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Voice Dial Aliases?
So I frequently use the voice-activated dial feature, wherein you say aloud "Call Jeff" and it will locate "Jeff" in your contacts and dial him.  However, I have run into an issue which stems from the fact that I, and many of my family/friends, are of a minority origin, and therefore have names which do not really have a great English pronunciation.  My attempts to voice dial these contacts have met with nothing but frustration and failure;  I have no idea what the voice dialer would consider a match to those contacts.  Is there any way to 'alias' a contact, so that instead of saying "Call Apichatpong" (which will do naught but confuse the dialer) I can say "Call Uncle" or "Call Father-In-Law" or something to that effect?  I do NOT want to have to rename the contact;  the person's name is what it is, and I'd prefer to see it that way in the contacts.  I just need an additional way to refer to that contact for voice-dial purposes.  Is there a way to achieve this?

Have you tried using the "Nickname" field? There is also, if you expand the name while editing the contact, places for phonetic spellings of names. That might also help.

What voice dialer are you using, one special to your phone, or Google Voice commands?


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Installing/updating apps over mobile data
On my LG G2 device running Android 4.2.2, I can't seem to install or update any applications while on the mobile network. I can still access the Play Store but upon tapping "Update", the download progress bar remains at 0% and fails after a while (presumably timing out).
I have only restricted background data on YouTube and Instagram but I don't think this would affect the Play Store.
Is this problem solvable or was this done by design? I am not rooted and do not have intention of rooting the device.

Perhaps you're in a poor signal area in which downloads fail or that there's a cap limit?

I experience the problem no matter where I am, with LTE or 4G coverage, and I have plenty of data left for this billing cycle. Even on slow WiFi networks, updates still download slowly. They don't even start when I'm on the mobile network.

are you rooted? what android version? are you running something that is interfering with Google Play Services?

4.2.2 and not rooted

@rink.attendant.6 Could you enable the background data for all the apps and try updating. If it works, I assume the data restriction for Youtube is being applied to Google Play Services as well. It wouldn't hurt to try.

@k1chy It still did not work

Is it working via wifi update?

@user3275057 Yes, installing and updating apps over WiFi is the only way I can get them to install and update.

@rink.attendant.6 then it may be problem with the mobile network. Did u tried in another network

@sameer No, there is nothing wrong with the mobile network as other people using Rogers Wireless can install updates over the mobile network. I've brought my device into the store and they tried resetting my plan but that didn't work either.

@rink.attendant.6 are you restricting data usage for media. In your mobile goto Settings-> Data Usage-> Mobile Tab-> Media, un tick restrict background data. Now try.

@rink.attendant.6 is it working now?

@sameer No it is still not working. Restrict background data was not checked for "Media".

I think I found it, as I had the same problem:

In the Settings go to Mobile Data.
Scroll down to item "Media" and tap it.
Scroll down and see if "Limit background data" is checked. If so, uncheck

This was the cause in my case, because for the Play Store app the same setting was not active. The problem with Android in this situation is, that there is a global setting "Limit background data" and there's a per app setting. Unchecking the global setting does not uncheck the per app setting. Doh!

Sorry, this should have been a comment.

This seems like an answer to me.

@infiniter this is an answer to the question so it should be an answer...

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Can I connect an Android phone to a DSL Modem via USB?
Is it possible to connect my phone directly to a DSL line (Via USB) and then use tethering features to make my phone behave as a Wireless Router ?

I'd imagine something like this may be possible with a device that has OTG Support. However, I don't know if Android is capable of establishing a connection over anything other than Cellular or WiFi in the first place. Any solution would likely be very unwieldly and difficult to implement.

Sounds like a combination of tethering and [wifi-hotspot]. Have you checked those tags, or maybe a combined search?

yep but no result ,how to transfer adsl connection to mobile phone,may be like @dotVezz mention above via OTG usb

I  actually means transfering phone line  to mobile phone directlly via usb or other stuff and use mobile phone like a adsl modem.

yes I am able to find a adapter whick is phone line-usb converter.now the basic question I wanna transfer data via usb to my phone.but can device understand those data coming.http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/1351903876/Support_10_100_1000Mbp_usb3_0.html?s=p

umm,this rj45 jack but I need rj11 jack.

http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/668612667/Hot_sale_high_quality_rj11_to.html   this one is okey for me

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Problem pairing again Nexus 5 with Alpine car stereo
I had my Alpine radio paired and working with my nexus 5.  Then someone unpaired the device on my phone when they wanted to pair it to a different bluetooth device.  Apparently the Alpine phone passphrase is '0000' (if it is needed - I can't recall it being asked for when I initially paired it and it seems that that is a "default" PIN that is attempted automatically?)
The new device did need a passphrase which was '1234'
I have been trying (unsuccessfully) to re-pair my car stereo with the phone.  The message I get is that pairing was unsuccessful due to an incorrect PIN/passphrase.
I can't find anywhere in setting on how to change the passphrase - because it never asks me for one.
I am assuming somehow this is a bug and the last successful PIN is being used.
Previously my stereo would prompt if it should allow the pairing and i would select Yes - this time it doesn't work.
I have seen what looks like similar questions/issues on other forums.  It seems to be a bug or at best a horrible hidden configuration somewhere.
To reiterate:

device A was previously paired fine.
device A was unpaired
new pairing to device B with a PIN
no longer able to pair with device A - with an error message of bad PIN/passhphrase but I
never supplied one for this device.

Any pointers or URLs or suggestions would be most appreciated. (aside from resetting to factory)
EDIT:
To answer the questions in a comment:

I have to look up the model number
I cannot attempt to pair using PIN 0000 - the phone does not give me a choice to do so.  I wish it would - in that case I could probably do it.
Same as above
I have turned off the radio - not sure how to disable BT on it - I will try that
Yes - many, many times - as well as shutting down phone
I am pretty sure visibility is on.  It was working fine until then and I will try it with another phone later today - it is visible. The phone discovers it.  Must be on
The message is displayed on the phone.

I have some questions about yours: 1. What model is your Alpine car stereo? 2. Have you tried to pair your Nexus 5 using '0000' as PIN code? 3. Using '1234'? 4. Have you disabled and enabled bluetooth in your car stereo? 5. In your Nexus 5? 6. How is set the Visibility Mode of car stereo: ON or OFF? 7. The error message comes from your phone or from your car stereo?

The issue was not Android.  (Except perhaps the misleading error message.)
The problem, it turns out, was that the pairings on the radio were "full".  It seems this radio (CDE-133BT) allows 3 pairings.  Well, I inadvertently renamed my Nexus some point along the way when I also unpaired it from the phone.  Attempting to re-pair without first emptying a free slot on the radio failed.  I do not know what the comms is like for denying a connection based on that, but either the radio sent incorrect information about why the pairing was denied or Android reported an incorrect reason.
The problem is solved - By the way  - the way to empty the bluetooth pairings is NOT in the manual - I watched a YouTube video of someone making pairings and discovered a way to find what the pairings were.
Not sure if this Q/A still belongs here, but maybe it will be helpful for someone with an Alpine CDE-133BT someday.

Tim: We are glad to know that you managed to solve the problem and yes, this Q&A belongs here because that's the idea: to help anybody having the same or similar problem. BTW, if you could add the link for that video you watched, that would be good.

It seems there is no way to change your default PIN code, because I've found the following note on some manuals for Alpine car stereos in the sections about Bluetooth pairing (emphasis mine):

The PIN code is fixed as "0000".

(Note found in Owner's Manual for Alpine CDE-HD137BT, Alpine CDE-133BT, Alpine CDE-143BT, Alpine CDE-147BT... I don't know what model you own)

I can't test the following because I have neither a Nexus 5 nor a Bluetooth capable car stereo (in fact I have no car, sorry), but it might help you to solve your problem (the names of settings might be different in Nexus 5 than in my Galaxy Nexus):

In your Nexus 5 go to your app drawer, tap Settings.
Tap Bluetooth (not the ON/OFF switch).
Enable Bluetooth (using the ON/OFF switch). Wait until list of paired devices is loaded.
If in the list of Paired devices it is included your Alpine car stereo, long tap its entry.
From the menu for that entry select Unpair.
Tap Search for devices.
Your car stereo should be detected again and be added to Available devices list: Proceed with the pairing procedure as you normally do, hopefully this time it will allow you to input the right PIN code.

thanks!  But, the problem is that it is NOT paired.  The problem is the phone does NOT allow me to enter a PIN at all.  The devices are UNPAIRED.  The radio is discovered.  Attempting to pair them fails.

Different manufacturers will use different Bluetooth stacks and each is implemented differently. There is no mandate that manufacturers must implemented Bluetooth stacks equally according to the standard set forth here. So, if  Bluetooth devices won't pair properly, then it is safe to assume that the Bluetooth stacks are implemented differently and are not compatible wrt to functionality, like entering a password. You could try to reset the Alpine unit and try again, but I wouldn't hold my breadth...


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Can I use Linux commands on Android?
Android is a kind of Linux. So I would be able to use the commands.
Can I use Linux commands on Android? If I can, how do I?

@Downvoter Please explain why downvoted.

Should I delete it?

You can run some linux commands on terminal application on Android. Install any terminal emulator first then use such commands. However, not all commands could be used. Here are some for example. To run every command linux machine can run, you'll need to root your device.


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What permissions are granted to an app with device administration privileges?
Does a Device Administrator application have any/all permissions such as contacts, storage, etc.. ?
It's not clear from developer.android.com device-admin whether or not these admin rights also imply application permissions.
Or does device administrator simply mean that it can only do the things in the policy it's allowed to such as lock the screen, wipe the phone, prevent (easily) uninstalling the app, etc.. and that permissions to access private information is managed via the permissions settings only ?

Yes, a device administrator only has permissions to do what it says.
If you change the permissions of the app that the administrator is associated with, the administrators permissions will not change
(Answer made from the following sources):

Do you have evidence for this? I'm just curious how you found that out.

From my personal experience, and from research online

It would be nice of you, if you added your online sources. The answer is good but could be better.

As you explicitly pinged me for an answer:
AFAIK, apps can only use permissions declared in their Manifest – so there should be no way an app could add itself permissions it never requested there.
DeviceAdmin gives high extra powers (apps are e.g. protected against uninstall, and can access some extra stuff they couldn't do without). What exactly this includes, I'm not sure. I only can refer to a specific part of the page you've linked, where the powers are explained. I cannot vouch for the pages completeness (or correctness at that: wouldn't be the first time some error made it in there).

Enabling Device Administrator (source: Android Developers; click image to enlarge)
You might remember there's something else carrying a similar name: ADM, the Android Device Manager. Checking above screenshot with that in mind, gives you an idea on the basics: ADM allows you to permit those functions (though AFAIK it doesn't feature "Monitor screen-unlock attempts" and "Disable cameras"). But this is a typical example of using most of those features.

TL;DR: AFAIK DeviceAdmin cannot grant permissions to any app (including the DA-app itself), especially not if the app-in-question did not declare them in its Manifest. It just gives the app carrying this permission access to specific system features not available otherwise.

I take it that this passage on that device administration page:
Once users enable the device admin application, they are subject to its policies. Complying with those policies typically confers benefits, such as access to sensitive systems and data.
means that an example company app could allow access to company sensitive data, not the other way around.

That's correct, @ChristophAlrich – but at the same time, the company gets the permission to remotely wipe your device whenever it wishes, or have your password changed. I'd be very careful with whom I grant this. If some company wanted to force it upon me, I'd tell them to rather give me a device of theirs, but wouldn't let them manipulate my own.


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Can't access photos on Nexus device
I have connected my phone (Nexus) to my windows 10 computer. I have entered the pin number on the phone and the driver for the phone is installed on the computer. The device shows up on Windows Explorer but the folder is empty so I can not access my photos. Any ideas?

Which Nexus and which Android version?

Android Version 7 and Nexus version 5x

On Android 6.0 and above you have to select USB connection type on your phone after you attached a computer or other device because the default USB connection type is charging.
You can do that when you plugged in your phone to your computer pull the phone's notification bar and tap on the appearing notification, something like this: USB for charging and select the desired USB connection type - in your case: File transfer (aka MTP).
There is a way to set the default USB connection type to MTP. You should enable Developer options on your device and in it search Select USB Configuration and set it to MTP.


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ffmpeg - Permission denied when running binary, even as root
I've compiled ffmpeg for Android with the NDK and transferred the compiled binary to /data/local, but when I try to execute the binary, even as su, the terminal returns 'Permission denied.'
The configure script I use for ffmpeg is:
NDK=/home/adam/ndk/android-ndk-r9c
PLATFORM=$NDK/platforms/android-19/arch-arm
PREBUILT=$NDK/toolchains/arm-linux-androideabi-4.8/prebuilt/linux-x86_64
./configure --target-os=linux --arch=arm --enable-cross-compile --cross-prefix=$PREBUILT/bin/arm-linux-androideabi- --sysroot=$PLATFORM --enable-pic --enable-runtime-cpudetect
ls -l ffmpeg outputs:
-rw-rw-rw- root      root 10338136 2013-12-30 15:54 ffmpeg

Hmm... Are you sure that the binary has executable permissions (even for root)? Could you [edit] your question to include the current permissions for the compiled binary? An ls -l output for the file will probably do the trick.

@dotVezz Added 'ls -l ffmpeg' output

There's your problem. Try chmod +x ffmpeg and see if that fixes it. (You may need to run that as root)

@dotVezz 'chmox +x ffmpeg' returns 'Bad mode'

Still returned 'Bad mode'. Manually setting permissions in ES File Explorer fixed the issue and the binary executed successfully.

Great! I've posted an answer which details the steps we've taken. Feel free to upvote and/or mark it as accepted.

Looking at your file permissions, it looks like a simple permissions problem. The file does not have execution permissions for any users.
You can use many different options to set permissions:

chmod should work on most cases.
You can also use many file managers to set file permissions individually. The option you wound up using, ES File Explorer, is an excellent example of such.

You should also read up on Unix Permissions if you're not already familiar with the subject. It'll be a great help in the future.


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Does Android Jelly Bean 4.1 Support Microphone Audio Input from mini USB Headset?
Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 7.0 (WiFi) 16Gb device running Android Jelly Bean 4.1
This tablet has a 3.5mm jack for stereo audio out. No microphone jack. At least this is the way I'm reading the specs:  http://www.samsung.com/uk/consumer/mobile-devices/tablets/tablets/SM-T2100ZWABTU
I want to run Skype on this tablet https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.skype.raider
I have used Skype in my Win7 laptop with a USB headset for years with great results - high quality phone calls; as good as my home land-line phone and far better than magic jack.
Has anyone used this tablet in this configuration before or something close? Successfully?

I'd actually be surprised if the headphone jack wasn't a combined headphone/microphone jack. Have you tried any headset/microphone devices like this one from Samsung? (EDIT: Updated the link - Amazon is a lot cheaper)

I wonder, why would you need a usb headset for your device? as dotVezz suggested, you should get a headset(with built in microphone) with your device, and that is way better then you think.At least that will do your skype-type-work efficiently without any trouble. And yes those can really give you standard sound quality as well.


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Disable notifications for random news stories
Many times per day, my phone shows me notifications like the one below. It's a random news story (which admittedly is on a topic I am interested in), but I have never wanted to get a notification about a news story, ever.
I hate it displaying a new news story every 10 minutes, but I'm fine with it giving a notification for things like the weather, my commute, etc., so I'd rather not disable all Google notifications. I'm also fine with it listing these news stories in the leftmost page of the home screen, I just don't need a notification about them. (I'm also fine with losing the news stories from the leftmost page, if that's the only way to get rid of the notifications.)
I have tried this already: From the leftmost page of the home screen, click the user account icon in the upper-right, select 'Settings', select 'Notifications'. I disabled several categories, including 'Topics of interest', 'Business listings', and 'Stocks'. There is no 'news' category or similar.
I do see the option to remove a particular news source (e.g., 'InsideEVs' in the screenshot below), but that's not a solution; I want all of them gone at once, not whack-a-mole.
My phone is a Pixel 3 XL, running Android 9.
Here's an example of a notification I want to get rid of.

The message in the screenshot looks to me like a "Stocks" notification of Google Now: https://www.maketecheasier.com/control-google-now-notifications/

"Stocks" is one of the notification categories I already had disabled. (The two I listed in the question were not a complete list, just the two that seemed most likely to me.)

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Superuser does not show prompt
Firstly I need to say that I know this topic has been discussed many times but none of answers helped and I think this question is somewhat different than the others.
I have tried to root my Android 4.2.1 phone trying various automatic methods, where all of them failed. Also rooting using update.zip does not work due to "Invalid OTA, missing scatter" error.
However I am able to get root access using "adb root" command so I have tried to root my phone manually:

'adb root' and 'adb remount' commands to gain access to system partition
downloaded newest su binary (version 3.1.1)
pushed it to '/system/xbin/su'
set suid and sgid bit: 'chmod 6755 su' --> ls -l displays '-rwsr-sr-x root     root       380532 2008-02-29 02:33 su'
linked '/system/xbin/su' to '/system/bin/su'
installed newest Superuser from Google play (3.1.3)
installed busybox (though this is not necessary if I understand correctly?)

Now it gets interesting:
When I 'adb shell' into my phone, I can use 'su' command and automatically get root privileges ($ changes to # and I can access root's files), and it is logged in Superuser app with originator as 'Shell'. BUT when I try application that needs root, it takes long (10 seconds) and then it fails (I have tried 'Root Checker Basic' from the store).
The Superuser app never shows any popup, also it is not in the log. It seems that it automatically denies all requests.
So here is my question: Have I done all steps correctly? (maybe I am missing something very important)
I am quite desperate right now (spent nearly 2 whole days trying to have this done), so I would even resort to solutions as editing some Superuser config files and enabling root access for app manually.
PS: If you need additional info, just ask, I will try to fill information if possible
Further investigation:

setting auto-allow in Superuser does not work either
running su from terminal throws exception: java.lang.SecurityException: broadcast asks to run as user -1 but is calling from user 0; this requires android.permission.INTERACT_ACROSS_USERS_FULL or android.permission.INTERACT_ACROSS_USERS.
So I need to set this permission somewhere..

I'm not 100% sure, but shouldn't the su be owned by system:system? AFAIK there's no user "root" on Android devices (hence the "invalid" negative userID, I guess). Maybe you try chown system:system /system/xbin/su and see if that does the trick. Please report back: if it works, I'll make this an answer.

@Izzy So I have tried your suggestion with various accounts, system, root, -1, random rumbers... And it is weird - it always fails with the same exception, including the "calling from user 0". Suid and Sgid bits were correct (tripple checked).

uid 0 is the most privileged user (root on Linux), so the "calling from" looks good. You can try which user belongs to this id by "suing" to it and issuing the id command. // Btw, I just checked on one of my devices, and have to take back my previous guess: su shows up as -rwsr-sr-x root root, just the size differs (104800 2013-12-31 23:32 su on my ICS device). Maybe your Superuser has an issue? Check ls -l /system/app/Super*, mine gives me -rw-r--r-- root root  570342 2012-01-01 04:41 Superuser.apk.

@Izzy Interesting. So maybe I am using wrong or outdated su. I have tried several 3 or 4 versions and none matched in size. Could you please check su -v for its version? And which Superuser app are you using (by which I mean from who)?

I'm using SuperSu (and the output is 1.86:SUPERSU) on a 4.0.3 LG O4X here (that's the device I've checked). AFAIR I've got chainfire's superuser on my other devices.

Izzy's comments lead me to correct path, so I have managed to root the device. If somebody else having the same problem (auto-root programs don't work but you can access device using adb root), here is complete how-to to root your phone manually:

Install Superuser from ClockworkMod on Google Play directly to your phone
Prepare adb as root and make /system writeable: adb kill-server, adb root, adb remount (you might need to kill adb.exe in task manager if it hangs)
Pull the just downloaded apk to your computer: adb pull /data/app/com.koushikdutta.superuser-1.apk (note: it may have different name in the future)
On your PC: open the apk using zip (for example rename extension to .zip or use WinRar)
Copy from zip system\bin\su to your working directory
Push it to your phone: adb push su /system/xbin/su
Be sure that owner is root: adb shell chown root:root /system/xbin/su
Set SUID and SGID bits on the binary: adb shell chmod 06755 /system/xbin/su
Reboot phone: adb reboot
Try su from adb: adb shell, su; prompt should change from $ to #
Try su from phone: install terminal and use command su or use Root Checker Basic from the store
If su from adb works but does not work from phone, repeat whole process from 1 but download different Superuser application from market (for example ChainsDD's version didn't work for me)


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How To Install Android 5 on an LG G Pad 7.0?
I have an LG G Pad 7.0 running Android KitKat (4.4.2). Could I update it to Android 5, even though there is no release for the G Pad 7?
I would also by fine with the latest version of CyanogenMod.
Also, I am very new to Android, but is it flexible in the way that you can change the Android version easily, or install another UI?

Android is releasing an official update to Android 5.0 for all LG G Pad devices. It will be out soon according to this website

Yes, it is relatively easy (compared to apple). The basic steps you will have to take are as follows:

Unlock the bootloader, can vary massively in difficulty by device, depending on how irritating your manufacturer's being. This will wipe all your data, but theoretically is the last time you ever have to wipe your data.
Install a custom rom of your choice

In order to find more concise tutorials, explaining step by step, do a google search for "lg g pad 7.0 (LTE?) bootloader unlock"

So I've found that it is possible to do a bootloader unlock, but there are no ROMS for the G Pad 7. Is there an Android 5.0 ROM that was made for the G Pad 7 out there, or are we still waiting on one?

From what I have seen you are still waiting for one, you may be able to find an alpha build if you look hard enough


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Quiet sound after 4.3 update - Samsung Galaxy SIII
Since my Samsung Galaxy SIII was updated to 4.3, I have had problems when listening to music.
The sound is very low when my equalizer turns on. I've already tried to configure the equalizer accordingly, but that doesn't seem to help. I uninstalled the equalizer but the sound is still low.
What can I do?
Thank you in advance.

What have you done? From what you write, the first thing coming to my mind is "configure that equalizer accordingly". Have you tried that already?

Yes of course, I've also tried to uninstall it but the sound doesn't change.

What have you tried to uninstall: the equalizer? What outcome (have you been able to uninstall it)? // BTW: You can [edit] your questions to include additional details. The more background you give, the better we can help.

So, after a long year trying to figure out what was going on, I have just reset my phone to factory settings and it works perfectly, but I am still not able to determine the cause of that problem.

Do you use AllShare Dongle app? Its last update muted my headphones. I uninstalled the update and my headphones worked again.

There is nothing like 'deinstalled'. It's either 'uninstalled' or 'reinstalled'. Edit the answer if it's the latter one since I picked the former.


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Wifi password lost every time I reboot my phone
VS985 - Verizon LG G3 - CM12 Nightly - 5.0.2
This has been going on for a few months now, and is just driving me bonkers. Every time I reboot my phone, and am home, my phone forgets the password for the wifi. All other devices in the house (iphone, ipad, laptops, kindles, chromecasts, etc.) do not have this issue.
This only happens for my home router – passwords for other networks are surviving reboots.
As I have my phone how I like it, I don't want to start from scratch. I tried wiping system, but it's like the password is a part of my personal data and that for some reason it is forgotten so often? Does anyone have ideas on how I could go about fixing this?

And you haven't asked this at the CM forum yet?

Not a solution, but a work-around:
The WiFi password is not stored on /system – it's in /data/misc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf. As you're using CyanogenMod, it should be safe to assume you're having root access. So you could use an automation tool (yes, I've got tasker in mind here) to copy that file to a "safe place" whenever shutting down the device, and have it restored from there on each boot.

This might work, however it does not explain why the password is getting lost each time. Other APs work without any issues. Is there a way to reset access points both on the device, and those synced with googled?

As written: not a solution (nor an explanation) – but at least better than nothing. You just introduced a new fact in your comment: this "Alzheimer" only happens to the password of this specific router – but not for others? If so, please include that fact with your question directly, might be an important pointer! (And gets myself even more confused on how that's possible – I've never heard about a feature like "session passwords" for WiFi)

If its only happening for your router then I think it's because of your SSID name or password. Maybe they contain some uncommon characters. And maybe during boot CM is unable to resolve them correctly (characters not available in the encoding used for saving and reading the file), causing the loss.
Once I used the ¥(Yen) symbol in my password and my friends Lumia could not connect to it.

I have changed permissions to 644 (from 660) on /data/misc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf. That helped (so it seems so far).

I think you wanted to comment on this answer.

@Firelord You could count this as an alternative approach: Vedran removed the write permission for the group, so whatever it is obviously was unable to write to the file anymore. As the write-bit however is left for the owner, it might be the user still can store new connections. I have not tested that, so it's for Vedran to confirm my suspicion. // Vedran: Could you please add a few more details on what you did, and confirm it's still possible to add new connections after that?

@Izzy For clarification: I didn't down-vote this in case if you or anyone wonders! Or I could've posted a different comment.

@Firelord I didn't accuse you of anything here :) My addressing you also was just for clarification.


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My S4 Mini won't (even try to) send text messages
I tried to send text messages yesterday. When I pressed send, my text disappears from the text field but nothing else happens. The message doesn't appear in the chat log as sent or trying to send or in any other way.

I sent the messages to four different people. None received it.
I restarted the phone. Nothing changed.
I tried sending the messages in two different places, 50 kilometers apart from each other.
I tried sending the messages in those two different places, twice in each place, each time on a different day.
I'm with Rogers in Ontario. I was well within the coverage zone every time I tried.

How can I fix this?

This is interesting, messages getting sucked into the void. Have you tried using a different SMS app?

@aureljared I haven't. Is there a free one that you recommend?

You can try Google's own Hangouts. I've also tried Sliding SMS, which I prefer over anything else; but you can search the Play Store for 'sms app' if you want.

I know this seems trivial but try turning on and off your flight mode on your phone. it worked for me. I had been fiddling around with my sim card and then had the same problem as you. anyways hope that helps

Updating the time settings worked for me too!   Updating time manually did not wotk; had to set it to select the "use network provided time" option.  Fixed the problem almost instantly.

I had that same problem today.. Sent and received messages were getting sucked into the void. I was able to send messages but they would not show up on my end.
Tried disabling hangouts to no avail. Fiddled with the text messaging settings. Even the post above about the cache.
Nothing worked. I checked the time/date settings.  They were wrong once I fixed that I could see my messages again.


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Why can't person on other side hear music playing in my phone during a call?
I always wonder why is it that while on call, the person on other side can hear my voice clearly but can't hear any music/video playing on my phone. Mic fairly picks up any other ambient sound playing on my laptop.
When we play music on phone ultimately it also becomes an ambient sound, why can't phone picks up that? I am pretty sure it has to do something with the sound card, or is it not?

Saw this. Things became a little more clear but not completely. I just want to know when music is playing and I am speaking simultaneously, why mic captures only my sound. Does it filter out the music?

@beeshyams From my understanding he probably is willing to know how Android filtered out the music playing on the phone, despite that the music played (from the loudspeakers into the open environment) is also supposedly captured by the mic.

@AndyYan Exactly that's what I want. Thanks for making it more clear.

I think your are misinterpreting ambient sound

You are in a crowded , noisy place and are talking to someone on phone. They can't hear you clearly because of the ambient noise around you. Why? Because the phone mic captures your voice and noise around you

In this case what you hear is what the other party hears = Ambient noise + your voice

In the case of music playing on your phone (media player running) and you talking at the same time, it is not ambient . Phone mic picks up only your voice (while what you are hearing is both streams media and your own voice) because voice is prioritised cutting out media. Once you establish a voice call

From this point on the telephony service has the highest priority and won't let any other audio play in parallel.

In this case what you hear (media + voice) is not what the other party hears. He hears only your voice. Think of it as you can hear two channels or streams whereas other party can only hear one stream of your voice
Now, if you were to play the same media from your laptop speakers while you are talking that's the first case of Ambient noise
Related Direct Music Player audio to Caller

This answers a lot of my questions. So, at any given point mic is not hearing the music since it is muted by my phone. What if there is any delay/echo caused by same music? That will be ambient, right?

Delay /echo shouldn't matter because the media channel is cut off from voice. Only case it will be ambient noise is by Bluetooth earphones or speakerphone call. Haven't verified Bluetooth case but going by documentation

Delay / echo of for you , not for the other person. What is ambient for you is not what he hears

@beeshyams I know this is a long time later, but I don't fully understand how if the music coming from the phone bounces off the wall into the mic it doesnt pick up. How exactly does the phone just distinguish between the two? Is there some post-processing happening?

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How can I see which websites use up most of my foreground data?
Every month I use up most of my mobile data in Chrome. This is the foreground data, not background data, so the data saver settings don't do much.
My plan is to avoid those websites that use up most of my data. But to do so I need to find out which websites do so.
My mobile data usage only charts per app, and while I know it's chrome, I have no indication which website is most to blame.
Is there a way of recording this, either in the browser via flags/policy/settings or on a system level (system settings or another application)? I've used VPN apps as a  firewall previously but they ended up using a lot of battery.
How can I track website data usage on chrome?

I don't think there is a way to get a granular record (I may be wrong) but you can try the app mentioned here and to see the network usage opening a single chrome site at a time. That could possibly help you in identifying data hogging sites

As I discussed a similar issue here: Android app to show what apps/processes are currently using data. The same workaround is applicable in this case too.
I will focus on this specific part however:

How can I track website data usage on chrome?

It is still possible using the mentioned tool: Network Connections

To get website specific usage just open the app and navigate to Current Connections Tab.
The log is given in two formats i.e IP address or hostaname. If you want the Ip address resolved to hostname simply tap, Resolve IPs to Hostname option.
It should appear like this:

I produced this log, when I was browsing StackExchange website, and from the screenshot you can see it gives the data usage associated with the website an if you open another website it also shows data usage specific to that hostname and sub-hostname associated to that particular website.
Only part that I am not sure is giving a very finer log on per website basis that can be stored as a seperate log, AFAICT you could periodically start live capture of traffic and see the sites which generate a lot of data usage.

Do your know why it wouldn't show the amount of data sent and received? All I see is the connection status (TCP established etc.)

You mean on yourdevice, can start a live traffic capture?

Yes, I can follow the steps in your post but I don't get the same result.

The Network Connections link gives “not found”


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Why is there no app from Google like LastPass?
I am asking this because Google is already managing password in Google Chrome password manager. Having a dedicated app like LastPass would make everything easier.

Google offers "Smart Lock for Passwords" service in Android. This service is part of the whole android suite on your android device.
Using this, google offers to save passwords for services offered by your apps. This passwords are synced to your google account and are accessible(and auto suggested/filled) on corresponding mobile app, Chrome desktop app or Chrome mobile app. The only catch here is that you cannot see the passwords directly on your mobile phone natively. However, You get a link in Google Services "Smart Lock for Passwords" section to access your passwords, which redirects you to the google account web dashboard portal. After logging in to the above portal you can view and manage your saved passwords.
You can turn this service ON/OFF from "Google Services" option in your Phone Settings.


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Anyone knows the second icon?
Thanks very much for explaining !!

That N-shaped notification represents NFC, which normally appears when its turned on.

NFC, or Near Field Communication, is a technology that allows devices
  to exchange information simply by placing them next to one another.

Read more here:

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Is there a different fastboot command for the Google Pixel and the oem-off-mode command?
I'm trying to set a Google Pixel to boot when the power is connected. I found discussion of using the fastboot oem-off-mode charge = 0 command, but when I reboot the device into the bootloader and try the command I get a fastboot: usage: unknown command oem-off-mode error.
Is this command no longer supported or did they rename the command?

I had a hyphen in the wrong spot. The proper command is fastboot oem off-mode-charge = 0

Try fastboot oem off-mode-charge 0 (without equal sign) instead.


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Qi wireless charger
I just purchased a Samsung Galaxy S9+ and it should arrive soon.  I am interested in getting a couple wireless chargers and looked on Amazon.  I see there are a large variety of chargers.  Since this will be my first wireless charging phone, I was curious, are there any specific features and specifications I need to look for in a Qi charger for my phone?

Firstly, congratulations on your phone. Once you start using wireless charging you'll be hooked.
I have Samsung's own EP-PG950 wireless charger that was marketed alongside last year's S8 and S8+. That supports two modes of charging:

Normal wireless charging, at 5V and 2A input (i.e. 10W input) and 5V and 1A output (i.e. 5W output)
Fast wireless charging, at 9V and 1.67A input (i.e. 15W input) and 9V and 1A output (i.e. 9W output)

Samsung's flagships support both normal and fast wireless charging.
Now, the Qi standard itself specifies a minimum of 5W output (i.e. the normal wireless charging listed above), so any Qi charger will support your phone.
If you stick to brand name Qi chargers (e.g. Samsung itself, or Belkin, Anker, and other such big names in the mobile accessory space), you will be fine.

I bought a cheap $10 charger from Amazon a day or two after I got the phone.  It said it supported the S8, so I figured it would work.  It works great.  Its good to know about the fast charging though.  I will look to see how much more expensive they are.  If the cost is significantly more, Ill still with the cheap ones.


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still a mystery . thumbdata3 file space & performance hog
I just don't know how to fix this issue.
I have tried almost everything and give up.
I have read other threads on what to do if there is .thumbdata3  file that occupies a lot of space. my file occupies almost 20 gb and I cannot afford that space waste.
I have done the following to try and circumvent but nothing works

create an Empty file with the same name.
that empty file will eventually increase to the same size
stick a  .nomedia  file in every folder that contains an image so this file does not grow in size.
and then I repeated the above first... the file is still created.
there are some observations have had in that regard.
initially the dummy file I created remains as it is. then as soon as I try and open or call in Explorer through some third party app for example there is an app that needs of photo to upload so Explorer is invoked through the app to choose the photo the phone then  completely freaked out and Will hang and forces a reboot
why this hung state happens I open up process monitor which unlike other apps will run regardless of how hung the phone is... I find the process download manager and under that the process name is android..process.media
this process strikes out as the highest CPU consumer. and within a matter of minutes the hounded  20 gig   .thumbdat3 file is back.
I am rooted on an  Xperia Z3 Running Android 6.0.
another thing that I observed -if I use any third party app that is supposed to let me CHMOD and C H O W N even though an attempt to remove write permissions. for everyone, will run without errors the file permission will remain the same they will not change. dytto experience when you use terminal emulator and SU on the prompt

I wonder
-if I disable manual this process
android..process.media

then what happens.

why is it that in spite of sticking in a ..nomedia file in each and every folder in spite of that the process will build the 20 gig file.

"create an Empty file with the same name" – well, that will just be used then. Try creating a directory with the same name, that should work if you want to get rid of the thumbs completely.

no actually .thumbdata3 file is created within     .thumbnails directory ... so creating a directory with the same name will not help. I will try creating a file by the name of the directory I don't know if that would help I have to check it out

Then create .thumbnails/.thumbdata3 as directory. If you insist on trying with a file, at least make that read-only.

I tried to mess around with octal as an su... that is one of the questions I asked in here..... even as SU  I cannot change them

I've never tried that, but a raw idea: the reason behind that most likely is the "FUSE" system used here. Assuming we're talking about /sdcard: that's just a "symbolic link" pointing to a different place. Maybe you can change file permissions at the "real location". Note that can be multiple "hops", the symbolic link pointing to another symbolic link. On my device, /sdcard points to /storage/self/primary which then points to /mnt/user/0/primary which points to /storage/emulated/0. The latter then is the "real location".

well one thing that totally o overlooked my attention was the fact that all this memory is from my SD card which is formatted as exfat  ... that is why the octal stuff does not work. so then if I dig up the Direct Path that does not use shortcut I Would Still expect the same result octals  not working .. well for the time being I created file by that name and so far so good touch wood. the weird behaviour would begin when I would try to invoke File Explorer through any kind of third party app. example there is a app to convert media from one format to the other where you need to pick your fi

pick your file using some kind of Explorer  gui... that is the time it used to completely freak out and force a reboot in fact sometimes couple of them now after I created this file it seems stable... I tried to change the picture of a contact. sofar touch wood like I said let us see

On the command line (terminal or adb shell), try fatattr +r .thumbdata3 then (to revert, -r). That is what's used for FAT based file systems.

thank you s. so far it seems to work with just the file created by the same name.

ok I tried to run the command on exFat it gives me the Message  command not implemented.

Seems to be ROM specific then (it is available on my devices running LineageOS). Was worth a try. So let's see how it works out on your end; if the issue is solved, be welcome to answer your own question with the necessary details. Fingers crossed!

yep.. so far so good.... but I have read elsewhere this thing did not work.... and with my repeated attempts to prevent that Monster from growing .... I had almost Given Up any hope..... imagine Mast be in the Google Android gene... capture people's personal data that level  and send it back to mountain view.

after I get this there is absolutely no impact on the existing thumbnails the infact start showing up faster when I invoke Explorer through an app

in my case creating an Empty file with the same name works and this problem as since then disappeared.
so a trick is to create thumbnails file after you delete the folder by the same name


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Acer liquid e600 won't start after rooting
I have a problem with my smart phone Acer Liquid e600.
I followed a procedure to gain root access in my phone, during the procedure, the phone was restarting twice, then it shut down and couldn't start, and my PC doesn't recognize my phone anymore.
I tried to press both volume and the on/off button simultaneously for 10 seconds to start the safe mode but I failed to do that as well.
Can you show me how to do a flash or a recovery to restore my phone?

Try pressing Volume up and power button at the same time for 15 seconds.

Had the same problem. Fully charge the phones. PROBABLY that will unlock your phone.
Good luck

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SD card supported by Android 4.2.2
I bought a HTC 310 Desire running Android 4.2.2 (Jelly Bean) and would like to format my SD card (SDHC 32GB) so to be able to contain files larger than 4GB.
I tried formatting the card exFAT, NTFS, ext2, ext4 (using the utility of my Windows PC, of a MAC and using MiniTool PartitionWizard) but when i place back the card into the phone, the phone keep saying that the card is damaged and propose to reformat it. If I accept the card will be formatted as FAT32 (i.e. no file larger than 4GB possible).
Do you know what can be done? Possibly without rooting the phone?
Is there somewhere a list of the file system supported by my phone?
Or is there something special to pay attention to in the card formatting?

I have looked into this issue before, and as it stands at the moment, native android does not support exFAT or NTFS.
Support for additional formatting types are included in some ROMs because they have been specifically coded to do so such as AFAIK which I believe supports NTFS.
I think you are stuck with FAT32 unless you wish to root and flash a ROM that supports alternative formats.

I fear you are right. No support for anything else than FAT32. Nevertheless I recently managed to format a SD card as exFAT and make it recognized on a sony xperia z3 android 4.4.4. In that case formatting with the Windows tool and MiniTool PartitionWizard did not work while formatting with MAC did work. So I hoped that finding the magic formatting parameters I can still make it working. Or maybe is my phone and it's android version the cause of the problem?

@luca The main problem with exFAT is that it is patent encumbered, so many manufacturers choose not to support it in order to avoid paying licensing fees. Samsung often supports it, and Sony apparently did (for your Xperia Z3, at least), but HTC may not.


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SMS sent contains text from other SMS
I sent an SMS and my contact received only part of the message I sent, to which some text I sent to another contact, a few months ago, was appended. I have proof it happened twice, but here is what it looks like:
September : I send ContactA a message: "AAA AAA"

On my phone : "AAA AAA"
On ContactA phone: "AAA AAA"
On ContactB phone: [Nothing] (As you would expect)

December : I send ContactB a message: "BBB BBB"

On my phone : "BBB BBB"
On ContactA phone: [Nothing] (As you would expect)
On ContactB phone: "BBB AAA AAA"

I checked with my carrier, and he told me that he saw that the text I sent ContactB was 11 characters long (it was actually way longer than that, but I ajusted the number to fit the example.)
The first time I got a proof it happened, I was using GO SMS, so I uninstalled it, and it happened again a day after using the default (Hangout) application.
I think this is a really serious problem since it violates my privacy with ContactA by revealing some conversation to ContactB.
Devise / OS Version : Nexus 5 / 5.0

It's... really an interesting case, as I never heard about this case. I actually doubt it's caused by either GO SMS or Hangouts, or even related to Nexus 5 and Lollipop. I guess it is similar to this question, but it's unanswered too. It might be a problem with your carrier instead.

Yeah, I saw that question, but I asked mine still because in his questionS, he also goes toward asking stuff about subscription to Twitter. It might has something to do with my carrier, but I won't know until it rehappens. I deleted all my SMS history, so if my contact tells me it happens again, I'll tell my provider to investigate on his end.


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I can't use the sd card to download apps
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?

possible duplicate of Installing to SDCard by default

Welcome to the Android Enthusiasts! Please start checking our insufficient-memory tag-wiki, which contains some first aid and links to more. Then come back here and let us know how you solved your issue – or tell us what you've tried and where you're stuck.

That's because your internal memory is full ,allmost. To place app's on SD card you will need apps2sd or link2sd app and phone has to be rooted, also if you have android version 6.0+ you can use feature called adoptable storage so sd card will behave like internal, noo root required but you wouldn't be able to use sd with other phone only if you format it first

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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.

You can try the following;

Clear cache or app data.
Uninstall unused app.
Root your device and use link2sd
If your device used MTK processor, try to repartition your internal storage.

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"

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.

I did this steps in my Zenfone 5, so I'm pretty sure it'll work. (WARNING : You will void your warranty!)

Root your device. Then I suggest to take a full backup with Titanium Backup.
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!)
Install Link2SD from Play Store. Select your second partition type, based on what you choose at step 2.
Open settings, look for auto link, enable. (Can't remember the exact name ...)
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.

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.

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.

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.

"insufficient space" message is caused by altogether different things. See the tag wiki of [tag:insufficient-memory.]

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I can't boot into recovery on my C6603
So Basically I put a recovery into my sony xperia z and i tried flashing an unofficial cyanogenmod 12. But afterwards the phone could not boot up to recovery due to the way i get into the recovery. Usually, the sony boot up sign would show up then i would press the volume up or volume down button to get to the recovery. But the phone can't even boot up now. What do i do?

Can you go into the Bootloader? If yes, you can flash the ROM and Recovery and save your device.

Besides, are you certain it is charged enough?

After flashing a custom ROM you have to press the volume key when the LED lights up (purple, if I remember correctly), not when the logo appears.


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Update for att s5 on tmobile service?
So I got an att galaxy s5 that is being used on tmobile service.  Am I out of luck as to getting either the att 4.4.4 update or the tmobile lollipop update?  Checked through settings and version is 4.4.2 and shows as no new update is available for att and I do not see an option for tmobile.

Have you rooted your device? If you have rooted your device you wont get any update.
If not rooted then you can try by installing Kies to your PC and then try updating through PC.

That is not true about a rooted device not getting updates. Usually, when you root, you disable OTA updates, but you do not have to. They are usually disabled because an OTA will undo root, usually.


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Have oem unlocking option available in nokia 3 ,do i have to unlock bootloader?
there are guides on rooting and it first requires to unlock bootloader on nokia3, at first i did do it but due to some issue i had flash firmware ,after flashing back there was a option available of oem unlocking .
So do i have to unlock bootloader even if i had oem unlocking option available in settings and also can you tell on starting device i get red state warning is it a big issue or should i ignore it.

That option does not do the unlocking itself – it just prevents it (when toggled off) or permits it (when toggled on). So yes, even with this option present, if you want to have the bootloader unlocked while it isn't, you will have to run fastboot oem unlock – after permitting it here.


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What are the differences between these adb and fastboot packages?
In my Bash shell, I have the packages: adb vs android-tools-adb as well as fastboot vs android-tools-fastboot.
For reference I am trying to root my device, and later use these tools to learn about how Android works etc.
What are the differences between the packages? Is each one a subset of the other?

May I recommend you a look into their corresponding tag-wikis: adb and fastboot? That should already answer your question.

I looked at those, but there is no reference to the respective packages.

So you know the difference between adb and fastboot? I'd say the respective packages should match that – that the tools-adb package provides adb and the tools-fastboot package provides fastboot, and not vice versa. But reading your question again I just now realize: that's not what you're asking! What distri are you on?

I am using the Ubuntu app from the Microsoft store.

Thanks for self-answering! Glad to see the mystery solved :)

The shorter named packages, adb and fastboot are part of android-platform-system-core, and are minimal versions. Likewise, their longer named counterparts belong to android-tools, and are the full versions. apt show <package name> doesn't say much about their differences, except that the adb will break android-tools-adb. The same goes for fastboot.
This is the homepage for the longer named versions, but it makes no mention of fastboot.
The shorter versions' homepage is here.


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How to extract a compressed TWRP backup?
There are a couple questions concerning how to extract a TWRP backup in this community, but none of them is really useful. All I found out is that the files like data.ext4.win000 are the tar archives, and I should be able to extract them via the following commands:
$ cat data.ext4.win??? | tar xvf -
$ cat data.ext4.win??? | tar xzvf -

Yes, that's true, when I type one of the commands above in a terminal, I can see that the process of extracting files has begun. But when it finishes, I can also see this message at the end: `
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

Looking through the lines leads me to this:
tar: Malformed extended header: missing equal sign

I can find many of those messages in the tar log, but when I check the size of the extracted dir, I can see this:
$ du -sh data/
1.6G    data

$ ls -hal data.ext4.win???
-rw-r--r-- 1 morfik morfik 929M 2019-01-28 01:48:28 data.ext4.win000
-rw-r--r-- 1 morfik morfik 945M 2019-01-28 01:49:47 data.ext4.win001
-rw-r--r-- 1 morfik morfik 549M 2019-01-28 01:50:23 data.ext4.win002

So it looks like it extracted only the fist tar file. I don't know whether any of the files in the archive was damaged during the process.
Are there any linux tools that would extract this backup in some easy automated way?

It's not a "paged tar", but each file is a TAR itself.
All you need to do is tar xzf on each file.

What about the errors? Can they be safely ignored? Why do they appear? The archive isn't damaged in any way.

@MikhailMorfikov Yes, those functions can be safely ignored if you untar each file.


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How to check which app changes home background image
The background of my homescreen keeps changing and I do not know what causes it. I can change the background manually, but after a certain moment of time it just changes automatically to another background. It is really annoying. I mean... I do not hate baby's. But I do not want them randomly eating biscuits on the background of my phone .

Do you use a custom launcher?

I mean a third-party launcher

Have set any live wallpaper?

I am using the default Oneplus launcher, but same kept happening, using the Nova launcher. I do not think I have a live wallpaper (how can I check that?). And isn't the live wallpaper overwritten anyway when I select a new background?

An app must have the permission android.permission.SET_WALLPAPER to change wallpaper. I suggest you find out which apps have that permission and than try to disable or remove some of those app one by one until you no longer have that problem.
You can use a permission checker app to find those app. User Izzy maintains a nice list here if you need help finding one. I have used aSpotCat earlier so I'm showing you how you can use it to list all the apps having that permission.

Launch the app.
Choose List apps by permission
Scroll down and choose Misc. Permission
Tap the three horizontal line icon next the Misc. Permission to list the permissions instead of the apps.
In the search bar (tap the lens icon) type android.permission.SET_WALLPAPER
Under Set Wallpaper category you can find the apps which have the permission to change wallpaper.


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Zenfone 2 Deluxe custom rom - question about model variants
My phone went dead and a friend gave me his old Zenfone 2 Deluxe, which comes with the terrible ZenUI and a million asus apps that are a pain in the ass. I wanna throw it away and install a custom rom, something as clean as possible.
When googling, however, I find a lot of custom roms for Zenfone 2 laser, and for Zenfone 2 Z00A. According to Google, Zenfone 2 Deluxe is ZE551ML, however in the settings it says the model number is Z00AD. I'm very confused about this.
Of everything posted on xda's zenfone 2 forum, it's very hard for me to understand which roms I can install and which I can't\shouldn't. Please advise, how do I proceed?

ZE551ML, Z00A, Z00AD and Z00AD* (A/B/C) refers to the same device, as evident on ASUS' support page:

The custom ROM community would refer to this device as Z00A. Look for ROMs targeting this codename.
On a side note, the "Laser" variants have Qualcomm SoCs (SD410/SD615), vastly different from the regular/Deluxe variants.


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How can I configure a separate MMS APN on LineageOS
Some mobile phone providers (e.g. Optus, including MVNOs that deliver service through Optus' networks) have a separate mobile APN (access point name) for sending MMS to what is used for mobile data.
However, the user interface in LineageOS (and probably other Android variants) does not seem to let you configure two APNs.
Through the UI, under Settings -> Network & Internet -> Mobile network -> Advanced -> Access point names it is only possible to select a single APN as 'preferred'.
How can I configure my MMS APN at the same time as my data APN?

Firstly configure the mobile data APN through the UI and verify that is working.
Next, we will need to configure to MMS APN without using the API. To do this, you will need access to the phone through adb, and you will need a rooted phone (see other posts on how to do this if you don't already have that). All of the commands could alternatively be performed on the device itself through a shell.
In Android, the different networks that can be configured are identified by a 'subscriber ID' or subId. The first step is to find the correct subId to use.
If you haven't already, restart adb as root using adb root.
Now find the subId already in use for data with:
adb shell content query --uri content://telephony/carriers/preferapn

Look for the part of the line that looks like sub_id=3, - you may have a different number in place of 3. That is the subId for mobile data - not the one we want to use, but useful for elimination. Also make a note of the _id number and the numeric from the response - you will need those in another step.
Run adb logcat -d -e "matching subId" and look at the subIds that come back. If you only have one SIM enabled, but you need to enable a separate network for MMS, you should see two different numbers in the results. Eliminate the one that matches the mobile data subId. This is the subId you will need to configure (in my case, it is 2).
Now list the options with
adb shell content query --uri content://telephony/carriers/ --where "numeric='50502'"

(replacing 50502 with the numeric you recorded from the earlier query). In the results, find the row that matches the APN you want to configure. In the Optus case, the row will like something like
Row: 5 _id=2912, name=Optus MMS, numeric=50502, mcc=505, mnc=02, apn=mms, user=*,
server=*, password=*, proxy=202.139.83.152, port=8070, mmsproxy=61.88.190.10, mmsport=8070,
mmsc=http://mmsc.optus.com.au:8002/, authtype=-1, type=mms, current=1, protocol=IP,
roaming_protocol=IP, carrier_enabled=1, bearer=0, bearer_bitmask=0, mvno_type=,
mvno_match_data=, sub_id=3, profile_id=0, modem_cognitive=0, max_conns=0, wait_time=0,
max_conns_time=0, mtu=0, edited=0, user_visible=1, user_editable=1

If there are several options and you are not sure which one, you could try each one in turn using the following steps. Note the number after _id= - that is your APN ID you need to configure.
To configure the MMS APN, use the command
adb shell content insert --uri content://telephony/carriers/preferapn/subId/2 --bind apn_id:l:2912

Replace the 2 with the subId you worked out you needed to configure (i.e. the one that is not the mobile data subId). Replace the 2912 in the above with the apn_id from the above command.
If you configured the APN successfully, you should now be able to send MMS and use mobile data at the same time.


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ADB claims that app is not installed when uninstalling and that it is installed when installing
Gboard kept crashing when trying to open the settings, so I wanted to uninstall and reinstall it. Google Play Store kept giving me the error code 910, the advice for that was installing it with ADB.
The command
adb install -r /home/fabian/Downloads/com.google.android.inputmethod.latin_7.9.7.230658658-release-armeabi-v7a-26790713_minAPI21\(armeabi-v7a\)\(nodpi\)_apkmirror.com.apk

gives me the output
Failed to install /home/fabian/Downloads/com.google.android.inputmethod.latin_7.9.7.230658658-release-armeabi-v7a-26790713_minAPI21(armeabi-v7a)(nodpi)_apkmirror.com.apk: Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_ALREADY_EXISTS: Attempt to re-install com.google.android.inputmethod.latin without first uninstalling package running as com.android.inputmethod.latin]

This is weird, since with the -r flag it should have no problem with an app that is already installed. Apart from that, it is not installed, I checked the app list, the /system/app directory, as well as /data/data. And when I run
adb uninstall com.google.android.inputmethod.latin

, the output is:
Exception occurred while dumping:
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unknown package: com.google.android.inputmethod.latin
    at com.android.server.pm.Settings.isOrphaned(Settings.java:4134)
    at com.android.server.pm.PackageManagerService.isOrphaned(PackageManagerService.java:18419)
    at com.android.server.pm.PackageManagerService.deletePackage(PackageManagerService.java:15836)
    at com.android.server.pm.PackageInstallerService.uninstall(PackageInstallerService.java:888)
    at com.android.server.pm.PackageManagerShellCommand.runUninstall(PackageManagerShellCommand.java:792)
    at com.android.server.pm.PackageManagerShellCommand.onCommand(PackageManagerShellCommand.java:118)
    at android.os.ShellCommand.exec(ShellCommand.java:94)
    at com.android.server.pm.PackageManagerService.onShellCommand(PackageManagerService.java:18682)
    at android.os.Binder.shellCommand(Binder.java:468)
    at android.os.Binder.onTransact(Binder.java:367)
    at android.content.pm.IPackageManager$Stub.onTransact(IPackageManager.java:2387)
    at com.android.server.pm.PackageManagerService.onTransact(PackageManagerService.java:3150)
    at android.os.Binder.execTransact(Binder.java:565)

So what can I do to install GBoard again?
Fairphone 2, Android 7.1.2, "Fairphone Open", root enabled

Did the app come pre-installed?

@esQmo Right, important detail: I flashed openGApps, because "FairphonOpen" has no Google Apps in them.

It seems like the package wasn't properly uninstalled : This happens usually if you delete the APK from /data/app or /system/app or /system/priv-app instead of uninstalling the app. That is why probably the adb uninstall command isn't working.
Maybe you can try reinstalling the app again after rebooting your phone?Tip: If this is the only keyboard app on your phone, it would be better if you install another keyboard app just as a backup before rebooting (especially if you have a text lock screen password).
If it still doesn't work after rebooting, try uninstalling the app only for the current user and then reinstall it from the play store.
adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.google.android.inputmethod.latin

Also, if possible, please also share the output of this command
adb shell dumpsys package com.google.android.inputmethod.latin

(Sorry, I am a new member and do not have commenting permissions yet; that is why I have to mention it here.)

Output of the first command: Failure [not installed for 0] Output of the second command: `Renamed packages:
com.google.android.inputmethod.latin,com.android.inputmethod.latin
Dexopt state:
Unable to find package: com.google.android.inputmethod.latin
Compiler stats:
Unable to find package: com.google.android.inputmethod.latin` And yes, I did reboot.

Oh, I just remembered that the app that I used to uninstall GBoard had made a backup of it! I restored that backup and it actually worked. Now I'm back at the state where GBoard crashes every time I open the settings.

Afterwards, uninstalling and reinstalling worked. This doesn't solve the question, but I don't need an answer anymore.

I still suspect that my initial statement was right. Maybe the app that you used to uninstall GBoard didn't uninstall it properly. It probably just deleted the app APK from its system applications folder, so the GBoard app didn't get properly unregistered from the system.    Then, when you restored the backup, the app probably put back the APK from where it had deleted it earlier and hence it might have started working again.

So you mean that just putting the APK file into the right folder would have solved it as well?

Probably. But you had also mentioned in your question that you hadn't found anything in your system apps folder. Maybe the uninstaller had deleted the folder?

The entire system app folder? No, that would have destroyed everything. But the app wasn't in it anymore.

No no, I didn't mean the entire system app folder . I meant the folder of the keyboard app — /system/app/LatinIME or /system/app/LatinIMEGoogle for AOSP Keyboard and GBoard, respectively. (However, the folders could have also been named differently based on the developer of the ROM)

I don't have a folder with either of those names, even with GBoard installed again now. I had originally looked for "GBoard".

I solved it by:

pm uninstall com.google.android.inputmethod.latin
pm uninstall com.android.inputmethod.latin
Removing <renamed-package new="com.google.android.inputmethod.latin" old="com.android.inputmethod.latin" />
from /data/system/packages.xml
Reboot

This doesn't solve the question, but I managed to work around it:
I had a backup of the app, restored that back to the system partition, then I was able to uninstall it with ADB (without google. in the package name) and install it again.

Ok. This is something different. com.google.android.inputmethod.latin and com.android.inputmethod.latin are 2 different apps. The one with 'google' in the package name is called GBoard/Google Keyboard whereas the latter one is called Android AOSP Keyboard. The GBoard app doesn't usually come pre-installed on open-source systems (you said that you have a Fairphone) whereas the GBoard is a part of Google Apps (you mentioned that you flashed GApps). However, it is also worth noting that it is not possible to have a phone with both these keyboards as system apps.

Maybe I now understand why GBoard crashes for you; there are 2 libraries of the names libjni_latinimegoogle.so and libjni_keyboarddecoder.so which are required by both, the AOSP Keyboard and the GBoard. The OpenGApps installer script shows that if GBoard is to be installed into the system, then a different version of these 2 files has to be put into the system and the AOSP Keyboard has to be removed. This doesn't seem to have happened in your case, and hence the crash. However, when GBoard is installed as a user app (non-system), it doesn't seem to need these 2 files to be in the system.

@ManasSambhus After a lot of back and forth I finally managed to install it as a user app. Still crashes in the preferences.

As soon as the app crashes, you can check the reason for the crash in the /data/system/dropbox folder. Sort the files by newest to oldest. Look for files that are named as data_app_crash or system_app_crash. However if these files happen to have a .lost extension, then you might be out of luck.

@Manas https://pastebin.com/6khqGpbw Googling that error message leads me to a two year old bug report on Github where the only advice seems to be a factory reset: https://github.com/opengapps/aosp_build/issues/116 But what I did was installing the OS, updating it and then installing Google apps, so I don't think another reset would help.


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How can I reset my device without losing images on it?
I know I can backup and restore. But I just don't want the images to be deleted (either phone memory or sd card). Meaning, have the folder of the images remain, so that Gallery can read all the images from it after reset.
I want to reset because after an upgrade to Lollipop, com.android.phone doesn't work. So I tried several options, but could not solve this, so now I'm looking to reset

Depending on the device and ROM: either all data stored on your "media storage" (i.e. internal and external SD card) stays untouched, or all storage will be pruned. You can play Russian Roulette trying to find out. But the safer way is to backup at least internal storage/SDCard, and take the external SDCard out. B'Hazlacha :)

Factory reset does NOT erase any user data. It just erases system/data/data folder and cache. This is the reason why sometimes problems doesn't get fix after all: Because is not so low level as we'd like.

I don't think that's correct. I believe a factory reset WILL erase user data on the device itself. It won't affect the SD card though. If there are files/photos/etc. stored on the device itself these will be lost when doing a factory reset.

@bmdixon You're wrong. The internal storage has, let's say, two parts: The one needed for the system and the usable by the user. Last one, usable is treated by Android as an SD too, exactly as it does with the physical removable SD card. Factory reset only erases the first one, and not absolutely, because in that case you'd get no operative system. It just erases data and cache folders.

The [tag:factory-reset] tag wiki and many other questions on this site appear to be saying that a factory reset will wipe user data. If there is a /internalsd partition then this won't be wiped but /data is wiped AFAIK. Which on a device such like a Nexus 5 would result in all user data being deleted.

By data you must understand applications and its corresponding files like Shared Preferences, Databases and Cache. And NOT user files like Photos or Videos stored on DCIM folder, as sample. Even Whatsapp backups will resist a Factory Reset. You really should try it first before discussing.

I factory reset my Nexus 4 before selling it. ALL user data (apps, settings, photos, videos etc) was deleted. I was simply trying to highlight a potential issue with your answer. As Izzy said in his comment on the question it may vary between devices so you may be correct for non Nexus devices. I was simply trying to highlight a potential issue with your answer, I'm not going to argue any further...


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How to send mp3 through whatsapp?
I see that you can send a media file on BlackBerry. Can I do the same thing on Android?

Go to file manager. Find the mp3 you want to send. Long press on it for 1 second. Then select "Share" option. Then select Whatsapp in the sharelist. That's it. You're done.


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Renaming a downloaded pdf file
I am using a Nexus 9, (Android lollipop) and I can't figure out how to rename these files. Is there any way to do it without any third party application?
If there isn't, please suggest the best possible way in which I could do this!

Its best you get a file manager app from Play Store. I will suggest ES File Explorer.
Once you have installed it, open the app and go to the Download folder. You will see your downloaded files there. Just long press the file you wish to rename and the Rename option will appear at the bottom.


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Turn off Google Voice forwarding when using home Wi-Fi
I use Google Voice to forward phone calls to my Android phone. But when I am at home, I would like to save voice minutes by not having to answer phone using my voice plan. Is there a way to automatically turn off Google Voice forwarding to my cell number (only the cell number if possible) when I am on my home's Wi-Fi?

Are you home at specific predetermined times? Because on Google Voice's site, you can specify time periods you want a specific phone number to accept forwarded calls.

Negative. It might work for some days but it is not something I want to count on.


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Why isn't Android using the IPSec VPN for browsing etc.?
I have configured IPSec VPN using a PSK to connect to my home network using the default built-in VPN settings in Android 5 on my Nexus 5. It connects correctly, but most apps don't use the connection for some reason.
For example, I cannot use either Chrome or Firefox to browse web sites hosted in the remote network. Chrome spends a long time as if it's going to load, but never does. Firefox immediately errors out saying it can't find the server. In fact, they can't load any site (like google.com etc.) while the VPN connection is established.
However, I can ping the very same host names from the phone's terminal and I can telnet to port 80 and get back a response to those same hosts when I use a telnet app, so clearly some apps are picking it up correctly.
Why isn't Firefox or Chrome able to connect to anything?

Gmail doesn't work, G+ doesn't work, the Facebook app DOES work but is unexpectedly slow.

Are you using a desktop as the VPN endpoint? Did you turn on IP forwarding? Or, test by typing an IP address into google instead of a domain name.

A firewall is the endpoint. IP forwarding is enabled and working when used from other devices. IP addresses don't work when typed into the browser.


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battery drain AFTER kitkat update
On Samsung S5 AFTER installing KitKat last week, the mm-qcamera deamon usage has drain down full battery in 7hours (before update 12+ hours uptime was the average.
Hopefully an urgent fix is coming. So far the key argument for me for Android was the lack or quick fix of bugs...

Lack of a question mark doesn't change the obvious: Rapid battery drain is not a positive thing, so how can it be fixed?


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Message Center Missing
I cannot find the message center of my galaxy s4 phone. I know exactly where it is supposed to be, however it is not there. The section reads: Text Message (SMS) settings Delivery reports Manage SIM ...

What you are missing? the settings to input message center number or the message center number is blank?

I am not sure of what you are looking for exactly, but i find this and it may help you :
How to set up your mobile phone for SMS
An SMS is a text message which can be sent to other mobile phones. You'll be able to send and receive SMS as soon as you've inserted your SIM card into your mobile phone. If this isn't the case, you can set up your mobile phone for SMS manually.
1.
Find "Settings"
-Press Messaging.
-Press the Menu key.
-Press Settings.

2.
Save the message centre number
-Press Message Centre.
-Key in +41794999000 and press OK.

3.
-Return to the Home screen

Source : Device support
Hope it will help.


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LED light and Lollipop update
My LED light will not work now with the most recent update how can i fix this? I'm also having issues with my phone telling me when i have a text ( where before i would get my notification at the top of my phone ( i use Textra) now i'm not notified unless i have the notification set for my locked screen but i hate that. i don't want a bunch of notification on my locked screen.  I have the Samsung Galaxy S5
Any help is appreciated.

Honestly I had this problem as well... no matter what I had done about it I was having problems with it. In the end I took out my SD card and did a factory restore. It fixed my problem and it might be what you have to do to fix yours. I recommend taking out the SD card if you have one because I tried with it in and even factory restoring didnt work for some reason.
hope this helps!


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Can I get Android to not expand the top notification?
I've had Android 4.4 (on a HTC One) for a while now. And it never automatically expanded notifications. A short while ago I accidentally expanded one of the notifications, and at that point the system started to always expand the top notification.
From what I understand from various sites on the *net, expanding the top notification is now the default behavior. But I'd like to have the old behavior back. Is there a setting for this, and if so where (preferably without installing some app)?
Googling for me only turns up articles about apps that expand all notifications automatically (it's the opposite I want) and about disabling individual notifications (don't want that either) or programmatically disabling the notifications area altogether (either).

I don't have an HTC to try this on, but what happens when you 2-finger swipe down from the top? Some manufactures mess about with the menu from that gesture. How about a long press on any of the areas revealed with the notifications bar expanded? Yeah, grabbing at straws, but you did your homework before posting!

2-finger swipe opens the settings just as it's supposed to do, but I don't find anything in there that looks like it would help here. Tried long press already: when on a notification gives me a popup saying "App-Info". Nothing when done on any other area.


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Hangout problem
My 'A' contact is deleted from my most contacts list on gmail account but still that person is visible on my frequently contacted list in hangout. Please suggest me something because it is very irritating.

Go in Hangouts -> Frequent contacts -> press the contact you want to delete for 2s -> hide contact.
Hope it will help.


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What can I do to stop the Lollipop update prompts if I don't want to update my KitKat?
I have some bad experience with my 1st gen Nexus 7, after updating to Lollipop. It made everything so slow, as to be completely useless as a device. I had to factory reset it.
My Moto G is less than a year old, and I have no desire to see it go through the same process. It is already a little slow on KitKat right now. However, the system update prompts shows up as many as 5 times within 1 continuous hour of usage. It says that it will ask me to set a time for future update prompts if I select 'No, thanks', but it doesn't.
How can I stop the update prompts from showing up all the time?

Yeah, I had the same experience with the Lollipop OTA on my N7/2013.  OTOH, my partner's i9505G Google Edition is running Lollipop just fine.  Of course, that's a more capable device, and it's Google's own test platform, I suppose.

Go into your device Setting--> Apps--> All (tab)--> Open 'Motorola
Update Services' & Disable it!
If 'Disable' Option is not available
in your device then you will have to root your device and then
install SD Maid app, And grant that application root permission so
that you can freeze system apps.
And I think so 2nd method will work 100%.

On Motorola Moto G (2014) 2nd Generation

Go to: Settings> App> All> ConfigUpdater
Uncheck 'Show notification'
Press 'Force stop' button


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After upgrade to android lollipop Moto G 1st Gen getting slow and lagging
My Moto G 1st Gen mobile is getting lag and slow after upgrade to android lollipop.
Please help me to get it fix.Thanks!

No need to reset the phone.Clearing cache partition should do the job.
How to clear cache partition on Moto G

I already did and did not help for me. I guess a factory reset is the only option left.

I don't think that factory reset might help if clearing cache didn't help. Anyway no harm in trying. But be sure yo backup your data before doing so.

The official guide to Moto G Clear Cache process is here.
But the only combination that worked to access the "wipe cache partition" menu was:
[Try to press and hold Power Button for at least two seconds and then without releasing the Power Button press Vol. Up key]


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How long device has been running since last charge?
In Android Lollipop, how do I see how long it has been since the last time I charged the battery? I mean I can get the approximate time by eye-balling the graph shown in Settings -> Battery. But, is it possible to get a precise time period like: "your device has been running x hours y minutes since last charge".
Or any app that can give me this info? All battery apps seem to concentrate on telling me how much longer the device can last from now. No history info.
Note: I'm not asking about the up time :-)

Oh man, why would they remove this info? Thank you, Ashwin, for asking this question!

From a root terminal on your device:
dumpsys batterystats | grep "Start clock time"

That will give the date/time of when the device was last disconnected from the charger (while fully charged), rather than the time since, but comparing to the current date and time is easy enough.
I did come up with a more complicated command you could save to a script to yield a 1d 2h 3m style format:
busybox expr $(date +%s) - $(dumpsys batterystats --checkin | grep "l,bt" | busybox awk -F',' '{printf "%i", $10/1000}') | busybox awk '{printf "%id %ih %im\n", $1/60/60/24, $1/60/60 % 24, $1/60 % 60}'

To explain that:

Get the batterystats line that includes the milliseconds-since-the-epoch time of the last charger disconnection
Use awk to strip out that time and convert it to seconds
Subtract it from the current time to get the interval in seconds
Use awk to format it

I think the best battery info app on the play store is BatteryBot Battery Indicator.
It will show all the info about battery.

Try Battery Monitor Widget
With Battery Monitor you can control your Battery status, here are some features:

Unplugged since
Last level change
Total charges
Total charging time
Total unplugged time
And many others

The google play page
Hope it will help.

Go to battery in setting, press battery usage button then you can see the exact time passed since last charge

What phone and Android version did you try this on? My Nexus 5 running Marshmallow doesn't have a "Battery usage" button on that screen.


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Adjust SMS length limit?
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.

Use WhatsApp or hangouts or similar

I find it a bit strange that it got converted to MMS. Usually, when the SMS exceeds the size limit, it will be continued as concatenated SMS, sent as multiple SMSes, but not MMS. I don't know if this case is specific to Samsung only or not.

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

That's technically correct, but a protocol to split and reassemble larger messages has been around for many years and is supported by almost every phone since the early 2000s.

@lxgr while your comment is technically also correct, the protocol is dependant upon the sending device, the receiving device, and the service provider. So a user would have no control over this as they wouldn't have control of the receiver, nor the service provider.

man, this is the classic problem , if we wrote in 7-bit characters we got 160 characters , on first type of an non-ascii character , you will have 70 characters per sms .

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 to solve this issue.

good solution google messenger doesn't convert 3 sms to mms !

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.

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.

Could you expand your answer by explaining how to achieve that if the device is rooted? As of current, it's not so helpful, since (I believe) rooting doesn't automatically remove 160-character limitation on SMS. And what do you mean rooting from S5 Prime to S5?

Also, what has the device name to do with the 160 byte limit of SMS? As that's a limit in the SMS service itself, how should rooting be able to fix that? It's simply not possible to put more than 160 bytes in a single SMS, as the protocol is setup such.


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How to transfer apps from an emulator to another one, on my PC?
I tried to transfer my apps that I already downloaded using blue stacks to another emulator that's Droid4x, but I can't find my apps in form of ".apk".
How to transfer the apps?


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How do I uninstall Cool Browser?
There was an app called Cool Browser which always showed up as an advertisment so, I installed it because it was always showing up. I did not want to use the app, so I tried to uninstall it it but I failed (it blocked me from tapping the OK button).
How do I uninstall it?

Is this the browser you installed? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wZinZBrowser&hl=en

it blocked me from tapping the OK button -- What do you mean by it blocked you? Are you unable to use or see the option 'Uninstall' in Android 'Settings -> Apps' or something else not mentioned here? Besides, have you tried booting into Safe Mode and then uninstall it?

There are multiple apps listed here that helps in uninstalling user installed apps. Have your tried any of them so far? What are your results?

If it's the app on geffchang's comment, then I don't have any problem uninstalling it. However, if you can't press OK, it seems it's similar to a problem if you screen filter app. However, we aren't sure because you haven't mentioned that you're using such app.

Use Link2SD or any similar app.

Is this the browser you installed? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cool.pro.coolbrowser

I tried Avast free antivirus and this allowed me to uninstall it.


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Rooting problem Samsung Galaxy Core
I am using Samsung Galaxy Core GT I8262, I had a problem rooting my device. I rooted my android device before but now there is a problem when rooting my device with kingo android root and with any other apk application my phone is hanging and cannot be rooted anymore. Can I able to root my phone in future, what is the problem, why I cannot root my phone now ?

I had the same problem before. As you didn't give any specific details about your device including system version, my first guess would be to download framaroot and try to uninstall all root files that are probably left in your storage and are causing problems (or do factory reset). Then try rooting again.

My phone version is android jelly bean 4.1.2 i already did factory reset on my phone several times but I cannot root my device if I am rooting my device my phone is hanging for few seconds and automatically the program is closing and the fact framaroot application is not working on my phone like before


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Is there any way to use "alarm tones" as ringtones?
I have the straighttalk Optimus fuel. In browsing" alarm tones" there are 2 - forest festival and morning cello I would like to make use as ringtones but they are not in that section... is there anyway to get them?

If you are rooted, then with the help of any kind of explorers which allows browsing root storage, for instance, Root Explorer, open the Root tab, browse through system/media/audio/alarms... Copy the required files (alarm tones) and paste to system/media/audio/ringtones


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Google Now Stopped Working
Recently the Google Now Launcher stopped working. I had all the cards set up and working fine. Not sure why but Google now stopped working. I get an edit telling me " can't load search results" I also get No Internet connection.
I have a Galaxy S3 with 4.4 OS.
Can someone please help me get this problem resolved?
Thanking you in advance.
Frank

I am having the same problem

This problem appears to be fixed with the latest update to the "Google" app


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Play Music app is activated by Words With Friends
Let me just say that I have used both apps independently for a couple of years.  I have a Galaxy S III.  Recently I replace it with same due to battery issues.  I don't know if the replacement is new or used.  I play Play Music and I also play Words With Friends.  Recently I have had strange occurrences with the phone.  When I play Words With Friends the last song I listened to on Play Music will start playing.  The App is NOT running until I start playing WWF.  I think this is probably a unique situation and I'll just wait until the phone is eligible for an upgrade next month.

Go to Applications Manager > Play Music and clear defaults.


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Cannot open my app it keeps saying app not installed
I transferred some of my app to my SD card using the cm cleaner app and it was working perfectly fine .but suddenly today I cannot open those app it keeps saying app not installed.I tried restarting,reinserting the memory card but nothing seems to work.

Since you did not mention having verified that the SD shows up as Mounted in settings,  make sure that you have the memory card mounted.
In KitKat:  Settings > General > Storage > SD card > storage > Mount SD card.
In Jelly Bean perhaps:   Settings > Storage >  Mount SD card
Some apps particularly apps from Google or apps that are on all the time will not work from SD card.
Did you check your applications in settings to see that the application is installed.
Reinstall from Playstore which will indicate if it was believed to be installed already.
Also rebooting  clears some problems with not being able to run an app.