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How to downgrade an HTC Desire to stock version?
I know the first thing you gonna say is to google it, there is plenty of tutorials for it, but I tried at least 5 of them (including some in XDA), and every time I didn't succeed.
First of all, here's my HTC Desire status :
BRAVO PVT-1 SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-0.93.0001
MICROP-031d
TOUCH PANEL-SYNTH0101
RADIO-5.11.05.27
Aug 10 2010,17:52:18

At the beginning, I tried to reinstall the original rom from the links in the XDA : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=695667
I choosed RUU_Bravo_HTC_Europe_1.15.405.3_Radio_32.30.00.28U _4.05.00.11_release_121865.exe because I'm in France (and it seems it was the most recent version for european).
But when I execute the installer, it works a bit, but then, it fails with this error :

ERROR 140: Bootloader version error (I got it in french : "Erreur de version bootloader")

So after, I tried to get directly the rom.zip by going into the %temp% folder (windows), I put it on the mounted disk of my android, and renamed it to PB99IMG.zip.
I boot with VOL DOWN pressed, and it extract the archive but fails with a :

Main version is older!

So, I must have a newer HBOOT, but I can't find how to downgrade it, and most importantly, to which version ? 0.92 ? 0.90 ? 0.83 ? 0.80 ?
I tried some tutorials, like :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=768256 => The link for the downgrader (2.1 or 2.3) doesn't exists anymore, or contains viruses ... great
http://www.mikesouthby.co.uk/2010/08/htc-desire-downgrading-hboot-and-installing-custom-froyo-rom/ => The PB99IMG.zip for downgrading the HTC Desire doesn't work, it result in the same error message "Main version is older!".
In order to sum up, I'm looking for help to make my HTC Desire go back to the ROM I had when I purchased it. For that, I need a link to a tutorial or an app for downgrading to the correct HBoot, and I need to know to which version.
Thank you very much for your help, I really appreciate! I spent 5hours trying to make this work without any luck.

I finally succeeded !! (YOUHOU!! You can't believe how proud I am !)
First of all, I want to indicate that links on XDA (those that goes in multiupload.com, that redirect to lnx.lu), SUCKS! I can't believe it. You have to download a "download manager", with so many related ads and apps you must install. It's a shame. (I am very angry agains't them (lnx.lu) for wasting my time just because they are greedy).
Now, the real answer !
You need to downgrade your hboot version before running the RUU rom, for that, it's quite easy :
First, you choose your ROM on that page, and notice the ROM version
Then, you go here (if the link is down, you can download the source code here!) and define the CID and the ROM version.
For the CID, if you don't know it, just set to 11111111 or HTC__022.
If you want to try something more precise, you can try the one related to your carrier from this link.
Keep the download file to a specific directory (for this case, it will be /tmp/mtd0.img).
Now you need the flash_image tool, if you can't find one, here's a link. Download it to /tmp/flash_image
Now some command line. For that, you'll need the Android SDK and a correct USB driver (adb should return a device when connected, with debug on).
Do these commands :
// go to the sdk/platform-tools/ dir
adb push /tmp/flash_image /data/flash_image
adb push /tmp/mtd0.img /data/mtd0.img

// Make sure those files were updated with :
adb shell ls /data

// Then run
adb shell

// You will be in your terminal's shell, now do these commands :

chmod 755 /data/flash_image
/data/flash_image misc /data/mtd0.img

CTRL+C // To quit the terminal's shell and go back to your computer shell

// Now reboot to RUU mode
adb reboot oem-78

Once the phone is on RUU mode (showing a grey HTC logo), run the .exe rom you downloaded previously, wait for it to finish, and voilà! You're done ! :)
Here's the doc I followed for the commands.

You may want to select your own answer here.

Can you imagine your answer helped me in 2016!

That's awesome :) My phone is still working but unused now (and in pretty bad shape ;) ).

RUUs are linked to carrier and their allocation of devices so it can be tricky to find the right RUU for your device
I had a similar issue with my HTC Magic and I used a goldcard method to downgrade the bootloader so that may be a good place to start, don't lose heart it can be done due to the massive amounts of different RUUs out there it can be really confusing
It took me ~6 weeks to find the right solution to downgrade my HTC Magic so I could root it, I have never looked back since
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=downgrade+desire+bootloader+goldcard


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Google map, not updating based on current location / position
Had used Google maps on Nokia E72 sometime back, and it used to autoupdate/refresh the map keeping the current location/position updated.
However, used Google maps on Android (latest version of Maps on this device, checked on Google-Play), but the the blue triangle kept on moving on the static map image, and then it went off-screen. It recentred and came back to screen, only once I hit "my location" again. This kind of defeats the purpose. Am I doing something wrong or using the app incorrectly ?

First of all make sure you have turned your GPS (if available) and data connection turned on. This helps the device to get your precise location easily.
When using the app, make sure that you don't touch your devices screen by mistake. This often happens even without you knowing it and causes the map to tilt, losing the automatic center alignment of your current position.
Now open the app and press . Then the map will center to your current location. Then tap the location icon again. Now the location icon should move with you. Tap the location icon again and then it will look like .
Now you should get a more driver friendly view with your location icon moving smoothly. Happy driving!

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Read External SD card
I have a Xoom 2 media edition MZ608-32 3G, immediately after receiving it I upgraded it to ICS 4.0.4 and rooted it.
However the beast won't mount any SD card that is put in its external storage.
I have a 32G sd card that is formatted as fat32, it reads perfectly well on my p1000 and the PC. window's chkdsk also said disk is OK, so the problem is the xoom.
Does anyone know of a solution to make the xoom mount the card properly?

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Is there an app that associates a certain action to an arbitrary NFC tag?
I'm using the NFC Task Launcher for launching actions stored on my own tags. This works fine.
What I'm searching for is an app that associates a certain action with an arbitrary tag. An example: my company ID card has an NFC tag. This tag cannot be changed by me. But I want to activate the "At Work" profile when I scan that tag.
So, the actual action is NOT stored on the tag but on the phone and gets triggered by reading that tag.
Is there an app that I could use for that?

Old question, but Automate allows you to trigger actions based on a tag id. Note that it recommends against it due to some tags randomly generating ids - so if your tag is one of these them you might struggle regardless of what app you use.

@stripybadger hi, your comment looks like an answer. Would you consider posting it as a proper answer?

I've been looking at Llama. You can set actions based on conditions, and one of the selectable conditions is NFC tag detected. I haven't tried this myself yet, but the program is pretty well thought out. Highly recommended!

whoa! great! must have been introduced in the short past. Aside of the NFC functionality, it seems like Llama was the app I was actually looking for! You get the accept for this!

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How do I sync with DropBox?
I want to sync DropBox with Android, so I can use the files on Android. So I installed DropBox on Android, but it won't download any files! (or at least I don't see them under sdcard/Android/com.dropbox.android. So I can't use the the files on Android. Did I get it wrong somehow?
I tried Folder downloader, but I lose the sync feature of DropBox this way. The files modified on my Android won't be synced with my laptop.
I was expecting to see Dropbox folder option on Android, same as on the laptop. But there's no such option.

Related: http://android.stackexchange.com/questions/8436/dropbox-for-android-folder-location

There's also this: http://android.stackexchange.com/questions/1120/complete-dropbox-implementation-for-android

DropSpace has some limitations according to it's description on the Play store:
*** current limitation:
Only files existing on the sdcard are synced.
That is, it's not a full 2-way sync.

I've been using DropSync. It does sync in both directions and I've had no cause for complaint.

I can only add that DropSync allows a single folder sync for free, and any number for a small fee.

Oh -- I found it DropSpace allows one to select a folder on Android -- and keep it fully synced with any (but not the root) Dropbox folder.

If this is your answer, please mark it as Answer. :)

@geff_chang He can't (yet). OP answering his own Q can mark it earliest 2 days later. But then he should, I agree :)

To download, you need to open the DropBox app, and select the file you want to download.
To upload, you need to open the DropBox app, and select Upload here from the DropBox menu.
The files you see on the DropBox app are not the actual files. They are only links that are in the DropBox server, which you must download. The DropBox app for Android does not work the same way as the DropBox app for the PC. The PC version automatically downloads / syncs the file on your PC.

Thank you for clarifying this @geffchang - has any sync capability been added to the latest DropBox Android (official) app in Jan 2015? Has any announcement been made for the feature to be added in a future release? Details are vague at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dropbox.android

Note Dropbox has their own implementation of this, but it's not at all the same (I recommend Dropsync instead). You can mark individual files as a favorite, then they sync normally:
Downloading (favoriting) files to your phone or tablet
The mobile app shows you the list of your files, but it only downloads the actual files as needed, such as when you tap on a file to view it. To ensure that a file is always on your device and up to date, mark it as favorite. This will also make it available when your device is offline.

Thank you for providing the official Dropbox help page link for this topic. While the official app may have limited support for "sync" features it is good to know where and how to try these file update capabilities.

It isn't clear to me how it knows when the file is needed. I have found that when I open some files from Dropbox, when the app opening them saves the change the file is automatically uploaded, but I don't know if they require API access to do this or if it is reliable in the sense of a more automatic app (such as a logger) being able to write data to the file now and then and have it always sync.

FolderSync is also able to sync folders with DropBox and it supports Tasker automation as well.
This way you can configure - for instance - Tasker so to trigger a sync whenever you connect to your home wifi.
The only drawback is that FolderSync is not getting updates since quite a while, unfortunately.


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What happens when the Home button on Android phone is pressed?

Possible Duplicate:
What happens to a running program when “home” button is pressed in Android phone?

My friend raised a concern that pressing the home button is not advisable and it drains battery.
Is it true? What happens when the Home button is pressed?


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Autocorrect is not working for Huawei Ascend G600 (U8950N)
I just bought a new Huawei (running Ice Cream Sandwich). When I use the keyboard (both the Android and Huawei IME), the photo does not recognise any common words in English, and so it underlines them all as errors. It recognises the names from my contacts, but not the main dictionary.
I could, over time, add the whole English language to my personalized words list, but I would rather not!
Any suggestions for the problem?

Have you checked whether a local dictionary is installed for your language? some keyboards require this for that issue. Besides: How shall a photo recognize words? Is that a typo in your question, or did I miss something?

I have installed Go Keyboard and deactivated the phone's default autocorrect and spell checker. This seems to have solved the autocorrect dictionary problem, and I'm happy. Seems to be an issue with the factory software from Huawei...maybe. Dunno.

I have this same issue. Would you mind outlining your steps to fully correcting the problem? Would be very helpful. I also saw a suggestion to use JellyBean Keyboard. Something about a missing dictionary


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Is there a JellyBean ROM for Xoom2 ME?

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Where can I find stock or custom ROMs for my Android device?

As the question's title says, I'm trying to find an upgrade ROM for my Motorola Xoom 2 ME WiFi-only (MZ607). At CyanogenMod, I could find a ROM for Xoom, but not for Xoom 2.
Does anyone have an idea where could I find one?
Thanks in advance!

Are you looking for stock ROM? Or CyanogenMod ROM?

See also: http://android.stackexchange.com/questions/24575/when-will-my-device-get-the-android-4-1-update-jelly-bean and http://android.stackexchange.com/questions/32589/when-will-my-device-get-the-android-4-2-update-jelly-bean

@geff_chang, There's no Jelly Bean stock ROM (at least not as of yet or that I could find) for my tablet. I was looking for a CyanogenMod ROM of something similar.


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WiFi is disabled when I enable WiFi Direct
I have a Sony Ericsson Arc S, running on Android 4.0.4
I rooted my cellphone and added android.hardware.wifi.direct.xml in /system/etc/permissions/.
I can see the WiFi Direct option in my Settings. When I enable WiFi Direct, it shows that WiFi Direct is opened, but the WiFi is disabled. If I enable WiFi, my WiFi Direct changes to disabled.
When I run WiFiDirectDemo, it fails when I enable WiFi Direct. Once it reaches discoverPeers, WifiP2pManager.ActionListener returns 'Discovery Failed : reason Code is 0'.
I don't know what happened. Does anybody know how to enable WiFi Direct for my phone? Or is it impossible? Why?

Is this a programming question? If so, it should be in StackOverflow.com

@geff_chang it does not appear to be. It looks like Tony is trying to use Wifi Direct, after putting the Wifi Direct xml file in place.

@Tony I think you can't use it due to any old hardware. From XDA dev you can try a tweak.

@ZnewmaN Thanks. I was just curious about the WiFiDirectDemo, and the mention of ActionListener.

This is the behavior on a lot of devices. You can see that it turns off on the device in this post as well. The Wifi chip in the device has to support running in both "modes" at the same time.

Very possibly my solution has nothing to do with the real problem of this person, but the topic is the same, so I consider this answer may help someone:
It is very common nowadays for AP's (access points) to have dual-band frequency 2,4Ghz and 5Ghz and to assign same SSID for both bands. Not all devices have 5Ghz support and, even having it, they may choose the 2,4Ghz band, since they may have bad signal at their current spot for the 5Ghz. The point is that if you are accessing your LAN from a different AP, or using different bands in the same AP with each device, your devices won't be able to use wifi-direct without engaging an adhoc connection between them,  thus they will disable the wifi connection to your AP. The simple solution is to use different SSIDs for each band, and connect with both devices to the same SSID (if both can connect to 5Ghz, go for it).
Different combinations:

A) different AP's same local network - wifi turned off to adhoc
between devices
B) same AP different band - wifi turned off to adhoc
between devices
C) same AP same band - bingo! wifi stays on in
infraestructure with my AP


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On-demand WiFi during sleep

Possible Duplicate:
Turning on Wi-Fi on demand

I can only find 3 options under Settings->Wi-Fi->Advanced->Keep Wi-Fi on during sleep:

Always ((the default value))
Only when plugged in
Never (increases data usage)

I feel like there's missing a 4th option, "On-demand". I want it to use Wi-Fi when needed (if possible), but I don't necessarily want Wi-Fi enabled all the time. It feels like my battery life suffer when running with the "Always" option.
Is there a way for Android to use Wi-Fi on-demand when it's needed during sleep?
If relevant, I'm running stock Android 4.2.1 on an LG Nexus 4.

Have you compared your battery life with "Never" to battery life with "Always"? Typically it seems like the opposite has been true on my phones - disabling WiFi increases battery usage, possibly because the 3G/4G chip draws more power than the WiFi chip (and may require longer transfers since it's slower, thereby increasing awake time).

My wording was wrong, as I haven't done any "scientific" tests of this, so I guess the wording should be feel vs. noticed. My question still stands tho. Is there a way for on-demand, instead of having it always on? Seems wasteful.

And we had this question already a couple of days ago (Turning on Wi-Fi on demand): No, there's no way for "on demand".

How would you determine "on demand". If the phone is in sleep mode (eg the screen is off) how does it know that you want the wifi used for the current data request, and not 3G? If you've got background data switched on, then there will be a lot of data requests happening while your phone is asleep, with no way to know that you're actually "demanding" it?

@Izzy: That question is not about Wi-Fi during sleep tho. I'm talking about what happens when the phones screen is off. He seems to be talking about when the screen is on and he is not using Wi-Fi.

@GAThrawn: I'm not sure I follow you. I'm just looking for a way for Wi-Fi to be automatically switched on when the data requests are performed, and turned off when they are completed. If my phone is "demanding" it, then I am also demanding it, since I've installed whatever is on the phone doing the data requests.

@ohaal doesn't matter which way, there's no such thing as "on demand". We already had this in different combinations, e.g. Wifi should be enabled only when app X needs it. Sure you could play with JuiceDefender and the like for it -- but there's no real solution available to my knowledge.

rather than turning off wifi (which is usually more battery efficient than 3G), I'd think you'd probably benefit more from turning down the syncing frequency. You should be able to create a Tasker/Locale/Llama/AutomateIt profile to disable syncing or any data connection when sleeping, and only reenable it every x minutes for a short period or so.


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How can I root my Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet?
Lenovo doesn't provide updates for the Thinkpad Tablet any more. I'd like to install a custom ROM and therefore need root.
How can I root my Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet?

The method "debugfs automated root" works for the latest official ROM of the Thinkpad Tablet. Like most other root methods, you need to have the Android SDK (or at least adb) installed and must be able to connect adb to your Lenovo Thinkpad (Enable debug mode).
Linux Users

Download the exploit from the XDA Post.
unzip DebugfsRoot_Generic_v2.3.zip
adb push debugfs /data/local/
adb push su /data/local/
adb push debugfsinput /data/local/
adb shell mv /data/local/tmp /data/local/tmp.bak
adb shell ln -s /dev/block/mmcblk0p3 /data/local/tmp
adb reboot
adb shell chmod 777 /data/local/debugfs
Now run the exploit: adb shell "/data/local/debugfs -w /dev/block/mmcblk0p3 < /data/local/debugfsinput"
Cleanup: adb shell rm /data/local/tmp && adb shell mv /data/local/tmp.bak /data/local/tmp
Install superuser: adb install Superuser.apk

Windows
Just run the provided RootDebugfs.bat

Is this specific to that device, or kind of Generic for certain Android versions?

I believe that the exploit can be used on other devices too. But I cannot verify this of course. All I can say is that it worked for me with the latest stock version.  And this is the situation most people who want to root the TPT are in.

Hm, so I might give this a try with my Cat, before I return it due to its display error... Will take a look at the stuff if it does no harm when failing ;)

If you want to use the exploit method on anther device make sure to replace /dev/block/mmcblk0p3 with the correct device node.

Good point. Which one is it? I mean, the "target partition" (recovery, system, data...)?

/system (or just follow the steps RootDebugfs.bat does).

Could you state specifically the version(s) this works on?

At least the latest stock ROM for XEU. But I am pretty sure that it will work on every up to date stock ROM (although I can not verify this, since I only own an XEU device).

Tnx @Flow! Will try it ASAP and report back.

Grmpf. /system here is not /dev/... but simply ubi0_0 (UBIFS), so I better don't play with it I guess...


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Android Tablet (Sony Tablet S) with USB Barcode Scanner
I have a USB barcode scanner which, when plugged into a Windows PC works fine, just as a keyboard it 'types' the barcode into whatever software is open.
I am attempting to use this with an Android tablet (Sony Tablet S running ICS 4.0.3) - to no avail.  I can plug in a USB Keyboard and that works fine, but the scanner just doesn't work. (I get a beep when scanning, then the laser goes out and won't react to any further presses of the trigger until I unplug the USB cable.)
Any ideas? I've tried with a Nexus 7 and that works fine. Surprised it doesn't on the Sony as I thought the scanners just emulated a Keyboard anyway. If no specific solutions, is there any reason to be hopeful that the upcoming Jelly Bean update for the Sony could help? (Nexus is JB) or is it more likely to be hardware related?

On a windows system, those things still need drivers to tell windows it's a basic input device. I'd imagine the sony is running an older version of android to the nexus that does not include support for that particular hardware. It's certainly going to be software compatibility rather than hardware.


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How can I install CWM Recovery on my Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet?
I want to install a custom ROM or use one of the many other features of Clockworkmod Recovery on my Thinkpad Tablet.
How can I install CWM Recovery on my Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet?

Is it rooted? And boot loader unlocked? :)

It is rooted now. This question is part 2 of my series of the thinkpad tablet. I am not sure if the boot loader is unlocked but it worked with just rooting. You can join the chat and tell my what you mean by "unlocked bootloader" if you want.

Installing CWM Recovery
CWM Recovery for the Thinkpad Tablet can be found on XDA. You need root on your Tablet to install CWM Recovery. Download the recovery image (recovery.img) and follow the instructions provided by the post. It basically comes down to pushing the image file on the sdcard and overwriting the boot partition.
Push the recovery image to the sdcard
adb push recovery.img /mnt/sdcard/

Get root
adb shell
su

Remount /system and backup install-recovery.sh (optional)
mount -o rw,remount /system
mv /system/etc/install-recovery.sh /system/etc/install-recovery.sh.backup

Overwrite the boot partition
dd if=/mnt/sdcard/recovery.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p1

Entering/Booting CWM Recovery on the Thinkpad Tablet

Shut down your Thinkpad Tablet
Press the power button until the Tablet vibrates
Keep pressing and releasing the volume up button until you see Booting Recovery Kernel Image in the upper left corner. It's all about timing of when the volume up button is pressed. That's why it's a good idea to just keep on pressing and releasing the button until the message appears.

I got the general instructions from XDA before I found your answer, but your section on "Entering/Booting CWM Recovery on the Thinkpad Tablet" was where I got stuck, and so that was the most helpful part of your answer for me.


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How can I remove unwanted app icons from the screen?
I'm new to using an android.  Apps I have never visited nor installed are showing up on my screen (Slots, Candy Crush, Expedia, Droid Games).  If I touch them, I go to their site.  I would like to remove them but can't figure out how?  Any ideas?

Home screen or app drawer? Either way the first step would be to long press them.

If icons appear without a proper explanation, there is a chance that another installed app is creating them. These are malicious apps and won't be detected by antiviruses. You'd better check your apps for free and fun type ones

What device and version of the OS? The methods may be slightly different for each.

Also, are these apps that came pre-installed on the phone?

Sounds like you tapped into some spam trap. Certain apps place advertisements this way -- though the new playstore rules do no longer allow that. Others do the same in the notification area. Airpush is the best known evil source of such.
I suggest you scan your device for such apps. Try e.g. with TrustGo Ad Detector. Quoting from the apps description:

It is common for advertising networks to collect information on how you use your device. Your information is then used for targeted marketing campaigns.
Some common and aggressive methods include:

Pushing ads to your Android notification bar
Creating unauthorized shortcuts on your home screen
Modifying the default browser, homepage and bookmarks settings
Subscribing you to emails and text messages when an ad is clicked
Making phone calls and downloading malicious files when an ad is clicked

At least one line sounding familiar? (remark: emphazation is mine).
EDIT: Once you've identified the malicious app, make sure to...

report it to Google (according to the current playstore rules, this kind of advertisement is not permitted)
comment on the app to warn off other users
uninstall the app and leave it out
think about whether in the future you want to use any apps from such developers which do not respect your privacy
nothing bad with ad-financed apps -- but it a) should be clear where those ads come from, and b) they should be related to the app itself, i.e. being displayed in that app when it's used -- and not outside in different places whether you use the app or not

+1 I didn't address how they got there. I assume that just deleting the apps won't prevent the malicious one from reinstalling them, I should have added that in.

Right. That would just be handling symptoms instead of curing the cause -- which is why I pointed to those detectors. Once identified the bad app, make sure to report it to Google first, write a comment on that app to warn off other users, and only then uninstall (or you can't report/comment).

If they're on your home screen then long press them and drag them to the trash can on the screen. Depending on what phone you have and what version of Android it's running the trash can be in a different place. On the image below the trash can is at the bottom of the screen however I think on Ice Cream Sandwich and Jelly Bean it's at the top.

If you want to delete an application from the phone (and so from the menu screen) then go to Settings -> Apps and find the app you want to get rid of, click on it and there should be an Uninstall option, click this and the app and icon will be removed from the menu.

Since these icons/apps are appearing without you installing anything I assume they're being installed by a malicious application so although so may delete the icons they malicious app can just reinstall them, you should deal with the root of the problem, see Izzys answer for a suggestion on how to do this.

On my new Moto X with Lollipop, the trash can is a white X Remove up top.

You should download AVG and scan for the app that is placing the apps on your screen and it will help you not to download future programs that so this as well AVG has a website that will allow you to track your phone in the event of loss all for free.

What has AVG anti-virus has got to do with the OP's question? Not alone that, so called anti-virus scanners are a scam as well! :)

+1 to @t0mm13b -- see e.g. this slashdot article.


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Galaxy fit stuck at boot screen
My galaxy fit became unresponsive after the phone memory got full, so I removed the battery and replaced it back. Now my phone is stuck on the booting screen, it just shows the glowing samsung text and then reboots.
I have also tried to to remove the sd card and reboot but it does not help

Have you tried clearing the userdata?

how do I do that?

I'll post as an answer when I get to my computer, hang on.

I wouldn't start with that, though -- you would lose all your data (if Liam is talking about a "full clear" aka "factory reset"). You could try booting into "safe mode" and free some space instead. If that's what Liam has in mind: Yepp, good start. Walk through your apps' list and clear all their caches. Of course this depends on the fact you can at least get it booting completely into safe mode...

@Izzy how do I boot into safe mode ?

Liam already included that with his answer. The "key combination" to enter safe mode differs between devices and Android versions (see e.g. the Youtube video How To Enable Safe Mode On Android). For the Fit, XDA says "Middle button + Power button" for 2.3 Gingerbread.

How to boot into safe mode:
Note: Not all devices support safe mode
While your device is booting up, hold down the Home button. This should be done right after the screen starts up, before the boot animation does, and should be held until the device fully boots. Once done, you should see the words 'Safe Mode' in the bottom left corner.
How to Factory Reset/Clear Userdata
If booting into safe mode didn't work, or your device is still boot looping after removing some of the apps that are using the greatest memory, you will have to erase your data.
You should be able to access stock recovery by holding down the Volume UP button, the Home Buton and the Power button until the device finishes booting into recovery mode. From here you can use the volume keys to navigate to the wipe userdata option, and press the power button to select it. Once done, press the back key to go to the main menu and select to reboot the device now.
This will erase all userdata on the device!
If it still doesn't work?
If it still doesn't work after following these steps, then you will have to take it to a repair center, sorry!

I eventually had to do a factory reset, but home+power button was required to enter factory reset mode


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When phone is off and I plug it in to outlet the phone turns on instead of charging
This might be hardware but I'm not sure so thought I'd ask.
Went to plug in to charger at home last night - noticed it didn't charge. Wake up in the morning though and the battery hadn't dropped (or raised)
At work I have a different charger and same thing seems to be happening.
I powered off my phone though, removed battery, put back in, and plugged in. This is where it gets strange - instead of showing me a large battery charging which is what use to occur it turns on immediately.
I checked Software Updates and everything is up-to-date. It is a Samsung Infuse.
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WHILE PLUGGED IN:
Entered * # * # 4 6 3 6 # * #* to display battery info:

Battery Status: Not charging
Power plug: Unplugged
Battery level: 63%
Battery scale: 100
Battery health: Good
Battery voltage: 3810 mV
Battery temperature: 28.0 deg C
Time since boot: 11:50

what phone is it? I have heard of some Motorola phones doing this.

@RyanConrad A Samsung Infuse (see the last 2 words of your namesake's question).

@Izzy Not sure how i missed that...

made the phone bold for you and added some more info

@Ryan: Have you tried any other cables? Also, are you using the AC adapter that came with the phone?

Yes I tried with other cables. Tried bringing it to ATT only to have them say the Infuse is longer supported. Wound up buying a battery and a wall charger and just have to charge the battery outside of the phone and have been using Blutooth/Email for any data transfers.

What sticks out to me is that your battery status says "Not charging" Instead of discharging. I feel like your phone may recognize that the charger is plugged in, but may have some error in the battery/phone itself. I feel like your phone may just be translating the charger power directly into the phone itself, and is not able to charge the battery. If this is the case, it IS a hardware issue. Sorry that there isn't much you can do.

At this point I've bought a wall charger and second battery and have been swapping. I'll leave the question though so if anyone does have an actual solution.


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How can I boost the mic level of my Bluetooth headset?
When I make calls with my Bluetooth headset, often the person on the other end of the line complains that I am too quiet and it's difficult to hear me. How can I boost the level of my Bluetooth headset so I sound louder to others? (I looked at droid x bluetooth volume too low but that is the opposite of what I want: I don't want the headset's output louder, I want the input from the headset louder.)


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Trading clipboard contents between phone and computer
Is there a way to send information on my phone (for example, an SMS that I started to type, that got way too long, and that I decided I want on my computer to send as an email instead) through the clipboard? There are ways like sending myself emails, but they're not exactly great, on top of me finding absolutely no decent way of using email on my phone.
In an ideal world, on my phone, I would like to have a "right-click" (hold-the-tap) option, "Send to PC", and if Wi-Fi is enabled, I would just go to my PC, perhaps authorise the received clipboard (not sure that would be necessary or convenient), and then just Ctrl-V somewhere, and voilà, it pastes what came from my phone in my browser/Skype conversation/Word document/etc.
Also, I would very much like a similar option to go the other way. To send things typed from my computer to my Android device. In an ideal world, through a right-click option called "Send to Phone", or even a keyboard shortcut like ctrl-alt-shift-C. But this part, I'm not sure if it wouldn't belong on SuperUser more.
My PC uses Windows 8. My phone runs 2.3.6 Gingerbread.
My phone is a Samsung Galaxy Q (SGH-T589W).
For your information, this is almost the same phone as the Samsung Gravity Smart. Or literally the same phone. These dual names confuse me.
Samsung Kies does NOT work for me, so no use mentioning it (unless you can make it work unlike the Samsung support people I contacted, but this would belong in another question).

If all you care about is the clipboard sharing, you might want to take a look at ClipSync. This app allows you to share your clipboard between multiple Android devices and your Windows PC: Copy on one device, and it appears in the clipboard of all others. At least that's what the app description says (all Windows I have are just for fresh air and light coming in, or to look out of them (not Out-look), so I cannot verify). A 4.5 star rating suggests it works -- and it's only 150kB "big".
If you want a bigger benefit, take Compro01's advice and have a look at Airdroid. It's a great app, and lets you maintain your Android device from any web browser in the same WiFi network really nice (edit your contacts, write SMS, browse pics...). An beside that, allows for clipboard sharing.

I think I'll be trying your option first. Large apps with more options than I need, I try to avoid those on my small phone memory.

Yepp, thought so (your phone is quite small on resources) -- that's why I put that even though the other answer included your option. But Airdroid is rather big in size (3,7M compared to 150k) -- no use for rockets to kill a fly :)

Does either option encrypt end-to-end?  A primary use case for me would be copying passwords.

No idea, @KevinS – if it's not in the app description, you will have to ask the dev.

@Izzy I'm struggling to set up Clipsync between my smartphone and tablet (both android) is this feasable? Or I should try something along the lines of Tasker?

@xavier_fakerat I've tried neither yet, so I cannot tell (I vaguely remember having played a bit with this idea about 5 years ago, but no details anymore). Have you checked my list of Clipboard Tools? Has a secial section for this.

@Izzy thanks I will try and let you know the best I find

@xavier_fakerat in no case let us know what you found. Beware, you could be tempted to write an answer! #D

Airdroid will allow for bidirectional clipboard sharing (not sure if it will work if you copy, then fire up airdroid or not though), as well as general remote control the device.

Craig's UDP Clipboard Share!
Turn your Android Clipboards into one! share between android and windows devices, copy from one device paste from any other device also running the clipboard!
No internet required!
Windows app contained in the apk!
Simply install and run, no configuration!
Notification of arrival!
Launch youtube videos on tv boxes!
Easiest clipboard text sync tool out!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=share.clipboard.craigs.craigsclipboardshare


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Video conference Android phone to computer
Can I video talk from my Android Motorola Droid to my computer.  If so, how?
Can I video talk from my Android Motorola Droid to someone else's computer? If so, how?

Have you tried Skype? There's an Android app available.

Or Google Hangouts. Or Oovoo. Or any of a number of video chat services.

One thing that is worthy to mention - iirc, Gingerbread did not have capability to use front-facing video camera if present on the device!

OP: What version of Android are you referring to?

If you have Android 2.3.4 or higher you are able to video chat with GTalk.
Even better, Google Hangouts allows you to perform one to many video chats.

Thought GB did not have capability to use front-facing camera?

Yes the API interface came later. But 2.3.4 does support video calling with GTalk (and IIRC with the front facing camera).

Short answer, maybe possible!
This will depend solely on the two crucial elements

if there's a front facing camera on the handset, and that is running Skype, then yes.
Stable Wifi internet connection
The account on the Desktop PC, with Skype, shall be called (for illustrative purpose in explaining how it works) 'Bob'
The account on the handset, with Skype, shall be called 'Alice'

What you need to do is, with your Desktop PC, log on to Skype using 'Bob'. Now, 'Bob' must have 'Alice' added as their contact..
From the handset, log into Skype using 'Alice', and that account also must have 'Bob' added as their contact.
Then just interact on Skype on handset, logged in as 'Alice', talking to 'Bob' which is on the desktop PC.

Please check out zoom.us. Android version is still in beta.

Can you provide more detail about this than a link?  If the URL changes this answer won't be useful.


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Obtaining some 4.0 functions on a 2.3 phone through rooting?
I'm thinking of maybe rooting my phone, for various reasons. But one of the main ones is that I find the current version of Calendar, amongst others, that I have, very lacking. And I'm almost sure the version that comes with Ice Cream Sandwich or later is better. It just has to, seeing all the "what the heck?" things there are in the one I have.
(There's also the fact I need to free my super small phone memory as much as possible, which I'm not allowed to, but this is not what I want to ask about.)
To be clear, I know for sure that my device cannot run full later versions of Android. Clearly, unless you can use an SD card as an extension block of RAM and processor AND install the OS on it, I doubt I can do this. My phone is way too basic.
However, I would like to know if there's a way, through rooting my phone, to get some features of Android 4.0 and up. Such as a better calendar with more features, or the ability to put contacts in groups, for example.
I did look at some third-party calendar software reviews, but none of them seemed to beat the original up-to-date one. Every review seemed to point out things like "calendar app XYZ is great, but X function isn't very compatible with Google Calendar", or "XYZ Google Calendar function doesn't work on it yet", for example.
My phone's specs should be:

Samsung Galaxy Q (SGH-T589W)
Android 2.3.6 Gingerbread
Processor: 600MHz Qualcomm MSM7227 (if indeed it's the same as the Gravity Smart, because information on the Galaxy Q is rare)
Internal storage: 152 MB, some of which I think is taken up by the OS or useless stock software, because I can't ever seem to free it
RAM: 279 MB
SD card: 2 GB

If it's mainly the calendar issue: have you checked the playstore for alternatives? There are plenty, even for "small phones". Take e.g. a look at aCalendar, which is pretty nice and runs from 2.1 upwards.

@Izzy: I haven't tested any, but I've read a lot of comparisons and reviews, and seen a lot of screenshots, but they all seem to have those saddening "buts".

You will always find "buts", nothing's perfect. What I recommended you sits on top of the pre-installed calendar and adds some useful things. And it's small (~500k -- compared to > 3M for the "big flag ships" like Jorte), and it's free. Give it a try on your own, you alwas can delete it if you don't like it -- all your appointments are stored in the original Google calendar, aCalendar is just a frontend to its database. So you won't lose anything.

@Izzy all rightie, I will. If it's good, it'll solve one issue, for starters. :p

Piece by piece :) Good luck! And before it gets lengthy here: You can always meet us in chat. (Almost) no off-topic there ;)

Short answer: No!
That would cause the handset to boot-loop or cause F/C (Force Close) as Ice Cream Sandwich and later, their apps are relying on the v4.x framework.
By bringing it across to Gingerbread could spell disaster and "weird" issues with the handset.
However, bringing across Gingerbread 2.3.x apps across to Ice Cream Sandwich should work, (Paradox ahead...) as ICS upwards would have compatibility layer within their framework for running apps that target below ICS! Hope this part makes sense!

Are there any workarounds? For example, a custom OS that is compatible with some ICS features but has lower technical requirements? Anything? I made a mistake with this awful phone, but given my limited budget, I'd like to tough it out for as long as possible before looking into a more capable one.

No workarounds! Either look to roll your own ROM with ICS bits back-ported into Gingerbread or look for a custom ICS ROM for your device. FYI - Zte Blade has identical chipset and there's ICS/JB ROM available, just to show that the capability is there by a developer to port it.

Read this XDA Thread someone is bound to have achieved a custom ROM.

Rolling a ROM? What do you mean? Anyway, I ran a long and painful search (I'm awful at searching), and all I found that was interesting-ish was a pre-rooted, pre-unbloated minimalist ROM based on Froyo. This would mean I would literally be downgrading. >_> Sigh. ---Oh, hadn't seen your latest message. I'll take a look.

Rolling a ROM, means to create your own ROM based off the AOSP source project and build it targetting your device in question, but from reading the XDA thread, it seems there's no love for that device and thus, not interested in modding the handset...

Oh, all right. Sigh, I wish people were more drawn to fixing what's broken. Poor phone. Geez, they won't even base their ROM on Gingerbread. oo'

There is the source code available on Samsung for that SGH-T589W alright, maybe with that combined with ICS 4.0.4 source might get somewhere...

Yeah well. I can barely "develop" PHP, Javascript and HTML. I seriously don't think there's anything I can do with that file, myself. :c

@Ariane ICS really needs at least 512 MB of RAM, so even if you could build it, it wouldn't run very well or at all. It's time for a new phone.

@Michael Weeeeell. I'm poor and this -is- a new phone to begin with. More, like, it's time to suck it up and endure. :p

As other said, You just can not. Because, every new version of android comes with its' new feature written within its' package (which we know as firmware) So, if you want to have those there is no way. But, Still, you can have some taste of newer version of android on your old one by replacing your stock application with 3rd party application. In some cases, those applications are way better then the stock one. For example you can use a 3rd party dialer and sms app replacing the stock one. How to? Well off-course you have to be rooted. Then use any app that can uninstall system app and make any 3rd party app as system app. In my case I depend on Link2sd to do this job.
This is the only way you can get the flavor of newly release features on your old stock firmware (android version).
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Free / local voicemail / answering machine
My carrier having pretty high monthly prices for voicemail, I did not take the service. However, when I'm at school, unable to answer, and my busy doctor calls me, knowing I probably won't be able to join her for weeks with her busy schedule and only one phone line for the whole clinic, or when a hidden number (which could be anything from the hospital to telemarketing) calls me, I really wish I did have a voicemail box.
But I don't have one, and my carrier isn't getting any cheaper. Prices closely match other carriers, of course, like any "healthy" telecom market.
So I have been searching for an app that allows this, to no avail. I did find an app that automatically answers an SMS back to the caller if I miss their call, but 1. it didn't always work, 2. 95 % people calling me are doing so from non-mobile phones, 3. some people actually pay for incoming SMS, 4. it doesn't allow people to leave a message.
I saw something called Google Voice, which sounds amazing, with not only a free voicemail box, but even the ability to view them as text, and have them in your inbox, but when I go to https://www.google.com/voice, I'm taken to Google Mail.
And searching the Play Store for "Google Voice" doesn't yield any appropriate results. These things tell me, I guess, that the only "Google Voice" available to me, in Canada, is that thing that enables you to make calls from your PC browser's Gmail inbox.
So is there any way for me to have a voicemail without paying my carrier's high fees?
There should be some way to do this locally, at least, because the call is here, and the phone has an SD card to save it on, and the ability to answer it, listen to it and talk to it, as illustrated by the fact it's, uhm, a phone. And it can record sound, too. Unless they put some sort of lock in phones to prevent people from escaping carriers' abusive costs.
Or so I hope. So, is there something I can do? Did I misunderstand the whole Google Voice thing? Did I miss something obvious? Is there some way to do this?
My phone's specs should be:

Samsung Galaxy Q (SGH-T589W)
Android 2.3.6 Gingerbread
Processor: 600MHz Qualcomm MSM7227 (if indeed it's the same as the Gravity Smart, because information on the Galaxy Q is rare)
Internal storage: 152 MB, some of which I think is taken up by the OS or useless stock software, because I can't ever seem to free it
RAM: 279 MB
SD card: 2 GB

My carrier is called Videotron, if it's of some use.

Ariane, app recommendations are off topic here (see our [FAQ]). Small hint, though: Search the playstore for "answering-machine". A few of the search results sound promising. call-recorder even yields better results.

Google Voice is not universally available. What country are you in?

@user1 I'm in Canada.

@Izzy Well, uhm, unless we haven't been looking at the same Play Store, I see nothing like what I'm looking for. :/ And I'm not -exactly- looking for app suggestions. More, like, asking however it can be done.

Here is the google play link for Google Voice, if that's what you have been looking for.
Total offline answering machine functionality is not possible due to androids technical barriers. See this thread on XDA.
You can use apps like YouMail Visual Voicemail which sounds promising. If not, you can easily find many alternatives after a quick search on google play.

Thanks. I had read such a thing, more or less, but it was something super old, nad they were talking about trying hard to fix it, so I thought maybe...~ --- Google Voice isn't compatible with my phone. Explains why it didn't show up on search results. --- YouMail Visual Mail talks about "major US carriers" being supported. Looks like it works with the carrier's voicemail, which I'd have to rent. :/ @user1 : read this too.

@Ariane Sorry pal. This was all I could find.

Aw well. I'm not losing anything, just not gaining anything, so.


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Android and Google contacts not syncing
For some reason I have 10 contacts in my Google Contacts account, but I have 50 contacts on my Android phone.  I have signed into my Google Account from my Android phone and I have enabled
settings > accounts & sync > background data
settings > accounts & sync > auto-sync
settings > accounts & sync > oshirowanen@gmail.com > sync contacts

Why are my contacts not syncing?
I have tried switching my phone off and on, and I have also tried deselecting and then selecting
settings > accounts & sync > oshirowanen@gmail.com > sync contacts

to force a sync, but nothing has worked so far.

http://www.droidforums.net/threads/when-does-google-sync-contacts.14278/

All contacts that have a group will sync. Those contacts that don't have a group (ie "Other Contacts") will not.
Go to Gmail on a PC and choose contacts (I haven't tested from a phone).
There is a default group called "My Contacts" and there is a default group called "Other contacts" I would guess you don't have any or very few in "My Contacts".
Open a contact and make sure they are assigned a group. Either "My Contacts" or a custom group underneath that.
This way you can still have contacts in Gmail without having them in your phone.
BTW anytime you get an email and the contact is new, it is put in "Other Contacts".

And again learned something new -- thanks for sharing this!

Thanks, I am selecting a contact on my phone, and choosing Add to group, but get a message saying No groups.  But I have 5 groups on my phone Starred in Android, Coworkers, Family, Friends, My Contacts.  All under the Google System Group section on my phone.

Moving the contacts from google contacts on my computer to a group synced the contacts so they now appear on my phone, but the 50 contacts on my phone are still not appearing on my google account via my computer.

And from my experience, the contacts from the phone will not sync to google. This will have to be done by typing them into gmail contacts. Make the conversion. Join the collective.

But wait! after looking in the google play store there are a few apps that promise to do just that. Here is one that looks promising.

Yes, when you save a contact in the PEOPLE app it will ask you to save it to "phone" or "google/gmail". If the contact is saved in the "phone" part, it will not sync.

I don't get such an option, all I get is import from sim to phone.  I don't get an import from sim to google.


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How do I disable GMail?
Yes, this has been asked before, but neither really addresses my concern, and I don't have reputation enough to add comments to existing questions.
I've bought the cheapest Android 4 tablet with Google Play that I could find to have a device in the kitchen that syncs the family members schedules and displays them all in one place, edit shopping lists that sync with my mobile, shows the recipe I'm following while cooking etc.
As all family members are going to use it, I want syncronization of calendars, and I want to use my Google-account for which I have already purchased apps for my phone as the Google account in Google Play on the tablet, but  I do not, however, want the whole family to be able to access my email. So how can I turn off Gmail access?

Not sure if you can remove just one component such as GMail from Google Apps! And in order to remove it would require rooting and nuke the GMail application from the tablet, but then again, the current set up is extremely awkward, as anyone could go into play store and re-download the GMail app itself... Only thing I can think of is and its permitting, if there's a JB upgrade for the tablet which enables multi-user accounts...

Yup, this all comes down to "you want Android 4.2 with multi-user support". All other solutions will be based on some dirty hacks and stuff that in my experience just causes a lot of pain. But maybe I am wrong.

I don't want a multi user login procedure if it can be avoided.

You might also want to check the questions tagged kiosk-mode.

As noted in the answers to the questions you linked to it isn't possible to just sign out of the Gmail application and not other Google services.
In order to achieve the functionality you want though have you considered using an application lock such as APP Lock? With this you can require a PIN to open the Gmail app. Whilst it doesn't turn off email access it will prevent the whole family from being able to access your mail.
N.B. If you have kids using it as well then it might be worth requiring a PIN in order to purchase anything on the Play store, this might prevent some nasty surprises appearing on your credit card bill. You can see how to do this here.

@LapplandsCohan No problem, glad I could help.

This solution will likely not stop a knowledgable hacker, however (not OP's use case, but other visitors might be looking for that level of protection).

Why couldn't you just make another google account (they are free) named something like familyname.schedule@gmail.com and use it to sign on?
It would make it easy for the family then share family events with that calendar and keep their own calendar private using the invite function built into calendar.

Because I want to use some apps I've already purchased for other devices with my current Google account.
Though perhaps it's possible to install the apps, remove the Google account, create another and then still use the apps purchased and installed by the previous account?

You will be able to install them, but depending on the app it may care who is logged in. Secondly I think you have multiple Google accounts on the same device. but we are talking about a tablet that you only want to use in the kitchen for kitchen type stuff, there can't be that many apps in this category.

Go to Settings > Apps > Gmail > Disable.

Great idea. So the kid then just has to go to Settings > Apps > Gmail > Enable to revert this, right? Very safe option.

Perhaps not a safe solution, but a solution if you're only looking to block accidential email access and you're not worried about deliberate attempts to reach your mail.
However, I don't se an Enable/Disable option in Settings > Apps > Gmail


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How do I root a Zte Origin from Solavei?
I got a Zte Origin (solavei service) from vx4gwireless
There's a customer in their affiliate program and she's added all these apps and needs to root her phone (and I need to as well). I do not see a Zte Origin in your list of Androids in the How do I root my Android device? section.
Can you please add this phone and instructions on how to root it?
Its the blue Zte Origin, Model number Zte V768 Android version 2.3.7
And I need to know how to delete apps and move them to SD card after rooting!
Thanking you and that I hope someone can help!

Am sorry! But, this Zte Handset is extremely localized to your country and cannot find the means to enclose instructions on rooting, but however, try using SuperOneClick toolkit to attempt rooting. And then you can add that to the community page (no reps needed - iirc)

I rooted mine with no trouble. It's been a while but I now have SuperSU and Uninstall on my unit.  I don't remember specifically downloading either one they nay have downloaded along with an 'install'.  So do dome DD and try downloading these two. I do remember I had to fiddle some on the connection between my PC and the ZTE but eventually the rooting software loaded. I also installed Internet Booster, Ram Booster, SDCard Booster and I believe these are by the same software designer and seem to be flawless. These products working together have dramatically speeded up my ZTE Origin and I rarely get 'out of space' warnings - theyare fantastic and I would HIGHLY recommend them.
After getting all of these installed I was able to move a number of apps to my SD card freeing up a ton of space.


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SGS i9000 runing devil kernel JB gets keyboard error + play store error
so about 3 months ago i flashed my phone for the first time using devil kernel (im still a noob with this stuff) and one day writing a message I clicked the "speaker" (the one you get to speak to your phone and it wright what you say) button and since then the message "unfortunatly your android keyboard stopped" or something apears , but before that i got this weird message every time i tried to download an app from the play store.
is there anything i can do or is it best to just reset and re-install everything again? thanks

The kernel just implements the touch screen driver, if the keboard app crashes, that's a userland problem. Give some more info please: Rom, Android Version, GApps version (gapps-xx-20xx...zip). You also need to do this: Use logcat to view the crashlog and debug yourself or create a pastebin and link here. Without detailed info there's no possibility to help. If you need a keyboard, you can install an alternative one (e.g. one of those) and use that in the meantime.

Logcat is part of the Android SDK, but there are also apps to view the logs on the device itself. A windows program is also here, but you also need some drivers probably: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1618882


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My phone crashes while charging
My phone sometimes shuts down without a reason or warning. It often happens while it's charging. I'm not positive charging is an absolute requirement for this to happen, but I only remember it happening in that situation.
Then I go to it and find it not responding, just showing a battery filling up or filled up: it's charging while turned off. But I didn't turn it off, and it was still turned on when I plugged it in.
Sometimes, I can leave my phone like that a whole afternoon, noticing only after 3-4 hours that something is wrong. At that point, my phone has been turned off for an unknown amount of time, and who knows who could have tried to call me.
What is causing this? Is there a way to prevent it? Or to automatically turn the phone back on when it crashes like that?
My phone:

Samsung Galaxy Q (SGH-T589W)
Android 2.3.6 Gingerbread
Processor: 600MHz Qualcomm MSM7227 (if indeed it's the same as the Gravity Smart, because information on the Galaxy Q is rare)
Internal storage: 152 MB, some of which I think is taken up by the OS or useless stock software, because I can't ever seem to free it
RAM: 279 MB
SD card: 2 GB
Carrier: Videotron


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Making multiple files or a folder available offline in Google Drive
Is there any way to make multiple files or a whole folder available offline in Google Drive at the same time? For the offline folder it would be nice if there was some way when a document is synced to it then the document would be downloaded automatically, is this possible?
I'm currently having to select each file individually and make it available offline which is tedious.
If there isn't the possibility of doing the above in the official Google Drive application are there any other clients available for Android that would allow this?

Select all files (automatically using the menu option), then slide the "make available offline" switch. It will keep all the selection on device.
You can select a folder but Google will refuse to "make available offline".  Instead go into the folder and select any number of files for syncing, and the parent folder will of course also now be created.
Finally there is an option to automatically make recent files offline, but I don't know whether those files are then permanently made available, or only for a couple of weeks for example.

this works, but you must not have selected folders. Otherwise there is no pin icon.

http://www.howtogeek.com/227032/how-to-use-google-drive-offline-on-a-deskop-or-mobile-device/

Finally there is an option to automatically make recent files offline where can I find this option?

@orschiro Go to Google Drive, the click Settings>General>Offline

I just had the same problem. According to this feature request, the feature is indeed not implemented in the current version of the Google Drive Android App.
Apparently FolderSync does allow this (the free version works as well). You'll need to add Google Drive as a sync account, and then create a new "Folderpair", that allows you to pair a local folder to a remote folder from Google Drive. Each Folderpair is full of options on how and when to sync between the two folders (including in which direction this should happen, etc.). The UI is not super slick but it does the job.

As UncleZeiv rightly said, the Google Drive app does not support multiple file selection for sharing or other purposes, but there is a simple workaround. Open drive.google.com in your browser, and if prompted, open it in your browser, NOT in Drive app. If it opens in the drive app, then you need to clear this default in Settings (Android Settings, not your browser or drive settings)--> Applications or something similar, and clear defaults for drive. At drive.google.com, you can select multiple files.

This does not seem to be valid anymore.

In the current version of the Google Drive app (Feb 2019), if you select several or all files within a folder, a bar appears at the bottom; the menu in this bar (at the bottom-right of the screen) contains the option for "Available offline" and it applies to all files selected. I think it even works for files selected from multiple folders.

This should be the accepted answer IMO. In my Android Drive App the bar is at the top.  I can select multiple files  (by long-pressing on the first one, then tap any others to select these as well).  Then at the top where it says 3 items or however many, tap the vertical dots on the right and select Available offline.  Note that this seems a bit flakey.  If I have 24 files in a folder and all but 1 are avail. offline, then the Available offline menu option isn't shown.  Needs some experimentation.

It took me a while to figure this out. When you select multiple files, they have to all have the same offline "state" or the "available offline" menu option isn't available. If I select only files that are not available offline, I have the option to "make available offline". If they are all already available offline I have the option to "unmake" them available. But if I select a file that is and a file that isn't available, then there is no option in the menu.

Comments can only be edited for 5 minutes so here is the image. See https://i.stack.imgur.com/LFCMZ.jpg this one should be the right answer. Of course in Android the interface is very different on different versions so your mileage may vary.

Only because of this feature, I switched from Google Drive to Microsoft Onedrive which natively supports to make the folders offline across all the devices that includes Windows OS, MAC OS, Android, iOS & iPADOS. But please note that this option only available as Paid Service under monthly or yearly subscription.

The feature of syncing folders (to be accessible offline) is supported by mega cloud.
You'll have to install the syncing app:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ttxapps.megasync
The cloud website: https://mega.nz/fm

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Android 2.3.3 tablet can't find external SD card
I have a no-name Chinese tablet. When first purchased, I took three pics and everything seemed fine. The problem is when I went to use the camera later and it requested I to insert or mount an SD Card. Gallery would say no pictures. Application Manager would not move apps to the SD card.
I reformatted the SD card and everything worked for 10 minutes taking pictures. Gallery would show taken pics. Application manager would move apps to SD card. Then bam, everything back to "Please insert SD card". In Application Manager, tapping on an application/Move to SD card would not work. Camera asks for SD card to be inserted, Downloaded apps from Google Play would not install asking for an SD card.
I emailed the problem and was told by Factory to Format Nand and so I did. Things work for a while then back to the same thing, "please insert SD card". Apps won't download or move. Reformatting Nand erases Gallery and many downloaded apps so I lose all my pictures and programs.
Does anybody have any ideas?

Seems that the ext SD card is not mounting after a while, it could be a hardware failure.

I think the only solution you have there is to reformat your tablet. If there's a way you could connect your tablet to a computer, then try to back up everything like your photos. The apps will really be deleted so you have to manually download them again from the app store.
Your problem shows that there's a problem with recognizing the SD card. There's also another option which is to check if the SD card you used was really okay and not broken or damaged. Try to insert it into another device and see if it will be recognized or if you could save anything to it. If yes, then the problem is with your tablet that needs reformatting. If not, then try to replace your sd card and try again.


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Samsung Galaxy S: phone won't send or receive calls and text messages
I own a rooted Samsung Galaxy S, running 2.2 Froyo. My service provider is AT&T.
Every so often, around about once a week to once a month, my phone will unexpectedly, without warning, enter a state where it refuses to send or receive text messages and phone calls. The only way I've found to get my phone to work normally again is by rebooting.
Specifically, if I try sending a text message, it just says sending but never actually seems to send anything. I don't receive any text messages at all (and when I turn my phone back on, I might receive several at once that were sent over an hour ago).
I don't receive any phone calls.
When I try calling somebody, I don't hear the 'ringing noise', and the phone attempts to call endlessly without actually doing so. If I give up, and try clicking the red 'End Call' button, it does return me to the homescreen but displays the phone symbol in the notification bar.
If I slide the notification tray down, it has a sort of green 'in-progress' calling thing with a few buttons to mute or end the call. Attempting to end the call does absolutely nothing, and the 'call in-progress' thing is stuck there until I reboot.
However, the internet (both wifi and 3G) both seem to work.
I'm not sure exactly what causes this issue, or precisely how frequently this occurs. Since I only notice when I need to call somebody or am expecting a call, I suppose it's entirely possible that this issue occurs more frequently then I notice and just as silently resolves itself (although I have no idea how to check this).
I've tried searching on the internet, but wasn't able to find anything useful. Can somebody identify what's wrong with my phone, or help me diagnose the issue?
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Here's my logcat and here's the output I got after running adb bugreport. The error/crash last occurred on Thursday, Jan 10, 2013. I know that I wasn't receiving phone calls/text messages starting from at least about 3:20pm (Pacific time), and I rebooted the phone around 4:10-4:20pm.

Can you enclose the logcat to enable us to diagnose it?

@t0mm13b: I added the logcat. Let me know if there's anything else I can add/if I did it incorrectly.

I get exactly the same symptoms with my non-Android no-quite-so-smart (Nokia) phone every week or so!? Different service provider. The phone appears to be functioning OK otherwise.

I am suspecting, after reading the logcat and dump, the kernel killed off quite a few processes, whether its down to the ROM itself, or a buggy RIL (Radio Interface Layer), RIL is responsible for communicating with the cellular radio base-band firmware.
This is the excerpt from the kernel, showing Dolphin, Alarm Clock, Google Voice(?) getting killed off:
[125362.321461] select 2452 (ogle.android.gm), adj 8, size 5199, to kill
[125362.321481] select 2543 (.osp.app.signin), adj 9, size 3650, to kill
[125362.321495] select 2559 (pp.clockpackage), adj 9, size 4222, to kill
[125362.321512] send sigkill to 2559 (pp.clockpackage), adj 9, size 4222
[125363.255635] select 1225 (ek.TunnyBrowser), adj 7, size 19674, to kill
[125363.255657] select 2452 (ogle.android.gm), adj 8, size 5189, to kill
[125363.255671] select 2543 (.osp.app.signin), adj 9, size 3648, to kill
[125363.255684] select 2597 (gphone.acc.free), adj 9, size 3850, to kill
[125363.255699] send sigkill to 2597 (gphone.acc.free), adj 9, size 3850
[125364.339592] touch_led_control: 2
[125365.378613] select 1225 (ek.TunnyBrowser), adj 7, size 19294, to kill
[125365.378646] select 2452 (ogle.android.gm), adj 8, size 5061, to kill
[125365.378664] select 2543 (.osp.app.signin), adj 9, size 3604, to kill
[125365.378681] select 2611 (ock.xtreme.free), adj 9, size 3969, to kill
[125365.378702] send sigkill to 2611 (ock.xtreme.free), adj 9, size 3969

This is the excerpt from the telephony, note the gap in time logged, last logged at 19:23:48.949 and 19:35:33.144:
01-13 19:23:48.949 D/RILJ    ( 2574): [14954]> REQUEST_GET_NEIGHBORING_CELL_IDS
01-13 19:23:48.949 D/RILC    ( 2366): [14954]> GET_NEIGHBORING_CELL_IDS
01-13 19:23:48.949 D/RILC    ( 2366): [14954]< GET_NEIGHBORING_CELL_IDS fails by E_REQUEST_NOT_SUPPORTED
01-13 19:23:48.949 D/RILJ    ( 2574): [14954]< REQUEST_GET_NEIGHBORING_CELL_IDS error: com.android.internal.telephony.CommandException: REQUEST_NOT_SUPPORTED
01-13 19:35:33.144 D/RILJ    ( 2574): [14955]> SCREEN_STATE: true
01-13 19:35:33.148 D/RILC    ( 2366): [14955]> SCREEN_STATE (1)
01-13 19:35:33.152 D/GSM     ( 2574): [GsmMultiDCT] Stop poll NetStat
01-13 19:35:33.644 D/RILC    ( 2366): [UNSL]< UNSOL_RESPONSE_NETWORK_STATE_CHANGED

Further on in the log related to telephony:
01-13 19:36:13.891 D/RILC    ( 2366): [14972]< QUERY_NETWORK_SELECTION_MODE {0}
01-13 19:36:13.891 D/RILJ    ( 2574): [14971]< SCREEN_STATE
01-13 19:36:13.891 D/RILJ    ( 2574): [14972]< QUERY_NETWORK_SELECTION_MODE {0}
01-13 19:36:13.895 D/RILC    ( 2366): [14973]< OPERATOR {AT&T,AT&T,310410}
01-13 19:36:13.899 D/RILJ    ( 2574): [14973]< OPERATOR {AT&T, AT&T, 310410}
01-13 19:36:13.899 I/GSM     ( 2574): EVENT_POLL_STATE_OPERATOR
01-13 19:36:13.899 D/RILC    ( 2366): [14974]< GPRS_REGISTRATION_STATE { 1,a7e9,007537ea,9}
01-13 19:36:13.899 D/RILJ    ( 2574): [14974]< GPRS_REGISTRATION_STATE {1, a7e9, 007537ea, 9}
01-13 19:36:13.899 D/RILC    ( 2366): [14975]< REGISTRATION_STATE {1,a7e9,007537ea,(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),(null),0}
01-13 19:36:13.903 D/RILJ    ( 2574): [14975]< REGISTRATION_STATE {1, a7e9, 007537ea, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, 0}
01-13 19:36:13.923 I/GSM     ( 2574): <Leo> PrePLMN: 310410, plmn: 310410, ss.getState(): 0
01-13 19:36:13.923 I/GSM     ( 2574): handlePollStateResult(); regState: 1, mNewLuRejCause: 0
01-13 19:36:13.923 D/GSM     ( 2574): Poll ServiceState done:  oldSS=[0 home AT&T AT&T 310410  HSDPA CSS not supported -1 -1RoamInd: -1DefRoamInd: -1EmergOnly: false] newSS=[0 home AT&T AT&T 310410  HSDPA CSS not supported -1 -1RoamInd: -1DefRoamInd: -1EmergOnly: false] oldGprs=0 newGprs=0 oldType=HSDPA newType=HSDPA
01-13 19:36:21.298 D/RILC    ( 2366): [0001]> OEM_HOOK_RAW (raw_size=6)
01-13 19:36:21.302 D/RILC    ( 2366): [0001]< OEM_HOOK_RAW
01-13 19:36:21.306 D/RILC    ( 2366): [UNSL]< <unknown request> {0}
01-13 19:36:21.306 D/RILJ    ( 2574): processing unsol response: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unrecognized unsol response: 11012

The NITZ (Network Identity and Time Zone) crops up a fair bit too, as shown below within the same telephony log, IIRC, NITZ handling was not exactly great up to ICS, in which a patch was made to handle the handling of the timezones (either roaming when browsing the net or something awry went wrong with the RIL:
01-13 19:13:19.035 D/RILC    ( 2366): sendUnsolicitedResponses: multi client index=2, fd=28
01-13 19:13:19.035 D/RILC    ( 2366): [UNSL]< UNSOL_NITZ_TIME_RECEIVED {13/01/14,03:13:18-32,00}

The telephony errors shown, are sticking out like a sore thumb, and also down to the fact that Froyo 2.2, is old, and may not be able to handle whatever issue is with AT&T that causes it. Also, AT&T could have had their systems updated/upgraded, that is sending out extra telephony information/NITZ in a format that Froyo cannot handle and freezes.
Best bet would be to try a firmware update and see if that resolves the issue.
Prior to doing an update, since the handset is rooted, best to make a backup of everything, use Titanium Backup to backup user apps and data, use SMS Backup & Restore to save the SMS messages. It will be inevitable that the upgrade will lose root, but then again, it would be easy to do that after the upgrade.

It appears that there are some defects in your handset. So, there are no simple hacks or mends specifically apply to your situation. But here are some ...suggestions on how you can recover from the error... and some tips to ...diagnose the issue... as you have asked.

Try using a different SIM card in your device. These kind of problems are often caused when the SIM card does not contact the metal connectors on your phone.
Check your signal strength. When there is poor signal levels, some devices act wierd when they are have poor reception form the carrier.
Go to your mobile network settings and try switching between the different network modes available.

If none of the above solved your problem, you should talk to your dealer/manufacturer (and claim your warranty if applicable) or its time to change the handset. Option for updating your OS to the latest Ice Cream Sandwich is non applicable. Your device do not have an official update available (src)

No variant of Galaxy S will receive an ICS update. See the the source link you posted.

Does the phone allow you to enter Airplane mode? Try enable then disable it.
This may not completely solve the problem, but is a workaround for other phones that have similar issues.

It does let me enter airplane mode, and I tried toggling it on and off several times, but unfortunately it doesn't appear to make a difference.


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Update to 4.1.2 on a Nexus S with CWM and broken USB port
I have a Nexus S, rooted, with CWM and a stock 4.0.4 ROM. The USB port is broken(only charging works), so how do I go to stock 4.1.2 update?
If there is a way to manually apply OTA, that'd be great. Or a way to fix the USB port, but I think that's widely reported and not really fixed.
I tried the system > updates (and clearing Google services framework trick) and it shows upto date, ie. no new OTA. Perhaps because I have a custom recovery?

If you can find someone else with an unlocked Nexus S, you can use nandroid backups to do everything on their device and then duplicate efforts to your device, like so:
Let's call your phone Device A and theirs Device B.
Boot into recovery on both devices, then make a nandroid backup of each device, which I will call Nandroid A and Nandroid B, for each phone.  Using some sort of wireless file-transfer application (AirDroid, Samba Server, etc), transfer the nandroid backups to a computer for safekeeping, and then put Nandroid A onto Device B and boot into recovery on Device B. Wipe the cache, dalvik cache, system partition, and data partition, then restore Nandroid A onto Device B. Once the restore is complete, boot Device B normally and perform the OTA update as you would under normal conditions.
Reboot into Recovery on Device B after installing the update, and make a new nandroid backup which I will call Nandroid A2. Then, move files around wirelessly as outlined above and wipe Device A and restore Nandroid A2 to Device A. Finally, wipe Device B and restore Nandroid B to Device B and give it back to your much-indebted-to friend.
Be careful when you wipe before a restore /not/ to wipe the internal storage on the device. The Nexus S doesn't have an SD card slot, otherwise I'd just advise you remove the SD card altogether while restoring... But TWRP has a pretty straightforward checkbox that will help you make sure you aren't wiping your internal storage.
Yes, this method is roundabout and long-winded, and yes, it does require access to hardware that you may not be able to get your hands on. But it will work.

You could also give OTA Updater a shot, though I'm not entirely sure if it'll play nice with your setup. Can't really hurt it, though.

Use an app like WiFi File Trasnfer to transfer the stock image to your phone and then flash it using whatever recovery you're using.

I have Airdroid for transfer but since 4.1, Ota packages cannot be flashed via custom recovery. It gives a 'status 7' error.

@Sumesh 'status 7' error is one of insufficient space, incorrect fingerprint, file corrupted....

Status 7 is known to occur when trying to flash Ota in custom recovery, since 4.2,  even when space and corruption issues do not occur. I've been unable to find a workaround. I have a backup of stock ROM via CWM, reverted to it but Ota isn't showing up even then.

Unlocked bootloader == no OTA in most cases. I think I even remember my Nexus 4 giving that warning when I was rooting it.


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Merging duplicate contacts - is my phone broken?
I just got my Samsung Galaxy S3 (Android 4.1.1) and I'm having the usual trouble with ridiculous amounts of duplicate contacts. I've tried the following methods to no avail:

My mom told me to go to Contacts, and click "Merge with Google" in the menu. It had me add a Google account and was able to remove some of the duplicates, but many still have 5-6 for a single contact. My mom said the whole thing would be ruined if I repeated the process.
I've been checking online, and I found similar questions here where the answer boils down to clicking "Find & Merge Duplicates..." on contacts.google.com. I tried it, and it claimed to merge four contacts. I still have many duplicates.
I tried to manually join some contacts a couple of ways:

Go to Contacts, click the contact to open more details, click the link icon under the Connection heading, tap "Join another contact," select another contact
Go to Contacts, click the contact to open more details, open the menu, select "Join contact," select another contact
Go to Contact, press and hold the contact, select "Join contact," select another contact
Go to Contacts, click the contact to open more details, open the menu, select "Edit," click the menu key

For the first three methods, the phone flashed a message that said "Contacts joined." The contacts were not joined. The last one would not allow me to open the menu.

Is there another method that I'm supposed to use to merge my contacts? Did I do one of the above methods wrong?
I worry that my beautiful new phone is broken because joining contacts didn't work and it refuses to sync contacts with my google account :(

There are two types of contacts on your android phone. GMAIL contacts and PHONE contacts. You must decide which ones you are going to use, but you can't use them both (or you will get duplicates).
If you choose to use your PHONE contacts turn off google contact syncing and delete them from the phone. PHONE contacts do NOT sync. You may be getting multiple duplicates from turning on and off syncing. Once you turn off syncing all your current google contacts on the phone may become PHONE contacts. (I am not going to test this theory on my phone).
If you choose to use GMAIL contacts delete all PHONE contacts and make all your changes in gmail.
When you make a new or save a new contact on your phone the first choice is the type of contact you are making (GMAIL or PHONE).  I have an EVO and you might have a newer version of android, but in my PEOPLE app when I open a contact it says what kind of contact it is.
I know I didn't describe any steps here, but seems to me you are missing the theory of how contacts with gmail and android work together.
I hope this helps.
EDIT: Your GMAIL contacts must be in the "My Contacts" group to sync or a custom group below that. "Other contacts" will not sync. EVERY email you send/receive from a new contact ads that contact into "Other contacts" by default.

How do I tell which contacts are gmail contacts and which ones are phone contacts?

If it were me I would use gmail to manage my contacts. I would take the following steps:

disconnect the syncing from google
delete all contacts from phone
fix (merge) all contacts on a pc in gmail
reconnect syncing on phone.

contacts.google.com shows only the contacts with email addresses. Are the other contacts with just phone numbers hidden?

at google.contacts.com mine shows both. I can imagine if you google contacts have never been synced with a phone, how would they have phone numbers? Do they have phone numbers in gmail and not google.contacts.com? I think they are the same thing.

I checked my google account under settings, and it says it's synced to my phone. When I did the "Merge with Google," my phone added all the people I've sent emails to, which I think is probably all my contacts on gmail. Does it only do a google->phone sync?

if you make a change to a gmail contact on the phone it will sync. but the answer is YES it only syncs the contacts in gmail to the phone NOT the phone contacts to google.

You could perhaps try the same method from within the Gmail interface.

From within Gmail, navigate to contacts.
From the menu More, click on Find & Merge Duplicates.

Which Gmail interface? I went on the internet through both my phone and my computer, but neither worked. Is there a way to do it through the Gmail app?

Gmail (web) has a Contacts and Tasks manager as well. You can't do it through the Gmail Android app.

Your link directed me to contacts.google.com. I've already tried that for both my phone and computer. Is that the right link?

Yup, that was it (except it opens within Gmail for me). Anyway, do try Go Contacts too. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jbapps.contactpro

Go Contacts showed 4x the number of contacts as the built-in contact app. After a many tries of merging each contact one-by-one, I discovered that nothing was merging. All the reviews were great, so I am again worried my phone is probably broken :/

Another offline and easy way to do this is as following:
Download MyPhoneExplorer software (for Windows) from here
It can connect to almost any Android device with USB or Wi-fi and syncs all contacts, messages, etc.
After you have successfully set it up, go to Contacts section, you should see all of your contacts (including duplicates) here. Now manually select a batch of duplicate items and right-click, then select Merge Contacts from menu.
After you are done with all contacts, click Sync icon on top panel and wait until the software uploads changes to your phone.

MyPhoneExplorer refuses to connect with my GS3. I couldn't figure out what "Connect only" meant or how to ensure the ADB drivers were installed, so that might have messed it up.

@Eva I never had a galaxy phone, but I'm almost sure that this software works with them. In your case, I don't think ADB drivers are required, just make sure you have installed samsung pc suite software (Kies?!!) on your pc. It would install required drivers to connect to phone via USB.

My phone has Kies, but I'm not sure how to find out if it has the full version. I couldn't find another pc suite to add to it either. Considering all the stuff that works on most phones that hasn't worked for mine, I'm starting to think my phone might be broken.

I don't think that your phone is broken. That sounds more like a usability problem. On the other hand, you described the process of joining and merging very accurately, so I wonder why it did not work for you...
First, you have to know that there are 2 reasons why there are duplicate contacts:

because your contact is in many contact sources (Phone, Google+, Facebook, Skype, etc.)
because the contact appears multiple times in a contact source.

The approaches to solve these situations are for

"joining" contacts from different sources
"merging" the contact information into one single contact

Since you know how to perform a merge/join operation you are already on a good track. Now you need to know how to tell the source from a contact: Is it a contact saved in the phones memory? Or on the SIM card? Maybe a Google cloud-synced contact?
I hope this helps. If not, consider posting some screenshots.

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This works if your contacts are on google account.

This is kind of weird experience where you can't merge the duplicate accounts and even those contacts can't be searched. Something was clearly wrong. Since I sync my accounts with Google, I decided to delete all my contacts (because I can restore at any time).
Now once deleting all contacts, go to contacts.google.com -> Menu -> more -> undo changes -> restore contacts to one hour back (or your preferred day). And then make sure google contacts sync is in enable state (settings -> accounts -> google -> your account -> contacts).
This fixed my issue. Hopefully this will work for you too.

Maybe this thread can help you.

Just posting links isn't great as the link could go down, could you provide a summary of what's said on the page?


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Stock JB ROMs for Chinese-made devices

Possible Duplicate:
Where can I find stock or custom ROMs for my Android device?

I'm looking for a good source for MT, RK and Allwinner-based phones and tablets, but I couldn't find any. Most just target specific western models.


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Missed call alerts when phone busy on another call?
I have a Samsung Galaxy Y phone with Gingerbread.
I have just discovered that I do not receive any kind of missed call notifications when my phone is busy on another call.
I am quite shocked as this facility is available even in very cheap, ordinary phones.
How do I fix it? Is it because of some phone settings of mine? or is there an android update? or do I need to install some app? or is the trouble with my network operator?

If your operator permits call waiting and if you enable it, the second incoming call if not attended will be taken as a missed call.  Some operators will provide it as a free service (in most cases), but it is left to the operator to charge a fixed small amount on monthly basis.

Go to Settings -> Call settings -> Additional settings and find Call Waiting option (its may be in different address in android 2.3).
Enable Call Waiting it if is not already. If it was already enabled, but you never here beeps or receive notifications when another call happens, I think you should check with or consult your operator.


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Help for `fat finger` on Google Galaxy Nexus
I often have trouble with the on-screen keyboard, e.g. pressing the wrong keys etc.
I looked around and found that ThickButton looks like a good solution; but sadly it is not compatible with my Galaxy Nexus.
What can I do to get rid of mistyping keys?

There are any number of alternative keyboards in the Play Store. What have you tried?

What I tried is the link I put in the word here that you have corrected for me

I think when editing, please make sure your correction is better in grammar and meaning. You changed mine a lot hic

Not that much, but I did try to make it a question about a problem you're trying to solve instead of just trying to find an app. Edit back anything that I may have gotten wrong.

If all you've tried is the app you linked to, then my suggestion is: check out the Play Store and try out some of the other keyboards that are available.

Hacker's Keyboard allows you to customize the size of the keyboard up to 3/4s of the screen.  Their suggestions dictionary is also pretty good at deciphering typos.
Alternatively, mash the keyboard with your palm and obtain a special typing wand.  ;)

I have tried Hacker's Keyboard as your suggestion but the keyboard UI is not very need to me and ... I don't like it. Thanks anyway!

If you can get the APK of Thumbnail, you can try to sideload it on your Galaxy Nexus.
You can try Swiftkey Keyboard, it works well for me as I have fat fingers too.


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Samsung Galaxy 2.3.5 usb storage broken
My Samsung Galaxy 2.3.5 is showing the tool bar message 'USB storage broken' .
I'm unable to enter the gallery, photos or videos. I have no SD Card in the phone, all all the storage I have is internal phone storage. The phone is not connecting to the computer, how can I get the photos back?
I've already switched it on and off, took out battery and connected it to my laptop but these haven't worked.

Which Galaxy? S? mini?

Sounds like the sdcard is corrupted so other than trying to use a data recovery tool via USB from your PC to your phone to recover it it looks like you will have to either
1) format the sdcard storage via the settings
or
2) do a factory reset
Both resulting in losing all the data on the sdcard, sorry :'(


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Where can I see if a developer responded to my comment on the Google Play?
It appears that Google is allowing some developers to respond to Google Play application comments.
Here is a blog post explaining the feature.
Let's assume I posted a comment on an app and the developer responded to me.
How does it look like ? How can I acknowledge the fact that he responded ?
Do I get a notification ? An email ? Nothing ?

As your comment is connected to your account, there are two options: 1) you get a mail via GMail, or 2) you get some G+ stuff (no idea what, as a) I don't use G+, and b) no longer leave comments as that would force me to G+).

OK, I came across a similar question.
It looks like you will get an email if a developer responded to your comment.


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How to get rid of Christmas Animation from mobile screen
I am seeing a Christmas animation on my mobile screen from 25th Dec 2012. I have no idea how did it come to my mobile. Because I rarely use internet on my mobile. And I used Internet last time at least 2-3 months before.
It automatically appears after some mins and eats my battery. I have checked all running and installed application. But none of them giving me any clue about this animation.
I am doubtful that this is the animation from Go launcher or Go SMS. but not confirmed.
I also have scanned my mob for spyware and antivirus. But nothing found.

As previously mentioned it's from Go Launcher.  There is, however a setting to disable it.
Go to Preferences and there should be an option to disable the Christmas animation.  I can no longer find it in mine but I do know it was there when the animation was appearing.

Welcome to the club -- it's from the launcher, I've got that one as well since about that time. As GoLauncher also started spamming my notification area, I used LBE to forbid it going to the network, which worked fine -- but the XMas stuff stuck since then.
So, common issue: GoLauncher not going to the net (I forbid it, and you don't have network connection often). Solution: Enable network once again, update the GoLauncher. At least here, Santa seems to be gone.

Thanks @Izzy. let me try. However, I have uninstalled Go Keyboard. Now waiting whether Santa appears again.

Maybe in 11 months? XD Good luck. However, as you started with a separate task (uninstall GoKeyboard), you will now never know which really was the cause. Maybe it would have simply gone away with the next internet connection (oh, XMas over?) -- though I cannot understand why a dev wouldn't use the system clock for the date...

Nothing happened after installing Go Keyboard. Finally I found an option in Go Launcher settings where I can off Christmas effect.

Good to know in case of Easter. For me, as said, it was enough to update to the latest version and then cut it off the net again (to avoid those notifications, which I found no switch for yet).


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Stuck in USB-debugging mode
I turned on usb-debugging on my HTC One X just to see if I could identify it when using Android SDK. Now the usb-debugging mode always shows up when I connect the phone to my Windows and Linux computer.
I have Android 4.1.1 on it; it's not rooted. The settings in developer options is off for everything. Developer options itself is also set to off. Despite this, I always get a notification on my phone that it has connected in usb-debugging mode when I connect with usb-cable. When I check the developer options, they are mysteriously set to on again.
When I try to change the settings for the usb connection, I get the settings for Portable hotspot & tethering and not the settings to charge or use mass storage. Strange!
This behavior prevents me from using the mass storage option. On my Linux computer, I cannot see any files on the device.
Are there any global configurations/settings I can clear to fix this? What else should/could I do?

This XDA developers thread may be relevant

Did you update the phone. The mass storage option is no longer available. You are connected in MTP

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In the developer settings, there is a "Revoke USB debugging authorizations". Try to use it. It should remove the authorization you give for your computer. So next time, that computer won't be able to directly use the debugging.

This sounds smart. OP should give it a go.


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OpenVPN Tunneling Facebook/Gmail App
I recently downloaded the OpenVPN app and I have it setup to connect to a server at my house and all of my HTTP(S) traffic is tunneled through the connection. I have confirmed this by going to ipchicken.com and it shows the correct public IP. Under the OpenVPN settings I have the "use system proxy" box checked. My question is does that pertain to the Facebook and Gmail apps as well? I would assume the apps are just using HTTPS to connect and then display them but wasn't 100% sure.
On a side note, for some reason every time I connect to my VPN on the cell network, it pushes me my correct 192.168.1.0/24 route that my server is handing out but it also pushes a 10.109.105.209/255.255.255.240 route. This is not defined anywhere in my setup and doesn't show up when I connect to my VPN through another WiFi network. It is solely linked to the cell network. Everything still works fine but was curious why it did this.
Thanks in advance,
Eric


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E-mail (imap client) sync stopped because of low memory, and will not start again, even after freeing 60Mb
I have a Motorola XT303 running Android 2.3.6, and I use the email client (with an IMAP server). The email worked fine until two days ago: I tried to download an application that was too large for the internal memory, and the installation failed. Right after that email syncing stopped -- whenever I asked it to sync, a message popped up telling me that email syncing wouldn't be done because the phone was low on memory. However, even after freeing 60Mb of internal memory, the email client still refuses to sync.
I have tried stopping the email app from the task manager and restarting the phone, but that didn't help.
I also thought I'd just download another email client, but since this is software that will have access to my email server passwords, I'd rather use the client I'm already using.
edit: but if there is an email client that is open source and well-known, then I could just as well switch...
So... How can I get the email app to start syncing again?

Have you tried all of these steps?

Yes, I did -- ecxept for uninstalling and reinstalling (how do I do that?)

That step won't work for pre-installed apps (you cannot uninstall them). How much free storage do you have? Maybe you have to free a little more (clear some more app caches, that doesn't hurt and nothing gets lost that way), also your download might still stick around somewhere in temp (or rather /data/local).

I have 60 Mb. But after user1 mentioned uninstalling, I thought that maybe just cleaning all app data (not just cache) would work. But then I realized that there is an open source version of the email app -- k9-- and I tend to trust these, since the probability of someone including malicious code is very low (after all, the source is open). I didn't know that there was an open source email client for Android. I switched to k9 and I'm now happy with it.