Ltd
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 04f3:0235 Elan Microelectronics Corp.
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 009 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

(THE LG PHONE THAT IS TETHERING IS ANOTHER ONE, DIFFERENT FROM THE ONE WITH THE PROBLEM). So, in short, lsusb doesn't recognize it.
The MTP option looks already enabled

Further info

The other day a guy enabled USB debugging on my phone and got his computer to read its files!(He had a version of Windows). When I got home it worked too in my Windows! Then it downloaded some drivers and asked to reboot, which I did. After the reboot, I tried tethering and didn't work(The option to turn on was there, but when turned on, nothing happened). I thought it was because of the USB debugging and disabled developer options completely. Unfortunately, my PC stopped recognizing my phone. I said, "well, at least I can now share files..." but, surprisingly,when I turned USB-debugging back on nothing happened. Now, there is a difference which I observed between his way of activating USB-debug vs my way. It is that in his way the USB-debugging is shown active both on Settings AND in the Notification Panel(in a permanent way, i.e. it doesn't go if I press "clear all" notifications), while when I activate it,no message is shown in the notification Panel. He must have done it differently to give it more priority or something...


texts: No Mobile Network In Samsung Grand Prime

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Samsung Grand Prime Phone. There is no Mobile Network. I tried *#*#4636#*#* but it didn't bring up the Testing Menu. I am not able to search operator or change the network mode. The IMEI in *#06# and in the phone is same.

When I remove the sim it displays insert sim card. When I reinsert it, it's able to find there is a sim inserted but there is no signal.

I installed Network Mode app and it shows Radio is Off. Turn Radio On is not working.

When I get into settings for mobile network, it will not allow me to search. When I click search it will say mobile network not available. Both automatic and manual search says the same. The SIM works fine in another device. I can confirm its definitely device.

Can somebody point me in the right direction?

EDIT

I have updated the phone using Kies and now its in 5.0.2. Still no signal. There is a Blocked Symbol near the Wifi Symbol

EDIT2
How to check that I have correct modem for the phone ?


texts: I just bought my new Samsung Galaxy S5. When texting, when I exceed 160 characters it automatically converts to MMS. I have researched the remedy,gone to settings and clicked the MMS Alert to 'on' which alerts me when I have exceeded the maximum amount of characters, but it still converts to MMS.  How can I revise the amount of maximum characters so I won't need to use my data? I certainly don't want to have to send multiple texts every time I text over the 160 limit.


texts: Is it possible to add insurance cards to Google Pay?

texts:
I just received a new insurance card and would like to keep it in Google Pay. It's not a debit card that can be scanned as a method of payment; I would just like to keep digital copies of all of my cards in a single place on my phone. My State Farm app gave me the option of saving a copy of my car insurance to Google Pay, and I'm hoping there's a manual way to do this for other cards.
I've tried using the Add Pass feature, but there doesn't seem to be an option for just uploading an image.


texts: RDP/VNC App that has 1:1 mouse cursor support?

texts:
I've tried a couple different remote desktop programs, but I'm having issues with the mouse support...

For starts, I have to double click everything, even things that are normal a single click, or a single click in the Android OS...

I'm on Archos 101 Android 2.2.1.

I'm pretty familiar with the process of remoting at this point, so my question basically is "which remote desktop solution provides the best experience with a full keyboard, mouse and HDMI support monitor?"

Thanks.


texts: Use data connection when WIFI has no internet access

texts:
My friend has a wireless router in his car that supports streaming music. I would like to stream music to this router from my google play (or other internet source), but as soon as I connect to his router, I lose internet access (since his router doesn't have any kind of outside line). It seems that even though the router clearly doesn't have internet access, android is shutting down my 4G connection. Is there any way to change this behavior, or is it expected to change in Android L? It is a little disappointing that this doesn't work as it seems the iPhone has supported this for quite some time.

For reference I am on android KitKat 4.4.3


texts: How to turn Android phone into an USB gamepad for PC?

texts: Is it possible to turn an Android phone into a USB gamepad for the PC? If yes, how?


texts: What does it mean for a corrupted photo to appear on my album?

texts:
So I decided to clear out some photo for storage and I pasted by this photo here, but it was corrupted:

The photo was actually took yesterday (12/25/18) but today I open to find it like this. I don't know how the image got to be like that, but I'm worried that it can be a virus or it can damage the phone in another way.


texts: Google Device Manager on CyanogenMod - How to stop asking me to unlock phone all the time?

texts:
I was playing around with Google Device Manager and so I decided to lock my phone to see it working.

Now every time I have to use my phone I have to unlock it with the password and after a while. It is annoying.

How can I stop it asking me for the password every time I turn ON the screen?

I'm using CyanogenMod 11 (Android 4.4.4) on a Galaxy S4

PS; I've read this question here on SE but not exactly the same problem as me. I can input the password and unlock it. I want to make it stop asking me to unlock the phone all the time.


texts: How to (manually) backup (and potentially restore) a map for an Ecovacs Deebot in Android?

texts:
How to (manually) backup (and potentially restore) a map for an Ecovacs Deebot in Android ?
The app is "buggy", as of March 2021.


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I am using Samsung Galaxy Pro B7510. The problem is that my touch screen is not working sometimes. It has been like this for several weeks. I use Pin lock feature to unlock the phone and EZanswer Trial to attend calls. This is possible only because of the qwerty keyboard. Without which I would be doomed. Some times the touch screen starts working for some time and then, without a warning, it becomes not responding. No error messages are seen.

This all started when after I upgraded it into GingerBread 2.3.6 and rooting . After seeing this problem, I downgraded into the stock rom, unrooted it, and everything.

Not sure if its a software issue or hardware problem.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.


texts:
Whenever I try to download an app from Google Play Store, it allows me to accept the App Conditions but I don't see it downloading. A sign that shows there's an error pops up, 'Error retrieving information from server. [RPC:S-7:AEC-0 ZVSF-VF44-KHLR]'.

What should I do? Please help. I need to download an app.


texts:
I'm trying to do some css / javascript changes to a webpage with the android stock browser.

How does one clear the stock browser cache, on the Samsung galaxy s3? I've checked settings and settings -> developer settings as well.


texts: I sed to can change language into etc(BM, CHINESE, ENG )but now all I can use is ENG. Why ones that happen when is used to work perfectly?


texts: Send email by selecting multiple users from Contacts app

texts:
When I need to send email to multiple users in Gmail app I explicitly need to type in their addresses. Is there any way to select multiple users from my Contacts app and put them into the To/Cc/BCc field?

From this question I realize that I can create groups but it won't work for me as recipients keep changing in my case so grouping them would not be feasible. Also I have linked my social accounts so there are some email addresses which are coming from my social accounts but are not stored in my Gmail contacts.

I am using HTC One X with HTC Sense 5 and Android 4.2.2.


texts: How to force my own tablet's keyboard keep open across apps [system wide](prefering temporally)

texts:
Here's the scenario:

Trying make the best of my old Gtab 10.1, android 4.4, to study. (He has died 3 years ago, resurrected this year)
It's said that handwriting is better for learning, and i think digital is essential to keep. So I'm trying both, as this tablet has this handwriting keyboard (with pen), by getting a Cornell note in notion.so (over chrome, cause old Droid version)
The problem:
Given tab's big screen, and my lazyness, many times i also watch on it, on a pinned floating window.
But pause/resume the video, get keyboard closed first, for loose focus of notes and gain focus on video, then a second tab to actually play/pause. Screen do resizes flikerig, a bad experience.
What I want:
Keep the keyboard always open taking it's space, able to type to nothing even, just like a fisical keyboard would. So not needing the focus checking, i can interact easily across the apps.
Need some kind of configuration, root app/script. Or taking advantage of the pinnable app's windows feature.
Worth nothing that i would prefer that the solution could be turned on/off also. So can have the default behavior on simpler usage.
A "close keyboard" option, if when open, it keep always open, would deal with this.


texts: Connect PC with USB modem to device on WiFi hotspot

texts:
I am trying to connect my Oculus Quest 2, which is connected to my phone's WiFi hotspot, to a PC, which is connected to the same phone using USB tethering (USB modem). What I found out was that they get assigned different subnetworks, the one on the WiFi hotspot gets 192.168.43.x, while PC gets 192.168.42.x. They also get different gateways and DNS servers.
Now, I've found this answer right here (Packet forwarding between USB Tethering and Wifi on Android), which shares similar problem to mine, except the device is rooted. I am really not sure if this is the dealbreaker, so I'm asking general directions. Is there a way to do it without root?


texts: WhatsApp Messenger not showing "last seen" for a contact

texts:
I have a person in my contact list who is using WhatsApp. He is the only person who's "last time seen" status doesn't show.

I thought he had blocked me but when we texted each other I have realized he didn't.

Also when he's online I can see that he is as well as his profile picture but his "last seen" status remains hidden. What could it be?


texts: What does "avoided poor Internet connection" mean?

texts:
The connection to my work wifi just failed and below the network my phone is saying "Avoided poor Internet connection". What does this mean exactly? Has the phone detected that it can't get out to the wider Internet or did the network fail to allocate an IP address or something else?

Not sure if it matters but this is on a Galaxy Nexus.


texts: Setting android-for-work profile on Samsung Galaxy Tab

texts:
I have being trying to set a android-for-work profile on my Samsung Galaxy Note Pro but the only thing that I managed to do is to define a new normal google profile. I have successfully set my android-for-work profile on my Nexus 6.
The Samsung Galaxy Note Pro runs Lollipop

Does someone know how to solve this issue?


texts: How Can I Ressurect My Chat History from Google Talk on Droid?

texts: I'm chatting someone on my Droid, but when I check the chat history in Google Talk, that chat isn't there. This chat is confined to my phone, but I want to keep a record of it off my phone. Is it saved somewhere in the phone in a log file or something? Can I manually forward that chat to my desktop?  I can't ctrl+a / ctrl+c the conversation to my e-mail account, so that's out.  What else?


texts: Size required for install much larger than app

texts:
Using Marshmallow.
I usually have memory close to full.
It often happens to me that, while trying to install an app of a given size, I am request to free space for 6-10 times the size of the app, which seems very strange to me.

What are possible causes and solutions (if there is any other than doing what is asked for) for this?

Example: trying to install Join (for bike rides). App size is ca. 39MB. I was requested to free 290MB. After freeing some space I still have to free 190MB.

EDIT:
I have found possible similar questions, but with a little less detail on the sizes involved, older Android versions, or other perhaps minor differences, so I wouldn't be sure if the questions are really rooted on the same causes (thus I wouldn't call this one a dupe).
As for the respective answers, I would have to check if they apply; some of them are poorly documented or seem to be more conjectures than knowledge.
For completeness, I am listing here such questions.

"Insufficient storage" when trying to install new app

Something is secretly eating up my Acer Iconia A500 internal memory and I need help finding it

Google Play: Error downloading app - insufficient space

Cannot install some apps in Android 4.1.2

What space am I running out of when trying to install an app?

Google Play asking 100 TIMES the real size of the app

Related: How to compute all space taken up by an app and its associated files


texts: What is happening? Play store keeps downloading after 100% how to fix this ?


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"Unfortunately, the process com.android.phone has stopped" error occurs when i try to change my network mode to LTE only.
The phone i'm using is Samsung J5(SM-J500H).


texts: Jabiru disconnects/reconnects every 10-15 minutes when inactive

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I'm not an Android user, but I have an Android user as a contact in my XMPP roster (instant messaging). I noticed that his presence switches from "Away" to "Offline" rotatory when his smartphone is not in use (but constantly connected to his private WLAN).

See for example the following status changes for his account from tonight (while he was sleeping, so no activity with the phone):

[00:05:13] Status: Offline
[00:06:02] Status: Away: AutoStatus (idle)
[00:18:14] Status: Offline
[00:21:17] Status: Away: AutoStatus (idle)
[00:35:15] Status: Offline
[00:36:32] Status: Away: AutoStatus (idle)
[00:50:47] Status: Offline
[00:51:52] Status: Away: AutoStatus (idle)
[01:00:08] Status: Offline
[01:01:14] Status: Away: AutoStatus (idle)
[01:15:13] Status: Offline
[01:16:31] Status: Away: AutoStatus (idle)
[01:25:13] Status: Offline
[01:25:44] Status: Away: AutoStatus (idle)
[01:40:13] Status: Offline
[01:41:00] Status: Away: AutoStatus (idle)
[01:49:14] Status: Offline
[01:50:14] Status: Away: AutoStatus (idle)
[02:15:17] Status: Offline
[02:17:32] Status: Away: AutoStatus (idle)
[02:31:19] Status: Offline
[02:32:48] Status: Away: AutoStatus (idle)
[02:52:20] Status: Offline
[02:54:04] Status: Away: AutoStatus (idle)
[03:07:52] Status: Offline
[03:09:18] Status: Away: AutoStatus (idle)
[03:22:52] Status: Offline
[03:24:34] Status: Away: AutoStatus (idle)
[03:37:55] Status: Offline
[03:39:48] Status: Away: AutoStatus (idle)
[03:53:26] Status: Offline
[03:55:03] Status: Away: AutoStatus (idle)
[04:08:57] Status: Offline
[04:10:18] Status: Away: AutoStatus (idle)
[04:23:57] Status: Offline
[04:25:32] Status: Away: AutoStatus (idle)
[04:39:28] Status: Offline
[04:40:47] Status: Away: AutoStatus (idle)
[04:54:29] Status: Offline
[04:56:04] Status: Away: AutoStatus (idle)
[05:09:30] Status: Offline
[05:11:19] Status: Away: AutoStatus (idle)
[05:24:31] Status: Offline
[05:26:34] Status: Away: AutoStatus (idle)

He uses the XMPP client Jabiru. He can't explain why this is happening; he doesn't find any settings that could be responsible for this.

I googled if it is a known bug and found this statement (in German) in a forum thread, which could be translated to:

  Nice client, but it will probably not keep you connected when inactive, "thanks" to Androids memory management

Is this true? Could it be a problem with Android itself and not this particular XMPP app? How can this be fixed? The XMPP status should stay at "Away" (and not disconnect&reconnect again and again) when the smartphone is inactive.


texts: Installing apps from desktop site "play.google.com/store" not working/slow

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When i am signed with the same account as my phone on my desktop, i can choose to install apps from my desktop. I can simply click on install button and choose the device op my preference. I remember when i did this a few years ago, it worked great. But now if it doesn't really seem to work properly. I am waiting 15 minutes for the app to shop up on my phone, but it just doesn't.

Am i doing something wrong or is it a known issue?

Thanks!


texts: Does the default email app support IMAP?

texts: Does the default email app in Android 2.2 support IMAP rather than just POP?


texts: My Samsung-g890a phone worked great until about a month ago, now when I put a phone number into my contacts, it stays for a short period of time but the disappears. What is causing this and how do I fix it?


texts: I have a home media server running minidlna daemon, and I can stream media to my android phone when I am connected to the home LAN, but I can't seem to be able to do it over the internet. I'm using BubbleUPNP and I've already forwarded the ports on the home router, but I don't see any option/setting on the app to change the server address/port.


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Using Outlook version 4.2041.3 on my Samsung Galaxy A30s with Android 10.
If I receive an email with links in it

And then click in the link

it opens up in a weird browser.
I would like for it to open in Chrome instead. How can that be done?
Already contacted support.


texts: I can only hear Music and Blurry voices while listening songs with headphones

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I'm using Gionee P5 mini running  on Android 5.1
My nephew broke my original headphone so I bought a new headphone from market. But I can only hear music and some blurry voices when listening songs with my new headphones, I've tried few other headphones but I'm having same problme.
Can anyone help me?


texts: Blocking 'Android System,Battery Warning,com.media tek,Common Data Service…' from connecting to the Internet

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I am using NoRoot Firewall to block Internet access to some apps. It recently notified me that this/these app(s) are attempting to access the Internet:

"Android System,BatteryWarning,com.media tek,Common Data Service,EM SIM ME Lock,FotaProvider,Fused Location,Input Devices,Key Chain,MTK Thermal Manager,Permission Control,Scheduled power on & off,ServiceMenu,Settings,Settings Storage,Video Favorites,Voice Unlock,[non-English characters…]"

I'm not exactly sure why it needs to connect to the Internet. What will I miss if I block this from connecting to the Internet? I am using a Lenovo A536 phone. Android version is KitKat 4.4.2.


texts: Galaxy S3 showing messages are not sending when they are

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Title says it all to be honest

Have a galaxy s3 rooted stock jelly bean 4.3

I've been doing some mods recently (not my own just downloaded)
I've undone the most recent ones I've done as only recently the problems started
Haven't you done a restore via CWM as don't want to completely lose the changes I've made

But text messages are sending but always showing up as sending icon (not actually sent)

Any suggestions?

Thanks


texts: Samsung Apps for Galaxy S4 with CyanogenMod

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I am going to change the official stock Android on my Samsung Galaxy S4 to the latest version of CyanogenMod. But after reading some forum threads about how beautiful and useful it is, I have a question regarding Samsung Apps:

Is there any Samsung Apps available or is it possible to install them somehow?

The problem is that I do not really want to lose my camera functionality (double camera photo and automatic color correction), hover function, S Memo, Samsung Apps, S Planner and so on.

What you may suggest me? I really liked that CM functionality, but I also need almost all of the Samsung default tools, like S Memo (the most useful for me).


texts: How to get a more Linux like experience on Android?

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Are there projects (e.g. ROMs) out there that offers a more Linux like experience on Android?

Here are some things that I hope for

easy installation on similar platforms
shell access
development tools such as gcc, Python


texts: How can I remove traces of my phone ever being rooted?

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I rooted my phone and then an update unrooted it. I described my story here . I am glad that the update unrooted it, I was also planning on doing it myself.

What can I do to make sure that all traces of me having root access on the phone are erased? I'd like to do this, so that if I have to go in for warranty purposes, I don't have any problems.

I'm guessing uninstalling z4root would be the first step. What else?


texts: How can I switch out of "Internal Beta" version in Android App Store?

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I'd like to install the most recent public version of an app I'm working on. I also happen to be a beta tester.

The page for the app in the Android Play Store has many tells that it is for the internal beta:

  You're an internal tester. This app may be insecure or unstable.

How do I switch out of this without removing myself from the beta tester list?


texts: Phone evicting inactive applications from ram, despite plenty of memory free

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The phone (Jiayu G4S) is running Android 4.4.2, 2GB of ram, stock jiayu.es rom (kernel 3.4.67)

Stock configuration also sets up some swap in zram, I disabled it, does not seem to make a difference.

Task manager shows at any time at least 0.92GB free or more. It shows at most 12-13 cached inactive apps that are still in ram, a bit more if process limit is manually set to a high value (just for kicks I choose 100).

According to dumpsys meminfo, this is how it looks now:

Total RAM: 2016644 kB
 Free RAM: 883420 kB (230000 cached pss + 131652 cached + 521768 free)
 Used RAM: 852001 kB (805401 used pss + 1684 buffers + 8972 shmem + 35944 slab)
 Lost RAM: 281223 kB
     ZRAM: 4 kB physical used for 0 kB in swap (0 kB total swap)
   Tuning: 256 (large 512), oom 122880 kB, restore limit 40960 kB (high-end-gfx)

And yet, frequently used applications get periodically thrown out from memory (shown in task manager with 0.00b allocated), which results in a small delay at next launch.

oomkiller parameters seem sane

shell@G4:/ $ cat /sys/module/lowmemorykiller/parameters/minfree
12288,15360,18432,21504,24576,30720

Why are frequently used programs kicked out, despite all that free memory? Is there anything I can configure (I have root access)?


texts: Connect android phone to WAN port of router (not lan)

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I would like to connect my phone to a router so that I can share its internet connection among the devices in my house. How do I connect the phone to the WAN port of my router so that the router is 'getting its internet' from the phone? Will a normal microusb to ethernet adapter do it, like this one? (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Micro-USB-5-Pin-10-100-Mbps-RJ45-LAN-Ethernet-Adapter-for-Tablet-PC-S6-/321629022330?pt=UK_Computing_USB_Cables&hash=item4ae295687a)

I have a tethering plan, and a spare phone I am not using, which is why I am doing it this way and not with a dongle and usb router. Some of the devices I want to connect don't use wifi or will just work better with wired connections, which is why I want to attach the phone to the router via a cable.


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I need to re-calibrate the compass on the my Android Galaxy Edge 6s. I read that I must first go to the secret menu, which can be accessed through the code #0# being typed into the dial pad of the phone. I have also found out that verizon has disabled this menu (which would explain why nothing happens when I try using a secret code).

Is there a way to re-calibrate the compass on my Android Galaxy s6, with verizon as my carrier?


texts: Android 11 does not trust a theoretically properly imported private CA for WiFi EAP-TLS

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This question is similar, but unrelated to this one answered two days ago.
I have been using WiFi EAP-TLS at home, for nearly a full year, with multiple desktop operating systems and Android 10 with zero problem.  Android 11 is a different story, Google changed EAP requirements so CAs must be validated. I have always imported the CA and selected options to verify CA on all my devices, the trust chain is important to me.  Unfortunately, it's not working on Android 11, the WiFi bugcheck logs say, "Certificate verification failed, error 19 (self signed certificate in certificate chain)," and points to the private CA.  As far as I am aware, root trust Certificate Authorities, whether public or private, are always self-signed.
Herein lies the problem.  CAs must be self-signed, yet Android 11 does not trust self-signed certificates.  I have the CA supposedly imported properly into the "User" CA store, it is displayed there, and the per-device client certificate is imported into the WiFi store.
I've also asked this question in two places on Reddit, where a couple educational network admins also have the same CA problem, but no answers have been discovered yet.  I'm hoping someone on this forum knows what's up.  Any pointers will be much appreciated!
(I would have also added tags "eap-tls" and "certificate-authority" but I don't have enough reputation yet)


texts: Samsung Galaxy S3 black screen and automatic reboots

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I have a Samsung Galaxy S3, purchased on July 2012.

Sometimes, when I press the power button, the screen keeps black. The button LEDs turn on, but nothing else happens, and I have to remove the battery, or hold the power button for 20 seconds to force a reboot. It has happened to me 4 times; the first 2 were quite distant in time, but the last 2 were both this week.

Also this week, the phone has started to reboot itself. That has happened three times, two of them while I was using it, and the last one tonight, with the phone being idle (no wifi, no data connections, nothing). It just reboots automatically and then everything works fine.

I've never flashed the device, it's not even rooted. It's running Android 4.1.2, as I've installed all the official updates via OTA (base I9300XXELLA, kernel 3.0.31-836582, compilation number JZO54K.I9300XXEMA2). And no, I did not install recently any app which may be causing my problems.

So far, I've retired the microSD card (32GB card, manufactured by Samsung), because I've read that this may be the cause of the reboots. I'll try keeping it without the card for a few days. Although I've been using the same card for 5 months, and the reboots didn't start until this week. Edit: OK, we can rule out the SD card as the source of the problems - the phone also reboots itself without the microSD.

There are a lot of posts from people with similar problems, and most of the answers say they should try a factory reset. However, in most of the cases that doesn't seem to solve the problem. So, I didn't try it...  yet. Maybe I should, but I'm afraid that the problem will be still present, and it's a lot of trouble for nothing.

I've already contacted with Samsung customer service, but in the meantime, is there anything else I can do?

Can I at least diagnose somehow what's happening? I've read here about something called logcat, however they say the log is only kept on memory, it's not stored, so it would be of no help to determine what happened after a reboot or a black screen problem...

Any ideas?

Edit: the phone rebooted itself again, and this time the microSD card was not inserted. That means one suspect ruled out, but I still have to find the culprit.

Edit: it seems that the problems were solved after doing a factory reset. At least, the phone hasn't rebooted itself for the last 5 days...


texts: I Deleted files on internal storage but free space remains the same

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I noticed I had 623MB free in my internal storage so I connected my Android to my Laptop and navigated to the Thumbnails folder which had lot of files and was big in size. I selected all files and deleted them, it was about 300MB. Now when I read the available internal memory space, it reads 623MB...

What happened here? the files are no longer there but for some reason Android is not reflecting the increased available memory..

any clues?

Thank you!

Matias.


texts: how to always show homescreen after unlocking?

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On a Nexus 5 and I am looking for a way to configure it to always show the homescreen after unlocking it. is it possible? how?
Right now, after unlocking it shows the screen exactly as it was left it before being locked. I have not yet managed to get the habit of pressing the home button (i.e. go to homescreen) before I press the power button (i.e. lock my screen)...
p.s. this device is rooted.


texts: Is it possible to directly print from Android?

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Possible Duplicate:
  is there any way to print directly from the phone?

Why can't Android devices directly print to a shared network printer? Or is there a way?


texts: How to disable popup when turning on/off Wifi in Tasker

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I have Tasker on 2 phones. One is Huawei, Android version 9 while the other is KTouch, Android Version 8.1. Both have the same settings provided (Battery optimization disabled, Usage access enabled etc). However, Tasker in Huawei was purchased from the App Store but Ktouch is an .apk version downloaded from the Huawei phone. KTouch do not allow Play Store to be installed :(
What I want is to switch on the phone at a set time and turn on wifi. For the turning on of Wifi, I used the Net > Wifi "On" feature.
For Huawei, Wifi automatically turned on without any popup. However for the KTouch, there was a popup asking user to deny or allow for Wifi to be turned on. May I know how to disable this popup and just auto turned on the Wifi, just like Huawei's?


texts: "keep screen on if USB debugging" application?

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Possible Duplicate:
  Disable Display Standby when in Developer Mode missing in Android 2.3

CyanogenMod has this "keep screen on if USB debugging" as a feature in Settings > Applications > Development, but my phone isn't supported by CyanogenMod and so this little life saver is missing.

I searched the Market and all I could find is Screen On which only attaches to an application, not USB debugging.

Is there a simple, tiny app that does only "keep screen on if USB debugging"?


texts: Why is Google Music preinstalled outside of the US?

texts: I've noticed on many phones in Canada and I think in the EU nowadays come with Google Music preinstalled. If Google Music is only available in the USA, then why bother putting it on the phone?


texts: Can I force clients of my phone's Wi-Fi hotspot to use my DNS?

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My phone is a Mi A1 with Oreo 8.1. It is not rooted.

I am offering WiFi using hotpsot .

I discovered that devices connected to my hotspot do not inherit the DNS server from my hotspot.

Questions: is there a way to push DNS to clients connected to my hotspot?

I have two custom DNS, self made, with public IP. And I would like that people using my wifi could use these DNS.


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It seems to me that it is impossible to change the default alarm tone. Does anyone know if it's possible to do that?

I am using Sony Xperia Z2, if that matters.


texts: How can I make a shortcut to the "Recent Apps" dialog?

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Do you know if there is any way to create a shortcut or widget on the homescreen to access to the "Recent Apps" list?
Basically, is there any way to access to this list without having to hold the Home button?


texts: How to skip the ToS page to access my Whatsapp messages

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I found my old blackphone BP1 with all my data including my WhatsApp conversations.

I can access all my WhatsApp pictures, voice and documents through USB but not my chats. When I launch the App, the ToS page appears.

I can't root my phone to get the private key (as it's a BP1).

I can't "Agree and continue" and receive the SMS as the SIM card is not active anymore.

I tried to extract it on an unrooted phone with WhatsApp-Key-DB-Extractor with no success.

I also tried a few older WhatsApp versions.

Any idea on how to skip this ToS page in order to access my old WhatsApp messages or by any other way?


texts: Trouble understanding this Cyanogenmod PSA

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I've been using Cyanogenmod for over a year now, with my own modifications to the dalvik VM. I have teamwin recovery installed on my Samsung Galaxy S3, which I use to install new builds of cyanogenmod. One problem I've always had and have been unable to find an explanation for is that installing the new build of cyanogenmod would fail with some assert until I remove the assert lines from META-INF/com/google/android/updater-script in cyanogenmod zip file. I'm trying to figure out how to install cyanogenmod properly so I don't get the assert error (cyanogenmod already works for me (though it crashes sometimes, but I think that's normal), I just want to make sure I'm doing it right).
I'm reading this PSA on Cyanogenmod's website, which I was linked to from here, which I found by searching the word "I747MVLDLK4", which I found in my phone's "baseband version" in the settings menu (I was thinking I need a different version of cyanogenmod other than d2att - one which has "I747MVLDLK4" listed in its assert lines), and I don't understand a single thing it's saying.

As we march towards the 10.1 release of CyanogenMod, we have folks updating from older ICS stock builds.

What is ICS?

However, there is an incompatibility between the ICS bootloader firmware and Android 4.1 and above releases
[...]
Find a heimdall/odin or recovery-installable package of your device’s firmware, and install it.

What is a heimdall/odin or recovery-installable package of my device's firmware? Is that the bootloader firmware? Or, is it the entire "firmware" as in the way people call cyanogenmod a "firmware"? Or, are they telling me to install the default software that came with my phone when I bought it (where can I even get that?)?

To make sure your device is primed and ready for this state, the following lists the bootloaders compatible for each device:
d2att: I747UCDLK3 & I747MVLDLK4

Is this a different thing? Or is it the "firmware" they referred to above in my previous question?


texts: How can I save and protect sexy pictures sent by my girlfriend?

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I'm traveling and my GF wants to send me some racy pictures.  Of course I will accept that offer, but I need to save them on my phone in a safe way.

My phone uses Activesync, so it's possible for my office to reset my pin code and so I need an extra layer of protection for more intimate pictures.

She has an iPhone so I think she will send them over SMS, but I can ask her to do it a different way.  What are my options?


texts: How do I send a group of contacts via bluetooth?

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It's possible to send individual contacts via Bluetooth with Contact -> Send Contact -> Send contact - Bluetooth.

But I don't see a way of doing this (on the HTC Desire) with a group of contacts?

Is this possible?


texts: how can I stop my screen randomly turning on?

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I have my phone on charge though that probably isn't relevant

I notice from time to time my phone screen turns on

I googled re that and found this

https://www.howtogeek.com/255696/how-to-disable-androids-ambient-display/

But I see no 'ambient display' option there

I have Android v 6.0


texts: Can not find moved-to-system app after update

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I moved some apps (WhatsApp and Amaze) to /system/app using the /system/app/mover some time ago. Now my phone did an update (I have a Meizu MX5 with Flyme OS) and I can't seem to find the apps anywhere, neither in the F-Droid Apps section for Amaze, in the /system/app/mover application, in the /system/app folder or in Settings/Apps.

When I try to install the apps from the application market, it says that the apps are already installed and I see the same version number like this:

When I press continue nothing seems to happen and I still cannot find the app anywhere. How can I retrieve these apps?


texts: Gmail notification on lock screen does not show subject

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On my new Samsung Galaxy S9 running Android Oreo, new email notifications (Gmail app) do not show the email subject. This happens even if I just have a single email notification. If I unlock the phone and check the notification shade, it has all the required details.

I am wondering if there is a setting on Samsung phones that causes notification details to be hidden on the lock screen for the sake of privacy.

This was working fine on my Pixel.


texts: How to resume app restore after stopping it on first opening Google Play?

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I've installed a fresh stock ROM from Google site on my Galaxy Nexus.

At the time I've opened the Google Play and started installing the 157 apps... the problem is that I needed to stop downloading in the middle as I needed to move to an area without wifi coverage, so I pressed stop.

Now I don't see any option to resume that installation.

Is it really a one shot? How could I have paused it to avoid downloading it on 3G?


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On most Android 8 phones you can remove these persistent and annoying notifications from the notification center.

My phone with the EMUI skin cannot:

image of settings with no switch (click to enlarge)

I'm wanting to disable them either with an app, probably with permissions granted with adb, or directly from adb.

I know they are managed by "Android system" what I don't know is anything to disable the notifications externally hopefully without root or custom rom


texts: Can Google Photos sync up iOS Photos *albums*?

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Is there any way to get Google Photos sync on iOS/OS X to recognise my albums and retain those photos in those albums when on Google Photos?

I am looking for ways to return to Android.

Thanks.


texts: How to Unlock Bootloader in HUAWEI P30 Lite New Edition (MAR-LX1B) phone?

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I want to root my HUAWEI P30 Lite New Edition (MAR-LX1B) phone. To achieve this I wanted to install Twrp on my smartphone. TWRP and the stock ROM I already have.
But now to my problem. To install TWRP you need FASTBOOT. But unfortunately, you need a 16 digit code to unlock FASTBOOT. The official site of Huawei to unlock FASTBOOT was unfortunately shut down. Therefore, I wanted to ask how to get the 16 digit code to unlock the Bootloader.


texts: How to install system trusted CA certificate on Android without rooting

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I need to install the firewall certificate on the devices of my company. Since I can't install a system trusted certificate without rooting the device I thought of creating an Android image that comes with the certificate and flash it into the devices, but...

Where or how should I put such cert on the image? Or if there is another solution that also doesn't envolves rooting I would be happy to hear!


texts: By what process is a third party device configured to connect to the WiFi network

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I'm wanting to understand what is happening when a device needs configuring with WiFi credentials, but no other communication is apparent.

For example, with the Broadlink RM Mini3 WiFi IR Blaster it's a rather simple process: download and run the required app from the Play store, enter the WiFi details (SSID, Password), turn on the device and click connect within the app. A few seconds later, the device has been configured to run on the relevant network.

By what process is such a device configured when there appears no bluetooth connection etc. that would facilitate the initial connection.


texts: Shell .profile or /etc/profile for old android 2.3.3

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Just rooted my old phone with Android 2.3.3 and I would like to define some aliases for each shell I start (with adb or terminal app). I found this question where one answer says that /etc/profile (=/system/etc/profile due to soft link /etc->/system/etc) is one of the files the shell sources on startup. But this post talks about /system/bin/sh being a link to /system/bin/mksh, which is not the case on my 2.3.3 system.

Despite the fact that strings sh produces /etc/profile as one output, the file is not sourced.

Does anyone happen to know the old Android version and whether I have a chance to get /etc/profile or some other file sourced on shell startup? I thought it might be a permission problem but even rwxrwxr-x does not help.


texts: Phone calls - the other person can't hear me

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My phone has just started having a problem where on phone calls, the other person can't hear me. They just hear some static. I can hear them just fine. It's the same whether I call them or they call me. I tried restarting my phone, I looked at the settings and couldn't see anything obvious whereby I could have muted myself. I tried turning the call on Speaker and off again - no difference.

Any ideas?

If it's relevant, my phone is a Samsung Galaxy S running Froyo.


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for some cloud syncing purposes I want to give TMS (Titanium Media Sync) superuser privilege over my rooted device even if it doesn't asks for it.

I use SuperSU.


texts: I am using a Samsung Galaxy S Duos S7562 with Android 4.0. Whenever I disconnect a call, the network vanishes for a few seconds when the phone is in GSM/CDMA auto mode. The network is fine in GSM only mode. Please share any reasons and solutions for this.


texts: How can I install e2fsprogs on my device?

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My phone has the "Monkey Test" virus and there is solution in here, but when I try to execute this command:

chattr -iaA providerCertificate.apk

I receive the error "chattr : not found".

I found a solution here, which is to install e2fsprogs, but I don't know how to install it using ADB. How can i install it?


texts: How long device has been running since last charge?

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In Android Lollipop, how do I see how long it has been since the last time I charged the battery? I mean I can get the approximate time by eye-balling the graph shown in Settings -> Battery. But, is it possible to get a precise time period like: "your device has been running x hours y minutes since last charge".

Or any app that can give me this info? All battery apps seem to concentrate on telling me how much longer the device can last from now. No history info.

Note: I'm not asking about the up time :-)


texts: Do modern Android devices regulate AC mains power similar to a laptop?

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There have been a lot of discussions about lithium-ion battery life across the internet. However, within these discussions I have found contradictory details about the way power is regulated between battery needs and device needs when a mobile/Android device is fully charged. It's clear that the charging process itself is a "smart" process (multiple stages with different current, overcharge protection, etc.), but what happens when the charging stops and the device is still in use? My understanding is that in these situations most laptops have regulators that divvy AC power between directly powering the device and "topping-off" the battery as it looses charge to ambient factors. Do modern Android devices (and iPhones for that matter) do the same thing?

Consider the following hypothetical situation:

Device is plugged-in to AC mains with 1 Amp supply
Battery is charged 100%
Current ongoing device use draws < 1 Amp
Battery naturally looses 5% charge in 3 hours when not in use (I have not idea what an actual real word value would be here, but the point is that there is a slow loss even when no power is drawn from the battery)

In this case is the battery bypassed completely as long as the active needs of the device do not exceed 1 Amp, or does the battery remain an active power source regardless of charge state and cable connection status? If the battery is in-fact bypassed, does the device wait for some charge-level threshold (say 95% charge) before touching the battery to minimize accumulating (micro)charge cycles?

It's possible that this is more of an electrical engineering question, and though it has certainly come up in that context (such as here), the related discussion seems either too broad or too specific to laptops.

Update

I've been learning a bit more on the correct terminology (thanks to @beeshyams). I see that the concept of "parasitic load" plays a very important, and detrimental, role in charging efficiency. However, I am led to believe that it is not necessarily a key variable in the fully-charged state described above. Anyway, without getting too deep into semantics, it seems like the key variable would instead be "self-discharge" (the natural 5% loss in my example).

My original thought was that this self-discharge effect would be so small, and lead to extremely infrequent topping-off (micro)charge cycles, that it would have a negligible effect on the cumulative charge cycles of the battery. Therefore, by isolating the active load of the device to AC mains (keeping it plugged in most of the time), instead of drawing from the battery, one could potentially prolong battery life. Even though everyone says "don't do that" they never really say why, and that's really what led to this question.

What I'm now starting to see, and which someone will hopefully confirm, is that any charge cycles (even small and infrequent) are really really bad news when they happen near full charge:

They happen much faster than one would expect (the effects of self-discharge are increased near full charge).
They are really detrimental (it looks like a 5% cycle between 95%-100% can lead to several magnitudes more "wear" on the battery than a 5% cycle between, say, 45%-50%.
They exacerbate the negative effects of heat (heat at high change seems to be much worse for battery wear than the same heat at low charge).

So I suppose it's safe to say that these negative factors, even if only considering self-discharge as a catalyst for cycling, nearly always outweigh the benefit of diverting normal operational power away from the battery?


texts: Disable/pause audio when active playback device changes

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Is there a way to enable a system-wide disable/mute switch for audio when the playback device changes (i.e. on an Android phone). Sometimes on the bus, my Bluetooth headset will disconnect from the phone, and VLC continues to play music loudly through the built-in speakers, which is embarassing for the user and annoying to other passengers.

Similarly, using "Smart Audiobook Player", if the same thing happens, the family gets to listen to whatever I'm listening to during a Bluetooth disconnect until I manually unlock and stop playback 30 seconds later. Is there any reliable mechanism built into the OS to clamp down on this "feature"?


texts:
This is a problem that suddenly appeared (or rather didn't!) on my Nexus One running Cyanogenmod 7.

It was fine and then all of a sudden I could no longer load any emails in any of the labels, it just says "loading conversations" but never loads or times out. Search is affected the same way.

I don't often have to use labels so I put up with it. However, it is still happening on my new Samsung Galaxy S2.

Choosing to sync specific labels for offline access means I can get to them fine, but it's impractical for all labels.

As suggested by Google mobile help I tried deleting the data for the Gmail app (though there is no additional "gmail mail storage" app)  and rebooting before re-syncing, to no avail.

During all this I have always been able to access labels on my 2.2 tablet and having just reinstalled CM7 on my Nexus One am now able to access them fine.

Any ideas?


texts: Get the list of downloaded YouTube offline video's title from another device

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Is there a way wherein I can see what YouTube videos I have saved offline on my phone on another device with the same Google account?

Is there a way to see a list of my saved YouTube videos?


texts: Has Google removed the recent searches browser from the search app for Android?

texts: I remember on the feature detail by this [article] (http://gadgets.ndtv.com/apps/news/google-search-gets-a-new-recent-tab-for-android-1672686) was introduced and enjoyed using it. Now it has disappeared without warning and I want it back. Can I reenable it?


texts: Change Chinese Samsung Note 5 Duo to English

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I bought a brand new Samsung Note 5 Duo from Taiwan. Of course it is all in Chinese, but I was hoping to be able to change the language to English. The problem is that I wasn't able yet to get to the home screen with the icons to choose Settings. The startup screen seems to take me to wireless setup (I don't have any SIM cards installed yet but have an active wireless connection, which it immediately recognizes, but I want to work offline for now and disconnected). How can I get to the setup icon if all instructions and lists are in Chinese?

And I am wondering now whether a Chinese version will really be able to make everything in English, including the build-in applications. I may have to return it afterall. But it is such a beautiful phone. Does anybody know the impact of just changing the language to English? Will I really be able to use it properly?


texts: I have just purchased a Galaxy Ace locked to a specific carrier. I was wondering if it is possible to unlock the phone for free without having to pay for it?


texts: I have had this phone for a few years now and it has only started doing this a couple of months ago. I downloaded Five Nights at Freddy's 2 Demo (I'm a massive game freak) and after about 2 minutes of opening the app and started playing, it just exited itself to the home screen. This has happened multipule times with clash of clans as well. I really dont know what to do. I have tried turning it off and on again but it didn't work. What should I do?


texts: How to put Google Store on Chinese Samsung Note10+

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I'm currently living in China and decided to buy the Samsung Note10+ (has Android 9 installed) (had an iPhone from America beforehand), I did not know the headache that awaited me. I know no Chinese (Mandarin) and I can't keep asking my Chinese relatives for translations on my phone, so while I set the phone's system language to English, I still have no access to Google services at all.

I had tried installing Google Play store (ver. 17.5.16), Google Play Services (ver. 19.8.29), and Google Account Manager (ver. 6.0.1) from the AndroidAPKsBox site (used this site since apkmirror and other apk sites are blocked), all apks installed EXCEPT for Google Play Services which says the app did not install but with no error code. Is this the incorrect Services apk that I need?

Right now, VPNs are being blocked, even ExpressVPN so I'm not able to visit a lot of other helpful sites except this one. I know Google Play can't be fully utilized until the VPN starts working but I wanted to at least have all that I need on my phone so I can start using Google Play right away when available.

Edit: I just realized that there are a lot of differnt variants of Services that have different architecture and screen DPI. My Note has a Qualcomm so I assume I should choose the download that's made for ARMx64 chips with nodpi, correct?


texts: Can you see your groups and pages in the Facebook for Android application?

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I just received my mobile (Samsung Galaxy S) this week, so I'm really just playing around with it and the various applications.

On facebook for Android: is there a way to see your groups and pages ? You can see and type messages, see your profile and your inbox, but I can't seem to find the groups I can see on the website.