texts: How to make a URL desktop shortcut have the page's favicon?

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Theoretically, it should do this automatically. In practice, sometimes it works, sometimes not. All the pages below have proper favicons, but only the O Globo and Amazon favicons made it to the desktop icon. (The former in a better way, as you can see.) I added them the usual way, with Menu -> Add -> Shortcut -> Bookmark.

This is a (rooted) Milestone running Motorola's official 2.2.1 update. These are the pages involved:

http://moglobo.globo.com
http://cracked.com
http://mobile.formula1.com
https://mobile.twitter.com
http://www.amazon.com
http://www.supervia.com.br

Any reason for that erratic behavior?


texts: S7 Archive all apps & settings info for re-install?

texts: Is there a way to save all my Galaxy S7 App List, settings on/off and user settings in a cloud file to allow me to do a factory reset and import my archive file back to my existing phone?  Something like Google Takeout?


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I have an Xiaomi Mi Max which for some reason stopped the proximity sensor at 0 and this means I get black screen on every call (Whatsapp calls in particular) and I cannot do anything but restart. The phone is rooted and I wish to find a way to use my phone otherwise I have to probably throw it away as the sensor itself cannot be found in my country.
Is there any trick or application which can help me disable or otherwise set the proximity sensor to a number that it doesn't bug me?


texts: SD Card Suddenly Stopped Working -- Cannot Remove Read-Only Attributes

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My SD card suddenly stopped working in my Motorola Moto E2, running Android 6.0. When I insert it, it just says "checking..." for ages, then says that it's not inserted. I then removed the card and told Android to forget the SD card. When I insert it now, it tells me that it's in an unsupported format. I try to format it, and I get an error as shown in the picture below (apologies for the size!)

I previously had it formatted as internal storage, and had various apps installed on it. I've tried for format it in my computer, but it is read-protected. I've gone through all the methods online to remove read-protection (specifically using regedit and diskpart), but neither have been successful. I've got AOMEI Partition Assist, but that doesn't even see the SD card. When I plug the SD card in, my computer can see the drive (and data on it), but is in read-only so won't format.

I've also tried MiniTool Partition Wizard, but, while it sees the SD card, since it is read-only the wizard can't do anything with it.

Any assistance would be most appreciated! (and if anyone knows how to make the screenshot below smaller, feel free to edit this question to do so!).


texts: Can I consume a consumable In-App purchase as a user?

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As a developer I let my app's users buy in-app purchases (IAPs) and then the app lets Google know that the IAP is consumed so it can be purchased again.

Is that possible for me as an app user? That is, if the app is stuck somehow not consuming the IAP and I want to force it to do so, is there somewhere on my Google account where I can see all of the outstanding IAPs and consume them?


texts: Remove notifications sound (add "silent notifications" setting on Android)

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I have a Pixel 3a with Android 11 installed on it.
I have a lot of notifications, like SMS, Viber, WhatsApp, Facebook, etc... all beeping all the day. I would like to remove just the sound of all these notifications, letting them vibrate, flash... whatever other things it does...
However, the calls should not be muted, I would like to have normal sound when someone calls me (via normal call, or via WhatsApp, Messanger, Viber, etc).
I can't believe at this day is not possible a thing like this on Android 11...
The idea is not to manage all the possible applications individually, but to mute all NON-call sounds in general on the phone, except "long calls" (phone and messengers calls, wake-up alarms, all calls that are waiting the user to 'finish' them).
I suppose there should be a more standard solution than this tricky one. I think there should be a setting like SilentNotifications On/Off, if such thing is not present, it should be (Google tracker issue created)


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since yesterday every time I open Instgram or Twitter, the "Simulate colour space" dev setting gets modified to monochromacy. I already used logcat to check for source:
06-23 10:50:35.893  1669  1669 V SettingsProvider: Notifying for 0: content://settings/secure/accessibility_display_daltonizer

Does this mean it comes from a system application? Although my smartphone is rooted, the change comes from SettingsProvider, so no shell command but a instruction from a system app?
Or maybe someone knows how to disable the change of this specific setting?
Thanks in advance
Robin


texts: Can Termux adb push file from unrooted phone to tablet via OTG cable?

texts: Can I use Termux to send an app (APK file) via, e.g., adb push, from my unrooted Samsung Galaxy S10 phone to an unrooted Android 5.1.1 tablet via an OTG cable?


texts: "Access to Keep is unauthorised" error message

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I started seeing this error message today whenever I open Google Keep. It reads, "Access to Keep is unauthorised".

So I have archived my notes and taken a screenshot to post here.

Can't find anything about this on Google. Any idea what this is?

OnePlus One, latest stock ROM, COS13, non-root. All apps updated to latest versions.

And this issue seems to extend to the Google Keep web app also. Its says, "You’ve been signed out. Please reload the page to sign in again and continue working."

UPDATE

I no longer see the error message. It resolved somehow, and it's probably due to some work done from Google's server side.


texts: Android v7: Import close to 8000 complex contacts in one shot

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I have close to 8000 vcf files in a directory on the usb stick. I attach the stick to my phone and all files are perfectly visible. In the contacts app I choose import, select the stick, and it shows me all the contacts, so I choose "import all".

Unfortunately only first few dozens get imported.

Apparently Android v4 had the same problem as the following question explains: Transfer and import .VCF Contacts

It seems to me unlikely that so obvious contact app error remains unfixed for years.

How to make the contact app import all of them?

Please note that some of the contacts (actually quite few of them) are fairly complex with a lot of data - such as for example multiple, long "note" fields, multiple phone numbers with different attributes, sometimes custom-defined, very long company name fields, multiple addresses (private / business / branch office list, etc.) and so on.


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I wonder if is possible for those people who download the Android source code and customize it then release their custom roms to hack the API or any other part of the codebase like GMail client or network stack so to push in the rom some kind of spyware, virus and so on...

my main concern is that I like to experiment custom roms made available by any developer online but I really would not like to get my traffic sniffed or my Google Account pwd stolen.

Any idea? is Android safe by default in this way or could it be altered?


texts: Restricting an app to only send internet traffic but not receive that back?

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Is there a way or app to restrict some apps on my Android, or the whole device, to only send internet data packets but not receive them back?

I want to confuse a game app by doing this. It restricts me to have only two games simultaneously. But I want to suppress this behavior by opening game in normal way, blocking incoming traffic and then sending three or more requests to start a game. The app errors, but after restarting, all three or more games will start.

I have a rooted phone.


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According to zdnet, the quadrooter vulnerability allows the attacker to

  ...gain root access, which gives the attacker full access to an affected Android device...

Does this mean that some qcom phones will now have a chance to obtain root?

I'm asking this because I want to root my moto e which is locked thanks to verizon.


texts: Why isn't the touchscreen pressure reading being put into use by Android?

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Just now I discovered the "Pointer Location" dev app on Android, which tells how much pressure is being applied on the point on the touchscreen. They even have it since Android 1.0.

I know there may not be dedicated pressure sensors and it is just an estimate depending on point size.

I am saying that why didn't or couldn't Android implement "Force Touch" in Android phones? They have the pressure readings ready. They even have the method which when called gives the pressure.

P.S. I am running LineageOS unofficial build for my OnePlus One.


texts: I just recently found an old Samsung phone and I have been trying to get it to boot up. I have some old pictures of my kids on there I would love to get off of it. The phone tries to boot up but as soon as it gets to the Galaxy S3 logo it shuts down. I charged the battery and it works fine (checked it with another S3) I tried the Power button, volume down, home button and it gets to the point where I can choose to reset the phone and it goes to the android logo then shuts down. The volume up option shows that it begins the boot recovery but then it shuts down. Any ideas? It had become my mission to figure this out, but it is looking like it might be a lost cause.


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I've never mounted in TWRP, a script advices doing so. Can I mount directly from TWRP's mount screen? I can select the partitions to mount, but see no option execute.
Does rebooting/booting to the system the device mount the selected storage partitions?


texts: My samsung GT-s6312 phone does not connect to PC. Even after connecting USB cable, please help to connect USB to PC


texts: Reenter the new password in configured Gmail account

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I have configured HTC Hero phone with my Gmail account (username and password), and it is configured successfully. I have recently changed the password of this account from the Gmail website, so at the same time I have to change the password on my phone, but I do not see where to do this.

Without reentering the new password, I am not able to get/send mail. How do I enter the new password?


texts: How do I organize notifications on a Galaxy Note 10 - Seperate Messages from System Nots, Different Sounds, etc

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Just switched from iPhone to my Note10 and i love it. However what drives me crazy is that I get tons of system notifications that all pool in the Notification bar. However, to be honest I only really want to see personal notifitaions there, like messages and so on, System Notifications better only if I request to see them. How do I seperate system notififications and message notifications. Also ho do I specify different sound, so I hear if its a Whatsapp or Insta or Facebook ...

Also, how do I make these notifications appear on the locked screen, like they do on the iphone?


texts: I am using GT-I8262 (Galaxy Core) android 4.1 does it support OTG?


texts: Cubot X9 does not turn on after update, also not recognised by computer (unknown device in Device Manager)

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I have Cubot X9, ordered from China. after the update it gave me an error.
The phone restarts, but I cannot enter recovery mode. I tried to flash new ROM, but it gave an error.

Now nothing works, and I cannot enter recovery mode.

The PC does not recognize the phone because it is off, I installed the drivers but to no effect.

How to fix this problem?


texts: How to get rid of Emotion UI which is drastically slowing down my Huawei Y330-U11?

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I have Huawei Y330-U11 which performs sluggishly  due to Emotion UI installed by Huawei (I concluded it to be the reason because other phones having similar specifications but native Android UI works quite well).

Can anyone let me know how to get rid of Emotion UI? And, how to root and upgrade to Lollipop?


texts: HTC Desire Z key number two misbehave at times

texts: HTC Desire Z touch key number 2 (ABC) occassionally presses itself repeatedly without any apparent trigger. In such cases, I press the power button on/off to quieten it down. Is it a software or hardware problem. This happens infrequently but when it starts it is quite annoying as you cannot do anything with the keyboard as other keys do not respond to touch.


texts: Pass-word not being accepted for google on my Android phone

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My google password on my desktop computer is correct and I can access google through it, but when I enter my google password on my Android phone it says that,

  Username and password do not match.

How can I solve this?


texts: I'm using Xperia C. My SD card works perfectly fine but after I power down my phone and turn it back on, suddenly it says that my SD is damaged and I have to format it. I can't even mount it on my phone cuz when I do, it just unmount it again. This is not the first time it happen. Last time, it was with my first SD card and now, my second. What should I do?


texts: Is there a way to record internal audio?

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I have Amazon Kindle (I don't have a USB cable, so I can't root the Kindle). I also have online lectures. For some reasons, my Kindle can stream faster than on my PC.

Now, I want to record the audio from online lectures directly from my Kindle so that I can listen to it while offline.

Most of the Android applications I've found record phone calls, which is not what I want to do.


texts: What's the complete map from letter to mobile network type?

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I was wondering about what all letters mean. Specifically the "R" that I'm currently on.

I found this summary by some provider, but it doesn't contain the R-symbol that I'm on right now.

These are the symbols I've found thus far:

G GPRS
E EDGE
3G 3G
H HSDPA
H+ HSDPA+
LTE LTE


texts: Is there some way to subscribe to an internet calendar on Android without logging into Google calendar and adding it there?


texts: some apps, no problem loading on 2 devices. Not this one - help

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I have loaded a free app (imediashare) from Amazon store onto my Kindle Fire. I want to put the same app on my Samsung phone, but when I go to the app store from the phone and try to 'buy' it, I'm told I already own it.

I have had no trouble doing this same action with some other apps, nor with any books (putting them on both devices)

I think I may be able to reload it from my apps library, but I cannot find it, navigating from the Samsung.

Any help would be much appreciated.


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I came across a rom that i would like to try out on my LG Optimus 2X P990, but the xda page i found isn't for that phone. Any ideas on where i can download it?

the rom is called: [Rom] FB Jellybean Fusion Beta 3.2.2 [ICS | Fast][Jellybean Features & Theme]

Link to xda for the version not for my phone: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1828606


texts: How to decompile android kernel within android itself?

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How do I decompile kernel.bin of my android 4.1.2 kernel on android itself?
Is there an app that can decompile kernel.bin or any methods for decompiling kernel.bin?

Thank in advance!


texts: I just deleted the Google apps settings by mistake (from Applications -> Google Apps -> clear data). So, my HTC Magic is not connecting to the Google server anymore. How can I input the dates I've deleted? Can it be reinstalled?


texts: Deleting messages in whatsapp with mobile data off

texts: i sent a whatsapp message with my mobile data off. And then deleted it before turning on my mobile data. does this message get delivered?


texts: Email-client with Sent emails from many emails under IMAP?

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I am struggling to set up graphical email-client program in Debian, more here and here. I have a similar problem with Android. I would like to see Sent -emails in my android phone. How can I see my sent -emails in my Android -phone from many email -addresses?

Profile

  I use IMAP. I have currently many devices such as laptop, Android and iPad -- to manage the same emails (some odd lag every-now-and-then). I have many email -addresses connected with apps such as Gmail -app by Google and K-9 Mail where I use IMAP.


texts: How can I set Android Galaxy Ace to only use 3G network?

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I am having a little bit of a hard time with my new android phone for the reason that it doesnt always connect to certain services (such as Angry Words, or Whatsapp). Sometimes I get the message "unable to connect", when I am using a fairly good network provider and strong enough wifi when at the office.

What I've noticed is that the 3G sign keeps changing to H every now and then. I dont know if that is the issue. Anyway, how can I make the phone only use the high-speed 3G service and why is that that even with strong wifi signal it is giving me a hard time?

Note: Wifi is turned off all the time I am not at home or at the office.


texts: How can I notify my PC every time Android changes its IP?

texts: I'd like to send an email or post to a server every time the IP address on the phone changes. This way, I can continue to VNC into the phone, even when the IP changes. Is there an App that would let me send out the IP address, or a bash script I could use?


texts: On Windows, how can I send/read text messages from my phone?

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Is there a convenient way of reading/sending text messages from my phone through Windows? I remember Nokia's Symbian phones had a piece of software to do just that, but I can't find any simple solutions for Android.

I'm using Android 5.1 on a Nexus 4.


texts: Make Google Search app use Google.com.au

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I purchased my HTC Desire (2.2 FroYo) from the UK and by default I guess the Google Search app uses Google.co.uk whenever I run a search through the app.

This is quite annoying as you could imagine since none of the local services/locations are show since it's searching on the UK domain.

Is there a way without rooting that this could be modified?


texts: How to install apps which are targeted for another country?

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Possible Duplicate:
  How can I circumvent regional restrictions in the Android Market?

I'd like to install an app from the Market which is limited to the USA (specifically Google Music). When I search for the app myself in the Market app on my phone, it does not find the app; it seems to be filtered.

So how do I install apps which are not meant for my country?


texts: Sorry! the process com.android.phone has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again. force close

texts: Why does this keep appearing on my phone which cuases my network to go off and on.


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How do the batteries work?

Will those batteries have a shorter lifespan? Will the "quick charge quality" get worse over a period of time? And why aren't there other companies using this technology?


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Got a new computer with Windows 8 64 bit, In the last day, I tried to connect my Samsung Galaxy S (GT-I9000) but get a driver error when I plug it in. I tried looking in the Samsung's web site forums, for it but with no luck. I got no luck in any other forum site.

Any suggestions ? I tried this found here also and it did not help.


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I have a moto x 2013 Dev edition and got the unfortunate news yesterday that Motorola will not be updating my device to marshmallow, which I understand as an older device, but the specs of this phone can easily handle android m.

I am planning on flashing cyanogenmod onto the device, however I have 2 questions relating to that.

1) if I flash the device, will I still be able to use it as a development tool? I am working on learning the android API and having a physical device that I can test things on using the adb is essential.

2) this device has not received any device specific cyanogenmod ROMs in almost a year. Is it safe to load on a generic cm 13 ROM when it is released, or will it not support the device? (I am not concerned with the loss of the Motorola apps. Half of them are being discontinued anyway)


texts: Always alert on a specific app's notifications?

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My problem:

I want to purchase event tickets that go on sale at a time not predisclosed. They're announced via Twitter and effectively sold out within 60-90 seconds. I only follow the handle that posts this announcement and receive no other notifications from Twitter.

My question:

Is it possible to make an arbitrary app (or even just Twitter) play a notification sound even when my phone is silenced?  Alternatives, such as elevating all of its notifications to emergencies or similar solutions would suffice as well.


texts: Is there any way to remove the sound alert message?

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When I increase the volume with the headphones, a message appears saying that prolonged listening with a loud sound can damage the ear.
Is there any way to remove this message on my Smasung Galaxy Note 4 ?
Thank you


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I recently started using Mobizen for my Android and the quality of the real time recording from the phone to my computer screen is very low quality.

Does anyone know how to improve the quality without significantly increase the delay time during USB connection?

If there are no methods to getting a better quality recording is there an alternative to Mobizen which does NOT require rooting?


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According to this site, since Android 8, build numbers have a certain format. However, I have an Alcatel 5030D_EAA with Android 10 with a build number 01011
What should I think of that?
The reason I ask this, is because I have some Bluetooth code in my app that does not work on this phone, but does work on many others (including with newer Android versions).


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When I am in the file browser and open a PDF, the PDF viewer will be shown as the file manager in the list of the apps. When I press back in the PDF viewer, it will go back to the file manager eventually.

Is there some way to make the app open on its own, with the given file as a starting point?


texts: Better to keep frequently used apps on the Android device or move them to an external microSD card?

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Apps on an Android device can be broken up into three categories:

Apps frequently used, often scores of times per day
Apps used 3-6 times per week
Apps infrequently used

For apps in Categories 2 and 3, it is usually a good practice to move them to an external microSD card when possible (if they don't have widgets you want to use).  This will free up limited memory on the actual Android device.

But what about apps in Category 1?  Apps in that category are read dozens, if not hundreds, or even thousands of times per day.  Is it a good practice to move them to a external microSD card (if they don't have widgets you want to use)?

Here are some points to consider:

Despite what specs claim, which actually allows faster access: the device's internal storage, or a modern microSD card (Class 10, UHS 1)?
Will copying Category 1 apps to a microSD card cause it to wear faster, thus resulting in a shorter life-span?
These days, it seems likely that a user may want their microSD card to survive many generations of Android devices.  In other words, although many people replace Android devices every 3 - 24 months, most people don't replace microSD cards with such frequency.
Due to their capacity, microSD cards often hold tens of thousands of important photographs and videos.  Yes, backing up is essential, but sometimes microSD cards can fail between backup cycles.  IF moving Category 1 apps to the device's microSD card might have a noticeable impact on the card's life span, it is possible that it may not be a good idea.

So what's the truth?  Is it a good practice to move Category 1 apps to an external microSD card (assuming no widgets), or is it best to leave them directly on the Android device?


texts: Why do some apps allow me to play sounds along other apps, and some apps don't, and can I control this?

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The user: I like to play both white noise, such as brown noise or rainfall or other ambient sounds, at the same time as low key ambient music. It helps me concentrate when I work.

The goal: I want to play music from one app, such as Digitally Imported Radio while I simultaneously play brown noise with an app like Chroma Doze.

The problem: The apps take control of sound output exclusively of each other, so that when I play one, the other stops playing.

Almost solutions: I found one app, called Simply Noise, that will play alongside other apps. However, it is not very well developed or maintained. It can't be turned off unless you go to the Application Manager in settings and force close it. At least it partially does the job, though. Most apps, won't play alongside other apps using sound, and some can't be used in the background at all.

The ideal: The best thing would be to find a white noise generator app that is full featured and lets me play alongside my music apps, as well as letting me set volumes independently of each other. Chroma Doze has the nice feature of letting me play with various EQ levels so that I can tweak my perfect noise.

Another option: Is there such a thing as an app that will allow me to mix sound from other apps, so that I can run them simultaneously and control their volumes independently? I looked for that kind of app, but only came up with apps like App Volume Control Pro, which seems to allow me independent volume setting, but does nothing to allow for simultaneous playback.

The Question: Why is it that sound apps are all over the map when it comes to playback? Some allow simultaneous playback, some don't, some have independent volume control, some force you to use the system volume, some won't play in the background, some will... Are there any options to help me play two apps at once, with independent volume control?


texts: App that translate text from your camera?

texts:
Possible Duplicate:
  Word Lens Alternative/Port for Android

Basically, I'm interested whether there is an Android app that does what Word Lens does for the iPhone.


texts: How to manually change default save location to phone storage

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My phone Iocean X7S has opportunity to save apps to either internal storage, phone storage or external SD-card. However, I can't use phone storage as apps saving location. There is Phone storage and SD card opportunities in Settings -> Storage -> 'Default write disk' . However, whichever I choose as primary, there doesn't happen anything. If external SD card is mounted, there is "Move to SD card" button in apps and a tab 'SD card' in Settings -> Apps. If I unmount SD card, there disappears opportunity to choose primary save location, SD card tab and button to move app another location. However, there reads 'Phone storage app 0.00B' and 'Phone storage data 0.00B' in apps instead of 'SD card app and data' when SD card is unmounted. So I think it is some kind of software issue.

I have tried factory reset different ways without any result, there is still only opportunity to keep apps in internal storage or SD-card. In \storage\sdcard0 is external SD-card and \storage\sdcard1 is phone storage.


texts: Location for custom Ringtones/Alarms/Notifications that hides them from Play Music?

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There seems to be a lot of misinformation about the proper location and format for custom Ringtones, Notifications, and Alarms in Android and I'm wondering what is correct.

I've read that the path could be any one of the following:

/sdcard/Ringtones/
/sdcard/ringtones/
/sdcard/media/Ringtones/
/sdcard/media/ringtones/
/sdcard/media/audio/Ringtones/
/sdcard/media/audio/ringtones/
/sdcard/Notifications/
/sdcard/notifications/
/sdcard/media/Notifications/
/sdcard/media/notifications/
/sdcard/media/audio/Notifications/
/sdcard/media/audio/notifications/
/sdcard/Alarms/
/sdcard/alarms/
/sdcard/media/Alarms/
/sdcard/media/alarms/
/sdcard/media/audio/Alarms/
/sdcard/media/audio/alarms/

Any of the Ringtone and Notification paths seem to work but nothing seems to work for Alarms.

Regardless of where the files are, Google Play Music still adds them to it's library unless a .nomedia file exists.  The .nomedia file however hides the files from the Ringtone and Notification lists.

Is there a correct location for the 3 media types that will make them show in their respective lists and hide them from Google Play Music?

I'm running Lollipop 5.1.1 on an unrooted Nexus 4.


texts: How to install Android to any phone very first time?

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I know this sounds weird one. But I have a Motorola Photon 4g which has got corrupted or some unstable ROM. I am facing 15-20 blackouts and restarts. This led to think like that.

I want to know the procedure for flashing the very first time to phone. That is when the company manufactures the phone. It is has nothing. So they must follow some steps to make it alive. OR Simply, how do they flash the phone? What are the tools and steps they follow? I want that. I knew it must be somewhere on google. But I am not able to find those stuffs. Any help on those direction will be a great help.

or

Any generic way to completely format and install ROM as we do in our desktop. From boot completely erases the HDD , repartition and instally any desired OS to it (I know in case of Android ROMs, its is restricted to Phones and their basebands.)


texts: Why does Android offer updates for all the gmail accounts on the phone?

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I have multiple gmail accounts on my phone and I get Market and other updates listed for each of these accounts. That is simply annoying.

How can I disable that and instead set one account as my primary account for updates and such like?


texts: Netflix-Xyboard error: "Sorry we could not reach the Netflix service. (1009)"

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Rest of the error message: "Please try again later.  If the problems persists(sic) please visit the Netflix website."

I successfully used Netflix streaming video for over a week on my new Xyboard 8.2.  Suddenly, in the middle of a show, it started giving this error (and stopped streaming).

I tried other shows and different connections (WiFi and 3G).  I uninstalled and re-installed the updates to the factory version several times.  Rebooted several times.  Called Netflix, who said I should contact Motorola and re-install from scratch.  Rooted the Xyboard instead and installed from scratch. No change.

Netflix doesn't even think Xyboard is a supported device, although Motorola advertises it for the Xyboard.  The tech said they haven't gotten a rash of calls about this error.

All but the "1009" in the error messages seems to have occurred many a time on other devices with lots of weird resolutions that don't seem applicable and the few I've tried.

Any additional suggestions?

This was the coolest feature I found on the xyboard.


texts: Android - 2-ways USB sync for multiple calendars from outlook 2013 to phone

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I use an iPhone since 5 years, and I'd like to switch to an Android phone, under KitKat and probably soon Lollipop.
I've checked all my needs and there is still one for wich I didn't find how to satisfy it with an Android phone, the reason I ask for your help : syncing calendars and contacts.

With iTunes until now, I connect the phone, click on "Sync" and the work is done flawlessly, even with many or strange entries in my calendars. Perfect job.  I'm searching the same kind of working on an Android phone.

I use Outlook 2013 x64 on a Windows 7 x64 system. It's my main database for both my calendars and contacts. Note that I WON'T switch to an online solution.

I have 3 calendars into that Outlook, lets says they are called C1 (personal), C2 (professional) and C3 (family).
Into these calendars, I have many years of events, and multiple kind of events : recurring, multi-days, full day events, events with alarms, recurring events that start on 1900 (cause I don't know the right year for them).
Note : I don't use the category feature of events.

I found 2 apps on Android that seems to satisfy my needs : BusinessCalendar and Digical.
There may be other ones but I've found these that do the job like I want.

At this step, I still need to find a software that can make a 2-ways sync between each of these calendars by direct USB connection (why not by bluetooth even if I prefer avoiding it, but sure not Wi-Fi).
But all I've found so far as softwares can join C1, C2 and C3 into a single calendar C(phone) onto the phone.
Or better, sync individually each of these C1 C2 C3 from Outlook to C1(phone) C2(phone) C3(phone) onto the phone.
But I found nothing that is able to sync back the same way C1(phone), C2(phone) and C3(phone) from the phone to their C1 C2 C3 equivalent into Outlook.

I've tested without fibnding what I need :

MyPhoneExplorer (do not deal old dates correctly, and do not seem to be able to sync back individually each of the calendars)
CompanionLink (do not manage multi-days events)
Android-Sync
Mobisynapse (awfull results)
Android PC Sync
myDesktop Companion
Akruto
VCOrganizer
Sync2 (not a solution for the exposed problem)
Samsung Kies (not tested, I don't have a Samsung phone for testing)
HTC solution (not tested, I don't have a HTC phone for testing)
Could not try The Missing Sync because it do not offert a trial version. By the way, the feedback about this soft seems to be very bad.

I cannot buy many phones just to test the proprietary solutions from Samsung or HTC.
I cannot take the risk to corrupt my Outlook databases just to test the multiples available solutions and discover some day that it has been corrupted, so I've never done a real reverse sync : I've just deduced the way of working of these software from looking at their options that are so far clear enough to deduce what they are going to do on a sync.

So I ask for your experience (and not just thoughts) :
Do you experienced one or many softwares that allow to do a reliable 2-way sync from my Outlook contacts and multiple calendars from the PC to contacts and multiple calendars onto the phone ? Price is not a problem if the software is reliable and do not exceed 100 euros.

2 main constraints :
I DON'T want my calendar to go onto the net.
I don't mind if my contacts go onto gmail, but Outlook must stay my main database.

Note :
The answer "This does not exist" is a hearable answer, that would of course force me to continue with the iPhone, but... that's life. But I hope I missed some kind of software that would allow me to make the switch, ideally without needing to be prisoner of a brand.


texts: Is there a way to switch Android users from the command line?

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Using the following command, I managed to enable multi-user mode in an Android device that doesn't officicially support it: adb shell setprop fw.max_users 4. For good measure I also added the following entry to the build.prop file:

fw.max_users=5

There's now a Settings menu for creating additional users in my device. Upon creating a new user, I would be switched to the multi-user lock screen with icons at the bottom showing the user accounts available in the device. From there I can choose my user log-in.

Moreover, the account data of the new user survives a reboot. From this, I can conclude that multi-user mode is working.

The problem is my Android device, a media player running some version of Jellybean 4.2, normally doesn't display the lock screen. No lock screen appears when I start up the device nor after I suspend or put the device to sleep.

In fact, the only time I see the lock screen is immediately after creating a new user. Once I've logged in as the new user, I can't switch back to the lock screen because the device is configured to show only the bottom panel and therefore I have no way to click the User icon in the Quick Settings menu of the missing top panel.

It seems a bit overkill to do some low-level system hacks just to achieve the desktop Linux equivalent of Control-Alt-F8, etc. Is there a command, perhaps using some intent or activity available via the Android activity manager tool (am) that would allow me to switch between different user log-ins or at least to switch to the lock screen that would allow me to log in as a different user?


texts: Does GPS require clear view of sky to lock satellites?

texts:
I have been reading conflicting information about the GPS signal lock in the XDA Developers Forums.

Certain users say they have to be outdoor to get any lock in to satellites, others say they could lock in their home basement.

Which one is it?


texts: How do I get past a VPN lock screen as I've never entered a password?

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I downloaded Private Internet Access vpn to a Nexus S which also had Tor installed. Tor asked did I want to set up a VPN. I said yes. Nexus S vpn dialogue came up. I decided no and hit the back button to return to Tor. Went to front door to answer a knock with the phone in my hand.

Looked at the phone and saw a lock screen saying emergency calls only with a cursor blinking at me. Tried the random five wrong passwords with no result or no dialogue. End result no way back to the phone. Dont want a factory reset n losing my data. Ice Cream Sandwich runs (ran !) on the phone. Q: POssible hack ? Thanks for any suggestions.


texts: How To Sync Data From Specific App(s) Across Multiple Devices

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I know some are going to skip over reading this and just think this is regular Android syncing, I can assure you this isn't the same. I'm not talking about sytem, email, social media, or calender apps. Most normal user apps don't sync data between devices. I'm not developing anything, so this question is posted from the viewpoint of an end user.

What I am trying to figure out

How to sync data from a specific app to all my devices on my home network, without manually entering the data?

(For Reference one of the apps I want to sync data from is ShowBox. There are others, but I would be able to duplicate the solution provided)

Steps I have taken so far is to

contact developer(s)/no luck
write a script/no luck
get an app/no luck
researched/no luck

The answer I'm looking for will be basically non-device specific, but for sticklers at least for Android 4.1 and up. If the answer includes an app or other method, please include details with step-by-step instructions. EDIT Please don't include steps or apps that involve user interaction everytime, because I could manually transfer the data myself just as easy. One last request, it must be done locally. Not online, but do on home network.

EDITED PER REQUEST
In the reference (example) app above, the data I wish to sync would be watched videos and favorites. User data. Like stated above there are other apps I would also use the same solution/steps on.
Also if there is a way to automate the syncing.


texts: How to downgrade from Lollipop to Jelly Bean on my Samsung Galaxy Grand?

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I upgraded my Samsung Galaxy Grand from Jelly Bean to Lollipop. it worked properly for one week, but then problems occurred. Only black screen is displaying on my phone . While dragging from top of the screen , it shows "No notifications" and it also shows time. Screen is still working properly, but i can't use my phone other than these.
How can I downgrade my Samsung Galaxy Grand from Lollipop to Jelly Bean?


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There is very little documentation available for the ADB driver. I started off trying to install the official thing. No clue on if you are supposed to install the driver listed on the same page first/last/at all. And their documentation starts you off in a "Choose an Option" screen I have never seen before, and have no idea how to get to.

My device manager recognises the table, and calls it by name, but the installer cannot ever find the device.

Moving on to the 15 seconds ADB Installer. Well everything appeared to work, but I do not notice any changes. Am I supposed to see a newly installed program, to open up the ADB command line thing? How do I know it installed, and use it?

Notes: Using Galaxy Tab E/Windows 10 x64


texts: Not able to select entire image for wallpaper

texts: When I put the wallpaper in /dcim/Camera and go to change the wallpaper and choose Media gallery and I select the wallpaper I want, it asks me to choose only a small region of the image. What do I need to do to use the entire image?


texts: "Insuficient Storage" when there is space available in the SD card

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I have recently installed a 32 GB SD card on my Android phone. I moved all my apps to it, and they only fill 600 MB of it. I have 152MB available on my Internal storage.

With all this space available, every time I try to install a new app (even if it is really small) I get an error saying that I have to remove unused apps, along with a list of apps suggested for removal. I have already tried to clean the cache, and it didn't help.

Any suggestions?


texts: Samsung Galaxy S5 missing Sinhala fonts after Lollipop update

texts: I have upgraded my Samsung Galaxy S5 to Lollipop recently. Now I am unable to see any Sinhala fonts. Any fix for this?


texts: Trying to go into Download mode, but goes to Recovery mode instead

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Device: Samsung Galaxy S4
Android: 4.2.2

I can't get into Download mode. I have tried many options like removing battery solution, pressing Vol Down+Home+Power. I always get into Recovery mode.


texts: Android not hanging up when hangup button is pressed

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Phone: Galaxy Note 2; I605 (Verizon- Unlocked)

Carrier: T-Mobile

Rooted: Yes

I have this problem with Android Lollipop where when I cancel a call, the hangup button disappears and the phone says "Hanging Up" but never hangs up. Navigating away from the dialer screen destroys the UI but the calling process still runs in the background to the point where it either goes to voicemail if the other party doesn't pick up or hangs up in case of interactive calls.

This only happens with Android 5.x.x. What could be the problem? Has anybody encountered this and what was your solution? Thanks.


texts: How to change language to English in Oppo A59s?

texts: All the RAM result are in Chinese, and I can't read it. I have an OPPO A59s running Android version 5.1, and a ColorOS version 3.0. All output is really difficult to understand and operate. What to do?


texts: No Graphene or Lineage support...am I stuck carrying a google-tracker now? (LG "Journey" on Tracfone)

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I prefer flip phones but now I need web access while on job-site, I don't know why I thought I could just put Lineage onto any handset (swore you could just root a phone and put a new OS on, didn't recall it being model-specific but haven't used smartphones for nearly a decade)
What can I do to eliminate, or reduce if that's all I can do, my "google footprint" here?  I've used ADB to remove every package with "google" in the title but that doesn't remove all the google stuff (and some of it simply cannot be removed, one of them - if removed - makes it so the phone will go into an endless loop upon reboot, requiring a full hard-reset)
Thanks a ton for any advice, I know about F-Droid and am using the duckduckgo browser and FOSS alternatives to, say, Calendar adn Youtube-viewer but the fact it's still on this device/hardware that seems to have "Google" tattoo'd to its bones is bothersome, any & all things I can do to ameliorate this would be greatly appreciated!!


texts: Custom ringtone not working on Nexus 4 since OTA Lollipop

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My problem is exactly the same as in this question: Custom ringtone not working on Nexus 5 since OTA Lollipop

I have Nexus 4, never rooted, never jail-breaked
after I installed the update to Lollipop, the problem occured
now I have already 5.0.1 but the problem still exists

Problem:

I select my custom ringtone on the Sound & notification settings panel and it plays right
when someone calls me, only the default system notification sound is played repeatedly

What I already tried:

re-uploading the ringtone, using AirDroid (I also uploaded them with AirDroid before the update to Lollipop)
clearing cached data (via Settings > Storage > Cached data) and then rebooting
checked the directory of the ringtones: it's /sdcard/Ringtones
checked the permissions of the ringtones: it's the same as for system-ringtones: -rw-rw---- root
I found out, that when I select the ringtone in the contacts-app as a specific ringtone for one person, it works!

Any ideas?


texts: How to recover data from adaptive storage while rooted phone stuck at boot?

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So , i'm using Galaxy Mega (i9152) with a CM13 ROM which i flashed through TWRP. For the sake of running PoGO , i had disabled root through the settings of the SuperSu app in CM13 (the game still didn't run , kept tripping safety net). The phone was running fine up till 2 days ago , after which it started going into bootloop.

so , i googled on how to resolve boot loop and saw that fixing file permissions through TWRP might resolve the issue. i did that BUT i also rooted the phone when TWRP prompted me to install SuperSU , citing that the phone was not rooted. After that , the phone was stuck at Boot Animation (the CM android face) , possibly because i rooted the phone through TWRP.

I had formatted my SD card as internal which meant that it would not work on any other device. All my pics and stuff is on that SD card now. I researched extensively on google to find out a way to decrypt the encrypted SD card and found out that i can decrypt it through linux. i have also recovered the .key file from /data/misc/vold folder and have converted the code into the appropriate 16 byte format through terminal commands.

I have a linux system and i have tried to decrypt it. here's what happens when i run parted -l. (i also wanted to post output of fdisk -l , but my reputation score won't let me post more than 2 links)

since the names "android_expand" and "android_meta" are still showing , i have hope and good reason to believe that my data's still intact !

but when i try to mount it ...

i don't know what to do now , since this is all i knew , all i had :/ , i have no idea what filesystem the encrypted card is. i tried ext4 as described in the guide. maybe if there was some way i could make the fstab file cycle through ALL possible filesystems , hitting the right one and finally mounting my SD card. maybe the mount feature has such an 'auto' feature to auto detect the filesystems ?

I have tried to reflash the SAME ROM without factory resetting , but it gave me an error  saying : "error executing updater binary" and also "cannot install on top of incompatible data"

i have cleared the Cache and Dalvik Cache SEVERAL times.

i have backed up the DATA portion , through TWRP , by using ANOTHER SD card in the phone . Also i have backed up SYSTEM portion in the internal storage of the phone. I am just worried about my pics and stuff on SD card. I can't see my encrypted SD card in TWRP , it just shows me O MB in the SD card option in TWRP , possibly because the SD card is encrypted. i have no idea how to access  my files in the encrypted SD card through the TWRP file manager. i don't want to lose my data. just please help me recover data from this SD card that has been encrypted by Android Marshmallow. i don't know if my SD card will be detected in the OS as before if i am able to somehow reflash the EXACT SAME rom i was using prior to this disaster.

Just to clarify , i am using my Laptop's internal SD card reader for reading card with Linux (i have ubuntu 16.04 LTS), with an sd card adapter supplied with the card (it's a Kingston 16 GB , SDHC class 4)

if i can somehow access my SD card and retrieve all my data from it , my problem will be solved. please help me out.

P.S : also , at the VERY beginning of this ordeal , by mistake , i MIGHT have created partitions on the SD card , while using the fdisk. i hope that did not wipe the data off the sd card or corrupt it. i CTRL+C'ed out of the utility without saving changes ... so that might be of some hope.

EDIT (1-Dec-2019): This is NOT a duplicate, as can be seen by the solution i provided below. This question represents a much more serious case with adopted storage, where your phone is having problems booting or your OS is corrupted. Kindly let this question remain as it is, as it will prove helpful to advanced users and others who have their files stuck in adopted storage while facing difficulties in accessing their phone's Operating System.


texts: Why am I getting an SSL error on my captive portal?

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I setup a captive portal on a wireless access point.
If I use a laptop to connect to it, the laptop pops up a browser telling me to login to the captive portal. I can open any browser on the laptop (IE, Chrome, Firefox) and it works fine.

With my Samsung Galaxy S8 (Android 9), when I connect to the wireless access point, Android automatically checks for captive portals, same as every other device does these days. Since it detects it, it also pops up a browser and tries to load the login page, and on my phone, it shows an SSL cert error. Other Android phones don't have this error.

If I tell my phone to stay connected to the WiFi despite not having logged in, and open Chrome on my phone, the exact same captive portal redirect loads without any issues. It is clear that whatever internal browser my phone is popping up, it's not the regular Chrome browser, as that one works fine. It also doesn't appear to be the "Internet" app my phone shipped with, as that shows no SSL error either.

What browser is my Galaxy S8 using to detect captive portals? Why does it have an SSL error when other browsers and devices don't? How do I even begin to debug this?

Note: My SSL cert was generated by LetsEncrypt. It points to http://ocsp.int-x3.letsencrypt.org as the server for verifying that the cert hasn't been revoked. I added this domain to my captive portal's walled garden (bypass) list, so that connections to that domain are NOT redirected, but it didn't help.


texts: Where does the LINE app store pictures and video files?

texts:
Where does the LINE app store pictures and videos that are received through it?

I don't see them in Gallery.


texts: Cannot Re-enable developer settings after ROM re-install

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For.... Various reasons, I had to remove /system and replace it, I.e. fresh install my ROM. Now, however, I cannot do the build number trick to open developer options, and going through the dev tool menu states "Developer mode not available for you. You did enable it, right?". I doubt it is a kernel issue, since that copes fine, and the ROM is stable. I'm not gonna re-flash again today (Again, for various reasons). So, does anyone know how I can force it open?

Root methods will not work. Due to how the ROM is built, rooting and unrooting is done by flick of a switch... In the developers options.-NOW OUTDATED INFO, SEE EDITS BELOW

Edits

Root Works now! I managed to trip it on in SuperSU.


texts: all android devices on my LAN can ONLY connect to the gateway

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I have a phone running 2.3 and a tablet running 3.1 on the wireles network along with a bunch of computers. I have a bit of a networking mistery.

Here are the facts:

all the devices can get the the internet.
the non-android devices can all connect to each other.
the android devices can connect to only the gateway not to anything else
none of the other device can ping the android devices.
the tablet can connect to local computers on my work's LAN.

on the phone I see only a route to the local netowrk and a default gateway

ip address:
... many rmnet addresses ...
eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdic pfifo_fast static UP plen 1000
inet/ether 64:a7:69:70:76:7b brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.168.11.4/24 brd 192.168.11.255 scope global eth0
inet <link local ip6>

on the tablet:

# ip r
192.168.11.1 dev wlan0  scope link
192.168.11.0/24 dev wlan0  proto kernel  scope link  src 192.168.11.6  metric 306
default via 192.168.11.1 dev wlan0
default via 192.168.11.1 dev wlan0  metric 306
#
#
# ip a
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
    inet6 ::1/128 scope host
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: dummy0: <BROADCAST,NOARP> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN
    link/ether 42:cf:a5:fd:26:81 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: usb0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN qlen 1000
    link/ether 1e:2e:a2:c3:16:7e brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
4: sit0: <NOARP> mtu 1480 qdisc noop state DOWN
    link/sit 0.0.0.0 brd 0.0.0.0
5: ip6tnl0: <NOARP> mtu 1460 qdisc noop state DOWN
    link/tunnel6 :: brd ::
6: wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP qlen 1000
    link/ether f4:6d:04:39:26:21 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 192.168.11.6/24 brd 192.168.11.255 scope global wlan0
    inet6 fe80::f66d:4ff:fe39:2621/64 scope link
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

also on the tablet i see that the problem is arp requests failing:

# ping 192.168.11.100
PING 192.168.11.100 (192.168.11.100) 56(84) bytes of data.
From 192.168.11.3 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.11.3 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.11.3 icmp_seq=4 Destination Host Unreachable
^C
--- 192.168.11.100 ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 0 received, +3 errors, 100% packet loss, time 4005ms, pipe 3
# ip neighbor show
192.168.11.100 dev wlan0  FAILED
192.168.11.1 dev wlan0 lladdr 00:16:01:a1:a4:18 STALE
#


texts: Is root required for screen sharing / remote desktop on Android Pi

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I am having inordinate difficulty trying to get any kind of remote desktop working on a Samsung SM-T510 tablet I have just bought (which runs on Android Pi).   I have tried Teamviewer, Airdroid and Vysor - and none allow me to do anything meaningful.   (I have enabled Developer Mode).

I have tentatively concluded that something in the Android permissions model is preventing this sharing from happening, which would seem to mean that looking to do this without jailbreaking the phone [ which I don't want to do ] is futile.

Does anyone know if it is actually possible to do screen sharing on Android Pi on a phone that is not rooted?


texts: How to block a person's number and send automatic responses to its call/text attempts?

texts:
I want to put someone on a blacklist so I can't see when he calls me or what messages he sends to me. This is the easy part.

But I also want some custom text messages to be automatically sent to him if he tries to call/text me, like "Leimi put you on his blacklist, you really should stop trying". This is the not so easy part?

Do you know if this is possible by default in recent Android versions, via an application or even a custom ROM? Thanks.


texts: How to turn an old phone into a Chromecast Audio?

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I've been using my old Nexus 4 with cracked screen to play music from iTunes (shudder) to speakers. I'd like to be able to cast from my phone with Google Play Music to the Nexus instead.
I've tried CheapCast but it doesn't seem to work.
Anything else I could try or do I have to shell out €40 for a ChromeCast?


texts: Messages from other android users not registering

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I've noticed that my galaxy s10 has problmes processing(might not be the correct term) messages from other android users. First, if im using my galaxy buds, it will skip reading messages from other android users. Second, KDE connect will not register new messages from android users. This is frustrating. Appreciate any help.

EDIT: Is there a way to treat android to android messages like regular SMS, as opposed to having the read receipt and blue indicator dots on? I think that is messing with everything.


texts: Android 4.2: How to get the Easter Egg, a new daydream, and Developer options?

texts:
How can I get the Easter Egg hidden in Android Jelly Bean?
How could I use that Easter Egg to enable a hidden daydream in Android 4.2?
How can I enable the Developer options, hidden by default in Android 4.2?


texts:
Goal:
Get exactly position in Maps (google map) from my Galaxy SII

Problem:
I don't get the exact position in Maps from where I'm standing.


texts: I have a Galaxy M51. At times, when I wake up in the morning, the phone is dead - No response to any of the buttons, when I call it from another phone, it says "the number is switched off", no response on connecting charger. Only when I press power button and vol. down together (hard restart), does the phone turn on and then starts working perfectly normal, only to show a similar behaviour in a few days


texts: Can't access file after update to Android 11

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On my Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Plus, I usually find my files in this location file:///storage/1C97-B0CB/Android/data/com.android.chrome, but after the update to Android 11, I can't find my files.
Can someone help?


texts: How do I flash a Samsung device using the distribution on samsung-updates.com?

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I'm hoping to flash the stock rom back onto my device so I can update the PRL. I downloaded the file on samsung-updates.com. The file that I download was found "Firmware archive" for Sprint's SPH-L720 (Galaxy S4).

A comment said the SPR was for regular users and the XAS one was for engineers. Not exactly sure what that means, but I downlaoded the SPR file changelist 1927016

  SPR-L720VPUEMJA-20131030154609.zip

Now when I look inside I have two files,

L720VPUEMJA_L720SPTEMJA_L720VPUEMJA_HOME.tar.md5
SS_DL.dll

What does these files do? Why do I do with the .dll? How do I flash my device with it? Do I simply load the .zip into Clockworkmod and boot up? Should I, or should I not wipe cache and Dalvik after I do that? I've already backed up my current version of CM and data using CWM.


texts: How do you clear share actions bound to ‘copy to clipboard’?

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I accidentally set a sharing intent to always copy to clipboard. I know that usually to unbind these defaults, you go Settings > Apps > All > [bound app] and hit the 'Clear defaults' button from there, but I've had a look at all the system- or text-related things in there and I can't find anything with such a default set.

In my googling, I found this thread on XDA Developers that describes exactly this problem, but it has no responses.

If it matters, the action in question is the one the Github app uses to share issues.


texts: Switch root manager from Kingo Root to Superuser

texts:
I have Kingo Root on my phone, and I am trying to switch to Superuser by ClockWorkMod

any help is appreciated


texts: How does Marshmallow encryption work technically?

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I just installed Marshmallow on a Nexus 5 through a pushed update. I am confused about the way encryption works. I have good technical knowledge of encryption on computers. I would like to gain similar knowledge about Android 6.

The following is what I did and how I got confused. After a factory reset I setup a PIN then encrypted the device. At boot it asked me for my PIN, which was expected. I then removed the PIN and restarted the device. It did not ask for any PIN at boot but the device still reported itself as encrypted in the setup menu. The latter is what confuses me as I expected the PIN to unlock the decryption key.

Questions:

In the case of encryption without a PIN, where does the decryption key come from? I assume it is stored on a chip similar to a TPM, is this correct? If so what prevents a hacker from requesting this key from the chip? Does it check the hash of the firmware? Anything else? Technical details would be much appreciated.
In the case of encryption with a PIN, is the PIN used as an extra token to access the decryption key? Or does the decryption process work exactly as if there was no PIN.

TL;DL answer:

The decryption key is unlocked with all of the following:

The PIN (or password, etc.) or a default password if there is none
A TEE (a hardware-backed signature generator which uses keys that cannot be extracted)
A salt (readily available but preventing rainbow tables attacks)


texts: What app sends these push notifications?

texts:
Hope you can see the images. Need to know what app these notifications belong to please.

Screenshots (click images for larger variants)


texts: How do I block installing new apps and internet browing on my Android phone?

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I'd like to be able to block internet access from my Android Pixel 4 cell phone. The ideal solution would prevent me from installing new apps onto my phone. I'd like to have a set of apps, so that I cannot add new apps, such as web browsers. I tried to set this up with Google Family Link, but it will still let you install apps that are rated E for everyone. I also tried this with AppBlock by blocking the app store, but I can download apps from play.google.com from my computer.
I would appreciate any assistance in reaching towards a solution. A potential solution could be one that requires an administrator to have a password to install apps would be acceptable, because I can give that password to someone who isn't me.
I'll note that one possible solution would be to stop internet access with my phone plan. But I'd still like to use the internet for apps like Uber, so that wouldn't work.
Thanks!


texts:
After my camera app crashed this process is running and consuming 42% of battery but today morning it disappeared but still my battery is draining out too quickly! Even restart doesn't help.

Screenshot (click image for larger variant)

How can I get things back to normal?


texts: I use Connectify Hotspot Pro to create Wi-Fi network. However, my Android phone is unable to display this Wi-Fi hotspot at all. What do I need to do to make it work?


texts: Why is 'no connection' error appearing while accessing Google Play store?

texts:
I have this common, annoying problem while trying to access Google Play Store from my phone. It just shows 'no connection', and won't load, even though the internet access is surely working. The suspected cause is a synchronization error of my Google account, likely due to incorrect time settings (it's reported while running WhatsApp for example). Here's what I've done so far:

Set the time automatically
Manually set the time, without using the network
Clearing cache of Google Play store application
Reinstalling Google Play store manually using .apk
Logging out and back in with my Google account
Rooting the phone and using ClockSync app to set the time
Doing a factory reset of my device
Making sure Freedom application is not installed

I'm slowly running out of ideas...if anyone has the smallest hint, I'll be really grateful. I'm using Android 4.2.2.


texts: Method for installing apps on corporate devices to be deployed to users

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I'm trying to figure out what the best method is to pre-install and setup the airwatch agent on devices that are going to be deployed.

Currently, we log into Play store with our generic account and install airwacth agent, set up the phone for the user, then remove our generic gmail account.

This process causes issues though because when the user later logs in with their own gmail account, the app we installed under our own account doesn't auto update. It does allow the app to be updated if they manually navigate to it in the store but even doing this doesn't seem to add the app to their auto update list (I had thought that maybe doing one manual update would effectively cause their account take ownership of that app but it doesn't seem to be the case).


texts: How to configure Dropbox to ONLY upload camera pictures, and NOT download all folders in the cloud?

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Samsung Galaxy S4, installed dropbox to upload photos. However, S4 has 9 gig free, and my dropbox had 50 gig on it, so the first time, it bombed trying to download everything. deleted sync file (~4 gig) on S4, but now my device is deleting files from Dropbox on it's own! Had to shut it down and uninstall.

Any idea how to NOT sync anything but camera uploads? It's really messing with my dropbox folder sync between my home computer and laptop, randomly deleting files and folders.
Thanks!


texts: Recovering LINE account chat history after a delete and reinstall

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I deleted and reinstalled my LINE messaging app since it kept notifying me to do so the past few days (which I found odd because it was on the latest version). I'm guessing it might have had something to do with me playing around with Lucky Patcher to install a modded version of Google Playstore, which ultimately failed so I had to flash GAPPS to get the playstore back after LP uninstalled it.
Anyways, I backed up my LINE app using Titanium Backup before deleting and reinstalling. After the reinstall, I opened LINE, logged in, and saw that all my chat history has been deleted so I ran TB to restore the data (restore app + data didn't let me install LINE so I installed it through the PlayStore and just restored the data using TB).
However, when I opened LINE again, I saw everything restored briefly until I got notified that my account is being used on another device and I was forced to delete everything.
I looked through the questions and answers in StackExchange, Reddit, and XDA but most of their problems involved transferring their LINE app to a different phone, or a different ROM (but the same phone). All I did was to delete and reinstall so my android id should not have changed so it doesn't make sense why LINE is giving me that notice.
Does anyone have ideas on how to fix this?
Phone: OnePlus 6, Android 9, rooted.
Thanks!


texts: Does anyone know or recognize this symbol or what it could be associated with on an Android phone? Attached is a screenshot showing five of them.


texts: touchscreen broken, how to enter encryption password via adb

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My touch screen is insensitive in some parts, and my phone is encrypted, and one of the keys needed for the password cannot be entered.

I have TWRP installed. I remember having entered the password via adb, so there must be a way, but I don't find it.


texts: Bluetooth GPS compatibility list for Android 2.2 / Archos 43 tablet?

texts: I've been looking at a very inexpensive bluetooth GPS (DeLorme Earthmate BT-20) to pair with my Archos 43 Internet Tablet running Android 2.2.  Is anyone aware of a compatibility list that I should be referencing when considering pairing my device with a bluetooth GPS?  I assume that the Android app will be used to reference maps, and the GPS will simply provide coordinates, but I may be mistaken.


texts: Babbel languages learning apps won't play sounds

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The Babbel language learning app doesn't play sounds anymore; this used
to work for me for a while but now doesn't.  Sounds are the central
feature of the app which makes it superior to the PC web application, so
this is very important for me.  The Babbel support was not able to help me.

System information:

Babbel app, version 5.2.1
Android version 4.0.4
Device Sony LT22i (Xperia P)
Internal storage: 769MB free, total 1.2GB

What I tried:

Clear the cache.  This helped for a short while but no more.
As per advice of the Babbel team, I uninstall the Babbels apps;  then after a few minutes I re-installed again but nothing change to my sounds problems.
Restart the device.  Like for the cache, it worked again for a short while.

The problem might be related to the size of the lesson, or the amount of speach examples, respectively.

What can I try get the sounds running again? Thank you!


texts: How can I see what specific times my phone has connected/disconnected to wifi? I would like to see at what times exactly in the last week (for example) my phone connected to wifi. In fact I would like to be able to see an activity log of some kind? Would you be able to see location history if your location services were switched off, for example? Any help would be great :)


texts: Device stuck in boot animation after reverting to LineageOS 17.1

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I tried to update my OnePlus One to LineageOS 18.1, following my usual procedure:

do a full backup (boot, system, data excl. storage, cache) with TWRP
then flash the new image, along with the zip files Magisk and microG

As I then noticed that Android 11 breaks some of the apps I use, I decided to roll back the update by simply booting into recovery, restoring the backup and rebooting. However, this failed with the system being stuck in the boot animation for significantly above 10 minutes.
I then tried the following:

boot into TWRP
flash LineageOS 17.1 from the previous image I had installed (plus Magisk and microG)
restore my backup
wipe caches

Still no joy, I am still stuck in the boot animation.
Suspecting the upgrade had converted some app data in /sdcard/Android/data, I moved all app dirs starting with com.android or org.lineageos off the device. (The rest should be user app data. I do not have Google Play services installed.)
That still was not successful, I am still stuck in the startup sequence.
I have never (knowingly) encrypted any data on the device.
What gives? How can I find out where the device gets stuck, so I can hunt the error down? Wiping all user data is not an option.


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I was trying to create ext2/ext3/ext4 partitions on the SD card. I tried ClockworkMod recovery and it didn't work. Nothing seems to have happened.

I also tried using MiniTool and that also failed. I tried both Disk Utility and GParted in Ubuntu and it still didn't work. For MiniTool, Disk Utility, and GParted, after I finished partitioning the partitions showed up on the computer OK, but when USB's disconnected the One X says that the SD card's corrupted.

Has anybody done this? Or is there some other way to solve this?

Or maybe it's not possible because the SD card is built-in?

Thanks!

After some more playing around, it seems that the problem might be something related to a partition table.

When there's no partition table, it works fine, but after I add a partition table it seems that the phone can't recognize the SD card anymore.


texts: How to sync contacts with Outlook, WITHOUT Exchange?

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Can anyone recommend an app to sync Outlook contacts with Android? I know there are a number of them which sync with Exchange, but I am not using Exchange.

I'm looking for something that will sync contacts as well and as easily as Google Calendar Sync handles syncing Outlook's calendar.

I've tried "Missing Sync", but it completely hosed Outlook.

I'm running Outlook 2010.


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On my Samsung Galaxy S2, sometimes all of the icons will disappear from the home screens except for the 4 built in icons (phone, messaging, web, applications). This sometimes happens at startup, and sometimes happens after the phone has been running for a while. It can only be fixed by rebooting the phone, although that is not a guaranteed fix.

More recently I've encountered an additional problem: Sometimes when the icons disappear, the Applications button stops bringing up my applications menu.

Any suggestions on how to fix this?


texts: Odd question.. How do I get my bluetooth headset to handle the audio/mic for my tablet?


texts: adb shows that I have  init.goldfish.rc present in the emulator device. I guess this file must exist somewhere in PC.  However I could not find the file in the PC. Why it is so?


texts: Android default browser crashes on accessing specific page (no error message)

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When I access this page from my default Android browser:
http://blog.mylookout.com/blog/2011/12/06/carrieriq/

it loads up fine, but:

If I click / tap / double-tap anywhere on this page, it exits
If I browse up and down, its fine.
If I pinch / expand anywhere on the page, it exits.
(Only once) I left it alone for a while and the browser exited on its own.

No default settings have been changed. I have lookout (free) installed on a 2.3.3 HTC Incredible S phone.


texts: How to stop display turn on and consuming battery power, when using Headphones remote control or volume button?

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I don't know if this depends on the music player (I'm using mort player music) or standby screen (I have widgetlocker app as lockscreen), I don't see any options in these apps to change this. In Android 2.3.4 (rooted) I have set turn off Display after 30 sec.

When I jump to next/forward song via remote control button of my headset, every time the display turns on for 30 sec. For the volume buttons the same.

Is there a way to stop this behaviour and save battery power. E.g. only turn on screen when pushing HOME or POWER button when in standby? Any apps like tasker able to manage this?


texts: How can you set a default calendar to use for new events on a LG Android 2.2.1 phone?

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My wife bought a LG-P350 phone running Android 2.2.2.

Is it possible to set the default calender to use when entering new appointments using the agenda application ?

She added the google account of my son to her accounts, and now , every time a new appointment is created, the last agenda of my son's account is selected.

I have found no obvious way to change this default.

I don't know if this is the stock application of Android.


texts: How do I recover login data from a game when connected to Google play?

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I was playing a game called Identity V, but while trying to switch accounts with a friend I accidentally clicked on "Clear Login Data." And eventually all my game progress was lost once I came back to my main account, the in-game account is still there within the game but I no longer have access into logging back in anymore. Is there a way to recover/fix this?
(By the way, I already started a new account with my email I used for the other one since I couldn't do anything as of right now...)


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I have a Nexus S and a GPRS plan activated, from what customer services of my mobile carrier have told me is that GPRS will give you max of 10-15 kB/s download speed.

In my Nexus S if i don't select "Use Only 2G" in "mobile network" setting i get speeds up to 80kB/S and the symbol in the status bar shows 3G symbol. As soon as i select the "Use only 2G Network" my download speed drops to 10 kB/s.

I have used spedtest application to check speed.
I have verified with my Mobile carrier and i do not have any 3G plan activated.

How is this Possible, i don't want to get any kind of shock when i receive my Mobile bill :)

Edit : My mistake, corrected capitalizations.


texts: I recently bought a used Samsung S8 but it always tell me that "NOT REGISTERED ON NETWORK" I have at several times tried to clear data on Sim Toolkit, Reset Network Settings and Factory Reset but nothing at the end. when i contacted the person who sold me the same phone, he just went to blame me for upgrading it to android 9.0 which i do not think is true. someone again told me that it could have been blocked by the manufacturer. please anyone to help me with the possible solution


texts: Does android auto restore function when I install my app over the usb port in development mode?

texts: Does android auto restore  when I  install my app over the usb port in development mode?


texts: How can I sync Facebook contacts on a Droid X?

texts: I used to have an original Droid and now I have a Droid X. My original Droid had an option on Facebook to sync with contacts, but with my Droid X and the new Facebook app I do not see that option. I just want the contact pictures to sync. Is there anyway to do this on the Droid X?


texts: How to reset "wm size" changes from recovery or unlock android phone with graphic key via keyboard/mouse?

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After entering wm size 1920x1080 in terminal I was unable to reset this setting.
Now I have TWRP running and no information about how wm store its parameters in memory. Using adb is not possible (for adb shell wm size reset) as I cannot unlock phone (nor with usb keyboard nor with usb mouse)
So the quiestion is: how to reset changes of wm command or unlock a phone with usb keyboard or mouse (graphical key)?


texts: SD card has 81% free space but says insufficient space for App2SD (native, Huawei Honor 4X)

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I have downloaded OLX app and presently it is in internal memory.
When I try to move this app to SD card it says "Insufficient space. Can't move to SD card". Please help.
I am using Huawei Honor 4X handset now.


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I have a Motorola Droid and have just installed the latest update.

The Wi-Fi network at my workplace is temperamental, so I prefer to simply turn off the Wi-Fi and use 4G.

The issue is, when I turn it off (in Settings ~> Wi-Fi ~> move the slide bar to "off") it shows as off, however the next time I turn the screen on, the Wi-Fi is back on.

How can I stop this?


texts: Wi-fi disabled during lock still partly active? Or do I mis-interpret the battery graph?

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On my Google Nexus 7 I noticed that it would consume around 1% of battery each hour that it was just being idle. I suspected that battery-usage during idle time could be improved. So the next night (7 hours) I put my Nexus into airplane mode, and the next morning the battery had only used 1% for those 7 hours, which proved that there was room for improvement.
Next I disabled bluetooth and set wi-fi, to be disabled when the screen is locked (changed "Keep Wi-Fi on during sleep" from "Always" to "Only when plugged in"). After a fews tests of 7 hours idle the battery was down 2 ~ 3% each time. But then I noticed in the battery graph, that the wi-fi still showed quite a lot of activity. This probably explains the difference in battery consumption with airplane-mode.
I had expected the wi-fi to be completely disabled with this setting, and the wi-fi bar in the battery graph to be almost completely black. To see the difference I manually disabled the wi-fi and then the bar is indeed completely black (the right block in the image):

I would expect the wi-fi to be completely off when the screen is locked, but looking at this question: Turning on Wi-Fi on demand that is apparently not how Android works. So now I'm wondering what the wi-fi is doing in this setting? Why does Android keep the wi-fi 'partly' enabled? If Android would still let apps do their syncing etc on a regular basis I would understand this, but this is not the case (Notifications don't come in & it even seems to cut off streaming etc), so it seems to only waste battery?

I first suspected a misbehaving app, but I checked with Wake lock detector and Network log but don't see any suspicious apps.
I guess I could use JuiceDefender or a similar app to completely disable the wi-fi when the screen is locked (and still let it sync from time to time), but that's not really the point of this question.


texts: How do I keep my Gmail contacts off my phone (Samsung Galaxy S if it matters) and at the same time keep my phone's contacts off Gmail?  I don't normally do email from my phone, and when I have had to log into my account, it automatically downloaded all the contacts.  I don't want to search through a bunch of email-only contacts to find the person I need to call.


texts: Need to "gift" an app purchased in google play by issuing a refund later. How many days can I wait to refund?

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I know Google play still doesn't support gifting of apps but I need to provide one of my clients a free copy.

They already purchased it. I am going to refund them later, after they are done using the app. How many days from purchase are valid for issuing a refund? I can't find this answer online. I see some other purchases made >30 days ago that are refundable, but I don't know if I can wait 60 days? 90 days? 120?

Can someone login to their Google Wallet and see how far back the refund button is available?


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I have rooted my SAMSUNG GALAXY NOTE 2 GT-N7100 Android Version Kitkat 4.4.2.   I wanted to install nandroid backup manager for that I need TWRP  to be installed. I lost my SIM network after installing TWRP. That's probably  because of unsupported version of  TWRP

Can anyone mention  steps for installing TWRP?


texts: Moto G3 (android marshmallow) not detecting SD card anymore

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Was stored as internal storage. The SD card when in the phone says "not inserted" and it's the card I've always used for it. The card shows up in another device and other cards show up in this device. I stupidly didn't have a backup so can't retrieve my images. I can't even access the SD card on my PC without formatting. Motorola told me that it's because the card is encrypted.

I think i'm going to end up formatting then trying data recovery software and hoping for the best. Because the card was treated as adopted (internal) storage I can't access any of my phone's contents via a USB wire either.

Please Help.


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I have a Moto E (2015) and I have a hotspot plan that I let my family use. The Moto E has stock Tethering support. However, there are some limitations.

The hotspot would not turn off automatically. This could potentially create two serious problems. One is that the tethered devices continue to tether even when they are at a place with free Wi-Fi. The other issue is that I could forget that my Wi-Fi was used for hotspot and ended up using my Mobile Data when free Wi-Fi is available.

The best I could come up with is manually setup a reminder every time I turn on Hotspot but it is rather cumbersome and it requires me to manually turn hotspot off. I searched around for this topic but I don't see any solution. Would like to hear some better ideas.


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It seems to me like Android comes with the "veiled" idea that management of SMS that may be present on sim card is not so important (and maybe it's true). Anyway, take me, I have to deal with them at this moment.

Being more precise, I would like to backup all SMS (both received and sent) that are stored in a sim card and I didn't found a fast way to do that.
By this moment I came across several apps that could let me backup/restore SMS that are held on phone but nothing -NOTHING- that deals with the ones on sim card also.

What's worst is that it seems the smartphone I'm dealing with has not ability to copy all the SMS at once, so I should copy them from sim card to phone one by one and then use one of the app I mentioned before... Now, every sim card may contains even 40 SMS and I have at least 4 sim card to backup, that would be really uncomfortable!

So what I ask is: can you please suggest

an app to save/export SMS on sim card directly to text file (txt, csv, html, xml, ...)
or a way to copy/move all SMS from sim card to phone AT ONCE (not one by one)

Your help in this would be very appreciated, thanks!

EDIT:
Trust me, by now I tried several apps. Popular ones (like this one or this one) and even less known but sim-card-specific such as Sim + and I couldn't ever get SMS on sim card to be exported. So I became to think it has to do with the device I'm using (I didn't test Sim Manager for the same reason). Actually, in fact, I managed the situation in another way: using another smartphone!

I borrowed a 5 years old Samsung that came with the ability to copy SMS from sim to phone all at once (I guess it's a feature that minor brands devices don't provide)... and I can then be able to use any app to get SMS exported to text.

Now I'm thinking if it's worth keeping this question or not...


texts: Write protection of loop device // Read-Only Filesystem

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After spending days on that topic I am in need of additional ideas ;)

Facts: MTK6757 / Android 7 / Kernel 4.4.15 / FS EXT4 (No F2FS) / Working Root

I have a fresh and clean 64MB EXT4 .IMG File in /data/adb. e2fsck agrees with that ;)

Problem: Mounting and/or writing to it via Loop Device fails.

What i have checked:

Access rights of the file
Acess rights of the block device
Acess rights of the destination dir
Manually created the block device
Manually setup via losetup
Played with all options
SElinux Permissive / Enforcing

Behaviour:

It only gets mounted with "mount" because it calls a ioctl BLKROSET (thx  strace)
Mount and /proc/mounts show RW
As soon as I write (mkdir) to it, it switches to RO
(dmesg says Switching to RO cause of Buffer I/O error on dev loop0, logical block 0, lost sync page write)
When i enforce writing it gets written to cache but not to the file

ioctl /dev/block/loop0 0x125d 1
 mkdir /sbin/.core/img/test

And now the strange part:

When the img file is on /sdcard it works.

The SE Context is of course different, but i also tried in Permissive.
When the mounting occurs BEFORE Zygote starts or in Recovery, writing fails also on /sdcard (Update: Because during boot /sdcard is not available yet)

Anybody any ideas ?

Update:

It gets even more interesting:
Turns out writing to /sdcard only works as long as it is mounted as sdcardfs.
If sdcardfs is deactivated it gets mounted as FUSE properly, but writing doesnt work anymore.

As all the facts hint toward a selinux \ vold \ FS problem, i tried to restage the sdcardfs evironment.
Assign root \ sdcard_rwandu:object_r:sdcardfs:s0` to the file in a different directory.
Doesnt work ;(

Then i compared the selinux policies of 2 devices where it works with the problematic one.
Turns out allow vold block_device : blk_file { ioctl read write create getattr setattr lock append unlink rename open } is completely missing.
But injecting that doesnt help too...

Any experts or suggestions ?


texts: Set SELinux mode to Permissive permanently

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My Samsung Galaxy Note S2 (GT-N7102) running stock 4.3 JellyBean by default blocks all apps from Google (courtesy of the Chinese government). I followed a tutorial to gain access to gapps that relies on SELinux being set to permissive, but the mode changes on a reboot and I get a continuous stream of pop-up that says:

  Unfortunately the process com.google.gapps has stopped

What is changing the SELinux mode and how do I stop it from doing so?


texts: How to take selected-area-screenshot to clipboard once it's selected?

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How to take a selected-area-screenshot, so that it's copied to clipboard automatically once it's selected? (exactly like Win+Shift+S on Windows, but I need it for Android)

This will enable me to quickly —saving tremendous time & pain (when I need to reuse this a lot)— paste it within any note taking application (like Squid).

Motive:
I use Squid a lot in split-screen-view with a book reader app (like ezPDF) and many times I need to take selected-area-screenshot of a part from a book to drop it in my note paper in Squid where I'm taking notes.

One way to do this is to use Samsung's Smart Select, then share the selected-area-screenshot to Squid. This unfortunately forces opening Squid in full screen (which destroys the split-screen-view, so I need to waste time again to set the split-screen-view of the two apps). Also, in Squid, it forces creating new separate useless note (not the one I'm working with, so I need to waste time again re-navigating to my original note after copying my captured selected-area-screenshot to clipboard, and then deleting the useless note). This wastes a lot of time.


texts: Disable Bixby on Galaxy S9 without root?

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I have read this question and realised that it is outdated.

With the most recent android update for my Galaxy S9, I have no way to disable the Bixby button out of the box. Previously I had to sign in to Bixby, Then go to setting and disable the button there. Afterwards I could remove the samsung account and had no issues at all.

How can I get rid of Bixby/disable the bixby button without rooting the device?

Software update: G960FXXU2CSB9/G960FOXM2CSB3/G960FXXU2CSB3

Android version: 9

Security Patch: 2019-02-01

Bixby Home Version 3.0.02.6

Bixby Voice Version 2.1.04.18


texts: Is there a portable scanner connect to an android phone?

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I dont know whether my question is right to ask here. please advise me if I need to ask this kind of question at other areas.

I am investigating to find a right portable scanner to connect with an Android mobile phone (such as HTC Desire). After scanning a paper from a portable scanner, the mobile phone will receive the file as a pdf or jpg. That's it!

Would this be possible to do?

Thanks in advance.


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Is there a way to call from Windows PC using android phone connected via WiFi?

I tried to use Remote Phone Call, but it's not so good you need be connected to phone via Bluetooth.


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I am looking to find if the Nokia 6.1 is able to run Lineage OS 16. I didnt find a Nokia section in the official list of supported device. I looked online and find this list from thedroidguru (same list on alldroidtips):

  List Of Nokia Devices Getting Lineage OS 16

  Nokia, or HMD Global, has already maintained a nice record when it
  comes to providing Android updates. Though these devices did not
  receive any support from LineageOS 15, it is expected that LineageOS
  16 would support the Nokia 8, Nokia 6 2017, Nokia 1, Nokia 2, Nokia 3,
  Nokia 5.

As far as I know, the Nokia 6.1 is the name of the Nokia 6 2018. Is this list accurate? If the Nokia 6 2017 can run the rom, the 6.1 should be able to do so, shouldn't it? So, Does Lineage OS 16 runs on Nokia 6.1?


texts: Get Android activities and sub activities path programmatically

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This is my first question on AE forum, so excuse me for my ignorance.

I'm searching for a method to get the complete path through the system apps like Music, Video, Settings, etc...

The goal is to prepare a checklist for manual testers to browse through the checklist and do sanity/functional tests

Currently, I'm using :

adb logcat | find "ActivityManager"

Then I record the path manually to prepare the script for launching the activity, for example:

adb shell am start -n com.android.settings/.Settings\$WifiSettingsActivity

The problem I can't go through all the forms of the system apps this way because it's time-consuming

Is there any tool, idea to help me automate the process of launching system apps activities one by one to create a full checklist ?

Regards


texts: Native email app showing email account password on lock screen of Galaxy S2

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Dear Android community,

Recently I have set up a personal email account on the native email client that comes with the version of Android I have (4.1.2). After I have set it up and could receive/send/sync emails and all, I have decided to remove that account from the native client.

Now, the password that I used with that email account via that native email client is being displayed on my lock screen, under the time.

I want to not see it there anymore (obviously!). Has anybody had the problem before ? Any idea on how to solve this ?

Thanks in advance for your input :)


texts: After buying OnePlus One - Google Keep stopped syncing "Sync is currently experiencing problems. It will be back shortly. "

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I bought OnePlus One. Keep did not sync any cards. I thought it was problem with the phone but than I uninstalled and installed Keep on my tablet and it stopped working with it too.

I get this in my sync screen in OnePlus One (left) / Nexus 7 Android 5 (right).

Notice the Sync is experiencing problems below.

When I try to play music on google play music app it stops immediately after start. Keep not syncing. My friend does not have this problem so it does not seem to be global.

It seems as if I broken my account somehow. Can I do anything about this? I have no clue who could help me resolve this.

Here is a video were I show the behavior Google Keep does not sync. Please help: http://youtu.be/AbAU-8TIf_w


texts: Contacts app in Android 7.1 claims that I have no images on my device

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On my Motorola Moto Z2 Play with stock version of Android 7.1.1 currently I have:

188 photos in DCIM > Camera folder,
10 pictures in Pictures > Contacts folder,
5 pictures in Pictures > Icons folder,
24 pictures in Pictures > Wallpapers folder.

Yet, when I am trying to assign a new photo for one of my newly created contacts (Google Account) in Contacts app it claims that I have no images in my device and does not open a file browser / does not allow me to pick any photo for given contact:

What am I missing here? How to workaround this weird problem and be able to pick a photo for any contact (other way than using PC for this purpose)?


texts: How can I set my bluetooth visibility on all the time with lollipop?

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I use my phone as a beacon. When I show up places, other bits of hardware notice my bluetooth presence and do things.
As of lollipop apparently this doesn't work anymore because there is no way to have bluetooth visibility on all the time.

Is there a  way I can force bluetooth visibility on all the time?

I'd really rather avoid writing yet another app, especially if somebody already has one, but I have had no luck finding anything on the play store.


texts: Can I automatically log in to open WiFi that requires web login/password?

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There are lots of wifi hotspots that are open, but require a web-based login to use. Hotels, coffeeshops, workplaces. For password-protected wifi, it's easy to set up Android phones to remember the login and password. But I'd like to be able to use my workplace's open wifi with web-based password on a regular basis, without having to manually type stuff in. It should just automatically connect to the Wifi router, go to http://1.1.1.1 or whatever, type in my password, and then everything else should just work. Is this possible?

(HTC Evo running Android 2.2, fwiw...)


texts: Can I Upgrade My Samsung Tablet From Ice Cream Sandwich To Jelly Bean & How ?

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I bought a Samsung tablet with Ice cream sandwich installed, can I upgrade it to Jelly Bean & how ? Please advice.
Thanks


texts: Are there any Android phones that allow Bluetooth PAN off the shelf?

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I'm specifically looking for an off-the-shelf solution.

Without going into too much technical detail, I need to connect a phone via Bluetooth to a device and receive IP traffic from the device. Bluetooth PAN provides that functionality, but it seems to be disabled by default in most commercial Android phones. Short of recompiling the OS, are there phones available (specific models, or buying directly from the manufacturer etc) that allow Bluetooth PAN?

edit: I'm actually looking for any solution that would allow me to establish a network connection from the phone to the device. The device's onboard NIC doesn't allow it to be configured as a WAP.


texts: Is there a way to set up Android's "Slide" lock screen in such a way that swiping to different directions changes the background image to a specific image? Such as, swipe left for a personal image, swipe right for a professional image.  3rd-party apps would be acceptable as well.


texts: What to do when the Dalvik cache is full but the operating system does not recognize it?

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I have a strange scenario - my dalvik cache is full of dex files - around 150MB of space, but it appears that the operating system does not recognize these files as related to any application.

I installed an App Cleaner and it says my cache is empty.
I went over some applications I use and saw that according to the OS they have no cache, but when I ls the /sd-ext/dalvik-cache directory I see these applications have dex files.

Can I simply run rm /sd-ext/dalivk-cache/* to solve this? Is there any risk?

Tech details:
ROM: MIUI
SD Extension: A2SD+
Rooted: YES


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I have a samsung galaxy 8, new to android from iphone 7. Since this system is new to me I wanted to get a rundown on the internal/sd storage files, where system files are stored, how to find apps and where they are stored. Basically I want to manage some files but I don't know the structure on the android system. Example: I want to store some lesser used icon packs to the external storage to free up some space. I don't know where to move them to, and what rules there may be for this.
I also have alot of photo files which I want to store and use from the sd card.
If someone can please direct me to an article that would be really helpful.


texts: Rooted Device + MS Exchange Mail = Security Issues?

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I am using a rooted Epic 4G Touch (Sprint GSII) @ JB 4.1.2. I am accessing corporate email via MS Exchange ActiveSync.

I have recently been told that a rooted device is not permitted to access MS Exchange and my ActiveSync permissions will be turned off unless I unroot.

Does using a rooted device (i.e. superuser access) create any new security issues vis a vis MS Exchange / ActiveSync? Particularly, are any vulnerabilities there that would not affect a stock/unrooted user?

If so, how is this different from remotely accessing MS Exchange (OWA, etc) via a Windows or Linux computer with admin rights?

Thanks
Stephen


texts: Is there a way to remove the 160 char limit when replying to a text through the 'toast' method on the galaxy s5 without root


texts: Automatically transfer files from a specific folder to computer and delete them on the Phone

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Given limited storage space I want to automatically transfer files in a specific folder on my phone to my computer and delete the original file on the phone to safe space.

What's the best setup to do this?


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I use my Android tablet to read long PDF files.
How can I add and edit bookmarks within a PDF on Android?


texts: So let's say my friend is infected with the Stagefright bug, if he sends me a video/sound will I get the virus too? Also, can voice messages on whatsapp be infected?


texts: Can't install game through apk and obb file

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I can't install a game through apk and obb file in my Android 6.0 Marshmallow. I have Samsung Grand Prime Plus and I have recently tried rooting my device several times but it failed. I'm wondering if it might somehow be relevant to this problem.

I installed the apk file, put the obb file in the respective folder and the game looks like it's been installed, but gets stuck on the startup screen. I think it's not picking up the obb file since the startup screen is probably part of the apk file. I have tried this with both the internal and external memories. I'm sorry for the awkward terminology. I'm new to this stuff.


texts: After the Lollipop update, SD card not detecting

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After the update on my Moto G gen 2 to Android Lollipop, the phone is not able to detect the SD Card which I did not remove at any point in time even after successful installation of software. I'm using a 16G Class 10, Strontium Chip.

I tried resetting the phone, but the issue prevails.


texts: How to set the default search engine in Android to use SSL?

texts: If I use the "widget" of my Android 4.1.1 (on my "samsung" i9220) then I can see that it isn't using SSL. How can I set it to use it??


texts: how do how do I root and unlock the bootloader for my Samsung Galaxy 3 S model number SCH-s968c which is the Verizon version for straight talk