texts: Is there any custom ROM that includes a feature to permanently kill a process?

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As is well known from many blog/forum posts, Android 2.2 (Froyo) changed the mechanism for the API to kill the process such that a killed process will likely/possibly be re-started by the OS after being killed. E.g. there is no way to PERMANENTLY 100% guaranteed to stop an application from running short of un-installing it.

Question: Is there any code out there (likely part of some custom ROM) that allows permanent killing of a process without re-spawning it afterwards ala Android 1.6?

I'm mostly interested if such code exists, NOT whether it is in some specific ROM.

I don't much care about specific implementation way (I can think of at least two - either add a new API for "permanent kill" or provide a blacklist of apps that a modified AOSP API would respect).

UPDATE: Just to clarify - I am NOT looking for a way to prevent an app from being started again due to some event triggering an Intent that the app registered with. I am asking about preventing apps from being started by memory/process manager just because it was recently killed, even if that app has no Intents registered whatsoever, e.g. not listed in Autostarts app for any of the Intent types.

Please note that the above-mentioned notion of "restarting an app just because" comes from 2 sources:

Froyo help section for a well-regarded system app "Watchdog"

  Google has changed the kill API that the task killers use. In 2.2 (Froyo), the kill API now just restarts the app. It will come right back, under a new system process.

My own observations, where VERY frequently, my Droid X would have apps listed as running in ATK after I killed them, BUT those apps either don't have ANY Intents listed in Autostarts app, or all the Intents listed for them there are 100% disabled. Oh, and these are the types of apps (e.g. games) that are very unlikely to have a side daemon process responsible for reviving them.


texts: How can I make Windows remember my Galaxy S3

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Whenever I tether my Galaxy S3 to my laptop, using the built-in functionality from the Network Settings, Windows considers it a completely new connection: It labels the network "Network X" (with X being an incrementing counter) and asks for information on the type of network.

Is there a way to let Windows treat all of my tethering as a single connection and make it stop asking for the connection type?


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I'm going to stay on topic and make the long story short. My phone (International Galaxy S3) has its USB port broken and can't replace it because I messed it up when I was on it. Since then I use an external battery charger.
Now I need to root my phone and flash a custom recovery and since the easy way (Odin) is with USB I have to try something else.
I have already tried rooting with different apps (Framaroot, towelroot, KingRoot) with no success.

I have been reading on internet to figure out a way to root it or flash a custom recovery but everything comes into a dead end.
One of the possible solution I have found is rooting phone via Android Stock Recovery (the 3e one), but this would require a signed update.zip. Is this possible or it could hard-brick my phone? If it is possible, how do I make it?

The zip file needs to be signed and have a certain folder organization (META-INF and system). I could sign it with an app I discover in xda forums called Sign'em (can this work out?). But I have no idea about folder organization of the update.zip file. I downloaded a file called "Update-SuperSU" from chainfire's website which comes with META-INF folder but instead of system there are 3 extra folders: common, arm and x86. Is it the same?

If there is another way to root the phone or flash a custom recovery to do so, please tell me. Any help will be appreciated


texts: Updating Android without Manufacturer support (Not with a custom ROM but with a different approach)

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Summary for the inpatient: I want to run a new version of Android on an old smarphone (s3mini).

(Sorry for bad English, I'm German. Feel free to correct my grammar in the comments)

Hello Programmers and Android fans,

as you might know, most Android smartphones only receive updates for a short amount of time until the hardware manufacturer stops supporting that smartphone. For example my smartphone (s3mini GT-I8200N) still has Android 4.2.2, which is obviously not ideal.

Please correct me if I understand something wrong here, but AFAIK all data on the phone, including the drivers get deleted if I flash a custom ROM (eg. Stock Android 7.0 or LineageOS). Because the manufacturer (in this case Samsung) does not publish their drivers, the community has to write their own drivers for every smartphone (which are obviously not as good as drivers written by the manufacturer because they know the hardware better).

It is possible to get a root shell on the smartphone / run my own program as root on the smartphone. Because a root process can read/write every file on the device except the kernel, and Android 7.0/LineageOS is publicly available  it should be possible to write a program that updates every single android system file. Updating the kernel with root privileges shouldn't be a problem either since the linux kernel is signed. So that's the plan:

Step 1: Download and compile Android 7.0/LineageOS

Step 2: Copy CompiledAndroid7.0.tar and the program on the smartphone

Step 3: Start the program with root rights

Step 4: The program terminates every other process

Step 5: The program deletes every file on the smartphone except drivers, the kernel, kernel modules, bootloader related files, the Program itself and CompiledAndroid7.0.tar

Step 6: The program unpacks CompiledAndroid7.0.tar in the root dir (/) (The program has to be able to unpack a .tar file without any other software except the kernel. But this shouldn't be hard to do, just Copy+Paste from open source unpackaging software).

Step 7: Install the new signed kernel (via syscall) and reboot.

Now you have an old smartphone with Stock Android 7.0/LineageOS and the original drivers!

Could this work in principle or did I understood something wrong about the way Android Smartphones work?

One comment said that Step 4 could crash my phone. A nice work-around would be that the program replace init with a copy of itself and then runs "sudo reboot"

Do old kernel modules/drivers work with new Linux versions? If not, why?

UPDATE

I want to thank all of you for your help. The idea from above won't work, so I have to get mad at google for not having good android update servers and not making sure old kernel modules work and get mad at Samsung because they do not publish driver source or updated drivers. If I find the time to do so, I will check if LineageOS supports my device and if not, write drivers.


texts: What can I do to save my Samsung Galaxy from a bootloop?

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I have a relatively old phone that I would like to make some use of again. It's the GT-I9000, and it's currently stuck in a bootloop.

I'd like to install CyanogenMod on it. I've already flashed it with the CWM, however, I'm experiencing problems when trying to finally put the actual mod on the internal sd card.

First off, when I execute:
adb push cm.zip /sdcard, ADB complains that /sdcard is a directory... Of course it is!

So, I've tried to be a bit more specific... adb push cm.zip /sdcard/Videos - I didn't expect any significant change, but there was. It now complained about the permission being denied.

I overcame this on Linux by becoming root, and executed the command again...

Then, it complained about not having enough space...

I used the CWM recovery to navigate internal storage, and noticed that it really was crammed with all my data.

In order to get more space, I tried factory resetting, data wiping, and partitioning. The first two finished successfully, but didn't delete any of my files, and CWM recovery couldn't partition the thing.

After that, I noticed that ADB can provide a shell connection, so I tried adb shell.

On both Windows and Linux, this is the error:

link_image[1963]:  2950 could not load needed library 'libm.so' for '/system/bin/sh' (reserve_mem_region[832]: OOPS:  2950      prelinked library 'libm.so' mapped at 0x40008000, not at 0xafc00000)CANNOT LINK EXECUTABLE

So I suspect it has something to do with my Android phone, not my computers.

And the best thing is: my phone cannot read external cards for some reason. What a great combination!

How can I wipe internal storage without a shell connection?


texts: Recent apps getting closed without closing them

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Samsung S9 -
In the recent apps view, the apps that were used recently are getting closed automatically.
If you do not use an app for more than one hour, then the app gets closed.

My phone forced me for an update, but after the update the apps in the recent apps view were getting closed automatically.

In the previous versions / before the update, I manually needed to close them in the recent apps.

How to prevent the apps in the recent apps not to get closed?

Steps to reproduce the issue:

Open 10 apps.
Go to the navigation bar.
Hit the recent apps button.
You can see the few of the applications that were used recently
Wait for a period of 6-7 hours/not to use the app in that time frame.
Most of the apps were closed automatically without closing them in the recent apps.

I found others with the same issue here


texts: Baseband > 2.0.1700.48 won't work without proximity and light sensor working?

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I have the same circumstances as Nexus 4: Stuck on boot animation for baseband version != 2.0.1700.48 and android version > 4.3. I have repeated the first two sets of tests, with precisely the same result. I am currently running build JWR66Y (4.3) which comes with baseband 2.0.1701.0, which I have back-patched with the baseband from the previous release, 2.0.1700.48. Attempts to upgrade past 4.3 fail.

The coincidence that stands out is that I, too, just had a screen repair done. Before my screen broke I was happily running 5.1. Even after the screen repair, with a broken proximity sensor in place, it still ran 5.1 just fine. The trouble happened with I returned to the tech who fixed the screen with a complaint about the proximity sensor. The tech insisted that he could not get the proximity sensor to work. We finally agreed that he could just leave it out. That lead to the current problem.

So I wonder if the difference between baseband 2.0.1701.05 and 2.0.1700.48 is that 2.0.1701.05 checks for either the proximity sensor or the light sensor (they are on the same board) during startup, and hangs the boot  waiting for the sensor(s) to come ready. This idea could be tested by repeating the test before and after doing surgery on a working Nexus 4. That's a lot of work, and fortunately I can't do it myself (no working Nexus 4 proximity/light sensor board!). But maybe someone has relevant experience.

If you look around on the net, you see lots of Nexus 4 problems relating to 4.3->4.4 upgrades failing, lots of Nexus 4 problems relating to the proximity sensor breaking after screen replacement, and several apps that do nothing but disable broken proximity detectors. There also hints that the exact placement of the rubber grommet separating the proximity and light sensors from the front glass is critical.

The reason my question is interesting is that I could go back to the tech and ask him to replace the proximity sensor (so the thing boots in 5.1) and hopefully adjust the sensor grommet (so the proximity sensor works). Even if the proximity sensor never works again, I could still use one of the software solutions that disables the proximity sensor.


texts: I want a smart phone that I can lock in DNS settings. Is Android "the one"

texts: It is all about being the internet boss. I want to be able to lock in or password protect the DNS settings to OpenDNS, so I can have a safe smartphone, that my kid can use with no fear of accessing pr0n or whatever. Anybody know if this is possible? I don't want to use another method of content filtering.


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I got a Huawei Mate SE and have been using it for a few weeks. I've noticed on the internet that it should have the Oreo (8.0) Android update, but I don't see the update option on my phone. Usually, it should be the bottom option in the settings or an app icon on my launcher but it's not there.

My phone was rooted and I had the bootloader unlocked, but I un-rooted it and relocked the bootloader and still can't update. The themes app is back, which goes away when it's unlocked, but I would like to get the latest EMUI version on my phone. Any ideas to get this functionality back? I have also tried factory reset after I relocked it and un-rooted it but no luck.


texts: Repartition internal storage with 0mb (tablet has 8 gigs!)

texts: How do i repartition the storage so i get my tablet back. I accidentally formatted it and twrp corrupted the memory! it now says I have 0mb avaliable! help!


texts: How to remove in-game visual bugs on the S6?

texts: So after moving my apps from the S3 to the S6 on 5.0.2 a lot of my games and other apps have a visual bug constantly on the screen. But this bug is not present on the S3. Is there any way to remove it?  That circle bug can be moved around the screen too but does nothing when clicked on. Like this:


texts: Is there a way to select text directly in Android?

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I would like to edit some text on my way home, however I found that in Android there is no way to simply select some text to delete or change it. You have to first locate the cursor or long press the screen to enable selection, then drag the cursor for selection. This is quite inconvenient.

I tried Jota Text Editor, 920 Editor, Note Everything and Evernote - no one offers a simple method to select text directly.

Is there any way to do this?


texts: Can't download apps from Google Play store via mobile network

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I have a Sony Xperia sola in Egypt. I bought it with Gingerbread, then I upgraded to ICS 4.0.4. After the upgrade, I became unable to download any apps from Google Play using my mobile network, and while using Wi-Fi the download is slower than before the upgrade.

I tried all available solutions like clearing cache or clearing data from Google Play or Google Services Framework, in Settings -> Apps -> All. How can I fix this problem? As it is very serious, many times I'm at places without Wi-fi and I need to download a missing app, or upgrade another one.


texts: How do I customize the look/feel of my lock screen?

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I have a Samsung Droid Charge (running 2.2) and it comes with two lock screen slider styles: Glass and Puzzle. Is there any way to get additional styles? I've done quite a bit of searching but haven't found anything.

Note that I'm not looking for an app. I'm specifically looking for more system styles, if they exist.

Do they exist?


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I have created a group for chat on Viber and one person joined the group.

How can I remove that person?


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This might be a replica, I have searched and not found a similar question.

I currently have the HTC One M8 and am planing on getting a 1GiB Data pack, knowing me who uses internet over the top I would like my internet to get cut at lets per say at the peak of 1GiB. So as soon as I reach it, it gets cut off fully.

I have tried the Android Data limiter and it always fails me.
I have not found any reliable applications (I will pay if worthy)
Location is Ontario and my provider is Fido


texts: How can I set a user profile password in Jelly Bean 4.2?

texts: Tablet's users will be able to use different profiles since JB 4.2, defined at system settings level (settings -> user profiles). How can I set a password for each profile?


texts: How to upgrade from one version of Cyanogenmod to another?

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I am fairly new to rooting / putting custom ROMs on devices; I finally have my phone in a state that I like, after putting Cyanogenmod 7 on my HTC Desire Z. Since I've done this, there have been a few point releases, and a minor release is not far away. However, I don't really know how to upgrade from one version to another (and I couldn't find any instructions on how to do so).

How do I upgrade from one version of Cyanogenmod to another? Is it the same process as installing it in the first place? Will I have to wipe all the data on my phone, as I did the first time?


texts: Does sharing installed apps pose a risk of sharing personal data?

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Let's say I install an app on my phone from the play store. Now I want to give this app to a friend. I use an app called File Commander to share an installed app via bluetooth.

Will any settings or data used in my app also be sent with the apk, or just the app itself?

Thank you.


texts: How to update Android System WebView on MIUI

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I'm on rooted MIUI 10 8.8.9 Android 8.1

Currently there is WebView version 62.0.3202.84 installed inside /system/app/WebViewGoogle/WebViewGoogle.apk with /oat/arm and /oat/arm64 directories containing *.odex and *.vdex files

I've tried to just install newer *.apk, but I get following error "Can't install system applications from unofficial channels".


texts: Install Android-x86 in Virtualbox VM, then root it

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Problem

I want to install Android in a VM to restore a backup using Titanium Backup. For this to work I need Android to be rooted.

What I tried

I've tried to install Android-X86 4.3 in a Virtualbox VM. The installation seems to work. I made a 8GB partition disk (sda1), made it bootable, and installed Android in it from an ISO file. This all seems to work. Android starts, I can browse the internet, install apps, etc. Then I want to restart the VM, and guess what?! I go back to the installation screen, like starting up from the ISO live image.

For normal stuff I can make a snapshot, start that up, and do anything. My problem is that I need root permission to restore a Titanium Backup in that VM. And I cannot root this VM because the disk is not writeable. With ALT-F1 I become root, and I can use a script to root Android. But my guess is that I'm still on the ISO and that is not writeable.

Update - another try with Android 4.2

As mentioned in the comments, 4.3 would have problems with root access. I tried 4.4, which didn't start at all. Then I tried 4.2, which has the same problem as 4.3 for me. I made a screenshot of what I see when I try to run the rootscript, which is described here.

You can see the errors: rm failed - Read only filesystem

How can I fix this?

My question

How can I install Android permanently on this VM, so it can reboot and then be rooted?


texts: My Samsung Galaxy S Duos GT-S7582 does not start

texts: My phone GT-S7582 does not start when powered on it only displays Samsung GALAXY S DUOS GT-S7582 and also it does not enter in to the download mode.


texts: Instant read/write sync with iCal calendars avoiding the use of google calendars

texts: After using iphone/mac for a lot of time, I got a new android phone. I use on my macbook only ical calendars, and wonder what is the best app for syncing ical with my android phone. I have read something that you can sync first ical to google calendars and so on, but I Wonder if we can avoid this workaround.


texts: how to bypass screen lock password on Ira Comet (2012 model)?

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How do I bypass screen-lock password on Ira Comet (2012 model)? From Wishtel. No specific tutorials on this model online.
In trying to hard reset:--
I cannot get into recovery mode, I mean, not all the way. It stops at the  stage of the fallen down Android with the exclamation mark. No text lines appear to choose further reset settings, no matter what button-combinations I use (power+volume-up, etc etc)! After a while of just waiting the tab goes off entirely. I can of course restart it to the normal screen with image n lock-screen prompt.
The tablet is wifi, but the screen was locked when the internet as off so cannot access the net. I am not even getting any prompt to reset the password no matter how many wrong passwords I type in one after the other. It does not seem to have any reset pinhole either. It has no usb debugging done either.
Can anyone suggest a way to unlock the password, or how to go to full recovery mode on it?


texts: Applications on Android are not using Certificate Pinning

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I'm doing a study for university and part of this study is to gather a group of android applications and check which of these applications use Cert Pinning. I am doing this by using fiddler as a proxy(I have also download fiddler certificate on my Android Phone) the applications which work normally do not have certificate pinning while the others who stop working do have certificate pinning.
The problem is that all the applications are working normally, this include applications such as youtube, gmail, play store. This means I can capture the traffic on Fiddler from these apps. My friend tried this as well on a more modern Android device and he is not able to capture any traffic from the mentioned apps and also from other apps which most probably have cert pinning. However I am able to capture from most applications ( but not from facebook, instagram and tiktok).
Does this have to do with my Android version, I have android 5.1.1. Does anyone have an idea what is the causing this, and if there's a way to enable certificate pinning ?
TIA


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Few days ago, I played a video in Facebook app. Today, I tapped the same video just to know that the video was cached locally.

From where can I get this cache?


texts: Galaxy S contacts - Media tab. What is it for?

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Called supplier and researched the web no one seems to know.
Go to contacts. Select a specific contact. Look at the top of the screen.

It lists four tabs   Info -- History -- Activities  -- Media.

Does anyone know what the media is for and how to use it.

Rogers and samsung cannot even tell me?

Frustrated


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I recently got a Nexus 7 (this year's model), and I can't seem to be able to add movies to it properly. I dragged a bunch of directories, each containing a video file and a subs file to the Movies directory in /sdcard, but they aren't recognized properly by the default movie player (Google Play Movies). Instead, they show up in the gallery. The formats are either mp4 or mkv (x264 with ac3 or aac).

Where should the files go so they don't show up in the gallery and do show up in the movie player?


texts: Is there a way to pull stock rom from android using adb and a non-rooted android device?

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I know that in a lot of cases adb can be powerful, but adb requires root access under certain circumstances, so my question is, if i wanted to pull my stock rom or firmware from my device, can i do it using adb and a non-rooted android device?

The reason for doing so is i know for a fact, hours of researching, that a few of my android devices do not have root availability due to locked bootloader and recovery, ext.

I want to make root available for my device any way i can, even if i have to build my own rom and flash it so it can flash other files (Samsung devices run through odin, and not fastboot)

NOTE: I am NOT looking to backup my device, i simply want the stock files so i can create custom flashable files for odin. Also, i do intend on rooting my device later, so temporary root, could help achieve what i want.


texts: My phone can't read my memory card and my memory card mounted as internal storage in marshmallow operating system. How can i get my data back?, in my setting it show memory 91 gb to 119gb but directory not exist, no data found all app that i run in my memory are gone. Some one please help me.


texts: How to edit update.zip to prevent fastboot removal and recovery reverting to stock?

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I have an Alcatel Idol 3 (6045Y variant) with TWRP and yesterday i received the Marshmallow update notification. As other users noticed, this update also removes fastboot commands and reverts the recovery back to stock. Now, i have downloaded the update.zip file and transferred it on my PC in order to edit updater-script (possibly other files?) so i can keep fastboot and/or TWRP. If this is my updater-script content, am i safe with removing this line and keep TWRP?

package_extract_dir("recovery", "/system");

Please note recovery folder contains file recovery-from-boot.p and bin folder which contains this script.

Also, some devs at XDA reported we can't have both fastboot commands and a working Marshmallow system, why is it so? Can't i simply remove the line where it flashes the new aboot partition (which, i'm not sure, contains fastboot commands)?


texts: Andoird P - How to join mp4 files splitted by the camera

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I've done multiples videos larger than 4GB with my Pixel 2XL installed with Android P. The camera as splitted my video in 2 files from continuous shooting. In all cases, the first file is readable but, for the second, I can only see the lenght of the video:

Is there a way or a tool to join these files or to repair the second one ?

I've already try a binary copy with "copy \b" and "cat", a join with ffmpeg -f concat and an append with avidemux without success.


texts: Does TWRP backup all apps and data, as opposed to ADB?

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I need to backup every single user installed app, beyond system apps.
I have heard that adb backup will only backup some of these apps (the ones which allows it). Although, I'm not sure if this is the case with TWRP. Is it?
I want to make sure that when I restore, I won't have to download apps and configure them, again. If TWRP can't achive this, what can I do, alternatively?

Currently, I am running this command to backup with TWRP:
adb backup -f data.ab --twrp compress data system
Do I need to include any other partition?


texts: How to fix phone always booting into recovery even when system exists

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I installed CM 14.1 on a Nexus 6 and the first update booted into TWRP automatically to install but failed.

I manually installed the zip from the cmupdater folder and rebooted.

Now every time I try to reboot my phone or power it on from powered off it goes straight into TWRP.

Currently I have to boot into the bootloader and choose the Start option to get into my system.

Tried clearing dalvik/cache & internal storage in case something was cached somewhere. No dice.


texts: Reinstall Gallery app on Samsung Galaxy S3

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I accidently uninstalled the Gallery app that came with my Samsung Galaxy S3. I installed another gallery, but I cannot choose a photo for lock-screen.

Is it possible to reinstall the Gallery app? If it is, how do I do it?


texts: Is There A Keyboard Layout Creator for Android?

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I have created a keyboard layout for the language I speak on windows using Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator.

I want to port the same layout to Phones.

Before the cursing starts, I have done a quick research.:)
according to which:

all keyboard layouts are located at \system\usr\keylayout
all keyboard character map files are located at \system\usr\keychars
I went through the official documentation on Key Layout Files

Where Do I Stand Now?

Well, as I said in the start I have worked with a MS based app for creating keyboard layouts on Windows (obviously), The whole thing in Linux world is a bit gibberish to me at the moment because of lots of manual text file editing I guess.

So, my ultimate question is,

Is there such a tool which can help me create a new layout or import the existing layout which I created for windows to Android?

Update 2

I couldn't update my answer before because I didn't get the time.
I finally found a tool which helped me a lot. It's called Keyboard Layout Editor. Please don't forget to star this guys repo. KLE is really easy to use and functional and I could achieve my goal easily. Oh by the way this one is for Ubuntu(Linux).

For Android though, I cloned the Sample SoftKeybord  from Android source. You can download tar here. It's not a layout editor but the actual keyboard. You just edit it to suit your needs.


texts: Samsung S3: Only retrieve "contact with number" in contact search

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Synchronizing my phone with my gmail account it has imported, not only the contacts, but even all the people who I just wrote one mail in my life (even without phone number).
I have hidden this contacts checking "show only contact with number" but if I perform a search  this contacts appear. How can I really delete it, and set my phone to only consider GMail contacts (https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#contacts).


texts: Can't sync appointments from server to phone

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Verizon HTC Rezound, ICS 4.0.3.

This seems to be a common problem, especially with ICS, but I have yet to find a definitive solution that works for me.

I just got my new phone, and have gone through the basic setup including syncing the phone to my workplace Exchange account. Mail's fine (up and down), contacts are fine (down at least, not sure about up), and events created on my phone are pushed up to the server and then to my office desktop, but events already on the server do not sync down to the phone.

I found one potential solution for another HTC ICS device; delete all Calendar-based data and then remove and reinstall the Exchange account. Did that, still not working. My last phone was relatively ancient (Sony XPeria X10, Android Eclair), used TouchDown for its mail program, and had a number of problems, but appointment synchronization wasn't one of them. What's the deal?


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Device: Samsung Galaxy S2

How do I set my contact picture for text messaging, so everyone sees what I have set as my profile pic on Handcent?


texts: I would like to root my Nexus 10 without wiping its data so I can later install Ubuntu Touch on it. How should I do this?


texts: my phone was updating but was disconnected.Now it is only showing " software update failed" with a phone symbol and a command sign with a computer next. whats has gone wrong?


texts: Why does my HTC Android phone's screen switch on and then off again?

texts: The screens on my HTC Wildfire and Desire will just switch on and then off for no apparent reason.


texts: How to search one word in Firefox address bar with Google, not OpenDNS?

texts: When I search only one word (which isn't URL) in address bar, Firefox treats it as URL and Website Unavailable notification is displayed with OpenDNS search page. How to replace OpenDNS with Google here?


texts: Bluetooth disconnects when starting to play music

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I have a Jabra Move headset that has been working wonderfully for months. However, today it started having connection problems to my Motorola Moto Z: it connects and remains connected indefinitely, as long as I don't start playing any sound.

If I have sound from Google Music or Facebook, the head set plays 3 seconds, disconnects, and reconnects. I have no idea how to solve this.

Here's what I tried:

 1. Restarting mobile phone
 2. Restarting headset
 3. Reset headset
 4. Unpairing and pairing back

I am running Android 7.1.1
I have no idea how to fix this :( please help


texts: Do I need to root my phone before installing CM on my S3

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Previously I've needed to root my phone before flashing any ROMs on it. Now I have a new s3 and I'd like to install CM on it.

However, this installation guide does not mention the need to root the phone as other installation guides have in the past.

So do I need to root the phone before slashing this mod?


texts: Android applications automatically turning on when wifi is toggled on

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First of all, I have permission management installed on my custom rom and this prevents apps from randomly starting up during boot.

However, I have noticed that this is not enough to prevent some applications from running when my wifi is turned on. Why is this a problem? I found my Android seems to lag for a few seconds whilst the wifi is being turned on. So I went searching for a solution but there doesn't appear to be anything other than to use a different set of applications.

I think the problem might have something to do with connectivity monitoring (http://developer.android.com/training/monitoring-device-state/connectivity-monitoring.html & https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7094606/android-stop-start-service-depending-on-wifi-state).

Even after choosing to force stop the application, when I turn on the wifi, the app starts again. I noticed that even the Youtube app does this, although it is less obvious as there are no services running on the services tab. One of my apps does have a service running in the background and was the key reason why I decided it was time to ask if there was a solution to prevent applications from running except when I choose to open them.

Has anyone found any solutions to this problem yet?


texts: How can I unlock my phone? I locked it using Android Device Manager, but it claims I entered a wrong password

texts:
I have an Samsung Galaxy S3 Neo.

Bus 002 Device 042: ID 04e8:6860
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
GT-I9100 Phone [Galaxy S II], GT-I9300 Phone [Galaxy S III], GT-P7500 [Galaxy Tab 10.1]

The keyboard & language setting is português.

I today installed Android Device Manager and to test it's functionality I locked the phone with the password: "abcd" (4 letters were required).

After entering the password and confirming with the "OK" button of my keyboard, the phone showed me that the password is wrong. "Senha incorreta".

I reset the password after some tries to "123456" and the phone reloaded the lock screen. Again the password showed up to be wrong. I also tried the alphabetic password: "abcdefg" - same error.

I changed the language of my Google account from German to Portuguese and reset the password to "123456" again and I tried to really reboot my phone and unlock the SIM card again. But anyways I can not get through my lock of the Android Device Manager.

I tried to enter the password 35 times wrong with hope to get a chance to authenticate with my Google Account login.

I also tried to connect the phone with adb but it does not show up in this state with:

adb devices

So what can I do to get access to my phone again?


texts: How do I stream my Android screen to my mac?

texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  How do I project the screen of my android phone for a presentation?

I want to live stream my Android phone while I'm playing a game. So far, my attempt is to stream my Android's screen to my mac, then from my mac, live stream it using Procaster.

So what do I need to accomplish this? I don't have a rooted phone. I just got it so I don't want to void my warranty at any time soon.

If my approach isn't the best way to do it, what can you suggest? I've already read ( How do I project the screen of my Android phone for a presentation? ) but the solutions provided there are for rooted phones.


texts: Why sush tries to execute strings in my array as commands and how to prevent that?

texts:
When running a script that contains an array in a variable, the strings in the variable will be executed as a command, I don't need anything inside the array to be executed as a command, how to prevent that ?

I get the error sush: /su/su.d/1mount[5]: /mnt/runtime/default/MicroSD: can't execute: Is a directory

#!/system/bin/sh
count=0
LOG=/data/media/0/Logs/MicroSD.log
PARTITION="/dev/block/mmcblk1p3"
TARGET={"/storage/MicroSD" "/mnt/runtime/default/MicroSD" "/mnt/runtime/read/MicroSD" "/mnt/runtime/write/MicroSD" "/mnt/media_rw/MicroSD"}
FSTYPE=ext4
VOLDBLOCK=/dev/block/vold/179:66
[ $(wc -l $LOG) -gt 5000 ] && sed -i "1,$(($(wc -l $LOG|awk '{print $1}') - 5000)) d" $LOG
echo "$(date) Starting..." >> $LOG
for m in ${TARGET[@]}; do
    mkdir $TARGET[$m] 1>> $LOG
done
contains() {
    string="$1"
    substring="$2"
    if test "${string#*$substring}" != "$string"
    then
        return 0
    else
        return 1
    fi
}
while ! ls $PARTITION
do
    count=`expr $count + 1`
    if test $count -ge 100
    then
        break
    else
        sleep 0.1
    fi
done
mount_partition(){
    ls -d $TARGET[$i] 1>>$LOG 2>>$LOG
    if ! ls $PARTITION
    then
        echo "$PARTITION not found" 1>>$LOG 2>>$LOG
    else
        while ! ls -d $TARGET[$i]
        do
            count=`expr $count + 1`
            if test $count -ge 100
            then
                break
            else
                sleep 0.1
            fi
        done
        sleep 0.5
        if ! mountpoint -q $TARGET[$i]
        then
            mountres=`mount -t $FSTYPE -o rw $PARTITION $TARGET[$i] 2>&1 > /dev/null`
            mountret=$?
            while test $mountret -ne 0
            do
                if contains "$mountres" "nvalid argument"
                then
                    echo "\n******************************************\n2nd partition filesystem is invalid\n******************************************\n" 1>>$LOG 2>>$LOG
                    break
                else
                    count=`expr $count + 1`
                    if test $count -ge 300
                    then
                        break
                    else
                        if mount -t $FSTYPE -o rw $VOLDBLOCK $TARGET[$i]
                        then
                            break
                        else
                            sleep 0.1
                        fi
                    fi
                fi
                mountres=`mount -t $FSTYPE -o rw $PARTITION $TARGET[$i] 2>&1 > /dev/null`
                mountret=$?
            done
            mount -t $FSTYPE -o rw $PARTITION $TARGET[$i] 1>>$LOG 2>>$LOG
            mount -t $FSTYPE -o rw $VOLDBLOCK $TARGET[$i] 1>>$LOG 2>>$LOG
        else
            echo "2nd partition already mounted at $TARGET[$i] ..." 1>>$LOG 2>>$LOG
        fi
    fi
}
for i in ${TARGET[@]}; do
    mount_partition &
done
echo "\n******************************************\nMount output\n******************************************" >> $LOG
mount >> $LOG
chown 1023:1023 $LOG
chmod 770 $LOG


texts:
Is there any way to encrypt the SD card on Nokia 6.1?

I didn't find any option to do it.
(The current Android version is Android One 8.1.0)

Product page: Nokia 6.1


texts: uninstall app that was installed under another account

texts: I have an android with an app installed. The app was installed with one account that I have no access to. I removed the account but now I can't uninstall the app. Does that make sense? What can be done?


texts: Touchpal keyboard keeps disabling itself on HTC Desire

texts:
I have an HTC Desire (2.2) which I have installed TouchPal Keyboard. The problem is though it seems to keep disabling itself and reverting to the default keyboard layout.

I then have to go through the rigmarole of setting it back to TouchPal as the preferred input method.

Does anyone have any ideas?


texts:
If I'm playing a game or watching something in full screen, why does the notifications come over it? I've noticed especially whatsapp notifications fill up the screen.

I need to be able to only stop the heads up notifications when in game mode or full screen watching video, not totally turn it off. is there a way to do that?


texts: Is there a way  to schedule hibernate/shut down on an HTC Desire HD?

texts:
I'm planning to get SleepPhones, a sort of comfortable headphone which I plug into my HTC Desire HD. I would play music which puts me into sleep (hopefully) for up to 60 minutes.

Is there a way hibernate/shutdown the phone say after 90 minutes or perhaps at 2am every day to save power?


texts: Cannot flash Moto G3 2015 due to "Preflash validation failed" error?

texts:
I have a Moto G3 XT1550 phone. I had to reset the phone as its UI was restarting on its own after 1-2 minutes of usage. After the phone booted, it asked me to enter the GMail and password the phone was registered with which I did, but the phone failed to recognize the Google account credentials.

I NEVER ACTIVATED USB DEBUGGING FROM DEVELOPER OPTIONS ON 'THIS' DEVICE AS I NEVER NEEDED TO.

I performed "Wipe data/factory reset" and "Wipe cache partition" from Recovery Mode expecting that the stored Google account would be removed. But it did not. Then I came to know that it is called "Factory Reset Protection (FRP)".

Since then, I have tried everything I could find over Internet - Bypassing FRP, flash Stock ROM (100% sure downloaded a correct one), flash custom ROM, flash TWRP. All to no use. Even tried unlocking the bootloader (got the unlock code from Motorola's website from the same). Even that did not work saying:

  C:\MotoG3>fastboot oem unlock XCYJ4AZH542XAQWBJYFF

  ...

  (bootloader) Check 'Allow OEM Unlock' in Developer Options. FAILED (remote failure)

  finished. total time: 0.016s

While flashing any image from fastboot, it keeps throwing Preflash validation failed error.

C:\MotoG3>fastboot flash partition gpt.bin

target reported max download size of 268435456 bytes

sending 'partition' (32 KB)...

OKAY [  0.018s]

writing 'partition'...

(bootloader) Preflash validation failed

FAILED (remote failure)

C:\Moto G3\Mfastboot>fastboot flash recovery twrp-osprey-2.8.7-test1.img

target reported max download size of 268435456 bytes

sending 'recovery' (11170 KB)...

OKAY [  0.400s]

writing 'recovery'...

(bootloader) Preflash validation failed

FAILED (remote failure)

I've even tried an article which tells a trick to enter the phone's settings by long pressing a word in Privacy Policy of the phone and open "Define". Long pressing on a word just makes the phone vibrate and not select it.

Even attaching an OTG drive with a hope to copy FRPBypass APK to phone's memory does not work as nothing shows up on connecting the OTG drive (as against expected File Explorer opening up).

In a nutshell, I have kind-of soft-bricked my phone. Left with no other option. I don't even expect the Service Center guys to do anything that I haven't tried (expect to change the ROM chip, if ever possible).

Any help please?


texts: Galaxy S2 screen is black, but touch-screen still functional.

texts: No idea what happened, last night it was working till it ran out of battery and turned off. Woke up this morning and kind of rolled over on it with my elbow, no big deal it seemed like though. A little while later after I charged it the phone would turn on, make the sound etc but nothing on the screen, I can still feel the vibration when I try to move an icon for example. And it the computer still recognized it when plugged in, any solutions? Or am I outta luck?


texts:
My phone was stolen recently.
I read that if you have a Google account connected to your phone, the thief needs to enter your Google password when wiping the data or factory resetting it.
However, after my phone was stolen, I changed my email password and remotely logged my phone out from my account.
Should I have not done this?


texts: Acer Iconia A500 factory reset won't restart

texts:
My Acer A500 froze, with a blank screen ( complaining of low memory at that time), so I did a factory reset. Now the screen comes up with the ACER logo but doesn't do anything else within hours; I've tried to factory reset again but same effect. Any ideas on how I can force a start?
Gerry


texts: What's the best way to turn an Android device into Linux server?

texts:
I have an Android device with a broken screen and I'd like to turn it into a dedicated Linux server.
Now I'm reading articles found by googling but I'm still not sure what is the best way to do this. One way I've found so far is using Linux Deploy after rooting my phone. However, I'm still not sure it is the best and valid way since I have a little knowledge on Android and Linux.

I have listed below what I want.

A dedicated Linux server so it doesn't need to be run alongside Android. (I don't worry about its performance but I want to fully utilize the device's performance.)
A server which can be accessed via SSH clients such as PuTTY.
A full featured Linux server on which I can run Python and MySQL. (I hope it can be a replacement for my Google Cloud service.)

Can somebody give me a guide for this?


texts: How to change the temperature unit of Google's weather notification?

texts:
I have my Google Now weather set to Celsius, but when it showed on the notification bar, it's still Fahrenheit.

How to change this?

If it matters, the device is Motorola X Style with Android 7


texts: How to find history of questions Google Assistant picked up?

texts: Is there a place I can see all recorded audio that's linked to my Google Account? I had thought I turned off Google Assistant. Nevertheless, I was speaking to someone, it popped up and tried to answer a question I asked. I am positive I never used the named "Google" and don't know why it opened by itself. Was my question (or rather what Google thought it heard) saved anywhere?


texts: What happens if I remove my dropbox account from my phone so I can add another account?

texts: I want to add another account but I have to remove the other one first. Will that delete all my photos? Or can I still access my photos if I log in on my dropbox account online?


texts: Will installing Google Play services to SD Card Mess my phone up? + Google play app info uninstall updates button GONE

texts:
Okay, So i am running a Sony Xperia E1. It is not rooted or anything like that. Here is a load of information about it:

- Free space on Internal: 2GB (Enough to update GP Services, but if you read below it doesn't work.)
- Free space on SD: 31GB
- Phone, Text, Mobile data company: 3
- Model number: D2005
- Android version: 4.4.2 (Latest)
- Build number: 20.1.A.2.13
- Kernel Ver: 3.4.0-perf
- Google play version: 4.6.17
- Google play services version: 4.3.25 (1117561-038)

Why the problem happened:
I am one of the many people that get the insufficient storage error on my phone when trying to install an app from google play, but normally i just fix it by uninstalling google play updates (settings-apps-all-play store-uninstall updates  (in app info)) and then clearing my cache, however about a month ago the uninstall button wasn't there any more: just the force stop and disable buttons. So i put up with it for a bit and didn't install anything, but now my google play servives needs really badly updating.

PROBLEM:
I installed a few non-important apps like Terraria with adb shell pm set-install-location 2 (linux) which basically sets the default installation to SD Card. it worked perfectly.

QUESTION:
IF i update Google Play services and force it on to the SD Card with the code above, will it mess up my phone? I have heard that installing stuff on to the SD removes some features. And if yes, PLEASE PLEASE can someone tell me how to uninstall updates for google play??? (Read above, the button in app info is gone)

P.S. I have tried so many methods of fixing the not enough storage, and my old method worked for me (See above) so I haven't not researched how to fix it.

Thanks very, very much in advance!


texts: Is it possible to mirror Android screen to PC over Bluetooth?

texts:
I have to show something on my phone to a large group of people, so obviously they can't just huddle around and look at the screen. I need to display what's on the screen to a laptop. I can't use WiFi, I don't have mobile data, I don't want to be tethered to the laptop with a cord, so the only option is Bluetooth. Range isn't an issue since Bluetooth works up to 100 ft (probably not that much, but much more than my needs)

Is there any way to do this, preferably for free?

Edit: people keep telling me Bluetooth isn't fast enough. Would a Wi-Fi Hotspot work? I'm assuming it doesn't matter is it's 2G 3G or 4G since the only thing that matters is that the 2 devices can communicate with each other, not the Internet.


texts:
I have a Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge in which I put a 400GB SanDisk micro-SD card to expand its storage space. Seems that didn't work though. The space is not available to me. And I can't really figure out why or how I can make this space available.

When I inserted the SD card, I selected that this SD card needs to be adopted as internal storage (I don't intend to take it out any time soon). And I had Android reformat it as it likes. However the storage app seems to be confused or the partitions messed up.

Bottom line, I'm not able to take more photos or transfer more music onto the phone because it's running out of storage.

Here's what the "Storage Settings" settings menu says about my disk usage:

367GB total used of 728GB

Internal shared storage: 366GB used of 367GB

Apps: 845MB

Images: 483MB

Videos: 0

Audio: 19.50GB

System: 342GB

Other: 3.17GB

Cached data: 112MB

SanDisk SD Card: 0.96GB used of 361GB

Apps: 2.71GB

Cached data: 40.42MB

Bold is my highlight. I don't understand why System is using 342GB or why it's counting the SD card double (the phone itself comes with 32GB built-in storage). Why is it not letting me store these files on the SD card?

I have Termux installed and here's the output of the df command:

Filesystem       1K-blocks     Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs             1680128     4560   1675568   1% /
tmpfs              1816220      448   1815772   1% /dev
tmpfs              1816220        0   1816220   0% /mnt
/dev/block/dm-0  378585556  1006608 377562564   1% /mnt/expand/612126b2-7bab-4bf8-8a24-ebacec5b0c23
/dev/block/sda14   4233152  1095448   3121320  26% /system
/dev/block/sda15    197472      188    193188   1% /cache
/dev/block/sda18  25772320 25243840    512096  99% /data
/data/media       25772320 25243840    512096  99% /storage/emulated

So I understand that this /storage/emulated is the one that's full, but somehow in this /dev/block/dm-0 there is this 377.6GB of space being unused. How can I make that space available to me? I've got ADB installed on my computer if necessary. It seems that the only thing saved on the SD card is several apps.


texts: The title pretty much says it all. What is the difference between the official and unofficial version of a ROM? From what I've seen, unofficial comes before official, for ROMs like cyanogenmod.


texts: Pixel imported contacts' names not showing up at top of messages

texts:
I'm coming to a Pixel from an iPhone. When I set up the Pixel, I imported my messages (using the switch process) and contacts (synced through gmail), among other things. However, I wasn't aware that my iPhone contacts were all saved in Google's Exchange account (not gmail), which no longer exists (as of 2012). So when I imported my contacts from my iPhone, every contact I had added since Google migrated away from exchange was not added. To fix this, I exported all my iPhone contacts as a .vcf (using an app) and then imported them to the Pixel.

It seemed to work smoothly, as all my contacts were now showing up in the contacts app. However, in my messages app, I am still showing phone numbers instead of names for all my contacts that were imported through the .vcf--even though google associates those number with their correct contact when I click on the image/letter representing the person in the chat. It also shows the persons name on the lock screen when I get a message--but again, just shows their number at the top of the messages app when texting them. How can I get messages to show the contact name and not number at the top of messages? Should I not have imported my messages?

Related, but outdated: Contact names not showing for the calls and messages


texts: When I receive a new message on Facebook, I get the notification properly on the official Facebook app. I open the list of messages and the new message is highlited. The names are correct and the beginning of the message (below the name) is also from the new message. But when I click on it and open the discussion, new messages don't load (i.e., the discussion is consisted of only older messages). Is that maybe because the discussion is too long? What's causing this?


texts: How to record High quality audio in android?

texts:
I have tried many android application to record voice, but they're quality is not great, often it muffles the sound, as a result of forced noise removal.

But surprisingly, the video recorded from the stock camera records much much high quality sound(no distortion).
So is there is anyway to utilize this fact?

The device is a Asus Zenfone Max pro M1 (ZB601KL-4H070IN). Android Version: 8.1.0


texts:
For instance, Adaway offers a hosts file with 300K addresses to block.

It works, but will this significantly impact performance, therefor battery life? When does the system access the hosts file? Every time a connection is made, or is it just read once at system restart and stored in memory?


texts: Nexus 5 boot loop after depleted battery shutdown

texts:
Yesterday my phone turned off after the battery had depleted and now, after charging it, both the OS and TWRP are stuck when trying to boot (on boot animation and TWRP boot image respectively).

I'm currently using an Android 6.0 stock image, and have been doing so since at least a year and a half.
I haven't flashed/changed anything since the last time I flashed the stock image.
The phone has turned off due to battery depletion before without any issues afterwards.
I did noticed that battery was depleting faster than usual, I was sharing my 4G internet via tethering for a while, but I turned it off (and checked that it was off when I noticed the battery level) so that's why I thought it was weird.
I can boot into the bootloader.

Flashing a new ROM would be less than ideal, so I would really appreciate any ideas/suggestions that can avoid it -- not that I'm wouldn't consider that solution, but I'd rather leave that as a last option.

Cheers!

EDIT:

Since I can access the bootloader I thought to try and flash a new Recovery. The recovery that is currently stuck trying to boot is twrp-3.0.2-0-hammerhead, through using fastboot flash recovery cmd I tried to flash a new image twrp-3.1.0-0-hammerhead (notice I'm upgrading v3.0.2 to v3.1.0) now although the recovery still shows the old boot image for v3.0.2 and takes a couple of minutes to boot, the system log shows this errors:

Failed to mount '/cache' (invalid argument)
Failed to mount '/persist' (invalid argument)
Unable to mount storage

I followed this steps to flash: phone off, boot into bootloader, flash, reboot bootloader, reboot into recovery.


texts: Found a not-so-locked Moto G5S Plus - need help to unlock & return it

texts:
I've been to a concert three weeks ago and found a Moto G5S Plus there.

I've waited for the owner to call - but they didn't.

The phone is not so locked. It has a (stock) screen lock, but it doesn't seem to be encrypted - I can reboot it and the apps start.

All I can see in the lock screen are app notifications, but with their content hidden.

I managed to check that there's a Google Play Services notification stating the Google account of the owner, but I've sent an email there without reply. My guess is they've just created the Google account for the phone, but use a different email address (if they check any, at all).

I see WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, Behance, Messages & Uber notifications (there may be some others, I don't recall right now), but with their content hidden.

How can I unlock the phone to be able to access WhatsApp/Messages/Contacts to contact someone who can contact me with the owner?

I've tried calling their service provider, but they weren't able to find the IMEI on their users database. They've suggested me on the phone to try going to an actual store since they may have better info, but I didn't have the chance yet.

The phone doesn't have an SD card - so no luck trying to get something out of there.

There are no Emergency contacts set up.

I can access the camera without unlocking the phone. That allowed me to take a picture to a message stating a way to contact me, just in case there was any cloud backup setup - but I have not been contacted yet.

I was able to connect to a WiFi using the Camera to read a QR code. I wasn't able to connect to a password-protected WiFi network via the WiFi menu, but I could using the QR code. May there be any other QR action that I could exploit to help me?

It's a Movistar phone, from Argentina, if that makes any difference - but I'm expecting any workaround at the phone/OS level.

From the recovery mode, I could get the Android version is 8.1.0/OPS28.65-36-14/63857. It also says motorola/sanders_retail/sanders, if that helps.

I've just found in HIBP that the user e-mail was part of the Canva breach - but I couldn't find the actual leaked data on a really quick Google search.

Connecting via USB, adb devices won't show it. I managed to get fastboot devices to list the phone when I reboot it and stay at the bootloader - but I haven't found how that may help.

I also tried putting a working SIM card in the phone and calling it from another phone. The idea was to use the conference call option to try to access the phone's contact list. Even though the phone said it had cellular signal, the call didn't make it - so it may already be blocked at the telco level.

I'd appreciate any suggestions to try.

(Just in case: I really want to return it back to the owner. If I was trying to keep it for myself, I'd just factory reset it and call it a day. I also don't intend to violate their privacy - just to contact them)


texts: Should I just get the latest version of Xposed? Are they all stable?

texts: I'm about to download Xposed Framework sdk21 x86, and looking for an installer file here. But there are so many versions. Are they all stable? Should I just get the latest one? I'm not interested in any experimental features, just maximum stability.


texts: How to create TWRP's data.info file by hand/after the backup?

texts:
I have a device with a dead screen, and a partially dead eMMC (poor contact, sometimes reboots. Sometimes reboots very often.). I managed to create a 12gb backup of the data partition somehow, but after generating two of the eight backup archives' .sha2 hashes my phone rebooted. So I have the backups in full, but the data.info is unfinished and there aren't enough .sha2. The latter are simple in syntax, so I can create them with HashMyFiles (SHA256). But deciphering the data.info, or forcing TWRP to make it after the fact is beyond my skillset. Is there any way to accomplish this?

EDIT:
I solved my problem, and also understood that this question was incomplete. It seems that the data.info is complete (and likely was one of the first files made after the backup archives themselves) and making the .sha2 by hand is sufficient. My real problem, which I didn't elaborate, was that Titanium Backup wouldn't work with this backup using the "Extract from Nandroid backup" function, so I decided that the data.info file was the problem, because it was the only different file, when compared to older, successful backups of the data partition. But the real problem was that I messed up the path (I added the backup folder, which is named as a date, directly to /TWRP/BACKUPS , when I should've added the backup folder in literally any folder one folder deeper, say /TWRP/BACKUPS/I_just_spent_10_hours_fixing_a_5_second_problem/), and Titanium Backup was too unsophisticated to check for PEBCAKs. That's about it.


texts:
I have a G4 Play which I used the @#(* out of for nearly a year, until I dropped it into the toilet for 2 or 3 seconds before getting it out. The battery and SIM fell out and I put it in rice for the night before turning it on, as my whole life was and still is on there.

When I started using it again, it would die as soon as it reach around 45% battery, which was really frustrating. I don't remember the other details like if it was very slow or difficult to charge, or if it would ever reach 100%, but it would also drain much faster than it would usually take to go through that span of percentages.

I ordered a replacement battery from ReplaceBASE which they claimed was OEM Motorola, but it was even worse than the apparently water damaged one. They gladly sent me another replacement which appeared to work okay along with the original one, but it would be excruciatingly long to charge any of the batteries and extremely quick to plow through the charge as soon as I turned the phone on. That is like an entire weekend of 60-72 hours to charge the battery up, and maybe 2 hours to drain, and we're talking about a 2800 mAH battery. And now it varies, from dying when it reaches 25% to actually going down to 0%. Sometimes I can turn it back on and it will keep going to 0% if it dies at a higher percentage.

So my question now would be which of the parts are tainted - the phone, the removable battery, the charger, or any combination of the above? What's going on, and is there any risk in testing the parts with others? If I have a Moto E4 to test the batteries with, would I risk damaging the E4, or if I used the E4's factory supplied battery with the G4 Play, would that risk being messed up totally if it's the G4 Play itself's circuitry that is screwed up by the water damage?

What other suggestions can you think of in this situation?


texts: how do you properly root galaxy s3 i9300 on mac?

texts:
I am trying to root my Galaxy S3 i9300 on a Apple Mac.

I followed the instructions here

But instead of my phone starting up ClockWorkMod recovery, my phone keeps booting up on android recovery.

Any tips on how to go from here?


texts: TWRP fails to flash stock ROM (invalid zip)

texts:
I have a sprint samsung galaxy s5 (g900P)
I am a mac user without access to a PC (no odin).
I have TWRP recovery installed.
I am currently running lineage OS (nougat)
I need to return to stock (the reason for this is that I am trying to activate new cellular service and it doesn't seem to work under lineage. If someone has experience activating TPO or other cell service using lineage or updating PRL on non-stock firmware please let me know since that might obviate these other problems).

I used android file transfer to move the stock firmware zip in the download section to the internal SD (root folder). I wiped the system and cache, then install zip - but it fails every time with "invalid zip file format". I have tried a half dozen other versions of the stock ROM from various sources and they all fail with the same error. ZIP signature verification is disabled. Just when I thought that i was doing something completely dumb and not flashing correctly at all - I tried re-flashing the lineageOS ROM i have and that worked fine. I've read a bit about unpacking and re-zipping these zips to get them to work, but that requires 7zip (which I don't have on mac). Help! am I doing something dumb or do I not have the correct zip files?

I saw this thread that had a partial answer but I am not a developer so it was way over my head. not sure I know how to proceed: (SOLVED - partial) Flashing Source Built ROM Fails in TWRP, Invalid File Format
Do i need to modify the zip files I have? can someone link me to a zip for the stock firmware that will work on TWRP?
for the record I grabbed the 3CQA2 zip from here: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/brujjvaro2ogo/Odin_images
which I grabbed from this thread https://forum.xda-developers.com/sprint-galaxy-s5/development/firmware-sprint-s5-factory-odin-images-t3585129

Thanks!


texts: Is it possible to use external hard drives with USB OTG?

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On some sources I have read that it is impossible to use external hard drives over USB OTG.
Is it really impossible?
Isn't there some kind of workaround?
Update: Apparently ES file explorer can see the disk but can't open it. I heard there are such issues with NTFS hard drives on Android.


texts: Disabling animation of the Wifi connection icon

texts: On Android 7.1 the wifi icon does not only show the signal strength by the well known circular four bar image, but also underneath it there are two tiny arrows, one pointing up and the other one pointing down. They are used to indicate correspondingly the activity for the upload and the download. This feature although seems cool at first can be very distracting at times, when you read for example. My question is can you disable the animation? Ideally just remove two tiny arrows and only leave out the curved signal bars just like it looks on iOS for example.


texts: Does Android continuously notify the user to update the OS?

texts: I am wondering if Android notifies the user daily to update their OS like Apple's iOS does?  I'm a long term iOS user and the automatic software updates implemented recently has me considering switching over to Android.     I've never used or owned an Android and am curious what the experience is like.


texts: What is the easiest way to record gameplay on android?

texts: I have a Moto g3. Is it possible to record android gameplay in the same way fraps records pc gameplay?


texts: Protecting my Google identity in case my Android device gets stolen?

texts:
My devices are all linked to my main Google account. This is encouraged, almost required, by Android, for example to make my Google Play apps available everywhere. However, it requires me to store my main Google password on the device, which provides access to a ton of sensitive data: all email, Drive documents, Google Wallet.

What can I do to protect myself in case one of my devices gets stolen?

The devices I currently have are Google Nexus 5 and Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1


texts: Do Samsung tablets have the same USB connector as Apple's iPad?

texts:
It seems that the USB cable for the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 (and other Samsung tablets) looks like the one used for Apple's iPad or iPhone.

Is it the same?


texts: Android: POP3-only email clients without mandatory SMTP settings?

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I have a few email accounts at a free email service (and all accounts are old but I prefer to use them as non-primary), and I'd like to connect them to my Android email client. In free mode, that email service only allows POP3 access so I use that for registering at message boards, services etc for really long time. When I was trying to add those accounts to my Android email client, I failed to do that because my client also requires SMTP settings. Sure, as a work around, I can use Gmail to import those accounts to my primary Gmail, but I'd like to keep them separated.

So, the question is: is there an Android email client that does not require mandatory SMTP access?

Thanks in advance.


texts: this app is associated with a different google account

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I am using 5-6 gmail accounts on my android phone.
There are situations when I access Google Files app on my laptop and then on phone it shows that I am signed in to play store via different account.
I want to make sure on laptop when I open Google files app and install an app that installs app on my mobile I am on same Google account.


texts: How to create Language Pack/Dictionary for Keyboard auto correct

texts: Is there a way to create new language pack for android? I would like to use my local language words, but i wouldnt want to add them in the 'English' pack, because they are words/phrases in my country and it would make my english pack messy.


texts: Need absolute path to "Download" on Android 6.01

texts:
...Due to the developer / maintainer of Terminal-IDE moving on, I'm trying to find equivalent capability and after hours of research found "Terminal Emulator for Android" (which is the same app as "Android Terminal Emulator"). But of course, it doesn't have all the tools necessary. I looked for some hours - not an exhaustive search but how many hours are you going to look?! - and found nothing that appears to have the tools already built in (other than Terminal-IDE).

Rather than develop them myself, I found K-Box which provides "standard Linux utilities in a stock, non-rooted Android device" and which has its main example using the Android Terminal Emulator as a starting point. Sounds perfect!

I was following the basic directions there, however, I can't hardly get started because I can't seem to find the path to the "Downloads" directory?! Frustrating.

In doing my research, I found this interesting and thoughtful writeup, but didn't get to a successful answer.

To be clear, to get this installation going, I have to transfer a file from ANY LOCATION into the Terminal Emulator environment, and that brings the tools that then make the terminal emulator more of a real Linux environment on the Android. The location does not have to be "Download", but that directory was easily enough mapped by my desktop computer's file system browser upon plugging in the USB connector... In fact, that's how I installed the Terminal Emulator - by putting the apk file (and for several other "side load" apps) into Download and then telling Android to install them. So the real trouble is, I can't seem to find that location from within the Terminal Emulator!

Locations I can find but for which I have no permissions include:

/storage/emulated
/data/media/0/Download
/data/media/0/Downloads

In each case, it returns:

"Permission denied"

Ideas?


texts: Here is display mirroring by usb cable with the S7, but the S7 does not supports MHL and DisplayLink is also not used. So how does this work?

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In the Youtube-Video Samsung Galaxy S7 Android 6.0 phone Mirror Link for Joying Android 5.1 lollipop 1024*600 car stereo  he shows how to connect his Samsung S7 just by a USB-cable with an external monitor (in this case in a car system).

But how is this possible, as I read the S7 does not supports MHL, and the other option is DisplayLink? But in the video this is not mentioned, he does not installs the DisplayLink app which requires this, instead some "USB MOB driver".

So how is this realised, and is this also possible with other displays?

Remark: This question is closely related to this recent one from me.


texts: ownCloud Alternative on Rooted Samsung Galaxy Note II

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My question in short:
I want a cloud storage, but on my own servers. I know there's Owncloud for Android, but it's quite limited. Is it possible to get a similar "user experience" like with other cloud services, with your own "cloud resources"? How could that be done?
Please note that the phone is rooted.
Closer explanation:
I have tried searching for an alternative on alternativeTo but didn't find anything particular to my scenario. I'm mainly seeking to find a solution that does not require the installation of an app.
I'd like to be able to:

Instantly sync photos taken by camera to owncloud
Sync latest Titanium Backup files
Selectively sync other files and folders

I realize owncloud's Android app can do all of the above, but I'd like to know if this can be done without an app.
The screenshots below may give you an idea of what I have in mind. Can the function in the first screenshot at the left be replicated in such a way that we can use ownCloud? The other three screenshots show that I can add a server, but not a file sync server - which is what I need - ownCloud in my case.


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I just downloaded the Touchpal Contacts app to my Galaxy Nexus (ICS). Under Settings->Contacts and Lists, I have 'Contacts without phone' unchecked, and, indeed, the contacts displayed are only those with phone numbers associated with them. Yet,  when I use the provided search bar to find contacts, it brings up all contacts even those without phone numbers. Any advice?

If it's relevant, my contacts are coming from Google Contacts.


texts: how to re-enable first time setup at next boot?

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tl;dr: What is the hidden setting that tells the first-time-user-wizard to run? i just want to re-enable that flag so next time the phone boots it shows the new user wizard and UI hints.

A friend gave me his new nexus to install CM11 and a few applications.

To install those applications i created a bogus Google account, downloaded them from the store, configured and then removed my account.

now i want to give the phone back in a way that when it is powered on, it shows the create new account/enable Wifi/etc wizard.

I already tried wiping out data from "one time setup" system application, but that did nothing. Any other ideas?


texts:
i can't turn on my android device after i did following actions.

i flashed twrp using odin. then flashed supersu.zip with twrp.(latest version of supersu) then i rebooted and stuck with SAMSUNG logo.then i removed the battery, again inserted and went to the twrp    custom recovery. Then i did a normal reset,without changing any settings.then the phone shows the boot   screen and samsung    animation, after that the phone boots again from start. this process infinitely repeats.

Model : SM-J120G
Android : 5.1.1 Lollipop
SuperSU : Latest Version

Please help me fix that. I am sorry if this is not the right place to post this. Thanks!


texts: How to set an app to use its native language?

texts: Thanks to my phone being rooted, I can use app settings to set an app's language without having to change my system language. but is there a way to determine the native language of an app and by default use that?


texts: OnePlus One does not connect via USB (Yes, I have tried the usual suspects)

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here is my problem and I feel desperate:

My OnePlus One 64GB does not connect via USB to any PC/Laptop I hook it up to (Windows 7 on Desktop, Laptop). It used to  work a long time ago, but not since (I think) Lollipop, needless to say now under Marshmallow. I never managed to root it because of this problem and now cannot even copy files. The only updates I installed are the CM incrementals via OTA.

Android Version:     6.0.1
Cyanogen OS Version: 13.1-ZNH2KAS1KN

It DOES get recognised it the Device Manager though, even if listed as an unknown device (sorry for the German screenshot).

Here is what I have done so far, but nothing worked:

Installed Universal Naked Drivers -> Did not work -> Uninstalled them

Installed ADB Interface Drivers -> Did not work -> Uninstalled them

Installed Samsung Drivers -> Did not work -> Uninstalled them
Enabled USB debugging --> Nothing changes. Phone only charges.
Uninstalled any possible driver via device manager (Device Manager -> Unknown    device -> Right Click -> Uninstall Drivers)
Using Bacon Root Toolkit: Toolkit did only recognise there was a OnePlusOne, but not its model. AutoDetect did not work either and the highest model version it knows is CM12.1 or so. Updating BRT was successful according to the notification, but did not change anything.
Uninstalled any driver using USBDeview using Bacon Root Toolkit
Looked for USB connection settings (which by the way are not anymore under Settings -> Storage -> Right upper item, but) in Developer Options --> Select USB configuration --> Changed from "Charging" to "MTP"
I have tried different cables and different ports. Neither does it work on my 10 year old Desktop with USB 2.0, nor on my USB 2.0 port on my Laptop or USB 3.0 port.

I am SUPER THANKFUL for any ideas you might have! Thanks in advance!


texts: A music widget that works with Google Music streaming and offline service?

texts:
I'd like a widget to display playing info and cover art that works with latest Google Music app, more importantly both while playing offline tracks (those marked to be offline, so actually Google Music cached tracks) and also streaming ones.
Do you know any?
Thanks.


texts: fastboot commands work. fastboot oem commands hang

texts:
My final objective is to do "fastboot oem off-mode-charge 0".  I've done this successfully with a Teclast P80H.  But I'm having trouble with a rino3 pro.  Specifically:
"fastboot devices" shows me "mt6572v1_phone fastboot" and "fastboot --version" shows me "30.0.4-6686687".  "fastboot reboot" works.  "fastboot reboot bootloader" works.
However, "fastboot oem " seems to never return back to my Windows Command Prompt.  It seems hung.  "fastboot oem off-mode-charge 0" hangs.  I must control-C to get out.  "fastboot oem device-info" hangs.  "fastboot oem junkyjunk" hangs.  It seems that ALL/ANY "fastboot oem" command hangs.  ("fastboot eom" with no following command, of course, returns "fastboot: usage: empty oem command.)
Well, maybe it's not strictly oem commands that hang.  "fastboot flashing get_unlock_ability" seems to hang as well.
My device is a rino3 pro.  Android Settings tells me "Hardware: MTK6763" and "Processor: 8 core" and "Android 9.1" if that matters.


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I have an Android 3 device but the play store doesn't work.  I have tried updating it.

Is there a way to force the download of apps?


texts:
I've bought Sony MBH20 headset and Bluetooth transmitter ASUS BT400 to use it both for skype calls and with my Xperia L.

When I unpacked the headset I've succesfully paired with my Xperia.

When I tried to pair it with PC i removed it from list of bluetooth devices in the Xperia and paired it with PC (Win7, 64 bit).

From that moment I cannot detect the headset with my Xperia. It displays other bluetooth devices but not the headset. I tried turning the headset off and on, I tried to remove the hadset from devices in the PC and I tried to clear cache and AppData of SmartConnect app.

In all cases I can find, add and use hte headset with the PC but Xperia stll resist to detect it.

Is it caused by:

Deleting the headset from Xperia's list of (paired) devices?
Pairing with the PC resuilting in switching the headset's BT to be visible only for the PC?

How can I force the headset to connect to available host (PC or Cell phone), if both are active, connect to the last paired?


texts: How do I know which applications slows down the phone?

texts: How do I know which applications slows down the phone, so that I could get rid of them?


texts:
I switched from an LG phone to a new ASUS Android phone and I am missing a feature on the ASUS. On my LG I used auto correct on the keyboard in a way that displayed suggestions but did not correct what I typed. If I decided to use the suggested word I only had to touch the suggestion and it replaced the mistyped word. On the ASUS, using the preinstalled ZenUI keyboard, I don't know how only to show the suggested words while typing. Whenever I switch on display of suggested words to be shown, they replace what I type as soon as I press space.

I want suggested words to be shown but not replace what I type unless I select a suggested word. This worked on my LG like a charm.

Now I have the option to switch off auto correction and then I get many mistyped words. If I switch suggested words on it is even worse, because auto correction chooses words I don't want by itself.


texts: Can viruses in (Primary or Secondary) user profiles on Android affect other users?

texts:
This says:
"Any user can affect the installed apps for all users."

What does this mean?

I was concerned as to whether malware or any account from one user could affect anything from the other user. The previous statement: "No user has access to the app data of another user." seems to contradict this. In that a virus or other malicious application cannot affect the app data of another user. But if any user can install any application on all users, wouldn't this pose a security risk?

This seems to be contradicted by the fact that on a secondary user profile, when I go to Settings > Apps I can only see the apps for this secondary user. I cannot see any app that I installed on the primary user.

On the Primary user profile, when I navigate to "/storage/emulated", I cannot see any folders at all, let alone the one for this user profile (I think this is where user profiles are stored). This suggests that the contents of the Secondary user profile are not viewable by the Primary User Profile.

If you want to know what a Primary or Secondary profile is, refer to the link under "User types".


texts: Does juice defender randomly drop your data connection?

texts: Does it drop your data connection? I have experienced that since I installed it a week ago. Sometimes it will randomly choose to drop your data connection.


texts: E:failed to mount /cache (invalid argument) - how to format?

texts:
I have a Asus Zenfone 2 and a few days ago it ran out of battery and turned off. Then after I charged it up and restarted it, it wouldn't turn on. It gets to the logo and the loading circle and just gets stuck there forever.
I can get into recovery, but can't do anything in recovery, because everything gives this error:

E:failed to mount /cache (invalid argument)

Trying to wipe cache, factory reset the phone, mount /system, flash a ROM from SD card, ADB sideload, everything gives the error multiple times. Factory reset formats /data fine, but when it gets to /cache, gives the error and aborts.
Same thing with fastboot. I tried to flash TWRP (I have stock recovery) and I tried to erase and format cache through fastboot, but both give this error:

FAILED (remote: 'Can not mount the necessary partition')
fastboot: error: Command failed

Is there anything I can do to format the phone or somehow rebuild the partitions without being able to flash anything via recovery or fastboot?
I don't know if tools like AFT or xfstk can do anything for me.
Edit: I don't think the EMMC chip is dead, because the recovery partition is still fine, I can still boot into recovery and when I did a factory reset, it formatted /data without any errors, only had an error when it started formatting /cache.
When I was looking for a solution to this problem, I read somewhere that sometimes when the device gets interrupted, like when it shuts down suddenly, to prevent data loss android would change permissions on the /cache partition to read only or something like that. This would certainly explain what happened to my phone. Just need to think of a way to access ADB shell on it to try to change permissions. Shell doesn't work in ADB sideload mode, that's the only ADB thing the stock recovery has. Is that a similar thing in fastboot by any chance?


texts: Nexus 5 stuck on “flying color dots lollipop” screen after Hard Factory Reset

texts: I updated my Nexus 5 to Lollipop a month back and it was working fine. Suddenly one day my device didn't boot up so I did a factory reset and I got wipe/cache error and if I switch off the power and restart I get the flying color dots page and nothing comes up after that. I went to service center and they said it's a software issue and they can't do anything about it. How can I fix this?


texts: How to find out which apps are draining the battery?

texts: I'm not sure when it started, but my phone is draining its battery even when being charged. It's likely to be caused by some apps I installed recently. How to find out which apps are causing the problem? Is the builtin Settings -> Battery statistics accurate enough?


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I've been watching the caniuse.com site for a while now, and at one extreme we have Firefox releasing a new browser once/week (okay, slight exaggeration), and at the other extreme the Android list of 2.1/2.2/2.3/3.0/4.0/4.1/4.2 never changes. There is still nothing in the "Near future" or "Farther future" rows.

There are a number of HTML5 technologies not implemented even in 4.2, and I'm wondering when there is a new version coming, and what we can expect it to support. (EDIT: I'm looking for links to official announcements, developer blogs, etc. or a confident "nobody knows"; not speculation.)

(E.g. http://caniuse.com/eventsource )

(BTW, the StackOverflow Android tag seemed to suggest this was the best place to ask this kind of question. But if another site is better please let me know.)


texts: LG G5 wont turn on and get flashing red light

texts: Lg phone battery drained and reached critical level and shut off. Plugged it in to charge and nothing was happening (no flashing light or anything). After 4 hrs of being plugged in to wall (made sure outlet and cord are ok) still not showing any signs of charging. Tried taking battery out and re-inserting and now red light flashing while phone plugged into outlet but doesn't seem to charge and not able to get to home screen (because not charged enough hopefully). Just wanted to also note my phone memory was pretty full because of pictures (not sure if that matters). Don't know if my phone is fried.... :( I bought a new battery and this didn't help either. Could somebody please help


texts: Which version of Heimdall to use with S2 or S3?

texts:
I think this is a pretty straight forward question.

I have a Galaxy S2 (i727) and a Galaxy S3 (i747) and I'd like to use Heimdall with both of them, but can't seem to find which version of Heimdall supports them.

Working with the 1.3.1, for example, when I boot my S2 into download mode, zadig.exe does not list the Samsung driver everyone mentions.  Heimdall Frontend says it detects a device when I click Utilties->Detect, but I can't seem to interact with anything on the Flash tab.

I'm trying to flash recoveries.


texts: Prevent runaway threads and ultimately physical overheating and battery drain on Android

texts:
I was wondering if there is a system monitor app that will raise (audible) alerts and offer app closure if it detects runaway threads on Android that cause physical overheating and battery drain.

E.g., I just had to turn my phone off because there was a runaway thread that I think was constantly trying to refresh FB where there was very poor connection, so it was going in a virtually endless loop.  But I get that with other apps too and not just Facebook.

I'd like to actually shut apps down when they're detected.

I am not kidding, I nearly burned my fingertips when I touched my phone -- it was on for only 2 hrs and the battery was almost dead.  It is because 4G is very poor inside my office building and I checked Facebook walking between my vehicle and the building this AM.  After that, the app kept trying to refresh continuously without success and overheating the phone.


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My phone has recently given up and freezes on the Samsung logo screen. Having tried all the soft reset options I knew of, I have decided to wipe the data/ factory reset.

The steps followed are outlined here but should be pretty similar for most Samsung Android phones.

I have initiated the reset process, but now my phone has frozen on that too. My screen displays

-- Applying Multi-CSC --

-- Wiping data...
Formatting /data...

And what appears to be a fully-loaded progress bar (just a guess) - but that's it.

Any idea where I should go from here, as the phone's beginning to overheat so I may have to remove the battery again!

Specs: SAMSUNG S5830i Galaxy Ace

No SD card or SIM in at the moment


texts: What is the recommended video format codec and container to play on android devices

texts:
I am about to encode some of my videos so that they can be played on android devices?

what is the most compatible container, codec and dimension for android devices. thanks!


texts: I have a Motorola XT1080 (also known as droid maxx) from verizon, and it is running android version 4.4.4. Is it possible to root this device, and if so, how do I do this?


texts: stock camera app missing and front camera reported as rear camera in xolo q1000s

texts:
I bought a new xolo q 1000s recently, and I made sure to test the back camera before buying it. After four or five days, when I tried to use the camera for the first time, it shows only the front camera; there is no option anywhere to shift to the back camera.

I tried installing other camera apps to get the back camera, but that didn't work. I then did a factory reset, but after that, the camera app itself went missing.

My phone is not rooted, but I no longer have a built-in camera app. I can install other camera pps, but they shows only front camera. When I tried to shift camera in cymera app, it said you have no front camera! And yet it shows the front camera, and doesn't use the back one. Similarly, when trying a flashlight app, it says I have no flash light, even though my mobile has one.


texts: I am using Samsung Galaxy Premier(I9268) running CM 12.1. Several days ago, after some reboot, the phone Suddenly not recognize the SIM card. I have tried to use older updates, they all don't work. I have also tried to use the SIM on another phone, it is alright, proving that the SIM is OK to use. Can anyone tell me what problem I am having or help me solve that? Thanks a lot.


texts: How do I access PC's internet on Android Phone?

texts: I'm using Android Jelly bean 4.2 (Micromax Canvas 2 Colours). I've a PC at home which has internet connection. I don't have any wireless router or any access point. I just want to use PC's internet connection on my android phone. Kindly help me.


texts: How to limit the 'User Data' size of Firefox Android?

texts:
The User Data of Firefox Android goes on increasing every day..
To reduce it, I have to clear storage data and personalize all the settings once again after every few days.

I have set it to clear cache and everything at the closing of browser window, still the User Data goes on increasing few hundreds of MB.

The desktop version allows user to reduce the cache size but android FF doesn't seem to have any direct option.
Is there way to limit it through about:config or through any other way?

I don't use many add-ons; just 2 add-ons, AdBlockPlus and HTTPSEerywhere.

I am using Firefox 68.3.0


texts: Change sms signal for specific broadcast number

texts:
At work I'm on standby certain days and nights and get alarms through sms messages, I would like to give those messages another notification signal so that I know if it's an alarm or not.

They seem to be some form of broadcast messages since when I press and hold on the thread in the messaging app I only get "delete thread" and "register as spam", neither "add to contacts" or "view contact", otherwise I figured I would just add it as a contact and give that contact a specific notification signal.

I'm on a Galaxy S2 running Android 4.1.2, I haven't rooted or upgraded it except normal OTA updates.


texts: How can I get all 6000 photos back out of Samsung Cloud at once rather than doing them separately?

texts:
My Samsung Cloud storage is full, and it turns out I have about 13GB of photos (over 6000 photos) in there, that have been synced from my phone.

However, I only have around maybe 1GB of photos on my phone. Clearly the majority of photos in my Samsung Cloud are not on my phone anymore.

The first part of my question is, is there any chance that there may be some photos on my cloud account which Samsung has deleted from my phone automatically to clear space, assuming I'm happy that it's still in the cloud?

And the second part is, how can I sync them back to my phone, or even a PC, so I have them again? I can't find an option on the phone and I went to the Samsung Cloud site and browsed my photos, but there's no way to methodically download photos in bulk, and scrolling beyond the first few hundred becomes painful. Is there seriously no way on either my phone or a PC to download all my photos again rather than selecting a few at a time?

Note: "Select all" on the web interface only selects those visible on screen and the system prevents you selecting more than 500.


texts: Internal storage sd read in laptop: where are the files?

texts:
I am trying to read in a laptop my micro sd card (which was used as internal storage), through a  SD card adapter. Goal is to access to my pictures.

On the laptop (using Linux), I see some folders, but none of them contains the pictures. Why am I not able ot access the files themselves? Is there some encryption going on?

The micro sd structure looks like this on Ubuntu:

 ── Android
│   ├── data
│   │   ├── com.android.vending
│   │   │   └── files
│   │   ├── com.google.android.apps.docs
│   │   │   └── cache
│   │   ├── com.google.android.music
│   │   │   └── files
│   │   ├── com.motorola.MotGallery2
│   │   │   └── cache
│   │   └── com.skype.raider
│   │       └── cache
│   └── media
│       └── com.motorola.MotGallery2
└── LOST.DIR

Thanks!!


texts: Get notifications with text, badge, no sound

texts:
I am trying to make wordfeud (and other apps) only show a text popup, update its badge and not make any sound. However, it still plays the notification sound.

I have setup no sound in the app settings of the app.

I have enabled a feature that could possibly change things, I dont know. Its called notification reminders and can be found under the Accessibility settings category. The effect will be that the notification sound it repeated every minute until I pay attention to a notification.

Will those make things different?


texts:
I'm having an issue with the backup, I did it fine yesterday and managed to back up the folder that contained the databases. I then successfully converted the backup.ab file to a backup.tar file and got to see the files. Today however, every time I do the adb backup command and allow the 'back up my data' option on the device all I seem to get is a 1kb file.

In the time in between the two back ups the device has had no wi-fi connection and been on aeroplane mode, therefore it can not have updated the app to change the 'android:allowbackup' to become false.

I am trying to pull off all kik messenger databases using ADB, the device is rooted but Kik.android is not debuggable so i cant seem to use the "run-as" method.

I am using the following commands:

adb backup -noapk /data/data/kik.android/databases/

What am I doing wrong???

I have included a screenshot, on the left is the first backup I did and that I got the databases fine, the command prompt shows that the files are there on the device and the command I used and the bottom window shows the output of the backup.ab file being a 1kb file.

Please help as its driving me crazy.


texts: Will rooting my Samsung Galaxy S before I activate it cause any problems?

texts: I have a samsung Galaxy S (Fascinate) that I haven't decided if I want to keep, so I haven't activated it on my Verizon account. I'd like to root it and flash a new ROM (possibly a separate Kernel) but I'm wondering if doing so when it is not connected to any carrier will cause any problems, particularly with the voice/data connection settings?


texts: I purchased a Samsung Galaxy S5, Note 3 Neo and Galaxy Grand 2 here in Saudi Arabia. I intend to give the latter two as gifts (the Galaxy S5 is mine) to family in the Philippines. I read online that some Samsung devices are region-locked to prevent gray market transactions. Is there any way that I can unlock these devices so that my family and I can use them?


texts: Avoid Google apps sync when installing applications

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When I am trying to install an application from Google Play Store in a new tablet(Android 9), immediately after Goggle login it starts syncing all the Google Apps(Contacts, Gmail etc) with my account data.
How can I avoid this and just install/update the Android apps I want?


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Can't remember what it is called, but I used to have that google authentication code generator app on my phone which would be used to enter a special code for the 2 step google authentication system.

My phone has been damaged, so I have a new one now.  But I can't log into google because I don't have that authentication app install on my phone, and I can't install that authentication app on my phone because I need the authentication code...

What can I do?


texts: When we download a .FTF or ROM file as a stock ROM, is there a way to verify that it is really the stock ROM and is not modified by someone?


texts: Can Google assistant on one device be commanded from another device both of which have been signed into the same Google Account?

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User has two android devices(phones). User has signed into the same google account on both devices.

Device01:
 - Work Device
 - Has a sim card
 - Mobile data enabled
 - Is not used much, kept away while at home
 - Hotspot is switched on while at home.

Device02:
 - Play device
 - Doesn't have a sim card
 - Always used by the user while at user home
 - Gets data connection through WiFi of Device01/Public WiFi

Consider the following senario:
 - The user is watching YouTube on Device02 in another room / goes out to buy a pack of chips,
 - User wants to send a SMS real quick,
 - Now can the user ask his google assistant on Device02 "Okay Google, Send SMS to Mr. XYZ" and set up google assistant such that SMS is sent through Device01 instead?

Is this currently possible? Or will we need Google Nest/Hub/Home etc...?


texts: How to prevent widget resize on unlock swipe?

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After upgrading to 4.3, there is only a small portion of the lower screen that can be used to unlock the phone.  The upper part of the screen engages what looks like some sort of draw or resize box with a pencil in the lower right corner.  I think it is trying to resize the clock widget for some reason.

This is very annoying since I never want to resize the widgets after they are set, but obviously, I swipe the phone a lot.  Is there a way to disable this box and return the swipe area to the visible window?


texts: "OK Google, Shazam this song" not working

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I'm using 2014 Moto X (2nd Gen) with Android 5.1 and latest version of Shazam application (5.10.1-150928) from Google Play Store.

I'm trying out the following feature and cannot get it to work:

"OK Google, Shazam this song" – Shazam Help

My phone recognizes me saying "OK Moto X" and "OK Google" without any issues.


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My Samsung Galaxy S3 has major Wi-Fi problems.  It will connect to Wi-Fi for a few seconds, then it quits and won't connect to anything.  It happens at home, work, or anywhere else with Wi-Fi.  It's not the router. My laptop and other phone works fine with it.

If I turn off the Wi-Fi and then turn it back on again, it will work for a little while, but then, nothing, no connection to anything. I've researched the problem for days and seems like a lot of people are dealing with the same thing.

There are some supposed 'quick fixes' but none work for me. (dialing *#0011# on the phone to turn off power save mode, downloading a Wi-Fi Fixer app, doing a factory reset, trying to set a static IP - phone won't let me, and everything else, NOTHING WORKS!).

Is this a problem with the phone or the software?  Do I need to exchange the phone for a different one?

I even called Samsung and they claimed that no one else has ever reported a problem with this, even though there are hundred and hundreds of posts online about the issue.

Is Samsung doing anything about this or should I just give up and get a different phone all together?  By the way, it always says that I am connected to Wi-Fi. It just doesn't actually work.

I've read about having to set the router to G or N but I have no idea what the means or how to do it?  And besides, why should I have to do that?  Shouldn't the phone's wi-fi just work?  And how would I do this G or N setting at work?  Not gonna happen, so I'd be outta luck there.

So frustrating!!