NTFS file system supported although portable hard drive doesn't mount? I have a Huawei u8160 running Cyanogenmod 7.2 .

I've recently been testing things on my recently activated OTG I've tried to connect a USB Portable HDD, However when I connect the HDD the LED flashes like it's reading/writing , dmesg notices it :

 <6>[12, khubd] [10776.834610] usb 1-1.4: new full speed USB device using msm_hsusb_host and address 40

 <6>[12, khubd] [10777.015514] usb 1-1.4: not running at top speed;
 connect to a high speed hub

 <7>[12, khubd] [10777.018517] usb 1-1.4: default language 0x0409

 <7>[12, khubd] [10777.021505] usb 1-1.4: udev 40, busnum 1, minor = 39

 <6>[12, khubd] [10777.021544] usb 1-1.4: New USB device found,
 idVendor=174c, idProduct=5106

 <6>[12, khubd] [10777.021567] usb 1-1.4: New USB device strings:
 Mfr=2, Product=3, SerialNumber=1

 <6>[12, khubd] [10777.021589] usb 1-1.4: Product: StoreJet Transcend

 <6>[12, khubd] [10777.021607] usb 1-1.4: Manufacturer: StoreJet
 Transcend

 <6>[12, khubd] [10777.021624] usb 1-1.4: SerialNumber:
 WD-WXF1E32VNMN1

 <7>[12, khubd] [10777.022149] usb 1-1.4: uevent

 done.

that is what dmesg says directly after connecting.

and when I write lsusb on terminal emulator it returns :

 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002

 Bus 001 Device 041: ID 058f:9254

 Bus 001 Device 042: ID 174c:5106

one of them is always there,and another one is the USB Hub ,and another is the USB HDD

I already successfully mounted an NTFS Flash Drive (Fromatted using Minitool partition wizard,mounted using Paragon NTFS&HFS+) then the problem isn't the File System

EDIT :

Error when trying to mount USB flash drive that is NTFS formatted :

mount: mounting /dev/block/uba1 on /sdcard/data failed: Invalid argument

Error when trying to mount NTFS formatted portable HDD :

mount: mounting /dev/block/uba on /sdcard/data failed: No medium found

that means that the error in the HDD isn't with the NTFS file system.

EDIT #2:

I've tried this method but when I try to mount it it gives me this error :

Failed to mount '/dev/block/uba': No medium found

CyanogenMod does not support NTFS. You would have to compile your own kernel module for the CM Kernel in order to mount NTFS.

Edit for you comment about the Paragon App:
using an app like that is different then actually mounting it in android. If it doesn't work with your drive, it is an issue with the application, not CM7.

The app is implementing the NTFS protocol within the application. If it fails to mount, then there is a problem with the application. There are lots of reviews for the app that say "did not work with X", so it seems you are not the only one that has issues.

Your only option is to contact the developer and send them the problem you have, so they can fix it.

In response for your Edit #1 and Edit #2

You will not be able to mount with mount android doesn't have a kernel module that supports NTFS. As I said above, the reason that you can mount it within the app is because the app developer implemented the NTFS protocol in their application. Invalid argument means that the filesystem type you are trying to mount is not supported by mount. No medium found means that it does not see that dev block or cannot access it.

It also sounds like the problem may be that the HDD you are trying to mount requires different drivers to communicate with the HDD controller. Sounds like you are able to get flash drives to work, and that is because they are probably using a "standard" communication, while the HDD could be using something non-standard, or has a different chipset and is not supported by default by the kernel.


Google Play Store uses mobile network, ignoring Data Saver settings? One of my apps is allowed to use the mobile network, and all others are confined to wifi. This is specified in my Data Saver settings, but according to GlassWire, Google Play Store is still using the mobile network. Any suggestions on how to confine Google Play Store to wifi are welcome.

Google Play Store and Google Play Services self update is known to update when they "want" no matter if you are on WiFi or mobile and what settings you have configured.
I am not sure if the respect data saver settings but as Google Play Store is a system app permissions and settings do not apply to it.
And you have agreed to those updates when setting up your device. The following screenshot is from the setup-wizard that shows up on a new device/after a factory reset (see section marked in yellow).


How many cores does the Asus 7" MeMO Pad have? How many cores does the Asus 7" MeMO Pad have? Is it only single core?
The specifications only state that the CPU is VIA WM8950.

The tablet with the CPU you mentioned (Asus Memo Pad ME172V) is a single-core device. More info on the CPU can be found here.

  WonderMedia Technologies, a subsidiary of Via Technologies, has unveiled the Prizm WM8950, a single core Cortex A9 processor running up to 800 Mhz with a Mali-400 GPU.


How does Redphone encryption work? Redphone is known for providing encryption for end-to-end calls. I am eager to know how it protects our privacy from telecom companies.

How does it secure our call and text and protect our privacy from even telecom companies?

It uses a Protocol called zrpt to encrypt your voice which then is transfered via voice over ip.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZRTP


How to root and what apps to use Possible Duplicate:
  How do I root my device?

I have an HTC Incredible 2. I would like to know how to remove the locked pre installed apps and what apps I need for longer battery life and to maximize memory. (cpu not storage.)

My device is S-ON by the way. I know that makes it more difficult at the least, but if there is a way I would like to know.


What could cause a page opened on Firefox to have an enormous data usage? I have opened the rather innocuous page on reputable website Quanta Magazine using Firefox Android 65.0.1 (with NoScript installed) and left it open.

The data usage rapidly burned through 1 GB of data transfer via the mobile network, which is more than I use in a month in general.

I closed the page, stopping data usage. Reopened it, and on it went. It has blown my data usage for the month out of the water.

The graph from "Settings > Connections > Data Usage > Mobile Data Usage" is eloquent:

I have pumped the URL through Sucuri just to make sure whether there is a known evil in that page but it comes up blank.

What could be going on, and do I find out?

Do you know what embedded miners are?

https://platform.jsecoin.com/?register=1&utm_source=referral&utm_campaign=aff139531&utm_content

http://join-shortest.com/ref/bdb9481b4c?user-type=new

They are a way for a webmaster to make money off of their webpage without a bunch if banners. The visitors of the website are having some if their computer power used to mine cryptocurrency. That uses data, right?


Cannot install separate user account profiles on Fusion tablet running Android 4.4.2 We have a Samsung Chromebook and a Nexus 7 in the house that both allow us to set-up distinct different user accounts on them which we find most useful.

We have just acquired a new non-brandname tablet (Fusion) running 4.4.2 KitKat, and it will not allow us to set-up separate accounts as we have been able to on other Android devices.

I assume that must be something to do with the way that the manufacturer has set up Adnroid 4.4.2 on their device as opposed to a a problem with the OS.

Can anybody recommend a workaround that a non=technical novice could manage without too much pain being involved?

I actually had the exact same issue when trying to set up users on a no brand tablet. My tablet was rooted out of the box, so I installed Xposed and then the module Multiple Users for Phone. Even though the title says it's for phones, it works flawlessly on my tablet. It adds the option Users to your settings page.

Info about Xposed from the installer page:

  Xposed is a framework for modules that can change the behavior of the
  system and apps without touching any APKs. That's great because it
  means that modules can work for different versions and even ROMs
  without any changes (as long as the original code was not changed too
  much). It's also easy to undo. As all changes are done in the memory,
  you just need to deactivate the module and reboot to get your original
  system back. There are many other advantages, but here is just one
  more: Multiple modules can do changes to the same part of the system
  or app. With modified APKs, you to decide for one. No way to combine
  them, unless the author builds multiple APKs with different
  combinations.

If you want clearer instructions on how to install, comment and I'll edit the question. I can't link to all the links because I don't have 10 reputation (yet).


Nexus 5 won't connect to PC I have a Nexus 5. It is fairly new - I bought it about 2 weeks ago.

I have previously plugged it into my Windows 7 PC and been able to access the files on it.

However, today when I plugged it in, the PC couldn't find it. Some googling and investigation found that the device driver wasn't installed - and then it said that it didn't exist.

I have downloaded the Google USB Driver from the official site. But when I told it to update/install this driver, I was told the driver didn't exist.

The LG Driver installed, but the PC still doesn't "see" the phone to let me use it as a USB.

I don't want a complicated solution. I just want to be able to get my photos off my phone and onto my computer.

Option 1:

Go to device manager in Windows and delete anything having to do with your phone (LG, Google, Android etc)
Plug in your phone, the drivers should install automatically

Option 2:
Download Airdroid on your phone....you can transfer files over WiFi


Full screen android clock Is it possible to get a full screen clock for an android phone which looks something like the clock on the desktop of the computer in this link?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/david_b/3381120183/in/pool-421216@N24/

Night Clock works well for me (screenshot below), and there are probably plenty of others in the Market. A search for "big clock" turns up a fair number of hits that seem relevant.


How do I get rid of mysterious stuff displayed on my cellular's screen? There is tiny writing listing currently running systems and a red frame around my screen and a white dot wherever I touch the screen and a thin white and red line blocking my notification bar with writing that looks like stock market listings.  How do I get rid of all these items?

You most likely switched on several feedback settings in Settings→Developer Options:

Developer Options (Source: AndroidAdvices.Com)

In these screenshots the reason for the "white dot" wherever you touch the screen is already marked. Additionally, you probably have enabled "Show CPU usage" as well (right screenshot, lower third). Just turn everything off here which you don't know what it's for; by default, nothing is checked in this menu.


Skype Camera on Android I am using Android TV Box 4.4 which has features like a Tablet.Whenever I am using Skype, voice is O.K but the camera other party see is very dark,I have tried different versions of Skype … but problem remains same. When I am not using webcam on Skype, the camera separately is very fine and works normally. I really appreciate if somebody help me to solve this problem.

I find Skype to be very poorly optimized, especially for video.

Maybe you should try other alternatives to Skype for video like Hangout or Tango? Just to be able to see if you will be getting the same issues as you do with Skype. If you do, then it means you have issues with your network.


how long does an OTA update normally take? I am using the Oxygen ROM on my LG P500 (Optimus One) and I just did an OTA Update and the ohone restarted and it has been in a flashing mode every since, the bar is at about 15% for the past 30 minutes so I was wondering if there is a problem or the firmware upgrade normally takes a while.

The progress bar being stuck for a while is not unusual as progress bars are fairly difficult to get right. An update taking more than half an hour, on the other hand, doesn't sound right to me. Of course your phone could simply be slower at this task than mine.


Port MessagEase Macro to new device I have a new phone and a lot of MessagEase on my old phone. Unfortunately, they haven't been transferred with the default process to migrate to a new device.
Is there another way to port them over apart from copy pasting every single one?

Note: I wanted to post this as a comment, but have yet to reach the requisite reputation requirement; I'd appreciate if someone can move this for me, or if not just ignore me, thank you!

I double checked and MessagEase does indeed have the backup flag enabled in its manifest, so as @Izzy pointed out ADB backup should be a viable method to export them all (personally, I am still having issues with the ADB restore function, just be aware it may not throw any error messages from syntaxical issues by default, and do some further reading on how to troubleshoot).  If you do wind up having to do it manually, note that holding down the hand icon key with a keyboard's hex data on-screen supposedly brings you to the keyboard exchange step and imports it (according to the app's FAQ, I have not tried the feature myself); that might help cut down the labor/time a bit.

Additional Thoughts
I initially thought maybe one might be able to find where all the hex values for keyboards are being stored in some directory in root, but apparently it's a bit more complicated for IME/input devices than I'd assumed.  Someone else more knowledgeable might be able to advise on locating such a directory (or potentially in a .db?).


How can I get Google Play store to work on my Samsung S3 mini with CyanogenMod OS? I got the CyanogenMod OS installed on my Samsung S3 mini a couple of months ago but since then my Google Play store stopped working, giving the error message: No Connection. Retry. OR Check your connection and try again. I have not been able to update any apps or been able to use any Google+ apps for that matter. Every time I tried opening any app that is related to Google Play, I received a message saying: Unfortunately, (app name) has stopped. I have googled various troubleshooting suggestions but no luck. These include:

Clearing the cache of Google Play store, -services and -services framework
Checking the date/time on my device
Deleting my Google account on my device and re-creating it
Deleting the Google Play app from my phone and re-downloading it from www.apkmirror.com

None of the above things worked so I did a factory reset and I tried downloading it again from the above site but still no luck.

One thing I have noticed (not sure whether this might be whats wrong), but if I go to Menu/Settings/My Devices on the Google Play store, then my device model is showing to be 'GT-I8190', but I have a S3 mini. I have tried various ways to either edit or delete and re-creating the device registered but also no luck. I read something about 'root access' but have not really explored the troubleshooting for it, I have no idea what it is but is this something I should look into?

Currently the Play store app is on my phone but I cant use it due to the error message and if I go via the web onto the Google Play website to try and download any app then it just says 'the app will be installed shortly' but nothing happens.

Does anyone know what else I can do? Should I just take the CyanogenMod OS off from my device and if so, how would I go about doing that?

Thank you!
Lindi

From what you described, to me it seems like you've installed wrong Gapps package (probably for different Android version), check your gapps package, and if it's the wrong one, simply download the correct package and retry with flashing.

In case your Gapps package is correct, you might have flashed it incorrectly. In that case, you might want to reflash both the CM and Gapps files, but wipe the /system partition before flashing. Also, if you've used older Android version before switching to CyanogenMod, you should have wiped the /data partition (that might have also been the problem from what you've described).


In which version of Android was encryption of /data made available? These docs suggest that it has been available (only) since Android 3.0 Honeycomb. By contrast, conversation on discussion boards suggests it was available in 2.3.4 Gingerbread.

So, what is the answer to the titular question?

Bonus points if your answer clarifies the following. Are the official docs misleading? Or were those Gingerbread devices instead released after Honeycomb, and loaded with some kind of backported encryption feature? Or were those Gingerbread devices instead loaded with some kind of encryption feature added by the device manufacturers, that wasn't part of Android? In short, what gives?

Gingerbread 2.3.4 ROM added support for device encryption, but the feature wasn't accessible from settings until Honeycomb (tablets) and ICS (smartphones).

To enable device encryption in Gingerbread device, you need to add an Exchange account. Not sure, but it should be accessible through API too.

There are also some hacks to enable device encryption directly in Gingerbread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1405165


Can WhatsApp video calls be restored/reviewed? In WhatsApp, one can view the detail of video call history by tapping the entry on it.

The video calls have a volume on the device, so can they be restored and reviewed?

No, WhatsApp video calls can't be restored and reviewed. It's not stored anywhere locally on the phone or remotely on the internet.

The size shown here is the total data transferred through the internet while on the video call. It's basically the usage of network data, mostly for data usage auditing/monitoring on a limited internet plan.

There are some 3rd-party apps that can record WhatsApp video calls locally on the phone, but WhatsApp doesn't have a feature to record both phone and video calls natively.


Gallery app disappeared I have a Nexus 5
and I've noticed that the Gallery icon disappeared. I can't find it either in the menu or in the apps settings (running or all).
I don't know exactly when it happened, but for sure after the upgrading to 5.0 Lollilop. Now, to open the pics, I have to launch camera and then swipe to the right.
Did it happen to someone else? Does anybody know how to solve it?
Thanks

Google decided to remove the Gallery app, replacing it by the "Photos" app.


Unable to delete anything in telegram My question is that I am unable to delete any message or photo in a group chat.

EDIT
It might be worth having a look at telegram today, they have announced some new features, including the unsed/delete anything.

Details are here: Unsend Anything

If you are in a channel, then the behaviour you have highlighted would be expected, you would be able to reach out to the creator and ask them to delete the message(s) or discuss being given access rights on the channel.

As per Telegram FAQ:
The creator of a channel can broadcast messages, delete any messages, add members (the first 200 only), remove members, change the channel's name, profile image and link, as well as delete the channel completely. The creator can also add and remove administrators to help manage the channel.

Have a look at Telegram's website here for more information: What can administrators do?


Does flashing stock ROM via Odin delete phone data? So my Galaxy S6 is stuck in a boot loop and I've literally tried EVERYTHING already and nothing will solve the problem. Safe mode won't work, clearing the cache partition won't work and USB Debugging was turned off so adb wasn't seeing my device either. I also tried Kies and Smart Switch. I am convinced my phone is soft bricked and I need to recover some very important pictures and files from it. At this point my last hope is to flash the stock ROM via Odin and I saw that some people have said that they have successfully done this without losing any of their data. Is this possible? If so how do I go about doing it properly? If you can give me a step by step of what settings to use in Odin to not lose my data I would greatly appreciate it!!

Thanks for any help!

Phone is not rooted and 100% stock. Recovery and Download screens are working.

Phone: T-mobile Galaxy S6 with Lollipop

None of your internal storage files i.e. Photos, Music, Videos, Docs etc., will not be removed until you do a repartition of the device using Odin. Your phone will be restored to perfect condition; just that all your personal information will be gone such as contacts that were on the phone storage and apps.

But I'm not responsible if anything goes wrong. Do it at your own risk.

OR

You can flash a custom recovery using Odin and use the MTP feature of the recovery and move the required files (which I assume would be safer).


F-droid: keep partial downloads I am trying to install OSMAnd~ which is 43 MB, but I am sitting on a crappy connection that cuts out after 10-20 MB. Can I somehow ask F-droid to keep the partially downloaded file and continue download?

I know that f-droid at least has a long timeout before cancelling the download but as @Izzy commented above, just download the apk from:

OSMand page

OSMAnd APK Version 2.8.2 (282) - Added on 2017-11-17


Why does the Google Maps app need my phone call permission? Is there any way this is justified?
Seems like Google is becoming an evil spy to me, cause this is not the first time their apps need ridiculous permissions.

If you receive a call, an app may wish to know this. It could then free some of the phone's resources (CPU/RAM) to allow the call to be answered quickly, along with lowering or muting the navigation voice, etc. Those permissions may also be related to allowing the app to call a particular location, or even put there for a feature not compatible with your phone or fully released yet.

Individual permissions encompass access to many different things, so not every permission is explicitly used for malicious purposes. That of course doesn't mean you shouldn't be cautious.

If you really don't trust an app, use a permission manager. Your phone may have one already built in, with no root required for pre android 4.4.2 devices. Or just download one from the app store. They will allow to you disable individual permissions for specific apps. For example, most games have no business with your GPS, so disabling it won't hurt anything. Be careful, because as I stated before, some permissions are beneficial for particular purposes.


sharing 1 blutooth and 2 devices I have an automotive OBD2 computer reader connected to a bluetooth elm 327 reader. I can see info on my galaxy 5S or my galaxy tab 2 10.1 tablet.

Is it possible to read on both devices at same time? I have the tablet paired to the OBD2 device and the 5S paired to the tablet.

Bluetooth can only connect two devices at once (please correct if wrong). So in my opinion you can't read on both devices at the same time.


Message app uninstalled after using viber? I could only text people using viber, which is not usefull for out of internet zones. I uninstalled viber thinking it was a default thing. My samsung Galaxy Note 3 has uninstalled the texting application. I have since deleted viber and cannot text anyone, how do i fix it?

"just solved the issue. apparently when an app is 'disabled' it ends up at the bottom of the HUGE list under application manager -> all apps

when you 'enable' the app, it re-joins it's place in the ranks alphabetically"

found this on another site,
for me it was in the tab "disabled apps"


What is this VPN setting good for? I have a Huawei U8160 (also known as Vodafone 858 Smart) which is running CyanogenMod7.2

There are settings for VPN which are empty. I was wondering if the VPN server setting should be set to a real server?

Or should I just not touch it?

A VPN is a virtual private network.

Your device connects to a VPN server through a public connection and tunnels a second virtual and private (to you) connection through the VPN server to see all devices that are protected behind the VPN server (such as a company's whole network infrastructure for example).

This feature is mostly used for road warriors that want to connect to a company's internal network resources like email / internal web sites and so on. Other uses are: Securely connect two different company sites virtually, working from a home office...

It's generally not for normal users (Cyanogenmod includes it for some power users that also connect to a VPN).

See Wikipedia for more.

Regarding your question: Leave the setting empty, you just don't need it most probably.


adb shell immediately terminates I have an emulator that I started with:

~/Android/Sdk/emulator/emulator -avd Nexus_5X_API_25_x86 &

I run "adb shell" and it enters the shell for about 4 seconds and then it terminates:

me@mycomp:~/codec/vlc-x86-android-master$ adb shell
adb server is out of date.  killing...
* daemon started successfully *
generic_x86:/ $ me@mycomp:~/codec/vlc-x86-android-master$

what might be the problem?

This usually happens if multiple instances of adb are running.
Many OEM's sync applications (e.g. HTC sync or droid explorer) runs adb automatically so you will get the error.

Kill all these instances beforehand from task manager and then start an adb server.

Or uninstall these sync application and everything will work fine.

If you want to use the sync application also then download adb fix from this link.


Can I hang up using a button? When I'm on a phone call nothing is more important than the ability to hang up. If, for whatever reason, I suddenly find myself in an embarrassing situation or interrupted by something important, I must be able to terminate the call.

Currently the only option, that I know of, is a medium sized red button on the touch screen. I think this is deficient for a few reasons:

the touch screen doesn't always behave as you want (too sensitive, or not sensitive enough) - how often do you listen to chat radio shows and the callers are always "accidently" hitting the dial buttons in the middle of conversation
the GUI may be running slowly and be unresponsive

It there a way of mapping a generic button (such as a camera button on the HTC Desire) to perform the hang-up action? Perhaps someone could write such a service!

Settings | Accessibility | Power button ends call

  During a call, pressing Power ends call instead of turning off screen.


Does Roehsoft RAM Expander need to be running? Does the Roehsoft RAM Expander app need to be running in the background after a swapfile is created or can I clear it from the background and still have increased RAM?

You should be able to close the application and possibly uninstall it afterwards, the swap file is based on making a portion of your SD Card a swap partition, like virtual memory on a PC, ReadyBoost USB or swap partitions for linux, the system will now use it as virtual ram and therefore shouldn't require the application anymore.

It's good to remember that when you increase your memory availability, this often requires an extremely quick storage device otherwise it'll just slow your device down if anything.
Think of the average RW speed of RAM, around 800mbs and then the RW speed of your SD card, around 30mbs at max, you'd be potentially forcing your system to use a 30mbs virtual ram over a 800mbs physical ram.. Let's say you had to calculate just one 800mb task, if the task got placed on the virtual ram before execution it would take around 27 seconds to collect the information for execution, however if it got placed on the physical ram it'd take just 1 second.

It is good for some things that don't require high speeds, like switching between multiple applications etc..

In my day's of trying to upgrade Android without buying a new device, i found that Pimp My Rom (PMR) was one of the best applications for speeding up my device. PMR requires the application to be installed but not running. Pimp My Rom version 1.0
It's still in the beta stage but it's free.

XDA Page for Pimp My Rom

Always make a backup before doing any system changes, especially using a beta stage app like this because some features might be device dependent, at not supported on others.

I found Entropy Generation, Build.prop performance tweaks and internet (build.prop) tweaks make a noticeable difference to performance of the entire device experience, if i get rid of the bloatware for more system memory, that sometimes increased the speed even more.


What is the Location of Saved Images from the Facebook App? What is the location of saved images from the Facebook app? I found this Location of saved images from Facebook Messenger app but I'm interested in photos from the Facebook app itself

Images from the Facebook app are saved in $EXTERNAL_STORAGE/DCIM/Facebook/


Android Emulator for Ubuntu 12.04 I installed a JDK and then an Android SDK on my Ubuntu 12.04, 32-bit machine (2 GB DDR3 memory). The aim is to have an Android emulator. I created some Android Virtual Devices, one of which I named 'Andreud'. When I type in the command

emulator @Andreud

where 'Andreud' is the name of the Android Virtual Device I created. A blank window with a black backdrop shows up on which "android" word is visible, in its trademark font. This, I suppose, is the welcome screen. The home screen, icons, etc. don't show up. Also, there are buttons for volume control and also the power on button, all of which are enabled. Even the D-pad buttons which has 4 navigation buttons left, right, top, bottom, and a central button are enabled. There are other important buttons, home button, menu button which are disabled. It just shows a welcome screen and for minutes on end and goes blank again.

I would like (barest minimum) one of my Android Virtual Devices to work.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

What system are you running the emulator on? At the moment, it just seems like your system is probably too slow to run the emulator. The emulator is very resource intensive, and unless you have a high end machine it's going to be very slow.

For the start, you'd want to start with a smaller screen resolution. Tablet-sized screen resolution is practically impossible to emulate unless you have a very high-end machine, try WQVGA size. Next check how much RAM you allocate for the virtual machine, if it exceeds the amount of free RAM you usually have when you don't have the emulator running, then it's going to be very slow due to heavy swapping. Also, close other applications running on the system to free up resources.


HTC Droid Incredible 2 Imei Location what is the location of imei number for android 2.3.3 ?

my phone blacked out after I factory resetted my phone. And need to restore my imei back on my  htc droid incredible 2

go to settings -> about-phone-> phone identity-> IMSI is your IMEI number

An International Mobile Subscriber Identity or IMSI (play /ˈɪmziː/) is a unique identification associated with all GSM and UMTS network mobile phone users.

Each Android device is equipped with an IMEI or IMSI or MEID number (depending on the device's radio technology and Carrier) which uniquely identifies the handset. Below are listed a number of ways for you to retrieve such number.

The IMEI / IMSI / MEID number can be displayed on most phones by dialing the code *#06#
The IMEI / IMSI / MEID is also usually printed on the compliance plate under the battery


Mute a single contact on WhatsApp Basically I still want to receive the messages from a contact but on lesser priority. I don't want a notification to appear when this contact messages me.

It is possible to mute a group chat, but not for single contact. Or I haven't found it.

How to mute a single contact on WhatsApp?

In the conversation click the three dots in the top right > View Contact > scroll down and select Mute.

Or go to contacts, tap the profile picture on the left, click the "i" icon, to view the contact and scroll down and select mute.

Using WhatsApp 2.12.250 on Android 5.1.1 (Nexus 5).


How to enable multiuser or guest account on Asus ZenPad 10 Z300C with Android 6.0? On other android devices I've used, there was a multiuser feature or guest feature available to allow other people to use the device without altering each others settings or giving them access to each other's accounts.

Is this feature available on the Asus ZenPad 10 (Z300C) running Android 6.0? If so, where is it? It doesn't appear to be available under settings > accounts.

It's not enabled on your device

Workaround for rooted devices discussed on XDA


Why cant i access my google account on a new phone when I have not factory reset my old phone I recently bought a LG Stylo 3. It is the EXACT same brand and model of my old phone.

I bought a used phone from Offerup but I know it is not locked. The person who sold me the phone did a factory reset to it right before selling it to me. I called Metro PCS and activated the newly bought phone.

I tried to sign in to my google account and i entered all the information correctly. but it tells me i have to wait 24 hours before attempting to sign in again.

I waited 24 hours and the same message prompted. I waited 72 hours and the same thing.

How can  I prove I am the owner of the Google account and allowed to use my new (used) phone?! I am frustrated because Google does not have a service to call or even text.

The phone is not locked, I have all the informations and I can still access my information easily on my old phone. Can I add a new device to my google account before activating it?

Essentially this is not an issue of a used or new phone, it is an issue with my Google account and thus if my old phone (that I am forced to use) breaks then I am completely screwed.

How does Google have a multi billion dollar business if they dont have customer service help??

You mean that you had to wait 24, and 72 hours to be able to logon again to your google Account. So apparently Google have warn you several times before block your IP (i think).

Concretely, some information is missing in your tracking subject, namely the types of protections you have set up on your Google Account (confirmation email, confirmation SMS, secret key by Google Authentificator, etc).

It also lacks the essential information to know what the exact error message Google is displaying on the screen.

In your security center on your phone connected to your Google Account, do you have any alert related to your problem? This famous Google security center is generally accessible via the phone's settings menu.

In yet another solution, the user has the ability to create special accesses for third-party applications (allow Outlook to access your Gmail account, allow access to your Google account through a Windows Phone).

Maybe you could create a particular access for another type of device, Google will then provide you with an access code, it will want to write it down (without spaces), then enter it as a password to be able to access your Google Account without having you blocked again.

We hope this alternative will help you.


I formatted /sdcard and my phone won't boot I have a Samsung Galaxy Star Duos GT-S5282. I installed ClockworkMod Recovery 5 and I was messing with it. I went to "mounts and storage" then chose format /sdcard and then rebooted the system.

It is stuck on the logo and restarting and isn't loading. How can I fix it?

I'm afraid you delete the whole system on your device, so that there is currently no rom to boot.
What you can do now is to flash a rom. If you have an external SD card slot, then push your rom files and g-apps onto it and insert the card and flash via recovery.
If your device does not have an external SD card slot or you do not have one, you have to flash the rom via adb. Here's a link to that: xda-Wiki
I hope I understood you correctly and that it helps


Enable USB Debugger on a phone with a broken screen I have done my research on how to enable the debugger, but most of them seem to be useless or missleading.

Now I do not need any backup, my phone is empty and I use that broken Samsung s6 for testing my apps etc.

I had USB Debugger on but I thought I will reset the phone and I did the factory reset (stupid me) and I assume USB debugger got disabled as I can not access my phone, nor Vysor is working for me.

Simple question, is it even possible to ENABLE debugger on a phone with a broken screen (cant controll or do anything with the phone)?

If the answer is yes, please provide any proper tutorials of how to use shell.

I don't think this will help, but anyway. If you could somehow execute following command on the phone, you should be able to just make it work:

setprop persist.service.adb.enable 1

This will enable USB debugging on the device and persist across reboots. The phone might need to be rooted.

Maybe connect a wireless keyboard and do some key combinations to reach command input. I have no idea how to do that though.


Recover incoming SMS Accidentaly few weeks ago I make my phone bootloop. So to fix this I reinstall the ROM image (including recovery image and fastboot image). I realize that there are some of my important SMS haven't been backed up. So Is there any way to recovery the deleted SMS in my case? note: I already try to use Windows App like Coolmuster Lab.Fone for Android, dr.fone toolkit for Android, disklab_for_android but not helping at all.

It's not fool proof and you'll need to figure some parts on your own, but:

Create a backup of /data in recovery
Unpack the backup on your computer
Find your SMS app in restored /data/data. Most likely the app name is starting with com.android..
Flash your new system image
Using adb, use ls -l /data/data to display permissions of the SMS app directory. Note the permissions.
Restore the SMS app directory using adb or Android file manager with root permissions
Change owner/group/permissions to be the same as you noted earlier.

Your SMS should be back at this point.


Remapping power and volume keys My power button has broken so I'm trying to use the volume up key as the power button instead. My phone is a rooted Sony Xperia Go ST27i running Android 4.1.2.

I've tried ButtonRemapper, but this does not work on my phone so I'm trying to do it manually.

The output of $ cat /proc/bus/input/devices contains:

Bus=0019 Vendor=0000 Product=0000 Version=0000
Name="ux500-ske-keypad"

So I thought I'd edit the /system/usr/keylayout/ux500-ske-keypad.kl file, however this file does not contain what I expected.

It has no config for a power button and contains only the two lines:

key115  VOLUME_UP   WAKE
key114  VOLUME_DOWN WAKE

So nowhere I can disable the power button (assume this is key 116 on this model?). Also neither of the volume keys work to wake my phone, so is this config file even being read?

Answering own question in case anybody else has the same issue.

There is another file /system/usr/keylayout/Generic.kl that contained the mapping for the power button. The Android docs say never to modify this file but I did anyway. Commenting out the power button line in this file has solved my issue (power button stuck in) and I'm now using my volume up button as the power button.

Note that I also had to remount the /system partition as read-write that I did with the excellent FX app


How to see what applications do some actions when I power on my phone? I believe there's some set of “hooks”, which get executed when I power on the phone. I want to see it to figure out the reason why my phone sometimes doesn't wake up properly (wakes with black screen).

While the logcat option recommended by Ryan of course is a valid possibility, it is not the most user-friendly solution. I've got a better idea :)

Apps started automatically after boot registered for a certain event, called BOOT_COMPLETED. To do so, they need to request this permission (you find it under "more" on the playstore pages) called "Start after Boot" (or, with its technical name, BOOT_COMPLETED -- what a surprise!). So to figure out which apps could potentially be in here, you can use a permission checker. There are many of them in the Playstore, but I will mention only two of them to get you started:

PermissionDog1
RL Permissions2

Both let you browse your apps by permissions, and even try to indicate "potentially dangerous apps" -- nice side-effect in your case ;)


Private communication over wifi but internet over 3G I have a raspberry pi which creates an WiFi hotspot and I want my android app to communicate with the pi over that connection. The big problem now is that the pi has no internet access so I would like to use the wifi connection only for my app and the phone should still be able to use 3G.

Is there any way to achieve this?

If I am understanding you correctly, you want to make the raspberry pi a wifi hotspot with no internet access and then have a phone connected to the raspberry pi's wifi. Then the raspberry pi would access the internet through the phone's  4g connection. Is that correct?

If not...

If you are attempting to have the two devices communicate over wifi and leave the phone with access to the internet over 4g, I suggest using Web.py. It is very simple python script to make a webpage on the pi's ip address. Then, any apps you make will read the page. It is nice because only the values that you return in the script are what shows up on the website. If you use a program to read the text/code from the page, it won't show masses of HTML! It just shows your returned data.

If you are attempting to have the pi communicate with the phone AND the internet, use the phone as a mobile hotspot and connect the pi to that hotspot. Then, the pi should connect to the phone through 192.168.1.1.

If I'm not answering your question please let me know!


What happens to my google account if I factory reset? I've been using this Android phone for just over a year, but I'm worried about my Gmail and Google account which is connected to my phone. I want to change the email address on my Android because it's my main one.  If I lose my phone, someone can access my YouTube account which I've worked hard on.  They could also access my emails.

I'm worried if I do factory reset or the remove account, it will delete the account that it is connected to. Will it?

No! Your google account is not stored locally on your device. It will still be available on any other device and on any other desktop browser you choose to use!


Clear Caches from ADB? How do I clear caches (app, individual apps, Dalvik, ART if possible) via ADB?

Using apps, recovery, or doing it through Settings are not options for me.  Also, my phone is not rooted.

ADB is close, but things like adb shell pm clear <package_name> to clear caches (and data, oops) from selected apps requires root (as would clearing Dalvik cache). But there's a similar approach to just wipe out all app caches (not Dalvik/ART, though): fastboot erase cache would do that with the device booted into the bootloader. Details can be found e.g. here: Useful ADB and Fastboot Commands and How to Use them.


Need help in unbricking soft bricked LG G2 LS980 I recently purchased LG G2 LS980 (locked on Sprint network in USA) in India and unlocked it to work in India. The build number of the software that came with phone was LS980ZV7.

The phone kept downloading OTA updates (which I could never stop) and I kept installing them. The software version updated from ZV7 to ZV8 to ZVA. After ZVA, the phone downloaded ZVA to ZVC update (611 MB) several times, installed but never updated the software version. In every update, the phone rebooted, optimized apps and booted normally.

One day, I installed TWRP (Team Win Recovery Project) on my phone. The phone again downloaded an ZVA to ZVC OTA update . I went on to install the OTA update. The phone rebooted into TWRP and never booted back into normal mode since then.

In an effort to restore the phone, I did what ever possible to restore the phone. I even did the hard reset of the phone. But the phone still boots into TWRP.

Now, in a way, the phone is "soft bricked". And the only option (I may be wrong) seems to flash the phone with a custom ROM.

Any help please.

Thanks in advance

Flash with custom ROM.

Important:

Backup IMEI and WiFi MAC address before flashing (nvram folder).
Use a laptop with fully charged battery, same for device.
You may need try different ROMs, don't worry if the first one did not work.


Is there a way to get to the numeric keyboard when entering text fields When you are entering text field entries on Android, you get the soft keyboard on my Samsung Galaxy S.

In the lower left corner there is the key that switches between the alphabetic characters and the keyboard with punctuations and digits (and smileys and so on).

Now if you have to enter a large number, this is a bit tricky - because the numeric keypad's keys are much bigger, it's much easier to enter numbers and digits.

Therefore, I was wondering if there is a way I haven't discovered , yet , to somehow switch to the numeric keypad, even when entering text entries.

If you're using Swype simply drag from the Swype key to where the 5 is; Swype will change to the numeric keypad.


Auto-start and Closing Apps My android device is rooted and its 4.4.2.
To control auto-start app, I installed Clean Master and allowed it for root access. I stopped many apps that start automatically. To control start-up app, I installed Boot Manager Xposed. Apart from these I installed other apps also for controlling auto-start and start-up app.
However, I have following concerns.

In spite of above, I see many apps like browsers, shopping, news,
etc; automatically in Running Apps.
Whenever I close any apps, I remove them from Recent Apps also. And I keep Recent Apps empty/clean. However, most of time I see closed apps are still in Running Apps. It means those apps not closed completely.

I do End Process for all unwanted apps manually every time from Running Apps which is ridicules for me.
Till the time, I don’t call/tap any apps, I don’t want see them in Running Apps and once I close any app, I don’t want to see them again in Running Apps.
Please let me know to control them.

Try "Prevent Running", This app will help you to prevent apps and their services running in Background services(Including system app and their services).

This app will not work With out "Xposed Famework" and "Framework Installer".

http://repo.xposed.info/module/me.piebridge.forcestopgb


Alternative "File Open" (not stack "DocumentsUi") for WhatsApp? DocumentsUI, the AOSP standard "file manager" is quite buggy here (I use Lineage 15.1), especially in the context of multi-user and work profile (meaning it does not show files for other users then the main user and is hence not usable).

For "simple" file browsing, I therefore substituted DocumentsUI app (com.android.documentsui) with com.simplemobiletools.filemanager.pro which works much better.

My issue and the core of the question is, that the glorious "facebook" WhatsApp Manager when attempting to attach files, resorts to opening the intent specifically for com.android.documentsui and fails even to open com.simplemobiletools.filemanager.pro even in the case that it is the only filemanager still installed. Hence I cannot attach files in other users in Whatsapp, due to the buggy DocumentsUI and WhatsApp not being willing/capable/well-enough-designed to make a general "FileOpen" intent, instead of referring directly to com.android.documentsui

I understand that WhatsApp is particularly made very little IT-able persons, who do not care about privacy very much, therefore it is clear that the WhatApp is not geared to allow/accomodate for educated and more able users which might desire to use not the standard com.android.documentsui.

An answer to this question would be to provide an insight which com.android.documentsui would be able to integrate well with WhatsApp Messenger

May be this is not exactly the answer to you question because I don't have any of your version of Android and WhatsApp to test. But on my Pie ROM with WhatsApp v2.19.53, I can pick attachments with any File Manager that registers one of its activities as a preferred activity for some implicit intent action; android.intent.action.OPEN_DOCUMENT in our case. I use MiXplorer, so:

# /data/system/users/0/package-restrictions.xml

[...]
<preferred-activities>
    [...]
    <item name="com.mixplorer/.activities.BrowseActivity" match="600000" always="false" set="0">
        <filter>
            <action name="android.intent.action.OPEN_DOCUMENT" />
            <cat name="android.intent.category.OPENABLE" />
            <cat name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
            <type name="*/*" />
        </filter>
    </item>
    [...]
    <item name="com.android.documentsui/.picker.PickActivity" match="600000" always="false" set="0">
        <filter>
            <action name="android.intent.action.OPEN_DOCUMENT" />
            <cat name="android.intent.category.OPENABLE" />
            <cat name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
            <type name="*/*" />
        </filter>
    </item>
    [...]
</preferred-activities>
[...]

When I tap on attachment icon in WhatsApp, it opens WhatsApp's own DocumentPickerActivity from where I can pick files:

ActivityManager: {cmp=com.whatsapp/.DocumentPickerActivity (has extras)}

Or I can opt to choose some other File Manager by tapping Browse other docs on top. This way Android's internal resolver goes through configurations and opens up available options for me:

ActivityManager: {act=android.intent.action.OPEN_DOCUMENT cat=[android.intent.category.OPENABLE] typ=*/* cmp=android/com.android.internal.app.ResolverActivity (has extras)}

To pick attachment, I can choose MiXplorer app:

ActivityManager: {act=android.intent.action.OPEN_DOCUMENT cat=[android.intent.category.OPENABLE] typ=*/* cmp=com.mixplorer/.activities.BrowseActivity (has extras)}

Or Files / DocumentsUI app:

ActivityManager: {act=android.intent.action.OPEN_DOCUMENT cat=[android.intent.category.OPENABLE] typ=*/* cmp=com.android.documentsui/.picker.PickActivity (has extras)}

First thing to check is if Files / DocumentsUI app is not set as default app (always="true"):

# /data/system/users/0/package-restrictions.xml

[...]
<preferred-activities>
    [...]
    <item name="com.android.documentsui/.picker.PickActivity" match="600000" always="true" set="2">
    [...]
</preferred-activities>
[...]

If this is the case you need to reset its defaults (App info > Open by default > Clear defaults).

You can also try with a different File Explorer app and different WhatsApp version to test if it works. I'm not sure if there are any changes in implementation of com.android.internal.app.ResolverActivity across AOSP updates, so consider updating Android version if possible.

RELATED: Why WhatsApp is suddenly unable to open any APK shared by users?


Lucky Patcher broke my Google Play services I have a OnePlus 6 running Android 9.0.2 rooted with Magisk, but no recovery. (I tried to install recovery before rooting it every way I could imagine, with no success.)

I had Lucky Patcher installed with patches applied to Android and to the Play Store, and everything was working fine. I recently updated Android from 8.1 to 9.0.2 and the patches were removed.

When I tried to patch it again, the play store disappeared and all the Google apps say that my device doesn't support Google Play Services.

I tried reinstalling the Play Store both from Lucky Patcher (original and mod versions) and from APKMirror, but whenever I try to open the app, it just says "Google Play Store keeps stopping".

And when I tried installing the Play Store as a system app with Lucky Patcher, it just wouldn't install.

I tried installing Google Play services from APKMirror, but the app just wouldn't install.

I even tried installing it using ADB, and I get this error:

Failed to install Downloads/ps.apk:
Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_UPDATE_INCOMPATIBLE:
Update to package com.google.android.gms doesn't support multi arch]

My question is, how can I get the Play Store and Google Play Services working again?

I had similar issue, this was how I resolved mine:

Open Magisk Manager
Tap on Setting
Enable Magisk Core

Reboot the device. After rebooting:

Open Lucky Patcher
Go to Toolbox
Tap on Install modded Play Store
Install the most recent version  you see

NB:
If it fails,  enable Magisk core, after reboot, open Lucky Patcher > Rebuild and install > Lucky Patcher folder > Install app as system app.


Can you unlock brand new phones? I saw a cheap Verizon HTC ONE M8 on eBay, but I am on AT&T. If I was to get that phone, could I unlock it straight away? I thought I remember hearing somewhere that you can't unlock phones for a few months after their release.

Sorry if this is the wrong site to ask.

You can unlock phones a few ways: 1) buy an unlocked phone 2) unlock via 3rd party software that will more than likely result in a voided warranty 3) wait for carrier commitment to be up and then ask them to unlock.  The thing with trying to unlock phones from different carriers though, is that Verizon is CDMA and ATT is GSM.  So with that, you can unlock the phone yes, but whether it will work on ATT (be it at all or how well) is up to you. My guess is that voice/text will work fine, but you will not get any data until you edit the APN and then it's up in the air.


What will happen when I remove my Google account from an Android tablet? I got my first tablet (Samsung Galaxy Tab A (2017), running Android 7.1.1).  During inital set up, I connected my Google/Gmail account to the tablet.  I have had my Google/Gmail account for years -- using it on a desktop computer -- but I've never had a mobile device before.

I've changed my mind, and I now want to remove my Google/Gmail account from the tablet.  To do this, I am about to follow the instructions here for removing a Google account (specifically, Apps > Settings > Google > More Options > Remove Account).  Before I actually do this, I have two questions about what will happen:

(1) My Google account will be removed from the Android tablet, but my Gmail and Drive files will NOT be deleted from the cloud, correct?  I will still be able to access my Gmail and Drive from the web using my desktop computer, as I have always done.

(2) Will my Gmail and Drive files on the tablet be deleted from the tablet's storage (but, again, NOT from the cloud)?  I would hope that they would be deleted from the tablet's storage, since that is sort of the point of removing the account from the device.  (When I connected my Google/Gmail account, I believe it automatically downloaded much, if not all, of my Gmail and Drive files to the tablet.)

Thanks so much for your help.

1)  Correct.  You are simply removing your Google account from the tablet, not completely deleting your Google account permanently.

2)  Yes and no.  Yes in the fact you will not be able to access information via apps like Google Drive or Gmail any longer, but if you downloaded any files from them for viewing offline (music, photos, documents, etc), those will still remain on the tablet.  You would either have to delete these items individually, or performing a factory reset of the device (which will remove everything), taking it to the state of where it was brand new out-of-the-box.


I am no longer able to read sd card i saved pictures and text messages to external sd card. Why cant i read them? I have tried several apps but no luck, just garbled gibberish, help please!

Make sure that the SD card is mounted. If it was somehow unmounted this could happen. This option will be in Settings > Storage  scroll down to SD card. Make sure that it indicates that the SD card is mounted or at least doesn't say "Insert SD Card".

If it is mounted, unmount it, take it out, put it back in, and see if anything changes. If it isn't recognized, then just take it out and put it back in. Check back in with the details on how that goes.


Airdroid modifies timestamps of copied files MTP does not work in Ubuntu so I am using Airdroid to copy photos off my phone (Galaxy Nexus) to my computer (Ubuntu 12.04).  My problem is that the files downloaded via Airdroid all have modification date of when I transferred them.  I want the files to keep the timestamps they have on the phone (which is the date and time I took the photo).

How can I do this?

Reason is your client saves them at that time, and doesn't ask the "server" (your Android device) for the original time stamps.

You could try using a SSH server on your Android device. DroidSSHd would be a good choice, for example. To copy your files then you need to start this SSH Server first on your phone, which usually tells you the IP and port used. Now you can use any SSH client on your Ubuntu workstation, or from the shell, use the scp command:

scp -p -P 2222 192.168.1.15:/sdcard/DCIM/*.jpg .

would be an example:

-p: Preserves modification times, access times, and modes from the original file
-P 2222: Use port 2222 (that's what DroidSSHd uses by default)
192.168.1.15: IP of your device (replace this with what the SSH server shows)
/sdcard/DCIM/*.jpg: All JPEG files from your camera folder on the SD-card (check for the correct path)
.: Copy files to the current working directory

Note that at least on Linux, for ease of use you can tell SSH in its config to always use port 2222 for this IP adding the following lines to your ~/.ssh/config file:

Host 192.168.1.15
    Port 2222

Having done that, you no longer need to specify -P 2222 with each command.

There might be graphical solutions available as well -- but I mostly work from the command line, so I cannot give you examples for those.


Android: "wipe data/factory reset" won't delete all directories in '/sdcard' I'm trying to reinstall my Asus Transformer TF101 with Cyanogenmod, I select the "wipe data/factory reset" option in the ClockworkMod Recovery menu, but after installing it I find that the original directories remain in '/sdcard' (I expected them to be removed).

Is it safety if I delete this whole directory just by "rm -rf /sdcard" in the shell?

Thank you very much.

/sdcard is part of the Android file system structure. This is where it mounts your external drives, the SD card. You shouldn't delete this partition. But you can delete the content of the directory either using an app or using rm -fr /sdcard/*


How can I enable Wi-Fi calling only when I'm at home? I have a phone running Android Nougat. I live in location with poor cell service, so I'd like to use Wi-Fi calling at home. But I want to use cell service for phone calls everywhere else, especially when I'm at work or connected to a public hotspot with questionable bandwidth. Is there a way to automate this?

In the Wi-Fi calling settings, I can tell the phone to prefer Wi-Fi or cellular, but it always uses the preferred service if it's available, even if the quality is terrible. So I'm hoping for a solution that automatically enables or disables Wi-Fi calling based on location or network name.

This app does more or less exactly what you want.

You can create rules for entering and leaving an area. You could, for example, if you are at home simply switch off mobile data and connect Wlan.You can also connect the rule with your reception quality, try what works best.


How to connect using WPA2-Enterprise on Android Devices? I am doing some product development for BYOD environment, so I require a wide variety of devices.  This one is causing me some issues with connectivity to the private network where I have to test.

The LG device with Android version 2.3.3 and upgraded firmware to whatever latest Sprint is supporting connects to the Wireless Access Point, but I get a 401 Unauthorized when access from a server on this private network. Meanwhile, the same configuration works with my iPad-1, an Android running Ice Cream, iPhones, Win Mobile, etc. using the same settings.

I am suspect that this device is too old to support WPA2-Enterprise but I cannot find any documentation, forum, etc. that supports any related issues.

I do not have access to the server to see why it is rejecting with the 401.

Any suggestions on how to troubleshoot/fix or officially lay claim of non-support?

You might want to give the WiFi Config Editor a try, which gives you much more configuration settings to play with:

WiFi Config Editor (click images for larger variants)

I have not tried it (especially lacking an environment where I could really test it), but it might prove helpful, as you can adjust a lot of WiFi settings for a given AP here.

Remark: The app hasn't been updated for a long time, and obviously is no longer maintained. According to the comments, it's supposed to work fine up to Gingerbread (which would be fine for the device in question), but stopped working with ICS.

An alternative could be the WiFi Advanced Config Editor (aka "WiFi Ace"), which explicitly states:

  Set WPA Enterprise and Personal parameters, like wpa_supplicant allows you to

WiFi Ace (click image for larger variant)

You might note the screenshot looks quite similar to the first of WiFi Config Editor above, so functionality might be quite similar as well. While this app was last updated 2012, it might have the same limitation: its developer couldn't test it on ICS (Android 4.x), but it should work fine on GB (Android 2.x). Comments give not much clue here (except that the app seems no longer to be maintained), but several reports from 2012/2013 stating success might indicate it's still doing its job with ICS and up.


Back up files on a pattern locked phone A friend of mine tried to guess my pattern so my phone got locked, asking for gmail account and password. The thing is that i used to use a program for keyboard symbols cause one of the symbols there is $. However the phone is locked so i cannot use this program. I cannot write my password down. Am i doomed to factory reset? i can't remember if i have usb debugging enabled and my GT-B5512 is not rooted. I have literally searched everywhere for $ but i can't find it!!! Is there a way to connect my phone to pc in order to use its keyboard? Or another way to solve this?

Hook up an external keyboard with a Micro USB OTG adapter.

Monoprice has one here http://www.monoprice.com/Product?c_id=108&cp_id=10833&cs_id=1083314&p_id=9724&seq=1&format=2


How do I remove images from the Downloads folder that are visible from within certain apps, but not visible from any file manager? Background: I used to use the Share with another app button on Google Chrome to send images from Google Chrome App to my Text Messaging App. It would go to my text message but not be seen in the Downloads folder.

Now, if I have a file stored in the Downloads folder that I want to attach to either a Text Message (via Messaging App) or an Email (via Gmail App), when I go to upload that file from the File Explorer within one of those Apps, all of the images that I have ever "Shared" in the method described are listed there, and can be clicked and uploaded as though they are stored in the system. However, when I use a File Management App, they are not there.

I simply want to remove the images from the Downloads folder, or from appearing as though they are in the Downloads folder to certain Apps (i.e., Messages and Gmail). Also, I'd like an appreciation of what is going on, but I think that would be clear upon a solution being presented.

I am not interested in rooting my phone.

What Has Not Worked:

• Clearing cache of Google, Google Chrome, and Messages Apps

• Deleting the Downloads folder in its entirety.

• Downloading multiple File Explorers and Hidden Image/File Apps to Search for the Locations of the Files

• Granting storage permissions to Google Chrome Apps

That's because those images are still in the servers of those particular apps and not in your device. They will be removed eventually.

Edit: The problem has been solved by the OP himself. I did not quite understand the situation when I wrote this answer. Please refer to the comments bellow.


Copying files from PC to "external" SD card I've got AirDroid and SSHDroid installed on a ZTE Axon 7 running 7.1.1. The phone has a micro SD card in it, and it can access (read from) that card successfully. What I can't do is copy files onto it. I can log in via ssh and see the file system, but I can't touch it.

I've had a Moto X Pure for the past year, and via SSHDroid and AirDroid I can readily copy files to the SD card.

Is this just a "security" (ie, "pay somebody") thing in the more-proprietary OS on the ZTE phone?

Obviously I can mount the micro SD card directly on the computer, but juggling those tiny cards is kind-of a pain. If there are other solutions, I'd be grateful.

edit — I've tried MTP with the Axon. I plug in the phone and tell it I want to connect as a "media device" with MTP. I then run mtpfs (I'm running Linux on the laptop; Ubuntu 16.04) and I get:

Listing raw device(s)
Device 0 (VID=19d2 and PID=0306) is a ZTE V790/Blade 3.
   Found 1 device(s):
   ZTE: V790/Blade 3 (19d2:0306) @ bus 2, dev 98
Attempting to connect device
Android device detected, assigning default bug flags

Then it just sits there. (I've never had much luck with MTP.)

edit again — ADB seems to work. I don't move files that much (mostly music and audiobooks) and while ADB is a pain it's easier than fiddling with the cards.

If you're not insisting on a wireless transfer, using an USB cable would give you at least two options:

Using mtp
Using adb

With MTP, on connecting the device to your computer you should usually get the option to open it in some file explorer (does so on Windows and on Linux at least). For ADB, you could use adb push to push files to your SD card – or, for your convenience, use an ADB GUI (some are listed here at my site.

For the latter, once connected via USB cable you could make it switch to TCP mode if you need it wireless. Without root, this must be repeated after each boot – with root, there are ways to initiate it without a cable.

Details can be found e.g. via the corresponding tag-wikis: adb and mtp.

Disclosure: The first two links lead to my Android website.


My Samsung Galaxy S3 Is Hard Bricked SPH-L710 Virgin Mobile

Flashed from MOAR to Stock SGS3 ROM

I flashed a ROM and I wanted to get back into recovery mode to flash a zip file using ROM TOOL BOX and when I did that it never turned on again. There's no lights or any sort of life on the phone. I've tried,

Turning the phone off for 30 seconds or more
Holding the power button while battery is removed for over 1
minute
Charging the phone while battery is inserted and pressed the power
button
Charging the phone without the battery inserted and pressed the
power button
Connecting the phone to my PC with and without the battery. Instead
I get a light (red or orange, I can't differentiate the 2) and my
computer beeps stating it's connected.

I've read a couple of stuff but it seems like I would have to buy certain things for it. I saw a "Jig" that could help it but I don't think it would work on my phone since it's Virgin Mobile and it's meant for Sprint or buy a Class 10 MicroSD Card.

Any ideas on how I can get it fixed without buying anything? Unless I have no choice...

-Side Note-

If anyone understands this, I think since I flashed d2lte or dlte instead of dspr it gave me this headache.

Try holding down the home button, the volume up button and the power button for a few seconds. If that doesn't work, try the volume down button. Vol up will try and boot into recovery, vol down into download mode. Source


Cyanogen: add homescreen shortcut to Notifications I'm using Cyanogen 7 on an HTC Wildfire.

I find swiping the top of the screen to get into Notifications a bit hit and miss, and too tiring : )

Is there some way to get a notifications shortcut onto the homescreen (or the menu for the homescreen).

For example, the Sense ROM had a shortcut to notifications in the homescreen menu, and that was pretty handy.

If you're using the default version of ADW Launcher that comes with CyanogenMod 7 then you can add a shortcut to your homescreen fairly easily. Long press on an empty space on one of your home screens and then select Launcher Actions->Open/close notifications to add the shortcut.

On older versions of ADW you can also do this, but you have to use a "custom shortcut" instead. Specifically, you long press on an empty space and then select Custom shortcut. Then on the dialog that appears you press the Pick your activity button and select Launcher Actions->Open/close notifications.

I'm not aware of any way to make it appear in the homescreen menu, unfortunately. It's one of the only features I miss from Sense.


Galaxy S5 / Lollipop: video player not showing video, only audio I have a strange problem with my Samsung Galaxy S5 running Android Lollipop 5.0 with all available OTA updates up to today.

I wanted to remote control a specific app from my Mac and tried out a few 'remote control' apps from the App store for the purpose. Some of them required access to the screen (recording / screenshots) upon first start. Unfortunately, none of them worked properly, so I uninstalled all of them again.

But since then (I think this is related but I don't really know), I cannot play my recorded videos any more using the built in "Videos" app. I only get a black screen with a large grey "screen mirroring" icon and I can hear the sound. It seems something activated screen mirroring but I cannot deactivate it in the app or in the settings, and there are no mirroring devices attached either.

Youtube and other video apps seem to work.

What went wrong here? How can I completely disable this feature and get my video screen back on my smartphone? "Screen mirroring" in the Android settings is disabled and was never enabled (by me).

Solved. It was actually this app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.teamviewer.quicksupport.addon.samsung

After deinstalling this app and restarting my phone the Android video player app works again. Just deinstalling Teamviewer Quicksupport itself neither deleted this add-on nor helped with my problem.

EDIT: Also, deinstalling this app removed very strange lags and pauses at certain display animations (fade effects, e.g. of the lock screen camera button and in apps) that I experienced while I had this app installed.


How do I turn off the notification sound for when apps request the current location Today, my HTC 10 was updated to Oreo 8.0.0.

Now, whenever an app requests my location, I get the location icon appearing, and a default notification sound plays. "System UI: Finding Location" is what the notification displays.

The sound never played before the update.

I've looked everywhere to try to turn this notification sound off, and I cannot find it.

I did go to Settings > Sounds and Notifications > Advanced > Notifications. When I see the list of apps, I've also clicked on the options menu to include System apps. I assumed I had found it with Location Services, and turned off "Allow Sound" which was turned on. It did not turn off the sound. I also restarted the phone.

I would like to turn off the sound while continuing to allowing apps to request my location. For example, when I go into Instagram, or the camera, I get the notification. I don't care if it shows me the icon for a second, but the sound has got to go.

Edit: Verizon Wireless is my carrier. I didn't think that was relevant, but once I found the solution, I realized it was.

Go to Settings > Sounds and Notifications > Advanced > Notifications.

Click on the three dots up in the right corner and tap Show System.

Scroll down to System UI.

Under Categories, tap on VZW, then tap on Importance, select Medium: No sound.

Why is the GPS location notification in the VZW category of notifications? I don't understand.

I debugged by setting the category sounds to one other than the default, and when going into an app that requested the GPS location, I heard that unique sound, and that let me pin it down to the VZW category.

I do not know what other notifications fall into the VZW category, but they won't be making a sound when the notification shows anymore.


Where is "Call forwad" in marshmallow (Android 6) It seems its absoultely crazy question but really i cannot find answer:
after update my phone to android 6, it seems in the call forwarding setting is missed in setting menu! i also search it using filed button but i cannot find it, could anyone help me about the situation in this version? i have Huawi P8Lite. Thanks a lot.

Look in the Dialer/Phone app settings itself to see if the option is there. On my S7 Edge the option is there, but that Dialer/Phone app is most likely different from Huawi's.


Only one screen visible when playing videos using VLC and other players I am able to mirror the Samsung Galaxy Tab SM-T520's screen to my TV over an HDMI cable.  I see the screen on both devices.  But as soon as I start a video, the tablet screen goes to an image of the traffic cone and a symbol indicating it's playing the video externally.  If using the built-in player, the video also disappears and shows an indication of the fact that it's sending video externally.  In both cases, various playback functions are available on the tablet, just no video is displayed there.

So rather than mirroring, it's sending the video to either the tablet or the TV, but not both.  This only happens with videos; the rest of the apps show in both.

I have poked around at the (very few) settings in the various players, but so far have not found anything that will allow video to show both places.  The tablet is on Android 4.4.2. Is there any kind of OS trick to get the video to play on both devices?

The answer is to change to a mode called "prefer clone".

Open VLC, but don't play a video.  In the upper left, select the 3 lines (hamburger), then:

Settings > Interface > Prefer clone

With this setting 'on', the video will play on both the tablet and the TV.


I can't find my .nomedia folder or the folder it is in anymore, but the files still seem to be there So i recently followed the advice posted here: How do I keep audiobook separate from Google Music? by @Tzunki in order to keep my audiobooks out of Google Play Music.  I made a .Audiobooks folder and put them all in there and then added a .nomedia folder for good measure.  It worked great, but now I'm trying to delete out an old audiobook and add a new one, and i can't find the folder or any of the audiobooks.
I've tried searching for the files and the folder names, etc, but it looks like they are all hidden somehow and i can't find any of them in order to edit them. I went back to my audiobook player to make sure they are still there and played them and they play.  I checked the rood folder for the files in my audiobook player and it shows /storage/emulated/0/.audiobooks (which is not where i told it to look when i created the .Audiobooks folder) but i looked there and there is some data file instead of the audiobooks, so i'm thinking it is just like a bookmark so it knows where in the audiobook i left off?
anyways, any help you can offer would be great, thanks.

*edit with a little more info:
I've tried to just type in Computer\Galaxy S6\Phone.Audiobooks, but it says  Windows cant find it.   Also, i thought i might try to re-create it, and see if it repopulated with my files but when I try to change the name of my New Folder to .Audiobooks it won't change. Just reverts back to New Folder.

Many thanks to @gertmenkel! I found the hidden files using ES Explorer and deleted out the "." so that the file wasn't hidden anymore.  the audiobooks are still not in my google play music because of the .nomedia file i have in there.  so the "." in the audiobooks file name was overkill.
Btw, I'm too new here and I'm not sure if you get points for posting a good solution @gertmenkel, but if you do i dont want to take yours away so if you post the solution i'll delete my own.  Thanks again!


Turn off WiFi only when the device is both locked and screen turned off I have already tested some apps for this purpose and they solely rely on the screen turning off, which makes sense at some point. However, their concept breaks down when you want to use an app over WiFi which has the capability to turn-off the screen due to the proximity sensor (think of the VoIP apps). Turning off the screen in that case means disconnection from the network.

Is it possible to turn off the WiFi only if the device is both locked and screen turned off?

If I understand your question correctly, then there is a very easy way of doing this yourself. Im sure there are many ways of going about this, but this is the easiest and most reliable method that I know of.

You said that you wanted something that doesn't rely on the screen being off. My solution does rely on the "display" being off, however for the "display" as opposed to the "screen" to be off, the device must be locked, meaning that this should work flawlessly for you.

If you just follow the instructions I've provided below, you should have satisfying results in just a few minutes!

Download Tasker from the Play Store.
Open Tasker and click the + button. Now click Event → Display → Display Off.
Click the gear (back button) in the top left corner. A pop up menu will appear. Select New Task and name it Display Off.
Tap + → Net → WiFi and make sure the box that says Set is set to Off.
Click the gear (back) twice so that you end up on the Profiles screen.
Now click + again, then Event → Display → Display On.
Tap the gear (back) and then select New Task. Name it something along the lines of Display On.
Click + → Net → WiFi and change Set to On. Now exit back to the Profiles tab. You should now have both Display Off and Display On.
In the Profiles tab to the right of your conditions, there are On/ Off toggles. Turn both of these to Off and then back to On.
Simply exit out of Tasker and you're done!

Good luck and I hope this helps you!


What does 'Always On Display' button does in Android on Samsung Galaxy S7? What does 'Always On Display' button does in Android on Samsung Galaxy S7?

Please don't say it makes display be always on, because it doesn't.

Quoted from CNET:

According to Samsung, the average smartphone owner checks his or her device nearly 150 times a day: A quick press of the power button to view the time here, and double tap on the screen to view notifications there, apparently adds up fast.
Samsung's solution for this obsessive checking and waking our smartphones is through a feature it calls Always-On Display.
As the name implies, Samsung's latest Galaxy devices are equipped with the fancy new feature.
After locking your device, the screen will remain dimly lit. The default setting is to display the current time, with the information moving around on the screen every few seconds. Alerts for missed calls and text messages are also placed on the screen.

...and additionally from TechRadar:

Where before you'd have to wake the phone to see the time or check your notifications, now the screen permanently displays a clock, calendar or pattern.


How to invert mount of SDCard I've Android 4.3 Build JLS356C rooted. It's a wiko WAX. I've three partition in my storage view: the Internal Storage 2Go, Phone Storage 500Mo and my SDCard 32Go. I use SD2link for passing the space and of the applications to my SDcard. I don't know why but my phone storage is full and my android tells me I don't have sufficient space disk.
Here my df command:

Filesystem               Size     Used     Free   Blksize
/dev                   440.3M    48.0K   440.3M   4096
/mnt/secure            440.3M     0.0K   440.3M   4096
/mnt/asec              440.3M     0.0K   440.3M   4096
/mnt/obb               440.3M     0.0K   440.3M   4096
/system                755.9M   424.5M   331.4M   4096
/cache                 263.8M     4.4M   259.4M   4096
/data                    2.0G     1.1G   887.4M   4096
/mnt/modem              15.7M     4.2M    11.5M   4096
/mnt/log                78.7M     4.0M    74.7M   4096
/storage/sdcard1        29.0G     6.1G    22.9G   16384
/mnt/secure/asec: Permission denied
/storage/sdcard0       499.0M     1.6M   497.5M   4096
/mnt/asec/com.google.android.ears-1     4.0M     2.2M     1.8M   4096
..../....

I modified the fstab.ceres on the root partition but that haven't any effect.

How to tell the Android for put all data on the SDCARD.

Data is stored on the /data partition, while "phone storage", /storage/sdcard0, is user available memory where you put images, music etc.
If you want to have more space for apps, you need to increase the /data partition. If you want to put the data on the external SD card, you'll have to further modify your system.


How can I update old Android devices to get fixes? (for issues such as Dirty Cow) Recently there has been the discovery of the Dirty Cow bug in the linux kernel which allows the unlogged access to superuser privileges:

Dirty Cow CVE-2016-5195 (from https://dirtycow.ninja/) :

  Why is it called the Dirty COW bug?

  "A race condition was found in the way the Linux kernel's memory
  subsystem handled the copy-on-write (COW) breakage of private
  read-only memory mappings. An unprivileged local user could use this
  flaw to gain write access to otherwise read-only memory mappings and
  thus increase their privileges on the system."

The Guardian - 'Dirty Cow' Linux vulnerability found after 9 years

  That also applies to Android: the mobile operating system is affected.
  While top-end Android devices, such as the Galaxy S7 and Pixel,
  receive regular security updates, the vast majority of Android devices
  sold receive few, if any, post-sale updates.

  Google declined to comment, but confirmed that Android is one of the
  Linux distributions affected. The company has posted a Partner
  Security Advisory to alert Android partners, one of the steps to those
  partners then issuing a patch

AFAIK Android M is based on Linux 3.4, but I know usually with supported Linux distros running older kernels that compatibility and security fixes can be backported.

My androids devices are running Android 6 (Marshmallow) - most of these are Motorola and got updated from Android 5 (Lollipop) probably about half a year after it was released - but I also know that many people are still using devices running 4 (KitKat) and older.

So to get a newer version of Android which has this (and other issues) patched, do I have to:

...get a new device running Nougat? Apparently updates are supported much better - but only on new devices that come with it (finding reasonably priced ones with Nougat seems difficult in the UK at least)
...wait for a OTA update?
...try and flash updates myself? I think with non-Nexus devices this is difficult... largely due to drivers?

EDIT: Ok for the first part of the answer I found these saying YES (despite searching before posting...):

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/140430/cve-2016-5195-dirty-cow-on-android (links proof of concept and a article)
https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/140418/what-is-the-possible-impact-of-dirtyc0w-a-k-a-dirty-cow-bug which has answers.

How should I apply updates to older devices?

Maybe this is more like what you are looking
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-tab-2/galaxy-tab-2-unified/kernel-anykernel-t3484739/post69241933#post69241933

I dont know if this gonna work for you right out of the box probably needs to import the ramdisk files of your device and if its append dtb then you would need your dtb binary

https://github.com/osm0sis/AnyKernel2


Is it possible to disable the "Activate Google Now" reminder every time you use "Google Search Widget"? I've started to use Android 4.X for the first time (after being a long term Android 2.3.X user) and some things are new to me.

One of the things that annoy me more is the "new Google Search Widget", which is displayed onto one of my Samsung Galaxy S3 4.1.2 desktop pages. It works nicely.

But, whenever I try to launch said Google search widget, Google annoys me with an (apparently unavoidable) reminder about joining Google Now. The only button they offer is a "next" button (which of course, I don't want to press).

I just dismiss this nagging screen pressing the "back butotn".

But as soon as I reopen the google search widget, the "join google now" reminder is there again. I'm afraid I'll press the "next" button in a distraction, and then I'll be "doomed forever".

So, is there any method to really get rid of this popup? I'll never join "Google Now", in the same manner I just avoid Google + at all costs.

Thanks.

Keep clicking on the Next button as if you are agreeing. Then you can choose 'No, Maybe Later` to opt out of google-now. When you perform a normal search under your previous searches/ suggested searches there is a link to "Get Google Now" again! You can click the big X beside it and it will not come back. However, some updates and reinstalling the search app may cause this to recur again, but the steps above will get rid of it.

(source: androiddevelopersltd.com)


Pop up about security problems I had a lot of these pop ups and I don't know if it's for real or not.

Solution: Correct your date, or Set the clock to update automatically

Reason: This security warning pops-up when the verification of certificate needs to be done but the requesting system is set to wrong date(usually to the past).
The security certificate is seen as From Future.
This is all related to certificate validation by the browser.
Related Stack Exchange post

NB: This does not harm your phone (and certainly it's not a virus)

EDIT: There can be other reasons as suggested by @Lie Ryan - due to certificate mismatch / weak encryption / browser not trusting the CA


How to remove MotoBLUR from Motorola Charm MB502 phone? I have a T-Mobile branded Motorola Charm (MB502) phone that I bought for my wife.  It's a capable little device, but it's being slowed down to a crawl by MotoBLUR.  I'd like to know if there is a way to remove all BLUR software, preferably by overwriting the firmware with a de-blurred version.

It's been updated to the latest firmware and rooted via SuperOneClick.  Here are the relevant details from the phone's "About" screen:

  System Version: Blur_Version_2.3.9007.MB502.T-Mobile.en.US
  Model number: MB502
  Baseband version: EPU93_U_03.3B.02
  Build number: BASIL_U3_03.90.7

I know of at least one de-blurred version that can be flashed with RDSlite, from and-developers.com. Unfortunately this version "BASEM_U3_01.12.4" doesn't work on T-Mobile Charm and (almost) bricks it after flashing, requiring a re-flash to the base T-Mobile sbf. Also, on xda-developers thread a dev managed to build a working version of Clockwork Recovery for the Charm. However, there are no ROMs available for it yet.

So my question is this: For the lack of any 3rd-party ROMs, is there a way to safely remove all BLUR apps and references from Charm?

While I don't know how to kill MotoBlur, if you are rooted you can use Titanium Backup to remove the crappy system apps that run all the time.  Just open Titanium, click the offending app, and click Uninstall.  Only remove apps that aren't needed for the system to run, of course.


Is there a way to permanently clear all notifications and mark them as "read" from the lock screen or notification menu? Background: I often get no signal on my phone, so use apps like Airdroid and O2 TuGo which allow for texting and calling over wifi and from multiple devices.

The problem is, when I get my signal back, I suddenly get a flood of text messages which take a long time to individually mark as read. I also get message/call notifications from apps like TuGo even if I've already read the message from another device such as a desktop PC or tablet.

Is there a way I can permanently clear the notifications, preferably from the lock screen and/or the notifications bar?

A search leads to this question but it only applies to SMS messages, not other notifications.

Android's own "clear all" button does not mark notifications as read, it only temporarily removes them which is pretty useless.

I have some solutions.

To avoid apps permanently not to display in notification bar.

Go in app info of particular app and disable show notifications.

To read all SMS at once.

Install Tetra SMS from play store .This app gives option to mark as read to all SMS


Why has my SD Card suddenly stopped working? It is not visible on phone and I cannot format it on PC In the morning, I tried to start my Android 4.4.2 phone. There was no response from the phone for some time, which was unusual. Then it started suddenly, and I noticed that there was a notification- 'Preparing SD Card, Checking For error'. All my apps and data installed on the SD card were missing.

After some time, the notification vanished, with the problem persisting. I tried to shutdown my phone, but in the middle of the shutdown process, the phone hanged. I waited and after some minutes removed the battery and restarted. No progress. Now, whenever I shutdown the phone with the SD card on, it hangs in the middle of the process, and I have to remove the battery. Without the SD card, the phone runs fine.

I then tried backing up the data and formatting the SD card on PC. It would not get formatted, and show the message- 'Windows was unable to complete the format'. I tried formatting with quick format on and off. Also, if I manually delete the files from my SD card, they come back after a while. Though the backup version of the data that I have saved in my PC behaves normally and gets permanently deleted if I delete it.

I scanned my SD card with two antiviruses with no result. I also tried easeUS Partition Master to format the SD Card on PC, with no result. I also tried formatting via Disk management on PC.

I would like to know the cause of this random error. The card could not have been damaged because it was securely installed in my phone when this happened. Also, I downloaded some songs from a known website the last evening, and virus could have infected my phone then, although I have previously used the website with no problem.

Please explain any possible reason why this could have happened, and a solution if possible.

I also notice that when SD card is in the phone, the battery gets consumed very fast.

Also, i tried formatting it using command prompt, and got an error message-'invalid media or track 0 bad - disk unusable'.

It sounds like the SD card went bad, things like that happen.  I would recommend getting a replacement SD card.


Can I upgrade Android on my Xoom? I have a old school 32 gig wifi-only Xoom. I would like to upgrade to a newer version of Android, so I can use Chrome.

Also I got the tablet, so I could download and manage my google home devices. Is this possible without trashing the tablet?

The newest version of Android I can find is CyanogenMod 11. Needless to say it is not getting any updates any time soon, as CyanogenMod is dead and was superseded by LineageOS. There's some guy on the XDA forums trying to build Oreo for it but let's be real for a moment; A Tegra 2 device with 1GB RAM will run Oreo like a 486 old-school PC runs Windows 10.


Can apps modify the system-level "Display->Auto-rotation" setting? I've noticed in the last couple weeks that my Nexus 4 (stock rooted, with franco.Kernel) will seemingly at random lose the ability to auto-rotate the display. If I go into the Display settings and check the box, it works again, but that setting is invariably disabled again through no action of my own (or even a reboot) within a day or two.

Can apps, either in the foreground or the background, modify this setting? If so, I'll have to start keeping really good track of what I open to try and track down the culprit so I can complain to its developer.

According to this StackOverflow question, YES.

Excerpt:

public static void setAutoOrientationEnabled(ContentResolver resolver, boolean enabled)
{
   Settings.System.putInt(resolver, Settings.System.ACCELEROMETER_ROTATION, enabled ? 1 : 0);
}


Is there a way to disable the default calendar app on a Samsung Galaxy S4? I'd like to use the standard Google Calendar app (as available in the Play Store) too keep track of events.  However, Samsung includes a modified version of the calendar on the S4.  In previous iterations of the Galaxy it was possible to disable the Samsung version of the Calendar app so that I wouldn't get duplicate notifications of events.  On the S4, it does not seem possible to disable the app or it's notifications (the "disable" button and "show notifications" checkbox are greyed-out in the app info screen).  Is there some other trick I can use to disable the Samsung Calendar app?

Assuming your end goal is just to get the app to shut up (i.e. not get double calendar notifications for all events), all you have to do is disable the alerts and notifications from within the app itself.

Go into the App
Press the menu button
Choose Settings
Scroll to the bottom
Change Set alerts & notifications to off

For good measure, I also unchecked Vibration and set Select ringtone to Silent, but that probably wasn't necessary.

The app will still be on your phone, but aside from the icon being there you won't even notice it unless you open it.


My huawei phone is not receiving text messages? My huawei Y3II was working fine and receiving messages without any problem. But, one day I realized that one or two weeks have been passed and I did not got any text message. Then I checked by sending message from another phone but, I did not received. I have not done anything with my phone then, what could be the problem.

Factory Reset has solved my problem. This also solved my second problem which was automatically turning off sometimes and then showing 'Starting apps' and taking too much time on it.

->  First of all I saved all my data to sd card and then switched off the phone and took out my sd card.

-> Then I reached to options by pressing power button and volume up button and releasing power button when logo is shown while continuing pressing volume up button.

-> Then I selected wipe data/factory reset option. It took just a few seconds to complete factory reset and then I rebooted the phone.

Reference : https://drfone.wondershare.com/reset-android/wipe-data-factory-reset.html


Whenever I connect my Samsung Galaxy S6 to the wifi at home, everything else connected to the internet begins to have connectivity issues This isn't exclusive to one wifi network either, it's happened at three different locations using three different sources of wifi.

If I connect my phone to the wifi, the computer and other phones and laptops connected to the same wifi will run slowly; videos buffering for indeterminate amounts of time or not at all, web pages failing to connect, ping issues while someone is playing games on the computer and also issues with packet loss (so I'm told).

I never had an issue with this while using these same wifi connections in question, until I updated my phone a couple of months ago. I couldn't definitively say the version of Android software that I updated from because I'm not really savvy with this kind of thing and I can't remember. But the version I'm running now is 7.0.

Same issue at my home, I know what's for me: my phone starts uploading photos to my Flickr account, takes a lot of upload band and, of course, download slows down; it is enough to pause Flickr transfer to go back to the usual transfer rate.
Maybe you have any App backup or sending huge amount of data on to the InterNet; you could start to check your data usage statistics on your phone.


Is there any software for Tablets to edit PDF or PS -files? I am using Samsung galaxy tab 8.9.
Assume you read your lecture materials with your tablet.
You see a mistake. You would like to fix it.
You are using Adobe reader tablet version.

Is there any software by which you can simply add text on PDF or PS -files?

You could give Qoppa PDF Notes a try:

The best app for editing, annotating, filling forms, and signing PDF documents.
qPDF Notes is a user-friendly, all-in-one PDF app to view, edit, and markup PDF documents, digitally sign and share them, and fill PDF forms. Saved documents are fully compatible with Adobe Acrobat and the PDF standard, and can be viewed in any capable PDF reader.

The link leads to the demo (which places a watermark on all your edits); a full version is available for about EUR 4.
If you just want to annotate, there are plenty of apps available capable of that.
P.S.: And it sure is "The best app for editing PDF documents" at the moment -- I could find no other, so it's also the only AFAIK :)


Why I can't follow more than 600 users on Instagram from Android device? I can't follow more than 600 users on Instagram from Android device, but Instagram's web interface allows me to follow more than 600; I followed 10 more users from web interface.

On mobile, when I tap "Follow", it says "Following", but then it immediately goes back to "Follow".

I have Instagram version 7.3 on Android Lollipop 5.0

My mobile's WiFi is working fine and I did not exceed their follow/unfollow or like/unlike limit per hour. I tried these solutions but none of them worked:

Waited 1 week with no activity on Instagram, just viewed the feed
Logged out > uninstalled app > restarted Android device > installed
app > logged in

Instagram lifted the restriction on my account and now I'm able to follow more people from android. I did not contact them though but the restriction was auto lifted after few weeks.

There was a temporary restriction on the account for some unknown reason that is most probably only known to instagram tech team because I did not exceed their follow/unfollow or like/unlike limit.

During this period I found same complaints from other instagram users on internet.


Export contacts/text messages in a readable format I would like to export both my contacts and my text messages. But I would like be able to easily read the file formats that it exports to. I can export the contacts as a VCF yet when I view it there is a lot of other data that I do not need. Is there a way to export the contacts as a file formate that excel can open and read without the other excess data.

Then I would like to export my text messages. I use GO SMS PRO as my text message APP and I can backup the messages yet they backup in a format that I cannot read. Is there a way to export text messages into a format that can be easily readable?

Thanks for the assistance.

(I am running Android 2.3 and using a T-Mobile/HTC G2)

At least if using the stock Messaging app SMS Backup + can backup your messages in a readable format to your Gmail. And for contacts I'd recommend syncing them to Google Contacts and exporting them from there (as Chahk mentioned in the comments).