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Storage space running out. Some system functions may not work
In my Android in notification bar I see message Storage space running out. Some system functions may not work.
When I check I see 188 MB free in device memory and around 10 GB in USB storage.
I re-installed Android OS a few times.
It helps for about a couple of months then the problem returns.
If I delete some applications or data it helps for a few hours to a few days.
Questions:

Why do I get Storage space error if there is a lot of available space?
Can I join device and and USB memory? Will it help or at least delay the time while the problem return?
Any other advice how I can deal with this problem?

Have you tried clearing the logging files? If not then you can do that by, dialling  *#9900# and select delete dumpstack. See if this can help you out with clearing some of the space for you.

I've just added the insufficient-memory tag to your question. Please check its tag-wiki, which should get you started (contains some first-aid plus links to more details).

I suspect it's a problem with Mailbox, since it's the crashing (together with "android-process-acore"), and my system will work for some time after I "clear cache" from Mailbox.

I solved by reseting my phone to factory configurations... :/

It has to be dialed into Samsung's own dialer.

On Samsung phones, type in the dialer *#9900# then choose the second option: "Delete Dumpstate/logcat".

Well, this solution do not work on 5.0.1 Android and I suppose for 4.x also.

This is a Samsung specific thing, it does not work on other phones. Also, you don't need to dial (call) it. After pressing the the last # character, the menu appears immediately.

Does not work on my Samsung Galaxy S4. As Gayle said, nothing happens after punching the code into the dialer. If you hit the phone icon to dial, "welcome to Verizon Wireless, your phone... ...cannot be completed as dialed"

Even though there already are many answers, there is actually none answering two main questions and the third one just for a case of dumpstate problem. Read just bigger text if you're in a hurry.
Also, I'll explain why solutions mentioned in other answers help only sometimes. And offer another solution in case cat is not your problem.

Why do I get Storage space error if there is a lot of available space?

It's not an error, it's by design. The trigger for low space is quite high, usually 10% OR 500MB, whichever is lower.
"some system functions may not work" - that's not precise, some WILL NOT work.
Synchronize, some download functions, installing apps, hangouts and many Google apps.
If you'll ask:

Why there is less than 500MB available?

then the answer is, that it's either that you used it up unknowingly, or that there is a problem with something stuffing up your storage space.
If you used it up and want to check with what, follow the answers saying clean up your space, if you didn't, it might be variety of other problems, but most likely it's logcat which is leaving huge dumpstate files behind. In that case follow the answers mentioning logcat or log or dumpstate. Or jump to my last paragraph below.

Which parts of memory are monitored for free space.
we may distinguish two model situations according to the FS structure in an Android phone:
(Note, that what I call INTERNAL STORAGE is not standardized name, usually it's weirdly called sdcard, might also be called USB storage as it possibly is in your case.)

DATA partition is separate partition from INTERNAL STORAGE

INTERNAL STORAGE is not monitored and you can fill it up to zero free bytes and nothing happens. DATA storage is monitored, on galaxy S2 it's 10%, from 1500 MB, 150MB must be always available.

one partition for both DATA and INTERNAL STORAGE

INTERNAL STORAGE is emulated as a separate partition with different permission rights. It also has a "fuse" or reserve, which will not allow all space of the real partition be used. Files on INTERNAL STORAGE are actually located in /data/media/

old models, maybe up to Android v2.3, also has DBDATA partition, which was separately monitored - if I remember this correctly
A change from one system to another might have been done by a FW update. I still remember when such update removed thousands of my holiday pictures on Galaxy Note2. An INTERNAL STORAGE partition was removed and mounted on DATA partition using FUSE, there was 100MB difference when I checked free space on each.

So, depending on a data structure you have, you need to keep for example 400MB of free space on an INTERNAL STORAGE which might, using df or a free space analyzer app, show as 500MB free space on DATA partition.
Note that,
- the minimum size is different for each model and sometimes also FW version.
- You need to wait for about a minute to see if the notification will clear itself after you make some more space available.

second question:

Can I join device and and USB memory? Will it help or at least delay the time while the problem return?

Fast answer, NO. And if it would help? Yes, it would help to avoid the problem of low space, by means of having bigger total storage.
To elaborate:
IF "USB memory" is pluggable SD card, or a pluggable device in your case,
or if it's located on a separate memory chip, as it's on Tab 1 and phones from similar age, then it's not possible to join it with DATA partition.
IF "USB memory" is an INTERNAL STORAGE in your case, you can join them but it's not an easy or safe process. In other words, if there is not a guide by someone who have successfully done that on the same model of a phone as is yours, we might also figuratively say, NO, it's not possible.
While searching the Internet for the guide, be aware that it wasn't a clever idea to name the INTERNAL STORAGE as "USB storage", because there is also a real USB storage. You'll find a lot of solutions for enabling USB for storage drives, so called USB OTG feature, don't get diversed.
basically you need to:
re-partition your memory chip, called eMMC for some reason, delete USERDATA - what is a partition name for INTERNAL STORAGE and merge the freed space with DATA partition. then find/compile fuse module which would take care of emulating the partition with full permissions for media_rw or some other user,
edit init script, to create a mount point for new INTERNAL STORAGE, many more changes and tweaks which I can't think of.

third question:

Any other advice how I can deal with this problem?

The best option, if you have a root access, is to
lower the threshold of the minimum free space.

You can put it down to 1%, possibly even less. That means 20 - 120MB of minimum free space.
It involves sqlite3 editing but although it might look difficult, it's very straightforward process. Just follow any good guide and you'll do it alright. THIS guide looks splendid or there also are sqlite3 editor apps, or find another guide using THIS gugl link.
There are two things to note:
- different guides are mentioning different table names. 'Secure', 'system', 'global' or even 'gservices'. The truth is, it was applicable in different tables through different Android versions. Now it should be in 'global' before it was in 'secure' and before that 'system'. My advice is, just put it in all of them, you will not hurt anything. That means follow the guide you'll find and repeat the steps while replacing the table name with each of those names I mentioned above.
- you might find settings.db file locked and not writable even with root, it happened to me when ICS came out. But didn't happened since. Anyway, in that case, boot into recovery, pull the file out, edit on PC and push back in.
If 1% (around 100MB if you have 16GB chip) is still too much for you to waste, as it was for me, add sys_storage_threshold_max_bytes value too, I have 20000000 = around 20 MB and never had much of a problem, although many apps don't have available space checking and will error without stating the reason, so you need to keep in mind it might always be free space issue. There is -OR- statement between those two variables. Don't put less than 20 there because if a certain system file which resides in /data folder will fail to write, your phone might not boot. I find 20MB quite safe as there are no files larger than that in /data, while excepting /data/data, /data/app/ and dalvik. and if a file will get broken in /data/data, no big deal. Data reset of that app will solve it.

If something is eating up the free space
If you suspect that there shouldn't be so much space taken, or you just want to clean up space, as in a couple of other answers here, I also recommend DiskUsage to help with the job of visually locating what is taking how much space.
In the DiskUsage app, in the second column, the 'media' stands for INTERNAL STORAGE and Apps represent /data/app and /data/data - space taken by apps.
The 'System data', in green color, on the bottom is the rest of /data folder and shouldn't be too high. 300MB is fine, over 1GB is probably a problem.
If this System data is too high, it's possible your logcat has gone wild and created tons of dumpstate postmortem poems. In that case, and only in that case, will all of the other answers here be applicable. Meaning that deleting this gigs of wasted space in folder /data/log or dialing a *#9900# , which by the way is not a valid command for every device, will bring your Android back to a good mood.
For how long is a question of whether the culprit which caused the excessive logging has been patched, or removed.

"The trigger for low space is quite high, usualy 10% OR 500MB, whichever is lower." Can you put a source to that? I know about the 10%, but instead of the 500MB the number was much lower when I checked last time (25MB, see e.g. here. Never found an "official reference" to that number, though.

If you refer to my use of the word usually, I wouldn't say it was fairly used adverb today. That was what all my phones were set to. But this might not apply for earlier or later models, or for brands other that which I had then. On my devices, 500MB was a fixed amount. I was testing this using 1MB files. If I duplicated one to leave 499MB of free space, notification appeared, when I deleted some to have 501MB free, it disappeared. When I edited the sys_storage_threshold_max_bytes value to 20000000, I've been able to have just 20MB of free space without the full memory notification.

Thanks papo – that definitely nails it. Special thanks for mentioning that constant! And admitted, those 25MB where in the times of Eclair/Froyo where devices had quite limited storage altogether. Tag wiki updated :)

May be you should check this link, hope this will solve your problem.
Excerpt:

Root your phone.
Download the Root Browser app fro here
Reboot
Open the newly installed Root Browser app, a pop up will come stating if you want to give the app root permission. Grant it.
Navigate to /data/ and delete the folder log
See the magic :)

I had the exact same problem. Had the phone into the Samsung Service location a number of times, where they performed a full software recovery twice and then replaced the mainboard, but the problem persisted.
I realised that the memory logs, which were filling up the logs file, seem to be connected to a network issue and decided to try and obtain a new sim to see if this helped. I got the new sim yesterday and everything that seemed to kick in the log files and fill up the system memory seems to be ok.
Previously, it might be ok once I had cleared the logfiles (*#9900#, delete log files) for a few hours, but then all of a sudden the log files would start again. Within a few hours, my phone (Galaxy Note) would start becoming unresponsive, and I would get the Storage space running out message and my system memory would be down to 100mb rather than 1.4g.
After weeks and weeks of the same problem I am reticent to say that things are completely resolved. Putting the new sim in seems to have solved the problem for me.

YES! Swapping my two SIM cards seems to have solved! Thanks!

Ops, it started to fail again after some minutes...

Well, the best way to zero in on what you can get rid of to free up storage space is an app that maps out your storage use such as Disk Usage, a cleanup app such as SD Maid, or a file manager that can search for large files.
But since you're facing the Catch-22 of needing to free up some storage before you can download any apps that help you free up storage, start with the stock file manager, called My Files:

Tap All Files, then Device Storage, then navigate to the folders where you're most likely to have large files you can get rid of. Some likely candidates are the following default folders:
DCIM/Camera
Download
Pictures
Sounds
Documents
Temp
Music
Movies

In order to see the file size in the list, so that you don't have to long-press each file and select Details to see how large it is, tap the menu button, select View By, then select List and Details.
To help you determine where you're using the most storage, you can go to Settings > Storage (the exact location of Storage may vary depending on your device and OS version, for example on a Samsung Galaxy S it's on the More tab):

If, for example, you see the largest number under Pictures, videos, you probably want to start with the folders DCIM/Camera and Pictures; if the largest number is under Audio, look in Sounds and Music for files to get rid of.
Since it's a tedious process using the stock tools, I recommend only doing it this way until you have enough space to download some apps that can help you clean up more efficiently.

On a Galaxy S2 with Cynagoenmode 11 running, I did below steps to free space. This clears all unnecessary logs generated.
> adb shell
$ cd /data/log
$ rm *

I have been through this storage problem. This is the solution to your problem only if you have "root" access. This problem occurs due to old application data of apps which have not been uninstalled properly.

Download "SD Maid" from the Play Store.
You can search for application data which exists on your device in spite of being uninstalled. Clear the corpses and retry installing the app you want to install and it should work.

I think APP2SD will work for you. With this you can set default app location to USB or ext card.For this I can suggest you to download and install AIO Toolbox. It has tonnes of features builtin. See if it might help you.

authors: Алексей Александрович


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Improving performance of YouTube app
I have a Galaxy Tab 10.1 (a.k.a. p4, P7500), running Android 4.2.2 rooted (latest CyanogenMod nightly build: 10.1-20131208-NIGHTLY-p4) and YouTube v5.3.28.
Does anyone have an idea how to improve the performance of the video playback?
What I'm experiencing is a lot of stutter: videos often only show a few frames per second (the audio seems to get priority and plays fluidly). Sometimes videos pause for a few seconds at a time.
I'm testing with preloaded, fully cached videos, so it's not a problem of network connection. Killing background tasks helps a little bit when it's really bad, but doesn't fix the problem entirely.
Now I know this isn't exactly a high-performance device, but when playing them with MX Player, all 720p videos are playing absolutely fluidly without a single stutter. This also includes the exact same videos that stutter in the YT app after downloading them and playing them with MX Player. So the device is capable of playing back those videos perfectly fine.
Any ideas what I could try to increase the YouTube app's performance?

Sounds like a problem with the CM build. YT should be smooth on that device, but maybe CM has broken the video decoder drivers or Neon.

@DanHulme FWIW, it's been like that at least since the latest iteration of the YT app, for a year or so. But yeah, this device is not exactly a primary target of CM ('nightlies' are actually more 'monthlies').
From what I understand, MX Player's 'hardware' playback mode should also use the OS video decoder drivers, so I'm surprised that it performs better.

I've seen this same issue on other devices with CyanogenMod.  The video within the YouTube app is choppy and laggy, but the video from youtube.com looks just fine.  A solution is most welcome.

FYI, I've since then upgraded to a Nameless-based build of Android 4.4 and still experience mostly the same effect. I'm pretty sure it has to do with the OS (H.264-)codec the YT app is using, as opposed to the apparently better optimized (mplayer-based or ffmpeg-based, I assume) codec that MX Player is using.

Try installing Adobe Flash Player android app. It integrates with the browser and system to eventually improve the overall performance for audio/video playback. Many sites and apps can run slow due to the low version of html and low internal storage for which Adobe Flash Player keeps the cpu cool and lets the app take less space for RAM and ROM. And as a result the performance of device can be improved. Its worth trying.

The YouTube app has been and continues to be a laggy little dingleberry. Here are a few things to try:

Is there the same level of lag when you try to load the video from youtube.com?
Have you tried an alternative YouTube app like Viral?
When updating to the latest nightly, do you clear your Dalvik cache?

I haven't tried loading youtube.com in a mobile browser yet. I did give Viral a quick try: the performance wasn't quite at the level of MX Player, but it seems to be a lot less laggy than the official app.
Yes, I have had this problem since about a year and the Dalvik cache has been cleared multiple times since then (including right before posting this).

source: Stack Exchange

license: Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

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Stop device connected as host charging connected device
I am connecting a Nexus 10 to an Arduino board in host mode. The Arduino board has its own power supply, but is still drawing power from the tablet. This post suggests that this may happen if the consumption is less than 6.6v
Is there a way of telling the tablet to not charge the Arduino board?

Are you asking about code to put in some of your application ("programatically"), or a general setting?

@Izzy For any way of achieving it, perhaps a hack at at the Linux level? Have removed the word programatically from the question

OK, just wanted to make sure it's not an off-topic development question :) You might wish to take a look at these questions and their answers. With some luck they at least give you a pointer. Don't forget to keep us updated here :)

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terminal on real android device from PC
I want to run terminal on my device however the small screen is very inconvenient. I wondering if it is possible to run terminal on real android device from PC?

Yes, you can install a ssh server in the device. There is another thing called adbd for doing that, but that's a developers thing.

Could you please explain more, how can I use it?

You can use Android Debug Bridge (ADB) shell to issue basic Linux commands on your phone, just like you would in a terminal emulator app. To install you'll need to do the following:

On the phone go to Settings -> About phone, and tap on "Build number" seven times.  This enabled Developer tools.
Go back to the main Settings screen and you should now see Developer options under the "System" section.
Go to Developer options, enable "Android debugging" option, and then tap OK on the verification prompt.
On your PC download the Android SDK Tools from here. You can either download the whole SDK, or just the stuff necessary to connect to your phone, which is on the same page, under "Download for other platforms -> SDK Tools Only" section.
Install the tools you just downloaded.
Download and install the USB drivers for your phone (usually provided by the manufacturer.)
Re-connect your phone to the PC with a USB cable.
Open Command prompt (assuming Windows,) navigate to where you installed the SDK tools (e.g. "C:\android-sdk\platform-tools\") and type in the following: adb devices
If all of the above was done successfully, a prompt should pop up asking you to allow connections from this computer.  Accept the pairing request, and the prompt should show your phone's ID.  If this doesn't happen - it usually means that the drivers aren't installed correctly.
Back at Command prompt, type in adb shell and press Enter, and you should be connected to the phone's terminal.

This should get you started.  ADB commands are listed on Google's site here.  The shell provides some basic Linux commands like ls, cp, etc.  Be aware that most file and device management commands will require root (i.e. elevated privileges,) which is a separate topic.

Alternatively to the ADB variant described by Chahk (which requires at least a minal installation of ADB on your computer), you can install a SSH server app on your device (examples include, but are not restricted to, SSH Server, DigiSSHD, Servers Ultimate). Then you can use the ssh command on Linux/Mac, or a tool like PuTTY on Windows, to connect to your device and run shell commands, as if you were using a terminal app on the device itself.

Hi Izzy, I installed PuTTy and SSH Server and defined server name and port on the server. Then I connected the phone to the PC by USB, however connection fails: "host does not exist". What can I do?

Setting up the host (DNS) correctly? Without knowing the command you executed, I can only guess. First try with the device's IP (i.e. enter your Android's IP address in PuTTY) to see whether it works at all. How to make that work with DNS from your computer (so you can use an easy to remember name instead of the IP address), is a question better fitting on either Super User or Server Fault (check their repective help/on-topic pages first where it fits best).

Sorry, I asked you wrong question. The proper one is how I could check IP address of the device?

It should be shown in Settings→About device (on my ICS device, in the Status sub-section as "IP address"). Apart from that, your router should show it on its management console. The hard way would be "pinging" your entire local network to check what responds, or doing a port-scan ;) There are also a bunch of device-info tools available (recommendation: OS Monitor: it offers many useful helpers, apart from showing all IPs of your device {WiFi, mobile, local,...}).

You will need
Your Android phone ( Rooted and with Wi-Fi functionality )
SSHDroid (SSH server)
PuTTY.exe (SSH client)

Setup SSHDroid
    Install “SSHDroid” from android market to your phone this will turn your phone into a SSH server

    For the first time you need to set-up a password to log-in shell. Default password is admin which may you have to change on first time

Setup Putty
    Download PuTTY.exe for SSH Client on your windows PC, it comes in single executable file so you don’t need to install that just double click on that and PuTTY will start.

    There is no need to setting up any thing in PuTTY.

Let’s start
First step is to running Wi-Fi and connect your android phone to target PC, then run SSHDroid server into your mobile phone, but before that make sure under the SSHDroid’s application window click Options -> “Require WiFi” is checked as seen on above pic screen 2. And then click “start” option.
Once SSH server is successfully started it will show IP address of your mobile phone in light sky color like this root@192.168.43.129 as seen on screen 4.
Take the IP “192.168.43.129” and type it to your PuTTY program’s (PC) host field and hit connect. Make sure port number is 22 as seen in second pic.
It will ask for certification click ok and then command line log-in window will appear, type “root” hit enter and then type the password for root user, default is “admin” as i mentioned before. After successful log-in you will be able to use Linux commands like ls, reboot -f, mkdir, find, etc.

if your phone is connected to internet you can also use network commands like ping, wget, telnet etc.
Source : - How to connect android phone to PC using SSH & putty


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Is there anyway to upgrade to jelly bean while internal memory and resetting
I have a Samsung Galaxy S3 with ICS. I want to upgrade my phone to Jelly Bean OS, but I don't have a good enough WiFi connection or enough knowledge, so I want to take the phone to a phone repair center to be upgraded. I have lot of sensitive files on it. I cant remember where some of them were in My phone. Is it possible to upgrade it to Jelly Bean while factory resetting the Phone, because the repair people should not have access to internal files ?. I can do this in my old phone by completely removing everything but I don't know about Android phones.

It's not clear to me how repair people are related to updating the OS. Why can't you upgrade to Jellybean and then factory-reset later?

I have not enough knowledge and uninterrupted wifi connection to do so

So you want to take it into the repair shop and have them update the OS?

yes, it's easy and it's not cost much

OK, so why can't you just factory-reset it before taking it into the shop?

If you ever give your phone to a repair person or a rep at a carrier store you should assume your data can and will be looked at.  Unfortunately, I saw this all the time while working for Verizon.  We had reps that couldn't wait to get their hands on a phone and start looking through pictures and other private files of customers.  I've actually seen reps save customers pictures to their own device!  It's one of the many, many reasons I quit.  Bottom line: Anything on your phone can potentially be accessed and seen.

No, it's not possible. An update by default saves all files and settings. But you should do a factory reset before giving it to the service people(be sure to backup all files before resetting).
To reset, goto

Settings > Backup & Reset > Factory Reset

After you press OK, your phone will be reset & all old files, apps, settings, etc will be deleted.

Except those on internal/external SDCard, unless explicitly specified (not all devices offer this). By default, a factory-reset usually does not touch SDCards.

Yep, it doesn't on any of my devices. Titanium Backup uses the 'internal SD' on my devices and is not deleted by factory reset through Settings OR through recovery.


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How can I sync podcasts (with progress) to my Android device with iTunes?
I am a user of OS X, and would like to sync my Android device with iTunes.
I still use an iPhone and have a bunch of existing podcasts, and sometimes I use desktop to listen to podcasts, so two-way synchronization of files as well as progress would be quite useful. By progress I refer to time as well as whether an episode was completed. There is no need to sync with iOS devices directly; syncing with desktop iTunes on OS X is perfectly fine.
Any app that I found so far that even has sync apparently can sync only with itself on Android and iOS, but not with iTunes; or else it can import audio files from iTunes, ignoring progress.

Apple doesn't offer an API for other software to get information from iTunes, so unless Apple offers the app you're after, it's unlikely that anyone else has been able to make one.

Dobar dan, you could use sticher to organize your podcasts. It'll sync folders/progress from the web and the app as long as you log in.

@DanHulme, there is software out there that directly interfaces with iTunes's database. Among others, Google Music Manager parses the playlists for uploading a subset.

DoubleTwist was built for a similar purpose and does the job well. To use it, you can simply install the Mac app and the Android app and use their DoubleTwist Sync feature to synchronize iTunes with Android.

It seems to get quite close, except it doesn't do reverse-sync on Mac. Also, can you clarify: does it sync podcast progress, which is my main requirement?


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Unlock Root reports success but still cannot perform root user actions
Initially, I have tried to root my tablet(retail brand, not one of the mainstream ones) using SuperOneClick but it failed. Then I seeked UnlockRoot's help. Everything ran so smoothly. It reported success and it restared my tablet to complete the process.
The problem is that after restart, I cannot see the superuser app and of course I cannot perform root actions, such as creating a folder in / directory, or installing Google Apps.
How to overcome this? Any ideas appreciated.
Edit:
About tablet info
https://www.dropbox.com/s/de1kv0fhqpnlfm0/Screenshot_2014-01-12-20-50-38.png

Have you installed SuperSu? You may need to flash the zip for it through recovery but it is also on the play store. Here is the Play Store link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.supersu&hl=en_GB and here is the XDA link containing the zip: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1538053 You just flash it like you would a rom! Try that and if it doesn't work you may not actually be rooted! Any issues let me know and I'll try and help!

We're trying to get rid of the tablet tag -- could you give us the manufacture and model name of the device so we can create a tag for it?  Rooting is often very device-specific as well, so it may be helpful.

@RossC, the reason I want to root the tablet is that it doesnt have Google Apps preinstalled. So I cant take through Play Store. Furthermore, my recovery doesn't support zip installations. If it was, I would have flash the Google Apps package(probably)

@MatthewRead, the company is called Crystal Audio. As it is targetted only to the Greek market, I couldnt find sufficient documentation online

Without knowing the exact make and model I just can't tell what you can do. Can you check settings > about device and let us know. There MAY be a custom recovery somewhere you can use to flash the Zip files and get this resolved.

Sure...here is a screenshot from the about screen: https://www.dropbox.com/s/de1kv0fhqpnlfm0/Screenshot_2014-01-12-20-50-38.png


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Append to txt (plain text)
Problem
I want to append to a txt-file from my android. Just like Drafts does would be nice, ie:

Open the app
Type
Hit a button
Choose what to do (this is where Drafts shine; I can choose to email somebody, append to a txt, google it, create an event in my calendar, etc)
Close the app

The point is: I want creation to be fast and not have to hit a lot of buttons.
Possible solutions
1) Dropsync
Storing a file on my SD-card, and having it synced with Dropsync is an alternative, but two problems would occur

I have to turn on dropsync to sync very often, which is hard when you own a Nexus 7 and not a phone since I don't have wifi everywhere
frequent syncing would lower battery levels a lot.

2) Evernote
Worst case, I could settle upon append to a note in evernote.

Looks like a job for Tasker, but might not that easy to set up. You can append text to a file with it, and there are at least 3 addons tor Dropbox communication; so you could trigger the sync to take place right before typing and a second time after appending. Just a raw idea; I didn't create such a setup, hence no full-fledged answer.

Why do you have to "turn on dropsync to sync very often"? That's not stated as part of your problem. Do you need to sync your file or not.

it is a problem because I don't have 3G internet access everywhere - the sync would fail.


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how do I get my exchange email to notifiy me when my phone is in my holder? HTC DNA
I only get notification when I have my phone in opened (in my hand unlocked) from my Exchange (work). I need to get the phone to alert me when it is just setting there. Right now I have to open the phone and check, this does not work for after hours support. I have a HTC DNA. Any help would me nice, for me this is a job exposure.

This will depend on large part what email app you're using.


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Using flash player on android with Hebrew
I am trying to run flash website with my Samsung Galaxy S3 (running Jelly Bean 4.3). The website is built for Internet Explorer only, but I succeeded running it on my FireFox browser on my PC. When I am trying to run this website on my phone, it runs properly except of one thing: the Hebrew shows Gibberish.
Example:
I know that Adobe stopped publishing Android flash player, but it still can be download from  Adobe's website.
I search on the Internet and tried alot of things:

Flash Player isn't influenced by the browser encoding.
I tried to replace a lot of browsers on Android, no one solves the problem.
After understanding the locale can be the problem I decided to make my IE on my PC show the same Gibresih. I change the region on my windows 7 control panel and my IE showed the same problem.
My device is English but I use application like customlocale2 (I tried a lot of those applications). I tried to run the website on my friend's Galaxy S3 (genuine Hebrew) and the same thing happend.
After searching on the internet I found this link, which shows how to change Firefox config on Android devices. I saw that the locale isn't for Hebrew. I tried to change all the configs that look like related to locale from my PC FireFox (couldn't find how to import config to Firefox on Android), but the same thing happended. (Maybe I miss some configs).
Firefox doesn't have Hebrew edition to android device yet.
When I tried it on Google Chrome on my PC, the same thing happend. when I change the language of Google Chrome (including UI) and tried it works!
I tried to enter to other Flash site I know and the Hebrew was upside-down.

Two possibilities:

Side load flash with the APK found here, and then run Dolphin browser to access the flash site
Try running the site through FlashFox app as it has built in flash (no need to sideload anything)

1.i allready install the apk, and dolphin browser is crashing on the site. 2. i allready tried flashfox  and the same happening


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Not able to send media file via WhatsApp
I recently downloaded the CyanogenMod on my Galaxy S2 but I'm not able to send any music files via WhatsApp does anyone have a solution to this problem ??
The error message is "your music player does not support this option try with Android music player"

Could you describe the problem further? Which version of CyanogenMod are you using? Where is the music file located? What does Whatsapp do when you try to upload it? Have you attempted to narrow down the problem by trying to share the same music file via other apps?

i am using cyonegen mode jelly bean 4.3.1. the music is located in my music folder in my internal sd storage . i've tried to share music file via other apps yeah and it's working fine .i noticed a thing though when i tried to install whatsapp for the first time it said : you are currently using a custom rom .some feature may not work properly something like that

If all else fails and you cant get it fixed, you can try to manually navigate to where the music file is in your file system and share it to whatsapp from there. That should work.

The music player that comes with CyanogenMod doesn't support selecting the music file to send.  As you mentioned in the comments, custom ROMs may prevent the use of some features, and in this case, sending music files doesn't work.
You could try another custom ROM or reverting back to the stock ROM to enable this feature.

can't I switch the default music player ? I mean use another one like downloading the google default player that come with jelly bean ?

I just connected the mobile to laptop and vent to DCIM folder and cleared the cache folder and I disconnected from laptop and imm. after that I can able to send picture & media files..

Use FileManager. Browser it from the App list (dotted icon). Is a white carpet. Once you found it, keep pushing filename with finger and wait until context menu opens. It should appear some action as "Send via Whatsapp" or Share...
Good luck.

If you're going to just recommend apps, you could include the links where they can be found.

My friend, FileManager comes with CM operating system... not link available. If you want source code you can google about compiling cyanogenmod. So, if you'r just to be angry, you can google it first.

The name is quite generic, so I didn't know if you meant CM's FileManager or some other third party file manager app. Since I didn't have CM installed at that time, I was unaware that it had a built in file manager, and just wanted to clarify, no anger intended.

Download another music player like Google Play Music. It's working fine. It's just a problem of adaptibility. Hope it works for you as well.

I don't see how this is going to help the OP send files via WhatsApp.


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Turn off power notification sound on LG G2
I've got an LG G2 (Verizon) and I'd like to turn off all the notification sounds for when I plug in my phone, when I unplug it, and when it gets to full power.
I've turned the system notification volume setting to zero, but I still hear these sounds.
What am I missing?

Tried going to settings > Sound and see if there is an option for this?
There might be a similar setting in settings > Battery.

I checked both places and there isn't anything. S'why I asked here. :)


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How do I restrict uninstall of apps in the play store?
I have an android tablet. I also have a kid that doesn't understand enough to actually operate it properly, but more than enough to delete apps through the play store.
Restricting purchases from the play store is easy, but how do i password protect uninstalling apps from the play store?
I have seen a few apps to help me along, but they don't protect from the play store being launched from inside a game through a commercial for example.
How do i password protect either the entire play store, or the removal of apps?

Since you've got a tablet, have you had a look at Restricted Profiles?

how do i password protect uninstalling apps from the play store?

This isn't possible as of today.

I have seen a few apps to help me along, but they don't protect from the play store being launched from inside a game through a commercial for example.

Such behavior isn't made explicitly available to third-party apps, the ones that do exist today can only go so far in providing an "app-locker".

How do i password protect either the entire play store, or the removal of apps?

You can't, at least not in a way that accounts for all scenarios. You may keep searching for "app-locker" apps that attempt to do this and hope you find one that fits your needs. Have you tried Paranoid Android's Lockit
Instead of going down this route, I'd recommend you setup multiple user profiles on the tablet (the assumption here being your tablet is running Android 4.2 or greater). In a multi-user scenario, if one user uninstalls an app, it's only uninstalled within their profile. You may read more about it here

There's a lot of apps for kids, where you can set a mode and only allow certain apps on child mode and you being an adult administrator can unlock other apps, I've used one called Kids Shell it got the job done for me

Kido's is another option.


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Make the sleep timer on a tablet dependent on whether it's being charged or not
Is there a way to set the sleep mode timer depending on whether the tablet is being charged or not?
I normally have my Android tablet (Xoro Pad 9718, Android version 4.1.1) next to my computer on the desktop, and I like having some manual page or similar on the tablet while I'm working on the computer. In this case, the tablet is plugged into the charger, and I set the sleep mode to as long as possible, because it's just annoying if the screen turns black every few minutes. When the tablet is NOT plugged into the charger, I want a sleep mode timer of 30 seconds or one minute, to save battery life.
I'm open to a hidden setting somewhere as well as an app that detects when the charger is plugged/unplugged and changes the timer setting.

Have you considered using Tasker?

I'm the OP - unfortunately when my question was moved here from superuser, the ID wasn't taken over so i can't accept Chahk's answer now. I installed AutomateIt, it does exactly what i need (and a lot more :-). Thank you.

Please go here to see about merging your accounts: http://android.stackexchange.com/help/merging-accounts

There is no such feature on Android natively.
However, there are quite a few "automation" type apps that can do this for you.  Some of the better known ones are Tasker, AutomateIt, Locale and Llama.  All of these allow you to define a trigger (e.g. "charger plugged in" in your case) and set up various actions such as toggling settings.
Keep in mind that most of these apps require excessive permissions in order to be able to change system settings (and some toggles even require root.)
Also, some manufacturer UI overlays and custom ROMs allow you to set up profiles with different settings.  Switching these profiles is either a manual process, or does not provide such granularity in configuration as the automation apps.


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Complete action using
When I click on a doc file it directly opens with OfficeSuitePro. I don’t anymore have the choice between OfficeSuitePro and QuickOffice because once I have replied Always to the message: Complete action using” that gave me initially the choice.
This happens for my files stored in DropBox and GoogleDrive.
I went to the apps settings to try to clear the default but found out that there were no defaults set therefore the clear default button is greyed.  I uninstalled and reinstalled the apps but the problem persists.

If you've tried to clear it from the apps settings for Dropbox and Google Drive, you'll find there are no defaults set, because the default is set with the app that opens the file, not the app you open it from. From Apps in the device settings, go to Office Suite Pro's settings, and click Clear defaults there.

A side-note: in many cases, Default App Manager seems like a useful interface to that, which most likely is easier to handle for "beginners". Default App is another nice alternative.

Thanks a lot for this.  It worked.  I mentioned your enlightened help in Howtogeek here http://goo.gl/3eSDBn

@Cyber In that case, you might "accept" it as the correct answer, so other visitors can see your problem is solved.


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Bootanimation can't be changed anymore for unknown reason
I recently tried to add a custom boot animation to a Galaxy Note 3 by adding a custom bootanimation.zip to /system/media and then flashing a custom binary for the boot animation made by a user on XDA. That worked, the phone booted with my animation instead of the stock animation.
Though I noticed that it was rotated by 90°, so I replaced the bootanimation.zip with a fixed one, though after doing that the animation didn't change. Flashing the binary again didn't change anything either, neither did formatting the cache. I tried it with a totally different animation from XDA but that didn't work either so its not fault of the zip file.
The strange thing is I can flash the original .qmg animation from Samsung but then flashing the binary again just gives me my old rotated boot animation.
Now I wonder why is that happening? Does the system copy the animation to a different place and that's why replacing the original zip doesn't change anything?
It sounds like something Android specific, I somewhat doubt the binary is doing that.

I had a similar problem on CyanogenMod and it turned out to be broken permissions. I tried the following which worked in the shell only for whatever reason. You need to be rooted and have ADB installed. The following commands mount the system partition for reading and writing, copy stock bootanimation zip (change location, or skip), copy custom bootanimation zip to data/local, and (re)applies correct permissions to media folder and zip files, and finally reboot (if you want).
adb shell
su
mount -o remount,rw /system
cp /sdcard/download/cm/bootanimation.zip /system/media
cp /sdcard/download/bootanimation.zip /data/local
chmod 775 /system/media
chmod 644 /system/media/bootanimation.zip
chmod 644 /data/local/bootanimation.zip
reboot

If you want to restore to stock, simply delete the data/local version. If you want a new one, replace it while keeping the system/media version intact. You can also create your own bootanimation using this guide from XDA.

Hi, great tut however the Samsung animation doesn't change. Do I need to rename bootsamsung.qmg and bootsamsungloop.qmg in the root/system/media folder?

This saves my butt after 3 days of trying everything.
-Install adb driver & tools first
-Connect via usb
-Open command prompt
Note: Assuming you have the original as bootanimation.zip1 in the same location or use new one that might work (in this case you must add another line after mount to push the new file first in the same location - google how to "push file")
While bootanimation.zip keeps playing, paste below(quickly each line):
adb root
adb shell mount -o rw,remount /system
adb shell cp -f /system/media/bootanimation.zip1 /system/media/bootanimation.zip


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How can I set the lockscreen personal message after updating?
On my Samsung Galaxy S3, I had an option to change the personal message on the lock screen. After the system update,  the option is still there, but it is grayed out. Does anyone know how to fix this?

Do you have a lock screen set? Or is it None?

its just the swipe

Swipe to an empty lock screen, press the "+" button and add messaging. That should do it.
If it still doesn't work try this.

Go to Settings >> My Device >> Home Screen Mode and change it to "Standard Mode". That should enable the personal message option on your lock screen...


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How to check if my battery is OK?
I use my phone mainly for wifi use and I know it is a battery hog. However, what I would like to know is how much time it takes for the battery to charge. I guess it is supposed to take like 4 mins to charge 1%.
I plugged in my phone at 11% battery at 1.00 am and at 7.00 am it was still charging at 65%. What seems to be the issue here ?
Update 1:
Going by a comment on the post here, it is because of the sequence in which I connect the phone to the charger. The comment goes as follows:

Hi I think I found the problem as to why mine was charging slow.  Make
  sure the USB end is unplugged from the charger BEFORE plugging the
  phone end. After plugging into the phone, plug the USB to the charger
  while the charger is into the wall. Not sure why but the sequence is
  Important and affects charging rate big time.
Alex

This is in the manual, too. Unsure as to what the internal mechanics of the charging are.

Does your phone have LTE capability?  Do you live in an area with LTE service?

@Compro01 Yes, we do have 2G and 3G services

An issue I've had with my S3 (model I747m) is random absurd battery drain when in LTE service.  It'll go from a full charge to under 30% within 3-4 hours.  The drain tends to stop after a reboot.  I'm wondering if this drain effect may be happening when you're trying to charge and slowing the charging to a crawl.

Oh, no. I mean I am not using the LTE services. I am charging on flight mode cause it charges faster =) @Compro01

I think what matters most is the amperage of your charger. If you are plugging your phone into a computer then it is limited to 500mA. A charger for the S3 will typically provide 1A to 2A I believe.
One more thing which may be going wrong is battery hogging applications. If you switch your phone off and then charge, by how much does your charging time lessen down?

What Aditya Somani say is correct. The amount of amperage your charger has will determine the charge speed. However, turning off things like WiFi, LTE and probably even the whole phone will make the charge go faster.
For the wire-in-phone first thing, I believe that is a myth. I've heard it for computers and mobiles alike, but never found a reason to exactly why. My education in electronics might be vague, but no matter what you say, the charger will not charge before it's connected to power, and thus it should not matter if you connect charger to wall or prone first.

As suggested by Aditya Somani try charging by switching off. Try changing the charger or the usb cable of the charger.
Charging via PC takes time and drains faster


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How to switch between viewing of two different pages of one PDF file easily
For example, the pdf file could be a research paper or a book and it has a complicated diagram on page 10, and text in page 11, 12, 13 refers to this diagram constantly. Or page 100 has a complicated example and text in page 200 refers to the example in page 100. The example or the diagram is complicated in the sense that I cannot recall its details easily without looking at it. If I were reading this pdf on a desktop computer with a large monitor, I would open two windows side by side, one window displaying page 100, another window displaying page 200, and if the monitor was small, I would have two maximized windows and I would be Alt+Tab-ing between the two.
If I were reading this pdf on my Android smartphone while I was on a bus, what can I do to easily switch between viewing of page 100 and page 200?
A workaround I use for now is to take a snapshot image of page 100, and then switch between an image viewer (for viewing page 100) and pdf reader (for viewing page 200), and I wonder if there are better ways.

The Xodo PDF Reader can do this and I am sure other readers can as well. You can add any number of bookmarks and switch between them easily.
You can download it from here and you can find its website from here.


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mobile homescreen lost
I have downloaded 2 icon packs for android. Now my phone don't work anymore.
I am working with smart launcher.
I can not even get in to settings or apps. My homescreen is black, but I can see on top the task bar, with notification for emails and our and I have netconnection.
what can I do??

What exactly are these "icon packs" you've downloaded?

Also, what Android version are you using? Please [edit] your question to add these details, so we can help you.

Try to go to setting by any way...
Like: in some launch screens you can get the settings screen via: options->Device settings or Drag the task bar ->Settings.
And then change the Home screen settings to previous home screen.
If these options not available, I think Factory Reset is the only option for you.

If your phone is connected to the net, try to install any other launcher from the play store website, for example:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.adw.launcher
Wait the installation to finish on your phone, then press the home button. Now you will able to uninstall then reinstall SL or any other launchers.


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How to get my WiFi notifications back into English?
For some reason my WiFi notifications have started appearing in I think Polish, or something with a similar alphabet, I don't even have any such languages installed as far as I can see.
This problem has survived through an update to 4.3 Jelly Bean.  Phone is Galaxy Note 2, (GT-N7100), on O2 UK.
The 3 messages that I get when turning WiFi on and off with my home network - which has an English name, are in the attached picture.

Messages on disconnecting and connecting WiFi (click for larger image)
Google Translate tells me that they are Polish for "Available connectivity package", "No access to Network" & "Available Wi-Fi connectivity".

Polish uses the Latin alphabet like English, with a small number of extra letters, so if you're seeing a different alphabet, it's not Polish. Could you show us exactly what these notifications look like?

As @DanHulme indicated: A screenshot might be helpful. Further, what notifications are we talking about? Maybe you're just referring to the SSID of a certain network, which indeed might have a funny name?

Dostepna with a squiggle under one or more fo the letters seems to be the most common word when I connect to my home network.

@Izzy - I have added screen shots and translations.

Thanks! Just resized it to fit better :) And yes, that definitly looks like Polish – and it's not just the SSID. Could it be you've installed some app when that started happening?

I didn't notice it in conjunction with installing one particular app - but updates are happening just about every day...


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Disable dictionary popup
When I'm typing some text and I tap a word that doesn't exist, a popup shows up offering alternative words (as well as a "delete" and an "add to dictionary" option).
This feature is useless for me, because the suggestions don't take into consideration the current language, which makes them strictly worse than the suggestions already displayed by the keyboard.
The problem is that this popup covers up the keyboard's suggestions (which are the reason why I tapped the word in the first place) along with half the keyboard. This forces me to tap on some other region of the screen so that the popup will close and allow me to see the keyboard suggestions.
Is there a way to disable this popup entirely?

Problem is you have installed G-Board. Uninstall it, and you are back to basics without the enoying popup dictionary :-)

How do you know OP is using GBoard, if I may? How can you be sure?

I have the same problem since the latest Android update.  It's entirely redundant because the keyboard itself (swiftkey) already offers dictionary suggestions, but this new Android one is so huge it blocks the view of half my keyboard.

It is not only useless for you, it is useless for everyone! probably the programmer who implemented this and even his boss never used an android device in their life and were only familiar with iOS environment.

It's a really annoying smart-ass feature. The Android OS devs need to learn UX. I'm not using Gboard but can't find a way to turn it off. Android 13, 2023.

You can't disable the pop-up alone, but there are some other options:-

You can disable the spell-checker completely. If your keyboard already provides all the spell-check functionality you need, then this might be a good option for you. In Language & input in the device settings, untick Spell checker. This will disable the pop-up and the red underlining for misspelled words.
You can change the language of the spell-checker. From Language and input in the device settings, click the settings icon next to Spell checker, then the globe icon on the next screen. You can only have one language at a time in the default spell-checker, so this might not be helpful.
You can install a replacement spell-checker. Android allows other apps to provide the spell-check functionality in place of the built-in spell-checker. A different spell-checker might allow you to have more than one language enabled. Once you've installed the spell-checker, enable it from the same screen described in the above alternative.

In case some visitors are confused about the diffrence between the keyboard and the spell-checker, see this screenshot, from the Android developers' site:

The red underlining, and the vertical menu of suggested corrections, are both provided by the spell-checker. Most soft-keyboards also include a list of suggested word completions, which are usually in a horizontal line above the keyboard. Here you can see ":" and ";", and the rest are hidden by the spell-checker's pop-up.

Is the "spell checker" displaying additional suggestions to those the keyboard presents, in a popup? I've never seen such. Could you include an explanation of the background, please?

@Izzy maybe it only happens if you use a non-default keyboard. It's a white popup with a vertical list of around 7 words. It's downwards vertical, so it covers the keyboard. It only happens if you tap on a word that the spell checker marked as wrong. Disabling the spell checker worked for me.

Thanks for your updates, both. @BruceConnor: I use non-default keyboards as well. But maybe I've disabled that stuff "long ago" and just don't remember :)

This doesn't work in MIUI 8 because the checkbox to enable/disable the Spell Checker does not exist. The reason why it doesn't exist is beyond me.

@GuiImamura If that's a problem for you, you could ask a new question that's specific to MIUI 8. Link to this question if it helps to explain the problem.

If this is relevant to anyone, here's my new question: http://android.stackexchange.com/q/166169/57685

This is added in android 10, Do you know where this popup coming from (which app)? so we can report hell bug out of it? This is a feature for iOS devices that do not have a suggestion bar! probably developer only used iOS in their life ever!


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how does an android rom decide the amount of phone memory?
I used to mod symbian roms, and would like to know if it is possible in android to allocate extra internal storage memory, by removing unneeded apps, as packed by OEMs.
[NOOB ALERT]
if I manage to find a custom ROM that is smaller in size, does it mean I get more free memory?

Recommended readings: file-systems tag-wiki / Android Folder Hierarchy. These two should get you started on this topic. Apart from this, Dan's answer below gives you additional useful hints, including risks involved.

On an Android device, the internal storage is split into multiple partitions. The data from the custom ROM is stored on one partition, and the apps and user data on another. (Generally there are a few other partitions as well.) Because of this, installing a smaller custom ROM doesn't directly give you more free space for data, because they're on a different partition. But if you can make a smaller custom ROM, it allows you to repartition the storage to allocate more space to user data.
Repartitioning the storage is quite risky, as you have to know exactly how large the custom ROM is going to be. If the system partition is too small for the ROM, it will go wrong when or after you install it.
I believe it's more common to simply add some useful apps to the custom ROM, to make it up to a similar size as the stock ROM. This way, you can avoid installing some large apps in the userdata partition, giving you more space without repartitioning. Since updates to pre-installed apps get installed in the userdata partition, not the system partition, even including up-to-date versions of those apps in the custom ROM saves space.


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Sent text (SMS) messages sometimes show up under wrong contact's conversation
I'm on a Nexus One with Android 2.3.7 (CyanogenMod-7.2.0-passion), and recently I've noticed some sent messages go into the wrong contact's conversation: I send a message to person ABC, the person does receive it correctly, but when I check later the app shows it as sent to a different person XYZ. This really messes up the conversation and gets confusing quickly.
This has happened thrice so far, and there doesn't seem to be any pattern to it except both the contacts involved were people I had been messaging recently at those times. Note that the correct contact does receive the message, it's only on the display of the Sent message that this bug happens.
I'm using Handcent app, but the same display issue occurs in the default Messaging app. In both cases, the message details that comes up after a long press on the message shows the correct number. But somehow, it is still shown under the wrong contact. I've also tried restarting the phone, doesn't help.
Edit: I checked them all, and there does seem to be a pattern here - in each case, if a message ("msg1") sent to A is wrongly displayed under B, it turns out that B was the person I sent the next SMS after "msg1". That is, I send "msg1" to A, then after some time (varies from a few hours to a few days) I send a different message ("msg2") to B, "msg1" and "msg2" both end up under contact B one after the other

Do the phone numbers of the two contacts show some similarities, e.g. ending with the same X digits (in an extreme case: identical numbers with just different country prefixes)? Or are the "wrongly listed" places only depending on "recently messaged contacts", and it might be a different "place" each time it happens?

I checked the numbers, there isn't any visible consistent similarities among them: one pair has the 4th and 5th digits as the same, another has 4th and 6th digits, another has only the 8th digit the same between them. Looks like only random, chance correlation.
I don't understand your second question though, could you explain what you mean?

The first part was referring to "number matching": some algorithms only check the last N digits whether they're matching, so 0123-4567890 and 0321-4567890 would be counted similar on N=7. That's obviously not the case here. Second part was a raw guess: You message A, then B, and the last msg gets applied to A (while sent correctly to B). Now you message C, then A, and A gets the last msg, but it's stored to C? That would make a pattern ("stored to previous"), though it makes no sense. Enough time between the two messages, and they get stored correctly?

Yes, there does seem to be a pattern of that kind here! I checked them all, and in each case, if a message ("msg1") sent to A is wrongly displayed under B, it turns out that B was the person I sent the next SMS after "msg1". That is, I send "msg1" to A, then after some time (varies from a few hours to a few days) I send a different message ("msg2") to B, "msg1" and "msg2" both end up under contact B one after the other.

That's very strange! Though I know of no solution to this: would you please [edit] your question and include this discovery, so it's easier to find? That way it might attract some attention from others having experienced the same, and improves chances for possible answers. Thanks!

Sounds related to that old SMS bug from 2010, where messages were being sent to the wrong person.


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Some groups are not visible in my WhatsApp
I am not able to see some of the groups for which I am a member. My name appears in the group admin's phone. But he is also not able to remove my name and add it again. Other group members cannot see my name in the group member list. So I don't know exactly what the real problem is. I have uninstalled WhatsApp and re-installed it, but the problem remains the same. (Still I cannot see some of the groups in my phone).
Can you please find some way to come out of this?

Try the following steps:

Make sure that admin user have your  phone number in your address book.
Ensure that admin user is using WhatsApp Messenger.
Make sure that admin user have the latest version of WhatsApp.
In admin users Android phone book, make sure that all contact accounts (i.e. SIM, Google, Phone) are "visible" or "viewable".
In your Android phone book, ensure that all contact groups (i.e. Friends, Family) are "visible" or "viewable".
You can make your contacts "not visible" and then "visible" to force a refresh. After doing this launch WhatsApp > > Menu Button > Refresh.
Alternatively, you can use all your contacts, not just the "visible" ones. To do this go to Menu Button > Settings > Contacts > Show all contacts.

Ask your group admin to create a new group and add you. This is the only solution. As I did with one of my friends who had the same problem. I am the admin of the group and he is visible to me and them. But when I try to delete him it is not possible.  So we created a new group and added him again.

This is a version problem. It appears later versions are not compatible with lower version. Latest version also asks for end to end code or QR

all_licenses: Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/


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Samsung galaxy Tab 3 won't show up in My Computer?
I am trying to root my tablet and it won't show up in My Computer when I plug it in. I have tried different ports and have tried rebooting the phone. I just purchased it 5 hours ago. I have Windows 7. I installed some Samsung drivers, but I am not 100% sure they are the ones I need (I got them from a guide).
I don't have an SD Card, but I do have 8 GBs of internal memory. I have Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 T210R with WiFi.
Thank you!

Try google search: 'usbdeview' and download it.
Now delete all drivers with the Vendor ID '18d1'
Search Google again for: 'Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 Drivers' and download and install, else use Google's USB Drivers: Search Google for 'Google USB Driver'.
Install them, and try and plug it in again.
On your tablet: Go to Settings -> Development Settings - > Tick USB Debugging.
You might wanna change your USB Storage to 'Charge only' or 'Camera' if possible. Else try to search Google for: 'Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 root'.
I hope I helped.


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Is there a way to control the app and notification volumes at once on a phone like there is on a tablet?
Whenever I want to change the volume for apps on my phone, I have to open up an app that makes sound. If I try to do it at other times, it only changes the notification volume with no option for others.
Like this page says, this is an option for tablets, where you can just expand the volume controls when they pop up and then adjust either one. Is there a way to get this expanding functionality on a phone?
I guess that they made it like that to save screen space, but neither a button nor a slider bar comes anywhere close to filling up my screen, and I would appreciate being able to do this.
I have a rooted Nexus 4 with Android 4.4.2 and have the Xposed Framework installed.

Possible duplicate of How can I change media volume when no media is being played?

I've found that CyanogenMod has something like this, but I didn't really want to install that just for easier volume controls. I found that there's an Xposed module called GravityBox that includes this. It included a lot of other stuff that I didn't care about too, but thankfully someone extracted this specific feature and repackaged it as ExpandableVolume. I installed that, and it works great now!!
Example 1
Example 2

That depends on your Android version and device, but based on what you said it seems like you should be able to. You can try Volume in Settings, or you can download Volume Control and control various different volume levels and settings.
Several attempts to get this are posted here, but it doesn't seem like some devices have it.

Volume Control can control the volume, but it doesn't change how the physical volume rocker behaves.
Your second link just seems to be about this.

I like Slider Widget - Volumes.

A small Widget that gives control of the screen brightness and the sound volume directly from your home screen. You can easily manage those with the widget's slider or your hardware buttons. With a double click, you can also use the buttons to toggle. Slider Widget shows 6 Categories (e.g brightness or ring volume), which you can choose from 7 categories (more below). You can also change the order of the categories displayed in Slider Widget.


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ConnectBot and Byobu
I use ConnectBot sometimes to connect to my ubuntu machine, and that works fine, however it just comes up with a standard shell, not my byobu screens that I get when I connect to it using another machine running ssh, such as my windows machine running PuTTy.
This is what I see when I connect using ConnectBot (yes, I use the dvorak keyboard layout):

phone ConnectBot screenshot (click for larger variant)
And this is what I see when I connect using PuTTy:

PuTTy screenshot (click for larger variant)
Is there any way that I can see my byobu screens from ConnectBot?

What are "Byobo screens"? Mind to include a link?

@Izzy Byobu is a frontend for Screen so I can have multiple shell windows open and they will remain active even when nobody is connected to the machine. When I reconnect to the machine, the windows will still be there from last time. I have added screenshots to the question.

Thanks, that makes things clearer :) I've resized your images to better fit. Unfortunately, I must leave the answer to someone else, as I'm not using Screen and so don't know. Good luck!

THere has to be a shortcut for CTRL, just search for it in the ConnectBot settings or help manual. And onece you find it, just use this guide to use screen: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Screen (witch has to be installed on your ubuntu machine)

I know how to press CTRL from ConnectBot, the problem is that it doesn't even come up with the byobu screens, it just jumps straight into the blank command line shown in the screenshot when you log in. Is there a way to manually connect to the byobu session?

user2183694 suggested that I run byobu attach-session, but when I did that, the byobu screen would come up for a split-second then quickly pop-up at the bottom the message:
cannot exec 'attach session': no such file or directory

Then it would drop back to the normal terminal.
This at least gave me hope that it could work on the phone.
Then I tried just byobu, which gave me the error:
ERROR: Sessions should be nested with care. Remove 'screen' from $TERM to force.

echo $TERM responds with:
screen

But even using TERM= byobu responds with:
Please set a terminal type.

So I tried screen -r, which gave me the self-contradictory message:
There is a screen on:
         3658.byobu      (12/01/14 21:03:57)     (Attached)
There is no screen to be resumed.

But I discovered that screen -r -d works! Unfortunately the -d detaches any other screen connections (eg from my other pc), but at least it works.
I don't know why I have to detach other sessions, I can actually reconnect them from another pc after connecting from the phone without problems though. If anyone knows how to do it without detaching existing sessions, that would be good.
TLDR use screen -r -d
Edit:
I also asked this question on the AskUbuntu site, as the machine I'm connecting to is running Ubuntu, and this answer is relevant.
So, the best answer is: If you go into ConnectBot's "Emulation Mode" settings and change it to "xterm" or "xterm-256color", byobu will work properly from the phone.

You should be able to use the attach-session command to attach your existing byobu session.
byobu attach-session

Didn't work, but see my answer for what did work. Thanks for heading me in the correct direction!


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Nexus 7 (2012) no longer connecting via USB Mac OS X
I plugged my original Nexus 7 into my Mac earlier today to build an application onto it for testing. It failed, and then I realized that the tablet did not appear to actually be connected to the computer.
Symptoms: Tablet charges, but no notification about being connected. Tablet does not appear in ./adb devices (nor in ./fastboot devices when device is in bootloader), and Android File Transfer will not find it.
Tried: Rebooted both tablet and computer, tried different USB cables and USB ports. Tried MTP, PTP, and neither. Tried USB Debugging on and off.
My Nexus 4 connects to the computer just fine. Both N4 and N7 are running Android 4.4.2
UPDATE: Tested my roommate's Nexus 7 (same model) on my computer, and it connected fine. Tested my Nexus 7 on his computer and saw the same lack of connection
EDIT: now fairly convinced that it's a faulty hardware USB port on the tablet. Wiggling the cable will cause the device to show "USB Debugging Enabled" and "Connected as Media Device" notifications, though the computer still doesn't recognize it

You can try another way: wireless connection via Wifi. Some apps such as Airdroid, Web PC Suite can help you transfer files by Wifi. Connect the two devices by scanning a QR code, then you can send files between the two devices easily.

Welcome to Android Enthusiasts, Esther! You might have missed an important point here: OP is not asking for "file transfer", but explicitly wants a USB connection (in this case, for debugging apps using ADB). While there's also the possibility of using "ADB via TCP" with a WiFi connection, that is at best a work-around, not solving the OPs USB issue.


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Nexus 7: Assert failed: device == grouper when trying to install some roms
So I have Nexus 7 (not the 2013 one), Wi-Fi version, with TWRP recovery, version 2.6.3.1 installed.
When trying to install some roms, for example, SmoothRom, or PAC, installation fails with following message:
assert failed: getprop("ro.product.device") == "grouper" || getprop ("ro.build.product") == "grouper"

the problem is, I'm 100% sure nexus 7 wi-fi is grouper.
Some other roms, like cyanogenmod install OK, but I'd like to try something else.
So, what's the problem, and how can it be fixed?

Interestingly I had this exact same problem.
It seems to be an issue with the latest version of TWRP. I solved it by downgrading TWRP to 2.6.3.0 - I'm assuming there must be a bug with the 2.6.3.1 version.
That should work (as my scenario was the same: Nexus 7 (1), TWRP and the MIUI ROM).


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"New line" using Android voice input
My quetion is - how I can enter "new line" symbol using android voice input?
For example I tyr to create shopping list using Evernote and voice, but to create new item in list I must switch to keybord, and press enter. How to do that using only my voice?

Have you tried "Eggs Enter Bacon Enter Milk"?

@JeffreyLin sure. I got "Eggs enter bacon enter milk" as result

Have you tried the answers in this question?

Yes, it's not work. Maybe it happens because I have installed 4.3


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ADB is not detecting my phone (Micromax A35) in CENTOS
ADB is not listing my Micromax a35, but it detects Samsung phones.
How can I install Micromax a35 drivers in CENTOS?

Have you tried Zadig? Don't know if they have that for CentOS though.

No.. But Zadig is not available for CentOS

No drivers are needed for ADB devices in linux. The ADB binary uses libusb to access the device. All you need to do is add device's USB vendor ID to ~/.android/adb_usb.ini
mkdir -p ~/.android
find -L /sys/bus/usb/devices -maxdepth 2 -path "*/modalias" -printf "%h\t" -exec cat {} \; | awk -F: "/icFFisc42ip01/{print\$1}" | xargs -i cat {}/idVendor | sort -u | xargs -i echo "0x"{} >> ~/.android/adb_usb.ini
adb kill-server
adb start-server
adb devices

How to get the vendor id ?


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Can I create a wifi network on my WiFi-only Nexus 7?
I have a Nexus 7 on which I'd like to create a wifi network, so that I can have my laptop connect to it. The goal is to transfer files back and forth (I have a server running on the Nexus 7).
I'm not talking about tethering — the Nexus 7 is wifi-only. I'm aware that what I'm asking for will mean that neither device will have an Internet connection.
The device is not rooted, and I'm not willing to root it. I'm looking for something that be installed from the Play Store without rooting. Thanks.
I know that I can do things the other way around (create a wifi network on my laptop and have my Nexus connect to it) but let's exclude that for the purpose of this question.

Perhaps, since you mentioned capability to transfer files, might it not be worth investigating this server app?

I regularly "transfer files back and forth" in my non-rooted Android device using the USB cable that came with my phone. (Sometimes in camera PTP mode, more often in media device MTP mode; occasionally using adb ). Not exactly what you asked for (hence not an "answer"), but perhaps better than nothing.

My Android devices don't have SD cards, and use MTP mode, which doesn't work properly. Leaving aside the train-wreck that is the Android File Transfer app, I find that the file listings on the Nexus as viewed on the Mac get stale. I tried an sd scanner app, but it stopped working in KitKat. I tried another one, but it worked only for a while. MTP is broken for me. Which is why I'm asking about using Wifi.

@t0mm13b There's no shortage of server apps, but my question is about setting up a wifi network. Is there a way to do that as I asked?

I realised that the built-in tethering works even on WiFi-only devices. The catch is that if you have multiple users set up on the tablet, you can enable tethering only when logged in as the first user. This is what I'd missed I posted my question.

For transferring files between tablet and computer via Wifi there are a few methods.

For file transfer between Android devices I personally use Superbeam. They also have a Windows app. On one device you select the files you want to send and it gives you a barcode and a Wifi name. On the other device, you scan the code or connect to the Wifi name and the file transfer will start.
FTP. There are different apps that turn your Android device into a FTP server. For this, I personally use Solid Explorer (has a free 14 day trial). It is a file explorer with FTP possibilities, but there are more than enough standalone FTP Server apps in the Store. With Solid Explorer, I go to Menu > File Sharing > Start. If you're connected to a Wifi network, it uses the IP address of your device (something like 192.168.x.x). If you're not connected, it will ask if it should set up a hotspot. Connect to the hotspot and enter the URL given for access. In windows you can make a shortcut in Explorer, so after you make it the first time you can just click on your shortcut.

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Setting up a WiFi network:
You can simply start a WiFi hotspot on your android device, and connect Laptop to this WiFi network.
Or you can also connect to a WiFi network created by host laptop, because your aim is to transfer files.
EDIT:
As OP told that there is no UI available on his device (WiFi only device), obiviously, the only possibility to do this on un-rooted phone is to create WiFi network on the other device and connect to that device, or to root the phone and add this functionality by yourself.
You may be interested in following links:

SMS and WiFi Tethering on Nexus 7
Nexus 7 Hotspot and Tether
Can I tether from a Wifi only device?
Asus Nexus 7 Tethering and Wifi HotSpot not available
Activating wifi hotspot tethering on a Verizon Droid with Froyo 2.2
Portable Wi-Fi hotspot Free
Wifi Tether - Rooted
WiFi Tether For Root Users

Transferring files in a WiFi network:
AFAIK, Once you are in a WiFi network, you can use ES File manager for this. Because there is a window with name "LAN". This may give you a clue. (I didn't transferred files though)

Saying "You can simply start a WiFi hotspot on your android device" doesn't answer the question. I don't find that UI on a wifi-only device. As I said in the question, let's ignore for the purpose of this question the idea of creating a network from my laptop and having my Android device connect to it.

The reverse direction doesn't work BTW: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/116891/does-mavericks-break-the-ability-to-create-a-wifi-network-that-other-devices-can

EDITed You may need to root your phone in order to add tethering functionality, @KartickVaddadi

I use FoxFi to start hot spots without having to root my phone.  The app is free, as well.

The app asks for too many permissions (why does it need to access the list of running apps?) and it says the free version will support only a limited usage. So I didn't install it.

Try SuperBeam. It seems to satisfy all your requirements

It is available in the play store
It uses WiFi direct, so no routers or internet connection needed
It does not require root
It have a Windows/Linux/Mac client so you can transfer files from and to your PC


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Getting Black screen when i play youtube videos in youtube app
I've BSNL Penta Tablet with 2.3.7 installed in it. Whenever I tries to watch Video in YouTube Application. It does play the video with audio only. Only Black screen appear in the video tab but never displayed.
What could be the reason for these kinda weird behaviour?
Is the YouTube App have some bug or BSNL Penta tab is have some issues in it?
YouTube is the must app in any Tab as it gives everything you want from big screen.
Can anybody please tell me how to fix these issues?

Are you missing a video decoder? That is the only thing I can think of that springs to mind.

@t0mm13b But i suppose YouTube ships these video decoder with application only. BTW where to find video decoder for that then?

Yeah that seems odd... I remember having the exact same issue however I figured out that it was the Downloaded FireWall application (great app to control your Data Usage btw) just "DENYING" access to the media component from within YouTube.
See if you got such apps around your system?? (the firewall suggestion is basically for rooted phones)

It happens when your device is running out of storage or have little to no free storage left for the video to stream. That is why YouTube is only streaming the audio.
It has happened to me a lot of times. Go to your device's settings and clear the device cache and restart your device. It should start working then.


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Video won't record
Sprint LG Optimus G Android 4.1.2
Default camera app
Video has stopped recording.  When I hit record, all the settings icons disable for about 4 seconds, then it goes back to a Red highlighted button.  I feel like it coincided with Google+ introducing the Photos app.
Still photos work fine.  Plenty of space left on the device.

Have you tried clearing data from the camera app?

Have you tried another camera app? There could be something happening with the storage. Maybe you are running out of room, or the sdcard is going bonkers.

How do I clear data from the camera app?  When recording w/ Instagram, it acts like its recording, but when it completes there's nothing saved.

huh - Zoom Camera by Moula Soft Inc. says "Oops! Video recording is not working in your cellphone right now!"

Tried rebooting the device?

Many times.  I also went to the task manager to kill apps that might have been running using the camera.


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Why: My phone will not install downloded apps. Will not calculate Storge usage % (Audio, Apps, etc.)?
My phone wouldn't install an app the other day (jefitt) so I tried looking at the internal memory (% usage for Audio, etc.) and it wouldn't calculate it (just showed the calculating status for 4 or 5 minutes then that detail went away, replaced by just "Internal Storage).
I deleted a bunch of files and then tried again and JeFitt installed. Internal memory was low (about 200 MB of 8 GB free) so I thought maybe it was a bit constipated.
Now it's doing the same thing. Tried installing a couple of different apps with the above symptoms.
What I've tried:

Deleted files so that I have 1.2 GB free on internal memory, 2+ GB free on SD card.
Booted into Safe Mode with the same symptoms
Simple Restart and Soft Reset with same symptoms.

This is a Motorola Razr M (Micro) with Android 4.2

lol, Android's internal memory is "constipated". brilliant! :D oh dear, ok seriously, first thing first, are you rooted? If so, using root explorer or equivalent, you may find a directory called /data/tombstones and /data/anr in which there could be log files filled up in there, that can be the culprit, it would be safe to delete them.

I am rooted, but have not installed a custom ROM. And I don't have a /tombestones/ directory on either the SDcard0 (internal mem) or SDcard1 (sd card)

the directory /data/tombstones is on the system partition, not on the sdcard.

@t0mm13b  Not sure how to get to Tombstones so posting that as a seperate question:http://android.stackexchange.com/questions/61624/


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Why does "Power off" actually reboot?
If I hold my power button, I presented with the option to "Power off" my device. I touch it, and my phone (a LG Nexus 5 running on Android 4.4 KitKat) indeed turns off. However, it suddenly turns back on. If I power off multiple times, it eventually stays off. Is this normal? Does the phone restart if it is aware of pending updates or something?

No, it's not normal. If you are in warranty, go to the service center. OTA updates aren't triggered automatically. You need to tap it from notification.

Because long pressing the power button on all most any android device(if not all) will reboot the device. It is meant to be the restart button in case on a device something goes wrong, you have the option to hard reset the device.
To correctly shut down a device you have to tap the power button and select the option to power of, or if you are in CWM select "Power off device", or I think you can shut it down using adb to.

This is likely the issue. I haven't observed the reboot issue the past couple days. If I do, I'll look into replacing it.

"Power Off"(menu selection) actually reboots my Kit Kat if it's plugged into the computer with USB debugging on. If i disconnect, the power off powers off.


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Stock dialer app on Andorid Kit Kat does not like to bring up the num pad

Device: Note 2 (Verizon i605)
Rom: CyanogenMod 11 (Kit Kat 4.4.2)
App; ASOP dialer

Whenever I fire up my phone app to call someone, and click on the keyboard, a white box (1/5 of the screen) pops up. I have to click on it again to make it go away, then click on the dial button and the buttons show up. Does anyone have any thoughts and suggestions how to go about fixing this?
Screenshots (click images for larger variants):

dialer / phone app // pressing the num pad on the bottom gives me this little box

pressing BACK (or tapping anywhere else) shrinks the little box, and then I can hit the num pad to get the numbers back up

A screenshot would help enormously.

Sure, just added some above. :)

Looks like some kind of bug, did you try a fresh install of Cyanogen Mod?

Yes, when it first started I thought it was some screw up from going from 10.2 to 11 (4.3->4.4) so I did a brand new install wiping everything from the phone. Still, this little screw-up popped up.

@Zlatty: Looks like an incomplete, customised error dialog box. If you perform a clean install and it still occur, I'm guessing it's an error thrown by the app or the service used by the app that was killed unexpectedly by Android. Check with the CyanogenMod developers - maybe they can shed some lights into the matter.

I had the same issue, not with Cyanogen, but stock android in Nexus 5 phone. I solved the issue temporarily as follows :
Go to Settings > Developer Options
Change Animator Duration Scale to 0.5x (may be more. At first I set it in None, so it didn't work. Changing to 0.5x solved my problem. I didn't check other options like 1x etc).
This method solved me in Nexus 5. (Not sure about Note 2, try it and let's know)

Bingo was his name-o!
I turned all of my animation settings off in Developer Settings. Changing the ADS to .5x fixed the issue I was having. Also, the keyboard is KitKat like, and not Halo-ish like before!

Good to know it worked for you. I wonder why it happens and why google doesn't correct it. It was there in Android 4.4 and still in 4.4.2.

How often do you see people enabling Developer Mode AND disabling animations? I think we are .00001% of the whole userbase. Also, your solution solved my issue in Hangouts. I gave you props: https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/61486/why-are-my-messages-hidden-under-the-keyboard-in-the-hangouts-app

It would be nice if this bug in the animation framework were fixed... Now I have to figure out what's more annoying, animations everywhere or this bug in one place.

@romkyns: Truly annoying. Sometimes it gives me a feel like I am standing between "sea and devil" :).

I can't find this problem anywhere else, not even on the CM forums.
My advice would be to install another version of CM for your device, maybe try a nightly or the previous stable/mr/rc version.


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Not connecting via usb since latest update
Since the latest update on Galaxy S3 (now have Jelly Bean 4.3) my phone will not connect via USB to the USB port on my car radio. It connected before the update. What can I do to correct problem?

It could be that its recognizing the USB cable as a computer and not just an outlet for power. Is there any indication that you are getting power? Did you try the same cable on a different device?

What protocol does the connection to your car radio use? I can't exactly speak for the GS3 but this is for stock Android so it may be similar. Go into Storage under Settings and hit the menu button (or the menu overflow) then select USB connection (or similar), make sure MTP (you probably need this one) and any other protocols you need are checked. There may also be a Mount USB option present if that the former does not work.


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MIUI How to disable badges on homescreen?
MIUI uses those red badge notifications just like iOS, but I really want to disable them. Specifically for the MIUI Market, which I don't use because it's in Chinese (I only speak English). I have turned off all notifications in the market settings, and taken away every permission from Market within the system settings, but still the badges come up about once a day.
Any ideas?

By MIUI you're talking about http://miuiandroid.com/ just to confirm?

Yes, that's the one.


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How to setup an Android tablet for use by an older person
I consider myself fairly competent with tech, but I am more of an Apple guy so I had very limited exposure to Android, so far, and my problem is that I want to set up an Android tablet (Acer Iconia 16GB, running Android 4.2.2) for usage by an older person (my mother).
For the time being she will only use Skype to communicate with relatives and friends.
How can I set up this so that it works basically as a single-purpose device?
Are there any utilities or apps I should install?
(For example I noticed that the font, even at the maximum size, may still give her problems- she will use Skype for voice/video only, so screen space for text is less important than being able to read messages and labels).
I am also worried that notifications (including the ones about patches/updates) may give her anxiety, at least at the start, so I'd like to know if it is possible to disable most of all of them.
If anyone has other suggestions for this use case, even if not explicitly mentioned in my question, please contribute. It's my first attempt at this so I may be missing a lot.

You would probably wanna:
-Setup a launcher like Nova Launcher (my personal favorite) solely to setup gestures for daily used tasks like calling and viewing SMSs.
-With Nova launcher change the icon size to maximum (130% i guess) to make icons more visible.
-Go to Accessibility and change the text size. Since it varies from manufacturer to manufacturer, the customizability may be different. Tinker around in the accessibility settings to find something useful.
-Change ringtone, notification sound and alarm to something loud and distinct.
-Turn on Haptic FeedBack in Sound settings (varies from manufacturer to manufacturer again)
-De-clutter the home screen! May even want to sort them by folders (drag an app over the other)


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install MySQL or any other lite weight database?
I have a android mobile with version 4.1 Installed. for my practices I am thinking that  it would be nice if I have a database in that.
If it is MySQL I would love that. could somebody tell me how can I install MySQL in android ?
Thank you.

Android comes with SQLite. That should be adequate for most applications.

can u setup replication to an online mysql server when the device gets internet connection it copies the whole local SQLite db to an online mysql db?

There are some packages on Google Play you might wish to check:

Bit Web Server (PHP,MySQL,PMA)
Ulti Server: PHP, MySQL, PMA
KSWEB: server + PHP + MySQL

As the names suggest, all these are web servers bundled with MySQL and some scripting support (PHP). A search for mysql might reveal additional candidates.

Bit Web Server, Ulti Servers, and ksweb is not free
Palapa Web Server is free but I can not connect to their Mysql Server on Android x86 CPU.

Well, there is a Free and very lite Mysql Server for Android that support all cpus (armv6, armv7, armv8/aarch64, and x86).

What is your connection to this product? You seem to have responded similarly to recommend this product multiple times today.

I commented you at https://android.stackexchange.com/a/173659/218252


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How to check if a phone can be rooted? Can the Fujitsu Arrows 201F be rooted?
I want to have a phone that I can root.  Today, I'm trying to purchase one.  I want to know if my phone can be rooted in advance.  The selections of phones from my provider, Softbank, is limited and the phones are all outdated.  But I have a discount, so I want to get one of them.  The Arrows 201F is the phone with the best battery life, so I want to get that one.  But first, I want to know if it can be rooted?  Can it?  And if not, how do I check the other phones at Softbank to see if they can be rooted?

You could check our rooting index to see if it's listed, and has a rooting solution mentioned. Searching the web, especially XDA is another good approach. No guarantees, however, for any results :)

@Izzy Good comment, man.  I threw up a post for the 201 and 301 on XDA.  They're looking into it.  I've found I need to learn some basic stuff about rooting phones.  For example, can roms for one phone be used on another?  Can sudo-access programs be run on similarly-modeled phones.  Of course, I had already checked the index prior to asking.  Naturally, the phone I've mentioned isn't listed.

@Izzy Read this post: it's an offshoot of the link you gave me: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2239958.  The guy says: 'Just try it!  If it doesn't work, shoot me an image of the issue!  Hand me a PM!'

We have plenty questions on those topics as well. Recommendation: Check the corresponding tag-wikis and frequent questions, e.g. on rom (short answer: ROMs are device-specific due to hardware and driver issues). Superuser and SuperSU on the other hand are not device specific. // And yes, there are several rather generic rooting methods, also listed in our rooting index :)

@Izzy You know, man: I don't even know if I want to root it.  I just want to be able to run stuff as a sudo user.  Like, I want to be able to read and write in memory, for example.  And I want to be able to programmatically turn on GPS....

Just another hint: chat is over here, not in the comments :) You have the required rep, so feel welcome.

@Izzy This comes up as the top google result for "can my phone be rooted" or "how can I check if my phone can be rooted".  Obvious keywords, you know?  I think the phrasing is important: gives people a GENERAL resource for understanding whether or not any given phone can be rooted, and how to figure out if it can or cannot be rooted, alone.  I tried to root my prior phone, found out two years later that it could have been rooted the whole time--, but I was told it couldn't be.


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Tablet sending Message automatically to a fixed number (everyday)
I have same problem as described in My phone is sending SMS automatically everyday, but I have a Croma CRX-1125 tablet. It's deducting Rs 1.5 almost everyday, and it's sending message to Swipe telecom number. The Croma tablet is tied up with Swipe company; Croma doesn't have its own tablet.

I don't think the device makes any difference in this case, if it's an app causing the trouble. Have you checked your apps with Permission manager, as the linked question suggests? From the facts you provided, it's hard to see what could be the cause.

Check the permission manager as Izzy said, most times this happens due to an errant app. Have you side loaded any games, or anything not from a reputable store? The last time I saw this the person had a cracked copy of Rayman that was sending SMS (and sending their contacts, messages and personal information over the internet too). Actually it's worth pointing out there are plenty of rogue apps on the official stores (Play, Amazon etc) too.

Try to force close the particular app/service that is causing this problem (That is the app/service that is sending that message).
And if possible, uninstall that app.
If uninstalling is not possible, you may need to root your phone to either
uninstall/stop it from starting on bootup/stop it from sending message.

Thanks all. I would try it. I have permission explorer. would send you soon the pic of that and then help me in that.


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Problem with downloading files from play market and websites
I have nexus 5 (android 4.4.2, TeamWin Recovery Project, root). Recently, problem with downloading files from play market and websites appeared.
I see infinite downloading in the play market. I see infinite work of the donwload manager process in the action bar, when I download some stuff from website (for example, when I try to download something from my HTTP local file server).
Sometimes I can solve my problem to restart smartphone, to clear data/cache play market app and download manager procces. But the problem occurs again.
Also I tried to boot into recovery, clear cache, fix permissions, and reboot. These actions have fixed my problem, but the problem appeared again.

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What rom are you using? Just rooted stock rom?

@Zlatty, yes, I use just rooted stock rom.

I wonder if it is an issue with the storage. I had issues like this with a 4.2 rom on my Note II. I'll suggest an answer that might work below.

It is possible that the Play Store is having some issues writing on your phone. However, given that your phone is new(ish) and that there is nothing that's going on a SD card, it makes me think that the Play Store is getting confused.
Depending on what GAPPS package you installed, there could be a variety of tweaks that are done to the package. I would double check with goo.im or XDA to see hat GAPPS to install with your rom/device. Perhaps removing the Play Store, then installing a GAPPS with the right play store app would fix the problem.
Additionally, it could be that you have your runtime on ART instead of Dalvik and the Play Store is glitching up. To check your runtime, go to Settings -> Developer Options -> Select runtime.

really, I have ART runtime. However, I chose this runtime on day of purchase of the Nexus, and I had no problems for a while. Thanks for the advice. I'll try to reinstall GAPPS.


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How to set the default search engine in Android to use SSL?
If I use the "widget" of my Android 4.1.1 (on my "samsung" i9220) then I can see that it isn't using SSL. How can I set it to use it??

Are we to assume you are talking about the Google search widget?

the search "widget" or whatever it's called on the desktop after a default reset.

Ah I see. I think you will have to find a browser that defaults to HTTPS all the time. I think you'll have to manually install Firefox, Dolphin, etc. until you find one that can HTTPS on each request. I just checked Chrome beta, and it had no such option. I know HTTPS everywhere extension works on FireFox and Chrome, but that's only on the PC.