How can I uninstall Firefox OS? I was handed a phone from my friend who installed Firefox OS over Android, but now wants Android back. I know roughly how to flash ROMs, but am not sure how to go into download mode or equivalent in Firefox OS. Any help would be appreciated.

The model of the phone is a ZTE Kis. If I can supply any more information just ask!

Steps to Access Download Mode on ZTE Kis 3 Max

Turn off the device
Remove the memory card from the device
Press and hold Volume Down key + Volume Up key simultaneously
Press and hold Power key until the device completely freezes.

You can flash a ROM as usual after that. The stock ROM for your phone can be downloaded here.

Source

Go to the Play Store and download and install a launcher e.g. Google Now Launcher. When you open the launcher it will give you options to select an interface you wish to use. Select a new one and your phone will exit the Firefox OS Launcher. Then if you'd like to permanently delete the Firefox OS Launcher go to Settings/Personal/Home and you'll find your launchers there. Hope this helps someone.


5 min video taken by LG G5 is corrupted. Anything to do? I have an LG G5, and I recently took a video of 5 minutes with it (the maximum) which appeared to be corrupted.

The phone stopped the video alone since it arrived to the maximum recording time, and started saving - something that took some pretty long minutes.
After a while of not touching my phone (to not accidentally interrupt the saving) I wanted to watch the video and realized it's corrupted and can't be open.

In the file explorer, I found two files in the format of DATE_TIME.mp4 (1.6GB) and DATE_TIME_temp.mp4 (0KB).

Any possible (free) way to fix this video?
How can I make sure it won't happen next time?

Thanks!

Note: If relevant - not rooted, stock rom, latest update.

MP4 Fixer

  MP4 Fixer on Google Play

This used to be a common problem with Screen Recorders that didn't save the information of recorded videos correctly. Using MP4 Fixer i could read the video and fix the duration information allowing normal viewing.

Copy that file to a PC and use a video converter to convert it to a different format, such as .mov or .avi
You'll be able to enjoy your movie after conversion. You can convert the working video back to .mp4 too if you wish to.


How to download an app from another region/country? I've found duplicate posts, but they are outdated.  The solutions no longer work as some of the apps have been deprecated, and things have changed since 2013.  My phone is NOT rooted, I have a HTC ONE M8, running Android 6.0.

I'm in the Middle East (but my Google account is based in the USA since I live there), and I'm trying to download an app that is only available here in the Middle East.  However, when I search for the app in my play store, I'm finding only the USA equivalent, which doesn't have the features I need while I'm here.  I'm physically not in the USA though, and my sim card is a local one from the Middle East so when I access the play store its weird how I'm still getting US based apps.

I've tried changing my country in payments.google.com > settings, and erased all data of my play store and play services, went back in and its still showing me results for the USA.  The only thing that makes sense to me is that somewhere in my google account it still has my country/region as USA.  How can I change this?  Would creating another account be a good idea?  I just don't want to have to sign out of my google account, but if its the only way I guess I'll try that.

If the best solution is creating a google account, I've actually gone ahead and done that, but how do I switch accounts?  I don't want to lose any data in the process of switching accounts.

There were two ways I was able to solve this.  I preferred to use the APK method, but the other method was to create a google account in that country and add it.  APK method was cleaner.

The best solution I found for this issue which also works for things like getting Netflix content for other regions, is to use a VPN service.

I personally use VPN Unlimited at the moment though there are plenty of others available. However, for the vast majority of these you are required to pay some sort of subscription (luckily I got mine on an offer of lifetime usage for $29.99).

I am in the UK and all I need to do with this app is open it, select a server in the region of choice and then turn on the VPN service and for all intents and purposes any website or app that looks for a region thinks I am in the same region as my chosen server (I usually use one in the US).

I am sure there may be cost free versions available but I suspect they will be at some performance cost such as limited download usage or bandwidth but its worth looking into.


How to create contacts on SIM card/internal memory? I'm trying to add new contacts on a phone, but I can only create Google contacts. I really don't want to hand over data to a company that has no real understanding of the meaning 'privacy'.

I just want to create contacts on my SIM card or internal phone memory. On other phones that's possible but for some reason it's not possible anymore.

edit

My phone is a Motorola Moto E with Android 4.4.4

edit 2

interestingly, on my Sony Xperia Z, (same Android version...more or less), I can create a contact on my phone. This is weird.

Just a suggestion: have a look at MyLocalAccount from FJ Softwaredevelopment.

  This app does represent a local contact account. This is helpfully for devices without local contact account (f.e. Nexus series) if you don't want to sync your contacts with Google servers. These contacts can be synced then f.e. with MyPhoneExplorer to your PC.


Stuck on bootup screen from TWRP I am following this guide to root my Samsung Galaxy Core Prime SM-G360T1(MetroPCS) using TWRP.

What did I wrong:

I went into TWRP recovery
I pressed on "Reboot"
I pressed on "Power Off"
A pop up came up saying "Your device is not rooted, would you like to download SuperSu now?"
I pressed yes

Phone restarts and now is stuck on metropcs bootup screen and the interesting thing is its vibrating in a pattern... 2 vibrates then 1 after a second later and does that again in 3 seconds.

I did not put SusperSu into the internal memory so im pretty sure thats why its like "Wtf bro, where is SusperSu?"

So how do i get out of this? Help please!!!

Getting out of a bootloop

What you want to do is to restore a working system partition.

You have two options available.

Option 1: Flashing a Custom ROM

Your first option is to download a custom ROM on the XDA-developers forum.
Make sure that the rom you've downloaded is for your specific model!
Mount your SDcard and copy your ROM to the device OR use adb and a command prompt to push the file to your SDcard

adb push rom.zip /sdcard

If you have copied the ROM onto your device, go into the Wipe section and wipe the following partitions:

/system
/cache
/dalvik cache

When you are done with wiping, choose Install and select your custom ROM. When done flashing, reboot your device without confirming the root dialogue. ;)

Then you should be good to go with a working system and a pre-rooted ROM.

Option 2: Installing a stock firmware.

Your second option is to flash a stock ROM (samsung).
Wipe the following partitions (should be automatically wiped when flashing with Odin but it won't hurt):

/system
/cache
/dalvik cache

You can download the STOCK ROM from sammobile and follow these instructions (which can also be found on the sammobile download page)

Extract (unzip) the firmware file
Download Odin v3.11.1
Extract Odin ZIP file
Open Odin v3.11.1
Reboot Phone in Download Mode (press and hold Home + Power + Volume Down buttons)
Connect phone and wait until you get a blue sign in Odin
Add the firmware file to AP / PDA
Make sure re-partition is NOT ticked
Click the start button, sit back and wait few minutes

After this procedure your device will be stock again.

So which method to use? I would go for the first option because:

You will be running a rooted custom rom
You don't have to reflash a custom recovery.
It should be done quicker

Best thing is to download superuser from chainfires website and flash it with twrp instead of trying to install the super user prompt by twrp. do a factory reset in twrp. hope u dont have important data. cause sounds like to soft bricked your device


How do I limit 3g speed on my Nexus One I have 1gb of traffic per month. Internet speed is 2.2mbits, so it's pretty easy to waste all gb in a few days. I don't usually watch youtube from my phone, and 500-700 kbits would be pretty enough for me. Is there an application or way I can manually limit 3g speed manually, without rooting the phone?

If all else fails, you could set the “Use only 2G networks” option...


What if you accidentally deleted some important apps and can't install them back? What if you accidentally deleted some important apps and can't install them back because Google Play doesn't have them? For example android system, com.android  dun server and com.android.lgsetup wizard (i.e. basically apps that are originally there).
And every few seconds this message will appear:

  "Sorry! The process com.android.phone has stopped unexpectedly. Please
  try again."

And I cannot even go the browser or Task Killer because every time I do, it will force quit. How can I reinstall those apps? I think I cleared all data for those but I did not clear the browser and so why can't I open the browser?

Do I really need to send it for repair or can I fix it?

For common system apps like the ones you've mentioned, there's no way to uninstall or reinstall them: without root, it at all you can disable them (not all of them even). But they are usually not held in the playstore for re-installation. Even if they receive updates via the playstore (like GMail, Maps, and the Playstore app itself), some of them must reside on the /system partition in order to function correctly (the Google Play app is one example for that).
But as the same situation could also apply to "normal apps", let's take a closer look:
User apps
Though they are usually coming via Google Play, it might well happen they get removed there one day (recent examples are the ad-blockers which got banned). For this, tools like AppMonster come in handy: they enable you to store a copy of the apps .apk file to your SDcard (the Pro version even can do so automatically whenever an app is installed/updated). So in case you have to remove an app for some reason, and want to re-install it later (or even if you want to install the same app on a device without Google account), you can do so by side-loading the .apk. Uninstallation, of course, is easily done either via Settings→Apps, or even via AppMonster itself.
System apps
Here it's a lot different. Without root, you can at maximum disable an app (Settings→Apps, scroll to the app, open its details, press the Disable button) -- if your device is running Android 4.0 or later, that is.
With root, things become a little different: theoretically, you could uninstall everything. A practical issue might be you're rendering your device unusable, if you e.g. uninstall something basic to the system. Also, removing their data might be an issue on re-install. So if you really have need for this, here's my recommendation:

Get ADB installed on your computer (either via the full Android SDK -- or using a minimal installation, see Is there a minimal installation of ADB?
Make a backup of the app you're going to uninstall to be prepared in case something goes wrong. You can use adb backup for this, which backs up the app including its data.
Make a copy of the app's .apk file for a re-install. You can use adb pull for this. The .apk is located in /system/app, so your command could look like adb pull /system/app/Browser.apk . to copy the browser's .apk from the device to the current directory on your computer.
Now that you have two fall-backs, you can try to uninstall the app. Again using ADB, you first call adb shell, then you need to become root (su), and now you can use the pm (package manager) tool to pm uninstall com.package.name. You can also remove the .apk from /system/app.

To re-install the app, you simply copy the .apk back to /system/app. To restore the data, you can use adb restore.
Note that dealing with system apps always bears the risk to render your system unusable. So it's always recommended to make a complete backup (best using Nandroid backup from your custom recovery) prior to such operations -- so in the worst case, you can go back to where you've started.
Dealing with the "The process X has stopped unexpectedly" error
There are several ways to deal with this error. To my knowledge, none of them includes uninstalling a system app.

if the app in question is a user app

delete its cache. If that doesn't help:
delete its data. If that still doesn't help:
delete the app. If that cannot be done due to the app being in a "force-close-loop":
boot into safe-mode, and delete the app from there.

if the app in question is a system app:

pray you've got a good backup :)
as with the user app: first try delete cache, then data.
nothing goes? Then you've got to do a factory-reset

The best thing to do is to make a backup, and do a factory reset.


how i can unlock my phone lenovo a7700 pattern lock I use pattern lock but today I forget my pattern so please tell me how can I unlock my phone my phone os  version is 6.0 Marshmallow

You'll need to perform a hard reset, but this will remove all your personal data. You could have a look  here

There is a way to keep data, but you have to install a custom recovery.
Refer: https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/software-hacking/remove-lockscreen-recovery-t3530008


Why does it seem like I have less RAM than advertised? Why is that on my Galaxy Note 3 (3gb RAM) I only have .91 GB free, 1.5 GB used while doing nothing, meaning only 2.41 GB total. Is that because the rest (~.6 GB) of my memory is used for the OS? And the reason I only have .91 GB free when doing nothing isn't because 1.5 GB is cached because I cleared my cache and the number did not change.

Why does it seem like ~0.6 GB of RAM is missing?

3Gb advertised by the manufacturer is the total capacity of memory chips installed in the device. But this memory is shared between multiple components (like AP, BP, GPU, etc). 2.4Gb reported by android is the amount available to AP. The rest is not "missing". It's just being used by other components.

This is normal, it is impossible to clear the entire cache.  Since the OS cache's it's own system files, while the clear cache button is likely for clearing the app cache.

The missing memory is consistent across all such devices, may be reserved for video processor cache.


How to keep playing online videos when screen is locked? I want to listen to online videos with my mobile phone in my pocket, but there is always something to touch the screen and interrupt the stream.

The only solution I know is to download and save the broadcast or video on my phone before listening to it with a video player app which can be screen locked.

The issue is that I don't want to download any YouTube video before listening to it, so I'd like to find a way that can keep screen locked while playing a video.

You can try to use an alternative to the default YouTube app, a popular choice being NewPipe. Although I haven't tested this myself yet, one of the listed features is being able to play videos in the background - even just the sound, without having to waste battery by displaying something you dom't actually care about.

Try Youtube Vanced. You can listen to any video while your phone's screen is locked.


Can I add a fingerprint without allowing it to unlock the phone? Some of my more secure applications offer fingerprint unlocking. This would be convenient to use, and I don't foresee any security issues with someone using my fingerprint because I would have had to have unlocked the phone with a pattern for someone to gain access to the application.

On the other hand, if the phone can be unlocked with my fingerprint as well, someone could unlock it while I am incapacitated (e.g. sleeping) without my knowledge, and then unlock the high-security applications as well. Having a pattern is a great form of two-factor authentication IMO.

I added a fingerprint to my rooted phone which runs LineageOS 14.1, Android version 7.1.1 -- this automatically allowed unlocking the phone via fingerprint. I cannot find a setting to disable this without removing the fingerprint and being unable to use it in any of my apps. Is there any way I can forcefully disable fingerprint authentication on the lock screen, but retain access to fingerprint unlocking for various apps without using a custom lock screen?

Here are the options I have for the lock screen and fingerprints -- I do not see any way to disable fingerprint authentication without removing the fingerprint, from the settings at least:

The exact thing as you want is not possible on Android.

You can try using a third Party AppLocker App to secure your Applications while unlocking your phone with your Fingerprint, but I would not recommend any uncertified 3rd Party software protecting my apps.

Check this link to disable fingerprint unlock on Samsung Galaxy S5 (maybe it works for you):
How to disable Fingerprint Unlock

Summary of the link:

Go to Settings->Lock Screen->
Screen Lock
(Settings->Security in some devices)
Select any other method to unlock the screen instead of 'Fingerprint Unlock'


How to remove a Virus that installs an unlimited amount of APPs causing the smartphone to stop once an internet connection has been established? Once the smartphone (android 4.4.2, kazam tornado 350) has been booted, is connected to WIFI and an unlimited number of APPs is installed causing the phone to stop, i.e. swipe is stopped, another home screen is installed.

Symptoms

A number of unwanted apps is installed once the phone has been reset to factory defaults
Unlimited amount of unwanted apps is installed once wifi is installed
Phone battery is consumed quickly
Home screen cannot be entered
Popups that ask to install (fake) security updates appear

Attempts

The unwanted APPs remained installed on the smartphone once the phone was reset to factory defaults
The installation of the APPs persisted even after encryption and subsequently resetting to factory defaults
Resetted the phone to factory defaults, disabled wifi, disabled malicious apps, rebooted and enabled wifi installed an unlimited number of APPs again
Tried to install a Virusscanner, but everytime the connection to internet is established various malicious apps are installed immediately
The issue persists as well once the SD card was removed
The internal phone storage cannot be removed. In an attempt to remove it the screen was busted :'(

Discussion

The APPs that are installed do not appear in the downloaded APPs section
After resetting to factory defaults, there seems to be malicious APPs recognized as default APPs, e.g. com.andriod instead of com.android

Question

How to remove this Virus?

As I already mentioned in the comments, here are the primary points you need to be careful about:

Whenever you install an app from the Play Store, you should pay attention to things like permissions, ratings, reviews by existing users, etc. before installing it on your device. One malicious install, and your phone could become compromised. It doesn't matter then, whether you are rooted or not.
When you install an app, it asks you a bunch of questions like what all things it needs access to (like SDCARD, telephony resources, system tools, etc.). Even without root access, a malicious app can do lots of damage to your phone, if you permit them these resources.
As the existing answer suggests, rooting is your only option if the malware has landed itself in the system area. But if you go along that route, proceed with care and caution, as there is a risk of bricking if incorrectly done.
For future reference, make a mental note to double check at least two things before installing an app: 1) The permissions it needs are sane and safe. 2) There are at least 500 million installs already with at least a 3.5+ rating. You can make rare exceptions for popular apps like WhatsApp/Skype, but this is generally what you should do. You may or may not be able to recover this phone, but life goes on and these things will go a long way to ensure that such a situation will never arise.

From what I can gather, these are installed as system apps, therefore they cannot be removed easily. I would suggest flashing your rom onto your phone for a full reset.


Does kingo root trigger knox on s4? And also I plugged my phone in but kingo root won't recognize it and it says connection to server failed

no it doesnt trigger knox and try another computer to fix the connection error, happened to me


how to get skype to work when the phone sleeps I got a Samsung Galaxy 3 GT-I5800 with Android 2.1. Installed Skype on it, and when connected to wifi it works. When WiFi is not available it switches to G3. While I use the phone, skype works fine. If the phone sleeps/locks, no one can call me from their PC. I think it's because skype disconnects when the phone sleeps and logs-in as soon as I activate the phone touchscreen.

What do I need to do, to get Skype to work and receive calls at all times?

Android shuts of WiFi after a certain time by default, sometimes as little as 15 seconds after the phone is locked.  To change the timeout period, go to:

Settings -> Wireless and network -> Wi-Fi settings

Then press the menu button, choose Advanced, and change the Wi-Fi sleep policy to "Never".

Normally Skype should stay connected on both networks, wifi or 3G. And it should also stay connected when your phone goes to sleep. So there are two things that could be your problem:

1- Maybe your provider is blocking Skype from the 3G network, in this case follow @Matthew Read answer:

  Settings -> Wireless and network -> Wi-Fi settings -> Then press the menu button, choose Advanced, and change the Wi-Fi sleep policy to "Never".

2- Make sure that the background data usage is enabled in Settings -> Data Synchronization -> Background data. If not, applications are not allowed to use data while the phone is on sleep.


Create bookmarks in Chrome mobile browser. (Galaxy s4) All over the internet it says there is a five pointed star to the right of the URL in omni bar. This is not the case with the version of Chrome packaged with the Samsung Galaxy S4. How can I create a bookmark?

There's only one button. The tab button.

Hit the menu button (bottom left of the phone) and then click on the star (which will be at the top right of the dialog which appears).

The star is only to the right of the URL on the omni bar on the desktop version of Chrome.

Use the bookmark button that is marked in this picture:


Set whatsapp to send delayed messages? Is there any extention or function to manage whatsapp to send delayed messages?

I would like to send every day a message at the same time but I do not find this function?

The message is different every day and there are images or text

There seems to be an app called Seebye Scheduler ROOT which can do what you intend but the device must be ROOTED and this one named Scheduler NO ROOT(from the same developer) is also available, for non-rooted device.

Once app is installed on your device, user needs to set a rule, by below steps,
 1. setting the user to whom the message will be sent, 2. message text that needs to be sent, 3. when it needs to be sent  4.how frequently it needs to be sent.

None of my devices are compatible with these app, hence I could not test it myself, but looks worth for trying! Good Luck.

Sending automated texts is possible. "Tasker" is a powerful app that lets you do so.. It could be complicated to use at start. So I would recommend you search on youtube about the same using Tasker app.


Phone seems to have WiFi connection, but loses connection to internet It's a Cat B15Q, with Android 4.4.2, with most recent update as issued by Cat.
I think it started with the most recent update. Unfortunately, Cat's support site doesn't work (you can't submit questions), so maybe someone here knows.

The phone always has a decent connection to WiFi, according to the icon. But after a while (it can be an hour or just 5 minutes), it no longer connects to the internet. I observed this on three different WiFi networks. Disabling and enabling WiFi fixes the connection, for a while. I disabled all sleep and battery saving options, but to no avail. It's driving me mad!

A couple of days ago, Cat came out with a system update for my phone. One of the items was something about fixing WiFi issues. It seems to be working!

why don't you try to get your phone back to the factory settings. i would suggest you to back your data prior going ahead with Factory Reset.


Is there anyway to backup current ROM without unlocking bootloader/ installing clockworkmod recovery? I'm trying to use ROM Manager app to backup the current ROM of my Xperia Z but it seems that cannot be done without unlocking the bootloader/ installing ClockWorkMod Recovery.

Is there any alternative for me to backup current ROM and flash another ROM without having to mess with bootloader or ClockWordMod Recovery?

Note that my device is already rooted using this method.

According to Sony's website, messing with the bootloader is likely to void warranty which defeats my purpose and so all my attempts to backup the stock ROM here.

I found another way to do it. This one uses Terminal Emulator or adb shell.
Open a shell as root. You first determine what device blocks /system and /boot are, with ls -al /dev/block/platform/dw_mmc/by-name. Note that the dw_mmc may vary between devices. You'll need to find it yourself. Then dd if=/dev/block/systemblock of=/storage/sdcard0/system.img and dd if=/dev/block/bootblock of=/storage/sdcard0/boot.img will backup all your Android system.

If you want to restore using this solution: boot into recovery, mount your SD Card, then in a adb shell, do

su
dd if=/storage/sdcard0/system.img of=/dev/block/systemblock
dd if=/storage/sdcard0/boot.img of=/dev/block/bootblock

Copying /system and /boot anywhere else should do the trick. You could then create a flash package for reinstalling it, or use TWRP to directly move the files.
If you are lucky enough, you can find the stock ROM or OTA flash packages for your phone online.

Edit: If you want to create your own flash package, this forum thread on XDA will introduce to the edify scripting language, while this wiki page helps to package your zip file. You can take update-binary from any flashable zip and put it into yours, while updater-script is where your edify code will live.


Marketplace offers downloads in notifications but when I tap notification none are available I've seen some other places with this question, but no answers that explain/help with what's going on.

I've got a Droid 3, and about once a day I get a notification that there are updates available for my apps. When I tap the notification to be taken to the market place; however, there are either no apps to update or the wrong number of apps (i.e. notification says 2, only one app is available).

Does anyone know why this is happening or if there's a way to resolve it?

If you have multiple Google accounts setup, click menu, then accounts, to make sure the proper account is selected. Then click menu, then my apps.

The latest version of the Market will automatically update apps that you have allowed to auto-update. The checkmark notification will disappear from the notification area immediately after the update.

Those apps that aren't allowed to auto-update will be unupdated so when you go to the market those will be left unupdated.


How to quit Skype on Android? I'm using the newly released market version of Skype on my ADP1 running CyanogenMod 6.0.

I can't seem to quit the Skype program. There doesn't seem to be any mechanism for signing out of Skype once signed in. I can kill the task, but the next time anything triggers it it think it has the right to sign in and be online again, bar nothing. The task bar icon just takes you to the program, but the program doesn't seem to have any menus, doesn't respond the the back button etc.

Ideas?

Go the to MyInfo tab and set your status to Sign Out.

Once you're signed out the back button works as expected and exits Skype.

EDIT: As of v2.9.0.315 (at least) Skype has simplified the log out mechanism:

In the home screen of Skype simply do this:

I know how to sign out. When you are signed in, HOLD THE HOME BUTTON FOR A LONG TIME ON YOUR ANDROID PRODUCT, NOT IN SKYPE! You will be able to see a button which is Task Manager. Click it and you will see the active applications on your android product. Then press the end button that you see next to the skype logo.


Can i restore more than one msgstore.db.crypt7 file in whatsapp? Recently changed my old phone to new one (Samsung to MotoX). During this old to new phone conversion phase (for one month) I didnt use Whatsapp at all.
Before totally stopped using whatsapp on my old phone, I Had taken whatsapp database backup from my old phone.
But when I got my new phone, in a hurry I totally forgot about whatsapp backup (which i had taken from old phone) and installed whatsapp on my new phone.
As per process it's got created new msgstore.db.crypt7 (just for that one month, during I didnt use whatsaap at all) file in database folder of whatsapp on my new phone.
Then I recollected about old whatsapp backup file (from old phone), so i uninstalled whatsapp on my new phone, again took a backup of newly created msgstore.db.crypt7 (from new phone), rename it as msgstorenew.db.crypt7 and kept in the same database folder of new phone.
To get all the older whatsapp message, i have kept old backup file msgstore.db.crypt7 (from old phone) in database folder of new phone and reinstalled whatsapp again on new phone.
I successfully able to restore all my old whatsapp messages.
But now along with the old whatsapp messages, I want to restore newly created whatsapp backup file (for one month) as well which i renamed it as msgstorenew.db.crypt7 (in the same database folder), so that i can have all the messages (old+new). But i am not able to find any option for the same.

Kindly help.

Thanks.

As you can read in the wahtsapp faq,

  Current chat history will be lost upon restoration.

Anyway, you could follow these steps.
For every older conversation:

1)Use the "email conversation" function:

  To export a copy of the history of an individual chat or group, you
  can use the Email Chat History feature:

  Tap and hold on the conversation or group. Select Email conversation
  Choose whether to Attach Media or not. An email will be composed with
  your chat history attached as a .txt document.

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

2) Send the composed email to yourself.

After you did that for every older chat, restore the newer ones using your backup.
This way:

You will be able to read your newer messages on whatsapp normally.
You will be able to read your older messages opening the attached .txt file in the emails that were composed

Install the latest version of WhatsApp from Google Play, then try restoring your backup. It fixed the issue for me.


Problem with new Marshmallow 6.1 on Samsung J5 the Facebook Messenger app & Whatsapp audio & video calling is not unavailable, it wants the access for camera & microphone, when the settings come I do it but it doesn't work, what to do?

After clicking audio or video call on messenger screen

Try to delete and reinstall the application, id don't work try to reset the phone


Google Play Store force closing I have a Karbonn S5 Titanium. Whenever I try to open the Google Play Store, it gets closed within a second. A notification saying 'your google store has stopped unfortunately' keeps coming every 2 minutes. I can't download any apps or access a few of them. What can be done to set it right ?

Try to uninstall any Play Store updates, and then rerun the app; if all goes well, it will re-update the app, and the force closing should stop. If it still force closes, and you don't have much data on your device, you can try to factory reset the phone. That usually makes my Play Store work fine (although I don't have S5).

Here I got some possible fixes:-

Force close the Google Play Store
Go on airplane mode
Restart your phone!
Wipe the Google Play Store cache
Delete Google Play Store data
Take a look at your disabled apps
Check your date/time settings
Remove Proxy or VPN settings
Factory data reset

Hope this will helpful to you.


Link2SD fails to mount after nandroid restore Recently I happened to switch back to stock ROM in my LG P500. I used v2.3.3 (v20c) ROM from LG's site and installed wiping all partitions including my SD card.

I then rooted using SuperOneClick and installed Link2SD. I rebooted into TWRP recovery, partitioned my SD card with one ext3 and one swap partition. The remaining space on the SD card was filled with a FAT partition. After rebooting phone normally, I used Link2SD which detected the presence of ext3 and mounted it successfully at very first run. To test the mount, I restated the phone (with reboot command in terminal emulator) and the ext3 partition was mounted without any problems.

Having faced a issue with ext3 partitions (see my earlier question) I decided to first test the backup and restore features first.  Hence I moved Google Maps app to ext partition and created a link. With link created, maps was working fine.

I then took a backup with TWRP which included all partitions (system, data, boot, recovery, cache, .android_secure and sd-ext). I immediately restored the backup and to my surprise, Link2SD did not mount the partition and reported an error invalid argument.

My phone does not have busybox installed and also no init.d support. But even without these Link2SD mounted the second partition well and fails after restore.

Can someone explain why it fails to mount after restore when it did before?

Update: I had sent email to the developer of Link2SD with logcat and as of now I haven't got any reply.  The log cat did not show any suspicious entries (or I do not know what to look for!). The only two lines about Link2SD are:

  I/ActivityManager( 1567): Starting: Intent { act=android.intent.action.MAIN cat=[android.intent.category.LAUNCHER] flg=0x10200000 cmp=com.buak.Link2SD/.Link2SD } from pid 1680
  I/ActivityManager( 1567): com.android.server.am.ActivityRecord 444 Displayed com.buak.Link2SD/.Link2SD: +387ms

This logcat is also available here for a detailed view.

Update 2:
I missed to add that, with Link2Sd not mounting, if I go ahead and format the SD card and re-partition using TWRP recovery, Link2SD starts recognizing and mounting. So, something happens to the partition during restore operation. At next available opportunity, I will attempt to manually mount the partition as Izzy had kindly suggested.

I have the exact same problem, the only thing that fixes is doing:

 e2fsck -fpDC0 /dev/block/mmcblk0p2

but I have to do it every boot.


Disable WhatsApp notifications in status bar and notification menu I have a Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos. I want to stop displaying my WhatsApp message notifications in the status bar and the notification menu.

I found the answer for Galaxy S4 that suggests:

Go to Settings
Choose the More tab
Choose Application Manager
Choose WhatsApp
Turn off Show notifications

But in my device I am not able to find a More tab in the settings menu. Is there any other solution for this?

You can disable WhatsApp notifications in status bar and notification menu by doing the followings.

Open Whatsapp.
Goto Settings => Notifications
Under Notifications, choose

Notification Tone: Silent
Vibrate: Off
Popup Notification: No Popup
Light: None

I disabled the notifications for whatsapp by going to the application manager for the phone.


Is it possible to add home screens to a Sony Xperia? I've an Xperia Mini/Pro. I would like to add another home screen. At the moment there are 5 different home screen. Is it possible to add more to the Xperia launcher  ?
I don't want to change launcher, i find Xperia stock launcher very ..comfortable with the function 'corners' .
Thanks

this might help:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1138791

you would need to have your phone rooted for this hack. It is for Xperia Play, but would work on other Xperias, as I've done this before on my Xperia Arc S successfully.

Just swap your launcher.You can use go launcher


Delete pre installed apps under oem/apps folder? I have already rooted my android tablet. I am able to access internal system locations e.g. data/data/com.example.src.

However, I am unable to delete aps's under oem/apps folder. I have already tried "RootAppDelete" app to uninstall thses apps, but this app says it has no root access. But the data/data/packagename location only becomes accessable after rooting the device, and as I mentioned above I am able to access this location.

Can someone tell me how to delete apk's under oem/apps folder?

give the root permissions to the RootAppDelete app from the superuser app.

and I would recommend you to use titanium backup to delete pre installed app

If you've Superuser, make sure it is giving the app superuser privileges. I used this app: System App Remover Pro v3.0.1035 (com.jumobile.manager.systemapp.pro)


Prevent a specific app from being updated on client side I want to prevent a specific app from being updated by Play Store and Package Installer, preferably by refusing updates. Whenever I want to update it, I am supposed to be required to revoke the prevention manually, or the app cannot be updated. It should be a system tweak or a change somewhere in /data.

Things I've thought:

Tweak somewhere so the system reports the app to be infinitely new
Make the app "invincible" and cannot be modified

It doesn't matter if the app can be removed by regular means. Any thoughts?

I just found that Titanium Backup has a "Detach from Play Store" option for apps (requires PRO version). After detaching, apps won't show up in Google Play and thus won't be updated unless you manually navigate to the page and tap "Update".

It seems as if you cannot turn off auto update for specific apps. But if the app updates independently of playstore, you can restrict background data for the app and it won't update as such


Rooting trouble - Using Odin3 but unable to flash device Rooting Method: mrRobinson

Phone: Samsung Galaxy SIII

Model number: SAMSUNG-SGH-I747

Android version: 4.1.1

Carrier: ATT

Downloaded: Odin307 and root66_ATT_I747UCDLK3.tar.md5

Sumsung Driver: Updated

Kies: Stopped and Disabled

What I did:

Extracted the root66_ATT_I747UCDLK3.tar.md5 from the .7z file I downloaded.
Used Odin, put phone into download mode [with phone off, hold vol. down + home + power ], connected to computer and opened Odin.
once in odin clicked the PDA field and selected the root66_ATT_I747UCDLK3.tar.md5 I downloaded.
Left Auto Reboot and F. Reset Time checked.
clicked start and...

Message in Odin:

<OSM> Please wait..
<OSM> root66_ATT_I747UCDLK3.tar.md5 is valid.
<OSM> Checking MD5 finished Sucessfully..
<OSM> Leave CS..
<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 0)
<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 0)

Nothing else happens, click on Start again and "All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 0)" shows again.

What am I doing wrong? Please help!

The issue turned out to be the driver.  I went onto Samsung's website and re-downloaded the USB driver and re-installed it.  Everything went fine.

For those with this issue, my problem ended up being the usb cable.


Turning off cell broadcast in HTC Desire 816 I have been receiving about 50 flash SMS a day, with my service provider name, from the number 50. As I read here, it might be a issue with activating and deactivating cell broadcast on the phone. However, I could not find the path suggested for the deactivation (Setting - Call - Other Call Settings). The option does not exist on this path. Any help?

Mobile: HTC Desire 816

Android Version: 4.4.2 with Sense 6.0

Try this

Settings - Call - Slot 1 call settings - GSM call settings - Cell Broadcast

Remove your SIM and put it into any Nokia phone then go to Setting>Phone Setting>Cell info Display>Off.

Then put the SIM back in your HTC Desire 816.

I used Nokia X2-01 for this.


YU Yureka stuck at Cyanogen logo My YU Yureka is stuck at the Cyanogen logo. I was just using Chrome with very low battery when it suddenly restarted and got at stuck at the Cyanogen logo. I don't have any backups.

I've been trying to start the phone in safe mode but none of the methods I've tried have been working.

Kindly suggest a way to start my mobile. If you can't help me I'll take it to a service center, would they be able to recover all data completely without any losses?

Kindly suggest solutions/sites/videos that may be helpful to me.

Device model: AO5510
Cyanogen OS version: 12.1
Android version: 5.1.1

Try booting into TWRP if you have it installed, if you don't have TWRP installed on your device you can follow the instructions here:   https://twrp.me/yu/yuyureka.html

In TWRP you should be able to back up your data onto a computer. When your data is safe you could either go to a service center and see if they can fix your phone or you could try flashing a new ROM and see if that fixes the problem. You can find many tutorials on how to flash a ROM with TWRP online.

Cyanogen download can be found here:
https://cyanogenupdatetracker.com/downloads/

This problem is cased due to your recently installed application.
Can solve this problem through remove that app.
first open your mobile in safe mode and then remove the app in settings -> app
Note: Open your mobile in safe mode by pressing the both Volume plus and minus button at a boot time.


Can the Nexus 7 send and receive GSM texts and calls? The Nexus 7 3G is out and I'm wondering whether Android 4.2 tablets are still data-only devices.  Can I install a custom ROM or apk to this tablet so that I can send and receive GSM calls and text messages on it?  If not, why not?  What's missing?

Added: Nexus 7 3G has many hardware features of phones, but not all: It has gps, bluetooth, headphone jack, accelerometer, gyroscope, ambient light sensor, compass and nfc, but does not have a receiver (earpiece), haptic feedback (vibrate) or a rear camera. IF the 8"x5" tablet can be used as a phone, you won't look funny putting it against your ear because it has no earpiece.

Added: The question is about GSM calls and texting, not VOIP or SIP calls or tethering.

Yes and no. The hardware is capable of sending/receiving GSM calls and texts but there's no way to do with via the stock software. I doubt any after market app would do the trick either, as it appears that tweaks need to be made at the OS level.

There are a couple of devs working on this on XDA. There's no eta, but they should get it done in time. We can only wait.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2025377

You can use Handcent SMS for sending SMS on the Nexus 7 3G.


What can cause "Android OS" process to use high percentage of battery? I've read a bunch of forum posts about the Android OS battery drain bug. This is where the 'Android OS' process is showing large percentages in the battery statistics.

For me, I'm running 2.3 Gingerbread. I don't use bluetooth or GPS. I'm on 2G most of the time. Some days I get 40 hours out of a battery. On these days in the battery usage settings, the 'Android OS' process uses about 3% of battery. However other days I get about 8 hours with similar use. On these days the 'Android OS' process uses about 35% of the battery. I really want to find out what causes this.

The fixes suggested so far are:

Reboot (Temporary).
Turn off and remove battery for a couple of minutes.
Reset battery stats.
Change WIFI sleep policy.
Use a task manager
Flash stuff to the phone.
Revert to older versions of the OS (not really a fix).

Does anyone know the definitive cause of this problem and the correct fix? Or is it possible there are multiple issues that cause this so different things will work for different people?

Here are some of the threads:

FIX and INVESTIGATION: Android OS (battery drain) problem on Gingerbread
Fix- Battery drain 2.3.3 - high android OS
S2 Battery Drain Problem - solved for now
Issue 16721:     Android OS 2.3.3 Battery Drain

I believe, there is at least one bug related to "Android OS" and battery drain. I'll outline how to reproduce the issue: (Tested with Motorola Flipout, Blur_Version.0.28.9_MB511.Retail.en.DE (stock ROM the phone was sold with), Android 2.1.)

Start with a fully charged phone.
Download the Audiobooks (free) app and launch it.
Choose a book from the free library and listen.
Send Audiobooks to the background, e.g. by clicking home button.
Go back to the Audiobooks app by the same operation you used to start it, e.g. click the icon in the app drawer. (This is the only way I am aware of to get the app in the foreground again.)
Do whatever it takes to stop the audiobook playback. (There is a "shutdown player" button, but I never get to use it, because the player just stops/disappears before I can navigate to the player screen.)
Leave the phone idle. After 8 hours the battery will be almost flat (<15%). Android's battery usage monitor attributes 33% of the batter consumption to "Android OS". The remainder is split between "cell standby", "phone idle".
Shut down the phone. Switch it on. Recharge.
Leave phone idle.
After 8 hours, check the battery status (>50%). "Android OS" does not show up as draining battery.

Whether this is a bug in the Audiobooks player or Android or both is not clear. However, this does not appear to be normal behaviour.

Start by not calling it a bug.  There are lots of causes of battery usage, just like there are lots of things that will cause the electric meter to spin.  A short circuit needs to be fixed, just as a bad application needs to be removed.  A task manager is similar to having someone run around behind you and turning off the lights.  And various settings can be tweaked to get more out of the existing system, just like you can switch to CFL bulbs.  There's no one fix, because there's no one reason.


Can I install the Android M Developer Preview on HTC One? So I just wanted to try out the new Android M developer preview on my HTC One M8, but the only build available is for Nexus devices.

If I flashed it on my HTC with MultiRom, and it bricked, could I easily just remove it with MultiRom? Or would it mess up my main stock 5.0 ROM also?

In that case, should I make a Nandroid backup with TWRP?

The M Preview images are for nexuses only so it wont work on any other device, although if you really wanted to try out Android M there is a possibility that a developer somewhere takes interest in developing one for your phone as soon as source code is released but you will have to wait though. You should be able to remove the ROM from MultiROM but its always advisable to take a backup when changing ROMs.

It would mess up your phone way too badly lol! Better stick with the ROM you're using and wait for the devs to bring up the M preview for your device.


How to change default keyboard on Android N? Somehow my default keyboard got changed.  I used to be able to go to Settings -> Language and Input and then there was something that would let me change the keyboard.  Now under "Keyboard and input methods" I only see "Virtual keyboard" and "Physical Keyboard".  When I select the former it lists all the keyboards I have installed and enabled, but doesn't show me which one is the selected keyboard.  If I tap any of the keyboards it takes me to the settings for that keyboard, which doesn't provide me with any way to make that keyboard the default.  Long pressing does the same thing.  There is nothing helpful under the menus.  If I tap on "Manage keyboards" it shows me all the keyboards installed, and a mini-slider showing if each is enabled or not and allowing me to change.  But again, nothing to set the default!

How do I change the default keyboard in Android N?

Update: Apparently Google doesn't even know how to do this - I contacted chat support and the agent wasn't able to help me!

It appears that some keyboards offer something under their keyboards (e.g. a special key) to switch keyboards.  However others, such as the Google Keyboard do not.

However, what I have discovered is that whenever the on-screen keyboard is up, no matter which keyboard it is, there is a new virtual button at the bottom right of the screen with the icon of a keyboard.  When I tap this icon a dialog box pops up to change the keyboard.

Press and hold spacebar. A pop up will appear after that where you can choose  your default  keyboard.


How to delete backups made using Clockworkmod? Splitting this question from the comments to my answer to How to install ClockworkMOD Recovery on Sony Xperia Neo V (MT11a)?

  Erik, one last thing. I accidentally made an extra backup which didn't even complete because my SD is full, how do I delete that backup, or any other previously done backup using CWR?

Clockworkmod stores its backups in /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup (replace /sdcard with the path for your external card if you're looking for backups to external memory). With versions prior to 6.0, you can move off (or delete) the entire directory to clear space. The entire backup is self-contained.

If you're using a 6.0 or greater version of Clockworkmod, this is no longer the case. The information about the backup is still in /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup, but the actual data is now stored in /sdcard/clockworkmod/blobs and is deduplicated between backups. The upside is that this should save some space between multiple backups. The downside is you can't just move off or delete a backup directory. With 6.0+, you now have to delete that folder, and then run the "free space" option. Initiating a new backup will automatically free space.

you can't remove them with your pc -- they are write-protected. it only works if they're on the external SD.


Why is Google Keep's use of background data suddenly through the roof? I just got a warning from my provider that I had already used up 80% of this month's data plan. So I checked my data usage and saw that Google Keep had used a whopping 201 MB in background data, since april 8th.

Needless to say I immediately turned off background data, but the damage has already been done.

What on earth can have caused for Google Keep to use such an enormous amount of background data? I hardly even use it, only as a clipboard (since sharing to clipboard isn't always available, while sharing to Keep almost always is).

Also, in a case like this which looks like a malfunction, is there any chance for me to get a compensation from the app's maker - Google?

Well that would be a data leaking app as per April 8th. And I never saw that coming because I have a large amount of data package for myself but would go and check.

This is a hell lot of data being used up by such a tiny app. I mean in my phone 200mb+ data is either used up by Google Play store or a Browser app by which I downloaded files (audio, video, images etc). Otherwise I never saw such event.

However, if you want to contact Google about it. They would be waiting for the feedback and you can include this as the feedback message. But if you want them to get you some data package (maybe I got confused and mis understood your point of view for contact) then they won't do it.

Haha, but it's obvious they won't! Dude, what do you expect? And yeah, if your Google Keep is eating your Data Packet, then stop using it as a Clipboard, because every single time you open it, sync starts. I never found this issue with my Keep. Turn off Google Sync; it's the best way!


paste text to bluetooth? I'm using the PasswordSafe app and am looking for an easy way to send passwords from my phone to other computers. I can copy the password to the clipboard but what then? Is there an app that will have the phone claim to be a Bluetooth keyboard and 'type' whatever is on the clipboard?

It uses WiFi, rather than Bluetooth, but other than that it sounds like you could use an app like ShareText?
From ShareText's description:

Share text with wifi on pc or other
device using your Browser.
Copy/paste between phone and pc. You can copy the
text from pc to phone, from phone to pc,
from this phone to another phone, from
phone to any browser.


The WiFi connection on my Dell XCD 35 (Froyo) times out I recently bought the Dell XCD35, one of the biggest issues I'm facing is that it keeps disconnecting from an established (and saved) WiFi network and I need to manually select 'Connect' for it to get on WiFi.

I don't have this problem with my Galaxy 3, which I'm also using. And the problem persists even on other WiFi networks that I've tried connecting to. I've checked the settings (WiFi sleep, etc.) Also downloaded WiFi Manager app but no difference.

There is no trouble while connecting, but the moment the screen times out, the Wifi connection does too! This is very annoying, because it used up precious network. Is there a solution or should I just junk this phone?

There is an application in Google Play named Blade WiFi Fix; it will solve your problem.

it happens to my dellxcd too.  i think u cant use both bluetooth and wifi in xcd at same time.


How to troubleshoot/debug slow phone that burns battery? My phone is a Samsung Galaxy S5 mini, so it's getting old by industry standards. Until a few months ago, it was doing fine, but recently the battery life and response time have drastically degraded. Even with every optimisation I know of, I am now lucky if the battery lasts a day (~16h). 8h is more typical. The phone sometimes hangs for long enough for the screen lock to activate (2 minutes). When the hanging is particularly bad, I have noticed that the phone feels warm.

I have seen messages saying that two apps (Facebook messenger and DJI pilot) have caused ~17 errors each in the past week, so I should optimize power settings. Activating "save power" hasn't helped.

The standard battery indicator says that 20-25% is used by the screen , 15-20% by the Android System, and 10-15% by Android OS. I tried to get more information on the battery by installing "Repair Battery Life". This app claimed to repair 5 "low" cells. But it seemed far too easy. I'm sceptical whether an app can repair battery cells.

I can think of some things that have changed in the last few months, but I wouldn't expect them to have made such a big difference. I have installed some new apps, but none use more than 3% of battery. I assume this means that they're not consuming enough CPU to hang the phone either. One of the new apps is perhaps more of a suspect than the others: Netguard. I would expect that less network traffic would save battery, but I could be mistaken if apps are very aggressive about retrying the connection. Finally, I have moved house, and the reception (wifi & whatever you call the normal network) might be worse, but not noticeably.

What else can I try to get more information on the problem(s)?

Update: I noticed two new symptoms.

1) the phone only seems to hang when I am out of wifi range.

2) looking closer at the battery menu under Settings, there seems to be significant battery usage at times where the phone is "awake" but the screen is off. Does this mean that some app is constantly waking the CPU?

Update2: today I had the screen on for 2 hours straight, which took my battery from ~75% to 15%. Clearly, a lot of this was for the screen, so I was surprised to see that in the battery stats, it says that the screen used 15% of the battery, while "android system" used much more: 19% and 5 hours of CPU time. "Android OS" also has a significant contribution with 8%. Is there any way to narrow down why the Android components are so active?

Educated guess is you have apps that are running in the background and eating up your battery. Samsung power manager app/thing is not great (at least on my sgs7 it isn't), but it's pointing you on possible culprits. Easiest way to debug is uninstall the apps and see if device acts any differently (give it a few days or a week to see). Or another way is factory reset start from new and see how it goes from "stock" and add apps slowly and see. Or it could just be the battery is aging and simply can't hold a charge like it used to. There isn't a silver bullet way of trouble shoot battery life unfortunately.

Unlike the iPhone and Galaxy S6 and newer phones the S5 mini has a replaceable battery. Batteries get old. Get a new one. Not terribly expensive on Amazon.
Personally the G5 was the last Samsung phone I owned. I wanted to go from a G4 to G6 except Samsung stopped the replaceable battery with the G6. G5 was OK for a year or two but then I wanted to upgrade so went to the LG V20. I do a lot of subway riding and watch movies so go through 2 batteries every day. I love the LG with it's fingerprint unlock too.
I can only imagine Samsung followed the iPhone with non-replaceable batteries as a designed-obsolescence which I think is a dirty trick to play on consumers and a greedy business strategy.


App drawer disappeared on One Plus One with Cyanogen OS I accidentally removed my app drawer on the dock. I already tired different ways suggested on this site to get it back. But none of them worked. I am not sure if this is related to the OS version or the phone. Can someone help?
Thanks in advance.
AC

I had the same problem, what worked for me was accessing the Home Screen settings (on home screen, hit the menu button and then the three little dots towards the top of the menu, or hold anywhere on the screen and hit the same triple-dot symbol) and under "Drawer Settings," switching some settings.

I believe by changing some of these settings any problem causing the app launcher to disappear is corrected when it overwrites its properties.

Maybe you can try doing it by holding down on your screen and hitting widgets, and add the app drawer.


How to edit a contact in the "Contacts" app using LG G3 I use the Contacts app with this icon

and write something in the search field to find a contact.

I click the contacts name and come to this screen:

Now, I have found no way to edit the phone number.
Clicking inside the box with the green caller will call the contact.

Clicking the menu will give me the menu alternatives: Delete, Join, Add to Home screen.

There is no text anywhere that sais "edit contact" or the like.

Clicking the contacts name will not result in anything.
Clicking the contacts photo will show it bigger.

Long clicking inside the box with green caller will popup a menu with the alternatives "Forward contact" and "Copy to clipboard".

That's because the contact is synced to your contacts via online account (Facebook in this case). You are not allowed to edit that contact that is why there is no option of editing it. Get it!

Long press the contact and then the edit button will show up !


How to use an ext4 formatted sd card as external storage with working app permissions? I'm using LineageOS14.1 (Android 7.1.2) on a Moto G 3rd gen

I'm using a 64GB sd and my phone technically doesn't support it, it worked fine until I put more stuff on it and then it started to randomly unmount without any warning. So I tried formatting it to ext4 to escape from the lack of official support for exFAT.

The problem is that the SD mounts and i can read from it, however when i try to write or delete any file in It from an app (Solid Explorer and all other apps, even the build in file manager) it fails.

The sd is correctly mounted ($ df -l: /mnt/media_rw/c91[...]19  58G   14G   42G  25% /storage/c91[...]19) and if i try creating or deleting a file in It using adb everything works.

I tried giving the apps permissions to use the sd via the system file explorer, but nothing changes

I simplified my way to apps see my ext4 formatted [1] on internal something apps will see folder usb1 and may read it (I have to check the write) .

[1]

mkdir /data/media/0/usb1
su -mm
mount -t ext4 /dev/block/sda1 /data/media/0/usb1/
mount -t ext4 /dev/block/sda1 /storage/emulated/0/usb1/

Full answer here : https://android.stackexchange.com/a/204616/119381

I solved the problem by formatting the SD to FAT32 using gparted as suggested by @acejavelin


How to keep phone powered down while charging with ClockworkMod Touch Recovery? In the course of setting up CyanogenMod 7.2 on my T-Mobile G2 (also known as the HTC Desire Z), I installed ClockworkMod Touch Recovery. My usual practice before that was to power off my phone and plug it in to a USB cable, attached to a wall socket, for recharging. However, with ClockworkMod Touch, trying to do this results in the phone always booting to the recovery mode, whether I plug in the cable before or after shutting off the phone.

This is a nuisance; in effect, I have to leave my phone powered on at all times, and turn off the sound when I'm sleeping. I suppose I could just leave it at the Recovery menu, but leaving the phone at a menu where two accidental touches to the screen could wipe the phone seems like a bad idea.

If I recall correctly, I initially had an earlier version of ClockworkMod Recovery installed, which had a menu option for powering off the phone. I only had that version installed briefly.

You are stuck with this. This is the way ClockworkMod Recovery works. I did a search and the devs on xda say if you dont like it unroot your phone.

It is indeed a nuisance since powered off chargin charges faster. Though, oh well!

Put your phone into airplane mode before going to sleep.


Whats the use case of proximity sensor? Can anyone explain to me what is the purpose of the proximity sensor, on my phone. What if my phone's proximity sensor stops working or gets damaged. What problems will I face?

PS: I am just curious to know.

The proximity sensor on most smart-phones with touchscreen exists to disable accidental touch events. The most common scenario is the ear coming in contact with the screen and generating touch events, while on a call.

In simple proximity sensors are light sensors.
It turns the screen off while you are making an call.


How can I make my HTC One stop vibrating on notifications, but still make noise? My HTC One vibrates every darn time the notification sound comes on, and I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get it to stop. I have "vibrate on calls" unticked in the setting, under sound, and it still does it. This was never a problem before that system update a little while ago.

I am seriously so mad right now.

Help?

Yes, I too went in to Settings > Accessibility and turn off for reminder of notifications. That fixed it for me. (For HTC 826)

Go to Settings → Accessibility and untick the box for reminder of notifications. That might fix it.


Does downloading too many games slow down a device? I have over 15 games on my device. Some do occupy some memory; others not so much. I have enough leftover memory on the phone.

Is it true that this can slow down the device?

When you download and install a game on your device, the data is stored within internal storage. When you run the game, it loads all the assets into RAM, which is Random Access Memory. Accessing RAM is much faster than accessing internal memory, which allows games to load scenes, animations, and other things faster. The game should know exactly where the assets are in RAM with an memory address. It can jump right to that point and pull the information down.

However, games are not the only thing that uses RAM. The operating system, system applications, and other installed apps are also using RAM. The more RAM that is used, the less there is for new operations to occupy temporarily. If RAM gets too full, then it could cause problems.

Leaving applications running in the background leaves RAM occupied. After a while, the memory should automatically be cleaned up, especially if you start new applications that require that space in RAM.

Another culprit that could be slowing things down is cache. Cache is used to store app information, web site data, and other information that the app will use to speed up load times. If too much cache is used, then it could be slowed. Games can use a lot of cache since they need to load images faster. Clearing the cache occasionally is typically a good thing.

TL;DR

Yes, running many games can cause a slow down on your device. RAM that does not get cleared and having too much cache are the main culprits. RAM should resolve itself over time, though closing the app completely is a good idea just to make sure. Clearing cache every so often is a good idea as well, especially if you run many of the games often.

Yes. Believe it or not, the less free space you have in ROM, it can eventually affect the load speed for apps and their the files associated with them because it takes longer for the phone to find and access the info it needs, especially if you have less than 32 GB total storage. Not so much if you have a large memory (like an iPhone or Samsung Galaxy, both of which come  w/ up to 128 GB, depending on the model). It still will get slower the more memory is used, but the memory access time for a phone with that much storage is such that even if it takes 2-3 times as long, it would still be so fast you couldn't notice the difference.


Sorry! the process com.android.phone has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again. force close Why does this keep appearing on my phone which cuases my network to go off and on.

On samsung devices
Over on the Sprint forums, they've posted a fix for this without needing a reset: Go into Menu -> Settings -> Call settings -> Reject with message. If you have more than 5 messages in there, delete some so you have less than 5.
People are reporting that once they do that, they are once again able to receive calls without the force close happening. Hope that helps!
In case its an HTC device follow this

Go to your facebook app and under synchronize settings choose to delete all facebook data. Afterwards log out of the facebook app.
Go to account and synchronizing settings and remove any facebook entries. Now your contacts should no longer contain any data from facebook and should not be linked with facebook either.
Go to the facebook app, sign in and re-choose the synchronizing settings. Press "synchronize" in upper right corner.
Go to accounts and synchronizing and add facebook for HTC Sense and perhaps also the normal facebook account. It will now start re-synchronizing everything and you have to link all your contacts again, but it now works

If both methods didn't work for you go for an factory-reset that will surely solve your network and call issues.

This error message would not go away until I cleared my call log history.


Troubleshoot/ Tune Android performance / speed I have a Motorola Xoom (not rooted) and new to the Android world (at least as an advanced user).

I've installed several (around 30) games + several (around 30) apps. I've noticed that it became a lot more slow. Actually browsers can barely work (they hang from time to time). I noticed that several games and apps have active daemons running.

I wanted to:

Track the apps that are being used.
Track the apps that are loaded on startup (and eventually change it).
Do anything to improve performance

TL:DR; I want to troubleshoot / tune my Android installation.

Is there any application for that?

Is there any document recommended for this? (I'm an advanced user - developer)

Thanks!

There are a bunch of Tutorials around on the net on how to increase performance of your Android device (e.g. on LifeHackers here and here). One thing to definitely keep your fingers AWAY from are so-called "boosters" and (automated) Task-Killers. As rm-vanda already stated, they make things only worse; tasks should only be killed if they misbehave (e.g. are hanging, running havoc while eating your CPU and the like). Android manages its RAM fine, no need to worry about that.

As for the auto-starters, I can recommend AutoRun Manager, which is actively maintained and simply the best of all I tried (and I tried a lot).

To figure out what is consuming your ressources, a good candidate helping you would be System Tuner. While the free version simply lets you monitor activity life, the pro-version also offers background-monitoring and stores its data for later analysis.

Some other steps you could perform include:

from time to time, clean up caches (to remove old data and get back precious internal memory; helping apps in this segment include Cache Clear, Quick Cache Cleaner, CacheCleaner NG, and Android System Cleaner - the latter taking care for more things than just cache
Moving some rarely used Apps to SD (if they don't have widgets you are using) saves additional internal space.
uninstall unused apps

As already said by izzy, autoruns manager is the best. Just disable unwanted receivers.

Additionally, here are some others tips:

say no to widgets
install android firewall.
disable internet access to unwanted apps


Low space on HTC Desire with CyanoGenMod 7.1: how to solve it? I have an HTC Desire GSM.

This phone has the known problem of limited memory, so that it was impossible to install more than a couple of apps without running into the "Disk space low" problem.

So I rooted it, installed CyanogenMod7 and App2SD. I moved to the SD card almost all of the application (except those that needs notifications: those won'd work if moved to the SD).

Still, I periodically get the "Low space" message; it is as if the apps were storing their data on the phone memory. If I go to settings -> applications and clear some application's data, then clear the browser cache, I get rid of the message for a couple of days.

How can I definitely get rid of the "Low space" notification, while keeping my applications installed?

Please note:

I've read that it could be possible to repartition the SD card and "mount" it so that it extends the phone own memory. I've seen several conflicting instructions about the procedure (and, e.g. the order of the partitions on the SD card) and, while I managed to partition the card, I never managed to have Android "mount" the extra partition. I've also read instructions saying that recent versions of Cyanogenmod don't support the sd partition anymore.
The phone is already rooted, hence solutions requiring root are OK
I installed Cyanogenmod 7.1.0, but I have not particular preference to that mod. If necessary, I am open to install any mod that works on the phone and is stable for everyday use.

UPDATE:

This wiki page is the reference that says that the sd partition is not supported anymore:

  Apps2ext (previously called apps2SD) moved all user installed apps to a secondary ext partition on your sdcard. This method had the advantage of being straight forward and simple, However, it had the drawback of being difficult to set up. This method is no longer officially supported by CyanogenMod

Many ways lead to rome:

Try a ROM that specifically fixes your problems: I use an ICS build, Sandvold's ICS for Desire which comes with 4 different App2SD methods included (XDA thread) which I find rather stable. You can have a look over to XDA's Desire forum, to search for more roms.
Use Link2SD, create a 2nd ext2/ext3/ext4 partition that a choice of your apps get moved to (manually) and symlinked from /data/ to. See app on Google Play, official FAQ.
CM7 also supports the standard move to sdcard method that you can also use (and might already be aware of. Downside: /data get's full anyway really soon)
You could try to flash a different bootloader (called hboot on desire, that has another partition layout. See Alpharev for instructions and downloads, there's data++ with 180MB and cm7r2 with close to 300MB free for apps at the expense of shrinking other partitions (/system, /cache/, ...). Not every ROM fits all of these though. WARNING: Not for the faint hearted! Read about the risks!

i was exactly like you but with cm7.2 i partitioned my sd and mounted it easily using terminal emulator writing only one line of on each boot and then quick reboot from link2sd then everything is completely fine that line is:
mount -t ext2 /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 /data/sdext2
but before all that you should open link2sd and select the ext2 then reboot


How to erase all contacts from an Android phone? How to erase all contacts from an Android phone?
There are about 3200 contacts.

The full story

I don't manage my contacts with Google Contacts, but with another tool that can export to the VCF format.

The first time I imported my VCF file into Google Contacts, my Android phone synced and got all contacts, perfect.

After a while, having new contacts, I exported to VCF again, and imported again to Google Calendar. All contacts got duplicated on the phone.

I removed all contacts using Google Contacts web interface in Gmail, and re-imported, but contacts get duplicated every time.

I just want to start from scratch, remove all contacts, and import from my new VCF file.

Does this work for you?
contacts -> menu -> delete -> select all -> delete

If not there are apps "Delete Contacts" in the market you could try.

that is very easy. you should go setting>app>all>contact and remove data


List of apps ever downloaded I bought myself a new Android phone since my last one died (overheated). So I've lost all the applications.

Is there some kind of download history to find what you've downloaded via your Google Account or something? I'm aware of something similar in Market > My Apps,  but that contains only what you have on the current device.

I ran across this by accident, but it is exactly what I was after! Hope it helps others.

https://market.android.com/account and the Orders tab

Update - this is now https://play.google.com/apps

No, There is not any such facilities yet.


CyanogenMod: Low volume parts of songs are not played (muted) I have troubles with playing music on Samsung Galaxy S2 with CyanogenMod 10.

When I play music to headphones with low volume, playing music is really influent. It seems like playing is being stopped in quiet parts of song.

I tried a lot of music players and it's always the same. Is there any help? It isn't very much comfortable to listen music in such situation.

Seems to be a common hardware problem on Samsung devices.

Easiest solution is to just install the newest Dorimanx kernel for Samsung Galaxy SII. Works for me now.

Source: This thread here.

You have to flash a volume driver. You will get from the link where you downloaded the custom rom.

Your new custom rom is not supporting the default driver. You can flash the zip file from the app you got by default in a new rom like cmw.


USB driver for Samsung Galaxy S Duos 2 I'm looking for a USB driver for my phone Samsung GT-S7582 S Duos 2. Can't find it in Samsung Official Site. Someone please help me.

Install  kies in your PC. It will automatically install corresponding USB drivers.

EDIT:
Samsung Kies is a freeware software application used to communicate between Windows or Mac operating systems, and more recently manufactured Samsung mobile phone and tablet computer devices, usually using a USB cable connection (though wireless LAN Kies connectivity is now possible using some devices).

This software may be used for:

Data backup
Data transfer (between a Windows or Mac PC, and a Samsung mobile device), limited to certain media file formats.
Multimedia (audio, photos, video, etc.) management, but limited to certain file formats.
Purchase/acquisition of additional or special device features.
Device firmware and operating system (OS version) upgrades.

To work all these, USB driver should be installed. So When you install this software it will automatically detect your device and install USB drivers.

Install moborobo. Never fails. It will get you drivers automatically. Then download SRS root & it will root it in one single click.


Advanced camera settings on Nexus 5 I have a nexus 5, with android 4.4.4. How can i change advanced camera settings? (iso, shutter speed etc...)

The stock camera app doesn't allow such manual adjustments, so you'll probably need a 3rd-party app such as DSLR Camera Pro $3, Shot Control $3 with a free demo or Camera FV-5 $5 with a free demo. This will let you manually adjust the shutter speed, aperture, ISO, etc like a DSLR.

you can adjust ISO by going to setting, then advance, and then enabling the manual option. In the camera screen you can click on the +/- icon. -2 is ISO 800 and 0 is ISO 100.

Cheers!


Samsung galaxy phones shuts down automatically I own a Samsung Galaxy Note. I have seen that very randomly and infrequently, my device just turns off on its own. I then have to restart it by pressing on the power button.

Yes, the device has enough battery life left in it.

I have seen the same behaviour in my previous Samsung Galaxy S as well.
Any one out here experiencing the same, or does any one know why its happening and what I could do to fix it?

I had the same behaviour, related to frequent "driving mode" madness. I don't know if the driving mode is an effect of the same cause or not, but when one stopped the other did too.

What I did to stop it (some might be BS, but It didn't do it a second time, so I can't find out what was the help)

Dry it off (some rain might have gotten into the USB port)
Clean the usb port.
Shut off, remove battery, wait 10 minutes
Restart.
Connect to wall-outlet-charger (full charge, as opposed to computer charge)
Stop charging it with el cheapo, very thin, shaky cables.

i had the same problem , my phone switches off and on for about 20-25 times a day ,,
horrible isnt it ,
well .. !!
this is wat i did to over come this problem , and it worked fine .
go to
settings > wireless and network > wifi settings > using menu option choose advance settings >wifi sleep policy > select "never" > press menu option and save ..
have happy time :)


Can one avoid losing everything on a Galaxy Nexus when applying a new ROM (safely)? The makers of most ROMs suggest that you do a full device wipe when moving from one ROM to another. I have also found this is usually good practice, so data from the previous ROM does not affect the new one. On my EVO 4G, this was not a problem, since wipes did not affect the SD card. However, my new Galaxy Nexus (Sprint) has no SD card, and is managed all on internal memory. Every time I do a full wipe (in TWRP and Clockworkmod recoveries) they erase everything on my device, including my SD contents (photos, documents, the new ROM I'm trying to install, etc.).

This is quite problematic and annoying, as it requires much more time to manually backup my backups before flashing anything.

Has anyone found a way to avoid this? By that, I mean is there a way to keep portions of data (preferably the faux "SD" portions) between flashing new ROMs?

You can use adb backup command to back-up everything to your PC. Use this manual on XDA for correct parameters.

let me starting answering the title question, about backups:
honestly, titanium backup is overrated. (unless you have a lot of non-market app, or apps that have weird local data storage --I, like most people, do not have either)

second, depending on rom compatibility, your apps will be untouched. but do not count on it. I count on it when i update the nightly cyranogen ROM on my device, but that's the only case when i do that.

For a new rom, you wouldn't even want the same apps to being with. for example, most of my apps before i flashed cyanogen mod were to give me lame solutions for what i was missing without cyanogen. after i got cyanogen, i think i reinstalled only 1/3 of the apps i had before.

Also, very few apps will store anything exclusively locally nowadays. just go over your list of app, see the ones that install data locally, export it one way or another, just wipe, reinstall and restore.

now it's even easier than before as the market will save your previous installs.

now to the particular phone issue:
there's something wrong. i never had a phone sans SD-card, even the touchpad has a fake SD partition... i assumed every install of android required a /data partition to begin with. But even if your phone does not have one, i think it's possible to create, as the guys from cyanogen mod created on the touchpad.

now, if by full wipe you really mean full wipe (factory reset something) than you ARE wiping the /data partition as well as the system and the dalvik cache, and everything is normal. you just have to stop doing it :)


Is there a alarm clock app that uses UTC time? Is there a alarm clock app that uses UTC instead of local timezone?

The reason I ask is that I am tired of this daylight savings time idea, so my plan is to set 1 time in a non DST timezone like UTC and then use that time as wakeup in the morning time all year.

In Russia there is no DST anymore as of 8.02.2011. Therefore you could set your timezone to MSK and set your alarm depending on the time difference to your location.


Installing Android ROM on a HTC HD2 on the SD card - Performance impact? I'm currently running Android on my HD2 using the internal memory. However I'm having terrible issues with the memory filling up and I can't seem to solve it. I considered installing Android directly onto the SD card, but was told by a friend that it would slow down the OS so bad that it would hardly be possible to use.

So my question here is quite simply; will there be much performance impact by running Android from an SD card?

Adding bounty now, due to lack of patience.

I'm looking for an answer derived from personal experience or believable online sources
I won't accept probablies and maybes

Quite a few people dual boot Nook Colors (internal vs sd card).

Take a look at this xda thread on running CM7 on the sd card (for the Nook Color) and this thread about booting from sd card performance.

In short, it really depends on the read/write abilities of the sd card you use. A crappy sd card is going to give crappy performance.

(Sorry for the specifics to Nook Color, but in general, it should be similar)

I have done this and was a bit worried about the low internal memory that is left.  I added the app "App2sd" from the marketplace and it looks at your apps and tells you which can be saved on the SD card instead of the internal memory.  This has meant that almost all of my apps have now been moved onto the SD card, freeing up space in the memory for apps that can't be moved.


How can I use my PC's keyboard on the Android emulator? I want to run/test Android apps on the Android emulator and I want to type using my PC keyboard, as it lets me type and test faster. When I use the emulator though, it only accepts input from the native Android (on-screen) keyboard. How can I enable my PC keyboard for use within the Android emulator?

I had the same issue after upgrading the developer tools (v20.0.0v2012...). All of a sudden none of my android virtual devices would accept any input from my physical PC/Mac keyboard.

This is how I fixed it:

Eclipse > Window menu > AVD Manager
Select  your virtual device and click Edit
Under Hardware, Click New
Select Keyboard Support then click OK
Edit its value to yes
Now you have to click off onto another item in the list, like "Abtract LCD Density" or something. This seems to make the UI keep the "yes" change.

My other AVDs that don't have this "keyboard support" hardware property added do NOT accept my physical keyboard input.

Try Ctrl + F11 or NumPad 7. That should enable your keyboard, unless is disabled from somewhere else.


App for running a (simple) web server on Android? Possible Duplicate:
  Viewing web pages offline.

Hi,

I just got a new Acer tablet, and was looking forward to reading HTML files in addition to PDF on my tablet during my commute: case in point being the Android documentation which is available in offline form in the doc/ directory in the sdk install.

So I copied the doc/ folder from my PC to my tablet, and browsed to it using Astro, but was saddened to find that HTML files on the SD card are not easily accessible by the browser, which brings me to my question:

Is there an app (preferably open source), which can provide a basic web server (only localhost, simply serving HTML, JS, CSS and image files) so I can access files by typing URLs such as http://localohost/android-docs/index.html ?

I have looked at iJetty, but it seems to be doing too much. I just want to serve files, not do much Java.

Thanks in advance.

-A

I do not know if this will help you but.... I have a similar problem with my Droid X.  This is what I did--it might work for you:

On your home computer or notebook, download Opera, the free browser.  Install.
Go Opera Unite within the browser.
Install the proxy server (may be named web proxy).  The Unite web server app will also work.
Follow the instructions.  Choose a folder on an attached drive (example C:\nameoffolder)
Fire up the app.  Note the URl which is generated.
If you did this correctly, you now have a webserver installed within the Opera browser.  You can configure whether you want this to be public or private.
Now, go to the Acer tablet.  Open up any web browser --it need not be the Opera browser.
Insert the URL you previously copied.

If your html files are hyperlinked, you should be home free.

As long as Opera browser with the Unite apps are running on the "original" computer, you can access them as a web page on your tablet.

Good luck!


Samsung Galaxy S6: Back button presses by itself On my Samsung Galaxy S6 (Android 6.0.1), sometimes the back button starts firing by itself, hence closing the current app or going back on a page. Other times it's like a ghost press on other parts of the screen, so that e.g. the menu opens by itself. Often this happens in bursts, making the device unusable.

It's a common problem, as seen here:

https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s6/help/s6-pressing-button-self-capacitive-key-t3146253
https://forums.androidcentral.com/samsung-galaxy-s6/519860-galaxy-s6-capicitative-back-button-spamming.html
https://forums.androidcentral.com/samsung-galaxy-s6/556632-back-button-issue-ghost-pressing-constantly-how-can-i-fix.html
https://eu.community.samsung.com/t5/Smartphones-Tablets-Wearables/S6-back-button-self-pressing/td-p/160823
https://forum.xda-developers.com/s7-edge/help/random-screen-presses-button-presses-t3599821

Users report as possible causes:

Device overheating
Use of data connection (perhaps causing #1)
Hardware problem (interference from speakers on the capacitive touchscreen)
Moisture (triggering false contacts on the capacitive touchscreen)

In my case, I've noticed it happening especially when I use the Twitter app, which makes large use of the phone capabilities. Running Smart Manager and closing all running apps sometimes solves the issue, so it might really be #1.

Users suggest possible solution (none of which are working):

Factory reset and/or cache reset
Let device cool down
Disable data and/or WiFi connection
Lower volume speakers to less than 75% (?)
Dial *#2663# and do a TSP FW Update (General)

Anyone found a definitive fix for it?

I've had this happen to me on 2016 (hence the post), then the problem disappeared by itself, now in 2019 it's back, more annoying than ever.

Note: Related to an older Galaxy model: Galaxy S4 back button pressing itself

Had same problem. I did a factory reset which solved nothing, i tried the code which resets touch screen sensortivity.  No joy.  It's hardware. If your phone is under warranty take it back.  My cell was not so took it too local repair shop. They replaced a strip that runs around perimeter of my cell. This strip contains the sensors on the bottom of the cell and the side as well as the charger port.

Problem solved. Hope this helps

This worked for me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsuiIF8CbvA

ie *#2663# and press the button 'TSP FW Update (General)'

UPDATE Problem returned after 30 minutes.


Google Keyboard (gboard) adds word fragments on backspace I have a strange behavior with my Google Keyboard on a Motorola Moto E (2nd Generation, LTE) with Android 6.0. Occasionally pressing the backspace key will result in adding word fragments. In the following GIF I only press the backspace button from frame to frame. This is really annoying because I try to just delete the last word and then have to cycle through this.

Is there somewhere I could file this bug? Is there any hope that this would be eventually fixed for my phone?

Gboard keyboard settings-> text correction-> disable auto correction.


Can't log into Google Play Store or my Google account Through a series of mishaps, I deleted Google Play Services, Google+ and probably many other apps. I did a factory reset, but it did not bring back my missing apps. My phone was rooted and I used Titanium to delete them, not knowing services was needed. Now whenever I hit Google store and need to log in I can't because it says:

  Couldn't sign it. There was a problem communicating with Google servers. Try again later.

I am really confused as to what to do. I cannot download from online directly because it still wants me to put my Google account and I get the same message.

Any help or is my phone just done at this point? I have an android LGMS323.

Well, that sure looks like you have messed your device really well, I would suggest the better option would be downloading the stock ROM and flashing it over your device anyway there's also another option which you can use like get the apk file of the apps from sites like Android Police.

Google PlayStore,
Google PlayServices,
Google+

Install then over your device and I guess rest of the app can be easily downloaded over the Google PlayStore.

I would just recommend installing the zip file of the google apps usually called gapps.zip. You can find the corresponding files for download at goo.im; make sure to pick the one matching your device's Android version. Then copy it to your device's SD card, boot into recovery, chose to "install from zip", select the file – and once it's flashed you should be done, simply reboot.


Do any google apps have any special privileges that normal apps don't have? Every android app has a series of permissions which is granted at install time. Some google apps seem to be able to do some pretty global things that not many other apps have (eg. google now constantly reading the microphone to hear when you say "ok google").

Just wondering, are there any permissions which only google are allowed to have or do all apps have access to all of the same permissions?

can I technically create an app with any of google's features?

Google's apps don't have any special privileges just for being from Google.  But certain permissions are only available to apps that are preinstalled on the device (as opposed to installed later by the user), so some of Google's software gets special privileges by virtue of being preinstalled.  On something like a Kindle Fire, which comes with Amazon's services installed instead of Google's, Amazon's software would get those special privileges instead.

In android development you can access almost any permission who is defined here. While developing an android application, in the AndroidManifest.xml file you write down if your application will be using internet,microphone or others. In practical usage, to allow your application let's say internet, you write this line of code.

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />

Now there is one "special" permission. It is the Super User permission. Super User is also called "root". More about root or Super User you can read here.


LED light and Lollipop update My LED light will not work now with the most recent update how can i fix this? I'm also having issues with my phone telling me when i have a text ( where before i would get my notification at the top of my phone ( i use Textra) now i'm not notified unless i have the notification set for my locked screen but i hate that. i don't want a bunch of notification on my locked screen.  I have the Samsung Galaxy S5

Any help is appreciated.

Honestly I had this problem as well... no matter what I had done about it I was having problems with it. In the end I took out my SD card and did a factory restore. It fixed my problem and it might be what you have to do to fix yours. I recommend taking out the SD card if you have one because I tried with it in and even factory restoring didnt work for some reason.

hope this helps!


How to stop Time Warner cable search on Firefox for Android? I went into about:config and have the following:

browser.search.defaultenginename
Google

browser.search.official
true

browser.search.order.1
Google

keyword.URL
https://www.google.com/search?p=

And still, when I type in the search bar, it pulls up Time Warner Cable Road Runner search instead of Google. It looks like only if I have more than 1 word does it decide to use google -- maybe using only 1 word means I type a malformed URL? How can I fix this to use Google as a proper search engine?

Your issue is not related to Firefox but to your internet provider (Time Warner Cable). According to this site, it "hijacks" your browser's default DNS resolution failure behavior (also known as "404 page"), redirecting you to Road Runner.

Following this site instructions, you just have to go to Road Runner's preference page and disable the Web Address Error Redirect Service option then save.

Change network.dns.disableIPv6 to "true" in about:config.


Hangouts: How to make the phone dialer default (instead of the hangouts dialer)? Following a recent Hangouts update, when using Android 5 on Nexus 5, in an SMS conversation with a contact, touching the "handset" icon automatically launches the Hangouts dialer, while I would like to use the default phone dialer instead.

I did not find any option to change this back to the previous behavior.  Is this possible at all?

If you don't really need the hangouts dialer, you can disable it (as I believe it's now a separate app). Try: Settings -> Apps -> All -> Hangouts Dialer -> Disable.

If you can't disable Hangouts Dialer, you can uninstall it.  Hangouts will still function as normal.

System Settings > Apps Manager > Hangouts > Clear default values
(exact wording may differ, I'm translating from my language)


Cannot see the video files in the phone on my PC I have this very strange issue which I discovered on my month-old Note 2. I never had this issue with my previous device which was a Nexus S.

I hooked up the phone via USB to my PC, and selected camera PTP mode. When I browsed the folders via Computer\GT-N7100\Phone\DCIM\Camera, I don't see any videos that I shot. However, when I browse the files through the default my files app on the phone, I see them. Why is this?

Windows 8 detected the device and installed all drivers too. Because of this, I am not able to move the videos shot with the phone to my PC. Any help?

Camera PTP mode means Picture Transfer Protocol. This is probably why you can't see any videos. Select USB mode and navigate to the same folder. Make sure you are checking the right "camera" folder as you may have 2, one on your SD card and one in the internal phone memory.

Just use any file explorer and copy or cut the DCIM folder, create a new folder and just paste. Click file transfer on your PC, the images will be shown in respective folder.


Preventing Android 7.0 Nougat from downloading updates over cellular data I got a notification this morning on my Nexus 6p informing me that the Android 7.0 Nougat update was ready to download and install on my phone.  The troubling thing about this was the following text:

  Future security updates may be downloaded and installed automatically, possibly using cellular data.

I don't want any updates to download and install over cellular, ever.  I am very frugal on my data usage, and normally have cellular data turned off - I turn it on only when I specifically need it.  The wording of the above text is just enough to make me wonder exactly to what lengths Android 7 is going to go to try to download security updates, and what control I am going to have over it, to the point that I'm not going to just allow it to perform this update without knowing more.  However, so far at least documentation on this seems to be hard to come by.

Is it possible to disable security updates over cellular?  I usually have a WiFi connection so it's not like I'm going for days with old software.  If not, will there be some kind of warning so if I am on cellular at the time I can prevent it from downloading until I get to WiFi?

Will Android 7.0 Nougat turn on mobile data even when I have it off just so it can download updates, or is turning off cellular data sufficient to prevent it from doing so?

This issue already been raised to dev team.
Check "System update using cellular data" thread for more details.

They said its fixed and fix will be pushed in future builds

But someone already mentioned that its not fixed yet (check date).

Keep following that thread.

Android won't download updates weather OS or app updates over Mobile network on less you say so or have the option turned on.


Is it possible for my Sony Xperia Neo L to take other earphones besides SONY earphones My Sony earphones are damaged, I've got other earphones (non-SONY) but are not accepted by the phone. Is there a way to make them work ??

There are different standards for headset plugs, and Sony has started using the CTIA layout for it's smartphones since 2012. I couldn't find the official documentation on the differences, but it's pretty well explained here (In german, but the pictures speak for themselves).

The gist is, on regular headsets the order of the pins is ground-mic-right-left, but on CTIA it's mic-ground-right-left.

To get regular headsets working, you'll have to use an adapter, but if I'm understanding this correctly, headphones (that is, without a microphone) should work normally.

You can try Nokia's headphones. I think they will work with them.


HTC Desire Z without Android Market? I bought a HTC Desire Z from UAE (United Arab Emirates) country. Surprisingly, there isn't the Android Market in the Applications list! I tried to install Market manually, but it crashes and terminates. Without Market I'm unable to install new applications or upgrade existing ones.

Do you have any idea? Thanks.

It looks like the Market is currently blocked in UAE and this has nothing to do with your phone. It may become available soon but I've not found anything with a date. I have seen that it's not so much the government blocking it as an inability to bring banks on-board.

This thread suggests that you can get around it with a dial code, but it looks like it needs a hard reset. There are also other questions here about installing the app manually, like: How to install android market app manually?

every Android phone with android 2.2 OS must comes with  android market!.if don't have google market that may your phone isn't a smart phone!it just only a common phone with MTK OS