Do frozen/disabled apps get triggered by broadcast receivers?

If the application is truly disabled, it won't get executed even if it receives broadcasts intents.

I have a disabled application, which if it was enabled, is woken up by various intents such as;

android.provider.Telephony.WAP_PUSH_RECEIVED
 android.intent.action.BOOT_COMPLETED
 android.net.conn.CONNECTIVITY_CHANGE

Even though if it receives these intents it is still disabled, until I manually enable it.

However there are some applications which can filter intents of a partially disabled application.

For example Greenify, it can disable an application such that other broadcast intents are ignored, except for a few e.g GCM receiver or Telephony intents. So in this case it is woken up only by specific broadcast intents


I had the same issue and I already know the solution, so if you start an app and it shows the the screen overlay text then you will have to open settings and try switching off all the apps which consists screen overlay. And if you won't get me, then you can just dm me the ss of your display screen and I can help you further.


TeamViewer Android: how to connect in a unattended way?

I believe the way it works is for you to install TeamViewer for Remote Control on your device and install TeamViewer Host on you grand mother device to allow unattended access. Test it after installing. Reading the comments, it seems it does not work on 100% on all devices.


How can I use my LG K8 as a monitor for my raspberry pi?

Mobile screen has not any video input port which can be accessed easily so you can not use smartphone screen as the monitor.

You will require HDMI to screen ribbon cable converter which is neither standard nor available.

Edit:  You can start a vnc server on Raspberry Pi and connect both on same network. VNC viewer app

Or Use mobile to ssh into odroid and for X server forwarding use X Server XSDL app


How can I save taken photos and recorded videos out of DCIM folder?

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

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

(Your directory may look different to mine)

List Files

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

Name %ArrayIndex To 0
Variable Add

Name %ArrayIndex  Value: 1
Move

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

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

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

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

Type Action Number Number 3

If %ArrayIndex !~ %Myfiles(#)

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

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


Can I purchase apps from Android Market without installing them?

The best you can really do currently is to buy them from the Market (web or app) and then just cancel the download/installation when it starts on your device. This only works with apps your device supports, though. Purchasing unsupported apps was the topic of this related question.


How to get the captive portal's URL which I am currently connected to?

From this answer on Stack Overflow, Captive Portal is triggered only when you're trying to make a request.

So the answer is: Open an arbitrary web page in your favorite browser, and you'll get redirected to the Captive Portal login page.

From my own experiences, I recommend that you visit a website that does NOT use HTTPS, as encrypted connection may interfere with the redirection (Captive Portal redirection is in fact a man-in-the-middle).


How can I take a high-resolution screenshot?

Even with development tools, screenshots are only of the pixel size of the device. You could try running the app in a emulator with higher resolution but all of those pixels may cause the emulator to lag. Or get a device like a Nexus 10 which runs at the higher resolutions.


Block regular and whatsapp outgoing calls

EDIT: It is impossible to do this without your son knowing, as acejavelin said. This answer is the second best thing.

If I think what I think you are saying you, want to block out going calls on your phone? Here's a way to do it:

To block a contact that is saved in your phone

Open WhatsApp.Tap the Menu Button > Settings > Account > Privacy > Blocked contacts.Tap the add contact icon.Select the contact you wish to block from the list.

To block a number that is not saved in your phone

Open the chat with the unknown contact. Tap Block.

When you receive an initial message from an unknown number, you will also have the option to Report spam, which will report and block the user.

To block calls on your phone:
It varies phone by phone, but here is instruction for some commons OS versions:

For Marshmallow or Nougat, open Dialer, go to your recent calls list, find the number you want to block and select Block/Report Spam. (If you don't want to report the number as spam, you can uncheck the box.) Then tap Block.

For Lollipop, go to the Phone app and select Call Settings > Call Rejection (ouch) > Auto Reject List. Type in the number or search for it, select it, and you're done.

Sources:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2476416,00.asp

https://faq.whatsapp.com/en/android/21080506


Possibly there could be couple of reasons for this sought of behavior from your device..

Check if it happens only when any battery power saver app is switch on, as most of the inbuilt/third party battery saver apps have access to your device's WiFi functionality and they switch it off whenever there's a event triggering the app's pre-assigned/pre-programmed parameter telling the app about high usage of battery by device Wi-Fi transmission/reception.
Another Scenario which might make this happen is the low WiFi signal. Mostly all higher versions of Android OS have this inbuilt functionality to turn off the WiFi whenever available signals falls to a certain level. Some device manufacturers provide advanced setting under WiFi setting to enable this control of OS, while some keep this function as preassigned in OS disabling user. Look for WiFi Sleep Policy in your device settings and update the settings as per your requirement. You can also refer this tutorial to learn more about adjusting the Samsung Galaxy S-4 WiFi sleep policy settings.

Hope adjusting your device WiFi policy will will resolve your problem, incase if ever after the adjustment of WiFi settings, you still face any issues do revert back with exact situation, I'll try to look deeper into your case.


Clock in Combined/Status Bar on ICS tablet overlaps the date when pops up

I haven't seen this problem on any of ICS devices I have, most probably it pertains to the particular version installed on your tablet. Unless you want to modify the firmware yourself, the easiest fix would be to complain to the tablet maker and expect this to get fixed in the next release.


After Update Andoid 5.0.2 - tablet not syncing

It maybe possible that auto sync is off.

Follow these steps:

Tap Settings.
Select the Connections tab.
Tap Data usage.
Tap Menu, then select the Auto sync data check box.
Review the pop-up message, then tap OK.


sharing windows 7 cable internet connection to nexus 4 via WiFi

there are some ways to reverse tether, and the simplest one is to use Connectify. Free version is limited in uptime, the full version has no restrictions. It's not even hard to convince the program to allow all functions, btw.


Go to Settings → Sounds,  scroll to bottom and tap Also Vibrate For Calls.


Is there any way to save a raw image from my phone's camera?

Unfortunately, unless someone (almost certainly the sensor manufacturer in conjunction with the camera manufacturer) has provided methods to get RAW data from the sensor level all the way up through the Android stack, it's going to be somewhere between very difficult and impossible.

Even if you did get RAW data, most processing suites probably aren't going to know enough about the sensor data to do a good job of processing it into a decent image.


Synchronizing signature from desktop GMail to Android GMail app

The feature you are looking for is not available with the Gmail app (yet). (source). You can't even add any type of rich-text signature to your mobile app. Devs say that this feature is still being worked on. The only option available to you is to add a simple text signature through the app.


Prevent browser automatically launched when join to open wifi

Follow the below steps for prevent the auto launch browser.

Go to Settings > WiFi settings
Long-press on Connection
Select "Modify network config"
Check the "Show advanced options" box.
Select proxy settings to Manual
Proxy host name , input the value from 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.225
Proxy port = input one of them "8080" , "3128" , "80"
Press the "Save".
Turn wifi off and the On, you will not see the Popup browser.
Now repeat the steps from 1 ~ 4
And revert back the proxy settings to "None".

It's Done. You will be fine with this network.


Rooting your phone doesn't change what OS it runs. It just means you have root access to the existing OS. Changing the OS (i.e. flashing a custom-rom) is a separate thing.

See also the answers to What does "to root a phone" mean? and I've rooted my phone.  Now what?  What do I gain from rooting?


Is There A Browser Which Makes It Easy/Possible To Search From The Address Bar?

What android version are you on? I've got eclair (on a motorola phone) and I can just type in the address bar to search. I thought it might be motoblur, but I tried an eclair emulator image and had the same functionality.

What happens when you hit the search button while the Browser is running?


How to customise directions path rendering in OsmAnd?

It still remains a mystery to me where the black arrows are hiding but I found a way to address the two other requirements.

First I went through a renderers primer which prepared me nicely for the task at hand. Once completed the solution turned out to be quite simple, albeit a bit hackish. I also made the fat purple route a little slimmer. For completeness, here is the entire renderer consisting mostly of my comments:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<renderingStyle name="Decluttered directions path"
    depends="default" defaultColor="#ffffff" version="1">

    <renderingAttribute name="route">
        <!-- for some details on 'whatever_DIGIT' named attributes see: -->
        <!--
            https://github.com/osmandapp/Osmand

            OsmAnd/src/net/osmand/plus/render/OsmandRenderer.java
            OsmAnd-java/src/net/osmand/render/RenderingRuleStorageProperties.java
            OsmAnd-java/src/net/osmand/render/RenderingRuleProperty.java
        -->
        <!-- strokeWidth="a:b" -> a initial value, b extra when zooming -->
        <!--
            route described by:         color and width
            skinny arrows described by: color_3 and width_3
            black arrows described by:  ?
        -->
        <!-- first two hex digits of a colour specify opacity: 48 ~= 30 % -->
        <!-- disabling skinny arrows by setting opacity to 0 -->
        <case color="#4800cd0a" strokeWidth="10:8"
            color_3="#00ffde5b" strokeWidth_3="7:6"/>
        <!-- set it up in a similar fashion for the night mode:
        <case nightMode="true" color=.../>
        -->
    </renderingAttribute>

</renderingStyle>

And the before/after pictures:


Set Chrome to use desktop version of website

You could try adding a chrome-command-line file which causes chrome to load sites in desktop mode by default. The only way to stop this however, is to remove the file.
See here

Or you could install the Chrome UA Switcher app although this requires root access so may not be suitable if you're not rooted.


Backup Notification Led (Pulse Light) Configuration

I use Light Flow app to control my notifications light. It has an option to backup/restore settings that I have used when flashing new ROM or doing a data reset.


Possible to Alter and Differentiate Between Media Audio/Sounds?

Unfortunately, this functionality is not yet available in Android. There is currently no way to separate apps that use the media stream. Your best bet would be to go to the app's settings and find a volume setting in there.


Is it possible to set an encryption password different than lock screen pin?

Please, keep in mind -- one problem, one question here. Two questions in one post is a bad idea.

Now:

first question: take a look here or here or in many other places,
second question: no, encryption is irreversible!

Once applied the only way to disable it / change password is to do factory reset (loosing all data / wiping phone memory -- as you write) and perform another phone encryption after that.


Mounting a remote folder as local folder

On a rooted phone you have several options -- via 3rd party app, directly through a unix mount command, see How to mount SMB/CIFS Network Shares on android device?

If your phone is not rooted, I do not know how to do that, maybe there can be some app on a play store that is able to mount a network share (NFS, SMB, FTP, ...) via normal privileges (it is definetly possible under unix).

If you want to share just music and/or video you can use DLNA (your phone does not have to be rooted for this to work) -- install a DLNA server on your PC/router and than something like XBMC for Android or BubbleUPnp on your android device.


There is no real standard here — every manufacturer does whatever it likes. E.g., many Samsung devices (including Samsung Galaxy S4 and Samsung Galaxy Note II) use the traditional layout — Menu, Home, Back (with Menu and Back as touch keys, and Home as a physical key; and the Back key is really on the right side, while many other manufacturers place it on the left side). Given the Samsung market share, there is a significant number of phones shipped with recent Android versions and still having the Menu key.


Can I use multiple Android devices with a single Google account?

I have a Motorola Droid running CM6 (Android 2.2, effectively) and a G1 running CM5 (Android 2.1, effectively).  The Droid is on Verizon and the G1 is on a pre-pay SIM card with no data (so it is basically a wifi device I use for dev testing).

I use the same Google account on both.  It does not force me to have the same apps on both phones.  I can download apps I have paid for on both phones without any problems.  Contacts, gmail, etc. sync just fine.

However, I do believe that if both devices are running Froyo, it will try to initially restore your apps when you add your Google account.  But I believe you can then uninstall them (it won't try to re-install again).


Go to Settings > WiFi and check if any network shows 'Connected'.
If not, select the appropriate network and login.


Okay Google option to open from lock screen using Moto G 3rd Gen

Sometimes it's just the gapp you have. I had a rom that had gapps preinstalled and the option wasn't there, but when I flashed official gapps from opengapps.org it gave me the option.


Why does my phone consume megabytes of traffic when idle?

Just a guess, but: I imagine the built-in Google apps (gmail, contacts, calendar) are the culprits.  Try turning off "Account Sync" in settings.


Usually there is a special battery controller chip (IC) in your phone which is always active even if the phone is switched off. This chip does the calculation on whatever base.

Android running on the main CPU just queries this special controller, retrieves and displays the values.

For a more detailed answer see How does charging a phone battery work?.


Error message when upgrading Galaxy S to Froyo

The picture you got on your phone was upgrade mode (also called download mode).  The phone disconnects and then tries to reconnect when it goes into this mode.  My guess is that the reconnect failed; it happened to me when I tried upgrading through a virtual machine.  I suggest borrowing a friend's computer running Windows natively to do the upgrade.


Do Android Stock Browser, Firefox Mobile and Opera Mobile use proxy server to perform rendering

In Opera Mobile, you can enable Opera Turbo to use the same proxying technology as used by Opera Mini.

Android Stock Browser does not use compressing proxy at all and I believe neither does Firefox Mobile (though given that Firefox Mobile has plugins system there might be a plugin for that).

Several lesser known browsers in the Market does use similar proxying technique, but I can't recall off the top of my head which ones though.


I think you are most likely to have seen what you are describing on an iPhone, however there is a similar function available as of Android 9.

You can use the Magnifier Widget on a piece of text by highlighting it and dragging the selection handle as shown on this page.

You can drag the handle around to magnify any of the text on-screen, one downside though is that the magnifier will 'snap' to each line of text which can take a little getting used to.


Xperia S, sleep-to-snap not capturing automatically

A friend showed me how to, you go to the Camera App's Settings, then go to "Quick launch", and check "Launch and Capture". It was set on "Launch only (still camera)".


Install Android TV app on mobile Android

Android TV - Wikipedia
 says

  (it )  is a Smart TV
  Platform

(Emphasis Supplied)

Android TV app is meant for Android TV - Which to me means it cannot run on mobile . To support :

You can't find it on Play Store because it is not meant to be installed on mobile devices
Other Devices section of Wiki quoted, doesn't mention mobile / media players of regular Android
Net search doesn't reveal the possibility

Bottom line - You can't

Edit: Post your revision

The extract from the blog you linked gives you the impression that you can install TV apps on your mobile but to my understanding that's not the case. It explains you can download the app on your mobile and use your mobile as a play store for TV apps but doesn't claim you can install and run on your mobile
If you visit Aptoide , which is an alternative play store, you will see a bunch of apps Aptoide TV. Only one of them has an app description that reads

  .... The optimised app store for your set top box and Smart TV

Install Apps On Your Android TV From Your Smartphone With AptoideTV claims that you can install mobile apps on your TV

Lacking practical experience and based on these, my conclusion is that you can't install TV apps on your mobile (and that's probably why those you tried to install crashed).

Requesting readers to clarify based on their experience. Thanks


Error after error in booting and in recovery mood

I have downloaded My tablet driver from ASUS website and then the following ADB command in boot menu resolved the problem completely. (notice that it removes user data I think!)

adb sideload <filename>


How can I determine which block device corresponds to internal memory?

As Izzy said INTERNAL STORAGE usually refers to /data, it's the partition where apps are installed and where they keep their private data.

Also /storage/sdcard0 could be part of internal phone memory, called PHONE STORAGE it's an emulated sdcard (I can't tell if in your case that's emulated sdcard or real)

To make a raw backup of your data you need to know which block contains that partition, you can check it with this command:

cat /proc/emmc

Result should contain lines like this:

emmc_p7: 001a4c00 00300000 "usrdata"
emmc_p8: 004a4c00 0358dd00 "fat"

This gives you partition number p7 , now you can use this command to list blocks:

 cat /proc/partitions

Result should contain:

  179        7    1572864 mmcblk0p7
  179        8   28077696 mmcblk0p8

In this case to backup /data aka emmc@usrdata contained in mmcblk0p7 block you can use this command:

dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p7 of=/storage/sdcard0/usrdata.img

Supposing sdcard0 is working properly and there is enough space.
After that usrdata.img can be mounted in a linux box with:

sudo mount -t ext4 -o loop usrdata.img ./folder

P.S.
You might check how to use adb so you can open a console on your computer and issue commands to your phone connected with usb.


On the Home Screen, tap Menu > Personalize Home Screen Tabs.
To move a tab, tap and hold the icon before the tab name, and then drag it up or down the tabs list.
To hide a tab, clear the check box at the right of the tab name.
Tap Done.


How can I enable dictation in Android messaging (texting) apps?

Dictation is managed by Input Method when you have downloaded voice recognition offline data for your preferred language at settings, Language and Input, Google Voice typing, Offline speech recognition.

While using the standard keyboard, tap the microphone icon to start dictation.

Or of not available switch input method to google voice typing it will start recognition.


Google assistant is not playing my daily breafing

I had the same problem as you.
This happens because of the phone's language, that doesn't support google assistant properly.

Change your device language to English United State by navigating to Settings > Languages & Input > Languages > Add a language and then search for English United State or English US and add that language. Also, make it default language for your phone by dragging it to top from languages menu back in Settings > Languages & Input > Languages. Then close google assistant and open again. It will work. You will find some change in its voice.

Hope it helps. :)

Source: Google forum


How to set static IP address for wi-fi connection?

Hit the hard menu button on your phone and then choose Settings.
From there, browse to the Wireless controls section and then choose Wi-Fi Settings
Whilst in the Wi-Fi Settings section, push the hard menu button again and select Advanced.
Press Use static IP to put a check in the box and then enter the network settings as per your own network.

If you’re not sure what your settings are, and assuming you’re using Windows:

Open a command prompt by clicking Start, then Run
Type in cmd and hit Enter
Type the line ipconfig -all and hit Enter, the relevant details should be listed there.

Just make sure you use a different number for IP address on your phone than is shown on your PC!


Black and frozen videos / images in apps (Snap, Instagram, FB, ...)

It's probably a defect in the device firmware. Cheaper phones often have less effort put into making sure the firmware is perfect. In that case, a new firmware would fix the problem, though again, cheaper phones are less likely to have a firmware update available and less likely to have a custom ROM development community. Even so, it's worth checking with the manufacturer.

If there are no firmware updates available, your only option is a better phone, from a manufacturer who's willing to spend the money getting the system integration right.


Logging off viber account on my stolen phone

Activate it on a friends phone, then deactivate it on the same phone. It will deactivate your account on all phones and PCs.


How to change stored password in Skype4Business app?

After starting Skype4B:

open the menu by swiping into the screen from left
select "Sign Out" (last option)
the login page appears
there edit/delete the old password and enter the new one
click the big arrow icon to sign in


You can have a software name Virtual DJ. It can hep you to change your song Genres and many things which could help you to properly manage the Genre Section in Samsung Music Application


Is it possible to write video directly to external device while recording

As I mentioned in the comments, you can use IP webcam apps on Play Store and then turn your mobile easily into a webcam and record your computer's screen using a video recording software. This way you can rely on your computer's memory instead of your mobile's storage(which is limited in most cases). Now you can use your phone as a webcam peripheral device and recording videos directly in your Macbook's SSD storage. Some apps provide functions to add a server and upload the videos to cloud.

Note: Most app requires an USB cable connection or that you have your mobile and computer connected to the same network which is why it named IP webcam since it is accessed using the IP address generated from the connected network.


As eldarerathis commented: Your explicit question is already answered:

How can I prevent applications from running on startup?
how to identify and change apps which are set as startup items

However, I see an implicit question here as well: As you don't want to use this app at all, you might want to "get rid of it". While starting with ICS (Android 4.0) you can freeze (disable and hide) most system apps even without root, on previous versions that is only possible with root. Several apps are available on the playstore to help you with this (just search for bloatware).

The best known and highest recommended in this area is Titanium Backup which, as the name suggests, as a "side-effect" even manages your backups (and does this really good -- I use the Pro version now for about 2 years). With this app, you can even create yourself a shortcut to freeze/defreeze an app (in case of rarely used ones). Then there are also NoBloat and Root Uninstaller, amongst others.

So if you are rooted, and if you really do not need that app, freezing it is the safest way to ensure it doesn't start. I've heard of apps still auto-starting though they were "disabled" by those anti-autostart solutions. If, on the other hand, your device is not rooted -- you can only use the "simple no-root solutions" described "over there".


Do most phones default to Automatic Date and Time being on?


You can have a look at all Activities of an app by using QuickShortcutMaker app. It's quite a funny app which can make a shortcut to specified activity of any program, so you can even launch those hidden ones.


How can I see the price of an app I already purchased on the Google Play Store?

You can search it on the website of Google Play Store


How can I install Voice Search on Cyanogen 6 RC3

I spotted this advice on the post on the Google Mobile Blog announcing the new Voice Actions. At least one person in the comments claimed success.

  Just run the following commands to
  uninstall the old system apps if you
  use a custom rom.

  adb remount

  adb shell rm /system/app/GoogleQuickSearchBox.apk

  adb uninstall com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox

  adb shell rm /system/app/VoiceSearch.apk

  adb uninstall com.google.android.voicesearch

  Then they will install just fine from
  Market (from the US Market).
  MarketAccess set to TMO US will allow
  you to find them.


How to fix Phones language resetting to SIM language after reboot?

I disabled secure start up.
I guess secure start up uses the default keyboard (instead of SwiftKey that I normally uses) and that the language of the default keyboard depends on the sim card.

(Click to enlarge)

I am using a cubot power (cheap Chinese crap) with a Thai and a Danish sim card. Before the fix, the language changed to Danish every time I rebooted


It sounds like a defective unit. I would send it in for warranty replacement. If it is getting warm while plugged in the power is shorting out the unit causing it to show no life but receive power.


Help! Renamed /system/bin/sh to sh.old.bak, lost root, can't rename, no nandroid backup

I'll now guide you through the procedure of writing a custom flashable ZIP, for the purpose of renaming your sh.old.bak. To begin, create the following tree of folders:

/META-INF/com/google/android

Once you created them, move to the android folder, and create the following new files. Make sure that they don't have any extension at their end:

updater-script
update-binary

Leave the first one blank, and proceed by editing the update-binary as follows:

#!/sbin/sh
mount /system
mount -o remount,rw /system
mv /system/bin/sh.old.bak /system/bin/sh
umount /system

Save this content (in the update-binary), open your favourite zipping tool, and create a compressed archive out of the META-INF folder. Its content should be automatically included. Make sure that the archive type is set to ZIP, and select the lowest possible compression level.

Finally, flash this script to your device with:

fastboot update name_of_your_zip.zip

As guessable, the third parameter should be the name (and path) of the ZIP you created. In short, the ZIP should mount the /system partition in read-write mode, rename your sh.old.bak to sh, and unmount the /system partition.


Best way to install Android app on 500 tablets?

I do not think you need a unique account. I have several devices that all use the same account. That aside...

Sideloaded apps should be able to update from Google Play. I just tested this myself. I installed an older version of Discord on my phone, opened a fresh run of Google Play, and checked for updates. It showed me that there was an update and was able to do it.

Since 2015, Google Play is able to detect the keystore signature of the apps. As long as the one installed and the one on the market are signed the same, then it should update.

You should be able to test it yourself, assuming you have older version of your app that you can fiddle with.


Samsung S5 compatible with tracfone and Verizon Wireless

After having gone through this process, it seems that all Verizon-compatible Samsung S5s are compatible with TracFone, and there is no unlocking that needs to be done. All I had to do was get the new SIM card from TracFone and put it in the S5, then follow there instructions to get it activated. AFAIK, I could go back to Verizon at any time, by simply putting the old Verizon SIM card back in.

For any other model phone, just contact TracFone. They'll tell you whether the phone is compatible or not. It really was a straightforward process.


Need help fixing system problems after downloading Lollipop 5.0 upgrade for Note 3 today

I found some people who suggested wiping cache data instead of factory reset.  Did that just now and it's working great, with no loss of data!

Power off.
Power on in recovery mode (this is for the Note 3) by holding down the power, home and volume up buttons until the screen flickers.   I got red messagesaying Booting to Recovery partition or something like that... you get a list of items.
Select Wipe Cache Partition using the volume buttons to move up or down. Power button to select.   It took maybe 5 seceonds to wipe the cache.
Select Reboot.

And my phone is back!


Why do my photos look fantastic on my HTC One X, but not that good on a PC?

First, HTC is not ...employing a filter or enhancement to make the photos look better....

Second,
This is the color settings of the screens. If you transfer a photo taken from a Sony device camera to a Samsung mobile device, you will see a huge difference. That difference is that you can't see the vividness and cleanliness (i.e. the beauty ) you saw in the photo of the Samsung phone.

Explanation: The mobile phones has a PPI or DPI more than 300 whereas the computer monitors have around 150 - 200. Since you are seeing the pictures in a lesser pixel density while you are viewing them in your PC, you may fell that they don't look nearly as good.

If you want the beauty you saw in your phone, use Photoshop or any other photo editing app to increase the colors a little and adjust brightness and/or contrast or curves. Our fellow SE members of Photography Stack Exchange will be glad to help you.


Cannot add Outgoing COM port for any android device

This is just based on a bit of research, not my own experience:

Android phones, unlike your Symbian phone which worked, do not expose a Hayes-command modem as a built-in externally accessible service. There may well be such an interface internally for communicating with the “baseband processor”, but in order to control it from another computer you will have to install an Android app and/or modified OS which forwards the commands it receives from an external source. I don't know whether such an app already exists.

(Further questions on how to get the scheme I described working might be better asked over at Stack Overflow as they would be essentially about programming Android.)


Importing contacts from other phone to Moto G

SIM cards only support one number for each contact, so you should be better off exporting the contacts on your Micromax device as Contacts.vcf (export to SD card / something like that) and opening the VCF on your Moto G to commence import.


How to reduce dropbox internal data usage

I have a rooted phone, and I found an > 800 MB file at :/data/data/com.dropbox.android/global/external/docpreviews. I just deleted it. This did result in additional free space, though I'm not sure if it will stay free or if there will be other repercussions.


Xiaomi Mi Band 2 cannot be paired with App Mi Fit in Android 8.1.0

So in the end, the solution was incredibly easy. At the time I was trying to pair it, it never occurred to me to try anything other than the official app. But since then, I've found that the official app may not always be the best. And here it was the same - it was enough to use another application - Mi Band App for HRX, 2 and Mi Band 3.
I haven't tested it yet, but the pairing itself worked, so hopefully there won't be another problem.


How to prevent Spotify to access photo/media?

I managed to get the desired result with the XPrivacy module, part of the XPosed framework.

I can precisely remove permissions from any app. In case the app relies on those permissions to work I can generate false values.

(Click image to enlarge)

As you can see I am able to remove the permission to use the Internet or I can go deeper and remove specific functions if needed. Furthermore I can decide upon app usage of a permission, which means whenever an app tries to use a permission I am asked once if I want to allow or decline this.

However this is not recommended to people who are afraid of resetting or reflashing their devices if needed. XPosed goes deep into the system of Android. It runs stable but regular backups are a must, just in case.


I lost my Android smartphone. Play Store tells me that someone has inserted a SIM card. How can I find out the phone number?

Sorry to see you losing your phone. Have you seen the question "Can I remotely launch an app on my android phone?" in which @jlehenbauer has answered mentioning an app called AndroidLost.  You can try this if you are sure you have your lost phone still uses your Google Account.


How do I stop my phone from beeping when it completes charging?

Here's Here's [tnx @GAThrawn] a free app that claims to be able to do that.


Android x86 on VirtualBox - Apps cannot access internet

I know it's an old thread but in case I was facing same issue well the solution is to change network adapter settings (virtual box or vmware) from NAT type to Bridge type that's it! and for the mouse issue you need to disable Mouse integration, if you don't want to change the network type there is another solution if your android vm is rooted which's rooted I guess you can install xposed framework and install fake wifi connection module worked on android 4.4 upto 5.1 if you have another version such as marshmellow (6.0+) then you need to install an apk from here https://www.mediafire.com/download/cbsu84p9496n70o , and after installing it you will be advised to install hack module from xposed so it can make the apk work well.


I've had similar mysterious activity showing up on my account in the past (albeit, several years ago).  It's important to remember that your Google account, and thusly your usage history, can be shared across multiple devices, including a mixture of desktop, laptop, mobile, even TV and assistant enabled devices like Google Home.

I spent a moment going over security and reviewing my account  - it sounds like you would benefit from the same.

First, visit https://myaccount.google.com/

Secondly, sign in to your Google account and you should see some options on the left side pane:

Under Data & personalization, you can review your privacy settings and also see location history.  Clicking on Location History reveals a page where you can review which devices are contributing to your accounts history.  Be sure to have only the devices you actively use as checked.

Under Security, I highly recommend turning on 2-step verification.  Also, make sure you have no security issues including any unidentified sign-ins from devices you don't recognize.  You can revoke access to your Google account on a device-basis from this screen.

Under People and Sharing you can view who is sharing content with you, including location history.  You can also control which content you see, of course, including location sharing.

In regards to your mobile devices, make sure you audit and remove any suspicious looking apps that you may not remember downloading.

Finally, reset your Google password.  This is the single best security practice and often the most overlooked.


What is the com.android.email/cache folder?

Cache is a kind of temporary storage for faster access to e.g. files loaded via network. In case of an email app, this most likely holds contents that where attached to a mail (like images: you even named a .jpg, that's it), so it doesn't need to be re-loaded via the network each time the user looks up a message (see: Web cache).

Also see our cache tag-wiki.


Galaxy Tab S (retail mode) bricked - HELP!

Have you tried this

Sammobile Firmware
Odin
For the next time, keep the retail mode in the developer section ALLWAYS ON


Scrolling behaviour for apps (in general)

I have also seen the 3 scrolling types you mention below, but it always seemed to me that the 3rd one was more a bug than a feature.

The HTC Desire (which I have too) is not known to have a great digitizer, the part of the screen that handles the finger positions and movements. Furthermore, it's not "multitouch", meaning it cannot handle properly more than 1 finger on the screen, although there are tries to support it but I've never seen it work constantly good. See this page for more proof.

It's true that it would be a nice feature, maybe on other phones with a better touchscreen and a further version of Android with more gestures supported. Why not for example scrolling down with 2 fingers would trigger a super-fast scroll or a "go to bottom" action?


How can I unlock and configure my Nexus One without a SIM card?

If you mean unlocked so any SIM can be used, the device comes from Google SIM Unlocked.

From Wikipedia Article:

  The device is sold SIM unlocked (not restricted to use on a single network provider). Google offered T-Mobile USA and AT&T versions of the phone online in the United States before closing the online store in July 2010.

The difference between the AT&T and T-Mobile version is the bands that the phone uses for its network. If you don't have the right bands, the network will fall back to the common network, which is EDGE. For example, if you have a T-Mobile version, and you mother has AT&T, then when she is browsing the internet she will only get EDGE(2G) speeds. Voice there really is not noticeable difference.

So to answer your question, you don't have to take it anywhere, and it costs nothing extra. You paid for it to be unlocked when you bought it.

You should be able to install applications without having a SIM card. At the very least, you will need to have wifi available so you can download the applications. I would suggest a factory reset, then start the device and configure it how you want for your mother, with apps, and email setup, etc.


I have broken my Motorola Moto E 1 Screen I was wondering if I could plug my Phone into a Monitor and a mouse

There is a Chrome plugin called Vysor that I have used successfully in the past when my screen was completely broken and I had to extract my data. I believe it needs USB-debugging to be enabled to install on your device, but it's free so you could give it a shot. (In my case, USB-debugging was enabled before it broke because I make apps)

Once the apk is installed, it mirrors your screen on the pc and you are able to control the phone through there (and make the pattern to unlock with your mouse, or even enter the SIM-pin).


Is it possible to update CyanogenMod from within CyanogenMod?

Depending on the version of CyanogenMod ROM you have currently installed, this can be easy or impossible.

If you already have CM7, and simply want to try out the nightly builds, ROM Manager and ROM Manager Premium unlock automate the entire process.  With a single button tap, it can download the latest version of the ROM, reboot to Recovery, take a backup of the current system, flash the new version, and reboot back.

If you are on an older version of CM (4/5/6) this cannot be done in one click, because of the drastic differences between the ROMs.  A full wipe of the device will be required, which means all of your settings and downloaded apps will be deleted, and will need to be re-installed manually (or in batch via Titanium Backup or AppBrain.)


Is the Nexus One battery charged when connected to a PC via USB?

I don't know about the N1 in particular, but as far as I know, most (if not all) phones charge via USB so long as the USB port provides enough power.  My Motorola Droid and G1 charge via USB. My Nook Color and Motorola Xoom (tablets) do not charge via USB.

However, do note that it is faster to charge with the phone plugged in to a power source instead of a USB port.


Low space even though most apps are linked to SD card

This sounds a lot like an issue with cache. While the apps themselves can be stored on the SD card, cache that they produce might not. As I don't know what apps you actually have, I can only advise you to at least try and delete cache from various apps, such as twitter, facebook etc.

To delete cache, do as follows (this is for android 4.3): Settings -> More -> Application manager

Here you should be able to click in on every installed app, and delete their cache. Beware, tho, for something like calender and alarm clock apps, any set up serviced from them might reset! This should not, however, delete the app itself.


Flash the NF2 modem, I had the exact same use with no imei / baseband http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2649176
CP_N9005XXUFNF2.tar.md5 is the file you want


Since you are not facing any connection issues, this toast message, on the face of it looks not related to connection .

As a first step, install toaster and notification history to find out the source of that toast. Second app covers system also IIRC, whereas first is only for installed apps.

Let's find out what is the source and next steps would follow - if it is an app causing it uninstall it - OP found the culprit app and uninstalled


How can I do factory reset on Samsung Galaxy 10.1 Tab?

If you were able to unlock the device, you would go to Settings ~> Privacy ~> Factory Data Reset & follow instructions. Done!

Since you don't have access to OS, press and hold "Volume Down + Power" for 10 seconds. Screen will appear with standard Droid recovery icon. Select it with volume down key & press volume up to enter. Now, you're in recovery mode from where you can factory reset your device.

Depending on your device sub-model, if its not working, try "Volume up + Home + Power" for 10 seconds. When something is displayed on screen,  release power button while holding other ones.

If this one is also not working, turn on device with power button and just after first display, press and hold "Volume up + Volume down" for 10 seconds.


Is there a way to test if a firewal (AFwall) l is blocking a specific app?

Android setting has an option named 'Data Usage' where you can see per app data consumption. Compare consumed data on two instances to make sure it is not using any Internet.

PS: IMO If you've Xposed installed then LighteningWall could be a better option.


There are pretty much good app in Google play you can take help from there , search for hardware information or device information application will make your work.

I prefer one of my best app - CPU Z.

Hope it helps.


How can I configure Google Play so that it doesn't update applications when I'm using the phone?

You can use an app for automating tasks, like Tasker,  AutomateIt, etc.

Here, for example, is a suggestion for a Tasker profile that enables auto update only when the device is plugged in for charging. You may be able to find an alternative trigger that better suits your needs, like screen off, etc.


It seems you can get around the region lock by using the phone to make calls for at least 5 minutes using a SIM card obtained in the region where the phone was purchased.

GSM Arena has a post on this.

The article also notes that the region lock is for countries in the Europe region.


How can I access files on a Seagate GoFlex Satellite wifi or Kingston Wi-Drive?

According to this review Pocket-Lint: Kingston Wi-Drive review :

  You are also able to access the files on the Wi-Drive on a PC or Mac
  by visiting it's IP address in your web browser. This, again, allows
  you to play any files that are supported in your web browser. MP3s,
  for example, play fine, but you might struggle more with video files.

  You can also connect to the Kingston as a regular network drive. We
  were able to view it as if it was any network attached storage device.
  That means we could also copy files over wirelessly too.

This suggests that, the Kingston at least, supports something like SMB (the Windows file-sharing protocol). Many Android apps let you connect to an SMB shared drive to copy files on or off, I use File Manager to copy files from my Windows machines to my phone/tablet this way, and I'm pretty sure Astro supports it too.

To do this from your app, you just need to include SMB file access support in your Andoird app. How to do that is off-topic for this site, as that is a developer question.


HTC HD2 Can't start certain App from SD with CyanogenMod Gingerbread 2.3.3

It looks like those ROMs just don't support App2SD.  Someone else was asking about it: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=12193603&postcount=453


Incoming call notification that supports landscape mode

Unfortunately, this isn't something that can be done natively (as far as my research has turned up). The next best thing I found were car dock apps, like Car Home Ultra, which force everything to rotate into landscape and/or display a driver-friendly UI. I'm not sure if it will work for all versions of Android and what other limitations there are but it's worth a try, I guess. If all else fails, try Rotation Control.


Cyanogenmod custom recovery can't backup, restore or apply an update!

From xda thread: CyanogenMod recovery is basic, so you have to flash another one. The easiest way is to use rashr app and it worked for me perfectly


How to keep audio players from starting automatically upon reconnecting to a bluetooth device?

Due to poor development with some phones, most music apps will still be running in a background process even after you close it.

My advice is to use an app called "Purify". Unlike most task managers, this app keeps app processes closed after you close the app.

But be aware that Purify can temper with many of your social media apps and you may not be able to receive notifications from Facebook or Instagram after you close the apps.

Purify SHOULD be able to prevent your audio player from automatically opening when connecting bluetooth.

Also, it works BEST on a ROOTED device.

If it doesn't work, let me know!


No Move to SD Card or Move to USB option in android 4.2.2

Move to SD is disabled android 4 onwards. Also App2SD AppMgrIII etc all are useless. I found best solution to this problem after a-week-long search on google I found this very useful new app called FolderMount

see:  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.devasque.fmount

Of note, you need to Root your phone. Root It by Easiest means Mobogenie

I tried it on 3 folders (in free version only 3 can be tried) and then immediately bought the pro version; its worth..  just cleared lot of place on my Galaxy Mega 6.3.


Why do I have Termux and Termux(failsafe)?

Termux (failsafe) is shown on the app drawer since the last update. When you update Termux to the latest version, it is also shown.
From this comment from what is Termux (failsafe)?:

We have made sessions auto-closeable, see #988 for more information.
Auto-closeable sessions may put application into "denial-of-service" condition if user will mess with files like .bashrc - in such case access to files on internal storage will be completely lost. Thus we had to create a separate icon.
It's very unlikely that we will remove it. Easy access to failsafe shell is mandatory but unfortunately there no other reliable variants that will work on all Android versions.

Also based in this comment in Termux github:

This creates a limited shell using only the Android system tools.

If for whatever reason Termux is unable to start, then use Termux failsafe.


What Android version are you on? Check System Settings > About phone > Android version. Kies3 is for Android 4.3 and above. If your Android version is lower, use Kies.


kitkat 4.4.4 connecting usb devices to samsung tab e

For the printer, you'll need a USB-A --> B cable, along with:
Print Hand, Printer Share, or a similar app from the Play Store.

Make sure your printer is compatible with the app you choose before dropping the $.


Is there a way to keep an old Android installation as virtual machine?

ADB backs up Settings + Apps(System + User) + Apps Data + User Data. That's it. The backup made through it doesn't come close to be related to booting it into virtual machine or even a real device. Short story, you have a backup definitely but that's not a system image.

If you want to create a system image, you need to do it through a Nandroid backup or a custom tool. For the former, you require a custom recovery installed. But even that backup cannot be virtualized on a PC, not that I'm aware of any of yet.

However, you can virtualize (running real actually) this Nandroid backup using MultiRom. I did not use MultiRom but I found that folks use it to boot multiple Android OS. I'm yet to be certain whether this backup can be installed in a seconday ROM, I suppose it should be.
Besides, the last time I checked for Android virtualization, I got Android 4.3 as the latest available iso when 5.0 for devices was already launched.

Note: This is an attempt and is far away from a good answer. Nonetheless, it doesn't qualify to be a comment either.


ATTENTION: For Lollipop root, please vist this thread its still EXPERIMENTAL root applied by me, and as such not gonna include here untill its been verified by users

I currently have the same phone on the same version as you, lollipop 5.1.1, and since it is not a well known phone, their isn't a one click install method. The only methods that I found, keep in mind I have not tried them and as such NOT held responsible for damages to your phone or Mentality

The only root method I have found would require you installing a custom recovery, in this case TWRP, and flashing the SU Binary (This enables us to have root) and then downloading SuperSU for the ability to grant root permissions to apps.

This following method will trip knox and thus making your warranty voided, and here are some facts about the problems with tripping knox

Rooting the Smasung xCover 3 (SM-G388f) KitKat

I haven't used this tutorial as I don't want to trip knox and as such cannot verify the integrity of this method.

Now to the good part!

Preperations

Download the newest Version of TWRP for this phone, Sansung xCover3, making sure to download the version with the .tar extension
Download the newest ODIN version and install in onto your computer
Download and the Phone USB drivers for the phone either, Via Samung Kies3 or from the ODIN webpage
Download the newest SuperSU Binary and put it into the root directory of your device (Internal SD Card Memory)
Install adb and read up on fastboot
Make sure Phone is at least 80% charged and has USB Debugging turned on

TWRP Installation

Turn off the smartphone
Boot your device into Download Mode, to boot into Download Mode press and hold the "Volume Down + Home + Power" together till Download Mode is active. Once entered you will be seeing a warning sign asking if you want to continue, hit the "Volume Up"
Open ODIN and then Connect your phone to your computer via USB Cable
After connecting your phone to the computer, ODIN should say "Added"
Once the device is detected by Odin, click on the button "AP" and select the .tar TWRP file you had download earlier, at the time of writing the current version would be twrp-3.0.0-0-xcover3ltexx.img.tar (9.1 Mb)
Now, click on the "Start" button in Odin to start Flahing, Flashing usually takes 30-50 seconds to complete for the process of flashing the Samsung Galaxy Xcover 3. Once the flashing process in completed you will be able to see a green box with the words "Pass" in Odin. During this process the Smartphone will automatically re-boot

Rooting

Once TWRP is installed, move the SuperSU.zip file to your internal SD Card if not already
Turn phone off
Boot into Recovery Mode by pressing and holding down the "Volume Up + Home + Power" simultaneously until the TWRP Recovery mode shows
Once booted into TWRP, Click "Install" and select the "SuperSu.zip", then Swipe to confirm the flash
Reboot phone, if it was successful you should see the SuperSU app installed, if not install the app
Verify root with the use of Root Checker, if it says root status verified then you have successfully rooted your phone, congratulations!

Hope I Helped, if you require any assistance you can contact me


I have deleted all launcher apps, how to fix?

You don't have a launcher. That's the problem. But you still have access to status bar, which is a part of System UI. So here comes the 1st solution:

Boot your phone as normal, then unlock it. You should see a blank screen with only your wallpaper (or black screen) with a normally-functioning status bar.
Drop down the status bar and there should be an entry to your Settings app. Tap it to open settings.
Turn on USB debugging and connect your phone to a computer.
From your computer, download an APK of a launcher app of your choice. Place it somewhere and grab an adb executable.
Open a command prompt (terminal) and enter

adb push name-of-your.apk /sdcard/
adb install /sdcard/name-of-your.apk

Wait for installation to complete. If it takes more than a minute, reboot your phone and it should be OK. You will be prompted to select the default launcher app with only 1 option.

Alternatively as suggested by Једноруки Крстивоје, as a 2nd solution, you can send the APK via bluetooth and install it from the notification bar.


How to change my default save location from sd to internal memory card of phone?

The steps for changing default Storage is the same for many Android devices.  You just need to go in Settings > Storage and charge the Preferred Install Location to SD Card.


Factory data reset not working after root attempt

Look up the Hboot process on YouTube for your model HTC phone. Normally if there's a video then there's links to any files you might need. Follow the directions and thank all the great Devs for making life so easy for us all.


Chrome Websites track when location is disabled

Use VPN. There is many free ones avilable such as Opera VPN, Hola, psiphon etc.


Complete Dropbox implementation for Android

Titanium Media Sync offers continuous sync from SD Card to DropBox, but not the other way... the way I do it is setup rsync jobs with tasker and rsyncbackup... (requires your DropBox to be automatically kept in sync on a desktop pc somewhere, running an ssh server). The following should get you up and running:
Step 1: DropBox remote.
First, setup DropBox on a computer somewhere running an ssh server, so you can copy files from it over ssh (with rsync), and make sure it’s setup with private key encryption with an agent so you don’t need to enter passphrases/passwords every time
Step 2: RSync from remote to phone
Then, get rsync4android (market link)
That lets you setup rsync jobs from a remote server to your phone (and vice versa… I use it for this, but also for backing up my photos to my PC automatically every night)
Then create an rsync job to download a particular folder from your remote DropBox on your PC into the DropBox folder on your sd card.
Step 3: scheduled automatic rsync jobs
Get tasker (which lets you schedule jobs to happen on a large number of triggers, including time) (market link)
Create a tasker job to fire off your new rsync job to keep your dropbox folder up to date.
Step 4: Enjoy
Like I say, it’s a bit around the houses, but seems to do the job
I've also posted a copy of these instructions on my blog.


Odin BcmCP.img fail when trying to flash gt-s5830i (galaxy ace)

Use Odin 3.07. Also, make sure that you start odin as administrator. I had the same problem, and it worked for me. And prior to that, if it gets stuck in Setup Connection, just boot into "download mode" once again by pulling off the battery and re-inserting it.


Does Android have a 2.1GB file size limit?

Short Answer: Yes

More Detailed Answer:

The file size limit is not something specific to Android, it is a limit of the File System.

It may "technically" be a bug in Android though, as FAT32, which is what the file system is for the sdcard, should have a file size limit of 4GB ((2^32)-1 = 4,294,967,295B) but it looks like the filesystem on Android is android is actually using a limit of ((2^31) - 1 = 2,147,483,647B). Which means they could be using signed integers, instead of unsigned integers for the addressing on the filesystem.


I am a Chinese user and I'm extremely sure that:

You cannot unset your Region settings in WeChat. You can only change it by repeating the procedure in which you set it.

Edit: From Chinese BBSs people claim that they succeeded by using an exploit of incompatibility between older and newer versions of WeChat. Their procedure is

Install an old enough version of WeChat (They picked 4.2)
Change your region settings to anything else
Install a newer version of WeChat (They picked 5.2)
Due to incompatibility the region is blank

Do note that the posts I've found are in 2015 and even 2014. I'm note sure if WeChat's server still accepts versions other than 6.x


Android: Default Battery Percentage Level for individual services to switch off

"Services" doesn't mean what you think it means. A service is an app component that can run in the background. For example, an email app might have a service that's started every 15 minutes to check for new email (and stops itself when it completes). This means it's background apps that stop, not things like the Wi-Fi and mobile data.

App developers are encouraged to check for the low battery condition and stop battery-draining activities. This broadcast also triggers the "low battery" dialog, so it's easy to tell at what level it fires. It can be changed by the device manufacturer (since Android is open-source), but it's usually set to trigger at 15%.


Malware adding code to ga.js opens up random ads/websites?

I've encountered the above situation yesterday.
After lots of digging, got to this thread, and it led me to the solution.

Apparently, that one of the computers on the network I've visit, was exposed to a malware that modified the router settings.
The router was a D-Link 2760U/E with default  Admin / Admin login details.

Using the above credentials, the above malware has changed the "static routing tables" adding their servers to be a man in the middle.
All non SSL traffic had passed through their service which injected js into the page.
I've found  a GitHub page who shows the modifications and additions.

It took me a while to understand that all the traffic is coming from a DNS change attack - I have checked and verified that the computer is totally clean and no unknown process / services are running before and while the test.

One of the things they have done is to redirect all google-analytics.com traffic to their server, keeping them under the radar.

So how to resolve it:

Quick way:

Reset you router to factory settings - note it will erase all existing settings.

Long way:

Login into the routers web UI
Remove all unknown entries from the static routing tables
Change your login password for the router
Reboot your router.

I hope this post will assist someone.

Regards,
Liron


Ridiculous error on all google play store Using CM 10.1.3

This error can have multiple causes. Some are explained on our sister site, in Error while retrieving information from the server RPC:s-7:AEC-0 in Google play?:

  turns out my credit card info on file needed updated to my new expiration date.

is one possibility. One more:

  RPC:AEC:0 error is known as CPU/RAM/Device/Identity failure.

  Go to settings >application > Play Store >Clear Data & Clear Cache.
  Go to accounts >Google >Remove account.
  Reboot device.
  Again Settings>Account >Google >Log In.

Another reason is explained on AndroidPIT (German): It could be problems with Google servers (same is, btw, reported by users in this thread on AndroidForums.Com). One user reported a work around that did it for him: He tried it at least 10 times on his Android device, without success. So he simply fired up the browser on his computer, and tried it from there -- which immediately worked.

For more details (and possible other solutions/work-arounds), just follow the other results from this Google search.


Remove folder from App Drawer in TouchWiz (not home screen / app launcher)

Once you have created a folder in the Apps (i.e. I created a "Temp") and then  remove it:
1. Go to the App Drawer, Apps, and find the panel holding the folder.
2. Menu > Edit
3. Press and hold the folder until "Remove" appears.
4. Drag to Trash Can (Remove).
5. Save

Gone.


Need a car-friendly way to listen to music?

Go download PowerAmp.  Best $5 I ever spent on an app.

It includes lockscreen controls and I'm pretty sure you can set up lockscreen gestures to do whatever you want.  I'll confirm this real quick on my installation.

Edit: Confirmed on the lockscreen gestures.  Swiping left and right over the album art will skip the track forward and backward by default, from anywhere in the app or on the lockscreen.


What's a quick way to turn on the torch?

Theres a Torch app in the market that toggles on open.

Do you want a single button on home screen? Then you need to shortcut it.

Do you need it on your lock screen: swipe for widgets.

Do you need it on voice activation? "Ok google, open app flashlight/torch"

Do you want it on your shortcut bar? Drag it from programs.

Im not really sure what you want.


How to type and handwrite Japanese on devices without Japanese input?

I use the Simeji input method. it uses the great "flick" method for inputting kana. It takes some getting used to, but is very fast once you do. To switch between keyboards, just long press in the text field.


this is more or less the procedure I followed for rooting my motorola droid on android 2.1

http://www.droid-life.com/2010/05/06/guide-to-rooting-android-2-1-on-a-motorola-droid/

It was straightforward and error-free.  That said, unless you have a compelling reason to root your phone (like upgrading to a pre-release rom), I don't see why you should bother (go volunteer your free time to community service instead).


I had to uninstall Google+ updates to fix this.


Stock Google Music app does not scan subdirectory in Android 4.2.1

If the problem is really that rsync renames the files, try rsync --inplace.


Why there's no proxy support in Android browsers?

There's no apparent "technical" reason for that lack. I suspect it'd be something related to the "Android Program Policy" (or whatever else it's called).
In my opinion it looks like an intentional choice as the system-level proxy you can normally configure could be leaking information for some reason or bug.
Anyway, we can configure the SOCKSv5 proxy for Firefox for Android prior to version 68.11, but there seems to be no way to do the same for Chrome/Chromium.
Provided that you already established such a proxy, for example with a suitable SSH client (-D option).

In Firefox address bar type: about:config. A page full of settings will pop up.

In the search box type network.proxy to reduce the settings to those we are interested in.

For a SOCKv5 proxy you can set:

network.proxy.socks to the proxy IP address

network.proxy.socks_port to the proxy TCP port

network.proxy.type to 1 for manual proxy configuration

(optional) network.proxy.no_proxies_on to address that need not to be proxied (or clean it up to reach remote loopback addresses)

For a "regular" HTTP proxy, any other proxy type or even any other setting that's not available in the setting menu, please refer to the above settings page and to the official online documentation.

N.B. Starting with v68.11 Firefox for Android doesn't provide anymore access to settings via the about:config pseudo-page, even if it's listed in about:about pseudo-page. This is not mentioned within the release notes.
This means that there's no way anymore to use a proxy within a browser.


How do I transfer contacts from one phone to the other without a SIM card?

No 3rd party utilities or cloud services needed for that. On the "old device":

open your contacts app
enter its menu
select Export/Import
select to export to SD card

Now you should find a file named 0001.vcf on the SD card (internal or external, depends on what the device has). Copy that to the new device, e.g. via Bluetooth, WiFi Hotspot. then, on the new device:

open your contacts app
enter its menu
select Export/Import
select to import from SD card
chose the file you've just copied here

Done. All your contacts including their contact pictures (if you had set such) should be available on your new device now.


Battery performance of Dual SIM phone running only one SIM

From Wikipedia:

  Battery life (talk time and standby time) of active dual-SIM mobile
  phones is reduced, typically by about a third. For instance, Device
  manufacturer Samsung declares a standby time for its Champ Duos E2652
  Dual SIM phone of 476 hours when used with one SIM card and of 322
  hours when used with two SIM cards. To compensate the shorter battery
  life, some Dual SIM phones ship with better capacity batteries, for
  example newer Lenovo P780 have a 4000mAh capacity.

Wikipedia also describes different types of dual-sims, such as:

Pseudo-Dual
Dual SIM Shift: Accepts 2 SIMS; only 1 active at a time; 1 signal bar
Dual SIM Dual Stand-by (DSDS): both active; 2 signals, but only 1 call at a time
Dual SIM Full Active (DSFA) Dual SIM Dual Call/Dual talk: both active; 2 signals, and can process both calls at the same time. I think this one would consume the most battery.

UPDATE 2013-09-23: The answer to your 1st question is NO, as described in the quoted Wikipedia text above. For your 2nd question, I don't know, but I assume it wouldn't run since there is no SIM. Probably also the reason why it consumes lesser battery.


I had a similar problem. Dropped my Nexus 5 last night with screen facing downwards. There was no damage to the LCD and its power and volume buttons were working fine too. However phone stopped responding to any touch. I suspected its digitizer was broken. So I googled for a solution and whacked the screen a few times as suggested on few of the forums. Also came across a suggestion from someone who had a similar problem to keep it in a freezer for 30 seconds. Alas phone remained adamant and refused to embrace my touch.

I checked with LG service centre for the cost albeit it was a too expensive proposition to replace LCD and digitizer (apparently in Nexus 5 its one unit and in case of damage to either component, you need to go for both).
With nothing to lose as a last ditch effort I kept my phone in the freezer again and forgot about it for an hour or so. Voila that did the trick and phone is alive again and working like a charm!


How to fix mount errors when trying to mount the raw image that converted from android sparse image?

The file system might not be in the beginning of the raw partition image.
First you need to convert the image from sparse to raw, using either simg2img or sparse_img_to_ext4.py.
Then, you need to find the beginning of the actual partition, binwalk is my favorite tool for that:
$ binwalk super.raw.img

DECIMAL       HEXADECIMAL     DESCRIPTION
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1048576       0x100000        Linux EXT filesystem, rev 3.0, ext2 filesystem data, UUID=8f83745e-c212-5aab-a776-4aeed9fad9fa, volume name "/"
[...many many irrlevant hits...]

Now you can mount the file system using the first offset from the binwalk output:
sudo mount super.raw.img -t ext4 -o ro,loop,offset=0x100000 /media/super/


Download Cydia Impactor to your desktop – Windows | Mac | Linux
      32-bit | Linux 64-bit   Extract the package to your desktop

  Run the Cydia Impactor tool

  On your Android device, enable USB Debugging from Settings > Developer
  Options

  Connect the device to a USB port on your computer

  On Windows, you would need to have the USB  drivers for your device
  installed. If not, you can also use the inbuilt Driver Scan function
  in the tool to automatically construct and install a driver for your
  device

  Click the Start buton, after making sure that # drop SuperSU su to
  /system/xbin/su is selected in the dropdown menu

  Once done, download and install SuperSU from the Play Store

  Enjoy Root access on your Android device


How to browse files on a Motorola Defy (Android) with ubuntu 10.04?

Android 2.1 (Eclair)

Plug in your phone
Pull the notification bar; tap on "USB connected (Select to copy files to/from your computer)". Tap "Mount".
Ubuntu should autoprompt you to browse the phone using File Manager (Nautilus)

Android 2.2 (Froyo) (and probably Android 2.3)

Plug in your phone
Android should autoprompt you to enable USB Mass Storage.
Ubuntu should autoprompt you to browse the phone using File Manager (Nautilus)

(Froyo image shamelessly taken from http://droidfreeapps.com/2010/05/usb-mass-storage-tweaks/)


Can't access Recovery Menu Milestone a853

Power on the Milestone:

Press the power button and X button and when a triangle appears, press volume up key and camera buttion.


Samsung Galaxy Ace GT-S5830 can't receive incoming calls

Under "Settings" then "call settings" in gingerbread there are two settings that might be doing this. 1 call forwarding. this might be referring incoming calls to a dead number. 2 Call rejection. This could be rejecting your calls - just adjust the options set.

If you have a new phones but amended its 'birth' number to the original number you used on the old network this might have something to do with it too. I did once have a phone which in certain situations remembered its original number which was by then not live on any network- just a thought.


How to find downloaded .apk files on my Android phone

There are a bunch of apps to backup the .apk file of apps from your device, making the process much easier than fiddling with file explorers. I e.g. used AppMonster quite a while; its paid version even automatically captures the .apk of each app when it's installed or updated. Looks like the app is discontinued – but there are several similar apps you can find listed behind the first link.

Once you've got the .apk, you can of course side-load it to another device if needed. I've usually done that if I needed the same app on another device which didn't have Playstore access. Note that this doesn't always work with paid apps: if those use Google's license check, the "target device" needs to be setup with the same Google account the app was acquired, and of course needs the Playstore app and network access to verify the license.

Of course you can use the .apk to reinstall the app even if it was removed from Playstore. License check should work fine then as well (provided you've got the Playstore app and your account setup, as described in the previous paragraph).


Is the rooted hack for Move to SD card better than the option built into the Android Phone OS?

The "Move to SD card" neither moves the app (APK file) nor the complete app data.
It just moves the additional media files and data (that doesn't pose any security risks upon revealing to user) like Images or Graphics or whatever.
(And all apps do not provide this option. It depends on the app developer.)

These moved data can be found in the Memory Card in a directory named Android/data .

And yes, the rooted solution moves the complete app and app data into your memory card, which completely lessens the burden.
But you have to create a separate EXT2/EXT3/EXT4 partition first in your memory card (using softwares like MiniTool Partition Wizard) and then use an app like Link2SD (as @Tamoghna said) or Mounts2SD.


Media files don't show up in file manager but their folders can be seen

You probably have 6.0 android.
You need to go settings>apps than tap on three dot button and select "show system" than find "External storage" and "Media storage" and clear cache and data for them. After that reboot phone and wait 5 minutes after booting to phone index files than connect to PC and see if you can find files now.


No OS installed, stock recovery OnePlus 2

I'm so stupid, I had not placed the files within the platform-tools folder, that did the trick. the system.img was too big to be flashed directly and needed to be compressed into several sparse files, performing the operation withing platform-tools will do this automatically.


Simple solution. Press phone and select keypad. dial *#9900#. A new menu appears. press the second one down "Delete dumpstate/logcat" then just press home to exit.. Done, you'll have bags of extra device memory with no ill effects. Should free up to a gig of device memory, it did on mine.


How to re-install updates to Google system apps?

I'm assuming your phone isn't rooted. If you know exactly what build/version you're after then do a quick Google search for 'Google Play Services XXX.apk' and manually install the later version over the top of your current one, and the same for the next one. They are available on aptoide, blackmart and other alternate stores.

If you get any packages error, or system error, I would suggest just do a reformat and reinstall all your content- it's generally quicker than scowering the net for the cause behind the issue.


GSM signal lost - howto get signal back without restarting

The following is no complete solution, but at least a work-around, avoiding a long reboot:

There are apps like Quick Boot (others have things like "fast reboot" and the like in their names/descriptions). Other suggested by those names, they do not really reboot your device, but simply restart the system server (for details, please take a look at Can somebody explain the boot process of an Android device? – the system server is started at step 5 of 6 boot steps, so this skips more than half of the way down and up, effectively resulting in a process about 3 times as fast as a complete reboot).

While this way all your apps are killed as a side effect (as they require the system server to work), it's still a lot faster than a real reboot, and thus "less hazzle".


How to archive all photos from an album in google photos app

I put all the photos in an album, then from the landing page I performed a search, keyword [album_name]. Search returned the same number of photos as is in the album, but I haven't checked them one by one. Then, select all and select archive.


How to choose the correct email address in gmail app?

It looks like you can type a few letters of domain name that you want after a space to get other addresses filtered out. In general, you can type several parts of a email address separating them by spaces to find only contacts that contain all specified parts.

For example, if you have the following email addresses in your contacts:

john.doe@home.com
john.doe@work.com
john.smith@home.com
john.smith@work.com

Than you can type something like john.d w or j doe w or even j d w to get only the first one in the auto completion popup.


How to save data while installing updates from the Play Store?

Referring to @GiantTree 's comment, and adding on some of my own experience:

Google Play Store does its utmost to help you save data while updating apps.

App updates are usually about 20-30% of full size.

If the app does not contain .obb (expansion) files, it will use file patching techniques to update the .apk in your data partition. For the first update of a system app, the updated app is downloaded in its entirety once to /data/app, as the /system partition is read-only on unrooted devices and file patching cannot be done there. Also, once this first update has finished, file patching techniques are applied to reduce the amount of data needed to download.

This is not applicable as a whole to applications with .obb files, as these are stored on external storage and have a different, independent patching mechanism.

Updating an app through the Play Store saves you data already, in fact Google considers it a violation of its Terms of Service if developers who distribute apps through the Play Store employ means to update it other than Google Play's own mechanism.

For the moderators, I found a source (Although this is for APK expansion files):

Updating Your Applications-For Developers

And this, from Google Play's ToS:

An app downloaded from Google Play may not modify, replace or update its own APK binary code using any method other than Google Play's update mechanism.

From: Google Play Developer Content Policy

And this picture:


Is it normal behavior?

Facebook app only handles specialized URL scheme fb:// and nothing more, so any standard HTTP/S Facebook links (http:// or https://) will be ignored by the app. So, yes, unfortunately this is normal.

  Is there a way to force it?

As of current writing, until their developers implement a filter to handle HTTP protocol, there is no way to do that from their apps.

It might be possible for a 3rd-party app to fix this with a workaround (e.g. Open Link in App app, as mentioned from this answer, but it seems currently it's not working, possibly due to change in FB protocol).


Turns out the procedure worked.  The IMEI is blacklisted by the foreign network at the time of the test.


Is it on auto-update? In the Google Play settings, make sure Auto-update apps is set to Auto-update apps at any time. Data charges may apply.


How can I view an Excel file in MS Outlook OneDrive on my phone?

The issue is with Chrome not working properly with some web apps, especially MS ones. Basically Chrome is trying to load a OneDrive app, which is also trying to load an Excel app, all of this on a mobile device using nothing but JavaScript.

The solution I use is to open Office documents such as Word and Excel in Google Docs. Google Docs is a free download for Android devices and is able to open most common Office formats.

I would also suggest downloading the OneDrive app as this will allow you to open files stored in your OneDrive from other Android applications directly without having to download them locally first.

If you're having problems downloading Excel files from within Chrome, it's likely because the wrong default program is selected for that file type. Since this is being done in the Chrome app, you need to go into the app settings screen on your Android device, find Chrome and choose the option to restore or remove default associations. Once you do this, the next time you try to download an Excel file from within Chrome, you should see a dialog box asking you which program you want to open this file with.


My phone says I have 7 GB of apps but I only have 3 GB

Basically every app will store some data. Hence it increases when number of applications get increased.

To get some free space, do the following:

Press your device's Menu button → select Settings (or System Settings)
Tap Application Manager (or Apps)
Tap the app icon
Tap Clear Data\Cache.

Next thing is to disable\delete the application that you will not use.

6.Delete .thumbnails & also unwanted files by making it show Hidden Files

7.Delete the Social Media Apps Folder Ex:/sdcard/whatsapp. But Before that, Select & Move your Videos, Images, Files, Audios from Social Media Apps Folder.

Note: Clearing the app's data will remove any custom options, stored data and settings.

Note: Clearing the app's data will remove any custom options, stored data and settings.


How "Google Pixel (XL)" activates the "unlimited full resolution photo and video backup"

From Google Product Pixel help

  Question: ....Do you think that the unlimited photo/video backup will be tied to

  1)  a single account,

  2) any account that is signed in on the Pixel

  3) any photo/video with Pixel in the EXIF info or

  4) something else entirely?

This question is pretty similar to what you are asking

  Answer: Essentially you can only backup to one account at a time. the unlimited storage applies to that account. If you switch the account that you backup to , then the unlimited storage applies to that account.

(Emphasis Supplied)

IMO , applying this to your options

Option 1: Not Applicable - since it is not yet tired to your account, you can buy and gift it to your friend
Option 2: Yes, as long as the person continues to use it
Option 3: Counter starts afresh for new user

While this is not the official explanation from Google, it does seem logical


Sync computer folder -> phone's external SD card, with USB cable

Myphone explorer window program can sync folder between phone and PC through USB

I) first time

i) install Myphone explorer Program on windows PC

ii) At Android  phone
a) Ensure that 'USB debugging' is enabled on phone (Settings-Applications-Development or Settings-Developer options) In Android 4.2.2 and newer you have to unlock the USB-Debugging option first (Settings-About the phone-Build number -> tap 7 times on it)
b)  Ensure that the Debug-Interface-Drivers for your phone are installed (ADB-Drivers)

iii) Open program on PC without connecting phone
File> settings> unselect "start multi-sync" and unselect "connect on start up"

b)  File> settings>multi-Sync > unselect sync phone book, Sync organiser, Sync notes, refresh call logs, refresh message folders (to avoid these sync as we focussed on PC to phone file sync)

iii) Open the program after connecting the phone > Myphone explorer >files> click on customise (down black solid tringle) a side of Sync files
(at the same time give access on phone when pop up appears to memory etc)
a) Title: e.g. Mtc
b) Direction : PC to Phone
c) Source folder: .......browse to PC folder e.g F:\Mtc
d) Target folder:..........browse to folder on internal memory of phone  e.g. External memory \BackupLT\Mtc (phone to be on data or file transfer mode not just on charging mode), select include subfolders

e) Mode: reflect folder

.............................................
II. Regular Sync
(i) Open the program after  connecting the phone > Myphone explorer >files> click on Sync (or customise and tap on your earlier given title).

Note:
If just folder name is to be changed for streamlining etc , change the folder name manually at PC and Phone of the same folder , otherwise it will copy name change folder to phone and delete old folder from phone (as Direction : PC to Phone,  Mode: reflect folder is selected condition)
If 2nd device is to be synced for its own (configured similar to above already) , the windws program is to be closed and 2nd device to be connected and program is to be started , 2nd device configuration will be loaded


How to root my Nokia XL (updated version)?

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


Samsung Galaxy Exhibit - Email Photo Problem

I think the original Samsung application is not good enough and has some bugs.

So you can use apps from your mail service like Gmail and Yahoo applications or use applications which support multiple email services like Aqua Mail.


Is there a way to give someone else permission to locate my phone for safety reasons?

I stumbled upon this nice link where some possibilities are listed.

From your question I derive that your father is an iOS user or at least familiar with apple services, so the cross platform apps might be of special interest for you. For some approaches, you can even define some kind of a geo-fence where people get informed when you arrive within these coordinates. For example, your father can be notified as soon as you arrive home after school.

But please keep in mind that if you share your location with other users, your GPS location is uploaded to a server where the other users get their data from. Depending on the service's provider, the connection and storage can be secure or not and the data might be used for eg advertisements or not. So please have a close look before deciding. GPS coordinates are by design privacy-critical information, so while it might be ok for you sharing your location with your family, it might not be ok for you to share it with companies that might monetarize the data.


Why does google play services turn on my bluetooth for no reason

I had the same situation, I was developing one App that uses Bluetooth Classic and Bluetooth LE at the same time, and many hours spent, until Android inform that Google Play Services and another App were connecting/disconnecting the Bluetooth while I was testing the App. After that everything worked well.
I hope this help anybody also.


After flashing from SP Flash tool, phone won't boot up

LG hold both volume button and power button same time fir about 20 seconds, worked for me tho cricket had no clue.


How to disable automatic picture upload to Google+

Open the Google Plus app, go to settings and disable "instant-upload".

Please note if you enabled it:
Each photo you take will be uploaded to Google Plus' staging area but not be shared immediately. It's just for convenience so that you don't have to grab your phone if you want to share some past pictures you took with your mobile. You will be able to to share from any browser you're logged in at any later time you want.

You can also select if you only want to instant-upload when you're on wifi.


It would seem as thought it has only so far been developed to be booted on iPhone 2G and 3G devices. It's mostly up to the interest of keen developers whether it would be worthwhile attempting such a feat, I would assume whatever exploit used to run Android on otherwise locked down Apple hardware would be different in later hardware (yes, this means an iPad).

"Please answer only if you are 100% sure" - Then yes, an iPad COULD theoretically run Android because of the open source nature of Android allowing it to be ported to various devices. Anything is possible when you put your mind to it, it's looking at the realistic feasibility and time vs reward involved though.


Some apps enforce auto rotation. There is nothing you can do about that.

Make sure your device has it shut off. Should be a quick tile (slide down twice from top of screen) that had a phone symbol. Make sure there are no circular lines around it, and it is not brightened/bolded


What is this system icon that looks like a plus inside a diamond with three curved lines extending from its right side on Samsung?

According to the manual (WARNING: pdf file) for the phone (page 24), it is the GPS icon.

Screenshot:


Android 4.4.2 external SD card mount paths and Titanium Backup

On most phones, /storage/emulated/legacy, /storage/sdcard0, /sdcard   points to the internal memory rather than the external SD card (but if you want to be completely sure, open up a Terminal Emulator and type the mount command with no arguments).

Titanium Backup does allow changing the backup path though.

Open the app → press the Menu button and select Preferences ....
Scroll down to find the Backup folder location option and select it.
In the popup, tap on Storage provider and select Filesystem storage - Ext. SD card -- this will display the contents of your external SD card
Select a folder to choose as your backup location, or choose Use the current folder to make Titanium Backup save backups onto the root directory of your card.


How to keep display always off during the call on HTC Sense 4.1 (Android 4.0.1)?

Is she left handed? The sensor is on the top left side of the phone making it miss the ear sometimes when holding the phone with the left hand while talking.


Prevent LED flashing when tablet is on standby

Perhaps the app Notification Light Widget will help you. It gives you a widget to manually enable/disable the light. Can't get a lot simpler than that!

Note that tweaking the notification LED is often a hit-or-miss operation with some devices. There's no promise that it'll work perfectly. Give it a shot and let us know how it goes!


What is hard reset and what is factory reset?

A hard reset is traditionally when you kill all power to the device and then boot it up from that state.  Normally you remove the battery, then put it back in and boot up.  You're right about factory reset — it erases all your settings and data, leaving the OS.  Unfortunately, some people use "hard reset" when they really mean "factory reset".


I am not sure if you as end-user could really fix the underlying problem. That's why it's always a good idea to send those bug reports that are (sometimes) shown after a force close occurs.

But what you could try is to delete the application data, but this will eventually result in losing all your messages. Go to the Preferences -> Manage Applications -> Choose the Application -> Delete application data


Samsung Galaxy S: phone won't send or receive calls and text messages

I am suspecting, after reading the logcat and dump, the kernel killed off quite a few processes, whether its down to the ROM itself, or a buggy RIL (Radio Interface Layer), RIL is responsible for communicating with the cellular radio base-band firmware.

This is the excerpt from the kernel, showing Dolphin, Alarm Clock, Google Voice(?) getting killed off:

[125362.321461] select 2452 (ogle.android.gm), adj 8, size 5199, to kill
[125362.321481] select 2543 (.osp.app.signin), adj 9, size 3650, to kill
[125362.321495] select 2559 (pp.clockpackage), adj 9, size 4222, to kill
[125362.321512] send sigkill to 2559 (pp.clockpackage), adj 9, size 4222
[125363.255635] select 1225 (ek.TunnyBrowser), adj 7, size 19674, to kill
[125363.255657] select 2452 (ogle.android.gm), adj 8, size 5189, to kill
[125363.255671] select 2543 (.osp.app.signin), adj 9, size 3648, to kill
[125363.255684] select 2597 (gphone.acc.free), adj 9, size 3850, to kill
[125363.255699] send sigkill to 2597 (gphone.acc.free), adj 9, size 3850
[125364.339592] touch_led_control: 2
[125365.378613] select 1225 (ek.TunnyBrowser), adj 7, size 19294, to kill
[125365.378646] select 2452 (ogle.android.gm), adj 8, size 5061, to kill
[125365.378664] select 2543 (.osp.app.signin), adj 9, size 3604, to kill
[125365.378681] select 2611 (ock.xtreme.free), adj 9, size 3969, to kill
[125365.378702] send sigkill to 2611 (ock.xtreme.free), adj 9, size 3969

This is the excerpt from the telephony, note the gap in time logged, last logged at 19:23:48.949 and 19:35:33.144:

01-13 19:23:48.949 D/RILJ    ( 2574): [14954]> REQUEST_GET_NEIGHBORING_CELL_IDS
01-13 19:23:48.949 D/RILC    ( 2366): [14954]> GET_NEIGHBORING_CELL_IDS
01-13 19:23:48.949 D/RILC    ( 2366): [14954]< GET_NEIGHBORING_CELL_IDS fails by E_REQUEST_NOT_SUPPORTED
01-13 19:23:48.949 D/RILJ    ( 2574): [14954]< REQUEST_GET_NEIGHBORING_CELL_IDS error: com.android.internal.telephony.CommandException: REQUEST_NOT_SUPPORTED
01-13 19:35:33.144 D/RILJ    ( 2574): [14955]> SCREEN_STATE: true
01-13 19:35:33.148 D/RILC    ( 2366): [14955]> SCREEN_STATE (1)
01-13 19:35:33.152 D/GSM     ( 2574): [GsmMultiDCT] Stop poll NetStat
01-13 19:35:33.644 D/RILC    ( 2366): [UNSL]< UNSOL_RESPONSE_NETWORK_STATE_CHANGED

Further on in the log related to telephony:

01-13 19:36:13.891 D/RILC    ( 2366): [14972]< QUERY_NETWORK_SELECTION_MODE {0}
01-13 19:36:13.891 D/RILJ    ( 2574): [14971]< SCREEN_STATE
01-13 19:36:13.891 D/RILJ    ( 2574): [14972]< QUERY_NETWORK_SELECTION_MODE {0}
01-13 19:36:13.895 D/RILC    ( 2366): [14973]< OPERATOR {AT&T,AT&T,310410}
01-13 19:36:13.899 D/RILJ    ( 2574): [14973]< OPERATOR {AT&T, AT&T, 310410}
01-13 19:36:13.899 I/GSM     ( 2574): EVENT_POLL_STATE_OPERATOR
01-13 19:36:13.899 D/RILC    ( 2366): [14974]< GPRS_REGISTRATION_STATE { 1,a7e9,007537ea,9}
01-13 19:36:13.899 D/RILJ    ( 2574): [14974]< GPRS_REGISTRATION_STATE {1, a7e9, 007537ea, 9}
01-13 19:36:13.899 D/RILC    ( 2366): [14975]< REGISTRATION_STATE {1,a7e9,007537ea,(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),0}
01-13 19:36:13.903 D/RILJ    ( 2574): [14975]< REGISTRATION_STATE {1, a7e9, 007537ea, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, 0}
01-13 19:36:13.923 I/GSM     ( 2574): <Leo> PrePLMN: 310410, plmn: 310410, ss.getState(): 0
01-13 19:36:13.923 I/GSM     ( 2574): handlePollStateResult(); regState: 1, mNewLuRejCause: 0
01-13 19:36:13.923 D/GSM     ( 2574): Poll ServiceState done:  oldSS=[0 home AT&T AT&T 310410  HSDPA CSS not supported -1 -1RoamInd: -1DefRoamInd: -1EmergOnly: false] newSS=[0 home AT&T AT&T 310410  HSDPA CSS not supported -1 -1RoamInd: -1DefRoamInd: -1EmergOnly: false] oldGprs=0 newGprs=0 oldType=HSDPA newType=HSDPA
01-13 19:36:21.298 D/RILC    ( 2366): [0001]> OEM_HOOK_RAW (raw_size=6)
01-13 19:36:21.302 D/RILC    ( 2366): [0001]< OEM_HOOK_RAW
01-13 19:36:21.306 D/RILC    ( 2366): [UNSL]< <unknown request> {0}
01-13 19:36:21.306 D/RILJ    ( 2574): processing unsol response: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unrecognized unsol response: 11012

The NITZ (Network Identity and Time Zone) crops up a fair bit too, as shown below within the same telephony log, IIRC, NITZ handling was not exactly great up to ICS, in which a patch was made to handle the handling of the timezones (either roaming when browsing the net or something awry went wrong with the RIL:

01-13 19:13:19.035 D/RILC    ( 2366): sendUnsolicitedResponses: multi client index=2, fd=28
01-13 19:13:19.035 D/RILC    ( 2366): [UNSL]< UNSOL_NITZ_TIME_RECEIVED {13/01/14,03:13:18-32,00}

The telephony errors shown, are sticking out like a sore thumb, and also down to the fact that Froyo 2.2, is old, and may not be able to handle whatever issue is with AT&T that causes it. Also, AT&T could have had their systems updated/upgraded, that is sending out extra telephony information/NITZ in a format that Froyo cannot handle and freezes.

Best bet would be to try a firmware update and see if that resolves the issue.

Prior to doing an update, since the handset is rooted, best to make a backup of everything, use Titanium Backup to backup user apps and data, use SMS Backup & Restore to save the SMS messages. It will be inevitable that the upgrade will lose root, but then again, it would be easy to do that after the upgrade.


Galaxy Tab 7" - can I install the original Android? any version would do

There are quite a few Galaxy Tab roms on the XDA forums, here, most of them with instructions on how to do it.


These widgets are not standard widgets. They use non-standard APIs of the Sense launcher and thus that other launcher's don't have and thus, they can't use them.

This is why, you can't use Sense widgets with custom launcher.


Download progress notification and Google Play Store showing different progress percentage

I'm quite sure that this is based on the fact that updates aren't loaded fully but in parts. The notification bar then shows the progress only for what is really being downloaded, the Play Store itself shows the progress for the entire app.


How do I share apps between users in Android 5 Lollipop?

You reinstall the app, but they use the same install with different data, so the apk isn't downloaded twice (when you click install on a app that is already installed for the other user you will notice it is quite quick). So they already use the same app.

However if you want to share data, you could use one local account, or log in  both yours and your wife's local account into the same account for whichever service you wish to share.


AFAIK, the 4.0.4 is currently only available for the CDMA/LTE, but someone over at Modaco has a modified version of the 4.0.4 working for GSM.

It looks like everything is working on the GSM version with this modified release. I have also read that 4.0.5 will be released next month, so you may want to just wait.


Android OTA update fail when increased the system.img size

Removed webview application from build. webview application is the default one in Android AOSP build. But, It takes 40MB.


Windows cannot detect the Galaxy S I9000 when connected through USB

I was having the same issue with Kies. Latest version of Kies and latest USB drivers solved my issue.


Termux - Cannot run python file in tasker

You need to grant Tasker root access in order to let it run the script.

The script requires an interpreter, as specified in its shebang line. To run the script "directly", Tasker still needs to execute the interpreter, the python3 binary. Since it's located in Termux's data directories, other apps can't access it without root access.


I know this is going to sound a little low tech, but have you tried blowing out or using a strong adhesive (like gorilla tape) to clean out the microphone holes? I've personally encountered the same issue caused by months of dust and pocket lint clogging up the microphone holes on a Note 4.


Bluestacks isn't working: Goes to system tray but nothing happens

I had the same problem before, the problem was that the window will open in second screen. So in the project screen settings, hit PC screen only. That should solve the problem.

If you have problem with Bluestacks 2, sometimes it won't install a shortcut. So, just browse the installation folder and put the shortcut of HD start launcher on desktop.