texts: Recovering deleted files from unrooted Android device requires factory data reset

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I would like to create a copy of the internal drive (not SD) of my Android device (Motorola E3) to recover some deleted files, but it requires rooting of the device. Rooting itself requires bootloader unlocking. During bootloader unlocking one has to wipe the internal drive (text taken from the "Unlock bootloader" menu):

To prevent unauthoritzed access to your personal data, unlocking the bootloader will also delete all personal data from your phone (a "factory data reset").

It sounds a bit contradictory to me. Is there no way to restore deleted files even after rooting the device?
Note: These answers (and many others on the internet) were not helpful:

Moto G -- recovering files after bootloader unlock (wipe)?
Recovering deleted files from unrooted Galaxy Nexus
How Recover deleted data from internal memory of non rooted Moto G device?
Advices like "download <fancy-tool-xy.exe> and root the device" without explaining what that tool exactly does (apart from this that fancy tool would probably contain some malware)


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I have an HTC Vivid that, when turned on, fails to load. The screen is white with the HTC logo, but it never moves any further than that. There are pictures on this phone that I'd like to save, but I can't connect it to the computer since the USB debugging won't work since I can't get past the boot screen.

Is there any way to recover these images? I'm not concerned about damaging the phone or voiding the warranty (there isn't one), because these pictures are quite important.

EDIT: There is no SD card in the phone, so the data isn't on it. It hasn't been rooted.

When I try to run recovery, it gives me the following errors:

E:Can't mount /cache/recovery/command
E:Can't mount /data/data/recovery/log
E:Can't open /data/data/recovery/log


texts: Install google APPs in Nexus7 with Cyanogenmod already installed

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A few days ago, I installed the latest Cyanogenmod (version 11) on my Nexus 7. When I booted it up, I discovered that all the Google Apps were gone.

I downloaded a .zip file from http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Gapps but now I'm stuck. I don't know how to install it. I extracted it and I do see a lot of .apk files, but there's much more stuff in there (system/ directories and whatnot).

The question is: Once I have that .zip file, how do I install the Apps (without blowing up my Nexus, if possible). I've found some results on google, but (AFAIU) all the methods I found explain how to install the Google Apps while installing Cyanogenmod, which is not my case.

Newbie here! Don't hit me too hard, please :-D


texts: Do all apps lose state when the phone is locked?

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I use Rune for music. It takes Rune a bit of time to find its controller on the network. If, after starting some music playing, I then lock the phone, when I come back Rune starts all over to locate its controller. I had a similar experience with Sony's 'imaging edge' app for remote-controlling my camera. As soon the phone locked, I had to go through the elaborate connection process all over again.
Is there any way to change this behavior?


texts: Trying to unlock & access a password locked Android cell phone that has screen damage on a small section so I can't input the last # of password

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I've tried going around the password with some of those programs they have advertised, where they claim it will eliminate the password requirement and get you right into your Android device. What I don't quite understand is what were they thinking of when in the procedures, one of the steps will involve changing the settings in the locked Android (e.g. Debugging must be on, or load this program onto the locked Android....)  Did someone actually go through some of these processes before releasing program? I mean, how are you supposed to get into the settings of a phone you're locked out of, or let alone, load a program or app onto the android you're trying to unlock? I wanna see that happen.
So anyway, I have an android cell phone, I dropped it, screen cracked and part of the screen has no capacity to input anything, it's like a dead area; screen works there, but no touch entry.
Is there any way of eliminating the passcode step, get into it, and load it up with mirror app to view and control the device? And, getting another device to recognize the locked device via USB wire connect.


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I have the following setup: a Wi-Fi device which is NOT connected to the internet, like a drone or IoT device. The data of the device shall be uploaded to the internet.

While it is possible to connect to both networks within an app using the ConnectivityManager, it is not possible to use the mobile internet outside of the app. The devices have Android 6.0 or higher, so it should be actually supported by the Android system. But it seems to me, that Samsung did not implemented that support.

How do I use the mobile internet for instance to receive mails or push notifications while I am connected to a Wi-Fi which has no internet itself.

Thanks.


texts: How can I debug my application while USB tethering is enabled?

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I want to debug my application on the phone and at the same time I want to enable USB tethering so that I can access Internet on my PC.

Is there any way so that I can connect my phone then enable USB Tethering and USB Debugging at the same time? Are there any applications exist?


texts: Does ColorNote send my notes somewhere without my permission?

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I use ColorNote quite a bit and I sometimes write personal things. Does ColorNote secretly spy on me, like send those notes somewhere over the Internet without my permission? I don't have any particular reason to suspect it, I am just asking. Is there a way to be sure or are we at the mercy of the app developers?

Thanks.


texts: I am stuck on the verify your account Google on a ZTE TracFone


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For the past couple weeks my Droid 4 has been switching itself into silent mode at night. At first I thought it was me, but it's not. At around 11pm I plug it in and set it on the table. At this point it is not in silent mode. In the morning it is in silent mode, which means the alarm has not gone off. After I take it off silent mode, the alarm volume is still at zero, so I have to adjust that too. And like I said, this have been the case for a couple weeks.

I have installed no new apps. There are no smart actions set. Any ideas? Thanks.


texts: Uninstalled app coming up in update list in play store

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I uninstalled an app using a long tap shortcut that comes on One plus two mainscreen, which I guess is also the time when there is an update waiting for this app because the next time I opened the Play Store, an update shows up for the app. When trying to update and then uninstall (this time from Play Store), it still keeps showing up in Updates list and the whole things repeat.

The app is Swiftkey Keyboard, if that helps. Any recommendations on permanently removing the app would be helpful. Android v6.0.1, OS: OxygenOS v3.0.2

I tried Settings > Apps and there is no uninstall option, instead there is a disable option next to force stop. In play store, there is update option which doesn't help as I stated earlier.
I doubt if it is a system app, because I voluntarily installed it (from Google Play Store as I remember; I enabled installation from unknown sources only after the release of Pokemon go, I am not aware of any other possible ways of side-loading)
The app doesn't show up in Device Administrators (there's only Android Device Manager and another paid app visible in device administrators)
I disabled it, it stopped showing up in updates, keyboard menu and elsewhere, but it still is taking up that internal storage as shown in Settings > Apps.


texts: Galaxy S4 download stops when screen is off

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I'm having this problem with my Samsung Galaxy S4.

When ever I download something from the Internet and turn off the screen the download fails as soon as I turn it back on.

I have tried other browsers like Chrome and Dolphin Browser but all stops downloading when the screen turns off/ times out.

It downloads perfectly when the screen is on all throughout the download.

This is a bit of a problem when downloading something big. I am using only 3G.


texts: Revenant folders on my Nexus 7 (flo) - how to track down the culprit?

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This may have been going on for a while, but I have only noticed a few weeks ago.

There are some folders inside the Downloads folder (i.e. subfolders and subsubfolders) which originally contained documents meant for a particular period and thus were named after year and month (e.g. 2014-05).

They contained documents which I have read in apps like Moon+ Reader.

I deleted those (sub)subfolders many times now, but they keep coming back.

My first hunch was: "oh, somehow Moon+ Reader must have registered them in its DB and keeps recreating them". So I decided to use the rudimentary file browser included in that app and removed the folders there. Yet, after every reboot they keep reappearing.

How can I track down the culprit? Is Moon+ Reader perhaps known to behave like that?


texts: System images do not show up in SDK Manager

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When I try to create a new AVD, I get the error that there is no system image available. A quick search on the internet tells me that I should download it via the SDK manager, but no system images are showing up in the list.

As well, I get an error that it cannot fetch information from two .xml files. Does this have anything to do with the system images?


texts: Whatsapp can't use google account for backup

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My old phone just died on me yesterday. It used to backup the Whatsapp chat history to my main google account, which I also used to register the device.

Now I have a new phone, and I registered it to the same google account. After installing Whatsapp, I tried to restore the google drive backup to the new installation. However, when I try to enter my google account, it tells me "This account already exists on your device"

Somehow after switching apps, Whatsapp assumed I don't want to restore a backup, and now I'm stuck with no history.

Also, when I try to setup the google drive backup on my new device, it gives me the same error when I try to enter my google account; "This account already exists on your device". I can't figure out what I am doing wrong. Is it just impossible to backup whatsapp to an account already registered to the same device?


texts: After OTA update all my data are in shell folder

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I have Acer Z530 with Lollipop 5.1, kernel 3.10.65+. I have the 16GB version, without external SD Card.

Today I have received an OTA update and after the restart all my data were gone as well as some 7GB of free space missing on the internal storage. When I connected using adb I have found all my data in folder /mnt/shell/emulated but the new data are being stored in /mnt/shell/emulated/0. So far I was able to find that the 0 is the default directory of the owner user. It seems that this update added the multiuser support, but failed to transfer the data.

How can I easily restore my data? Can I just mv everything to the 0 folder?

At this moment I'm pulling the folder to my PC, to have a backup, but I would rather do it correctly.


texts: Permission denied on android directories?

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Forgive my newness...  I've installed Android Studio/Android SDK in Windows 7, enabled debugging on my Droid Turbo 2 with Android 7.0, system version 25.216.2.kinzie_verizon.verizon.en.US, and successfully attached my device.  I've successfully made a backup (haven't tried restoring it), but of course it's a compressed file.  So now I want to browse my phone's directory structure.  So I opened a shell and tried to navigate around with ls and cd, but I see a lot of directories are giving me Permission denied.

Is there anything I can do about this?

Edited to add:  I was particularly interested in having a non-cloud method of backing up my contacts, sms history, and call history.  Normally, I periodically connect the phone to my PC via USB and just copy everything in Windows Explorer.  But, as I discovered when I moved to another phone yesterday that already had some of my contacts on it, the contacts file is not accessible to this method of backing up.  Verizon made a hodgpodge out of old and new contacts information which is going to take me another hour or two to sort through.  It would have been easier if I could have just restored this file.

I'd rather not root my phone if I don't have to, and from everything I've read, there is no root discovered for the Droid Turbo 2 anyway.


texts: How to retrieve data from vault android app

texts: I am using vault android app for hiding my secret data. Unfortunately i have moved every things in Internal memory to External SD card. Now I am able to see my secret documents,photos and videos while opening the vault application. I am able to locate the folder SystemAndroid but i don't know what to do for retrieve my data.please help


texts: Make images automatically accessible to chrome in PC

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I have the following use case:

Make photo with Android phone
Use that photo in a web application in Chrome, in my PC, by clicking on the button "attach file" which opens a file browser.

I want to avoid being force to send anything anywhere. I just want to click the "attach file" button in the web page and be able to select the photo that I just made with my phone.

Currently my workflow is a nightmare:

Make photo
Send it from my phone with WhatsApp, on a chat with myself
Go to my computer, to the https://web.whatsapp.com tab
Open the chat with myself
Download the photo to my computer
Go to the webpage where I want to access the photo.

Instead of WhatsApp I could use email or any other sharing mechanism. It would still be a pita.

I have sync setup in my Chrome for Android, so that passwords and so on are automatically shared. Can I do something similar with photos?


texts: Prevent Glympse from stopping sending my location due to low battery

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How can I configure Glympse so that it doesn't stop sending my location due to low battery?

Screenshot - (Click to enlarge image)


texts: How do I disable 1 of the 2 input devices that share a key in Generic.kl?

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As the title says really, my Gamepad button A and Fingerprint scanner share a key in the generic keylayout file. I'm running Resurrection Remix ROM on a Xiaomi Mi Max, if that's any use.

I'd like to stop the fingerprint scanner acting as a button but keep my gamepad button usable. Is this possible? I'm presuming it may have to be done a deeper level than the keylout file itself.

Thanks :)


texts: I sale my mobile,  LG g4, and I use content lock on my files, now I switch my mobile to Huawei P8 lite, but the files which were protected from my LG g4 couldn't open, and it's format is some 'dm files', it's very important files for, kindly just help me how to open these files?


texts: Xperia Z2 D6502 can't reboot into recovery

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I've searched everywhere, from XDA to Android Enthusiasts and hit a deadend every time. I have a rooted 17.1.2.A.0.314 Kitkat based Xperia Z2. I downgraded the firmware to root it so that I could install a pre-rooted version of the latest Marshmallow ROM via recovery..which doesn't work.
I installed XZDualRecovery and later TWRP but when I trigger a reboot to recovery, it doesn't work and the phone restarts normally.

I have tried the button press combos (press volume down during bootup when the light is red, use adb and fastboot,use the NDRUtils app to trigger reboot to recovery..nothing works.

What do I do?


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I am trying to uninstall an app which came to me with the phone ( an app for senior users - sort of launcher).

My device is : LG L70
Android version : 4.4.2
However I cannot uninstall it from the phone by dragging it from app screen. I've tried to uninstall it from the adb:

adb uninstall "package name"

but I get:

Failure

as a response.

When I list all my aps from the adb:

adb shell 'pm list packages -f'

I cannot find the app on the list.
The only way that helped me to discover the package name(in order to uninstall it) is by using "System Info for Android" app...

What can be done in order to remove this annoying app?

I've rooted the device and did a factory reset...

Any help will be appreciated.


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I have installed Android 4.4 through VirtualBox on my PC. I want to know how to install an APK (e.g. FIFA 14) in it via a command in terminal.

How to do that?


texts: How to identify I already own a paid app which is on a 100% discount offer period?

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Google Play Store recently got updated in my device to v11.8.xx. I'm used to buying paid apps gone free (PAGF) [free for a limited time]. In v11.7.xx or earlier, if I bought a PAGF, the view used to change from image 1 to image 2, as shown below. In v11.7.xx, even if the offer period was over, or a new offer period emerged I would always used to get Image 2, which visually confirmed me that I already owned the app, and I needed not to install it.

However, in v11.8.xx, whether I had earlier bought the app or not, as long as there is an offer running on the app, I get the following image. The striked-down text below the Install button confuses me, because visually I can't get to know whether I already own this app or not.

Why is this a problem? Can I not just tap on that button and get along with it? Well, once in a while, yeah, I can do it. But. I'm habitual of going on a PAGF installation spree everyday (I use PAGF app and App Sales app to find such apps), and every extra click bothers me. It's more than the click. It is the confusion surrounding it.

How do I fix this?

I thought of going back to v11.7.xx but Play Store automatically updates me to latest version. I also tried setting immutable bit onto its APK (v11.7.xx) but it didn't work for me. I know, I can go to Account → Order History, but finding an app out of 100s of owned paid app is not efficient and is quite irritating too.

I'm using a stock and rooted Android 7.1.1 on a Nexus 6 with Xposed Framework.


texts: How can I run a file on my phone, via the terminal on my computer?

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I'm doing this. There is a detailed version of what I did. Now someone suggested me to install TWRP recovery, it could be installed via the playstore, but now I have no idea on how to make android run, it just opens in the CM recovery mode.

The second option seems to involve some kind of file transfer and manipulation of the files via a terminal on windows, but I have no clue on how to run files on my phone using Windows. I guess that the ADB is a tool for doing that, but until now I don't know how to do it.


texts: How to upgrade the HTC One X (with AT&T) from ICS to Jelly Bean from Indian telecome?

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I purchased HTC One X unlocked (with AT&T) with Android ICS. I am using this phone in India with Airtel SIM.

How can I upgrade the device to Jelly Bean?


texts: Update to Froyo -=> reboot loop on Sanyo Zio

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I have a Sanyo Zio.  It was happily rooted and working until last night when the OTA update to FroYo arrived.

Now, it boots, gets to the desktop, and freezes.

It looks like it's still running, as I can follow the log with adb (something I just learned about).  The log continues to accumulate entries if, for example, I touch the screen.

Otherwise, it is just completely paralyzed and unresponsive.  It has the wrong date and time (currently 11:12PM on November 10) and doesn't connect to its network.  It does, however, show the charging icon if I plug it in.  It is alive in there somewhere.

What do I do?


texts: How to re-enable the "Clear Defaults" option for applications?

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I'm not able to change the default application for voice recording on my Samsung Galaxy S (running the factory installed Android 2.2).

The current settings define the one that was provide with the device (called Voice Recorder) but the "Clear Defaults" button on the Applications Management list is disabled.

Is there a way to re-enable the button? I'd try uninstalling the Voice Recorder application but the corresponding button is also disabled. Could this kind of locking be set by the operator or is this the Galaxy S default behavior?


texts: Change USB connection mode from PTP to MTP when screen is broken

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A friend gave me their Samsung Galaxy S4 I9500 because the screen is broken and black (does not display anything). So now I want to control the device from my PC. The USB connection mode is set to PTP and not MTP, so my software doesn't detect it to be able to display and control the device.

I've come across a post here almost same as my question, but I don't have the cash to buy a dock for the device.

So, if possible, how can I change the USB connection mode from PTP to MTP with a Windows terminal or with a Linux system's terminal?


texts: I flashed Samsung Galaxy S and now it won't start beyond logo screen

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I was trying to install Cyanogenmod and after the step in which I went into download mode and moved mod to SD card and do "hermidal zimage" which opened up Hermidal in which everything was successful; no errors and stuff.

Now about Zimage to be renamed recovery.img...that step I didn't do. Because that made no sense; first in the guide it said rename it if you are a Windows user but later on it says to use a file named that, so I had to rename it to the original. But I don't think this is the problem.

I can't get into recovery mode, or start it normally. What I can do is go in download mode.

Whenever I start it, it just shows a big "S" and  the Samsung logo and stays stuck at that boot screen.

It keeps flashing and then just stops flashing but after that the boot logo stays there.


texts: Can't access external SD Card in TWRP after Link2SD

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Ever since I partitioned my SD card for Link2SD, TWRP has been unable to read it. CyanogenMod 12.1 views it fine, but TWRP just shows the card as being 0MB, and freezes when you try to select it.

Is this a format problem, or a problem with TWRP? Am I able to fix this? The card is a 32 GB Class 10 card. The first partition is FAT32 and the second is ext4.


texts: Why are there 2 instances of each app on my phone?

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I must have done something while I set up my Lenovo K6 (android 7.0) because I see 2 instances of each app one of which has a small blue icon on the bottom  right. I also have 2 instances of Google Playstore and several system apps (see photo below).

I went to settings-->accounts and I found that I had created 2 personal accounts with the same email, one of which had all these apps with the strange icons under it. I proceeded to delete that account but these strange instances of the apps seem to still be there.

What are these duplicate apps and how do I get rid of them?


texts: Web Page Not Available on StraightTalk Android ZTE

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I have a StraightTalk ZTE Merit, and the browser keeps on saying "web page not available".

Data enabled and Data roaming are both checked under Mobile network settings. For some reason, it will not let me edit the APN settings.

I cannot use any internet-based apps.

This is the third day it has been like this.

Any help would be great.

Some troubleshooting results:

Cellular network is AT&T, MVNO is StraightTalk.
Voice/Text still works.
No installation of apps prior to the issue
Have cleared the Browser's cookies and cache
It has worked on previous occasion
Disabling data roaming did not seem to help
Does not work over Wifi
APN is set to:

Name is WAP.

APN is att.mnvo
Proxy is proxy.mnvo.tracfone.com
Port is 80
MMSC is mmsc.cingular.com
MMMS proxy is proxy.tracfone.com
MMS port is 80
MCC is 310
MNC is 410
Authentication type is none
APN type is default,mms,supl

Am suspecting the proxy within the APN setting, could be the fault, or that the service provider has changed something somewhere.

OP was advised to check with their cellular network's web-site to see if there's a page somewhere, (it would require registering details such as name/email/number) and perhaps a button to send the APN details via SMS.


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Looking for an app (or other solution) to change equalizer settings based on time of day.

Specifically, I'd like to automatically lower bass (and possibly enhance voice) at nighttime so I don't disturb the neighbors.


texts: How to disable the camera sound on a Huawei G525?

texts: I have a Huawei G525 (Android 4.2 jelly bean). The Camera makes a sound when taking photos even when it's in silent mode. How do I disable the shutter sound altogether?


texts: From where on the network is time information received?

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From where is the time information updated when the option Date & time settings -> Automatic - Use network-provided values is selected?

Is it from GSM, WiFi, GPS or anything else?

I believe it is from GSM, but I'd like to get a confirmation.


texts: How can I force Chrome into loading facebook as a desktop site by default?

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I hate the Facebook messsenger app, so I ditched it. However, my current work-around is:

Open the messages tab on m.facebook.com
Wait for Play store to load
Close, enable desktop mode
4, Go to the Messages tab again.

As per the title, how can I make Particular sites I.e. Facebook load desktop site by default (in chrome)?

Note- I only want Facebook affected. Other sites are fine.

-Edit- No root, please. I don't have access to the stuff to root, and I just don't want to. Also, I want this for Facebook Only, which excludes Beeshyams related question. Sorry Beetroot!


texts: How do I enable the MTP functions on my Nexus 5?

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When I plug my Nexus 5 phone into my Windows 7 desktop, I see the Nexus 5 device in the file Explorer, but no files. I am sure this is because I need to enable the feature from the phone side, but I can't find it in Settings.
In Device settings, I have "Storage and USB", but all it seems to contain is a way to see on the phone how much storage is used by each App. The three dots in the upper right corner only open up to allow me to look at Help.

Where is the setting I need to change?


texts: How can I use Tasker to reconnect bluetooth when the connection is lost?

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I just bought an Asus Transformer TF300T and I use bluetooth to tether with my iPhone. But it's very unstable and I lose the connection often, and I need the internet on my tablet. I bought Tasker, but I don't have time to learn all its function.

There's what I want to do:

When bluetooth activates: connect to my iPhone

When it loses connection, reconnect on iPhone, after 5 unsuccessful tries, turn off Bluetooth

I'm ready to pay to get this "profile" and "Actions" via paypal or email interact


texts: Heimdall errors, "ERROR: Partition "recovery" does not exist in the specified PIT."

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When I try to flash my S4 with Heimdal and put on clockworkmod, i get the follow,

$ sudo heimdall flash --recovery ./clockworkmod_6.0.3.2_jfltespr.img --no-reboot
Heimdall v1.4.0

Copyright (c) 2010-2013, Benjamin Dobell, Glass Echidna
http://www.glassechidna.com.au/

This software is provided free of charge. Copying and redistribution is
encouraged.

If you appreciate this software and you would like to support future
development please consider donating:
http://www.glassechidna.com.au/donate/

Initialising connection...
Detecting device...
Claiming interface...
Attempt failed. Detaching driver...
Claiming interface again...
Setting up interface...

Initialising protocol...
Protocol initialisation successful.

Beginning session...

Some devices may take up to 2 minutes to respond.
Please be patient!

Session begun.

Downloading device's PIT file...
PIT file download successful.

ERROR: Partition "recovery" does not exist in the specified PIT.
Ending session...
Releasing device interface...
Re-attaching kernel driver...

So why is it telling me,

  ERROR: Partition "recovery" does not exist in the specified PIT.


texts: "E:failed to mount" on Samsung Galaxy J5 after factory reset

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I have Samsung Galaxy J5, and after I do a factory reset, I got this error message

E:failed to mount /data (Invalid argument)
can't mount '/data' (Invalid argument)
E:failed to mount /data (Invalid argument)
E:Can't mount /data/log/recovery_log.txt

What does it mean and how to fix it?


texts: How do I auto sync files between my Android device and Windows PC over USB?

texts: Is there a software that can auto sync files from certain folders of our choice between Android device and Windows PC(Like the Camera folder or Music folder)? I am tired of manually copying those files using file explorer.


texts: How to execute commands, after exiting ADB shell?

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I'm coding a script to automate an application configuration export process.
adb shell
...
<open app menu>
<open app settings>
<save app backup>
...
exit

The problem is: after saving the backup I want to pull the file to my computer, using this:
adb pull /storage/emulated/0/Backups/ ~/Documents/phone

Although, I can't figure out how to execute this command, after exiting adb shell. It seems like commands after exit are ignored:
adb shell
...
<open app menu>
<open app settings>
<save app backup>
...
exit
adb pull /storage/emulated/0/Backups/ ~/Documents/phone

Maybe, this is an issue I should addres to the "Unix & Linux" community, but I decided to try here first.


texts: Is there a PDF reader app for the Kindle Fire with Dropbox syncing?

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Are there any apps for reading PDFs on the Kindle Fire that sync with Dropbox?  (Ideally I'm looking for an app comparable to the excellent GoodReader for iOS.)

Note: Dropbox does not have an app in the Amazon Appstore.


texts: How to print to CUPS (running on another computer in the LAN)?

texts:
How to print from Android to CUPS (running on another computer in the LAN)?

(CUPS (Common Unix Printing System/Server) is of course already set up to accept requests over the LAN.)

Preferably, without relying on proprietary software.


texts: Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition won't play video fullscreen

texts:
My galaxy note 10.1 (2014 edition) tablet used to be able to show netflix and youtube and other video links fullscreen. Now, the video quality drops dramatically and skips to black screens between some frames quite often. Some video streaming pages (the FIFA world cup website) will not even run fullscreen at all on my tablet. They go full screen, then stay black. Sometimes audio plays without video, sometimes nothing plays.

Is this a common issue? Is there an easy way to fix this? Or do I need to somehow have my tablet reloaded (where could I do this?)?


texts: Unable to add corporate account with same email address as google account on Lollipop

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Just upgraded my Nexus 5 to Lollipop and have bumped into a serious issue with account management.

I have my Google account registered to a non-gmail domain, and use Exchange Online to host it. Up to Kit-kat, this presented no particular issue: I would  log in to Google’s services using my Google account and then add a corporate account to handle email.

Lollipop prevents me from doing so however: whenever I try to add the corporate account I get an error message saying the account I’m trying to create is a duplicate (this happens at the very first screen, when the only available field is the account’s email address - which of course is going to be the same).

Has somebody found a way around this? If not, what is the best way to submit a bug report, since the Gmail App is not part of AOSP?


texts: Tablet and old Nexus don't appear in device manager

texts:
I have three devices, a nexus 5 that I use daily and a Nexus 7 and 4. The last time I used Android Device Manager I could see all three. Now I looked but I can only see the N5. The other two (N7 and N5) don't show up. Tried both on the app on the N5 and in Chrome on the PC.

I want to see when my N7 was last seen because it bricked a while back (probably within the warranty period) and I just sent it in for repairs (outside warranty period). If I have a screenshot I can prove it broke within the warranty.

Does anyone here know how I can get the N7 to show up in Device Manager again? Or any other trick how I can prove  when it last worked?

Thanks GJ


texts:
I was using location history all the time, on one quick walk when I took photos with my DSLR I've notice that my location was way off from my walk so I've set in settings for my location to use only GPS (no WiFi and no GSM data) and now when I check my location for that day there was no tracking. I've set it back to all data, but still no location for second day.

In mean time I've installed GPS Logger application.

How can I make my tracking working again?


texts:
I seem to be unable to get as far as installing the drivers (windows 8). I go to device manager and go through the steps to point it to the downloaded driver location (I've tried getting the drivers from google sdk, downloading it from google by itself and getting it from asus), and every time I hit 'next' after pointing it to the driver folder it immediately goes to a "Windows was unable to install your Nexus 7" page. "Windows could not find driver software for your device". I can't figure out what's going on. I don't know if stackoverflow's the place to ask this but I can't find any information on it and I've run out of resources.

Sorry for the lack of formatting, I'm not in a right state of mind.


texts: Can you extract files from a Google Drive Whatsapp backup?

texts: I have accidentally deleted hundreds of pictures from my Whatsapp files in my phone, but I can't restore the backup, since Whatsapp is a system app and I can't uninstall it.


texts: Why is phone storage breakdown not adding up

texts:
When I go into the internal storage menu,  the subsections (only apps and cache because I use adoptable storage) do not add up to the total internal storage space used. What is not being shown?

Edit: so I have kept looking around, and I hoped to get to the bottom of this with a storage visualization app, but they always seem to show the wrong partitions. Does anyone have any input?


texts: iOS has a nice option in the accessibility menu that allows you to invert the screen colors. Does Android have anything like this?


texts: How to move contacts from SIM to phone - need simple "private" local storage app

texts:
I've read like these posts:
How to move contacts from SIM to phone?

However, my Alcatel Android 4.4 phone does not have contacts app as purchased, only some People app that can display and group contacts, no other actions as I see.

Please advice on simple app to copy/move contacts from/to SIM that is not trying to ask for permissions I don't see it needs, like internet, sms, calls, etc. Ads ok (don't think ads work w/out internet though) :-)

Thanks a lot!

P.S. I've tried to extract Contacts app from other phone, but PC app that extracted some apk-s failed to do that, as I see it, when functionality is part of initial install package, there is no apk file on device.


texts: Do Verizon 4g phones degrade to 3g when 4g is not available?

texts:
I'm thinking about getting a Verizon Android 4G phone. But I have a question about how 4G works...

4G is supported in my city, however if I move into a part of the city where 4G isn't covered or it's spotty, does the phone degrade to 3G service (assuming that is available)?  Or does it degrade all the way down to normal slow cell service (the same service you get when 3G isn't available)?


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I love laying this game on my phone, I have played it since I had a Nexus S.  After switching to the Galaxy S3, I found it didn't work well, so I just used my Nexus still, but now that device is broken, so I would like to figure out how to make it work on this device.

The game is called Legends of Yore, and the problem is that it displays very small. When I play it on my Nexus, it displays "normally" (phone mode), but on the S3 it displays it like it would on the computer (I'm going to call it tablet mode, because it's huge). It shoves everything that it would display on a desktop into the S3 screen, making buttons small and unusable.

I don't know much about how the game is coded, but I'm guessing that it is treating the S3's higher (than the Nexus) screen size, or pixel density, or whatever, as capable of running the game's tablet mode.

So, is there any way to make the game run in its phone mode?

This is kind of an old game, not very popular I don't think,  hasn't been updated in a long time, developer is unresponsive, and the official community forum has long been overrun with spam, so I am assuming that the developer doesn't really care about updating the app to work with modern phones, if that's indeed why it won't work right. But, I love playing this game, and I hope someone can help.


texts: Why don't the new Android 11 audio controls include my Google Home speaker?

texts:
I have a Pixel 3XL that recently updated to Android 11. I like the new audio controls on the lock screen (and in the notifications dropdown), but I'm wondering why my Google Home Mini speaker isn't listed as an option.
When I open an audio app directly, I do have the "Cast" icon at the bottom right corner of the screen that will send the audio to the speaker:

But on the lock screen controls, when I tap the audio output button (labeled Phone Speaker at this particular moment)

I get options for everything that's ever connected via bluetooth, but not my speaker.

It would be really nice if I didn't have to unlock the phone and open the app if I want to switch from headphones or phone speaker to my Home Mini speaker. Am I missing a setting, or is this expected behavior?


texts: Chinese phones auto start app (notifications)

texts:
I have a question maybe some of you have dialed with this in your past.
Android based phones with Chinese launchers such as Xiaomi, Huawei, Meizu has 1 strange thing in common…
If you install on them not very famous app such as Signal for example, by default this app will not receive notifications - the only way to make the phone accept notifications is (in xiaomi for example) is to go to settings, security, auto start…
But there are apps like messenger, google allo, telegram that are white listed and receive notifications by default…
Attaching link with short explanation about it
So my question is how to enter list of those white listed apps that receive notifications by default, or are there any life hacks that you can do in order to receive notifications by default…

http://nine-faq.9folders.com/articles/8772-how-to-manage-autostart-service-on-the-xiaomi-devices

Signal app
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.thoughtcrime.securesms&hl=en

So after making a research I’ve found that this feature is developed to block wakeups and notifications and make the battery last longer and there is not a way to bypass it. If there is, it's hard.

but how famous apps bypass it ? or how to enter a white list?


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I develop "on the road" using a laptop that's not connected to a power source, so when I debug on my android devices, they drain my laptop battery.  Unfortunately, the laptop is a MacBook Air so spare laptop batteries is not an option.  (I charge everything at home at night.)

Is there a setting to switch USB charging off, especially when debugging?


texts:
I thought that each app can always freely manage its directory in /Android folder. AFAIK code is in app/ and data in obb/ folders.
But many apps (e.g. games) display a message about needing local storage permission to download additional data.
Why do many apps need to ask for the generic storage permission - the one that says Files, folders, photo, video?
Are there some restrictions on the data an app can use without asking permission?
Just to clarify: I am NOT asking about file/photo manager apps, for them it is understandable that they need to see the whole filesystem.
Btw i found 2 possible duplicates, but their answers seem to contradict each other: 1 2
Does the storage permission allow reading the whole Internal storage? Or only the FAT-formatted external SD card?


texts: Can't uninstall an app in android which is showing ads frequently

texts: An app is showing ads frequently on my device. I can't find it in the app collection. I also tried Settings -> Device Administration but didn't get it there. Then I looked for it in Xender (app like ShareIt) and got it there . Its name is Shuffle but can't uninstall it even from there.


texts: Genymotion: Why is Android version 9.0 the highest I can use on an S10 emulator?

texts: I'm trying to replicate an issue a customer is having on their Samsung Galaxy S10 running Android version 11. When I spin up an S10 emulator, the highest Android version I can use is 9. Does anyone know why this would be, and if there's a way to get higher versions?


texts:
My phone's OS is cyanogenmod 12.1 with Android version 5.1.1.

Recently I found a battery drain. I set up the airplane mode but after a night the battery went from 100% to 41%. I viewed Settings->Battery and found that the sum of battery usages of all apps was much lower, approximately 20%. I need to know how to fetch a verbose log for the battery usage in order to diagnose the issue.

Thanks very well.


texts: apps close automatically while using and back button stops to work meanwhile

texts: I have a problem with Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime Plus that apps are automatically close while using and back button stops to work meanwhile


texts: Enable dialer autocomplete feature in Android 4.3 on Galaxy Nexus

texts:
My phone was upgraded to 4.3, as I see in the Settings.

How can I enable the dialer autocomplete feature in Android 4.3 on Galaxy Nexus? I don't see any Dialpad autocomplete in my phone app setting.


texts: Mounting a remote folder as local folder

texts: I have spent hours researching this and unable to come up with a solution, if anyone knows of one please let me know. I am looking for a way to mount a remote folder on a server (using either WebDAV, FTP, etc) on my Android device as a local folder so that all apps can have access to it and save and read from it as if it were just any other folder on the phone or SD card. Note that I am not looking for a way to "sync" a folder on my phone with a folder on my server, everything in this folder should be stored on the server only and read as if it were local.


texts: Is Google Chrome for Android Beta compatible with the 4.0.3 emulator in the Android SDK?

texts:
Is Google Chrome for Android Beta compatible with the Android SDK (Android 4.0.3 system image)?

I tried installing the Chrome .apk file and it installed fine. When running the application I can see the introductory screens, but when I try to navigate to a webpage, all I see is a blank screen. The page appears to be loading indefinitely.

I also tried the stock Android browser and it works fine, so that rules out a network connectivity issue.

The image appears to be stripped of a bunch of packages - Google Login Service/Market, etc. Could that be the cause of Chrome for Android not working correctly or am I not doing something the right way?


texts: Can I turn off Google/Google+ notifications on Samsung Galaxy S3?

texts: I know you can turn off notifications from the native email client, but is there a way to turn them off for Gmail, Google+, and other Google apps? I have my Google account set up on my phone, which is useful, but if I can't specifically turn off Google notifications I'm going to have to unsync it, because as it stands I have to either silence all notifications and miss important text messages, or get woken up by G+ comments and NYT emails at 4 AM.


texts: Play store is downloading tablet versions instead of phone's ones

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I recently flashed Resurrection Remix Custom ROM on my LG G3. Once finished, I flashed Gapps and everything worked just fine.

However, I noticed a strange behavior while searching and downloading apps with play store. Play Store is downloading tablet version instead of phone's one. I noticed that after installing my bank's app, since the phone's version has a new GUI design, and the one I installed has an out-dated one.

In addition, I'm not able to find some applications, like Amazon.

Any suggestions ?


texts: Google Music Play reports "Can't download music right now. Will try again later."

texts:
I have a rooted Galaxy Tab 2 running Android 4.2.2 and Google Music version 5.6.1609P.1258283. I try to download albums and all goes well for approximately 5 albums. After that, Google Play Music reports:

  Can't download music right now. Will try again later.

Later never comes, and any attempt to restart the download fails with the same error message. I have plenty of disk space.

I have a decent amount of Unix/Linux experience, so I started an attempt to diagnose. I checked logcat as root and it gave me this:

# logcat D
...
E/DownloadTaskImpl(12712): IOException: id=[3202, DEFAULT], remoteId=7b000cd1-13b5-3f89-8117-65e65dff70d0, owner=KEEPON, priority=100, seek=0
E/DownloadTaskImpl(12712): Download failed because of IO Error: The target server failed to respond
...

I get the IOException every time I try to restart the download. I logged this issue with Google support, but never got a response.

Any suggestions are welcome.


texts: How can I modify files on a remote computer over wifi/3g from my Android phone/tablet?

texts:
I have a scenario where I watch a fair amount of video content from a DLNA device that doesn't support deleting (GoogleTV, via Logitech Revue). I would like to be able to delete files after I'm done watching them, without using my laptop to RDS/FTP/etc to the file server.

In a perfect world I would be able to do it from the DLNA player (which I realize would be a question for another StackExchange site, but I've done a fair amount of research on this and I'm pretty sure it's just not possible yet...), but I would accept an Android-friendly solution -- since I have an Android phone -- that I could use to connect to the file server and delete the files as an acceptable alternative.

Before getting the Revue I accomplished this using my XBox360 as a Windows Media Center Extender, which in addition to allowing me to watch my content, was capable of deleting.

The file server is running Windows 7. I want a point & click, turnkey solution, so I'm not interested in an SSH-like or RDP-like solution, because I don't want to type out directory navigation commands or do lots of pinch-to-zoom + drag + click on my phone. I could more quickly and easily just walk into the other room and delete the files. Some sort of native file browser would be best, I think.


texts: Angry Birds and other games force close (crash) on startup when using Simple2Ext (S2E)

texts:
I'm running CM 7.03 on my HTC Desire (GSM) and have successfully partitioned my SD card with a 512mb ext4 partition. I installed S2E and it moved my apps to /sd-ext successfully, but certain apps now crash at startup. Angry Birds, Cut The Rope etc will force close as soon as they're launched. Other apps work just fine. I'm assuming it's apps with native code that have issues, as pure Java ones seem ok.

Has anyone else experienced this problem, and if so, how did you fix it? If I can't find a work around, I will have to delete my partition and just put up with small storage space.


texts: how to remove password lock when Google keyboard is uninstalled

texts: I was creating space by uninstalling some apps.by mistake I uninstalled Google keyboard and kept quite. After sometime security Password lock was locked.when I tried to open the password lock ,the key is not displaying


texts:
My wife has a Moto G 3rd Generation which had the SD card set to internal. The phone has had problems reading the card, and unfortunately she hasn't had everything set to back up so there are some things on the card we would really like to recover.

I have put the card in a card reader and ubuntu is able to read it but unfortunately can make no sense out of it due to the android encryption.

The phone isn't rooted, and as far as I can tell Dirty Cow exploit will not work to get temporary root so I have no way to get the encryption key off the phone (I think?).

I wondered if cloning the card might work so have purchased an identical card and tried to use dd to copy it. Weirdly dd is reporting this:

dd: error writing '/dev/sdd': No space left on device 7818241+0 records in 7818240+0 records out

I have tried to allow truncate at the end (lose the last byte) or skipping the first byte and neither of these has resulted in a card that is readable.

I have also tried another make of card (same size 32GB) and have the exact same problem.

Do I have any options left? Is there any way to work out given the encryption where one byte could be safely removed, perhaps only corrupting a file.

Any ideas greatly appreciated.

Many thanks in advance.


texts: Can't send photos from this account - WTH?

texts:
I have a Nexus 5 running 4.4.4.  I have a Google Apps account that I use for GMail, G+, etc.  My wife has a standard GMail account with G+ enabled.  We chat back and forth using the Hangouts feature rather than SMS as much as possible.  This works fine.  We can send each other photos through SMS, and it works fine.

She can send me photos using the hangouts feature, and it works.  I cannot send her photos.  The message

  Can't send photos from this account

Pops up at the top of the screen immediately.  Is this a feature I've disabled in my account somewhere?  How do I fix it?


texts: Clockwork: error: cannot load 'recovery-clockwork': No error

texts:
I am trying to flash a recovery-image file into my Nexus 7 but the flashing fails

know that I am working on windows and my image file is located in the same folder as adb and fastboot files are

here are the steps I am following:

start the tablet android system, and the device works fine
I restart the tablet into the bootloader using: adb reboot bootloader
browse to the Recovery Mode and then check if the adb sees the tablet: fastboot devices
adb is working fine and can detect the device and read its serial number
then when I flash: fastboot flash recovery recovery-clockwork.img: I get this error:

error: cannot load 'recovery-clockwork': No error

what am I doing wrong ?


texts: Configure Tasker as alarm for date and time

texts: Could someone be so kind as to show me how to set Tasker to play a melody selected by myself when 5 June 2016 @ 10 PM is reached. I would like to be able to set the sound file to play, perhaps in a loop. Thanks.


texts: Android won't query DNS server for IPv6 addresses, why?

texts:
I have a weird issue; for a single connect request to a server that has a single AAAA record my device runs two A queries instead and fails to connect.
My setup is as follows:

LAN (a regular router) without IPv6 connectivity
Android 10 with only WiFi connectivity, having one fe80: and two fd14: addresses
Debian box, wired, running dnsmasq, acting as the DNS server for all devices
dnsmasq will reply that website foo.com has an IPv6 of the Debian box, and no IPv4

I can:

Connect from my phone to the Debian box using literal IPv6 address
Connect from other devices to foo.com
Connect to foo.com from JuiceSSH
Do ping6 foo.com successfully in Termux on the phone

What I can't do, I can't connect from my phone to the Debian box via foo.com using regular apps such as Chrome, or my own app. JuiceSSH is the weird exception. I tried making a new app, adding INTERNET permission and this bit of code only:
thread {
    Socket("foo.com", 9000)
}

This works consistently with the apps such as Chrome in that it doesn't connect and—from what I see in dsmasq logs—performs two A queries (both with NODATA-IPv4 response). It never performs an AAAA query. Inet*Address.getAllByName() behaves in a similar way. I tested with another device running Android 6, same outcome.
What's going on here?


texts: I can't open or close any tabs on my Android tablet in Chrome

texts: This is a tablet I've had for years, and suddenly it decided that tabs in Chromes cannot be selected, exited, or added (The only change I can do is the new tab button option on the 3 dots, but I can't switch back from it, or I close out of Chrome and reopen it, then I can do only one of those things, but not more).


texts: is there a way to know what Uri the apps on my phone connect to?

texts:
there's one app on my phone that i need to know exactly what Uri it uses to connect to it's server. is there a way to find out how?

tl:dr - i'm not trying to hack or damage, and actually the app is developed by the company i started work for, and the guy before me wrote the Uri, but as he removed the source code when he left. Now my boss has only said to me "find it", and now as i'm extremely new to server stuff, i see no other way to recover it other than finding out what uri the app uses.


texts: View just the "App" apps, without the games?

texts:
The Android Market / Play Store is structured with three main headings at the moment (at least in Australia, might be different elsewhere):

Apps
Games
Books

However, when you delve into the "Apps" section, all the games are still present in the list, taking up an awful lot of the volume for something that has its own separate subcategory.

Is there a view of the market that does not include apps marked as "Games" in the "App" section?  Either in the on-phone version or a separate website.


texts: I've bought a very cheap Android 8.1 tablet (which has 2 sim slots) just to play about with.  As it's cheap, the battery isn't wonderful and it has a very short life before it needs recharging.  The main culprit is "Phone Idle" which uses a vast amount of CPU time, whether I have sims installed or not.  I don't actually want to use the phone at all, just the tablet features;  is there any way of completely disabling the phone functions ?


texts: What files need to stay on the device for a clockworkmod?

texts:
I installed a clockworkmod months ago to an Alcatel OneTouch 995. On the SDCard there is still a clockworkmod folder. The directory structure looks like follows:

└── clockworkmod
    └── backup
        └── OT995_4.0.4-FR
            ├── boot.img
            ├── custpack.ext4.tar
            ├── nandroid.md5
            └── system.ext4.tar

I wonder if the folder needs to stay on the card. Can you please explain why or why not?


texts: My adoptable storage is full. How can I move the data to a bigger MicroSD card?

texts:
I've got a Moto G 2014 LTE running CM13. When I found out about the whole 'adopt SD card as internal storage' thing, I was quite excited, as the actual internal storage on this phone is tiny. I set up a 16gb micro SD, the biggest I had at the time, and have been using it with minimal problems.

Fast-forward to this day, and I now have a 64gb micro SD that I want to use instead of the 16gb one. However, I'm at a loss as to the best way to copy the data over onto the new one, or if it's even possible. The ideas I've got so far include:

Titanium Backup all [system] apps, factory reset, format new SD and then restore (should work, but a massive pain)
NANDroid the SD card onto a USB OTG stick, then restore to the new one (pretty sure this is a bad idea and won't work, but...)
Copy all the stuff onto my computer via my phone through a file manager of some sort (I have a linux/linux/windows triple boot, so file format isn't a problem), format the new SD into phone, and copy back (can't be that simple, can it? Hidden/inaccessible files?)
Copy the files onto USB OTG with a root file explorer app, reformat the SD as portable, format the new one as adopted, and then copy them back (could work, except for the point below)
Format the 64gb SD card as internal through an OTG card reader with the command adb shell sm set-force-adoptable true, use a root browser to copy all the data over from the old SD, format the old SD as external and remove it, and take the new SD and put it in the SD card slot (seems overly complicated, and also suffers the below pitfall)

The other thing that worries me is mount points: will the apps with externally-stored data know to look at the new SD card for it? Will I have to remount it in a specific location with the shell each boot (or use an init.d script perhaps)? I suppose that it can always be accessed through /sdcard or /storage/emulated/0, but I'm not 100% sure what goes on behind the scenes.

I've got recent NANDroid backups, so if anyone can eliminate the options that definitely won't work (or say which one[s] probably will), I can try them and report back in case someone stumbles across this question in the future.

EDIT: So, my phone further bit the dust and got to the point where it got into a pretty major bootloop. Ended up having to flash a whole new ROM. As such, I probably won't be able to test the full image/decryption/etc. method that I was originally planning. However, I will write up what I've discovered so far in case anyone wants to take up this particular method in the future:

Image the old SD with dd as follows: sudo dd if=/dev/mmcblk0 of=~/SDCardBackup.img, where /dev/mmcblk0 is the location of the sd card as obtainable through lsblk
Restore the image you just made to the NEW sd card : sudo dd bs=4M if=~/SDCardBackup.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 (you may have to unmount it first)
From here on in, I was following this (thanks @beeshyams!) tutorial, which explains the next steps way better than I ever could have done. The plan was to decrypt the storage and resize the main partition with gparted. I had no idea whether it would work or not, but I felt it was worth a try. However, when I came to run the actual decryption command using the key I'd extracted, I got an error (which I believe was my shoddy linux skills more than anything).

As I say, I have no idea if the above method would work or not even if everything did go to plan. Also, feel free to correct any of my commands above if I mis-typed them (I'm on Windows currently, so this is all from memory.) If this info helps anyone, then good. But until then, @faidherbard's comment should work fine.

Thanks,
Jackdafish


texts: How long are older versions of Android supported

texts:
Having very recently acquired my first Android phone, I am interested in Apps development. I know this site tries to avoid dev specific questions, but I hope you'll still find my question relevant.

I am wondering whether to learn development for the "upcoming" Android4.0 version or to stick to the "current" 2.3 version. The arguments pro 4.0 are obvious but here are a few advantages about 2.3:

Documentation is widely more available. Tutorials are easier to find. People in the community are more familiar and more likely to help.
2.3 is on my phone (Galaxy SII). 4.0 won't be for some time. I don't want my app to be confined to an emulator or a SDK.

In order to help me make up my mind, I have one specific question to ask:

How long will the 2.3 version still be around?

Are there any upcoming phone scheduled with that version?
Will Google/manufacturers still provide updates, patches and support?
Is it likely that (like some notorious open source projects) the 2.x branch will be forked and keep evolving?

Being new to the community, I'm hoping you could provide answers based both on references to official announcements, and past behaviours when Android went from 1.x to 2.x


texts: How can a shell script get the number of an incoming/outgoing call?

texts:
new user here from Montréal, Canada!

So i have a shell script that runs when a call comes in, and another one that runs when i make a call. How can this script get the phone number of the caller / of the number being called? Grepping through the logcat output doesn't show it.


texts: Rooted phone missing key features, help!

texts:
I have a new MetroPCS Lg Leon running lollypop 5.02. I rooted it with kingroot apk (bad idea) and I cannot get the menu bar or swipe gestures to work. I.e. swipe to search,  there is no pull down menu.

I must have messed with some settings in root but I factory reset the phone multiple times and hot reset it if that is any different with the battery out. Not corrected.

The lg startup screen starts each time I boot it as well.  Any suggestions?


texts: Recently I've unlocked my sony xperia p boot loader. I am sure that it is unlocked. But is there any option to find out that is it unlocked?


texts:
I am trying to use OpenDNS on my phone. I have tried using SetDNS, DNS Changer, and DNSet. At least two of those claim to allow changing the wifi DNS without root access (I am only using wifi on an unrooted S3 mini with 4.1.2). No matter what I do the OpenDNS test pages say it is not working, and I also installed an app called Ping & DNS which can display my network information and it indicates that my DNS is always obtained from whatever router I am connected to, regardless of any DNS apps I have running.

Actually if I have SetDNS and DNSet running at the same time then SetDNS claims to be using Google's DNS (8.8.8.8, DNSet only supports Google's DNS). But Ping & DNS still says that I am just getting DNS settings from the router. I am not sure which one it really is at that point. Regardless, I want to use OpenDNS.

UPDATE:
To be clear, I am using these DNS changing apps because I want all connections to automatically and only use OpenDNS. So either I want to know why none of these apps work as advertised (when reviewers don't say they don't work), or how can I make it work for all connections without an app in such a way that it can't be altered without a password or something. And I really don't want to bother with rooting if I don't have to.


texts: How to create a copy of a file immediately when it's created?

texts: I have an Android app that will create a file in /data/ and immediately delete it. I want to know how can I catch this file or create a copy or even disable user permissions to delete a file? I have root access to the device.


texts:
I'm just trying to figure out where in the phone the attachments get saved after you open them?

I remember opening a PDF attachment from my email using my Droid X. The email was deleted so I'm trying to find the PDF that was downloaded by my phone when I opened the attachment.

I have an MSN account.

Anyone knows the default location in the phone?

Thank you


texts: How to recover lost data after a factory reset in samsung note 3 SM-n900 series?

texts:
My Samsung Note 3 SM-N900 series got stuck in the bootloader loop, due to which I had to do a factory reset. The good thing is that my smartphone is out of the bootloader loop after the reset but all my private data including documents and pictures have been deleted.

I am trying to recover the data using testdisk in Redhat, but the results of deeper search through testdisk are not fetching anything back. So, I decided to shift to windows 10. I was watching this tutorial to recover the data back using testdisk in windows. The problem I am encountering is that when I connect my device in the computer, It does not show any "sdb" drives connected to it in the command line interface, But I am able to see and access my device in the graphical user interface "This PC".

How am I suppose to access this device through command line interface to proceed further? Also any other methods to recover the lost data are also welcome.

I am adding images of the output displayed by the testdisk tool on windows:
for photo click hereor

Image source: My personal computer


texts: How to allow Android Market License Check through a secured network?

texts: We have a secure network that doesn't allow internet access. Unfortunately one app from the Android Market we purchased for our honeycomb tablets uses Market License Check to verify that we've purchased the app on, what it seems like, a daily basis. What site(s) do we have need to allow access to for this authentication to happen?


texts:
I have a Toshiba Thrive AT105 running on Android 4.0.4.

I wish to use the multiple users function on it to share it with other users.

Can this be done on Android 4.0.4? If not, how can I upgrade to another android version which can support this feature.


texts: Creating a script that cleans RAM upon locking the screen

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I own an android with cyanogen mod installed and would like to add a script, that cleans the RAM automatically each time i lock my screen.
I seek to achieve that remains of the encryption key are getting overwritten in order to prevent a boot attack.
Thanks in advance if anyone can help.


texts: If there is no corresponding cyanogenmod rom for my Samsung Galaxy On5, how do I install Cyanogenmod?

texts: My phone is rooted and I have the TWRP installed. I am not sure where to go from here though.


texts: Hard Reset on SAMSUNG TAB 4 SM T230NU not working. What are the alternatives?

texts:
I have a SAMSUNG TAB 4 SM T230NU. Don't remember the password. I tried the Hard Reset of

1) Menu(Home) + Power + Volume Up buttons

2)  Power + Volume Up buttons

Each time I try one of the above sequence, I see that the system powers on and I see the initial samsung logo with the model name. After a few seconds, the screen empties and then again, the same samsung logo with the model name. This sequence repeats.

But I never see the RESET Menu.

What did I get wrong ?

Isn't there a way to get a password reset instruction in the email that I've setup ? For example, how do I get to a "Forgot password" screen/button ?

Thank you


texts:
I would like to get a link to a pdf file in my local Dropbox of my android.
This is because I want to access the file by the syntax /local/system/something/file.pdf#page=116 in Internet Browser.
I have the file as Available for Offline Use in Dropbox.
I do not know if this stores the file as readable in my system.

This would help me a lot because then I do not need to browse books at the very beginning of the file. The Dropbox browser is so limited that I cannot add there #page=116 in Dropbox's pdf browser so I need a link to the file in the filesystem.

How can you get a local filesystem link of an offline-accessible PDF file in Dropbox?


texts: my samsung galaxy 2 battery is draining to fast!

texts:
I have an Samsung Galaxy S2 GT i9100. I have had it for quite a time, but today I noticed something strange:

First my battery had not been charging while I was sleeping: when I woke up I had only about 13% charge left. So I put the phone on the charger while I was making breakfeast.

When I came back to the phone some time later, it had nearly not charged at all: in fact the phone was using more battery then it was charging.

Why is my phone battery's charge dropping when I'm charging? I had this problem the whole day -- it won't charge more then 30%, then suddenly the battery level drops. How can this be solved?


texts:
I have a SAMSUNG Galaxy Young GT-S6312. It entered into Factory Mode one day on it's own. I wanted to exit factory mode so I rooted my device using Kingoroot. I did the following after rooting :-

Installed ES File Explorer.
Enabled root explorer in it and set the configuration to Mount R/W.
Went to the efs of my device.
I saw only 4 items - bluetooth, wifi (both folders), .nv_state and nv.log.
I can not find the FactoryApp folder that should have contained the "keystr" and "factorymode" which I was supposed to change to ON in the text editor.

Now I do not have these files so how am I going to exit factory mode and get back into user mode?


texts: Why are animations from an Animated PDF not showing?

texts:
I am going to prepare PDF presentation, with some basic animations, using LaTeX. A classic example can be found here.

I am able to view animations only when I view the PDF from my PC. No animations are showing while the viewing the PDF in Android. Is it a problem of my device (i.e., LG Optimus L5 with Ice Cream Sandwich) or does Android itself not support this? (e.g., some restrictions like opening a .zip attachment).

I am using Adobe Reader version 10.3.2, build 67615; it shows the images but not animations, while other readers like Polaris Office and Kindle Reader are unable to show the images also.

Could someone explain why this is? Am I missing something? How can I view these animations?


texts:
I have ICS on my Samsung Galaxy S2 using the stock messaging app. When unlocking the phone after getting a new message, I'm taken straight to the message itself. This is good. However, it seems to go straight to "reply-mode", in that the text box and keypad take up most of the screen and I can't actually read the message itself, maybe just the last 2 lines of it.

Is there anyway to not go straight to "reply-mode", just to "read the message mode"? Or at least reduce the size of the textbox back to 1 line like it was in Gingerbread?


texts: Can I receive SMS from a bluetooth connected phone?

texts: I have a Windows Phone 7.5 phone and recently got an used (non-returnable) Android 4.4 phone. I love the Android experience but the phone is not on the right carrier. Is there a way to use bluetooth to forward SMS to the Android phone or will I just need a new one? If it took phone calls too that'd be sweet but not near as urgent.


texts: Zenfone 2 Deluxe custom rom - question about model variants

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My phone went dead and a friend gave me his old Zenfone 2 Deluxe, which comes with the terrible ZenUI and a million asus apps that are a pain in the ass. I wanna throw it away and install a custom rom, something as clean as possible.

When googling, however, I find a lot of custom roms for Zenfone 2 laser, and for Zenfone 2 Z00A. According to Google, Zenfone 2 Deluxe is ZE551ML, however in the settings it says the model number is Z00AD. I'm very confused about this.

Of everything posted on xda's zenfone 2 forum, it's very hard for me to understand which roms I can install and which I can't\shouldn't. Please advise, how do I proceed?


texts:
I am looking for an app that would be good for taking hand written notes on a 10 inch screen tablet
The closest app that i found is "note everything"  What makes it short of my requirements is

1(most important) Drawn notes that i can write on are each 1 tablet screen size.  I want something that can be scrolled down forever as i need more space.  Something the way a normal document works.  At worst it should let me instantly page another full canvas forward, not have to create a new note for every page
2. text notes and hand written notes are separated into separate files.  I would like the whole note to be hand written, but be able to add typed ares
3. There are no lines in the paint section.  Makes it hard to write

Can anyone suggest anything better?


texts: How can I change the default browser on Xiaomi Mi Max phones?

texts:
How can I setup in my phone (Android 7 mimax 2) in way that every link or pop-up will be opened by chrome.
In the past I was able to choose how to open. Now the called "browser" browser only does it


texts: Strange image orientation with all camera apps

texts:
I've just noticed that on my Wileyfox Swift there's something strange going on with image orientation:

taking a landscape image, everything is fine: the resulting JPG is in landscape, and Exif has Orientation:0 – as one would expect.
taking a portrait image however also has Orientation:0, and the resulting JPG is in portrait – while on all my other devices, the JPG would remain landscape but have e.g. Orientation:6 (rotate 270°) in its Exif.

I've tried with multiple camera apps, including the integrated one. Two other camera apps I use on other devices as well, where they work as expected.

What might go on here, and how to fix it up? I need it the "standard way" for post processing scripts etc. Though the results "look the same" in image viewers, the technical details/differences are relevant in my case, so I wish the Wileyfox to adhere to the standards :)


texts:
Is there a way to install LinPhone on this android based flip? The other option would be "signal" as an alternative voip idea...
Let me know, David


texts: Stop prompting to Block Number when deleting a text message

texts: I have a Samsung Galaxy S9+ and every time I delete any text message, the phone prompts the option to "Block Number". How do I disable this so I can just select the message(s) I want to delete?  My work requires a lot of two factor authentication, so I get a lot of texts with temporary pins to enter in our software. I delete the texts each time as I don't want my messages view being congested, but this prompt drives me nuts as it is since I already have to do 2FA for everything at work.


texts: Can gmail notifications be customized by label?

texts: I have filters configured on my gmail account to add labels to incoming messages based on sender, subject, etc.   I'd like to configure the default gmail client to apply different notifications based on these labels.  This post suggests setting up multiple gmail accounts, but that would quickly become unworkable, IMO.   I've tried to change the notification settings while in a label view, and long-pressing on the label name in the label list screen, but neither leads to the desired result.   I'm hoping there's something I've missed...


texts: how can I get Instagram photos to save to my SD card?

texts: I have Instagram and I like saving the pictures that I take, but they're taking up tons of space in my internal storage. I have a nice big SD card for storage, and have my phone set up to save all the regular pictures I take with the camera to the SD card, but I can't figure out how to get the Instagram pictures to save there as well.  Anybody have any luck with this?


texts:
Something happened on my HTC Tattoo (V1.6) this week that caused lots of apps to crash on start-up. I think it may have been due to their settings getting corrupted somehow, but I don't know what caused that.

I've been able to get some working again by uninstalling them and then installing them again. Obviously I lost any set-up by doing this.

Is it possible to reset the settings for a given app? I don't even know where they are stored. Is it in an .xxx type file as on Linux? It would be useful to know where they are so I can back them up in future.

Update August 2011: Now it's happening again. Google apps failed first, but then Facebook and last.fm stopped working. Tried clearing data/cache with no improvement. Can't re-install some apps as they are no longer available for 1.6. I do intend to try upgrading when I get time.


texts: Whatsapp restore error on new phone, stucks at %24

texts:
I got error while transfering whatapp from old phone to new phone.
My old phone is mi5s plus xiaomi
New phone is red mi note 9 pro xiaomi.
I uploaded to drive and put to local. So, I have backup both place, drive and local. Then I put local file backup to pc and get from pc to red mi note 9 pro. And put to whatsapp/databases folder
I tried everything here:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/help/whatsapp-restore-stuck-24-restoration-t3816605/page3
I enter my number, I got verification code. THen it asks to restore from drive or skip. I tried both. I have problem at %31 while restoring from drive.
If i disable and click skip for drive restoration, it finds local but this time it stucks at %24 and then it goes to application settings, profile photo. But i immediately force stop and open again but again comes as I would start application so i clear data and it again asks verification code . But i have to wait hours when i want a code. Now, I have to wait 12 hours for example. It increases for every try.
There is only crypt file. Please help me to fix.
Size is 1.25 gb but whatsapp show 3.9 gb to restore. in whatsapp folder, there is 3.9 gb data.
I tried lots of things but it keeps failing.
For old phone, I still could not enable internet so whatsapp is still there logged. I can do backups, it makes again 1.25 gb. I think if i enable wifi, it will logout.


texts: Can a phone manufacturer's custom interface be changed?

texts:
This is related to this question about removing apps, but I thought it was different enough to merit separate focus.

I recently bought a Samsung Galaxy 2 S, and it has a custom interface designed by Samsung.

Mostly, it's fine. However, some things bug me. For example, at the bottom of the screen, where there are standard buttons like "Phone" and "Internet" - things I'm likely to access very frequently - they have this stupid "SP Mode" mail app thing that I will never use. Ever.

I'd like to kill it, but after searching options, I don't know if I can make that kind of change.

Is it possible to get different "skins" and load them into the phone? Are existing interfaces modifiable?

Is this another thing that would require rooting the phone?


texts: How to know the address of the dns server I m using?

texts:
Simple question but I couldn t find the answer anywhere. It is not part of ip informations and the information is not trivial when being connected to the Internet over lte.
getprop | grep dns is returning nothing.


texts: What does permission "MANAGE_ACCOUNTS" mean?

texts:
Once in a while I read that MANAGE_ACCOUNTS Permission is needed (actually it is called "KONTEN HINZUFÜGEN ODER ENTFERNEN" as I have a German phone. I guess the text below is something like "Add or remove accounts, create accounts and set passwords, use accounts on the device" in English).

I'm asking this question because I wanted to install the GitHub-App.

I think I found a very similar question which I would like to include here:

  What does it mean they can create accounts?
  Why would Amazon (Kindle app) / GitHub even need this?
  Are there any risks?


texts:
I bought a P30 a month ago and I'm experiencing colors issues with the camera.

The colors are way too warm, if I would take a picture of a white / light yellow potatoe, I would get an intense yellow potatoe picture.

After some research on internet it seems that it was a common problem that has been fixed last year, so is there anything I can do to fix that ?


texts:
I'm thinking about buying a used Android device and I want to know what should I check on the device before I buy it?

Is there an app or something that does some sort of testing on the phone?

Are there any problematic parts that I should check?


texts: Do apps that access gmail only have write access or full gmail access (potential security risk?)

texts:
I use a backup app to backup SMS text messages to my GMail account registered on my HTC Desire Z Android 2.3 phone.

The app requests access to the gmail account. But what does this actually mean? Does it mean:

the application has write-only access to the gmail - i.e. it can insert emails but not delete or adjust other existing emails (does the Android API provide for that?)
the application has full access to the email, and could potentially delete emails if there was a bug


texts: "Cold boot: snapshot doesn't exist" when running the Android SDK Emulator for the first time

texts:
I am just new to Android Studio and I tried to run the emulator from the SDK for the first time. When I click on the Run button, the emulator opens with an error:

  Cold boot: snapshot doesn't exist.

How to solve this problem?


texts: How can I factory/hard reset/wipe a Nokia 2.2 (TA-1188) without a (windows) PC?

texts:
Having looked around hither and thither now for a night as to how to factory reset a Nokia 2.2, I am still a bit confused and unable to do it.
Holding volume-down + power on brings me to a boot screen saying "=> FASTBOOT mode", but no buttons are having effect after that. Apparently the next step is to connect it via usb cable to a Windows computer with some specific tool or another installed on it?
I've seen people in youtube videos apparently using a Windows tool called 'InfinityBox AST' , and I have tried running that in a Windows VM, but for some (in my opinion) suspect reason, 'InfinityBox' decides to detect that's it's being ran under VirtualBox, and instantly refusing to launch with a message specifically stating that it wont run on a Virtual Machine.
(This 'vm detector' behavior is enough of a reason to me being quite reluctant and suspicious to even having attempted to run the utility trough Wine/Proton)

Is there really no way to factory reset a Nokia 2.2 TA-1188 cellphone without requiring an actual physical (Windows) PC in addition to some shady unofficial utility made by neither Google nor Nokia?
If not possible without a PC, is there some Linux software solution able to perform the task?


texts: While trying to remove Bloatware on my rooted LG volt LS740, I messed up some apps.  I have done Factory Resets a couple of times and still several apps give the Unfortunately xxx has stopped.  The LG Backup, Browser, Contacts and most importanly to me the Settings app.  The others are get around, but the Settings app is tough to not use.  One error message from Link2SD that I got was that the Odex file is broken and to reinstall app.  HELP, how can I do this?


texts: can't pass / unlock Secure startup with PIN code

texts:
I have a problem with my LG G5 (but saw it happens in other LG phones)
I have a PIN screen lock and I changed it a couple of days ago.
I was talking on the phone when it restarted (I remember the battery was hot).
Now the phone is on "Secure startup" and I had 30 tries to unlock it (15 remained).
I have the "white" screen (and can't get to the "black" screen, more details down).

I saw a number of posts on this issue.
I can only enter PIN (no character keyboard).
I tried the current and previous PIN. Also tried: 0, 0000, 00000, PUK code.
Some of those tried also on safe mode.
When tried to fill the screen with zeros as much as possible and tried to unlock, I got a screen that said something like (translated):
In order to open the lock, turn off the phone and power it on again.
Did it but didn't change. Than I thought I should have pressed restart (instead of turning off and then on) but didn't got to this screen, just stayed on the same screen with one try less.

I can get to factory reset, only this option yes/no.
I don't want to hard reset because some files are not backed up.
Also can get to Fastboot mode and Download mode.

If I restart (or power off and on) the phone is on flight mode.
I can call to emergency numbers, and when I call and hangs up, suddenly there is a cellular connection and 4G data.
In this situation I can receive calls, but still can call only emergency numbers.

The phone is not rooted and I don't use special ROM or something like that.
From time to time it makes tick sounds (like pressing a button) every few seconds. The rest of the time it doesn't make any sound.
The computer recognizes the phone and installs the driver - "Android bootloader interface" but I can't see the phone on my computer.
Also tried to connect through Google Find but it can't locate the phone and the lock option there doesn't seem to do anything (writes request sent).

I also have a memory card, do you know if the data on it is OK? (I don't have a card reader)

There is a problem contacting stores because of the Corona.

Appreciate any help,
Thanks very much!


texts:
I'm having difficulty taking a screenshot my galaxy note 4.

I'm doing the power button + home button method.

I press and hold the power button slightly before I start pressing and holding the home button.

What this does is brings up the google voice command screen (as if I've just held the home button).

Any suggestions for resolving this?


texts: How to record all calls and auto-sync to Dropbox?

texts:
I just installed Automatic Call Recorder, which almost does as I ask - it can auto-record all calls. But it stores them to an "inbox" on the device, and deletes old items when the inbox is filled.

I'd like to auto-record any call and then auto-sync every call to Dropbox. How can I achieve this? I would also like to know the disk space it takes.


texts: Browse or mount SD card over WiFi on Linux?

texts:
Is there a way to browse the contents of my SD card from my Linux (Ubuntu 10.04) machine over WiFi?

I used to connect with a mini-usb cable, or send files through gmail. Surely there must be a way to access the files through wifi.

My main focus is ease-of-use, I don't particularly care about speed or security. Although I do prefer a non-cloud solution due to privacy concerns.

(I have not actively searched for a solution yet. I will do this now, so maybe I will answer my own question. Which, as I understood from Atwood, is proper use of a StackExchange site.)


texts:
An example of grey and white note that I mean is, like when you copy something, a small grey background and white lettered bubble appears for a few moments saying 'copied to clipboard'. My phone has some sort of malfunction where it dispays that prompt for several minutes at a time. Very annoying.
How do I disable that?
I am using a Samsung Galaxy S9.


texts: How to make your own CWM flashable stock ROM from "SP Flash Tool" Flashable Stock ROM ?

texts:
I can't restore my stock ROM of device XOLO A500S IPS by using SP Flash Tool. I need a stock ROM that can be simply flashed by CWM recovery. There is no such ROM available on the internet, as I have searched for it, but couldn't find it.
Can I make one myself ?
How to do this ?


texts: What are the meaning of each category under WIPE menu in TWRP?

texts:
I'm new in using TWRP (version 3.0.0-0 to be specific), there are some menu or operation that confuses me.

Under WIPE menu and inside Advanced Options there are many choices to wipe, which are:

Dalvik / ART Cache,
Cache,
System,
Data,
Internal Storage,
MicroSD,
USB OTG

Can you explain what are each of those means one by one?

and also can you elaborate one by one the effect of wiping each of those 7 categories, for example IF let say I ONLY wipe Data, THEN it will only delete app data not the app itself nor any music, videos, pictures, downloads.

and also what will Factory Reset do? will it wipe all of those 7 categories? or will it only wipe some of them? if only some of them deleted, which of those 7 categories will be deleted under Factory Reset?

Lastly I notice that under Home > Advanced > Partition SD Card > on MicroSD I saw that the value stated there around ~5000MB while my external SD Card (removable MicroSD) is much more than that, which is 16GB, so it occurred to me that word "MicroSD" inside TWRP is not the same as the physical removable disk (SD Card / MicroSD), am I right? If yes, then what is the meaning of MicroSD inside TWRP?

Thank You.


texts: How do I remove my credit card from Google Play?

texts:
I want to remove my credit card from Google Play because a random money glitch in a game is worrying me.

Google Wallet isn't compatible with my phone.


texts:
An in-app purchase requests password verification before the transaction. Thus, all the following input into the onscreen keyboard is the user's password.

Is handling keyboard events prevented at this stage so the app developer can't log individual strokes? Does it need to be a rooted device to log them?

Can't this then be matched with GET_ACCOUNTS or a similar function?

Thanks


texts: Where did the wifi sleep policy go in ICS?

texts:
With the update to Android 4.0.3, I noticed that the wifi is always on.

I used to have the sleep policy where is turns itself of when ilse for some time.

Where did this feature go with ICS?


texts: Flash vanilla (AOSP) Android ROM on Xiaomi Redmi

texts:
I have a Xiaomi Redmi 1S.

Is it possible to flash a vanilla (AOSP) Android ROM? This MIUI is annoying me.  I have a few bugs which come from MIUI and I want to flash a vanilla ROM but always when I thought I've found the right one, it's bricked my phone and had to restore it with the custom MiFlash Tool.

Recovery on the phone was not even possible.


texts:
My hopes aren't very high for this one but here's how my problem goes:

I am using an LG V10. Over the summer, its motherboard decided to die and it was replaced. Therefore the external SD card I used and encrypted on my old motherboard is now inaccessible :/ Is there any way to reach its contents?

If android devs really didn't come up with a way to decrypt an SD card on another device than the one its encrypted on, then there's no point in using encryption at all and maybe even no point in preferring android either..

Thanks for any help in advance


texts: The encryption button is not working on Galaxy S Duos

texts: I cannot encrypt my S Duos, it has an ICS 4.0.4 custom ROM with bloatware removed. When I'm trying to encrypt, the encryption button looks like it's hidden.


texts:
I'm using Asus 551 with lollipop. I have numerous apps installed. Recently, I started getting toast notification with the text Sending....

This usually occurs when I'm using Facebook, whatsapp and such apps. It seems fishy.

I recently uninstalled es file explorer after a similar issue was reported by users. It was showing similar toast with some Chinese text.

Is there a way I could find out what app is causing this?

Here is a screen shot:

I tried the dumpsys command, as suggested by @Firelord. Then used some of the apps, got the Sending... toast a couple of times, then again ran the dumpsys command, but there was no difference in the log. Here is how it looked before and after:


texts:
My dad is having issues with his phone. He states there is a keyboard that he doesn't recognize showing up when trying to type.

I attach a picture of the keyboard.

Do you know what is this coming from, and how can I solve it?


texts:
I have tried to root my Moto G, which had the bootloader unlocked, and was on 5.1 GPE to install CM 11.

I have had a lot of issues...

First I successfully installed the CWM recovery, when I went into it it was flickering for some reason. After a reboot the recovery was even gone.

Installed it again, booted into android, put the CM file into storage, went back into recovery, installed it from there. I did not do a format first because it would have deleted the cm file as well...

cm-11-20140504-SNAPSHOT-M6-falcon

So CM installed, upon boot, the cyan logo was flickering, then it was encryption unsuccessful and had to restart, after many restarts it was the same...

Now I have not access to the storage so I cannot even put on another ROM, and the installed ROMdoes not start. No idea what to do.

I tried some other recoveries (as that's all I can do at the moment) all of them flicker.

twrp-2.6.3.1-MotoG4.4.img
philz_touch_6.58.7-falcon.img
cwm-6.0.4.7-MotoG-GPE-4.4.img
clockworkmodrecovery.6051.falcon.img

Any help appreciated.


texts:
Say I am reading a paper with a PDF reader on a tablet and I get to

  ... the second inequality follows from Lemma 3.2 ...

and I click on the text "Lemma 3.2" to jump to Lemma 3.2. Now that I reminded myself of what Lemma 3.2 was, I need to go back to the page I was reading before the jump.

In case of Adobe Reader which I am using on my phone, the physical back button (which I believe corresponds to the system back button) simply gets me to the recent files list.

Is there a way to navigate back after an inter-page jump in a PDF reader?


texts:
I was setting up the contacts on my Xperia Z3 (Kit Kat) and entered in my wife as the In Case Emergency contact. However now if I dial her number normally (e.g. from the phone app) it comes up as "In Case Emergency" on the screen. Messages from her in the Messaging app appear as though they have been sent from "In Case Emergency". It appears as though just her mobile number has been associated this way as if I dial her home number then her details are displayed correctly.

I have tried turning off and on, and clearing out the data for the contacts app. I have tried adding and removing her and other contacts from the In Case Emergency contact list.

Given that she is the person I call and send messages to the most it would be nice to have her actual name displayed! Is there any way to fix this?


texts:
My son got an iRola DX752 with Android 4.2 jellybean for Christmas. It worked fine Christmas and now it won't turn on. It is fully charged.

What can I do to get it to work?


texts: How to give apps access to existing Secure Storage

texts:
How can I grant the apps on an upgraded Android, to the existing Secure Storage data?

To prepare for upgrading from LineageOS 14.1 to LineageOS 15.1, I made sure to wipe only Cache, System, and Data partitions. Specifically, I did not select Internal Storage to wipe, because I want the apps to continue to have access to the existing data.

Then, I followed the instructions to install LineageOS 15.1, which succeeded.

Now when I re-install the apps, such as Password Store and DAVDroid, they do not seem to have the same data from internal storage (they act as though there is no data yet). How do I get these apps to use the data, specific to each app, in Internal Storage that was not wiped?


texts: How to view a web project downloaded in android file system in android application using webview?

texts:
I have a web project and I want to show this web project in webview without internet. I mean it will have offline mode. Android app firstly download all files including .js, .html etc ant then in activity a webview will show content. but it doesn't work. I hope that it can work such as localhost. Can you help me please about this challenge?
I added files where I download in, planning to show index.html in webview.
web project files path in android device=  /data/data/com.xormoti.gislayerapp/files


texts: NFC: Spotify URIs open app, not specified resource

texts:
My goal is to program NFC tags in such a way, that Spotify starts playing a specific track/album/playlist.
But after writing a Spotify URI (e.g. spotify:track:6rqhFgbbKwnb9MLmUQDhG6) to my tag, it only opens the app and disregards the resource.
The problem seems to be the way Android handles the tag, because the URI works without any problems when I call it from another app.
A related problem is the way URLs are handled: When I open a Spotify URL like https://open.spotify.com/track/6rqhFgbbKwnb9MLmUQDhG6 from another app, it directly launches Spotify, whereas it would unsuccessfully try to open it with a browser after touching the tag.
It seems like Android only processes the scheme of the URI. Is this correct? If so, is there something that can be done to circumvent this? Why would that be the case?


texts: What does Internal Storage Free on the Settings|Apps screen mean?

texts: On the Settings|Apps screen at the bottom there is a graph showing Internal Storage and then a gigabyte number. When the screen is first loaded a smaller number is given then after a few seconds a slightly higher number and then an even higher number. What does the slightly higher number and even higher number represent?


texts: Fascinate gets to download mode and splash (boot loop) but not recovery mode

texts:
The device is a Samsung Fascinate. I had MIUI working for about a year, tried installing Cyanogen-mod today.  The install got stuck in the CM splash screen, so I recovered the MIUI backup. On reboot (after recovering), it got stuck in the MIUI splash.  It's in a soft brick right now.  It boots into a) download mode or b) the MIUI splash screen then gets stuck.  It will not boot into recovery mode using the up/down button combo at all.  The down button alone boots it into download mode.  I have Ubuntu on one of my PC's (physical not virtual) but this fails to recognize the device.

Is is possible that the recovered image of MIUI overwrote the recovery partition so that it doesn't work now?

How would you recover this to a working state?

I'm new to fixing phones, and brand new to this site but am trying to revive this once-great Android.
This is my main phone.  Thanks for reading, please help.


texts:
I'm french, my system is in french.
I would like to be able to type english words without being bothered by the autocorrection.

How can i proceed ?

Edit: Free solutions please


texts: Deleting images from Google Photos without deleting them from the device

texts:
I've created a folder in Google Photos with images that were in other folders. I want to delete the images from the other folders without deleting them from the device. But when I delete them, they get deleted from the new folder and the device.
Is it possible to only delete the images from Google Photos without deleting them from the device?


texts: establishing USB connection takes > 3 minutes and times out, charging works

texts:
Some time ago I've been able to connect my "Smart"phone to my Ubuntu 14.04 PC as mass storage device with an micro USB cable hitting the ~"Activate USB storage" (translated) button in the notifiaction pull-down panel which appeared after the cable has been plugged in. Now, establishing an USB connection is tried for > 3 minutes and then times out; the animated waiting icon (spinning circle in which the button to activate the USB storage is transformed to) changes back to the button to activate the storage. Some infos:

occurs 100 % of the tries
restart doesn't help
cable seems fine because charging works
Android 4.0.4 on SansuiCosmic SP 1001 trying to connect to Ubuntu 14.04 with Linux 3.15.9 without problems with USB experienced so far.


texts: Installing APK file causes the screen to just flash and returns to previous page

texts: I use Micromax Bolt Q324. The problem is that no apps get installed, its not getting into recovery mode or safe mode. I tried Factory Reset but it's also not working. When I open Apps for app info or try to install any APK file the screen just flashes and returns to previous page.Even it does not boots into recovery or safe mode.I HV used device just for 6 months.its has android KitKat is and its non rooted.it has still its original ROM and ram is about 512 mb.


texts: How can I update my password in Cisco Jabber without having to reset Jabber?

texts:
I have changed my password in Cisco Jabber through some non-Android device. I also use Cisco Jabber on Android though. How can I update my password in Cisco Jabber for Android without having to reset Cisco Jabber?

After I changed my password in Cisco Jabber, (amazingly) I can still sign in:

However, instant messaging, phone services and voicemail are not available:

I know I could reset by  Cisco Jabber application, but I would rather avoid that, since as its name suggests it resets everything:

Notes:

after clicking on the sign out button, the user is redirected to screenshot 1, and they can still sign in even without specifying the password. The user isn't asked for the new password, amazingly.
restarting the Cisco Jabber application or rebooting the phone after signing  out doesn't help.


texts: External HDMI Touch screen control for Android

texts:
I would like to have an external touchscreen for my smartphone (galaxy S8) in order to control it through this screen in my car.
Is the mhl protocol, with basic touchscreen (like capacitive 7 inch) works or do i need to do something different ?
Thx !