Does turning off cellular data override restrict background data?

I see three questions:

1.) Does cellular data off override restrict background data?
A: No. It's possible to get Background Data through WiFi.

2.) I have always assumed that turning off cellular data under Android settings/Data Usage meant no data use is possible.
A: No. See above answer, and below.

3.) However, I found out there is another setting: restrict background data. If that is turned on, will the phone still use cellular data even when cellular data is off.
A: Yes, it's not impossible. That restricts Background Data only.

But, some Phones 'leak'.

I had everything turned off and set to use WiFi, even went to the "Data Usage" Setting and restricted each APP individually - but the Carrier was billing me for Data Usage.

I phoned to complain and the Call Taker thought I must have done something incorrectly - Supervisor!

The Supervisor said that I had used a few BYTES on a couple of days, and they were adding a Charge for "Under 5MB Usage". I assured her that I had turned everything off and bought the Phone from them. We agreed that no practical Web Page is that short and that I wasn't trying to Surf for free.

They added a Feature to my Account called "Data - 5MB Free" finally admitting that they got so many complaints about this that this is what they came up with.

I suspect that the Manufacturer's UI or the OS was not checking the Settings (a 'leak' / Bug) and since the change to "5MB Free" I'm no longer getting billed for using Data without intending to.

So, yes, technically it is possible to Set something (or read something on the Internet) and to get different results than you had hoped for. It's possible to turn Data off and for a tiny amount to get used, resulting in getting billed for it.

If you don't want to pay Cellular Data Charges (or ask the Carrier to completely disable it) then turn it off and check your Data Usage (on your Phone and Phone Bill). If it's leaking take it to the Store or convince them over the Phone that you have turned everything off on your end.

Ask if the Usage is extremely small, if it is and the Phone is theirs ask for at least 1MB free.

I think I found where the leakage is coming from, or at least how to block it.

I bought my phone unlocked and have not rooted it. If you have a carrier subsidised phone this may not work without their cooperation if they have locked the settings for "Connections -> Mobile Networks -> Access Point Names". I've had this problem on two phones from different manufacturers, so I guess it's a UI and Android problem.

The problem (or solution) is that "Connections -> Mobile Networks -> Access Point Names -> APN Protocol" is set to "IPv4/IPv6" - you need to change that to "IPv4" so that when you have Data turned off the setting is respected. Either it's 'by design' or a Bug that turning off Data isn't blocking IPv6 usage when your phone boots, either way it's a rip off to get a Bill for Data usage when it's turned off.

My Carrier has locked their settings so I couldn't alter them without either taking my phone in and explaining all this again (or scouring the Internet for a way to change the Carrier settings). Fortunately I am able to add a new setting and choose it (I bought my phone outright), if your phone is "Carrier Locked" you might not be able to create a new "Access Point".

While researching this (after discovering how to see the leakage) I found a few tools and webpages that are helpful.

The APP that showed me the Data trickle is NetTech's "Net Analyser".

On their "Information" tab at the bottom it shows the total IPv6 usage since last boot - prior to fixing this problem it said that I was using over 60kB of Data, not much but enough to get billed (prior to getting 5MB Free).

Here's a screenshot, notice at the bottom where it says: "Received Since Boot" and "Sent Since Boot" - previously those values were over 60kB, now they are zero. The leakage is prevented, money saved.

What you need to do:

Go to "Connections -> Mobile Networks -> Access Point Names" and click on your current setting. See the Android Central article: "What is an APN, and how do I change it?" for a longer explanation. You either need to be able to edit the fields or create a new entry for this fix.

Screenshot your current settings so you can keep a record of the original settings in case you make an error when you edit them, or so you can create a duplicate entry to modify.

Either modify the Carrier's original setting for "APN Protocol" or create a new entry in the "Connections -> Mobile Networks -> Access Point Names". If you create a new entry use the screenshots to exactly copy everything identically (spaces, and set to "none" versus "not set" must be identical,).

Change "IPv4/IPv6" to "IPv4".
Save and reboot.
Check Data usage with "Net Analyser" (or APP that shows IPv6 usage). There should no longer be any IPv6 data usage.

Fixed.

While searching for a solution I also found this webpage: "How to DISABLE IPv6 on Android?" but they say the solution is temporarily and needs to be done each boot - that's useless for us because our problem seems to occur during boot, before the UI Settings kick in.

A more helpful webpage appears to be: "IPv6 on Mobile Devices" and especially: "Android: IPv6 Data Leaks" (translated from the original German webpage) which explains how to turn off IPv6, though you'll likely need root to do it:

## Kernel
# Disable IPv6
echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/wlan0/accept_ra
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/all/disable_ipv6
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/default/disable_ipv6


Does disabling stock apps cause problems with phone on Android 6.0

There are many stock apps which you defenetely shoud'nt disable as it can problems to your stock frimware behaviour. I also once disabled lots of packages as i thought it will save battery and ram but it turns out there are extensions or side apps which are required by other apps to get/run their content. for example there is an sideapp called media storage which scans and stores media changes in your storage locations i.e. if you disable your music players like play music,phonograph,musixmatch,etc.. wont work and will show previous catched files insted of new files or currwent files. same way you may be facing same problem here. Just check which app does your audio player needs to run audio smoothly. re-enable it and restart your phone..this should solve the problem.


Had the same issue, it was very annoying. Did not want any share menu replacement apps.
So now found the trick: when the share menu opens, long press on the app - a menu popups with an option to pin it.

Your post is a year old, I guess you might have figured out it already :)


How can I remove a contact from the "favorites" page of the phone app?

Hold the contact in the favorites page.
Drag and drop it on Remove.

(This may vary for different phone apps. The method above works on AOSP stock phone app)


The bigger pattern lock is a Cyanogenmod feature that was introduced in 10.1 late last year.  I do not believe it is currently included in stock android.

https://plus.google.com/+CyanogenMod/posts/eHpv1QCoRuc


How can I get Ethernet adapter and still be able to charge my tablet

Yes, but I have not found a single device solution that solves the problem. Utilizing multiple devices can solve the problem.

According to PoE Texas, you can combine the use of a USB to RJ45, Powered USB OTG Hub, PoE Splitter Micro-USB and RJ45. Finding a 10 Watt OTG Hub would be good for continuous use of a charging device.


Remove bloatware from Acer Liquid Mini (E310)

Installing a different rom simply did the job.

Right now I'm using 2.3.5

Unfortunately I just have guides in Italian and French but a little google translator did the job :)

French:

http://www.acer-club.fr/viewtopic.php?f=98&t=3336&sid=64e715b102a9932965fa871175c01da9

Italian:

http://www.androidiani.com/forum/modding-acer-liquid-mini/80562-guida-installare-android-2-3-5-su-acer-liquid-mini-custom-rom.html


Errors during factory reset on a device using encryption

Solution is to format /data + /data/media.

If you ever wanted to do factory reset after using encryption, you need to format the entire /data partition.

What you have tried is formatting /data without deleting the contents of /data/media. This wouldn't work because this step tries to mount /data partition in recovery and then delete the contents of it without touching /data/media.

The primary reason for this error is the recovery cannot mount the encrypted /data partition.

So, its required to backup the contents of /data/media aka Internal Storage before every factory reset (formatting /data + /data/media) on device using encryption.


can sony xperia u(st25i) 's otg be connected to external power?

You can, but a kernel mod may be required to also keep the host device charging.
However, many devices are already prepared for this, and cables are being manufactured and sold to this specific end, as one can see from this Ebay search, there's already several cables in the market.
To your particular device, the sonic_boom user at this XDA Developers forum thread made a Dock Station to use OTG cable and charging at the same time:

My docking station will work with any 2012 maybe 2011 SONY XPERIA DEVICES with OTG SUPPORT.
I have tested this so far on my XPERIA S and working perfect.

Dock Station

Schematics


Can you change the options when long pressing the .com button?

With the stock keyboards, no. Some 3rd party keyboards may allow this, but I don't know any. There are some keyboards that have additional options too.


How to add Google Play support in Anbox?

I'm not really sure about Anbox, but I've made and modified several Android distros, that are unregistered, as you had said. What I had done on these devices was:

Either go to Open GApps and then download the app. Then run it, choose the package and wait for it to download. Use a superuser, to grant GApps permission, and allow it to install all Google apps (as per your package selection).
The second thing you can do is, use flashify, to flash a zip that you can download from Open GApps again.


@Peter and Everyone. I ran into this exact issue. After spending a few hours befuddled by the nonsense that Android 11 has created with all of this...I decided to take a step back, look at this from a different perspective and had a tada moment :) The best solution sometimes is the most simplistic and one that was right in front of me the whole time. Well, actually, sitting in my laptop bag that's been parked for about a year.
Long story short, I ejected my SD Card, placed it in my previous S9 which was running Android whatever...anything other than Android 11. As soon as I fired it up, checked my Android/Data folder...everything was there, I simply copied it to my Internal Drive, ejected it, returned to the S10 and was back up and running. Thus, I didn't need to Root my device, test over 10+ File Manager Apps, read article after article, etc...I just had to go back in time before Android 11 and I didn't even have to revert my current S10 back to Android 10 or earlier. I just had to take Android 11 out of the picture.
So, while I've seen all of these press releases, specifications, justifications and reasoning for what Android 11 was supposed to do...it just doesn't compute. Never in my 30+ career have I seen a supposedly new solution lead to a 100% non operative solution against a given. In other words, accessing your Android/Data directory was as easy as 1+1, after Android 11 the only number that matters is 0...the number of items you can access :(
I think the moral to the story here is that always having a contingency plan... in this case an older backup phone pays off. I will not bore you with old stories of how my previous phone(s) helped in other situations...but I think today's result sums things up :)
Take care and I hope this helps everyone with this waste of time nonsense. It's OUR data sitting right in front of us that we NEVER had an issue with prior to Android 11.


Is there a way to mirror my screen to a PC with sound?

Download third party software Wondershare MirroGo. It works great (Not promoting).
Some instructions to follow:-
 - You can download Mirror Go from Here
 - After downloading and installing, Enable your phone's USB
    debugging, see here -  How to enable USB Debugging.
 - Simply connect your phone with USB and accept the adb authorization
    request pop-ups on screen and you're done.
Main advantages of this software is that:
 - You can render your phone's screen on Desktop/Laptop.
 - You can play games/movies/songs through MirrorGo.
 - You can control your phone via MirrorGo through Mouse/Keyboard.
 - You can record your screen via MirrorGo during the live view of your phone in your laptop/desktop.
You can Also use MirroGo with MobileGO ( an advanced software to backup your whole phone with one click and tons of features and works for Iphone too).


Search2Play broke my Samsung Infuse's back button. How can I fix it?

You'll probably want to wipe everything and reflash your ROM.  This XDA post has everything you need:

  What this is:

  A package to return your device to a completely stock state. It differs from h8rift's packages in that it includes a PIT file to repartition your phone. This is especially useful for those who accidentally flashed the wrong PIT (cough... bella) or screwed up their partitions some other way.

  Is this dangerous?:

  No. The PIT file I created has been tested and confirmed working by myself.

  Instructions:

  Make sure the drivers for the Infuse 4G are installed (installing Kies is the best way to accomplish this)
  Download and unzip GTG's_Ultimate_Unbrick.zip
  Run Odin3 v1.7.exe as administrator
  Place your phone into download mode (pull battery, replace battery, press and hold both volume buttons while plugging in the USB cable)
  Make sure your phone shows up in Odin as COM##
  Click the PIT button and choose infuse.pit (and make sure Re-Partition is checked)
  Click the PDA button and choose PDA_UCKD5.tar.md5
  Click the PHONE button and choose PHONE_UCKD5.tar.md5
  Press Start
  In the rare case that it finishes and your phone proceeds to boot loop, pull the battery, replace it, press and hold both volume keys and then press and hold the power key, keep holding all three buttons until 3e recovery comes up, select "delete all user data", and finally select "reboot system now".

  ----Download----
  GTG's_Ultimate_Unbrick.zip (183MB)

Note that Odin is very powerful and, despite the fact that the post says it's not dangerous, Odin can brick your phone.  Proceed at your own risk.  That said, I've used Odin dozens of times myself and it's saved my phone several times.


How can I import / export contacts as VCF in Sony Xperia Tipo Dual

I am guessing that you are running Sony's TimeScape Interface. (As you not mentioned anything explicitly) So here are steps:

To back up contacts using a memory card:

From the Home screen, tap the Application screens icon.
Find and tap Contacts.
Press the Menu key, then tap Back up contacts > Memory card > OK.

Tested on Xperia Neo, Xperia Neo V, Xperia Ray running 2.3.4 Gingerbread to 4.0.4 ICS with Sony's TimeScape UI. Should work on Tipo as well.

Here's a page from Sony's site for further help.


Based on my experience, modifying an APK file after the installation is not a big problem as long as you don't touch the DEX files. Especially the native libraries for other architectures than the one of your device can usually be stripped without problems as they are totally ignored after the installation.

However there are apps that implement extra security checks (usually banking, finance, streaming apps with DRM or otherwise extra hardened apps) that performs some sort of self-test to check whether they have been modified or not. Modifying those apps will end up in a non-working app.


How to get Paste menu to show in textarea on Chrome?

As my question indicated, long pressing in a textarea (i.e. the multi line html input box) will highlight the word (or the nearest word/whitespace), and double tapping does what a single tap does: shows the blue cursor button.

The trick I was missing is that once the blue cursor button is showing, I tap this button to get the Paste menu to show. Once the Paste menu is showing, clicking around will move the cursor and the Paste menu.


Is it possible to run video over type-C smartphones?

If your PC happens to have a WiFi adapter, you don't need to care about the connection type and can stream video content to your device via an application like Plex or Moon VR Player for example.

The limitations are inherent to the video player you choose to use on your phone.

I assume you are interested by VR headsets since you included the tage "samsung-gear-vr".
For Plex for example, there is currently no native support for Gear VR, so you have to access the web interface by Oculus browser or Samsung Internet browser (it also seems to be supported by PhoneCast). You can also use a more complex setup such as the one described in this post.


You can try the following:

adb kill-server followed by adb start-server
(on device) Settings -> Developer Options -> USB Debugging -- switch off and on
[Windows] Make sure you have the proper driver (your best bet is Universal Adb Driver by Koushik Dutta -- will handle any device)
[Windows] Try turning off all fancy on-the-fly anti-malware scanners/firewalls
[Linux] Make sure you have the proper UDEV rule in /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules (again, universal solution: https://github.com/snowdream/51-android)
[Linux] Try using adb as root
Restart your phone
Replug cable, try different cable, different port, remove any extender cables

I hope somthing works for you :)


Is it possible to find the full SELinux ruleset for OEM's stock ROMs?

Yes, but it depend where these policy files are stored. Many manufacturers like to move stuff around, thinking their own security solution is better. On top of that depending on you AOS version, things may have changed again, since SEAndroid is a quite recent implementation.
One place to look for these files is at the Android Census site. There you can navigate to each device policy/context file. For example:

/seapp_contexts:

isSystemServer=true domain=system
user=system domain=system_app type=system_data_file
user=bluetooth domain=bluetooth type=bluetooth_data_file
user=nfc domain=nfc type=nfc_data_file
user=radio domain=radio type=radio_data_file
user=_app domain=untrusted_app type=app_data_file
user=system name=com.sec.knox.containeragent domain=knox_system_app type=system_data_file
user=system name=com.policydm domain=knox_system_app type=system_data_file
user=_app name=com.centrify.mdm.samsung seinfo=knox_untrusted domain=knox_untrusted_app type=app_data_file
...


How to install a ringtone into internal memory?

If you have root, it is possible, but not really recommended. If you do not have root, then you cannot. The file system is designed to be readonly and you can't add additional files to the system.


Pass-word not being accepted for google on my Android phone

That's not possible.
Try changing your password and try logging in again from phone.


OpenSSH doesn't use user@host:port notation. If you need to specify a port, you do it with -p port.


Nexus 6 Not Showing up in "My Computer" or ADB with Debug Mode Enabled

Installing Universal naked drivers shall solve your problem. Assuming you are skillful enough installing drivers manually as you intend to make use of ADB, here's a reference link to Universal Naked Drivers: http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/development/adb-fb-apx-driver-universal-naked-t2513339

It generally supports all Nexus devices(probably all), if it doesn't help, uninstall the current installed driver from Device Manager and replug your Nexus device to make it install its drivers again.


Android (Yuphoria) stuck in bootloop without recovery and ROM & files cannot be written

Flashing a stock firmware should fix this.

Download and extract Yu Yuphoria YU5010 stock firmware on your computer
After extracting, you should get the Firmware File, Flash Tool  and How-to Flash Guide.
Install the USB Driver on your Computer
Follow the How-to Flash Guide to Flash the Firmware .

Follow the steps carefully and your problem should be fixed.


Google Weather's notifications show weather in F°

I've gone to Settings, searched for the term "Weather" and got the following

Clicking in it could see that it was defined here as Fahrenheit. Changing it to Celsius solved the problem

See it working


HTC Sense Keeps Crashing Even After Factory Reset

OP fixed the issue with the following solution:

  Edit: I fixed it by following the instructions from TheUnlockr - How To: Unroot the HTC Desire and flashing this ROM [Direct Link].

Community wiki under "best-practices" defined by this meta answer.


If you are not familiar with ADB environment, then the most suitable solution for you is to Factory Reset your device. However, if you are familiar with ADB, then follow this:

adb shell su
pm enable com.google.android.setupwizard/com.google.android.setupwizard.SetupWizardActivity

adb shell settings put secure user_setup_complete 0

  Please note that the commands are case-sensitive and require
  permissions.


OTG Support on latest Nexus flagships 5X, 6P

Google search on XDA forums shows both phones support  OTG

Nexus 6P. USB OTG. Shows connectors and retailer info

Nexus 5X Nexus 5X OTG support from Google product forums

USB standards from USB.org  also has pictures of three types of connectors and general info


App permission management is running notification

I am sorry to say that it is not possible without root access.

If you do have root access, then there are a number of options. One simple method which I have used in the past is an app called "Notifications Off" from the Play Store. Another more advanced option is to use GravityBox via the Xposed framework.

But care needs to be taken. You can only choose between all or nothing for a given app. Therefore it is only safe to disabled the App Permission Management notifications if you have Permission Management switched off, otherwise you will miss all the dialog boxes which occur when an app requests a permission, causing many apps to be completely unusable.


How can I update my Desire S from Android 2.3.3 to Android 2.3.4?

madlymad's right, there is no official update.  XDA has several 2.3.4 custom ROMs, though.  Should you choose to go that route, read a few of the linked ROM threads and then follow the instructions for the one you want.


How do I avoid problems when going from Wi-Fi to cell data connection (3G)?

You could try using Quick Settings to toggle the 3G connection.  It has seperate toggle switches for 3G and Wifi but when wifi is on it automatically turns off 3G.  When I click the toggle to turn on 3G it automatically disables the wifi.


I can't upgrade my S III software from 4.0.4 to 4.1.1

As the error says, you've got 2 options

Use Kies to install the upgrade.
Wait until your carrier's wind-up toy servers get un-overloaded.

A third option would be to obtain an image of the appropriate firmware (e.g. from samfirmware) and flash it via ODIN, though this is slightly more involved.

As an addendum, I was getting this myself with my own GS3 on Virgin mobile Canada (aka Bell Canada) and I ended up waiting just about 2 days, from the initial reports of people upgrading on Sunday until I got it late Tuesday evening.


Todo app that syncs with Google Tasks and has notification badges?

Try a different home screen manager.  Launcher Pro does this on my phone for email and texts in the app shortcuts in the launcher bar.  I don't use Google Tasks, so I can't speak to that one particularly.


Why is my phone's battery draining automatically?

First, it may sound redundant, but restart your phone.

After restarting if the issue persists then do the following:

So, to diagnose the issue with your battery, first you need to find out if there is an app running in the background which is draining the battery. To check this visit this site:

  In all versions of Android, hit Settings > Device > Battery or Settings > Power > Battery Use to see a list of all apps and how much battery power they're using. If an app you don't use often seems to take up a disproportionate amount of power, consider uninstalling it.
  On Android 7, here you can also see how much “Cell standby” or “Mobile standby” is eating up – this is the amount of power your phone gobbles up while not being used.

After follwing the above instructions, if your battery is still draining I would take it to a service store to get the battery tested and then you can find out if you need a battery replacement or the issue lies somewhere else within the phone hardware or software.

Sometimes a dead giveaway for a faulty battery is that as soon as you plug the phone in for charging, the battery percentage "jumps" for example from 6% to 25%. If this is occurring, you for sure need a new battery.


How can I download an MP3 to my phone instead of opening it in a music player?

Are you able to Chrome-to-Phone a page containing the link to the mp3 you want? If so, Dolphin (and most most every Android browser) will allow you to "save link as" (or similar) when you long-press on it. This will download the file instead of trying to play or stream it.

More cumbersome solutions include downloading the mp3 you want on your PC then transferring via Dropbox or syncing via doubleTwist (or even their AirSync for-pay feature). Doubletwist even has its own built in podcast features much like iTunes. BigCaseyDog's answer about Amazon MP3 would be a very similar alternative to Dropbox.

FWIW, I'm a Pocket Casts fan for the purposes of this very question - I was stuck with the same problem you describe until I fell in love with their download feature, among other things.


How can I attach a default sms template text to a specific contact number?

chompSMS by Delicious Inc. available from Google Play Store.

  with lots of extra features like Quick Reply, Quick Compose, Scheduled Messages, Passcode Lock, Privacy, Easy Pick Emoji's, Templates (text snippets), Signatures, heaps of customization options (notifications, ringtones, colors, fonts, wallpapers), Blacklisting and much more!

May diverge a bit from your precise goal, but works like a charm to achieve the same end.

You can use this app to have a ton of templates prepared, and use them when texting someone.

Instead of typing over and over the same thing on different messages, either at the beginning, middle or end of a text, you just long tab the message body and pick up the desired template.


Does Andy emulator respond to computer keyboard while playing Android games?

Try the Left Arrow and Right arrow keys or the Z and X combinations in your keyboard. This should work for you.

For swipe functionalities use Ctrl with arrow keys combination,

Ctrl+Right arrow ->  Swipe towards Right
Ctrl+Left arrow ->  Swipe towards Left


Using phone's computing power to assist in PC's calculation

A modern smartphone that runs Android is a general-purpose computer. Yes, you can run a single or cluster of smartphones to do general-purpose computation.

A smartphone is probably not the best tool for this job. Phones are expensive because they are optimized for size and power considerations. A desktop or laptop computer will be give you significantly more computing performance for the same cost.


Cannot log into my Google account, with any app

Try 'forgetting' the current WiFi network, and then reconnecting to it. If this does not work, then the Google servers may be under maintenance, and you may need to wait for a while. (From 30+ mins to 2+ days.)


Please Help! Can I still access my files?

You could use a recovery like TWRP (if available for your device) to delete the file. In TWRP, you can find the file manager under the 'advanced' category.


Galaxy S2 9100 Apps Sms download or not notification in China

This sounds like an SMS/Push message sent by your carrier in China.

I would suggest you contact your carrier, and ask them if they are sending these - and ask them if they can be stopped.

You can use this app to block these if your carrier won't.


Make device as root
Go to xda-developers.com - Seeder Topic
Install last Seeder apk on your device
Run it

And then your device should work better.


Unable to add Rediffmail account in Gmail app

Select POP3 → In POP server address, type pop.rediffmail.com → in SMTP server address, type smtp.rediffmail.com.  Then you are all set.


This is a rather old question but Nova Launcher has an option to stop (most) redraws.
It can be found in Nova Settings > Advanced (at the bottom of the list).
It reads:

Aggressive desktop
Persistence, caching, and preloading to reduce redraws. Comparable to Keep in Memory option of Android 2.x launchers.

It's not a good idea for phones with low RAM (<=1GB), but if you have 800MB free (so, assumingly, your phone has 1.5 or 2GB), it should be just fine.
There should also be (persistent) next to the app name in Android Settings > Developer options > Process stats after changing that option.


Unable to view files (copied from computer)

I dont have any file manager installed, could that be the problem ? How can I install my first file manager through pc ?

Go to the play store and look
for a file browser of your liking. Install it on your phone.
Connect your phone to your computer. Go to command line/terminal. Make sure you have adb installed, if not install it now.
Use the adb command install <path-to-apk>.


Transferring videos from Android to iOS Camera Roll

Easiest way is via WhatsApp or any other social networking sites which can send video.


Depending on when you purchased your previous devices, you restored the devices during the initial setup window.

When booting up an Android device after a factory reset, you're greeted with the Setup app.

During this process, you add your Google account. In most cases, there is a link to restore your device, which will install apps associated with the google account to your device.

If you have yet to apply large amounts of data to the device, factory reset it so you go through the initial setup again, and look for a restore option.

If this doesn't show, no previous installations can be found, and you'll have to install apps manually.


Transfer phonebook Samsung Galaxy S3 Android 4.3

It's most simple to transfer your contacts to your Google account. Any new device you're adding to your Google account will synchronise and get the same contacts. This way you'll also have an online backup so in case your phone dies, you don't have to gather phone numbers.

To do so, follow these steps:

STEP 1:

On your phone, go to your contacts and press the menu icon.
Press "Import/Export", select "Export to storage" and press "OK"
A file on the root of your phone storage will be created called something like this: "00001.vcf" (this is called a vCard)

STEP 2:

Go to the following URL on your phone (or computer, but you have to move over the 00001.vcf file):
https://www.google.com/contacts/u/0/?cplus=0#contacts (note: you have to go to this url and not contacts.google.com. There's a preview going on which does not support importing contacts yet)

Choose the file in the following popup and press "Import":

Now that you've uploaded and imported your contacts, you should see your contacts appear on your new phone.

If you've imported the contacts with your phone, you can see the contacts on either one of the following URLS on your computer:

https://www.google.com/contacts/u/0/?cplus=0#contacts

https://contacts.google.com/

Note: you should be logged into your Google account on your phone.


Phone Factory Reset without carrier apps

No, it is not possible to skip the "Installing Applications" screen.

However, you can disable these applications in Settings. If you have root access you can also uninstall them completely.

You can also change the firmware to a non carrier one with Odin. Be careful, because this can brick your device if not done correctly.

Firmwares can be downloaded on Sammobile. (An official firmware will not void warranty)


There are some bugs reported in the Xperia P Jelly Bean update 6.2.A.0.400. Even if it is suggested to perform a factory reset, the problem has not seemed to have fully solved.

So your problem will not most probably be fixed until Sony releases a new version with bug fixes (and it might take some time)

Note: Since you are mainly concerned with your gaming apps, you might need to check the incompatibilities from the Google Play Store.


I Rooted My Phone and Uninstalled Google Play Service

I had same problem few months back. Then what I did was:

I used a second, identical device (running the same Android version), and from there transferred all the components I had accidentally uninstalled on the first one, using some sort of apk sender application.


where is /data/preload folder on my [rooted] android phone?

You must have Root rights. It's in Root\Preload.


How to stop update notifications for disabled apps on a Family-Link managed device?

Have you tried resetting the Play Store?

It is possible (although very unlikely) that the Play Store has failed to detect that the apps have been disabled.

Go to Settings → Apps → Play Store → Storage → Tap the Clear data button.

Note: This will reset all your Play Store settings (update settings, notification settings etc.) to default. You might have to adjust these settings manually again.

If the above steps still don't solve your problem, try the below steps —

First, you'll need to enable USB debugging from the phone settings and download the Android debugging platform-tools package on your PC.
The official documentation for this can be found here.

Then, connect your phone to your PC with a cable and make sure your phone is listed as device as given in the above documentation.

Uninstall the culprit apps for the primary user account

adb shell

This will bring up a command line shell prompt of your phone. Then enter the following commands —

pm uninstall --user 0 com.google.android.videos # Remove Play Movies
pm uninstall --user 0 com.google.android.music # Remove Play Music
pm uninstall --user 0 com.google.android.apps.magazines # Remove Play Newsstand
pm uninstall --user 0 com.google.android.apps.books # Remove Play Books
exit

The apps should not appear in your Play Store's apps list anymore.

EDIT - For Family Link managed devices (Based on OP's observations)

If the device is being managed by Google Family Link, then there is no way to access Developer Options on the managed device because Google Family Link makes advanced settings (like Developer Options, Install from unknown sources etc.) inaccessible on the managed device.
Also, as mentioned by OP in the comments below, if these settings are modified before enabling Family Link management, they are reset to their defaults as soon as management is enabled.

However, these advanced settings can be controlled by parents from the Family Link app for parents, and they can be accessed using the following steps —
Open the Family Link app for parents → Select your child → Look for your child's managed device → Tap Settings on the device card
Here, you should find controls for most of the settings which are not accessible from the managed device anymore. Look for the USB Debugging developer option and turn it on.

Then, by following the steps mentioned above to connect the managed device to a PC via ADB, you should be able to run the commands to get rid of the apps from the managed device.


Touchscreen dead zone - intermittent problem

A hack, not a solution:

I changed the keyboard app, for an app on which keyboard resizing works (impossible to resize the default Android keyboard, because the resizing arrow stands precisely on the dead touchscreen zone). Swiftkey app worked.
I chose the large keyboard size.

Functionality is restored, although the 'handicap' remains.


HTC HERO OTA update to Android version 2.1 firmware deleted the Calibrate Touch Screen feature from the menus. How do I get it back?

Unfortunately I'm pretty sure this isn't possible. How long have you had your phone? If it's still under warranty/insured, you should be able to get it replaced and can make sure that the new one has a good screen. Sounds like a hardware problem to me.


Accessing a phone after factory resetting it with adb

You won't have USB debugguing after a factory reset.
Perhaps you could tweak a custom rom to do so, i never tryed myself, but ie TWRP recovery have adb enabled by default.


What are some Facebook contact integration alternatives?

First, in the Facebook app, go to settings -> Sync Contacts -> check either Sync all or Sync with existing contacts.  Then in the contacts app, go to Display options and find your Facebook account in the list, then check All contacts.  They should show up in your contact list then.  To join them with existing google contacts, go into one of the contacts, edit it, hit menu and select Join, then find the other contact and select it.


Why does the screen show vertical lines?

It's probably broken inside. I'd suggest you send it to a service center for checking.


Huawei Ascend P7: Problem with Push Notifications

Make sure you've turned on Datasync in Settings
Use https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.andqlimax.pushfixer to set notification heartbeat interval
If nothing helps, factory-reset your phone
Check if the same problem appears on both phones, if yes, try a different telephony company


What kind of hardware can be used to speed up the writing on android phones?

I realise that this isn't an answer to your hardware requirement, but are you sure you need new hardware?

I believe that the current Guinness World Record speed texting record holder used the Swype keyboard on an Android phone, so it's not exactly slow.

Swype is pre-installed on a number of Android phones (primarily Samsung models) but unfortunately is otherwise in a limited beta that you'll need to register for. There are some similar soft keyboards like SlideIt that are available in the Market


how to move application from internal storage to phone storage or sd card

You can't move apps to SD card if the option is not available (as per the new rules of Google). You need to Root (which voids warranty) the device to be able to move apps from device memory to SD card and to remove default apps.


How can't install a 338KB app when I have 474MB free?

Note: the quoted user was me. And here is the reference. To explain why it wasn't 10% in your case, here's an exception from behind the link: "As long as the device maker doesn't change the default settings". So those 10% are the default setting, but obviously can be altered by the "ROM baker". How often that is done I cannot tell; with that post being from 2011, the rule might even have changed meanwhile (though I didn't hear of that either).

So I just applied a little "Google-Fu": Android 4.1.1 still has the comment

  If the free storage on device is less than a tunable threshold value (a secure settings parameter; default 10%) a low memory notification is displayed to alert the user."

(emphasis mine). Note the term "tunable threshold", which makes it obvious this threshold can be modified/adjusted. For Android 4.1.1 you can find it at line 67:

private static final int DEFAULT_THRESHOLD_PERCENTAGE = 10;

This is a class variable; but not being an Android dev myself, I cannot tell how it can be overwritten. It certainly will require system permissions (or just an app with the WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS permission?). Quoting the latest code:

 * This class implements a service to monitor the amount of disk
 * storage space on the device.  If the free storage on device is less
 * than a tunable threshold value (a secure settings parameter;
 * default 10%) a low memory notification is displayed to alert the
 * user. If the user clicks on the low memory notification the
 * Application Manager application gets launched to let the user free
 * storage space.

You can see, the 10% rule is still there. But the DEFAULT_THRESHOLD_PERCENTAGE variable is gone (and replaced by mMemLowThreshold, which seems to be set in a different class now – see line 361).

TL;DR: The very same 10% threshold still applies, but the "ROM baker" (who creates the ROM) might adjust that. A developer with some more insight might be able to tell if it can be adjusted by other means, e.g. a special app with the WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS permission, or even simply via ADB.


Setting custom permissions per-application

Adding to Chahk's answer: Yes, it's true that "natively" permissions are an "all-or-nothing". The "standard user" is expected to either accept all permissions an app requests -- or to refrain from its installation.

And yes, it's true: using an app like Permissions Denied, which simply "denies" an app certain permissions, apps might force-close as they don't expect this.

But there's a third way where apps are simply fed "fake data". This is done e.g. by LBE and PDroid (see Other apps to manage permissions? and how to fake my personal information for details). App wants the contacts? Ooops, address book is empty. IMEI? OK, how about "1234567890"? Internet? Sorry, but we're in a tunnel -- neither WiFi nor mobile data available. So all returned data make sense to the requesting app: It does not get a simple "exception", so it doesn't crash. And what it makes up from the fake data -- who cares? :)

Needless to say: root is required here as well...


What kind of App is Tricount? Meaning is it came pre-installed in your phone or you download it from Play store such as Google Play Store?

Answer to above question is IMP as Android File system maintain clear distinction between system apps (which are shipped by your device OEM) and Downloaded apps.

Assuming that it is a downloaded app, you can check below location:
/data/data/app-package-name
Where app-package-name is the name of the package (Given by the Developer who developed Tricount app).


Displaying the lock-screen clock on the home screen

The clock shown on the lock screen is part of the lock screen itself. The clock on your home screen is a widget.

The only way to get the lock screen clock on your home screen is to find a widget that looks the same. There are plenty of widgets on the Google Play store, and if you can't find one you like you could always write one yourself!


Can connect 3T to devices via hotspot, but no internet

I have personally tried this on OxygenOS 4.1.6 on my OnePlus 3, but the solution is the same for all OxygenOS 4.X.X devices.

Note: If you have ADB setup, USB Debugging enabled and the drivers installed, skip to step 7.

Enable Developer Options in Settings > About phone and tapping on the build number seven times.
Next, in Settings > Developer Options enable "USB Debugging"
Connect your OnePlus device to a laptop or computer, and install the appropriate the appropriate drivers from the "CD/DVD drive" that was inserted, then reboot your computer.
Download ADB and Fastboot for your computer from the Android Developers website
Extract the folder, open Terminal and navigate to the extracted folder using

cd path/to/extracted/folder

Type adb devices and accept the prompt on your OnePlus device.
This is the actual command that matters:

adb shell settings put global tether_dun_required 0

Enjoy tethering from your OnePlus device.

Source: OnePlus Forums


Best software to enable speech-to-text on HTC Desire

Have a look at Vlingo: http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.vlingo.client

It learns over time and many people find it more accurate than google's voice recognition.


To read RTF files you basically just need and app that supports that file format.

Here's a good one that additionally supports many other document types:

Cool Reader by Vadim Lopatin available from Google Play Store.

  Reading books in epub, fb2, txt, doc, rtf, html, chm, tcr, pdb, pml formats.

  eBook reader. Supports epub (non-DRM), fb2, doc, txt, rtf, html, chm, tcr, pdb, prc, mobi (non-DRM), pml formats.


Is it possible to do a complete image backup of an Android device via USB connected to a Windows PC without the Android device being rooted?

Most articles I have encountered where people wish to undertake a complete image backup of their device requires root. However I have come across an article written in How-To Geek entitled "How To Create a Full Android Phone or Tablet Backup Without Rooting or Unlocking Your Device".

The Article will take you throught the steps of :

Installing the Android SDK
Device Setup
Testing ADB
Backing up your device
Restoring a Backup

http://www.howtogeek.com/125375/how-to-create-a-full-android-phone-or-tablet-backup-without-rooting-or-unlocking-your-device/

The article concludes by saying the complexity of using the Android SDK to create and restore backups is a bit much for the average user.


Where do I start if I want to learn custom modding an android device?

XDA is a good resource but not a good starting point. The AOSP is also. But the best idea is always to look how others are creating customs ROMs. For example the CM development for the Kindle Fire:

A good starting point is Jackpoint Calvin's post about how to create a CM update.zip for the Fire from source. It gives a good overview about how the kernel, ASOP, hardware modification and CM play together. And how these are handled with Android's repo script.

Forums are a good information resource, but it's hard to find useful information fast. IRC channels are the first place to get involved. Join a few rooms to get into contact with developers. Maybe you find a beginners task on which you can start working.

Also you need knowledge about Android/Linux kernels, hw drivers, C and some Java.


Galaxy S3 mini only boots to recovery - how can I fix it?

You're probably not in trouble, you can go ahead and follow this link, follow the directions, and get the stock rom back on the phone.  Would probably avoid rooting the phone again if I were you.

Flash Stock Rom

Requirements:

Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini GT-I8190 ( N / L / T )
USB Data Cable
Windows Laptop / Desktop
Odin3 v3.07
Stock Rom ( Main / Mirror )
Stock Recovery ( CWM / Odin )

1 Install Recovery:

CWM =

Copy File onto sdcard
Place sdcard into Phone
Boot phone to Recovery Mode ( Hold Vol Up + Home + Power )
Click Install Zip from sdcard
Find downloaded file on sdcard
Click Install this Zip
Wait till completed install
Click Reboot Device

Odin =

( DO NOT LOAD PIT FILE IN THIS METHODS )

Extract Zip Folder's
Boot up Odin
Ensure that the RE-PARTITION is unchecked, only the AUTO-REBOOT and F.RESET TIME are both remained checked.
Place Phone into Download Mode ( Hold Vol Down + Home + Power ).
Plug Phone into Laptop / Computer via USB
Wait till get Connection Sign.
Press PDA and select downloaded recovery ( .tar file )
Click START
Wait till get a PASS.
Boot up Phone

[2] Install Rom onto Phone

Single Package =

( DO NOT LOAD PIT FILE IN THIS METHODS )

Extract Zip Folder's
Boot up Odin
Ensure that the RE-PARTITION is unchecked, only the AUTO-REBOOT and F.RESET TIME are both remained checked.
Place Phone into Download Mode ( Hold Vol Down + Home + Power ).
Plug Phone into Laptop / Computer via USB
Wait till get Connection Sign.
Press PDA and select downloaded Rom ( .tar file ).
Click START
Wait till get a PASS.
Boot up Phone

Multi File Package =

( DO NOT LOAD PIT FILE IN THIS METHODS )

Extract Zip Folder's
Boot up Odin
Ensure that the RE-PARTITION is unchecked, only the AUTO-REBOOT and F.RESET TIME are both remained checked. Image 1
Place Phone into Download Mode ( Hold Vol Down + Home + Power ).
Plug Phone into Laptop / Computer via USB
Wait till get Connection Sign.
Press PDA and select the .tar file associated with a name CODE after the build number example ' CODE_I9300xxxxx_xxxxx_.tar '
Press CSC and select the .tar file associated with a name ‘CSC’ after the build number example ' CSC_XXX_I9300xxxxx_xxxxx_.tar '
Press PHONE and select the .tar file associated with a name ‘MODEM’ after the build number example ' MODEM_I9300xxxxx_xxxxx_.tar '

Image 5

Click START
Wait till get a PASS.
Boot up Phone


What you see is the "Factory diagnosis menu". It is not designed to be used by end-users therefore it is mostly in Chinese.

If you have second phone you can use Google Translator app to translate the Chinese entries to your language (use translation via photo/picture).

I am not exactly sure how to enter it (my mother managed to enter it one time accidentally on a tablet). I assume that there is a certain combination of hardware keys that have to be pressed at boot time to enter it.

Usually the last Chinese menu entry means "reboot" or "shutdown". This allows you to exit this diagnose system. You should be able to select the entry using the volume up/down keys and the press the power key to select.

Once the device has rebooted the regular Android operating system should boot. If not your device may be affected by a hardware defect.


Display full screen screenshot/photo preview?

I found an app "simple gallery"
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.simplemobiletools.gallery
it has an option to lower the number of shown columns, and that will make all screenshots bigger!


Folder or Folder Shortcut on Honeycomb 3.1 home screen

ASTRO File Manager can help you with this, just install it and run it once, then you can add folders by long-pressing the desktop, selecting More and tapping ASTRO. It will let you browse folders and one can be selected by long-pressing it.


Is there a fitness app which can record my workouts across multiple activities?

Try out Cardio Trainer.

It is able to record many types of workouts including walking, running, weight lifting, swimming (do you rely on your water-proof case?), yoga. You can also prepare your own custom routine (never tried that, but in your case, it might come handy).


Galaxy S and Skype - Why am I getting an "Insufficient memory" error?

I'm guessing Skype installs to the SD card by default, in which case you should check out this question: What does the 'Failed to move application. Not enough memory' error mean when choosing 'Move to SD card'?


iPhone-to-Android convert: how do I change the lock screen, set up 2-click speed dialing, etc.

As you're using a Galaxy S2 which has Samsung's TouchWiz interface layered over the Android OS, some of your questions are specific to Touchwiz, so I'll answer them that way too, in a way that may not be helpful to people with a different interface:

Yes, there are a number of Lockscreens built in, if you go into Settings -> Location and Security, then you should see a section labelled Screen Unlock Settings selecting Set screen lock gives you some options.
This is TouchWiz specific. On the home screen press the Applications icon to get to the Apps list, then press the Menu button and select Edit. You should now be able to drag any icon off the "home row", and drag any other icon on (to maximum of four apps).
There are a couple of other questions on this site about setting up quick dials (like this one) etc. But it sounds like you could do what you want by creating a Starred Contacts folder on your home screen. Firstly go through your Contacts and "Star" any contacts that you'd regard as favourites, then find an empty space on your home screen, long-press there, sleect Folders from the menu that pops up and then select Starred Contacts.
Don't really use folders myself, so I'll leave that to someone else.
That was the first annoyance I noticed when I got my first Android phone a few years ago, I use the SMS Popup app for that, couldn't use an Android for messaging without it.
Never even tried doing that, but when you're in their text message conversation you can press Menu then More then Call.


How do I stream internal audio from Windows 7 to Android for free?

SoundWire Free appears to do this...but the free version has limitations:

  The free version of the application identifies itself by voice every 30 minutes and displays ads. The full version can handle up to 10 connections at the same time, and has no ads or voice identification. Please consider purchasing the full version of SoundWire if you'd like to support the developer.

Edit to add:
That page has SpeakerShare in the "others viewed" links, which appears to be an open source app to do the same thing. The lone comment mentions it's delayed (likely due to buffering/network latency), but things like videos can be worked around (VLC offers an audio synchronization option, for example).


Is the Google Home exactly the same as the Google Assistant?

Does Google Home offer any features or benefit over just a phone with Google Assistant?

Sure does.

Hands-free.
Multiple users.
Control your smart home.
Control music
(and it has a hi-fi speaker built-in)
Just to name a few things.

https://madeby.google.com/home/


Since you are using Samsung and I presume you're on version 6.0, go to Settings > Notifications and toggle off All Apps. Now activate the notification for every app, one by one. This way you may find which one is responsible for the sun icon.


How can I make my phone/tablet ring remotely without a SIM card?

Bahh! Just found a way to do this! I'm so excited!

First, install AndroidLost from the online Google Play Store.

this is the app you can use to control/wipe/access info about your lost device, yadayada

Give it a little time to install to your device, then install AndroidLost Jumpstart from the online Google Play Store as well

  This app will wake up the registration process on the androidlost app
  when ever a phone call is made, an SMS received, battery is low, a
  package is added, removed or changed.

So you have to install an arbitrary app from the Play Store as well to activate the service, but you can then go to androidlost.com to access functions to control your lost device! Including ringing an alarm ;)

I haven't tested this yet, but I will as soon as I can I tested this on my own phone (although the page for Jumpstart only specifies tablets), and it works! It says it will register on SMS or app install, I did both first, and the activation worked. This is an awesome utility.


How to open Google Drive offline? (I.e. where is the Google Drive app icon?)

Maybe you want to find the widget?

Google Drive has a widget which looks like a mini version of the Google Search Bar. It includes the main function to access Drive, another button for uploads ('Save to Drive'), a camera icon which I assume saves to Google Photos, and the '+' icon to create objects like folders, new Google Docs, etc.

I have this on my home screen as opposed to the normal Drive icon, though I also have that at my disposal.

In this image its in the top right slot.


Force a download manager not to manage downloads

Android has a "defaults"-system for handling predefined requests such as opening a URL or pressing the home button. If you go into Android's System Settings -> Apps -> Android Download Manager and scroll down to "LAUNCH BY DEFAULT", you should see a button to clear the defaults. The next time you open your chrome browser and tap on a URL that has the <a download=""> property, a screen should pop up, asking you to choose which application to use for downloading.


How can I read OL Chiki characters on Android?

Not all android mobile handsets support Ol Chiki, may I know which brand & model phone you are using, and whether you want to see the menu in Ol Chiki or just want to write in Ol Chiki.

If you just want to see the menu, try out this video link & if you want to type in Ol Chiki, visit this site for fonts download search on google.

Note : By implementing these steps not all locations may show Ol Chiki as some are system driven & which cannot be override by these methods.


How to encrypt android device without screen lock?

This is a known defect.

See this bug report. And this discussion here at google groups.


How to stop continue optimise app in Yu Yuphoria?

After googling found only one way to get rescue of it.

You must need to do force restore factor. Use Below Step

1) Reboot your Device

2) When your mobile ON instantly press Volume Down Button + Lock Button

3) You mobile will be gone on boot mode

4) Select 3rd option Restore factory

5) Select Option for Delete whole data select YES (Might be 4th option)

6) Formate will be started (It will take approx 15 min)

7) When It will completed again your system will be display boot mode. You should choose Reboot Device

Congratulation your device will be worked as normally.


changing x10 mini pro keyboard from querty to azerty CM7 pro's ROM

You may want to try 3rd-party keyboard apps that support transliteration of physical keyboards.

I've previously used AnySoftKeyboard, and with the appropriate language pack (e.g. French with has the AZERTY layout) it will transliterate physical keyboard as well.


How to get files off of Nexus 5 Android when LCD Screen + Touchscreen doesnt work?

If you have ADB debugging turned on, you can give Vysor a try: http://www.vysor.io/

PS: If you can't get to it because the phone is locked, attach a computer keyboard to the phone and unlock it.


Contacts History for SMS Stopped Working

I have solved this issue by going to Contacts > Display Options > Select contacts to display > Check all


Can you reset a password for a restricted profile?

I spent three hours on the phone with Google yesterday for the same issue. They said there is no way to reset the password.  They said I have to delete and add the user back, losing all data, pictures, game progress, etc.  There is also no way to prevent a child from setting a password.  Clearly the people at Google have not thought this through. It is definitely not a "kids mode".


It sounds like you have corrupted your partitions. To fix this you either need to rebuild your partitions (which requires a knowledge of the device and MBR or GPT, and will need know how the factory ROM is imaged).

Or you can repartition your tablet by flashing it with a factory ROM. This will revert the tablet back to its original state. Thus erasing all of your data.


Backup files from an application for which I forgot unlock pattern

Accessing the files in the app's protected storage directory will not be possible without root because you will not have proper permissions to access the directories. If the app saved any data to external storage (SD card, for example) then you can get it, but not knowing the app in question it's hard to say where it would be. Generally speaking it would likely live in /sdcard/Android/data somewhere assuming the standard APIs are used, but it doesn't have to use that directory.


rst2pdf is an application that can be used to compile Restructured text into pdf.

To read a pdf on your android should be trivial-ish. Grab any pdf reader.


What country is my Motorola MILESTONE from? Can I install a Froyo update from Motorola Droid on it?

The Motorola update software will recognize the correct origin, so you could always try to get the official Froyo upgrade.
Click around on this page to get instructions: http://www.motorola.com/staticfiles/Support/GB-EN/froyo/milestonenotification.htm


Does CWM backup everything? Or just the actual system?

A backup created via recovery is a nandroid backup.

Yes, the nandroid backup created by any recovery (CWM, TWRP) will be exact replica of the phone state when the backup was taken- that means it'll have all the files/ data that you have on the phone.

Here is a good article about nandroid backups


How to transfer photos from internal storage to SD without impacting Google Photos and Dropbox?

Note: this answer is based of experimentation and some speculations at the end.

I tested with a few pictures, and then with a batch move of the pictures from phone storage to the SD card.

The result was OK: the pictures online did not change, there was no upload despite pictures appearing on the SD card.

I assume therefore that the phone does some housekeeping and keeps a trace of what was uploaded (so that it is not uploaded again)


No way to do that without root, for good reasons (security). I recommend you to take a look into Andrew Hoogs Android Forensics book, where you'll get a lot of insight not only in this speecial context, but for other Forensics related issues as well as general background information on Android devices and the Android system itself.

Without root, you will not be able to access all directories on internal storage -- most of them will be denied to you even for reading, let alone writing. If access would be that easy, all security would be gone, as apps could freely access everything. However, there are a few directories you could get write access to (probably to install some forensics tool I guess?), such as temp directories. Not being at home I currently cannot check which ones this might be (try e.g. /data/local, which is what the playstore app uses as temp folder for app installations, or check with the mount command which mount points use tmpfs -- though not all tmpfs file systems may grant you full access).

A fully detailed description would be beyond the scope of this site, as we focus on end-user problems; forensic specific problems are rather not end-user related.


The phone stores the downloads in the internal memory by default. You could do the following,

Delete unwanted apps. Clear your cache.
Move apps to SD card
Change the default location of your camera to SD card.


Reduce time it takes for device to power on when pressing power button?

Short answer: No.

Long answer:

This is something set at a really low level and I have never heard of this as being something that can be modified.

It's definitely nothing that can be resolved in a custom rom, maybe a different bootloader, but I have a feeling it's at a lower level than that.


"Android broadcasting MAC when the Wifi is turned off" How authentic is it?

I think the key is the little may be hidden in there (different paragraph from the one you quoted).  If you leave "scanning always available" on then basically the wi-fi will blip on and off every so often just to see what's around... this could be enough for a nearby wireless network to detect/track you.  If you read the google plus post (and bare in mind it's by the person who wants you to download his software) it actually points out you can still turn your wi-fi off in latest Android (off in the sense you'd expect - "One solution is shutting off wi-fi completely").

The paragraph you quoted is a bit of a dogs breakfast... the first part happens (wi-fi networks will be able to see the MAC address of any device polling them).  The only reason the second part would happen is when your device knows about wireless networks with SSID broadcast turned off (it used to be recommended to turn this off, but now the opposite is true for this reason) - if it knows of such cloaked networks it'll poll each network it meets to see if it's one of the ones it knows (simplified).  There's also allegedly some "known network sharing" between your device and google for the purpose of backing up your network settings to the cloud, but this isn't available/visible to the wi-fi network.

So the benefits... disable wi-fi completely a strange feature since the author recognizes you can do this with stock, but you wouldn't want to because you'd loose the "scanning always available setting".  Random MAC address this could be useful, it certainly defeats a series of networks from tracking your device's movement, but so does turning of wi-fi completely.  MAC addresses are supposed to be unique, and while it's a large namespace, one wonders with a randomizer if collisions will happen (if two devices have the same MAC address they won't work properly on wi-fi).  If you visit places that have MAC address filtering or identification (for legitimate reasons - your home network, a business network, a company that provides free wi-fi for a period and tracks that you've accepted their terms) you may find your device no longer works although there's mention of a setting that will restore your stock MAC when wi-fi is on.  war mode sounds like it just changes the MAC address more frequently (possibly during a wi-fi session) but this isn't without processing overhead.


What is Firebase App Indexing Under Google Services Settings

Firebase allows developers to mobile and web apps that provide a database, analytics, cloud messaging, authentication and more without the need of sever side functionality. It belongs to Google.

From Connect to Firebase:

  Firebase is a mobile platform that helps you quickly develop high-quality apps, grow your user base, and earn more money. Firebase is made up of complementary features that you can mix-and-match to fit your needs, with Google Analytics for Firebase at the core.

The indexing is the database collecting  apps' information that will later be analyzed (apps that installed on the device that use Firebase API): user interactions with the app, what they click, see, etc.

  Where do all these data go ?

They are stored on Google cloud stores.

  Is this a privacy issue ?

Yes, it can be a privacy issue when the apps using the Firebase API collect too much information that are not related to the app's main purpose. Don't give too much permissions to apps. If necessary, write to the developers to ask why they need certain permissions for their app(s) (if they did not list or elaborate on their Google Play Store page).

Firebase documentations are found here.


You can install a WhatsApp mod like GBWhatsApp. Then, activate "Old Emojis style" in settings.


How to get out of broken home screen replacement?

Assuming you have ADB access to your test device, you can issue the following command:

adb shell pm uninstall PACKAGE

Where "PACKAGE" is the package name of your launcher app (you should know this since you're creating the app in the first place.)

[Edit]
As requested, re-posting my comment as the answer:
Every site for ZTE Blade has instructions for accessing the Fastboot mode via Volume Up + Power button combination. Eg: http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=ZTE_Blade:_Full_Update_Guide Give that a shot and see if you can access the phone via fastboot.exe (should be in the [Android SDK]/tools/ directory.) At that point you can flash a different recovery image (Clockworkmod, Amon-Ra) that will allow access to /data/app to delete your program.


Those of you who had tried OTA (over the air) or used KIES to update - and failed. My recommendation is FLASH your smartphone using software. I went to an authorised Samsung dealer who flashed my phone - and didn't have to backup either - and it took only 10 - 15 minutes, in total. Flashing uses proprietary software.


Exactly this happened to me today, at morning I was watching videos, then I use the mobile again, and i cant even load youtube! Ill try deactivating some apps as phaethon said.

Deactivating some apps and uninstalling some helped, but mobile is still very slow :/

So I decided to factory reset my phone and everything is like normal, I have no clue what was the issue :/


Is there any shortcut to turn on flashlight in Android?

This is as far as I understood your question. You simply want to attach an action to long-press of Home key. This action, at the moment, is about activating the flashlight.
Since you can opt for root, you can also consider opting for Xposed Framework (the installer here may not work for Samsung devices running Lollipop. You would need to visit XDA forum).
Use Xposed Additions to attach an action to keys. Use TeslaLED to enable flashlight (use an alternative if this doesn't work).
Optionally, read my answer for Page up and page down in web pages and elsewhere to become familiar with the interface of Xposed Additions.
All you've to do is:

Install and enable Xposed Addtions module. Launch it.

Go to Buttons → optionally configure Long press delay → Add new Key and configure it.

Select the entry for your key → Add new Condition → Screen On  → Screen On → activate Long Press → Long Press.
Replace Screen On with Screen Off, if required. Screen Off would work only for hardware buttons, such as Power button (buttons which you can actually press).

Either choose Torch or go to Shortcut → TeslaLED Toggle.

Done!


How to assign a hardware button to camera

You should be able to achieve what you want to do with the help of Home2 Shortcut. The app is self-explanatory. You can easily use it.

If you have enables S Voice on double-tap, go into the S Voice settings and uncheck the Launch SVoice box. This will keep S Voice from launching when you double tap the home button.

Open Home2 Shortcut and configure it to launch the app of your choosing with a double tap of the home button. When you get to the end, after you tap "close" it will ask you to set as default. Select Home2Launcher as the default.

Read more information here.


How can I look up words in an eBook reader with Google Translate?

There are some ebook reader apps with can enable you to share book passages. And you can use Google Translate to share them... So select the passage and share it using Google Translate ! For example, the Kobo app for Android and Aldiko (free or €2.49) are ebook readers which enable to share book passages. Google Play Books have a built in feature to translate passages too (it must use Google Translate).

Obviously, you can also copy the passages by hand, open the Google Translate app and use it to translate what you have just copied. It is not quite smart or ergonomic but it works.


Can I backup on oxygen OS and restore to lineage OS using adb backup?

It's possible, but be specially cautious when proceeding.

An ADB backup contains system settings, which is likely to be different across ROMs. Blindly restoring an ADB backup from another ROM may render your device unbootable.

If you restore only the apps and their data, you'll probably succeed.


How can i tell if a photo was taken from the phone or downloaded from somewhere else?

Go to the Gallery/Google Photos app, long press the photo and check the details. It should contain the required information.


Is there an app to select who's going to make my phone ring?

I recommend Sanity which is free and open source. It has many calling-related features, such as call filtering by caller name, that you can set it to get silent when some people call you.

These two features, copied from description of the app, would really help you:

...

block unwanted calls and SMS: automatically refuse incoming calls and SMS filtering out the phone number (include or exclude anonymous and/or unknown numbers, favourites, contacts and groups; enable the block by choosing date and time); advanced: choose between different block methods to confuse the caller!
urgent calls: choose what phone numbers your phone will ring or vibrate also when it's in silent mode.

...


Can I transfer my Injustice game data from my iPhone to my new Android phone?

Man, you're out of luck. Versions of Injustice for Android and iOS differ greatly. the iOS version generally gets updated months before Android. This affects what characters you can buy, what challenges you can complete etc.

I thinks it's safe to say they're incompatible. And from my experience the Android version performs rather poorly compared to iOS.

Considering all of the above I would recommend sticking to your iPhone for playing Injustice.


You're almost right.

  Capacitive screens can detect anything that's conductive or has a dielectric difference to air.

Here's a good Wikipedia article about this.

If you carry your phone in a pocket, you can easily activate the screen without noticing it. Try this:
Put some cloth (eg. Jeans) between your hand and the screen, now if you press it hard enough the touch will register.

If a button is accidentally pressed while you slip it into your pocket and you have lockscreen disabled, it's that much easier for your butt to dial someone. And you don't want that do you?


What does it mean an ugly pop-up with an smiley face on my lock screen?

I've also started getting these and can't help but notice that you are also roaming with Telcel so my best guess is that these are USSD code dialogs from Telcel, basically it looks like they're either running some tests or having fun with it


If you don't mind factory reset/wipe the phone and try updating again (back-up data before doing so). It should do the trick. But before trying above method, also try this because I doubt that the device is lacking memory resources on both SD card & internal memory. Try to make some free space in internal memory/external memory (400 MB-500 MB must be suffice).


Is it possible to make tasker events conditional on whether I'm roaming?

If you are usually home at 7pm, you could make it conditional on the presence of your home Wifi network (using "Wifi Near") or a cell tower near you (using "Cell near"); if you use a dock at home, you could make it only fire when docked instead.

You could also make it dependent on a calendar and just set the dates for your trip now.


How can I stop Google Play Music from automatically downloading my library?

If you are using the Google Play Music app Touch Menu on your device and see if Keep on device is checked. If yes uncheck it. You can also touch the blue pin to stop making it available offline. For more information on this go to https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/1250232?hl=en


No option to recover password in Lenovo Tab S8 (S8-50)

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

Good luck! - Nik


WhatsApp chat restore from file msgstore.db.crypt12 on the internal storage

WhatsApp will first search for your logged in account and look for any WhatsApp backup files in your Google Drive with the same phone number. If you’d like to prevent WhatsApp from backing up using your Google account, simply delete the WhatsApp backup folder (instead of logging out your Google account from your device).

If your local “msgstore.db.crypt12” are using the same phone number on your new WhatsApp, the setup will then use your local file to continue restoration.

Hope this helps.


I can not assure you the method would work or not but after browsing all over I found this satisfying post, hope it will help you too!

http://www.androidsage.com/2016/02/03/restore-samsung-galaxy-s4-to-stock-lollipop-firmware/

Try it on your own risk :)


How to stop mobogenie auto-download in Android?

Go to Setting -> Accounts & Sync -> Google -> Ads( Reset the Advertising ID ) + Ads setting ( Google Ads Manager and Opt out )


I don't think there is a good way to do this - the issue isn't that the private number is being hidden by your phone, it's that the phone company isn't transmitting the caller id info to you at all. So there shouldn't be any way for you to get that data working strictly from your phone.

Unless you know people who regularly block caller ID data, but don't leave messages, I'd just assume it's spam callers and ignore them.


Stuck on Download Pending in Play Store after Updating to Lollipop

You need to clear the Play Store data following these instructions.

From the Settings app, choose Apps.
Choose Google Play Store from the list of apps. A new screen will appear.
Click Force Stop.
Click Storage and then Clear data.
At the top right, click the three dots, then Click Uninstall updates to revert to the original version of Play Store that came with the phone.

Follow the same instructions again for the Google Play Services app, but this time use Clear cache instead of Clear data.


find out when was my memory card removed from Samsung J5

Using the Android SDK. Connect your device (with USB-Debugging enabled) and, at a Terminal enter the following:

$ adb logcat -d > logcat.txt

The -d option tells adb to copy the entire File Log from the Android System. Because you seem to know how UNIX Systems work, I won't explain the rest of the command.
A second option (if you are rooted, that is) is to install a Terminal Emulator on your Android device. Open the Terminal Emulator and enter the command:

$ logcat -d > /sdcard/my-log-file.txt

This will do the same as above (except you don't need a computer, and the file saves on your device/SDcard. Feel free to change the " /sdcard/my-log-file.txt " part to anything you like, but I strongly recommend you save it to either your external or internal storage - so in short: Save it to a location you can accsess without # (superuser) permission!

Answer courtesy of @Ankush


Nexus One can boot only with USB fastboot

This solution worked:

$ cd 1.0-GRI40-nexusone-superboot
$ ./fastboot-linux flash:raw boot boot.superboot.img

I've found the necessary info on http://www.gotontheinter.net/content/fastboot-cheat-sheet


In Samsung Galaxy S3 mini TalkBack is always speaking when switching home screens

Problem can also be caused by airDroid. Go to settings accessibility and ensure AirDroid notifications are turned off. It took nearly 2 hours to find this one as I had done everything suggested in this thread. Frozen screens just remember to use 2 fingers


Have you tried KingRoot? It looks like the only non-Odin method, but I haven't tried it.

Install KingRoot (enable external sources to install)

Run KingRoot

Tap "Try to Root"

Check success with Root Checker app (available on Google Play)

link to download:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/devdb/project/dl/?id=13663

My source:
http://trueandroid.com/how-to-root-samsung-galaxy-tab-s-8-4-sm-t705-without-pc/
Here's some extra info on it: http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/one-click-root-tool-android-2-x-5-0-t3107461


How to Install Xposed Installer apk in Redmi Y1

Don't install APK files you get from spam sites like the one you originally linked. They probably contain malware. Instead, go to the official thread on XDA and follow the install instructions there.

Note that you can't install Xposed just from an APK. You need to flash the Xposed framework to the system first, which entails unlocking the bootloader. The official APK file is just a tool for managing the different modules that Xposed uses.


Open any web browser and navigate it to https://passwords.google.com/.
Enter your Google sign-in information to sign-in to your Google account as usual.
You will see settings for turning off or on the SmartLock Passwords,
and the Auto Sign-in option for SmartLock.
These options would
be a list of all the saved passwords, whether saved through the
Chrome browser or through the SmartLock feature in Android.
Android Smart Lock Passwords Passwords are masked by default for privacy
reasons. You can reveal the masked passwords by clicking/touching
the small eye graphic.
In order to delete one of these passwords,
you can just click on the small cross shown next to that password.
The passwords are deleted without any confirmation, so be careful
    not to delete some password that you have forgotten about.


Effects of hourglass button in Android P easter egg

I found out that when the hourglass is vertical, it makes the colors fade over time. But when it is horizontal, the colors do not fade.

Purple sitting 3 minutes with hourglass vertical on the left
Purple sitting 3 minutes with hourglass horizontal on the right


How to run a program in an app context with Magisk?

Android framework takes care of a lot of things when forking an app from zygote. In short, it's nearly impossible to run an app process from commandline so that it behaves “exactly the same way” as if the app was properly launched. Continue reading to have an idea of why it's so.

In order to run bash in Termux app's context so that it behaves exactly the same way as if it was started from the app, it must be run at least:

With UID/GID of the app assigned by the Package Manager at the time of installation
With supplementary group inet (3003), which is required to create network sockets and is assigned to any app at the time of installation which declares android.permission.INTERNET in its AndroidManifest.xml. For details see How Android's permissions mapping with UIDs/GIDs works?.
With supplementary group everybody (9997) which is used to control app's read / write access to /sdcard. For details see What is the “u#_everybody” UID?.
With supplementary groups <uid>_cache (UID+10000) and all_<uid> (UID+40000) so that app can access its cache, native executable code etc. But these aren't required necessarily since we are not running the app itself.
By entering the mount namespace of Termux app (com.termux process) which is required for supgid 9997 to work. If the app isn't running (e.g. if running from adb shell), supgid 1015 can be used to get write access to /sdcard but that's not how the app works.
By dropping all Linux capabilities (granular root privileges in Effective, Permitted, Inheritable, Bounding and Ambient sets) as well as setting securebits and process control attribute NO_NEW_PRIVS which make sure that app isn't able to elevate privileges by making use of setuid or file capabilities.
With blocked syscalls by applying seccomp-bpf filter.
With SELinux context of the app, which is determined at install / runtime based on MMAC (1, 2).
By adding the process to relevant cgroups e.g. cpuset, memcg etc. as the Android's framework does.
By catching, blocking and ignoring the same signals as the app would do.
By setting the environment it relies on. E.g. Termux's bash won't execute without LD_LIBRARY_PATH which it requires for dynamic linking.

There isn't a single commandline tool available which can do all of this sandboxing, it can be achieved fully only programmatically (see Minijail), or might be using multiple tools e.g. nsjail/firejail for setting seccomp filters, runcon to change SELinux context, capsh to alter DAC/capabilities, nsenter to enter mount namespace etc. setpriv from util-linux package can do the maximum:

~# uid=$(stat -c %u /data/data/com.termux)
~# pid=$(pidof -s com.termux)
~# label=$(cat /proc/$pid/attr/current)
~# export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib
~# exec nsenter -t $pid -m setpriv --reuid $uid --regid $uid --groups 3003,9997 --bounding-set -all --selinux-label $label -- /system/bin/sh -c 'exec /data/data/com.termux/files/usr/bin/bash'

* nsenter and setpriv are busybox applets but with limited functionality. For aarch64 you may get static binaries here: nsenter, setpriv.

However we need to define shell_exec (label of /system/bin/sh) as entrypoint for execution by untrusted_app context which is not part of stock sepolicy (at least on Pie):

~# supolicy --live 'allow untrusted_app shell_exec file entrypoint'

Executing /system/bin/sh before executing /data/data/com.termux/files/usr/bin/bash is required because /data partition is mounted with nosuid option which prevents SELinux context transition (from magisk to untrusted_app) (3) and you get permission denied. You may consider mounting /data without nosuid to skip this step.
For the same reason --no-new-privs and --selinux-label can't be used in conjunction.

All this happens in native world, nothing in Java stack. So we have no direct control on things like manifest permissions which entirely operate inside Android framework. However manifest permission enforcement is also based on UIDs (4). For instance if Termux was granted android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE the bash we are running with Termux's UID will also be able to write to /sdcard.

From your comment:

  It doesn't make sense to me how this is possible. Like, consider the output:

u0_a129 ~$ /sbin/su --context=u:object_r:app_data_file:s0:c512,c768 u0_a129 -c /system/bin/id
uid=10129(u0_a129) gid=10129(u0_a129) groups=10129(u0_a129) context=u:r:magisk:s0
u0_a129 ~$ /system/bin/id
uid=10129(u0_a129) gid=10129(u0_a129) groups=10129(u0_a129),3003(inet),9997(everybody),20129(u0_a129_cache),50129(all_a129),99909997(u999_everybody) context=u:r:untrusted_app_27:s0:c512,c768

Well, according to my understanding that's how Unix Discretionary Access Control works. First of all passing --context to Magisk's /sbin/su makes no difference as explained here:

  the option still exists for CLI compatibility with apps designed for SuperSU. However the option is silently ignored since it's no longer relevant.

So the context isn't switched as you can see it's still u:r:magisk:s0. Secondly Magisk's su isn't the actual switch user (5), it provides a minimal functionality of standard su binary (the one we have on Linux). For details see How Magisk works?

In your first command it set UID, GID and supplementary groups to the UID you provided. You didn't ask su to set any additional supplementary groups, neither it can.

In second command you see the UID, GID, supplementary groups and SELinxu context which were set by zygote when it forked the app's DVM/ART (com.termux in case of Termux). Supplementary groups are explained above. 99909997 is also explained in the link given above.


Accessing shared Outlook folders on my Samsung Galaxy S3

Currently android doesn't have native support for multiple calendars, your phone is working just fine. The Touchdown app is awful, avoid it like the plague.
Basically, the calendar, mail account and everything associated with your personal account are a single item. It may be possible to add the account that relates to the shared calendar as a second Exchange account on your Samsung and access the calendar that way.
Of course if it's a colleague's inbox that's not practical. Maybe talk to your IT about setting up a dedicated team calendar that anyone has access to?
You can definitely add a second exchange account to your phone, you could do this to access the new team calendar.
Worth a try?


Why do Linux commands not work properly on Android?

Most shell commands in Android are not GNU versions or a POSIX-compliant implementation, they are either from Toolbox or Busybox and mostly stripped down versions.

A lot of commands in /system/bin are symlinks to /system/toolbox. I haven't found much documentation about it, just the source at https://android.googlesource.com/platform/system/core/+/jb-mr1-release/toolbox/

Busybox is another implementation of several common shell commands, with more commands and features than the default Toolbox. It's used on other embedded systems too, and some bootable GNU/Linux CDs, so you may already be familiar with it. Because it's open-source, there are several installers available on Google Play: just search for "Busybox".


Ubuntu one app: how can I sync a text file edited on my android device with ubuntu one?

I use an app called Foldersync in conjunction with Cryptonite. The former can synchronize any directory on your sdcard with a number of cloud providers. The latter handles encryption. You would use Encfs on the desktop to run the encryption there.


My PC doesn't recognize my GTablet through USB

I am not sure if it works. But first of all update the driver from sdk\extras\google\usb_driver for your device. Also, check in root mode if any help is available.


How to fix Cyanogenmod 7 hanging on boot animation after NO firmware changes

It could even be a corrupted cache file. If you are able to boot into recovery (CWM) you can perform backups, wipe dalvik-cache  and cache and install a current CM7.2. Once in recovery you should be able to mount /data with adb also to run tar, but try the gui.


How to update Google assistant app on non pixel device?

I don't try it yet but probably it should work

Download the Google Play Services APK compatible with your device from here. There will be three files in the zip folder. Install the one (arm for Android 5.0+, arm for Android 6.0+, arm64+arm for Android 6.0+) compatible for your device.
Copy the file over to your Android phone. Remember, it needs to be running at least Android 6.0 or up in order for this to work.
Head on over to Settings > Security and tick the box beside Unknown sources, allowing for apps to be installed from outside the Google Play Store.
Using your favorite file manager, locate the APK and tap it before following the installation prompts.
Marvel at your all-new Google Assistant.

after updating it, google play service will bring Google Assistant updates for you

Reference: How To Force Google Assistant Update On Your Android Device Right Now

  ou will get further Explanation on this link. If this link disappear for some reason then just follow the above steps to get things done.


An app keeps sending me to a website i dont want to be sent on

The best way is to uninstall the app, here's how:

Open Settings
Find "Apps and notifications"
Select "See all (how many apps you have) apps"
Locate the app and tap on it
Tap on "Uninstall"
A dialogue will pop-up, now press "OK" to finish the uninstallation.


I have a similar profile for nighttime and I don't use an exit task.  Since the task only runs during the time span you specify, it should shut off by itself once it's 7:30am.


Can I use an unlocked T-Mobile Galaxy S5 on AT&T?

Okay, here's what I can gather...

There should be no real loss of capability if you move to AT&T. While AT&T does not advertise LTE Band 8 capability on its S5s, Band 8 is largely used in South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan; unless you travel to those places, it shouldn't be a problem. I would, however, check AT&T's coverage map to be certain.
T-Mobile allows customers to unlock phones provided certain conditions are met. Click here for more information.

Also, "Quad Band GSM" on T-Mobile is 850/900/1800/1900 MHz, same as AT&T


"kswapd0" is taking up some of my device's CPU time even though I don't have any swap. What's going on?

It might not be possible to disable kswapd0. Even if it's possible to disable it, you should not try. You see, kswapd0 does important work even if you don't have a swap file.

On the Ubuntu Stack Exchange website, psusi explains:

  Swap space is only used for data that is not backed by any other file. Data that is mapped from other files on disk (such as executable programs) is still swapped to their respective files even if you don't have a swap device.

You should visit psusi's original answer and vote it up.


App keyboard has a done button instead of return

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


Technical questions about the Nook Color rooting process

I recommend reading up the NookDevs wiki, and specifically the section about rooting.  It's a very straight-forward process that is completely reversible.

To answer your questions:

If the rooting process fails, you can always boot from the SD Card and start over.
There is an official B&N 1.1 stock image floating around that can be used to bring your Nook Color back to its original state at any time.
You can run a custom ROM entirely off the SD Card.  The NC will run a bit slower (depends on the speed of the SD Card), but you will be able to retain the original firmware.  Just remove the card and it will boot normally.  You can install a custom ROM onto the internal memory, overwriting the stock image.  The Nook will run faster this way.  There are also ways to re-map the internal partitions and set up dual-boot, so that you could run both original firmware and a custom ROM from internal memory.  A prompt during power-up will allow you to select which ROM to boot into.


Can you turn on your phone using special sequence of buttons  like power + middle button + down volume ? I don't know what is for your device but you can google tjat quickly...see if you can turn on in download or recovery mode. If yes try a factory reset and wipe cache data and reboot.

If that not work then is time to flash your stock firmware again on it you need odin and the stock firmware image you can search on xda developers forum for your device both the stock firmware and the guide on how to execute.If you not find on xda developers forum then try google but be careful don't download the first thing you see try to get the firmware atleast from a trusted source.

Your phone is not hard bricked it is soft bricked you bricked the software not the hardware but stay calm the above steps if done right should make your phone reboot again.

You will lose all your data if you want do to a backup you can try an backup via ADB you can google for "backup via adb android" follow all the steps with calm and carefully and you can make your phone reboot again without lose nothing.


ezPDF Reader Pro has a feature Page Auto Flipping which auto-scroll screen every provided second.


Reboot into recovery after copying this file into root of your SD card. Flash this file using a custom recovery like CWM . Reboot phone. Check for SuperSu in your app drawer.

SuperSu 2.46


How can WhatsApp show me an image\video if I didn't download it to phone?

Thumbnails are stored in WhatsApp's database as BLOB in the message_thumbnails table, under thumbnail column.


Linux Deploy on Android 5.0 (Nexus 5): "Configuration file not found!"

You need to install Busybox to be able to update the configuration file. However, on my Nexus 5, I haven't been able to get past "Updating configuration file ... done" after the fact. It could be incompatibility or some settings need to be tweaked first. I'll report back if I fix it.


can galaxy tab 2 gt-p5113 receive internet calls?

Click on the phone menu, then click on the right side. There will be three options:

send message
speed dial setting
call setting


What you're experiencing is probably the "sudden death" issue experienced by several users. You could try updating your firmware to the latest firmware released by Samsung or flash a custom rom to fix the issue.


How does a incoming call show my location?

When many phones receive incoming calls, they display the incoming number as well as an approximate location of the incoming call, usually based on a table lookup for the country code / area code / prefix of the Caller ID of the incoming call.
The Caller ID data is easy to forge, so often scammers set it to match whatever location they are calling (by matching your country code / area code / prefix).  This way, when they call, it looks like a local call, and they believe you are more likely to pick up the phone.  But, in reality, they can be calling from anywhere in the world.
When they set their Caller ID to match the country code / area code / prefix of your phone number, your approximate location will appear on your screen because that is simply the location associated with that Caller ID data.
The best way I have found to circumvent their tactics is to get a phone number with a completely different country code / area code / prefix from where you live or typically travel and different from any of your close contacts.  That way, when an incoming call uses Caller ID data that is similar to yours, you quickly know it is most likely a scammer.


Do the ROM files contain some information about themselves?

Ok. I have found the answer, at least for that ROM:

In the /system/build.prop file in the zip file, the first "section" has build properties, which details all the information that is visible in the "About Phone" part.

This is an example of it here:

# begin build properties
# autogenerated by buildinfo.sh
ro.build.id=GINGERBREAD
ro.build.display.id=Hyper_Droid
ro.build.version.incremental=DDKT3
ro.build.version.sdk=10
ro.build.version.codename=REL
ro.build.version.release=2.3.6
ro.build.date=Wed Feb  1 15:11:04 KST 2012
ro.build.date.utc=1328076664
[...]
ro.product.brand=samsung
ro.product.model=GT-S5670
ro.product.name=GT-S5670
ro.product.device=GT-S5670
ro.product.board=GT-S5670
ro.modversion= v2.0
ro.author.name= Wilfred
[...]
# end build properties
#
# system.prop for GT-S5670
#


Will SoftkeyZ Root app work on the device Yureka out of the box?

First of all, there is a glaring error in the question which needs to be removed. Yu Yureka doesn't come with Cyanogenmod (CM; a community ROM) but with Cyanogen OS (COS12) which is a stripped out CM12 ROM meant to suit the needs of an OEM (a commercial software). Read this XDA thread for more.

As one would expect, COS12 doesn't come with su binary or a superuser app. In simpler terms, NO, your device isn't rooted yet. You can verify this with any root checker app and they should give you negative result.

  Is it safe to install softkeyz root app and use it?

The app has full network access (read: can connect to Internet and send or receive data) and has access to your storage (ability to read or modify your data). Besides, it needs superusers access as well.

If the app isn't open source and and its source independently verified by people, I say your part of question is speculative since there is not much can be said with surety.

Coming to the point of this app's usage, if your need is to get the navigational bar then why bother installing a third-party  app. Cyanogen OS comes with in-built navigational bar (yes, those virtual buttons at the bottom of screen). Simply go to Settings -> Buttons -> Enable on-screen navigational bar. Done. You can somewhat modify the buttons as the other answer by Sonickyle27 noted.

Otherwise, setup ADB in PC, enable USB debugging in device, connect the device into PC, open a CMD/Terminal and enter:

adb shell settings put secure dev_force_show_navbar 1

This would enable on-screen navigational bar. Change 1 to 0 to disable it.