texts: How can I find out what causes "Android OS" to consume battery?

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The issue is that I see a high percentage on the "Android OS" item in the Battery Usage, and I want to find out what is causing it. But let me say that I'm interested in diagnostics techniques and tools, rather than increasing the battery life, as you will see in the below figures that the battery isn't drained much faster than expected.

Here's the situation with the phone right now:

Last charged 13 hours ago
I restarted the phone after charging it
I have switched off everything (such as GPS, WiFi, Data network)
I was on a 2G network all the time
My only use from the phone during the day was a few minutes of WiFi, receiving two SMS messages, and a call that lasted less than a minute.
I have auto-sync turned off

And here's the battery usage stat:

Android OS: 67%
Display: 10%
Cell standby: 9%
Phone idle: 6%

The Android OS shows 1 hour and 30 minutes of CPU time, but the total time that the phone was turned on was less than 30 minutes, and I don't have anything active in the background.

The battery level isn't bad at all (80%), but considering that I haven't done anything with the phone (and that the phone has a 2500 mAh battery) I am curious to find out what is causing the battery usage.

Obviously, this should be caused by some background tasks that aren't listed in the battery usage. I am looking for ways, tools, and methods that enables me to diagnose this further and relate the 67% of the usage to actual applications.

Some additional information:

I have a Galaxy Note, with Gingerbread 2.3.6 installed. I have "Usage Timelines Free" installed (which wasn't running during the day), and it doesn't show any excessive CPU usage by any app that can lead me toward who's consuming the battery.

Related question (helpful, but didn't answer my question) :
What can cause "Android OS" process to use high percentage of battery?


texts: Is there anyway to backup current ROM without unlocking bootloader/ installing clockworkmod recovery?

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I'm trying to use ROM Manager app to backup the current ROM of my Xperia Z but it seems that cannot be done without unlocking the bootloader/ installing ClockWorkMod Recovery.

Is there any alternative for me to backup current ROM and flash another ROM without having to mess with bootloader or ClockWordMod Recovery?

Note that my device is already rooted using this method.

According to Sony's website, messing with the bootloader is likely to void warranty which defeats my purpose and so all my attempts to backup the stock ROM here.


texts: Since cellphone application software requires extra power for processing. Is there any application software that indicate power consumption by particular application?


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I'm trying for two days to find a solution for this problem. None of my researches have been successful. I tried Intel Android drivers, uninstalled from SDK Manager and re-installed Google USB drivers, changed MTP to media option, used stay awake screen option, and tried to manually install drivers. The OEM drivers that the Google page links to for Lenovo are broken. It's also in Chinese. Even when using Translate, there is no download. I changed the fast charge cable with a standard one and the connect/disconnect cycle stopped suddenly. But Android Studio still doesn't recognize my phone.

It's unexplainable for me that how there is no fix for this issue. Since there are millions of apps on the Play Store. Google needs to fix a lot. Most information even on their pages are outdated and have spelling errors. I'm sick and tired. İ own a Lenovo G50-70 with windows 10 x64.

It shows two entries: One MTP S6 Edge and one Android unrecognized device


texts: No arrow keys on Swype keyboard after updating to 4.4.2

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I updated and am now running 4.4.2, and was surprised by the update:

The arrow keys I had now don't exist. I need them.
Also, when it gets a word wrong, I cannot back-delete characters, it just deletes the entire word.

Is there any way out of this?


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How are International ROMs made?

I have downloaded and installed a little while ago a ROM which is the best I've ever used in terms of speed, smoothness, battery life, and customization and features. However, I am unable to make calls, send SMS and MMS and use the Internet (Mobile Data) due to the fact that I am in Australia and the ROM is not an International ROM.

I am a developer. However my experience in this regard is limited. How would I go about making this ROM support Australian networks? If you know anything at all I would appreciate your help on this. Even if its something as little as a keyword to search for because I have been searching for a long time and have not found a single result that was related.


texts: Where does Google Tasks tasks arrived from?

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I recently installed Google Tasks and was surprised to find tasks and lists over there. I haven't used Google Tasks on the web (or from gmail) either.

Those were old tasks/notes taken around 3-6 years ago.
I checked my Google keep, Google reminders/assistant and Gmail (which are the platforms I use and used for reminders/notes/lists) and haven't found any origin for them.(I rarely delete, I always archive, so if it existed in one of them it should've been found).

Where did they arrived from?

By beeshyams' advice is I searched in my Google activity for phrases and tasks I had in the list, but I only found them in the search history, and not in any kind of task/list/note app.

Examples:


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I am a database programmer, and I want to learn about geospatial pattern matching by using the gps data from my phone.

I would like to install an app that uploads a record about the location of my phone every few seconds - to somewhere - pardon my ignorance as I am not a mobile platform developer. Presumably I can point the uploading process to some sort of a listening process on an Amazon AWS machine, where I can install a database and then analyze the data.

Is there any android application that I can install that would allow me to do this? By using an app, I can ask some friends to do the same so that I can then analyze data from multiple devices.

Whats the best approach for this type of task?


texts: How can I copy to the clipboard on a stock phone?

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This is something that has been frustrating me ever since I first did a fresh ROM installation on a smartphone.

I have an excessively complex password for my Google account. It would be impossible to type it into my phone by hand. Usually I would get it into my phone through QR code. But on a fresh installation, I have no QR code reader. I also can't install one, cause I can't access the market without my Google account.

So I put my password into a .txt file and put it in my phone. But when I try to open it, the application that is used can't copy text (like HTMLViewer on CM7) and no alternatives are available.


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I've been looking into rooting my Android phone, which is a ZTE Score. The only way I've found so far is to use the ZergRush tool (Or something like that..)
But I believe it can only be used on a Windows based computer.. Anyway, I have a MacBook Pro which runs an Intel cpu, and I'm running Snow Leopard. Is there a way to root my phone using my Mac?


texts: Encryption failed after turning my android phone on

texts: when i turn on my phone it shows "Encryption failed" and "Unable to start up your device. the encryption process was interrupted. you need to reset your device to factory default setting. this will erase all your data " and it has a reset button. this reset button and flashing my phone with Odin does not help. how can i make it work again?


texts: Is there a QR code reader with instant sync to PC?

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QR codes are a great idea, but often I find that I would be better off reading the content on my PC instead of my phone. What I really would want is an app that would read a QR code and instantly send some kind of notification to the PC where I could access right away. I know I can use the "share" functionality of e.g. Google Goggles, but it's too many steps to achieve what I want. Basically I'd like it to happen in 3 steps:

Start the app
Point your mobile camera at the code
Click something on desktop UI to access it

There are too many QR code readers in the market to go through all and find if any of them has this kind of functionality.


texts: how can I change the contents of /proc/product_name_extra?

texts: I have a rooted device and need to change the contents of /proc/product_name_extra from Prod to Eng. I have tried cp, mv, echo, and vi. I get IO error most commonly and no matter what perms I set I cannot edit the file. Any help would be greatly appreciated


texts: Decrypt crypt7 without key (phone was factory reset)

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I have my whatsapp backup db in crypt7 format. I forgot to backup the crypt key.

Now I want to decrypt the crypt7 file but not sure what to do. I have my device with me on which the file was encrypted, but the device has been factory reset, hence I am unable to get the key from it.

Now my question is, if I reinstall whatsapp, will I be able to get the crypt key and will I be able to decrypt the file which was encrypted before factory reset?

if not, is there any other possible way to decrypt it?

Thanks for any help.


texts: Does selecting "delete thumbnails" actually delete "save as" images from your phone?I

texts: I just started using "save as" on Firefox for Android and I saved a lot of important images that meant a lot to me. Then unrelatedly my phone started acting weird, it became very slow and laggy. So I installed ccleaner and since it couldn't do much for my healthy and not crammed full system I simply selected Delete thumbnails and let the app do its work. Minutes later looking for my photos they only came up in Download history and when touched it says the file is gone. Did CCleaner "delete thumbnails" actually delete all my recently downloaded jpg??? If not, where are they? I've been in Gallery, searched files by name, everything. I don't use an external memory card and I'm using a Samsung J7.


texts: Data partition with 23GB only shows 8GB when mounted

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I have a Sony Xperia Z5 Compact, and I was finding strange that the storage manager showed that the system was filling 20GB of the 32GB internal storage, so I went to dig a little further into this.

I found that the data partition is p42 in the internal rom using TWRP's fdisk, which correctly reports it as having 23GB (I haven't found how to get the TWRP terminal output here, though). However, using fdisk with the device fully booted up, via ADB shell, I get this:

suzuran:/ # fdisk -l /dev/block/mmcblk0

Disk /dev/block/mmcblk0: 31.2 GB, 31272730624 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3802 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

               Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks  Id System
/dev/block/mmcblk0p1               1        3803    30539775+ ee EFI GPT

not showing the full partition table...

However, when I try to read the partition, it gives no errors:

suzuran:/ # dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p42 of=/dev/null
48365568+0 records in
48365568+0 records out
24763170816 bytes transferred in 246.927 secs (100285391 bytes/sec)

Reading the entire storage also gives no errors:

suzuran:/ # dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0 of=/dev/null
61079552+0 records in
61079552+0 records out
31272730624 bytes transferred in 365.211 secs (85629213 bytes/sec)

But when mounted, either booted or inside TWRP (I also mounted it manually) it shows only a 8GB size:

suzuran:/ # df
Filesystem                    1K-blocks     Used Available Use% Mounted on
[ other skipped mounts ]
/dev/block/mmcblk0p43           5215496  1188900   4026596  23% /system
/dev/block/mmcblk0p42           8641912  6071544   2570368  71% /data
/dev/block/mmcblk0p41            197472      188    197284   1% /cache
/dev/block/mmcblk0p3              81872    57808     24064  71% /firmware
/dev/block/mmcblk0p31             28144      164     27980   1% /persist
/dev/block/mmcblk0p39             14327      160     14167   2% /idd
/dev/block/loop0                  92656      980     91676   2% /su

I'm using LineageOS, but in the stock Sony rom I had the same issue, only didn't have the tools to check this further.

Anyone had this issue before or can help me with this?

Edit: I just found about 'blockdev' command:

suzuran:/ # blockdev --getsize64 /dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/userdata
24763170816

which gives the correct size of the partition. What's happening with the 'mount' command? Could this be kernel related? If so, why does it happen in TWRP too?


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I have an android phone (Samsung Galaxy S6). Does WhatApp Record Incoming Voice Phone Calls Automatically ?
In my call info log I see incoming, the length of time and a storage amount (40MB or so).
Can I access this incoming voice call recording ?
If WhatsApp doesnt record incoming or outgoing calls, how can I record them myself ?


texts: How to start Chrome's T-rex game from an Android tablet?

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I can't start Chrome's cute endless T-rex running game from an Android tablet. On a PC, pressing Space starts the game while for an Android phone, I can just tap the dino to start it. But I can't figure out how to do the same on an Android tablet!

I've tried tapping, holding, swyping, and what not but the game doesn't start.

So, How do I start the T-rex game from an Android tablet?


texts: Is there a way to display calendar notifications without having to unlock the screen?

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For SMS there is an application called SMS popup which will display the message over the lock-screen.

Is there anything similar for calendar notifications that allows you to clear or snooze the notification without having to unlock the screen?


texts: How do I flash and prepare an ASUS Zenfone 2 Laser for custom ROM installation?

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I am tired of the original ROM on my phone and I'll install the resurrection ROM.

I have the zip, but if I am not wrong I need to first do 3 things:

-get root access

-install TWRP

-and adb

Am I right?

I am still in the process of understanding how it works.

Where do I get these files and instructions?
I have found some links, but none of them seems to be easy and well-explained.

Thanks!


texts: Viber: keeping the same message history on all devices

texts:
Initially, I installed Viber to my phone (2 years ago). Then a year ago, I installed it to my computer and a few months later to my tablet. After I installed it on my computer and tablet, the history of all messages were synced to all devices and whatever I did on any device, it was automatically available to all devices. That's the thing that I LOVE about Viber and that's why I use it as my default messaging app.
However, I bought a new tablet and I installed Viber on it, but this time there's no history on it. It's synchronized with other devices since I installed Viber, but there's no history on the new tablet before the date I installed it.

Any ideas?


texts:
When I navigate to settings -> about tablet -> system updates, it tells me updates were last checked "^ 1" instead of giving a date and time like I expected. Clicking on check now does apparently nothing. It's been like this since updating this Nexus 7 to 4.4.4. What does it mean and can I get it to show something meaningful instead?

After changing the language to English (United Kingdom), it now displays a time, and check now updates the timestamp. Placeholder error in the translation template, perhaps? Should I report this error somewhere?


texts:
How do I transfer my contact details from one mobile to other mobile
Samsung S3 to Sony Experia P.
I am using both mobiles and want to have contact on both mobiles.


texts: How to re-enable all screen lock types after uninstalling OpenVPN connect?

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I installed OpenVPN Connect on my Samsung Galaxy S4. The app forced me to pick a screen lock, which I set to PIN.

However, I've cleared all application data regarding to OpenVPN Connect and also uninstalled the app, but I'm not able to select 'none' as screen lock type. Only pattern, PIN and password are available in settings as shown:

Is there a way to get all the selections available?


texts: What is in "Other" when looking at Storage

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My HTC Desire 500 is constantly telling me that I have no space for updates. I've cleaned out all cache; am using SD card for storage; yet when I check the storage it shows 2.89GB in "Other".

I can't get in to find out what this is.

Can anyone help?


texts: How to change alarm volume without making sound?

texts: It's night, everybody is sleeping but I realized that my phone's alarm volume is at 1. This isn't enough to wake me up, but I know that if I change it, it will make a sound and wake up everybody. Is there a app that lets me change this volume without actually playing a sound, or a completely different alarm app that doesn't do this?


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I disabled Google Assistant on my phone* but Google's Ambient mode kept showing up when my phone was on charge.

I didn't want Ambient mode (it wasted power and blocked me from accessing the lock screen); how do I make it go back to pre-Assistant behaviour?

Note: I have turned off Google Assistant; this had no effect.

Mi2S with Mokee kernel (Android 8.1.0)


texts: How is an "average use" defined in terms of battery life

texts:
It is common to see better battery performance being touted as a selling point, when phones are announced and when they but the market. And the claim typically goes like "lasts xx hours on average use" or variations of "average" but conveying the same meaning. Implied, of course, is reduced frequency of battery charging and longer battery life.This is encountered in phone reviews also.

What I am trying to find out from an academic perspective:

a) Is there something defined as "average" use

b) Is there an accepted standard which profiles, say an "average or typical user" or "heavy user"

Both questions are interrelated and what perplexes me, is the freedom of misuse by companies to make claims that in no way can be verified. Logically, there should be standardized way but googling did not yield any result.

Only reference which I could find when researching screen power was Analysis of Power Consumption in a Smartphone. Section 5.4 of the paper talks of user profiles, but it seems to be hypothetical, not being backed by any reference.

"There is no profiling of usage", is also an answer if it is backed by authority or standard.

I am aware that this question may not really belong here (not sure where else to ask), but being a end user concern, trust it will be permitted and more importantly answered


texts: I need detailed instruction on how to recover a ZTE z828 lt from soft brick caused by Kingo root!

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I need detailed instruction on how to recover a ZTE z828tl  from soft brick caused by Kingo root!

I bought this “simple mobile ZTE Midnight pro LTE” off eBay, and simple won't unlock it, so I can use it with anyone else, so I was playing with KingoRoot trying to root it, the computer version said root complete please donate, the phone rebooted into boot loop, I can access the stock recovery screen, but can't do a factory reset, and I can get to ftn!!!

Please help, I am a newbie to android, cell phones, but have messed with tablets for years, and usually can get a factory ROM restore for flashing, but this time I've searched all over without any luck..

Thanks.


texts: Why does Google Play say app is "incompatible"

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I have an app that I want to install in my android phone. Unfortunately, it is marked 'incompatible'. I might try to upgrade the system to install the app, but first I'd like to know the exact reasons the app is 'incompatible'. I.e. what are the 'variables' my phone gets wrong to be unable to install the app.

Is there a generic way to do that?


texts:
I want to do this step to root my phone:
Copy it to the internal storage of your device
So the command is:
adb push <local file> <remote location>

The "local file" is "boot.img"
What is name for my phone's "internal storage"?


texts: Message thread with mute icon (speaker w slash through)

texts: My message thread to my GF has a mute icon (speaker w slash through) and it doesnt alert me when she messages, how do i get rid of that? Phone just recently updated to marshmallow > Galaxy S6


texts: Does orientation of a USB Type-C cable matter when quick charging?

texts: Is it normal that quick charging only works when plugging the (original) USB Typ-C cable in orientation 1 into the phone and not in orientation 2? I mean it is symmetrical, I would have expected that both ways work. Is there a problem with my phone or is this the intended behaviour? I read that article about USB PD but it could not answer my question.


texts: My Smartphone should automatically tweet that I got up when I use it in morning. How can I achieve that?

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My Smartphone should automatically tweet that I got up when I use it in morning.

How can I setup my phone so that when I get up early in morning and first thing I do in morning is to swipe the screen, a tweet like

  I got up at 6 AM

is send?


texts: Nexus 5 > Lollipop upgrade notification lost

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I have an LG Nexus 5 and I am running Android 4.4.4 on it.

I've been seeing a notification telling me there's an upgrade for my Android OS for several weeks now (Lollipop upgrade), but I've been waiting till I properly back up my phone before starting the upgrade.

When I was finally ready to run the upgrade yesterday, the notification was gone. I went to Settings > About phone > System updates, clicked on "Check for update" only to find it saying "Your system is up to date".

The "Last checked for update at" message was changed to the current time.

Rebooting the phone and trying again did not help either.

Is there anyway I can get that Lollipop update back?


texts: Frequent login failure on Yahoo Mail from GMail app

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I have added my Yahoo Mail account to Gmail app on my Android phone (Samsung Galaxy Note 3, latest Gmail version)

However, ~5 times out of 6, the app fails to log in to Yahoo (the username/pwd and other settings are clearly correct since it does succeed in connecting once in a while).

Server is android.smtp.mail.yahoo.com, port 465. SSL/TLS security

Error is "Username or password is incorrect".

What could be causing this and what can I do to fix?


texts: Exchange ActiveSync on Android: All flavours of Android are not equals

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Just a quick question/remarks regarding the Support of Microsoft Exchange Activesync.

I work in a big company (10.000 people in belgium) and we have to configure an Exchange client to read emails.

iPhones are working fine, and on Android, they suggest to install Touchdown, a third party client with which they have an agreement and we get some discount.

Unfortunately, as I don't want to install third party apps to read email, in addition to gmail and stock email, I have been searching for some explanations.

I have then remarked that all my colleagues with an HTC Sense have a fully working email client!
HTC Seems to have improved the stock email app.

I contacted the HTC customer service but I couldn't get an answer on which ActiveSync features they improved.

Does anyone know if a list of all policies supported by native Android Vs Sense, Touchwozz, Blur.. exists?

I am pretty sure that other people than me are bugged with this issues and would like to compare all these email clients and see wich is the best, maybe some other would be porting Sense email to stock ROM.

Have you any idea of people working on that or other suggestions?

Thanks!


texts: ADB immersive mode and wm overscan commands no longer work on Android 11

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I upgraded to Android 11 without knowing that it broke compatibility with existing immersive mode and window manger overscan adb commands. Are there new alternatives to these commands in adb now? I was specifically using:
adb shell wm overscan 0,0,0,-136 (reset: 0,0,0,0)
adb shell settings put global policy_control immersive.status=*
For reference I'm running GrapheneOS on build number RP1A.200720.009.2020.09.25.00 on a Pixel 3 with Android 11 on Kernel version 4.9.223.


texts: LG P760, insufficient disk space, help please

texts:
I have an LG P760 updated to the latest available by LG version.
The last couple of days I cannot update the installed apps with the known error of insufficient disk space, although it was supposed that more than 290MB where available. I removed some apps and increased the free space to 320MB. Then I managed to update some apps but that's it.

Now, I understand that this is complicated but I want to know the following:
a. Is is possible to partition my external SD and use it as internal storage?
b. I want to avoid to root the device. If it's not possible, is it possible to root the device and then un-root it?
c. I want to avoid apps like link2sd. I am fairly competent with Linux CLI, so, I would like to use the mount command and Android boot scripts in order to mount SD partition.

Can I do that?

New Info:

It is possible that I found a "bug"(?). I had 2 devices and both of them were under my account in the Play store. I gave the second one to my wife. For a reason that I don't understand, my device was "removed" from my devices list, but the device that I gave to my wife was not (and it was in my wife's account too!).
I wanted to install an application and since I could not do that from my phone, I decided to try to "push" the application. But Play store said that my device was not compatible (and it showed the device of my wife). Then, I hide it, hoping that my device will re-appear.
Instead of that, my upgraded the apps that until some minutes ago refused to do so with the "insufficient" storage message!


texts: App registered to wrong account; how to fix this?

texts:
I have three Google accounts registered to my Android: my main, personal account (let's call it account A), and two volunteer community accounts whose emails I manage (call them accounts B and C).

When I first got the phone, I registered with my account A and later added accounts B and C, so that my primary account is account A.

The problem is that since the upgrade from Android 4.4.4 to Android 5.0, one of my apps has lost its license.

When I try to restore the license, I realise that the app is now registered to account B instead of account A (it shows the email address for account B instead of account A).

Why is it registered to the wrong account? More importantly, how can I fix this?

If possible, I'd prefer not to uninstall and reinstall the app, because I will lose all of my data for that app. But, I'll do it if I have to.

I am using an unrooted Nexus 5, fully updated, Android 5.0.


texts: ADB: what are system/secure/global namespaces about?

texts:
In the 'settings' command (i.e. which invokes cmd command) there are 3 namespaces

system
secure
global

What are these and why are some features on one rather than another?


texts: Why is a suspicious program draining my battery with GPS usage?

texts:
Phone : nexus 5 version 2013
Android version : 6.0
Kernel version : 3.4.0-g2aa165e
Build number : MRA58N

For the last few days, 10118 has been draining my phone's battery. It drains battery by using GPS. I typed 'ps' in a terminal emulator, and there was no application with PID 10118. I don't know what exactly 10118 is. My guess is that it's one of recently installed weather apps.

How can I fix this?

Screenshots (click images for larger variants)


texts:
It's possible change the number of touchs in android 6.0 without root?default is 2,but I need 3 or 4.

if it works I won't need to buy a new phone,so help me:)


texts: How do you reinstall Google Play store and Google Play services after uninstalling them.


texts: I installed AFwall+ as admin with a rooted device & it works very well; but I created a restricted user now & this AFwall+ is not working in user, any tip?


texts: integrate Google Photos with android system

texts: I use ios for long time recently switched to android. my whole photo library in google photos but when i need to upload somewhere  i need to download it first to device and proceed to upload its irritating is there any way to link google photos to gallery like ios icloud photos when i use ios i can select icloud photo directly and it download & upload automatically. why google can't do that?


texts: Can I save a web page to my SD card with the stock android browser?  I'm using an HTC Droid Eris, if that matters.


texts: I had just bought  zte  Android phone. An I was short on cash so I didnt get the insurance an went to leave an dropped it. I hadn't even  activate activate it yet. Is there anyway I can use for keyboard just till I get passed set up.


texts: How to get Adoptable SD card encryption key with root access?

texts:
When I use adoptable storage on my device, then my SD card will be encrypted. Is there a way to get the  "encryption key" with root access? So if my phone dies, I can still retrieve my data from the SD card by using the key?

Related: How does Marshmallow encryption work technically?

I am running Cyanogenmod 13, rooted.


texts:
We're using Samsung with Android 4.1.2 as a scrabble timer - via the default Clock application. It would be much more comfortable if I could force the phone screen to be always on so that we can see the time remaining. I found no setting or downloadable program to achieve that.

I need some workaround tip - any ideas?


texts: How to open all numbers from WhatsApp directly in Truecaller

texts:
I'm part of some WhatsApp groups and there are people whom I know but unable to map them to those phone contacts which does not show anything but blank profile photos and no name.

Asking everyone will be too much work.

This is too much frustration.

Is there anyway to directly open the contacts in Truecaller instead of the default android app?


texts: Top up and purchase using google play in app installed from outside google play

texts:
How do i purchase item in app using google play if i install the app from outside google play ? (Install from unknown sources enabled)
I install from outside google play because the developer doesn't support my phone in google play (compatibility issues) not google play related issue.


texts: How do I know if Odin is hang/error/stuck?

texts: I am planning to install stock ROM on my Note 3 but, Last time I did it was longer time than Tab2.7 and my GYoung.. So I plugged the USB out and boom! Kies Error... Just tell what is the sign of Odin Freeze/hang/error?


texts: Restricting data usage monitoring to certain days

texts:
My data plan includes unlimited data during the weekend (so any data usage during the weekend is not taken off the 50Go afforded by the plan), and I would like to monitor my data usage taking this into account.

I could not find any setting/application that allows to restrict the monitoring to certain days, did I miss one?


texts:
I have the Sony Xperia E and want to use a Bluetooth Smart/Bluetooth Low Energy Heart Rate Monitor with it.

Unfortunately this requires Android 4.3 and Sony stopped upgrading it at Android 4.1.1

Is it possible to install a later version on Android on this phone? I looked at the Cyanogen website (http://download.cyanogenmod.org/) but couldn't see the Sony Xperia E listed, the phones product number is C1505.

I'm happy to root the phone, flash it etc as long as I have good instructions to follow.

Thanks,
Andrew


texts: Getting screen dimensions in a shell script

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To run a game on my Nexus 5 (5.1), I need to change my screen resolution. I'm trying to write a shell script that will detect the current resolution and change it, basically a toggle.

I know that I can actually change the resolution using wm size XXXXxYYYY, but I don't know how I can check the current resolution. I know very, very little about regex, and I tried to figure out how to pull the results from dumpsys display, but I really had no idea what to do.

How can I get the current screen resolution for a shell script that will use if to check it, like a toggle?


texts: Play Store downloads failing for subset of apps

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I have an issue where Google Play Store will not download updates for a specific subset of my installed apps. I'm using a Sony Xperia Z5 with Android 7.1.1.

When the problem apps attempt to update in the play store the download percentage goes past 100% for a bit at which point it resets to zero and starts downloading again. It tries to download each app three times and gives up. This suggests to me some dodgy cached data somewhere? It also appears like my phone may be having issues downloading the "google play security information update" (although I'm not certain of this) as I will often see a notification that this file is being downloaded, pop up, appear to complete, and go away, and then straight away pop up and download again. This suggests to me that it is doing the same thing as the apps in play store?

I have tried nearly all the recommended actions for fixing play store issues. I have cleared cache and data, and forced stop on Google Play Store, Google Play services and Download Manager and then restarted my phone to no avail.

I haven't removed and re-added my google account (which is another recommendation for play issues) as I'm not sure how much of a pain that will be to re-add?
I tried updating to the latest beta version of the play store but that didn't fix the issue and it has been happening for around two months now.

The one thing that has managed to work, temporarily, is to uninstall updates on google play store. This takes me back to a very old version of play store but all downloads then work correctly. The problem I then have is play store insists on periodically automatically updating itself at which point all the same apps stop downloading again! I'm not sure what triggers play store to update itself or how to stop it. Sometimes it happens quite quickly after rolling back sometimes it takes a couple of days.

My only "solution" at this point is to uninstall updates on play store each time it re-updates itself. If I happen to miss that this has happened my phone will sit there happily trying to download the same app updates over and over using tens of gigs of data over a day or two (lucky only on wifi). Each time play store reinstalls itself it also automatically turns "auto update" (which I have disabled) back on!

The fact that it is the same subset of apps that fail each time is weird too. They are a diverse range of apps, some games, some utilities, some educational so this suggests that it's not the apps themselves that is the problem but some kind of corrupted data/cache issue? Some files that play store or the download manager uses that aren't removed when you clear the cache or uninstall play store? I feel like if I could just check a log file somewhere as the play store fails on a download I should be able to work out what is going on but I have I non-rooted phone so I think my diagnostic options are limited?


texts: Is it possible to find and recover a Word for Android document?

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I have an Acer Iconia B1-A71 which I bought about a year ago, if I remember right. It has Microsoft Word for Android pre-installed. In my naivety I assumed it was a free no-strings-attached app.

Today I was taking a train trip, 2 hours each way, and I thought I'd try using it to work on a fairly large Word document. I sent it to myself via email. Clicking on the .docx attachment started the Word app. It went though an initialization process, but I am very sure that it did not warn me that by using the app I would have to sign up for a Microsoft account and provide permission for Microsoft to access my contacts.

I spent about three hours working on the document during the trip.

When I got home I tried to "share" it by sending it to myself again. What I got was the original unmodified document. Then I tried to "Save as" on the device, and the app crashed or went into a loop, spinning the circular arrow and saying "Working on it". After 4-5 minutes I killed the app.

Now when I start the Word app it demands that I sign up for a free account, and share my contacts with Microsoft. This I refuse to do on principle.

Where I come from this kind of thing is called "bait and switch".

So my question is, is there any way I can find and recover the edited .docx file using File Manager or something (I have tried to find the edited document but can only find the original one), or do I accept that Microsoft has cheated me out of three hours of my time?


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Using Samsung Galaxy A41 on Android 10, my ringtone volume is automatically resetting to 0 all the time - which means that I'm missing phone calls. I don't have any apps installed that should be doing this automatically.
What could be the cause and how can I debug this?


texts: Can I move an app's data to another phone?

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I have a game running on an old phone and since the game doesn't save any data in a cloud and neither does google play, I wanted to transfer the data from my old phone's storage to my current one, or just save it on an external drive for when I uninstall the game. Where do I find the data folder, and where do I have to put it on the drive/other phone?
(both are Android just to clarify)
The link to the game is https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ironhorsegames.idlewasteland
Thanks in advance.


texts: How To Switch To A Higher Storage SDHC Card With Less Hassle And Problems?

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Possible Duplicate:
  How to upgrade / swap SD card without losing data and installed apps?

I am about to switch to SanDisk 16GB SDHC from 8GB storage flash card of same brand, but currently have following problems:

Sometimes Android OS forcecloses and restart fixes problem for a while:

This happens again and again by touching back button until switched from application or a home button.
Android Market v2.3.4 does not update apps:

Apps that are set to update automatically are stuck at "Downloading" as progress meter does not move and i have to update manually by cancelling download which negates the point in automatic app update. Gets stuck at download progress bar but progress bar is animated. After cancelling automatic download, i can re-download again manually.

Should aforementioned problems be taken care of before switching to a higher storage card or after? Additionally how would you go about rectifying aforementioned problems?

I want to upgrade manually to Police Market from my old 2.3.4 but i cannot see .APK file of old market and cannot backup it. Maybe i should just backup old SDHC card with Android Market 2.3.4 and keep this one just in case but copy this one as well to newer SDHC card, update old Market from there to Police Market and in case something goes bad, i have backup of old SDHC card?


texts: Why does my wifi not automatically reconnect to prefered networks?

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I've got a San Francisco handset running 2.1.

I've configured it to connect to my wifi network at home. If I go out of range, or reboot the phone, it fails to re-connect automatically and I have to manually go thru the settings, disable wireless, then enable it for it to re-attach itself to my network

Is there an easier way?


texts: where is a restricted user's home directory for Nexus 7 (2013 - JB 4.3)

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Background: I have a rooted Google Nexus 7 (2013 - FLO) tablet, which I love.  I have created 2 restricted user accounts for each of my kids.  They both love Minecraft, and with restricted user accounts, they each get their own home directory, where their Minecraft worlds are stored.  This is great for them, because they can't tamper with each other's worlds.  :)  Now that the phone is rooted, I would like to copy their worlds off old devices and into their account space or home directories.

Question:  Where is the home directory (or user account storage space) for restricted accounts on the new Google Nexus 7 (2013), which is running JellyBean 4.3?


texts: how to transfer files to new external sdcard

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I have an old 64 GB sdcard and a new 128 GB sdcard, how do I copy over all files from my old card to my new in a way that makes android treat the new card just as the old card.

I tried simply copy-pasting over my DCIM folder, then I put the new sdcard in and rebooted my phone, on startup the phone recreated the /Android folder and all apps had rights to their new folders.

Ways I tried to move the files:

1)

dd old card to disk
dd to new card

after this the card works but is seen as having 64 GB instead of 128 GB
space

use gparted to resize partition

this makes android see the card as having used 64 GB space but with no files or folders

2)

dd old card to disk to disk
dd to new card
use fdisk resize partition

this makes android see the card as having only empty folders, but still used 64 GB space

3)

create 128 GB partition

this I have tried with both FAT32 and exFAT

mount via mtp

Update: I have also tried to copy paste all the files and folders directly to the sdcard from the old card via the cp comand on linux (that was the very first thing I tried... I only tried all the other things because this did not work)

rsync all files and folders to the sdcard

this seems to make android see all the folders and files, but now my apps can't write to their own folders
eg
the problem in all of the above cases is that android eigher a) does not see the file, simply sees the card as a file with 64 GB used space but it cannot see any of the folders, or it does copy it over but the apps does not have 'access' to their own directories eg Android/data/com.bambuna.podcastaddict/files/podcast/ is where my podcasts are, but the app podcastaddict does not have write premissions for the folder.

so in short... how do I copy over all my files from the old sdcard to the new one... or do I have to factory reset my phone and redownload all my apps such that all the folders and appropriate premissions are created by android... which seems to be my only option

additional information

my phone is a unrooted z5 compact

it runs android 5.1

I have access to a Linux and windows computer, but would prefer Linux solutions.
I don't care what file system is on my external SD card.
I am familiar with the command line and would prefer solution listing a few commands I need to copy-paste

As Firelord suggested, rebooting the phone makes android "display" the DCIM folder, so this one can be copied over, however it still seems that the /Android/data/com.company.app/ folders have to be created by the apps themselves, otherwise they cannot write to them, but you can subsequently copy files into these folders

Factory reset and restore from backup did this for me... it is an ugly solution... but at least it works.

I erroneously assumed that file permissions werehidden somewhere on the SD card and therefore tried to find the 'correct way' to copy, but it seems that the folder permission is saved on the internal card, or they are tied to the application in some non-trival way.

I restarted my phone again, and then some of my apps lost permissions to write to their SD card folders?!?!, ie podcastaddict which had downloaded 300 podcasts overnight could not write to sdcard1/Android/data/com.bambuna.podcastaddict/files/podcasts

By deleting and reinstalling podcastadditc it regenerated its folder and it has been working since.


texts: How do I make my device dial my phone via Bluetooth?

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I have a Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0 and a Samsung Chrono. I want to be able to be able to call someone using the Galaxy Player through my phone so that I can have the contacts on my Galaxy Player and not on my phone.

Using SIP/VoIP is not an option; I don't have a data plan on my phone. So I would like to do this via Bluetooth if possible.

In fact, if it means that I'll have to use the phone to talk, that's fine too.


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I have plenty of web links to some images and I want to download all of them on my Android device in queue.

I have searched words download manager on Play Store but those applications seem to support adding single link only; rather than importing multiple links from a file or clipboard.

I also tried to install Firefox and its extension DownThemAll! But no matter what version of Firefox for Android I installed, the application always show "extension is not compatible"

Can anybody tell me is there any way for me to batch download web links on my Android device?


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I flashed a custom rom but I didn't like it's default Contacts app (I prefer the stock app).

How can I install the stock Contacts app in a custom rom?

BTW the ROM I have is CM7-APOCALYPSE-FINAL


texts: Stop Chrome from opening Google Maps app

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My Google Maps app has got broken. I think I can use the web version of Google Maps. However, Chrome is redirecting me out from the browser to the app.
How to stop Google Chrome from redirecting me to the Google Maps app?


texts: Changing default behaviour of the Phone app in Oreo

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Each time when I open the Phone app, I see Favourites tab (first one) as default.

This is completely useless for me, because Google uses its weird logic to tell me which contacts are my so called favourites and this logic produces completely wrong results -- i.e. I see "favourite" contacts which aren't truly my favourite ones.

This tab is also useless, if your contacts have more than one phone number, because instead of showing a list in this case and letting you pick the number, it always calls the default number. This isn't working in my case, because I have a lot of contacts which I contact both privately (i.e. during weekends and evenings; using private phone number) and on business grounds (using company phone number). So using the default phone number and Favourites tab is pointless in my case.

For the above reasons, I am not using Favourites tab at all and I am always forced to switch manually to recent phones / call history tab.

Is there any way to make that tab displayed as default each time I open up the Phone app.

My stack:

Motorola Moto Z2 Play,
Android 8.0 Oreo.

I am using the default, system Phone app. No 3rd party solution.


texts: Windows doesn't recognize Nexus 7 in recovery mode

texts: So I have the Nexus 7 (2012). When the tablet is on and USB debugging is enabled, ADB recognizes it. But when I shut it off and put it into recovery mode, then press power and volume up to sideload, Windows/ADB does not recognize it. If I navigate to usb_driver it says it can't find a driver there. I'm trying to update it to KitKat using the OTA update.


texts:
The Google Nexus 7 tablet has lots of reed relays and magnets.

Some toggle the screen, others activate the wireless charging dock. I suppose there is a position for activating car mode (never putting screen to sleep). I'd like to put a magnet (or several if necessary) into my car dock, so I can trigger car mode, whenever I put the tablet in there.

Unfortunatelly, I couldn't find a page, that will describe the various positions of the reed relays inside the device.


texts: Forgot Pattern/ Android Device manager not prompting keyboard

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I have forgot my pattern and locked the my sony z3 compact using the Android Device Manager. Unfortunately when the screens prompts the "Locked by Android Device Manager" i have no option to enter the code. There is no keyboard popping up or anything. I just have a black screen with the above message.

Does anyone know how can i input the password?


texts: Why does Google Now never think that I will arrive on time?

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I have a Nexus 5 running Android 5.0.1.

Whenever a notification appears in Google Now about an upcoming event, it always tells me "The transportation mode you selected will not let you arrive on time", no matter how close the event is, and how long in the future the event is.

For example, I had the following notification today:

Something doesn't add up:

You can see from the clock at the top that it was 9:27.
The event was starting at 10:30, not that far away.
It tells me to leave at 10:23 (seems reasonable, given the distance)
But then it tells me I won't arrive at time

What's going on here?

By the way, I have Location Services turned on.


texts: Using Jorte, how can I see which Google Calendar an event is associated with?

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Galax-S (Vibrant), Android 2.1, Jorte 1.2.5

I'm using Jorte (a replacement calendar app).  How do I see which Google Calendar a specific event is associated with?  Note that this is while viewing an existing event, not creating a new event.  When creating a new event I see the Calendar selection combo box just fine.  Thanks!


texts: I wanted to know where does WhatsApp store its profile pictures so I searched on google and found this article. The top answer of the above article said that WhatsApp stores its profile pictures in /data/data/com.whatsapp/cache/Profile Pictures directory. I used JRummy Root Explorer to view the above mentioned directory. When I went to /data/data/com.whatsapp directory, it was empty. There were no files or folders. So am I doing something wrong or WhatsApp stores those pictures somewhere else? If you know the answer, please write it. Thank you for reading.


texts: Connect Android phone to router via USB-to-Ethernet

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I own an HTC Desire HD and it currently has the IceColdSandwich custom rom on it. I also own a usb OTG adapter and a D-Link USB 2.0 Fast Ethernet adapter DUB-E100.

What I want to achieve is to connect my phone on a Cisco Router with that "cable sequence"(Phone -> USB OTG adapter -> USBtoETHERNET dub-e100 -> ethernet cable -> Router) and be able to sustain a telnet connection between the two in order to give network configuration.

In order for this to work I definitely need to enable the USB host mode on my device through kernel.

Let's say I can get my kernel to work do I need the usbnet driver with my combined hardware for the dub-e100 to work? or maybe there is really no way for this to be done?

any ideas on alternative ways to do this?

-edit-
There are many reasons why one would want to do this. For example, testing an ethernet port in an office building without having to lug around a laptop. Another, be able to configure a router that does not have wireless, or one that you can't access the wireless on (maybe you butterfingered the encryption key on the AP)
-edit- by Izzy


texts: A friend gave me a backup he used for his Samsung Galaxy On5, How do I use these files to 'restore' my Samsung On5?

texts:
boot.emmc.win
boot.emmc.win.md5
data.ext4.win
data.ext4.win.md5
data.info
recovery.log
system.ext4.win000
system.ext4.win000.md5
system.ext4.win001
system.ext4.win001.md5
system.info

So I'm using Arch linux, I'm familiar with flashing using the heimdall utility(currently using a rom for an On5 that isn't the same as my phone so I can't get audio/camera usage). Also I have TWRP installed. How do I use these files to restore my phone?


texts: Should the Data Saver Icon Look like Plus or a Pause?

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According to this page, the data saver icon should look like a pause button.
However, on my nexus 6P (using android nougat), I get a plus icon instead whenever I turn on data saver.

What does that mean? Am I understanding something wrong? Also, if I keep it on, does the data saver option (no background download, and limited app connectivity) when I am on an unmetered Wi-Fi?


texts: What's the difference between the Sony Ericsson Xperia Active ST17i, the ST17i-BKW, ST17a, and the ST17a-BKO?

texts: I am interested in buying Sony Ericcson Xperia Active (unlocked) but there are several choices and I can't figure out which phone is which. Can someone explain to me the difference? Thanks!


texts:
I had rooted my Samsung Galaxy S 4G, and for some reason it seems to be only partially rooted now. What I mean by this is that while SuperUser is installed, apps such as BusyBox and Titanium Backup are complaining that they cannot get root access. Using apps from the Google Play store, I can neither remove the root or re-root the device. I cannot get to the Recovery menu because the key combinations done at startup just end up rebooting my device. Why is this happening and what can I do to fix it? Resetting the phone to factory settings does nothing.

Despite all this, AVG Antivirus is complaining that my device is rooted. So, what's up with that?


texts: What to do before root and flash my phone?

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Right now I have in my phone the stock rom and I haven't rooted it. I want to root it and change the rom.

What should I do first, root or flash the rom?
I don't want to lose all the configuration, apps, apps data or files (images, music, videos, etc in the SD). How can I do to be sure to avoid this?
I want to make sure I can go back to the stock rom if I need, is there any special thing I should do?

If its relevant, I have a Samsung Galaxy I5510.

Thanks!


texts: How can I see what people are searching for on the Android Market? (i.e. Google Insights for Android Market?)

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I'm interested in launching my application to the Android market, however I'm not sure if there is a market for my idea. Is there anyway to see what people are searching for on the android market, and to see how popular various searches are? I'd like to be able to put in a query and see how many searches there are for that query. Google do this for the normal web searches, Google Insights for Search. Is there anything like that for the android market?

Example: I'd like to know which is a more popular search on the android market: "Motorbike" or "Motorcycle". You can do this for Google search engine using Google Insights


texts: How can I make my USB headset work correctly?

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My phone is an HTC One running Android 4.4.2, and the headset is a Logitech G35. I've tried connecting the headset to the phone with a USB OTG cable several times with mixed results:

The buttons on the headset (play/pause, skip, volume) always work.
Sound sometimes comes out of the phone, sometimes comes out of the headset, and sometimes doesn't come out at all.
When sound DOES come out of the headset, it's either at "full volume" (not as loud as I would expect it to be) or muted. The phone won't let me set it to anything in between.
Someone called once while I had sound coming out of it: the phone used the built-in speakers & mic for the call.

It works just fine with my laptop (running Linux Mint) so it shouldn't need any special drivers. I'd like to make it work properly because it sounds much better than my earbuds and is pretty good at blocking out noise. I haven't really tried the mic and I'm not too worried about it. What do I need to do to make it work? Am I just overlooking a setting or something?

Update: I found this question and ran the diagnostic. It looks like it should have full support for USB devices, so I don't know why it's not working.


texts: Can I have a separate notification sound for my Twitter alerts

texts: As above, I want a different sound for incoming Twitter alerts so they are not the same as my normal texts. It's so frustrating to keep looking at the phone when I am waiting for a particular private text, but I dont want to get rid of my Twitter alerts. Surely like email sound can be different this should be too. How do I do it please? I have an HTC Sensation.


texts:
A while ago, I asked a question which has been deleted by Community

  Some Android apps are in fact ebooks. For example, Learn Lisp

  Is it possible to convert android app ebook to pdf or some other document file types? Are there apps to
  do that?

Andrew T. commented that:

  For this particular app: get the APK, open it with zip viewer, and
  browse the /assets folder; they're in HTML files. I can't answer if
  there's an automated way to convert it to PDF because the content
  structure will not be the same for other apps.

Firelord commented that

  @AndrewT. good approach. You can add certain tweaks and I think it
  would make a good answer, well at least for some apps, if not for all.
  In Android, download busybox, get the APK, and then do unzip -l APK_PATH | grep -E "FILETYPE$". If there exists a file with your
  extension, its path in APK would be listed. If the developer went to
  lengths to change the extension and hide the file, then this would
  fail.

My questions are:

How can I get the APK file of an app after installing it from Google Play?
Once I find the APK file of an app, can I copy it out of my android phone to my Ubuntu laptop and then extract the hidden document file in the apk file? Or do I have to extract on my android phone?

Thanks.


texts:
I have tried to flash Nougat OS (many ROMS). I have wiped the data, cache, dalvik cache and system partition and format them to ext4 (recovery TWRP 3.0.3-5 by TugaPower).
After that I have flashed the ROMS and the mini GApps.
Then when I tries to boot, and it takes more then 20 minutes to boot (and the OS still doesn't booted).

I tried the unofficial LineageOS, RR 5.8, AICP but I stuck in bootloop in every Nougat ROM. The Marshmallow version of each is working, just the Nougat have bootloop issues.

Only the AOSP Nougat for OnePlus One succeeded to boot...

What should I do for solving this?


texts: How to Audit Android Apps (for screenshot activity)

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How do I audit my android's apps to determine which apps are taking screenshots of my activity?

I recently installed & ran diskdigger to undelete an image I had accidentally deleted, but the image remnants that diskdigger found were shocking. There were dozens (maybe >100?) screenshots of my activity--ranging from innocuous shots of my home screen to images taken when I was inside my (encrypted) chat apps and bitcoin wallet.

Needless to say, I did not take or delete these screenshots.

My phone is a rooted Nexus 5X running Lineage OS 15-1 (Android 8.1.0). I'm using mostly software from fdroid, though I do have a few sideloaded from yalp (I don't have gapps installed), such as whatsapp and diskdigger.

How do I audit the apps that I have installed to determine what is responsible for taking (then deleting) these screenshots of my activity? To start, how do I:

List all of my apps, sorted by number of times the app has taken a
screenshot since installed
List all of my apps, sorted by number of times the app has written a
file to disk since installed
Generate a log and/or toast every time a screenshot is
taken--recording the timestamp, app responsible, and filename
Generate a log and/or toast every time an app writes a file to
disk--recording the timestamp, app responsible, and filename
Generate a log and/or toast every time an app deletes a file from
disk--recording the timestamp, app responsible, and filename

TIA!


texts: Nexus 6 defaults to Call screen upon unlock

texts: Is the Nexus 6 supposed to default to the Call screen every time I unlock my phone? I get tired of unlocking my phone, and hitting the Home button every time. I want to unlock my phone and get the Home screen....anybody got any ideas?


texts: Disable Touch Input Tracking Bubble on 4.4.2 CM 11

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About a week ago my Samsung Note II started tracking all touch input with a bubble. It acts sort of like mouse trails, although there is only one bubble. I don't remember turning this feature on, and after looking through all the settings and applications I can't find any way to disable it. The phone is running a CyanogenMod 11 Nightly (Build cm-11-20140222-NIGHTLY-i605.zip) but I noticed it on previous builds of CM 11 as well.

Here are some screenshots of the bubble tracking touch input in various applications:

Screenshots (click images for larger variants)

Does anyone know how to turn this off?


texts: Can't Open/Close/Switch Tabs in Google Chrome on a Samsung Tab S2

texts:
I have been having an issue with Google Chrome for about 3-4 months now whereby after awhile of usage the ability to open or delete another tab  is disabled or ignored by the application. I can open a new tab using the 3 vertical buton menu but it won't do so using the plus sign next to the tabs. If I fully exit Chrome (by swiping the chrome box in the area where you can see all previously opened tablet apps) and then restart it, it works fine for a time before once again locking up. Even when I'm having the tab issue all functions on the current tab seem fine.
My tablet is a Galaxy Tab S2. All others apps seem to work fine.
Thanks.


texts: How do you disable geotagging for stock camera?

texts:
I have stock (i.e. pure Google with no manufacturer customizations) Android 4.3 and I use the built-in camera app. I searched around on the camera app settings but couldn't find any mention of GPS or geotagging. I also searched around the settings → location but didn't find anything specific to the camera.

How do you disable geotagging for the built-in camera app?


texts: How can i see and/or delete the clipboard contents

texts: The only options I get are cut, copy, paste, and select all. I can easily find the clipboard on my Samsung phone using almost all of the suggestions here, but not on my nook tablet A. Can anyone help me discover where this data is to retrieve?


texts: Galaxy S6 Edge unresponsive Download Mode Screen

texts:
Worth noting my home button doesn't work (although the fingerprint scanner does).
I'm able to access the 'Warning: A custom os can cause critical problems..' screen by holding down my power button and either of the volume buttons, but once on the screen I can't continue or cancel using the volume buttons, the phone simply doesn't respond. To turn the phone off again I have to hold both volume buttons and the power button for an extended time.

If anyone has any ideas, that'd be much appreciated.


texts: If your phone is rooted, can it still do normal factory reset?

texts: Like you wouldn't notice if it's rooted or not?


texts: How do I remove previously download apps from my Google Play account?

texts: When I click on "My orders and settings" it shows me all the apps I've ever installed, including ones I've deleted from my phone. I would like for apps I've uninstalled to not appear in this list. How do I do that?


texts: Transfer emails from Thunderbird on PC to  Asus Transformer email app

texts:
is there any way how can I get my e-mail from Thunderbird on my W7 pc to Transformer? My laptop just died so I am considering Transformer, but without my mails...

Syncing via GMail isnt a solution for me, because I have multiple e-mail accounts on many servers with both POP3 and IMAP.


texts:
I messed up my phone trying to get open-gapps working on CM 13.
I can't even get into my OS only into recovery mode. I tried flashing several CM-Versions, but that doesn't change much.
I think the problem is, that my dalvik is corrupted. My data-partition is encrypted with a 3x3 pattern and TWRP can't decrypt it, so I can't wipe dalvik. I tried several variations of twrp decrypt, but they don't work. Now I am trying to flash cryptfs since I found a HowTo, which told me to use this commands:

setprop ro.crypto.state encrypted
vdc cryptfs checkpw 'pattern'
mount /dev/block/dm-0 /data

The problem is, that cryptfs is not installed. I tried to flash cryptfs, with a custom made zip-file, but it seems, the cryptfs-installation is also trying to write into /data and just aborts, since it can't mount it.

I really like to avoid making a factory-reset before getting my data out.
Any suggestions?
(I have a Sony Xperia M using nicky-cm)


texts:
What I have is a cash register machine with a preinstalled custom launcher and Android 7.0

How to access the developer options and connect via adb? There is no settings menu with well known "build number"

I tried switching to recovery mode, but it didn't help me - it shows "no command"


texts: 'Clock' app does not show up in Running Applications

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My Nexus S comes with a default clock application where I can set an alarm. When I set an alarm then I see a little clock in my status bar.

If I go to 'Manage Applications' or 'Running Services', I would expect to see Clock there, but I don't?

If I go to 'All' from 'Manage Applications', then I do see the Clock app, and I can Force Quit it, however the clock in the status bar still appears.

Why doesn't the default Clock application ever appear in Running Applications or Services?


texts: what should i do so that messages from WhatsApp server to get delivered to appropriate recipient

texts: I have send some messages to recipient while she had deactivated her WhatsApp account but now she's back still those single-ticked haven't been delivered. I just need help to deliver those messages because I want her to know I have been messaging all these days.


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I've recently bought HTC Desire and tried to setup all settings etc. But I have two problems:

Twitter notifications are delivered from Twitter app, HTC Twitter widget and something called Peep. Same message appears 2-3 times.
I've installed Skype. Is is possible not to receive notifications on Android if I have Skype turned on on PC? It's very annoying when I'm chatting with someone on Skype on PC and receive Android Skype notification every 20 seconds.


texts: How to take a screenshot using a keyboard shortcut on an android device?

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I find using the power-button + down-volume button extremely cumbersome especially when taking time sensitive screenshots.
Is it possible to do this using a shortcut key on a bluetooth keyboard?


texts: Rooting Xperia Play 2.3.4 without unlocking bootloader

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After reading many forums, just came across this site. I may sound outdated, but I want to root my Xperia play. After reading many forums. I am confused.

I have an unlocked Xperia Play 2.3.4 build 4.0.2.A.0.42 (not locked to operator). Can I root it with SuperOneClick latest version 2.3.3 ??

I want to root Xperia Play for saving internal space. I don't want to unlock bootloader.

Will I lose all my messages, contacts, settings, etc by rooting?

Please guide me with links to the software for rooting if possible.


texts: Facebook and Office suite preinstalled on new Gingerbread device?

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I just bought a Gingerbread phone and I was surprised to find Facebook and Office Suite already installed.

Do these apps come preinstalled on Gingerbread as on my previous android which was a older OS I had to download these apps. I did buy a new phone and I am just suspicious in case it isn't new!?

I apologize if this seems a stupid question.


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i am facing a weird problem with a chinese tablet,my tablet seems to be working normally i can hear sounds and the backlights works but it shows nothing,i though it was flex cable problem so i replaced it but the problem is not gone then i tryed three LCD screens but it was the same .

how can is diagonse this problem?


texts: How to stop "permission denied" app toasts after denying permissions?

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I often like to deny app permissions that I think the app does not need but yet they keep requesting for the permissions even after Denying, resulting in lot of toasts [package name] has been denied [permission name] permission.

How do I permanently suppress these toasts?

I am using android Kitkat.


texts: Stuck in fastboot oem unlock (Fly IQ4503)

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Trying to install another OS on my Android phone.
Fly it isn't so popular phone, so I have lots of problems within installation. Also I used for this my laptop with Ubuntu 15.10. Now I'm trying to unlock oem with this command:

sudo fastboot oem unlock

and in my terminal just showed this: ... That's all.
After tipping this:

adb reboot bootloader

my phone doesn't have normal bootloader with Android and title "Start", it has just grey screen and with inscription "fastboot mode 2 (NORMAL)" with green color.
So, what I should to do in this situation? How can I to unlock oem on my phone?
Thank's a lot.


texts: Where to get com.android.calendar for Android 4.0.3 from?

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I accidentally deleted the package com.android.calendar.

Now it refuses to sync my Google Calendar.

Where can I get this specific package to install it back to /system using Link2SD?

Model specifications:

HUAWEI U8666E
4.0.3
Baseband version: 2030
Kernel version: 3.0.8-perf-00271-g4fdddbe
Build number: U8666E-1V100R001C40B935


texts: No /system/build.prop in Nexus 7 (2012 / Wi-Fi) + Android Lollipop 5.1.1 after fresh installation

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I've just updated my [old] Nexus 7 (2012 / Wi-Fi) to Android Lollipop 5.1.1 following the "standard" procedure I've alway gone through since I've owned it;

Here's what I've done so far:

Booted into the bootloader
Unlocked the bootloader via fastboot
Flashed everything via fastboot using a custom bash script

#!/bin/bash
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-grouper-4.23.img
fastboot reboot-bootloader
sleep 5
fastboot flash recovery recovery-clockwork-6.0.4.3-grouper.img
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash userdata userdata.img

*This did nothing more than flashing the stock Android Lollipop 5.1.1 (LMY47V) (nakasi) firmware for Nexus 7 (2012 / Wi-Fi) images downloaded from Google Developers, aside from the recovery image, which was the ClockworkMod Recovery 6.0.4.3 image instead.

Booted straight into the recovery mode
Downloaded and pushed SuperSU using adb push UPDATE-SuperSU-v2.46.zip /mnt/sdcard/0/
Installed SuperSU via the recovery mode

And here is where I got stuck. The idea was to edit /system/build.prop in order to force the first setup to allow me to skip the Wi-Fi connection step, however apparently there's no /system/build.prop whatsoever in the system.

Here's what I tried through the adb shell (as root):

user@debian:~$ adb pull /system/build.prop .
remote object '/system/build.prop' does not exist
user@debian:~$ adb shell
~ # ls -la /system/
__bionic_open_tzdata: couldn't find any tzdata when looking for localtime!
__bionic_open_tzdata: couldn't find any tzdata when looking for GMT!
__bionic_open_tzdata: couldn't find any tzdata when looking for posixrules!
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root             0 Jan  1  1970 .
drwxr-xr-x   22 root     root             0 Jul 23 07:40 ..
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root             0 Jan  1  1970 bin
~ # find / -type f -name 'build.prop'
~ # exit


texts: Cant see a phone contact in my Telegram contacts

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I have contacts in my phonebook who I am 100% sure have telegram accounts. I synced my telegram with my contacts but I still cant see them as contacts in telegram. And when I try to manually add them in telegram, the app tells me that " currently doesnt not have a telegram account. send them an invite.
How do I fix this problem?


texts: So, I am trying to reset my security questions on my Huawei Nova 3i phone by reseting the settings app, only to find out that I also disabled/hid the developer options. Tapping the build number again makes it only say that I am already a developer. Any suggestions on how to fix this? Without factory reset. Thanks!


texts: Unable to use Network: "Not Registered On Network"

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I am using Samsung Galaxy Chat B5330 (officially upgraded from 4.0.4 to 4.1.2). It used to work fine, but since a few days I am not able to call or send sms or use any network related services. It gives me error : "Not Registered On Network". I tried applying manual network settings. At first it gives a pop up : "Registered on Network". But as soon as I try to make a call, the same error : "Not Registered On Network".

I thought that factory reset would have been the solution to my problem, but unexpectedly , this too did not work for me. Please help.


texts: Looking for a pseudo-random shuffled classic Android Klondike solitaire game

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Hypothesis: Most classic Android Klondike solitaire apps are "rigged" to allow the player to win more often than they would if they were playing from a pseudo-random shuffled deck.
Opinion: This is done to maintain interest in the particular app; vis-à-vis, the possible frustration of frequently losing.
Request: Can anyone recommend a classic Android Klondike solitaire app such that the shuffle is pseudo-random?
Thanks!
Joe


texts: Dolphin browser won't let me change default video player?

texts: In Dolphin I had set "BPS player" to be the default video player when I selected the "Open in other apps" option in the dolphin Player. Now I want to change the default video player again but when I choose "Open in other apps" it just opens the BPS player! I tried to "clear defaults" on both apps but it didn't work. Do I have to uninstall Dolphin or BPS player? Help, searched all over google but didn't find anything.


texts: How to prepare for upgrade to Jelly Bean - Droid Bionic

texts: Motorola and Verizon have announced that the Bionic will be upgraded to Jelly Bean starting April 15.   Aside from backing up any data that isn't synced with a cloud service, are there any steps that should be taken in preparation?


texts: Install arbitrary apk from filesystem on Android 10?

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Looks like in Android 10, "install from unknown sources" was changed from a global setting to a per-app permission. Apparently in order to install APKs now I need to whitelist each app that I'm trying to do this from. However, none of the apps I actually need to do this from (default system "Files" browser and Root Browser) even have this setting. Root Browser has a context menu to open with Package Installer but it doesn't work?

Do I need to get another third-party app just to install APKs from the filesystem? This is so lame. Thanks.

Edit: I am on a Pixel 3 running stock Android 10.0.


texts: Is there an app that will let me text from my pc with the same phone number?

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Possible Duplicate:
  Send SMS from PC through Android Phone or to Android Phone

I have a Droid x, and I wanted to know if there is an app that will allow me send and receive text messages from my computer through my phone (meaning receive the messages that are sent to my phone) without using something that will give me a dedicated phone number, I want to use the phone number on my cell phone. does anybody know if this exists. if it does, and there is more than one, which one is the best?


texts: Flashing stock LG firmware in GNU/Linux?

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I'm looking for a way to flash stock LG firmware for the LG M700DSK (Q6) in GNU/Linux.

I have tried running LG UP though Wine though it doesn't seem to open the installer for LG 8998 USB DLL. The LG UP installation itself went well. Is there anyway to flash these *.KDZ in Linux environment?


texts: E: can't mount/cache/recovery/log on Android Lenovo a1000

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I have a problem on starting my lenovo a1000 , so i decided to install firmware on it. I tried too much, but every time the phone fishing flashing , and 100% passed with spd factory flashing tool , but phone cant started.   I try already 5  flashable ROM, but same thing happens on every time. SO i decided to cheak its recovery, there i found
E: Can't mount/cache/recovery/log
... seeing on image for all error., now what can i do ? help please, Thanks in Advance.


texts: My iPad has 4G but you cannot call with it so you cannot keep WhatsApp there. I am thinknig to if there is any Android tablet where you can keep WhatsApp.


texts: Can I install Ruby and Ruby on Rails on an Android?

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Aware that this is a bit mental, but can I install Ruby on a Galaxy S4 running Jelly Bean 4.2? A console where I can install gems, rake routes and run the Rails server, and browse to my application by putting 0.0.0.0.3000 into Chrome?

Would be excellent for testing little ideas and concepts I have while on the go!

Aware that Android isn't UNIX, but good God if they can install it on Windows, they can install it anywhere!


texts: How to unlock password samsung mobile s4 galaxv

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I set a password in my phone model samsung S4. Now i don't need password option.I tried deactivate procedure.
i go to setting option then go to device and select lock screen then give a password then the final menu shows enable only visible Passward option only. what can i do that


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Phone Google Pixel
OS Android 9

I connect my phone to my car using Bluetooth, and to use it hands free it must be unlocked. I use Smart Lock to achieve this, by adding my car as a Bluetooth device to Smart Lock.

However, sometimes the device is removed from the list, and I can't figure out why.

Why is Android removing my Smart Lock devices?


texts: Why does the in-call volume change on its own on my Samsung Galaxy S3?

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I have a Samsung Galaxy S3 (SCH-I535) running Android 4.4.2 and I'm having an extremely annoying issue: Whenever I make or receive a call, if I adjust the in-call volume to the desired level (usually somewhere between 80% - 100% if I am in a noisy place) then during the call, the call volume will suddenly drop to roughly 25% - 35%

This happens repeatedly during a call. I am not using a headset of any kind: I am simply holding the phone up to my ear. I am positive that I am not pressing any buttons on the side of the phone, and I press the lock button to turn the screen off before holding the phone up to my face, so I'm sure I'm not triggering any on-screen functions with my cheek/ear.

This makes it doubly annoying because the volume buttons don't appear to work reliably when the phone is in this state. So after a few minutes at the desired volume, suddenly I can't hear he other party and I need to ask them to please wait, bring the phone away from my face, unlock the screen, adjust the volume back to maximum using the volume buttons (ever time I see the volume slider has dropped from where I last had it set) lock the screen again and then resume my call.

This will happen repeatedly, every few minutes while on a call.

I have the stock Verizon/Samsumg OS, phone is not rooted, and I can't find any setting which might be causing this. I don't have any custom volume adjustment apps installed. Looking for any assistance! Why does the in-call volume drop on it's own on my Samsung Galaxy S3?


texts: Go to silent/vibration mode while listening to music

texts: How can I listen to music and go to silent/vibration mode without having to stop the music? On older versions of Android you just pushed and held the power button and you got a range of alternatives to choose from, but now in Lollipop you only get power off restart etc. No volume options directly. Is there a fix for this?


texts: How to automatically normalize loudness system-wide?

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I have to constantly adjust the volume, especially to turn down ads and loud action scenes or dramatic soundtrack swells in video, but turn up to keep dialog audible, etc.  I need something that does this automatically, like a dynamic compressor/limiter/normalizer. If apps are available for this, I prefer those that are free and don't require root. I am also open to guidance in writing an app to do this myself.

I have searched the google play store and found nothing with this feature system-wide. Some media players/streamers have it built in just for their own content (probably excluding ads, usually to handle songs mastered to different levels), sometimes called something like "smart volume." There are many apps that process audio files offline and add a "replay gain" to their metadata, which some media players respect. I'm looking for the same kind of thing, but applied to all media audio output in real time, including ads.

Windows has "loudness equalization" option built in to their sound manager, and VLC has it as an effect in the desktop version.

Googling indicates that viper4android may work, but it requires root and I can't find a definitive statement that it has this feature, and it looks like it doesn't easily install on some devices. If it does and is the only option, I would consider rooting.

A great option would be if Android could run LADSPA plugins like Linux.  Is this possible?


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This is a new tablet and it very slow . My previous Iconia was so much better.  It is only a few months old and I have very little stored on it.  Could I do a factory reset and is it likely to sort this out?  There is no stored data to worry about only apps and websites that I have downloaded.

Thank you.


texts: Disabling Download Manager notifications

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I have a Pixel 3 XL with Android P, and for the last 3 days, my phone started vibrating almost every hour, at exactly hh:10m, but without showing any notifications.

After much time, I found some sites indicating how to find the origin of the notification: adding a Settings widget to my Home screen, with a Notification log (otherwise I couldn't find the entire log anywhere else). This revealed the cause is Download Manager, informing me at 3:10 AM that I downloaded a file 3 days ago.

Now, I don't remember if I tried uninstalling it from the phone, but the fact is that there is no such app in the Settings -> Apps & notifications menu, so I cannot change its notification settings.

I tried going to the Files app (as some sites mentioned), which states "Notifications: on", but when I select it, the Categories part is empty, so there is nothing to disable.

So, which app is actually emitting the Download Manager notifications, and how can I disable them?


texts: File copy from external sdcard fails sometimes

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I recently bought an sd card reader that can be connected via USB-C to a phone.

My phone recognized the SDCard inside that card reader and I can copy files - usually. However, it seems like when I try to copy more than 5 files it will definetly fail and I have to remove the reader, wait a few seconds and connect it again and try again.

I tried two filebrowsers. One came pre-installed with my phone ('Files') and Cx Fileexplorer. The latter seems to have less chance of failing but it will still fail eventually.

Neither of them will give me a proper error message aside from the list of files it couldn't copy.

The copied files were .jpg(5mb on average) and .CR2 ( Canon RAW files which are 22mb on average in size in my case).

Smartphone: Moto Z play, android 8.0.0 stock, not rooted. The SD card is 32 GB in size while my internal microSD is 64gb in size with 40gb free space.

Question would be: How to fix this?


texts: How do I get my contact list to display busines name also?

texts: How do I get the names in my contact list to be displayed WITH their organization? b/c I have business contacts who I may never remember by name but may need to contact someone from their place of business.


texts: sync android calendar (tasks) with calendar from PC

texts:
My goal is to have common calendar & task management between my PC and Android phone. Here is my situation:

On my PC (Windows 7), I have Windows Calendar installed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Calendar
It didn't come with it (it actually stopped being released after Vista) so I had to hack around a bit to get it on there.
I use Windows Calendar partially (20%) for appointments and their reminders. My main use of it, though, is Tasks and their
reminders. Nearly always, when I have a reminder, I snooze it; I rarely complete my task after the first reminder.
So, I usually end up snoozing my reminders minutes/hours/days/weeks into the future. Windows Calendar is perfectly suited
for this functionality and is the reason why I chose it and like to use it. The calendar is currently stored on the same PC
and is not stored remotely somewhere.

Recently, I got an HTC Desire 601. I would like to access the same appointments and tasks from the phone and, importantly,
have the reminders synchronized. To clarify, I would like to be able to snooze a task from my PC at 6pm for 2 hours, leave
home for at least 2 hours, and have the task popup on my phone at 8pm with a similar prompt to snooze. So, I'm looking for a fairly
complete synchronization effect between the PC and the phone.

So, to do this, I obviously need a shared service (Google Calendar, etc.) or a shared file (iCalendar, CalDAV) on a server
that both my phone and PC can access. One knock against Google Calendar is that tasks are deficient compared to tasks on
Windows Calendar. Google Calendar tasks don't have reminders (and, therefore, nothing to snooze), so I have ruled Google Calendar out.
I'm not familiar with other SaaS calendaring/task offerings (Microsoft, etc.)...maybe someone could advise if they handle
tasks more like Windows Calendar.

On the phone, there is a calendar built into Android which is pretty close to what I want for a native client. Popups for
reminders, though, have no snooze duration. So, I can't choose how long I want it to snooze. This is fairly significant
because I routinely snooze one task for 5 minutes and snooze another task for 1 week. So, I need a client on my phone
that has this type of functionality. Furthermore, I need a client that will connect to the "shared" service/file that I
mentioned earlier.

Am I stretching the limits of the SaaS offerings out there and the available native clients too much that I now need to write
my own Android client? I'm not sure about Windows Calendar "automatic synchronization", so I'm flexible enough to accept
changing to a client like Mozilla Lightning, if necessary. I have tested Mozilla Lightning and it synchronizes (appointments)
well with Google Calendar, for example.
Any advice for my problem?


texts: how to take a screen shot and send it via MMS?

texts:
can I somehow take a screen shot of a google maps in a easy way and then send it via MMS?

HTC Desire on 2.1 (not rooted)


texts: How can I manage Intent association with Apps?

texts:
When the system emits an Intent for which you have multiple apps that can handle the intent, a dialog opens to tell you which application you want to use with that intent.

Is there a way to see what these associations are, and clear them?

If there is no app or interface to do that, do you know of an API to access these associations?

EDIT: When I said associations, I was thiking of the "late-bound" associations. For example, when I open a link and I have multiple browsers, an intent is fired saying "view link", and I choose "always use that application"; what can I do if, after some time, I would prefer to use another application for that intent?


texts: Same phone number with multiple extensions always get registered in the call log with one single user

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I'm using the default factory Dialer, Call Log, Contacts app (all those options are running under the same app) on LG L90 running Lollipop 5.0.2.

I created multiple users with the same phone number but then I added a comma (,) and then for each user used a different extension.

For example:

John Doe 1 555 555-5555, 2000
Mary Jane 1 555 555-5555, 2001
Jane Roe 1 555 555-5555, 2002

The problem is that when I receive a call from the office the call always gets registered with the first user that I created with the number. For example, I made a call to Jane Roe but that call got registered as John Doe or I received a call from Mary Jane but the name on display was John Doe. With that I can not know who calls me from the office.

If I try to re-dial that last number it is always John Doe that shows up and then the dialer dials 1 555 555-5555, 2000 instead of 1 555 555-5555, 2001.
If I delete John Doe then Mary Jane (the second user that was created) is the account that get always registered in the call log.

How can I fix that?


texts: How to get Samsung GT-19305 out of boot-loop?

texts:
My Samsung S3 (GT-19305) is stuck! It keeps restarting!

It doesn't reach the enter pincode, but keeps restarting showing the "Samsung Galaxy S3 i9300" screen. Then cycles starts again.

Here are the things I've tried:

I have already removed battery, put back in; still the same result.
I have also tried to hard-reset, but it just turns off and restarts.
Same result when trying VolumeDown + Home + PowerButton; goes back to restarting and the Samsung S3 screen.

PLEASE GUIDE ME IF ANY PROVISION ....


texts: Linux program to transfer file from/to an android device?

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Do you know if there is a linux program (possibly nautilus plugin) to transfer file from/to an android device? What is in my mind is a program which does "adb push", "adb pull", and "adb shell ls" in the background and has a GUI.

Thanks,


texts: Not receiving incoming messages on my mobile

texts:
I'm using a Samsung Galaxy S2 mobile.
Since last week I have not been receiving any kind of incoming messages on my mobile.

I tried message centre no. deleted and re-enter, and powering off my mobile and restarting also.
My network setting also perfectly cross-checked, but still the problem was not resolved.
I called many times to customer care, but they are not properly responding at all.


texts: Wallpaper automatically blurring after a while

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Since a few days the wallpaper of my Samsung Galaxy S7 is getting blurred after i use it for a while (10 minutes to an hour).

i just select a picture, tried 5 different ones, (even the stock wallpaper) and after selecting the wallpaper it looks perfect and as it is supposed to be.

then after not using the phone for a few minutes and i unlock it again or after a reboot the wallpaper looks totally blurry.

i haven't installed any apps the past days before this started happening. anyone got an idea what is wrong?

extra info:

using the default Samsung Launcher. tried Nova launcher same problem.
used multiple apps to set the wallpaper (using settings of the launcher and using Google wallpapers app both same effect)


texts: How to import names+phone numbers into my Android smartphone (a Galaxy S3)?

texts: I have an Android Galaxy S3 phone and I have a two column lists of names + phone numbers on my hard disk, and a Google account, and am a capable programmer and software developer. How can I import the phone numbers into the phone?


texts: How much battery does using live wallpapers drain?

texts: I know they are unnecessary, but they look so cool!


texts: How to open a file located in a non-sdcard directory in Tasker?

texts:
How can one open a file located in a subfolder of the rootfolder, using tasker, in LineageOS 14.1?

My attempts so far have been to:

Create a new task in tasker.
Check if tasker has root permission with variable named "root available": %ROOT. This returns yes. Therefore, I assume Tasker has root permission.
create the action: "open file"
This only allows the accessing the /storage/ of either the internal or external drive.
Therefore, I manually entered the path to the file located in the rootfolder I am trying to access as: /data/misc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf and ran the task, but it returns the error: file not found.

So I tried /data/misc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf and ran the task, but it returns the same error.
I tried to open the file with fdroid's app: editor, without opening a file explorer to open the file. But I am unable to pass the file location as an argument to the app editor when I create a task to do it.


texts: Why does the screen flicker when connecting to a third party wall mounted USB charger

texts:
After going through this post(Why does my phone have erroneous input when connected to a non-OEM power source?) I am asking this question the above post does not solve my question up to the mark.

I was at a convenience store where I found a wall mounted charge station. The unit has several types of pins for various brands(Lg , Nokia, Blackberry etc.) When I connected the USB to my device the screen started to flicker and the device started vibrating for some reason for which I had to withdraw the USB Cable from the device.

Specs-
Operating system-Android 4.1.2

Manufacturer-Samsung

The unit was perfectly normal as beside there was another blackberry device getting its charge normally. Then why did my device show this behaviour


texts: Samsung Galaxy S4 SCH-I545 official updates via Kies fails with: "Software update is temporarily unavailable. Try again later."

texts:
I own a Samsung SCH-I545 Galaxy S4 and can not do update via Kies. It says:

  Software update is temporarily unavailable. Try again later.

The phone is sent by my uncle from America and I am from Romania. The phone does not have root. I tried to update via Odin, but it fails too.

What can I do to Update my Galaxy S4 to Android 4.3? Thank you very much!


texts: Is it possible to get the package name of the app which is using overlay service?

texts: I need to use this with Automate app to detect if a particular app is currently overlaying the screen.


texts:
I built an APK using Apache's Ant. I also used Ant to install it on a Cyanogenmod device:

$ cd Android-PRNG
Android-PRNG$ ant debug install
...
install:
    [echo] Installing .../AndroidPrng-debug.apk onto default emulator or device...
    [exec] 1476 KB/s (17773 bytes in 0.011s)
    [exec]  pkg: /data/local/tmp/AndroidPrng-debug.apk
    [exec] Success

    BUILD SUCCESSFUL

So I have the APK located at /data/local/tmp/AndroidPrng-debug.apk.

The problem I am having is I cannot figure out how to run it. The APK does not show up in the Apps Launcher (that's somewhat expected). Cyanogenmod's FileManager v1.0.2 does not appear to let me navigate to /data/local (that's not expected).

How, exactly, do I execute the APK I just pushed to the device?

I'm working this way because Eclipse and the Android plug-in are so broken they are basically unusable.


texts: How can I replace the little camera icon at bottom of lock screen (no root)?

texts:
Hi Android enthusiasts,

I have Xolo Era X1 running Android 6.0

My lock screen unlocks by swiping upwards. Now there are 2 icons at the bottom, one launches Google talking girl and the other opens camera.

Because I'm right handed I accidentally launch camera while unlocking.

How can I remove that camera launcher icon from lock screen? Or how can I replace it with Reddit icon?


texts: Where does Google Chrome automatically save pages?

texts:
I opened the following page: https://goughlui.com/2014/10/01/usb-cable-resistance-why-your-phonetablet-might-be-charging-slow/

When disconnecting WiFi and even after rebooting the mobile phone, the page can still be read due to being saved automatically.

Left to the URL bar, an indicator looks like this:

This also shows up when opening manually saved pages, which are saved as MHTML files in the default download folder.

However, an automatically saved page can not be re-downloaded manually to get to the download folder, because the arrow is greyed out.I wish to copy some automatically saved pages into the download folder.

Where are the files of automatically saved pages stored?


texts: A recent OTA update to KitKat removed the ability to tether my phone. I feel very frustrated by this bait and switch since I bought the phone for its ability to tether. The workaround is apparently to unlock the boot loader, gain root access, and then change a flag in a SQLite database. I'm aware that this introduces certain security risks. Is there a good way to have tethering without the security risks? E.g. could I unlock, become root, change the flag, and then relock? Most of the information regarding unlocking is in the context of installing custom ROMs and maintaining root access, which I don't have any particular desire to do. I really just want to change this one setting. Would this procedure enable future OTA updates to work? Are those updates likely to revert the value of the tethering flag?


texts: How can I watch HD Amazon videos on Logitech Revue?

texts:
I'm running the latest updates for my Logitech Revue (according to the check for updates screen), but when I go to the Amazon Instant Video app, it just redirects me to Chrome.  Amazon doesn't support HD in the browser, so I can only watch SD videos.

When I try to play HD videos, Amazon says, I must use a supported device, which the Logitech Revue is, and that I must register it.  Its instructions to register it say to open the "Amazon Video" app on the device, then go to "register device".  As mentioned, my app (named "Amazon Instant Video") just redirects to Chrome.

I called Amazon, and they said it sounds like I'm running "google tv version 1.0".  Since my "firmware" says 3.2 and i apparently have the latest updates, I'd guess that I'm not.  Amazon support says only Google tv v2.0 has the application w/ HD.

Any ideas what I'm missing here?


texts: What I want to ask is usually android app not update but in someday those will have a tons of update and I can ensure that it is not my phone problem. So why apps usually update the same time ? Any reasonal explain for this ?


texts: kitkat 4.4.4 connecting usb devices to samsung tab e

texts: I need to connect a USB printer and a Vivitar camera to a Galaxy Tab e. I currently have a USB OTG cable, and a USB-A --> Mini-B cable


texts: Android won't let me change configuration file

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So, because of some hardware issues I'm having, I need to disable Android's HDMI Digital Audio Output and let only the analog sound card of my A10 chipset work.
Just for info - the issue is that there's no cable plugged into the HDMI output of my tablet, but the Android is recognising that there's something plugged into the port and as soon as I wake up the tablet, it redirects the audio output through HDMI Digital Audio out.

Now for my actual problem..
I'm trying to change
/proc/asound/cards or /proc/asound/pcm
The filesystem (/system) is mounted as rw, I do have root access, ES File Explorer is with "Root Explorer" turned on and as soon as I click Save, it backs up the old contents of the file. Also, the folders and the files that I'm trying to modify are with 777 permissions and owned by root.

Of course, I tried through ADB push and the same shi* happens.
What it can be?


texts: I have a Motorola G7 Power; carrier is Metro PCS. It is my understanding that in order to unlock the bootloader I need to get an unlock code from Motorola. Is this true? Does this mean that my device cannot be rooted unless I have this unlock code?


texts: No rings of video calls of whatever messanger

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Mobile internet is on. I call to my android phone from some messenger on PC. There are no any reaction on the phone. Some time later I see a notification on the phone, that there was a call. I tried skype, hangouts, Mail agent, tango etc. All the same.

Standard calls works fine.
Sometimes, when application is active on the screen of my phone, I see the call. When screen is blocked - the call has never been see. How can I fix it?


texts: Can you suggest a good solution how I can store my passwords secure with Firefox for Android? Firefox sync has no "cloud storage" which means I have no cloud backup. Keepass2Android with Autofill has a bad user experience. The Autofill pop always needs a long press, password storage unlock (as my device permanently kills the app) and needs to much clicks in general. Sometimes the popup is not even opening on my device. Any good alternatives?


texts:
I am getting a new phone. I have an old Galaxy and am getting a new(er) one to use with my pre-paid plan ($30/mo unlimited).

I plan on keeping my old service and phone number.

Should I use my old SIM card or use the new SIM that comes with the new phone?

I don't know if there are any reasons why I should keep my old one (like keeping data) or to use the new one (such as new features or security reasons).


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I have forgotten my Galaxy A7 2016 running android 5.1.1's password.
How do I open my phone without losing my files in device storage?