title: App updates automatically even after uninstall?

text: I recently uninstalled an app called `All in one toolbox` from Nexus 7 tablet, but this morning after I finished updating the Chrome browser, in the notifications panel I can see that somehow `All in one toolbox` got updates, but I can't find it anywhere on the installed apps list   ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/docrK.png)   How did this happen?   Or is this app still present on the tablet somewhere, and if it is, how and where do I find it? \--- EDIT ---   This app was uninstalled by long pressing on it's icon in the main menu, and then dragging it to uninstall, if that makes any difference.


title: Cannot upload arbitrary files using Chrome

text: Using for the first time latest Chrome (v30.x) on Android 4.0.4 ICS on a 1st Gen. Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet. To my huge surprise am not able to upload any files other than images or camera videos? In any webmail when I click attach a list of apps is displayed that includes Gallery, Camera etc. But the in-built file manager (My Files) is nowhere to be seen. Thinking there was a problem with it I tried many other file manager apps but none of them show up either. In stock Android browser though the in-built file manager is visible and allows me to select and upload files with any extension. What could be wrong with Chrome and if possible how can I fix it?


title: Cached gateway? What is up with that?

text: I have a Samsung Galaxy Nexus, right now v4.3, but its been having this problem since at least 4.1.1. I carry the phone from home, to work, and back. It is set up to connect to the WAPs in both locations. There is a chronic problem where upon returning home many of the applications lose network connectivity as soon as the phone connects to the WAP at home. The ONLY way I have found, so far, to fix this is shut the phone down and restart. The partial list is CSipSimple, S.MS, TouchDown email, which all do "run at startup"; but so does Facebook and there is no issue with that. After leaving work, all of these application continue to work on the Wireless Carrier until I arrive home. Turn off WiFi and they start working again, turn on WiFi and they die. I have never had the reverse problem, where they work at home but die when I get to work. The work subnet is 10.1.0.0/16. The home subnet is 192.16.2.0/24. A network trace shows the phone begins ARP broadcasts looking for the work default gateway as soon as it authenticates with the home WAP, which of course are never answered. But, it also shows DHCP ACK delivering the correct gateway when it picks up its IP. The home DHCP lease is 2 hours, I believe its the same at work, but I have to verify, and no, it does not take me 2 hours to get home from work. In an ADB shell, iproute on wlan0 reflects the correct subnet mask and gateway. In Android, the Network Info II tool also reflects all the correct parameters received from DHCP, and is able to identify the correct public (external) IP address. Some applications, like the browser, are able to reach resources on the local and external network. I've tried a "force stop" and clearing the cache on the apps that won't connect to anything, to no avail. I'm out of ideas. Clearly some specific applications have held on to the work gateway, and who knows what else, so I'm boggled right there because where I come from the gateway is in the network stack and can't possibly behave in an application specific way, but then this is Android, which is a framework, and its behaving like applications can independently own their own copy of an abstracted interface. Any hard core Android internals guys out there have any clue?


title: How to upgrade to Android 4.1 for Galaxy Tab GT-P1000

text: Is there anybody who tried upgrading from Android 2.2 on this device recently? Or do you consider it a wise decision in terms of risks / gains involved? I found tutorials that seem pretty up to date: http://www.androidauthority.com/galaxy-tab-p1000-clockworkmod-recovery-118602/ http://www.androidauthority.com/galaxy-tab-gt-p1000-gsm- android-4-1-1-cyanogenmod-10-cm10-nightly-unofficial-112424/


title: How do I upgrade my Sony Xperia X10 mini to Android 2.1?

text: I would like to explain to my friend who lives in another country how to upgrade their phone to Android 2.1 so that they can use WhatsApp. How can they do this?


title: Tasker best profiles to trigger two states

text: I use some confuse profiles to trigger a task when I come to office and when I'm back in home, based in time of the day and week(this is the problem to have many profiles). But I have two access points (wifi), in my house and in my office. So I would like to make only one or two, or even 3 profiles to this, based in the two wifi acess points, and not 6 I have right now. Any suggestions would by welcome. Thanks!!


title: How to Bluetooth tether Motorola Droid 3 (Android 2.3.4) to HTC One

text: I have figured out how to enable the HTC to share it's internet via bluetooth: Mobile Network Sharing -> Bluetooth Tethering [checked on] But I am unable to find a way to allow the Droid 3 to consume the internet via bluetooth. I can get the Droid 3 to broadcast using 3rd part apps, btu can't figure out how to consume. Note, this Droid 3 is my old phone that I am still using in my car as I can't mount my HTC One for non-technical reasons. This looks like a duplicate of another reverse tethering issue which is a duplicate itself, but the answer listed can't be found.


title: On android, is there any way to sign into Google Play without also signing into Gmail?

text: I have an android tablet. I would like to sign in into the play store in order to get other apps, but I do not want to sign in gmail/contacts/calenders/g+ etc. This device will be shared among multiple people and I want to keep my information private. The mere ability to turn of syncing with gmail is not enough - it can be trivially turned back on without a password. And in the time it takes to turn off gmail sync, a fair bit of email still gets synced to the device. I can't find a way to remove it, without also signing out of Google Play. On iOS, the app store credentials are separate from iCloud credentials, so this isn't a problem. Is there any way to sign into Google Play without also signing into Gmail?


title: What is the best way to read PDFs on Android?

text: What is the best way to convert PDF's to some kind of format that is easily readable? For example can you convert it to ebook format?


title: Why does my phone occasionally show the boot animation?

text: I have a Motorola XT720 on eclair. A couple times, I've seen it show the boot animation (mystical Motorola logo), usually it's while it's sleeping. After I see the boot animation, I am on Emergency calls only, just like when I first boot my phone. (I'm not sure if this is normal either.) I just saw this now, and it was plugged into my computer (usb debugging enabled). I had it set to memory card access and ejected it and switched to portal & tools. It sat for a couple minutes and then I saw the logo. I touched the screen and it showed my lock screen. I'd assume this is a crash and reboot, except that if I goto Settings > About phone > Status, I see the uptime listed as 116 hours. What is the phone doing? Does anyone else see this behaviour? * * * Update: I read elsewhere that it may be related to the SD card and I've started fscking whenever it happens. First I find out where my device is connected (I'm on /dev/sdb1) and then I fsck.               grep fat /etc/mtab     sudo fsck.vfat -r /dev/sdb1      fsck will do interactive repair and ask you how to fix the errors. After I get one of these crashes, there are errors to repair. I think this has reduced the crash frequency. * * * Update 2: I put in an old 1 GB SD card awhile ago and I don't remember the last time I saw one of these crashes.


title: Customizing the reminder.

text: Currently, the reminders are carried out by a one-time vibration (which is too easy to miss) What settings do you go to to make them say, do 5 loud beeps or something? This is for note 3.


title: What exactly gets deleted when removing Google account

text: When I try to remove my Google account I get the message that messages, contacts and other data from the phone will be deleted. What does messages include? Mail messages, SMS, Whatsapp,...? And what is meant by other data? All apps, pictures,...? I'd like to know this for Android 4.4.2 and 4.1.1. Thank you


title: Problem upgrading N1 to Android 2.3

text: I have a once-rooted Nexus one. Since then I unrooted it to enable automatic upgrades, and currently have a stock 2.2. I got the notification to upgrade my OS (to 2.3 I assume), but after my phone restarts, I am presented with the following text in the recovery screen:               Build : RA-nexus-v1.5.3     Finding update package...     Opening update package...     Verifying update package...     E:No signature (8 files)     E:Verification failed     Installation aborted.      How do I fix this?


title: How can I disable the button on the earphones?

text: I keep accidentally pressing the button on the earbuds when it's in my pocket. Any of these would be great for me:   1. Disable the button only when the device is locked   2. Disable the button always


title: Easiest way to reduce power consumption to phone only

text: Sometimes I'm in a situation where I can't charge and want to have phone service as long as possible. I won't care if nothing else is enabled. What's the easiest way eliminate as much other power consumption as possible? Minimal apps, no sync, no data, GPS, Bluetooth. I'm configured to easily turn off all the radios (BT, Wifi, GPS), but I'd like to strip down as much else that burns power as possible without spending a lot of time reconfiguring. ...AND I'd like to be able to return to normal use just as easily (rebooting would be fine for this, too). In my case, needs to work on CDMA network, too.


title: How can I set up a VPN connection on my Nexus One?

text: I often check my mail at my office using the VPN connection which bridged my PC with the Microsoft Exchange Server and so that I can check mail using Outlook. I want to do the same thing when I'm out of my office and on my Nexus One mobile phone. But I don't know how to set up a VPN connection like the way I do it on my PC. Below is the screenshot of how I set up my VPN on my PC. Please share if you know a solution for me. All helps are welcome and very much appriciated! ![alt text](http://i.stack.imgur.com/N4wri.png) ![alt text](http://i.stack.imgur.com/iA6j4.png)


title: Playing an mp3 (from my phone) through my internet radio

text: On my old Samsung Galaxy Ace running Android 2.3.6 or so, there was a Samsung system app called "allshare". I really really loved this app. It was simple and unpretentious, and it did the following amazing thing: when I was in my kitchen, with my phone connected to my home wireless network, and my internet radio was also in my kitchen, also connected to my home wireless network, I could play an mp3 on my phone and direct the output to the internet radio. It was simple and it worked, and I used it a lot. Woo hoo! I now have a sparkling brand new HTC one mini, running Android 4.something large. I went straight to google play to download my allshare. But I can only find "Samsung Link" (formerly Allshare Play, which might well have been the app I was using) and it is incompatible with all my devices (possibly for the reason that they are not samsung devices). I want my functionality back! I am assuming that if Samsung can get this to work on an old 2.3.6 phone, it must be possible to get my HTC one mini doing it, right?


title: internal storage running low

text: I am not very technologically advanced so bear with me. I need to move more apps to my SD card from internal storage because I am running low on internal storage space. I have moved very few apps to my Sd card with application manager but the majority of the apps have the option greyed out. After the apps updated the move to SD card option remained greyed out. How can I free up space? I have a 16 GB SD card so its a little frustrating that I can't use it.


title: How to activate car mode with a magnet?

text: The Google Nexus 7 tablet has lots of reed relays and magnets. Some toggle the screen, others activate the wireless charging dock. I suppose there is a position for activating car mode (never putting screen to sleep). I'd like to put a magnet (or several if necessary) into my car dock, so I can trigger car mode, whenever I put the tablet in there. Unfortunatelly, I couldn't find a page, that will describe the various positions of the reed relays inside the device.


title: Ubuntu for Android

text: Is this actually downloadable in Google Play or elsewhere or is it just a project for willing OEMs? Did anyone here use it? http://www.ubuntu.com/phone/ubuntu-for-android


title: Link2SD - Lost first SD partition

text: I've been running Link2SD on a year or so with no issues. I use an 16GB SD card with a 1GB second partition. I have most of my stuff linked to SD, but a few apps I just left on the first SD card partition. Within the past week or so, it seems I've lost my first partition. When I go to Storage Info in Link2SD, it shows the same stats for /mnt/sdcard and /data/sdext2. All the apps that were on my first partition are missing, along with all my music, pictures, and application data. File explorers on the phone just show the stuff from the second partition, as well. When I connect via usb to a pc I can see all the files and folders on the first partition, so it is there and I can get to them via the phone's usb connection. Is this a link2sd isssue or a "funny" with mounting the SD's first partition? Any help gratefully accepted.


title: Problems rooting a Pandigital Planet 7 tablet

text: I have problems rooting a PanDigital Planet 7 tablet. I've already tried some instructions (including this one: http://www.the-ebook-reader.com/pandigital- planet-root.html), but there is an error: mount/media succeed! \--Install /sdcard... Finding update package... Opening update package... Verifying update package... Installing update... assert failed: getprop("ro.product.device")=="pandigitalplnt1" || getprop ("ro.build.product")=="pandigitalplnt1" E: Error in /tnp/sideload/package.zip (Status 7) Instalation aborted. Please, help.


title: my samsung galaxy plus battery draining quickly some time it is showing 50% but immidiatly 0%

text: my samsung galaxy S plus battery draining quickly some time it is showing 50% but immidiatly 0% so please help me to solve this ITS GINGERBOAT MODEL GT-i9001 yog


title: How to recognize a Sony Xperia L with Android 4.1.2 as mass storage in Linux?

text: So I have a Scientific Linux 6.4 Desktop with GNOME and a Sony Xperia L with Android 4.1.2. The phone has a micoSD in it (so besides the built-in memory, there are more..). If I plug it in to the Desktop via an USB cable, then this is the max that I get from the Linux Desktop side (from dmesg):               usb 2-1.2: new high speed USB device number 4 using ehci_hcd     usb 2-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=0fce, idProduct=0192     usb 2-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3     usb 2-1.2: Product: Android     usb 2-1.2: Manufacturer: Android     usb 2-1.2: SerialNumber: fooooooooo     usb 2-1.2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice     usb 2-1.2: USB disconnect, device number 4      But there isn't any mass storage devices that are connected to the PC. I can't find anything related in the Phone's menu to turn on "act as a mass storage device", what am I missing? (an icon shows up on the phone when I plug it in at the top, but nothing happens if I tip on it..). +Under Windows it works.


title: Unable to confirm installation on program from unknown source

text: I have a few programs I want to install that come from "Unknown sources" (The latest Humble Bundle to be precise). When trying to install the application, I get the normal "Do you want to install this application?" followed by the list of permissions required. At the bottom, I can either "Cancel" the install, or proceed by pressing "Install". Unfortunately, in my case, the "Install" "button", is not a button at all. It's a completely inactive text, and no matter if I tap it multiple times in different locations or long press it, it reacts in any way at all. Cancel works fine. I've tried disabling the setting allowing installation from unknown sources and re-enabling it, and I've tried restarting the phone. Neither helped. I've tried several of the humble bundle applications, and the issue is the same with all of them. Since the confirmation dialogue is a part of Android, I assume the issue is unrelated to Humble Bundle. ![Android APK confirmation dialog](http://i.stack.imgur.com/URNWp.png)


title: Why branded firmware phone is unable to register on other networks?

text: I have galaxy S2 with cyanogen mod installed but I had to get rid of it due to charging and usability issues. SIM card worked fine with it (vodafone). Then I installed what looked to be unbranded firmware but that didn't get passed samsung logo even after 3 reinstalls so I went with a different firmware that turned out to be Three (UK) branded and now it will not register on vodafone network. I had similar issues with O2 branded firmware that was installed before cyanogen mod. The phone was unlocked and worked overseas at least with Mobile internet SIM card. What is happening here?


title: Nexus 7 charges very slowly, even with 2 amp chargers

text: I'm facing a rather painful issue with the battery life/charging issue with my Nexus 7 (4.2.2)   * When idle and plugged into my 2A charger with the stock USB cable, it charges VERY slowly. I'd say under 10% per hour.   * With just light usage over the course of an afternoon/evening, the charge got dropped to 50% (after charging it overnight and more). I'm sure that something is wrong because no tablet should be performing that way (comparing to my other tablet, an iPad) _**Update:_** I plugged my iPad1, iPhone5 and Nexus 7 into the same port on my Macbook Pro Retina. I've added a (mashed up) screenshot of all the 3 cases below and it's clear that the Nexus 7 never even demands anything above 500mA on a 2A port despite using the stock cable (and another microUSB cable). I'm now guessing this is a Nexus 7 firmware/software issue. Any fixes? That extra operating current should be 1600mA so it totals to 2.1A (="2A" ports). ![enter preformatted text here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/jJhFK.png) **Full resolution screenshot** Details:   * Android v4.2.2 (stock image)   * Settings => Battery      * Screen (77%)     * Android OS (6%)     * Tablet idle (6%)     * WiFi (5%)     * Maps (4%) (Maps isn't even running ... weird!)     * Android System (2%) I mostly use Chrome, Currents and Play Magazines so it's just light reading. I'm surprised those apps don't show up on the battery energy audit list (which is great compared to iOS BTW). **Question:** What can I do to charge this device faster and use less battery? My expectations are anchored by my other tablet (an iPad) which charges a lot faster (2A charger again) and uses about 20% each day for casual reading vs 50% each day on the Nexus 7.


title: Which market am I currently in?

text: I am on an SGS2 purchased in Germany, located in the UK, sometimes using VPN to the US and have used Market Enabler to change Play Store codes in the past. By now I am confused as to what local market I am actually seeing when I open the app. How can I find out which Play Store I am being shown by Google? In particular, I am confused because I am trying to purchase a UK app and receive the 'This item is not available in your country' message although I am in the UK and have a UK IP. Edit: Could it be related to the registered credit card? This page suggests to change the Google account globally.


title: Can I change which app launches when I put my phone in the media dock?

text: Samsung Desk Home can auto-launch when the phone is placed in the media dock, but it kinda stinks. I have alternatives, like Custom Car Home, but can't see any way to get them to launch. The standard way of clearing the defaults in "Manage Applications" is greyed out. My device is rooted, and I run Tasker, if that helps.


title: Is there an app which supports both PDF and epub ebook formats?

text: Are there any apps which support both PDF and EPUB files? I've tried Alkido, Laputa, and StarBooks, they only seem to support either PDF OR epub, not both. Any suggestions?


title: Is it possible to install the Nexus One Calendar app on the Samsung Galaxy S Captivate?

text: I've been using the Galaxy S for a little while now, first on the stock 2.1, and then on stock 2.2. I'm mostly happy with this phone, but one of the things that I don't like is the Calendar app that comes with it (most of all - the fact that the it doesn't display the appointment titles on weekly displays). So I've been looking for various calendars in the market, but the version that I remember being most happy with is the Calendar that comes installed in the Nexus One. Is there some way to install it on another phone?


title: Android-x86 in Vmware workstation fails to start

text: I need to emulate an Android 4.2 device in Vmware Workstation 7.1. I downloaded the image **android-x86-4.2-20130228.iso** from http://www.android-x86.org/download. I tried to run it as a live-cd and also installed it on the VM harddisk (much like described at http://www.walterdevos.be/installing-android-x86-4-0-in-vmware-player). In either case I got the following console screen: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/m1uAr.png) taken from this topic in the google groups. So, you may see the problem occurs not only in my environment. I tried recommended setting from the topic (`... nomodeset vga=(any unreal mode such as 987877 or 5785 etc)`) as a possible workaround. Nothing helps. The question: how to fix the problem and run android-x86 in Vmware Workstation?


title: How can I recover data from my android tablet?

text: My brother had some important data on his android tablet. Unfortunately the touch screen on this android tablet (Azpen model A700) is no longer responding. I would like to put the data on my pc before I get a new tablet to replace the one I have, OR try to reset the tablet completely to see if the screen will work then. However, I cannot access any of the files on the tablet without first turning on USB storage of course... which I cannot do now that the touch screen does not work. Everything on the tablet still works fine, but the screen simply does not respond to any touches. If someone could give me some tips, I would be very thankful. Thank you


title: HTC One Messages app extremely slow, but just when I text one person!

text: Yesterday my friend (who texts me a LOT of pictures of his kids) sent me a barrage of pictures and one video. Ever since then, texting him is excruciatingly slow. These things happen: 1) Just getting our text thread to open takes much longer. 2) When typing, some words get stuck and I have to wait until the word is completed. 3) When I do get the text written and hit send, the message disappears for a little while, then it appears, but as not sent yet, and then after 30 seconds, finally sends. Texting all other people is just as quick as it ever was. I'm wondering if it's because I've got so many pictures in the thread? Can't think of anything else. I'm deleting some pix, to see if it helps, and I think I might try clearing the app's cache, but I'm not sure what that does. Thanks! Megan


title: My wife shares her Google calendar with me. How can I see her events on my Android device?

text: As what I described above, my wife shares her calendar to me, I can see her events on Goggle online calendar, but on not my Android device. How can I sync that? My phone is Android 4.1 Thank you


title: Android system folder permission lockout

text: I have apparently messed up the permissions to the /system/ folder in android (a galaxy s3 sgh-i747, which is rooted). I think I locked myself out of being able to execute anything in that folder, which includes all of the system components. ADB keeps saying permission denied for everything I attempt to do with a shell. Basically, I think I just locked myself out of the house. Can anybody help with this? I've scoured the internet for hours with no luck.


title: Droid X attachment download location

text: I'm just trying to figure out where in the phone the attachments get saved after you open them? I remember opening a PDF attachment from my email using my Droid X. The email was deleted so I'm trying to find the PDF that was downloaded by my phone when I opened the attachment. I have an MSN account. Anyone knows the default location in the phone? Thank you


title: Open Source Email Application

text: Does anyone here know of an open source email application for Android? Thanks in advance


title: My Nexus One cannot connect to Wi-Fi being broadcast by a Windows 7 laptop

text: My Android (Google HTC Nexus One) is not detecting Wi-Fi being broadcast by my Windows 7 laptop. However, my iPhone can detect the laptop's network. Why is that? Is there any solution for connecting my Nexus One?


title: What are the benefits of moving apps to the SD card?

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Other than portability, are there any other advantages (or disadvantages) > to storing apps on external storage? I'm trying to decide if I should make the move. I was hoping moving apps to the SD card would have them magically show up if the OS is wiped but from a little reading it looks like even apps on the SD card are unique to the OS they're installed on. I'm not really seeing another good reason to move them.


title: How to access my full Google Drive in offline mode

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Making multiple files or a folder available offline in Google Drive After uploading a few hundred files in my Google Drive I installed the Google Drive app on my Galaxy Tab 10.1 (GT-P7510). You can easily set up Offline Mode, the only problem is that I cannot select a folder so I have to select each file manually. There are some posts about this problem but there is no answer.


title: Mapping bluetooth mouse buttons

text: I have a bluetooth keyboard and mouse I use with my HTC EVO 4G, and I have tweaked my keyboard using the methods in the answers to questions like this and this. I would like to know if there is a way to do a similar thing with the buttons on my bluetooth mouse. i.e. I would like to map the wheel click to turn off the screen, or make the right click emulate a long click rather than go back a view. I am running Cyanogenmod 7.1 (stable) currently.


title: Samsung Galaxy S: phone won't send or receive calls and text messages

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


title: Keep screen alive by using camera

text: The new Samsung Galaxy S III has an interesting feature which keeps the screen alive (on) if the camera decides the user is reading something by detecting if the user is moving his/her eyes. Does anybody know any application like that in the Android Market which I could install on my Motorola Xoom 2 (Honeycomb) or on my Galaxy S II (ICS) ?


title: Update to 4.1.2 on a Nexus S with CWM and broken USB port

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


title: Merging duplicate contacts - is my phone broken?

text: I just got my Samsung Galaxy S3 (Android 4.1.1) and I'm having the usual trouble with ridiculous amounts of duplicate contacts. I've tried the following methods to no avail:   * My mom told me to go to Contacts, and click "Merge with Google" in the menu. It had me add a Google account and was able to remove some of the duplicates, but many still have 5-6 for a single contact. My mom said the whole thing would be ruined if I repeated the process.   * I've been checking online, and I found similar questions here where the answer boils down to clicking "Find & Merge Duplicates..." on contacts.google.com. I tried it, and it claimed to merge four contacts. I still have many duplicates.   * I tried to manually join some contacts a couple of ways:     * Go to Contacts, click the contact to open more details, click the link icon under the Connection heading, tap "Join another contact," select another contact     * Go to Contacts, click the contact to open more details, open the menu, select "Join contact," select another contact     * Go to Contact, press and hold the contact, select "Join contact," select another contact     * Go to Contacts, click the contact to open more details, open the menu, select "Edit," click the menu key For the first three methods, the phone flashed a message that said "Contacts joined." The contacts were not joined. The last one would not allow me to open the menu. Is there another method that I'm supposed to use to merge my contacts? Did I do one of the above methods wrong? I worry that my beautiful new phone is broken because joining contacts didn't work and it refuses to sync contacts with my google account :(


title: List of banned market apps

text: I recently came across fireplace market, which hosts fired apps banned by google. However it's apparently down. I'm not really interested in the market app, I just would have liked to browse what Google does _not_ like. Often such places offer nice to know niche apps. Is there a list of banned-from-google-play apps?ds EDIT: Does someone know what fireplace used to host?


title: How can I determine the space used by contacts on my Android device?

text: How can I see how much space my contacts data is using on Android, including pictures? I have quite a lot contacts (~2500). I have four android devices (2.1, 2.3, and 4.0.4). Only one of those is rooted.


title: How can I set Tasker to change "Network Operator Settings"?

text: I have a "femtocell" in my house due to poor signal quality. I am living in Japan now. I have to change the Android setting manually each time I get home as described below. There is a auto changer application provided by the carrier, but unfortunately it is not compatible with my smart phone (Xperia Sol 22). **When I get home**   1. Change network mode to "Japan CDMA".   2. "Airplane mode" On   3. "Airplane mode" Off Japan CDMA is under _Settings → Other Settings → Mobile Network → Network Mode_ **When I leave home**   1. Change network mode to "Japan LTE/CDMA".   2. "Airplane mode" On   3. "Airplane mode" Off Japan LTE/CDMA is under _Settings → Other Settings → Mobile Network → Network Mode_ I have _Tasker_ application in my Smartphone. But I have no idea how to set the tasker program. Please advice me on this.


title: I flashed 4.4 and now my Galaxy Nexus power button will not respond

text: My Samsung Galaxy Nexus's power button is no longer responding. I flashed a ROM of 4.4 to it and now it no longer does anything. I made the mistake of taking the battery out and can no longer turn it back on. I've tried rebooting it through ADB, but it won't recognize the device because it is off. Has anyone run into this problem yet, or am I going to be stuck opening this thing up?


title: Can't get Cyanogenmod onto internal root

text: So: I was following instructions on this page to install the latest Cyanogen Mod on my S3 http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_S:_Full_Update_Guide I've installed the Hardcore kernel and Clockwork Mod. However the site then says to place the CyanogenMod update.zip file on the root of the internal memory. However I can't seem to do this. The phone now won't boot (it keeps looping round). I can get into clockwork mod however. Can anyone advise how I can get the zip file onto the root of the internal memory? I don't really understand why the site suggests I do this after installing Clockwork Mod. Surely it would be wiser to do this before hand?


title: Have to clear google services framework on android ice cream sandwich

text: I recently had issue to sync with google as the following are affected:   1. gmail app says no internet connection   2. play store says no internet connection   3. tablet is set to EPOCH (Jan 01, 1970, 00:00)   4. I can surf the internet but I get tons of certificate warning whatever the website I am surfing. I am using an android tablet (android 4.0 ice cream sandwich), wifi only. Looking around I found that I should clear data from google services framework and restart my tablet (see this post for example). It works great, but the error keep coming back and I'm looking for a permanent fix. Should I wipe the tablet? Thanks in advance for your help! \---- After test update ----- Thanks all for your comments and help (and sorry for my long silence). Here is the steps I've done:   1. Delete and re-install accounts, Results: Error connecting server (tried with 2 different account)   2. Done Factory Reset > No more issue to add account   3. Install Gmail app (it took 3 or 4 trials where I reboot tablet before success). There every was fine.   4. Restart tablet for testing: same issue as before :( I guess either I never switch off my tablet or I return it


title: upgrade android 4.0.1 to 4.2 on ubislate 7Cx

text: hi i recently purchased ubislate 7Cx. since it is very slow in running application and sometime it hangs I want to upgrade to 4.2 or 4.3. how can i do it? ubislate 7Cx is running on android 4.0.1 and has 512 MB ram.


title: Install zImage on Android 2.2 devcie

text: How do I install zImage on Android 2.2 device? I have one galaxy tab 7.0 and one NVIDIA Tegra 250 delvel kit. I was trying to using fastboot on NVIDIA Tegra 250 but I failed. I could load zImage using following command               fastboot boot zImage       The device shows that it downloaded the image but nothing happened. If I forced to restart then the kernel wasn't updated. As for the Gallaxy Tab, I was trying to load the zImage with odin. But the input format should be either .tar or something else not the zImage. I have been trying to figure this out for two weeks and I am still stuck. I will be very appreciated if you guys could help with that. Thanks in advance..


title: Why am I unable to install some apps?

text: I own an **HTC Salsa** with **Android 2.3.3** (Gingerbread). The problem is that I can't download apps like _Subway Surfers_ , _Temple Run_ , _Candy Crush_ , etc. The market reports, "your device is incompatible". Does it mean hardware requirements? Is there any way I can upgrade my phone to play the above popular games? **Update:** Very useful information from Mr. Buster. But since there is an update on GOOGLE play now, which doesn't allow you to see the incompatible information. ![Screenshot](http://i.stack.imgur.com/rJVTy.jpg) ![Screenshot](http://i.stack.imgur.com/62KDH.jpg) ![Screenshot](http://i.stack.imgur.com/ITIQW.jpg)   Screenshots (click images for larger variants)


title: Unfortunately Java has stopped when I run the jbed.apk on the Samsung Galaxy Tab(tablet) 3

text: I bought a Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 WiFi 8GB tablet computer at MicroCenter last night and Microcenter does not offer software support to customers. Next I brought the tablet over to 53 Church Street Harvard Extension School to have the experts configure it for me. Then I downloaded jbed.apk. the android java emulator, on my Windows 7 Dell Inspiron home PC and transferred jbed.apk using the serial USB port cable to the /storage/Android/data subdirectory. Next, the Samsung tablet user interface said "Complete action using Package Installer or Verify and Install.' I chose the Verify and Install option just once. the Samsung user interface said "Do you want to install this application?" I chose Install. The Samsung user interface said "Application installed." Next the Samsung user interface said Done or Open. I chose Open and the Samsung user interface said "Unfortunately Java has stopped." Could you please tell me why this happened and how I might recover from the Unfortunately Java has stopped error message. Thank you, Frank


title: My Nexus 4 won't connect to secured Wi-Fi networks

text: My Nexus 4 suddenly stopped connecting to secured WiFi networks. I had an issue like this before, but it worked again when I reset the phone. The phone connects to open Wifi perfectly fine. I'm on the Android 4.4.2


title: Can't install new apps, all incompatible with Android phone (ZTE Blade)

text: After spending a few moments moving some apps from my phone's internal storage to my SD card, I'm no longer able to download/install apps. Every time I try to get one (like the Wikipedia app) I get the bellow weird alert, saying that my phone is not compatible with the item I'm trying to download. ![Screen shoot](http://i.stack.imgur.com/nNY3L.jpg) _I can update apps already installed, though._ How can I solve this problem? This is my first Android phone (ZTE Blade, commonly known as "a5" in Portugal) and I have no idea how to solve this issue. I have Cyanogenmod installed and all caches have been dumped. **EDIT:** I've simply uninstalled the updates for the Market app, downgrading it to the 'old' Market and it just worked!! I could easily download and install new apps, but when the Market app re-updated itself automatically, I couldn't download/install any apps again.


title: Connect Samsung s3 as installer?

text: I went into developer options and checked "USB debugging" however anytime I connect my phone to the computer it shows up as either a media device or a camera, I can switch between those two options just fine, but I can never get it to show up as installer. This is the Straight Talk edition of the phone and its running on the Verizon network.


title: Where is the background image saved?

text: Here's my situation: I had an image from a website which I set as my background inside the browser. I am wondering now where I can find the image in the file system, because I can't find it online anymore. I am rooted.


title: What does the second tick mean in Telegram group-chats?

text: Telegrams FAQ only explain what the green ticks mean in a normal chat ( https://telegram.org/faq#q-what-do-the-green-ticks-mean ). Does anyone know what the second tick in a group-chat **exactly** means? Does it mean **one** person has read the message? Or **all** people in the group? Or maybe **half** of them?


title: Difficulties with the writing window

text: I have a new tablet Samsung Tab 3 My knowledge of the Android operating system is only rudimentary. But I can participate on forums and can write posts. But now my tablet is making trouble. While writing a post the key board vanishes and refuses to show up again. Often I have to touch the screen ten times till finally the keyboard comes up, only to vanish again. I suppose it is a malfunction of my tablet, and I have to ask for a new one, but it may be that by inexperience with Android I make some mistakes. Do other users of tablets with Android know of this problem?


title: cannot generate thumbnail gallery android

text: So basically certain pictures, not all, lately just disappear therefore they can't load, it just says CANNOT GENERATE THUMBNAIL. All of a sudden the picture is 0KB and no longer available and it's certain pictures, they're not sorted or anything, they're not different from the other ones I really dont get it what's the problem. I tried getting them on my laptop but it just says the file is empty there is nothing to opet? There are no viruses or anything I already checked a few times. I really don't wanna lose more pictures help please.


title: What does it mean when I see "Throttle limit exceeded" in Dialer?

text: I made a call to a local pizza place by dialing their number on my Nexus 5, running ParanoidAndroid 4.2 Beta 4. The normal behavior that I would expect is the following:   1. Dial, then do all those phoney-things that I'm not interested in like connecting. (I just want pizza)   2. Conveniently(?) do an internet lookup of the phone number, then display the business name in my dialer so I know who I'm calling. However, something weird happened today. It apparently tried to do the lookup, but failed. Instead of displaying **"Blah Blah Pizza"** in the Dialer, it displayed **"Throttle limit exceeded"**. Everything else worked fine. There's also a screenshot I managed to take very quickly. Is anyone else seeing this? What's causing this? More importantly, how can I fix it? I'd rather not see "Throttle limit exceeded" all over my call history.


title: Samsung Galaxy S GT-I9000 froze during firmware upgrade

text: I accessed Samsung Kies and a screen message said that there was a firmware upgrade needed. I followed the screen prompt exactly and during the update a drop down message came up saying that there was a problem and to disconect the phone from the pc,remove battery and switch on again. The phone screen had a large triangle saying "Do not disconnect the phone during upgrade" I left the phone connected but still the notice showed to disconnect the phone.I disconnected the phone as stated and removed the battery,then reinserted the battery and switched on the phone.All I got was a black screen with a phone icon - a yellow triangle with an exclamation marke init and an icon of a computer screen. Now all I get on the phone are the icons as just stated. Removing the battery and leaving it disconnected for 10 minutes before switching on only gerts those icons again. In Kies,it still shows "Connect a device" Any idea how I can sort this problem out ?


title: Can't exit airplane mode

text: I sometimes have this weird behaviour   1. My phone has zero mobile network   2. I decide I should "reboot" the GSM service, and go to airplane mode   3. I want to disable the airplane mode in order to return to normal state. After a long press on power button, I do have the "device options", however nothing happens when I press **Airplane mode (airplane mode enable)**. I am stuck in airplane mode. However this option is not disabled (greyed out). Of course, I have a SIM, and it will be detected after a reboot. The other options from "device options" behave normally (I can turn of sound, turn off device or reboot). It just seems this part of the screen cannot be touched anymore. Have you experience this? Is it a known bug? How can I disable airplane mode, but rebooting? Samsung galaxy SII with latest official Android 4.0.4


title: Why an SD-card saved app uses phone memory

text: Lately I had issues with my phone's (Samsung Galaxy Mini GT-S5570) internal memory aw well as with the SMS memory. I deleted all unwanted messages, rooted my phone and used `Link2SD` to move some apps as well as link other ones on my SD card. Yesterday I installed some apps from Samsung Apps and I am facing a rather weird situation. Note that before the installation I had ~20 MB free phone memory. All those apps are installed on the SD card(at least that's what Link2SD says). The moment I finished the installation I got the error message that > my phone's internal memory is nearly full I used `APPMGR III` to see what is my free memory and I found out that I had only ~5 MB left! I was so surprised! I decided to delete all the new apps only just to find out that after that I had only ~12MB free! Why did that happened? I checked to see if any app cached but everything seems OK. I keep having the message about the internal memory as well as the SMS one. How can I fix that? Where did my free memory go?


title: How do I add another keyboard layout to my ICS phone?

text: I speak English as my first language, but I also am fluent in French and I'd like to occasionally write in French on my Android phone. I have ICS, and whilst I can easily change my language to French, I cannot change the keyboard layout to an AZERTY or QWERTZ layout. How do I add another language keyboard layout to my phone?


title: some apps, no problem loading on 2 devices. Not this one - help

text: I have loaded a free app (imediashare) from Amazon store onto my Kindle Fire. I want to put the same app on my Samsung phone, but when I go to the app store from the phone and try to 'buy' it, I'm told I already own it. I have had no trouble doing this same action with some other apps, nor with any books (putting them on both devices) I think I may be able to reload it from my apps library, but I cannot find it, navigating from the Samsung. Any help would be much appreciated.


title: Can I run apps with similar function?

text: Recently I have installed Juice Defender and Greenify. Unknowingly I ran both of them. The result is pretty great (battery almost stopped discharging). Battery levels stood constant for hours when my screen is off. Is it good to run both of these apps together?


title: Send Navigation Audio to handset but music to bluetooth

text: I have a DROID 3 and use it both for navigation and listening to music in my car via Bluetooth (Ford with SYNC). In the BT profile for SYNC on my phone, I can turn off media output over Bluetooth and get navigation audio over the phone but still make calls via BT. However, I would also like to have music and podcasts play over BT but still have navigation over the phone. Sometimes I will listen to a CD or radio and still want navigation, but when media output over BT is turned on, I con't get any nav audio, since the car is not switched to the BT media mode. In older versions of Android Nav, the audio was not over the media channel so this wasn't a problem. Is there a way to switch it back so that nav audio is ALWAYS over the handset speaker?


title: What volume setting do the Twitter and Facebook apps obey?

text: I asked a question about silencing only certain sounds and decided to go with the AudioManager widget, which is working quite well. My main uses are to silence everything but alarms and the ringer when I'm sleeping and everything when I'm in class. However, if I get a notification from Facebook or Twitter (both the official apps by Facebook and Twitter, respectively) at night, they still go off, which makes me think that these apps either use the ringer volume (instead of the alert volume) or some volume that AudioManager doesn't have control over. The volume controls provided by AudioManager are Alarm Volume, Music Volume, Alerts Volume, Ringer Volume, System Volume, and Voice call Volume. Alarm volume is always 7/7, music volume is where ever it was last time I listened to music (in the car, I have it 15/15, and usually 8/15 when I'm listening with earbuds), alerts is 7/7 during the day and 0/7 at night, ringer is always 7/7, system is 7/7 during the day and 0/7 at night, and voice call volume is 3/5. So, my questions: (1) What volume do these apps actually use for notifications? (2) Is there an easy way (without having to open both apps and turn off notifications at night, then turn them back on) to silence these notifications? This includes possibly switching away from AudioManager to another free application.


title: In google contacts where is the contact for me?

text: I'm not sure if it matters but my phone has 'HTC sense'. I have all my contacts sync'd with my google account. I have a normal contact called "me" in my google contacts that through various merging has accumulated all my contact details. However on the phone that shows up as a normal contact called "me" rather than going into the special "my contact card" thing. I would like to fix this, but preferably without having to copy all the stuff over manually.


title: ROM Manager - What Is It's Purpose?

text: I just finished rooting my phone (Moto Droid) for the first time using the z4root application. It worked great (one-click, no computer involved). However, before I start messing with my phone, I wanted to make a backup of my phone so, in case I really screw up royally, I can easily recover back to a certain point (AKA - I don't want to brick my phone). As I was reading, I started hearing about Nandroid backups. However, it seems as though you need to install some sort of ROM in order for it to happen. I checked into that and heard about ROM Manager. Apparently some of the mods that come with the ROM Manager are able to setup the Nandroid backup. I have a couple questions first, however.   1. I noticed ROM Manager needs a lot of access to your contacts, accounts, etc. Is that because it's doing a full backup, or something else nefarious? (Yeah, I'm suspicious.)   2. Is there an easier way to back-up? I don't really care about a new ROM (such as CynogenMod). I just wanted root access for a couple, very specific reasons.   3. If Nandroid is the only good/correct way to backup a phone, am I going down the right path/process? Anything I should look into before I keep going (such as Titanium Backup)? Thanks for any help you can provide.


title: Android's Daylight Savings Time change messes up recurring events. How can I deal?

text: I've had this issue for a while now: Whenever the Daylight Savings time change occurs, Android takes it upon itself to adjust all my reminders forward or backwards one hour-- this happens in the stock Calendar app, my to-do list app (Tick Tick), and my alarm app (AlarmPad). For example, I have a recurring alarm set to go off every morning at 7:00 am (except Saturday.) With the change coming on Sunday, my alarm app shows me that my next alarm (on Sunday) will go off at 8:00am, not 7:00. In Tick Tick, my recurring reminders after Sunday are similarly pushed 1 hour back. This is something I Do Not Want. I want my alarms to keep going off at 7am every morning, and my recurring reminders to stay put. Is there any way to stop this behavior in Android? (I'm on a Nexus 5 running stock KitKat, if it matters.)


title: Selective syncing with Google?

text: By default if you sync with Google, contacts, calendar, app data and wifi keys are synchronized. Is it possible to synchronize only some of these things, e.g. only calendar and contacts? Thanks :-)


title: What exactly is synced with Google?

text: If you enable syncing to Google, what exactly is synced in a more technical way? E.g. about syncing app data, I guess there is just one standard path synchronized? Has anyone seen a more technical documentation of the synching, that describes, what exactly is synchronized?


title: Changing the numbers format when entering phone numbers in the dialer possible?

text: I'm using a Sony Live With Walkman. The Android 2.3 is in English, and I rather leave that way... But, I find kind awkward the mask input of numbers when I am typing. ![dialer](http://i.stack.imgur.com/SWae1.png) Is there any way I can change that? I would prefer something like 9999-9999, or at least no mask at all.


title: Can non-HD Android devices output full HD over HDMI?

text: What is the chance Android 4+ phone or tablet with physical HDMI-out connector will be able to output FullHD resolution if the device itself does not have FullHD screen? Are there any rules for this? What if the device's screen resolution is even smaller than 720p (like 800x480)?


title: Connect Smart TV to laptop

text: I am working with not a well known Smart TV manufacturer, It uses Android 4.0. I want to customize its dashboard and splash animation played during the system loads. Working on my own launcher and dashboard alongside, but now when I have hit a roadblock when the testing phase has arrived. I cannot use a smart tv emulator for this purpose as the manufacturer is not either of Samsung, LG or Google. I want to be able to test it on the Smart TV itself, but I cannot connect to the device through my laptop. Wi-Fi, LAN or usb cable connection, tried all, but I cannot access the system itself as an emulator on my AVD manager... Any ideas where to proceed from here?


title: Network Error when invoking Google Now

text: When I try to invoke Google Now by swiping up from the Home button, I get the message "Network error. Check your network connections and try again". I have a solid WiFi signal, and searches from the search bar work fine. I get the same message when I go into settings after launching Google Search and try to enable Google Now. ASUS Transformer Prime, Android 4.1.1


title: How to access a webservice running on a Win7 PC from an unrooted Android device via USB?

text: I have a use case where my app running on an Android device need to communicate with a web service running on a Windows 7 PC. This was achieved using wifi successfully. But now I need to achieve this using USB connection as we may not have wifi working at the customer's location. The Android device is unrooted. I can not use a reverse tethering app as it needs the device to be rooted. The following link has the same question but doesn't have an answer - Accessing localhost of PC from USB connected Android mobile device Does anybody have an answer for this?


title: How can I control my phone remotely?

text: As a new Android user, this question has had me thinking quite a while. Is it possible to create an app or is there an app available that will do the following;   * Remote access to your device    * Impossible to remove from your phone (rooting, flashing, w/e)   * Turn your phone into 'Lost Mode' and make sure it can only be used remotely and disables all but the useful services to find your phone (camera, gps, etc) OR   * Impossible to remove from your phone (even after reinstall, etc)   * Remains in the background whilst the person is using your phone as theirs (stolen, swiped and reinstalled)


title: WLAN Transfer never over 2MB/s

text: I have a Phone and a Router with WLAN n-Technology, but i never get more Speed than 2MB/s (Only in Speedtests, not from Computer to Phone) I tried SSH, FTP and MyPhoneExplorer. Any Ideas what i could do / check?


title: What do I get if I install a custom ROM instead of installing new launcher, new phone app, ...?

text: I have been thinking about installing a new ROM, like CyanogenMod (most probably), but thought it would be a mess to return to stock ROM if I messed it up, plus, last time I checked, not all features are guaranteed to work (camera, tethering, ...). Now, my question is not about how to backup the old ROM, because I found another solution: as my phone is rooted, why not remove the stock launcher, the stock music app, stock browser, all the Samsung Software Update and Holy Quran and Samsung Apps and Swype and all the apps Samsung forces me to use? These are easy to back up (in case), and I can replace them with a browser of my choice, ADW Launcher (CyanogenMod's one), music player of my choice, keyboard of my choice, etc. So what does a custom ROM offer more than just custom launchers and widgets and looks? Or is my option "utopia"? Note: I'm not sure if that matters, but I'm on a Samsung Galaxy Fit GT-S5670, Rooted Android Froyo 2.2.1 Another Note: I read this question and its answer, but the answer there only states things that could be done with a home replacement app... **UPDATE** It seems nothing can't be done with apps. It's just easier and faster and more stable to use a custom ROM, that is if the ROM for your device is stable enough.


title: adb input swipe to unlock slide screen lock and open notifications

text: When I use the command `adb input swipe`, the slider slides all the way to the right, but does not 'click', so the screen does not unlock. I calculate the coordinates based on the (not visible) 'swipe area'. The same issue occurs when I try to drag the notifications open, I slide it all the way down, but it does not 'click' so notifications don't stay open. I am using python 2.7 to call the adb functions, I think that may play a role too, but I've tried every form of `os.system`, `subprocess.Popen`, and `subprocess.call` I can think of. Any idea how I can make this work?


title: Can I increase the screen dimming in Android v4?

text: I've noticed that Android v4 on a Samsung Galaxy Note does not dim the screen nearly enough in darkness or very low light, even when the auto dimming feature is turned on. Are there any controls I've missed? Are there any applications that increase the screen dimming? If not, can anyone make comments on trying to write such an application? Would I need to modify Cyanogen to do this?


title: Lower quality of images in gallery

text: When I view camera pictures in gallery, the quality is lower than if I zoom the photo a little bit. Also on Twitter pictures are way more blurry than on the Twitter website. I use Android 4.2.2 on Nexus 4. Thank you in advance.


title: how to use ext partition in my android?

text: I partitioned my MicroSD card and created 1GB ext3 partition.   * What is the next step so I can use it to make the performance of my android better? It seems to me that it is mounted into /sd-ext   * What are all the options I can use ext for? * * * CM7 on HTC Desire


title: HTC Sense Keeps Crashing Even After Factory Reset

text: I just updated my HTC Desire today to the newest firmware. However, on booting up the phone I get this message saying:               Sorry!     -------------     The application HTC Sense (process com.htc.launcher) has stopped unexpectedly.     Please try again.                                      Force Close      When you force close it pops up again in <1sec and keeps looping like this. Sometimes you can pull down the notification bar and open a text or email, but `com.htc.messaging` and `com.htc.mail` produce similar error messages. I have googled for some answers, but the search and menu buttons do not work, I do not have an alternate window manager and cannot install anything using `adb` (permission is denied). I tried many hard resets and factory resets but to no avail. Any help is greatly appreciated.


title: How to run a notifier if connected to specific Wi-Fi?

text: Is there any way to run a notifier if I get connected to specified Wi-Fi? and, then get turn the notifier service off when disconnected? * * * cyanogenmod 7 + HTC Desire


title: Can't get a Note 3 debugging

text: I'm trying to use my Note 3 to help me debug a website, but I just can't get it going. I've enabled developer mode and checked USB debugging in developer options, but that's as far as I can get. I've installed Kies 3 and when I connect my phone using a USB 3 cable to a USB 3 port I can see my phone in Kies, I can transfer files to it and everything. I can do this using Windows Explorer or Kies. However it cannot be seen by ADB or Chrome Inspect. Going through the instructions online they say I should be getting a popup asking me to authorise remote debugging, but I'm not getting that. I've tried everything I can think of, I'm new to debugging mobiles and so my knowledge on how to get this is limited. Can someone help me get this working please?


title: Can I use OTG USB pendrive with Galaxy Nexus

text: I have a Samsung Galaxy Nexus. It is said to fully support OTG devices. However, I'm only able to use a mouse or keyboard through OTG USB cable. When I'm trying to connect my newly bought USB pendrive, the phone doesn't detect it. I have an USB pendrive with dual plug: standard USB + microUSB. I tried connecting it both through built-in microUSB and through standard USB via USB OTG cable. No effect on any attempt. What am I missing? Is the pendrive broken or doesn't the Samsung Galaxy Nexus support external pendrives and has only keyboard/mouse OTG support?


title: Flashing ROMs: Am I "Doing it Wrong?"

text: I'm a software developer and systems administrator, so my technological knowledge is moderately high. I'll just leave that here as a preface. I've ran custom Android mods since my very first Android phone, the Nexus One. From the beginning, it seemed like the idea of changing/upgrading ROMs involves the following process:   1. Backup. Backup. Backup.      1. Titanium Backup the phone from inside the operating system.     2. Nandroid the phone from the bootloader.    2. If it's a significant difference between the source ROM and the destination ROM, a factory reset is necessary.   3. Flash the ROM.   4. Wipe the cache and Dalvik Cache.   5. Boot and restore from Titanium Backup. However, when changing between ROMs, things take me a ridiculously long time to do. I generally have to put aside at least 3 hours to a day when changing my phone's ROM. Here's what my _actual_ process looks like:   1. Backup.   2. Factory reset.   3. Sometimes wipe the system partition too. (Should I be doing this? I only do it from paranoia.)   4. Flash the ROM and the Gapps.    5. Clear the cache and Dalvik cache.   6. Boot into the OS.   7. Get through the setup as quickly as possible.   8. Titanium Backup: Your phone ID has changed, want to restore it?   Me: Yes. *reboot*   9. Titanium Backup: Restore all the apps.   10. Setup my Google Account.   11. Shoot, Dropbox isn't working, manually have to login again.    12. Shoot, Evernote isn't working, manually have to login again.    13. ...etc.   14. (15 hours later) Cool, done.  Am I doing this wrong? I really feel that it shouldn't take this much time to switch ROMs. What can I do to speed up this process? Am I restoring from TB improperly? I'd love to be able to restore all apps, their settings, my Dropbox and Evernote accounts, my home screen, etc. without having to go through this painstaking process.


title: Xperia X8 flashtool error: ERR_DYNAMIC="SIN header verification failed"

text: this is the log from flashtool v0.6.8.0:               17/016/2013 20:16:47 - INFO - <- This level is successfully initialized     17/016/2013 20:16:47 - INFO - Flashtool Version 0.6.8.0 built on 2012-02-26 19:26:25     17/016/2013 20:16:47 - INFO - You can drag and drop ftf files here to start flashing them     17/016/2013 20:16:52 - INFO - Device disconnected     17/016/2013 20:16:55 - INFO - Selected E15_nAa-13_2.6.29.6-nAa-13.ftf     17/016/2013 20:16:55 - INFO - Preparing files for flashing     17/016/2013 20:16:55 - INFO - Please connect your device into flashmode.     17/017/2013 20:17:06 - INFO - Device connected in flash mode     17/017/2013 20:17:06 - INFO - Opening device for R/W     17/017/2013 20:17:07 - INFO - Reading device information     17/017/2013 20:17:07 - INFO - Phone ready for flashmode operations.     17/017/2013 20:17:07 - INFO - Start Flashing     17/017/2013 20:17:07 - INFO - Flashing loader     17/017/2013 20:17:07 - ERROR - ERR_SEVERITY="MAJOR";ERR_CLASS="SECURITY_CLASS";ER R_DYNAMIC="SIN header verification failed"      17/017/2013 20:17:07 - ERROR - Error flashing. Aborted     17/017/2013 20:17:07 - INFO - Device connected in flash mode     17/017/2013 20:17:08 - INFO - Device disconnected     17/017/2013 20:17:11 - INFO - Device connected in flash mode     17/017/2013 20:17:12 - INFO - Device disconnected      I get this from S1TOOL:               Welcome to S1 tool.          TO CONNECT NEXT PHONES     X10 Xperia,E10 Xperia Mini,E15 Xperia X8,U20 Xperia Mini Pro     LT15 Xperia ARC,MT15 Xperia NEO,R800 Xperia PLAY     PRESS AND HOLD "BACK" BUTTON...          PLEASE ATTACH TURNED OFF PHONE NOW          RUNNING S1_EROM VER "R8A029"     SOFTWARE AID: 0001     LOADER AID: 0001     FLASH ID: "0020/00BC"     LOADER VERSION: "R4A045"          MODEL (from GDFS): E15i     SOFTWARE VERSION: 1236-9291_2.1.1.A.0.6     CUSTOM VERSION: 1242-6780_R5B     FILESYSTEM VERSION: WORLD-1-2-5_2.0.1.A.0.47     SERIAL NO: BX902AVHMC          SEMC SIMLOCK CERTIFICATE     Elapsed:10 secs.      Why can't I flash my Xperia X8? How can I fix it?


title: Is it possible to take slow-mo video in high resolution on Galaxy S5?

text: Just discovered that I can take slow-mo videos (8x slowdown) on my Galaxy S5. It is wonderful. However resolution is, softly speaking, bad. Guess because it wants to save memory. But I have 128gb micro SD, so I _almost_ don't care about my memory ;-) Is it possible to take slow-mo in max (3840x2160) resolution instead of just 1280*720?


title: WhatsApp: Same Cell Number + New ROM => New WhatsApp Account?i?

text: Since I have a new ROM installed on my android device, I seem to have a new WhatsApp account.   This results in the following issues:   -When people try to send messages (or anything) to the WhatsApp account they always used in the past to contact me, I don't receive the messages!   -When I contact people I appear as a new contact in their contact list.  When people write to the new account, everything seems to work fine.   I still have my old chat history from the old ROM btw and I can read it like I'd still be on the old account. So my question is, how can I get the old account back?? I probably already missed a ton of important messages and I really don't want to tell every single person in my contact list to write messages to the new account. My device: Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo V   New ROM: Xperia Slim   New Kernel: NightElf Experimental 10.1 Version


title: Scanning a QR code into a browser text input?

text: I have a bit of an edge use-case of QR codes. I would like to be able to scan a QR code via a phones camera and have that value pasted into a browser text input. Is this possible given any current apps or API's?


title: How to open read notifications?

text: I got a notification which was shown in my notification bar on my Google Nexus 5. As soon as I clicked on the notification an app opened and the notification has been removed from my toolbar. With the trick described here I am able to see that passed notification but I cannot open it (see screenshot). Is there a way to open that notification again so that the app leads me again to the content belonging to it? ![Screenshot](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Vp2BRm.png)   Screenshot (click for larger image)


title: Is it possible to set custom calendar notification sounds for each calendar event?

text: I'm trying to create a custom notification sound for a single calendar event. For example, I want to use one mp3 for my reminder to take out the garbage, another for a birthday reminder, etc. Is this possible? My phone is an HTC One running stock 4.4.2 thanks


title: How to sync all my Exchange files (including Notes and Tasks) to my Nexus S?

text: I need to find a way to sync my Outlook notes and tasks to my Nexus S. I would also like to have all the fields I use in my contacts in Outlook available in my Nexus S. I rund on Exchange and the mail, contacts, and calendar syncronize OK with my Nexus S, though some fields are not available in Gingerbread and can't decide how long back I want my appointmens and emails to sync...


title: NFC functionality in Google Nexus S?

text: How physically close will a tag need to be for the phone to detect a NFC card? (10cm or can it greater) Also can the phone present itself as a NFC tag to other phones? If this is possible is the range greater as the NFC transmitter is powered?


title: Do bright wallpapers spend more battery than dark ones?

text: I started wondering about this when I realized most websites I visit have white backgrounds, and I know that the screen is usually responsible for most of the battery usage. Since I can't change the background in those sites, I might at least switch my wallpaper to a black one. Most (all?) phones need back-lighting to brighten the screen when needed. Since that back-lighting consumes battery, **is it correct to state that a white screen consumes energy at a faster rate than a black one?** _(assuming the same brightness level in the settings)_ I'm assuming that a white screen needs stronger back-lighting, but I don't know if it's the case.


title: Rooting Micromax A87 to make it faster

text: What is the best way to root my Micromax A87? My phone RAM shows only 160MB, but I only access about 120MB.   I want my phone to run faster. Or is there any common method for rooting my phone.   Kindly help me.


title: How to install Android completely as new to ASUS Eee pad transformer?

text: I have ASUS eee pad transformer. I used OLife to use Ubuntu on it, it worked but it crashed Ubuntu. Now when i boot it always goes to APX mode, so i have black screen only. No Android, No Ubuntu i got. Nothing shows up on the screen. But when i connect the device using USB to my PC i can see its showing               Bus 003 Device 077: ID 0955:7820 NVidia Corp.       (Which means its in APX mode.) Now, I dont want to use Ubuntu on it. How can using APX mode, completely install the Android as new on the device from my PC? Is there any OLife like package available to install Android straight quickly on it?


title: Any way to Stream Youtube Sound off of Nexus 7 to Yamaha Amp over Airplay?

text: I have the following 3 devices:   1. a Nexus 7   2. an iPhone 4s   3. a Yamaha RX-473, which supports airplay All are hooked up over my wifi. I've setup Airplay with the amp and the iPhone, allowing me to watch videos on my iPhone and hear the sound out of the Yamaha amplifier, but I'd love to use the Nexus 7's larger screen to watch youtube videos. Is there any way to wirelessly stream youtube audio from my Nexus 7 to my Yamaha receiver, in the same way that I can using my iPhone? I purchased the AirSync application, but it appears as though that only works for music and video I have on my Nexus 7, not streamed youtube apps, so its not exactly what I'm looking for.


title: Apple Keyboard and Magic Trackpad on Nexus S

text: I got inspired by the Apple Keyboard and Magic Trackpad on Nexus 7 video, but until I'll get my hands on a Nexus 7, I'm still proud of my good old Nexus S. Now, I did turn on my Bluetooth, put both the Magic Trackpad and the Wireless Keyboard discoverable, scanned for new devices, but I cannot see them. If it makes any difference, I'm running Jelly Bean v4.1.2, so I'm hoping it's not the same story as in the similar question regarding Android 2.3.5. Is there a need for an extra application, or what's the way to get control over your Nexus S through your Apple bluetooth peripherals?


title: Sony Xperia ZR fastboot driver

text: I am trying to get the fastboot driver for Sony Xperia ZR (dogo) for Windows 7 x64. I found a page with instructions which pointed me to a Sony site where you can download a `android_winusb.inf` file which one is supposed to copy over the one in the Android SDK folder under `extras\google\usb_driver\`. Then, I put the phone into fastboot mode by   1. Powering it off    2. Pushing the Volume Up button while connecting the phone via USB to the PC.    3. The light turns blue and in the Windows Device Manager, I can see a new `S1Boot Fastboot` entry under `Other devices`. After right-clicking on that entry and selecting `Update Driver Software...`, then `Browse my computer for driver software`, I pointed to the Android SDK folder where I previously put the `android_winusb.inf` file (see above). Unfortunately after clicking `Next`, there is a message `Windows was unable to install your S1Boot Fastboot` and `Windows could not find driver software for your device`. On this thread, I found a link to a thread on XDA Developers where one can download a "fastboot package" and "32/64bit drivers", but I am hesitant because these are EXE files from an unknown source and the thread's title suggests this is for Xperia Arc, not ZR. Are there any "official" drivers for my phone? **UPDATE:** I also found a great Sony webpage listing "All Android downloads" which has white papers, source code and drivers for all(?) devices, except the drivers for the ZR are missing. **UPDATE 2:** I have seen this comment to a question concerning fastboot drivers and USB device IDs, so I tried to replace device IDs for `SingleAdbInterface`, `CompositeAdbInterface` and `SingleBootLoaderInterface` (sequentially, not all at once) with the one which I got from the Device Manager, which is `USB\VID_0FCE&PID_0DDE&REV_0100`. Unfortunately this didn't make any difference, the drivers are still not recognised.


title: Is there a way to determine the charging current available?

text: I have a Moto X that has recently stopped charging while in its car dock, even though it indicates that it's charging. I will diagnose the problem by eliminating the USB cable, the dock, and the 12->5V converter one at a time, but I have to use the phone for a while to determine whether it's charging or discharging after each step. Is there an app or other way to determine how fast the phone is charging or discharging?


title: Does a factory reset on a Galaxy Nexus wipe the virtual sd card directory?

text: I'm looking into wiping my Galaxy Nexus, but I need to know whether or not a factory reset will also wipe the virtual SD card on the phone. If it does, is there an alternative way to wipe without affecting the virtual SD card? I'm running stock JellyBean 4.1.1, rooted.


title: How can you find which carrier a Samsung Galaxy S3 (GT-I9300) is locked to?

text: I bought a S3 and it came locked to an unknown carrier. All the unlock services require the information of which carrier the phone is locked to give me an unlock code. So, how can I find that out?


title: How to install Whatsapp on Android 1.6

text: I am interested in installing Whatsapp on Android 1.6 (Cyanogenmod 4.2) on a rooted HTC Dream G1. Is there any way to install it?


title: "Signature verification failed" when trying to install non-official Cyanogenmod 10 ROM for Sanei N10 Android tablet

text: Let's see if anybody can help me, because I'm pretty stuck with this. I've tried to install the following ROM from xda-developers in a Sanei N10: Unofficial CyanogenMod 10 for many AllWinner A10 tablets I've installed it following the usual procedure:   * Press Vol+ and Power to get the Recovery menu   * Select Wipe data/factory reset   * Select Wipe cache   * Install the three ZIP files: "cm10_a10_20120913.zip", "gapps-jb-20120726-signed.zip" & "n10_compatibility_1.2.1.zip" The problem is, even though the first ZIP with the ROM installs successfully, the second one (the one with Google's apps) refuses to install, showing instead the message "signature verification failed". The same happens with the third ZIP (N10 compatibility). So the installation doesn't actually finish. If I reboot the tablet, it runs Cyanogenmod 10, but the touchscreen doesn't work (I have to plug a USB mouse to interact with the operating system). So what do I do to avoid the dreaded "signature verification failed" message? Just in case if it's of any help to identify the problem, I'll mention that I can see the Android bot laying down with a red triangle with an exclamation when entering the Recovery menu. I've tried to use the ROM Manager which is preinstalled with Cyanogenmod 10, but when choosing "Flash ClockworkMod Recovery" it says that "The SD Card needs to be mounted to use ROM Manager". Of course my MicroSD is properly mounted (I can see its files in the card from console, from the "Terminal Emulator"). I think this happens because the MicroSD is mounted in /storage/sdcard1 instead of in /storage/sdcard0, but I can't change that. I can't download APKs from the browser, either, because it also says something similar about not being able to access the SD (even though it's correctly mounted and I can see it mounted from Settings > Storage). I've also tried the CyanogenMod A10 ROM available in this page, which is more recent (October instead of September): http://www.slatedroid.com/topic/3870...mod-10-tweaks/ But the same happens. I've even tried installing the CWM Recovery ROM, but it doesn't let me installing that from the Recovery either (same message about the "signature"), and with Odin3 it doesn't work either because I don't know how to reach the "download mode", which is needed for Odin3. Pressing Vol+ and Power I get the Recovery, but not the Download mode. Does anyone know how do I get to the download mode in the Sanei N10? Any idea about how to solve this? Right now I have a tablet with no touchscreen and not even Google applications (so I don't even have the Play Store), so it's practically worthless (at least the WiFi works). How can I get this tablet back to being usable?


title: Got text message with 'download' button, how would I look at the link source or gain further info to see if this is safe? 2.3.6metropcs

text: In the 'messaging' app that comes standard with metropcs, I received a text message that had 'no subject' and was just a download button. I know the person, so there is no need to mention not to trust unknown downloads, but you never know when the forwarder is unwittingly passing on spam. I am mainly curious how you would safely inspect the link source or content. android 2.3.6 metropcs


title: The meaning of 3 axis values of magnetometer

text: Could someone explain to me the meaning of 3 axis x, y & z of Magnetometer


title: Control Bluetooth Transmit Power Levels

text: Is it possible to change the Bluetooth packet transmission power levels in Android? If so, can you provide some references? Thanks, ABA


title: andLess .flac "Decoder Error"

text: I try to play a .flac audio file on my htc sensation with the andLess player, but every time I try to open a file it just shows a "Decoder Error" with no further explanation. The .flac files work fine on my Creative Zen X-FI 2, so the files should not be the problem. I use android version 2.3.4. Does anybody know this issue and/or have a solution for this? **Update:** Is it possible that I have to install the necessary codec on my own? From the description of the app, I assumed that it is delivered with the app.


title: Google maps doesn't have data connection

text: Ever since upgrading my Nexus 4 to CyanogenMod 10.1-20130304, Google Maps behaves improperly. I have not noticed the problem with any other app. I can open the Maps app, and it will show me where I am, but when I try to search, 95%+ of the time, it will just sit there as though it's searching, but it never finds any results. The only way I have found to resolve the issue is to completely remove the Google Maps app, and re-install it. Doing this will allow search to work-- once. The next time I need to search again, I have to remove and re-install. This happens whether using mobile Internet or wifi. Is there anything I can do short of restoring the phone to factory settings and starting over?


title: Is it possible to get Tasker to play the next song in Spotify

text: In Tasker, there is a Media Control action which allows me to move to the next song however it only seems to work for the default Android player. Is it there a way to hook Spotify up to do this?


title: How to turn off Yahoo Mail notifications in 4.1.2.?

text: I just upgraded my Android OS to 4.1.2. and the Yahoo Mail is pushing audible notifications again (I had disabled them in the previous version of OS). When I go into the app, there is no settings in the menu. How do I disable the notifications?


title: My device is trying to open mSecure app whenever I launch an internet browser

text: Whenever I launch an internet browser on my droid phone it attempts to launch another app (in my case mSecure). This happens with dolphin and my stock browser so I don't think it's an mSecure setting. In fact I deleted mSecure but I still get the message failure attempting to launch mSecure. Any help to get rid of this message will be appreciated. Thanks


title: Tar header contains invalid size

text: I've been trying to open a `.tar.md5` file containing a cellphone software update using Heimdall under Mac OSX Snow Leopard. The file was extracted from a `.zip` downloaded from sammobile.com containing these files:               S7562XXALHB_S7562ATOALH1_S7562XXLH5.tar.md5 (921.1 MB)     SS_DLL (279 KB)      I keep getting an invalid size error. I have tried re-downloading it several times as well as other files just to check and still the same error.


title: How to type and handwrite Japanese on Samsung Galaxy Note 2 N7100?

text: By default there is no Japanese input in Samsung keyboard. I know there is a plugin called Multiling with it's HanWriting plugin but it only supports 1 letter by time. Is there a way to handwrite Japanese in sentence ?


title: How to prevent the android system from killing an app?

text: I have rooted my phone and use Swapper. an app that creates a linux like swap simulation w/o actually partitioning the sd card... I observed that this app gets killed every now and then thus not allowing me to get full benifits of it. I do not use any task killer.The android system kills it.How do I prevent andreoid from doing this?


title: Send multiple files via Bluetooth to PC from gallery

text: I wanted to send about 30 photos from Gallery to PC by selecting them all, clicking Share\Bluetooth and then selecting the target computer. It didn't work. All transfers failed. But if I selected a single photo I have been able to send it. Around 99MB. I've been able to workaround by zipping (thanks ES File Manager!) and sharing the zip file only. Is there something that I should know about sending multiple files via Bluetooth?


title: How can I install viber and whatsapp on my Gsm tablet with ics 4.0.1

text: I have tried many times to download viber or whatsapp from play store but it shows that its not compatible with my device... can anyone help??


title: How to fix Facebook (Build 14...), download manager process on Samsung Galaxy S2

text: I have a Samsung Galaxy S2 Model Number (SGH-I727R), running Android 4.1.2. The problem that I am encountering is that there is this Facebook (Build 14....) thing that is running in my drop down menu. Unfortunately, that is all I can read on it because the rest of the brackets are cut off. It looks like it is trying to download something. When I hold my finger over it to get info, it says Download Manager version 4.1.2, followed by a long model number. I am not sure how to end this process or get it to finish whatever it is trying to do. I've tried restarting my phone, uninstalling Facebook and then re-installing it. The problem still persists. Please help me. It's just really annoying to constantly see that downloading icon running all of the time, and nothing is happening.


title: Music covers aren't shown correctly

text: I have copied my mp3 files to my new Google Nexus 7 (Android 4.2.1) via USB into the Music folder. It can be played with _Google Play Music (version 4.5.910l.560208)_ , but it is always showing one and the same cover for any track. This problem also shows up with other music players such as Rocket player. In VLC and iTunes on my PC the mp3 covers are just displayed fine! Do I have to change something on my mp3's in order to display the covers correctly on that device or is there some kind of bug in the mp3-decoder? I couldn't find such a problem report in the web, so my assumption would be that there might be something wrong with my mp3 files. Thanks in advance ...


title: Connecting phone to PC internet using Connectify

text: I am trying to connect my phone running ICS to my PC running Windows 7 to the internet using Connectify. Everything goes fine except when the phone tries to connect to my laptop wifi hotspot, it gets stuck at `obtaining IP address` . I tried to set the ip address to static in android but now it says connected but actually the phone is not connected to the internet. As a `static IP and DNS1`, I set the address provided for the connectify network created in windows. I set the network length to 24 cuz without setting any value for network length, I wasn't able to save the setting in my phone. How can I solve this problem?


title: on grid view, when updating an app, this one is taken at the end of the grid

text: In the app drawer, when an application is updated, its icon goes to the last page, in the last free place... Is that normal? Is there a way to make the application stay where I put it? I mean, I sort everything in folder, but after some days (and some updates) many apps are taken to the last page, outside the folder... This is annoying... This happens on **Samsung S2** **Android 4.0.3** I try to explain it better: in the app drawer, i have a lot of apps, i usually order them in "pages" and each page in folders, so i would like to have the page with all the folders containing all the "work apps" such as google drive, the email client, some editors and so on, then, i've got another page, with all the folders for all the games, i mean, i've a folder with arcade games, with 3d games and so on... now, after few days in this fantastic order, some of those applications get updated, automatically, by google play, you know, when there is that notification "application xxxx is been updated!", you know what i mean. well, when this happens, that particular application is deleted from the folder it belongs, and i found her in the last page, in the last free place, the example i've made has 2 pages, one for work apps, and one for games, if something gets an update, i'll find that app in the games pages, outside any folder, hanging around and looking at me... :D


title: Android ADB Shell Recovery Mounting

text: *Question: I need assistance mounting an Android phone's internal data using the Android ADB Shell while the unit is connected via USB and in recovery mode. How do I form a proper mount command? See below for more detailed information. *FYI: I have experience developing with the Android SDK using Java/XML. I have found little documentation for the Android ADB Shell for my purpose. I have a Samsung GT-i9000 Android phone with a smashed screen. Screen is black, and unresponsive to touch. The phone does not have USB debugging enabled or USB auto mount enabled. I cannot simply plug the phone via USB to access the desired files (photos, and other internal data). I unfortunately cannot confirm the OS version. The phone has no SD Card, all the desired data is on the internal board. The phone is not rooted. *What I've tried: Doing some research I have booted the phone into recovery mode using the three button method (VolUP + Home + Power) and managed to access the device using the "adb devices" command on my Win 7 machine. It displays as "recovery". This is the only way I have been able to make the computer recognize the device via USB. I've tried Kies, and androidscreencast with no success. I have been able to use the "pull" command to access all the Android system files from the phone. I presume this is because recovery mode only mounts the required system files for updates/repairs and doesn't bother with the internal data. Using the mount command I can see what I consider to be the paths to the files I am looking for:               $ mount     mount     rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0     tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755 0 0     devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,relatime,mode=600 0 0     proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0     sysfs /sys sysfs rw,relatime 0 0     none /acct cgroup rw,relatime,cpuacct 0 0     nodev /tmp tmpfs rw,relatime 0 0     /dev/block/stl6 /mnt/.lfs j4fs rw,relatime 0 0     tmpfs /mnt/asec tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0     none /dev/cpuctl cgroup rw,relatime,cpu 0 0     /dev/block/stl9 /system rfs rw,relatime,vfat,llw,check=no,gid/uid/rwx,iocharset=     utf8 0 0     /dev/block/stl3 /efs rfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,vfat,llw,check=no,gid/uid/rwx,     iocharset=utf8 0 0     /dev/block/stl11 /cache rfs rw,relatime,vfat,llw,check=no,gid/uid/rwx,iocharset=     utf8 0 0      All my efforts to mount fail, usually with a usage suggestion:               $ mount rootfs / /mnt/ rw 0 0     mount rootfs / /mnt/ rw 0 0     Usage: mount [-r] [-w] [-o options] [-t type] device directory


title: Twitter app signs out continuously

text: I have a Samsung Galaxy Ace running CyanogenMod 7.2.0. The problem is that the Twitter app signs out randomly from time to time. Sometimes it happens in a couple of hours or in a day or so. It's annoying having to sign in almost every time I want to use it. Is anyone having the same problem? How did you solve is?


title: Organizing bookmarks between Desktop and Android

text: I am trying to manage my bookmarks both on my desktop and on my Android smartphone. My needs are as follows:   * I should be able to retrieve my bookmarks wherever I am, for instance on a PC I do not own   * there should be an Android client (obviously)   * there should be an easy way to add a bookmark from Firefox, for instance a bookmarklet Do you have any suggestions on how to do this?


title: How to regenerate/create adbkey and adbkey.pub from the command line?

text: I'm starting to mess with Android SDK (on Ubuntu GNU/Linux), and am seeing stuff like running the `tools/android` and its GUI, `adb` or `gradlew` for the first time. So, I'm trying to set this up, and in reading stuff around, I see mention of `~/.android/adbkey` and `~/.android/adbkey.pub`. As far as I understand, these are the automatically generated debug keys - but I cannot tell: are these the same on every computer where the SDK gets installed, or are they different? So I look into `~/.android`, and they are indeed there; and I guess in a moment of madness, I decided to delete them (I guess to see what happens `:)`). Anyways, I soon regretted it, and I tried to look up online how to regenerate them. Unfortunately, I cannot find any explicit reference saying what command I should run, in order to get these file generated/recreated. So that is my question - what tools should I run, to re-generate these keys? * * * EDIT: I tried re-running `sdk/tools/android`, it doesn't reconstruct the keys. Then I tried deleting the `~/.android` folder:               rm -rf ~/.android     sdk/tools/android      ... and after re-running `sdk/tools/android`, the `~/.android` folder _does_ get reconstructed, but _not_ the `adbkey*` files. * * * Answer from comments (better formatted): Ah, found it (via linux - Android Debug Bridge (adb) device - no permissions - Stack Overflow); what I did was:               $ sdk/platform-tools/adb start-server     * daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *     * daemon started successfully *     $ sdk/platform-tools/adb devices     List of devices attached           $ sdk/platform-tools/adb kill-server     $ ls ~/.android/     adbkey  adbkey.pub  androidwin.cfg  avd  cache  repositories.cfg  sites-settings.cf


title: What package name should I use for a Cyanogenmod theme?

text: I want to make cm11 theme. But one problem: package name. How does it work? Dialer package has com.android.dialer, so my package could have name eu.mikroskeem.colormelt?


title: Battery drain RATE alert?

text: i've used multiple generations of Nexus devices, some more stable some less. It seems like there is always some combination of hardware, system image and installed app set that creates a situation where your battery suddenly just drains at a rapid rate. I have seen the battery drop from what i expected 4-6 hours of life down to zero in fifteen minutes in a situation where i really, really needed the battery. Normally you can take action if you notice this : close apps, switch off gps/bt/wifi/camera , shut down services, reboot or whatnot. The really sucky situation is when you DONT notice it and then are left with dead battery. So, wouldn't it be nice to have higher than usual battery drain rate alert ? Havent found an app that would do this, but IMHO that actually should be a system level function.


title: chrome uninstall left behind com.android.chrome[noinfo] apk with active connections

text: I have an unrooted Samsung Note phone (active service with AT&T). It is almost two years old and became slower and slower. I do not have any unnecessary apps and I mostly use my phone for email and simple browsing. To understand the slowness, I downloaded "Network Connection" (Ref https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.antispycell.connmonitor) app and found that the chrome app had 21 active connections maintained all the time (even after reboot). Some of these connections are to *.1e100.net (6 connections) (see screen shot) edge-star-shv-03-sea1.facebook.com la.linkedin.com or 1a.linkedin.com *.amazonaws.com *.akamaitechnology.com *.stumbleupon.net *.softlayer.com *.twttr.com *.cachefly.net I got furious over this weird behavior of chrome and uninstalled chrome. After removal, I rebooted my phone, but there is still a leftover active app now identified as com.android.chrome[noinfo] which continue to maintain the above connections. I am still clueless on what's going on and what type of information is being collected from my phone by these open connections --who is watching and why? Any idea on how to remove the seemingly viral apk com.android.chrome[noinfo] without rooting the device. Please note that this app is not listed by![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/z2cNJ.png) application manager.


title: Flashing and PRL Jumping my ZTE Imperial

text: So, the ZTE Imperial, nice phone, nice hardware. One annoying issue, I cannot seem to find a solid method of Flashing an Apollo ROM into my current US Cell stock 4.1 android. While there is a bit of how to's they do not point to anything useful about this one particular device. What is the most efficient way to pull this off by either using Ubuntu Trusty based PC or from the device itself? Update: I am also looking for ways to jump a PRL from a separate phone onto this one. A detailed answer that does not link other websites would be a plus.


title: Gmail widget goes empty after a while

text: I have a Moto G (XT1033) that runs Android 4.4.2. In my home screen I placed the Gmail widget; it works correctly for a while but then it goes empty/unresponsive (like in the screenshot below) and only works when it's removed and added again. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/skWjN.png) What to do? This started to happen after I needed to do a full reset on my phone.


title: Force all emails to display only the text/plain part

text: HTML mail is a pain to read on a phone. The screen is too narrow and the images take too long to download. Typically without the images the mail is just useless. HTML mail is only slightly less of a pain on my desktop, but there I can use Mutt and just read the text/plain part if it exists. Is there a way to make my mail client default to reading the plain text part of the mail rather than the HTML part? My mail is on an IMAP server, so I use the default Android mail client. I looked at K9 Mail too but it doesn't seem to have a way to do this either. I don't use Gmail and for a variety of reasons I have no interest in using it even if it solves this problem. Any other suggestions welcome, thanks!


title: Why has speech-to-text stopped working on my phone?

text: I have an HTC Desire Z with Android 2.2. For some reason my speech to text convertor has stopped working. Everytime the soft keyboard opens up and I press on the small mike button, it says audio problem and closes. Up until yesterday, the phone was fine. What could be the problem?


title: Is there a way to have my device say the callers name when the call is coming in?

text: I have a HTC Desire Z with Froyo . I am trying to find a way to have my device speak the caller name. I have tried SayMyName but it only works if you are connected to the internet. I want a similar solution that works even if the device is not connected to the internet. Thank you in advance.


title: Google Talk on Android only syncs one-way with gTalk on Desktop?

text: I use both gTalk on Desktop and Google Talk on Android (phone) - at the same time. However, it only seems to sync from Desktop to Android and not the other way round? At the start of the conversation and providing I stay on the Desktop, messages are received to both devices. Messages I send on gTalk (desktop) appear instantly on Google Talk on Android. The chat history with gTalk (desktop) is automatically emailed to my gmail address. This is good, and means I can instantly pick up the conversation on my phone as I go mobile. HOWEVER, messages I send from the Android app do **not** appear in the gTalk client on my desktop and neither are these messages included in the chat history email to my gmail address. Also, once I continue the conversation in the Android app, the desktop client no longer receives the messages sent to me - they are now only received to my Android device. Is there anyway of "fixing" this? **EDIT:** I have since come across the following question from 2½ years ago, "How do Gmail (desktop) and Talk (Android) chats interact?" - this goes someway to explain _why_ this happens, but that is an old question and I struggle to believe that this behaviour has not been updated in this time. Is there really no other workaround?


title: Gmail sorting settings for Galaxy S4

text: Where is the setting to sort my gmail by read/unread on my new AT&T Galaxy S4? I was able to do it on the S3.