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2014/12/23 | 1,390 | 5,616 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to use Spotify and a running speed tracker app at the same time, but Spotify is much louder than the other app and so I cannot hear it when both running simultaneously. Is there a way I can turn the volume down on one app but not the other, similar to volume mixer in Windows?
<issue_comment>username_1: That kind of "Mixer" doesn't seem to be possible. Quoting from the description of [~~App Volume~~](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=droidamax.appvolumefree) (thanks to [username_4](https://android.stackexchange.com/users/131868/fiksdal) for pointing to this comment):
>
> Android manages one stream for all apps, so we can't set different volume levels at same time for two different apps.
>
>
>
A mixer *could* be possible in a limited way if you could tell the involved apps to use different "channels" (e.g. one using the ringer, one multimedia, one notifications, one alarms) – which *might* be possible for a root app (with some Xposed module being the most likely candidate). But so far, it seems nobody came up with such.
I don't know about any more up-to-date candidates or other alternatives, though some might have slipped through my nets. Be welcome to check my app-list for [System Settings](https://android.izzysoft.de/applists/category/named/tools_settings): if I happen to find one, it will certainly be added there.
Upvotes: 3 <issue_comment>username_2: Probably you were looking for something like Sound Assistant version, for generic Android devices, **but as it stands now, the former is available and it's only functional on Samsung devices** (Galaxy editions running the latest versions of Android)
From description:
**[SoundAssistant](https://galaxystore.samsung.com/detail/com.samsung.android.soundassistant)**
>
> The sound utility available on the galaxy series Provides various
> convenience functions related to audio
>
>
> * Allow you to control the media volume instead of ringtone when pressing the volume keys
> * Support **individual application volume (You can control the volume of music and games differently)**
>
>
>
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/6qftAl.jpg)
Unfortunately, as it stands, it is not possible or at least feasible for other Android devices. Perhaps this feature will need some hardware upgrade on target devices to stream audio output on more than 1 channel, just as username_1 commented in his answer.
You may have to wait a little while until such a feature can be implemented in other Android devices. Meanwhile, you could get a supported Samsung device to enjoy this feature or perhaps [automation](/questions/tagged/automation "show questions tagged 'automation'") with Tasker or Macrodroid.
Upvotes: 3 <issue_comment>username_3: Years ago, [Izzy wrote an answer](https://android.stackexchange.com/a/151333/44325) stating that this desirable feature likely was not possible in most Android builds at that time.
Well, fast-forward to 2021, and it appears that it still is not possible in most Android builds.
Quoting from <NAME>, a skilled Android developer, in the current release notes for their app [WOW Volume Manager](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bhanu.wowvolumescheduler):
>
> Note: app can change volume levels only if you open the app which you configured. there is no possibility in android to change volume levels for background running apps. only apps those are on foreground and open by user, only for those app automate volume control can work.
>
>
>
The keywords in that quote are *"there is no possibility in android to change volume levels for background running apps"*. When you have one app in the foreground, all other apps are in the background, and Android still provides no way to control the sound volume of background apps.
(Note that WOW Volume Manager allows you to change the volume per *foreground* app.)
There *are* ways around this Android limitation: App developers can include different sound clips pre-recorded at different volume levels with their apps. They can also dynamically generate sounds at different amplitudes. Finally, they can allow selecting frequencies that humans *perceive* to be at lower volumes. After implementing one or more of these techniques, the devs can then can allow users to select a volume profile for their specific app, which will work even when it runs in the background. I don't know of any apps that actually do this, but it's certainly possible.
Upvotes: 1 <issue_comment>username_4: Indeed, the design of Android itself makes it near impossible to do.
Therefore, my solution is to run one of the apps (the one that's supposed to have the lower volume) in an Android VM on the same device, using [Virtual Android](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pspace.vandroid) app.
This may seem like a bit of an extreme solution, but to modern devices with their plentiful RAM and >10-core CPU's it's usually not a big deal. And it's the **only** way to do it at present.
The fact that the app is running in its very own Android VM means that one can adjust the system volume *in that VM* without affecting the overall system volume of the host device.
Keep in mind that using the volume buttons on the device will only affect the host device, so you have to go into the settings app of the VM to adjust the volume.
It's great to run Spotify in the VM, because due to Spotify Connect it can be controlled remotely from the host, without having to enter the VM all the time.
Upvotes: 0 |
2014/12/23 | 561 | 2,190 | <issue_start>username_0: I have dnsmasq available on my Android (stock ROM 4.4.2 Note2) and would like to know how I can tell if it's running and what settings its currently using?<issue_comment>username_1: I can't tell you exactly for the settings, but here's an approach that basically should work for any app:
What you will need
------------------
Either a [terminal](/questions/tagged/terminal "show questions tagged 'terminal'") app, or an [adb](/questions/tagged/adb "show questions tagged 'adb'") connection to the device. Be able to work with the [command-line](/questions/tagged/command-line "show questions tagged 'command-line'").
Alternatively, for parts of the tasks there are apps available to monitor system resources.
What to do
----------
At the shell prompt, you can check for active processes using the `ps` command. You can filter the output using `grep`. Assuming you know the package name (you can find it in the app's Playstore URL, right after the `id=`), and let's say it's `com.foobar`:
```
ps | grep "com.foobar"
```
would either show all processes of the `com.foobar` app – or nothing (if it's not running).
As for the settings, that's not that easy to determine. Depending on the app, these are either stored in a database, in the apps "shared preferences", or in both – all those stored below `/data/data/com.foobar` in our example case, which only root or the app itself has access to.
So if the device is rooted, you could try to directly access the corresponding files in `/data/data/com.foobar/database/*` and `/data/data/com.foobar/shared_prefs/*`, and investigate the files – using SQLite3 (or one of its GUIs) for the database files, and some XML viewer for the shared preferences.
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_2: If you're rooted, go to `/system/bin/` and find `dnsmasq` if it's in there. Alternatively, you can also check `/xbin` (but, that's unlikely to be there).
If you managed to find one in either path - you now use a terminal emulator and type `su` first and enter, then type `dnsmasq -d` to see if the process will be invoked properly. It should also run with its default settings depending on how it was compiled.
Upvotes: 1 |
2014/12/23 | 415 | 1,592 | <issue_start>username_0: I am using an Android phone with Root access. I have an app called [App Quarantine ROOT/FREEZE](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ramdroid.appquarantine&hl=en), which can freeze or quarantine unwanted apps in Android. I mistakenly use this app to quarantine the Launcher.
As soon as I quarantine the Launcher, the Android desktop becomes black. When I try to reboot, it stuck at the boot up screen with logo.
How to recover an Android phone if the Launcher has been mistakenly quarantined? How to recover the Launcher?<issue_comment>username_1: Some phone models have an emergency factory reset button at the back(inside the back cover) of the phone. It looks like a pinhole. Try inserting a pin there. I hope it would work.
Upvotes: 3 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_2: I had the same problem once. but I could access the notification drawer. and I had a battery booster installed. So , I clicked it and clicked the rating button. It went directly to Google play and find the app's page and open it. You can unfreeze it then.
Upvotes: 1 <issue_comment>username_3: I was having same problem but on TV (mistakenly disable default launcher)
So here what I did.
As My TV was already connected to Wifi but was stuck at "Android" black screen.
So just grabbed my phone
Logged in play store with same account I was using on TV using browser.
Searched launcher
Clicked on install
Selected device > android TV
& Voila in next 5 secs launcher got Installed in my tv & then i enabled default launcher.
Everything was working fine.
Upvotes: 1 |
2014/12/23 | 625 | 2,422 | <issue_start>username_0: I've tried to transfer all my Whatsapp messages from an old Android phone to a new Android phone. I followed all the instructions at [Whatsapp's website](https://www.whatsapp.com/faq/android/20902622) and [previously on Stackoverflow](https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/62237/how-to-transfer-whatsapp-conversations-to-a-new-phone), but am missing the last 10 days of messages in my phone. I've redone the process twice, but have had no luck.
Interestingly, the backups on my old phone grow larger for the first 4 days of backups, but then get smaller in the last two days. But this might just be because they changed from .crypt7 files in the first four days to .crypt8 files for the last two days.
Are there tools available to import specific .crypt\* files, or to merge archived backups?<issue_comment>username_1: The first couple times I had tried to .zip the folder, share it on Google Drive, and unzip it on the new phone and import it. I finally got it to work by copying the folder through the SD Card and transferring the SD card between phones. Not sure if it was dumb luck or if something was corrupted in the zipping process!
Upvotes: 1 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_2: I have just got this very same problem here and got it solved. Here is how I did it:
I got my previous phone that still had all messages on it and did a new backup on WhatsApp settings. Unistall WhatsApp on your new phone and remove the WhatsApp folder from it. After that, copy the whole WhatsApp folder to SD card and transferred to the new phone.
Here comes the difference: I deleted all the last backups from the copy I just made and left only the last one. Now I have only these two files on the database folder: msgstore-2014-12-26.1.db.crypt8 and msgstore.db.crypt8
Now copy the folder back to internal memory and install WhatsApp again.
To simplify: I just deleted the previous backups and kept the last one I just made and made the default message restoration process again
Upvotes: 3 <issue_comment>username_3: For those of you, who the other answers does not work for, here is how it worked for me:
In addition to deleting the older message.db.crypt files as described by username_2, I also deleted the latest "date" file so that only one file (message.db.crypt8) was left.
Having those files in the sdcard/WhatsApp folder I (re)installed WhatsApp. Hope this helps.
Upvotes: 1 |
2014/12/23 | 4,563 | 12,820 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to figure out all partitions on my device together with their resp. mount points or labels (i.e. to know which partition is holding `system`, `recovery`, `boot`, etc.). This needs to be device independent (as I have multiple devices). Goal is to `dd` them and know which image is what.
I have seen [Command to list partition mount points?](https://android.stackexchange.com/q/24119/16575) – however, there the goal was just a partition list of mounted partitions. I need them all, and e.g. `/recovery` is not mounted when booting into "normal work mode".
So far, my recherche has brought up a bunch of approaches – but none of them works on any of the devices I've tested:
* `cat /proc/mtd`: this is empty or non-existing
* `cat /proc/emmc`: this is empty or non-existing
* `cat /proc/dumchar_info`: non existing (MTK/MediaTek)
* `ls -al /dev/block/platform/*/by-name`: either non-existing, or not having the wanted details
Any idea of what I could have missed? Of course I could walk all the `/dev/block/mmcblk0p*` devices, dump them, and sort them out later – but then I had to repeat that investigation for every of my devices (and again when someone turns up with another one), so that's no solution.
---
**EDIT:** Please note the [command-line](/questions/tagged/command-line "show questions tagged 'command-line'") tag to this question. I'll have to access that information via ADB, and do not want to install some app on a device handed to me for investigation. Consider it "forensics background" (no changes to the device), though that's not exactly true ;)
Also apologies for my initial mis-phrasing: the "mount points" are only interesting in so far they reveal the purpose of the partition. I don't want to mount/remount them :)<issue_comment>username_1: [DiskInfo](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.kuder.diskinfo) will be the app you want. It will show all mount points, plus all unmounted, and all temp partitions.
This is just a graphical interface, with no other real functionality. Perfect for your need. This does require to be used on fully booted device. Root is not needed.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/KTgSJ.jpg)
Screenshot (click for larger variant)
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_1: KPARTX
======
The kpartx command reads partition tables and maps partitions to device files. It works on devices and disk images. This means we can map HFS partitions in a disk image to a special block device file and mount those partitions by addressing that block device file as if it were part of an attached device.
<http://linuxsleuthing.blogspot.com/2012/10/christmas-come-early-hfshfs-mounting.html>
The examples in link are foe MacBook Pro, but different disk images should work fine as long as they presented to the GNU Linux in RAW. (xmount - see below)
`usage : kpartx [-a|-d|-l] [-f] [-v] wholedisk`
```
-a add partition devmappings
-r devmappings will be readonly
-d del partition devmappings
-u update partition devmappings
-l list partitions devmappings that would be added by -a
-p set device name-partition number delimiter
-g force GUID partition table (GPT)
-f force devmap create
-v verbose
-s sync mode. Don't return until the partitions are created`
```
---
**xmount**
xmount allows you to convert on-the-fly between multiple input and output harddisk image types. xmount creates a virtual file system using FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) that contains a virtual representation of the input image. The virtual representation can be in raw DD, DMG, VHD, VirtualBox's virtual disk file format or in VmWare's VMDK file format. Input images can be raw DD, EWF (Expert Witness Compression Format) or AFF (Advanced Forensic Format) files. In addition, xmount also supports virtual write access to the output files that is redirected to a cache file. This makes it possible to boot acquired harddisk images using QEMU, KVM, VirtualBox, VmWare or alike.
<https://www.pinguin.lu/xmount>
---
I can provide additional detail and info if required or needed.
Upvotes: 1 <issue_comment>username_2: I stumbled upon this question. I like a challenge...
Tools that I used: [BusyBox](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=stericson.busybox&hl=en)
I've come up with 3 commands (one you listed) to give some info about the partitions
```
busybox ls -QAl --color=never /dev/block/platform/*/by-name
```
Output:
```
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 20 Jan 30 1970 "DDR" -> "/dev/block/mmcblk0p4"
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 20 Jan 30 1970 "aboot" -> "/dev/block/mmcblk0p5"
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 21 Jan 30 1970 "abootf" -> "/dev/block/mmcblk0p16"
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 21 Jan 30 1970 "boot" -> "/dev/block/mmcblk0p18"
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 21 Jan 30 1970 "cache" -> "/dev/block/mmcblk0p41"
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 20 Jan 30 1970 "dbi" -> "/dev/block/mmcblk0p3"
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 21 Jan 30 1970 "dbibak" -> "/dev/block/mmcblk0p10"
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 21 Jan 30 1970 "drm" -> "/dev/block/mmcblk0p36"
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 21 Jan 30 1970 "eksst" -> "/dev/block/mmcblk0p29"
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 21 Jan 30 1970 "encrypt" -> "/dev/block/mmcblk0p28"
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 21 Jan 30 1970 "factory" -> "/dev/block/mmcblk0p39"
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 21 Jan 30 1970 "fota" -> "/dev/block/mmcblk0p34"
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 21 Jan 30 1970 "fsc" -> "/dev/block/mmcblk0p25"
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 21 Jan 30 1970 "fsg" -> "/dev/block/mmcblk0p24"
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 21 Jan 30 1970 "grow" -> "/dev/block/mmcblk0p43"
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 21 Jan 30 1970 "laf" -> "/dev/block/mmcblk0p33"
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 21 Jan 30 1970 "misc" -> "/dev/block/mmcblk0p32"
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 20 Jan 30 1970 "modem" -> "/dev/block/mmcblk0p1"
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 21 Jan 30 1970 "modemst1" -> "/dev/block/mmcblk0p21"
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 21 Jan 30 1970 "modemst2" -> "/dev/block/mmcblk0p22"
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 21 Jan 30 1970 "mpt" -> "/dev/block/mmcblk0p38"
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 20 Jan 30 1970 "pad" -> "/dev/block/mmcblk0p8"
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 21 Jan 30 1970 "pad1" -> "/dev/block/mmcblk0p23"
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 21 Jan 30 1970 "pad2" -> "/dev/block/mmcblk0p27"
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 21 Jan 30 1970 "persist" -> "/dev/block/mmcblk0p19"
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 21 Jan 30 1970 "rct" -> "/dev/block/mmcblk0p30"
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 21 Jan 30 1970 "recovery" -> "/dev/block/mmcblk0p20"
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 20 Jan 30 1970 "rpm" -> "/dev/block/mmcblk0p6"
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 21 Jan 30 1970 "rpmbak" -> "/dev/block/mmcblk0p11"
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 21 Jan 30 1970 "rpmf" -> "/dev/block/mmcblk0p13"
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 20 Jan 30 1970 "sbl1" -> "/dev/block/mmcblk0p2"
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 20 Jan 30 1970 "sbl1b" -> "/dev/block/mmcblk0p9"
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 21 Jan 30 1970 "sdif" -> "/dev/block/mmcblk0p15"
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 21 Jan 30 1970 "sns" -> "/dev/block/mmcblk0p37"
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 21 Jan 30 1970 "spare1" -> "/dev/block/mmcblk0p17"
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 21 Jan 30 1970 "spare2" -> "/dev/block/mmcblk0p31"
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 21 Jan 30 1970 "spare3" -> "/dev/block/mmcblk0p35"
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 21 Jan 30 1970 "ssd" -> "/dev/block/mmcblk0p26"
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 21 Jan 30 1970 "system" -> "/dev/block/mmcblk0p40"
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 20 Jan 30 1970 "tz" -> "/dev/block/mmcblk0p7"
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 21 Jan 30 1970 "tzbak" -> "/dev/block/mmcblk0p12"
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 21 Jan 30 1970 "tzf" -> "/dev/block/mmcblk0p14"
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 21 Jan 30 1970 "userdata" -> "/dev/block/mmcblk0p42"
```
---
```
busybox blkid
```
Output:
```
/dev/block/vold/179:65: LABEL="ANDROID" UUID="87B8-10F1"
/dev/block/mmcblk1p1: LABEL="ANDROID" UUID="87B8-10F1"
/dev/block/mmcblk0p42: UUID="57f8f4bc-abf4-655f-bf67-946fc0f9f25b"
/dev/block/mmcblk0p41: UUID="57f8f4bc-abf4-655f-bf67-946fc0f9f25b"
/dev/block/mmcblk0p40: UUID="57f8f4bc-abf4-655f-bf67-946fc0f9f25b"
/dev/block/mmcblk0p38: UUID="57f8f4bc-abf4-655f-bf67-946fc0f9f25b"
/dev/block/mmcblk0p37: UUID="57f8f4bc-abf4-655f-bf67-946fc0f9f25b"
/dev/block/mmcblk0p36: UUID="57f8f4bc-abf4-655f-bf67-946fc0f9f25b"
/dev/block/mmcblk0p19: UUID="57f8f4bc-abf4-655f-bf67-946fc0f9f25b"
/dev/block/mmcblk0p1: UUID="00BC-614E"
```
---
```
busybox df -ma
```
Output:
```
Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 1415 0 1415 0% /dev
devpts 0 0 0 0% /dev/pts
proc 0 0 0 0% /proc
sysfs 0 0 0 0% /sys
selinuxfs 0 0 0 0% /sys/fs/selinux
debugfs 0 0 0 0% /sys/kernel/debug
none 0 0 0 0% /acct
none 1415 0 1415 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs 1415 0 1415 0% /mnt/asec
tmpfs 1415 0 1415 0% /mnt/obb
none 0 0 0 0% /dev/cpuctl
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/system 2524 715 1808 28% /system
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/userdata 25620 5066 20514 20% /data
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/cache 834 13 820 2% /cache
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/persist 31 4 27 13% /persist
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/modem 64 56 7 88% /firmware
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/sns 8 4 4 52% /sns
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/drm 8 4 3 56% /persist-lg
/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/mpt 31 13 18 41% /mpt
/dev/fuse 25620 5066 20514 20% /mnt/shell/emulated
/dev/block/vold/179:65 60891 10820 50071 18% /mnt/media_rw/sdcard1
/dev/fuse 60891 10820 50071 18% /storage/sdcard1
```
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_3: As existing answers already show, there seems to be no "unique way" to achieve that. So I started combining ideas from allover, joining them into a script (or rather a "script library") to have them checked sequentially (until a good hit was made), and integrated that into my "Device Documentation Tool" named **[Adebar](https://github.com/username_3Soft/Adebar)**. Those interested can find it in the [`lib/partitions.lib`](https://github.com/username_3Soft/Adebar/blob/master/lib/partitions.lib) file. As *Adebar* is open-source (GPLv2), feel free to copy and use it – or fork the project and improve it.
The full solution is a bit long to post here (as said, you can grab it at Github), but as our policy is to include at least the general part in the post, here's what it does:
Different sources provide different sets of details, so it tries the "best ones" first – and then recurses down until at least something was found.
* `/proc/dumchar_info` gives the most details, so this is tried first. Happy MTK users will get this.
* `/proc/mtd` is the second best source.
* `/proc/emmc` should have almost as much as the previous candidates, but is a bit tricky to use
* `/dev/block/platform/*/by-name`, cross-checked with …
* `/proc/partitions` cross-checked with `/proc/mounts` gives us at least the partitions mounted
So the script I've built basically walks the sources in this order, stopping as soon as it was able to collect details (e.g. if `/proc/dumchar_info` was found, no need to parse all the others). All of them put into separate functions, returning data using the very same structure, one could even merge results from all of them.
If someone can come up with a better solution, I'm of course always open for the idea :)
Upvotes: 4 [selected_answer] |
2014/12/24 | 416 | 1,704 | <issue_start>username_0: Is it possible to connect two or more bluetooth controllers to one android tablet? I am wanting to emulate some games that are four players and I want to know if three friends and I can all play together?<issue_comment>username_1: This is a bit of an opinionated, and caveated answer.
According to the [Android Developers](http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/connectivity/bluetooth.html) you can indeed
>
> "Manage multiple connections"
>
>
>
It seems to be the case than an Android tablet can connect with multiple Bluetooth devices **sending** data only, but Bluetooth devices that can also **receive** data will only pair with one device.
From my trying this on:
Galaxy Tab
Nexus 9
Nexus 7
Galaxy S5 (phone not tablet obviously)
Nexus 10
Galaxy Note
It only allows one controller and disconnects the others. We had some patchy performance with two working, but Bluetooth is not a good technology for multiple connections like this.
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_2: You certainly can contact up too 4 controllers simultaneously but the way I achieved this was with a rooted note 4 just install sixaxis and there is support for multi play...
I hdmi into tv and vs my mates with ps3 controllers (work best, even non genuin) also if you are using emulators n64 emulators have multi support inbuilt but you still need sixaxis to connect through Bluetooth.
Upvotes: 1 <issue_comment>username_3: outdated answers.
It's perfectly possible with at least Android 6.1 and above to connect up to 4 bluetooth controllers.
Just pair the first controller, **turn it off**, pair the second controller - and turn the first on again.
Upvotes: 0 |
2014/12/24 | 701 | 1,776 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a Nexus 4 with Android 5.0.1. I copy a file doing the following:
1. I reboot to bootloader
2. Boot using insecure boot.img: `fastboot boot boot.img`
3. Pushed a file: `adb push IMG_20140710_105128.jpg /sdcard/DCIM/Camera/`
4. Set permissions and ownership as the other files using `adb shell chmod ...` and `adb shell chown ...`.
See sample:
```
-rw-rw-r-- root sdcard_rw 2033519 2014-07-10 10:51 IMG_20140710_105128.jpg
-rw-rw-r-- root sdcard_rw 2684444 2014-12-04 16:08 IMG_20141204_160833.jpg
-rw-rw-r-- root sdcard_rw 2271545 2014-12-06 16:14 IMG_20141206_161444.jpg
```
I reboot normally and go to a Terminal Emulator and type `ls -la` in the same directory. I get "Permission denied" when trying to list the file I copied (IMG\_20140710\_105128.jpg) and is unreadable under all programs.
```
lstat './IMG_20140710_105128.jpg' failed: Permission denied
-rw-rw-r-- root sdcard_rw 2684444 2014-12-04 16:08 IMG_20141204_160833.jpg
-rw-rw-r-- root sdcard_rw 2271545 2014-12-06 16:14 IMG_20141206_161444.jpg
```
What is happening? Why is this doing this? I have root access to modify everything by using the boot insecure method. Are permissions changing when I reboot normally? Any ideas? It happens with all files I push. It doesn't matter the partition where I put it. I tried to do `ls -la` as root after rebooting normally and I got the same error.<issue_comment>username_1: I fixed it by pushing the files into /sdcard/DCIM/Camera/ not as root
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_2: During recovery mode, adb will be running as root so any file you push will have root as owner and group. Once your device boots up, you cannot see those files because they are not under media\_rw and sdcard\_r.
Upvotes: 1 |
2014/12/24 | 145 | 554 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to root my s4 phone I have some apps on it which are no longer are availeble for download, do I have to reinstall them (in other words some programs are lost)
Hans<issue_comment>username_1: I fixed it by pushing the files into /sdcard/DCIM/Camera/ not as root
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_2: During recovery mode, adb will be running as root so any file you push will have root as owner and group. Once your device boots up, you cannot see those files because they are not under media\_rw and sdcard\_r.
Upvotes: 1 |
2014/12/24 | 201 | 711 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to buy a HCL tablet that have Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. I want to know if it can open MS-office and PDF files.<issue_comment>username_1: No, you can't open MS-Office and PDF files directly from Android.
You have to install a third party app.
A few nice apps available in market for this:
* [WPS](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cn.wps.moffice_eng)
* [Microsoft Office Mobile](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft.office.officehub)
Upvotes: 1 <issue_comment>username_2: Another good solution is OfficeSuite. It opens and edits Microsoft office documents. But I would recommend something else if that's what you want to do with it.
Upvotes: 0 |
2014/12/24 | 905 | 3,409 | <issue_start>username_0: Whenever I visit a webpage in Chrome, the pages are being served by Google which is a plain version of the webpage.
Here is a picture describing the same.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/0LVgY.png)
Screenshot (click for larger variant)
How do I turn this feature off?
EDIT: On clicking the i button on the right of stackoverflow.com I get
"This page is generated by Google to use less data than the original page. This page and its links are all served by Google to make your browsing faster. This is an experimental feature."
I understand its meant for saving mobile data. But I mostly like visiting the original webpage and with this feature on, instead of saving data I end up going to the simplified page and then the original webpage costing me more data. I'd really like to turn this off.
EDIT : Not sure if it matters but I'm using android 5.0
EDIT : I can confirm that it's happening on wifi as well. Any update on how to solve this or any workarounds?
Update 14/8/15 : This is still happening on my device but it looks like this feature is not experimental anymore and Google provides documentation about what is going on.
Here's how the page looks now -
(Click image to enlarge)
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ceBYd.png)
Clicking on learn more takes me [here](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6211428?hl=en). Unfortunately, the support page only describes how the website providers can turn this off. No information about how users can opt out of it.<issue_comment>username_1: Check if the same websites are working cool in the incognito mode if the websites do work properly it is definitely the problem with the "reduce data use" option .
Turn it on and off . Even if the problem does not get solved try to clear the application data in settings>application>system>Chrome then clear data.
Still the problem does not get solved post your problem on google forum or chrome for android support page .
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_2: >
> **When will a user see these transcoded pages?**
>
>
> Users will see these pages only if Google has detected that they are
> on a slow network connection in a country in which we enable
> transcoding.
>
>
>
Source: <https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6211428#faq>
This can be experienced in countries like Indonesia, India, etc. where the internet speed is considerably slow. Googlebot does this based on the network speed and then it "transcodes" the page with any images. But there is no way to turn this off in the Browser Settings. Only way a website can do this is by using the `Cache-Control: no-transform` header in the HTTP request.
>
> **Opting out of transcoding** If you do not want your pages to be transcoded, set the HTTP header "Cache-Control: no-transform" in your
> page response. If Googlebot sees this header, your page will not be
> transcoded.
>
>
> Please note that pages that opt-out of being transcoded will be
> labeled in search results to indicate to users that they may take
> longer to load and may use more data.
>
>
>
**Will my pages be transcoded for users on faster networks?**
>
> Pages will not be transcoded if the user is on a fast network.
>
>
>
So if you are on a faster network you won't experience this.
Upvotes: 1 |
2014/12/24 | 692 | 2,049 | <issue_start>username_0: So I flashed CM11 nightly back in November making sure to perform the boot.img fix and things worked OK. I recently decided to update. I will confess that I updated without fixing the boot.img and soft-bricked the phone. Had to re-flash `Philz Touch` using `odin` and eventually re-installed the CM11 .zip.
Now WiFi won't turn on. If I go to the WiFi page in settings it stays stuck on "Turning Wi-Fi on...". I've tried 1223 nightly and the 1217 nightly (the earliest link which works).
Is there a way to find old nightlies? Most of the links on the [Exhilarate page](http://download.cyanogenmod.org/?device=exhilarate) are broken. How else can I troubleshoot Wi-Fi?
UPDATE:
I installed the most [recent available CarbonRom](https://carbonrom.org/downloads/?d=exhilarate/nightly) and the problem is not fixed.
UPDATE 2:
Dialling `*#*#526#*#*` doesn't do anything. When I enter the last `*` the code vanishes and nothing happens.
UPDATE 3:
Relevant log?
```
[ 01-04 00:14:29.413 680: 844 E/WifiHW ]
Unable to open connection to supplicant on "/data/system/wpa_supplicant/wlan0": No such file or directory
[ 01-04 00:14:29.924 680: 844 E/WifiMonitor ]
startMonitoring(wlan0) failed!
[ 01-04 00:14:29.924 680: 844 E/WifiStateMachine ]
Failed to setup control channel, restart supplicant
[ 01-04 00:14:32.406 680: 844 E/WifiMonitor ]
startMonitor called with unknown iface=wlan0
```<issue_comment>username_1: I had the same problem on my Nexus 4 with Android 5.0.1 and I fixed it by removing this folder /data/misc/wifi or the equivalent in your phone and then rebooting.
You can try this by booting your phone using a boot insecure image.
```
$ fastboot boot boot.img
$ adb shell rm -r /data/misc/wifi
$ adb reboot
```
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_2: Did a backup of apps using adb.
```
adb backup -apk -all -f backup.ab
```
Then booted into Recovery and performed a factory reset. Rebooted and Wi-Fi worked.
Restored apps using
```
adb restore backup.ab
```
Upvotes: 2 [selected_answer] |
2014/12/24 | 549 | 1,884 | <issue_start>username_0: For Christmas I got a Galaxy Tab 3 (7in, SM-T110) for the wee ones to play with. I want to secure it as much as possible so they cannot accidentally buy stuff or get tracked or whatever. So I thought I'd install Cyanogenmod.
However, the device is not officially supported. From what I understand, I can still install Cyanogenmod on the device, it's just a bit more complicated. Obviously, it is possible, because there's "tutorials" out there about how to do it by people who have successfully done so. Never having done any of this, though. I got lost pretty soon among instructions on rooting, using ODIN, CWM, TWRP, ROM managers, and whatnot. *Sigh.*
So what do I need to do in order to install Cyanogenmod? I suppose I need to root the device? Do I need a ROM manager? Or is it advisable? What do I need ODIN for? Do I need ODIN? What I need is *1)* a thorough explanation what all of these buzzwords mean and what they are good for, and *2)* a step-by-step for dummies for how to put them together.
*Note: I have seen [this answer](https://android.stackexchange.com/a/20041/13431) (which assumes the device to be supported) and [this answer](https://android.stackexchange.com/a/62986/13431) (which assumes too much knowledge).*<issue_comment>username_1: I had the same problem on my Nexus 4 with Android 5.0.1 and I fixed it by removing this folder /data/misc/wifi or the equivalent in your phone and then rebooting.
You can try this by booting your phone using a boot insecure image.
```
$ fastboot boot boot.img
$ adb shell rm -r /data/misc/wifi
$ adb reboot
```
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_2: Did a backup of apps using adb.
```
adb backup -apk -all -f backup.ab
```
Then booted into Recovery and performed a factory reset. Rebooted and Wi-Fi worked.
Restored apps using
```
adb restore backup.ab
```
Upvotes: 2 [selected_answer] |
2014/12/24 | 620 | 2,271 | <issue_start>username_0: My Samsung S4 does not fully boot. It turns off after two seconds after the Samsung screen and before the Cyanogen boot screen. How do I resolve this issue?
I can't boot into recovery -- it never gets that fair. I also can't reflash as the phone turns itself off shortly after it gets to the flash screen. The phone also randomly restarts. I've tried swapping the battery too.<issue_comment>username_1: This is the infamous power button problem. I had this too. There are some guides that speak of cleaning the power button, but for me I found this rather rough solution to be effective.
* [SOLUTION: Galaxy S3/S4,S5, Note, Tabs ALL Samsungs (not Booting Up? Keeps Rebooting? Not turning on?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSLZFmhmBlc) (just hit the phone *HARD* on the power button)
UPDATE
======
Alright guys, so I'm back -- it's 2016/04/25. My S5 just broke so I'm downgrading until it comes in the mail. Googling for the same problem and I found my own answer. This time hitting it hard didn't work. So I sprayed the button liberally with [DeoxIT D5](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B00006LVEU) and violla, back in business. Hold the phone button side up and just soak it!
Upvotes: 5 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_2: I found the solution. The power button is stuck. Just flick the power button a bunch of times with your finger. If that doesn't work try compressed air, shoot that in there a bit, so it gets unstuck.
If you spilled soda in there maybe try getting an alcohol wipe and try to wipe it down a bit (make sure battery is off) maybe squeeze a very very small amount of rubbing alcohol in there. I mean very small amount, then wipe with Q tip. The flicking technique works for me every time.
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_3: I think this might be the power button that got stuck and need replacement.
Here's the link for troubleshooting and solutions. You might need some simple electrical skills. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l_6fwzuIwA>
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_4: Could be dust in there.
Try banging the corner where the power button is, on a hard rubber surface. Be careful not to crack the screen. Remove back of phone and battery first, of course. It worked for me.
Upvotes: 1 |
2014/12/25 | 581 | 2,045 | <issue_start>username_0: I just got my Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 (SM-T110). I want to tether my tab to my PC, but I can't find the tether option under more settings.
How to fix it?<issue_comment>username_1: This is the infamous power button problem. I had this too. There are some guides that speak of cleaning the power button, but for me I found this rather rough solution to be effective.
* [SOLUTION: Galaxy S3/S4,S5, Note, Tabs ALL Samsungs (not Booting Up? Keeps Rebooting? Not turning on?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSLZFmhmBlc) (just hit the phone *HARD* on the power button)
UPDATE
======
Alright guys, so I'm back -- it's 2016/04/25. My S5 just broke so I'm downgrading until it comes in the mail. Googling for the same problem and I found my own answer. This time hitting it hard didn't work. So I sprayed the button liberally with [DeoxIT D5](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B00006LVEU) and violla, back in business. Hold the phone button side up and just soak it!
Upvotes: 5 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_2: I found the solution. The power button is stuck. Just flick the power button a bunch of times with your finger. If that doesn't work try compressed air, shoot that in there a bit, so it gets unstuck.
If you spilled soda in there maybe try getting an alcohol wipe and try to wipe it down a bit (make sure battery is off) maybe squeeze a very very small amount of rubbing alcohol in there. I mean very small amount, then wipe with Q tip. The flicking technique works for me every time.
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_3: I think this might be the power button that got stuck and need replacement.
Here's the link for troubleshooting and solutions. You might need some simple electrical skills. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l_6fwzuIwA>
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_4: Could be dust in there.
Try banging the corner where the power button is, on a hard rubber surface. Be careful not to crack the screen. Remove back of phone and battery first, of course. It worked for me.
Upvotes: 1 |
2014/12/25 | 317 | 1,101 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to install the xposed framework on my Nexus 5 and in the framework, the install/update option doesn't work.
My Nexus 5 runs Android 5.0 (Lollipop).<issue_comment>username_1: The xposed framework does not [currently support](https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=52288979&postcount=3) Android 5 (Lollipop). More specifically it doesn't work on the ART runtime which is available as a developer option on 4.4 and the only available runtime in Lollipop. You will have to wait for the xposed framework to be updated in order to install it on your Nexus 5 (or downgrade to 4.4 if it's that important).
Ryan's comment appears to show that it's actually the API level but I believe that's a side effect / symptom of running the ART runtime.
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_2: The Alpha version of Xposed is now available for Lollipop on ARMv7 and higher devices, so you should be able to install it without issue on the Nexus 5. Refer to the XDA thread for all the details:
<http://forum.xda-developers.com/xposed/official-xposed-lollipop-t3030118>
Upvotes: 0 |
2014/12/25 | 783 | 3,018 | <issue_start>username_0: I encountered The following issue on two samsung galaxy s4 devices:
When trying to install a newer version of an by clicking an APK file in an email message it works o.k..
If trying to install another new copy from a new APK over the previously installed one it also work.
But if the original version from google play is installed and we try to install the APK from the email we get a message `App not installed` and obviously the app does not get installed...
just to clarify - both the versions are written by me, both signed and use the same ID.
and there is a major version number change between them.
How can I know if things will go o.k. if I submit the new version to Google play?
Is there an official limit that refers the the source of installation having to be the same for an update?
Is there any way to override this limit?
***UPDATE:***
I followed the advice given by @GiantTree in [this conmment](https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/92706/problem-installing-over-an-app-installed-from-google-play/92714?noredirect=1#comment116258_92714)
I installed a terminal emulator and executed `pm install -r mypackage.apk` which gave something like 60 lines saying `try again in 1second` (missing space in original message) then it said twice `failed to connect to dumpstate service` and finally `killed`.
Executing `logcat >log.txt` I found the line:
`java.lang.SecurityException:
>
> `Neither user 10210 nor current process has android.permission.INSTALL_PACKAGES.`
>
>
>
***UPDATE 2:***
upon better examining of the log file I found this line:
>
> D/InstallAppProgress( 8973): Installation error code: -25
>
>
>
but I can't find what does this error code means...
Still Looking for further suggestions...<issue_comment>username_1: There is no limit for anything. As long as the package name and the used signature remain the same it's considered the same application. Try to install using adb: `adb install -r`
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_2: This error often occurs when you try to install an older version over an already-installed newer version of the same app. If that's really what you intend to do, you might first have to uninstall and then re-install the app in question. To not lose its data, you can try uninstalling via `adb uninstall -k` : this would uninstall the app, but keep (`-k`) its data.
For further details, you might also wish to see:
* [Unknown error code during application install: “-25”](https://android.stackexchange.com/q/90119/16575)
Upvotes: 2 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_3: Even if the version is newer, I have not been able to install an custom downloaded app over the same app but Google play version. I have experienced this several times with different apps while testing.
I have had to uninstall the Google play version and then only was allowed to install downloaded application. In fact the app installation will proceed till the very end when the installer displays error.
Upvotes: 0 |
2014/12/25 | 377 | 1,532 | <issue_start>username_0: I received an error message on my phone
>
> Unfortunately, the process.android.process.acore has stopped.
>
>
>
So I have tried to factory reset it. Now it doesn't turn on at all. It just shows the Intel Inside logo. I am clueless about what to do. Any help?<issue_comment>username_1: There is no limit for anything. As long as the package name and the used signature remain the same it's considered the same application. Try to install using adb: `adb install -r`
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_2: This error often occurs when you try to install an older version over an already-installed newer version of the same app. If that's really what you intend to do, you might first have to uninstall and then re-install the app in question. To not lose its data, you can try uninstalling via `adb uninstall -k` : this would uninstall the app, but keep (`-k`) its data.
For further details, you might also wish to see:
* [Unknown error code during application install: “-25”](https://android.stackexchange.com/q/90119/16575)
Upvotes: 2 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_3: Even if the version is newer, I have not been able to install an custom downloaded app over the same app but Google play version. I have experienced this several times with different apps while testing.
I have had to uninstall the Google play version and then only was allowed to install downloaded application. In fact the app installation will proceed till the very end when the installer displays error.
Upvotes: 0 |
2014/12/25 | 432 | 1,626 | <issue_start>username_0: I just bought my new Samsung Galaxy S5. When texting, when I exceed 160 characters it automatically converts to MMS. I have researched the remedy,gone to settings and clicked the MMS Alert to 'on' which alerts me when I have exceeded the maximum amount of characters, but it still converts to MMS. How can I revise the amount of maximum characters so I won't need to use my data? I certainly don't want to have to send multiple texts every time I text over the 160 limit.<issue_comment>username_1: There is no way to increase the number of characters you can send via SMS. SMS (Short Message Service) is a fixed standard that is currently defined as a way of sending messages up to 1120 bits in length. This means 160 7-bit characters or 140 8-bit characters or 70 16-bit characters. More here <http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Message_Service>
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_2: I found that using a 3rd party messaging app would solve the problem! But then, the functions of the built-in Samsung Messages app would be gone. Such as the swipe to call and also my favourite feature, the quick contacts.
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_3: i think you are using s5 prime. With 160 sms limit.there's no way to increase it. But if you root your s5 prime to s5 It can be solve.
Upvotes: -1 <issue_comment>username_4: I had the same issue with my Samsung Galaxy S4. When I exceed 160 characters, it automatically converts the message type to MMS. I installed [Google messenger app](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.messaging) to solve this issue.
Upvotes: 2 |
2014/12/25 | 381 | 1,431 | <issue_start>username_0: I made a mistake... I incorrectly thought the "download manager" apk was a worthless Virgin Mobile stock one, so I deleted it. Well, I'm a bit wiser now, and I now know that the Google play store requires it. My question is this: is there a place where I can download the apk?<issue_comment>username_1: There is no way to increase the number of characters you can send via SMS. SMS (Short Message Service) is a fixed standard that is currently defined as a way of sending messages up to 1120 bits in length. This means 160 7-bit characters or 140 8-bit characters or 70 16-bit characters. More here <http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Message_Service>
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_2: I found that using a 3rd party messaging app would solve the problem! But then, the functions of the built-in Samsung Messages app would be gone. Such as the swipe to call and also my favourite feature, the quick contacts.
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_3: i think you are using s5 prime. With 160 sms limit.there's no way to increase it. But if you root your s5 prime to s5 It can be solve.
Upvotes: -1 <issue_comment>username_4: I had the same issue with my Samsung Galaxy S4. When I exceed 160 characters, it automatically converts the message type to MMS. I installed [Google messenger app](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.messaging) to solve this issue.
Upvotes: 2 |
2014/12/25 | 1,449 | 5,728 | <issue_start>username_0: My kids each recently got tablets, but I am struggling with setting up their accounts. I have 'temporarily' set the one up to have my google account as the account holder, because I was not able to 'legitimately' create an account for my child (younger than 13, so Google refused to create the account).
Now, I use my Google account as my primary OpenID authentication for many things, including here at Stack Exchange, and, as a moderator on one site, I have discovered that the tablet inherits the authentication from there, and my kid's tablet now has moderator 'permissions'. This is obviously untenable.
My questions are:
* do people just 'lie' on the google forms for account creation in order to create new accounts for their under-age kids?
* do you create a new google account with 'my' details and let the kid's tablet borrow them? (and, if I have a separate account do I need a separate Credit Card?)
* is there a system I missed when setting things up, such that you can avoid the trickery?
* if I want to install non-free apps on the device (to remove advertising, etc.) how does one go about 'adding' a credit card to an account like that? Can you use your credit-card on multiple accounts?
* if I buy apps now with my google account, and then later change accounts for the kids, will I have to re-buy the apps?<issue_comment>username_1: Usually we say "please stick with one question per post", as that's how a Q&A site works. But I see the topics somehow belong together, so let me try a "multi-answer" as well:
1. I cannot tell for other people. But I'd not even give my full/real details for my own account unless really required (and I don't see that requirement for Google)
2. No, I wouldn't do that. And for sure not bind a "credit card" to a kids account (unless it's a pre-paid CC especially made for the kid)
3. Never heard of such.
4. You can either take a pre-paid CC and load it just with a minimum (say, USD 10). Or you could simply use a "gift card", which are available here in Europe for EUR 15/25/50 (I assume similar values elsewhere).
5. Yes. Bought apps are always bound to the account you've acquired them with.
Upvotes: 3 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_2: Depending on the Android version you can setup the whole thing with your primary account. Then you create a second account on the tablet. Since 4.3 you have the choice between a full account and a limited account.
The limited account is controlled by the main account. For instance you install all apps as main user and then decide which ones are available for the limited one.
Only thing I don't know for sure is whether it also inherits the main accounts authentication and authorisation.
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_3: Yes, you have to lie.
A separate google-account is the only way to protect your under-age kid.
All other options have these restrictions:
* no privacy settings.
* apps using of private data can not be restricted.
* child can not install child safe games.
* child is not allowed to communicate with parent using text messages.
* child always uses parent account.
* only one age, so only one child possible.
* all data of child is lost when the child is allowed its own account.
* apps of all children are also your apps.
* child can not have contact information.
* you are not allowed to create a google+ page for your child.
* children receive all notifications. E.g. your private e-mail.
* etc.
I just found out again by not lying. All drawings, letters to grandma, games and in-game-progress, pictures etc are gone.
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_4: Have a look at this article on AndroidCentral. Restricted accounts, Family-friendly Play Market, parent apps are things to note there.
<http://www.androidcentral.com/setting-kid-friendly-android-device>
Upvotes: 1 <issue_comment>username_5: It seems that Google is starting a new program, [Google Family Link](https://families.google.com/familylink/), to meet this need. It basically lets parents create accounts for their children under the age of 13 and manage the accounts for them. [Here's the description](https://families.google.com/familylink/faq/?hl=en):
>
> The Family Link app from Google helps you stay in the loop as your kid
> explores on their Android device. Family Link lets you create a Google
> Account for your kid that’s like your account, while also helping you
> set certain digital ground rules for your family.
>
>
> With a Google Account, your kid will be able to use Google’s broad
> ecosystem of services for the first time. Here’s how it works: First,
> your kid will need a new device that runs Android Nougat (7.0) or
> higher. Then, download Family Link onto your device (Android or
> iPhone) and create a Google Account for them through the app. Finally,
> sign them into their new device, and you can then use Family Link to
> help you:
>
>
> * Manage the apps your kid can use - Approve or block the apps your kid wants to download from the Google Play store.
> * Keep an eye on screen time - See how much time your kid spends on their favorite apps with weekly or monthly activity reports, and set daily screen time limits.
> * Set device bedtime - Remotely lock your kid’s device when it’s time for bed, or time to take a break.
>
>
> If you’re a parent in the US with a kid under 13, you can request an
> invite to the Family Link early access program. After receiving an
> invite, download and try out the Family Link app.
>
>
>
Unfortunately, the program excludes people like me outside the US and those with non-brand-new Android devices (who buys an Android 7 device for their kids in 2017????), but I hope it will expand soon.
Upvotes: 1 |
2014/12/26 | 1,216 | 4,704 | <issue_start>username_0: Had a nexus 10 for nearly a year now. Before 5.0 came out w/e version I was on, the extra large images that I had imported from my computer to my nexus would properly resolve and keep their quality when I zoomed in. Now Post-5.0 my large images are just a giant blurry mess.
Any idea on how to fix this?<issue_comment>username_1: Usually we say "please stick with one question per post", as that's how a Q&A site works. But I see the topics somehow belong together, so let me try a "multi-answer" as well:
1. I cannot tell for other people. But I'd not even give my full/real details for my own account unless really required (and I don't see that requirement for Google)
2. No, I wouldn't do that. And for sure not bind a "credit card" to a kids account (unless it's a pre-paid CC especially made for the kid)
3. Never heard of such.
4. You can either take a pre-paid CC and load it just with a minimum (say, USD 10). Or you could simply use a "gift card", which are available here in Europe for EUR 15/25/50 (I assume similar values elsewhere).
5. Yes. Bought apps are always bound to the account you've acquired them with.
Upvotes: 3 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_2: Depending on the Android version you can setup the whole thing with your primary account. Then you create a second account on the tablet. Since 4.3 you have the choice between a full account and a limited account.
The limited account is controlled by the main account. For instance you install all apps as main user and then decide which ones are available for the limited one.
Only thing I don't know for sure is whether it also inherits the main accounts authentication and authorisation.
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_3: Yes, you have to lie.
A separate google-account is the only way to protect your under-age kid.
All other options have these restrictions:
* no privacy settings.
* apps using of private data can not be restricted.
* child can not install child safe games.
* child is not allowed to communicate with parent using text messages.
* child always uses parent account.
* only one age, so only one child possible.
* all data of child is lost when the child is allowed its own account.
* apps of all children are also your apps.
* child can not have contact information.
* you are not allowed to create a google+ page for your child.
* children receive all notifications. E.g. your private e-mail.
* etc.
I just found out again by not lying. All drawings, letters to grandma, games and in-game-progress, pictures etc are gone.
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_4: Have a look at this article on AndroidCentral. Restricted accounts, Family-friendly Play Market, parent apps are things to note there.
<http://www.androidcentral.com/setting-kid-friendly-android-device>
Upvotes: 1 <issue_comment>username_5: It seems that Google is starting a new program, [Google Family Link](https://families.google.com/familylink/), to meet this need. It basically lets parents create accounts for their children under the age of 13 and manage the accounts for them. [Here's the description](https://families.google.com/familylink/faq/?hl=en):
>
> The Family Link app from Google helps you stay in the loop as your kid
> explores on their Android device. Family Link lets you create a Google
> Account for your kid that’s like your account, while also helping you
> set certain digital ground rules for your family.
>
>
> With a Google Account, your kid will be able to use Google’s broad
> ecosystem of services for the first time. Here’s how it works: First,
> your kid will need a new device that runs Android Nougat (7.0) or
> higher. Then, download Family Link onto your device (Android or
> iPhone) and create a Google Account for them through the app. Finally,
> sign them into their new device, and you can then use Family Link to
> help you:
>
>
> * Manage the apps your kid can use - Approve or block the apps your kid wants to download from the Google Play store.
> * Keep an eye on screen time - See how much time your kid spends on their favorite apps with weekly or monthly activity reports, and set daily screen time limits.
> * Set device bedtime - Remotely lock your kid’s device when it’s time for bed, or time to take a break.
>
>
> If you’re a parent in the US with a kid under 13, you can request an
> invite to the Family Link early access program. After receiving an
> invite, download and try out the Family Link app.
>
>
>
Unfortunately, the program excludes people like me outside the US and those with non-brand-new Android devices (who buys an Android 7 device for their kids in 2017????), but I hope it will expand soon.
Upvotes: 1 |
2014/12/26 | 1,503 | 5,872 | <issue_start>username_0: **Summary**: I want to stream Google Play movie from Android to HDMI/VGA/Composite TV, possibly through laptop.
I have no idea whether it's possible or not but I'd really love some insight from some more knowledgeable people on.
More in depth: I have a Galaxy S5, unrooted, that I absolutely love. First smart phone, I've been living off of a talk/text only phone previously. I also recently came home for the holidays to discover that my sister hasn't seen the Lord of the Rings! I figured I'd be smart, and use my Google Play account (with all three extended editions) to stream it through my laptop, and laptop to TV. Well, the internet here is very poor, I guess my parents get about .6 MBps? Anyways, video streaming kept buffering/loading, so I tried to move over to my phone, which has all three already downloaded into internal storage. Couldn't find a way to stream from phone to TV, the USB port wasn't gonna work. I don't have an adapter, but I do have my laptop. I tried pulling the downloaded .wvm file from the phone, but because yay DRM, that's a no go. I've done some searching, and while the AndroidScreencast project seems promising, it says it refreshes at about 5 FPS, so not very good for media streaming.
So I have a phone, a laptop, and a TV. I can connect the phone to the laptop by USB or Bluetooth. Laptop to TV via HDMI or VGA. Is there any way I can play the movie on my phone, have it feeding the video to the TV/laptop, and then to the TV?<issue_comment>username_1: Usually we say "please stick with one question per post", as that's how a Q&A site works. But I see the topics somehow belong together, so let me try a "multi-answer" as well:
1. I cannot tell for other people. But I'd not even give my full/real details for my own account unless really required (and I don't see that requirement for Google)
2. No, I wouldn't do that. And for sure not bind a "credit card" to a kids account (unless it's a pre-paid CC especially made for the kid)
3. Never heard of such.
4. You can either take a pre-paid CC and load it just with a minimum (say, USD 10). Or you could simply use a "gift card", which are available here in Europe for EUR 15/25/50 (I assume similar values elsewhere).
5. Yes. Bought apps are always bound to the account you've acquired them with.
Upvotes: 3 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_2: Depending on the Android version you can setup the whole thing with your primary account. Then you create a second account on the tablet. Since 4.3 you have the choice between a full account and a limited account.
The limited account is controlled by the main account. For instance you install all apps as main user and then decide which ones are available for the limited one.
Only thing I don't know for sure is whether it also inherits the main accounts authentication and authorisation.
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_3: Yes, you have to lie.
A separate google-account is the only way to protect your under-age kid.
All other options have these restrictions:
* no privacy settings.
* apps using of private data can not be restricted.
* child can not install child safe games.
* child is not allowed to communicate with parent using text messages.
* child always uses parent account.
* only one age, so only one child possible.
* all data of child is lost when the child is allowed its own account.
* apps of all children are also your apps.
* child can not have contact information.
* you are not allowed to create a google+ page for your child.
* children receive all notifications. E.g. your private e-mail.
* etc.
I just found out again by not lying. All drawings, letters to grandma, games and in-game-progress, pictures etc are gone.
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_4: Have a look at this article on AndroidCentral. Restricted accounts, Family-friendly Play Market, parent apps are things to note there.
<http://www.androidcentral.com/setting-kid-friendly-android-device>
Upvotes: 1 <issue_comment>username_5: It seems that Google is starting a new program, [Google Family Link](https://families.google.com/familylink/), to meet this need. It basically lets parents create accounts for their children under the age of 13 and manage the accounts for them. [Here's the description](https://families.google.com/familylink/faq/?hl=en):
>
> The Family Link app from Google helps you stay in the loop as your kid
> explores on their Android device. Family Link lets you create a Google
> Account for your kid that’s like your account, while also helping you
> set certain digital ground rules for your family.
>
>
> With a Google Account, your kid will be able to use Google’s broad
> ecosystem of services for the first time. Here’s how it works: First,
> your kid will need a new device that runs Android Nougat (7.0) or
> higher. Then, download Family Link onto your device (Android or
> iPhone) and create a Google Account for them through the app. Finally,
> sign them into their new device, and you can then use Family Link to
> help you:
>
>
> * Manage the apps your kid can use - Approve or block the apps your kid wants to download from the Google Play store.
> * Keep an eye on screen time - See how much time your kid spends on their favorite apps with weekly or monthly activity reports, and set daily screen time limits.
> * Set device bedtime - Remotely lock your kid’s device when it’s time for bed, or time to take a break.
>
>
> If you’re a parent in the US with a kid under 13, you can request an
> invite to the Family Link early access program. After receiving an
> invite, download and try out the Family Link app.
>
>
>
Unfortunately, the program excludes people like me outside the US and those with non-brand-new Android devices (who buys an Android 7 device for their kids in 2017????), but I hope it will expand soon.
Upvotes: 1 |
2014/12/26 | 1,595 | 5,820 | <issue_start>username_0: My app market (Google Play) has a problem. I can't install any apps on my phone (Lenovo, rooted) because of "There isn't enough space in the disk", but actually there is. After asking a friend, I moved apps to the SD card. After more tries, I understand that the apps are installed on the `/data` partition and when it is full, I can't install more apps.
When typing `df` I get:
```
# df
Filesystem Size Used Free Blksize
/dev 482.1M 128.0K 481.9M 4096
/sys/fs/cgroup 482.1M 12.0K 482.0M 4096
/mnt/secure 482.1M 0.0K 482.1M 4096
/mnt/asec 482.1M 0.0K 482.1M 4096
/mnt/obb 482.1M 0.0K 482.1M 4096
/system 885.8M 679.5M 206.4M 4096
/data 908.5M 825.9M 82.6M 4096
/cache 123.0M 4.0M 119.0M 4096
/protect_f 8.8M 4.1M 4.8M 4096
/protect_s 8.8M 4.0M 4.8M 4096
/mnt/cd-rom 1.2M 1.2M 0.0K 2048
```
I know from another app that there is more free, not mounted space.
How can I resize this partition? If more output is needed so tell me what to type. Thanks.<issue_comment>username_1: You should never ever resize any partitions on Android. That not mounted space might be something the device uses in something like an emergency mode to restore the device. Moving apps to SD does not do anything because the SD you are moving the files from /data/app to some hidden folder inside /data/media (your "SD").
You might want to either uninstall some apps, use some weird method to swap internal SD and your external SD or check if you had an app already installed and check for left files or folders in /data/data and search for the package name.
Upvotes: 3 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_2: As [username_1 correctly pointed out](https://android.stackexchange.com/a/92831/16575), *That not mounted space might be something the device uses in something like an emergency mode to restore the device.* More precisely: it not only *might* be, but it *is*. Your `df` output e.g. doesn't say anything about the `/recovery` or `/boot` partitions. And there are even more we are not aware of.
Another argument against re-sizing: You won't be able to install any Android updates anymore, as those often come as "images" to flash (replacing entire file systems) – which then no longer would match the partition size, causing the update to fail to flash at best, or bricking your device at worst.
If [app2sd](/questions/tagged/app2sd "show questions tagged 'app2sd'") no longer gives you enough freedom, you can take a look at [link2sd](/questions/tagged/link2sd "show questions tagged 'link2sd'") – which is able to not only move the *entire* app to your device's external SD card (App2SD only moves parts), but can even move more, such as their data files and libraries.
For some more background, take a look at the [link2sd tag-wiki](https://android.stackexchange.com/tags/link2sd/info), and also the [app2sd tag-wiki](https://android.stackexchange.com/tags/app2sd/info).
Upvotes: 3 <issue_comment>username_3: Sorry for the necropost, but there is and always has been a way to do this if a user wants to. The previous comments are correct, there are more "hidden" partitions present that are not easily seen or manipulated from Windows or Android local installs so what you have to do is have a look at the drive from an outside perspective using a tool that recognizes many file systems. In my experience the best way to do that is by using GParted (live image available [here](http://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted/files/latest/download?source=directory))
Use a tool such as [Rufus](https://rufus.akeo.ie/) to create a bootable USB stick using the GParted live image, and then boot to it (using a USB hub and OTG cable if necessary for keyboard, mouse, etc). I prefer the graphical interface, but GParted is also usable via command line. Once booted into the graphical interface (requires the user to type `startx` where prompted), GParted will automatically run and analyze all partitions and eventually give you a comprehensive display of their configuration. As it is Linux-based and you're automatically logged in as superuser you are now in full control as far as any hdd or partition in the machine (tablets, phones, PCs, size and shape doesn't matter) and you can see all hidden partitions. For the record GParted is intended for variations of x86 architecture but may work on other devices as well via built-in emulation so always worth a shot at least IMO.
With God-like power comes God-like responsibility so
1) I'm not responsible for what happens if this screws the pooch on you and
2) BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU DO INSIDE GPARTED. VERY VERY CAREFUL.
That said, if you find a partition while analyzing via GParted that is of any usable size which is marked as unallocated you can trust it. In my experience it sees all and I've never heard otherwise from anyone else. If there is space you can move it so that it's next to the partition you want to expand and then expand to encompass that space. I just did this last night on a Chuwi Vi8 that I no longer wanted Windows on (it came as dual-OS). I deleted the Windows partition and added it to Android's data partition, giving me 22GB of glorious, fully-usable space.
I found this thread while refreshing on all the steps needed and noticed that no method had been shared. I can attest it does work, but I only recommend it for advanced users and I can't say that it won't interfere with full-OS upgrades in the future as was already stated. Running GParted as a live Linux distro is a great tool that is very comprehensive and exceedingly powerful.
Upvotes: 2 |
2014/12/26 | 220 | 918 | <issue_start>username_0: I have my dropbox files in the /storage/emulated/0/cloudagent folder. Can I delete this directory from my phone? Will it affect my files in my dropbox?
Thank you!<issue_comment>username_1: Check the files inside that folder. If the files contain no important data then the folder of safe to delete. I myself do not have such a folder and Dropbox is working fine.
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_2: The cloudagent folder is used to sync imaged FROM your dropbox cloud account to your phone, so they are available in the image gallery.
If you are already syncing your phone to dropbox, then you will have 2 copies of each image on your phone - probably not what you meant.
You can delete the folder, but it will return later. You first need to disable cloud syncing - it is in settings -> cloud -> images (or something similar). Then you can delete the folder.
Upvotes: 3 [selected_answer] |
2014/12/26 | 231 | 969 | <issue_start>username_0: Hi I have a Galaxy S4 on Verizon. I,ve been getting ads popping up in front of various applications like messages, browser, email and a couple others.
What's the first thing I should look for to find the culprit?<issue_comment>username_1: Check the files inside that folder. If the files contain no important data then the folder of safe to delete. I myself do not have such a folder and Dropbox is working fine.
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_2: The cloudagent folder is used to sync imaged FROM your dropbox cloud account to your phone, so they are available in the image gallery.
If you are already syncing your phone to dropbox, then you will have 2 copies of each image on your phone - probably not what you meant.
You can delete the folder, but it will return later. You first need to disable cloud syncing - it is in settings -> cloud -> images (or something similar). Then you can delete the folder.
Upvotes: 3 [selected_answer] |
2014/12/26 | 317 | 1,309 | <issue_start>username_0: I am using Whatsapp on my android phone. Since the phone as Jellybean installed, it doesn't have "Move to SD Card" feature and hence all my whatsapp files such as Backup, Media etc were stored in Phone, which eventually consumes lot of space on the phone.
Since I would now be purchasing new phone (which has KitKat version), I would like to know how can I take backup of whatsapp so that the images taken within the backup are stored in SD card in new phone.
Please assist me.
P.S.: I know how to take a manual backup of Whatsapp on an Android Phone.<issue_comment>username_1: Check the files inside that folder. If the files contain no important data then the folder of safe to delete. I myself do not have such a folder and Dropbox is working fine.
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_2: The cloudagent folder is used to sync imaged FROM your dropbox cloud account to your phone, so they are available in the image gallery.
If you are already syncing your phone to dropbox, then you will have 2 copies of each image on your phone - probably not what you meant.
You can delete the folder, but it will return later. You first need to disable cloud syncing - it is in settings -> cloud -> images (or something similar). Then you can delete the folder.
Upvotes: 3 [selected_answer] |
2014/12/26 | 1,248 | 5,035 | <issue_start>username_0: My Asus ME302C tablet was giving charging problem lately and is completely dead now and not starting up. Around 5 days back, its charging got stuck at 55% and it never went ahead even after charging for 10 hours. I used it and then charged again and this time it charged few percentages and then stuck at 15%. My son then completely drained it out and the tablet powered off. I charged it overnight (the screen showed the battery symbol suggesting it is charging) but I was not able to start it.
I searched on internet and tried various options like:
- Removing battery connector (by opening up the tablet)
- Tickle charge, charging from PC usb port, phone charger.
- Pressing power on button for long time.
None of it worked. Every time i power on my tablet, it shows initial screen which says "Intel Inside" and then blacks out and shows battery symbol with indicators moving up/down as if it is charging.
I have charged it for long time now around 20-24 hours, but still same issues.
Any idea, whats wrong here:
- Is my battery dead or tablet OS is corrupted?
- Whats are the steps to go to Android recovery screen? Not sure if i can reach that screen considering it is not powering up.
I am out of warranty now as it started giving problem exactly after one year.
Thanks,
Ripan<issue_comment>username_1: It sounds like a hardware problem. A corrupt system would not result in your tablet instantly powering off. Your tablet is likely not getting charged (although it may be receiving power from the charger, it may be charging *very* slowly).
* Try different charging cables **and different wall adapters**. There may be loose wiring in one or the other.
* Check the charger port and see if there is any damage. There is likely to be undetectable damage as well, especially if you often move the charger cable around while it's charging (eg. resting on the charging wire, etc.).
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_2: I have had similar high power drain/not charging properly/poor battery performance issues with my own ASUS ME302C Tablet over the past few days as well and I noticed by looking at the Battery performance graph under **Settings > Battery** that the Wi-Fi was never turning itself off when the Tablet was in sleep mode even though I had set it up long ago to always turn off when asleep.
This problem has only started up in the past few days so I don't know (yet) if it's as a result of some recent software update/change made to the Tablet from Asus. To further complicate my own situation, I noticed during my investigation of this issue that the Asus charger that was supplied with the Tablet seems to have developed an intermittent fault where it won't charge at various times depending upon how the USB cable is positioned when plugged into it. It looks like a faulty electrical joint inside the USB socket on the body of the charger itself.
So having also gotten that 'red-herring' out of the way by using another USB charger that I have here, I then found out after lots of mucking around and trying out different things that I finally managed to definitely improve matters by:
1. Going into **Settings > Asus Customized Settings** and **unchecking 'Use Asus Quick Setting'**, then
2. Going back into **Settings > Power management > Power Saver** and **turned 'Smart saving' off**, then
3. Going down that same page to **Performance mode > Power configuration > Keep Wi-Fi on during sleep** and **selected 'Never'**.
I then rebooted the Tablet Off and On again before quickly turning off the screen by momentarily pressing the Power Button again and then immediately connected it to the charger and gave it an 8 hour long charge which has now restored the Battery state back to 92%.
When I looked again at the Battery performance graph after doing these Settings changes and this charging cycle I noticed that this time the Wi-Fi has indeed turned itself off whilst the Tablet is asleep just as it should have been doing all along. Don't you just -love- software controlled hardware...! :-)
Anyway, I hope that my workaround as described above helps you out of your predicament.
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_3: I had the same problem and discovered the problem is the digitizer board which the USB is attached to. I found one on eBay for $60 dollars and like magic, in twenty minutes it went from 80 to 100 percent while it was in use.
Out of desperation to fix my slow charging problem, I scoured the internet and one solution kept presenting itself, it's a hardware problem with the charging port. So I had planned to buy a new charging port and found them for under $7 on eBay. I don't solder very well, so I was dreading this process and then quite by accident I found the digitizer board which included a charging port. I was stoked, no soldering. It worked like a charm. You can save yourself some money if you can solder by just buying the port or else get a digitizer board. The part no is [CL-2E241819](http://www.ebay.com/itm/181675605694).
Upvotes: 1 |
2014/12/26 | 375 | 1,315 | <issue_start>username_0: I am trying to find the "message sent" "blip" sound specifically<issue_comment>username_1: All system sounds can be found inside the `/system/media` folder.
Different to the `/data` partition the `/system` partition can be read with normal user permissions so you can easily copy those sounds; you don't need any source code (whyever would you need code for that?).
If you'd like to get an application specific sound then open the apk as a `.zip`-file and look out for the `assets` and `res/raw` folders.
Upvotes: 1 <issue_comment>username_2: AOSP: The AOSP Messages source code is [here](https://github.com/slvn/android-aosp-mms), but the source code **does not** have a "sent sound" (nor any sound) because those sounds are in your *system sounds*. You can find them at `/system/media/` from a file manager like [ES File Explorer](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.estrongs.android.pop&hl=en).
New [Google Messenger](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.messaging): The sounds can be found by decompressing the [.apk](http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/messenger-google-inc/messenger-1-0-130-1616457-08-apk/). They are in `/com.google.android.apps.messaging/res/raw/`. All independent sounds are there!
Upvotes: 3 [selected_answer] |
2014/12/27 | 2,902 | 7,292 | <issue_start>username_0: i hope you can help me with the following problem
I was forced to update the newest version of WhatsApp (26.Dec 2014).
Whatever i tried, update has aborted.
**Error Message: insufficient space**
**Several apps are affected with same error Message.**
---
**System**
----------
Samsung Galaxy Note 1
CyanogenMod 10.2
Android 4.3.1
**Internal Storage: ~ 500 MB free**
```
Build: cm_n7000-userdebug 4.3.1 JLS36I d43c004b40 dev-keys
Build fingerprint: 'samsung/GT-N7000/GT-N7000:4.0.3/IML74K/ZCLP6:user/release-keys'
Kernel: Linux version 3.0.64-CM-g9d16c8a (build04@cyanogenmod) (gcc version 4.7 (GCC) ) #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Dec 14 01:28:24 PST 2013
```
---
**What i tried already**
------------------------
* googled and read similar question
* restarted several times
* deleted "WhatsApp\Media" (61 MB) and tried again
* tried "App Cache Cleaner"
* "wipe cache partition" in Recovery mode
* download and install from whatsapp.com/android/ (Version 2.11.481 / 18 MB)
---
**Update cancelled with same error message**
--------------------------------------------
* WhatsApp
* Chrome Browser
* Dropbox
* Facebook
* Google Maps
**Update successfully installed at same day**
---------------------------------------------
* Adobe Reader
* Trello
---
**What happens during install WhatsApp**
----------------------------------------
**ddms Log**
whatsapp.com/android/
Version 2.11.481
18 MB
```
12-23 23:23:51.905: D/lights(2225): set_light_buttons: 1
12-23 23:23:52.165: I/ActivityManager(2225): START u0 {act=android.intent.action.VIEW dat=file:///storage/sdcard0/Download/WhatsApp.apk typ=application/vnd.android.package-archive flg=0x1 cmp=com.android.packageinstaller/.PackageInstallerActivity (has extras)} from pid 2445
12-23 23:23:52.340: I/ActivityManager(2225): Start proc com.android.packageinstaller for activity com.android.packageinstaller/.PackageInstallerActivity: pid=5172 uid=10034 gids={50034, 1028}
12-23 23:23:52.375: W/ActivityThread(5172): Application com.android.packageinstaller can be debugged on port 8100...
12-23 23:23:52.905: D/lights(2225): set_light_buttons: 2
12-23 23:23:53.500: I/AppSecurityPermissions(5172): Ignoring unknown permission:android.permission.INSTALL_SHORTCUT
12-23 23:23:53.505: I/AppSecurityPermissions(5172): Ignoring unknown permission:android.permission.STORAGE
12-23 23:23:53.510: I/AppSecurityPermissions(5172): Ignoring unknown permission:com.sec.android.provider.badge.permission.READ
12-23 23:23:53.510: I/AppSecurityPermissions(5172): Ignoring unknown permission:com.sec.android.provider.badge.permission.WRITE
12-23 23:23:53.510: I/AppSecurityPermissions(5172): Ignoring unknown permission:com.whatsapp.permission.BROADCAST
12-23 23:23:53.745: D/libEGL(5172): loaded /system/lib/egl/libEGL_mali.so
12-23 23:23:53.745: D/libEGL(5172): loaded /system/lib/egl/libGLESv1_CM_mali.so
12-23 23:23:53.750: D/libEGL(5172): loaded /system/lib/egl/libGLESv2_mali.so
12-23 23:23:53.750: E/(5172): Device driver API match
12-23 23:23:53.750: E/(5172): Device driver API version: 17
12-23 23:23:53.750: E/(5172): User space API version: 17
12-23 23:23:53.750: E/(5172): mali: REVISION=Linux-r3p1-01rel1 BUILD_DATE=Tue Jul 2 15:06:24 KST 2013
12-23 23:23:53.775: D/OpenGLRenderer(5172): Enabling debug mode 0
12-23 23:23:53.820: V/RenderScript(5172): 0x40048660 Launching thread(s), CPUs 2
12-23 23:23:53.845: I/ActivityManager(2225): Displayed com.android.packageinstaller/.PackageInstallerActivity: +1s519ms
12-23 23:24:11.570: D/lights(2225): set_light_buttons: 1
12-23 23:24:11.630: I/ActivityManager(2225): START u0 {dat=file:///storage/sdcard0/Download/WhatsApp.apk cmp=com.android.packageinstaller/.InstallAppProgress (has extras)} from pid 5172
12-23 23:24:11.880: W/InstallAppProgress(5172): Replacing package:com.whatsapp
12-23 23:24:11.915: W/ActivityManager(2225): No content provider found for permission revoke: file:///storage/sdcard0/Download/WhatsApp.apk
12-23 23:24:11.975: I/ActivityManager(2225): Displayed com.android.packageinstaller/.InstallAppProgress: +168ms
12-23 23:24:11.990: D/Finsky(2829): [1] PackageVerificationReceiver.onReceive: Verification requested, id = 1
12-23 23:24:12.030: D/Finsky(2829): [1] WorkerTask.onPreExecute: Verification Requested for id = 1, data=file:///storage/sdcard0/Download/WhatsApp.apk flags=18 fromVerificationActivity=false
12-23 23:24:12.570: D/lights(2225): set_light_buttons: 2
12-23 23:24:22.080: I/PackageManager(2225): Verification timed out for file:///storage/sdcard0/Download/WhatsApp.apk
12-23 23:24:22.080: I/PackageManager(2225): Continuing with installation of file:///storage/sdcard0/Download/WhatsApp.apk
12-23 23:24:22.130: D/Finsky(2829): [1] PackageVerificationReceiver.onReceive: Verification requested, id = 1
12-23 23:24:22.155: D/Finsky(2829): [1] PackageVerificationService.cancelVerificationIntent: Cancel active verification id=1
12-23 23:24:22.415: W/ActivityManager(2225): No content provider found for permission revoke: file:///storage/sdcard0/Download/WhatsApp.apk
12-23 23:24:22.415: I/PackageManager(2225): Copying native libraries to /data/app-lib/vmdl-1851828518
12-23 23:24:24.910: D/Volley(2829): [69] BasicNetwork.logSlowRequests: HTTP response for request=<[ ] https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/clientreport/download 0xc9395b26 NORMAL 8> [lifetime=8741], [size=2], [rc=200], [retryCount=0]
12-23 23:24:24.910: D/Finsky(2829): [1] 2.onResponse: Verification id=1 response=0
12-23 23:24:24.915: D/Volley(2829): [1] Request.finish: 8745 ms: [ ] https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/clientreport/download 0xc9395b26 NORMAL 8
12-23 23:24:26.795: W/NativeHelper(2225): Could not delete native binary: /data/app-lib/com.whatsapp-2/libwhatsapp.so
12-23 23:24:26.795: W/NativeHelper(2225): Could not delete native binary: /data/app-lib/com.whatsapp-2/libqcom.so
12-23 23:24:26.795: E/PackageManager(2225): Cannot rename native library directory /data/app-lib/vmdl-1851828518 to /data/app-lib/com.whatsapp-2
12-23 23:24:26.800: W/PackageManager(2225): Invalid verification token 1 received
```<issue_comment>username_1: As stated in your log the system is unable to delete certain library files. Because of that it thinks that you do not have enough storage (as deleting a file is considered writing it) and cancels the installation.
If your device is rooted, I would suggest you delete those libraries or fix their permissions/owner and try installing again. If that doesn't work you need to completely format (not delete everything but create a whole new filesystem, referring to the procedure of wiping partitions with CWM recovery) your `/data` partition to fix that problem because not even root would be able to solve that problem (I had this with Shazam once).
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_2: I recognized all affected apps are on internal storage. This problem may occur in the following circumstances:
* Removing battery when the phone is on
* Corrupted battery, instant shutdown of your phone.
Solution:
1. Download and install [SystemCleanup](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.SystemCleanup.Inteks.org) (need root)
2. Delete dead data folder for each affected app
3. Try to update again and it will work!
Upvotes: 2 [selected_answer] |
2014/12/27 | 564 | 2,315 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a `Android 4.4.2` tablet here and I am trying to use ADB with it, So I launch ADB on my PC and it opens and says 'No device found'. I have the `USB Debugging` enabled in the `Developer Settings` so why wont my PC recognise it?
UPDATE: When I first connected it to my Windows 8.1 PC it said installing device and it then said finished, So if I need drivers do I have to get different ones?<issue_comment>username_1: You have to install all required drivers for your PC to actually recognize your device in debugging mode. Most manufacturers softwares install those drivers and use them on their own (to do certain functions inside the program).
Usually closing that program and all related services is enough to use the drivers together with ADB.
This works like this at least for all my Samsung devices.
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_2: After researching more online here is the answer:
1. [Download the Android SDK](http://developer.android.com/sdk/)
2. Extract the zip archive and locate 'android-sdk-windows\SDK Manager.exe'
3. Launch that exe and select 'Android SDK Platform-tools' and at the bottom under extras select 'Google USB Driver' then click on install packages
4. After they have finished downloading, locate 'android-sdk-windows\extras\google\usb\_driver\android\_winusb.inf' and right click it then select 'Install', click OK on the next couple of windows
5. Plug your android in and turn on 'Usb debugging' from the developer options in settings (On your android)
6. Go back to your pc and open the start menu and search for 'Device Manager' (Windows 8 users can right click the start icon and click on device manager)
7. Now locate a device with the name 'MTP' under 'Other devices' (It could have a different name)
8. Right click it and select 'Update Driver Software' then 'Browse my computer for driver software' then 'Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer'
9. Click Android Device, Then 'Android ADB Interface' then click on next
10. Check to see if it works by going to 'android-sdk\platform-tools\', hold down shift and right click and then select 'Open Command WIndow Here'. CMD comes up, now type `adb devices`, If your device appears then its working, if not, then repeat steps 3-10 again
Upvotes: 2 [selected_answer] |
2014/12/27 | 1,475 | 5,482 | <issue_start>username_0: I broke my cellphone which had the Google Authenticator app and several other accounts attached to it for two factor authentication like Dropbox, Evernote, AWS, etc. Now I got a new phone and installed the Google Authenticator app on it as per the instructions given here - <https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185834?hl=en#phone>
But now in this app I don't see codes for other accounts (Dropbox, Evernote, etc.). Is there a way to get all of them migrated to this new app or I need to recreate them?
Also, if I need to recreate them, how do I do it, because Evernote won't even let me sign in from any device w/o two factor authentication code.
I can use backup codes for some accounts, but I don't have backup codes for all of them?
Please provide some suggestions. Thank you.<issue_comment>username_1: This is actually what you have to use backup codes for.
If you can still access your old device and it's rooted you can [backup the database](https://android.stackexchange.com/a/86861/86592) and restore it on your new phone.
However, if you can no longer access your old phone and you do not have recovery codes you have to contact their support and sort it out with them.
This is the purpose of two-factor authentication, if the second factor is inaccessible you can no longer access your account. If someone knows your password they can't do anything without your phone aswell.
This is also why services like authy are really sketchy due to the second factor not being offline-only.
Upvotes: 3 <issue_comment>username_2: Here is what I did when I migrated to a new device:
1. Install the Authenticator App on the new device
2. Go to the [2-step verification site](https://accounts.google.com/b/0/SmsAuthSettings#devices)
3. I then clicked on "Switch to SMS/voice"
* You can try to click on "move to a different phone"
1. I then had authenticator text me the verification code so I could sign in with my google account on the phone.
4. I then opened the authenticator app and set it up like it was the "first time" I used 2-step authentication.
5. Visit the "[Help Page](https://www.evernote.com/TwoStepHelp.action?pretty=true&targetUrl=)" in evernote to see if you can gain access without a backup code. When you first enable 2-step in evernote, they require you to get a text message before you can enable authenticator app. So if I lose my backups, I can still gain access by having them SMS a code to my phone. Or, if that fails, and I don't have codes, I can try and contact support.
After signing up, I logged out, then logged back in. On the page to enter the code, I clicked on "I need help getting a verification code".
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_3: If you have a backup application, you may be able to back up the app's data, sync it to the cloud, and restore it on the other device. The one time I tried that it just made Authenticator crash on startup.
If you saved the secret keys you're given, which is a good idea as long as they're secure and separate from your passwords, you can re-enter them on a new phone by finding a secure QR-code generator (a local or JS-based one that doesn't send the data to any server) and formatting each one like this:
```
otpauth://totp/LABEL:USERNAME?secret=SECRET&issuer=ISSUER&counter=N
```
Turn that into a QR-code and Authenticator will scan it. Or find a tool that will do both:
<http://dan.hersam.com/tools/gen-qr-code.html>
If you have any "counter" based codes, you'll need to know how many times you used it, which could be problematic, but those are fairly rare.
If you didn't save the secrets, your only option is to recover the database from the application, either from a backup or directly from the device. It's under:
```
data\com.google.android.apps.authenticator2\databases\databases
```
You can open that up with `sqlite3.exe` or any SQLite UI.
```
sqlite> .headers on
sqlite> select * from accounts;
```
You'll get a table with the secrets, counters, etc., that you need to use.
If you can't get the database from authenticator, then you have no choice but to use whatever mechanism is available for each site. It's very rare that a site will ever give you the secret for a second time, generally the best you can do is get in some other way, disable 2FA and re-enable it with a new secret.
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_4: As of April 23, 2020, Google Authenticator was updated to version 5.10 with a new feature:
>
> What's new
>
>
> * Added the ability to transfer accounts to a different device, e.g. when switching phones
> * [...]
>
>
>
This feature allows to transfer (and possibly long-term backup?) selected accounts with QR code. **Note that this approach only works if the source device is still working.**
To export the accounts:
1. Open Google Authenticator app
2. Tap the overflow (3 vertical dots) menu on the top right
3. Select "Transfer accounts"
4. Select "Export accounts"
5. Verify yourself on the lock screen
6. Select accounts to be exported (default: all)
7. Tap the "Next" button
8. The QR code will be generated and shown
To import the accounts:
1. Open Google Authenticator app
2. Tap the overflow (3 vertical dots) on the top right
3. Select "Transfer accounts"
4. Select "Import accounts"
5. Press the "Scan QR code" button
6. Scan the QR code
Upvotes: 2 |
2014/12/27 | 439 | 1,561 | <issue_start>username_0: I have recently updated my Nexus 7 to Android 5.0.1 and I found that the Gallery app is missing. Is it possible to restore it?<issue_comment>username_1: The gallery app has been removed from Android 5.0 Lollipop. You can search google play for a gallery app ([cyanogen team has one](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cyngn.gallerynext)), or you can use the photos app that comes with [Google+](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.plus). This is what [Google wants you to use](http://www.androidcentral.com/where-did-gallery-go-after-lollipop-update).
>
> The Photos app is actually just part of the Google+ app (and therefore part of the Google applications suite) with its own icon in the app drawer. It identifies itself as a photo-handling app and can work with whatever camera app you have installed. Photos has also been updated far more often than the Gallery app has as well, meaning you're more likely to have updated design and features.
>
>
>
Upvotes: 3 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_2: [username_1 has already explained the reason and the alternative](https://android.stackexchange.com/a/92924/44325), but if you really want to use AOSP (Android stock) gallery, then you might be interested to check these apps, which are based on AOSP source code:
* [Gallery KitKat: Nexus Gallery](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.radcam.gallery)
* [Gallery KK - Gallery ICS](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.moblynx.galleryics)
Upvotes: 1 |
2014/12/27 | 562 | 2,039 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to write a script to update the Android SDK platform tools and I need the command if available to run in order to achieve this. What I have found is that I can use the Android command under the `/tools` directory to update the software (images, sources, etc.), but nothing to update the tools themselves.
The guide on [Factory Images for Nexus Devices](https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images) says that I must be sure I have the latest tools
>
> Be sure that you have the latest version of the Android SDK Platform-tools from the SDK Manager.
>
>
>
So, is it possible? If it is, how to do that?<issue_comment>username_1: After further research, I came across this [article](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10712812/how-to-update-android-platform-tools-in-a-headless-linux) from Stack Overflow
that explains it and states that the Android command that can be used to update the `platform-tools` in the SDK directory.
You follow these instructions as shown on the above link
>
>
> ```
> $ android list sdk
> $ android update sdk --no-ui --filter 1,platform-tools
>
> ```
>
> The first command lists the available packages that are still to be
> installed (indexed by number), as for example:
>
>
>
> ```
> Packages available for installation or update: 9
> 1- Android SDK Tools, revision 19
> 2- Android SDK Platform-tools, revision 11
> ...
>
> ```
>
> According to that list, you can issue the second command to install
> the packages that you want to install.
>
>
> The `--filter` option limits the update to the packages that you want to
> install. You specify those packages in a comma-separated format. Also,
> you can filter them by the index number provided in the listing
> resulting from the first command.
>
>
>
Upvotes: 3 <issue_comment>username_2: Use of `android` tool is deprecated; instead use `sdkmanager`:
```
androidsdk/tools/bin/sdkmanager --update
```
<https://developer.android.com/studio/command-line/sdkmanager.html>
Upvotes: 3 |
2014/12/27 | 652 | 2,472 | <issue_start>username_0: I just got a new android phone running 4.4.2 as an interim before I buy another phone. After factory reset, I tried to install Whatsapp. This was the first app that I tried to install and it failed after downloading saying that there was insufficient storage available. I tried doing it multiple times - to the same result.
Free internal memory - 1.1GB. Free phone storage memory - 1.3 GB. No other app apart from the inbuilt apps have been installed. Post this, I installed Facebook Messenger and it works just fine. I don't understand why Whatsapp isn't installing. Another messaging service called Hike Messenger also works fine. Please help!
Just tried installing "Advanced Task Manager" and "Advanced Task Killer" to the same result - insufficient storage memory.<issue_comment>username_1: I had the same problem for past few weeks. Following solutions worked for me.
It seems a bug in Google play store update.
1. Goto google play store in Settings >> apps >> all >> Google Play Store
2. Open by clicking the app
3. Then click Uninstall Updates.
Now goto play store and install any apps without getting "Insufficient Storage Available".
Upvotes: 1 <issue_comment>username_2: I face this problem many times due to facebook application. It automatically expands its size internally. i have taken some screen shots of this
Do check timings in them... Sometimes even like 5 min interval gap this problem used to occur. But imo you won't be having this problem as internal memory your phone has is quite large.
try this then--->
Settings-->Applications--> All-->
Find Google play store, Google play services and google play services framework.
Open each of them and click "clear data".
Now close every app. A restart Will be good not mandatory though.
Open google play store and "accept" agreement. You can download apps now.
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_3: Maybe there is a Dead Data Folder
Download and install **SystemCleanup** on Google Play
<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.SystemCleanup.Inteks.org&hl=en>
**ROOT ACCESS necessary**
**Delete Dead Data Folder for WhatsApp.**
[insufficient space while updating WhatsApp on CyanogenMod](https://android.stackexchange.com/q/92900/86559)
Upvotes: 2 |
2014/12/27 | 320 | 1,042 | <issue_start>username_0: Is there a possibility to sync my google+ photo albums to my Nexus 5?
My Galaxy Nexus, with the old gallery app, had the feature to "pin" albums locally to the device. My new Nexus 5, with the new photos app, dosn't seem to have this feature.
The photos app shows all my g+ albums, but always needs to load them from the web.<issue_comment>username_1: According to [this site](http://www.gplusexpertise.com/2014/11/photos-update-in-android-50-lollipop.html), it is (currently) not possible:
>
> You can view and manage your albums when logged in to the Google+ Photo app. We do not offer the ability to view albums offline at this time.
>
>
>
Upvotes: 2 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_2: Apparently it does not work for albums (at least with the Google photos app version 4.8.0.81189390).
I'm using this app as a workaround, because it allows to sync the albums for offline access.
Tool for Picasa, Google+ Photo
<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=larry.zou.colorfullife>
Upvotes: 0 |
2014/12/27 | 779 | 2,547 | <issue_start>username_0: The word "Demo" is visible in the center of the screen in a big red font at all times. It is there even when you play games or go to Play Store. The tablet is not a floor model nor in demo mode.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/c1XoG.png) [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/mJHDy.png) [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/eZMGM.png) [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ibYFw.png)
Screenshots (click images for larger variants)
How do I remove the "Demo" text from the device screen?<issue_comment>username_1: Precaution: Trojan reported in this file by MalwareBytes Mobile (from [comment](https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/92956/big-red-colored-demo-text-on-the-center-of-the-tablet-screen/93417#comment225542_93417)). Use at your own risk.
=================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================
---
From [YouTube video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuftLiwzeeI) posted on [Jose's comment](https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/92956/there-is-a-word-demo-on-my-android-tab-right-on-the-center-in-big-red-font#comment116620_92956),
>
> 1. Turn on the device.
> 2. Connect to your PC by the USB.
> 3. Download SystemPack.apk (original: [MEGA](https://mega.co.nz/#!4AEjGCAb!Hh3VDhsVs6zXdxYcLgEFMntl_vd7Iz4vofYGBGE29ew), mirror: [MediaFire](https://www.mediafire.com/?5jh9hj7lhb8p3zv)).
> 4. Copy the .apk file to a directory on your device's memory.
> 5. On your device, look for the .apk file using the files manager and install it by touching on it and following the given instructions.
> 6. Shutdown your device, wait for 30 seconds, and the "DEMO" text will be gone.
>
>
> Notice that the .apk file is like a "patch", so if you reset your phone into factory settings, the "DEMO" text will appear again.
>
>
>
**Disclosure:** The MediaFire mirror was uploaded by original poster of the answer. The file was uploaded as-is, without any compromise.
Upvotes: 1 <issue_comment>username_2: Im have this trouble - when DISABLE apps: **com.clouds.server** in system.
When I enable this app - inscription disappeared.
Also.. You Maybe disable/delete: **com.android.server**
Reinstall/Enable this app - can help you.
Upvotes: 0 |
2014/12/27 | 761 | 2,691 | <issue_start>username_0: Is there a way to tell android only to vibrate if there are no active notifications?
Example: I use telegram messenger, and when receiving a message the phone vibrates. Even so I do not use the phone in the meantime, it will vibrate again for each incoming message. This holds also true for email notifications, SMS etc. This is very annoying when you take part in Group chats in Telegram or WhatsApp, as in a short timeframe lots of messages can arrive.
What I want: I only want the phone to vibrate ONCE. I then know "okay, there is something new that i need to look at, but I am currently busy and will do it later". Until I do not check the phone, I do not want to receive any further vibrations (the led light on my MotoG is flashing already, telling me that there are notifications).
Can this be done?<issue_comment>username_1: Precaution: Trojan reported in this file by MalwareBytes Mobile (from [comment](https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/92956/big-red-colored-demo-text-on-the-center-of-the-tablet-screen/93417#comment225542_93417)). Use at your own risk.
=================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================
---
From [YouTube video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuftLiwzeeI) posted on [Jose's comment](https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/92956/there-is-a-word-demo-on-my-android-tab-right-on-the-center-in-big-red-font#comment116620_92956),
>
> 1. Turn on the device.
> 2. Connect to your PC by the USB.
> 3. Download SystemPack.apk (original: [MEGA](https://mega.co.nz/#!4AEjGCAb!Hh3VDhsVs6zXdxYcLgEFMntl_vd7Iz4vofYGBGE29ew), mirror: [MediaFire](https://www.mediafire.com/?5jh9hj7lhb8p3zv)).
> 4. Copy the .apk file to a directory on your device's memory.
> 5. On your device, look for the .apk file using the files manager and install it by touching on it and following the given instructions.
> 6. Shutdown your device, wait for 30 seconds, and the "DEMO" text will be gone.
>
>
> Notice that the .apk file is like a "patch", so if you reset your phone into factory settings, the "DEMO" text will appear again.
>
>
>
**Disclosure:** The MediaFire mirror was uploaded by original poster of the answer. The file was uploaded as-is, without any compromise.
Upvotes: 1 <issue_comment>username_2: Im have this trouble - when DISABLE apps: **com.clouds.server** in system.
When I enable this app - inscription disappeared.
Also.. You Maybe disable/delete: **com.android.server**
Reinstall/Enable this app - can help you.
Upvotes: 0 |
2014/12/27 | 672 | 2,287 | <issue_start>username_0: I found several pages that provide streams directly (e.g. [JaGledam.com](https://www.jagledam.com)) and in this example, the first two tabs require x-google-vlc-plugin to play the stream.
I can use the link with the Flash player, but I'd prefer to watch them via VLC (either VLC Player for Android or directly from the web page).
Is there any way to watch VLC streams from Android (if relevant, Nexus 5)?<issue_comment>username_1: Precaution: Trojan reported in this file by MalwareBytes Mobile (from [comment](https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/92956/big-red-colored-demo-text-on-the-center-of-the-tablet-screen/93417#comment225542_93417)). Use at your own risk.
=================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================
---
From [YouTube video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuftLiwzeeI) posted on [Jose's comment](https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/92956/there-is-a-word-demo-on-my-android-tab-right-on-the-center-in-big-red-font#comment116620_92956),
>
> 1. Turn on the device.
> 2. Connect to your PC by the USB.
> 3. Download SystemPack.apk (original: [MEGA](https://mega.co.nz/#!4AEjGCAb!Hh3VDhsVs6zXdxYcLgEFMntl_vd7Iz4vofYGBGE29ew), mirror: [MediaFire](https://www.mediafire.com/?5jh9hj7lhb8p3zv)).
> 4. Copy the .apk file to a directory on your device's memory.
> 5. On your device, look for the .apk file using the files manager and install it by touching on it and following the given instructions.
> 6. Shutdown your device, wait for 30 seconds, and the "DEMO" text will be gone.
>
>
> Notice that the .apk file is like a "patch", so if you reset your phone into factory settings, the "DEMO" text will appear again.
>
>
>
**Disclosure:** The MediaFire mirror was uploaded by original poster of the answer. The file was uploaded as-is, without any compromise.
Upvotes: 1 <issue_comment>username_2: Im have this trouble - when DISABLE apps: **com.clouds.server** in system.
When I enable this app - inscription disappeared.
Also.. You Maybe disable/delete: **com.android.server**
Reinstall/Enable this app - can help you.
Upvotes: 0 |
2014/12/28 | 1,151 | 3,572 | <issue_start>username_0: I have two .apk files that are supposed to be different versions of the same app.
What is the best way to check if they where both signed with the same key?
I want to make sure no mistakes were done and the newer version would be treated as an update of the same app.<issue_comment>username_1: You'd need to check two things:
1. whether the package names are identical
see: [Read the package name of an Android APK](https://stackoverflow.com/q/6289149/2533433) on our sister-site. In short: Run `aapt dump badging file.apk` and watch out for `package:`. If the package names are identical, it should be the same app – but it's still unclear if they are from the same dev and thus whether the "new one" would be considered a "valid update" – or the "signature check" would fail in that process.
2. whether the signatures match
This means, whether they are signed with the same key – which should guarantee they have been (created and signed) by the same dev, who should have kept his/her signing key secret. Again, see on our sister site: [How to view the identity of person who signed the apk on Android device?](https://stackoverflow.com/q/4324120/2533433) // [Getting certificate details from an apk](https://stackoverflow.com/q/11361452/2533433).
Note that the tasks described need at least a basic install of Android developer tools. `aapt` is even part of a minimal [ADB](/tags/adb/info) installation – `jarsigner` and `keytool` would need a more complete package (though if you're on Linux, `openssl` provides a different approach – details can be found in the linked posts from *Stack Overflow.*
Upvotes: 1 <issue_comment>username_2: For updating an APK file two properties must match:
1. The app package name (can be seen in `AndroidManifest.xml` after decompiling it)
2. The app signature must match (the used signature certificate must be the same).
The best way to verify a signature of an APK file and viewing the used signature certificate and public key to use `apksigner.jar` for the Android SDK (build-tools):
The following example executes verifies two versions of the Samsung E-Mail app using `apksigner`:
```
java -jar \apksigner.jar verify -verbose --print-certs "Samsung Email\_v4.2.74.1\_apkpure.com.apk"
java -jar \apksigner.jar verify -verbose --print-certs "Samsung Email\_v4.1.43-5\_apkpure.com.apk"
```
Each time you are getting an output like this:
```
Verifies
Verified using v1 scheme (JAR signing): false
Verified using v2 scheme (APK Signature Scheme v2): true
Number of signers: 1
Signer #1 certificate DN: EMAILADDRESS=<EMAIL>, CN=Samsung Cert, OU=DMC, O=Samsung Corporation, L=Suwon City, ST=South Korea, C=KR
Signer #1 certificate SHA-256 digest: 34df0e7a9f1cf1892e45c056b4973cd81ccf148a4050d11aea4ac5a65f900a42
Signer #1 certificate SHA-1 digest: 9ca5170f381919dfe0446fcdab18b19a143b3163
Signer #1 certificate MD5 digest: d087e72912fba064cafa78dc34aea839
Signer #1 key algorithm: RSA
Signer #1 key size (bits): 2048
Signer #1 public key SHA-256 digest: 0470be656b9375d253fbb94c3a87dc7040e2f2760c19c4292eb62cc68e02de4a
Signer #1 public key SHA-1 digest: df1e4fd4fc2ebfc187f79309dfc6a4c662bda4d0
Signer #1 public key MD5 digest: 7c6371f33db3b4361504cb13beb6e818
```
You only need to **compare the sha256 digest of the certificate** and/or of the **public key**. If for both APKs they are the same you can be sure that they have been released by the same person or company (as long as the app owner did not sell the app to someone else or the private key was stolen).
Upvotes: 2 |
2014/12/28 | 764 | 3,090 | <issue_start>username_0: In the [knowledge base of the Vaulty app](http://squidtooth.freshdesk.com/support/home) to answer this question:
Is Vaulty safe? they say that they modify the files and the files are safe.
I wonder if Vaulty is really safe and specifically whether this app uses AES encryption or not?<issue_comment>username_1: Vaulty is a private app and disclosing publicly the type of encryption they use would not be in their best interest.
Upvotes: -1 <issue_comment>username_2: Was curious so I downloaded the app and tested: pictures are saved in the apps data folder without any encryption.
Upvotes: 1 <issue_comment>username_3: First, I'd like to quote all texts from the [knowledge base](http://squidtooth.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/169619-is-vaulty-safe-),
>
> Is Vaulty safe?
> ===============
>
>
> Yes, Vaulty uses several advanced layers of security to protect your private media. Files are moved to a location that the gallery cannot view and are modified so that they are not able to be viewed without changing the file back. Vaulty's protection offers the perfect balance between privacy, security and speed.
>
>
>
As of current version (4.0.10 r3710), what the app is doing:
1. Move the file to `/sdcard/Documents/Vaulty/data` (can be changed inside the app) with `.nomedia` ("*Files are moved to a location that the gallery cannot view*")
2. Change the file's extension (`.vdata`) and obfuscate the filename (currently, no idea how it's generated)
3. Prepend `obscured` to the file ("*modified so that they are not able to be viewed without changing the file back*")
The app doesn't actually encrypt the file at all. The file's content is the same, but only prepended by `obscured` which make it invalid image/video file. The reason why this works is because of how image/video viewers work. They check the signature of the file, and if it doesn't match to any, they will think that it's an invalid image/video file.
The conclusion is:
1. Moving a file to a folder with `.nomedia` is only safe for device without file manager. However, anyone can download file manager. To make it worse, the file is saved on external storage which can be accessed when connected to PC.
2. If someone doesn't know that `.vdata` is Vaulty's data, then it's at least "safe", unless they analyze the content. However, if they know, then obfuscating the filename is actually not useful at all (any filename is valid for image/video). The only problem is to determine the correct original extension.
3. This is the main feature. I assumed Vaulty avoided real encryption due to speed, since en/decrypting a big file (especially, video) can be slow ("*Vaulty's protection offers the perfect balance between privacy, security and speed*"). Instead, it decided to only prepend a short text, which can be removed easily and considerably faster even on big file. However, if someone knows this, then they can remove it manually and retrieve the original file. From here, they can also determine the extension/file format based on the signature itself.
Upvotes: 2 |
2014/12/29 | 1,179 | 4,747 | <issue_start>username_0: There seems to be an issue occurring with mobile browser apps on Android and iPhone being redirected to advertising sites. This is interrupting the browsing experience.
The problem:
* A user visits a website on their phone in a current and up-to-date browser such as Chrome for Android or Firefox for Android, and a ***mobile ad*** is displayed
* The ad causes a redirect from the currently displayed website to spaces.slimspots.com
* The slimspots server seems to check if Javascript is active and then redirects to another ad, such as a competition webpage
Many users have reported this, both on the Chrome product forum and on the Apple forums, (links in the pastebin below) but nobody seems to understand what is actually occurring. People are doing unnecessary factory resets on their phones and complaining to various webmasters about the ads on their forums.
The behavior can be replicated in a desktop browser by changing the User-Agent to a Nexus 4 and reloading a forum thread on a website (eg. xda-developers) until an offending ad appears.
Since I can't create more than two links here without gaining more reputation, you can find some useful content in this **[pastebin](http://pastebin.com/vfKq9LcS "Pastebin")**.
Can anybody provide advice on how to suppress these redirects, without resorting to a non-stock browser?<issue_comment>username_1: First of all: **This kind of advertising should be reported!**
>
> *Can anybody provide advice on how to suppress these redirects, without
> resorting to a non-stock browser?*
>
>
>
It looks like they use a bug in JavaScript. Maybe report to ad provider or app owner for blocking.
How to reproduce this issue:
----------------------------
* If you use the preinstalled browser in Android, the [ad site](http://spaces.slimspots.com/mobiledirect/?uid=219&aid=17234&j=1)
opens "Google Play Store" and show you each time a different App.
[How can I sandbox untrusted user-submitted JavaScript content?](https://stackoverflow.com/a/12549277/3994378)
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_2: There's nothing wrong with the phone or browser, it's the wifi router. It's infected with malware - the DNS settings are changed to redirect to the malware sites.
1. Try visiting 192.168.1.1 wirelessly - you won't be able to.
2. Connect router via LAN cable
3. Hard reset the router
4. Manually setup the router (consult your service provider if you don't have the details handy)
5. (Important) Change the router admin password from the default "password" to something else. That's how the malware got hold of router.
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_3: Install Ad block plus browser, it will solve the issue in Chrome as well. This is the only thing that worked for me
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_4: I'd almost guarantee that neither is the router infected with malware nor has its DNS setting been changed/hacked.
I have eliminated this issue on sites where we have a MikroTik router by using a Layer 7 protocol filter as shown below. This doesn't help the devices off the WiFi network (obviously) but at least gives them some reprieve when they are connected to home and/or work WiFi networks.
Firstly, create the protocol definition:
```
/ip firewall layer7-protocol
add comment="Frigging javascript redirects on chrome browsers" \
name=Javascript_Redirect \
regexp="^.+(spaces.slimspot.com|mostawesomeoffers.com).*\$"
```
Now, to actually filter this traffic out
```
/ip firewall filter
add action=drop chain=forward comment=\
"Block and log Javascript_Redirect L7 Protocol" layer7-protocol=\
Javascript_Redirect log=yes log-prefix=JSredirect_
```
Other firewalls that have Layer 7 filtering capacity could also block these redirects in a similar way.
Upvotes: 1 <issue_comment>username_5: I don't know if it would be of any help for previous posters, but I found a workaround for the numerous redirect I was facing while simply trying to watch videos. You simply disable JavaScript and enable manually only the websites you want to access to. That way I am only getting one opened tab redirecting me to a blank page easily closed instead of dozens of consecutive page asking me if I really want to leave or telling me my phone is infected.
It is somewhat time consuming to add exceptions for websites I visit that use JavaScript, but if you are as annoyed as me about redirections it's a small price that greatly improved my browsing comfort. Just remember that if a page isn't loading you probably have to add an exception in your JavaScript site settings.
Just so you know I am nowhere near an expert in computer so this is only a solution I tried when I read here that it was a bug exploit in JavaScript.
Upvotes: 0 |
2014/12/29 | 235 | 1,018 | <issue_start>username_0: My phones internal memory is full, how do i move it to my secure digital card? How can i get
my files
off my secure digital card if i took it out wrong, I did a factory reset?<issue_comment>username_1: You need to use a file explorer to move files from internal memory to secure memory card.
You can download file explorers for free from play store. ES file explorer is a great one for example.
You can then cut and paste your downloads, media files, documents to your sd card. Your internal memory is displayed as sdcard0 and your external sdcard is displayed as sdcard1. They both will be present in /storage folder.
If you want to move app data to external sdcard, you need specialised application. Many such applications would need root access to function. Link to sd is a great app for this purpose.
Upvotes: 1 <issue_comment>username_2: You could just connect his phone to the computer and cut paste all the files from your internal sd card to your external secure sd
Upvotes: 0 |
2014/12/29 | 286 | 1,231 | <issue_start>username_0: I am about to try and root my Samsung galaxy note 4 and install TWRP recovery. I want to avoid any conflicting issues so I would like to know If I need to use CFs auto root first and then install TWRP recovery, or if I can just install TWRP recovery and root with that. Also is v3.10.0 the latest Odin version?
Also, will rooting and installing a custom recovery affect any phone features?<issue_comment>username_1: You need to use a file explorer to move files from internal memory to secure memory card.
You can download file explorers for free from play store. ES file explorer is a great one for example.
You can then cut and paste your downloads, media files, documents to your sd card. Your internal memory is displayed as sdcard0 and your external sdcard is displayed as sdcard1. They both will be present in /storage folder.
If you want to move app data to external sdcard, you need specialised application. Many such applications would need root access to function. Link to sd is a great app for this purpose.
Upvotes: 1 <issue_comment>username_2: You could just connect his phone to the computer and cut paste all the files from your internal sd card to your external secure sd
Upvotes: 0 |
2014/12/29 | 506 | 1,844 | <issue_start>username_0: I have the Samsung Galaxy note 4 for Verizon. I believe it is the developer edition because the model # is SM-N910V. I am trying to either install CFs auto root or install TWRP recovery and root from there. So far both fail in Odin. here's the log for Odin for CF auto root,
```
Added!!
Enter CS for MD5..
Check MD5.. Do not unplug the cable..
Please wait..
CF-Auto-Root-trltevzw-trltevzw-smn910v.tar.md5 is valid.
Checking MD5 finished Sucessfully..
Leave CS..
Odin v.3 engine (ID:3)..
File analysis..
SetupConnection..
Initialzation..
Get PIT for mapping..
Firmware update start..
SingleDownload.
recovery.img
NAND Write Start!!
cache.img.ext4
FAIL! (Auth)
Complete(Write) operation failed.
All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)
```
I did a samsung update the other day and went from NI1 to NJ5, i guess that is the update version. Does updating remove the unlocked bootloader? Do I need to factory reset to be able to install CF auto root and TWRP?<issue_comment>username_1: Samsung devices usually have *no* locked bootloader so you won't remove that. Official updates *do* however remove any trace of a working root.
Your device is nowhere near a developer device but more a custom device served with a custom firmware of Verizon noticeable on the **V** in your model no.
Because of that custom Verizon model it is possible that the bootlader may be locked as you can see in the log where it says `FAIL! (Auth)`.
This means you are not authenticated to flash anything on your device which leads me to the assumption that your bootloader is Verizon-specific and therefore locked.
Upvotes: 3 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_2: i got same problem on Galaxy s7 edge, and now this is solved :
Developer Option - on - OEM unlock - On => run odin again. Done.
Upvotes: -1 |
2014/12/29 | 166 | 686 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm getting a "cannot connect to the server" error when I try to use Hangouts on my phone. Every other Google app works. SMS works but not Hangouts messages. All my other devices work with Hangouts messages.<issue_comment>username_1: Go to Settings > Apps > swipe right to "All" > click the menu button of 3 vertical dots > click on "Reset app preferences".
Upvotes: -1 <issue_comment>username_2: It turns out that this issue is due to the restricted background data setting.
Navigate to Settings -> Data Usage
Find the following apps and make sure "Restrict Background Data" is switched off:
* Hangouts app
* Google Services
* Google Play Store
Upvotes: 0 |
2014/12/29 | 541 | 2,448 | <issue_start>username_0: I have two Google accounts - one personal, one for work. I added the work account last, and it seems to show up as the default for the OS and apps I install. I'd like the personal account, which I added first, to be the default Google account for he device.
Can I change this without having to remove both accounts and add them again in the opposite order?
Edit: to clarify -- while each app will ask which account I want to use, that isn't what I'm asking about. I'm asking if we can change which account the device assumes is primary, and therefor which account it displays first. One would think the first Google account added to the device would be the default, but instead it seems to use the last instead.<issue_comment>username_1: When you open the play store or any google application to choose between your logged in accounts swipe from left to open options and then touch on the account name of yours. You will then see all the accounts that you are logged in with. Now choose the one you wish to use.
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_2: All applications that use Android's internal Google Account system should ask you which Google Account they should use on their first run.
This includes games, but excludes websites as they do not use any Android framework.
Upvotes: 3 <issue_comment>username_3: Well your best choice is to backup the apps using a backup application and then switch account and restore the applications. The apps may ask you to choose account now, and you can choose the right one.
One more idea is to backup all apps and clean the data of the play store and Google play services and open the play store again. Now the play store will ask which account to sync with. You can choose the right account. What I don't know is how this will affect the other apps. They must get removed. So please backup first.
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_4: Each google app has a menú to choose the default google account you want to use. However since you added last tour business account, that modified your name in the contacts and therefore also on the account name in the Action Bar (TopMenu). So you might just want to modify your name in thr contacts to your name. I think this is what you are looking for.
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_5: I had to remove accounts until my preferred one was at the top of the list. I added a couple back and my new default wasn't disturbed.
Upvotes: 2 |
2014/12/30 | 382 | 1,526 | <issue_start>username_0: My tablet has a SIM card that gets data over AT&T's cell network. Once the connection gets going it works great, but connecting to the network takes about 5 minutes. This is strange because it only takes a few seconds for the tablet to determine that it can detect the network at full strength; it just takes a long time for the little "H" to show up next to the signal-strength icon, at which point data exchange can occur.
What can I do to accelerate this? I'm running CyanogenMod on a Nexus 7 2012 tablet.<issue_comment>username_1: Reason 1 :
H (HSDPA) signal requires greater strength and a mobile tower that emits 3G (HSDPA) signal. In your case ,the phone connects to a 2G mobile tower (near your vicinity) and then searches for a 3G signals ( maybe that tower is somewhere far)
Reason 2:
Cyanogenmod maybe designed in such a way that it first connects to 2G and then swithces to 3G. You might want to head on to their support page for further information.
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_2: I took this issue to my local AT&T store and had them look at the tablet. They inspected my settings and said they were correct. I had them give me a new SIM card in hopes that would fix the problem; this seemed to lower the connection time somewhat, but it would still take several minutes.
Eventually I factory reset my tablet and switched from CyanogenMod back to stock Android. That made the problem go away; data connection time is back down to a couple seconds.
Upvotes: 1 [selected_answer] |
2014/12/30 | 448 | 1,636 | <issue_start>username_0: I just bought an M8 android TV Box [here](http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/111521935877?_trksid=p2059210.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT) and as you can see, it has a remote QWERTY keyboard that i can't get to function properly...
I can use the touchpad (mouse) on it, but the keys in the keyboard just do nothing...
I've been messing with the input and language settings but nothing seems to work...
I dont think it might be a driver issue because the mouse pointer works...
What else can i do to diagnose the problem?
The box runs android 4.4.2
If any extra info is needed, just ask
Thanks<issue_comment>username_1: What input method is chosen? If you have chosen Google voice typing then the keyboard won't work.
Try choosing Google keyboard. If that is not working, try downloading a third party keyboard app from play store and choosing it.
For a bluetooth keyboard to work, you have to pair the device with your tv box first
Upvotes: 1 <issue_comment>username_2: hi just had same problem
first keypad coming up in japanese
went into settings
language & input
there was a check box next to japanese which was ticked
then of course i looked around checked some boxes and hey presto when i went back into apps the keypad not functioning
So back to settings
under keyboard & input methods there is a line Default click on this and make sure Harware is OFF
because I like an idiot had turned it on and it is only for Physical keyboard
silly me
hopefully your keyboard will be back
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_3: plug the USB for the remote directly into the M8 android TV Box.
Upvotes: -1 |
2014/12/30 | 560 | 2,204 | <issue_start>username_0: Unfortunately My android phone Sony Xperia Go with got locked. I gave this to a friend for use and he gave this to his friend. Now the problem is no one have any idea which gmail account is linked to this. Neither any one is taking the responsibility... well that's other problem.
I am writing here for help. If anyone can help in this.
The phone is not allowing to enter pattern now. It is asking for gmail account details or security question answer and don't have any of these.
I hope anyone could help me this.<issue_comment>username_1: If you don't worry for the data of your phone the everything will be easier.First of all turn off the device.Then open it again, wait 3 seconds and then press the power button and the volume up or down(the reboot may differ from phone to phone) Then, at the reboot you will be able to use it only with the up and down volume buttons.Reset the phone and everything will be deleted (even the password) For more information check here : <http://www.greenbot.com/article/2458403/how-to-perform-a-factory-reset-on-your-android-phone-or-tablet.html>
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_1: Do you have home button at your phone. If you have try to do the same but with power button and hone button.
Upvotes: -1 <issue_comment>username_2: The only way to solve this, because you don't know what account it is tied to is to perform a [factory reset](https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/6422/what-is-hard-reset-and-what-is-factory-reset).
The steps here are for Xperia P, which I think is the Xperia Go. If it's not, these steps may still work for that phone and other Xperia devices.
To boot into recovery :
1. Power off the phone
2. Wait for about 10 - 30 seconds after the device is off.
3. Power the phone back on and the time when you see your phone's LED notification changes to a color, start pressing either the Volume UP or Volume Down button a couple of times to make your phone boot into recovery mode. *If it doesn't go into recovery here, turn off and try again.*
4. Once in recovery, use the volume up and volume down buttons to navigate to the Factory Reset option. Use the power button to select the item.
Upvotes: 0 |
2014/12/30 | 1,367 | 4,930 | <issue_start>username_0: I apologize if this is a duplicate, I can't find anything up-to-date that really helps answer my question.
I know this is nitpicky, but it's been a long battle and I am losing it.
For some time, I have been annoyed with the fact that you can't customize the android camera app's naming convention. My workaround, since the dawn of Dropbox camera upload, has been to use dropbox to upload and rename my photos (yyyy-mm-dd HH.nn.ss.jpg) and then use dropsync to overwrite the original file in my camera photo.
The problem I'm facing at the moment is that the camera in the hangouts app does not follow the same rules as the default camera app for my phone (Sony Xperia z3) so I end up with duplicates in my gallery of any image I happened to capture using hangouts instead of the camera. I could use the camera to take a picture and then share it using hangouts, but I decided instead to play around with Tasker and try to automate consolidating my images. (Another gripe I have is that Dropbox won't let me exclude folders, so I'd like to get rid of Camera Upload altogether and not have every screenshot I've ever taken backed up forever).
The directory for the default camera is [internal storage]/DCIM/100ANDRO and for hangouts it is [internal storage]/DCIM/Camera
I have a profile (below) triggered by the "file modified" event that will move the new file in the "Camera" folder into the "DCIM" folder. However, there is often a race condition, so Dropbox will upload the image before it is moved and again after. So my problem of duplicate images is not yet solved.
[
(click for larger version)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ur5vO.png)
I'd like to forgo the Dropbox/Dropsync combo and instead use Tasker to rename a file as it is added to either of the camera folders. I'd like to use the same naming convention that Dropbox uses, but I can't figure out how Tasker can access the EXIF data from the image to rename the photo to something like "2014-12-30 10.23.56.jpg".
So, as a tl;dr: I am using Tasker to move images captured from different apps into a common folder. Can anyone help me add a step to rename the file I am moving based on the date and time the image was captured?<issue_comment>username_1: Since you are using the "file modified" trigger (which should be instant at the moment the file is written,) you can use the current date and time instead of trying to extract the EXIF data from the images.
Tasker's [getFormattedDate](http://tasker.wikidot.com/getformatteddate) function will help with parsing the date/time and constructing the new file name. The only issue you might have is if the source folder contains more than one image. You can use a counter variable within your loop and append it to the end of the file name to mitigate that.
Upvotes: 1 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_2: Use Tasker's native Java calls
==============================
Java code
---------
Use [ExifInterface.getAttribute](http://developer.android.com/reference/android/media/ExifInterface.html#getAttribute(java.lang.String)) to solve this problem.
```
exif = new ExifInterface( %filename )
%datetime = exif.getAttribute(exif.TAG_DATETIME)
```
Implementation overview
-----------------------
1. Getting path of a .JPG from `%filename` Tasker variable
2. Construct a new `ExifInterface` class instance into `exif` Java variable
3. Get date & time by `exif.getAttribute` Java function, and store results into `%datetime` Tasker variable
4. Free `exif` Java variable
5. Check `%datetime` is set *(this is not set when .JPG is not contains EXIF info)*
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/0DRB7.png)
Step by step solution in Tasker
-------------------------------
1. Add a new **Code > Java Function** action
a. Set `ExifInterface` to **Class Or Object** *(or select by magnifying glass button)*
b. Write `new \\ {ExifInterface} (String)` to **Function** *(or select by magnifying glass button)*
c. Write `%filename` to **Param (String)**
d. Write `exif` to **Return {ExifInterface}**
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/JQwNs.png)
2. Add a new **Code > Java Function** action
a. Write `exif` to **Class Or Object** *(or select by coffee button)*
b. Write `getAttribute \\ {String} (String)` to **Function** *(or select by magnifying glass button)*
c. Write `exif.TAG_DATETIME` to **Param (String)**
d. Write `%datetime` to **Return {String}**
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/8WSGb.png)
3. Add a new **Code > Java Object** action
a. Left **Mode** on `Delete`
b. and write `exif` to **Name**
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/DrHrr.png)
4. Check `%datetime` is set *- I added a conditional Flash for show `%datetime`*
**Done!**
Upvotes: 2 |
2014/12/30 | 1,381 | 5,778 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a Samsung Galaxy S5 Active. My daughter just got a Dragon Touch tablet for Christmas, but we don't have wifi. I want to move the games that I've downloaded on my phone for her onto her tablet. She's six years old and driving me crazy wanting some games on this tablet. I moved the apps from my phone's device storage to a mini sd card. However, when I put the sd card into the tablet it is not showing the apps. The tablet shows that the appropriate amount of space is used on the SD card, but I can't seem to figure out how to open the apps or transfer them from the sd card to the tablet. Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong? Or am I trying to do something that just is not possible? Clearly I don't know a whole lot about technology. Please help.<issue_comment>username_1: Unfortunately, copying applications across from one device to another is not the same as installing them. Additionally, for the sake of security Android does not allow you to run programs from your SD card by default, so even if in theory the programs didn't need a whole lot of reconfiguration for your tablet, they still wouldn't run.
The easiest and best way to get the games onto the tablet would be via the Google Play Store, but you will need wifi on the tablet for that. One way to get this would be to share your phone's internet connection with the tablet, if you have an internet connection on your phone and if your hardware and/or service provider will allow you to do so. On my phone (Samsung Galaxy S3 GT-I9300), I go to Settings => Network Connections => More networks => Tethering and portable hotspot => Portable Wi-Fi hotspot. If you get this far on your phone, just go ahead and switch the Portable Wi-fi hotspot on with the slider, and follow the on-screen instructions to connect your daughter's tablet to the internet. (This also means going to Settings => Network Connections => Wifi on her tablet and looking for the share you just created, which by default is called AndroidAP). Then on her tablet use Google Play as normal to install the games.
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_2: If you can get access to internet to download a small file, download "ShareIt" application By Lenovo from Google PlayStore on both of your devices, once you did that you can easily move all your applications, pictures, videos, etc to your new device easily!
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_3: Your Galaxy S5 Active should be able to create a Wi-Fi network, and share its own cellular data. This is usually referred to as "tethering", or "mobile hotspot". The settings are different for various Android devices, and sometimes are a paid feature (or may be missing completely) depending on the carrier.
Generally, on Samsung devices like your S5 Active you can find it under Settings -> Connections -> Tethering & Wi-Fi hotspot. You can activate and configure it there, and then use your daughter's tablet to connect to the newly created Wi-Fi and access Google Play Store, or other app stores (like Amazon, for example.) Here is a [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jAZOWzXZjE) that shows how to find the settings.
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_4: You need to be clearer in telling what you want. If you are ok with downloading games from Playstore but don't have internet access (WiFi) you can do as username_3 said.
However this will not transfer the game from your phone to tablet.
If you specifically want to transfer apps from one device to another, there are a few options.
1. If your device is rooted, you can use backup applications like titanium backup. Then copy the backup folder to the new device and restore the apps using the same backup app.
2. Going by what you said, it seems that you have successfully copied the apk files into the sdcard. To install from sdcard you need to turn on ‘Unknown sources’ in the security setting.
To do that go to settings→ security→ unknown sources. This option must be ticked.
3. If your tablet does not show those apps, check if your phone or computer shows it. If those apps are seen in the computer, then you can install those apps from computer using adb command.
To set up adb please follow this site: <http://androidforums.com/threads/tutorial-how-to-set-up-adb.603700/>
Make sure adb recognizes your tablet and android debugging is turned on.
To install the apps, go to the folder where the apps are and open a command prompt or terminal (I am assuming your adb is in the environmental paths) and type
adb install \*.apk
where \*.apk is the name of your app.
Following methods 2 and 3 will give you a fresh install of your apps. No data will be restored.
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_5: Download an application "Zapya" ...
on both of the devices and intall it.Connect both the devices using Zapya and you will be able to send or recieve files between both of the devices.
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_5: Their is an alternative too...
Download the application "Xender".It is also easy to use.connect both the devices using Xender and you will be able to share files between the two devices.
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_6: If your phone has a mobile hotspot then turn it on.
(If you don't don't read this)
Connect the tablet to the phoes hotspot.
Then from there you can download any game if have purchased any games see how to get them on to the tablet for free
First download ES File Explore File Manager on both devices then open it on both devices.
On your phone go to user apps.
Pick the apps you want to download on the tablet and the hit the button that says more in more hit send when you see the tablet click it on the tablet it will come up with a sigh saying download the files hit OK and they will download on your tablet
Thanks
Upvotes: 1 |
2014/12/30 | 349 | 1,331 | <issue_start>username_0: Hi I would like to know if the factory images for the Nexus found on this link [Nexus images](https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images) can also be flashed onto other devices other than the nexus devices only maybe other LG phones or SAMSUNG phones<issue_comment>username_1: No they wont work on devices other than nexus because nexus uses pure android while OEMs uses modified android.
Upvotes: -1 <issue_comment>username_2: Short answer, No.
Nexus images are built for the specific hardware in the device. This is true for all devices, even variants of the same device. For example, You may not be able to install a ROM that is for the LG G3 D855, the international version of the device, on the LG G3 D851, the T-mobile version. Even though the D851 and the D855 are very close to being the exact same device. They are even closer than the D850 (AT&T version) and the D851 are to each other.
Even the slightest hardware differences requires different drivers and configurations. For this reason, it requires the manufacturers (or ROM developer) to build specifically for a device.
See [can I flash nexus factory image to any tablet](https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/69135/can-i-flash-nexus-factory-image-to-any-tablet?rq=1) as it is related as well.
Upvotes: 3 [selected_answer] |
2014/12/30 | 939 | 3,805 | <issue_start>username_0: I just got a new phone but when I try to download something it says insufficient space but my sd card has plenty. How do I fix this?<issue_comment>username_1: Your SD card can be as big as possible, but Android won't use it. It's not safe for Android to assume your external SD card is always accessible.
Depending on your Android version, your internal storage is shared with your device storage i.e: Applications will not use less storage even if you move them to your SD card.
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_2: You can try the following;
1. Clear cache or app data.
2. Uninstall unused app.
3. Root your device and use link2sd
4. If your device used MTK processor, try to repartition your internal storage.
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_3: You may put your SD card to another phone. If it doesn't work either,then it means that your SD card may be crashed. In this way, you have to format the SD card and replug it to check it out. Make sure you have tick " Save new apps to SD card"option on your phone. Hope this can help you.
Upvotes: -1 <issue_comment>username_4: When you find some app on google-play-store and install it, the apk is downloaded to /data/local, i.e. to your internal-storage. You can't change that. Its after this your settings come into picture, your if have set to install it on sdcard it installs to sdcard.
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_5: I did this steps in my Zenfone 5, so I'm pretty sure it'll work. (WARNING : You will void your warranty!)
1. Root your device. Then I suggest to take a full backup with Titanium Backup.
2. Repartition your SD card, add 1 ext3 or ext4 partition. You can use TWRP or CWM. (WARNING : It will destroy your SDcard contents! Make a backup first!)
3. Install Link2SD from Play Store. Select your second partition type, based on what you choose at step 2.
4. Open settings, look for auto link, enable. (Can't remember the exact name ...)
5. If you want, you can link already installed apps to your sdcard.
After this, when you installed new application, it will be symlinked to your sdcard's second partition.
Enjoy extra space.
Or better, remove all bloatware with titanium backup. Or use unbloated custom rom.
Your choice. Your warranty has been voided anyway.
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_6: If you have a newer version of android, you can format the SD card to act as internal storage. This essentially acts as additional internal storage and can be extended to whatever your phone is capable of supporting. This should solve your storage issue.
If you have a phone with an android version not compatible with this, you may be able to move some apps that are taking a lot of space, however they will open a lot slower once they're on your external memory.
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_7: This occurs due to lack of space in your device. If you transfer data in your phone (Apps, Images, Music files, etc.) into the SD card space will be free on your device and then you can install more apps.
In the following way you can transfer applications into your SD card.
>
> Settings → Apps → On SD Card → Select the app → Move to SD Card
>
>
>
In this way you can transfer the installed apps in your phone to the SD card. Then you'll be able to install apps. Do the same thing for newly installed apps too to make sure you have enough space in your phone at anytime.
Note that "If you remove the SD card then the apps transferred into the SD card will not work"
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_8: From the settings you will have to go to storage settings and then you will have to enable the sd card storage which would probably allow you to install all the apps and other downloads easily on sd card nd I would also prefer to buy an card with larger space in it.
Upvotes: 0 |
2014/12/31 | 293 | 1,274 | <issue_start>username_0: I am being told by my device (HTC one E8) that the camera flash (and thereby flashlight app) and portable wifi hotspot cannot work at the same time.
I dont see any logical connection between the two, question is can anyone explain the reason this is happening and any workarounds/alternatives<issue_comment>username_1: Both of those functions consume a large amount of energy. The phone's processor and other components require a minimum amount of energy to remain stable. The battery can only output so much at a time. The phone is not letting you use both simultaneously time to avoid a "brown-out" and potential crash or other failure (perhaps it is unsafe for the battery as well, overheating is dangerous). Many phones also restrict the use of the flash when battery power is very low.
If you use a third party flashlight app, you *may* be able to bypass the restriction. I know I can, however my phone is also rooted which makes everything easier.
Upvotes: 2 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_2: Wi-Fi and Bluetooth for my HTC One E9 cannot function unless I install a flash light app. I don't know how they are related,but have read several articles advising users to install the app as solution to faulty Wi-Fi.it works
Upvotes: 0 |
2014/12/31 | 362 | 1,471 | <issue_start>username_0: I have 1 month old S4 mini with 32 gb of internal storage. . I have only installed 3 apps on it and now it tells me it has insufficient internal memory to install any more. I have 20 photos on it and no contacts. When I go to the storage section of the settings it tells me I have 32.00 of total space and 31.87 gb of available space. It says there is only 185 mb of apps and 13.63 kb of cached data. How can I correct this problem and download more apps? I do not have an sd card installed.<issue_comment>username_1: Both of those functions consume a large amount of energy. The phone's processor and other components require a minimum amount of energy to remain stable. The battery can only output so much at a time. The phone is not letting you use both simultaneously time to avoid a "brown-out" and potential crash or other failure (perhaps it is unsafe for the battery as well, overheating is dangerous). Many phones also restrict the use of the flash when battery power is very low.
If you use a third party flashlight app, you *may* be able to bypass the restriction. I know I can, however my phone is also rooted which makes everything easier.
Upvotes: 2 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_2: Wi-Fi and Bluetooth for my HTC One E9 cannot function unless I install a flash light app. I don't know how they are related,but have read several articles advising users to install the app as solution to faulty Wi-Fi.it works
Upvotes: 0 |
2014/12/31 | 374 | 1,571 | <issue_start>username_0: [This guide](http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1818321) describes how to make full backup of whole memory block.
My N5 is encrypted with Android 5.0. As far as I understand new mechanism, it envolves dependency on some external data taken from separate hardware component (part of encryption key). Is it guaranteed that it will not altered after I factory reset and flash Android 4.4 ? And even if it's ok, is it possible finally to restore such backup ? (May be /dev/mmcblck0 is read-only or otherwise restricted due to way hardware-accelerated encryption/decryption works.)<issue_comment>username_1: Both of those functions consume a large amount of energy. The phone's processor and other components require a minimum amount of energy to remain stable. The battery can only output so much at a time. The phone is not letting you use both simultaneously time to avoid a "brown-out" and potential crash or other failure (perhaps it is unsafe for the battery as well, overheating is dangerous). Many phones also restrict the use of the flash when battery power is very low.
If you use a third party flashlight app, you *may* be able to bypass the restriction. I know I can, however my phone is also rooted which makes everything easier.
Upvotes: 2 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_2: Wi-Fi and Bluetooth for my HTC One E9 cannot function unless I install a flash light app. I don't know how they are related,but have read several articles advising users to install the app as solution to faulty Wi-Fi.it works
Upvotes: 0 |
2014/12/31 | 1,588 | 4,886 | <issue_start>username_0: I have tried kingoroot, Towel Root, Framaroot as well as WMShua to root Xolo Q1010i but at last stage the message "Sorry Root Failed" appears.
Kernel version : 3.4.67
Please provide me with other ways.<issue_comment>username_1: [Here is the info](http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2715830) I have found on [how to do this](http://androidxda.com/root-xolo-q1010i):
* Download and install [Framaroot](http://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/framaroot/root-framaroot-one-click-apk-to-root-t2130276) ([donation app](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alephzain.framarootdonation2))
* Open the application
* Select "Install SuperSU"
* Click on Barahir
* You will now see a popup. Reboot your device now and you are rooted
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_2: It appears that the mentioned Root apps are unable to find a working exploit for your device.
Did you try [Towel Root](https://towelroot.com/) yet?
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_3: After Successful attempt, here's the complete step-by-step procedure of rooting Xolo Q1010i.
---
**Root Xolo Q1010i Using Kingroot Android App**
---
* Download and install KingMaster, Kingroot and Kinguser android application from [official website](http://www.kingroot.net/down). The website is in Chinese language, but you can easily download using blue download buttons.
* Open Kingroot android app and click on green round button. Your device may restart.
* Now open KingMaster application from app drawer, you will get a pull down window! Click on root now button. You can also [watch video for the same](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF_NOQU9Cmc).
* After few minutes KingMaster will root your Xolo Q1010i **without** KitKat update.
---
**Root Xolo Q1010i By Flashing Pre- Rooted Android 4.4.2 KitKat Stock ROM**
---
* Framaroot will not work on our Xolo Q1010i after KitKat update. If you have stock Jelly Bean then you should use Framaroot method.
* If not then, First we need to flash custom recovery on our Xolo Q1010i in-order to flash Pre-Rooted stock ROM.
**Downloads:**
---
* [MTK USB Drivers](http://ge.tt/7nbYNYy/v/0) (Driver\_Auto\_Installer, 9.2 MB)
* [MT6582 Scatter File](http://d-h.st/aWU) (500 KB)
* [CTR Recovery for Q1010i Only](https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzOdJOMrMdywU2IwWmVtQlpNM00/view) (6 MB)
* [SP Flash Tools v3.1352.01 (5.1352.01)](http://d-h.st/w6v) (23 MB)
* [SuperSu Zip](https://download.chainfire.eu/451/SuperSU/UPDATE-SuperSU-v2.01.zip) (2 MB)
**Rooting Instructions**
---
* Download and extract all files. Place all Downloaded Files in the same place for easy access. I recommend you to turn off your antivirus to avoid permission related issues.
* Install The MTK USB Drivers on Your PC by Clicking on Install.bat in Driver\_Auto\_Installer\_v1.1236.00 folder.
* Open SP Flash Tools folder and click on flash\_tool.exe. In The Flash Tool window Click on Scatter-Loading, Select MT6582\_Android\_scatter\_emmc.txt and Press Open.
* In Flash Tool Window Tick **RECOVERY** and Click on the Blank Green Space Beside It and select recovery.img.
* Switch Off Your Device and Connect it to your PC. Now press on green download button at the top.
* The status bar at the bottom will Change it’s Color Red Then Yellow and Finally show a Download OK Dialog Box.
* Now disconnect your phone and close SP Flash tool.
* Press and Hold Volume UP and Power Button Together till it powers UP.
* Now your phone boots into Recovery Mode, In it Press Install Zip -> Choose Zip SDCard -> Select the SuperSu.zip You Placed Earlier in Your SDCard and Press YES to Install.
* On Complete Installation, Reboot Your Device, CONGRATULATIONS ! You’ve Successfully Flashed carliv recovery on your device!
**So now we need to flash Pre- Rooted Android 4.4.2 KitKat ROM into our Xolo Q1010i smartphone.**
* Download [Pre-Rooted Flashable Zip of Stock Android 4.4.2 KitKat ROM](http://d-h.st/5qB).
* Place SuperSu Zip (downloaded in first step) and Pre- Rooted KitKat in your SD Card.
* Goto Recovery Mode, Go To Install -> Install from SD -> Select the ROM File and press YES to Flash it and Do the Same for the SuperSu Zip after Flashing completes.
* Reboot, now you successfully flashed Pre- Rooted Android 4.4.2 KitKat Stock ROM on your Xolo Q1010i.
***In other words, now you have successfully rooted your Xolo Q1010i with Android 4.4.2 KitKat update.***
**Source** : [Brief-Tutorials](http://brieftutorials.com/how-to-root-xolo-q1010i-kitkat-android-4-4-2/).
Upvotes: 3 [selected_answer] |
2014/12/31 | 1,699 | 5,349 | <issue_start>username_0: Have a new zenithink C95 tablet.Getting insufficient storage space error when installing apps.Have 16 gig internal flash drive and 16 gig SD card which still have 12 gig and 14 gig still available.Have nearly a page of apps loaded.Going into storage menu there is a 1 gig partition that the apps are loaded into,which is now full.Even though it is advertised as having 16 gigs internal storage for apps ,music,videos etc,you can't get any more than 950mb of apps on it,which is pretty useless for a tablet. EBay supplier of tablet says they are all like this,but will try and contact zenithink for maybe a firmware update.
Any ideas on sorting this out?
Thanks steve<issue_comment>username_1: [Here is the info](http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2715830) I have found on [how to do this](http://androidxda.com/root-xolo-q1010i):
* Download and install [Framaroot](http://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/framaroot/root-framaroot-one-click-apk-to-root-t2130276) ([donation app](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alephzain.framarootdonation2))
* Open the application
* Select "Install SuperSU"
* Click on Barahir
* You will now see a popup. Reboot your device now and you are rooted
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_2: It appears that the mentioned Root apps are unable to find a working exploit for your device.
Did you try [Towel Root](https://towelroot.com/) yet?
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_3: After Successful attempt, here's the complete step-by-step procedure of rooting Xolo Q1010i.
---
**Root Xolo Q1010i Using Kingroot Android App**
---
* Download and install KingMaster, Kingroot and Kinguser android application from [official website](http://www.kingroot.net/down). The website is in Chinese language, but you can easily download using blue download buttons.
* Open Kingroot android app and click on green round button. Your device may restart.
* Now open KingMaster application from app drawer, you will get a pull down window! Click on root now button. You can also [watch video for the same](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF_NOQU9Cmc).
* After few minutes KingMaster will root your Xolo Q1010i **without** KitKat update.
---
**Root Xolo Q1010i By Flashing Pre- Rooted Android 4.4.2 KitKat Stock ROM**
---
* Framaroot will not work on our Xolo Q1010i after KitKat update. If you have stock Jelly Bean then you should use Framaroot method.
* If not then, First we need to flash custom recovery on our Xolo Q1010i in-order to flash Pre-Rooted stock ROM.
**Downloads:**
---
* [MTK USB Drivers](http://ge.tt/7nbYNYy/v/0) (Driver\_Auto\_Installer, 9.2 MB)
* [MT6582 Scatter File](http://d-h.st/aWU) (500 KB)
* [CTR Recovery for Q1010i Only](https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzOdJOMrMdywU2IwWmVtQlpNM00/view) (6 MB)
* [SP Flash Tools v3.1352.01 (5.1352.01)](http://d-h.st/w6v) (23 MB)
* [SuperSu Zip](https://download.chainfire.eu/451/SuperSU/UPDATE-SuperSU-v2.01.zip) (2 MB)
**Rooting Instructions**
---
* Download and extract all files. Place all Downloaded Files in the same place for easy access. I recommend you to turn off your antivirus to avoid permission related issues.
* Install The MTK USB Drivers on Your PC by Clicking on Install.bat in Driver\_Auto\_Installer\_v1.1236.00 folder.
* Open SP Flash Tools folder and click on flash\_tool.exe. In The Flash Tool window Click on Scatter-Loading, Select MT6582\_Android\_scatter\_emmc.txt and Press Open.
* In Flash Tool Window Tick **RECOVERY** and Click on the Blank Green Space Beside It and select recovery.img.
* Switch Off Your Device and Connect it to your PC. Now press on green download button at the top.
* The status bar at the bottom will Change it’s Color Red Then Yellow and Finally show a Download OK Dialog Box.
* Now disconnect your phone and close SP Flash tool.
* Press and Hold Volume UP and Power Button Together till it powers UP.
* Now your phone boots into Recovery Mode, In it Press Install Zip -> Choose Zip SDCard -> Select the SuperSu.zip You Placed Earlier in Your SDCard and Press YES to Install.
* On Complete Installation, Reboot Your Device, CONGRATULATIONS ! You’ve Successfully Flashed carliv recovery on your device!
**So now we need to flash Pre- Rooted Android 4.4.2 KitKat ROM into our Xolo Q1010i smartphone.**
* Download [Pre-Rooted Flashable Zip of Stock Android 4.4.2 KitKat ROM](http://d-h.st/5qB).
* Place SuperSu Zip (downloaded in first step) and Pre- Rooted KitKat in your SD Card.
* Goto Recovery Mode, Go To Install -> Install from SD -> Select the ROM File and press YES to Flash it and Do the Same for the SuperSu Zip after Flashing completes.
* Reboot, now you successfully flashed Pre- Rooted Android 4.4.2 KitKat Stock ROM on your Xolo Q1010i.
***In other words, now you have successfully rooted your Xolo Q1010i with Android 4.4.2 KitKat update.***
**Source** : [Brief-Tutorials](http://brieftutorials.com/how-to-root-xolo-q1010i-kitkat-android-4-4-2/).
Upvotes: 3 [selected_answer] |
2014/12/31 | 1,497 | 2,840 | <issue_start>username_0: I have Samsung Galaxy S Blaze with the following specs
* Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G SGH-T769
* Android version = 4.0.4
* Baseband version = T769UVMB1
* Kernel version = 3.0.8-perf-T769ULVH5-CL990184
* Model Number = SGH-T769
I am following [this thread on XDA](http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/general/result-usb-otg-ethernet-t2509382) as I had the same problem reported on page 4.
I am using AX88772 compatible USB to Ethernet adapter (pluggable USB 2.0) and have successfully compiled drivers for Android ICS. I have also put the `asix.ko` into `/system/lib/modules` directory and loaded it with `insmod`.
I have connected the Samsung phone with Inateck USB 3.0 four-port hub where I have also connected pluggable USB 2.0 ethernet adapter. But the ethernet is not working:
```
root@hammerhead:/ # netcfg eth0 up
netcfg eth0 up
action 'up' failed (No such device)
1|root@hammerhead:/ # netcfg
netcfg
rev_rmnet8 DOWN 0.0.0.0/0 0x00001002 72:21:40:52:3e:20
rev_rmnet4 DOWN 0.0.0.0/0 0x00001002 9e:5b:78:bd:4b:89
rev_rmnet2 DOWN 0.0.0.0/0 0x00001002 a6:e7:62:d2:fc:c5
rev_rmnet3 DOWN 0.0.0.0/0 0x00001002 8e:9d:a8:c7:cc:94
rev_rmnet7 DOWN 0.0.0.0/0 0x00001002 ea:82:2f:72:9d:fc
rev_rmnet5 DOWN 0.0.0.0/0 0x00001002 82:db:fe:b7:a9:1d
rev_rmnet6 DOWN 0.0.0.0/0 0x00001002 be:db:eb:ab:b3:17
rev_rmnet1 DOWN 0.0.0.0/0 0x00001002 ae:87:e2:c4:c8:4e
rev_rmnet0 DOWN 0.0.0.0/0 0x00001002 4a:49:58:b0:1d:e4
rmnet4 DOWN 0.0.0.0/0 0x00000000 00:00:00:00:00:00
rmnet2 DOWN 0.0.0.0/0 0x00000000 00:00:00:00:00:00
rmnet3 DOWN 0.0.0.0/0 0x00000000 00:00:00:00:00:00
rmnet7 DOWN 0.0.0.0/0 0x00000000 00:00:00:00:00:00
rmnet5 DOWN 0.0.0.0/0 0x00000000 00:00:00:00:00:00
rmnet6 DOWN 0.0.0.0/0 0x00000000 00:00:00:00:00:00
rmnet1 DOWN 0.0.0.0/0 0x00000000 00:00:00:00:00:00
rmnet0 DOWN 0.0.0.0/0 0x00000000 00:00:00:00:00:00
p2p0 DOWN 0.0.0.0/0 0x00001002 8e:3a:e3:4c:21:28\
sit0 DOWN 0.0.0.0/0 0x00000080 00:00:00:00:00:00
lo UP 127.0.0.1/8 0x00000049 00:00:00:00:00:00\
wlan0 DOWN 0.0.0.0/0 0x00001002 8c:3a:e3:4c:21:28
root@hammerhead:/ # ifconfig eth0
ifconfig eth0
eth0: No such device
```
There is no mention of OTG driver and USB host driver. Are they installed by default? How do I check if I have these installed? Or, are they not needed?<issue_comment>username_1: Well, I got the solution. I was using Inateck HB4004G 4-port USB3.0 hub. I should have used an on-the-go (OTG) cable instead. When I used the OTG cable, the ethernet interface `eth0` came up.
Here is the OTG cable for your convenience.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/5dY4k.jpg)
Upvotes: 1 <issue_comment>username_2: Some older USB OTG ports needed a powered OTG. Even powered hubs didn't work on my Motorola Droid 1, whereas that did. Also, some USB Ethernet chips don't work on Android.
Upvotes: 0 |
2014/12/31 | 330 | 1,059 | <issue_start>username_0: I connected a Nexus 7 (rooted Android 4.4.2) to my laptop (Windows 7 SP1 x64 Ultimate). I see Nexus 7 in Windows Explorer and can browse the files in the Nexus 7, but when I tried to move files from Nexus to Windows I get the following error from Windows Explorer:
Reconnecting the Nexus 7 didn't help. Restarting Windows 7 did solve the issue, but I'm curious to know what can caused this error.<issue_comment>username_1: Well, I got the solution. I was using Inateck HB4004G 4-port USB3.0 hub. I should have used an on-the-go (OTG) cable instead. When I used the OTG cable, the ethernet interface `eth0` came up.
Here is the OTG cable for your convenience.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/5dY4k.jpg)
Upvotes: 1 <issue_comment>username_2: Some older USB OTG ports needed a powered OTG. Even powered hubs didn't work on my Motorola Droid 1, whereas that did. Also, some USB Ethernet chips don't work on Android.
Upvotes: 0 |
2015/01/01 | 231 | 731 | <issue_start>username_0: Is there an app or a way to transfer multiple apps to the SD card? It's slow and tedious to just use the "move" button in the app settings.<issue_comment>username_1: Well, I got the solution. I was using Inateck HB4004G 4-port USB3.0 hub. I should have used an on-the-go (OTG) cable instead. When I used the OTG cable, the ethernet interface `eth0` came up.
Here is the OTG cable for your convenience.
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/5dY4k.jpg)
Upvotes: 1 <issue_comment>username_2: Some older USB OTG ports needed a powered OTG. Even powered hubs didn't work on my Motorola Droid 1, whereas that did. Also, some USB Ethernet chips don't work on Android.
Upvotes: 0 |
2015/01/01 | 257 | 1,059 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm connected to my network and Wi-Fi is on but I cannot search in google nor can I send email. It says that gmail is offline. How do I change this?
I'm using a ProScan Android tablet.<issue_comment>username_1: which android do you have ? what version of gmail do you have. Tell in detail that what your gmail is actually telling. Do you had forced closed it? if force closed, then try clearing its data and later do everything that you have done in the first time.
Upvotes: -1 <issue_comment>username_2: Just because you are connected to WiFi does not mean you are online.
1. Try browsing using your built in browser. If you can then post it.
2. If you can't, then check if you can browse in other devices connected to the same WiFi network.
3. If you can't, then try running diagnostics in your router. This will show if your router can connect to your ISP. To do this, you have to open router settings in a web browser. Check your router manual for more info on this.
Please post the result from all the abide tests.
Upvotes: 0 |
2015/01/01 | 757 | 3,060 | <issue_start>username_0: What is the difference between Chromebox and "Android TV"? I was thinking of buying either a Dell Chromebox or a Lenovo Touchscreen Chromebook to go with my Chromcast on my living room TV but I don't know if Chromebox is designed to work like the Chromebook. Also, would a Chromebox be a good replacement for my Chromecast?<issue_comment>username_1: A chromebook (or chromebox) runs [Chrome OS](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrome_OS). This is basically a very lightweight version of Linux that runs a Chrome Browser. You do not have the ability to install "native apps", with the exception of recently, [it was announced](http://lifehacker.com/chrome-os-will-run-android-apps-natively-sync-with-and-1595975542), you can now install some Android apps.
The difference between Chromebook and Chromebox is a Chromebook is a laptop, which has a screen, keyboard, mouse/trackpad. While a Chromebox is the *desktop* version. It does not include a monitor, nor a mouse or keyboard.
[Android TV](http://www.android.com/tv/) runs Android. It is designed to be connected to a large display, like a TV. Its UX is designed for the [*10 foot experience*](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10-foot_user_interface). It runs Android applications, but may not run all the same apps that you can run on a tablet or phone, because of the different user experience. Apps need to be tailored to use a remote or a gamepad.
Android TV would be a better "replacement" for a chromecast. As they usually offer the functionality that a chromecast does, and more.
A chromebox is not necessarily designed for that *10 foot experience*, and may not offer you the apps for streaming content like Android TV would. While you could probably log in to the service websites and stream from there. But you would need to have a mouse and keyboard connected.
Upvotes: 3 <issue_comment>username_2: Chromeboxes, such as [Dell Chromeboxes](http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/chromebox-3010/pd), are essentially small computers with video output. They are designed to run Chrome OS on a larger monitor - think of these as Chrome OS Desktops, whereas Chromebooks are Chrome OS Laptops.
[Android TV](http://www.android.com/tv/) devices, on the other hand, are media devices designed to run a version of Android and deliver media (video, music, pictures, and games) to your television. They are more similar to a Roku, Apple TV, and Amazon Fire TV.
Chromebooks & Chromeboxes are very similar, however with different form factors; they should run the same Chrome OS versions and act very similar.
Chromebooks & Chromeboxes work nicely with Chromecast - you are able to cast Tabs, and various apps to the Chromecast.
Using the Chromebox as a replacement for the Chromecast could work - but it would be like connecting a PC to your TV and be very mouse and keyboard driven.
It is a usable solution, but it is not ideal. An Android TV device might be easier, as its interface was designed to be more simple, and easier to read from "couch distance."
Upvotes: 3 [selected_answer] |
2015/01/01 | 324 | 1,254 | <issue_start>username_0: How can I make the phone impossible to turn off. I use an alarm clock which make a task I must complete before the ringing alarm turns off.
My problem is that I can simply turn off the phone and then I don't need to complete any task for the alarm to go away. So my question is that can I in some way make the phone impossible to turn off when the alarm is ringing? So then I would be forced to make the tasks(math problems, barcode scanner...) before I can turn off the phone.
Any idea is highly appreciated and If you know some app that will do this or if I can do this by rooting my phone so let me know. No solution is to hard for me, I will try anything suggested.<issue_comment>username_1: There is an app called [Alarm Clock Xtreme](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alarmclock.xtreme.free&hl=en) on the Play Store. I used it a year ago and it worked great, but I tried it a month ago and it was draining my battery. Try it out and see if it works for you.
Upvotes: -1 <issue_comment>username_2: I saw that they updated Alarmy (Sleep If U Can) to ver.7.3 on the 3rd of january with a new option called Preventing phone switch off. I wounder where they read about this idea;)
Upvotes: 1 [selected_answer] |
2015/01/02 | 221 | 807 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a tablet that has little memory and I needed an sd card so I got one, but I still have 29 GB on the sd card and when I try to download an app it says insufficient memory because I ran out of room on my internal storage<issue_comment>username_1: There is an app called [Alarm Clock Xtreme](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alarmclock.xtreme.free&hl=en) on the Play Store. I used it a year ago and it worked great, but I tried it a month ago and it was draining my battery. Try it out and see if it works for you.
Upvotes: -1 <issue_comment>username_2: I saw that they updated Alarmy (Sleep If U Can) to ver.7.3 on the 3rd of january with a new option called Preventing phone switch off. I wounder where they read about this idea;)
Upvotes: 1 [selected_answer] |
2015/01/02 | 564 | 2,341 | <issue_start>username_0: I was having some issues with my samsung galaxy s2. I took it to an I.T. store to get it fixed and now all is working fine, except play store is no longer there. I went into 'all applications' in settings and play store is not there either so there is no way for me to set it back up. When I try and download straight from the internet version of plays store, an error tells me I do not have a device. Can anyone please tell me what I can do to fix this or if there is any other way for me download apps such as facebook and snapchat? Thank you in advance.<issue_comment>username_1: Of course you can install all your applications via their **.apk** package, downloadable from the internet (you'll also find several alternative markets like aptoide and F-Droid).
As of play store: the website only tells the android app to install a certain app, so if you don't have it installed, you won't go any further.
1. install play store via it's .apk [there](http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1996995)
2. if, once it is installed, it opens and then closes immediately, it is possible that the company that fixed it flashed a firmware without it. In this case, you'll need to [flash the appropriate GApps package](https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/93591/how-can-i-reinstall-play-store)
PS: I highly recommend to flash gapps as most apps have google-modules dependencies (for instance google play services)
Upvotes: 1 <issue_comment>username_2: There are many other android markets like 9apps,mobogenie,mobomarket etc and they work fine but if you compare to Google play store, they are a little bit lower. In case of restoring Google play store, download Google play store and check that the version is supported by your device or not. Or you can google about the version of play store your phone was having then download it from any website. If problem resists, then use titanium backup and get the backed up play store of any other device and place the backup in the titanium backup folder of the sdcard and then manually go to titanium backup and then restore it. You can also flash the Gapps again but this will reset your phone. So the great idea is to flash the Gapps or download straight the Google play store from the apk file. Try the newest version supported by your android.
Upvotes: 0 |
2014/12/07 | 577 | 2,380 | <issue_start>username_0: My college mess hall menu is shared as an attachment (.jpeg) on the **same thread** every week. The thread has no other content except for this.
For convenience, I'd like to access it quickly from my Android mobile. I don't want to keep it as a starred conversation and interrupt my urgent emails.
Is there a way to sync the file (i.e the latest attachment on the thread) so that I can have one click access to it? Maybe sync it to google drive so I can use widget or rename it to current\_mess\_menu.jpg and save it in a Dropbox folder so I can do the same? Open to other alternatives as well.<issue_comment>username_1: Of course you can install all your applications via their **.apk** package, downloadable from the internet (you'll also find several alternative markets like aptoide and F-Droid).
As of play store: the website only tells the android app to install a certain app, so if you don't have it installed, you won't go any further.
1. install play store via it's .apk [there](http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1996995)
2. if, once it is installed, it opens and then closes immediately, it is possible that the company that fixed it flashed a firmware without it. In this case, you'll need to [flash the appropriate GApps package](https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/93591/how-can-i-reinstall-play-store)
PS: I highly recommend to flash gapps as most apps have google-modules dependencies (for instance google play services)
Upvotes: 1 <issue_comment>username_2: There are many other android markets like 9apps,mobogenie,mobomarket etc and they work fine but if you compare to Google play store, they are a little bit lower. In case of restoring Google play store, download Google play store and check that the version is supported by your device or not. Or you can google about the version of play store your phone was having then download it from any website. If problem resists, then use titanium backup and get the backed up play store of any other device and place the backup in the titanium backup folder of the sdcard and then manually go to titanium backup and then restore it. You can also flash the Gapps again but this will reset your phone. So the great idea is to flash the Gapps or download straight the Google play store from the apk file. Try the newest version supported by your android.
Upvotes: 0 |
2015/01/02 | 574 | 2,373 | <issue_start>username_0: I own a spice phone which have low internal memory and ram but it is rooted. My question is that is it possible to play high end games like GTA vice city or nfs on that phone. I had Googled about it but it makes more confusion. Some sites say yes and some no. Can anybody tell exactly the answer. It is running on android 4.2 and I had played some big games like angry birds epic and prince of persia on my device. They worked great. I can increase internal memory and ram also but after that, do really big games will work. Though GTA is a very large file so please help me solving this.<issue_comment>username_1: Of course you can install all your applications via their **.apk** package, downloadable from the internet (you'll also find several alternative markets like aptoide and F-Droid).
As of play store: the website only tells the android app to install a certain app, so if you don't have it installed, you won't go any further.
1. install play store via it's .apk [there](http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1996995)
2. if, once it is installed, it opens and then closes immediately, it is possible that the company that fixed it flashed a firmware without it. In this case, you'll need to [flash the appropriate GApps package](https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/93591/how-can-i-reinstall-play-store)
PS: I highly recommend to flash gapps as most apps have google-modules dependencies (for instance google play services)
Upvotes: 1 <issue_comment>username_2: There are many other android markets like 9apps,mobogenie,mobomarket etc and they work fine but if you compare to Google play store, they are a little bit lower. In case of restoring Google play store, download Google play store and check that the version is supported by your device or not. Or you can google about the version of play store your phone was having then download it from any website. If problem resists, then use titanium backup and get the backed up play store of any other device and place the backup in the titanium backup folder of the sdcard and then manually go to titanium backup and then restore it. You can also flash the Gapps again but this will reset your phone. So the great idea is to flash the Gapps or download straight the Google play store from the apk file. Try the newest version supported by your android.
Upvotes: 0 |
2015/01/02 | 515 | 1,908 | <issue_start>username_0: I frequently use SMS shortcodes to get my account balance from my bank. I send a text message to the bank's [short code](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_code) (in this case, 728464), and my bank replies with a text message containing my current account balance. I've been doing this for a while now with no issues.
I recently switched phones (to a Nexus 6 running Android 5.0.1), and now when I send my text to 728464, I get an error (from my phone, not from the bank) saying that the short code I am texting is not valid. I noticed in the error that either Hangouts or Android seem to be prepending a "1" to the short code (see the screenshot). I'm guessing that this has something to do with it.
How can I prevent Hangouts from adding this "1" to my short code (which seems to be preventing me from sending the SMS)?
In case it's pertinent, I have imported all of my SMS conversations from my old phone using [SMS Backup Restore app](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?), and have selected Hangouts as my default SMS application.
<issue_comment>username_1: Save the shortcode number as +728464. Hangouts all think that +7 is the prefix, so it won't prepend the +1.
Upvotes: 4 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_2: I've been having this issue too and discovered if I turn off "Show (Google Voice) SMS & voicemail in Hangouts" that this issue doesn't happen. As soon as I tick that back on, the problem comes back.
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_3: I have found a solution that worked for me:
Go to Settings -> SMS -> Default SMS Messaging Account
Then change it from you Google account into "SMS only account".
After doing that it no longer prepended the country code to my SMS contact number (no need for it to be saved as a contact).
Upvotes: 2 |
2015/01/03 | 333 | 1,342 | <issue_start>username_0: First of all, I know one can replace the dialer app and there are many options available for it.
But is it possible to replace the stock phone app? Is there any calling app that uses the normal cellular network to make calls apart from the stock android app?
The reason why I am asking this is because I am having problems with talking on handset on my Nexus 5 since I update to Lollipop. And I figured that if I replace the phone app, this problem could be solved as my calls on Skype and Hangout are normal which proves that the microphone is fine and the problem lies in the software.<issue_comment>username_1: Save the shortcode number as +728464. Hangouts all think that +7 is the prefix, so it won't prepend the +1.
Upvotes: 4 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_2: I've been having this issue too and discovered if I turn off "Show (Google Voice) SMS & voicemail in Hangouts" that this issue doesn't happen. As soon as I tick that back on, the problem comes back.
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_3: I have found a solution that worked for me:
Go to Settings -> SMS -> Default SMS Messaging Account
Then change it from you Google account into "SMS only account".
After doing that it no longer prepended the country code to my SMS contact number (no need for it to be saved as a contact).
Upvotes: 2 |
2015/01/03 | 715 | 2,772 | <issue_start>username_0: Their is a big issue of WiFi in my phone when i first bought it...
My phone is a **Spice Stellar Mi-439, Android KITKAT v4.4.2, 1GHz Processor, 512RAM, 4GB Internal, currently 16GB Expandable.**
The problem is that Wifi connects when i switch ON the Wifi and enter the WiFi network but disconnects after sometime of browsing and never connects again even by switch the WiFi ON-OFF-ON and not even by disabling Data Connection. Neither it disconnects when in Sleep or StandBy Mode, it disconnects during browsing or any time. Whereas other users on that WiFi network don't complain about any issue like that. I have no control over that WiFi Network.
It only works when i reboot the set but again disconnects after sometime.
I didn't got any solution from internet for it.
Any knowledge about this issue?<issue_comment>username_1: 1. Go to your phone dialer
2. Dial \*#0011#
3. When you see the "ServiceMode" screen, press the left menu button
4. Select "WiFi"
5. See that "Wifi Power Save Mode" button that is "ON" - well turn it "OFF"
6. Exit this menu, turn off your Wifi and turn it back on.
* If you already entered all your wifi credentials, forget your network info (remove it) and re-enter it again.This should fix your problem. Had the same problem with my S4 but it's fixed now.
Upvotes: -1 <issue_comment>username_2: What type of wifi network it is? Office, Institutional or personal home network?
Have you tested your phone for different wifi connection other than the one on which you are trying to connect now. If not test it. This would at least let you know where your problem lies whether the wifi router or your handset.
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_3: How far are you from the Wi-Fi router?
You might get disconnected, because you are simply too far.
I've made some measurements and from my experience, devices have different network detection ranges - my tablet disconnects when I'm 6 meters away from the router, mobile phone - 12 meters and laptop - 20 meters.
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_4: I have been testing one of my app on spice stellar phones. The problem seems to be with the phones as the Mac ID keeps changing (yes, that right). It starts with a specific Mac and then suddenly the Mac ID exposed to the network changes and the phone is dropped from the network. If I Forget the wifi connection and reconnect, the same behaviour is observed at random intervals.
Upvotes: 1 <issue_comment>username_5: I didn't find the solution for it but i found an app that automatically fix this issue without rebooting the phone...
[WifiFixer](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wahtod.wififixer&hl=en)
Hope this works for people having issues with wifi...
Thanks
Upvotes: 1 [selected_answer] |
2015/01/03 | 469 | 2,028 | <issue_start>username_0: I own Nexus 5 with 5.0.1 Lollipop in it. I was wondering weather or not it is beneficial to remove recently opened apps from multitasking drawer or is it harmful for battery life and maybe performance?
What exactly happens when you remove recently opened app from multitasking drawer?<issue_comment>username_1: If you remove an app from the multitasking drawer it's marked to be closed very soon (just a few seconds) and it's memory is cached (instead of used).
This releases used RAM and prevents Android from closing running applications if another one needs more memory.
Depending on what applications you close with the multitasking drawer they will eventually restart (if a service is running in the background and launches the application again eg. *Facebook*) or they will just be closed.
Performance wise it's not a problem, applications you have closed might just take half a second longer to load up but that's it.
Battery life can be improved a little bit if you close down applications that would else run in the background and do some weird stuff that causes your battery to be drained quicker than usual.
Also: I'm not the best in understanding how the Android LMK (low-memory killer) works but it first uses available RAM instead of closing applications.
Upvotes: 1 <issue_comment>username_2: Removing/clearing an app from recent tasks/apps menu actually clears it from the cache processes area. You can confirm this by going to `settings` > `apps` > `running tab` > `show cached processes`.
When your app has a syncing/background service (e.g. facebook which syncs its feed) then that is in your RAM since it running continuously. Your RAM also houses foreground (on screen apps) plus system processes .
When you switch apps then it goes to a cache area so that it can be opened faster and also it's state (e.g. webpages in chrome ) is retained. If you clear it, this is removed from cache and state is lost causing it to reload again and take more time to open.
Upvotes: 0 |
2015/01/03 | 206 | 832 | <issue_start>username_0: I tried to install a custom rom on my Xperia L,but it aborted.
Now my handset isn't booting up, when powered on it just shows SONY logo.
What should I do now ?<issue_comment>username_1: Try to flash the custom ROM again, starting with flashing the `boot` partition from `fastboot`. Before doing that re-download the whole ROM and if you can, check it for defects. The fact that the phone draws the SONY logo proves that the bootloader is still working, so you should be able to do this. Pulling out the battery and powering up the phone while keeping the volume up key pressed will put the phone in fastboot mode (the blue LED will light up), from which you can continue.
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_2: you need to complete the flash.. download xperial l generic rom and flash it again..
Upvotes: -1 |
2015/01/03 | 617 | 2,642 | <issue_start>username_0: My Samsung galaxy s4 will suddenly not show anything on the display anymore. It vibrates and such as if everything but the display works. Sometimes it will flash something that looks a bit like part of the android guy, but it flashes so fast I cannot be sure that is what is it or if it just flashes.
I have tried the top solutions that my google search have led me to try:
-Removing the battery and holding volume up and home button for ten seconds.
-Removing the battery and holding the power button for a minute and letting the phone sit for 5 minutes.
It is possible that the phone received a hit during the day that led to this problem but other people who have had this problem have not had it because of any hit or drop and I am therefore not 100% sure that any hit it may have received during the day caused this problem or if it is software related.
**My question:**
Why doesn't my galaxy s4 screen display anything and how can I fix it?<issue_comment>username_1: Try removing the battery and pulling it back in again. Then hold power button + home + volume up for a few seconds until the screen lights up. If nothing shows up the screen make sure your battery if loaded. Try it again and if that doesn't work either. Try exactly the same except you use the volume down now and not the volume up. If that doesn't work it's probably a hardware problem. It's not software because the last update was a few months ago so then it would've been occurred earlier.
It could be a software problem if you've rooted your phone. Try flashing your stock software on it. You can't see anything but moving through download mode isn't that hard. Power + home + volume down. Wait a few secs, press volume up. Plug into PC using USB and flash stock software using Odin. If it isn't rooted it's a hardware problem. Go to your nearest Samsung Repair Center and maybe the repair is free because of the warranty. Unless it's rooted of course.
Upvotes: 3 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_2: Your Backlight is gone, I have the same problem, I had to send it back (luckily I have insurance) now it has happened again, I can't be asked to send it back and go for another 2 weeks without a phone so I have been searching the web for solutions but I can't find any. However your problem is the backlight of your phone.
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_3: None of these theories work. You really need to go and see a Samsung repair specialist, and hopefully, you won't have to pay anything for it if it's under warranty or if it's insured. If they can't fix it your screed and will have to get a new phone x
Upvotes: -1 |
2015/01/03 | 2,478 | 9,696 | <issue_start>username_0: I am testing several chargers and cables to find the optimal combinations for a fast charge.
I was so far using [CurrentWidget](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.manor.currentwidget&hl=en) and was getting just a few values, (independently of how much the battery is charged, for several cables and the same charger, as if there was no losses, etc.). I then tried [Charging Report](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.playfulgeeks.chargingreport&hl=en) which was giving the same value, but also a "Max" and "Avg" one.
I finally discovered that these values most probably come from
```
/sys/class/power_supply/battery/current_*
```
Since in my case `Current` > `Max` (1698 vs. 500) and the max current I get is always 1698 mA (and it is always that for a given charger) I have some doubts about the accuracy of the reported values.
Should I trust them?<issue_comment>username_1: The value in the current file is 100% accurate. It comes directly from the hardware so there is no doubt about those values being accurate.
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_2: Try Ampere, its a new app i was using to test wireless charging, so far it shows diferences between some cable/charger combinations i made
Upvotes: 1 <issue_comment>username_3: I was trying many Apps, I quite liked [3C Toolbox](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ccc71.at.free&hl=en), or an alternative smaller, but the same: [Battery Monitor Widget](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ccc71.bmw)
But most phones which I tried didn't have an access to the real Current readings from battery's chip, and value of Current was just calculated based on changes of voltage in time.
So I bought few testers like THIS
Use this to search for it on the Internet "USB Charger Data Cable Current Meter Tester Test for Samsung HTC Andriod E1HG"
You'll also find one without a cable, just connectors, one male and one or two females. And some showing also voltage, with LED segmented display.
I bought few different models, just to cross test them. There are also models, I didn't buy that, which shows mAh value.
The pictured one costed me $4.65 inc shipping.
The LED segmented with connectors type starts at $1.8 but you won't get good quality cable with it and this in the picture is also the only one which proved to show reliable current values.
For Samsung phones/tablets, I tested 8 different models, none of those testers with connectors would charge with a current over a half of an Ampere. I think it's because some resistance in those connectors would influence sense signal. Or that the LED display and tester is using more current itself.
I used original cable and charger, which is otherwise charging by 1.6 A
Other phones, including couple of Sonys were charging at currents from 500 to 1500 mA using any type of tester, but not showing the same values after each re-connection, except for this LCD type tester.
Anyway, I don't care how precise it is. I know what I wanted to know, which was exactly what you want to know. That is which chargers are really 'fast chargers' and to confirm that even if a cheap Chinese USB cable is working on my external disk, it's not good enough to charge a Samsung phone.
Phones and even iPhones are using data wires from the USB to check what kind of power supply is on the other side of the cable. Chargers have resistors as voltage dividers inside them, phone can sense voltage levels on middle, data pins and decide what kind of charger is used. If none, or if standard data voltage levels or if some other unrecognized levels are sensed, charger will use 'classic' USB charging current of no more than 500 mA.
Samsungs are extremely, stupidly sensitive to sense not only non-Samsung charger but also bad quality cable. I bought around 20 cheap wall and car chargers, none wall charger is charging over 400 mA and only one car charger is charging at at least 800 mA
Upvotes: 2 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_4: Please consider these facts before jumping to conclusions:
The latest Fast Charge uses 3 voltages, 5, 9 and 12V. A higher voltage means a lower current thus a lower drop in voltage and losses, hence the whole point of increasing the voltage. If you have a standard 5V USB charger then all of the above has a sense (measuring just the current). However, if you are using a fast charge system, you need to consider the voltage also (if at 9 or even 12V) and not just the current when measuring externally.
Long USB leads for 5V charging are a no-no. Good quality copper wire is a must for power hungry devices (1600mAH+ devices). Samsung non-fast charge adapters are bundled with short cables (2 feet max) for this reason. The device does not control the remote charge current, it just is limited to what the cable can handle due to resistive losses. This means that to charge the phone correctly you need at least 5.1-5.2V ON THE PHONE SIDE. The charge circuit in the phone and battery are responsible for providing the correct amount of current depending on the battery and limit the voltage on the battery (max 4.3V with HV Li-Po or Li-Ion cells) and cut off the charge when full.
Charge reporting applications are only as good as the hardware used to monitor it. Different phone manufacturers use different vendor charge control circuits or make their own. This means that if this circuit is not provided with a SHUNT where you can physically SENSE the voltage drop across the calibrated shunt thus calculate a precise current, the current is only estimated based on some voltage drop sampling in time and may vary greatly. What you access through the android power supply class is what this hardware reports, and you cannot know if it is a precise value or not based on the above assumptions. You must know what kind of hardware is used in the device you are monitoring else you are walking in the dark. HTC and some other manufacturers use shunt based current detection while Samsung does not (at least not on its S4 S5 and S6 series), the current reported is based on an estimate that is calculated based on a prior measured voltage and its drop in a certain amount of time (usually a sample per second). This is greatly dependent on the battery state (new, old, defective) but it does give a rough estimate of what the current use is, however, it is NO WAY near the precision of a shunt meter. So please be aware of this fact and know that power reporting applications can only handle the data that is given to them by this hardware, there are no exceptions.
Having said this, the only way to be sure of current usage (current, not power) is using a shunt based meter in series with the charging device. If you want to know if your USB cable is good quality or not, you can easily test this by connecting a source Power supply and voltmeter on the output and see what the voltage drop is on the phone side. The higher the voltage drop the worse the cable. An alternative and easy method is using a sensitive Ohm Meter and measuring pin by pin (just the 2 external pins suffice) what the resistance is.
5V 1A/h = 5Watts. If your cable measures more than 600-800milliOhms (0.6Ohms) it is a very bad cable. This is equivalent to a 0.2Volt drop when charging 1Amp, hence the phone will revert to 500mAH which is fine for standard USB plugs but half of what a 1Amp charger can charge.
Additional note: a 5V 2Amp charger will charge any phone or device fine if the device requires less or equal to that current. If the device needs a more powerful charger (3+Amps) and it is still a phone or tablet, the charge limiting system will limit that current to what the charger can handle (2Amps) as it will reduce current until the voltage stays at around 5.2V so it will charge but not as fast as it should. For ex. use an old 5V 700mAmp charger with an S7 will work, but it will take much longer to fill up the 3600mAH battery than with its original Fast Charge charger.
Fast Charge note: Fast Charging is only beneficial when the battery is under 60% charge (50% on some models). When the battery is over 60% it won't be charged at or near its Capacity rating (less if its over the Charge rating) as this will limit the battery life (this has been discovered over years of testing with Lithium Ion technology). The last 10% of charge (so 90% SOC) is well under the rated capacity current as keeping a cell charged too much for too much time will eventually lead it to dehydrate its Hydrogen and expand (bulge). It is best not to discharge Lithium Ion batteries under 40% and not keep them charged for too long over 90-95%. This explains why in recent phones the charge of the battery is sometimes reported 100 but can drop quickly to 95 after disconnecting it, it is merely a safety precaution to prevent overcharging and no defect.
All these things may not appear straightforward, and in fact, they are not for the not privy. Suffice to say that it is a long studied and rather intricate discussion. Charging phones is much more to what meets the eye as there are several components involved and not just the battery itself. It depends mostly on the hardware (phone brand) type of battery (Lithium Ion or Lithium Polymer), charging circuit (phone side and battery) and lastly USB cable used and charger quality and type. Keep all these things in mind when you want the best from your phone's battery life and safety. There is also a difference with sealed phones and user replaceable/removable battery types. This is part of legislation for safety precautions - but this is another story.
Upvotes: 2 |
2015/01/04 | 868 | 3,383 | <issue_start>username_0: I have an Samsung Galaxy S3 Neo.
```
Bus 002 Device 042: ID 04e8:6860
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
GT-I9100 Phone [Galaxy S II], GT-I9300 Phone [Galaxy S III], GT-P7500 [Galaxy Tab 10.1]
```
The keyboard & language setting is português.
I today installed Android Device Manager and to test it's functionality I locked the phone with the password: "<PASSWORD>" (4 letters were required).
After entering the password and confirming with the "OK" button of my keyboard, the phone showed me that the password is wrong. "<PASSWORD>".
I reset the password after some tries to "<PASSWORD>" and the phone reloaded the lock screen. Again the password showed up to be wrong. I also tried the alphabetic password: "<PASSWORD>" - same error.
I changed the language of my Google account from German to Portuguese and reset the password to "<PASSWORD>" again and I tried to really reboot my phone and unlock the SIM card again. But anyways I can not get through my lock of the Android Device Manager.
I tried to enter the password 35 times wrong with hope to get a chance to authenticate with my Google Account login.
I also tried to connect the phone with adb but it does not show up in this state with:
```
adb devices
```
So what can I do to get access to my phone again?<issue_comment>username_1: I tested this on a Nexus 5 (v5.0.1) running UK English. I locked the device with Device Manager then, without unlocking it, I used Device Manager to lock it a second time. I then used the second password to unlock the device. So, you **should** be able to change the lock password using Device Manager - it seems that only the last lock password is required to unlock it.
You can use a one character password to lock the device. Perhaps give that a try?
Another thing you could try (assuming you are using the web page to lock your phone) is to use Device Manager on a different Android device to lock your phone. Perhaps there is something wrong with the translation between the characters in the language entered into the web page and those entered into your phone.
Hopefully someone else might have a better answer than this. :(
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_2: I was having the same problem with ADM. I went to [https://findmymobile.samsung.com](https://findmymobile.samsung.com/) and went to protect device (left hand side). I then clicked "Unlock screen". Took a minute but worked fine.
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_3: The reason it won't work is that the current version of Google's ADM does not change the password when the lock screen is already applied. The current reasoning is that it is there to lock a device that was lost/stolen, not to change the password when forgotten. So even though it says it works, it isn't. There is a message that may pop up saying:
>
> ### Since Google has verified that a screen lock is already set, the password you entered won't be needed.
>
>
>
Though it took a bit for that to pop up on ADM, and it goes away quickly. *Thanks Google*.
On top of that, Samsung's proprietary changes to Android also complicates things. If the device is also registered with Samsung via Find My Phone (The Samsung Device Manager), it needs to be unlocked from there.
There is no other normal workaround. Another option is to flash a custom recovery, and unlock it via root methods, highly depends on the phone.
Upvotes: 0 |
2015/01/04 | 515 | 2,140 | <issue_start>username_0: I use two Android devices regularly. A Nexus 5 which is my daily driver, calendars, Google Keep, etc. The second device is an Asus Tablet which I use to consume - newspapers, news, magazines, internet, etc. I try to minimize all the alerts on this tablet since I don't need any notifications from my calendar or other daily apps.
I am a heavy user of Google Keep on my Nexus 5 but have not installed it on my tablet (on purpose). And yet, each time I set a reminder that I want to see on my phone, I also get a notification on my Tablet of the form (e.g.) "Pick Up Eggs - Install Google Keep". It also uses the Google Now reminder icon (finger with a bowtie) and not the Google Keep icon (lightbulb). I should also mention that I do not have Google Now enabled on any of my devices.
I do not want Google Keep nor the reminders on my Tablet. I've tried removing various sync services under the Google Account but can't seem to find the one that is synchronizing the Google Keep reminders to my Tablet.
Any suggestions as to how to get rid of these useless notifications?
Thanks!<issue_comment>username_1: Hmm.
Can you see Keep under `Settings > Accounts > Google > <> > Sync Keep` on your tablet?
Edit: I just realized that you do not have Keep installed on the tablet...
Well, maybe a stupid patch could be to install it on the tablet too, and then disable synchronizing?
Upvotes: 1 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_2: I had the same issue. When the notification appears pull down the notification bar. From there hold down on the Google Keep notification. A little pop up with 'App Info' will appear. Click on it. That will show you what app is causing the pop up. From there you can either disable the entire app or disable notification. For this insurance it looks like it is Google Play Services that is the culprit. I choose to disable the notifications only.
Upvotes: 1 <issue_comment>username_3: What you can do is install google keep again and go to trash there you will find the note with the reminder ,then delete the reminder and delete forever and that got rid of my reminders
Upvotes: 0 |
2015/01/04 | 243 | 992 | <issue_start>username_0: For some reason I uninstalled WhatsApp. If I reinstall it after a day or two , will I receive those messages which might have been sent to me during this period? If not ,Is it possible to get those messages somehow?<issue_comment>username_1: AFAIK, as soon as you removed/uninstalled WhatsApp from your device, the other people will not be able to see your contact of whatsapp. Hence, they will not be able to send you message anyways. And, of course when you re-installed whatsapp again, they can connect with you too.
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_2: I think it is possible to get those messages. When you reinstall whatsapp giving your phone number, it asks whether you want to recover your older messages. You have to select Yes. It recovers only upto a certain date.
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_3: Unless you delete you WhatsApp account, **you should** get at least 2day old messages delivered after you install WhatsApp next time. Congo.
Upvotes: 1 |
2015/01/04 | 622 | 2,451 | <issue_start>username_0: so I just got my phone today and had it unlocked. So- it got rooted. I don't think that's the problem though. Anyway I tried to connect it to my laptop and HAZZAH- Nothing happened. It didn't get detected. For a second it was installing the driver then after that nothing happened. All I've been doing for the past 2 hours was uninstall drivers and reinstall them and nothing even happened. Right now I'm just using AirDroid, but since sometimes I don't have WiFi I really need the USB Cable thing to work. No idea what to do anymore. I also tried Kies, and it wasn't detected. Apparently my phone was incompatible. I checked and it was. So that really confused me.
For some reason, when I go to **storage**, it doesn't allow me to go any "menu", since the menu button has now been replaced with a recents tab.
By the way, it shows up in Devices and and Printers as an **unspecified device** and is named **SAMSUNG\_Android**. If that is any sort of relevance.
Just to clarify, I've done the following:
1. Restarted my phone AND laptop
2. Uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers
3. Changed which USB port it was in
4. Unchecked tethering
5. Enabled USB debugging
If you are to help me and have any knowledge on what to do, or feel like I did it wrong, please let me know how to do so with step by step instructions. Thank you and have a good day everyone!<issue_comment>username_1: I think it is driver problem.
1. Download latest Google USB driver [click here.](http://developer.android.com/sdk/win-usb.html)
2. For install driver follow this steps [Installing driver](http://developer.android.com/tools/extras/oem-usb.html#InstallingDriver)
I hope this help you
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_2: get a better quality cable. cheap cables are only good for charging.
Upvotes: -1 <issue_comment>username_3: [This answer could be helpful](https://android.stackexchange.com/a/5067/202272). I expect rooting got nothing to do with it. Samsung connecting to PC been nightmare for me sometimes and specially S3 which was depending totally on the cable.
If I were you I would trace this problem by starting to try the same phone and cable on another machine (pc or laptop) if possible and see if that works. Clearly if it does, the problem in the driver installed or sort of settings mess. If it doesn't, try another cable. Try turning off USB debugging and connecting the device on different machine as well.
Upvotes: 0 |
2015/01/04 | 602 | 2,335 | <issue_start>username_0: After I got my phone restored from an nandroid backup, I found almost all apps cannot gain access to `/sdcard/` (internal storage), including ES file manager, Z archiver and so on.
When any of these apps access `/sdcard/`, or any other equivalent folders like `/storage/emulated/0`, `/storage/emulated/legacy`, `/storage/sdcard0`, they only shows a blank directory, and I cannot create any file or folder.
When I try with the stock file manager (My files), it does show the files, but i cannot rename, edit, or create anything.
Android File manager is able to copy most of my files out. But It stucks when I try to create a folder or send something.
I tried to re-flash the same ROM again (which worked perfectly before), the issue remains. I have backed up important data from `/sdcard/`.
In terminal emulator,
`cd sdcard`, `ls` gives `opendir failed: permission denied`.
Then I tried `su`, `ls` shows the correct directory.
How should I fix it?
Extra: I found a new folder called `knox-emulated` in `/storage` which is not there before. External SD card (`/storage/extSdCard`) works fine.
Device Information:
Samsung Galaxy Note 3, Android 4.4.2 Rooted, with a custom ROM modified based on the Stock ROM. Custom recovery installed.<issue_comment>username_1: I think it is driver problem.
1. Download latest Google USB driver [click here.](http://developer.android.com/sdk/win-usb.html)
2. For install driver follow this steps [Installing driver](http://developer.android.com/tools/extras/oem-usb.html#InstallingDriver)
I hope this help you
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_2: get a better quality cable. cheap cables are only good for charging.
Upvotes: -1 <issue_comment>username_3: [This answer could be helpful](https://android.stackexchange.com/a/5067/202272). I expect rooting got nothing to do with it. Samsung connecting to PC been nightmare for me sometimes and specially S3 which was depending totally on the cable.
If I were you I would trace this problem by starting to try the same phone and cable on another machine (pc or laptop) if possible and see if that works. Clearly if it does, the problem in the driver installed or sort of settings mess. If it doesn't, try another cable. Try turning off USB debugging and connecting the device on different machine as well.
Upvotes: 0 |
2015/01/04 | 361 | 1,432 | <issue_start>username_0: I have Nexus 4 running on Lollipop 5.0. Everytime I input a command via voice, or typing to set a reminder in Google Now, I get
>
> Can't reach Google at the moment
>
>
>
I've changed languages from English (US) to English (IN) with no results.
Does anybody know a fix for this? Alternatively, is there another way to set reminders via voice command just like Google Now?<issue_comment>username_1: I had issue with reminders not working and that was "fixed" by going into app settings and then Accounts & Privacy, turn ON Search with Google.com
Now commands work properly? Must be a local server issue.
Upvotes: 4 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_2: I only had this problem while connected to my home wifi. It would only work once in a blue moon. The other voice to text functions worked fine though.
I decided to log into my router and change the default DNS servers to some free opendns servers. Fixed the problem right away. Hope this helps someone.
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_3: I have the note 4 and I had to go into settings >> Accounts >> Google >> Search. There the option 'Voice & Audio Activity' was paused. I selected and turned the switch on 'On' and google voice search is back into action.
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_4: In Google now cards...Settings>Now Cards>Delete card preferences
This will disable now cards.
Re-enabling will bring it back.
Upvotes: -1 |
2015/01/04 | 785 | 2,948 | <issue_start>username_0: Can someone answer my problem? I have a digital2 deluxe II tablet containing an internal storage of 1.97 gb and an internal sd card of 3.74 gb and it's kinda full and my problem is I have an external sd card of 32 gb and everytime I press move to sd card it moves the app to the internal and I can't move it to the external sd and it's kinda annoying can somebody help? Note: no rooting please<issue_comment>username_1: Install Apps2SD from Play Store. Open the app. You will see the apps of your phone in 3 categories - In phone, In card and ROM. You can't move the app in the ROM category but you can move those in the Phone. Just long hold the app you want to move and from the option which pop-up, select Move to SD Card...
Hope this helps...
Upvotes: -1 <issue_comment>username_2: Moving applications to your *external SD card* is not possible anymore because Android has changed i's way of managing storage. Your *internal storage* is now your *SD card* and your external one is a different, second *SD card*.
If you'd like to move apps to your external *SD card* then you have to manually change your *external SD's* mount point and swap it with the internal one.
Of course this requires you to root your phone.
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_3: Are you able to upgrade to Android >=6.0 or install a custom rom?
Since Android 6.0 is it possible to use the external SD card as internal storage. If you do so all data on it will be erased and the card will be repartitioned.
I' quite new to but I installed Resurrection Remix OS 3 weeks ago but running again into the storage limitation of my SII (I9100), I might used the wrong PIT (see *Increase system partition size* or *Lanchon REPIT* on xda).
Anyway as far as I understand, depending on your Android version, you can either use any of the apps such as AppMgr Pro III, Link2SD or App2SD what are able to partition and mount your extSD as internal storage, there is a tutorial on classroom.synonym.com (*How to Partition Your SD Card in a Droid for APP2SD*). May you have look on forums.androidcentral.com (*[TUTORIAL] Everything you wanted to know about app2sd, ext3, ext4 partitions!!*)
Using the >Android 6.0 in-build feature is a way more handy but that would imply that you install a custom rom but I couldn't find any for it, may you find one.
Regardless the outcome of this research, someone needs to answer the question how Android manage the internal *Data* and *Media* partition combined with the external partition before running again in any limitation and being able to utilise all 32 GB or 64 GB of the extSD. I found 2 well explained tutorials ([#1](https://motorola-global-portal.custhelp.com/app/answers/prod_answer_detail/a_id/109134/p/1449,9582) & [#2](http://gadgetguideonline.com/android/android-marshmallow-guide/how-to-use-micro-sd-card-as-internal-storage-in-android-marshmallow/)) but both missing this detail.
Upvotes: 0 |
2015/01/04 | 444 | 1,907 | <issue_start>username_0: i used 2gb memory card for 5 months in my HTC mobile, i have unmounted it and removed it safely to replace it with 16gb. but now when i try to connect the 2bg card to system and copy the images through adapter, they are lost...every other data is there except the Pics which i took using camera. please help me to recover that pics<issue_comment>username_1: If you have not overwritten the data in the 2GB memory card, then you can recover the pics using "Recuva" in Windows PC. The software is available for free download online. Install the software, connect the adapter, select the drive through the application's interface and you will be able to recover the pics.
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_2: I assume (only assume, not sure) that those pictures are not on your *external memory card* but on your *internal* one (often referred as **SD card**).
If you haven't configured the camera to explicitly use your external SD card, all your pictures are on your phone's internal storage, independently of your external one.
Look at your pictures folder on your internal storage. There is a good chance that you missing pictures are there.
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_3: If all the other data is there and you have not deleted the pictures, then the pictures must be there in the sdcard, unless someone else deleted them or moved them.
Try inserting the old sdcard into the phone and see if the phone displays your pictures. If it does, connect your phone to PC in camera mode and save all pictures to your PC.
If the phone also does not show the pictures, you can try the Dara recovery as suggested by Mr.Tech
Upvotes: 1 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_4: If you have to many pictures they show blank so you should get a picture program that allows you to make stalks of your pictures to save room and more can be keep on the phone that way
Upvotes: -1 |
2015/01/04 | 327 | 1,333 | <issue_start>username_0: I have deleted Google Play services on my Android cell phone. While trying to reinstall from google, I have "No Carrier Lenovo 860t) and can not install.
Please can you kindly help me on this, what is "no carrier" means and how to fix it ?
Thank you,
My phone : Lenovo 860t (China made)
Android 4.4.2 Kit Kat<issue_comment>username_1: Google Play Services has to be installed as a system application. Assuming you have properly *uninstalled* that application, you have to copy the `.apk` file back to where it should be (probably `/system/app` or `/system/priv-app`).
To that *No Carrier* thing: This just means that your device didn't send Google any Information about the carrier that you have and that you should use the normal, non carrier-specific store (There are different stores with some extra applications/different listings for specific countries and even carriers).
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_2: You can get back your Play Services, just by downloading Google Play Store, it will automatically download the Google Play Services, In many devices, only play store comes by default,not the play services, when you connect your google account,to play store, it will download the play services.
Download Play Store : <http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/google-play-store/>
Upvotes: 0 |
2015/01/04 | 753 | 2,992 | <issue_start>username_0: On my moto x 1st gen on T-Mobile I had an option when printing to print to a FedEx office. I'd get emailed a retrieval code to use at the store. On my oneplus I only have a save as PDF option in the print list (Google drive PDF viewer). I installed the FedEx app but that didn't add the printing option for FedEx.<issue_comment>username_1: Install [Google Cloud Print](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.cloudprint&hl=en) from google play store. Then if I log in to the Cloud Print on my computer I see that I can print to the Fedex Office. I have not tried to print from my device, but I would assume I could pick this as a printer as well.
[Fedex Information on Cloud Printing](http://www.fedex.com/us/office/cloud-printing.html)
Print to our self-service printers using your mobile device.
* Send your print job to FedEx Office from your smartphone, tablet, PC, Mac® or other web-connected device using Google Cloud Print`TM`, HP® ePrint or Breezy® or Canon® Forms & Print Services.
* Receive a unique retrieval code that can be used in any of our convenient locations.
* Enter your unique retrieval code. (Access by clicking on the link within your confirmation email or logging into Google Cloud Print and selecting your print job.)
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_2: I had a very similar issue. I don't use Chrome on the desktop (Firefox) but I don't think that is relevant. I am also using Nexus 5 with Android 5.0.1. On my PC on Firefox I could see the Fedex printer listed along side the Google Drive printer but on my Nexus I could only see the Google Drive printer. I fiddled with this for a while but I eventually got it to work. I'm not totally sure what I did that fixed it but this what I tried:
* Visited <https://www.google.com/cloudprint/learn/> and clicked Try It Now
* Select Print to Fedex Office and clicked the checkbox to agree to the terms (this only showed up once and maybe this was blocking it from showing up on Android?)
* I didn't bother trying to print a test page to Fedex but I did go back print a test page using the Save to Google Drive option (again not sure if this was needed)
* I verified that it showed up properly in my drive account
* Finally I went back to my phone: Settings -> Printing -> Cloud Print. Still only Google Drive printer listed (damn!).
* But then I hit the back button and tapped Cloud Print once again (hey why not?) and all of a sudden the FedEx Office printer was listed!
So I'm not really sure what the deal is with this (definitely still beta I guess). I think either agreeing to the terms on the PC and/or printing a test page kind of forced a refresh of cloud print settings down to my phone. I wonder if clearing the data of the cloud print app would have a similar effect? Anyways, I hope this helps a future person that got here via Google like I did...
Upvotes: 2 [selected_answer] |
2015/01/04 | 821 | 3,226 | <issue_start>username_0: I ignored the 5.0 update when it came over the air a couple of months back because I didn't want it at that time, and now I do want to update, but it's nowhere to be found on my phone. I go to settings -> about phone -> system update but it just shows that "system is up to date" even when I click check for update. I'm running 4.4.4.
I know that I could go and manually do the update but it seems ridiculous that there is no way to get the OTA update back? I don't want to have to do a bunch of manual work.
Is there no way to do this?
Thanks,<issue_comment>username_1: Install [Google Cloud Print](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.cloudprint&hl=en) from google play store. Then if I log in to the Cloud Print on my computer I see that I can print to the Fedex Office. I have not tried to print from my device, but I would assume I could pick this as a printer as well.
[Fedex Information on Cloud Printing](http://www.fedex.com/us/office/cloud-printing.html)
Print to our self-service printers using your mobile device.
* Send your print job to FedEx Office from your smartphone, tablet, PC, Mac® or other web-connected device using Google Cloud Print`TM`, HP® ePrint or Breezy® or Canon® Forms & Print Services.
* Receive a unique retrieval code that can be used in any of our convenient locations.
* Enter your unique retrieval code. (Access by clicking on the link within your confirmation email or logging into Google Cloud Print and selecting your print job.)
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_2: I had a very similar issue. I don't use Chrome on the desktop (Firefox) but I don't think that is relevant. I am also using Nexus 5 with Android 5.0.1. On my PC on Firefox I could see the Fedex printer listed along side the Google Drive printer but on my Nexus I could only see the Google Drive printer. I fiddled with this for a while but I eventually got it to work. I'm not totally sure what I did that fixed it but this what I tried:
* Visited <https://www.google.com/cloudprint/learn/> and clicked Try It Now
* Select Print to Fedex Office and clicked the checkbox to agree to the terms (this only showed up once and maybe this was blocking it from showing up on Android?)
* I didn't bother trying to print a test page to Fedex but I did go back print a test page using the Save to Google Drive option (again not sure if this was needed)
* I verified that it showed up properly in my drive account
* Finally I went back to my phone: Settings -> Printing -> Cloud Print. Still only Google Drive printer listed (damn!).
* But then I hit the back button and tapped Cloud Print once again (hey why not?) and all of a sudden the FedEx Office printer was listed!
So I'm not really sure what the deal is with this (definitely still beta I guess). I think either agreeing to the terms on the PC and/or printing a test page kind of forced a refresh of cloud print settings down to my phone. I wonder if clearing the data of the cloud print app would have a similar effect? Anyways, I hope this helps a future person that got here via Google like I did...
Upvotes: 2 [selected_answer] |
2015/01/04 | 740 | 2,962 | <issue_start>username_0: I want to remove the root, i.e. unroot the phone Nexus 4. The automatic factory image downloader using Nexus toolkit takes ages (for some reason). I also read somewhere that updating your rooted phone removes the root. So How do I update a rooted android in order to remove the root?<issue_comment>username_1: Install [Google Cloud Print](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.cloudprint&hl=en) from google play store. Then if I log in to the Cloud Print on my computer I see that I can print to the Fedex Office. I have not tried to print from my device, but I would assume I could pick this as a printer as well.
[Fedex Information on Cloud Printing](http://www.fedex.com/us/office/cloud-printing.html)
Print to our self-service printers using your mobile device.
* Send your print job to FedEx Office from your smartphone, tablet, PC, Mac® or other web-connected device using Google Cloud Print`TM`, HP® ePrint or Breezy® or Canon® Forms & Print Services.
* Receive a unique retrieval code that can be used in any of our convenient locations.
* Enter your unique retrieval code. (Access by clicking on the link within your confirmation email or logging into Google Cloud Print and selecting your print job.)
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_2: I had a very similar issue. I don't use Chrome on the desktop (Firefox) but I don't think that is relevant. I am also using Nexus 5 with Android 5.0.1. On my PC on Firefox I could see the Fedex printer listed along side the Google Drive printer but on my Nexus I could only see the Google Drive printer. I fiddled with this for a while but I eventually got it to work. I'm not totally sure what I did that fixed it but this what I tried:
* Visited <https://www.google.com/cloudprint/learn/> and clicked Try It Now
* Select Print to Fedex Office and clicked the checkbox to agree to the terms (this only showed up once and maybe this was blocking it from showing up on Android?)
* I didn't bother trying to print a test page to Fedex but I did go back print a test page using the Save to Google Drive option (again not sure if this was needed)
* I verified that it showed up properly in my drive account
* Finally I went back to my phone: Settings -> Printing -> Cloud Print. Still only Google Drive printer listed (damn!).
* But then I hit the back button and tapped Cloud Print once again (hey why not?) and all of a sudden the FedEx Office printer was listed!
So I'm not really sure what the deal is with this (definitely still beta I guess). I think either agreeing to the terms on the PC and/or printing a test page kind of forced a refresh of cloud print settings down to my phone. I wonder if clearing the data of the cloud print app would have a similar effect? Anyways, I hope this helps a future person that got here via Google like I did...
Upvotes: 2 [selected_answer] |
2015/01/04 | 1,778 | 6,021 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a [phone](http://www.samsung.com/fr/consumer/mobile-phones/mobiles/bar/GT-B2100SRIXEF) which run java for the [J2ME](http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/embedded/javame/index.html) platform not android ones.
When I pair it with my laptop, I can use the [phone](http://www.samsung.com/fr/consumer/mobile-phones/mobiles/bar/GT-B2100SRIXEF) to connect internet using [mobile broadband](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_broadband#GSM_family) connection *(I pick my provider in a list on the laptop to autocomplete the parameters)*.
However when I pair it on my Samsung Galaxy tab S, I don't have this option, even when there is no Wi-Fi access point.
There are lot of apps to convert you android phone into a server for this. But I own a tablet with android 5 *(only Wi-Fi and bluetooth connection)*, and I would like to use my classic mobile phone as access point over bluetooth. I know how to configure the phone since I already use it on my Linux laptop. But I don’t know how to use my tablet as a DUN client, and I couldn’t find an app on the play store for that.
For those who still don’t what is beeing asked here, here’s a [tutorial](https://wiki.debian.org/UseYourCellPhoneAsModem) I use for a non wizard tethering on Debian *(I couldn’t find a android equivalent)*.
So, how I can connect Samsung galaxy tab S 8.4 to internet over bluetooth with my mobile phone's connection?
Update :
========
Here’s my provider parameters in my case :
**dial-up number value** : "\*99#"
**APN value** : "Free"
**Authentication method** : Store
**Username value** : "Free"
**Password value** : "<PASSWORD>"
**DUN channel value** : "0"
**Connection method** : [GPRS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Packet_Radio_Service)
**PIN method** : Store
**PIN value** : null
**Provider proxy address value** : "172.16.58.3"
**Provider proxy port value** : "80"
But on most OS, *(for laptop, including old windows)* you just get a country selector, then you pick-up your mobile provider in a list and the connection parameters are filled up for you.
***Note***: As the device is still new I want to keep the long time warranty option.
BlueVPN+ seems to indirectly allow what I need without rooting, but the program is not free.<issue_comment>username_1: Install and use easytether. I use this on a wide range of devices across multiple operation systems.
Site link : <http://www.mobile-stream.com/easytether/android.html>
Features
--------
* USB and Bluetooth tethering for Windows 10/8.1/8/7/Vista/XP computers (32-/64-bit)
* USB and Bluetooth tethering for Android 5.0 (down to 4.0.3) tablets including Kindle Fire
* USB tethering for Mac OS X 10.10 (down to 10.4) on Intel and legacy PowerPC hardware
* USB tethering support for Linux (Ubuntu, Fedora etc) computers on Intel, ARM (Raspberry Pi), PowerPC hardware
* Unique USB tethering support for FreeBSD computers and embedded boards
* Unique USB tethering support for OpenWRT-based routers
* Does not require root access on the smartphone
* UDP support for games, for L2TP VPN (not PPTP!) and for some IM apps
* PS3, XBox 360 or Wii tethering via Windows/OS X Internet Connection Sharing feature
* Free lifetime upgrades for the full version
* Implemented as a normal NAT application with full TCP and UDP support
Compatible with HTC Sync
Its self explanatory as far as installing and operating.
Edit:
In the cases where neither pdanet nor easyteather will work try this forum thread.
<http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=57267267#post57267267>
Upvotes: 1 <issue_comment>username_2: So I was doing a bit of research on this.
TLDR; You will not be able to use your phone's GSM to connect your tablet to the internet.
In order for your Android device to be able to connect to another device, via bluetooth, to get an internet connection, you need an android device that supports [DUN (Dial-up Networking) or PAN (Personal Area Networking)](http://techsupport.dension.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/48/0/what-are-pan-and-dun). Which most android devices do support. You also need the "host" device to also support DUN. Your phone, on the other hand, does not support DUN nor does it support PAN.
Here are the bluetooth profiles that [your phone supports](http://www.samsung.com/fr/consumer/mobile-phones/mobiles/bar/GT-B2100SRIXEF):
>
> ### Bluetooth Profiles:
>
>
> * A2DP
> * AVRCP
> * BPP
> * FTP
> * GAP
> * Handsfree
> * Headset
> * HFP
> * HSP
> * SAP
>
>
>
The reason that you are able to get your laptop to tether via bluetooth with your device is because Windows supports tethering via SPP.
From [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth_stack):
>
> Note : The Windows XP/Vista Windows Vista/Windows 7 Bluetooth stack supports the following Bluetooth profiles natively: PANU, SPP, DUN, HID, HCRP.
>
>
>
While Android does have support for SPP, it does not support tethering via SPP. This is only supported via DUN/PAN. There is an [active issue around this](https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=39637) that is listed as assigned to a developer but has had no activity since June 23rd 2013.
>
> I bought the Nexus 7 3G as a professional development tool to make bluetooth applications but from what I see, I'm stuck with an expensive paper weight. The SPP profile is used by many companies to connect there devices (robots, OBDII scanners, Microcontrollers, dataloggers.. e.t.c) to tablets. This protocol should have worked with the Nexus 7 but does not.
> It did not work with android 4.2.1 and does not work with android 4.2.2. It used to work with android 4.1.2.
> Not everyone can downgrade to 4.1.2 since it is not available to all devices.
>
>
> Now we all have to wait until android 5 comes out, but I do not think this will be fixed since google does not take us seriously.
>
>
> Don't you guys tests your products before you market them or do you just let the end user do the testing for you?
>
>
>
Upvotes: 2 |
2015/01/05 | 1,479 | 5,540 | <issue_start>username_0: As the title says, is it possible to setup a Google account on an Android device in a way that it will only be used to access Gmail?
I have several apps from the big G installed on my phone (obviously, I dare say), namely Gmail, Play store, Maps, Keep, and so on.
I also have three different Google accounts, the main purpose of this is the need of having distinct email addresses. Let's call "A" the main account (the one that I also use for other Google services like Play Store, Contacts, Calendar and so on) and "B" & "C" the remaining two, only used for email.
I'd like to setup "B" & "C" so that they are only used with Gmail app, and won't pop up in every other Google app, where they are not needed nor wanted. Is it possible to do so?
I have already set them to just sync with Gmail and not other things like contacts and calendars, but that's not what I'd like to accomplish. I want them out of the way where they are not needed.<issue_comment>username_1: Just use AOSP/alternative email client for the second account instead of adding another account to your phone just to use it for mail. You can also forward your mails automatically to your main account and label it as you wish.
Upvotes: 1 <issue_comment>username_2: Use the F-Droid repository to install K-9 Mail. (<https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=com.fsck.k9>). This way you do not have to use a Google account to install a mail application, and while you access GMail through the non-Google app, you can also take advantage of additional features of K-9 such as OpenPGP support (<https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=org.thialfihar.android.apg>).
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_3: As you have mentioned you are using Kit-Kat, just open alternative email client as user87790 has said.It just comes as separate app named as Email. Open the app. Select add new from the bottom left corner with add new mark(Plus mark with pencil). Add new account enter your account details. Add both the accounts b and c in the same way you enter the password with email in Gmail app. If you want to see emails from B an C separately just select the account from drop down. Or if you want to see everything from both the accounts select Combined view from drop down.
Upvotes: 1 <issue_comment>username_4: While you add the Google account or even afterwards (from account settings), you can select the content and services to sync. You can select only Gmail, leaving alone all the other services you don't want like Google+, drive, sheets, docs etc.
There's no need to setup a third party email client. All (most) Google apps are aware of this functionality and will work correctly.
Upvotes: 3 <issue_comment>username_5: This not necesserly Android-related, but you mentioned you use those accounts only for emailing. Please see [this](https://support.google.com/mail/answer/22370?hl=en) and [this link](https://support.google.com/mail/answer/21289?hl=en).
It is possible to send and receive mails from different addresses using only master account and therefore you would have no need to add separate accounts to your Android device.
Upvotes: 1 <issue_comment>username_6: I found a workaround for my problem that works splendidly.
After having installed the latest version of the Gmail App, I have discovered that when I go to `Settings > Account > Add account`, I can configure a generic email address (i.e. not necessarily a Gmail one) to be used with the said App. It supports both IMAP and POP3 protocols.
(sorry for the Italian, but it should be understandable nonetheless).
I suppose that this feature was meant to use email addresses from other providers inside the Gmail App, but it will accept any email configuration, even a Gmail one.
So I selected IMAP for my second and third email addresses, and now I can access those accounts just for Gmail; this way they won't be able to get in they way on other Apps.
On [Google Help Center](https://support.google.com/mail/troubleshooter/1668960?hl=en#ts=1665018,1665142) I have found the settings required to configure an IMAP account on an external client, which I have used. I'm reporting them here for completeness.
>
> To configure the 'Email' app on an Android device for access to Gmail,
> just follow the steps below:
>
>
>
> ```
> 1. Enable IMAP in your Gmail settings.
> 2. Open the Email application.
> 3. Tap Menu and the Settings
> 4. In the top corner, tap select Next to get started with setup.
> 5. Enter your full Gmail address and password, then select Next.
> 6. On the next screen, you can give the account a nickname and choose the name to display on your outgoing messages. Tap Done.
>
> ```
>
> And you're done. You can verify your settings from the Inbox view by
> tapping Menu, select Account and then scroll to Server settings.
>
>
>
> ```
> Incoming settings
> IMAP server: imap.gmail.com
> Port: 993
> Security type: SSL (always)
>
> Outgoing settings
> SMTP server: smtp.gmail.com
> Port: 465
> Security type: SSL (always)
>
> ```
>
> Now that your account is set up, learn how actions in your client sync
> with Gmail.
>
>
>
Upvotes: 5 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_7: It is very well possible. Sign in with that particular account only from gmail app and it will not sync with anything else.
Upvotes: -1 <issue_comment>username_8: Using "IMAP email account" instead of "Google Account" works great if email is the only thing you need.
Upvotes: 1 |
2015/01/05 | 696 | 2,783 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a Huawei Ascend G6 LTE (G6-L22) and bought a little USB OTG cable so I could read full sized SD cards while out and about.
Only, it doesn't work, on either of the SD card readers I've tried - both of them small USB2 based readers.
When I plug in USB thumb drives to the adapter, they work fine and I can browse files and photos. But no go on the card readers.
What will happen is the phone either doesn't see the drive at all, or it sees it momentarily then it disappears with a "your SD card was disconnected" notification. The LED on the card reader lights up when you first plug it in, but then goes into a fast blinking pattern which seems to indicate a problem.
Any ideas? I wouldn't have thought an SD card reader would exceed the normal power supplied via USB OTG ports, and its LED lights up. Could the phone just not have a driver that supports card readers?
Edit: the filesystem on the SD card was FAT32, as it was a 16GB card I use in my DSLR. I use the stock ROM but am rooted.<issue_comment>username_1: Without having the same phone, but playing around with OTG, the problem that you are describe seems to be because of the lack of power. Try using an external source of power for your USB card reader before connecting it to the phone. Maybe rooting the phone and searching through the file, you will find the option to output more power to the USB port of your phone.Once I was able to use (on a 4 different devices when I had a USB hub getting power from a power socket. Last but not least maybe this card drive can't be recognised by your phone because of the lack of drivers.
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_2: I believe that the problem is lack of power. Your phone doesn't deliver enough power to the card reader. I would suggest using the same kind of cable you used to need when connecting an external hard disk using USB. It has one contact for the hard disk (card reader in your case), one for the phone and one for extra power (use a separate USB charger/adapter). That should solve the power problem.
I don't know where one can find this kind of cable in your part of the world. They should be fairly easy to find though.
If this doesn't work I would use the Googles ADB developer tool to check the logs on the phone to see if there are any error messages that could help.
Good luck!
Upvotes: 3 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_3: You tried different readers and each exhibits the same problem. Also try a different card by a different manufacturer with the hope it draws less power.
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_4: try another card reader like this [https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XBB4KJ3/ref=olp\_product\_details?\_encoding=UTF8&me=](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/B06XBB4KJ3)
Upvotes: -1 |
2015/01/05 | 444 | 2,070 | <issue_start>username_0: Is there an option to remotely unlock the online Android Device Manager's lock feature if I have the password?
I have read "How to unlock Google Device Manager remote lock?" but I do not have my phone, it was stolen. Also, I have the Google Device Manager password I used to lock my Samsung Active S5 after it was stolen.
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If anyone wants to help me find it I would be very grateful.
I installed the GDM before it was stolen and did not know about all it's features. I locked it because of the data overages. I wish I had not done because it was being tracked by the google maps Location History feature and was tracking every movement until I locked it and shut off the data via my provider. I turned back on the data but the provider said that the phone would have to be manually restarted for the data to start working. So I am hoping that if I unlock it they will start using it again and I can alert the police or get it myself.
I am trying to track the phone before I goto the police. I read the police very rarely recover a phone and this has my life on it and was not backed up properly I just got it and I traded in my old phone. I am a screwed idiot big time...<issue_comment>username_1: There is no method for unlocking in google device manager, but, you could try setting the password to password, and setting the text as, 'the password is <PASSWORD>'.
However, if you can't contact the phone, it is probable that they have wiped it an set up their own google account.
There isn't much you can do, except, tell the police your IMEI number, they probably have a database of lost and stolen phones.
Upvotes: 1 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_2: Go to Settings > Lock Screen > Security. Make sure everything is clear and then there are other security settings, it will allow you there to deactivate.
Upvotes: -1 |
2015/01/05 | 281 | 1,087 | <issue_start>username_0: At the dialer screen I do not receive the option to call using regular number, Skype or Viber.
How can I fix this so that I'm prompted when I want to make a call?
Any suggestion would help me a lot.
Best wishes,
Martin<issue_comment>username_1: You might have set the default dialing option in the past. Go to `Settings > Apps`, from `Options` select `Reset App Preferences`. But this will reset all the defaults you have set for the dialer and all other apps.
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_2: I have found a solution. In the contacts, tapping twice on the picture by a specific contact opens up the option to contact the person via all available means.
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_3: Try [Sky Dialer for Skype](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nimeshm.skydialer) App, It lets you make Skype calls to your android contacts without merging the contacts with Skype (It requires the Skype app to be installed to work), lets you mark and organize favorites for easy calling too.
Full Disclosure: I am the app's developer
Upvotes: 0 |
2015/01/05 | 429 | 1,788 | <issue_start>username_0: I have used smart lock with trusted places since it arrived and it has been working fine. Without any noticable changes, it has stopped working. My location shows in maps as exactly where I am, but being at one of my trusted places still makes me type my pass key.
I have tried toggling location, accuracy, rebooted phone etc but with no luck.
Any ideas on how to fix this?<issue_comment>username_1: This might be an issue with your mobile data connection. Your phone may not receive the sufficient GPS signal to identify and trust the location. Try connecting to a wifi network when you are at a "Trusted Place" for better data connection. I have faced similar issue and works fine when I am connected to WiFi.
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_2: It might have something to do with this issue: [Issue #79735: Smart lock feature (trusted face/device) not working when screen is turned off using software screen off command (DevicePolicyManager.lockNow)](https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=79735)
In short: Smart lock breaks when any app uses "soft power off", i.e. your screen is turned off by an app or in any way except the hardware button or a normal timeout.
Note that when this is the case the small pulsating circle around the lock symbol (at the bottom of the lock screen) is missing, since *all* smart lock variants are disabled (e.g. trusted faces also doesn't work anymore).
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_3: An ananomous poster sent me this;
Disable Android device management at settings/security and try smartlock again. If it works again you can even put device management back on
Guess he didn't want to sign up to register the answer? Can't confirm this since I won't have my phone before a couple of days
Upvotes: 0 |
2015/01/05 | 408 | 1,755 | <issue_start>username_0: I recently bought a Samsung Galaxy trend plus and and my wifi wont turn on evey time i try to turn it on it says turning on for abit and then turns off or a second and then says turning on again but it never actually turns on. Can anyone please help me im having the same problem with my bluetooth as well. I tried the factory reset already and it didn't work anyone else have any ideas?<issue_comment>username_1: There are quite a few ways to fix this, but the easiest way is to format your tablet THIS WILL DELETE EVERYTHING SO **BACK UP**:
**Go into settings (Click home button, Go into app drawer and open click on settings)
Click on Backup & Reset, then click on 'Factory data reset'
Follow the instructions to reset your tablet
[More Detailed Instructions](http://www.wikihow.com/Reformat-Android-Phones)**
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_2: Do you have applied any update(custom or OTA) ?
===============================================
Custom: If you have upgraded your ROM before official release, high possibilites are there to face these type of problems.
OTA: Very rare but possible if your manufacturer provides an OTA and this problem is occurring after updation of device.
Solution:
• If you think it is occuring after update, you should degrade your Firmware version by custom ROM.
You have not updated device since a long time ?
===============================================
In this case high possibilites of facing such problems.
Solution is please go to nearby custmore care or look for OTA update in you handset *Software Update* section which falls under *About Phone* .
[If your device is out of warranty and don't want to spend bucks on it now, please upgrade by custom ROM.
Upvotes: 3 |
2015/01/05 | 506 | 2,062 | <issue_start>username_0: I bought my grandad a cheap Android phone - a Huawei Ascend Y330 - for Christmas. He likes Google Now a lot, but for some reason the command `Call` isn't working.
It's saying (in a robotic voice, not the usual one) `Say the name of the contact you want to call, or say cancel`. It isn't coming up with any contact suggestions either, and it isn't working for any contacts, from simple `home` to slightly more complicated names.
Initially it came up with a permission request to access his contacts, which I approved.
Saying `Call ACME Inc` *does* work though, when it needs to search online for the number.
It's running Android 4.2 Jellybean and there are no updates available.
Any ideas?<issue_comment>username_1: There are quite a few ways to fix this, but the easiest way is to format your tablet THIS WILL DELETE EVERYTHING SO **BACK UP**:
**Go into settings (Click home button, Go into app drawer and open click on settings)
Click on Backup & Reset, then click on 'Factory data reset'
Follow the instructions to reset your tablet
[More Detailed Instructions](http://www.wikihow.com/Reformat-Android-Phones)**
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_2: Do you have applied any update(custom or OTA) ?
===============================================
Custom: If you have upgraded your ROM before official release, high possibilites are there to face these type of problems.
OTA: Very rare but possible if your manufacturer provides an OTA and this problem is occurring after updation of device.
Solution:
• If you think it is occuring after update, you should degrade your Firmware version by custom ROM.
You have not updated device since a long time ?
===============================================
In this case high possibilites of facing such problems.
Solution is please go to nearby custmore care or look for OTA update in you handset *Software Update* section which falls under *About Phone* .
[If your device is out of warranty and don't want to spend bucks on it now, please upgrade by custom ROM.
Upvotes: 3 |
2015/01/05 | 1,982 | 7,974 | <issue_start>username_0: I have a xt894 with Android 4.3.
I bought an extended 3800mAh battery (Mugen) but the droid doesnt recognize it properly.
I tested a couple of battery manager apps, but I dint find what I am looking for.
I would like to know the name of an app that shows the current battery charge based on its voltage<issue_comment>username_1: There is no app that does that, and there never will be, because it is impossible. The voltage of a battery does not tell you how much charge a battery has, nor does any other characteristic of the battery. Battery voltage does drop as capacity drops, but the voltage drop is a function of the *percentage* of charge, not *amount* of charge.
It is impossible to directly determine the amount of charge in a battery at a given point in time, by voltage or any other means. Battery capacity tests can only be conducted by *spending* the battery charge, and measuring it as it is used up. The test doesn't tell you how much charge the battery currently had at any given point in time; it tells you at the end how much charge the battery had at the beginning. I suppose a smart aleck might say that at the end of the test you know how much charge the battery has at that point in time, because that charge is zero. However, you're still not determining that by measuring the charge directly; you're measuring the current, and inferring zero charge based on zero current.
It should theoretically be possible to design an app that estimates capacity by conducting a drain test, but I haven’t been able to find such an app. Maybe that’s because it would be a major pain to run the test. The test would need to start with the battery fully charged and run until it is fully drained, and in order for the test to be accurate you would need to leave the device idle for the duration of the test.
The best method I can think of to estimate battery capacity is to compare the drain rate of the stock battery (or any other battery whose specs you trust as a baseline) to the drain rate of the battery you want to measure, under circumstances that are as similar as possible.
I'm not sure exactly how Android measures the battery percentage. I've read in unofficial sources that it's supposedly based on current and/or voltage, but I've also read that due to the nearly flat voltage vs. charge percentage curve, voltage is not sufficient for determining the charge percentage of lithium ion batteries, and other characteristics need to be used, possibly in combination. In any case, I recommend starting the test from the same percentage charge for both batteries and near the middle of the range, due to the fact that some of the characteristics that can be used to estimate charge percentage (such as the voltage) have a non-linear relationship to the charge percentage, and the curve tends to be flattest near the middle.
Step by step:
1. Insert the reference battery (whose capacity rating you trust) and power up the device.
2. Set the timer for 1 hour, or some amount of time during which you expect that the battery will drain at least 20% but no more than 50%. You it to be enough to produce granular results where rounding errors won’t significantly throw it off, but no so much that you’ve almost depleted the battery and entered the steep part of the voltage curve.
3. To reduce the number of variables that can impact the power drain, run the test after a restart, turn off all network connections (airplane mode), and make sure the screen brightness is constant (by disabling automatic adjustment and screen timeout, or making sure the screen is off for the duration of the test. Running a high drain app can help get more significant results more quickly. However, to ensure that you’re reproducing the same drain rate for both batteries, choose an app with a constant rate of power usage (such as an LED flashlight app). Don’t run any other apps or interact with the device for the duration of the test.
4. Drain it to 75%. The moment it reaches 75%, start the timer.
5. When time runs out, check the battery percentage.
6. Power off, and repeat the test using the extended battery, (make sure you use the same charger and same amount of time, of course).
7. Divide the change in percentage for the extended battery by the change in percentage for the baseline battery and multiply by the baseline battery’s capacity.
For example, running my Galaxy S4 for one hour, in airplane mode with the LED flashlight, on, the screen brightness at maximum, and the timer app displayed, starting from 75% charge, the stock battery drains to 39%, and my Deep Stretch DPS430 extended battery drains to 52%. The stock battery’s capacity is 2600 mAh. So, to estimate the extended battery’s capacity based on how its drain compares to the stock battery:
```
(75 - 39) / (75 - 52) * 2600 = 4070
```
To my surprise, that was actually pretty close to the stated capacity of 4280 mAh (keeping in mind that the test isn’t perfect, and is subject to rounding errors. In this case rounding errors could throw off the results by up to ~110 in either direction, so the actual result really should be stated as “approximately 3960 to 4180 mAh”.)
Upvotes: 3 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_2: >
> There is no app that does that, and there never will be, because it is impossible. The voltage of a battery does not tell you how much charge a battery has, nor does any other characteristic of the battery.
>
>
>
That's not true, [Battery Monitor Widget Pro](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ccc71.bmw.pro) has an option to choose "Calculate battery level from voltage". There are all kinds of battery meters that use voltage to measure charge condition. Admittedly it isn't as accurate as coulomb counting. However, a coulomb counter off calibration will mislead you more than voltage, and thus many modern day designs incorporate both.
It depends a lot on battery technology if voltage can be used to check the charge level. Lithium, which is what we are talking about here, works reasonably well with voltage sensing. NiCD and NiMH don't work well at all. Etc.
You could read more on [BatteryUniversity](http://batteryuniversity.com/) for details and a graph of volt vs charge level for lithium.
Upvotes: 1 <issue_comment>username_3: [](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Z5LGq.jpg)
[VBatt](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.xipa.vbatt) does this work best for me. It allows you to display widget that shows the current battery charge based on its voltage. App description says
>
> Vbatt is a simple battery widget for Android smartphones and tablets. It displays the current battery voltage (Vbatt) and the remaining battery capacity (percentage) and optionally logs these values to a CSV-file.
>
>
> For testing and benchmarking Vbatt provides a JBox2D\*\* based discharger, which drains the battery and displays the clock and runtime and for CPU benchmarking the simulation frequency.
>
>
>
Upvotes: 2 <issue_comment>username_4: Modern cellphones use lithium batteries, which have constant voltage all along their discharge time (almost), hence a 3.7V value can mean "80%" or "20%", so to properly calculate available energy it is required an "electronic fuel gauge" which measures how many mAh came out of the battery and divide them for the known total amount of mAh available in the battery, thus obtaining a number <1 which, multiplied by 100, gives State of Charhe (SoC) in terms of %.
Actually, at full chrage, there is a quick lowering of voltage from 4.2 to 3.7, but this fall just represents a 10% of total charge; then, from 3.7 to 3.5, there is an 80% of the charge, and eventually from 3.5 to 3.0 there is the final 10%.
A voltage-based charge status indicator is instead possible for lead batteries, where the voltage linearly decreases from "maximum charge" value to "minimum charge" value.
Upvotes: 0 |
2015/01/05 | 282 | 1,141 | <issue_start>username_0: I have an HTC One (M8) and downloaded Nova Launcher to customize my layout. I downloaded the Black Glass ADW Theme and it looks great. However, on my lock screen it is still showing the app icons from my HTC Blinkfeed. (Aside from the theme, I have the exact same apps on the launch bar in both the Blinkfeed and Nova home screens.)
I have my alarm on my launch bar so it shows on the lockscreen. When my phone went off this morning, it was the Blinkfeed alarm settings rather than the alarm settings through Nova.
I've been trying to figure out how to get the icons to match both in the look and the functionality but don't know how.. help please! :)<issue_comment>username_1: Its based off Sense's dock icons. Go to the sense launcher and set the dock icons and then set the launcher back to nova.
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_2: First of all, how are you enjoying Nova **launcher?** There is your problem: Nova launcher replaces the home screen **only**. It does not alter the lockscreen. For that, you need a custom lockscreen. These often come with a lot of..... crap you don't want or need.
Upvotes: 1 |
2015/01/05 | 484 | 1,776 | <issue_start>username_0: I can't figure out how to view distances in Google Fit. When I walk, it only shows steps and duration. Is it possible to see the distance? How?<issue_comment>username_1: At current there is no way to view distance, however it will probably come in a future update.
However you could calculate it by multiplying your steps by your average stride.
You can get your average stride by walking 10 metres, counting how many steps you take, and divide 10 by the number of steps.
One thing to bear in mind about google fit, is that it isn't designed to track say, where you went on a run, it is designed to do low power, background tracking and this is probably why there was no distance feature to begin with.
Upvotes: 3 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_2: Good news! As of [May 13, 2015](http://officialandroid.blogspot.sg/2015/05/google-fit-make-every-step-count.html), Google Fit was updated to show more kind of data: calories burned and **distance**. Note that the distance *is approximated*.
On the main screen, select the right drop-down list to change from active time/steps to distance, **or** tap/slide the big circle diagram to the second point.
You can also set the units to kilometers/miles in the settings.
(Image courtesy of Google)
Upvotes: 3 <issue_comment>username_3: The km is not calculated correctly in Google Fit.
It should calculate 1400 steps = 1 km
When there us a break it does not take the previous stros into account.
The calculation should be in a day how many steps walked and it should calculate 1 KM at 1400 steps.
By the process we come to know from 12 am to 12 pm how much we walked in a day in e
Steps
KM
Calories
Heart beat
Upvotes: 0 |
2015/01/05 | 1,401 | 4,133 | <issue_start>username_0: I'm trying to use ROM Manager to install the [cm-10.1.3](http://download.cyanogenmod.org/?device=i777&type=stable) ROM on my phone, but I'm getting the following error (from recovery.log):
```
-- Installing: /sdcard/bluetooth/cm-10.1.3-i777.zip
Finding update package...
I:Update location: /sdcard/bluetooth/cm-10.1.3-i777.zip
Opening update package...
Installing update...
Warning: No file_contexts
script aborted: assert failed: getprop("ro.product.device") == "i777" || getprop("ro.build.product") == "i777" ||
getprop("ro.product.device") == "SGH-I777" || getprop("ro.build.product") == "SGH-I777" ||
getprop("ro.product.device") == "SGH-S959G" || getprop("ro.build.product") == "SGH-S959G"
assert failed: getprop("ro.product.device") == "i777" || getprop("ro.build.product") == "i777" || getprop("ro.product.device") == "SGH-I777" || getprop("ro.build.product") == "SGH-I777" || getprop("ro.product.device") == "SGH-S959G" || getprop("ro.build.product") == "SGH-S959G"
E:Error in /sdcard/bluetooth/cm-10.1.3-i777.zip
(Status 7)
Installation aborted.
result was NULL, message is: assert failed: install_zip("/sdcard/bluetooth/cm-10.1.3-i777.zip")
```
Here's info about my phone:
```
Model number: SAMSUNG-SGH-I777
Android version: 4.1.2
Baseband version: I777UCMD8
Kernel version: 3.0.31-1154545-user
se.infra@SEP-126 #3
SMP PREEMPT Tue Apr 23 22:10:17 KST 2013
Build number: JZO54K.I777UCMD8
Recovery: ClockworkMod 6.0.1.0
```
In addition, I found this set of instructions <http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Install_CM_for_i777>, but using ROM Manager seems to be a much easier way to install the ROM. These instructions say to use the wipe data/factory reset option in CWM recovery - does this mean I should use the "Wipe Data and Cache" pre-installation option in ROM Manager?<issue_comment>username_1: From the [CyanogenMod Wiki](http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Known_Issues_page_for_i777):
>
> "Status 7" Error
> I have a stock AT&T Galaxy S2 (i777) which had been updated to the latest version of Android from AT&T. I followed the instructions for installing CM 10.1 but received the following error:
>
>
>
> ```
> assert failed: getprop("ro.product.device") == "i777" ||
> getprop("ro.build.product") == "i777" ||
> getprop("ro.product.device") == "SGH-I777" ||
> getprop("ro.build.product") == "SGH-I777" ||
> getprop("ro.product.device") == "SGH-S959G" ||
> getprop("ro.build.product") == "SGH-S959G"
> E:Error in /sdcard/cm-10.1.3-i777.zip (Status 7) Installation aborted.
>
> ```
>
> I tried updating to the very latest version of ClockworkMod Recovery, but that didn't help. The solution I found was to edit the "updater-script" file located at cm-10.1.3-i777.zip\META-INF\com\google\android. I removed the first line from that file which was performing the assert and getprop statements. I was certain I have an i777, so I was pretty sure that removing this line would be ok. After removing this line of code I pushed the CM zip file to my phone and was then able to install ok.
>
>
> This page was last modified on 3 December 2013, at 22:42.
>
>
>
So if you are 100% positive that you have an i777, then you can follow these steps:
* extract the update package zip file
* navigate to \*/META-INF/com/google/android
* open *updater-script* in a text editor like notepad++
* remove the first line that does the "assert" checks.
* zip the folder back up, using only "store", no compression.
Upvotes: 3 [selected_answer]<issue_comment>username_2: To make it abundantly clear, since I had this exact same problem, you must unzip and zip the package back up using the same method used to create the zip file, which uses no compression(!).
In my case, I was on linux, and used ubuntu's Archive Manager application to view the contents of the archive. I then found the file causing the issue in /META-INF/com/google/android called 'updater-script' and removed the first line. The archive manager application then handled re-assembly of the archive after I saved the file. Then flashing the rom worked.
Upvotes: 0 |
2015/01/05 | 304 | 1,269 | <issue_start>username_0: I just got the new Samsung Galaxy S5 and I was texting and I accidentally held down one of the words that pops up when I start texting and this box popped up saying that whatever word will be removed from learned words. So now every time I type the word "the" it changes it to their or them or anything similar and its really annoying. Because this is a new phone I have no idea where to go or what to look for. Please help!<issue_comment>username_1: Well you just have to go to settings then to keyboard and open the keyboard configuration and erase the keyboard history. However if that does not work you can try erasing your cache memory in the section of memory in the configuration app.
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_2: On my S5 I can hold down the offending word and it will ask if I want to remove it from the learned list.
Upvotes: 0 <issue_comment>username_3: Click on the right-arrow ">" at the top of the keyboard. This will pull up a list of words. Long press on a word and it will say "\_\_\_ will be removed from learned words". Then press OK and it's gone!
Unless you are trying to remove an email address; then it doesn't disappear! :( Really annoying. Anyone know how to fix that?
On a Samsung Galaxy Note 4.
Upvotes: 1 |