texts: I can't access some music folders via music player, other works fine

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I have several GB of music in several folders on internal storage. When I want to play it with (any) music player, some folders play fine, some shows that there is no music, despite it is.
Same happen with pictures, via file explorer I can see them, but via gallery app only few of them.
When I do automated storage cleaning, some of these files appeared back to be able to see them via applications, but not all.
Can it be, that my internal memory is dying ? The phone has 4 years, extensively used LG v30
Thank you!


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One of my friend had a Huawei Y210, it locked because of so many wrong pattern attempt. Unfortunately he hasn't google account to login with it.

I want to hard reset it but it fails to load Recovery mode by pressing Volume Up + Power for more than 10 seconds or less!, I tested any key combination but only it normally boots and shows locked screen.

I tried fastboot -i 0x12d1 flash recovery recovery.img and without vendor id, it only waits for device.

Also I added 51-android.rules to udev and restart udev but nothing happend and only wait for device.

and adb only waits for device.

I have no idea what I should do. If I setup a bootable sdcard, Can it boots from it?
or like NoteII that can goes to recovery mode by soldering some resistors to a male usb connector and plug it, there is something like this?


texts: How to find the creation date and time (aka timestamp) for a file or folder in Android?

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In Android, it is simple to view the modified date and for any file or folder.  Just about any decent file manager (such as Solid Explorer) includes this functionality.
But how do you view the creation date and time (aka timestamp) for a file or folder in Android?


texts: WiFi Analyzer doesn't show my WiFi on the second screen (time graph)

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I'm using WiFi Analyzer (from olgor.com) on my Android 9/Redmi 6. I have given it the Location Permission it asks (not sure why).
My WiFi appears on the first (channels) and fourth (access points) screens. It doesn't show up on the second screen (time), though. Third screen is "best channels".
Any idea why doesn't it show on the time screen?


texts: How to make MIUI 10 Android 8 to auto-connect to a filtered WiFi AP?

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I have a well working WiFi AP - actually a number of them. They are just fine themselves. Other iOS, Mac, Windows etc devices auto-connect just fine to it.

I also have Xiaomi mi5 with MIUI 10 Android 8. I have a bunch of them. Even after a factory reset, network reset, ensuring auto-connect is on - it does not re-connect to filtered WiFi when it is restarted or when it comes back from out of range distance.

Device says "connected, no internet" on first connection or manual connections after. DHCP is all OK, gets IP. network communication works.

I do understand that it says "no internet" because it tried to test with google servers and it failed. They are filtered here, and no I'm not in China. But the logic of "no google server"="no internet" is not correct. I am assuming that this is the reason it decides not to connect. But I am not sure. And also other Android 7 devices don't have this issue.

I ran out of ideas. Any clues on how to make this work?


texts: [Honor View 10 Lite][USB] Device not recognized by PC

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Looked everywhere around the net, followed any guide I was able to find, and now my last hope is here. As the title say I'm unable to successfully connect my device to any PC. What I already did ?

Tested connection on Windows 10, Windows 7 and Kali. Windows not show any device connected, same for kali, using lsusb command.
On the device, in Developers menu I've turned ON/OFF settings related to usb, changed the usb mode from Charge Only to any other option, but as soon as I exit the menu the settings change back to Charge Only, Debug USB OFF.
I've also changed USB Port Settings in the ProjectMenu to Manufacture Mode/Google Mode.
Removed, installed and updated to latest version HiSuite.
I've tested with 6 different cables.

What I can think is the EMUI 9 update I did few days ago broke something or the connector is half dead and can only charge(weird). Any idea about any possible solution?


texts: How do I get my lollipop tablet to communicate with my win 7 laptop?

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When I attach my win 7 laptop to my lollipop android tablet via USB, nothing happens.
I have googled and found various posts suggesting that I have to load the proper device drivers.

However:

I am not sure which device requires the drivers and
I can't understand how to load the drivers.

I seem to have loaded it properly on the tablet, but when I try to find where to load it on my win 7 machine, and go to device manager, although the devices are connected, there is no sign of it in the device manager.

When I insert an external USB drive into lollipop, the drive works.

Any help here?


texts: How to block number that ends with specific digits?

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I am receiving quite a few unwanted calls (6 yesterday), although I am blocking the numbers and reporting all of them to Ofcom, I would rather simply not get them.

All of the phone numbers that are calling me end in "114", and this gave me an idea. Is there any way to block numbers that end with specific digits (or regex based)?


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Firstly I need to say that I know this topic has been discussed many times but none of answers helped and I think this question is somewhat different than the others.

I have tried to root my Android 4.2.1 phone trying various automatic methods, where all of them failed. Also rooting using update.zip does not work due to "Invalid OTA, missing scatter" error.

However I am able to get root access using "adb root" command so I have tried to root my phone manually:

'adb root' and 'adb remount' commands to gain access to system partition
downloaded newest su binary (version 3.1.1)
pushed it to '/system/xbin/su'
set suid and sgid bit: 'chmod 6755 su' --> ls -l displays '-rwsr-sr-x root     root       380532 2008-02-29 02:33 su'
linked '/system/xbin/su' to '/system/bin/su'
installed newest Superuser from Google play (3.1.3)
installed busybox (though this is not necessary if I understand correctly?)

Now it gets interesting:
When I 'adb shell' into my phone, I can use 'su' command and automatically get root privileges ($ changes to # and I can access root's files), and it is logged in Superuser app with originator as 'Shell'. BUT when I try application that needs root, it takes long (10 seconds) and then it fails (I have tried 'Root Checker Basic' from the store).

The Superuser app never shows any popup, also it is not in the log. It seems that it automatically denies all requests.

So here is my question: Have I done all steps correctly? (maybe I am missing something very important)

I am quite desperate right now (spent nearly 2 whole days trying to have this done), so I would even resort to solutions as editing some Superuser config files and enabling root access for app manually.

PS: If you need additional info, just ask, I will try to fill information if possible

Further investigation:

setting auto-allow in Superuser does not work either
running su from terminal throws exception: java.lang.SecurityException: broadcast asks to run as user -1 but is calling from user 0; this requires android.permission.INTERACT_ACROSS_USERS_FULL or android.permission.INTERACT_ACROSS_USERS.
So I need to set this permission somewhere..


texts: System audio files appearing in playlist

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I wasn't satisfied with the selection of sounds the phone was giving me for the alarm, so I installed ES File Explorer and picked out some ringtone sounds from the phone's system/media/audio folder. Ever since, those sounds have been showing up in the Music Player playlist.

How do I stop them from doing so?

I'm using the default music player on a Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Pro running Android 2.1.


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I would like to know if is that possible to voice command music actions, like next track, and even delete track would be very nice.

My sport, rowing, doesn't allow me to interact with smartphone through hands, so, these voice commands would be extremely helpful.

In my tries, I just found listen to, which is not that interesting.

I am using Android 2.3.7 - Cyanogenmod 7.2 for Defy


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Using ADWLauncher, you can lock the desktop. Extremely useful, till the password is forgotten.

I have a Nexus 4. Any solution to crack the password?


texts: Application that is able to resume failed download

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It's often happening when I want to download a file with browser that download fails due to a bad connection and then I have to download a file from the beginning.

Is there an app or browser plugin that is able to continue downloading of failed download?

I found only byte tornado app which is not much help.


texts: I have a finger print lock and the backup is a password. I forgot the password for backup and there no way of getting on my phone. When i use fingerprint it ask for password when nothing is wrong with my fingerprint. It doesnt show a forgotten password to click when i have many failed attempts. already at 60 mins and it keeps getting higher. i have already tried android device manager and find my mobile and dr fone which i have to enable usb debugging but i cant do because phone is locked. i dont want to factory reset because i dont have it back up since about 3 weeks and it doesnt back up everything it only backs up like messeges and other unessisary things i think. I really dont understand why it ask for a password when my fingerprint is absulutly fine. BTW i have the galaxy s7 edge. is there any way to unlock the device? and when i use device manager it say it wont set a new password because one is already set.


texts: Why will a video game from the google play store be asking me for root/super users permissions?

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So I don't know if this is a question for here or security.stackexchange.com but the thing is I installed a game that ask me for root access to my system it seems suspicious and strange why will a game be asking for root access I assume to myself that it is some type of malware and I uninstalled the game yeah a game asking for root access what a malware and is that normal?
the game is snipper 3D assassin free games By fun games for free


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I am using Ubuntu 13.04 with a Motorola Droid Turbo. When I plug the phone in with a USB cable, my phone does show any USB connection notification.

I see that libmtp does not support Motorola's Droid Turbo yet (Ubuntu 13.04 uses libmtp): despite the lack of PTP/MTP support, can I still use ADB?


texts: "Low on storage space" But I have 1.7GB free space

texts: I have a Alcatel OneTouch Star, Im running Android Jellybean the phone has 8 or 4GB storage Im not too sure but the low down is when i go into settings and look at how much free space i have it starts at 2MB then it changes to something like 250MB within a second then it changes to 1.7GB after 2-3 seconds. I have uninstalled all things I can, except for Facebook, Instagram and Snap chat. Its not the actual notification that Is bothering me, its the fact that I have 1.7GB of free space but the system doesn't let me download anything because it says that I don't have enough free space, so I think you can see why that would get on my wik, so can anybody help me? It would be much help


texts: Tasker: If variable - not connected to Wifi

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I want my display brightness only to rise if not connected to any Wifi network (doesn't mean Wifi has to be turned off) but I can't figure out how exactly the Wifi variables work. The official documentation is very general and technical.

Edit: The problem is that my Wifi is instable which means Android doesn't have Wifi for about 2-3 seconds and then catches it back. So I added a 5 seconds Wait Action so that my display brightness doesn't change every 15 minutes but it happens anyway, only now 5 seconds later.

I think to finally make it work a "If variable" is necessary.


texts: Why does my phone show less storage than it's supposed to?

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I have a Lava Iris X1 (8GB ROM), but the storage shows up in two types.

Internal storage total space is 3.54GB:

Available                         : 2.52GB
Apps (app data & media etc.)      : 0.97GB
Cached data                       : 48.17MB

Phone storage total space is 2.50GB:

Available                         : 8.55MB
Apps (app data & media etc.)      : 27.54MB
Pictures, videos                  : 1.85GB
audio (music, ringtones etc.)     : 313MB
Downloads                         : 25.92MB
Cached data                       : 64.14MB
Misc.                             : 223MB

I am confused about why my phone memory is less than 8 GB. Is my phone's total ROM capacity 8GB or not?


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Recently I noticed that when I press the home or power button to turn my screen on, I notice that the GPS indicator is on for a split second.
What is happening here? Is there something trying to use the GPS only when the phone is idle? It sounds fishy to me.
Phone: Samsung galaxy s3 mini. Standard rom.


texts: New to Andriod - Duplicate contacts issues with WhatsApp and other messengers

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I'm new to Android and I must admit it's been frustrating setting up the contacts.  I only want local contacts stored, I don't want it to sync anything.  When I added my work email it synced 5000 contacts without asking and it was a huge hassle to get rid of them.  (Why you wouldn't be able to "select all" from a certain group and delete it the Contacts app, I have no idea). Then after I deleted all the contacts from the work email somehow sync got turned back on by itself.

Anyways, now I deleted them again and hopefully sync won't turn back on.  But this is pretty brutal, I've spent hours on this.

So now when I add a local contact if they're on WhatsApp, it creates another entry.  If they're on Signal, it creates yet another entry and when I search for the contact I see them 3 times.  I'm trying to understand why WhatsApp etc can't just read my contacts from my list, or if it needs to store them can't it do that internally? I don't want to see a separate list for WhatsApp contacts on my phone that just duplicates ones I added.

I know I can merge them, but I'd prefer not to as I don't want to see 10 different call options when I click on someone (Call this person with WhatApp, call them with Signal, call them with your actual phone).  I don't use messengers to call people. It also seems like you can only merge them manually every time you add someone which is kind of a pain.

Am I missing something here or is that the only way this works?

Thank you for reading.

Edit: The frustrating thing is when I delete all the WhatsApp contacts it still works fine.  When I go to "New Chat" I still see everyone on there that has WhatsApp.  So why does it need to create a separate entry for every person listed there


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So I have a droid RAZR Maxx HD xt926 and I currently use it without a Verizon sim or plan. I use it in airplane mode with wifi turned ON, so I can do Google voice calling and texting.

I would like to use the phones wifi networking capabilities to be a router for my friends and I when we are away so that we can do LAN parties. However when I install apps like HOTSPOT CONTROL and that Fifi one it just fails saying I have to have a data plan. I DONT NEED the internet access. All I want is a basic wireless switch/router.

I have also searched everywhere I can think for an app that will do this.

Phone is NOT ROOTED as many of you probably know this particular phone cannot be rooted or the bootloader unlocked because some genius at Motorola decided I can't do that.

Does anyone have an idea of something that will work?


texts: Which format does Android calendar uses?

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I have a calendar entry on the format of (iCalendar with extension: ics) I have downloaded this file but android does not understands this kind of file.

Is there alternative to iCalendar files that Android uses?


texts: How to change the way joined contacts are displayed

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I have several accounts synchronized on my galaxy S3 (google, google+, skype, facebook, linkedin) and I grouped the same contacts from various accounts into one.

How can I modify the way this merged account is visible in my contacts list? As an example I have the same person as:

in linkedin: John Doe + ugly picture
in google: Johnny + nice picture
in skype: The mad guy + no picture

When merging these contacts I usually end up with the combo "the mad guy" + ugly picture, or whatever combination. I obviously would like to have "John Doe" + nice picture.

Is there a way to select what element should come from which contact?

Fallback question: in case this is not possible: is there a way to enforce one of the contacts as the "master one" ? (I would choose google as I have the most control over that one)

Note: This question was initially asked on Phandroid but it will hopefully apply to any Android device

Thank you for any pointers!


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I have a Samsung Galaxy Tab p3100 and i can't flash anything. All I have is a Stock CyanogenMod recovery and i can't even go through odin and install a new cwm/twrp. I don't know why but it says USB device is not recognized :(

I've tried to uninstall the usb thing in device manager but no luck. My only chance is flash a rom or a SIGNED cwm/twrp (i guess i'm running out of options) for my device but i can't find any signed zip file to be flashed on cyanogenmod recovery please help.


texts: Why contacts are not display in address book but available when typing number?

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Rummaged through a bunch of articles in search of an answer to this question, but nothing helped. I ask for your help.

Android 6, LG

The contact book displays only a part of the numbers (124 contacts from applications such as Skype, Weiber, etc.), but in fact there should be much more contacts and they are in the phone (confirmation of that - when entering phone number +7 there are 449 numbers).

How can I make these 449+ contacts appear in the contact book?

In the display settings of contacts, it is possible to display contacts from all sources (phone memory, SIM, applications). I tried the sources one by one, too.


texts: I am interested in installing Whatsapp on Android 1.6 (Cyanogenmod 4.2) on a rooted HTC Dream G1. Is there any way to install it?


texts: How to compute all space taken up by an app and its associated files

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(Using Android 6)
While trying to determine the size in memory taken up by a given App I got two widely differing values.
    Settings. Applications. Application manager. Whatsapp.
gave 134 MB (App 63.90 MB, Data 71.18 MB), while Total Commander gave 900 MB.

How can I get the size taken up by all files that reside in my cell phone associated with a given App, which would otherwise not be there? I am pretty sure it must be closest to what TC gives, but I am not sure everything from WhatsApp is within its directory, and even less sure that it applies for a general App.

Why does Settings give such a low value?
What is it counting as App and Data?

Related questions:

Similar (old) question (but not the same):
KitKat - How to identify the REAL size of apps (app + datas + ...) to be able to install other ones

Related (very old) question: what is my personal data storage as opposed to program storage  and how can I reduce it?

Questions related to the issue that inspired this one (I am constantly running out of space):

Missing space/Storage space running out Galaxy S2 [tried almost every solution I can find!]

Why am I constantly running out of space on my Galaxy S2?

Microsoft apps always eating up space with data, for apparently no reason

I can't find files taking up space in my android phone


texts: Is thee any way to perform a find-and-replace in contacts? I want replace a letter with another one in all contacts texts. (My device is an Xperia Mini Pro Android 4.0)


texts: Difference between Samsung Galaxy I5800 and I5801

texts: What exactly are the differences between the two apart from Orange branding? Also I read that I5801 is the Orange branded one, but the phones in India are not Orange branded but still show as I5801 in 'phone info' in 'settings'.


texts: Quick way to enter three dots (ellipsis)?

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The Samsung keyboard has a Quick Symbol key, where ".,?" are on the same key and accessed similar to the T9 method (don't know if this is standard for Android keyboards).

A good idea, but how can I quickly enter an ellipsis (three dots)? The best I could come up with is:

dot space del dot space del dot

Quite clumsy, but much faster than tapping dot and then twice wait until a next tap wont change the dot anymore. There surely must be a better way?

Update

On the Galaxy Tab there is no option to choose another keyboard layout; apparently on other Samsung devices there is (see GAThrawn's answer). Here you can see what options I can choose from:


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Please help. When photos and videos ef is are deleted,  where do they go? I'd like to delete everything in my " trash", as my storage is always full.
Thank you.


texts: Briefing Alarm News and Weather Not Read Aloud on Galaxy S3

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I've got an alarm set daily on my Galaxy S3 with the briefing alarm type selected in my  alarm's settings with all three briefing content items selected (weather, today's schedule, and news).

However, when the alarm begins, it shows the weather, today's schedule, and news onscreen, it plays a brief melody, then it plays the alarm sound I used previously (ticktac alarm), when it should be speaking the items aloud.

I've tried rebooting the phone and deleting and recreating the alarm, but I cannot get the phone to speak the items aloud.  Any thoughts?


texts: I am trying to run an application on a chromebook and this application only supports arm64. Here it says that arm64 has very poor translations. My chromebook is in developer mode and I was wondering if there is another way to provide chrome os with a complete set of arm64 translations.


texts: Force portrait mode on TV through Slimport - Android 5.0

texts: I just bought an iCAN MyDP Slimport to HDMI adapter for my rooted Nexus 5. It works perfectly fine, but when the phone is in portrait mode, the TV it is connected to makes the image smaller and centers it. Is there any way to force portrait mode on the TV? I have already looked through the TV's settings, there is no option in there.


texts: How to record clash of clans so that my voice is loud but the sound for the game is low?

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I am using recordable apps to record clash of clans.

However, my voice is not heard. Buried behind music.

I want the voice and music of clash of clans to be loud and my comments are more clearly heard..


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Recently I have installed Juice Defender and Greenify.

Unknowingly I ran both of them. The result is pretty great (battery almost stopped discharging). Battery levels stood constant for hours when my screen is off.

Is it good to run both of these apps together?


texts: How to Delete a Contact's "Mark as Default" selection

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In the stock Contacts app one can Mark as default one of the contact's numbers. I don't want to select another number as default, I don't want any of the contact's numbers to be default.

How can I delete this "mark as default" selection?

I have a Samsung Galaxy S5 running Lollipop 5.0.


texts: Why doesn't Motorola Moto G4 sometimes not accept phone calls?

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I'm using a Motorola Moto G4 Play with LineageOS. From time to time I get a message that someone tried to call me, but I wasn't available. This hasn't happened with other phones, so I suspect that it is some bug/bad behaviour.

From what I can tell this usually happens when the phone is locked. However at least once it happened when I was using the phone. The phone itself is not in "Do not disturb" mode. But I try to disable it (although it is disabled) my impression is that phone calls come through. As far as I can tell the phone always has radio reception. So I'm out of ideas what can cause this behaviour.

How can I debug this behaviour or do know what can cause this behaviour?


texts: I need Google Settings again in my phone, but I can't install it again without the Google Play Store

texts: I have uninstalled an application called "Google Settings" by accident. So now whenever I go to the Google Play Store it says "server error". Whatsapp need to be updated, but for me to do update it I need Google Play Stpr BUT Google Play Store doesn't work without the app Google Settings. How do I install again the Google Settings again w/o using Google Play Store?


texts: How can I log in as root to take the screen shot?

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Possible Duplicate:
  What does "to root a phone" mean?
  How to take a screenshot with an Android phone?

I have android gingerbread. I wanted screen shots of my menu screen, so I downloaded the application from the android store,but every application wants a root access. How can I login as root so that I am able to take the screen shots just by shaking the phone?


texts: Which app can create a background image without distortions?

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My device is a Nexus 7 (2012 edition), running Android 4.3.

I downloaded some nice wallpapers from http://vathanx.deviantart.com/art/Impulso-114624053 and placed them in the SD card. Resolutions are 1920x1200 or 1600x1200.

To set the wallpaper I long-click the background, select Gallery, then the folder & the image & keep the cropping as suggested. However, once this is set, the image is distorted and not smooth. Besides, it seems some color information has been lost as well and the gradients are not smooth anymore.

Screenshot after adding the image (click image for larger variant)

Is there any App which handles this properly? I can accept a little blurriness and reduced colors, but the current result is simply too low quality.


texts: I can not get rid of information about a file transfer

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Hi I have HTC phone with Android system. Several days ago I tried to transfer a picture from another phone by bluetooth. Now I can't to delete a notice about transfer.
I mean that when I click on transfer notice and I next click on accept or discard this notice is still visible.

Any suggestion?


texts: How to obliterate (totally delete) a contact?

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I have android devices with WhatsApp and another apps. When I try delete any contact, sometimes in the next days the contact backs to my contact list... In the end, I need most of times block the contact on WhatsApp to avoid use it. I think that some app is recovering/syncing the contact back, but I updated the Google Contacts, removing the contact and he keeps returning...

This is the reason why I use the term "obliterate", I see when learning source control... When you delete a file from source control, it is deleted, but you can recover from the history/previous commits. So when you want fully delete, you want "obliterate" it, pretending like it never existed...

I wonder if can have 5 options for deal with this:

Some option on Android to obliterate (I search but not found)
Some app with that option or that objective
Some app to monitor and block the contact to back to list
Some app to monitor and discover the app that is recovering the contact
Some app with the job of maintain the master list of contact, and from there I delete it and the app keeps "deleted", monitoring the contact list changes

Thanks in advance!


texts: Multiple phone numbers of the same type & Exchange

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My company's directory uses the "Business" field to list the internal extension, and the "Business 2" field to list the fully qualified phone number. Obviously my cell phone cannot call the internal extension.

"Business" shows up in my phone as "Work", and "Mobile" shows up too, but "Business 2" does not seem to appear. Now, my phone is pretty new to me so it could be I'm not navigating People correctly.

Has anyone dealt with this before?

Moto G, KitKat. I think I am sync'ing against Exchange 2007 or Exchange 2010.


texts: How to change the permission and ownership for internal sdcard

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I have a problem with my internal SD card on my android 4.2.2. It shows there are no files on the internal SD card but there is a shortcut called "legacy" and I can't write anything on the internal SD card or download on it but I can install apps on it.

I found on Root Explorer that the owner and group is set to root. I try to change to system but it does not change.

And the permissions is set to read and execute for the owner and group and other.
The write permissions is disabled to the owner and group and other.
I also try to change the permissions and unroot my phone but it does not work.

Is there any solution for my problem?


texts: Problem with attaching Archos device on Ubuntu

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On my laptop I have Ubuntu 12.04.

1) mounting the tablet

$ sudo mkdir /media/tb
$ sudo chmod 777 /media/tb
$ sudo mount /dev/sdc /media/tb

2) downloading and updating Android SDK

$ cd ~
$ wget http://dl.google.com/android/adt/adt-bundle-linux-x86-20130219.zip
$ cd ~/adt-bundle-linux-x86-20130219/sdk/tools
$ ./android update sdk

3) editing rules for my device. Each hardware device has its ID. According to Archos
   website my vendor ID is e79. According to this website I should also edit ~/.android/adb_usb.ini.

$ sudo vim /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules

After editing the file has this content:

SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device",
ENV{PRODUCT}=="e79/*", MODE="0666"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="e79", MODE="0666"

$ sudo chmod a+r /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules
$ sudo vim ~/.android/adb_usb.ini

after editing the file has this content:

0x0e79

$ sudo chmod a+r ~/.android/adb_usb.ini

4) updating the information

$ sudo udevadm control --reload-rules
$ cd ~/adt-bundle-linux-x86-20130219/sdk/platform-tools
$ ./adb kill-server
$ ./adb start-server
$ sudo reboot
$ sudo mount /dev/sdc /media/tb
$ cd ~/adt-bundle-linux-x86-20130219/sdk/platform-tools
$ ./adb start-server
$ ./adb devices

List of devices attached

You can see that I have problem with attaching my device.

What else would you try to solve it?


texts: Can I use an old phone as a bluetooth headset and dialer?

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I'd like to use one of the new 7" tablets that will have cell service as a phone. I would like to leave it in my backpack and use something smaller to send and receive calls.

I think I should be able to recycle an old Android Phone for this purpose. I figured there is some kind of Bluetooth stack (Bluez?) that just needs to be configured the right way. The hardware should be all there. The best I could find thus far was this question and the links therein.

I saw some dedicated devices on Alibaba that do this; and I have seen people do this in China. But I haven't seen any such devices in the US. I could settle for a dedicated device, but recycling an old smartphone would be more useful.


texts: Is it possible to activate the iris recognition infrared LED and take an IR photo?

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Is it possible to turn on the iris recognition infrared LED and take photos using the front camera, that works on the Galaxy S9+?

In the YouTube video: "Poco F1 Infrared Camera Hack - How to take photos with the Infrared Camera" they mention a Google Play Store application: "MIUI Hidden Settings" that allows you to turn on the iris recognition LED and activate the front camera at the same time - the only limitation is that to take a photo you need to take a screenshot, with resulting lower resolution. That APP doesn't work on the Galaxy S9+.

I found a similar question: "Is there an Infrared camera app?" at XDA. There's a somewhat similar question here called: "Controlling IR in Galaxy S8?" but it seems limited to turning on the IR LED (which might be enough) and doesn't mention IR photography which is what I want.

The results, if you can get it working on your phone, seem reasonable:

(Tap to enlarge)

I even tried dialing the hardware test number *#0*# but the phone doesn't allow screenshots, nor is the image very large or illuminated. If there is another test number or a means to trick the hardware I can't find it, if there is a particular APP it is likely rare and the only one available.


texts: How to use a HTC Tattoo as a modem on a Mac?

texts:
I've tried to use HTC Tattoo as a modem on a Windows PC and it worked well, but on a Mac it doesn't work.

Some trick or app that i should be aware?

My HTC Tattoo uses the default 1.6 ROM with Sense.

Thanks.


texts: Huawei Ascend P1 is sending SMS automatically everyday

texts:
I bought a Huawei Ascend P1 and installed some apps. But for the past 3-4 days, I see an alert that an SMS has been sent and 1.50 INR has been deducted. How will it unlock and send an SMS?

I found from my mobile carrier that the SMS was sent to the same number. The following apps have the SEND_SMS permission, but I am confused because most of them are system apps, and a few like WhatsApp & True Caller are trusted. I really don't understand what's going on as I see that the questions related to this topic seem different.


texts: My Yuphoria is currently hardbricked and whenever I try to flash its factory image, it gives up during the flashing of the system image, saying remote: flash write failure. The reason seems to be corrupt system partition. How can I repair it?


texts: I was looking at some encryption standards and was wondering, what kind of encryption algorithm does Android's SD card encryption use? Is it AES 128 or a different algorithm?


texts: How to flash a zip file without signature verification?

texts: I have lenovo a3300-gv running android kit-kat. I tried to flash a .zip file in it using flashify. But it fails to flash as signature verification fails. I read some articles stating to flash in CWM/TWRP recovery to avoid this error. But I can't get custom recovery for my device. So, is there other way to flash in stock recovery without signature verification?


texts: Google chrome search results different view

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I'm using latest version of Google Chrome in my android. Recently, the view of Google search results have changed.

I don't like this view because address is  in a grey color background and search results are in full black and white . I tried all settings to figure out why this change has happened.

It's really disgusting seeing this view

How to go back to previous view?
Here is the link for image for more clarity


texts: Can I install a ROM made for a different device?

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I own a MicroMax A100. I want to install the latest version of a different ROM (Samsung or Nexus).

Is it possible? If so, can you tell me how?

If not, can I install a ROM made for a different device, but from the same manufacturer? For example, could I install a ROM for the MicroMax A110, which is the successor of A100?


texts:
I was wondering if someone here knew what are these files:

I've put it in image format because their file names are weird? I just found out that these files are present in my sd card, inside the DCIM images folders and all images are gone except the thumbnails.

My images are gone and another problem is that I cannot delete them(maybe format but that's my last option i think). They stick in that folder and even moving isn't possible.

Any help or suggestions. Thanks!


texts: Intermittent internet connectivity problems on Samsung Galaxy S4

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So last night Chrome on my Galaxy S4 suddenly started refusing to load websites while connected to the exact same WiFi network that works flawlessly for two different laptops and a PC within my home network. Even using two different mobile providers' data networks, or the WiFi at three different friends' houses doesn't seem to work, so I doubt this issue has anything to do with my internet connection/s.

The strangest thing about this whole situation is that Chrome will search Google fine, and the Play store app will also search its catalog, download updates and even install new apps without a hitch, but pretty much every time I try to connect to a non-Google-owned server, the connection status bar fills about 10% of the way and hangs for 30 seconds before timing out.

Has anyone experienced anything like this before?

EDIT: This now happens at least once per day; often 3 or 4 times per day. Restarting the phone seems to be the only way to get connectivity back, before it drops out again a few hours later. Google apps (Play Store, YouTube, Maps, etc.) all work fine without a restart but other apps and websites refuse to respond. Please help; this is driving me crazy!!


texts: Samsung Galaxy A asking for password although I never set it

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I never had or used a password for Galaxy tablet A. However, it’s now asking for one to turn off the device to reset password. I am unable to turn off or start up the device.

Any suggestions on how I can solve the issue?


texts: Are the Battery Doctor and/or CM Family Suite app(s) needed?

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I've got an HTC One M8 with KitKat 4.4.4 until Lollipop 5.0 comes out in January. I'm a convert from Apple iPhone Gen 1 all the way up and this is my first Android device ( which I love BTW ).

With Apple, you seemingly don't have to worry about viruses, unless you root/jailbreak your phone.

I'm trying to find the best apps out that improve my battery life, secure, clean, and boost my phone. That said, all these apps seem to do is run my battery down faster and cause more lag in my apps more than anything.

So I my questions are:

Do I need them?
Are there better alternatives?
Is the CM suite horrible as some say?


texts: Toast: MMS cannot be sent/received when mobile data is disabled -- shows up at every boot in Moto G XT1033 running Lollipop 5.0.2

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Details: Moto G XT1033 with
Android Lollipop 5.0.2

Is there something wrong? Why would any app request this feature just exactly when I turn my cell phone on?

(Click image to see its larger variant.)


texts: "Google Now" swipe from Home button is not working in Marshmallow

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After updating to Marshmallow I was playing around with settings. I don't know what I changed, but now when I swipe from the bottom, "Google Now" is not coming.

I used to assign that with Greenify to lock the screen. How to get it back?


texts: Disable history syncing on Chrome for Android

texts: How can I disable Chrome syncing its history on my Android phone? I looked in settings, but I cannot see an option there.


texts: First smart phone, activating droid incredible question

texts: I just bought a used Droid Incredible off Amazon and would like to play around with it. Its asking me to call a number and activate it. I am hesitant to activate it before I go to the Verizon store to upgrade from my flip phone to this smart phone, using the same phone number. If I activate it will that mess anything up? I know very little about cell phone service.


texts: TeamWin “No OS Installed” Android Nexus 5

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I lost my phone in Peru and had to downgrade to my old Nexus 5. It was rooted so I couldn't update the OS. In trying to unroot it, I [somehow] deleted the OS, and now the phone won't boot. I get to the TeamWin recovery options and it will say "No OS Installed, are you sure you want to..." How can I fix this?

Note: nexus 5 does not allow for external SDs to transfer files, etc.


texts: Run Android 9 rc2 on Windows 10 Pro in Virtualbox

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I try to run Android 9 rc2 from here on my Dell Latitude 5285 Windows 10 Pro with Virtualbox.
I configured it with 2048 MB RAM, Linux 2.6/ x3/ x4, Graphics memory 128, VMSVGA, no hardware acceleration.The problem is that when I start the virtual machine, just a command prompt comes up and the machine doesn't start up.
Can you help me please?


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In order to provide safe browsing, I want to set global proxy to route all http/https requests from any browser to my proxy server on both WiFi and 2G/3G networks for non rooted Android devices with OS version 2.2 and above.

After categorization, proxy server will send response to browsers.

I have seen so many posts in SO also, but nobody has explained for Mobile networks(2G/3G).
Please inform whether there is a possibility or not at all? If yes, please suggest a way.
If anybody have idea, please share your thoughts.Thanks in advance.

Thanks,
Gopi.


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The program (CSipSimple) seems to work not well when cell data network is unstable. It works OK hovewer if you manually switch it on and off.

How to simulate bad network connectivity (e.g. going by underground train) for testing the application?

It should be mobile network, not Wi-Fi.

Are there any programs or hacks (in software, with root access) for this or I should resort to wrapping the device in foil?


texts:
Is there an app available on the Play Store that allows us to view websites/webpages that have been transferred to the SD Card?

I've tried several android browsers and none of them allow me to open a *.html file and actually view it as a webpage - they only show the code of the page.

I've tried using numerous File Manager apps and using the Open with... command to open them in various apps but no luck.

I did come across this page: How can I open an HTML file I have copied from PC to SD Card of Phone? which suggests it can be done by manually typing in the entire path of the file, but I'd really prefer it if there was an app for this. Either on the Play Store or even an APK that somebody's made available online somewhere. I've yet to find one though.


texts: Samsung Galaxy S3 update deleted Play Store and a bunch of other Google apps

texts:
Today my Galaxy S3 alerted me that there was an update to Push Services available. For once I actually thought "hey, let's not dismiss this update" and went through the whole process. There were no warnings, nothing seemed strange, and everything seemingly worked smoothly.

So I tap the Hangouts icon on my home screen (Apex launcher, if that's relevant in any way). "App not installed". Okay, uh, let's install it, then. I tap the Play Store icon. "App not installed". That's a problem.

A bunch of Google apps seem to have been uninstalled. Play Store, Hangouts, Calendar, and probably a few others. I've looked in my System settings > Application manager > Turned off, and they're not there - in fact, they're not anywhere in my applications list at all! Instead, Samsung seems to have installed "Galaxy Market" and a few other apps which are mostly worthless to me. Here's a list of things I have tried so far:

Checked if they were perhaps just disabled (they weren't).
Downloaded APKs for both Play Store and Hangouts. The installers tell me "Do you want to install an update to this built-in application?" for both of them, then "Application not installed".
Contacted Samsung's support center. I got a copy-pasted answer about factory resetting, and I'd rather not do that.
Rebooting. Nothing.

How do I get these apps back? I use Hangouts every day, and Play Store is just plain hard to do anything without.


texts: How can I sign up for a Firefox account?

texts:
I want to back-up bookmarks and history, but the Sync "application" on my android device "cannot connect to network" and the webpage only provides a never ending swirl, even on a laptop.
(Yes, 'this is a question to ask at mozilla support'... which requires a Firefox account.)
Alternately, is there any browser that allows this manually, exported to some .txt or other file?
Edit: trying to install xBrowserSync, but it won't. I have a few versions, but each has this problem.

I scanned each at   VirusTotal first,  of  course.


texts: Light-brown stripes on my Galaxy S6 Edge screen

texts:
I have a Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge for around 2 and a half months now. Since yesterday when having open a white screen (all white, such as a picture or some other menu) I see a 2 vague light-brown stripes.

I first thought it was some filth on my screen protector (ZAGG Invisible Shield), so I tried wiping it off, this didn't help anything.

There is always a thick-leather flipcase around my phone aswell.

I never dropped, made some damage, had some water-damage or dropped anything on this phone. It's in my pocket all the time without any heavy-weight stuff pushing onto it. The only thing I can think of is that I was holding something heavy against my pocket, but not 'laying it onto' my pocket, I was holding it myself.

What can this be and could it be a fixable issue?


texts: What is this device administrator called screen lock service?

texts: I was looking at the device administrators of my phone in the settings and saw a device administrator called "screen lock service". It's description is "Activating this administrator will allow the app Google play services to perform the following operations: set password rules". I have looked at my device administrators before and this particular one was never there before. It just appeared out of nowhere. Can anyone tell me what this is and if I should be doing something about it?


texts: Galaxy Star fails Custom recovery flashing

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I've tried to flash my Galaxy Star Advance (SM-G350E) with ClockWorkMod recovery 6.0.2.9 using Odin and it has said "Success". But the stock recovery still exists and nothing has been flashed!
How to flash the recovery? USB debbugging is ON and Samsung USB drivers are installed


texts: Home, Menu, Back Buttons are not clickable in android emulator

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I have noticed that in some of emulators mainnavigation buttons (Home, Back, Menu) buttons are not clickable. If the emulator's device is something which has a higher resolution this is mostly happening if I have observed it correctly. Does anyone know why is this and any solution for this?

Thanks,
Madhura


texts: Remove "recently opened apps" from Apps & notifications

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Using Android 8.1:

Tap Settings.
Tap Apps & notifications.

This displays a list of "Recently opened apps."

I would like to prevent the phone from storing, tracking, or otherwise remembering any app that has been opened. Ideally, without having to install yet another app. Rooting the phone is okay. Clearing the list is a work-around, but not a long-term solution.

How do you remove the "Recently opened apps" list from the Apps & notifications screen?


texts: I have the YouTube app built into my device but the problem is when I open the YouTube app, there's always a reminder to get that latest version of it. When I click that reminder, it directs me to Google Play, and there is no update button there. It isn't showing on the My Apps list too. How do I update the YouTube app now?


texts: Linux fails to mount Android device in USB MSC mode

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I wish to mount my Sony Xperia ST21i (Android 4.0.4) under Linux (Debian) via USB. However, I get this error:

# mount /dev/sdb /mnt
mount: no medium found on /dev/sdb

What I did so far:

On the phone side: Settings > Xperia > Connectivity > USB connection mode: set to Mass storage mode (MSC), instead of the default Media transfer mode (MTP).

On the PC side: dmesg yields

[...] usb 2-1.3: USB disconnect, device number 12
[...] usb 2-1.3: new high-speed USB device number 13 using ehci-pci
[...] usb 2-1.3: New USB device found, idVendor=0fce, idProduct=e170
[...] usb 2-1.3: New USB device strings: Mfr=2, Product=3, SerialNumber=4
[...] usb 2-1.3: Product: Android
[...] usb 2-1.3: Manufacturer: Android
[...] usb 2-1.3: SerialNumber: **********
[...] scsi14 : usb-storage 2-1.3:1.0
[...] scsi 14:0:0:0: Direct-Access     SONY     Mass storage     0000 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[...] sd 14:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[...] sd 14:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk

For comparison, when mounting a cheap memory stick, dmesg yields

[...] usb 2-1.3: USB disconnect, device number 13
[...] usb 2-1.6: new high-speed USB device number 14 using ehci-pci
[...] usb 2-1.6: New USB device found, idVendor=1307, idProduct=0165
[...] usb 2-1.6: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[...] usb 2-1.6: Product: USB Mass Storage Device
[...] usb 2-1.6: Manufacturer: P Technology
[...] usb 2-1.6: SerialNumber: 00000000000280
[...] scsi15 : usb-storage 2-1.6:1.0
[...] scsi 15:0:0:0: Direct-Access     UT165    USB Flash Disk   0.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[...] sd 15:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[...] sd 15:0:0:0: [sdb] 3948544 512-byte logical blocks: (2.02 GB/1.88 GiB)
[...] sd 15:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[...] sd 15:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00
[...] sd 15:0:0:0: [sdb] Asking for cache data failed
[...] sd 15:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[...] sd 15:0:0:0: [sdb] Asking for cache data failed
[...] sd 15:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[...]  sdb:
[...] sd 15:0:0:0: [sdb] Asking for cache data failed
[...] sd 15:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[...] sd 15:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk

Several lines more - is this significant? Does this mean, I need to configure my phone differently before I can hope to mount it?

Following advice in some related threads, I created an udev rule,

# cat /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="0fce", MODE="0666"

but this had no effect.


texts: How do you add widgets to the lockscreen in KitKat?

texts: Just got a Nexus 5 running KitKat (what else?), but I cannot figure out how to add widgets to the lockscreen! On JB, swiping right from the left edge while showing lockscreen would display a "+" widget option. This is no longer the case. Are lockscreen widgets gone?!


texts: Not Rooted Huawei Device, Android 4.4.4, Locked Out. USB debugging not enabled One is huawei. h60 -L01 Second is CHM-U01

texts:
Thanks for your time. I have a huawei phone which isn't rooted and USB debugging isn't enabled. Furthermore, I am locked out. Please suggest any remedy. I have searched out the whole internet but there isn't any solution, as far as I know.
And if there is No possibility please suggest me how to access my data by any mean. Even if it's post hard-reset recovery.
Please Help!
Thanks!

Edit 1:
Actually I handed over 2 phones to my employees. They gave me a loss of 42000$ and I have recovered 2 phones from them. I didn’t recover any cash but these two phones which can give me a lead to what they were actually up to. As I am from Pakistan, I don’t want to go into any legal process. So, that’s what I am looking for and I can spend money even to recover the data inside. –

So you can say I am not the owner but I would have asked it directly than it would be giving an outlook that I am a thief lol. So.... I am in a great need of the data inside that phone. Any sort of help that can give me access to full data will be highly appreciated. And I am willing to pay for that even. –

And thanks for staying there and spending the time to read all that long passages. Thanks again! –


texts: How to go to a specific time of a video clip quickly in YouTube app?

texts:
Since the YouTube app has nowhere to input the URL, I cannot jump to a specific time to view it.
Dragging the player caret is very hard to make an accurate jump especially for a long clip
How to do that easily?


texts: Locked out of my Galaxy mini due to "too many pattern attempts"

texts: I have tried everything on the website and on many others, but nothing has worked for me. What should I do?


texts:
I own a Huawei P9 EVA-AL00 (bought in China) on Android 7 with no root. Last time I reset my device, some photos were still left.

So, what is the best way to reset an Android device?

I'm not worried about security, privacy and encryption, but I do want all junk files, photos etc. to be removed from the device.

I know the 2 methods to reset - through recovery and settings, but is there a better way? For example, can you reset through Android Debug Bridge?

Thanks,

George


texts: Device not detected in fastboot | REALME 3 PRO

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I have device Realme 3 Pro. And I am trying to install TWRP. So, I downloaded In-depth test apk and got application reviewed. Then I booted into fastboot and device is not showing in device manager. I tried to add legacy device with google usb drivers. It said drivers installed but device starting failed. Error code 10.

It detected corrupted adb interface. So, I again updated same drivers.

This time device popped up in other devices and showed an error icon. So, I again updated drivers for the device. It says drivers installation successful.

But, when i double click on icon it shows no drivers are installed.

No matter how many time i update the drivers it shows no drivers installed.

Solutions tried

resetted my PC
resetted my phone
tried various ADB drivers for Windows
tried various ADB drivers for Android interface
completely wiped my PC
re-installed Windows (clean install)
updated Windows
updated all drivers present in Windows
updated BIOS
updated my phone to latest version

NOTE: OEM unlocking is ON. And usb-debugging is on too.


texts: Twitter client tends to redirect to web browser

texts:
When clicking a Twitter's link on GMail client, Twitter client is included in the list of possible applications to process. So I click Twitter but then the list window pops up again but this time without Twitter in it. I really like to open a link to Twitter with Twitter client. How can I do that? Thank you!

A sample of those Twitter links looks like this:
https://twitter.com/i/redirect?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FRescue_moco%3Frefsrc%3Demail&sig=d4724ad41f731911a0eeacd4eb0764b30186d3af&uid=37758565&iid=am-1618412813699712373452051&nid=23+1100&t=1

Nexus 10, Jelly Bean, Twitter client 4.1.0


texts: Whatsapp backup: Unable to move from windows phone to android

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Following instructions found on WhatsApp FAQs I created a backup folder on my SD card of my old windows-based phone.

I tried to restore chat history on my new Android phone (LG Leon), with no success. I did the following steps:

removed previous WhatsApp installation on Android
put the sd card with the backup files (files are in SD card in the WhatsApp/WinPhoneBackup folder)
reinstalled WhatsApp
reactivated WhatsApp (sms stuff) and asked to recover backup

Unfortunately there's no way to allow WhatsApp to discover the backup files. Am I doing something wrong?

Some specs:

  Source phone: Nokia Lumia 520, Whatsapp version: 2.12.266

  Destination phone: Lg Leon with android 5.0.1, Whatsapp version: 2.12.453


texts: Ensuring that a deleted file cannot be recovered

texts: A few months back, I had deleted a media file from my gallery. My phone wasn't encrypted at this point. Now, I wish to ensure that this file cannot be recovered in any way. What is the best way of doing this? Is it sufficient to encrypt my phone and do a factory reset? Or do I need to overwrite the memory blocks using software?


texts: Android equivalent to Remote Messages/WiFiSMS on iOS?

texts:
One of my favorite things about my iPhone was the ability to receive/send SMS/MMS through my web browser on my computer. As far as I know, Android has alternatives for this, but they all rely on an online service which isn't ideal.

Is there any way to send/receive SMS/MMS through a PC without the use of an online service?


texts: How do I backup my contacts that are on an excel file into my nexus 5 phone?

texts:
I have all my contacts saved in an excel file with name and phone number headers :)
Does anyone know how can I restore them into my new nexus 5 phone ?


texts:
I am using Geniatech ATV Android Set Top Boxes running android 4.2.2 for a current project. I might put some of those devices in public places like shopping centers. These boxes are connected to the local network there by cable or wireless.

I have a VPN connection to ssh remotely into the boxes (using debian kit) and on the boxes USB debugging is enabled, so that i have ADB access, which I use for chrome browser observation as well as for updating or installing new applications.

The problem is that everyone on the same local network as the box can also use adb to connect to the boxes and then have full access to everything, which is a big security problem.

What I want to do is restrict the interface of adb to only work over the vpn connection.

Alternatively I need a way to stop and start the adb daemon using my ssh connection to the box. The problem here is that I only connect to a debian kit instance running on the same box, which uses the same filesystem but doesn't have access to the start or stop adb commands.

Does anyone have an idea how to achieve this? I can't find a lot of information on this special requirements.


texts: My husband has taken over my Android since he's the account holder. I'm wondering can he get any call or text information from my WhatsApp off of the T-Mobile printout of my phone activity?


texts: I'm seeing duplicated images and videos on Gallery

texts: I'm facing a strange situation on my Nexus 4, with Android version 4.2.2. I've being using it for the past 2 months without any issues whatsoever (other than a "regular" battery performance), but since last week I started seeing some duplicated albums with images on the Gallery. So, some images and videos appear twice, both with the same album name, but on a different "physical" folder, one on the folder /storage/emulated/0/ and the other on /storage/emulated/legacy/. I'm absolutely positive that this issue started only last week and the "duplicated" images existed before this issue ever appeared. I haven't installed any custom ROMs, I'm not rooted and haven't installed any apps in the las week (other than Google Translate, but I find it hard to believe that this is related). If this is a duplicated, please feel free to close it and point me to that discussion. If you need any more details, I'll update my question.


texts: Prevent upgrade to 4.3 on rooted 4.2.2. device

texts:
I have just rooted a Nexus 7 with Android 4.2.2. I now receive a notification for system upgrade to 4.3. I don't want to do this, probably ever, as I want to keep 4.2 for app testing purposes. In Settings > About tablet > System updates
and in there it says:
Android System 4.3 Update
[Restart & Install]

How do I prevent the upgrade, ie how to I get rid of that Restart & Install button and to I prevent future upgrades & notifications?


texts: Turning my mobile into wifi hotspot using computer connection?

texts:
I know that my mobile can turn into a hotspot using a configuration option.
I know that my PC can use my mobile internet through the usb cable.

But is the other way possible ? Can my mobile use my PC internet connection and then broadcast it as a hotspot ?


texts: Samsung S Galaxy II (i9100): possible with stock Google Android OS?

texts:
I'm in the market for a new Smartphone. Except for iPhone's, I'm new in the field and probably have some misconceptions.

My first choice was the Google Nexus S, but I was offered a great deal on the Samsung S Galaxy II (i9100). The only issue is that I read that it came with an "enhanced" version of Android. Being familiar with PC's, I know that these enhancements are almost always bloatware: I always do a clean install of Windows to get rid of it.

My question is fairly simple: is this possible to use the stock Google Android OS on the Samsung S Galaxy II (i9100)? That was the killer feature of the Nexus S for me: coming directly from Google, easily upgradable. Would that be possible and if yes, how?

Thank you for enlightening me.


texts:
After unlucky using some SMS backup tool I have the duplicates of all my SMS.
So question is which way better to delete them.


texts: Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 not powering on and unable to do factory reset

texts:
What happened is my tablet froze. I tried to restart the tablet by holding the power button, however it stayed on the Samsung screen and did not proceed to the home screen. Eventually I was able to turn off the device.

I want to factory reset the device now. However the options to factory reset are not showing. I press and hold volume up together with the power button, nothing happened. What else can I do to hard reset the device?


texts: Unable to add Rediffmail account in Gmail app

texts:
I was trying to add my Rediffmail account to Gmail app. After choosing any of POP or IMAP, it says unable to connect server.

I have other mail accounts in the app and all of them are working fine.

How to add Rediffmail account in Gmail app?


texts: How do you delete Google Calendar goals?

texts:
A quick Google search pointed me to this thread on reddit

Following a link posted in the comments, and then going to the "android" tab (which I totally missed at first) I found these instructions

Open the Google Calendar app.
Tap the session.
In the top right, tap More.
Tap Delete > This session or All following sessions (and stop scheduling).
Tap OK.

I'm just wondering where I would find "This session" or "All following sessions", because I don't see it:

I'm using Calendar Version 5.5.15-129963483-release and I thought I might be out of date but there doesn't appear to be a newer version on the Play Store.


texts: I want to see line between two points (Only when touched with two fingers)

texts:
Just like pointer location feature, in developer option of android 10. It shows vertical and horizontal lines, I am willing to have direct line between two points, only when touched with two fingers, any where in any app.
Is it possible? Do we have any app?
I am ok even if i need to root my device.
Thanks in advance.


texts:
Is it possible to root the Galaxy S7 edge Exynos with KingRoot leaving knox to 0x0?

If not KingRoot there are other ways? (Not CF-auto-root as the knox bit will be 0x1)

My model is SM-G935F latest version released, European.


texts: Close/reset Chrome tab(s) without launching Chrome

texts:
I've got into a peculiar situation with Chrome on my Samsung Note 2 running Android 4.4.2. I've been playing with JavaScript and apparently created some bad code. I know it because PhpStorm showed the warning that the code was likely to cause an exception. Still, I've tried seeing this page on my smartphone. (I need the smartphone because I am playing with the navigator.vibration function.) Chrome crashed.

Now when I run Chrome, it tries to re-open all tabs, the last being the one with the erroneous page (hosted with a web-hosting company). Apparently, Chrome is trying to open the cached page. It makes the whole smartphone practically unresponsive, with app icons sometimes disappearing from the desktop. I can revive the OS by closing Chrome from the app manager (long-press the home key).

I have already corrected the page online, it works fine in a desktop browser. And no warning in PhpStorm any more. But Android Chrome is hopeless. Restarting the phone doesn't help.

I wonder if I can somehow reset Chrome or simply close all tabs without running Chrome itself. It would also be great to understand what could have brought it to this amazing condition.

The problematic code in the page was

while (true) {
    navigator.vibrate([500, 500]);
}

I wanted to create an infinite loop (for as long as the tab was open).


texts: Authentication is Required Google Play Store

texts:
I have tried everything that was said in the answers below but it just won't work. I want to download an application but whenever I accept the permissions prompt,  a notification appears: "Authentication is required. Please sign into your Google Account."

I don't know what to do anymore. Can anyone please help me?


texts: At fastboot, fastboot can connect to computer but adb cannot

texts:
The other way around happens when I reinstall cwm (yes I can reinstall cwm run fastboot, adb simply doesn't know it exist). When I do cwm

c:\Users\jim2\Downloads>adb reboot

See adb reboot works when I am on cwm. Adb recoqnize the device. After that?

c:\Users\jim2\Downloads>adb devices
List of devices attached

c:\Users\jim2\Downloads>adb devices
List of devices attached

no devices.

c:\Users\jim2\Downloads>fastboot flash recovery twrp-3.0.0-0-Z00A.img
target reported max download size of 536870912 bytes
sending 'recovery' (15674 KB)...
OKAY [  0.780s]
writing 'recovery'...
OKAY [  0.876s]
finished. total time: 1.657s

Works just fine. Of course it's catch 2 2 because I want to do adb reboot recovery after that but cannot


texts: Unknown error code during application install “-24” installing Instapaper

texts:
I'm getting the following error when I attempt to install Instapaper through the Play store

Unknown error code during application install “-24”

Googling suggests I need to delete any remnants in the /data/data instapaper folder.  Unfortunately, that seems impossible, I've tried both using file explorers on the device, and adb shell, which tells me "Permission denied" when I try and ls the /data/data folder's contents.

I really don't want to perform a factory reset reinstall everything that is on my device (Nexus 7 2013).

My device is not rooted.

How can I fix things so I can install this app?

I have a logcat file I can attach if it would be helpful.


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How would I go about viewing the activity of an app based on what HTTP requests it is sending and receiving?

For example, I have an app that gets me statistics for a video game I play. I want to know where this app is sending the request to in order to retrieve the data that is displayed within the app.


texts: Sign into wifi network notification not appearing (captive portal, nginx)

texts:
I'm using nginx to redirect all traffic to login.com (local server). And I want the sign into this wifi network message to appear. I searched for a long time and found out that android does a request to clients3.google.com/generate_204. If it redirects or returns something else than status code 204 is SHOULD display the login to wifi network message.

But with mine. It doesn't work. Here is my nginx config:

server {
        listen 80 default_server;
        listen [::]:80 default_server;

        location / {
                return 302 http://login.com;
        }
}

When I connect to my wifi network and go to a random website I get redirected to login.com. That works. If I go to a random-website.com/generate_204 it also gets redirected. And yes if I go to clients3.google.com/generate_204 it also gets redirected. But NO 'Sign into wifi network notification' appears.

I also tried not to redirect /generate_204 but instead use alias to display the login.com content but it didn't work.

From https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chromiumos-design-docs/network-portal-detection

  If for any reason the web page is not returned, or an HTTP response other than 204 is received, then shill marks the service as being in the portal state.

I tried this but it didn't work. (also tried to return code 500 etc.)

What am I doing wrong? It should work because I saw it before.


texts: Block unknown callers at work, but let them through if they try again

texts:
I have Tasker for Android but I don't know enough about it to be able to implement this.

I'd like this to occur when I am connected to a specific wireless network:

If someone phones who isn't in my contact list, reject the call immediately (straight to voicemail).

If they call again within a certain amount of time (say, 30 seconds) allow the call to come through.

Frankly, I can't even get the first one working. I know it's possible. The time thing is a kind of added bonus


texts: How to reduce minimum internal storage free space when installing/updating applications

texts:
On my Nexus 4, if the free space on the internal storage goes below 500MB the phone is unable to install/update apps (reports "There is insufficient space on the device")

From what I've found online, all the guides/forums etc. only suggest how to free up more space on the device, rather than suggest how to reduce this (to me, seemingly high) limit.

Is this because it's somehow hard coded into Google Play/Android? Or is it somehow possible to reduce this limit?


texts: ADB bricked android doesn't connect to pc

texts:
I have a bricked android BLUBOO X2. I rooted it, changed build.prop to set some settings so that I could boot in Ubuntu Touch(which didn't work). And now I can't boot up anymore at all, it is in boot loop.

I tried booting in recovery and then selected "apply update from ADB". It then says: 'Now send the package you want to apply to the device with "adb sideload < filename>" ... '. I did this once and it showed an error, but the weird thing/problem is that I cannot sideload anything anymore: 'error: device not found'.

I (think I) know it is connected with my (Windows 10) PC because it made a connection and deconnecting sound when booting in recovery.

How can I get my android to be connected or how otherwise can I load a ROM or change the build.prop back?


texts: Is anybody able to tell me what this supernova looking icon in between the bluetooth and wifi icon is?


texts: Where do those profile images come from?

texts:
I looked into the contacts of my Nexus 10 with Android 4.4.2 and noticed that some of my contacts have profile images. It looks like this:

http://chaos.stw-bonn.de/users/mu/uploads/2014-01-24/Screenshot_2014-01-24-17-49-27.png

However, I do not know this image, nor did I put it there myself. Where does that come from? I checked the settings and saw that my Google Account has full synchronisation enabled. Do those come from there?

I know that I deactivated some Google services but they kept coming back with Android updates, so I enabled them all again (why bother, if it does not work?). Did that activate synchronisation? I feel pretty angry since the tablet essentially leaked all my private data to Google now …


texts: How to give more Java process memory (RAM) to games?

texts:
I have a developer background, but this is not a game development question.

I have several games that are struggling to be playable with 128MB of RAM allowed for them in Android. I have a Galaxy S4 (2GB RAM) and 600MB free memory just being there doing nothing while I'm playing those games. The games lag on dalvikvm﹕ GC_CONCURRENT events as I had LogCat open while playing, here's an example:

04-13 13:25:30.652      832-836/?
GC_CONCURRENT freed 8192K, 32% free 90350K/132732K, paused 9ms+23ms, total 364ms
WAIT_FOR_CONCURRENT_GC blocked 336ms
WAIT_FOR_CONCURRENT_GC blocked 282ms
WAIT_FOR_CONCURRENT_GC blocked 105ms
WAIT_FOR_CONCURRENT_GC blocked 103ms

Is there any way to allow certains apps, or all of them to run havoc on free memory, for example allowing them to use at least 256MB? I'm pretty sure these games have android:largeHeap already in their manifest.

Killing other apps won't ever help, so please don't suggest to use a task manager unless it has a "set max memory" feature.


texts: How do I simulate menu button on Android 6?

texts: I'm using Samsung Galaxy S7. Long-pressing the recent button does not simulate menu button but activates split screen mode. Long-pressing the back button doesn't work either; it simply closes the app. I'm using an old app that requires the menu button. Any solution to this without rooting the phone?


texts:
I have rooted a B&N Nook Glowlight running Android 2.1. The device does not come with an SD card, so I symlinked to another directory from /sdcard/. Now I need to set the Environment.getExternalStorageState() value so that apps will be able to find the "card". How does one set this value?

Note that other devices, such as the Nexus S, also do not have an SD Card, yet they do return a Environment.getExternalStorageState() value for applications that require it.

Note that I am not writing an Android application which uses this value. I need to set this value device-wide so that other applications (such as Anki and Opera will be able to find it.


texts: What does downloads mean in Google Play store app page?

texts: When we open the app page on Google Play Store, it says 1k+ downloads. What does this mean? Does this mean current total installs or total installs in life of the app?


texts: Where are actions of buttons' long pressing stored?

texts:
I want to remap the long press action  of the menu button to open the dialog box that appears when the power button is long pressed. I know the keybinds are stored mainly in /system/usr/keylayout/Generic.kl but I can't find where the long press settings are stored.

The settings menu allows me to remap the action of long pressing, but it doesn't offer an option to invoke the dialog box of power menu. As far as I am concerned, the Android API doesn't provide any option to access the power button so I need to change the action inside proper system files. Also, the API doesn't allow me to map the screenshot taking what is the main purpose of mine. So I want either to map the dialog box of power menu or screenshot taking to the long press action of menu button.

I own Samsung Galaxy S3 with Cyanogenmod 14.1 Android 7.1.1


texts: Installing google play services from APKmirror by command line

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APKmirror provides many modern apps as split apk tar files. For example, if I want to install the android webview apk, I can download it from here, and un-tar the .apkm file to produce the following split apk:
├── APKM_installer.url
├── META-INF
├── base.apk
├── icon.png
├── info.json
├── split_config.en.apk
├── split_config.es.apk
├── split_config.fi.apk
├── split_config.fr.apk
├── split_config.iw.apk
├── split_config.ja.apk
├── split_config.pt.apk
├── split_config.ru.apk
├── split_config.sv.apk
├── split_config.th.apk
└── split_config.zh.apk

This split apk can be installed with:
adb install-multiple -r -g -t <directory>/*.apk

However, for APKmirror's google play services found here, when I untar I get this:
├── AndroidManifest.xml
├── META-INF
├── assets
├── build-data.properties
├── classes.dex
├── classes2.dex
├── classes3.dex
├── classes4.dex
├── classes5.dex
├── classes6.dex
├── classes7.dex
├── com
├── googledata
├── lib
├── org
├── res
├── resources.arsc
└── stamp-cert-sha256

This looks more like an .aab file, however it is missing the required BundleConfig.pb file.
What type of app format it this, and how can I turn it into a split apk that can be installed easily?


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I have a Android 4.4.2 tablet here and I am trying to use ADB with it, So I launch ADB on my PC and it opens and says 'No device found'. I have the USB Debugging enabled in the Developer Settings so why wont my PC recognise it?

UPDATE: When I first connected it to my Windows 8.1 PC it said installing device and it then said finished, So if I need drivers do I have to get different ones?


texts: Why isn't there any encryption application on GSM calling?

texts:
I just wondering the reason why there is no encryption tool for GSM calling in android.

Is it legal or technical problem?

Thank you


texts: Will an S4 boot and run without a volume button?

texts:
I have a Samsung Galaxy S4 with a dented/stuck volume button (causing any attempt to boot to end at the screen that asks whether I really want to install a custom OS because the smartphone perceives volume down as pressed).

I am planning to dispose of that device after getting (read: copying and wiping) some data from its internal memory.

As replacing the button costs a lot (both at the official and at other repair shops), I am considering just removing the button.

Will the smartphone work (and keep working for an hour or so) without the volume button? I am wondering whether anything in the system will notice the button is missing and refuse to boot. Also, an employee at one of the smartphone repair shops I went to claimed humidity would enter the smartphone through the opening, and anyway, the repair shops outright refused to remove the button without replacing it1.

1: Presumably because then, I'd pay less. I will remove the button myself, if I find no-one to do it for money, though.


texts:
I have an SSH server providing access to my files at home, secured by a private key.

I'd like to be able to synchronise those files with my Android phone (Samsung Galaxy Note, running Cyanogenmod 11 (Android 4.4.2).  I need two-way synchronisation: edits and deletes on the phone should be synchronised to the server, and edits and deletes on the server should be synchronised to the phone.

Ideally, this tool would run in the background, but I would be able to trigger it manually if required.

Does such a tool exist?  I've been unable to find one either in the Play Store or F-Droid.


texts: How can I diagnose what is using my 3g connection in small packets

texts:
My GSM carrier rounds all used data up to 100KB. Which means that if some app is sending/receiving 500 bytes, I get charged for 100KB.

Lately I observed that I go through several hundred megabytes per day.

Data usage in phone shows that I used ~ 400MB, while carrier charged me for over 2GB of data.

In detailed billing I see literally thousands of short connections (multiple per minute, 24 hours a day), each using 100KB - which means that actual data transfer is much lower.

Carrier helpdesk said that they can't tell me what I'm using the data for. Phone shows real data transfer, which in my case is useless.

What can I do to find out what application/process is sending lots of small packets of data (or receives)?

If it helps with anything, I'm using Motorola Moto G2 (only 1 SIM has data transfer enabled), and it's running Android 5.0.2.

While debugging the problem, I disabled Google Backup Services from using 3G (only works over Wifi now), and an hour ago I disabled it altogether. But given that it was disabled over 3G, I don't think it's the culprit.


texts: Use Charles Proxy to monitor traffic from an android game

texts: Can I use Charles Proxy to monitor traffic for an online android game like PUBG. If yes then what all information can I get from this? Can I use this to monitor the packets which are sent to the game server while playing the game and get the information like the ping I am getting while playing the game?


texts: Adopting SD card for Samsung S5 mini duos G800-H

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Has anyone managed to adopt the SD card for S5 mini duos. I've rooted it and tried to install ASPlugin (from RE) but it doesn't install either with CWR or TWPR. Also tried to partition the SD card (Samsung 64G) but the phone sees it as corrupted.

Model: SM-G800H
Android: 6.0.1
Build: MMB29M.G800HXXU1CPK1

Also I have tried all the steps here How to adopt SD card as internal storage on Samsung devices?

But no success so the question is has anyone managed to get it working specifically for S5 mini duos, is there something more restrictive about this version? The post above does mention in a comment that someone might have got it working for S5 (mini duos?). Would be wonderful to know how, what exact steps.

This is after rooting the phone. Did they manage to get ASPlugin to work if so how exactly.

Any thoughts much appreciated.


texts: What's the fastest and most intuitive way to transfer and install an Android application from a PC?

texts: I need an Android app to be installed on my phone. I have the APK on my PC. How can I receive it without manually transferring it over USB or using the adb install method. Preferably via WiFi.


texts: Which app should I select when inserting my phone into the car dock?

texts:
I have a Tasker profile conditional on the phone being in the Car Dock.   When I insert the phone in the dock, I sometimes get a prompt to choose which application to launch -- either Tasker or "Smart Dock", a built-in app.  (When I don't get the prompt, neither seems to be notified).  There is also an option to make the setting stick.   I want Tasker to be notified, but the built-in app to launch.   Which should I choose?

edit: I get the same prompt when removing the phone from the dock.


texts: ERROR : Unknown error when installing the application "-24"

texts:
Every time I try to download an app called icoron on my Galaxy note 3 an error message appears,
 Unknown error when installing the application "-24
Can anyone please help me?


texts: Linux automount corrupts ext4 partitions of Android install?

texts:
I've been experimenting with dual-boot between Linux and Android on an x86 device which came with Android + Windows preinstalled (Chuwi Hi10 Pro).

I soon found out that simply booting Ubuntu (either from a live USB stick or from the on-device install) will kill the Android installation (hangs at boot), to the point that only a factory restore will help.

The reason seems to be that Ubuntu automounts every ext4 filesystem it can find, including the Android partitions (system/data/cache/config). I've fixed this by adding the following to /etc/fstab:

# do _not_ automount the Android partitions
UUID=57f8f4bc-abf4-655f-bf67-946fc0f9f25b  /none ext4 ro,noauto 0 0
UUID=57f8f4bc-abf4-655f-bf67-946fc0f9f25b1 /none ext4 ro,noauto 0 0
UUID=57f8f4bc-abf4-655f-bf67-946fc0f9f25b2 /none ext4 ro,noauto 0 0
UUID=57f8f4bc-abf4-655f-bf67-946fc0f9f25b3 /none ext4 ro,noauto 0 0

I'm now wondering about two things:

What is it that Ubuntu can possibly do to the ext4 partitions that will later cause Android to hang on boot?
Could this be related to the fact that apparently all Android partitions share the same UUID?

EDIT: as suggested by mook765, here's the output of lsblk -f:

NAME         FSTYPE LABEL     UUID                                 MOUNTPOINT
mmcblk0
├─mmcblk0p1  vfat   ANDROIDIA 1389-AFF9                            /boot/efi
├─mmcblk0p2
├─mmcblk0p3
├─mmcblk0p4
├─mmcblk0p5
├─mmcblk0p6
├─mmcblk0p7  ext4             57f8f4bc-abf4-655f-bf67-946fc0f9f25b
├─mmcblk0p8  ext4             57f8f4bc-abf4-655f-bf67-946fc0f9f25b
├─mmcblk0p9  ext4             57f8f4bc-abf4-655f-bf67-946fc0f9f25b
├─mmcblk0p10
├─mmcblk0p11 ext4             57f8f4bc-abf4-655f-bf67-946fc0f9f25b
├─mmcblk0p12 vfat             8A7A-6F97
└─mmcblk0p13 ext4             9dadc784-4ed1-4e54-adec-8227b73a0777 /
mmcblk0boot0
mmcblk0boot1

Note that this is an intentional duplicate from https://askubuntu.com/questions/1092142/ubuntu-automount-corrupts-ext4-partitions-of-android-install.


texts:
Last night I rooted and installed CyanogenMod 20150625 Nightly on my LG G3 D855. I also wanted to replace the emojis in the system to iOS emojis. I did that and it worked, except for one, the red heart.

It's not showing in the emoji part of my keyboard and when I see it in texts, it's a black, small heart.

The things I tried:

Replacing the font file with two diffrent iOS emoji files.
Trying to change the emojis with two Emoji Switching apps from Play Store.
Deleting files that had emoji in the file name.

Every step I did gave me the same result. Any solution?


texts: how to set up lockscreen and quick acces to apps

texts:
Back in the day, I had a phone which I rooted and got a custom rom. (An Xperia X8, with the GingerDX custom rom using android 2.3.7)

When I turned on the phone, I got the sliders for calling, messages, silent mode, and a custom app. But since I ALSO had the pattern lock activated, just after sliding for either optin, I got the pattern lock screen, and after entering my pattern, I went to whatever app (quick access) I chose.

Now, I got a new phone, a Motorola RAZR XT919 with out of the box Jelly Bean (4.1.2), but now I see that if i choose to have the pattern lock screen, I no longer have the quick "slide" screen for quick access to common apps (calls, messages, and camera). Is this how it is always been for native android? Or there is some hidden option to have both functions? Or are there apps to achieve that?

I really never knew if that feature was specific for the custom rom I used with the other phone because it was my first android phone and i never compared it to others, but since it feels so natural, I expected it to just do the same for other newer android versions.

Wrapping up, I'd like to be able to have the shortcuts on the lockscreen, and then (if enabled) to be asked for the unlock pattern, so I can have the best of the two (immediately choosing and app and protect the phone with the pattern)

Any thoughts or ideas?


texts: Run android application from remote computer

texts:
I have asked this question in StackOverflow, but I figured it should be asked here...

I need to run my android application from remote computer (in the same network) via SSH (not using ADB). How do I do that?

Thanks,
Binyamin


texts: How can I play an .flv file on Android 2.1?

texts: I would like to play an .flv movie file on Android 2.1. How can I do this?


texts: Finding my Google email and password. I've made too many accounts

texts:
I really need help because I just got this tablet for Christmas and only had it for 2 weeks.

I wanted to set the security on facelock, so I didn't have to remember the password. Instead, I set it to a pattern and I forgot that I had to use my email if I got it wrong, which I did.

I can't remember my emails or passwords. I made too many email accounts, and the passwords were very similar to each other. I really want this thing to work. I went through my mind trying to remember the emails and their passwords. As you can see, I have failed.

Please help me. I'm only 12.


texts: When I try to download pictures from phone to computer, "no pictures found on this device"

texts:
I have an LG-X Power. I have tried to download the pictures from my phone to my computer. When I connect through a USB cord - I receive a message on my computer that reads: "No pictures found on this device". The pictures are on my phone, there are many. I bought a new USB cord, still the same. I have a standard Windows operating system.
I needed a few of the photos so I simply attached to an email, opened email on computer and downloaded that way. I have way too many to do that tedious method repeatedly.
Does anyone have any suggestions?


texts: Page loading stops and cannot be resumed when changing tabs in Android Tor Browser

texts:
I'm trying out the Tor browser on Android 9.0 (device is not rooted). When I open a page and change tabs before the new page is fully loaded, the loading process is interrupted and cannot be resumed. Changing back to the "inactivated" tab and reloading does not work, the tab has to be closed and the page needs to be loaded from a new tab.

As usual, the Tor browser comes bundled with NoScript and HTTPS Everywhere, I'm also using the uBlock Origin extension (any opinion on this?). Background data is disabled for all apps except messengers and the max. number of background processes (developer options) is set to zero. I have tried changing the security settings as well as disabling uBO, but the problem persists... Now that I think of it, I encountered the same issue using the Brave browser on Android.

Can anyone reproduce this behaviour and tell me what's causing it? This is extremely annoying, as using Tor increases loading time with some pages, I therefore want to be able to switch to a different tab while waiting.


texts: Easiest way to reduce power consumption to phone only

texts:
Sometimes I'm in a situation where I can't charge and want to have phone service as long as possible.  I won't care if nothing else is enabled.

What's the easiest way eliminate as much other power consumption as possible?  Minimal apps, no sync, no data, GPS, Bluetooth.

I'm configured to easily turn off all the radios (BT, Wifi, GPS), but I'd like to strip down as much else that burns power as possible without spending a lot of time reconfiguring.

...AND I'd like to be able to return to normal use just as easily (rebooting would be fine for this, too).

In my case, needs to work on CDMA network, too.


texts: How can I customize notifications in Android Lollipop?

texts:
They are driving me insane!

I have set my device to be in priority mode indefinitely, and also set downtime for every day of the week from 7am to 7am the next day.

I have customized notifications so that only gmail, my work email app can show when priority mode is on, and set the general notification settings to show only calls and messages when priority mode is active.

I am still getting notifications for anything, and it is particularly annoying.


texts: Problem with simultaneously connection in game (NavyField Mobile)

texts:
I wonder if you can help me. There is a game called NavyField on the android system. The game allowed connecting two devices with the same Google account at the same time. You could play on one and chat on the other (online game) After the last game update (deliberately done by DEV) you can not connect two devices to game server at the same time. App cloning and similar things don't work.

My question is. Is there a way to get around this from the game client side?


texts:
I've tried mounting them in Ubuntu, no luck, mount does not recognize the yaffs2 file system. I've tried yaffs2utils and ./unyaffs2 but it doesn't actually unpack the img files, I've posted an issue about this on the Google Code page here.

The img files were created by CWM Recovery as a backup, and I'm trying to dig into the file system to find old contacts, and if I could just get the .db files I think I got it from there (I'll just run sqlite3 and peek into the db and print the contacts on paper or something).

Any help appreciated!


texts: Moving apps to SD: is there any difference between the function in Settings and the apps offered in the Google Play store?

texts:
I noticed several apps in the Google Play store featuring the ability to move apps to the SD card. My Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 has an application manager under Settings, and this application manager already provides the ability to move apps to the SD card.

Without rooting my phone, is the included application manager doing the same thing as the apps in the store? Or is there something more the other apps can offer?

I ask because of a few problematic apps that take up a lot of device storage, even after telling them to move to the SD card.


texts: I had some songs in my phone and then I deleted all the songs and I factory reset my phone but still all media players shows the songs but it can't play only the name and pictures is shown. How do I delete it?


texts: How can I control my Azpen Android Tablet with a broken screen without root or usb debugging?

texts:
I've had this Azpen A700 tablet for a while, but at some point it got the touchscreen broken. I can still see an image but the touchscreen is completely unresponsive. I'd like to still get some use out of it, but it is not rooted and it has USB debugging disabled. Is there any way to control it or root it without the touch interface? I have a USB cable for it, it's just that the USB debugging setting is turned off.

I've tried googling how to control an android tablet with a usb cable and it requires rooting. Then I looked up how to root a device and it requires usb debugging. Is it possible to do it without rooting or debugging?


texts: Why phone encryption without screen lock is possible under Marshmallow?

texts:
Since phone encryption is irreversible, I'd like to ask before applying it to my phone for the first time.

I have a slide-screen unlock set under my Moto E3 / Android 6.0 Marshmallow. No PIN, no pattern. How it is possible that my phone / Android allows me to encrypt my phone in this situation?

Here are all the warnings I can see.

First screen warns me that:

I need to power up my battery to something around maximum,
I need to connect my phone to charger,
phone encryption takes 1+ hour.

Second screen warns me that:

phone encryption is irreversible,
phone encryption takes 1+ hour.

But, on both screens I can tap Encrypt Phone button without any problems.

What am I missing? Shouldn't I be rather warned that phone encryption is not possible in my case, because I failed to set PIN-lock or pattern-lock for my screen / phone? Shouldn't Android 6.0 rather disallow me to continue with phone encryption in this case?


texts: Touchscreen problems with a rk2918 tablet

texts:
I have an Evolio Evotab 2 (RK2918) running gingerbread

http://www.gsmland.ro/tableta-evolio-evotab_2-4090

(sorry couldn't find english site with specs)

When typing fast it repeats the last letter instead of the one I just pressed. (for instance If I type Q and quickly go to K I get QQ )

I tried flashing other roms from similar chinese tablets but couldn't find one where everything worked.

Also it happens more often in landscape than when typing in portrait mode.

Can anybody tell me if this sounds like a software or hardware issue?

This is what I tried so far:
-other keyboards than stock
-tried typing in different places (browsers,apps)
-other rom's
-wipe+flash+root and uninstall allmost everything with TB = still happens.

Thank you.


texts: Is there a quick way to change settings on Android?

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Sometimes I need to quickly change a couple of settings, which are located deep enough (3 or more levels) in the settings menu. Is there a way to do this without actually opening the settings or writing my own app (which I could probably do, but why doing something that could be done more easily, right?) to do so?
I have thought about: maybe there is something like pinning certain settings to homescreen or something like .bat files on Windows? Or maybe there are certain apps where it is possible to quickly change settings from a list or even create some settings presets?


texts: Is there a way to change the toggles in Lollipop? I'd like to remove and add some.


texts: Will Samsung Pay still work on the Gear S3 if you root your Samsung phone?

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Specifically on a Note 5 5.1.1. Knox IS tripped, but I'm hoping I'll still be able to use Samsung pay on the watch since you install it as an applet using the gear app rather than the actual Samsung pay app. I've seen posts saying it works with Samsung pay on non-Samsung phones, but haven't yet found out if it will work in my case with a knox-tripped Samsung phone. Anyone have one that can confirm/deny?

Thank you.


texts: 2.4 GHz wireless headset connection to Android for calls

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Got one of these radio wireless 2.4 GHz headphones with a USB dongle (not Bluetooth) - HyperX Cloud Stinger Core Wireless 7.1 PC.
Tried plugging the dongle into my android phone (Galaxy A40, Android 10, 4.4.177-18598463) via an OTG cable and the headphones work with the media output.
But for calls in Skype and Teams the sound goes to the phone's speaker.
I guess there might be a standard with these 2.4 GHz wireless headphone dongles because it just works with Android with no additional apps or drivers.
What is the name of the standard?
Is there a way to make calls with an Android with these headphones?
Edit: I think the headset gets detected as a USB headset (I checked using the "Device Info HW" app), so the question becomes how do I configure Android to use the USB headset for calls (Skype, Teams).


texts: "incompatible" apps through google play market

texts: Just a quick one here, I've recently installed gingerbread to my HD2 using cyanogenmod 7, previous to this I was running froyo through a different mod.  My problem is this, many of the market apps that ran fine on my phone before are now listed as incompatible and Google play refuses to let me download them.  I know that they are compatible, because like I said, I ran them perfectly well on my froyo mod.  Is there a way around this problem?


texts: Can't restore Nexus 6p Google Drive backup to new LG G6

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Previously I've owned Nexus phones and the transfer of apps etc from old to new phone has been seamless. However restoring apps from my old Nexus 6p to my new LG G6 didn't work. The only thing that transferred was the google account.

I'm able to see the N6p backup on Google Drive from a desktop browser, but when I try to restore backups via G6 settings, I get told that no backups are available.

Is the LG maybe incompatible with the Android backup/restore system?


texts: How to reset the device information in Google Play Store?

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I was using Samsung Galaxy with android, then I bought the new Motorola DROID RAZR using same SIM card.

when I'm trying to download any app from Google Play Store, it still refers to my previous device. How would I update my device information?


texts: My galaxy mini was running GB 2.3.6. I recently rooted my phone and installed CM 7.2. Now it looks like my battery is getting drained a little quicker than before. From what I have heard CM increases performance while giving a better battery life. So is my case an exception? Can somebody suggest methods to increase battery life after installing Cyanogenmod?


texts: Factory reset doesn't seem to work entirely

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I have a Samsung Galaxy S4.  Performance playing videos is sluggish, and so are some calls and even camera functions, unless I'm on a Bluetooth connection.  In addition, after I perform a data wipe/reset from recovery mode, there are some files still present that I would suspect shouldn't be, like a file I placed in system/app.

What is happening here baffles me, but I suspect it may be something to do with the factory wipe not actually wiping everything, and some kind of internal memory corruption. A thread on another site I found advised that internal memory can become locked as read-only.  Don't know if that's what's doing it.

Is there a way I manually delete the internal memory?  Being an S4, I can't put a custom recovery on it (thanks, AT&T), so I can't wipe things from there.  ADB complains that files are in use when I try to delete them.

Is there another way to delete these files?  Which ones can I safely delete?  Could this be another problem besides memory corruption? What can I do to troubleshoot?

Thank you for any help!


texts: Issues with limited internet connectivity (photos, wifi)

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There are a host of issues that you run into when running stock Android in a country that blocks Google's servers. The first issue you run into is the setup wizard getting stuck trying to do updates. I already found a workaround for that one. But I can't figure out how to fix the following:

Wi-fi connections always show "Connected, no Internet" with an exclamation point icon.
Doesn't automatically connect to saved wi-fi locations because it thinks there is no Internet.
Photos app doesn't show any photos at all except when Airplane mode is on or when connected to a VPN.

Other issues such as the Play store not working are to be expected. But I wish I had workarounds for the 3 issues above. The "Connected, no Internet" warning must be using some Google service to detect connectivity. Can it be changed to use some other service that is not blocked? The Photos app not showing photos seems an unexcusable offense because the photos are stored locally and browsable with a file explorer. Why does Google need to go online at all to display photos on the phone?


texts: fb_temp not appearing on orca/cache folder

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I tried to recover my facebook messages that were deleted around a month ago using the ES File Explorer. So I went to Internal Storage > Android > data > com.facebook.orca > cache. The forums stated that there should be the fb_temp folder there, but there's none. Version is 5.0 and is not rooted.

Do I have to root my phone first?

Thank you guys.


texts: Stream media from Play Store on Android To PC

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I was just wondering whether it is possible to stream play store content from android to your PC. I know there are ways to stream movies that are stored on the actual device, but I want to be able to stream movies that I might buy on the Google Play Store to my PC for watching when I'm at home.

Thanks for any help you can provide.