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I am writing a bash script that will run upon plugging my Android 6.0.1 phone into my Ubuntu 16.04 laptop. I am stuck at the point where the script runs fine when I execute it manually from a terminal session, but it fails when I try to have it automatically run via a udev rule.

The content of /etc/udev/rules.d/99-android.rules is:

ACTION=="add", ATTRS{idVendor}=="04e8", ATTRS{idProduct}=="6860",MODE="0666", RUN+="/data/personal/backup/backup_galaxya5_start"

The content of /data/personal/backup/backup_galaxya5_start is:

#!/bin/bash
sudo -u marc echo /data/personal/backup/backup_galaxya5 | at now

The content of /data/personal/backup/backup_galaxya5 is a whole heap of things, but it essentially boils down to:

adb start-server
adb push /data/download/rsync4android/rsync.bin /data/local/tmp/rsync >> "$LOGFILE"
adb shell chmod 755 /data/local/tmp/rsync >> "$LOGFILE"
adb shell 'exec >/data/local/tmp/rsyncd.conf && echo address = 127.0.0.1 && echo port = 1873 && echo "[root]" && echo path = / && echo use chroot = false && echo read only = false' >> "$LOGFILE"
adb shell /data/local/tmp/rsync --daemon --no-detach --config=/data/local/tmp/rsyncd.conf --log-file=/proc/self/fd/2 & >> "$LOGFILE"
adb forward tcp:6010 tcp:1873
rsync -av --exclude .thumbnails/ "rsync://localhost:6010/root/sdcard/DCIM/" "$TARGETDIR" > "$RSYNCLOGFILE"

As I said, running this when the phone is plugged in from a terminal works without any problems. However, when I plug the phone in to have the script run automatically, the following happens:

The udev rule picks up the fact that the phone was plugged in and executes /data/personal/backup/backup_galaxya5_start.
That file uses the at command the schedule the actual backup script to run.
The actual backup script runs and starts the adb server.
The backup script is then unable to copy the rsync.bin file to the phone.
The subsequent adb commands are failing as well.

At some point I even changed the script to pickup the failed "adb push" command and then do a "adb kill-server", however this also did not help.

I would like to know what I am missing in order to make this script work when called from the udev rule.


texts: How clearing cache solves all your problems?

texts: My phone is Android A30s. I recently have encountered two problems: I couldn't download an application from appstore and I couldn't open the Yahoo app. Both problems I solved by deleting the cache from the respective apps. The question is: how does it work? How deleting the cache resolved these two problems, exactly? Thanks!


texts:
Help me understand icons under messages going from live then back to dim under message.
When I send a message on hangouts the contact face shows live under the message, then reverts back to dim above the message.


texts: Changing default menu color for the Galaxy s5

texts: I want to change the color of the menu(this greenish blue color) the color in the settings menu. I already rooted my device.  Anything will help. Thanks


texts: I am using Android 5 and, on rare occasions, my keyboard disappears or becomes unavailable when I enter editable fields in different apps (browser, FB, etc).  Once that happens, what can I do, other than rebooting, to get the keyboard to reappear once I am in editable fields?


texts: Serial console user belongs to less groups than adb shell

texts:
Even though the user is the same uid=2000(shell), still the output of group is very different when run on adb shell (rooted device) than on serial console.
So it seems that through adb shell the user belongs to more groups than when logged in on a serial console.
On other Linux systems it is the opposite - you have more rights when on serial console, since apparently you have direct physical access, but on Android (at least on Oreo) it does not seem logical, since adb can run over Wi-Fi for example.

What is the idea behind such decision?


texts:
On my Nexus 5, since Android updated to marshmallow, the Wi-Fi is draining the battery way too fast, even when disabled. See the screenshot:
(Click image to enlarge)

I've seen this question: Battery drain when wifi is off but since I've a very stable network, the answer doesn't fit my need.
I've disabled the Location, I doubt that the issue could come from here.
Where should I look next?
Edit:
The real question is in fact "How come that the WiFi usage bar is going from 100% until now even if Wi-Fi is Off?"


texts: how long can the battery in my new mobile stay idle till first use

texts: I bought a Samsung Galaxy 6 months ago. Have not used it yet nor have charged the battery atleast once. I am worried about the battery. Can i keep it idle two more months.


texts: Recover photos from S6 Edge+ stuck in boot loop

texts:
I have a Galaxy S6 Edge+, Android 7.0 that did something weird.  I restarted it and now it's stuck in a boot loop.  I don't care if it gets wiped, but I want to get the pictures off it first.  It gets to the Samsung logo and hangs there for several minutes and will eventually restart itself.  In the meantime, I can connect via ADB and I would just pull all the files, but the data partition isn't mounted at /mnt/sdcard at this point.  I've tried the obvious, but no luck...

Stock recovery menu accessible
Wiping cache does not help
Cannot boot into safe mode
Firmware download mode accessible
Not rooted
USB debugging enabled
OEM unlock not enabled

I heard that flashing stock firmware would get it working again and not wipe the data partition.  If this is the way to go, is there a reliable source where I can find the image to flash?  I'm aware that the firmware is carrier dependent, so I want to know I have the right one.

I'm also aware of TWRP, but I believe the phone needs to be rooted to be able to recover stuff.  But maybe not for the data partition?  Can I install it without OEM unlock enabled?  This question mentions custom recovery, but I'm not sure how it got there (previously installed, or installed while boot looping).

I'm trying to get a clear idea of what I should do.  What is the best way to go about this?  I hesitate to do anything unless I'm sure it's not just going to wipe or brick the thing.  I rooted another phone before and the first attempt failed and wiped it.  I had backed it up, but that's not possible in this case, so whatever I do has to work.


texts: Can a group admin remove the group creator on WhatsApp? If i add a person as creator then make them admin.. can they remove me from my own group?


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When I'm updating a custom ROM, there's always an instruction to wipe the Dalvik cache. I don't see a reason why this is necessarily.

Watching the logcat while the system is booting I can clearly see that if an app changed, its dex file is invalidated and then regenerated. Yet still when I mention this anywhere I'm met with silence. As if not even some ROM developers are aware of this and they're only doing this because everyone else does.

So the questions:

Was there an Android version where Dalvik files were not invalidated during boot?
Is there any advantage in doing this yourself, instead of letting the system do the work it's supposed to do?

An ideal answer would include references to the relevant code, so I would have a reference the next time this comes up.


texts: need some help. I am currently working on a project that needs needs an android operating system. It's running on an Intel Nuc. The device travels around for presentations thus the IP address changes. I am running a local host on the machine. Does anyone know how I can set the IP to be static so I don't need to change the address in my browser? Please note that this is running on a PC and not a traditional mobile device.


texts:
I can not send or receive MMS-messages (containing an image) on my Nexus One phone. And I can't find many settings to set for it.

I have set an adress for APN. But there is also an IP-address, a proxieaddress and a port number that I should set.

How do I set up MMS on Nexus One?


texts: Acceptable Signal Strength Ranges for 2G/3G and 4G

texts:
I have been logging signal strengths on my phone and am trying to understand what ranges can be considered "Good" and "Bad".

RSSI is a measure of signal strength for GSM (2G/3G): -50dBm to
-113dBm
RSRP is a measure of signal strength for LTE: -44dBm to -140dBm

I understand that signal is stronger as signal strength value approaches 0. However, at what range is signal quality considered strong, moderate, weak, and poor and what these ranges mean in the real world.

E.g. At what range will calls not be possible?, At what range would calls start dropping? etc.

Is there an official resource that I can look at?


texts:
On Gingerbread, there was a nice silence slider on the lockscreen:
How do I get something like that in ICS?


texts: To add widgets from the app drawer, launchers need to be installed in /system. Why?

texts:
ICS' stock launcher, Apex, Nova and Trebuchet all support adding widgets by dragging them from the app drawer. However they can only do this if they are installed as a system app. One of them - I think Nova - also provides a helper app that can be installed in /system while the rest of the app remains a regular app.

Why can't normally installed launchers provide this feature?


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I want to connect my computer to my wifi network. As it does not have a wifi module I use my phone (Nexus 4, Android 4.4.2) to tether its wifi connection via USB.

When my phone looses the connection to the wifi or I forget to turn it on when I come home my computer uses up my phones mobile data, which I obviously don't like.

So the question is: Is there a (native?) way to limit USB tethering to the wifi connection?


texts: Galaxy Tab S2 is psuedo-bricked; will not get past activation process

texts:
I have a Galaxy Tab S2, 8.0", Wi-Fi (SM-T713). I have flashed it with stock firmware (flashed SYSTEM, CACHE, HIDDEN, BOOT, and RECOVERY), and wiped /data ("Factory reset" in recovery). However, it is stuck in a "psuedo-brick".

I call it this because while it may not be "bricked", it can't get past the initial setup process, and therefore can't be used for anything useful.

The specific issue is after the "Welcome!" screen. I select "English (United States)", and then it asks to set up Wi-Fi. It is off, so I turn it on. I wait a few seconds, and it turns itself off, without detecting any networks.

It seems to make me select a Wi-Fi network to proceed, which of course I can't do.

The FRP lock is enabled, so I cannot boot into anything custom.

How can I get my device to stop turning its Wi-Fi off?


texts: How to create a backup image (*.ab) of Android Device that is not booting up?

texts:
I am just a usual android user, owning  9-10 android devices. My Mom's Android device automatically turned off yesterday and while booting up again, it was stuck in the company Logo

and was not turning on. The device is "10.or E" exactly this  model.
My Mom had some very important files in her phone storage that she cannot compromise with. So, she came to me and asked me if I could turn it on without losing her files. I tried turning the phone on using the combination of the three buttons together (Power Button + Volume Up + Volume Down Buttons). This didn't do any good but yeah, it was able to turn off the mobile. Then I tried to go to Recovery Mode (in this device it is done by the combination of Power Button and Volume Up button) and check if there is an option available for making full device backup like my another device. Unfortunately, there was no option to create a "Full system backup" on SD-Card. It had some other options. See these images:

  .

Now, as there was no option to create a full backup using only the concerned device, I opted for my PC to do the same. I have SDK(s) installed  of all the Android Versions form Lollipop to Android 10 (don't know it's name). I switched off the phone and connected it with my PC using USB-Cable (not sure if USB-Debugging was on or not). After connecting I tried to give the adb command for backup  but it could not establish the connection with the device. Whereas, in the list of my devices I see a device named as Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008 (COM5)

which means that the device is detected by the computer. Although the device is detected by the computer, I am not able to create a backup using adb commands.
I don't know any PC Backup method other than the sdk-cmd-adb method.

So, as this is a very big problem because my Mom's Data is extremely important to her and she cannot afford to lose that data, I really need a working method to get her Android Device's Backup before flashing new firmware or Factory/Hard/Soft Reseting it. There are so many Android Enthusiasts over here that may also have faced this problem before or may face this problem in future so, if any of us could help me in this issue will not only be helpful to me but to all of the faithful Android Stack Exchange Members.
Please help me, I am left with no other option.

Thank You So Much in Advance ❤❤❤


texts:
How can I create a rule in Microsoft Outlook for Android?

In the Microsoft Outlook web interface (OWA), I can do:


texts: Will flashing a custom fix lag on my Android?

texts: I have a 1 GB RAM tablet running a pretty much vanilla Android Jelly Bean 4.1.1 and it's been running very slow. Apps startup time have been slow, noticeable lag exists while scrolling between the home screens, and apps crash sometimes. Browsing on the Internet has scroll lag and I have many more problems. I know that 1GB of RAM is more than enough to run Jelly Bean smoothly without any lag. How will rooting my device or flashing any custom ROMs help? I am new to the Android world, any suggestions are welcome, thanks.


texts: Bricked the phone by wiping every partition in TWRP

texts:
My Redmi 5 plus won't boot as I messed up everything while trying to flash a couple of ROMs. At first the two ROMs that I flashed were working well. But after some time, whatever ROM I flashed, the phone started to restart while setting up the first boot (choosing language, region, etc.) and no further. So I tried wiping every partition there is under the TWRP wipe section (cache, system, vendor, data, internal storage, and so forth). Then flashed a custom ROM again with and without GApps but no success. I noticed that the phone even started to restart before the first boot finished. Also, after flashing stock ROM, TWRP said no OS installed. I even tried flashing stock MIUI ROM in fastboot mode. Although it went well, still bootloop and the device keeps restarting. However, before all of these problems, I did take a backup of every partition, leaving nothing behind, so I restored everything but again the "No OS installed, are you sure to boot?" message. Now I'm freaking out, not knowing what to do. I read somewhere that flashing via QPST tool may help but I'm having problems with installing it.

  If I manage to make my phone work again, I will not flash any other
  ROM, ever.


texts: Getting a list of applications with SMS permission

texts:
I installed many applications, and some of them have specific permissions. How do I get a list of all applications with a specific permission? I'm interested in SMS permissions. I do not want to write an app for that yet :-)

My problem is that the Galaxy Nexus 4.2.1 Messaging app takes up too much CPU - over 20%. So, I need to see which of my installed apps may be misbehaving.


texts: Backup my Android without my Apps, Settings, Config's, etc.

texts:
As the title states,

Is there a way I can backup my phone, without including all the extras, that I would just prefer to pick and choose to install later.

feel free to read the whole thing, or just read the bold as the bold summarizes most of what I am looking for. As well as the bottom explaining my device & set up.

The best method I would think of, to do this, would obviously be to do this after a factory restore, and data wipe. But considering I am way past that point, I am trying to find another method.

I already backup all the applications I need, using Titanium Backup, so I don't want to backup my apps that will probably be different at the point of recovery, or will have certain apps I ditched before the point of restore, or have certain configurations I don't use/need/etc. I could go on and on. But the point Is I would just like to backup my stock rom, kernel, with my Super User privileges, without anything else. So I can basically use it as a factory reset, by just flashing my rom.

The main reason I ask this, is because I tend to get big into customization. Recently I used a font installer, form Rom Toolbox, and basically bricked my phone by getting caught in a boot loop. It would never pass to boot animation. So I had to use an old Odin Image with Clockwork Recovery. That was all I had. Luckily that fixed it, but I would like to make my own recovery images.

But, really the best thing I would just love, yet I am not sure whether it is possible, or as customizable, is it would be great if their was a way to just pick and choose what you want, or don't want to backup to a single image file.

Like an application that lets you choose certain things:

System
Root
Kernel
Applications with or without caches, data, accounts, and settings, etc.
System Settings
Account Settings

...you get the point...

Now there wouldn't happen to be something like this for backups would there? Or is that just a dream of mine?

Even though right now, I would prefer to just backup only my system without everything else, like apps. Maybe one day in the future I may like to be able to backup other things as well. Which is why I ask. Might as well use a "one backup to rule them all" method if it exists. But if not that's fine, I could always just backup the system itself, and continue to use Titanium.

Now that, that is covered, what are all the different methods of backups? Odin. Nandroid. Anything else? What do they cover, and how customizable, etc.

Ive been looking into this for the past week, but I am having trouble finding something that is relevant to what I am looking for. And all the information regarding backups seems quite specific to certain devices, and custom roms.
Which puts me kind of at a fallback, as I have a pretty uncommon device, with a pretty default rom.

I have a Samsung Conquer 4G (SPH-D600) With the FE16 firmware update, on a stock rom with root, with a slight mod of having ClockworkMod Recovery.

So when I press and hold the: "Volume Down, & Power button" it takes me to a "ClockworkMod based recovery mode" (according to what it says on the header on the screen.)

So that's what I am working with.

Any thoughts on this selective backup utilities I am thinking off? Any good resources I should look into on this topic? as well as any other information you may find relevant to this situation that you would care to share?

I would greatly appreciate any input on the subject, as android backups aren't a topic I know much of anything on, and cant really find any good resources on the subject myself.
So any and all help is appreciated. Even just links are great. I enjoy reading for myself.


texts: Samsung Galaxy III screen turning on by itself and draining battery

texts: Even though I haven't received any notifications, the screen on my Samsung Galaxy III keeps turning on and draining my battery. What's causing this?


texts:
I have a Samsung galaxy note 3 which has root access (I think, I mean I can access and change files in /root by the help of an installed SuperSU) and I'm wondering if I can install and .ISO from a DVD, I do have a USB DVD drive and the required adapter, I'm planning on installing Ubuntu Desktop or a version of Windows.

Thanks in advance.


texts: Frequent configuration messages on Samsung J5

texts:
I am getting some configuration messages frequently and have no idea what it is. How can I prevent it?
Any help would be appreciated.


texts:
I was on my phone looking at twitter and then it just suddenly stopped working, i thought it was some app crash but my whole phone wasn't working, not even the power button.
I force restarted my phone and restarted it, the boot screen showed up and then disappeared.
I tried charging it but it doesn't show anything, i tried to remove the sim card, i tried to boot into recovery mode and my attempts were unsuccessful, and the screen is not the problem as my phone doesn't even vibrate after booting up.
Somehow, i got my phone working again for a couple minutes, i pressed the power button and the battery showed up (i had 45%) and the boot screen showed up, but the was stuck on that screen this time, i force quitted my phone and next thing you know my phone is still broken.
My phone has a lot of space left (50GB), it isn't very old, (i've had it for like 10 months) and the charging port is working well, i tried it on my switch and it does the job.
Any help would be appreciated.


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I was installing trying to install custom ROM on my Samsung Galaxy S6. I have done it previously without problem. I booted up in recovery mode(TWRP) and performed advanced wipe. I checked Dalvik/ART cache, system, cache and data. After wipe was done i pressed reboot button. After that my phone was stuck on Samsung logo screen(the one that says Samsung Galaxy S6 powered by android).

I tried to boot up in recovery and download mode but it just gets stuck on that logo screen. I just want to boot in recovery mode to install ROM.


texts: What's the exact geographical dimension range which can be taken offline in Google Maps?

texts:
Today, I tried to take my whole country (India) offline, but Google Maps ignored it saying its very large, zoom in. It has also ignored my street saying its too small, zoom out.

I want to know the limits to which Make Map Offline is restricted.

Version of Google Maps: 6.12.0


texts:
I used to have the Chrome app with more or less 40 open tabs for some months. I opened it pretty often and it always restored all the tabs, until yesterday. I opened Chrome by mistake while I was having connection issues and it was not able to restore all my tabs. The next time I opened it, it only restored 5 tabs and the others seem to be gone. I tried searching for my tabs in Chrome history but I wasn't able to find them, instead I only see all the tabs opened in my other devices (PCs, Tablet, ecc.). I also tried to search for my tabs in the browsing history of my Google account, but I wasn't able to find them there neither: it seems that Chrome didn't load for real most of the tabs.
Is there a way to recover my open tabs? Does Chrome have a local history (opposed to the general history of the Google account which contains browsing history of all the devices used with that account)?


texts: Android uses the Linux kernel instead of some "Android kernel", so why is ext3 not supported on Android 2.3?


texts: Blocking numbers from my phone and WhatsApp

texts: If I block a contact on my phone can they still message me on WhatsApp? Will I have to block them on WhatsApp separately?


texts: get hourly weather and weather warning using tasker/zooper

texts:
I have an unrooted Nexus 5.
I am using zooper for my homescreen, but with tasker, my knowledge is limited.
I am trying to get (3-) hourly weather and weather warnings. I have found this blog post that do talks about hourly weather, but with my limited knowledge with tasker, I am unable to create the profile he talks about.
May I get some help?
EDIT
Izzy, Thanks for your detailed reply. I tried to follow your advice and got:
Weather (26)
A1: Flash [ Text:Getting Weather Long:Off ]
A2: HTTP Get [ Server:Port:https://api.forecast.io Path:forecast/<API KEY>/%allatitude,%allongitude Attributes:units=uk Cookies: User Agent: Timeout:10 Mime Type: Output File: Trust Any Certificate:Off ]
A3: If [ %HTTPR eq 200 ]
A4: JavaScriptlet [ Code:info=JSON.parse(global("HTTPD"));flash(info.minutely.summary); setGlobal("FORESUM", info.minutely.summary) Libraries:Auto Auto Exit:On Timeout (Seconds):45 ]
A5: Zooper Widget Pro Variable [ Configuration:#TWtxt# = %TIME %FORESUM Package:org.zooper.zwpro Name:Zooper Widget Pro Variable Timeout (Seconds):0 ]
A6: End If
A7: AutoLocation Location [ Configuration:Stopping Location Monitor
Location Report Name: Weather
Update Type: No Power Package:com.joaomgcd.autolocation Name:AutoLocation Location Timeout (Seconds):0 ]

but when I tried to run that task (the play sign at the bottom of the page) I get java IO error (its blink and miss...so cant exactly say what it prompts)
Can you kindly have a look?


texts: I've got an Nokia 6 with Pie! How do I stop others from answering my calls, or more correct, how do I stop incoming calls from opening my phone?? Everytime there's an incoming call, all security settings are set aside, and anyone can answer or have access to my phone.


texts:
I have a Huawei device running Android 7
i created another user
And there is the owner and the user created
Can some applications, such as WhatsApp, be shared between these two users?
Is there a way to allow sharing some data within a specific folder?
For example, can the camera image file be shared between these two users?


texts: Android 2.1, HTC Hero EU and WIFI configuration issues

texts:
After many search and try, it seem to be impossible to connect to a WIFI network with hidden SSID. But perhaps I did my research wrong...

So, is there any way to connect to a WIFI network with hidden SSID?

An other problem: when I set an IP for a WIFI network without DHCP, that IP applies to all other configured networks, and when I move to an other network, I must change manually IP configuration each time!

So, is there some kind of profile for each network like on the iPhone to bypass this problem?

it is important for me to do that with the official HTC ROM: I do not want to use a hacked rom.

Thank you in advance for your help ^

Some infos on the phone below:

  HTC Hero EU

  Firmware

  2.1-update 1

  Baseband-Version

  63.18.55.06PU_6.35.15.11

  Kernel-Version

  2.6.29-063c4d24

  htc-kernel@and18-2 #1

  Buil-Nummer

  3.32.405.1 CL191507 release-keys

  Software-Nummer

  3.32.405.1

  Browser version

  WebKit 3.1


texts: Reinstall OS android on chinese phone Gusun JY809?

texts:
I bought a Chinese phone, the Gusun JY809. I am satisfied with the phone itself but it still logs into chinese web apps and stores. Unfortunately, I am in the Czech Republic. I have tried to install CyanogenMod but I could not find the right one.

Are there any custom ROM options for this phone?


texts: whatsapp not displaying contacts in alphabetical order

texts:
In my phone i saved some contacts start with "1" as below

1 Alex
1 Joseph
1 karthik
1 Rajesh
Anderson [ without 1]

so in  whatsapp also those contacts are displayed first as above order. now i removed "1" from those names , so after "Alex", it should display "Anderson" in whatsapp now, but still whatspp displaying contacts in same above order.

I cleared cache from whatsapp, still same result, I dont want to reinstall, any other solutions ?


texts: Can I get my car's head-unit to play audio, via USB, from my Galaxy S3?

texts:
I've just moved from iOS to Android, purchasing the new Galaxy S3. Lovely phone; I'm impressed thus far.

The only thing that I'm struggling with is playing audio, via USB, to my car's head-unit.

I've got a 2012 Nissan Juke (upgraded Nav head unit with USB port in the center console) which worked fairly seamlessly with my iPhone 4. I'd plug the USB cable in, and my music would start playing through the car's speakers - with names/album/length etc. displayed on the head-unit's display. This worked with music I'd loaded on to the phone and the Spotify app.

When I plug my S3 in, the phone detects the connection and asks what mode I want to use - Media mode, or Camera mode. Regardless of which mode I use, the head-unit is unable to play either stored or Spotify music.

I've read up a little, and I'm wondering if this is to do with the S3's inability to render itself in Mass Storage mode.

Does anyone have any suggestions for a workaround, or an app which might resolve the problem? I can play audio via Bluetooth, but its interface isn't as seamless and I will forget to turn Bluetooth on/off; don't want to drain the battery excessively.


texts: What is the shortcut to change input language when using hardware keyboard?

texts: I have connected a USB windows keyboard to my tablet. However, regular windows input language switching shortcut do not work on android. What is angular keys to change input language?


texts: Communicating offline between different android devices

texts: I have multiple android devices that need to operate in areas with limited network connectivity. At the same there, I need the data capture on one of them to be immediately available on another device in the vicinity. The different devices can connect to one host device which can host the wi-fi and hence be in the same LAN. Then, what are some good ways to use the host device as a server that can persist and expose data?


texts: No internet access using USB tethering on Android phone

texts: I used to access the internet on my notebook by tethering it to my android mobile phone. However recently this stopped working. Even though the notebook was tethered to the phone there was no internet access. Changing phone settings did not help.


texts: How to sync 2 folders using NFC between two Android devices running slightly different Android OS versions

texts:
I have a Sony Xperia Z3 running lollipop and another jiayu s3 running Android 4.4. Both of them have NFC. I want to  sync a folder in internal storage from one phone with another using Android NFC feature. NFC enabled in both devices. So when I use ES File Explorer in the source device I do not see any option that lets me invoke NFC sharing. I may be able to share using  Bluetooth or LAN. So how is NFC invoke can it be invoked Nativity or you need 3rd party applications.

It need not be nfc... I'm trying to figure out the most efficient way to sync two directories on Android devices without the need to be on a network. thank you


texts: Is it possible that unicode characters like š,č,ž are shown next to standard characters on the keyboard? My keyboard is Slovenian (QWERTZ), and I have to long press 's' to get the 'š' character. My system is Android 5.1.1 (CyanogenMod 12.1).


texts: How do you set up internet pass-through (reverse-tether) on linux?

texts:
I have an HTC Desire S that has the option to connect through usb, and use the computer's internet connection. This works fine on Windows, but I'm struggling to set it up in Ubuntu.
When I plug in and select internet pass-through from the usb menu, the usb1 device is created and I can ping it's ip address. I have tried various iptables configurations and setting up nat, but I'm not sure if I'm doing it right, or if there needs to be some additional configuration...

Thanks for any help.


texts: Is there a way to download media files directly from the Chrome browser? In the stock Android browser I can long-click a link and select "Save link" to accomplish that, but Chrome doesn't offer that option and opens a media player instead.


texts: Failed to root Galaxy S (Fascinate) after three methods

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I have tried three methods for rooting my previous Android device, running 2.3.5 (Gingerbread). It's a Verizon Samsung Galaxy s (Fascinate - SCH-I500).

I have all the drivers installed for the device on my computer (Windows 8) and have USB Debug toggled. SuperOneClick failed to work after three attempts. Local rooting (No computer used) did not work either as that only rooted it about five seconds after boot, displaying a message on the home screen. The last method involved installing and app from the Play store and some software for my PC which I have forgot the name. I'm at a loss on how to root it so I can flash a custom ROM I have.

I had a general idea on where to start but as you've just read, all has failed. Side note: during all of these methods the SD Card was in phone but never mounted as per all the various instructions.

How can I root this reluctant device?


texts: Why is sync feature not working in my phone?

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No account is syncing in my android phone since 25 feb 2021.
Already tried

Rebooting
updating all apps
resetting settings only(cannot reset storage)
removing and re adding account.
different internet connections.
tried same google accounts on other android phones, they work  with sync fine.

I can't erase whole data(even after backup), personal reasons.
Phone model : realme 5 pro
Android version : 10
Please help


texts: Android Market - Want to see Best Applications

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Is there any way to see "Top Best (i.e. Top 10/50/100, etc.) applications" in Android Market as we are looking in AppStore ?

I means to say which applications/Games are famous amongst the people as "Angry Bird" is famous game in Appstore, applications may have either higher ratings or higher viewer, how do i come to know about applications in android market?


texts: Deleting or listing least frequently played songs in Google Play Music

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I'm starting to hit the limits of my storage space. My device is mostly filled with music, so I'd like to remove songs I don't listen to anymore, without having to painfully scroll down the list and delete them one by one.

Does Google Play Music have some way to at least list the least frequently played songs, or is there an additional music management app I should know about?


texts: How to recover lost contacts from samsung galaxy s3

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I was closing all my unused running programs on my galaxy S3, and suddenly closed the contacts app. When I checked my contacts afterwards they were all gone. But when I checked my call logs, the corresponding name for each number showed for few seconds, and then disappeared as though all contacts were deleted from the phone.

Does that mean it is stored somewhere in the phone? I tried recovering from GMail, but unfortunately I had not sync'd my contacts initially. Please help to recover as they were all my office related contacts.


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I have an unlocked Nexus One that I rooted to remove a system application (Twitter), but now the OTA system update fails with the message

Verifying current system ...
assert failed: apply_patch_check("/system/app/Twitter.apk", "<long hex string>")
E:Error in /cache/c8847c98b948.signed-passion-FRG83-fromFR91.c8847c98.zip
(status 7)

Un-rooting the device doesn't seem to fix this. Is there more to removing a system app than doing a 'rm' of the .apk? For example, is there some configuration file that also needs patching?


texts: What is the meaning of "need access to: " in when we want to install an application?

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Whenever we want to install an application from Google Play, the application will ask permission to access to some things. The number of permissions are different from one to another application. Below is an example of application that requests permission to access.

Then my question are, how that access work? Is the application will take our data for them? I.e: It ask to access images in the phone, will the application will copy and send all the images to the developer? Or, will the application copy the conversation as it has access to the microphone? And how long it will have the access one we granted and installed the application?


texts: Why does clearing cache fix Snapdragon 820 overheating issues?

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I was researching whether Snapdragon 820 has overheating issues like 810, and found numerous advice on both LG G5 and Samsung Galaxy S7 that says "yes, overheating can happen, and to fix it, clear the cache, possibly followed by factory reset".
Example, example.
However, none of the articles had any explanation on how clearing the cache would help.
Is there a reason it would help fix overheating? How?


texts: Differnce in between Android 4.2.2 and 4.2.1

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Just updated my HTC One X from cm-10.1-20130119 to cm-10.1-20130304-EXPERIMENTAL.

The only difference I noticed is my android is now on 4.2.2 from 4.2.1.

Can anyone list me difference in between them ?


texts: Sometimes on home screen I need to tap app button twice for it to launch

texts: I have a rooted Galaxy phone with Oneui 3.0. I have installed Nova launcher and set it as the default launcher. Sometimes on my home screen I need to tap the app twice to launch it. For example I like having the short cut to Firefox on my home screen. Some times I need to tap it twice. Bizarrely it seems it depends on the actual app, for example Firefox always requires being tapped twice but the phone app only needs to be tapped once. In the drawer this is never an issue. Any idea how to fix this? There's just so many settings for everything...


texts: My Pixel 2 XL doesn't show updates. Stuck at Android 9

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I inherited a Google Pixel 2 XL Android phone that I cannot manage to upgrade from Android 9 to Android 10, let alone Android 11.
It doesn't see any update at all. When I go to the System Updates screen of the Settings app, I get:

"Your system is up to date"

Android version: 9

Security Patch level: November 5, 2018

Last successful check for update at

(in other terms, it successfully checks for updates, but doesn't find any).
I am an iPhone guy, with very limited knowledge of Android, but I am willing to learn. My computer is a Mac.
Note that this phone has been used for Android development in the past. it has a "Developer options" setting pages, and it also has been rooted. Could this influence the update process?
What can I do next?
Thanks,
JD


texts: Android OS using a lot of background data

texts: My phone (Xperia P running Jellybean 4.1.2) is consuming a lot of background data (about 70 MB in just 15 minutes) Since, I have a restricted usage of 2 GB, it's causing a great problem. I've already disabled auto sync, background data and other related stuff. Don't know the reason. Please help!


texts: Motorola Atrix Android 2.3.X Corporate Email Account Already Added or Exists

texts: I have a Motorola Atrix phone running Android 2.3.6.  I had just performed an update to my firmware and can no longer access my corporate email account via the "Email" app.  I tried to re-add the account but would receive errors stating that the email had already been added (or email already exists).  Everything on the Internet leads me to believe that I would have to perform a factory reset of the phone.  Where did the email account go and how can I add the email if the phone says that it already exists or it was already added?


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I have a HTC Desire with original OS. I arrive to start the device by pushing Power button.

The screen lights on with HTC start screen (HTC quietly brillant) then the home screen of the telephone is displayed.

There is a first problem because all my widgets and apps on my home screen aren't displayed. Unfortunately, this is not my main problem.

When the telephone is locked, when I want to unlock by push Power button like usual, the keys to the bottom of the telephone light on but the screen stays black ! The telephone is well unlocked because when I try to increase volume there is the sound of that action.

So, I don't understand very well the problem :(.

Someone would have an idea about this problem ? And some advices to fix that ?

Thanks by advance for your help.

Sylvain.


texts: How can I disable voice commands when double pressing the home button on the Galaxy S 2?

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On Samsung Galaxy S2 (not rooted) everytime I accidently double press the home button, the voice command app comes up.

How can I disable this?


texts: NOTE 10.1 (2012) HDMI not displaying correctly

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I have an official HDMI adapter for my Note 10.1 and it displays the android desktop perfectly fine, there are side bars but I assume these are due to the resolution of my device not being 1080p. However any circular icons are perfectly circular on the tv so it looks absolutely fine. The issue is that as soon as I play video the aspect ratio is completely screwed! Some films display almost correctly but look a bit stretched vertically, there are never any verticle bars like there are on the device (obviously to display widescreen films) so on the tv the film is displayed full height but not full width..... To make it worse if I use a third party video player like BSPlayer the aspect ratios are even worse! The films are practically playing 4:3.

What is strange is that although on the desktop the output is an exact mirror of the display, when playing video it is a separate output (ie the display on the TV does not match what I see on the device. For instance the overlayed play, pause controls and progress bar never appear on the screen.....

What is going on?

Update

Found something else strange.... If I play a film through google play movies which I have bought from google play the aspect ratio is perfect! However if I play a personal film from my sd card through google play movies it is the same aspect issue as the other apps....

How can it play one film correctly and one completely screwed up? (are they purposefully crippling the video output for personal videos?)


texts: I am not getting why inspite of having a 16 GB SD card in my android the apps from play store are not getting directly stored in SD card by default. Due to this its becoming hard for me to use the device as every time I have to flush lots of data from the device memory to install some new app.


texts: ADB backup restoration on an older Android version

texts: I have made an adb backup of my OnePlus One running an unofficial CM12 ROM based on Android 5.0.2. Is it possible, considering the latest release of Android for the Nexus 5 is 5.0.1, to then restore this backup onto a Nexus 5 running 5.0.1?


texts: Flashing of factory image failed Yuphoria

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I was flashing the factory image of my YU Yuphoria through the flash-all script, everything completed successfully, but when it came to flashing system partition, the command line got stuck at "writing system" in the last sparse system.

It took a hell lot of time.. In the other sparses of system, writing system took maximum 20-15 secs but this time it took more than 15 minutes and still no luck..

I panicked but couldn't find any other solution.. So I closed the command prompt.. Opened a new command prompt, typed in

fastboot -i 0x2A96 devices

I got:

????????????    fastboot

The ??? made me panic more.. I tried booting into my recovery through fastboot..

E:\Mobile\adb>fastboot -i 0x2A96 boot twrp.img
downloading 'boot.img'...
FAILED (command write failed (Unknown error))
finished. total time: 5.009s

I almost came to the conclusion that my phone is hard-bricked.. I removed the battery, re-inserted it, tried to boot into recovery through the hardware key combination.. But god was kind enough to me, my phone booted into TWRP which was already flashed.. Now I'm still in the recovery but confused what to do.. Shall I flash some custom ROM through the recovery and reboot? Shall I format the system partition? Please suggest something..


texts: Why doesn't Huawei provide just the USB driver to use ADB?

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I'd like to use the MyPhoneExplorer application to sync my Android smartphone with Windows over USB.
This requires first installing a driver for the phone and the ADB application.

However, the official driver seems only available as part of the Huawei HiSuite bloatware: http://consumer.huawei.com/minisite/HiSuite_en/index.html

Can someone confirm that there's simply no official driver from Huawei, and the alternative is either installing that bloatware, or find a non-official (possibly virus-carrying) driver somewhere?

Thank you.


texts: Galaxy S5 charging slowly despite 'AC' and 2A charger

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I have replaced the battery in my Galaxy S5 with a genuine Samsung (or at least, a very, very good fake!). It's now becoming quite noticeable how slow it charges - when plugged into a Nexus 7 2A charger (I have lost the Samsung original), using a USB ammeter, I can see it drawing around 0.5-0.7A. The ammeter does not seem to interfere, as I also have a mains power meter that shows less than 5 watts being drawn from the wall without the ammeter. My understanding is that the data pins in a charger USB socket are bridged to indicate the phone can draw more current, and the phone recognises it's connected to 'AC' in the battery screen, but it doesn't seem to be pulling the maximum available from the charger. I've tried a combination of different USB cables and some other USB power supplies without much difference in charge rates. I do have a good collection of apps installed, but my understanding is that if an app was draining the battery almost as fast as it was charging, the phone would still pull more power from the mains.

Is there anything else I can check, or am I just going to have to lump it? The phone is running stock Android 6.0 with all current Samsung updates.

Possibly related, but I also have the Qi wireless charger kit with the S View cover. Although the pad also demands a 2A charger, I've only seen the pad draw 0.8A from the adapter, and I know some power is lost in the pad, so I'd be surprised if half that was reaching the phone. I know Qi is slower and less efficient than plugging in directly, but this does seem excessive.


texts: is more battery-dispendious shutting down or leave 3g on?

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I know that many apps (like messaging apps eg whatsapp or facebook) every time like 30 seconds, ask the server for push notifications.

I know that 3g has many state, when downloading data the consume is incresed, and when not in use (idle) it is less.

Since the apps are not synchronized toghether, the request from an app could be sent when 3g is just passed to idle state.

So i was wondering this: is more dispendious to shut down 3g and then reactivate it like 5 minutes later (to let apps download push notification) or just leave it on and let apps to use it when needed?

I know of cDroid which is a cloud-based android, and one of their feature is of course push-notification download synchronization.

Thanks for answers!


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I've got a Pixel 2 running Android 9 (Pie). The other day the colors for the contacts on the Phone/Dialer Favorites screen switched to what I can only describe as 'pastel'. They don't match the contact colors in the Messages App (though the used to). Switching a contact color in the Messages App has no effect on the new pastel color for the contact in the Phone/Dialer.

I don't think I fatfingered anything to cause this but I'm not going to swear to it. When I noticed it I had just picked up the phone and unlocked it to make a call.

Color Inversion (Accessibility) is not enabled. Dark Mode is not enabled. Phone is totally stock.

What caused this and how do I revert it?

Update 1

Co-worker with a Pixel 2 that recently upgraded to Pie noticed the same thing. It's quite possible the change happened at the same time for both of us (not at time of upgrade but a few days after). Is this something Google did? Something about Material Theming with the new Material Design they rolled out, pulled and rolled out again? Also, I've restarted and done a power off, so I don't think this is a transient glitch.

Update 2

Co-worker's Messages app has gone Pastel, mine has not so far, despite force stopping the Contacts App, the Phone/Dialer and Messages and doing a restart and power off. Phone is 23.0.208561757, Contacts is 3.0.6.209518734, Messages is 3.4.048 (Yehu_RC26_xxhdpi.arm64-v8a.phone).

Update 3

Yet another co-worker (Pixel 2 / Pie) has the same symptoms as me (Pastel Colors for contacts in Phone/Dialer only). So it seems this is definitely something to do with some kind of rollout of something by Google.


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I upgrade my phone to LineageOS 14. When I try copy text (long press) or if i copy text to clipboard by button and try paste him - any application is crashed.

Drawable cannot be cast to VectorDrawable

Why it does?

Micromax Q415, default android lollipop, flash rom portable


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This is the screen my brother's phone stays at, no matter what action is done, after his phone died and he tried to plug it in. I've seen similar images but most ways to fix it seem to be "flash a new rom" and even then, the images that were posted in that case didn't have those invalid_ver_info notices.

Is my brother's phone dead or can it be fixed, preferably without flashing the rom and possibly doing more harm than good.


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I remember from my HTC HD2 running Cyanogenmod 10.1 a "home location" indicator. It shows the area name of the caller's landline if somebody is calling. The default phone dialer app on my Newman N2 phone running Android 4.1.1 displays a home location in Chinese, instead of my native language (which is Dutch). My settings and stuff are Dutch (so is the rest of the dialer).

The setting can be enabled/disabled here:
Settings -> Call Settings -> "Display Home Location".
(I think it's not available on every Android ROM)

I want that home location indicator to be Dutch. I tried to decompile /system/app/Phone.apk, TelephonyProvider.apk and NetworkLocation.apk, so I could change the Chinese language to Dutch. Then I searched through all of the xml files, but with no result finding the Chinese letters.

To decompile the apks, I used the following tutorial:
http://venomvendor.blogspot.in/2013/01/how-to-view-source-code-of-android-apk.html

Does anybody know where that home location data is available so I can change it?


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Possible Duplicate:
  How do I use the US Android Market

Hello
I would like to ask if there is any way to get android market in syria cuz it's not allowed
Thank you


texts: Documentation for adb shell getevent / sendevent

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Is there any documentation on the format of the getevent and sendevent shell commands? specifically the ones for touchevents.
or is this device-dependent?

it is a bit hard to guess what those ids are doing.


texts: GPS Battery Drain -- LocationManagerService

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EDIT 3: Someone pointed me in the right direction on another forum.  There was a bug with HD Widgets that rolled out yesterday. HD Widgets Bug

As of yesterday I am getting a 35%/hour battery drain.  I have not installed any new apps that would have caused this, this literally came out of nowhere.  I noticed my phone was getting extremely warm in my pocket, pulled it out and say my battery was almost completely discharged and went in to look at what caused the battery to drain so fast.  Top app on the stock Android battery usage settings was Flixter.  I thought maybe something was wrong with the app, FC'd it and put my phone away.  This morning I took my phone off the charger (100%) put it in my pocket on my way to work and again my pocket got nice and warm.  Pulled it out and saw that I was already at 81% battery after about 40 minutes of driving.  Again I pulled up the battery settings and saw Maps was the number one culprit this time.

If I use an app that needs GPS it works fine, can lock on to location quickly, etc, but I am getting a huge battery drain all the time.  Using Better Battery Stats under partial wakelocks my top two drainers are "NLP PendingIntent client in com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox" (Maps) and "LocationManagerService".

Anyone have any idea what I could try?  Been off the charger for an hour and already at 60%.

EDIT: I have rebooted the phone several times.

EDIT2: Just realized that when my phone is connected to WiFi the drain is much less than on network data.  Not sure if it's related, or just the extra battery required to constantly do a location fix over network data.  Just more information, if it helps.


texts: How do I get Application name from APK file?

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When we click on apk file on android phone (assuming allowed installation from unknown sources), Application name appears.

Example screen-shot for jackpal.androidterm-1.apk:

Now, If I want to get this Application Name "Terminal Emulator" from apk file (jackpal.androidterm-1.apk) without installation prompt, then How do I do that?

So, My question is How do I get Application name from an .apk file?

As you know (from screen-shot) I use terminal, also I've installed busybox. So, Is there any command (like: foo /path/to/.apk) with the help of which I can get application name?

If I've to use application to do that, then I recommend to suggest FLOSS type application.

Note:- This is not about getting package name but application name. Also I am not talking about application that is already installed.


texts: App shows ads even after restricted background data

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I restricted background data for my file manager app. But still when I open the app, I am getting ads at the bottom.

How is that even possible? How the app able to connect to mobile data?

Am I missing something?


texts:
When I accidentally touch fingerprint sensor when phone is locked, it emits a beep sound, meaning that scanning failed.

Can I disable this annoying sound?

I have a Huawei P10 with Android 7 OS.


texts: Reverse Tethering won't work for me - is it because my phone isn't rooted?

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I've been trying most of the day to reverse tether my phone (Motorola Droid X on Verizon ub the USA), in this case to an Ubuntu VM running on a Windows 7 host via VMWare Workstation. I've followed the instructions in questions like these and everyone seems to quote the exact same blog post, which appears to be the gospel on the topic.

Problem is that I can't get it to work. Everything works right up until the command:

./adb shell netcfg usb0 dhcp

Which produces the response

action 'dhcp' failed (Permission denied)

I can't seem to find much of anything on this error message which makes me think: the phone isn't allowing me to do this. Not sure if it's the carrier or the manufacturer or what but I'm basically being told "no"

Is it because the phone isn't rooted? My workplace actually has a policy against that so I haven't done it. If not, does anyone have idea what I'm doing wrong?


texts: Is there any android apk or process info library website/database?

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I have a virus on Micromax canvas A104 and is on deep system(with root privilege) level. I tried removing it on safe mode, resetting the phone etc.

I rooted my canvas a104 rooted to find the virus source. But there are many System app which i can’t differentiate and find it risky to remove the core apps.

I want to know any database where i can get info about all my apps and process(like https://processlibrary.com where you can find info on windows processes).

My problem is similar to these threads:

Device wants desperately to install a package (com.google.system.s) on its own
How to remove a Virus that installs an unlimited amount of APPs causing the smartphone to stop once an internet connection has been established?

I have gone through many other threads but couldn't find anything useful.

One solution for this can be custom rom. But i didn't find any stable ROM and find it risky for my phone.

Any help on this or a solution to the problem will also be appreciated!!


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I have issue connecting my wifi
It shows error as refuse to connect with chrome but if i search it display content but as i go on any content gives me error
Even youtube not working even
Playstore  home page only gets loaded but when i select any app shows check your connection and try again
Also whats app and fb working fine
But
None of the app apart from this works
I am using samsung on 7
With 5.1 version  and rooted by king root previously working fine
And the same exact error was also in my previous phone  and it gets resolved automatically and happens randomly some time

Only on my phone not working reset all phone working fine on even pc not instagram  as on insta i could only see pages being loaded but not images displayed
And also operamini 7.2 version works fine even i can completley browse but cannot download
My phone is rooted  i was using adblocker i uninstall it even adaway i qas using uninstall it
I tried changing dns as 8.8.8.8  google still same


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I have an unlocked nexus 9 (WiFi version) on which I upgraded to android N. Now I want to have a root access on it. I tried to flash twrp recovery 3.0.2 using fastboot,

fastboot flash recovery twrp-3.0.2-0-flounder.img

but then when I try to get to recovery mode I see the logo of TWRP blinking again and again but can't access recovery mode. I tried flashing version 2.8 but then the device is encrypted and I don't want to wipe it.

How can I fix that?


texts:
Starting from Android 6.0, Google altered how their lockscreen looks in AOSP, presumably to increase readability:

Digital clock is smaller
Digital clock uses a bolder font, presumably Roboto Medium
Date text is ALL CAPS
Date text has a noticeable character spacing

A comparison can be seen in the pic below.

It seems that this is Google's design vision going forward, as Android 7.x only kept or reinforced upon those points, and the recently released Fuchsia OS preview is in the same style.

However, as good as Google's intention might be, I'm not a fan of all these points above, and now that I see Google is determined to push it (Fuchsia), I'm determined to revert it back to what it was in Android 5.x. I'm rooted, have a custom recovery, and know how to decompile and recompile APKs, so I should be ready for whatever's needed.

Ideas?


texts: Latest Gmail update is not working on my Samsung Galaxy S3

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I have the Gmail app installed and in the latest update it said we could reply to emails directly from the drop-down status bar without having to open the app.  I don't see any feature like this.  How do I activate it?

OS: 4.1.1
Samsung Galaxy S3


texts: How do I set the default messaging app to use google voice? (4.2.2 Galaxy S4)

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I keep seeing advice to set the default messaging app by going to Settings> Manage Applications> All Applications>

And then clicking on the messaging app (I also tried google hangouts since that can send text messages).  But in the "clear defaults" button is greyed out and it says there is no default.  If there is no default, then what is it using to send the message?

I guess a second-best solution is for me to replace the default app with one that can send using google voice.


texts: GMAIL App: Fetching already deleted email repeatedly

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As we can configure other Email Account like YAHOO email in a GMAIL App, I added my YAHOO Email Account to GMAIL App and can now Access YAHOO Emails using GMAIL App.

But the Issue is, when I delete my YAHOO Emails, somehow, it is again SYNC Back and I have to delete it again!

This is happening repeatedly and I am simply not able to delete my YAHOO Emails from within GMAIL App.

I can delete YAHOO Email from yahoo.com (WEB Interface) and then they don't re-appear in GMAIL App.

I can delete GMAIL Emails, and they don't sync back, it is an issue only with YAHOO emails.

Android device: Micromax canvas 4
Android OS Version: Jelly Bean 4.2


texts: Deleting Pictures- Will They Really Be Gone?

texts: Lets say I were to delete a photo, is there any way possible this photo may be seen on this device ever again? Will anyone ever be able to see this deleted photo if they pull up my device on their computer or laptop? If I delete a photo am I going to have full reassurance that this photo will never be seen again?


texts: Lenovo USB 3 to Ethernet adaptor not working on Nexus Player

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I have a Nexus 5, a Nexus Player, a USB OTG cable, and a Lenovo USB 3 to Ethernet adapter.

If I plug the Ethernet adapter into my phone (using the OTG cable of course) it loads the cdc_ether driver and sets up the interface eth0 (I ran cat /proc/kmsg).

However, when I do the same on my Nexus Player, it doesn't do either (however the kernel still picks up that I plugged it in).

I don't know a huge amount about Linux kernel development, but both seem to have cdc_ether.c in their kernel sources. Any ideas?


texts:
I just installed Chrome Mobile on my Galaxy Note (ICS, CM9) and while it has this nice card-like interface, I didn't find how to flick the screen to fast scroll to top or bottom of pages.

In other words, using the Android stock browser, when on a very long page, if I swipe the screen for up to down fast enough with one finger, the page will scroll very fast and continuously from the bottom of page to top of the page. How to do the same with Chrome Mobile?


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I just deleted the directory /Android from the external card. It gave me 20GB memory back. So far I haven't seen any bad effects. At least not during the first 5 min of testing including restart.

I have a similar /Android on resident phone memory. Can I wipe that one too without any bad effects?

What is the function of /Android?

My device is Android 5.0, Galaxy Note 3.

Edit:

After 10 min running, the extSdCard/Android has reappeared and is now size 95 MB. (I asked one dictionary-app to expand compressed files there. But right now it stays around 95 MB.)

My "maintenance" has been run by Avast since long time. It regularly claims to delete "unnecessary" files.


texts: Every time I connect my Android to my Ubuntu it asks me to allow the connection, can I change that?

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I have a Galaxy J7 and Ubuntu 16.04 on my Linux box.

Every time I connect the phone to the computer, it asks me to ALLOW the connection.

Is there a way to add an authorization for that one computer to connect automatically and without an ALLOW each time it connects?

I found a couple of answers to similar questions, but from like 2010 and 2012. The answers on those did not seem to make any sense for the J7.


texts:
It seems to be a relatively new feature that pdf files are shown directly in the browser instead of downloading them.

How can I download them instead?


texts: Is it possible to prevent numbers in text from being dialled

texts:
If ever I enter a number into an app within Android (4.4.2, Sony Xperia M2), the system seems to interpret it as a phone number.  Therefore, if I try to edit that number, the system tries to dial it.

An earlier, unanswered,  question  suggested that this happens on Google Keep.  However, it also happens on the inbuilt Notes app, on Evernote and others, even numbers displayed on websites in the Chrome browser.  Therefore, it isn't the app, it must be the OS.

This feature means that keeping notes that contain a number is almost impossible. You can't edit a note without the thing trying to call the number.

I can't find a setting that turns off automatic hyperlinking of numbers.  Is there one?  Is there a service running that does it?  If so I'll uninstall the service.

At the moment this one feature is tempting me to scrap the phone and go back to an iPhone.


texts: Fix a system error after UnTar in /data/data partition

texts:
I made a backup of app data in a rooted device with

tar -czvf example.app.back.tar.gz /data/data/com.example.app/

And after decompress the tar in other rooted devices with

cd /
tar -xvf example.app.back.tar.gz /data/data/com.example.app/

The app get this data working after I did

chmod -R 777 /data/data/com.example.app/

and when I reboot its like  a factory reset ,all the app data is gone and the apk that can be installed only in sd and when reboot again the app are deleted and the start wizard appears agains

I think that the tar command create a /data folder or mess in some way the mount points

Maybe I omit in the example some flags in the tar command that i originally typed

The destination device have Android 4.1.1


texts: How to configure an Android smartphone not to lock itself too quickly?

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I am alone at home, working on my laptop. The phone lies nearby on the table. Occasionally somebody texts me, I take and unlock it to see what's up. Then, after I put it away, in 15 seconds it turns the screen off (that's ok). A second after somebody texts me again and I am to unlock it (connect the dots) again... and again and again and again...

Is there a way to configure screen standby and lock timeouts separately? Can I prevent the phone from locking itself too quickly without postponing the screen standby and without disabling the screen lock completely?


texts: How can I determine what URL an app is accessing?

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I have an app that downloads mp3 files.  The app does not tell you where it is getting these files from.  Is there an Android tool/app I can use to figure out what URL an app is accessing from my phone?

Thanks


texts: Dell Streak's screen cracked - what are my options?

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I hope this question is being asked in the right place - it's not a question about the Android OS, but it is about Android hardware. Please move it if it's better off on SuperUser.

I have just dropped my Dell Streak 5", and the screen has cracked.

I have a couple questions:

I have heard amazing things about Gorilla Glass - the machine is under a year old, has anyone else managed to get the screen replaced under the warranty because Gorilla Glass is supposed to be so strong? Then again, it could be that the screen under the Gorilla Glass is cracked...
Is the screen actually replaceable or is this effectively a brick?


texts: What's a good way to read PDF musical scores on Android tablet in rehearsal and performance?

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As a chorus and opera singer, I frequently download public-domain scores in PDF form. I would like to read them on an Android tablet during rehearsals. I don't have an Android tablet myself yet, but from my experience with an Android phone (small screen) and iPad tablet, I expect the following flaws:

Some PDF files containing high-resolution scans of the score take a long time to display. The degree of lag is a function of how the PDF file was made. In some scores it seems like the page starts off blurry and comes into focus. (Observed on iPad)
It's difficult to jump to arbitrary points in the score (e.g. director says, "let's skip to page 166", those with books turn easily, I fumble fumble on the device) (Observed on phone and iPad)
It's hard to add bookmarks to PDF files to correspond to rehearsal numbers, to speed up jumping to points in the score. (Observed on phone and iPad)
There's no way I know of to make annotations on the score during a rehearsal, even an "x" to say "review this later". (Observed on phone and iPad)
Other wishes for Android PDF readers, gleaned from about a dozen questions here on Android.SE tagged with pdf

So I'm looking for a good way to read PDF musical scores on Android tablet in rehearsal and performance. I'm looking for characteristics like:

Should read ahead in the PDF file, digesting the next couple of pages of the score, so that when I turn to the next page, the page appears instantly -- for all PDF files, even those with high-resolution scanned images.
Easy ways to jump to page numbers and rehearsal numbers quickly, while rehearsing.
Ways to add bookmarks to scores for rehearsal numbers
Some way of annotating the score.
Displays each musical staff at least 7mm high
Displays the score at least 15cm x 10cm, preferably 20cm x 25cm, and a huge 50cm x 33cm would be even better.
I can think of many features which would make the experience even better.

Can any of you recommend a way to use an Android device as a good PDF musical score reader?

Background: I'm dithering about whether to buy an iPad or Android tablet, and music score reading is an important use case for me. Knowing there's a good way to get the job done will influence my choice.

I have found only one other question in Android.SE, Auto scrolling PDF reader?. They ask only about the auto-scrolling feature, which is one I actually don't find so important.

There is a Music.SE site, but they consider questions like this one out of scope.

Update: rephrased into a "How can I do X?" question per Android.SE meta discussion.


texts: I had a Android Dev G1 phone (which has long since bitten the dust). it was running android 1.0 (later updated to 1.5). I have just gotten a HTC Desire running 2.2. There was a nice ringtone on the 1.0 that i'd like to get again. Is there anyway to download the ld ringtones that were on 1.0?


texts: Xposed goes into bootloop -Can I still make Xposed work somehow? (Device Pipo X8)

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I have installed Xposed onto my Android device and it doesn't work and goes into a bootloop. If I disable Xposed I get out of the bootloop so no problem there, except that I really need for Xposed to work. Is there something I can try to make it work? I tried rm -r /data/dalvik-cache but it doesn't help. What else can I do?

The device is a Pipo X8 media center with Android 4.4.4 and Windows dual boot, however I only use Android. For Kernel-version it says:

  3.10.20-00003-g7240abc-dirty ibuilder@Exdroid #26 Thu Jul 23 17:21:56 CST 2015


texts: What's the input current draw for the Nexus 4?

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I am trying to find the maximum possible current draw of the Nexus 4 when recharging the battery.

The adapter that comes with the Nexus, supplies 1.2A
The Qi Charging Station needs 1.8A

But I can't find the actual maximum current that can be drawn by the Nexus. I am using a battery pack that supplies around 2A and it only can keep the Nexus running (when playing Ingress), but doesn't really recharge it. I wonder if this is caused by the batteries 2A maximum output or if it's due to the nexus having an upper limit it can handle.


texts: I have a kindle fire hd and I printed some papers but they had errors on them which are now fixed but the print jobs are still on my kindle and I can't clear all to erase them.


texts: Use an android phone as a monitor screen with AV-in wire?

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I'd like to use my phone instead of a TV as a small display monitor (with a cable, not wifi). I have a couple of devices which have AV out on them, what I'd like to do is show their output on my phone (for example a MFT camera, so i can use it as a video monitor without having any special apps controlling it, or for a baby monitor that doesn't have wifi, it could plug in and i could see the feed on the phone and take screenshots perhaps)?

Is such a thing possible? I have found the right cable on amazon (male to male, micro usb to mini usb) but i don't know if it'll just work? I have a Sony Xperia Z3 (f that makes any difference).


texts: How can I see a list of running apps with root privileges

texts: I'm running CyanogenMod and recently the # sign showed up in my status bar. Now I wonder which program / app is causing this / is using root access. Is there a way to show a list of running apps which use root privileges?


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I am relatively new to Android, my primary use case right now is repackaging a webapp into a webview app. I have repackaged mobile-friendly websites into apps before.
Depending on certain conditions, I want the server to push a notification to the webview app.
What is the best way to achieve this? What tech should I use...Firebase? Also, how does the server know the device ID (to reach out in the future) for each device when the app is webview-based?


texts: What are the other "home" screens called?

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On my Samsung Galaxy SIII when I get past the lock screen there are several "home" screens, each indicated by a clickable dash, and one of these (the second one on my device) has a home icon in place of the dash and can also be accessed by two (if an app is open) or one (if no app is open) clicks of the home button. Of course one can also swipe left and right from one screen to another (or use the dashes area as a scrollbar).

Now my question: if I were to write about these "home screens" differentiating between the "main home screen" and the other "secondary home screens", so as to differentiate between these two kinds of "home screen", is this the corrrct terminology or would I call these two different kind of screens something else?

Note: I am also but not exclusively asking this question with accessibility (TalkBack) in mind. Haven't figured out how to pass from one of these screens to the next with TalkBack enabled. (when an app is closed and the launcher is shown, no matter which page, TalkBack says "home screen").


texts: How can I determine whether or not a phone can be upgraded to Android 7.XX?

texts: I’m looking at getting an Android phone, and I don’t want to rule out phones that come with Android 5.XX installed if they can be upgraded to 7.XX, but I don’t want to get a phone if it isn’t capable of being upgraded.


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I am trying to figure out when my devices (tablet, tv dongle, etc) were activated. Is there a place (in google account settings, device files, anywhere) this data can be obtained?

My devices are rooted, so I can use terminal access to read internal files if needed.

Some suggestions in the net say to find the first day of data usage in the logs, but I want to find an accurate date (preferably a timestamp) of the device activation.

I can't seem t be able to type dialer codes in a tablet, there's no phone app. Also this question is about android devices in general, not only phones.


texts: Notification settings reset after reboot

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I just bought a new smartphone and the new Android (6.0.1) has this peeking thing that really annoys me. I wanted to disable it, for example for WhatsApp, so I went to

Settings -> Sound & notification -> App notifications -> Whatsapp -> Allow peeking (off)

This solves the issue. The problem is that when I turn the device off and then turn it on again, these settings go back to default and the peeking is re-enabled without my doing anything.

Is there a way to permanently disable peeking?

EDIT:

I've found this link and option 1 seemed very promising. However, I did that and it didn't work either. Still looking for the solution, though.


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I have a strange issue. Just added some new folders in my Music folder after purchasing some new albums. Created them using Total Commander like always, transferred some mp3 files via ftp to the folders.

Now, some apps cannot find these folders or songs. It's not just my music app (Pulsar), I've tried re-installing without difference, and also tried a number of other music apps, some of them find the files and some don't. If I "open with..." the files using Total Commander the Pulsar app sees it and plays it without issue.

I have verified in terminal that chmod is the same as other and cannot see any other differences either.

Anyone have an idea of what the issue can be? Can it be related to different ways apps look for files or something?

I'm on a OP6, rooted with magisk but stock ROM.


texts: Internet Access unavailable in browsers and mail. But Youtube and Google Play worrk fine

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[EDIT] after further diagnosis I observed that I am unable to access my router via its (local)ip address in chrome but I am able to access my router via edge browser.

Chrome in my android device is unable to access any website(can't open this page error) but at the same time, it works in the Microsoft Edge app. The chrome gives some suggestion link but when I click on the suggestion link a screen overlay comes up Similar to the image below, but the overlay quickly vanishes(I suspect whatever process was called, it crashes).

I observed similar behavior in my Gmail app, when I load an click on an email it tries to open it and quickly crashes(after showing loading similar to the image below). Although I am still able to open attachments in Gmail app.

Almost all other apps like youtube, google play are working nicely.

I am using an Android device with Android Pie(9).
This problem happened Suddenly whilst the phone was idle.

I have tried disabling these apps, clearing storage, starting in safe mode.

Chrome error:

Loading screen after which crashes take place look something like this:


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I've a Sony Xperia Z tablet (SGP311) that has a specific setting to enable online backups. It reads (translated from Spanish):

  Back up application data, wifi passwords and other settings in Google servers

I wanted to do a factory reset to clean up storage so I enabled it and I waited several hours until the copy showed in Google Drive (my tablet lacks the "Backup up data now" mentioned in generic Google documentation).

After the factory reset, the wizard never offered to restore any copy. I added the Google account to the device but absolutely no data has been restored. There's no option anywhere to restore the copy. This is utterly different from my experience with an LG phone, where everything (and I mean everything) was restored automatically upon first star up.

I have two questions:

Did I misunderstand the purpose of Google backups in the context of Xperia?
Is there a way to restore the backup I have in Google Drive?

(Additionally, I copied into my desktop PC all files and folders that are possible to copy though USB and I made a backup with Xperia Companion.
 As last resource, I tried restoring the Companion backup—the program runs for a while and then closes unexpectedly... but I guess that's another question.)


texts: android how to remove white square shortcut icon from screen

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I am using phone with android 4.4.4 version. yesterday suddenly one white square appeared on my screen which looks like shortcuts for keys. It is very much annoying as it appears in all screens, no matter which application I am using. I want to remove/disable it as it permanently.

I searched a lot on internet and I tried to check in settings also but nothing worked out. please help me as this is too irritating. I wonder how google could make such bad feature. Please find the screenshots below.

Problem marked in red circle.

When I click on square button

Please note , There is no mobility tab under my "settings>System>accessibility>"


texts: Is it possible to do a complete image backup of an Android device via USB connected to a Windows PC without the Android device being rooted?

texts: I recently purchased a Nexus 7 tablet from Google and I also have a Samsung Skyrocket from AT&T. Neither of the devices is rooted. I'm not too enthusiastic yet about rooting either of them, especially since it voids warranties and severely limits support options. Is there a way to obtain a complete image backup of either (or both) of these devices via the USB port on my Windows computer? If so, how? Thank you!


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I try, to connect my android emulator (from sdk) to the lan via a network bridge and a tap interface and with the -qemu option. I need it to use multicast addresse in native library code for communication with IoT devices connected to the lan.

But depending the image version an achitecture (x86 or ARM) I have different behaviours.

For ARM image (Android 7.1.1 armeabi-v7a) the bridge work perfectly. Dhcp client work automaticly after boot time. I can ping the lan gateway, google ... and the multicasting work. But the nic add to the emulator is not present via ip link or ifconfig, it is hidden, and default route is not present !! strange thing. The emulator is no pingable from the outside.

For X86 image (Android 7.1.1 google_apis/x86), the bridge work perfectly. Dhcp client work and the guest nic is configured. I can ping the lan gateway, google ..., the multicasting work, and the nic is visible (eth1). But to ping the gateway or other host, I must use ping -I to specify the nic interface, the emulator use slirp network and it is not pingable from the outside.

It is possible to make the emulator pingable from the outside ?

It is possible to use ping in x86 emulator without to use -I option for ping ?

It is possible to see the network nic attach in the ARM emulator ?

thank for your help.


texts: ICS - no internet, but access to network drive possible

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I've set up wifi on an ICS phone.

I can connect to a network drive in the system, so the connection seems to be OK. However when I try the browser I get the message 'problem loading page'.

I used static IP and I just copied the settings from my laptop that can access internet fine with these settings (of course I used different IP adresses for laptop and phone).

Also e-mail and other apps that need internet connection don't work. If enabled 3G connection works OK.

Apart from the 'problem loading page' message there a no other error notifications.

Maybe a know issue for somebody?


texts: Migrate media to external storage in Marshmallow

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In versions of Android prior to Marshmallow 6.0, the Storage Manager (in Settings) had an option to move media to external storage.

Now, this option appears to to have disappeared. How can I still do this?


texts: How can I access the folders where Firefox mobile stores its application data

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I know the information is supposed to be at data/data/org.mozilla.firefox/ but I cannot seem to view/access them.

My device is rooted, and I've checked device storage as well as external storage, using multiple file browsers.

Specifically I'm trying to find where it stores the information that it saves for the top sites tab.


texts: How to reactivate Google Assistant after deactivating by changing Language?

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I had got Google Assistant for my Android device. However, I prefered Now On Tap for few features like the ones mentioned here and deactivated Assistant by changing the language settings as mentioned here.

But I was wondering how do I reactivate the Google Assitant, I tried changing back the language to English(US) in Settings -> Google-> Search -> Search Language but to no avail.

How do I get back the assistant if I ever plan on using it?


texts: Samsung Mega 6.3 i9205 problem*does not have proper root*

texts: After I root my phone, I downloaded Super SU from here and after I press in Super SU, it ask me to update my su binary but after a long time it got stuck on (installing please wait...) then I tried to check whether my phone is rooted or not by using root checker. At last the answer is does not have proper root. Please help!


texts: I have a LG Unify, which has a pathetic 1.2 gigs of internal storage and I put in a 16 gig SD Card which is showing up, but all the apps pile on to the internal one and there is no Move App to SD Card option either. I have rooted it and installed numerous app2SD apps, with no luck. Any help?


texts: Can I connect Gamepad for Nexus Player on smartphone?

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With the new gamepad for the Nexus Player that came out earlier this year, can we connect this gamepad to a smartphone like the Nexus 5 to play games or it only connects to the Nexus Player? It uses Bluetooth 3.0, at first sight it should work but maybe it uses a different Bluetooth protocol just like the PS3 controller.

Gamepad for Nexus Player:
https://play.google.com/store/devices/details/Gamepad_for_Nexus_Player?id=nexus_player_gamepad&hl=en


texts: Can an Android device send a fax traditionally?

texts: Can an android device send a fax without internet access, only via a phone/voice connection? (Since a message over the internet isn't really a fax now is it?)


texts: What are all the "DiskCacheIndex*.tmp" files on my phone?

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I have about a dozen files named DiskCacheIndexnnnnnn.tmp in my /mnt/sdcard, where nnnnnnn is some number.  All of these are emtpy:

What are they for?

Who created them?

Is it safe to remove them?


texts: How to fix Cyanogenmod 7 hanging on boot animation after NO firmware changes

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I've been using my Google Nexus S with Cyanogenmod 7 for about a year now. Sometimes it rebooted out of the sudden or locked up but all in all worked well.

Today I rebootet the phone und since then it hangs during boot at the animation with the rotating circle.

How do I fix the phone and get it booting again?

Unlike many issues I found on the web I did not play with the firmware recently. Unfortunately it's been quite long since the last backup. I need to dig my data from the device.

Ways acceptable for me to go:

analyzing and fixing the issue
getting all my data and install new firmware (while updating to CM10)

Analyzing the issue

I installed the Android SDK on my computer (for adb and fastboot) and successfully ran ClockworkMod Touch Recovery image which proves the the phone hardware is actually fine. Copying files from the /sdcard directory worked and I could open a shell but adb logcat doesn't work for me. The program keeps "waiting for device".

This is what I had done before:

phone hung and restarted by removing and reinserting battery
date and time were set to 2005-01-01 00:00, reset (never had that before)
installed or updated several apps through F-Droid app "store"

installed And Bible
updated Barcode Scanner
maybe updated/installed something else, but can't remember because I browsed through F-Droid quite a long time and read dozens of app descriptions

status bar crashed, phone still usable but started reboot to get status bar again
Booom! Phone hangs forever on boot animation

I have the feeling that the Google logo with the open lock which is displayed before the CM boot animation begins stays longer than before. But I am everything but sure.

Making backup

As I cannot run any backup apps I have difficulties doing a reliable backup. I set up my phone not to sync most of my data to Google. Yes, I missed doing regular backups for some time because I find doing so is not elegantly possible with Android (compared to tar c /home or even mksquashfs or rsnapshot on Linux).

What I need at least in declining order of priority:

calendar
contacts
some app's data
saved wireless credentials

What I already got using ClockworkMod Touch Recovery:

copying /sdcard with adb pull
Running backup from the ClockworkMod Touch Recovery menu -- I have no clue what is actually backed up

The ideal way would backup the whole phone so I could install CM10 and retrieve any missing data from the backup or restore the backup to get the current state.

Any suggestions?


texts: Recover deleted video in Google Photos app

texts: In Google Photos I deleted permanently a video (before it was backed-up). Is there any way that I can recover it? It's very important to me.


texts: So I came a lot of steps to root my OPPO Phone, Installed KingRoot in Android but failed to root, then tried the PC Version (Higher Success Rate) but still failed to root, I also tried KingoRoot, and got same results with KingRoot in Android And PC, and also I tried this Vroot (iRoot) but still did not solve this. I also tried  this  thread but I'm stuck at ADB Devices which returns me offline devices. And lastly installing Custom Recovery but the problem is, my device is not supported. So is there any way (longer way) to do it with PC ?  Thanks in advance !


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I have an LG 768 device. It is running Android 4.04 with Kernel version 3.0.21 and build number IMM76L. I can find no way to encrypt the device. None of the menus lead to an option to encrypt.

Has anyone figured out a way to encrypt this device?


texts: Does it take up less space to save contacts to my SIM card or device? My phone only has 8MB and I wanna do whatever saves more space.


texts: Is it possible to have Skype for Android automatically answer calls?

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I have this working well for the Skype client on Ubuntu Linux, but I don't see any option to do this in the Android client.

I would like to configure the Skype client for Android to automatically answer calls from contacts.  Is this possible?

Thanks!


texts: Why am I not allowed slashes in the proxy setting?

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HTC/Android 4.4.2

I am trying to set up VPN at work, which requires me to define a proxy server. I can long-tap on the staff WiFi name and enable advanced options, which allows me to define the proxy and port – except that the Save button seems to grey-out or not depending on what I type. It seems to be validating the proxy address as I type.

My problem is that our work proxy server address contains slashes, which the validation doesn't accept.  So, if I enter proxy.pac then I can save it, however, I need to enter http://xxx.com/proxy.pac

Having looked around the forums, I think this must be a fairly rare problem - I see only a few references to this field not accepting a slash (in relation to adBlock). Although this does give me some assurance that its not just me, it doesn't really seem to offer a solution - those forums seem to find either a trailing space at the end of the proxy name, or that entering the form's fields in a reverse order then enables the save button.

So my questions are:

Is this a known problem? Can it be repeated elsewhere? Am I doing something stupid?
Can a 3rd party app offer a solution? I've tried some, eg "Proxy Settings" but it too doesn't allow the slash, also seeming to attempt to validate the hostname setting and refusing to accept what I need to enter.
Would rooting the phone help me? I see a lot of the available apps for setting proxies require that the phone has been rooted - I am reluctant to do this unless I know it will solve my problem.
I am aware there is a new release of Andriod around the corner... perhaps somebody with hands-on experience can see whether this problem still exists (simply try and enter a string with a slash in it for proxy settings, if you can press enter then I'll be first in the queue to upgrade when its available for me)

Any help/comments much appreciated!


texts: Difference between VLingo and the built in Voice functionality in Android?

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My wife is contemplating an Android phone, and loved the demo she saw of VLingo on a Blackberry.  I keep noting that this is all built in and free on Android.  I imagine since they are cross coding anyway, might as well offer it for Android at least (It IS offered for Android, as well as iPhone and Blackberry).

So a couple of things:
What are the differences between VLingo and the built in functionality?
Are there other alternatives?

I like the Google technology currently used, and am playing with VLingo on my Blackberry, and am not so impressed yet.  I am waiting to be wowed.


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I am having a problem with my ringtone on my Galaxy S9+.

Suddenly, my ringtone has become extremely soft - as if it was on the lowest possible setting (except mute).

However, it is on the highest, so it's definitely not a problem with the setting.

It is not a problem with the speaker because I hear well during calls or watching videos.
Furthermore, when I select the ringtone to change it, the sample play is perfect.
It is only when someone tries to phone that the problem occurs.

I have tried restarting the phone, going into safe made and many other things and can't seem to solve the problem.
It's almost as if it thinks it is sending the ringing to my air-pods. However, the bluetooth is turned off so it is definitely not connected.

Until recently it was only intermittent but now it is happening all the time.

It also happens with incoming WhatsApp calls.

I am using an mp3 for my ringtone but it happens also with build-in tones.

Software Information:
Android 10
Baseband version: G965FXXU8DTC5
Kernel Version: 4.9.118-18339721
Build: QP1A.190711.020.G965FXXU8DTC5


texts: Nexus 6P - Fix "No Command" with a broken volume button

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So, I have broken my Volume Up button. And my phone has gone into a "No Command" mode that does not let me turn my phone on.

Since my volume up is stuck and not working, how do I reset the phone so that I can go back to using it? I am able to get to the reboot screen by pressing the Power and Volume Down. But cannot proceed further because my Volume Up does not work.

Is there a way to fix this? Thanks!


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I had a rockpi 4B , so I grabbed this image rockpi-4b-rk3399_box-android9-20200522_1559_2f865d4-gpt.img
what does GPT means ? I am wondering if I can straight away burn it on memory card and plug it into rockpi and boot it up ?


texts:
Google Inc "owns" most of the apps made by Google for Android.
However, there are notable ones that most would consider Google apps, such as

Ingress by Niantic Inc.
Sky Map by Sky Map Devs.

Does someone know a list of all the developer ids used for Google-created android apps?


texts: How to change date and time format on Marshmallow?

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I'm using a Nexus 5X with Android 6.0.1, patch level January 2016. I'd like to change the system language to English but like to keep my local date format. In versions prior to Marshmallow, there was an option to set the date format, but I can find it anymore...

How do I set the UI language to English and the date format to DD.MM.YYYY or YYYY-MM-DD?


texts: Battery Problem in Samsung Galaxy Tab GT-P7510

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I have a Galaxy Tab 10.1 (GT-P7510) with Android 3.2 and I have the following problem:

I can´t turn on the tablet. I tried all the different ways with the power button, pressing 5, 10 , 100 seconds, nothing happens.
If I plug in to the power the tablet shows me 100% of the battery charged.
The only way to turn it on is with the tablet plugged into the power and press the power button plus the Volume +, then in the Android system recovery I have to choose reboot system now.
If I unplug it the tablet shuts down.
If I plug it in to the USB port the tablet doesn't work because the USB port doesn't have enough power to turn the tablet on. The tablet only turns on with the wall power supply.

I tried with the factory default in the Android System Recovery option, nothing happens.

Finally, the tablet shows fully charged when it's working and gives me the message "Battery full charged, please unplug the charger" If I do it the tablet will shut down.

Can anyone help me?

Is it possible that I have to calibrate the Battery? How can I do it?


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I have a Samsung Galaxy S5. A few weeks ago, my video camera stopped working. Every time I press the video button, the following message appears:

  Security Policy prevents video recording

I have tried every recommendation, but I am still seeing this notice.

How can I get rid of this issue to record again?


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I can't seem to find the option to enable USB tether in CyanogenMod 7.0.1 . Several pages and forum threads mention a checkbox under Wireless & network setting, but i don't have it.
Is there anything i need to do to get this to show up? Is this not supported anymore? What USB mode should I select? The phone is a Motorola Milestone, computer runs Windows 7 x64.


texts: Change Settings' color scheme in Lollipop

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Someone was fiddling with my Android (version 5.1.1) phone and somehow managed to change the Settings' color scheme.

I've tried to reset the theme to no avail. I've also noticed some notifications come through with white text (assuming related issue).

(Click image to enlarge)


texts: Am I able to add a data-only sim-card to my dual-sim smartphone?

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I've a OnePlus 3 which has dual sim functionality. Of course I've also a single common smartphone sim which provides me with a telephone number and internet access.

Since there are pretty cheap data-only sim cards (they are commonly used for laptops, tablets etc.) I wondered if my smartphone is able to handle such. It would increase my speed, coverage and data volume for just little money. Also I don't have to deal with two telephone numbers.

Does this actually work? Is it a good idea?


texts: what's this symbol mean ( square with 3 curved lines)

texts: The leftmost icon(rectangular) on above screen shot showed up yesterday. I don't know, where or what app it's for but I would like it gone.


texts: Configure Android for ONLY IPv6 on T-Mobile

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I figured out how to configure a dual-stack IPv4/IPv6 "Access Point" for T-Mobile connectivity on my Samsung Galaxy Nexus, with stock Android 4.2.2. For some reason, when I visit http://myglobalip.com, I'm still getting an IPv4 address returned in addition to the IPv6 address.

Question: How do I configure the "Access Point" so that it only gets an IPv6 address, and not an IPv4 address?

My current IPv6 "Access Point" configuration looks like:

APN: epc.tmobile.com
Proxy: Not set
Port: Not set
Username: Not set
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MCC: 310
MNC: 260
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APN protocol: IPv6
APN roaming protocol: IPv4
Bearer: Unspecified


texts: Make sure my app is on after factory reset

texts: I'm making an app that I intend to put onto a bunch of tablets before giving them away in a give away. However obviously the people who get the tablet will use there google accounts, so is there anyway to get the app to be on the tablet after it is factory reset?