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I my personal phone is a Moto G4 (2GB RAM, 16GB storage). I have bought it mainly to learn how to develop apps for Android (currently, marshmallow is working very well for me).

I've seen that my phone has an upgrade ready to download - the new Android 7.0 (today, he is 6.0.1, Marshmallow). I usually don't upgrade to newer versions unless I'm sure my cell won't be slower/somehow damaged by it. So I would like your advice, specifically to my phone.

Will it run ok with my 2GB of memory? (today, my phone is really fast, I don't want it to become one of those phones that makes simple tasks, like reading whatsapp/SMS slow).
Will it use more storage space than Marshmallow? How much it will use, approximately?
Is there any known problem (incompatibility, apps that stopped running, unusable phone resources)?

Thanks in advance


texts: Why is there no network in my new Samsung Galaxy S2 when I insert my Prepaid Sim Card?

texts: I bought a new Samsung Galaxy S2 and insert my Prepaid Singtel Sim card. When i turn it on, it doesn't have any network and states 'no service'


texts: Disable contact sync for one Google account - S8 - Android 8

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My Samsung Glaxy S8 with Android 8.0 & Samsung Experience 9, is configured with multiple Google accounts. Would like to disable contact sync for only one Google account, while synchronising all Google accounts calendars, including the account with contact sync disabled

Possible?


texts: Factory reset on htc one mini 2 doesn't work

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I'm trying to do a factory reset on my HTC one mini 2 following the instructions on HTCs website here:
http://www.htc.com/uk/support/htc-one-mini-2/howto/511217.html

I can't access settings (it dumps me out to the home screen, hence the need for a reset), so I'm trying the hardware buttons method.

I hold volume-down, then hold the power button as per the instructions. After about 7 seconds, a black message box pops up saying "to restart your phone, press and hold the volume-up and power buttons".
If I keep holding volume-down and power the screen then goes dark. Nothing else happens.
If when the message appears I let go, the message disapears, and my phone just returns to the locked screen, I can unlock it as usual.

I'm completely flummoxed, any ideas what to do next?


texts: I like to install doldol launcher will it dry battery quickly? or maintain battery backup normal like default launcher?


texts: When I install the nightly updates for CyanogenMod, do I need to install every single update or just the last one?


texts: Mx player says unsupported android version for 4.3

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I have installed 4.3 yesterday on my Nexus 4, and since that time MX player would not load, saying:

  unsupported android version

Is there a workaround, or do I have to wait until the developers change the API level check? As far as I know there is nothing in 4.3 that makes a code change neccessary.

I have tried RealPlayer as well, it says the same. There might have been some serious changes after all.
Then again, VLC player is working.

I am more and more confused.


texts: Can CM11 be installed on a Samsung GS3 that's running 4.4.2?

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I'm trying to change to Cynaogenmod CM11 nightly on my Samsung GS3 but I'm receiving the error assert failed: getprop("ro.bootloader") not matching

I know this normally means you have the older bootloader but if I understand correctly after checking at the shell I'm running I747UCUFNE4 Samsung GS3 Android 4.4.2.

This is the latest bootloader isn't it? Can I not go over to CM11 nightly?

I have the latest CWM installed and I also tried the lastest TWRP but obviously the package has the check in it. Is there a solution?


texts: How to identify installed apps where I participate as beta tester

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On my Moto G (peregrine) with Android 4.4.4 I installed some apps where I joined beta tester programs long time ago (via log-in from a googlegroup etc.), and also just some weeks ago where no more group joining was necessary.

As I lost overview of the apps where I am beta tester:

How can I identify all apps where I a take part in beta testing?

(looking on my device intensively, also in GooglePlay settings and a general internet search were without success for my to find this out)


texts: Does factory reset remove apps that install into the /system from an unroot phone

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Suppose the following situation:

End-user have a unroot phone. (the phone is not rooted).

End-user install a app, which actually is a System app and is installed in the /system of the phone.

So, does a factory reset remove these app?

(In the first place, can end-user install a system app onto a unroot phone?)


texts: android samsung note 2 unsync gmail and other accounts

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My phone was stolen and I want to unsync my gmail and other associated accounts in it. Is there a way for me to do that even if my phone is not with me?

Thanks in advance!


texts: Cannot logon to a "captive portal" wi-fi network

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I am unable to connect to any wi-fi networks that require a login through what I assume is captive portal. This worked fine for perhaps a year but has stopped working recently. I am running Android 8.1.0 on a Nokia 6.

I get the following response after attempting go to the login:


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I am using Lineageos 17.1 on the FP3 (the phone is not rooted).
I do know my screen pattern code (it is a 6x6 pattern), but I am not able to enter it correctly, because I disabled that the pattern is shown and that the sequence is visible.
In the recovery mode I can enable adb and I tried to delete the file
adb shell rm /data/system/gesture.key

which worked in the past, but now this file does not exist anymore on Lineageos 17.1.
ADB unfortunately does not work when the screen is locked.
Is there another way to bypass the screen pattern? Doing a factory reset is the last option I want to do. Making the pattern visible should be enough in principle.


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How do I delete 1 googled  account on two phones?
One google email on two phones with different phone numbers how doI delete without losing apps.


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I had a phone with CM11 and I was used to having an option, on the app detail screen, to send an app to the SD card. Now I have bought a new phone, with near-stock firmware (4.4.2), and that option is missing. The phone only has 8Gb of internal storage (~5.5 after OS), so I really need to move some larger apps (San Andreas for instance) to the external SD card (32Gb C10). Is there a straightforward way to do this? I am rooted and I have xposed installed, but I can't find any simple solution to my problem.

I could technically manually move the relevant data/* or obb/* to the external SD and use Lucky Patcher or some tool to bind folders, but this seems like such an important point (with 1-2Gb games being common; how I am supposed to install Bard's tale?) that I wonder if there is a simple tool to achieve this.


texts: List of default applications for a given android version

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Is there a list for the stock applications (those who are installed by default with android), and libraries? for example: Atci_service, calendar, com.mediatek are they default applications? Or where there added by someone else?

Thanks.


texts: How to block certain devices for my hotspot

texts: I want to be able to let certain devices use my hotspot, block others. Is this possible? Or is it possible to block certain Mac ID's?


texts: Each and every time I restart my phone, a Samsung Galaxy Duos version 5.0.2, the SD card unmounts itself.  What could be the problem and what should I do to stop this.  Whenever this happens all the applications do not show up.


texts: How to apply changes to keyboard layout without reboot

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After playing with keyboard layout at /system/usr/keylayout/.. the changes are take effect only after a system restart. How to apply the changes immediately ?

Additional details
Phone : Samsung galaxy chat - gt B5330
OS : ICS (stock) ,rooted
file correspond to physical keyboard : bcm_keypad_v2.kl


texts: I know there are many ways to root a LG Optimus L70 LGMS323 but I don't understand some of it. Is there a simple way to root my of device running Android 4.4.2?


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Possible Duplicate:
  Use existing contact for “Me” in Ice Cream Sandwich

I have a contact for myself with LOADS of info (websites, phone numbers, emails, etc.) and my new Galaxy S3 created a separate "ME" contact that's totally empty. How do I set my old contact as me?

Simple question, simple answer [hopefully].


texts: Redirect calls not from my contacts to another phone number?

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Is there any way to redirect/forward calls that are not from my contacts to another number?

(No, I'm not looking to block them or redirect them to voicemail.)


texts: A way to get the current resolution size and DPI from the command line/terminal/adb?

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I've got adb access to my android phone.

So I know that I can override screen density and screen resolution with the am command provided with Android. That's great and dandy, I guess. But is there a way to grab those two numbers from the command line? I know the pm utility can do some information gathering, most notably pm list features to see if the Android device has wireless, bluetooth, gps, etc. pm doesn't seem to do much more information reporting than this, though.

It would be helpful to know what versions of Android that the command is supported for. Ideally I would like something that works on Android 2.2+ (Froyo), but taking something that only works from 4.0.3+ (Ice Cream Sandwich) is fine too. I would also like it if there was a way to figure this out without root access.

I know that it's possible to get the screen resolution and density programmatically, as described in this question.


texts: Unable to copy anything to internal storage

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my phone is a Xperia Z1 Compact, with Android version 4.4.4 and no SD card in.
It's supposed to have around 1 Gb of free storage left, but when i connect it via USB to my pc i cannot copy any file to it. Windows shows me a "no free space available" dialog.
I recently ran out of space, but after i freed some (yes, i can delete) and cleared caches the problem arised.

Any clues?


texts: Google Drive: Make Folder/All Files in Folder Available Offline

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I'm using the Google Drive app on the latest Android system, Android 11. I can make files, specifically PDFs, available offline by long pressing and clicking Make Available Offline. Further, if I select two PDFs, both of which are not yet available offline, then I have this option.
As such, I was able to initially select all files in a folder and pick Make Available Offline.
The issues is that I add to the folder regularly. If I select two files in the folder, one of which is available offline and the other is not, then the Make Available Offline option is not there. Currently I have some ~290 PDFs which are available offline and ~10 which are not. I do want all to be available offline, as I never know when I'll need them. But I don't want to manually go through and add them all.

TL;DR. Is there a way to make all files in a folder, or just simply the folder, available offline?
This needs to work if the folder currently contains a mixture: some available offline already and some not.

I would even accept the following horribly inefficient solution:

remove the 'available offline' property from all files in the folder;

select all files and Make Available Offline.

However, removing the property from all seems just as hard as adding it.


texts: Do I need to factory reset to root galaxy note 4 SM-N910V?

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I have the Samsung Galaxy note 4 for Verizon. I believe it is the developer edition because the model # is SM-N910V. I am trying to either install CFs auto root or install TWRP recovery and root from there. So far both fail in Odin. here's the log for Odin for CF auto root,

<ID:0/003> Added!!
<OSM> Enter CS for MD5..
<OSM> Check MD5.. Do not unplug the cable..
<OSM> Please wait..
<OSM> CF-Auto-Root-trltevzw-trltevzw-smn910v.tar.md5 is valid.
<OSM> Checking MD5 finished Sucessfully..
<OSM> Leave CS..
<ID:0/003> Odin v.3 engine (ID:3)..
<ID:0/003> File analysis..
<ID:0/003> SetupConnection..
<ID:0/003> Initialzation..
<ID:0/003> Get PIT for mapping..
<ID:0/003> Firmware update start..
<ID:0/003> SingleDownload.
<ID:0/003> recovery.img
<ID:0/003> NAND Write Start!!
<ID:0/003> cache.img.ext4
<ID:0/003> FAIL! (Auth)
<ID:0/003>
<ID:0/003> Complete(Write) operation failed.
<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)

I did a samsung update the other day and went from NI1 to NJ5, i guess that is the update version. Does updating remove the unlocked bootloader? Do I need to factory reset to be able to install CF auto root and TWRP?


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I wonder whether there is a way to prevent someone to use fastboot to flash an Android device.

Indeed, while one must be able to turn on USB debug in order to run adb, the bootloader does not offer any protection AFAIK.


texts: Samsung Galaxy S4 GT I9505 Cyanogenmod 13 6.0.1 Marshmellow 'Andoid starting loop'

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I have installed Cyanogenmod 13 6.0.1 from here: http://get.cm/?device=jflte
with TWRP recovery, i watched a video and it has alot of good feedback, i double checked everything and install Google apps successfully too. I am now in a android is starting loop, the booting logo of the rom keeps restarting and every ten minutes it says apps starting but it just keeps doing this. I tried formating alldata via the recovery but this doesnt work either. Any suggestions?


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I installed a Micro SD card on my Samsung Galaxy 3 phone. I had a few dozen songs on the card and everything was working fine. Then I shut down my phone, removed the SD card, hooked it up to my PC and loaded the card up with a few hundred MP3 files. When I reinstalled the SD card on my Android, things went wacky. I can see the SD card icon but when I go to Settings > Storage, the only option I see is the "Mount SD card" choice. When I click it, I get "SD card safe to remove".

Bottom line is that the card seems unusable on my phone but works fine on my PC. Ideas?


texts:
I would like to know why the menu button has been removed from Android in Android 6 and 7 mobile phones, hosting an apps button instead. Thanks.

(I remember long pressing the home button on Android 4 to get to the apps list.)


texts: Display timout resets to 15 seconds occasionally

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Hi on my SGT the display timout resets to 15 seconds occasionally. I can't reproduce this behavior but it seems that this reset happens at every reboot at least and sometimes when connecting/disconnecting the powersupply.

Can someone tell me how to have this setting fixed again at 10 minutes?

If it helps, the phone is rooted, but I am not sure if this problem occurred already before root. At least unrooting did not help. Also I have my battery saving software let the settings back to default and then deinstalled, did not help either.


texts: Incorrect Read Receipt generated by default mail app on Android 4

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The default mail app on Android 4 seems to generate incorrect Read Receipts.
Here is the case:

User ORIGINATOR sends email (using any mail client software), with request for Read Receipt (SMTP header Disposition-Notification-To), TO: PRIMARY-RECEIVER with CC: SECONDARY-RECEIVER.

When PRIMARY-RECEIVER opens the email, his email client will (optionally) send a Read Receipt which is FROM: PRIMARY-RECEIVER TO: ORIGINATOR.

When SECONDARY-RECEIVER opens the email, his email client should (optionally) send a Read Receipt which is FROM: SECONDARY-RECEIVER TO: ORIGINATOR.

But if SECONDARY-RECEIVER opens the email on Android 4 (Galaxy S3 in my tests), using the default email client, the phone sends a Read Receipt which is FROM: PRIMARY-RECEIVER TO: ORIGINATOR, which is grossly incorrect.

Has anyone detected the same issue?

Anyone has a suggestion on proper forum or support channel for reporting this bug?


texts: I had a lot of these pop ups and I don't know if it's for real or not.


texts: Nexus 9 - How do I change the cellular band?

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I've got an international edition 32GB Nexus 9 LTE. It appears to be unable to connect to 3.5G / HSPA+  networks, as a result, I get poor data speeds (3G is pretty slow for my requirements). I've got a Nexus 7, LG G2 and LG G3 all on the same carrier as the N9, and they can all connect to 3.5G / HSPA+ in the areas where the Nexus 9 struggles.

On regular phones, I would overcome this issue by dialling *#*#4636#*#* and changing the preferred bands, however, since the Nexus 9 doesn't have a dialler, I'm unable to access this menu. Any ideas on alternative ways I could get to this menu? Maybe via a third-party app or a terminal command?

I'm running Android 6.0.1 and have root access.

Thank you.


texts: How do I stop PDFs opening in RollerCoaster Tycoon?

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I have an unusual problem with Chrome when I try to open PDFs. If I have already downloaded a PDF and try to download it again, I can open it by tapping its name; in the screenshot below, I could tap "pdf.pdf" to open the file.

The issue is that tapping this link actually opens RollerCoaster Tycoon Classic! If I choose to download again, Chrome redownloads and opens the PDF correctly, so it's not a huge issue, but still an inconvenience.

In Settings, it says that RollerCoaster Tycoon Classic has no defaults, and I am unable to change the "open supported links" setting.

How do I stop RollerCoaster Tycoon  trying to be a PDF reader?


texts: How can I sync the bookmarks in the web browser?

texts: I want to open the bookmarks I saved in my PC to be seen from my cellphone's browser. So I need them synced. How can I do that, say with Nexus One?


texts: Removing App from Play Store (Unpublish) - What happens with the users that have the App already installed?

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I have to temporarily unpublish my app from Play Store for legal reason until I sort them out.
What happens with the users that have the app already installed? I understand they are not allowed to find it from the store or install it, but does it also mean the apk they have already installed will be uninstalled from their device?


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I used to have TouchWiz 4.1.2 on my Samsung Galaxy Express, and now I have CyanogenMod 10.1.

The stock CM camera has this weird behaviour of - for lack of a better explanation - not letting go of the camera once opened.

The app works on the first launch, then reports that it can't connect to the camera on subsequent launches.
Other camera apps, like Retrica and Camera360, work flawlessly.

I'm guessing that the problem lies in the proprietary camera libraries, but they come from an official TouchWiz 4.2.2 build for a similar device - actually, a better term would be a successor, since the device is labeled Galaxy Express 2.

Logcat gives me this:

E/QualcommCamera(  277): Qint android::get_camera_info(int, camera_info*): E
E/QualcommCamera(  277): Qint android::get_camera_info(int, camera_info*): E
V/CameraHolder(15689): open camera 0
W/CameraService(  277): CameraService::connect X (pid 15689) rejected (existing client).
E/CameraHolder(15689): fail to connect Camera
E/CameraHolder(15689): java.lang.RuntimeException: Fail to connect to camera service
E/CameraHolder(15689):  at android.hardware.Camera.native_setup(Native Method)
E/CameraHolder(15689):  at android.hardware.Camera.<init>(Camera.java:340)
E/CameraHolder(15689):  at android.hardware.Camera.open(Camera.java:302)
E/CameraHolder(15689):  at com.android.camera.CameraManager.cameraOpen(CameraManager.java:291)
E/CameraHolder(15689):  at com.android.camera.CameraHolder.open(CameraHolder.java:210)
E/CameraHolder(15689):  at com.android.camera.Util.openCamera(Util.java:545)
E/CameraHolder(15689):  at com.android.camera.PhotoModule$CameraStartUpThread.run(PhotoModule.java:347)
V/StateManager(15689): startState class com.android.gallery3d.app.PhotoPage
E/mm-libcamera2(  277): mm_camera_poll_fn: preview polling error!! err = 0
E/QCameraHWI(  277): processEvent: type :0 E
I/QCameraHWI(  277): processChannelEvent: E

What is the problem, and how exactly can I solve it?


texts: Configure & connect to Wi-Fi using ADB on Android 5.1.1

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I'm using Nexus 4 with Android 5.1.1. I need to connect to Wi-Fi router in my automation. For that I need to use ADB interface. I connected to mobile using ADB. I also configured the wpa_supplicant.conf file and copied it to /data/misc/wifi/.

chmod 644 wpa_supplicant.conf
chown wifi.wifi wpa_supplicant.conf

When I execute the adb svc wifi enable, phone doesn't connect to the SSID  I have specified in wpa_supplicant.conf.

I have created the wpa_supplicant.conf file using the existing wpa_supplicant.conf file. (Just to make sure I do not mess the format, but different SSID and password with same WPA-PSK method.)

Can anyone guide me what I need to change or what am I doing wrong?


texts: PHone and Messaging icons do not show unread message notification or missed call in 4.04

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I get the sound notification and it shows up in the notification bar, but nothing shows up on the Icon itself for new unread emails or missed phone calls or unread messages. They do show up on the voicemail icon for unheard voice mails. Is there a setting for this. Phone is a ZTE Force from Boost running 4.04.

Thanks


texts: Android tethering via bluetooth keeps disconnecting

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I'm currently using a Google Nexus tablet tethered via Bluetooth to a Samsung S3 for internet.

Two things are annoying me.

First, if I take the phone away from the tablet (go out for lunch), the tablet disconnects and has to be manually reconnected. Is there a way to have that happen automatically?

Second, Bluetooth tethering, i.e. the internet sharing part needs to be switched on each time the bluetooth is switched on (or perhaps just after power cycling) on the S3. Is there no way to have that default to on?

Thanks


texts: How to link chrome html files together on android

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I have multiple chrome html files on PC that are all linked together.
For example, there is a table of contents and if I click A it will then open the html file for A and this can be then used to go back to the table of contents or I can go to B).
However, putting all these files together on mobile (SAMSUNG S8+ Updated up to date) does not allow them to be connected no matter which web browser or html viewing application I try to use (Clicking to go to another page just gives an error saying the other html file cannot be found). Additionally, the images part of the html document do not seem to load on mobile despite being in the same folder still.
I am wondering if there is a way to have all of these files linked on android as it does on PC.


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The USB-C spec includes HDMI alt-mode. If I am not mistaken this means that a cable that connects the correct pins on each end would cause any compliant device to automatically send compatible signals through its USB-C port.
I purchased a Phillips USB-C to HDMI adapter. It was cited in it's package to be intended for use with laptops that are compatible, however it doesn't specify any standard to which it complies.
When I connect it to my Stylo 5 and it provides an option to provide charge, receive charge, file, photo, and midi. However it does not automatically send video and audio data to my LG 4k WebOS TV.
So my question is, what is the difference between the alt mode and standard USB-C to HDMI adapter?
Alternatively, is the Stylo 5 known to be compatible? The TV? Would the HDMI port of the TV need to be CEC, ARC, or otherwise enabled beyond the usual standard?


texts: How to toggle "Magnify with button" quickly, maybe with Tasker?

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I often want to use "Magnify with button" (Android 8 > Settings > Accessibility > Magnification).

Unfortunately, it interferes with the keyboard chooser (Settings > System > Languages > Virtual keyboard > Gboard > Advanced > Show app icon), which I use frequently.

So, I want a quick way to toggle "Magnify with button", preferably from the notification area.

My guess — I'm no expert, so I could be wrong — is that I can use an "intent" to toggle the setting. I could do this from Tasker (maybe you know a better way?).

My problem is that despite plenty of searching, I cannot find the intent setting, or indeed any other way to achieve this.

If "Magnify with button" cannot be easily toggled, but "Magnify with triple-tap" can, that would be an acceptable compromise. (I don't want to leave "Magnify with triple-tap" on permanently because it interferes with normal access.)

Are you able to help, please? My phone is not rooted, and rooting isn't an option for me.


texts: why do I have to move my apps manually to the SD card to free up space?

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If the internal memory is so precious why doesn't Android move the apps to the SD card automatically.  I just don't get the logic of searching through the All Apps list one by one to get a couple of apps that are only installed on the internal memory and then move them to the SD card.

In my opinion is a rather lazy memory management that relies on user intervention to free up space for important OS operations.


texts: How can I enable usb debugging on a broken phone?

texts: My android mobile is accidentally broken. And the usb debugging is set to off. If I can enable it I could use it through visor in PC. But can't do it now. :( I don't have OTG supported too. My android version is 7.0 Nougat. The manufacturer is Symphony LiteTel. Model: Symphony LiteTel - LT4502 Is there any way? :(


texts:
I have had a Nexus 7 since September and today something strange happened.

I plugged it in, as usual, to recharge the battery. It charged up to 36% and now it still says it's charging but it never moves from that percentage.

How can I fix my device?


texts: Yellow, pixelated icon appearing on Samsung Galaxy S3

texts: It looks like 2 staggered coloured (colour is predominantly yellow) keyboards overlapping. The top one is offset to the left of the first one.


texts: SMS for small screen - workarounds or replacement app

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The default SMS app's text size on my current phone is far too big for my tiny screen, and it wastes further screen real estate with a suggestion bar, which isn't much good if you can't see what you're replying to or half of what you're typing. Also, it inserts the name of the addressee and their phone number at the top of the screen unless you're actually scrolling.

Currently, I spend more time trying to see what's written than I do typing.

Could anyone offer any advice, or alternatively, is there an Eclair-compatible SMS app which

Allows the user to specify text size, or uses small text to begin with
Provides a good view of what you're writing and/or reading.

Any suggestions for smaller-but-still-usable keypads would also be appreciated.

I already know that the keypad can be temporarily hidden whilst composing a message, but it's useful to be able to see a little of both messages whilst
actually typing.

This is really bugging me.

Thanks :-)


texts: Market Application (process com.android.vending) has stopped unexpectedly

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I have an HTC Android running 2.2. The market application was running perfectly before I  updated it.

It was when the Google changed Market application "Android Market" to "Google Play".
As soon as I pressed the "accept and download updates" button it started getting "process com.android.vending has stopped unexpectedly".

I research a little bit about this problem, I get the answers like

I have to reboot my phone.
I have to uninstall updates.
I have to uninstall the market application and reinstall it.

I want to know how I can fix this problem.


texts: How to resolve Instagram force close for CM9

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I'm using CM9 (Alpha 14) adnroid 4.0.1  for my GTi9003. Every other app works fine except for instagram.

Picture doesnt load at picture editing/ picture filter screen (screenshot)    and instgram hangs and I have to force close every time.
It was working fine on stock ROM. Any patches?


texts: Use VLC (desktop) to play music while phone is plugged in

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Can I use VLC (desktop) to play music while phone is plugged in to my PC via USB?
I have tried to open folder, but when I do, my phone isn't in MyCompter as a compatible device. Is there a plug in or something that will make this work?

Alternatively, is there any media player available that will play the music on my phone through my computer when it is plugged in VIA usb?

Thanks


texts: What Google Talk compatible iOS apps can I recommend to my friends?

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What good Google Talk (or in general: XMPP) apps can I recommend to my non-Android friends (especially iPhone users)?

I'm fed up using many different apps to chat with some of my contacts. I just want to 'talk' to any of them with that single solution.

Google Talk's usefulness increases by network effects, i.e. can you reach all your contacts (who may use iOS (iPhone), Windows Phone, Blackberry, others) with one single solution?

Existing solutions and what I don't like about them:

WhatsApp (proprietary, paid app, battery hog?, has privacy concerns)
eMail (pretty much ok, but not that realtime)
SMS (needs GSM, costs too much, no added value)
Facebook chat (proprietary, battery hog?, privacy concerns, not all want to sign up)
Skype chat (proprietary, battery hog?, privacy concerns)
iMessage (proprietary, incompatible with Android?)

If you have too many of those apps installed you will see a difference in battery life in the end. Google Talk is already there and connected either way, so I prefer this (and not WhatsApp).

Side note for iOS: iOS' push notification system seems to be the reason why the decent apps there are paid apps. (Need to relogin every 7 days to keep push messages alive and such, i don't really know).

PS:
 - There's a way to encrypt Talk messages, so it's not a privacy concern
 - is Talk open: Yes (it's XMPP). I have friends with accounts on their own servers that i 'talk' to
 - You can use 3rd party Jabber clients to login to Talk


texts: How to properly increase system partition on Moto G xt1033?

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I tried parted like

unit MB
rm 34
rm 35
rm 36
mkpart 34 823 2400
mkpart 35 2401 2441
mkpart 36 2441 7818
name 34 system
name 35 kpan
name 36 userdata

and then

mke2fs -t ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p34
mke2fs -t /dev/block/mmcblk0p35
mke2fs -t /dev/block/mmcblk0p36

And after reboot nothing applyed.
I used
this guide this guide

What i'm doing wrong?
I need to install Mokee 7.1 but there is no space for gapps. This is a problem. Help me, please, i spent about 8 hours to trying solve it and nothing got( It's sad(

Update:
My question is "After i have had resized '/system' partition and after reboot - '/system' partition has the same size. What i'm doing wrong in my flow"

Update
"This guide" link fixed (typo)

Update

So finally what have i done:

I read guide described above completely. My device is Motorola Moto G xt1033 (codename 'falcon')

I wanted to install Mokee (android OS) and after installing Mokee there are no left free space for opengapps even for the most small pack (pico).

So i decided to increase 'system' partition. I did everything that was in guide mentioned above and i tried 2 or 3 times and each time after rebooting device 'system' partition remains the same size as before resizing.

The feature of this problem is that i did everything described above with my device XiaoMi RedMi 1s (C/W) (codename 'armani') and 'system' partition (in case of Xiaomi) has been increased (i used guide mentioned above).

So my question is - Why partition remains the same size as before resizing? How to prevent it? What did i miss? What i'm doing wrong? And finally - how to increase 'system' partition for my Motorola Moto G xt1033 (codename 'falcon')?


texts: Setting custom permissions per-application

texts:
I want more granular control over permissions. I’m fine with applications having some permissions, but I want to be in charge and have more granular control.

Can this be done on Android? I know iOS has this for some things like contacts and calendar data. The user is prompted before the application gets access to these sensitive datasets.

Technically, I can see this working by denying API access when the application tries to access it.


texts: Read every file stored on device or SD card?

texts:
Flash storage devices (NAND cells) are nutorious for slowly losing charge over time.

Many USB sticks have automatic data retention when idle, but I doubt that MicroSD has automatic data retention.

How do I read every single file saved on the mSD card?


texts: Remove preinstalled malicious software from smartphone

texts:
I bought a THL T9 Plus recently and get some preintalled apps on it, like YouTube. I thought, that this apps are original, because Google Play client recognised these too. My phone behaved strange in some cases, so I tested it with Malwarebytes Anti-Malware.
It found: Android/Trojan.Spy.Agent.YQ in system/priv-app/thl_YouTube folder.


texts:
I recently updated to marshmallow with cyanogenmod 13 to use the "adoptable storage" feature. I was disappointed to find out that that only some apps could be put on the adopted storage. I used link2sd in the past as 11gb of internal is insufficient for my 300 apps. However, Link2sd is broken on marshmallow, and I am limited to 11gb once again, so here are my questions:

Is there any way to install all apps on the SD card in android marshmallow? Eg. Method to force all apps to adoptable storage, link2sd fix, Cutsom marshmallow rom, etc. (Or am I just doing things wrong)
What's the point of adopting the SD as internal storage when not all apps can be moved? I really don't understand how adoptable storage helps anything.


texts: ADB Access in TWRP recovery mode - samsung A3, Linux

texts:
I can access my Samsung A3 (a3xelte) in "normal" mode in Linux using adb.
Today I installed the TWRP 3.2.3-0 recovery mode and entered it. According to this DroidWiki article(the article is in German), I should be able to use adb commands in this mode as well. However, "adb devices" shows me nothing. Any ideas or is the information wrong for this phone?

Reason I am asking: After resetting the phone to factory settings, some valuable Memo-Notes seem to be deleted. I would like to copy an image of the partition to my computer (as described in this answer from StackOverflow), and then use testdisk to potentially still find the relevant deleted file. The phone is not rooted which seems to make things a lot more complicated...


texts:
I would like to change the resolution of my s4 1080x1920 to 720x1280 not the dpi but the resolution. I have root access and am on android 6.0.1. How can I do this.

I want to do this to see how much battery I can save. Usually my phone last 3 days (normal use) on my custom 7800mah battery without charing but I don't really have much use for an UHD screen so I want to see if it can last longer by lowering the resolution.


texts: How can I make silent mode affect media volume too?

texts: Silent mode is simple to toggle quickly and easily, but it only effects ringtone volume. I want it to work for media volume too, so I can use it to quickly toggle off game audio in public places. Is this possible? Or is there another simple solution? I have a Google Experience phone, so manufacturer-custom UI elements are no help.


texts: How can I make my Lenovo ThinkPad tablet charge up faster?

texts: It takes a very long time (half a day) to charge up with a USB 2.0 charger plugged in the wall outlet.


texts: Use android 2.3 as a wireless Mass Storage middle man

texts:
Context:
I would like to use an old phone as a USB Mass storage device/slave, but read/writes to a Network share.  So I can attach it to the Kitchen TV and direct it to a windows/linux directory.
Attempt so far:
My test device is an unbranded tablet, which appears to try to clone a HTC Passion.  I'm able to access network shares from it, and make a mount point on the SD card of device.
However, when I activate the "USB Mass Storage", it totally unmounts every thing related to the internal/external storage, so it is accessible via the usb cable to the Host computer only.   ;(
When I remount the card and then remount the network share - it just makes it have a hissy-fit, and as you can guess its does not appear to read/write correctly.
Is there something available to do this?
Alternatively:
I’m kind-of familiar with USB programming from a Linux Host point of view, because I used to use /proc/bus/usb/devices lsusb… to know where to read/write the packets to.  But I don’t know how to do a program to act as a client/slave device.
I’m not aware of how to access the USB interface because I do not know where the io-file/memory address point could possibly be?
Reading dmesg, /dev/bus/usb or /sys/bus/usb does not appear to help me.
I’m defiantly missing something here, due to lack of knowledge.   :(
I know I’m asking to convert/overlay a block device on a network share, but I’ll worry about that later   :)


texts: Geo/Location tagging a photo when taken from 'lock' screen

texts:
I have enabled location / geo-tagging of photos on my phone (Samsung S10+, prior to that, S7 - same results). Photos taken generally record location information as expected. However - if I take advantage of the phone's ability to launch the camera app from the 'lock' screen (that is, without unlocking the phone by PIN/fingerprint/face recognition, etc) then location information is NOT recorded.

I can see how this would be an 'unintended consequence' behavior; if you don't unlock the phone session, then the camera app may be launched in a different 'security context', and in that context, it may not be able to read the internal GPS info. However - I cannot think of any scenario where allowing the camera app from a locked phone to access location information could be a problem, and I'd like to change this behavior if possible. I rely heavily on the 'geo-tagging' information stored in photos and it is quite often a pain to unlock the phone while hiking, etc (fingerprint reader still not exactly perfect, and having to enter PIN when trying to capture a 'scene' not always desirable).

I've tried every setting I can find relating to security and location services, and I've searched high and low for answers. Part of the challenge here is, keywords such as 'lock', 'location', 'camera' etc result in a high number of hits, and 99.9% of people seem to be asking for how to enable location tagging in general, not specifically when the camera is launched from the lock screen.


texts: Continuous pairing request from a smart watch

texts:
Some time ago I replaced a phone to a new one using Android 7 (before it was 6) and my smart watch updated to Android Wear 2.0. Hard to tell what was the reason but since then each time a bluetooth connection between the devices is broken and going to be re-established there is a pairing request with a code which needs to be confirmed on both devices. Is there a way to make a phone and a watch to trust each other once and forever and to connect without re-asking a confirmation? This was the case with Android 6/Android Wear 1.1.

Not sure it matters, but the phone is
Asus ZenFone AR and the watch: Casio WSD-F10.


texts:
I have a very peculiar problem on my Android [Samsung Galaxy 5(five)].
Every time I send a text message, it is stuck at 'Sending...' and can be stuck on that for days until it shows that it has failed to send the message.
Sometimes I send 3 messages at a go and they end up being sent. Sometimes even this does not work.

What could be the problem? What can I do to rectify?
Desperate!


texts: What is the effect of changing the maximum application VM heap size?

texts: The settings menu in CM6 lets you change the maximum per-process heap size (internally, that’s the dalvik.vm.heapsize property). What are the practical effects of raising or lowering that setting? On my G1, I changed it to 12m from the default of 16m, and I noticed that switching applications feels faster, but I wonder if it will cause some applications to run out of memory sooner.


texts: Adobe Acrobat Reader's scanner produces blue image

texts:
I just scanned an white sheet of paper with the scanner in the Adobe Acrobat Reader app and I got a blue hued image. I tried changing the scanned image to original and I still got a blue image.

I tried scanning the same document with CamScanner and there was no problem there. I recieved a normal image with no blue tint.

What should I do?


texts: how can I prevent a factory reset of Samsung android device?

texts:
The Samsung android table I got for my kid has a "Guest Account" feature that lets anyone in without a password. Kind of defeating the point of the password feature that keeps a 7 year old kid out at bedtime.

so I ran:

adb shell settings put global guest_user_enabled 0

with a USB cable attached and it worked. Now the guest account is gone. But all the 7 year old has to do is go into setting and do a factory reset and that will go back to

adb shell settings put global guest_user_enabled 1

Right?

How do I win this password war? I'm older. I have to win.


texts: I just bought Xperia x10 and upgraded it to Android 2.1 but I am struggling with themes. I have downloaded couple of them from the market but I do not know how to install them. How do I change themes for Android 2.1?


texts: How to force google reader app to download mp3s

texts:
When I subscribe to podcast RSS feeds with the google reader app then click the link to the mp3 Google reader starts streaming it with the selected media player rather than downloading the mp3 file to the sdcard like the webbrowser does.

Is there anyway to force it to download the actual mp3 file?


texts: Is there a way to use my phone as a SIP GSM gateway, so I can make and receive cellular calls using a SIP phone and/or re-route them through a SIP PBX?


texts: Songs from Google Play don't show up on phone

texts:
I'm trying to make a custom calendar notification on my mom's Samsung Galaxy S3 (Android 4.1.1) because the built-in ones are too short for her to hear. This article says I can move a music file to the notification folder in MyFiles.

So I bought a song from Google Play and looked for the file on her phone. Wasn't there. Checked every folder, but no luck.

Did some more searching and found this article from Google Play troubleshooting how to get songs to show up on your phone. Absolutely none of the menu options even existed on my mom's phone, so it was completely unhelpful.

Tried to search for how other people added songs as ringtones from Google Play on their phones. I found quite a few articles addressing it. They all said to add the ringtone from the Music Player app. Checked the Music Player app, and the song wasn't there.

That might explain why the song doesn't exist on her phone, except I can play the song on her phone through the Play Music app. I clicked "Keep on Device," but the song still doesn't seem to exist.

How do I get the song I bought from Google Play to show up as a file on my mom's phone?

However, if anyone provides a quick way to skip all this mess and just make the notifications last longer, that would be appreciated too.


texts: Where does memu android simulator save applications files?

texts: I know that most Android phones save apk files and applications in the android/data folder but when I enter there is none of my already installed applications. Is there anywhere can I find them?


texts: Stopping an app from hijacking browser downloads

texts:
I have an app (EBookDroid) that automatically opens all PDF links instead of letting me download them. Is there any way to stop this without uninstalling the app?

I'm on unrooted Android 4.2 and using Chrome as my browser.

Note that EBookDroid has no defaults set. If I open a PDF with a file manager then I'm given the option to choose an app to open it with.


texts: TWRP 3.3.0 cannot decrypt data partition (of Android 9)

texts:
I just updated to TWRP 3.3.0 from older PitchBlackTWRP but now TWRP does not ask for the password any more. Tried manually decrypting and manually wiping from TWRP terminal. Did not help.

recovery --wipe_data
twrp decrypt <your password>

How does Android encryption work? Does TWRP need except the password some device key?

Booting the system still works fine, so still everything is available what's needed for decryption.

Yes, I saw TWRP OnePlus 5T not asking for encryption password , but the solution did not help. And I am not allowed to comment.

Should I reinstall PitchBlack-TWRP?

ps. I don't need the data, did a backup before.


texts: How can I sync all folders from an Exchange server (not just the Inbox)?

texts:
I am using a Samsung Galaxy S2 (Android 2.3.4) and have set up the native email app to synchronize with an MS Exchange 2007 server. The problem I am noticing is that I'm only notified for a new email if it is sent to my Inbox folder. I have to sync my other folders one-by-one.

Is there any sync all option?


texts:
Sometimes I want to access my phone without unlocking the SIM cards (yes, two of them, so two PINs). It may be that I just want to play some games, and I know that there is no coverage so I do not care about missing calls.

How can I avoid entering the PIN but being able to unlock the phone itself?

Note: removing PIN for normal SIM access is not an option.


texts:
Today I got an automated text from my wireless provider saying I'd gone over my text limit. This is odd because I send maybe 50 texts a month. When I logged into their customer site I found over 3000 photo texts had been sent in the last two days!

Some background: ever since the Kit Kat upgrade I'd had trouble with the stock messaging app so I test drove a couple of SMS apps before deciding on TextSecure. I've had it for the last few weeks and it seemed to be working fine. However after finding out about this problem I uninstalled that and went back to the stock app.

So the questions are: is there some way I can tell which app sent the rogue texts? The wireless provider's site lets me know the number that it sent to (a bogus number @icmms1.sun5.lightsurf.net) but not which app actually did the sending. I'm wondering if Android logs that somewhere. Also, is there a way to block outgoing texts?


texts: Instagram videos shown upside-down on BlueStacks

texts:
I'm using the latest version of BlueStacks.
I have installed my Instagram account on BlueStacks.
It is for the time that I work on my PC instead of my phone.
All the videos are showing upside-down.

Is there any way to fix it?


texts: File Explorer doesn't show SD card (Android 10)

texts:
I know that this question appears in various forms a lot on the Internet, but I just can't seem to find my solution.
If I open Files, only "Internal storage" appears at the bottom. Where's my SD card?
The SD card is mounted and it works. It appears under Settings -> Storage.
I heard that since recently Android takes the SD card and incorporates it into the total storage, so that external memory isn't distinguishable anymore. (I'm a complete newbie). But the math doesn't add up. Files says I have 20 GB free -- so where are my SD card's 64 GB?
Proof that the SD card works: I installed Minecraft, and it works. But when I search in Files for "mojang" or "minecraft", there's no folder. So where are Minecraft's folders hiding?
If I connect the tablet to a PC with a USB cable, again I see only "Internal storage", nothing else.
I tried to unmount and remount the card, to no avail. I tried a 3rd-party files explorer, to no avail.
What am I doing wrong?


texts: In tasker, trigger when airplane mode is turned off

texts:
Using Tasker, I'd like to send an SMS when Airplane Mode goes from 'On' to 'Off'.

I can see a state called 'Airplane Mode' however I can't work out how to detect the transition from 'Airplane Mode On' to 'Airplane Mode off'.


texts: ART makes Facebook app non installable (Error: -24)

texts:
I have an Android 4.4.2 phone and I enabled ART instead of Dalvik.

When I go to the Google Play Store and try to install Facebook, it can't install the app.

I get two errors, sometimes I get

  Invalid installation package

and sometimes

  Error -24

Is there a way to know what's going on?


texts: I want to delete my whatsapp history from my stolen device. How can I do that?


texts: How can I get ClockworkMod Recovery to properly use /sdcard on an encrypted Galaxy Nexus?

texts:
I have a Galaxy Nexus (toro) device. It's flashed with the latest touch ClockworkMod recovery image, along with a milestone snapshot of CyanogenMod 11.

Now, when I try to pick a zip file to flash from the SD card, ClockworkMod gives me an error that it can't mount /sdcard. The Galaxy Nexus has no internal SD card, so I assume that it can't mount properly because it's already there (there is an /sdcard directory, it's just stored on the internal flash memory and so can't be mounted). So far I've been using sideload to flash things, but it'd be nice if I could push files to the SD card. It's worth mentioning that I have data encryption turned on.

How can I tell ClockworkMod that /sdcard doesn't need to be mounted, because it's stored on the internal flash?

I have read this related question, but it appears to be about mounting problems due to the locked-down nature of most Samsung Galaxy devices. I have no such problem, having a Nexus device.


texts: Can I use my ipod touch as a wireless camera over bluetooth or wifi and watch it on my droid x?

texts: Just like the title says. I need something to work like a wireless spy camera.


texts: where are the backed up chat and messages stored on google acccount

texts: I want to delete specific messages (what's up chat and SMS) backed up to my google account. I am not getting a way to delete some messages from google account. The data I want to delete is few years back(2-3 years). And if we do so, do we get any confirmation email ? I don't want to delete all the back up data. And if deleted now, will that be recovered, if yes, how can that be done ? In short, i want to delete the backed up chat and SMS, how can be done that? I use Redmi note 6 pro mobile. And is possible, can that be recovered? if  yes, how ?


texts: Infinite time lapse using with cloud storge

texts:
I was looking for a solution that would send my backup directly to cloud so that my phone memory would not fill up.
I am trying to make a very long time lapse (many frames over long period of time).

I was trying to use tasker to setup a loop job to take pictures and after some time (presumably after they are backed up to google photos) delete the file. Yet deleting the file resulted in photo being deleted from google photos too...

Any suggestions? Maybe I have not tried all Andorid time lapse apps or maybe some premium version of one has this kind of feature?


texts: How do I type a tabulation character on an Xperia?

texts:
I imported my notes from my Palm Centro into Note Everything and the tab characters in my existing notes show up correctly.

But how do I type a tab character on my Xperia X10?


texts: Using multiple Google accounts in device but don't want some of them to show up anywhere in Hangouts app's menu

texts:
I have five different Google accounts (my personal Gmail account used as the primary account and others for different Google Apps for Business email addresses), Gmail, Hangouts, and more, all work fine for each account. However, I don't use Hangouts on three of the accounts, and I'd prefer that I not even see these accounts in the Hangouts app.

While I can sign out of the unused accounts they still show up in the menu in the Hangouts app. Is there anyway to disable the Hangouts app entirely for specific Google accounts?


texts: New Gboard dual language suggestions, how do I disable it?

texts:
Recently the Google keyboard has activated suggestions for both of my selected languages.  This is a real nuisance since the suggestions are a mess IMO.

How can I disable it and go back to switching languages manually?


texts: What to do before reformatting phone or setting back to factory state?

texts:
Recently it seems as if my phone has bogged down to a point where is is almost unusable (Droid Eris running 2.1).

I'm on the verge of reformatting or setting back to a factory state. I was wondering what things should I do to make sure I have all my contacts/pics/etc.. and what tools can help me accomplish this?  Also what about the apps I have paid for?  How can I get those to transfer?


texts: How can I reset my phone without losing everything?

texts: I have a Samsung Galaxy S I9000, it keeps lagging; freezing and turning on and off by itself. I want to reset it, if I do will I lose all my photos, contacts etc etc..? I can't figure out how to transfer everything on to my SD card.


texts: Can I use the same google account on 2 differnt Samsung G5 Phones?

texts: My husband and I are tired of multiple e-mail and accounts and would like to use the same Google account on both of our phones. Is this possible? This would also help us stream line contacts. I have not been able to find anything on-line about the account itself only in using the same Google play or how to set up seeing a Gmail account from another phone.


texts: Can I get a mobile view for every web page on the Internet?

texts:
Is there an app that lets you view a tiny-screen-optimized version of any web page, whether or not it was coded with this in mind?

Opera's "Mobile View" is like this, but it doesn't give satisfactory results on many pages.  Arc90's "Readability" bookmarklet is also in the similar vein.


texts: Flashing GApps from Recovery, getting Error Code: 20

texts:
When I try to flash GApps right after flashing LineageOS with TWRP I get,
Updater process ended with ERROR: 20
Error installing zip file '/sdcard/open_gapps-arm64-10.0-micro-20201114.zip

What is the cause of this problem, how can I fix it?


texts: Can i delete old WhatsApp database backup without affecting the chat?

texts: WhatsApp data is taking around 700 mb of internal storage which excludes media. If I delete all the database backup except for the latest one, will my all previous chats get deleted? I don't want to delete any of my chat


texts: Simply, how to root a Sony Xperia SP device?


texts: How can I change preferred network type through a script (or terminal command)

texts:
I'm currently attempting to create a workaround for a problem that is plaguing a ROM that I'm using. While my phone and ROM are capable of using LTE, and use it perfectly fine, the "preferred network type" dropdown under Mobile Network settings will only allow one to choose 2G or 3G, not LTE. I can change the preferred network to LTE by using the TEST settings, but this is cumbersome, and doesn't stick after a reboot.

My goal is to write a script that will launch at startup and change the preferred network type to "LTE/GSM auto (prl)". Is there a command to do such a task, and if so, what is it?


texts: Huawei P20 lite double grey circle in screen?

texts:
I had my phone (Huawei P20 lite) in ultra battery saving mode and manually set the light to lowest possible (went hiking for 2 days and tried to save as much battery as possible) and when I tried to use it during the day, everything was so dark I didn't knew what I was pressing.

Since then, I have additional grey "button" on screen, which does...something weird. If I just put finger on it, I can drag it across the screen and leave it wherever I want. But, if I hold my finger on it for ~2 seconds, then it acts like a cursor and if I move it left/right/up/down, it just does same thing as I would press the most right button on the bottom of the phone (square).

How can I disable this "action" or how it is even called? I would take a print screen of the desktop, but the circle isn't shown on it. But here's a drawing, how it looks like.


texts:
Is it possible to view the last successful sync of my IMAP and Exchange accounts in the Mail app of an HTC Evo 3D?
I just switched from an iPhone 4 and there it said in the bottom of the mail app when that account was last synchronized.
For me it is quite important, because at work the signal is so weak that the sync often fails. When I am waiting for an important mail it is good to know when the mail accounts were last updated.


texts: Accept calendar invite appears tentative

texts:
I'm using BlueMail to manage emails on my phone. Lately, whenever I accept a meeting request for work, my reply to event organizers shows up as tentative.

I'm using Samsung calendar.

Any ideas?


texts:
How to Remap the
Hardware Buttons On
Your Android Phone

texts: I want my return hardware button (capacitive touch buttons) to turn into recent apps button. Please help me out. I don't use return button enough.


texts: Update Nexus 9 to Android 7.1 and stuck in Google screen

texts:
I just tried to update my Nexus 9 from Android 7 to 7.1
Unfortunately the system now seems to be in an endless loop of "Google" screen and black screen (maybe rebooting?)
Goes on for hours, nothing happens...
So far i found out this was a big issue back then for the Android 6 Update - and sometimes the system was that fucked up, that the only solution was sending it back to the retailer...
Didn't find anything about the same problem with 7.1 - and i hope Google didn't repeat its big mistake here???
Would be happy about any help or tips :(


texts: How do I include contacts when searching in Google Maps?

texts:
When I search for "Joe" in the Google Maps application, I'd like it to include "Joe Smith" from my Google contacts. How might I make this happen?

I'm using CyanogenMod 11-20140604-NIGHTLY-hammerhead (on a Nexus 5, "hammerhead").


texts: Installing CM13 Nightly as MultiRom in TWRP fails

texts:
I've downloaded cm-13.0-2015-1209-NIGHLY-flo.zip and tried to install it as MultiROM in TWRP 2015-06-30 (v2.8.7.0) on my Nexus 7 (2013 wifi):

Advanced → MultiROM → Add ROM → Zip File.

But installing fails:

What to I have to do to make the install succeed?


texts: My Nexus 4 always recognised as ADB device instead of MTP

texts: I plugged in Nexus 4 to my windows machine(XP Service Pack 2) and it didnt recognise or install any software automatically. I downloaded some ADB drivers from google and now it shows up as recognised device(that is ADB device) in the Device Manager, but it is not recognized as MTP . because of this i am not able to tranfer data into my phone or vice versa...


texts: Customize the Controls when in Chrome Kiosk Mode

texts:
I am using the Google Chrome Kiosk mode to display some internal websites used at our company.
The Android 10 Devices are implemented in Enterprise Mode with Microsoft Intune MDM.
There I can create a Shortcut through the managed Google Play Store - where I can set up the rough appearnce of the kiosk Mode.
So far so good. But I am stuck at customizing it further, which is very crucial in given scenario. - Sometimes its needed to actually close the browser and start with a new session. - But the session should be retained when simply switching to another app for example.
The switching works, but there is no "Exit Browser" button, instead it has "Share" and "open in Google Chrome" features which are not needed and could be also removed.
Any Ideas?


texts: How to use XMPP/Jabber while switching between networks?

texts:
When running a Jabber client what happens (or what should happen) when switching networks (or when losing connectivity and the GSM/UMTS modem reconnects)?

Can a mobile Android Jabber client (e.g. Jabiru) be smart about such situations?

Worst case scenario I can imagine: Client does not care, TCP (over TLS) connection to the Jabber server is lost, the Jabber status (displayed remotely) is bogus and there is a time window where messages (from buddies) are lost.

I observed such a worst case for example with a stock Jabber client on a Laptop using an unreliable UMTS connection.

When using a Laptop I can easily shield my Jabber session like this:

connect via autossh to a system with a stable network connection and directly run screen -Rd
start a console Jabber client inside screen

Thus, when losing the mobile internet connection the connection to the Jabber server is still fine. And autossh automatically reconnects and re-attaches to the running screen session when a new mobile connection is up.

Is a setup similar to this necessary when using Jabber on an Android device?

Or are there Jabber protocol extensions for mobile clients that actually help to avoid losing messages etc. in network on/off situation (while being connected to a Jabber server)?


texts: Do a Fairphone 2 backup without Google-Services

texts:
I ran into some problems with my Fairphone 2 and it has to be fully replaced. So I'd like to backup my information including contacts, sms, wi-fi passwords and if possible too Whatsapp-conversations.

Now it's not like Fairphone doesn't provide a tutorial for backing up your phone. The issue is it completely relies on Google Services and means I'm going to store all kinds of private information voluntary on random Google-Servers.

As I'm also using that phone for work and university I was advised NOT to share everything with Google.

I have been trying Titanium-Backup, but for that it's necessary to root the phone. (Well, and before I do that I'd surely like to backup everything so...)

So Helium seems to be a good option. The app is downloaded and on my Linux I got the their scrips, connected my phone, opened the app and typed:

qohelet@ubuntu:~/Downloads/linux$ ./run.sh
error: device not found

adb is installed.

I switched on the USB-Debugging as asked and it wants to use the PTP instead of the MTP (which I think I did, but nothing changed).

Installed Chrome and used Helium as a Chrome-App instead. No changes still.

I'm pretty much suck now. Fairphone doesn't offer any other support than relying on Google to solve that issue for them and I'm not aware of other backup-options.

What's the easiest way to do a backup?


texts: Where does Google Pixel take caller ID from?

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I made an outbound call to a business today and the caller ID displayed was that of a completely unrelated business in a different geographical location (so would have a different (UK) area code).
Does Google perhaps pull this data from business profiles on the search engine and how can I report the inaccuracy?


texts: Lost data after SIM card change on Samsung Galaxy J5

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I changed my mobile operator and needed to use a new SIM card, so I turned off my Samsung Galaxy J5, replaced the old card with the new one and restarted the phone. After rebooting I noticed that all my messages and photos were gone. Unfortunately, when I put the old card again, the data was still lost.

I have  a couple of questions. Firstly, why was the data lost? Is that some kind of security mechanism to reset the phone when a new SIM card is used? Can it be configured in the settings? I didn't recall having similar problems before on other android smartphones.

Secondly, was the data really erased or is it possible that the photos are still somewhere on the phone, but due to the cards swap I can't see them? I checked all the folders on my phone after plugging it to my laptop, and the photos seem to be really gone, but I want to make sure before trying to use any recovery software.

And the last question - if the data was really lost, is it possible to recover it with unrooted phone? It seems that I can't force my phone to connect with USB mass storage mode, so using apps like Recuva is not possible. All the other Android specific apps that I found required the phone to be rooted. Are there any alternatives?


texts: Nexus 5: /storage/emulated/0 not mounted

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Everything was working fine, and then one day I noticed some errors coming from Google Play store and I couldn't access any of my media. It seems that my external storage in /storage/emulated/0 is not mounted and that applications are looking for data there and not finding it.
I'm using MultiRom, so I flashed a new CyanogenMod 11 ROM and the same thing happened.
I tried CyanogenMod 12 ROMs but they don't seem to boot at all.
I also noticed that my date and time were not right and Whatsapp kept on telling me my date and time are not accurate even though I set them correctly.
I also installed Ubuntu on my phone using MultiROM and for some reason it appears to still be working fine so far so for now I'm using that.
Can anyone help me with this?


texts: Was driving home today from a trip up north and decided to check my journey on Google's location history after I got back. Phone is a Nexus 5 running Android 5.0. The locations mostly correct apart from one obvious wild location - which is clearly impossible. Any ideas what could have happened?


texts: Sony Xperia X Rooting issue when the unlock bootloader flag is set to no

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I am trying to unlock a Sony Xperia X that was locked to a Canadian carrier (Freedom). The previous owner sold me the phone unlocked (SIM) but he failed to unlock the bootloader.

I followed the instructions here and realized that the rooting status states that boot-locker unlock is set to no.

I also got the developer options enabled and made sure that the OEM unlocking is set to true and USB debugging set to true.

Next I ran adb devices and my device shows up.

However I ran fast-boot devices after starting the phone in bootloader mode (Volume Down + insert USB cable), it doesn't recognize any device.

I am wondering: is there any way I can get around Sony's restrictive Boot-loader unlock setting and get root on my phone? I desperately need to get rid of some bloatware.


texts: MTK Logger, MTK Android Suite Daemon, and omacp

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I've got an Acer E380 running Android 4.2. I suddenly seem to have a load of "apps" in the Settings > Apps > All list, such as:

MTK logger
MTK android suite Daemon
omacp, and others

These all have worryingly high amounts of permissions - all are allowed to send texts, call numbers, access, modify and create contacts, accounts, etc. I have no recollection of installing these, and it looks to me to be some form of virus (and a little research online seems to back this up).

I've run Kaspersky and AVG virus scans, yet they say my device is clean - so I'm now at all as to what to do? Is this a virus and if so, how do I remove it, as there seems to be no APK files that has caused it.

PS. I'm not afraid of a factory reset either!


texts: Where to get a Native Clock application for Galaxy Y?

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I have deleted the Native Clock application on my rooted Galaxy Y. Now I can't set alarms and such. Anyway to undo this or at least anywhere I can get the native clock app on android?

I tried searching at Google but nothing relevant came up.


texts: Delete words from the built-in dictionary?

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Using Android 6. Auto correct usually works very well, so I don't want to turn it off. However on some occasions it stubbornly 'corrects' some words which I don't want, which is extremely inconvenient.

These words are not in my personal dictionary. I've tried the following:

add the word I want to my personal dictionary
add the word I want to the 'all languages' dictionary
add the wrong word (to which it tends to autocorrect) to the custom dictionary and then remove that
repeatedly type in the word and when it autocorrects, click it and set it back to what it was, hoping that Android will learn my preference (I really tried this many many interations)

It's driving me nuts. How do I force Android NOT to autocorrect certain words? Or rather, how do delete some words from its own dictionary?

P.S. I know several similar questions like these were posted before, but they were all either outdated (apparently referring to much older Android versions) or the posted answers didn't work (I've tried them all). Quite some references to Android in 2011 are no longer relevant.

P.P.S. I'm using a Nexus 5, default built-in keyboard.


texts: Water Damage to Droid 4 Non Removable Battery

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I dropped my Droid 4 in a clean toilet.  The battery is not removable so I am concerned that waiting 2 or 3 days while it "drys out" in rice is a complete waste of time.  I am hoping someone can tell me if there is any hope that it may function normally again or should I buy a new one.

I'm not a patient person so waiting for it to dry out is sort of annoying.


texts: It would be nice if the name was pre-filled if it actually presented when I dial it. What happens is that I dial a number and when I do that, I often see the name of the company or person that I am calling or the other way, someone calls my phone (Samsung S10) and I see the name of the caller. But then when I try and add the number to my contacts there is not that name pre-filled or looked up, I must manually type it. Is there any functionality or app for manipulating the names of the contacts like pre-filling it when the number is added or even let a user control his own name at the other end, or even allow me to only display my name and not my number at the other end, or even change my number at all my connections without them noticing?


texts: Get profile photo to Android contact manager for non-friend contact from Facebook

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I would like to know if is possible import a Facebook profile photo to contact manager for contacts which I don't have in my friend list on Facebook.

For example:

In Android, I have this contact: "John Smith".
On Facebook, there also exists some John Smith, but I don't have a John Smith in my friends list on Facebook.
I would like add his photo from Facebook to the contact manager in Android.


texts: How do I move or copy files from /storage/emulated/0?

texts: /storage/emulated/0 is read only and when I try to copy (also when I try to move) files from it to my real SD card,  I get a 'read-only' error. I have a Samsung Galaxy Mega with Jelly Bean 4.2.2 and I get this failure with four different file management apps,  and also when trying to add the files into a Zip archive.


texts: my phone is not booting or cant access to recoverymode

texts: I tried to root myGT- i8262 with many apps but it didnt worked and i tried using Odin,after i added TWRP it showed pass in odin window and when my phone was booting it showed a yellow triangle with an exclamation mark,so retried the procedure about 3-4 times and still it was not gone and i couldnt enter my recovery mode,and after searching internet i saw to recover from soft brick use recovery.tar using odin,i done that also and bow my phone doesnt starts ,when i hold the power button it showa samsung name with yellow triangle and screen turns off.please help me.


texts: How do I sync all mail folders on my HTC Desire?

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The mail application only synchronizes the inbox, both for IMAP and Exchange accounts.

I auto-sort my mail into folders at the server and need to see all folders in the phone to not miss any e-mails.

Do I need a different mail-application to poll subfolders or what?


texts:
Does somebody knows how can I lock the ADW launcher dock icons so with that I can't move or delete any of those?

Why I want that: Because sometimes I click on an icon on the dock and ADW moves it out of the dock. The same behaviour like I was holding that icon, but without holding it. It's very annoying.


texts: Can you allow certain contacts to bypass the silent mode on Huawei P20 pro?

texts: is there a way you can allow certain contacts to bypass the silent mode on a Huawei P20 pro? I like my phone on silent through the night but need to have a certain contact to be able to ring (elderly relative) Not a problem when I had an iPhone but can't find a way on this new phone. Thanks in advance!


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This specific huawei mobile I have is known to be very hard to root or not able to be rooted at all. I will add the specs below in this description if needed.
Huawei Y538 - Android 5.1
API5.1 (22)
FLASH_SIZE8 GB


texts:
Why does the arrangement of app icons change (to alphabetical order), and why do folders get deleted, on every update of the Android version?

Follow up Qs:
1. How can I prevent this from happening?
2. Is there a way to restore the previous arrangement, after the update (if I did not follow your answer to Question 1) or does it have to be done manually?


texts: How can I pin offline tracks at a lower bitrate with Google Play Music?

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I'm using an HTC One S running Android 4.2 (actually Cyanogenmod 10.1).

I recently uploaded my entire music library to Google Play Music, and have started using the Google Music app on my phone.

I'd like to be able to "pin" a bunch of music that I can always have on my phone (I don't have a data plan). The app allows this, but you can't select the bitrate or anything like that.

Is there way to force the app to download the music at a lower bitrate so that I can store more? I'm running out of space too quickly.

I believe it's downloading everything at 320kbps, which is overkill for a mobile device that I use with earbuds. I'd be plenty happy with 128kbps. The app allows some changes to the bitrate when streaming music, but I can't find anything related to music that's pinned on the device.

My phone doesn't have an SD card slot, so I can't just add more storage.

Is there any way of doing this? Failing that, are there any third party clients that could utilize my Google Music library with more customization options for pinning music?


texts: Will the Android M developer preview get an OTA update to the stable release version?

texts: If I install the Dev Preview 3 on my Nexus 5 right now, will I get an OTA to the stable build or will I have to flash it as well?


texts: How to extract a raw apk out of installed application?(Raw for reverse eng purpose)

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So I developed an application but my hard drive failed and I lost access to project resources, but I had it previously installed on my phone through android studio debugging process.
Now I want to extract a raw apk version out of my phone, Is there any way?
NOTE that any regular apk extraction through Google Play applications outputs a ~700kb apk of my project that lacks resources and cant be reversed, while it has to be ~4.4mb.


texts: Why is it that whenever I partition my sd card outside CWM it doesn't get recognized by my phone?

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I have a Samsung Galaxy Ace, running on its official CM7 ROM. I have an 8gb sd card and I just want to make a clean install of everthing starting with the sd card's partition.

I've had sd-ext partition troubles when I partitioned my sd card using CWM, so I went and did it using GParted. Currently it has:

6+ Gb FAT32 primary partition
1 Gb EXT4 logical partition

It gets recognized by my laptop, no problem. But my phone won't even detect it. Any ideas why this is happening? Thanks.


texts: Google Play updates on mobile connection despite setting

texts: Even though I have set the option not to update apps on mobile connection, it still updates them and Google Play app is the number one in my mobile connection usage. How to fix it?


texts: Why does Chrome open links from wonderlandads.com on scrolling?

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I have been seeing this problem for a long time in my Android mobile devices and laptop Chrome browser.

When I try to scroll down a page, the browser just hangs for a microsecond and then automatically opens a link (wonderlandads.com/...php)

This wonderlandads tab has random ads in case of laptop, and in case of mobile it says virus detected!

Anybody has any idea how to deal with this?

P.S.:- I googled about overcoming this but did not find any related problem. So I am curious to know whether this issue is related to my Google account and spreads itself on devices where I open my Google account, or is this a Google bug/some sort of virus? I have tried uninstalling all the Chrome extensions.


texts: I have an HTC m8. The other day I sat it flat on my desk. Every time I would pick it up, the screen would automatically unlock and light up. My thoughts were that's neat how have I never noticed this before, it knows when I pick up the phone. Today I cant get it to do it. I've tried all different positions on flat surfaces and it simply will not wake up upon being picked up. Any thoughts?


texts: Unable to Install more Apps in Micromax Unite 2

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I have Micromax Unite 2, in which 1GB RAM, 1GB Phone Storage, 8 GB Internal SD Card.
I have just installed few apps like whatsapp, facebook, skype and Microsoft Lync. After installed these apps, phone storage full around 90%, there's left 100MB space and no more app able to install hence i bought 16GB External SD card and set it default storage in Setting but after this, i am still getting same issue.
I have tried to move app but there's just skype able to move in Ext SD Card.

I just want to know that if phone storage has been full then app should install in internal or external card but that's not happening....

so please tell me anyone that it's Micromax Unite 2 drawback or it's just issue in my phone.


texts: How do I send text messages multiple recipients on CyanogenMod 9?

texts: How do I send text messages to multiple recipients on  CyanogenMod 9? I don't see any contacts icon in my messaging app i.e, ICS Messaging App. Is there any way to do it? I am using an HTC Wildfire S.


texts: How can I disable the Wi-Fi connection of my Android phone from my laptop?

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Is it somehow possible to control the Wi-Fi connection of my Android phone from my laptop to disable (not only disconnect) the Wi-Fi connection of my phone if both my phone and my laptop are connected to the same network?

USB-Debugging is enabled on this device.


texts: How to turn off red-dotted-underline spelling check when text-messaging?

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I've updated my HTC Desire HD A9191 to Android 2.3.3 and now I don't know how to get rid off the spelling check (red dotted underline) when text messaging. The underlining isn't present when typing in Evernote's application, for example. It is strictly text-messaging issue.

There's no spelling-check option in message settings. I've tried turning on and off spelling check under Settings->Language & Keyboard->Touch Input->Text input->Spell correction and it didn't do anything either way. I don't have enabled neither 'Prediction' nor 'Word completion'. Google search didn't find anything about red dotted underline on Androids either.

Why would I want to disable spelling check? Androids don't support my locale the way they should (QWERTZ instead of QWERTY), so I'm forced to use German locale. Which is fine, I'd use English as a system language anyway. But the spelling check is underlining non-German words, which is obviously annoying to me as a non-German native speaker.


texts: How does Titanium Backup work? When will it not work?

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How does it know what to back up? Can an app have data that TB won't know about or that TB won't back up?

Other than restoring a Jellybean backup to a Gingerbread phone, how else will Titanium Backup fail to restore apps or will destabilize my phone?

I need to be sure I don't lose data as I reset ROMs or phones or switch between two ROMs or phones.


texts: My Galaxy y s5360 is not detecting the sd card?

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I am using the Galaxy Y (S5360) with Gingerbread.

A few days ago my mobile stopped detecting any charger or usb. After some time it started working again but it still wouldn't connect via usb to a PC so I can't access my SD card.

I have reset my mobile also but I am still having the same problem.


texts: Micro SD gets corrupted after every restart

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I own a 128GB Micro SD card from Sandisk which I know is perfectly fine and healthy. It is formatted in exFAt and worked perfectly with my Samsung S5. Now I bought a Samsung S7 and I replaced the card from my S5 to my S7. Since I did that my S7 running on stock Samsung Android 7.0 shows a window I have to format the card before I can use it... Off course I didn't do that since there is very important data on it. So I put it into a card reader connected to Windows which detected it as perfectly fine. I ran "scandsk x: /f" on it from within Windows and it said the file system is healthy and did not have to be repaired. After I eject it from Windows and put it into my S7... Android reads and writes it perfectly fine again... until I reboot my phone. Then the format screen shows up again. This loop keeps on going infinite...

Android 7.0: extSD is corrupted -> Windows 10: checkdsk /f: card fine -> Android 7.0: extSD reads -> Android reboot -> Android 7.0: extSD is corrupted -> Windows 10: checkdsk /f: card fine -> ...

So anyone got the same issue and found a solution?


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As you can see in the screen shot my device recognises I have ~.5 gig of storage left, but I have an impossible amount of apps. When I moved a 230 MB app from SD to phone the apps storage when from 5.18 GB to 5.15 GB. I was confused so am wondering if any of you Android Enthusiasts know what is going on, and how to solve this issue (assuming this is an issue)

Edit: Diskinfo

This is after I installed disk info so the numbers will be diffrent than my original screenshot

--------------------------
 Internal Storage (MMC)
--------------------------
 * System [mmcblk0p30] (/system) [ext4]
   Used: 1.2 GB, Free: 329 MB, Total space: 1.5 GB
 * Cache [mmcblk0p31] (/cache) [ext4]
   Used: 9.6 MB, Free: 290 MB, Total space: 300 MB
 * Data (userdata) [mmcblk0p32] (/data) [ext4]
   Used: 4.6 GB, Free: 555 MB, Total space: 5.1 GB
--------------------------
 SD Card
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 * External SD [mmcblk1p1] (/mnt/media_rw/external_SD, /mnt/secure/asec, /storage/external_SD) [vfat]
   Used: 10.9 GB, Free: 18.4 GB, Total space: 29.3 GB

Edit: disk usage


texts: My Android YouTube App won't play certain codecs but plays others just fine

texts:
The Android YouTube app on my phone won't play any video with the vp09.00.51.08.01.01.01.01 codec, which seems to be every main stream, popular video.

My Android YouTube app will play videos with avc1.4d401e (134), which tend to be obscure low view videos. The only way I know how to check the codec is to look up the video from a desktop browser, right click the video and click "stats for nerds".

There are no errors shown in the app. The screen simply shows black and the audio plays normal.

YouTube works fine in the phone's browser, but not the app. I've uninstalled, reinstalled, cleared the cache, restarted the phone, and several combinations of all the above and can't get my YouTube app to work right.

Is there a way to update the codecs, or some other insight how to resolve the problem?

Edit:

The phone is a Korean model LG v20 F800L, so what Hax0 says makes perfect sense. I'm testing his answer now.


texts: Accessing and Controlling an Android Device Remotely

texts:
I tried AirStream and AirDroid but like Teamviewer both are not successful and satisfactory.

What apps can be used for access, controlling and providing support for an android device from another android device and desktop computer?

Regards

GNS


texts: Preloading images over WiFi from New York Times app for Android?

texts:
I've set the NYTimes app to download over WiFi twice a day.  But it just downloads the articles, not the pictures.  So if I'm out and about, I either get no pictures or I burn cellular data.

How can I get this app to download the pictures over (free for me) WiFi?


texts: Android 5.0.2: Windows 10 does not recognize it in USB storage mode

texts:
I bought Prestigio MultiPhone 3504 Muze with Android 5.0.2. When I connect it to my PC with Windows 10 installed, I can't find the device in explorer.

How to connect my phone to PC?


texts: What is the minimum MicroSD speed necessary to extend the storage of an Android phone?

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I want to extended the storage of my Android phone be switching it to a MicroSD memory, as Android Marshmallow allows.

What is the minimum speed I need to use to avoid impacting performance? I am considering a SanDisk Ultra, but I wonder whether an Extreme will be better?

Are there any other aspects I need to check on the card to ensure compatibility?


texts: weird beeping when using the screen (galaxy s3)

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Whenever I use the screen it makes a beeping noise (two tones)
So if I am swiping or texting it will continually make the noise. Then sometime it won’t make the noise, and then it starts back up again when I’m using the devise.
Please help I still have 2 years left of contract
Turning off and on won’t help


texts: Warning message after doing backup in TWRP on Honor 8 (FRD-L09)

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When I do a backup in TWRP on my Honor 8 (FRD-L09), it invariably end with a message saying that it failed to unmount /system due to device or resource being busy. The header still says that the backup is complete, and that it was successful.

In case it makes a difference, I'm running FRD-L09C432B131, which is EMUI 4.1, Android 6.0. Kernel is 3.10.94 from 11 October 2016. This is what was installed on the phone when I got it. I got the bootloader unlock code from Huawei, by registering and applying for it. TWRP is 3.0.2-0 downloaded from here and flashed using fastboot on Windows 10.

Here's a photo of TWRP after finishing the backup:

Need I worry about this?


texts: How to forward all traffic over a VPN (without rooting) using Forwarding Routes

texts:
I noticed this feature in Android 4.2 but was wondering how you can use it to forward all traffic over a VPN connection? When editing a VPN under advanced settings it has a Traffic Routes option that you can put network identifier in that it will forward traffic for. Most people currently seem to root their phone and use SSH tunnels which seems a bit overkill for such a simple feature.

here's the screenshot of the input box I've mentioned.


texts: Why my LG G4 cannot boot or use TWRP custom recovery but cyanogenrecovery without problems?

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For several days I am trying to get TWRP custom recovery on my LG G4 h815 International. Currently the phone is unlocked and has Cyanogenmod 13 and cyanogenrecovery but without google gapps. I really want to have google gapps on the ROM but I am unable to flash with cyanogenrecovery Unable to flash gapps via cyanogenrecovery on a LG G4 (LG h815 Int). Therefore I want to replace cyanogenrecovery by TWRP recovery.

When I do fastboot boot twrp-3.0.0-0-h815.img, the phone boots normally.

When I do fastboot flash recovery twrp-3.0.0-0-h815.img a get no error and successfully flash but I cannot boot into recovery.

When I do fastboot boot cm-13.0-20160209-NIGHTLY-h815-recovery.img, the phone boots correctly into cyanogenrecovery but this recovery gives an error 70 when flashing gapps.
Flashing cm-13.0-20160209-NIGHTLY-h815-recovery.img is also successful and I can successfully boot into cyanogenrecovery.

For all nightlies of cyanogenrecovery I am able to boot in recovery and/or flash but all of them gives error 70.
For all of the 4 versions of TWRP https://dl.twrp.me/h815/ I cannot boot into them by using fastboot. Flashing al of them results to that I am completely unable to boot into recovery (also no cyanogenrecovery anomore).

Also I unchecked update cyanogenrecovery in developer options.

When flashing TWRP with flashify there is no error but also no boot into TWRP. Flasing cyanogenrecovery in flashify gives also no error and booting properly in that recovery.

Does anybody knows why I can boot into cyanogenrecovery without problems but booting into any version of TWRP seems to be impossible. I have the idea that my phone doesn't accept a TWRP recovery because of cyanogenrecovery boots without any problems after flashing.


texts: How does carrier/network lock work? How is it implemented?

texts:
I feel like I should have been able to find the answer to this, maybe I'm distracted or something, but does anyone know how carrier/network/sim lock actually works and if there are any workarounds? Say I wanted to make one of those unlocking services. What is the process?

I saw a couple answers from some years ago, they all seem fairly vague and as if it's actually an unknown, so I'm not sure if that's current information. It seems inevitable that someone would have leaked or reverse engineered that information by now, right?


texts:
I have a HTC Desire S. I have firmware updates but when i try to update the same. I rebooted in the updating process and the phone hangs there for hour (i waited for 4 hrs once). I tried to factory reset the mobile, still facing the same issue.

Note: The phone is rooted.

Do I need to visit HTC Service center or is there anything that I can do?


texts: Where can I see what the screen dimensions are of an Android mobile phone

texts:
I have a Samsung Galaxy S mobile phone, I can't seem to find the dimensions of the screen (apart from looking it up on the internet of course).

But in general: can you somewhere see the correct screen dimensions of a mobile device's screen ?


texts: My Nexus One cannot connect to Wi-Fi being broadcast by a Windows 7 laptop

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My Android (Google HTC Nexus One) is not detecting Wi-Fi being broadcast by my Windows 7 laptop. However, my iPhone can detect the laptop's network. Why is that?

Is there any solution for connecting my Nexus One?


texts: Charging works well with new USB cables only

texts: When trying to charge my android devices (Arc S and Nexus 7 (2013)), I noticed that when using new USB-cables, the charging process is going quite fast, but after some weeks (usually four-five) the charging process rapidly slows down, and some weeks later the devices don't charge anymore, i.e. resulting in the need of new cables. Is that a hardware failure, or why do I have to replace the cables every second to third month?


texts: I'm trying to get directions from two points on the map. I can't figure out how to do this in the mobile version of the site, so I switched to "classic" (desktop) mode. It says to right-click on the map to select a location. How do I right click? Long tap does not work. The stylus button does not work.


texts: Prevent apps from closing when phone is locked

texts:
On my Samsung Galaxy S5 (Running CyanogenMod 12.1), when the phone locks apps that are running (both foreground and background) stops, for ex: when I'm downloading a file on UC browser, it automatically closes once the screen is locked (includeing IM apps such as Whatsapp).
I have already checked if any such option is turned on in my RAM cleaner (I use Clean Master) and I also checked if powersaving mode is enabled, both are turned off.


texts: Disable device lock when pressing Gnex power button

texts:
When I press the power button on my Galaxy Nexus to turn off the screen, it immediately locks the phone, and I have to enter my code the next time I turn the screen back on.  However, if I let the screen timeout and turn itself off, I don't have to enter my code when I turn it back on.

This is highly annoying.  I'd prefer the device to only lock after a period of inactivity.  What's the best way to make that happen?


texts: Change user account in google hangouts samsung s3 mini

texts: I've just signed up to Google Hangouts but am using a shared phone, as my friend already has an account and is logged in I don't know how to add an additional gmail address to switch accounts within the app...is this possible? If so how can I do it? Any other way I can access my Google Hangout on the phone if not?


texts: Enabling File-Based Encryption/Direct Boot Android 9 OP3T

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I am trying to figure out how to enable file-based encryption on my OnePlus 3T with Android 9 Pie. The developer options from Android 7 Nougat are not present on my phone.

I have a custom ROM (Pixel Experience) installed.

I understand that I will have to wipe my data.

How do I enable the file-based encryption method/Direct Boot?


texts: Disable "Upcoming Alarm" Notification (without disabling alarm)

texts:
I'm fairly new to the Android platform so hopefully this is a silly question, but since I've had my Pixel (Pixel 1, Android 8.0.0), it's been giving me notifications for alarms I set in the Clock app two hours prior to their occurrence (disregard actual time in the screenshot). Note that I do not want to delete the alarm, just this notification about it.

 .

I know this isn't a huge issue, but it's just more annoying notification clutter that I don't want. What's weird is, I've apparently found the settings to change this behavior - but the toggle is disabled and I can't modify it.

Is there another way to do this that I'm missing, or a way to enable that toggle?


texts: How can I run a shell script when some WiFi is connected?

texts:
I have a really simple shell script, that just adds a route to my internal development machine. This is useful, as that machine has some LXC containers inside, so I can reach all my containers from my cell phone (to test websites from mobile browser, or Asterisk SIP accounts from CSipSimple)

#!/system/bin/sh
su -c "ip route add 10.0.3.0/24 via 192.168.0.200 dev wlan0"

To use this rule, I've created a new Local connection on ConnectBot, with the script name as login command. This works great.

However, I'm too lazy. I just want to know if there is some way to apply this script, as soon as I connect to my home WiFi automatically. Maybe something to execute a script on every network change, as I could check from same script if I'm connected to my home WiFi using dumpsys and some grep magic.


texts: Device with fake IMEI number that doesn't belong to me is shown under my Google Dashboard

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I have sync my google account on my samsung galaxy note 2 but recently i have lost it.

After few days when i was checking google dash board to recover my contacts, i saw 2 devices listed under my Android.

One device GT-N7100 is my own device whereas N7000 with fake imei (231961768368404) does not belong to me.

How is it possible.

I have given my phone for tracking by the police but now i am confused whether my handset imei is changed or it is showing someone else device under my google account.


texts: Turning on hotspot automatically turns off my Wi-fi in my Moto g4 plus

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With android kitkat (in my Moto g1), i could share my wi-fi via mobile hotspot. After upgrading to lollipop, turning on hotspot would turn off the Wi-fi which i thought was a bug.
Now to my surprise, it is happening in my new Moto G4 plus (marshmallow). If this is a feature, then i do not understand why it behaves like that. Is there a way i can share my wi-fi via mobile hotspot ? Sharing the 3G data does not make any sense to me.


texts: Grey Wifi and mobile data icon after upgrading to CM 10.2 20131102

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I had intermittent issues before with my Google syncing not working as it should (although I've always been able to go to google.com in the browser), rebooting usually solved it. However, after upgrading from an older 10.2 version to the latest one (via CMs own update functionality), both the Wifi icon and the mobile data icon stay completely grey. As usual, I have no issues with going to Google in the browser, so I'm suspecting this is a Gapps issue or something with the ROM.

Any ideas on what I can do to troubleshoot and/or solve this? I'll go ahead and try upgrading Gapps now and let you know how it goes.

This is not a duplicate with any question asking what this greyed out icon means, I'm asking specifically why the sync functionality stopped working with the upgrade (if anyone knows), and how to fix it (if possible).

edit I just realized I might be running 10.1 gapps on a 10.2 CM build, I'll update this if upgrading gapps solved the issue.


texts: Update.zip signing- different sha for the same file

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I am trying to flash a customized update.zip on a pre-Kitkat device.
In the zip there are 2 files with SHA1 signatures of other files in the update. But they have different signatures for the same files.
Example:
META-INF/MANIFEST.MF:
Name: system/lib/libcustom_jni.so
SHA1-Digest: +PhV5XphkQTNTyM2TSRTeiaDlCA=

META-INF/CERT.SF:
Name: system/lib/libcustom_jni.so
SHA1-Digest: 7ooFhqk1oYWF5pmVuSAhF2pFVNw=

I can get the first one using:
sha1sum system/lib/libcustom_jni.so | cut -d\  -f1 | xxd -p -r | base64
+PhV5XphkQTNTyM2TSRTeiaDlCA=

How is the second one computed? The second file has a hash of the first file, so maybe the other hashes are salted with the first file or something?
From what i found in java doc the SHAs should be identical, except all SHAs are the version 1 in the original update.zip.
It seems hat the certificate used to sign the update was the android test one so it should work, but aborts instead.


texts: Enable bootloader screen for Lenovo Vibe Z

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I pressed and held volume up key for sometime and my Lenovo Vibe Z is seems to be bricked (not charging or switching on). I would like to get into to the boot-loader screen to factory reset the device.
Two things:

Please help me with the key combinations required to get into boot-loader.
Or ways to unlock the boot-loader in Lenovo Vibe Z.


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I've got a Samsung / Google Nexus 10 tablet, and I'd like to find a way to use my AudioTechnica AT2020 USB condenser microphone with it. The microphone has a standard USB type B connector on it (similar to a printer), and the typical cable goes to a USB type A connector.

Does anyone know if there is any way to hook this up, so I can record audio with my tablet?


texts: Package file is invalid when trying to load Facebook

texts: When I try to load the Facebook app on my new Samsung Galaxy S3, I get an error of Package File is Invalid. I have been able to load other apps via Google Play store. Facebook seems to be the only one I'm having trouble with.


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I wonder if Android has support for IPv6? I have heard that the phone company I use has support for IPv6 and I have a IPv6 address if I visit http://ipv6.whatismyipv6.net.ipv4.sixxs.org/.

But I can not visit IPv6-only sites like http://ipv6.google.com, why is that? Does Android have support for IPv6?


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I get some files deleted when doing this, it happened twice and it doesn't happen anywhere else:

I download some mp4 files with Chrome or Brave, both in incognito mode, and directly to the microSD card, as the internal storage is almost full
for some reason, when choosing microSD as download folder, apps don't let you choose the folder, so they get downloaded to /Android/data/com.android.chrome/files/Download
media players don't seem to find that folder, so I use File Manager move them to /DownloadsSD also on microSD storage
I play them with MX Player, but at some random point they disappear (but other files that were in that folder before stay there, the only ones deleted are the newly downloaded ones)

The card is formatted as internal storage.
Do browsers delete files downloaded in incognito mode? Or maybe it has something to do with using the microSD card as internal storage?


texts: I get no ping repsonse to my phone. Why?

texts: I went to www.whatsmyip.org and got my public IP address for my phone.  Just for kicks and grins, I tried to ping it, but didn't get a reply.  Is ICMP turned off on my android phone?


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On my Wife's LG GT540, the calendar has 2x 3rd of April, as you can see in the following picture:

As funny as it is, it isn't very helpful...

I'm wondering if anyone else has heard of this and/or knows a solution?