Will changing password of a Google account revoke access to it on a lost device? I had a Samsung Galaxy Star Pro Duos with my Google account logged in to the apps (Google+, Gmail...). Now it is lost. I can remotely remove all my accounts from the web browser, but I do not know how to remove it from the device without having it turned on and sync enabled, as sync was disabled and it is currently switched off .

I was thinking if I change my password, my account on that phone would stop syncing and request for the password to be re-entered. Once someone turns it on, and tries to sync, the account must stop.

Will this plan work?

Changing your password will require all devices to reauthorize (log in) before syncing any new data, however information already on the device, like bookmarks and such, will remain.
Locking the device with Android Device Manager would be the better option.


How to suppress repeated alert/notification sounds Is there a way to suppress repeated alert sounds within a certain period of time - i.e after an event triggers a sound, do not play any further sounds for any more of the same event type that arrives in the following 30/60/90 seconds.

e.g
I'm chatting to someone on Google Talk on my PC, every time they send a me message my phone chirps at me. I don't want to silence it completely (maybe they go afk for 5 mins and I'd like the sound to inform me of when they come back), I just don't want the repeated noises. The result being that during a conversation my phone only makes a sound once a minute, rather than going off every few seconds.

Google Talk is just one example, but a method of suppressing all repeated alert sounds would be ideal.

I'm using Jelly Bean on a Motorola RAZR i, but answers for any version of android would be welcome

Muting notifications from the same app within a set period is not yet available in stock Android.

However, some custom ROMs have already implemented this option. If your ROM has this functionality, the option would be under Settings > Sounds > Less frequent notification sounds. Note that the name of this option may differ from ROM to ROM.


How do I delete a symlink from /sbin? I wanted to remove a symlink from /sbin/ directory. The link is swapon which is linked to busybox binary on the same directory.

While trying to remove first-time, it said "Read only filesystem". So, I remounted / with read-write using this command

mount -o remount,rw /

Then I was able to remove it. I checked with which swapon as well as using ls. All fine. Now, when I rebooted the phone, the link appeared in the same location magically!

Am I missing something? What's happening here? How do I remove this link?

Here is the output of mount in case it is required

~ # mount
rootfs on / type rootfs (ro,relatime)
tmpfs on /dev type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,mode=755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,relatime,mode=600)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,relatime)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,relatime)
none on /acct type cgroup (rw,relatime,cpuacct)
none on /sys/fs/cgroup type tmpfs (rw,relatime,mode=750,gid=1000)
none on /sys/fs/cgroup/memory type cgroup (rw,relatime,memory)
tmpfs on /mnt/asec type tmpfs (rw,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000)
tmpfs on /mnt/obb type tmpfs (rw,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000)
none on /dev/cpuctl type cgroup (rw,relatime,cpu)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000)
/dev/block/mmcblk0p6 on /modemfs type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,errors=panic,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1,nomblk_io_submit,data=ordered)
/dev/block/mmcblk0p10 on /system type ext4 (ro,relatime,errors=panic,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1,data=ordered)
/dev/block/mmcblk0p11 on /data type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,errors=panic,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1,journal_async_commit,nomblk_io_submit,data=ordered,noauto_da_alloc)
/dev/block/mmcblk0p12 on /cache type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,errors=panic,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1,nomblk_io_submit,data=ordered)
/dev/block/vold/179:97 on /mnt/media_rw/sdcard1 type vfat (rw,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,uid=1023,gid=1023,fmask=0007,dmask=0007,allow_utime=0020,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro)
/dev/fuse on /storage/sdcard1 type fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1023,group_id=1023,default_permissions,allow_other)
/dev/block/vold/179:14 on /mnt/media_rw/sdcard0 type vfat (rw,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,uid=1023,gid=1023,fmask=0007,dmask=0007,allow_utime=0020,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro)
/dev/block/vold/179:14 on /mnt/secure/asec type vfat (rw,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,uid=1023,gid=1023,fmask=0007,dmask=0007,allow_utime=0020,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro)
/dev/fuse on /storage/sdcard0 type fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1023,group_id=1023,default_permissions,allow_other)
/dev/block/dm-0 on /mnt/asec/com.zodinplex.naturesound-1 type ext4 (ro,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noatime,user_xattr,acl,barrier=1)

Android devices have a unique way of booting, using a binary blob called boot.img that contains the kernel, and a ramdisk. This ramdisk will contain the /sbin symlink you want to remove.

To remove this, you will probably need either an upgrade image, or you will have to extract boot.img from your device. I can look for or put together instructions for this if you wish.

Once you have the extracted boot.img, you have to then extract the ramdisk image from it, make your changes, and put everything back together.

Then comes the dangerous part, unless you know you cannot brick your phone. You will need to flash this (hopefully working!) boot.img so that Android will use the new ramdisk.

So, for now, it might be better to figure out if there is an init script in the /system directory that you could remove your symlink in each time your phone starts.

  Update: or, like you did, you could just change the init script that calls swapon to call a different one.


Access windows shared folder via bluetooth I have a specific requirement of being able to access a shared folder present on a windows 8 laptop. However, rather than doing this over the wireless connection, I want to be able to do this over bluetooth. So for example, if I have a shared folder on windows called Share and i drop a file in the folder called test.txt, I want to be able to see this file automatically updated on a folder called Share present on the android device, something like what dropbox does but just not over the wi fi. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

I know this is an old as hell question, but I thought I would answer anyway.

Simply put, this is impossible with the way you'd want to implement it.  Windows folder shares are SMB/CIFS, which is a NetBIOS/TCP/IP protocol.  Bluetooth is, well, the Bluetooth protocol.

Technically speaking, you could use Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) on your Windows machine and connect to the broadcasting WiFi.  You'd then be on your internal network, and you could access the share.  But that would involve using your device's WiFi, not your Bluetooth connection.


How can I sort applications by cache size? How can I sort applications by cache size?

I can sort applications by data size in Settings → Apps storage, but it doesn't take into account the cache size, which can sometimes be significant.

I use Android 6.0 with an LG 4.

Elixir 2 offers this feature. Install and launch that app, go to Applications, click the four horizontal line at the top, and choose Cache size under Sort By.

Note: tapping on Cache Size causes my device to get stuck on "Please Wait", so this may or may not work with your device.


How to play already transfered music with 'Music' app? I just bought Galaxy S2. Its really cool, but I have one serious problem! I transfered few MP3 files using USB and copied those files to usbStorage/. When I open 'My files' app on S2, it does show those files.

When I open the 'Music' app, there aren't any clue of new files. Only the default music.

It there any way to somehow add that music to 'Music' app? Maybe I need to get other app to play music?

If relevant, I have a Samsung Galaxy S2 running Android 2.3.3 and my computer has Debian 6.0.2.

Remount SD card or even restart will also work or just browse using any file manager type of apps and play using Music app...


How to change the Google Play email I recently have gone from IPhone to Android. And my Google Play store is under an old email that has deleted its self. I have a purchased app that I need for school on this account, is there a way that I can change the email on my GooglePlay account without having to make a new account?

Settings > account > google > *menu button > Add account.
Then go back to google accounts and delete the one you don't want.
This will change your play store email!.

*also, it may be slightly different on different roms. I gave you the most common method.


Best way to update to latest versions of custom ROMs? What is the easiest and most time effective way to update to different builds of a custom ROM ?
Say for example, having an Infuse, I follow the builds of Cyanaogenmod 10 and they release updates every week or so. What I usually do is to use Titanium back up pro to backup my apps, flash ROM and do a restore. (which of course takes a lot of time)

Is there a better way to do this that I'm not aware of ? Does updating to a latest version need to have the same steps as flashing a new ROM entirely ?

If you upgrade your CM10 to a newer build of CM10 you can just flash it right over the existing one, and you are ready. There is no need to backup all of your apps.

The newest builds of CyanogenMod have an updating system build-in however so you don't have to do it all by yourself. It is under System Settings - About Phone. It still downloads the complete zip of the newer build but handles the updating by itself.

There is, however, a new method to update your CyanogenMod. CyanDelta is an app that calculates the difference between your build and the newest build and will only download and update this difference.


My tablet will not turn on. Please Help! The screen on my tablet just won't turn on, but I was told there is a fix for it. I made sure it was charged but it did nothing.

It didn't turn on when I tried to get on it, and I hadn't got on in 2 weeks.

Please Help!!!

NeuTab N7 Pro is the tablet.

The problem was that there was a rip in the connection from the charging port to the battery. The solution is a new battery.


Is there any FREE android mail client with Exchange Support? I am searching for a free Exchange mail client for Android 2.3+. Can anybody please suggest me one?

K-9 Mail supports Exchange 2003/2007 via WebDAV. No support for Exchange 2010, unfortunately, since Microsoft removed WebDAV support in the newest version.

See the official wiki page for configuration instructions.


Messages app stuck notification bubble I have had an odd problem where the Android Messages app had a notification bubble with a number of 1 or higher. That is, the app acts as if there is one unread message. Looks kinda like this:

But when I check inside the sms messages app, I see no unread messages, no unsent messages, no drafts. There shouldn't be a notification bubble. The app acts as if there's a hidden message always there.

How can I get rid of this number?

The OP originally wrote this in the question, so I'm posting it as an answer so the question stops showing up as "unanswered":

I dealt with this for a year or so, as it wasn't super significant, it just bugged me. I use an Xperia Z5, where Sony has their own messaging app clone, which I disabled soon after buying the phone. I used hangouts before finally switching to Android Messages, where I experienced this notification bug. To fix the problem, I simply enabled the built-in Xperia messaging app, and found a sneaky unread message: an undownloaded mms image sent to me a year ago. I deleted the message and the notification bubble went away. I went back to the Android Messages app and the notification bubble didn't come back.
For those who have a pure android experience and use the default messaging app, I suggest switching to another sms app. If upon choosing said app as your default sms app, said app shows you the same ghost notification bubble, then you have a ghost message that didn't show up in the Android Messages app for some reason or other. I hope this helps a brave googler somewhere.
tl;dr
Temporarily switch to another SMS app. You may have a ghost message that isn't showing up in the app you normally use. Delete the ghost message and switch back.


What does "hand with small restricted icon" status icon represent? Can anyone help me identify this icon that looks like "a hand with small restricted icon", and how can I remove it?

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It means you have interruptions disabled. When your device is in this mode, you will not receive any visual, audible, or vibration notifications except for alarms you've explicitly configured to be allowed.

On vanilla/Google Android, this setting can be found in the "Sound & notifiation" category, but ASUS may have moved it elsewhere. Alternatively, if you press the volume button up when not in a media app (music player, video, etc) it should display the ringtone/notification volume overlay, and you can use that to adjust your interruption settings.


TWRP is stuck at the boot screen when trying to flash twrp on Mi A2 I am trying to root my Mi A2 android phone. I am following this tutorial. When I try fastboot boot path/to/twrp/image the phone gets stuck on the boot screen. What am I doing wrong?
Is it because a) I don't have required drivers or because b) I have to disable force encryption? If a) I have to install new drivers what are they, where do I get them and how do I install them? If it is b) about disabling force encryption then how to do it?

The twrp-3.3.1-0 works for me, so download the twrp-3.3.1-0-jasmine_sprout.img and twrp-installer-3.3.1-0-jasmine_sprout.zip from here and issue the following commands on fastboot/bootloader mode
fastboot set_active b
fastboot flash boot twrp-3.3.1-0-jasmine_sprout.img
fastboot reboot recovery

or just
fastboot boot twrp-3.3.1-0-jasmine_sprout.img

enable side-loading mode in advance options in twrp recovery mode and issue
adb sideload twrp-installer-3.3.1-0-jasmine_sprout.zip

and download Disable_Dm-Verity_ForceEncrypt_03.04.2020.zip from here and get Magisk-v21.0.zip and MagiskManager-v8.0.0.apk from here or here
and then in twrp recovery mode, select Wipe->format Data and select partition 'a' on reboot tab on twrp menu but do not reboot. Now activate sideload from advance menu and issue
adb sideload Disable_Dm-Verity_ForceEncrypt_03.04.2020.zip
adb sideload Magisk-v21.0.zip

and then rebooting into system should enable root on your phone. I used this link for the answer. Also you can look into these links,
link1,
link2 and
link3.


How to factory reset a locked phone when you cant access fastboot or usb debug mode I have a Hyundai Orbit android phone.  The situation is as follows:

The phone has a pin which we don't know
The phone was never signed into any google or other accounts
USB debugging is not turned on
We have tried starting the phone while holding all combinations of buttons and it always just boots normally, never into fastboot/recovery mode.  We have been able to boot with "Safe mode" in the bottom right hand corner of the screen

Is there any way to do a factory reset under these conditions?

Some phone needs to be plugged to light before it can boot to recovery mode/hard reset. Try putting the plugged charger in the phone when it's switched off and immediately it shows the charging signal press the volume down⬇key+power key, if that doesn't work try volume up⬆key+power key.
The both work for my phone innjoo i2s.


Android can't view local content after OS upgrade After upgrading to Android 10, I am not able to use the Files app to view local files on my phone. If I run Files and view the Downloads folder, for example, it merely says "Can't load content at the moment".
I've been using the built-in Files app for many versions of Android. But after upgrading to Android 10 it stopped working. I am able to view the contents of some directories. And if I choose / navigate to folders in a different way, e.g.

Images -> Download
Or

Device -> Download

Then the file explorer will view some files. But simply selecting "Downloads" from the menu gives me this error.
I have gone into App Permission -> Storage, but the Files app does not appear there. Inside App Info -> Files it says "No Permissions requested". I have installed two other file browsing apps, and both of them can access all of my folders just fine.
Is there something I'm missing to be able to browse my own local files, on my own device, using the OS built-in file browser?

As pointed out in comment, this is because of Scoped Storage introduced from Android 10.
Before Android 10, any app could read or write any files to external storage (the place where apps store their data), if they requested the READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE and WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permissions. Starting from Android 10,apps can only access data created by them and not other app's data or common data like images, downloads etc.
This enhances your privacy and is a good thing. Apps can access only data created by them and if they need access to external storage they need to access it using Storage Access Framework (SAF) . The file manager you are using isn't seeking  permissions through SAF, so it can't read while other file explorers you installed can because they use SAF. Apps like Local Storage may help for using SAF when they don't employ this.

Aside, for those users who are rooted and would like to address the security concerns of apps reading data created by other apps, they can try Storage Isolation Magisk Module or XPrivacyLua
also provides a solution by blocking app read/write access to the SD card completely (using the Privacy.BlockGuardOS.open repo hook) or by limiting access to the app's private directories (/sdcard/Android/data/app-id and others, using the Fif.BlockGuardOS.open repo hook).


Android 4 for Galaxy S Advance (GT-I9070)? Possible Duplicate:
  When will my device get the Android 4.0 update (Ice Cream Sandwich)?

Does Samsung provide an update to Android 4 for GT-I9070 Galaxy S Advance?

Both Techzek and Slashgear have stated (in semi-recent articles) that Samsung has not said if the device will get the ICS upgrade or not, and Samsung seems to be ignoring the issue judging by the amount of ignored questions on this topic in it's own forum.


Can't access tethered server from Android browser. (Time out  or "URL blocked") Synopsis: Trying to access local web development server connected by WiFi to Android tether. Everything seems to be connected and operating correctly, but phone's web browser times out when accessing local server.

Context: I've got an Android device running android-wifi-tether. It works as advertised. I connect to it from my Ubuntu 12.04 laptop running Apache 2.2.22. The laptop is manually configured to IP 192.168.2.100 in the hosts file. It can ping itself and access it's own web server through that address.

The WiFi tether hotspot gives the laptop the same 192.168.2.100 address(Laptop was configured to match the hotspot address as a troubleshooting step, and could be wrong.) Using ping I can ping the laptop from the phone using the 192.168.2.100 address. Using portscan the phone shows port 80 open on the 192.168.2.100 address.

So, everything looks like it's in place, but any attempt to browse to http://192.168.2.100 fails after a few moments with a 504(Gateway time out)

Any help would certainly be help.

Update:
I've install SSH and migrated to Nginx on the server. Portscan now shows ports 22 and 80 open. Using ConnectBot I can login and get my own shell on the server machine by IP address. This should indicate that the network is functioning properly.

I've also install the Dolphin browser on the phone to help verify that it's not an issue with the browser. Still I am curious if the browser is actually looking for the address first within the hotspot's IP space, or if it's looking to the internet, where that address will always time out.

I am very new to the Android scene. I would really appreciate some feedback as to how to get my phone browsing a tethered server. The workflow I'm looking for makes connection to a local server critical.

Thanks again.

Solution As I assumed, due to HTTP Proxy settings the web request was bypassing local addresses. I found that if I changed the tether network to 10.* IP range my provider responded with "access to this url has been blocked." That made it evident that something was blocking some requests, and more than likely also leaving the others to die out in the unroutable nether-net. Used HTTP Proxy Settings to clear out HTTP Proxy address.

Problem may be caused by HTTP Proxy server. Proxies help to manage web traffic on the providers end, but can and probably will disrupt access to local addresses. Proxy options may be available in your network settings, but on many phones these options are hidden. An app such as HTTP Proxy Settings will give access to the hidden settings. Simply clear out the hostname and port for un-proxied access. Make sure to write down original values so changes can be undone.


boot.img doesn't contain source code I have a MTK soc phone rocking JB 4.2.2 with kernel 3.4.0. I have extracted the boot.img in Ubuntu using dsixda kitchen, however the extracted boot.img folder doesn't contain C source code. I have searched on Internet but didn't get any solutions.

Why isn't there any source code?
Where can I get the kernel 3.4.0 with Source Code

C source code is compiled into executable code. There's very little need for C source code files to exist on Android devices.

If you want Linux kernel source you need to head over to Kernel.org.


Here is display mirroring by usb cable with the S7, but the S7 does not supports MHL and DisplayLink is also not used. So how does this work? In the Youtube-Video Samsung Galaxy S7 Android 6.0 phone Mirror Link for Joying Android 5.1 lollipop 1024*600 car stereo  he shows how to connect his Samsung S7 just by a USB-cable with an external monitor (in this case in a car system).

But how is this possible, as I read the S7 does not supports MHL, and the other option is DisplayLink? But in the video this is not mentioned, he does not installs the DisplayLink app which requires this, instead some "USB MOB driver".

So how is this realised, and is this also possible with other displays?

Remark: This question is closely related to this recent one from me.

There is no driver in this video. MOB stands for mobile.
It is using screen mirroring through debugger. Both systems are full Android machines, it's not just a display. MHL is to connect just a display.


How do I keep my camera active on Android even when the phone is locked and screen sleeps? When I play Ingress, Ingress remains active. Even when my screen goes black, if I push the power button, Ingress is still active. I do not need to unlock my phone nor wait for it to "wake up". (The phone is locked though - to use any other app I need to unlock the phone.)

How do I get the same functionality for my camera app?

If I'm using the phone as a camera, with the camera app active, if the screen goes black, when I hit the power button, I want the camera to be open and active.

Things I've tried:

Keeping my phone unlocked when in paired to a trusted Bluetooth advice. Then when I push the power button, I get a screen where I have to swipe to wake it up. With Ingress, I don't have to swipe the screen nor wait for anything.
Snapshot. I've tried using the Snapshot app, but I have to wait for the phone to launch the camera app.
The camera on swipe from the lock screen ... and again I have to wait for the camera app to launch.

I'm willing to figure out how to build my own app if needed. (But would rather find something.)

I'm willing to take a battery hit.

Well it depends on your android version however supposing you are using lollipop you can lock up an application to only make that one work. And you can download an app called caffeine from play store that avoids your phone to go stand by. If you don't want to be notice by any means, you can download an app called spy camera HD pro by MVM studio.


how to create a watch later list for netflix app? Til now we can only: add to list, like or dislike a video.

Adding to a list is not really useful because netflix app wont hide items we have already watched, so we lose a lot of time browsing a long list of things we have already watched, almost pointless, I dont do it anymore...

Like or dislike makes no difference either, doesnt help (each of) us, wont hide, not even mark/highlight, the item either...

Do you know any tricks?

I found 2 pseudo ways:

Easier and reliable: Just share the movie link with some app that you can delete later, eg.: share it with whatsapp (better if you have a 2nd cellphone to do that), but then you have to use an external app.
Tho, the best app I found for this is "Keep notes": create a label on it "Watch Later". On netflix app, share the link to keep notes with that label. On keep notes, search notes with that label.

UNRELIABLE (I kept this here so you can try, but as soon the netflix app restarts for any reason, the "pseudo watch later list" will be lost, unless they "fix" it...)
more complex, inside netflix app (only works with videos that can be downloaded):
1 - opt to download videos
2 - opt storage as the external sdcard
3 - fill up sdcard with trash (like a copy of 100MB files, i suggest using x-plore to make copies) in a temporary place that is easy to delete later (the trick step)
4 - try to download a video, it will fail, the item will remain on the download list as being unable to download it, won't use storage space, it is pseudo-perfect :), the item will remain there (let's hope they dont change this...)
5 - before watching or downloading, just delete some of the trash if needed
Obs.: starting a download and pausing it only allow us to "continue all downloads" after, what is messy.

any more tricks?


Can i connect my androidphone to the LAN from outside to reach the TV-box? I have a TV-box from a cableproveider, wich comes with an app to watch TV directly on the phone, but only if the android-phone is connected through wi-fi on the same LAN as the TV-box.
I am hoping there is a way to make my phone "beleive" it is connected to that exact LAN when i am logged on to another network. Even if it is in another country. Is that possible, and if so, how? My router is a ASUS RT-AC66U.

Usually this should be possible, however it can get a bit complicated:

Check your Internet provider if you really get your own IPv4 IP address when connected to the Internet. If you are sharing the IP address with other people you can just give-up here.
Set-up a VPN server in your LAN (an old PC or a Raspberry). There are a lot of potentials servers and configurations. Make sure you choose a secure on and protect your account with a strong password.
On your router forward the VPN port to the Internet. Warning: If you set-up the VPN not well secured anybody on the Internet can connect to your home network and connect to all your devices that are usually not visible from the Internet
When not at home you must be able to find your VPN server. Usually you use a dyn-dns service. On the computer running the VPN service ayou can also install the dyn-dns client. It updates the dyn dns record in case your public IP changes.
Configure your Android device to connect to your VPN server. After the connection has been established the Android device is visible in your home network and video streaming should be possible.


I can't move any apps or downloads to my SD card After having my phone, a zte, I put a 16 GB SD card in it and had the option of save to SD card. I have downloaded a bunch of apps and music and not realizing until now, that none of it has saved to my SD card. All of it is in the phone. And my phone shows that its reading the SD card and it has nothing stored on it. So I went and tried to move apps and such to the card only to find out that there isn't an option for any of my apps to move to the SD card. I don't know if I have explained very well, I can give more info if needed. But this is perplexing as I've never had this happened before, or I'm doing something wrong and not realising it.

One can move files from phone to sdcard by a powerful file manager like total commander. total commander can be downloaded from google play store.


Phone hot and battery drain when walking or driving I've noticed a very strange behavior on my phone. Every time I move out of my house walking or in the car it starts to get hot and drain battery. Google play services become on top of consumption.

I have location on saving mode, location sharing disabled and location history disabled as well. Consumption when quiet is awesome (1% per 2 hours)

Any tip? Not going out isn't an option haha

I actually use High location accuracy mode, but also keep all background location using app disabled via greenify. I think the real problem is that your device apps checks location and use other sensors too much. For e.g. Maps, Fitness apps and such other apps might be responsible. Download greenify and try it. It should show which app run in background and for what purpose.


Get GPS coordinates of lost phone even if GPS was off when lost I usually turn off my GPS to save batery. However, I would like to be able to turn the GPS on remotely and get its coordinates (e.g. by e-mail). Today a friend of mine almost lost her phone on the forest... In case next time it were my phone, I would like to be able to locate it easily.

I tried Android Device Manager as mentioned here but it gives me the coordinates of the last time I had my GPS on and it does NOT turn the GPS on to give me the latest/current coordinates.

I happened to have a Samsung phone, so you can use the FindMyMobile service, which can get you the coordinates of your phone even if your GPS was off when you lost it. However, you need to register in the web beforehand and authorize the Remote Controls in the menu Settings/Lock Screen and Security/Find My Mobile/[Log in with your Samsung details] and then activate Remote Controls.

It would be good to know any alternative for those not having a Samsung though...


Device memory in Galaxy S2 vs Nexus 5 My biggest issue with Galaxy S2 that I currently own is "device memory" being limited to 2 GB. I don't have any music and rarely take photos, so I end up with lots of free space in "USB storage" (~10 GB) and no free space in "device memory". Getting external SD card helped for a while, but I still have to remove some apps to install new ones and constantly clear app cache and do tricks with *#9900#.

Is situation any better with Nexus 5? I wasn't able to find any information on Nexus 5 "device memory" size and the fact that Nexus 5 doesn't have external SD card slot is worrying.

GSM Arena to the rescue! Note if you just go to the Nexus 5 site you can see the phone specs, and the models available.
The Nexus 5 has a 16 Gb and a 32 Gb model, with no extensible memory. You can expect to lose between 5 - 7 Gb on most modern devices out of the box, as this is partitioned to various tasks, mostly space for Android itself, and any future updates that may be larger size.
It's impossible to say how much you will use, but a 32 Gb model should do you fine for most apps, games and general use.
I have looked at at a Nexus 5 and the /data available to the user is:

26.7 GB for the 32 GB
12.55 GB for the 16 GB

It is theoretically possible to re-partition a device, however, you are far more than likely to brick the device completely, and I would not recommend it to anyone who is not developing custom firmware of their own. And even then with extreme caution.
There are a lot of partitions, but here are the main Nexus 5 ones:
/system 1009.3Mb
/cache 689.8Mb
/persist 15.8Mb
/firmware 64.0Mb

For full details see this XDA thread


Gmail(google) password I'm logged in on my android tablet, but I don't know my password.
I'm already logged in on my android tablet, but I want to see my emails and other google services on PC...
Is there possible way to find my pass on tablet?
I have already tried with "Password forget?", but I don't have alternative email or mobile nummber (on my account, at all), so I can't pass 2nd step of verification.

You can reset the password using Google password recovery. Go here - Account recovery.
Follow on-screen instructions:

Select I don't know my password. Type your email address.
It asks for any previous password you remember (if there is one). Type password & continue.
Next screen will be like this - Confirm password reset on my Android XXYYZZ phone. Select Send Notification.
Follow on-screen instructions afterwards.

Edit 1:

If you don't have access to your mobile device and do not have an alternate email ID, you can still recover/reset password by answering some questions on recovery page. You need to follow on-screen instructions carefully to reach that page.


adb sync shows Product directory not specified I am using android in an emulator integrated with eclipse. I was trying to import my gmail contacts into my emulator. For that purpose, I exported my gmail contacts to a .vcf file (contacts.vcf) from my gmail account. Then I used adb push contacts.vcf /sdcard/contacts.vcf to make it move into my emulator sdcard. And then, I used adb sync to sync the contacts with my emulator. Unfortunately, I got the following output: adb sync showing product directory not specified. Somebody help me resolve this.

The adb sync command is for people to use while developing Android ROMs. The "product directory" mentioned is part of the Android source tree, and adb sync can only be used with a ROM you've compiled yourself.

It has nothing to do with syncing contacts or any other app data.


WhatsApp does not vibrate when I get a message In Samsung Galaxy Note 2, WhatsApp does not vibrate either in sound mode or vibration mode when I get a message. How do I fix this?

Go to Settings > Notifications. Select Vibrate for message notifications subsection. Can you please check if this works?


Rooted or not, I can not figure out I don't know if someone already rooted my Samsung Sm-t530.
Can somebody help me?

I just find some files like

Knox emulated
Emulated
Extsdcard
Sdcard
Mnt
Storage/emulated
Dev/emulated

And i cannot find Imei.

Download a root check app or look at your settings and see if you have anything like supersu installed. There is many root check apps on the play store which you can use. You can check your imei number in the phone near the battery (or under the battery if it's a removal battery).


Galaxy S GT19000 shortcut bar Galaxy s GT19000 I had a bar near the top on the home screen with shorcuts to wifi, synch, gps, bluetooth and brightness. They suddenly disappeared. How can I get them back?

I think the method to restore it depends on the version of Android you're using but try holding down on an empty section of the home screen till a menu pops up and select Widgets and then you want the one that (on my phone) is called Power Control. Just hold your finger on it and drag it where you want it on the screen.

If Widgets isn't in the menu that pops up when you hold down on the screen then go to the main app drawer (where all of your apps are listed) and at the top select the Widgets tab and scroll along to Power Control before dragging and dropping it where you want.


Get ADB TCP connection log I was wondering if there was a way to get the ADB connection log (on-device), for when someone types:

adb connect <IP>

with their IP

EDIT:
Kind of like with your /var/log/auth.log on Linux, where when someone SSHs into your server, you can check the /var/log/auth.log and see their IP

first you need to connect the device to PC where you want to see logs via usb cable and allow the usb debugging fingerprints.

Than you can connect to the mobile via adb connect
port : 5555 (used mostly)


Can I set a tablet to wake up when moved or when I touch the screen? I intend to buy a an Android tablet for a single use, as a remote control. It'll run a single app all the time and sit in a dock most of the time, occasionally being carried to another room. I want two features: stay awake while charging (searching this site showed me a few app solutions for this), and for the tablet to wake up when moved or when the screen is touched. Basically, I want as little time and as few manipulations as possible to get from just lying there on a coffee table to being awake and responsive. I expect this will decrease battery life (because the touch detection or accelerometers have to be active), and given my use case, that's ok as long as I still get 3-4 hours out of it.

I don't have a specific tablet picked out yet, but I'm thinking something along the lines of the Galaxy Tab 8.9". The 7" screen size would be fine, but I want to us this in landscape mode all of the time and that works better if the dock connector is on the bottom while in landscape mode.

There is a free app called MotionUnlock, with it your tablet will sense when it is being picked up from a table, etc... and unlock automatically, being ready for use!

MotionUnlock - Tablet Wake Up


Can't make gallery photos lock screen wallpaper (Samsung S3) I can only make the preinstalled wallpapers the wallpaper for my lock screen. I can choose an image from my photo gallery, select and crop it and then save it, but the lock screen just stays the same. Anyone know how to fix this?

I have a Samsung Galaxy S4, but see if you can set a common wallpaper through a similar path: Settings > My device > Display > Wallpaper > Home and lock screens.

UPDATE 2013-12-06: Another solution you could try is to clear the default app for pictures. If it's a 3rd-party app like QuickPic, go to your phone's Application manager (via Settings), select the 3rd-party app, and do a Clear defaults.

Afterwards, open the Gallery app (not a 3rd-party app like QuickPic), pick a photo, left-soft-click to open a menu, and click Set as. You can pick either: Home screen, Lock screen, or Home and lock screens. Source.


Disable vibration alert in samsung fame Have moved to Samsung Galaxy Fame from a Samsung Galaxy Mini which died. Via settings>sound have disabled vibrate alert for incoming calls, how do I do the same for incoming texts please?

Vibration on my Samsung, which is a Galaxy S3, is controlled from within the Messaging app itself. Start the app. Settings > Notifications > Vibrate. Uncheck.


How can I open password protected ODS files (Open Office)? Found many Open Office viewer apps, but couldn't find a password protected ODS viewer ... I wonder why it was not ported yet - it is open source so it would be just an issue of converting existing code.

ODS password protection is by far a lot better than XLS password protection.

If anyone knows of an app or some other method I would be grateful :)

LibreOffice is currently being ported to Android. It's reported they are making good progress, but I couldn't find any planned due-date yet. According to the article linked, they focus on having a viewer ready soon, and add the "tons of features" later to make it a full-featured office app. See also here for the original source, including some screenshots.

Apart from that, there seems no app currently available to effectively handle OpenDocument. True, there are tons of office apps on the market/playstore, but they all stick with the MS formats. Which leaves us to hope for LibreOffice coming soon to the Play Store...


Android restarts when I press "Turn on USB storage" button I have a tablet with android 4.2.2 installed on it.

I was able to connect this tablet to my laptop before, but recently when I press the Turn on USB storage button, android restarts!

My laptop op is Ubuntu 14.04 TLS

What is the problem and how can I fix this issue?

options for fixing USB not authorized

(On device)

Go to settings/about device, scroll to "build"

Tap on build 7 times to enable developer options
Back out to main settings screen, goto developer options
Enable USB connection

or

(On device)

Using a file manager that has root access

Remove "adb_key"

/data/misc/adb/adb_key

Reboot your phone and try connect again.
The confirmation message should popup after a short time.

or

(On PC)

Remove the "RSA keys" from SDK settings

~/.android/adbkey

Start up ADB

$ adb kill-server

$ adb start-server

Plug device back into USB port (not hub) and wait.
Confirmation notice will popup after a short time period.

or

You can try this. The steps are more involved, requires device and vendor IDs

this has been included because it is helpful and a reference
steps haven't been included in the answer because it is off topic

in step 3 (~) is the location of your SDK installation
make sure you have the latest adb executable installed
make sure you have the latest drivers for your device
make a backup before performing any of the above steps


view video from samsung galaxy t3 to TV? I have a samsung galaxy t3 (micro usb port).
I know that USB isnt good to play video.

But I wonder if it is possible to play its screen on my TV somehow. My TV has got those ports usb/hdmi/vga?

Plus, what can I do with that? Is it possible to see my tablet as an HD on my TV?

Thanks

It can be done with Google's chromecast
Look over here
You will need a chromecast to plug it in HDMI port of your television and cast the screen to your Television.
You can buy Google's Chromecast or a alternative Miracast

But if you are buying, I will suggest you to go for Chromecast.
Hope it helps:).


How to stop getting WhatsApp notifications from completely muted groups? The groups are completely muted - no sound and no notifications allowed.

Still, occasionally I get WhatsApp notifications (with sound and vibrations) that immediately disappear.I can see the WhatsApp icon in the notifications bar coming and going within a second.
When I enter WhatsApp - I see that I have a new message in muted group (no mentions, just regular messages).

Is it possible to stop that very annoying behavior?
(Without completely disabling all WhatsApp notifications, sometimes I still need them)

Completely muted:

Device: LG G5, Android 7.0, stock ROM, no root.

As you mention that the notification comes and goes within a second, I think that it's actually a WhatsApp notification which says "Checking for new messages" - a screenshot of that notification can be found in this MIUI thread. It is not related to your groups, muting them will not make any difference.

I've occasionally seen it myself; it appears and disappears extremely quickly.
If you want to verify what the notification actually is, check your phone's notification log which can be viewed by creating a settings shortcut to the log on the desktop using your launcher of choice.

I've seen speculations that it only appears if your internet is spotty, or if WhatsApp cannot work in the background for whatever reason (eg Data Saver is on, your phone/ROM is extremely aggressive with background tasks like MIUI is or because of low RAM). Another notification which appears under similar conditions is "You may have new messages", but that messages stays permanently until you open WhatsApp.

As for how to disable it without stopping all other WhatsApp notifications, it would natively only be possible in Android Oreo because of support for notification channels. I think the relevant channel for the notification is "Other Notifications". I've disabled that channel and I haven't seen the notification in ages (then again, can also be because I've never met the conditions for seeing the notification ever after).

I should also warn you that disabling the channel also turns off other notifications like "WhatsApp Web is running" - check everything carefully!


su doesn't give root acess I have an HTC Sensation and I'm using Linux on my workstation. I would like to switch S-Off on this phone.

I found documentation, but when I type su in adb I don't have root access:

shell@android:/ $ su

255|shell@android:/ $ id
uid=2000(shell) gid=2000(shell) groups=1003(graphics),1004(input),1007(log),1011(adb),1015(sdcard_rw),1028(sdcard_r),3001(net_bt_admin),3002(net_bt),3003(inet),3006(net_bw_stats) context=u:r:shell:s0
shell@android:/ $

Thanks for helping.

When a device is rooted entering su - in the terminal would result a root access acquiring process, which usually pops up a window asking for root permission; granting root would let su to go on (it will wait for the response, or rather wait for the operating system to allow or deny the request) and provide uid0 for you.

If your device is not rooted su cannot gain root permission since you don't have the means to allow it: root requests are automatically rejected.

I would guess your device is not (properly) rooted.


Move Mail storage from phone's internal memory to the SD Card I am not too concerned with the security aspect of putting my mail on the SD card, I am however very interested in moving the mail storage from the phone's internal memory to the SD card.

I have looked at the Gmail app and the stock Mail app and neither of them seem to be movable to the SD card so does anybody know if this can be done?

To be more specific, I really do not need to move the app itself, only the mail storage so if there is a way to move the storage location of mails from the internal memory to the SD card I would be very interested to know how that is done.

Only if you rooted, you can use data2sd (original version at Google Play; later modification by enthusiasts at XDA), where /data/data linked to /sd-ext/data (or just sdcard mounted to /data). Then ALL application data will be stored on SD Card.


How can I get my data back to my pc? I use android. Recently I've found a problem.. I can see all the files and folders in my mobile phone.. But when I connect it to my pc to copy the files or folders to the pc I find that The folder is empty. But the size is 1.7GB. I can't see the files in my phone connecting with the pc. I check that the hidden files are visible in my pc. I am using Windows 7 ultimate..

Since Android 4.0, the connection standard that is used to connect your phone to your computer is MTP. To be able to see the files on your mobile from your computer when they are connected you will need to make sure you have the correct USB driver for your phone and also that the phone is unlocked.


Cannot set default app for some files (PDF, TXT...) select "always" has not effect, Complete action using keeps popping up Android 10 on Samsung s10e.

Every-time I open a PDF or TXT file I am prompted to select which app I want to open the file with.
It does not matter which app I select, the setting is never remembered, I am prompted with the same question next time I try to open the file, despite clicking "always".

Already cleared the default for all apps in Settings, problem is still there.

edit : it turns out the problem also happen for other file types like .txt or even .png files, but not for .docx
My guess is problem arises only when there is more than one app capable of handling the file type.

Among the possible apps listed for both .pdf and .txt there was Mylio (a photo manager app). Thinking this might be the root of the issue I uninstalled it and could then open .pdf or.png files straight away (after selecting "Always" once more)...

As for .txt file it still prompts me "complete action with" if I try to open it with Firefox or Amaze text editor (and select Always afterwards). but if I chose Chrome it does not prompt me anymore for some reason...

I don't know if this should be the accepted answer because this is more like a workaround as it does not work with all apps. plus I don't want to uninstall Mylio as I use it regularly.

edit : turns out that if I disable Chrome (could not uninstall it) it then works for .txt file (meaning I can chose any app, select always and it will not ask me "complete action with" again)


Edit Whatsapp contact name in Samsung Galaxy S3 Neo? I wrongly saved one of my friend's name. Later renamed it with original name but when I searched contacts in WhatsApp I saw his name is still old one. I can't find a way to change name. I tried to edit via mobile contacts, but edit button in WhatsApp contact is disable. How to change WhatsApp contact that name in Samsung Galaxy S3 Neo?

Screenshots (click images for larger variants)

This may work :

Save your friend's number (copy & paste into a note taking app or write it on paper or just remember it).
Delete your friend's number.
Add new contact with the name you want and enter your friends number.


How to Auto-upload Screenshots of Android to Google Photos or Other? I just noticed that my phone is not automatically uploading screenshots into Google Photos.

Phone: Oneplus 2
OS: OxygenOS 3.1 (Android 6.x)

Phone: Oneplus 3T
OS: Oreo 8.0

Auto-upload of Screenshots is not a standard feature in Android 6.x at the moment. (beeshyams)


How can I fix an android tablet which says data wipe error My tablet seems to have have got stuck when trying to reset it to factory settings after it got stuck in the boot loop. It keeps telling me "error, data wipe failed", then flashes something with regards to s.d card. Sometimes it comes up with the menu but won't let me click on anything?

Try to enter Recovery Mode and factory reset again from there.

To enter recovery mode, power off your phone and press and hold the power button along with the volume down button. The Recovery Mode menu should appear and there should be an option to do a factory reset.

See here for more info on how to enter Recovery Mode.


Unroot phone without root access I remember rooting my LG G3 like two years ago with Stump Root. Now I don't use root anymore. My bank app doesn't work because my phone is rooted. Now I want to remove root from my phone. I found out that I can remove root access from my phone when I remove the su binaries from the phone. I downloaded ES Explorer to do so. ES Explorer told me that I don't have root access. Now I can't remove the su binaries.

How do I unroot my phone now? And why thinks my bank app that I have root even though ES Explorer and root checker both tell me that I don't have root access?

Install the SuperSU app and go into settings and perform a full unroot... If that fails you will likely need to flash the full factory KDZ image and return to pure stock, be aware this procedure will wipe your device and all user data stored on it.


HTC One X was dropped and now it doesn't charge or turn on Last night, my HTC One X was dropped. Suddenly, it became so hot at the back and on the screen. After an hour or so, the phone started to cool down.

But, it doesn't charge or turn on; even the charging lamp didn't turn on too. I used all the diffrent forms of turning on with the volume buttons and without it, but the phone is still off.

What should I do?

It sounds like the battery may have become damage or shorted. You really need to return it and get it replaced. I would strongly advise against opening it up yourself - the battery sounds like it won't be safe - and ask a shop to remove the SIM and memory cards for you. @Ryan Conrad deserves credit for his comment too.


Malicious software runs on the background of Android phone, but I cannot see it - how to find and remove it? I know that a malicious malware/spyware has been installed on my Samsung Galaxy S3 phone and I constantly get the message to close apps not in use because they drain my battery. But I do not have anything running. I have about 3-4 apps, others were turned off/updates uninstalled a long time ago.

So the questions are not if my phone is infected - I know it is. The question is, how to find and remove it?

You can try using AVG Antivirus or maybe Malwarebytes' Antimalware which I use a lot and it's really a good app.


Why does my EVO Android phone screen keep turning on? I have an HTC EVO and I can be sitting around doing nothing, when all of a sudden the screen comes on and stays on. I try to turn it off, but it keeps turning back on - sometimes after a second, sometimes after a few minutes. If I just leave it, it will not turn off by itself, as it would if I manually turned it on but didn't enter the password. This is killing my already horrendous battery life!

I have killed almost all background processes except some of the ones by HTC that looked important.

I have also turned off application refresh, wifi, blue tooth, tried rebooting ... even put it into Airplane mode. Arghhh! Nothing helps!

I thought I hit pay dirt last week - I replaced the factory 1500mAh battery with a 3500mAh for obvious reasons. For a few days the auto-turn-on seemed to be cured but now it has started happening again.

Any ideas how I can get this paper weight to be more obedient?

Thanks, Victor

First, killing background processes will do nothing; they'll just be restarted.  Instead, focus on apps.  You could use an app like Titanium Backup (requiees root) to "freeze" an app, and see if the problem stops.  If it does you know what app is the problem.  Then uninstall it, or turn off background sync for it or something if that might be the problem.  TB can uninstall system apps, but be careful which ones.

I had this problem when I had SipDroid installed -- every time its connection dropped and came back up, it would turn on the screen.


Can I root a phone thats already rooted? I bought a chinese phone thats seems to be be already rooted.
How can I be sure?
When I download apps that require root they don't work.
Can I change privledges on an already rooted phone?
Or can I re-root?

You can try installing the app Root Checker to know if your device is rooted or not. And yes you can root your device again even if its rooted. But yes first its better to check if it has the rooted privileges or not. As far as running of apps is concerned sometimes some app stop responding even if one has the rooted privileges better would be to first check things out.


Put six quick-toggles in Note 3 menu I have a Samsung Galaxy Note 3. The 'slide down menu' [1] can be configured with 'quick-toggles' [1] at the top. A maximum of five 'quick-toggles' can be displayed at any one time, with the remainder of configured 'quick-toggles' available by sliding the 'quick-toggles' control to the left.

My particular use case is that I do need to see at a glance six 'quick-toggles'. Scrolling to see the sixth is a hindrance to my particular use case. First-world problem, I know! How can I configure or hack the 'slide down menu' to show six thinner 'quick-toggles' on the display at once?

[1] This is my first Android device. Please correct my terminology so that I might be able to Google these questions myself next time!

Use Wanam Xposed or Wanam Kit. It's an Xposed Framework module that will allow you to change everything about the toggles


Preparing A500 for warranty service I have a rooted A500 with HC3.2 and I strongly believe that the focus problem is hardware. Since I'm under warranty I don't think I'll waste my time and send the tablet to repair.
Two questions:
How do I fully backup my device (let's say "snapshot") in order to easily restore all apps, wallpapers, settings, etc (possibly accounts too) when it returns? I can easily backup programs, but I don't know about their data. I also have a Bitcoin wallet there, so I need to back my private keys up in order to receive coins at the same address later.
How do I un-root and downgrade the firmware to Acer's original stock 3.0? When I updated Recovery I did a backup, so I believe the final step is to restore that backup.
By the way, does Acer consider rooting a warranty breach for hardware problems? I know many manufacturers don't care if you change their firmware when you send them a device with clear hardware problems, but they eventually restore everything to stock.
Thanks.

I could have found the solution by myself. Not sure because I haven't tested it yet.
For the backup/restore: Titanium Backup (tutorial)
For the downgrade/unroot thing: first I could restore Acer's original recovery via Acer recovery installer, then I could downgrade to HC3.0.1 with this
I'll give it a try
It works perfectly!!!


Radical Android customization I have a need to setup a touch screen GUI for a booking system and I am exploring Android as a option to accomplish this.

Some crucial things I need to know are:

Can I customize an Android based pad/other hardware so it only has on application (my booking system) running on it?
Can I configure the booking system to autoload each time time the hardware is powered up?
Can I install Android on a display device, like a TV, and behave like a large touch screen

All this is to take advantage of Android's powers whilst keeping the public facing booking system running continuously from power-up without other apps interfering etc.

While I agree with Uwe on #1, it does not correctly relate to your question. What you want is only one visible app, so the users cannot switch to any other. That's what Kiosk Mode is about: Creating a "jail" to keep the user in -- while the "admin" can "break it" for configuration etc. (which would e.g. require a password then). For alternative solutions on "Kiosk Mode", just search our site for "kiosk".

Second, there are a lot of "App Lockers" and "Child Mode" apps available, which are also a variant of Kiosk Mode. Simply search the Playstore for "app-lock" to find a good selection.

For #2 I must disagree with Uwe: Unless you're a developer, you cannot make "every app" a home screen (the app must register as such). But this should be handled by the app providing the Kiosk-Mode -- so watch out that this feature is available with that (keywords would include "autostart", "launcher" or "homescreen").

Not sure about #3. I know there are big touchscreens around, but I have no idea how they can be operated by an Android device. Taking a good guess, "Google TV" could be involved with that ;)


How can I remotely change the volume? At home I often connect my android to some speakers, to listen to internet-radio. It would like to be able to change the sound-level through a command on my laptop.

I can open an ssh shell to the phone, but I am stuck finding a command to change the volume on the android.

Is there a command to change the audio-volume on the android-shell? Or maybe there is a different approach without ssh that I missed completely?

I am running Android 4.1.

Edit

The accepted answer should work for rooted devices. I am still keen on getting an answer for an unrooted device.

Have a look at simulating keyevents on Android and search for "KEYCODE_VOLUME_UP" and "KEYCODE_VOLUME_DOWN".

Events can be generated by executing "input":

#local shell:
input keyevent 24 #vol up
input keyevent 25 #vol down
#remotely using ssh
ssh your-phone input keyevent 24 #vol up
ssh your-phone input keyevent 25 #vol down

# 'su -c command' to make it run as root (if not already). EDIT: now escaped properly.
ssh your-phone su -c "input\ keyevent\ 24" #vol up
ssh your-phone su -c "input\ keyevent\ 25" #vol down"

Your shell needs appropriate permissions most probably to fire input events I guess. If you do public key authentication and keep your private key loaded in memory (ssh-add) you can make a wrapper script and just execute this without beeing asked for a passphrase. Note: There's a considerable overhead for both 'su' and 'input', all in all one single volume adjust takes 2.5s to complete on my HTC Desire.

EDIT2:

shell@android:/ $ id
uid=2000(shell) gid=2000(shell) groups=1003(graphics),1004(input),[...]
shell@android:/ $ time input keyevent 24
    0m0.92s real     0m0.29s user     0m0.06s system

Seems like you have to be member of the input group (here GID=2004) to have the capability to generate keyevents using 'input'. Also, I noticed that the screen has to not be locked (and/or off), because the lock would consume all keyevents eventually. Note also that the command takes almost 1 second.


How can I reset auto-complete dictionary for my Sony Ericsson Xperia mini pro? The stock soft keyboard on Sony Ericsson Xperia mini pro has a feature called 'Learn words' (Settings > Language & keyboard > International Keyboard > Text input settings > Learn words) that learns from user input and adds them to the autocorrect dictionary. Over time however this has resulted in many misspelled words also being added to my autocorrect suggestions. I want to start this over from a fresh canvas. So how do I reset my autocorrect dictionary? When I go to Language & keyboard > User dictionary so I'm guessing Sony Ericsson uses its own keyboard replacement with its own user dictionary store.

Best answer I've found so far:

  You could try clearing all data from the keyboard.

  Menu>Settings>Applications>Running Applications then tap All. Scroll down and find Internation Keyboard (if thats the one you are using) and Clear Data.

Source: Sony Ericsson Support Forum

Of course, it will also set the keyboard to the original settings.

Anyway, I would like to find a way to remove some misspellings and not all the learned words, so if somebody knows how to do it, I will be glad to hear from it.


How do I run an AIR app on the device? I've installed Adobe Air, and I have a few AIR apps that I have built over time and am curious to see how they will look running on the device, but am not clear on how to install them.

I uploaded the app to the phone but clicking on the .air file doesn't provoke an installation process, instead, it just opens the browser and attempts to display it (and fails, obviously).

What to to do?

Were the apps developed using Above Air for Android? There seems to be a distinction between the two SDKs. Look at this tutorial for all the info on getting started. Even if some of the info is redundant, it does have a section on deployment to the phone.


Does Android 2.3 support ad-hoc Wi-Fi networks? Does Android 2.3 have support for adhoc networking without rooting or at least support it better with rooting? The list of stuff added for 2.3 just said bug fixes, I was wondering if anyone knew what bugs they were fixing or had a link to a list.

The 2.3 Gingerbread user's guide has been released,  Chapter 2: Connecting to Networks and Devices doesn't mention ad-hoc wireless networks at all.


Can I flash magisk on encrypted HTC10? Phone in question is european HTC 10 with Oreo.

Here is what I did:

Unlocked the bootloader following procedure from htcdev.
Flashed TWRP.
Sideloaded SuperSu.

Then I figured that I don't want SuperSu because of SafetyNet. (fails both basicIntegrity and ctsProfile)

I didn't changed anything on system partition manually.
Did full unroot in SuperSu.

Now basicIntegrity passes, but ctsProfile fails. I think its because
   bootloader is unlocked.

Now I want to flash Magisk, but TWRP can't mount data partition because disk is encrypted(password doesn't work). This makes me unsure if it is possible to flash magisk.
Can I ADB sideload Magisk? or flash it with fastboot?

Ideally I want to end up with rooted phone that passes both cts and basicIntegrity.

It turns out it doesn't matter data is encrypted(click cancel on password prompt), I just put zips on microSD and flashed them via TWRP (install option), everything passed.

Safety net passes completely and root works.


Root checkers fail to complete on my now non-rooted device In an effort to get Netflix to run, I removed both Magisk and SuperSU from my Nexus 10 tablet running Omnicron Marshmallow and also flashed boot.img and reinstalled Netflix. It worked! A by-product of this is that, when I run any root checker app, it just hangs after the 'go' button is pressed.

My intention is to reactivate root once Netflix and the rest of the system is happily running. Something is wrong in there. Any idea what it is and how I can clean it up? It's been a long business with multiple reloads restarts and fiddling about and I don't want to repeat it all unnecessarily...

How can you "clean it up"? Flashing the factory image from Google will return the tablet to stock and remove all traces of rooting.

It is entirely possible that the issue with root checking apps is not consequential and you can just root again later without issue.


Shortcut of end the call This might seem a foolish question but I'm facing this basic issue on my Samsung Galaxy Y Duos (android 2.3.6). This is my first Androide device and using it only since a week and a basic issue is ruining my Android experience.

While on call, if I press home button by mistake (Habit of last mobile), call minimize to top bar. This is specially painful when I need to cancel the call in urgency and I found call is minimized to taskbar, which then take considerable time to open the call and end it.

Is there any way to end the call immediately (shortcut) or at the least prevent the call to minimize during call.

Most basic and primary purpose of phone is to make/receive calls. I'm sure android must have taken care of that but its frustrating for me not to find that basic function.

Go to your phone settings menu. Under Accessibility, click the checkbox for Power button ends call.

Be careful using this with bluetooth. I have accidentally ended calls because I wanted to put the phone in my pocket; I pressed the power button (don't want my touchscreen active: I might accidentally end the call!), and the call ended.


Nexus 7 Not Booting; Backlight Turns on while Charging A friend of mine has a Nexus 7 2012. Although it used to work, it now won't turn on. I would mark this off as a broken battery or screen if it were not for this one oddity: the backlight turns on while the device is charging. I am unable to reach the bootloader or recovery mode. He does not know what Android version it runs, so I can be of no help there. He also says that this happened after he let his Nexus turn off due to low battery. Is there any way I would be able to fix this issue (say jumpstart it and use USB debugging to fix it?), or is the device truly broken?

My Nexus ran the battery flat and would not restart, although I did not have the backlight issue that you mention.

There are a number of tricks suggested at:
https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/2668668?hl=en
which involve powering on and pressing volume buttons.  This worked for me and the Nexus now behaves as well as it ever did.


How to connect soft bricked tablet to pc without USB debugging enabled I tried rooting my Galaxy tab a 9.7 using Odin and soft bricked it. I went into system recovery mode and clicked wipe data/factory reset thinking it would reset back to stock. My tablet is still bricked and usb debugging got turned off so now I can't connect to pc to install the original firmware. Is there anything I can do to connect my tablet to my PC so I can reset my device? Can I use ADB to turn USB debugging back on? I can still get to Odin mode and recovery mode on my tablet. My main problem is connecting my tablet to my PC. Thank you.

These firmwares are for the Galaxy Tab A 9.7 Wifi and are mirrored for faster download speeds. This is also an pit file collection incase of any person who has messed up their partitions.

What Do These UnBrick Firmwares Do?
Basically, if you ever have an soft-brick or any sort, these firmwares will help get out of that. What makes these different from the rest for say like sammobile or samsung-updates is that these are separated into different tars which the SamFirm Tool provides an option to include binary nature aka PIT and separate tars like Bootloader, AP, CSC and so on. These should help you unbrick your Tab A in most cases and even somewhat worst ones. IF you are in an minor bootloop and just need to get back to stock, use sammobile and download the firmwares from there. Those are the regular ones. You can still use these if your doing the same also but these can help in desperate situations.

How To Use/Flash These Firmwares?!
Simply just download the one for your Tab A model and in the zip it contains different tars. Place the tars in the appropriate sections in odin. Example: Put the AP bla bla bla Tar in the AP Tab Of Odin and the BL tar in the BL tab in odin.
In most cases for say like you flashed a bad rom or in a bootloop, you will only need to flash the AP and BL Tars Only. Most times you dont need to flash CSC. Flash the CSC Tar if your Tab A is not booting up after flashing BL and AP Tars. Make SURE YOU GIVE IT 30 Minutes after flashing in odin if it doesnt seem to boot.

Firmware Downloads (Fast Servers):
SM-T550 Tab A 9.7 Inch
Version: T550XXU1AOF5/T550XAR1AOF5/T550XXU1AOF5/T550XXU1AOF5
Region: XAR [USA]
Download: https://mega.nz/#!usxzTJTI!r9vhUbTO_...dhqSanCI00sZOU

ODIN DOWNLOAD:
Odin 3.09 Download: https://www.dropbox.com/s/028kidvc9q...v3.09.zip?dl=0

Source: xda-developers.com


Internal SD card as default storage I want to install apps on internal sd card but instead all apps get installed on phone storage which is low in memory

You need root. If you have root, you can use Link2sd app, which switch internal and external storage.


galaxy tab video conference I'm confused... the Galaxy Tab commercials make a special point of showing people doing video conferencing on the device, and yet, I have been entirely unable to evoke said functionality from the one I have in my hands here (it's with Verizon)... So... what gives?!

How are you "evoking" this functionality? Video conferences do no appear from the ether. Try a video conferencing app, perhaps -- like Qik, Fring, or Yahoo! Messenger.


How to stop ads showing up on screen The phone is showing ads on the bottom of screen as well as on the top of whole screen
I tried deleting the recent apps i installed
I also tried disabling "show app on top"
Is there any third party app that can scan the phone

Possible reasons:

• Checkout Games that you installed recently.

• Check if you installed any app related to Wallpapers or lock screen category.

Because as far as i know Samsung doesn't have internal settings to show these horrible ads which covers the screen and affect their User Experience.

In previous cases 'Games' are at top which is causing these types of ads.


Samsung Galaxy S3 not booting up, keeps restarting showing ”Samsung Galaxy S3 GT-i9300” black screen My Samsung S3 is stuck! It keeps restarting!

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

Here are the things I've tried:

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

It was working fine last night, but when I left to do something, I came back and found it restarting over and over again. Didn't update any apps.

Enter recovery and delete dalvik/cache. To enter recovery you have to hold Volume up + Home + Power (The same with Volume down is download mode). Once in recovery, select the option to wipe cache/dalvik, then restart the phone.

If the phone keeps rebooting as it was doing before, try searching the log of the boot sequence to see if you can find where it fails. You will need a PC with Android SDK installed and the phone's USB cable.

With the phone off, open a CMD window in your PC, go to Android SDK directory and run adb logcat
Turn on your phone and connect the USB cable.
You should en seeing in your cmd window the log of the phone as it boots.
Once it enters a boot loop, you should be able to check the log and see what it tries to do and can't do (that triggers the boot loop).


Do the new NFC options in 4.4 Kitkat allow one to have a combined digital wallet? The new Android has Host-based Card Emulation built in which takes care of the secure element: https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/connectivity/nfc/hce.html

Wondering what it takes to load NFC enabled cards unto a Nexus5 (or another Android Kitkat phone). Can one read out the cards and load them in some general app to create a digital wallet with public transport, company access and credit cards (how awesome!)? Or do the card suppliers need to enable this themself in compatible apps?
Hoping for the first option of course, but seem unable to find the answer online and don't have the Nexus5 yet.

Thanks in advance! :)

All that host-based card emulation (HCE) does is it enables app authors to support more hardware: that is, devices that don't have the necessary secure element hardware. Developers of apps that previously made contactless transactions using the secure element will now be able to make their apps work on devices that don't have that hardware. However, using HCE is less secure than using a hardware secure element, so it's likely that payment card operators will choose not to support this.

Secure payment cards

The obstacle that stops you reading your own cards into your phone (cloning the cards) is not related to the phone's technology: it's because the card is designed to prevent this. The card contains a secret number that can't be accessed via an NFC transaction. To be more precise, there's no sanctioned way to do this: security researchers and criminals have found ways to use flaws in the design to clone various contactless payment cards. I wouldn't recommend doing this, as doing so may constitute a criminal offence where you are, and will almost certainly make you liable for your bank's losses should anything go wrong.

In summary: the only difference that HCE makes is that if your bank already offers an app to do this, but it doesn't work on your phone, it might (if your bank chooses) work after you upgrade to Android 4.4.

Door cards, etc.

Unlike the high-security payment cards, with processors and secret numbers, door entry cards and tags and the like often just have an ID, which they present to the card reader. Such cards are already very easy to clone. The main obstacle has been getting the the phone to present the desired ID, and HCE means there may well be an explosion of apps that are made for just this use case. (See also Can I clone my (mifare classic) Access card with an Android device?.) However, the long-term result of this is likely to be that door entry systems are changed to use challenge-response protocols and thus become harder to clone.


Android lost, Gmail password changed. Can Gmail still be viewed? I lost my Android phone today so I changed my Gmail account password.

Will whomever that finds it be able to view my offline Gmail (cached) content, even though I changed my account password?

I'm concerned because I'm not usually asked for the password and whenever I'm offline I can see the offline cached content.

A quick bit of experimentation shows that they will be able to view your cached Gmail, but will not be able to download new mail.


Disabling the "Wi-Fi networks available" on Samsung Galaxy S II (Sprint Epic Touch 4G) on ICS If I'm away from my saved Wi-fi networks, and have the Wi-Fi radio on, I'm always getting a "Wi-Fi networks available" notification. I can dismiss the notification, but then it comes back within a few minutes.

I can't figure out how to disable that notification. I'm on a Sprint Epic 4G Touch  (Sprint's variant of the Samsung Galaxy S II), recently updated to ICS.

I remember this being a simple setting in Gingerbread, but I can't find the appropriate setting in ICS.

From the Wi-Fi settings page, tap menu and choose Advanced. From the Advanced Wi-Fi settings, uncheck "Network notification". It's only for open networks, but those are the only ones that ICS on the Epic Touch 4G reports.


how to turn on phone when power button is broken? its a xiomi mi redmi 5a prime.
i can get it to fast boot but since usb debugging is int enabled i cant get it to go to recovery.
mi manager doesn't detect the phone in fast boot as well. Is there any way to fix this apart from taking the phone apart?

If you can get it into fastboot mode, here's how you can bootup your device:

Get Google's platform-tools (aka adb), from here
Boot your phone into fastboot mode
Run this command with platform-tools:

fastboot reboot


How to root lg optimus logic For the past few days I have been googling the different ways to root my LG Optimus Logic, and have come up short handed. There doesn't seem to be a help forum for this phone anywhere, or at least not one that I've found.

Does anybody have this phone or know what rooting method will work? I have tried several already with no luck.

Yes, I Tries SuperOneClick and it worked for my lg l35g AKA lg optimus logic (net 10).


Relationship between a recovery and a ROM As far as I understand:

Recoveries (e.g. ClockworkMod) can be used, among other things, to install new versions of the Android OS, like custom ROMs (e.g. CyanogenMod) by updating the ROM section which contains the Android OS firmware. Recoveries are entered by shutting down the phone and powering it up by pressing special button combinations, so the phone doesn't enter the regular OS, but instead activates the recovery section.

Now, from that I expect that, the Recovery is something like the boot system on a PC (e.g. GRUB), that is separate from the actual OS, and activated when there is trouble getting into the OS. And because it's not a part of the OS, it can be used to update the OS itself.

However, what I'm confused about is this:

The guide to installing CyanogenMod on GT-S5570 says that "The official Android 2.3 update from Samsung must be applied before following this guide."
Another guide for flashing the ClockworkMod recovery on GT-S5570 also says that if you have 2.2 on the phone, you have to use a different version of ClockworkMod recovery, than if you have 2.3.

What is the relationship between these two, a recovery and the Android OS?

Further:

Is a different version of the recovery really needed for different OS versions?
Is this something specific to ClockworkMod, or is it how Android's recovery system works always?
If a recovery can be used to update the OS to a different version, does the recovery then become invalid after the update?

Is a different version of the Recovery really needed for different OS versions?

No. In case of updating custom ROMs you're completely right in that the recovery is mostly* independent of the ROM used.
However, phone manufacturers sometimes push out updates that change some vital parts of the phone. For example, repartition the phone. This is why sometimes you need a different recovery for the phone after major software updates.

  Is this something specific to ClockworkMod, or is it how Android's recovery system works always?

This is something that depends on the phone and the the manufacturer's customizations.

  If a recovery can be used to update the OS to a different version, does the recovery then become invalid after the update?

Factory ROMs are not always in the update.zip format, thus they're not always applied using the recovery. In these cases, the recovery is commonly among the parts that are updated. Furthermore recovery can be updated from the recovery just like the boot image (kernel.)


How can I export contact groups? When I export my Android phone's contacts via a VCF file, it seems the contact groups are not indicated in the VCF (and are thus lost if I only import that file).
I see a lot of apps for exporting and importing contacts, but none whose name suggests it will export my contact groups as well.
My questions:

Is there a way for me to export my contacts together with the contact groups?
Is there a way for me to export just my contact groups (i.e. which contact belongs to which group)?
Can I import just-contact-groups "onto" a set of contacts without contact groups (the result of a previous import-export without contact groups)?

Notes:

I don't have a Google account (and won't get one).
In case it matters - the phone from which I'm exporting is a Xiaomi RedMi 3S (Android 6.0.1, MIUI 10).
This question is related, but I don't care about exporting to a VCF specifically; and Android has changed over the years; and the answer there regards a Google account.

This answer is based on beeshyams's comment.

Download & install the SA Contacts Lite application; it is available on places where you don't need an account, e.g. via APKPure.com.
Start the app.
In Settings:
3.1 enable Export All Fields.
3.2 Disable Export Photos.
3.3 Enable Merge Duplicates.
Click Export, then Start.
A format selection dialog will come up. Enable Backup and disable everything else; press Next.
An account selection dialog will come up (= the account whose contacts you want to export). Typically you'll want to enable just the default account. Press Next.
Select the range of contacts to exprot - probably all of them, so just press Next.
Wait for the app while it's `preparing to export contacte
Select the destination for the export - typically just a file on the device's storage somewhere.
Patiently wait for the duplicate merge and actual export to occur. I have no idea why it takes so much time, given how there's so little data.
Choose a way to save the output file; "SD Card" is safe, but there are also options to send it to your Dropbox/Box/Google Drive account or to email you the file.
Ensure the output file is actually placed at/sent to your chosen location.

Then, you can import your group associations as described in discussed in this question.


How to grant the screen will be off? I have set 2min timeout.
The screen goes off after 2min.

The charger is not plugged (batt was at 100%, and after I sleep it would normally be at 95%).

Something happens that turns the screen on, and it will remain on forever (until I wakeup and find out it spent 35% of the battery...)

The only new notification was a provider unblockeable promo message, but that never caused that problem.

It has been happening for a few days now.

I need to enforce the screen go off, other than using the system option that is clearly not working.

It maybe that text notifications are waking up the screen at night. In that case you may need to completely disable notifications at night.

Some resolutions include:

Turn off message notification completely

You can stop the screen from turning on when you receive a message by disabling the message notification completely but you lose all the notifications, including audio and LED flashing alerts.

Depending on your device, navigate to  Menu  > Settings > Notifications and turn off.

Turn on Do not disturb feature (Android 6+ )

Do not disturb is a feature that lets you silent all notifications for a specific time period. You can choose to allow messages and calls from select contacts to still alert you when Do not disturb is enabled.

Open the Settings >> Sounds >> Do Not Disturb setting. On the Do not disturb settings screen, tap Block visual disturbances.

You additionally need to turn on the Block when screen is off option.

Using third party apps

Some users claim that apps such as I'm sleeping have the ability to prevent screen wake-ups at night. This app will automatically set your phone to silent mode during the night and optionally disables the LED during the
night

credits

Stop Notifications Waking Your Screen When Do Not Disturb Is Enabled In Android 7


Stock Nexus 5 reboots randomly I cant take it anymore and even with a full insurance plan, Sprint is not willing to replace my phone with a brand new identical phone. It has had this issue from day one. I think it rebooted itself on its first ride home from the Sprint store when I got it almost a year ago. I have just put up with it over the last few months because besides this issue, I love my phone. I'm worried if I reset it I will lose everything. So first question, what can I expect from a factory reset? What will be saved (via Google profile) and what will be lost?

Ok that question aside, let me now explain exactly what it does. It is completly random. The phone will just freeze on any screen for about 5 to 10 seconds, then reboot. It seems to be a pretty fast reboot. Here is the weird part. There is no logical pattern to when the reboot will happen. It could be during streaming netflix, or browsing a website. It could be when the phone is just sitting on table not being used. It can even freeze right after it just rebooted, ie, the phone reboots due to this issue, then as soob as the unlock screen apears, it could freeze again.

Its different everyday too. On a good day, it may never freeze and reboot ( or at least I dont see it happen). On a bad day, it may freezw and reboot 10 times within 30 minutes. It seems to come in cycles. I wont see it for awhile, then a few days later it will be really bad.

I have recently loaded a ram utilization widget to try to see if I notice a pattern, but so far I havent managed to see the ram usage prior to a freeze. At first it kinda seems like an app could have a memory leak issue. That might explain the randomness of the reboot, but at same time, this hypothesis does not account for the immediate freeze after reboot. RAM utilization would not be an issue immediately after a fresh reboot.

I have also tried installing a log viewer,but so far it has not been much help. I need a recomendation on an app to view the correct log file that might give me a clue as to whats going on. I dont know which log file to view though. I know android is based off Linux, but the log structure may be a little different. Even if it is the same, there may not be any useful info in log right at the freeze point. What I probably really need is to look at some sort of crash/dump file. I get the feeling that may be over my head though.

I need help with this please. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!

Find problem apps by rebooting to safe mode

If your device keeps restarting itself, freezing, crashing, or is slow to respond, it could be caused by an app you’ve installed. You can use safe mode to start up your device with only the original software and apps that came with your phone. If the issues with your device go away in safe mode, the problem is probably caused by a third-party app downloaded on your device.

Use safe mode to find problem apps

Make sure your device's screen is on, then press & hold the Power
button.
In the box that opens, touch & hold Power off.
You’ll see a    “Reboot to safe mode” box.
Touch OK. Your device will start up in    safe mode.
Try using your device normally. Remember, you won’t be    able to use
any installed apps.
If the problem goes away: Restart your device to exit safe mode.
Uninstall recently downloaded apps one by one to see if you can
find the app that’s causing issues.

If the problem still doesn't go away one more option

perform a factory reset


How can I connect my A500 to an iMac for charging and file transfers? I have a Acer Iconia A500 and I am using an iMac. I cannot charge or share my device as mass storage with my computer over USB, though I am able to use bluetooth for transferring data.

Are there any special drivers needed? How can I get it connected with my machine?

As eldarerathis mentioned, you need to charge the tablet using the charging adapter rather than USB.

The A500 has 2 USB ports.  A regular one, like you'd find on a laptop, for connecting USB devices to the tablet (memory sticks, for example), and a Micro USB port for connecting the tablet to a computer.  Make sure you're using the Micro USB port.

(Your mileage may still vary - the support site isn't very forthcoming on using the tablet with a Mac)


Contact still visible in Whatsapp after deleting out of my contactlist from my phone I deleted a contact/number out of my contact list from my smart phone. But if I open WhatsApp I can still see that same contact/person that I deleted earlier. How is this possible?

According to WhatsApp's FAQ, you may need to refresh the list.  You also will still see the deleted contact if there are past chats you've had with that contact.

  How do I delete a contact?

  The contacts that you see in WhatsApp come from your address book.
  There is no way to directly edit the Select contact screen.

  To delete a contact from the WhatsApp contact list, you will need to
  delete the contact from your phone's address book.

  In order to find the WhatsApp contact in your phone's address book:

  Find the contact in the Select contact page.
  Tap on the contact.
  Then tap on the name at the top.
  On the Contact info page, go to [Menu button] > [View in address book].
  From there you can find the option to delete the contact from your address book.

  Then, refresh your WhatsApp contact list by opening WhatsApp >
  [Compose button] > [Menu button] > [Refresh]

  If you still see the contact, it is likely that you are seeing the
  conversation on your Chats screen. Simply tap and hold on the contact
  and then select [Delete chat] to delete a chat.


Swipe animation during back/forward navigation? Where is it? I've come to heavily rely on Safari's back/forward animation, which allows me to not only navigate quickly between visited pages, but also reveals the content of the previous/next page while on the current page without refreshing, thus greatly facilitating comparisons and plain-old reading. Once you experience this, there is really no going back -- it's like reading a book.

It is shocking to me Google have still (v4.3) not implemented this fantastic memory-aid and usability feature in Chrome. Since no other Android browser I tried (Dolphin, Opera, Firefox & Puffin) has such gestures by default, is it at all possible to have swipe navigation/animation on Android?

UC Browser is the only popular Android browser I've found to support swipe navigation (i.e. one-finger dragging from left or right side slides to previous/next page without refreshing). Swiping only works adequately in fit-to-screen mode, but even though it's not as smooth as Safari, it does the job. :)


Motorola Blackflip Clock Doesn't Update when its Screen is off My Motorola Backflip (Android 1.6) doesn't update its clock until the screen is turned on.  This wouldn't be a problem except that the alarm won't go off in the morning unless I'm already up and checking my phone.

This problem does not occur if the phone is charging.

Is this a setting? How can I correct this?

This actually sounds just like an issue that would be in MotoBLUR, especially MotoBLUR v1. This issue may have been fixed in the later releases of MotoBLUR, but initially this was a very buggy product.

If you viewed the log that android writes for any errors that occurred with the first version of BLUR (which is what is on the backflip) there are tons of errors that happen at any given moment. It seemed like Motorola rushed out the product before they were actually ready.


Cannot install whatsapp in android 2.3.4 I've a quite old version of android in my smartphone. I use whatsapp regularly, except yesterday where I had to try to update, and I couldn't do it because I don't have enough space on my smartphone. I've removed whatsapp and try the reinstallation but it doesn't work... Is there anything I can do? I read that there's probably some procedure I could try using both root privileges (that I have) and an emulated terminal.

This is not the first time that happens, usually I just remove apps that I don't use, but now I don't really know what to do.

Any suggestions?

You should know that WhatsApp is no longer supported on devices running android 2.3 and below. Newer updates won't simply install. The support had to end on june, and we're on june.

You should consider upgrading to a newer phone.

However, in some exceptions, WhatsApp can be installed when you download directly the APK file.

Try downloading the file from here.


Camera App keeps on updating Google made their camera app update available on the play store. This update does replace the system app.

BUT I do not want that update, since I use the countdown-timer, wich is not available after the update.

So I went into app-mgmt, deinstalled the update, unchecked notify-updates.

But - it still keeps updating that app from time to time.

I even disabled the general option in play to notify me when updates are available. That disabled updates for ALL apps.

After manually updating all other apps - guess what was updated again automatically?

Yes - camera.

So how can I permanently disable that specific update?

The notify when updates are available option has no effect on auto updating apps. You need to disable "Auto Update Apps" right below that option. Also, in the Play Store, go to the camera app listing and tap the menu button (either physical menu key if equipped or the 3-dot menu in the top right) and make sure "Auto Update" is not checked for the camera app. This should prevent it from updating. Keep in mind this update will still appear in your list of app updates in the Play Store, so you will be unable to use the "Update All" function since this will include the camera app in the apps to be updated.


How to preview specific folder in email notification? I have a Note 2 with Android 4.1.1 plus updates. I really like the built-in email client and I use it with my Gmail account as an exchange service. Even push mail works great with it.

However, I am subscribed to several folders. Whenever I am getting an email to one of the subscribed folders I have a notification. The problem is that when several emails arrive in different folders the notification preview always shows the first 2-3 mails from INBOX, even when the mails are in other folders. I would like to set this to "Gmail/AllMail" so that I can see in the notification preview the newly received mail.

Unfortunately, its not possible with stock email client unless Samsung pushes an update. Try other email clients from Play Store.


No option to recover password in Lenovo Tab S8 (S8-50) So I locked myself out of my tab and I can only open it by entering the password (which I forgot). There is no forgot password option where you can enter your google account to get pass the lock screen. The phone has a google account. Is there any way to bring up that menu? I thought all android devices had the Forgot Password? option

I had similar problem too. My solution was to connect it to the computer and did factory reset. If you have root than follow instruction on this link:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVJ7T2oC_Zs
ON SOME DEVICES IT WORKS EVEN WITHOUT ROOT ACCESS

Good luck! - Nik


View older "What's new" for Android apps Play Store shows "What's New" for the latest version of an app. Is there a way to see it for older versions?

The Changelog Droid app will start building a history of app changes from the date it's installed.


Gingerbread,HoneyComb,ICS ROM for Galaxy S Possible Duplicate:
  Where can I find stock or custom ROMs for my Android device?

I  have recently purchased a galaxy S with Froyo to do some tests on my App. I would like to upgrade to use ROM like Gingerbread, Honeycomb,ICS. I have searched the web and I have found many ROMs but i can't tell if they are trusted or not (no bugs, no low performance..). I would appreciate if someone points me to some ROMs that he had used before for these Android version. I know that I can use Nandroid Backup if I disliked one tested ROM. Does some Roms able to turn my phone out of service?

First of all, do not install HoneyComb on the galaxy s. HoneyComb is designed for tablets, not phones.

Secondy most of the roms on XDA are good, just check the comments and see whats wrong with them.

Check out this post here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1398223 seems pretty legit, only a couple of bugs that hardly matter (check below)

Bugs:

Lockscreen occasionally does not react to touch
Formatting external sd formats internal
Facebook sync pictures are low res(but at least it works)probably not fixable from our end


Why do all my MMSes show up as videos? Long text messages, photos - all show up as a five second long "video" (still image). Happens with received MMSes and the ones from me that I've sent. Using a galaxy s2. This is really annoying, my shoddy old nokia brick just opened them up how they were meant to be and then offered 'save to gallery' when I left the text. Why would such a better phone use such a worse approach? At first I thought it was that for some stupid reason it couldn't read normal pictures, but it does the same with my sent messages so unless it converts pictures out of readable format and back into a still video, that's not it (and that was also the only answer I could find on google).

I agree with Onik's comment linking to his answer to a previous similar question; this very well may be up to your carrier and something you'll have to take up with them.

SMS/MMS delivery is a ballet involving the sending and receiving carriers' interest in cooperating, the network technology your phone uses, and how the SMS app on your phone interprets the messages you receive. An unfortunate number of these factors are out of your control, but have you tried another SMS app like Go SMS or Handcent? These may help your issue.