texts: Cannot change mobile network Sony Xperia V

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I have a Xperia V device which worked fine until few days ago. I still use 3G SIM, and I've enabled WCDMA(preffered)/GSM from settings menu (Settings->More>Mobile Networks->Network Mode). This works perfectly fine until few days ago. I usually get 3G signal, rarely 2G.

One day suddenly I found that phone with no mobile network connection. I thought maybe something wrong with signal coverage. But it didn't changed even after I changed my location. I has few options in Network Mode menu as follows,

WCDMA only
GSM only
WCDMA(preffered)/GSM
LTE(preffered)WCDMA//GSM

If I choose anything with WCDMA, phone gets disconnected from the carrier and I can only use the option GSM only whyich gets the connection.

I haven't updated or rooted or did anything to the phone recently.

I tried restarting the phone, toggle flight mode , remove and re-insert the sim card but nothing works.

Why can't I connect to WCDMA/3G?
Why am I only able to connect to 2G network?

This happens in every scenario.not on when turn on mobile data connection. I lost signal when I try to connect to any option other than GSM only


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On a Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 edition, Twitter (version 4.1.3) is pre-installed. This app can be updated via the "Galaxy Apps" app, to version 5.49.0. However, the version of the Twitter app in the Google Play store is 5.91. The "Discover" tab in the Twitter app shows "Top News" stories from a year or more ago an the "Activity" tab either shows old entries or is empty.

The Twitter app in the Google Play store is "not compatible with this device", so it is not possible to update.

Does this mean that this tablet can only use the old Samsung version of Twitter? Even after disabling the Twitter app, the Google Play store version cannot be installed. It seems that Samsung released this tablet version of Twitter for this model and then failed to update it? :(


texts: Options to mitigate espionage/tracking possibilities

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Which options exist in (stock/custom) firmware to mitigate smartphone espionage/tracking possibilities? I talk about things like:

Disable/use random mac/do not leak ssid on active WLAN probing
Warn on/do not acknowledge silent/type-0 SMS
etc.

I don't want to use root requiring apps which tinker with the WLAN/3G/4G stack to disable such useless and possible dangerous "features" of my phone.


texts: WiFi automatically toggles off after turning it on

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In the mobile set, the charging is almost full, rest of the applications are working well. WiFi stopped working abruptly. After switching WiFi ON  from "Settings" it automatically turns off in 5 secs.
I have Restarted the mobile and checked again. But the problem is still there.


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I want to add new contact and save it in SIM Card.

I use OnePlus One with CyanogenMod 11S, which is on top of Android 4.4.4 and inside I have O2 pay-as-you-go card from UK. When I used Gingerbread and Ice Cream versions of Android in the past, I always had 3 options when creating contacts - Google account, Device and Sim.

Now when I tap on New contact icon, I cannot change the type from Google contact to anything else (tapping it just doesn't do anything).

I know this might be stupid question, but I cannot check it with other card. My real question is - is this problem specific to O2 (carrier), or Cyanogen, or Android 4.4? Or am I doing something wrong and there is some option I need to enable first?


texts: rooted my phone but want to go back to stock rom

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Okay so i rooted my Samsung Galaxy Express to jelly bean 4.2.2 using the method below.
but i cant access Samsung kies because it doesn't recognize rooted phones. So i was wondering if there was any way to keep the rooted features but go back to the stock rom? And if there is how do i do it and where do i get the file from?

Here are the steps I took to upgrade my phone:

  Flash Clockwork Recovery

  Download Express OUDHS CWM.exe.
  Turn off the phone
  Press and hold volume down and power to enter download mode (if this doesn’t work, press and hold volume down, power and home key)
  Connect your phone to your computer via USB
  Window ID: COM should be highlighted in yellow, this means your phone was properly detected
  Press start and wait for installation
  Disconnect your phone, recovery is now installed

  Install SuperSU

  Download SuperSU v1.25
  Connect your phone to your computer via USB
  Copy the SuperSU v1.25 file to the root of your SD card (make sure you have an SD card in your phone)
  Turn off your phone
  Hold volume up, power and home key to enter recovery (as soon as you see blue text on the top of the screen that read entering or
  booting recovery, immediately release all the buttons)
  Click on install zip from SD card and locate SuperSU file
  Select the SuperSU file and install
  After installation is complete, reboot your phone

  You will now have both custom recovery and SuperSU installed on your
  phone, which allows you to install custom ROM’s, which is the next
  step. (Make sure USB debugging is still enabled). Please note that
  these versions of CM10.1 and CM10.2 are unofficial builds, however are
  stable enough as daily drivers.

  Download CM10.1(Android 4.2.2) or CM10.2(Android 4.3)
  Download Gapps (Google Apps) for CM10.1 or Gapps for CM10.2
  Connect your phone to your computer via USB and place ROM and Gapps files in root of SD card (make sure they are on SD card)
  Download ROM Manager and reboot into recovery. You can also manually reboot into recovery by powering off your phone, pressing and
  holding volume up, power and home key.
  Create a backup.
  Wipe data/factory reset, wipe cache partition and dalvik cache (found in advanced)
  Install the ROM from the SDCard
  Install Gapps from the SDCard
  Reboot phone and let it sit for a few minutes while it boots for the first time. It may take a few minutes, and this is only evident
  upon initial boot.

  You will likely run into issues with non functional WiFi. To resolve
  this, after flashing the ROM, follow these simple steps:

  Download this file.
  Power off the phone.
  Hold volume down, power and home button to enter download mode.
  Press volume up to enter download mode.
  Connect phone to your computer
  Open Odin and flash the downloaded file as Bootloader (You should see a green box that indicates that the method passed and worked)
  Reboot the phone and test WiFI


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I have a hTC D626w, after an interrupted update, it does not boot any more. When I enter recovery mode, I see the following message at the bottom of the page:

No file end with factory_update.zip found in SD card.

The message persists after removing the SD card.

I chose wipe cache partition and wipe data/factory reset. But after selecting reboot system now, a white page appears on which I see hTC.

Does anyone know what's wrong with my device?


texts: How do I get rid of the GPS navigation and replace it with an icon?

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I have the Samsung Galaxy s4 with echoe rom v51 (lollipop 5.0.1 ) installed and I would like to learn how do I get rid of the GPS navigation text notification and replace it with an icon (of course disabling the GPS is out of question)?

The screenshot is from my phone it sets on Greek language.


texts: Cant delete system files on rooted phone

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I'm using zarchiver as a file managing app on my rooted phone... I cant delete some specific app folders in
/system/app              even though I remounted it as rewritable.... in rewritable it will show delete option but when you choose it it wont actually delete it....
context: I want to delete some APK folder of some bloat wares like google or You tube app


texts: Atrix will boot up but unlock screen is unresponsive

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I'm having my first major issue with my phone, the Atrix (not Atrix 2).  The phone is stock Gingerbread, not rooted, and I don't download any dubious or non-Market apps.  While using my phone today it suddenly rebooted.  Upon reaching the unlock screen, neither the screen nor the buttons would respond to any kind of input, nor have they since.  I can't even turn on the screen by pressing the power button; I have to plug it in to the charger.  The only way to try to restart is to pull the battery.  It seems to me that the problem is with the unlock screen, which I think belongs to the launcher app.  The menu bar at the top of the screen seems to indicate that other systems are functioning properly -- the clock in the corner stays up to date, while the lock screen's clock doesn't change after booting.  The icons at the top indicate that bluetooth and wifi are active and the strength of the wifi signal varies when I move around.

Let's see, what else -- I wasn't doing anything unusual with the phone when it rebooted.  It has suddenly rebooted a couple times in the past couple days before this, but had no noticeable problems once it started back up.

Can anybody suggest what I should try next?  I'd like to avoid having to wipe it clean if possible.  I have managed to get into the boot options by holding the volume key and pressing the power button, and try to boot into recovery mode from there, but that just hung.  I have the android sdk with adb installed on my linux laptop, so i can try connecting the debugger in the morning, but i'm not sure what to try when I do.

Sorry if this is an incoherent jumble -- I'm tired and I'm going to bed.

UPDATE:

I connected the phone to my computer and looked at the logs in LogCat (I've done a little bit of Android development).  I'm not seeing any obvious signs of what the problem is.  Admittedly, I have no idea what to look for.  The closest I can get is this INFO message when I try to unclock the screen when it's active:

04-15 16:34:39.719: INFO/InputDispatcher(1652): Application is not responding: Window{40a2fb20 Keyguard paused=false}.  11148.9ms since event, 5009.5ms since wait started

and this is all that happens when I press the power but to try to turn the screen on:

04-15 16:38:00.369: DEBUG/KeyguardViewMediator(1652): wakeWhenReadyLocked(26)

There are no error stack traces being logged for either event.  Ideas???

UPDATE 2:

It appears to be the Home app. See details in the comment below.  Can I use ADB or another tool to remove and reinstall the Home app?  I know that with my own apps, I can just use adb install and adb uninstall, but I don't know if it's that simple with other apps, or where I would get a clean copy of it from.

FINAL UPDATE:

I tried everything there was to try, including writing an app to programmatically wake up and attempt to unlock the screen, which worked on my tablet but not the phone, so I could try to salvage some data.  I finally had to just do a hard reset on the phone, and that worked, so for now the phone is working again.


texts: Htc one m9 unable to find firmware files for update from Android 5 to 6

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I bought a Htc one M9, and flashed Viperone m9 Marshmallow without first update the Stock rom to Marshmallow, and got stuck in bootloader.
Flashed Viper Lollipop, and the phone works again, but now i can't update, because i haven't got a clue which firmware files i should flash, i have found quite a lot of them, and i don't want to brick the darn thing, but i want my Marshmallow..
Could anyone throw me a bone here?
This is my info from the phone:

kernel: lk
product: htc_himauhl
version: 1.0
imei:
version-main: 1.32.401.15
boot-mode: download
version-bootloader: 1.0.0.0000
mid: 0PJA10000
cid: HTC__Y13

Any advice is appreciated.


texts: Windows 7 VPN Connection over Android 3G network problem

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What I have:

Windows 7 Notebook with VPN settings (username password),
Android 4 phone (ASUS 400) as Wi-Fi/USB modem,
VPN network;

What I need:

VPN connection in Windows 7 over 3g network shared by my phone.

But I get 619 error every time.
Someone says that android does not work with VPN connection when it shares internet-connection via modem.


texts: Application trying to access in app billing

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Getting a message at the bottom of my screen:

In app billing is not supported for this device. Try again later.

The problem is, I never authorized an app for in-app billing in the first place. What's going on?


texts: How do I update an OTA while retaining TWRP and Magisk, only with my phone?

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I have a OnePlus 6 that uses the A/B partition schema.

Previously with my OnePlus 5  with TWRP, I normally download the OTA package, reboot into TWRP to install it, and then TWRP img and Magisk ZIP afterwards. Then I have a fully updated system with TWRP and Magisk.

Now with A/B partition, the OTA gets installed immediately after downloading. I can only flash Magisk before rebooting, by manually extracting the boot image using command-line tools and Magisk's "Patch Boot Image" function, before flashing the patched boot image back. However, I see no option to install TWRP in this way (I'm currently not able to apply the ZIP using CLI tools). Any ideas?

Some good points for OnePlus over AOSP: OnePlus detects Magisk root and downloads full image instead of incremental OTA image, which saves the time for boot restoration, and also allows installing OTA even if /system is modified.

However, there's no "Disable Auto OTA Installation" in Developer Settings, so OTA installation may not be avoidable to some extents.


texts: Stop sideway movement of menu revealed from top

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On my Galaxy S3, when I slide my finger from the top edge of the screen down, a sort of quick menu is revealed to switch WiFi, GPS, sound...

When it is revealed, the animation goes from top to bottom but also slides sideways. I would like to stop this sideways animation, but I don't even know how this menu is called to Google it and I found no setting for it so far.


texts: Do most Android device use GPT as their partitioning scheme?

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There is much talk of Android partitions that can be found with Google. Sometimes I can find references to GPT in documentation for mobile processors or on XDA Developers (where I have learned that certain devices do use GPT as their scheme). Aside from that, there is not much discussion about what Android devices use for storing partition information. There are exceptions: I know some devices use the MTD subsystem's command line-based method, like some of HTC's earlier devices, and I know that Qualcomm devices seem to use a GUID Partition Table.

If a device's partitions are represented by device nodes starting with mtd or mtdblock, then Linux receives the partition information from the boot arguments. If the partitions are represented by device nodes beginning with mmcblk, then the partition scheme is ambiguous. It could be using a GUID Partition Table, but the problem is that the table would have to start at the first sector which is also where all first-stage bootloaders reside in my experience.

Just as partition information on devices whose partitions' nodes begin with mtd can be found in /proc/mtd, on devices where the device nodes begin with mmcblk, the same information can (usually) be found at /proc/emmc. Why eMMC, a type of storage device, is treated like an alternative to MTD, which is an interface for accessing flash storage, I don't know. But this page on GitHub seems to imply that the partition information for devices with /proc/emmc is not gathered a table like GPT.

That same page seems to also be saying that kernels booted by U-Boot expose partitions in a different manner than MTD or GPT. Here is the passage:

Since MTK devices use the uboot mechanism, partitions including boot and recovery, are not revealed as separate partitions, but rather accessed sequencially by size and start parameters.

That sentence is rendered meaningless to me by the bit about sequential access. Perhaps someone can explain it better.

So how common is the GPT on Android devices? I've not seen any reference to partitioning on the Android developer website. If bootloaders are actually stored after the partition table, then does that mean the chips are GPT-aware?


texts: Rooting Android Galaxy S2 - Connection Error

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I am trying to root my Galaxy S2.

So I followed instructions online, I booted in debug mode, connected the USB cable then pressed the up powerbutton to start the mode, I then opened up Odin v3 3.04 and it showed up with a device connected. I selected the correct .tar file under PDA and clicked start. It says "setup connection" and freezes at that.

I tried redoing it because it wasn't working. Eventually I decided to see if it was just the program. I opened Samsung Kies and it couldn't connect. It tried connecting for a long time and eventually just gave up.

The weird this is that when I plugin the USB cable my computer actually recognizes it as a Samsung Device because the first time I plugged it in it installed drivers automatically using Kies.

I tried using different USB ports, tried using a different cable and I tried charging it.

I couldn't tell if it was fully charged but it charged for 8 hours so I'm sure it was charged fully. Still didn't work.

After researching for 2 days and trying endlessly, I decided to see what you guys think.

So let me know if you have ideas! :)

I tried uninstalling and reinstalling kies, now it is connecting with Odin but it wont connect with kies at all. But its now showing this error.

<ID:0/003> Added!!
<ID:0/003> Odin v.3 engine (ID:3)..
<ID:0/003> File analysis..
<ID:0/003> SetupConnection..
<ID:0/003> Initialzation..
<ID:0/003> Get PIT for mapping..
<ID:0/003> Firmware update start..
<ID:0/003> zImage
<ID:0/003> NAND Write Start!!
<ID:0/003>
<ID:0/003> Complete(Write) operation failed.
<ID:0/003> Added!!
<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)


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In the last couple of Android updates I've found an issue when playing music via the Chromecast device on my TV. It seems once the screen sleeps the phone disconnects from the Chromecast and doesn't continue playing music. If the power button is pressed quickly it will usually start to play again.

The only way I've found to resolve this so far is to set my screen to never time out and turn the brightness down to minimum, but this not an ideal fix.

I'm using the built in music app on my Xperia Z5. I've tried other apps but they all do the same thing. There was an app called N7 that when used along with Toaster Cast, worked okay, but then Toaster, Cast stopped working.

Does anyone know how to fix this. I don't think that the phone is disconnecting from the router as I still get notifications when the screen is off.


texts: How to add a contact on the device only?

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WHenever I try and add a contact, it only gives me the option to choose which account to add it with.

How do I get the 'on this device' option?


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I have my AVD setup with a Virtual Phone created, but when i click start. It shows me the window that it is starting the AVD, and then when the prograss bar gets done, the window closes and nothing starts up.

Any Ideas?


texts: Is there anyway to somehow save, store messages if you only have Facebook messenger and not facebook account? I would like to have these conversations, and maybe search in some of them, making statistics, but there is no easy or right now I do not see any way for this.


texts: I know I can install my application in the /system/app folder with root access. But is there any way to do it without root access?


texts: Why does android ignore my etc/hosts change in the browser?

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I've remounted /sys as rw, added one entry to etc/hosts (e.g. 10.0.0.1 x.com www.x.com) and rebooted my device.

After rebooting, if I check etc/hosts, the entry is fine. If I ping x.com, it pings the correct IP address I entered.

But, if I open a web browser (either stock or Dolphin), and browse to x.com, it'll go to the IP address the DNS resolves to.

What's happening?

(My phone is a Nexus One, which is running the custom Cyanogen 7.1 ROM based on android 2.3.7)

Update:
On the app 'LAN Droid' I get the edited address (so 10.0.0.1) just fine too. It seems like that it's only the browsers where it behaves wrongly.


texts: Sony Ericsson DISCHARGES when plugged in

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I have a Sony Ericsson Live With Walkman (WT19i). About a week ago my phone started discharging when plugged in for charging using either a Samsung wall charger or the USB port on my PC. It charged slowly but correctly when it was turned OFF, but dropped down to zero rapidly from 60% charged state when plugged in ON state.

I fail to understand the reason for this as the phone works correctly when not charging (battery appears to be intact and not leak charge on regular use).


texts: Flashing Nexus 7 factory image fails on writing userdata

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So I've been attempting to factory restore my good ol' Nexus 7 (2013) LTE (deb) all day, and I can't get past this one error that has me stuck. I'm using the stock image from Google, and where I'm stuck at is when running the flash-all.sh from the command line, everything looks great up until "Writing 'userdata'":
...
Erasing 'userdata'                                 OKAY [ 19.272s]
mke2fs 1.45.4 (23-Sep-2019)
Creating filesystem with 6997491 4k blocks and 1749664 inodes
Filesystem UUID: ee2e310b-02d9-4271-b8ff-75d231a0a955
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
    32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208,
    4096000

Allocating group tables: done
Writing inode tables: done
Creating journal (32768 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done

Sending 'userdata' (180 KB)                        OKAY [  0.011s]
Writing 'userdata'                                 FAILED (remote: 'Bogus size sparse and chunk header')
fastboot: error: Command failed

I found a similar question posted related to a Nexus 5 having the same issue (Flashing Nexus 5 factory image fails on writing userdata), and the same general workaround seems to work up to getting to the android boot screen, except the device is stuck in a bootloop. One comment mentioned needing to resize the partition prior to the first boot. So far, I haven't been able to find how exactly to do that. Anybody got an idea?
Appreciate any help!


texts: How can I transfer all carrier settings from an existing phone to a new phone?

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I have been provided a device for a telephone carrier that cannot be joined automatically. When the Sim is inserted into another phone, it cannot find/connect to the network. Due to the nature of the network I am on, and given I was supplied the phone from the telephone carrier, I believe its customized in some way.

I want to use this network and sim card, but on a better phone (Razer Phone 2).

Is there some mechanism I can use to transfer all settings from one phone to the other, including whatever secret settings the carrier may have setup prior to handing out the devices?


texts: When sending a text message to multiple recipients, how does one see the other recipients?

texts: I sent a text message through MightyText to 5 recipients. One of them showed me on his phone it indicates the other people the message was sent to. How is this possible? Does SMS include each recipient in each message?


texts: internal sd storage partition/mount problem

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I got my nexus 7 2013 a few weeks ago. It worked great for some time until I decided to flash a kernel that claimed to add support for CIFS windows shares mount. After installing this kernel, when the OS booted, I did not have landscape mode working anymore - only portrait. I decided to do adb full restore to a full backup i made before this step, which seemed to have passed without any errors, but something happened to the recognition of the internal SD memory - applications are not able to use it - I am getting "no external storage" messages when I launch the gallery application and an error when trying to run the google play store - "unfortunetley, google play store has stopped". The device is still starting with only portrait mode.

i then tried to format the device and used TWRP to format everything including the internal memory. After that I reflashed the original rom of google for this device (taken from here). The problem is still the same. In TWRP recovery console - I am able to access and push files to and from /sdcard folder with no problems, and see its content with adb shell.

When android loads - cd /sdcard + ls shows that it is empty (even though it does contain files copied to it in recovery console mode) the reason for this is that with ls I can see that /sdcard points to /storage/emulated/legacy which points to /mnt/shell/emulated/0 which DOES NOT exist. /mnt/shell/emulated/ folder exists, but it is empty.

I am unable to use the device - just start the OS (and get the error messages when trying to launch applications). When the OS loads I immediately get the "unfortunetley, google play store has stopped" error without doing anything.

running google earth application when logcat active gives the following output:

E/cutils  (10727): Failed to chmod(/mnt/shell/emulated/0, 0): Read-only file system
E/dalvikvm(10727): cannot mountExternalStorage(): Read-only file system
I/ActivityManager(  492): Start proc com.google.earth for activity com.google.earth/.EarthActivity: pid=10727 uid=10024 gids={50024, 3003, 1015, 1028}
D/dalvikvm(10727): No JNI_OnLoad found in /system/lib/libearthmobile.so 0x41dc5158, skipping init

Any idea how do I solve this? Why are the folder links broken when I am using an original google rom?


texts: What is this "com.android.backupconfirm"?

texts: What is the package on my phone that is called com.android.backupconfirm? I tried Googling and found an answer on a random forum that said that is the UI for the backup confirmation dialog. While this sounds correct, could you explain why this isn't a part of the core but instead a separate package?


texts: Stop splitting words for non-English languages

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How can one stop Android's autocorrect from adding spaces to split compound words? This is terrible behaviour for many non-English languages.

Short story long: The default behaviour of the Android input method is English-centric even for non-English languages. A particularly infuriating feature is automatic splitting of compound words. In many North European languages including my own (Danish), compound nouns must not be separated, or the result will be either nonsense or a subtle change of meaning. It is bad that this is default behaviour for Danish, German, Swedish, and other non-English language input methods, but worse that it is not obvious how to switch it off. Is it possible?

Many thanks in advance.


texts: Can I install a micro-SD card into my Note 2 after I've enabled device encryption?

texts: I recently got a Note 2 and enabled device encryption. I want to put a micro-SD in it now to expand my storage capacity, but when I go to settings, it won't let me mount the card. Is it because of the device encryption? Is there a way to add this drive without decrypting and re-encrypting?


texts: Blocking specific applications from accessing the network while not active or on screen

texts: Is there any applications out there that can let me selective limit network access when i put a program into the background?


texts: "User 0" message displayed on notification bar of android KitKat

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I recently upgraded my Lenovo P780 to kitkat and yesterday applied an update from Lenovo "P780_ROW_8G_S222_140817". After applying this update, I have started seeing text "User 0" in the notification bar (next to the setting icons on right top corner) and additionally, U0 text is displayed in the notification area below the icons.
I am not able to cppture screen for the notification area hence unableto attach the screenshot.
Does anyone have any idea on how to remove this text or is this a bug with the new update?


texts: I recently installed Android SDK (not Android Studio or Eclipse) to emulate an Android Watch. I downloaded the ARM images and the Android Support Library. Everything goes fine, except that it is ridiculously slow. It takes five minutes for the emulator to open up and it stays on the boot animation for about the time it takes for me to have a decent dinner with my family. I've upped the RAM to the point where it takes up about 70% of my laptop's RAM and enabled the Use Host GPU option. I heard that Genymotion is much faster, but there's no Android Watch or Android TV options in Genymotion. I can't use x86 Images because Intel HAXM requires an Intel processor. Is there anyway to speed up the emulator? Or can I somehow get Android Watch and Android TV in Genymotion Freemium?


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I am currently using adguard DNS using the private DNS setting in my android device to avoid advertisements. But it increases the ping time while I am in a multiplayer game (like PUBG Mobile). Is it possible to use different DNS for an app and a common DNS for everything else?

Note: I am currently based in India if location matters for your answer.


texts: Can I unlink ringtone and notification volume on Android 6?

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I have installed this volume control app on my Android 6.0 phone in order to tune notification volume independently from ringtone volume. However, when I tried to do that, I got the following dialog:

Could someone tell me where the above-mentioned setting is located? I have searched through the Sound&Notifications section, but didn't find anything.

Could it mean that the app doesn't support Android 6, or that it doesn't work without rooting?


texts: Cyanogenmod Unofficial and custom kernel

texts: I am new to cyanogen OS and using cyanogenmod unofficial from xda for my xiaomi. Why, it is said unofficial and is there any official release available for xiaomi from cyanogen. Also, I am trying to use a different kernel(camera is not working with built-in kernel ). Whether I get updates, as the kernel is different? What are the specifications for a good kernel, And about security? Please give me, suggestions.


texts: How to hide contact or group from the list in WhatsApp?

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In WhatsApp, to hide a contact or a group from the list, I archived and stopped notification as Always.
However, in case of any message, contact and group appear in the list.
What do I need to do so that contact or group should not appear in the list?


texts: Whatsapp isn't performing the expected daily backup

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I have a Galaxy S10e with Whatsapp backup setup to backup daily to google drive, according to the guidelines on Samsung's website:

However the backup isn't taking place automatically.  It only backs up if I manually initiate it.  What could be the reason that Whatsapp isn't doing it?


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I'm trying to get TWRP running instead of CWM on my HTX One X.
When flashing the recovery through fastboot, and rebooting the phone - the bootloader choice for "recovery" goes straight to CWM.

I tried flashing TWRP through GooManager, and the same thing happens.
It kinda seems like the files doesn't get overwritten...

This all started because I wanted to swap the custom rom running (at the moment it's Cyanogen 10.2.0). But even overwriting the boot.img file seems impossible, since all other ROMs just throws the phone in to a bootloop.

The same happens when trying to update to Cyanogen 10.2.1.. (As I've seen many have to manually flash a new boot.img through fastboot)

Any thoughts on how to solve such a case?

Edit 1 ->
Commands ran in fastboot:

fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot reboot

Started phone in bootloader and selected "Recovery" from the menu. CWM shows up and no sign of TWRP.

When trying to flash the new Roms (not cyanogen), I flashed the accompanying boot.img through fastboot.

fastboot flash boot boot.img

No luck, and it get stuck on the HTC-Screen..


texts: How to type SMS in a full sized keyboard?

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The only way I have to send SMS is through my Android Phone, since I don't have a GSM/3G modem.

I would like to use my Desktop's keyboard to type those SMSes.

Is there any application that would allow me to type in the keyboard and the keystrokes echo in the Android device, through bluetooth or an USB cable?


texts: I used "FIND MY DEVICE" feature. Now phone wont start

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I went to Google Dashboard - Find My Device and tried the PLAY SOUND.

The phone got into non-responsive state.
I tried to reboot the phone, but now my phone doesn't boot.

Device is XIAOMI REDMI NOTE 4

Please let me know what should I do!


texts: I have HTC One X running Android 4.1.1 and Sense 4+. Under Settings > Power I have an option of Fast Boot. The text under it says "Start up and shut down quickly". How will my device be affected if I turn on/off this option?


texts: Last seen time for Whatsapp contact not showing anymore

texts: Is there any reason - other than being blocked - that I wouldn't be able to see a WhatsApp contact's "last seen" time any more?


texts: Connecting Nexus 7 to external hard disk?

texts: How can I connect a Nexus 7 (JB 4.2 rooted) to an external hard disk? I know I have to use a USB OTG cable, but what's the exact procedure to achieve this after connecting via OTG?


texts: How can I change the Locale in the default browser?

texts: I have a Nexus One with Android 2.3.3 and I use the default browser. My phone doesn't have "Swedish" as language setting, so I use English. But now when I use Google, I'm not redirected to the Swedish edition (google.se), probably because the browser doesn't use a Swedish locale. Is there any way I can change the locale for the browser? I have looked in the settings but couldn't find it. Any suggestions?


texts: Why does my power button take screenshots?

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I haven't installed any screenshot applications, in fact my phone was recently wiped when upgrading to gingerbread. I have Gingerbread 2.3.4 and I use the GoLauncher homescreen. Samsung Mesmerize from US Cellular. I know they install bloatware but I've used this phone for months and it only did this after the upgrade to gingerbread (that I know of).

On occasion when I hit the power button the screen turns white and the phone vibrates, and I get a toast message saying "screen captured saved as image file" or something like that. Half the time the power button does that, half the time it turns off the screen normally. Right this second I couldn't replicate, it's very random and frustrating. What could cause this? I see no unusual running apps unless GoLauncher is doing this, and I see no setting related to this in their app.


texts: Must a USB OTG adapter be used to connect a DAC/amp to an Android or can I use a Micro USB to Micro USB cable?

texts: I'm trying to connect a DAC/amp with a micro USB connection to my Android smartphone. Is it possible to get the DAC/amp to work without the larger "adapter" type OTG cable, and use something like this instead? (A USB micro male to USB micro male cable)


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How can I find the oldest SMS that is stored on my phone?
Since SMSs are threaded I can't just scroll all the way down to find my oldest message.
The reason I want to do this is that I use a backup solution for SMS that, for unknown reasons, has failed to copy some messages from my current phone. I therefore want to startover and make a full backup of my current phine. At the same time I have a decade worth of history backed up in this solution and I just want to cull the messages that is on my current phone.
Basically, in my backup solution I have messages 1 to 1200. 1 to 1000 are old, from old phones, while 1001 to 1200 are on my current phone. I want to find 1001 and then delete all messages newer than that from the backup. Finally I will backup 1001 and newer again.
Android 10 on a Oneplus 6T


texts: termux: running termux via adb without *any* direct interaction with the device?

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I know how to open the termux app, run (for example) sv up sshd, and then interact with the Android device via ssh, rsync, etc. This is just an example, and the same is also true for any other termux initiated procedures.

However, to do this, it's necessary to perform that manual open and manual sv up sshd command in termux on the device itself.

I want to be able to perform that initial termux interaction from my desktop computer via adb without any direct interaction with the device itself, aside from plugging in the USB cable.

I have looked for solutions, but it seems like no one has come up with any way to interact with termux except by first actually manually opening that app on the device, which I do not want to do.

However, could I have overlooked something? I'm hoping that I indeed missed something, and that somehow I can start termux-initiated procedures via adb.

Does anyone know how that might be done?

Thank you in advance.


texts: how to flash phone with two roms installed accidently

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I had installed a rom without wiping data.

Help me, how to flash it please.

the phone is a lenovo p700 4.0

Thanks


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This is my first time posting here, but I've used this a fair amount on previous phones to get root and rom's on.

I recently bought an Xperia Z2 online. I've spent the last few days trying to install cyanogenmod on the phone to no avail. Currently. So I'll outline the full process I'm using. I initially unlocked the phone using fastboot and sony official unlock method. I don't know fully if that carries over, or if it's problem if not. Then I flash on D6503_17.1.2.A.0.314_UK_Generic.ftf with the flashtools program. Using this video link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEWheFGJRJ0, including all their specified files, I then root the phone, which is all fine. Then using another of his videos, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubwdracEvyc , I install TWRP recovery, however his link is broken and I instead use the most updated zip file in the xzdualrecovery tab of nut.xperia-files.com/ . Downloading the latest xperia z2 nightly build from cyanogenmod website, I then load that onto the sd card, backup my system then do a full reset+wipe. It's here that I run into my erros. After clicking install from zip and selecting the CM12 nightly build, it begins running through the script and will then abort installation with the error

"This build is for D6502, D6503.. Sirius; This phone is "Castor"

Castor being the xperia z2 tablet. Loading on the Castor CM build will soft brick the phone and require a fresh restart from stock rom.

Loading up CM12's script file and removing the checks for phone version, I then get the following script install problem with no error code or message.

Installing update...

E: installation aborted

I've tried this with another rom running into literally the same 2 issues.
Does anyone know what is going on and how I can fix it to install CM?


texts: launch application by name in android phone

texts: How can I launch some android application by name on android device? Like in Linux, I pressed alt+f2 and typed name of application. May be it is some alternate launcher.


texts: As I was trying to transfer photos from my galaxy 3 to my mac, one of my albums containing over 1500 pictures deleted itself.  I watched the album count slowly decrease.  Why did it do this and how do I get the pictures back?  The album isn't even in my gallery anymore.


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Is there a way so I can quickly take a picture, highlights the number and I click it so it calls the number? Or I click take picture, and call.

So it just takes the photo, process it, extract number, calls it?


texts: Is there a UK English dictionary for the Swype keyboard?

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I've just signed up for Swype beta but there's no option I can see for an UK English keyboard, which means I get incorrect :¬) spellings for 'colour', 'neighbour', 'favourite' etc.

Anyone know if there's a custom UK dictionary available or some other workaround?

Edit:
I've just bulk added 320 UK spellings compiled from the Ubuntu English translation guide.
I put the list of words in a text file, opened and selected all and hit the skype button to add them to the dictionary.
This works pretty well and remembers my preference for words like 'vapour' (which has the same stroke as 'vapor').


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So I have this 4.4.2 Allview V1 Viper L aka Gionee Pioneer P6, with root (rooted using KingRoot) and I'm trying to install TWRP/CWM recovery (from what I read here I can install whichever I want) on it to flash a custom ROM.

I have another identical device with CWM recovery and the custom ROM fully functional, but I got help from someone with the CWM recovery. I decided to try TWRP on the other device, but I have a problem.

I have USB Debugging activated from Developer Tools menu, but when I connect it to my PC, it doesn't install it properly. Opening Device manager, I can only see a difference when I connect it to my PC in Disk Drives, where there is ALLVIEW V1_Viper_L USB DEVICE and another copy of it, and in Portable Devices 2 things appear upon connection: G:/ and H:/ - that's it. No Android ADB Interface as it should have.

I have the latest version of Android SDK on my PC, with SDK tools installed. When I run the tool from the link above, Easy Magic TWRP installer, I get stuck at "Please plug in your device..." where I get right after: ADB shell not working.

I installed Universal ADB driver, I restarted the device, I restarted the PC, uninstalled and reinstalled the devices created in Device Manager after I connected the android to PC, I tried to update those drivers, I checked and un-checked USB debugging but nothing. I don't know what is wrong. I would gladly appreciate your help.


texts: Is there a list that explains the risks involved with each granted application permission type?

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Usually an installed android app will request permissions such as

Phone calls
   read phone state and identity

or

System tools
   prevent phone from sleeping

But the actual consequences from a privacy stand-point is often a mystery to me. Is there a resource that explains the risks involved in these permissions in a greater detail? Especially regarding privacy and personal information security.

(Pros would be such as one with practical examples, analysis, pitfalls, providing complete a lists.)


texts: Phone connected to wireless but does not respond to pings

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I have here two phones that both exhibit the same symptoms.  One is a samsung GT-S5570 running the stock ROM, the other is a Galaxy S2 running an AOSP-based custom ROM.  The problem I have is that while they are connected to the wifi and are able to browse web sites, etc, they periodically stop accepting incoming connections and/or responding to pings.  In order to get them to start responding again I have to disconnect and reconnect the wireless connection.  Yet they are still able to make outbound connections.

Any ideas what may be causing this (somewhat bizarre) behaviour or how I can stop it?


texts: I can't access the chrome:settings and other chrome: and about: urls un Google Chrome

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Although google chrome does suggest those urls:

It doesn't allow you to access them:

I'm very upset, since I am forced to use Chrome (it's pre-installed and takes 100MB) but I can't even access full configuration.


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I currently have a Samsung M01 Core running on Android 10 Go Edition. The installed launcher is One UI Home.
This launcher have some predefined widgets but an important one is missing: a clock. Since it's a Go edition phone, Android Widgets downloaded from the Play Store won't work out of the box and you need a custom launcher to use those.
The issue is that custom launchers do not have access to the notification list (the option is missing from the Accessibility settings since it is not supported) therefore they can't display the notification count next to apps which is also critical for me.
Is it possible to somehow force a simple widget (a clock) to appear within the default list of widgets in One UI? If not, is there another solution (maybe enabling notification access) that I can look into?


texts: Is the galaxy s5 compatible with cyanogenmod 11? It is not on the list of supported devices. I am not sure if it is worth it to try. Has anyone else in the community tried?


texts: Smallest screen size without issues like scaling

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In the Android Compatibility Definition Document it says the support for smallest screen size is 2.5 inches diagonal but which aspect ratio is this for and what would be the smallest size be for 16:9 aspect ratio?
Also how small do you think apps can support before problems occur ?


texts: Voice Unlock Problems on Android Lollipop(Lenovo A6000)

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Recently,I had heard about the voice unlocking mechanism in Android,which lets us unlock our lock-screen using our voice.

As shown in the first screenshot, I have enabled all options:

Screenshots: Options enabled / Annoying Box / Homescreen afterwards (click images for larger variants)

Now,I lock my phone. I switch on the screen,and then say "OK Google".

But then this is what annoys me. I want the home screen to pop up as soon as I have said the command,but instead what comes up is what the second screenshot shows.

And then my home screen appears, after the "Listening..." Box, as shown in the third screenshot above.

I do NOT want the Google "Listening..." dialog to pop up.I only want the home screen to pop up as soon as I have said the command.

I HAVE done a lot of searching... but to no avail.

Can anyone solve this?

PS: My phone is a Lenovo A6000 with CyanogenMod 12.1.


texts: Problem with Facebook sync - All instead of existing

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I have a problem when time comes to sync my Facebook friends with existing contact. Even if I select "Sync with existing contact" in the app, all my Facebook friends are added to my local contact, like if I'd chosen "Sync all". But the options works 'cause as soon as I select "Do not sync", everything from Facebook disappear from my contact on my phone.Is anyone else having this problem, or a solution perhaps?

By the way, my phone is a Galaxy S2 running ICS (4.0.3) with the latest version of Facebook (1.9.7). Everything use to be all right before... I don't know which update messed up.

Thanks!


texts: Nexus 7 refuses to boot unless plugged into outlet

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I've looked around the internet for this problem ad/or solution for hours and have found absolutely nothing on this problem.
My tablet is brand new, straight from the box.

When i have it plugged in and turn it on, theres absolutely NO problems at all. Everything works like it should and the battery is detected and charges fine (at 100%). I can even unplug it after booting it and it will continue to run.

Now if i try to turn it on without it being plugged in first, it refuses to turn on.
I tried the 30+ second power hold with no result.
I also took the back off and disconnected/reconnected the battery port but it still doesnt work.
Anyone have any thoughts ?


texts: Cannot communicate on LAN when WIFI doesnt have internet

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This is pertaining to a smart phone with data.

My phone is connected to my WIFI which lacks internet currently. It is also connected to the cell network and using it for data. When I ifconfig it tells me I am connected on wlan with 192.168.1.4 and rmnet at 10.124.121.12. I am trying to ping a device on 192.168.1.55 for purposes.

If I turn off my cell network I can ping it fine. With my cell network on its unreachable.

How do I get my android to allow me to ping 192.168.1.55 while being on the cell network? I have only noticed this since the internet went out on my WIFI so its a strange and new problem.


texts: Help! I can no longer access photos from my gallery when trying to send a picture

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I have a Samsung S4.
when I'm trying to attach a photo to an MMS I used to get an option of accessing the photo via galary or Samsung link. Usually I selected gallery. This time I accidentally clicked Samsung link and now I can't access pics to send via gallery it only takes me straight to Samsung link.

My question is how do I access pics to send via gallery not Samsung link?


texts: How to upgrade Android on the Samsung Galaxy Ace

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I have an Samsung Galaxy Ace that came preinstalled with Android v2.3.4 (Gingerbread I believe)

I've searched the internet everywhere and couldn't find a way to do so that gave clear instructions on what to do.

But I would also like to ask, if I was to update to say 4.1 (the latest I believe) would the phone then start to lag as it is not such a powerful phone. (800MHz CPU + 300MB RAM)

Thanks heaps!


texts: Three (UK telco provider) has blocked my tethering

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I have a contract with Three (UK telco provider), which gives me unlimited data. My mobile is Samsung Galaxy S Plus (GT-I9001). Every time I try tethering, I get a pop up saying I can't tether. I have tried several apps but with no joy.

Does anyone know how to by pass Three finding out when I'm tethering?


texts: Why does my myTouch 4G lose battery so fast?

texts: So I formatted my phone today. I have not used it, and it was at 100% this morning. No apps installed, the screen was only on for about 10 minutes. Yet when I go to check it now, about 12 hours later, its battery is at 13%. I got a new battery a few days ago, so the battery isn't worn out. My phone is a myTouch 4G from t-mobile. My android version on it is 2.3.4


texts: Is there a way to sort contacts by date added, or at least see contacts that have been recently added? I'm running android os 2.2.


texts: Android Studio unable to see any connected targets, neither hardware nor virtual

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In Android Studio, I can successfully do a clean build, but every time I try Run, I see the "Select Deployment Target" window say Initializing ADB, but then in Connected Devices I see .

I can create a Virtual Device, but after creating it I can't see it in the Connected Devices window.  If I go to Android Virtual Device Manager I can see the new device and several others I have created.

I can open terminal and run adb connect 192.168.1.229 (my device's wifi IP) and get a connection.  Then I can run adb devices and see it listed. But still the Connected Devices does not show it.

The idea.log repeats the following:

2018-10-29 18:36:00,808 [st Monitor]   WARN -            #com.android.ddmlib - Unable to open connection to: localhost/192.168.1.43:5037, due to: java.net.ConnectException: Operation timed out
2018-10-29 18:36:00,808 [st Monitor]   WARN -            #com.android.ddmlib - Connection attempts: 12
2018-10-29 18:36:00,825 [st Monitor]   INFO -            #com.android.ddmlib - adb restarted
2018-10-29 18:37:17,045 [st Monitor]   WARN -            #com.android.ddmlib - Unable to open connection to: localhost/192.168.1.43:5037, due to: java.net.ConnectException: Operation timed out

I have no idea why it is trying 192.168.1.43 and there does not seem to be a server running there.  Is this a setting I have to change?

Attempted fixes:

kill the adb server
restart Android studio
restart laptop
upgrade Android Studio and reinstall with default settings rather than keeping my old ones

System Details:

OSX 10.13.6
Android Studio 3.2.1
Android Debug Bridge version 1.0.40 Version 4986621


texts: Can I share my Google Play "cloud" music with a family member?

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I've uploaded all of our music to Google's "music in the cloud". I can play it on my Android phone (Droid X). I'd like my wife to be able to play it as well on her HTC Incredible).

Is this allowed?

How do I do it?

(One way would be for her to log in as me but that seems like it might cause problems with both of us logged into my account).


texts: Wired xbox controller not working with LG G2

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My boyfriend purchased a USB OTG cable so he can play Android games with an Xbox 360 wired controller.  When he plugs the Xbox controller into his LG G2 nothing happens, I plugged it into my Samsung Galaxy S4 and it worked  immediately. His LG G2 recognizes a flash drive, keyboard and mouse right away so we know the cable is working just fine. What could be causing the Xbox controller to not work?

The AT&T LG G2 is rooted running 4.2.2 with stock ROM.  The Keylayout file vendor_045e_product.028e.kl used for the Xbox 360 wired controller was already on the phone.  Running the app titled "USB Device Info" with the Xbox 360 wired controller plugged in shows the controllers info in both the Android and Linux tabs.  The device seems to recognize everything it's supposed to but won't work with any games or emulators.  It wont even allow the controller to navigate the home screen.


texts: Does the Samsung Galaxy S6 record video using H.265?

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The AnandTech review mentions H.265 encode capability in the SoC but does not mention codecs in the video review.

Does video of any size (1080p, 4Kp30, 720p120, ...) get encoded using H.265 on Samsung Galaxy S6?

Edit: Quote from the article:

  Beyond the swap from a LPDDR3 memory controller to a LPDDR4 capable one, the only other at first noticeable major functional overhaul on the SoC seems to be that the dedicated HEVC decoder block has been removed and HEVC encoding and decoding capability has been merged into Samsung's MFC (Multi-Function Codec) media hardware acceleration block.


texts: APK's AndroidManifest.xml looks to be binary

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I'm not sure if this is a problem with my unzip tool, or not but I'm looking into the APK file structure and I see a file called AndroidManifest.xml. Inside that file there is no XML? It actually looks like a binary dump,

What does this file do, and should it look like this.

I'm using the official VLC nightly, I'm trying to troubleshoot this problem

https://nightlies.videolan.org/build/android-armv7/VLC-Android-3.0.11-20180618-0249-ARMv7.apk


texts: Google voice indicator on incoming calls?

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I'd love to know when people call my cell phone through its original cellphone number and when people call me through my Google voice number.

Is there an app that can show me an indicator on the call screen?

Thanks!


texts: Anyway to get off the photos from a broken Galaxy S4?

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My Galaxy S4 took a bath in the Pacific Ocean and now won't turn on. I tried to have it fixed, but it really is gone.

Is there anyway to retrieve the photos from the hard drive of the device? Assuming that it didn't get destroyed as well. If so, how???


texts: does charging the phone with other chargers affect mobile or battery?

texts: Actually I used Micromax charger instead of Xolo  charger. I have xolo era x phone. My phone gets switched off if I keep it idle for 4 min.  Why it is happening?


texts:
I use OI file manager, but I would like to know if there is a way to remove spaces from file names and replace them with underscores, preferably in batch mode?

I would even be willing to perform this operation on my windows laptop, so this isn't specifically an Android question, though I'd prefer to do this on my phone. I'm a graphic artist and I have thousands of inconsistently named images in various places, and I'd really like to avoid doing this manually, one by one, as it would take months!


texts: Bricked Note GT-8013, unable to boot from TWRP recovery (flashes logo for 1-2 secs), nor on normal mode, installed TWRP via both IMG and TAR

texts: I'm running a Samsung Note GT-N8013. One day, my tablet fails to boot, saying that encryption had been unsuccessful; according to this answer, /data has failed to format. I can't reset the device, pressing the reset button on the screen does nothing. I also can't boot into TWRP recovery mode, it just flashes the logo screen for 1-2 seconds and switches back to the Samsung Note logo screen. I've tried to reinstall TWRP into the recovery partition using both twrp-2.8.7.0-gt-n8013.img and twrp-2.8.6.0-gt-n8013.tar with Heimdall.


texts: Lockscreen rolling notifications like iPhone

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I like everything about my new Samsung Note 3. It is a superior device in almost every respect to my previous phone the iPhone 5.

But, I have one issue that I have not yet resolved. I cannot get the level of detail notifications that are automatically shown in a rolling notification queue like the iPhone (see images below, iPhone on left, Android on right).

The notifications are shown in the queue in the order they are received regardless of source (sms, email, calendar notification, etc).  They are scrollable vertically, and a swipe takes you to that specific message, event, email, etc.

This is one area the iPhone did very well, and I relied on the timeliness and dependability of that feature.

I have downloaded several lockscreen and notifications apps, but none are close to what I described.

Any suggestion?

I really appreciate any insight.
Thanks


texts: Where can I find out when I installed an app?

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Is there a Play Store log file?

Or should I be looking where apps are installed on the phone for time/date stamps?


texts: Automatic adjust brightness through out the day

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It does not seem that automatic brightness works well on my Nexus S.

Basically, I want my phone's brightness to adjust throughout the day. Either that, or something that automatically adjusts brightness based on the ambient light sensor.

Anyone have any suggestions?


texts: How can you enable "Use secure credentials" from the shell

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On the ICS ROM I'm using, the option to enable the secure credentials is missing from the menu, but the sub system seems to be there since Keystore Locker can communicate with it.

So does anybody know how I can enable/initialize secure credential storage from an adb shell?


texts: How to recover data when everything is locked (FRP, OEM)

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Working on recovering data from phones newer than Android 8.1. The situation is this:

Customer forgot the lock (pattern/pin/...)
Because lock screen can't be opened, OEM is locked.
Can't install custom recovery (such as cwn, twrp) due to OEM lock.

It seems that the only way is to mount the hard disk which seems to be encrypted by default.
So what should be done in this situation?


texts:
Does Chrome for Android currently sync passwords to Desktop Chrome through your Google Account? I found the issue at https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=113164, but last they say you need Chrome Beta for it.

I'm asking because I added a few new passwords from Desktop Chrome, and they still are not synced to Android Chrome, so I started to doubt if sync works. Both are signed into my Google Account.


texts: How decrease font or make text readable in Android Chrome?

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Output in Android Chrome where you see classroom not visible in timetable, but I see it with my PC.
Portrait and landscape views have the same problem.

Fig. 1 Landscape view

Phone: Oneplus 2.
OS: OxygenOS 3.1.


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I know that android terminal is basically a Linux shell...but how to install Linux based softwares like gcc,vim, and also other CLI Linux softwares??

I don't want to install termux or other softwares. I want to make my terminal emulator as those softwares like termux


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Now I would like to have as few buttons in the android bar at the bottom as possible but I'm pretty sure both the back and home buttons are required. I believe this is true.

Could I assign the home button to activate the menu button on double click and just have the home and button button?  I'm rooted on 5.1.

Alternatively can I make Android activate home and back with volume up and down https://www.quora.com/Can-I-make-an-app-which-tracks-the-Android-volume-control-button-and-does-some-tasks-if-I-long-press-say-volume-up

Picture of idea


texts: Any way to reduce the frequency of searching for a signal

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My fiancee just got my old SGS2 when I got my new N5.  The problem that she's having is that there is no cell reception at her work.  And because of this, her phone is constantly searching for a signal all day long, and by the time she leaves work and gets into an area of reception the phone is dead.

I've told her to just turn it off or put it in airplane mode, but she usually forgets.  I know I could set something up with tasker, but that sounds like a pain, and I don't really want to pay for on app she'd hardly use.

phone is SGH T989.  I believe she's on 4.2.something.

Really what I'd like to be able to do is just have the phone not try so hard to find a signal when there isn't one available.  I looked and didn't really see a system setting for this.  Is there maybe an app that someone can recommend that would work?


texts: How to copy text on Android like on a computer?

texts:
I want to copy a string of text from an ASCII text generator, but whenever I paste the art, it turns into a line of text.

Example:

_ _ _ ___ ___ _ __ ___ ___ _ __ __ _ _ __ __| | ___ _ __ ___ | |_ _____ _| |_ / __|/ _ \| '_ ` _ \ / _ \ | '__/ _` | '_ \ / _` |/ _ \| '_ ` _ \ | __/ _ \ \/ / __| \__ \ (_) | | | | | | __/ | | | (_| | | | | (_| | (_) | | | | | | | || __/> <| |_ |___/\___/|_| |_| |_|\___| |_| \__,_|_| |_|\__,_|\___/|_| |_| |_| \__\___/_/\_\\__|

(This should say "some random text")

What I want it to look like:

It seems that when I copy the art, it automatically cuts out spaces and line breaks. Is there a way I can resolve this? Getting the art to paste properly is important for an upcoming project.

Edit: I am copying from Google Chrome into DroidEdit.


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As of this morning, Google Chrome Beta has suddenly begun using a silly font (HYTravel) as the default in web pages. (See screenshot below.) Setting the Android default application font (a feature offered on my LG Viper 4G LTE) is not involved—I’ve set that and unset it, with no effect on Chrome’s behavior.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to get rid of this setting?


texts: How can I set a static IPv6 address for a WiFi connection?

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I am running CyanogenMod 12 (Android L) on a OnePlus One, and would like to set a specific wireless network to use a static IPv6 address. I see a menu option for doing this for the IPv4 address (as well as hostmask/gateway) but not for v6.

Currently the connection is getting an address using SLAAC, on the prefix I am using. It gets its routing advertisement from a machine running a tunnel client and radvd.

Is there a method for doing this that preferably does not require root, and needs to only be run once and applies for that specific connection?


texts: Prevent screen from turning on/off automatically due to interaction with the internal magnetic on Nexus 6

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I have a rooted Nexus 6 running on Lineage OS 15.1 (Android 8.1). The internal magnet that is supposed to turn the screen on and off when a magnetic case flap is shut is making it really difficult to use my magnetic car mount.

Is there any way to turn off this feature?


texts: Can I waked a sleeping Android without an app installed?

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I am aware of Wake on LAN, but that has been ruled out as it requires a device to have an app installed (doesn't it?).

A friend wants to develop an access point and wants to be able to wake any sleeping devices in range.

I don't think that that is at all possible, but would be happy to be proved wrong.

In fact, I don't see how he would even know that a device was in the area unless it was using his access point or was open for BlueTooth pairing.

Can what he wants be done? Note that these are random, passing 'phones, so we cannot expect them to have any app installed.


texts: Where are the PRL and profile stored on the filesystem?

texts: I'm talking about what can be updated in Settings->More->Cellular networks->Carrier settings. Where are they stored? On what partition and where, if anywhere, on the filesystem?


texts: How to get a list of latest apps released on Play Store sorted by date?

texts: Is there any way to get a list of recently released apps on Google Play Store sorted according to date added?


texts: Where is the license information for an Android app displayed?

texts: I assume that all Android apps are licensed. However I can not find the  license information anywhere. I thought it would be available when the app is viewed using Google Play Store so you could decide whether or not you were happy with the license before downloading the app. I can not find it on the Play Store or anywhere else. Where is it please?


texts: How do I restore my rooted Motorola Droid back to completely stock and unrooted?

texts:
I'm thinking about unrooting and going back to completely stock, vanilla Android on my Droid.

How can I do this?


texts: VPN app in Google Play Store prevents me from connecting the Internet

texts:
I was using the app called VPN 1-Click for a long time. Recently I got root and granted it permissions when it asked for it. I recently removed the permissions from the app because the servers weren't so stable.

Now my phone won't connect the Internet at all. Neither wifi nor mobile data works.


texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  Is there any way to change the emoticons in the standard android sms app?

I find graphical emoticons (smileys) seriously distracting. How do I disable them?

My device is a rooted HTC Desire running CyanogenMod 7.10 RC, but I don't think that'll limit the applicability of the answers.


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I have an old-ish Google Pixel (gen1) phone that must have a hardware issue, and crashes/reboots every once in a while (every hour or so). It's unusable as a proper  phone but I thought I could reuse it as a single app kiosk-style screen. For example, I could have my Google Photo Albums displayed or I could use it as a stock ticker.

Is there a way to make a specific app start and take over the screen on reboot for Android?


texts: please help me in recovering my lost contacts on WhatsApp

texts: Please I formatted my phone by mistake and in the process my WhatsApp was uninstalled and some very important contacts deleted please how can I still get the contacts back on WhatsApp please help.


texts:
I have synced contacts from my Google account on my Samsung Galaxy.

Now in my contacts are all kinds of people I've written once an email to, which Gmail stored in my contacts.

Some contacts even show up when I search, while they are not even to be found in my contact list on Gmail.

I would like to keep some control over which contacts I want to see in my phone or not. I would like especially to show those who have a phone number in my phone.

How do I filter my contacts from Google?


texts: Can't get in recovery or normal boot HTC One M7

texts:
Please help me.

I've done something really stupid. I flashed from ClockWorkMod to Android Revolution HD on my HTC One m7.
I've got ClockWorkMod Recovery installed and when flashing was done i got stuck in HTC startup screen.
Trying to get in to recovery mode again and install my backup did not work, it just shows ClockWorkMod Recovery logo and reboots.

Is there any way to use ADB/fastboot when in the bootloader screen?

Info from bootloader screen:

M7_UL PVT SHIP S-ON RH
HBOOT-1.56.0000
RADIO-4A.23.3263.28
OpenDSP-V32.120.274.0909
OS-4.19.401.8
eMMC-boot 2048MB


texts: Smart unlock says "no devices" despite one being connected

texts: Honor 6A, Android 7.0. Bluetooth active, smartwatch paired and connected, phone contacts and calls are visible from the smartwatch, smartwatch accepts files via Bluetooth. However, when I try to set up smart unlock, it says "no devices" and the phone keeps asking for PIN every time I unlock it. Any ideas?


texts: Why can my tablet not use my phone's internet over bluetooth?

texts:
I have an old Nokia 6300 (2008-era) phone and an Amazon Kindle Fire HD (2012 model) rooted with CyanogenMod on Android KitKat.

The Kindle does everything I want it to do and I see no reason to carry around a smartphone as I have no need for one (yes, this is coming from someone who owned a Samsung Galaxy S3 for two years!).

I have connected the Nokia to my Kindle via bluetooth and have noticed the 'connect to this device for internet-access' option:

Over on the Nokia the E symbol is displayed within a box meaning that the device is connected to the internet; when I toggle the 'Internet Access' option on my Kindle off, the Nokia phone is no longer connected to the internet (the box around the E disappears).

The Kindle is certainly telling the phone that it wants to use it for internet access, but however Chrome on the Kindle is telling me that it doesn't have an internet connection.

I've read on various websites that Bluetooth DUN and PAN is disabled on KitKat because it's buggy and Google haven't fixed it yet. Is this true?

I've also tried various bluetooth DUN apps to try and get this to work and bluetooth DUN simply tells me 'this device is not supported' and the other doesn't do anything.

Is it possible at all to access the internet vi


texts: I have a Samsung Galaxy Note 3 and it worked just fine until today. The message Cloud agent has stopped working started appearing and it stops my Gallery from working. Is there a way of fixing it? Any help would be greatly appreciated!


texts: When I open a 720p ".webm" file on the "Movies" app in Android 2.3.6 (Nexus One) it displays only one frame and plays the audio correctly. How to fix it? Should I try a lower resolution file?


texts:
When I try to download the OTA for 5.1 it gets stuck at "Waiting to download". Am I the only one that has this problem or is there a fix? Also, if
I manage to download it, will I be able to update or will TWRP get in the way?


texts: How to check existing Android Exchange Domain settings?

texts:
I am installing my wife's new phone using Samsung Smart Switch.
It nicely installs all apps, including Outlook, however it does not copy the account settings for her Exchange mail.
I know her Outlook mail address, mail server name and password, but have not been able to find her domain setting in any documentation or in the settings of her old phone (domain\username).
Is there any way to discover that domain setting on her old mobile? I have tried to find it, without any luck. And service desk of her work is unavailable during the weekend. Hence my question.


texts: Why CM13 of Oneplus 2 resets itself Setting Show pattern dots?

texts:
I found out that CM loses often its setting about the visibility of security dots in the lock screen.
This is frustrating because I am using 6x6 net with a difficult pattern. It is challenging to pass the login.
Cases where I have seen that CM forgets the setting

Install any app of unknown sources etc Amazon underground
Leave the setting of unknown sources open

I managed to pass the code without the dots after 20 attempts. The phone had reseted the setting Show pattern dots.
Other changes in the phone

I see only the dot pattern in the lock screen, nothing else; before, I saw Camera and Phone at the bottom bar in Fig. 1

Fig. 1 Lock Screen now, Fig. 2 Settings in Lock Screen View 1, Fig. 3 Settings in Lock Screen View 2

Phone: Oneplus 2
OS: Cyanogenmod 13


texts: Which method of wireless tether uses the least amount of power? Bluetooth or Wifi?

texts: If I'm going to wireless tehter to my Android phone what method drains the battery the least? Wifi or Bluetooth?


texts:
Most of us will know that tapping "build number" a few times in "about device" gives us access to developer settings.

Is there a way to reverse this, and hide developer settings from the menu without doing a factory reset?


texts: Manually set a hostname for IP address (i.e. /etc/hosts equiv.?)

texts:
I am a web developer and am developing our website on my local desktop machine. I have an android phone (htc desire running android 2.2). I want to test what our web application looks like on android. I can connect to the same wifi network as my desktop machine, however we make use of several hardcoded fake domain names in our web application. On my Ubuntu Linu7x desktop machine I use /etc/hosts to set these domain names to local IP addresses.

Is there anyway to do this on android? I want "foo.xyz" (our testing domain name) to point to 172.31.1.67 (my internal desktop machine). Is there any way to do this without rooting the phone (as my android phone is not rooted now)


texts: Missed call notification shown even in auto rejecting or deliberate rejection?

texts:
I have a Galaxy Note 8.0 N5100 tablet which is updated to the latest version of Android (4.2.2) using the following official ROM from SAMMOBILE.

My problem is even when I deliberately reject someone's calling, there's a notification shown like this:

This is really annoying for me because I have put someone in my auto rejection list, but whenever he calls, this notification is shown.

I did factory reset, and now the problem is fixed. But can anyone help me pointing what was wrong? Is it because of the Android update?


texts: Using Bluetooth keyboard and mouse via Remote Desktop

texts:
I occasionally use my Galaxy S4 Android phone to connect to my computer via Remote Desktop in order to use SolidWorks for 3d modeling.  In order to make this more comfortable, I want to get a Bluetooth mouse and keyboard.  What I'm wondering is whether the keys translate well when I am connected to my computer.

In other words: the keys probably translate well enough when I am just using the phone.  However, the phone does not tend to utilize keys the same way Windows does - ctrl-c, alt-F1, etc..  Do those functions/keys translate when I'm connected to my computer through my phone?

And a similar question for a Bluetooth mouse, I suppose.  Does the computer recognize a mouse when it is connected through my phone via Remote Desktop?


texts: What is the meaning of KDZ file name format?

texts:
What is the meaning of LG's .kdz file name format?

For instance, a KDZ file: D85530B_00_1217.kdz (Marshmallow for LG G3 D855).

After the model no (D855), the terms like 30B, 30C etc. are coming. What does it mean?


texts: Mounting android phone to android tablet

texts:
I have a Samsung Galaxy Ace, with Android 2.3; and an android tablet with USB host support, running on 4.0.3.

When I connect the phone to the tablet with an OTG cable, tablet says SD card is broken, and that I need to format it.

The tablet is rooted and I have Debian on it, which is run alongside android (With the help of Sven Ola's 'Debian Kit').

Is there a way to mount phone FS on the tablet?


texts:
I am following this thread to enable my samsung android phone to do usb to ethernet communication

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2039886

I copied the smsc75xx.ko generated by the user Brandi into system/lib/modules folder. But when i tried to do insmod or modprobe to load the driver, this is what i get

root@android:/system/lib/modules # insmod smsc75xx.ko
insmod: can't insert 'smsc75xx.ko': invalid module format

uname -r returns the following kernel version

3.0.8-perf-T769UVLH5-CL990184

Can you please help me compile for this kernel version? or suggest alternative paths to solve this issue.

I am completely new to android world and would appreciate step by step instructions with examples.

Best Regards,


texts: Can a change in the routing table cause an ARP storm?


texts: On Kindle Fire 8, granting permission to Android apps

texts:
This is a modified cross-post from ebooks, but perhaps more of an Android question since Kindle Fire runs on a bespoke Android build.

I have a Kindle Fire 8 (7th gen) running on Fire OS 5.3.6.4, which I believe is the same as 5.6.3.0, just misnamed. The underlying Android build for this is Android 5.1.1 Lollipop.

I use RescueTime on my MacBook and Chromebook to log my on-screen activity, which has been tremendously useful. Unfortunately, while there is a native Amazon app for RescueTime, it is not compatible with any recent-generation Fire.

So I tried installing RescueTime on my Fire two different ways: First, through an APK, and the through Google Play, which I use for common apps not available through Amazon like WordFeud.

To be useful, however, the app needs access to the Fire's app activity so I can track when I'm reading a book, the news, or, well, playing WordFeud. When I log in with either installation version, I get a generic android screen asking for permissions:

I've got through the Fire's settings ad nauseam without luck. I see a "Device Administrators" option under "Security & Privacy," but when I open it I don't have any options to enable specific apps. All it offers is "Find My Device" and "Google Pay."

Is there any way, besides rooting the Fire and installing a native Android build, to allow apps to access the more generic Android-level permissions? I don't mind rooting the device -- it's out of warranty -- but would prefer not to switch the OS entirely. Thanks!


texts: I have less than 40 apps (including system apps); What else can I remove?

texts:
I'm trying to remove as much bloatware as possible, but there is no information about some of them on Google. Here is the list of apps I'm not sure what they are for:

com.android.provision
com.android.keyguard (WHY doesn't it have a name in apps list? After removing it, I couldn't use the S2 home button. The phone has to be rebooted to make it fully removed or installed)
Input Devices
Documents (com.android.documentsui)
Package Access Helper
Market Feedback Agent (Is it for adding your apps to Google Play my apps list?)
HTML Viewer
External Storage (Storage works without it)
Key Chain (Is it for storing passwords?)
Settings Storage (Can't settings store data itself?)
Google Services


texts: Is CyanogenMod available in several languages?

texts:
Vanilla Android works in so many languages (including mine). What about Cyanogen? Are there language packs? I have not found any on official site, but maybe anything unofficial?

And if there is/isn't any, then

Is the translation device-specific?
Will some parts of system, that come from original (vanilla) Android work in my local language?


texts: I see that One Click Root say that it can root Lg K371 but I don't really know if it really .


texts: I have an Imito android tablet. It gets hot and shuts down. Any have a reason for this and is it fixable?


texts:
For some reason I'm getting 2 notifications for every 1 calendar event I enter.

I'm using Android 4.1.2 (CyanogenMod 10.0.0-grouper) on a Nexus 7.

Can someone please help me troubleshoot this issue?


texts:
Using Android 9 running on a Quectel SOC with 1 USB port, I want to share the Android SOCs internet connection via ethernet over USB with another system (embedded Linux), but also allow USB host functions such as communicating with USB storage etc via a USB hub interface. Is this fundamentally possible (even if some AOSP modification is required on my part)?

From what I understand, native support is offered for the Android SOC to provide ethernet over USB as a USB device. What I want to achieve is provide ethernet over USB (and provide internet connection to peripherals) as a USB host. Is this support natively provided?


texts: Cannot flash twrp-3.2.3-0-cedric.img (Motorola Moto G5) ("Image not signed or corrupt")

texts:
I have followed all the steps of this guy but flashing twrp-3.2.3-0-cedric.img failed.

When I open my Ubuntu console and type fastboot flash recovery /home/username/folder/twrp-3.2.3-0-cedric.img, it says:

(bootloader) slot-count: not found
(bootloader) slot-suffixes: not found
(bootloader) slot-suffixes: not found
(bootloader) has-slot:recovery: not found
target reported max download size of 536870912 bytes
sending 'recovery' (14572 KB)...
OKAY [  0.463s]
writing 'recovery'...
(bootloader) Image not signed or corrupt
OKAY [  0.502s]
finished. total time: 0.965s

What did I do wrong? Did I use the wrong version? Looking at this similar problem did not help me. sudo fastboot flash recovery /home/username/folder/twrp-3.2.3-0-cedric.img does not help either.


texts: I keep getting the error "An unexpected error has occurred. Please try again later."

texts:
I've tried to use both my card and paypal to pay for an app on three different devices (desktop computer, phone, and tablet). None of them work and on my phone I get "Error. We couldn't complete your request." I've tried different apps too so its not a problem with the app or the way I'm accessing the play store. I have 2-step verification turned off.

*Now it won't even show certain paid apps on my phone in the google play store. (The two apps I'm trying to purchase both don't show)

*edit2: I believe the cause may be that I'm not in the US (where I got the free version of the app I'm trying to buy) and it may not be in the UK version of google play store.


texts: How can I increase the size of the notification bar?

texts: My mom recently got a nexus 5, and she really likes it, but she has moderately bad vision and so she can't see the icons in the notification bar (so she doesn't know when she gets a notification). Can I increase the size of these icons?


texts: How can I disable Kies in Samsung Galaxy S2?

texts: Whenever I connect my S2 to the power outlet (not to a computer), the Kies application pops up. Where do I disable this auto-activation?


texts: Dropbox provides LAN Sync for PCs to save time & money. Is there any way to enable it for Android devices? All Dropbox sync apps use only internet for syncing.


texts: Switch off the backlight of the LED screen of the android phone, while using it as a webcam via iVCam

texts:
I have upcoming exams which shall be remotely monitored through webcam. Now the thing is that I do not have an actual webcam and I have decided to use my android phone as a webcam via iVCam (using USB, I do not have Wifi Adapter in my PC).
Now the thing is that, I use internet via USB tethering through the same phone. The exam shall be quite long and, during the entire time of using the android phone as a webcam, the LED screen backlight keeps glowing and I am afraid, the rate at which the phone charges it self through the USB of the PC, it discharges itself at a faster rate if I use it as a USB modem and webcam together.
So before the exam exam ends, I might run out of charge on my phone battery. So could you please suggest me some method so that I can somehow turn the backlight off while using it as a webcam to save the power?


texts: Turning off true black pixels (#000000) for LCD?

texts:
Is there a way to turn off black pixels on LCD screens, similar to how AMOLED devices turn off these pixels?

I've tried those pixel-turn-off apps, but they turn off all pixels within a certain grid, while I wanted just the black pixels to be off.

Thanks in advance!


texts: What does the two speech bubbles notification icon means?

texts: What does the two speech bubbles icon (second from the left) in the notification bar mean?


texts: How to make packages from f-droid to be treated as from a "known source" (if I have root)?

texts:
I usually get packages from http://f-droid.org/ repository through their package browser (because then I have a guarantee that I use free (= libre) software); and they are signed with their key.

I use CyanogenMod 10; and I have root access.

I don't like allowing packages from "unknown sources" for this.

Can I set up the system so that f-droid counts as a known source, and packages from all other unknown sources are not allowed to be installed by default as before.

Perhaps, something can be patches in the CyanogenMod distro to add f-droid's key as a key for a "known source" of packages.


texts: sync htc / android phone with macbook / mac os x

texts:
I use MacBook (which have Mac OS X 10.6 - Snow Leopard). How can I sync data between my HTC phone and my MacBook.

I have HTC Wildfire, and HTC Sync software only supports Windows.


texts: Cannot find driving mode on Samsung Galaxy S3

texts:
After upgrading to the new Android 4.1.2, I can't seem to find the 'driving mode' tab.

Please help.


texts:
I am using a custom rooted android device (not used by anyone else) which comes with android 4.1.2 custom rom.

Suddenly I received an auto update notification and everything was erased... it was a total mess...

Where does my device get the link to download the update from?
How do I disable the auto update?

Even if those things are totally differ from one device to another, I would be very glad to receive a few leads...

thank you.


texts: Is it possible to add arbitrary folders to the media scanner?

texts:
I have a Samsung Captivate Glide and it's got 4 gigs of storage that isn't main storage and isn't SD card memory. It shows up as a separate section under settings->storage and it's mounted on /sdcard/usbStorage

The real physical SD card is mounted under /sdcard/external_sd.

So it's 4 gigs of free space, but I can't use it for anything because the media scanner won't pick up anything I put in there.

Is there a way to force the scanner to search particular directories?


texts: SGS2 screen gets more and more dark blue, possibly after overheated charging

texts:
My phone screen is gradually becoming dark blue and then black--see photo. Started with a single light blueish edge, and growing during the last hours to what can be seen on photo.

The only serious reason that I could think of is that the phone has recently overheated while charging: it stayed for several hours under the pillow, and it was very hot when I took it away from there. Another guess is a recent drop on the floor, but in its 2-years lifetime it dropped dozens of time, frequently much harder than today.

What could be the reason, and how it can be fixed, ideally DIY or at all?

It's Samsung Galaxy S II GT-I9100.


texts: I recently rooted my HCl me sync 1.0(u3)  and changed the build.prop to download some unsupported app. But when I rebooted the tab it stuck in a bootloop(with the screen orientation changed). I have a copy of original build.prop in my memory card. I have no custom recovery.please help me anyone


texts: How can I stop my HTC m8 from vibration at the start and end of call? I turned off all vibration notifications but still I can't stop my phone from vibrating at the start and end of calls.


texts: Partitioned sdcard not working with link2sd

texts:
I have a 4GB SD card which is partitioned into 3GB and 1GB (Well it's not 1GB it's approx. 750 MB) (I used it through my phone 'cause i didn't have a reader and i used mini tool partition wizard) then I put my data back onto the 3GB partition. Link2SD showed me a screen titled :"select the file system of your SD card's second partition" which has 4 options:

ext2
ext3
ext4
FAT32/FAT16

The 1GB partition is ext2 so I choose ext2 and restarted my phone. It showed the same message every time and it tells me "If you're getting this message after reboot it means that the second partition cannot be mounted automatically at boot"

My phone is a rooted Vodafone 858 Smart / Huawei 8160 it's running CM7.2

I tried to reformat and repartition but nothing worked.


texts: How do I mount an external USB flash drive?

texts:
I have a SanDisk 32GB external flash drive I bought six years ago which I used to back up files from my PC. At the moment I no longer have access to as PC, but would like to mount my USB drive and use a file manager app to move my pictures, videos, WhatsApp files and browser files to the external mass storage.

The mass storage device (USB flash card) comes with a standard full USB port. The device, has a standard micro USB port, where I usually plug my charger.

So, do I need an OTG (on-the-go) cable? Would this work as a physical adapter?
 Would the OTG cable do anything else besides convert micro USB to standard USB?

Do I need an app to do the mounting or does the OS do everything? Can I install apps on the external USB flash drive. I ask because on android 4.4 there was a limitation and many apps could not be installed on an external micro-SD card plugged into the back or side of the phone.

I am running Android 6.0 on a cheap Alcatel phone.


texts: My Samsung galaxy tablet 2 10.1 model no.P7500 is giving me a lot of hanging problems. Most of the times the touch is unresponsive and touch operates automatically and makes me lands in unwanted places. the device is not rooted and i had done a factory reset and also flashed stock rom but the problem continues. Please give me a solution as soon as possible. Thanks in advance.


texts: Is an antivirus really needed for Android?

texts:
I use Linux for half a decade now, so I am not used to dealing with viruses anymore. To my surprise, I saw some discussion about antiviruses in Android. I haven't installed any yet, but this bugs me: are they really necessary? Are there (or were) any known viruses in the market? Doesn't Google runs an antivirus before allowing an app to the market?

I haven't had no problem in one year of Android, but my cellphone has a lot of important information, and I wouldn't like to be surprised with some virus cleaning my phone, or making international calls while I sleep, or whatsoever. Should I install an antivirus?


texts: How to get mDNS working for Chrome on Android?

texts:
Is there a way to connect to http://mylaptop.local/ using Chrome on Android, or is there another browser that works?

I travel from network to network with my laptop and my phone and I often have to connect my phone to a website on my laptop. With Safari on an iPhone I can simply use http://mylaptop.local/ (usually hitting reload on an open browser window), but with my Android device I always have to figure out the current IP of my laptop punch it in by hand and connect to it (I don't control many of the networks I'm on and they don't seem to ever have DNS integrated with DHCP).

I've searched a for an answer and it seems most people simply hack around the issues using static DNS, or they control DHCP and DNS, neither of which apply for my situation. Also I see code libraries for supporting mDNS (and other zeroconf stuff) in a specific Android application, so perhaps there's a Chrome add on out  there, or some other browser that supports it?

Also, is there any official word on device wide support for mDNS and the .local domain on Android? I had trouble finding that as well.


texts: Will using a vpn also encrypt my 3G traffic?

texts:
Just wondering, because I've just set my phone up to forward wifi traffic through my DD-WRT router. But I've no way to verify if my 3G traffic is also going through my router.

Does anyone know if 3G traffic also goes through the vpn by default (if vpn is properly configured on the phone of course).


texts:
I want to extract or copy every detail that .apk contain, like for example extracting data from whatsapp.apk or linked-in.apk or twitter.apk.

Please note that I dont want to extract my personal data from any installed app on my phone instead I want extract the data and images which the app developer had added while making the app.


texts: Unsolicited Chrome redirections to scam websites

texts:
When I am using Chrome browser on my Samsung Galaxy S8 (Android 7.0, kernel version is 4.4.13-11814589) sometimes when I click on a link or just read a website suddenly I am redirected to scammy websites, like premium.android-sales.com, which offers me some shady OS updates. See the picture (sorry, the redirect is in Polish):

I don't know if the issue persists with other browsers. However, it was also an issue with my good old Xperia Z3 Compact that used Android 6. The issue is usually encountered when I browse following site (webportal of biggest Polish newspaper, so I doubt the scam comes directly from them).

I have found people suggesting that my router's DNS was somehow altered, however the issue happens also when I am outside of my router's range on a cellular network. Could it be the case that some rogue ad is at fault or is it a problem with my phone? How can it be mitigated?


texts:
With a PC connection and adb, I can install packages by running

adb install foobar.apk

There is also an option to downgrade a package to an earlier version and keep data (as long the app itself did not introduce any incompatibilities in the later version):

adb install -r -d foobar.apk

Is there an equivalent local command which I could run from a terminal session (or any other way to downgrade without a PC connection)?


texts: i have downloaded in app purcahse app from playstore but i have not entered any bank a/c so will i get any bill from playstore.it was written that it is in app purchase but it was in Top Free list. please help me


texts: Need Help in Downloading Applications from Android Market?

texts: I had an android mobile whose version is 1.5 , in that device, can i see the application in the market whose versions are 1.6 and above, is it possible to do this.


texts: How to handle hidden files and folders (which begin with a period/dot) when backing up Android to a Windows NTFS volume?

texts:
Over on Superuser, I asked about whether or not it's okay to have filenames and/or folder names that begin with a period (dot) on a Windows NTFS volume.
The immediate response I received was to avoid doing this.  Update: The author of that answer graciously changed his answer, and is now indicating that it is no problem.  So I think my question is now moot, but I'll leave it up for a few days to see if there are any more updates or commentary here.
What's an effective way to backup Android hidden files and folders (which begin with a period) onto a Windows NTFS volume?
The person answering my question on Superuser recommended renaming the files on Android, if possible.  Well, that's certainly possible.  It involves these steps:

Finding every file/folder that begins with a period
Making a copy of each file/folder found
Renaming each file/folder copied to a unique name that does not begin with a period
Backing up the copies (most likely via FTP)
Deleting all the copies

Ugh.  Is there a better way to accomplish this task?  And if not, is there a way to automate all this work?


texts: Need help fixing system problems after downloading Lollipop 5.0 upgrade for Note 3 today

texts:
My device is a Galaxy Note 3. I was prompted to download a new system upgrade late last night (Lollipop 5.0). I clicked proceed and went to bed. I woke to find two recurring system errors, first being "Unfortunately, System UI has stopped", and "Unfortunately, Package Access Helper has stopped".

The phone will allow for sending and receiving of text messages and emails, I can also call out. No notifications show up on my phone even though I hear them come in; the Phone rings when someone calls but I cannot see who it is or answer it; Background screen is black; none of the phones buttons work either (aside from the power button). Research shows people with similar issues have cleared app caches (didnt work), or done a factory reset (would prefer not to). Does anyone have a solution?


texts: Orange state: can't boot into fastboot after bootloader unlock (REALME 1)

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Can anyone help me with this? I unlocked my bootloader successfully. But after that, when I am trying to get into fastboot mode, I am not able to do so. Whenever I run adb reboot fastboot, phone restarts and on the restart logo screen, I get a message saying:

Orange state- this device can't be trusted as it is unlocked. Reboot in 5 sec

And then, the device gets booted to normal mode. I even tried to rerun the in-depth app to get into fastboot mode, but that also not redirecting to fastboot mode. App says: You can only apply to exit in depth test after carrying out bootloader lock operation in fastboot mode

Now, the problem is if I can't go to fastboot, I can't flash anything and I can't relock my bootloader. Any help would be appreciated.

P.S I already enagle usb debugging after unlocking the bootloader and I could see the device in adb devices command.

Following this to unlock bootloader


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Just wanted to ask whether there was a package manager which could be installed on android terminal like homebrew cask, macports (macOS).
PS Just wanted to install small application like wget and curl.


texts: How to configure Amazon Cloud Player (Amazon MP3) to ignore podcasts in list of on-device music?

texts: Amazon Cloud Player (aka Amazon MP3) displays all mp3 files, even those that are podcasts (which I use the DoggCatcher to listen to).  Is there some way to tell the Cloud Player to ignore podcasts so that my list of downloaded music is only music?


texts: How to get rid of "Battery not charging dialog"?

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I have a Sony Xperia ZR phone with Kitkat 4.4.2 and when I watch HD movies on non-MHL TV connected to the phone using a HDMI-miniUSB cable with external power source auxiliary cable, I often see a message during the movie.

  The connected power source is not sufficient. The battery is draining faster than it is charging. Please connect your phone charger.

I don't mind that the battery is discharging. I tried 1.5A power source and it is still not enough. Someone suggested the phone might be overheating, so I am now cooling it down, still didn't help. I can't get rid of the auxiliary power cable, because the MHL then won't work. My TV is not MHL enabled.

I want to get rid of that dialog at least temporarily. Is it possible?


texts: Where to find IP address in file system (e.g. proc or sys)

texts: Is there a way to get the IP (v4) address of an interface in the file system of Android? I know I could use ifconfig or netcfg but I would like to use a monitoring tool which can only access files and not execute commands.


texts: Error "Function not implemented" when creating symbolic link

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I'm trying to execute this command busybox ln -s "mydir/" "$PWD"/mylink in order to create a symbolic link from mydir; that, I am receiving the following error ln: /mnt/shell/emulated/0/mylink: Function not implemented! I've tried this in both adb shell and Android Terminal Emulator but to no avail.

Update:

Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
tmpfs                   496976        64    496912   0% /dev
devpts                       0         0         0   0% /dev/pts
proc                         0         0         0   0% /proc
sysfs                        0         0         0   0% /sys
selinuxfs                    0         0         0   0% /sys/fs/selinux
debugfs                      0         0         0   0% /sys/kernel/debug
none                         0         0         0   0% /acct
tmpfs                   496976         0    496976   0% /mnt/secure
tmpfs                   496976         0    496976   0% /mnt/asec
tmpfs                   496976         0    496976   0% /mnt/obb
tmpfs                   496976         0    496976   0% /mnt/fuse
none                         0         0         0   0% /dev/cpuctl
/dev/block/mmcblk0p1    774064    420392    353672  54% /system
/dev/block/mmcblk0p2    431368     94172    337196  22% /cache
/dev/block/mmcblk0p8  59034284   5817516  53216768  10% /data
/dev/fuse             59034284   5817516  53216768  10% /mnt/shell/emulated
/dev/block/vold/179:49
                      31632380  25335912   6296468  80% /storage/sdcard1
//192.168.0.1/sdcard  30584780  23082428   7502352  75% /mnt/routersd
//192.168.0.1/sdcard  30584780  23082428   7502352  75% /mnt/shell/emulated/0/routersd


texts: Is possible to open and display both front and back cameras simultaneously?

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Does anyone know if it is possible to open and display both front and back cameras simultaneously?
Any suggestions or references will be appreciated