Forwarded emails with attachments showing as MIME gibberish Sometimes, when forwarding emails that have attachments, the recipient receives the email as plain-text base64 MIME. For example, the email is received as:

> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="--_com.android.email_209062387602790"
>
> ----_com.android.email_209062387602790
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
>
> VGhlc2UgZ3V5cyBhcmUg...
> ...(more base64 code)...
> ...wKQmxhbmNhCsKgCgo=

It is maddening because this is happening for multiple email accounts on different servers, and on at least two devices.

Any chance there's help out there?

It seems like it is a bug that doesn't have a fix. That's what I understand from the 4/17/17 posted here: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/36907768

Also, no idea if this will work but it might be worth a try: https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2079469


Android x86 native resolution fails Running Android x86 iso (5.1 rc1 or 4.4 r5) in my native resolution 2880x1800 fails with black screen with blinking cursor. Actually it is a prompt accepting commands but stops without any message or anything on screen.

Last commands visible on screen were:

I ran it with vga=ask parameter:

/kernel initrd=/initrd.img root=/dev/ram0 androidboot.hardware=android_x86 nomodeset vga=ask SRC= DATA=

And chose the offered 2880x1800x32: 357

Same if I run it with parameters directly in a command line either the vga= or UVESA_MODE=2880x1800 or tried UVESA_MODE=2880x1800x24 or UVESA_MODE=2880x1800x16.

If I choose 2560x1600x16, it works well, except for the resolution is low.

I run it in Parallels Desktop on OS X.

How to run it in a native 2880x1800 resolution?

I was having a similar issue running Android-x86 on VMware (Windows host). The solution was to force the virtual machine to load enough memory for the virtual graphics adapter upon boot.

In my case, I had to place svga.minVRAMSize = 536870912 manually in the vm settings file. For Parallels, I believe you should open up the VM's configuration, then in the Hardware section, under the Video group, change the Video Memory value.

The value is generally given in bytes, so 536870912 bytes = 512 MB. The rule of thumb to calculate how much graphics memory you need is to multiply display values (HRes x VRes x colors). So for a 2880x1800x32 resolution, you actually need 2880 x 1800 x 4 = 20736000 bytes which is a little under 20MB. You'd be wise, though, to set up more than that - like I did - to account for 3D graphics, multiple buffering and compositing, and other fancy GPU tricks inherent to Android (See Graphics architecture and Android Graphics Internals).

[Contribution from OP]: I tested and found that 64MB is the minimum amount of graphics memory necessary to run Android 6 at 2880x1800x32 resolution on the Retina MacBook Pro 15".


google play store is not working mean it ceased at saying "Downloading" please help i have a galaxy s4 value edition i9515.
google play store is not working mean it ceased at saying "Downloading" but nothing happened next, i have tried all the possible means. deleting updates/caches of framework play store and download manager which is also enable, restriction mode is not ticked, Reset the mobile makes a new google acount but no luck. thanks to all

did a factory reset, same error when trying to download facebook "rpc:s-2:aec-2"
also adding account "sync apps with facebook" will not work:
logs me in
you have already authorized GALAXY S4
error "login failed. try later."
whole reason I did a reset, because I can no longer sync my facebook events to my android calendar
and now I cannot install or update facebook from  google play, I have to use amazon store


How to save battery on Moto G 2nd generation without installing third party apps? How do I save battery life on my Moto G 2nd generation phone without installing third party apps ?

To save battery without installing third party apps here are a few tips,

Disable vibration on your phone for notifications, calls, keypads.
Disable keypad tones.
Turn off Automatic screen rotation.
If you prefer to keep your phone silent during night, better switch it to Airplane mode, this will save a lot of battery.
Keep your phones brightness to a minimum.(Disable auto brightness option.)
Keep your phones volume low.
Turn off mobile data when not in use.
Disable background data on mobile networks for specific apps which consume unnecessary. To do this navigate to Settings - > Data Usage, there you will find the list of apps that consume the data, click on the app and then select "Restrict background Data".
Disable the pulse notification light. Go to Settings - > Display and uncheck the option Pulse notification light.


how to unlock android device manager I forgot my Xiomi Redmi note 3 phone pattern lock so I locked it with android device manager but my mobile still shows the same after it. It doesn't show any box to type the new password to unlock it . Does someone know what would i try to do now?

I just tried it out on my device (running Android 7.1.2 if that matters). In Android Device Manager I clicked the Lock button. It asked me to enter a new password twice, a recovery message (optional) and a phone number (also optional).

It first showed that the new lock was successfully set. However, this message was quickly replaced with Since Google has verified that a screen lock is already set, the password you entered won't be needed. This second message disappeared pretty quickly so you may have missed it.

When I proceeded to unlock my phone, it displayed Locked by Android Device Manager on the screen. By pressing the Back button, I got back into the regular lock screen which now displayed Device administrator locked device. My previous lock method was still active, so I could unlock it as if nothing had changed. Therefore, I suspect that your phone's lock hasn't changed either, which means you'll need to find a different way of changing the lock. Please try the methods in this answer and let us know which one worked for you (if any).


Remove infinity wallpaper only from AOD Just got my very first android today, being the S8 and am wondering how to remove any form of wallpaper from the AOD so its just black with the clock, but retain the wallpaper on the home screen.

Use an external wallpaper app like Google's wallpaper app. Set the home and lock screen with a wallpaper. Then set the Infinity wallpaper you want, only for the home screen.
This worked for me.


Can I install a firmware from a different country on my phone As I wrote in the title I was wondering if it's possible to install a firmware from a different country on my Sony Xperia Z5 .
Thanks for your answers.

If you find the correct firmware (created for another country but for the same device) yes, you can.
I made it several times with a Samsung S4 mini.

Take in mind that due to country regulations, the firmware may be limited in some ways (lower wifi potence, max volume limited, etc...).


How to mount both App and Phone Storage over USB for HTC Evo? I can mount my HTC Evo as a USB drive on my Windows 7 machine.

When I mount the drive, I see a DCIM/100Media file, but no photos from my phone are in it.  (I'm wanting to transfer photos from my phone to my computer)

When I look at Settings -> Storage, it says,

App Storage, 4.41/6.07 GB
Phone Storage, 1.8 GB / 9.93 GB

Photos and Videos 1.65 GB

But when I look at the properties of my G: drive (how it's mounted on the machine) it appears that I have mounted the App Storage, because my Windows box says, the drive I have mounted has used 5.65 GB of 7.40 GB total.

So, I believe I have the wrong drive mounted?  Is it possible to mount both the "Phone Storage" and "App Storage" as USB?  If so, I haven't figured  it out.  gone through all USB and Storage setting screens I could find.....

The phone now mounts with multiple drives. I think the problem was I had never seen that before on my previous phones and just missed it!! :(  My home machine has a lot of drives. I saw one, and missed the second. One drive mounts for the phone memory, one mounts for the SSDCard.


USB Drivers for Dragon Touch E70 (or how to install an APK from PC on this device?) I purchased a Dragon Touch E70 tablet from Tablet Express. I am developing an app, but I cannot get Eclipse to detect the device. I can't find where to download drivers for this device either. Any ideas, or other ways to get the app on my tablet for testing?

I had a similar issue using a DragonTouch K10 and found this question - The issue I discovered I was having was that I needed to enable developer tools on the device. I went to Settings>System>About Tablet, then tapped the Build number 7 times to turn them on. Then my SDK was able to detect it with the drivers I had installed.


3GB of internal storage is lost I have a Sony Xperia SL with 32 GB internal storage from which 25 GB is available for user. When I bought the phone, everything was OK. but last month I found out that there is only 1GB left free, when sum of the files in the memory was only 21GB. I deleted some files and reduced the filled capacity to 10GB. However, I still have only 12GB free on my device. It sounds like 3GB of my storage is lost. (I have checked LOST.DIR and, for those who want to know, I have considered the thumbnail files when I summed up the files)

Caching may be the problem. Cache and especially dalvik-cache sometimes can be really big. Cache can be deleted however dalvik-cache is can't be deleted if your phone is not rooted or you can uninstall some app anyway.


Samsung Knox For Non Pre-Installed Devices? I heard about Samsung Knox recently. I have a simple question about it: how to download Samsung Knox and install it to my Samsung device which doesn't have Knox pre-installed? I believe the pre-installed Knox is only on Galaxy S4 device.

According to the official KNOX website, Samsung KNOX is tightly integrated into the operating system. It uses hardware support to verify the bootloader integrity, a custom bootloader to verify the OS integrity, and a custom kernel at runtime. It changes the layout of the device's filesystem to add separate encrypted storage for the business-related files. It also relies on hardware support through ARM's TrustZone technology.

Depending on how much of the hardware support already exists on other Samsung devices, it may be possible for Samsung to later backport the KNOX feature for older Samsung phones with a device update, but it's certainly not possible for anyone else to do so, not even by installing a custom ROM. (That wouldn't add the bootloader support to ensure the ROM isn't changed later.)


How To Fix Broken Contacts Storage (Droid 3 v2.3.4)? Symptoms

I receive a force close from com.motorola.contacts when I try to edit my contacts
I can view my contacts
The issue started immediately after I tried removing the thousand pound bundle of bloatware that Verizon pushed to my phone.

Avenues of Approach

Repairing the Stock Contact Storage

What apps does com.motorola.contacts depend on?
  (Bonus question:  How would I find that on my own; other than trial-in-error)

I have read that this app relies on some of the blur.yahoo bloatware.  I tried keeping those enabled, but I may have missed a vital one and if I did, it is no longer on my phone so I'll have to hunt for it.  Ideally, I won't have to re-enable this junk, which brings me to
Replace Contact Storage With Third-Party App

I have been searching for contact app replacements and so far they seem to run on top of the stock contacts app (as in they will also allow me to view, but app.motorola.contacts crashes when I try to edit).  Example apps: Contapps, Go Contacts, as well as a few others.

Is it even possible to replace this system app?
Use Alternate Version of the Stock Contact App
  I don't mean to ask you guys to do my experimenting for me, but could I take the contact storage app from a different system that doesn't require Junk.Yahoo:  Such as an older version of Android or one that doesn't come from Verizon?

I just solved the contacts force close issue on my droid 3. I had frozen several apps with Titanium Backup. The fix was to unfreeze these 2 items:
  Yahoo contacts 2.3.4
and
  Yahoo! mail authenticator 2.3.4

Immediately my issues were resolved.

Running rooted stock rom

Hope this helps others. I have benefited plenty from others' posts. :)


Haptic Feedback with Gingerbread on Samsung Galaxy mini 2 How can I turn off vibrations when I long press on start screen (to add a widget, etc.) or in Opera mini when long press on a link?

The Haptic Feedback is a global setting provided by your phone, you can turn it off by:

Click your device "menu" button";
Tap "Settings"
Tap "Sound";
Tap "Haptic feedback" to remove the green tick, thus disabling this feature.

What is "haptic feedback"?

Haptic feedback, often referred to as simply "haptics", is the use of the sense of touch in a user interface design to provide information to an end user. When referring to mobile phones and similar devices, this generally means the use of vibrations from the device's vibration alarm to denote that a touchscreen button has been pressed. In this particular example, the phone would vibrate slightly in response to the user's activation of an on-screen control, making up for the lack of a normal tactile response that the user would experience when pressing a physical button. The resistive force that some "force feedback" joysticks and video game steering wheels provide is another form of haptic feedback.

More about this at Wikipedia.


How can I test if my GPS has a hardware problem? Some days ago, my GPS stopped working. It doesn't lock, no matter how long I leave it on.

I've read this question but had no luck.

Sometimes it reports that it found one GPS satellite available, but most of the time it gets none.

I also read about stability test, but is doesn't seem to report GPS problems.

So, is there any test I can perform to detect if I really have a hardware GPS problem?

My phone is a Samsung Galaxy S2, with android 4.2.

Try installing and messing with: GPS info and GPS test


Security of Paid apps in Google Play? What measures does Google takes to ensure that paid apps that are downloaded do not get spread for free? Currently I see a possibility that can leak out a large number of apps:

Someone pays to download an app on his mobile.
Creates a backup of the app.
Gives the backup to friends/ family or spreads it over the internet.
Many people use the paid app for free.

I have not tried this. My Question is: Is it possible? What is the current state of the security measures for the paid apps on Google Play?

In addition to Martyn's answer on encryption.

This might be a bit on the developer side, however, Google offers Application Licensing:

  With Google Play Licensing, your application can query Google Play at
  run time to obtain the licensing status for the current user, then
  allow or disallow further use as appropriate.


Notify when connected to working Wi-Fi point I use my phone to receive all my calls over SIP.  Sometimes when I need to make a call I'm not around a (working) access point.

Let's say, if I'm walking around is there an app that can notify me (via vibrate or ringtone) when I've connected to an access point? So basically whenever SIPdroid lights up green.

Quick Marketplace search for WiFi Notify resulted in the following:

WifiNotify


Why if I delete the Packageinstaller apk on Android 6 the whole Android OS crashes? I have a Rooted Moto E 2nd gen(Android 6), and when making experiments on it, I discovered that when I delete Packageinstaller.apk and reboot the device, the whole Android OS crashes. This was not happening on previous versions of Android. Do you know why?

Package installer is also managing permissions (AppOps) since Android 6, removing it means critical package lose permissions you are not supposed to be able to remove, as they are mandatory to proper phone usage.


App keyboard has a done button instead of return Terminal emulator usually has a return button that works fine. But after opening another app then going back to terminal emulator the return is replaced by a Done button, that obviously doesn't work.

Can i stop this happening in settings or do i have to modify the APK source files?

Thanks

Go into preferences, set soft keyboard input method to word-based instead of character-based.


Is there no basic mp3 player? I use Samsung Galaxy S3 and S4. Previously I could play mp3 files with the "music" application. Now I have 10 players but the plain "music" player is gone and no builtin player can play an mp3 file from my memory card. Why? There used to be a player in the android that could do it. Instead I have google play which seems new.

In most players you need to tell it where to find the music files or have the ap scan the device. i use Music folder player its free and does the trick


My rooted phone won't turn on I have rooted my phone earlier with KingoApp and then later changed the boot animation and shutdown animation with Root Browser after rebooting, it only shows the unit's logo and shows white screen for a while and then turn off. I don't think it's a bootloop, I also tried the recovery also but nothing seemed to help. Please can someone help me? My phone is Cherry Mobile Flare J1

You most likely bricked it. If you have a custom recovery installed, (Hopefully you do) you can unbrick your phone by booting up into it and reinstalling the stock software. Can I ask what recovery (if any) you have?

If you have TWRP you can navigate to: Wipe > Advanced Wipe then wipe cache, dalvik cache, data, system. Then navigate to: install/flash then navigate to where your ROM is and flash it.


app2sd via android terminal emulator? ok so ik this has been asked 1,000,000 times...but not like this, i have a rooted plum z550 running stock kitkat 4.4.2, i dont have a pc, this phones default internal storage is 0.89 gigs...which is shit, phone storage is like 5 gigs and i have a 16 gig external sd...by default app and app data gets stored to internal storage and these days most new apps dont have option for move to sd...how can i change default download storage without a computer or another app ie...android terminal emulator or even root browser? please help thx

Maybe changing the default write memory could solve your problem, see the last entry in the Storage and Memory menu:

Settings->Storage and memory (click image for larger variant)


What are some solutions for remotely connecting to an Android phone? I sit at a desk for most of the day, and having my phone (Sprint HTC Hero) sitting next to me is very useful, but it can be distracting to move my focus away from my PC to control my phone when notifications come in.

What are some good solutions for connecting to my phone and controlling it over WiFi or USB?

I understand that I would need my phone to be rooted for most of the solutions out there, and that multi-touch functionality would probably have to go out the window.

Note: I am on a Mac, but solutions that require any platform should be considered when answering.

Yes, rooting is usually (but not always) required. The following are some options:

Android Screencast: Probably one of the more easier and popular sol'n
Google Code Project "Android VNC". Have to search for it, I can only post 1 link at a time right now...
Droid Explorer: App from Marketplace
Android VNC Server: A guide that uses a different APK from either sol'n above

Try them out and see which one gives you the best options.


How to ignore crash notifications / uninstall apps without booting on CyanogenMod? Today I upgraded CyanogenMod to the latest build (05/10/2015) on my Nexus 4 and installed the newest GApps package. But as soon as I boot my device now, my phone spams crash notifications for Gmail, Youtube and GApps processes. They pop up immediately again after I close them.

I read about solving this by clearing the cache / data of my Google apps. But I can't do anything, those messages block my phone. What to do now?

U can use your recovery to uninstall apps. Look here for info http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1610121

But I guess it's not the best solution to uninstall all Google apps. Try finding some other, suitable for your ROM, set of gapps. Try these https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=95916177934542272 for cm12

and these http://fitsnugly.euroskank.com/?rom=banks&device=gapps for cm 12.1


Galaxy s5 Neo. Screen comes on intermittently (May 14, 2017) In the last week or so, whether my phone is plugged in or not, the phone will just wake up the screen will come on. When this happens, there are no notifications coming in at the time. If I'm in lock screen, the screen will stay on for a short while and if the phone was unlocked at the time, the screen will stay on for as long as I have my screen duration set for. This is obviously a problem as it is draining my battery. While typing this post, it has happened twice. I've deleted any recent apps I've downloaded with no change. There has been a lot of Google updates lately and I suspect one of them is causing this - or - my phone is physically damaged (I am a bit rough with it)

I have ESET Mobile security installed and a scan shows no viruses. My app list is fairly short: beyond the standard apps, I have a Craigslist app, a CraveTV app, Relay for reddit, Netflix, Nova Launcher, Roboform, an SMS Backup app and Zedge.

I would love to hear a few suggestions to try!

Edit :  I downloaded a phone cleaner and discovered an app was still installed (but didn't appear in google play store > my apps) and it was running. It is called Easyconnect (for mirroring phone to the car). Interestingly, it required me to go into developer options and turn USB debugging on. I had uninstalled that app two days ago! I'm wondering if this not be the perpetrator. I'll let you know.

I had this issue with my S5 active. There was no immediate fix, but I was pretty sure it was caused by networks being found. I never saw it happen when I had wi-fi turned off, but I never really confirmed that this was the issue.

Also I had a friend who found 'Air wake up' was on, which was being triggered even without waving anything in front of the screen. So maybe check that.


Help me. Can't update my galaxy I own a Samsung SCH-i545 Galaxy S4 and can not update to Jellybean 4.3. The wi-fi it says: Software update is temporarly unavailable.vTry again later. Kies does not let me update either. I really want the 4.3 update so I would appreciate some help..

Try waiting. It's usually because loads of people are upgrading. There's a limit; you should be able to in the next 2 days.


How can I easily backup data from external card on Android 4.0.4 to a new external card? I intend to buy a new external card of larger capacity for Android 4.0.4 phone and would like to backup and restore data from currently installed external card to a new card so I can restore the data and apps on the new phone. Is there a cloud backup and restore!? Easy Backup app or other solution?

The easiest way would be to transfer the files to a computer, then transfer them from the computer to your new card. Many micro (phone size) sd cards come with a micro to regular size adapter that will fit in the card reader slots of most computers.


Can only access 2.2GB of internal storage from Windows Anyone have any thoughts about this:

It seems to me that when the phone's internal storage is mounted using the Mass Storage mode, Windows only sees the first 2.2GB of space. If I try to format it using Windows, I only get an option to create a 2.2GB FAT32 partition. If I format using the Captivate's formatting tool, it creates a 13.03GB partition. Now the fun part:

The Captivate seems to be able to read/write from the whole 13GB partition fine. However, Windows seems to be only to access the first 2GB of that 13GB partition. While I can see all the files listed, trying to read from file that were created after the first 2GB returns an error, and trying to copy additional files from windows to the internal storage once the 2GB limit is reached results in an error.

Using Kies, I was able to copy files from the internal storage that were stored past the 2GB barrier.

Anyone have any thoughts about this?

This is a known issue with various Galaxy S models after upgrading to 2.2.  I don't think anyone's found the cause, but this fix should work (did for me on my Vibrant) and is relatively simple.  Make sure to do a backup first if you want, preferably using ClockworkMOD / Nandroid, because this will wipe out everything except your external SD card.  And make sure you have good drivers installed.

Download stock 2.2 firmware, such as from this XDA post for AT&T (first link) or this XDA post for Rogers (first link, "Odin Flashable").  Do not unzip it.
Download Odin (for Windows.  If you have no access to Windows, use Heimdall and modify steps 4+ accordingly).
Download the 512 PIT file.
Put your phone into download mode:

Take out the battery.
Attach the phone to your computer via USB.
Press and hold both volume buttons.  While holding:

Insert the battery.
Click the power button.
Wait for download mode to show up (yellow triangle with an android in it).

Start Odin.
Load the firmware .zip file into the PDA field of Odin.
Load the 512 PIT file into the PIT field of Odin.
Ensure "Re-partition" is checked.
Make sure Odin shows your device connected (Yellow box with text something like "0:[COM1]").  If not, disconnect the phone from USB and immediately re-connect.
Click Start.
Wait till Odin says it's done, then disconnect your phone.  Or if Odin shows an error, reboot your phone and start from step 4 again.  (Sometimes this just happens).


Water Damage to Droid 4 Non Removable Battery I dropped my Droid 4 in a clean toilet.  The battery is not removable so I am concerned that waiting 2 or 3 days while it "drys out" in rice is a complete waste of time.  I am hoping someone can tell me if there is any hope that it may function normally again or should I buy a new one.

I'm not a patient person so waiting for it to dry out is sort of annoying.

If you have warranty then give it to the service centre and tell them to clear the water logs, if you don't have then you can do it by yourself and there are lots of tutorials available for dismantling and assembling. Keeping the phone with battery and water could cause some short circuit and there are possibilties that you battery will be dead completely. So act fast


Offline YouTube feature suddenly gone Till yesterday noon I was using this offline option, but from yesterday night I can't get the offline option. My YouTube app is built-in app, will that make any difference?

I even tried re-installation of the app, but I still didn't get it. Help me to get my offline option back.

I found that my YouTube was updated on 18th September 2015. But since I used the offline option since yesterday (21st September 2015), I think the version is not the problem.

offline mode is for youtube red users now


How can I copy Whatsapp data on Blustacks to my new PC I have bought a new laptop because I'm travelling to another province(state) and I will be there for 6 months and I can't leave with my PC. I want to know how can I copy the contacts and messages from Whatsapp on my Blustacks from my PC.

Contacts:

Sync them with google

Conversations:

Your WhatsApp messages are automatically backed up and saved on your phone's memory daily. If you delete WhatsApp from your phone and don't want to lose any of your messages, be sure to manually back up your chats before uninstalling:

Go to WhatsApp > Menu Button > Settings > Chat Settings
Tap Backup Conversations

To export a copy of the history of an individual chat or group, you can use the Email Chat History feature:

Tap and hold on the conversation or group.
Select Email conversation
Choose whether to Attach Media or not.

An email will be composed with your chat history attached as a .txt document.

If you choose to attach media, the most recent media sent will be added as attachments.


After enabling some xposed modules, my LG G2 (AT&T) is stuck in a error loop Whenever I boot it up it says "Unfortunately, System UI has stopped.". It does allow me to hit ok, however when I hit ok I have about 1 second before it pops up again. Due to the passcode lock on my phone I am unable to get past the lockscreen as it wipes the input box everytime the popup box pops up. Despite the System UI apparently failing everything does seem to be functional behind the pop up. In the 1 second periods between pop ups I am able to interact with it. The status bar and the buttons on the bottom are not visible, however the rest of the lockscreen (including widgets) is.

The phone is rooted, however I had not gotten around to installing a custom bootloader yet. Debugging is enabled, however the device is listed as "offline" according to "adb devices". Due to this I am unable to install TWRP so as to flash the zip to disable xposed.

All of the above is still true in safe mode, the exact same thing happens.

Does anyone know how to fix this? I would prefer to keep the data on it, however if nothing else a factory reset would be fine.

Follow these two threads

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2432476

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2475045

If u still have Problem post here Will Help u .....

EDIT:

1.Turn off the G2 by holding down the power button and keeping it held down until the screen goes black, then continue to hold it for a few seconds after it goes black to make sure it shut down.

2.Plug the G2 into the computer via the USB cable while holding Volume Up at the same time to put it into download mode.


Can you test apps on a google locked phone? I'm an Android developer and I'm looking for a test phone, since I don't want my main phone plugged in and charging all day. I noticed that there are many "Google Locked" android phones for sale on eBay for very cheap.  Can you test apps on a google locked phone? I don't care about connecting to wifi, mobile data, etc.  I just need to be able to plug-in via USB and run my app on the phone to see how my app looks at a different resolution, performance, etc.

No... Assuming by "Google Locked" you mean it has an enforced Factory Reset Protection which requires the previous owner's (or last active) Google account credentials. When this is active you cannot get to the launcher or perform any actions on the device until it is "unlocked" using the proper Google credentials. It is "locked", is essentially a non-functional device, and you cannot get past the Google Credentials screen in any way.

Some further information that might be applicable in our FRP base question, How to bypass “Verify your account” (Factory Reset Protection)


What's an alternative to the KitKat-People's app groups view in Lollipop's Contacts? In Android KitKat's 'People' application I was able to access my contacts per group assigned, as shown below using my Nexus 5:

The new 'Contacts' application since the Android Lollipop upgrade does not appear to include this functionality. It's reported to Google in issue #79803 and it appears lots of people are affected by this change.

What is an alternative to this? I'd really like to access my contacts again by their group.

There is an alternative option for users which can be found on the Play Store: Contacts Groups for Lollipop


How join an existing Google Meet meeting from the home screen, with an URL? This seems to be quite an edge case, as I can find no information on this.
Context
We have a regular "coffee chat" meeting in our group, and we use a Google Meet URL for this meeting, always the same, and we meet at known times a day. No need to have a calendar entry for this.
So, on the desktop computer, I can always easily reuse the URL (e.g. such one: https://meet.google.com/abc-defg-hjk) like described here: https://support.google.com/meet/answer/9303069?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en
Problem
But now I am mostly using my Android Tablet to join, and I wonder how to set up a Home Screen icon/widget/link with that URL.
I can use Google Chrome to paste the URL into, but it will automatically start the Meet app. I have no chance to create a shortcut link first. Also I have not found yet a way to create a link directly from the home screen.
Question
How to create a home screen icon/link/widget that directly opens a given Google Meet URL?

Found the solution.
You turn off internet on your phone, open the meet url in chrome, now the url stays in the adress bar and you can save it to home screen the usual way.


"USB Storage damaged. It may need reformatting" error message in status bar On rebooting my Samsung Galaxy S2 (running Villain ROM 3), I got an error in the status bar "USB Storage damaged. It may need reformatting". File managers like Astro fail to open the /mnt/sdcard folder.

Things I've tried so far:

Rebooting
Connecting via USB cable to PC in USB debugging mode (This brings up 2 drives, but they are not mounted)
Removing the external SD card and rebooting

Anyone encountered this issue before? Any suggestions?

Solved it myself after hours of Googling.

I really only needed to run error checking on the internal storage (CheckDisk) in Windows. Since I couldn't get Windows to mount the drive normally, I tried booting into ClockworkMod recovery mode and then connect USB.

Ran the error checking (Right click on drive, Properties, Tools, Error-checking), rebooted phone and voilà! Life is beautiful once again.


Will WhatsApp deliver a message that was accidentally sent while data was off? I'm using Whatspp on a Moto G (1st Gen) mobile. Today I've accidentally sent a message to my friend while my mobile data was in off mode. I have deleted that message immediately. Now will the message be delivered to my friend if i turn on the mobile data?

Assuming that you didn't have any access to internet at that time (No WiFi and mobile data was turned off) and deleted the message (by tapping and holding the message, then choosing "Delete"), it's very likely that the message was not sent.

This is a result by self-testing:

Send message while not connected to internet, then try to connect to internet: Message sent
Send message while not connected to internet, delete the message, then connect to internet: Message is not sent

Lastly, the best way to ensure it is to ask the recipient.


SGS3 I-9300 Android 4.2 - why can't I disable these system apps? nb. I can disable them using 3rd party root apps without any discernible negative effects.

Are these networking protocols default? They seem to be harmless but everything I read about sit0 seems to suggest it's no longer used.

This looks like some serious networking issues to my layman's eye. Yes or no?

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I have 100s or 1000s of logcat messages where a request for Neighboring Cell IDs is denied. Is this some kind of worm attempt being blocked by policy?

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"Why" is not a question well suited for our site, as it probably is a speculative question and such off topic (see our [FAQ]). Although, a short technical explanation: The company building your ROM decided such.

"How can I disable them" would be better fitting, and even has answers:

If you cannot disable them from Settings→Apps→Manage Apps, you will need to root your device. Having done that, there are several apps available allowing you to "freeze" unwanted system apps. The most well-known of them is Titanium Backup which, as a side-effect, provides you with a powerful backup solution. Another candidate for that is App Quarantine ROOT/FREEZE.


Migrate media to external storage in Marshmallow In versions of Android prior to Marshmallow 6.0, the Storage Manager (in Settings) had an option to move media to external storage.

Now, this option appears to to have disappeared. How can I still do this?

Go to "Settings -> Storage & USB" then tap on you SD card. Then tap on the "three-dot menu" at the top right corner and select "Migrate data".


How can I search for a contact by its phone number? Is it possible to search for a contact by phone number in Froyo ? How ?

HTC's Sense UI gives you this functionality out of the box.  In the Phone app if you start typing the phone number, it will filter your contacts that include either that number, or the contact's name via T9 representation.

If you are not running Sense IU, I suggest trying 3rd-party apps that imitate the HTC Dialer functionality.  Try Dialer One or aContacts, for example.


Can't get Google Play after flashing firmware I've recently rooted my phone in pursuit of freeing up the internal memory from system apps. I then tried uninstalling Gmail by deleting the file and then trying to reinstall it from the play store but the apk deletion seemed to put it in a strange state where it disappeared from the phone (after a while when the icon was first removed and replaced by the default android app icon and then once after resetting the phone, it didn't exist any more; but still the play store considers it as installed). I tried flashing my phone to the same firmware as I had earlier (XSG), and now I cant get Google play (only the outdated Google market, which doesn't allow any installs from the play store online).

My phone runs on Android 2.2 Froyo. Any idea what to do?

Thanks

I then tried uninstalling Gmail by deleting the file and then trying to reinstall it from the play store

You can't install it from the Play Store, you can only update an existing version.  This is to prevent phones that haven't met Google's official criteria from getting the core Google apps, though there are workarounds (see below).

  the apk deletion seemed to put it in a strange state where it disappeared from the phone ... but still the play store considers it as installed

Deleting the .apk is akin to deleting acrobat.exe from Windows without uninstalling Adobe Acrobat.  It won't run since it doesn't exist, but the system still thinks it's installed and there may be other junk left behind.

To fix this you'd need to flash the Google Apps package; this question might help with that.  Since you're only suffering from the Market not auto-updating right now, you can either try to trigger the update or manually install the new version; see this question for that.

In the future don't delete apps you want!  Or at least back them up :P


Does FriendCaster have problems with the privacy settings of my friends? I am fed up with the official Facebook application and want to switch. FriendCaster seems to be one of the very good choices. However I saw in reviews and other websites that FriendCaster will not show everything in the news feed because it might not have access to my friend's information due to privacy settings.

Is this true?

Would I not see everything with FriendCaster which I would have seen in the official Facebook app?

Yes, there is a privacy setting that will prevent FriendCaster from being able to retrieve posts or other info from your friends if they have it enabled. Specifically, according to OneLouder's support site:

  [I]t is possible that some of your friends have set their privacy
  settings to block access to their profile, wall, photos and status
  updates from third party apps like FriendCaster.  This setting is
  found in "Account --> Privacy Settings --> Apps and Websites".

  In “Info accessible through your friends” you can see checkboxes for
  the items that are available to apps.  As an example, If your friend
  has “My Photos” unchecked here, they won’t appear in FriendCaster.

  Unfortunately Facebook has this restriction in place and unless your
  friend allows third party apps we can't get around it at this time. If
  your friends are using that setting, the info will only appear on
  Facebook itself.


What is the effect of changing the maximum application VM heap size? The settings menu in CM6 lets you change the maximum per-process heap size (internally, that’s the dalvik.vm.heapsize property). What are the practical effects of raising or lowering that setting? On my G1, I changed it to 12m from the default of 16m, and I noticed that switching applications feels faster, but I wonder if it will cause some applications to run out of memory sooner.

Here's a great article someone wrote on the effect of changing it, very detailed: http://ryanolson.wordpress.com/2010/07/13/test-how-changing-the-max-amount-of-memory-per-vm-heap-can-effect-your-rom-cyanogen/

In short, with the G1, it can cause bigger applications to crash. I would just recommend you keep it default or find a value that you do not see any crashes in applications with.

As far as anything else goes, in the short period of time searching else where and reading over different posts. Could not personally find any other effects, other than possibly battery life.


Why my phone does not need to update the password? I changed my gmail password a day ago, but my phone does not require me to put in the new one. I can still access my gmail with the old password. Why?

Phone is rooted, sim unlocked , running android 2.3

Your phone doesn't store the password, it has some kind of session key.  I would have expected it to be invalidated when you changed the password, but apparently Google doesn't do that.  You'd have to ask them why.


Listening to in-app triggers How can we listen for and record in-app events? I've been searching the net for some time without the slightest hint. Bellow are my case specific details for clarity, (though maybe I should be ashamed).

The reason I ask is because I want to create a macro bot that would play a complicated mobile game or at least automate it further. (I am new to scripting with basic knowledge of Java.)

This mmorpg is very much automated. However too much choice is in the hands of the player in order to use user prompts (like touches, swipes and time intervals) for triggers. The conditional clauses must depend on the dynamic state of the game server if the script is to be "smart."

So the question is how to listen for in-app events? How do we pick up the important triggers (timers, health bars, presence of NPC or player) from the noise in order to model the gameplay?

(This should be possible since people sell successful bots, nicely packaged, linked to a license server and with an intuitive front end.)

There are some possibilities, however both a far beyond scripting and falls more into the development section:

Check the network traffic. If it is an online game it has to receive and send data to the server. If you can sniff that data you know in what state the game is
An app with root permission can get access to the memory of another app. If you know where to look you can find all the data the app contains in it's memory and therefore get info on the game state.


Lollipop - Apps not autostarting I have Alcatel 5054D with Lollipop (5.1.1) on board. I noticed that some apps are not starting on boot or on events that are fired by the OS. For example, when my phone was not rooted I tried to install Truecaller, Truemessenger and Textra. They simply didn't work just after reboot or if I removed them from the recent apps list. What is worse SMS apps won't start on new incoming SMS, the message just disappears without any reaction from Textra or Truemessenger. But everything works fine when I start these apps manually and keep them in the background.

Then I rooted my phone, installed Link2SD and noticed that it fails to start after a reboot too! I have to launch it manually for the paths to be rebinded.
I installed autostarts manager and it showed that all the events (receivers) for these apps are enabled.

On the other hand standard SMS app, Whatsapp, Viber, GMail do autostart and work properly.

I have no task killers installed and cannot figure out the reason of the issue.

I was mistaken when I wrote that I have no task killers. It happened so that Lollipop has a built-in task killer feature called "Limited apps" that limits app execution in background. For some strange reason all SMS apps become limited by default. The feature can be found in settings under Applications item.


Samsung galaxy s4 - how do i find out what my phone is locked to? I have recently purchased a Samsung galaxy s4 off of eBay but when it arrived it did not have any indication of what network it belonged to, every time I have gone on websites and typed in the coding to get the iem number it just says it  does not belong to any network at the moment
where do i find out what network my phone belongs to?
thank you

try a Samsung Galaxy S4 code:

*#7465625#  View Phone Lock Status
*7465625*638*# Configure Network Lock MCC/MNC
*7465625*782*# Configure Network Lock NSP
#7465625*638*# Insert Network Lock Keycode

Have fun!


Broken Screen on S6 Active. How to pull files from it? My friend has given me his S6 Active to pull photos from, so he can put them on his new phone. The screen has no display, and USB debugging is NOT enabled. When plugged into the pc with a charging cable, and a data cable, it still is not recognized by the pc. I would like to pull photos from this device, as there has to be a way.

I cant use ADB commands, as it is not showing up in the pc.
I cannot use a mouse and keyboard, as there is still no display.
I can't access anything on the phone, unless the pc recognizes it.

Please help

In normal scene it should be recognized in pc but some OEM have their phones such way that it won't be detected till it is locked

So try to see if it is unlocked and when you are sure that its unlocked connect it to PC then on guess work you can select the usb settings from notifications and click MTP and to do so refer to s6 usb/MTP settings  videos(youtube) and tap exactly at the screen as in videos and you should get it


How can I open files that have Japanese filenames? I organize my Japanese ebooks and manga using the respective Japanese titles as filenames.  I then access this content from my Anrdoid device by mounting a cifs share with cifsmanager. However I cannot open the media using my Android 4.1 (AOSP) device. The non-ascii characters in my filesystem show up as just question marks, e.g. /mnt/sdcard/manga/??????/.  The error behavior that various apps will give range from File does not exist (File Manager) to nothing at all (PerfectViewer).

You are facing this issue because (as @liamwli said) you lack the required font and also possibly because of lack of sufficient libraries in your present ROM.
Due to this reason, it is unable to display the file name properly and as a ramification of this issue, different apps behave differently based on how the developer handled this situation.

What can be done?
This depends on few factors:
If your phone is rooted, extract DroidSansFallBack.ttf from /system/fonts folder to your computer and examine whether it has the required characters in Japanese. I assume you can read Japanese. This is to ensure the first part of the reason explained in "why" section.
If you do not have Japanese character displayed, please try finding a suitable TrueType Font (TTF) which displays Japanese characters in PC. Copy this file to the above said folder with DroidSansFallBack.ttf, replacing the existing file (after backup). After a reboot you may be able to see characters properly. Then the apps might be able to open the file.
In case if you are still unable to open such files, please revert back the backed up TTF file.


""Unfortunately Google (or other app) has stopped error. I read recently about a privacy app that causes the above error to display to keep out unwanted intruders. Does anyone know this app? I remember something about opening yourself by tapping something 3 times or tapping and holding a button, just can't remember specifics. I know from many questions I read about the subject on here that it does happen for a legitimate error but I know I read about an app that uses it as a disguise, so to speak. Anyone?

One app that does that, is called App lock - fingerprint.

This app has many cool features. One of them is, when someone opens a locked app, it will tell them that the app has crashed. They'll have to press and hold the ok button in order to have the keypad show up. (You have the option to enable or disable this option in the app settings)


Weird dot on screen that captures all input Forgive me for the unclear title. Some time ago, my HTC M8, which is rooted and runs on a Venom ROM showed something weird. Firstly, in the Google Maps App a mysterious blue dot appeared, that captures the screen completely and makes it impossible to quit or use the application. It looks like this (I could make a screenshot)

When this happens in Maps, the only thing I can do is a hard restart with Power+Volume Up.

Since I have seen this occasionally in the camera app as well, I suspect it is not a bug of Maps itself. I know that the Venom ROM is not standard but maybe this is connected to some setting and anyone has seen this. Btw, the Venom ran smoothly for almost 3 years now.

Question: Has someone a clue what this could be and how I can get rid of it?

I found the answer to my question in this xda thread. What I experience is the white dot that can be switched on in the developer options, although there, I have never turned it on.

I guess my only solution is to either install a new ROM or return to stock :(


Changing the voice used on Nexus 7 for Google Now search I have recently bought a Nexus 7 from the Google Play UK store and it seems to be configured as a US tablet in that the voice on the Google Now search is an american woman, whereas on my Nexus S when I search the voice that responds is a man's which I prefer for this purpose, mainly due to the accent the woman has. Is it possible to change the voice that the tablet responds with? I'd prefer solutions that didn't require rooting.

I've already tried changing the language to English (UK).

There's a separate section to choose the text-to-speech output speaker:

Goto settings and choose the UK voice:
Setting => Language & input => Text-to-speech output => Google Text-to-speech => Language

You can install german, spanish, french, italian voice data additionaly to the preinstalled english US/UK voices.


Understand the storage of my phone? (I just updated my post to clarify my questions. Hope that can help to make myself clearer.)

My phone is Kyocera Hydro Icon with Android 4.3.

The website where I bought the phone says

  Memory

  Internal: 8GB, 1.5GB RAM

The 1.5GB RAM isn't part of the 8GB "internal", correct?
On my phone, I go to Settings -> Device -> Storage which says:

Are "internal storage" and "phone" two partitions (and thus two file systems)? If yes, what are their mounting points (directories), or how can I find out their mounting points?

Both "internal storage" and "phone" store "Apps (app data & media ...)". What are the differences between the apps stored on the two places?

Where are the firmware and OS (Android) stored in my phone, "internal storage", "phone", or somewhere else?

The total space of "internal storage" is 4.42GB, and the total space of "phone" is 1GB. But the website says I have 8GB "internal".
Is it correct that there are still 8 - 4.42 - 1 = 2.58GB left?
Has the remaining 2.58GB been used to store some files? If yes, what files are stored there, or how can I find it out?
Is the remaining 2.58GB a partition (and thus a file system)? What is or how can I find out its mounting point?
Output of Diskinfo (under the expert setting, unmounted and other partitions checked)

The sum of the listed partitions' sizes is (800+643)MB + 4.5GB + 1GB = 1.41GB + 4.5GB + 1GB = 6.91GB, which is still smaller than 8GB "internal" given by the shopping website.
Output of df

 $ df
Filesystem               Size     Used     Free   Blksize
/dev                   672.6M   128.0K   672.5M   4096
/sys/fs/cgroup         672.6M    12.0K   672.6M   4096
/mnt/asec              672.6M     0.0K   672.6M   4096
/mnt/obb               672.6M     0.0K   672.6M   4096
/system                786.5M   768.0M    18.5M   4096
/data                    4.4G     3.6G   802.9M   4096
/cache                 632.1M    25.7M   606.4M   4096
/persist                 7.8M     4.8M     3.0M   4096
/firmware               64.0M    56.9M     7.1M   16384
/sysprop                 7.8M     6.0M     1.9M   4096
/carrier                19.6M     4.0M    15.6M   4096
/mnt/media_rw/sdcard0: Permission denied
/mnt/secure/asec: Permission denied
/storage/sdcard0         1.9G   170.4M     1.7G   32768
/mnt/media_rw/sdcard1: Permission denied
/storage/sdcard1      1023.7M   825.6M   198.1M   16384

The sum of the file systems' sizes is (672.6*4 + 786.5 + 632.1 + 7.8*2 + 64 + 19.6 + 1023.7)MB + 4.4GB = 5.11GB + 4.4GB= 9.51GB (note I convert from a MB value to a GB value by dividing MB value by 1024. I also didn't add /storage/sdcard0 into the sum , which is for the external SD card). It is greater than 8GB "internal" shown by the shopping website. Why is that?

The sizes of /system, /cache and /data given by df are 786.5M, 632.1M and 4.4G, while the sizes of System,  Cache and Data (userdata) given by Diskinfo are 800MB, 643MB and 4.5GB. why do they not match? (The size of /storage/sdcard1 given by df and the size of SD card (internalstorage) given by Diskinfo match. )

Thanks.

Note: this is a partial answer.

  The 1.5GB RAM isn't part of the 8GB "internal", correct?

Correct. RAM is not considered part of internal storage, so it is not part of 8GB storage space.

  Are "internal storage" and "phone" two partitions (and thus two file systems)? If yes, what are their mounting points (directories), or how can I find out their mounting points?

In your device, yes, they are two separate partitions. However, the terms shown in your device are confusing. Phone is also part of Internal storage. In my device, the Internal storage is listed as Phone Storage and Phone is listed as Internal SD card.

(Note: the trend nowadays is to have a single userdata partition and a completely logical internal SD card partition. See the related info: Confused by the many locations of the virtual /sdcard/ )

Often, the Internal Storage (which here implies the userdata  partition mounted at /data) is formatted with EXT4 filesystem and Phone (which here implies the Internal SD card) is mounted under /storage/ usually, but not limited to, at /storage/sdcard1. This partition may either be formatted with EXT4 filesystem or  a variant of FAT filesystem. You can check the filesystem type by issuing the command

mount | grep -e /data -e /storage/sdcard

Dummy output

/emmc@usrdata /data ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,discard,noauto_da_alloc,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/block/vold/179:8 /storage/sdcard1 vfat rw,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1015,fmask=0702,dmask=0702,allow_utime=0020,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 0

Next to /data and /storage/sdcard1 (the mount points) here is the filesystem.

You can also see the filesystem by tapping the particular partition entry in DiskInfo.

  Both "internal storage" and "phone" store "Apps (app data & media ...)". What are the differences between the apps stored on the two places?

As per the info here, an app will always have its private data saved inside the Internal storage (under /data/data) regardless of the app  being installed under Internal or External Storage.

For finer details, see answers for Installing to SDCard by default and Where in the file system are applications installed?

If the device supports USB Mass Storage for data transfer, once it is activated all the apps installed in the external storage would be unavailable for usage. This is a major difference between the two types. The other one pertains to available space. Internal storage compared to External storage, cannot be replaced or upgraded.

  Where are the firmware and OS (Android) stored in my phone, "internal storage", "phone", or somewhere else?

Android OS is stored under System partition and is mounted at /system. All the rest of the  partitions  (excluding External storage and tmpfs mount points) are accounted for what you can refer to as firmware.

Now the important stuff. For DiskInfo, 1GB=1024MB (per this answer).

Considering all the screenshots of DiskInfo, my calculation gives me 1803MB, 5.5GB and 512KB. Using 1024 units as a base, the grand total is 1803*1024*1024 + 5.5*1024*1024*1024 + 512*1024 = 7,796,686,848 bytes.

As per Gigabyte wiki article (further confirmation), for storage 1GB=1,000MB and not 1,024MB which is often used only for memory, such as RAM. Therefore, the size of your overall ROM in bytes is 8GB = 8*1000*1000*1000 = 8,000,000,000 bytes.

The difference here is of 203,313,152 bytes or 193.9MiB or 203.3MB.

It is something that I'm unable to figure out even when all the partitions and their sizes are listed here. Perhaps somebody else might!


ADB detects but, fastboot does not detect device in windows 10 I am trying to root my phone. I have flashed TWRP recovery from here using Odin. I have installed Android Studio for Android SDK. The command adb devices shows the device connected but fastboot devices just gives me a blank. I have searched for solutions but most of them suggested to install drivers. I have installed the drivers suggested whenever applicable but, the result did not change. I have this issue too, when I select Apply update from SD card in custom recovery I get the following error

  E:failed to mount /sdcard (No such file or directory)

The solution suggested in many sites to side step the above error was to use adb and fastboot. Please help me solve this issue.

My Phone Info:

Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge
Android 6.0.1
SM-925T
G925TUVU4EPF1

For most Android devices, there is a fastboot menu with and image of an open Android and some options. Accessing it usually involves turning on the phone while pressing one or both of the volume buttons. However, Samsung devices have it differently.

Instead of using fastboot, you use Odin. (These instructions are for a galaxy tab 3, might vary by device.) If you turn on the phone while pressing home and vol down, you enter download, or if you used Odin before, Odin mode. This is used instead of fastboot to flash Roms.

There are many videos on how to use Odin to flash Roms like CWM and TWRP, so search for one of those.


I am not getting any notification ringtone when my whatsapp is open and I am chatting to a different person. So I am not getting the ringtone I am not getting the Notification ringtone when my Whatsapp chat box is open. While I am chatting with one friend, if the other friend message me, I am not getting ring voice.

Open Whatsapp > Settings > Notification > Check whether Conversation tones is checked (allowed)


Is there any Android distribution statistic for single countries? I'm looking for statistics for android distributions for individual countries but the main source of information, Google themselves, only have information for the entire world. There was also this stack exchange question but it hadn't really received a satisfying answer (it points to a blogpost with statistics for specific apps which is not terribly useful).

If I'm making an app for a single country I need information about what distributions are being used in that country. Google doesn't seem to be releasing such information, even if we were willing to pay for it (which we might if pricing was reasonable).

Here you can find statistics of mobile operative systems reach by country, based on the web traffic generated by mobile devices. The web interface gives the possibility to filter the data, choose the country, differentiate by distribution of OS. The data are collected by the domain registry Afilias, which manages domain names like .org, .mobi and .info. Of course the statistics cannot be precise, as they are bounded to accesses on the particular domain names owned by Afilias, but I think they can serve well for an overview.


Why is the SD card mounted as read-only on PC when shared from HTC Desire HD via USB? I just discovered that the SD card is now read-only when I use "disk drive" connection on the phone.

Why do I have to do in order to be able to write on the SD card from the PC?

I mention that the phone is rooted and is using the latest version of 2.3 available for HTC Desire HD (original rom).

It may sound really strange but the real issue was the corporate policy of mounting the the unencrypted drives as read-only. This is specific to BitLocker and there is a registry workaround available.


can't get the exact position in Map Goal:
Get exactly position in Maps (google map) from my Galaxy SII

Problem:
I don't get the exact position in Maps from where I'm standing.

It's difficult to get decent GPS position inside buildings or covered areas. Try going outside; you'll get faster GPS locks.

Don't worry, you're not alone. I have the same problem.

Check out FasterFix / FasterGPS as well. They can help improve your GPS locks.


Finding and removing Android adware that opens Chrome tabs when unlocking the lockscreen I'm battling an adware on multiple Android devices which none of the Malware removal tools I tried (Kaspersky, Avast, and Norton IIRC) can find.
Behaviour
While the phone is locked, new Chrome tabs (not the default browser, Chrome specifically) are launched periodically, pointing at (don't visit!) http://vpg.dorputolano.com. This redirects you to various ugly ad-sites for gambling, betting, new phones, and what have you. It doesn't act, while the phone is unlocked.
Importantly, this behaviour has jumped devices: I first had the issue on my OnePlus 3. I was changing phones anyway at the time and I thought with a fresh install on my new phone I'd be golden. I used the OnePlus transfer app to transfer my stuff to my new OnePlus Nord, which in hindsight might not have been the best of ideas. Now after ~3 weeks of using the new phone, it started again. No apps have been installed in this period, so it seems to have a dormant period before it starts acting up.
What I have tried

Most obviously, switch to a brand new phone
Finding rogue processes via adb shell and ps -A
Trying to change /etc/hosts to at least not visit the bad site, but this needs root access
Neither of my devices were/are rooted

Device info

OnePlus Nord, Model AC2003
Oxygen OS 10.5.10.AC01BA
Carrier Wingo (read: Swisscom), not known for malicious behaviour
(The old phone was a OnePlus 3, up to date with the last update they shipped)

I'm hoping for

Identification of the malicious app and how to remove it
Further tips on pinning it down myself, maybe more adb tricks?
If all else fails, workarounds to mitigate the behaviour

Using my Google Activity History, i spotted a few activity entries of my Barcode Scanner app which didn't belong there as I didn't use the app at the time.
Uninstalling the app resolved the problem. In my case, the com.qrcodescanner.barcodescanner] was the culprit.
Edit: The app has been pulled from the store since.
The most recent 1-star reviews confirm that the apps is an adware since the last update.
For completeness' sake, this might not be the dev's fault since the app Andrew pointed out (com.google.zxing.client.android (Play store)) suffers from the very same condition it seems, the reviews now all say it delivers ads.
Edit: Apparently this is a false positive, as it unfortunately had an identical app name and got hit with negative reviews for no reason
Edit: Maybe some barcode library further upstream got compromised?
In any case, caution on using either of the apps is advised.
Use zxing's Barcode Scanner for a better alternative
Credit to @andrewT. for pointing me to the solution
Update, 08. Feb 2021: There is now a writeup of the story at Malwarebytes Blog


Set ringtone to start from a specific point I recently got my Nexus 5 and I would like to know if there is any way that I can set a ringtone to start from a specific point from a track that I have on my phone.

There is any app that can help me do that considering that I don't want to cut the track to the point that I want my ringtone to start from?

Well, I don't think that can be done ! Why don't you use several mp3 cutter to cut the song over to the appropriate place you like, there are just load of song cutter apps available over the PlayStore as well as software are also available for the PC's. I have tired searching over the PlayStore and got several apps names MP3 cutter which can help you out with cutting the ringtone to the specific point and then then you can set that as your ringtone.


Enable LTE on Google Nexus 7 (2013) LTE tablet I have a brand new Google Nexus 7 (2013) LTE tablet and failed or enabling LTE on it.

I had two cards (microSIM for Nexus and nanoSIM for iPad Mini) from the very same LTE-enabled local (Poland) carrier Aero2. Both are inserted to respectful devices, both devices are in the same place (same network coverage) and iPad Mini catches LTE signal (and its amazing speed) with no problems, while my Nexus falls back to HSPA+ at most, only sometimes uses 3G and never runs on LTE.

Is there any extra switch on this particular device or Android system (was on iPad Mini) to enable LTE?

EDIT: Of course, I followed step-by-step guide on this subject available at Google Nexus Help.

While unlikely, it's possible that the Nexus 7 doesn't support your local LTE network. It seems like Aero2 only operates LTE on 900MHz and 2500MHz (Take that with a grain of salt though; it may be incorrect or incomplete).

The Nexus 7 2013 apparently doesn't support either of those frequencies. Oddly enough, apparently neither does the iPad Mini.

You may want to contact Aero2 or whatever local providers and find out which frequencies (or "bands") they operate in your area. It doesn't matter if their network or SIM cards are "100% certified for the Nexus 7", they may not operate the appropriate frequencies in your area specifically. Rather than ask "Do you support the N7?", ask them "What LTE bands are operational in the area with the postal code [your postal code]?"

If your area should have a band that's listed on the GSMArena page for the Nexus 7, then you may have problems with your device. If not, then you may want to find a carrier that supports LTE on the appropriate bands in your area.


Moto G (XT1039) running out of memory Can anybody help please? My Motorola Moto G (XT1039) is reporting “Storage space running out”. Settings > Storage confirms I apparently have only 302MB available from an internal capacity of 5.52GB. I can’t now do any app updates, nor does Sync work anywhere. I’ve already followed the standard advice and moved all the apps (that allow this) to the SD card, together with all photos. Further investigation of Storage shows I have apps totalling 3.5GB, and all other items (including cached data and misc) only total 320MB, a grand total of less than 3.6GB. I should have around 2GB free. Why is it not reporting this, and allowing updates and sync to work? Or, what else is occupying the space, and why doesn’t it show me that? What I actually need to know is what can I do about it?

3.5 Gb of data storage used by apps only is a serious issue. you should clean your device on regular basis (not physically, clear the junk files i mean).

On any device the first thing I do is disable the unnecessary applications in settings. Bloatwares eat a lot of space in storage plus if you have good Internet connection they go on updating themselves over time thus reducing our precious space. you can disable them in Settings -> Apps -> all. then from list click on any app you want to disable. just be careful while disabling unknown apps as it may lead to unstable system so do it on your own risk. you can also use uninstall helpers from play store. click on Clear data button before disabling. it will remove the data of that application.

Next, try to clean the app cache. Its not usually more than few megabytes but still it can help. And cleaning cache will not wipe the application data or uninstall the updates so you can go for it. use apps like Clean master or similar to keep cache clean on regular basis.

Lastly try to uninstall the app updates which you don't use or use very less. and keep the "auto update over WiFi" feature of play store 'off' so that you can choose which apps to update and save space.


Battery Statistics Viewer crashes every time I have a DroidX with Android 2.2

I went into the Battery Usage settings

Settings > Battery Manager

See a fual cell looking battery image that says Touch for usage statistics, so I was like awesome let me nerd out and look at my battery usage statistics.

Then when I touch the image I get an error The application Settings (process com.android.settings) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again. and the only thing I can do is Force Close.

Anyone have any insight into this issue?

I tried using aLogCat to find the error log after I got it, but it won't pause so I can read anything :-/ Where can I report this bug to Google, if there isn't a fix out there already?

It looks like it is a common bug with Droid X users and there doesn't currently seem to be a fix.  See this relevant thread here.


How To Prevent Uploading From Interrupting When Screen Is Off? When screen goes off, uploads get interrupted especially YouTube uploads and everytime i have to resume phone to continue uploads. The problem is that in case of YouTube, videos stutter which i assume at the moment upload was interrupted.

I have JuiceDefender Plus just to add. Is there a way to prevent uploads from interrupting, at least by instructing the screen not to turn off when uploading?

UPDATE: What i want is to be able to keep screen turned on while uploading.

HTC Desire S
Android 2.3.3 (unrooted)

Settings -> Wireless & Network -> Wi-fi settings.
Press the [Menu/Options] button, and select Advanced

Now choose in the Wi-fi sleep policy : Never

Keep in mind that your battery is going to drain faster (because the wifi will never be turned off unless you manually do it), and is easy to forget that you changed the sleep policy.


Which version of VLC is right for an Exynos tablet? VLC has two versions listed for ARM,

Android (ARMv7-A)
Android (ARMv8-A)

I'd rather not install with the PlayStore. Both of these versions when downloaded say "Can't open file" when I click then in the File Manager.

For comparison, I also download F-Droid clicking it open up a prompt for me to install with the option INSTALL and CANCEL. I am using a Samsung SM-P600 UD.

-ARMv7.apk

The version needed with -ARMv7.apk. After downloading that, you have to install it. This may be more difficult than need be because VLC currently has the content-type on the response set wrong, you can read more about that here:

Can not install apks from File Manager or browser?

You may  open the file downloaded from the Download Manager nor through the browser -- see the link above


Adjusting between Group & Single text messaging on Galaxy S4 I recently got the Samsung S4 on AT&T. I used to have the Motorola Razr M on Verizon. On my Razr M I was able to switch between group text and individual text messages at the time of sending. So if my main setting on my Motorola was to send individual text messages, I was still able to receive group messages as a group and the default was to respond individually, but I had the option to respond as a group also. Does that make sense?

Example 1:  I could send a picture to 10 people but those 10 people would think they were the only people who got the text message.

Example 2:  If I receive a group text message that someone wanted 10 of us to get and we all need to be able to respond for a work project we were able to with the Motorola.  With my Samsung if I disable MMS then I am only able to see who sent me the message but not everyone who was included so I am not able to respond all.

Example 3:  If I needed to send a group text message and have it sent as a group I was able to adjust at the time of sending by clicking on group instead of individual and all the people who received the message would see who was included on the text.  Even if the main text message default setting was individual.

In the stock messaging app: settings->multimedia message (mms) settings->Group messaging.
When this is checked, it will send a single MMS message to multiple people (all within the group), like in examples 2/3.
When it is unchecked, it will send a message to each person in the group individually, like in example 1.

All incoming group messages will come in as a group message regardless of this setting.  This setting simple controls how your messages are sent to a group.  As far as I know, however, you are not able to do this on a per message basis.


Undeleteable blank contact on HTC Legend I have a contact with no contact details, apart from a name and which can't be deleted. The option just doesn't appear in the context menu like for other contacts. Is it possible to delete this contact?

Try deleting it from your Google contacts.  If it's not in your Google contacts, it probably came from another source, like Facebook or Twitter.  You should also be able to hide contacts that don't have a phone number, so as a last ditch effort, that may be good enough for you.


How to log/record system events or phone vibrations - Problem with Huawei Mate 20 Pro I have a Huawei Mate 20 Pro. Awesome phone, I love it.
I live in Canada, and have the model LYA-L0C.

My phone is set to vibrate, so anytime I get a text or a FB message or messages from other apps my phone vibrates, and I check and I have a notification from xyz app.
My phone has started to vibrate arbitrarily, for no apparent reason. It will vibrate, I will look and check my phone and there is no notification from any app. It will vibrate again and I will check and there is nothing there. I will check through my apps and there are no new messages or anything in any of my apps. Notifications are turned on for all apps, nothing turned off in the settings of the phone.
I don't know how to track down where this is coming from or what app is causing this.

Is there some kind of app I can install that will monitor and log system events like vibrations and log where it came from? Or does anyone have any other better solution to this problem?

Thanks in advance for the thought and suggestions!!

The vibrator is not really logged that much but you might be able to get enough information to help. First,  The log output format is:

date time PID-TID/package priority/tag: message

Looking like:

12-10date 13:02:50.071time 1901-4229pid-tid/com.google.android.gmspackage Vpriority/AuthZentag: Handling delegate intent message

adb logcat -v long

Linux: adb logcat -v long > ~/Desktop/logcat.txt

Windows:

adb logcat -v long > %userprofile%\desktop\logcat.txt

Vibrate is system thing so to get just system logs then this use this log command:

adb logcat logcat -b system

Linux:

adb logcat logcat -b system > ~/Desktop/logcat.txt

Windows:

adb logcat logcat -b system > %userprofile%\desktop\logcat.txt

If within the logs you happen to see what package is responsible for vibrate and it gives its pid number write it down. Next use this command inserting the pid number where {pid} part. This will show only the output for that package.

adb logcat --pid={pid number}

Looking like:

adb logcat --pid=1000

If you know the package name you can get the pid number from this logcat command:

A
adb logcat pidof -s {package_name}

Looking like:

adb logcat pidof -s android.os.Vibrator

Just riffing but if you want to get fancy and try the previous two commands at once then through an adb shell throw this:

adb shell "logcat --pid=$(pidof -s {package_name})"

{With linux use a single quote instead of double quote.}

adb shell "logcat --pid=$(pidof -s android.os.Vibrator)"

You might be able to get some information from the battery stats with the command:

adb shell dumpsys batterystats --checkin

Look for vib for time and count.

There are apps that record the logs such as Matlog (no affiliation) that can record, highlight, and other options. However, I do not know if you narrow down the logs to get the details you are looking for.


Nexus 4 - suddenly lost access to all Google sites Nexus 4, stock 4.3, rooted. WiFi only for data, strong signal

Suddenly today, for no apparent reason, every app requiring access to a Google site stopped working:
Google Now gives "Network error"
Google Chrome gives "This webpage is not available" for any Google url, but works fine for any other url
Android Weather sits on "Updating"
Finance gives "Error. Network connection unavailable"
Google Maps gives blank screen
Play Store gives "Server Error"

The one exception to this is that Firefox can access any Google url, no problem. All other apps accessing the internet work fine.

I have tried rebooting - no effect.

Anyone have any ideas how to solve this problem.

Thank you.

Is it only Google services or all HTTPS sites? In any case, make sure the clock, date, and time zone is set correctly on the device.


Can the camera options on Samsung Galaxy S be imported to Samsung Galaxy SL? The Samsung Galaxy S (I9000) and Galaxy SL (I9003) are very similar.. ofcourse, except for a few differences. I use Galaxy SL (I9003). The camera options in Galaxy S seems to have more features than SL. So, can i import those camera options (Shooting mode and Scene mode options) in Galaxy S to my Galaxy SL ?? is something like that possible?

If you're rooted, you may try getting the camera apk from the 9000 onto your 9003, but a safer and easier way would be to use alternate apps from the market. What features precisely are you missing out on in the 9003 from the 9000?

You can try using other camera apps like Camera Zoom FX or FxCamera.

Loads more in the Market, have a look-see.


Tablet doesn't respond to touch neither when mouse is plugged in, at all Recently my Colorfly E708 Q2 tablet stopped working. First time this happened a message box popped up, with the text "Unfortunately System UI has stopped" or something like that, but i wasn't able to close the pop-up box, because the system didn't respond to any user interaction. So i decided to restart the tablet.

Display doesn't work, doesn't respond to touch, nor to mouse when connected through usb. I need to mention, that when the mouse is connected, the mouse cursor shows up on the screen, and does even track the movements of the mouse, but as i said, it does not respond to clicks.

I've seen on some forums, that the only thing that would help to fix the tablet would be if i'd replace the firmware. Sadly, since the developer options aren't enabled on the tablet, i was not able to reboot into a boot menu. The device has no physical sound buttons (only power, home and reset) , so what would work with other devices, doesn't work in my case.

Is there any way to fix the system ui, or re-flash it in any way? I mean it was cheap, but it worked for me so I don't really want to buy a new one.

UPDATE:
I plugged in an USB keyboard, but the only thing I could achieve was to adjust the volume of the device.
+ A new box popped up, with the message "Launcher stopped working", with two actions: wait and close. Of course its not possible to select either.

Documents:
Tech Specs
User Manual

NOTE: THIS WILL FACTORY RESET YOUR DEVICE!
To fix this problem, first shut down your tablet. Boot into the bootloader by booting up regularly, but holding down your power and volume up buttons when you see the logo.
If you haven't installed fastboot, do that first.Then, go to the command line and type in

fastboot oem unlock

Then, find and download a factory image, then run

fastboot flash /path/to/factory/image.zip
fastboot oem lock
fastboot reboot

Hope this helps!


Can I receive SMS from a bluetooth connected phone? I have a Windows Phone 7.5 phone and recently got an used (non-returnable) Android 4.4 phone. I love the Android experience but the phone is not on the right carrier. Is there a way to use bluetooth to forward SMS to the Android phone or will I just need a new one? If it took phone calls too that'd be sweet but not near as urgent.

I don't have a Windows phone so I can't speak to this working but you may be able to do this with Pushile for Windows Phone and Pushbullet for Android.

As long as both devices have connectivity it should work. You may even be able to reply from your Android device. This all depends on Pushile allowing for notification forwarding. It's a setting you'll have to enable on both devices.

Note: Pushile is an independent app not developed by Pushbullet. There is another Windows Phone Pushbullet 3rd party app called Pushpin which could also be worth a  look. There is a link at the bottom of the Pushbullet page linked above.


Can't get to fastboot. nor twrp nor OS - Xiaomi mi 5X/A1 I'm having a problem with my Xiaomi mi 5X and i wondered if someone on this forum could help me solve it.
As i said, i have a Xiaomi mi 5X but i changed its firmware and OS to the one of Mi A1 (Android One).
Today I was trying to install on my device the GCam app, with the tool Mi A1 GCam.
After I clicked the "Enable HAL3, EIS and install" the phone went dark. Now i can't boot into the OS, nor the twrp nor to the fastboot mode. When i try to do it i have to hold down the power button and corresponding volume key for several seconds and the Android One boot screen appears but just in a flash, and goes dark again.
Can any of you help me, please?
Thank you

Have you tried using adb?

If you haven't got it already, download the SDK tools for windows from https://developer.android.com/studio/ under the "Command line tools only" section, and unzip it where you want.

Once you've done that, open a command prompt in the platform-tools folder within the SDK directory. The command

adp devices

will tell you that your device is connected. Then you can try

adp reboot recovery

If that doesn't work, install the universal adp driver and try again.


Override WhatsApp contact image with the chosen Contact Image I dislike how people use full body pictures for their contact images when it's a small image. When I link the accounts in my Android, I chose a picture that looks good and helps me identify them easily. But in WhatsApp, when these people chose their profile picture, they override my selection.

Is there a way to fix this?

For now there isn't, unless an add-ons for WhatsApp will enable this or they built it in themselves. It's comparable to Facebook, user set their own avatar and this can be seen by friends.
This works unlike your contact list in which you control the content and other users have no say in adjusting the content.


Bricked Moto G2 XT1068 with a Cynogenmod with low battery.Need some help :) I have Moto G 2nd generation XT1068. I flashed my custom ROM and installed a CYNOGENMOD in my phone.It worked fine for 4 month and now its totally bricked.
I could enter fastboot mode but it shows low battery in fastboot mode, so i couldn't revert my phone back to normal. I m not much a techie, so hope for a solution in stepwise :)

Finally ,
 Bricked MOTO G2: cynogenmod installed : LOW BATTERY ==> SOLUTION please :)

Thanks.

Try connecting the phone to pc, then entering bootloader(press all buttons)
Let it charge for a couple minutes, then reboot to recovery... or just reboot to recovery.
had this issue about half a year ago.


Root genymotion devices I have added Samsung Galaxy S4 using genymotion while I was using windows os. Now I'm using linux and added that device again. My problem is that the S4 is not rooted on my linux machine. I wonder if this is a bug ?
If it's not a bug can someone help me to root this device ?

Genymotion devices are rooted by default.
For example start a device then type adb shell command. It will open a rooted shell:

root@vbox86p:/ # whoami
root

You can also manage the root access of your applications by opening superuser app through the apps launcher.


Filter contacts by account I have a number of mail accounts on my Samsung Tablet. Contacts stored online are synced with the local tablet contacts and visible in the stock Android Contact app.

As different accounts are connected with different task/activities, I would like to filter contacts by account.

Is there a way in the stock contact app to display only contacts for a given account?
If not, is it possible to achieve this with a different app?

My Android version is 3.2.

Unless munged by Samsung, while in the People app you should be able to go to menu → Contacts to display and then choose the account for which you want to see contacts. There's even a "Customize" option which allows one to, for instance, only display contacts from certain of an account's contact groups.


Why Automatic App Updates In Market Don't Work? Every time i see a few of apps trying to auto-update themselves but just stalling when it says "Downloading". In other words, automatic update for apps does not work and I am only left with cancelling download/update and doing this manually.

Is there a reason why automatic updates do not work?

Additionally it would be good to know if there was a way to schedule updating of apps or somehow to update a few at one time because updating many/most apps after accessing internet after a long period of time just bogs down system.

This can happen if the download cache is full or nearly full, and the download would fill your internal storage.  Try cleaning out your caches to free up some space (SD Maid is a good free app for this) and seeing if the downloads will complete then.


"Connect USB Data Cable" message on fastboot screen preventing recovery/reset of Nexus 6 I have a Nexus 6 that doesn't boot after a failed Android M developer preview install (worked perfectly on my Nexus 5).

Booting into fastboot via power + volume down shows the device is unlocked but says "connect USB data cable". I believe "connect USB data cable" is the critical problem preventing any kind of recovery.

It is connected via the cable that I used to reboot it into fastboot successfully (and I've tried unplugging and re-plugging it in) so I think the cable is not the problem.

I'm guessing it's permanently bricked?

So the solution for me was to reboot my computer. Whatever the ADB/fastboot connection issue was went away after that. I definitely tried adb kill-server + adb start-server, tried switching USB cables and ports, etc. …rebooting was still the only thing that fixed it.


Does Android save videos from Instagram live in the cache? I hosted an instagram live interview yesterday and when it came to saving it to post to IGTV there was an error. I believe it was either due to a network error or that there may not have been enough space on my phone to save or process the video (I have 3.1 GB available, it was a 57 min live video.)

Eventually after editing the title and text multiple times thinking it was a character limit or doesn't like punctuation etc, as well as switching off flight mode and switching on data in case it was the network, I had to abandon the video. It is not saved in my stories or my archive on Instagram or anywhere on IGTV.

I've looked in the Android files on my Samsung S8 under com.instagram, cache and videos, and in movies and downloads, but cannot find it. Would it be saved somewhere on my phone?

Would the reason for the error be insufficient storage space or more likely network error?

You're only able to save a live video right after you've ended it. Only you will see the option to save your live video. So, I doubt it's cached somewhere...


Making an app integrated into another app Can we have an application controlled by another application both working in the same apk ?

One APK is one application. It doesn't make sense to talk about two applications in the same APK: they're the same application. But one application doesn't have to be one entry in the launcher, or one activity. App developers can put as many launcher entries in an application as they like, creating the appearance of multiple apps which are actually just different parts of the same package. Because they're in one package, they share the same private data and the same process, so they can control each other and work together however the app developer likes.

One example is Google Maps. Although it doesn't any more, it used to contain a second launcher entry, 'Navigation', which would launch Maps in the driving navigation mode. It was a second entry point into the same app, and both front-ends used the same data (saved places, route preferences, &c.).


Recovering pictures from Internal storgae We have an Android Verizon Ellipsis Tablet QMV7A.  We deleted our pictures and videos but desperately want them back.  They were not on an mini SD card, but on the tablet's internal memory.  When we connect the tablet to a PC is shows up as QMV7A and has a folder under that labeled "Internal Storage" with subfolders "DCIM, Videos, etc."  So the PC sees the internal storage, but no recovery software I have recognizes the internal storage.  How to I scan and recover files from the internal storage when I can't get programs like Card Recovery or others to recognize it?   Running Android 4.2.2 Thanks a ton.

Android Data Recovery can recover your deleted/formatted files from Android devices without taking out the SD card or CF card inside the Android phone or tablet. This program has a strong ability that not only can recover photos and videos, but also can recover contacts, text messages, and other data. You can download it from the play store.
I'm not sure if you've used backup photo apps but generally speaking Google photos automatically backup your photos. Try sending a text message and adding a photo as an attachment  it'll bring up a menu and it might show the places that your photos are saved to, you can also try downloading a file manager like ES and look for them there. Hope this helps.


I tried starting VPN, didn't set password, but later now screen is asking password. What to do? I have Gionee P5L phone. I was not able to access a site, then thought on starting VPN of the phone; went to VPN, and then it asked to set any of the security: password, swipe, etc. I entered into password section, but didn't press any password, then pressed back button. Now, phone is asking password, but I didn't set any password before.

I didn't really type any password, as I remember. Same thing had happened before with my other Gionee P5W; but then I tapped on forgot password, it asked me security question and allowed me in. Here, with P5L, on tapping forgot password, it says me on me to have not set any security question and the only option as to factory reset.

What do I do to remove this password wall?

In order to enable built-in VPN, you must put a screen pattern or pin code, that's a security feature.
So you did put a code, just remember


How to open a message database(.db) file from Sony Xperia phone in computer? So I had backed up my files and messages from sony xperia phone and saved all files in the computer....

Now I need to open the messages file in the backup folder which has the format of .bk...

I tried to use 7 zip to extract the .db file...

But when I opened the .db file in Notepad it appeared haphazardly with many characters and the messages were there but were jumbled in between the characters...

So I want to view them in a proper format..... Any suggestion or advice?

.db files are not plain-text files, so Notepad is the wrong approach. Those are SQLite databases, so you will have to use some SQLite browser for the task. The linked Wiki page gives you some more details. SQLiteman would be a good choice, and there's even a portable version available. For an alternative, there's also SQLite Browser.


Toast "The contact doesn't exist" shows up everytime I attempt to assign an image to owner account from User settings I'm using CM 12.1 SNAPSHOT. Yesterday, I wiped the data and when the phone booted up I finished the setup of accounts like Google, CyanogenMod and everything synced successfully. But the Owner pic in status bar doesn't load and when I try to assign it from Settings → Users, I get the message "The contact doesn't exist."

Also I made that in Google+ settings

(Click image to enlarge)

So how to assign a picture to the owner account?

I see two independent ways to set the Owner's picture:

Contacts
Dirty trick (requires root access)

For the former trick, launch Contacts app → tap Set up my profile under All Contacts and select a picture and a name. Fill other details (optional). That's it. The Owner pic is set.

After this point, even if you end up deleting the profile contact under Contacts app, the contact name and the picture you chose during profile contact setup would remain in existence and in effect.

(Click image to enlarge)

The dirty trick: The Owner pic is located inside the directory /data/system/users/0/ named photo.png. The image location is mentioned in the file 0.xml located at /data/system/users/.

Look for the string:

icon="/data/system/users/0/photo.png"

That's the key. You can  move your choice of image (not restricted to PNG filetype) under the data directory and update that said string accordingly. Android normally uses the PNG image with dimensions YxY for the user account pic.


Galaxy fit stuck at boot screen My galaxy fit became unresponsive after the phone memory got full, so I removed the battery and replaced it back. Now my phone is stuck on the booting screen, it just shows the glowing samsung text and then reboots.
I have also tried to to remove the sd card and reboot but it does not help

How to boot into safe mode:

Note: Not all devices support safe mode

While your device is booting up, hold down the Home button. This should be done right after the screen starts up, before the boot animation does, and should be held until the device fully boots. Once done, you should see the words 'Safe Mode' in the bottom left corner.

How to Factory Reset/Clear Userdata

If booting into safe mode didn't work, or your device is still boot looping after removing some of the apps that are using the greatest memory, you will have to erase your data.

You should be able to access stock recovery by holding down the Volume UP button, the Home Buton and the Power button until the device finishes booting into recovery mode. From here you can use the volume keys to navigate to the wipe userdata option, and press the power button to select it. Once done, press the back key to go to the main menu and select to reboot the device now.

This will erase all userdata on the device!

If it still doesn't work?

If it still doesn't work after following these steps, then you will have to take it to a repair center, sorry!


Unexpected rooted alert? I got a call from my company's Google Suite administrator that they got an alert about my phone (a Samsung S10 running Android 10) getting rooted this morning.
Google's support site isn't really helpful with this, stating only that they consider my device compromised because it's rooted.
All additional information I got about the alert is:

Summary:         An Android device was rooted. (Device ID xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date:            Feb 12, 2020, 09:23 AM CET (2020-02-12T09:23:17+01:00)
Device owner:    firstname.lastname@company.com

As I'm pretty sure that I didn't root my company phone (especially not this morning, I was in a meeting). As I understand some apps installed can (?) root my phone, but I also don't have apps installed from untrusted sources, and I didn't install any apps in the last two days even from Google Play.
I also tried it with Root Checker, and it seems like that the phone is not rooted.
The SafetyNet Test status is

Basic Integrity: Success
CTS Profile Match: Success
Response Signature Verification: Success

Is there a way that I can check on my phone what exactly causes Google to think that the device is compromised / rooted?

I got this same thing. I have Google for business and my devices that access the business accounts are managed by the google system. It is a SM-P610 Samsung, and I have personal and work accounts on it. It alerted "An Android device was rooted" at 7:23AM then later at 8:32 alerted that "An Android device was recovered from rooted state".
The alerts are from google.admin.com, through the Google for Business account.


Convert to system app using Link2SD doesn't work on CM11 I am using Galaxy Y (S5360) with CyanogenMod 11 build date Feb 2015. Previously on stock ROM, I was using Link2SD to move apps to system/app. Trying to do the same now is giving the following error.

  sh: cannot create /system/priv-app/name.apk .t:read only filesystem.

Why is it trying to move to /priv-app instead of /app? What are the possible solutions.

Change permissions?
Use some other tool or do it manually? (Looking for simplicity).

Things I've tried so far:

ES File Explorer: change permissions, gives "Operation Failed". "Mount as rw" option does not show up.
Terminal: mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock8 /system & then cp /data/app/fooBarApp-1.apk /system/app/fooBarApp.apk gives error "Can't create foobar.apk. read only".

Any help is appreciated. Thank You.

Just change the permission to be set on /system/app & /system/priv-app by the gapps updater. Following are steps for same:

Open gapps archive

Go into Meta-inf\com\google\android. Open updater-script with notepad.

Change the permission from 0*** to 0777 for /system/app & /system/priv-app
e.g. the line will be like set_perm_recursive(0, 0, 0755, 0644, "/system/app");
So change both 0755 & 0644 to 0777.

Save and update archive. Install from cwm-recovery.


Samsung Knox - Keyboard Problem I was wondering if anyone would be of any assistance to me.
I have a Samsung Galaxy S4  (Google Edition) smartphone.

I have recently setup KNOX for business use, and safely connecting to servers etc.
However, my keyboard does not work at all in the KNOX application, but it works fine in Personal Home?

Does anyone have any ideas of what this may be?
I am using Google Keyboard, since I do not really like the stock Samsung Keyboard.

Thanks in advance,

Ben

Swiftkey is free and works inside and outside Knox


Why did my phone reboot after copying an so file to the system/lib folder? I ran the following command and the phone automatically rebooted after copying. Why? Was it because the so file was in use?

$ adb shell 'mount -o rw,remount /system && cp /sdcard/libfoo.so /system/lib'

My phone is rooted and enters as root when issued the adb shell command. My Android version is 5.1.

I also tried the following commands and the phone still restarted.

$ adb remount
remount succeeded
$ adb shell 'cp /sdcard/libfoo.so /system/lib'

If you don't want the phone to reboot, push the so file directly to the system/lib folder. Don't make the sdcard folder an intermediary. So you do:

$ adb remount
$ adb push libfoo.so /system/lib