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[General Questions and Answers] xdaM:
Hi there. I think I have a very unusual question here.

So the thing is, up until now I had a Pie ROM, and I like to avoid linking my stuff to Google; so, not only do I have microG, I generally keep my contacts on my device and backup to a file regularly, rather than saving them on the cloud. Until now there has been no problem with this, and I have been creating new contacts and having them show up immediately on messaging apps like Whatsapp (privacy issues aside, I actually need that one).

However, this weekend I switched to the Q version of the same ROM (clean flash), and now, when I try to add a contact, it won't show up on Whatsapp unless I actually add it to my Google account. Since AOSP Contacts no longer even gives me the option to store them on-device, I installed Simple Contacts, which made me see this issue. When I get to choose between the two places I can store the contact, it says "Google account" and "Phone storage (not visible by other apps)". Not visible by other apps. Not only is this a discontinuity from my Pie experience, but also: how come the other contacts I meanwhile had made on-device when I was on Pie still get detected? Also, does anyone know if this is a Q thing in specific? Or is it even more specific, and should I just post on the thread for my device's ROM instead?
[General Questions and Answers] ktmom:
You might want to read through the simple contacts issues https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/Simple-Contacts/issues/370
[General Questions and Answers] xdaM:
Indeed, thanks.

Anyway, meanwhile I made a few more experiments, and it turns out that no new contacts I add on AOSP Contacts appear on contacts.google.com, despite it saying there that it saves to my account - which is exactly what I got on Pie. So, apparently the source of this confusion was that I had already added the guy I was adding today at some point in the past, back when I saved contacts to google.

(I mean, I was finding this weird, considering that I had previously read that people with microG can't save to google contacts to begin with.)

So basically all good now.
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
Assuming that cnt (sic) is near to can't as contraction of can not actually I'm not sure what you meant but despite that it looks like you are having troubles with flashing through download or Odin mode.

Try first with a different Odin version, also there are a modded Odin By PrimceComsy like this https://xdaforums.com/android/software/patched-odin-3-13-1-t3762572

And also you could try by searching for "combination files" for your specific model.
[General Questions and Answers] Jochen K.:
Hi,

I've got a problem that originally seemed to be quite minor but that now bothers me greatly.

I hope someone can explain/advise:

With my Galaxy S9 (rooted, LineageOS 15.1) I mostly go online using my phone's data plan; so, to reduce data traffic, in App-Info I withdrew permission to access the internet for all those apps that don't need it to function, and thought that that was it.

Recently, however, I installed "GlassWire", and to my amazement found four apps listed that did NOT have permission for web access.

GlassWire has a built-in firewall, so I activated that for those four apps - no change.

I remembered that some years ago I played around for a while with "AFWall+", so I reinstalled that and also activated IT for those four apps - no change.

HOW can an app that doesn't have permission and is blocked by two firewalls access the internet?

-bug in Android 8.1?

-some very sneaky programming of those apps?

-something I did wrong?

Please advise!

Here's an example:
[General Questions and Answers] sdzr:
Okay i have tried flashing combination firmwares but what i feared is what happened. Same binary error that hapens when bl mismatch happens. so thats a no go. Any more help please? Sammy going byebye from my side *Sigh*
[General Questions and Answers] cealaska:
Samsung Emergency Download Recovery Mode

I posted a way for one of the people who posted here to get out of Recovery mode on his other post regarding this issue. I did not know he posted about his issue in two places. I don't think that was a good place for him to post his question but I don't know.

This method should work for the latest Samsung phones or tablets that get sucked into Emergency Recovery Mode and can't re-flash the firmware and they did not connect to "Smart Switch PC" while the device was working. Just be sure to download the right firmware for your device if you try to follow this method.

Edit: This method WILL ERASE ALL YOUR DATA. I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANYTHING THAT HAPPENS TO YOUR DEVICE IF FOLLOW IT. It might work for Prenormal KG status but you will need to back up your data.
[General Questions and Answers] kos25k:
Dudes i need help.On custom Q roms,how to enable menu button on navbar?i have an old appt (wifi protector) hat need menu button to enter settings and i just cant!!can anyone help me?I am tooted.
[General Questions and Answers] ktmom:
This is device/ROM dependant. Since you don't provide that information ¯\(^_^)/¯ on a pixel A10 ROM, it's settings -> system -> gestures -> system navigation -> enable 3-button

It wouldn't surprise me if your old app can no longer intercept the menu button action. Google locked down the nav bar in A10 (Q was the beta)
[General Questions and Answers] kos25k:
thanks.i run ion custom rom on my RN5.So i have no chance right?

Στάλθηκε από το Redmi Note 5 μου χρησιμοποιώντας Tapatalk
[General Questions and Answers] ktmom:
This post in the Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 Pro ROM][10][OFFICIAL] ion-2.4.a [AOSP][20200211] thread makes me think it's the same.
[General Questions and Answers] rszibele:
So I've got a Xiaomi Redmi Note 4, which is an amazing phone. It's currently running Android 6.0 and I would assume that it's a good idea to update it to a newer Android version. I know there is Lineage OS and I've heard good things about it, but there are also other unofficial Android updates for the phone. Any recommendations what I should use?

Also, how risky is it to install these custom Android versions? can these modern phones get bricked or is it more installing a new OS on your desktop? The phone itself works fine and I don't want to risk bricking it right now.
[General Questions and Answers] DiamondJohn:
I run Oreo, but I *think* it also works in Q. There is a brilliant Pie navigation app available here on XDA called LMT by [MENTION=1864347]noname81[/MENTION]. Using it. you can pretty much set up any action to be triggered off a pie control. One of my items is actually the menu.;)

https://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1330150
[General Questions and Answers] TheInfiniteAndroid:
Does anyone know if Android 10 officially blocked apps from accessing the clipboard, I remember reading about it a while back & further read that 10/Q was meant to resolve the issue, thanks!

https://www.xda-developers.com/andr...xternal-storage-permissions-downgrading-apps/
[General Questions and Answers] ktmom:
I know there was awhile that clipboard didn't work in Tasker on A10. A workaround was identified. I think it involves rapidly switching the input mode, but I don't really remember.
[General Questions and Answers] Driv:
Hi guys I have a really old Lenovo Zuk Z1.

I still use this phone and want to update the OS. Right now I am using a custom Rom: RR. How can I Update this Rom by myself?

Is there a guide?
[General Questions and Answers] ktmom:
Here is your device forum. There are guides in the general forum.
[General Questions and Answers] DiamondJohn:
A shameless bump:D from a similar "ask anything" thread, where there was no response. I am hoping maybe someone who reads this "ask anything" thread may know.

Should I take the lack of response in the other thread as a no?
[General Questions and Answers] theimpulson:
I don't get what you mean but assuming that you want to side load apps which are unavailable in your region. There are some good websites like Apkmirror which provides the packages. Check that I guess?

Alao about asking questions regarding apps that does X and Y is totally fine atleast in this thread.
[General Questions and Answers] DiamondJohn:
I am a dev, I already install many non playstore apps, including ones I builds myself.

Sorry if i wasn't clear, but I was looking for a thread that was similar to the one I linked, but NOT for apps that are necessarily on the play store, and they may even be availab;e in your region, its just that you don't know what / which it is. Also, the thread I linked was specifically for when you know which app you want.

My question was about knowing what you want the app to do, but not knowing which app can do it.

I guess a very simple example may clarify. A post on such a thread may look something like

I want an app that can be used to log my step count for the day

If these kind of posts were made ti this thread, I would fear it would subtract from the more general Q&A bent of the how what why of this thread.
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
I don't know of any type of "app suggestion" thread here at XDA.
[General Questions and Answers] CabbyKing:
Looking for a root method for ANS L51

I recently got a Assurance wireless ANS L51 on Virgin Mobile. I have searched the web a few different times but almost every result I received from Google was for either different device or stuff that didn't have anything to do with Android phones. I have found here on XDA reference to the L51 model but they didn't mention the ANS and they looked to be a couple of years old. An odd thing I discovered when I enabled developer settings, I can't enable OEM unlock because it says that the bootloader is not locked. This straight out of the box. A side issue is that though I was able to activate my phone and in the about phone section it says that my voice service is online and my data is online, but though I can send and receive texts and calls, when I attempt to make use of my data it says "waiting for network" or "no network connection". I searched for a virgin mobile apn but I wasn't able to get my data to work with any of the ones I found. Any help would be greatly appreciated on either the rooting or getting the data working.
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
What kind of SIM are you using?
[General Questions and Answers] zedzded:
Does anyone got any info on androidmtk.com? are they legit, safe to use roms linked in there?
[General Questions and Answers] Raresh T:
How come every emulation for Windows stopped when smartphones barely had 2 gigabytes of ram? I find it hard to believe some smartphones like S20 Ultra can't run it. I can imagine the coding needed to be done to make it work would be insane, but not impossible. Any idea if such projects are active?
[General Questions and Answers] DiamondJohn:
If you are talking about an android emulator running on a windows system then that has not stopped. Developers do have emulators that are still running on windows. Look into Android Studio.

They are not easily rootable, but they are still emulators. I use them to test apps on official devices.
[General Questions and Answers] Raresh T:
Thanks, but I am looking the other way around. Windows emulation running on Android systems. Any idea of these?
[General Questions and Answers] DiamondJohn:
Oh thats a lot harder. Windows is closed source. Even if the devices were powerful enough to run the latest version of windows source, someone would have to recode everything from scratch. Even on a PC, the equivalent of windows re-coded from scratch, is nowhere near windows. Its called ReactOS check it out on youtube. But it only runs on a PC, not an arm device; it would need to be re-coded again, and they are still in beta for a pc.
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
If using an emulator, it shouldn't require recoding Windows, at least, not much, if any, should it? Isn't the point of using an emulator is to make it run on a system the software wasn't built for?
[General Questions and Answers] DiamondJohn:
One of us has missed the point.

An emulator allows you to run software meant for the emulating OS. For example running excel on the Emulator.

I don't get where you mention "recording"? I can only guess you meant "re-coding"

As a software developer, an OS provides a standard guaranteed API that apps can use. eg In its simplest form, there is "draw a window" or "tell me when someone clicks on it and not somewhere else" etc etc etc etc etc. Now, these API's are expected by programs that run on the OS or they crash (ie calling a non-existent API, which I have done many times simply with a misspelling but is normally caught by the compiler). An OS like Windows, has countless API's, and each of these would need to be duplicated or software just wont run.

The closest I can think of is WINE on Linux, to run .Net windows applications. But, .Net is only used by some applications, the OS itself and apps that are not .Net, would require the base API's (.Net is a simplified layer into the base API's, of whatever OS your running on just like JAVA). ie. you would need to re-code all the standard and expected API's; its a contract with app developers as to what they can expect on that OS. And think for a second, do you not think the ReactOS developers are smarter than both me and you? obviously they are nowhere near finished, because of the need to duplicate each and every API. And its not just the API interface. Because its closed source, there will be some API interfaces that do more than can be garnered from their name or documentation. If it were easy, there would be many many more than ReactOS but there is not. People hate being tied to M$ but are stuck

And don't forget, we are talking OS, not apps.
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
But, emulating Windows on android has already been done before. At this point, it shouldn't be much more than a matter of making sure the emulator app is current to today's android and then installing one of the Windows OS's that have already been modified to run in an emulator on android, shouldn't it?

I've used Linux on android via emulator, they used modified versions of Linux, stripped down to run in less space, there are/were modified Windows.imgs that can run in emulator on android, I would think that those .imgs should still be usable provided that the emulator app is compatible with the android version being used.
[General Questions and Answers] DiamondJohn:
I do not believe any comprehensive testing of windows on an android device would pass for daily use/replacement of a desktop PC. I repeat, ReactOS cant do so, what hope would any android attempt have. ReactOS have been trying it for years (on intel not arm) and are still in beta. Its relatively easy to mock something very limited up, that can only run specific things visually to fool people. A closed source that is GB's and GB's of code, and has been built and honed over 10's of years, is not going to be easily emulated. Any real usable emulation would probably not even physically fit on the current devices without huuuuge holes. Remember, Windows is MUCH more than a launcher app and the visual queues that makes it look like its working.

As for Linux on android, you are talking about an open source OS, and something that was even the starting point for Android. Windows is a different world universe. Just think, they still don't have windows, even M$, running on arm (ie bigger devices). Its a huge task. And if it were easy, M$ could open their market up to millions of new devices; although they may have their reasons to stay away from arm also on a marketing and not just technical position.

And we haven't even discussed the issue of if we are talking about simply running on arm devices, or as a true emulation running over android. Two completely different situations.An emulation would be the later, much more demand on a device to be running two OS's at the same time.
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
We are talking about true emulation.

I agree, it isn't the best at performance, due to having to run two OS's at the same time, but that isn't the point. My original point was that what the poster asked about is actually still currently possible. But, however possible, it isn't a truly viable option, that's why it has largely been left behind. It will probably come together in a viable manner eventually, though. The only reason I posted is because what you posted implied, "no, it can't be done without re-coding Windows", but that isn't quite true because there is already stuff available that can do this, it just isn't up to date and doesn't perform well enough to be truly viable for mobile platforms.

People have been installing 32bit Windows on x86 devices(especially Intel atom devices) for years with no issue, I've done it myself. Why is ReactOS having problems doing so?
[General Questions and Answers] DiamondJohn:
Do the research, I have already covered what I think would be their immediate issues. I have given you the entry point https://reactos.org/, for anyone who is really interested to understand why. Its not something I explicitly follow, so i would have to spend my time to answer any of your questions, any more than I already have., and then have to explain what my answers mean. I just don't believe its worth the time for me personally. I'll let ReactOS answer it, who will also have a clearer understanding of any current issues which they have many. They have a forum as well as list their current issues on their web page. I personally have installed it on VBox, and it was not stable nor ready to use as a daily OS.
[General Questions and Answers] TheInfiniteAndroid:
On my Galaxy Note 10+ I'm receiving texts with a time stamp that's ahead of time, for example

Sender: Hello (2:01pm)

Me: Hey! (1:56pm)

My time on my device is correct, and it's set to automatic, I've tried de selecting automatic then re selecting, I've always tried wiping the cache & data for the messages application, still happening

Any ideas please?

(Note: I imported my device, not sure if that makes a difference)
[General Questions and Answers] tcl_14:
Trying to flash ASUS ZenFone Go ZC500TG(Z00VD)

I'm having problems trying to downgrade my ASUS phone. It is stuck on a boot-loop and I never enabled USB debugging. I'm stuck on trying to get the command ./fastboot oem unlock because the operation is not allowed. I now know you can enable USB debugging through ADB but I can't get the drivers to install(I'm on win10 with signed driver enforcement turned off.)[IMG="powershell error"]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/422825022063902740/692132631546036294/unknown.png[/IMG]

[IMG="device manager"]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/422825022063902740/692179071072731166/unknown.png[/IMG]
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
What you need now it's not exactly adb but it looks like you didn't enable OEM unlock option. https://xdaforums.com/asus-zenfone-go/help/asus-zenfone-z00vd-oem-unlock-t3368538

Regarding the driver, your device is detected fine under fastboot mode but if you are failing to install some other driver you have to try first updating it by clicking over it with right button of the mouse and browse to the directory which contains what you want to install instead, you have to do it over the driver that's indicating an error.
[General Questions and Answers] Raresh T:
Hi. Lately been using Speedify on both my tablet and my phone. Since my phone also has data, Speedify provides way faster connection on my phone. If I make a hotspot, using Speedify, on my phone, and I connect my tablet, which is also using Speedify, would my connection be slower on the tablet ?
[General Questions and Answers] tcl_14:
Thanks, dude. I was getting into such technical stuff and the fix was quite easy. I didn't have an SD card with me but my father lent me one. I installed the .36 firmware and voila. I'm going to try to install the 2017 update and if it doesn't work then I'll stick with .36.
[General Questions and Answers] Sztrapp:
Adb pull problems

Hey!

I'm completely new to all this, currently trying to apply smali patcher to Magisk with a xiaomi redmi 4x phone. First of all I've met this problem in smali patcher: "!!! ERROR: Incomplete framework dump, required files missing." Googled it, found a video called "CARA COPY FILE SYSTEM/FRAMEWORK LANGSUNG DARI HP KE LAPTOP. UNTUK DIBUAT SMALIPATCHER" (if you want to check it out) the point is he is using these adb commands to copy the system files. Since I didn't have the android studio program the command "adb" didn't work so I googled what is it anyway and downloaded it gave the path and now it's working, just to show you how noob I am and that I really tried to solve this all by myself.

Now in the video at 3:50 he starts the pulling and it skips 2 files and that's my main problem. It won't skip them for me and I stuck at the first "miuisdk.jar".

The exact error is: adb: error: failed to copy 'system/framework/miuisdk.jar' to '.\framework\miuisdk.jar': remote open failed: No such file or directory

Don't know if they guy in the video said anything about that since I couldn't understand a word I was just trying to do everything he did. I tried to google how to skip these files but only found some questions about how NOT to skip them.

Android version: 7.0

MIUI: 10.2

Rooted with TWRP and Magisk. I've been trying to solve this for 4 hours now and I'm going crazy.
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
I'm not sure what you are trying to do, please let me know if I'm wrong; if you are trying to pull/copy a file from android root directory to some other place by i.e to your PC the command is very simple to do what I think you're trying to:

adb pull /system/framework/miuisdk.jar

(if you are inside the adb/fastboot operative folder), check if the file already exists or the Android root path is right.

Anyway if you are rooted you can do it by the "brute" force without many technical requirements; browse with any root file explorer to the mentioned path and copy the file/s directly to a folder of your preference then move it/them to your PC.
[General Questions and Answers] kos25k:
Hello guys.Is there any sound app,that i will be able to isolate particular frequency/es from a recorded sound file?
[General Questions and Answers] DiamondJohn:
Generally speaking, you are describing an equaliser. However, most work on "live" playing sounds rather than a file. But hopefully, this may give you a better search term to start.
[General Questions and Answers] Xing-Xong:
[ HELP PLEASE ] I have a phone with 3 GB Ram And 16 GB storage Both stays free but whenever I try to play a game or use a app that runs in high resolution ( maybe ) it starts lagging too much.

I think the problem is with my video libs cause when I play a online video I see glitches most of the time which I've seen in custom Roms on my old phone.

Please help me solving this issue. :confused:

Here is my devices information :

Manufacturer : Micromax

Model : Canvas Music M1 (Q4261)

OS : Stock TouchWiz

CPU : MT6737m (I'm a bit confused cause some apps show's it's Mt6735)

Kernel : 3.18.19
[General Questions and Answers] SubwayChamp:
Any device can keep RAM totally free (3GB from 3GB) while is on and of course some app is running and resources being used, and regarding storage, with an Android O.S installed this takes some space from it and from 16GB it should use about 3GB.

Most of the parts of firmwares for devices using mtk6737 SoCs are based on mt6735 so they're not a great update and was a sort of bridge between old 32 bit devices and new-coming 64 bit devices that firstly didn't use real 64 bit software.

I don't think that libs have a great play to role here but if your device is really using mtk6737 the specs are very limited to handle RAM eater games with high resolution, take a look here https://www.techcenturion.com/mediatek-mt6737.

"OS : Stock TouchWiz"? This make me think on a faked Samsung (old) ROM.

And finally if your device is lower than expected like this https://www.mysmartprice.com/mobile/micromax-canvas-music-m1-msp14224 things get worse.