texts: How to stop checking for mail and asking for backups?

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My mom is using Android 6.0.1. The problem she was having last week was that her phone was checking and downloading her email, and she did not want that. So I signed her out of her Google account, which fixed the email problem but created a new one. Now the phone is spawning messages that her phone is not being backed up (presumably because she is now signed out of her Google account). She does not like those messages either.

What is the best solution to this problem? I.e. stop the emails without disabling other phone features. Thanks.

Galaxy J3 Luna Pro


texts: Moto G device storage randomly gets full

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I never had this issue prior to installing CM 12.1 on my Moto G 8GB. But now, every often (like after 5 days of clean install from reset) the storage gets full. After that the device becomes useless, can't install app, can't remove apps, can't view storage options, and etc.

When connecting the phone to a computer I see this :

and folders inside it :

majority of the folders such as Pictures, DCIM, and Downloads are empty.

android folder is : 1.05MB
com.facebook.orca is: 1KB
tbslog is:75KB
tencent is: 43MB

It says 3.85 GB is used, the phone is 8GB and only shows 5.52 GB. I assume Android OS is installed on the missing storage, since I dont have anything why this device gets full so fast?

I only have 5 or 6 other apps (like Gmail, Maps, Chrome and Facebook).

I keep resetting the phone to get the storage back but not sure why is this keep happening. Any suggestions?


texts: Mac's Android File Explorer and SSH are not in sync

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I transfered some photos using the Android File Explorer application for Macs.

However, I accidentally put them in the Music/ folder and Android File Explorer doesn't allow me to move files. So I decide to SSH into my Nexus 4 and move the photos into the Pictures/ folder via the mv command. This went great - everything was moved successfully according to ls.

Unfortunately, when I go to Gallery, it doesn't detect the photos. Worse yet, every time I start up Android File Explorer, it isn't updated with the new location of the photos, they still show up in the Music/ folder.

I'm running Jellybean 4.2.2 on a Nexus 4, connected to a Macbook Pro via Android File Explorer.

Any ideas?


texts: Where are the download images for Android?

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I'm attempting to update my older Samsung 10.1 to a newer version of Android (7.1) which has been confirmed on a few sites that it's working.
However, the only download links I've found are on sites I'm not so sure I trust to download Android.  I want to get it directly from Google/Android.
Does anyone know how to get the OS APKs?


texts: How can I disable auto-dimming of the screen?

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What I'd like to see:

When idling, the screen turns off after the configured amount of time.

What I see:

When I don't do anything, the screen dims a bit after ~23 seconds, then at 30 seconds it turns off as expected.

I have no idea why this dimming short before the screen timeout happens and where to disable it.

My settings:

Automatic Brightness disabled, brightness set to the lowest level.
Screen time-out at 30 seconds.
Auto adjust screen power disabled.
Timeout for lock screen is zero (Immediately).
Use Power saving mode is enabled (it sets the screen brightness to 10% at less than 20% battery power left). Disabling it had no effect.

This happens with Android 2.3.6 (no idea if it worked before the update).


texts: Is there a way/browser plug-in available that can turn off and on Airplane Mode without using the physical button?

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I want to quickly turn off and on data on my S3 while I read long articles on the web which I noticed saves a lot of battery.  But the physical button is too worn off already and I don't want to exit whatever I'm doing to off the data.  Is there a way to off and on Airplane Mode from the status bar or a plug-in I can install in the Chrome browser?

OS: 4.1.1
Phone: Samsung Galaxy S3


texts: So I uninstalled my WhatsApp application but I didn't restore my old data because of a connection problem when I reinstalled it so I uninstalled it again and now the backup is not the old backup that I want. what can i do to restore the old backup?


texts: Galaxy Tab is not being charged through USB Cable

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Currently i am using Samsung Galaxy Tab, model is GT-P1000, to test my application, so i usually attach it with PC through USB cable and it is attached for a whole day though it is showing low battery at the end of day. but it should charge the battery same as the other phone when we attach it with USB.

Does anybody know, what may be the problem why my samsung galaxy tab is not being charged through USB cable?


texts: Android device manager..password not accepted

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I locked my phone from another device using the ADM now my phone wont accept the password to unlock, been trying for 4 days.

The ADM is not downloaded on my mobile as an app is this the problem?


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I have  a problem with Nova Launcher. When I go to Google and press "home" , it always asks me to choose between launchers. This  happens only when I use Google, it's really annoying.
Model: Alcatel one touch pop c2
OS: Andorid 4.2.2 jellybean
Nova Launcher version: Nova Launcher Prime 4.2.2
Root access: yes
Launchers: Launcher, Nova Launcher
Here is video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICJSZB0SEso
Screenshot:


texts: Does OnePlus 2 "DUAL SIM 4G" support dual 4G?

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I've read that most dual-SIM phones can only use the other SIM for 2G voice service.

Is OnePlus 2 DUAL SIM 4G any different?


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how do I enable 180 degree screen rotation on Moto G (3rd gen)?

Portrait is default
Landscape rotates the screen by 90 degrees

but is there a way to enable auto rotate for 180 degrees (upside down/reverse portrait) without root access


texts: How to mount sdcard1 (external SD) as internal storage?

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I understand that there are many tutorials and the like on this very subject, but none ever really matched my exact situation...
   I have a rooted moto g in which I have a 200gb micro sd card (laptop is down right now, I download all my media with my moto) and a mere 5gb of internal storage.   Now it becomes confusing for me... my storage folders are named 0 and 1, internal and external... and my "internal" storage is labeled as"emulated" sdcard0.  If I enter the sdcard shortcut from my phone's root directory I'm taken to this emulated SD.
   So, okay, I'm assuming that my internal storage is partitioned in two, perhaps the first partition is dynamically allocated so I have a place to store my pics and downloads at the same time maintaining the files in /data...so now I'm stuck constantly moving files from internal to external every time I download something because I get  insufficient storage warnings.  So how would I go about dedicating the 5gb totally to my /data and having the phone then make my 15gb sd take the place of emulated sdcard 0?


texts: i have an android htc one sv, it has an internal storage of 4.46gb when i DL an app it says i have insufficient storage,

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yet when connected to a pc my pc sees 4gb in total with 3gb free, when the phone is powered on it shows 4mb used and 5mb total now i have only my htc phone specs, google51mb, boost zone my default carrier and their services 37mb, earth,  ebay 11mb, facebook 170mb,gmail 10mb, google app 51mb, google play serv 104mb, google play store 26mb, htc back up 5mb, sync mngr 2mb, face book messenger 29mb,offer up 40mb, and talk back 6mb, vdm client and voice mail total 15mb, now since i dont use google earth, i have disabled it, and uninstalled it, total freed up 3.11mb,

now in total on my phone on internal storage alone not including my sim card which has only pics from my camera on it, the above some equals 557mb where is my other 4.45gb's at?


texts: Is there an app for Flash support for Android 2.1?

texts: Currently I am using Samsung Galaxy 3 (i5801) with Android 2.1. Is there any app available to support flash video ?


texts: How to open gmail links in gmail app or browser?

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I often use links to some of my gmail messages; these links have the form:

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/XXXXXXXXXX

and I use them for future reference in, for instance, evernote notes.

When I open such a link in chrome on my desktop, the corresponding mail message is opened as expected. However, if I open those links in chrome for android I only get the main window of gmail, not that specific message.

Does anybody know of a way to open permanent links to gmail messages in an android app?


texts: Is there a workaround to use of bash via adb on LineageOS17?

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I try to login in my device directly vith
adb shell bash -i

It kind of partially works, because I'm logged with bash, but the terminal loose completion.
The error I get:
$ adb shell bash -i
bash: cannot set terminal process group (-1): Not a typewriter
bash: no job control in this shell
mydevice / #

Is there something possible to do it properly without errors ? I don't have su installed.


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I have a Xiaomi Redmi 6 Pro running MiUI 9 and Android 8.1, never received updates thats why I want to unlock the bootloader and do the other stuff but there's the problem coming. The problem is that whenever I boot into fastboot/bootloader mode, android platform-tools "fastboot" command doesn't execute because it cant find my phone, whenever my phone is on and I run abd devices, it is found. This is what output I get from the console:<img src="https://i.imgur.com/chU6Arc.png" alt="
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texts: What is the typical range when using ANT+ on Android?

texts: My question is how long is the range from the phone to the ANT+ device. What is the suitable range between ANT+ device? I have seen this demo and I am curious if it is worth my money.


texts: How can I debug "Homescreen has stopped working"?

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I have an LG L40 D160 Android phone that repeatedly gives me errors. When it boots, I always get the message "home screen has stopped working". This pops up repeatedly and makes it hard to do anything. Not that there is much to do as the home screen is just black. Internet forums have suggested to delete the app files for the home screen via the settings app, but this didn't bring any change.

This same situation happened less than half a year ago. At that time I sent the phone to LG to get the problem fixed. They simply flashed the phone with a new (or even the same?) firmware.

As this has now occured once again, I don't think this is something that can permanently be fixed simply by flashing the firmware. It seems there is something inherently broken in one of the apps or the firmware itself. I would like to find out which app causes the problem and disable that, if possible.

I am a tech savy person, software developer by trade. However, I have never developed on Android and am therefore not too familiar with the architecture.

I have put the adb logcat output of one boot and shutdown cycle on a filehoster as it is too large for pastebin: http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=01407861783018316845

From looking at the log file, it seems this is the relevant error message:

[ 11-30 19:02:36.686  1410: 1410 F/libc     ]
Fatal signal 11 (SIGSEGV) at 0xd2305848 (code=1), thread 1410 (m.lge.launcher2)

However, I have a hard time deciphering what exactly the problem is. Seems the launcher just dies with a segmentation fault.

I have already tried the following steps but the problem persists:

Clearing data for Homescreen app
Factory reset of the phone
Booting in safe mode
Official LG firmware update does not let me re-flash the phone because I already have the latest version
Selecting "EasyHome" as my home screen instead just changes the error message to "EasyHome has stopped working"

What can I do to further diagnose the problem? Are there any more temporary files I should be deleting?


texts: Using macbook USB charger for android tablets and phones

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I am looking into finding a USB OTG cable/adapter that allows me to connect USB peripherals to an Android tablet while charging it. Ultimate goal is to get the power from a car's cigarette lighter (possibly using a USB adapter which provides 5A/3.0A or 2.4A)

While researching, I found out there are number of issues including, not all devices truly support this mode. (I heard most samsung devices do. Anyway to find a certain device supports this, before buying?) And certain adapters have a physical switch and doesn't really support simultaneous charging and data transfer/USB hub mode.

I am wondering if I can use the adapters that claim to charge and act as a hub for the Macbook, which has a single USB C port.

Lot of these adapters (designed for Macbook and Chromebook pixel) provide 14.5V/2.0A which makes me worried, as my phone charger only provide 5V/3.0A (Nexus 5X which has quick charging).

Is it possible to connect a phone or tablet to one of these adapters and not get damaged by the extra power? And would the adapters work under the power of the car cigarette lighter which only provide 5A/3.0A, when they possibly expect 14.5V/2A from a macbook charger instead?


texts: for htc desire s: how to know your phone's region?

texts: i'd like to update my software from gingerbread to ICS, just want to make sure to get the right update for my phone.


texts: How to resolve boot loop problem on android PumpKinx 10.1" tablet

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I've android PumpKinx 10.1 tablet with 5.1 Lollipop android os.

I did take backup of its stock recovery image.

Since there is no custom recovery image for this device I tried to flash it with twrp recovery image. But after running below command, device goes into bootloop.
I've tried many methods but no success.

fastboot flash:raw boot twrp.img

Any help would be highly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Update :

Every time this screen comes

Then if we go for normal boot or recover mode goes to this screen

Recover mode has these options but none of this is working


texts: How to create a 'Google Drive' file or folder shortcut, within Google Drive, on Android? (see body of question)

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On the web application for desktop this is accomplished by navigating to the file, clicking on it, and pressing Shift + Z.

Is there a way to accomplish the same functionality on Android? Either within the Google Drive app or thru some other means?

NOTE: When I go to a file that's in multiple locations on the Google Drive app and go to: Options -> Details, then I can see all the locations the file is in, and also remove locations, but I can't seem to add locations from this menu.


texts: Will CyanogenMod run on the HTC ChaCha, and is it stable?

texts: Has anyone tried to install CyanogenMod on the HTC ChaCha? What is the level of compatibility I should expect from it with with CyanogenMod?


texts: How to send one contact address as OSMAnd destination?

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My contacts all ahve their address set, and I would like to be able to navigate to their addresses using OSMAnd. Unfortunatly, clicking the "share" button, don't allow me to share that contact using OSMAnd, but only through mail, bluetooth, K9Mail, ...

How can I have the contact address sent to OSMAnd ?


texts: Ubhind app not working properly after android security update for 5.1.1

texts: I have a nexus 5 and the android version is 5.1.1.I have been using the app Ubhind for controlling how much time I spend on the mobile device. After the security update from android this month the app seems to have lost all right to device administration even though the app has full access .


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I want to download an mp3 from email and listen to it through the google music player.  I currently do it through yahoo mail and jelly bean 4.2.2.  However after downloading I have to turn off and back on phone for it to show in player.  Closing the player and restarting player does not get it to recognise the newly downloaded file.

There must be a better way?


texts: Is it a requirement for an Android Go image to use f2fs format for data partition?

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I am currently performing performance testing using PCMark on a 2GB Ram Android Tablet but changing its OS (Android 10 vs 10 go). I have noted a considerable increase in storage performance (around 40%) and around 5% increase in CPU and Graphics processing performance.
I have been trying to find other differences between the two systems and found that the Android 10go image uses f2fs for data partition whilst Android 10´s one uses EXT4. This would explain the increase in storage performance...
Is using a f2fs format a requirement for an Android 10 go image?
My main goal is to confirm if it makes sense to make the switch.


texts: Installing CyanogenMod 12 on Motorola Moto G2 (XT1068)

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I want install CyanogenMod 12 on my Motorola Moto G 2nd Gen (XT1068) with Lollipop 5.0.2. Please help me on the procedure.

I've tried apps like towelroot, Kingo, etc. but they don't support Lollipop.


texts: How do change my email back to from my son's email to mine on Google payment like Google store

texts: My son put his email into my Google purchase account and I cannot change it back to mine how do I do so


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I have set location to off but I can see it is still trying to use GPS from the icon in the top left corner.

Where in the settings can I switch this off for Facebook only? Despite Messenger location servvices being set to Off, everytime I open the app it tries to get a GPS lock.

I am running the latest stock Nexus 4 firmware and Android 4.2.


texts: Disabling smiley key on keyboards with the stock messaging app in ICS

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I'm using a custom ROM for ICS on my Samsung Galaxy S.

I like being able to create a new line in a text message, but the 'enter' key on all keyboards I use (though primarily Swype) is replaced with a 'smiley' key.

Is there any way to change this behaviour? Some research shows me it's to do with the field type used in the messaging app. Can the MMS.apk package be modified to use a different field type, or is it possible to modify Swype so that the 'enter' key is used instead?

I'm aware that I could use a 3rd party messaging app, but I like the stock app. I know some people are happy to send multiple messages in bursts rather than a long message with new lines but I'd find that annoying to receive and I don't want to annoy people I text.


texts: I have a 16gb card which I have transferred a few videos and books onto, but after a few days on my Galaxy tab the files have disappeared. I have tried three different cards, using different types of files, but after a few days they are always gone. Any ideas?


texts: Can I update my handset from gingerbread to honeycomb

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Possible Duplicate:
  When will my device get the Android 3.x update (Honeycomb)?

I am using  Motorola Fire XT. It runs on Android 2.3 (Gingerbread).
Can I update Gingerbread to Honeycomb.

Because it very slow in streaming youtube videos
Some times it strucking.


texts: How to change/remove icons on LG lock screen?

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I have LG Optimus L5 with Android 4.0.3. When screen is locked there are four icons (Phone, Messaging, E-mail, Camera) in the bottom of it. If I tap on it and slide, screen unlocks and the tapped app is launched.

I know there are apps for customizing lock screen but I couldn't find any free to help me with my LG.

How can I remove or change this icons on my LG device?


texts: How to enable the DayDream feature in the Nexus10?

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I know that in Android JellyBean 4.2 there's a new feature called DayDream. I want to access it in my Nexus10 but don't know how.

How can I enable and use it?


texts: Fix SELinux labels after restoring /data on CM 12.1

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I restored an automatic backup on Cyanogenmod 12.1 created with rsync of my /data partition, but now SELinux is denying apps access to their data.

Disabling SELinux "fixes" this problem, but can I repair the SELinux labels once after restoring and keep SELinux enforced?


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I have installed Termux on my phone(Android 7), then I installed git then git clone https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/tools/depot_tools.git, then export PATH=$PATH:/data/data/com.termux/files/home/depot_tools But when I try fetch v8 it says:

bash: /data/data/com.termux/files/home/depot_tools/fetch: /usr/bin/env: bad interpreter: No such file or directory


texts: Output audio from mic on bluetooth headset to phone speaker

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I want to get audio from the mic on a bluetooth headset, send it to the connected phone, and play it on the phone speakers. I'm aware there are different profiles and protocols to be used, but I'm unsure on how to start. What method can I use to achieve this with minimum delay?
Context: A friend of mine works in healthcare and is shouting themself hoarse while speaking to others through the PPE. If possible, I'd like to provide them with an app that lets them use their phone speakers as a megaphone to amplify their voice  - If such an app already exists, please let me know.
Thanks in advance.


texts: Chrome and Chrome Beta suddenly won't fill up the entire screen on launch

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So, I'm currently on the N5X rom with a cyanogenmod 4.4.4 base on my Samsung i9300, I restored Chrome Beta from one my backups in titanium Backup, after flashing the latest version of the ROM recently.

But every time I launch Chrome or Chrome Beta from the drawer, it comes up, staying right at the center, here's a screenshot:

Its so strange, it doesn't force close or pop up with any errors, everything works fine except for the part where it just starts fixed to the center of the screen.

What I've tried:

Uninstalling Chrome Beta and Chrome, and then re-installing both
Wiping data and cache of both browsers.
Re-flashing the ROM.

So here's what I've noticed, sometime last month when I flashed a Paranoid Android nightly, both Google Browsers behaved this way, and I thought it had to do with P.A then until this happened. Firefox works fine though, just Chrome and Chrome Beta.


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I have one question, is it possible to download .apk file from Google Play directly to the PC (without any ADB or device emulators?)
I have tried this one -> Evozi App Downloader but I can't download the app that I need. (I want to download it for my research, but I can't do it ), Also I have read about Chrome/FF extension which helps to download apps, but i need to insert my credentials to this extension (GMail for account + device id), and I don't think that is a good idea for safety.

So does anyone have any other ideas about my question?


texts: Problem sending Emails using android phone

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I am new to this forum. I have come to this forum through google search and find interesting which leads me to signing up to this forum.

My boss is facing problem sending messages using business-email-account from their android phone. It's a very rare case where the client successfully received mails but most of times when my boss check "Sent Mail" after sending mail it shows nothing. when he send mail, in Outbox it shows "Failed". Please see below screenshot, where my boss is trying to send mail to me.

*** Actual SCENARIO:

When my boss send mails at home using their jio sim (mobile data), mails are not send but when he send mails using the office wifi mails are send everytime (No chance of message failed). However, mails are received successfully regardless of using any kind of network connection.

So please any help me out of this strange problem. Please ask for more info if required...


texts: There is inconsistency in connection from Android phone to Windows 7 64 bit PC

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There are problems transferring files between my laptop and my phone. The symptoms I encountered are strange and I hope for a comprehensive explanation and solution to the problem
Background:

Computer Windows 7 64 Bit
Phone Android 4.0.3
Drivers are all up to date, using Windows Device Manager.
Both devices successfully paired.
Bluetooth is on.

I will describe the steps of my experience in sending and receiving below.
Sending file from computer to phone
Method 1

Right clicked "Bluetooth Devices" icon in system tray
Clicked on "Show Bluetooth Devices"
Right clicked on Bluetooth Device (my only Bluetooth Device)
Clicked "Control" → "Send files to phone"
Clicked "Browse Files..." → Chose my file → Clicked "Send"
Sending Dialog popped up
On my phone, was asked to authenticate, clicked yes
Sending complete.

In the above steps, sending is SUCCESSFUL.
Method 2

Right clicked on the exact same file I successfully sent above
Click "Send to → Bluetooth"
Bluetooth Send Wizard pops up
Clicked "Next" → Selected Bluetooth Device → Clicked "OK"
Displayed Error Bluetooth device not found. Please verify that your Bluetooth device is properly connected and turned on.

In these steps. sending is NOT successful. Please help me identify why.
Next, I will move on to sending file from phone to computer:
Method 1
Using the exact same file on phone, tapped "Send via Bluetooth" → On the phone displayed Bluetooth share: Sent 1 failed. On the computer nothing happened, no notifications at all.
In these steps, sending is NOT successful.
Method 2

Clicked Start button → Typed "fsquirt" in Run
Bluetooth File Transfer dialog popped up → Clicked "Receive files"
Displayed Waiting for connection
On phone, tapped the same "Send via Bluetooth" → Bluetooth File Transfer on computer shows sending progress → Sending complete.

In the above steps. sending is SUCCESSFUL.
Question:
Can someone explain to me the discrepancies in my experience in sending and receiving between the computer and phone? The 2 devices are obviously connected and sending is possible, so why does 1 method work while another does not? What happened?
Edit:
I shall refer to the above sending and receiving methods as Sending 1, Sending 2, Receiving 1 and Receiving 2.
When 'Control' dialog box with the "Send files to phone" option is opened,

Sending 2 becomes SUCCESSFUL
Receiving 2 becomes NOT successful.


texts: Access data on device with broken screen (Samsung Galaxy Ace 4)

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The screen on my Samsung Galaxy Ace 4 broke (running Android 4.4) and I really, really wish to get all my photos and other data off it. The phone has a pattern lock screen as well as an additional PIN if the pattern is entered wrong. I've tried numerous methods:

I can turn my phone on, hear the startup sound, all the buttons work (even the two touch buttons for back and menu)
when I plug in my phone onto my PC, the device shows up but is empty - need to unlock the phone first.
Touch doesn't respond, so no vision and no touch => no way to normally unlock phone.
Galaxy Ace 4 does NOT support USB OTG, so plugging in a mouse to TRY to do something is out of the question as well.
I don't have USB debugging enabled
The device was never rooted
Maybe that is why I cannot get ADB to work either...
There are a few software solutions available that claim to be capable of unlocking your phone's screen through USB, or being able to get your data off your phone, but NONE of them support Galaxy Ace 4 explicitly.
I DO have Airdroid installed on the phone, but WiFi and other means of connectivity are turned off on the device and I know of no way to re-enable them with a broken screen
therefore Google's Android Device Manager was of no help

At this point I feel I have tried everything. Is there anything else I can do? Screen replacement is roughly $100, and I don't care about this phone anymore as a device, I just want the data. Maybe it's possible to somehow connect a different screen (from a cheaper/older phone? Not just this exact model), it doesn't have to fit perfectly, it can even hang loose on a thread, I just need to unlock the device.

Recently we can often hear in the news how governments hacked someone's phone (a captured terrorist or such), so is there literally any other way I could get into mine? I do know both the PIN and the pattern, and of course credentials to my Google account.


texts: Smart Phone flash tool - Readback - EMMC_USER backup

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I trying to take backup of my phone. and i use Smart Phone Flash Tool

  How can i take (EMMC_USER)(64GB Rom) in HEX ?

Can someone tell me what HEX i need in length in Smart Phone Flash Tool, in tab (Readback, EMMC_USER)

Or are there a better way to take backup of the phone without root access.


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I have some experience with rooting, upgrading, installing twrp and another stuff.
My phone is Samsung Galaxy J7+ with (oreo).
Btw, based on some articles that i've read, it's too risky if i want to root my device in os 8.1 (oreo).

And i just want to make sure if i can still make it.

When i'm rooting my device as far as i know, i need twrp (tar files and installing this will need ODIN) and in this case i want to use superSU, bcz i have bad experience with Magisk and anyway i just want superSU. And i don't really remember if installing twrp and rooting my device will cause my internal data to be erased or not.

And i've seen some videos on YT explaining another alternative without twrp, that is using cmd or whatever but please don't suggest me to use this way cz it looks complicated and i doubt if i can do that. Another way is using "KingRoot". But it doesn't work when i tried it on my device with os 7.0 (Nougat). It seems KingRoot only work on the old os?

Back to my main question, So to make it easy, i'll list my questions :

Is it possible rooting device with os 8.1 (oreo)?
Will my internal data get deleted if i install twrp and root?
How to root my device without losing my internal data?

Hope you can help me.

Actually i'm frustated bcz i accidentally deleted some files a month ago and lost my important photo. And there is no way except rooting my device to get back my deleted photo.


texts: First N sec not played from pulseaudio over HDMI on Android TV

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I start tv, select input source, set default sink for pulse audio(pacmd set-default-sink 0) and start some playback in mplayer. For some reason, there is like 3-5s delay between command being executed and sound actually coming out from tv(sony). After that, I can immediately turn off mplayer, and if I rerun, there won't be any delay/audio missing. However if I wait for like 30s, it will start over again.

I really don't know what is causing this issue. Is it pulseaudio, android tv, gpu, or it's a some feature of sound over hdmi?  Is it somehow fixable? I mean for initial first connection — not ideal, but OK, but then I'd like to 'hear' all executions of all potentialy launched apps start playing immediately.


texts: Can a charger not 100% compliant to the USB specification damage my Andoid phone?

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I've bought a world adapter which can charge USB devices as well.
According to the packing the usb will be powered with more than the 500mA as per USB specification - 1000mA.

Will charging my HTC Desire with this USB/travel adapter damage my phone?

I know that many main boards don't deliver 500mA per socket esp. when another draining device is attached to the neighboring port.


texts: Disable Bluetooth discoverability in Redmi 6 / MIUI 11

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Is it possible to completely turn of the ability of my Redmi 6 (using MIUI 11 currently) to being discovered via Bluetooth by other devices? If yes, then how to achieve this?
Things I've tried or read so far:

No corresponding system option (NFUI clone on my Neffos X9 still has it)
This answer that is reported to not work under MIUI 10 so won't work most likely under MIUI 11
Turning off Bluetooth Scanning (turned off, no effect, device still discoverable)
Using Bluetooth Settings 3rd party application

I had the biggest faith in last option (Bluetooth Settings app), but it fails completely under Readmi 6 / MIUI 11. Not only Bluetooth discoverability is turned on again when phone is restarted or Bluetooth is enabled, as it is written here.
It is also turned on again when any paired device connects to it or when Bluetooth Settings app is reopened again. So this is a completely false pathway.


texts: Is there a way to change between User and Eng mode on android devices? More specificity the Motorola Defy (2.2.2) and the Acer Iconia A500 (4.0.3) I need access to tools like dev tools. I dont mind if I have to root the DEFY.


texts: Should I choose a custom ROM with or without GApps?

texts:
This may be considered an extension of a question I recently posted.
Does an appstore like F-Droid offer the same variety as the Google Play Store? What if I need a Google app(like the appstore,maps,google app etc.) later on, do I need to do any "Flashing" to separately install them?
Will it be better to use a custom ROM version with Gapps or try to live without Google first?
I did try searching around online but there seems to be nothing substantial.
Please provide your valuable suggestion on how I can improve my questions here since I am still very new to Android-rooting as well as Stack Exchange.


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Is there a way (an app, or a special launcher, a set of apps with instructions) that allows turning an Android phone into a child-proof "only call parents" one?

Here are my main requirements (and some possible implementation ideas I was thinking of as bullet points):

The phone's main purpose is to serve as an emergency way to contact parents etc...

Yes, I know there are special child proof phones like LG Milo - I am interested in how to turn an Android phone into that same functionality when not "unlocked".
When "locked down", the only thing a child must be able to do would be to call one of several pre-defined phone #s.

Whitelisting #s in dialer app (requiring password for non-whitelist)
or, having a custom dialer that only has "call Mom" etc... buttons with no way to dial specific phone #s; and tuning off access to Android dialer app (see item #2)

When "locked down", access to ALL non-whitelisted apps is restricted

Password protecting ALL apps not whitelisted (including of course Play Store and browser).
Or, custom Launcher that doesn't have anything but a widget for calling whitelisted #s and apps.
Or, if push comes to shove, I'm OK with ONLY phone functionality being whitelisted if no other apps can be to get this to work.

Less importantly, it's a nice-to-have if the phone can be "unlocked", perhaps via "parent" password, to allow full Android functionality without having to re-flush/reinstall etc...
This does NOT need to be genius-child-proof. E.g. if the way to unlock it is to reboot and launch Recovery mode, that's safe enough for me. The goal of locking down is mostly to cut down on accidental bad usage; and on temptation to do stuff that the phone isn't designated for in school (IOW, emergency contact method); if a child is smart enough to bypass lockdown, it's not the end of the world.

As far as what it takes to do this, I'm extremely comfortable with rooting, somewhat comfortable with flashing as a process (but less comfortable with flashing a random ROM of questionably stability, for obvious reasons); very comfortable with generic Unix commmand line; shell, Perl and C programming; but not Java or Android development. Basically, the sky's the limit technically as long as I don't have to actually write a genuine Android program


texts: How can I mute the camera shutter on Motorola RAZR i (ICS, without rooting)

texts:
Even when I silence the device the camera shutter continues to making sound.

I know that using rooting alternative we can move or delete the correspondent ogg file*. But i'm looking for a less invasive/complex alternative.

(*) How do I disable the 'click' sound on the camera app?


texts: What limits a mobile phone to be upgraded to new Android version?

texts:
What is the main reason that you can't upgrade your phone to new Android version?

Is it the lack of drivers, or simply hardware limitation? Are there other aspects?


texts: Using software keyboard in AOSP custom build emulator

texts:
I was finally able to build my own AOSP image, and I want to debug some problem with the software keyboard. However, the default emulator has a physical keyboard emulated, and I don't know how to disable it.

I know that the Android SDK allows disabling the keyboard when creating an AVD, but I was only able to create such AVDs for the platforms that come with the SDK, and not for my own build.


texts:
Just noticed HTC one X AT&T and HTC one XL has got same configuration. Are those mobile same ?

HTC one X AT&T vs HTC one XL (GSM Arena)

Actually, I read a article on which it was mentioned like " Android 4.2.1 ROM is cooked up for the HTC One XL (the AT&T One X) ". This tend to think me whether these two are same.

Android 4.2.1 AOKP Custom ROM for the AT&T HTC One X


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Every once in a while, a folder simply titled "Images" Will appear in my LG G2's gallery. It comes back even after I delete it.

For reference: http://imgur.com/e5s0IOc

Is this just Android being Android, or is an app causing this?

Thanks


texts: Schedule automatic updates - not from Google Play?

texts:
I don't use Google Play with my Android-based phone; mostly I use APKPure and its app.

However, I do want to be able to schedule periodic updates of all apps (or of some apps) - instead of me having to manually approve app update downloads and/op individual app update installation. It could be via APKPure or anywhere else that's sort of respectable, I don't mind - but it can't require something like logging into to Google/Facebook/etc.

Is this achievable?

Notes:

In case it matters - I use Xiaomi RedMi 3s, Android 6.0.1, MIUI 9.2.2.
I'd rather not have to root my device in order to do this. If you think I must, please explain why.


texts: Cyanogen mod 7.2.0 keyboard backlight not working properly

texts:
I have recently rooted my phone (HTC Desire Z A.K.A. Vision) and installed Cyanogen 7.2.0. I have noticed that my keyboard and softkeys backlight no longer work properly.

What used to be the case: The backlight of the softkeys lit up when turning on the screen. The backlight of the keyboard lit up when "sliding" open my phone. After dimming both sets of buttons would come back to life at use.

What is the case now: The backlight of the softkeys only turns on when I manually adjust the brightness of the screen. The same applies for the keyboard backlight but only when the phone is "open".

Does anyone know a fix for this problem?


texts:
I changed the battery of my OnePlus one (original and new, from EBay).
Everything went well, the new battery seems to do its job.
But now my phone keeps turning off and vibrating at 23% charge....
If i connect it to a charger, the "battery-to-empty-to-turn-on" screen shows (as usual) and the phone boots with 23% charge displayed.
Could it be faulty calibration data because i didn't charge the new battery till 100% yet?


texts: I cannot turn off Facebook Messenger call notification

texts:
this is driving me crazy, I tried blocking all notifications and permissions completely on the android settings:

, yet whenever someone calls me, the Messenger "call" appears on top of everything and start ringing, i also deleted the main facebook app still no help, i tried tracking what's going on (in logcat) and this seems the be the main culprit:
SamsungAlarmManager: Sending to uid : 10232 action=KeepaliveManager.ACTION_INEXACT_ALARM.MqttLite.com.facebook.orca alarm=Alarm{b8a6166 type 2 when 4781666703 com.facebook.orca}

This messages happens whenever i receive a Messenger call, is there anyway to turn this off without root ?
thanks!


texts: Delete my Google master account without factory reset?

texts:
I have three Google accounts configured in my phone. I want to remove my master Google account without losing other important data of my phone.

When I am trying to delete it, it is not allowing me to remove it, as some of the dependent application are installed with that Google account. I tried with removing those application also but still not able to remove it.

Please suggest any solution other than factory reset?


texts: Google Music's cover art, song name, pause and play don't appear in my notifications

texts:
I have a Razr Maxx HD on Verizon and noticed that unlike my friends' Androids, when I play music using Google Music, the album art, song name, and pause/play notification isn't present.

In fact, if I start a track using Google Music and then go Home, the music keeps playing, but there's not "headphone" icon in the collapsed notification area, and so the only way to get back to that track is to go to Google Music or click on the cover art in the widget.

Any idea how I can get Google Music to show up in my notifications when a track is playing?


texts: When does WhatsApp show that someone on the other end is Typing?

texts:
WhatsApp has two status options shown under the name of the person in chats, namely Online and Typing.

I understand that the Online option is shown if the person is on WhatsApp at that moment.

But, what does the Typing mean? Does it mean that the person is replying specifically to me, or replying to me or someone else?


texts: How to convert my Android contacts to iPhone?

texts: I was using an Android phone which has 1500+ contacts, and I don't want to miss them because now I am using an iPhone and I want to convert all Android phone contacts to iPhone. Is there any solution which can help me?


texts: I installed the SuperManager app and every time I try to uninstall it it just stays there. Has anyone experienced that and found a solution?


texts: Samsung Galaxy S3 I9300 is not detected by fastboot under Ubuntu 14.04

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When I connect my device in Download mode to my laptop, it is not detected by neither adb  nor fastboot commands:

fastboot devices and sudo fastboot devices returns nothing when device is connected in "Download mode".

fastboot device and sudo fastboot device returns < waiting for device > when
device is connected in "Download mode" and nothing occurs if i disconnect and reconnect the device.

cat /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules returns:

SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="04e8", ATTR{idProduct}=="6860", MODE="0666"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="04e8", ATTR{idProduct}=="685d", MODE="0666"

cat /lib/udev/rules.d/70-android-tools-adb.rules returns:

# Udev rules for letting the console user access adb.
# Vendor ids
# Important product ids
# d001 adb recovery
# d002 adb system

# Applies to 18d1
# 2d00 accessory
# 2d01 accessory,adb
# 2d02 audio_source (part of libgphoto2-2)
# 2d03 audio_source,adb
# 2d04 accessory,audio_source
# 2d05 accessory,audio_source,adb
# 4ee1 mtp (part of libmtp-common)
# 4ee2 mtp,adb (part of libmtp-common)
# 4ee3 rndis
# 4ee4 adb,rdnis
# 4ee5 ptp
# 4ee6 ptp,adb
# 4e41 mtp
# 4e42 mtp,adb
# 4e43 ptp
# 4e44 ptp,adb
# 4e23 rndis
# 4e24 rndis,adb

ACTION=="add|change", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", \
  ATTRS{idVendor}=="18d1", \
  ATTRS{idProduct}=="2d01|2d03|2d05|4ee2|4ee4|4ee6|4e42|4e44|4e24|d001|d002", \
  TAG+="uaccess"

# Applies to 04e8
# 685b mass_storage
# 685e mass_storage,adb
# 685c mtp (libgphoto2-2 libmtp-common)
# 6860 mtp,adb (part of libgphoto2-2 libmtp-common)
# 6862 rndis,dm
# 6863 rndis
# 6864 rndis,adb & rndis,acm,dm
# 6865 ptp
# 6866 ptp,adb
# 6864 rndis,dm
# 6865 ptp
# 6866 ptp,adb

ACTION=="add|change", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", \
  ATTRS{idVendor}=="04e8", \
  ATTRS{idProduct}=="685e|6860|6864|6866|6866", \
  TAG+="uaccess"

cat /lib/udev/rules.d/70-android-tools-fastboot.rules returns:

# Udev rules for letting the console user access fastboot
# 4e40 grouper
# 4ee0 mako/manta
# 4e30 maguro/toro

ACTION=="add|change", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", \
  ATTRS{idVendor}=="18d1", ATTRS{idProduct}=="4e30|4e40|4ee0", \
  TAG+="uaccess"

# Applies to 04e8
# 686d odin mode (Download mode, Bootloader mode)

ACTION=="add|change", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", \
  ATTRS{idVendor}=="04e8", \
  ATTRS{idProduct}=="685d", \
  TAG+="uaccess"

lsusb returns Bus 002 Device 015: ID 04e8:6860 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd GT-I9100 Phone [Galaxy S II], GT-I9300 Phone [Galaxy S III], GT-P7500 [Galaxy Tab 10.1] if device is booted normally or in recovery mode.

lsusb returns Bus 002 Device 024: ID 04e8:685d Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd GT-I9100 Phone [Galaxy S II] (Download mode) if device is booted in "Download mode" (power-on device with Power Key + Home Key + Volume Down)

adb device returns 4dxxxxxxxxxxxxxx  device when device is booted normally.

adb device returns 4dxxxxxxxxxxxxxx  recovery when device is booted in recovery mode.

adb detects device and can reboot it in both normal mode and recovery mode by following commands: adb reboot and adb reboot recovery. But if run adb reboot bootloader or even sudo adb reboot bootloader just boots device in normal mode. To boot device in Download mode I have to manually press Power + Home + Volume Down keys simultaneously.

I tried restarting my laptop and device, but no success.
My android-tools-fastboot and android-tools-adb and android-tools-adbd versions are: 4.2.2+git20130218.


texts: Samsung Knox For Non Pre-Installed Devices?

texts: I heard about Samsung Knox recently. I have a simple question about it: how to download Samsung Knox and install it to my Samsung device which doesn't have Knox pre-installed? I believe the pre-installed Knox is only on Galaxy S4 device.


texts: Disable "Close all incognito tabs" notification on Chrome for Android

texts:
Recently, Chrome for Android changed a feature to add a notification on the lock screen and on the notification bar any time there are incognito tabs open.
I don't want a large notification on my lock screen telling everyone I have them open.
Is there a way to disable this?


texts: Can mobile websites (not apps) access androids GPS Radio

texts:
We're creating a brief for a mobile website (not web app) and would like to know if a mobile website can access a handset's built in GPS radio to display the handset's location on a map.

In short is GPS functionality limited to apps alone?


texts: How can I root my TCL Idol X (S950) with Linux?

texts:
I have a TCL Idol X (S950) phone and I found out that I can root in using 'V-Root' (a Chinese software) however the software is for Windows.

The problem is that I don't have Windows, more explanation at the end.

More in detail:

V-Root is this soft: http://www.mgyun.com

If I well understood (Rooting/unlocking Android Nexus One with broken power button using Linux terminal tools) the rooting usually just install su command using some vulnerability in the Linux Kernel or in a daemon ... or any other similar vulnerability in the Android OS.

Reason
You may wonder why I'm not just grab a Windows pc from one of my friend and in my opinion there are a couple of reason for this:

Android (or better Android/Linux ) is using Linux kernel so in make sense to have some standard procedure to root on Linux too
Many of the Win. Root solution are shipped with some custom soft that we can not really trust ( for example V-Root, beside the fact that is in Chinese and few people non-chinese can understand it, how can I trust that it is not doing any malicious operation on my phone ? )
Most of the tutorial/forum thread are Windows oriented, so there are few and spare info related to Linux

So my question:
Is there a possibility to achieve the above on Linux? If not, is there any other method I can use on Linux?


texts: Android corrupting photos 1 minute after capture

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Sorry this is a question but I'm exhausted all other avenues.

I am running Android 4.3 on a Samsung S4 GT-I9505 happily for the past 17 months. I have not changed anything for a long time, it's been rooted since I got it. Nothing new installed or removed lately either.

Starting last Saturday, after I capture an image it's there and visible in the Gallery and any other app that wants to use it, for instance email or uploading to facebook. After a minute passes the file slowly gets corrupted and then is unusable by any app and shows as a "broken image" icon in the gallery.

This is infuriating that it's taking time to corrupt and not instant.

Anyone any idea where to even begin looking at the cause? I'm a software engineer of many platforms including Android so don't cradle the answer.

Thanks!


texts:
I'm using Android 6.0 (non-rooted) phone. Holding home button opens up Google App which I never use.

I don't think that I can change the behavior of holding home button at least as non-root user. (If there's any way or work-around then don't forget to tell me!)

So, as I never use Google App and also want to stop opening Google App by means of home button, I want to disable it as it is a system application hence I can't uninstall it.

But when I opened Google App from system settings, I found disable button is disabled:

So, How do I disable Google App or there is no option except root?

By the way, it is also not being force-stop with the help of force-stop button!


texts: What is this "Vo LTE" notification bar icon?

texts:
This icon  started showing up in my Android notification bar last week. I think it was after I used the Google Drive app for the first time (I had never opened this app before and was just curious).

Now the icon is there all the time, occupying valuable notification bar real estate – and not providing any useful information in return, as far as I can tell.

What is this icon? What is it supposed to be telling me?

Can I make it go away? If so, is there a reason not to?


texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  Where can find older versions of Apps?

Sony LiveView -application dropped the support from the old Android versions -- some problems here -- and now I cannot use it. I want to get the old version of the Sony LiveView but it is not available in the market. It was replaced by the newest Android version. How can I get the old version of App thaw was later available in Android Market?


texts: How do I set the Home Time Zone that shows up on the Dual Clock?

texts:
I'm currently traveling with my phone, and my lock screen shows a dual clock with Roaming and Home times. Which is very useful!  Except the Home time is actually from the timezone I originally registered the clock in, NOT the one where I currently live - I've moved timezones since I bought it. Is there any way to set the Home timezone to where I actually live while keeping the dual clock?

I'm on a Samsung Galaxy S7 with Android 6.0.1


texts: Where can I get Android 2.2 for HTC Desire

texts: How can I get the 2.2 version of Android on my HTC Desire and when?


texts: Clearing the search history in the official Twitter app?

texts:
Is there an easier way to clear your Twitter app's search history aside from removing your Twitter account and re-adding it or deleting the application's data under Settings > Applications > Manage Applications > Twitter?

This functionality does not appear to exist in the official Twitter for Android app.


texts: How do I sideload, i.e. install non-market apps, on at&t phones?

texts: I'd like to try out some Android beta software I found online, but when I tried installing it on the device I got a message that said that installing non-market apps has been disabled for security reasons. Can I bypass/disable this restriction? I am using the at&t Captivate (Samsung Galaxy S) with Android 2.1.


texts: How can I not use the Facebook for HTC Sense on my HTC Incredible?

texts: I'm trying to add my Facebook account instead of using Facebook for HTC Sense. However, when I go to Accounts & sync > Add account > Facebook, nothing happens. If I tap any other account, I get prompted for login information (or, if I'm already logged in, the ability to change settings or add a second account). I really dislike the Facebook for HTC Sense, so there's got to be a way to add my Facebook account without using Facebook for HTC Sense.


texts: Disable hardware keys on Cyanogenmod 12.1 / SM-T800 (Samsung Galaxy Tab S)

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I've hated the hardware keys on my Samsung tablet since I bought it. Even after a year, I have to be careful not to brush the keys with my palm or else I'm suddenly exiting the book I'm reading or web page I'm viewing.

I rooted the device to try and fix this, however the instructions I've found for enabling on-screen navigation (by editing build.props) either gave me a black bar with no navigation buttons or, on later Samsung updates, prevented my tablet from booting.

I finally got around to installing CyanogenMod 12.1 (cm_chagallwifi-userdebug 5.1.1 LMY49J 11fa7f9ea1), and I can enable on-screen navigation using the following command (taken from this question):

settings put secure dev_force_show_navbar 1

Now I need to disable the hardware buttons. Most instructions I've found indicate to edit /system/usr/keylayout/Geneic.kl and comment out the keys for HOME, BACK and MENU. I mounted /system as read-write and commented out keycodes 127 (Menu), 158 (back)and 172 (home). Yet after a reboot, my hardware keys are still enabled!

I also cannot disable the LEDs on the keys either. I found a script that attempt to do this sending a 0 to /sys/class/leds/button-backlight/brightness, which does not exist on my CM12.1 system. I can't find any other files under /sys/class/leds that seem to deal with the hardware button backlights either and there's nothing in the settings menu for them.

All I want is to be able to disable the hardware keys. Turning off the LEDs would be nice too.


texts:
As cited here, I think there are likely issues unique to Terminal-IDE users because Terminal-IDE is, effectively, an "accessable-linux-on-your-non-rooted-Android" environment. And, therefore, it likely has unique environmental issues. So thank you for not immediately telling me to go to ServerFault or SuperUser...

After installing Terminal-IDE, I read all the help and set about taking advantage of the SSH tools - I really want to get logged in from another system so I have a full keyboard and can treat the phone just like any other networked system. However, I got stopped in my tracks pretty quickly.

I have several routing issues, but I'll put them all here in thinking they may well be related and one place is better than several for finding answers.

I'm using WiFi to get to/from the phone and, using my possibly lame Netgear WN802T WiFi unit (that doesn't have a DHCP server and requires another system to do that). The phone (and other devices) links up, gets an IP address, and surfs the internet from there just fine. I told the DHCP server to match up the MAC address and give a fixed IP - this way I avoid the "single IP for all interfaces when "fixed IP" is chosen" problems identified elsewhere on this site. I have confirmed that IP is indeed given to the phone.

So, I set up the sshd service as found in the official Help PDF. It runs. But no inbound connections succeed; they always end with "Connection timed out" (notably NOT "no route to host" - which is what I get when I ask for a non-existent IP). That tells me it MAY be actually getting to the port on the phone but nobody's answering! This leads to to immediate questions:

Is there a way to log inbound attempts?
Is there a "firewall" of some kind?

When I connect out-bound, it ONLY connects either on the wilds of the internet, OR on the default gateway the DHCP server told it about. It won't connect to ANY "non-routing IPs", even though other devices on the same WiFi will (so clearly the WiFi is routing to the local subnet just fine).

Do I have to create a route specifically pointing to the internal router (the netgear box)? Or;
tell the real outbound router how to route internally as well as externally?

Thanks for any insights.

EDIT TO SHARE MORE DATA

As I have continued to work the problem, and after many hours of frustration, I hooked up a USB cable to the phone and used "internet passthrough" to connect to a lap-top which itself is connected via the same wifi. Now I have more data.

I have confirmed the following:

connection via the laptop to the rest of the network is stable
connection to the phone from the laptop succeed in getting through authentication and, after discovering and fixing a minor typo in the sshd script, it works fine.
connection from the phone, through the cable to the laptop then has full access to the local internal network via IP address.

So, this strongly implicates that there are some issues with the phone's end of the WiFi and NOT with the WiFi itself, however, there's not quite enough data to say that since I haven't got sshd running on the laptop to know it is accepting connections through the net... Interestingly, it is not rejecting connection attempts out of hand - they take a long time to drop! (It's a Windows 7 laptop and, frankly, I don't really know how to tell it to open up specific ports - or how to forward to the phone!)

Note also that the only system that can connect to the phone via the wired connection is the laptop that the phone is wired to; so far I have been unable to find a way to get to the phone through the laptop.

Thanks again for any insight.


texts: Can an Indian GSM phone be used in the USA?

texts: I'm considering buying the Oppo F9 Pro, which has a dual sim GSM slot. I currently have consumer cellular service with a nano GSM sim card. would I be able to import the Indian phone and use it here without any problems?


texts: Change default app for Note To Self android 9

texts:
How do I change where Notes to Self go?
Specially want to send to Evernote.
Android v9


texts: How to hide my Google Play downloads from my friends?

texts:
I am new to android and just by going into Google Play I can see every app my friends downloaded. I am really feeling uncomfortable about this since I don't like to feel exposed.

Does anyone knows how to block this "feature"?


texts: WhatsApp group messages are not in order

texts:
For the past 3 days, my WhatsApp group messages are not getting downloaded (when I switch on WiFi) in order of time. Rather, it looks like they are grouped as per contacts. I looked into this site, and as suggested, tried the following:

Change your phone to use "Automatic Date and Time": didn't help
Reinstall WhatsApp: didn't help
Checked the WiFi connection: no issue with the WiFi, web is running perfectly in the same phone
Removed unnecessary apps which might delay things by totally resetting my phone to factory default, then reinstall WhatsApp: didn't help

What else should I do?


texts: Podcasting Apps Using Internet Even with Downloaded Episodes

texts:
I've been using a couple podcast apps, Podbean and Pocket Casts most recently. If I run an internet speed test from a PC on my network, I find that while playing a downloaded episode from my phone there is very little bandwidth remaining for the PC (0.2 MBPS). If I stop the episode or put my phone in airplane mode, the results on the PC are back to normal (40 MBPS).
Is this a feature of Android or simply poor use of resources by the individual podcast applications?
Is there a way, besides putting the phone in airplane mode, to stop the app from using internet bandwidth while playing a downloaded episode?


texts: what to do for VOLTE in India's jio network?

texts: Actually my friend bought me a mobile from UK , its SAMSUNG J3(2016). But now i now need to use VOLTE in India in Jio 4g network, which is not available in the foreign made by default. Which firmware i need to use? Also please tell me how to do this?


texts: How to recover Google account without username or Gmail address?

texts: I forgot my username and Gmail address. I had to get new mobile phone with a new number. How do I recover my account?


texts: How can I control the media volume while using the camera?

texts:
I just upgraded to a Nexus 4 and have discovered the behaviour of the volume controls has been overridden within the camera app.  The volume up button has been remapped to snap the camera shutter.  As I often listen to music on my phone, I find this a great inconvenience.

Is there a way to restore the action of the volume buttons to their default behaviour of controlling the media volume, or alternately is there any other way to control the media volume from within the camera app?


texts: Wi-Fi icon next to apps in android market

texts:
In Android market some app have a Wi-Fi icon next to them.
Some examples are Cordy, Fieldrunners HD, Flight Control, Where's My Water?, Wind-up Knight, World of Goo.

What dose it mean that these apps have this icon next to them?

I'm using Galaxy Nexus.


texts: I have a Samsung Galaxy S4 running the Lollipop OS.  My ISP is Verizon and my email is run on MS Outlook.  Since the Lollipop upgrade, the Trash Folder indicates that I have (for example) 35 emails, but when I open the folder is is correctly empty.  The only fix I've read is to delete my email account and then reinstall it.  I tried this but it only worked for about a day, and then my empty Trash Folder once again started indicating that the folder is filling up.  Any ideas?  Thank you.


texts: How to set default phone number for contacts?

texts:
USE CASE
When I do voice dialing with Google on my Android phone or more importantly text messaging it always asks which phone number I should use for the contact. That's really frustrating when I'm driving.

Is there a way to set a default so it just uses that one?


texts: How to simulate a slow internet connection on an Android phone

texts: I basically use internet using wifi which provides a very high speed internet and LAN connection. I would like to simulate a slow speed internet and LAN connection to understand how my web site works on slow speed. Is there any app that I can install on the android phone and simulate it?


texts: Turn bluetooth on when screen off and volume key is pressed

texts:
I would like to be able to toggle bluetooth on when phone screen is off (locked) and I press the volume up button, ideally twice (two quick presses).
What options do I have to accomplish this on a rooted Android 7.1.2 phone? ROM is Ressurection Remix 5.8.5.
So far I tried Tasker with AutoInput plugin, but it only works when screen is on. Apparently AutoInput does not register keypresses when screen is off.
I also tried Xposed Additions, which does react to volume button when screen off, but I can not assign a Tasker action to it that enables the bluetooth. There are only a limited number of actions I can choose when screen is off.


texts: No screen lightup on email/notification/reminder

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When I get a txt message on my phone, the screen lights up and it plays a sound if I have the volume turned up.

However, if I receive an email, or some other notification, the screen does not light up and it does play a sound if the volume is turned up.  At work, I need to have my phone on silent, so when I receive a txt message, it's not a problem, as I have the phone angled to face me, so I notice instantly when the screen lights up.

This does not happen with emails and or notifications.

So my question is, how do I set my phone up so the screen lights up when i receive an email and/or notification/reminder etc?

I am using Android 2.2.


texts: Is it possible to permanently disable CSS on Android browsers?

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Is it possible to permanently disable CSS on Android browsers like Firefox, Dolphin, Chrome and Opera?

I want the browsers to completely ignore any stylesheet rule.

Can this be achieved with the help of AdBlock Plus?


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I've been trying to find a good RSS widget that maximizes the number of entries that will fit in 4x2 or 4x4, especially for titles or sites with short entries like headlines.

Any good ones out there?


texts: Difference between killing an app by clearing it from Recent Apps menu and “Force Stop”

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What is the difference between these two methods when killing apps in Android?

Clearing an app from the Recent Apps menu by swiping it to the right or left.
Settings → App → Running → Force Stop.

Do they send the same signal (KILL or TERM) to the running process? Do they kill the services launched by the app?


texts:
Messed around with my Moto G7 Plus Lake on Lineage 17.1 & ended up with TWRP on partition B & Lineage Recovery on Partition A, no matter my inexpert fumblings. I somewhat unfortunately carried out an advanced wipe on A/B with TWRP & now recovery is unresponsive over ADB or touch. I assume device is toast?
So is there any procedure to rectify, or do I need pop to Shenzhen market & solder new ROM?


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How can I save a number during a phone call? The scenario is that I'm calling someone to get the phone number of someone else. If I just type the number in the dialer, it disappears when the call ends.

Opening some kind of notepad application is cumbersome both saving and retrieving: tap home, tap applications, find the application, start a new note, type number, end call, copy number, paste number into the dialer (how to do the last step is another question)


texts: Volume controller and screen size controller missing from Youtube app

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I have Samsung P-3100 Tab. I have youtube android application installed. I am having the following complaints with youtube player (Probably I do not know how to  get to these, so this question! )

1) If I hold the Tab in Landscape orientation, then the video occupies the whole screen (which is as expected). However, I cannot see the screen size icon on the screen, to change the screen size from "Full Screen" to normal screen Mode. I have to rotate the Tab to Vertical orientation to see see any comments or related videos. (this is very annoying!) :(

2) There is no volume controller on the screen anywhere. Is it because youtube app rely on the volume controller on the Tab?

I am sure other people might have faced the same issue. I googled for this issue but I couldn't find anything helpful.


texts: How to share android screen with users outside LAN?

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I work as a developer from home and I wish to demo the android app to my boss. He doesn't have an Android phone, so I have to demo the app from my phone and demo all scenarios for him from my android phone.

The question is how do I share the screen with him ?

Here's what I tried ?

1 - BBQdroid exactly what I want but it only works in a LAN, in fact I have to specify the android local IP address i.e. 192.168.x.x

2 - Teamviewer quicksupport but it exposes all the apps on my phone and it's not live sharing, I have to keep on sending screenshots.

3 - AirDroid only screenshots, no live sharing of the android screen

Please help me guys find a way to share the android screen live with my boss.

Thanks


texts: HTC Sensation XE, Mobile data OFF when GPS ON

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When any app on my android device started to read GPS (with GPS icon ON at notification area), my mobile data connection is OFF right away and then ON again after about 10-20 seconds. It happens in every app and that's really annoys me.

I've tried to uncheck the "Google's Location Service" at "Location" settings menu, but it affects nothing.

Anyone has same problem with me? What's the solutions?


texts: What are some of the effects of flashing my HTC Desire with cyanogenmod?

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Recently rooted my HTC Desire (GSM) and considering flashing it with cyanogenmod. However I have a few quick questions related to flashing with cyanogenmod (or any ROM in general I suppose).

Firstly, will flashing with the ROM delete my apps/data? ie. will I be starting from a "fresh" state? (I have done a nandroid backup and also backed up all system apps + data with Titanium backup, but just curious).

Secondly, got my phone online so it's actually from Taiwan, thus it has a locale=en_TW keyboard. I quite like this 'keyboard' because it allows me to input Chinese in many different ways - namely: handwritten, pinyin, zhuyin and strokes. Will flashing with the ROM remove this 'feature' from the keyboard?

Thirdly, according to cyanogen's wiki it says:

  NOTE: the ClockworkMod version 2.5.0.7 installed by Unrevoked3 is widely reported not to work with new "PVT4" batches of the Desire.

I checked and I am in that boat - have 2.5.0.7 and a PVT4 Desire. So does that mean I need to follow the below steps to install a newer version of clockworkmod?

Also, once flashed, how will I get future updates of cyanogenmod? Will I have to reflash the phone to get the updates?

Thank you!

pyko


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I need help re-installing Google Play

I don't know how to. I have tried turning off my phone, but it doesn't work. I want to download Temple Run 2, but I can't because I don't have Google Play. I am hopeless.


texts: Accessing shared Outlook folders on my Samsung Galaxy S3

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I have worked out how to access my work emails via the Microsoft Exchange Server and also access any meeting requests. However any of the calendar entries on our shared calendar cannot be accessed.

I've tried Touchdown without success as it does not support shared folders. We are an events company that needs to be kept informed in what each of us are doing (along with our rosters) so I have no use for my own personal work calendar entries.

The iPhones can do it, what is the problem with the Androids?


texts: Redmi note 8 - black screen won't turn on

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I bought a cheap and broken Redmi note 8, the previous owner told me it won't charge. When I got it in my hands I tried turning it on and it vibrates, turn the led on for a second but no image. (this looked weird as usually phones shows a dead battery logo or something in the screen)
I left it charging for a while to see if something happens. The led light turned on as if it was charging so now I doubt it is a charging board issue.
I saw some videos of a trick of factory reset pressing volume up and down and power buttons for 12 seconds, others mention different combination of buttons but neither of them seemed to work. The phone vibrates a few random times, I can't tell if it's turning on or anything.
Now I think it's either the screen or some problem in the logic board. What do you think? Am I missing something? Is there any way to diagnose either of these things without buying a screen replacement?
Thanks for the help.


texts: How to access internet on my  HTC Desire from my pc with USB?

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Possible Duplicate:
  How to set up reverse tethering over USB?

Is there any way for enjoying internet on my android device without having WiFi or any thing else except USB.
Actually I have an internet connection on my PC. I am wondering if there is a way to share it from my PC for my Android phone. It is opposite of the normal "tethering" direction.


texts: Zenphone Max Pro M1, twrp-3.2.3-0-X00TD stuck at Starting "ADB sideload Feature..."

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Note: This is a post to share the experience that I had, during the installing process of Lineage Os. So That someone else can learn from my experience
I'm new to modding Android Phones and installing Custom ROM in phones.
I decided to install Lineage Os on My Asus ZenPhone Max Pro M1, I was following these steps.

Unlocking BootLoader true
Installing Custom recovery true

I installed twrp-3.2.3-0-X00TD which is also recommended in the instructions.

Installing Os from the recovery. experance some hiccups

Hiccups
Following the steps was in the documentations I wiped all the data(cache) and system partitions. after that, I went to Advance > ADB sideload and Twrp was stuck at Starting ADB sideload Features and I was not able to find my device on adb devices command. I also tried to install the os from external storage. But then twrp was saying that the file is corrupted. So I download the Os zip file again. and twrp was not able to map the file.
Solution
I found the solution though. I read the documentation again the installing Lineage Os part and the warning caught my eye. the warning as follows

WARNING: Depending on which recovery you use, you may be prompted to install additional apps and services. We strongly advise you to opt-out of installing these, as they may cause your device to boot-loop, as well as attempt to access or corrupt your data.

And I thought that I can also use another recovery as well, because as per my diagnostics I thought that problem might be in twrp recovery so I searched about the problems that I stated above. and I found that there were some problem as same as mine before as well. So I started searching for another version from twrp on their official website but I was not able to find a version from my phone. After that I Start finding another recovery that supports my phone and I come across OrangeFox recovery and I download a supported version from here and now I'm able to install any from recovery. I installed lineage os from ADB sideload. and my Phone just completed the open G-aaps installation as I was writing this post.
I hope this can be helpful to others.


texts: Anyone know where memos are stored on a Samsung Galaxy S6?

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I hooked my S6 up to a Win8 computer, and there were about 30-something folders on the S6.  So I copied everything to my PC.  Now I'm trying to find some of the info that was on my phone, like memos, and I can't figure out which folder they're in.  They've got to be here somewhere.  Does anyone know which folder the memos are stored in?

By memos, I'm talking about the default memo app that comes with the Samsung S6.


texts: Add Smart Lock screen security options to Amazon Fire HD 8?

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Smart Lock is present in vanilla Lollipop 5.* but isn't included in Amazon Fire HD 8, which is based on Lollipop.

Can Smart Lock be added/enabled on Amazon Fire HD 8 tablet devices?


texts: SMS problem on moto g after updating android 4.4.4

texts: I have updated my Moto G yesterday to Android KitKat (4.4.4.) Before that I have disabled the stock Messaging app and I used Textra SMS app instead. Everything was working fine until the update. Then I was not able to send SMS from Textra or Hangouts because they were crashing. After resetting the app preferences and re-enabling the stock Messaging app, I am able to send SMS again from both the stock app and Textra. But I want to disable stock messaging app again, because it shows the incoming message preview in notification bar, and I don't want that. I want privacy with my SMS. This feature why I use Textra. How can I disable the stock SMS app?


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I have created a shortcut to a single document. The home page icon carries the name of the file manager (Astro) that I used to create the shortcut (using the method explained here).

I'd like to rename the icon to something more relevant so I can distinguish it from shortcuts to other documents or folders. Is there any way to do this?


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I am using an SD card on galaxy S3 - I store my photos on here. But today, on the DCIM folder of that card, I see a folder that named "µamera" and all of my photos were gone.

It seems that, this issue is somehow common, if you google "µamera" you'll see that.

I am trying to recover photos from SD card but it seems SD card is not readable by PC. However, I can see the all other files in the SD card from the phone, even other photos which are not in DCIM folder (that is current camera folder). The problem is only the DCIM folder which camera writes photos.

Does anyone have an idea about this problem and solution? I am also open to good advice on recovering files on S3. Thanks!


texts: Is it possible to set a customizable mode of "Do not disturb" for Outlook?

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In this article, it is described how to set Outlook to e.g. do not disturb during weekends.

In addition to this, I would like to add the criteria to not disturb after work hours (i.e. 5 PM to 8 AM).

From my understanding, this is not possible? Could we persuade Microsoft to add this feature somehow?

EDIT: I found that several others also want this feture.


texts: App not installed when installing older version of an existing app

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I have developed an Android app (Phonegap) in Eclipse with signed key APK file version (1.0.0) and save it on SD card of phone or download from site.

I am able to install it on non-rooted Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 phone having enabled "Unknown sources" and also able to update app with same signed key APK file version (2.0.0). It's successfully installed and working fine.

But now when I am going to install older signed version (1.0.0) app over latest version (2.0.0) by choosing "Install", I'm getting "App not installed message".

App downgrade working fine on Micromax Canvas device but not in Tab 2.

How to install it?


texts: Why does my phone need to connect to google servers?

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You can tell the difference between when your phone is connected to Google's servers, and when it isn't by the following in 4.3:

Connected

Not connected

Please note one is blue and one is grey.

My question is why is it necessary for the phone to connect to Google's servers at all?


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Is is bad for a device to change battery frequently from mobile?

I have one extra battery when my first battery got dry I removed it from mobile and put the second charged battery. Is it bad for the device?

I am using Samsung galaxy s2


texts: Am having multiple issues with Android 4.4.2 tablet

texts: This is a fairly new tablet.   First, I couldn't  get  page reload to stop coming up while using Chrome and stock (google) keyboard.   The manufacturer,  Prestige,  advised me to use the stock browser because Google was having issues with its products working together.  I did,  but then the keyboard would not come up consistently,  especially in email or Web forms where multiple entries were required.   I was advised by the manufacturer to go to SwiftKey keyboard,  and all was basically working well,  until I started having some of the same problems.    I changed to Opera browser,  and am still having same problems.   I have been to the support and knowledge base sites for all problems,  but can't  find answers that apply  or even address some problems,  and I've  been looking through here for a couple of hours now.   At one point,  I did a hard factory reset,  and have cleared data multiple times on Chrome,  Google,  SwiftKey,  and stock browser.   Nothing works for long, if at all.   Thank you for any help.


texts: How to set two different sound levels for two different sounds played simultaneously from two applications?

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I'm using Poweramp Music Player (in the background) to play music, and MX Player (in the foreground) to play videos (video lectures). What I'm looking for is to play music in the background with a specific (low) sound level (or volume level) while playing videos in the foreground on MX Player with another (higher) sound level. I'm able to play two sounds simultaneously by disabling Permanent Audio Focus Change (in Audio Focus ← Audio in Poweramp, hinted by this question) but without being able to set two different sound levels for the two sounds (The sound from Poweramp and the other one from MX Player) as there is only one generic sound level for everything on the media stream that all apps abide to.

How could I set different sound levels for two simultaneously played sounds from two different applications?

Suggestions tried but unsuccessful:

I've tried App Volume Control, but it says:

  It's not possible to have a background app and a foreground app with different volumes, this is an Android limitation.

Device Info:

ROM: Android v6.0.1 (Rooted with Xposed installed)


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When I run an app, select a file, and choose "delete" what happens then:

the file is moved to trash (and later is removed by OS when some conditions are met)
the file is removed from the filesystem at once
(1) or (2) depending on an app

?


texts: In Android, got click-jacked into clicking "Allow" for a pop-up that flashed for 0.1 seconds. How do I find out what I allowed?

texts: In Android, I was using Google Chrome. I clicked on a sketchy website which popped up a new chrome tab. I pressed the tabs button which caused me to view the various tabs. Right as I was clicking on an "X" of the top-most tab, a pop-up appeared with the "Allow" button exactly under my index finger so I accidentally pressed "Allow". I had no idea what the pop-up said, except that there were two blue word buttons, and I clicked the right-most one. What did I accidentally allow and how do I disable it?


texts: if my device has logged into someones gmail, will it still show on device list after being factory reset?

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someone that i was friends with in a phone game decided he hates me and recently factory reset my phone and my tablet remotely through a shared gmail account. that part is over and done, but we shared more than one gmail account and i want to prevent him from doing it to me again.

I would think that when my devices were reset it would remove them from all accounts that they were logged into, but wanted to be sure that he will not still see my devices logged in on any of the shared accounts.

i have not added those accounts to either device again, the only account added is my private account.


texts: I can't open my tablet (even after long press) when someone manually shuts it down

texts: If someone clicks the "Shut down" button (not power button) on Asus Tablet, it will stay shut down and it won't open even after I long press the power button. It only opens after I connect it to a charger, and then long press the power button. But I don't have the charger with me all the time, what can I do? Is there any software or something to download? I forgot the exact name of the tablet but it's made by Asus and I got it in 2016


texts: Newbie needs help: Not sure how to get Google Play apps on CyanogenMod

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I finally decided to install CyanogenMod on my Samsung Galaxy Nexus (Verizon). The installation process went pretty smoothly (I only had to pull the battery twice ;)), but I am having no joy reinstalling all of my Google Play apps. I'm beginning to think I've made terrible a mistake. Does CyanogenMod not integrate with Google the same way that stock Android does? Can I not just enter my Google username and password and redownload all of my apps and settings?

I mean, I knew that the Play Store isn't bundled with CyanogenMod due to licensing issues. But I thought that installing the Play Store was as simple as downloading the APK. So far I've downloaded two versions of the the APK and both crash on launch. I've tried all of the usual things like clearing the app cache and rebooting the phone. I also downloaded a 150 MB "Gapps" package from cyanogenmod.org that I have no idea what to do with. The download page has absolutely no instructions, nor does the package contain a readme. I've read that I need to "flash the apps through recovery", which I can sort of parse, but all of the documentation and explanations I've found this afternoon assume the reader knows more than I do.

Any guidance would be very much appreciated. By all accounts, CyanogenMod is awesome.

Technical details:

Samsung Galaxy Nexus (Verizon)
CyanogenMod 11.0-InstallerXNPQ02R (Android 4.4.2)


texts: How would you uninstall a rogue Home (Launcher) application?

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If you were to install a Home Screen application that does not give you access to the System Settings screen (to go to Manage Applications), and also does not let you launch Apps (such as the Market App or 3rd party install/unistallers), is there ANY way to uninstall such an application?

I know that Android requires your permission before letting a new App take over the home screen privilege. But say you're trying a newly published Launcher app that is buggy (or malicious). You are of course still going to tell Android it's ok to give this App the Home screen privilege. Now once it is installed, your phone is now effectively useless?

Is there a way for a typical end user (who doesn't have Eclipse/ADB) to get out of this situation? Other than doing a complete factory reset?

I realize there are ways to uninstall an App via ADB ("adb uninstall package.name")

But it seems like a typical end user is potentially screwed if they ever install such a malicious/buggy app. This seems like a gaping security hole in Android, no?


texts: How do I avoid problems when going from Wi-Fi to cell data connection (3G)?

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I have my phone (Droid X) connected to my home Wi-Fi network, but when I leave it can take applications (Google Maps, Rhapsody, etc) probably 10-15 minutes before they function normally without either doing nothing and/or giving data connection errors.

Something that may be telling (or meaningless) is that the little "3G" icon on the notification bar doesn't appear for a good long while.

Disabling the Wi-Fi on the phone after the fact doesn't seem to help, and the fastest method seems to be just power cycling the whole device.  Is there some better/cleaner/faster way?


texts: wrong checksum(sha256) when copying from exfat samsung t7 touch external ssd to android(galaxy s10)

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I bought a Samsung t7 touch SSD(1TB), it works just fine with my computer. but when I copy some files(200MB<) from the SSD to my phone which is a galaxy s10 the files get corrupted, and sometimes the SSD automatically disconnects itself from the phone while copying files.
I use the USBc to USBc cable that comes in the box.
Strange thing is that when it use the USBa to USBc cable in SSD's box and a USBa to USBc adapter that came with my phone, it is ok, but transfer speed is really slow.
By the way the USBc to USBc cable is not faulty cause I tested the cable with the SSD and my PC and it works fine, meaning all the files copy fast and with no problem regarding checksums.


texts: How to Play Pokémon Go in High Accuracy GPS -mode with Oneplus 2 of CM13?

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It is possible to play Pokémon Go in GPS only mode in Oneplus 2 of CM13 as described in the thread Can you play Pokémon Go on Oneplus 2 with CM13? However, the application does not work in the high accuracy mode with the device. I would like to understand which technology Wifi/Bluetooth/... is disturbing the game and GPS, in order to understand how to play the game in the high accuracy mode.
I have not seen the same problem with Samsung Galaxy Phones of CM13.
Fig. 1 Output in High Accuracy Mode

Test configurations tested in High Accuracy Mode

Fresh installation of the OS - no difference
Clean memory before starting Pokemon or not - no difference
Bluetooth on and off - no difference
Power saving mode on and off - no difference
Google Wear installed but no devices connected to the application; tested also as uninstalled - no difference
All internet gadgets (Pebble, Xiaomi Mi Band 2) disconnected from the phone - no difference
Using own local wifi network or not - no difference
...

System: CM13
Phone: Oneplus 2
Pokémon Go: 0.33.0


texts: Android WiFi is being wonky(upload stalls)

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I have a Galaxy S5 Verizon.

Starting today, my wifi on my device has been acting stupid.

Whenever I try to browse the internet, it lags. It isnt an issue with my internet or my router. Because when I run a speedtest on my cellphone, it will take a minute to start but when it does start, i get 11 ms ping 60 down 10 up.

Same with a wired connection on my desktop. Same on my galaxy tab 12.2.

I noticed that when I use wifi on my phone, the wifi download icon is active, but the upload icon isnt. Meaning when I use wifi to browse the net, its able to download data using wifi but it stalls trying to uploading data.

Well because of this, instead of having my normal instant speeds, I have lag. It takes a while for a youtube video to load. It takes a while for a web page to load. WHen i used the app store it took a while for the app images to download and it took a while for an app download to initalize.

I dont know why this is happening. All I know is that for some reason my device is failing to upload data using wifi right away. It always stalls.

Like I said, this just started happening today too.

I didnt do much on my device. The only thing that could possibly have done something is that I used terminal to change my device hostname. I was tired of seeing "android-3478547583gf7348574835" On my router arp table. So I went onto terminal and I did

> su
> getprop net.hostname
> setprop net.hostname <new_hostname>

And then I went onto recovery and wiped my cache.

Thats the only "Technical" thing I've done with my phone today and now for some reason my wifi stalls.

Any ideas?

I wiped the cache again to see if that would fix it. Didnt.
Rebooted my phone dozens of times. Did nothing.
I dont want to resort to factory resetting but I will if I have to.
Im rooted.
GS5 on 5.1.1

edit: I shouldnt say its a lag issue since I still get 60 mb download speeds. Its just an initialization issue with my wifi


texts: Bugs on Nexus One running Android Gingerbread

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I love Android and have been a proud Nexus One owner for over a year now. I was also really excited when Gingerbread dropped and flashed my phone before the OTA update (who can wait for these things anyway).

However, since upgrading, Gingerbread has not been the bliss that I had hoped for.

The first thing I've noticed is that the new keyboard seems to freeze every other day rendering any app that uses text input unusable. This causes me to have to reboot my phone (or at the very least end the keyboard process).

I also started to notice that since my upgrade my phone will sometimes stop syncing with my work's Exchange server, causing me to miss emails that I used to get while not at my desk (again a reboot seems to fix this). I tried removing this account and re-adding it only for it to continue happening.

After these initial complaints some of my friends, also Nexus One owners, have started to report similar issues. One such friend says that his home screen icons will stop displaying leaving him with only his background to look at after pressing the home key. Another friend says that he must reboot his phone every day, at least once a day, due to his keyboard not working.

In general, though, the internet does not seem to have any reports of these kinds of issues outside of my few friends.

Have any other Android users out there noticed these or similar issues with Gingerbread? Does anyone know of any possible causes?


texts: My password is lost and I've looked at the other cries for help on here but where I'm getting stuck is that it asks for a password when I press the shut down button. Which isn't possible to input because that's why I'm trying to factory reset it, lol. I'm guessing this is an update to the device or software since those posts. Any ideas on how to get it to factory reset?


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I'm trying to install cydia substrate on emulator, when I try to link substrate files I got multiple errors,

Then I replaced /system/xbin/su with a suid-ed /system/bin/sh file and disabled SELinux with setenforce command.

But I still got this:

Anyone know what should I do? With adb shell I can get root but I don't know what script to run ....


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I'm needing to display an HDMI signal on an Android tablet. I can do it using an HDMI to USB capture dongle and the USB Camera Pro app, however I am unable to keep the tablet charged while it is receiving video/audio. I thought that an NDI video stream over WiFi might be an option but it seems there are no NDI decoders available yet for Android, only encoding apps.
Is there some other way that I can display HDMI on the tablet and maintain it charged?
The tablet in question is a Samsung Tab S2 (SM-T813).
Thank you


texts: Can someone please explain why exactly Dalvik is used in android? Is it to provide portability and ability for the application developers to write hardware independent code? I dont think it is used for security reasons, since application sandboxing is being attained via unix style user permissions where each application is running under a different user id.


texts: Find matching keyword within Android using search

texts: iPhone has a finder option that enables the user to search the whole phone for the matching keyword that we enter. Is there something similar for Android?


texts:
I have doubt on installation of apk file. Where does the apk file store RAM or ROM ?

As we know that RAM is  volatile memory and ROM is secondary storage and also  when is system shutdown, is the data  erased from RAM?


texts:
When I look at the list of my Viber contacts, I see three different statuses which are online, offline and last seen at. However, there's one particular contact which doesn't have any of it, I mean nothing is written under the name on his contact profile on my phone. What does it mean?

He can't have uninstalled Viber cause his account looks recently refreshed. He has updated his photo along with his Line App. So what does this really mean?


texts: I would like to buy a tablet and use it as a netbook to work using a keyboard dock (I still like the touchscreen and stylus options over buying a netbook). I work mostly on linux machines where I need ssh, vpn and the ability to open X windows remotely. Are there terminals for the Android tablets that can do that ? Anyone with comments about Ubuntu on tablets ?


texts: SMS is stuck as "not received" and reappears each restart

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Several months ago I received a spam message on my Android phone (nothing unusual there).
What is unusual, is the fact that this SMS is now stuck somewhere inside my phone's messaging module and it keeps "receiving" every time I turn the phone on (including after restart).

I have contacted my SP, and they are not related to this issue. In fact, I tried different SIM, and this SMS is received again for entirely different SIM.

What I'm inferring from this is that text is stuck somewhere on my device marked as "new SMS" forever, and each time phone turns on, it looks into that list, finds it and displays it, but somehow fails to take "new SMS" flag away from it.

The question the is:
Is there a queue(or a file) where I can find that stuck message and delete it manually?

Rolling back to factory defaults do not seem like a good option to solve my problem at this time.

If this matters, my SMS app also always displays "you have 2 new SMS" badge (strange that it displays 2, but it does).

Phone details:
Lenovo S660 with latest available for it official Android 4.4 firmware. Unrooted (rooting is possible).


texts: Signal does not allow sharing to other apps

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In my installation of the Signal messenger, I can share images and videos to other apps, like email apps and the like. However my wife cannot, the option in the "three dot menu" just does not exist, only forwarding inside Signal. All our permissions are set the same and we have the same version installed.
What can be the problem? How can she be able to forward images to other apps?


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I have a Moto E 2º Gen, 8gb internal memory.

If we substract the Android OS requirements, i'm left with 4.98 Gb, which appears as available internal memory.

It shows 4.11Gb used memory, however, below the phone shows the following:

Apps: 2.21 GB

Images: 8 KB

Videos: 0 B

Audio: 120 KB

Other: 99.98 MB

Cache: 1.99 MB

which adds up  close to 3.2GB, so: 3.2GB != 4.11GB. What's going on with those missing 900MB?

Another hints that troubles me comes from plugging the phone to a PC via USB:

Internal memory shows only 342MB available, and the rest all occupied, but when i access the internal files, all files togheter only weigh 224MB!!, and there are no hidden folders.

Can someone explain why this happens, and what are the REAL numbers to take into account.

How could it be that there are hidden files that i can't see even with Windows option "see hidden files" activated?

This is a specific question, but i've seen this in other android devices, so maybe the answer could be in the OS and the way it manages data, more than a device specific issue. Maybe some internal OS memory is not being shown by the device?


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Android 10 is extremely unstable on my Pixel XL. Most apps crashed within a few seconds after open, even including Google Play Store. That means, I could not do any new app install, because Google Play Store crashes within 3 seconds; I could not do any app update, because it crashes within 3 seconds.

And the chat/phone call of Support function in Settings disappear. That means I have no more support.

I could not take screenshot, because it crashes.

Any idea how to downgrade from Android 10 without any data loss without any app reinstallation, just like the way we do the upgrade install (we do not need to do any backup)?


texts: Google two-step authentication and Android lock screen

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After many failed screen unlock attempts, the user is required to enter the Google account password. That's a good idea.

But what if I enabled Google's two-factor authentication, and then entered the wrong pin/pattern/password two many times? How do I unlock my phone now? How do I login to Google on another machine, when my phone is locked and I can't receive SMSs?

Is there anything very obvious I'm missing? Am I supposed to carry a printed version of Android's application-specific password in my wallet?


texts: Block Google Play installing certain applications

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I want to block the Google Play Store from installing a certain list of applications or only allow the Google Play Store to install that list of applications.

Is there any way to write a program to do that?


texts: Recently I've migrated from windows to ubuntu, installed Android SDk in Ubuntu 12.10 and created the AVD launched it shows this Error: This AVD's configuration is missing a kernal file, I installed ARM EABI v7a System Image for all the Android 4.X.X. Still it is not allowing me to get the AVD. Help me to spot the issue.


texts: How do I set up my HTC HD2 to dual boot Windows Mobile and Android?

texts: I have read that it is possible to set up the HTC HD2 so that it can dual boot the stock Windows Mobile OS and Android, but I'm not sure where to start. How can I do this?


texts: How to mirror sms and calls to another phone out of country

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Is there any app that allows you to use your phone out of country? sorry I don't really know how to word it.

the situation im thinking of is like this:

your main phone(left out your house and left on)

and a secondary device(that you're using outside of the country)

So say I'm in the Philippines on vacation but don't want to miss any calls or texts,

would I be able to use the phone, kinda of like a proxy?

ex:

device in Philippines connecting to device at home over internet, calls and texts that go to main phone at home get sent to device in other country over internet. and can send text and make calls on main phone but doing so on out of country device.

sorry if it sounds a bit confusing


texts: Is it possible to virtualize Android on an X86 machine?

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Following this question, I had a little bit of success installing an X86 port of Android (i.e., BlissOS) on macOS with QEMU. Now I am wondering if I can virtualize a "normal" Android (preferably LineageOS) on any of the conventional FLOSS hypervisors such as VirtualBox, QEMU... (preferably something portable on Windows).
There are qemu-system-arm and qemu-system-aarch64 versions of QEMU that I expect to do the job. Over here, Alex Bennée is doing some magic with the so-called "ranchu kernel" that I can't really understand and trust. Meanwhile, on this post it's being said that the upstream QEMU hasn't inherited the graphic acceleration back from Google's Android Studio Emulator.
Now my questions are:

what is that "ranchu kernel"? and how much it can be trusted?
Can I virtualize LineageOS or any other well-known FLOSS Android? How?