No, nothing will be deleted if you chose to "unmount" first. As your device was not detected, it should not even be mounted, so there's nothing that could "break".

A short explanation on that "mysterious unmount", though:

If your device is "mounted" (i.e. you can access its files from your computer), for faster reaction and other performance reasons all data transfered is "buffered" (instead of being written to the storage immediately). So "unmounting" tells the system to "flush" those buffers, and thus "commit" (write) all buffered data to the storage.

If you would simply "plug the line" without unmounting first, not-yet-written data were lost. Imagine what that would mean if some larger file was only written partly (it gets corrupted), or if you moved files to the phone which where not yet written at all (they are "lost in space").

So it's always a good safety measure to "unmount" first before plugging out the cable.


How to take a screen shot in 2.3.5 android zte tablet

Have you tried simultaneously pressing the power button & volume down an holding? If that doesn't work try with home + volume down combination. If zte has not provided a shortcut, just use a digital camera or another phone camera to take a snapshot of the screen.

Advanced: If your phone is rooted some apps will help you take screenshot. A cumbersome way would be to turn on the developer mode in your tablet and use adb.exe that is part of the android sdk after connecting your phone to the usb port in your PC.


If you wish to not be annoyed by unknown callers, try the following (Android phone) solution.

Open Settings
Select Sounds and vibration
Select Ringtone
Select Silent (this will set your default ringtone to silent all incoming calls)
Go to Phone app
Select Contacts
For each Contact that you DO want to receive calls from do the following:

Select the individual
Select the “i” info
Select “Edit” at bottom of screen
Scroll down until you see and select “View more”
Scroll down until you see and select “Ringtone”
Choose a ringtone other than “Default ringtone”
Press the Back button to return to previous Edit screen
Select Save at bottom of screen
Return to Contacts, repeat a thru h for each contact for whom you DO want to receive calls
If you add New Contacts, remember to follow 1 thru 8 to set their ringtone to something other than the default.

This method will allow all callers to leave a voicemail and not know they have basically been screened.  You can always review your calls using steps 1 thru 8 you can those callers you may have inadvertently missed.


How to automatically lock the screen or something when the Wi-fi disconnects?

Using Macrodroid:

From the drawer, select variable and create a global variable of type boolean. Set it to false and save.
Create a macro. On the Triggers tab, on the Connectivity section, select Wifi Enable.
On the Actions tab, on the Conditions/Loops section, select Repeat actions, then "While condition repeat". On the Condition, go to the Connectivity section, select Wifi State, then Wifi is connected to, finally select Any network.
On the Actions tab, on the Macrodroid specific section, select "Wait Before Next Action", set a time (I set it at 1mn).
On the Actions tab, on the Connectivity section, select Connectivity check. Enter a website that the macro will keep checking if there is an internet connection to it or not. Set the timeout. Click the + and add a variable.
On the Actions tab, on the Conditions/Loops section, select "If clause", under Macrodroid specific, select Macrodroid variable and choose the variable created on the previous section. Set its value to False.
On the Actions tab, on the Screen section, select "Screen On/Off", choose Screen Off.
On the Constraints tab, under the Screen and Speaker section, select "Screen On/Off", choose Screen On.
Give the macro a name and save it.

The macro will look like the image below. Click the up and down arrows on the Actions section, to be able to move the actions up or down.
Click the 3-dot on the top right and select Test Macro.

Explanation: When the macro starts, it checks if Wifi enabled and the device is connected to any network. It waits for a certain time before checking if there is a connection to the website enter in step 5. If after the set timeout in step 5 there is no connection, the screen will be switched off.

The delay in step 4 also serves as a fail-safe mechanism when you switch the screen on again to allow for example to disable the macro.

Note: To see the Conditions/Loops section under the Actions tab, the macro must be saved. Then when opened for an edit, the section will be visible.


my phone will not turn on all the way, shuts off and turns on repetitively

I hope you don't care about all your data because I don't think there is a way to retrieve it. Perhaps people with more knowledge than me know how (perhaps using ADB?). However, if you want to resurrect your phone, you need to follow this guide:

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/update-galaxy-s3-i9300xxugnh4-android-4-3-stock-firmware-1468061

This guide below is a bit more old but you can look at it's images so it will help you:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/help/guide-odin-flash-guide-t1671969

The first guide will help you flash a 4.3 stock ROM to your S3 to revive it, but please make sure it's model is GT-I9300!!! If you have a Verizon or any other variant you may risk bricking your device.

Good luck.


How to display mobile data usage for whole month and not last 7 days?

The vertical bars have handles where they meet the bottom of the graph, so you can adjust the date range that it presents. Just tap on the handle for the left bar and drag it all the way to the left of the graph to see your usage from the beginning if your billing cycle:


What is the actual risk of bricking when rooting for new ROM

If you're careful - risk is minimal. I do say minimal because there is no 0 risk!

Let's split this in parts.

Installing custom recovery:
Higher risk because now you're overwriting the recovery partition of the phone. If you're in the process of overwriting and your phone shuts off, the recovery part may get corrupted. Will your phone brick though? Maybe, depending if the boot partition may also be affected. But, since your phone uses fastboot, the risk decreases.

Rooting:
Usually the least risk operation of all, since you're pushing files to the device. If it messes up, chances are factory resetting will let you start again.

Now you've got custom recovery set up and want to try out a custom ROM
Risk  - Less than installing recovery if you choose a ROM for your device. Custom ROMS usually just copy the OS onto the phone. This should not touch the recovery partition. This means that should it fail and the phone does not boot into an OS, you can still use the recovery partition to restore a backup, retry the install or try another ROM. This may change though, if you install a non One S ROM, as most ROM zips have a hardcoded partition when they modify.

So remember to read the instructions thoroughly, make sure your battery is fully charged when doing this, back up your current OS after you install custom recovery and make sure you install the ROM that is made for your device.


"No item could be found" error when installing app

I have encountered this before when I try to cancel an install from within AppBrain. If you have the FastWeb Installer loaded then it sees that as an indication of wanting to uninstall, even if the application is not really loaded on the phone.


BlueStacks for Mac is currently in "alpha" testing, and is probably your best option at this point, although I don't believe it provides any kind of simple per-app packaging.


How to stop embarassing images showing on my phone's screen when I try to tweet?

Your best bet is probably to use an app like Keep Safe to hide "adult" photos/files. This keeps other apps from being able to see/interact with them, so they won't show up in the preview section of any apps.


There is no Google Talk app within the Market. Google Talk is more or less wired to the Android release. It's usually an icon in the app drawer simply named "Talk".

Your phone seems pretty locked down by the carrier (or somebody else). If it really came without Google Talk, which would be pretty uncommon, your only chance is to install the Google Talk apk manually.


Can open an HTML file with Browser but not HTMLViewer

The HTMLViewer mentioned does not like spaces in the file name. Rename the file with underscore or throw them out.


What are the non-diagonal screen dimensions of the Nexus 7?

They are 3 7/16" x 5 15/16" by my measurements.


Picture always appears on Facebook as "on line"

Log out from Facebook app and Facebook messenger app before uninstalling them. I also had similar problem with early version of Facebook messenger.

Also in my case when my friends tried to send me message the chat box had info saying "Message will be sent to Mobile device" or something like this.


Is there anyway to bypass the Geo-IP restriction when trying to stream movies outside US?

To answer my own question. Yes it is possible, by using VPN or DNS service.


Browser keyboard refresh shortcut for Android 2.3.7?

There are several interesting browser shortcuts available:

Menu + J: Back
Menu + K: Forward
Menu + R: Refresh active page
Menu + F: Find
Menu + B: Open bookmarks
Menu + H: Browsing history
Menu + S: Open browser settings
Menu + I: Zoom in
Menu + O: Zoom out

(Source: Android Browser keyboard shortcuts)


How to change time on Android 6 (Nexus 5x) with display off (adb?)

I found answer here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32498628/change-date-on-rooted-device-android-m

I used wrong date format, apparently since Android M I should use

   adb shell date $(date +%m%d%H%M%Y)

This works to me (in adb shell signed as root):

toolbox date -s 20161231.235959
Sat Dec 31 23:59:59 GMT 2016


Any way to set lockscreen notifications on AT&T LG G3 Lollipop?

If you go to Settings -> Sound, and scroll down to the Notifications category.
The Lock Screen selection allows to choose Hide sensitive only, show all, or hide all. The Apps selection is a list of apps, which will let you select app behavior. However, the sensitive option is only available if you select "Show all notifications" option above.
Additionally it appears some applications have an invisible sensitivity setting that allows them to display information when "Hide sensitive only" is selected. I have several apps on my phone that display info/controls when the screen is locked, and I have it set to "Hide sensitive only" I found some discussion of the above information on this site, but nothing to explain the fact that some apps seem to default to nonsensitive, most don't.


You may be able to fix the problem using Tasker (paid; 7 day free trial) or MacroDroid (free/paid) or AutomateIt Pro and I don't have a reliable way to test my answer so I can't fix some flaws.

MacroDroid

The macro would be:

Trigger: Wifi State Change → Disconnect from Network → select your network
Action: Wifi Configure:

Connect to Network → select your network

or

Disable Wifi
Enable Wifi

Constraint:

Wifi State → Not Connected to Network → select your network

and

Wifi State → Wifi Enabled

Tasker

Profile would be:

Trigger: State → Net → Wifi Connected → check Invert
Task: Action(s):

Net → Wifi Net:

Action: Reconnect
check Force

or

Net → WiFi → Off
Net → WiFi → On

Additional trigger: Net → Wifi Near → select SSID of your network

AutomateIt Pro

The free version requires me to connect to internet (which I'm unwilling to) to unlock a feature, so perhaps, free version can also do the job here.

The rule would be:

Trigger: [Composite AND Trigger]:

Wifi Network Connection State Trigger:

Monitored Network: select your network
Connection State: Disconnected

Wifi Network Available Trigger:

Network Name: mention the SSID of your network
check In Range

Action: [Composite Action]:

Set Wifi State Action → Wi-Fi Disabled
Set Wifi State Action → Wi-Fi Enabled

That should work.


Short answer: No

I don't know your tablet, but a straightforward instruction will not be available. Your tablet is also provided with Android, so there exist the working android port. Normally the producer of the tablet don't provide the needed files to re-flash the device.
Normally the image is build on a development computer and the image is flashed on the device. To replace your OS another computer will be needed (if you have the needed files)
Technically it's possible to create a USB memory stick that update your OS without interaction, but that's normally not provided by the producer of a "consumer tablet"

(sorry for my bad english, hope you understand my message)


Android Chrome - enable auto-fill for the site

You should be able to re-activate this in settings -> app -> password access -> Autofill -> disabled autofill targets
In android 9 pie this can be found in the Keepass2android settings under "password entry access" -> "autofill service" -> "disabled autofill targets"
This issue was already created on the github page.. Hope it helps


Use an application backup app to backup all your apps,(App Backup and Restore) is one app that i know of.
uninstall all the apps from your phone, (Please be careful and remove only the apps that you installed yourself, removing system apps could prove problematic)
delete the Folder that you dont want on the sd card, like the iSMS folder you said
restart your phone.
start all apps that you have on your phone, (you have removed all apps, the only ones remain are system apps)
check if the folder was created in your storage media.
if it was, then there is a system app creating the folder.
if not, then one of the 3rd party apps downloaded from the play store are creating this folder
all apps having the "modify and delete contents of your sd card" can create folders in your sd card, during reinstallation, check the app permissions carefully.
installing each one by one and.opening and checking the sd card for the folder, you will eventually find the culprit app.


How do I change the Device Name of my Nexus 7 2013 when connecting to a hotspot?

Unless the OEM has built in the option (Samsung have for example) you cannot change the device name without root. The nexus-7 does not have this option.

On the Samsung Galaxy S4 (for example) you can go to Settings > More > About Device > Device Name and you can change it directly from there.

For those with root:

 su
 getprop net.hostname
 setprop net.hostname <new_hostname>

Or simply download a build.prop editor app from the play store.  This requires Root also. WARNING: Any changes to this file can stop your device from working or cause unexpected behaviour, do so at YOUR OWN RISK.

To change Hotspot name:

Go to

  Wireless & Networks > Tethering & Portable hotspot.

Then

    Tick the box next to Portable Wi-Fi hotspot
    Tap Portable Wi-Fihotspot settings and you can edit the Wi-Fi network
    name, and choose a password.

Enter your name there!


One way to reduce data usage it to turn off Data Roaming. This can be found under Settings > Wireless & Networks > Mobile Networks.


My Droid phone won't sync my email subfolders automatically

Auto-Syncing subfolders means additional network traffic, and eats more of your battery -- which is why it's not generally to recommend. But if you insist, for selected folders it might be sometimes useful. What you need for this is an email app supporting the sync of subfolders. One such app is K-9 Mail.

Speaking of "Outlook subfolders": Outlook is a client, not a server -- so it's hard to tell what you're using. Aforementioned K-9 supports IMAP (recommended), POP3 (only if needed), and also Exchange (via WebDAV -- only for those who have no alternative, but that's my personal opinion). Guess one of them should cover your demands.


Prevent Google reacting to inline remote

In case anyone has this problem in the future, I fixed it by force-stopping the undesired app.


Basically, yes. That's Samsung's UI/framework, TouchWiz. Other manufacturers have their own UIs as well, including HTC's Sense and Motorola's Motoblur. The Nexus S has the "stock" Android UI.


It's possible to use an Android without a Google account, but it would not be a "fun" experience.

You will need a 3rd party app store in order to download apps (apk download sites will work, too).

I think you will receive OS updates (not sure).

Now for the 3rd question: are there any problems? Yes, there will be. Some apps ask you to sign in to Google - you won't be able to use those apps. Some apps ask you to have Google Play Games - they will work, but you will not get achievements. In addition, items like contacts and downloaded apps will not sync, making it hard to transfer to a new phone (without Wi-Fi and Bluetooth).

Overall: it is possible, but would not be a good idea.


Galaxy S6 - Can't unlock phone after factory reset

Ok, I finally got a solution to my problem, this is obviously a Samsung bug in their software because I can't unlock my phone with the legitimate Android account. The following method works for unlocking any Samsung phone which is good and, at the same time, bad because a skilled enough thief can unlock your phone (although he won't have access to the data because the phone must be wiped).

Download Miracle Box, at this time 2.58 is the latest version.
Put your phone in Download Mode and connect it to the PC.
Open Miracle Box and go to the Samsung tab.
Select the Reset Reactivation/EE Locks and click Start Button and wait for it to finish.
Your phone won't boot now, download a stock Samsung ROM with the same version as you had. I had Nougat so I have to download that, don't try a lower version because the bootloader won't allow you to flash it.
Use ODIN to flash the new stock ROM.
You should be able to boot your phone normally without entering the Samsung account.

If you think this is too much for you give UnlockJunky a try. It was going to be my last resource.


ADB driver for Samsung does not respond in remote debugging

I finally made it work. Here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2588979

I installed the application and went through the process, then in command prompt, changed to C:\adb, and tried different adb commands, I do not quite know the thing that triggered the change, the ones I tried:

>adb -d
>adb kill_server
>adb usb

That made it work!


Connect Galaxy S3 Wifi Connection to Computer

You should be able to just tether and while your phone is connected to the wifi network that connection should be used.
If this is not the case turning off the mobile data should force it to use the wifi connection


Micromax nitro a311 fastboot connection error

< Waiting for device > is caused by the Android Debug Bridge interface driver missing.  Go into Device Manager and you should see the failed driver.  Right click on the driver and update it.   Microsoft Update now carries the ADB driver.


How can I disable profanity filtering of autocomplete suggestions?

Just type it in once, click it, and save it. Done.

You can also go to Settings > Language and Input > Personal Dictionary and add your words from there.


Currently, I've only seen two browsers on the Android platform that display SVG.

The Opera Mini browser displays static SVG. It seems to run scripting for a very short period of time, but does not run it continuously. It also does not appear to run SMIL animations.

The Fennec (Firefox Mobile) beta browser also displays static SVG, as well as running scripting. It's still in beta and relatively huge. It doesn't run all of my example scripts successfully, but it does run some. I can not test SMIL animations, because I removed it to free up a large amount of space on my phone.


Samsung Galaxy 3 (GT-i5801) is not being detected in Kies

You could try to do a factory reset and then try to check out your trouble with Kies.
Note: Backup all your data before the reset!


How to connect to a SSH server from Android client?

You don't need to install server in order to use client. Install openssh package on Termux, that has both; server and client. To connect to a server, do: ssh <user>@<server-IP>. Mention port with -p option if different than default (22), such as Termux server uses 2222 8022 (corrected by @Steve).

Or if you want to stick to GUI, you can go for Termius or ConnectBot etc.

In order to run SSH server, just execute sshd from Termux, but that gets killed with app. Or for a more complicated setup see: How to run SSH/SFTP server for multiple user logins with password authentication on Android?


I have an original Motorola Droid that no longer has phone service, but it works great as a WiFi device. It does almost everything except make phone calls and texts. Android MArket works, Amazon App Store works. Google Maps has a feature (look under the Labs menu) to pre-cache 10-mile square areas of a map. Then you can see where you are even when you don't have an Internet connection. I've even had it navigate somewhere with me, as long as it has WiFi coverage at the start, and as long as I don't go off course. Browser works. WiFi Analyzer works. It's still a great device even if it's WiFi only.


The RAM total of the apps "Running" never equals the "Used Ram" shown below on the scale

I think it's because of linux. Linux put some disk cache on ram.
So, you can see cached ram, which is app cached ram, AND disk cached ram.
If you have access to a linux box, run free -m.

cubox@coruscant:~$ free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          1974       1478        496          0        335        671
-/+ buffers/cache:        471       1503

Here, you can see that my server is using 1478 mo of ram. But, like 1000 mo is used for disk cache. You can't really recover it. If this part of ram is needed by the system, it's will not longer be used for disk cache and released for the app.


Failed to update HTC Desire S to latest firmware with Android 2.3.5

Mostly likely the update over the air downloaded the wrong archive, which failed to automatically install. In addition to that I found on several forums that the phone had many broken stuff after such update. Therefore I've decided to update it manually.

I've downloaded the zip archive with latest official firmware, put it on my sdcard, rebooted the phone into recover console. It automatically found my zip archive and the phone was updated. Everything works fine now.

The complete instructions together with latest firmware can be found here (Russian language): http://www.youhtc.ru/forum/showthread.php?p=304305&posted=1#post304305

I've translated them in short below:

Download the zip archive with RUU_Saga_S_HTC_Europe_2.10.401.8_Radio_20.4801.30. 0822U_3822.10.08.04_M_release_225161_signed.exe from here
Rename the zip archive to PG88IMG.zip and put it in the root directory on sd card
Power off the phone
Press volume-down button and then power button.
The recovery console will pop up. The phone will automatically find the zip file and check it. It will ask you to confirm the update. If you're OK with that, the phone will be updated.


Help. Can't downgrade from EMUI 9.1 with dload

I read about that, you need to downgrade one by one. Emui 9.1 To Emui 9.0, then Emui 9.0 to Emui 8.0.


Apparently on the "Accounts" screen, one has to long press the account.  Menu will pop up.  Click on "Account settings".  Another menu will pop up.  Click on the "Cryptography" item at the bottom.  The Cryptography menu will open.  Click on "OpenPGP Provider".  By default, "None" is selected.  Click on the "OpenKeychain" and you're set!

Hope this helps!


Download and Install (aka sideload) Facebook Home APK

There's actually no need to "black hat" or sideload the app. If you can't find it in your Google Play search, or if clicking on "Download" from the http://facebook.com/home page lands you in the Google Play install page but it says your device isn't compatible, then don't worry, there's another way.

I have a Sony Ericsson Xperia P and I googled hard for a solution; then I read that Facebook pushed an update recently which (in addition to adding support for 2 more phones) let's you "Use Home anyways". So how to install Home in the first place, you say? Head on over to 1 Mobile Market (http://www.1mobile.com) and download their app. Once installed (make sure you enable "Allow unknown sources" in your phone's Security settings), look for Facebook Home in the 1 Mobile marketplace and install (again, make sure you can install from unknown sources). It should run automatically once installed and you should see the "Use Home anyways" option.

Facebook Home the legal and official way. Worked great for me! Enjoy!


Suspicious notification from "Find My Mobile"

Samsung probably wanted to quickly refresh their internal user locations database ;)

https://twitter.com/SamsungHelpUK/status/1230430326687780865

  @SamsungHelpUK

  Recently, a notification about “Find My Mobile 1” occurred on a limited number of Galaxy devices. This was sent unintentionally during an internal test and there is no effect on your device. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused our customers. ^LF

http://www.google.com/search?tbm=nws&q=find+my+mobile

edit: against some news, this notification was not the result of a Samsung data breach.

https://www.sammobile.com/news/samsung-data-leaked-mystery-find-my-mobile-notification

  Samsung has clarified that, while a data breach did happen around the same time, it's not related to the “Find my Mobile” notification. this technical error affected only Samsung's UK website and it only affected about 150 users in total.


App to allow me to set which contacts dial out with Google Voice by default?

I still haven't tried Voice Choice, but I just downloaded this free app: Voice Plus

This looks perfect.  From the description:

Allows you to set rules for which number dialed will use your Google Voice number. Specify rules based on area code or by contacts (using contact groups). No more annoyance of having to press another button when dialing to choose where to call from!


phone not charging but lightning bult is on

It sounds like hardware issue. Moving charger around? Do you move end connected to phone or end in laptop? Depending on which end is one you moving it is probably charging connector broken or usb on your laptop. Try connecting other phone to that laptop, and connecting your phone to other PC so you will se where problem is. And maybe the battery is near dying.


Where can I find the 4.3 Camera app with Photosphere?

The upgrading to 10.2 from 10.1 page links to a flashable zip with the Photosphere enabled Camera app. That link appears to currently be broken. Here is a working link. After flashing, the Camera app has the ability to take Photospheres.


That seems to be a MIUI-specific error. From the Locus Map help (translated by me):

  This error occurs with Xiaomi devices, but has nothing to do with Google Play Store. Error -26 is caused by MIUI's package manager and stands for INSTALL_FAILED_SYSTEM_INCOMPATIBLE. Which means: for some unknown reason MIUI thinks the app is incompatible, and refuses to install it.

  Solutions:

  Try to install an older version of MIUI which is compatible with the app and doesn't block the installation.
  Then disable automatic updates Aktualisierung of MIUI
  Alternatively just wait until there's a newer, bug-fixed version of MIUI

Also, additional to your find, there's a thread on MIUI forum, which – surprise! – says almost the same. Dated 2014 (ouch).

Funnily, the same error -26 is also reported for the Samsung Galaxy S3 on Sprint. Folks here seem to have been more lucky. One user reports the following procedure as being successful:

  Go to Application manager and find Google Play Store, Erase the cache and data. Then go to Accounts and remove the account associated with the google play services. Restart your phone phone and add the account back.

So if the latter doesn't work, I'm afraid you've to check that with MIUI. I wonder if it really takes them 2 years to get it fixed.

PS: What strangely seems to work is opening the downloaded .apk file using a file manager. Though that should just be an interface to the pm install command (which is also used indirectly by adb install) which did not work out when used directly.


2.3.55: How can I edit Bookmarks between my Android phone and Desktop easily under Google account and Chrome?

There is no special method to do so, simply connect all your chrome browser across all you devises with same google account, and make change in any of the device and it should reflects and sync all other devises  and your google account's dashboard->chrome data also.


Deleted thumbnail file but no space was freed

.thumbnails folder has a file of the format .thumbdata4* whose size is shown to be really big usually. But in reality, it's not a big file and it's size is shown as such is because it's not a normal file. It's a sparse file and it's real size can be seen using du command from a terminal emulator. ls shows the file size from it's metadata like most tools do and it'll be a big no.
On my phone, it looks like this
/storage/emulated/0/DCIM/.thumbnails $ du -h .thumbdata4--1967290299
172K    .thumbdata4--1967290299

/storage/emulated/0/DCIM/.thumbnails $ ls -alh .thumbdata4--1967290299
-rw-rw---- 1 root sdcard_rw 11G 2020-07-30 19:18 .thumbdata4--1967290299

So it's actually a small file and you don't have to worry about it's size.
See the size difference. ls shows size to be 11GB while du shows it to be only 172KB.


Allow an app to override Do Not Disturb in Oreo

On stock Oreo 8.0 (MiA1)

Settings → Apps and notifications  →App Info  → Choose app (not all apps have this permission)  →App Notification  → Enable override


For your case, posted by Fido's rep,

  I wish to clarify something. All phones sold by Fido are locked with the exception of Nexus phones.

But for general case, apparently, yes, Nexus devices can be SIM locked. These articles proved that even Nexus 6 (which can be considered as quite new at the time of writing) on AT&T are SIM locked.

Extreme Tech

  The uproar truly started when it was confirmed that the AT&T Nexus 6 is SIM locked to that carrier. This is the only Nexus phone that’s ever been SIM locked (the Galaxy Nexus LTE wasn’t locked, it just didn’t have the hardware for other carriers).

  ...

  That SIM lock and the tethering check are a bit trickier — these are both deeply ingrained in the core of the device.... The SIM lock, which keeps the phone from working on other networks, is included in the baseband software. Again, there’s no way around that without major hackery.

Android Police

  It appears that the carrier's Nexus 6 variant is SIM-locked, won't let you tether without verifying your subscription status, and has AT&T's suite of ringtones as well.

  ...

  The SIM lock is stored independent of the ROM, somewhere that factory images don't touch. Presently, the only way to get rid of it is to get the unlock code for your device, which can be obtained by AT&T after your contract is fulfilled or the device is paid in full (assuming you bought it on a payment plan). If that doesn't work for you, there is also the option of purchasing the code from a 3rd party.

Also, a user manual from Vodafone for Galaxy Nexus, a forum thread by Verizon user and XDA forum proved that Galaxy Nexus could be SIM locked too.


Can I change Gmail attachment download location on android phone?

No, the Gmail app doesn't have this feature of choosing download location. Instead of using the Gmail app, open the website on google chrome. In Google Chrome's settings, go to Advanced Settings section and click on Downloads. There, you can choose to ask the download location for each file or change the download location for all files.


Battery Life of the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 with andriod 4.4

I have the same device, and I also had battery-drain issues. The solution was to disable Location Reporting.

Android Menu -> Location > Location Reporting.
Turn them all off (one per account on the phone).

This increased my battery life almost three-fold and solved other issues that I was having with the device.


First, a reboot will never "revert" your completed IAP, and never should it (unless serious problems with hardware that causes data loss).

When you uninstall and re-install an app (or simply clears its data), then:

If that app supports cloud backup, your data will be recovered and nothing is lost or reverted
If that app has no backup then:

All consumable purchases are lost, so is your dollars.
All non-consumable purchases are also lost, but they are supposed to be restorable (not "recoverable")

See Consumable and non-consumable purchases.

Consumable purchases are like golds, gems and timed boosts that does not last forever.
Non-consumable purchases are like premium unlocks, special characters and coin doublers that lasts forever after purchase.


How to install recovery and rom on blank Samsung i9000

If anyone dealing with the same issue, I've found a solution on this link. It is for Froyo, but you can look on XDA-Developers for Gingerbread too, it is the same procedure.


How to disable the notification badge on Whatsapp on LG G3?

I believe icon unread badges are managed by your laucher and not by the app itself. Try looking in your home launcher's options. For example nova launcher allows to control this setting through TeslaUnread.


Dialog "Amazon AppStore Required" - apps prevented from starting

The solution is as stated, though it was not easy: re-install Amazon AppStore. Amazon Appstore is not distributed from Google Play any longer (though it was when I first installed it). It must be installed from amazon.com (as a 3rd party app - Settings > Security > Unknown Sources must be enabled), and updated to the latest version - Amazon Underground for the dialog to stop appearing when starting "Free App of The Day" apps. This left the device with an unwanted app with necessary space consumed unnecessarily.

After the installation, I was able to test the correct opening of certain apps I got through the FAoTD program. I tested starting them both ways: from the "Your Apps" list from within Amazon Underground, and outside that environment, directly from the launcher:

2Do (which had a lot of checklists for Books and Movies I would have lost),
DoggCatcher,
mSecure,
Monument Valley, and, I presume, the re-enabled startup of
Nearly 2 dozen other apps and games.


Samsung Galaxy Ace, data network mode keeps deactivating itself

Check to see if you have Battery Defender or some such app installed. You may have set data network to time out every 5 mins there (default is 15 mins).


Why does GMail appear on my phone without unlocking?

I am also using the App Settings extension, and 'Show when locked' was enabled. D'oh. I don't think I did this, but might have done whilst experimenting with my new phone!

Thanks @Chahk1 for the helpful comment which gave me a hint on where to look. :)


Google Play Music keeps putting non-music audio files into my music library

Move all of these non song files to a specific folder on your SD card, and create an empty file in that folder called ".nomedia". This tells Android not to scan for media there


Just upgraded to Nougat - Textra notifications disappearing from tray

I had the same problem. The Textra app includes a support section (settings > support) and this is one of the top topics. Here is the text.

OnePlus running Android 7 - Notification disappears / goes away

To fix, do Android Settings > Battery > Aggressive doze and app hibernation (dotdotdot top right) > set Textra to 'Not optimized'.


Can't use mobile data on non-default sim, even if inactive when the second sim is open call

It all depend on your network strength and ability to handle voice + data.
Like 4G VoLTE has no issue about this. It can handle voice and mobile data simultaneously.
If you have other network, then make sure in your area network strength is high and your sim provider can handle both voice and data simultaneously.
Also mobile hardware and android os has features to handle voice + data.


How to save a edited PDF opened from google drive with Adobe Acrobat Reader

When you open a file from Google Drive with Adobe Acrobat, it doesn't actually open it in Google Drive because that is another computer that you can't access.

The file that you open with Acrobat on Google Drive is actually downloaded to your device and is stored in temporary memory. When you save the changes you make, they are not applied to the actual file in Google Drive, but to temporary file in the memory, which gets deleted once you are done with it.

Share option is different. Due Android's sandboxing and user restrictions, Adobe Acrobat actually never even accesses your Google Drive storage. It tells Android that the user gave a command to share this file to Google Drive. Then Android takes the file in temporary memory that had its changed saved and loads it into your Google Drive storage. So your complaints are not originating from Adobe Acrobat but due the way AndroidOS works and its could-have-been-better calibration for Google Drive.


Is there any android support for bicycle sensors?

Not aware, but a quick check in the playstore shows there are several bicycle apps supporting "ANT+ sensors" for speed and other things. Take e.g. a look at IpBike ANT+™ Bike Computer, ANT+ Bike Display Demo, IpBikeKey, and others. Starting point: ANT+ Playstore search :)

Please note that, as Ifor pointed out in his comment, that this requires special support from the Android device's hardware. Details can be found e.g. at the IpBike page.


Ringtone volume automatic set to zero in Samsung Galaxy S5

My Problem is Solved by upgrading Android lollipop to marshmallow 6.0.1.


Why are some apps on the market incompatible with my device?

The Android Market has various filters which are applied to the apk in order to find out if the App will run on your device. The most obviously one is the Android version you are on (also called the SDK level).

But this is not the only criteria. There are others like:

Screen Size
Software libraries

Google API
OpenGL

Particular hardware features that are required

Bluetooth
(front) camera
Vibration

Unfortunately it is not that easy to find out why an App "isn't compatible" with a particular device, even for the developer. There are some tools that an developer can use to find the current filter criteria for an .apk but this will not tell him why the Android market doesn't show an app on a device explicitly.

In your case, the small screen size seems to be the reason. You should e-mail the developer and ask him to fix this, if it isn't intended.


Can I copy/paste cyanogen files to another SD card, plug it into a rooted tablet, and expect it to work?

You probably can't copy and paste the files, because the blank SD card doesn't have the same partition structure and filesystem flags.

What you can do, though, is clone the original SD card onto the blank one. Note: the new SD card must be the same size (or larger) for this to work.

These instructions will make an exact copy, including partition structures, partition flags, and even disk fragmentation. It is an exact bit-for-bit copy.

Warning: This could mess up your computer. If you put in the wrong parameter for the of= part of the dd command, you could completely overwrite your main hard drive. Make sure you triple-check the destination mountpoint. Especially if you think the mountpoint is /dev/sda

Option 1: Mount both cards at the same time

If you can mount both SD cards at the same time, you can save a step and some time.

Insert the original SD card on your computer and find out the mountpoint of the original SD card.

Open up the Disks application
Click on your SD card in the list on the left.
At the top right, just below the name of the SD card, it will list the mountpoint.

It will look something like /dev/sdc or /dev/mmcblk0 or similar.

Insert the blank/target SD card on your computer and find its mountpoint (using the same steps)
Open a terminal (aka command line)
Run the following command, but replace original_mount with the mountpoint you found, and also replace the target_mount with the mountpoint of the blank card.

sudo dd if=original_mount bs=128M of=target_mount

The command will not show any progress until it is finished, and it could take up to an hour, depending on the maximum size of the original SD card (a 1GB won't take that long, but a 64GB might).

Option 2: Mount one card at a time

If you only have one SD card reader, you'll have to make an image of the original SD card, then swap the cards and write that image to the new SD card.

Insert the original SD card on your computer and find out the mountpoint of the original SD card.

Open up the Disks application
Click on your SD card in the list on the left.
At the top right, just below the name of the SD card, it will list the mountpoint.

It will look something like /dev/sda or /dev/mmcblk0 or similar.

Open a terminal (aka command line)
Run the following command, but replace original_mount with the mountpoint you found.

sudo dd if=original_mount bs=128M of=/tmp/sdcard.img
The command will not show any progress until it is finished, and it could take up to an hour, depending on the maximum size of the original SD card (a 1GB won't take that long, but a 64GB might).
Remove the original SD card and insert the blank card. The mountpoint should be the same, but open the Disks app again just to make sure.
Run the following command, but replace target_mount with the mountpoint you found.

sudo dd if=/tmp/sdcard.img bs=128M of=target_mount

The command will not show any progress until it is finished, and it could take up to an hour, depending on the maximum size of the original SD card (a 1GB won't take that long, but a 64GB might).


Is there a way to customize the services in the direct contact shortcut?

If you stop syncing Facebook with your phone book, that option will disappear.  I realize this isn't an answer to your question about customizing the pop-up but it may just serve your needs until a more skilled Android ninja happens upon this question.


sshelper works great on my Samsung S5.

In sshelper under the wrench icon you can increase the verbosity of the data logging mode, try increasing that and then pointing your browser to the listed 'ssh server address' and append the 'log server port number' (default :8080).  This might give you a clue as to why your having issues.


How to remove MotoBLUR from Motorola Charm MB502 phone?

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


Disable auto correct in smart typing apk - without settings

Though I deleted the settings - for some reason :)- I installed Gboard & I think may be Swiftkey will work too & it worked after several trials.
Thank you all.


If your screen blinks and/or keyboard freezes, go into

Settings --- > Developer options and make sure the following are checked.
Disable HW Overlays and
Force GPU Rendering

Now it should be blink/flash-freeze-free


How do I set the duration of a "calendar insert" in tasker

The In / For field actually serves both purposes. You can enter two numbers, delimited by a / such that:

The first number is the number of minutes from now when the event starts, and
The second number is the duration of the event

If you wanted to insert a one hour event starting "now", you would, for example, set the value of the field to 0 / 60.

This is summarized from the "Calendar Insert" entry in Tasker's Action documentation.


It looks like hwcomposer module hangs up. It's internal part of Android, so you should search for newer ROM. XDA Forums are great place for it.

It's common in Cyanogenmod by the way. When CM12 came out for Galaxy S3, it was impossible to play video outside YouTube app.

Another solution is disabling H/W rendering in every app. It depends on the application, but you can do this in for example MX Player and maybe even Chrome (#disable-webrtc-hw-decoding from chrome://flags)


Why are some USB chargers slower than others?

Lies, damned lies, and equipment specs.  I can print up a lovely sticker that says it'll output 1000A.  Doesn't mean it'll output that.

It's significantly cheaper to make a low-power supply than it is to make a high-power power supply.  Making the latter means you need a bigger transformer (with heavier windings), larger capacitor(s), larger inductor(s) and higher current rectifier(s), all of which add up to more money.  If you're trying to make stuff on the cheap and aren't worried about pesky things like ethics, you'll go with the lower end components and massage the specs (by testing at low temperatures, etc.  This is especially common with computer power supplies which specify output at 25C, even though they would actually operate at ~40C unless you're using them inside a refrigerator), use theoretical values rather than actually testing the product (saving money on QA), or just outright lie about the specs, the latter of which is probably the case with this charger, for reasons below.

One big red warning light that your charger is substandard is that the CE mark (which is used to indicate conformance to EU standards) is fake.  The shape of the letters and their spacing is wrong.  A real CE mark should have the letters each forming a half-and-a-bit circle and should link up if you continue the arc, as shown below.  A cursory glance at the mark on your charger shows it looks nothing like this.

The CCC mark (indicating compliance to Chinese standards) is also fake.

Other warnings signs include having no manufacturer listed and improper capitalization (should be mA, not MA, unless they're claiming is can supply a billion amps.).

In essence, to determine if a charger is likely to be substandard, apply the same thoughts as you would for determining whether a product is counterfeit.  The only real difference between a substandard product and most counterfeits is whether a manufacturer's label is forged or not.


Does android use cellular data when connected to WiFi with no internet

Have you tried opening sites which are not locally hosted via the same hotspot? I think having the site hosted on the same hotspot as that of the phone's wifi might be giving such a problem. May be an IP conflict or something else like that.


How to keep files downloaded via Dropbox after uninstalling app

You can do this by

clicking on the arrow on the extreme right of the items you want to save

cick export and save it to a selected place on your sdcard


The kernel has to support it, so a custom kernel would have to have the necessary modification/modules to allow OTG (meaning that you would have to download the source, modify it, compile it, flash it to device).  Otherwise the manufacturer would have to implement it.


Telegram shows contacts from different phone?

Probably you have both google accounts (yours and your father's) synched with your phone OR you are  running Telegram with the same phone numbers.


Edit default applications to open KML file?

To my knowledge, an app has to register for that -- so it's not simply a question of configuration. You might want to try some other apps which are able to handle KML files, e.g. Locus Maps. If it registers itself for this file type, it then should appear in the selection, and you can make it the default app.

As it turned out, this was exactly what happened with Maps With Me, so that's one candidate working for KML files.


How to show the complete title of an app?

Sorry, there is not way to do this.

I believe that some launchers may wrap titles, but I can't think of any that do.

As per dymutaos' comment:

  ADW wraps the titles of apps. They wrap it to a second line, and they make the second line smaller in order to fit within a certain space. Though if the name is really long and doesn't fit within 2 lines, it still gets truncated.


Map Whatsapp media to external SD on rooted Lollipop

Symlink should work
Run ln -s /ext/directly /ext/dir/no/fat


There exists an Android app for this purpose called "USBCheck":
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jacob.uk.com.usbcheck

Unfortunately it is currently only supporting Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P.


How to fix a force close loop on Android with phone access?

Issue solved

Boot in recovery mode > Choose "Wipe cache partition" and reboot.

No need to Factory reset and lose all data.
Long description
I also suddenly had my Samsung Galaxy SII (SGS2 GT-i9100) running Android 2.3.4 with a rush of continuous force close pop up windows, a lot of apps that seemed to try to connect to internet would trigger a popup force close window, many apps crashed. I hardly managed to quickly close the popups and turn off the phone, removed the battery and turned it on again but the problem persisted and got worse so in the end I got this popup again and again:
"The application LogsProvider (process com.sec.android.provider.logsprovider) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again. Force Close."
And really had to try hard to close all those popups quickly to switch off the phone.
I found the solution here
Which is:

Turn off the phone (hold the power button if the power-off menu won't appear).
Boot in recovery mode (holding volume up key + home key + power button at same time).
Choose the fourth option "wipe cache partition" (using the volume keys to select option and then Home button to excecute).
Allow to reboot normally and problem solved.


Can I root my Nexus 5 without a custom image?

29 January 2015: TWRP can no longer install official updates past 5.0 on Nexus devices. Updating my language here to say "install unofficial updates" instead of "official".

Since you specifically mention TWRP in your question, I'll just use it as my example. Note that CWM or any other possible Android Recovery project will also apply.

It looks like there's a slight misconception at play. I'll just drop a few clarifying notes here:

TWRP is indeed an image to be flashed.
Flashing TWRP does not overwrite your bootloader.
TWRP is not a bootloader replacement - it is Recovery software. It is a drop-in replacement for Android's stock open-source Recovery Mode, and therefore has the access needed to do things like

Create/Restore backups
Root devices
Install unofficial (and some official) updates

So the short answer is: Yes! It is indeed possible to root without overwriting the stock bootloader!

A few more notes:

TWRP (And CWM Recovery) is a mature (Several years old and quite stable) Open-source project that is used by a huge portion of the Android community and considered very trustworthy.
Flashing TWRP will replace the contents of /recovery/.
You generally need to use the stock bootloader in order to select the boot-to-recovery option in order to use TWRP.


how to move photos to sd card on VFD 300

You can use either the gallery app or your file manager to manually move your pictures/videos

Gallery

Open your gallery
Open the album you want to move
Long press on any picture
On the top left of your screen, press "select all"
I'm the menu press "move" or "cut"
Select a folder on your sd card to move the items to, or create a new one

File manager

Open your file manager
Find the pictures you want to move
Long press on one of them, and press "select all"
In the menu press "move" or "cut"
Select a folder on your sd card to move the items to, or create a new one


WhatsApp name hidden in group for only one person

It is because your contact may not be added in his phone from which he is using whatsapp and he has set privacy option for about as show only to my contacts.


Wipe data error - Unable to mount '/data'

If still necessary:

This will wipe all data on the phone.

Boot into TWRP
Select wipe
Tap Advanced Wipe
Select DATA and press "Repair or Change File System"
Press "Change File System"
Change the file system to the original file system for your phone.


Add a screenshot as attachment in Gmail android 5

In your Gallery app of some sort, locate the screenshot image you want to send. Then there will be a share button and a dropdown list of applications. Find the app that says "Drive" and your image will then be uploaded. From there, you can go to your email app and select your newly uploaded image from your drive for you to send whomever


Nexus 10 won't boot after attempted unlock/root

Had similar problems. My Nexus 4 was discovered just fine, but Nexus 10 failed to be seen as an Android adb device. So I uninstalled the Nexus 4 drivers, rebooted, and then installed some unsigned drivers from internet called Naked Drivers.
After that both Nexus 4 and Nexus 10 were properly recognized.

Then, attempted to unlock the Nexus 10 using WugFresh NRT (I'm lazy, I know) and after a temporary install of twrp, WugFresh NRT told me to do a factory reset to prevent a bootloop. So I did this, but it told me that it failed a couple of times.
After reboot, found myself in a bootloop, exactly what I tried to avoid.

After some google search came around this movie that explains how to do a basic wipe, but from original recovery not twrp.

http://www.youtube.com/embed/T1Se7Hr9Cww

Written explanation of the steps from the video above (in case it goes down):

press and keep power, volume up and volume down to escape from
bootloop and reach the fastboot menu
in the fastboot menu use volume up and volume down to navigate and select power off button to make a selection, so just select the recovery option
you will reach the recovery mode (there is an icon with android robot on his back and a "!" sign) and press quickly all three keys at the same time (power, volume up and volume down). If you succeed, a blue menu will appear, so from there, just select your wipe option.

After I tried this, it worked and found myself at configuration screen for first time setup.

Next, I downloaded latest version 2.5 for twrp, replaced the old 2.4.1 in the folder WugFresh Development\data\Recovery_Custom\TWRP. After that, using the WugFresh interface I went for the root and also checked Custom Recovery.

This time everything went smooth and also twrp was upgraded.

Hope it helps.


Remove account without affecting the data

The way I see it, the only problem you have is losing your contacts if you sign out of your Google Account.

First of all, your contacts on your Google Account can be accessed on
Google Contacts, so signing out of your Google Account on your phone doesn't necessarily mean losing all of your contacts on that account.

Secondly, transferring contacts from one Gmail account to another is fairly easy, and you can find a step by step guide on how to do so Here


If you need to do s-on, flash that before flashing the RUU. Other than that, just keep in mind that the RUU will wipe your phone.


Download and install Google Installer:

link : http://d-h.st/ztjI

After download install the app , and open it , than download all listed Google Apps ( Google Services , Google Play and more )

It worked on my HTC Desire 826  Chinese


Go to settings->app settings and select desired app in that menu you can disable the updates and it will still be installed but not executable until you enable it again, the size will reduce since it will keep an executable APK to install updates


Moto E being charged for mobile data even if it's turned off on Vodafone Karnataka SIM

From your screenshot, it's apparent that you're using a dual SIM phone and that Data Roaming is enabled on one of those SIM cards.

I've never used a dual SIM phone but I read on a forum that at any point of time only one of the SIM cards can be used for data while the other is on standby or being used for a voice call.

Make sure both your SIM cards have Data disabled. Also disable Data Roaming for both SIM cards.

Use these screenshots for reference (click for full size):

Check your data usage in Settings→Data usage to see what's using your data connection

Make sure Data roaming is disabled for both SIM cards


How would you turn a tablet into a keyboard + easy-to-reach touchscreen (mirror the desktop) (not a touchpad) for a desktop PC?

Use android-vnc-viewer to mirror the desktop PC screen, and control the desktop

I had another question on android[dot]stackexchange.com: (In using a VNC to control a computer, is it possible to have the cursor go to where you touch? - android[dot]stackexchange[dot]com/questions/34668/in-using-a-vnc-to-control-a-computer-is-it-possible-to-have-the-cursor-go-to-wh)

In the question, I included a video: Remote control of Ubuntu with android-vnc-viewer - www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTKX6QMBgck#t=0m30s

android-vnc-viewer

  “See and control your computer's desktop from your phone, from
  anywhere. androidVNC is the Open Source (GPL) remote desktop program
  for Android devices. Connects to most VNC servers: incl TightVNC,
  RealVNC on Win and Linux, x11vnc, and Apple Remote Desktop on OS/X.”.

In the video, I don't know the input mode that is being demonstrated at 0:30, but it looks like the mouse cursor goes to where he touches.

http://code.google.com/p/android-vnc-viewer/

I'm guessing that the input mode in the video was either:

  Touch Mouse Pan and Zoom
  This is the default input mode and is
  designed to work like the Android browser. You can both pan the
  display and control the mouse using the touchscreen and gestures. You
  pan by dragging or flicking on the touchscreen; you click the mouse by
  tapping on it. You right-click by double-tapping (or by holding down
  the camera button while tapping). You drag the mouse by doing a long
  press on the display, and then dragging. In this mode the trackball or
  DPad (if your phone has one) can also be used to control the mouse;
  this may give you finer control. You can zoom the screen size with the
  +/- buttons, or, if your device supports multi-touch and has Android 2.0+, you can pinch to zoom out and spread to zoom in.

or:

  Mouse Control Mode
  In this mode, use the touchscreen to control the
  mouse. Touching the screen generates a mouse click at that point;
  dragging on the screen creates a mouse drag. Keyboard events are sent
  as normal. The trackball is used to send arrow-key events to the VNC
  server. Pressing the trackball toggles between Mouse Pointer Control
  and Desktop Panning modes.

Port forwarding

  If the PC you're connecting to accesses the internet through a router,
  this will be the WAN address assigned to the router by your ISP;
  you'll also need to forward the VNC port (5900) from the router to
  your PC (exactly how you do this depends on the details of your
  router, so I can't give more explicit instructions here).

Hacker's Keyboard - use a full soft keyboard on Android

From what I've read, the stock android keyboard doesn't have buttons such as Ctrl, Alt, Esc, arrow keys, Home, End, and Delete.

You can use the free, open source, app call Hacker's Keyboard to gain access to the buttons of a full keyboard:

  “Are you missing the key layout you're used to from your computer?
  This keyboard has separate number keys, punctuation in the usual
  places, and arrow keys. It is based on the AOSP Gingerbread soft
  keyboard, so it supports multitouch for the modifier keys.

  This keyboard is especially useful if you use ConnectBot for SSH
  access. It provides working Tab/Ctrl/Esc keys, and the arrow keys are
  essential for devices such as the Xoom tablet or Nexus S that don't
  have a trackball or D-Pad.”

http://code[dot]google[dot]com/p/hackerskeyboard/

A patch that allows android-vnc-viewer to recognize all the keys of Hacker's Keyboard

In “Frequently Asked Questions” of Hacker's Keyboard, there's a section called “Android VNC Viewer doesn't recognize the extra keys”.

It directs you to an issue called “Issue 238:   Support additional keys, fix modifier handling” (code[dot]google[dot]com/p/android-vnc-viewer/issues/detail?id=238). The patch there will make it so that Android VNC Viewer recognizes buttons of a full keyboard.

Update: bVNC

  bVNC is a secure, open source VNC client.

  Tested with Hackerskeyboard. Using it is recommended (get hackers keyboard from Google Play).

play[dot]google[dot]com/store/apps/details?id=com.iiordanov.freebVNC&hl=en

github[dot]com/iiordanov/bVNC

Update 2: Jump Desktop VNC

I currently and personally use Jump Desktop VNC because the “bring-out-the-keyboard” is close, and easily reachable. With bVNC, I have to tap near the middle of the screen, and then I press a keyboard button on the right to bring out the keyboard. Jump Desktop VNC also lets you use a Google account, so you don’t have to deal with addresses.


Do either:

Go to the Google Now > Menu > Refresh, or
You could try clearing the cache for Google search.

Hope that helps.


My first instinct to dig out such information which is often available via programming route  is to go through dumps of various system services. One such service is diskstats whose only purpose is to dump the status of the disk. Looking into the java code of DiskStatsService.java for various Android releases, I noticed that the information you are looking for is available since Android Oreo. Among other things, the dump shows all the package names, their package sizes, their app data size, and their cache sizes. That information is also dumped into the file /data/system/diskstats_cache.json but this file cannot be accessed without root access though.

The dump is pretty ugly so I wrote a bash script to show data neatly. Run this script in your Linux.

Here's the script (and it does not require root access too):

#!/bin/bash

USRDIR="$HOME"
F_DISK_STATS="$USRDIR"/diskstats.txt
F_PKG_NAMES="$USRDIR"/package_names.txt
F_PKG_SIZE="$USRDIR"/app_pkg_sizes.txt
F_DAT_SIZE="$USRDIR"/app_data_sizes.txt
F_CACHE_SIZE="$USRDIR"/app_cache_sizes.txt

# ADVISE: do a check whether ADB is working fine or not
adb shell dumpsys diskstats > "$F_DISK_STATS"

# Separating data into relevant named files
sed -n '/Package Names:/p' "$F_DISK_STATS" | sed -e 's/,/\n/g' -e 's/"//g' -e 's/.*\[//g' -e 's/\].*//g' > "$F_PKG_NAMES"
sed -n '/App Sizes:/p' "$F_DISK_STATS" | sed -e 's/,/\n/g' -e 's/.*\[//g' -e 's/\].*//g' > "$F_PKG_SIZE"
sed -n '/App Data Sizes:/p' "$F_DISK_STATS" | sed -e 's/,/\n/g' -e 's/.*\[//g' -e 's/\].*//g' > "$F_DAT_SIZE"
sed -n '/Cache Sizes:/p' "$F_DISK_STATS" | sed -e 's/,/\n/g' -e 's/.*\[//g' -e 's/\].*//g' > "$F_CACHE_SIZE"

# Printing package names and their sizes
ttl_apps=$(wc -l "$F_PKG_NAMES" | cut -d ' ' -f1)
count=1
while [ $count -le $ttl_apps ]; do
    pkg=$(sed -n "${count}p" "$F_PKG_NAMES")
    pkg_size=$(sed -n "${count}p" "$F_PKG_SIZE")
    dat_size=$(sed -n "${count}p" "$F_DAT_SIZE")
    csh_size=$(sed -n "${count}p" "$F_CACHE_SIZE")
    echo -e "Pkg Name: $pkg"
    echo -e "\t Pkg_size=$pkg_size bytes"
    echo -e "\t Data_size=$dat_size bytes"
    echo -e "\t Cache_size=$csh_size bytes"
    echo -e "\t Total_size=$(($pkg_size + $dat_size + $csh_size)) bytes\n"
    count=$(( $count + 1));
done

Output when tested on OnePlus 6 (Android 9):

Pkg Name: org.xbmc.kodi
     Pkg_size=144297984 bytes
     Data_size=55771136 bytes
     Cache_size=54341632 bytes
     Total_size=254410752 bytes

Pkg Name: rikka.appops
     Pkg_size=10330112 bytes
     Data_size=1740800 bytes
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Why are bootloaders in rewritable storage?

Bootloaders, like other partitions, might be updated officially for various reasons:

Switching to a new partition layout (e.g. a bunch of older devices with life spanning across Gingerbread and Ice Cream Sandwich, the latter requiring considerably more space)
Implementing new security mechanisms (e.g. earlier Xiaomi devices, old bootloader readily unlockable, new bootloader requires logging in and verifying before unlocking)
Ensuring you're on a version the manufacturer wants you to be, i.e. preventing downgrades (e.g. Samsung, doing so will halt halfway).


Swipe down on the notification to expand it and you'll be able to see the previous button. It's only visible in the expanded notification, not the summary version. As far as I know, there is no way to change this.

Note, however, that this does not appear to work if you have the lockscreen set to hide "sensitive" notification information:

  [...] I have the lock screen notifications setting set to hide sensitive information, and thus it's locking out the full music player controls. When I swipe down, I get the unlock keypad, because Lollipop wants me to unlock my phone in order to get at the full music player. [...] – Derek

Left is the "before" picture, right is after swiping down on the notification:

Click either image for full resolution


What are potential problems/violations that malware apps can do?

Can the app record my internet browsing and send it to an outside source?

It may depend on which browser you are using. The stock browser should save it's browsing history within its private storage. If there is no root exploit, an external app should be unable to access the browsing history.

Can the app upload to an outside source photos that I have taken?

If the app requests and gets granted the write external storage permission, it would be able to access your photos. Then it would only need the Internet permission, to upload these photos so some site.

Can the app look at data from other apps and use it?

Usually not. But again, if there is a root exploit available for your Firmware version, it could use it to access every piece of data on your Android device.

Are there particular app permissions which are rare requirements that might indicate a malicious app?

Well, it depends on what the app should do and what permissions are requested. Most Apps that could also run offline, request the Internet permission for Ads. Contact the App developer if you are not sure why the App needs/requests a particular permission. I would be careful with permissions that could also cost you money: Send SMS and Call Phone. I've heard that some strange social network app requests now send SMS for some reason.

Also the READ PHONE STATE AND IDENTITY is pretty common, because it's needed for backwards compatibility with older Android versions. But it allows the app to read for example your IMEI, which is unique to your device.


Reduce the screen brightness below given permissible level

Yes it is possible to reduce the brightness level below the default screen brightness slider level. You can use, Night Mode app from Play Store.

As mentioned in the app description,

  Night Mode's main goal is to reduce the brightness of your screen
  lower than you can achieve with the default settings.

And this app doesn't require you a root permission.

Does this setting saves battery?

It depends upon the screen you have for your phone. If you have AMOLED screen it will save battery for you.

See this post for more explanation How does reducing brightness of screen increase battery life?


Upgrading Redmi 5 3gb 32 gb motherboard to a 4 gb 64 gb motherboard

A smartphone is not like a PC where you can replace components. Additionally a smartphone mainboard contains everything soldered on it, which means that CPU, RAM, Flash-memory, sensors, and next to everything may be except from external components like display and camera module is an integral part of the mainboard.
Note that even if displays have the same size and all other technical details this does not mean that they are compatible.
So in the what you want has a very small chance that it is possible. Replacing the mainboard has only disadvantages (no warranty, high chance to destroy something,...).
So in the end it is better to buy a working new/used phone, otherwise most likely every money you spend on replacing the mainboard are lost and better spent on a new phone.


Chrome not downloading PDFs on Marshmallow

I was able to fix this by the following:

Go to Settings
Select Apps
Select Chrome
Clicking Disable
Enabling again

Then when I try to download a PDF it asked for permission to access the folder.

As pointed out in the comments a better fix is:

Go to Settings
Select Apps
Select Chrome
Select Permissions
Enable Storage permission


How long will battery last, assuming no usage

That usually refers to the impact on battery given by a single app.
If you expand you are supposed to get a list of your apps running, ordered from the most costing ones in terms of battery usage.


Able to open existing files, but cannot download any new ones (e.g., pictures from Chrome or camera app)

I finally managed to solve the problem. Although ejecting the card did not work, choosing "forget SD" in the storage options solved the problem immediately (fair warning to others, this did delete all data on the SD card). It seems that although I was able to access files on the SD card, it had still become corrupted.


I think your ext partition must be a primary one NOT logical - check to make sure that's the case.


How to revert setting change that caused bootloop?

It should be by using the file manager under TWRP. Navigate to /data/system/ and look fo appops.xml. rename it to appops.xml.bak so you can have a backup and reboot.

PS: as per this post stackoverflow, you might lose also the notifications setting. But most probably those can be reset after boot.


Short, less than 160 character SMS being split

One possibility is that "characters" is not what you think. SMS was originally designed for single-byte languages, so in languages that use non-Latin characters, one "character" in that language counts as 2 or 4 characters in the  SMS message. The problem is particularly noticeable in Chinese. Emoji also count as multiple characters for this purpose.

If your correspondent is writing in Chinese or other non-Latin languages, or makes heavy use of emoji, they won't be able to write 160 characters.


Is there any method through which I can make the YouTube app use https connections instead of http?

on your phone. You can install firefox if you not already have it. Then open firefox and install this extension named https everywhere. it forces every site to load in https if it has https capability. It includes youtube in its list, so it may solve your problem for using youtube in https mode on your android.


i searched over and over for a solution and finally found it this morning, remembered you had the same problem and had to post this for you...
follow these steps:

go to settings...
go to accessibility
go to answering/ending calls
uncheck the "using voice commands" box

and that's it...test it to be sure but it worked for me... i hope it works for you as well...

let me know if it worked... i need to know it worked for you too...


Quantum joystick doesn't work on my xiomi redmi

USB OTG doesn't work when high power output is needed. It usually doesn't work with joypads which have analog sticks. If you want to use it, you'll have to attach USB hub with external power source, or make DIY externally-powered USB OTG.


Dialer screen doesn't come up when making or receiving calls

I disabled the Dialer app, cleared the cache, and the data.
Rebooted the phone and enabled the Dialer app.

Now all seems to be working well.


What does "NFC Connectivity (Optional)" mean for the Samsung I9100 Galaxy S II?

It means some models have the NFC chip, and some don't. From what I understand, at the moment, only the model released in South Korea has the NFC chip. My model (from the UK) doesn't have it.

Though I've been following SGS2 news, I haven't read anything about the possibility of retrofitting a chip later - either you have it or you don't.


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

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


I'm going to answer generally, since the same is true of any smartphone. There are broadly two kinds of colour screen used on mobile devices (smartphones, tablets, wearables, and handheld game consoles): LCDs, and OLEDs.

LCD screens

These change their opacity according to an electrical signal. But to see that change in opacity, they need a source of illumination: a backlight. In early PDAs and the first few generations of Android phones, CFLs (which are basically small fluorescent tubes) were used for backlights, but these days many LCD screens are lit by white LEDs. Either way, the brightness slider controls how bright the backlight is by varying the voltage to it, so it directly affects power consumption, just like a dimmer control on a lamp.

It used to be the case that LCDs used a lot more power to be opaque, so displaying a black screen drew more power than displaying a white screen. However, manufacturing techniques and densities changed a few years ago, and the difference is negligible these days.

OLED screens

OLEDs are a new kind of LED. They can be a lot smaller than traditional semiconductor LEDs: small enough for each pixel to be a separate LED. There's no need for a separate backlight. Because of this, the brightness slider multiplies the brightness of every pixel separately. Decreasing the brightness setting doesn't decrease power consumption directly. The power consumption of the screen depends on how bright is the actual image it's displaying. In general, decreasing the brightness slider will tend to decrease power consumption, because the screen is darker overall, but a white screen on minimum brightness will draw more power than a black screen on maximum brightness.

Some phones with OLED screens have software that adjusts the brightness dynamically, instead of simply multiplying the screen colours by a constant value. This increases the brightness of the bright colours when more of the screen is dark, and decreases the brightness when more of the screen is bright, so the overall brightness looks the same. This can help save power: when you've adjusted the brightness so darks are clear in your environment, there's no point in the phone burning more power to make the brights look brighter than you need. On Samsung phones with OLED screens, you can find this in the Display settings, labelled Auto adjust screen tone.

Summary

Whatever type of display technology your phone uses, decreasing the brightness control can use less power, but for different reasons in each case.


I think you are using a copy of WinHvPlatform.dll or it is not compatible with the later or earlier versions you are using (binary decoding error may resemble this symptom). Try going to the original git code and download this DLL file.
Hope it helps.
Arie


Is the app on the play store?

If yes, it should push out an update without user intervention provided the setting to 'Auto-update apps' is set, depending on preference of either Wifi or using Mobile data. See below:


his is a s4 mine is a s6 gmail logged in on his i want it off not connected to his google account

Under Accounts in your boyfriend's phone's system settings, there are probably two instances of Google. This may look different depending on your exact version of Android, but something like this (but with two instances).
Click the images for larger versions.

Unless the caption for each account tells you which is which, you'll need to open them to find that out. Once you've found the right one, there should be an option to remove the account. On my Samsung Galaxy S5 running LineageOS 14.1 it looks like this after I click the three dot menu at the top right.

And on my Honor 8 running stock EMUI 4.1 it looks like this (the language is set to Swedish on this one, but you get the idea).

The red rectangles were added by me, to indicate where the option is found. Unfortunately I don't have a phone with Samsung's stock rom at hand, so I can't show exactly how it should look on the S4 or the S6.

Once you've deleted the account, the phone should forget about it, and concequently stop logging in to it and syncing with it. It only deletes the account from the phone, not from Google's servers, so you won't lose anything.

If the above doesn't work, then something is wrong. A last resort is a factory reset.


Is there a way to do Nandroid backup directly to pc and then restore it directly from pc also?

I have written some tools for exactly this purpose, due to similar frustrations: https://github.com/dlenski/tetherback

These tools are written in Python and use adb to create either nandroid-style backups (raw partition images from dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0pXX) or TWRP-style backups (mixture of raw partition images and tarballs for ext4 partitions).

They attempt to probe the correct partition layout, and show the progress of the backup:

$ ./twrp_backup.py
Device reports TWRP kernel (3.4.0-bricked-hammerhead-twrp-g7b77eb4).
Reading partition map for mmcblk0 (29 partitions)...
  partition map: 100% Time: 0:00:03
Saving TWRP backup images in twrp-backup-2016-03-17--18-53-12/ ...
Saving partition boot (mmcblk0p19), 22 MiB uncompressed...
  boot.emmc.win: 100% Time: 0:00:05   3.10 MB/s
Saving tarball of mmcblk0p25 (mounted at /system), 1024 MiB uncompressed...
  system.ext4.win:   2% ETA:  0:06:29   2.69 MB/s

This is a work in progress—feedback is very welcome!

Requirements:

Python 3.3+ under Linux/OSX/Windows.

progressbar package is needed (pip install progressbar should do it)

adb (Android Debug Bridge) command-line tools
Rooted Android device with TWRP recovery installed.

The requirement for a rooted device and a custom recovery is never going to go away: if you don't have root access, then you have no means to copy the entire contents of your device's memory, simple as that.

EDIT: Looks like most of the traffic to https://github.com/dlenski/tetherback comes from this thread. The early issues with data corruption described in the comments below have all been resolved; tetherback now includes very strong checks against corruption.


Export picture from Android Virtual Machine

adb comes pretty handy in this situation.

Simply navigate to the platform-tools dir in your SDK installation folder (or start terminal right away if its path is saved in system varibles) and start terminal.
Navigate to the folder where your pics are saved (or use ls command to view files).
Use adb command to "pull" the files to your desktop:

adb pull sdcard/<location_of_pics> /home/<user name>/Desktop

e.g   adb pull sdcard/DCIM/pic001.jpg /home/<user name>/Desktop

Alternatively do this via explorer using a method similar to this one only that there no need for hotspot or extra config since the virtual device is running on the same PC and network runs through virtual adapters :)


There are 2 things that could be at fault here.

The battery as been damaged or has simply reached the end of its usable life. You can bringing it to a professional to be replaced if it is internal or buy a replacement and put it in youeslef if it is removable.
More probable based on your description, the battery charger inside the phone has broken. Inside (almost) all electronics, there is a separate chip to control the charging cycle. This chip can break just like any other piece of your phone, which makes the phone unable to charge the battery and, depending on the internals, unable to report the correct battery percentage. Your battery may have been almost dead when it suddenly shut off. I had a Dell laptop reach its final day like this, so it isn't as ludicrous as you'd imagine. If this is the case, the phone is beyond reasonable repair and will have to be replaced.

If the battery is easily replaceable, do that first. If that doesn't help, your phone is done.


You're probably confusing TWRP backups with existing partitions here. TWRP backs up in two different ways:

image: a disk image (i.e. a block-wise copy)
tar: disk contents (i.e. a file-wise copy)

So you have two backups of the same partition here. Also see my answer on Trying to understand the options in TWRP backup for more details.

Moreover, if you want to "free up space", /system is the wrong place to start. Rather check with the questions linked from our insufficient-memory tag wiki for this task.


No, there is no such option that you can set on the NFC tag to force Android to immediately store the image or show it in the gallery app. The reason for this is that you only store a URL on the tag. Before actually opening the URL, Android does not even know the data type behind the URL (i.e. "this is an image"). In fact URLs do not have that concept of a data type, they just refer to some storage location. Consequently, Android can only open an app that is registered for that URL (or URLs in general), which is typically a web browser.

What you could do:

If you have control over the server side, you might want to try to force the image to be downloaded from the server. You could do this by setting a Content-Disposition header when the image is requested from the server:

Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="googlelogo_color_272x92dp.png"

If the image fits on your emulated tag, you could try to embed it into a MIME type record instead of passing a URL to the image. On many Android devices, image MIME type records should be opened in the standard Tags app by default (see Read NFC tag without specific application?). However, I've never tested how well this works (or if the image is actually displayed at all). See Picture on nfc tags on how such a MIME type record could be created with Android code.


The thief would, perform in this order of chances below are:

Throw away the SIM card (see below)
Attempt to unlock boot-loader (if its locked) which results in wipe of /data and /cache
Pop in a SIM card that does not have PIN lock.

If an incorrect PIN is entered more than three times, a PUK is needed!

Now the chances of the thief walking into the carrier's shop, asking for the PUK code is very slim hence why number one (in the above) is done first, even if digging around trying to figure out what the number is.

And furthermore, some, if not all, carriers have the handset, locked to the network in itself.

Sure they will get the IMEI and walk into a Mobile shop that specializes in phone/network unlocking and get the handset freed from the carrier's network.

So it would be safe to say the SIM card's PIN lock is secure somewhat!


It's probably rooted.  If not, then it was in order to install 2.3, and it can be rooted again.  If you have the SuperUser app, that should be a clear indication that it's rooted.

You should definitely be able to downgrade.

The best source for ROMs is generally the Android Development subforum for a particular device on XDA.  In this case, this subforum.


Is there a way to find out if a given app supports GCM (like APNS)?

As the developer documentation describes, an app needs the permission com.google.android.c2dm.permission.RECEIVE to receive GCM messages. This shows up in the permissions list as "Receive data from Internet" (which is a little vague, I know).

Of course, the presence of the permission doesn't necessarily mean the app actually will use GCM. Even if it does use GCM, it might not use it for all the uses you think it might use it for: maybe only some kinds of 'refresh' or polling operations can be replaced by GCM uses. And even if it uses GCM fully, in all the ways you'd expect, it's still possible for the app to use more power than it needs to. Using GCM is no guarantee that the app is well-written or efficient.


I lost my phone, can I recover the data from my Google account?

You're probably SOL since the battery is dead by now. Still, on the off-chance it isn't, check out Plan B (described at http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/how-to-track-a-cell-phone/). When you install an app through the Play Store on the computer, it is automatically installed on your phone.

If you used some service that syncs photos or other data somewhere else (e.g. syncing photos to Picasa) then you could find everything you backed up there. If you didn't, then you assumed this risk by placing all your eggs in one basket and never transferring data off of your phone. Perhaps your service provider had some automatic backup software running (e.g. Verizon backup) in which case you could contact them to ask how to recover data.

The fact is, if your data was that important, you should have taken steps to protect it ahead of time, and you should not have waited so long to try and locate the device; and now you are faced with the consequences of that negligence.

If you choose to keep all of your critical data on, say, a thumb drive, or an external hard drive, or a CD/DVD-ROM, and you have no backups and you lose that device, then, whoops, that's the risk you assumed by keeping it all in one place. It's the same with your smartphone.

Steps to protect it include anything that generally backs up your data elsewhere (be it specialized software that syncs photos, or general software e.g. MyBackup Pro), and any software that may help you locate the phone if it is lost (see the link above for more tips there).


How do I disable the 'click' sound on the camera app?

You'll need root to delete the sound file, but this should be it:

Delete /system/media/audio/ui/camera_click.ogg

Repercussions?  It won't play the sound anymore? :)

Alternatively, you could download another camera app that does not produce a camera sound.


Can not send or receive a group text on my Android phone anymore

You need to fix your Access Point Names (APN) under settings.  For me, it's Wireless and Networks > Mobile networks > Access Point Names


How to Auto-upload Screenshots of Android to Google Photos or Other?

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


One can remove Google Account from a device without any loss of apps installed.

However it is necessary to add atleast one Google Account in a device to enable downloading apps from playstore or using any Google App within the device.

To remove - Open Settings/Accounts/Google

Tap on Google account you want to remove and tap 3 dots on the upper right corner of the screen. Choose 'Remove Account'.

And remember to add an Google Account if you don't have any logged in after removing existing one.


No. Your WhatsApp contact list will display the names you chose for the numbers in your phonebook.

The nickname a user has is only displayed if he/she's not in your phonebook and he/she's posting in a group you're in.


Nexus 5X Nethunter has no linux-headers for 3.10.73-Re4son-3.5

Check the output of uname -a then use the full name of the linux-headers-$VERSION.
You can get the available linux-headers through:
apt search linux-headers

Then intsall it:
sudo apt install linux-heasers-$VERSION


You could always edit your .hosts file and define the domain the info is being sent to as 127.0.0.1.  You could also use an app like Titanium Backup to "freeze" the app. or chmod it as non-executable yourself.


Update Samsung s5300 to android Honeycomb 3.2

Honeycomb was actually meant for devices with large screens like tablets etc.., There is no Official update for S5300. So you'll have to root your phone and install a custom ROM(such as CyanogenMod) on your phone. Keep in mind that rooting your phone will void your phone of any warranty. Also beware that any error made while flashing ROM could brick your phone and make it unusable.


How can I select which folders to sync via Exchange ActiveSync?

I found sync settings for individual folders under Settings - Data Usage - then left menu softkey, make sure "Auto Data Sync" is selected.

Also, Settings -Accounts - Email - Settings -select exchange email acct, scroll down to "Exchange Active Sync Settings" lots of options for syncing, including individual sync settings for folders.


Voice Search is the name of the voice interaction app created by Google. It allows you to search your phone and the web using your voice.

Voice Actions is a specific feature of the Voice Search app that allows you to perform actions on your phone using your voice (such as calling someone, launching your music player, getting directions, etc). Voice Search supports a variety of locales but the Voice Actions component is only available for a subset of those (originally US English only, though I believe it has since expanded).

If you have a separate app named "Voice Commands" then it is most likely developed by a third-party. I know some Verizon phones, for instance, ship with an app named "Voice Commands" and bottom of the app displays Nuance Communications copyright 2003-2011.


How do I go about installing 7.1.1 in my nexus 5x?

http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/orig-development/wip-aosp-nougat-nexus-5-t3446875

This is what you're looking for..


fastboot seems to work, can transfer files but doesn't actually flash or boot images

You can't root with ADB or Fastboot because you don't have the ''adress" where the files will be sent. Mediatek devices need a map file, called scatter files which maps the memory and tells the flashing tool where every file should go, the start adress and the file size.

As they run Android,  Mediatek devices can be  manipulated with adb and  fastboot (depending on manufacturer: Alcatel and Huawei seem to support fastboot commands).

META mode is like fastboot, as you've pointed out. Besides you can enable ADB in META mode, it is used by hacking tools to access internal memory, as an example for network unlocking, IMEI repairing and so, you need special drivers CDC and VCOM to get it work though.


How to recover video that was cut off due to being out of space?

This is what you're looking for

Just make sure you have another video on the device (can be very short or long, any video from the same phone)


duplicate an android display on a non pc, stand alone, powered display

There are various ways to accomplish this (assuming that your display has an HDMI input), you can use a Chromecast device or directly connect your phone using an HDMI cable (again assuming that your phone supports that.)

If the above options are not suitable for you, you can make use of a raspberry pi to act as a bridge between your phone and the display.

Please provide more details about your phone and the display.


samsung galaxy s duos s7562 update is not installing

Generally, official over-the-air (OTA) updates from Google/carriers/manufacturers will not install on rooted devices, especially if you've changed something on the /system partition.  The update usually checks if the device is in a given state, and won't proceed with installation if it detects tampering.

If you want to accept the OTA update, you will first need to bring the phone back to its original state.  This means undoing whatever modifications you performed, and un-rooting it.  After updating you should be able to re-root.


I rooted the phone and installed MoreLocale 2, and gave it root permission from SuperSu. If you want another method, you could try this.


How to transfer photos wirelessly without losing file date and time

If you mean by "transfer photos off an Android" to "transfer from android to pc" i use a pc software to reconstruct the file-date from the exifdate (exiftools)

for the other direction "from pc to android" i insert the android-s sd-card into the pc so the pc can set the file-modification date.

On my android-4.2 and android-4.4 devices the android-os prevents the manual seting of a file-timestamp so transfering to android device via wifi will not work (at least not with my android devices).

[update 2017-02-21]

i have programmed a batch with exiftools :

 exiftool "-DateTimeOriginal>FileModifyDate" -ignoreMinorErrors -overwrite_original -r -ext .jpg .

meaning: copy for all *.jpg in current dir and their subdirs: exif-DateTimeOriginal to FileModifyDate


This might be a workaround for what you are trying to do. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2142170

Just incase the link goes dead at some point, the link just says;

Method:

Open the conversation to copy messages from in Whatsapp.
Press menu button and select "More" then "Email conversation" then select "Without media" then select any of the Email applications shown, for example "Gmail" but don’t send any message just cancel.
Open the Jota Text Editor application.
Press menu button and select "File" and "Open" then select the "Whatsapp"  - folder, then "Media" folder, then ".Shared" folder. You will see the name of the conversation you asked to Email earlier. Open it.
You will see all the messages of the conversation and you can copy multiple messages from here.

Notes:

We used "Jota Text Editor" application, but you can use any text editor or file explorer that can open a TXT file.
This method is for Android system, but can be used for other systems with minor modifications.
Use a file explorer to dispose accumulated TXT conversations in the ".Shared" folder. This folder is hidden but file explorers has an option to show hidden folders and files.

Hope this is works for ya.


You can use TempMonitor available from Google Play Store:

System temperature reading in your status bar updating at your choice interval.
TempMonitor is the oldest CPU Temperature monitoring app on the android market. This app is built to do one thing: Temperature, and it does it well.

Some features that you might like:
The temperature can be displayed on the status bar or in the APP Screen. You can also select what you want to see:

Choose from Celsius or Fahrenheit.
Choose what temperature to display (Battery, CPU).
Choose the update interval.


How to put all your android photos to google drive?

I used Google Photos now. That seems to be the solution I want.


Marshmallow Heads-up Notifications Gone?

The update never removed Heads Up notifications. You just have to select which apps have the permission to display them.

Go into Settings -> Sound & notification -> App notifications to pull up a list of apps.

Once you select Whatsapp in your case, there will be an "Allow Peeking" checkbox, as so:

(source: staticworld.net)

Just tick that back on, and you'll get those notifications.

If WhatsApp doesn't respect those settings, there is an alternative:

You can download a Fully Customizable Heads-up for WhatsApp from Play Store, which works with the latest WhatsApp update.

Hope this helps!


Activate face recognition in the new Google Photos

I just found the solution to this. All you need to do is:

Connect to a USA server via a VPN
Clear the data and cache of the Google Photos app.
Open the app again and activate the "Group similar faces" in the settings
Check back the search menu after a couple of minutes and the faces would be there. Google already did the recognition for you, but kept it for itself.
Disconnect from the VPN.


How can I deny "android:keepScreenOn" to a misbehaving app?

Xposed Module

Since your device is rooted, you could install the Xposed framework and then install a module such as App Settings. It lets you tweak settings for an app. In your case, it lets you tweak whether to keep the screen on or not (according to its page, at least).

The Xposed framework has tons of other modules for tweaking the inner workings of Android.


As already mentioned in the earlier Answer, as of this writing, there is no way to Like comments in Android YouTube App.

Below is the screen shot confirming this, taken from Official link.

Source Link


transfer custom itinerary from Maps on PC to Android

Install Google Maps Engine.

  Google Maps Engine on Android enables you to view your custom maps
  anywhere, anytime.

I'm not sure, but Navigation will probably not work as described here:

  For navigation, searching for local places, etc. please check out the
  Google Maps for Mobile app.


Why do I get "not enough space" when I copy an APK file to /system/app?

HTC phones have an extra protection of the /system folder, rooting them is not enough to get write access there.

You need to turn off that protection. This is most easily done with the Revolutionary tool. Follow the instructions closely on the site.


At your homescreen longpress on a blank space and choose Settings. Under Customization header you would find the option "Hide Apps".


Nexus 10 / Android 5: recovery broken, fastboot not working

Some Nexus 10 tablets have a bug ,the fastboot menu is hiden ,the
screen remain blank even when you are actually in fastboot mod to
make sure you don't miss it do the following
Hold Power + Volume Up + Volume Down until the tablet vibrates twice
(once to shutdown, then a few seconds later to acknowledge fastboot
menu). After the second vibration, you should be in the fastboot
menu, although the screen is blank plug the phone to pc it should be
recognized
Now that you have access to fastboot ,you can flash a new firmware or
a custom recovery to get your device to a working stat.