texts: Random highlighting of settings on LineageOS 17.1

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After a fresh set up.
Each time i head to settings -> haptic feedback
I see one of the settings beeing highlighted 3 times.
I this behaviour normal and if yes can I disable it.
Thanks in advance!!!


texts: Use Bluetooth Headphones with Phone and Old Laptop

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I am wondering if there is a way for me to play audio that is coming into the headphone jack on my phone out of my phone's bluetooth. I have bluetooth headphones that do not work with my old laptop but I could easily plug a male-male headphone cable from my computer into my phone. If I did this is there a way to make the sound coming out of my laptop be played over my phone's bluetooth?

Alternative solutions are also encouraged, however I thought this one was the most plausible.


texts: Updating to LineageOS 17.1, replacing su with Magisk

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Up to 16.1, LineageOS provided su as an add-on, in the shape of an extra zip file which could be installed along with the OS itself using a recovery image such as TWRP.
However, with 17.1 they have discontinued their su addon and no longer support root access. Those who still want it are getting pointed to “one of the other su solutions out there”.
A quick search pointed me to Magisk as pretty much the only solution under active development. However, the install instructions are a bit confusing.
The device is a OnePlus One (bacon), upgrading from LOS 15.1. For now, I am just interested in having a replacement for what su offered up to LOS 16.1; any other features offered by Magisk are secondary to me.
Will it work if I just grab the latest Magisk zip from the Github release page and install it alongside the OS, through the recovery of my choice (currently on TWRP 3.2.2-0)? Or is using Magisk Manager a hard requirement?
Are there any major differences in UX over my current LOS + su setup?


texts: Music app overlay with control on volume level change

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I'm newbie in android world (recently switched from windows phone).
And I really miss the music overlay that comes into place when you press volume level button.

In desktop windows it looks like this, something like that on the phone.

I really miss this overlay hence it allowed to pause music fast and fluid. I can't do it now on my phone. Only option I offered is lock screen widget but it's not handy - I use my fingerpring to unlock phone and actually never see lockscreen. And while using phone I have to go into music app and switch track or use its widget. That's pretty annoing. Is there any options to have similiar with windows functionality here?


texts: Is there an app or setting available to increase video recording duration?

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My question is similar, but not identical to this one. Essentially I'd like to record videos of unlimited length on my android device(s) - that prior question seems to deal with a technical limitation: max filesize for FAT32. My issue is with an arbitrary limitation: the GNex uses EXT4 so max filesize isn't a reason to cut off my recordings at 30 minutes so I can only assume that this limit must be hard-coded into either the camera app or Android itself.

I understand that for many users you need to do some hand-holding and keep them from sucking down battery life, but I intend to record on a tripod while plugged in so none of that really matters to me. I'm also aware of an antiquated tax act in parts of Europe that heavily taxes devices that can record for > 30 minutes as "video recording devices" but I don't live in Europe and don't want to be limited by the obscure tax code of a country I don't even live in.

Is there a way to disable this limitation so the built-in camera app can record for > 30 minutes? Is there some alternate video recording app that doesn't have this limitation? Do the answers to these questions change if I root my phone?


texts: Can't reinstall Calendar Storage not via phone, adb nor Reflashing

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NOTE: I tried this, but links are broken and things don't work.. I tried googling those tough.

Phone: Umidigi Crystal (2GB RAM version)

I got an option under the developer options, to root. I checked it. Since I use
Google Calendar, I would get double notification from the android calendar, I accidentally tought Calendar storage was part of Android's too. Turns out Google's needs it. Here are my attempts to restore it:

Trying to restore from unistaller: a)Corrupted b)There already is that package (have searched all / for those names, no result) c)Try again later

Factory Resetting the phone: It didn't come back.

Trying to install a downloaded version of it (via adb and from phone, locally): Something conflicting with signatures I guess:

C:\Users\Laptop>adb install C:\Users\Laptop\Downloads\com.android.providers.calendar.apk
5135 KB/s (441556 bytes in 0.083s)
Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_SHARED_USER_INCOMPATIBLE: Package couldn't be installed in /data/app/com.android.providers.calendar-1: Package com.android.providers.calendar has no signatures that match those in shared user android.uid.calendar; ignoring!]

Trying to reflash: I have did, what I am told from multiple guides, but somehow SP Flash Tool just doesn't do anything.

Feel free to ping me for additional information, I really miss my calendar.
I am all good with backups, so I can freely factory reset it.
Right now I think, that easiest would be to get the flashing thing working.


texts: Mobile data can't connect (with exclamation mark) but wifi

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My phone is Motorola XT1033 dual-SIM (Lollipop 5.1)

* have active mobile-data internet packages
* can connect and open provider's website (to check package status & quota)
* valid APN settings (at least following provider's instruction)

There is a problem on mobile-data connection, see the differences here:

Data ON, Wi-fi OFF

* there is exclamation mark on mobile-data signal bar
* NOT connected to internet (even the signal is H)

Data ON, Wi-fi ON

* there is NO exclamation mark on mobile-data signal bar
* connected to internet

What I've tried so far

* reboot phone
* off-on mobile-data
* re-attach the SIM card
* install my SIM card to another handset (can't connect to internet)
* install another SIM card to mine (can connect to internet)

Does anyone have the same problem? I'm looking forward for the solution, thx


texts: Suspicious notification from "Find My Mobile"

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I just received a notification from Samsungs "Find My Mobile" service, without having triggered anything. The same thing happened to my work mate today morning.

As I almost never use my Samsung account, and never even configured this service, I assume one of the following:

Someone hijacked my Samsung account
Someone hijacked the Samsung system, affecting multiple user accounts
The responsible api call is lacking a permission check
Samsung itself did a test which went wrong

Does anyone know more about this?


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Why does an app have a different icon on my actual phone vs on Bluestacks and its Desktop Icon?

The icons do work, and are related to the app they're for.

The app is "Eternal Senia: Hydrangea after the Rain".

It's free, so you can check for yourself if you want.

The icon on my phone is Senia's head, while the one for Bluestacks is Rita's.


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I have a Nexus 5 with Kitkat 4.4.2 and have the Hangouts app as the SMS app. My friend has an Samsung Galaxy S Relay and also uses Hangouts app as SMS app. Whenever we send SMS to each other with emoticons, emoticons are not converted, instead we just see the text code for it. I'm baffled by this since we're using the same app for texting. I'd understand if it was like from an iPhone to Android, or something like that.

Any idea what could be causing this and how to fix it?


texts: Ordered i9300 from eBay - need help to understand what's going on

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I've ordered a new, unlocked i9300 from eBay, and I had some adventures with it:

I've unpacked it, inserted my SIM, powered it on, and found out that the phone always thinks that I'm roaming. Instead of trying to understand what's going on, I though: "I'll just install CyanogenMod and everything will be good".
I've installed CyanogenMod 10.2 (latest stable build), only to find out that my SIM is not being detected at all. It says that Baseband is unknown, IMEI and related are unknown as well.
After trying lots of stuff, I gave up and decided to return to stock ROM (4.3). While trying to do that, I bricked my phone, and the only thing I could do is enter Odin mode.
After reading dozens of tutorials and trying lots of stuff, I ended up flushing GT-I9300_mx_20120329.pit, and that unbricked my phone.
I successfully flashed Android 4.3. This version detected my SIM, displayed the Baseband/IMEI, but it didn't connect to the cellular network. I could scan for available networks, but when I chose my network manually, it said "Selected network not available ".
I tried to flush alternative modems, but all it did is making things worse. Usually it made the phone behave like with CyanogenMod, i.e. Baseband/IMEI are unknown.
Again, after trying lots of stuff, I tried to flush Android 4.1.2. That made no change until I've stumbled on this thread. Flushing Patched_Modem_I9300XXEMG4.zip made my networking work again, and restored it to behave exactly like it did initially. Again, the phone thinks that I'm roaming all the time, but at least it works.

So currently, I have two issues:

My phone always thinks I'm roaming. Is there a fix for it?
And more important: currently, I cannot install anything other than Android 4.1.2!

Could you please shed some light on the situation? What happens with my phone? Why does it think I'm roaming? Why does the SIM work only with Patched_Modem_I9300XXEMG4? How can I make other ROMs (e.g. CyanogenMod) work?

Thanks, any help is much appreciated!


texts: How to automate UI of a 3rd party applications?

texts: I have a flow diagram in Automate that starts automatically with system. I want to add few blocks which will launch monitoring/diagnostic applications (CatLog, Network utilities, etc.) and will press certain buttons. How do I do this?


texts: What are the different signal indicators avalable on the notification bar?

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The signal indicator on my phone often shows "3G" or "H+" in the signal indicator. When there's no connectivity it doesn't show anything.

I'm referring to the icons in the status bar like these:

What are the different signal icons that are shown in android? I've never used an LTE/4G handset or even been on one of those networks so I'm also curious to see what indicators are used for those.


texts: How do I fix Helium backup/restore over Google Drive?

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I am trying to back up all my game saves to Google Drive using Helium. I can backup a few game saves, but eventually I receive this error:

Backup Error
An error occurred while performing your app backup. A log of the error has been sent to ClockworkMod.

Click Backup to attempt to backup the remaining apps.

To fix this, I either clear the cache of Helium on my old phone or reinstall it, which seems to fix it.

If I try to list all the backups I have in Google Drive on my new phone, I occasionally get:

An error has occurred while retrieving your app list.

Once again, I need to clear the cache or reinstall to fix this.

When I can actually try to restore, many apps get stuck on a set percentage such as 93%, and then gives me the same message as above except "Restore Failed".


texts: android contacts sync with google+ facebook

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I'm using Pixel (XL), Phone by Google (1st generation) with Android 8.0.0, when I tap on Contacts app, some of my contains has photo and some do not(.

How does one sync my existing contacts against Google+ and/or Facebook to get photos? I don't want to sync entire Facebook against my phone...

Please advise.


texts: Android terminal emulator run executable

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I am trying to run the linux version of the ctrtool executable to extract the RomFS and ExeFS from a .cxi file,
but I got an error that said not executable: magic 7F45.

The ctrtool executable is in /storage/sdcard0/Documents/ROMen/. Is this directory unable to execute files?


texts: Need to set up a phone with limited permissions to help with a learning disorder

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I need to set up a phone that will allow the user access to installed apps but will not allow them to install new apps.  In addition I need to allow access to only a whitelist of websites.  These constraints need to be unbreakable short of a factory wipe.  My thought regarding privacy was to have a superuser account that the user and administrator each have half of the password, so the administrator can't get on the phone without the permission of the user.

I'm kind of desperate here.  I asked this question twice on r/androidroot and both times people told me to just install apps that "reward good behavior" etc.  We're way past that point.  The user really needs email, text, maps, and a few work related apps (plus definitely some apps like Habitica to reward good habits!).

I haven't rooted a phone before but am fairly technically proficient.  If Tasker is any part of the solution I'm pretty handy with that, otherwise I will do or learn anything necessary to make this happen.  I have a google pixel to work with but if absolutely necessary will get a different phone.

Thank you very much for any help you're able to provide!
p.s. the disorder is a pretty strong Executive Function disorder - despite 18 years of therapy with 6 different people the user is basically unable to build good habits or demonstrate much willpower.  It's been pretty devastating for them.


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I didn't find a way to use pull command within adb shell.  I'm using adb from version 30.0.5
so pull command doesn't seem to exist within shell.
adb pull doesn't work neither pull only.
Probably it's part of some other command like list packages is
pm list packages

Thanks


texts: I have duplicate contacts, Google Contacts not helping!

texts: I have several contacts in my phone which are duplicates. For example I have one contact "John Smith" which contains my friend John Smith's phone number. Then I have another contact name JohnSmith87 which is my friend John Smith's email address. And then I have another contact called JohnSmithin which is my friend John Smith's skype account. I'd ideally like to merge all of these into one contact. I tried Google Contacts, but when I searched, only contacts with a phone number stored in them would show up. Please help!


texts: I am looking for an easy, free, and safe way to root my ZTE N817 without ruining my phone are there any programs or apps that I can use


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I have a spare OnePlus One that I use for home automation stuff (RM Plugin, Tasker, etc.) I leave it plugged in all the time. Sometimes the phone does get quite hot. Just today, wanting to do more Tasker stuff with it, I noticed that the screen popped out a bit, guessing due to battery swelling.

I'm basically confused what causes what between:

Leaving the phone plugged in all the time
App power management (like sometimes screen was left on, etc.)
High temp
Battery swell

Also, would it be possible to continue using the OnePlus?

Thanks!


texts: What do my organization knows about me if I sign into their Google account on my phone?

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Seeing this post (“Can we create multiple work profiles?”) in Google’s Android support forum  I was kinda worried about how much organization know about me if I am signed in with a Google account from them (I mean even installed apps? & whether my phone is rooted or not? Come on!).
Android Phone
Technically my phone is Android 10 and doesn’t have a work profile feature because of bad OEM ROM. Tried the Shelter app but failed thanks to OEM. Phone is my own and not organization provided but “It would be better if I add that account to my phone for convenience.” Network I use is also mine and doesn’t use organizations gateway (ever)! There are no apps/extensions installed by organization on the phone.


texts: "Charging paused. Battery temperature too high" while connected to car charger

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I have a Galaxy S2 with ICS.
When I use it in my car, while it is charging from a car charger, I occasionally get this popup:
"Charging paused. Battery temperature too high"

Also Waze is running while this happens.

Is there anything I can do to prevent this from happening?
Does this indicate that my car charger is defective?


texts: Can I use my bootloader-locked phone with a different network?

texts: I just bought an Xperia Z and the bootloader is locked. Do I need to unlock it in order to run it on a new SIM card and can I switch to Virgin? It's OK if I can't: I will just buy a Bell SIM for $10, but will the phone be able to be switched to Bell pay as you go? It was previously on the prev. owner plan with Bell.


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so i have an at&t s6.

suddenly stopped fast charging. and when i say "stopped fast charging," i mean charges slower than molasses now. takes literally about 4hrs to charge from 80% to 100%.

tried multiple known good chargers and cables and verified with both another s5 and s6 activ. found that the computer won't recognize it anymore magically.

i am rooted and have uninstalled a bunch of bloat. shouldn't matter right?

also in developer options- i can check usb debugging, but then in the secret menu (*0#*0) or whatever, mtp+adb is unchecked. if i check that, then go back to developer options, usb debugging is unchecked.

I even pulled apart the phone and put in a new daughterboard in case the thing port is broken and put in a new battery both to no avail.


texts: Keeping important apps alive even on overheat

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I recently updated my Samsung Galaxy S4, and it came with some new features and also some new problems. Since the new update I have been getting warnings on my phone telling me it is overheating. The phone also has the ability to kill apps that are using a lot of processing power in order to get the phone to cool down. This has proven to be not only inconvenient, but actually dangerous. On several occasions the app that was closed (which, in truth, likely contributed to its overheating) was Waze. This usually happens on long trips, while i'm going 60mph, forcing me to pull over on the side of a highway just to let my phone cool down so that I can open the app again. I have not gotten into an auto accident yet, but I would much rather not be in that situation to being with. For others, there can be an even greater danger in just getting lost.

Is there a way to put certain apps, such as Waze, or any other navigation app, on a system whitelist so that they don't get shut down mid-use, potentially creating an extremely dangerous situation?


texts: Samsung galaxy SIII is there a way to add a new call ring?

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I proudly own this phone, but I can't find a way to set up a classic ring call. What can I do?
There's a way?


texts: Is it normal for my Galaxy S5 to always bring up a prompt to "check battery cover" when powering up/rebooting?

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I recently got a Galaxy S5 and I'm new to the android platform so apologies in advance if this is an obvious question.

I've noticed that my phone brings up a prompt during startup (after a full poweroff) stating to check my battery cover.  It looks like this:

Does this mean that the phone senses the cover being loose?  Or is this just a generic message that comes up every time I boot?


texts: Can I install additional language support (Russian) on HTC Desire HD without rooting?

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I bought HTC Desire HD and I want to change UI language to Russian. The issue is that I see in settings only English, German, Italian and French.

Is it possible to add other language without rooting phone?


texts: Can I increase the frequency at which location history gets my location?

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I've recently discovered Google Location History, however my history map is made up of lots of very long straight lines because it doesn't appear to get checkpoint/location information very often.

Is there any way to increase how many times it gets the location in order to get a more accurate view of my movements in a day? I understand that this may reduce battery life.

Thank you.


texts: Applications are not installed with adb restore

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I have non-rooted Android 7.0 device (NVIDIA Shield Tablet) which was previously backed up with

adb backup -apk -shared -all -nosystem -f mybackup.ab

But restoring it with

adb restore mybackup.ab

results in that /Android/data, etc are restored, but the applications are not installed from apk files, no errors.

I've had to extract apk files from mybackup.ab and install them manually in batch with adb install <...>.apk. After that everything was fine.

I'm quite sure that I've previously had similar problem with 6.0. and Helium/Carbon before but thought that it was specific to backup method I've chosen.

What is the problem with adb restore? Is it because the device is non-rooted? Why does adb install work as expected then?


texts: When I try to open links inside apps, eg Inbox AliExpress Whatsapp, instead of opening up them in chrome,  it pops up some windows without javascript, and I cannot use it, how can I disable it?


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Is there any way to have calendar event notifications show up as alarms?  Maybe via some 3rd party app?

I saw a rec here, but the reviews indicate that the app is not maintained and dysfunctional:
https://mondegreen2.blogspot.ca/2014/06/google-calendar-reminder-as-smartphone.html

I can't reliably notice notifications, since they are too short, so I make alarms for important meetings, but this is getting really inconvenient.

I also tried the "Calendar Notifications" app, but haven't been able to get it to help (it just adds another notification :P)

I also tried "Alarm Calendar Plus", which seems to work, except that it doesn't properly update when I add new events.  (also the UI is difficult)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.moyou.acplus&hl=en


texts: Brutal bug "android.process.acore has stopped" doesn't solve after factory reset

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Apparently this bug is prevalent and some are lucky enough to solve it by simply clearing data of Contacts storage but not me. I believe I have tried it all. Even after factory reset (via stock recovery) this error appears immediately after first boot and it keeps popping up non-stop making the phone very hard to use.

Does anyone know a solid fix for this brutal bug?


texts: Is there a valid Android alternative to iTunes U?

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iTunes U makes the difference (at least, to me) when it comes to choosing a tablet for study purposes. Does it exist a valid Android alternative to Apple's iTunes U?

For those who don't know iTunes U, it is a service that allows students and teachers to manage, browse and view media (such as videos and pdf files) related to education.


texts: Termux give user write access to usb pen

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I have a android box that has termux and I would like to add permission for my user to write to a plugged in usb pen drive.
For what I believe I only have to add that user to sdcard_r group, I'm not really sure if this is the way.
How can I achieve this? I can't find useradd command.

I also have tried using the termux-setup-storage command but this command doesn't seem to create a folder for my usb pen drive.

My android version is 5.1.1


texts: How to sync contact photos from phone back to google contacts?

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I have updated my contact photos in my phone and then I wanted to update my google contacts.
The sync of contact data is working fine, but the photos aren't being synced.

Is there anyway I can fix this?

I have Samsung Galaxy S3 with ICS 4.0.4


texts: How to extract/backup your phone contact list and browser bookmarks (stock browser, not chrome)

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Android - how to extract/backup your phone contact list and browser favorites (stock browser, not chrome) - a modern Samsung smartphone.

Hi, I am grateful for any replies (pls note that we always talk about a non-rooted device, and I have no desire to root it, & I have no desire to use the inherent google-backup methods):

1)   How can I extract my entire contacts list in a way to be able to import it again to another similar Samsung phone? Any way to do it without using an App for it as workaround? If there is no way around an app, which app(s) would you suggest are considered to be very "safe" and 100% non-malicious?

2)   The same question - this time for calendar items extraction?

3)   Finallly the same question for my Android Stock Browser bookmarks (not chrome)? Both, the bookmarks which are available in the "Normal" browser mode, and the bookmarks which are separately stored in the "private" browser mode.

If you know also of a way to doing one of those 3 things but without the ability to import again to another phone, this is also very helpful. My prime interest is in backing up, and if I can import again to another Phone, even better.

Thanks for any technical explanations!


texts: Kodak Android TV Not able to connect via ADB on WiFi

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Am trying to change the Homescreen of Kodak Android TV by follow the steps Completely change home screen on Android TV
The TV and Laptop are connected on same WiFi. Able to ping the TV's IP.
But when am trying to connect the TV via ADB connect, it's showing below error.
C:\Intel\ADB>adb connect 192.168.1.105
cannot connect to 192.168.1.105:5555: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (10061)
Kodak TV Android version 9, Kernel version 4.9.125, Build PTT1.181130001 release keys.
In TV, I've already enabled developer options, USB Debugging.
Am using platform tools adb version (Not Android studio). Is there anyway to connect to TV without using USB Cable?


texts: How can i undo "Remove bluetooth device" from kitkat?

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Before i was able to connect my moto X with my PC windows 7 64bits via generic bluetooth dongle. But i removed the pairing from my moto x and now its undetectable by the PC. Every time i turn on bluetooth on the PC and on the phone , then a turn on bluetooth on the phone and make sure its visible for all devices, its not detecting the pc and vice versa.

So, how can i undo the unpairing and make my phone and pc connect again ?

EDIT: I tryied to remove the registry key ( HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\BTHPORT\Parameters\Keys ) from windows registry but no luck.


texts: How to get tomorrow's date and next week's number for use in Tasker

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Based on this answer I am looking for a way how to get tommorow's date and next week number to use in Tasker app, Run Shell Command.

I have tried:

date -d '+1 day' +"%Y%m%d" and similar, but still I am getting Error: 1.

In shell emulator I get bad date '+1 day'

Cannot find any android shell commands reference or man.

Some guides recommend using %TIMES variable, but not sure how.


texts: Unable to find files copied from pc to internal storage

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I have copied files (around  2GB) to my android phone's internal storage from my friend's pc. But I'm unable to find those files either by using file manager(root) or from my pc.
When I checked my phone's memory usage, it confirms the presence of those files.
Is there any way to retrieve those files.


texts: How to un-install HTC's gingerbread ROM for Desire

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I installed HTC's official (developer-only) Gingerbread ROM on my HTC Desire, but I'm not too happy with it, since it keeps running out of internal memory. So I've been searching for a way to revert back to the original FroYo firmware, but I couldn't find it.

Also, I tried to root my phone so I could install CyanogenMod, but that didn't work: apparently, my firmware is too new.

So, what's the best way to revert back to official FroYo? Or, failing that, to root my phone?

UPDATE with some context: I never rooted, or tried to root, my phone before this failed attempt, and I only did it because I couldn't find an official means to go back to FroYo. I tried both Revolutionary.io and Unrevoked. The latter complained that my firmware is too new; the former just got stuck while "waiting for fastboot".

UPDATE 2 I just tried to install a RUU, but it complains about the boot loader being too new. So no help there, either.


texts: Blacklisted number still able to call me under Marshmallow

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Can someone explain me following situation:

How can a blacklisted phone number appear in my incoming calls log which clearly proves that it was calling me?

I have added this particular number to my blacklist (which is confirmed by having Remove... instead of Add... option in long-press context menu) and yet I'm still receiving calls from this number.

Is this a bug in Marshmallow of am I missing something obvious about blacklisting numbers feature in Android?


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Recently my grandmother got my uncle's old cellphone, and today I've been trying to set it up for her. It's an LG-P990, running on Android 2.2.2, which can't be further upgraded. In order to have everything run smoothly, but trying to not overcomplicate things, I set up a Google account for her, without Gmail, using her provider based email address. That worked out just fine, and I have been able to get her entire addressbook mishmash into her new Google Contacts.

However, I am not able to get the cellphone to log in to Google, as it simply responds that her account is not a Gmail account. As such, it's unable to sync her contacts etc. I'm guessing that it's due to the device running on an older version of Android, dating from prior to when Non-Gmail Google accounts were an option.

Does anyone know a way to get around this and make the device connect to her Google account, or am I forced to set up a bogus Gmail address for her as well? If so, is there a way to attach the bogus Gmail address to be made to her current Google account, and keep her provider based email address (the one she actually uses) as the main address?

Any help is much appreciated,


texts: How can I symlink /data mount point to preseve it on reboot?

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There is a link under /emmc@usrdata which points to the emmc data partition which is /dev/block/mmcblk0p7 (which is small).

I have created a 4GB EXT4 formatted second partition on  SD card, which is /dev/block/mmcblk1p2

In fstab the device name used for the /data mount is the link /emmc@usrdata. I have tried removing this link and creating a new one pointing to the new partition, but on reboot the symlink points to the original one again.

How can I make this symlink stick?

I haven't been able to find a script that writes the symlinks to root on startup, but there must be one there somewhere. The device is an MTK based phablet. ( Aries_7O ). Any clues would be appreciated.


texts: Eye-Fi card: Where does it store data on Android?

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I'm developing an app that works in conjunction with an Eye-Fi card (Pro X2 - which I understand will work faster over a wi-fi connection to Android) Question is, Android has so many memory locactions, (internal: private to app and not user readable, "external" storage which can be the fixed internal storage or SD card)

So I'm seeking the help of Eye-Fi users to discover WHERE the device stores its data, and also if a folder is selectable by user.

For example, if I create a folder on the internal fixed memory, would an Eye-Fi user be able to set up the device to send data to that folder? Or does Eye-Fi set it's own folder that the user cannot change, and if so, where is it?

Alas, I can't test it myself at present as I have an OLD camera that uses an XD card!! (Eye-Fi being SDHC)


texts: How to reverse acceptance in Android Device Manager?

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If a user opens Android Device Manager in a browser (https://www.google.com/android/devicemanager), and selects an Android device that has never been accessed via Android Device Manager, they will be presented with the following screen:

If they select "Accept", how do they later reverse that acceptance?


texts: Getting pictures off of old deactivated phone

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Can I hook up my old Galaxy S2 phone via USB to my laptop to find "lost" pictures in an unnamed file?  I just activated my new Galaxy S4 and for some reason, all pics that were on my old phone are now gone from the new phone. Not sure why these would be deleted from the phone during a simple phone swap. Not all of my pics are on the sd card. Most of them were saved to the phone because it had much more space available.

Customer service says it may take up to 24 hours for the transfer to be complete but the new phone already has all contacts & accounts transferred, plus I'm able to text & receive calls. I understand that during a transfer, pics are not usually included. But they should still be saved inside the old phone, right? The techs doing the swap shouldn't be able to do a factory reset or anything on the old phone, correct?


texts: How to use my mac as a bluetooth headset?

texts: My phone and the mac is already paired. What do i need to do next? I can't seem to find anything on the internet. I think the correct term would be to tether the phone call. Pretty similar to this one, except I'm on a mac. And my phone is not rooted. Over at System Preferences, it says that the phone is already paired. I'm on Android 2.3.4.


texts: Transferring a downloaded film from Nexus 7 to Nexus 10

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I recently downloaded Gravity, which I stupidly did on my Nexus 7, so I can't now watch it on TV, which I could have via HDMI if I'd downloaded it on my Nexus 10. I don't want to download it again (have only 20GB allowance per month). I've found the file and transferred it to my Nexus 10 but Google Play Movies acts like it's not there and wants to stream it or download again. Can anyone help?

Thanks.


texts: I have a CUSTOM rom. I deleted system Dialer app. Is it possible to recover it, or fix it? I can't get calls, can't make calls, but I can write & receive messages. Other dialers don't work and it says "this device does not support this function"


texts: How can I know if my Asus Nexus 7 is 1st or 2nd gen?

texts: I was given an Asus Nexus 7. How can I tell if it is the 1st or the 2nd gen?


texts: Problem with installing a system app on rooted device

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I rooted my device to install an app as a system app. However after the installation of the app, I see the following error in the log cat

2019-03-14 18:19:19.319 4197-4197/? E/zygote64: Dex checksum does not match for dex: /system/priv-app/bmw.apk.Expected: 3853989528, actual: 1306952148

What does this error mean? How can I fix this?


texts: Custom ROM on Sony Ericsson Xperia Pro (MK16i)

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

I do really hate the system that Sony Ericsson has placed on the top of Android and I would like to have ICS (but no problem if not possible or recommendable). I have tried googling and looking around for a couple of days to find how and what custom ROM I could install on my telephone, but I have had no luck in this venture.

Does anybody here know about a custom ROM I could install on my telephone? Preferably as clean as possible or similar to HTCs system and ICS if possible and usable.


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I created a nandroid backup and copied the files to my computer

boot.img
cache.ext4.tar
data.ext4.tar
nandroid.md5
recovery.log
system.ext4.log
ta.img

I deleted the files on my phone to save space and now have copied them back. I used Online Nandroid Pro and not sure how to actually get it to do a complete restore?


texts: "Uninstall old version" before installing, but can't find it

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Spotify doesn't show up anywhere (I used to have it). When I try to install the app, it wants me to uninstall the old version. But the old version doesn't show up anywhere. Tried going through "My Apps" and through the file menu when hooked up to a PC, and I cannot find it.

Any thoughts?


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How can I disable the GPS functionality from my android phone at the kernel level? I know this requires (though not sure) disabling either device drivers for GPS or kernel module BUT how to do it exactly?

By kernel level, I mean that GPS is no longer there like in soft form, its hardware still exists but it is of no use. If I disable it application level, it still tracks me , apps might access it. What I want is that there is no communication between the hardware and software. So the apps perceive that this phone doesnt have a GPS. I hope you get my point. I have been able to do this with bluetooth i.e.I removed bluetooth permissions from xml files listed in the system/etc/permissions folder of its stock rom, bluetooth is no longer there but the same doesn't work for GPS.


texts: cannot scan QR code for login whatsapp web version

texts: using 3 inch display phone, cannot scan QR code for login. any idea to solve this?


texts: Samsung Galaxy S problem :WiFi doesn't reconnect with SSID broadcast disabled

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Hi
I have a problem with my Wifi connection.
My Samsung Galaxy S does not connect to my Linksys wrt54g router after I'm disabling the SSID broadcast.

The connection is automatically returned when I enable the SSID Broadcast.
Why is it like that and how can I fix it?
Thanks.


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Is there an app that lets me chat with BlackBerry users just by adding their PINs? Something that simulates that my Android phone belongs to the BlackBerry network?

I know there are multiplatform options like WhatsApp but I am talking about an app that lets me chat with people who are using the native BlackBerry Messenger.


texts: Can't use Jio and data on another sim together!

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I have Moto Z play. It is a dual sim device.I have inserted Jio and Vodafone sim.

Once I am switching Vodafone for data. It is automatically switched Vodafone sim to 4G.

Is anyway to use data using another sim and JIO sim together?

Please advise.

Thanks


texts: What is trying to connect to the network?

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When I'm not actively using the network, I usually turn off Wifi, Bluetooth, and Data. Since upgrading from Android 4.3 (stock) to 4.4 (OTA update from my carrier) I notice two things:

Battery life plummets. The device could be fully charged at night, but when I wake up it reads < 20%. This with Wifi, GPS, Bluetooth, and Data all disabled, and no applications actively running!
I often get a small system popup at the bottom of the screen that says something to the effect (translated) "Could not contact the network. Please try again when your have network access". This looks like a system popup, especially since it is in my local language.

Looking in the Network Usage area, I see nothing suspect. The largest user is Google Play at 1.89 MB, below that Skype at 804 KB, everything else is below 500 KB. Looking in the Battery Usage area, I see "Operating System Android" at 33%, "Screen" at 23%, and "System Android" at 13%. Before the 4.4 update, only one of the two "Android" listings were shown (I don't remember which) and it was in fact well below the screen usage (i.e. the screen was at the time by far the most battery-hungry app). Note that all three of these names "Operating System Android", "System Android", and "Screen" are translated from the system locale language.

Unfortunately I cannot peg the problem on the 4.4 update as during the same day I did install 3-4 calendar apps to see if any of them provided a better experience than the default app. I have since remove all of those.

This is on a Samsung Note 3. I currently have the following applications installed: Ankidroid, Appops, Earth, Waze, Skype, SatTrack, AirDroid, Opera, ES File Manager, JuiceSSH, Firefox, Galaxy Call Recorder, Pocket Planets, Widget Locker, VimTouch, LastPass, Translate, Dolphin Browser, XKCD, Podcast Addict, Swype, Swiftkey, Motion Planet, Read Later, DCentral1. Podcast Addict is set to never automatically check for podcast updates, though XKCD does automatically check. I don't use Swype's Living Language feature that was recently noted as a source of battery drain and network usage. I have tightened down some apps' permissons via Appops and later with DCentral1. Additionally, there have been other apps installed and since removed from this device.

How could I further troubleshoot the battery drain issue? Should I leave the network on to see what will use it? Additionaly, how could I check which app is trying to use the network when I get the "Could not contact the network. Please try again when your have network access" popup?


texts: Unlocking Bootloader Identifier Token Htc desire

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I want to unlock my phone's boot loader, but for doing so I need a so called "identifier token". After booting into Fast-boot-mode, I executed
fastboot oem get_identifier_token via cmd(adb)
and got

FAIL(remote: unknown command)

What can I do? Would be great if somone could help!


texts: Can I virtualize existing Android device?

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Is there any way to convert existing Android device into virtual machine?

I'm going to do factory reset and pretty sure that some valuable passwords etc. will be lost after it. That's why it would be great to have old data saved in virtual machine on PC so that later these forgotten info can be accessed.


texts: my SD card is not working on my phone, it keeps on appearing damaged SD card each tym I insert it but then it works on other people's phone , it seems the problem is with my phone, ***Samsung s3 mini, please could someone help me out?


texts: Change default in-call & out-call ui or theme

texts: Is there any app available in the store that lets me change the default in-call & out-call ui or theme of my kitkat?


texts: Using Google Voice with Android phone and a SIP appliance (Obi)

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I just purchased a Galaxy Nexus HSPA+ with Jellybean(4.1), and have an Unlimited account with Straight Talk. I would like to use Google Voice to handle voicemail for the phone.

Currently, I am using my Google Voice account as a SIP provider for my Obi100 internet phone appliance, but I am using the phone's aswering machine rather than GV to handle missed calls, and I have the Google Voice account set up to act as the phone's voicemail (activated through AT&T, which is Straight Talk's SIM provider.)

The problem is, missed calls to the android phone number, not the GV number, triggers the answering machine at home - calls ring to both the Nexus and the Obi100 device! I have "Go straight to voicemail" checked off under advanced options for missed calls, rather than "ring my other phones first."

Do I need to port the mobile phone number (which I've had for ~10 years) to GV, request a new number from Straight Talk, and use the new Straight Talk number as the "physical phone" for both accounts? Am I missing something in the phone or the GV configuration to make this work as-is?


texts: How do I switch my htc merge from us cellular to t-mobile?

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Possible Duplicate:
  Can I use my device on a different carrier?

I have unlocked it and I am trying to s-off, I am ignorant to cell hacking/programing ad don't know if I am doing anything that will help or hinder my operation. I have just been following youtube or sites advice but so far nothing has really helped. I have the t-mobile sim card but us cellulars programing is preventing service.

Please help(and use laymans terms cause like I said I am not too savy when it comes to this).


texts: My power button seems to have busted, is there a way I can boot my phone using ADB or Fastboot or some other command line interface?


texts: I have a phone whose screen broke, but I'd like to export its contacts to .vcf so I can import them to another phone. I usually do this with the built-in import/export function in the Contacts app overflow menu, but without a screen it is inaccessible. Is it possible to do this via adb?


texts: Why can't I use the the data service all of a sudden on my android phone?

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I know I'll receive a lot of vote-downs because of this post, but I dont really know what has happened and where I am no one can help me.

I am in China and my Huawei (European) phone has worked just fine on wifi, but after 2 months I topped it up and the message came that I have data now, but I cant use anything. It shows that there is inbound traffic, but nothing seems to go outward. The APN settings look just fine. Huawei recently has come up with an update of their ROM. I am wondering if that can be the source of the problem.

Any ideas why? As you can see the arrow is grayed out. It's just weird.


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I like dark mode but the problem is that it is difficult to read text on a black background so that when I read in dark mode, my eyes become watery.
So, is there a way to exclude texts from darkmode, such that there is a white box behind texts..?


texts: What do the lines behind icons mean? How to remove?

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On a LG G5, I see that the icons of apps are often shown with some added lined symbols behind  it, which are not part of the icons design itself.

There are squares, triangles, variants of mirrored or rotated Z, H, and others:

I'd be curious of it's meaning.

Is that just on my device, and i must have made an unintended theme change somehow?

If not - how to get rid of the lines!


texts: Can application upgrades happen automatically, even if you have it turned off in marketplace?

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I thought I had turned off all the automatic upgrades for the apps on my phone (T-Mobile G2 w/ Froyo).

However, yesterday, I got a notice that said that I had new GMail and described the new features.

I checked GMail, and I did have the new 2.3.5 version.

Then I checked Android Market, and it shows "Allow automatic updating" as unchecked.


texts: How to preview specific folder in email notification?

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I have a Note 2 with Android 4.1.1 plus updates. I really like the built-in email client and I use it with my Gmail account as an exchange service. Even push mail works great with it.

However, I am subscribed to several folders. Whenever I am getting an email to one of the subscribed folders I have a notification. The problem is that when several emails arrive in different folders the notification preview always shows the first 2-3 mails from INBOX, even when the mails are in other folders. I would like to set this to "Gmail/AllMail" so that I can see in the notification preview the newly received mail.


texts: How can I downgrade from Lollipop to KitKat

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Not at all happy with Lollipop on my Z3 compact. My battery lasts half a day and I'm not keen on new format

How can I downgrade and get back to Kit-kat?


texts: How can I stop QuizUp from using up so much of my storage space?

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After a few weeks of usage the apps settings show that QuizUp is taking up several hundred megabytes of local data storage.

What is causing this and how can I prevent it? Clearing the app cache won't work.


texts: Is it possible to open Hotspot while we are using wifi?

texts: I have tried but you can only use one at a time either WiFi or Hotspot but it'll be great if we can use hotspot while we are using WiFi.


texts: HTC Sense Keeps Crashing Even After Factory Reset

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I just updated my HTC Desire today to the newest firmware. However, on booting up the phone I get this message saying:

Sorry!
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The application HTC Sense (process com.htc.launcher) has stopped unexpectedly.
Please try again.
                                 Force Close

When you force close it pops up again in <1sec and keeps looping like this. Sometimes you can pull down the notification bar and open a text or email, but com.htc.messaging and com.htc.mail produce similar error messages.

I have googled for some answers, but the search and menu buttons do not work, I do not have an alternate window manager and cannot install anything using adb (permission is denied). I tried many hard resets and factory resets but to no avail. Any help is greatly appreciated.


texts: My Nexus 6 turns itself off randomly; How can I fix this?

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TL;DR: Nexus 6 shuts itself off randomly, seems to be connected to the camera, wifi, and cellular. Internet is full of placebo solutions and "me-too" posts. Logcat output below.

I've been having this problem for months now, but it wasn't there when the phone was new. Here's what happens.

I will be on a phone call, using a headset, and when I open the camera app, WhatsApp, or - sometimes - when I'm doing nothing at all, the phone will just shut itself off instantly.
Sometimes it'll shut itself off when I leave the house and look for a Car on DriveNow. My house has Edge coverage, my street has LTE.
A few times the phone would shut off again after I've switched it back on. This can happen a few times in a row. Waiting before I do anything after switching it back on seems to help.

Note:

I am nearly always on a phone call when this happens.
I think the display is always on when it turns itself off.

Searching the internet, I have found tons and tons of complains of the same or similar problems, and I've been reading the Google product forums, with hundreds of me-too type posts and placebo solutions.

People will claim that uninstalling an app I and the other posters have never heard of fixed the problem for them. Some claim what wiping the phone will help, others say that that doesn't work.

The problem occurs very sporadically. It's very hard to find out whether doing anything has fixed it or not.

This is what I've tried so far:

I've uninstalled all apps I can live without. Making sure I only use apps that I have been using when the thing was working properly.
I've deleted the cache partition (one of these placebo solutions)

I would try a factory reset, but the data inside of WhatsApp is extremely important to me and I don't have a spare phone to load my WhatsApp backup before wiping the Nexus 6 (you need your SIM for WhatsApp to work, so the emulator doesn't help me). I don't want to bring the phone back to the store or send it to Motorola for the same reason. If I can help it at all.

For the last two days, I've been keeping my phone connected to my computer with a shell open and watching the output of logcat, and a few minutes ago it did indeed shut itself of with the shell connected. Here's the logcat output from shortly before the crash

I wouldn't be posting this Question, I'd just live with it until I get a spare phone and send the Nexus 6 in for repair, except for the fact that I now have the output from logcat, and that might make sense to someone here.

The phone is running Android 5.1.1 (LMY47Z LMY48I)
I have a german T-Mobile SIM
Here's a list of apps I have installed

Update

I did a factory reset. It went fine. :) Of course I have no idea whether that fixed it or not.

Update the second

It didn't :-(

The problem also happens (just happened) in safe mode.

Update the third

It also happens on the Android M developer preview. I've since bought a Moto E (lovely) and I will send the Nexus 6 in for repair. Hoping I won't get it back with a message saying there's no fault.


texts: dell streak mini 5 upgrade os to v3 or above

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Is it possible to upgrade a dell streak mini5?
  android operating system  to v3   or above please?
if so how?


texts: Specs/Stats displaying on Homescreen on Galaxy S II 4.0.4

texts: Having the following showing up on all home screens in the background. Any ideas why?


texts: How to hide Youtube homepage and sidebar?

texts: I want to remove Suggestions in YouTube homepage and sidebar as it is distracting. In PC, there are extensions to remove this(like "YouTube rabbit hole" and "DF YouTube"). But how to do this in YouTube mobile app?


texts: Redirecting phone's audio to pc through usb

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So I want to basically redirect my phone's audio to my computer's playback device through USB and not through Bluetooth which is what most posts are seemingly concerned with.

This guy Streaming audio from smartphone to PC without bluetooth asked a similar question about 2 years ago which hasn't really been answered so far so I thought I would bring it up again.

Devices and Os's :

Phone : Samsung Galaxy note 4 under Android 6.0.1
Pc : Windows 10 pro


texts: Backup SIM message and contact without transfer to phone

texts: Is it possible to backup the message (e.g. SMS) and contacts inside my SIM card to my external SD Card without transferring them into my Android phone?


texts: Problem connecting Galaxy Note 10.1 to Mac OS X Mountain Lion

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I'm trying to connect my Galaxy Note 10.1 (running Android 4.2.2) to my Mac OS 10.8 machine via USB. I used Android File Transfer, but it gives me an error that says:

  Could not connect to device. Try reconnecting or restarting your device.


texts: Send/receive or refresh inbox on native email client

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Is there such an option for the native email client built into Froyo?

For example, I might send myself a document to the phone via email, and it won't come through straight away. Sometimes I need that option to check for new emails.

There's no obvious refresh option in the menu.


texts: Is Fennec F-Droid an official product by Mozilla?

texts: Is the Fennec F-Droid Browser an official product by Mozilla? All the links from the F-Droid page link to official Mozilla pages, but I cannot find any hint on one of the Mozilla pages that they distribute Firefox under the name of Fennec on F-Droid.


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I nearly get nuts because I cannot root my ZTE Blade V6 (europe version).

In the past I have rooted several android devices. Actually it was quite the same procedure everytime:

1. Install platform-tools (adb and fastboot)
2. Make device appear in "adb -devices"
3. Make device appear in "fastboot devices"
4. Flash any recovery via fastboot (I tend to prefer CWM)
5. Copy Custom-ROM (usually a *.zip for the OS and one for gapps) to internal or external space
6. Start phone into recovery and install the zip and afterwards the gapps
7. Done

However this seems to fail on the ZTE Blade V6 this time:

If I go to the stock recovery, it is all in chinese (or some other letters I can not read).
So I flashed a CWM recovery.img to the phone, from https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/software-hacking/twrp-recovery-3-0-2-zte-blade-v6-t3362252. The flashing seems to work (However it says: target didn't report max-download-size) But it does not boot into it. It just does not do anything after flashing the recovery. No Recovery, no fastboot. Only thing that works after that is normal start. Directly sending adb reboot recovery after flashing makes a simple restart of the device into stock ROM.

I tried different recovery images but the output is usually the same.

Somewhere I found a command that does directly boot the image and not only flash it:

fastboot boot recovery.img

All the images I tried report FAILED (remote: bad boot image header) when directly booted this way.

Can someone tell me what's wrong and/or help me flash my droid?


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Everytime my sd card unmount itself automatically and mount again and sometime... it won't mount. Restarting and/or shutting down the phone won't do anything.

I'm using Samsung Galaxy S5 with android 4.4.2.

Help someone.


texts: Is there a "recycle bin" option in EMUI 9.1.0?

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I have deleted 47G worth of photos and no space has freed up. I have a Huawei Honor 9 (STF-AL10) EMUI 9.1.0 phone that I bought in China. What do I need to do in order to claim back that space that is still for someone reason occupied by my deleted photos?
Thank you.


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As far as I know, most or all Android devices don't have any hardware cryptography accelerators, so the block-level storage encryption happens on the CPU.

How high is the impact of encrypting and decrypting on the CPU with regards to read/write performance and battery consumption?

This will probably depend on the CPU and the storage used (I can imagine that on newer devices, the bottleneck is not the AES algorithm on the CPU, but the NAND write rate); some benchmark numbers from different devices would be very useful.


texts: Micromax Canvas A1 is unable to install apps from Google Play Store

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I have a Micromax Canvas A1 device. I can open Play Store and can search the apps. But, when I click Install, it just shows (endless) download animation and no actual downloading happens.

An example:

Process is stuck in installation phase and no further progress nor even any notification hapens.

I've tried so far:

Clearing Google Play Store data and cache.
Doing factory reset of the device.

Still nothing. Anything else, I can try?


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I am using Motorola Atrix 4g and it's Android 2.3.6 . It worked like a boss for almost 6/7 months. Recently it started showing Force close com.motorola.service.main and restart the phone, then again force close and restart. After restarting almost 10 times it showed the screen. Then I factory reset the set, thought it will solve the problem.

But after resetting the phone it still gives error "com.motorola.service.main has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again" and then force close, but it doesn't restart now. So I can still use the phone. And I live in Bangladesh, so there is no servicing center available for this.

Anyone faced this before? or does anyone have any clue how to fix it?


texts: How and when Android auto connects to a bluetooth device?

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I have a BLE device that I am currently programming, and I would like my Android to auto connect to this BLE device, if it is advertising and if it is already paired.
I know that it is possible, because I already have a bluetooth device that do such a thing.
Is it something that has to be set from the BLE peripheral ? Or from the phone itself ? I am really curious about that, thanks.


texts:
How can I make the Firefox menu bar dark?

The dark reader add-on doesn't change the Firefox menu color which is still white :


texts: Recovering internal memory on SGS2 (CWM, not root, boot to recovery only)

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I have a Samsung Galaxy S2 (i9100), which stopped booting into the normal OS. I have no idea why - one morning it turned itself off, and when I started it, it went as far as the "Samsung" screen, and just hangs.

I have pictures on the "internal" SD card (flash memory), which I would like to recover.

I can boot into recovery, and have installed the latest version of CWM touch, which allows me to mount both the internal and external sdcard. I can do a "browse for update" on both internal and external sdcard, and all the files I want are there. However, even when internal sdcard is mounted, I cannot access it with adb, presumably because I don't have root.

Just to see what I can do without root, I used CWM allowed me to backup the system, but because the backup is written to the internal card, I cannot check whether it's worked. However, it is taking about 1.5GB of space on the internal card, so I assume it must have backed up something.

Any ideas? Could I write a script that would copy the contents of the internal sd card to the external sd card, without root?

If I rooted the phone, would I loose the content on the internal sd card? (I have looked into rooting, but only with heimdall so far, and I could not get it to recognise the phone on linux or OS X.)

Any thoughts and suggestions will be much appreciated!
Thanks!


texts: Android "Internal Storage" used but not reported

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As an owner of a Nexus One running Gingerbread, I'm continually fighting to keep free space in my phone's Internal Storage. Today, I noticed something odd.

The bottom of Andorid's "Manage applications" screen shows a bar graph that reports the phone's "Internal storage" (I have 29M free). When I click into an app, I can see storage for the "Application", and for the app's "Data". The application, in most cases, is stored on the SD Card. The application's "data" is stored on the phone (I presume).

What I'm finding is that I'm not seeing the whole picture of what is taking up Internal Storage.  For example, I have 29M free in Internal Storage. The Angry Birds app, which is stored on the SD card, is 3.14M. It's Data is 4.0K. I then delete the Angry Birds (gasp!), and my free Internal Storage jumps up to 31M. So it looks like it's freed up 2M, when I only would have expected it to free up 4.0K. Any idea what's going on here?


texts: Packet forwarding between USB Tethering and Wifi on Android

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I have Toshiba notebook with embedded wifi adapter 2.4Ghz, desktop without embedded wifi adapter and Samsung Galaxy smartphone with Mobile HotSpot feature also on 2.4Ghz. Smartphone is connected to Internet through mobile operator. I need provide internet access for notebook and desktop through smartphone and combine them in network, so I will be able to ping notebook from desktop and vice versa.

I have bought TP-Link Archer T1U usb wifi adapter for my desktop and found that it supports only 5Ghz bandwidth. Yeah.. shit happens. But also I have old rooted Samsung Galaxy SM-T211 tablet with USB Tethering feature. So I   switch on Mobile HotSpot on smartphone and connect notebook to smartphone through wifi. Then I connect tablet to smartphone also through wifi. Finally I switch on USB Tethering feature on tablet and connect desktop to it through usb cable. Network schema is shown below.

All devices have internet access. Seems good, except I can't ping desktop(192.168.42.56) from notebook(192.168.43.24).

Forgot to mention, I use ArchLinux on both desktop and notebook.


texts: i have already root my nexus4,but why it shows “shell@mako:/ $ ”when i enter command“adb shell”

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Should not shell@mako:/ $ be shell@mako:/ #?
Or I haven't root successfully yet?
How to check whether my nexus4 have root successfully?

Thanks!


texts: I bought Moto G(2nd gen)and received it yesterday from flipkart and problems started with it since day one. sometimes when I receive a call, I am not able to hear the voice on the other side, and I even do not hear any voice when I dial a number. I have to restart my phone to set it right.  In addition to it, I am not even able to call someone. Whenever I tried to call, ''call ended'' shows up.


texts: Need help in changing "Preferred Network Type" on rooted and unlocked LG G2 LS980

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I need to change "Preferred Network Type" in Phone Info in Testing apk on my  LG G2 LS980, like in this screenshot from a Youtube video.

In the dialer, I type *#*#4636#*#*

Which opens the Testing apk as below, with following 4 options:

I can open Battery Information, Usage statistics and WiFi information as below:

But when I open the Phone Info menu, it says This application does not work on this device

My phone is running on Android 5.0.2, Software Version LS980ZVG (flashed with Stock ROM) and rooted. It is unlocked to use in India.


texts: TWRP createTarFork() error 255 when backing up data

texts: I have installed FreedomOS on my OnePlus 5. I'm not sure if this is related to FreedomOS, but when I try to make a backup in TWRP with data, system, and boot, it has an error with createTarFork() shortly after it gets to backing up data. It also says 'read only filesystem' when I try to open Terminal from Advanced and run 'cd /data/media/0/TWRP/BACKUPS/bad7d639 && rm -rf backup-name'. What can I do to fix this and why is this happening?


texts: Micro sd card partition strategy for Android (context of wear leveling & data corruption)?

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The primary issue relates to bad blocks / clusters and it happens to be android platform.

This is a Sandisk 128gb  (leave this link - it is not an ad). Some cards indicates other problems like memory channels, write speed etc. This card I am using on an Android Nougat device.

This is the 2nd time, that the card had corruption issues. The first one I bought got write locked. I've bought a replacement. This card has a lot of bad clusters. 2 things got me to sniff this:

whatsApp directory (which had a bind to whatsapp dir on internal): the image directory can no longer be written to.
The phone randomly reboots, and next time the exFat partition is not mounted any more (I used app2sd, and partitioned the card to ext4 10gb to link my apps. The rest if exfat).

I ran a chkdksk on windows 7, and it would autoterminate on initial run & persisting on running gave me repeated message "# cluster moved for file " ( cant recollect exact verbiage ). It could Never complete it but aborted with the message . "corruption found in card "

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Given this situation, is there any OS utility or 3rd party tool out there, that can complete the card run and mark the bad blocks so, that these bad blocks remain unavailable to write? Yes, I ran chkdsk with /r /x options, and that is when it puked with all these errors, and it didn't run untill end. I tried aparted for Android which runs fsck (exFat sub), and the report came normal in < 1 min which tell me it didnt invoke bad blocks routine.

From what I read due to 'wear leveling' the dynamics changes so bad sectors can't be marked permanently, and the only temporary solution would be to do a low level format. Question is - is that so , pl. confirm my understanding?

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If the above is correct, I wanted to think of ways I can reduce data corruption and have a handle on the above. What I am thinking is , after erasing the data - instead of exFat. I will create several Ext4 partitions.

An ext4 for app2sd hidden partition (as is the case presently)
another ext4  pat # 2 for mostly RO data
ext4  pat # 3 for mostly Moderate RW data (like camera photos)
ext4  pat # 4 for mostly high RW  ( like whatApp media)

Is this going to help make life better than before?
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How do I auto mount ext4 (default external storage for Android is exFat or Fat32)  and that too more than 1 partition ? QuestionWhat files equivalent to fstab files in android (this is nougat) do I add my custom mount command to?
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Any other solution that comes to mind?


texts: How can I print from Android phone through Google Chrome connected printer in laptop?

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I have a printer connected to laptop. The printer does not have any network features such as Apple AirPort but connected to a laptop with Google Chrome. My Android phone is also running Google Chrome. Both the phone and laptop are under the same account.

How can I print through the Android phone to the printer? Can I do it with Google Cloud -printing?


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I have a Samsung Galaxy Pocket.
Google Play Services has always worked for years on my phone. But a few weeks ago l noticed my phone was 'force close vibrating' constantly!
After looking and watching my 'running services' l noticed Google play services kepted restarting straight after the force close vibration.
I uninstalled gps and it stopped. (but why was it doing it in the first place?)
I reset my phone to factory, installed my usual apps, and installed gps again. And straight away it did it again!
Is there a way to fix this? As l play a few games etc on my phone, some games it says it needs gps to run it.
Please help!


texts: In which Android system file can I remove Wi-Fi password field?

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If I would root my device based on Android (v4.0.4), which system file and how can I change to remove from the graphic interface the field where we manually type a password when connecting to new Wi-Fi hotspot?

ps. This is an additional and separate question to Which Android system file(s) should I change to connect only to specific Wi-Fi hotspots


texts: How to block ads in Viber notifications?

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Is there any way to do it? Maybe a hidden setting or an a AdAway rule?
I'm talking about useless drivel that show up in notifications such as "Yay, new stickers for Valentine's Day!", etc. Turning off the notifications for Viber is not an option.


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I have an early build of CM12.1 running on my ZenFone 2 and I'm working on trying to get the ASUS camera app to work with it, however when I try to install the apk, it fails.

adb install gives me Failure: [INSTALL_FAILED_DEXOPT]. I was wondering if there was any way I can "hack" the apk in order to force it to install the app anyway, instead of throwing an error.


texts: How to list apps, which have a permission to access the camera?

texts: I am experiencing the problem with the mm-qcamera-daemon on a Nexus 5 with 4.4.4, as described in this question. I would like to know if there is a way to see which apps have a permission to access the camera, so I can decide which app is causing the problem.


texts: Photos missing in both gallery and google photos

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This morning i stupidly formatted my SD card (J2 prime lack of storage issue), and after noticed that photos were missing from both my gallery AND google photos, that were taken over the last few weeks.

After i noticed that my camera was set to store photos on the SD card rather than device. I definitely don't remember putting my camera to store photos on the SD card so not sure what happened there?

Also whenever i delete a photo in gallery it also removes it from google photos.

Will formatting the SD card remove photos from google photos?

I've since taken a photo to make sure it was uploading images so i hope that doesn't mean the images are not recoverable from the device?

I'm only using the phone on 4g.

Any ideas on getting the photos back?

Thanks for any help.


texts: I have bought a pixel and I update the phone to Android 10 but I can't put the live captions the option isn't there any help?


texts: How to stop power intake when completely charged?

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Is it possible a process should run in the background of Android OS,
 and the only task of that process is to stop the power intake to the device when the battery is completely charged?


texts: How do I increase the resolution of BlueStacks?

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Presently, my BlueStacks appears slightly blurry. By blurry, I mean 'not sharp'.
Compare BlueStacks with my desktop:

(Click image to enlarge)

BlueStacks (Click image to enlarge)

The difference is subtle, but I don't like it. I think it's got something to do with the resolution. How do I increase it so that the items in BlueStacks appear sharp?


texts: How to get access to administrative accounts on Android?

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Please forgive the basic nature of this question. Android is based on Linux, and Linux is a multi-user OS. As I understand it, every version or distribution of Linux must have at least one admin account that provides file system root access and other heightened privileges. So my question is, if I buy an Android device directly from an OEM, and not through a service provider like AT&T, what happens to the account with admin rights? Do OEMs never provide the admin account credentials to consumers, or does it vary by OEM?

I'm trying to understand issue. If I'm buying a device outright, shouldn't I have admin rights to it without having to "break-in" to my own device? It this a stated policy of the OS vendor (Google) that OEMs cannot give consumers admin rights? If not, why wouldn't they provide the admin account credential as a matter of course? Is there a safety issue or other technical issue that supports this apparent policy, or is it simply a business decision? Thanks for your insight.


texts: Google music: offline listening after subscription expires?

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I am thinking about getting a subscription to google music after seeing so many good reviews (plus, the same subscription will allow you access to Youtube Red when it comes out! source).

I just have this doubt: if I can't renew my subscription one month, will I be able to hear those albums that I made available for offline listening? How does that work?

Thanks


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My LG Nexus 4 runs stock Android 4.2.2. I use Bluetooth for phone calls with a one-ear headset (Plantronics M100).

Sometimes I notice in the power toggles menu that Bluetooth has turned OFF and when I go into the BT settings the slider is indeed set to OFF. When I touch the slider, it moves to ON but after a fraction of a second it quickly moves back to OFF.

Sometimes Bluetooth is even reported as ON but it still won't connect to any other BT device. In this state, I can turn BT off and then on again, but it doesn't resolve the problem.

Only a device restart seems to resolve this, so that I can turn BT on again. This happens every other day or so.

Is this a bug in Android? Is there something else interfering? How can I troubleshoot this?


texts: Copy files from android device to windows 7 laptop using windows command

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I connect my android phone to my laptop.  I see computer\gt-19100 in windows explorer for the phone.  I wish to run a dos command to copy photos from the android over to a temp directory on my laptop.

I try

C:\Users\Me>copy Computer\GT-I9100\Phone\DCIM\Camera\20130702_083215.jpg C:\temp

I get:

The system cannot find the path specified.


texts: Is there any way to export game progress made on iPad to the same game on Google Play?

texts: I used iPad to play Six-Guns & Siegefall. Is there any way to export my progress to the same game on Google Play? I want it because I've played them for a long time


texts: Dot (.) symbol automatically added when pressing the space key 2 or more times

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I have seen many times when I type in WhatsApp and press the space key 2 or more times, a period symbol is automatically added. But after I press backspace once, pressing space many times won't add the symbol.

How to remove that automatically added period (.) symbol in WhatsApp and other applications?


texts: How can I find the exact factory image version that my Pixel is using?

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I have a Pixel 3XL on android 10 and a Pixel 3a on android 11. I had previously installed magisk on the Pixel 3a when android 11 was in beta. Recently I found that it had lost root, presumably because android 11 is out of beta and the phone had upgraded to the latest android 11 and was not using the magisk-patched boot image anymore. So, I patched the corresponding boot image for the latest android 11 factory image for pixel 3a, and fastboot flashed it, and it worked.
Unfortunately, I had mixed up my two phones in the fastboot flash step at first, and so then I ended up with the Pixel 3a with android 11 rooted again, but also with the Pixel 3XL stuck on boot, I guess because it had a wrong boot image (for pixel 3a actually) flashed into it. I tried to fix the Pixel 3XL by getting the latest android 10 factory image for it and patching the boot image with magisk. However, after fastboot flash of that patched boot image, it only worked partially. Namely, it could boot, adb shell works, etc., but it no longer responds to touch, so can't be used except for adb shell.
I'm guessing the problem is that I didn't know what was the factory image actually installed on my Pixel 3L, so I just guessed it was the latest, but the boot image from the latest might have some incompatibility with the actual factory image in the phone. I would like to find out what is the actual factory image installed on the Pixel 3L, so I can try to patch the matching boot image.
Hence, my question, how can I know what is the exact version of the android 10 factory image installed on my Pixel 3L? Googling doesn't seem to help, as most pages talk about how to install factory images, not how to find out what is the version installed. In answering my question, please note that I can't interact with the phone now through touch, so cannot check anything under "Settings" with the touch GUI, but can only see the fastboot info (see screenshot below) as well as anything I can access with adb shell (for example, any file in the phone I can check to find out the factory image version installed on the phone?)


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Whenever I start my phone, the samsung logo animation goes in a loop forever; unless i take off the battery. This started happening after I simultaneously clicked the power button, menu button and volume up button and going to android system recovery and doing wipe data/factory reset. After that it goes on in a loop.

Please help. Thank you.


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About 6 days ago my auto-rotate function icon disappeared on my old cheap Moto E.

Is there somewhere in the menu structure which talks about auto-rotate? I just cannot see anything.

I have looked around online and short of downloading another app and switching on and off, have not seen anything relevant.

TIA Steve


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We often get out of storage messages on our Motorola Droid Turbo 2 phone. We delete an App, and, say it's a 100 MB app, we only see about 10 MB free up. Likewise we've transferred and deleted gigabytes of pictures and videos from the phone, but only a tiny amount of space gets freed up. We're deleting and deleting and deleting, but we still have no room.

Right now, looking at "Internal shared storage" - It shows 23.27 GB used of 24.06 GB but only 5.06 GB used for Apps and 7.32 GB used for imaged, 18.73 MB for videos, 0 for Audio, 475 MB for other and only 1.34 MB for cached data (so it's not cached data). Those don't add up to anywhere near 23.27 GB! Apps and Images numbers go down as we delete, but the total GB used barely moves!

What is happening? How can we get our storage back?

Per Robert's comment, we downloaded Disk Info, screen shot below. But, all it did was show that we used most of the "Data". There's no insight as to what is using it, or why as soon as we delete apps, photos, and videos, most of the amount we just freed appears to be instantly taken back up.


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I often set Settings -> Sound & Display -> Screen timeout to never timeout. When I turn off the device the settings is 1 minute again.

Do you know how to make the settings durable? My version is 2.2 (Froyo)


texts: How does this app know I've used it before?

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There is an app that has a paid service. It allows you to use a free trial 3 times for 1 hour before it detects that you have used your 3 trials and blocks you. I tried various things, but each time it knows I have used my trials:

un- and re-installing
clearing app data
creating backups with titanium backup and restoring it
creating a new user account on my phone (android M), installing the app separately

How is this app detecting it? The only way I can reset the trials is by resetting my phone, but I can't keep doing this. Is there a way I can monitor the files the app creates/reads/writes?


texts: Combine/merge/concatenate/unsplit long SMS/text messages?

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I've Googled and searched the market and can't believe there's no such app. Maybe some other SMS management app has this simple function, to unsplit messages longer than the 160-character limit that were broken into more than one part? Handcent and GO SMS Pro don't mention it.

For some reason (see the answers posted before Feb 17, 2013) people don't quite seem to "get" the problem. Here's a screenshot:

For whatever reason (incompatibilities between carriers in following the Concatenated SMS protocol etc.), I receive messages split in parts of <160 characters. What I'm looking for is a very simple app that would let me select two messages and join them into one, specifying which should be first.

SMSes are stored in a SQLite database, and it would be pretty trivial to append to one field the the contents of a few other fields based on a drag-and-drop interface. I'd code it, but I'm not experienced with Android development, and others could make such an app far faster.

I posted a request on xda-developers but the bozo admin there moved it and nothing happened.


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I would like to flash my Android Phone because it appears to be corrupted;  whenever I switch on my phone it gets stuck on the MTS logo (splash) screen.

I have recently downloaded a 'flash tool,' but it is not detecting my phone.

Please Help.


texts: Looking for a way to shrink the size of MP3 files

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I have a lot of MP3 files on my phone and I would like to re-size them to save space. (Note: I do not want to trim the audio file.)  I know I may lose some quality, but it is fine.
What is the best way to do this?  Perhaps an app? (Free is preferred)


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I tried to get CM11 on my LG G2 on Bell Canada's network and I really messed it up. I can no longer get into recovery, adb doesn't see my phone, but download mode works (though I have no idea how to use it). I even tried the "Get out of Fastboot" tutorial and it didn't work because when I get to the point where I have to choose "Android" under "other devices" in Windows 7 and my G2 is showing up as "SAMSUNG Android Phone" and under that it says "USB Modem Phone ADB Port". The latest drivers for LG are installed so I have no idea what's going on. I had a Samsung Galaxy S2 a long time ago. Could it be that those drivers are over-riding LG's drivers? I have no idea how this stuff works...

So now my phone boot loops to little rows of words at the top of the screen:
[650] Fastboot mode started
[700] udc_start()

Please, what can I do to fix this phone? I need a simple tutorial for a total noob like myself.

Thanks!

Secondly, is there any way I can get CM11 on this Bell phone? I don't like LG's skin...


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I'm living in UK and all my apps understand it. All except Google Now. It keeps showing me cards about the rate between $ and £ or time in US (supposed to be time at home).

I checked all my settings and UK is set every where even for my Google account. I've got a Nexus S running Jelly Bean that I bought in UK.

How to make Google now understand that I live in UK? Am I missing something?


texts: I have got a software that I use on my pc, it is some kind of console that runs on CMD. Can I port or open the software in my phone? The file extension in the software is .exe but once I open it it opens Command Prompt, so I believe its a CMD app. Can Terminal Emulator open it? If so how do I do it?


texts: Use Samsung-type page swipe animation without installing launcher

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I'm a new convert from iOS to Android.

I really like the Samsung type animations when you swipe left or right from one home screen to another (i.e. the 3D box rotate). But I don't have a Samsung, and was wondering if there was an app I can use to do that on my device without installing a launcher. I really like my phone's look so I don't want to use a launcher.


texts: CM10 on Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 n8010 missing things

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I installed CyanogenMod 10 on my WiFi Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1. However, some things are missing.

First of all, I want the S-Pen handwrite keyboard, as well as the S-Note app.
Also, if possible make peel work (very unlikely, but just in case anyone had make that work)

I tried to install these from an unzipped stock ROM but (as expected) it didn't work. Do I have to install any library? If yes, which?

BTW: Please do not recommend other ROMs. I want CM. Maybe alternative apps.
If I find the libraries and APKs, I may create a flashable zip.


texts: How to allow ADB on phone if there is a Lock Screen and Screen is not responding + black

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How to allow ADB on a rooted Android Samsung J3(2016) if said phone has a broken display(black/unresponsive)?

P.S - ADB is enabled. Just not allowed.


texts: How can I view an Excel file in MS Outlook OneDrive on my phone?

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I have a Moto E.
I have an Outlook mail account that has some MS Excel files I uploaded from my computer to OneDrive.
If I log in to my Outlook account (using the Chrome App) and go to OneDrive in my Outlook account, I can see my documents listed. I can open one of my Excel documents. But, when I try to open another one, I get an error:

"We can't open the workbook because it contains features that we can't show in the browser."

There is also an Download button below the message. When I click on that button, it just reopens the same error page.

I really don't know why one file opens and one doesn't. They were both created with MS Office 2007 versions of Excel on a computer. They open fine on a computer.

Anyone have any ideas?

Note: I am only using the Chrome app. I am not using the Outlook app or the OneDrive app.

I only want to open/view the file.

I realize that there is a lot going on here. There are a lot of layers/systems working: Android, the Chrome app, the Outlook website, OneDrive, Excel...

One thing I have tried to do with my new smartphone is to NOT load it up with things. I thought the most efficient thing to do in this case was to use the Chrome app to access the Interest where I could check my Outlook account through the website. But, I also realize in the short time I have had my phone that there are times when getting/installing an app is the best way to go.


texts: How to remove words from the predictive dictionary in HTC Sense

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I have a case of irritating typos such as yoi rather than you etc. being selected by the otherwise excellent prediction, I must have accidentally taught the phone it in the past.

I had previously been able to remove them from the dictionary as described in this answer back on android 2.3 however surprise surprise this menu pathway doesn't exist on HTCs version of 4.0 cupcake. I'm really hoping this isn't going to be another case of HTC quietly hiding features from their menus.

In the language and keyboard settings page, where I believe it was previously, it's not under the options button of spelling correction or the regionalisation button of TouchInput correction.

Does anyone know where this has been moved to?


texts: Decrypting Adopted Storage: What's wrong with this process?

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Just want to say I've read just about everything I can find about this Marshmallow 6.0 adopted storage issue.. The most helpful of all of the different slight variations on the same answer was:
How to decrypt Adopted Storage?

I've followed it, but I'm having problems. So I'm here to ask some for some clarification. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

The current symptoms:

SD card not recognized by phone
when inserted into my mac (i'm using terminal in el capitan), it shows up in disk utility but it's not mounted (can't be opened)
on running diskutil list I can see the card as shown below:

/dev/disk2 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *32.0 GB    disk2
   1: 19A710A2-B3CA-11E4-B026-10604B889DCF               16.8 MB    disk2s1
   2: 193D1EA4-B3CA-11E4-B075-10604B889DCF               32.0 GB    disk2s2

So, what I've done so far:

My phone was already rooted, so I was able to extract the encryption key.
I used the guide to convert it to hex, yielding 7342560bad2454835235517e6a0df2f0
So, with the sd card plugged in to my mac, I try to run the command:

  dmsetup create crypt1 --table "0 'blockdev --getsize /dev/disk2' crypt
  aes-cbc-essiv:sha256 7342560bad2454835235517e6a0df2f0 0 /dev/disk2 0"

As you can see, I replaced the /dev/*** portion with my own finding, and the encryption key with my own... So far so good?
Now, this is where the confusion comes...
This is what I get when I execute the command

-bash: blockdev: command not found

-bash: dmsetup: command not found

Since it says to ignore any errors, I did so (although I feel like these errors are a bit different...), but upon executing the following command mount -t ext4 /dev/mapper/crypt1 /mnt/1/ I'm told: mount: realpath /mnt: No such file or directory
So obviously it didn't work, but I'm not exactly sure where it went wrong.
After a little research I discovered that maybe my path might be incorrect for terminal, so I tried executing export PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin and then tried re-executing the decryption command, but it yielded the same results.

I've been scouring around looking for information, but I figured it might save me some strife to just write it up and see if anyone with more wisdom in this area help point me in the right direction.

Thanks in advance for your help!

(Oh, and just as a side note, I'm trying to get my phone back in working order, but I don't want to ruin any chances of being able to recover the data from the sd card. So the question is, now that I have the encryption key and the sd card out of the phone, is it safe to flash a new rom and start over? Or is there still other data on the phone that's important to keep around during this recovery process?)

EDIT:
I followed the user's comment below, I'm using ubuntu with virtual box, but when I run commands to find all attached devices, my card isn't showing up like it does in the Mac Terminal. Any ideas why that's the case?

EDIT 2:
Here is a picture of my terminal in Ubuntu trying out the command. Any clues as to the errors?


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I have rooted my HTC One M8 running Android 4.4.3 (using this method). The process went fine and I did not have any hiccups. One of the main reasons I rooted my phone was I wanted to utilize AppOps, however have been quite unsuccessful on this front.

I have installed xPosed Framework Installer (this is the correct version for Android 4.4.3), however when I load the application I encounter the error:

  app_process version "58" has been installed previously but version "--" was found now. If you did not expect an old file to be restored, you may want to try installing via recovery (auto or manual)

Now according to few threads, for the use of the HTC One you need to proceed through this in recovery mode (Reddit) - I have not tested this method yet as I want to investigate.

Are there any other methods we need to try, that we're aware of? The only concern I have is not to soft-brick my phone as I am unsure how to perform a recovery (I could learn but would prefer to do this with a working phone!)

Update

I uninstalled Xposed and attempted a re-install, and now it appears as though I have lost ROOT access on my HTC One M8. I will reattempt to root my device to see what happens and if this in fact was the cause of my issue with Xposded.


texts: How will a stolen android phone be localised if it was stolen with an disables wifi and localisation?

texts: I lost my android phone today and the wifi and localisation were off.So,i went to google dashboard;and crypte and erase the phone.But i could not find localization because the wifi and localisation were off as i said.Now,i want to know if there is a chance to localise my lost phone.


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I've had my Nexus 5 for about a year and a half now, but lately it's showing weird charging behaviour (check battery history graph):

I leave it charging every night and it's supposed to reach 100%, now it doesn't even go beyond 48%. What's going on and how can I fix it?


texts: Application running on Android device connecting to device on its mobile hotspot through TCP/IP?

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I've been looking for information on how the network created by an Android device's mobile hotspot is isolated (or not) from applications running on the device providing the hotspot.
The question is whether an application running on the device should be able to connect to/discover a TCP/IP service that is running on a device connected to its hotspot.  Can anyone point me to documentation on how the hotspot network is or is not bridged the WiFi network that apps on the device use?
If I connect the Android device and the service running on the device to the same AP, I am able to discover the other device in an application running on the Android device.
If I connect the other device to the mobile hotspot provided by the Android device and then I attempt to discover a service running on the other device it fails.  I assume this is by design, but can't find any documentation to clearly articulate what if any connectivity exists between the network the application can reach and the hotspot network.
I believe this scenario is better suited for WIFI direct but the other device does not support the protocol.  If the WLAN network were bridged to the hotspot network it would work around this, but I don't believe it is just want to confirm before I rule this out.


texts: How can I keep the music information on my vehicle's screen updated while playing music from my phone?

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How do I get the screen in my truck to stay refreshed/updated while playing music (via bluetooth) on my Samsung Galaxy s4?

The screen shows the first song's info like the song, artist etc. But when my phone starts playing the next song, the screen never updates with the new track information. Why won't it change with the info on the phone's screen?

I am playing music from Slacker Radio via bluetooth to my 2014 Silverado.


texts: My camera was hidden and I lose the icon. how can I get the icon once again?

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I can't see my camera Icon on my android phone. I check in "application Manage" I see it but the launch button was disable and the disable button too. How can I get one again the Camera's icon so I can access to the camera.

Please may you help me to resolve this?

Thank you!


texts: Which physical remote controls work with android-tv?

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I have an old ADT-1 dev kit laying around at home. I want to bring it back to life to use for Netflix and other streaming stuff.

It came with a game controller, which is fine for gaming, but not so convenient for TV.

What specifications should I look for to get a physical remote control? I searched AliExpress for "android tv remote" and got all kind of things, many using dongles.

Would any "bluetooth" controller work? I want to know what I should be looking for ...


texts: How to remove unneeded icons from the menu?

texts: I have a Samsung i9220 with Android 4.1.1. How can I remove the unneeded icons from the android phones menu?


texts: How many devices Android 4.0+ can support connected simultaneously?

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Did anyone know how many devices connected simultaneously Android 4.0+ can support using Wi-Fi hotspot? Is there any limit?

Just to make sure that we are don't talking about 'operators tether limitations', I'm presuming that we are creating a Local WLAN with an Android device. It's like use an old Galaxy S2 as a home Intranet to connect my TV, smartphones, tablets, computers to a media server, without any outside (Internet or 3G) link.


texts: How to get an .apk file from Android device?

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I need to get the apk file for an app from a development device (Galaxy Nexus). I've had very little contact with Android before.

I know the name of the app and have tried to search the "internal storage" that shows up in explorer when I connect it but no apk file with the app name shows up.

I also tried logging into the shell using adb, but I have no "find" command and no permission to list "/data/" where the apk files are supposed to be.

I'd really appreciate if someone could help me out here! Thanks!


texts: On an Asus Transformer Prime, my notification bar at the bottom of the screen will randomly start dancing up and down, and sometimes just scramble then go normal. When it does either one of these behaviours, I need to restart my Android to get it to stop. When it scrambles, the rest of the screen is fine, and I can click on areas of the bar that are messed up as if it wasn't, and access their functions (i.e. Back, Home, etc)


texts: how to identify on command line terminal emulator apps and packages that have active network connections

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I tried this using an app and I am able to identify most apps and their  network connections however there are certain apps listed as  '?' so apparently it is not able to identify a package name I would like to know how I can get this information on command line using termux or any other emulator. I am magiskaly  rooted on an Android 10   phone
also would like to get a list of apps that can modify contacts and then revoke modification of contacts from certain apps by command line

and on command line how do I force kill an app I mean I can use the hang -9 Signal ....but I am sure there must be a more gentle package-level way of force stopping an app title the equivalent of getting inside the app property on gui and clicking that force stop button

also delete the cache on command line

what I want to do is write a `batch` script that will overwrite certain app specific files that the app keeps resetting every time and then force stop and clear `cache` and restart the app


texts: How to make Android play music reliably, without chopping?

texts:
When I try to play music on Android 2.3 (using various players, including PowerAmp) on Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 I get not reliable sound. Music pauses for a short time, for example, when:

I press the power button (especially repeatedly) (request_suspend_state: sleep;request_suspend_state: wakeup in dmesg)
When I see messages like send sigkill to 15497 (ndroid.settings), adj 8, size 6428 in dmesg
When some program reacts to changed screen orientation.
When wifi connection gets established, when I force it to "reassociate"
When I go to/from application from home screen (AWDLauncher), except of to/from WidgetLocker screen.
When I enable/disable Airplane Mode.
When the display is off (the most annoying)

When only really stable way to play music is to use StayAwake to force display on, turn off Wi-Fi, turn on Airplane Mode and don't switch applications. Starting CPU hogs like while true; do true; done does not affect chopping.

And it was playing more or less fine on Android 2.1.

"mediaserv" process (that writes to /dev/msm_pcm_out) has realtime io and scheduling priority, but sound is choppy anyway. If I start playing from console with mplayer  -ao pcm:file=/dev/msm_pcm_out the sound chop less (notably it does not get interrupted by power button / loading bunches of heavy processes), but still behave not normally when screen is off (even ionice -c1 -p4 cat /dev/urandom > /dev/msm_pcm_out is choppy)

When I start music A by usual way and music B using mplayer to /dev/msm_pcm_out (getting them mixed) music A chops more than usual and I usually hear B when A is in chop. When I turn off screen, both A and B chops in sync (stopping B leads to relatively more fluent playback of A this way).

How to play music on Android reliably in presence of background load? Should I report a bug somewhere?

Update Found a way of playing music. Inconvenient, but without chopping:

Start WakeLock in "CPU on, Screen Off, Keyboard off" mode
Use mplayer to play music bypassing Android:

ionice -c1 -n4  \
  schedtool -R -p 3 -e \
  mplayer -really-quiet \
        -af volume=-26 -quiet \
        -ao pcm:file=/dev/msm_pcm_out,nowaveheader \
    /mnt/sdcard/music/something.ogg
# (created script to start it easily, of course)

Plays without chopping no matter how much applications I start, what do with Wifi, orientation and airplane modes. Even with "powersave" cpufreq governor (everything very slow, but music plays fine). So the hardware have enough resources to play it.

Update 2
Looks like doing

for i in `pgrep ''`; do schedtool -D $i; done

i.e. "Set Idle priority for all processes" makes music play fine even when I {start programs,lock screen,rotate screen;it reconnects to other mobile network stations} at expense of some input lag in games. Don't know exactly why it happens.


texts: Can I force Android to use an external microphone in apps like Instagram?

texts: I'm trying to do instagram live, but the audio is really crappy. So I plugged in my headphones, but the sound comes through but it's not using the microphone in the headphones. It does use the microphone for calls and there's an option in the native camera app when making a video. I've tried with wired and bluetooth headphones. is there a way to get Instagram to use the external microphone?