How do I send all calls from a contact to voicemail in Android 7 (LG phone)? Searched here and on the internet and either the options have changed or my LG phone does not have the option. Seems like the old way to do it was to press the Overflow button while editing the contact, then select "all calls to voicemail".

Carrier is TMobile.

You should still be able to accomplish this through a different route.

being that you are using an LG on T-Mobile, I'll give you instructions from T-Mobile's website on how it's done on an LG G5.

Go to your phone settings  → calls  → decline and reject calls. Now press on the plus (+) symbol, and add the desired contacts.

Calls from numbers on the reject list, are automatically forwarded to your voicemail.


google talk android device sign is not shown by sony xperia ray while logged in google talk in it what can I do about it? When I log in to google talk in my sony xperia ray (android 4.04 ICS) and see by any other account how I am online it shows like I am online in a personal computer somewhere. It shows a circle green or red. No android sign is there. How can I fix that? I want people to know I have android mobile and I am logged in through my mobile not my personal computer so that it signifies I am travelling.

Launch the Google Talk app
Open the overflow menu (three vertical dots) and choose Settings.
Tap the account you're using.
Check the Mobile indicator option.

Note: If you're signed in to your Google account on a PC (like if you left your browser open and logged in to Gmail) the mobile indicator may not be displayed.

(For reference: Android version 4.1.1, Google Talk v. 4.1.1 - 424425)


Set a call forwarding number based on a defined schedule We have a rotating on-call schedule. When an on-call person takes over, they forward the on-call phone number to their own cell-phone. This is a process which must be done manually each week, as the on-call changes over from one person to the next.

I've checked the most obvious potential app (IF by IFTTT) but it doesn't seem to support setting call forwarding.

Is there a way to set a call forwarding number based on a defined schedule?

This can be done in Tasker.

Create a profile 'Call forwarding at home'
Add a context for 'Day' and a context for 'Time'
Add a task 'Call' with 'Auto Dial' and the special number to enable
call forwarding (i.e. '*21#')
Add to the context for the location an exit task 'Call' with 'Auto
Dial' and the special number to disable call forwarding (i.e. '#21#')

Source: Enable/disable call forwarding at location - Tasker Wiki


Fastboot doesn't recognize OnePlus3 although adb does When trying to root my OnePlus3 I ran into the issue that when running fastboot devices my output is blank. Some people said that even while it returns a blank output other commands should still work but fastboot oem unlock just says it's waiting for my device without ever proceeding. Also in my device manager I can see ´Kedacom USB device > Android Bootloader Interface´ and I think that might be the problem which I also found in "Kedacom USB Device doesnt work with fastboot Nexus 5x". However no solution is provided here.

When I'm using adb devices after a normal boot it returns List of devices attached 2a04cf0c        device and in my device manager I can also see USB devices > ADB interface

I had the same problem with a OnePlus One. The problem is that Windows 10 does not let you install the right driver, assuming you are using Windows 10.

I was able to solve it by using a Windows 7 machine instead.

Another solution I found, but haven't tried, is to disable driver verification.
This should allow you to install the right drivers, even if the verification fails. However, I do not recommend this as it makes your computer vulnerable to bogus drivers.


Does the screen resolution matter for video players? Following on from my question over at video.ex, do media/video players downscale a video if the resolution is bigger than the screen resolution?

I'm wondering if it really matters if a phone/tablet says it supports HD or Full HD if the screen resolution is lower than HD.

It might depend on the Android OS version but what resolutions does the default player support? Do different apps support different resolutions?

Yes, most video players will automatically up- or down-scale videos to fit the screen. Android OS itself, and video player apps, don't have a limit on video size. Obviously each device's hardware is only fast enough to decode so many pixels per second, so there's an upper limit on video resolution, data rate, and frame rate for smooth playback.

Like any other playback device, if an Android device doesn't have enough pixels on its screen to play 1080p video, it can't be advertised with the "Full HD" trademark logo.


How can I make my Google Calendar make sounds when event is about to begin? My phone currently just shows one notification for every notification I add in the app for an event.

You can add additional default notifications in the Google Calendar app.

Inside the app, open the Settings menu. Then tap on the calendar you want to add more notifications to. You'll see a screen like this (this is for my calendar named "Events").

If you tap on "Add another notification" there you can add as many notifications you'd like, up to one minute before the event starts.

This will result in changing the defaults for every new event you add - for existing events, you'll have to edit them individually to add more notifications.


Compuer shows no sign of tablet connection (SGH-T779 Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 for T-Mobile) How can I get my computer to recognize I have attached my tablet?  I have tried every trick online with no luck.

Couple notes:

No indication at all from computer that a tablet is plugged in (No yellow exclamation marks in device manager, no sound upon plugging in)
I have tried multiple cables ( I believe this may be a hardware issue), multiple usb ports
I have tried all sorts of driver install methods as well as usb debugging modes
The only indication I get is a red x on the tablet over the battery when plugged in.  The tablet charges fine when plugged into the wall charger.
My other galaxy tab 10.1 original communicates with the computer fine ( I have since reformatted the tablet and computer and have tried multiple computers)

Currently using:
- Thinkpad T61 with aging battery
- Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 (SGH-T779) T-mobile
- Windows 8 (Have tried with a fresh copy of Windows 7)
- Running Android 4.1.2

The only indication I have gotten from the pc that the tablet was plugged in was the mouse changing from an arrow to a thinking symbol for less than 1 second.  I feel as though I have tried everything and it is a broken port on the tablet.  It charges fine when the tablet is off.

Overall, I wish to root the tablet to put a custom rom on it.  I have tried rooting the tablet using various apk's w/out a PC but have had no luck (I will probably post another question about troubleshooting root process with no PC).

Thanks in advance

This might sound crazy, and I do not recommend anyone try it, but...

I had tried cleaning the female charging port on the tablet with alcohol and q-tips and had no luck.  I decided to use the tip of a mechanical pencil (metal tip) to scrape the contacts to see if they had build up.  I put the metal tip in to scuff them up and (since the tablet was on), a huge spark shot out of the tablet and it immediately shut off.  I assumed I fried it, but it turned back on... ...and worked perfectly from that point on.  It was then recognized by my computer.

Obviously, this is somewhat crazy and I don't recommend people try this.  I had tried every method of connection from the far ends of the internet with no luck.  Somehow it worked normally after this point.  Could the spark/firework show have cleaned the contacts?  I know that some pins are for charging (which it would do fine) and other pins are for data.

My tablet is now working.


How to show own photo in SMS conversation? How can I show my own photo profile icon in SMS conversations? I cannot find where to set it.

It depends on your device and what app you are using. On my Droid 1 running Froyo if I add my own cell # to my contacts the default messaging app uses the avatar that is set with that contact entry.  if you add this it may take a little while for everything to sync up and for the pic to begin to display. In Handcent SMS you can set custom contact specific avatars.


How to get around block of unknown apps when "unknown sources" is enabled? I just bought a Samsung Galaxy Tab A and I want YouTube Vanced on the tablet. But it won't let me install it because it's an "unknown" app.
Yes, I have enabled "unknown sources" and it still won't let me install the app.

A side note it's not blocking only YouTube vanced, it's blocking all unknown apps.

What can I do to get around this?

Here's a screenshot of the message:

I turned off Play Protect & went to Settings > Security > More Security Options and cleared the credentials and was able to successfully install YouTube vanced and other apps!


Hidden internal storage I've used a mobile phone with 16 GB internal storage where 4.81 GB used by OS and 10.72 GB out of remaining 11.19 GB. But when I calculate the total storage used by other features, only 8 GB (approx.) is found. Where are more than 2 GB memory used?

That space taken up when you drives are formated..it does not show the full 16 gb . What it does is partitions the 16 GB into 2 drives than it formats both...just like a PC. These are files used to make the hardware work with the software..sort of like a middle man so to speak.

For example : based on your operating system , a 16Gb drive will only read 14-15Gb after being formated.

Another example: stick an empty 16Gb SD card in and than check the free space...it won't read 16GB.
Please note: you can use any size SD card...just make sure it's formated (empty)


How can I get the Unknown Sources option on my Dell Streak? I want to install one application which is not in the Market. I know that if I want to do that I should switch on the "Unknown sources" option, but I don't have "Unknown sources" on my Dell Streak. What should I do to get this option?

Depending on your firmware version, you might be able to abuse the ability turn-on engineering mode. Taken from StreakSmart:

Dial *#*#307#*#* on your Streak. Other than a quick flash on the screen, it will look like nothing has happened.
Go to your app drawer/program menu and tap a new icon labeled EMList. If the icon is not there, turn off the Streak. It should be there when you turn it on again.
Scroll to the bottom and tap app_security.
Tap update unknown resource property to enable it.

This will be the only way without installing a custom rom (Google StreakDroid)


Change layout of Gboard (space between letters) I have installed Gboard on my Android 7 device. My keyboard looks now like following:

Is it possible to change the layout in something like the following? I mean the gaps between the characters, i.e. each letter should be in its own box.

You can change to another theme/layout in the settings.

Here's a how-to guide.

If you want to build a completely custom keyboard that's more work but also possible.


How to fix instant lock “unfortunately com.android.systemui has stopped” on Moto G with ART I have had this problem for a couple of days on my first-generation Motorola Moto G. Normally a restart would fix it. However now I am faced with the following error message when trying to unlock the phone after a restart:

  Unfortunately the process com.android.systemui has stopped.

The phone has reset the background to the default home screen which disappears when I unlock, going to a black screen. However, it still shows my apps and widgets. Then a second or so later goes back to the unlock screen.

I have tried clearing the cache partition multiple times which has not worked. Ss there any way I can fix this problem without a factory reset, or taking my phone to a phone shop?

Some additional information:

I have been using ART on my phone for the past couple of months, but the problem has only occurred recently
On boot-up I get the following message:

Updating Android. Optimizing app 1 of 1.

Sounds like an ART incompatibility. You probably installed an app recently that doesn't work properly with ART. Presumably it added itself to the start-up apps. That's why your UI crashes when booting up. You will have to find a way to either remove the app in question or go back to the Dalvik runtime.

I went through the same ordeal a month ago when I opted to try out ART. Of the various solutions I found on the internet only this one by androidcentral user sajidr worked. I'll quote it here in case the forum post goes down:

  I managed to switch my runtime back to Dalvik. It was painfully slow but in the end I didn't have to do a factory reset.

  There's a fraction of a second after unlocking when the screen responds to a touch or swipe. This happens only right after you see the error message popup - "Unfortunately, the process com.android.systemui has stopped". If you do not see this message after unlock then open up the camera from the lock screen & close it.

  Next, follow these steps to open up the app drawer -
  1. Unlock the phone
  2. Once you see the popup "Unfortunately, the process com.android.systemui has stopped", keep tapping on the area where you think the app drawer icon is. At the same time, using another finger click on the OK button of the systemui message box.
  3. If your timing's good then once the message box is closed, the app drawer should open.
  4. The phone would go back to lock screen but the app drawer would be open. You can validate this by unlocking the phone.

  Repeat the above steps to swipe over to your Settings app. Instead of tapping, do short swipes & then click on the message box OK button. Each time the phone would go back to the lock screen but you should be able to slowly navigate over to change your runtime.

  Once I got the hang of it, it took me about 15 minutes to go to Settings & change the runtime.

  Don't bother trying to uninsintall flipboard from your play store this way. I tried it twice & both times the phone rebooted itself after i clicked the uninstall button.

  If your screen layout shifts vertically after the unlock then tap on the area where you first see the icon & not where it moves to after the shift.

  Good luck.

Other users have had varying success with booting to safe mode and disabling ART / ART-incompatible apps from there.

You will find more discussion on this issue and possible solutions in these threads:

http://forums.androidcentral.com/moto-g-2013/391289-something-seriously-wrong-my-moto-g.html
https://www.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/25p3yo/moto_g_problem_help_wont_unlock_and_endless/


Can someone explain how the android GPS Navigation works? Possible Duplicate:
  How does the GPS work on Android phones?

I have a Galaxy Player 5.0 (A.K.A Samsung Galaxy S WiFi 5.0) which as you're probably aware is not a phone, but an android-powered MP3 player.

The other day I decided to test out its GPS and it worked flawlessly. But that got me thinking about how that's possible.

It can't triangulate my position from cell towers because it doesn't connect to any. It can't triangulate my position from WiFi hotspots because it knows where i am even without hotspots around.

Does it actually connect to a satellite to get my location like normal GPS units?

Note: This questions is different from the one posted here: How GPS works in android phone because he was concerned with locational privacy whereas I'm actually concerned with functionality. The answers on his question did not answer my question.

The Galaxy Player 5 specs straight from Samsung indicate that the device has a receiver for standard GPS satellite signals, which is sufficient for navigation.

Cellular triangulation and WiFi location are examples of Assisted GPS or aGPS. As its name implies it is a supplementary system designed to speed up location finding, because  because it can take time to lock onto GPS satellites, and locking onto enough to be reliable is not always possible.


Android OS Updates On Nexus I was considering buying Nexus 6P however there would be new Nexus by next September so i was wondering if any one would clarify this rumor. A friend said that he heard from a Nexus user that a Nexus gets every Android OS Update so basically if the Nexus 6P which has Android Marshmallow right now would be immediately be  updated to Android Nougat when the update arrives and so on and so forth. Is this true or is my friend just messing with me.

Nexus devices generally get system updates in a timely manner, but only for a certain amount of time (as is generally the case for all devices). The Nexus 6P is guaranteed to be updated until September 2017, so it will definitely receive the Android Nougat update.


Connecting my phone on my pc via usb only show the driver folder I want to add files to my SD card but when I connect my phone via USB to my computer, it will add those 3 (E: F: and G:):

On E: i got:

And when I try to access F: And G:, it says that I need to insert a disk in it.

I tried the following change:
-Activate USB debug
-Change to use USB for charge only then to MTP again

So how can i access the files on my SD card?

More information:
Phone: Alcatel Idol 3
Android version: 6.0.1
Windows 7 & 8
A 8gb SD card is inserted in my phone

Thanks for your help.

Solution found by @RMarkwald in the comments

I copied the file from the Driver folder and executed the install64.exe . I repluged my phone and I have now access to the sd card.


Installing Custom Rom on a S3 with Damaged Volume Down Is it safe to install a custom ROM on a S3 with a non-functional volume down key?

What should I circumvent or be ware of during the install?

p.s: the key cannot be repaired.

Without a volume-down key, you can't:

go into recovery mode/download mode without a PC
reduce the volume (duh)
select options in CWM
take screenshots in AOSP-based ROMs

Possible workarounds, by order of mention above:

use adb reboot recovery / adb reboot bootloader, as said in the comments
use a USB jig to force the phone to boot into Download Mode
go into Settings > Sound > Volumes and change values from there
use TWRP or CWM Touch instead
use third-party apps. I think GravityBox for Xposed has the option to add a screenshot option and advanced reboot to the power menu, but I haven't been using Xposed for a long time.


How do I save an address in Google Navigate? I see that there is a Star system but I really can't seem to figure out how to star a map in the application, or outside of it for that matter, it's driving me insane.

How to I save an address in Google Navigate, from my Android device?

Finally figured out how to do it in Chrome but I keep forgetting how. Not intuitive at all.

In Google Chrome type in an address. Once the search results pop up click the blue link on the side bar. The little popup box will show up in the map blocking the view of the map. There is a star in there. Click it. (Red Circle in picture will help.)

But still don't know how to do the same thing on the Android app?

If you are referring to the Google Maps Android application (aka maps), the star option is available from within the location details:

Open the "maps" app;
Search or navigate to the desired location;
Tap over the balloon with the location name;
After the location options page opens, you'll find on the top/right corner a star;
Tap the star and that location is now starred by you.

Access The Starred locations

Navigation app
In the Navigation app, swipe left to see your "Starred" locations. Tap the one you want to get your Navigation directions.

Maps app
Tap the top/left app icon, just before the search box and select "My Places".


How can I cancel an ongoing OTA update download? Edit: Apparently this question was marked 'popular', so I thought I would mention that I found my solution, which has worked without issue: An app called DisableService which let me disable the Motorola OTA Update service. Root is required.

I've been trying to avoid my phone updating for about a week now. Every few minutes I'm switched away from whatever app I'm using to an update screen. Originally there was an option to update later, but now it's gone and I simply switch back to the app I was using. Obviously, this is quite disruptive.
Unfortunately, I tapped the 'Okay' (something to that effect) button and now it's attempting to download the update in the background. I've been able to mitigate this by stopping the MotorolaOTA app, and disabling Wi-Fi.

I'll be clearing out all my Wi-Fi connections in case my phone connects to one and continues the update.
I'll also see if I can introduce something which blocks the update servers.

How can I cancel this so I don't have to worry about the update completing? I have compatibility concerns.

How else can I battle this OTA terror? Please, you're my only hope!

I have a Motorola Moto G, XT1031.

Edit: I have multiple ideas.
One is to, and I don't yet have extensive knowledge of how SSL certificate authorities work, but to introduce a custom root CA, with a CRL including the update server.

Cruder methods include:
running a nameserver to use when on Wi-Fi, which blocks the update server, or a proxy/VPN which could filter requests.
Maybe I could create a fake update server which says, "all good, no updates" and make my phone talk to it with a custom root CA certificate.

Disabling Motorola OTA should do the job. Just go to the Apps section in your Android preferences and find the Motorola OTA entry under the 'All' tab. Disable it from there and you shouldn't get any more update prompts.

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Does Android hide some amount of RAM from the User? I bought a new tablet, but Android (2.3.1) shows that it has only 150MB free of 256MB, and it should have 512MB.

I checked the file /proc/meminfo, MemTotal information. It only shows 256MB.
Is there a possibility that the Android "hid" 256MB of RAM from the user?

This is not uncommon in the embedded world. A prominent example is the Samsung Galaxy S, which is advertised with 512MB RAM. But only 300 something are actually available for the OS. I believe the other part is used for the (powerful) GPU.

This leads to effects where a similar device is faster. For example the HTC Desire/Nexus One both have 512MB (576MB for the Desire) and overall play in the same league as the Galaxy S, but IMHO they are in many situations faster then the Galaxy S. But I am not sure if it's because of the "crappy" stock ROM of the SGS or because of the RAM difference.


My Galaxy SIII Screen auto wake up My Galaxy SIII display screens auto wake up (Lights Up) for no reason. I have tried with Factory Reset but does not work. Also Task Manager Pop up window auto displays and after that my power button does not respond. While after next auto screen off (mine is 15 Secs) power button works smoothly. One thing also Home button completely become unresponsive after 1-2 min of phone restart. Can anyone help me.

Some app might be triggering the phone to wake up.
Did you check if there any app holding screen wakelock with Wakelock Detector?

play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.uzumapps.wakelockdetector


How to root my Nokia XL (updated version)? An error message is appearing when I'm trying to root my phone by the app frameroot .  I was suggested to use Gandhalf but as my XL is already updated I'm receiving an error message . What do I do ? I wanna update it to the latest android version . But which exploiter should I use ?

you can use the "kingo rot" software for rooting your phone.i have a Nokia XL and use this software for rot


How to change the user in ES File Explorer I use ES File Explorer on my Android phone (Lollipop).

When I connect to my NAS, it prompts me for a user name and password. I enter this, and I connect. However, I now need to connect as a different user.

I'm not prompted again for the user name/password, ES File Explorer and remembered these settings but, I can't find how to clear this.

Open ES File Explorer.  Head to cloud,  or FTP (Depending on which you are using,  and hold on the server.  An option along the bottom called "edit server"  will show up.  Click it, exit as necessary,  and press OK.


Share a folder on android How to share a folder on android so the folder becomes available over LAN to anyone?

No "server" or any complicated "solution"

Just share the folder on android and see it on the computer, as its easily done on windows

Something my grandmother could easily use

Thank you ahead

Use FTP servers. It is available on Solid Explorer


Titanium Backup Locks Up When Trying To Restore System Upates (com.samsung.apk) Okay, so in an attempt to stop the OTA notification, I un-installed System Updates 1.0.0 (com.samsung.apk) using Titanium Backup. Well, that didn't help, so I'm trying to restore the app in-case I ever need to update my Profile or PRL. But, when I try to use Titanium Backup to restore this app, it just sits on the "Restoring..." screen and I have to use the task manager to kill it in order to ever do anything.

I've tried both restoring "App only," and "App+Date"
I've tried pushing the com.samsung.apk directly to my phone (/system/app/com.samsung.apk) using ADB.

The only idea I have left is to re-flash my phone. Is there anything I can try before reflashing?

Phone Information:

Samsung Epic 4G (SPH-D700)
Android  2.2.1 (FROYO.EC05)
Kernel 2.6.32.9
Titanium Backup 4.6.7 (Free version)
Rooted using One Click Root v2.5.5

Answers to questions I know are going to be asked:

Q: Why don't you just update? A: Because there is something wrong with EI22, and every time I do I lose service until I flash back to EC05
Q: Do you have trouble restoring any other apps using Titanium Backup? A: No, I tried restoring two other system apps and they restored fine.
Q: Did you make sure Debugging Mode was on? A: Yes, I tried with it both on and off
Q: Why didn't you just "Freeze" it instead of uninstalling it? A: Because, the free version of Titanium Backup doesn't allow Freezing, and I just felt like using a GUI method at the time. I didn't really think that un-installing it would be much different than freezing it.

If your device is full rooted (not just shell rooted), try using Root Explorer app. Mount /system with read-write permission and then paste com.samsung.apk file in /system/app/.

Reboot the device... Done!

Remember to set permissions of the app to rw-r--r-- before rebooting.


Selfie stick button causes google now to listen I am using motorola E (2nd gen). i have a selfie stick with audio jack port. when i attach the selfie stick, and hit the button on the stick, it displays a window where it says

  listening...

and then says

  tap mic to start listening

I tried disabling google now(as i dont use it). but still no luck.
any help will be appreciated.

-thanx

It's a few months late but I just had the same issue on my Nexus 6p. If you're still having the issue and you're rooted I have a solution.

First thing yr gonna have to do is download this app scanCode from your selfie stick.
https://github.com/chrisboyle/keytest/downloads
Run the app, press the button on your selfie stick, and it should show a scanCodein there. Mine was 582

Next step
You have to edit one or more files in /system/usr/keylayout. The first file is Generic.kl, you will have to search through all the files in that folder to find other instances of your scanCode. I also found 582 in Vendor_046d_Product_b501.kl.

In both files search for your scanCode. After that should be some other instruction that is causing your phone to do the voice search, change that to VOLUME_UP

In mine it looked like this in both files

key 582 VOLUME_UP

When you're done remember to save the files, and make sure its done in all files you it was found in. It won't work otherwise. Reboot and you should be good.


Briefing Alarm News and Weather Not Read Aloud on Galaxy S3 I've got an alarm set daily on my Galaxy S3 with the briefing alarm type selected in my  alarm's settings with all three briefing content items selected (weather, today's schedule, and news).

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

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

With the tip from Izzy, I was able to determine that the problem was that I didn't have Samsung TTS as my preferred TTS engine.

To fix this, go to Settings > Language and input > Text-to-speech output, and you can select Samsung TTS there (mine was set to Google Text-to-speech Engine).

EDIT

Well, I was mistaken apparently.  My alarm has reverted back to showing the news and weather and playing my old alarm.  I'm assuming this is a bug at this point, unless someone can find a solution.


How to clear erroneous unread sms indicator I am using the stock SMS app on Android 4.1.2.  I received an SMS message and read it but when I return to my home screen, the (1) in the top right corner of the app is still there.  Inside the messaging app, it lists no messages as unread on any of my threads.  I have tried killing the SMS app, restarting the phone, and even using a third party app that marks all your SMS as read, but the notification indicator on the app icon persists.  How do I remove it?

Go to Settings -> Application manager.  Find an application called "Badge Provider" and clear it's data.  Then restart the phone.  The (1) goes away.


Does USB Internet option require root access? Hi I want to reverse tether from PC, OS Win 8.1 to android device but is it required root?
In Activity in Local Area Connection Status (Local Area Connection is my Remote NDIS...) I get increased Sent values but this increase is very slow(i.e 168 bytes and after few seconds 210 bytes, and another secs 252 bytes) and not fluent, Received values increase proper and relatively faster than Sent values

I have on the phone 'USB internet active' notification, on PC
I have in Connection section in General

IPv4 Connectivity: 'No network access'

the same with IPv6

Media State: Enabled

Duration: (8 minutes and is increasing)

Speed: 425.9 Mbps

Ethernet is my PC connection with speed 100 Mbps but I live in dorm and really I have lower speed
Phone Model: Quantum 350

I have tried enable sharing tab

and when I launch Opera mini go to some website i.e www.google.com then browser loads and loads and after few minutes I get confirm dialog with info that cannot connect but during the 39 minutes my phone received 395,000 bytes and increasing now (during 45 minutes) I have 460,000 and increasing

ReverseTethering does not require a rooted device. Depending on your device, it might come with a preinstalled reverse tethering option. Unfortunately, this preinstalled solution is only included in very few devices.

I am the developer of ReverseTethering NoRoot, an app that brings reverse tethering to any Android device running Android 4.0 or newer. No root required. All major host OSs are supported. The app is available on Google Play.


Still can't change Google Play country I've tried:

updating my google wallet (UK credit card & billing/home address).
set default home address.
changed postal code on gmail.
force stop and cleared cache on Google Play app.
cleared the browser cache (both on the phone and on the PC).
Used a GPS spoofer + setting localisation to GPS only.

I live in the UK, but I bought my new phone back home (in the Faroe Islands).
This is my first Android device, so I'm new to the play.google environment.

The only thing I can think of that is causing it not to work, is the fact that I cannot purchase things in the Faroe Islands (in Google Play as well as play.google.com) Since all suggestions online say that I have to "buy" an app, then clear the cache, etc..

Soooooeh, any suggestions? :p
My device is not rooted and I'm running Marshmallow

Any help is much appreciated c:

Method 1 (Requires 2 Phones signed in with same google account):

Phone 1:

Open Google Play Store and Download HotSpot Shield or Zenmate.  Once
you have downloaded.
Clear cache and data of Google Play Store by going into Settings ->
Apps -> Google Play Store.
Now open VPN app (Zenmate) and Change your location to UK and connect
the VPN. Open Google Play Store and Accepts the terms.
Accept the terms.
Now Move out of Google Play Store.
Do not exit the app from the background.

Phone 2:

Now perform the following steps on Phone 2.
Clear cache and data of Google Play Store on Android Phone.
Open Google Play Store. You don’t need VPN on this phone.
This time, accept the terms and rules. It will take you to UK’s
Google Play Store.

Phone 1:
Disconnect from VPN and Head back to Google Play Store.

Method 2: (Same thing on a single phone, but you will need VPN everytime you use Play)

Install the VPN app provided by your VPN provider on your Android
device.
Choose a VPN server belonging to UK.
Establish a VPN connection.
On your Android device, go to Settings -> Apps.
Under “Downloaded”, search for the Google Play Store app.
Click on it.
Press “Clear Data” and “Force Stop.”
Exit settings.
Relaunch the Google Play Store App.

I have tried Method 2, it worked for me.
For both methods, you need a VPN which provides a UK server(free/paid depending on you).

Set server locations where you want your Google Play location to be, most of the VPN's provide free access to US servers.


Is it possible to start an FTP session via bash? Is it possible to start a session with an Android Samsung Galaxy smartphone through a bash shell to access files remotely?

Search for SwiFTP or FTPServer in the market. They turn your phone into an FTP server and will let you connect using the client of your choice, which would include the bash ftp client.


Windows doesn't recognize Nexus 7 in recovery mode So I have the Nexus 7 (2012). When the tablet is on and USB debugging is enabled, ADB recognizes it. But when I shut it off and put it into recovery mode, then press power and volume up to sideload, Windows/ADB does not recognize it. If I navigate to usb_driver it says it can't find a driver there. I'm trying to update it to KitKat using the OTA update.

The problem is that you're missing the adb recovery driver. You might consider trying Koush's universal USB driver installer -- it solved this very problem by installing the missing drivers.


Anything that can text geocoords? I'd like to text someone my location so they can use something like maps.google.com and navigate to me. Any app or technique that makes this task easier than putzing around asking for the address?

Google maps can do this.  Long-press the map at your location; a popup should appear with the address; you can tap that and it'll give you the option to "share" that location.  From that you can send a text, email, etc.


Sync both ways "camera picture folder" for android and pc I am helping an older person who is not tech savvy enough to play with Android and USB cables and I'm tired of doing it for them.

They need open pictures taken with android smartphone (built in camera, saved to its local DCIM folder) onto their computer, edit them  (Windows) rotate, crop and so on, then transfer back to smartphone and then send via MMS. (yes, it's odd to use MMS i know, but as i said -we are talking about non tech savvy persons and they know how to operate mms so there is not possibility to switch them to using email).

Right now, i have use send anywhere to transfer picture to computer, wait for them to edit, and transfer back via send anywhere... or use usb cable.

I got idea to use dropbox, and dropbox let me send saved pictures directly to pc (via dropbox camera photo upload)  so this part is done, but it won't work other way (after editing file on dropbox photo folder -  it's not syncing back to phone) It's synced on dropbox folder via browser, but android app won't sync it back - i haven't seen that function < so it's useless.

Do You have any other idea of how can i sync pictures both way and make them after edit appear on built in android gallery so they just can select edited picture and send via mms?

You could use SyncMe Wireless application.

With SyncMe,you can copy, move, sync and backup your mp3, pictures and documents over WiFi (including Portable WiFi hotspot), (or cellular VPN)  to your computer. Nothing to be installed on your computer.

The application itself provides a step by step guide in setting up the folder to be synced (note: sharing must be enabled on your computer).

Setup device folder to DCIM folder
Setup computer folder to be the "shared folder" where photos are copied on the computer.
Configure sync options and filters (and schedule-if needed.
Tap the job to sync.

Basically the setup could be anything like this:

NB: No affiliation with the appplication but just use it as my daily driver for similar needs

Note: You may need to enable SMB1 on Windows


Android 7 predictive text multiple languages Last night, my phone (Samsung Galaxy S6) updated from Android 6.something to Android 7.0. Since I use my phone for typing both Dutch and English very often, occasionally even within the same conversation, and I am a very sloppy typist, I used to have predictive text and autocomplete/autocorrect on for both Dutch and English. This was working (mostly) fine: it would seemingly just find the closest approximation to what I had typed in either language.

Since the update, I have to explicitly choose a language by sliding the space bar. This is annoying, since it adds at least one action, and furthermore I keep forgetting, having to delete whatever I have written so far before switching languages and retyping it.

Would it be possible to go back to the situation I had before the update?

I have been using the default keyboard, with which I am otherwise very satisfied.

The same problem happened to me a few days ago, which was resolved thusly :

Go to the keyboard settings : Settings>Language and Input>Virtual Keyboard>Samsung Keyboard
Check that your languages are selected in 'Languages in types'
Make sure that the "Predictive" option is activated.
Make sure that the "Auto replacement" option is activated.
Restart the app on which the keyboard was used so new settings are applied

That last point is the one that made it work again for me so I can type ugly things like "Holà yeah le clavier marche again" without having to slide the space bar.

This was suggested to me by the French Samsung support which answered (within a day !) the following :

  En effet, pour apporter une solution à votre demande, nous vous proposons d'effectuer les manipulations suivantes dans les "Paramètres" du clavier :

  ajouter le français et l'anglais dans "Langues et types" ;
  cocher le "Texte intuitif" ;
  cocher "Vérif. orthographe auto." ;
  Fermer et redémarrer l'application sur laquelle vous avez fait le reparamétrage du clavier.


Can I safely remove "Android keyboard" if I have installed an alternative keyboard application? I know it's potentially a Bad Idea (tm), but hear me out.

I've got an HTC Desire, and its internal storage space is severely limited (150 MB, barely), running Cyanogenmod 7.1. I'm not entirely happy with the supplied keyboard, and have tried Swiftkey X Keyboard, to a great satisfaction. Now, since keyboard apps cannot be installed on the SD card when they are used, this eats up more than 15 MB of that precious internal space and severely limits the number of apps I can install.

It occurred to me that I could convert Swiftkey to a system app and integrate it in the ROM, and after that freeze and remove Android Keyboard -- using Titanium Backup. Naturally, I'm not too keen to try it without asking around first, for it can have disastrous consequences.

So, my question really is:

  Can I remove Android keyboard if I have an alternative input method application?

Hi Martin Tapankov:  Yes.  It is safe to remove the stock Android Keyboard application if you have already installed an alternative IME (Input Method Editor) on your phone.  You may go to "Settings->Local and text->Text settings->Select input method" to select ONLY ONE preferred IME and then reboot your phone to ensure it automatically picks up your IME.  Please bear in mind you should NOT install or move your preferred IME application to the SD card because, after your phone is restarted, the default IME will revert to Android keyboard (if you still have the stock Android Keyboard application installed) or your phone will show a lot of ForceCloses (if you have uninstalled the stock Android Keyboard application).  Good Luck!

FYI, I have already done this before on my Samsung Galaxy S Epic 4G (SPH-D700) which comes with a hardware slide-out keyboard, so my risk factor has been much smaller than yours.  :-)


HTC One M8 settings not allowing file transfer I've been able to transfer files from this device to any PC since I've owned it, up until a few days ago. Usually when it is connected by a USB to a PC I will see the drop down notification that will allow me to change the USB connection settings. After restarting my phone, this notification will only stay for about 30 seconds. All the while, the USB continues to charge. When I do get the chance to see this menu, I choose MTP but the changes don't apply and the screen generally doesn't respond, going dark and unresponsive until I press the home icon. In my developer options I've allowed USB debugging, and my USB Configuration as MTP and PTP but that doesn't seem change anything. I've triple checked my USB cords, which have worked in the past and work with other phones. I'm at wit's end! I need help!

One thing you can do is to use the HTC One M8 root toolkit, which allows you to fix most of the phone's problems with a click of a button. I am not very familiar with the HTC toolkit (I have a Nexus) but you should be able to factory reset your phone without wiping data from here.

You can use this method as a last resort if nothing else works. Here are some websites showing how to fix/backup the specific problem:

http://www.htc.com/us/support/htc-one-m8/howto/465027.html

http://deviceguides.vodafone.ie/web/htc-one-m8/change-settings/bluetooth/transfer-files-via-bluetooth

http://www.htc.com/us/support/htc-one-m8/howto/465041.html

If these don't work either, call HTC support since it may actually be a problem with the phone.


Would rooting my phone prevent me from using device protection features I wanted to unlock my bootl oader so that I can root the device for performance and battery improvement.when I try to turn on OEM unlocking, I am told that the step would deactivate device protection features. I want root and device protection .I dont want to flash custom ROMS or recovery .I just want to root the device and turn the switch back off. Is that possible?

It appears my comment was incorrect, once you Enable OEM Unlocking in developer options, you have disabled Factory Reset Protection completely.

  If you have Developer options turned on, you can also turn off device
  protection from your device's Settings app. Tap Developer options and
  then OEM Unlocking.
   - Source

And no, once you have unlocked the bootloader (required to root) you can not re-enable this switch, it is greyed out and non-functional, unless you relock the bootloader which cannot be done without have a completely stock image installed, meaning no root, custom recovery, or other modifications to the device.


Install google APPs in Nexus7 with Cyanogenmod already installed A few days ago, I installed the latest Cyanogenmod (version 11) on my Nexus 7. When I booted it up, I discovered that all the Google Apps were gone.

I downloaded a .zip file from http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Gapps but now I'm stuck. I don't know how to install it. I extracted it and I do see a lot of .apk files, but there's much more stuff in there (system/ directories and whatnot).

The question is: Once I have that .zip file, how do I install the Apps (without blowing up my Nexus, if possible). I've found some results on google, but (AFAIU) all the methods I found explain how to install the Google Apps while installing Cyanogenmod, which is not my case.

Newbie here! Don't hit me too hard, please :-D

Its actually ok to install Gapps, or any other zip packages (if they're meant to be flashed), after Cyanogenmod has been installed. You'd use the Install zip from sdcard option while in Recovery mode (presumably ClockworkMod, if you followed CM's install guide) to flash the Gapps zip file. Then reboot your device and after that you'll notice that it will take a little longer to start up with a message saying "Android is upgrading". Wait for that to finish and then you'll see all of the Google apps installed.


How to upgrade Samsung galaxy A5 to lollipop without using Kies? I'm on Manjaro Linux can't use Kies, I tried it in virtualbox, didn't work as expected. I live in Lebanon, so no A&T version or anything like that, I need standard firmware.

I have galaxy A5, current version 4.4.4, I want to upgrade to lollipop. Isn't available from settings > software update. I want to download it and do it manually, my device isn't rooted yet, will root it soon.

Model Number: SM-A500H

Found one here, first one, but I don't know if I can trust the source and it's Uzbekistan, I don't know if I should use it.Note that Kies in virtualbox detected some firmware, I just couldn't install it, so there is a firmware out there.

I downloaded this and flashed it using odin (windows running in virtualbox) and it worked. Using the Uzbekistan firmware should work too, from my own experience. But don't root it using CF-Auto-Root it will break your phone and you'll have to flash it again.


File "has unexpected contents" error when sideloading Android 5.0 I have a Nexus 7 (2013) (wifi) and am trying to update the software to Android 5.0. When I try to sideload I get this error:

Installing update...
mount: failed to mount /dev/block/platform/msm.sdcc.1/by-name/system at /system: Invalid argument
Verifying current system...
"/system/app/Drive.apk" has unexpected contents.
E: Error in /tmp/update.zip
(Status 7)
Installation aborted.

How I did it:

I placed OTA file in sdk platform-tools folder. Then I opened up a command prompt and typed in "adb sideload 5a0f7a47588c268c239e58cf568823c6637c5af1.signed-razor-LRX21P-from-KTU84P.5a0f7a47.zip and I got that error.

What did I do wrong?

The app's file has been modified in some way, changed or removed. Look up your build number in settings and search for it on Google. Hopefully you'll find a zip with .img files in it. If you've got the correct img files, reflash system.img and you're able to flash the ota.


Would Galaxy Nexus US version (unlocked directly from Google Play) work in India Would Galaxy Nexus US version (unlocked directly from Google Play) work in India on GSM networks? As far as I understand from the specifications the voice should work just fine as it is a quad band. What about data? Seems like it does support 3G 2100 which is used in India.

Galaxy Nexus specifications

GSM/EDGE/GPRS (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz)
3G (850, 900, 1700, 1900, 2100 MHz)
HSPA+ 21

GSM Bands information by country

900     1800            3G 2100 BSNL / MTNL

You may not get 21Mbps downloads on HSPA+, but otherwise, voice calls and data access should work just fine, provided you get a compatible SIM card from the local provider.


Device detected as "mint" I'm using a xperia sp ( huashan ) device. Recently I read some tutorials and wanted to flash CM 11 M10 into the device. I rooted the device, then backed up the bootloader. Then unlocked it and installed the recovery kernel given in the following url.

Custom Recovery Link

Then I used the following link to install CM11. I downloaded CM Rom from the official website for my device.

CM Installation Tutorial

When I go to CWM Recovery and try to install the zip file, it states the following message and stops the installation process.

  The zip is for devices C5303, C5302

  Device detected as 'mint'

I flashed my stock rom again and checked using flashtools the device it recognizes. My device is installed as C5303.

Any idea on fixing this issue.

CyanogenMod - Xperia SP maintainer here. If you are sure about having a Xperia SP then you can safely remove that assert check in the install script of the zip :)

you should have the right prop id so you can continue on with normal releases. i've never seen this issue before.


Nexus5 not connecting to only my wifi network I have a very peculiar problem with connecting my new nexus5 to my wifi router @ home.

Here is the background:
I recently bought Nexus 5 and a new wireless modem/router(D-Link2750u)...The first day as soon as I got the router, I did the set up and both wired connection to my pc and wireless connection(WPA2-PSK) to my phone worked fine.

Now the problem is

Since the next day my phone does not enable me to connect to my home network. It always shows my SSID as 'Not In range' even though my phone is right next to the router.

My approach to the problem:

I thought since there are 2 devices involved... it can either be the phone's fault or the routers fault.

So, First I choose my phone, I went to my friends place my phone had no problem what so ever to connect to the wifi @ my friend's(Same ISP, same encryption different router) and I try to connect to 2 other different networks and it worked fine.

Now, the only other culprit possible: My router

My friend was able to connect to this network through his Samsung phone and he dint have any problem doing it so.

Now the question that boggles my mind...

who is the culprit in here? My Phone or the router?

I am not able to figure out what might be the problem, Any kind of help is greatly appreciated...

PS: I also tried doing a factory reset of the phone and also reset the router and then set it up, none of them solved the problem.

This question thread has been very helpful -- I too developed the same problem, which started after 2 events:  being away from my home for 2 months, and also receiving the latest Android 4 updates (over-the-air) -- across 3 Android devices: my HTC one, my Nexus 7, and an Alcatel Fierce. All have Android 4+

After hours inside the router's setup panel, testing, I solved it with your help, Izzy. But it wasn't the channel... It was the GHz setting!

The home router was set for 5ghz. everything always worked fine, until the latest Android updates. Now, none will work; all give the same famous message: Not in Range. This is absolutely erroneous, since all PCs/Macs in the house could use the Wifi network just fine. (I won't even mention the brand of router since it doesn't matter.)

To solve the problem, I tried eliminating most variables, in both the router and the android devices:

SSID on/off -- didn't matter; not in range;
Channel changing -- no effect; still not in range;
restarting router and phones and tablets -- no luck;
toggling WIFI optimizations/power saving/dhcp-vs-static -- no luck

What DID work was changing the broadcast channel from 5ghz back to the more crowded 2.4 GHz.  Success.
And rats, I'd rather be using the 5GHz.

So I conclude that this is an Android 4+ software bug. (Phone hardware, you think? How could all three devices have a problem with 5ghz, when they ALL worked fine before on this same network, before joining other networks fine?) There's something wrong with the software such that once they join a 5GHz wifi network, then connect later to another network (cafe hotspot, other network, etc.), they lose the ability to "see" the network they first connected to.


How to reverse acceptance in Android Device Manager? If a user opens Android Device Manager in a browser (https://www.google.com/android/devicemanager), and selects an Android device that has never been accessed via Android Device Manager, they will be presented with the following screen:

If they select "Accept", how do they later reverse that acceptance?

Google has a weird mix of app settings, device settings, and a website to manage location permissions.  I've found that the easiest way to access most of it is through Settings → Personal content in the Google Maps app:

As you can see I've gone through those one-by-one to disable all use of my location info by Google.  You might also need to go to https://myaccount.google.com/activitycontrols/location.

Android Device Manager still works though even though my device is not actively sending things up.  To remove your device from ADM entirely, you have to remove it from your Google account via https://myaccount.google.com/device-activity.  This will naturally also sign you out of Gmail and the like on your device.


"Restrict Background data" with Jelly Bean on tf300t ASUS tablet On my tf300t ASUS tablet (with wifi only) I tried to set "Restrict Background Data" following

Settings->Data Usage->three boxes in the upper right corner,

but there is no such option. I read on some forums that this option is only available with limited mobile data, but the option to set a limit is not available under Settings->Data Usage->three boxes in the upper right corner.

There is, however, an option under

Settings ->Developer Options -> Background process limit,

but I'm not sure about it. On my Gingerbread phone, background processes were disabled, and whenever I wanted to download an app, I had to enable it. With the Backround Process limit, however, downloading is possible (therefore, I'm not sure if this is the equivalent to Gingerbread's setting). Furthermore, I noticed that, after setting Background Process limit, every once in a while I get a message that some Asus process has been terminated. My question is: how would one disable background processes (no connections to wifi while screen off, ...) in order to save the battery?

You can check the background process limit box. Its the best way to limit your background processes and in a way save your battery. You can also use power saving mode if you have one....


Speech recognition is not underlining and providing alternate interpretations I just broke my Droid Turbo and replaced it with another of the same model. On both phones I was/am using Android 6.0.1. On my old phone, whenever I used  speech recognition, some of the words would be underlined. Whenever I clicked one of these underlined words, a list of other possible interpretations would come up. This was extremely helpful for correcting mistakes on the fly. However, on my new phone, this capability seems to be somehow disabled. I'm not sure if it's a setting or something, but it seems odd that I should have the same phone, backed up the way it was before to the best of my knowledge, but behaving differently. Any ideas on what can I do to get this function back? I tried searching for a solution, but it's a bit difficult when I have no idea what this functionality is officially called.....

While it's unclear if you asking as development perspective or for using only. Knowing about the app /more information could be useful.
Here's a few information for you:
If development - yes, Google voice recognition returns more than one match. I think development is not reflected on question.

If app is showing only the first one/ result only then please check if it has the functionality to enable such feature(other results).

Thanks.


Disable priority inbox on Android Gmail application? I suspect that there isn't a way to do this, but just in case...

Is there any way to disable Priority Inbox on the Android Gmail application?

I don't use this feature and can disable it in the web based full desktop client(*), but I can't disable this on either the Android Gmail application or the mobile web Gmail client, it's very annoying.

Gmail version v2.3.4.2
Samsung/Google Nexus S
UK / Three network

Not for the first time I find myself wanting "Minimalist for Gmail™" for Android!

edit * after further investigation it would appear that my desktop inbox is set to classic, but I can still see priority inbox esque things in my messages like "Important mainly because of the words in the message." in the details of my messages. It may be that my Priority Inbox is only half-turned off, if that is even possible?

I have removed a (second) work Google Apps account so I only have my personal email account on my phone and I have disabled IMAP on my Gmail account.

Menu button -> More -> Settings -> Priority Inbox.  I have it enabled on the web and that option unchecked to disable it in the app.  Latest Gmail v2.3.4.1.


SD card in Android virtual device I have created an Android virtual device with sd-card.

Now I want to create another Android virtual device with sd-card with same data.

Where can I find the sd-card image file?

By the way, I'm using Eclipse Juno on Windows 8.

Here is what I would do:

Clean way

Your SD card image is stored in the following location:

~/.android/avd/<avd name>.avd/sdcard.img

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10680992/in-avd-emulator-how-to-see-sdcard-folder-and-install-apk-to-avd

So, if your AVD is named SCREEN_LARGE, then your image file would be at:

~/.android/avd/SCREEN_LARGE.avd/sdcard.img

I am using a Mac but I'm sure the location for the .android folder should be inside of your 'User' folder as well.

You can then duplicate this file and then use it with another AVD.

Less clean way

copy all of your files/folders that you want off of the old image from ADB:

adb pull <dir or file>

How to use adb pull

Then, using ADB create a brand new Image:

mksdcard <size> <file>

mksdcard can be found in the  tools/ directory of your sdk folder.

Then load the AVD with the new image:

emulator -sdcard <filepath>

Once the AVD has loaded your new image, you can then push your files:

adb push <dir or file>

info taken from Google page:

http://developer.android.com/tools/devices/emulator.html#sdcard

I hope this helped!


How can I batch update specific apps? I'm using a rooted Galaxy S5 with Lollipop. I want to update several apps over the Play store at once, but not all of them. Even if I have to use another app to do so, that's okay.

That can be done using AppBrain App Market, an alternative frontend to the Google Play Store. This app a.o. lets you …

exclude apps from updates permanently
skip specific updates (and only be notified when the next update comes)

This way you can exclude stuff from the "batch update" and just have it performed for everything else. You still can update single apps manually. Hint: When using this app, you should disable update notifications from the Google Play Store app, or you'll get notified twice :)

If you like this approach and continue using Appbrain, a suggested additional install would be AppBrain Ad Detector, which integrates here – so you know what to expect before you install an app :)


Is it possible to freeze an app in Bluestacks? Sometimes is beneficial to "freeze" an application, for example when configuring on-screen controls for a game which doesn't display them at all times. Hotkey would be the most convenient.

What OS are you using? I'm going to assume Windows. I have no real experience with Bluestacks itself, but you can try suspending the whole process. To test if it can work open the Resource Monitor, right-click the Bluestacks process and click Suspend process.

If it does manage to 'pause' the app you can work on making it programmable using perhaps PsSuspend provided as part of PsTools. Finally put it into something like AutoHotkey.

Usage:
pssuspend <process name | process id> (-r to resume)


Add exchange account in Android 4.1.2 I have just bought three cheap china-pads and on all of them the OS registers as 4.1.2. On two of them, it says "build version" or something like that v 1.6rc1 but on the third it says 1.5.

The difference between them is that on the 1.5 pad, the option to add an Exchange account is present, but is missing on the other two.

Is there a way to fix this? I have tried a couple of apps, but would really like to integrate my work Exchange account.

Open the email app, type in the login credentials, go to manual setup and follow these settings here

I personally use POP3 for my exchange account.


Samsung S3 asks for mobile data when I try to receive using ShareIt A friend has Samsung S3 phone. Whenever he tries to activate receiving using Lenovo ShareIt, a pop up message raises asking to activate mobile data. Even after enabling mobile data, the WiFi spot is not created if mobile data is not connected.

Is it a firmware problem, that the phone can't enable WiFi spot without mobile data active?
Is there any fix or a workaround to make it works?

Seems to be Samsung specific problem as you can see Samsung S 3
and Samsung S4
There is no solution I could see on internet.
Other users who had a problem in app review suggest using Xender


RSS Reader that supports secure feeds? Does there exist an RSS reader that supports secure (NTLM + HTTPS) feeds?

I've tried RSS Demon, with no luck.

so it turns out android as an operating system doesn't support anything other the basic http authentication!  so there won't be any readers out there that can support this :(


Where are APN configs saved in Android? I want to know where exactly are stored the APNs that are added by the user on Android. I want to edit them manually using X-plore (or any other root file explorer).
I know that in /system/etc/apns-conf.xml are stored the APN that come preset with the device, but I'm looking for the XML file where the user added APN are stored instead.

I think it depends on your ROM .I recently checked mine and are in the following folder:

/data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/.(telephony.db). You can try opening this .db file as text with a suitable file explorer and see if you can find them. (These are apns in the ROM by default)

Edit

I created a test apn manually and did a search, I learnt that its actually stored here:  /data/data/com.android.settings/shared_prefs/com.android.settings_preferences.xml

(This xml also contains a lot of information found in settings but if you use a keyword search to try and find your manual apn, it will be much faster)

Some of the carrier apns happen to be auomatically added when you insert a new sim card, corresponding to the country, that is why they are stored in telephony database,I reckon. I hardly enter these apns manually even when I change a SIM card.


Some songs don't show up in Google Play Music on phone? Before I start, no this is not a duplicate of this question. They just happen to have similar titles.

Anyway, I wanted to listen to music on my Moto X smartphone. So like I have always done with every MP3 player and old phone I've had in the past, I just connected the phone to my computer with a USB cord, and then used Windows Media Player to sync the music files to the phone.

As far as I can tell, Google Play Music is the only app on the phone that allows you to play music files. So I opened the app up and set it to "Downloaded Only" in the sidebar menu. Then I went to "My Library," but to my surprise many of my songs weren't there!

With the phone hooked up to the computer I can look in the Moto X's "Music" folder, and all my songs that I synced are there. But inexplicably some albums don't show up in the Google Play Music app. Can anyone tell me why this is and/or how to get it so I can play these files? Thanks!

Android does not support many formats by its MediaPlayer library.
 Check http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/media-formats.html to see if your codecs are supported.

If you don't use a player that features a custom decoder like PowerAMP, you need to convert them to another format, preferably MP3 or FLAC if they are lossless.

Windows Media Player does have a way to change the default Media Copy format:

Go to Organize->Options
Switch to the Copy Music tab
Select the format you'd like from the drop-down list.
Select your preferred quality setting (in kBit/s, I recommend 256 kBit/s, because 320 kBit/s does not really add more quality for the bigger size)
Hit OK
Copy all the music!


What does "staged" mean in the context of dictionary download? Google search can't answer my question
What does staged mean?
Sorry I'm a pretty new to the tech thing

My guess is that it refers to a staged rollout, which means that it is available only to a few users not all. Since you are unable to download, you are being told that the dictionary is available but not yet for you (or people in your region)


samsung tablet GT- P3113 have OTG USB support? Does the samsung tablet model # GT-P3113 have OTG USB support already built in or do I need to get the cable?

Am thinking of getting a keyboard for my tablet.

According to the USB Host Diagnostics site, YES.
Check the link for the ROMs (Build IDs) that supports OTG.

If your phone has root, you can also check out USB OTG Helper [root].


Is it possible to program on a Honeycomb tablet? Possible Duplicate:
  How can I do development on my Android device?

I was wondering if there are apps making it possible to program on an Android tablet?
I know it's not the best "work tool" out there, but I was wanting to get one, and was wondering if it's also possible to get some work done with it.

Is there some IDE app available for PHP or JavaScript?
Is it possible to program compiler based languages using some sort of IDE (like C++)?

You asked for a compiler, or IDE, but I really don't think native code compilation is the way Android apps are intended to mostly work, so you're going against the grain asking for C/C++ compilers.  And since there is no JDK that is self-hosted, Java is probably out of the question too.

That being said you can still do programming, just not compiler based programming:

Part 1. This is kind of a flippant answer, but it's fun, anyways:

You can program in Commodore Basic using the Commodore 64 emulator (Frodo, I think it's called), available in the android market.  Of course you're limited to 38911 basic bytes free, and the syntax of "Commodore Basic 2.0".

It's not an IDE, in the modern sense, it's an interactive line-based BASIC interpreter.  It can be pretty fun though.  Command lines are actually really easy to use once you know what you're doing.

Part 2.  Android Scripting Environment. Much more serious and up to date capabilities including Lua, and perhaps Python.  Perhaps ASE might count as an IDE, depending on how you define IDE.  ASE appears to be pretty simple (a text entry widget, and menus to save and run scripts), but that's all you really need on a small mobile device.  ASE was thought of long before honeycomb tablets though, so the UI is optimized for smartphones, not tablets.


Android Native alternative to AirPlay I want to give my old apple TV to my parents because my dad wants to stream files from his ipad to his tv. 2 Months ago I made the Switch from iOS to Android, 1.5 Years ago the switch from MAc to Linux.

So I am now looking for a great alternative to Stream all that Media contents, but at least the Audio/Music from my Android Phone around my small flat (TV, Sound System in Living Room and some small Speakers in my bathroom)

Is there a native way to do that, such as airplay in the apple world? Would be great, when the receivers would not be as expensive as an apple TV so less then ~100€ and would also work with pulseaudio (ubuntu)

Ah, forgot to mention: It should be weather built in to the core android system or be a future of poweramp to save battery life and not messing around with another daemon.

Google uses Miracast for its media streaming and most recent devices can use it. As for the receiver, recent TVs have Miracast built in. If your TV doesn't have it, there are some adapters on Amazon.


Can a Nexus 6P be factory reset when screen cannot be used and phone off? I broke my Nexus 6P screen, so am replacing it - usually I would factory the phone. However, I can't as the screen is completely black.

I power cycled the phone, but I am unable to enter the pattern to unlock the phone (fingerprint scanner only works after you enter the pattern after restart).

I used Android Device Manager to wipe it, but as I can't decrypt it through entering my pattern, it isn't online, so can't be wiped.

However, does any of this matter if the pattern can't be entered after power cycling? Surely the device is encrypted so my data is secure. And if anyone manages to guess my pattern, the device will be online and ADB will wipe it.

Should I do anything else?

If you enter the password wrong too many times on your nexus device, it will factory reset your data (by default). It is also possible to factory reset through recovery mode by turning phone off, holding power and down volume simultaneously, clicking volume buttons until hitting recovery mode, then clicking factory reset.


How do I update my LineageOS installation? I have a Motorola Moto E LTE 2nd Generation Android phone (surnia) running LineageOS 14.1.20170303-NIGHTLY-surnia.

I installed LineageOS by following the instructions in the wiki: unlocking the bootloader, writing TeamWin's recovery program, wiping the partitions and installing LineageOS and OpenGApps Pico from the zip files.

Now that I have my phone running smoothly, I'd like to keep it up-to-date and secure.

How do I update LineageOS?

Is there a setting on the phone that I need to enable to have passive updates? Or is there an option I can activate to update to the latest build when I've backed up my data and I'm ready to proceed?

I can't find any information on the LineageOS wiki regarding updates.

I could update LineageOS by going back into TeamWin and writing the latest .zip, but that seems a bit drastic.

If you go to your phone’s settings, then “About phone”, you’ll see the phone’s status with an entry at the very top called “LineageOS updates”. In there you can configure how often your phone should check for updates, and you’ll also see a list of available updates. You can tap the “Download” button to download an update, and once it’s finished downloading, the button will say “Install” and tapping that will reboot your phone to TWRP and install the update.


Android Chrome wifi “Sign into Wi-Fi network” how to disable redirect to www.Google.com When I connect my Android device to wifi that needs login via web page Device has notification that says "Sign into Wi-Fi network".

Clicking on this notification automatically opens default browser (in my case Chrome) and redirects to www.google.com.

However increasingly more login pages do not meet Google's increasingly more stringent security requirements eg no https or certificate not matching domain etc and I can't login to page.

Instead I have to manually redirect browser to another page for example www.cnn.com to get redirected to wifi access point login page.

Is this a browser default that I can change? Is it possible to change default redirect page from www.google.com to say for example www.cnn.com?

As I answered here, if you're rooted,

  Just execute su then settings put global captive_portal_server SERVER_YOU_WANT_TO_USE in a terminal emulator app or ADB shell.

However, not all servers respond properly to HTTP 204 requests, so CNN might not be feasible for example. A possible list of usable ones can be seen in this answer.


Deactivated HTC Droid Incredible not installing apps I have an old deactivated HTC Droid incredible from Verizon. I decided I was going to use it as like an iTouch, and it works just fine -- but the Google Play Store has vanished both from the home screen and the "Manage Applications" list (when I first turned on the phone after deactivation not after using it for a while).

At first I was okay with that because I could just go download aptoide or some other third party store. But after I downloaded the apk for aptiode and checked the "Allow Installation from unknown sources" when I tapped it to install I got "Do you want to install this applicaion" and the permissions ect. so I clicked install and then suddenly the phone rebooted? It just showed me the HTC logo, then brought up the home screen. I've tried this with several apks and none of them work. It does not have a SIM card slot.

I have three Droid Incredibles that we have replaced with different phones. The play store still works on all of them.

Check out this post for the most recent Google Play apk and side load it.

If that doesn't work, I would recommend doing a factory reset. It seems like your system has gotten confused.

Alos, look into Airplane Mode Wifi app to keep your wireless radio off but leave your wifi on.


Does the operating system matter when syncing? I'm going to buy a mobile phone with android and I have use linux as operating system on my desktop computers and laptop, as android is based on linux I could hope the compatibility with linux should be okay.

I've been distant from the mobile phone industry for some time, but I've seen that some phones use their own software, does android use an platform-dependant application to communicate with the phone?

Android doesn't natively use any software to sync or perform syncs with your computer.  It syncs with your Google Account services in the cloud.  You can sync certain things with your computer in different ways and it all depends on what and how you are trying to sync, but generally, Linux machines work just fine with Android.

If you want more detailed answers try being more specific about what you want to do (sync your contacts with Thunderbird, or sync you music...).


Can MTP be configured to show the root? I have a rooted device running Android 6.

When I connect it via USB, I can browse files via MTP, but it is limited the the /sdcard folder, for instance I can see Downloads and DCIM but I can't access /system/app.

QUESTION: Is there a setting or trick that would allow me to access / via MTP?

Very technical procedures such as recompiling system programs are OK too.

The simple answer is no, you can't... You are not really looking at /sdcard but at a database of what that card contains provided by External Storage and possibly Media Storage. MTP has replaced USB Mass Storage (which would allow this) for a variety of reasons, many are security reasons, and they are encoded deep within the Android source code in multiple areas. MTP is specifically designed to only give access to user files (/sdcard and /storage/{volname}) and nothing else. I don't think you will find a way, root or otherwise, to this without heavily modifying the base code of Android


Failed on cp file to /system - Cross-device link I'm trying to mv .apk file from my /sdcard to /system and getting following error:

  failed on 'XXX.apk' - Cross-device link

I did remount my /system as rw

root@ghost:/ # mount -o rw,remount /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/system /system
root@ghost:/ # mount | grep system
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/system /system ext4 rw,seclabel,relatime,data=ordered 0 0
root@ghost:/ #

I also tried following, but without luck(

mbp:~ alexus$ adb root
adbd cannot run as root in production builds
mbp:~ alexus$ adb remount
remount failed: Permission denied
mbp:~ alexus$

Why can't I still move apk file to /system? What am I missing?

and the answer is pretty simple, use cp instead of mv)


Undo "Disable autofill for [app]" I am referring to the system-wide password autofill feature that was introduced in Oreo. In one app, I accidentally fat-fingered the prompt; instead of pressing "Fill with [autofill service]," I pressed "Disable autofill for [app]." How can I undo this? I want to be able to use autofill with that app again.

These did not fix the problem:

Changing the autofill service to Google and then back
Uninstalling and reinstalling the app in which I want to use autofill

Long tap the username field, tap the three dots next to "Paste" and select autofill. There will be an option "Enable autofill for " where you can re-enable it.

Tried on Android P


Why do I need to remove my battery periodically to fix phone problems? On my HTC MyTouch 4G (Android 2.3.4), twice now the diagnosis for odd failures was to take the battery out, wait a minute, and replace it.  (The first failure was loss of network; the second was web sites only partially working, e.g. I could read SE sites but not log in.)  Both times popping the battery fixed it, and my provider told me I should do this every couple months as "preventative maintenance".  This violates my mental model.  So, clearly, either my mental model is wrong or HTC and the folks at T-Mobile are having fun with me.  I'm going to start by assuming it's the former.

I power the phone down at least once a week.  I think of this as being like rebooting a laptop computer; when it's powered down I don't expect the battery to be retaining any state.  But if that's true, why does performance degrade over time?  What is my phone doing with its battery during these times?  Does periodically powering down do anything useful, like kill long-running processes?

I tried Google and reviwed the "battery" questions here before asking.

It's not the battery retaining state, it's the phone circuitry retaining state. Even when you use a "power off" command and your phone looks powered off some of the circuits will still be connected to the battery so that the phone can be turned on by just pressing the button. So there will be some circuitry powered on even after the phone was "powered off".

This is likely a bug in the circuitry. This actually happens to devices - you sometimes need to "power cycle" them by unplugging them from the power source and then plugging them back. In case of a mobile phone that requires removing and then installing the battery.


Do people in your circles/contacts see your downloaded apps in their recommendations? is your app/movie/book history available to people in your circles/contacts by means of recommendations or some other way

App Recommendations in Play Store are based on different criteria. But, overall one can say that the following are some of the things which google takes into account when showing the recommendations to you or your friends,

You/Your friend +1'ed an item on the Playstore.
You/Your friend rated an item.
Some recommendations are based on locality.
Items that you have already installed/bought with your google account.
Items that are top rated in different categories like Games, Apps, Movies, Music, Books etc.


Keep sound from video playing in background I have some serious trouble with VLC player on my device, so I have started using KMPlayer.

The only thing I miss from VLC is the ability to continue listening to the sound from videos even while switching to other apps or locking the screen.

Is there any good way to do this, either by modifying the system to make KMPlayer or any player do it, or by using another app?

Samsung I9305, rooted stock 4.4.4, Xposed Framework.

I personally use MX Player, and it does what you say very well. It has support for locked screen audio playback, background play of audio from videos, pop-up videos and others. Downside is that the free version is ad-supported. Also, it needs a plugin for DTS/AC3 audio.

The background play setting is not enabled by default, and has to be enabled by the user, however, the background playback of audio is enabled by default.

Click images to enlarge

The background play notification:

The background audio playback setting:


Is there a camera app which would let you access the gallery? In this accepted answer user @Parth Mehrotra writes:

  You can't really change the things camera intent has to offer, and if
  you do find a device where the camera app would let you access the
  gallery I wouldn't depend on it.

I am a user of the BuitenBeter app. With this app Dutch civilians can easily report issues to their municipality by taking pictures. The app offers me only the possibility to upload pictures from the camera and not from the gallery. I spend several hours looking for an app which I would name Camera2Gallery, which would appear as a extra option in the screenshot below.

Does it exist? Can it be easily made? I think there is a real big need.

There is currently no app like this that I am aware of.

However, you could ask the app developer of the app you are using to allow pictures to be taken from the gallery, and not only a new picture - this is very possible.


GMail Contacts Synced To Messaging App On the LG Optimus L90, for some reason all my GMail contacts are synced to my messaging app.

If I type a name into the SMS contact bar, emails show up as well. I didn't want those so I went into the contact book and changed it to only display contacts that are on the phone. Even after changing that and making sure my Google account wasn't syncing contacts, they still show up in the SMS bar.

Any ideas on how to fix this so only phone book contacts show up?

GO to your contact click >go to option >click on 'Accounts'. you will see Sync setting .just click on account you want to remove ! hope next time you will not get any recommendation while messaging .cheers!


How do I set battery charge min-max range to make it degrade with time less? As far as I know, LiIon batteries should be kept in about 40%-80% range in order to degrade more slowly.

On my laptop I use the following commands to make it change battery conditionally, only when it's lower than 45% and up to 90% instead of to 100%:

tpacpi-bat -v -s ST 1 45
tpacpi-bat -v -s SP 1 90

How do I do the same for Android? I can control the charger from software, so it should be definitely possible.

Device: Huawei Honor 6 (H60-L04)

I managed to do it for the same device cutting off charging at am upper level.
 How do I override charging current on Huawei Honor 6?
Surely something on those lines can be implemented for lower l level maybe a macro to shutdown the phone ( too drastic) or sound alarms and send text messages or mails if you are not close to the phone
Hope this helps


How to change android account of a phone I want to use different Google Account for my Android phone (Huawei Mate8). When I did Factory Reset, Android did not allow me to use another account, it says (Please sign in using the owner's account of this phone). In this case, I cannot sell the phone since the new owner will not be able to add its account. How do I eliminate this issue?

Go to settings and then accounts choose add account and then add the other e mail id that you want to, after that go to Google under accounts where both your accounts will be displayed, there delete the previous one and it'll be gone


What is the default launcher on the Moto G? Does the default launcher on Moto G resemble the Holo launcher? I suspect the Motorola Migrate has done a number on my Moto G.

I migrated from an old Samsung Galaxy Y and this may have caused a lot of the settings to go awry. For instance, I do not have a rooted phone, but I have the Rootbrowser and the SuperUser app on my Moto G.

Similarly I have a launcher which resembles the Holo launcher on my Samsung Galaxy Y. I have not yet familiarized myself with 4.3 Android and I will be getting there soon.

In the meantime, I just wanted to know what does the default launcher on the Moto G look like?

The launcher on the Moto G is indeed almost identical to the stock Android Launcher - but not the Google Experience launcher that is seen on Nexus devices running Android 4.4+.


How does freezing an app work technically? Apps like Link2SD and Titanium Backup are able to "freeze" other apps, that is disable them without removing them. What do these apps do to achieve this?

Titanium Backup etc just use in-built Package Manager (pm) to freeze an app. pm has a feature to prevent apps from running & from appearing in Launcher. To use it, Titanium Backup etc execute following command:

  pm disable {package_name}

You can freeze apps by yourself without using a dedicated freezer app. Just use the above command in Terminal Emulator or ADB Shell.

For example, if you want to freeze Stock Web Browser, open Terminal Emulator & switch to root using su command. Then, execute # pm disable com.android.browser.
It'll return #Package com.android.browser new state: disabled. Done!
Restart your Launcher (some devices may require reboot) to see the app icon gone.

To defrost the app, just replace disable with enable in the command.


Samsung galaxy S3 phonenumber sync facebook I had the HTC wildfire S like a week ago. It managed to automaticly fill my contact list with phone numbers and pictures from Facebook. Is this function not in the galaxy s3?
If so, how can I get it?

I'd recommend using Haxsync to sync Facebook data to your phone, works great for me.


Google Play vanished after uninstalling updates from Samsung Galaxy Note 2 I was following advice that was supposed to help Google play work better. It said to go to the app and uninstall the updates and clear the cache. This I did but now Google Play is no where to be seen. It is not under Market or any other thing that even remotely resembles a store. I still have Google play music and Google play games but no Google play. I am no longer able to purchase in app items due to this and so far (over three days) it hasn't updated itself either. I have gone through everything including the tabs all and turned off. It just isn't there any more. Does anyone know what they may have called the original app? If its market then its gone as well. It is like it actually deleted it instead of just uninstalling the updates. I do not want to reboot the phone into its original settings as I don't know some of the passwords that I have set up for games and other things. It would take forever to track everything down.

Try getting an apk of Google Play store for your android version (Available here) and install it as you normally do.

Note: If you have never installed an app outside from the google play store then you have to enable Install from unknown sources in the settings. After installing the app, turn this setting off.


Using SMB server without root access I'm looking for a way for my HTC Hero (Android 2.1) so I can share the contents of my SD card and phone memory over the WiFi network like a regular Windows file share. I'd like one that does not require me to root my phone, and am willing to pay for the right app so it doesn't have to be free.

I'm thinking of using SMB server and all I've found so far are:

SambaAndroid which requires root access.
androidsmb which is a "Java implementation of the SMB/CIFS network file and printer share server for Android devices" hosted on Google Code that has no documentation and has not released any files.

Is it even technically possible to develop an SMB Server on Android that can be installed without root access?

As your original question still isn't answered and I wondered the same, here's the answer.

Short answer: No, without root it's not possible to run an SMB server using the default ports so that it's found by Windows PCs.

Long answer: SMB either runs on ports 137-139 (UDP and TCP) using NetBIOS or on newer systems (from Windows Vista onwards) directly on TCP port 445 where in the latter case computer names are resolved by the LLMNR (Link-local Multicast Name Resolution) protocol which runs on UDP port 5355. Why is this important? Apps not running as root can't bind to unprivileged ports (<1024). It's possible to use alternative ports for SMB but Windows is hard-wired to just listen to the default ones. So I guess if you use Linux or a separate SMB client for Windows which allows to connect to a server with a custom port number it's probably possible. But it's not really a straight-forward way.


Android 2.2 - External SD card not working - says "Blank External SD card" -- Why? OS: Android 2.2

Device: Samsung Galaxy S

All of a sudden my external SD card has stopped working.

Error Notification:

> Blank External SD card
>
>  SD card blank or has unsupported file system.

The last thing I did before this was to record some video, which was set to record to the external card, and then plugged it into USB.

I also installed USB drivers for the phone from Softpedia as Windows wasn't recognaising it by default. After installation the phone's memory showed up as a removable disk but the external card did not. Then after unplugging the device from the PC I had that error in the notification bar.

How do I recover my SD card? Do I need to format and therefore stand to lose the data on it?

I clicked format on the device, causing the SD card to show up again in Windows.

Format thankfully did not actually format it - in the sense that it didn't wipe the data. I only know this because I have installed the demo of ZAR, which has found image and video files to recover.

My options now are to either buy the full version of ZAR, on the assumption that if it recovered images and video the other data is intact, or to find an alternative program that's free.

Edit: I am currently running PhotoRec, which contrary to its name, has so far found mp3 files and a txt file to recover. I am hoping it's also able to read obscure or non existent file extensions, so that apps which had decided to locate themselves on the SD card can be recovered.


App continues to consume battery long after its closed I use tunein radio app in the morning.  After my use, I close it via exit button, and don't use it for rest of the day.

But hours after the use, I have observed it draining over 10% of my battery. I have tried options like force stop, and even reboot - but issue still persists. Notifications for this app are turned off. No other alarms / reminders set.

I'm on kitkat 4.4.4 / CyanogenMod 11s

Ending the application by "closing it" may kill the process, but it may have several services running. I'm on my phone, so I cannot add the references, but having multiple apps in memory isn't that bad- I don't think it really effects the life of your battery.

In this instance, if you think (or know) that a particular application is being a pain, I would suggest you first download the application "Watchdog". This gives detailed information about applications, and then let's you kill them when they become too consuming. Watchdog is very good for analysing the running services. If you do find your application is misbehaving, then you have a problem.

If Watchdog does not mark the application as misbehaving, then we may need to dig deeper. If possible, try to run tasker with an automated script to kill the services of this application, which should in turn kill all instances. Whether this is what you want, or is safe, is another question.

One thing to take into consideration is did the application consume so much when your phone was not rooted? Perhaps SU has removed the restrictions the application once had..


How do I install Google Pixel Launcher on HTC U Ultra? I used to be able to use the Google Now Launcher on my old HTC U Ultra device. Now I got a new device with Android 8.0.0 and here I cannot install the program anymore. How can I fix that?

Edit: I learned, that Google Now Launcher was replaced by Google Pixel Launcher which is not available on Play Store on this phone but can be downloaded from apkmirror.com.

Google Now Launcher was Google's first public launcher, and it was shipped on Nexus phones as well as millions of other devices, which was a simpler launcher for Android Ecosystem.
The Google Now Launcher is now listed as incompatible with almost every Android device in Play store.
Google announced retirement of Google Now launcher in Feb 2017.
The current default launcher by Google is Pixel Launcher, which released for Pixel devices.

You can download google now launcher from apkmirror website, and try to install it. The last build available is of Dec 6, 2017 [link].

Pixel launcher is available on Play Store, but not available for every devices(mostly for pixel devices). But, you can download Pixel Launcher from this link.

Download apk from apkmirror website which suits with your device's  android version, architecture, screen DPI. This FAQ link may help you to find right apk for your device from apkmirror website


How can I reinstall android 4.2 after having updated to 4.4? I just updated my nexus4 to kitkat 4.4. Play services seems to drain the
battery. Thus I would like to move back to 4.2. Is it possible? And how can
I do it?
Thank you.

Which version is your Nexus 4 running on?

4.4 (KRT16S) or 4.4.2 (KOT49H)

Check by going into Settings > About > Build Number

4.4.2 (KOT49H) is newer and fixes a lot of the bugs from 4.4 (KRT16S). You might try updating if you are running a lower version.

You can revert back to 4.2.2 (JDQ39) via:

factory reset
manual flash (stock image here)
a system backup image

As for the Google Play Services battery drain: AFAIK it is caused by Google Now always accessing your location reporter and also waking up the phone from time to time.

Known solutions:

disable the location reporter or prevent Google Now from accessing your location
turn off High Accuracy when location reporting (GPS) is not in use
simply turn Google Now off

One more thing to take into concern are the updates. Have you updated all the stock Google apps. If not, just leave your Nexus on wifi for a while to update all the Google goodies and then try using it for a while on KitKat. If you notice the battery drain again revert back to Jelly Bean or simply try applying a solution from above to see if it fixes the drain.


Flashed wrong ROM on tablet and stuck in blue screen with no recovery screen Device specs:

CPU: Allwinner A31S, Quad Core ARMv7 Processor (VFPv4, NEON)
GPU: PowerVR SGX 544MP
Motherboard: INGENIC-CROSS Q8S-v1.0 2013-04-22
Version of Android: 4.2.2
Build Number: fiber_q8s-eng 4.2.2 JDQ39 20130723 test-keys

Nothing is visible on the screen except for a blue screen. Please help.

Do a Google search for "A31S Q8S-1.0" and you get the following link to the Baidu file store where many Chinese ROMs are located.

(13) H8C-3G 全志A31S Q8S-V1.0.rar - 百度云网盘
http://pan.baidu.com/wap/link?uk=2471183759&shareid=3994280233&third=1

文件名:(13) H8C-3G 全志A31S Q8S-V1.0.rar 文件大小:323.08M 分享者:惠泽客服售后分享时间:2014-10-25 21:30 下载次数:4.

Cheers,

=ccflasher=


Restore to earlier time I recently got an Android update and don't like it AT ALL. I have a Samsung Galaxy S4. Is there a way I can uninstall the update?

Restore [Android] to earlier time?

As far as I know, you can restore to an earlier time (in case of Android update) only when you have a Nandroid backup, and it seems you don't have it so the answer would be no for you sadly.

Is there a way I can uninstall the update?

I don't think you can ever uninstall a system update (not that I ever heard yet) because it seems Android unlike Windows OS doesn't create a restore point, so you can't track where the updated files went into system, which overwrote the others and so on.
You can try a manual way by extracting the update and analyzing which files this update will overwrite or did so, then download previous Android version you had, match the files and copy them back into your phone, reset and see what happens. As it is obvious, you need root access or a  custom Recovery and there can be data loss or a soft-brick.
I also saw some threads on a forum (in case of OPO only) where folks used a previous OTA update to revert back to earlier system. E.g. If the system update pushed you from 4.3 to 4.4, or 4.4.2 to 4.4.4, or any minor update, then previous OTA (flashed via Recovery) kinda worked for them. Note that this is dangerous and I don't recommend it. A major update like 4.4 to 5.0 and reverting back to 4.4 via forced OTA could result in hard-brick.
What can you do?
You can ask your OEM (technical support) to flash the older Android release on your phone, or, you may get your hands dirty and do it yourself. (The latter may void warranty, check your OEM's policies towards flashing.) If you choose the latter than take a look at how do I search on this website, or head over to XDA, type your device name and see results.
It could be possible you can flash your system without voiding the warranty, if you download a ROM of previous Android release signed by OEM and flash it via Stock Recovery. Try it (take backup always).


Android camera "View details" Few days ago, I was taking a picture of a machine and the camera app showed a tooltip saying View details I tapped on it and a new screen appeared saying Product in the title and a list of numbers in it.

I have not managed to get that screen/tooltip again, but I am curious to know what it was, any idea? It is on a Honor 5C with Android 6.

Honor 5C Camera App used for scanning the QR code and obtain the contacts !! explains this as a smart way to add contacts without typing

Go to contacts

Click on the QR code of the contact

The QR code will be appearing on the screen

Open the Camera App in the Honor 5C phone

Click on the View details. Click on Create new contact and Click on Add to contacts

I don't have that device but this seems to be what you saw and introduced in EMUI 4.1