How to fix "Unable to connect to Samsung Pay temporarily"? I'm trying to setup Samsung Pay on a new Galaxy A8 2018 but I get this error message every time, even after re-installing Samsung Pay and resetting the phone as well as clearing Samsung Pays data.

Connection Error
Unable to connect to Samsung Pay temporarily. Try again later.

I've looked through the Samsung Account data and entered all I could.
The phone has "Magyar" as default region when I start it, could that be it?
I don't have any SIM card in it but when I try putting one in I still get the same error message.

Samsung Pay requires a SIM card to work, and it requires it on the first boot.

My solution was to put the SIM card in and then reset* the phone.

When it started with a SIM card in it, I saw "Samsung pay Sweden" pinned to the home screen (Swedish SIM card). It then worked flawlessly.

Why isn't this bug fixed yet one could ask, but there you have it.

Why didn't I have a SIM card in when I first booted it? I had to order a new micro SIM from my operator which took a week to get delivered.

* Reset it to factory defaults, wipe it clean. I guess you have everything in the cloud anyway.


CyanogenMod comes with inbuilt busybox? Does CyanogenMod 11 come with busybox pre-installed, or does it need to be installed separately?

yes cyanogenmod always provides a busybox installation.

The repo manifest file contains an entry as following:

<project path="external/busybox" name="CyanogenMod/android_external_busybox"/>

You can see it here: https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android_external_busybox


How to disable additional app permissions? Some apps have annoying permissions like installing shortcut on the homescreen (everytime u open it). How do I disable these permissions? (see picture)

You can try using NoAutoShortcut if your phone/tablet is rooted and Xposed framework installed. It is an Xposed module that prevent apps from creating shortcuts.


How can I save taken photos and recorded videos out of DCIM folder? How to save taken photos and recorded videos out of DCIM folder, in custom locations? Or, is it ever possible to DCIM separate photos and videos into different subfolders?

In my phone, a Sony Ericsson Live with Walkman, there's a folder 100ANDRO within DCIM storing all of videos and pictures together. I would like, for example, for videos to go to /sdcard/Videos, and photos to /sdcard/Pictures/Photos. I would like to at least save the videos somewhere else.

Applications such as SugarSync get confused and think everything in DCIM is a picture. Regardless, I want to know how the path is determined and ideas on how to achieve this, either by some hidden configuration or modification of source code.

The DCIM folder is mounted on a FAT filesystem, so symlinks are not supported. I have heard about using mount --bind /old/dir /new/dir, so is it possible to do this without rooting and on system initialization? That would allow me to a least make DCIM point somewhere else, or make other folders like Pictures and Videos point to DCIM. Thanks in advance!

You say "Tasker doesn't seem a solution".
If you already have Tasker installed you can do the following:

Create a task with 6 actions that puts the names of the files in the camera folder into an array, then loops through the array moving files one by one depending on the filename extention. Note, in the IF statements, ~ means Matches, and !~ means Doesn't Match.

(Your directory may look different to mine)

List Files

Dir: external-sd/DCIM/Camera Variable: %Myfiles
Variable Set

Name %ArrayIndex To 0
Variable Add

Name %ArrayIndex  Value: 1
Move

From %Myfiles(%ArrayIndex)  To external-sd/Pics

IF %Myfiles(%ArrayIndex) ~ *.jpg
Move

From %Myfiles(%ArrayIndex)  To external-sd/Vids

IF %Myfiles(%ArrayIndex) ~ *.mp4
Goto

Type Action Number Number 3

If %ArrayIndex !~ %Myfiles(#)

Now you can launch this task with a shortcut on your homescreen, or you can make it fully automatic by having Tasker run this task whenever the Camera app closes.

To do this create a Context -Application-Camera, and link it to the above task. Then long-click on the task and select "Move to Exit"


ERD and flowchart editors I'm looking for a ERD (entity relationship diagram) editor for tablets and also a flowchart diagram... Haven't found any till now...

Does anybody knows some good app for that?

Don't know about ERD -- but there some (flowchart) diagram editors around:

AndyUML can create and share simple UML diagrams. It's not "drawing", you rather "write the code", like with Graphviz
Dianoid can Create diagrams, uml-like flowcharts, mind-maps and sketches quickly and easily.
DroidDia describes itself as similar as Microsoft Visio, but for Android tablets and phones.
Smart Diagram says: Usage: Flow Chart, Tree Diagram, Mind Map, etc

There might be some more -- but this should get you started.

Some screenshots: Dianoid (left), AndyUML (right).


How to get to notifications in settings? The title sounds misleading... There exists a shortcut under the settings shortcut widget that points to notifications. In this I can see all the notifications that my phone had (even after clearing it in the pulldown notification tray).

I have 2 questions: a) where is it actually located in the settings (I have been looking for it for a while) b) how do I clear this...there seems to be no option (do I reboot?)

Here are the screenshots that may help clarify:

There's no way to get at this activity other than through a settings shortcut. The code for it can be found here on Github, and if you search the repository for the NotificationStation class you'll find all the entry points for it: in this case, only the shortcut intent filter in the manifest. If you examine the code you'll also see there's no way to remove old notifications from the list: as you can see in the screenshot, the greyed-out notifications are those you've dismissed from the 'normal' notification tray.

However, this class is mainly intended as a demo. Android 4.3 adds support for any application (with the appropriate permission) to access and display the list of notifications. For example, a third-party launcher might want to show them, an app might want to show all notifications in a pop-up window iOS-style, a live wallpaper or daydream could respond to them graphically, or a utility might analyse your phone use from the notifications (something like Tasker could trigger actions based on notifications appearing or being dismissed).

Because this is a new feature, and 4.3 isn't on many devices yet, it'll be a while before third-party developers invest the time needed to offer these features, but you won't have to wait long.


System control take over by whatsapp media playback or a call For some reason, as I activate media playback in WhatsApp or hold a call there, mobile phone controls are deactivated and the screen is blacked out until the playback, or the call ends.

This is a very unpleasant behaviour, how to deal with it? This happens also with a full charge; first I thought this would be some energy saving trick but it seems not.

It is not even possible to regulate the audio volume during that.

On video playback this does not happen.
I do not touch the proximity sensor on audio playback.

Device: Sony E6653. Androis OS 7.1.1, Kernel 3.10.84, build number 32.3.A.1.54

The problem you are describing, is a result of a faulty proximity sensor.

What's supposed to happen is, when you listen to voice note or make a call, the screen will stay on, but as soon as you put the phone to your ear, the screen turns off. When the sensor is broken, it thinks that the phone is always by your ear.

One way to get around this, is by using an app called macrodroid.

You can set it in a way, that when the proximity sensor is activated while in WhatsApp, the screen will stay on.

Here are the few simple steps to set this up:

Open macrodroid  → add makro  → sensors  → proximity sensor  → near  → ok. Now press on proximity sensor and add each of the options separately.
Press on actions on the top of the screen  → screen  → screen on/off  → screen on (alternative)  → ok
Constraints  → device state  → application running  → running in foreground  → ok  → WhatsApp  → ok.  ↠ application running  → alive in background  → WhatsApp  → ok.
Now press on the check mark on the bottom, and give a name to this action.
From the main page of the app, press in macros, and after pressing on the one you just made, near constraints, press on and and change it to or. You should see the exact settings as I have below:

Now test this out. Go into WhatsApp and make a call. The screen will stay in during the call.

Note:

The screen will stay an as long as WhatsApp is running, and it will disregard the set sleep time. It will also stay on while not in WhatsApp, as long as WhatsApp is running in the background. If that happens, you can go into your recent apps, and swipe WhatsApp away.
I tested this in s galaxy s5. No guarantee that it works across all phones.


On OnePlus One w CyanogenMod, how do I get better camera performance? How do I get better camera performance from the OnePlus One w Cyanogenmod?

Problems:

pictures out of focus / blurry
poor low-light shots
flash over-exposure
camera app doesn't have as many features as samsung s5
no HDR mode

1) Set image quality to 95% instead of 100%. Trust me, it helps

2) Set focus from auto to continuous (this also removes the line people get while recording videos). Leaving the focus mode on tap to focus is a great idea. It lets you pick and quickly set your focal point. Unfortunately, IF YOU DO NOT TAP THE SCREEN, SHOTS WILL BE OUT OF FOCUS.

3) Try a different camera app like Google Camera, Camera fv5, OpenCamera, Camera-Next

4) Change exposure mode from center weighted to frame average keeps the whole shot in mind when choosing exposure. Center weighted and the even more extreme spot metering are for focusing on the center of the photo.

Other more involved pain in the a** Options include:

the best fix is to root your phone and install a custom ROM.
Some suggested Roms are paranoid android, liquidsmooth and mahdi ROM.
For more information on how to do this, please refer to my thread on how to get cm updates (link in signature)
Try using manual focus and mess around with the iso settings to get better images

See more tips and a camera app comparisons @ https://forums.oneplus.net/threads/full-oneplus-one-camera-guide-including-third-party-apps.278496/


When should I start charging my Lithium battery? The comments in this question say that I shouldn't wait until low battery charge level before I charge, because that reduces battery life (this is contrary to my understanding before that the faster we charge (without waiting for battery to discharge) the worse it will be for battery life). My question is, when I should generally start charging to avoid this effect? 20%?

Interesting question: If we always limit the usage of the battery only 20% and above, won't we, in effect, reduces our battery capacity to 80%, because we will only use the battery in 20%-100% state?

As soon and as often as you can. Spending time at any extreme of charge (high or low) can damage lithium batteries. High charge isn't that bad, considering how quickly modern devices will drain away from that state. Spending time at lower charge levels will damage the internal structure of the battery though.

Draining to "0" on the device won't actually immediately kill the battery though -- the battery protection circuitry will prevent it from going down to critical levels. But the more time you spend at lower charges, the more cumulative damage you do and the more time you take away from the lifespan of the battery. Do the best you can to avoid this, and you'll likely have a battery that still gives you 70-80% of it's life by the time the device is considered obsolete.


Is it safe to remove "Google app" from android system completely? I rooted my device and I removed some obvious bloat-ware, such as Cardio trainer (I bike to work, I definitely do not need that), some Google music, Google books, Google maps and many other Google XXX and Samsung XXX consumer applications.

Now, in second purge iteration, I'm looking at apps that are big but their purpose is not obviously blatant.

One of them is "Google app". The name isn't very informative. Does it manage my link between android and Google account? Or is it some search service? What is that app and what are the consequences of deleting it?

Sure you can iff the Google app has the "G" logo, it is just a search app. I am on a custom ROM, Cyanogen Mod 13 and it doesn't come with bloatwares or Google apps.


Questions about Link2SD and SD card partitioning I have a Samsung S3 mini, no support for SD cards so i had to root it, and install Link2SD, spent the last 3 days hacking my phone making it better.

But i have questions, in all the tutorials everywhere on the web, they say (I refer to this blog but there are many other blog posts and xda posts and youtube videos that say the same)

if you have stock rom, use ext 2? (isn't ext 4 supported?)
partition your SD card, the max for your apps is 2 GB (I have 8 GB,why can't I partition it like 6 GB for apps, and 2 GB Fat32 for music, OR all of it ext2 or 4 and add whatever to it?)
You install link2SD first time, it asks for root permission, it asks what partition type you're using (ext 2, ext 4, whatever) and it asks to reboot the device, that's fine. But when you install it second or third time, it only asks for root permission, it doesn't reboot the device nor what partition type you're using. Why? maybe I changed (and i did change many times) the partition type, it doesn't ask, so doesn't detect it.
Once linked, what is the location of the apps? (data/app is empty, though i haven't move everything)

Sorry for asking too many question at once, but link2sd is not a big deal, it doesn't deserve asking many questions about it so i tried to put everything in 1 question

yes, stock rom does not support other file systems but EXT2 for the second partition. So create an EXT2 partition.

the location of the apps, once linked with link2sd will be from the root of the sytem:
\ (which is root)
sd-ext
and there you will find some directories or app-files, depending on your link2sd settings.

About the question for mounting / rebooting: I cannot answer that because I do not know.

about the size of thee partition: when you connect your phone to your computer, and have minitool partition wizard installed, you should be able to create the partitions like you want it and with the size you want.

But to be honest: 6gb for apps is an awfully lot... I think the tutorial just points out that you probably never will exceed the 2 gb that is mentioned and you can use the other 6gb for normal storage (which also can be read by windows when you connect your phone to your computer)

I hope I answered your questions...


turn off pitch correction in VLC when speed is changed Is it possible to turn off pitch correction in VLC?  I cannot find instructions on this anywhere.

For VLC for Android, v. 1.7.5, the required setting is in the "Extra Settings" section under the "Performance" menu and is called "Time-Stretching Audio".


Force closing of apps automatically On my Android phone, many applications that I open closes right away, returning me to home screen.

Every time I open the application, it force closes.

Now, just recently, the browser is beginning to close, but not immediately like the apps.

I have uninstalled and re-installed apps, done virus scans, and even factory reset. Nothing has helped.

First of all

Remove the SD Card/ Make a Factory Reset (Reset Internal Storage)
Try Installing the applications, if it ok, then scan the SD card and use.

Secondly,

Try re-install the OS
Flash with your stock firmware.

It will solve the issue.


Can android devices be controlled/tracked (including on/off control) by IMEI? Phone lost having sensitive data that cannot be deleted, The owner(my cousin) has gotten mentally unstable. Tried every possible solution to track it like google's find my device. I also tried to track it by the service-provider/carrier number but couldn't achieve any result so the SIM card has been blocked/disabled. Lastly I reported to the proper authorities to track down the device but strictly advised not to erase the data. They asked for IMEI-number of device which i provided to them on spot. No response whatsoever has been recieved that could even provide a grain of hope for recovery. My cousin is considering sucide but only me being a trustworthy person for him have been controlling him by giving him lies and false hope. The device has not been connected to the internet or even turned on since lost so that it could be tracked down (info by google's find my phone app). The authorities told that it can only be controlled or tracked by its IMEI-number. IS IT POSSIBLE
My email-id is/was also activated on that device. Proper documents and all original accessories along with box and IMEI sticker can be shown for proving ownership of the device
Device: LG-Q60

YES Any phone could be tracked and localized using its  IMEI  but to successfully do it the stolen phone should be online by:

Internet connection
Sim card inserted

But if the guy who got your cousin's phone could change phone's IMEI(and for sure phone identity) : Sorry to tell you that the phone is gone forever.
The best solution of all times: daily cloud sync.


Android 5.1 update stuck on "Waiting to download..." My Nexus 5 prompted me to update my Android to 5.1. When I clicked download, the process is stuck on "Waiting to download..." and there after nothing happened. I waited for almost 10 minutes, and then restarted my phone yet again it stuck on same phase "Waiting to download..."

Edit: It took more than 15 minutes to initiate the download. So please wait patiently :D

(I am leaving the question open so that other users can share their answer on what they did to overcome this issue.)

It does take a long time to download. Make sure you are connected to wifi if possible and have your phone plugged in to your charger. I was able to schedule mine to happen overnight.


screen not working properly on my tablet I have a brand new 10.1 inch tablet, made in china. The screen doesn't respond to touch as much as it should, a few other little things and I can't work out some of the onscreen operating icon/button things. The resellers suggested I start with Android Central Forums, as this is the only Android devise they sell so they don't know the answers. I joined up with A.C.Forums, but can't work out how to post. Help and/or advice would be very much appreciated. Thanks

There's an easy way to check if the tablet has a faulty touchscreen. Go into Google Play and install a painting app. There are many free painting apps to choose from: just pick a simple one. Run the app and try to paint the whole screen. If the painting doesn't follow your finger, or any parts of the screen can't be painted, you can see the screen is faulty, and you should return it to the seller for a refund or exchange. Faulty touchscreens are quite common on cheap Chinese imports because they use cheaper components and don't test them thoroughly.

The other possibility is that, being a cheap tablet, it has an old-fashioned resistive touchscreen instead of a proper capacitive one. You can tell by using a pointy plastic stylus (such as the handle end of a toothbrush, or the non-writing end of a ballpoint pen) to click on something on the screen. If that works, it's a resistive screen, not a capacitive one.

You'll find any swipe gestures a lot harder to perform on a resistive screen, and multi-touch gestures like pinch-to-zoom are not possible at all. You'll find a resistive touchscreen is a lot more responsive to being pressed with your fingernail instead of the flat 'pad' of your finger.


Stop audio player from restarting music after a phone call Whenever I receive a phone while listening music (with earplugs), I disconnect the earplugs and take the phone through the normal speakers.

The music is paused during the phone call, no problem there, but when I hang up, the music starts again, even without the earplugs. Which is kind of annoying at work, in an open space.

Is there a way to force the music to stay paused after the phone call?

I'm using the Music Mod app on an Froyo-powered HTC Legend, but I believe it has happened to me with every music player I've tried.

You could use the Autostarts app to edit the end-phone-call event and remove your music app from the list of apps that get alerted on that event.  I believe it requires root.


Can I install additional languages on Android? Possible Duplicate:
  How do I add a new language?

I bought my HTC Sensation abroad, and I can only choose system languages from the Asian region (English for different regions, as well as Chinese and Thai). I'd like to set the system language to Spanish, but it's not on the list.

Is there a way I can install additional languages to the system?

My phone is an HTC Sensation, recently upgraded to Android 4.0.5.

Just search on the Google Play store for "custom locale",
there are a couple of apps that will allow you to install a LOT of languages.

I tried many times on different devices and Android versions, sometimes some menus or apps do not change the language, but on average it's OK.

Example applications in Play store:

MoreLocale 2
Set Locale and Language

But there are many more...


Stuck on moving to SDcard I have Alcatel 5054D with Lollipop (5.1.1) on board. I tried to move some apps to SDcard by pressing "Move to SDcard". Some of these apps moved successfully and some stuck in "Moving" state. I tried to reinstall these stuck apps, but they still show "Moving" instead of "Move to SDcard/telephone". I do not understand if they still in the phone memory or on the card. Any suggestions?

Try clearing cache and reboot your phone.
If still the problem presist, try 3rd party apps available on playstore like link2sd,move2sd and more.


Need to force close the "Phone" (Dialer) app manually I have LG E612 (Jelly bean 4.1.2).

My problem is, my phone (dialer) app will not close automatically when I press "Back" from dialer to Home screen.

Phone app is still running in background, and I need to close it through a task killer.

Is this a normal behavior with all android phones? If not, is there any settings for this?

Thanks @RossC, for your comments.

Adding this as answer:

  Leave the memory management to the OS. It depends on the version
  (4.1.2 in your case), the OEM (LG) and the particular dialer app. As a
  rule, task killers degrade performance, and the app being in memory
  has no impact on your battery or performance. I'd say leave it be.


100% RAM Used.what to do? i have huawei g5000-5000 mobile whith 512 mb ram which has 479 mb free and a quad-core processor.offlate i have seen it has 0mb free ram and i am not able to do any work.whenever i open any app it automatically closes.
i dont have many app heavy game and no heavy app loaded on my phone.i jjst have whatsapp,ucbrowser,truecaller,etc which i think should not be a problem.
i have an unrooted phone.so please tell me what to do?

On android/Linux free RAM is wasted RAM. Most of the used RAM should be used for caching applications. Depending on the rest of your phone's hardware it may also have simply not enough RAM as I think a quad-core processor is often used together with other decent hardware.
If an app closes then your android system especially the LMK (low memory killer) misconfigured because it should kill other background processes to allow the foreground application to run. This may fail if only system applications are running which cannot be closed that easily. Then rebooting may be one option before rooting and changing internal settings.


Android application firewall - interactive prompt confirmation for connections I'm thinking of developing application, or probably extending AFWall+ app

What I'm missing on Android is possibility to confirm each connection from each application, simply blocking the application on some networks is already solved, but I want to have very specific control over what URLs/IPs the application is talking to.

I've made proposal https://github.com/ukanth/afwall/issues/269
Which is generally the same functionality as provided on OS X from Little Snitch application firewall. Possibility to create time-domain-port rules per application (unix uid/guid)

I'm thinking about using some kind of mashup of IPTables and possibly intercepting sock_create syscall. It will be open-source and free, if anybody wants to jump on the bandwagon, you're welcome.

So the question is, is there anything like this already done? Even paid applications.
I haven't really found anything like that, so I'd just like to be sure, before jumping into development of such large thing :-)

I'd certainly like to see something like this, the best I could find so far was XPrivacy (root required) which you can setup to restrict Internet connections. However unless you apply a global template (license purchase required for batch apply) this is per app. Though maybe you can manipulate the system Internet process, I haven't investigated upon that so far (it's an expert setting with a very RED background, I don't want to mess up my system too much...). Though I'd certainly love to restrict tethering such that a connected Windows Laptop won't waste my data quota for updates...


Bootloop after flashing TWRP (Also lost recovery) So I was going to root this (previsouly healthy) BQ A4.5. Unlocked the bootloader and flashed TWRP from here:

$ fastboot oem unlock
(bootloader) Start unlock flow

OKAY [ 32.954s]
Finished. Total time: 32.960s
$ fastboot flash recovery downloads/twrp-3.3.1-0-dendeone.img
target reported max download size of 134217728 bytes
Sending 'recovery' (11342 KB)...
OKAY [  0.378s]
Writing 'recovery'...
OKAY [  0.335s]
Finished. Total time: 0.727s
$ fastboot reboot bootloader
rebooting into bootloader
OKAY [  0.003s]
Finished. Total time: 0.058s
$ fastboot reboot
Rebooting...

Finished. Total time: 0.058s

The first reboot to bootloader didn't do anything.
Now it's on a bootloop which states:

Orange State
Your device has been unlocked and can't be trusted
Your device will boot in 5 seconds

Pressing Volume Up + PowerOn used to work for recovery (that's how I got into fastboot mode).
Now, pressing Volume Up/Down/Up+Down + PowerOn doesn't do anything, fastboot stands indefinitely < waiting for any device >, and adb always responds with error: no devices/emulators found regardless of when it's run.
If I press Volume Up+Down it turns off. Plugging in USB it turns on. Nothing else seems to respond.

dmesg states:

[32774.364937] usb 2-7: new high-speed USB device number 59 using xhci_hcd
[32774.514434] cdc_acm 2-7:1.0: Zero length descriptor references
[32774.514450] cdc_acm: probe of 2-7:1.0 failed with error -22
[32774.554519] cdc_acm 2-7:1.1: ttyACM0: USB ACM device
[32777.142205] usb 2-7: USB disconnect, device number 59

The disconnect happens before the bq logo appears.

Trash bin time?

Same problem with my BQ M8...
Here is how I solved it:

-With the phone conected via USB, Launch CMD to run ADB and test as many times as needed that the PC and terminal can talk to each other with the command "adb devices". Eventually after several attempts, it will return the device and number. Posibly stating the work "recovery".

-Go into bootloader with the command "adb reboot bootloader". As before, try it as many times as needed util it works (that means you will have to re-Run the ADB, and un-plug, plug the phone).
-Once on Bootloader (you can verify because the phone screen is in "Fastboot..." state, you have to Launch in your PC the FLASH TOOLS (hpoe you know how to use it)
-In FlashTools select only BOOT and RECOVERY tickmarks, and leave the rest unmarked). Then Press on the DOWNLOAD green arrow
-Now back in ADB window, use the command "fastboot reboot". This will re-start the phone, and FlashTolls will immediately kick in, Flashing the BOOT and RECOVERY files back in your phone (it takes miliseconds).
-The phone will re-start and this time you will have all in STOCK (you´ll also have Bootloader Locked again).

Hope this will help you out.


Turn off served by Google feature in Chrome Whenever I visit a webpage in Chrome, the pages are being served by Google which is a plain version of the webpage.

Here is a picture describing the same.

Screenshot (click for larger variant)

How do I turn this feature off?

EDIT: On clicking the i button on the right of stackoverflow.com I get

"This page is generated by Google to use less data than the original page. This page and its links are all served by Google to make your browsing faster. This is an experimental feature."

I understand its meant for saving mobile data. But I mostly like visiting the original webpage and with this feature on, instead of saving data I end up going to the simplified page and then the original webpage costing me more data. I'd really like to turn this off.

EDIT : Not sure if it matters but I'm using android 5.0

EDIT : I can confirm that it's happening on wifi as well. Any update on how to solve this or any workarounds?

Update 14/8/15 : This is still happening on my device but it looks like this feature is not experimental anymore and Google provides documentation about what is going on.
Here's how the page looks now -

(Click image to enlarge)

Clicking on learn more takes me here. Unfortunately, the support page only describes how the website providers can turn this off. No information about how users can opt out of it.

When will a user see these transcoded pages?

  Users will see these pages only if Google has detected that they are
  on a slow network connection in a country in which we enable
  transcoding.

Source:  https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6211428#faq

This can be experienced in countries like Indonesia, India, etc. where the internet speed is considerably slow. Googlebot does this based on the network speed and then it "transcodes" the page with any images. But there is no way to turn this off in the Browser Settings. Only way a website can do this is by using the Cache-Control: no-transform header in the HTTP request.

  Opting out of transcoding If you do not want your pages to be transcoded, set the HTTP header "Cache-Control: no-transform" in your
  page response. If Googlebot sees this header, your page will not be
  transcoded.

  Please note that pages that opt-out of being transcoded will be
  labeled in search results to indicate to users that they may take
  longer to load and may use more data.

Will my pages be transcoded for users on faster networks?

  Pages will not be transcoded if the user is on a fast network.

So if you are on a faster network you won't experience this.


Is A-GPS information downloaded by the OS or by the individual apps? I use different apps that work with GPS on my device. One of the apps has a "download A-GPS information" button to quickly find satellites.

Does that mean that apps need to trigger the A-GPS download themselves? Or does the Android OS handle A-GPS download whenever GPS is turned on?

The OS manage the A-GPS information, but you can ask to force a new data download to update it.

Andorid do it automatically when A-GPS data expires.


How do I know when "adb backup" is finished? I have a non-rooted Verizon Samsung Galaxy Nexus, and I wanted to try the "adb backup" feature. Possibly in preparation for rooting, but that's not really relevant to the question.
I want to back up everything.
I used this command on a Windows 7 command line:

adb backup -apk -shared -all -f c:\mybackup.ab

My phone prompted me for my password, which I entered, and clicked the button to begin the backup.

I let it run for several minutes, and the cmd window returned to C: prompt.
On the phone, it was still flipping through filenames.

At some point, it stopped flipping through filenames but the back up selection buttons were still greyed out.
C:\mybackup.ab existed, and was about 1GB in size, which is significantly smaller than I thought it should be, especially since I said to back up the apk files and the whole "shared" space (/mnt/sdcard).

What should I see (on the PC and on the phone) when the backup process completes?
How long should I wait, if I estimate I'm using about 10GB of the 32GB of space?

Edit: ... and/or is that the wrong set of command line arguments?

The adb backup command won't work fully on an unrooted device as it will attempt to backup things like the /system partition, and without root access the phone will deny you this for safety reasons. I'm glad to hear running it with the -nosystem flag worked out for you :)

If you want to do a complete backup you need to be rooted. The /system partition, according to this page:

  contains the entire operating system, other than the kernel and the ramdisk. This includes the Android user interface as well as all the system applications that come pre-installed on the device. Wiping this partition will remove Android from the device without rendering it unbootable, and you will still be able to put the phone into recovery or bootloader mode to install a new ROM.

This means that your backup does not include anything related to your operating system, only your apps and their settings. If you decide to root your device, you can create a very solid backup from CWM Recovery where all partitions are backed up to the sdcard on the device, including the system and boot partitions.


How to use my mac as a bluetooth headset? My phone and the mac is already paired. What do i need to do next? I can't seem to find anything on the internet. I think the correct term would be to tether the phone call. Pretty similar to this one, except I'm on a mac. And my phone is not rooted. Over at System Preferences, it says that the phone is already paired. I'm on Android 2.3.4.

I haven't found anything yet, but there are reports that this will allow you to use the mac as a bluetooth headset


Tasker: Notify before executing task I'm making a task to hot boot every 3 hours.

Currently, I have a profile set to this:

Trigger:
  Every 3 hour
  +
  Display off

Task:
  Hot Boot (I'm using 3rd-party plugin)

How do I create a profile if I want to be notified by Tasker whether to run the task or not if I'm using the phone (e.g. screen display is on)?

Thanks in advance.

A good resource on questions like this is the Tasker UserGuide (link goes to the "actions" page here). Quoting:

  Menu
  Show a selection dialog and perform a different action depending on which item the user selects.

Sounds like exactly matching your purpose, though I haven't tried it. You can even specify a default action, which then would be executed on timeout as well (i.e. when you didn't notice the menu "in time").

The Menu Element belongs to Tasker Scenes. Please refer to the UserGuide Index and check the "Scene" section for closer information, if needed.

You should be able to combine (or wrap) this with an IF statement in case you only want to be asked on a given condition like "Display On".


How do I know what radio firmware I'm running? I'm gearing up to mod my phone and reading the Cyanogenmod Installation Support Line which is helpful-ish right up until step 1.3, "1.3 Radio ...aka Which EBI am I?" They refer you to a post that makes almost no sense to me and which seems to be pretty damn important. I can't tell from it where I would look to see which EBI I am. In Recovery Flasher it shows my Phone Type as "EBI0/32B"

Looking at the wiki I find a whole page (I searched for "EBI0") I do see instructions for turning the phone off and holding down the back arrow while I power it back up. Here I see the following:

DREA100 PVT 32B
HBOOT-0.95.000
CPLD-4
RADIO-2.22.23.02

Sep 2 2008

I think this means I'm a 2x radio and thus can safely install DangerSPL. Am I on the right track here?

Yes, based on those posts you definitely have a 2.x radio that does not require the modified kernel.  Your radio version is also listed as supported on the DangerSPL page.  I think you're good to go, best of luck!


How do I change the name of my Android device? My Android device is the Nexus One.  But this should apply to all current Android devices.

How do I change the name of my Android device?

When I connect to my wireless router's client tables, my android devices is listed for example as: android_1234567890abedfc.  I'd like to give it a more readable name.

To change the hostname (device name) you have to use the terminal (as root):

For Eclair (2.1):
echo MYNAME > /proc/sys/kernel/hostname

For Froyo (2.2): (works also on most 2.3)
setprop net.hostname MYNAME

Then restart your wi-fi.
To see the change, type uname -a

some devices needs reboot for work!


where is a restricted user's home directory for Nexus 7 (2013 - JB 4.3) Background: I have a rooted Google Nexus 7 (2013 - FLO) tablet, which I love.  I have created 2 restricted user accounts for each of my kids.  They both love Minecraft, and with restricted user accounts, they each get their own home directory, where their Minecraft worlds are stored.  This is great for them, because they can't tamper with each other's worlds.  :)  Now that the phone is rooted, I would like to copy their worlds off old devices and into their account space or home directories.

Question:  Where is the home directory (or user account storage space) for restricted accounts on the new Google Nexus 7 (2013), which is running JellyBean 4.3?

They are stored in

/mnt/shell/emulated/

I've just created a restricted profile and it created a new folder in there with the name "10", the main admin users folder is "0". You should be able to copy the files into the relevant place within these folders to get mine craft to pick them up.

(This was done on the 2012 Nexus 7 but I don't think it will be any different)


How to make an unrooted phone use or detect ad-hoc Wi-Fi? I have an unrooted Android 2.3.6 phone and I want it to connect to the ad-hoc connection made on my Ubuntu.
I referred to some already existing questions here but none seem to be the solutions for unrooted phones.
How do I do this?

This is unfortunately not something you can do without root. I found a fully fleshed out discussion about solutions and alternative options on Stack Overflow.
User Andy notes:

[T]his is currently not natively supported in Android, although Google has been saying it will be coming ever since Android was officially launched.
While not natively supported, the hardware on every android device released to date do support it. It is just disabled in software, and you would need to enable it in order to use these features.
It is however, fairly easy to do this, but you need to be root, and the specifics may be slightly different between different devices. Your best source for more informationa about this, would be XDA developers: https://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=564. Most of the existing solutions are based on replacing wpa_supplicant, and is the method I would recommend if possible on your device. For more details, see http://szym.net/2010/12/adhoc-wifi-in-android/.

User Silveri also notes that there are other options:

[I]f you just want to share your laptop's internet connection via Wi-fi using any means necessary, then you have at least two more options:

Use your laptop as a router to create a wifi hotspot using Virtual Router or Connectify. A nice set of instructions can be found here.
Use the Wi-fi Direct protocol which creates a direct connection between any devices that support it, although with Android devices support is limited* and with Windows the feature seems likely to be Windows 8 only.

*Some phones with Android 2.3 have proprietary OS extensions that enable Wi-fi Direct (mostly newer Samsung phones), but Android 4 should fully support this (source).


Mobile Lost and some one else is using the mobile with a different sim I need help to track the person who has my mobile.

My account(email) is still linked with google play on that mobile.
I can install apps from my browser from google play account.

Is there any app that I can install from google play and find the location/sim number from my browser.

Or

Erase SD memory card from browse.

You could try using the Android Device Manager if your phone is linked to your Google account. It can track down your phone but you may not be able to erase the contents due to you need to allow that beforehand.


Apps whitelisted in AFWall+ without my knowledge I've installed a firewall (AFWall+) on my phone, and I've manually whitelisted every app I wanted to allow accessing the Internet, including system apps. So everything is blocked by default, and I add apps to the whitelist as necessary until what I need works and nothing beyond that.

I've just discovered some apps in the whitelist that I never whitelisted myself and don't even remember ever seeing before to be honest. These are:

"Intent Filter Verification Service"
"Market Feedback Agent"
"Print Service Recommendation Service"
"Google Partner Set Up"

From what I can see, these are from Google, although I'm not clear on what they do (except the Feedback Agent).

How could this happen?

System details:

Device: Samsung Galaxy S5 Duos (SM-G900FD)
OS: LineageOS 14.1
Android version: 7.1.2
The phone is rooted with SuperSU.

Guess you didn't read this explanation by developer regarding system apps. You need to consciously blacklist them if you want, by default they are white listed.

Google Partner Setup

  No one seems to know what this does and what data it transmits/receives
  Rec: Block

Market Feedback agent

  If blocked, cannot use Google to submit feedback to app developers when apps crashes.
  Rec: Block if not using the Google Play store, otherwise allow for all connection types except LAN

Other two are not covered in this list so you could ask developer on his XDA thread. If you aren't using Print services, it should be safe to disable IMO


Is it possible to change the password for a WiFi network when it is not in range? Long-pressing on a WiFi network that is in range brings up a menu that includes "Modify network", which can be used to change the password for the network. Networks that are not in range do not show up on this screen.

Under "Saved networks", long-pressing is the same a simple press. This brings only the options "Forget" and "Done".

Is it possible to modify the password for a WiFi network that is not in range? Must it appear under current WiFi networks?

I am trying to do this on both unrooted Android 5.1 and 6.0 devices.

You can delete it ('Forget') and create it new again, here you can define the password. Write down the SSID (Routers name) and encryption way (e.g. WPA) before you delete it ;)

Without root you cannot view or edit the /data/misc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf file (this is the path on Android CM13), where the network configs are saved. That means ssid, passwords (psk) etc.


Not able to select entire image for wallpaper When I put the wallpaper in /dcim/Camera and go to change the wallpaper and choose Media gallery and I select the wallpaper I want, it asks me to choose only a small region of the image. What do I need to do to use the entire image?

If i remember correctly, you can drag the frame to the full size of the image, so that the whole picture will be selected as background.


How to get the screen overlay to deactivate on an lgg stylo I would like to deactivate this overlay over the apps so i can better use my phone apps. Please give detailed instructions on how to disable

When the popup appears which says "Screen overlay detected" just push the "Open settings" button and there disable all apps overlay permission.

If you don't get that popup follow theese steps:

Open Settings (nut/gear icon).
Scroll down to Apps.
From within the Apps portion of settings, again choose the settings nut/gear icon.
Choose Draw over other apps.
(Optional) Click on the additional menu (3 dots), then choose Show system to get at all of the apps that are asking to draw over others, including system apps like Phone Services.

After this you shouldn't experience any issue with overlays.


Whatsapp: Export chat with media does not work properly Whatsapp 2.20.108 on Android 9

I try to export a chat with media. I export it either to gmail or gdrive. (please note the difference: You can backup and export to gdrive. I'm interested in the export functionality)

For some chats, it works; but for other chats, only a few media are exported instead of all. Also the chat messages are not always exported properly. For example, for one chat, only messages after June 2018 are exported, but not the older ones.

What's going on here? Can this be changed?
I want to save all the chat text and all pictures, videos, audio, documents.

tl:dr; It's a WhatsApp limitation and there seems be to no workaround.

Whatsapp export by mail has limitations. WhatsApp FAQ says

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

When exporting with media, you can send up to 10,000 latest messages. Without media, you can send 40,000 messages. These constraints are due to maximum email sizes.

This blog adds more details

A maximum of the last 10.000 messages are sent. However, if you have some videos or images, the number of exported messages might be much smaller.
WhatsApp will start creating a “package” with the latest Media files and text. It will put the last media files and messages first and then will stop when approximately 18 Mb of data have been packaged.

If you have some videos in your chat, this could mean that you have two or three videos, some pictures and only one week of chat.

If you have basically many pictures, you will be able to export about 50 to 75 pictures and a few months of chat.

In case that you do not have many media files, you will be able to export a maximum of 10.000 messages with this system

I couldn't find any such limitations for export to Google drive in whatsapp FAQ or on my search on the net but going by this issue on Google support and fair number of people who up voted this complaint, it seems to be common. As you can see, Google has washed their hands off and pointed to WhatsApp. You may like to  raise this issue with WhatsApp
and post your findings here to cover the Google Drive portion


How to hide hotspot icon in the drop down after lock Sir , I use android marshmallow and My brother always enables the hotspot also after I lock the Phone with Password
Because "hotspot setting is shown in drop down menu "  I wanted to ask how to remove it ?
From dropdown menu after lock?

For Android Marshmallow devices, you need to activate SystemUI Tuner which is hidden by default.
To enable the SystemUI Tuner:

Swipe down the notification shade from top. Long-press the Settings(gear) icon.
After about few seconds of holding, it spins and release when it displays a message saying Congrats! System UI Tuner has been added to Settings.
To access it, go to Settings->System UI Tuner(scroll down to the bottom of the screen). Tap it.
On the System UI Tuner device shows a warning message. Tap Got It to continue.
Tap Quick Settings option to customize your tiles.

a. Press and drag to rearrange

b. Drag to the trash can to remove tiles you don’t want to see.

c. Click "Add Tile" button to add any unused tiles you want to include.

d. If you want to go back to the default layout, tap the menu button and choose “Reset”.

Note:

Choose option 5b to Remove the Hotspot tile. After that, you can activate Hotspot only from Settings App, because, icon is no longer displayed under notification shade, until you add hotspot tile using add tile option.


Why does my Nexus S not see the Jelly Bean update? My Nexus S is running the stock "soju" build of ICS from Google (build IMM76D). However, I have not seen the OTA update for Jelly Bean. Am I running the wrong version? Do I need to change some settings? Or should I expect the device to see the update soon?

You can try forcing your device to ask for a free download slot:

Settings > Apps > All
Find Google Service Framework in the list, tap on it
First tap Clear Data, then Force Stop

After this procedure the last checked date under Settings > About Phone > System Update should have been reset to 1970 or so. Tap the Check now button there and see if the update notification pops up now.

If this fails even after multiple tries, you can follow a slightly longer procedure described in this post, which involves taking out the SIM card.

Apart from that, you could just wait (you'll definitely get the update with your current config) or flash it manually.


How do I activate voice dial outside the U.S.? I just bought a Xperia PLAY running Android 2.3.3, and seems like the only way to use voice dial is through the Google Search app, which is capable of voice dialing, voice texting, etc., at least according to the YouTube demo. However, it looks like those services are only available in the U.S., according to the comments.

Poking around the services running in my phone, there's a "Voice Dial" app running (the icon is something like a phone mic), but it doesn't show in my installed apps and I don't know how to activate it... any ideas?

Here's an image of the Voice Dialer app icon.

Try long-pressing the Search button.  It should be tied to Voice Search by default.  Then say "dial xxx", where "xxx" is either a phone number (with the area code) or name of a contact from your phonebook.

Here are all the voice actions you can perform with the Voice Search app: http://www.google.com/mobile/voice-actions/

Note:
According to Google's last blog post on the subject, voice actions via this app only work in English language.  You might need to change your phone's locale to "US" or "UK" in order to get this to work.


Internal storage to SD card issues I have an Alcatel-4060A mobile and the internal storage is forever full. I only have two games and maybe 4 pics downloaded. Since I buy an 8 GB sd card. It only lets me download 4 apps on sd . Also says I'VE still got 7.28GB free on sd card. Won't let me download anymore apps. Please Help!

From the settings you will have to go to storage settings and then you will have to enable the sd card storage which would probably allow you to install all the apps and other downloads easily on sd card nd I would also prefer to buy an card with larger space in it.


What is the point of having KNOX? I'm about to use Odin to root my S4 running 5.0.1, but I'd just like to know, what is the point of KNOX and is it really important? I know it's not just the software I'm not authorized to use, and it'll set my KNOX warranty flag to 0x1 and burn the e-fuse, but I'd just like to reassure myself that I'm not missing out on something here.

Samsung knox is, beside some device hardening, a container or dual persona solution for Android. Think of the knox container as a second completely independent instance of Android running on your phone with own apps, data and settings. It is mostly used by companies to implement bring-your-own-device solutions. However, you can also use it as a private user, but I am not really aware of any great use case for this... so you need to decide whether you want to use the container. I guess the most users can safely ignore it.


Huawei P8 lite does not ask for user name password for connecting to WI-FI I have a Huawei P8 lite with Android 5.0.1. My phone is having an issue when connecting to Wi-Fi. But only for my office wifi. For other wifi networks, it gets connected with out any issue.

One thing I noticed is the difference of the Security method. For my office network, it is 802.1 x EAP. But for other wifi networks to which I have connected my phone, the security method(protocol, not sure about the term though) is some thing else, as I remember it was WASP.

Others with some other phones in my office can connect to the wifi network. There are some other Huawei users as well, but with Android KitKat, they can connect their phones to the network with out any issue.

Why Cannot I connect to the WiFi network? How can I overcome the issue?

It won't prompt you, it must be setup manually in Android devices using Settings-WiFi and Add network, then enter the information manually. Enter the SSID manually, then change Security to 802.1x EAP, set EAP method to match your network (probably PEAP, ask your IT dept if unsure), then if 2 Phase authentication or CA certificate is required enter that information (otherwise leave blank), under Identity enter your username typically 'Domain\User' and the Password.

If that doesn't work, you will likely need to contact your IT department for more guidance.


Vibrator not working after upgrading to ICS - Samsung Galaxy S2 I have upgraded to the latest official version available through Kies. And I have noticed that after the update the vibrator of the phone is not working. Actually its working but not in Silent mode on receiving a call. When we switch to vibrating mode or at the boot-up the phone, the vibrator vibrates. So the vibrator is functional.

I have searched a lot and I could not find any valid solutions.

Go to Settings -> Sound and make sure Silent mode is set to Vibrate, then in RINGTONE & NOTIFICATIONS section, check the option Vibrate on ring, then call yourself and it should vibrate.


Booting into ClockworkMod I have a Samsung S2 which has been rooted for some time with many application using root Rom Manager shows CWM 2 installed however it always boots to 3e. I would like to update to lollipop but with the multikey shortcut always going to 3e I want. How can I change the rom to boot to CWM2

You can simply boot into recovery using  Reboot Recovery app.


Difference between 'Administrator' and root privileges There is an app called smart app lock. It has an option to prevent uninstalling of the app. Ticking it gives confirmation to add app to system administrators.

Root was not required to make it work. What privileges does this 'Administrator' get? I know that root has more privileges as I could uninstall it with root privileges, but what is the difference between the privileges of admin and those of root?

Device Administrators are apps which the user grants certain privileges. For example:

Password policies (minimum length, expiration time, etc.)
Lock screen (say, after a given time)
Require storage encryption
Remotely wipe the device
Disable camera

And some other options, including the possibility to prevent uninstalling of the app.

So the difference is that with root you gain the possibility to modify the system at all levels, instead with administrator you can gain control over a limited set of options - which are of course available to root.

Another difference is that administrator permissions are built-in in stock Android and available to apps developer through the dedicated API.
You can see which permissions are granted to which apps and revoke them by going to Settings -> Security -> Device administrators.


Wifi using power even if it off I am using Lenovo P2 having Android 7.0. It having 5100 mah battery. In the battery usage I noticed that the wifi using power even if it turns off. I did a factory reset. But still have the same problem.

I have attached a screenshot after did the below procedures.
1) Turn off wifi
2) Fully charge the phone
3) Restart the phone just after unplug
4) Use the phone more than one day without turn on the wifi. Only use the mobile data.

Configure as shown . These are for Marshmallow and may differ on your device

Settings → Google → Services → Location → 3-dot menu → Scanning → Wi-Fi scanning → Disable

(As confirmed by OP on Nougat Settings  → Location → Scanning → Wi-Fi scanning → Disable )

Settings → Wi-Fi → 3-dot menu → Advanced → Keep Wi-Fi on during sleep → Never
Settings → Wi-Fi → 3-dot menu → Advanced → Network notification → Disable

This should fix the problem in all likelihood


Headphone Volume buttons do not work I have the V-Moda Crossfade LP headphones, which have convenient volume buttons. They work great on my iPhone, but on my Nexus 7 they seem to have no effect. They even work on Windows XP, 7, and Mac. How can I make them work on Android too?

Short answer

Unfortunately, the answer is that you can't make it work. (at least, not without modding your Nexus 7)

Long answer

As jeff says in his comment:

  I can confirm unlike some other android devices I have used standard volume control headphones that work with iPhones and many other mobile devices, including android do not work on the Nexus 7. This is a hardware issue as far as I can tell

According to the Crossfade LP product page, the volume controls are only for apple devices:

  Universal Compatibility and Microphone Communication
  LP comes with 2 cables for universal compatibility with all modern mobile and audio devices. The 3-Button remote microphone cable is designed for the latest Apple devices, including iPhone®,iPad®, iPod®, and Macbook series. The long audio-only cable and 1/4" adapter is universally compatible with all audio devices and professional equipment. (Emphasis mine)

In order to understand how these headphone volume controls work, I asked about this over on Electrical Engineering stack exchange, and it appears that this relies on the switches presenting a fixed resistance between the ground and the microphone input. Thus this technique requires (at a minimum) a 4 pole (TRRS) jack, rather than a standard 3 pole (TRS) jack as is used in the Nexus 7.

Note while that the Asus Nexus 7 spec suggests that it has a Headset Jack (i.e. headphone and microphone), Google have confirmed to at least one person that this is incorrect, and the Nexus 7 only has a headphone jack.

As such, the volume controls are not intended to work with ordinary headphone sockets such as the one on the Nexus 7.

I'm not sure how you got it to work with Windows XP/7 unless the headphone socket on your windows machine was also a headset jack and also supported this volume control technology (or you are running them virtualised on a Macbook, in which case OS-X will be taking care of it for you).


Why isn't there a Cyanogenmod stable ROM for my device? Why don't the developers develop a stable ROM for my device? They have stable ROMs for similarly-named devices from the same manufacturer, even ones that came out after my phone. If the devices are similar, and there's already a stable ROM for one, why is it so hard to make a stable ROM for mine too?

Two devices with similar names, like the Sony Xperia Z and the Sony Xperia Z1, don't necessarily have the same kind of hardware. Sometimes there are even devices sold under one model name, such as the Samsung Galaxy SII, where the variants available in different countries have completely different systems-on-ship (SoCs) and other different hardware.

Devices with different hardware need different drivers &c. and a lot of system integration work that can't be shared between the two. Testing an unstable release to find the problems with it is very time-intensive, and of course can only be done on the exact hardware being targeted.

Since Cyanogenmod is made by enthusiast developers, rather than by people who are paid to do it, support depends on having an interested community of people with the system integration knowledge needed, and enough such people having that particular phone to run and test the ROM images.

It may be that there's not much more work required to support your device, but the people who might be able to do that don't happen to have one. Or it may be that none of the porters who have your device have enough free time right now to dedicate to testing and fixing ROMs. Lots of volunteer projects like this are stopped when members have children or start new jobs.

Even if you don't have the necessary knowledge, there are other ways you can help get your device supported. You might be able to help by contributing some money to support the developers, devices so that more enthusiasts can spend time working on it, or by testing and reporting bugs to make the process faster. If you ask the Cyanogenmod community how you can get involved and what would help, I'm sure they'd respond positively to that.


How to identify the latest version of brut map I use Brut maps as:

  This map is for the country that cant use navigation on google map. It has been hacked and can be used by any country now.

I am currently using version 6.0.3 from here.

Do you know if there is a place to find out about the latest release? I'm not sure if the version I'm using is the latest one.

It looks like the author tries to keep the version of his app in sync with the version of the actual Google Maps app.  As of this writing, the official Google Maps app is version 6.1.0 which was released on January 10th 2012.  It usually takes the developer several days to adapt the changes.  The thread you linked seems to be active, so the newest version will most likely be posted there when it's ready.


Lookout security not working I successfully installed Lookout but when I try to open it it says "Unfortunately Lookout, has stopped. I tried reinstalling it. I can see it running in the notification bar e.g. it says it has finished scanning apps
What can I do to use it?

I contacted the makers and they said it's a known problem and they were working on it. The latest update fixed this.


How would I use Tasker to boot my PC when I get home? I have an Android phone running the Tasker app. I have a home computer running Windows 7 as well. Is there any way I can have Tasker detect that I've arrived at home, and send a "Wake On LAN" packet to the computer somehow? What configuration do I need to do on Tasker and on the PC itself to support this scenario?

You could check out this wake on LAN plugin for Tasker / Locale. (Haven't tried it - would be interested to hear how you get on if you give it a go)


How do I remove the 'Slot 1: No SIM card detected' notification? I'm using my phone as more of a tablet computer and less of a phone (I'm not using cellular radio, only wifi Internet), so I didn't put a SIM card in it.

The issue is - the notification that I don't have a SIM card in my phone always shows up in the notification bar:

I am already running the phone in airplane mode and then enabled wifi, but the issue persists. I also tried force stopping the 'Phone' app and it does remove the notifications, but it comes back after phone restart.

How do I disable or hide these notifications permanently?

The phone is a Lenovo A536. Android version is KitKat 4.4.2.

I've recently rooted my phone and installed NotifyClean (requires the Xposed Framework). I've set it to block the Mobile Data app's 'No SIM card detected' notification:

I've previously tried to fix this issue with Notifications Off but it stops working after a device restart.


How to manually root a phone? I want to learn how to root a android phone manually, I mean without any apps like KingRoot, dr.fone etc.
I did not found any guides or information about it.

(Background Information: I want to root a BlackBerry KeyOne, even if you say it does not work i want to learn and try it anyway)

Can you please help me?

I was looking at the web search results of “how to manually root Android devices” and I noticed that most of those are either just advertising stuff or makes use of dedicated (particularly closed source) rooting solutions. Those which worked some time ago are now obsolete since they depended on some security vulnerability in Android which was fixed over time.

In fact it's not impossible to root phone manually but it's not worth the hassle. However as a reference, let me describe an option. But before diving into the technical details, we need to understand what root is and how Android prevents root access. Details can be found here but a few points in short:

Mostly vendors ship their devices with locked bootloader, and a chain of trust is established during boot process, which won't let any modification be done to kernel (boot.img), recovery or the main OS. So the first step towards rooting is unlocked bootloader. Beware of the risks!
A part of the chain of trust is dm-verity (VB/AVB); a kernel based phenomenon which makes sure that partitions containing core OS (/system, /vendor, /odm) are always mounted read-only and any malicious attempt to modify them must fail. Modifying boot.img or recovery.img is usually accompanied by disabling dm-verity to avoid surprises like bootloops at later stages. TWRP's standard warning:

  This device uses dm-verity!
  This means that swiping to allow system modifications will prevent you from being able to boot if you are using the stock kernel.

Similarly some vendors particularly Samsung go beyond normal and build extra security features in their devices like Knox, RKP, Defex, proca, TIMA, FIPS, bla bla bla. So you might also need to circumvent those e.g. by building kernel with SECURITY_SELINUX_DEVELOP=y, patching kernel binary etc.
Android apps don't have capabilities to elevate their privileges by executing binaries which have setuid or file capabilities set (which is the standard way to get root access). So the only option is to run a background persistent process (daemon) with root privileges outside the apps (e.g. during boot process) and request it to do privileged tasks on behalf of unprivileged apps when needed.
Root (i.e. UID 0) is the old Discretionary Access Control (DAC), but Android also makes use of Mandatory Access Control (MAC) i.e. SELinux. A root process running with restricted SELinux context is quite helpless, so we have to break this barrier too. It requires modifying SELinux policy.

I'll address the last two points here, but first two considerations:

Android rooting solutions deploy a special su binary which - when executed by an app - makes a connection to privileged daemon and gets the app a root shell. So this su binary and daemon are specially developed for this purpose. A less sophisticated approach would be to run already available daemons like adbd, sshd or one of the old inetutils flavors (telnetd, rlogind, rshd, rexecd) with root privileges. When running in background, these servers can provide a root shell or execute commands with root privileges when connected by a client. For the sake of simplicity I'm using only a minimal network utility named netcat (nc) which is a busybox applet. But please note that apps can't get root access with this approach, it can only be used from commandline.
We are going to patch monolithic /sepolicy file and /init.rc file which are part of ramdisk in boot.img. But starting with Treble Android uses split policy which is loaded/compiled from /system/etc/selinux/ and /vendor/etc/selinux/. Starting with SAR, there's no ramdisk at all in boot.img and /init.rc is part of system.img. So in both cases you need to necessarily modify system partition. I'm not giving details on that here.

STEPS:

Extract boot.img e.g. using AIK or magiskboot on Android or PC.
Create a new SELinux context, say pseudo_su. Set it permissive so that to allow any possible interactions with other processes / files etc. Use Magisk's supolicy tool or sepolicy-inject (1, 2) on Android or PC:

~# supolicy --load sepolicy --save sepolicy 'create pseudo_su' 'permissive pseudo_su' 'dontaudit pseudo_su * * *' 'allow pseudo_su * * *' 'allow * pseudo_su * *'

Or to build split-policy using Android's compiler:

~# /system/bin/secilc -m -M true -G -N -c $(cat /sys/fs/selinux/policyvers) -o sepolicy /system/etc/selinux/plat_sepolicy.cil /system/etc/selinux/mapping/$(cat /vendor/etc/selinux/plat_sepolicy_vers.txt).cil $([ -f /vendor/etc/selinux/vendor_sepolicy.cil ] && echo /vendor/etc/selinux/vendor_sepolicy.cil /vendor/etc/selinux/plat_pub_versioned.cil || echo /vendor/etc/selinux/nonplat_sepolicy.cil)

* Get the value of POLICYDB_VERSION_MAX from your kernel source.

To use vendor's precompiled_sepolicy or build from split-policy and patch:

~# supolicy --load-split --save sepolicy 'create pseudo_su' 'permissive pseudo_su' 'dontaudit pseudo_su * * *' 'allow pseudo_su * * *' 'allow * pseudo_su * *'

Define an init service which starts a simple TCP server on boot, only listening to on-device connections:

# /init.rc
...
service pseudo_su /sbin/busybox nc -lk -s 127.0.0.1 -p 23 -e /sbin/busybox sh
    seclabel u:r:pseudo_su:s0
    disabled

on property:sys.boot_completed=1
    start pseudo_su

* Make sure you get the right busybox binary, there are multiple implementations of netcat.
* Use port 23 or any other unused port.
Copy updated sepolicy and init.rc to root of extracted ramdisk, busybox binary to [ramdisk/]sbin/ and set permissions.
Repack boot.img and flash or test with fastboot boot boot.img.

HOW TO RUN ROOT COMMANDS?

Once booted, we can pass commands from a netcat client on terminal emulator app (like Termux) or adb shell:

~$ echo id | /sbin/busybox nc localhost 23
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root) context=u:r:pseudo_su:s0

* Default SELinux policy doesn't allow apps traverse /sbin. So either inject allow rules or put busybox in /system/*bin/. Or use some other nc e.g. from Termux's netcat package.

For ease of use, create functions (put them in .bashrc so that you don't have to define every time):

# ~/.bashrc
...
function psu() { echo "$@ 2>&1" | /sbin/busybox nc localhost 23; }
function psush() { /sbin/busybox nc localhost 23; }

~$ ls -ld /data/adb
ls: cannot access '/data/adb': Permission denied
~$ psu ls -ld /data/adb
drwx------ 7 root root 3488 2019-07-19 00:44 /data/adb

To get root shell:

~$ psush
whoami
root
^C

But it's just a dumb shell, not connected to terminal. To have a more feature-rich experience, other tools like socat can be used which support line editing, pseudo-terminals etc.
Also environment variables aren't evaluated unless explicitly passed, because commands are executed remotely:

~$ /data/data/com.termux/files/usr/bin/ps -p $$,1 -o pid=,comm=
23599 bash
~$ psu /data/data/com.termux/files/usr/bin/ps -p $$,1 -o pid=,comm=
CANNOT LINK EXECUTABLE "/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/bin/ps": library "libprocps.so" not found
~$ psu LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib /data/data/com.termux/files/usr/bin/ps -p $$,1 -o pid=,comm=
    1 init
23599 bash

So that's how we can get a minimal root functionality without using any specialized rooting tools.

RELATED:

How does SuperSU provide root privilege?


How would I automate repetitive tasks in Android? There are many tasks I do repetitively, like connect a Bluetooth headset or connect to a hotspot.  How do I typically "code" this?  How do I execute?
Is there a consistent library or package manager, or do I have to collect from everywhere?

Any community projects?
Anything that works consistently over several platforms?
Is there some framework to execute over several devices?
(In the Bluetooth example I might want to disconnect other devices at the same time)

A great app for that is Automate. I've used it with great success. There are a few plugins that exist; you may or may not need them

The main app is here

Based on your use case, you may want this,  this and maybe this extensions but it all depends on how you use the main app


CM7 GPS works randomly, no rhyme or reason, is there a fix? I have the Incredible and here are the specs:

CyanogenMod 7.1.0 Stable
Baseband: 2.15.00.07.28

I can't seem to get my GPS to run in a stable manner. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.

I've installed all the diagnostic GPS apps: GPS Essentials, GPS Status, GPS Test, GPS Fix, and doesn't make a difference. Cleared the AGPS, d/l new AGPS, etc...

When I use any of those, or my speedometer apps - Speedview and UlyssesSpeedometer - the GPS icon doesn't even blink. It's as if it can't hook the GPS command to turn on.

When it does work, it's great, a fix in about 3 seconds and 10 or 11 satellites.

I've run Fix Permissions in Rom Manager, and that seemed to help right away, but nothing since then, and I've ran that after I've installed new apps unrelated to anything GPS, and still to no avail.

How can I fix this to get a stable GPS on my phone?? Any help would be greatly appreciated, so frustrating.

I had this very same issue with my Incredible! I did everything you described and even flashed a newer Radio version to no avail. I got so frustrated I broke down and did a factory reset - for some reason it magically fixed my issue. I know it's the nuclear option here (as well as a popular catch-all answer) but I honestly think it's worth a shot. This also might be an excuse to bump up to CM 7.1.0 Stable.

FWIW I've had various strange and inexplicable issues with Cyanogenmod on my Incredible, this GPS trouble being just one. If you're up for a slight paradigm shift I've come to really like MIUI and haven't run into anything terribly strange (...yet).

EDIT: Just in case, here are some great instructions for performing a factory reset from the helpful MIUI HTC Incredible Installation Guide (these steps are applicable to performing a factory reset in any ROM as long as you're using ClockworkMod Recovery).

  3) Open Rom Manager and select "Reboot into Recovery." (Yes, we're
  assuming you have already flashed the latest "Clockworkmod Recovery."
  If you have not, please do so now via Rom Manager by selecting "Flash
  ClockworkMod Recovery" from the Rom Manager options before trying to
  reboot into recovery.)

  4) ...from the Main Clockworkmod Recovery
  menu, select "Backup and Restore." Then Select "Backup." This will
  create a Nandroid Backup in case anything goes incorrectly during or
  you get a bad ROM, you can always load your backup and return your
  phone to EXACTLY the way it was before you began making changes in
  Recovery. You may also Restore your Backup from here, but only after
  performing a Full Wipe of your phone to eliminate any trace of the old
  data that may corrupt your "restore" process. For more info on
  performing a "Full Wipe," see the next step.

  6) Now to do a clean wipe of your phone. Note: At this point you
  will lose everything on your phone that you have not backed up to an
  alternative storage space, via cloud, PC, SDcard. This will basically
  return your phone to a straight out of the box setup. Select
  Factory Wipe/Data Reset from the list of options (On the HTC
  Incredible, you may move your selector up and down with the trackball
  or the volume buttons, the press the trackball to enter your
  selection.) After your selection scroll down through the Nos to the
  "Yes" and select it, and your phone will begin to clear out its
  memory. When it completes, you should be back at the menu to Wipe
  Data/Factory Reset.

  7) After your Full Wipe, scroll down to the "Advanced" menu, and
  select it. The next list of options should display "Wipe Dalvik
  Cache." Select it, Scroll down through the Nos to the "Yes" and select
  it. It should only take a second. This step may be redundant after a
  full wipe, but if you ever need to "Update" a ROM, its important to
  know where this option is, so good practice.

  8) Press the "Power" button on the phone to go back to the main
  Clockworkmod Recovery options.

  ...

  13) Select Reboot System Now, and your phone should reboot.


Facebook contact sync no longer working: "Sync is currently experiencing problems. It will be back shortly" As of a couple of weeks ago my Galaxy S3 (running Android 4.1.1) no longer syncs contacts from Facebook. I have the Facebook app installed and calendar and the gallery are syncing fine but the contacts fail. I get the following message:

  Sync is currently experiencing problems. It will be back shortly.

Just to be clear, it did used to sync the contacts fine, but then the above started happening. I have updated the Facebook app a few times but I cannot remember if it started happening immediately after one of these updates. Anyone know what's going on or how to fix it?

Samsung phones have a proprietary app to synch with social networks: SNS Provider. So to solve it you probably have to search/wait for an update to it in Galaxy Apps.

You can also check your preferences in Facebook app, it has its way to synch contacts and gallery. There should be an option related to contacts synch, check that it's activated.


Anyone knows where Shazam stores tags? I have an android and all of a sudden shazam doesn't work.  It crashes whenever I open it up, so I want to clear the data but I have a lot of tags in there and I want to download the songs but I can't even look through the list...  Anyone know where the tags are stored and if there is a way for me to retrieve them?

Ok, so it seems the only way to do this on android is to contact shazam customer support, give them your IMEI number and they will send you the list.


Card management with Google fit on Android Google Fit is an Android app. When you run it, on the first screen they have cards with weight graph and personal records. These cards may be deleted  by dragging them side ways. That is how i deleted them. How can I bring them back? I looked through settings menu but card management is not there.

Please help.

One of the cards namely "Your weight" is returned the next day I deleted it.

So far I rated the app as "one star" in Android-Store to send a message to developers that the card management is not that easy to find. If they reply to my review, I'll post it here.

Thanks.

Those option are for starter user i.e to show the new user option available on dashboard. Where ass these options are available in app already . Lets see below .

The first option is Create a new Goal :- If you dismiss the card then there is option on Home to add a goal .

And the second option is Easy tracking :- This is just for description to let the user know the features of app and what activities user can track with GoogleFit.

GoogleFit App also shows some random cards to entertain and let their user know the features of app and track of their Activities time to time. Once to swipe random card you will get one time option to undo the action if you skip it then card is gone forever.


Android mail client not deleting emails on IMAP server I have a new Samsung Galaxy S2 SkyRocket and the native mail program doesn't delete my IMAP mail from my server. When I view my mail on my PC, I'm still seeing the emails I deleted on the phone.

The Samsung tech told me I needed to uncheck the "Leave a copy on server" option in my mail client on my PC; however, Thunderbird 12.0.1 doesn't have that option (and personally, I fail to see how that has anything to do with my phone's mail client.)

Does anyone have an idea on how to set my phone so that it deletes those emails?

Thanks!

Unbelievably this bug is still outstanding as of Android 4.0.4.

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1029

The only fix for this is to use a different email app. Most people end up switching to GMail.

Not happy. I miss my Nokia N900.


Sync mp3s between 2 android devices? I've a galaxy and a Samsung tablet. I download many mp3s on the tablet and I'd like to be able to sync them with the phone and vice versa. Any app for this?

I am talking about lots of files, so Dropbox and Google drive are not what I have in mind. The I'd like something that works over wifi

I recommend Google Music if it's available in your country. It allows you to sync 20.000 music files for free. Or even more if you pay.


Does Android supports .wav audio? In many internet blogs I read that wav audio files are not supported by Android OS. I have also tried to play .wav audio files with the default music player software in Android, but it couldn't be played.

But, recently when I peeped into the media folder in Android's system partition, (/system/media/alarms), I found many .wav files there.

Now I am confused. Does Android supports wav files ?

Yes, Android supports .wav audio files.

The Supported media formats lists the audio & video formats supported by Android, and .wav audio is among the many listed.

Supported file type(s) / Container format (only audio file types are listed below)

 • 3GPP (.3gp)
 • MPEG-4 (.mp4, .m4a)
 • ADTS raw AAC (.aac, decode in Android 3.1+, encode in Android 4.0+, ADIF not supported)
 • MPEG-TS (.ts, not seekable, Android 3.0+)
 • FLAC (.flac) only
 • GSM(.gsm)
 • Type 0 and 1 (.mid, .xmf, .mxmf)
 • RTTTL/RTX (.rtttl, .rtx)
 • OTA (.ota)
 • iMelody (.imy)
 • MP3 (.mp3)
 • Matroska (.mkv)
 • WAVE (.wav)
 • Ogg (.ogg)
 • Matroska (.mkv, Android 4.0+)


How to retrieve Google contacts November 2013, I had changed my phone and I did not face any problem retrieving my all contacts through my Gmail account. After that, in my new phone (Gionee E6), I kept saving all contacts in one of the options (Google). Unfortunately yesterday I lost my phone. Today when I am trying to retrieve my contacts, I could  retrieve only those contacts which were saved before November 2013 (when I had changed my phone.

Moreover, on my desktop Gmail it is showing 6800 contacts whereas in my mobile, after sync, I find about 6000.

Is there any way I could retrieve contacts saved during last 4-5 months?

I believe that the "Other" contacts you refer to i.e the 800 which do not show up on your phone (I am going to presume that they are valid and have numbers in them as well) are not assigned to "My Contacts".

If they are in a different group, try shifting them all to where the other 6000 contacts lie. This should fix your problem.


How do I use my front facing camera on my Galaxy S? Possible Duplicate:
  My Samsung Galaxy S front-facing camera doesn't work in camera app, Gtalk or Skype — How can I use it?

It gives me the options of: single shot, beauty, smile shot, contiuous, panorama, vintage, add me, action shot, and cartoon. I can not find a way to use it. HELP???


Wiped everything with TWRP, re-flashed CM13 and filled the internal storage with dummy data. Is my data now gone? I sold my OnePlus One and needed to remove files from the internal storage and re-install CM13. I deleted all photos and videos by hand in Windows. Then I selected all the options available inside TWRP and wiped it. After, I installed CM13 from an image. Then I filled the phone in Windows with dummy data by copying. My phone was not encrypted before wiping.

Can I consider my data more or less gone? I'd imagine at least most of the photos and videos are gone with overwriting but what about application data such as SMS, Facebook etc. messages? If they're still on the phone, how hard would it be to bring them back to life?

You must have performed a clean wipe before you flashed the rom CM13 . At this point the data related to your apps are already gone. @acejavelin made a correct point. Recovering that data is near 0.


Authentication Required What to do when play store tells "Authentication required you need to sign in with your google account" And then I sign up but still the same I can't install apps.

This is a common problem and is often solved with little work.

This should fix your problem:

1) Remove your Google Account (From you device settings)

2) Clear Google-Play-Store cache and data

3) Sign-in with your Google Account again

4) Try to download an app


Can Puffin browser easily be uninstalled? I have bought an online study course but I am told I need Puffin web browser to view the course. It appears I can install Puffin browser on my Android phone (Vodafone Smart Prime 7), but if I decide after completing the course to go back to normal Google Chrome browser, would Puffin easily uninstall?
 Will it cause any problem?

I'm afraid I'm not a big user of modern technology and do not want to bugger up my phone browser!

Puffin Web Browser as of now:

does not require device administrative permission
does not have permission to display an overlay on screen to block attempts of uninstallation
does not make any attempt to block uninstallation at all by any means.

I'm unsure whether Puffin prompts its users for drive-by installation but even that would not harm cause if unknown sources are disabled.

You can definitely, easily and like other apps, remove this app from your phone either through Settings app or from Play Store app itself. Alternatively, you can choose to keep it by following the other answer here.


Not receiving SMS messages I recently switched phone provider, and since then many of the messages sent to me never show up, as if it was never sent. But the sender shows it as sent (though I think it can't know it's been delivered).

I was with my old provider for ~10 years, I use SMS a lot and never had a problem receiving them before I switched provider. I've had my Samsung S6 for 2-3 years now, running Android 7.0 now.  I use Google's messenger, currently known as Android Messages, up-to-date via Play Store.

The problems seemed to start the moment I switched SIM card. The phone is unlocked, and I am receiving "most(?)" of the messages. It's worth noting that my old provider was "3" and the new one is "Spusu" which uses 3's network. Definitely not related to the sender; this is a problem from any person, any company, any network, even any country.

Seems it's not related to my current location or current time, nor signal strength. I now carry 3 phones -- my S6 with the new SIM card, a spare phone with the old SIM card, and my work phone. Every hour I send a test SMS from my work phone to both my own phones. The old SIM always receives the message, the new one misses some at random.

I've spoken to staff with the new provider and they claim that all messages have been delivered to my phone, per their log files.

They claim that the Samsung S6 is known to have this problem - but I never experienced it with my old provider, so I don't believe that.
They told me to clear the cache of my SMS app.  I did, but no change.  I rebooted, no change.
I received a replacement SIM card from the new provider. No change.
I even went as far as doing a complete factory reset of my S6! I hoped this would either fix the issue or rule out the device. Still didn't help.
Is the Samsung S6 really known to "throw away" SMS messages?
Can the provider really see that my device received the message?
How can a phone receive ten SMS messages and some would randomly be missing?
How can I further troubleshoot this? How can I fix it?

This is a serious problem because everyone I know uses SMS a lot, and suddenly I can't trust it because who knows when a message will go missing again?

I must have SMS capability back. It's no help suggesting some other app.

I can guarantee that this is not a problem related to your phone. Some 15 years back, I had a network provider that did the same, and ultimately I had to switch over to some other network.

Since the problem started soon after you changed your service provider, you should contact your new service provider. There's nothing wrong can do from our side to help you.


ES File Explorer "Save to" doesn't work with Google Drive; "That operation is not supported" Trying to move a downloaded Google Drive file to the SD storage on my tablet.

Select the file in Drive
Choose "Send File" from the ... menu
Choose "Share with ES Save To.."
Choose path and Select

Result:   "This operation is not supported".

What does that mean?  Is it a bug in Google Drive or a bug in ES File Explorer or a bug somewhere else?

P.S. Android 5.1.1 on Nexus 7 tablet (the original version) and yes, all of the above software has been kept up-to-date.

ES Explorer cannot handle content:// URIs.


Why does Kies say that there is no official release for my Samsung Galaxy Mini (GT-S5570)? Why does Kies say it does not support updates for the firmware on my Samsung Galaxy Mini S5570 as it is "not official release". On the phone it says android version 2.2.1 and
Kies calls it:

PDA:KC1
PHONE:KB1
CSC:KC2(CPW)

Will I ever be able to upgrade?

If Kies tells you that you have a unofficial release it usually means that you have an unofficial release. :) This is usually the result of flashing the device with heimdall/odin and an prerelease firmware that was never official released for you device and/or region. But there can be other reasons for this too.

You could flash an offical ROM, which can be obtained for example from samfirmware.com. Instructions on how-to flash and what release is the current offical for your region can be found on this site too. Be aware that flashing can leave you device in an unusable state and it will do a factory reset, so save your data prior flashing. Also you may lose your warranty.


I downloaded Angry Birds but can't actually find it on my phone (Samsung Galaxy Ace) I downloaded Angry Birds onto my phone, but I now actually can't find it anywhere. Does it go into a certain folder?

It may have been downloaded, but has it been installed?

Open up the Market app and click "My Apps". If it isn't listed there - i suggest you reinstall it.

Also, is your device capable of running it?


How to change the lowest and highest screen brightness in Android? Is there any way to reduce the lowest and highest screen brightness settings by editing the build.prop file in Android? If yes, then how?

Change/set the following parameters in the build.prop to set the brightness.

ro.lcd_min_brightness=50
ro.lcd_brightness=255

The above is an example. The first set the minimum.

The range is from 1 to 255. 1 being the minimum level that can be set while 255 is the maximum.


Can I open a second Gmail account in a separate app? I currently have several Gmail accounts, one for work, and the others personal. I'd like to keep these separate so I can forget about work on the weekends, but I'm finding it hard to do right now.

Is there a way to open the work account in a different app (E.G., Outlook) but not have it show up in the regular Gmail client as well?

Unfortunately the answer is that it will depend...

It will depend how your work email is setup and/or the device being used.

Option1 - Android Enterprise
If your organization has an MDM (mobile device management) and they support a configuration called Android Enterprise it is possible they can distribute another instant if Gmail that keeps your work and personal email separate.  You will need to contact your companies help desk for more info.  Note your device must be new enough to support Android Enterprise.

Option2 - Samsung Devices
Some newer Samsung devices allow you to do this with a feature called Secure folder.  Secure folder allows you to add applications like gmail to the secure folder.  This allows you to run another instance of gmail or most other android.

Hope that helps


Gboard settings keeps crashing I am running Resurrection Remix, Nougat 7.1.1 on a Nexus 6p. I have Gboard "6.0.79.144029707-arm64-v8a" installed. I can open settings, but when I choose one of the settings categories, I get the message saying "Gboard has stopped", How do I fix this?

Once you have made sure that Gboard is your default keyboard for your device, please check if you're able to navigate to the app's preferences by going to your device's Settings > language & input > Gboard > Preferences. Here you can choose your keyboard preferences for Gboard.

If the app still crashes, I'd suggest you report this to the product developers directly by sending a feedback. To submit feedback, go to your device's Settings > Language and input > Virtual Keyboard > Select Gboard > Tap on the menu icon on the top right corner > Send Feedback.


conversion printing app from landscape to portrait mode I often work just with the smartphone (Galaxy Note 3, Android Kitkat 4.4, no root) without any computer.

After opening a landscape powerpoint-presentation with the smartphone, I want to print it in portrait mode (2 slides per page). Is there any solution?

If there is no direct printer app with Remote Print it would also be very nice if there would exist a conversion app to save a conversed ppp in portrait mode as a new pdf. I'm searching since several months and would be so thankful and happy if there would be a solution!

One of the best apps for your (=my) aimis the app "Samsung Mobile Print".

Select 2 Up
Print it to your android device (use Google Cloud_Printer)
Wait a couple of minutes until your android device will download the new document (unfortunately this solutions converts colors to black/white, but for me it's okay)
Send the downloaded PDF to a normal Google-Cloud-Print or Remote-Print-App!

That's it!


Android 4.3.1 : Touchscreen not responding on return from sleep / or after call's end My phone has Android 4.3.1.

Sometimes, when it returns from sleep, or at the end of a phone call, the touchscreen does not respond. I have to press the power button several times to make the touch screen responsive. In the worst case, I have to remove the battery and turn it on again.

What can I do to resolve this issue?

Thank you!

Yes !.... woke my nexus 7 after being in sleep mode all night and it fired up perfectly with no dodgy touch screen issues at all.
Could it be that simple that Chrome browser was causing the problems all along ?

another bonus is using Opera Browser.... after being a die-hard fan of Chrome for many years on my desktop PC, it was a very slight learning curve to master Opera.
It's running so smooth and quick !


Permissions conflict with screen overlays I installed Marshmallow on my Galaxy Note 4 like 2 months ago. Everything was nice and peaceful, and I was happy to be able to select custom permissions per app.

A few days ago, out of the blue, I started getting this very irritating and well known problem, where every time I want to grant an app permissions, I have to get a message that asks me to turn off screen overlays.

The most annoying part, is that it doesn't tell me what overlaying app I have to disable. I just get this generic annoying message, PLUS, there's no master switch for overlays on my Note 4! Am I gonna have to spend the next two years being unable to give any app any permissions? Every time this happens, I spend an hour digging... This is crazy and very impractical!

What are my options here? How can I get rid of this problem once and for all?

PS: My phone is rooted, so please, whatever it takes!

Thanks!

The solution for me is: turn off all Accessibility settings in the Settings of the phone. (now I feel bad for people who need them).

Also the program Twilight was another reason contributing to the problem.


How to search "My apps" on google play or show a text listing? I have quiet a number of android devices.  Not all of them have the same apps.  On Google play it shows a My Apps section that shows a picture with the name of the apps in what appears a random order.

I'm not sure how many, but it's quiet a few pages, where I have to keep clicking more to see more of them.

It takes me a very long time to find a particular app in the list.

Google Play on the Android (phones and tablets) have a menu item called Library which allows you to see your My Apps.

I can scroll down the huge list that includes pictures.  But it takes a very long time to find the app I'm looking for.  Sometimes I get to the bottom and have to start over because I miss it in the list.

My question is, how to search the list rather than having to scroll downd the list.

The Goolge Play app has a search feature, but it doesn't search just "My Apps".  It searches all the apps on Google.

If there is a way to get a text listing of "My Apps", it would be easy to find the app that I'm looking for.

The most ideal method would be an adb shell command to list the My Apps Library.

By the way, the **My Apps Library" is a list of the apps on all your devices, not just the individual device you're currently using.

One of the purposes of trying to search the list so so that I can better manage the redundant and obselete apps in my library.

I had a similar problem. Have note found better solution then:
list all the apps on the google play may apps website (with repeated clicking show more)
selected all site content with CTRL A
copied it
pasted into text document
search for the keyword there


Use wifi in HTC Dream behind a proxy I wish to use wifi network in my university but the network resides behind a proxy server. So, how do I set my proxy settings (requires authentication) on my HTC Dream G1 (Android 1.5)?

Settings -> Wireless and Network -> WiFi Settings, hit the Menu button, and choose Advanced.

However, it appears this doesn't support user authentication. I can't find a solution online, either :(.  The question I marked as a duplicate may be of some assistance, though your version of Android may be too old for any of this.


Compatibility with cyanogenmod Is the galaxy s5 compatible with cyanogenmod 11? It is not on the list of supported devices. I am not sure if it is worth it to try. Has anyone else in the community tried?

It is not "Officially" supported, but if you take a look at XDA Forum you'll surely find some unofficial builds.
Here's a link to one