Scanning receipts for paperless environment I'm using my Android device to scan receipts for warranty receipts, or for expensive stuffs. I'm uploading the receipts to Google Drive which works well, except that it's a long process to scanning each receipt.

I open the Google Drive, enter the right folder, click the button for creating a new file, choose to take a new picture, take the picture, then rename the newly created file to something more fitting i.e. name of item or store name and date, and then enter my Gallery and delete the picture from the camera roll because I don't want it there.

Well, you get the picture. Is there a better way of doing this?

Also, if possible I'd like to crop the image, or even stitch 2 pics together if the receipt is too long.

Is there a good app for this perhaps? I searched Google Play but couldn't really find anything fitting.

And a related question: does the following rule apply when uploading pictures to Google Drive, since Picasa and Drive share the same space now?

  If you're signed up for Google+, photos up to 2048×2048 pixels and videos up to 15 minutes long won't count towards this free storage limit. And Google will automatically resize photos for you when you upload them to Google+, so they stay under the free size limit.

  That means only photos uploaded directly to Picasa Web Albums over the 2048×2048 size will count towards the 1 GB of free storage, explains Google. And when that limit is reached, photos will be automatically resized.

  Meanwhile, for non-Google+ users, there are slightly stricter rules: photos up to 800×800 and videos up to 15 minutes won’t count towards free storage. Again, when the 1 GB limit is reached, larger photos will be resized down.

There are multiple solutions available, depending on your goal. Probably none of them covers exactly what you describe, but maybe one of them comes pretty close, or a combination can be the solution for you.

A bunch of apps like Expensify offer to keep track of your expenses. Here you can scan your receipts, record your milage, and more (the app takes care for that). All data gets uploaded to the providers server, and you get reports in return.
Warranty Archive stores copies of your warranty receipts. It takes photos of your papers (receipts and the like), and lets you add some details. According to the app's description, syncing with Google Drive is planned -- so this comes closest to your description. A better rated variant could be My Warranties, even offering reminders and barcode scanning; but the app description does not mention any synching (neither cloud nor desktop). Full version is just half an Euro, so not that big deal.
Search the Google Playstore for "receipt" to get a lot of alternatives, most of them comparable with above described apps, or combining features of them. Here you might even find an app that does exactly what you want. Though just using a single term for the search, the first result page containts no false positives -- so take your pick!
Another variant would be using a PDF-Scanner like e.g. CamScanner, saving the full PDF in the correct folder locally, and use an app like FolderSync to have that directory synced with your preferred cloud service automatically in the background. This would even be independent of whether you want to keep receipts, or any other documents sorted that way.

There might be many more solutions (and I'm pretty sure there are) -- but naming them all in full detail would get a quite long task :) You've got some ideas now which should it make easier for you to find your "perfect match".

Well, you are talking about an app that has a wide variety of customized capabilities. These kind of apps are not currently available in the market. But you have the option of going to a developer and asking him to build an app for you if your financial resources allow you to, or you can build an app on your own if you have the necessary skill sets.

About your method of uploading, the only feasible solution would be doing it manually.


Request Persmission after changing Google password I changed the password on my Google account a week ago, and ever since then I've been getting notifications on my Nexus 4, requesting permission for my account. When I press it, nothing happens, but Google Play Services appears in the recent apps menu, and nothing happens when I press it.

I had the same problem, it's a bug that appears occasionally when you change your Google account password, or when you switch to the two step verification. Some apps that are using your Google account can't synchronize the new password and this error appears.

In my case, the guilty was the app "My Tracks" (from Google) (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.maps.mytracks&hl=en). Going to "Settings > Apps > My Tracks", claning data and cache and relaunching the app solved the problem.

If you don't have "My Tracks" app installed then try this:

Go to "Settings > Accounts > your Google account". Start unchecking one of the options and select "Sync now" (in the menu). Continue unchecking the rest of the options one by one and doing "Sync now" until the synchronizing error stops appearing. At this time, go to "Settings > Apps", search for the last app you unchecked, clear its data and cache and relaunch it (the app may ask for permission, you have to allow it). Then return to "Settings > Accounts > your Google account" and check all the options and do "Sync now". If the error continue appearing it means that another app is failing, so repeat the operation to detect and correct it.


Power on S3 Mini without working power button A friend of mine has got an Samsung S3 Mini. Recently the power button broke (could not turn off screen by pressing the button). Now the mobile got accidentally turned off and wont turn back on, because the power button is broken. Is there any way to turn it on again? Like boot into recovery/download mode somehow? Or using some ODIN magic? I already searched a bit, but everything I found did not work.

I tried charging it, removing battery and inserting it again.

I read about a "Samsung JIG" which is used to boot the device into download mode. Could I turn it on from there?

Any ideas?

Okay my solution was to buy a cheap Samsung JIG from eBay (~2.5€). You can also build one yourself, but I did not have any resistors laying around at the time, so I just chose to buy on already made.

I plugged it into the mobile and after just a few seconds it turned on into download mode.

I then removed the jig, and connected my samsung s3 mini to my computer. I had to install the correct drivers and started odin. I did not find a way to simply boot my device, but I was able to create an emptpy .tar file to flash. I chose this file via the "BL" button in Odin. I made sure "Auto Reboot" was enabled and hit Start. It worked like a charm. Because the tar file I provided was empty it did not actually flash anything, but the device turned on.

I can now turn on the device whenever I need, using the jig and  my pc.

One other problem I ran into is: How do I turn the screen off, having no working power button. The Solution: Apps. There are a number of apps out there which enable you to turn off the screen via many different methods. Choose one that fits you best :)

When in download mode, connect it to Odin on your pc. There is the option to automatically reboot after flashing. If you are not able to hit flashing without an archive, try flashing something harmless.


Browser which always allows scale/zoom? I absolutely 100% hate, hate, hate mobile-optimized design sites, particularly ones that disable zooming. Up until now, I've done pretty well spoofing a desktop user agent to get the full pages, but with the advent of responsive design, it seems like more and more sites are feeling comfortable using viewport meta-tags to set user-scalable to false, which means that I am in effect forced into using the horrible mobile sites.

From what I understand, viewport tags are ignored by desktop browsers - is there a browser on Android which does the same thing, preventing web sites from removing key functionality from my phone? Maybe a Dolphin add-on?

I think potentially a greasemonkey script excising the offending viewport tags would also work, but I'm not sure there's a stable version of greasemonkey for android yet, and it might be preferable if the browser itself were built to always allow zooming.

Just found the setting in Chrome.  If you go to Settings -> Accessibility and then tick the option "Force enable zoom" then you should be able to zoom in on any site.  (I have read a few sites still manage to stop you, but the vast majority should then work).

You can use Chrome or Opera Mobile.They Support Zooming the web pages


Answer without unlocking in android 5.0 I recently upgraded my nexus 4 to android 5.0 (Via OTA update).  Now, for some reason, when I get a phone call the screen is black and I have to

press the power button
ress/swipe the lock icon on the screen
enter my password
swipe right to answer my call.

Before (android 4.4) all I had to do was slide to answer.  How can I get the old functionality back?

Try resetting the screen lock on your phone. Worked for me. I have a nexus 4 too.


How to enable USB connection mode on Samsung Galaxy Fit? How to enable USB connection mode in Samsung Galaxy Fit mobile?

When I connect my mobile to laptop via a data cable, I am unable to transfer data between PC-mobile and mobile-PC.

The option "USB settings" under Settings tab is missing in my mobile. I have enabled USB Debugging mode under Applications tab in my mobile.

I tried all the viable options but still am unable to select the mode as Charge mode/USB mode etc on my mobile.

What could I have missed?

Hi try clicking Notification Scroll down to find 'USB Connected' like option... press go navigate


ASUS Transformer TF101 freezes on many ROMs Problem:

I have this TF101, which freezes in virtually every ROM I've tried. When I'm playing a game, refreshing Twitter timeline by dragging down, or sometimes even simply viewing settings, the screen freezes. The sound and logcat however continue. I can also turn the screen on and off by pressing the power button, but the lockscreen does not show up. When I press the volume buttons, sometimes logcat says it's registering the presses, but ignores them: I/InputDispatcher(141): Dropped event because input dispatch is disabled.

Here's a Youtube video showing the problem.

Analysis:

As said, logcat continues while the freeze is happening. Here are two logcats of the freeze and a traces.txt:

Device info: Stock ROM
Android version: 3.1
Kernel version: 2.6.36.3-00011-g3eb19ec android@Mercury #1
Build number: HMJ37.WW_epad-8.4.4.11-201107011
S/N: B70.........
Problem: Freeze as mentioned before.
Logcat

Device info: Stock ROM after 2 ASUS updates
Android version: 4.0.3
Kernel version: 2.6.39.4 android@Mercury #1
Build number: IML74K.WW_epad-9.2.1.24-20120503
S/N: B70.........
Problem: Freeze as mentioned before, but now the device reboots itself short time later.
Logcat

Device info: Prime! 1.8 ROM flashed using NVFlash
Android version: 2.3
Kernel version: 2.6.36.4-g565dea1 roach@nimda #20110816
Build number: HTJ85B.prime_epad-1.8-20110821
S/N: B70.........
Problem: Freeze as mentioned before. This is the ROM in which the freezes less frequently happen, but they still happen.
Traces.txt

Solution:

I have no idea. That's why I came here. Any help is appreciated.

I have found a ROM that does not have this problem, the newest AOKP ROM.

The t101 is getting long in the tooth. Not sure what version of android you're on (as you probably know kitkat is supposed to be better for older devices) but I expect that many recent ROMs coupled with recent apps, which are much more resource intensive than the apps of 2010 or 2011, are bogging down the tablet's aging insides. If suggest researching 2014 ROMs others have had success with on the T101 and installing one of those and also being vigilant about killing apps you're not using to free up RAM.


Alarm Controller is sending me unwanted notifications, ads From many days I am getting unwanted ads and notifications. I uninstalled many app, and also did a factory reset also, After searching, I found Alarm Controller may be the culprit. As I lock my screen and the then try to unlock it again, the on-screen ads blinks all the time. I had a screenshot of the app

Please help me to get rid of these ads. Let me know if any more information needed.

At last I got a solution or workaround, I installed NoRoot Data Firewall and then created a VPN on my own mobile and now I am having full authority to whom to give access to network and whom to not.

This is just the workaround I found, it doesn't remove the Malware. But it worked and get me out of the frustration.

Just click stop button and power on/off your phone to reset from scratch. Click Settings and you will get various options to deal with. It's very simple and you won't get such ads, all the best !!

IF NOT, than you should go for Factory Re-set of this phone, thanks.


Can't set data usage warning/limit I have a problem with my Nexus 5 (running Android 5.0 but I already had this problem on 4.4.4)

I played around with the slider for mobile data limits and warnings and it got out of range... My warning now is at 719.806.528 GB and my data limit is also out of range.
Does someone know which app's cache do I have to delete to get this to 0 GB again?

Thanks and best regards

Josef

Try clearing defaults, cache and data(memory) for the dataUsage app.

You could also simply uncheck the "set mobile data limit button" except you really need to use it. You can also try returning the slider to zero.


How do I turn off auto-complete when texting? Does anyone know how to turn off the auto-complete feature when texting?

Sometimes I just want to text and not have my device try and tell me what I'm thinking. Other times this is OK, but I just want to turn off the autocomplete sometimes.

I looked in the phone settings (not very hard I guess...) and I didn't really see anything to allow this.

Anyone know how this is done?

EDIT:

I am using a Droid X.

The following works for me on an HTC Incredible. Hopefully your settings are similar.

Settings > Language & Keyboard > Touch Input > Text Input > Prediction. You should be able to un-check Prediction.

Turn off tracing. This makes it impossible to disable the prediction part because they use same software bits. Then disable the prediction.


String of jumbled text is appended to every incoming SMS with Project Fi I just picked up a new Honor 8 (running EMUI 5/Android Nougat) and I'm having an odd problem when receiving SMS messages.

Whenever I get a message, an odd string of text with a length of 16, starting with a tilde~, like ~l/Adk/ljAdADFWjlk, is appended to it. This is regardless of my SMS app (I've tried the preinstalled one, Pulse, and Google's Android Messages).

Here's an image of a conversation:

Screenshot (click to enlarge)

How can I stop that random string of text from appearing after the intended message?

Edit: For extra details, my carrier is Project Fi (reduced to just T-Mobile on the new GSM-only phone) and the issue occurs regardless of sender, be it an iPhone or Android phone.

It looks like there's something wrong in your carrier's SMS router. You should contact your carrier and ask for support.
There's no encoding issues in this case, so I disagree with @beeshyams . The appended text is a stream of base64-encoded data, which after being decoded, resembles a stream of 11-byte data. According to my experience, it is very likely some metadata of the SMS message you received. You can safely ignore it.
Edit: Merged information from comments.
This is a general phenomenon of using Project Fi's service on a non-Fi phone. Discussions are here and here. A solution is to use Google Hangouts for text messaging.
Appendix: Decoded info from image (re-formatted manually)

$ base64 -d | hexdump -Cv
q/Pj/QAHwY+Jhgg= : AB F3 E3 FD 00 07 C1 8F 89 86 08
jaT2JQAcd3EM7Ag= : 8D A4 F6 25 00 1C 77 71 0C EC 08
BMXciQANmWXBLQg= : 04 C5 DC 89 00 0D 99 65 C1 2D 08

I started having this problem after switching from AT&T to Google Fi about a year ago. I found a few posts where people said to download the Google Messages app, tap the three dots to get into settings, select Chat Features and turn this off. I updated my apps from Play store, than I went back to the Google Messages app and at the bottom of the screen it was now asking if I wanted to enable advanced message features. I tapped yes, had to give it permission, had to agree to not limit the app's battery usage, and now I can access the Chat Features in Google Messages. Although this worked for me, it didn't for my fiance.
My other solution is to install "Google Carrier Services" app. Installing it made Google Fi to show up with an update, so I updated it.
These steps solved the problem for both me and my fiance.


Changing the appearance of messages in the Messaging app on Droid RAZR Maxx? I was just wondering if there was any (easy) way to change the appearance of the native messaging app on Droid RAZR Maxx - it doesn't need to be fancy, just resetting it to the default Android 2.3 style would be nice. Ideally, I'd like to keep the same app (so, in other words, without using GoSMS, Handcent, etc.).

If there isn't an easy way to do this, is it possible to do with a rooted Droid RAZR Maxx? If so, could anyone point me towards a tutorial? Thanks in advance!

The easiest solution is probably to use a third party messaging app such as Handcent or Go SMS Pro. Changing the default app itself probably needs rooting and some difficult mangling.

Please bear in mind that I have not tested these apps, and cannot say if they work well or not.


How do I view source in the Android browser? Is there a way to view the source HTML in the Android web browser?

In Firefox or Chrome on Android it's possible to view source by prefixing the URL in the address bar with "view-source:", i.e. "view-source:http://google.com".

If you want to view source of Android browser page, or inspect page you can use this https://developer.chrome.com/devtools/docs/remote-debugging
Its very good inspector


How can I configure a WiFi proxy that requires a username and password? I have an Android 4.1.2 phone, and I need to set a WiFi proxy that requires me to authenticate with a username and password. Where can I setup the user and password for the proxy?

For some one Google may bring you to this post
On Android 9, Just do as Harshil mentioned (just provide proxy host name and port, then save), when you using Chrome to access internet, there will be a popup to ask for proxy credential, now you can provide your proxy credential

Long press on that wifi connection, tap on show advanced settings. Fill in your details.

The Google Play store, and Whatsapp won't work. For that you'll have to root your phone, and install Proxy Droid or some such proxy app.


whatsapp group ...what does the message so and so was removed mean? In a whatsapp group, what does the message Username was removed mean?

Did the admin remove that person ?
Did that person delete the account?
"Username left" is different from "Username was removed", right?

When you see a message <User> was removed then it means two things:

The group admin removed the user from group.
The person deleted/deactivated his account. I can vouch for this one because my friend lost his mobile and on deactivation the message appeared in my group that he was removed without me taking action.

Yes, <User> was removed and <User> has left mean two different things, <User> has left comes up when user voluntarily leaves a group but keeps his WhatsApp active.

I'm the admin of my group and i did not remove my friend yet the message appeared "user was removed"

I think when someone deactivates their account then this message comes
but maybe there is one more possibility, if that user blocks the admin then he/she might be getting removed from all the groups where the same person is the admin whom he/she has blocked.

And yes if the admin removes that person then also 'user was removed' will show


Sim contacts on call screen? Is it possible to see contacts from SIM on the incoming call screen and in SMS messages? I did only find apps for managing them.
I am using Cyanogen 7.2 (that’s Android 2.3.7) if that matters.

NOTE: I am not interested in paid apps.

"SIM Contacts" by "NEEDOM STUDIO" is a free app on the Android market that shows contacts from SIM on the incoming call screen. You have to enable the "incoming calls to remind" option for this.

I didn't find an app that shows them in the SMS or call log. I'd really like that.

Even better would be just an option in a normal contacts manager to include contacts on the SIM without having to copy them to the phone.

I like to keep my contacts on the SIM only so i can just put my SIM in my old phone (with longer battery life) and it shows all the contacts.


Is there a way to receive my SMS messages on my desktop? I just purchased an S4 Mini, my first android phone. I was wondering - is there a way to send/receive messages on my Windows 8 desktop when my phone is connected to my machine?

You might wish to run a search on Google Play. One good choice will be Airdroid, which gives you a full remote maintenance suite. And of course you can send/receive SMS using any browser you like.

I've been using Mighty Text for about 6 months now. Works really well and has enough other features too.


Will changing password of a Google account revoke access to it on a lost device? I had a Samsung Galaxy Star Pro Duos with my Google account logged in to the apps (Google+, Gmail...). Now it is lost. I can remotely remove all my accounts from the web browser, but I do not know how to remove it from the device without having it turned on and sync enabled, as sync was disabled and it is currently switched off .

I was thinking if I change my password, my account on that phone would stop syncing and request for the password to be re-entered. Once someone turns it on, and tries to sync, the account must stop.

Will this plan work?

Changing your password will require all devices to reauthorize (log in) before syncing any new data, however information already on the device, like bookmarks and such, will remain.
Locking the device with Android Device Manager would be the better option.

If you report it stolen it will have a blacklisted ESN. Someone can easily reflash your phone like brand new out of the box. and phones with a bad ESN don't bother people in South America.


How to read documents in RTF file type? I'm searching a way to maintain RTF files for open/editing but at least for reading, because I have no support for it on my device.

I tried mobile docs view and yozo office but they didn't support RTF.

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

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

Cool Reader by Vadim Lopatin available from Google Play Store.

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

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

I am using Apabi reader for documents reading. This app is great for asia sepecific languages.


USB debugging permission alerts stopped although USB Debugging is enabled on android 4.4.2 I was able to connect my android mobile to my computer as I enabled USB debugging from the developer options. I used to receive the USB debugging permission alert and from there I switch from charging to file transfer.

All of a sudden and while my device is having a low space problem, the USB debugging permission alert stopped appear when I connect it to my PC. That means I can not connect him to my PC as I can not give the permission as the default is charging. I tried two different PCs (Ubuntu based, and Windows 10 based) with no luck as well as two different cables. I used another android phone with the same cable and to the same PC and it connects OK.

My mobile has an Android version of 4.4.2 and updates stopped a while ago.
My other mobile (Android 7.0) is connecting with no problem. I connected several times before from this mobile with no issue.

I tried to restart the mobile and switch off and on the USB debugging option with no luck. I am trying to connect it to my computer to take some backup and free some space.

Here is the information of my mobile:

Huawei Honor 4C CHM-U1
Memory at the current time: 391 MB Free 8 GB total
Android version of 4.4.2

Can any body help me how to fix this?

It was a hardware problem. When I pushed the cable hard into the port, it connected. I will need to fix the port. Thanks for the support.


How to revoke "SMS Services that cost you money" permission? I have an Android 6, Samsung S6 smartphone and today I bought a tram ticket via SMS.  Before sending, a warning popped up asking if I wanted to grant the Messages app the permission "SMS Services that cost you money".  I assume this was because the SMS ("Premium SMS") is overcharged (by the price of the ticket), since the app never asked for this permission before sending a SMS.

I replied Yes, since it was a legitimate purchase, but I was in a hurry and involuntarily I ticked the option "remember my choice".

Now I would like that Android keeps asking me before sending Premium SMSs, since it's a security risk, but I couldn't find a setting to disable this option.  Is this possible?  Or the only way is to hard reset my phone and reconfigure it from scratch?  I can't believe Android doesn't offer this option.

You can choose another setting by going into Settings > Applications > Applications Manager > More (top right) > Show System Apps > Message Service (rather than Messages) >
Tap 'Send Premium SMS' > Select Ask, Never Allow or Always Allow.

On more recent versions of Android (Nougat V7) the setting is at Settings > Apps > Application Manager > More (top right) > Special Access > Use Premium SMS services (may be listed as Use Premium text message services) > Select Ask, Never Allow or Always Allow.

theres an option to fix it go to applications then select the message app scroll  down to the permission directly cost u money its clickable select ask.


Is it possible to share a VPN connection over WiFi Hotspot? I have an S8 And a Nintendo switch, The switch doesn't support VPNs. Is it possible to share the VPN Connection to my Nintendo switch over hotspot? My PC Can already do this but I want to play outside!

Yes its possible, I have covered one method to achieve this already on this post.

Alternatively, our fellow user, Mygod has shared one application to achieve this called VPN Hotspot and is available both on XDA Labs or F-Droid. As expected both these methods need root,  for non root solution you may have to look at something like PDANet+

If you run a pie rom with aosp updated kernel just enable acesses point, usb wired alternative: pdanet ... or http injector in rooted devices can run a proxy server


Can preloaded apps be restored when Factory reset-ed I have deleted some preloaded apps. If I restore mobile (Factory reset)

Will the preloaded apps be restored?
Will my device remain rooted or will I lose root?

Device: Samsung Galaxy Note 1 (GT N7000)

There are two parts to your question

Factory Reset.

a) Factory reset removes user data including apps installed by the user on phone. Since your device is rooted, you can see that everything in  /data
and /data/data will be wiped.

b) Factory reset does not flash stock ROM. Since you have deleted preloaded apps, they will not be restored. If you want them restored, you have to flash stock ROM

To understand more about factory reset, please read this

Factory reset to restore performance? What are the disadvantages?

Root.  You will not lose root on factory reset. Your phone will remain rooted

Please read this post to understand more Can I safely do a factory reset without losing root?

Further, unrooting will also not being back deleted apps

Please read this Will un-rooting return stock apps

  Additional Information on reverting to stock ROM (asked by OP in comments)

How can I flash stock ROM?

Source for downloading Stock ROM:  Sammobile, you have to register and download ROM specific to your model and region. You can check  here also Where can I find stock or custom ROMs for my Android device?
Flashing Instructions:  Can be found on many sites. Here is one such link (also having stock ROMs) from XDA. You can also see "additional information" of my answer

Your phone will be unrooted and apps will install again.


How can I stop Google Play Services from updating automatically? I have a OnePlus One with Google Play Services version 7.5.62 (1927436-438)

The most current version of Google Play Services is 7.5.66 (1939950-438) which unfortunately has a bug of some kind that continually gives me the message Google Play Services has stopped.

Is there a way to prevent my device from updating to the newer version of Google Play Services?

If you've unlocked root, there's another option. You can move the latest working GMS (10.0.84) to system partition and block auto-updates by creating empty folders with the APK name.

  KitKat (tested):

  · APK goes to /system/priv-app/com.google.android.gms.apk
     · libs go from /data/app-lib/com.google.android.gms-{1, 2}/  to /system/lib/
     · mkdir /data/app/com.google.android.gms-1.apk /data/app/com.google.android.gms-2.apk

  Lollipop+ (presumed):

  · APK goes to /system/priv-app/PrebuiltGmsCore/PrebuiltGmsCore.apk
     · libs go from /data/app-lib/com.google.android.gms-{1, 2, 3, 4}/  to / system/priv-app/PrebuiltGmsCore/lib/arm/
     · mkdir /data/app/com.google.android.gms-1.apk /data/app/com.google.android.gms-2.apk /data/app/com.google.android.gms-3.apk /data/app/com.google.android.gms-4.apk

(posted this on the »Google Play Help Forum« thread earlier)

you can do this if you have a rooted mobile easily,  install rooted apps like lucky patcher or freedom. They have options for stopping auto-updates of google play services..

But it has risks of soft bricking your mobile.. so do it on your own risk!!


How could I view that Android Screen on a computer or larger screen How can I display my Android ICS Samsung Galxy S3 Screen on a Laptop or Monitor Screen? Are there any fast quick programs which do this?

There are lot of apps to do that. One is droid@screen; you need to have access to Android development toolkit for that though.

Extremely sorry for not providing the links, here are the links

droid@screen http://droid-at-screen.ribomation.com/ please install the USB drivers of you phone, instructions about how to use it is given there on the site.

If it asks for ADB you need to download Android SDK from here http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html (Got to other platforms, download SDK. ) ADB will be present in platforms tools inside the SDK

I Use A/V cable connected from android jack out and tv in


WhatsApp won't send messages I hope this is the right place to ask.
when I click on send button in WhatsApp it is not responding.
I tried:

restarting the device.
reinstalling WhatsApp.
delete WhatsApp cache

I'm using nexus 4 with android 5.11

problem solved. I did SMS authentication again


how much current can Samsung Galaxy S II take for charging with whatever ROM? What is the maximum power SGS2 can use when charging, given a capable charger?

I use power-consuming apps while driving a car (navigation + video registrator), and looking for ways to minimize battery drain. Ready for custom ROM if it will allow higher current.

According to this youtube video, where the user measured actual current drawn while adjusting the settings, the maximum is 650ma (.65a).

Contrary to the first answer, the charging device cannot in any way "push" current into any device; it is like the AC outlet, which can supply a lot of current, but will never supply too much unless there is a defect or short.

The charger can only supply current, hopefully enough to satisfy the amount the device is trying to draw. You cannot damage your device by using an adaptor that supplies higher current, you can only slow down the charging by supplying too little.  The device itself contains the charging circuitry that controls how much current is drawn at various stages of charging.

If the wall adaptor could damage a device by supplying too much current, then it would not be safe to plug it into the computer USB port, which is often capable of supplying higher current when properly negotiated by the device.

Chraging is generally limited by hardware, not the ROM - ie, the charging cable and the device charging input and battery.  Different charging adaptors can provide different amperages (eg, the Note II charger provides a 2amp feed).  Using the wrong amperage may damage your device by overloading the charging port or battery, depending on your hardware; it's unlikely tho as the hardware should limit this.

If you're finding that your car charger is not providing enough juice, you might want to try buying a charging cord with higher amperage than the charging cord you're currently using.  The maximum charge rating for a Galaxy S II is for 5V/1Amp.


Can't find uploaded photos on Google+ I uploaded my photos on to Google+ via Auto upload. My phone died.

A few weeks later I was able to get a new phone. But now My Google+ account shows no photos. Where did they go?

First phone was a Motorola Droid Razor, now I have a Samsung Galaxy S3.

There should be a photos app which comes with google+ app. This app contains your uploaded photos.


How to disable or remove Gmail account from my Android I don't want to receive email on my Android device, so how do I remove my Gmail account from it?

I realize that I need to have my Gmail account associated to the device, and that I would need to reset the phone to factory settings in order to remove this main account..

So do I have any options?

Go to Settings->Accounts & Sync and touch your gmail account. It will show you options of what  you can sync (Books, Calendar, Contacts, Gmail, Music). Touch the Gmail one and it won't sync your gmail account with that device.

If you're rooted, simply remove Gmail app using Titanium Backup (free).

Or, better.. freeze Gmail app using pro version of Titanium Backup. This way, you can always get back Gmail easily in case you've changed your mind in future.


How to make background apps/ automatic apps use only wifi for data? Ok so i have very little data, 100mb. And i want to use it when i need it. Like for maps etc.

But some apps keep downloading stuff such as new articles and all data gets eaten quickly without me using it. I'm about uninstall every app that does this if i don't find a solution.

This is what i want.

for auto/background apps Use internett only through wifi.
and if i use internet first use wifi if available and then go to mobile data.

im glad there're no overhead charges, data just becomes unavailable after limit.

/system/bin/iptables (usually built in) is the tool, but I prefer a graphical frontend for it such as AFWall+ which is available from the Play store or F-Droid.
If you are going to be using TOR then OrWall should also work, but I haven't tried it.

These tools show one app per row & columns for the interfaces you wish to allow them to use & you just tick the boxes.

There is a setting for that, at least in CyanogenMod:


How to delete auto backup pictures on samsung s4 I have a Samsung galaxy s4. I have a bunch of pictures I would like to delete. They are in a folder named auto backup which has NO delete button. How do I get rid of them? I do not know how to find where they are stored Help!!

Please tap and hold one image to enable bulk selection. A trash icon will appear on the top right. That is, if you're talking about Google Photos.

they stored in google photos
login and delete them


S3 stuck on first splash screen I recently installed an update to my custom ROM (http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/development/wip-cyanogenmod-12-t2936990) which was previously working fine on my phone. After installing this update my phone now sits on the "Samsung Galaxy S III" screen and after about half a minute reboots back onto the screen.

I can access recovery and download mode with no problems still and I've tried re-flashing recovery and the ROM with no success.

If anybody can suggest anything I'd greatly appreciate it, thanks.

EDIT: I am unable to actually turn the phone off without removing the battery, every time I hold the power button it just turns itself back on after a second.

Have you tried to do a data wipe/factory reset?

You could take a nandroid backup, and use an app such as Titanium backup or Nandroid manager to get (some of) your data back.

I had to install a custom kernal (Alter) to fix the issue. My device is now working like before now.


Clear or reset my lock screen password/PIN I have a similar problem as the one described in this question, but that question doesn't solve my problem. Summarized here:

I recently installed CyanogenMod 10 on my Galaxy Nexus. I enabled encryption. The first time I rebooted the phone, I was able to get past the lock screen with no trouble. I tried to change the screen lock PIN, but the settings app wouldn't accept my PIN.

Later, the screen locked due to the timeout being reached, and I wasn't able to unlock it. My password kept being rejected, and the "Forgot password" button that I read should come up never appeared. I rebooted my phone, and though I can easily decrypt it, I can't unlock it.

This answer suggested going through adb to fiddle with an SQLite database. However, I can't seem to access /data on my phone. I get the following error when I try to do an ls:

opendir failed, Permission denied

I tried to use su, but again, I got a Permission denied error. The phone is most definitely rooted, as I regularly use several root-only apps.

I really don't want to have to wipe the phone. Is there any other way to unlock this phone?

Edit

After posting this question, I came across this answer. I was able to get my phone unlocked by exploiting the phone hole mentioned (involving calling the phone and mashing the keys repeatedly--though instead of hitting the non-existent home key I swiped up Google Now). I deleted the password using the SQL mentioned in the answer I cited earlier. However, upon rebooting the phone, I'm back in an non-unlockable state.

In other words, I can exploit a hole to unlock my phone, but I can't reset the PIN, and I have to make sure to turn my screen on before 30 minutes elapses and avoid rebooting, or I'm toast.

I got it fixed. Here are the steps I took:

Use the exploit here entitled "Phone: Use a hole to disable your lock". For me, it didn't work exactly as documented, though. I had to mash the password keys for a long time (calling my phone was unnecessary), then swipe up Google Now, mash the password a few more times, and hit Enter. With that, Google Now pops up and the phone is unlocked. I didn't test to find out how much of this is necessary and how much isn't.
Fire up a terminal app on the phone. I can't get root access from adb. Type su to become root. It should go without saying that this method will not work unless the phone has been rooted.
Enter the following commands to clear the password (source). Each line represents a command to type, one at a time.

sqlite3 /data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db
delete from secure where name='lockscreen.password_type';
delete from secure where name='lockscreen.password_salt';
.exit

Tip: These commands will be easier to type if you use Hacker's Keyboard and type with the phone in landscape orientation.
Reboot the phone.
The screen will still be locked and non-unlockable. So, repeat step 1 to unlock it.
Go to the security screen and hit Screen lock. You will be asked to confirm your PIN. The new password is null. That means that instead of entering a password, just hit Next with a blank password.
Now, you're in, so go ahead and change your PIN to whatever you want.

if you know your samsung account, u can unlock your device without loosing any data or anything! I had the same problem.
1) Sing in with your samsung account :
findmymobile.samsung.com/mindex.jsp
2) you will see 'unlock my screen' among the options . Then click it.
It really works well
Good lucks :)


Why can't I change my location in Google Wallet? I recently bought a Google Play gift card (in SGD). When I tried redeeming it, an error was shown,"cannot be redeemed in your country"

Then I went on to change my location in the settings.

It thus gave me another error. I have 0.00 money in my wallet. I don't understand why I have this problem.

At present, the Google Wallet app is only supported in a few countries.  The only form of Google Wallet available in other countries is the desktop version.

This is stated in Google's  FAQ .

You won't be able to change your country from within the Android app.

Well, I have been looking over the Google FAQ about Google wallet.There's a category gift card under which question is asked

  Q. Why don’t I get balance automatically for all gift cards I add to Wallet?

and according to them there are "Certain types of gift cards don't support automatic balance updates. For these gift cards, you can type in the original balance and update it manually from within the app." So I am going to advise you the same.


Anything that can text geocoords? I'd like to text someone my location so they can use something like maps.google.com and navigate to me. Any app or technique that makes this task easier than putzing around asking for the address?

Google maps can do this.  Long-press the map at your location; a popup should appear with the address; you can tap that and it'll give you the option to "share" that location.  From that you can send a text, email, etc.

I just googled for "share my location android", and the first hit looks pertinent: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.sylvek.sharemyposition


How come my phone says I'm connected to the wifi yet the internet doesn't work? My phone is a Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime and it says I'm connected to the wifi, but none of my apps actually work. I get notifications of the apps, but when I click the app it says "network connection problem" or "please check your network connection". The wifi works on everyone device in my home except my phone.

There are many ways you can use to get rid of this issue and Here is how I could fix this issue:

We will first try the easiest checklist and then go to advance options later.

Reboot your phone and check if it works.
Have you installed any Anti-virus apps? If yes, try uninstalling it and check if it works.
Boot into Safe mode and check if it works.
Clear app data by going to Settings > Application Manager and that particular app.

Hopefully the above method does work for you, If not follow the instructions below.

Modify Network Configurations:

Go to Settings > WiFi Networks
Tap and hold for 2-3 seconds on the network your device is connected to.
Choose "Modify network config"
Further tap "Show advance options"
Finally set proxy settings to None

Hopefully this fixes the issue, If not follow the 2nd method.

Factory Reset Method
This method will wipe the data stored on the device so make sure you've already taken backup of important files.

Go to Settings
Under the personal tab, choose Backup and reset.
Finally I am sure you should have everything working fine.

Rebooting fixed this for me. You should also check that your time and date are correct.


Lollipop 5.1 doesn't automatically connect to wi-fi After I upgraded my Nexus 5 to Lollipop 5.1, it does not automatically connect to wi-fi because Google is blocked in China and then the phone treated it as no network connection.

I have tried the solution here: How to disable captive portal detection? How to remove exclamation mark on Wi-Fi or signal icon in Lollipop?

However, it only removed the exclamation mark besides the wi-fi signal symbol, but the phone still won't connect to that wi-fi automatically.

I had the same problem with Android 5.1 upgrade on MotoX.

What worked for me
- switched off WLAN > restarted the router > switched on WLAN

Hope it helps.

Settings→ Wi-Fi→ Advanced in Upper-right corner→ Keep Wi-Fi on during sleep→ Always.
It'll work out.


Change rendering mode of chrome Aosp browser rendered text and pictures a lot differently then chrome.

It would white box what is rendered while the cpu and stuff catches up.  Chrome seems to freeze when CPU strapped.  Is there a way to fix this or revert to the old behavior at minimum?

Alternatively is there a way to install the original browser in android 6?

Not to mention this http://cdn.androidbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/sunspider_benchmark1.png

I can't guarantee that you'll get a quick fix by trying this out. But I can tell you that it will change your browser for the better. You'll just have to try one option after another and or together because there's about 30 or 40 options you can enable but here you try . ( Chrome://Flags ) type that into your Chrome browser and start ticking off the flags that look like they may help .


my samsung galaxy tab GT-P1000 is not charging my samsung galaxy tab GT-P1000 is not charging after i plugged in the usb cable in my laptop. but when my tablet is off it is charging but it takes so long to chrge my tablet. what will i do?

try screw the 2 dot behind the USB cable then release the cover housing using Safe Open Pry Tool then remove your battery that's it


How to send an encrypted s/mime e‑mail? Simple question, but I couldn’t find the answer anywhere…

I need to send encrypted e‑mails through using s/mime (talking about security, even most of metadata should be unknown). The problem is I’m not part of Google app organization (and I don’t need it since it’s not free).

How do I configure Gmail or the Samsung e-mail app to use the CA trusted certificate (which only contains public key) I installed on the device for sending enciphered e‑mails through s/mime ?

I also need to manually select the certificate which will be used for encryption (The company generate the paid certificate for me so it match my e-mail address and not company one).

For the Samsung email app (on my Galaxy Tab A anyway) you need the following
▪An exchange activesync account - for some reason s/mime is not enabled for any other email type
▪Your public and private keys for your exchange account as a PKCS#12 cert uploaded to your tablet already or in your download directory ( root/sdcard/Download directory ) ready for import.

Go to the email settings > exchange account > security options screen and select the encryption certificate option then import. It should show you the PKCS#12 file and let you select it, enter any needed password and import it to your keystore with a friendly name of your choice. Repeat for the signing key - typicallly this is the same PKCS#12 file.
Set it to sign all outgoing mail if you wish - that'll help distribute your public key and maybe raises peoples awareness of s/mime.
It's probably not worth encrypting all outgoing messages by default as you'll get a warning for each recipient that you don't have their public key.

Send yourself test signed and then encrypted emails to prove this is working - preferably using a second device to test thoroughly. The three-dot menu on the send email will let you pick security options to sign and encrypt for individual messges.

The next stage is to try to exchange signed email with other real contacts - if you've defaulted to sign all this should just happen and they should be able to validate the signature.

The last stage is to send them an encrypted email, for that you need their public key / cert. If you've been exchanging signed email you should have it - hopefully you're also using exchange contacts and their record has their key else you'll need to add it from a received email.

Slightly concerning that you say the  recipient has a copy of your private key - this should never happen as your private key should always remain private to you. Officially you should revoke you key and get a new one. The practical upshot is things will get very confusing as to what's going on if you've got keys mixed up between public and private and sender and recipient. Good luck.

I don't think Samsung mail lets you easily swap your certs either - you can go into settings and change them but unless youre doing something interesting you should only have one email address on your exchange account.If you're trying to use encrypted group email I don't think Samsung email is going to help, and I don't know of any other mail client that can either.

You need to use a mail app that supports, S/MIME. Check out Blackberry Hub app, K9 Mail, or others.

You can set up your gmail account as imap so that you send and receive using your gmail account.


Is it possible to change the text bubbles on the s3? I just am trying to figure out how to change the backgrounds behind text messages. Is there a setting or some app which lets you do this?

Go to the Messaging app and hit the settings button. You will see Bubble style and Background style.

When you select Bubble Style you will see options at the bottom of the screen that you can scroll through (the top option is the look for your outgoing messages, the bottom option is the look for received messages).

When you select Background style there are a few options to scroll through at the bottom of the screen as well.

Go to your messaging app on your front screen or where ever you have it placed and then once you are on it go to the bottom left corner on your phone and tap it and then hit settings and scroll down and it says bubble style or background style and there you go you changed it and you can also change your messaging background


S5 Not Getting Detected On Laptop so I just got my phone today and had it unlocked. So- it got rooted. I don't think that's the problem though. Anyway I tried to connect it to my laptop and HAZZAH- Nothing happened. It didn't get detected. For a second it was installing the driver then after that nothing happened. All I've been doing for the past 2 hours was uninstall drivers and reinstall them and nothing even happened. Right now I'm just using AirDroid, but since sometimes I don't have WiFi I really need the USB Cable thing to work. No idea what to do anymore. I also tried Kies, and it wasn't detected. Apparently my phone was incompatible. I checked and it was. So that really confused me.

For some reason, when I go to storage, it doesn't allow me to go any "menu", since the menu button has now been replaced with a recents tab.

By the way, it shows up in Devices and and Printers as an unspecified device and is named SAMSUNG_Android. If that is any sort of relevance.

Just to clarify, I've done the following:
1. Restarted my phone AND laptop
2. Uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers
3. Changed which USB port it was in
4. Unchecked tethering
5. Enabled USB debugging

If you are to help me and have any knowledge on what to do, or feel like I did it wrong, please let me know how to do so with step by step instructions. Thank you and have a good day everyone!

I think it is driver problem.

Download latest Google USB driver click here.
For install driver follow this steps Installing driver

I hope this help you

get a better quality cable. cheap cables are only good for charging.


How do I get these toggles in my notification bar? I was reading an article talking about the Galaxy Nexus vs. the Galaxy SIII, and ended up buying a Nexus (was a steal, and I knew it was getting JB).

Anyway, I've recently updated it to Jellybean, but I realised that I didn't have something that was showing in the article - the toggles they showed in the Notification bar (in the right hand image).

Are these provided in the standard ROM, by an app, or in a custom ROM? I can't seem to find them.

These toggles aren't part of Android. Third party ROMs like CyanogenMod and MIUI, and certain skins that Hardware manufacturers put on Android include that.

If you want to have this functionality on a Nexus running stock Android you might want to try these two applications, I have used them both, and they are quite stable and useful.

Power Toggles :
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.painless.pc

More Quickly Panel:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mabware.android.MoreQuicklyPanel

Another app I would highly recommend is Notification Toggle.


How to prevent Galaxy S4 from connecting as "Connected as Installer" instead of "Connected as Media Device"? I have my Verizon Wireless Samsung Galaxy S4's developer options enabled with USB debugging turned on. Whenever I connect it to my machine, it displays "Connected as Installer" in the notification window. However, after about thirty seconds, it switches to "Connected as Media Device" without me having done anything. This behavior is seen no matter which operating system I connect to (tested in OSX and Windows with appropriate drivers installed). I would like it to connect as a media device by default.

Does anyone know how to permanently keep the phone in "Connected as Media Device" mode?

After connecting via USB and receive the message "connecting as installer" on your phone's screen, make sure you're phone isn't on the lock-screen and swipe down from the top (or at least on my Verizon device) you can access "USB PC connection" settings under the "ongoing" tab.  Check one of two options, MTP or PTP. This would be the same pull-down where you would quickly alter various settings, view downloads and be able to link to recent notifications. This will effectively switch out of installer mode so that you can access your phone's directory and that of any sub sequential micro SD card. Hope this helps.

The files needed for rooting are not able to be transferred via MTP, switch to 'Camera' for PTP file transfer and it should work just fine!


How to remove the bottom promo banners in Firefox for Android? When you use Firefox for Android, you periodically see banners promoting the app features such as sync, themes, etc.

Is there a way one can disable this and get rid of the distraction from surfing?

Try typing about:config in the address bar.

After you open it, search for the browser.snippets.enabled parameter, tap on it, then tap on the Toggle button.

This disables the banners from appearing in the bottom.

Source: Annoying Firefox for Android Banners - SOLVED.

Deleting Firefox fixed it for me!

Deleted Firefox from my comp too, just to be sure no popups start there.

No ads from Chrome so far...


Nexus 4 speaker no longer playing any audio The speaker on my Nexus 4 suddenly stopped playing audio a few days ago. No sound at all, no music, ringtones, etc.

Is this software problem or hardware?

If I reinstall Android 4.3 again manually, will it unmute the speaker?

First thing to do is to check the device's settings. It might very well be you just "silenced" your phone one way or the others. There are different places to look for:

Open the notification area. On many (recent) devices, it holds some shortcuts to frequently used stuff as toggling WiFi, airplane mode, and also mute (i.e. switch between "complete mute", "vibration only", and "normal noise").
Check all your stuff in the Settings menu. Different manufacturers/devices/ROMs have different settings in different places which might cause this
If you use some "automation tool" like Tasker, Llama, or the like, check whether it could be one of its profiles

If the above still didn't solve the issue, make a good backup and then factory-reset your device. If the device still stays mute after that, it's unlikely to be resolved on a software level, but rather a hardware failure. So in that case, you should contact the service; if the device is still under warranty, they should fix it for free.

Yes it's a software problem and I had the same problem. I went back to Android 4.3 and then it worked.


"Account unlock" when not connected to internet? I have a Samsung Galaxy Y mobile phone. I see this screen when I press "Forgot Password" in the pattern lock screen that comes by default with the phone:

My Question is: How would my account be unlocked when
(i) "Wifi" is turned off and
(ii) "Packet Data" is disabled?

Search and download Unlocker or Screen Lock Bypass app from internet (which are no longer available in Play Store).
Push it to the system from recovery (with update.zip).
Start the system.

turn off mobile phone and press volum up + home butten + power button press come out samsung logo and realse the samsung logo to boot in to recovery select the swipe default factory reset


Nexus 4 problems when charging My Nexus 4 is not charging when plugged into wall but it charges when connected to PC USB. When plugged into wall nothing happens, the battery icon shows nothing.
This problem appears and disappears randomly. Few weeks ago I had this problem, then it disappeared and now it reappeared again.

I tried to enable and disable MTP and PTP but didn't solve it.
I tried to use the wall charger on other devices and it wors (sometimes work also on this device)
I tried to plug it in different places and it doesn't work.
I tried to move the cable to check if contacts are good and nothing happens.
I tried different USB cables and the behavior is the same.

What can I do?

EDIT: The issue is temporarily solved. Here's what happened:

The device was charging only from PC
I plugged it to PC and the charge was 11%
I came back after less than 10 minutes: the device was off and pretty hot
I turned it on and the charge was 1%. The icon said "charging" but it seemed to charge very slowly
I turned it off.
I unplugged it.
I replugged it to PC: it was charging.
I unplugged it and I plugged it to wall charger. It was charging.
Initially the battery monitor reported AC, however after some minutes believed that the phone was connected to USB mode.
The phone charged very slowly.

OTHER INFOS:
Today I was run out of battery and I plugged the cable.

The battery was 18% but in few minutes went down to 4% (I was gaming with a poker game but it went down too fast as it was short circuited)
The device has shut down automatically
The device was warm
After rebooting it I saw the battery charging but a red exclamation mark was blinking
The red led (which turn on when it's charging) was noisy.
The system was extremely slow also when I tried to check the battery manager.
It was not charging. Sometimes a "flash" was on the battery sign but the manager reported "not charging". Another battery manager reported 38mA and then 0 (as if battery was not working).
I cooled it down with a fan and it seem to start charging but very slowly (from 1% to 4% in 15 minutes)
I shut it down and after 10 minutes I turned on again and it was 12%. Then it seems to charge properly (from 12% to 14% in a couple of minutes and current was 34mA), but after some seconds current went down to 9mA and then to 0.

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Soon after this screenshot it seemed to start charging better, current was more than 200mA, but as soon as I took a screenshot it went down to few mA and then 0 again.

Another update:

Today I plugged the cable when battery was 29%. During the day I checked current usage, it was fine with an average of 200mA. When I plugged the cable (either via USB or from charger) the current usage went up to 1A, again with red exclamation mark, warming etc. I don't know what I should do now.

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NOTE: it's not a short circuit in the Nexus pins because if I plug the cable in it but I don't plug the other end, nothing happens.

UPDATE: I tried to plug the phone to other USB ports and it works with higher probability. Sometimes the problem appears also in the other USB ports, but less frequently. However the charging current is only 200mA, which doesn't seem correct, in my opinion. Sometimes the phone appears to be in discharge while plugged via USB. I download a CPU monitor to check if the dicharge was due to high CPU load and I verified that when I plug USB the CPU load increases near 100%, see image:

 Click on picture for larger version

From 19:26.03 to 19:28.49 the phone was plugged to the first USB port, then I plugged it to another port (CPU went down to zero) and the I plugged it again into the first port.

The process which consumes high CPU is system_server.

There are a few things that could be happening here:

It could be that the charger is not powerful enough (either something happened to it or it never was). This means that although charge is going into your phone the phone is using it too fast to add any battery life. To see if this is the case try to charge your phone when it is off or in airplane mode.
A software issue could be causing the charging circuit to disengage due to excess charge (this is pretty much a guess).
The battery level on the phone (or charging symbol) may not be accurate and therefore not give an accurate representation of charging. To test this see if the phone gains actual usable charge when plugged in (leave it overnight starting at close to 0% and if it makes the night your all good).

Hope this helps.

[EDIT]

Looking at your CPU monitor I have a few more suggestions that might help (more in diagnosing than anything).

Attempt to connect your phone via ADB and access your phone via adb shell (there should be some tutorials around the web which I may post later).

Then use the "top" command to view all running processes.

Identify the offending process (it should have a high CPU load and be named system_server)

Get the PID of the process and run the command: "kill PID" with PID being the PID of the process.

See if this fixes the issue.

Let me know what happens or if you run into any issues (I really want to figure this out now).

i edit my post to tell you no it's not english , i agree i was not way clear , but remember im tryin to help here so be polite

well you know the apple charger you need like this one and you use it with a usb cable that you use to to coonect your phone to a pc and it ll work
the issue is the hole in your phone get bigger than the charger thats why it works only with a usb cable


How to install Cyanogen without losing data I've been using ICS on my Samsung Galaxy S3 for a while now, but I can't update to Jelly Bean for multiple reasons.
I've decided to switch to Cyanogen Mod, is there any way I can move to Cyanogen without losing any application data?

As geff described, you cannot avoid a wipe/factory-reset. But you can do a proper backup beforehand, so you can restore most of your data afterwards. This should work without any trouble for the apps you've installed yourself ("user apps"), while special care must be taken for pre-installed apps ("system apps"): As data structures (inside their databases) might have changed, a simple restore (replacing the databases) might break things and even render those apps unusable.

Provided your device is rooted, Titanium Backup is a good choice. Backup all "user apps" and their data, plus the "system apps" and their data. Special care on restore: "user apps" can be restored 1:1. Before goint to the "system apps", make sure to turn on TB's "migration" mode. Then restore only data, and do so one-by-one, after each "data set" verifying there are no side-effects.

An alternative to be named is Helium Backup, which even works on non-rooted devices.

Safest is to stick to your "user apps", and let contacts etc. solve via sync. For several things like SMS, there are special backup/restore solutions which you could use.

Resurrecting an old thread.. but see http://forum.cyanogenmod.org/topic/74526-how-do-i-update-cyanogenmod/ which says you don't need to do factory reset/wipe cache etc....


Samsung Note 2 slow down I find my note 2 is getting slower and slower after using it for 1 year. Is there anything I can do to make my phone run normally/faster. It looks like the memory is approaching to the max usage. Is there any way to keep the memory at a lower level?

The speed of your device relates to the RAM not ROM. RAM of NOTE2 is 2GB and RAM is not expandable. RAM is the memory where all your foreground and background process resides. If RAM usage in your device is very high, uninstall or disable unnecessary applications. And install a Task Killer and schedule it in crazy mode at every half hour. It may increase the speed of your system.

You can manually clear your ram from task manager. Long press home button then tap on left most option which is task manager there select ram tab and tap on clear Memory.

If you have root access you can use autorun manager to permanently disable unnecessary background processes from startup.


Google apps not working on mobile data, although non-Google apps are working I have a strange problem on my Samsung J2 Android phone. Although apps like WhatsApp and some games which require Internet work, none of the Google Apps like Google, Chrome, YouTube and Play Store are working. Whenever I open the Google apps, it shows "Check your internet connection"  although my mobile data is on. But, on connecting my phone to a Wi-Fi network, these apps work. How can I fix this?
P.S. One more important thing: When I open Chrome, I get a message saying ERR_PROXY_CONNECTION_FAILED.

Check if google domain is not blocked by the network you are using , also try resting network settings , and try to delete the configuration settings that has been provided by your service provider automatically and call the help line ask them to resend you the internet settings.

i think auto sync is turn off, go to accounts and turn auto sync on


Samsung Galaxy S2 not enough storage I have a Galaxy S2 and a memory card installed. There are tons of free space on both. When I install any app, it downloads and then says not enough storage. How to solve this problem?

It's running ICS, and it's the latest available for it in my region.

I tried moving most apps to the SD card and uninstalled some. I also restarted the phone as well. Now, it shows low on space notification in the notification bar.

There was a thread similar to yours a while back. It refered to a Stackoverflow thread with a overwhelmingly positive answer.
One of the answers is to clear dumpstack. Here is the excerpt from the Stackoverflow answer.

Here's a very simple solution that works on my Samsung Galaxy S II and NOTE 1 ; I have no idea about other models:
Open the Phone app and switch to Keypad.
Dial *#9900#
On the screen that appears, click on the button labelled "Delete dumpstate/logcat".

I've restored about one GB of system space this way.

Hope this solves your problem.

Root and flash your phone it solves anything (not only in my experience)


What's the secret behind super durability of latest ADW Launcher EX? Update of ADW Launcher EX is back again after a long time. It brings lot of visual tweaks as well as performance boosts. After few days of experience, I have encountered one even more interesting thing: I am unable to kill it by increasing system load (which is a very good thing).

When foreground apps are launched, Android kills background apps based on minfree values. The apps having running services and notification get higher priority than normal background apps, but get lesser priority than foreground apps.

Latest version of ADW Launcher EX has a running service (but no higher priority running notification) which is same as old versions and other launcher apps. I have used Go Launcher EX, LauncherPro, old version of ADW Launcher EX etc. All get killed when heavy foreground apps are launched, but latest version of ADW Launcher EX isn't getting killed. Instead, foreground apps are being killed when system load is high.

Previously, hot reboot was also able to kill ADW Launcher EX, but now even that one fails.

What's the magic behind all these? I am just curious...

Apps can obtain higher privileges. For example 3G watchdog (a data usage monitoring app) requests users for higher privileges so that it cannot be killed. It may be the same case with ADW launcher.


problem with google sign in my sons tablets has a pop up  saying unfortunately, the processcom.google.process.gapps has stopped.  This wont allow us to  do  anything. it  seems to  be causing a problem with signing in to  his google account. any  help  would be great

Try Removing your google play service and install the Last version it should be working

Or Just update your google play service (if your phone is not Rooted)


Put files from PC onto a Samsung Galaxy S7 via Wifi? I want to put files (images or pdfs) onto my phone as fast as possible using wifi (LAN over wifi). I don't care if it doesn't allow the files on the phone to be uploaded to the PC, I just want to put files onto the device from the PC.

PC is Windows 10 distro.
I don't want cables, over Wifi is wanted.
I don't want to use the Wifi as an internet connection, I want all data to be sent along the local network (fastest).
I don't want to pay if possible.

Is there anything I can do to solve this?

SSHDroid + WinSCP. I think it doesn't even require root if not using port 22 (you don't have to). Also allows resume transfer. Been using the combination on my own tablet whose USB MTP connection is not working.

Don't expect transmission speed to be high, though - 2MB/s at best and ~200KB/s at worst, far slower than USB.

DROPBOX, BOX, GDRIVE, etc etc

You don't need a server. Upload to a drive, download to your computer or anywhere else. Simple.


Is there any way to Move applications in phone memory to SD Card? I'm using Samsung Galaxy fit GTS5670 running on Android 2.3.6.

After installing Whatsapp Messenger of 13.36 MB, it was installed to phone memory. I got a total of 180 MB internal storage, and just 3.3 MB left.

Is there any way to move Whatsapp from phone memory to SDCard?

If you have your phone rooted and secondary partition, you can use Link2SD.It's good alternative to use.

If you have rooted your phone use a root explorer to go to data > data> locate the whatsapp folder > files > logs > delete all the files there and you are good to go.


Delete incomplete download from Play Store I was downloading a game from Play Store, but suddenly errors occur when 75% file downloaded. My device storage is limited and now I wanted to delete that useless files.

Where are the files located?

You don't need to delete that. If an error occurs and download is interrupted the Android OS itself deletes that file(It consider it as garbage).

Try CleanMaster for Android. It tracks and deletes unwanted and useless files from the temp, obb and other folders. I have used it and works for me. Its easy ;)


unsuccessful VPN connection I'm unable to connect my phone to VPN, it always say "unsuccessful". I deleted the profile and created it again but it didn't help. What is wrong with it?

The only surefire fix I can suggest is factory reset. But I know it should be your last resort so maybe it can also be fixed by resetting the settings to defaults, without losing data. This method sometimes work with broken wifi, issues with force close, some lagging issue and some others.

First, if you have Titanium Backup or other similar apps, backup your system data (Settings, ApplicationSettings, Settings Storage) because you will be wiping it clean. 2nd, Go to Settings -> Applications -> All, and scroll down until you find Settings. Select it, now you will see some info, scroll down until so see Clear data. Note that clearing data will set your Wifi, Wallpaper, Sound, Network, but not your password and google login, to defaults.
Now after clearing Settings, go back to Applications -> All, and check if you also have VPNservice, and Network Provider there, clear its data too to be sure.

Try to login your VPN now, it should probably work. If not, use whatever last resort you have. But remember to backup first :P

you might try out 3rd party softwares like hot spot shield Hot spot shield Flash VPN


How to download files to sd card from ftp without rooting Simple question, but I couldn t find the answer anywhere (all answers requires rooting on android marshmallow because ftp clients doesn t include the permission to write on the sdcard).
I have a huge file which is too large to be downloaded on internal storage. So it can only be downloaded on the sdcard directly.
It also seems no ternal apps have the permission to write to the sdcard so I cannot use command line tools directly.

As the file is huge, I also need to be able to pause and resume downloads.

I use Folder Sync.
But it depends on your android version,    If you have 5.1 or above then the application developers must include Environment.getExternalStorage.....

EXAMPLE FILE USAGE

File file = new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory(), "myfile.txt");

instead of the old hard coded way.

File file = new File("SDCard", "myfile.txt");

For more information about pause resume with FTP, i have included a link to a development question regarding pause resume on Android Clients

Folder Sync Free

Developing FTP Client with Pause Resume on Android

For terminal emulator, you should run

getprop vold.path.external_sd

then try running the external directory as returned

NOT

sdcard/download/txt.txt

RATHER

storage/sdcard0/download/txt.txt

It's usually just one directory / legacy directory isn't accessible anymore. so you need to get the actual path with some command...

getprop

getprop will return all current system properties, this includes storage paths and network status results


Make more internal storage available I'm running a SlimKat ROM on Sony Xperia Z Ultra. Officially the device has 16GB storage installed, but only 11.79GB are available to the user. I know that all the rest is reserved for the OS needs. May be the official Sony ROM really needs 3.5GB of space to function properly, but since SlimKat is a very compact ROM, I'm sure it doesn't need so much storage (am I right?).

So is there any way to make more storage available for the user needs and less for the OS? May be there are some ways to repartition the device memory.

When I tried to google the question, I learned that there are some tricks to make the device treat the external SD card as internal storage, but that's not what I'm looking for now :)

Yes. It is possible to have more space allocated for personal use.

First, I would suggest that your download Terminal Emulator and run the command df in it to get the memory allocated for each partition (ie /system, /data etc).

The space allocated to /data partition is only space you can use. Rest is for system/firmware that you cant use. There are three ways to get out of this problem->

1) Repartition

We will reduce the amount of memory allocated to /system and give that memory to /data. Manufacturers often give /system partition a farily good amount of space for future os upgrades. But when you use custom roms, they are relatively lighter and use much less space, so we can shrink this partition. But unfortunately, there isn't any such method made yet for xperia z ultra as far as I know. So this is a rather difficult (almost impossible, considering working of sony phones, the TA partition etc).

2) Installing as "system app"

You know that /system partition has a lot of unused space. So how to use it? Install apps inside system partition! They will become system apps and you will need special app managers to uninstall them (you can use some app manager to install app and move it to /system partition. Not all apps will support doing this). Downside is that apps will still store their data in /data partition, so again, this isnt a very good option. (You can also just create a random folder inside /system partition and probably store a few things like songs inside that? Ok that might be a stupid idea, even though I do practice this on my Nexus 4, which has relatively even less memory).

3) App2SD

This leaves you with only one efficient option as this. Use some app like
Link2Sd to move apps and their data to external sd card. Hence more space inside internal. Again, not all apps are supported, but most are.

Look netimen , i particularly don't know much about Slimkat ROM but what works for other android devices is that if you have a spot for micro sd card then what you do is that you transfer every possibly movable app to your sd card. To do that go to SETTINGS>APP MANAGER. Now choose the apps you want to move and if there is an option for MOVE TO SD CARD click on it. The app had been moved. Now if you want other files also to go to sd card, head over to your FILE MANAGER and simply move the apps. This will make a lot of free space in the internal memory of your device. Hope it helped :D . Thanks is always appreciated.


ADB "screenrecord" not working when executed form device I recently found out about the screenrecord feature of ADB on Android since API19.

If I try and execute this from Android Terminal Emulator on my device, I get the response from the device I would expect (identical to what I get on my CMD window when executing from Windows) but the file it creates does not work. The file is always ~3.3kb in size and VLC gives me the error:

VLC can't recognize the input's format:
The format of 'file:///C:/Users/Jonny%20Wright/Downloads/videoo.mp4' cannot be detected. Have a look at the log for details.

(I have not checked the VLC log as from what has been happening it seems it is a problem with the recording of the video by the device as when executing from Windows it works fine.)

You need to run screenrecord as root, type su to switch to root (your phone needs to be rooted obviously)


Deleting Auto complete email addresses gmail app I have a common contact with an old email address that keeps popping up on autocomplete when I send an email with my Gmail application. The contact for this person does not contain this email address and I have searched the desktop version of the contact as well and it's not there. How do I delete this old outdated email address from autocomplete on my Gmail application for my Android?

Thanks

Gmail autocompletes email addresses based both on previous communication and Google Contacts.

You should edit the contact in question to remove the old email address from their contact entry on Google Contacts, or in the Contacts app of your device, and if that doesn't work go into Settings - Apps and find Gmail and Clear Data on the app. Be aware that that this will erase all emails and data for Gmail that are stored locally on your device, it will not delete Gmail on the server, and it will be resynced to the device after you open the app again, but if you use Gmail for POP3 email access those emails may not be stored on the server and should be backed up first.

Please go to Google Contacts to manage this contact.


Is there a way to toggle a secure lock screen without having the feature built into a custom ROM? Benzo Rom for the Nexus 6 running 5.1.1 Lollipop allows the ability to toggle a secure lock screen from the quick settings in the notification drawer. For example, from the launcher, I can pull down the notification drawer to access the quick settings panel and tap the lock screen option and it will automatically engage the lock screen even if there was a password/pattern/gesture/pin, etc. previously setup. If I tap it again, it will remove the secure lock screen.

My concern is that this feature was built into the custom ROM itself and I don't know an alternate solution to this. Is there any solution to achieve this?

Edit #1

I was hoping for a solution that was not related to Tasker or Secure Settings. Something that's more clean and integrated.

I'm not too familar with doing stuff like this, but I guess this will help!
Well, I'm pretty sure the app called Tasker is able to do it if the Android version is between 4.x.x and 6.x.x, not sure if Automate can do it?
I do personally recommend Tasker if you want an app that is able to do a lot on your phone, even without ROOT it can do amazing stuff. Else I would recommend to give Automate a try, I'm not that familar with it and can't tell that much about it.
Tasker

Cost's 3 USD!
Create and sell your own apps!
I don't know what it can't do! I'm not kidding!

Automate

It's free to download and ad-free!
Easy-to-use drag-n-drop design!
Built-in community to download other user's uploaded automation tasks!

Both

Automating what ever you want, just like you want!
Use ROOT functions like executing shell commands or rebooting you phone!

Sorry for my bad english if it's not good enough! At least, I tried my best!
EDIT: I'm not able to tell you that any app can help you with a Nexus 6 because I do only have a Galaxy S7 Edge that is working and a Galaxy S5 without a working display.


Missing "Easy Mode" from Samsung Galaxy Core Prime I bought this phone for my grandparents. The salesman at the store told me that this phone would be great for old people who are new to smart phones. Any idea where to find this "Easy Mode" or "Simple Mode" option? There's no such option under Settings.

Model: SM-G361F

Android version: 5.1.1

Samsung provides Easy Mode in options (differ from device to device) :

Open Settings → Personalisation (by scrolling down) → Easy Mode.

Open Settings → Display → Easy Mode.

The Ultra Energy Saving mode is the Easy mode on this phone.


How to hide events in Google Calendar The company I work for likes for us to use Outlook to schedule everything. If we aren't going to be at work at a specific time, they ask us to create an event spanning that time, and mark it as "Out Of Office". That way, if anyone attempts to schedule a meeting with you, or checks your schedule, it will inform them that you won't be there.

I am working part-time to fit a schedule around my school schedule; as a result, I have a lot of blocked off events on my calendar. Basically, all the times I'm in class are blocked off. I am syncing my Outlook and Google Calendar to my Android phone.

Now, all of those blocked off time slots are rather annoying to me because it causes everything else during those times to be scrunched up. It's hard to just look at my calendar on my phone and tell what is going on next. Basically, I want the "Out Of Office" events removed from my Android's Calendar display, without removing them from Outlook.

So far, I have tried to delete the event from my phone, but that syncs with Outlook, and causes it to be deleted from my Outlook account. I then tried to create a new calendar in Outlook called "Out Of Office" and add all of the events to that, then hide that on my phone. However, when I do that, it won't block people from scheduling meetings with me. I guess Outlook only uses your main calendar for that.

Hiding the whole calendar from my phone isn't really an option; I still need to see the other events on my phone, such as when I have to be in meetings.

Basically, my question is: How may I hide select events on my Outlook Calendar from my Android Calendar?

Propably this could give you a hint:

we have 3 accounts:

company@gmail.com
buddy1@gmail.com
buddy2@gmail.com

buddy1 and buddy2 added company@gmail.com's calendar as an external calendar (granted by company@gmail.com)

buddy1 adds an event and sets it as "Private" & "Available" --> company & buddy2 see nothing!
buddy1 adds an event and sets it as "Private" & "Busy" --> company & buddy2 see the appointment but can't read it's title or content, buddy1 of course can see his own appointment!

You can go inside the Google calendar , either through a PC or a Mobile and click 'Display Calendars' above settings, and then choose which one(s) to show. If it is unchecked, it means you are going to hide the specific calendar.


How do I know which applications slows down the phone? How do I know which applications slows down the phone, so that I could get rid of them?

Although you can't find out what apps are 'slowing down' your phone, you can find out which apps are using your battery the most. Generally if apps are using a lot of battery power, they're probably slowing down your phone too.

You can find the list of apps vs battery usage in Settings > Battery.

Hmm.....Try "advance task killer" which force stop all apps except for selected. or manually by going to application select force stop on each application.


how to fix grey wifi icon (no internet), and how to track what caused that? [SUSPENDED. see P.S. at end, any good way to deal with this suspended state?]

My phone have the grey wifi-icon problem, where you do not have access to internet.
Yesterday it was working fine, I changed nothing.
Usually it always connected grey and a few moments later it gets colored, but now it is forever grey...

I followed these tips from other questions that did not work:

turn wifi-off/on
turn air-plane mode on, wait 1min, turn it off (and wifi on)
forget/remove the wifi config and recreate it
reboot the phone
reboot wireless router
shutdown the phone
(NO) I got a tip to lower my router security from TKIP+AES to only TKIP, but it was working perfectly yesterday; so I will not do that for obvious reasons..

I can ping my phone from my PC.
I can JuiceSSH from my android into PC (intranet is ok).
I can do nothing internet related...

My phone is not rooted, should I?
My connection drops from time to time when I see "obtaining ip address" if I leave it on the wifi config page, but it was like that already before the grey icon problem..

Where I can see wifi log to try to understand what is happening?

PS.: my phone is working again, I did nothing either to fix it; my PC was connecting to internet while my phone not... now both are ok; I will keep the question as the problem may happen again and I wasnt able to track what caused and how to fix (if ever possible); just that it is not urgent for now... thx!

Grey icons don't mean that you don't have internet connectivity. eldarerathis's answer explains:

It has to do with whether or not you've currently got a good connection to Google's servers for sync services and the like. From page 27 of their Android 2.3 Users Guide:

  Network status icons turn green if you have a Google Account added to
  your phone and the phone is connected to Google services, for syncing
  your Gmail, Calendar events, contacts, for backing up your settings,
  and so on. If you don’t have a Google Account or if, for example,
  you’re connected to a Wi-Fi network that is not connected to the
  Internet, the network icons are white. I'm not really sure why it
  bounces back and forth between green and white sometimes. I've noticed
  it on my phone but everything works fine (I run CyanogenMod, though,
  so perhaps it has to do with that). It could also be that green means
  it's currently in the act of syncing, but the wording in the document
  is a little vague, in my opinion.

In the case of Honeycomb or Ice Cream Sandwich, the colors are blue/grey instead of green/white, but they still have the same meaning.

After my suffering with a Android phone last week ... I found the solution is certain for the emergence of the network in gray .... which in turn prevents communication with the Android market---

The solution is very very simple and without any programs all you have to do is :

Only change to Moscow Time Zone...  Then, change the device language to Russian Then wait less than a minute will automatically change the signal directly to the color blue then, return your phone as it was.


What is a "Hall" sensor, and what is it used for? On Google's specs page for the new Nexus 5, the Nexus 5's built-in sensors are listed as:

  Sensors

  GPS
  Gyroscope
  Accelerometer
  Compass
  Proximity/Ambient Light
  Pressure
  Hall

(Click "View Full Tech Specs" to see that list)

Looking up Hall Sensor on Wikipedia, it seems to be some sort of magnetic sensor, but it's not the compass because that's listed separately, and none of the example uses on the page seem to make much sense for a smartphone application.

What is it, and what is it useful for?

As you've found out, a Hall sensor detects a magnetic field. It could be that in this case it's referring to a sensor for a magnetic cover, like those in the Nexus 7 and Nexus 10. Such sensors detect the proximity of a magnet embedded in the cover or case for the device, in order to automatically turn the screen off when the cover is closed.

That would be unusual, as that kind of magnetic switch is usually a simple reed switch, which wouldn't normally be described as a Hall effect sensor. A Hall sensor would give more data about the strength of the magnetic field, which could be used by software to detect the opening or closing of the case more reliably. However, I've not seen any claim that the Nexus 5 has such a switch anyway, which is much less common on phones than tablets.

Another (just as far-fetched) guess is that it's related to the wireless charging capability. It could be that the Hall sensor is specifically there to locate the wireless charging point in relation to the phone's position.

VR headsets has a magnetic button in it. Hall sensor comes  very handy since we cannot access the display.


Samsung galaxy s5 battery Drainig fast My device is the Samsung Galaxy S5 SM-9000H. Its battery drains very fast, even when the screen is off. It drains 70% overnight. The battery level becomes only 10% in the next morning, although the phone would've done nothing overnight!

Does anyone have a solution for this?

My Battery Draining Problem is also Solved by upgrading Android lollipop 5.0.1 to marshmallow 6.0.1.

Backup your information and do a factory reset.  That should clear up any issues you are having with the software.
S5 hard reset guide
If the battery is still draining quickly, then you should try and replace the battery.  If this does not solve the issue, then their may be an issue with the device itself and will require you to take it to a repair shop for inspection.
Good luck!


Resize photo before sending it by email? On iOS, when I select one or more photos from the camera storage and choose to send them by email, the OS will ask me whether to send the images in full size or make them smaller so that the email won't be so large.

On Android (stock 4.2.2 on Nexus 4) I haven't found a comparable function. When I send an email of my baby to my mom, she receives a full 8-megapixel image that's too large to view on her monitor...

How can I have Android reduce the chosen photos before emailing them?
I don't want to have to launch an editor app  and scale each image individually.

I only found one 2-year-old post about this that doesn't mention any solution. Surely, there's a way to do this on Android, similar to how it's done on iOS?

There is a free (as in freedom) application Send Reduced, available at the F-Droid repository of free software.

Install F-Droid, install Send Reduced, select your photos, press Share button, select Send Reduced and then select the sharing method. Your photos will be sent reduced in resolution and file size.

Free Email Photos android app allows photos to be easily resized (small, medium or large) and emailed.


How to use camera without unlocking phone? (Jelly Bean on S3) I put Jelly Bean on my Verizon Samsung Galaxy SIII using http://www.cyanogenmod.com/blog/cyanogenmod-10-m2.

I know that it should be possible for me to use my camera to take pictures quickly (without unlocking my phone). (See Is it possible to use the camera without unlocking first?)

But I haven't figured out how.

I use a 4x4 pattern lock screen.

WHAT THE MANUAL DOES NOT SAY IS:
Camera Quick Access = On (Might as well switch this off as it cant work out how to get by the Pattern Recognition for the camera to auto start)

WHAT IS DOES SAY IS:
Settings->Scroll down to Personal->Lock screen->Lock screen options->Scroll down to Features->Camera quick access ON

Camera quick access:
While the screen is locked, and help upright tap and hold the screen, and then
rotate the device to the landscape view to launch the camera (when
the camera shortcut is activated).

See p. 152 of the Samsung User Manual from September 2012 Jelly Bean version.

I do it frequently on a Q700 XOLO. Simply swipe downwards on the lock screen. And then you get to the default camera screen. You can even add another app there if you want to use them without unlocking your phone.


Remove Google Search Bar on Nexus devices running on stock Lollipop I have been reading for days about how to remove the Google Search Bar from the top of my Nexus 6 since I never use it. I have gotten mixed answers on exactly what file to delete and where it is.

I have heard quicksearchbar.apk but it's not in /system/app like in previous versions. Does anybody know where the file/files are I need to delete in order to get rid of the search bar, or else, how to remove it? Preferably not downloading another launcher, since I don't want to bloat my phone when I could reduce the size.

You need to use a third-party launcher app like Nova Launcher. In Nova Launcher, you can hide the persistent search bar by navigating to : Go to Nova Settings > Desktop > Persistent Search Bar > Select "None".

for turning Google search bar OFF, hold finger in screen, swipe up the 3dots up the widgets button, in the top of page you can turn search bar off.
was it as easy as it looked?


HTC Desire HD vibrating constantly My girlfriend plugged her phone in to charge and it started vibrating, and never stopped. The only way to stop it is to power off the phone, and take the battery out. Even if the phone is off, it still vibrates if the battery is in.

She recently installed the eBay application, and tried removing that but nothing.

Running standard HTC/Telus (Alberta, Canada) 2.2.1. Phone has not been rooted or anything else. Phone is only 3 weeks old.

I have same phone, with no problems.

How do we make it stop?

Part 2:

Sometimes, after removing and replacing the battery it stops. But you just have to push on the back in a spot or two and it cranks up again. Seems like a hardware problem that we can't fix. Will probably end up going back to the Telus store to see what they say, and will most likely have to warranty it.

Still open to ideas though.

Part 3:

We can adjust the volume up and down, and it will go all the way up to full volume, make the little 'bing' noise to let you know the volume is turned up, all while still vibrating. Going up/down, changing the ring mode in settings, changing vibration settings in keyboard and other areas have no effect.

Nobody posted it as an answer, so I'm going to: It's definitely a hardware issue.  There's no way that both the simple firmware for battery charging while the phone is off has the exact same bug as the software running when the phone is on.  Mark Wain's (deleted) answer indicates that he had a similar issue that, again, is best explained by bad hardware.

Go to settings, accessibility, and turn of notification reminder.


Samsung Galaxy s3 mini continuously rebooting I woke up to find My Samsung Galaxy s3 mini asking me to select a language and time and sign into my Samsung account, like it was a brand new phone. As I tried to do this it kept rebooting. eventually I managed to sign in, but it continues to reboot every minute or so and a few of my widgets are missing. After researching I uninstalled the Samsung push app but it keeps going back to the sign in start page, but it reboots before I can sign in and there is no way to skip it.

I have removed my battery, SIM card and SD card, but it is still happening. I also tried a factory reset, but every time I click on it me phone restarts and nothing has changes.

Does anyone know what is going on or what I can do to stop it rebooting?

First method-

Reset the device (press and hold POWER button for 8-10 seconds).

Second method-

Press and hold VOLUME UP and Home(center) button, then press Power until the phone vibrates. Wait until you see the Android logo then release all the buttons.
Select Wipe data/Factory reset with VOLUME DOWN key, press Power (right hand-side).
Select YES -- this deletes all user data.
After format, press Power again to reboot phone (select reboot system now).
If your device is frozen and unresponsive, press and hold Samsung Galaxy S3 hard reset for 8-10 seconds. The device will reboot automatically.

Third method-

Factory format entering sgs3 mini format code. Enter *2767*3855#.

Note - Warning! All your data including contacts, messages etc. will be lost! Copy all your necessary data/Contacts/Messages etc. to SIM or make backup to your PC before full reset! Take out SIM card before full reset. Source: Hard-reset.com.

I had the same issue
Solution: battery replacement.


How to convert PDF to read on Android Kindle? I can convert my PDFs to the nice AZW format through the Amazon Kindle free email converter.

However, I did not yet figure out how I can add the resulting .azw file to my Android Kindle app as well - does anyone know how to do this?

I've tried copying it to the /kindle directory where the .mobi files are, but it does not recognize it

I think you should make sure the ebook format that the Android Kindle supports first. EPUB is the most common ebook format for ebooks, nearly all ebook readers can recognize this format, including Kindle. So you should convert PDF to EPUB foramt.

Download a PDF to EPUB converter. I recommend PDFMate PDF Converter, which is developed by my company
Add the PDF to the program to convert it as EPUB format.
Transfer the EPUB format to Kindle.


Unfortunately google play store has stopped I installed Android 6.0 on my one plus x phone last week. Now I see these errors pop up, "unfortunately google play store has stopped" & "unfortunately google play services has stopped". I searched so many websites but no use.  How can I fix this?

Unfortunately a long time ago I had this issue. I'm sure there is an easier method of fixing it but I had to do a full factory reset before I could get it working again; hopefully you don't get to that point, but if you do give a factory reset a try :)

go to apps, and disable Google+.  Reboot and it will work again