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I tried to partition my android phone and messed up the internal partition system.

When I reset my system this message appears

E:Can't open "/cache/recovery"
E:Unable to mount "/cache"
E:format_volume: make ext4fs failed on /emmc@cache

Now (condition): my phone boots up but it stucks with just logo.

Phone Name : Walton Primo Gh3/GIONEE CTRL V4S
Chipset: MTK6582
Os Installed: CyanogenMod 12.2 (Custom)

Is there any way to recover it?


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I want to emulate a android smartphone on my pc. I already found the android emulator from andoid sdk manager but its look more like a programming tool so I am not sure if this is what I want.
I want an emulator that is able to install android with root permissions so I can install apk's like lucky patcher etc.What can I use?


texts: On my nexus 7 I have not been able to install any of the 6.0.x updates. Whenever I try I download them and when I go to install half way through my t says error and I restart my tablet and nothing changed. I have tried a reset but it did not change anything. What could I do?


texts: Why my Google Now on my Motorola Razr D3 will not reply with voice?

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I just saw this vídeo about Google Now, but I don't have the same behavior on my Motorola Razr D3, with Android 4.1.2. I got the search results, but with no voice reply.

Is it the voice reply exclusive for Samsung phones?


texts: Identifying why Google Play Services is hogging background data

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My biggest data usage is Google Play Services background data.

Google Play Services is used by many other apps, hiding which app is actually responsible for the data usage.  This also means you can't block background data for this app, because it will have side effects like preventing Google Hangouts from working.

How do I identify which apps are actually responsible for this data usage?


texts: Can OTG HUB charge with connected charger more than 0.5A?

texts: I saw a video somewhere where man says that OTG HUB charges only 0.5A. Is there any superior OTG HUB which can charge more than 0.5A?


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This might seem a foolish question but I'm facing this basic issue on my Samsung Galaxy Y Duos (android 2.3.6). This is my first Androide device and using it only since a week and a basic issue is ruining my Android experience.

While on call, if I press home button by mistake (Habit of last mobile), call minimize to top bar. This is specially painful when I need to cancel the call in urgency and I found call is minimized to taskbar, which then take considerable time to open the call and end it.

Is there any way to end the call immediately (shortcut) or at the least prevent the call to minimize during call.

Most basic and primary purpose of phone is to make/receive calls. I'm sure android must have taken care of that but its frustrating for me not to find that basic function.


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I bought a smartphone in China, is an OPPO r5, the smartphone has the following settings:

4 GB RAM
Android version: 4.4.2
Kernel version: eight core MT6592
Compilation number: MTK 6592
Personal compilation version: A3SE_AX_CHT_MTZ_4G_V1.1_20141105114604

But when I tap in the android version appears JellyBean Logo (weird because 4.4 is kitkat), when i restore the phone, apears with applications extra and uses 3GB of RAM (without applications starting, and due to this the phone is very slow). The question is if i can install a 'pure version' of kitkat or jellybean version (also a mod) so the smartphone will be faster?
Note: Ir has been checked with antutu and cpuz, is an oppo adn it has an octacore and 4GB ofrece RAM


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I own a Huawei Ascend P1 smartphone (U9200, unlocked, international version, still original Android 4.0.3 factory build B003). During about a year that I have the phone, it started being much slower and I decided that it's time to upgrade the software. Before I will embark on that journey, I want to backup my information using Titanium Backup. However, as you know, it requires root permissions. Therefore, I have the following questions for you today:

1) Could you point me to verified (trusted!) instructions on rooting this particular phone? I found these instructions on the XDA site, but they talk about rooting P1 with Android 4.1.1, so not sure, if it's safe to proceed: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2450306.

2) Do I need to separately unlock bootloader (S-OFF) and, if yes, could you point to verified instructions for P1?

Your advice will be very much appreciated!


texts: How to display my calendar on the lock screen?

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What is the best way to show (non-interactive) widgets on the lock screen?

I have bought WidgetLocker, but it forces me to unlock the screen twice (using both WidgetLocker and native slider).

(Using Android 2.3.2 on a Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc.)


texts: Should apps take up any internal storage when installed to SD?

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I'm running very low on interal phone memory storage - I'm down to 5 MB of the 180 MB available. I understand that not all apps can be installed into SD card, and those will instead use up my internal storage. Luckily, those are rare.

However, I recently installed an app that is listed as being installed on the SD card, not internal storage. Even so, after installing it I'm now getting the "low on space" warning. The app takes up 16 MB, and I seem to remember I had a bit over 20 MB internal storage space before... So judging from the space, it looks like it's still taking up space on internal storage.

So my question: Should an app that's installed onto SD card take up any internal storage?

What could be causing this? Does the market store the installation files somewhere in internal cache or something as weird? Why on earth do I need to worry about apps consuming space, when I have gigabytes of free space for them on my SD card?

My device is GT-S5570 running 2.2.1.


texts: Changing Google Play country: Are there any side-effects when it comes to available apps?

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The question of how to change your Google Play country has been asked over and over. However, it's not clear whether this has any (unwanted) side-effects when it comes to apps, and especially those with region restrictions.
Some possible issues that come in mind:

What happens with any free country-specific apps you have installed in the country you currently use? Will they cease working? Will they cease receiving updates?
What happens with any paid country-specific apps you have installed in the country you currently use?
Is it possible for an app to have different country-specific versions in two countries? What happens then?
Can you change back your country any time you want, or is there a limit on how often you can change it?

This may seem like a dumb question, but I have heard some horror stories from friends who changed country in Apple App Store, only to find content they had purchased inaccessible. So I don't take the safety of this operation for granted.


texts: Upgrade/downgrade OS without custom recovery and root

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My smartphone model is Lenovo A7000a. Let's say I want to install Lollipop in it. More specifically, I already have Lollipop installed, but I want to reinstall Lollipop. Or say, I want to install downgraded versions like Jellibean, etc. Now my phone is rooted, Xposed installed, custom recovery installed.

Now, I don't want to install custom recovery. I want to know how the service centers install OS without custom recovery and even root.

Can anyone please tell me this process? How service centers installed any released OS in phone with only stock recovery and without root?


texts: Connect Android device to Wifi for internet and ethernet simultaneously

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I have a Samsung tablet where I want to use wifi for internet connection and ethernet to communicate to other network devices connected to it such as Field Bus Coupler etc simultaneously.
Right now once I connected LAN with android device it disconnected from wifi.


texts: I accidentally deinstalled the Google app—now my phone doesn’t boot anymore

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Memory on my phone was low, so I went to the apps and deinstalled some. Among these apps was “Google—A handy search for underway”, and since I also have Firefox, I decided that I don’t need the Google search, so I deinstalled it. And it worked, the app got deinstalled. But it was not only a search app, it was the whole home screen app, so my home screen didn’t show up anymore, and I could only switch the phone off.

I booted it again, and now it shows the “Android is starting”, subtitle “Apps are starting”. This takes about 30 minutes now.

I did not root my phone or do anything else, and still I could deinstall the Google app.

How can I get my phone working again?


texts: play.google.com and Google Play app out of sync

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Having become fed up with a custom ROM i was using, I reverted back to a previous ROM via a nandroid backup (through CWM Touch).
It would appear that the backup preserved all my installed apps and data (Was under the impression they didn't, so this surprised me somewhat), but since then the 'My Apps' listing on the google play website has been out of sync with what is actually on my phone. I also seem unable to request (un)installation through the web interface.

Help would be muchly appreciated.


texts: When will google assistant support Cantonese?

texts: I heard that google assistant is going to support more language, there is no real date. Anyone know about when it will be released?


texts: Recover Google account password without unlinking/deleting the main account from android device

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I forgot the password for my Google account and I want to recover it. This Google account happens to be the main Google account linked to my Android device.

When I try to use the Recovery options:

A password reset link can only be sent if you haven't signed in for 4 days.
Your security question can only be answered if you haven't signed in for 5 days.
A third option where "I no longer have access to those above", it implies a very long password recovery process and MAY get the password again.

If I don't unlink this Google account from Android device, the device will continue to sign in to Google services. So, recovery options can't be used.

I don't want to reset my phone to unlink/delete the main Google account, wait 4-5 days and then get the password. This means I can't use my phone for this amount of time and may lose data.

How to get it without unlinking or deleting the Google account of my Google Nexus with Android 4.2.1 (Jelly Bean)?


texts: HTC One M8 overheating, random reboots and unable to power it off

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Last night I forgot to charge my HTC One M8 phone, and when I woke up in the morning, the battery was dead, Unsurprisingly. I plugged it in to charge for about 20 minutes (only to about 30% or so charge) and then left my house (with my phone in my pocket). The device was off during charging, and I only turned it on about an hour ago, putting it back in my pocket after seeing that it booted fine (and that I had about 30% charge left). About 15 minutes ago, I noticed the device against my leg getting very hot, and pulled it out to see the "HTC One" startup screen. I found this strange because I had already turned on the device, so I don't know why it would be rebooting.

After it started up again, I went looking for what may have caused my phone to seemingly reboot as it did, and in the process of using the device to do this, my screen went black and showed the HTC startup screen again, and afterward, back to my lock-screen. I'm pretty sure It's been doing this cycle of starting up and then randomly rebooting since I turned the unit on some hour ago.

I use an OtterBox Defender case on my phone, and noticing that it was extremely hot on its own, I removed the phone from its case. The rear of the phone was even hotter, to say that I wouldn't be able to hold the device that long because of how warm it is. From this, I was able to determine that overheating could be the cause of this cycle, so I tried to shut off the device by holding the power button and selecting "Power off" from the menu, but after it would shut down, the unit would turn back on. I have no explanation for how or why this would happen.

It seems now the device has run itself out of battery, so I'm letting it cool for the next couple hours until I can charge it again at home. Is there any solution to this should it be happening again?

Stock Android 5 Lollipop, Sense 6.0, No S-Off or Root


texts: LineageOS update files not present in /data/lineageos_updates since 27th April 2018

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Since the update from 20th April 2018, I can't find the LineageOS update in the current path which is /data/lineageos_updates . When I download the latest update (27th April 2018) and reboot in TWRP, there is no corresponding update file in the folder. After a reboot, the updater in the settings show me that this update isn't downloaded - altouth it did before the reboot.

Comments say that they found the update in /LineageOS updates/ (internal storage) but on the Samsung Galaxy S4 it doesn't contain the latest update. Only a outdated version of February. No idea, how those old update got there. I didn't ever now that those folder exist. I only know /data/linageos_updates as current update location store and /data/data/org.lineageos.updater/app_updates for older updates before August 31st, 2017.

So in the current situation, I'm not able to update LineageOS on this Galaxy S4 directly. I want to avoid downloading the update from a PC and moving it to the device since it's not mine and the owner is a non-technical user.


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I recently switched phone provider, and since then many of the messages sent to me never show up, as if it was never sent. But the sender shows it as sent (though I think it can't know it's been delivered).

I was with my old provider for ~10 years, I use SMS a lot and never had a problem receiving them before I switched provider. I've had my Samsung S6 for 2-3 years now, running Android 7.0 now.  I use Google's messenger, currently known as Android Messages, up-to-date via Play Store.

The problems seemed to start the moment I switched SIM card. The phone is unlocked, and I am receiving "most(?)" of the messages. It's worth noting that my old provider was "3" and the new one is "Spusu" which uses 3's network. Definitely not related to the sender; this is a problem from any person, any company, any network, even any country.

Seems it's not related to my current location or current time, nor signal strength. I now carry 3 phones -- my S6 with the new SIM card, a spare phone with the old SIM card, and my work phone. Every hour I send a test SMS from my work phone to both my own phones. The old SIM always receives the message, the new one misses some at random.

I've spoken to staff with the new provider and they claim that all messages have been delivered to my phone, per their log files.

They claim that the Samsung S6 is known to have this problem - but I never experienced it with my old provider, so I don't believe that.
They told me to clear the cache of my SMS app.  I did, but no change.  I rebooted, no change.
I received a replacement SIM card from the new provider. No change.
I even went as far as doing a complete factory reset of my S6! I hoped this would either fix the issue or rule out the device. Still didn't help.
Is the Samsung S6 really known to "throw away" SMS messages?
Can the provider really see that my device received the message?
How can a phone receive ten SMS messages and some would randomly be missing?
How can I further troubleshoot this? How can I fix it?

This is a serious problem because everyone I know uses SMS a lot, and suddenly I can't trust it because who knows when a message will go missing again?

I must have SMS capability back. It's no help suggesting some other app.


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Just out of curiosity I'd like to see all the settings on my SIM-card. And I'm not talking about an SMS stored on the card, or my phonebook. I'd like to see for example the Preferred PLMN list and Forbidden PLMN list.

I'd think you could get access to it with an API or smth, but I couldn't find it (yet).

Anyone got a clue how?


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1) How can I check if the bootloader of a Nexus 5x is open? (GSM Code? App? ADB?)

2) Is it still correct that only the manufacturer can close the bootloader once it has been opened? Or is it already possible to close it by yourself?

Hint: I bought a used Nexus 5x and I want to check if the bootloader is actually closed, so there hasn't been any changes to the ROM.


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I often see strange/unexpected slowdown in Android UI irrespective of the device I use. UI suddenly skips frames and all graphical transitions seems to run at a very low frame rate (I would say in the range of 10 fps) and with severe lag. After some time it can sometime recover, but not always: the only guaranteed method to return at full speed is to reboot the device.
It seems strange, because:

it happen on any device I own, but with different absolute effect (ie: on a Mi A2 Lite it is much more visible than on a Oneplus 6T or Mi 10T Pro)
closing all application does not alleviate the slowness/lagging
when it recover, I did nothing fancy at all (maybe I simply locket/unlocked it).


texts: Wifi down with Android 6.0.1, errors in 'adb logcat'

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I thave these errors when I try to switch 'on' the wifi :

09-12 22:46:04.850  2590  2590 D HotspotTile: onReceive : android.net.wifi.WIFI_STATE_CHANGED
09-12 22:46:04.850  2590  2906 D NetworkController: onReceive: intent=Intent { act=android.net.wifi.WIFI_STATE_CHANGED flg=0x4000010 bqHint=4 (has extras) }
09-12 22:46:04.850  2562  2843 D PhoneInterfaceManager: [PhoneIntfMgr] getDataEnabled: subId=1 phoneId=0
09-12 22:46:04.850  2590  2590 D HotspotTile: onReceive : 4, 0
09-12 22:46:04.850  2562  2843 D PhoneInterfaceManager: [PhoneIntfMgr] getDataEnabled: subId=1 retVal=true
09-12 22:46:04.850  1814  2530 D ConnectivityManager: getMobileDataEnabled()- subId=1 retVal=true
09-12 22:46:04.870  1814  2527 E WifiController: Wi-Fi driver is unstable. Received CMD_STATEMACHINE_RESET
09-12 22:46:04.870  1814  2527 D SecContentProvider: insert(), uri = 2
09-12 22:46:04.870  1814  3831 D SecContentProvider: query(), uri = 18 selection = isWifiEnabled
09-12 22:46:04.880  1814  2818 D SecContentProvider2: query(), uri = 20 selection = isWifiStateChangeAllowed
09-12 22:46:04.890 16726 16726 D WifiSettings: >>> ERROR_ACTION RECEIVED code:10
09-12 22:46:04.890  1814  3562 D SecContentProvider2: query(), uri = 20 selection = getAllowUserProfiles
09-12 22:46:04.910 16726 16726 W System.err: android.content.pm.PackageManager$NameNotFoundException: com.samsung.helphub
09-12 22:46:04.910 16726 16726 W System.err:    at android.app.ApplicationPackageManager.getPackageInfo(ApplicationPackageManager.java:259)
09-12 22:46:04.910 16726 16726 W System.err:    at com.android.settings.Utils.isSupportHelpMenu(Utils.java:3743)
09-12 22:46:04.910 16726 16726 W System.err:    at com.android.settings.wifi.WifiSettings.addOptionsMenuItems(WifiSettings.java:2204)
09-12 22:46:04.910 16726 16726 W System.err:    at com.android.settings.wifi.WifiSettings.onCreateOptionsMenu(WifiSettings.java:2015)
09-12 22:46:04.910 16726 16726 W System.err:    at android.app.Fragment.performCreateOptionsMenu(Fragment.java:2376)
09-12 22:46:04.910 16726 16726 W System.err:    at android.app.FragmentManagerImpl.dispatchCreateOptionsMenu(FragmentManager.java:2049)
09-12 22:46:04.910 16726 16726 W System.err:    at android.app.FragmentController.dispatchCreateOptionsMenu(FragmentController.java:266)
09-12 22:46:04.910 16726 16726 W System.err:    at android.app.Activity.onCreatePanelMenu(Activity.java:3148)
09-12 22:46:04.910 16726 16726 W System.err:    at com.android.internal.policy.PhoneWindow.preparePanel(PhoneWindow.java:661)
09-12 22:46:04.910 16726 16726 W System.err:    at com.android.internal.policy.PhoneWindow.doInvalidatePanelMenu(PhoneWindow.java:1042)
09-12 22:46:04.910 16726 16726 W System.err:    at com.android.internal.policy.PhoneWindow$1.run(PhoneWindow.java:350)
09-12 22:46:04.910 16726 16726 W System.err:    at android.view.Choreographer$CallbackRecord.run(Choreographer.java:911)
09-12 22:46:04.910 16726 16726 W System.err:    at android.view.Choreographer.doCallbacks(Choreographer.java:686)
09-12 22:46:04.910 16726 16726 W System.err:    at android.view.Choreographer.doFrame(Choreographer.java:619)
09-12 22:46:04.910 16726 16726 W System.err:    at android.view.Choreographer$FrameDisplayEventReceiver.run(Choreographer.java:897)
09-12 22:46:04.910 16726 16726 W System.err:    at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:739)
09-12 22:46:04.910 16726 16726 W System.err:    at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:95)
09-12 22:46:04.910 16726 16726 W System.err:    at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:148)
09-12 22:46:04.910 16726 16726 W System.err:    at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:7325)
09-12 22:46:04.910 16726 16726 W System.err:    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
09-12 22:46:04.910 16726 16726 W System.err:    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:1230)
09-12 22:46:04.910 16726 16726 W System.err:    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:1120)

Any clue to be able to recover wifi network ?


texts: How do I change the phone number for incoming calls to international format on the mobile

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My contacts have their phone number in the international format.  It needs to be this way, otheriwse I can't call them from another country.  As an example

+64 21 1234567

But the incoming calls have the local number, so the software can not correlate them with the contacts.  That is, I can't tell who is calling.  Example

021 1234567

Points to note (all phone models are Samsung)

On my previous phone, S6, things worked just fine as they did on S4 before
that.
Now that I have migrated to S7, I have the above problem (with the same contacts that were migrated across).
My wife had this issue with her S5 and I managed to fix with some setting.
My wife migrated to Note 5 and all still works fine for her.
I have gone through all the settings I can think of, several times but have not found any that will fix this.
I can fix it by adding the local number to the contact as well the international format.  WIth several hundred contacts, this is a lot of work and will still give problems when I am outside the country.
The SMS system works fine, its just the voice calls.
I am still with the same provider.

Where is the setting to fix this ?


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Some Android users complain about seeing a "blue screen", also known as a "blue screen of death" or "BSOD". They add that their device has become unresponsive.

(Here is one example, including a photograph of the affected device. Here is another example.)

On Android, what is a "blue screen", and what should you do about it?


texts: Can Android 4.03 send file/image batches?

texts: I'm looking around on the play store for an app that would allow me to select a set of images to send via smail.  Because there's a 3 mb limit per e-mail (probably imposed by my provider), I was hoping a developer was intelligent enough to create something that perhaps used multiple smails (or somehow otherwise hacked things).  Batch upload/download so I can send a bunch of pictures to my friends without hassle, basically, without logging into things.  If there's an easy way to do this, please let me know?


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So I have a ZTE obsidian (z820) running lollipop 5.1 and I have a 16gb micro SD card in it.  There is no way to root this phone that I have found after weeks of searching,  and I need to move my apps or at least install new ones to my SD card.  Under "default write disk"  I have the SD card checked off, but the phone still tries to install the apps to the phone.  I've rolled back all the apps I don't use that come stock to their stock versions and disabled them to free up some space and I use the apps I have (not many) but I still get insufficient storage error when I try to install apps.  Even internal memory has over 300mb free yet apps only a few megs refuse to install until I delete stuff.  Is there anything I can do to remedy this situation??

I've searched around any have no idea what to do.


texts: What is the purpose of the 3rd on-screen button on a button-less phone?

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I haven't used Ice Cream Sandwich yet and as far as I know, some phones (Google Nexus perhaps) don't have capacitive or hard buttons. Now as you can see below, there's 4 buttons (this was an image I found while googling).

As far as I know, the buttons are (starting from the left):

Back button
Home button
???
Menu button

I want to know what the third one is? The one that has overlapping rectangles? My phone has capacitive and I have all the above aside from that one button. I asked this just out of curiosity.


texts: Clearing recommendations in the Google Play Store?

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Due to some careless browsing being hacked, definitely hacked, my Play Store recommended apps are somewhat NSFW...

I looked in privacy settings for my Google account, but only found the option for search.

Is there some way to clear those recommendations or do I have to just keep browsing and installing other apps?


texts: Inserting Single SIM Card into a Dual SIM Phone

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I understand phones having Dual SIM card slots use more battery. However, if we use only one SIM in a dual SIM Phone, will the battery still be drained out quickly? What If i choose not to use/insert the other SIM at all?

Let us have your valuable feedback.


texts: Nexus 7 tablet (original model) stuck in Safe mode; no way out?

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I own a Nexus 7 tablet (the first Wi-Fi + 3G model - only front-facing camera, no support for phone calls). Yesterday, I wanted to take a screenshot on my tablet and tried various key combinations; i.e. power key + up/down volume keys; I am not sure about the exact combination, especially because I didn't expect anything bad to happen.

I am not sure that's the exact cause, but there's no other way it'd have gotten into safe mode.

So, how do I get my tablet out of safe mode?

I've tried:

As stated in the official docs (and confirmed by a Google rep.), simply restarting the tablet (i.e. power off, then power on) should fix it.

  ...restart your device to get it out of safe mode

Following these exact steps, I tried manually booting into safe mode, and then restarting the tablet to get out of it.
This:

  It is necessary to hold the volume control switch to "high" and then operate the "on" switch, to get out of safe mode [...] hold the "on" switch for at least fifteen seconds.

Reset device to factory settings.
Reset device in Recovery mode.

(Followed steps under Nexus 7 section) successfully from 1 to 5. Volume buttons become unfunctional at this point, and I am unable to use them to scroll to "wipe data/factory reset". Mind you, the volume buttons worked in the first few steps, so there's nothing wrong with the buttons themselves.
Battery pull, i.e. holding the power button until the tablet restarts.
Remove SIM card and restart. Insert SIM and restart.

But... NONE of them worked. My tablet is still in safe mode and I'm out of ideas. Is there anything I can do to fix this?


texts: Network problems with Samsung Galaxy Young (S6312)

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I'm having a network problem with my Samsung Galaxy Young (S6312) device. Sometimes while trying to make a call, even though the signal indicator shows 2 or 3 bars, the device displays a message like "Not registered on network" and the call doesn't get through.

Also, sometimes while my mobile data is turned on it doesn't connect to the internet. I have set the mobile network to the GSM/WCDMA(AUTO) mode.

Is there any solution for this?


texts: Emulator: emulator: ERROR: Not enough space to create userdata partition (Ubuntu 20.04)

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I've been getting the error:
emulator:  ERROR: Not enough space to create userdata partition. Available: 6910.351562 MB at /home/codedoor/.android/avd/Pixel_4_API_29.avd, need 7372.800000 MB
I'm running Ubuntu 20.04.  Not sure if it's connected, but Android Studio was working perfectly fine until I updated Node and then the emulator would not run.
I've tried looking for a solution on various platforms, but none have worked so far.  So I completely uninstalled and re-installed it, including deleting related hidden files/directories.  I wiped the data using the AVD manager.
I tried:emulator -avd Pixel_4_API_29 -partition-size 1024 -wipe-data  &
emulator -avd Pixel_4_API_29 -partition-size 7373 -wipe-data
Both of which caused the same error. I've also checked to see that virtualization was still enabled.
Possible solution: how could I increase storage for Android emulator?  I've tried looking at Android Studio and its configurations, but this has eluded me.
Of course, any other solutions would be helpful as well.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Happy New Year, btw!  :)


texts: Invalid IMEI on HTC One X after factory reset

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I performed a factory reset on my phone, and now it says that I have an invalid IMEI. I cannot call anyone or get calls.

Phone model: HTC One X
Android Version: 4.1.5
Baseband Version: 201206010808
Kernel Version: 4.1.5
Build Number: ONE X 4.1.5 HTC
Build version: 4.1.5


texts: [Sony Xperia XZ1]Remapping camera button

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Hello {darkness my old friend}
I have a Sony Xperia XZ1(G8341) with AOSP GSI

What I would kindly like to ask  how to map the "dead" camera button to any function

Currently the button doesn't work at all presumably because my custom rom didnt hsve plans for it

Tried any root app i could find, msgidk modules and others however i wourld prefer not using xposed as it gives negative results on ctsProfile

Any suggestion is welcome since I have a throughout knowledge and understanding of technology in general ,you can trust me on that{pushes pile of softbricked deviced under bed} but i would prefer being guided to the right direction on how to make s script to accomplish that

Thank you in advance


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I would like to move images from one album to another. When I select Move, my phone displays two albums only ("pictures" and "upload"). The problem is that I'd like to move a picture to "all downloads", which I cannot select.

Am I doing something wrong?


texts: Bootloop, can't go to recovery, oem not unlocked

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I'll try to be straightforward. A couple of days back, I was using my phone and it got stuck, so I removed the battery as usual, and restarted it. It got restarted at that time, I plugged it in for whole night, and in morning it again stopped responding. I restarted it, and this time, it got bootloop. I opened recovery (It was accessible for first 2-3 trials), wiped cache, restarted and nothing happened. Its still on bootloop.  Now, I cant enter into recovery.

Device: Intex Aqua Turbo 4G, MTK 6375M, unrooted, oem locked, Debugging was turned on.

Things tried:

SP Flash tool: Download DA goes to 100%, then it shows BROM Error, code- 4008, or fax8 (different codes on different versions)
Fastboot: is accessible, device is detected on pc (using fastboot devices), but as OEM was not unlocked, cant flash)
Recovery, as stated is now unaccessible, all it shows is "Intex logo" on selecting recovery mode. Same goes for normal boot mode. Only fastboot works.

I can attach the BROM Error logs, if required. The memory tests of SP Flash tool goes fine, except that it writes NAND flash was not detected , and UFS was not detected. I dont know what this means. I can attach the scatter file too, (I thing that can be the culprit) if required.


texts: Method of typing input while the screen is off

texts: Does anyone know a way to enter text input (either in settings or as an app), while the screen is off? I want to use my phone to take notes while reading (with a bluetooth keyboard), but I don't want to leave the screen on or unlock my phone every time I take a note. I don't need any features, except maybe a tone whenever I start typing to confirm everything is still working.


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I want to modify a file under /system. The problem is that is read-only, and even with root I cannot set it as read-write.

I've tried the following:

Root Explorer (the automatic button)
A one click app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.blogspot.superthomaslab.mountsystemrorw)
The following commands, on Terminal Emulator: su and after that mount -o rw,remount /system. Along with that some variants (specifiying -t, using -rw, mount -o rw,remount /system /system)

Some useful informations:

The device is a Redmi 3
Using android 5.1.1, on MIUI 6.4.7 (china developer version)
I have root access, and enabled it for the apps mentioned above
Bootloader is unlocked
No SD card
Output of mount | grep system: /dev/block/dm-0 /system ext4 ro,seclabel,relatime,discard,data=ordered 0 0

I would like to manage the /system folder directly from the phone. I'm pretty hopeless, I've tried googling 2 hours for a working solution. Thanks in advance.


texts: How to access internet behind proxy with authentication

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Our University provides internet behind a http proxy. To use internet we need to go through a http proxy server (proxy address and port) with authentication (username and password). Also the external DNS servers are not reachable from our institute network. We have our own DNS servers (addresses known).

As Android does not have any option to use proxy authentication with Wi-Fi and moreover all the apps does not obey android proxy settings we usually used Drony. For a non rooted device it creates a local VPN (with proxy authentication) and compel all the apps to pass through the VPN to connect internet. Everything was mostly fine.

The problem begins with upgrades beyond Kitkat (Android 4.4). Drony stopped working. It is a robust app with lots of options. I made a few changes but not succeeded and now kind of lost. I have tried few alternate  apps for non-rooted devices like Psiphon (got large delay over network) and proxyauth (few apps do not obey its VPN) but their performances are not as satisfactory as Drony.

Could you please tell me how can I use Drony (setting details) in Android 6? Other way it will also be a great help if you suugets any app that can reach the internet through the above network settings for a non-rooted device.


texts: Relation between Linux and Android kernel versions

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I know Android is a modified linux kernel, but does that mean there is any relation between the kernel numbers?

In other words, Is kernel number (for example) 2.6.xx of Android somehow based on or modified from 2.6.xx of Linux? or is it maintained separately?


texts: Google.proccess.gapps has stopped working

texts:
I have a Lenovo tablet and I updated the system. Now I keep getting the annoying messages, such as

  Google.process.gapps has stopped working

and

  Google play services are not working

I tried getting into the apps to uninstall Play Store and to clean the cache. It won't let me uninstall or clean the cache.

I don't have the regular settings like on a computer so I'm lost.


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I'm logged in on my android tablet, but I don't know my password.
I'm already logged in on my android tablet, but I want to see my emails and other google services on PC...
Is there possible way to find my pass on tablet?
I have already tried with "Password forget?", but I don't have alternative email or mobile nummber (on my account, at all), so I can't pass 2nd step of verification.


texts: Stuck mid-way through Root process (Samsung Galaxy S3 SCH-1535)

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Root Instructions

I've been following the root instructions above. I'm at this step:

Using your custom recovery flash the download you chose above from Step 1 (#3)

However, I had forgotten to move the SU/Bootloader zip file to my SDCard (not a removable SD, the system SD). So I connected to my mac, used android file transfer to move the zip file to the SD card root directory (/sdcard/), and rebooted into recovery mode.

Now I'm in the samsung recovery mode (3e), with the little android fella and the red triangle, (manual mode), and if I select 'external storage', obviously since I don't have any (no removable SD), I can't seem to get to the file.

The first time I had rebooted into recovery I had gotten this screen:

TWRP Screen

But now I can't seem to get back to that screen to attempt to install the Super SU and Bootloader zip file.

Help?


texts: Does Froyo fix Samsung Galaxy S I9000's GPS problem?

texts: There have been reports that Samsung Galaxy S has problems with its GPS that render the GPS almost unusable.  Does the Android 2.2 update fix that?


texts: How to disable lock pattern/pin on lock screen with new Android 4.3 update?

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I just did an update on my Galaxy S3 and now it is required that I have a lock on my lock screen. Before the update, I had the simple "Swipe to Unlock."

Now, when I go into
Settings>Lock screen>screen lock, I am unable to select the swipe option. It says "turned off by administrator, encryption policy or credential storage."

Does any one know how to disable any of those so that I can go back to my swipe lock screen? It is really annoying having to type a dumb password in every time i want to get into my phone.


texts: My Whatsapp is showing a "Last seen" date for one of my friends, but my message didn't get delivered, as it's only showing one tick. Does this mean I've been blocked?


texts:
I have Sony Xperia P phone which is updated to Jelly bean when they rolled out the update. It came with Gingerbread and I updated it to ICS, as soon as I got it. It was running great.

But it's started to give me problems since I updated it to Jelly-bean. Even the recent minor release didn't fix the slow down issue.
To give the example of slow down, I am getting Slow FPS and sometimes frozen screen for half a second whenever I play a game. Slow FPS is universal for all the apps. When I had ICS I could play games like Subway surfer without any problem, and now I can't play it due to low FPS. Sometimes the System UI gets killed, whenever I start any normal game (such as Samurai v/s Zombie defence).
I don't know if it's a universal problem or just my bad luck, but one of my friend who bought the phone with me, is facing the same issue too. Any idea how can I make my phone run fast again?


texts: Can I make a flashable zip executing commands?

texts: I'm using cm13 on my OnePlus 3, along with systemless SuperSu and suhide. When I update cm (often), I need to flash both SuperSu and suhide. The problem is that cm comes with root access and when updating, makes a su directory in /system/bin/su that suhide detects so that it won't install. I need to delete that directory in between of the flashes, and I would like to make a script that does that for me when i flash it so that I can flash all files together on update using CyanDelta. I know that this is possible because I have seen other zips that execute command scripts as i flash them.


texts: how do I add hebrew to a bluetooth keyboard?

texts: I have an external bluetooth keyboard for my android and I want to add Hebrew. I searched online for help but cannot find any. No manual came with the keyboard.


texts: Nougat notification bar limited to three icons?

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I had Marshmallow on my Samsung S6 before, and I would sometimes have many, many notifications - all the way to the system icons on the right.

Now I have Nougat on the phone, and it invariably shows a maximum of just three icons plus an ellipsis (...) to indicate that there are more. Of course the hidden notifications are the ones I am really interested in; the others are more or less static based on running background apps.

Is there a way to adjust the limit of how many notifications are shown?
Is this a Nougat "feature", or a Samsung "feature"?
Is this specific to only some Samsung regions?

The notification LED seems to work as usual, so there's that.

I use "DRE" for my SM-G920F but I'm aware there are other regions that would also work on this phone. They probably all have various combinations of bloatware; if only I could find a bloatless version...


texts: Record and play sound from Android to a computer - Jack disconnects periodically / Jack undetected - Depending on Android version

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I would like to control audio IO of my android phone with a computer. I'm currently using a usb audio sound card with a input mic and line output ports connected to my computer. A phone is connected to an adapter jack 4 pins to 2 jack 3 pins (reference). The adapters mic input is connected to the sound card line output and the adapters line output is connected to the sound card mic input. Like this, I can theoretically record phones output with the computer and play a sound on phones input from the computer.
I have with me 3 phones devices, one android 10 (Redmi Note Pro 8) an other one is a android 9 (Samsung Galaxy A40), the last one is an android 4.0.3 (LG p700)
Everything works fine on the 4.0.3. The phone can detect the cable and I can record the phone output and play on the phone input.
But on the two others devices, it's not working.
On Android 9 : the phone can't detect the jack cable of the adapter, but when I plug earphones with mic (jack 4 pins), it's working. I think that isn't an hardware issue.
On  Android 10 : the phone can detect the cable but changes state every seconds (detected/undetected). That means it is switching between earphone output and speaker output which is impossible to record or play. Like android 9, i can plug earphones, and it's working.
I personally think this may be related to phone impedance that is checked by recent version of Android.
What should I do to record and play on audio IO of a phone from a computer?
It's possible to me to develop an app on android and create a program on the computer to initialize the connection. Stereo recording isn't the objective here, mono will be enough.
(I cannot use in my case other protocol like USB or Bluetooth to record and play on phones)
EDIT 1 : Concerning OMTP/CTIA standards
To know the standard used by each device, I did this experimentation. On my previous setup, I’m able to find that it is a CTIA standard (found with an ohm-meter, mic and output line are separated). I know then my Android 4.0.3 is working with a CTIA standard.
I have with me wires, a sound card (reference), and jack 4 pin to wires adapters (reference) (the adapters are respecting OMTP standard but we don't care because we are using 2 of them)
Firstly, I created a normal DIY setup
This setup works fine for the Android 4.0.3. Then i guess my sound card is a CTIA standard. But unbelievably, it works fine with Android 9, and don't work with Android 10.
Now, I know that my sound card, Android 4 and Android 9 are all CTIA standard
Secondly, I decided to create a crossover cable setup. Like this, I will force an OMTP standard with a CTIA sound card.

As expected, this setup do not work on Android 4 and Android 9. But on Android 10, an headset without mic is detected. But I'm unable to listen/play a sound on the device. When I'm switching cable side on Android 10, the headset is periodically connecting/disconnecting like with the first setup (before edit).
To conclude, I guess that my issue isn't related to OMTP/CTIA but to the protocol used by devices to find plugged headset. With the Android 4, the jack port contains a little switch to know when a cable is plugged. On the others devices, this switch is present but do not have a direct impact on the detection of a headset. I guess the switch are used to launch a program that could detect the type of the audio device plugged (headset with mic, headset without mic...)


texts: How to increase the size of Android 6's personal dictionary?

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When adding new words to the dictionary, old words keep getting forgotten. It feels like I can only add about 1000 words (might be off, but that's the order of magnitude). Words disappear in the order they were added in (FIFO), so often basic and commonly used words are removed. Note that this holds for the personal dictionary, the selected language's dictionary is static and remains. So, I keep adding the same words over and over, and sometimes even in the same message, words can get a red underline when adding other words. It seriously feels like the Nokia 3510's dictionary is the same size as my modern Android (and every other Android I ever had), and I'm not even kidding.

How can I increase the dictionary's size? Or alternatively, how can I make android predict more words than it currently does?

My use case is that I use 2 languages interchangeably within sentences; English and dutch slang + dutch dialect. All words I have added are under 'English' in settings. I have several reasons for not switching dictionary languages mid-sentence, but it's mostly convenience. If I did use the dutch dictionary, I would still have the same problem. While dutch may align with dutch slang for ~85%, only ~5% of the words match with my dutch dialect. So basically I'm trying to fit 2 extra languages within my personal dictionary and it doesn't fit.

Any solution may be far fetched or require rooting, I don't care. This issue has been haunting me since my first Nokia phone. My current phone has the storage space for more than a billion words (60 Gb free space, 15 character words in UTF-8), so surely technology has advanced enough to allow more than a thousand words. Any help would greatly be appreciated!

Specs:

Android 6.0.1
Cyanogen OS 13.1.2


texts: Magisk how to hide completely Magisk Manager and Unhide Magisk

texts: I configuring  mobile for my Mom, how do I hide Magisk Manager completely. I don't wanna see this app. All I need is to unhide it from ssh session or from adb.


texts: Does playing a 1080x1440 (16:9 aspect ratio) video in a 720x1600 phone decreases the quality a bit?

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If I play a youtube video in 1080p quality, that's actually 1080x1440 (16:9 aspect ratio) resolution, right?

Realme 5 vs Redmi note 7 comparison:
720x1600 | 1080x2340

I'm wondering if realme 5 only supports up to 720px (in height), but it supports up to 1600px (in width).

Will that decreases the quality of the video a bit compared to playing it on a Redmi Note 7 that supports up to 1080x2340?

Or I will get the same 'Full HD' quality of a 1080x1440 video on both resolution in my naked eye?


texts: Incoming SMS filtered into a specified user

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My work uses a system that pages me with SMS messages. Cool? Awesome? Of course... the issue (otherwise I wouldn't be here) is that the messages come in without a phone number. So I'll get:

1410000001 admin@work.com Sbj: This is a... MSG: This is a message
1410000002 admin@work.com Sbj: This is a... MSG: This is a message
1410000003 admin@work.com Sbj: This is a... MSG: This is a message
1410000004 admin@work.com Sbj: This is a... MSG: This is a message
1410000005 admin@work.com Sbj: This is a... MSG: This is a message
...
1410000756 admin@work.com Sbj: This is a... MSG: This is a message

Each message comes across as a new user. The numbers do seem to reset periodically but I've always just deleted them.

I'd like to create a contact, and "push" these messages to that user. I wouldn't mind being able to "clean" up some of the static fluff in the message as well (Getting rid of the "header" crap and just saving what's after the "MSG: " part.

I'm a baby programmer, so I may have to break down and make this myself... but is there something out there already taht might do what I'm looking for already?


texts: Since my Google Hangout doesn't work, I tried Goove IP Lite with ring.to. There is severe echo problem, however, whether I check "Basic Echo Canceler" or "Adaptive Echo Canceler" with "Post Processing" and "Auto Detect" "Echo Tail". Is there some way to solve the echo problem? What other VoIP app (free or cheap) are worth trying? I am using Android 4.4.2 on Kyocera Hydro Icon.


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Does anyone have experience with any delta system? I would like to create delta's of my ROMS I have tried Deltajen and found it does not properly.
I have ROM(A).zip and ROM(B).zip containing system.img and NON-HLOS.bin boot.img etc etc. When I run Deltajen  it gives me a zip file with a blank updater-script.


texts: Is it possible to lock the homescreen from apps moving

texts: Is it possible to lock apps into place on the home screen? My finger keeps moving them from all over the place.


texts:
I have trouble with my intel xolo x900 mobile, whenever I have enabled internet unable to use any app , suddenly my mobile getting switched off. It will take nearly 5 min to get back to normal. Not only facing while enabled data but if I'm making calls more times in short duration again same issue.

Interestingly issue not happening mobile while in charging, help me to get this fixed

Thanks,
Asai


texts: Android Composite ADB Interface Windows 8 driver for iRulu U2?

texts:
I downloaded and installed via Android SDK Manager (rev 24.2) the latest Google USB Driver (rev 11).

adb devices works well with my Nexus S G4 (Android 4.1.2) and is able to list it without any problem.

adb devices cannot detect my iRulu U2 (Android 4.4.4).

On my PC's Device Manager it shows up as MT65xx Android Phone:

iRulu's website is of no help:
The list on http://www.irulu.com/DownLoad/driver is cryptic and when I finally guessed a search term "driver", it found one item:

MTKDriver_Auto_Installer_EXE_v1.1236.00

I downloaded it but upon attempt to install it, Device Manager's wizard complains that it is unsigned.

Any idea where I can find a USB driver that works with the iRulu U2?


texts: Use Google Play without any other Google apps installed

texts: I'm using Cyanogen Mod 10.1 and I wonder if there is any possibility to use Google Play without installing all Google apps. I don't need Gmail, Talk, etc. I don't want to link my device to google. Is there any way to just put in your Google account data for Google Play and not for the whole device?


texts: Where to get help for unrooted phone that won't boot after switching from original carrier?

texts:
Recently my LG-P659 phone, originally from T-mobile, has had a lot of apps crashing or exiting for no reason, and today it can no longer get past the splash screen on boot-up (if it gets even that far).  When it gets to the T-mobile splash screen it ends up in an infinite loop at said splash, and sometimes it just ends up in a black screen.

This phone was originally purchased in the USA by a family member, through T-mobile, but I am currently living in France for a few months and am using a sim card for a local carrier here called Free, using a month-to-month plan.  The phone was unlocked from the T-mobile network through a code provided to me by T-mobile.  It is unrooted.  The phone is no longer on an account with T-mobile, though the account it was originally associated to is still active (but I am not the owner of this account).

I attempted a hard factory reset, but all this results in is the error message "Secure Booting Error! Cause: boot certification verify".  I managed to get it to boot up once after that, when trying to get it to start in Safe Mode.  Everything was reset, but I made the (apparent) mistake of restarting the phone after getting some things updated and reconfigured, and now it's back to being stuck in the boot loop. Repeating the previous things has not been able to get me past the splash loop again.

So the question is: who am I supposed to call about this?  T-mobile, Free, the phone manufacturer, or someone else?  And do I have to call a French line or an American or what?  Making the call itself will be hard, seeing as my phone is dead, but I think I can manage to solve that issue.  And is there anything else I can reasonably try on my own, or should I just leave it as a brick for now?


texts: How do I set the duration of a "calendar insert" in tasker

texts: Declaring the starting time to be now seems to be easy in tasker. I just put 0 into the "In / For(Minutes)" field. However how do I define the length of the calendar event?


texts: My rca delta 10 changes the wallpaper every time it goes to sleep or gets restarted. Any way to set a wallpaper and forget it¿


texts: multiple zoom levels without multiple tile layers (RMaps Ext + MOBAC)?

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I am using RMaps Ext (a rmaps mod) on Android, browsing offline maps created using Mobile Atlas Creator (MOBAC). It's working great so far.

The only problem is that when browsing offline satellite maps the zoom level is fixed to the tile layers I chose to download on MOBAC.

But I was wondering since I have already downloaded more detail satellite maps, e.g. zoom level 16, in theory I could browse zoom level 15, 14 to level 10. You just need some fast algorithm to zoom out a big image.

e.g.

The level 16 zoom file size is 80MB
The level 10-16 zoom file size is 120MB

So could the zoom out scaling be done on Android using the 80MB file directly?

It will save a lot of storage space (but spend more on CPU with image resizing)

Thanks in advance!


texts: How do i install apps directly on SD card in Lollipop?

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I have Android Lollipop 5.0 installed on my phone and I already made the SD card the default storage option. However, when I try to install an app from the Play Store, an error message pops out, saying that I don't have enough space to install that application. I tried to make some additional space in the phone storage and i found that applications are installed right there even if the SD card option is enabled.

I'm not looking for a method to move installed apps from phone storage to SD (no Link2SD, rooting etc.).

I also tried to format my SD card both from the phone and the PC but the problem persists.

What should I do? I can't believe this operation is not allowed in Lollipop.


texts: Android keeps asking "Sign-in to WiFi network" even if WPA/WPA2 is already authenticated

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I'm trying to connect to a DLink Router protected with WPA/WPA2. It's our home router and I can connect perfectly to it from laptops and desktops, Linux and Windows alike. But when I connect to it using my Android phone (XPeria Z), I am always notified to "Sign-in to WiFi Network" after I've entered the WPA/WPA2 password. Tapping into the notification loads a 404 page from my router. Then, from my browser, trying to load any website just keeps looping to this 404 page. Other apps that connect to the internet do report connection problems.

Being that I'm not on a data plan and always connect via WiFi, I can't install any diagnostic tools unfortunately. FWIW, I've ensured that the connection to my router does not use WiFi Protected Set-up. I've also tried connecting to the router through an old Samsung Galaxy Y, with Android 2.x to same results.

I wonder if this is a problem with my phones or with my router?


texts: Video conference Android phone to computer

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Can I video talk from my Android Motorola Droid to my computer.  If so, how?
Can I video talk from my Android Motorola Droid to someone else's computer? If so, how?


texts: How to correctly quote `adb shell su -c`

texts:
adb shell su -c is a commonly used adb command. Normally you just need to append arguments to the command line like this:

adb shell su -c echo ab

However, things can be tricky if you want to add quotes. For example, to print a  b (there are 2 spaces), these won't work:

adb shell su -c echo "a  b"
adb shell su -c "echo \"a  b\""
adb shell su -c "echo 'a  b'"

You have to use these:

adb shell su -c "\"echo \\\"a  b\\\"\""
adb shell "su -c \"echo \\\"a  b\\\"\""
adb shell su -c "\"echo 'a  b'\""
adb shell "su -c \"echo 'a  b'\""

I'd like to know which is the standard way of writing such a command. Standard means it handles quotes correctly and in the most straightforward way.

My current research:

adb handles command arguments the same way as ssh: Arguments are connected (with space) into a string, and that string is executed.
su -c expects a single string as the command line, and it doesn't do the concatenation for you.

So I think the most standard way of writing adb shell su -c should be like:

adb shell "su -c \"echo \\\"a  b\\\"\""

However, I'm not very confident about this. Does anyone have concrete reference confirming what I'm doing or showing I'm doing it wrong?


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I need to benchmark the performance of every core in an Android phone, so I need to run a program   exclusively on a core. Fortunately, I'm dealing with a dynamIQ chip from Qualcomm, so I think I would be able to pin a process to any core I like.
My set-up is as follows,

OS: ArchLinux container on Termux app on an Android 11 phone
SoC: QC 865, 855 and 845
taskset and sched_setaffinity to set the cpu-affinity
Long-running computationally-intensive python program
Wake-lock, keeping the screen on and ensuring that my app is at foreground so that its priority won't be downgraded.

To test the reliability of this set-up to ensure that an app is pinned to a core, I keep open a Python prompt and modify its affinity through taskset. While it is straighforward to pin the process to the low-power cores (0,1,2,3), it is less likely to be able to pin to the mid-range cores (4,5,6) and almost impossible to pin it to the prime core (7).
A convoluted approach I have taken to widen the affinity is by running an infinite loop in the prompt, which then widens the scheduler-set affinity to 0-7, letting me pin the process to core 7. The process is then "unpinned" from core 7 when the infinite loop is stopped. I need a sure-shot way that ensures that the app is running on a particular core always.
How can I reliably and programmatically pin the process to the prime and mid-range cores?


texts: Is it possible to turn off radio without turning of wifi on Lenovo k900?

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I am currently having a look at the power consumption of a lenovo k900 phone and on the hardware side it seems Radio and Screen is using most of the power.

I am planning to use wifi but not the radio. Are they disconnected ? If so, can I use just the wifi, but no radio/telephony ? Are the settings or commands/intents to access these settings ?

Thanks!


texts: Does factory resetting a Kindle Fire remove parental controls, and if so, how to secure it?

texts: If deregistering or a factory reset removes parental controls, what is to stop my teen from doing this to remove my oh so horrible restrictions?


texts: Disable Touchboost not available in EX Kernel Manager

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following some threads on improving battery life, I want to disable touchboost on my Google Nexus 5.

I am on:

MultiROM TWRP
ElementalX N5 Kernel
Android 6.0.1, non CAF

And currently using the EX Kernel Manager to manage my CPU settings.

In this thread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/AndroidQuestions/comments/43cq7h/ex_kernel_manager_no_touchboost/

It says to reflash SuperSU and select "Do not install" when TWRP asks to install SuperSU. The problem is, I can reflash SuperSU, but the "Do not install" option does not come up.

Do I need to completely remove SuperSU to get this option? Thanks.


texts: Turn the speakerphone on a call using ADB shell

texts:
I'm trying to find a command in adb shell that lets me turn on the speakerphone when I start a call.

First I make the call

adb shell service call phone 1 s16 "" s16 "#####"

the call starts and I try to start the speakerphone with something like this:

adb shell input keyevent <keycode>


texts: Google Calendar app entries on Android Device inconsistent with web browser entries

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I cannot make sense of the entries on my Google Calendar for android application. When compared with the web version of Google Calendar (see screenshots below), I can see the following differences:

Google Calendar for Android shows two accounts (both are associated with exactly the same e-mail address, and this is exactly the same e-mail address I use to access Google Calendar via a web browser). To me this is confusing: why two accounts with the same name? And why two of them, when on the PC only one of them shows up?
Secondly, the entries (the calendar names, if this is what they are), are different. The Android app displays "Events" (but I have no calendar called Events on the web interface), Samsung Calendar (no clue as to what this is), "My calendar" (but on the web interface I have "My calendars", i.e., more than one), etc... you can see that besides "Birthdays" and "Holidays" I cannot see all the other calendars which can be seen and I have added via the web interface.

Can someone please explain these differences?


texts: How to check support for ext2 filesystem on android device

texts:
I have a android mobile with gingerbread 2.3.4 installed.

I want to know if my device(kernel) supports ext2 filesystem. Is there any terminal command to check the support for ext2 filesystem ?


texts: Why has my Android phone stop updating calendars, mail etc?

texts:
As question says above. It used to update every few minutes, but recently I've had to manually refresh each of the applications to get it to run

Thank you


texts: I just got a Galaxy Nexus and I want to revert it back to it's original condition for starters ( I'm talking about the software ). I noticed I have ClockworkMod installed, does that mean I have a custom ROM installed?


texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  Is it possible to program on a Honeycomb tablet?

since Transformer has nice resolution (1280x800) and hardware keyboard I am wondering if I can install some programming IDE on it. Not just text books (they are all around the Market) but some serious programming application with syntax hilit, intellisense etc.

Any tips?


texts: How can I clone/cast image my cracked screen LG Optimus Zone 3 to Windows 10 HP

texts: My screen is completely smashed 100% no visibility, I touch all over the screen and it just does random things. I just want to be able to receive sms on an app or something....


texts: Folders become unknown, undeleteable file type. How to fix and/or delete?

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I'm trying to re-organize and replace the music on my phone's ext. SD card, but some of the folders have become some sort of unknown file type. In Windows, the properties window just says it's file type is "File". That's it.

I can't delete, open, or move them (from my PC or in the phone itself); however, I can still listen to the music (only through my music player app) and rename the folders. I've tried deleting them in Windows, in my phone's music player app, and in my phone's file manager but nothing seems to work; on Windows it says,

  [Album name] could not be deleted. The device has either stopped responding or has been disconnected.

and on my phone deleting it does nothing and gives no feedback whatsoever.

Is there any way to fix this? I'm okay with deleting the files since I have more copies, but that doesn't seem to be possible either. I would probably be okay with most options except nuking the entire SD card

Thank you in advance.


texts: Jelly Bean (Android 4.1) released for AT&T HTC One X .... but how to install it on unlocked AT&T phone?

texts:
Though there are few questions already existing about AT&T HTC One X in the forum but this one is a bit different.

AT&T has recently released long awaited Jelly Bean update for HTC One X.
But when I am trying to update the software on my phone using Settings --> AT&T Software Update, nothing happens.

I have read that other users are also experiencing this problem and this is probably due to phone being Unlocked!

Moreover, I have read that normal Jelly Bean ROM cannot/shouldn't be installed on AT&T HTC One X as the specification of AT&T's model is different.

Can anyone please tell us how to update software on our Unlocked phones? Thanks!


texts: My xperia x10 is booting again and again

texts:
I just installed busybox and then my phone is rebooting again and again!!

What can I do to stop it?

I don't know how to boot it into recovery. I did it once (before I installed busybox) by clicking the back button when it's starting, but it's not working now.

I tried to do it from quick boot (while my phone stays on for a minute or less) but it doesn't work.

I have xperia x10 rooted to android 2.2 with cyanogenmod 6


texts: How can I preview (watch online) videos while downloading the torrent?

texts:
How can I preview (watch online) videos downloaded from torrent?
I've tried Torrent Stream Controller with Ace Stream Engine for Android but it seems to be only for torrent tv and I even couldn't force it to work on my device.


texts:
I recently created a label on gmail via web, and assigned it a color. On the app on my Nexus S it shows as the default color instead, while all the other labels have the correct color.

I've tried to wait a day, or to reboot the phone; I've also tried to either rename it, or delete it and create it again.

OS is stock Android 2.3.3.

Any idea?


texts: Merged contacts keep separating (Google and LinkedIn)

texts:
I’ve got a Nexus 5 with Android 5.0 and after installing some applications handling contacts (Google Contacts, WhatsApp, LinkedIn) I got this terrible mess in my contacts. Thus, I merged some manually, definitely not very systematically. Just to make things clear, the main source of my contacts is my Google account.

The problem is the following: It seems that e.g. the LinkedIn app when automatically syncing its contacts first deletes them all (or what) and then it creates them again. This breaks all the merges that I did before and it is all in vain.

Is there a way how to make this work so that my contacts remain merged/linked/joined?

Thanks for help.


texts:
I'm working for a company that wants to hand out 1000's of Android tablets with a bunch of OS customisations, i.e. specific preinstalled apps, default home page, amongst other things.

What solutions are available to achieve this (without having to go through each device manually)?

Ideally, if there were a mechanism to create an Android OS image that could be deployed to all devices during manufacturing process, that'd be perfect.

Edit: I'm not looking for a MDM solution for enterprise, just a one hit preinstall of apps/settings during device manufacturing/setup.


texts: google play services is not supported by kindle fire

texts:
I installed google play services on my kindle fire 6. Except whenever I try to launch it, it always crashes. And when I try to launch another app, YouTube for example, it says "Google Play Services, which some of your applications rely on is not supported by this device. Please contact manufacturer for more information."
I've tried rebooting, re-installing, installing another version, and installing from another website. I have google accounts and google framework apk installed. And my device is in very good condition. I don't know what to do. Please help.


texts: Is there any way to check the backup that android does?

texts:
Today I have been researching a bit about the Android backup options (since I have seen some people having to lose all their data due to ICS serious bugs).

From now, I prefer to use native options, such as the "default" option or the adb backup -all command.

But my question is about the regular way.

I enabled the Settings->Backup->Backup my data option (on ICS). Now I would like to check on my Google Account Preferences when was the last backup was made, and which data is safely backed up - and which isn't.

I'm not sure if that's possible. Does anybody know?


texts: What does "Network interrupted; server closed" mean?

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My phone (a Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini running Android 4.4.2) sometimes shows a message window with the text "Network interrupted; server closed". Does anybody know exactly what that means? I've tried googling it, but that doesn't get me anywhere.

The message is in English, even though I've set the phone to Dutch; other messages are in Dutch rather than English.

As far as I can see it happens when I get out of wifi range. I understand the "Network interrupted" part; seems normal if I go out of wifi range (though I'd rather expect something like "Connection lost"). What I don't understand is the "server closed" part. It seems to imply there is a server running on the phone -- does Android run some kind of server? Or is it possible that the message comes from some app that's running in the background rather than from Android itself?


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I've been trying to open a .tar.md5 file containing a cellphone software update using Heimdall under Mac OSX Snow Leopard.  The file was extracted from a .zip downloaded from sammobile.com containing these files:

S7562XXALHB_S7562ATOALH1_S7562XXLH5.tar.md5 (921.1 MB)
SS_DLL (279 KB)

I keep getting an invalid size error. I have tried re-downloading it several times as well as other files just to check and still the same error.


texts:
I have a Samsung Duos GT-I9082 (Android 4.2.2).

Every time the screen turns off or is locked, the WiFi gets turned off. Then on the MAC address changes so I cannot connect to the WiFi due to MAC filtering.

Could you please help me figure this out? Thanks.


texts: Is in-app purchase still exists on the device if buyer's account is logged out?

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Background :
I want to buy the full version of Cytus and Deemo games using my friend's credit card, so what I thought is he have to login using his google account and then after purchasing is complete, he logged out his account.

My question :
Is the purchase still saved on my device even if my friend account already logged out of my device? And is it possible to restore the purchase again if someday I reinstall the games after I delete it?

Thank you.


texts: adb backups fail with "Internal exception during full backup"

texts:
For a while now, I've not been able to create a full adb backup of my Nexus 4.

Now finally I've been able to catch a slightly more useful error report with logcat:

D/BackupManagerService( 2061): Calling doFullBackup() on de.blinkt.openvpn
I/file_backup_helper( 9115):    Name: apps/de.blinkt.openvpn/r/app_webview
I/file_backup_helper( 9115):    Name: apps/de.blinkt.openvpn/r/app_webview/Web Data-journal
I/file_backup_helper( 9115):    Name: apps/de.blinkt.openvpn/r/app_webview/Web Data
I/file_backup_helper( 9115):    Name: apps/de.blinkt.openvpn/r/app_webview/paks
I/file_backup_helper( 9115):    Name: apps/de.blinkt.openvpn/f/8b8192c9-4aa3-42b3-affb-fd49fc7044d7.vp
I/file_backup_helper( 9115):    Name: apps/de.blinkt.openvpn/sp/WebViewChromiumPrefs.xml
I/file_backup_helper( 9115):    Name: apps/de.blinkt.openvpn/sp/activities.LogWindow.xml
I/file_backup_helper( 9115):    Name: apps/de.blinkt.openvpn/sp/de.blinkt.openvpn_preferences.xml
I/file_backup_helper( 9115):    Name: apps/de.blinkt.openvpn/sp/VPNList.xml
I/art     ( 2268): Wrote stack traces to '/data/anr/traces.txt'
I/art     ( 2288): Wrote stack traces to '/data/anr/traces.txt'
I/art     ( 2717): Wrote stack traces to '/data/anr/traces.txt'
I/art     ( 2061): Explicit concurrent mark sweep GC freed 217771(9MB) AllocSpace objects, 32(1594KB) LOS objects, 33% fr
ee, 29MB/44MB, paused 2.136ms total 158.660ms
E/BackupManagerService( 2061): Internal exception during full backup
E/BackupManagerService( 2061): java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: length=32768; regionStart=0; regionLength=-1
E/BackupManagerService( 2061):  at java.util.Arrays.checkOffsetAndCount(Arrays.java:1719)
E/BackupManagerService( 2061):  at java.util.zip.DeflaterOutputStream.write(DeflaterOutputStream.java:174)
E/BackupManagerService( 2061):  at com.android.server.backup.BackupManagerService.routeSocketDataToOutput(BackupManagerSe
rvice.java:3135)
E/BackupManagerService( 2061):  at com.android.server.backup.BackupManagerService.access$900(BackupManagerService.java:15
8)
E/BackupManagerService( 2061):  at com.android.server.backup.BackupManagerService$FullBackupEngine.backupOnePackage(Backu
pManagerService.java:3271)
E/BackupManagerService( 2061):  at com.android.server.backup.BackupManagerService$PerformAdbBackupTask.run(BackupManagerS
ervice.java:3849)
E/BackupManagerService( 2061):  at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:818)
D/BackupManagerService( 2061): Full backup processing complete.
D/bu      ( 6589): Finished.
D/AndroidRuntime( 6589): Shutting down VM
D/BackupManagerService( 2061): Full backup pass complete.

I'm running CyanogenMod 12.1-20151007-SNAPSHOT-YOG4PAO334-mako. This problem started a few releases earlier though.

My Android file system is encrypted. I usually run the backup like this:

adb backup -apk -shared -system -all -f "adb-backup.$(date +"%Y%m%d").ab"

Any ideas?

(BTW, I think the fact that OpenVPN was being backed up just before the issue is probably a red herring)


texts: How do I clear native PDF viewer as default?

texts:
ghost touch selected it.
I'm on lollipop.
Edit : screenshots for comment below. I also checked Reset Default Apps in,the Settings menu, but there's only e-mail and messaging.


texts:
I'm using CM 10.2 nightlies on my S 3 (i9305, intl. w/ LTE).

However, even though I seem to be connected to a network - the status icon is greyed out.

What's even weirder: I can access the web, but not the Play Store, which just displays 'No connection' and 'try again'.

See:

but:

Notice the grey WiFi icon in the top right corner - it used to be blue!

How can I diagnose/fix this issue?


texts: Cmd / windows key with Chrome Remote Desktop

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I am trying to use Chrome Remote Desktop on a tablet with Android 5.1.1 to remotely access my work iMac. I have a Bluetooth keyboard, and the problem is that I'm unable to use the cmd key on my Bluetooth keyboard to do things like cmd-c or cmd-tab when connected to the iMac, which make the whole thing practically unusable.

I suspect that Android is intercepting this key for a feature I've seen referred to as "Quick Launch", so Chrome Remote Desktop maybe doesn't even know I pressed that key. Is there a way on Android for the cmd key to "work, so I can do things like cmd-c and cmd-tab in Chrome Remote Desktop? If not, is this possible with another "remote desktop" app, or is that a limitation of the OS?


texts: How do I recover the Dolphin Sonar icon?

texts: In my application list, Dolphin Sonar/Sonar is not one of the icons.  I've "peeled off"/deleted all of the Dolphin Sonar icons by mistake, and I want it to be on my home screen.  I use it very often.  Where might I find the icon?  Do I need to reinstall Dolphin?


texts: Boot.img and Recovery.img is 0 bytes (size)

texts:
I have a low end android device running on Gingerbread 2.3.5. I am about using it to do some test and customizing my ROM.

I did a Nandroid backup to be on a safe side in case things go wrong. After the backup I noticed my boot image file and recovery image file are both having 0 byte size. I used Online Nandroid Backup.

What could have gone wrong, and how to fix it?


texts: Is it possible to copy from SD card reader to USB memory stick directly?

texts:
I'm looking for an easy way to backup SD cards full of photos on a trip. I have a 3-port USB hub, and can mount an SD card reader to copy photos to my phone running Cyanogenmod. But if I hook up the USB memory stick to the same hub, it doesn't show up so I can't do the backup from reader to the stick.

The workaround would be to copy the contents of the SD card to phone memory, remove the reader, replacing with the USB stick, and copy from phone memory to the stick. But this is cumbersome as my phone has little memory free, so would have to do multiple passes which is slow and (human) error prone.

I also have a Raspberry Pi Zero running an rsync backup script to do the copying, but the script doesn't work consistently or reliably.

So, is there a way I can copy directly from SD card reader to a USB memory stick?


texts: Is there a way to block access to or wipe my Google data for a lost/stolen phone

texts:
If my phone was ever lost or stolen, my only real concern is data and apps associated with my Google account, such as my Gmail, the ability to purchase apps from the Market, and maybe Picasa albums.

Is there a way to block access to these Google associated programs if I change my password or do something else with my account?

I would also be interested in any solution that remotely wipes my Google data.  I know remote wiping questions have been asked before, but I feel that my question is a little more broad, in the sense of overall protection of data in which wiping is a possible answer.

FYI, I'm running a Gingerbread-based ROM on my Samsung Galaxy S (AT&T Captivate).


texts: Google Voice: There was an issue refreshing your inbox?

texts:
Using Android 2.2.1 (Version.2.3.340.MB810.Verizon.en.US) on a Droid X.  I just updated Google Voice to version 0.4.2.34 yesterday and now I continually get an error message that appears as a notification:

Google Voice
There was an issue refreshing your inbox

Clicking on the notification takes me to Google Voice settings.  I have powered off my phone and turned it back on and the behavior persists.  How do I fix this?


texts: Netflix refusing to log in, tried all the typical solutions

texts:
Just got my new tablet, tried to get netflix running. I took the following steps.

Installed netflix, got 15001 error
Ran system update, I am now completely up-to-date, error no longer occurs
attempted to sign in, got the following error message:

"we're unable to connect you to netflix please try again later"
cleared cache, deleted local data, got the same error message
uninstalled app, reinstalled, got the same error message
uninstalled app, restart tablet, installed app. Got the same error message

I only get this error message when using the correct username/password, using a bad one gives an appropriate error. So it's not a connection issue, just an authentication one. I have no idea what else to try.


texts: Install apps on Android Phone automatically when installed in BlueStacks

texts: I am developing an Android application, and I have to constantly mail the apk to myself to download to phone. I also use Bluestacks app player for testing. But also verify app in my own phone. Is there any way to have the app installed on the phone directly when installed on the Bluestacks App Player. I know the reverse is possible through Bluestacks Cloud Connect. Can I achieve the other way round?


texts: Can you overclock an unrooted Galaxy Tab?

texts: Can you increase the speed of an unrooted the Galaxy Tab, like an app for example?


texts: Samsung Galaxy note 3 SM-N9005 cannot boot due to Power down

texts: I have Samsung galaxy note 3 SM-N9005 and I wanted to make hard reset but I accidental did Power down. And now, my phone does not fully switch on. When I turn on the phone it stops at the Samsung sign. I waited for several minutes but nothing further happened.


texts: Does moving apps to the SD card negatively affect performance?

texts: Does moving an application to the SD card negatively influence I/O performance of the app or of Android in any way, in particular loading times?


texts: Onenote not as convenient as Google Keep. Solutions to integrate?

texts:
I am a heavy onenote user on the PC, but I find there is a 1-3 second delay on my phone between tapping new note and actually being able to type. As I use notes on my phone primarily for quickly capturing information and reliably finding it later, this delay is too long. Google Keep does this far better, but I hate to have my notes in two places.

I would be very happy to be able to find a way to add simple (plain text files would be ok but not perfect) notes very quickly and have them somehow synced to the unfiled notes section of my OneNote, which is on Skydrive.


texts: Fall back to pattern lock if fingerprint not recognised

texts: Can I make my phone fall back to pattern lock (instead of password) if the fingerprint isn't recognised? I've got a Samsung Galaxy S6 with the stock rom, Android version 5.1.1. Ideally I'd like a way of doing this without rooting the device.


texts:
So I'm trying to run fsck on my sdcard's ext4 partition and it doesn't work for some reason.

sh-4.1# fsck /dev/block/vold/179:2
fsck (busybox 1.21.0-Stericson, 2013-01-28 21:49:55 GMT)
fsck: fsck.auto: No such file or directory

Any idea why is says "No such file or directory"?


texts: Push notification over my phone dosen't work in my home only

texts:
I have an android phone that doesn't notify me with any events and or updates whatever it is in my home only. while when I use the "Data Connection" over 3G or when I use any open WiFi it notify me simply with no problem at all.

I thought it is a modem Issue. my modem is a Dlink modem and I tried to restart it but still facing this problem

Any Idea will be so greatfull.

Edited Information:
My phone is Infinix zero 2 running Android 4.4.2


texts:
I have an old Samsung mobile with android 4.1. I have downloaded some cartoons for kids which they frequently enjoy. However, sometimes the kids accidently delete the cartoons and I have to download them again. So my question is that how can I write-protect this "cartoon" folder so that the kids can only watch the cartoons but cannot delete this cartoon folder?
Regards


texts: Problem after updating Galaxy S3 to Android 4.1.1

texts:
After updating my Galaxy S3 to Android 4.1.1, I started to experience some problems.

For instance, while listening music or 'surfing' in the phone, suddenly phone starts to 'nearly' freeze for a 1 second and turns to normal life.

If I am listening to music, naturally music stops for 1 second and then continues. I do not know if this is a performance issue, or another thing.

Can someone help? Thanks!


texts: How to troubleshoot "okay google everywhere" missing from voice settings?

texts:
This is what I see:

(Click image to enlarge)

And this is what I would like to see:

I am using Motorola Moto G 3rd generation (2015), 1 GB RAM, 8 GB storage; XT1541

I have already tried a few things:

I'm already using the latest version of Android as of now: 5.1.1 Lollipop.
I'm using the latest version of the Google now application: 5.1.17.19.arm
I have tried to search for the magic phrase "okay Google everywhere"
I have tried to uninstall and reinstalled the Google application. I think it was just a downgrade to version 4 of the app because the Google Play store told me that it is a built in application.
restarting the Google application by force quitting the app and/or restarting the whole phone.
switching the local from UK English to US English wherever I could find it in the phone settings.
and maybe some other things too.

But nothing seemed to help.

What could be causing the missing option? What else could I try to make it show up?

I am also thinking about contacting support. If I do so, should I be contacting Google or Motorola?

Edit:

The version of my "Google Now Launcher" application is 1.1.1.1706998
I have even tried factory reset with and without restoring from backup; no success.


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I have Nexus 4 with Android 5.1.1, lock with a PIN code.
Somehow the right 3 vertical dots don't response for touch, therefore I can't unlock my phone.

I want to cancel / change the password.

I don't have root
I don't remember if the Debug Mode is turn on or not, but my computer usually recognize the phone just after I unlock it - just connecting the USB do nothing.
In addition, the command "adb devices" show nothing.
Inserting 5 times the wrong password just locking me out, without giving me the "Forgot Password" option.
Using the "Lock" option of the Android Device Manager put black shade on the screen with a chosen lock message, but I can't find the place to enter the new lock password I chose. I only see the 2 soft keys (circle and triangle) and when I touch them the screen move to the regular lock screen with the PIN code... [See Edit]

I'll appreciate any help!

Thanks in advance.

EDIT:
When I try to set new password through the Android Device Manager (ADM), after 2 seconds the website says: "Since Google has verified that a screen lock is already set, the password you entered won't be needed.", it's mean that my new password that I chose will not set, and that the reason I couldn't use it from the first place. Still looking for help!


texts: 2.3.55: How can I edit Bookmarks between my Android phone and Desktop easily under Google account and Chrome?

texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  How can I get my Chrome-synced bookmarks in an Android device?

I use Android -phone with my Google account. My laptop is configured for the same account. I would like to be able easily configure bookmarks: edit them, remove them, organize them, etc -- how can I do it over my phone and destop? Actually I have also iPad with Google Chrome so how can I edit them easily in one place? I can easily edit bookmarks with Bookmarks -manager SHIFT+CTRL+O in desktop but how easily in Android?

I use Android 2.3.5, not 4.x that has this feature as default.


texts: Can other apps play music from my Google Music library?

texts:
I have uploaded my song collection to Google Play Music, and use my phone to listen to them.

Now, if I copy the original music files directly to my phone storage, I can then use any app I want to play them. But what about music synced via Google Play Music?

If I download the songs to my phone in offline mode, can any other app be used to play the same collection (just like with the files), or are they only accessible by Google Play Music app?


texts: How to take clickable 360 degree tour to explore the area

texts:
I know how to take 360 view photos on android like this one.

But I am not getting how can take 360 pictures which will allow me to click on various location in that picture and after clicking on any location, it opens up another 360 picture, something like this.

Note that first one is simple 360 picture which you can rotate spherically, but you cannot click anywhere in that picture to open new 360 picture taken at that location. While you can do this in second picture.

I am able capture 360 degree photo like the first one. But, how do I capture pictures like second one on Android? Is there any official googleapp?


texts: When l click or try accessing the  Google play store application on my android phone, the system says "server error", what can l do? .Now, l find it difficult to download applications on my phone


texts: can't remove roaming letter above signal bars

texts: I've researched a lot and I can't find any solutions to this problem. A couple of months ago I traveled by plane, and when I arrived and turned off airplane mode (I have it always turned on) I had this r above the signal bars. I think it's because I got outside my isp area when I was on the air, but now I'm back in my city and I can't get rid of it. I've trying manually selecting the isp, turning on and off the roaming and the mobile data in the configurations but nothing seems to work. What else could I try?


texts: I need some help. Does anybody know what is the name of the app with the icon I am attaching? I am new to to Android development and would like to have some specs on this app but do not know the name, just have this screenshot. Thanks.


texts: How do some system apps prevent themselves from being disabled?

texts:
I have been researching about this for quite some time and frankly I haven't found anything that reproduces this effect in any phone that I have tried, as you know there are a few system apps that manage to grey-out the "Disable" button in App info screen in Settings, at first I thought this was only limited to critical system apps but based on my research I know that this isn't necessarily the case as in some cases I found that some regular(no-critical) pre-installed system apps in some phones have this effect e.g Facebook, Weather, Facebook Installer, Email, Gmail etc. and there are even some malware apps that achieve this, these apps don't even appear to be in the device administrators list therefore they have to be using another approach.

I have tried all sorts of install locations in /system; app, priv-app, vendor (phones were rooted) but none have worked, factory reset doesn't change anything therefore it can't be some stored information in /data partition, which has led me to think perhaps has something to do with the app itself or there is some info of apps that shouldn't be disabled that the system uses without involving the /data partition (I highly doubt if this is the case).

I found a somehow related question here and another one on xda but no one gave a definitive answer.


texts:
I am using android, it started a week ago. It automatically turns on mobile data. I switched it off but after a couple of minutes it again gets switched on. Please suggest me to solve this problem.
its koreaios8


texts: Why don't see notifications on 5.0.2 Android update for Sony Z3 Compact

texts: Just updated to latest 5.0.2 Android on my Z3 compact, but noticed I cannot see any notifications for any apps on the lock screen.  I have tried all settings (show all, not show sensitive etc.) for "when device is locked" setting, but nothing shows up.  Could someone help provide a step-by-step guide on getting notifications to show on the lock screen?  This is extremely frustrating for me, especially if I have to enter my PIN to get the home screen just to look at notifications...  Thanks.


texts: No permissions for Termux to access internal storage - even for reading

texts:
Using the termux (https://termux.com) terminal-emulation program, I type the following command:

ls /sdcard

I get the following error:

ls: can't open '/sdcard': Permission denied

Realizing that the /sdcard directory on Android is a symlink, I tried to find the location of the actual directory -- learning that it is not just a symlink, but a symlink to another symlink, and the actual directory is /storage/emulated/0

So finally, I typed:

ls -ld /storage/emulated/0

The result I got was:

drwxrwx--x   63 root     sdcard_r      4096 Aug 10 12:04 /storage/emulated/0

So in short --- I don't know whether termux used to run with the permissions of the sdcard_r group or whether the o permissions used to allow read-write -- but I need to know which of the two it used to be and how to fix things - because being able to access the contents of the internal SD card is kinda critical.

No, my device is not rooted, nor do I plan to root it - so I can not give any information that I'd have to root the device to obtain. However, not being rooted never in the past prevented me from having read access to the /sdcard directory - so this is new (and disturbing).

Granted - it's been a few months since previously I tried to do this - but this new limitation from Android seriously hampers the usability of termux and who-knows-what-else -- as I need to be able to have access to files that are on my SD Card. (I can still do a lot, even if not everything, even without write permissions -- but am pretty much stuck in the water if I can't get read permissions, as is presently the case.)


texts: Google Japanese Input/Simeji warning about inserted data

texts:
I've recently bought a Samsung Galaxy Pocket with Gingerbread (Android 2.3).

I expected Japanese not to be there as an input method, although Korean is there (why Korean and not Japanese and Chinese?), and anyway, I looked for apps that allowed me to type Japanese.

I found Google Japanese Input and Simeji. Both look wonderful... in the screenshots. I haven't tried any yet. The reason is that every time I try to turn them on, a warning appears that says (translated from italian):

  Attention: this input method can gather all digited text, including password, credit card numbers and other personal data. Continue?

I didn't accept, but this means I cannot type Japanese. What is the exact meaning of this warning? I mean, other than the literal meaning that I can understand. Why should it take my credit card number, if and when I type it? Or my passwords? Or am I missing something?


texts: How to install ROM when bootloader is not unlocked?

texts:
Accidentally, on stock recovery, I selected wipe data/factory reset which could have uninstalled the ROM on it. So, now my mobile is showing company logo only.

My mobile HTC Inspire A9192's bootloader has not been unlocked yet.

How to boot the mobile again ?

Every time I restart my phone, the data/ cache and system gets unmounted.


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Is there any way to dual boot on the international GT-n7000 phone ?
I have no tried the CWM backup / restore to switchbetween two ROMs but I would guess no issue with that to be encountered. Just that it would be too cumbersome.

Thanks


texts: Android emulator with snapshot option not working

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I create an android device with configuration:

API Level 19 (4.4.2)
CPU : ARM(armeabi-v7a)
Emulator option :Snapshot Enable .

For the first time the device load takes approx 3 mins. After that loading the device with snapshot takes 20 sec. But I found that I cannot access the device through adb or through GUI. I think this is a bug. Any way to resolve this?
I tried loading android device earlier also with snapshot but in windows system presently my emulator is setup on a mac machine.


texts: Why my viber changes my status without me using it?

texts: My boyfriend sees my Viber status changing from online to offline, while I don't even open it. He thinks I talk to someone but I don't use it. I have a Galaxy Note 7, he is using iPhone 6.


texts: Android Phone on Samsung Device "Find My Location" Does Not Work

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Find My Mobile feature of Samsung is not working for my 4 Android phones. Below are details
Model Number: SM-J327T1
Android Version: 7.0
I am logged into Samsung account on all 4 phones.
Remote Controls is ON
Google Location Service is ON (but I don't want to rely on Google)
Send last location is ON
Each cell phone says
Track and control your device remotely using the Find My Mobile web service, etc. Then it gives link
https://findmymobile.samsung.com
When I click on this link, it give me "Sign in" button. When I click on "Sign in", I get
Error Message [408]. Your session has been terminated. Go to the Samsung account website and try again. Then it gives link to "Sign in to your Samsung account"
I click on that link and when I click "Sign in", I get same error.
I called Metro PCS from T-Mobile (who gave 4 Andriods for $100 per month) and they say contact Samsung.
I contact Samsung and the lady had an echo. She asked if I lost my phones and I said, "No", I just wante to be proactive.
When she tried to conference in the apps team, no one picked up the phone. The lady said she will call me back but never did.
How do I troubleshoot? When I log onto https://findmymobile.samsung.com/ from my laptop, and locate any phone, all I get is this ---- please help!!!!!!


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I have Andorid maps 5.0.0 running on a Nexus S but I can't seem to get 3D maps.
I have tried London and New York. Not sure if I am doing something stupoid or what.


texts: Android 7.0 - Torch Will Not Work With Camera

texts: I have a Nexus 5X running Android 7.0. Every few months I have to photograph some meters that are in a dark location. These used to be read manually with a torch but now I have to submit photographs. I used to turn on the Nexus torch and take photographs without flash. This worked well but since a recent update of the camera app the torch goes out when I turn the camera on. Using flash generates glare and unclear photographs. Is there any way around this? Trying to hold an additional torch is proving near impossible because of the awkward access.


texts: OTA upgrade after flashing with stock Lollipop ROM

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I flashed my HTC One M8 with a stock Lollipop ROM from here.

And now there's an OTA upgrade available called Android L-MR1 that I cannot install because when the phone reboots it boots into TeamWin recovery mode and requires a password.

The password is most likely because the phone is encrypted, but typing in my lock screen code is invalid.

I ask TeamWin to reboot into system and the story begins from square 1 with the upgrade being ready to install.

So how do I proceed to get this upgrade installed? Should I remove TeamWin recovery?


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I have a bootleggers ROM (Android 9 pie) installed on a Motorola Moto E 2015 phone. Can I add a quick settings tile that would toggle the GPS (location) on and off?

I know there is already a "location" tile, built in the rom, that can switch between different location modes (high accuracy, etc.), but I only want to toggle the GPS on and off, not to change the modes.
Also, I already solved this by using Tasker and QuickTask app to create a custom tile. And it works, but sometimes it takes some time for it to respond (which is understandable having in mind my phone's specs and the fact that now two additional apps are used to control the tile). I don't know if the delay is caused by QuickTask, by Tasker or by both, and it also depends on how many apps are open at the time that I use the tile.

So, maybe there is a more reliable and quicker solution.


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All I want to be able to do on my device is to be able to use Titanium Backup.

I don't want to install custom roms, I want to keep everything as-is but be able to run apps that need root like the above.

If I do root my device, will that stop OTA updates from installing? If they do install, will it need re-rooting again?

Can devices be un-rooted?


texts: Is there a way to use an Android tablet as a wifi handsfree device?

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My situation:

Android (4.0.3) tab hooked up to my car stereo using the headphones connector.
Android (2.3.5) phone (HTC Desire HD), which I use to call, text, browse, etc.

Since my car stereo's Bluetooth device died I thought I could use the Android tab as a audio relay device. Problem is: the tab has no Bluetooth. It has wifi though.

Is there any way to use an Android device as a handsfree adapter over wifi? Some kind of wifi relay between the phone and the tablet, perhaps?