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I wanted to use an Android tablet for a browser-based info frame, displaying an autorefreshing page. I installed a program that disables screen timeout / blanking, I set the webpage as the homepage, I just need to click "browser" on startup and...

...and about 2 hours I'm back to desktop. Browser quits all by itself. The webpage code is fairly trivial, little chance for any memory leaks (simply reloading the target URL of an image inside a function launched with setInterval() ) and there is no manual intervention of any kind or any other activity performed by the tablet.

Is there any way either to keep the browser from quitting, or to have it restarted in case it does?

The tablet runs Android 2.3.3 (or thereabouts) and can't be upgraded to anything newer - it's a fairly obscure model with no rooting procedures available and the manufacturer doesn't provide any higher upgrades.


texts: Android update not proceeding beyond the point of earlier cancellation

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I have a Samsung Galaxy Note N7000. An Android update was promoted. I started with the update download, but canceled it at 36 MB (total update size:110 mb) because of slow network. After that, whenever I try downloading it, the download stops at the 36 Mb(exactly at 35.88 where I had previously canceled it).

Interestingly, it is the same case with app downloads also, from Google Play.

Device: Samsung galaxy note - GT-N7000.
Android version: 4.0.3

Thanks.


texts: Nexus 7 2013 crashes when in boot loader. How do I flash a new image to it?

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I have a Nexus 7 2013 which I'm trying to flash the Android Lollipop preview image to. It's currently running the last Android L preview image.

Whenever I boot the device to the bootloader screen while it is attached via USB to my computer (mac), the device freezes and adb doesn't recognise it. Booting to the bootloader using power button + volume down works normally. I can start flashing the image with the flash-all.sh script, but when the script tries to reboot the device to bootloader I run into this crash and the flashing halts.

How can I get around this problem?


texts: Connecting Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 to HDMI without activating Dex

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I own a Samsung Galaxy Tab S6, and it's quite good... except for Samsung's software, which I would qualify as bloatware without hesitation.

I bought a cable that is able to move signal from USB-C ports to HDMI ports, and I connected my tablet to my TV using that cable.

The problem arrives when Samsung, in all its wisdom, refuses to just stream my screen, and insists on starting this Frankenstein thing of Dex. Even if the idea seems good, its execution is very poor, and all the software running on it becomes highly unstable, crashing all the time (when it does not have any problems running in basic mode).

And that's why I'm looking for some way to send my tablet screen to my TV while avoiding to activate Dex.

As an extra, I also considered using something like Chromecast Ultra, and in fact I did, but its streaming quality is just a disaster, and looses a lot of quality (hence my intention to go with simple cables).

Thank you for your attention.


texts: How to do ADB over 'wifi' (actually in the same PC) for emulated device

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I'm trying to use adb over 'wifi' for my emulated device. I'm emulating a device on my computer and wanted to use Android Studio to send an APK to it but through the network sockets, not through emulated USB. I know in Android Studio everything works out of the box but I need to it in this way

I'm following this tutorial: https://developer.android.com/studio/command-line/adb.html#wireless

I start it with

~/Android/Sdk/emulator$ ./emulator -avd Pixel_XL_API_27

Then I see that USB debugging is on. I then do

./adb tcpip 5555
restarting in TCP mode port: 5555

Note that ./adb tcpip 5555 is arbitrary. I didn't even specify which device should restart and connect at 5555. What if I had 2 emulators running?

I should unplug now for a normal USB device, but then I go to developer options in my emulated phone and disable USB debugging.

I also see that the IP address in the emulated phone system settings is 192.168.232.2

then I end up with:

./adb connect 192.168.232.2
unable to connect to 192.168.232.2:5555: Connection timed out

I also done this:

./adb devices
List of devices attached
emulator-5554   device

./adb connect 192.168.232.2:5554
unable to connect to 192.168.232.2:5554: Connection timed out

UPDATE:

According to Android Tutorial on ADB, my computer keeps a server running on port 5037. The Android device (my emulator in this case) runs a daemon and my adb script in Sdk/platform-tools is a client. If I want to run a client inside my virtual machine I must have a server running on it. But instead I can just forward the 5037 TCP port from the VM to the 5037 TCP port of the host machine. I did it with tcptunnel by doing the following:

./tcptunnel --local-port=5037 --remote-host=192.168.122.1 --remote-port=5037 --stay-alive

then if I run adb on my VM, it's going to connect to the adb daemon on my host machine which is going to talk with the adb server of my emulator. When I run adb devices in the VM without the tcp forward it tries to start a new server. If I kill this server and open th tcpforwarded and do it again, it doesn't try to create a new server. This is a good signal. However, tcptunnel gives me this:

build_tunnel: connect(): Connection refused

Something is blocking the connection

UPDATE 2:

Turns out tcptunnel isn't necessary, because adb has the H option that lets me specify the IP where the server runs. However I don't know if it's possible in Android Studio to specify it. Anyways:

./adb -H 192.168.122.1 devices
List of devices attached
* cannot start server on remote host
error: cannot connect to daemon at tcp:192.168.122.1:5037: Connection refused


texts: How to perform emergency call while "Android is starting..."

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Sometimes when I start my phone I get this "Optimizing app" thing that takes about 10 - 20 minutes for it to finish.

During this operation phone is unusable and reset doesn't help as the operation is repeated on next boot.

I am wondering, sometimes my nexus dies because of low battery. Now imagine there was a car accident and I needed to do emergency call. I could start it up using USB charger I have in my car, but what would I do if it got stuck because of this "Optimizing" thing?

Is there any way to cancel it so that I can do an emergency call?


texts: Mi2 broken screen, any way to retrieve photos?

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My daughter's got a Xiaomi MI2 stock phone with a screen broken in such a way that it can't be unlocked. She already had a new phone on the way but she's devastated at the thought of losing her photos (no backup).
Is there any possible way to retrieve the photos short of getting the screen repaired?

I've read around quite a bit but every possibility seems to require ADB enabled.
And the Xiaomi MI phone manager can connect but doesn't show any files at all, nor allow backup, so I assume the phone has to be unlocked for this to work.

Oddly, some methods I've tried of retrieving the images (dropbox, windows) activated the camera, where I could see and delete the most recent picture, and also determine the pictures are stored on a path that suggests an SD card, but I understand this is only a virtual SD card so presumably removal is not an option.

So this is my last ditch attempt to avoid a screen repair. Can anyone help, or confirm that I really am out of options for retrieving the photos?

Thanks for your time.


texts: Sync failed when I have 2steps verification

texts: I do on phone factory reset and after that I can't sync when I have turned on 2steps verification but when I turn off verification all works correct. Any suggestions?


texts:
I have used the Zxing app here but I cannot read large QRs with it, how can I do that? By Large, I mean that I want read a content with a lot of text (I am able to make them as large as possible by dimension but not in content).

Now I am not meaning the technical specs as given by one answer (certainly they reveal somethnig), I am looking for ways to read large-amount of content in QRs without too much lag. Is this a pipe dream, just better device or better software?


texts: How can I completely reset android samsung galaxy s 4g?

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My phone has gotten extremely slow, and the GPS no longer seems to function which is the main reason I got the phone.

My phone is a Samsung Galaxy S 4G from T-Mobile.

Is it possible to reset it completely? I read several reset guides, and they said to hold the volume down + power and volume up + power but neither of those worked.

Thank you


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I am using the default mail client exchange.  The client syncs all folders except my Inbox.  It synced one time on Jan 10 when I set it up and that was the only successful sync.  All other Exchange folders are syncing ok.  I just don't get it.  There was a google hit suggesting reducing the size of one's inbox, but mine is small -- a dozen messages?

Manually syncing the Inbox also does not work.

OS: 2.2
Phone: HTC Incredible

What other information can I provide?  Any advice?


texts: Notification icons are not being displayed on the status bar

texts:
You can see that I have notifications in WhatsApp and Messages app but the notifications icons are not visible on the status bar. I have searched through the settings but couldn't find a way.
Device = Oppo F9
Version = 8.1 Oreo


texts: How do I export all contacts (names and phone numbers) to a text file on SD card offline?

texts: How do I export all contacts (phone, SIM) with phone numbers to a text file on SD card? Without Google, without connected computer, without network. Just save everything to a text file.


texts: How do I understand the text file of a bugreport?

texts: My phone crashed for no reason. A bugreport was created and I sent it to my own email-address. It is titled titan_retaildsds-user 6.0 MPB24.65-34-3 3 release-keys and contains a zip file with a text file in it. How do I understand the text file to determine the cause of the crash?


texts: Take a photo in PNG (or other lossless) format

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I need to take a collection of photographs using my Samsung Note 4 used as resources for a video game. To give the best experience, it is important that I use a completely lossless format for this. When I take a picture with my phone, it saves it in a JPG format by default. I need to losslessly save this image in PNG format.

I am looking for some way to do this with existing apps. The one resource I found about this topic from a user's point of view claims it is impossible as there is some sort of hardware encoder -- however I very much doubt this as I've always considered the encoding into a file format to be handled by software.

Is it possible to take a photo in PNG (or other lossless) format in Android?


texts: The clock on my lock screen is showing the correct time but the clock in the upper right hand corner is an hour behind how can i fix this?


texts:
Whenever I plugin ear buds to my Nexus 7, I cannot use the microphone anymore. Same happens for when I plugin in a head set.

How to fix this?


texts: What is the difference between these sound icons in the notification bar?

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When I want to change the volume on my phone, I can press the icons in the notification bar to toggle between vibrate only, silent and normal volume.

However the latter one appears to have two possible icons with only a very subtle change:

Given that they can't both do exactly the same, what is the difference between them?


texts: Why is Chrome on Android sending my HTTP requests to an IP owned by DoD?

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When I make http requests to my website with Chrome Browser on android 6.0 (Nexus6) I saw that it is making requests to 130.90.151.44 instead of the IP of my webserver.

If I use another browser, it is connecting directly to my address.

If I use https, or ssh or antoher encrypted protocol, it seemt to go directly to my IP.

I did a IP lookup on 130.90.151.44 and saw it is owned by DoD

  OrgName:        DoD Network Information Center OrgId:          DNIC
  Address:        3990 E. Broad Street City:           Columbus
  StateProv:      OH PostalCode:     43218 Country:        US RegDate:
  Updated:        2011-08-17 Ref:
  http://whois.arin.net/rest/org/DNIC

Is the DoD sniffing my traffic?


texts: Reducing image resolution (not image size)

texts: I'm trying to post an avatar but the website says that the resolution needs to be reduced, the image size is already much lower than the sites maximum.


texts:
I recently bought a Coowell V5 with a S905X mobo. I overwrote its firmware with one from a Nexbox A95 (that has the same S905X mobo), and now my internal partitions disappeared(mmcblk0p0,...p1,...).

What I think is, that either my internal memory is fried, or that my partitions just disappeared.

My question is, how can I remake them? Or maybe I can use an SD card and bind its partitions to the /system, /data, and /cache?


texts: Fail to connect to ADB Wifi when device goes to idle state?

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I am connecting to my Android phone with ADB WiFi (no USB plugged in). However, whenever my device goes to sleep, I am losing connection and unable to reconnect.

In what I am trying to do, I need to have the screen off. And this is why I am using wake lock to keep CPU awake while device is idling. However, even with wake lock and wifi lock, I am still having the same problem.

Does anyone know how can I connect to ADB over wifi in this situation? or connect while screen is off?


texts: How to bookmark specific part of a long webpage?

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In Chrome Desktop there are several extensions that allow to save the specific line/part/scroll level of a website that you are reading, making it easier to return to it later to continue reading. This is usefull for reading long websites.

Can I do that in Android?
(any app, no need to be a browser)


texts: How to instantly wipe an Android phone in case of arrest?

texts:
A Belarusian friend asked me this, but I can't find anything on my own. Protesters in Belarus are beaten once arrested until they give up the pin code to the phone.
So, if he could give a pin code that would immediately trigger phone reset to factory settings, or erase data, or even show a dummy profile, that would at least protect their family and contacts and limit the extent of accusations.
It would be nice if the phone could be used afterwords. Protesters may be given their belongings back after detention, and having a working phone is an advantage if they land in a hospital or just outside the detention center with none to pick them up.
So far I suspect that to have this functionality one has to fork Android or LineageOS. Is there already such a fork?
Why Android? Because back in Belarus, iPhone is much less popular than in the US or EU.


texts: OnePlus 3T stuck on options menu with Power Key Damaged

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i want to get it on/Started. But its stuck on the options menu. and my power key is not working . Is there any another way around this Instead of me waiting for its battery to get completely drained (which i think will mostly take DAYs)
Photo of Options menu where i am stuck


texts: Samsung Galaxy S III i9300 Boot Loop, No Recovery, after Cyanogenmod Installer

texts:
Some threads with similar issues are already around, but I didn't find one with the same problem as me.
What I was doing when the issue happened:

I was trying to install cyanogenmod from the isntaller method (apk isntalled on the phone, application running on windows that installs it automatically). At certain point, it rebooted the device and the cyanogenmod logo was on the screen. After a while, the program gave an error "'We couldn't talk to your phone' - Samsung devices ONLY", which is described in their wiki. So the pc lost connection to the phone.
What I did:

1 - Since I had installed the clockwork recovery and tested it before, I thought "hey, no problem. I'll hust recover this S*it". So I disconnected the SIII from the PC and tried to enter recovery mode pressing "volume ip + home + power". While I have these pressed, the phone in in an infinite loop on the initial screen showing the brand and model. When I release them, it goes straight to the cyanogenmod blue creepy robot just there staring.
2 - Since that didn't work out since I now don't have a recovery mode and I don't have any functioning rom either, I found several tutorials for using Odin and reflashing and or repartitioning. PROBLEM: Odin seems to recognize the phone (com port), I click on the option and... FAIL!

2.1 - What I have tried: Different Odin versions (1.83 and 3.09), stock drivers from Kies, Zadig drivers.

So. There you go. I pretty much exhausted everything I could get from my head and interpret from google. So, No recovery, no ROM, fail at odin.
Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.


texts: How do you see Memory usage in Android O?

texts: Prior to Android Oreo I could see Memory usage by going to Settings > Memory but this does not exist any more since upgrading to Android O. Is there any way to see this now or has it been removed completely?


texts: Smasung Galaxy A51 stuck in bootloop, recognized by adb, not responding to adb commands

texts:
I have a Samsung Galaxy A51 that is stuck in a Boot-loop. Phone was originally water damaged, but worked until my Dad tried to charge it. I replaced the inside part of the phone with the USB port. When I run ADB (I have drivers) my phone shows up under ADB devices. But it does not respond to ANY ADB commands, I can't root, or push files. I also tried ODIN but I get "Odin Protocol version ERROR".
MAIN PROBLEM: phone shows up under ADB devices but does not respond to any ADB commands.
Any advice would be appreciated, thank you.


texts: How can I install apk that allowing only installing from google play?

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I have apk that I want to edit the assets on him and upload that back to the device. The apk downloaded originally from the google play, and I used apk extractor to get the apk of the app.  But when I'm trying to install the new one from apk, and not from the app store, I'm getting an error on start saying app not installed from google play store, reinstall from there.
I put my hand on the code by revers engineering with jadx.
So I know that they check by install package name and I even found the function to edit, but I can't edit because (because I don't know how to recreate the classes.dex file and I think because this is not like the real source code, I get a lot of run time errors).
I tried also adb shell pm install -i com.android.vending -r [package name] didn't worked...
Does anyone know what I can do?
Thanks,
Alon.


texts: Installing Jelly bean 4.3 on Micro digit tablet

texts: I just bought this China made tablet(Micro digit M7502). Jelly bean 4.2.2 is installed on it. But I want to upgrade it in to 4.3. Do any one know here? I think this is the right place to ask. Thank you.


texts: Where do I find a picture I sent from messages app as MMS?

texts: I took a picture of a tracking number receipt and sent the text message. Now I can't find the picture of the receipt. How do I find it? It's not in gallery.


texts: How do app updates work if the system partition is read only?

texts:
I have a Android phone (Samsung). It comes with a whole bunch of pre-installed stock apps.

Q1: Is it correct that these stock apps are stored in the read-only partition /system?

Since getting the phone, I have updated most (if not all) of the stock apps via the Play Store.

Q2: Assuming app updates can't touch /system, how do they work? How can apps be updated if they are effectively read-only?


texts:
I have joined my facebook, google, whatsapp and phone contacts. The problem starts when the display names are different.

Now the phone has its own mind which contact name to display. I tried un-joining them and leave the name i want to be displayed "in this case PHONE and join them back again.

This resolves the problem momentarily, but whenever I come back again, its the same.
This issue is also with Whatsapp, the contact name within wha

Can I choose which account's name is to be displayed by default?


texts: How to switch between tasks while keeping them in memory in Android 8

texts:
I read a bit everyday from several texts in foreign languages in my phone. About once or twice a minute, I switch to a dictionary app for a quick glance to a word, or very often to the Translate app for a whole sentence or to check my pronunciation, and then quickly back to the text.

I could do this very smoothly in an older Android but in the new phone with Android 8 it seems that most of the times, when I switch from one app to the other, the one that was supposed to stay in the background is destroyed and then has to start again from scratch every time when I try to bring it back to the foreground later, so there is an annoying delay and, after a few attempts, I have no motivation to read any more in my device.

Remark: Yes, I have 'Don't keep activities' in Developer options deactivated. And also "Standard limit" is activated. This was by default and I haven't changed it.

Am I doing anything wrong? Is there a better way to switch between apps smoothly as in past versions of Android.

By the way, with every new phone and Android version I get the feeling that we users are more and more restricted to use the phone to a set of predefined tasks. It is as if the manufacturers, or the Android programmers, didn't want me to see my phone as a versatile handheld computer that can substitute other devices (e.g. a tablet for reading texts in foreign languages) but rather as a limited device to perform a small set of tasks the way they want.


texts: Black screen for about a minute after the startup sequence

texts:
When I start up my device, I often have to sit through a black screen for a minute or so before it asks me the PIN code of my SIM. This didn't used to be the case before. The black screen comes up after the Nexus' regular loading animation and is completely empty except for the status bar at the top.

Then after entering my PIN I see a 'Process system isn't responding. Do you want to close it?' message on top of my home screen. I can just tap 'OK' and then use my phone like I normally would, but it's annoying.

Why does this happen and how can I avoid the extra waiting time? I have a Nexus 5 with Android Marshmallow.


texts: Xperia S, sleep-to-snap not capturing automatically

texts:
Xperia S has the sleep-to-snap function:

  A single key press takes you from sleep to snap in just over a second.

But when I press the shutter-button, the phone wakes, goes into camera mode, but it doesn't snap a photo - I have to press the snap button for that.

How do I make it also snap automatically?


texts: [Swipe Elite Note]Camera Unable to Focus

texts:
I have flashed a custom ROM recently on my device.Everything is working nicely except the camera.The camera used to work perfectly before flashing the ROM.Now,the camera is unable to focus.

I think this is not a Hardware issue but a software issue.

How do I repair this bug?

My device name is Swipe Elite Note.

I will be thankful for any help!


texts: Oppo mobile blocks button clicks with hyperlink

texts: I have developed an android app, which has a button that opens a website link on click. The function works in Motorola, Samsung, some Redmi phones.But, the function doesn't works on oppo phones. Button click to load new activity(pages/app window)works well. What may be the reason? Its not development related question. How to solve this issue?


texts: How to change the display name in the Google Play Store app?

texts:
In the Google Play Store app, the account name is shown inside the drawer menu.

How to change that name?


texts: Can I disable the volume warning if I raise the volume too much?

texts:
Occasionally when I raise the volume on my HTC-one, I get a warning message which stops me until I click 'Ok'. It's more of an annoyance than anything else. Can I disable it? I can't seem to find an option for it in the settings.

This question has already been asked here, but it was over a year ago.
There was no solution then, I'm wondering does anyone know if there is a solution now?


texts: Manually changing shared_prefs and forcing app to update to it?

texts:
I've been trying to figure out if it's possible to disable/enable GO SMS popup notifications via something like Tasker. I came across the following line in /data/data/com.jb.gosms/shared_prefs/com.jb.gosms_preferences.xml:

<boolean name="pref_key_popup_msg" value="true" />

It would seem that I could just flip that to false, but GO SMS doesn't see that (and it actually rewrites the shared_prefs file it looks like). Is there a way to force GO SMS to re-read this shared_prefs file?

I am rooted and am pretty comfortable with shell commands as well as Tasker; I would think that any solution would require one of the above. (Tasker can fire Activities or broadcast intents.)


texts:
Here's an odd bit of behavior I'm seeing from my refurbished Pixel:

When I plug it in using the rapid charger that came with it, it at first immediately shows as charging. Then stops less than a second later. Then starts less than a second after that. Stops. (This may repeat five or six times.) Then finally goes to "Charging Rapidly".

It never fails to start charging, nor do I see this from other chargers which, admittedly, don't have the same amperage and so don't kick things up to rapid charging.

Normal? A minor quirk? Or have I got a defective model1?

Notes:

I did not see this with my original Pixel; only with the refurb
This is the charger and cable that came with the original
None of the other chargers I have have enough wattage to kick the Pixel into "Charge Rapidly" mode
It doesn't always do it, but I saw it stop-and-start a dozen times, once

1 Again! I'm on my second unit because the first suddenly stopped recognizing the headphone jack and the microphone stopped working.


texts: How to turn on HTC One Mini with a broken power button?

texts:
My power button is broken, and unfortunately you cannot take the battery out to turn it on like I seen in youtube tutorials, therefore Im seeking for anyones help to tell me how to turn it on? I also tried the volume keys; don't work...

Thanks


texts: What kind of data do Google and Samsung collect from the OS itself?

texts: Not including apps and websites. I've switched to open source phone, SMS, calendar, etc. and I use the DuckDuckGo browser to try to block some of the web trackers. What kind of data can Google and Samsung still see through stuff like Google Play Services and other OS level stuff? I assume they're still scanning WiFi and Bluetooth signals to try and approximate your location. What data do they collect and can it be stopped without flashing a custom ROM?


texts:
Assuming a healthy phone, what is the normal procedure for cutting and pasting from editable text fields on Android?

On my iPhone this pops up after selecting text, but I cannot even select the text on Android. The whole process is so intuitive on iOS I cannot even remember how I do it, it just happens naturally. On Android I can't work it out!

I'm mostly interested in version 4.2.2 and the multi-line plain text input used on the Wordpress app, though I have equal trouble with Notes and Chrome's address bar.

I want to occasionally move sentences around within a chunk of text, without duplicating them (so Copy is of limited interest, though I note it is equally difficult).

I have a Sony XPeria Z1.

NOTE: this question is about cutting, not copying. Thanks.


texts: How do I uninstall an unofficial app from my S3?

texts:
I have installed my first non-Google Play app but I want to uninstall it.  Where and how do I go about deleting it since  for the official apps I just uninstalled them at the Play store.  Should I use an uninstall app or is there a better way?

4.1.1
S3


texts: Location of Recent Apps screenshot directory

texts:
Where does "Recent Apps" in Android store the screenshots?

I have seen a couple of threads on how to prevent these screenshots from being taken. But I would like to know the location of the screenshots directory.


texts: I have removed a contact's number from Contacts. Also blocked the number on Whatsapp but number is still there in Whatsapp. How to remove it from there as well?


texts:
I have a notification from the TED app that refuses to go away. I tried clearing app data and rebooting and it didn't go away. I tried uninstalling and rebooting and it didn't go away. Is factory reset my only other option now?

I'm using a nexus-7 running stock build JOP40D (4.2.1). The device is not rooted.


texts: How to install Haveged and RNGD on Android

texts:
I was reading about those two tools on rngd (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Rng-tools) and haveged (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Haveged), and i wonder how to install them on android rooted phone ? and does that need other tools/software to install it.

thanks.


texts: How to change the default alarm sound in android with or without root manually without theme installing?

texts: If you have root just replace /system/media/sound/alarms/any_bad_sound.ogg to your good one. File permissions should be 644, you csn use any file format android can play. For ex. i have renamed mp3 file into Hurry.ogg and overwrite system one. Works good. But how to replace default alarm sound if you can't download themes and have no root without using system ui(press and hold on music file to set or change each alarm settings)? I want to know what file might be changed.


texts: CWM Recovery mode menu does not show up, stucks at red screen

texts:
I have Karbonn A5+ phone. I did not find any tuts online tailor made for this model A5"+"', though I found very great resource for Karbonn A5, which I presumed that must be same as A5+ but just with lower processing power (855MHz vs 1GHz). They look exactly the same. I tried to install the drivers for A5 as in this video  and link given in video description, they seem to be installed properly.

I tried to install CWM recovery as shown in this video by the same person who prepared above video for A5. It said that the CWM recovery was flashed successfully and the rebooted. But when I tried to reboot the phone in recovery mode it did not show the CWM menu, it just stuck at red screen.

What could be wrong? Does these drivers are incompatible? If yes, how can I test them? Or the CWM provided in the description of the video above may be incompatible with my phone? If yes where can I get proper CWM recovery for this phone? Now I tried reflashing the CWM recovery twice but it did not helped, So how can I get at least my stock recovery back? And how can I install CWM recovery properly?

Well I know I asked too much question stupidly. But just anxious as am noob.


texts: Why does vibrate turn off every time a call is ended?

texts:
I have a Galaxy S7, MM 6.0.1, rooted/xposed.

Any time a call is ended for any reason, whether it be after an actual conversation, or a manually rejected incoming call, or an automatically blocked/rejected incoming call, vibrate turns off.  I need to know how to stop this from happening.


texts: Adding direct contact to the "Share via" menu

texts:
The Share via menu is awesome.

But in more than half of the cases I use the menu to share something with my wife, and the question is not what to "share it via" but who to "share it with".

I simply wish there was a setting where I could predefine a contact from address book and preferred way of "sharing via" per action (email in most of the cases) that will appear in the "share via" menu.

Is there any way to do this?


texts: Reset application specific or phone-wide default image folder

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I was browsing with the official Facebook app and when sending a picture to a friend I used SkyDrive as the folder where to choose my files from. Then I accidentally made it the default folder. So now, whenever I want to send an image, the app always directs me to SkyDrive instead of getting it from the phone's gallery.

I already tried resetting to defaults and deleting the data of the app, but that didn't work. That's why I think it might be a phone-wide setting. I just can't seem to figure it out.

Phone is a Desire X, running Android 4.1.1.


texts: Booting Fairphone Open OS automatically after sideloading from TWRP

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After writing a bash code that automatically installs LineageOS on the Fair Phone 2 (FP2), I am also implementing the "reverse" OS installation, from LineageOS to Fairphone Open OS. From Fairphone Open OS to LineageOS works flawlessly, however the other way round does not yield the expected behaviour.
Expected behaviour
I would expect the FP2 to successfully boot up into a new instance of Fairphone Open OS after executing:
sudo adb shell twrp sideload
sudo adb sideload 19.11.2-sibon-24df0be9-ota.zip
# terminate/end the sideloading modus
sudo adb sideload /dev/null
adb reboot

Observed behaviour
That does not work, as the phone gets stuck in an infinite boot until the usb connection with the host is disconnected. In that case,

the phone starts the new Fairphone Open OS installation for about half a second,
then displays the "power off" message,
and reboots into the Android Recovery menu whilst displaying:

**Android Recovery**
Fairphone/FP2/FP2
9/21.03.0-rel.2-sibon-3cb25d6c
userdebug/release-keys
Use volume up/down and power.

Can't load Android system. Your data may be corrupt. If you continue to get this message you may need to perform a factory data reset and erase all data stored on this device.

**Try Again**
**Factory data reset**

If the option Try Again is selected, the phone reboots, and then repeats itself coming back at this menu. However, if Factory data reset is selected, the factory data reset is executed successfully and the phone successfully boots into Fairphone Open OS.
Error Mitigation Strategy I
Since the factory reset "solves the problem", I tried to automate this. However, I am experiencing some difficulties doing so. The main issue is that I do not have control over the phone anymore as soon as I reboot it after sideloading the Fairphone Open OS in TWRP. This is because throughout the booting (up to failure/reboot into Android Recovery mode), the adb is unauthorized:
List of devices attached
somedeviceid    unauthorized

So I tried to erase the data after sideloading in TWRP, but before rebooting, using:
adb shell twrp wipe data
adb shell twrp wipe cache
adb shell twrp wipe dalvik

However, that also leads to the observed behaviour as described above.
Error Mitigation Strategy II
Since erasing the data from the TWRP system did not equal a factory reset in/of the Fairphone Open OS, I thought I might reboot into fastboot and do a factory reset from there, as is explained here, using the code:
adb reboot bootloader
fastboot erase userdata
fastboot erase cache
fastboot reboot

However, that soft-bricked the device. I think this soft-bricked it because, Fairphone Open OS replaces the TWRP recovery system with its own Android Recovery system, which corrupts the TWRP recovery system, and then the Fairphone Open OS tried to fail into its recovery mode, but that still was set to the TWRP because it was not removed due to the use of fastboot in between, yet the TWRP was corrupted. However, after some of trial and error and some improperly documented actions, I did manage to unbrick the TWRP somehow, which brings me back to trying to the observed behaviour.
Error mitigation strategy III
I tried the reset functionality as described here, from twrp after sideloading, before rebooting:
adb shell
recovery --wipe_data

Which outputted:
I:Lun file '/sys/class/android_usb/android0/f_mass_storage/lun0/file' does not exist, USB storage mode disabled
TW_INCLUDE_CRYPTO := true
I:Found brightness file at '/sys/class/leds/lcd-backlight/brightness'
I:Got max brightness 255 from '/sys/class/leds/lcd-backlight/max_brightness'
I:TWFunc::Set_Brightness: Setting brightness control to 255
I:LANG: en
I:TW_NO_LEGACY_PROPS := true

However, it resulted in the same described observed behaviour, needing a manual factory reset before Fairphone Open OS would boot successfully.
Question
What could I do to successfully sideload and boot into the Fairphone Open OS coming from a LineageOS system without the user having to perform a manually factory reset?


texts: How can I see how much money I can send in Venmo?

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Venmo has a weekly sending limit:

Screenshot (click image for larger variant)

How can I see how much money I can send in Venmo (i.e. weekly sending limit minus everything I have sent within the past seven days)?


texts: Turn off radio layer hardware calls to save battery when your broadband hardware is gone

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With reference to my question here:
IM-A870L Radio Interface Layer broke down

Summary:
My android phone broadband chip is dead. For some reason, its not working anymore. Now I can use the phone for other purposes but the problem is that the phone goes to look for broadband every now and then. Which not only drains battery but also hangs the phone. For e.g. if I press the power button to turn off the screen, I cannot put the screen back on immediately, it takes a couple of minutes before the phone gets back to normal.

My research resulted in this theory that every phone has two operating systems, one is your main operating system (i.e. Android, iOS, etc) and another parallel os is running with the broadband/gsm chip. Now the cells main OS tries to communicate with the gsm os to keep track of calls/sms. This communication is done through RIL (Radio Interface Layer), but if your gsm chip is dead, RILD is dead and thus the main os will not be able to connect to the RILD (RIL Daemon) through the socket associated for it.

Now the solution for this situation would be to tell your main os that it does not have to connect or keep on trying to connect to the RILD because it is not there anymore.

I am sure this can be done, because tablets that do not have any gsm also work with the same OS, which means in case of tablets, the OS is aware that there is no GSM to look for and thus there is no RILD connection attempts.

My question is that how can we tell our device that it does not have to attempt RILD calls? Is there a global setting or flag that tells the device that there is no GSM in this device??

My device is rooted and I can run any shell command or script.

Any help will be highly appreciated...


texts: Why are there two different Firefox icons? The version is 57 I guess.


texts: Is it possible to play PS2 games on android and for free of course? Does it exist some PS2 emulator on android?


texts: How can I remove the default Google Account on my phone?

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I no longer want to link my default Google Account on my phone. I have a Nexus One runnin 2.2.1.

How can I unlink my Google account?


texts: Why does "tar -czh" produce a corrupt archive but "tar -ch | gzip" work fine?

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I am trying to backup a directory from a phone over adb.
When using the following command I get an archive which is corrupt:
adb exec-out "tar -czh /sdcard/DCIM" > backup.tar.gz

But with the following command the archive is correct:
adb exec-out "tar -ch /sdcard/DCIM | gzip" > backup.tar.gz

The two tar files are 48.8mB with a difference of about 200kB. The corrupt archive is smaller.
I am using adb at the Windows command line. It is necessary to receive the output as compressed data to avoid newline conversions. Both commands should provide compressed data.
My question is specifically asking why these two commands which should be identical are producing a different result.
The phone is running LineageOS 14.1 and is connected to a computer running Windows 10.


texts: I want to manually lock the android sim card network is that possible and how to do it?


texts: Will "hiding" contacts on Google Contacts affect other apps' behavior?

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I manage my contacts on my Google account. There is a feature in Google Contacts where one can "hide" selected contacts, as follows. If you go to contacts.google.com, click the three dots to the right of a contact, then click "Hide from contacts" in the menu, the contact will be moved to Other Contacts.

I prefer to keep my digital data organized, and shortening my contacts list will help. However, I'm not sure what the effect of hiding a contact is (other than it not displaying in the contacts list on a contacts app).

We're talking about a contact that I'm not likely to communicate with in the future, but it would still be better for me to save their details, for example in the unlikely event that they phone me. If a hidden contact phones me (on my Samsung Galaxy S8), will my stock phone app show me who is calling?


texts: i corrupted my internal harddrive on my phone. (the drive where the /image folder is)

texts: well. a few weeks ago, i was flashing roms to my new huawei mercury m886. i am an android developer, and i did the stupidest thing i could ever do. i needed to get into a paranoid android rom, and it was for galaxy s3. unzipping it was taking to long, so i decided to flash it to my phone. well, when i went into download mode, i could get to the files, but whenever i tried to delete something, windows file manager kept telling me, cant delete. disk is write protected. so, i took the battery out of my phone, restarted it, and it just stayed stuck in a bootloop. (the huawei logo). what do i do. i just found out last week that my drive is corrupted. please help. thankyou. Daniel


texts: Is there a way to automatically change SMTP server?

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I have a friend with a ntlworld.com email address. For desktop setup the SMTP server is smtp.ntlworld.com, but this only accepts email from IP addresses served by Virgin Media (who bought NTL) as ISP. When on 3G, they can use the SMTP server of their network provider.

So is there a way to have one SMTP server for WiFi and another SMTP server when not on WiFi?


texts: I cannot unlock apps to close them in the recent apps screen on my new phone. Pressing the lock icon only open the app.


texts: How do I disable the google voice typing/voice search 'ding' sound?

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Whenever I open google voice typing, it plays a rising ding sound, then a falling ding sound when it stops.

This is very annoying to me. I have a rooted stock S5 on Lollipop. I searched for the sound file but couldn't locate it, it may be wrapped up in the apk file.

Is there a way to stop this irritating sound? If I install the Xposed Framework, will that help?

Edit: Someone has suggested turning the media volume down to zero. This will work, but is not appropriate for me, as I am using the language learning app duolingo while I am using voice typing. So I need the app to send out audio via the media channel, simultaneously with using voice typing. Coming at it from another angle, I have asked if there is an alternative application which meets my requirements.

edit

Using app settings 1.15, you can mute voice typing by muting the Google app in Marshmallow (and maybe above). However, voice typing now mutes other audio ( regardless of its configuration on app settings) so I asked a question about it here

How do I stop voice typing from muting/pausing other playing media?


texts: I have an Oppo N3 android phone and is now hardbrick. The cache and partition is formatted. Now I can only go inside recovery mode. ADB sideload not working because it stuck at 48%. Install from sd card also not working(Installation aborted). ADB shell not working(Device unauthorized). Cant flash using sp tools because do not have scatter file. If you guys have any idea what i should do is very much appreciated.


texts: (Xiaomi Mi 9 Lite) Mobile data turns off automatically when screen is off!

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I have an issue with Mi 9 Lite, when I lock my phone, mobile data turns off automatically after a short period of time, it will turn on as soon as the screen turn on, I tried to enable "Mobile Data Always Active" in developers options but still the same!
Does anyone knows how to disable this?


texts: What to do when play store tells "Authentication required you need to sign in with your google account" And then I sign up but still the same I can't install apps.


texts: Asus ME302C tablet charging forever and doesn't start

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My Asus ME302C tablet was giving charging problem lately and is completely dead now and not starting up. Around 5 days back, its charging got stuck at 55% and it never went ahead even after charging for 10 hours. I used it and then charged again and this time it charged few percentages and then stuck at 15%. My son then completely drained it out and the tablet powered off. I charged it overnight (the screen showed the battery symbol suggesting it is charging) but I was not able to start it.

I searched on internet and tried various options like:
- Removing battery connector (by opening up the tablet)
- Tickle charge, charging from PC usb port, phone charger.
- Pressing power on button for long time.

None of it worked. Every time i power on my tablet, it shows initial screen which says "Intel Inside" and then blacks out and shows battery symbol with indicators moving up/down as if it is charging.

I have charged it for long time now around 20-24 hours, but still same issues.

Any idea, whats wrong here:
- Is my battery dead or tablet OS is corrupted?
- Whats are the steps to go to Android recovery screen? Not sure if i can reach that screen considering it is not powering up.

I am out of warranty now as it started giving problem exactly after one year.

Thanks,
Ripan


texts: problem opening normal boot after TWRP install on nokia 3

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by using sp flash tool i installed TWRP on nokia 3 phone and using fastboot loader i can open TWRP but i can not normal boot , when trying to boot normally only android logo appears.
Is it possible to open in normal boot.


texts: I switched my SIM card to the Galaxy S1 it reads it but under my network it says "unknown" so i can't send/ receive messages or calls why?


texts: How to export a large WhatsApp chat with media exactly as it appears on my phone?

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I want to export a huge WhatsApp conversation (346,000 messages) along with the media (photos, videos and voice notes) to my computer exactly as it appears on WhatsApp.

There is a Chrome extension that does exactly what I want by downloading the conversation from WhatsApp Web as HTML. However, it crashes at around 100,000 texts. Is there any other way?

I can't export it directly through WhatsApp because it's limited to 40,000 texts. Also, my phone is not rooted so extracting the SQLite files is not an option.

(Technical answers are highly encouraged)


texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  Is there any app for Stack Exchange?

Is there an android app for StackExchange sites and if not is there one in development?


texts: Android Bluetooth profiles missing with paired devices

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I have an Android 6.0 device and an Android 4.1 device.

I used Bluetooth to pair them (only a numeric code was shown, no input needed) and it worked, I can send files via Bluetooth.

However, when I click the paired device on either phone, I can't see any profile.

This is what I see:

As Internet Access is a crucial profile for tethering, it must be present.

Can you tell me why they are missing?


texts: Is this simple method of moving ANY app to an external SD card on KitKat reliable?

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There are hundreds of articles and many SE QA's about moving apps to an external SD card.

Some of the articles and QA's are outdated, some are incorrect, some require the device to be rooted, some require additional partitions to be created, and some require specific apps that cost money or include ads.

I stumbled on this article, which described a technique that seems unbelievably simple: http://www.howtogeek.com/114667/how-to-install-android-apps-to-the-sd-card-by-default-move-almost-any-app-to-the-sd-card/

The crux of the article can be summarized in a concise manner.  It states that the key is running this simple adb command:

adb shell pm setInstallLocation 2

This technique is free (gratis), ad free, and requires no extra software or partitions on the Android device.

But does it work?  Is it reliable?


texts: I had Resurrection Remix 6.0.1 on my Nexus 6p. I can't remember how it happened, but at some point my lock screen background became transparent-ish/blurred, so what I saw was whatever was open on my phone right before I locked it, but a little blurred. I really like that. But later I flashed RR 7.1.1, and now I have no idea where that is. Any help?


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I've heard from various sources that Android does have SIP support built in starting around version 2.3 Gingerbread, but I yet to see a single phone actually having it in its setup menus.

Just returned from a B&M store having played with a few recent phones from HTC and Samsung (all of them ICS, earlier I've checked a few Android 2.* phones) - and NONE displayed any traces of SIP support whatsoever.

I understand that carrier bundled phones may have SIP disabled on purpose, but why disable SIP in the unbundled phones retailing for $400-600?

Is there out there some sort of an official list of Android phone models having SIP support available off the shelf?


texts: Why do the names of my contacts not appear when in airplane mode?

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I have noticed something weird in my Lenovo K6 (Android 7). When I turn airplane mode on and go to my contacts, only numbers appear. Why does this happen?

Note: I have my contacts stored in the SIM card.


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On my Pixel 2 XL,  select some text in Chrome.  I get a Web Search option that uses Google.  However I also get a "Search" option that uses Bing.

I don't have any Bing apps installed.  I've got Google as my default search engine.  Where is this Bing search option coming from?


texts:
I have a very peculiar situation/question. Below is my mom's phone, OPPO F5 to be precise. It had a broken screen a long time ago. I removed the broken screen, as it posed threat to my siblings, as it could injure them without us knowing. Then, i decided to buy a new screen from OPPO service centre to fix this problem myself. As it is now a lock down period, most/all service centres are not available. I could wait till the lock down is over, but my question is, can you use the phone, like have the screen displayed/ported to a laptop, by wired means(i have no access to the phone's applications or any other forms, as there is no touch screen to control them), to use the phone, till the lock down is over? The phone functions normally by all means, as you can see from the picture, that there is the notification light is still on. Hey Google is also working partially, as when i say it, there is vibration, but no response by the assistant. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
EDIT: When i connect that phone to my laptop, it is charging but isnt detected by my laptop as a device.


texts: How can I turn off data when my phone's screen is off and only let data come back on once per hour or so to sync apps?

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I have been using an app called Doze which turns off data when my phone's screen is off. I'd like to find a way that would turn off data when the screen is off but would turn on data once per hour or so, sync all apps to get new messages, updates, etc, and then turn data back off. Is this possible or do I need to write my own app?

I found having the mobile data off more than doubles battery life.


texts: Show desktop of Android box on PC ala TeamViewer

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How do I look at the dekstop of an Android box (that's connected to a HDMI display) on a PC?

AirDroid comes very close, but it does not let the user manipulate the desktop. All other apps that I came across accessed Windows desktop from an Android device. I want it the other way around; something like TeamViewer.


texts:
Related question here which gives all the gory details (that I won't repeat in this question), motivations and context.

Android is a Linux kernel based system. I know quite well about mount(2) and mount(8) and the filesystems on Linux.

Can the SD card in a tablet be mounted (e.g. as an Ext4 file system) without the MS_NOSUID flag? If yes, how?

I am willing and capable of writing, cross-compiling, and building a statically linked ELF executable (for my ARM-based tablet), which is root-setuid and mixes the features of sudo and sash on my Debian system. I am capable of formatting some SD card (on my Debian) as an Ext4 filesystem. And if I know how to install and run it on my tablet, I will write that program as a GPLv3+ software (in C).

A related question is what exact cross GCC compiler should I use on Debian/x86-64 to target such an ARM tablet.


texts: How do I get private bookmark from web Google Maps to Android Google Maps?

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I have few private placemarks stored to "My Places" on Google Maps web version using same Google account than my Android Google Maps uses.

How do I get those places to the Android?


texts: Anyone having the same problem with Facebook/Android not showing photo's uploaded from the phone

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Has anyone noticed the problem when uploading photo's to Facebook using the Facebook for Android application ?

I uploaded photo's last week , and they displayed ok in FB/Android.

I did the same this weekend (uploading photo's using FB/Android), and now they are not visible in FB/Android (just showing the brown image place holder), although they are uploaded and displaying fine on FB/Windows .

My collegue noticed the same here.


texts: What is the setting in xprivacy to access the microphone?

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I use xprivacy to set all permissions on my phone, but I accidently forbid the tuner app to access my microphone.

Which setting do I have to enable?


texts: Active lockscreen and do no disturb mode

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Recently got a Nexus 5X with Android 6.0.1. Non-root.

The setting under "Display -> Active Lockscreen" toggles whether to "wake the screen when I pick up the device or receives messages". I like these featues.

But even though I turn on "Do not disturb" from notification drawer, the screen wakes up when I pick up the device. I would like to disable this*.

Can I have it my way without rooting?
(Text is loosely translated from danish)

*I like listening to podcasts and audiobooks late at night to help me sleep. The slightest movement lights up the screen which becomes quite irritating.


texts:
When trying to update my Xperia Play with PC Companion, it fails to install the drivers for my device. I plug it in, it tries up until it says a problem has occured installing the hardware. My screen looks like:

because stackexchange doesn't let me post images

I've tried it's recommended diagnostic advice, null.

edit: Just installed the update on another computer. It seems to work fine. If you don't have a spare, try a VM.


texts: Repartitioning HTC Sensation 4GB internal memory for /data?

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Is there a way to repartition the internal 4GB of my htc sensation?
Currently, only 1GB is available for use (/data)
The rest is being allocated to /system, /cache, etc.


texts: Is there any way how to reactivate email notifications for new messages on Facebook's Messenger?

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I was getting email notifications for new messages on Facebook's Messenger. Then I installed Messenger Android app. Then I removed Android app. I would like to use Facebook and Messenger on web only. I would like to reactivate email notifications for new messages on Messenger, but in the Messenger's settings, there is only a setting for Desktop Notifications, which don't work for me. Is there any way how to activate email notifications?

On the main Facebook app there are many other notification settings, but not for new messages.


texts:
My current phone unfortunately does not support VoLTE, so I'm limited to 2G for calls.
However, for all other uses (internet, messaging), even the worst LTE reception is still infinitely better than 2G. In areas with low LTE coverage, my phone switches down to 2G, despite me not intending to make a call.
When I then wish to go online, I have to manually open up the secret menu, force it to use the weak LTE signal (by setting it to "LTE ONLY"), and remember to turn it back to its automatic mode when I want to make or receive a call.
Is there a way to do this automatically? Only ever connect to useless 2G when making calls, and forcing LTE in all other situations?
The "preferred network type" option in the settings ("LTE/3G/2G (Auto)", "3G/2G (Auto)", "2G Only") also seems to be very backwards for modern usage.


texts: Can I remotely launch an app on my android phone?

texts: I have an HTC One S but I don't know where it is. I remotely installed 'Find My Phone' on it via Google Play Store. Now I want to remotely launch it. How can I do that?


texts: Lost my weather app and absolutely want that version back. Have scrolled through 500! versions in play store and others but can't find. Is there a history of what I had and deleted so that I might reinstall exact version? Thank you.


texts: Why does only the German (Switzerland) Gboard layout have umlauts?

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I was looking for a way to add umlaut keys to my German keyboard and found this workaround. I can't imagine why Google did not manage to include them in 7 major versions (I am using 7.1.1). Especially considering that Germany has a population 10 times the size of Switzerland.

Is there a sensible (technical) reason why only the Swiss variation of the German keyboard has keys for the umlauts ä, ü and ö?


texts: Move to SD card not enabled in Sony Xperia M

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HI i have a sony xperia M Mobile. I'm trying to move downloaded apps to SD card. For that first i installed android sdk in my pc and connected my Device in USB debugging mode. Later i started adb and changed the installed location to external card by using pm set-intall-location 2 No errors are shown here. But after disconnecting the usb i still can't find move to SD tab in my device for any of the downloaded apps.

After setting adb i viewed adb devices i saw the devices list there is only one device connected with some name. I assumed it as my device as there are no other devices connected but how can i know that it is my device only.

My device is not rooted


texts: dropped phone in water and it had holes in it what do i do?

texts: I dropped my lg sty lo 3 in water on accident and it had to holes in the screen  the phone turns on but it does not let me click on the screen I put it in rice but it does not work and I don"t have money to buy a new one what can I do?


texts: Android firewall? Blackhole? One IP unreachable

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I have a device, an ESP8266-like, connecting my automower to my wan.

If I hardcode the address to 192.168.1.48, it is accessible from my phone and my laptop, among others I guess.

If I hardcode the address to 192.168.1.44, it is not accessible from my phone, but still from my laptop.

I don't get pings back when pinging 192.168.1.44 from the phone, a traceroute end with the phone's own IP, as I do when I traceroute to an unreachable address.

In short, something on the phone seems to be blocking that particular IP. Rebooting the phone doesn't help.

The phone is a OnePlus 5, Android, OxygenOS 9.0.6

EDIT: all devices are on the same WiFi, Ubiquity devices.


texts: How to configure the (Nougat) system spell checker to go simultaneous multilingual with any 3rd party keyboard?

texts:
I configured several system languages, but I get red underlined text when the word is not in the primary (first) system language. I use a 3rd party keyboard and am on Android 7.1.2 Nougat.

As the user interface for changing underlined words is not from the keyboard itself, but from the system, I ask myself:

Can I configure the system spell checker keyboard-independent to accept multiple languages simultaneously?

I want to keep using my 3rd party keyboard (Messagease).


texts: OTA update removed stock Contacts app (Galaxy Y S5360, Android 2.3.6 Gingerbread.XXMI1)

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My Galaxy Y S5360 did an OTA software update on 22 April 2014, and ever since then, after the phone rebooted, my Contacts app has gone completely!
The data is there, so I have had to download Contacts+ app from Google Play in order for me to call/text my contacts, but I can't add or edit any of my contacts.
I've contacted Carphonewarehouse, who I bought the phone from in January 2012, and they were unable to help. I've contacted Samsung, who got their remote assistance team to remotely delve into my phone (via Smart Tutor for Samsung app) and they were unable to help.
I've done a factory reset, no joy.
Apparently there is no option to reload the software update, as Kies is old and I can't update this because my phone is old and won't cope.
I am at a loss what to do!
I've raised a complaint with Samsung, so I'm hoping they will be sympathetic, but I won't hold my breathe.
Can anyone help?


texts: pendrive was working well on tablet, before formating..but now not showing data

texts:
My 8 GB pendrive was working well on my android 2.3 tablet, before formating..but now not showing data on usb through tablet(but showing all files on PC/Laptop); Yesterday I've formated that pendrive in NTFS file system after that it is not showing usb data(detecting usb-but no data; I again re-formated using FAT32 file system then also tablet is not showing data through USB/pendrive...
Need your help ...


texts: How to enable USB Tethering without forcing me to use mobile data plan?

texts: I wanted to tether my phone's connection to my pc via this old phone that I found. There's a setting for USB tethering, but when I turn it on, it says to turn on the mobile data? I went to the help thingy in the settings for the USB tethering and this showed what seen on the images below. Is there no way to stop forcing me to turn on my data just to share my connection to my pc?


texts: Network operator says "Registered on network" but Why can't I connect to the internet?

texts:
Good afternoon all,

I was originally using a GSM iPhone and I've switched to an android Samsung Galaxy Ace S5830L. I've got some problems connecting to the internet and was wondering if someone could help me resolve the issue.

These are the steps I took from Settings >> Wireless and networks >> Mobile networks >> Network operators:

I've selected SGP-M1-GSM and it says "Registered on network" but I still can't seem to connect to the internet.

What do I have to do to enable internet connection?

I'm currently using v2.3.4 if that matters.


texts: How to 'record' a trip - places I visited?

texts:
I am going for a trip for 3 weeks and I want to record all the places I visited using my Android mobile.

I most likely I won't have data connectivity - only GPS. If I don't find anything else I will use Endomondo, but I'm open to other solutions, including third-party apps (preferably free).

I am using an HTC One XL running CyanogenMod 10.


texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  How can I tell if I have root?

Is there a way to tell if an Android phone is rooted? Where can you find this information in the phone?

I used Unrevoked to root my HTC Desire (GSM) and I had the tool set to disable the phone security as well. But when I start the HBOOT menu it still says S-ON on top of the screen. Shouldn't that say S-OFF now?

Maybe Unrevoked failed to set S-OFF, but managed to root the phone? It has definitely changed the recovery system, because now it says ClockWorkMod Recovery. There is also a new app called Superuser Permissions. Does that mean it's been rooted?

I could try to install some app that requires root, but I thought I would hold off with that since I have just completely re-flashed it and don't want to clutter it with any bloatware until I have set up A2SD+ and partitioned my SD card.

I'm also curious as to why it didn't set the security flag to S-OFF. Would I need to use AlphaRev for this now? And can I skip this part, and still install A2SD+ and partition my SD card? What I'm asking is this: is S-OFF a requirement for A2SD+ and partitioning the SD card and messing around with things like partitioning, /system and Dalvik cache?


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I'm trying to change bulk devices UUIDs using DroidExplorer I've opened /data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db selected android_id from table secure to change the value. I then click Write changes however it's not taking the changes even after the reboot the device still reverts to the old UUID of the device. What am I missing and is there a better solution?

The devices are running on Android Kitkat 4.4.2 and they're Chinese tablets.


texts: How do I get my HTC Desire out of the boot loop?

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I just screwed up my HTC Desire. I had some low memory issues so I decided to power it off. I then went into 'recovery', and then 'mounts and storage', and then 'mount /sd-ext'. At this point it went all black, I guess in order to mount it, and showed me the menu again. I remember that an 'unmount' option appeared. I think I did 'mount /sdcard' then. I then chose reboot system now.

Since I did this, there is the HTC Quietly Brilliant white splash screen appearing and the phone is booting, I hear the HTC signature boot up melody, and then it starts to loop at this point. It doesn't stop until I pull out the battery.

The phone is rooted, s-offed, has stock ROM with Sense, and AlphaRev Recovery.

What should I do to make it boot again? I don't want to do any formatting or data wipes. I have unsaved personal data. I don't have a fresh backup.

Update:

I have managed to boot it now. I used both options in CWM recovery to wipe both regular "cache" and Dalvik cache. And then I chose to rebooted. It took very long time to boot.

I am presented with following problems now.

There is this message saying

  Not enough storage space for SMS/MMS

  Your phone's storage is almost full. You...

Crash

  The application Google Services Framework has stopped working
  (process com.google.process.gapps) has stopped unexpectedly. Please
  try again.

Crash

  The application Facebook (process com.facebook.katana) has stopped
  unexpectedly. Please try again.

Low on space

  Phone storage space is getting low.

Missing apps! Google apps are apparently not available. I think this has to do with that Services Framework thing crashing. There were some other apps crashing as well, I think they were just some minor apps, I didn't catch on to note them down, apps were crashing like on a production line.

The reason why so many apps are missing I think is because I used an app called Link2SD which makes symbolic links for Dalvik cache, libraries and for the APK of apps. It moves these to the SD card, and tricks the system into thinking that they are present on the internal memory. I don't see the Link2SD app icon any more. Can I recover these somehow?...

Where do I go from here? Do I rescue what I can, or do I try to fix the problem? Essentially, do I save myself or do I extinguish the fire?

Update:

I had to manually install Play Store using ADB from the computer. I used it to download and install the missing apps I needed to backup the most important data. I then flashed a new custom ROM on the phone.


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Context:

I wiped all the partitions from my Moto G device with the TWRP recovery and installed Cyanogen 13 on it. Then I had issues when enabling Encryption: the phone just restarts but does not encrypt. This is a known issue and is described here.

I wanted to follow a procedure described in this answer (based on this), which reportedly works. The explanation is:

  When encrypting the phone, partition /dev/block/mmcblk0pXX -
  originally containing an ext4 filesystem which is mounted as /data and
  /sdcard - now contains an encryption container. This will be decrypted
  early in the boot process and returns a logical partition
  /dev/block/dm-0 which then holds the ext4 filesystem for /data and
  /sdcard. (...)

  To fix that, the filesystem in /dev/block/mmcblk0pXX needs to be at
  least 16KiB smaller than the partition itself, which can easily be
  done by resize2fs.

In short, the proposed solution is to resize the /data partition, removing some sectors from it...

  Important is the number of blocks (...) From this number, we subtract 8, which leaves not 16KiB but a safe 32 KiB of space for the encryption header (you don't mind 16KiB on a 12GB volume, seriously)

The actual number of blocks to be removed from the /data partition depends on the sector size for the partition. In the example above it's 4KB, so 8x4 =32.

The problem

These instructions only apply to the ext2/3/4 file systems; the necessary commands (e2fsck, tune2fs, resize2fs) won't work with the F2FS partition used by Cyanogen v13.

I found fsck.f2fs in the /sbin directory, which I used instead of e2fsck and tune2fs. Below are the steps from the root ADB Shell, booted to TWRP:

~ # mount | grep data

/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/modem on /firmware type ext4 (rw,seclabel,relatime,data=ordered)
/dev/block/mmcblk0p36 on /data type f2fs (rw,seclabel,relatime,background_gc=on,user_xattr,inline_xattr,acl,inline_data,active_logs=6)
/dev/block/mmcblk0p36 on /sdcard type f2fs (rw,seclabel,relatime,background_gc=on,user_xattr,inline_xattr,acl,inline_data,active_logs=6)
/dev/block/mmcblk0p33 on /cache type ext4 (rw,seclabel,relatime,data=ordered)

~ # umount /dev/block/mmcblk0p36

~ # fsck.f2fs -f /dev/block/mmcblk0p36

Info: Force to fix corruption
Info: sector size = 512
Info: total sectors = 11583232 (in 512 bytes)

(...)

So, my /data partition is mmcblk0p36, and is 11 583 232 sectors in size. Each sector is 512 bytes, thus I must shrink the partition to a final size of 11 583 168 sectors in order to leave 32KB unallocated.

But how can it be done? Everything seem to indicate that shrinking an F2FS partition is not possible, but I'm not sure. If it is not, and assuming I did a full backup of the /data partition, what are the steps to delete and re-create it with a smaller size?


texts: Get installed apps as APK within Android?

texts: I'm looking for an application that will let me easily export any application I have to APK format (I'm not rooted). Normally, AirDroid does this easily and I love AirDroid for that. However, one of the downsides was that I need to be around a computer to do the said process. Are there any apps that offer a way for me to output the APK file from within the Android itself? I can see that some backup solutions provide this but I don't want a whole new backup system just to do this one small task. A small utility app of sorts would be really nice which has only one purpose and that is to produce the APK file.


texts: Is it possible to clear the "Notifications" on Facebook for Android?

texts:
I have enabled notifications in the 'Inbox' section of my Facebook for Android program.

Does anyone know of a way to clear the 'Notifications' list ?

Reason I ask : Every time I start up Facebook , I get the message that I have 4 new notifications. Over and over again , the same notifications.

Under Windows, these are the same four as I can see when clcking the world icon on top of the screen. However, on Windows, the world icon only lights up when a new notification has arrived, as soon as you click (or view) the notification, no visual indication is present any more.

So, I would like these notifications only to alert me, when new arrive, not every time.

UPDATE:

As it was, I was talking about the Samsung version of FB/ Android (Facebook S! version 1). I downloaded and installed the one from the Market, and this is much better.


texts: How to automatically reconnect VPN on network change?

texts:
I'm using a VPN service, but so far I've only been using it on my computer. Now I'd like to have it on my phone as well. The service I use allow up to four simultaneous connections, so that isn't an issue. They don't have their own client for Android, but they do make config files available for download and use with any client that supports OpenVPN. I've tried OpenVPN Connect, and it works quite well. However, whenever I switch between networks, for example when I lose my home WiFi on leaving my home, or when switching between public WiFis, it doesn't reconnect, so I have to remember to actively disconnect and reconnect.

I've tried setting up a macro in MacroDroid to automatically close OpenVPN Connect, wait for a few seconds, then reopen OpenVPN Connect, but all that does, is bring up the login screen, and I still have to manually click Connect.

My phone is rooted, and in case it matters, it's a Honor 8, FRD-L09 running EMUI 4.1. I'm not going to upgrade to 5.0 at this time, as TWRP and SuperSU have been reported not to be compatible with the EMUI 5.0 kernel. Other than that, I'm open to suggestions. I'm not afraid to play with shell scripts, as long as I have some understanding of what the script does, and with this, I have no idea how to implement it in a shell script, so if if you have such a solution, please also explain what it actually does.

EDIT: OpenVPN Connect has the ability to create shortcuts to disconnect and connect on the homescreen. I'm assuming that these shortcuts just pass arguments to the executable, telling it what to do, and what config file to use. If I knew how to find what arguments the shortcuts pass, I'd likely be able to write a shell script that I could then call from MacroDroid upon network change.


texts: WhatsApp notifications make phone unusable!

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When I get am SMS text message I get a small notification at the top of the screen. However when I get a WhatsApp message the notification takes over the entire screen. If I get a flurry of messages my phone is basically unusable for a while, which is annoying if I'm trying to do something else.

I don't want to turn off WhatsApp notifications completely I just want them to be less prominent. Is this possible? I have a Pixel 3 so I'm running stock Android.


texts: How to disable notification sound in Facebook application

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I have the Facebook application installed and I can't seem to figure out how to turn off the (really loud and sharp) notifications sound, what I tried so far was

go to Settings > App Settings > Sounds in the App and untick the option
go to Settings > Notifications Settings but I couldn't find a relevant setting

I don't want to mute or lower the device volume because I have other apps with  notifications that are actually important for me, I use a OnePlus2 with Oxygen3.6.1 if it helps


texts: i had downloaded an app but after connecting my phone(HTC ChaCha) to pc and after disconnecting my phone from pc,i found that the app is not working any longer.Rather the phone was failing to recognise the app.So i uninstalled it.But after uninstallation the memory occupied by the app was not freed.how can i free that memory?


texts: Where on my S3 can I find the punctuation button to type a "guillemets"?

texts:
I want to type the French and German style "guillemets" marks (« or ») on my mobile.  Where on my keyboard is it?

OS: 4.1.1

Galaxy S3


texts: How to change the name shown in my PC when I connect my phone in MTP mode?

texts:
When I connect my phone ( actually a 7' inch tablet ) to my PC and set the mode to be MTP, in my PC it shows GEM703L from where I can access Internal Storage and SD card, but the problem is that my phone is actually GEM701L and as I want to sell my phone it sounds awkward. Does the problem have anything to do with cust? How can I fix it?

P.S : I know that I can rename the name in Windows Explorer but that doesn't change the name permanently and the name changes as I connect the phone to some other PC.


texts: Question on How to see my mobile's contact numbers in PC

texts: I want to see my all contact numbers in my mobile on  my PC.


texts: android what is the minimum software that must be present in my PC to detect my android phone

texts:
Hi this is very basic question

I have an android phone and when i connect it to few of the PCs in office i can see that "device drivers getting installed" and device ready to use

but few machines its giving "device driver not installed"

I have not specifically installed any software in these PCs to detect the phone.

So please explain me how it is getting rightly installed in few and not in others


texts: Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 restarting randomly

texts: So I have the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 and I've used it for about a month. Last week, the device froze and restarted abruptly. I didn't know what had caused the problem so I had a poke around and people recommended to me that I should do an anti-virus scan and a factory reset. So now I've done both and the issue persists. It happens usually after using the device for a few hours. Once I didn't use the device for a whole day and after I picked it up, it was just restarting even without any usage (saw it coincidentally). Any solutions would be greatly appreciated.


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I have a Huawei Honor U8860 with Android ICS. I use two Mugen Power batteries. I always use one battery until it's empty, then charge it to full while using the other battery. Recently Android battery level has started to behave incorrectly. The battery level drops dramatically, then stays at the same level for a long time. I experience similar behavior with all the three batteries I own: the Mugen Power batteries and the original battery.

Below is the battery status chart at this moment. Suddenly the battery level dropped to 3 % yesterday, but it stayed there and I've been able to use the phone actively for another day since then. Clearly the battery is still performing well, but Android gets incorrect information about the charge, sometimes even shuts the phone down.

I tried calibrating with Battery Calibration app, but the problem has only got worse. Any ideas what's causing the problem? How does Android get the battery level? From the electronics integrated into the battery or by deducing from the voltage level? What does the calibration actually do?


texts: Can I use android phones and PC as walkie talkie? (without internet!)

texts:
I want to call my PC using my android phone(vice versa) without internet. I think it is possible, but not sure there is a program like that.

PC to Android or Android to PC. Not just Android to Android.

This is not a duplicate of this question


texts: xt1527 in boot loop with usb debugging disabled

texts: a couple days ago my xt1527 started acting weird. Gapps started to crash out of nowhere. Today, every app that I tried to open crashed 2 seconds after, so I turned my device off to reboot and see what happened. Well, nothing happened. First it was stuck in the motorola animation but then I turned it off and on again, and it got stuck in the motorola logo (before the animation) and I couldn't turn it off at that point cause it rebooted all the time. When the battery died I charged it for a while and then I was able to enter the recovery mod (actually I think it's the fastboot mode and from there you can access the recovery). I really don't know what to do because literally everything requires adb and hence usb debugging as well. I couldn't find anything to do that didn't require that, I have already downloaded the stock firmware in order to flash it with a script that I found in xda but it clearly didn't work (even though I had already used it with a moto g 1st gen that didn't have usb debugging enabled either). My question is: is there anything I can do to turn the phone on without enabling usb debugging? If not, is there any way to enable usb debugging without turning the phone on? Thanks


texts:
This question is a follow up to:
What information does stock Android send to Google by default, and how do I opt-out?
and
Disable Location History in Android

I did a factory reset and flashed Cyanogen Mod 11 on my phone. I love the ROM and am using it without any Google Applications. I didn't even add a Google Account. For apps, I am using a third party app to download apk and installing them manually on my Android smartphone. My questions:

In Location for Cyanogen Mod, it provides three options - only GPS, only Mobile Tower / Wifi, both GPS and Mobile/Wifi. I know that in stock Android ROM, Google location history sends data about my whereabouts to Google. Will this happen in Cyanogen Mod too? Since I did not add any google account or google app, I'm guessing this is unlikely. I want your advice.
If I use Wi-Fi, does Google know about my Wi-fi, its adapter id, blah blah..?
Does Google know about any other info if I use this ROM?

As you may have noticed, I am quite paranoid. But I do not want to give away anything to Google.

PS: Before flashing CM, I used google account and play on same phone on previous ROM. And the device was added to Google Play.


texts: How can I prevent the AT&T update software from using my 4G connection?

texts:
Is there any way to prevent the AT&T update software form using my 4G connection (i.e. using Wi-Fi only when available)?

By default it seems to use the 4G connection when there's no Wi-Fi connection, as the screenshots below show. I use Samsung I9300 Galaxy S III with a rooted Android 4.1.2.

Following saloalv's answer, I tapped on "Android OS" (which is the process listed as being the one who used my 4G connection): I don't see any "restrict background data" option.

I do see the "restrict background data"  option for other processes though:


texts: How can I check whether my phone is network locked (Samsung GALAXY S3)?

texts:
I have a Samsung GALAXY S3 with a rooted Android 4.1.2. My network provider is AT&T.

I tried dialing *#7465625# but it doesn't work:


texts:
I have the Samsung Galaxy S6. I use the fingerprint method to lock my phone. For some reason Samsung has decided that no-one will ever want to use more than 4 fingerprints. The obviously never asked my opinion on the matter.

Fingerprints used:

Left Thumb (when I take it out of my left pocket)
Right Thumb (when I take it out of my right pocket)
Left Index (when it's charging on my wireless charger at work)
Right Index (when it's on my night-stand next to my bed)
Wife's Left Index (or any one of her fingers) in case she needs to use my phone

I can understand that Samsung would need to limit the number of fingerprints that are stored in not, but why 4? why not 5? 10? etc

So the QUESTION is: (without rooting) How can I get 5 (or more) fingerprints stored?

I'm not going to start using another method to lock the phone
I also want my wife to be able to use the fingerprint method
I want to be able to use both my thumbs and both my index fingers.


texts:
Is it possible to encrypt calls and SMS messages between two Android phones (or even from android to iPhone)?

This firm delivered a beta on Android Market before: http://www.whispersys.com/


texts:
How I can check whether a particular android app is vulnerable to heartbleed or not? I don't want to use any third party app.
I have seen https://github.com/musalbas/heartbleed-masstest/blob/master/ssltest.py but I want to do it with app. I don't know the domain name the app is communicating to. Are the app bundle the OpenSSL libraries with apk, If yes how to find the version of OpenSSL being used.

@Solution:
I have wriiten python module which takes an APK and it do the check for openSSL version and heartbeat extension.

import zipfile
import os
import re

def heart_bleed(tempdir, msl_outputfile):
    parrent_tempdir = tempdir.split('tmp')[0]
    sslpattern = re.compile("1.0.1[a-f]")
    flagssl = False
    flagheartbleed = False

    msllst_heartbleed = []
    msc_vulid = "heartbleed"
    msc_infoseverity = "Info"
    msc_medseverity = "Medium"
    apkpath = ''
    if (parrent_tempdir):
        for root, dummy_dirs, files in os.walk(parrent_tempdir):
            for allfile in files:
                if allfile.endswith(".apk"):

                    apkpath = os.path.join(root, allfile)

        #print(apkpath)
        with zipfile.ZipFile(apkpath, "r") as msl_apkread:
            for i in msl_apkread.namelist():
                if i.endswith(".so"):
                    data = msl_apkread.read(i)
                    if "part of OpenSSL" in data:
                        start = data.index("part of OpenSSL")
                        resultdata = str(data[start:start+40])
                        sslversion = re.findall(sslpattern, resultdata)
                        if sslversion:
                            flagssl = True

                            if "tls1_heartbeat" in data:
                                flagheartbleed = True

        if flagssl and flagheartbleed:
            print("The App is using OpenSSL version " + sslversion[0] + " which is vulnerable to Heartbleed and Heartbeat extension is enabled."))
        elif flagssl or flagheartbleed:
            print("The App is using OpenSSL version " + sslversion[0] + " which is vulnerable to Heartbleed but Heartbeat extension is disabled."))

Please comment is it right to do ?


texts: How can I add a search button to my dock on a Galaxy Nexus?

texts:
I just saw a tweet where someone had added a search button to the 3 docked software buttons

So I'd like to know how to add the search button (or any other) to the dock with the Back, Home and Multitasking buttons

Is this a setting of the default launcher or done through some app?


texts: Is it possible to delete a file through the Google Drive app?

texts:
In the Google Drive app, on its home screen, I get a list of files and a "3 dots" menu next to each file. When I open the menu, all of the options given to me are:

Share
Add to Starred
Make available offline
Link sharing off
Copy link
Make a copy
Send a copy
Open with
Download
Rename
Show file location
Details & activity
Print
Add to Home screen
Report abuse

While these are a ton of options, none of them are "Delete" or "Remove" or similar. I tried looking in the "Details & activity" section to see if there was a "Delete" option, but there was not. Is there a way to delete files through the Google Drive app, or do I have to use the website to delete files?


texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  Where can I find stock or custom ROMs for my Android device?

Does anybody know how I can find HTC Gingerbread Stock ROM? I've just found an old Froyo (2.2) ROM through google search.

Thanks! :)


texts: How can I access multiple user spaces from adb?

texts:
I am running KitKat on a tablet with two users: primary (owner) and secondary. I need to access a file generated by an app of the secondary user.

When I plug the tablet into my (Ubuntu) desktop via USB, it mounts as a media device (MTP), and shows me the base folder for the currently active user. [1] But the file I want is elsewhere on the system, so I connected from the command line via adb shell instead.

Connecting via ADB gives me access to deeper folders (/mnt /proc etc) but I couldn't find the file where I expected it [2], so I looked in /sdcard anyway. To my surprise I recognised the contents as the base folder of the owner account, even though the currently active user is the secondary user.

This also tells me that, if I ever need to, I won't be able to access the base folder for the secondary user via adb shell.

How can I access the tablet from adb shell as the secondary user, rather than the primary (owner) user? (Being able to access the secondary user's files is good enough.)

[1] I'm not sure what the proper term here is. I mean the folder with Android, Download and Pictures, specific to a particular user.

[2] FWIW I am exporting an OPML file from Flym. Flym reports that the OPML export is generated at /storage/emulated/10/Flym_123456789.opml but I can only get as far as /storage/emulated - there is no subfolder called 10, only legacy which is the same as /sdcard (the primary/owner's base folder, not the secondary user's base folder).


texts: Google keep has stopped syncing all of my notes all of a sudden. Notes created on Android phone are not available on the web version and vice versa. It was working all fine till yesterday. The Google help was not of any help. Anything Else I can do? I have restarted, checked the sync settings and updates etc.


texts: Booting into recovery mode shows blue Recovery Booting text, then gets stuck with a black screen

texts:
Phone: Samsung Galaxy S4
Android: 4.2.2 / XXUBMGA

I am on djembey's pre-rooted slim XXUBMGA.

Recovery Mode does not work for me. From OFF mode, I press Vol Up+Home+Power. Then, I see a small blue "Recovery Booting..." text in the top left corner of the screen, but nothing happens. It stays black. If I stop pressing the three buttons, the phone boots normally.

Download mode works for me (VolUp+Home+Power), and I am able to flash using Odin.

How do I fix the recovery mode? Do I need to flash stock recovery again? Would I lose my data if I do so?

Similar question:
Blank screen when trying to boot into recovery mode on Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1


texts: Android lock screen audio controls (8.1.0)

texts:
I'm using Hi Locker screen locker because my Moto G5 was pocket entering the lock pin (super annoying). I use Audible extensively. Now the issue is it is pocket jumping through chapters and pausing my audiobooks from the lock screen audio controls. I've looked for hours and see no way to turn these audio controls off (Android 8.1.0). Is there anything I'm missing that will turn off the audio controls located on the lock screen? The Galaxy S8 has a setting for Facewidgets. I need that. It appears to just be an S8 thing. Note: Turning off all notifications does not accomplish this.

Too many generic search terms to search for this issue. Can anyone recommend a screen lock app that requires a pattern to unlock, and no controls work until I actually enter this pattern? Or an app that disables the lock screen audio controls like the Galaxy S8 Facewidgets settings?

You just get all kinds of unrelated stuff trying to search for this.

I'm almost thinking about getting an S8 just for this one issue. Thought I would ask on here first, though.

Thanks,


texts: Ejecting a device connected via Android File Transfer

texts: I recently upgraded from a device running Android 2.3 to 4.2. On my 2.3 device, I could use USB Connection Mode to automatically mount the device on OSX. When I first connected my 4.2 device, I was surprised when I was prompted to install Android File Transfer instead. Is it safe to disconnect by simply removing it from the USB cable?


texts:
is it possible to use an sd card as part of a smartphone's internal storage, even rooting the phone?

I have read that google has been on that feature since android M, but what about versions like kitkat?

thank you in advance for any help.


texts:
Is there any way I can disable charging by outlet in my phone by some software.
Kids keep making toy of my phone and I better have excuse that phone is discharged and not charging.I have android 7.
My phone has fixed battery it is one plus 3T.


texts:
I am using a Samsung S10+. How do I record a video with no mic input ?

I have tried to put my finger over the mic, but I could still hear some background noise. I am looking to make a video in a heavy noise setting and would like to cut out the sound completely.


texts:
When choosing MTP or PTP, the box is checked, then when I exit the screen and go back to the USB Device Settings screen, my previous choice is not seen, and both boxes are unchecked. It's like the Nexus has forgotten I've made the choice.

Now I can't connect my nexus to PC as the PC won't recognize it!

I recently plugged my Nexus into my LG TV using the USB lead, if that is at all helpful.


texts: How can I delete backed up Google+ photos off of the phone? I know Flikr has support for this, and I don't think there is a way to do this natively with Google+, so is there a 3rd party app or utility?


texts: Does anyone know what this android emulator call is?

texts:
I've been looking at the network traffic for an Android emulator using mitm proxy.  I have noticed large amounts of traffic going to google's servers.  Does anyone know what this request would carry or a good way to find out?

Had to put the file on my server because it was too big to add to this post.

android_emulator_post.txt


texts: Google Now gives absurd times for arriving on time

texts:
Google Now gives me absurd times in its notifications when it think I should leave the house. Just now, at 9:05 pm, it told me that I have to leave at 6:20 am for an event at 10 pm. 9:20 pm would actually be realistic. What may be causing this?

I have enabled Automatic Date & Time as well as Automatic Time Zone. I'm in Central European Summer Time; the clock works perfectly fine.


texts: Use Samsung or Google account for automatic backup?

texts:
On my Samsung Galaxy S7 with Android 8.0 I'm logged into both a Samsung account and a Google account. Both of these offer cloud backup and data synchronisation of settings and documents, but I'm unsure which I should use, because it's not clear to me what each does exactly.

What I'm looking for is an automatic backup of settings, contacts, messages, downloaded files, photographs, ... in case my phone is stolen or lost or I have to do a reset for some reason.

This doesn't have to be done immediately; I'd be ok with data being uploaded once a day, or even every couple of days for things like photographs.

At the moment it seems that both the Samsung and Google account have some degree of backup/syncing switched on, but they're probably doing the same thing twice, and they may get in each other's way if I ever want to restore data.

Since I'm already using a lot of Google services (Gmail, Calendar...) it seems a logical choice to go with the Google account, but I don't want to completely disable the Samsung account, because I want to keep the "Where's My Phone?" functionality.

So, what would be the best way to set up automatic backups, and how do I avoid the Google and Samsung backup functionality doing duplicate work or getting in each othere's way?


texts: Transferring data from SD Card to Internal Memory and vice versa

texts: I have a Smartphone; Sony XPERIA SP with Android 4.3 (updated). While recently updating the apps on my phone, it told me that the Internal Memory was close to full. So I inserted a 2 GB microSD Card (which I found on my drawer by luck) after which my phone prompted a notification to transfer some data to the SD Card. I clicked on the notification and the data got automatically transferred! (I had to select just a few things) After few days someone gifted me a 32 GB microSD Card and so I was thinking of replacing it with my current card. But then to do so I need to transfer the data from my current SD Card to the phone again and then re transfer the data back again to the new SD Card. But how am I suppose to transfer data to the phone again? I found no option to do that. Also is there any other way to replace the new card with the existing one so that no files get deleted or misplaced?


texts: Any hack to get rid of the "Too many password attempts" lock?

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My kids often play with my phone which has a pattern lock screen, and it gets locked due to many attempts, then the phone is locked out and requires a password.

I use 2-step verification, so in order to unlock the phone, I must get a connected computer, and regenerate a password and reconnect the email and other programs in it.
This all process is redundant to me and very annoying and frustrating.

Is there any possible way to disable this nasty "feature"?

p.s., my phone is rooted of course, if that says anything.


texts: Interpretting the output of dumpsys telephony.registry

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So when I run the command

dumpsys telephony.registry | grep -i signalstrength

I get the following output:

mSignalStrength=SignalStrength: 99 0 -120 -160 -120 -1 -1 25 -93 -12 300 2147483647 gsm|lte

I'm assuming the -93 is the dB value but I'm not sure. And for the other values I have no idea. I tried searching for a table to map each value but I couldn't find anything. I would really appreciate it if someone can let me know what each value means.


texts: Samsung Galaxy tab 10.1 stuck on boot screen (bricked)

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This is going to be a long story because my tablet is just having problems left and right.
Firstly, I received this tablet (SCH-i905) as a gift with cyanogen mod already pre-installed. Thus, in attempts to remove it, I tried to do a clean format in the android settings, but that didn't work.
Then I tried the manual restore to factory settings, holding down the volume button + power button. Selected wipe data/factory reset. This didn't work either, cyanogen mod was still installed.
Then I decided to unmount and mount the system and some other things. That's when I can't even start up my Tablet anymore. It is stuck at the load screen Samsung GALAXY Tab 10.1 .
Now I am trying to flash the original hardware to my tablet using Odin, however I cannot find the rom. I also look into the official samsung page, and downloaded the EXE for the USB drive, but can't run ADB.
Where do these ROMs exist or what other alternatives do I have?
EDIT: In the advanced menu, if I select show log, I get the following:
Checking for extendedcommand
Skipping execution of extendedcommand, file not found...
Can't partition no vfat: datamedia
can't format unknown volume: /external_sd
can't format unknown volume: /emmc
unknown volume for path [/sd-ext]
can't remove '/sd-ext/dalvik-cache' No such file or directory
EDIT 2 :
I also tried using Odin with PDA_SIGNED_P7105.tar.md5 . Now my device is in an infinite boot loop.


texts: Can tablets differentiate between regular wi-fi and mobile hot spot?

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There are a lot of apps in Android which act differently depending on the internet connection.  Such as apps which auto-upload photos to the could only when connected to Wi-Fi, and not when connected to broadband on a smart-phone.

Unfortunately, when such apps connect to a mobile hot-spot (limited data; tethering), they think it is regular (unlimited data) Wi-Fi, and work accordingly.

Is there any way for a tablet to notice when a Wi-Fi connection is from a mobile hot spot, and act as if it was connected to broadband?


texts: Home button or back button to leave an app?

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Is there a difference between leaving an app by pressing the "back" button vs. pressing the "home" button?

I've got an app which includes a countdown timer. The app says it will notify me when the timer reaches zero but only if the app is minimized (home button) and not if it's closed (back button). Is there really a difference here?

Note that I've confirmed that the app stays available in the list of running apps (the "history" button, or whatever it's called) regardless whether I use "back" or "home" so I am confused. Has the developer misunderstood this?

Details: I'm running the app Ingress Portals on a stock Nexus 4.


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Is it possible to open an HTML file with a text editor for example so that I can edit it's source?

Thank you.