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Why are there 2 instances of each app on my phone?
I must have done something while I set up my Lenovo K6 (android 7.0) because I see 2 instances of each app one of which has a small blue icon on the bottom  right. I also have 2 instances of Google Playstore and several system apps (see photo below).
I went to settings-->accounts and I found that I had created 2 personal accounts with the same email, one of which had all these apps with the strange icons under it. I proceeded to delete that account but these strange instances of the apps seem to still be there.
What are these duplicate apps and how do I get rid of them?

This seems to be dual app feature of Lenovo and some Xiaomi phones
This enables dual SIM phones to run two instances of an app say WhatsApp and the second instance has an icon as described in the question
You need to go to settings and disable that - Settings → Feature → Dual App Profile (this may not be the exact path depending on OS version but search in settings for dual app)

It was exactly that! I did what is described in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwDq6ZT7Bj4 and fixed the issue! Thanks a lot!

No, the video just visualises the procedure that you describe. Thanks a lot!

Welcome. Google search helps but then it is good that you asked here. May help others too and I learnt Synth new

well, google search helps only when you know what the problem is!


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Laptop cannot detect Kindle Fire HD 8.9 in Device Manager
I have an old 8.9" Kindle Fire HD (model 3HT7G) and it is stuck in a recovery boot loop. I have found a way to get it out of this loop, but I need to use my laptop. The problem is, when I plug in my device, it does not appear in Device Manager and there is no indication that the device has been detected by the computer. The only thing that happens is that the Kindle starts to boot up (as standard for when you plug it in). Is there any way I can fix it? Maybe drivers are the issue, but I installed the USB drivers and adb drivers and I have tried all the methods I have found online...

@RahulParashar I have installed the Google USB driver and the ADB drivers from the Android SDK Manager. I have also installed the Kindle Fire USB driver

Download and install the adb drivers from this link, then reboot your pc.

Next installing the USB drivers for the Kindle from Amazon.

(Windows user) Uninstall the existing USB driver
If you are a Windows user who previously connected a Fire tablet without first enabling ADB, you will need to remove the existing USB device driver and force re-installation of the driver.

Connect your Fire tablet to the USB port on your development computer.
On the development computer, from the Start menu, right-click Computer, and then click Control Panel.
On the control panel page, then click Device Manager.
In the Device Manager window, expand Portable Devices.
Right-click the Fire device and then click Properties.
In the Properties window, on the Driver tab, click Uninstall, and then Confirm.
Unplug your Fire tablet from your computer.

Install the USB driver for Windows.
Perform the following steps if your development computer runs Windows.

You can directly download the USB driver from the following URL:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/android-sdk-manager/redist/kindle_fire_usb_driver.zip
Extract the zip folder into a new folder.
Open the new folder and run the executable file, which installs the driver.

Source:
https://developer.amazon.com/docs/fire-tablets/ft-set-up-your-kindle-fire-tablet-for-testing.html#windows-user-uninstall-the-existing-usb-driver
https://developer.amazon.com/docs/fire-tablets/ft-set-up-your-kindle-fire-tablet-for-testing.html#windows-user-install-the-usb-driver-for-windows

I have already installed all of those drivers and still my kindle fire isn't being detected in device manager.

https://adb.clockworkmod.com/  use this..?

Yes I did use that

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How can I avoid receiving Flipboard emails/notifications
I have a Samsung Galaxy S6 with Nougat.
I keep on receiving emails/notifications from Flipboard. They don't use my old registration email address but MY GOOGLE ACCOUNT ADDRESS.
I checked in settings but I didn't find nothing that I can do. Hence,the only way to avoid receiving emails is to delete the account? Or,are there other ways?
Update:
I DIDN'T CREATE A FLIPBOARD ACCOUNT WITH GOOGLE ACCOUNT EMAIL ADDRESS AND PASSWORD.
Now I deleted this account but it's still working.Need I to wait?
Can,please,someone suggest to me if it's better to delete the old account too?and change,I know it's not so easy, email address and password of my Google account?
The question,now,is who has made the "Google account"and where have they found my Google credentials?
Thank you

To stop receiving emails from Flipboard, simply unsubscribe from their email list. You can usually find an unsubscribe link at the bottom of the email.
If you can't find the link, use this page to unsubscribe.
To stop receiving notifications from the app, go to your phone settings -> application Manager -> Flipboard -> notifications, and switch "allow notifications" to "off"

@A bochur,thank you for your answer.Can you,please,read my update.BTW,I checked "notification" are blocked.Thank you

@ubu16 if you didn't create the account, then which account did you delete?

@ubu16 next time you get a notification from Flipboard, long press on it and disable notifications, if that doesn't help, all i can say that this is very strange.

@A bochur,I have a Flipboard account,that has nothing to do with Google.One day I received an email on gmail from Flipboard on my smartphone and I realized that I had many emails from Flipboard.Therefore I checked on Flipboard site I had 2 account.Now I deleted the account with email address and password of my Google account.I'm thinking to delete the old account too and change my Google account email address and password but it is not so easy.The question is who has created the"Google account"and where have they found my Google email address and password?

@ubu16 very possible that it got your info from your phone. I'd suggest that next time, simply unsubscribe and you'll be fine

@A bochur,as I said,I already have deleted the "Google"account.Do you suggest to me to delete the old account too?and change my Google account credentials?Thank you

@ubu16 i don't see a need for that.

Yeah, unfortunately clicking the unsubscribe button just results in "Error". Horrible company.

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battery drain when phone idle
I'm using LG G4 H818 with android 6.0 All of the sudden my battery started to get drained when I'm not using it at all, mostly over night.
For example, it goes from 100% to 45% over night when I turned off pretty much everything like wifi, data, location, sync etc.
When I turn on the flight mode, everything looks good and I may lose only 2% of my battery, except I can't get calls and since I should be on call for work, that's not a good option.
I have also installed some battery usage app and top processes related are:

android/OS
system/android/log.d

I also changed battery in case my previous battery was broken, this doesn't helped either.
Today, I did a factory reset, wiped cache partition and of course there is no app installed and still the same.
And, one more thing, my phone gets hot while using/charging, but not when I'm using it. Any suggestion about how to fix this issue?

It used to happen to my micromax canvas 5 too. And to my current lenovo k6 note too. But on my this stopped happening when the service centre re did all the android software on it for a completely different reason. So i think the software is the problem here. See if you can flash your phone and whether the problem disappears Or maybe your phone is old and the battery is mostly gone useless. Try changingthe battery. If it still drains even with new batter then the problem is the android software in the phone.


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Why does someone need to install Linux(Debian/fedora) distribution inside Android?
I need some ideas from you. Why does someone need to install Linux distribution (Debian/Fedora) inside an android phone using android apps like 'Linux Deploy'?

This is a nice one .I think this will be helpful

This article has some good explanations.
eg.

We can think of many reasons why you'd want a proper Linux PC in your pocket. You can, for example, use it to power a LAMP server that can run web apps and serve web pages. If you're a network admin, you can install your favourite Linux tools and turn the smartphone into a portable network troubleshooting or pen-testing device.


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Is my Verizon tablet affected by spectre/meltdown?
i have an old Verizon tablet (ellipses 7) and i was wondering if it's included in  the specter/meltdown CPU bugs that are going around and if there is anyway to update my software to protect it?

Unless Google backports the patch to earlier versions of Android, I doubt that versions before Android Oreo will get the patch at all. You might have to look into getting a custom ROM for the device, assuming that you can flash a bootloader and find a compatible ROM for it in the first place.

yeah thanks! that what i figured - which is why i asked this question


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Android 5.1 full phone encryption stuck 12+ hours in
Similar thread to this one.
None of the answers were helpful.

It's an unrooted Android 5.1.
The device has been factory reset.
Once I begin the encryption process, screen is stuck with displaying bare android logo:

Seen pictures on the internet with some progress indication, which is missing in my case, so something must be up:

The phone does not overheat, so the encryption clearly hasn't begun.
I'm able to cancel the process by holding power button for 10s.
Once rebooted, the system is untouched, just as it was before the encryption attempt.
Retried the process with $ adb logcat active on USB.
Nothing suspicious in the logs, although I don't know what to look for too.
Meta: Will delete the link with logs and paste only relevant lines once there's a working solution.


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LineageOS : upgrade nightly to unofficial
I have a lineageos 14.1 nightly signed (downloaded from the official website) installed on my phone. I built a 14.1 from the sources following the official wiki (tagged unofficial build). Currently I have this message saying to wipe the /data :

Can't install this package on top of incompatible data. Please try
  another package or run a factory reset

I don't understand why I should wipe my data, I thought that it was only when changing to a different ROM.
I want to know if there is a way to flash an unofficial without losing my data or why is that needed.

I found out that the release key is different, so a simple key migration solve it. The steps are explained on the Wiki.

Could you please check here, Taknok? Someone had a follow-up question on yours and is asking you for a comment. Thanks!


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Is App Data got reset or does it have a limit?
Applications are the most important utility in Android. Classified into two types, system apps and user apps. System apps are the one that is preinstalled,and removing some system apps cause device instability. User apps are those installed from playstore or other sources. Everybody uses application along with internet or WiFi. And on usage, application consumes them and creates application data and cache.  My question is that, whether there is any reset point or limit for creating app data. For example, I am currently using WhatsApp continuosly, and presently app data reached 350MB. Will it have any auto reset by itself at say 1GB. What will happen if app data reaches a greater value?

No. That would be awful. App data is your data, the data you create using the app. Deleting it when it reaches a certain size would be like Windows deleting all your documents if you have more than 100. You can choose to clear an app's data through the Settings at any time, but this will delete everything you created through the app (except if the app syncs your things to the cloud, such as Tumblr or Google Docs). Usually, it's better to manage an app's storage through the app itself, which should offer more control over what you delete.
"Cache" is just that: a cache, or temporary copy, of data that's safely stored elsewhere. It's up to the individual app to correctly classify things as "data" or "cache", but you can expect that clearing an app's cache doesn't actually lose any data: it just means some things that were stored in the cache might need to be downloaded again.
The only limit for how much data an app can have is how much storage your phone has. If you use it all up, you won't be able to install or update apps, or store more data.


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Shortcut key to hide all windows on Samsung DeX
Is there a shortcut in Samsung DeX to minimize all windows and display the desktop?

Hit Meta+Enter.
To view more shortcuts, hit Meta+!.
Pro-tip : do it from Chrome and you'll see Chrome's shortcuts as well !

"Meta+Enter" will minimize all the current open windows on the desktop and pressing "Meta+Enter" again will reopen the windows.
You can also press "Meta+/" to view all the default shortcuts on Samsung DeX.
If you want more than the default shortcuts then you can install an app called "Desktop Hub". This app will give you lots of extra cool shortcut keys for different stuff on Samsung DeX.

win (meta) + up = maximize
wim + down = minimize
wim + m = maps
win + s = SMS
win + d = desktop/minimize all
win + f = finder/search device
win + k = calendar (kalendar??)
win + L = lock
win + enter = seems to also be show desktop
win + q = quick settings panel (wifi/bt etc on/off controls)
win + e = email
win + I = bixby, unavailable in DeX mode
win + P = music default app
win + left/win + right = pin app to 1/2 of screen side by side

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Recovery mode device drivers not working in HTC Desire 616
I have an HTC desire 616, bootloader locked, S-ON.
I am able to enter on recovery-mode but the device is not listed in ADB, though I have all latest drivers from Google, Windows and HTC.
I am able to enter in sideload mode, drivers are working and I have 3 choices and 3 installed but the signature check prevents me to install any sort of updates.

I think is still on the software and relies on drivers but I don't know what I can do further
Is it possible to flash a unlock_code.bin of zeros?

Kindly waiting your help

Finally I might have a solution but I need your help guys. I need the images of all partitions (userdata, cache, system,expdb,rootm,blinkfeed, ebr2,logo, misc, sec_ro,seccfg,protect_s, protect_f, nvram, pro_info, ebr1, mbr, preloader) which is not a custom ROM but essentialy it is like a copy of your phone. I need to download them from someone who has the same firmware d616w and with his bootloader unlocked(I might be wrong about this last sentence).
Then I will flash all of them on my device, I will turn my device into S-OFF if it is not already and manually change IMEI, MID, S/N and other phone infos. Hopefully it will work, otherwise I m gonna use it as a brick for constructions ahah.


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Turn on phone without Power and volume buttons
I own Panasonic Eluga Ray Max phone, How can I turn it on without power and volume button as both are broken.
Device is already USB debugging enabled but adb cant see it while only charging.
So my basic requirement is to boot the phone.
Now another question is when I connect phone to PC/wall charger, screen lights up, charging status is show and general "power by android" message stay on screen for few seconds. So my question is there must be some sort of kernel gets loads just to display those messages and charging status, so why adb cant see device. and is there any other tool available which can boot a boot with command line when phone is displaying those message or charging status.

some flash tools work without power (+ they have auto reboot option) JIG dongle is available for old samsung devices (to enter download mode) https://android.stackexchange.com/q/221365

is there any other tool available which can boot a boot with command line when phone is displaying those message or charging status.

Nope. Not possible through software. A hardware hack is your only solution. Try to open the device and see if you can replace the button somehow.


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com.android.providers.settings does not exists
I am using Lineage OS 14.1-20171111_14ß556-UNOFFICIAL-cedric on my Motorola G5
Android 7.1.2 and i am not able to locate the file/data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db
i tried ES File Explorer(with root) , adb shell (with root) and also SQLite Editor from the Play Store does not seem to find that file.

What shell commands are you using?

is com.android.providers.settings a folder ? also are you sure there is no typo in ...providers... ? try without the s and see if it helps.

This may help also: https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=774507

Why do you need this file?

@harpratap My case: there should be wifi networks/passwords in it. (The other ways usually require rooted phone.)

Since Marshmallow, all the settings are scattered everywhere, you won't find settings.db
many settings are available under /data/system/users/0/ saved as XMLs. Try looking there.

What a downgrade!


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How can I disable album art on my lock screen?
I'm not a big fan of my lock screen getting hijacked by whatever music app is currently playing. Is there a setting, app, or work around that can disable album art from being displayed on my lock screen? Preferably without rooting.
I'm using a Moto X Pure Edition running Nougat. I would prefer solutions that work for Google Play Music.
Related

I'm not sure about any settings but you can use VLC as your music player and can disable lock screen cover.

Google Play Music, since version 8.7, has a setting to enable/disable album arts on the lock screen.

Open Google Play Music, then open Settings.
In the Play back section, disable "Show album art on lock screen".

The album art will now be shown next to the music buttons instead of taking over the whole screen when it is locked.
Note: Tested on versions 8.8 and 8.18.
Source: Google Play Music v8.7 adds option to disable album art on the lock screen

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Error update lg phoenix 2 to nougat 7.0
I want to ask how to update LG phoenix 2 to 7.0 nougat because my phone is 6.0 and I check update but it keep saying my phone is up to date while it not . Are att stop update it? And does you guy have anyway to update it manually ? P/s:I can't trust trash website to update so I came here !

See if this works: https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=74939997&postcount=356

Usually companies stop sending updates after a few months since release. You may have to check for unofficial updates; risky.


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Galaxy S5 charging slowly despite 'AC' and 2A charger
I have replaced the battery in my Galaxy S5 with a genuine Samsung (or at least, a very, very good fake!). It's now becoming quite noticeable how slow it charges - when plugged into a Nexus 7 2A charger (I have lost the Samsung original), using a USB ammeter, I can see it drawing around 0.5-0.7A. The ammeter does not seem to interfere, as I also have a mains power meter that shows less than 5 watts being drawn from the wall without the ammeter. My understanding is that the data pins in a charger USB socket are bridged to indicate the phone can draw more current, and the phone recognises it's connected to 'AC' in the battery screen, but it doesn't seem to be pulling the maximum available from the charger. I've tried a combination of different USB cables and some other USB power supplies without much difference in charge rates. I do have a good collection of apps installed, but my understanding is that if an app was draining the battery almost as fast as it was charging, the phone would still pull more power from the mains.
Is there anything else I can check, or am I just going to have to lump it? The phone is running stock Android 6.0 with all current Samsung updates.
Possibly related, but I also have the Qi wireless charger kit with the S View cover. Although the pad also demands a 2A charger, I've only seen the pad draw 0.8A from the adapter, and I know some power is lost in the pad, so I'd be surprised if half that was reaching the phone. I know Qi is slower and less efficient than plugging in directly, but this does seem excessive.

Your understanding and measurements are logical and I can't say why your battery should charge slower compared to the earlier one
One thing you may try is to backup your device and flash latest stock ROM or custom ROM which has a kernel that permits higher rate of charging
If that's a lot of work, change the USB cable to a thicker one. See my answer here for details
(I am not affiliated with the product but a happy user. I keep buying those when on discount and gift to friends. All have uniformly attested to better charging rate)
Edit : It could be a faulty USB port too. You could try getting that replaced

Qi charging is known to be inefficient and depends even on how you place your device on pad. Not having used it, can't say from experience. I don't think it is related to your main problem and it is better asked as a separate question

USB port could be the culprit as well. Added that to answer


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Is it possible to see whether you are within a ~10m radius of another phone without broadcasting location data?
I was looking at Bump_(application), and I found it interesting that they use location data along with other metrics to figure out whether two phones are next to each other.
Is it not possible to do a similar thing using bluetooth or a similar technology that doesn't send your location data to a remote server?
I'm assuming the two phones in question have the same app.

they use location data along with other metrics

The key point is that you have to touch the two phones together. This contact will be visible in the accelerometer and microphone readings from either phone. Something needs to look at the readings from all the phones in the vicinity and find two that recorded a bump at the same time. The easiest way to do that - especially ten years ago, when smartphones didn't have much computing power - was to send the bump times and phone locations to a server and let it compare them all.
The alternative way to achieve this would be each phone broadcasting bump events to all nearby phones directly. There's not a great way to achieve this. Bluetooth can't support many phones connecting to each other this way, and access to it is limited in iOS. Wi-Fi Direct (aka Wi-Fi P2P) can do this, but not at the same time you're using normal Wi-Fi to connect to the Internet. However you do it, you'd have to be very careful to prevent someone spoofing the bump events to pretend to be the phone you wanted to send your file to.
So although it is possible to use Bluetooth to find out if two phones are in the same room, without sending anything to a remote server, it's not feasible to use that to make the "bump phones together to connect them" feature that was Bump's unique selling point.


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Ran :(){ :|: & };: on my android device!
So I was seeing dangerous command  in linux and I found a command which seemed funny:
:(){ :|: & };:

So I ran it on my Samsung Galaxy A7 term non-rooted phone and guess what it hung immediately. So I tried powering off my phone by holding the power button. But it did not respond and the screen turned off after a minute then I tried clicking the home button and all the buttons to wake it up but no response finally it powered off and rebooted and now it works perfectly fine. Should I worry about heat damage or hardware damage. If so how can I confirm that I have a damaged hardware. Developer mode in on too!
PS. I have my phone powered off fro safety because I don't want it to catch fire. XD

There isn't really a "Developer mode" in Android. It just makes a new settings page appear. If you don't change any settings on that page, having the new page does nothing.

Modern Android Kernels are smart enough to shut down the entire system before any hardware damage occurs. Even when you're testing the limits of your CPU when overclocking, it will shut down as soon as incompatible frequency/voltage combination is set. So you're far from any real hardware damage cause by the infinite loop command.

It's just called fork bomb, a classic old technique to exhaust the resources of the computer, and render it unable to take care of other processes in the system by eating up (consuming) the memory.
Today's kernels are well-sophisticated and can even detect infinite recursive forks. To answer your question, no, it's not at all any harmful to your Android device (it just completely exhausts your RAM). All it takes is a reboot to fix it.


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I have cheap phone (apparently) working on Android 7.1, I wish to erase everything to the hardware level and load the phone with a fresh OS
Background:
I have a USD $30 Chinese Android Phone made by a company called BlackZone, I have never heard of the company, the phone comes loaded with Android 7.1 Nougat which i believe is a little too fishy since it is nothing like the Nougat versions i have used and the storage shows folders with Chinese names which have permissions to access all data including location SIM information Network Information (seems to have root privilege). I think the hardware is usable though. I wish to erase everything from the phone to the hardware level and rebuild the phone using a verified version of Android. I have never worked in this domain before and do not know the way forward other than rooting the phone which also doesnt seem to be working. Could you fine people teach and guide me in the way forward.
Required Help
1.root the phone. (i have tried Kingo root, doesnt seem to be working)
2.Remove OS and Kernels
3.Reconfigure kernels and the ports available
4.Reinstall OS
P.S - it would also help if you could guide me to appropriate tags so that this question may reach the actual target audiance.
I am open to providing any and all information required.

Just so you know, "loading" Android on a device is nothing like loading Windows onto a PC: Android often has locked bootloaders to prevent any tampering in the first place; the OS isn't universal to all hardwares so you need to make a build yourself that specifically targets your device (which then requires open-source drivers and hardware knowledge). It's not like you can throw a "universal", clean Android build onto it, make small adjustments and it will run flawlessly (if at all) - at least not yet.


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Newer Whatsapp on device and play store

As is apparent from the images the version of whatsapp on my device is higher than the store version. I install and update from the store only. I have started getting messages on Whatsapp to update.
I have this on a Redmi Note 4X, running MIUI 9.

Possible. whatsapp version info on your device  will be higher than whatsapp version to download on website (website provides only stable version for download). This is for the case of beta users. I am currently on 2.18.12 where on website it shows 2.18.8.

@RahulGopi, I am not on beta and whatsapp is asking for update so...

I my case I cannot see whatsapp version both  in playstore app and through website login. shows this varies with devices.


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Is there a way to test if a firewal (AFwall) l is blocking a specific app?
I installed AFwall+ to block internet connection for my keyboard. Is there a way I can test if this is actually working? The keyboard is Swifkey.

Try to load themes in that keyboard. It wouldn't be able to fetch new ones from server.

Android setting has an option named 'Data Usage' where you can see per app data consumption. Compare consumed data on two instances to make sure it is not using any Internet.
PS: IMO If you've Xposed installed then LighteningWall could be a better option.

1) In AFWall+ go to Menu -> Preferences -> Log -> Turn on log service
2) Open your keyboard and do something requiring internet connection
3) Return to AFWall+ and open Menu -> View log and you'll see it was blocked


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How do I keep android SDK and reuse it on other PCs without the internet
I am fresh-from-the-oven kind of new to android and I just downloaded the android studio which is a whooping 683mb, after downloading it, I noticed it didn't come with SDK and that it was going to download a whole other stuff that is sized around 1.5gb, It was the second "baddest" news since the 1993 Apple Newton announcement. Why this bothers me is because I format my PC every now and then because of some reason, meaning I'll always have to go through this daunting process quite frequently.
I then figured I had to download the portable version with the believe that when  android studio downloads the SDK, it will be inside the folder where the portable version was extracted, then I'll copy the whole folder with the downloaded SDK and zip it and keep safely.
My question is this, will it work, is this the right thing to do, when I extract it to a new PC, does it re-download SDK and those other monstrously large stuff.
Thanks.

Development questions are off topic here. See Stackoverflow.com and specially this question.

I have separate partition for Android Studio and SDK and it works fine after Installling my OS again & again.
Process is simple

Download zip version of Android Studio.
Open Android Studio for the first time
Select Advance/Custom option.
Select your SDK location (For the first time AS will download SDK for you if you have not downloaded yet)
Done!!!

Now if you will copy your SDK and Studio to another PC then you can choose your SDK location during first run and it won't download again.


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Wrong language in a new Chrome private window and in integrated data
I have a problem with my Motorola G1 smartphone. Recently, I did a factory reset and since then I have a problem with the language. My phone is set in English and I live in the Netherlands, but when I search something using the search bar in Chrome in a private window, Google is set to French. This is weird, since I do not have anything in French: not the language of my smartphone, nor the keyboard, nor my IP. And when I search, Google is set to google.nl, so the IP localization is right, but there is something wrong with the language, that is set to French. You can see this in the first picture.
I noticed that I have the same problem when I have "integrated data" (I don't know if there is a better expression for this), for instance when a website reports an Instagram or Twitter post. An example is in the second picture. There you can see an Italian website, with my phone set in English and with a Dutch IP, however, you can see that the Instagram post reported in the website is in French.

I have really no idea how to fix this. I checked in Google settings, I changed the search language in Chrome to English, but every time I open a private window I see the results in French. Any clue on how to fix this?

Did you see your Google account settings?

@Biswapriyo yes, and French does not appear anywhere

I actually solved my problem myself. On the Chrome app, I clicked on Settings-> Languages (in the Advanced category) and then I removed French from the language list, which apparently set to be my first language, I don't know for what reason. Now pages do not display anymore in French, so the problem is solved.
I would like to keep the answer on the website, it might be useful to someone, but admins can delete it if they think it is not useful.


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Is there a way to isolate my Google account to just the Play Store?
I want to use the Google Play Store, so I need to login with my Google account. The moment you login, Android will store your Google account, so apps like Gmail can access it.
However, the Play Store is the one and only app I want to use my Google account with. I don't want Gmail or anything else to access or even know that I have a Google account.
Is there a way to isolate my Google account to just the Play Store? Is my only option to make a dummy Google account just for this device?
I'm running Android 7.0.

Are you saying that you don't want to use Gmail at all on the device or that you don't want Gmail on your Google account?

Just uninstall Gmail.

@Biswapriyo: but it can be reinstalled at any time and then no authentication is required (as the Google account is already set-up) for accessing the mails.

It does not reinstall untill you update ROM.

If you want to use the original Google Play Store there is no way to limit the Google Account to this service.
In case you loose the device, anyone who gets access to the device can install any Google app like GMail and then use it with the stored Google account you have set-up for the Google Play Store.
The only workaround is the one you already mentioned: Use a new Google account that is only used for Google Play Store.
Alternatively you could switch to a different app store or use a third party app that allows to download apps from Google Play Store (not sure if there is currently one that works).


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Outlook Android no longer synchronizes Office 365 contacts
As of version 2.2.74 my Android Outlook does not sync any contacts.
The previous version has synced all of my coworkers from Office 365, but after a factory reset my coworker contacts are missing.
There is a setting in the application that shows if I enable contact synchronization and it is set on.
In Accounts and synchronization settings, I have an Outlook type account, and it has the Sync contacts set on and the last sync took place seconds ago.
In the new version of Outlook Android, there is a new tab called Persons, and it says I have 0 contacts. I guess this new feature is not working as expected.
Do you have any idea why these settings can't help?

Well, it seems, they restructured how the contacts are synchronized.
I checked my Outlook on my computer, and it has 2 separate contact store options:

Address book - mycompanyemail@mycompany.com
Contacts - mycompanyemail@mycompany.com

All my company coworkers were in the Address book and my Contacts were empty.
I copied them to Contacts and now they are all synchronized - even appear in the new Contacts tab of Outlook Android.
So to draw a lesson: always check your online Contacts and see what it contains.


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When am trying to change my number on Sumsung Galaxy A5 it's "unknown". And I can't also make a call with the current number
What do I have do to be able to change my number and also to make a call?

If you also can't make a call, it sounds like a problem with the SIM card. You should contact your carrier and ask them for help. They might need to send you a new SIM card.


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How to restore a not working Note 2 to factory
I have at hands a Note 2 that was rooted and Is now stuck to the Samsung logo. Backup is not available. Assuming something is wrong just at the software level, would be possible to bring it back to factory conditions? If this can be attempted, could you point me to some reliable sources?

Odin is the answer to flash stock recovery and get it back to factory state. But Note 2 comes in two versions. Be sure to check which version is yours and look up XDA. You will find plenty of guides

Thanks @beeshyams. Shall I embark on this or being stuck to the logo means that the motherboard is gone?

How valuable is this device to you? Sometimes you just have to put in the effort. Why try to talk yourself out of it; put in your best.

As @wbogacz said, go ahead. It doesn't mean mother board is dead.

Ok. Thanks. I will look for the necessary files.


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Is it possible to simulate a button press on an Android application from another application (Android or Desktop)?
I need to automatically click on a specific button on an app. Is there a way to do this on a completely controlled environment?
By controlled environment, I mean the phone could be rooted, it could be connected to a desktop machine, any external app could be installed, and any other requirement.
Note: the button is NOT on an exposed activity.

Yes, the "Accessibility Services" can do that. However Google is planning to remove apps from PlayStore that use this service for controlling other apps for a different reason than helping disabled persons.

There are also applications for this and lot of other commands for rooted phones.

You can use adb command to simulate touch
adb shell input tap x y
where x y are the co-ordinates of the pixels on the screen to be tapped.


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Stop auto-selecting cellular network
I'm roaming in Mexico with an international plan via a US-based GSM carrier. This gets me 4G on TelCel in Mexico, and it works great.
However, occasionally, for reasons unknown to me, sometimes my phone will switch off of TelCel, and switch to a cell network named "334 01", which does not provide cellular data. This happens while browsing the Internet on my phone, while tethered to my laptop, or while I'm asleep. From a quick search I gather that "334 01" is AT&T's IMSI code, but my US carrier is not AT&T, though this phone was never carrier-locked.
Is there an Android setting that I can modify to either:

Stop my phone from changing cell networks automatically
Prohibit my phone from connection to a specific cell network (in this case "334 01")

Tethering is explicitly included in my plan, so I don't think it's TelCel "kicking me off". When I notice that my data connection is gone I can switch back to TelCel by selecting it via the "Cellular Operators" menu in settings. My phone is a Motorola Moto X Pure running Android 7.0.
EDIT: Whoops, the offending network is "334 03" which is Movistar.

This Xposed module seems promising Add on which specific networks you want to allow roaming To test this you would need to root your device and install Xposed framework (see Xposed tag)

@beeshyams Thanks! It's incredibly strange, despite Android settings having an LTE preferred network the preferred network type in the debug menu was not LTE preferred. I've switched it to an LTE preferred setting, I'll leave it there for a day and let you know how that works out!

Problem was that the settings made in the device by manual selection wouldn't stick
Solution
Dial *#*#4636#*#* and in Phone Info section → preferred network type choose the network type you would like to be always connected to.

As OP noted in their comment, the network selection made in settings was not sticking and the selection made in above menu did stick and prevent roaming  (they chose LTE as preferred network)

Xposed module alternative may (not tried) also help

A bit late to the party, but I should mention to be careful with LTE only, as it makes impossible both for you to call others and for others to call you.

There is a setting to "fix" your device to a given network:
Settings › More … › Mobile networks › Network operators:

By default, this is set to "automatic". But there's an option to "manually select". This will then scan for available networks, and let you chose one (obviously only possible with the desired network in reach). Having done that, whenever the chosen network is not available, you'd simply have "no network" – it wouldn't switch to any other operator, however strong his signal might be.
I've often used that in the past before going abroad if I wished a device to not "accidentally roaming" even for calls. That way my then provider couldn't fool me with costs for "twice redirected calls" (from home to roaming to mailbox-at-home-network): Manually selecting my home network before departing, the device found no suitable network in the target country :)

This is what I've been doing to switch back to TelCel. It seems that even a momentary disruption to the TelCel signal will kick me onto the other network. I can switch back using this method but it will only solve the problem until the TelCel signal gets lost again. The problem seems to be that to my phone both networks seem to be suitable, but the non-TelCel network doesn't provide any connectivity.

That's still not working as designed then, or something has changed. Manually selecting a network is meant to stick; if you wanted to make sure to be "connected anywhere" you'd use the "automatic" option. The only reason I could see it still happens (except from changes on the Android end) is both networks sharing the same MCC and MNC, which would basically mean they are the same. TelCell in Mexico has 334-020 – 334 001 would be "Comunicaciones Digitales Del Norte, S.A. de C.V.", see Wikipedia.

It's definitely broken then. For what it's worth I had the same issue when I was using Marshmallow down here last year, with the phone hopping off of TELCEL and onto Movistar.
At least it makes sense knowing that the offending network 334 03 (not 01 as I mistakenly stated before) is actually Movistar just failing to send the network name since TMobile will allow me to roam with either. It's just frustrating that it refuses to stay on TELCEL. Luckily changing the debug menu setting for preferred network type seems to forbid connecting to Movistar.


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How to Proceed after failed Rooting Attempt
aim: install LineageOS on the phone.
I tried to root the phone using the suggested sony method.
fast boot worked, the connection was given, the result was correct.
still, i had no root rights. so I couldn't go into recovery mode.
adb has the connection to the phone. I am able to reboot the phone with the command "adb reboot recovery" from my computer but doesn't go into recovery mode.
i tried to run "adb root" in the terminal on my ubuntu, didnt work either. so I tried the "adbd insure" app, didn't work because i had no root rights.
then again i tried the sony method of giving me root rights and the result said that it is unnecessary because it is already a rooted phone.
in the "phone info" on the g3311 the option "OEM-unlocking" is grey and unavailable to change.
afterwards i became desprite and switched to windows: tried towelroot, kingo root and oneclickroot. towelroot and oneclickroot said they arent currently supporting the version. kingo root just said that it failed.
How can i access root rights in order to install another operating system on the sony L1?
How can I access the Recovery Mode, other than with the ["press down volume" and boot] or [terminal-wise "adb reboot recovery"] methods?
OS on computer: Dual boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu 14
Brand: sony
Model: g3311
Android Version: 7.0 (43.0.a.6.49)

Try this...

alright will do. sony sent me here to ask this Q because they couldnt help me...


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Is the WhatsApp backup feature activated by default?
In WhatsApp for Android, are the chat backup features activated by default? If so, how is the backup interval by default? Daily, weekly or monthly? Are the chat backups being stored on the phone or on Google drive?

Read the WhatsApp FAQ?

It doesn't say anything about the default. It just explains how to do a back up etc. which I do know already. I just want to know how the default is on android phones.

By default, WhatsApp would make a local backup daily (stored in the phone), but if you wish there is an option to also backup to Google Drive after the local backup finishes.
I looked in my WhatsApp settings, it seems the Google Drive backup was set to never (it was Off), looked in my friend's WhatsApp and same thing (it was Off as well), so I guess the Google Drive Backup is not turned on by default, you need to turn it on manually.

WhatsApp creates the backup on local devices daily at 2 AM. You can not change this time.
Although WhatsApp has also provided to create cloud backup on Google Drive with backup frequency daily/weekly/monthly. To create a backup, you can go to
Menu > Settings > Chats > Chat backup.


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android keeps on restarting with optimizing apps
Problem:
It constantly restarts with optimizing apps.
Some Background:

This phone was running on low disk space some days back, which I
resolved by removing unwanted files.
Some apps are third party apps installed by downloading from websites.
I have searched other threads and none seems to be solving my issue.
I have done a "cache wipe" as well, which didn't solve the issue.
This has android version 6.
I am able to run Fastboot and have access to Fill-Z touch recovery.
I obviously don't want to format (easy solution) this phone as that
would delete all the data in there.

Extra resource:
vimeo link describing problem
If anyone can let me know how can I disable this "Optimizing app" before the start, I'd be glad.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!

That usually means it has trouble with one app. The cyanogenmod tag lets me assume you've got a custom recovery on the device. Boot into that. Hopefully you have either ADB capabilities there, or the recovery includes a file manager (e.g. Aroma; [tag:twrp] has both). Navigate to the tombstone folder (usually /data/tombstones) and check the "trace" block of the latest files. I suspect it always mentions the same app/package-name. If so, delete that app's data directory (/data/data/<package_name>). Next boot should succeed. // Had that recently myself …

Note that mean you will lose that app's data as well! // Please let us know if that worked out.

@Izzy Seems a good suggestion. Unfortunately, I am not that of an expert and my aroma file manager is not working right now. It says no
cwm/aromafm/aromafm.zip in path'.  Any help on getting that installed would be awesome. I do have adb and fastboot access but I am not that expert there either.

adb shell, then cd /data/tombstones. ls lists the contents. Viewing those files on-device would obviously be a bit tricky for you, so the easiest would be pulling them to your computer: adb pull /data/tombstones tombstones would pull the entire folder and place it onto your PC. Then investigate with the tools you're familiar with. Having found the culprit, from adb shell (as root) rm -rf /data/data/<culprits-package-name>. To exit from adb shell type, well, exit :)

On rare instances, this could be corruption of the Dalvik/ART cache, possibly even a defective eMMC storage chip. Honestly at this point I would backup any data that is important and clean install (wipe everything). Once of the things anyone on a custom ROM should be prepared to do at any time is wipe all data and reinstall, kind of goes with the whole "custom rom" way of life, so to speak.

Thanks @Izzy. I was able to resolve the issue by using your suggestion. I tried some extra steps.
I flashed "Aroma file manager" because that was not installed in my Phill Z recovery. One thing to note was that Aroma File Manager had to be flashed twice(using zip install from external memory); thus it allowed me access to /data/tombstones as well as /data/data/<Package_name>. I not only removed problematic packages, but also removed some clutter folders which were lying there unused. Viola!
I would want to make this as answer If @Izzy can post this comment as answer. Thanks!

\o/ Glad I hit the nail with my hammer :) Summed up everything in an answer as requested. Enjoy the revival :) // @acejavelin if it were a corrupted Dalvik/ART cache, the "optimizing apps" should have fixed that: doesn't that rebuild the very same cache? But definitely the backup idea is a good reminder :) And your hint of "being prepared" does not only apply to custom ROMs: being on such one often has another "backdoor" (thanks to root) a "common stock user" does not have …

I had a similar issue not that long ago: the culprit seems to be some app ART cannot compile for some reason. As you successfully applied my solution and confirmed, let me sum up the facts from the comments in an answer:
1. figure which app is the culprit.
On each of those crashes, the Android system sets a "tombstone" on the "grave" of the dying process – something known on Unix/Linux systems as Core Dump. Those core dumps are placed into /data/tombstones, with at maximum 10 files kept (after that, the oldest one will be overwritten on the next occasion). So we need to look to those tombstones to see whats written on them. As you have a custom recovery which offers adb access, the easiest way is:

adb pull /data/tombstones tombstones (will copy the entire directory to your computer)
use a viewer/editor of your choice (best one you are familiar with) to open and investigate each of the tombstones, starting with the newest and walking back.
look into the "stack trace" to see if an app (or it's path in /data/data) is mentioned there. If so, note it. If it's the same app in the next tombstone and the one after, you can be pretty sure this is the case we're describing here.

2. put the "obstacle" out of ART's way
Having identified the app, we need to remove it so art doesn't get stuck with it. For this, again we need adb shell with its root prompt – and the directory name from our tombstones:
rm -rf /data/data/<whateveritwas>

Note this removes all the data of the app as well – so having a backup in advance might be a good idea (in the current state: either adb pull the directory, or do a nandroid backup you can analyze later).
That done, reboot. Now "optimizing apps" should finish successfully.
Alternatives to the command-line approach
Some custom recoveries ship with an integrated file manager, usually called "Aroma". Above steps could also be perfomed with that:

navigate to /data/tombstones
view the tombstones
navigate to /data/data and remove the offender


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BLU Advance 5.0 HD: Unknown apps source: androidrbx, mfn, swak news
On my year-old BLU Advance 5.0 HD phone (running Android 6.0), I recently had a few suspicious incidents where the Audio Profile seemed to have changed from Meeting to Normal on its own, and once where the phone started playing music by itself (and not anything that's on the phone). At this point, I noticed three strange entries in the apps list: "androidrbx", "mfn" and "swak news" (all lowercase), all with generic icons. I have never installed anything of the sort, and the swak news one had all kinds of app permissions, which I had not granted. I deleted all three, but they were back the next day. Repeated this for a few days then figured I had malware and did a factory restore.
On the fresh install, the only additional (Play store) apps I added were Safari Queue and Duolingo, which I hoped were fairly trustworthy. No reappearance of the above trio until today, after an update of 6 apps — 5 being Google system apps (Calculator, Keep, Android Messages, Gboard and YouTube), and the last being Duolingo. Now they are back. I foolishly did all the updates at once, so I can't pinpoint the culprit (although Duolingo obviously seems most likely, unless one of the Google apps somehow got corrupted).
So now I'm trying to gather some intel from those who have more experience with the platform before I continue on the tedious process of trying to isolate the offending app or update. (If there are better forums, please point me there.) My main question is whether this is known malware, or at least has the hallmarks of such? I have searched and found no references to any of these names (except for a seemingly legit but different Swak News app), which surprised me, but perhaps the names are randomly generated. If these are legitimate "helper" apps or something, I would like to know to which app they belong, but they seem awfully suspicious to be such.

Not a virus (no such thing on Android), but definitely smells for some malware – which even might have managed to convert itself into a system app, so only flashing a clean ROM would safely get rid of it. Might also play "sleeper" after the reset waiting for updates or some other events, to make it harder to spot. You could try fresh again, and not accept any updates for a week (plus after that, only applying them one-by-one starting with the "most trustworthy"). I'd suspect none of the named candidates, Duolingo included.

You're right, @Izzy, I used the wrong term. Was going to edit my post, but you beat me to it! Done now. Your assessment is what I suspected, but I've already done a factory restore and limited installs and updates, though I got careless with the last batch, since they were all Google system apps, save for one. But I'll start over if there's no other likely explanation.

Thanks for the update! Though you still missed one "virus" :) And as I wrote: if it's really a malware that managed to convert itself into a system app, factory reset won't get rid of that. You'd really need to flash a clean ROM then. I still very much doubt one of those apps is the culprit: we'd heard many more people crying then. Not only for the GApps involved; Duolingo is a well established software, too. Though I've not heard it came pre-installed on any device; so make sure to check you didn't catch a fake/clone with that one.

Thanks, @Izzy! I did mention that Duolingo was one of two apps I added, beyond the pre-installed set. I agree, I would have expected much more noise about an infection in an app like that, so maybe it's not likely. It's curious that I did not see the mystery apps return (and I was checking regularly) until after today's update, when they had been reinstalling every day prior to wiping the system. I will have to look into the clean-ROM option. No idea what that entails. But thanks for the tips!

As I wrote above, that might be an "initial sleeper-mode" so you don't suspect the source. Not sure, though – just a possibility.

I also have a BLU (Advance 5.0 HD), which showed similar behavior a couple of weeks ago: it played random sounds, kept turning the wifi off, and once displayed a popup on the home screen (unfortunately I didn't read it before closing it). The app list also showed "Androidrbx", "mfn", and "swak news". After a factory reset, all seemed fine for a couple of days, and now the behavior and apps are back. The Avast app on the phone shows nothing, and there is no suspicious activity on the associated Google account. I don't have Duolingo installed. Seems like this may be an issue related to BLU then?

At least two more people with BLU phones have the same issue, see https://www.amazon.ca/gp/customer-reviews/R1TSX0FHVEK6SK/ref=cm_cr_dp_d_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B01E9BNCQ4. I've contacted BLU about this.

Thanks for letting me know about the Amazon thread, @flo_ca! That helps narrow it down. If I have time, I will install updates one by one to see which one has the code in question. I will contact BLU as well (the more they hear about it, the better), but please post back here if you learn anything more!

I've contacted BLU and they are clueless, don't know about the issue and won't take responsibility for it

Update: "mfn" and "swak news" have come back 3 days after a factory restore, even though I've turned off all updates and have nothing but the factory apps. ("androidrbx" has not returned yet, though.) So looks like @Izzy was right about the sleeper mode. So now the question is whether they are part of the restore image or somehow attached to the boot loader (or whatever it is that remains to do the factory reset).

Did you get any OTA (aka "official update") from your provider/manufacturer shortly before the issue started? Then they might have messed up. If not, you must somehow have caught it (installed something shortly before the issue started?), and it managed making itself into system. Finding the culprit is a tedious job. Easiest approach would be flashing a clean image.

@Izzy: There was an OTA update, but my recollection was that it was a month or two earlier. I hadn't installed anything recently when I first noticed the problem, but the malware activation could have been delayed. I will look into the clean-image route; not something I'm familiar with, and I don't know how to find a trustworthy source for the ROM. (There's nothing on the BLU site.)

For the latter, may I point you to Where can I find stock or custom ROMs for my Android device?


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Old WhatsApp version is obsolete on January 2018, but there's no update on the Play Store
WhatsApp shows a notice that the current version is old and obsolete, preventing the user from accessing the chats. It also tells the user to download the latest update.

Tapping the "download" button takes the user to the Play Store. However, there is no option to "update", only "uninstall" and "open".

How to force update the WhatsApp app?

Download the APK file directly from the official WhatsApp site and install it.
I have the same issue and this fixed it.


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Is it possible to retrieve android data after multiple factory resets?
Lets say I want to retrieve a file that is about one year old. I have been doing one or two factory resets to this day and kept using my phone. Now I want to get that file back, is it possible to get it?

Practically impossible
When you factory-reset your device storage is not wiped but inaccessible (over written with 0's if encrypted).¹ On top of it you have been using your device which means memory is overwritten again by the apps you installed (and their data).
Effectively, your chances of recovering anything is zero unless you want to try extremely sophisticated data recovery means and maybe recover a figment of file, if at all

¹ See  for more details here. Also, as Izzy pointed out in a now deleted comment, it's really "overwritten" only if it was encrypted or if the space was reclaimed by the controller (see Wear-Leveling). So there is a chance such a file could be recovered even after multiple factory-resets. Feasibility is a different thing, especially as one cannot mount internal storage to a PC to use forensics software on it, nor (without root access) generate a disk image for doing so. And agreed, chances are not that good anyway ;)


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Partition MicroSD card to exFat and Ext 4 for link2sd?
I've been poking around using GParted on my 128GB microSD card so it can use two partitions for link2sd. Problem is, no matter what I do, each time I place the card in my phone, it says that the card is corrupted. I had been using the card just as storage (it was formatted by Android itself).
Technical details:
Phone: Samsung Galaxy Express 3 (SM-J120A)(sometimes called Samsung Galaxy J1)
Version: 6.0 Marshmellow
SD Card: Samsung EVO Select 128GB
Root status: Rooted
When I look at the partition after the phone formats it, it is an exFat partition with the Flags "boot" and "lba". Reformatting it myself to exFat with no Flags causes it to give an error in the phone "This card won't work".  If I try to give it flags, only the "boot" flag is applied. Anytime I press the "lba" flag option, it won't even check the box (its not greyed out). Other flags work fine. Even if I use the command-line (Parted) it still won't apply the lba flag.
To confirm that the card isn't broken, I have stuck it back into the phone for it to format. Works perfectly. I've even formatted the entire card to Fat32. Stuck it in the phone, no problems. Fat32 and ext4 partition combo does work.
Other than that, it simply will not accept a exFat/ext4 combo. Or even exFat alone. What I really want is to have 32 GB as an ext4 partition, and the rest being exFat. I don't want to be limited by Fat32's 4GB file size. Though aside from video, I'm not sure what large files I might have (emergency storage?).
Recommendations, advice, and solution(s) would be most appreciated.

You could try a partitioning app directly on the Android device (not tried that myself; disclosure: link goes to my Android site).

Tried AParted, it partitions, but second partition is considered "corrupted" by Android. Android's way of saying that it's no good.

OK, was worth a try. Sad it didn't work out better. Maybe you've gotta stay with FAT32+Ext4. By the way, have you tried to "switch" their order? I've never partitioned my SD, but it always sounded like the FAT partition should come first.

Both of the app movers say they expect the Ext2/4 partition to be the Second partition. So that's the way I've been doing it.

Try to use this app for Windows to partition sd card: MiniTool Partition Wizard.
Then use App2SD Pro: All in One Tool [ROOT] to create a mount script for the second partition.

Took FOREVER for that software to do it, but it worked. Much slower than GParted. Made an Ext3 partition at 32 GB and the rest being an exFat partition.

Jumped the gun initially. The exfat partition works. But now the second partition (made it ext2 at this point) is seen as a second SD card which android considers corrupted.

If your phone is rooted you can emulate ext4 partition instead of formatting:

install a ext4 image file located on external microSD Card
busybox dd if=/dev/zero of=/sdcard/.data.sdext2.img bs=4k count=1048576
busybox mke2fs -T ext4 -F -q /sdcard/.data.sdext2.img

Due the limitation of FAT32 file systems, the maximum file size is 4 GB. However, some busybox binaries are compiled without large file support and cannot create files bigger then 2 GB.

fix the mount script. pre-mounting the sdcard first, then mounting the ext4 image file (all mount options are just examples, check "mount" for real uid/gid)
#!/system/bin/sh
/system/xbin/busybox sleep 4

# use this if mount point is missing on boot
/system/xbin/busybox mount -o remount,rw /
mkdir /storage/sdcardtmp
/system/xbin/busybox mount -o remount,ro /

/system/xbin/busybox mount -t vfat -o rw,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1015 /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 /storage/sdcardtmp

/system/xbin/busybox sleep 1

# use this to overwrite old LinkSD settings
/system/xbin/busybox umount -l /data/sdext2

/system/xbin/busybox mount -t ext4 -o loop,rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,noauto_da_alloc,data=ordered /storage/sdcardtmp/.data.sdext2.img /data/sdext2

After this, Link2SD now detects 2. partition on boot. but instead of a 2. partition you just have a single image file on sdcard (which can easily copied via MTP for backup)

I'm now using Apps2SD instead. It has a built-in partition editor.
Though I went and verified other things. Turned out my GParted was old, got a newer version and formatted a FAT32/Ext2 combo. Works with Apps2SD. Link2SD might be broken. I'm content with FAT32 for now. I think Apps2SD does ExFat though. Tried Link2SD because I thought it might work when Apps2SD did. Does not. Not sure why. Read somewhere that Link2SD might also be dying, but that's speculation.


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Keyboard keeps vibrating, even though "vibrate on tap" is off?
I recently factory reset my phone, I have Android 7.1.1. I want to disable the vibrations when typing. I go to Settings, Sound, Other sounds, and all options are OFF there, including "Vibrate on tap".
However, my  default keyboard keeps vibrating :(
How do I completely silence my keyboard?
Device: LG Nexus 5X

Stop vibrations from a specific app this way: How to determine which app is causing vibration?

It depends on your version of Android.
Samsung Touchwiz-based phones and many others have the ability to control key press vibration intensity. Some more pure ASOP phone do not, such as official Google phones, or LineageOS.
One answer is to change keyboard. Both SwiftKey and GBoard offer the option to override the system sound and vibration settings.

You can try Setting, Trigger: application launched > keyboard; Action > vibrate enable / disable >

Does setting have this? Or you simply copied what was suggested in comment and trying to pass off as answer? Please clarify. Downvoted -1

Unfortunately, no, that's not it. Note that I'm not referring to a vibration when I launch or open or close an application. It's just when typing anything, in any app.

Note that this answer was actually about the MacroDroid app which was mentioned in the original (now deleted) comment, not the Android Settings.


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MicroSD card not recognized anymore by Android phone
Recently, I purchased a 32Gb Kingston MicroSD card for my Alcatel Onetouch Pixi running Android 5.1 with all the latest available updates.
When I first inserted the card, everything worked as expected and the phone detected the card. The only odd thing was that, on starup, the phone would display "Optimizing apps" and spend a long time going through 100 or so apps, and this occured at every reboot. Nevertheless, I had access to the storage, so I tried moving a couple apps to the MicroSD. This seemed to work but I eventually got some errors while trying to move apps, even when trying to move them back to internal storage. I had to reinstall a couple of apps, but everything else seemed to work fine.
A bit later, I noticed that the "optimizing apps" screen didn't appear anymore, so I checked and the SD card was not detected anymore. There was no difference between having the SD card in the phone or not. However, my computer could detect the card just fine. Other android devices also detect it normally. I have tried another MicroSD card and got the same result.
I tried cleaning the card gently, reformating it, and resetting my phone, but nothing worked. The MicroSD card should be compatible with the phone according to the infos I found online, which would be logical since it worked at first.
Is it possible to make the card functional again?

When this happened to me, it was the card. It was an old card.

Is there an overheating issue in the phone/card combination, maybe? Some other compatibility issues (timings/delays) might play into here.
(I had a similar issue with a 128 GB SD card on a Samsung s5mini, the card disengaged during use)
My solution was to exchange the card for a different (well known) manufacturer/type.
You could try doing this temporarily at first with a card from somebody you know.

You could try testing your SD card for hardware errors on PC with H2testw (download source with high reputation) app,
no formatting needed. Just reformatting the card doesn't force the storage controller to actually access higher sectors on the card, so this doesn't give information about the card being physically ok.

I had an issue like this with the S4 (LTE), and in the end it was the actual tray.
But when it comes to external media in android there isn't much I can think of what could be a software issue.
Have you installed anything lately? - If so remove it
If you have updated, try resetting the phone (do not update it) and then try and put the card in, if you want a step-by-step guide of backing up apps (photos backup automatically if you attached your google account).
Sorry if I couldn't be of assistance!
Hope you resolve the issue and have a great day

While the first sentence sounds logical, I doubt anything else from your post applies. How should an user-installed app be responsible if the card isn't found even at boot? How should a reset cure that?

He doesn't say anything about it not being detected at boot =P

Oh, he does – you just need to "read between the lines". Guess when that "optimizing apps" happens? So I'd interpret the 3rd paragraph the way that the card was no longer mounted at boot, and hence no "optimization" fired. To be 100% sure one needed to check the logs right after boot. That being said, an app could only come into play if it had the permission to MOUNT_UNMOUNT_FILESYSTEMS (or root powers at that). My bet would rather be "imperfect compatibilities": some devices have issues with some brands of cards. I'd simply check with a different brand of card before deleting stuff.


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Getting around a tethering block with European prepay SIM
When I travel to Europe, I buy a SIM, stick it in a Moto-E that has a European radio, then tether my regular cell phone.  This has been an effective solution since I'm using my regular phone, and I have all my apps.
But, last time I traveled, I got a LycaMobile (Denmark) SIM, but they blocked tethering.  The data connection worked fine from apps on the European phone.  The wifi hotspot could be set-up on the European phone.  My US cell phone successfully connected to the European phone's wifi hotspot.  But as we all know, unless there is Internet connectivity, having a successful wifi connection is useless.  I went to two LycaMobile outlets and they confirmed that tethering is blocked for the plan I bought.
My question: would a user-space application (like PdaNet+) allow me to connect my US cell phone via wifi and allow me to access the Internet even though the normal Android tethering was blocked by the carrier?
(Moto-E, Android 4.4.2 (API 19))

First I would recommend using a VPN service to prevent your ISP from inferring your avoidance of the ban by sniffing your internet traffic. It would be best to pay for one, as free VPN services collect and sell your personality data. More about how your ISP can tell if you are tethering.
You will have two classes of options: rooted or non-root.
Non-root

Like @Dale suggested above, PDA.net (Also known as the companion app foxfi which still works on legacy devices) is a good choice. But that requires an app to be installed on your other device before you can use it.
If you don't want to use PDA.net, you can try changing your phone to not report to your ISP that you are using teather. You only have to perform the following steps once. This is known as the "Dun = 0" option. First Sideload ADB and Fastboot via xdaDevelopers. Next enable USB Debugging on your phone/tablet. After connecting your phone to your computer via USB cable, run adb shell in a command prompt. Type settings put global tether_dun_required 0 and press enter. Now whenever you enable tethering on your phone it won't report to your ISP that you are using it. However they still will be able to infer you are tethering via inspecting your network traffic.

Rooted

Hands down the best, and still maintained app is WifiTeatherRouter.

FYI

Since you are messing around with teathering options, you might be intersted in knowing about reverse teathering. There is a free open source project called (gnirehtet) will allow you to do all kinds of sharing of your internet traffic to your android phone using a Mac, Linux or Windows computer. The minimum version of android is 5.0 (Lollipop)

June Fabrics PDA Software Support responded:
You can try this and see if it works:
1. Install PdaNet 5.1 on both your Moto E and Moto X
2. On the Moto E open PdaNet and activate "WiFi Direct Hotspot"
3. On the Moto X open PdaNet and tap "Connect to a PdaNet Hotspot",

See if the two can establish connection.

This suggests that this software, if added to both phones, would allow the tethering that I would like.
Further investigation suggests that there is a cat and mouse game going on between carriers that attempt to block tethering and apps that are designed to get around these blocks.  Originally there was an app called "FoxFi" that used wifi mode.  Later Android versions (after 4.0 and on) have been selectively removing the ability of wifi mode.  But there are two other modes: bluetooth mode and usb mode that are available in the more recent app called "PDANet".


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Android 7 - How to save new contacts to the phone
I have an Android 7.1.1 phone. Before I linked it to a Google account, new contacts would be saved to the phone itself (I think SIM card was also an option).
Now That I've added my Google account, I no longer see "Phone" as a save option. I am forced to save contacts to my Google account (see screenshot).

Before I added the Google account, the Contact app setting below was unset. Now I cannot deselect Google.

Is it possible to have contact saved to the phone only? I don't want my contacts automatically linked to my Google account.

Third party so like this may help?

@beeshyams Thanks for the suggestion. I'd like to keep using the default Contacts if possible, since other apps depend on it.


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Deleted music off phone from computer with space no change
I was already out of space on my phone and wanted new music on it so I deleted 140MB of songs off my phone through the computer window(phone was usb hooked up to computer). So I go ahead to transfer my new music onto the phone by computer when It tells me I have no space.... the phones properties on the computer is showing up as if theres been no change in space.
Since then I've cleared all my cashes, tryied downloading a phone cleaner app but the phones saying not enough space for that either. Yet when I go through the phones settings to check up its storage. it says I have over 500 MB Free!...
if it matters I'm using a cheap ZTE phone Model: Z798BL


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Odd mark at the top of the screen of my new LG V30
I just got a LG V30, and noticed an odd mark at the top of my screen:

I'm guessing this is some kind of factory defect. Does anyone know if indicates deeper flaws in the screen? Considering I mostly have a black theme, it's usually invisible. I just don't want this to lead to other problems down the road.
There doesn't appear to be any kind of responsiveness issues in the area when I touch it, so it's not problematic in that regard.

I have the same type of defect on my LG V30 but it's on the bottom right corner of the screen
.  LG wanted me to send in my phone for repair, they said it would take 2 weeks, and would not offer a loaner phone in the meantime.  Decided to check with Verizon, and they are sending me a replacement phone by end of week.  Love this phone, and happy that it's a simple swap process.

I took it into a Bell store (the carrier I bought the phone under).
The rep confirmed that it's a manufacturer defect, and was convinced that it will only get worse. I'm getting it swapped out.


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Android Oreo autofill on chrome
I know android Oreo has an auto fill feature, and I like that it can be integrated with a third party password manager. However what is unclear is whether that auto fill feature works within a browser like chrome.
Does it work? Are there browsers that support it? If not, is it on a roadmap?
Full disclaimer: I am using keepass2android and it doesn't seem to work. Google has made them remove the accessibility feature that worked and keepass2android claims that they have now implemented Oreo autofill integration, but that doesn't seem to work with chrome.
I've read around that the chrome team was planning on making android autofill work within chrome, but I don't know how trustworthy it all is and/or how old. I am curious if it is even possible to have an app that tells autofill where it's fields are and what it's app name/ URL is... Or whether autofill is a one way system.

Turns out that Keepass2Android did the work correctly, it works on Firefox like a dream, but they have not implemented it in Chrome even to this day which is sad. The best I can do is to share the page to Keepass2Android and the app will take me to a keyboard selection page where I can choose the special keyboard and be sent back to chrome to fill my fields.


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LTE: Lost/Stolen Phone in another country, didn't receive text/data/voicemails after new SIM?
I had an unfortunate situation occur to me where my phone was pick pocketed out of my pocket while on Vacation out of the country. We decided to not cancel the phone line because doing so would disable the find my phone features on the phone. I would have to rely on wifi connection if cellular data was shut off. Anyway, I monitored the phone and my stolen phone number for a week and a half before I was like this phone will never be turned on (essentially radio silence since stolen). I had enough and then I just informed my carrier to blacklist the phone and give me a new SIM card. I was expecting that once I popped in the new SIM card into my old Smart phone I would start receiving all the missed calls and texts on my phone, but none came through. In fact I only received ones that appeared to happen today.
I was wondering what happened. I talked to my family and friends and they all said they were calling/messaging/etc my phone number since it was stolen in order to see if they would get a response. The phone was stolen in Mexico and I was using At&t's international roaming because it was free there. If anyone wanted to get in touch with me in Mexico, I know they were able to because I was communicating with them free of charge out of Mexico no problem with everything as if it was that I was in the states. In any case, is there an explanation what happened here?
Stolen phone:
Galaxy S7
At&T Mexican Free Roaming
Stolen in Mexico
~ 1.5 weeks elasped
New Phone:
Galaxy S5
Started up in USA with my same number
At&T USA service
Anyone have any ideas?

No answers? Is the question unclear or in the wrong spot?

My sincerest sympathies for the unfortunate event. This site is about Android-related stuff. Your SIM and your GSM operator is not necessarily related to Android. Therefore, even though I think your question is OK to stay here, you might not be able to receive a good answer in any time soon.

Thank you for your concern. It has been a few months since and it has been a process securing my data and protecting my identity. It seems that nothing bad has come as a result of it but I certainly lost all those messages (verified by my friends and family members). I believe that @abochur's answer hit the mark. Thank you ! I appreciate your sympathies!

Chances are that no messages were sent to you in the last 72 hours, and they were deleted. At&t will only try delivering the texts for 72 hours and then they delete them from the servers

All the messages sent are retried for up to 72 hours and any
  undelivered messages get deleted after that
  Source

As for missed calls, you will never receive missed call notification for calls that were made while your phone is off, unless a voicemail was left.
I'm not sure why no voicemails came in. It's possible that it's similar to what I wrote about sms's above, that they get deleted after 72 hours.
Also possible that your phones data was turned off, and therefore you did not see it in Google's device manager. But all texts and calls came to that phone.

Why do they call it retry period? To me that sounds like it will retry every 72 hours.

Retried for UP TO 72 hours. How do you explain "any undelivered messages get deleted after that"? Isnt "that"=72h?

I just didn't want to believe it...thanks though for helping me face the music. That confirm is as good as it gets. I marked your answer as the best answer. Thanks for your feedback.


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"Format as Internal Storage" option no longer available
When I first inserted my SD card, it showed a notification with an "options button." I proceeded to format the card as external, portable storage, although the system storage format option was available (a mistake on my part). I later realized this when there was no option to move apps to SD card, as you can on LG devices. So, I went to storage settings, and pressed format, and it did not show the option to format as internal memory. Could anyone help me set this microSD card as internal storage? ***

Please note that this is not a previously asked question. I know that
  my phone has the ability to set it as internal storage. I have seen
  the option. Read the entire question.

Since it is portable storage it can be removed without any problem. Do that and Copy data from it to PC . Next, 1. Reinsert and reboot (sometimes it takes doing this an few times) 2. Format on your PC and insert into phone- it may detect and prompt format

It seems like manufacturers are removing the "Format as Internal" feature on newer phones. Perhaps because it's in their interest to force us to upgrade our devices after running into memory frustrations.
So after a long and frustrating process, this eventually method worked for me. I had to make two alterations:

I used the MTK ADB driver instead of the one linked in the guide. This depends on your chip type, there's no harm in trying both if you don't know which to pick. Just that your phone might not show up on step 7.
On step 8, the fourth command adb shell sm partition disk:179,64 private might give you a java exception error. I had to use my result from the first command adb shell sm list-disks which was something like disk:179,124. The author neglects to mention that this may vary for your device.

With a bit of patience this should work for you too. If I missed anything, search the comments of the article, another person's experience might give you a clue.

Seems to work on Nokia 3.1 running stock Android 8.1.0 because the SD Card storage option now shows "Format as external" (meaning that it is currently used as internal storage). Thanks a lot!

Excellent. Works like a charm for LG Stylus 2 running Android 6.x.

Insert the SD card into a PC, or connect the phone with the SD card in it to a PC via USB. Next, locate the SD card through "This PC" in file explorer. When you find it, right click it and format it as EXT4 or exFAT. After it is formatted, return the MicroSD card to the phone or unplug the phone and then restart it. It should, in the notifications/alerts dropdown say the SD card is corrupted. Click this notification, and you should now have the option to format it as internal storage after restarting your phone.

Tried gpt + Ext4 on a Payton device running LineageOS 15.1, no luck :(


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SD won't encrypt or decrypt or work after removing phone battery
I removed my phone battery when the phone was on without turning it off first, my SD card was encrypted, so now I cannot access my SD card contents on my phone while phone detects the SD card.
Moreover, when I turn my phone on, encryption page shows after boot, giving me the option to encrypt or decrypt the sd card and selecting either encrypt or decrypt won't do anything.
So how can I decrypt my SD card and access my data?
My phone uses android version 6

First, apparently, the phone thinks that the SD card is in the middle of encrypting/decrypting so it will not allow access to SD card while not encrypting/decrypting the SD card either.
to remedy this I removed a .MetaEcfsFile on my SD card using my computer, after removing this my phone now thinks that the SD card is not encrypted.
Second, I encrypted my already encrypted SD card, the reason that this will not corrupt my data is that starting with Android 5, android uses fast encryption that will only encrypt edited blocks, so enabling encryption will not encrypt your files the second time if you don't change them.
From source.android.com:

Full-disk encryption was introduced to Android in 4.4, but Android 5.0
  introduced these new features:

Created fast encryption, which only encrypts used blocks on the data    partition to avoid first boot taking a long time. Only ext4
  and f2fs    filesystems currently support fast encryption.

Last, after encryption you decrypt the SD card, android now decrypts the whole SD card not just changed blocks and you can access your files.
I also observed that removing the pattern and lock screen will not make your SD card data inaccessible.

I had the same problem on a Samsung Galaxy J5 (Android 6.0.1). I am not sure how it happened but I could not see my encrypted microSD card and could not decrypt it. The solution of mohas did not work for me but I managed otherwise:

Plug the microSD on a computer and transfer the encrypted data to the computer (they won't be readable but they can be copied)
Quick format the microSD card on the computer (format Fat32)
Put back the microSD card in the phone (it should now be readable)
Encrypt the microSD card on the phone
Unmount the microSD card and plug it back on the computer
Transfer back all encrypted data to the encrypted microSD card and plug the card back in the phone
Now, you should be able to have access to the data on your phone (at least it worked for me)


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How to upgrade Android API level on my device?
I have an Android device and its OS is 4.2.2 and API level is 17.

How to change the API level without flashing firmware?
Is API level upgraded by flashing a custom firmware?

No. Unless you didn't update to available stock higher versions 2. Possible, yes, if your device has custom ROM developed for it. If you want specific answers ask specific questions by adding details such as device name and model, is it rooted etc using [edit]

The API level is the technical corresponding number to your Android version – so e.g. saying your device is running on "API level 23" would at the same time mean it has Android 6 (Marshmallow) installed. Lifting it to API level 24 would mean upgrading to Android 7 (Nougat). With your device being on API level 17, it's running JellyBean (Android 4.2.*). That said:

No, impossible.
Yes if it's "newer" (but not limited to custom firmware; a newer "stock" one would do the same) – but an OTA upgrade could achive the same.


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Is there a better way to hide TV shows from the gallery?
Yesterday I copied a few TV episodes to my phone's SD card, and now when I go to send a picture in Facebook Messenger, I'm swamped by those episodes. To fix this (i.e. to stop the videos showing in the Photos app and file pickers) I renamed the Videos folder on my SD card to .Videos (making it a hidden folder). Is there a better way to do this though? I don't need to lock them or hide hide them, I just don't want them to show in the gallery.
I'm on stock Android Oreo.

See if solutions here help. Since I don't use FB can't check

This app seems to be a good alternative but then it hides.

The solution to that is pretty easy: Instead of renaming the folder to .Video (and thus "hiding" it completely), simply place a file named .nomedia inside it. That way you hide it from the media scanner – while the directory stays visible in your file managers.
I cannot check with FB (refusing those data collectors), but apps usually depend on the "media provider" for such activities as you described. The "media provider" uses a database, so available media can be found quickly (if each app would scan your entire storage on a "share" action, that would take far too long). By placing a .nomedia file inside a directory, you tell its scanner to skip that directory (and all its content including subdirectories) from being included with this database.

@beeshyams yeah, doesn't always need an app to reach a goal :)

+1 I had forgotten about this. I'll give it a go. Thank you.


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Why decryption failed on Oreo 8.1 after update (keys not properly upgraded?)?
After updating, Pixel 2 can't decrypt user data. Seems like some keys are not updated properly. Flashing  older firmware doesn't help because of Google's new anti-rollback feature.
How to fix that and decrypt my data? Device is unlocked.
    walleye:/ $ logcat
--------- beginning of system
01-12 01:30:26.698   682   682 I vold    : Vold 3.0 (the awakening) firing up
01-12 01:30:26.698   682   682 V vold    : Detected support for: ext4 vfat
01-12 01:30:26.703   682   692 I vold    : e4crypt_initialize_global_de
01-12 01:30:26.704   682   692 D vold    : Key exists, using: /data/unencrypted/key
01-12 01:30:26.718   682   692 D vold    : Added key 556838879 (ext4:702f703661b6e047) to keyring 120297969 in process 682
01-12 01:30:26.718   682   692 D vold    : Added key 950968792 (f2fs:702f703661b6e047) to keyring 120297969 in process 682
01-12 01:30:26.718   682   692 D vold    : Added key 943429884 (fscrypt:702f703661b6e047) to keyring 120297969 in process 682
01-12 01:30:26.718   682   692 I vold    : Wrote system DE key reference to:/data/unencrypted/ref
01-12 01:30:26.763   682   692 D vold    : e4crypt_init_user0
01-12 01:30:26.763   682   692 D vold    : Preparing: /data/misc/vold/user_keys
01-12 01:30:26.764   682   692 D vold    : Preparing: /data/misc/vold/user_keys/ce
01-12 01:30:26.764   682   692 D vold    : Preparing: /data/misc/vold/user_keys/de
01-12 01:30:26.768   682   692 E vold    : begin failed, code -62
01-12 01:30:26.768   682   692 D vold    : Upgrading key: /data/misc/vold/user_keys/de/0
01-12 01:30:26.772   682   692 E vold    : upgrade_key failed, code -33
01-12 01:30:27.057   682   690 D vold    : Disk at 7:0 changed
01-12 01:30:27.114   682   690 I chatty  : uid=0(root) /system/bin/vold identical 1 line
01-12 01:30:27.201   682   690 D vold    : Disk at 7:0 changed

Also mention your device in question


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After moving files to SD card, mediaserver keeps drinking battery juice until next reboot
Even if I move just one voice record (.ogg) or movie/picture file towards the SD card, the Android mediaserver/system_server keeps draining the battery, 2% per minute, and heating the device up rapidly, until next reboot.
But rebooting to solve problems is against the Linux philosophy.

What exactly causes that problem?
How can I fix this problem without rebooting?.

Hard to say without additional details. You could investigate the logs to find at least some hints. Please let us know about your findings, so we can try to help.

IME on much older Android versions, this is often a symptom of a corrupt SD card filesystem, which gets the media scanner "stuck" trying to read a file that is unreadable. Try scanning the SD card in another computer (using fsck or similar).

I will try it out.


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Mute Snapchat's shutter sound
I have Snapchat 10.23.11 on Huawei and my friend has the same version but on a Samsung device. I have muted the system Camera app and in the system app, there's no shutter sound. In Snapchat, when I'm taking a photo using the back camera without a flashlight, there's a shutter sound but my friend on her Samsung device with the same Snapchat version doesn't have a shutter sound.
When I had a Snapchat version from about October 2017, there wasn't a shutter sound. Last few days, I've updated the Snapchat app and all others app and the shutter sound appeared.
What's going on? How to remove the shutter sound?

That probably means that the Snapchat app is taking an actual photo as opposed to a screenshot of the viewfinder which is done on most Android Snapchat devices for compatibility.
However, on some phones like Samsung Galaxy S7, the rear camera makes a shutter sound because it takes an actual photo and not a screenshot of the preview feed.

From the OP's comment,

The problem is solved, I've installed TWRP and removed camera shutter ogg file.


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What file system for Asus Zenfone 2 on CentOS 6.9?
I'm trying to mount my Android Asus Zenfone 2 on CentOS 6.9. I created a folder in /mnt/android as the mounting point. I edited the /etc/fstab file in the following way because somewhere in some forums I read that jmtp  file system correctly handles the Android phones' file system. But now the OS doesn't automatically read the file-system of my phone when I connect it via USB to my PC. Can you help me figure out what file system I could use in the /etc/fstab in order for me to access files correctly?
Thank you.
[dolly@centos mnt]$ sudo cp android/"Internal storage"/WhatsApp/* ~/Pictures/
[sudo] password for dolly:
cp: cannot stat `android/Internal storage/WhatsApp/*': No such file or directory
[dolly@centos mnt]$ sudo cp android/'Internal storage'/WhatsApp/* ~/Pictures/
cp: cannot stat `android/Internal storage/WhatsApp/*': No such file or directory
[dolly@centos mnt]$

/etc/fstab/ file
#
# /etc/fstab
# Created by anaconda on Fri Oct 27 00:03:17 2017
#
# Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk'
# See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or blkid(8) for more info
#
/dev/mapper/vg_hpdv6000-lv_root /                       ext4    defaults        1 1
UUID=8b4c9d1b-6bcb-4bfc-b48f-146a415fb8f3 /boot                   ext4    defaults        1 2
/dev/mapper/vg_hpdv6000-lv_swap swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
tmpfs                   /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
devpts                  /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
sysfs                   /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
proc                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
/dev/sda1           /mnt/win ntfs-3g rw,umask=0000,defaults 0 0
jmtpfs                  /mnt/android fuse nodev,allow_other,rw,user,noauto,noatime,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0

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EDIT 1
I've got Andoroid 5.0 Lollipop. I had chosen it among the tags for this question but I can understand if someone missed it.
The filesystem I'm looking for is one that allows me to copy some old classical music, from the PC into the phone. I have Fuse package installed and it allows me to read/write files from my Windows 7 partition.

Isn't that rather a question for Linux&Unix.SE? On Android we usually don't edit fstab files – and I just wonder why your corresponding fstab entry starts with a file system instead of the device. So I wonder how the device should be identified there at all. But as said, that's rather not an Android question but a CentOS/Linux one.

@Izzy We have many other questions about accessing the phone via MTP from a Linux desktop, e.g. this one about mtpfs on Ubuntu. I think this one is perfectly reasonable.

@DanHulme which is why I didn't VTC. Though, as I've pointed out, it IMHO weights more on Linux specifics. OP didn't mention the Android version used; I e.g. use adbfs to access my Android devices, which works fine at least up to Android 6.


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How can I copy GPS coordinates from a marker in Google Maps app?
Is there a way to get/copy GPS coordinates from a  marker on the Google Maps app? When I drop a marker by holding down on a spot, I get the coordinates in the field. But, when I tap in the field to copy them, the numbers change to the city location.
I should have added this at the start: I am using Version 9.69.1.

Close Voters : NOT a duplicate of this as that pertains to old version and that method doesn't work - I was about to vote it as duplicate :(

It's quite easy
When you drop a pin you get coordinates in the search bar that can't be copied as you observed
To do that, on the left bottom you will find More Info. Tapping on that will take you to next screen where you can see the coordinates and long press to copy to clipboard ! You will get a toast confirmation as shown and paste it wherever

Maps version 9.67.1
(Your GPS needs to switched on with the faint blue circle showing up before you drop the pin)

beeshyarms: That worked. Exactly what I needed. : )  I am very happy with this answer. I used to have a separate GPS app. But, they started adding advertisements to the point where it was unusable. I figured that there had to be a way to use Google Maps app since I had seen the GPS coordinates there.

Glad to help :)


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Stop Adding Home Screens on App Install
I do not want to turn off new icons being added to the Home Screen.
Instead there is a problem where my tablet will keep adding new Home Screens.  It's curious, because there is plenty of space for new icons on the previous page.
The tablet is Galaxy Tab S3 with Android 7.0 and the default launcher.

Can't check on Nougat because I don't have it but IIRC there is an option in Play Store settings to disable this . This is accessible from settings. Please check

There is an option for adding icons to the home screen.  Not a setting for creating newer home screens.

Ahh yes, my bad. Must be Samsung specific thing. All I can suggest (since I dint have that device) is to use an alternate launcher like Nova or any other


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Xiaomi Mi A1 won't show update to Oreo
My phone Mi A1 showed first the notification update for Oreo, it failed twice before showing the update for Security Patch of December after which the update of Oreo totally disappeared. Checking for the update manually the phone shows the message that I am on latest update.
I tried the available online solutions of:

Reset Factory Defaults.
Clear data of Google Services Framework followed by a Disable then Enable.

None of them worked!

I have the same device and this may help

There were two December updates for Nougat. You need to have 7.12.19 which is a prerequisite. My son also purchased the device a week after mine and he got the second update just yesterday and no Oreo yet, so I suspect that the roll out in batches is linked to the purchase date
Clearing Google services framework is not recommended but I went ahead and did it, since none of the users who did it reported any problems. Update didn't follow immediately but it came after about 7 hours (overnight)
Some users have successfully got updated after spoofing their location to other countries, using a VPN (US and Germany). I did this too but didn't work

Of course the fastest would be to visit local service centre and get it done free of cost


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Whatsapp only partially restored
Phone got stolen and got a replacement today. Restored Whatsapp It had stuff going back 2 years, but it didn't have the last 7 weeks of chat, I checked the settings and it's supposed to backup everyday...Is there something I'm missing?

Can't say for sure without having the old device but maybe it was not backed up to Google Drive? Even if it did, such problems have been widely reported. All I can suggest is uninstall and try restoring again

If the backup went all the way till %100 but you didn't get the past 7 weeks, this would mean that WhatsApp wasn't backing up for the last 7 weeks.
Being that the phone is now lost, there is no way to know why this is so. The fact that Google drive backup setting is set to do it every day, doesn't mean that this is the setting you had on your old phone. Because, WhatsApp backups do a full backup on your messages and media, but not your WhatsApp settings.
So it's very possible that on your old phone the setting was changed 7 weeks ago by mistake. Also possible that Google drive wasn't making backups for another reason. No real way to find the reason without checking on the old phone.


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How to answer whatsapp calls by pressing the home button?
Its just for accessibility, as android supports answering phone calls using home button, I want to do this with whatsapp calls too.

The phone doesn't count WhatsApp calls as a regular phone call. Therefore, it won't work unless you get Tasker or something similar, to use the home button to answer calls

yes, there is an app that could do it, Automate by llama labs, maybe someone will do it.


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I deleted all the contents from my device and CWM does not allow me to install anything
I have ClockworkMod Recovery v5.8.3.4 installed on my Android device, I am afraid I deleted all the contents of my device and I cannot access Android.
When I enter the main menu, I see the "reboot system now", "install zip from sdcard", etc. options, but CWM cannot find any zip file with a custom ROM. If I select "reboot system now", I go back to the CWM main menu.
Can I update CWM? Can I install another ROM manager?

What device is it?

Asus Eee Pad Transformer TF101

Try switching to TWRP from CWM has been out of development for a very long time. The TWRP is an older version it is still newer then the CWM your using. It also looks like it might be an issue with CWM.       https://dl.twrp.me/tf101/

Yes you can.
Download the things you want to flash on a computer, then connect your phone (booted into CWM) to it and use adb push to send the files to your phone. You can flash them with CWM.