texts: Check for install then uninstall with Tasker

texts:
I'm new to tasker, just got it today.

I want to set up a profile that looks at the apps I am installing and if it is on some block-list, uninstalls it.
I've seen this answer (to a related question):
Get new installed app name with Tasker

But I am still not quite getting it.


texts: Is it possible to have a shortcut on home screen for  .mp3, .jpg, .docx etc  files . As I need to access few documents every now and then , for this I have to go through folders in my ext memory.


texts:
Can it be done?

I want to enable it only when no cell radio (WiFi only)

Dev said state is controlled in "sharedpreferences"


texts: Where is the file location for samsung notes/memos and/or can I recover these files if I deleted the app?

texts: I backed up all the files on my S9+ because I wanted to reinstall my buggy samsung notes app, but it turns out notes doesn't fall under documents anymore and it has its own separate sync that needs to be toggled from a default off. I've tried using different recovery software but they're either shady or don't work. I'm open to trying to root the device but I wanted to see if anyone knew where in the Android the notes or memos files are located and if it is still possible to recover them. I had pretty important stuff in the notes which is why I'm so concerned. Thanks in advance


texts: Update from app store stuck on "downloading.."

texts:
There are three apps that needs an update on my device, I've got an always-on 3G connection and it's working (I can use whatever app I need), but when trying to download the update from the app store the progress bar reach the end (100% downloaded, should have saved it entirely) but it won't install the new update and the page on the store keeps telling "Downloading..".

I tried clearing the store cache/data several times but didn't work, I tried clearing the app's cache too (the one that needs to be updated) but it wasn't useful.

How can I solve? I didn't do anything to my un-rooted semi-new phone (Galaxy S plus with gingerbread)


texts: Sudden surge in network usage by unknown processes

texts:
Phone Details:

Model: Nexus 4 (mako)
Current ROM: Paranoid Android 4.3-BETA2
Xposed Present? Yes

I flashed the new Paranoid Android 4.4- BETA1 today and noticed my phone downloading something. I had not initiated any downloads, so I assumed it was just some app syncing. After about 3 minutes, it had downloaded around 50MB which seemed fishy. So, I assumed that the Paranoid Android build was buggy and switched back to 4.3-BETA2. However, the problem seemed to be infectious.

On the 4.4-BETA1 build it was just one port which was used for downloading and it was the port for com.google.uid.shared:10050.

However, now there are several ports which are downloading. They're all apparently in the foreground. Any idea how I can find which app introduced them and remove them? As a temporary solution I'm using a firewall.

Screenshots

Screenshots (click images for larger variants)


texts: Turn on USB debugging using command-line

texts: I have a Samsung Galaxy S2 and a PC running Debian 8. How can I turn on USB debugging using command-line on my PC without touching the phone?


texts: ROM Toolbox claims backups are blocked; how can I work around this?

texts:
I was looking for a way to backup my phone's ROM (Samsung Exhibit II SGH T679 (android 2.3.5)); android market had ROM Manager; reviews were great, my phone was listed as compartible, everything looked perfect

While trying to actually backup ROM, ROM Manager needed to have ClockworkMod Recovery installed first; my phone was not on the list of supported devices and I had to cancel ClockworkMod Recovery installation

Ok, no sweat, I'll try something else - so I uninstalled ROM Manager and installed another app (ROM Toolbox)

And here came the big surprise!

With ROM Toolbox, when trying to backup ROM I get the message:

ROM Manager blocked other apps from creating backups in recovery unless ROM Manager Premium is installed. Once you install ROM Manager Premium you can use ROM Toolbox to backup your ROM.

(mind you, ROM Manager was uninstalled by that time)

I would have no problem spending a few bucks and getting ROM Manager Premium, but the problem is even worse: someone did try this already and it did not help (ROM Manager Premium still doesn't support the device -> we are back to square 1)

Here is the question:
would it be possible to remove the lock placed by ROM Manager? If not, are there any other ways to backup the ROM?

Update: According to Koush, "other applications are not "blocked" from creating backups. They are just being lazy, and not actually building/flashing their own recovery image. "


texts: Why do we need a custom recovery to installing the Xposed framework to the system partition?

texts: If the Xposed framework just modifies the /system/ partition, and given that the device is rooted, why do we need to install the framework using a custom recovery (such as TWRP), rather than installing the framework via an apk during runtime?


texts: How can I create a flashable rom from a configured tablet?

texts: We have a fully configured android tablet. I need to create many more just like it. What is the easiest way to do this? Ideally I would create a rom which I could just flash in one step. Is this possible?


texts: Do all Android devices have USB OTG support?

texts:
I am using  celkon A98. The specification of my device says it does not have USB OTG support ..  I tried OTG troubleshooter app... it says USB host is supported ... Do I have USB host functionality **or was that a bug in the **OTG troubleshooter app ?
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texts: I have a samsung Galaxy S4 with an external 64Gb class 10 micro SD card. How can I set the settings to have all media (photos, movies, music) stored automatically in the external card when a pic is taken or files are downloaded?


texts:
After booting I receive this message:

Process system is not responding:
1. Close
2. Wait

Whatever I choose I got only black screen.
I'm using official unbranded latest rom -> 2.2.
List of installed apps.


texts: Formatting a "corrupt SD card" fails - is the card dead?

texts:
I have a no-brand-marked 32 GB "Micro SD HC" Card, which I'd been using with my Android 6.0.1-based phone.

Recently, the phone has been telling me the card is corrupt, and would not use it; and today I tried formatting it as the UI suggested. Well, the formatting app closed after a very long time with no progress beyond some point, and nothing seems to have changed - the card is still described as corrupt.

Is it necessarily the case that my card is dead, or could this possibly be a software issue?


texts: My Always On Display doesn't deactivate at the set time

texts:
I have turned on Always On Display for daytime only, but the screen stays on after the end time (midnight) just displaying the clock, as it does during the day. If I manually lock the phone (Samsung Galaxy S7) after the end time it works as expected (the screen turns off) and Always On Display turns back on by itself at the right time. Is this fixable?
I have tested this with an end time after the start time and before midnight and it works properly. I haven't yet tried setting the end time to after midnight and before the start time to see what that does. So far I can only confirm that the issue happens with an end time set to midnight.
EDIT
I have tested various settings and this issue only happens when the end time is exactly midnight. It seems that it gets confused about which date midnight is on and does nothing. The workaround is to set the end time to 11:59 pm or 12:01 am. It looks like a simple bug and not user-controllable.


texts:
Occasionally, when I flip the lid of my phone and put it on the table, the phone calls the primary number of the contact with which I communicated last (by phone or text message).

I suspect that some button has this function under certain circumstances, but I am not able to reproduce this call back voluntarily.

Does anyone know what happens to me? And maybe how to deactivate this hidden callback feature.

I have a Samsung Galaxy S5 mini.

Edit: According to the answer I received, I moved the icon of the phone app, so that it would be impossible to tap it three times by closing the lid. But this didn't change the problem. The annoying unwanted outgoing calls still persist.


texts:
Is there an app, or will Google produce a system, where I can protect my Android device?

Imagine a soundboard app that's free, but it asks for your contact information. The average user might be naive and just click OK on permissions. About 24 hours later, they start receiving spam email, telemarketing phonecalls to home or mobile phone, or even direct mail to their street address. Now imagine that same app, but criminals wrote it and they now have access to your cameras or microphone. Sure, you opted in on permissions because you didn't know better, but now the criminals can listen in remotely at any time, or even watch you.

I want to permit apps to do certain tasks including camera or microphone usage, or even contact access, but I want to know exactly what's going on for that access. I want to know if it's selling or marketing with my identity information. I want to know if it's going to spy on me remotely.

EDIT: Bruce Schneier and others have commented on this problem recently here:

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/08/eavesdropping_s.html


texts: Can't hard reset samsung and forgot the Pattern

texts:
I have Samsung Galaxy Duos Grand Prime plus running Lollipop. I forgot the pattern.

If I keep entering wrong pattern, the phone won't prompt me to enter
the backup pin
Volume up + home + power isn't working, the phone will boot normally. Volume up+ power isn't working either.
Volume down + home + power takes me to the downloading updates screen and it get stuck there forever.

What other possible ways are there to remove the pattern?


texts: All apps installed on my SD card have suddenly disappeared

texts:
So this is very odd.
Last night my phone rebooted itself. Nothing unusual there - it does it from time to time. However, this morning when I try to read the news I get

"Application is not installed on your phone".

So I check some more apps and lo and behold I get the same message. Any app that was installed on my SD card has gone - but only partially. The icon still exists on the "desktop" and the system name appears on the list of installed apps on the phone, but the Google Play store doesn't think they're installed - which is different to the symptoms described in these questions:

All apps moved onto the SD card have disappeared
My apps status suddenly become "not installed on the phone", even the google play store!

which both state that the applications are still listed as installed in the Play Store.
Also - now I think about this a few apps had gone missing earlier. I have gaps in the icon field where I know there was an application, but because I didn't use it everyday I can't remember which ones :).
I've tried removing and reinserting the SD card, but that's had no effect.
When I reinstall applications that have local data and/or stored account details this information is still present. For example when I opened the Amazon MP3 player it didn't prompt me for my Amazon account details, but just showed the list of albums I've purchased. This implies that it's just the folder that hold the executables on the SD card that's been deleted/corrupted.
I've started reinstalling apps, but I'm concerned that this might happen again.
So does anyone have any ideas why this might be the case?


texts: I have an Samsung Galaxy Exhilarate, with 4.0.4 operating system. Is there a way to get offline voice search for Ice Cream Sandwhich or below?


texts: How to manually transfer entire Whatsapp installation to another device (the hard way)

texts:
I'm using Whatsapp from a virtual machine since I lost my phone, and now need to transfer it to a new VM.

The easy way would be to use the backup feature native to Whatsapp, but it is disabled since the VM is connected via Ethernet (and Android thinks it's a Mobile connection). In fact the very "local backup" feature is not available. I have a ton of messages which I really wouldn't like to lose.

There's an Xposed module which could possible fake an Wifi connection in the Android VM, but at this point I really want to do the entire transfer locally as my internet is painfully slow right now.

I tried the built-in adb backup feature, only to find out it's disabled for Whatsapp and can't be easily enabled (requires decompiling the apk file).

So, how can I manually transfer Whatspp app data to the new "device"? What folders do I need to copy, and what files must be modified in order for the transfer to work seamlessly?

I do of course have full root access.

[Update] Neither of the following work:

Copying the entire contents of /data/data/com.whatsapp/databases after installing Whatsapp, signing in and closing it. It will crash when opening, without any error message.
Copying the same directory, but without opening Whatsapp and signing in after installation. Same error as above.
Copying /data/data/com/whatsapp/databases/msgstore.db after installing Whatsapp and signing in. An error message is presented: "Something went wrong with your chat history"
Copying the entire /data/data/com.whatsapp directory, after installing and closing it. It will crash when opening, without any error message.


texts: Is it possible to change the geolocation settings or completely disable geolocation for smartphone with developer mode?

texts:
Can I change the geolocation settings with developer mode? For example make the main positioning mode with using only WI fi network  instead of using  GPS +GSM +WI fi?
Or it can be done only with root?


texts: How to write IMEI programmatically on Pixel XL

texts:
I have an unlocked Pixel XL device purchased recently.
I'd want to test changing IMEI of the device.
My final purpose is to randomize IMEI dynamically from a user space application.
Before this, I would like to check if IMEI writing basically works or not.
I've explored many communities and blogs for some days, but haven't found out working solution yet, even through fastboot.
For example,
fastboot oem writeimei 1234*****

is not working, but it keeps saying as if its unknown command !
Is there a way to change IMEI on Pixel XL unlocked?
Best


texts: Restore an Android Backup to an Android Emulator

texts: Is it possible to backup my phone, and restore it to my computer to run under and android emulator? If so, how would I go about doing that?


texts: How to disable the "Screen is pinned" ScrollView?

texts:
Everytime I pin an app I get a "Screen is pinned" green ScrollView and have to tap the "Got it" button.
At first, I thought it was just some kind of "getting started" thing, but after a few months it's still showing up every single time.
Since I'm pretty sure I "Got it", is there a way to disable this warning/info ?

Here's a screenshot of the ScrollView.


texts: How to find installed apps which are using SMS feature

texts:
I have a Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Neo (Android KitKat). Some of the apps are using my SMS feature and SMS are costing pennies from my pocket without my knowledge.

I want to know what are all the apps which are sending SMS. If I found list of Apps, is this possible to restrict them from not using SMS feature without uninstalling them.


texts: Is it possible to add any arbitrary application as a shortcut in the Car Home app?

texts:
In the Google Car Home app, when I click "Add Shortcut" on one of the available Car Home icons, and then select "Other applications", I am only presented with two options:

Blast Monkeys
Launcher

Why just these two? Do apps have to register themselves specially to be available here? I know that is true for the "Car Applications" list, but I wouldn't think that were true for "Other applications". It's hard to imagine that Blast Monkeys (a game) would be car mode compatible.

Should I be able to add any app as a shortcut? Or should I just find another car mode app?


texts: How to alter files on external SD after 4.4 KitKat upgrade?

texts: I am unable to alter files on the SDHC card since I accepted KitKat on my Samsung Galaxy Mega Plus. It is not rooted. How may I make that external SDHC read-write without esoteric things like Rooting the phone? Which file manager apps permit file moves and deletes?


texts:
I am trying to create a script to automatize a few repeated things I need to do with adb. I can run most of the commands on my local bash. But at one step, I need to find the list of some files. I then use that list in the steps that follows. What I am doing now is manually going into adb shell and copying the list:

$ adb shell
$ ls /Path/To/Folder *.abc
xyz.abc  xzy.abc  uvw.abc

I copy the resulting list and replace it in my script everytime before running the script.
Is it possible to run this without going into adb shell so that I could do something like this:
$ file_list="$(adb execute 'ls /Path/To/Folder *.abc')"

This way I could eliminate the repetitive manual steps and just run the script every time.


texts: Can apps with root access the Internet without listing internet permissions in AndroidManifest.xml?

texts: It's my understanding that, in order to access the Internet, apps must declare internet permissions in AndroidManifest.xml. If an app doesn't declare this permission, but I was to give said app root access, would it still somehow be able to access the Internet if it wanted to?


texts: retrieving contacts from my Google account

texts: I stored my contacts to my Google account however I lost my phone and had my service suspended now I have a new phone I'm not sure how to retrieve them I was under the impression that once I  logged into my account they would automatically be stored in my phone


texts: Will new Play Store minsdk restrictions prevent my phone from accessing new apps?

texts:
I was reading an article that states by Nov. 2018, all new apps and new updates for apps on the play store will need to target minsdk level 26, which corresponds to Android 8.0.

Does this mean that my Android 7.0 device will not be able to download and install
new and updated apps on the play store after Nov 2018?


texts: Stock Android app manager requires app to be Force Stopped even though it is not running

texts:
When I go into the stock Android KitKat stock app manager, many apps indicate that they require being Force Stopped before they can be moved to external storage, whereas other apps do not.

This would make sense if the apps requiring Force Stop were running, or were running a service.  But they are not.

An example is the game Little Crane.  The game is not running, nor has it been run since the phone rebooted.  Using OS Monitor, I see no processes related to that app.  Yet, the stock Android app manager indicates that the app must be Force Stopped before it can be moved to external storage.  This implies that Android thinks that a thread related to the game is running.

Can anyone explain this phenomenon?


texts: How do i install Google Play Store on a chinese phone?

texts:
I just got this Weimi P8 with a wonderful configuration and features. unfortunately, it doesn't come with a Google Play Store.  I installed 1 manually by sending the apk file from another phone but it doesn't come up whenever I start it up. any idea how I can get around this glitch without rooting?

Whenever  I attempt the computer way, it shows installed because I already have a Google account.
Thanks.


texts: Is the "History" tab gone from Wikipedia after latest update?

texts:
After latest update to Wikipedia mobile app for Android (3-4 weeks ago, the one that introduced many changes in user interface), I cannot find "History" functionality or tab.
I've checked the usual place (three dot menu on article) and probably all other and... nothing.
Is this functionality removed after the latest update of this  application? How can I browse articles that I've read recently?


texts: Gmail won't retrieve emails automatically after lollipop 5.1 upgrade

texts:
I have a Motorola Moto 4G 2nd gen and since purchase I have used google's gmail application for my email. Everything worked fine. I would receive emails very quickly without having to do much.

However, after some problems with my phone I upgraded to lollipop (5.1) and what a disaster. The biggest problem is it now doesn't automatically download my emails. I seem to have to visit "Social", or "Promotions" and then click back in to "Primary", which seems to trigger a sync and find my awaiting email.

How on earth can I fix this? I cannot spend my day having to do just between Primary and Social to check whether I have an email or not.


texts: Add DuckDuckGo to search engines list in Chrome

texts:
I am using a Samsung S3 Rooted phone. I want to customise Google Chrome to add DuckDuckGo in the list of search engines, and maybe make it my default one.

It is not possible to do this in chrome by default. I have Googled this question and have not found any way to do this.


texts: Switched off device is kept charging for a long time? Is this okay?

texts: Is it harmful for a switched off device to be kept charging for a long time? If yes, I would like to know why. (Not a very deep explanation but just a plain explanation as I am not an expert).


texts: Keyboard Switcher-Does Not Display on Navigation Bar

texts: I have the Nexus 9 and the HTC folio keyboard.  I cannot get the keyboard switcher to display in the navigation bar.  I have checked the settings for apps and both Google keyboard and Swiftkey apps are enabled and the notifications boxes are ticked. I want to display the switcher so that can turn off the folio keyboard which is a battery hog.


texts: How to update HTC Wildfire to froyo (android 2.2)?

texts:
This is not duplicate of "When will my phone get the Android 2.2 update (FroYo)?" as I read there that official UK update was on 20 December 2010. I have phone in 3 and I cannot find any way to update.

If I enter into settings and try to do scheduled check it informs that phone is up to date. Firmware version is "2.1.-update1".

How to update to froyo


texts: Removing Gmail app for guest device in my home

texts: I recently picked up an HTC One V phone for practically free. I want to use it as a "media device" in my home. I have it hooked up to a dock and would like to have Netflix/Pandora/Play Music (linked to my personal Google account) installed. Since I frequently have guests in my home, I do not want ANY access to my personal things. (GMail and Play Store).  What is the safest way to remove access to Gmail and the Play Store (or to force password entry every time), while allowing full access to my Play Music without a password?


texts:
I'm using Nexus 5 and 6P, Android 6 having a feature called "Battery optimization mode" or Doze mode (in short). It is allowing apps not to run, if they aren't used to avoid battery consumption.

Google play services consumes more battery, RAM and CPU. But it is not included in Doze mode.

I've sent multiple feedback from my devices about this issue, but Google is not hearing at all.

Anyone please help me clarify, Why Google play services not included in Doze mode?


texts: How to root Samsun Galaxy Tab S running Android 5.0.2?

texts:
I've been trying to root my Tab S (Model SM-T700).

I haven't gotten very far before encountering this issue.

What I have done is gotten the Google USB Driver installed -- meaning I can use adb.

If you didn't follow that link, basically my issue is that I can't adb root, since my tablet is in secure mode.


texts: What is this symbol on top of my service bar?

texts:
On my Galaxy s5

There's my Cell signal (2 bars), there's my Mobile Data (4G LTE).

But what is that strange symbol on top of the bars, I've never seen it before (I don't see it on my other phone or other devices)

There is this symbol that looks like a home with a signal, I'm wondering what it is?


texts: Question about used, carrier-locked phones

texts:
Every phone I have ever bought has been unlocked so this question might sound trivial. I want to buy a used phone for app development and testing, and I don't care about cellular network connectivity. Looking on eBay, carrier locked phones are significantly cheaper.
My question is, if I buy a pre-owned, carrier-locked phone, is there some required information (for example during start up) that would prevent me from making it to the home screen, installing apps etc.?


texts: How to resolve the issue "SIM card full"?

texts:
On my Android 4.2.2 I always get the following notification message after activating my SIM card:

  SIM card full

  Delete some messages to make room for...

However, when I go to the setting Text messages on SIM card, I receive the following information:

  No messages on the SIM card.

Moreover, SMS storage location is set to Phone and should thus not store any messages on my SIM card.

Aside this background, how is it possible that my SIM card is apparently full and how can I resolve the notification message?


texts: I have some apps on my SD card and I want to install them on my phone but the Android or apk symbol does not appear on my phone...so how can I change the apps to apk so that I can install them.


texts:
I got a Yu Yuphoria 5010.
I had custom installed Marshmallow CyanogenMod a few months back.

Recently, the settings would not open. Instead it started showing the message:

Unfortunately, Settings has stopped

                   Report    Cancel

The bug report would also not get reported when I press Report. So I tried to reboot the system. Although the phone shut down. But it didn't turn on anymore. I tried charging the phone for a couple hours, but in vain. I cannot even enter the recovery mode by pressing vol up + power + vol down keys.

I tried browsing the net for possible solutions. The closest I came was this section Did it gradually get buggy and then die? on this link.

How can I restore my phone's functionality?


texts: My Galxay Grande Prime can't connect to 3G anymore

texts:
I used to connect using 3G without any problem. But suddenly the 3G connection is not working anymore.

Problem:
The networking Symbol "H" appear for few seconds (2s-3s) and they disappear and it keeps appearing and disappearing as long as the 3G is on, I tested that during those few seconds the network works fine.

Note that the WIFI works fine.

What I have tried:

Reboot.
Switch-off and Switch-on 3G.
Restore default settings.

What are the options that I have ?

Android 4.4.1
Galxay Grande Prime


texts: How do I flash SuperSU to my encrypted Wileyfox on COS 13.0.1?

texts:
Yesterday my WileyFox Spark+ came in, which is still equipped with COS13.0.1, based on Android 6.0.1.
When I tried rooting the phone though, I got stuck at the point of using the TWRP recovery for flashing SuperSU.
I until then, I had succesfully followed the following process:

-Enabled 'OEM Bootloader allowed to be unlocked' in Developer Options
-Installed USB drivers and such on PC
-Enabled USB debugging, apps from unknown sources, ADB install unsigned apps allowed etc.
-Enabled fastboot by holding correct buttons and enabling it after
-Flashed TWRP Recovery to phone like this in CMD:

fastboot devices (my phone showed up)
fastboot flash recovery twrp3100.img

-Booted into TWRP recovery

A few folders were present there, but almost all were empty. TWRP even said no OS was installed when I wanted to reboot.
I was confused for a while, only to discover the OS was still there after booting into System.
In tried to flash SuperSU from ADB, but that also didn't work. I issued the following commands in CMD:

adb reboot recovery
(ticked adb sideload in TWRP +wipe dalvik & cache)
adb sideload supersu279.zip

TWRP said it executed succesfully, but failed to access /data and /cache.
Turned out the phone was encrypted already from the box. I never considered this an option.
It's weird though, because I believe I have heard that flashing SuperSU from ADB should work even with an encrypted phone.

Now the interwebs and Wileyfox themselves say encryption is disabled when you factory reset the phone:
https://twitter.com/wileyfox/status/685884111551115264
And so I did, but it just booted into TWRP with the same circumstances.
Few folders, almost all empty. SD-card not visible.
I tried sideloading SuperSU again, but without result.

Any idea how i should progress further? Did I miss something? 'Cause I have run out of ideas.. :(
I also can find very little about Wileyfoxe phones, so that doesn't help either.
Is it possible to flash SuperSU via fastboot or ODIN or anything?

Anyway, thanks for the help.
Cheers.

NB: I don't care about my data being encrypted or not, so decrypting the phone is not an issue for me, if possible/helpful. I'd rather have it gone.


texts: So my Google play services won't update saying I need to sign in but when I try, it doesn't seem to work


texts: After Pie upgrade, lock screen is not hiding all sensitive content

texts:
I recently upgraded my Pixel 2 from Android Oreo to Pie. I have "Security & location" -> "Lock screen preferences" set to "Hide sensitive content".

Ever since the upgrade, when I receive an email while my phone is locked, in addition to the email notification icon, it also displays my email address under it for a short while (Maybe 60 seconds.) Even after it goes away, if I double tap the screen or press the power button, it shows my email address again on the screen; note the phone is still locked at this point. (I'm fairly certain that) prior to the upgrade only the email icon was shown without also displaying my email address while the phone is locked.

I am using the standard Gmail app with multiple email addresses configured. I consider my email address(es) to be sensitive information and don't want them to be displayed on my locked phone.

Is this a new bug (or strange feature), or is it configurable? Or am I completely mistaken and it's always been this way?


texts:
Photos were taken in 2011 on Samsung phone GT-B3310 (not a smartphone). This phone was switched off for over 2 years in 2013.

On 24 January 2015 the phone was switched on and transferred the pictures via Bluetooth onto my Samsung Galaxy S3. The pictures showed dates from 24 to 28 January 2015. Some pictures had 24, some 26, 27 and 28. The Exif file also showed the dates from 24 to 28 January 2015. The original dates in 2011 were missing.
Samsung South Korea said that if a device is switched off for long, and subsequently switched on and connected to a device (phone/computer) the pictures would take the switch off date.
But the puzzle is, why do dates vary from 24 to 28 January 2015? Can anyone kindly give answer? This has created a huge issue/problem for me.


texts: I dont know if my tablet is broken or outdated

texts:
Well, I have a Samsung galaxy tab 4 (4.4.2) and I rooted it. So I reset it because Google play didn't work.but after factory reset it still didn't work. I uninstalled updates cleared cache, and I tried to system update today, and that didnt work. So I'm trying to find a way to get my system updates working, and Google play working.
HELP


texts: Can JFLTE Lollipop ROM be installed on the Verizon Galaxy S4 SCH-i545 with ME7 baseband?

texts:
I have a rooted Verizon Galaxy S4 SCH-i545 (edit: NOT GT-i9505) updated to the ME7 baseband version.

I would like to upgrade to this Lollipop ROM, which appears to be designed for the GT-i9505, but I don't know much (read: anything) about flashing and I can't understand which methods are or are not expected to work:

Flashing with TWRP or CWM Recovery apparently (?) requires an unlocked bootloader; with a locked bootloader, installing TWRP or CWM and rebooting just brings up an "unauthorized software" screen. However, there is an open bounty for unlocking the bootloader for Verizon S4s including (I think) those with the ME7 baseband. So does this mean that TWRP and CWM Recovery can't be used on my phone?
It appears that the standard way of bypassing the locked bootloader is to use Safestrap, but there are some comments in the ROM announcement thread and in the announcement itself at this somewhat sketchy-seeming site stating that Safestrap can't be used with this ROM. Is that actually the case? Why are some ROMs not usable with Safestrap?
Will Odin or Heimdall allow me to bypass the bootloader and install either the ROM itself or CWM or TWRP?
Is there anything I can do with the Android SDK and associated tools (fastboot, adb, etc) to circumvent the bootloader problem?

If none of these are expected to work, how exactly is the above ROM supposed to be used with a Verizon S4? Are people with the ME7 and other bootloader-locked baseband versions just out of luck?

EDIT: Are the GT-i9505 and SCH-i545 even comparable?


texts: I am wondering how compass calibration works / why e.g. drawing an 8 or rotating the phone to all 3 axis works (or at least shall work) - I mean I would understand the calibration process, if an application would say me: Point to north, then press that button down there, but you can start at basically zero knowledge for the app, just by rotating your phone! How is that done? Also, do I need to enter a special calibration mode or can I draw these figures (like the 8) directly in Google Maps? How does Google Maps know that I am not just really moving the phone but want to calibrate the compass? Thanks for any hint!


texts: Open Google Maps to location with NFC tag

texts:
I have an NFC tag containing only one record, in the format of geo: [latitude],[longitude], and when I tap it to my phone the 2 options are the Waze app and Google Maps. Waze opens up to those coordinates just fine, even preparing a route for me instantly, but Google maps just opens like normal, like I just tapped its icon on the launcher and there were never any coordinates.

Am I doing something wrong, or does Google Maps not support that functionality? I've heard of others mentioning this feature but I can't find anyone actually saying whether Google maps is supposed to be able to do this.


texts: How does the gmail apps notify once feature work?

texts:
I have been looking into the settings to make gmail better for myself however one thing I couldn't get my head around is the notify once option.

If I receive an email I get notified, if I get another one from the same sender and the notify once option is ticked I no longer get another notification. Or does the notify once feature mean from any other sender?

So I've already been notified and I receive another email from a completely different sender, do I then get notified with the notify once option ticked?


texts: Optimus V music player starts playing unexpectedly, solution?

texts: I have an Optimus V, and I have the default music widget on the desktop. Recently it started playing unexpectedly after I paused it. It could be in the middle of the night and more frequently during the day. Because of this I have to turn it off during the night. Any advice on how to keep the music player from playing unexpectedly.


texts: How can l get my old what's up in my phone

texts: I have my whatsup accont in my old phone.recently I purchesed a new phone.and I opened my account in new phone.aftet five days my new phone got a problem my phone completelyswitced off and not turnrd on when I went to service center they told me that your phone has mother board problem it will take to clear minimum 45 days.now how can I activate my account in my old phone.


texts: How to make adb shell commands wrap single line to multiple lines by default?

texts:
Let's say I have this long one-liner command:

am force-stop com.example.foo; am force-stop com.example.bar; am force-stop com.example.foo2 am force-stop com.example.bar2; am force-stop com.example.foo; am force-stop com.example.bar; ps|grep example

When I copy-paste into terminal, it doesn't wrap as multiple lines like ordinary terminal do, instead it keep single line:

As you can see, I can't view whole commands in single screen when the cursor move to the end by copy-paste OR press End. It only shows partial commands and not able to re-copy part of command easily.

Desired behavior:

Is it possible ? I learned that COLUMNS=150 can increase the adb command width from 80 to 150, but still I can't found a way to achieve this.

Note that I don't want to add \ manually which also not working when reuse the command:


texts:
I am on CyanogenMod 10.1, and I installed a font from FlipFont. But, I could not find the option to change it on the display settings.

If anyone has any idea about this, please let me know.


texts: Suspicious popup and 'Yellow Booster' installation

texts:
A pop-up appeared on my phone stating:

Warning
You only have to install a Great App to get your phone fully functioned.

The only option I am given is "Confirm."I accidentally hit the confirm button and another popup appeared stating that the install was blocked. It appears that the initial pop up is powered by the "Yellow Booster" app. I tried restarting my phone but it reappeared again.
How do I avoid this, as it seems very suspicious to me.


texts: Use stock recovery to install superuser?

texts:
I am trying to use the stock recovery to install superuser.zip but it give me an error:
E: signature verification failed

So I cannot root it by the superuser.zip

I Googled and someone said solution is to install CWM. However, when I try to install CWM, it require superuser privilege?!

Now I get into the loop CWM need superuser -> install superuser need CWM -> ...


texts: Many devices for one android user. Are there limits?

texts:
I'm a teacher in the UK and have 30 kids in my class.We have bought 35 (older) Nexus 7 tablets.

I have one Google account which I want to use across all devices so that the young children don't have to remember user names and passwords.

The trouble that I'm having is that not all of them are able to be logged in at once. There appears to be a limit as to how many devices can be online with this account at once. We're doing this to be able to use Google Drive so that the kids can produce work and save it into Drive.

We are finding that as tablets are booted up, already online device are logged out from Google and I have to log them in the android backend.

I'd love to get this sorted. It's for the kids!


texts: What changed between versions of the Amazon Appstore?

texts:
The original version of the Amazon Appstore was v1.07002, and it appears to still be working fine, so the upgrade to the new version (v1.07003) is apparently not mandatory (unsuprising, given the tiny version increment).  What is the difference between these two versions?  Is there a release log anywhere?

Edit: I believe it's at v1.11 now, feel free to generalize this question.


texts: I have a 2look 2LGX05-S with android 4.2. The problem is I can't install anything on the app store because it says insufficient storage. Phone storage has 2.8 GB available, SD card 13.42GB and internal 75.30 MB free. Also in settings I have set that desired and preffered install place to SD card so it saves everything there.


texts: Is there a way for me to use my phone as a Xbox One or 360 controller

texts: I let my friend borrow my Xbox 360 controller which was the way for me to stream Xbox One onto my computer. Since he now has my controller I can't really do it, so I was wondering if there's a way to use my phone to control my Xbox.


texts: How to record my calls on Nexus 4 with Android 4.4.2?

texts:
I've got a Nexus 4 with Android 4.4.2 and want to record my voice calls.

My first idea was to simply use a recording app, so I've tried a whole bunch of call recording apps, but none of them work. They only record my voice, not the other side. Or they require the speaker / handsfree mode in order to record the other person (and then still sounds like crap).

After some reading it seems not all phones/models support full 2-way voice recording. However I did read some claims about people pulling ot off on Nexus 4 (although it's not clear to me if this necessarily involves rooting and/or custom roms, which I'd rather avoid).

Is there ANY way (preferably without rooting) to do proper 2-way phone call recording on a Nexus 4 running Android 4.4.2?


texts: scp and rsync to transfer data from Linux to Android

texts:
I'd like to be able to push PDF files onto a phone/tablet with a Bash script. Is it possible to transfer data using scp (or even rsync) from a Linux computer to an Android phone over wireless?

Could I even run Unison on the phone?

And is it possible to run Bash (or only POSIX Shell) scripts on the phone remotely?


texts: LG E980 mostly unresponsive, only intermittently displays a default background image

texts:
After the launcher seemingly bugged out on my old faithful LG E980 (5.1.1 Lollipop) yesterday my phone has been unresponsive and acting very strange. To begin with I hadn't dropped my phone or had anything out of the ordinary happen to it. But when I unlocked it for the first time in the day after unplugging it, the display went straight to multitasking rather than the home screen. When I tried to escape it a dialog popped up asking which launcher I would like to use (with the "Just once" or "Always" options).

After selecting Nova Launcher the home screen appeared with only some of the apps and widgets visible, completely unresponsive. So I rebooted it, and since then the phone will only display (apart from completely normal boot animations) the power menu, if I press the power button in the right way. Or, if I fiddle with the buttons, position it in a certain way, cover the camera or the microphone, I'm not quite sure what triggers it, the screen will display what appears to be an aerial image of a coastline for a moment before going black again.

Here's a video demonstrating the behaviour: https://youtu.be/-YNbFiLNYTo

(In the video all I'm doing is repeatedly pressing the power button. Sometimes the image will fade on and off repeatedly, but usually it will only display once, and only ever for at most a few seconds. The notification light is flashing red, telling me I have an email, which suggests that internally the phone is still working normally.)

I know it looks like a graphical glitch in these low quality images, but to me it looks too close to an actual image, I can see the ripples in the water and everything. I've never used this as a background image on my phone, I haven't seen it anywhere before. Nothing turns up when I try to reverse image search it on Google.

I'm wondering if I'm going to have to restore my phone to factory settings (as recovery mode is still accessable through the power menu) or if someone might know what the problem is and a less destructive way to fix it. It appears most likely to be a problem caused by the launcher acting up.

Thanks for any help.

Edit: New development. I pulled out the phones battery while it was still on, put it back, started it up again, and now instead of the coastline (which I'm guessing was one of default background images on my phone) the phone displays a default screensaver or animated background of some sort. Purple/blue, with bubbles slowly moving around.

The screen will stay on now, but still featureless and unresponsive with the exception of the power menu.

Edit 2: Repeated the same thing with the battery. Now the screen won't display anything at all after start up. Very weird.

Edit 3: I rebooted it and it's back to the purple bubble screen... I'll stop posting these updates now.


texts: How can I download the backups ClockworkMod creates to my PC?

texts:
I do not see them in the /clockworkmod folder when I connect my device to my PC.  I tried using adb pull but adb does not show any devices when the device is in recovery mode (only if it's booted).

Version is 4.2.1; ROM Cyanogen.  Device is MAKO, and my PC is running Windows 7. The drivers for the device have already been added/installed from the android-sdk extras folder.  The folders I see when I connect the device to win7 are different than those I see when I browse on the device itself.

This issue might pertain to the way 4.2.1/4.2.2 creates folders (something about multi-user).


texts: Where does twrp keep the internal storage backed up?

texts: I have chosen to backup everything and all extra partitions on my twrp backup. When browsing the twrp backup folder, I renamed the .win extentions to .tar and unziped them using linux but I cannot find where twrp keep the internal storage contents. eg. emulated/0/


texts:
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So when I clicked the microphone button on my Gboard, Pixel 2, it used to come up as pictures 1&2.
Now, this changed today, when I click the microphone, the keyboard goes away, and screenshot #3 is what comes up.
I know that this is extremely similar to Is it possible to trigger Gboard's voice-typing without switching keyboards?.
But I added screenshots to illustrate, and frankly, this issue is irritating me way more than it should, I don't even know why. Probably because it changed poof with no warning, rhyme or reason.


texts: Remove account without affecting the data

texts:
I have a phone with a Google account from an external provider (namely gazeta.pl). At one moment, due to policy reasons, the mail provider changed the platform from Google to proprietary system. So it's no longer a Google account.

I have all the contacts connected to this old account. The same situation with all the apps in the store. I can't log to it anymore via Google means. I have another regular gmail connected as well, I can install new apps, but cannot update anything (especially Google play services).

I need to have access to Play Store and update system. My best call is to remove the old account, but this will lead to losing all the contacts (SMS as well? I'm not sure). How to proceed without manually rewriting contacts? I would like to have them connected to my new gmail.


texts:
In researching a possible answer to this question about "Server error occurred. Restart Camera." while taking photos on the Samsung Galaxy S6, I read this article.

The article talks about wiping the cache partition via Android System Recovery and performing a Factory Reset.

Question: Does an Android Factory Reset also clear the cache partition?  Or does it only clear the data partition?


texts: Disable automatic screen turn-off during call

texts:
I use Gingerbread.

My Android phone has feature, that turns off display during call when I put the phone to my ear. However, the sensor is probably over-sensitive in my device, so it often turns off during call even when I don't keep it next to my face.

This is an issue if I want to use keyboard during call when the screen turns off. Can I disable this feature?


texts: Is There *Any* Way To Increase Internal Memory?

texts:
Ok, even to me this question sounds stupid but I let's just go with "the only dumb question is the one not asked".

I have nearly 14Gb free on my SD card but the Motorola Droid only has 128Mb internal so I am constantly fighting "low memory" warnings.  I have moved every app that I can to my SD card.  This is not only a hassle, for some apps (*cough*AnythingGoogle*cough*) I have to choose to either have Widget functionality or sacrifice my precious internal space.

Question: Is it physically possible for me to upgrade this internal memory?
Although I believe answering that question will cure my woes, I will open it further to ask: Do you have a recommendation on what I could do differently (other than just delete your crap!).  As I said, I have plenty of (SD) space so I find it asinine to have to make sacrifices because of these short-sights in this phone's design (after all, who would ever have an app larger than 1k, right?  You'll never come close to using 128Mb...).


texts: Messaging input language is supported by Android or by handset makers?

texts: I am interested in buying SE Xperia Ray running on Gingerbread.  An export set is selling $100 less but was told that it does not support messaging in Chinese. My question is whether messaging input language is supported by Android or by the handset maker, Sony Erisson?  If by Android, do I need to root handset and update firmware directly from Android?  If by maker, then I need to go to the maker for the language pack.  Is it worth the trouble to save on $100?


texts:
When two applications are competing for the same task, how do you turn one to be the default?

For example I downloaded a Snap camera app and I'd like the stock camera app to be the default.

What do we do to set the default apps for the different tasks on the system?

Are there centralized settings on Android?


texts: How do I stop the Adobe Flash Player updates from installing themselves?

texts:
The Adobe Flash Player 11.0 update keeps installing itself on my HTC Desire. At over 17 MB that pushes me into the "Low space" zone and then my gmail stops refreshing etc... which is a disaster.

Now while I can go into Settings -> Applications and can uninstall the update (which leaves me with the stock version of the Flash Player which is fine for me), a couple hours later Flash reinstalls itself again. Not only is this annoying but it also cost me a lot of bandwidth.

Is there any way I can disable updates for this default application?


texts: What is the time-limit for whatsapp message to be secure in their server while offline?

texts:
I know whenever I delete my Whatsapp app on my Android device, I get all the messages till I install again......

What is the time-limit for this?

What if I reinstall Whatsapp after a year? Will I get all messages for being-offline-time?

Thanks!


texts: Broken Note3 screen with password and debugging mode off need to transfer date any soluations

texts:
Broken Note3 screen with password and debugging mode off need to transfer date any solutions,

i need to transfer Avery important date from my mobile, my computer recognize it but no data shown as i use password, i need to open the password to take my date
i know my password but i cant even type it the screen is dead
pleasssssssse help me
any smart solution?


texts: How to fix device when stuck in firmware update with "Do not disconnect USB" message?

texts:
I have an LG Android phone. When I turned it off last night, it turned itself back on again with the firmware update showing "Do not disconnect USB". But when I received it from my contract holders, there was no USB; so I used my regular charger. I've woken up this morning and it's still on 0% after about 10 hours.

Can someone help or give me any tips and advice?


texts: What tool can I use to measure the volume of .mp3 on my S6 + make the volume all the same?

texts: I have powerAmp paid and I have mp3's from different sources. How do I measure the decibel levels of each clip + adjust it to make it the same? I used to use Mp3gain on the desktop. Anything like that for Android on and S6?


texts: How to view a plain text file created in Linux in Drive app?

texts: I created a small plain text file (in utf-8 encoding) in Ubuntu and then uploaded to Drive.In my Android phone, I open Drive app, and want to view the text file, but it says "No preview available" and asks me to download it. How can I preview the text file without downloading it?


texts:
Is it possible to tell a specific app to lower volume, using intents?
I would like to be able to use Tasker to tell the HEOS app to lower the volume.

EDIT:
Heos is a streaming system, controlled through an app. When the music is playing, and my phone is on the same wifi, I can control the volume of the system by opening the app and pressing the volume rockers.
But it is rather cumbersome to open the app each time, so I was hoping to create a custom widget to do this instead.


texts:
I need to parse the call log, in order to get the timestamps and duration of each call with a particular contact. I'm on android. Is it feasible? I prefer using python but now the language doesn't matter, I just want to know if it's feasible.

Does whatsapp store calls in a log file on android I can parse?

What kind of database  is it and how to open them? a simple sqlite viewer? They seem to be ecrypted


texts: Is there a way I can see or edit clipboard entries in Samsung Galaxy Tab S?

texts:
I'm using a Samsung Galaxy Tab S running Lollipop stock update (8.6 Wi-fi only).

I need to be able to visually reference what is being stored for the clipboard for a variety of reasons.

My Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus had an "advanced clipboard"  (I think that's what it was called). It gave the user the ability to edit, delete or use several separate entries with multiple formats (.txt, .jpg). I found it too be the most useful of Samsung's bloatware!

Is there anyway or anything I could do or add to gain similar functionality?

I don't like not being able to access, edit, or delete the contents of the clipboard without turning cartwheels, metaphorically of course.


texts:
I've noticed that my SMSes don't start anymore with a capital letter, the same happens after punctuation.

Maybe I've accidentally changed some settings? How to solve this?

Thanks in advance


texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  Is it possible record videos of my screen?

Is there a screen capture app for Android which captures a video? I want to capture the video in realtime.I want to make an app which will run in the background and do the analysis of things that appear of phones screen .


texts: I can just access Google and YouTube via a Wi-Fi hotspot created by my Windows 7 laptop. What’s wrong?

texts:
I have followed every step of this instruction, but my Android phone can only access Google and YouTube – and no other websites. What is wrong?

It may be due to a DNS-server problem, but I cannot figure out how to fix this. When connecting to the hotspot, I cannot change any DNS-settings.


texts: There is an interesting feature in the camera of Galaxy S phones, called Add me. Using this one can take photo of a person sitting in two postures in the same frame. (A normal photo is taken, the person in the photo can change his posture and again when clicked the new posture along with original is taken in same picture creating a double/twin effect) Are there any Apps in market for this or has any one ported this to Sony Xperia X8?


texts: How do I toggle grayscale in Android 11?

texts:
In Android 10 I had grayscale display turned on. This was achieved by dragging editing the dropdown shade to add the Grayscale tile.
I just updated to Android 11. The display is still in grayscale, but the Grayscale tile is removed, so there doesn't seem to be any way to turn it off! I sometimes want to when using the camera, but then switch back to grayscale for day-to-day use. How can I toggle grayscale in Android 11? Moreover, is there a quick way to do so? The old way (pre-Android 10) involved turning on developer mode and changing a deeply embedded developer setting.

EDIT: There is a new Bedtime Mode tile. When I turned it on and off, color was restored. Turning bedtime mode on goes into grayscale, but also sets Do Not Disturb. So I can turn on grayscale only be entering bedtime mode and then turning off Do Not Disturb. This is less than ideal. Also, bedtime mode only lasts till the following morning. Is there a way to either (a) recover turning on grayscale without bedtime, or (b) change bedtime mode to last until turned off?


texts:
I want to uninstall unused applications.

BTW : I don't have goople playstore installed nor use a google account, I use yalp or aurora stores to install applications.

How can I find the unused applications that are installed on my smartphone ?


texts: How to write an NFC tag with Driving Directions?

texts:
I want to write an NFC Tag on a sticker with something that will directly open Google Maps driving directions to a specific address. I've tried using "NFC Tasks" / "NFC Tools", but haven't found any preset that seems to fit the bill. These come close:

"Address: Open an address"; and
"Geolocation: Open an geolocation".

But obviously those tasks don't open driving directions.

To clarify, on my Nexus 5 with Android 6.0 (but also on 5.x if I remember correctly) I have the option to include a Maps widget on my home screens that do exactly this. When adding such a widget I get this settings screen:

Clicking this widget does what it says on the tin: fires off driving directions.

With NFC Tasks you can write URLs, so I tried writing:

http://maps.google.com/maps?daddr=some+address+here

But that opens Google Maps in a browser, not the Maps application itself.

With NFC Tasks you can also write custom data, but I wouldn't know how to format my custom data for this specific task. The "Pro" version of the tool can write "Send Intent" tasks to tags, but I can't figure out if that's what I need (before I go out and buy the pro version).

I've gone through the suggested duplicates and similar questions, but found no relevant info.

Bottom line: How do you write Driving Directions to a specific location onto an NFC tag?


texts: How to unlock my device after blocking with "Find my device"?

texts: I lost my phone in a taxi and blocked it using Find My Device. I managed to get it back but now it has a button to call my home and a lock icon, but won't unlock.


texts: How to check if a package is enabled via shell?

texts:
I have been writing a tasker task to enable/disable a package. I know

adb shell pm enable com.android.contacts

will enable the package and

adb shell pm disable com.android.contacts

will disable it.

I would like to know if there's any shell command that would tell me if a package is in enabled/disabled state. Thanks in advance! :)


texts: Can the vibration intensity be changed for the Samsung Galaxy J3?

texts:
I am trying to maximize the vibration intensity on my Samsung Galaxy J3. I can change the vibration pattern, but I cannot find the setting to change the vibration intensity.

Is there an inherent limitation for the J3 or am I missing something?

The model number is SM-J320W8 and the phone is running Android 7.1.1 with Samsung Experience Version 8.5.

I did a quick Ctrl-F search in the manual, but couldn't find anything.
Manual:  SM-J320W8 Manual

Here is a screenshot of my settings page:


texts: Can I receive security updates without upgrading from KitKat to Lollipop?

texts:
I have a Samsung Galaxy Tab S tablet, and it's currently running the stock Android 4.4.2. A friend of mine had her Galaxy S5 upgraded to Lollipop, and i personally don't like the way it looks, especially with no dark theme available. So i simply ignore the software update notifications my tablet keeps giving me, since they also promise me that upgrade to Lollipop.

Considering the yesterday's statement from Zimperuim about a critical vulnerability in the Stagefright library, I'm really concerned about getting a security update for it when it comes, but still I really don't want to jump onto Lollipop for the sake of it.

So does anybody have an idea how to stay on KitKat while keeping the security up-to-date?


texts: Phone Stolen and want to know if it was erased or a google error

texts: My phone was stolen a week ago. I went home to log into my Google account in order to erase my device through Android "Find My Device". There was a check sign next to the erase, but it is still showing up on my account. I watched videos that told the owner that the phone was factory reset and I think my phone has not. Does this mean the thief has access to everything?


texts: OnePlus one constantly freezes and ends up crashing

texts:
Ever since this morning my OnePlus one suddenly freezes constantly, refuses to open certain apps (for instance, WhatsApp works but Facebook doesn't), crash whatever apps do work and if left alone it will just crash the system ui and leave me with a black screen, forcing me to reboot every five minutes or so.

I think it has to do with some buggy update that my phone did overnight, but I can't find the cause of the problem. These are the specs of my phone:

OS + version: OxygenOS 2.1.4
Android version: 5.1.1

If someone could tell me if this is a known bug or if there's a workaround, it would be very much appreciated. Thank you


texts: ART option in Developer mode Cause a Issue

texts:
In my android phone i have a problem,i just select ART option in Developer settings.Then my phone ask me to restart your phone.I just restart my phone.Then when it starts a strange problem occur.
I was not able to type my password i click on password place many times but not at all any response.Then i type on emergency call to use numbers,a message appear that keyboard has stopped working.
I also drawn out my sim card and memory card but still the same issue.
Guys what should i do now.I have no option(not any factory data reset and my phone i think not have recovery option).
My mobile is Q mobile LT250.


texts:
I am using a Moto E. The apps I have downloaded and use are few, and they are not taking up much space. What can be moved to the SD card has been moved. Yet, I have only 256MB space available now.
Question: is there a way to remove apps such as Motorola Migrate, Contextual Services etc etc, to free up space without affecting the overall operation of the phone? Can, for example, Google apps as Calendar be removed completely? Does the phone need to be rooted if this is possible?


texts:
I have an Android Samsung Galaxy J5 phone with SIM card slot No 1 with a Reliance Jio sim and SIM card slot no 2 with a BSNL 4G SIM.

On my BSNL line I do not have data but only for incoming/outgoing calls and other usual applications. I also have roaming and international calls.

On my JIO line I have usual Tariff facilities including data and national roaming.

What do I do to get the maximum out of my two SIM cards and what settings do I put for them??

Please advise as I am really confused.


texts: Gboard multilingual layout - duplicate layouts

texts:
I have been a SwiftKey user for a long time and for various reasons I am looking to switch to Gboard (one thing is the search feature). However, there is one thing that still keeps me to SwiftKey.

I generally use English, French and Greek layouts. I really enjoy the multilingual layout feature of SwiftKey and I was hoping that Gboard would do it in a similar way. However, this is not the case.

SwiftKey and Gboard both unify EN and FR layouts, however SwiftKey only really displays one option (fr/en) in contrast with Gboard that displays two options: fr/en and en/fr. I don't know the purpose of this, but it means that I have to change two layouts in order to write Greek, which I don't really like.

Is this bothering anyone else? Has anyone found any solution to this "problem".


texts: I'm looking to buy a smartwatch. How can I tell if an app in the Play Store is compatible with it before buying the device?

texts: I want to buy a smartwatch, but I am trying to research whether apps will will work with it before buying. Is there any way to do that?


texts: How to unlock the Lock Screen in Android Lollipop

texts:
How can I unlock the screen lock in Android Lollipop without losing data?

I have forgotten the pattern.


texts: How to set up a host to IP mapping on unrooted Android?

texts:
I've a website running on my computer, and I want to test it from my Nexus 7 tablet. I.e. over the local WiFi LAN. If I type in the IP address it connects, but shows the wrong web site, because I'm using named virtual hosting.

So, what I want to do is be able to type mysite.local in to Chrome/Firefox on the Nexus, have them convert that to 10.1.2.3 (or whatever the local IP address is), then call the 10.1.2.3 server giving mysite.local as the Host to request.

My Question: Does an Android 4.x tablet have an /etc/hosts files, or equivalent, that I can edit? (Without having to root the tablet, or anything like that.)

On my Linux computers I do this by adding an entry in /etc/hosts:

10.1.2.3  mysite.local

(Or Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts on a Windows machine does the same.)

BTW, this is a semi-duplicate of Manually set a hostname for IP address (i.e. /etc/hosts equiv.?), but that question was for Android 2.2, where apparently it was not possible. (One of the alternative ideas suggested there was configure DNS at the local router, but as far as I can tell my router does not do DNS locally so does not have that option. I could set up my own DNS server to do this, but that feels like a Big Job Solution.)


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I need to download files using tasker.(detailed post here on softwarerecs)

But I am not able to understand the HTTP_GET task. I want to download different files from various links read from a file, so I tried this settings.

Server:Port    http://
Path           %Line  #this is variable that stores link

Everything else was optional so I left it as it is.

But I get Unknown host error. So I think I'm doing something wrong.

So can you give an example of downloading a file using tasker?


texts: How does an android compass application work?

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I recently installed a Compass app on my phone (it's a HTC Wildfire S if it matters) and I'm curious as how it works.

Found some answers online that the phone's hardware has a digital compass in it, is that it? or is it just a smart use of other sensors?


texts: Can a USB pen/hard drive be used with a Logitech Revue?

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Can the Logitech Revue play videos and display images from a USB pen/hard drive?

What are the hardware specifications of the Logitech Revue?


texts: Gmail: How do I mute ALL coming mail *except* mail from certain senders?

texts: I have a gmail account and I am getting too many inbox notifications. It wouldn't work to create a blacklist, because they come from many places. I would like to whitelist 3 or 4 senders and only receive notifications from them. Thank you.


texts: How can I get push notifications for emails in sub-folders?

texts: How can I get push notifications for emails in my inbox's sub-folders? By default it pushes just inbox emails, not the other folders that are in inbox.


texts: Why isn't device storage an option on my Galaxy S4?

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Can anyone tell me how to set up the Galaxy S4 to have " storage to device " as an option to save files and pictures to my sd card? Device storage is an option, but it is not highlighted so I can't use that as an option to store files and or pictures. I got a new phone and do not want to lose my pictures.
Thanks in advance for any advice/help given.
Cyndee


texts: Installing Google Maps giving error "Application requires newer SDK version"

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I have a galaxy S 3(d2att,US variant). Today I got an update for Google Maps.
But when I try to update it after downloading play store gives error as "Application requires newer SDK version".
I'm running on 4.2.2 Jellybean. Phone is rooted and using CynogenMod 10.1.2.

How can I update it? or Why it shows so?

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texts: Is insecure kernel required to install TWRP?

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I am new to this android rooting. I'd like to install custom ROM in an old Xperia SL. The bootloader had been unlocked successfully, and preferred next step is to install TWRP, then install custom ROM and supersu from TWRP.

The device has ro.secure=1 and no access to root. Does it need an insecure kernel to flash TWRP into recovery using fastboot? Or will flashing TWRP overwrite ro.secure and allow root access?


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How can I fix my phone so that it will boot up again like normal?

When it tries to start up, I see the Samsung Galaxy S9 Secured by Knox Powered by android screen. After this screen vibrates, it restarts and returns to the same screen. Here's a picture of the screen.

If I press the volume up, power and button below the volume, then it will show the same Samsung Galaxy S9 Secured by Knox Powered by android screen. After that, it will show a Installing system update screen. Then it will progress to 28% and restart. Here's a picture of the screen below.

While it was trying to install the system update, I was able to push the volume up key and power key at the same time. It gave me the following screenshot.


texts: If Android is Linux based and open source, why are updates and upgrades so difficult and restrictive?

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I run Ubuntu on my laptop and desktop. Regardless of the make and model of my computers, I can download Ubuntu from their website and install it with easy instructions designed for laymen to follow. After that, upgrades and updates are automatic, with regular downloads from a repository, not just for applications I've installed, but for the kernel and core components.

With Android, if I stay on the stock version I got when I bought my phone (right now I have a Galaxy S5), it might update the OS. My last phone, an S3, never received Anything above 4.0 because the carrier or someone (I don't know who makes the decisions) just never offered it.

To get a more recent version of Lollipop, I have to go through long, obscure, and definitely-not-for-laymen posts and instructions on the XDA Developers forum. I've done it before, and it's confusing, risky, and labyrinthine. You go through warnings about bricking your phone, you're taken to all sorts of sketchy  for-profit download sites... and then when you finally get it working, to get any upgrade, you have to go through it all again.

Why aren't there Android versions available on websites as easily as there are Linux desktop versions? Why don't Android versions have repositories that update as regularly as Linux versions do? For that matter, why don't versions of Android upgrade as freely and easily (in terms of user management) as apps on Android do?


texts: Upload an APK to a non-rooted galaxy s4 mini

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I'm trying to copy an .apk to a non-rooted galaxy s4 mini both though adb install (with development mode on) and through windows explorer and in both cases it hangs on uploading the apk.

Is there a way to change this to allow uploading apks? Only rooting?

(An obvious workaround is to copy apks over dropbox but ideally I want to be able to use adb install for debugging my apks)

Edit:

I have unknown sources allowed, I've a couple of apps I've installed by downloading the APKs bypassing Google Play

I've tried with a couple of APKs with the same result. I've successfully installed the same APKs by sharing them via Dropbox and installing on the phone from a file explorer

I'm on windows but the same adb executable works fine with my Kindle Fire (rooted) tablet installing the same APK without a problem

adb install application.apk just hangs for a while until I terminate it
Occasionally after I terminate it and try to restart it would give me the following:

error: protocol fault (no status)
error: protocol fault (no status)
error: device not found
- waiting for device -
rm failed for /data/local/tmp/application.apk, No such file or directory

Then adb install application.apk hangs again when restarted.

The phone is recognized with adb devices

I cannot check if I have /data/app-lib/application or /data/data/applicaiton.apk as I don't have root access (I can navigate around with adb shell but get access denied trying to ls contents of /data/app-lib and /data/data), but I think this is unlikely (I've tried with APKs I've never had installed on the phone before)

adb install -r application.apk and adb install -s application.apk hang the same way as adb install application.apk

adb push application.apk /sdcard gives me protocol failure

Installing from sdcard with a file explorer (for apks previously downloaded from the internet) does work but I would like to be able to install and debug them with adb (through Android Studio)


texts: I find Google Now Cards annoying. How may I disable them?


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When I go to disable my lockscreen, there is no "none" option. This is really annoying as I am unable to get a custom lockscreen with the stock lockscreen overlapping with it. I've looked through multiple forums and tried all the suggested solutions but they don't work. The none option isn't even greyed out like people have reported, it's just not there. I'm running android 6.0.1 on an LG X Power.

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texts: Calendar does not refresh when deleting contacts

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When I delete a contact, its birthday continues to stay on the default Calendar app, in the Birthdays calendar. (FYI, this calendar automatically gathers events from contacts' dates.)

How to update/refresh the Calendar in this case?

I went to the app settings and clicked on Clear Cache, with no result. Should I do a Clear Data too?


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I updated my GT-19100 Phone to 4.1.2 Jelly Bean from the previous version. For this venture it was necessary to decrypt my phone first. After the update I started again an encryption. The process failed (i just left the encryption continue by leaving the phone alone) and the phone showed me this message:

After reseting the device I can't access any previous data on the phone, nor can I save something on the phone. The phone recommends to format the device.

Is there a way to get my old data back? How could I avoid such a problem next time?
Any advice appreciated! Thanks in advance!

Similar to this question: "Encryption Failed" on my Samsung Note 2 & it asks me to reset device. Is there a way to back up my data But still not answered.


texts: Google authenticator app says that this version is no longer supported

texts: I'm a bit concerned about the message this app is giving me.  It is saying that my currently installed version is no longer supported.  Why am I getting this message directly from the app, shouldn't the play store be telling me that an update is available to update this app?


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I'm using LG GT540 with (LG) official Android 2.1. The market has never been updated, but months ago, the top apps show my local (Vietnam) apps.

Those top rated are actually very bad, can I disable it, use old international version?


texts: Certain apps fail to update from Play, while others work

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I have been having this issue between ROMs, as well as between connections. I am currently running ParanoidAndroid 3.94 (Android 4.3) with franco.kernel 3.0.89. Other apps consistently update fine. The error I get is

  Update for "application-name" could not be downloaded due to an error. (403)

I have eliminated the following factors:

Network issues (issue persists with two separate Wi-Fi points, as well as mobile data)
Google Play cache issues (I have cleared cache and restarted the Play app)

If I "sacrifice" one of the apps that do not work and uninstall "TuneIn Radio Pro" from Play store — I am then also locked out of actually getting the app back on my phone. The button in the Play store says "Install" (note: not "Purchase", so my existing ownership is recognized), I click it and "Accept", and the app even starts downloading! However, after the installation starts, I get the following error message:

  Error: Package file is invalid

Now, I am able to get all of these apps just fine on another device I have (Nexus 7), so I appreciate the fact that there is something up with my phone that causes this. However, I am not certain that it has to be something with the phone as it can also be something on Google's end not handling my dual accounts very well and therefore throwing the 403 (Forbidden) error when I try to download an app I actually own.


texts: Backup Signal and Threema to Google Photos?

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I was trying to backup photos received on Signal and Threema to Google Photos.
However, I cannot find their folders in the Google Photos settings to select them for the backup.
Can these just not be backed up in the same way as WhatsApp can be backed up?


texts: Change the server that Android uses for an internet connectivity check?

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As far as I am aware, Android checks internet connectivity by connecting to connectivitycheck.android.com.

On one of the WiFi networks I regularly connect to, they use web filtering, and block the android website. This means I can use the internet, but when I move around the campus and my device has to connect to the next access point automatically (with the same SSID etc.), it refuses, as it could not previously get an internet connection. Provided I am rooted, can I change this server to, say, www.google.co.uk?

I am running Cyanogen Mod 12.1 on a C1905.

P.S. There is very little chance that I can get these guys to unblock the android website. :(


texts: Sony Ericsson WT19i doesn't detect my wifi network

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When I bought the phone and tried to connect to my wifi network it worked fine, but after 2 days, I don't know why, it just doesn't detect my wifi network.

When I go into Settings->Wireless & network Settings-> Wi-fi settings my network doesn't show up there. Lots of other networks appear there but not mine.

I tried configuring manually with SSID WPA/WPA2 PSK and it says not in range. After this I tried rooting phone but still no luck.

I have a Galaxy SII and 2 other computers working correctly with my network. What's causing the WT19i to be unable to find it?


texts: I don't know whether I can ask this question here or not. Recently I have installed the CM11 update into my Galaxy S3 and it looks decent. I love the theme engine. The only problem is my phone reboots 8-9 a day. When it reboots I don't see the Samsung Galaxy Logo but only the CynogenMod Logo appears. But when I restart my mobile manually I could see both. I don't know which app is causing this issue. Is it possible to find the root cause of this issue ? Kindly help me out.


texts: How can I play back audio at a slower rate?

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I'm doing speech to text to an audio file.

While on PC what I do is slow down the audio in VLC. But at the time I have no access to one.

How can I do this on Android?


texts: Storage keeps disappearing on my Android phone

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I have a Motorola Moto G with an Android OS and I've had this issue for a long while now. It's quite an old phone with 8GB storage but I don't really need a lot of storage for my needs right now, so that's fine. However, I've realised that the amount of storage I have keeps going down all the time when I haven't updated any applications or downloaded anything. This leads to me running out of storage constantly which is causing issues because it means I have to keep deleting applications which all used to fit on my phone fine.

I'm not asking for a solution, but I'd like possible explanations for what's happening with my storage and where it could all be going.


texts: Android Studio: how long does it take for emulator to start first time?

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Have been waiting for over 30 mins now for start for first time.
Its stuck at loading. Should I give up after 40 mins? Looking into installing  Genymotion now.

Installed all sdk, jdk, emulator eccelerator. I use newboston youtube android tutorials.

How long did it take for you to run android emulator for first time?


texts: How can I transfer my all contacts from old HTC Wildfifre android 2.1 to LG Optimus Vu

texts: I just want to transfer all contacts from old HTC Wildfire with android version 2.1 to new LG Optimus Vu with android version 4.0. I have used different apps but still I am unable to transfer contacts and an unexpected error occures. Another issue is that I can't move contacts to SD card because LG Optimus Vu does not supports SD card. Please recommend a simple and easy way or an app which is helpful to transfer contacts to the new LG optimus Vu from HTC Wildfire.


texts: Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 cannot connect to LG FH2 speaker since there's a Bluetooth profile incompatibility

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I have found that my LG FH2 speaker uses the A2DP profile protocol:
http://gscs-b2c.lge.com/downloadFile?fileId=gQHBfK7s0ZXFVKL7CatPeA

...whereas my Android phone is unable to get connected to it, since it has a different profile AVRCP:
https://source.android.com/devices/bluetooth/services

Please note I am not trying to make my phone an audio sink, only audio gateway is totally fine for me.

¿How can I install, push, hack, or sideload via ADB such an A2DP Bluetooth profile so I can connect my mobile to my speaker?

Edit: it's a Redmi Note 5 global version (model M1803E7SH Latin America)


texts: WiFi on my Nexus S no longer works after update to ICS - How can I troubleshoot or fix this?

texts: I just updated My Nexus S to ICS today and everything is working properly except for WiFi. It shows the network's SSID but says it is "Out of range". How can I fix this?


texts: Unknown apps/processes with number only are shown in the battery screen

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There is a mysterious app, 99070 that is consuming power on my Nexus 5X. Any idea how I determine what it is?

There is no option to stop or uninstall it. My phone is a Nexus 5X running stock Android 6.0.


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I own Intex Aqua Life III with Android Lollipop. The pre-installed Settings app behaves like malware, automatically installing unwanted apps. On uninstalling this pre-installed Settings app, the issue is resolved.

I tried to install the Settings app from my Lava Iris X8, but it did not work.

How can I replace the pre-installed Settings app with another one? What's the procedure?


texts: Any easy and free way to install One app Two times in Android

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I have seen some other way such as using Pro editor apk. or using root, but I want any other way which is free to install One app two time in my android device.
Thankyou Your answers and comments are highly appreciated.


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I have a first prepaid gen Moto G that has stopped working. I've never done anything to this phone (no root, custom images or unlocked bootloader). When the phone boots up, as soon as I unlock the screen, I get one of the following messages:

Unfortunately, Launcher has stopped
 Unfortunately, Google Play Service has stopped

When I dismiss that the following messages start appearing,

Unfortunately, Google Play Service has stopped
 Unfortunately, android.process.acore has stopped
 Unfortunately, android.process.media has stopped
 Unfortunately, android.process.gapps has stopped

It is impossible to use the phone to change anything, and the homescreen image goes away quickly after I dismiss the first error message.

I've booted the phone in safe mode and the same thing happens.

I've tried doing a factory reset of the phone, but this does not work either. I can boot the phone into fastboot mode, but when I try to select the 'recovery' options I get a "boot up failed" message.

Here is all the info I can provide on the phone:

$ fastboot getvar all
(bootloader) version: 0.5
(bootloader) version-bootloader: 4113
(bootloader) product: falcon
(bootloader) secure: yes
(bootloader) hwrev: 0x83C0
(bootloader) radio: 0x3
(bootloader) emmc: 8GB Sandisk REV=06 PRV=07 TYPE=17
(bootloader) ram: 1024MB Samsung S4 SDRAM DIE=4Gb
(bootloader) cpu: MSM8626 CS
(bootloader) serialno: TA96504AK5
(bootloader) cid: 0x0002
(bootloader) channelid: 0x00
(bootloader) uid: 016D1F020F000000000000000000
(bootloader) unlocked: no
(bootloader) iswarrantyvoid: no
(bootloader) mot_sst: 0
(bootloader) max-download-size: 536870912
(bootloader) reason: Volume down key pressed
(bootloader) imei:
(bootloader) meid:
(bootloader) date:
(bootloader) sku:
(bootloader) iccid:
(bootloader) cust_md5:
(bootloader) max-sparse-size: 268435456
(bootloader) current-time: "Tue May  5  1:36:14 UTC 2015"
(bootloader) ro.build.fingerprint[0]: motorola/falcon_verizon/falcon_cdm
(bootloader) ro.build.fingerprint[1]: a:4.4.4/KXB21.14-L1.41/42:user/rel
(bootloader) ro.build.fingerprint[2]: ease-keys
(bootloader) ro.build.version.full[0]: Blur_Version.210.12.41.falcon_cdm
(bootloader) ro.build.version.full[1]: a.Verizon.en.US
(bootloader) ro.build.version.qcom[0]: AU_LINUX_ANDROID_LNX.LA.3.5.1_RB1
(bootloader) ro.build.version.qcom[1]: .04.04.02.048.020
(bootloader) version-baseband:
(bootloader) kernel.version[0]: Linux version 3.4.42-gaf6580c (hudsoncm@
(bootloader) kernel.version[1]: ilclbld54) (gcc version 4.7 (GCC) ) #1 S
(bootloader) kernel.version[2]: MP PREEMPT Wed Jun 25 01:50:02 CDT 2014
(bootloader) sdi.git: git=MBM-NG-V41.13-0-gdc5aeaf
(bootloader) sbl1.git: git=MBM-NG-V41.13-0-g683cb0c
(bootloader) rpm.git: git=MBM-NG-V41.13-0-g71b1aae
(bootloader) tz.git: git=MBM-NG-V41.13-0-ga27c415
(bootloader) aboot.git: git=MBM-NG-V41.13-0-g7dc8e78
(bootloader) qe: qe 0/1
(bootloader) ro.carrier: vzw

Since this is a verizon version, I can't unlock the bootloader.

Is there anything else I can try at this point? Or is this phone dead? All other posts I've seen for similar issues with "boot up failed" end up saying that Motorola said it was a hardware issue. However, this phone was working fine up until a week ago when I traveled to a new country.


texts: Prevent reboot after fastboot -w image.zip?

texts:
Is it possible to prevent the automatic reboot that follows

fastboot -w image.zip

? This would be quite useful for batch files. Thanks for any hint :-)


texts: How can I recover photos from my bricked Google Nexus 5X

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My Google Nexus 5X has died on me all of a sudden. Screen went blank, then rebooted and seems to have gone into a "bootloop". That is, it shows "Google" followed by the "android" spinner animation which then goes black and back to the "Google" logo.

Do I understand correctly that the device is likely beyond (affordable) repair? My goal now is to extract from it the photos I've taken over the past couple of months.

Things I've tried so far:

When I press the "Power" and "Volume Down" buttons I can get the "Fastboot Mode" menu. But when I choose the "Recovery mode" option I'm shown the "No command" error screen.
I've also seen the device go completely black with a red led blinking at its bottom. So I've then connected it to its fast charger and was able to boot it correctly. Unfortunately that only lasts for a minute or two. If I connect it to my PC via cable and try to download the photos, it dies in the middle of copying.

Please let me know if there are other steps I can take to recover my photos.


texts: USB Sound Card Android 6.0 strange problem

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I have the following USB sound card: https://www.amazon.co.uk/KOOPAO-External-Headphone-Microphone-Converter-GREY/dp/B08CXHFWS1/
I have it plugged in to a USB hub with an OTG cable to and my tablet. My tablet goes to deep sleep using Timurs custom ROM. The sound card works nicely except when the tablet goes to sleep and wakes up it just doesn't work. I have to physically unplug the USB and plug it back in then it starts working. A temporary work-around is to have it unplugged while i start up then plug it in. But this is not very convenient. Does anyone know if this is a problem with this actual USB sound card? should I get another? I tried it on a more modern android phone but cannot replicate the issue.
Is there a way to know what exactly is happening? really need some help solving this.
Thanks


texts: Mobile Network goes off often in my Galaxy s2

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I am using Galaxy s2 since 5 months. I have started facing Network problems recently. The mobile network goes off often and it resumes most times by itself.. but sometimes I need to restart my phone to bring it back in the network. I see the Unavailable (circle with a slash) symbol in place of the mobile signal symbol.. Also I see "SIM Refreshing data" often, not sure if it relates to the network going off..
Similar issues anyone and what did you do to fix this..


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I have shared a folder named myfolder in Windows, the computer name is MYPC.

I installed FolderSync on Android and I would like to connect to this shared folder via SMB.

What's the relevant share address with smb:... ?

smb://MYPC/myfolder

or

smb:///MYPC/myfolder

or

smb:\\\MYPC\myfolder

I tried all these options, but it did not work.


texts: So I just ordered a new phone (Honor 5x) I need to know can I install an early version of Nougat & when its released will it operate on my phone? Thanks!


texts: How can I download an APK file from the Play Store?

texts: I can't download apps from the Play Store on my Android device (maybe due to a network issue), so I'm wondering how could I download the APK file of an app on my PC from http://play.google.com/store?


texts: Photos and music from internal storage got deleted. How to recover them?

texts:
I restarted my LG Android phone and it was supposed to back up my phone's memory – but it deleted my photos and music that was saved to my phone's internal memory.

How do I get my music and photos back?


texts: My phone is going silent every day at 08.00 PM. Can't disable

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I have Android 4.4.4 and once (or maybe after playing with settings) it started to go silent at 08.00 PM every day. And morning it is going back (usually I am doing it manually earlier). In settings this is disabled.

I can't disable it and it is very annoying, I miss many calls.

Is there any way to disable it, using some terminal commands? Thanks


texts: How can I disable the softkey backlight?

texts:
I've been using Voodoo Display Filter to dim my screen further than the normal minimum at night, and it works great.  I want to do the same thing with the backlight for my touch buttons since it's incredibly bright.

I wrote a small script to try to do this:

cd /sys/devices/virtual/misc/melfas_touchkey/
while [1]; do
    echo 2 > brightness
    usleep 50000
done

This almost does the trick, but it seems to prevent some touches of the buttons from registering (presumably due to all the events being processed) and the light flickers when I touch one of the softkeys.  Is there any solution that avoids these issues?

Total Screen Control doesn't really work and I'd rather have a free solution anyways, since I'm pretty close already.  I believe CyanogenMod lets you control this as well but I want to stay on my current ROM (Bionix NextGen v1).


texts: Export Firefox Android Bookmarks to html file

texts:
Is there a way to export Firefox for Android bookmarks to an html file ?

I would like to transfer my mobile bookmarks to my desktop, and would prefer doing it without using Firefox sync or any cloud based extension.

Thanks !


texts: How do I move apps to a SD card on Android 4.3?

texts:
On Ice Cream Sandwich, I used to use an app called DS Super App2SD but it doesn't work on Android 4.3 Jelly Bean. I'm using Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 running on Cyanogenmod 10.2 nightly (Android 4.3.1)
I already tried the adb shell pm set-install-location to SD card location. It made everything worst by thinking my empty 32GB micro SD was full. So I set it back to 0.


texts: using your android phone as a proxy server

texts: I wanted to use my android phone as a proxy server, meaning that I wanted to be able to use the IP on the phone as a proxy, so all request and response are received on the phone and forwarded back to the original requestor. How do I do this?


texts: All I need to know about image and video resolution, size and quality in my smartphone

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About Images

My android smartphone captures images of resolution 4160 x 3120 px (horizontally) with its 13 megapixel rear camera. The image size is usually around 5 MB which is obviously hard to upload on Internet and share it via Whatsapp especially if we talk about slow Internet connection. Moreover it consumes a lot of precious storage space in computer, mobile, SD card etc.

Therefore, I resize images of above resolution to 1366 x 1025 px in my computer using some image editing software. The resized image becomes of size around 400 KB which is very much smaller than that of original image. But will it reduce image quality as well?

Additionally I am wondering about one more thing - What If I shoot a picture initially with resolution 1366 x 1025 px? Will it's quality be the same to the computer resized version of bigger resolution image? To make you guys more clear, here it is:

Original (JPEG)         Resized (JPEG)     Quality                                      Size

4160 x 3120 px  =>      1366 x 1025 px      Low/High/Same?                              400 KB

1366 x 1025 px  =>      No Resize           Low/High/Same to above resized version?     ?

About Video

The 10 seconds duration video recorded in SD (720 x 480 px) format is around 3 MB.
The 10 seconds duration video recorded in HD (1280 x 720 px) format is around 18 MB.
The 10 seconds duration video recorded in Full HD (1920 x 1080 px) format is around 25 MB.
The 10 seconds duration video recorded in 4K (3840 x 2160 px) format is around 55 MB.

Same situation arises for uploading and sharing video over internet. Also the storage problem too. So if I compress 4K or Full HD video into HD format then will it reduce video quality? Also how much HD compressed version of 4K and Full HD formats will differ in terms of quality as compared to original HD version without any compression?


texts: Is Screen Mirroring a feature of the hardware or the software?

texts:
I have a Samsung Galaxy J7 Max running Android Nougat from Samsung. It seems that it does not support screen mirroring but supports Wifi Direct.

I want to know that those phone that do support screen mirroring like the Samsung Galaxy A3, do they have special hardware in them, or is it just enabled in that build of the kernel ?

In short, for screen mirroring do you need extra hardware or just need to enable it in the kernel/OS ?


texts: Can I prevent the off button from locking the device?

texts:
I've noticed that tapping the off button locks the device under ICS.  Are there any tricks for making it only shut down the touchscreen and wait for the timeout to actually lock the device?

You must tap the off button to disable the screen when inserting the phone into your pocket because otherwise the phone gets spurious input, but frequently you'll want to pull the phone right back out again.


texts: Stream video over Samba or nfs to Android device

texts: I have a file server on the LAN that serves Samba and NFS. What applications can connect with any of those protocols and stream video from it, without unlocking/rooting?


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is there a way I could stop any flash OTG from accessing the tablet?
    I don't want the user to read or write anything to it
I don't want to use the OTG anymore, the tablet is rooted. It's a samsung tab A 2016 with Android 6.
Thank you


texts: MOTO G4 is not connecting with windows 10

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I am using moto g4 plus, Im trying to connect my moto with ma laptop through. My phone got latest android 7.0 update but now also same issue is there. Please suggest some way.

USB but its not getting connected.This allow me to charge through the usb. But im tried the most of the method to connect .Please anybody can help me ..

I am also an android developer so my phone allow me to connect with android studio and deploy the app in my phone but it not allowing me to explore the folders on sd card or phone memory through explorer.


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I have 2 simple Tasker profiles. The notification says "No active profiles", but the first task (Keyboard Out) doesn't work. The second task (Call Outgoing) works well.

Root access has been granted, Accessibility is enabled and Administrator is active.

What could the problem be ?

Galaxy S5 With stock Android Marshmallow..

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Thanks in advance


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Is it possible to buy an Android phone for 5 years?
First, replaceable battery, yes.
But then, will I be able to use new and newer Android versions?


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Is there any way to recalibrate/reconfigure automatic brightness behavior?

I would like to make it a little bit brighter in low light conditions.

I'm using Moto G 2-gen with KitKat without root access.


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I enabled root for adb, and then tried the following:

root@crespo:/ # mount /dev/block/platform/s3c-sdhci.0/by-name/media /storage/sdcard0
Usage: mount [-r] [-w] [-o options] [-t type] device directory
1|root@crespo:/ # mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p3 /storage/sdcard0
Usage: mount [-r] [-w] [-o options] [-t type] device directory
1|root@crespo:/ # mount /dev/block/mmcblk0 /storage/sdcard0
Usage: mount [-r] [-w] [-o options] [-t type] device directory

but, even if -t is optional, I get a different error message by adding it:

1|root@crespo:/ # mount -t vfat /dev/block/mmcblk0 /storage/sdcard0
mount: Device or resource busy

maybe the arguments parsing of the command is messed up... seems like a bug in busybox, or is something much more pedestrian going wrong?


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texts: I want to set the VPN (in my case vpnunlimitedapp) so it connects through the VPN the second I enable WIFI or 4G. Currently, I have to go online for a moment and then I'm allowed to enable the VPN. How can I remedy this so no bit of information get exposed?


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When I select the menu entry called "Uninstall/Disable apps" - from the apps drawer which can be reached from any home screen by tapping the 16-square icon in the lower-right hand corner - I can disable or delete any apps. However, clicking on an app disables it. I remember being able to uninstall apps by dragging them to a delete trash can icon. I cannot figure out how to delete an app on the apps drawer.

Also, while I realize this might vary from app to app, what would be some of the most common reasons/advantages to disabling an app?

P.S. I think the screens accessible by clicking the 16-square icon are what is called the app drawer, correct me if I'm wrong.

Thanks.

I am on a Samsung Galaxy SIII (Android KitKat 4.4.2) and I am cussing the default TouchWiz launcher.

(I would have liked to attach screenshots but at the moment my network connection is slow).


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I have a OnePlus X running Android 5.1.1.

I noticed that the ring volume keeps reseting itself (or is reset by s.t.) to zero. This usually happens when I switch the phone back from no-interruptions mode but also at essentially random moments (if much more rarely then).

Is there any way to stop this?


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When I click the "Share" button at bottom of the app description page, I do not get the usual sharing panel. Instead, it pastes the link to SMS, from where I have to copy, discard SMS option and then share it by mail (as an example). I end up doing three steps to share by mail, instead of a single click. Strangely, this happens only from Google Play Store. From all other apps, say ES File Explorer, I can choose and share the way I want to.

This behaviour started a few days back and I can't think of anything that could have triggered it. Searched in Play Store and Google settings but couldn't find any way to alter this behaviour. Other things which didn't help are reinstalling Play Store, uninstalling recently added apps, cleaning system and traces of leftover apps by SD Maid and cleaning Dalvik Cache.

This behaviour isn't driving me nuts but being unable to find the cause and fix is. Pointers on how to fix and what could have caused it are eagerly sought. I don't have access to laptop plus my Linux/coding knowledge is pretty much nil, so if it has to be command based, request something I could copy-paste on device terminal emulator.

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Huawei Honor 6 (4.4.2) , rooted stock ROM
Play Store Version 6.0.0 (reported as up to date in settings)