Is there a way use an RDP to configure a continuous offset from GPS calculations? Is there any way to configure a location offset in such a way that my phone's GPS data would still be used to set a location, but an adjustment value would be applied to the base value? (e.g. all values adjusted 6.5m SW). Two cases where this would be useful are when using programs that have base maps with bogus offset data, but you want your phone to think it's in the right place on top of the bogus data. Also, sometimes the coordinates calculated from the GPS system on a given day are just simply wrong, and usually on a given day they are wrong by a fairly fixed amount. Rather that spending the entire day with my phone marking me 30m north of where I actually am, I'd like to correct the values automatically based on a known RDP location.

Ideally I would like a way to 'zero' my GPS by calculating an offset based on my current location being a set of known coordinates, then allow the GPS to adjust my location based on that. I would enter "I am currently at X", at which point it would figure out that number is 4 meters off of the GPS readout, and thereafter sets my location to be always 4m offset.

I realize there are lots of programs to set a mock location of my choice and even ones to follow recorded routes. These sort of things that entirely replace the output of the GPS with fixed or otherwise pre-programmed output are not what I'm looking for here. If it matters, my devices are all rooted and running CyanogenMod 11 M2 so root only solutions are acceptable, although if there is a non root way to do this that would be good to note.

Those offsets are normally used in differential gps. A fix point (station) knows it exact location (from manual measurments), calculates from the gps data the requred offset for correction and send this (quasi constant) offset (ex. 2.5m SW) to you.
The  assumption is that if you are close to this station the atomospheric error (=offset) is valid also for your position in some distance.

Im not too familiar with android, but you could send manipulated D-GPS data maybe?

For radio those are send with RTCM (Radio Technical Commission for Maritime Services), (you can get down to 2cm accuracy) - for mobile phones you need to stitch to Ntrip (Networked Transport of RTCM via Internet Protocol): http://www.rtcm-ntrip.org/home most of them are non free/paid, so you need to look around (if you really want there a ways to make your own low cost server (raspberry pi..))

would you still need offset if the accuracy is already very good? Boosting accuracy seems easier!

Have a look at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lefebure.ntripclient
==> ACCESS_MOCK_LOCATION - Used for routing external position data to other applications. but this solution has also it downsides :-(

This is application specific. For example, car navigation apps generally would snap your position to the nearest street when driving around.

I'm not aware if there's any way to set an offset for all applications, a rooted application would probably be able to do that.


All partitions wiped, USB Debugging was not enabled, ADB and fastboot can not see Nexus 5 I got my shiny new Nexus 5 a couple of weeks ago and decided i wanted to root. I rooted using fastboot on my Ubuntu box.

I then installed MultiRom and from there I installed Ubuntu touch.
Everything was going fine and dandy until I changed the kernel to CM 11 and rebooted to apply the changes. It didn't boot so I opened up my TWRP recovery that multirom had installed and decided it was a good idea to erase all the partitions to try and fix this kernel issue. That didn't work so I plugged it into my computer and ran

fastboot reboot-bootloader
Waiting for device ...

It never rebooted.
I also can't do anything with either fastboot or adb when before it worked fine.
TWRP works fine and i can navigate around in that easily. MTP will never activate. I didn't have usb debugging enabled. My bootloader is unlocked.
Please Help

@Hellreaver
Actually: Not yet a brick.
I managed to install a custom ROM along the lines explained here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6m5pJSYm19I
Flashing from the USB stick was still possible, since I had TWRP 3.3.1-0 already installed on my Samsung S6 G920F.

You bricked your device. You could try reformatting with recovery and finding the factory image for your device, then flashing via recovery from SD card (does it take one?) twrp has and always will suck, in my opinion.


View WordPress images in Android Gallery With my Android tablet, the Gallery shows images from an old Blogger blog that I used to use (the blog belongs to my Google account, obviously).

I currently have a WordPress blog hosted on my own web space, and I would really like to have the same functionality--some way to have the images that are hosted on my WordPress blog show up in my Gallery.

Is there any way to do this currently?

No.

The blogger images showed up because they're hosted in Picasa which is integrated into the Android gallery.

But as a workaround you could host your images on Picasa and link to them from your blog.

Well you can allways make an app that pulls the pictures from an rss feed or php webservice from the site and then shows them up


how do I get rid of this google searchbar? I have a Google searchbar in a tablet I have borrowed

For me it's in a very inconvenient location and I keep on pressing it accidentally.
It looks like I can't click and drag on it to move it to another location either.
How do I hide this toolbar? I need to be able to get it back as well, since the tablet isn't mine, but I want to hide or disable this search bar while I use it (or at least move it to another location)

The search bar is a built-in part of the default launcher and can't be moved or disabled. The least invasive way to get rid of it is to install a new launcher of your choice and use that instead of the default one. The old launcher is still installed, and will come back when you uninstall the new one, so the question is just whether you ought to install software on this device you've borrowed.

Press it, hold your finger over it, then a red trash can will appear. Drag it to the trash can.

Press & hold to start the drag & drop.

Press & hold on an empty space to bring up a menu to add widgets. Then select the search widget to bring it back.


Disable open Google Search by sliding up from the home button "feature"? Galaxy Nexus running Android version 4.1.1.

After a recent update, it seems google has added a feature where you can place your finger on the bottom home buttons, and slide up, to open google search. This feature is extremely useful when I want to interrupt my game play to open a google search while running the streets of liberty city. I am wondering if anyone knows how to disable this wonderful feature.

Thanks.

A simpler solution that doesn't require root access is to go into Settings then Apps. From there, disable Google Search. This will also disable the homescreen searchbar and Google Now features.

To unlock the screen you can swipe from anywhere and to any direction. Ignore the arrow.

Google search will only appears if you swiped up from the bottom of the screen. That's what the arrow is meant for.


Is there a real solution for "can't connect to camera" issue on 4.3? I upgraded my Galaxy Notes 2 from CyanogenMod 10.1 to 10.2 (= android 4.3). Unfortunately the camera has continous problems - I end up twice a week or so with a cannot connect to camera popup when trying to shoot a picture.

Many people seem to have this issue. A similar question some time ago did not get any answers. I even found a somewhow-working-workaround in the form of a permission-setting app (I cannot find the source anymore but will look around if someone is interested).

All this make the camera app more or less unusable.

does anyone know about a working solution?
would there be a way to install the previous version (which worked without any problems), without downgrading to 4.2.x, obviously.

In my case was just an app. "Lantern" - flashlight using LED. After uninstalling that app the camera was OK again.


Google Books crashes on loading - workaround? (HTC Desire Z 2.3) Google Books Android crashes on loading.

Is there a workaround to stop this, while I wait for the developers to fix?

  The application Books (process com.google.android.apps.books) has
  stopped unexpectedly. Please try again.

This happens every time (trying again won't help).

Restart of the phone and uninstall re-install of the app doesn't help either.

Apparently, there is a known issue whereby it will crash if it has no books (wouldn't that be most people to begin with!?)

But their remedy instructions are vague - just open a free ebook - but from what? A browser? Will this interact with Google Books to solve the problem? I visited the book store and downloaded an ebook but this just went to the Downloads folder so not sure how this can help.

I also tried copying an ebook from the Download folder to data\com.google.android.apps.books\files and running the Google Books app but this doesn't work - i.e. the crash still happens.

The solution is time; an update to this app fixes this bug.

I had the same problem, and fixed it by opening a preview of a different book first. After that, I could open the other books too. Make sure you open it from within the Play Store app, and not from Google Books.


Blueish Screen and blue stripes My phone has a blueish layer over everything, differing from app to app, also blue stripes. When I make a screenshot it doesn't show on the screenshot. It's a Motorola Moto G 1st gen

After doing a reset with no result I contacted Motorola, they are going to replace the screen.


Samsung Grand duos not visible in Mac Finder but visible in DDMS I have eclipse installed and can see my device DDMS tab. Debugging also works normal. But oddly, I dont see my device (both internal memory and sd card) in Finder. I am unable to transfer to-and-fro my Mac. My Android OS version is - 4.1.2 (Jellybeans)

Solutions already tried:

1) Rebooting both device and system multiple times.

2) Select/unselecting "USB Debugging" in developer options.

3) Connecting device as "Media Device(MTP)" and "Camera (PTP)"

4) Installing Kies and trying to access device from there. I get a perpetual "Connecting..." message.

5) Plugging/Unplugging device from Mac. I get the message "Try reconnecting or restarting your device."

The device is definitely getting detected by the system as its shown in DDMS. But what could be the possible cause of not letting me access the storage?

P.S.: Device works fine in Windows, both storage duly pops up in the "Computer" section.

Disabling 'debugging mode' did the trick for me.


how to fix error message e:/unable to mount usbstorage on Samsung Note 3 - Sprint Variant I have the above device rooted and installed custom recover twrp 2.6.x.x. I keep seeing the message: unable to moutn e:/usbstorage. And I think this is messing with my attempt to install Cyanogenmod 11. I checked the MD5 hash of Cyanogenmod and it is good. I have also tried older versions from the same nightly page. I just get this one error. When I flash the phone, if I ask twrp to check the MD5, it fails. If don't ask for it, it says that there is no hash file and reports that install was a success. But instead the phone goes into a boot loop. I saw this link about the same issue on a different phone. Here is the link Script / Fix Soft Brick Loop_ EFS partition_01.11.13 Some of the people on the site say that the script worked for their Note 3. Others say that the script is not for Note 3. Also the download site seems to be malicious ( according to my malware software; so I can not download it ). I need help to fix this issue. I do have a stock image to flash my phone if anything breaks. I also have the rooting and twrp flashing tools and procedures. I do it in my sleep now. I do not know if I should start messing with PIT files.

I found out the issue was with the image I was using. My experience was that all of the CyanogenMod 11 nightlies created the loop, and the only version that worked for me was the "snapshot" build.


Recover incoming SMS Accidentaly few weeks ago I make my phone bootloop. So to fix this I reinstall the ROM image (including recovery image and fastboot image). I realize that there are some of my important SMS haven't been backed up. So Is there any way to recovery the deleted SMS in my case? note: I already try to use Windows App like Coolmuster Lab.Fone for Android, dr.fone toolkit for Android, disklab_for_android but not helping at all.

It's not fool proof and you'll need to figure some parts on your own, but:

Create a backup of /data in recovery
Unpack the backup on your computer
Find your SMS app in restored /data/data. Most likely the app name is starting with com.android..
Flash your new system image
Using adb, use ls -l /data/data to display permissions of the SMS app directory. Note the permissions.
Restore the SMS app directory using adb or Android file manager with root permissions
Change owner/group/permissions to be the same as you noted earlier.

Your SMS should be back at this point.


How to remove syncronized photos from facebook I have a Galaxy Note II and I syncronized my Facebook gallery by mistake. I've tried to disactivate the sync from the Settings (Settings > Account) by unchecking the "Sync gallery" option but the photos still remain in the phone gallery. I can't even remove them from gallery beacuse there's no option shown. Thanks in advance.

Just in case somebody stumbles upon this question - you don't need to uninstall Facebook. Just open the Gallery, press the menu button and go to "Content to display" option. Uncheck Facebook there. Done.

Unckecking the Sync gallery will not remove the albums.

Just uninstall Facebook application from your phone. This will remove all your Facebook albums from the stock gallery.

Upon reinstalling Facebook, don't forget to uncheck Sync gallery.

This did the trick for me :)


How can I share my screen from Android device to another Android device? I hand my clients an Xoom (Android tablet) and I am holding a Xoom.

How do I simply have them watch what I'm doing on my screen? No video, audio, or anything else fancy needed. All I need is a simple screen share. Will be showing documents, webpages, and such.

Join.me and GoToMeeting only allow view mode, not share mode on Android. There has to be a program to allow this.

Try this app. It allows you to share the screens between two tablets or two mobile devices of varying dimensions wirelessly and does not require any thing extra as per your requirements.

Sounds like some kind of VNC type of solution would be the best, maybe TeamViewer? You might need an enterprise license if you're doing this for commercial purposes.


printing solution on android which prints to a dotmatrix POS printer through **USB** am newbie for android.

I was looking for a printing solution on android which prints to a dotmatrix POS printer through USB.

I'm able to print some non readable symbols from android tablet (through some third party apps like printhand,printershare). These apps don't have driver for this cheap printer(TVS-RP45-Shoppe).

I have a 'PPD' file of the Dotmatrix POS printer.

I need to know how to install this PPD file into android.

similar to this >> usb otg thermal printer interface to android tab with usb device But I have the PPD file.

Andoid tablet MID ST-10 Karbonn smart tab - android ICS

printer TVS-RP45-Shoppe

Trying to print programmatically like usb interfacing. any help highly appreciated .

Thank you all.

My advice: Root your device first. Then copy that available PPD file into particular APPS driver location and proceed USB printing.


Oneplus One stuck in Fastboot mode, no power button! as the title suggests, my OnePlus One is stuck in Fastboot mode and doesn't have a working power button. It came unplugged and since being plugged back in isn't appearing under adb devices.

Is there any way for me to restart the device or rescue it from fastboot?

Thank you!

To exit from fastboot use this command:

fastboot reboot

your phone will be then rebooted.

If fastboot reboot doesn't work.
Try
fastboot continue


Deleted hosts file (can't connect to internet) i have a rooted device (Lenovo A3000-h) , and i had this issue of having my hosts file filled every now and then with additional lines (that sometimes blocked me from logging into my google play account) , and i used to manually edit the file and just erase these extra lines (keeping the 127.0.0.1 line intact)

so yea everything was fine till this morning , i tried to access my google play and i couldn't so i tried to edit the hosts file one more time (as usual) but i noticed that the file size became 2.5mb although it has always been less than 0.5mb (170kb-250kb). anyways when i tried to edit it , the file wouldnt open giving me the message (not enough memory)

long story short i deleted the file and i noticed i had a hosts.bak file so i copied it and tried to connect but its taking forever and it's not connecting to the internet anymore.

hint : i took a copy of the file from my friend's "Samsung galaxy mega" phone and still it wouldn't connect

You shouldn't need a hosts file to connect to the internet. It's used to map custom (private) IPs to a hostname. Deleting it shouldn't prevent your device from connecting to the internet, but I can think of one instance where it could. I have to explain some background info first to help you understand.

DNS is the protocol used to map a FQDN (fully quantified domain name) like play.google.com to an IP address. Android is Linux based, which uses a config file called resolv.conf to send DNS lookup requests to. If your cell carrier is populating that file with a FQDN instead of an IP address, the IP address of that FQDN would need to be listed in the hosts file so your phone will know how to look it up.

Look at the contents of /system/etc/resolv.conf. You should see one or two lines that begin with the word nameserver. If the data that comes after that word looks like a FQDN, then a corresponding entry needs to be in the hosts file too. If it's an IP address, then the cause of your connectivity issues is something else entirely. The first step is making sure your device can reach the internet. I usually do something like ping 8.8.8.8 to do this as 8.8.8.8 is one of Google's public DNS servers. If you can hit that server, then your issue is DNS related. If you can't, then there's something else unrelated to the hosts file preventing you from reaching the internet.

Just delete your host file . Restart your phone and it will automatically connect to google .worked for me... dont try to edit it.


How to retrieve a system file of Android? I ve deleted the file "fw_bcm4329.bin" from the root of the SD card,
right now I cannot connect by my pc with the tethering of android.

Anyone knows how to retrieve this file?

I have a

Samsung Galaxy Ace S5830
with Android 2.2.1 Froyo

thank You

max

This XDA post provides a Multiupload link, where you can download that file.

I have used the ASTRO File Manager. You should be able to use this free Android Market app to locate and manage all the root files. If you deleted this firmware binary file in the SD card, it probably is gone. I have not heard of any undelete app for Android.


How do I change the email address used for Google Play? My email address I use for the Play Store will be invalid soon, so I need to change it. However I don't want to make a new account because I want to keep all my apps. How can I do that?

You should be able to add an alternate email to your Google account. Afterwards, you can sign in with any of your alternate email addresses, using the same password for your main address.

Once your current email is invalidated, you should also be able to remove that address from your Google account and continue using your alternate email as the primary login.

Since the Google account stays the same, all of your apps will remain on your account.

Go to Settings -> Accounts -> Add new email there

Then open Play Store, open side menu and select that account.


How can I transfer photos to my Android Jelly Bean device while preserving the original timestamp? I recently bought a Nexus 4 and I would like to transfer my photos of my previous device to it. My previous Android phone used the standard USB mass storage which gave 0 problems to copy back and forth stuff, but the Nexus 4, like many other modern Android phones I suppose, uses MTP instead, which has the interesting feature of refusing to copy the original dates/timestamps of the files, using instead the date at which the files are being copied.

This is obviously a huge bummer when it comes to photos; not only because one cannot check the original date at which the picture was taken while browsing on the phone, but also because they end up completely unsorted.

Is there a way to transfer photos to a Jelly Bean Android phone that doesn't support USB mass storage preserving the original timestamps?

Things I've tried so far:

Transferring via USB MTP
ADB push (both full folders and individual files)
Transferring via SSH (using SSHDroid + WinSCP)
Uploading and downloading from Dropbox
Transferring a ZIP file via MTP and uncompress the file on the phone
Transferring from the other phone via bluetooth
QuickPic "fix date" function
Local Sync
Photo Date Correction
FTPSyncX
Smoke signals
Yelling at the phone

None of them preserved the timestamp, and this is driving me insane.

(Also, I am not rooted yet, but if the only viable way requires root I would welcome that answer as well.)

You can't, this is a current permission problem (bugreport here) of Android 4.0+'s /sdcard folder if it's not using FAT32 (but FUSE).

Reason: There's a transition away from FAT32 to unified user storage for both apps and media data (using ext4) on a single file system.

  We got tired of seeing OEMs include many GB of internal storage for music, while users were still running out of space for apps and data. This approach lets us merge everything on one volume, which is way better.

  -- Dan Morrill, Android engineer at Google

The old FAT32 properties are emulated using a FUSE layer to be compatible with existing apps. Also: /data/ and /sdcard on Google devices starting with the Nexus 7 use a single partition only (/data/media represents the "sdcard" content and is exposed using the FUSE layer to apps).

Here's CyanogenMod's implementation of the FUSE driver if you're interested in seeing the source. Looks like setting timestamp attributes is implemented, though.

EDIT: It only works with root.

Exact reason: All files are owned by root.sdcard_rw (see here).

A caller withouth uid=0 can't call the utimensat() syscall, it fails in the VFS layer already (EPERM) for timestamps other than current:

  the caller's effective user ID must match the owner of the file; or
  the caller must have appropriate privileges.

  To make any change other than setting both timestamps to the current
  time (i.e., times is not NULL, and both tv_nsec fields are not
  UTIME_NOW and both tv_nsec fields are not UTIME_OMIT), either condition
  2 or 3 above must apply.

Try app "Bluetooth File Transfer" it preserves the modified date with move. And I believe with copy too but try with one file/ folder first to make sure. It can also explore the other device via bluebooth.


Is there a way to copy files directly between two Android devices on the same wifi network? I now have a Samsung Galaxy S Android phone running Froyo 2.2.1 and an Archos 101 Android tablet - also running Froyo.

Both are 'connected' to the same home network via wifi.

Is there a method by which I can copy files directly between the two devices using Wifi?

Bluetooth is also an option, but since I want to copy a lot of thumbnail images, I think this is too slow.

UPDATE

The solution I choose:

I managed to copy files using the ftp protocal , using swiFTP as ftp server on my Archos table, and using Ghost Commander on my Samsung phone.

If you want to try something similar: you might look at my comments to the accepted answer on my other question: question about a 550 error I received during my initial ftp testing in order to see what I had to do to make it running.

There seems to be multiple options available. With a relevant internet search there is an application called Bump which shares files by simply bumping both devices together. I'm not sure if it does it over wifi if available or only does it over 3G.

There is another option where you can set up an ftp server on the device using an application called SwiFTP which is not being maintained anymore but the last update was June 2010. You can install this on one device and use ES File Explorer on the other device to compress and upload the file it using the FTP option.

A third option would be use Hoccer which probably uses their service as dropbox does, though I can't be 100% sure.

I'd personally recommend the ftp solution since that seems the most straight forward and you get to ensure that you have a direct connection.

Brilliant app this - Sharable. All others require internet and data costs - including Bump. Also there is no way you could transfer huge files (full length videos or high quality clips) via other apps. Cross Platform support is amazing. Android, ioS, Mac and PC all supported. Pretty fast as well.


How to change my device's country? Possible Duplicate:
  How can I circumvent regional restrictions in the Android Market?

Google just released Chrome for Android and I want to use it. But, for some (pretty irrational) reason, it is only available to certain countries. I therefore need to change mine. How do I do that?

Thanks

You can try this:
-Use an android cook rom (Cyanogen), try Rom Manager to simplify the process.

-Use Market enabler to fake some other providers (Verizon/ AT&T etc, but change to those two makes Google Market thinks your phone is in US).

Or you can try installing the beta version of Chrome that is already leaked on xda

Remember ICS only, lower version of Android OS will lead to apk parse error.

Factory reset. However if you set up your phone to avoid roaming. Then it wouldn't matter. Had to ask this when I got my phone rushed it on the dealer and it was set on US even though I am in Canada, and I had to call customer service.


Turning off cell broadcast messages in HTC One X Plus I have been receiving about 50 flash sms a day, with my service provider name TIM RS 51, 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?

I show the setting under

Settings | Wireless & networks | More... | Cell broadcasts

with three options to choose from:

Show extreme threats
Show severe threats
Show AMBER alerts

(Android 4.1.1 / Galaxy Nexus)

It's Settings->Call-> *uncheck* Cell broadcast -> *click* OK to the confirmation question.


App exporting to SD card I remember android has disabled app exporting to SD card since i dont remember which version, but a person has showed me his 7.0 or 7.4 LG which actually is able to move apps to SD card. Why is this happening and how can i do the same at 7.0 androd? Preferably, without having to format SD card as internal storage

I'm not sure about formatting as internal storage, if your device can read it, it's already formatted for Android, and can be used as either internal or external... just switch it.

Also, some applications don't allow moving the app for compatibility and security reasons, it's not always device dependent.

Try scrolling through the apps and see if you can move any of them across.


Is it possible to display nicknames in the contact list? Is it possible to use nicknames, instead of first+last names, as the contact's display name in the contact list and/or the incoming/outgoing call view?

Device is Samsung Galaxy S 2.

Edit: to be clear, I wouldn't mind installing an alternative contacts app, if there's no other way to do this with the default one.

It is not possible with the default app for contacts. Try Go Contacts which is a rich app on displaying contacts.

Although the feature you are looking for is available on the default contact display of the MIUI ROM. If you have rooted your phone, consider installing MIUI.

Yes, you can create a program for that. This is a very hacky approach - Use ContentProvider to swap first+last names with nick names. In that manner you won't lose anything.


Where can I find stock or custom ROMs for my Android device? There are several reasons to be looking for a ROM:

Upgrading or downgrading your stock ROM
Looking for firmware from a different region/language
Flashing a custom ROM for different features, removing bloat, etc.

But where can one find ROMs in the first place?  What sites are likely to have the ROM I need?

This question is intended to be canonical; please add to the wiki answer instead of posting separate answers.

See also: How do I update Android on my device?

Manufacturer Websites
While they don't usually host ROMs directly(exceptions include Samsung), you may find that they have software useful for upgrading stock ROMs, such as Samsung's tool Kies.  If you want to upgrade and stay stock then you should try official methods first.
Google Flagship Updates
Google hosts update packages for the flagship Nexus and Pixel devices at
https://android.clients.google.com/packages

You can't browse that link directly, but web search is your friend here.  Search for that link plus the code name of the device and the version you want; for example, searching android.clients.google.com/packages crespo ics results in a lot of pages with [this link][n1] -- the OTA Ice Cream Sandwich update for the T-Mobile Nexus S. Links for various "factory images" for Nexus devices can be found here.
XDA Forums
Probably the first place you should look after trying the official route is the XDA Developers' forums.  Stock ROMs are usually posted in the General sub-forum for your device, and custom ROMs in the Android Development sub-forum for your device.  No guarantees.
They don't have dedicated subforums for all devices, so if you have a less-popular device you should use the site search instead of the subforum search.
RootzWiki Forums
You may or may not want to check RootzWiki before XDA Forums above. Developers tend to move from forum to forum and RootzWiki provides devices for the best developers so a lot have jumped on board.
They have sections for many devices and for those that don't there is a General section. The forums tend to be divided into 3 sections per device (not always): General, Development (ROMS and such) and Themes.
ROM Manager
Many developers publish their custom ROMs in ROM Manager and even provide OTA-style updates through it.  Naturally, these ROMs can be easily flashed through ROM Manager / ClockWorkMod Recovery as well.
Android Forums
This site often has ROMs for more obscure devices, as well as the popular ones.
PDADB
This site provides a long list (about 800 pages) for all kind of devices, including Android, Blackberry, Symbian, and more. It misses a filtering mechanism, unfortunately...
TheUnlockr
Grouped by vendor, then device. Seems to be quite up-to-date and quite complete -- for sure one of the best resources.
Android @ MoDaCo
Similar to Android Forums.
SamMobile
This site posts stock Samsung ROMs from all over.  It does require you to sign up.
Note: you may need to register an account before downloading. If not, then the "Download" button is just point to the register page, and no actual file is downloaded.
Google
When in doubt, do a web search.  Make use of quotes (e.g., "vibrant" "stock 2.2.1") in order to narrow the results and find what you need.
Shipped Roms
A collection of shipped ROMs. Contains ROMs for 40-odd devices.
MIUI
Translated from a popular Chinese ROM, MIUI is a highly customized version of Android with a large base of customization and theme options and a strong iOS aesthetic. Available for many devices and in Froyo (2.2), Gingerbread (2.3), Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0), Jelly Bean (4.3) options.
AOKP
Android Open Kang Project (AOKP) is just like Cyanogen Mod (CM) a Android Open Source Project (AOSP) based ROM. AOKP focuses on providing extensible settings with the disadvantage that less devices are supported in comparison with CM.
Samdroid Board
If you have a Samsung device and you want to unleash the potential of your device then this is the place to go for information, tutorials, files, firmware and many surprises!  Many top devs in the industry and talented people frequent and maintain many useful threads on this forum based site.
Android Central
Another popular Android forum, similar to XDA and RootzWiki.
OmniROM
Similar to CyanogenMod, OmniROM is a committed open-source project that provides ROMs for a variety of devices.
Replicant
Similar to OmniROM, Replicant is a committed open-source project that provides ROMs for several devices (mostly Samsung). It is a fully free Android distribution (with a marked aversion to binary blobs), putting the emphasis on freedom and privacy/security.
Lineage OS
Lineage OS is the successor to CyanogenMod(in the sense that the numbering scheme matches only).  It allows for customization of the buttons at the bottom of the screen and for root access.
Flashtool for Sony Xperia
Flashtool provides inbuilt tool - "XperiaFirm" that lets you download the stock firmware for Xperia devices. Using flashtool you can even install the downloaded firmware onto your Xperia device.

NeedROM
The website provide Original & Custom ROMs for more than 65 brand (mostly Chinese). In addition it contains very useful Tools with their latest updates.
MTK Firmware
Contains a lot of MTK based brands (Mostly Chinese), Tools and drivers also are available there.
Android MTK
Similar to MTK Firmware.


Unbrick SpreadTrum based Android phone (Micromax Bolt A27) I have a low end device i.e Micromax a27(SpreadTrum SC6820) which I m trying to restore after I had rooted it and tried to free up some space by removing the apps which broke the phone's OS.

Mistakenly I also executed a command in fastboot mode that flashed the system with a recovery.img(fastboot flash system recovery.img) after which the phone keeps on buzzing infinitely and nothing shows up on the screen.

I then tried to follow this method http://androidxda.com/flash-pac-stock-rom-android-smartphone but the phone starts buzzing endlessly when plugged in with a USB cable and nothing is shown in the status panel of tool mentioned in it (UpgradeDownload.exe)

This tool seems to extract the .img files from the .pac package(present under the firmware folder of the downloaded stock ROM) and place it in the phone,Can I somehow extract them from .pac and place them manually in the phone via fastboot?

Download research download tools, load the pac file and go in settings there you must see alls files into the pac, now it's very important: double click on system location and copy, go in your file manager, enable hidden files and paste what you have copy in file location bar in your file manager you will see all needed files


Is there an app for searching installed apps? (Dumb Search alternative) I have been a victim of the infamous "let's turn off anything that Apple might have a patent for" aka "dumb search" on the Galaxy S3, and looking for a simple way to return my phone to the 21st century

All I want is ability to find an App quickly and launch it by name, without visually finding the Icon

What I want is a set of features that existed in older versions of Android

In the Apps main screen, have ability to search (currently works only for widgets)
If I find an App, I can press and hold, and it will allow me to place it on any home screen

Use case #1 was removed and replaced by the Google search app, which was as mentioned above downgraded to stop including local search (only shows web results)

Use case #2 was removed and have no workaround, I need to visually find an app to add a shortcut to it

I have searched in the Android Play store for "App Search", but found nothing, should I start writing my own app?

(EDIT) New solution:

You can revert to your complete old behaviour. It needs some hacking though and might be illegal (decompile&recompile Google app)

Background:
If you don't have root, you cannot install the old version over the new one.
What you could do: Install an app with the functions of the old Search app.
Idea: If the old app had a different package name you could install it next to the new app.
How? Apktool!

Solution proposal:
Use apktool to decompile and change the whole namespace from com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox to com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox2  of a working old .apk (see .zip below, mind the 2 in the end), then recompile and install the newly crafted package. Result: Old and new (broken) provider can be installed next to each other at the same time because they have a different namespace (.*searchbox2 instead of .*searchbox). Just find out which one is the old one and use that.

Benefits: No root required, permanent (cannot be taken away)
Drawbacks: You get 2x the same widget offering (1x from the old, 1x from the new), so you have to find out which works and which not

My test so far ('apktool' is an alias to 'java -jar /usr/local/bin/apktool.jar' on my machine , FYI):

apktool decompile GoogleQuickSearchBox.apk appdir
#append every occurrence of the namespace with '2'
find appdir -type f | while read a; do sed -i 's,uicksearchbox,uicksearchbox2,g' $a; done
#rename the directory to reflect that too
mv appdir/smali/com/google/android/googlequicksearchbox smali/com/google/android/googlequicksearchbox2
apktool build /tmp/bla.apk appdir
#Any sort of signing (jarsigner, signapk.jar,...):
java -jar /tmp/signapk.jar /tmp/certificate.pem /tmp/key.pk8 /tmp/bla.apk /tmp/gsearch2.apk
adb install /tmp/gsearch2.apk

(EDIT: Old solution)
What would be nice to know: Does this only affect Samsunng and Google's US customers?
According to androidcentral, Samsung now deploys this update as a stability fix globally.

It's most probably this package, that got "updated":
com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox
 (located at /system/app/GoogleQuickSearchBox.apk)

Having root is definitely required to revert the situation.

I'd however decide to get rid of Samsungs firmware altogether and install CyanogenMod for example (This might even be easier than getting root in the first place on the orginal firmware).

You might want to "reinstall" the unaffected version from the last firmware or one of a Euro firmware (if they're not stripped). For example, this archive from the popular Goo.im hosting site will most probably have a working (older) .apk that has the functionality you miss. It's a generic installation package for the popular Cyanogenmod aftermarket firmware that holds all relevant proprietary packages from Google (they had to be stripped off Cyanogenmod by Google's request some time ago). You can open it with any unzip program and extract the /system/app/GoogleQuickSearchBox.apk package.

That's how I would do it (using the adb tool from the Google SDK:

adb push GoogleQuickSearchBox.apk /sdcard/
adb shell
su
mount -o remount,rw /system
cp /sdcard/GoogleQuickSearchBox.apk /system/data/
mount -o remount,ro /system
reboot
exit

I used Application Explorer to generate this listing and see where the .apk is located:

App Name: Google-Search
Package Name: com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox

[...]

Source Directory:
/system/app/GoogleQuickSearchBox.apk

You can get the version of 'Google-Search' by going to Settings->Apps->All->Google Search, which lists the current version. Mine (the same as in the above mentioned .zip is: 1.4.1.299849)

Apparently there is now (was created after this question was asked)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.iojess.conjure&hl=en


Video recording asus transformer I would like to record video of the screen of my asus transformer. I don't need high fps. 12 to 15 fps would be more than enough for my needs. I tried searching for an app on the market for this purpose. But there doesn't seem to be any app that allows me to record video of the screen of my asus transformer.

So, I was wondering if there was any app that i am not aware off or maybe some other way through which i can record some video of my asus screen.

Someone at #android proposed the idea of using the hdmi out on my asus to connect it to an hdmi input on a pc. But unfortunately i only have an hdmi out on my pc as well... If hdmi is the only option I have, could anyone please tell me if there is any way of making my laptop receive hdmi signals?

Thanks

I am having the same problem and I think I've got the solution. I'm thinking of 2 ways:

Buy an HDMI to component or HDPVR converter and buy a capture card (cheapest)
Buy an HDMI capture cart (very expensive).

You have to make sure the HDMI capture card will be HDCP compatible because otherwise it will refuse to receive the encrypted video.  Of course, that's the same for the converter but that costs about 40 euro.


Can't root Galaxy 5830i A year ago I bought a Galaxy ACE GT-5830i which came with Gingerbread 2.3.6, recently I wanted to root it, I tried following the instructions in Root,Unroot,CWM,and how to Flash Galaxy Ace S5830i, without success.

I wiped cache, Dalvik cache, rooted again, again and again but did not work.

After the root process I found the Superuser icon on the launcher, I checked for root and even tried to use link2sd and nothing. I tried to update the superuser app from Google play and ... nothing. How to root this device?

If you see the superuser icon then your phone is rooted. See this post to know what to do after root:I've rooted my phone.  Now what?  What do I gain from rooting?


How do I improve audio quality when calling with 3rd party apps? (e.g. Messenger, Discord, Zoom, etc.) When I use apps like Discord, Facebook Messenger, Zoom, and Google Meets to call people, it compresses the audio like it would in a normal phone call, even though using those same apps from the desktop give much better audio.
How do I go about making this audio sound better and not so compressed?
I'm using a Pixel 3 XL and am on AT&T (although most of the calls happen over Wi-Fi so I don't see how that matters).

Facebook messenger, Google Duo and other messaging app call use internet connection. Many internet service provider restrict bandwidth for such call. Using 5G network can improve your call quality.
You can use Lease line for internet connection. Such connection does not have any speed limit. You need Lease line on both side then you can get good call quality.
Also update your app to latest version.


How to change IGN in play store? Before, I had a coc acc and I got bored so I gave my acc (gmail) to my friend. My friend then changed the ign to his name. Now that i got a new phone, I installed coc and even if my old acc is already installed, i cannot play my old acc and his ign appears at the top. How can I change my ign?  Do I need to log out my acc from his phone?

To change your IGN

Open Google Play Games.
Tap the IGN
Tap on the Pencil in the top right
Change the IGN.

I think it's easy only you need to follow this step...
Go to settings->accounts->add account->and add another Google account with the new email. Then go into the play store and there will be your email with a drop down arrow. Tap it and select the new email.


WhatsApp messages are not appearing in chronological order When in a group chat, if many messages are exchanged between other people in the group, when I check my Whatsapp, the messages are grouped according to sender and not chronologically. I know that my phone isn't the problem as I have recently changed my phone, however, I'm still experiencing the same problem.

I have tried uninstalling and re-installing WhatsApp on my phone, and the same problem still occurs.

Recently, I have seen many asking the same question in different places but I couldn't find a solution anywhere. So I decided to contact the WhatsApp team directly addressing the issue few days back. This is the response I received:

WhatsApp Support
Hi,
Sorry for the delay! We have received many emails recently, and we do our best to answer them all. Thank you for your patience.
Sorry for the inconvenience. We are aware of the issue, and we are doing our best to improve WhatsApp in a future update.
Unfortunately, we cannot comment on any future timelines, sorry. Thank you for your continued patience and support of WhatsApp.
Cheers,
Tereza
WhatsApp Support Team

Yea, they are working on it and it may be fixed soon.

In  Settings, change your phone to use Automatic Date and Time.  I had the same problem, but doing this fixed it.


Samsung GT-S7392 is locked because of attempting password too many times. Please help me out Samsung GT-S7392 is locked because of successive password attempts; and I could not access or log into the google account as well. The question is: Can I l get unlock through theses using my google account where I'm not the first user of the device. It also asks me for the back up pin. What actually is it and how do I solve 'unlock' this? Please help me.

On a side note: This is very suspicious.
Anyway, regarding this question:

The question is: Can I l get unlock through theses using my google account where I'm not the first user of the device.

You can only unlock the device using one of the Google accounts associated with the phone. If you don't know the password or any of the phone's account credentials, then you're out of luck.
For the next question:

It also asks me for the back up pin. What actually is it and how do I solve 'unlock' this?

There is no universal backup PIN. You can only unlock the phone with the  PIN/password that was set or the credentials of an associated Google account.
Alternatively, you wipe the /data directory on the device to perform a factory reset, which will also reset the password.
Warning: Performing a factory reset will delete all user data.

You can restore the phone. Find and download the firmware for the phone. Go checkout www.xdadevelopers.com or google the phones firmware. You'll need to download Odin. You will also need to download the bootloader and the modem besides the firmware. If you want to do this. Let me know. Ill give you step by step directions.

DOING THIS METHOD WILL DELETE EVERYTHING FROM THE PHONE, FRESH START.


Why is Google Play Music the only app that produces a "Browse" button on my car stereo? If I connect my phone via Bluetooth to my car (2016 Toyota Corolla), and then play music using the Google Play Music app, the car shows a Browse button, which allows me to navigate through artists and albums with the car's buttons:

If I install another app, it doesn't show the Browse button on the car stereo.
Apps that produce a Browse button:

Google Play Music ☠ (RIP)

Apps that do not produce a Browse button:

AIMP
BlackPlayer
Canaree
FPlay (found by searching for "AVRCP")
JetAudio (found by searching for "AVRCP")
kure
MediaMonkey
Music [com.maxfour.music]
Music [com.android.music stock]
Music Player Go
Musicolet
Nyx
Odyssey
Omnia
Oto
Phonograph

Vinyl

Pretty Good
Pulsar
Retro

Metro

Samba Player (found by searching for "AVRCP")
Shuttle

Shuttle+

Simple Music Player [com.simplemobiletools.musicplayer]
Timber
Vanilla
VLC
YouTube Music

Is there some Bluetooth feature that needs to be supported by an app in order for this button to show up?  What is the feature's name?  How do I find apps that have it?
This is especially important now that Google has killed off Google Play Music and replaced it with YouTube Music, which does not provide this Browse button on a Bluetooth connection.
If I knew what this function was called, I could try to pester Google, or the third-party app developers, and ask them to add support for it.

This "browse" feature is probably part of "Audio/Video Remote Control Profile" aka AVRCP. AVRCP has different versions with different feature sets. Browsing of playlists was introduced in version AVRCP 1.4 and improved in version 1.5, according to wikipedia.
This bluetooth profile must be supported (in the correct version) by the the car stereo, the mobile phone as well as the app.

There may be the following solutions, from Android Authority:

  Problem #3 – Tracks missing on phone but available on web player
  In the Settings menu, go to Apps or Application Manager, search for Google Play Music. Then tap on “Storage” and then press “Clear
  Cache.” On some devices, you may find this under the “Storage and USB”
  section in the Settings menu. Restart the device, then open the Play
  Music app and all your music should now be available.

  Problem #4 – Songs not uploading

  Also, make sure that the audio you are trying to upload on Google Music is of a supported format. Supported formats include MP3, AAC
  (.m4a), WMA, FLAC, OGG, ALAC (.m4a), and DRM protected AAC (.m4p).
  Some music file types like WAV are not supported. ... If songs aren’t
  uploading, make sure that the library isn’t full. Currently, you can
  upload up to 50,000 songs to your library. If you have gone past that,
  your only option will be to delete some other tracks to make room for
  new ones.

Hope this helps you!


Galaxy Nexus screen flashes and brightness issues on various button taps and screens While using my Galaxy Nexus at night in the dark, I started experiencing issues where the screen would flash for a moment to what felt like full brightness when I tap on certain buttons. It seems inconsistent, but frequent. I've had it happen when pressing the back button in various apps, or switching to different apps in the application switcher. It's bright enough to say that it kind of hurts my eyes.

It also seems like certain screens get locked into full brightness. One example is the main timeline screen of the official Twitter app.

I have Automatic Brightness turned off, and the brightness slider at the lowest setting.

Any ideas as to what causes this? Is there some setting I'm missing?

I just had this happen to me. Seeing your answer, Moskie, I carefully removed the apps one at a time from the application switcher by sliding them to the right, testing between each one. For me, pressing home from the web browser caused my screen to do a slow flaah, opening the apps menu made it go bright and stay bright.

The app that caused the trouble? Camera.

Strange, i have never heard of something like that, it must be an app which are causing it... Anything you have installed recently? I would try and remove some of the recent installed apps, and see if that works, or make a reset of the phone.. If it still happens after a reset, then it's a hardware issue, and you should talk with those who sold it to you...


How do I disable GMail? Yes, this has been asked before, but neither really addresses my concern, and I don't have reputation enough to add comments to existing questions.

I've bought the cheapest Android 4 tablet with Google Play that I could find to have a device in the kitchen that syncs the family members schedules and displays them all in one place, edit shopping lists that sync with my mobile, shows the recipe I'm following while cooking etc.

As all family members are going to use it, I want syncronization of calendars, and I want to use my Google-account for which I have already purchased apps for my phone as the Google account in Google Play on the tablet, but  I do not, however, want the whole family to be able to access my email. So how can I turn off Gmail access?

As noted in the answers to the questions you linked to it isn't possible to just sign out of the Gmail application and not other Google services.

In order to achieve the functionality you want though have you considered using an application lock such as APP Lock? With this you can require a PIN to open the Gmail app. Whilst it doesn't turn off email access it will prevent the whole family from being able to access your mail.

N.B. If you have kids using it as well then it might be worth requiring a PIN in order to purchase anything on the Play store, this might prevent some nasty surprises appearing on your credit card bill. You can see how to do this here.

Go to Settings > Apps > Gmail > Disable.


Samsung G S3 Mini: UK Apps 'not available in your country'?: in UK, with new UK phone from UK provider! Just got my new Samsung Galaxy s3 mini, from t-mobile UK.

Trying to download UK apps (e.g. BBC News) from Google Play, but getting the "app not available in your country" messages....

Am in the UK, using UK wi-fi and EE, my google account is and always was registered to the UK. There's a bit written about moving country, but nothing that has worked to resolve my issue.

Can anyone help?

Have you tried turning it on and off again? If it doesn't work, take it back to the shop.


File from Ubuntu to phone? I am looking for an app  that works similar to "Chrome to Phone", but for file transfer from a desktop. With a right click on a file you can choose "Send to phone" and an application on your Android phone will see it and receive the file. Does anyone know a solution? And does it work on Ubuntu Desktop? And if it doesn't exist; What is the best alternative to send a file to my phone through the internet and without Bluetooth or a USB cable?

You could also use a browser based remote desktop tool like Airdroid or Remote Web Desktop

You could use Bluetooth to send it; use your Ubuntu system to do the sending and just make sure that Bluetooth is activated on your phone.

Alternatively, connect your phone to your desktop via USB and change your phone's Connection Type to be Disk Drive and then mount the disk drive on your computer(my Ubuntu system does this automatically). Copy it over using the desktop's interface of your choice. Then when you disconnect your phone, use a file browser like Astro File Manager to open the file.

Alternatively, if you have somewhere to put the file, Astro can get it via either SFTP or SMB. If you have wifi in your house, then you would be able to access it via SMB. There are boxes provided for Server, Share, Domain, Directory, User Name, & Password. Or you could use a data connection, but that would involve both your ISP not blocking the needed ports(mine does), and sending your password in the clear over the open Internet.


Is com.android.syshandler a malware file on Android 5.x? I saw various unwanted pop up ads on an Android 5.x phone. Then installed the free Sophos Mobile Security on it (from the Play Store) and ran it several times over last few days. Each time it shows some files that it either says are malware, or PUA (Potentially Unwanted Apps). It allows me to delete most of them.

But for two, there are problems. One is called UC News and keeps coming back, even if deleted. Another is com.android.syshandler. For the last one, there is not delete option. It just says that it is PUA: Adware (PUA = Potentially Unwanted App). When I click on it, it says "Potentially unwanted app: Android Ewind (Adware) identified." And goes on to list many more points about it, all negative or indicating potential for harm to the phone.

E.g. the first point says:

"A type of app which may also include third party packages, whose primary purpose is to deliver advertising content in a manner or context that may be unexpected and unwanted by users."

It has a "More Details" link but when I touch that, it opens what seems to be the stock Android browser (instead of Chrome) and that goes to a URL that gives a 404 Page Not Found error. Unable to copy the link to open in it Chrome or to paste it here.

If any more details are needed in order to suggest any steps, please let me know.

Thanks in advance to all who reply.

Edited two days later to add more new info:

More unwanted ads and also apps have been popping up - some even during scans of the phone using anti-malware software - both before and after installing the other two anti-malware software mentioned next. I also installed MalwareBytes's  Anti-Malware (MBAM) as one of the commenters here suggested. It worked to remove some infected files but could not remove two - Activation Tracker (file:  /system/app/ActivationTracker/ActivationTracker.apk - which MBAM reports as being infected by Android/Trojan.Spy.SmsThief.de) and Install Helper (file: /system/app/OLXHelper_v2.5_Lava/OLXHelper_v2.5_Lava.apk - which MBAM also reports as being infected by Android/Trojan.Spy.SmsThief.de). The two infected files it could not remove appear to be in a system partition on the phone. Then also installed Kaspersky anti-malware and ran a scan with it. It also could detect and remove some, but not others. I think the system software in the phone has also been corrupted, because, e.g. Kaspersky or Malwarebytes anti-malware give a security warning about the setting for allowing installation of packages from third-party sites being set to Yes/On. When I change it back to No/Off manually, after some time it goes back to Yes/On on its own - which seems to indicate that malware apps are actively changing it back to that.

Edited again: Also, now, once in a while, apps with names like CrazyRacer2 and Super File Manager (or similar name) are popping up without my installing them.
I am exiting them each time. But they appear again.

Unable to comment because of low reputation: Did malwarebytes indicate which files the malware resides in? (.apk)

And about UC News - those are notifications from the application UC Browser. You should be able to get rid of those by either uninstalling UC Browser or by blocking notifications  for UC browser.

Malwarebytes anti virus app will scan and remove all apps opened by other apps. Not only that, but you can turn it off if you don'don't want it to run. Otherwise, it constantly scans your device for malware and notifies you.


Moto Z Force unlocked? Next week I'm going to us and I will buy a new phone. I was thinking of buying a Moto Z Force. But I heard it is only available for Verizon. I'm from Brazil and would like to know if even if the version from the Motorola site is locked for Verizon and if I would have any problems in using this phone here in Brazil.

Verizon uses LTE bands 2, 4, and 13.

Brazilian carriers appear to use 3, 7, 28, and 38.  As such, you should by default expect US Verizon phones not to work with LTE in Brazil since there are no overlapping bands.

However, the Verizon Z Force supports bands 2-5, 7, and 13.  So it's quite possible that it would work on some Brazilian carriers using bands 3 and 7.

(The same basic process of finding overlap applies for 3G bands, GSM voice, etc. if you don't care about LTE specifically.)

You should contact Motorola directly to find out whether the version they sell is locked, and (if so) whether it can be easily unlocked.

Yes , US VZ Telephony has a different 4G protocol . You will not be able to use 4G in Brazil.


Android Tablets: Use USB to Ethernet connector? Do Android tablets generally support USB to Ethernet adapters? And if so, which models?

Looks like 'no', with some xda-developers work.  If you want to connect to a LAN, why not go with an access point the size of a deck of cards?  If you want extra security, you might turn off your wifi router's beacon, use WPA2 without WPS, and turn on its MAC address filtering.  Your device will connect without the beacon if you 'Add Network'.

The most easy way to use LAN to your Android device is to connect your LAN cable to a portable wireless router ( about US$20 in ebay ) then you can use WiFi service from your LAN cable.


Many installed apps crash after OTA update to Android 4.2 I had run over the air update from Android 4.1 to 4.2 on my Samsung Grand GT-I9082. It seems to have completed fine (screen with robot and progress bar for a while, then some messages about "optimizing" and "running" applications, then boot).

After update the phone itself works fine, however a lot of third party apps now crash on launch with "Application [name] has been stopped" (loose translation since my phone interface is not in English). It is consistent and specific to the app - either it always crashes or it just works normally. The one slight exception is Chrome which opens and closes immediately, but doesn't give the message.

Clearing cache for the app doesn't fix it
Uninstalling app completely and re-installing does fix it (so far - for those few I did it for)

What else can I try?

At this point I guess reinstalling every crashing app would fix them, but that seems very boring and menial option, not to mention losing settings and data in those apps where it's relevant.

If your device is rooted, and you have a custom recovery installed: Wipe the dalvik cache. Next boot will take a little longer (as the Dalvik cache has to be rebuilt), but the problem should be gone.

If the above is not an option, you could try to backup the affecgted apps and their data using e.g. Helium Backup, then uninstall the apps, and restore them (including their data) from their backup. This way their Dalvik cache would be rebuilt as well, you don't lose your data, and Helium can do that in a batch-process to save you a bunch of clicks.

Doing a factory reset of your device may solve the problem. Make sure that you do not restore from a back-up and set up your device as fresh. This would be a permanent fix for your problem. Otherwise, 3rd-party apps will crash every time you update them. Uninstalling & reinstalling is only a temporary fix.

**Back up important files to Dropbox, Google Drive, etc.


How to delete/remove the recent devices in shareit APP? We can delete the history of the devices but we cannot remove the recent devices from Shareit. But in Bluetooth and we can unpair the paired devices and that won't be visible until we again pair the devices.

As of now, there is no way possible to do that. But you can go to the link SHAREit|Google Play and can add a comment in review section and for this functionality in next version.

Meanwhile goto App info and clear data for SHAREit to remove recent devices. But it will remove every data related to SHAREit ie it will also remove your user and you have to again create a user to use Shareit.


How to share clipboard between BlueStacks & host Windows PC? I want to paste texts copied from host Windows PC to apps inside BlueStacks & vice versa. How to do this?

I am running BlueStacks beta-1...

Today, I installed Clipper Plus in BlueStacks and I noticed that its already storing clips I copied in Windows. I have also tried to copy a text in BlueStacks and paste in Windows. It has confirmed that clipboard has already been shared between BlueStacks & Windows. Great...

Either this feature has been pushed recently or I didn't notice it without Clipper Plus. I tried to paste using Ctrl+V in BlueStacks which still doesn't work. Do paste with proper method: Long-click & choose Paste from menu.

Use something like Evernote to write and exchange stuff between any two devices, including PC and BlueStacks.


how to by pass google account on my itel 1556 My phone is bringing me tó write the google account which was previously synced into the phone but this was not mine í just bought it from someone.how can í do?

I would suggest performing a factory reset.  You should be able to do this by opening settings and navigating to Backup & reset.  Here you should find Factory data reset.

You may want to remove any SD card(s) and reformat ( overwrite ).


How to downgrade from Lollipop to Kitkat? I am using Spice AndroidOne. When I purchased it, there was Kitkat in it. It automatically requested for Lollipop update which I have granted. Later it has requested for Marshmallow update. When I tried to update it, it has given an error.

Now Android OS is eating all my data (3G) in one day without my permission.

How to rectify it. And also I want to go back to Kitkat version.

Kindly help me.

Unfortunately you cannot downgrade from the newest version of Android to an older version, unless you root or modify your device's permissions. Ask your carrier to see if they can flash a new ROM to your device.


SdCard is not usable with KitKat? I am using App Backup & Restore for creating backup of my apps but with KitKat its using the internal SdCard as Storage.

When I explicitly set the external SdCard path it gives the error that it is unable to create folder,

I have also tried with creating folder under android/data/[packagename]/files/ but it is still not able to do the same.

Is there any solution so that apps can use external storage for writing files.

Note : I don't want to ROOT my Phone.

On my S4 Mini I configured the path as:

/storage/extSdCard/Android/data/mobi.infolife.appbackup/APP_Backup_Restore

and it works fine - device is not rooted.

Probably the first part (/storage/extSdCard) is different from device to device and maybe the path is case-sensitive.

FAT32 SD cards don't work. Format the card to NTFS


Can't uninstall any programs in safe mode Every time I try to open App manager(in Safe Mode) spams pop up, porn icons installs and so on. Simply, I  don't have time to reach the app manager. Help me please!
Smartphone: Getnord Cat

first can you download any apps if so download Avast mobile antivirus and do a scan if not plug the phone into your pc and copy all your pics,videos,music ect onto the pc. then do a hard reset on the phone. sounds like you got a bad virus.


Change default app for mp3 in Firefox A little while ago I clicked a link in Firefox that led to an mp3. My thumb slipped and I tapped "always open with",  ES Music Player when what I really wanted was to just save it. Now every mp3 link spawns ES Music Player, and that's not what I want.

How do I reset Firefox so that it asks me again for these kinds of links?

I've already done to "2 finger Top Swipe: Settings: Apps: Firefox: Launch by default: Clear".

ES Music Player isn't in the settings app list at all, so I couldn't clear that.

ES File Explorer, which is the parent app for the music player shows "No defaults set" in Android settings. Internally it has it's own "Settings: Cleanup settings: Clear defaults", but that had no apparent effect either.

This is the setting of Firefox on Android and not android itself
Follow these steps:

Open Firefox and in address bar type "about:config"
Search For "browser.download.preferred.audio/mpeg" (just "mpeg" does the same)
Press on the reset button
From now on, if you download any mp3 file in Firefox, it asks for available apps capable of playing the file. You can again choose once or set it as default.

Well, the simple way to do that is by heading over to the setting>application manager>tap over the firefox (clear its defaults stored) also search for "ES Music Player" over application manager tap over it (Clear the app defaults). Now you try what you are doing previously this time it will ask for the application to select opening the file !


Opening URLs in Tasker and get HTTP response and content successfully I am currently doing an automation in Tasker wherein I can open URLs on browser one by one. So far, I have successfully opened URLs by putting the URL list in a text file and have Tasker access it. My problem is, I want to know if each URL has been successfully or better, get the site content? How do I do this? Even if a site has been successfully opened, HTTPR still returns -1. I don't understand why. I also don't know how to use HTTP Get. I'm using Android Emulator by the way. Please help! Thanks!

There's a nice German tutorial on AndroidPIT (same page using Google Translate), explaining this in detail. Moreover, you might want to check with the Q&A How to check success status of opened URL in Tasker?.


I messed up android partition with TWRP first of all sorry if I make any mistake, I'm new here.

Help. Today I decided to try to root my xiami mi a2 lite...
I accidentally flashed twrp-3.2.3-0-daisy.img on both a and b partitions.
Because of that, now I can only access the TWRP menu...

I think I should download the official rom and get its boot file, but im not sure and I dont want to mess it up more...
I've downloaded the rom and found this .img http://prntscr.com/lmegw9 . If that's it, is it enough to flash it? and in which partition? a or b?

Find a rom made specifically for your device here
https://forum.xda-developers.com/mi-a2-lite

Then use this to unlock your bootloader & flash a new boot.img recovery & rom  https://forum.xda-developers.com/mi-a2-lite/development/tool-tool-one-driversunlocktwrpfactory-t3866191

Warning unlocking bootloader will wipe all your files.
Also make sure to flash g-apps. You can search "opengapps" and your os to find the ones you need.

I'm not sure about both A and B partitions...
Android has several partitions ( 10+ ) for different things, system, boot, recovery, frp, nvram, etc....

TWRP is designed overwrite only your Recovery.img

You need your boot image for kernel information, booting etc... so never overwrite your boot partition, unless you are absolutely sure it's designed exactly for your variant of device.

You should be able to use TWRP to reinstall your Boot.img if that was partition A or B .

However if you've overwritten your system, youll need a firmware update or backup to restore the stock images..

In TWRP try to look through your partitions and their sizes in storage... for example, if your system partition only has 345kb of data ( or none ) on it, it's been wiped clean and needs to be reinstalled.


Why do certain apps run even when I don't use them? I've found that certain apps (Amazon MP3 and Stocks, for example) will occasionally be running in the background even when I've never once opened them. Why is this? This is not desirable - those CPU cycles are mine, not theirs!

Those apps come with the phone and can't be turned off or removed unless you root.  Blame your carrier.  There's really nothing you can do about it non-rooted.  I feel your pain.

Before rooting your phone, a not-so-easy operation, you should have a try to disable the auto launch when the phone restart.


Typing/sending text messages using Kies Does the Kies software allow one to type and send text messages from the PC?

You can't.

But, on the other hand, you can use the Kies Air application, which you can obtain through Samsung Apps. It allows you to access your mobile on the desktop browser if both PC and phone share the same Wifi network.

Then you would be able to send/recv messages on the desktop, amid many other things like accessing photos, videos, contacts, call logs, music, file system... and so on.  It is like a small web interface to your mobile.

Try using MyPhoneExplorer.  This allows SMS sending from computer via android machines.  I've been using it for years.


Slow Charging Battery! I have a Samsung galaxyS3 the battery has been charging really slow. It can take up yo 10 hours to charge 100%. I have tried every thing I can think of. I've tried a new charger, new battery, shut down all apps running in the backgrond, taken out the battery and held down the power, volume and home screen button, deleted junk apps. I've thought about reseting my phone but idk if that would help or just make more work for me. Also I put both my old and new battery in a friends phone and both batteries worked fine. Any ideas?

It might be worthwhile to invest in a charge only cable. I use one for my tablet at home and in my car.

The quality of the usb cable will also make a difference. Cables do go bad. It sounds like you have ruled out all the other options so this might be worth trying.

Using a 5v-2A charger will reduce the charging time. It works for me.


Make Android to handle a hardware keypad properly I got the following phone for Christmass: GuoPhone N2 (also sold under the names Swell N2, Landrover N2, Cube1 T1C, ...). It has a build-in hardware keypad and runs Android 6.0. However, writing messages is quite cumbersome since there is no special software keyboard (like LG keyboard for LG Wine Smart) which would handle the keypad properly. I would like to be able to do the following:

Write "." by pressing 1 instead of searching through the list of characters.
Write space by pressing 0 shortly instead of holding 0.
Write numbers 0,1,...,9 by holding the corresponding buttons.
Switch input modes (capitals, numbers) by pressing # shortly.

Can I achieve this by changing the configuration files (e.g. /etc/system/usr/keylayout, /etc/system/usr/keychars) or do I need a special keyboard app? If there is no available solution of my problem I will consider downloading the source code of the Android keyboard from here and trying to modify it. However, it would be a lot of work for me as I don't have any experience with programming for Android. Is here anybody who finds this task easy and could give me any instructions?
Thank you very much for any help.

P.S.: I tried Swift Keyboard, Google Keyboard, etc... but they cannot even handle typing letters by multiple clicks so I can write just numbers with them. Only the preinstalled Android keyboard can handle multiple clicks.

Solved by installing Traditional T9 Keypad IME.


Root ZTE Blade V6 seems complicated I nearly get nuts because I cannot root my ZTE Blade V6 (europe version).

In the past I have rooted several android devices. Actually it was quite the same procedure everytime:

1. Install platform-tools (adb and fastboot)
2. Make device appear in "adb -devices"
3. Make device appear in "fastboot devices"
4. Flash any recovery via fastboot (I tend to prefer CWM)
5. Copy Custom-ROM (usually a *.zip for the OS and one for gapps) to internal or external space
6. Start phone into recovery and install the zip and afterwards the gapps
7. Done

However this seems to fail on the ZTE Blade V6 this time:

If I go to the stock recovery, it is all in chinese (or some other letters I can not read).
So I flashed a CWM recovery.img to the phone, from https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/software-hacking/twrp-recovery-3-0-2-zte-blade-v6-t3362252. The flashing seems to work (However it says: target didn't report max-download-size) But it does not boot into it. It just does not do anything after flashing the recovery. No Recovery, no fastboot. Only thing that works after that is normal start. Directly sending adb reboot recovery after flashing makes a simple restart of the device into stock ROM.

I tried different recovery images but the output is usually the same.

Somewhere I found a command that does directly boot the image and not only flash it:

fastboot boot recovery.img

All the images I tried report FAILED (remote: bad boot image header) when directly booted this way.

Can someone tell me what's wrong and/or help me flash my droid?

First of all, make sure that you got the proper "recovery.img" for your device. Invalid header is not a good message.

Then,if you are able to communicate with an Android phone via adb, you can boot it into recovery mode by command "adb reboot recovery".

What I suggest for your situation is(I assume you don't need fastboot oem unlock):

Make sure your PC can see your device by the command: "adb
devices".
Boot into fastboot mode by the command: "adb reboot bootloader".
Flash recovery image to recovery partition: "fastboot flash recovery
recovery.img".
Exit fastboot mode: "fastboot reboot". (Some bootloaders may support fastboot boot recovery.img, I am writing for generic.)
After exiting fastboot mode, wait for Android to boot, then check if
your PC communicates with your device: "adb devices".
Reboot into recovery mode: "adb reboot recovery".
Now, the bootloader is expected to load CWM.

In case you need "fastboot oem unlock"(you will see a warning like "partition flashing is not allowed" at 3rd step above, because of verified boot feature.); under Settings->Development Settings, turn on OEM unlock. Then, run below commands:

adb reboot bootloader
fastboot oem unlock

Install Blade Checker then see but sounds like you have chinese version not european might solve the language problem.


How can I translate Chinese and Japanese text without typing it? When I'm in Japan or China, there are barely any European alphabet and I want to use my camera to take a photo of a sign and convert it into English language. Is it possible to achieve that?

You can use Google Translate app, you can take photos which contain texts using the app and it'll detect it and translate it.

Although the Google Translate app should take care of you in some cases, it doesn't always function properly in China. Straight text conversion (not images) tends to work in most cases for me, but when I use the updated app and attempt to use local images or ones that I take at the time of translation (two options) it tends to give out a server error. Of course, there's also the option to "write" it in yourself now so maybe you would be willing to give that a shot too.


Unable to see all folders on Moto G using FTP I have set up an FTP server on my Moto G, and I'm trying to copy (music) files from my laptop (running Ubuntu 12.04) using FileZilla.

I understand that user data appears in the /data folder, but when I try to open this folder, FileZilla says

Response:   150 Directory listing for data/
Response:   550 Requested action not taken.  does not exist, not a directory or insufficient rights
Error:  Failed to retrieve directory listing

I faced the same problem, but I launched filezilla from Terminal using sudo:

sudo filezilla

It works fine.


Galaxy S GT-I9000: how to fix boot to recovery with Volume up+Power? I have Samsung Galaxy S (GT-I9000) and I've installed Cyanogenmod 10 M2. I can reboot into recovery from Cyanogenmod (Hold Power button, select Reboot and Recovery). However, I cannot boot directly to recovery holding Volume up + Power or Volume up + Home + Power when the phone is powered down.

Do I need to do something to the phone hardware to get some button combination to boot to recovery mode? As far as I know, the button combination I've tried is the correct one for this device. I can boot to download mode with Volume down + Power.

The recovery is the one installed along the official galaxysmtd Cyanogenmod 10 M2 ("CWM-based Recovery v6.0.1.4").

I would want to fix the issue because now I'm afraid to flash ROM updates because getting into recovery in case of boot loop is much harder if I cannot get the normal key combo to work.

OK. I found the correct combination. It seems that the recovery distributed with Cyanogenmod 10 M2 for galaxysmtd is really picky about the hardware buttons.

Here's how you can boot to recovery:

Start with Galaxy S powered off
Press and hold Volume up + Home
Press and hold Power button
Wait for (factory default) Galaxy S GT-I9000 boot display to show up
Release the Power button before the second boot display with text "Cyanogen(mod)" shows up. Keep holding the Volume up + Home buttons.
Wait for Recovery to start. After you see the recovery menu, you can release the Volume up and Home buttons.

If you fail to release the power button before the second boot display, you cannot get it to go into the recovery mode. Instead it will enter the normal boot sequence which seems to fail if you keep holding the Power button. On the other hand, if you don't keep buttons pressed long enough, it will enter the normal boot sequence, again. I haven't figured out if holding the Home button is really required but at least it does not prevent entering the recovery mode.

Hold the power button as you usually do for "power off". Then, select the option "recovery"; it will enter into the recovery mode.


How to disable pin security from Samsing Tab 2 I have a Samsung tab2, and have added screen pin lock on my Tab few days back as I was going out. Now I don't want to use pin lock as security, but I am not able to disable it. I am going to

setting --> security --> screen lock

After entering my pin my options are to disable includes last the option None.

What should I do to remove the screen lock pin??

In my case, I installed my own certificate which even on removing was some where present don't know where so ultimately I cleared up every thing and again tried to remove pin and it got removed.

Proper way would be settings-->security-->clear credential Clear credentials is last option under security heading.

And now u can change your pin  setting-->security-->screen lock-->swipe/none whatever you feel comfortable with.

Enjoy :D

I also messed around with the lock screen, and only when i cleared all credentials it came to remove the pin protection.


How to turn off voice dialler Huawei Honor 7 I looked over all settings and couldn't find any way to turn off automatic voice dialler. How do I do it? My phone calls people on its own.

It is possible to turn this off if you switch off "voice wakeup" completely.

Just go to Settings > Apps > System Apps > Voice Dialer and press Disable.


I have an SD card and it still says that error in sufficient storage When I upgrade an Android application from Google Play, it gets downloaded, then the upgrade stops with the message

  Error: Insufficient storage available.

I have a 32 GB SD card so I want to download to the SD card but it only puts apps on the internal memory. How can I get apps to install to the SD card?

I am not sure what device you have or whether you  have rooted it so I'll show you a few options.

This should work for Samsung devices that still have the sock file manager.
http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-1772970/set-default-download-location-card.html

This app will work if you have rooted your phone.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=frank.tools.defaultinstalllocationchanger&hl=en

If neither of those you should be able to do it this way but it may be  a tad tricky if your not very tech savvy
http://getandroidstuff.com/install-android-application-sd-card-mod-install-location/

you can go to settings-applications-preffered install location and change it from internal phone memory to SD card and yo apps will download just fine though if u remove the card,they will disappear....

the second option is quite long but its something to do with a software that allows you to allocate some of your memory card space to internal memory for example you allocate 5gb of your  memory card to internal memory and then u will have plenty of space to download your apps...Google about it


YouTube "Connection to server lost" on WiFi and 3G, stock 4.3 I see the issue talked about online but none of the fixes work. I haven't been able to view for over a week. Does anyone have any other ideas? It also appears that some otherer html5 based videos aren't working but I can't think how to fix that.

Attempts:

Phone off and on
Clear YouTube cache
Uninstall YouTube
Check that my WiFi settings are suitable (no proxy)

Details:

Stock Nexus 4, android 4.3
Latest YouTube app
No adblocker
No root

I think I found a solution to the problem "Connection to server lost, touch to retry" on Wifi. In fact I used to encounter this problem on my Samsung Galaxy S2  device. The solution is as follows:

First make sure you have a Google account which you use to download applications from Google Play Store.
Open the YouTube application on your device.
At the top left hand corner of your screen, you would find the YouTube icon with 3 short lines to its left.
click on it (touch it) and there is a pop up menu which appears
If you have not yet signed into YouTube with the gmail account, the

Uninstall all of the updates to YouTube and it will fix the issue.


Play Store app download 100% then starts over to 0% I can successfully download small apps like solitaire, but when I try to download larger apps/games that are 65 MB large, it downloads 100% then it starts over until I go in and cancel the download.

I have plenty of room on my phone and it can download apps (like booster, cache cleaner, etc) from other websites. I also have restarted my phone.

What could it be?

My suggestion is to clear your Play Store data, by accessing the app's info from your phone's Settings, and tapping on Clear Data. Please note that you'll have to reconfigure the Play Store's settings, afterwards.

It's the Play Store itself. Either download an old update back in 2015 variant or try the newer ones for 8.1+ Android devices


Can't use Google Account on Android 2.3 I have an LG Phoenix with Android 2.3 and I just recently did a factory reset, and now when I go to add my Google account, it won't let me add it. After I entered in my username (...@outlook.com) and my password, it says that "...@outlook.com does not use gmail". Then it offered me a couple suggestions to create a gmail account. I don't want a Gmail account. I don't understand why I need one when I've already got a Google account. I thought that would be enough info needed.

As noted in this question, there's no special hard requirement for gmail anymore.
But <ics GoogleServicesFramework (or at least I tested version 2.3.7 that can seemingly only be found on some late-gingerbread stock ROMs) still expects that as "principal" one (ie use Play Store and GMS).

I guess like this shouldn't be too hard to solve by tinkering with the apk or accounts.db, but for the moment that's it.

Creating a totally new and dupe account, with your main "official" one as secondary (to keep stuff in sync) should work then. It's not really the most of simplicity or neatness, but if you don't want to dirty your account with gmail face, it's the only other option.

p.s. in 2017 you might get some initial crash here or there, due to very old vanilla applications. Making sure to install this and this solved everything for me.

Certainly android is developed by google, so he make a stipulation into it that the android users had to have google account to make it work. So just make it one ;)


Quick Question - Hot Reboot - Android Can anyone please tell me what is the difference between the a normal Android boot vs. a hot reboot!? When I toggle the power options on my tablet to turn it off or reboot it... It says on the bottom "hot reboot"!? I have looked it up online, and nothing has giving me an understatement of the difference. Nothing clearly defines it. That would be great thank you! :)

A cold boot means start a machine from a state where its power is not supplied, and a cold (hard) reboot means completely shut down power then power up as a normal boot. In a cold boot procedure, the BIOS first starts after the machine gets powered, loading the system's loader before actually starting the operating system.
On the contrary, a hot reboot does not cut the power to a machine, but simply shuts down the running OS and re-load it. No hardware components lose their power during a hot reboot. Only the system works as if it's normally booted.

There are certain software components that don't need to be reloaded to "restart" Android OS. So the hot restart is when only the needed components are reloaded.
You can see it in action if you use the RootTools Android library(developing on Android Studio) with the following code:

RootTools.restartAndroid();


How to force 2G/3G/4G? I recently moved from Note 2 to Moto X. In Note 2, the 'Mobile Networks' page inside Settings had the 'Network Mode' setting with options: GSM/WCDMA (Auto mode), GSM only or WCDMA only.

In Moto X however, instead of 'Network Mode' there is 'Prefered network type' which has the options: 4G (recommended), 3G or 2G.

Through this I can force 2G, I'm assuming, but not 3G or 4G (there's no 4G in India yet anyway).

Is there any other setting or any app that can force only 3G (or 4G)?

Try *#*#4636#*#* in your dial pad (type the * and # also). Under Phone information you will find Preferred network type. Select GSM  or WCDMA from there.

You will find

WCDMA preferred this will use both 2g and 3g whichever has the
better reception
WCDMA only this will use only 3g
GSM only this will use only 2g

Install Network app  and try the option WCDMA only.


How do I get Samsung Pay on the Galazy S6 920f? Based on what I've been reading, it seems like it should be preloaded, but my 920f doesn't seem to have it.  I also checked my disabled apps list and it isn't there.

Update all your google apps from play store and also get this app : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.walletnfcrel

Get Going with android pay ! Remeber you won't be able to use Android Pay if you have a rooted phone.


Cyanogenmod 7 OpenVPN DNS not working I want to route all the internet traffic of my phone through my VPN.

I configured OpenVPN on my htc Desire with Cyanogenmod 7.2.0.1-bravo through the integrated VPN settings dialog.

When I activate the Redirect-Gateway option, DNS resolution (e.g. google.com) doesn't work anymore. So not like others where the resolution of there local hostnames doesn't work (that wouldn't be a problem for me). The device hast still a connection to the internet (through the VPN) but it can't resolve domain names anymore.

The nameservers look correctly configured (adb shell):

# cat /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver 8.8.8.8
nameserver 8.8.4.4

I've also tested the OpenVPN Settings app but as soon as i add 'redirect-gateway' to the openvpn configuration file I get the same problem.

What could cause this problem?

I found now a solution myself:

First, cat /etc/resolv.conf isn't a valid way to display the used DNS servers under Android. Use getprop net.dns1 instead.

In my case the DNS server wasn't the Google server as set in /etc/resolv.conf, instead it was one of my ISP which accepts only requests from IPs in its network but my OpenVPN server is in another network.

To solve this issue i just modified /system/etc/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-hooks/20-dns.conf a bit:

# Set net.<iface>.dnsN properties that contain the
# DNS server addresses given by the DHCP server.

set_dns_props()
{
    case "${new_domain_name_servers}" in
    "")   return 0;;
    esac

    count=1
    for i in 1 2 3 4; do
        setprop dhcp.${interface}.dns${i} ""
    done

    count=1
    for dnsaddr in ${new_domain_name_servers}; do
        setprop dhcp.${interface}.dns${count} ${dnsaddr}
        count=$(($count + 1))
    done

    setprop net.dns1 8.8.8.8
    setprop net.dns2 8.8.4.4
}

case "${reason}" in
BOUND|INFORM|REBIND|REBOOT|RENEW|TIMEOUT)       set_dns_props;;
EXPIRE|FAIL|IPV4LL|RELEASE|STOP)                unset_dns_props;;
esac

That will force the phone to always use the Google DNS servers for all connections (e.g. 3G, WiFi, OpenVPN, ...).

I've tested that for a few weeks now and it works perfect.

I got it to work perfectly with 'openvpn for Android' app by playing with provided options within the app and not other messing around...with 'openvpn connect', it worked only for non market/os apps after manually setting : setprop net.dns1 xxx each time after a VPN connect... Hope that helps.


Keeping Android quiet at night I'd like my Android device to keep quiet during the night, no alerts for mails and talk messages, only calls and of course, the wake-up alarm. How can I do it?

Timeriffic is fantastic for this purpose.  You can get the latest version from the app's Google Play store page, or you can get an older version from f-droid.org.

'Night clock' free app for Samsung.

Problem solved. Alarm works with phone mute.


How to reinstall Calendar Storage? I wanted to uninstall the default Calendar app to replace with Google Calendar. However, I accidentally uninstalled Calendar Storage before uninstalled the default Calendar app. The Google Calendar app won't work every time I try to create an event/plan. I assume this is because I uninstalled the Calendar Storage (app?).

How do I retrieve it? Is there a repo wherein I can just download it? I tried Googling, found nothing. My phone is a Huwawei Y320, Android OS version is 4.2.2

You will have to download this app and install it as a system app, using Link2SD or any similar app. This is just another apk file from another Android Jelly Bean 4.2.2 phone.

Note : Please backup all your data before trying to do so. This way of installing apps is actually not recommended, but works out most of the times.

Here's an update for lollipop+. I did the same.
Downloaded this http://download.apks.org/?apkid=com.android.providers.calendar&ver=5.1.1-981c9024fa&server=darkkiller
Install-Moved to system-reboot. Job done :)


Samsung Galaxy 3 (GT-i5801) is not being detected in Kies Whenever I connect my device to my PC, it asks me on connection for the type of connection I want. If I select Samsung kies in the device it shows me connected, but in the kies it keeps connecting (with spinner...).
I have tried the solutions described on this question answers, but no avail.
The problem from the mentioned question is different from what I'm experiencing, so I ask your ideas about this?
Relevant details
Device

Device : Samsung Galaxy i5801;
OS : android 2.2;
Baseband version : I5801DDJP2;
Build Number : FROYO.DDJP6;
Kernel Version : 2.6.32.9.

kies Information

Interestingly when i go to help section of kies and click on kies information it freezes with some semi transparent layer on it so cant find its version (need to close it from task manager)

PC Information

Microsoft Windows Xp Service Pack 3

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


Can't install Aptoide I'm having this problem since I was trying to upgrade Aptoide from 6.5.X to 7.X.

I was trying to upgrade Aptoide from inside Aptoide: Installation failed.

I was trying to adb install or pm install it, got the same response:
Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_CONFLICTING_PROVIDER]

So I removed the older Aptoide version and got the same response exactly except for several times where I got Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_INVALID_URI].

I tried upgrading my CM version (My device is OnePlus One with the latest official COS12.1), didn't help, same response.

I checked the list of packages, there were no conflicts with the name in android:authorities in AndroidManifest.xml and there were also no special character in that file (I used apktool to decompile the apk and look at the files).

I have no idea what I'm doing wrong but I don't want to mess with the package and there's nothing I know I can change in my phone's configuration that would fix that.

Any ideas?

Figured it all out!

Apparently Aptoide-dev was installed but somehow only for the guest user.

All I had to do was switching to the guest user, going to Settings -> Apps and remove the Aptoide-dev package.

Going back to my profile did some weird stuff (I can't switch between apps, it'll probably work after restart) but I managed to install Aptoide finally.

Thanks.

Try the "Blackmart" application, i was using aptoide but couldn't find every app i wanted. Link > http://www.blackmart.us/

Anyway if it's a thridparty app (which thirdparty apps are installed as .apk) you should go to Settings > Applications > And then enable Unknown resources it 'Allows installation of non-market apps'

I hope that helped and worked


Android 6.0 notification bar and quick setting drop down menu not working. My phone was working fine, and i didn't run any updates prior to this issue.

The pull down menu is no longer working properly. I can pull it down, so that it shows the time and date, signal and battery. But the rest isn't working, i can't pull it down further to get to settings, not do i see any notifications. Instead it just showed ' No Notifications'  even if i actually receive messages or emails.

I tried recovered trough fastboost, but i'd rather not try a factory reset unless there are no other options.

Performed a hard factory reset. Didn't want too, but it's fixed now.