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I am using a keyboard with my android phone (connected via a usb otg cable)

I have noted that hitting SPC or RET when the phone is locked takes me to the unlock screen where i have to enter a pattern.

Is there a keyboard shortcut means for entering a pattern?

If not plan B is to switch to a PIN - but I quite like the pattern, hence the question..


texts: Windows can access the phone's internal storage over USB, but not it's Micro sD card

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My Samsung Galaxy A8+ (A730F), running Android Pie, had a faulty USB connector due to water damage and for a very long time, it wouldn't connect over USB. Nevertheless, everything else worked just fine.

Recently I had this piece replaced by a technician and it seems to be working alright, but I just noticed that on Windows, my 128GB micro SD card is shown next to my Internal Storage as empty and with a size of 128MB.

I can interact normally with the Internal Storage and when I put the micro SD card in a card adapter and plug it on my PC, everything works fine.

I'm using and original USB cable, my micro SD card is legitimate (confirmed it on SanDisk's website) and there aren't any other issues. Also, I have root access.

I tried clearing cache/data on Media Storage and External Storage, but had no luck.

I know that if nothing helps, I'll have to contact the technician, but I'd like to discard other possibilities first.

Any tips?

Thank you!


texts: How to show all apps on an Android phone?

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I had a Huawei Mate 9 before, and there was an icon at the bottom-center of the screen, so that when I tap it, it shows all apps on the phone. (It is running the latest Android it can, which I think is Android 9 and EMUI 9.1)
However, I just got a Xiaomi Redmi 9, and there seems to be no such icon (it is running Android 10 and MIMU 11). I can only slide the desktop left and right.
Is the standard Android interface actually to show all apps by default on the desktop (and is slide-able, like on an iPhone), and so there is no need to have that bottom-center icon, and we actually can see all apps on the phone just by sliding the desktop left and right?


texts: Why is "Force GPU rendering" disabled by default Developer options?

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Why is this feature disabled? When I turn it on, many apps and become snappy and awesome with smooth graphics. Seems like it'd be nice if it was enabled by default.

The linked article in this question says that hardware acceleration wasn't default up until 4.0.

Is the "Force GPU rendering" option then targeting apps that use API for 3.0 and lower?


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Sorry but i need help :)

looks like my phone corrupting files in my sdcard everything i copy to my sdcard is gone when i instert it to my android. i have format it,chksdk, even buy the new one but yeah my android keep making my files in sdcard become corrupted and useless.For example i copy this film and all the film is good to go but when i insert it to my phone most of the film cant play the files and then when i instert it again to my pc. second picture is happen i have tried all method but nothing is works. Sorry for my bad english or i use bad word :).

@And yeah i already relfash my phone to new condition and its not solve the problem

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I am using a dual sim smartphone with sim cards on both the slots. Sim card inserted in slot 1 receives 3G data but, the other sim card inserted in slot 2 receives only 2G data, even though 3G internet pack is activated.

I swapped the sim cards between the slots, believing that there might be an issue with the mobile network, but the same problem exists.

My smartphone: Moto E 2nd Generation 3G
Android version: 5.0.2

I have even changed the preferred network type to 3G for the sim in slot 2 (Settings -> Data Usage -> Mobile network settings ->Preferred network type) but, no change.

What could be the issue ?


texts: Setting up a 2nd tablet to look like the 1st before resetting (and returning) the 1st?

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I bought a Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 and browsed the net and installed some apps on it - fortunately not many as it was basically getting a "test drive" and I had a feeling it wasn't being kept. I was right, I will be returning it to the shop and I'll obviously do a factory reset before doing so. What I'd like to know is whether it's possible to restore/copy the data to a second device so that I've got my apps/browsing history/bookmarks etc etc on the second device rather than having to reinstall everything on the new Tab 4. The movies/music/pictures are all on an SD card which will hopefully help, it's the apps that I'm curious about, especially since some of the games keep track of how far you've progressed and I wouldn't want to start from scratch!

Looking forward to getting some ideas from you. Thanks in advance.


texts: How is the Android System running Java jars?

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There is a large amount of Java jars in /system/framework, for example, am.jar. I understand that Android uses Java in a very confusing way (at least for me). I do not completely understand the way that dalvik works.

Basically, I do not understand how Android runs these jars. Can somebody explain how it does this, and possibly how I can run my own jars?
I am on Resurrection Remix, 6.0.1, with Xposed framework, if it helps.

Thanks


texts: Telegram does not recognise account after being offline for almost a week due to battery failure

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On Sunday, 13th September 2020, the battery of my Motorola Moto G5 broke down and I ordered a new one. Today, on Friday, 18th September 2020, it finally arrived and it works just fine. Several errors, however, occurred:

I have lost some of my contacts and only had the chance to recover some of them by importing an old VCF file that was not very up to date anymore. This, at least, brought back some contacts in WhatsApp. (Does anyone know why many of my contacts were lost after such an incident and some were not?)

But when I opened Telegram, I was asked to set up a new account. Even when I reinstalled Telegram, I am still asked to do this. I am, however, able to log on the Telegram web app. (Telegram sends me an SMS instead of an in-app text message.) There, I am able to see all the chats that are stored on Telegram’s cloud servers and also the contact names of people who are now not in my address book anymore, are displayed correctly. (Why is that? Is there a way to recover my address book via Telegram?)

What shall I do? Can I just “re-register” at the Telegram app with my phone number and see my cloud chats again on my phone? What error occurred there?

Edit: One thing just came to my mind. Can I just log off my phone via the web app and then just try to “register”/log on to my Telegram account via the Telegram app on my phone? Would this work and prevent data loss?


texts: How do I send SMS from PC through Android Phone or to Android Phone?

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I'm looking for an app that will let me type text messages on my PC and send the SMSs directly from the PC through my phone, or save the messages to the phone for later use.

I'm basically looking at something like Nokia PC Suite's equivalent.

EDIT:

Google Voice is only for US, doesn't work in India at least, and also defeats the purpose (it will go through the internet, why, when it's possible through the usb cable/modem/wifi).
DesktopSMS is a good program, but kept crashing, for some reason.
PDANet worked for me.
But I liked the tiny EasySMS. It's weird, and I had to change the bluecove library jar file for Windows 7 x64, but it's compact (a concern for me).


texts: I have a new LG G3 and I want to listen to music that is saved on my SD card. How do you do this?


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I was looking through the init files from my boot image and noticed a USB flag labelled rmnet_gsi here.
What does this setting do?
Example source:
on property:sys.usb.config=diag,serial_cdev,rmnet_gsi,adb && property:sys.usb.configfs=1
    start adbd


texts: Google Pixel 3 - Cannot Stop Security Updates

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I just recently got the new pixel 3 and have loved the phone from stem to stern but I have this huge issue with it. Since I turned it on and ported all my contacts, photos, etc over it has not loaded all my apps. I found out this was because it has been installing system security updates non-stop for over 24 hours now, rendering it basically useless.

I can't use this phone in this state. I've tried clearing the google app cache and storage and it keeps on chugging through security update to security update. I can't even tell how many it has completed or has yet to do because it has no indication of how many are left, at all. All I can see is the current update's progress. I've had to reboot the phone twice this morning just for the security updates.

Is there a way via rooting the Pixel 3 or entering developer mode, or just some setting i overlooked that I can tell the system to stop updating so I can have a useable phone? Or am I up a creek.


texts: Data does not work when Bluetooth tethering is on

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When I cannect another phone to my phone by bluetooth tethering, to use my phone's data internet, the data internet icon (4G) disappears and no longer is connected (while data is on).

What is wrong with my phone?


texts: Sahara fail while trying to flash a rom into my phone

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I tried to flash a custom rom into my phone but it was an unsuccessful try and I decided to update the TWRP recovery in order to increase my chances to flash a rom. But istead of updating TWRP I bricked my phone somehow I even don't understand. The phone is Lenovo ZUK Z2. I tried to flash a stock rom via QFIL previously installing all drivers needed.

But when I actually press the download button it says:

Validating Application Configuration
Load APP Configuration
COM:20
SAHARA:True
SAHARA:C:\ZUI\prog_emmc_firehose_8996_ddr.elf
SEARCHPATH:C:\ZUI
RAWPROGRAM:
rawprogram0.xml
PATCH:
patch0.xml
ACKRAWDATAEVERYNUMPACKETS:False
ACKRAWDATAEVERYNUMPACKETS:100
MAXPAYLOADSIZETOTARGETINBYTES:False
MAXPAYLOADSIZETOTARGETINBYTES:49152
DEVICETYPE:eMMC
PLATFORM:8x26
VALIDATIONMODE:0
RESETAFTERDOWNLOAD:False
MAXDIGESTTABLESIZE:8192
SWITCHTOFIREHOSETIMEOUT:30
RESETTIMEOUT:200
RESETDELAYTIME:2
FLATBUILDPATH:C:\
FLATBUILDFORCEOVERRIDE:True
QCNPATH:C:\Temp\00000000.qcn
QCNAUTOBACKUPRESTORE:False
SPCCODE:000000
ENABLEMULTISIM:False
Load ARG Configuration
Validating Download Configuration
Image Search Path: C:\ZUI
RAWPROGRAM file path: C:\ZUI\rawprogram0.xml
PATCH file path:C:\ZUI\patch0.xml
Programmer Path:C:\ZUI\prog_emmc_firehose_8996_ddr.elf
Process Index:0
Start Download
Program Path:C:\ZUI\prog_emmc_firehose_8996_ddr.elf
Binary build date: May 13 2015 @ 14:41:37
QSAHARASERVER CALLED LIKE THIS: 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Qualcomm\QPST\bin\QSaharaServer.exe -p \\.\COM20 -s 13:C:\ZUI\prog_emmc_firehose_8996_ddr.elf 'Current working dir: C:\Users\vladi\AppData\Roaming\Qualcomm\QFIL
Sahara mappings:
2: amss.mbn
6: apps.mbn
8: dsp1.mbn
10: dbl.mbn
11: osbl.mbn
12: dsp2.mbn
16: efs1.mbn
17: efs2.mbn
20: efs3.mbn
21: sbl1.mbn
22: sbl2.mbn
23: rpm.mbn
25: tz.mbn
28: dsp3.mbn
29: acdb.mbn
30: wdt.mbn
31: mba.mbn
13: C:\ZUI\prog_emmc_firehose_8996_ddr.elf
17:01:24: ERROR: function: sahara_rx_data:194 Unable to read packet header. Only read 0 bytes.
17:01:24: ERROR: function: sahara_main:854 Sahara protocol error
17:01:24: ERROR: function: main:265 Uploading  Image using Sahara protocol failed
Download Fail:Sahara Fail:QSaharaServer Fail:Process fail
Finish Download

Screenshot of QFIL

The phone is in fastboot mode all the time. I tried to follow a dozen of howtos but no of them helped. I also used MiFlash, here are the error and the phone state:

Fastboot

MiFlash screenshot


texts: How to encrypt android device without screen lock?

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I want to encrypt my phone to protect sensitive information. But I do not want to enter a password every time I pick up my phone. That seriously hampers the usability. Particularly because the password must be of sufficient complexity for the encryption to be secure.

What I want is a boot time only password.

Most thieves switch off the phone after stealing it. Or remove the battery to change the SIM (so it won't get tracked). When he starts it again it'll be locked. There is a risk that he may mail my sensitive information to himself before switching off the phone but that is a risk I'm willing to live with.

How do I encrypt my phone with only a boot time password?


texts: I am unable to run the flash tool. Says the following dll files are missing although they are shown in the unzipped file. Flashtoollib.dll   FlashtoolllibEx.dll  QtWebKit4.dll  SLA_Challenge.dll  I am running Windows 10  I have tried downloading the flash tool file a few times but get the same messages. Can anyone help please?


texts: What should I do after installing a new battery?

texts: I'm going to take the plunge to take apart my One (M8) to replace it's battery tomorrow and I was wondering what I should do to increase its battery life right off the bat. Should I charge it to full capacity first then use it normally, charge it to full then drain it and recharge it, or does none of this matter?


texts: Why don't the capitalization voice commands work in the Google app?

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The capitalization, quotation marks, and some punctuation marks don't work for me In the Google app.

Is there some additional software I should know about?

Thanks.


texts: How do I unlock the bootloader on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus?

texts: I have a LTE (Verizon) Samsung Galaxy Nexus. How do I go about unlocking the bootloader such that I can root the device?


texts: It crashes every time I open my phone. I'm locked out of my device and I cannot even try to factory reset it.


texts: To Connect Audio Generator to Phone Call?

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I know that you cannot play music to your phone call without hacking the code as discussed here but I would like to connect an audio generator to a phone call.
This approach should be simpler because I have the synthesizer code myself.
Assume the code can be run in real-time with only a little tau time-lag so fits very well in such an application.
I am not sure how you can reach an real-time access from your keyboard to your phone call.

Cases where the feature is needed

Sometimes, I am in a library where I cannot talk and I cannot move without disturbing my work.
However, I could easily type to the caller such that the text would be converted to speech in real-time.
Person with a disability that he cannot speak but only type. People are calling him, but currently, he cannot provide discussions because of restrictions and little understanding about the tech.

I am using Samsung Galaxy S4 GT-i9506 with CyanogenMod 13 (Android 6.0).
So I want

Type with your Laptop or Bluetooth keyboard connected to your phone.
Synthesize the typed text in real time to the phone conversation.

How can you connect audio generator to your phone call?


texts: Will a Custom Recovery work with an encrypted device?

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I wanted to know whether using Android's built-in encryption (introduced in 3.0) would affect my ability to use a custom recovery (Clockwork Mod in my case).

More specifically if I will still be able to perform Nandroid backups/restores and flash new files and updates?


texts: Stop Notifications when the App is closed

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This may be a stupid question since the Android is maybe supposed to work this way, still though I am wondering if this is possible.
Two apps, Microsoft Teams and Outlook are sending the notifications when the app is "closed". Now i would like for that NOT to happen when the app is closed. Is there any way whatsoever, that i can stop the notifications when the app is "closed"? I understand that the app is probably always running in the background and that until force stop it is never really closed. I am just wondering if I am missing something that can be chosen in the notifications settings that i havent found yet.
Also, i do realise that you can choose the "quiet hours" in the App settings itself, but that is not something i am looking for.


texts: Allow certain contacts to ring when phone on silent/night mode?

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My WinPhone had this feature to set my phone silent at fixed hours of the night, but whitelist certain contacts for calls/texts.

I've recently switched to Android (OnePlus3) and while I'm sure this must be possible (iOS does it too IIRC) I can't see what its called or where to configure it.

Can someone tell me what these features are called on Android?

My phone is running OxygenOS 3.2.8 atop of Android 6.0.1


texts: Having a different icon for a specific email in my Gmail App on Android

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I have 3 different email accounts under the GMAIL APP on Android.

How could I have a different notification icon for one of the accounts so I know right away if I have email in that account?


texts: Can I route a call via SIP based on a phone number using native SIP android?

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My Android 4.x phone supports SIP.

However, the options when to use the "Internet calling" are very limited: "For all calls", "Only for Internet calls", "Ask for each call".

I would like to use Internet (SIP) calls based on phones number (e.g. all international and long-distance calls should go via SIP, all phone number starting with +395656 xxx and local calls should go via my regular voice account).

I don't want to use any application like csipsimple, I want to use native support.


texts: Formatting internal MTD storage: selecting block size?

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I have rooted china N101-II tablet with CyanogenMod after flashing custom ROM.

Internal MTD storage is 32 GiB large and custom ROM flashing make different layout to internal partitioning. Thus /data near 12 GiB instead of original 1 GiB (so thera are no longer need to move packages to external flash!!):

130|root@android:/system # df
Filesystem               Size     Used     Free   Blksize
/system                595.4M   549.8M    45.6M   1024
/data                   11.8G   449.8M    11.4G   4096
/cache                 126M     4.1M   121.9M   4096

Rest space left to /mnt/sdcard:

root@android:/ # cat /system/etc/vold.fstab
dev_mount flash /mnt/sdcard auto /devices/virtual/mtd/mtd9/mtdblock9 nonremovable

but custom ROM flashing process left mtdblock9 unformatted.

Under PATH available commands: mkfs.ext2 and tune2fs so I can format myself.

mkfs.ext2 support:

130|root@android:/system # mkfs.ext2 --help
mkfs.ext2 --help
BusyBox v1.21.1-jb bionic (2013-07-01 01:04 +0200) multi-call binary.

Usage: mkfs.ext2 [-Fn] [-b BLK_SIZE] [-i INODE_RATIO] [-I INODE_SIZE] [-m RESERVED_PERCENT] [-L LABEL] BLOCKDEV [KBYTES]

        -b BLK_SIZE Block size, bytes

According to:

root@android:/ # cat /proc/mtd
cat /proc/mtd
dev:    size   erasesize  name
mtd0: 00400000 00004000 "misc"
mtd1: 00800000 00004000 "kernel"
mtd2: 01000000 00004000 "boot"
mtd3: 01000000 00004000 "recovery"
mtd4: 18000000 00004000 "backup"
mtd5: 08000000 00004000 "cache"
mtd6: 300000000 00004000 "userdata"
mtd7: 00400000 00004000 "kpanic"
mtd8: 28000000 00004000 "system"
mtd9: 46fa00000 00004000 "user"

seems that I need to select block size as 16384 (16KiB). Am I right?

UPDATE Seems that mkfs.ext2 from busybox and doesn't properly functioning:

android# mkfs.ext2 /dev/block/mtdblock9
mkfs.ext2: lseek: Value too large for defined data type

But I found mke2fs:

android# mke2fs -I 16384 /dev/block/mtdblock9
mke2fs 1.41.14 (22-Dec-2010)
mke2fs: invalid inode size 16384 (min 128/max 4096)

In order to reduce fragmentation I try to  select larger block size (which make lesser amount of erase operation on flash I hope):

android# mke2fs -I 4096 /dev/block/mtdblock9
mke2fs 1.41.14 (22-Dec-2010)
Filesystem label=
OS type: Linux
Block size=4096 (log=2)
Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
Stride=0 blocks, Stripe width=0 blocks
1162128 inodes, 4651520 blocks
232576 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=0
Maximum filesystem blocks=0
142 block groups
32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group
8184 inodes per group
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
        32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208,
        4096000


texts: Remove pre-installed configuration on Android phone

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I have an Android phone which constantly tells me to install a specific app from Google Play. It's just a configuration which is pre-installed on my phone but I cannot figure out how to remove this configuration.

I now run Android 5.0 and it's a Nexus 4.


texts: Installing ps2pdf command-line program in Android

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I just bought a Nexus 7 2013. It's very good and I'd like to use it to (in case of emergency) edit some of my latex documents using TexPortal.

Some latex documents of mine get compiled properly only by Latex and not by PDFLatex.
As a result, I get a valid .ps file.

I'd like to install somehow ps2pdf (or even better, ps2pdf13) by some tool like, e.g., apt-get. And use some terminal emulator to run it.

Is this possible without rooting the device?


texts: Can I control how google accounts get synced? Mobile vs Wifi

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Under Settings>Accounts>Google>(my account) there is a bunch of services you can check and uncheck.

My question specifically is I'd like everything to be synced but I want to be able to choose which services sync over wifi or mobile data.

For example, I'd like most services to sync on both wifi and data but I want music and g+ photos to sync only when on wifi. Is there a way to do this?

I also don't want to disable auto sync.


texts:
I installed cm 12 on my nexus 4 and everything seems to work good. But even if I have root enabled and have given root rights to ES Explorer it is not able to mount the root explorer. I want to edit a system file but am not able to.

I have ClockworkMod recovery v6.0.4.7 installed.

Root does work for apps like greenify and lmt launcher but not for ES explorer or 920 texteditor. I tried to modify build.prop in /system/ but am not able to do to rights.

Is there another way I can edit build.prop?


texts: Is there a way, on a non-rooted Android device, to see a list of what apps are listening on what port? Or even a way to see if an app is listening on a specific port?


texts: Accounts inexplicably removed from "Accounts & sync"

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I'm running CyanogenMod 7.1.0 on my HTC Desire. I have a few accounts added in "Accounts & Sync" (Last.fm, Facebook, Skype, Soundcloud, etc.), but on several occasions all of them (except Google) got deleted, and I had to log in again in all of them using the respective applications. This could be quite annoying, but fortunately happens only every few days or so.

I can't quite understand why it happens and what causes it. I have some suspicion it might be related to the fact I don't have much space on the device (Desire notoriously has ridiculously little internal storage) -- although I always keep it above the "Low space" warning (which is something like 15 MB).

Is this a known problem? What can I do to prevent it?


texts: How to view recovered (deleted earlier) images?

texts:
I, sometime ago, formatted my memory card, and few days later I recovered the data in it. I then copied the recovered data to memory card again. However, I am unable to see many photos in my computer. I thought my Android phone would support this. But my phone also failed to show me those photos.

The images I want to see are of the previous size of the image, when I captured them. E.g. if I captured an image of size 1.2mb, the recovered image is also of the same size.

My phone is running Android 7.0, has 1GB RAM and internal storage of 8GB. The problem is with SD card. When I try to open those pictures I see this:


texts: Odin BcmCP.img fail when trying to flash gt-s5830i (galaxy ace)

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So I have a bricked gt-s5830i (galaxy ace) and when I try to flash it using odin I get this error:

<ID:0/003> Added!!
<OSM> Enter CS for MD5..
<OSM> Binary Check MD5.. Do not unplug the cable..
<OSM> Please wait..
<OSM> Checking MD5 finished Sucessfully..
<OSM> Leave CS..
<ID:0/003> Odin engine v(ID:3.1100)..
<ID:0/003> File analysis..
<ID:0/003> SetupConnection..
<ID:0/003> Initialzation..
<ID:0/003> Get PIT for mapping..
<ID:0/003> Firmware update start..
<ID:0/003> SingleDownload.
<ID:0/003> sbl.bin
<ID:0/003> NAND Write Start!!
<ID:0/003> BcmCP.img
<ID:0/003> FAIL!
<ID:0/003>
<ID:0/003> Complete(Write) operation failed.
<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)
<ID:0/003> Removed!!

It started boot looping after it randomly got stuck and I took out the battery since I couldn't do anything at all. This is the firmware I tried: http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/download/37194/S5830IXXLK3_S5830IDBTLK1_DBT/
http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/download/14913/S5830ZXXLK3_S5830ZDBTLK2_DBT/

Does anyone know what's causing this? This is also the first time I'm flashing a phone. The rom was downloaded from sammobile because the ones from samsung-updates seem to have broken downloads.


texts: Not able to access photos, songs from phone storage

texts:
I am not able to access data on my phone storage through mobile apps. However, I am able to access the same data from my PC using s USB connection.

I already erased all data available on the phone, restarted the phone, and took some photos but the Gallery app still says "no photos/videos available". How can I fix this issue?


texts: Can not install Plants vs. Zombies 2 on AsusFonetab

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I have a AsusFonetab with Android 4.3 installed and 4GB free space but when I try to install Plants vs. Zombies 2 via Google Play, it says that the app is incompatible with my device.

How can I install this app?


texts: Unable to reach Google Play does not recognize my device

texts:
I have the HUAWEI G520-5000 mobile phone which was bought in April 2013 from China during a business trip. The device, despite of being locked for China Mobile carrier, is working properly for my carrier (Cosmote) in Greece. I don't have problems with talking or accessing the internet. My problem is that my Google account does not recognize my device and I can not use the Google Play store and it is impossible to install even the simpliest application. I suppose that the problem is the Android OS on my device which seems to be modified by China Mobile and Huawei (only Chinese apps are accepted by the device and the s/n of the OS is also pretty strange (something like 123456ABCD).
I would appreciate if somebody could help me out with my problem. Thanks


texts: I don't have good cell reception in my house and I'd to have my Google Voice number forward to my phone on Wi-Fi when I'm home.  Can I just use Google Voice or do I need a third-party app to do the connection?


texts: I have a Nexus 5 Android phone with standard pattern-locked screen. Is there a way to see a (recent) history of when my screen was unlocked?


texts: Disabling the clipboard history on Samsung devices

texts:
Samsung Galaxy Note 9 running on Android 9 stores all old clipboard entries which requires me to manually delete it every time.

How can I opt-out of this "feature"?


texts:
As you know when we compile SDK or download a stock ROM, it contains some partitions(system,recovery,boot,...). We can unpack this image to partitions with some tools. (or with a simple C code)

But my question: Suppose we have a device with a burned image. Is there any way to gain the burned '.img' from its MMC?

I know Team Win(TWRP) can extract system, boot and recovery but bootloader is missing. How to access the original image file? (So I can burn this image on a similar device if it is bricked. (suppose the image is not on the Internet!)

Thanks


texts: How do I diagnose a WiFi Error when the phone just reports "Unknown"?

texts:
I have a Motorola Atrix (MB860) running Android 2.3.6.  Just today the Wi-Fi suddenly stopped working; On the Quick Settings display it just shows "Unknown", on the phone's Wi-Fi Settings display it just shows "Error" and Wi-Fi won't turn on.

I've tried turning it off and back on several times, and I've tried pulling the battery twice.  I have installed Log Collector, but looking through the log I can't see anything even remotely relevant.

Talking to AT&T (God love 'em) on a previous Wi-Fi issue several months ago, they just blew me off and said they don't help with Wi-Fi issues, so I am not confident in getting help from that direction. If I have my phone replaced, my company will force me to get an iPhone due to a new Apple-only company policy.  So I am on my own.

How might I go about diagnosing the problem?


texts:
I don't know even thats possible in case of Xperia mini pro. When I flashed Cyanogen ROM into my Xperia Mini Pro, I was able to customize the notification bar. I mean I was able to change the background color, time color and even was able to show the seconds counter beside the time.

Is there any system level application that does the above job on regular(Original) ROM on Xperia Mini Pro ?


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After flashing philz recovery through fastboot mode.Yureka doesn't neither boot into OS nor into recovery.(But battery less than 10%)
When turned on shows boot image and then a blank screen.If charger is connected,shows battery status  when phone is off.
Downloaded philz fromPhilz
And executed fastboot -i 0x1ebf flash recovery philz.img


texts: What Android versions have captive wifi detection?

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A captive Wi-Fi or captive portal being a Wi-Fi network that redirects all websites to a page, usually with a form to log in, enter a code, or accept some T&Cs.

My samsung-nexus-10 can detect when I've connected to a network with this behaviour, and brings up a notification to tell me, but my old htc-desire can't. When was this feature introduced?


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I am using Xiaomi mobile which is unrooted. In that I have installed developer ROM. The manufacturer releases weekly updates, which is twice in week.

My question is that, Will it creates any software/hardware problems to the device after updating/installing several times.


texts: (SP Flash Tool) Recovery.img file too large and causes region overlap message. Safe to Proceed?

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I am trying to root my Micromax Canvas Colors 2 A120 running KitKat 4.4.2 using the SP Flash Tools.

During the flashing of a recovery after selecting the Scatter File for my device (I created the Scatter using MTK Droid Tools,) SP Flash Tool throws a message that the selected recovery image (about 6 MB) is too large and causes overlap of regions.

However this doesn't seem to be an error as it lets me continue with the flashing process.

However I did not yet proceed with the flashing process as I am not sure about the warning message.
Will it be safe to proceed ignoring the region overlap message? Or should I choose another recovery file? I've googled a number of recoveries for my device, but mostly every one of them is of the same size (a few KBs here and there...)


texts: Browse photos on a network drive and delete bad photos

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While travelling I put photos from the SD Card onto a networked drive. I can use ES File Explorer to view the photos. However there does not appear to be an option to delete the photos from the full screen view.

Is there an app that allows deleting photos on a network drive from a full view of the photo?

Appreciate your help.

Android 6.01 on a Lenovo Yoga tab.


texts: Bluetooth next track without next button

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I have only three buttons on my Bluetooth helmet: VOL+ VOL- ON (which is on/pairing button and it might drop the call as well)

Would be nice if the Bluetooth controls were configurable in such a way I could skip to next track with the ON button or with a combination of volume buttons (E.G. double press VOL+) my players support Bluetooth controls, but I presume they work with the standard NEXT button.

Is there a way to achieve this with Android 6?

EDIT: In my case it will never work as the device is not sending ANY event to the phone, but the question might be useful for others in similar scenario.


texts: Why is my Samsung Galaxy S still on Android 2.2.1?

texts: I have tried by using samsung kies but it says there are no updates. i have even tried to update it within the phone (software update). Other people are on android 2.3 but i am still on 2.2.1 and it won't update


texts: offline navigation with public transportation

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I can not drive (yet) and I get lost pretty easily.
So, I need a simple navigation app (I like the gmaps look, just roads, no fancy colors and things), which includes ALL bus/tram/metro/train (yeap, all of them) stations of greece, their schedule and navigation through them.
I NEED it to be offline, otherwise, I would use my favorite gmaps. Cellural data here cost A LOT (I have only 60MB/mo).
I've tested nearly each and every navigation app out there.
I don't care about the cost, but being free is a plus, especially open source.
I can extract the points of bus stations (I think) from the maps provided by greece.
I can also extract the schedules, but i don't know in which format.

thank you!
I've searched the whole web and I found no answer...


texts: Where does Opera Mini save its "Saved pages"?

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When you save a web page in Opera Mini, it must be saved somewhere.

I want to know where can I find these pages, specific path or anything?


texts: How to automatically use SKYPE when calling international number?

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I'd like to program my phone such that if I call an international number it'd automatically use skype (or ask me to connect to skype if not connected), and if I call within the US it'd just use my phone.

Examples:

+1 -> always use my phone

+56 (or other international codes) -> always use Skype.

Any suggestions?  I think tasker could help but I am new to tasker so I am still looking on how to program this kind of flows in tasker... I am open to other software/ideas as well.  Maybe it could be even more general, instead of using skype it could use any other VoIP good service (I am mostly familiar with Skype but I am sure there are other great services).

Thanks in advance!


texts: Make notifications/messages fill the screen

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Is there a way to have it so notifications/messages fill the screen, so I can't help but notice them when I pick my phone up?

Using an LG-Ally


texts: Remove "Folder Open" "Folder closed" announcements without disabling Accessiblity

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I have a Galaxy S3 4G.  I also have a Pebble watch.

The Pebble watch uses the Accessibility service in order to project messages etc to your wrist.  Unfortunately, this means certain other "features" apparently get enabled - like a voice announcement every time I open or close a folder.  Which is less than helpful.  And really annoying.

Is there any way to disable these particular advisories?  I'm leery of disabling all voice apps entirely, since I still occasionally want access to things like turn instructions from Google Maps.


texts: How do I set up Slack to send notifications to my Android phone?

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I must have missed something, but I can't get push notifications working for the Slack app on my Android phone.

In the settings of the app, I've set the Send me push notifications for option to Activity of any kind, with a Push timing of As quickly as possible. I also deactivated the Do not disturb feature just to be sure.

The Slack app is authorized to send me notifications in the OS settings.

What did I forget? Is there a hidden option in the Slack web application that I'm not aware of?


texts: Samsung Galaxy S7: dark photos with sunlight

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I recently bought a Samsung Galaxy S7.
The camera is really great at night, but at daytime the photos are turning out way too dark. I tried tweaking the settings, also in manual mode but didn't help.
Any ideas how to improve my daytime photos?
2nd question: is there a good hdr app (real hdr, not just an image filter).


texts: Setting's "Search" function doesn't work properly on Android N Preview 3

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In settings of Android phone, there is a search button in the Action Bar and it cannot give me what I want to search. I find it works sometimes but 90% it doesn't. The 2nd image shows the very irrelevant results.

For example, I enter battery to search for battery settings, it gives me nothing.

My question is: how to fix it?

And result when enter ba:


texts: How can I determine what is a normal USB transfer speed for my Android phone?

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I've been struggling to get decent USB transfer speeds with my Ubuntu computer, which I've asked about on the Ask Ubuntu site.

The answers there have helped me improve USB speeds overall, but it seems my phone is still much slower than other devices. For example, I can transfer to my Sony video camera at about 17.5MB/s, but transferring files to my Android phone (Samsung Galaxy 2 with ICS) is running at about 2MB/s.

How can I determine if 2MB/s is a normal transfer speed for my Android phone? In other words, what do I need to know about it's SD card (it has two, internal and external) specifications or other details in order to determine if I am getting the maximum performance or if it is still hobbled?


texts:
I downloaded android-6-marshmallow.apk from

  marshmallow-google(dot)com

(Warning, ransomware fake malware! Do not install!)

It was a fake application and I couldn't delete that because of the screen below, and I can't go pass through this screen.

How to remove it?


texts: How to Block Third Party Apps from Creative Spam Shortcuts on Home Screen?

texts: It's either I had virus on my phone or some apps I installed lately started to add shortcuts on my home screen. These shortcuts look like apps and will take me to the download page of the apps. I like to block this behavior but I don't even know which app or virus is doing this. I like to know if there is a master switch to turn off this feature or if there is an app where I can monitor such activity. Thanks.


texts: Android Bootloop No recovery mode - only viberation

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Phone: Huawei honor 3c

I downloaded Emotion UI 3.0 for "probably" the wrong set form here offical site.But it was installed properly. Then there was an update of same emotion UI, which on installation put the phone in bootloop on restart. This is what phone does

On pressing power button, it vibrates without going into recovery mode or showing logo - just a black screen
The phone vibrates after every 15-20 seconds, which is probably an indication that it is restarting again and agian
Pressing Power button/volume up/down keeps does not make any difference
Partition is not shown in my computer (when connected to laptop)
Using ADB: Command adb devices or adb wait-for-device do not list any device
Windows device manager shows "MediaTek PreLoader USB VCOM(Android)(COM5)" under Ports (COM & LPT) which indicates that phone is detected but before anything happens it reboots

I've gone through several threads on this topic and nothing helped.

Please help.


texts: Where do I get my restored contacts from google?

texts: I managed to restore my contacts as per the last 30days but I just can't seem to find where they have been restored to. Please help.


texts: Does anyone knows how to root then unroot this device? I've just installed Termux emulator but I am not able to run some commands. The terminal's output comes with a "Permission denied" issue. I've talked with Caterpillar about rooting S41 so they told me that I may root this device but, in line with other manufacturers, CAT doesn't support this activity.


texts: Chrome shows black screen when playing video, but performs well when full screen

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I have a tablet and an Android TV stick. Both are on Android 4.1 JB.

I have an MP4 video file. On my tablet, the MP4 plays well inside the Chrome browser. But on my Android TV stick, it shows a blank black screen! I could only view the video when it's in fullscreen mode.

I suspect that it's the size of the video or the display. Perhaps it was too small to see in normal mode.

Does anybody have a clue how to deal with it?


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There's a Google account I share with others which I use as an oversight account, to be the maintainer of several shared Google Drive folders. I share this account with other members of a small team, which occasionally gets new members and has old members leaving.

Whenever a new team member tries to login on this shared account, one of the members who already had the account logged in on their phone gets a confirmation-popup which they have to confirm in order to be able to login on the account. I've never set up any 2FA or anything in my Google account, and I've not set up a recovery phone nor set up my phone to sign in.

So basically nothing about my phone should be specific to my phone, and Google shouldn't even try to ask me if it's me trying to sign in. This leads me to my question: how do I prevent this 2FA-like system from requiring me to confirm anything at all on my phone whenever someone logs in from a new computer?


texts: What can I do to stop the Lollipop update prompts if I don't want to update my KitKat?

texts:
I have some bad experience with my 1st gen Nexus 7, after updating to Lollipop. It made everything so slow, as to be completely useless as a device. I had to factory reset it.

My Moto G is less than a year old, and I have no desire to see it go through the same process. It is already a little slow on KitKat right now. However, the system update prompts shows up as many as 5 times within 1 continuous hour of usage. It says that it will ask me to set a time for future update prompts if I select 'No, thanks', but it doesn't.

How can I stop the update prompts from showing up all the time?


texts: Where is current wallpaper stored on Jellybean?

texts: On my Nexus S running 4.1.1, I am unable to find where the current wallpaper is stored. I referred to Where is the background image saved?, but my /data/data/com.android.settings/files folder is empty (I do have my file browser showing hidden files). It was confirmed in that question that ICS stored it in that location, but did Jellybean move it to a different place?


texts: Custom recovery reporting wrong device when flashing CM11 in Samsung Galaxy Note 8 even when I downloaded the right firmware

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I'm trying to flash CM11 firmware on a GT-N5100 device. I installed the custom recovery (tried both CWM and PhilZ), and while flashing it says I'm on a wrong device. On CWM, it was saying "The package is for N5100 and you are in a N5110, update aborted".

And on PhilZ, it says "This package is for kona3g, kona3gxx and you are on a konawifi, operation cancelled."

Now what am I supposed to do? I'm unable to install CM11??? So sad.


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Somehow the Y-axis of my Android display became inverted. I'm looking for a way to return it to normal. At this stage I don't care if it's a real solution to the original problem or a workaround.

Only the visual display is inverted, not the touch sensor; the two are out of phase with each other. In other words, the home button that usually lives at the bottom of the screen, appears up the top, but the trigger is still down the bottom. It's.. frustrating.

Yes, I've tried a factory reset.
No, rotation isn't a solution. I made this to demonstrate the difference:

I read somewhere that I need to change ro.sf.hwrotation=180 to ro.sf.hwrotation=0 in /system/build.prop, but that line isn't present on my device; an old LG Nexus 5 (Hammerhead). I'm hoping SurfaceFlinger might have some kind of config file somewhere that I can edit or something like that. Any ideas?


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My kids both have an android tablet. With parental control I can limit the apps type to PEGI 7 for example, which works fine.

But they then keep installing apps until the device is full, and then doesn't work properly anymore.

What I am looking for is an option to limit the number of apps installed at the same time. So I can set that to for example 30 or 50. If they then want to install a new one they first need to remove one.

With googling on this topic I find a lot about time management, but I already have an app to arrange that. So this is purely to set the maximum number of installed apps.

I hope someone has an idea how to achieve this, either by a setting in Android, or by a third party app.

Thanks!


texts: Screen Mirroring error : Green screen with audio

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My device is lyf flame 1 {Ls-4503} android 5.1

There is no wireless display or screen mirroring option in it.However when i use playstore app like miracast or ezmira ,i see this option

Clicking on the device, it gets connected but i see only a green screen on my tv .I can hear the audio,but there is no video only green screen.

In the setting menu,i clicked on the devoloper option and turned on the wireless display certificate

In order to find solution, i rooted my phone to instll a custom rom, but my bad luck!, there is no custom rom available for my phone.I installed Xposed Framework,but i found no module to fix this problem.Also there is no twrp recovery available for my phone,so i can not go for magisk module.

Note: The anycast device is working properly.I connected my laptop and it was working perfectly

Help me to find a solution for the green screen problem.Any suggestions will be highly appreciated


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I've recently purchased a Lenovo Vibe K5 mobile.  The phone runs Android 5.1 Lollipop with the Lenovo UI layered on top.

I have been facing a strange problem.  Apps that are set to start at startup simply don't start until I start them manually.  This includes messaging apps like Telegram etc. (only WhatsApp somehow seems to startup, but it then often hangs), battery monitors, QualityTime, Resilio Sync, Twilight, etc.

This has become more than an annoyance as the failure to start messaging apps means I never receive messages.  I've missed several important messages as a result.

I have checked in Bootup Manager and all these apps are listed as startup apps.  I have also switched off Lenovo's "Intelligent power settings" system (which seems to basically terminate apps if they are running in the background).

I have made no modifications to the stock ROM except rooting it.  I also experienced a weird problem with SMS not being received when I restored messages from a different phone from a backup.  I eventually deleted the message database and started from scratch; that seems to have fixed the problem.

Is there any way to fix this problem?  Where would I start? I am tempted to go the whole hog and replace the stock firmware with a custom ROM, but that is likely to bring its own problems in its wake.  Is that the only route forward?


texts: Will encrypting my Droid X2's SD card make me lose the ability to view files on it from my PC?

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I recently purchased my first smartphone, a Droid X2.  I was listening to the radio and heard security advice about protecting data on smartphones.  It specifically said you should install antivirus software, password protect and encrypt your data on the smartphone.

Under Settings & Security it has the option for Data Encryption.

Should I set up data encryption and will I lose the ability to plug in my phone to my laptop and edit or view data on the SD card?

We have data encryption on a laptop at work.  If I use this feature and encrypt my memory card I am unable to read the data on my personal computer at home.


texts: Can I RDP from an Android phone to a Windows PC over the internet without router port forwarding?

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I work at a golf course and I have a requirement to RDP into my Windows 10 workstation from anywhere on the course in order to use a specific desktop application which only runs on Windows. I don't have a windows-based phone or tablet, and these are too expensive to buy. I don't have (or want) permimssion to forward ports in the router to allow RDP requests over the internet.
I have an Android phone currently running Android 9. I have used the Microsoft RDP app to do the above while connected to the same network via wifi, and it works great, it has all of the screen scaling, custom resolution, mouse/touch, and security features that I require. This app works perfectly, but only while connected to the local network. The wifi doesn't work any further than about 20 meters from the clubhouse.
I want to be able to do the same, but over 4G/5G. I have used RealVNC with a team set up that negates the need for any port-forwarding because it uses SSL tunneling between the viewer and the listener (I think), but this doesn't give me the screen scaling features that the RDP app does.
In the past, I have used the VPN feature built into the teamviewer app to RDP from my laptop over the internet to my workstation using local IP/name resolution (not remote controlling over teamviewer, only connecting to the VPN, and then using RDP to the host) however this VPN feature does not exist in the android app of Teamviewer.
I think what I need is an app that will do the same thing as the Teamviewer VPN feature does, to establish a PPTP VPN connection to the workstation, and then hop on the RDP app and use it as if I'm on the same network, but I'm feeling a bit lost at this point.
I'm happy to use separate apps to do the VPN connection and the RDP connection if necessary, but if there were a single app that did both, that would be preferred. Neither Teamviewer, VNC, or any of the other remote control apps have had the screen scaling features I wanted, which is why I think I need to stick with the microsoft RDP app.
Any advice on the right combination of apps and/or software on the host PC would be appreciated.


texts: Whatsapp very slow, ads show up randomly every 10 minutes

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Since 2 days ago my whatsapp is very slow.
Every message needs 30 minutes.Maybe 1 hour.

Internet is fine. I can surf the web and stuff. However, look at this screenshot. Nothing gets sent. If I restart Whatsapp, things works again.
Let me show you a screenshot.

Also there are ads that often show up randomly. Here is another annoying ads

The screenshot I took have a file name called Screenshot_2019-02-07-15-30-44-985_com.game.flowoneline.png.
The thing is those annoying ads still show up even when flowonline game is gone.


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Guys, I've got a Galaxy S7 Edge (Exynos version) which just received an update over the weekend from Samsung. Since then, I've had a really weird issue with the phone suddenly telling me that all the storage is used up and I need to delete/remove apps even though I had over 7gb free just a while ago.

I finally managed to get screenshots from Storage Analyser showing the status at 7.39am this morning and 10.19am - at 7.39am, I had 7.5gb free in internal storage and "android/inaccessible files" was using 8.63gb, however at 10.19am my space fell to 51mb and "android/inaccessible files" was a whopping 15.59gb! Bear in mind I hadn't installed any additional apps over this period...

Any ideas what I can do? I can't seem to see what the additional 7gb was utilised by, is there an app I could use to snoop further? Thanks!

[update] - I used another app - "DiskUsage", which proved more effective and told me the system app "Voice Service" was acting up and taking up 7GB of cache files! I cleared it which solved the problem, but anyone have any ideas why this is the case?


texts: Problem installing ubuntu on Galaxy S2 ICS

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The Error:

when running the ubuntu install script (ubuntu.sh) I get:

ubuntu.sh[11]:cut not found
This script requires root! Type:su

what I have done so far:

Installed a custom kernel that roots the phone:

[KERNEL] SpeedMod SGS2 ICS [K3-16 CIFS ROOT / NO-ROOT CWM5]

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1574218

I installed it using Odin using the following instructions:

http://touristinparadise.blogspot.com/2010/11/samsung-galaxy-s-how-to-install.html

that all seemed to go fine.

Installed "Ubuntu Installer Free" from market place.

I then installed busybox:

tried Stephen (Stericson) and JRummy16 apps from market place.

I installed the VNC viewer as recommended by Ubuntu installer app.

I also installed Android Terminal Emulator (Jack Palevich)  as recomended by Ubuntu installer app.

Downloaded and de-compressed the image and script as per links from Ubuntu installer app.

I decompressed them to my external card initially but then moved them to the "internal" sdcard folder.

I also tried to establish that I had loopback device capability.. I found this thread:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1425888

And the folders mentioned are present.

I think that is all i have done so far ;-)..

I had a look at the script and the failing line and it seems to me if the "cut" command was not found then it would report that i didnt have su privelages even if i did.

I have many times ofer forgotten and approved su access for terminal emulator and busybox..

When I type su in the terminal emulator the symbol for text entry changes from $ to# ..

Anyone got any ideas?


texts: Can Maps run without a data or wifi connection?

texts: I was just wondering, if you get Maps to load directions and start navigating, then turn off the data access, can Maps function fully, or does it need to constantly pull data to run directions?


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I have an LG Optimus 2 AS680. It is running the gingerbread 2.3.4 system. I have yet to find a program or any reliable method to root the phone.

I am looking to increase my internal memory to about 1 or 2 GB because I am tired of running out of memory and it just makes things complicated.

Thank you.


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I have try to share my Samsung note 10.1 (Model Number : GT-N8000) portable hotspot last night  but it fail. After that, i cannot access to internet via data network mode(the 3G/H+ sign disappear next to my signal meter ) but the Wi-FI is functioning.

My tablets details are:
Model Number: GT-N8000
Android Version: 4.0.4
Baseband version: N8000XXLGA
Kernal Version: 3.0.15-861995-user se.infra@SEP-118#1
Build number: IMM76D.N8000XXALGA

If anyone has an idea why this would happen, please give me a shout. It's so frustrating having no data connection for the most of my day.

Regards,
May seng


texts: I have Samsung Galaxy Ace. I'm installing apps from Google Play or just download them on my PC and then transfere them with Bluetooth. Now my problem is that some games crash or be white on some spots, for example there is main menu and play, and thay play is a just white square and it starts the app so it is just a graphical bug. But game like Blood Zombies HD just keeps crashing with report/force close. I have lot of free memory on my phone and on SD card and my phone had needed requierements and no backround apps running. And like a half of games on Google Play have same force close/report thing. So please answere me to fix this problem


texts: What vendros have the longest support policies?

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I've always stuck to stock android and preferrably googles nexus/pixel devices because I want access to future updates, primarily security but also features. (currently i'm running a nexus 6p)

But I need a phone right now, and the new pixel will likely not be out until October. I've been looking at the onePlus but can't find if they have any support policies or best practices for their oxygen os. Who are best in class? I don't mind paying a bit extra if the phone will stay up to date for longer.


texts: Is it possible to transfer the internal memory/storage chip of an S9?

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My Samsung Galaxy S9 is physically damaged and the board is dead. The phone will not turn on or show any signs of life. Plenty of important photos and data are on that phone which I need to retrieve.

Is it possible to swap out the internal storage chip from the dead motherboard of a Samsung Galaxy S9 and place it to an identical working board and retrieve the data that way?

If not, is there any other way I can get the data off of my dead phone? :(

Thank you in advance!


texts: How do I transfer from HTC SENSE to the computer?

texts:
I want to transfer contacts, photos and videos from my HTC SENSE to my computer. Does anyone know how to do this?
Thanks


texts: How do I change the storage directory for Playstore apps in a device running lollipop?

texts: Just wanted to change my storage directory from internal storage to SD card, unfortunately , I am unable to do this.Could anyone provide a solution ? The device I am using is Samsung Tab S running lollipop!


texts: I have a weird issue on my Samsung Galaxy Ace S5830 with baseband s5830XXKPP (bought in Mexico), whenever I'm doing anything (playing a game, using a web browser, etc), after a certain time (like a minute or so), the screen turns off, but whatever app I was using at the time stays there (sometimes I have to lock and unlock the phone to see whatever is on the screen again, and some other times, after blacking out it shows again, but brighter), it's really annoying and I'm not sure what happened (I recently upgraded from 2.3.4 to 2.3.6 and I didn't have that problem before). My brightness is set to the minimum and I've set the Screen timeout to 10 minutes. Does anybody know why this happens and how to fix it?


texts: Why can't I download apps from the Android Marketplace?

texts: I just bought an HTC Desire S and cannot download apps from the Android Marketplace. I tried to download Skype and it stalled saying "Starting To Download" - nothing happened. Then I tried downloading another app and then it said that app will be soon downloaded, but nothing happened.


texts: Firefox mobile install problem on HTC wildfire

texts:
I tried to install firefox mobile edition on HTC wildfire (Indian edition) but it fails
anyone faced the same problem or any workaround available to install


texts: How do I backup Internal Storage to PC or OTG Drive without it changing folder and file modified dates?

texts: I'm on Android 11 and I want to backup my files to a drive but I don't want it to change the modified date for folders and files...


texts:
I have a Samsung galaxy S4. I have changed the settings so that the pictures and video taken from the phone camera are saved in a folder on the external memory card.

Usually this works quite well.

I took a quite long video recently (>1 min) resulting in a file of 119MB.

The issue: The file seem corrupted. If I play it with VLC on my phone, it works for the first few seconds, then VLC crashes.
I have tried to copy the file to my PC using Airdroid, but the download fails at some point after 11.3MB (each time exactly at the same point). hence I suspect it is an issue with a bad sector on the memory card (Although I am not a specialist and open to other possibilities)

I have done a few searched on Internet but not found any solution so far.
I tried for instance this tutorial, but this assumes that I can copy the file which I can't.

It is a great video so I really would like to recover it. Help!


texts: Help on fixing "unfortunately the process com android systemui has stopped" on galaxy s3

texts: Every time I open any app then press the home button to get out of it: meaning that the app is running in the background, then press the home button again to swipe away or close the app the message, "unfortunately the process com android systemui has stopped" , appears and I get sent to lock screen. I haven't done anything to my phone before this message kept appearing. I didn't touch any files, download games, or do anything risky to the phone.  Is there a way to fix it? If there is please help.


texts: How to set MTP mode on phone with broken screen in USB charge-only mode

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My phone’s screen broke from a 30 cm drop. The touchpad is dysfunctional while the display itself still works (i.e. I can see everything).

USB mode is charge-only, so connecting to the PC is not working (./adb devices yields empty results)
Developer mode is enabled, USB debugging is enabled
A MicroUSB to USB (OTG USB) cable is available, I can control the phone with a mouse
Phone is a LG G2 with Android 5

Now since the USB mode is charge-only, I cannot set the mode to MTP because I can't control the phone while it is plugged into the computer.

How can I switch to MTP mode or have my computer recognize the phone so I can retrieve data from it?

(I guess I could just move the data I have on there to a cloud storage, but I prefer to do it via computer)

(Honestly, not being able to set the preferred USB mode without a active USB connection is a pretty big design flaw for scenarios like this. It would be so simple.)


texts: My Samsung galaxy s3 just went black and now it won't turn on and when I try to turn it on it just vibrates. I tried restarting it I tried taking my battery out. That don't work either.


texts: Cannot move app to SD card: "Not enough storage space"

texts:
Disclaimer: There are many similar questions, but: 1) No answer there helped me, 2) This one provides additional info and questions, 3) Others seem to be related to Android versions < 8, so the scheme looks different. So it wouldn't really help adding a bounty.

I am using Android 8. As far as I could find, I cannot install apps directly to SD card. I have to install them regularly, and then move them via Settings -> Apps -> Workplace (App info) -> Storage.
I mean to move Facebook Workplace to the SD card, and I keep getting "Not enough storage space".
I have plenty of space there (more than 6Gb).
The app shows as taking up 138Mb. I have 530Mb available in the internal memory.

What I tried:

Moving other apps to the SD card. It worked.
Removing and reinstalling Facebook Workplace. Moving to SD card. It failed the same.
Ejecting the SD card and inserting it again. I had to rebuild my home screen, but still cannot move the app.

What I did not try:

Formatting the SD card. I guess it is too much work to try, and many others reported it does not work.
Reinstalling the OS. It is a corporate device.
Rooting the phone. Ibid.
A custom ROM. Ibid.
Using an app. It seemed to me that this was required for older Android versions. Now Android has that capability builtin.

Other similar questions are:

Unable to move few Apps to SD Card .
This answer provides reasons why an app might not support moving to SD, but I guess Android 8 is already aware of this, and shows the option only if possible.
Plus, I wouldn't know how to tell if Facebook Workplace is one such app.

And none of this has an answer that helps me (many of these are very old questions):

Getting "not enough space" error even i have enough space in sd card

"Cannot Move App Not Enough Storage Space" Error Message

Cannot move app to sd-card?

Storage space in SD card

Getting "not enough space" error even i have enough space in sd card

why do I keep getting message saying unable to move app not enough storage space ?

Move app to SD card

Move apps to SD card in Marshmallow without using internal SD Card storage?

My apps don't move to SD-card

Move apps to internal SD card

"Couldn't move app. Not enough storage space." I have factory reset my phone, inserted & formated a new 64GB MicroSD Card

Why do I keep getting "not enough storage space"

More old questions:

App can't be moved to SD card

What does the 'Failed to move application. Not enough memory' error mean when choosing 'Move to SD card'?

"Couldn't move app. Not enough storage space." I have factory reset my phone, inserted & formated a new 64GB MicroSD Card


texts: security implications of participating in app beta testing?

texts:
I am an IT professional (but not in app development). Two days ago  someone contacted me about a blog post I made and invited me to participate in beta testing for a messaging app which was related to my blog post. I have never before considered participating in beta testing for a mobile app before. For the android app, they are using Closed beta with Google+ community or Google Group.

At first, I was enthusiastic, but then I thought --- whoa! I don't know this person (or this company) from Adam. Although the developer's website looks legitimate, this person contacted ME, so this could all be a setup.

The instructions to download the beta app seem straightforward and seem similar to how legitimate apps do beta testing. And frankly, I doubt that this app has any malicious purpose. On the other hand, I have no reason to trust this app.

In fact, when I begin the steps for downloading the app and seei what privileges I am granting, I literally have no idea what the implications are.

So let me ask:

Are beta apps basically operating in a safe sandbox? Are there
significant differences in security risks between android and ios?
Generally is it easy to uninstall them?
When evaluating whether to install a beta app, is there an access
level which I should be careful not to grant?
Is there any sort of community rating system that might reassure me
that an app is more likely to be safe? I see all kinds of websites
which list apps for beta testers. Is there any reason to believe
that apps listed on these kinds of sites are vetted or determined to
be safe (or do not pose security risks)?
Are  certain kinds of apps  riskier to install as beta apps than others?
I assume that I should monitor performance (such as memory and storage use) when the app is running. Is there any metric I should be monitoring to ensure that the beta app is not dragging down overall performance?

Thanks for your help. Hopefully your answers can help other clueless potential beta testers like myself. I would love to participate in more beta-testing if I could be convinced that it would not pose a significant risk for me.

I have worked in software development before and even done a bit of testing on desktop apps  but I had VMs and understand the security model for Windows and Linux fairly well. But I only have one phone and 2 tablets (ios and android), and don't want to mess things up (though I regularly test ebook design on multiple platforms and displays).


texts: How use Escape, directional keys on the virtual keyboard?

texts:
I recently bought Better Terminal Emulator Pro, and I like it, but how do I use the Escape key and directional keys? For instance, I'd like to switch between modes in vi or use the up and down arrows to cycle through my command history.

I have a Samsung Fascinate. No D-pad.


texts: Typing accented letters from physical keyboard

texts:
I use a SGH-i927 Captivate Glide (4.0.4 AT&T stock rom, rooted) which has a physical US-keyboard. I frequently type in my native language which uses letters with umlauts. I know the trick that keeping e.g. 'a' pressed for a moment brings up a popup that has different variations of 'a'. However, I find that very clumsy since it breaks my typing flow. I always use the same umlauted 'a' from the popup, so the other 8 variations of 'a' are useless.

What I'm now looking for is some kind of a shortcut to 'ä'. Ideal would be the same kind of behavior that can be seen with the top row of a virtual keyboard and its embedded numbers.

How can I make 'a' turn into 'ä' after keeping the key pressed for ~0.5 seconds?


texts: Installing CyanogenMod on Samsung Galaxy S

texts: I have a Samsung Galaxy S and I tried to install CyanogenMod on it, but I messed up. Now when I try to boot up the phone it says "Samsung Galaxy S" and then "Samsung Galaxy S CynogenMod" – and repeats it for couple times and then it shuts down. Please help?


texts: Unable to mount SD card to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

texts: Can anybody explain how to mount ICS/Jellybean on Ubuntu 12.04 without rooting? When I connect my phone, it goes into charging mode, however, I can't mount the phone memory/sdcard to my Ubuntu system. On Windows virtual machine, it works just fine! Please help!


texts: Is there any way to fix MediaStorage's file creation dates without root?

texts:
I am using PlayerPro to play audio on my phone. I want my MP3s to be sorted by creation date and that is the problem. PlayerPro seems to be using MediaStorage's data about media files and it gets the files' creation/update date. But when I add a bunch of files at once to my SDCard and MediaStorage scans it, the creation date of these files is set as it was at the moment of scanning, not the actual file creation date (same applies for file update date). I've managed to write a shell script in attempt to fix it:

su
sqlite3 /data/data/com.android.providers.media/databases/external-90164ef8.db "select _data from files" > /sdcard/log.txt
while read p; do
  STAT=`stat -c%Y "$p"`
  p2="${p//\'/\'\'}"
  QUERY="update files set date_added='$STAT', date_modified='$STAT' where _data like '$p2'"
  echo "$p"
  sqlite3 /data/data/com.android.providers.media/databases/external-90164ef8.db "$QUERY"
done < /sdcard/log.txt
rm /sdcard/log.txt

(it dumps an entire database into log file, then updates every string in database according to file creation date).

The problem is, now I've bought a new phone and I can't root it now, so I need a way to do it without obtaining root.

Is there any way to do so? QuickPic has the ability to fix date (I guess it does the same thing I want to do but for image files), so I guess it is, but I don't know how to do it.


texts:
I have this url : http://prepaid-data-sim-card.wikia.com/wiki/China and wish to download as an offline document. How do I do that ?.
I am taking that there is no wifi access in the place I intend to visit in China and hence this article would be useful to refer to as a 'offline document'.

I hope the question is clear enough for someone to assist me. Thank you


texts: Why won't badge notification work for Gmail on my S3?

texts: I get badge notifications for all my other apps and email, but Gmail will not show the little red icon that shows the number of unread messages.  It used to work fine, but now it no longer does and it's driving me nuts.  I have all the notifications turned on (in the top menu bar and within the Gmail app itself).  Not sure what else I can do?


texts: What options do I have to purchase a play store app for another account?

texts:
Recently my wife gave birth to our son and I purchased the tinycam pro app to use with my d-link DCS-932L as a baby monitor.

After some tests I was satisfied with the results and decided to buy the app for my wife's google account, so she can monitor our child with her own phone. It was a surprise when I found that google provides no simple way to achieve such a simple task.

My wife has no international credit card, and even if she did I would be reluctant to associate her google account with one, since she's very careless regarding account/password security

What options do I have to install the app on my wife's phone without adding credit card information to her account?


texts: How to force android 6 to automatically connect to a network without internet access?

texts:
I've set up a hifiberry(raspberry + dac shield) in my car, which has a wireless access point. I'm using my old sony z3 compact as a headunit. Runeaudio allows you to do all this easily. However, the raspberry is just an access point, there is no modem so it has no internet access.

Normally the phone will connect to networks automatically, but inthis case, it says "no internet access, won't automatically connect" in the wifi options. I have to manually connect it every time.

Is there a way to make it connect automatically, even though there is no internet access?


texts: What's the directory location for Newsstand documents?

texts:
I saved a few magazine issues using the options available in the Google Play Newsstand app, but can't figure out where the files are stored. Nothing showed up in the /sdcard/ directories tagged with recent modification dates.

Anyone know where I should be looking? In case it's relevant, my device is ASUS MemoPad 302C.


texts:
I'm making an installation using Android (Bliss Os).

For getting the recognizable android keyboard that everybody knows I installed GBoard. Everything worked fine except that my keyboard misses half the most left line of letters.

Does anybody have any experience with this problem? I already tried using a different display but this didn't help.

Also tried installing swiftkey. But this also had the same problem. They do have a functionality to rescale the keyboard but this is a dirty fix for my problem..

Sorry for the bad picture quality, I do not have the buttons on this elo touch display to take a screenshot.


texts: So for some reason I cant sync my gmail emails to the new S7 I purchased. I've verified its in "no power saving mode", sync is enabled for the app, I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling, and deleting and deleting the accounts and putting them back on. Im not sure this is relevant but it was working for 2 hrs or so and isnt now. Nothing works please help!


texts: Unicode input from a Bluetooth/external keyboard?

texts:
Is there a way that I can do Unicode character input on an external keyboard on Android 4.4?

For example, on Linux, you hold Ctrl+Shift+U and then start inputting the code point. On Windows and OSX, there's a similar way to do it using a keyboard shortcut.

Is there any way to insert a specific code-point into a text field in Android? (ie: how do I insert U+2022 using an external keyboard on Android?)


texts: How to transfer a text message from phone to sim card?

texts: I'm using huawei nova 3i,and right now when I transfer my sim card to other phone, my text messages are not there. But when I put it back to my phone, it's there. What should I do to transfer it from my phone to my sim?


texts: Installing rom zip through TWRP replaces recovery instead of intalling os

texts:
I formatted my Oneplus 6t and was able to install TWRP, but when I install the zip for LineageOS, instead of installing it as the OS, it just replaces the TWRP recovery with a Lineage one, and I am still unable to boot into system.
Log.txt


texts: Galaxy Nexus randomly shut downs while streaming music with Pandora- how do I fix this?

texts:
While streaming music with the Pandora application (on the high quality setting) on a Galaxy Nexus over Verizon 4G, after any given time period the phone will completely shut down. This happens at unpredictable times. The phone doesn't get heated and no data/download limits are reached. I'm fairly certain this is a bug with the Pandora app on ICS or could be ICS in general, as it is not experienced during any other data streaming.

Has anyone experienced this random shut down while streaming with Pandora on their device, and if so..
Is there remedy for this type of bug?


texts: Are there any window managers for Android?

texts:
I once saw a YouTube video where someone had hooked up a bluetooth mouse and keyboard to a Galaxy Note and was manipulating apps like on a desktop computer, where each app had window decorations and multiple apps could be visible at once.

I would like to have such a window manager (preferably not requiring any external devices) for my Galaxy Nexus. There are occasionaly situations where it'd be helpful to be able to see two apps at once.

For example, I might receive complex data in an email that I want to input into another app. However, Gmail doesn't allow you to copy text from an email (which is just rediculous). So, I have to remember a little bit, switch apps, type it in, switch apps again, etc. It would be much better to be able to put my phone in landscape mode, fire up the window decorations, and tile the two apps side by side so I can see the email address at the same time I'm entering data in the other app.

I've searched for a window manager for Android, but I can't find anything, despite the video I saw. Does anyone know of one?


texts: I accidentally deleted the updates of my google play

texts: I was exploring my cellphone. I came to the uninstall updates of google play. Now I can't open it nor can update my apps. What do I do?


texts:
I have a Cyanogenmod nightly build installed, and I want to update it.

Unfortunately, I don't have WiFi but only an ethernet connection, so I'll have to install it from a computer.

Is there a way to download the delta file which I get from the phone?


texts: Can't change my lock screen password remotely

texts:
I've tried changing my lock screen password using the Android device manager for my Samsung Galaxy A3 with Lollipop, but when I clicked on "lock" the following message was returned:

  Since Google has verified that a screen lock is already set, the
  password you entered won't be needed.

I want to be able to remotely change my lock screen password using the Android device manager, is that possible?


texts: Do I need to wipe anything before restoring a full nandroid backup?

texts:
I'm used to wiping everything when installing a new ROM, but I would like to know if a nandroid restore automatically wipes out the partitions it is recovering.

When I run a restore, I see some messages saying it is "formatting cache" and "erasing boot before restore", but the rest of my partitions (system, data, .android_secure, etc) don't have any accompanying messages about them being cleared first.

Does a nandroid restore overwrite partitions, or does it merge the files with the current structure?

And in the interest of making this applicable to a wider audience, is the process different for different phones (some have extra partitions) or different versions of clockworkmod? Or is the process the same for everyone?


texts: Clone the Andriod version from Samsung to Lenovo?

texts:
I bought this Lenovo K10a40, and I bought just problems.
This will be a number 2 phone if I can get it work in a reliable state.

I have been looking a little around and if I could downgrade it to clone of the Android 4.2.2 on an old simple Samsung GT-S7580 it would really work as an upgrade. If that is impossible any change to the better would be OK to test. Else the phone is just garbage, I cant trust it.

I am totally green on this, and do not even know how to root a phone. Among the problems with the Lenovo, I got MMS problems, Bluetooth problems, and I miss the native android sip client.

As you understand  I need a detailed description of every steps I have to do.

Thank you
dsk


texts: What is the worst case scenario if you flash a wrong custom recovery?

texts: I have a Polaroid phone which doesn't have a lot of product support and I want to port a custom recovery on it and flash it. Before I follow through with it is there any chance of hard bricking it or will the worst case be a soft brick?


texts:
When attempting to access the NASA ADS ( http://adsabs.harvard.edu/ ) site via my Samsung tablet (SM-T530NU) connected to a WiFi network I get the following message:

http://ads.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/access_denied

This does not happen when I try to access via my laptop connected to the same WiFi network. This also does not happen if I use the default browser that Samsun ships instead of the Chrome Android app.

I contacted the administrator of the site and he told me that there's an issue where Chrome is apparently "sending out HTTP requests with X-Forwarded-For set in the header", which is causing this. My IP is not blacklisted by the way, I checked.

I have no idea what this means or how I can fix this. Any help will be much appreciated.


texts: How to hide canceled/deleted events in Google Calendar, when syncing events from Exchange?

texts:
I'm using the latest version of Google Calendar on Android 5 to sync events from an Exchange server. However canceled and deleted events keep showing up in the Calendar, even though I no longer see them on the Exchange server.

Is there a way to hide or delete them from Google Calendar as well?


texts: How do I sync contact lists from outlook.com / Office365 into my Android contacts?

texts:
I am successfully syncing my outlook.com and Office365 contacts into my Android contacts (Samsung S9), but I cannot see the contact lists in either account.
How do I sync the contact lists? I would like to use them both from Messages and from Outlook.
Thanks.


texts: How to prevent the Facebook app (Android) to auto refresh/update the newsfeed?

texts:
I have a lot of news(paper) articles in my Facebook news feed and so I often open up the linked article to read it in the browser.
After that I want to go back to the Facebook app to read the comments on this post which linked to the article, but at this moment is the app refreshing the news feed and the post disappears.

If I read the article fast enough, then I can go back to the post without a refresh.
I did not measure the time frame in which I have to go back, but it feels like a minute or so and it often takes much longer to read the articles.

Some time agao was there an option to adjust the refreshing time, but it looks as if this option is not available anymore.

How can I prevent the auto-refresh in general in the app (I actually know by my self when I want to do a refresh or not), or how can I adjust at least the refreshing time frame?


texts: Gmail contacts not syncing - How to get them to sync?

texts: I have a new Samsung S8+ and Gmail seems not to find any contacts when I try to compose an email. I have downloaded google contacts and all contacts appear on my phone. Is there a setting I've missed?


texts: How can I make an Android app "forget" that it installed on my phone before?

texts:
Some apps, like Facebook, LinkedIn, Tinder, etc., seem to have a mechanism to remember which Android phone installed their app. So if a user is banned on these apps, the next time somebody creates an account on the same Android phone, that account is flagged or even banned automatically.
What is the way to make sure the app forgets that my Android phone was used previously with a banned account? I tried to clear the cache and delete app data, then uninstall the re-install the app, but it still remembers! I tried it on different IP addresses, but the same issue is there.
Does the app have access to the IMEI of the phone!??
I am on Android v10.


texts: How to comment and like under my name in Facebook application on my Facebook page using Facebook's Android app?

texts:
I am a moderator of a Facebook page. However, I never want to post, comment and like in the name of the page on the page itself (that's other people's role).

On the desktop website, I set to comment and like in my real name by default, but it does not affect the Android application. My comments and likes appear as the page's comments and likes.

Any solution? It's quite annoying that I cannot interact with my page when being on the phone.


texts: LG l70 DBI Err Fatal - boot up display stuck here

texts:
I had LG l70 and I have rooted and fully unrooted it few times. Recently I fully unrooted it and factory reseted because I had intention to sell it. I left Lg l70 in sleep without battery in it for about 2 weeks and then I wanted to sell it, but when I booted up phone I got DBI Err Fatal. I have searched and tried every method to solve this, but the problem is I can't get phone to download or recovery mode. Everytime when I try to do it, it just displays DBI Err fatal. Even my computer can not recognise phone through USB connection. I am desperate for help.

Sincerely, divjad---

Here is the image of what it looks like everytime when it boots up.


texts: My RCA tablet screen says UID'S are inconsistent need to wipe data partition that is all it will do i've let battery run down that is the only way to turn off it is an RCA 7 Mercury. help please


texts: How Can I get Google Natives apps in Samsung Galaxy S?

texts:
As you know Samsung Galaxy S comes with yahoo apps (mail, chat, etc). My First Android Phone was a G1 and I really love the google natives apps like gtalk, search widget, etc..  The problem is that these apps are not in the market and I dont know Where to find them.

I know That I could install another Rom that brings theses apps, but I really like How works my samsung with Eclair. I just need back my google apps.

Some help?


texts: Connection between Ubuntu and Nexus 7 does not work well

texts:
Following the instruction in http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2004182
(I also see many other similar guides online)
The above method, shortly, is editing the file
(Do not follow the instructions below for connection, since it omits many steps and only for a description purpose. Using the link above if you want to do connection.)

  sudo gedit /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules

And put the device information in the file:

  SUBSYSTEM=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="18d1", MODE="0666"

It starts udev

  sudo service udev restart

Create mount point and permissions

  sudo mkdir /media/nexus7
  chmod 755 /media/nexus7

MTP in Nexus 7 is enabled.
(Do not follow the instructions for connection, since it omits many steps and only for a description purpose. Using the link above if you want to do connection.)

I successfully connect my Nexus 7 to Ubuntu 12.04.

For the first several trials (mount and transfer, then unmount), it can drag and drop files from Ubuntu to Nexus 7.
Now after I mount, I can see all folders and files of Nexus 7 in mounted folder in Ubuntu. But I can't drag and drop files anymore.
It would pops an error window, but with now any explicit information what's wrong.

How to solve it?

Another question: when I succeed in transferring files through mounted media, I transfer music files in Ubuntu to a folder in Nexus 7, such as /SoftwareEnginneringMp3. But all music files were automatically placed in the music folder. How to solve it?
I searched online and find some similar complaints. But I am not lucky to find the solution.


texts:
I installed Android P once it got released for Google Pixel phone. But they changed how you mute your phone. Now there is the option to put your device on vibrate/mute on the bar that appears when you change the volume and then there is the "do not disturb" option.

In Android 8 you had as option to change the "do not disturb" option to "total silence". How do you recreate this?

When you have "do not disturb" on stuff like YouTube, it still plays sounds; same for the Whatsapp message sound. Muting on that bar thingy still lets calls through and both together seem to work out but i cant be sure. I don't want my phone to go off in meetings so I hope someone can give me some insights.

Eric


texts: How can I select a router that I want to connect on Android?

texts:
In my residence, there's a network which have many different routers to provide Wi-Fi signal. One of these router doesn't work properly. I can connect to this router, but it can't connect to the Internet through this router. Unfortunately, it has the strongest signal. So, I have to select another router manually. How can I do that?

EDIT

I know how to connect to the Wi-Fi. My problem is that I have many routers which have the same SSID. But one of the router which has the strongest signal does not work properly. So, I have to chose another router.

EDIT

One of the SmartCampus does not work.


texts: Wifi scanning for known networks that don't broadcast their SSID

texts:
When wifi is enabled, and the phone is not connected to a wifi network, it scans for known networks. I always thought that networks send out their SSID (like StarbucksWifi) and if this SSID is in the list of known networks on the phone, the phone tries to connect.

Recently I found out that the phone actively tries to connect to known networks even if they are not available. Is it possible to block this last behavior?

See another discussion on Information Security about this.


texts: How to disable Shift + Space to change language on Android?

texts:
I am using Android 11 (Build Number RP1A.201005.004.A1) on a Google Pixel 2 XL with an external BlueTooth keyboard (Logitech K480).
In my normal typing on a desktop or a laptop, I am very used to typing spaces with the Shift key depressed (habit) and it correctly registers as a normal Space key in those environments, but on Android, it triggers a change in language which I have to then stop and change back, and then continue typing.
Obviously, one solution is for me to try and change 20 years of typing muscle memory, but I would also like to know how I can disable this keyboard shortcut, so that I can have a similar typing experience to what I would have on laptop or desktop.
Thanks.

Update (3rd January 2021)
I checked to see if the answers to the question linked in the comments by @Robert solved my issue or not.
As per the suggestions in the linked question, I switched off the Google Indic keyboard which is what was apparently providing the Shift + Space keyboard shortcut, with no way to change this mapping. Here is a screenshot of all the settings in the Google Indic keyboard app, having cycled through all of which, I was unable to locate a setting for changing keyboard shortcuts:

Anyway, reverting to Gboard, which is the main suggestion in the linked question (albeit for Samsung phones) does not resolve my issue:

Firstly, there now appears to be no external keyboard shortcut to switch between languages. I tried several combinations after having added a couple of languages to Gboard.
Secondly, and more importantly, Shift + Space now does nothing. Which means that my original intent of getting Shift + Space to emulate a Space keypress is not actually solved.

In fact, while this query was for my Pixel 2 XL, tinkering around with my Samsung Note 10+, I discovered that the Samsung keyboard actually provides exactly this feature of being able to switch off the Shift + Space external keyboard shortcut to switch languages, which is exactly what I am looking for in Gboard! See the screenshot below (Shift + Space on my Note 10+ now simply enters a Space while typing, exactly as desired):

I am really hoping that someone can help me understand how I can get Shift + Space to be just a plain Space keypress on Android using an external keyboard.


texts: As android is based on a Linux core, is it possible to use POSIX System Programming tools, techniques and libraries to program and customize the environemnt like I would have done on my Ubuntu for example ?


texts: How to save battery on Moto G 2nd generation without installing third party apps?

texts: How do I save battery life on my Moto G 2nd generation phone without installing third party apps ?


texts:
I am trying to install Cyanogenmod 12.1 on my Samsung Galaxy S3 (SPH-710).
I Have been able to install the ROM but not the Gapps. Does anyone know a fix? I have used almost every Gapps version made for Android 5.1.


texts: Cannot exit Google Device Manager Installer

texts:
For reasons unexplained, I loaded Google Device Manager.  Near the end of the installation, when I got to the screen where it lists all of the things that the IT team can do, and that the camera was going to be disabled, I tapped Cancel.

That took me back one screen.  I tapped the X in the upper right and exited the installer.  However, now I have a continual triangle notification in the upper left of the screen,  When I view it, it says "Account Action Required" and my e-mail address.  When I tap it, it takes me right back to the screen after had tapped Cancel (above).

If I uninstall from Google Play, it comes back after I reboot.

How do I kill this installer for good?


texts:
I have Google Cardboard which works great with Photosphere. I've created a few of my own, but I'd really like to get some spectacular images (e.g. Times Square, Grand Canyon etc) to install on my phone to demonstrate to people.

I have found Photosphere images online, but they are only viewable online - is there a way to download these images** so they can be viewed as photosphere images on my Android phone ?

** Assuming of course that appropriate license allows me to download a copy.


texts: Port not open when using portable wifi hotspot

texts:
I just bought a Samsung S4 and am using its portable wifi hotspot feature for internet connectivity on my laptop when I go out the house.
Works just fine when browsing the web(actually quite fast) but when I use uTorrent, it has an orange exclamation point icon near the bottom right. Downloads are slow even if I have 20-30+ seeders(around 6-10kbps max). Did a quick google search and found out(using canyouseeme.org and port forwarder port checker tool) that the port used by uTorrent is not open.

Checked my windows firewall exception and there's already an exception for uTorrent. I've even added new inbound and outbound rule to specify the port used by uTorrent but no luck.

I believe I've covered everything on my laptop (win 7 64bit).
BTW, when using the same laptop but using my parent's dsl connection, DL speeds jump to a couple of mbps of the same torrent(facepalm).

Sorry if post is long. I just wanted to explain it thoroughly and to show the things I did to try and resolve the problem. I'm just new to android. Be gentle (but not too much.... harhar!)

Is there anything I need to do on my S4? Hopefully without rooting it. Or to my laptop?
Thanks a bunch guys. :D


texts:
I have a Nexus S which sadly has a broken power button. This means I cannot do anything in recovery mode. Recently, after downgrading from a Cyanogenmod 10.1 nightly to and experimental build, it got stuck in a boot-loop.

I am trying to install ClockworkMod Touch, I think this would probably be the fastest (and most permanent) option. I have an .img file, but also a flashable .zip file for ClockWorkMod Touch.

The problem is, I am unable to either flash the .zip, or install the .img, because my PC doesn't detect a device in fast-boot mode.

Does anyone know how to install the zip using ADB, with commands that are available through either regular boot or recovery mode?

I could also try and send keystrokes for the power button through ADB but this wouldn't work in recovery.

Thanks for the help in advance!

Update: The phone wont go into Fastboot-usb mode, I dont know why. (I am not using the original USB cable)

Update 2: I managed to fix the bootloop by reinstalling the ROM using

    adb shell
    recovery --update_package=/sdcard/cmupdater/cm-10.1-20130121-EXPERIMENTAL-crespo-M1.zip

Still would like to know how to install CWM touch.


texts: Android Chrome HTML5 playhead glitches every minute or so?

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Whenever I play either an embedded HTML5 video or just watch it from the direct link on my Android device, the video plays for about 1 minute then stops as if it's trying to buffer. I tap the screen to bring up the GUI (so I can drag the playhead back a little) but nothing happens for a few seconds. Then it comes up but all the buffered video has disappeared and the time that the playhead is at will be about a few seconds ahead in time from when you pressed the play button initially. Sometimes it flicks between seconds. I then have to guess how far through my video I am and reposition the playhead for it to continue playing until I have to do it again. It's extremely tedious and annoying. Another thing is that when the video stops and the playhead glitches, sometimes the sound will keep playing as if the video had just been buffering but the video stays frozen.

Example: I start playing from 0:00 and watch til about 1:30 (I don't see that I am at 1:30). The video freezes and I look at the playhead which flickers between 0:05 and 0:06. I reposition the play head at about where I think I got up to and the video plays as normal for about another minute until it happens again.

I am running Cyanogen 12S on a OnePlus One.
I'm using the latest Chrome Beta app for Android L.


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I have an error while synchronizing my Google Calendar on my Samsung Note N7000 with Android 4.1.2, my Google accout does never Sync

I have a whole load of important meetings that go back to 2014, which are very very important to me.
I want to sync these datas to my GMail account via my calendar on my phone.

However, if I sync my Calendar with my Google Account on the Note, the Sync Fails saying 'sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly'

Using Samsung Kies does not work because the meetings that Kies syncs are only the one one the Samsung Calendar Applcation. Not the ones I've set up in my Gmail on my phone.

How could I go past this problem?


texts: Is there any way to sync a subset of my Google Contacts to my Android?

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Possible Duplicate:
  How do I sync only “My Contacts” from Google on Samsung Galaxy S?

My phone started responding really slow during sync and I suspect it has something to do with an ever-growing list of Google Contacts (nearly 2K). Is there a way to sync just some contacts? (by group or any other way)
Alternatively, do you suggest I suspect anything other than my contacts' sync to do with slowing the device.

Device is HTC Legend Android 2.1

Thanks for the help!


texts: How much time it usually takes to switch Android runtime in KitKat?

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I have Dell Venue 3830 and I plan to change its runtime from Dalvik to ART. It has Android KitKat 4.4.2. I have 12 gigs of apps.

I want to try ART so I want to know how much time it takes to switch Android runtime?


texts: How to choose micro USB cable for my device?

texts: The plug sure looks like any old micro USB plug.  Will another cable (like the one from my digital camera) work to charge the battery, or do I need one specifically designed for my phone (incredible)


texts: gmail account recovery with android phone

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Say I have attached my android phone to a gmail account and specify that phone for account recovery.

If I am locked out of the gmail account, will I be able to operate the phone sufficiently to receive the confirmation signal from google, even though its link to google is severed?


texts: Is there a widget or something I can go with IFTTT to block and unblock a contact?

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I have a friend that says some pretty bad things about certain people pretty often and a lot of the time I am around those people while he's sending me those messages.

I just want a button/widget I can use to discreetly block his texts and calls quickly, like as the person is walking up to me and will arrive in less than 3 seconds.

Does that exist? Can I use IFTTT to do something like that?


texts: Android Restricted Profiles. How to restrict play store?

texts: Is there any way to stop play store in the restricted profile ? I want internet to be accessible but i dont want the restricted user to download any apps.


texts: Does anyone know how to or managed to upgrade to Lollipop a Samsung Galaxy Tab E?

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I am asking specifically for the following models of Samsung Galaxy Tab E which seems to be stuck on KitKat(4.4) without being able to upgrade to Lollipop(5.0) ?

SM-T113NU
SM-T561
SM-T560

Does anyone know if it will be EVER possible to upgrade it?  Is there any fundamentally truth that forbid to do the upgrade ?


texts: Can factory reset recover deleted built-in apps?

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If ill root my phone and delete the browser and the play store for example... and then ill go into recovery mode and make a factory reset, will those app will come back?
If yes, is there a way to prevent simple factory rest to recover those app?
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