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twrp flash successful but stuck at "recovery is not seandroid enforcing"
when i try to flash twrp  odin says "PASS", but when I attempted to reboot into recovery mode, my phone froze on the 'Samsung Galaxy Grand prime' screen with a message in small red text at the top saying "RECOVERY IS NOT SEANDROID ENFORCING".
i have flashed and used twrp recovery before and i re-installed stock ROM which replaced my twrp but now im having this issue.
please help me why it happens and how to fix?


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How can I disable voice commands when double pressing the home button on the Galaxy S 4?
How do I disable the Voice Command on my Galaxy 4s when pressing the Home key twice?

This seems to be a function of S Voice, which can be activated with the Home key. To disable it, open S Voice, and open its application settings.
Uncheck 'Open via the Home key'.
See this article at AndroidCentral.

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My phone is missing from my devices tab
My phone (which I have been using for more than a year) never appeared in my devices tab in google play store or when I check my location history. In the track my phone area it appears normally but in play store (desktop website) it does not appear.
If it matters, I own an Xperia C4

Click on the gear icon, Settings, is you device shown there?  You may need to check under Visibility to "Show in menus".

@RMarkwald no it is not. Even though the tablet I got a lot later is there

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Is it possible to control the charging voltage?
As far as I know the regulation of battery charging is done inside the phone. The typical method of charging lithium cells is constant current charging followed by constant voltage charging where you shouldn't let your battery voltage go over 4.2V.
However it seems my charger keeps pushing the maximum possible current and increasing the voltage far beyond 4.2V. At 100% the voltage gauge is at 4.4V and if I remove the charger it's going down to 4.25V, which is again above the safe levels.
So it seems my charger is killing my battery. Is it possible to somehow tell the system to stop increasing the voltage above 4.2V or preferably 4V?

The battery voltage is controlled at a hardware level, not natively controllable via any Android APIs. Depending on your device & firmware, there may be apps that can control the manufacturer specific features, but that's very unlikely.
Try looking into Voltage Control on the Play Store, it can under-clock the CPU, maybe even the voltage - Voltage Control

Voltage Control Extreme (developer name sulph8), features include:
  - Support more than one profile
  - CPU history display
  - overvolting support (+50mV and 1500mV limit)
  - undervolting up to -250mV (lite version limited to -200mV)

Maybe an old post & you have prob sorted it but a simple zener diode circuit will do the trick. Use a 2v and 2.2v in series (or similar) & a < 4.2v  relay activated by a NPN transistor to separate the charging voltage.

Welcome and thanks for your post. This site is targeted at end-users, not electronic engineers, so an answer that involves soldering probably isn't going to help the OP or others in the community.

Physically modify the BMS (Battery Management System) circuitry of the phone won't be viable if the space is too small. If the phone has removable battery then it might be possible to put the circuit between the phone terminal and the battery, I'll doubt its mobility though.

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Recover passwords from Android browser
I have an Android 5.1 device. I have saved my passwords for some web pages in the Android browser (default browser). Whenever I need it, I just open the page and I am already signed in. Somehow, something has happened. Now it asks me for the password which I forgot. My phone is always locked and no one else can possibly open it, so I don't know what happened exactly and why.
I can't choose to click the password recovery/forgot password, as I used a college email address and now is blocked/deleted.
I'm ready to do anything with the phone, root and all. I read some reviews about rooting and then recovering the passwords from webview.db from /data/data/com.android.browser, but, this folder is empty. Not sure where to locate webview.db, does it show up only after rooting?
I will really really appreciate any tips or advice on this.

Android browser should automatically back up any passwords on your Google account (the college email, but signed in on Google). The first step I'd try is to recover your google account.
Hopefully, you had some alternative contact methods (secondary email, registered phone number, chosen account trustee, etc). These allow you (sometimes) bypass password entry provided you answer any questions accurately enough.
In my last use of the recovery option, it asked me about previous Google purchases and significant email communications and it let me in after 24 hours.
Beyond this, I am unsure if rooting your device will be successful as major parts of the OS are.

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Email notification on Huawei Mate 9 Pro
How can I get email Notification on my Huawei Mate 9 Pro? Used to have it but now it has disappeared. No sound is heard and no icon shows up for incoming emails.
Any comments appreciated.

If you are using the Gmail client for Android, then as documented on the Google support page:

By default, notifications are turned on for any messages in your Primary label.
First, turn on notifications & choose your settings

Open the Gmail app .
In the top left, tap Menu .
Tap Settings.
Select your account.
To turn on notifications, check the box next to "Notifications."
Tap Inbox sound & vibrate.
Choose your notification settings, including sounds.

Note: Your Android device also has notification settings that are separate from the Gmail app.
Change notification settings for certain labels

Open the Gmail app .
In the top left, tap Menu .
Tap Settings.
Select your account.
Tap Manage Labels.
Tap one of your labels, like Important.
Tap Sync messages  Last 30 days or All. If you don't sync messages, you can't turn on notifications for that label.
Choose your notification settings for that label. Repeat this for any labels you want to get notifications for.

OK, thanks for the info on Gmail Client. However I am also using the Email Client on my Device as I have a POP3 email adress. On this Client the Notification seems to be missing With both sound and icon. Also want to use the Outlook app and the same seems to be the problem there. Your note: Your Android device also has notification settings that are separate from the Gmail app. The link did not work. Could you check the link "Notification settings"?


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How do you bypass the google account on an RCA RCT6873W42 Android 6.0 tablet?
I factory reset my tablet, but before I did the reset I went into settings and turned off backup and reset. So when I did the reset I pressed wipe data/factory reset then it said am I sure I want to do this it had two options yes or no and I pressed yes. So now it's saying enter the last account that was synced but I cant because I turned it off.
Can someone help me get bypassed the google account set up so i can just get on my tablet? I've tried everything nothing seems to be working. I even called tech support but they're closed.

its an RCA RCT6873W42-ANDROID6.0 Tablet

Welcome to Android Enthusiasts! Have you already checked with our factory-reset tag-wiki and followed up the relevant links? Did they not help?

So now it's saying enter the last account that was synced but I cant because I turned it off.

You need to remove all accounts before you factory reset! Just enter the last account used on the device to start again.

It's locked to the last account for security reasons ( Eg.  stolen and hard reset devices )
You'll need to type the exact credentials that you last used on the device to unlock it
Sync settings have nothing to do with the extra device security features


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What does a "3/4 circle with a plus inside it" icon on the notification mean?
After I recently updated my phone about a day ago, this strange sign that looks like a 3/4 circle with a plus inside it showed up on the top left that I have never seen before.

Does anyone know what it means? Or how to get rid of it?

If this is the icon you are looking for then it's the Data Saver icon in Mobile /Network Data option:

Screenshot (click to enlarge)

Status bar icon is to show that Data Saver is ON. Data Saver controls data usage of device .
To turnoff Data saver, go to Settings-> Data usage -> Data Saver and turnoff. There you can see an option named unrestricted data access, which you can set application that can use data, even if data saver is ON (Eg. Google Play Services ).

Ok, I found out. It's the "reached the data cap limit" icon. Note that it's not found anywhere.
The icon is visible here, near "Data usage". The same icon will appear in the top notification bar:

Screenshots (click image for larger variant)

This now sounds like an icon from your service - which is? Please, how did you find this out, if it is "not found anywhere?".

@wbogacz AOSP, no doubt.

Go to "CONNECTIONS" >> DATA USAGE >> DATA SAVER >> turn OFF!

The icon disappears

That's a great explanation of how to turn off Data Saver on your phone, but you don't say what phone that is, and it doesn't appear to be what the OP is using. Also, the question is about what the icon means, and has already been answered. It's most helpful if you can focus on questions that don't already have a good answer.


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Is it possible for rooted phone to move internal SD to external SD?
I want to make my internal space solely for app installation and then the rest of the data (e.g. big game files, etc) I want to go to my external SD instead. How do I do this with a fully rooted phone with Xposed framework and recovery and running Lollipop 5.1.1?

You could link the sdcard/Android/obb folder with sdcard2/Android/obb and just save the obb files ( big game files ) separately ! ... I think it's called symlink or something

How would I go about doing that?

Start with our app2sd tag-wiki for the general info (especially read the "extended methods" section), and then continue to our link2sd tag-wiki. That should get you started :)

I'm answering my own question here now. What I ended up going with is the Xposed module called XinternalSD. What it does is trick the apps of your choosing to think the external SD card is the internal SD. You can choose which app to redirect so things you want to be faster (like a launcher) can be kept pointing to the internal. This module can also work on system apps so that's really nice. For example, if you set Chrome or Firefox to be redirected, when you download things, it's gonna go directly to external SD.


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Why is CPU usage constant high (~2/2/2.5) on Samsung S3?
Short story: Samsung S3 running stock Android 4.3. Was sluggish, turned on "show CPU usage" in developer options and it hovers around 2/2/2.5. Stopping all active apps doesn't help. I see "mmcqd", multiple "kworker" instances, "system_server", "systemui", "surfacefinger" etc. in the related list of processes.
Didn't know how normal this kind of load is for an Android device, so I checked on an LG 4x HD (Android 4.0.3) and there I see usage fall below 0.5/0.5/0.5, so there seems to be a problem on S3.
Update: checked a low end Lenovo A Plus and load there is around 12, yet it's quite responsive. No idea what to make of it. In any case, the S3 is very slow and shows a much higher load than the LG.
Sure, S3 has Viber, all kinds of Google sync enabled, but I'd don't see these in the process list and they're not being used (no user interaction with the phone whatsoever).
So, how to find the cause and reduce CPU load to make the phone more snappy?

Try out this app  enable background monitor and see what is usage. However if phone doesn't lag than you shouldn't bother with cpu usage

@ЈеднорукиКрстивоје Thanks for the answer, but the phone is sluggish. The monitor app seems nice, but what I think would be most useful - aggregate CPU time per process - seems to not be among its capabilities.

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Talk to Android Device via UDP via a wired connection (on Windows) - UDP port forwarding & port mirroring (like midimux)
This is a continuation of an already asked question Talk to Android Device via UDP via a wired connection where the solution was "simple, using a shell cmd in the terminal".

This was WAY simpler than I thought it was. I was trying to get this working for days now but it's actually really simple.
My first approach was using reverse tethering, having the idea that I would need the Android device to get its Internet/LAN connection from the PC and not the other way around.
Though that is not the case, just enable USB Tethering on your android device and thats all you need.
After you did that, open a terminal emulator window on the device or open an adb shell session with the command adb shell. Enter netcfg to print out all the IPs and look for a device named rndis0 or usb0 or maybe another name, depending on your ROM or device. Simply look at all the devices that are "UP" and make sure its not Wifi or Mobile data connection, you can recognize them by the device name.
If you think you found the correct adapter (it shouldn't show more than 2-3 devices that are listed as UP and have an valid IP next to it) simply send your OSC messages to that IP adress and it will work just fine. This should work with about any network protocol.

Terminal isn't on Play Store, so I guess that referred to configuring the device at the (Linux/Mac?) computer end.
My question pertains to Windows, re: Mach's question @ hexler.
Failed attempt 1
OSC is an 'encoding', not a protocol (the co-author* tells us)

OSC is an encoding not a protocol. Some OSC libraries and apps only support UDP for some reason but from the beginning it has been run over serial, TCP/IP and UDP. I have tunneled over MIDI too. oscuino shows you how to separate the encoding from the protocol.
Because some applications only listen for OSC over UDP there is an advantage making the Teensy appear to be a source and sink of UDP packets.

So, it seems it can be done. Just haven't yet worked out how, on either Android or USB. I hope to ascertain how to configure USB tethering on Android, and port mirroring - I simply want clear instructions.
Additional links:

https://imgur.com/G7GC2wX
https://i.stack.imgur.com/bnesS.png
https://forum.pjrc.com/threads/18849-Open-Sound-Control?p=27630&viewfull=1#post27630

There are terminal emulator apps like Termux (F-Droid, Play Store)


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Unable to access Gmail, Play Store, YouTube. Basically all google apps
I'm having an issue where I can't access pretty much any of my google services on my Samsung Galaxy S7 edge (running Android 6.0.1 currently). I don't have general internet connectivity issues as my wifi and mobile connections are fine and other apps are running without issue.
My google account information doesn't seem to be the problem as I've successfully signed into the account on my PC and even on my phone through my web browser, it's just the apps which are a problem.
When I try refreshing my gmail account, I get a system notification saying login failed. When I click that message, the phone tries to take me to a screen which says "Enter account information" at the top, but the rest of the screen is blank white.
I also have another system notification saying Account Action Required for my gmail account but when I click that one, it takes me to a Google Play screen where it says "Checking info" but immediately closes. When I go to Google Play manually, I get the same screen then it asks me to choose an account. My existing account is listed but when I select it, I just keep getting taken back to the same screen asking me to select an account. If I choose add account, I get an error message stating "Couldn't sign in. There was a problem connecting to accounts.google.com"
I've done some fairly extensive research already online and tried several steps from various sites, none of which have worked. Listed below is what I've seen and tried:

Verified 2 step authorization is not active
Cleared Cache and Data from Google Play and Google Play Services. Tried disabling Google Play and reinstalling the factory version.
Checked Date and Time settings and they are set to automatic. Turn them off then back on again for good measure.
Downloaded ES File Explorer and tried checking the Host file. Apparently the phone is not rooted and I was unable to figure out how to enable rooting even after enabling Developer Options.
Downloaded and installed what I believe to be the newest APK for Google Play Services.
Plenty of rebooting along the way.

Any help would be greatly appreciated as I'm really at a loss to the cause of this issue and I'm not finding anything more to try online. Thanks!

It seems like everyone was logged out of their phones yesterday, possibly for safety due to a widespread caching bug.
Have you tried removing your Google account, then adding it back in?
Settings > General > Accounts. Tap your Google account, then the overflow button, then select Remove.
Re-add the account from that same screen.

So to preface this: I actually had this happen to me all the time, and I eventually was able to purposefully recreate it and figure out what was going on. This was my solution; hopefully it helps you, too.
That said, my problem was in fact with my hosts file. Since you said you weren't able to access yours, I believe that might still be the case. Rather than attempt to root your phone immediately, my first suggestion is to look at any apps you might have recently installed and used that may have caused the problem. In particular, ad blockers often try to circumvent ads by redirecting web addresses to localhost. Another possible redirect is billing and license verification. If you've tried using an app for any of those purposes, see if you can undo the changes in said app.
Next up, if that's not the problem: rooting. Not an easy process and, because I probably legally need to, I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY ILL EFFECTS DUE TO ATTEMPTING TO ROOT YOUR PHONE. ROOTING IS DANGEROUS AND WILL VOID YOUR WARRANTY. PROCEED AT YOUR OWN RISK.
That out of the way, the most important thing to remember when rooting your phone is to get software that matches your exact phone model and carrier. If it doesn't, just don't. You'll save yourself a lot of headache. ...there are a million and a half guides on rooting, so I won't reinvent the wheel here, but in general, the process is: find a custom recovery for your model/carrier > flash custom recovery with a computer program called Odin > download su.zip > flash su.zip with custom recovery. Some devices may require a preliminary step called unlocking the bootloader... Google around for your phone, you can figure it out... Now on to the fix!
My particular problem was a redirect of android.clients.google.com. It sounds like your problem might be similar (accounts.google.com). Once you're rooted, use ES File Explorer to open either /etc/hosts or /system/etc/hosts in text edit mode. Search for the suspect line, and delete the whole line! It should look something like:
127.0.0.1 accounts.google.com
If your hosts file is excessively large and you can't search within it, you can actually delete it and replace it with a file named hosts with a single line in it:
127.0.0.1 localhost
Everything should work thereafter. You can even unroot from the settings of the SuperSU app if you want. Hope I was able to help!

Check your mobile date and time
And secondly check if BACKGROUND DATA is turned OFF.it too restricts any Google app from working.it will be indicated by a triangle icon in the notification area

Thanks for the help! I checked the date and time settings a while ago as I had a similar problem with my Samsung tablet a while ago. I hadn't checked the restriction of Background Data but I have now confirmed that it was not restricted. If you have any other ideas, I certainly appreciate your time. Thanks again!

Go through following steps:
1.Settings.
2.Accounts.
3.Delete Google accound if exists.
4.Add new Google Account.
5.Restart Your Phone.

I appreciate the help! Unfortunately, this didn't seem to work for me. Now when trying to add any account (my existing account or a new one), I get the error message "There was a problem connecting to accounts.google.com".


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How to access Genymotion files from desktop?
I want to access Genymotion file from my desktop. Is it possible?
What I find every where is about accessing desktop file from Genymotion!

check this out
C:\Users{username}\AppData\Local\Genymobile\Genymotion\ova

Its type is "Open Virtualization Format Archive", while I need physical access to file.


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change the position of google search bar in Google Now Launcher
I am using Google now launcher on my Moto G3 phone. I have set up wallpapers on my home screen but the Google search bar(which is situated at top of my home screen), seems to be always overlapping the wallpaper content.
Ideally, I should be able to get rid of that search bar from my home screen of Google Now launcher, but it looks like there is no easy/working way to do it, beside installing another launcher, which I do not want to do.
So, as other alternative, I want to adjust the position of Google search bar by moving it around the home screen. But I am unable to drag/move it and hence unable to change its location
Is there a way?

If you're into rooting and Xposed Framework, this module called Xposed GEL Settings has a bunch of Now Launcher-related settings, among which you can disable the permanent search bar. You can then put a search bar widget on arbitrary location of the screen.
Note that this app requires a compatible version of Now Launcher / Google App to work at all. Supported versions are listed on the module description page.

Sadly there is not. But if you are looking for another Google made launcher, get the one made for Google Pixel phones by going to [1] and downloading it. Then go to your settings, go to security, then enable installation of apps from unknown sources. After the launcher is installed press home, choose Pixel Launcher and set it as default. You can now disable the setting that was enabled above.
[1] http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/pixel-launcher/pixel-launcher-7-1-1-3368800-release/pixel-launcher-7-1-1-3368800-android-apk-download/


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What system app handles the screenshots in Lollipop?
When I take a screenshot using Power button + Volume Down, does anyone know which system app deals with taking that screenshot? I need it for a setup I'm doing on my phone (Xperia) but I can't figure it out which it is

SystemUI handles the global screenshot.
SystemUI/src/com/android/systemui/screenshot/GlobalScreenshot.java
SystemUI/src/com/android/systemui/screenshot/TakeScreenshotService.java


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How to reopen Note 3 Samsung phone in case the password has been inserted wrongly and the phone is blocked
the password of my note 3 phone has been inserted wrongly and the phone is already blocked and TalkBack has been turned on. is there any way to unblock it without losing information.

If you have a Google account signed in to the device you can reset your password.
Or a better solution is to reset your Samsung account password. Assuming your device has Internet connection, you can unlock it from the account dashboard.


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factory reset a device having no volume keys or home button
I got a device that I have to reset to factory settings because the owner of the device has forgotten its password. I checked Debugging is not enabled.
I have seen various suggestions on how to reset a device but all suggestion involve volume keys. Unfortunately this device doesn't have any volume or other key, there is just only one power key.
Device: QMobile E885
How do it reset it ? or unlock the device. any suggestions?

How the heck is possible that phone doesn't have volume buttons? Anyway try flashing stock firmware maybe there is way to do that without involving recovery

There's instructions floating around for a QMobile E790, so this might work for your model.
Try dialing 277634#*# or 47328545454#
It should then give you the option to factory reset.

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How to containerize apps?
There are a lot of Android apps out there that request all sorts of permissions. They want access to your files, your contacts, etc. Many of them don't run properly and/or crash without these permissions.
Is there a way of installing and running these apps without exposing information? Can I "containerize" apps, where it is still granted permissions but runs in a sandbox/container where my personal information isn't visible?
The usual way for me to do this on a computer is to run the app in a virtual machine, but VMs are not available on Android. Alternatives?

First of all, all apps on android are sandboxed against each other so one app can't access data of other apps. However of you grant some permission to some app it's granted if not than it's not granted. What do you mean by "exposing information" ? This sounds like paranoia to me. Just one more thing if you allready  use android or anything else connected on internet forget about privacy. The safest way to hide personal info is not having it on device which have access to internet, or on a pc whic doesn't have a way to connect to internet or simply use paper.

@ЈеднорукиКрстивоје For example, many games ask for "Media/Photo/Files" and "Read Contacts" permissions and don't run unless they are given these permissions. I'd like to try these games without giving it access to this information. How do I do this?

Not possible to run game it must have access to storage how would it load all textures and other stuff, access contacts is needed if game is connected with google play or any other account. So don't be paranoid, and do not keep sensitive data on phone if you are so scared

@ЈеднорукиКрстивоје that got nothing to do with paranoia, just with common sense. For some background, also see: Dangers of ad modules in apps And besides: if an app needs access to my contacts just because it's "connected with google play or any other account", the dev made a bad mistake (that permission is not needed for this, find some details in Android 6+ and account permissions: where have they gone to?).

Ana: Is your device rooted, or would you consider rooting if that offered a solution? If not: There are VMs for Android which you can run on your PC to try things out.

@ЈеднорукиКрстивоје You are conflating paranoia with desire for security.

Maybe. My tought is that if you use someone's else not your own software there isn't security, so I don't bother with 'security'. Don't keep sensitive info on phone and you'll be fine.

@Izzy No. With this conversation, I'm going to venture a guess containerization is not possible with unrooted Android now.

@Ana there are possibilities (need to find that app again) – but I'm afraid you wouldn't like it: The "container manager" itself requires so many permissions I didn't dare taking a closer look. Though they somehow make sense, as it needs to manage those "in the name of the contained app" to be able to intercept.

@beeshyams I was a fool. I even wrote it was an app with so many permissions; so I just needed to sort my list by that (descending), and find it right on top (literally; 101 permissions required): Parallel Space. The feature asked for here can be found in the second bullet-point of the app's description.

@Izzy: not sure if it is a case of jumping into fire from the frying pan : )

@ЈеднорукиКрстивоје "if you use someone's else not your own software there isn't security, so I don't bother with 'security'." → So when you're living in a hotel room, you leave the door open and the money on the table? Ugh. I'd rather check whether my bags can be locked, and rent a safe. Which is, figuratively, what Ana asks for.

@beeshyams Exactly what I pointed out above ("I'm afraid you wouldn't like it"). Though Parallel Space has a pretty good rating: ~4.5 stars at ~1.5Mio (!) votes. Quite impressive. Still, I might try it on a VM to see its workings, but I doubt I'd let it on one of my "real devices" :)

@izzy: I don't give much credit to the app rating- likely to be more utility of app oriented rather than look into security angle. Anyway if you do study it on CM, be kind enough to share your findings. Thanks

@beeshyams I'm not studying it on CM. I wrote "I might try it on a VM". But that has a handicap, see my currently newest question: I can't get any recent version of Android running in Virtualbox on Linux. So the "I might" is plainly theoretically.

@izzy: pardon my typos please. Hope you do get your answers and in turn benefit lazy folks ( read me)

If I get that other issue solved, it will definitely benefit not only me, @beeshyams :) And right now, there's some light at the end of the tunnel (Firelord seems to have it running on Slackware). I just hope it's not the headlights of an oncoming train #D

Maybe this can help https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/closed-beta-test-incoming-companion-app-t3366295

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How to remove an already synced Google account from a Samsung Android device?
I have a Samsung Galaxy S6. I signed into my Gmail on my friend's Samsung Galaxy S4 phone quite a bit ago. A few months and all of a sudden, yesterday I was getting notifications on my phone asking if I was trying to sign in. Because he kept getting notifications that action was required for his and my account, so I told him to leave till we could have both phones together to see what was happening. We click on his email, and if you touch the drop-down arrow, it shows mine too.
We have tried everything to remove it from his Google account so my email will not be accessible on his phone, but when we click on mine and manage accounts, it takes mine to the page where you can sync everything, and if I click all the syncing boxes, all my email come up on his phone.
How can I get my Google account off his phone? How do I take my Gmail off his phone if it doesn't sync properly and give me the option to remove my account?

Under Accounts in your friend's phone's system settings, there are probably two instances of Google. This may look different depending on your exact version of Android, but something like this (but with two instances).

Click the images for larger versions.
Unless the caption for each account tells you which is which, you'll need to open them to find that out. Once you've found the right one, there should be an option to remove the account. On my Samsung Galaxy S5 running LineageOS 14.1, it looks like this after I click the three-dot menu at the top right.

And on my Honor 8 running stock EMUI 4.1 it looks like this (the language is set to Swedish on this one, but you get the idea).

The red rectangles were added by me, to indicate where the option is found. Unfortunately, I don't have a phone with Samsung's stock ROM at hand, so I can't show exactly how it should look on the S4 or the S6.
Once you've deleted the account, the phone should forget about it, and consequently stop logging in to it and syncing with it. It only deletes the account from the phone, not from Google's servers, so you won't lose anything.
If the above doesn't work, then something is wrong. A last resort is a factory reset.


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What smartphone and/or app support voice dialing on speakerphone like Moto X 2nd Gen?
My last phone was the Moto X 2nd Gen.  The entire reason I bought the phone was to use its voice command features so I can call for help with my voice.  I'm in a wheelchair, and I refuse to pay for a life line if a smartphone has this capability.
The way the Moto X 2 worked was that you trained a voice command code phrase (with your voice) into the smartphone to unlock the phone.  When utilizing the phone's voice dialing feature, you'd say that code phrase (with your voice) to unlock the phone (or bring it out of sleep mode), and then say "Call {contact}" where {contact} would be the name of an Google Android contact.  The voice command result(s) get verbally read back to you.  If there are multiple, you have to repeat the correct contact.  It would then dial the primary phone number of that contact while also enabling speaker phone.
I tried the Google Assistant and Google Now and I'm unable to find a way to set things up with all of those features.  Google Now can call someone if you say "Google Now.  Call {contact} on speakerphone.", but you need to wake up your phone from sleep mode before "Google Now" will activate.  I've even tried Open Mic for Google Now, but it doesn't solve anything.
If anyone knows how I can get the features of the Moto X 2 on any other smartphone that has Android installed, or knows of an app with these features, with the use of speakerphone, please let me know.  I also would like to buy a phone with high quality microphone and audio hardware.

Looks like the Moto Z has the Moto Voice feature, and the Nexus 5, Nexus 6 and Nexus 6P can be taken out of sleep mode using Google Now.  Other phones using Google Now cannot be taken out of sleep mode.  You must first touch the screen.  So Google Now is useless as a life line if you cannot physically reach your phone in an emergency and must rely on your voice.
Sleep mode and lock mode are different modes/statuses.  Sleep mode is what happens when your screen goes black while the phone is not being used.  Lock mode is when the phone is ready for authentication (keypad, face, voice, code, etc..), but have taken the phone out of sleep mode by pressing a button.  Some forums say you must first unlock the phone.  This is untrue.  I was able to get Google Now to work with the Samsung Galaxy S7 when the phone was NOT sleeping, but was still locked.  But since Google owns the rights to the Nexus brand, they obviously allow their Google Now to work ALL THE TIME, including when in sleep mode.  That's how they keep the edge.  And that's why I'm buying a Nexus 6P now.
Google Pixel phone (new Google phone) might do the same thing, but I haven't looked into it yet.  That phone is a bit more expensive.
It's possible that Google signed some contract with Motorola that allows them to share the patent.  Or maybe Google pays them to use it with their phones.  Because Motorola makes the Nexus 6.


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how to recover data from a broken mobile phone which has an inbuilt storage only
My Lenovo Zuk z1 came under a bus and it broken into pieces. Is there any possible way from which I can recover some data from it as it contains some memorable moments of my nephew  adding that Zuk z1 does not have a external memory?

Welcome to Android Enthusiasts! Please take a look at our data-recovery tag-wiki for a starter. You'll find some relevant questions (with answers) linked from there. As I expect the screen being broken too, also see our broken-screen tag-wiki for additional hints. For good answers it would help if you could [edit] your question and add some details concerning the state of the device: How much broken is it? Literally pieces?

Yes, you can try Chip-off acquisition, physically removing (desoldering) the phone's flash memory chip and then use a specially tool Android Phone Datarecovery DS3000-USB3.0-emcp221.

But how do I recognize the  ROM on the circuit board? I googled for it but can't get a satisfactory result

Normally the ROM is near the Procesor, you can use the schematic

Here is the schematic http://forum.gsmhosting.com/vbb/f1000/lenovo-schematics-diagram-pcb-lay-out-available-2197590/

Would u please mail me the content of the link as it asking for a id for downloading content and not accepting any user name???? Email at...22vishal1994@gmail.com


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Webpage objects extend beyond visibility
Usually, when I see mobile webpage issues, I chalk it up to the site's developer not making the page universally mobile-friendly. Sometimes it's videos that extend beyond the bounds of the screen and I'm unable to zoom out, sometimes it's text.
However, I came across this page which is Google's own page. Why is it that on Google's Nexus 6P (with Google's Android) using Google's Chrome browser, the page ends up looking like this:

I can't even watch that video correcty, let alone pause it, without blowing it up to full screen.
If Google can't even keep issues like this from cropping up, part of be thinks it must be pretty difficult from a development standpoint. I don't know if there is any user-end methods to avoid this, so I guess my question is: Is there some way I can force Chrome to always display objects like this in a usable fashion?
Note: I have force zoom enabled, but unfortunately that only guarantees the ability to zoom in and doesn't allow the option to zoom out far enough to enclose all content on the pages I'm referencing.

It isn’t browser’s fault, the video container has hardcoded width of 560px, that’s about 1960px on Nexus’s screen, which itself has width of 1440px. That’s webmaster’s fault, as it’s possible to make the container smaller on smaller screen.
As the browser simply does its job, there aren’t many solutions, but here’s what I can suggest:

rotate the screen (in landscape mode you have 2560px, that should be enough);
set “Request desktop site” in Chrome’s menu. Again, the website won’t be much more usable in portrait mode, but you’ll be able to see the whole video;
watch it fullscreen.

That's about what I expected. I had hoped there might be some way to force scaling somehow, but I didn't really expect it to be likely on the Android version of Chrome. Maybe an add-on on desktop, but since Chrome on Android doesn't have add-ons, I didn't think it was too likely.

Does the same for text that that hangs off the edge but doesn't allow me to scroll left or right to see it? I usually can turn my screen for these, too, but it's still frustrating.

@SendersReagent, are you referring to a specific website? Anyway, such situation would be possible if a too wide HTML node was contained inside another node that’s width was the same as screen width (or smaller) and if the latter didn’t allow overflowing content to be visible. Unfortunately, it’s common if a page wasn’t designed with mobile in mind.


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Assistant 1.0 Malicious app cannot uninstall or delete.
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Is there any other way to remove this app without preforming a factory wipe?
And
Can I still trust my SD Card?
Even Hornet Antivirus is foiled by this app. It's permissions never showed. Even before I disabled this non-manual DL, it was hidden to all but Task Manager.

Are you rooted? If you are you can remove the app in  multiple ways provided you first have:

ADB (Download standalone version to PC - )
USB Debugging enabled on phone (Settings->Applications->Development and check USB Debugging).
A PC (I will be giving windows instructions but it should carry accross the platforms) and USB cable (apparently type C works best).

Next, connect your phone to your PC and ensure the correct drivers are installed to do so (these can usually be found on your manufacturers webpage).
Launch cmd and navigate to the folder containing adb (using 'cd [filepath]').
Enter the following commands into the command line:

adb devices

If nothing shows here the drivers arent installed correctly or USB Debugging hasn't been enabled.

adb shell

The interface my slightly change now, this is just accessing your phones internal commandline.

cd system/app

Changes directory to system apps.

ls

Find the app you want to remove on this list.

rm example.apk

I would now reccomend rebooting when you are sure the app has been removed.
If you are not rooted try use one-click solutions so you do not have to factory reset your device such as kingroot.

If you are on a ZTE made device, do not fear, as this is a legitimate app made by ZTE. They don't use it for anything and it's just there.
But if your device is not a ZTE, try to uninstall all of your antivirus apps and install Malwarebytes and Avast Security instead as they are reputable and Hornet antivirus is not.

Since the package name contains ZTE, I'm thinking the same as you do; however, as for "they don't use it for anything and it's just there", I'd love to see some evidence to back it up - you got any? P.S. I'm Chinese myself but I don't really trust built-in apps by local manufacturers either.

Don't worry about it being spyware. I have a ZTE phone and the screen above is exactly the same as mine and I read the terms and they can't share the data from the app


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What does the two speech bubbles notification icon means?
What does the two speech bubbles icon (second from the left) in the notification bar mean?

Does it not appear among your notifications when you drag down and check?

Just a guess, possibly wrong. Tencent's IM app WeChat looks similar.

It is a notification from one of the chat apps you may have installed (e.g. Facebook).
It is either notifying you of new messages (which will be cleared when you pull down the notification tray and click on it) or it is trying to make itself persistent so that the system will not remove it from RAM memory (which you can unset it in the settings of the app) which will affect user experience.


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Developer Options not showing up in LineageOS new build
Some weeks back I installed the latest version of LineageO S: 14.1-20170209-UNOFFICIAL-onyx on my One Plus X phone. After playing around with it, there were a lot of issues in the new build. So I decided to uninstall it by opening the Developer Options and tapping 7 times on the build number, but nothing comes up.
Below are the things which are not working in the new build:

Tapping build number 7 times doesn't unlock Developer Options
No notifications at all. I can hear the sounds but no success to show notifications
Google Play Store updates & installation suddenly stopped
Reset everything option not working

How to open Developer Options so that I can activate the bootloader & install the stable ROM?

Can't you just use adb reboot-bootloader from a PC?

We have a potential XY problem here...
Instead of trying your utmost to get into developer options, just power off the phone fully, then use the key combo POWER + VOLUME_UP to boot into bootloader, from which you can start tackling the problem in ways you'd like.


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LineageOS: Phone and Contacts crash
I've switched from Cyanogenmod to LineageOS using the experimental build and then flashing a nightly build afterwards. This worked great except for the fact that the phone and contacts app kept on crashing. I reflashed the nightly and -- to be sure -- this time I flashed the GApps immediately after as well.
I've tried both the Gapps "stock" package and the "micro", because I thought the problem could lie within Hangouts. It didn't.
When I boot my phone up, I get android.process.acore has stopped working (or something along the lines of that; I'm using the German translation) and this message get's repeated everytime I try to open the phone, messages or contacts. All other apps seem to work fine.
Interestingly enough, I can get called. The aforementioned error message is displayed, however, I can tap on Kill app without killing the conversation.

"I reflashed the nightly and -- to be sure -- this time I flashed the GApps immediately after as well." - this only applies to fresh installs. For anything older that doesn't have GAPPS before... back up and do a fresh one.

What's the android version in cyanogenmod, and on lineage? phone and contacts are system apps,  may be you were in different android versions.

@AndyYan I reflashed the nightly w/o gapps and manually downloaded the Google Phone app, sadly w/o any success. I hope I understood you correctly.

@RahulGopi Damn, that actually could be the problem. I was on one of the latest CM 13 nightlies for my LGG3 and didn't reliase that Lineage was already on Android 7.1. What's the best way to fix this?

@theCed7 A matching version of GAPPS, I guess?

@AndyYan I've flashed the 7.1 GApps version; shouldn't be the issue.

If you have the cynogenmod zip file somewhere stored then I think it is very easy to restore it. Just extract the cynogenmod on your computer and go to system->apps and copy the apks which are not working (eg.Phone, Contact in your case). Now also extract the nightly build which is giving you errors and go to system->apps and find the phone.apk and contacts.apk and delete it. Now just paste those apks which you had copied from CynogenMod and compress the modified Lineage OS in zip format. Now you are all done. Flash the newly created zip file and comment here if it worked (which is going to work in most case).


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Will Samsung Fast Charge charge a QC 2.0 device as
I have seen that Samsung phones can fast charge on both Qualcomm Quick Charge  and  Samsung Fast Charge adapters.
But I am unclear if you want to charge a HTC/Sony etc Qualcomm 2.0 device if the Samsung Fast Charge chargers will charge the device similarly to a dedicated quick charge 2.0 charger?

Re your comment on my now  deleted answer -1. Yes, both Qualcomm and fast charging are different but not much 2. Fast charging supports Qualcomm also as you can see on Samsung site. Since it supports both, and it does have Qualcomm certification ( as I recollect), arguments given in the answer were valid. Deleted my answer since it appeared to you that I missed understood the question

To be fair, I should have clarified this in my answer as well

I understand that page saying that Samsung fast charge phones will work with both QC chargers and Samsung fast chargers. Where do you see that the fast chargers work with non Samsung QC phones?

Elsewhere on the web. But more importantly, once it supports QC charging and is compliant to standard, it has to behave like QC compliant phones in supporting other devices- that's the purpose of standardisation

My device, Moto X Play uses Turbo Charging but is QC compliant and works on other brand devices to quick charge

you are not addressing the issue that the Samsung fast charger is not QC and does not have the QC logo.  Where does it say that the charger is QC compliant?  That is the question.  The samsung phones are both QC and fast charge compliant. Where do you see the charger is compliant to QC standards?  Your moto X is the phone that is compliant not the charger.

You are right if the charger does not have QC logo and I remember reading that it had (not sure for which Samsung phone) and as mentioned in first comment. You are also right about Moto X. Charger is not QC compliant. Which is the model of your device... Let's see if we can get more inputs on that- Samsung is known for changes across models

the charger does not have QC logo.  I had a pic on the answer you deleted.  The question is - is the samsung fast charger QC compliant.    iBugs answer was of course.  I was told otherwise in a shop.  Hence the question if it was tested on a non samsung device, as I presume the shop guy has no idea.  iBug tested the Voltage so for sure the QC device can get the higher charge.  So my question moves to are there benefits to using an actual QC charger, as in 12V over 9V.

Let us continue this discussion in chat.

Yes, of course.
Samsung Fast Charge is basically an alias for Qualcomm QC 2.0/3.0 (for S7/S7 edge). They are totally compatible with each other.

have you tried it?

I have a nubia Z9 NX508J using a Samsung S6 edge stock charger. The charger outputs 1.55A @ 8.96V, read with a USB meter. Then I got an ordinary phone and the charger started outputting 0.98A @ 5.11V. That's where my conclusion is drawn from. The QC 3.0 part is what I guess but I think it's true.

I see QC goes also does 12V.  Fast Charge does 9V.  Would your Z9 charge faster with a QC2 charger?

It'a bit faster but mu USB meter can't exceed 10V. I suppose it takes 1/6 less time as the 12V charger outputs 1.5A.


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Unable To Bypass Pattern Lock After Encryption
I tried encrypting my android phone and I end up with a screen with "draw pattern to start android" the pattern box is so small (ref : IMG ) after 20-30 attempts finally I draw my pattern "starting android" & power on logo screen and stuck.
What to do

Try booting into recovery mode and performing a factory reset. Normally to boot into recovery the key combination is VOL_DOWN+POWER

Tried but no result! Power + Vol Down Draw pattern end up with white screen


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Is it possible to get photos from device without screen?
I have Sony Xpreria Z3 with broken screen which. I need to retrieve all photos from that device but when I try to connect it to the pc I get message that first I need to unlock the screen but I cant do it as the screen is broken...

Welcome to Android Enthusiasts! Please take a look at our broken-screen tag-wiki, where similar issues are listed.

If your screen still works, but can't be controled, use a computer mouse to unlock your phone

You can control your phone from the computer using vysor even on broken screens. Try it!


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GBoard multi-language keyboard layout
I'm using 4 languages for writing on my phone on a daily basis. One of them is German. They use the qwertz layout by default.
I have set the German keyboard layout to qwerty in settings, but this setting only seems to work, when multi-language is disabled. When German is the first of the 3 currently enabled languages, the layout changes to qwertz, which is annoying, because I'm used to qwerty. Same with the special characters after a long press, only the special characters of the first language are shown.
How can I solve the two problems? Any ideas?


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stuck in bootloop, and flash recovery doesn't work on Nexus 5
Here's what happened:
One morning, my phone started rebooting once or twice on its own. I thought it was the power button, but then it got stuck at the boot animation logo. I've let it run like 3 hours, so I don't think it's some long update running.
When I reboot to recovery, it shows a dead droid with a red warning sign.

Only thing that still works is the fastboot. When I try to flash a new recovery (I tried twrp or cwm) with:
sudo ./fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

the command seems to run fine, but when I reboot to recovery, I'm still stuck with the dead droid with a red warning sign.
I would like to get my data back if possible (especially my files) so I didn't try flashing the whole stock rom. But if that's the only last thing to do, I'll give it a try.
So, What else can I do ? Why can't I even get the recovery working ?
TLDR; Nexus 5 bricked, bootloop, recovery HS, fastboot works; what do ?

My phone was stuck in a boot loop too for no apparent reason. I was driving to work and suddenly the phone started rebooting. 3.5 hours later it ran out of battery. I have no idea why, but this is how I got it back to life...
I use linux ubuntu so I was able to get the developer tools:
sudo apt-get install adb android-sdk
sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade

I also downloaded the latest image from google from:
https://dl.google.com/dl/android/aosp/hammerhead-m4b30z-factory-625c027b.zip

To recover the phone I performed the following operations from the bash shell:
1. Unlock the phone
fastboot oem unlock

me@ubuntu:~/Downloads/hammerhead-m4b30z$ fastboot oem unlock
< waiting for any device >
...
OKAY [ 47.200s]
finished. total time: 47.200s

This launches a prompt saying that it's waiting for devices. I then connect the dead phone using a regular USB cable.
The android device presents a menu saying asking if I'm sure I want to unlock the device and accept that the warranty might be void. As warranty on the Nexus 5 is void anyway, I can't see any harm in progressing.
2. Install the image file
Next I unzip the downloaded image file and cd into the folder:
me@ubuntu:~/Downloads/hammerhead-m4b30z$ ll
total 609328
drwxr-x--- 2 me me      4096 Dec  7  2016 ./
drwxr-xr-x 4 me me      4096 Oct 21 16:20 ../
-rw-r----- 1 me me   3199188 Dec  7  2016 bootloader-hammerhead-hhz20h.img
-rw-r----- 1 me me       974 Dec  7  2016 flash-all.bat
-rwxr-x--x 1 me me       845 Dec  7  2016 flash-all.sh*
-rwxr-x--x 1 me me       798 Dec  7  2016 flash-base.s
-rw-r----- 1 me me 574089971 Dec  7  2016 image-hammerhead-m4b30z.zip
-rw-r----- 1 me me  46581248 Dec  7  2016 radio-hammerhead-m8974a-2.0.50.2.30.img

As the phone is unlocked, I can issue the flash command from here:
sh flash-all.sh

As the script executes I see the following messages:
me@ubuntu:~/Downloads/hammerhead-m4b30z$ sh flash-all.sh
target reported max download size of 1073741824 bytes
sending 'bootloader' (3124 KB)...
OKAY [  0.291s]
writing 'bootloader'...
OKAY [  0.516s]
finished. total time: 0.807s
rebooting into bootloader...
OKAY [  0.062s]
finished. total time: 0.112s
target reported max download size of 1073741824 bytes
sending 'radio' (45489 KB)...
OKAY [  1.547s]
writing 'radio'...
OKAY [  3.123s]
finished. total time: 4.670s
rebooting into bootloader...
OKAY [  0.000s]
finished. total time: 0.050s
target reported max download size of 1073741824 bytes
archive does not contain 'boot.sig'
archive does not contain 'recovery.sig'
archive does not contain 'system.sig'
archive does not contain 'vendor.img'
wiping userdata...
Creating filesystem with parameters:
    Size: 13725835264
    Block size: 4096
    Blocks per group: 32768
    Inodes per group: 8144
    Inode size: 256
    Journal blocks: 32768
    Label:
    Blocks: 3351034
    Block groups: 103
    Reserved block group size: 823
Created filesystem with 11/838832 inodes and 93654/3351034 blocks
wiping cache...
Creating filesystem with parameters:
    Size: 734003200
    Block size: 4096
    Blocks per group: 32768
    Inodes per group: 7472
    Inode size: 256
    Journal blocks: 2800
    Label:
    Blocks: 179200
    Block groups: 6
    Reserved block group size: 47
Created filesystem with 11/44832 inodes and 5813/179200 blocks
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Bootloader Version...: HHZ20h
Baseband Version.....: M8974A-2.0.50.2.30
Serial Number........: 02c6bc76215fcd2d
--------------------------------------------
checking product...
OKAY [  0.100s]
checking version-bootloader...
OKAY [  0.100s]
checking version-baseband...
OKAY [  0.100s]
sending 'boot' (9156 KB)...
OKAY [  0.500s]
writing 'boot'...
OKAY [  0.781s]
sending 'recovery' (10014 KB)...
OKAY [  0.569s]
writing 'recovery'...
OKAY [  0.824s]
erasing 'system'...
OKAY [  1.297s]
sending 'system' (1020657 KB)...
OKAY [ 32.164s]
writing 'system'...
OKAY [ 69.195s]
erasing 'userdata'...
OKAY [  7.820s]
sending 'userdata' (137318 KB)...
OKAY [  4.511s]
writing 'userdata'...
OKAY [  9.175s]
erasing 'cache'...
OKAY [  0.628s]
sending 'cache' (13348 KB)...
OKAY [  0.630s]
writing 'cache'...
OKAY [  1.064s]
rebooting...

finished. total time: 130.023s

3. Welcome To Android instructions that you see on a new device.
Now it works.

This seems like a strange issue; do you remember tweaking your phone before it turned off, because a lot of tweaks like that only take effect after a reboot. I doubt that you only have access to the fastboot commands, but if so, you can run fastboot erase cache to erase the cache of your device. Let it boot for some time after running this command, because the cache needs to be "restored" after cleaning it. It is more likely that you also have access to adb, in which case you should make a full backup before deleting all partitions and re-installing the OS.
Here's a link to a program somebody made to backup files directly to the PC, and here's another thread on xda.
adb pull /system/app backup/systemapps backs up all the system apps of your phone to the systemapps folder in ADB on your PC, adb pull /data/app backup/installedapps  backs up all the installed apps of your phone to the installedapps folder in ADB and adb pull can help with moving individual files.
Hope this helped!

I think my phone is definitely bricked now: when I try to flash anything, it would say FAILED (remote: flash write failure) after trying a factory reset. I discovered I cant boot to a recovery image without flashing it (with fastboot boot recovery.img) and it gives access to adb but that doesn't help since the thing can't flash or mount anything.


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How can I free up internal memory space taken up by unmovable (to SD) and uninstallable apps?
I have a Samsung Galaxy Luna phone, running Android 6.0.1.  It only has 8 GB of total internal storage space, with about 3 of those GB taken by the Android OS itself, and about 2 more taken up with stock apps I don't use/want.  That leaves 3 GB for me to play around with, and as you can imagine, that doesn't allow many app installs.  Most of the apps I have installed have been moved to an external MicroSD card, but there are still those apps whose developers have forbidden the option to move to SD.  And on top of that, every time an app updates through Google Play, it moves it back to the internal storage, forcing me to uninstall some apps on the internal, update one app at a time, move it back to SD, then reinstall the apps I had to delete in order to perform the time-consuming process.
My ultimate goal is to free up space on my internal memory, all of which is taken by apps (anything else that I am able to put on the SD, such as files, is on the SD).  Things I have tried to accomplish this:

Rooting my phone:  Rooting my phone would allow me to uninstall the stock apps I don't use as well as use an app like Link2SD to move
the unmovable apps to SD; this would perhaps be the simplest
solution.  However, the Samsung Galaxy Luna is an uncommon phone and
it appears there is no way to root the phone (yet).

Adopting the MicroSD card as internal storage:  Another simple solution.  This would not allow me to uninstall stock apps, but hopefully enough space would be made free from internal storage by allowing another 32 GB space of "internal memory."  But because this is a Samsung device, there is no option to adopt the SD card as internal storage.

Using ADB to force enable the option to adopt the SD:  Another post on this site explains how to use ADB to force enable the option to adopt the SD card as internal storage on Samsung devices.  But even after multiple tries, this method just simply does not work with my phone model.

These were the only methods I could find on the subject.  It seems that I am out of luck with freeing up any more internal space than I have.  I could try converting an app I would like to force move to an APK and editing it to enable the option to move to SD, but then I would have to repeat that process every time I want to update the app, plus I want having to hack the app to be my absolute last resort.
Is there any way to free up the internal storage on my phone, by forcing uninstall of the stock apps without rooting, by forcing adoptable storage using another means that I have not tried, and/or by forcing apps to the portable SD card using another method I have not tried?  And a sub-question:  is there a way to force Google Play to install updated apps straight to the SD card?

Actually, it sounds to me like you just made a poor choice in devices in that you got one that doesn't have enough internal storage. Otherwise it seems like like you have tried all the normal ways of making more space and are out of options. Sorry.

Just a tip. You don't need a specific rooting procedure. You can just unlock bootloader, flash a custom recovery and then flash SuperSU zip package. It's a very general rooting method.

@acejavelin The phone is very obscure.  I would normally research this kind of stuff, but not many reviews exist, and the ones that do target a very general, non tech-savvy audience.  I once had an iPod Touch that only had 8 GB of storage, and I was able to install 40+ apps.  I had no idea I would be so limited with an 8 GB android.  But thank you for the tip, next time I will be much more conscious of that.

@iBug Thank you for the advice, but that's a bit too technical for me; I'm not THAT savvy.  I don't mind rooting if there's a step-by-step procedure, preferably in a video, for my specific device, but I would be afraid of bricking my device following that.  Plus the phone is very obscure, and I can hardly find any information on it as it is.

One last thing to try would be a junk cleaner, try the one made by Norton (it's the only decent Norton software) and running it. It will clear any cache files and should not affect your device.

I actually have one and have been using it.  Currently using CleanMaster because it can move to the SD card and also can lock certain apps with a PIN.  If Norton can move to the SD card I may try it.  Would you say it works better than CM?

Apps that can't be uninstalled are called bloatware. You can search for a list of them to remove them manually (like this), a debloating script to flash via boot loader if you want to keep the OS/ROM (like this), or you can flash a custom ROM if you wish to start fresh.
If your phone can't use adb to partition the sd card, you may want to open a separated question regarding on this in detail.


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Is it possible to mirror Android screen to PC over Bluetooth?
I have to show something on my phone to a large group of people, so obviously they can't just huddle around and look at the screen. I need to display what's on the screen to a laptop. I can't use WiFi, I don't have mobile data, I don't want to be tethered to the laptop with a cord, so the only option is Bluetooth. Range isn't an issue since Bluetooth works up to 100 ft (probably not that much, but much more than my needs)
Is there any way to do this, preferably for free?
Edit: people keep telling me Bluetooth isn't fast enough. Would a Wi-Fi Hotspot work? I'm assuming it doesn't matter is it's 2G 3G or 4G since the only thing that matters is that the 2 devices can communicate with each other, not the Internet.

The puny real-life speed of BT might pose a problem...

I used Screen Stream Mirroring. It is the app suggested by adeen-s.
I then turned on mobile hotspot but left mobile data off (don't need to waste that). I connected my laptop to the hotspot. Then using the instructions in the app, I was able to mirror my screen, though at an awful quality and a 5-second input delay. It does what I need, more or less.
EDIT: Using command prompt, you can make a LAN from the PC that you can connect the Android device to and use the 2nd mirroring app I suggested. This solution is best in my opinion.

Bluetooth isn't fast enough to be able to cast your screen on a laptop. It would be possible using WiFi, a USB cable, mobile data or a Chromecast which again uses WiFi.
Short answer: it's not possible using Bluetooth.
If you still need to do this, there are several options available using WiFi. Try Screen Stream Mirroring app.


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newbie: how to get larger keys on lockscreen keyboard?
background: LG model=L34C (virtual keyboard), Android version=4.4, on which I am the opposite of "power user" :-(
Basically I'm fat-thumbed. I don't want theming or photographs or animations on my lockscreen, I just want to type my password with {more speed, fewer mistakes}. (And, no, I don't wanna switch to PIN or pattern or biometrics for my lockscreen--I do want decent security for this thing.)
My understanding (which could be very wrong) is that the lockscreen must display in portrait mode (i.e., long side vertical). Is that correct? If not, please lemme know: making the lockscreen display in landscape by default seems like the easiest way to get what I want.
Alternatively: must I install a lockscreen app? If so, please recommend one that Does What I Want: display time and date in as little space as is {feasible, readable} and devote the rest of the space to the keyboard (preferably in landscape, but I'll take what I can get).

Landscape lockscreen is not impossible (although likely looks distorted), but what about after that? Do you want the phone back in portrait after unlocking, or you're happy with a landscape-only phone?

@AndyYan: I would definitely prefer to be able to switch between portrait and landscape ... but landscape-only might work for me. I didn't know that was an option. How to set?

Considering that you responded in the comments that landscape-only is alright, I'd suggest Ultimate Rotation Control. Use its "Forced Auto" mode to rotate any apps to any direction you want - that of course includes the lock screen. After proper settings, it could seamlessly integrate with the built-in rotation switch too (basically you could toggle the built-in switch and the lockscreen will now obey).
On my devices, when I have a password set and lock screen rotated to landscape, tapping on the password textbox will show a full-screen editing interface with landscape keyboard, which should be good enough for your fingers.

Note that although the app has a "per-app" rotation option, since lock screen is tightly integrated with the rest of the OS, I'm not sure if it could be used for making the lock screen display in landscape by default.

I like that URC does 7-day trial--I will try that out.


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Change the sound profile automatically when starting and ending charging
When my phone isn't plugged into the charger, it's in my pocket, so vibration suffices for notifying me of a phone call or text message. But unlike my previous phone, it doesn't vibrate loudly enough for me to reliably hear it when it's not in my pocket. So I'd like to automatically change the sound profile to "Sound" when I plug in the phone, and "Vibrate only" when I unplug it. How can I do that?
I have experience in administering Linux PCs and servers, but I'm unfamiliar with Android internals, so I wouldn't know where to begin to write a shell script for this.

Likely achievable with Tasker. We do have some Tasker veterans here - I'd wait for their move.

This needs automation or using an app (if available) , i former is preferred option for me -Macrodroid is a versatile automation app:
You would need two macros
Trigger : Power disconnected/ connected → connected
Actions: : Volume Change → set Ringer to your desired level as also others as you wish
Constraints: None (Run always) or set up your Constraints under which macro runs
For the second macro, Trigger would be power disconnected and action would be Vibrate Enable

Welcome. Glad to help


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How do I change my work place in the calendar?
When I put my work times into the calendar, I would like to just click on the word "work" and have it put in a nice piccie of my workplace. Unfortunately the calendar has decided I work in a suburb of the same name on a different continent. I can't figure out how to edit this.
This is on the gmail calendar


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Trying to restore SMS messages after a factory reset
Before I did a factory reset on my LG G3 I copied everything in the internal memory to my PC (drag and drop over USB) just in case I needed any of it later. What I stupidly forgot to do was make a backup of my text messages with an SMS backup app that I use. So I'm missing a lot of text messages that I really wanted to save (some with important information).
I have all the folders that were in the internal storage, so is there any way to just drag and drop back over certain folders to my current phone to access my old SMS messages? Or were they in a folder that wouldn't show up when connected to my PC and therefore didn't get backed up via drag and drop?

The latter. The message database cannot be directly accessed by a "normal user" (it belongs to the telephony provider, and is located in /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db – a file you don't get to see via MTP.


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Lineage OS : SD card as internal storage
I have set SD card as internal storage on custom ROM Lineage 14.1. Today, I have installed a official nightly, no issues during installation(on twrp, I cannot read external SD card). And, after reboot the file explorer, shows only internal storage(external SD shows only in Settings->Storage).

Do I need to migrate data to shared SD card, each time, after Nightly installation?
Earlier, when I set SD card as internal storage, I moved about 700+ MB to shared, and after nightly installation, it took 800+ Mb.
Some applications can't move data to shared SD card (Whatsapp, Flipkart, Google apps). I know that it is decided by the android system. How to move them, without using root or any other application.
TWRP Recovery sometimes rarely not showing external SD card.(TWRP version 3.1.0). How to solve?

After asking this question, I have installed two nightly on my device.

March_13 : lineage-14.1-20170313-nightly-armani-signed.zip
March_20 : lineage-14.1-20170320-nightly-armani-signed.zip

Now, I can finalize something about this.

You don't need to migrate data after each installation(nightly).

if it is a clean install(after factory reset), then you need to migrate data`.
if you are installing another ROM, then you need to setup as new by formatting sd card.(backup before installation to avoid data loss)

Storage size may increase due to application data usages, but, you don't need to migrate it again.

If you are flashing another ROM, don't format internal storage(format these partitions /boot, /data, /system and cache. This adoptable storage cannot be used on the newly installed ROM, but it will be available during installation [on recovery menu]).
Also, if you're backing up current ROM, Adopted SD card data is also get backed up, but the app that uses SD card as storage will loss data after restore (You need to install those apps again).

System decides which applications should save data on external sd card.(usually system apps and Gapps can use only internal storage, some user apps can be moved to external SD )
External SD card speed is slower than internal storage. Also, it may be the bug of TWRP recovery, which will be solved in future new releases.


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Google Play vanished after uninstalling updates from Samsung Galaxy Note 2
I was following advice that was supposed to help Google play work better. It said to go to the app and uninstall the updates and clear the cache. This I did but now Google Play is no where to be seen. It is not under Market or any other thing that even remotely resembles a store. I still have Google play music and Google play games but no Google play. I am no longer able to purchase in app items due to this and so far (over three days) it hasn't updated itself either. I have gone through everything including the tabs all and turned off. It just isn't there any more. Does anyone know what they may have called the original app? If its market then its gone as well. It is like it actually deleted it instead of just uninstalling the updates. I do not want to reboot the phone into its original settings as I don't know some of the passwords that I have set up for games and other things. It would take forever to track everything down.

Try getting an apk of Google Play store for your android version (Available here) and install it as you normally do.
Note: If you have never installed an app outside from the google play store then you have to enable Install from unknown sources in the settings. After installing the app, turn this setting off.


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kitkat not displaying emoji
I have an LG G3 phone with kitkat (4.4.2), about 2 years old. When using the twitter app, there are some emoji I can't see (those belonging to Unicode 9). My LG keyboard only supports, AFAIK, Unicode 7 emoji. I have also tried installing Gboard but the emoji set is exactly the same one.
Although I have managed to survive so far without typing the newer emoji, I seriously can't forfeit seeing them on Twitter app (or any other place). Don't mind which version will be displayed (google, iOS, twitter or whatever) as long as they will be displayed (bonus points for a solution that will also include updating my emoji keyboard).
I am NOT interested in upgrading my OS, rooting or installing any other version - I'm completely fine with what I've got, just want to see those new food emoticons.
Any Suggestions?

Emojis are releated to firmware/rom not to keyboard. So if you want to see new emojis you will have to updare android or flash custom rom. Maybe app called emoji switcher could help but it require root.

Emoji are dependent to OS too! You cannot have a emoji(s) which was typed in upgraded versions of the OS. You need to update the OS.

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Using (real) Android device as Webcam for BlueStacks?
I'm using BlueStacks emulator on my desktop. Is there a way to use my android device as a webcam for BlueStacks? A details approach would be appreciated.

Bluestacks does not have support for any video or audio input.


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Xiaomi 3s prime not able to read finger print on app lock
Phone: xiaomi 3s prime with android 6 and
Miui 8.
I use finger print lock for apps.
When open such a apps,  screen shows
" couldn't read finger print.  Please enter your pattern"
But i forgot my alternate pattern password.
The interesting point is am able to unlock my phone using finger print but above problem occur only with app lock.
I tried ##6484## and tested my finger print sensor.  Its working fine.

For one app or for all apps?

@SagarV Thnx for Comments. Problem with all apps which i locked using app lock. Finally resolved.

This is settings issue where am using finger print lock for apps and messed with some settings .
Steps which resolved:
1)SETTINGS > > lock screen & passwords >> screen lock & finger print
2) Draw your screen lock pattern
3) switch on “app lock” under “apply finger print option to ”


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Project Fi - What Magic Hardware Allows Carrier Switching?
Project Fi lists the Pixel, Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P as the only compatible phones with their auto network-switching system, and the FAQ and many reviews state that these phones have special radios:

These devices are the first smartphones that support our network of
  networks. They work with the Project Fi SIM card, which supports
  multiple cellular networks, and have a state-of-the-art cellular radio
  tuned to work across network types.

However, in the iFixit teardowns they don't have any unique hardware. iFixit says that the Nexus devices use the Qualcomm WTR3925 LTE Transceiver, same as several other phones, while the Pixel uses WTR3925 as well as the Qualcomm WTR4905 LTE RF transceiver. All of these radios are used in several other phones, so why don't those devices support carrier aggregation?
I found this Qualcomm article from 2014 talking about carrier aggregation radios and they appear to be widespread:
https://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2014/09/10/qualcomm-extends-benefits-lte-and-carrier-aggregation-entry-level
Can the hardware be enabled in software in other devices?

FWIR, the Project Fi SIM contains the two separate carrier profiles (separate USIM applications with their own IMSIs that obtain the lease for one carrier or another) which are selected by some undisclosed means, as noted here (there is some theorization that this could be done by software on the baseband processor or possibly the SIM card itself, and as likely as not actually a combination of those things together with the Project Fi Tycho App.) The Active carrier USIM can be manually switched using proprietary dialer codes, but at the end of the day you have something in the form of software making a selection in the same way you might find on a dual SIM device (which is not a new concept).
The WTR3925 LTE Transciever is certainly key to being able to handle Carrier Aggregation but since the signal gets processed by the baseband and the actual selection of one carrier over another is being handled by software, it would be easy enough to assume that the unique thing about the Google Devices has more to do with proprietary code than anything else.
As far as enabling the ability to use a project fi sim in another device, it has been reported that while it will work with similar hardware profiles in terms of recognizing the SIM card, it still will only recognize the currently active carrier profile and as the specifics of the switching mechanism is not openly documented at the moment it would have to be switched manually or by attempting to implement a unique selection algorithm written to the spec of the PFi SIM.

USIM,
Carrier Aggregation,
CA Cont'd,
Carrier Switching discussion thread,
Baseband / Transciever Performance Review


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DNS error on laptop when tethered to non-rooted Android 5.1 device
I am trying to hotspot my laptop from a non-rooted Android 5.1 phone (ZTE A110). On IPv4 and IPv6 I get Connection Status: Enabled - with high speed quality - but No Internet Access.  When I run Windows network diagnostics it says: The DNS server may be experiencing problems, contact your ISP.  However that is pointless as the phone itself is connecting fine to the internet.  What am I doing wrong please?  (Tethering Worked fine last week to the same laptop from the same ISP but a different phone running Android 4.4).

Hi, did you found how to solve the issue?

Try enabling the developer options on your phone, and set the usb config to RNDIS manually (this should happen automatically when you set on usb tether, but [driver issues?]) If that does not do it, go for the USB debugging option, --not that either?
 OEM unlocking is next.. (these are all in the same developer menu)..
-I am not 100% if the OEM unlock is just to enable the bootloader, but when fixing this, I remembered a nasty little tid-bit how yankee phones' ability to tether is sometimes disabled, just to enable Service Providers to sell two internet-plans instead of one..
So, now all fired up, fighting for my rights, I just went all ham on all of the above, and now my tethering experience is smoother than ever.


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Silence Notifications?
Went to the sound profile of the apps, turned them all off or blocked them and still getting email notifications with a loud sound. IS there any way to turn them off, or what is the way to do this, without silencing the ringer? This happening through Gmail app.

Press volume up/down button and then expand volume bar and lower the notifocation sound.

If you go to more info section of the Gmail app (settings > application Manager > Gmail) uncheck "show notifications". This will turn off all notifications for Gmail.


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Phone occasionally makes a beep
I recently switched from iOS to Android, and I'm a bit unfamiliar with the new environment.
My phone is a Huawei Honor 8, and I upgraded to EMUI 5.0 (thus, Android 7.0). I learned how to control the notification settings for individual apps:

The icon of any app, which makes a notification sound, appears in the notification area. There, I can press-and-hold the notification to access its settings:

At least, that's what I expect! However, occasionally (once or twice a day), my phone makes a beep (like an alert, a notification sound, whatever), but no notification appears in the notification area.
I don't know which app is making this sound, and what is the reason behind it.

Is there a way to find this out?
  Say, is there a way to keep track of apps accessing the phone speaker?

Battery notification sounds?  Any health/fitness apps that are prompting you to "get up and move" or anything?  Without knowing what is all installed on your device, it really is hard to say what it could be specifically.

@RMarkwald: Perhaps Tasker can help. I'm looking into it...

Similar problems: this and this.


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How to permanently remove a particular Chrome notification from Android mobile phone?
I visited a website yesterday. Today, a notification popups every time my mobile phone is rebooted, showing me that website (it is grouped under "Social digest"). However, when I click on that notification, it only takes me to Chrome but not to that website.
How to permanently remove this notification?

Open Chrome → Settings → Site settings (under "Advanced") → Notifications and click on it.
The following screen will appear

If you turn off the Notifications slider, you will not get any notification from Chrome at all (from sites).
To turn off for a particular site, click on Allowed → [URL of the site] → Notifications (under "Permission") → change "Allow" to "Block".

If you want to delete notifications for specific sites in the list. You have to manage in storage of application by going Android's Settings > Apps > Chrome > Storage > Manage Space > Manage.
From there, select the domain URLs that you do not want individually, which will show its "Site settings", then select the trash can next to "Usage" and select "Clear all".

i dont think it works though

Im on a samsung s10. I went to storage>manage storage on bottom left>    then clicked free up space and manage. not sure if clear all data is good to do.

If you go to the "More info" section of the Chrome app (Android's Settings > Application Manager > Chrome), uncheck "Show notifications". This will turn off all notifications for Chrome.

In the "Settings", I have "Basics" and "Advanced". In the "Basics", I have "Search engine", "Auto-fill forms" and "Save passwords". In the "Advanced", I have "Privacy", "Accessibility", "Site settings", "Date saver" and "About Chrome". I cannot find "application manager".

I have at last worked out how to remove notifications permanently from Chrome on Android:

Press the three dots at the top-right of Chrome
Go to Settings
Select Notifications
Scroll all the way to the bottom and press the Advanced button, then press Additional settings
Now you should find yourself in the notifications section of Chrome. You can see both Blocked and Allowed notifications by going through the different addresses
Click on each of the sites you wish to remove, you will be given the option:
Clear and Reset - press this if you want to remove the notification from your phone in its entirety

Seems that Google is continuously moving this setting. As of today, this is how I removed the notification settings for a specific site. I'm on a Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 lite.

Three dots at top right
Settings
Site settings
All sites
Select specific site
Clear & reset


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Tried to install app from Google but it said it can't because it's already there. It isn't
Tried to install app from Google but it said it can't because it's already there. It isn't. Google suggested I delete it but it isn't there.

Open your device's main Settings menu.
Select Apps or Application manager (this may be different depending on * your device).
Select Google Play Store from your list of apps.
Touch Clear data.


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mp4 video will no longer play
I have an mp4 video on my Dropbox. I was able to watch it earlier with the Dropbox app, but now it asks me whether I want to view it with the Photos app or Video Player... and neither appear to work.
I have tried saving the video to my device but still no luck. I am able to watch the video through VLC player with no issues but I am trying to post the video to Instagram, and Instagram can't understand it either.
I can also view the video on my iPad... and I've tried force stopping my Android apps and restarting my phone but still no luck

Sounds like some problem with codecs maybe. Did you  recived android update near time when videos become unplayable? Do you use custom rom?

I realised the problem was there because the video was 1200 x 1200 — I'd exported it from Photoshop — I then resized to 600 x 600 and then it seemed okay, and could post it to Instagram

Try using VLC, it plays most videos other players cannot and has a good interface. However, if this still doesn't work, try using Video Converter, Compressor and select the file then change it to an MP4 (I know it's already MP4, but this may fix any issues).
VLC: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.videolan.vlc&hl=en
Video Converter, Compressor: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xvideostudio.videocompress

thanks, I'd tried VLC player as per my post but had also tried the converter / compressor to no avail unfortunately!

That's a shame, but I'm glad to see it works now through Photoshop!

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Samsung phone won't turn on
A brand new Samsung phone, a 2017 A3 in this case turns off and is not turning back on.
The only workaround is to press "Power button + Volume Down Button" simultaneously for 10 seconds, but this keeps happening.

I suggest you rearrange the question and your own answer. Parts of the answer seem to belong in the question.

Problem
The phone is never actually turned off. It is just the screen that it is turned off. And it seems that there is no way to turn it on. BTW if you connect your device through abd you will verify that the device is indeed turned on.
Why it happens
It seems that a ""feature"" that Samsung haven't devoted any time to test it is causing this. The feature is called something like:

Avoid accidental screen awake when the phone is in your pockets or in your bag.

When it happens
It happens when this feature is enabled, and then you leave your phone in a relatively dark room for some time ( >30mins perhaps).
Then it looks like this feature is putting the phone into a state where key presses on the power button or the home button are ignored.
Solution

Reboot the phone

To do it hold Power Button + Volumn Down for 10 seconds, as adb reboot won't be working when the phone is in this state.

Once the device boots up disable that stupid "feature"


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How to boot in to recovery on Xperia XA Ultra F3213 (single Sim)?
I have gone through the process of doing the OEM Unlock.  I have debugger on.  I have attempted to boot into recovery using the following command.
C:\adb>fastboot boot recovery.img
response:
downloading 'boot.img'...
OKAY [  858s]
FAILED remote: oem unlock is false
finished. total time: 0.874s
If I attempt to Oem Unlock again is says its not needed.
I'm trying to root so I can remove bloat and free up some internal memory.

I believe Sony phones don't have dedicated recovery partitions. Your error seems different though - upvoted for awareness.

@AndyYan good point – but fastboot boot doesn't need a partition, just an image to load (and boot, one-time). Doesn't matter how the image file is named – could be xmastree.img though no Android device has an XMas-Tree built-in #D Which probably is why the response is "downloading 'boot.img'" (aka "I download something I hope I can boot from").


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USB OTG on OnePlus 2 phone not working, yet
As I understand it I HAVE to use the original USB OTG adapter from OnePlus before I can make use of the OTG functionality on my OnePlus 2.
But what happens if I connect a USB OTG Y-cable (powered from a USB charger) to the original OnePlus 2 OTG adapter?
This is what I would like to achieve - I'm not sure if the cable is supposed to be used in this manner

[EDIT_1]
Normally you would just plug the OTG cable into your phone and then (hopefully) it would work - But with the OnePlus 2 phone you have to use OnePlus' original OTG adapter in order to make OTG work (That's what I have read anyway) - I'm just worried that connecting 2 OTG items (cable and adapter) might cause problems.
If I could just find a cable like the one pictured above that ISN'T an OTG cable, then I don't think there would be a problem.
[USB Micro-B] to [USB-A female] with a [USB-A male] for extra power.
Hopefully the above would alow me to attach almost any device to my phone and I wouldn't have to worry about the phones power being drained in no time.
I would also like to keep the amount of adapters, converters and cables to a minimum.
[EDIT_2]
Connecting the above USB OTG power cable and/or a regular USB (USB Micro-B to USB-A Female) cable to the OnePlus 2 adapter does nothing. The USB OTG Power cable DOES charge the phone though. I have now ordered two original OnePlus OTG cables from eBay...
Let's see how that plays out...
[EDIT_3]
One of the original OnePlus cables arrived today - It's supposed to be for the OnePlus 1, but I hoped it would work with the OnePlus 2 adapter.
Still no dice...
[EDIT_4]
Better late than never (sorry)...
None of the adapters that I have tried works. Maybe I received a FAKE OnePlus 2 adapter, I don't know.
I officially give up trying to make it work.

Does everything in this "adapter chain" have to support USB OTG ??

See this question and in particular where I have linked the problems with one plus. My guess is that is what caused your original problem and what you received were fakes or incompatible

I think you are right about the adapters/cables being fake or incompatible.

Only way to confirm is to get hold of truly original ones but then you have given up :)

I have given up :)


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Find running apps
I am using Android 5.1.1 in a Samsung J7.
I want to know which apps are running.
I found at least two ways of checking that:

Settings -> Applications -> Application manager -> RUNNING
Trepn Profiler

There are some apps that show up in the list of any of the two methods. But some others show in only one of the two. For instance, Google Maps shows in Trepn Profiler, but not in the other.
What is the explanation for this?

Possibly Trepn is listing apps that are drawing power but not "running",  whereas OS is reporting those that are actually running?

@beeshyams - How would an app drain power without running, at least for a while?

Not sure, but for instance streaming ads could be a background activity possibly without app being active

@beeshyams - I do not know the technical difference between application, service, activity, and other objects in Android, so I cannot make too much sense of the comment. Trying to follow up, in your example, if there is an object (activity) behind something that uses up battery (streaming ads), without an associated app, I guess there is no app to be included in any of the two lists above, which give lists of apps running.

Let us wait for wise heads to clarify. I am also interested to know so upvoted your question


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How can I change the notification sound to a custom but non-default sound?
Ok, so the title isn't as clear as it probably could be, but here goes:
In the Facebook Messenger application you can click the profile/settings button (top right on latest version) and there is a menu option for "Notifications & Sounds".
In this sub-menu there is an option for "Notification Sound" which allows you to select the sound that will be played when you receive a new message.
This list appears to be a list of 'built-in sounds' with one exception... "Default ringtone (name of current SMS notificaiton sound)"
Basically what I am looking to do, is to change the notification sound to be different from my SMS message sound. (I actually used to have this working great somehow, but then my phone went for a repair and had factory reset).
The facebook app has a similar setting, but allows me to select from ALL my custom sounds. This is what I am hoping for.
Is it possible to get other sounds to be available in the list? How can I make it different from SMS notifications?
Samsung S7 Edge, Android 6.0.1

You'll have to add the desired tone to the /sdcard/Notifications directory (followed by a restart, possibly).
Alternately, you can install a file manager app such as ES File Explorer, which you can choose as the notification tone picker, instead of the default menu.

Thanks for the suggestions, that app made it pretty easy to do and seems to be working as desired now.

"choose as the notification tone picker", how is this changed?

Do you need a rooted phone to access the /sdcard/Notifications directory?

@Empiromancer AFAIR no. I haven't checked recently (with Android Oreo).

Except the Messenger "Storage" permission, I had to permit also Facebook App Manager "Storage" access. Otherwise it did not work. (Phone: Honor 9)

Did you try to allow Messenger to access to your storage (in the permissions of the app)? I had the same problem as you. By allowing this to Messenger all custom songs were added to the list you're mentioning.

In my Android Phone I do the following either for Messenger or Lite Messenger:

Swipe down from the top
Select your settings button
Select Sound
Select Advanced
Select "Default notification sound" or if you are wanting a different ringtone select "Phone ringtone"

You are right. I went to the Configurations, then Applications (or Apps), then Messenger, then click on Permissions. In Permissions select Storage. Then, when go back to Messenger notifications sound configuration, you"ll see the other ringtone sounds that you have in your cellphone ☝

This is probably kinda late and you've likely already figured this out, but in case somebody else is coming here looking for answers, I figured out how to do it on my Galaxy.
I'm not sure if it will be like this on other versions of Android and I have no clue how it would work on an iPhone, but here's what I did.

Go to settings
Tap "Apps"
Find Messenger in the list
Scroll down to the "App Settings" category
Tap "Notifications"
Under the Notifications sub-category, tap "Chats and calls" (not the little slider next to it, but the actual option itself)
Tap "Sound"
If you have another media app like Zedge installed, it'll ask you which you'd like to use to set the notification sound. If your notification is in your media storage, just click that, and scroll down and you should be able to find it.

Hope this helps!!

It's Simple: Make a Directory on the phone called "Notifications" (if you dont have one) and copy your ringtone into it. It will then show up with all the Samsung ones.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejsUtt4FcJo


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How to duplicate icons
I am using Android 6.0.1 on a Samsung J7.
I have an icon in my home screen that is a shortcut to an app in Parallel Space－Multi Accounts. I want to duplicate it.
(I have created it from within Parallel Space, but it does not allow for creating another such icon.)
How can it be done?
Note that it is not a direct shortcut to an App, so I cannot hit "+" in the folder I want to get the duplicate.
This appears to deal with such case, so it would not be useful.

@beeshyams Guess sancho is less interested in having a picture, but rather wants the same "instance" of the app be referenced from e.g. another homescreen. For some background: Parallel space allows you to use the same app with different accounts/settings/whatever, basically by putting it into separate "sandboxes" each with its own /data/data/* etc.

@Izzy - That is correct.


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Can I use Secure Folder without a Samsung Account?
On a Samsung Galaxy A3 2017 (A-320FL) I want to use the Secure Folder feature. Clicking on the Icon opens a prompt to sign in to a Samsung Account.
I don't want sync anything (or create another account with all of its privacy implications), just want to have password protected clones of apps and storage.

I don't think there is a way to use Samsung's Secure Folder without logging in to Samsung. I don't know why Samsung requires that you log in to a Samsung account to use Secure Folder, as that seems to increase the potential attack surface.

The answer is simple: Lust for user data. Security is secondary to this.


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recover whatsapp conversation after hard reset
i just installed nougat on my galaxy s7 forgetting to backup whatsapp conversations.
Now is all blank,sd and memory, can i recover them?

If you didn't back up to drive, you can't

The new feature of WhatsApp allows users to take backup in Google Drive. There are chances that you will be able to Restore your backup from Google Drive.

no backup on google drive...i just need to dig in the memory or sd to take it back, but which app or which software?

The backup folder is hidden in the Google Drive. Just try to open your WhatsApp and give a try or else you can also use WA Tweaks on your rooted phone to have a look at your chats


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Tethered VPN Connection
I have an OPPO find 7. At my school we have a pretty mean wifi restriction on the wifi (Blocked websites). Basically I tried to tether through an usb cable from my Phone (while connected to the school wifi) to the computer. I then had a VPN connected that is specific for tethering, but some reason my websites are still blocked. Is there anyway around this or solutions?
I forgot mention that this phone doesn't have cellular connection; strictly wifi only. Also this phone is Rooted.
Thanks for any help! :)

You can try changing the DNS servers of the wifi connection.
To change the DNS settings:

Open the Settings on the device.
Select “Wi-Fi”.
Long press your current network, then select “Modify network”.
Mark “Show advanced options” check box.
Change “IP settings” to “Static”
Add the DNS servers IPs to the “DNS 1”, and “DNS 2” fields

Example Google DNS 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 (Disconnect wifi then connect again and check if it works)
Alternatively you can change to another better VPN, if it is not configured to work via tethering then activate it but performing the following commands in terminal as root:
Iptables -t filter -F FORWARD
iptables -t nat -F POSTROUTING
iptables -t filter -I FORWARD -j ACCEPT
iptables -t nat -I POSTROUTING -j MASQUERADE

I'll try this soon! Thank you for the answer! :D


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The word "period" automatically inserts itself into sentences
I have a Samsung Galaxy S6.  Suddenly when I am typing a message  email  facebook or even in messenger the word (period) inserts itself.
 I did not type the word period nor did I even say the word it's just there. Can somebody please help me get rid of it. It is even in this question I'm asking after the word itself I did not put or say the word period.

So, what you are saying is that At the end of sentences, the word "period" is added just in front of the actual period? I've edited them out of your question for now :)

The word period shows up in the middle of sentences.

What keyboard are you using?

Perhaps if you leave it in people can see how it randomly appears just my thought. Thank you for your response it is driving me crazy

You don't answer questions, what keyboard are you using

Ok Lynn, understood. Could you please answer esqmo though? It's a good thing to know. If you haven't changed the keyboard, just say so :)

I am using my Galaxy S6 Samsung Android I didn't answer the question because I didn't see it. I hope somebody can give me some advice period I'm tired of having to go back in and delete the word period  through out my email correspondence my messenger and my text message I don't understand why this suddenly happen. I did not go back and delete it from here as it did show up again. Thank you in advance for any assistance.

This is the original keyboard that came with my cell phone.

I am still hopeful that I can get an answer to this question. If not do you have any suggestions of where I can take my phone to get this fixed very annoyed period thank you. After the word annoyed there it is the word. Just randomly inserted

Do you mean "." ??