Google drive internet problems android phone I have a Samsung galaxy j1, and I have the google drive and docs apps installed. When I try to open a document from drive, I get an error. When I try to open docs, I get an error.

You could try one of the few methods described to have been useful:

Clearing cache and data of Google drive and(/or) Google+

Settings >> Apps >> Google drive >> Force stop >> Clear cache and data. Do this for Google+.

After this try disabling and reenabling sync:

Go to Settings >> Account >> Select your account >> disable Drive,  >> Goggle+, and re-enable the sync.
Restart Google Drive.

Disabling ipv6 in Wi-Fi settings

There is some evidence that the ipv6 setting in some routers, kills Google drive functionality, and the workaround proposed by one user was disabling the setting:

  How you do this depends on your router. In the case of my NVG589
  router (AT&T U-verse), it turned out to be very simple: log into your
  router as an admin, go to Home Network >> Configure. Then turn off
  IPv6 in the dropdown and click Save. I rebooted my phone to be sure I
  established all new connections to the router.Google Drive (Sheets and
  Docs, too) has been working fine since.

Acknowledgements

Google Drive for Android won't sync over WiFi


Cyanogenmod Unofficial and custom kernel I am new to cyanogen OS and using cyanogenmod unofficial from xda for my xiaomi. Why, it is said unofficial and is there any official release available for xiaomi from cyanogen. Also, I am trying to use a different kernel(camera is not working with built-in kernel ). Whether I get updates, as the kernel is different? What are the specifications for a good kernel, And about security? Please give me, suggestions.

Availability of official CM builds for MI devices isn't guaranteed (see note at the end) because the individual maintainers usually put bug fixing at priority and keep other factors (e.g. enforcing SELinux) hanging, some of which are required by CM. This is the same for almost all devices - who doesn't want a fully functional ROM before anything else?

As long as the build itself works fine, the only things you need to worry about it are 1) what extras are added in the build (e.g. themes, apps favored by the developer) and 2) how often it's updated (again, largely depends on the developer).

As for the kernel... When the issue isn't resolved in the original build, it's rare that a custom kernel can remedy that (or why wouldn't the developer of the original build merge it?). You will get kernel updates separately from the kernel developer - flash every update manually. Also, every time the ROM itself gets updated, the custom kernel will be overwritten, so you need to flash the kernel at that point, too. Talking about security, if you could trust the dev of your CM build, there's no reason you can't trust the dev of the kernel - they're on the same tier and are equally likely to compromise your security.

For the last part, IMO, a good kernel combines stability, performance (e.g. overclocking and opt flags) and battery life (e.g. underclocking, undervolting). All other features are just icing on the cake.

To others: feel free to comment and point out missing/faulty contents!

Note: Official Lineage OS 14.1 Nougat ROM is available for some MI devices.(Redmi 1s, Mi3,Mi4,Mi5,MIMAX,Redmi3/Prime, Redmi Note3)


Stuck on bootup screen from TWRP I am following this guide to root my Samsung Galaxy Core Prime SM-G360T1(MetroPCS) using TWRP.

What did I wrong:

I went into TWRP recovery
I pressed on "Reboot"
I pressed on "Power Off"
A pop up came up saying "Your device is not rooted, would you like to download SuperSu now?"
I pressed yes

Phone restarts and now is stuck on metropcs bootup screen and the interesting thing is its vibrating in a pattern... 2 vibrates then 1 after a second later and does that again in 3 seconds.

I did not put SusperSu into the internal memory so im pretty sure thats why its like "Wtf bro, where is SusperSu?"

So how do i get out of this? Help please!!!

Getting out of a bootloop

What you want to do is to restore a working system partition.

You have two options available.

Option 1: Flashing a Custom ROM

Your first option is to download a custom ROM on the XDA-developers forum.
Make sure that the rom you've downloaded is for your specific model!
Mount your SDcard and copy your ROM to the device OR use adb and a command prompt to push the file to your SDcard

adb push rom.zip /sdcard

If you have copied the ROM onto your device, go into the Wipe section and wipe the following partitions:

/system
/cache
/dalvik cache

When you are done with wiping, choose Install and select your custom ROM. When done flashing, reboot your device without confirming the root dialogue. ;)

Then you should be good to go with a working system and a pre-rooted ROM.

Option 2: Installing a stock firmware.

Your second option is to flash a stock ROM (samsung).
Wipe the following partitions (should be automatically wiped when flashing with Odin but it won't hurt):

/system
/cache
/dalvik cache

You can download the STOCK ROM from sammobile and follow these instructions (which can also be found on the sammobile download page)

Extract (unzip) the firmware file
Download Odin v3.11.1
Extract Odin ZIP file
Open Odin v3.11.1
Reboot Phone in Download Mode (press and hold Home + Power + Volume Down buttons)
Connect phone and wait until you get a blue sign in Odin
Add the firmware file to AP / PDA
Make sure re-partition is NOT ticked
Click the start button, sit back and wait few minutes

After this procedure your device will be stock again.

So which method to use? I would go for the first option because:

You will be running a rooted custom rom
You don't have to reflash a custom recovery.
It should be done quicker


Samsung GT-I9192 No Boot loop and can't enter recovery mode No Boot loop and can't enter recovery mode I tried to boot into recovery mode, the phone vibrates then does nothing. If I release the buttons it simply goes into charging mode. Also tried flash official rom with ODIN But nothing, write only: Setupinstalation this is last message in ODIN. what can i do?? thanks

i get Kies but in "Firmware emergency recobery" list is not anything try reinstall drivers but nothing.thanks for reply

Have you tried using Kies? This is the way to go if you want to restore your firmware. After, you can go to recovery and factory reset.


Is there such a thing as touchscreen calibration I have bought a generic touchscreen replacement (not the actual screen where pixels are drawn, but rather the touch sensor where touches are captured) for my Defy/MB525, and replaced it myself.

It doesn't work, it seems to register many random touches in a few seconds (while the charger is disconnected, and no screen protection films are present). I know I probably either did something wrong or got a malfunctioning touchscreen, but maybe I'm missing something?

Do I need to perform some calibration? If so, how can I proceed? My phone is asking for a locking code and I can't enter it as it is.

As you asked for a calibration tool: The Playstore seems to have some suitable candidates, e.g. Touch sensitivity calibration. But while this might be helpful, the permissions look quite suspect: The only job of the app is screen calibration, but it requests permissions such as accessing your contacts, call phone numbers, read and send SMS/MMS, and more -- according to a screenshot on the apps page at Google Play. Funnily, the permissions tab says differently: No permissions required... So I'd give it a try, and abort installation in case those permissions really turn up.


disable autocomplete on galaxy s4 I have the Galaxy S4. Is there a way to turn off the Autocomplete on the dialpad so that the numbers that I dont have saved in my phone won't pop up?

I'm assuming from the way the question is written, you may want Fixed Dialing Numbers (FDN).

The Samsung Galaxy S4 can be set so that it may only call certain numbers from a set of specified prefixes. This is useful if you only want to call people on a specific network to save additional charges on inter-network calls. To do the restriction, you may need to follow these procedures.

Phone > Menu > Call Settings > Additional Settings > Fixed Dialing Numbers > Enable FDNFollow the prompts to supply the rest of the information needed.

If you have FDN already enabled, and the number list is too broad, you can try disabling it, and using dialing presets instead.


How can I quickly remove all of my data from my device and then get it back again? Soon, I'll have to give my phone (a non-rooted LG Nexus 4) to another person for some time. As the phone contains very sensitive information, I do not want this person to be able to access any of it. Unfortunately, I don't have data encryption turned on, so I can't just turn the device off and be sure that the other person won't be able to decrypt it.

Basically, I want to wipe my phone right now and then restore it to exactly the state it was before the wipe.

Therefore, I was thinking of backing up my device completely, wiping it and then restoring the backup. How can I do this? Will adb backup -all -shared -apk be sufficient? I guess not, since I'm afraid there are some settings that adb won't detect. Is there a lower-level way, like making an image of all the phone's memory with fastboot/recovery or something?

You would need to root your phone and install a custom recovery in order to make a nandroid backup of your entire system.  There are YouTube videos on how to do this. Please remember that there are risks in rooting and in flashing recoveries.


Kill all running apps automatically Is it possible to kill the running apps (SMS, browser, games ...) automatically by turn off the screen or during a certain period of time?  My device is not rooted.

I'd use Greenify for something like this. It doesn't kill all running apps (as this is counterproductive to Android itself for many reasons), but you can select apps for Greenify to hibernate each time you turn the screen off.

For me this was nice because there were several apps like random game that would run all the time, and Greenify helps this.

Also, where Greenify used to be root-only, it now works in non-root mode, (need to be enabled in experimental features setting, Android 4.1+ required). If you have secure key-guard enabled, try "Hibernate and Lock Screen" shortcut or "Pull up" gesture on Home soft-key. - Greenify description from Play store app page


Forward WhatsApp messages to e-mail or SMS Some friends of mine want to use WhatsApp to send me messages from time to time. But, I don't want to install the app (or I don't want to have it running all the time). Can I configure something within WhatsApp or another service to forward the messages from WhatsApp to an e-mail address via SMS?

Even a solution that requires me to configure a program on my own server would suffice.

You can bridge WhatsApp to Matrix using mautrix which can be bridged to other serives like email. It is unfortunatley quite the hacky setup:

Have a Synapse or another Matrix server
Run an Android VM to run WhatsApp
Run the mautrix bridge
Run another bridge, e.g. this one, to bridge to email or wherever desired.


Displaying Bluetooth gadget's battery status on the phone I have a Bluetooth headset (BlueBuds X) which uses a battery. I want to know its battery status directly from the phone. I've looked everywhere and I cannot find a solution that isn't a scam.

Is it possible to display the battery percentage on the phone (preferably, on notification bar)?

This is possible on Android, at least on Lollipop. The feature is dependent on the Bluetooth headset sending the battery level in the right format.
If the headset supports it, you will see an option in the settings screen for the Bluetooth device. The option will be right above the check-boxes for Call and Media audio. If you don't see this option, then the headset either doesn't send battery data or it doesn't send it in the correct format.
Once the feature is enabled, you will see a fill-able icon on the left side of your notification bar. I've confirmed this using a cheap earbud set from China.


Why can't I change my location in Google Wallet? I recently bought a Google Play gift card (in SGD). When I tried redeeming it, an error was shown,"cannot be redeemed in your country"

Then I went on to change my location in the settings.

It thus gave me another error. I have 0.00 money in my wallet. I don't understand why I have this problem.

At present, the Google Wallet app is only supported in a few countries.  The only form of Google Wallet available in other countries is the desktop version.

This is stated in Google's  FAQ .

You won't be able to change your country from within the Android app.


Set the calendar display to the correct timezone on Samsung Galaxy Nexus How do I set the calendar display to the correct timezone on my Samsung Galaxy Nexus phone?

For instance, editing of a calendar entry shows 14:00 [Montreal time], but the event display time in the calendar's weekly view for the same entry is 17:00.

You might be aware of the common fact that the date,time,time zone set in the device settings will act as a reference/source for various apps like calender,logs,messages.So whatever be the date,time setting your settings will be reflected to all the required apps.(factory widgets,custom installed apps). So if you want the correct time to be reflected in the calender as well you need to change the source of the date,time.

Note:-Some apps like what's app have inbuilt detection methods through which the app will give you a warning in change of time when compared to the previous set time.(i.e. if there is a change in the time of app and time of device then it will give you a warning to set the correct time and date and the app will not start until and unless the time is correct)

As @geff has suggested please try changing the Time zone of the phone.


Is there way to stop ads? Every time I unlock my phone (yu yunicorn | marshmallow), ad pops up, covering the whole screen, ads also pop ups when I am using any app and it also uses chrome to direct to ads, its poping up when I am writing this, is there a way to stop these ads ?( disabling the internet is one way, I think, but I want to be connected all times)

These type of ads usually come from an app you have installed, typically uninstalling the offending app will correct this.

Use Addons Detector to determine the app that is causing the ads and uninstall it.


Install cyanogenmod on an S5 mini (G800F) probably a standard question. I would like to install cyanogenmod on my device. There is a ROM available which I would like to try. I can boot my device into recovery mode. I can choose to flash the zip to be flashed, I do however get the "E: failed to verify whole-file signature" error, presumably because the image is not signed by Samsung.

To get around this problem, is it necessary to install TWRP / CWM or is there another way to flash the image?
Is TWRP/CWM device-dependent as well?
If yes, where can I find an image suitable for my device (I don't want to hard-brick the device by getting the wrong one)?
The link above mentions a recovery image. However, this image has a *.md5 extension and not *.img. Isn't the latter required (at least for odin3 / heimdall)?

3rd-party recovery is necessary.
Yes.
XDA-Developers also have you covered. You already have the ROM there, why not take some more time to look around and grab TWRP 3.0.0 (newer than provided in your link)?
*.md5 allows Odin/Heimdall to verify image integrity before loading it. It's just your regular *.tar with MD5 attached to it. Odin does not accept *.imgs.

Also, in case you didn't notice, CyanogenMod 13 is available for this device too.


Deleting files on SD card does not free up space on SD card I'm facing this issue:

When I delete a big folder, it's not deleted, but moved in "system data" instead, I remove the card, I plug it in my pc and my pc says that the device has to be checked for errors, it runs the check and then creates a folder named found.000, if I delete this, the free space is regained! I've already formatted my SD card, same issue happened!

The strange thing is that this happens only with large/huge files and folders, if I delete some megabytes, not a byte is added in system data! so I think I need to think why could this be happening with large data

I've got a similar 1 gb of data in internal too but this should be the mi cloud backup?
is it stored locally?
how can I delete it?
(I'm root)

Connect your SD card to PC/laptop and perform a chkdsk repair


How can I not show profile pics in Whatsapp? I don't want any profile pics to appear for any contacts in Whatsapp on my HTC One X, any idea if this is possible?

Until and unless the app doesn't provide the functionality there is nothing an end use can do except request them for the feature.

One difficult and less possible way though would be to monitor the data transfer whatsapp makes and see if it uses different subdomain or IP for pictures like pics.whatsapp.com. If they do so then you can block that particular subdomain. But this might cause the app to misbehave.


Android-x86 8.1 in VMWare Workstation doesn't show GUI I installed android-x86-8.1-r2.iso 64 bit version in VMWare Workstation 15.5.0 under Win10x64 1903.

It starts into the linux command line prompt, and I tried Alt+Fx, there is no GUI. I tried all four boot menu(normal/debug/debug nomodeset/debug VIDEO=LVDS...), all the same.

To switch to GUI, please ensure that you have 3D acceleration turned on in VMWare Machine Settings.

If you still cannot see the GUI, try Alt+F7


Can I store contacts on my SD card? How? I have 400mb of internal storage on my HTC, 100 of which is consumed by my (extensive) contacts. I am constantly low on storage--is there any way to store my contacts on my SD card?

I looked in the application options and the option to move data to SD is grayed out.

Are there other smart ways to manage the size of my contacts list? I can't figure out how to create groups in Google contacts--i don't need to sync my entire addressbook to my phone but I do want to keep the full list. I also don't need to store photos for each contact, but Google seems to add those automatically.

As far as I know, all contacts in Android stored in a SQLite database inside the private folder of the "Contact Storage" app. The location is at /data/data/com.android.providers.contacts/databases/contacts.db

So if you have root access to your device, it is theoretically fesible to either bind a folder on your SD card to the above location, or it is possible to make the above folder a symbol link (soft link) to a location on your SD card.

However, this is not recommended because the stability and performance of your device can be affected. For example, if you connect your phone to PC and mount it as drive, the SD card is temporarily unmounted on the phone.  Another risky situations is when you boot your mobile phone and before the SD card is mounted. The Contact Storage app may try to access the contact list (maybe for caching some of the favorite contacts, or maybe someone call you) during this period, all these may not be expected by the Contact Storage app and could result in unpredictable result (e.g. a dirty state of the app which make your contact inaccessible).


Why do I have two notifications when I get emails from gmail? I don't understand why I get two notifications on my phone every time I get an email. Is my phone running emails from two different apps? It's HTC One Mini, running Android 4.4.2.

Screenshot (click for larger variant)

You are running two email applications.

From your screenshot the one with the big "N" is the Gmail appliction the other is from the HTC Email application, called email.

You can remove your account from either, or disable the whole application if that suits better.

To remove the account from HTC Email.

Press the "Application Menu" button at the bottom of your HTC device's screen.
Scroll to the "Email" icon, then tap it once to launch the program. If the application opens to the inbox of one of your accounts, press the "Back" button at the bottom of the phone to return to the "Accounts" menu.
Touch and hold your finger on the account that you want to delete until a pop-up window opens on the screen.
Touch the "Remove Account" option.
Tap the "OK" button to remove the account.

Alternatively (since this doesn't seem to work on this device in particular):

Go to Settings
Click Applications
Click Mail
Click Clear Data

As another alternative if the mail application is 'mail' rather than 'email' there is a remove account option in the settings.

To remove a Google account

Go to Settings > Accounts and sync > Your Google Account Name

You can either untick Gmail in the synch settings, OR click the button Remove Account to completely remove your Google account (which you may not want to do for obvious reasons).


Moto G phone continuously shows dialogs saying "Unfortunately, SomeApp has stopped" My Motorola G phone continuously shows crash dialogs of the app. Multiple dialogs appear on top of each other and if I press ok, the dialog reappears immediately. Due to these dialogs, I cannot use the phone. I am not even able to turn on developer options as the dialogs are not letting me do anything.

I tried to format the phone by pressing power and volume down option. But when I press recovery or factory option, the phone reboots with the above issues.

I also tried fastboot commands to erase data but I didn't get success in formatting the phone.

How can I fix this issue?

Flashing the phone should solve the issue if it is not hardware related(damaged eMMC). The issue may occur when phone is infected by malwares.

This guide on XDA Developers may help you out.


Text to speech erratic after android 4.3 update I use the app AnkiDroid on my HTC One to learn Italian. It has a text to speech option which, when enabled, reads the text on the flashcards aloud. However, after updating to Android 4.3, this function has become extremely erratic - only 1 of every 20/30 cards is read out (it worked perfectly before the update).

I have also recently bought a Google nexus 7, running Android 4.4.2, and it also has the same issue. Does anybody have any ideas about why this is happening and if possible how I could resolve this?

I released AnkiDroid 2.0.3 yesterday, it fixes the TTS bug described at https://code.google.com/p/ankidroid/issues/detail?id=1892

Does 2.0.3 fix the problem you described in your question?

Before 2.0.3 the TTS part of AnkiDroid had not changed in a long time, so it must be that TTS changed in Android 4.3.

If anybody has some info about what changed in Android 4.3's TTS it would be extremely appreciated.


How can I fully factory reset an Optimus 2X P990 with ClockWorkMod? I think I forgot to wipe my cache and something else when I installed Cyanogenmod 7 - which I could reboot into just fine. However, when I went to go back and switch to my vanilla Optimus 2X backup (using the ClockWorkMod Recovery - backup, not advanced backup), I reboot and I get the LG loading screen with the police-line loading bar, but after a couple of seconds that loading bar stops moving and the whole thing is frozen.

So, I take out the battery and go back into ClockWorkMod Recovery using the Vol Down + Power shortcut (which only works in about a third of the start-up attempts, for some reason). Where can I go from here to restore to a factory-reset version of the Optimus 2X's 2.2 Froyo?

Update 10/06/2012 6:54PM +8 UST:

If, in CWM Recovery, I clean the cache and wipe user data, then install CyanogenMod7 from .zip again, it boots and runs fine.

After restoring your backup of the original firmware, in recovery select

Wipe Data/Factory Reset

This way you have the original firmware (except for the recovery partition) but without any user data.


Galaxy S6 - Can't unlock phone after factory reset I just got a new Galaxy S9 to replace my 3-year-old Galaxy S6 and I will be giving it to my mother so I did a Factory Reset to my Galaxy S6. To my surprise, doing a factory reset didn't actually delete everything from the phone so I went into recovery mode and did a "Wipe data/factory reset" from there.

After restarting the phone and connecting to a WiFi network I'm asked to enter my Samsung Account, which I did, but I can't get past this screen! When I click on the "Sign In" button this is what happens:

The dialogs disappear and nothing happens. If I put a wrong password it tells me the password is wrong but when entering the correct one I can't get past this. I tried doing a factory reset again, unlocking the device from my Samsung account (which fails because it says remote access is not enabled or something like that) and even removing the device from my Samsung account. I also tried multiple methods that you can find online to bypass this but none of them work on Android 7 (Nougat).

I don't know what else to do, my device is just unusable now.

Ok, I finally got a solution to my problem, this is obviously a Samsung bug in their software because I can't unlock my phone with the legitimate Android account. The following method works for unlocking any Samsung phone which is good and, at the same time, bad because a skilled enough thief can unlock your phone (although he won't have access to the data because the phone must be wiped).

Download Miracle Box, at this time 2.58 is the latest version.
Put your phone in Download Mode and connect it to the PC.
Open Miracle Box and go to the Samsung tab.
Select the Reset Reactivation/EE Locks and click Start Button and wait for it to finish.
Your phone won't boot now, download a stock Samsung ROM with the same version as you had. I had Nougat so I have to download that, don't try a lower version because the bootloader won't allow you to flash it.
Use ODIN to flash the new stock ROM.
You should be able to boot your phone normally without entering the Samsung account.

If you think this is too much for you give UnlockJunky a try. It was going to be my last resource.


Where to find information about WiFi connectivity of the device? is there a way I can find information about my device's connectivity to WiFi network? I need information like: what network I'm connected too, what is the mac address of the router, how long have I been connected, when was the initial connection.
I tried looking in proc/net, but I didn't find any useful information there? Is there any other place I can look in?

You can use various Wifi/network analysis apps from Play Store to get some of the information you're looking for. I suggest IP Tools. In its default screen/view, you would get to see following information et al:

SSID
Internal IP
Your Android device's MAC address
Gateway
DNS
Frequency
BSSID (your router's MAC address)
Lease duration

If you need more information, you'd need to setup adb and issue this command:

adb shell dumpsys wifi

It would throw incredible amount of information, most of it incomprehensible for an end-user. However, it would show even such information not available to apps, such as, when was the device last connected or disconnected from a Wi-Fi.

In my Android 8.1.0 (OnePlus 6), I get to see this information et al:

WifiMetrics:
mConnectionEvents:

startTime=12-23 21:36:05.762, SSID="Connected, no internet", BSSID=ROUTER'S_MAC_ADDRESS, durationMillis=1530, roamType=ROAM_UNRELATED, connectionResult=
1, level2FailureCode=NONE, connectivityLevelFailureCode=NONE, signalStrength=-34, wifiState=WIFI_DISCONNECTED, screenOn=true. mRouterFingerprint: mCo
nnectionEvent.roamType=0, mChannelInfo=2412, mDtim=0, mAuthentication=2, mHidden=false, mRouterTechnology=4, mSupportsIpv6=false

startTime=12-23 22:32:56.874, SSID="Connected, no internet", BSSID=ROUTER'S_MAC_ADDRESS, durationMillis=1541, roamType=ROAM_UNRELATED, connectionResult=
1, level2FailureCode=NONE, connectivityLevelFailureCode=NONE, signalStrength=-28, wifiState=WIFI_DISCONNECTED, screenOn=true. mRouterFingerprint: mCo
nnectionEvent.roamType=0, mChannelInfo=2412, mDtim=0, mAuthentication=2, mHidden=false, mRouterTechnology=4, mSupportsIpv6=false

startTime=12-23 22:36:49.886, SSID="Connected, no internet", BSSID=ROUTER'S_MAC_ADDRESS, durationMillis=1542, roamType=ROAM_UNRELATED, connectionResult=
1, level2FailureCode=NONE, connectivityLevelFailureCode=NONE, signalStrength=-28, wifiState=WIFI_DISCONNECTED, screenOn=true. mRouterFingerprint: mCo
nnectionEvent.roamType=0, mChannelInfo=2412, mDtim=0, mAuthentication=2, mHidden=false, mRouterTechnology=4, mSupportsIpv6=false

The aforesaid information tells me the last three times (because I restarted my device earlier, so not much of earlier information available) my device connected to a Wi-Fi.

If you look into the log entries under Dump of WifiConnectivityManager you would get to know more info on when the device was disconnected and then connected.

Moreover, the dump output also has all the information I listed above for IP Tools app. It is only a matter of filtering the important information out of that dump.


How do you set the Swype keyboard to delete the entire word when the delete button is held down? Older version did this but now it only happens to the first word. "If I have a sentence like this" and wanted to delete all the way to "If I" I could have held down the delete key and after a second it would start deleting word by word.

Looks like this feature was disabled in the latest version of Swype:  http://forum.swype.com/archive/index.php/t-6439.html

phargarten
06-22-2012, 11:16 AM
Hey Swypers,
We've changed the delete behavior a bit -- and while it took me a day to get used to it, I have to say it has sped up my Swyping a bit. So here's a couple changes we've made to the deletion behavior:

Pressing delete after Swyping a word will delete the entire word. We find that Swype is rarely off by a little. If we don't guess the word you want, you probably want to delete the whole word and Swype again, rather than deleting a few characters. So delete after a Swyped word will delete the entire word.
For this reason, the long press "Delete word back" function has been removed.

Remember, you can always press the Swype key to highlight the word next to the cursor. Swype another word to replace the highlighted text.
Cheers and Happy Swyping!
Peter@SwypeSupport


Application for remote-wiping a lost phone without handing access to my data to a third-party? Or having to pay a subscription?

I have an idea for a hypothetical Android app. Tell me if such a thing already exists.

You install a server in a machine you have total control of, and is (preferably, but not obligatorily) online 24/7.
You install the client app on your phone. You configure it to connect to the hostname/port the server you installed in #1 is listening to.
The client app does a connect every 5 minutes or so. (Configurable.) It backs up your data to your server machine if you configured it to do so.
Your phone is lost or stolen.
You connect to yourcomputer:yourport and feed it the Nuking Password. The server app hashes your Nuking Password and stores it at a predefined location (i.e. yourcomputer:yourport/Nuke)
Like in every watchdog connect, your phone tries to download yourcomputer:yourport/Nuke - but this time it succeeds. It then hashes its own locally stored copy of the Nuke Password and, if it's a match, it nukes all data in the phone. Before doing the pieces of nuking that will kill Internet access, it reports to the server that the nuke command went through.

Can be improved, of course. But tell me, is there a FOSS app like that somewhere? I imagine it would be especially neat for businesses that issue smartphones for a number of employees.

I don't know of an app that meets your exact requirements.  But a simpler version that's (in my opinion) equally secure is an Android app that listens for a specific SMS message, and wipes the phone.  Remote Wipe does this.  Of course, it doesn't entirely kill the phone's software (that would be very device-specific and require a modified bootloader in most cases); and it might be useful to use one of the apps that reports the phone's physical location too, if you want to recover it.


Not able to download apps from the Play Store while roaming I am using a Mi4i. I can't download apps from the Play Store when the SIM is in roaming. How can I do this?

This is one of the problem in Android Nougat and wasn't solved in the subsequent updates.
This problem leaves you with, only way of downloading the app is to download it's apk file from other sources through your browser while you are on mobile data otherwise apps are getting downloaded when you connect your phone through wifi.

To follow updates on this you can go here https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/nexus/21wGieItCik


Nexus 4: Can't get phone into vibrate only mode After a recent Android update, my toggle keys for the Nexus 4 will not let me put the phone into vibrate only mode. I can adjust the volume down to it's lowest setting, but it still makes noise for notifications.  The phone will vibrate for incoming calls, but the vibrate icon will not appear.  I need to see that icon so I don't have to worry that I might have left my volume setting on when my phone is in the office.  Any suggestions?

Try holding the volume-down button as you do now, and then after the volume slider reaches the bottom, tap the volume-down button once more. This goes into silent (not vibrate) mode on my Nexus 7 running 4.3, but I think that's because it can't vibrate.

Alternatively, hold down the power button as if you're going to turn the device off. The power-off menu has on-screen buttons for noisy, vibrate, and silent modes.


NANDroid on CM12.1, Samsung Galaxy S2 I9100 I would like to install XPrivacy on CM12.1 (Samsung Galaxy S2  I9100).

For that I have to:

Preferably do NANDroid backup
Flash correct version of Xposed framework (xposed-v78-sdk22-arm.zip)
Install Xposed app (XposedInstaller_3.0_alpha4.apk)

The problem is in the first point: CM was so kind as to install its own recovery, which does not provide backup option.

I used CWM recovery before, but that as far as I know isn't maintained anymore. TWRP is another option, but I can't find version for I9100 (if there is any).

What are my options?

I could probably stick with AppOps, but it is a bit too simple for my needs. Another question is whether it is worth the struggle with installation of XPrivacy given the stability (and security?) of such solution.

I could probably substitute some XPrivacy features with AFWall, but I had some issues installing it on CM12.1.

Another feature I would like is the access restrictions to Android ID - but that is probably possible only with Xposed(?).

The problem is in the first point can be solved by this link on XDA.

And by the way it is just for safety in case something happens wrongly. So, you can use that backup to get your old stable state.

Next option for you that you can flash CWM again as you have done previously to install this rom.


Android Wear App shows a notification after uninstallation I installed Android Wear app for connecting with wearable emulator. After finished my job I uninstalled it. But the problem is, A notification is shown sometimes like "Android Wear connecting...". Can anyone tell me how can I get rid of it.

Thanks in advance.

I resolved it. The notification which is showing after uninstall, I long pressed on that notification & go to its app info. It redirect me to google play service. I removed the cache & data. Now the notification does not appear.


actual limitations of locked bootloader I have read in many posts that a locked bootloader prevents from flashing custom ROMs, because it checks the digital signature of the ROM itself.

I thought a "bootloader" was only responsible for loading an image at startup, thus a locked one would refuse to load an unsigned image.

Therefore, wouldn't it be more accurate to say that a locked bootloader refuses to load/boot an unsigned image, but it cannot do anything to prevent one from flashing that image ?

Of course flashing something one cannot boot does not make any sense, but that is not the point of my question. I just want to learn exactly what the locked bootloader on a phone does.

Your statement is correct. :) The bootloader can't prevent images from being flashed, it just prevents unsigned images from loading. My answer to this question has some detail on the way locked/unlocked bootloaders work.

For example, if we consider "SP Flash Tool", an application that communicate with the bootloader of MediaTek devices to flash images, the lock status of the bootloader does not affect ability to flash. (It is still possible to block flashing by only allowing signed binaries to communicate with the bootloader) But still, if an unsigned image is flashed, the bootloader will refuse to load the image.

Still, usually images are flashed using Fastboot (even when there are more options to flash like "SP Flash Tool") and quite a lot of devices only have Fastboot as a known flashing method. Some common exceptions include Samsung, and MediaTek devices. And Fastboot checks most of the time if the bootloader is unlocked, and only lets flashing images if it is. (Same goes for Odin, the flashing application for Samsung devices. It only lets flashing when bootloader is unlocked) So, unless there is a secondary way to flash, it usually is not possible to flash with a bootloader unlocked.


How to foward a specific sender's emails to another Gmail account's inbox? I have several Gmail accounts and I keep missing important  emails from an old Gmail account as I only have time to check my new email address more frequently.

How do I go about fowarding emails from my older Gmail account with a specific word in them to my newer Gmail account?

Is that possible? I have the Gmail app + a S6 & S8 phone.

Note: I cannot update my email address on those important emails to my new Gmail account.

From Gmail help:

Automatically forward Gmail messages to another account

You can choose to forward all of your new messages to another email address, or only forward certain types of messages.

Set up automatic forwarding

You can automatically forward your messages to another address. You can choose to forward all new messages, or just certain ones.

Note: You can only set up forwarding on your computer, and not on the Gmail app.

The following are the few first steps, further explained at Gmail help:

On your computer, open Gmail using the account you want to forward messages from. You can only forward messages for a single Gmail address, and not an email group or alias.
In the top right, click Settings (cog).
Click Settings.
Click the Forwarding and POP/IMAP tab.
Set a repective Filter as needed to limit the scope of forwards.
In the "Forwarding" section, click Add a forwarding address.
Enter the email address you want to forward messages to.
Click Next and then Proceed and then OK.


What is the functionality concept behind Wi-Fi sharing (aka Wi-Fi Profile share)? Recent versions of Samsung devices (at least to my knowledge) are equipped with a rather unique feature
called "WiFi Profile share" or just Wi-Fi Sharing.

My little understanding of this feature suggest that, a WiFi connection is "shared over WiFi"
unlike traditional hotspot feature which shares mobile data (3g, 4g etc.)

I would like to know how this idea of rebroadcasting a WiFi connection works. In most desktop environments this is achieved through
an implemenation of virtual wlan drivers, which then are used to rebroadcast/share a given connection through another SSID.

My question is how is this achieved in android through this feature (WiFi profile share)? Is a new interface apart from wlan0 created? Perhaps with Wi-Fi direct?

I understand it is not possible to have two concurrent wireless connections via the same interface (which is why WiFi functionality is disabled when mobile hospot is active)

The rationale of asking this question was that I wanted to achieve the same from my Android tablet to my beloved Symbian device (i.e Share Wi-Fi from my Android tablet to my Symbian device "over wi-fi" because the latter can't connect to captive portal wi-fi networks)

After a lot of digging the clue came from Wi-Fi Direct.

The concept explained

  Wi-Fi direct is a wireless standard that allows creation of a
  connection between any two devices without a wireless access point (or
  going through a router).

Wi-Fi direct uses a Wi-Fi protected setup (WPS) protocol when connecting two devices.

Additional protocols have been created to make Wi-Fi direct more useful such as Universal Plug and Play, Zero Configuration and Device Profile for Web services.
More importantly when a p2p connection is formed over Wi-Fi, the device continues to maintain the uplink connection over any other network for internet connectivity on this device.
Wi-Fi direct uses a concept called software access points (Soft AP) which makes it possible for a device to act as both the access point that the Wi-Fi comes from and the
client that uses it".

  The Soft AP provides a version of Wi-Fi protected Setup with its push
  button or PIN based setup.

WiFi direct and IP address

In Android, the WiFiP2pMangerclass (provides the API for managing Wi-Fi peer-to-peer connectivity) assigns IP address to every Group Owner which is 192.168.49.1, and uses the
192.168.49.0/24 pool in DHCP to assign addresses to devices that join the Group Owner.

  Wi-Fi direct is a single hop radio communication, however supports
  multi-hop radio communications, with intermediate Wi-Fi nodes as
  packet relays.

There is a little backdraw with this setup, as traffic wont be routed over multiple hops as they do have the same IP space. Now here comes the implementation of a tunneling proxy
that allows passing requests and responses to the connected clients (which would foward the connection to connected clients)

Given my limited programming skills, this research has enlightened me, and allowed me to visualise how these great concepts have been incorporated into one of the the excellent application I have been looking for,
to ease the burden of trying to tether a "wi-fi connection over wi-fi".

The workaround

To cut the long story short, I ended up getting an application using a similar concept NetShare tethering (no root) application as  a solution to the problem addresed.

Apart from other "extra" features it offers, I was only interesting in this WLAN direct via proxy concept.

  Now this application uses a vpn proxy to route traffic from device
  connected to Wi-Fi network to another client via a p2p connectivity.

Essentially, it uses a HTTP proxy to route traffic to the client and configuring the connection is fairly easy:
Go to connection settings of any device e.g PC, Iphone etc (but in this case used a Symbian device)
Add the wireless acess point if not done already, and input the Wi-Fi direct Group password.
Under advanced settings change proxy settings:

Server: 192.168.49.1

Port: 8282

(remember to allow this port on firewall settings for other devices)

Remarks: While I couldn't get into whole detail of how Wi-Fi profile share in Samsung devices works, this research has helped me see a similar concept  impemented in other ways to achieve the ultimate goal (Sharing a Wi-Fi connection over Wi-Fi or at least over Wi-Fi Direct)

Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with this application in any way, but it was an answer to my question hence why I explained my research.

References

Share internet by using WiFi-direct Android
How Wi-Fi Direct Works As A Gateway To The Internet Of Things
Assigning Wifi Direct Group Owner's IP address in Android
How to get each device's IP address in Wi-Fi Direct scenario?
Wi-Fi Direct
Multi-hop routing
Proxy Server


Samsung Kies correct version I need to find the right Kies version for Samsung S4 mini but the info provided by samsung is not clear:

Please check your mobile phone model before downloading:

Kies
Supported model : Feature phone, Smart Phone/Tablet before Galaxy Note III (including Galaxy S4, Note II, etc)

Kies3
Supported model : Smart Phone/Tablet from Galaxy Note III (Android OS 4.3 or over)

I suspect that it has to do with android version but it is not very clear

What Android version are you on? Check System Settings > About phone > Android version. Kies3 is for Android 4.3 and above. If your Android version is lower, use Kies.


How can I easily tag a photo I am previewing? I take a lot of photos on my Droid M THEN I have to go through them and select the best ones to upload. I need to preview full-screen to see if it's a good photo but then there is no way to mark/tag/select it in preview mode. You can Select a photo but only in thumbnail view.

Is there a way to select (or, better, tag) a photo in full screen preview mode?

F-Stop Media Gallery does exactly that. You can preview photos and it has an on-screen 5 star rating and "favorite" button.
Unfortunately, the tags don't "stay" with the photo if you upload to Google+ or Facebook.


Is it possible to automatically transform a phone number before calling it? So I want some kind of solution to take a phone number from my call list, contacts or anywhere else, then transform it in a specific way and then add some digits and symbols in front of the number and a symbol after the number, and then forward the newly created number to the dialer.
For example, I have a phone number in my call list "+37066611111", if I share it as a number in my dialer app (DW contacts and dialer), I get this kind of text:
Contact name:
+37066611111

I want some kind of tool to get this text, drop this part:
Contact name:
+370

Then add additional symbols and digits to the remaining number "66611111", so that the result would look like this:
866622222,789#9#0866611111#

Then pass this newly created number back to the dialer. Is it possible?
I'm using a bootleggers ROM (Android 9 pie) installed on a Motorola Moto E 2015 phone.

Not all requirements of the question are met in this answer, but this is as close as I got so far, and I'm quite happy with it.
So, this requires to copy the telephone number without the contact name, like this:
+370 666 11111

Next, I used tasker to create a task which reads the number from the clipboard, loses the "+370" and spaces and then adds the additional digits and symbols.
I used the "Variable set" action to set a new variable to %CLIP (this way the copied number in a clipboard is saved to a separate variable, so we can manipulate it further).
Name:
%nr
TO:
%CLIP

Then I used "Variable  Search Replace" action on the new variable to get rid of "+370". Took me some time to find out how to get rid of the "+" symbol, because tasker doesn't search for "+" in this action, so I used "\D" in the search parameter, which finds any symbols that are not digits, so it worked for me.
Variable:
%nr
Search:
\D370
Replace Matches: checked
Replace with:
08

Then another "Variable  Search Replace" with a space in the search parameter to get rid of the spaces. (the "replace matches" must be checked to delete the found text from the variable)
Variable:
%nr
Search:

Replace Matches: checked
Replace with:

Then a "Variable set" action to create a new variable with the additional digits and symbols
Name:
%nrr
TO:
866622222,789#9#%nr#

And lastly - the "System > Set Clipboard" action to copy the transformed number back to clipboard, so I can use it anywhere I like.
Text:
%nrr

Then I created a button in the quick settings to launch this task, so all I have to do is copy the tel. no. which I want to transform, use the quick settings button for the task and paste the new number to my dialer app. Originally I wanted Tasker to forward the new number for the dialer to call, but if I use the "Call" action in tasker, everything after the comma in the new number is not forwarded to the dialer. So pasting the number is good enough for me.
I understand that not many people may want this functionality, but if I help even one, I'm happy. I'm willing to edit the answer so it would be easier to understand, but please tell me how to improve it in that case.


Does rooting phone affect online banking security? I'm thinking of rooting my android phone (HTC Desire 300) and was wondering if doing so would affect the internet security with stuff like online banking. Is it still secure to do my banking on a phone that has been rooted? Does it make any of my other online passwords or details vulnerable or unsecured?

When your phone is "rooted", applications can be installed (intentionally or otherwise) that can do almost anything on your phone, including breaching the Android application sandbox.  Thus, by rooting your phone, you are removing a critical layer of the multi-layered security system.  This can be mitigated, to a degree, by restricting root privileges to only applications that you trust.

Typically, to obtain root privileges, you have to run code for which you don't have the source code.  This also lowers your overall security.

In the end, some people will choose to not root their phones because the risks outweigh the benefits, while others come to the opposite value-based decision.


How can I reset my developer options, or otherwise boot my Galaxy S2 on CM10.1 again? I have a Samsung Galaxy S2 and the ROM I'm using is CM10.1. I was messing with the Developer Options and I saw an option called "Simulate Secondary Display". I clicked that and selected 720 then it froze. I forced rebooted it and it stopped at the end of the boot animation and get stuck there.

Any ideas how to fix this, preferably without flashing a new ROM?

In this situation you have two options, which I'd try in the given order:

Safe Mode

Boot into Safe Mode (details for what Safe Mode is and how to boot your device into Safe Mode can be found in the article How to Boot Android 4.1+ into Safe Mode:

Method 1:

hold down Power button until the power-menu pops up
press and hold the "restart" option
in the dialog box, select "Safe Mode" and hit "OK"

Method 2:

Reboot your device
hold the Vol+ and Vol- buttons at the same time to enter Safe Mode.

A "Safe Mode" watermark in the lower left corner tells you you've been successful. Obviously, you'd have to chose Method 2 as your device won't power up normally.

Now, while in Safe Mode, change the "Developer options" back to normal. Then do a normal reboot to leave Safe Mode.

Hint: If your device sticks in Safe Mode, power down and remove the battery for a few minutes. Then re-insert the battery, and the device should boot up normally.

Factory Reset

As a last resort, you can do a factory reset. Be aware that this will delete all your data, plus the apps you've installed yourself (i.e. the pre-installed apps won't be touched; your SDcard should also remain untouched). As your device still is unable to boot up normally, you can reset it via the recovery menu. Check your device's manual for how to boot into recovery; on many devices, this is done by holding the Vol+ and Power buttons pressed simultaneously until the device booted up to recovery. Other devices may use different combinations; so either try a few, try Google search, or search our site for it. Of course you can ask it in a separate question if you're still out of look ;)


GPS stopped working after root After rooting my Sony Xperia P, the GPS stopped working. Even Google Maps can't find my current location now. I found this problem when started working on Location API.

Is it a common issue and is it resolvable? I tried searching on XDA too, but couldn't find anything about this.

Ok the GPS started working again. I let the phone drain out of battery, then put a charger and let the sony logo show till the charge gets around 80% (Just left it for 20-30 minutes on charge). Then I removed the charger and hard reset the device(hold power and volume up key for few seconds). The device will shutdown and then restart it normally. Google will ask if you'd want to permit google to collect anonymous location data. Press allow and check GPS by opening Google maps app, it's working :-)

PS: Dunno what worked here(probably the hard reset step), but I put all the steps just in case.


is Android single task or multitasking and multithreading? I am trying to understand why I cannot keep listening the audio of a YouTube video on my Galaxy S 2 while moving to another application for example reading a wikipedia article on the browser.

is there any architectural limitation which prevents this in Gingerbread (hopefully will be removed in ICS) or is only the way Google made the YouTube application?

Edit: tried out YouTube application in ICS 4.0.3 today and behaves the same as in Gingerbread :(((

It's not a limitation of Android, but a "feature" of the Youtube app to conserver resources.

If you want to use Youtube as a music player, I think you should be able to find an application that allows you to do exactly that in the market.

TubeMate lets you listen to only the audio of a Youtube file (you have to download it in advance, though), and that should work in the background.


Install FM Radio Module on Xperia E Dual flashed with Custom ROM Can anyone please help me with the procedure to install FM Radio in my rooted Xperia E Dual flashed with Nexboost ROM?

I found a thread on XDA forums. They are providing an app (which is already available in Play Store) named SpiritFM which uses phone's inbuilt antenna for radio (also via internet if required). Go to XDA dev page and use search string spirit fm or Click Here.


How do I send a group of contacts via bluetooth? It's possible to send individual contacts via Bluetooth with Contact -> Send Contact -> Send contact - Bluetooth.

But I don't see a way of doing this (on the HTC Desire) with a group of contacts?

Is this possible?

Yes it is possible. You have to install one application from market. There is an option to send all contacts via Bluetooth or Email. But I don't see any option to send a group of contacts in Android system.

There is an application called Go Contacts with which we can group the contacts and send it via Email,SMS or Bluetooth. Its a free application available on Android market.


Am I consuming "roaming" services? I've borrowed an Android phone so I can decide whether to buy one. I have a GSM SIM without a data plan, but I am using Wifi that is broadcast from my other smartphone which does have a data plan.

The phone's GSM signal icon has a tiny "R" that indicates that I am roaming -- why?

My phone is an HTC Desire Z with (I think!) Android 2.3.
Under Settings > Mobile Networks I have these settings:
Data enabled = unticked
International data roaming = unticked
National data roaming = unticked
Use only 2G networks = ticked

The notification list sometimes shows me a message that is too long to be displayed, but some googling tells me that this is the complete text:

  "You have lost data connectivity because you left your home network with data roaming turned off"

The notification list also shows that I am in fact on the correct network: My SIM card is from the provider "bob" and the phone shows that I am on the "bob" network.

Am I consuming anything related to roaming? How can I ensure that I will not use roaming?

Maybe this post from XDA will answer your question.

  This isn't an APN problem, it is a SIM problem.

  Your provider has one set of numbers on your card, and another set of
  numbers that actually identify the network, and they don't match.
  Technically, from the phone's point of view, you are roaming, even
  if it is the same provider. From the provider's point of view, you
  aren't roaming.

  Up until cupcake, we had that same problem here in Canada when using
  the "Fido" network (which is owned and operated by "Rogers"). The
  network identified itself as "Rogers", the SIM cards identify
  themselves as "Fido", the phone think's its roaming.

  So; you don't need to worry about roaming charges when you are
  actually connected to the correct network.

  BUT; You don't have an easy to read display to tell you when you are
  really roaming, nor can you make configurations that are based on whether you are or are not roaming.


emoji issues or in other words you could say problems On a Samsung Galaxy Exhibit, is there any way to show emojis in text messages or in social media apps?

Diddent quite understand that. But I i
 think I can answer:

What's you android version only 4.0 and higher has emojis.  (go to settings, my device and look at android version) you can get emojis on Android version 4.0 and bellow but you have to be rooted.

If you want to type emojis, download SwiftKey+emoji (free)  from play-store


Is there a way to disable the right-to-left-stroke-to-delete-gesture in Google handwriting input? I couldn’t find any option in settings to disable the right-to-left-stroke-to-delete-gesture in Google (Japanese) handwriting input. Is there a way to do that?

Sorry bud, but this is Google's new keyboard. In the earlier versions you simply had to tap the backspace key once to erase your previously Swyped word but in the newer versions you have to swipe right to left.


My phone keeps unpairing with my watch when it gets out of range I'm using a Pebble Time smartwatch (on Pebble OS v3.13) and Xperia M4 Aqua (on Android 5.0).

Whenever my phone gets out of range it unpairs with my pebble. I end up needing to forget my phone from pebble and pair again with my phone. This is becoming frustrating, and I can't find anything relevant on my watch's help page so I think that this is a problem with my phone. How can I fix it?

From the extra information you provided in the comments, it would seem as if the Pebble app is malfunctioning, and if it isn't, pebble support will be able to direct you to who can fix this for you. While they can be a bit slow to respond, they are very good.

To contact pebble support, open the pebble app and tap the drop down menu on the top right corner (3 dots). Tap the "support" option. Choose "contact support" from the list of options that open after tapping support.


Can I restore a nandroid backup that was made on an older OS? I was on Android 4.4.4 KitKat and I made a nandroid backup. Now I'm on 5.0 Lollipop and I'm wondering, do I have to reinstall everything and go through the setup  process again, or can I just use my 4.4.4 nandroid on my current 5.0 OS to get all my apps and stuff back?

I'm already rooted. I still have my recovery. I just need to know if I can restore an older backup to a newer OS or will it just revert me entirely back to 4.4.4.

[Can I just use my 4.4.4 Nandroid on my current 5.0 OS to get all my apps and stuff back?]

Take a look at Nandroid Browser:

With Nandroid Manager you can restore data from your nandroid such as apps+data, text messages, call logs, and much more.
...
Nandroid Manager currently supports nandroid backups created by TWRP and Clockworkmod (v5.xx and v6.xx) based recoveries.

If your backup meets the above criteria then go ahead (irrespective of 5.0 or 4.4) and use it to extract relevant data.

I just need to know if I can restore an older backup to a newer [OS] or will it just revert me entirely back to 4.4.4[?]

It depends upon what content you want to restore. If you choose to restore only Data then there could be some minor issues of app crashing or related stuff, but your OS won't revert back to 4.4.x. You still need to restore System, Boot, (possibly some other partitions too) to revert back to previous state.
Honestly, if the goal is to get the data, then I'll prefer Nandroid Browser. Else, I'll first take complete backup of my 5.0, then restore the Data of 4.4 on 5.0 to see whether everything runs smoothly.
Remember, do it in steps, if you choose to. It is possible that your Nandroid backup has some partitions whose size were changed during 5.0 update. Reverting haphazardly to 4.4 may lead to severe consequences. (e.g.: Yureka device hard-bricked when downgrading to Kitkat.)


sync htc / android phone with macbook / mac os x I use MacBook (which have Mac OS X 10.6 - Snow Leopard). How can I sync data between my HTC phone and my MacBook.

I have HTC Wildfire, and HTC Sync software only supports Windows.

As of now, there's no counterpart on Mac for HTC Sync.

You can however try MissingSync for Mac - which allows for syncing of contacts, calendars, notes, tasks etc. on Mac


What's this persistent Camera-app notification in Android 6.0? I've been using my Nexus 5X for about a week now, but this morning was the first time I noticed the following notification:

Backstory: I snapped a few photos this morning (w/ default camera app). Looking at their meta data, they were taken at the exact time it shows in the notification. These are not the first photos I've taken with this phone. I don't remember the notification popping up immediately, but I did put away my phone right after taking those photos. Based on the timestamp, I may have simply missed it. I didn't notice the notification until after arriving at the office (roughly 1h 15m later).

Tapping on the notification shows the familiar ripple effect, but nothing happens. It's also persistent: I cannot dismiss it by swiping it.

The notification appears to display some sort of progress, but whatever it was processing, it no longer is. It's about 10am now, and it's still 'stuck' at the same place. The ellipsis seems to suggest that there could be text below the progress bar, but not sure what it would display.

So, does anyone know what this notification's purpose is? And what exactly got stuck while being processed? As a bonus, I'd like to know how to 'continue' whatever got stuck. If continuing isn't an option, then a way to dismiss it without rebooting the phone will also do. I've already tried killing the Camera app, with no result.

Android M (nexus 5, 6.0.1, security patch 1 juin 2016):

long press the notification, click the (i) button. turn on "block all", then turn off "block all".

This will dismiss the persistent notification.

thanks @Firelord.

ps: I cannot comment or vote on this SE, so I posted an answer.


What are physical partitions on Android device? I'm new to Android system. I'm trying to understand how it is installed to internal memory to eventually have it fully backed up and capable to be restored. To accomplish it I need to know what to back up. Is /data & /system partitions all I have to care of? One of my root apps list these partitions on my device:

/mnt/media_rw/xxxx-xxxx (mounted external SD card, Idk how to treat it)
/data 5.51GB
/system 1.08GB
/cache 534.12MB
/fsg 1.5MB
/firmware 64MB
/persist 8MB
/pds 3MB

What is the full list of physical partitions on Android device?
Can the list differ between devices?
TWRP, Titanium, oandbackup and (adb backub/restore) do not create full backups of Android device (system with data). What is a complete solution on Android devices similar to Acronis True Image on PC systems?

The list certainly differs between devices, and thus no exhaustive list can be provided.

For most if not all devices, there is no need to backup partitions other than system (system), data (user data), boot (kernel) and vendor (for Treble devices, a separate vendor stores hardware drivers, etc.).

Many of those extra partitions are not user-accessible and/or store data for non-OS components (e.g. modem for baseband, logo for 1st splash logo on boot), and no procedure would touch them in daily use other than system updates. On top of that, without root access you will not be able to perform full backup/restore even on data.

Currently the common way of doing a full-enough backup is just backing up the ones listed in the backup menu from TWRP, which already covers more than just "system with data" as you required. Depending on the maintainer/builder of the TWRP in use, other partitions might also be available for backup/restore, though for the reason above there's no point in doing so (and is why most TWRP builds choose to hide them).


Are there any issues with having multiple phone finding applications? I like to use Prey and have no complaints about it so far.  However, our carrier also offers Mobile Recovery, which does a lot of the same things (GPS locations, etc).  Is there any harm in having both of these apps loaded and running (other than it being somewhat redundant and eating up a little extra battery)?

Other than being redundant and using more resources (you would have two separate services running in the background all the time), you shouldn't have any problems running both at the same time like any other application.  I would see it as not much different than running Locale and Tasker at the same time.  They might do very similar things, but they aren't exactly the same.


Getting files using adb shell I have a rooted Galaxy S4 device which runs Android 4.4.2 & I'm trying to get the files of an application using adb shell, when I navigate to where my directory is and get the root access in shell and type

cp -R com.samsung.android.hostmanager C:\Useres\S4

I don't get any errors but the files isn't in the destination folder, I did try to use mv which seems to work as the application crashed on my device but even though I still didn't get the files.
Where I'm going wrong?

This won't work because C:\Useres\S4 isn't a path on your phone, it's a path on your PC. Normally you need to use adb pull from your PC to copy files from your phone, but when you need root to access those files, it's not quite enough. Izzy's answer here explains how to achieve this.


How can I take a screenshot of a specific portion of my screen? There is no screenshot by area on my Galaxy Tab 8.9, running Android 3.1.

Is there any software that adds the ability to take a screenshot of only a portion of my screen rather than the whole area?

There is no tool with this feature. But it is possible to crop the picture in the gallery.


SD card full bricks Android 2.2: In fsckdelay end. Kill dosfsck, ret=-1 I downloaded this 80 MB ZIP file containing 27000 files to my SD card and unzipped it using this code.
A no space left error occurred before all files could be extracted.

I couldn't remove the folder, neither with adb shell rm -f nor the Open Manager app nor by mounting the SD card and removing from Ubuntu/Nautilus:

$ adb shell rm -f /sdcard/OxygenGuide
rm failed for /sdcard/OxygenGuide, I/O error

Ubuntu/Nautilus:

There was an error deleting 08267130495190304.html.
Error removing file: Read-only file system

It looked like trying to remove this particular file makes the whole SD card read-only.
Unmounting/remounting made it read/write again, but the same error happened when I tried to delete again.

I decided to reboot, and now I just have a black screen with just the top bar, showing the "Checking SD card" icon and usual network/battery/date. adb logcat shows this:

I/ActivityThread(  323): Publishing provider downloads: com.android.providers.downloads.DownloadProvider
W/Vold    (   71): Filesystem modified - rechecking (pass 2)
I/Vold    (   71): Device /dev/block/vold/179:1, target /mnt/sdcard mounted @ /mnt/secure/staging
D/Vold    (   71): Volume sdcard state changing 3 (Checking) -> 4 (Mounted)
I/ActivityThread(  270): Publishing provider call_log: com.android.providers.contacts.CallLogProvider
W/logwrapper(   71): In fsckdelay end. Kill dosfsck, ret=-1

Android 2.2

Here is how I solved both problems:

1) Remove battery and reboot. Two times because it was still behaving strange the first time.

2) Remove files little by little, until I found the problematic file, called %01.%02, I recognized its content as a tile from the Maverick map app (which I have not launched so it is more of a random casualty). Anyway, I renamed that file to a.a. and then deletion was successful.


How can I prevent the battery in my Nexus S from draining overnight? I have a Google Nexus S and for the past 2-3 days whenever I go to sleep the battery drains completely overnight. I mean when I go to bed the charge on my phone is plus 90% but for the past 2 days it's dead when I wake up. Thankfully I didn't miss work these two days otherwise my boss is gonna kill me.

I have Android 2.3.7

Any advice?

There are several things which can be done. Most obvious is to switch it off completely (grin), but that only as a side note. Also, switching it to Airplane mode falls close -- though, when used with a "timer" (via automation apps such as Tasker or Llama), it can be quite a useful thing to not only save some juice over night, but also care for some silence. Another obvious option is to connect it to some power source, which clearly prevents it from running out of juice. But these are just general rules.

In your special case, the problem is some app draining your battery over night. True, above mentioned solutions would take care that there's enough juice left -- but still that's a misbehaving app. So first thing I would do is, after it drained a little (but still enough juice is left, say 30% or more to be sure), go and check your battery stats. You will find them in your system settings, on most devices it is in Settings → About Phone → Battery Use. This should list the most heavy consumers, and your candidate should be on the very top.

Other useful sources on this topic (and here at Android Enthusiasts) include:

How to deal with (orphaned) WakeLocks? (especially when you cannot find the "evil app" in the consumers list)
How can I tell what is really draining my battery?
What can I do to increase battery life on my Android device?


Samsung Galaxy J3 SM-J320Y Bootloop Problem I have a Samsung Galaxy J3 (SM-J320Y) and my friend tried to root it.. he uses Kingo Root Android and King Root but both of it failed to root it.. I already said to him not to bother rooting it but he continues and as he gives uo on trying to root it he unistalled the Kingo Root App and King Root. Then he restart my phone. the problem starts there, my phone has been on bootloop every since.. when its already at the samsung logo it would restart over and over again.. pls. help just bought this.

thanks in advance

It seems from what you have mentioned above, that your device was not rooted and thus there is no custom recovery installed on your device.
So here are the two methods which you can try -

Method-1

Step-1. Power OFF.

Step-2. Press and hold Power + Volume Up + Home.

Step-3. Select "wipe data factory reset".

Method-2

Download the stock ROM for your device and then flash it using software like Odin.
Here's the link to download the ROM- http://www.android.gs/download-stock-android-firmware-files-for-samsung-galaxy-j3-2016/

This will get your device to normal state.


Open Androidx86 system.img to edit init.sh I have been trying to open the system.img on my Androidx86 installation to add rmmod i2c-hid and modprobe i2c-hid to it because the touch on my Tablet doesn't seem to work in Android x86. I have already tried to open it with EXT4 Unpacker, but it says Unknown file format when I try to open the system.img.

I am on Windows 7 32 bit right now.

Any suggestions, guys?

in my experience, use this trick

just install the android os, and boot
open  root folder/etc/init.sh and copy init.sh
copy to another location and open using text editor
add rmmod i2c-hid and the modprobe i2c inside the function init_misc , make sure you just place the code and dont edit another code inside it, save in location you wanted
press alt+f1 and  type cat /etc/init.sh > /(location you placed the edited init.sh)

sory for my english
hope it help you


Switching superuser permissions? I used Kingoroot to root my Micromax Canvas A116 yesterday. And Kingoroot installed its own superuser app as a rooting procedure.

The problem is kingoroot's superuser is paid and displays ads and auto install apps if you don't buy it. I tried downloading Supersu but it gives an error "SU binaries occupied". How can I change superuser permissions from Kingoroot to Supersu?

Thanks.

Well first of all DONT root with Kingoroot, Kingroot, or with any other one click rooting crap. They install ad binaries that run with root permissions mine IMEIs and things like that.

https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2516942

  Remember the little discussion we had going in a thread here regarding vRoot, and i joked about vRoot was mining IMEIs? Well, apparently it's true. We have only ourselves to blame. I'm already rooted so i'll unlock my bootloader and install recovery. That way i don't need to root again if i screw something up. You "should" do the same if you're already rooted and don't care about losing Gracenote and X-Reality. Remember to backup your TA folder.
  What does this mean? What are they able to do with our IMEI's (if they have them)? I'm not sure, and i won't speculate.

https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2515851&page=3

  ...
  What XDA is concerned with is the fact that your devices Serial number and IMEI numbers are collected during the root process. This is something which is not necessary at all in order to achieve root. They also use free servers in China in order to minimize cost to themselves.
  That is the concern. The reason you have seen back and forth on the subject is that it takes time for developers to reverse engineer the process to see exactly what it does.
  So XDA at this time has taken a position that links to the Kingo or vRoot methods will not be posted on XDA. You are free to use Google and search it out and use any method you want. You aware of the risks just like any other mod you do your device.
  Kingo has said they are correcting this and will be coming out with an app which will be self sustained and connection to their servers will not be necessary. They say it will be 2.0
  Until such happens we will not be allowing the links, but you can discuss it all you want.
  To be accusing the Kingo developers of doing underhanded things is just wrong and total made up speculation. XDA has to take the communities safety as priority #1.
  Just look at this way would you take a screen shot of your devices status screen posting all your IMEI and personal information on a public forum on a site of developers and hackers?
  It's always better to error on the side of safety.
  EFM
  Have a great day!

But to answer your question SuperSU can only manage the SU requests if it self has SuperSU, so you need to

Replace it with SuperSU VERSION 2.79 (the version is important)
re-root with CF-auto-root over ODIN or .zip file


Do I have a virus on my phone? A message from an Android app says so I have just received a message from an Android app on my phone saying my phone has been infected with a virus and to click a link to fix the problem.

I'm not sure I trust this, is it possible to have a virus on Android?

It is possible to have malware on Android, although these usually 'infect' a device through downloading and installing apps from un-reputable and/or warez sites. When installing any app you should review the permissions and not blindly download/install an app simply because it looks ok.

It is possible that the message you received is from a malicious app or an app trying to get you to install malware. You can install a security app such as Lookout or Avast and they will scan your device for issues/malware. Be aware that anti-malware apps such as these can report false positives, and they may not detect all issues so you need to use common sense and ensure you only install apps you trust.

Thanks to t0mm13b for pointers on how to improve this answer.


Maximum number of alarm clocks My HTC One (Android 4.3) told me that I can only have 10 alarm clocks at maximum and that I should delete one before adding a new one. Why, and is it possible to have more than ten?

Get Timely Alarm Clock. I've never tried more than 10 alarms but I guess it should be worth a try. It's free after all & extremely sexy.

Also you should try adding calender events instead of alarms and change the sound to something loud.


micromax A110 canvas 2 where to find unmount OTG storage option in file manager / settings of my phone . If I remove my pen drive, message appears as unexpectedly removed

Go to Settings > Storage > Scroll down and unmount your Pen Drive.


Wallpaper is blurry when cropped from downloaded image When creating my own wallpapers on my Nexus S, they always end up being low quality. The image is slightly blurry. Edges are not crisp. These are the steps I'm doing:

Download a very large image from the web browser.
Long tap my current wallpaper.
Wallpapers > Gallery > download
Selected the large image and expanded the crop marks to the max.
Save

It seems like Android is compressing the image too much. Is there any way to set the quality higher?

Why don't you try another image editing application?  I mainly use PhotoWonder, but there's also Photoshop Express.  Both have their issues, but I haven't noticed low quality results with them.  The Nexus S wallpaper size is 960 x 800, so you can make them that size and then use them without having the Nexus S editor do any cropping.


Apps cannot be installed due to low memory, although plenty is there A friend of mine has a Samsung Galaxy S2 with 16 GB of internal memory and a 8 GB SD card. I have installed Cyanogen Mode 10.1.3 (Android 4.2.2) a while ago with the Google Mobile Services.

It seems that the internal memory is fragmented into two parts:

I scrolled down here:

I do not see how this adds up to him having to more free memory to install new apps. How can this be fixed?

There were around 1300 files with 1 MB file size each in /data/log. I have deleted them using root access and a file manager. Now the apps can be installed again.


How does update.zip work? update.zip s are packages containing replacements for parts of an android system. The packages contain all the files it the update is intended to replace, and a script that will do the replacement when its run.

Update.zips can come from OTA updates but in some cases it is necessary to manually download and put an update.zip in some special folder. However, the update.zip is still detected and applied in the same manner.

What part of android detects and handles update.zips?

update.zip are never touched by Android.

Inside that archive is a script that is parsed and interpreted by the Recovery runtime.

The Recovery, at execution, opens the archive by unzipping into a temporary directory, reads the script, aptly named update-script, analyzes it, and based on the syntax, executes a function known to Recovery, that function may do the following, to name but a few:

mount /system and other filesystems, and perform read/write file operations  including, copying the kernel, or, an apk or even formatting a partition etc
check the build.prop for certain properties, such as device, manufacturer, etc
print display to the screen, progress information etc

It is pretty much a de-facto standard incorporated into Android Open Source Project (AOSP)

ClockworkMod, TWRP are derivatives of the barebones version that resides in AOSP with additional enhancements, such as touchscreen input.


Wifi Authentication Problem on Android I am not sure if this is really an Android problem, but I have reasons to believe so. Please let me know if not.

I am trying to connect to a WiFi network. This network redirects me to an authentication page (in the HTML viewer). This worked perfectly fine until a few days ago. Now, in the HTML viewer, after I authenticate it just shows ERR_CONNECTION_RESET. I thought it could be a problem with the HTML viewer, so I turned to Google Chrome for authentication. This worked at first. But now, even Chrome throws an error 405 Method not allowed.

I think the problem could be the Android device, because I am able to connect to the WiFi with my laptop, which runs on Ubuntu. But, I am not really sure.

Any suggestions or solutions to solve or diagnose this?

My Android version is 6.0.

I solved this by installing another browser on Android. I tried firefox, same problem, with Brave it worked.

I have the same problem too, and it appeared about 10 days ago too. Maybe a security update from Chrome ? I have Huawei P8 Lite (ALE-L21) Latest Chrome app Android 6.0.


Inappropriate Downloading Notification. How to remove? I had installed a Hindi Dictionary Application which contains the Speech to Text Output.After pressing the speech button then the Downloading notification came up,three days passed still the notification isn't cleared any way to handle it.Please Check Image Here

You need to clear the data and cache of the app:

The steps depend on phone make and Android version:

Touch and hold the notification > Touch the 'i', it will bring you to the app (Downloader Manager) > Clear Data and Cache and you're done.

On Samsung J5, Marshmallow (6.0.1)

Touching an app notification:

Touching the i symbol:

Touching Storage option:


GPS issue when Mobile Data is enabled I have two Motorola devices, a Moto X2 and Moto G3, both with Android M 6.0 (Original most recent ROM without root).

I have recently noticed problems with the GPS on both devices. Google Maps and Waze many times the GPS signal drops and can not determine the location.

In my test I could find that the GPS problem happens when the Mobile Data (only 3G) are active. Just disabling mobile data and GPS back to work with good accuracy and even on rainy days.

I researched on the Internet and can not find a solution to the problem. Already restored the network connections and even restored the factory settings. Also I have been tested to work with modes High Accuracy and Only GPS. The problem persists.

The issue is the same in both devices.

After a few days of research I discovered that the problem it is a conflict between some Android devices and some 3G networks. (In my case, in Brazil)

Bug report (English): https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=81140
TecMundo News (Portuguese): http://www.tecmundo.com.br/vivo/102386-sinal-vivo-interferindo-gps-celulares-afirmam-usuarios.htm
Forum AndroidPit #1 (Portuguese): http://www.androidpit.com.br/forum/650921/motorola-moto-x-2014-problemas-no-gps-do-moto-x-xt-1097
Forum AndroidPit #2 (Portuguese): http://www.androidpit.com.br/forum/654679/motorola-moto-g-2014-estranho-sinal-gps-cai-quando-ativo-3g-no-chip-da-tim
Problem demonstration (Portuguese): https://youtu.be/CXkJUN8G83k
Forum OuterSpace (Portuguese):
http://forum.outerspace.com.br/index.php?threads/moto-x-e-moto-g-com-problemas-no-gps-tim.382402/

Sorry about the portuguese content, but I could not find more details in english communities.

I contacted Motorola, I will send my devices for repair. I believe it is difficult to be a solution, but I will update my answer whenever I have news.

## UPDATE 17 Out 2016

My Moto X2 was sent for repair and returned with the same problem, I'm trying a new contact with the manufacturer.


What buttons are required on android device? Typically there are three buttons on the device a back button home button and an overview button.

Which of these buttons are required by the standard or de facto standard?

There are 4 if you don't include Hardware Reset, three are mandatory: Home, Menu and Back.

See: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3524758/are-the-4-android-buttons-standard-ex-back-button-menu-button - almost the same question, same answer.


Possible to access Chrome Incognito session data? First post in a fit of desperation on what is probably a lost cause. Would there be any way to recover or view Incognito tabs lost during an automatic app update in the past 24 hours by snooping around Chrome’s local data / session cache / etc.?

Assuming this sort of data isn’t completely nuked on leaving Incognito, I’ve read around some old posts to find something similar might be possible via ADB shell (which I’ve never used) using run-as, backup or push/pull commands, but don’t know if any details of the 80-or-so tabs I’m looking for would even be there in the first place, let alone possible to access, extract and read. Another route that came to mind is tracing web traffic from my phone’s IP via my router, but this seems even less feasible. Frustratingly, Google must know what I typed into its search engine, but whether this is possible to isolate for myself or even Google themselves is anyone’s guess. I’m happy to spend time obsessively trawling through obscure logs as long as it’s theoretically viable.

Running Oreo 8.0.0 on an unrooted LG V30+, Chrome is (now) version 69.0.3497.100.

Many thanks in advance, any kind of help or advice would be much appreciated.

No.

The incognito mode is designed in a way such that no trails shall be left locally, so there should be little to no chance you can pull it from the device.

Maybe you can get some information via network data, but that's more complex and not guaranteed.


Is there a way to log wifi probe request? I am able to log wifi probe request with script like hoover, probeSniffer, and my favorite for the moment probemon on my ubuntu machine with a card able to run in monitor mode.

Is it possible to do the same on android ? a rooted android is not a problem.

But I guess one major problem would be to be able to switch the wifi card in monitor mode, if it is possible at all, depending on the driver.

Is there even script or software or app to be able to log the wifi probe request ?

At the very least, one can try to use the script I mention above but there are not meant to be run on android.

My question is perhaps too general. I use a moto G 4G (XT1039) with LineageOS 14.1 (peregrine)

As a work-around, buy a raspberry pi zero (W ?) with a usb wifi key that does monitor mode. This will be almost as portable than a phone but not as much.

You need the battery too to power the rpi0.


Replacing my default phone application with other one Can I replace my phone.apk from system/app to a new Phone application such as Swipe Dialer Pro . will it do any harm.there is also one additional apk in system/app called phone service. Apk. what's the purpose of that. I'm on android 4.1 rooted with CWMR.

Bro I'm trying to do it .. But there is only one way I found .. Just download some system app installer apk and install it ..
Then get phone.apk and contact.apk from any custom ROM which is for your device and install them using system app installer ... That's all you can do .. I've tried a lot to find the way but it didn't work ..
Good luck


What system should i back up ? system_image or system I am trying to backup my system but i have two partitions, system_image and system.. from inspection i can see that system_image is bigger and the format is ext4, While system is smaller and the format is emmc ..

I may have the formats (emmc,ext4) in the wrong order.

What do i back up, system or  system_image  ?

I also have system modifications that I'd like to keep in the backup.

Device :
Android 5.1

this concerns TWRP only and is just a different method for backup & restore

have a look in /etc/recovery.fstab
you will see the same partition is listed twice

/system        ext4  /dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/system  flags=slotselect
/system_image  emmc  /dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/system  flags=slotselect

first entry is listed as ext4 file system type which tell TWRP the partition is mountable. in case of backup / restore only the content (files) are archived into system.ext4.win (tarball archive)

second entry is listed as emmc which makes TWRP think it is raw disk image. in case of backup / restore the whole partition (including empty space) is cloned bitwise into full partition image system.emmc.win (dd image)

usually /system is sufficient for backup purposes.
/system_image is useful for restoring foreign ROM or backup of corrupt data

Note: for system-as-root devices the mount point is changed into /system_root while /system is just a symlink (or bind mount) of /system_root/system (which is not a representative of whole partition)


How to Screenshot Of the Screen on Samsung Galaxy S 2? Since i have updated my phone by Android version 4.0.3 i am not able to take a screen shot of my phone, before i used to do it by pressing Home and Power button simultaneously.

Now if i am pressing Home and Power button simultaneously it open up Task Manager.

Can someone explain me how to fix this issue.

Thanks in advance.
Regards
Sam

On my Galaxy S3 it is Home and Power but they need to be held in for about 1 second but it may be different on the S2

EDIT: According to this Samsung have changed the Screen shot buttons to be Volume down + power on some firmware versions and on others it is Power + home heald for about 2 seconds. Hope that helps


How do I repair my Motorola Defy rebooting instantly after start-up? I installed a few different operating systems (“ROMs”) on my Motorola Defy and I decided to (temporarily) go back to the original one, also known as “stock”, by using an SBF file. But now, whenever I try to start up my phone, it reboots almost instantly. I cannot do anything.

I tried booting in “Safe mode” as explained here (Power button + both volume keys). But that did not change anything. I also tried reflashing my SBF files multiple times, to no success.

Boot into recovery with Power button + lower volume key. Then, in the recovery mode menu, select “Factory reset”. This should delete all previous configurations from your previous ROMs that may interfere with your current installation.


Change swipe up home button shortcuts I have a Nexus 5 with ParanoidAndroid and I'd like to change that Google Now shortcut to lightbulb, how can I do it?

You can use SwipeUp Utility to change the behaviour of the search action (swiping the home button) to launch a different app or shortcut.

I've contributed to this app (I helped the author fix a bug) but I've no financial interest in it.


How to hide my name in Whatsapp group? I've provided a screenshot, clickable for full size, of a group I'm in. Some people are able to hide their names. How can I do it? I do not know some people in the group and I don't want them contacting me.

Well you cannot hide names in WhatsApp at all. As you know it wont accept a blank as profile name.

1.Coming to the blank names beside the contact number is shown because the other person has saved you in his contact but his number is not saved(with a name) in your contacts list. Due to this the app will show only the contact number but not the name.

Update-  Try saving the contact with a name and then refresh your contacts in whats app for this first force stop the app then clear the cache (this works most of the time irrespective of the make or mode of internet )

2.You may be using an older version of the application.(you have not specified the version so it can also be the problem).

3.You could be blocked by the other person so you cannot see his name initially(later last seen and then the display pic)

If the above still do not solve your problem then try reading the faq 1 and faq 2


Where and how can I upgrade my Galaxy 5 legally to Froyo? Possible Duplicate:
  When will my phone get the Android 2.2 update (FroYo)?

I have a Galaxy 550 and want to upgrade it to android 2.2 where and how can i do this legal?

thanks already.

If the update is available in your region, take it to your nearest Samsung authorised service centre and get it flashed. Make sure to back up all your data and perform a factory reset before handing it across.

I'm uncertain about what you intend to mean by "legal"?


Viper4Android and OxygenOS 2.1.1 OnePlus 2 Does V4A finally work with OxygenOS that comes preinstalled with OnePlus 2? I managed to get it to install but the sound is very distorted, also whenever I try to open V4A it crashes Google Play Framework and other apps. I managed to uninstall the driver by rebooting the phone and quickly entering V4A before any other apps load. If you can't do that the apps will start to crash leading to the phone being unusable until another reboot. Any ideas ?

It is not compatible with OxygenOS but you can give a try to Custom ROMs like CM13


My android apps sometimes crash Say I am playing clash of clans or boom beach. A crash in the middle of an attack could be very fatal.

What happen is I was playing and then suddenly the screen go back to the home screen. No other apps are running. I can click the multi task button (or whatever button in bottom right) and the original apps shows up. However, it seems to be a crash because if I select it it reloads.

Does android have event logs I can check. What's going on? I got 4 GB memory. It's asus zenphone 2

Use logcat, the goto Android crash report tool. There are a few ways to use this utility: over adb, in an Android terminal shell, or with an app. If you have root, I suggest using an app like Logcat Extreme.

Basically just start up the app, go to settings >> Priority Level, and check "Errors." Go back to the main screen, hit the record button. Now repeat everything you explained in your post, opening apps and checking recents. When you're done, go back to Logcat Extreme and hit the record button again. The log will be saved in the folder /sdcard/LogcatX.

The best method, which doesn't require root, is to use logcat in the terminal or over adb. There are a lot of guides for this. This one can help you logcat on Windows or Linux.


How to get the stock music player to play WMA files? I'm using android 2.2 on a stock Nexus one (from the pre-developer phone stage). Should the music player be able to cope with WMAs? I'm sure I've seen references to it coping with them, but they are currently just dead weight on the SD card.

I actually quite like the stock player so installing a new player is the fallback option.

The stock music player on my EVO plays .wma tracks, but it does not read any of the meta data (track number, artist etc.)

I have tried several music apps and none of them correctly read this meta data.  Music Player Pro is vastly superior to any of the others and is well worth the cost.


Confirming the nature of a Samsung update, and declining it I find it a little bit offensive to receive a "Software Update" message on my Galaxy Note 2 that does not disclose the nature of the update (an OS update? an app update?).

software update message (click image for larger variant)

Judging by the timing, the chatter, and especially the size, I am guessing Samsung is pushing a 4.4 (KitKat) update, but given the lousy experience of reduced battery performance after upgrading from 4.1 to 4.3 (including giving a chance for recalibration with many full discharge/recharge cycles), I'd rather avoid 4.4 for now.

My question is in two parts:

How do I confirm that this is indeed KitKat being pushed?
How do I decline the update, or at least delay it by longer than three hours?

3 hour max delay (click image for larger variant)

For the first part- Samsung has notes on the system updates on their site. I'm not sure what provider you're using, but you should be able to get to what you're looking for if you start at: http://www.samsung.com/us/support/

Use the "Start by Entering..." search bar in the middle of the screen to pull up your specific Note II phone and scroll down to the "Support Overview" section.

For the model I looked up, the "Which version of the Android™ platform does my Samsung Note II use?" question is already in the Frequently Asked Questions list, but if not, use the search bar just about that.

I didn't check every device, but it certainly looks like it's the Kit Kat update that's been downloaded.

For the second part- I'm working off the assumption that your Note is NOT rooted. Upfront note (haha): I don't have a Note II here with me, so I'm going off reference materials and memory on the exact option names in the menus. These steps should let you disable the notification until you re-enable automatic updates.

Go to 'Settings'
Click 'More'
Click 'About device'
Click 'Software update'
Uncheck the 'Auto update – Check for updates automatically' option

When the update prompt is in your notifications, pull down the notification list and do the following:

Press and hold down on the update until you get a 'App Info' option
Click 'App Info'
Click 'Clear cache'
Click 'Clear data'


Custom Kernels on Stock ROMs? The General Question: Is it possible to install custom kernels on a Rooted Stock ROM?

The Example: I have a Nexus 7 which I have rooted running 4.1.1 (Jelly Bean JRO03D) would it be possible to just flash a custom kernel,
say this one http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1831780,
on my stock ROM using Clockwork Recovery?

Sorry if this is obvious, but I've only really done it on custom roms, and I couldn't find a definite answer on the interwebs

Yes, it is possible to install custom kernels on stock roms. The kernel developer will usually say which roms (or types of roms) the kernel supports. If you are not sure you can try reading the kernel thread, and there will always be poeple saying things like "working great on [firmware version here]". This way you can also make sure that it will work ok on your version of the stock rom.

As for your example, yes you can flash this on your stock rom:
xda-developers