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How to transfer files from an Android phone to a Ubuntu PC by using a USB cable?
Im completely new user and inexpert. I made a video with the phone. How do l transfer it to an ubuntu pc? I plugged in the usb cable but apparenntly my pc does not see the phone. Thanks for help

You need to install the drivers for your phone so that your computer can "see" it. What kind of phone is it that you have?

What brand is it? What model? What version of Ubuntu are you using?

See if this helps.

It depends of the phone. In most case, make sure MTP support is present on your Ubuntu installation. If all else fails, you could turn to wireless services like AirDroid, etc.

My phone is lg5 my ubuntu is 12.10

I ll try to set up mtp. Thanks all for the help

See the answers here : http://android.stackexchange.com/questions/91900/is-there-a-viable-alternative-to-mtp-for-file-transfer/106323#106323 Simple and effective, no driver installation, no messing up with any rules. Install, connect, configure and run easily.

Don't do it, use the WLAN + SSH SFTP instead: http://askubuntu.com/questions/189591/connecting-android-4ice-cream-sandwich-jelly-bean-kitkat-phone

First of all you don't need any USB cable.
You can transfer files from/to your android device with the Wi-Fi network of your device. Just install airdroid on your android device. Then activate wi-fi hotspot on your android and open the airdroid app. Next connect your pc to that hotspot, open any browser in your pc and enter the url provided by the airdroid app there. It will ask for your permission, click to connect. Done.
   The good news is that this technique works in any Linux distro as well, I tested it on Ubuntu 14.04.1. It just uses your android wi-fi device and there is no issue related to mobile data plan i.e. you can use it without the mobile data.

This works great for me! (I'm on Ubuntu 14.04)

Works perfectly between Ubuntu 15.10 and Android 5.1 (actually Cyanogenmod 12.1, but that shouldn't make a difference).

The Questions mentions "by using a USB cable" and your answer is "you don't need any USB cable" !! LOL

it seems really unnecessary to have to install a 3rd party app to do this - is there no official Google App that can share data between the Android device and a comptuter on the same Wifi network?

Why not just use USB? https://android.stackexchange.com/a/200752/79950

This doesn't seem to work at all anymore. Not sure if they changed it or I just failed to do it right.

In Ubuntu 16+ all you need to do is click the swipe on the phone after plugging in the usb cord and select "File Transfer". The default mode is "USB Charging", and it will hide the file system from you.
When you do this, it creates an MTP mount, which automatically pops up on Nautilus, the file explorer. Tested on Android 11, Pixel 3a.

That screen on my phone for selecting the usb connection type just seems to hang if I select "Transfer Files" with it plugged in to my laptop (Ubuntu 18.04)

Just share or copy files in your phone via "ES File Explorer"
connect your phone (need cable) with computer and thats it

A bit late to reply to this post. You can use KDE Connect utility to transfer data from android phone to your Ubuntu. Its really easy to setup and works like a charm. You can easily find tutorials to setup KDE Connect to Ubuntu.
Installing KDE Connect on Ubuntu
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:vikoadi/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install indicator-kdeconnect kdeconnect

Install KDE Connect app from playstore and open it. Send request from Desktop to pair with your phone(vice-versa doesn't work for some weird reason)

Could you also quote the content (like, how-to steps) from the article to preserve the content if the link is dead later?

...like now. Link is dead.

It can be done without cable in few ways.
One simplest way is to install “Dropbox” on your phone and then access the pictures from the Web. Given below link is for "Ubuntu desktop platform":
https://www.dropbox.com/install?os=lnx
Link for Android
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dropbox.android&hl=en
After installing it on both the systems, sign in to your account (or create an account if account doesn’t exists) and start uploading all the pics on your phone.
Let me know if this information will help you out.

I figured it out real simple. No downloads. My Android phone (8.1, Moto G5 Plus) has an option in settings that allows me to mount the phone directly and see all the folders: Settings > Connected Devices > USB.
There you can pick "Charge this device", "Transfer files (MTP)", "Transfer photos (PTP)" or "Use device as MIDI".
I had to unmount and remount the phone in Nautilus/Files after changing the option in my settings. Worked without a hitch in Gnome 3.30/Ubuntu 18.10.

The most foolproof technique is to install on your phone an FTP server ...
android app ftp server :   Ftp Server  by  The Olive Tree
... launch this android app and click the red widget in middle top of app to enable server so widget turns green as in

then on your Ubuntu box connect over wifi using an FTP client
ubuntu ftp client :   FileZilla   install using
sudo apt-get install filezilla

launch filezilla on ubuntu ... enter values shown on your phone ftp server for following fields
Host:   192.168.0.133
Username:  francis
Password:  francis
Port:    2221
( your values may be different )
In filezilla on left side will be your ubuntu filesystem on right your phone filesystem ... now just drag and drop files between those systems
If you have just added a file to your phone you can view it using a File Manager app or the app called Files

Assuming you have installed MTP on Ubuntu, you may still need to enable MTP transfer on your phone. There's an article here that covers this. Option 1's steps 1-3 were enough for my phone to appear in Ubuntu's "Files".

If you find that you see more images on your phone than your computer, consider the solution mentioned here.

Adding another option for copying files to/from any Linux/BSD/etc pc and an Android device (in my case, Nexus 10 tablet):

on the Android device, I installed "ES File Explorer", which comes with an ftp/sftp client;
then, with normal sshd running on the Linux/Ubuntu host (make sure this is installed),
from the tablet :  select the files you want to copy, and paste into the linux/pc desired folder. (Or vice/versa.)  All from the tablet. No cables necessary -- just wifi.

This is using the useful/flexible/free "ES File Explorer", but any Android-based file-transfer (sftp) client will work. (I'm open to other recommendations for this, especially any rsync tools.)

You can do this with a USB cable, this is faster and more secure than using your Wifi router. Just plug your phone in with USB-C or whatever, and you should be able to load the contents of the DCIM folder. I had to mess with this for a while, but just be patient when you open the DCIM folder and it should work. I tried AirDroid, but the USB solution seems much better (faster and more secure and don't have to download any 3rd party apps..).

Consider using gmtp. Although advertised as a media player, it is an effective tool for transferring files via MTP.
sudo apt-get -y install mtp-tools mtpfs gmtp

and try to use its GUI as necessary!

Please don't plagiarize from other sites. You can link to an article and summarize, but copying and pasting the entire thing (especially when not listing any sources) is not allowed.

@what about know?

you should still give url from where u copied it


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How to change lockscreen display time on Samsung Galaxy S4 Plus?
When I press the power button the screen is immediately turned off and locked. When I press the power button again the screen is turned on and the lockscreen is displayed. However, it is only displayed for about 5 seconds before the screen goes off again. I have to start interacting with it straight away to prevent the screen from turning off. I don't always want to unlock the screen, sometimes I just like to press the power button to have the screen turn on so I can work my way in the dark, as a flash light replacement. But that doesn't work if I have to keep pressing the power button on and off all the time.
Is it possible to change this time? I would like to have it set to at least 30 seconds, or have it stay on all the time until I press the power button again. Is this possible?
I'm not sure it's possible to have the screen stay on until you press the power button, but my old HTC had a longer display time when the lockscreen is shown.
I'm on Galaxy S4 Plus (GT-I9506) with Android 4.2.2 (Jelly Bean). It's stock ROM and everything, brand new.
I tried to google this and it appears that the only time setting you can change for the lockscreen is the time it takes for the lockscreen to actually activate. Below is a screenshot of the "Lock screen" page on an Galaxy S3 with Jelly Bean.

(image source: Android Central)
There was this "Secured lock time" option. It said "the screen will be locked after 30 minutes of inactivity." This is on the Galaxy S3. Mine is a little bit different. Below is a screenshot of the lock screen page on mine.

This however does not change the display time of the actual screenlock... screen (sorry). It only defines when the screenlock will become active.

This is not a big issue for me. I'm just curious to know if it's possible to change this, if they have thought about it when they designed the thing. Displaying the lockscreen for only 5 seconds is a bit too short a time window, don't you think? Unless of course you're a gunslinger who's very fast on the trigger. If there's no way of changing this, if it's permanent then they should have used a longer time window. (Well of course, it's not carved in stone, but I mean without having to root it, flash it, format it and what not, just to change this.)

A time window of maybe 20 seconds would have been much more generous. In only 5 seconds I can't even change hand, and these big phones need to be handled with two hands. At the time I'm ready to enter my pattern or PIN code the screen is off.

Hi, @Erin, and welcome to Android.SE!  Thank you for your comment.  We hope you'll like the place and decide to stay.  What make and model of phone is your stepdad using?  Is it a Samsung Galaxy S4 Plus (GT-I9506), the same as the original asker is using, or is it a different phone?

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license: Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

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

IMO this has a number of issues -- too localized, asking for a list or just a link to an external resource, not really an "Android problem" but more of a "finding things problem", etc.  I don't think this is a good fit for the site.  Feel free to discuss on Meta if you disagree.

I'm fine with that. you're right. close it

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Will changing the HBOOT affect my ROM?
Device: HTC Desire (Bravo)
ROM: Aurora 4.1 - http://android.elrincondelmovil.com/roms-desire-90/rom-aurora-v4-1-sense-3-0-android-2-3-5-oct22-1639/?langid=1
HBOOT: Stock (Revolutionary)
Radio: 5.11.05.27

I'm looking to upgrade my ROM to Tiny ICS which like many ROMs claims to run smoother on the CM7r2 HBOOT. So my questions are:

Is it really worth changing my HBOOT?
Will changing my HBOOT wreck my current ROM?

Sorry if this is somewhat 'noobish' but I just felt it would be better to be safe than sorry.

This answer to #2 in your question is, unfortunately, "maybe". The CM7r2 HBOOT (along with several others) is maintained by AlphaRev, and they note in their website's FAQ:

Will this touch my currently running ROM?
We try to leave the current ROM and datastructures completely intact.
  It is, however, advised to ALWAYS nandroid backup your phone before
  you run this procedure.  You will then always have a correct/current
  backup to fall back on in case something breaks.

So it's designed to flash without affecting your current ROM install, but it's a bit of a delicate process so there are no guarantees. There is generally always a certain amount of risk involved in these types of things, but especially so when dealing with the bootloader/HBOOT. Make a backup. If you can, copy the backup onto another device (your computer, for instance). Always prepare for the worst and hope for the best when it comes to data that you don't want to lose and you'll generally be fine.
As per your question about whether or not it's worth it - this sort of depends. The reason that some ROMs support certain versions of HBOOT and not others is because the different HBOOTs are designed to create different partition layouts on your device. There is a table on the website which details the layouts, and which I'll summarize here:
Name               /system   /cache    /data
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Bravo Stock         250M       40M      147M
Bravo N1Table       145M       95M      197M
Bravo Data++        180M       5M       252M
Bravo Sense         180M       40M      217M
Bravo Oxygen r2     100M       5M       332M
Bravo CM7 r2        145M       5M       287M

Certain ROMs are designed to take advantage of the differing partition layouts, making them incompatible with others. For example, a ROM with a lot of stock components and additional packages may need more than 145MB of space for its /system partition, so flashing it on the CM7r2 HBOOT would not work. It's generally best to stick with whatever the ROM author recommends, which does mean that switching may be necessary in some cases.

It's a shame I don't have the nesseccary reputation to vote up this answer because it was frankly perfect. I've now decided that since the new ROM suppports both the stock and CM7r2 HBOOTs I'll stick with the stock for now to avoid any hassle. Once again, thank you for this perfect answer :D

I'd say: Of course, flashing a different hboot affects the current installation. It shifts partition start/end boundaries around. Except if a partition's start stays the same and only got extended at the end this will break the every file system of every partition without further actions (pre-shrinking and such).


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Galaxy Nexus Official 4.0.4 update and root
Since the official 4.0.4 that be downloaded from Google's servers seems to be an update (39mb) can I update my rooted Galaxy Nexus wuthout losing root?

All OTA updates reset file permissions, so you'll lose root unless you take special precautions. Install OTA RootKeeper and make a backup of your su executable before applying this update. You'll be able to restore your root once update is finished.
Obviously, since this is an incremental update, you need to have a stock Nexus ROM. If you deleted or altered some system files, update may fail.
I used Galaxy Nexus Toolkit to apply these updates, worked OK for me (and I kept my root).


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Are there any Android phones that allow Bluetooth PAN off the shelf?
I'm specifically looking for an off-the-shelf solution.
Without going into too much technical detail, I need to connect a phone via Bluetooth to a device and receive IP traffic from the device. Bluetooth PAN provides that functionality, but it seems to be disabled by default in most commercial Android phones. Short of recompiling the OS, are there phones available (specific models, or buying directly from the manufacturer etc) that allow Bluetooth PAN?
edit: I'm actually looking for any solution that would allow me to establish a network connection from the phone to the device. The device's onboard NIC doesn't allow it to be configured as a WAP.

This earned me a Tumbleweed... can anyone help?

Android 4.0 devices (or already 3.0?) allow this.
Both client and host PAN roles are supported (I guess this was deliberately introduced by Google for UMTS-less tablets).
On the PAN host: Enable bluetooth tethering in the settings
On each device: Pair with the host and enable "Internet access" in the bluetooth device's tab:


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Relative GPS accuracy?
GPS is not that accurate on Android devices (at least at mine) Measuring tools tell me the accuracy is between 8 and 12 Meters.
But what is about relative accuracy? When I place two marks on different coordinates in the distance of 1 meter will this distance be measurable?

Please take a look at the question: http://android.stackexchange.com/questions/508/how-accurate-is-the-gps-in-my-mobile-phone/26945#26945. Please be aware that civilian GPS' accuracy is deliberately limited.

Yes. But that is about an absolute accuracy, not relative. My thought behind this was: If there is an "error" about 10m is this error always the same?

Distance can be measured even if you place 2 points in one place - for mesurement used signal from satellites, and in city it's extremely difficult to predict it changes.
Accuracy depends on signal quality, and it's impossible to get it 100% even in a field, so when you move phone to 1 meter, signal change may be so small, what not detected, and it may be changed so seriously, what will displayed over 100 meters change (tested on buildings corners with HTC Desire and Nexus 7).


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Camera app is missing from my Galaxy Nexus
I ran bigxie's 4.1 jellybean for a while, worked great, switched to the same brand but 4.1.1 instead (I always do a full wipe) and since then I have issues with my camera. I think the installation of Camera 360 might have done something to cause my regular camera and Gallery app to have problems (both of them simply crash upon start).
I just installed the latest AOKP (4.1.1) and tried two separate gapps, the most popular one from somewhere in april that some forums claim fix this issue, and also the absolutely newest one. Both give me the same issue as the 4.1.1 bigxie ROM.
Is it possible that Camera 360 did this? What can I do to troubleshoot this? When I go to "manage apps" and then "all" I can't even find an app called "Camera", and also nothing called "com.android.camera". Are system apps even included in gapps? Can I find the system app "Camera" from somewhere and just install it to fix this issue?
Thank you in advance.

This issue was resolved by reinstalling bigxie's 4.1.1 ROM from scratch (with a full wipe). I suspect that fiddling around with TitaniumBackup caused me to remove the system camera app, and for some reason this was not put in when I installed AOKP + gapps.
Please note! Full wipe and complete reinstall of a ROM that is missing the Camera app will not help. Therefore, choose a stock ROM or a ROM close to stock that you know include the Camera system app.
If this does not help, try reseting the phone completely to locked bootloader, unrooted stock ROM and so on as you will probably want to return it anyway if the Camera app is still gone in the stock installation :)


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What is the purpose of the 3rd on-screen button on a button-less phone?
I haven't used Ice Cream Sandwich yet and as far as I know, some phones (Google Nexus perhaps) don't have capacitive or hard buttons. Now as you can see below, there's 4 buttons (this was an image I found while googling).

As far as I know, the buttons are (starting from the left):

Back button
Home button
???
Menu button

I want to know what the third one is? The one that has overlapping rectangles? My phone has capacitive and I have all the above aside from that one button. I asked this just out of curiosity.

looks like the menu button, don't know about the 3 doted one

The third dotted one IS the menu button. Not the rectangle one

a little bit of dabbling the google revealed to me that this is, actually, the task manager/recent apps button

@svarog oh wow, how did you come across that info? I don't know what search tags to use when searching xD

That's the "Recent Apps" button. It's alternative of long-press physical home button.
If you tap this, a scrollable screen appears containing thumbnails of suspended or closed recent apps. You can tap thumbnails to switch to apps or swipe it to discard.

But why separate that? Does holding down the "virtual" home button no longer show the recent apps? (I need to wait 3 more minutes to accept ur answer. :P)

@Shedo Ask user experience department of Google. Probably, they want to show off multitasking.. or, they want us to get to multitasking without wasting any moment by long-press.

@ShedoSurashu: that is correct, long pressing the home button no longer does anything currently. I think the UI team is discouraging long pressing in the recent versions of Android. Long pressing is horrible from usability point of view since they are not discoverable.


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how Downgrade LG optimus P500 from 2.3.3 to 2.2.2
I upgraded my LG optimus P500 phone from Android 2.2.2 to 2.3.3.
After upgrading the battery started to dry very soon and it auto powers off as well even when the battery is more than 80%.
Now I want downgrade my cell back to original froyo 2.2 version.
How can i do this?
Or is there any other fix for this problem of battery and auto power off.

You might try to wipe/factory reset and see if this solves it already.

Had this problem on 2.2 when I first bought it. Changing SD cards did not help. Resolved by uninstalling some apps. I believe it's a task killer or a launcher that's causing the SD card rebooting few times daily. Try deleting these apps one by one and monitor.


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How do I remove a review I've written from the Android Market app?
How do I delete a review that I have written from the Android Market?
Somewhere in Google's issue tracking software someone has raised this issue (I've lost the link, sorry), and the answer given was that there is a "remove review" menu option when viewing the app in question in the Market application. The person asking seemed satisfied, however there is no such menu option on my phone (Android 2.2).

What version of the Market do you have installed?

I tried removing the review from PC Web Browser. It has the option to edit the review but not to remove.

There's a delete option on the Play website nowadays. See my updated answer, @Sumit :-)

Google Plus also has an overview of all your ratings and the option to delete them (go to the +1 tab in your profile to see them).

Nowadays, there's a Delete button on the Play website:

So, the remainder of this post is just in case things change again at some later time, especially as in November 2012 Google has made things worse, but also kind of solved the problem for existing reviews by removing your name:

Google Play is now connected with Google+ to help you find reviews you trust.
New reviews will be posted publicly using your Google+ name and picture. Your name on previous reviews will appear as "A Google User".

Also note that someone reported Issue 16483: Android Market doesn't allow removing an existing application's rating and comment. Voting might help! Or maybe there's some alternative market app that interfaces with Google's store?
My findings:

Despite what many write: clearing all text including the title does not clear the review for me; it just moved my old review to the top again, with a new date and an updated version number. In the Play app the "OK" button is disabled when clearing the title, so I guess the title text is mandatory. Indeed, just typing a title on the website does save the new review with an empty description. Still, that does show my name, rating and title.
To edit one's own review on the website, even if it's actually shown on the main page: first click "All reviews" or go to the tab "User Reviews", then find the "Edit Review" button next to "My Review". Note that different languages might show different reviews! (I cannot find my review in the Dutch Google Play, as I entered it using an English Play app?)
In the Play app one can swipe the stars to the left to get "unrated", but then the "OK" button is disabled.
Uninstalling the reviewed app does not seem to remove one's review. (Which makes sense, I guess.)
As true for new or updated reviews too: it takes quite some time for changes to propagate. Even once the new review is shown, refreshing might show the old one again. I guess there's multiple servers involved and it takes some time to synchronize. Be patient, for otherwise you might actually activate the old review again.
Old versions of the Market app reveal an option "Remove my review" by simply pressing the hardware menu button, when viewing an app one reviewed. That seems to have gone in 2.3.5 and I cannot find it in Play on 4.0.4 either.
I tried with an old Android 2.1 device, with Market version "2002306". That old Market app still works just fine, but not all apps are visible on that old device, and some show "The requested item could not be found" when selecting it.

Sniffing the network first shows some HTTPS request, probably authentication. Removing the rating gave me a POST to android.clients.google.com:
POST /market/api/ApiRequest HTTP/1.1
version=2&request=CpQDCr[...]OTc2NTE4MzgYARQ

This is a request like many others that people have been deciphering. Unfortunately the unofficial Android Market API does not support these rating requests.
Using "Manage apps" I removed all updates for the Play Store 3.5.19 on Android 4.0.4, getting me the version 3.4.7. No luck.
I also tried AppBrain, hoping it would somehow interface with the Google Play Store and would then allow for changing ratings. No cigar.

Follow these steps:

Go to your browser
Go to Google home page
At the top, click on Play
Go to the bottom of the screen
Click on My orders and settings (bottom left)
Select the app you need to remove the comment from.
There will be an option to edit or delete the comment.

Hope this helps.

On market application, click vote stars again, just clear your review text and save again.
(you can clear your review but can't delete vote stars, alse you can change your vote stars if you want)

That does not work, well with the latest play store, if you un-rate the stars, the 'Ok' button gets disabled!

In the latest version of Google Play Store, v4.9.13, the original reviewer has to find the original review. This is easy, because in my experience, my review is presented at the top of the list of reviews. Click Edit button, and a dialog appears with a Delete button. Click the Delete button.

The OK button shows up as disabled if you don't have everything filled out. Make sure you have the stars clicked and BOTH THE SUMMARY LINE, AND COMMENT SECTION filled in.

How does this remove the review?

This sounds like instructions regarding how to post a review, not how to delete one that's already been posted. It doesn't help the OP.


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I have multiple Google accounts on my phone. How can I delete some of them?
I have an annoying problem with this Samsung Epic 4G touch. I set up a new Gmail account, which I use for Google Talk and the Android Market. However, I logged in to YouTube under two usernames at various points. I am not logged in and when I click Market it defaults to one of the YouTube accounts instead of my Gmail account. Under accounts, it shows all three. How do I delete the two YouTube accounts? I don't want them to access the Market and it does every time even though I no longer log into YouTube.

From the Home screen Menu | Accounts & sync should list all of your accounts on the device. Tap the account you want and then tap the "Remove Account" button.


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Samsung Galaxy S disconnected during Kies firmware download
The phone will not work at all now and only shows an icon depicting the phone and a pc connected with an exclamation in the middle. I have taken out the battery etc but to no avail. The PC now doesn't recognise the USB connection.
What do I do now?

what were you downloading? and when you say 'disconnected' do you mean the download was interrupted?

I was downloading the latest firmware from kies. The PC seemed to lose recognition of the usb and after about 20 minutes with the yellow download page on the phone I disconnected it and took out the battery. I have tried diffferent button combinations and it did go back to the yellow dowload page having connected it to a laptop but now it won't do anything!

I've had similar issues with my Nexus S disconnecting in the middle of flashing with fastboot. Try another USB port on your computer.

I found this link to be useful.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=775911
Essentially, you have to remove the battery, SIM card and the microSD card. Then wait for a while and put everything back and connect the phone to the pc running KIES recovery. It worked for me, although its not clear to me what really clicked it.

From the comments it sounds like you've gotten back to Download Mode, so that's good.  If not, try different button combinations in conjunction with battery removes and being plugged/unplugged into USB.  Something should get you there.
Once you're in Download Mode you're probably going to need Odin to fix your device.  You can use my instructions here for Odin.

the problem is that you have bricked your phone. fortunately for you, its just a soft brick and not hard brick. phones can be repaired from soft brick.
run "emergency firmware recovery" option in kies. it will work. run revcovery using the same pc. if you cannot run from same pc, get the recovery code from that pc and use the that code to run recovery from any other pc
from what you have said, i can advise you that you  should not attempt to use odin right away to repair you phone. if you still insist on using odin, i suggest you google about itthoughly before flashing using odin.
this problem can be rectified using kies and i suggest you do the same. emergency firmware recovery option is given in kies for your problem and such.
*****use kies********
-Pawan Kumar

From what you have written it appears that your phone has been "BRICKED."  The computer that you were using to perform your KIES update via the USB connection was not capable of handling the update and unfortunately your phone has become inoperable.

How is this helpful at all?


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Disable priority inbox on Android Gmail application?
I suspect that there isn't a way to do this, but just in case...
Is there any way to disable Priority Inbox on the Android Gmail application?
I don't use this feature and can disable it in the web based full desktop client(*), but I can't disable this on either the Android Gmail application or the mobile web Gmail client, it's very annoying.

Gmail version v2.3.4.2
Samsung/Google Nexus S
UK / Three network

Not for the first time I find myself wanting "Minimalist for Gmail™" for Android!
edit * after further investigation it would appear that my desktop inbox is set to classic, but I can still see priority inbox esque things in my messages like "Important mainly because of the words in the message." in the details of my messages. It may be that my Priority Inbox is only half-turned off, if that is even possible?
I have removed a (second) work Google Apps account so I only have my personal email account on my phone and I have disabled IMAP on my Gmail account.

I'm confused, I don't use Priority Inbox on the web version, and I don't see priority inbox in the Android app? Didn't think it was possible on the app if it's switched off on the web?

I must just be lucky... it's turned off in the full web version (as opposed to the mobile web version) but it appears in both the mobile web version and the app-on-phone version with no way of turning it off.

Menu button -> More -> Settings -> Priority Inbox.  I have it enabled on the web and that option unchecked to disable it in the app.  Latest Gmail v2.3.4.1.

I don't have that option on my Gmail application on my phone unfortunately, I have an option to make the Priority Inbox my inbox which doesn't help. I'm on the most recent version of Gmail on my Nexus S that the application store has offered to me, I don't know how to determine the version number of the Gmail app unfortunately.

@Richard You can check the version via Settings -> Applications -> Manage applications.

@Richard I've since got that update and I now see the option at Menu -> More -> Settings -> username@gmail.com -> Priority Inbox.  You can also check Sync inboxes and labels to make sure all mail is being synced.

Thanks again Matthew, the menu sequence is slightly different on my phone, I don't have the extra accountname@gmail.com step to get to the Priority Inbox checkbox (and the description of this checkbox on my phone is that this is to set the default inbox to the priority inbox, rather than to turn it off?). I've tried two other things, I have removed a work Google Apps account so I only have my personal email account and I have disabled IMAP on my Gmail account. Neither seem to have helped, bah.

All you need to do is...

Open the gmail app
Go to Settings
If you have multiple accounts, click the specific account for which you want change it
Make sure the Priority inbox check box is unchecked.
In the same page under the data usage look for a 3rd option Manage labels and click that
Click the 2nd option you ll find " Priority Inbox" option click on that and uncheck all the options there.... Now all the features under the priority inbox option will be disabled.....

This absolutely worked for me.....

I found that by opening the local Gmail app and navigating MENU > MORE > SETTINGS > USERNAME@GMAIL.COM > (Uncheck "Make Priority Inbox your default inbox...") and click on "Sync inboxes and labels" and change the option for "Priority Inbox" to "Sync None".
This seems to work for me. However, I just tested it once and I didn't get the Priority notification so I hope this will help you.

There is no checkbox for Priority Inbox anymore.
All those answers are not valid for version 2020.05.17...Release. *

Go to

Menu
Settings
Inbox > Inbox type
Select "Ordered Inbox" (German: "Sortierter Eingang" **)

Against my understanding, this brings you back the full inbox.
*) Maybe sooner. Please edit if you know.
**) Please edit the English translation if it isn't correct, else remove the comment.

I couldn't find "Ordered Inbox". The English options for Inbox type are: Default Inbox, Important first, Unread first, Starred first, Priority Inbox.

all_licenses: Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/


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How to display the correct contact name when dialing?
I tap on Phone and start typing the first letter of the contact name on the keypad. For a contact named "Home" that would be 466 (H, O, M). The contact "Home" is suggested. I tap on it once, the phone number populates the screen, and then I tap the big green dial button. Simple! Or so I thought... Now the phone displays the funny picture I have of Adam sticking out his tongue, and it says "Dialing". It also later shows up in the Log as if I have called "Adam".
How on Earth is Adam the person I'm calling? I specifically chose to call a contact named "Home". It makes me think I have dialed a wrong number, so I usually hang up and re-dial, only to see Adam sticking out his tongue, again! I want it to display the correct contact name. The correct contact name is "Home". Obviously! What can I do about this (if anything)?
About device...
Model number
GT-I9506

Android version
4.2.2

Baseband version
I9506XXUAMHD

Kernel version
3.4.0-1677708
dpi@DELL217 #1
Fri Sep 13 20:52:59 KST 2013

Build number
JDQ39.I9506XXUAMI3

Update...
I spoke to a Samsung rep today and he told me to make a backup with Kies software and reset the phone. I have restored the contacts back to the phone from the backup file. The problem remains. However... I have made some new discoveries that might shed some light on the problem. Namely, this only affects contacts that were synced to the phone from a PIM software, which in my case is Microsoft Outlook 2010. It does not affect contacts created right in the phone.
Replicating the problem...
To replicate the problem, do the following.

Start Outlook 2010 and go to Contacts.
Click on Home and then New Contact. Give it the name "Home" and set
the "Home" phone number to something like 0011223344.
Click on "Save & Close". Note! Make sure you don't have a contact
with this name already, neither in the phone nor in Outlook.
Now repeat these steps to create a second contact in Outlook. Name
it "Adam Sandler" and set the "Home" number to 0011223344 (the same
as above) and the "Mobile" to 9988776655.
Now connect the phone to the computer.
Start Samsung Kies and go to Sync tab.
Check "Sync contacts with" and select Outlook from the list. You can
select either "All contacts" or "Selected Contacts folder" and then
select which contacts folder to sync with. Note! If you select the
second option you need to make sure you check the contacts folder
you saved the previously created contacts to in Outlook.
Click the Sync button when ready. When done, disconnect the phone.
Open the Phone app on the phone, dial in HOME, tap the contact name
that comes up and then tap the green dial button and watch what
happens. Expected behavior is that it should dial 0011223344 but
display "Adam Sandler" on the screen, instead of "Home".

This is probably a bug of some sort... Because if you delete these contacts on the phone, and in Outlook, and start all over again, this time creating the same two contacts inside the phone, then there is no issue with dialing. If you dial HOME it will actually say "Home" right on the display. Regardless of how many other contacts you got in your phone book that share the same phone number. Hurray! I'm not sure where to go from here though...

My experience shows that when you dial a or select a contact specifically, the the default Android dialer scans the list of contacts alphabetically until it finds a number match. Rather than this being a Samsung bug, it's a universal Android feature (Which HTC may have removed). It may not show the correct contact on your screen in all cases, but it avoids collisions that would cause logic errors (and make your dialer crash). You're always free to remove conflicting numbers (For example, if Adam's secondary number is also "Home", what reason is there to keep it under Adam's secondary numbers?)

@dotVezz Interesting... so this "feature" might be a much deeper rooted Android problem, and not directly OEM specific. Yes, that might work. But why would they not be allowed to co-exist? It has always worked fine for me, on all kinds of phones. It worked on pre-smartphone Ericsson, old Nokia, Nokia with Symbian, HTC Legend, Desire, Desire X. Is there perhaps an app that can solve this? So I can have normal dialing like on HTC? Without rooting it?

I'm not sure what you mean by "Why are they not allowed to co-exist?". They are allowed to co-exist. The alphabetized-sort thing is a decision that was likely made to make phones work better (Alternate methods would naturally take more resources, be more work. Good programmers don't over-engineer simple problems.) If you feel it's a high priority problem, I might posting a feature request. But really, is it that much of an issue?

Of course, you're also free to try any of the huge selection of dialer replacements.

Can you mention what device and OS version you're using? The dialer app is one of those that OEMs just love to monkey with. You may be seeing something that people with other devices/OS versions might not be seeing.

I spoke with a Samsung rep today. He told me to make a backup with the Kies software and then reset the phone. Been there, done that. After restoring the backup back to the phone the dialer continued to behave strangely. So the problem remains. But I have made some new discoveries that might shed some light on the problem. I will post an update.


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How to set signal strength threshold for switching WiFi on and off?

When the WiFi signal strength is low, the phone switches to a 4G
network.
When the WiFi signal strength is high, the phone switches to that WiFi
network.

This is normal behavior for any Android device and all too familiar to Android users, or to users of any WiFi enabled device in fact. But the problem I often run into is that the WiFi signal is too low to be usable, and too high to switch to 4G automatically.

WiFi signal strength 0 < x < 0.5 marks (bars), the phone switches to
a 4G network.
WiFi signal strength x > 0.5 marks, the phone switches to that
WiFi network.

These values are not real measurements. They are merely my own perceived points at which the phone switches between the two.
TL;DR:
Is there a way for me to optimize the auto-switching between WiFi and 4G to my own liking? Is it possible to set that threshold point manually? What I would like is to switch over to 4G as soon as the WiFi signal is below the 2 mark point.

What I am often forced to do, in order to get (usable) Internet access, is to enter the Settings menu on the phone and disable WiFi altogether in order to force my "smart" phone to switch over to 4G!
Would it not be better if the user could control the threshold at which the phone switches between WiFi and 4G? I think the default threshold is too conservative. It's set up to conserve 4G bandwidth by free-riding on available WiFi networks for as long as possible and whenever possible (available).
Devices are optimize to make use of WiFi as much as possible, due to associated data costs on 4G networks. But this is a nuisance! My Internet access is almost completely crippled for many of the WiFi networks I have access to, whenever the signal strength is below the 2 mark point. On the other hand, I have over 4 GB unused bandwidth on my carrier network, for which I have a much stronger signal, but I have to disable WiFi first in order to connect to 4G. That's not convenient when you're on the move a lot.
I have recently started using the 4G network almost exclusively. I have stopped using WiFi because I have had enough with enabling and disabling it back and forth, and having to remember to do it when I'm on the move. So I am looking for a more permanent solution to this.

@sammyg you can take a look at my answer here for a starter. Might need some adjustment, though :)

in the same vein, though little different, but it seems like you can set a threshold:
https://android.gadgethacks.com/how-to/make-your-android-automatically-switch-strongest-wifi-network-0172651/

This would be messy for a comment, so consider it a partial answer.
The following task can stop or disconnect a WiFi if the signal level is below your preferred level.

Create a task named "Wifi" and create following actions in it:

Code → Run Shell:

Command → echo "%WIFII" | awk '/Sig: [0-9]/ {print $2}'
Store Output In → %Signal

Alternatively, since awk requires installation of Busybox, for non-rooted devices use the action Variable → Variable Search  to search the integer next to Sig: in the variable %WIFII and save it in %Signal.
Task → If:

%Signal Maths: Less Than INT

Replace INT with the signal value (0-9) at which Wi-Fi should disconnect
Net → WiFi → Off | Net → WiFi Net  → Disconnect

It is up to you how you want to use this Task.
Note: Tasker has a profile option "WiFi near" under "State" where you can select SSID and/or Signal level of WiFi in proximity.
Hint: You may try running that task with a bit more modification under an infinite loop.

No, there simply isn't something like this. Maybe someone has made an app for this, but this function isn't to be found in An

An app solution would be acceptable too. It doesn't have to be implemented in the system.


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Clockwork Mod. To flash or not to flash?
Running: Verizon HTC Eris (No service) with the recommended Cyanogenmod for the device + Amon RA recovery as prescribed by the gscript lite method of rooting found in the "Universal Eris root for dummies" guide (the one with step by step pictures)
When i got the CM7 rom up and running i was looking through the preinstalled apps and found the rom manager. inside was the option "Flash ClockworkMod Recovery". From what iv gathered online (CWM > AmonRA)... Is this so? Should i use this option? I fear that by breaking my current recovery in an attempt to upgrade i will brick my device... Should i do this?

I don't think that the question as stated is entirely suitable  for Android Enthusiasts, because in the end it all falls to a matter of preference. Some people like CWM, others like AmonRa, and some like the new TWRP. Some recoveries function better on some devices. I think if you change your question to "What is the difference between the different recovery options, and will they all wok for my device?", it will be better. For the record, I think Liam W's recommendation below is solid.

If you are interested This thread on xda shows a good comparison of TWRP and CWM.

This is entirely up to you, and your personal preference.
There is one thing I would suggest though: do not use ROM Manager! It has a nasty history of damaged devices.
I would suggest that you go with either CWM or TWRP, if it is available for your device. I would suggest you flash it using fastboot, if it is available on your device.
If it isn't, then you should see forums such as xda-developers for info on how to flash recovery images.

What is the difference between the 3 recoveries?


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setting a default launcher
Ok so I rooted my samsung galaxy note 10.1 today. I immediately bought the full version of adw launcher and installed it. Now I have a bit of experience with Android and launchers so I have tried all the usual methods of setting a default launcher.
I tried the home key then "always use" method. I tried clearing the default on the stock launcher. And I've been looking at other methods but none sound like anything I want to risk doing with my new 500 dollar tablet.
Does anyone know of a simple and straight forward method of setting a default launcher?
EDIT:: It was asking me to select a default launcher despite the fact that i had said that i want it to always use ADW EX. In the end the solution was to simply use Titanium Backup and remove all the other launchers. =)
(Sent from my rooted Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 using Google Chrome)

Exactly as you described. Is there any problem? If so, it would make sense to state what is happening, and what you would have expected instead.

The problem can be fixed by removing the other apps that are available to be used.
After all if there is only one option, that HAS to be the default right?
A good tool for this is titanium backup. It is for root users so if you do not have root you will have to find some other way of removing the app (adb would probably be your best option if you refuse to root your phone)

The simple and straightforward method to set the default launcher is the one you used:

Tap the Home button.
Tap ADW.Launcher.
Tap Always.

If this isn't working for some reason, then it might help to describe what the device is doing instead.

Thank you for your response. I apologize for not having gotten back to you sooner on this post. I have edited the OP with the details of the misadventure. Up voted for being a good sport... =P

@KonnerRasmussen Welcome to [android.se]. Since you solved your own problem, you should post it as an Answer, and then accept it by clicking the check mark next to your own answer.


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Disable a specific WiFi network from automatically connecting to in Android
I have several WiFi networks setup on my android device. I want most of them to automatically connect, but one specifically I don't want to automatically connect to. I want to manually connect to it only.
I don't want to forget it because I don't want to lose the settings for it.

Android automatically connects to all WiFi networks it has configured. So basically, if you do not want that to happen, you could either turn WiFi off (which would also disable to connect to the other WiFi networks, which is not what you want) -- or delete the configuration for the network you don't want to connect to automatically (which would make you lose its settings, on the first glance).
The first option is not in your interest -- but the second can be helpful, even if you don't see this immediately. You could use an app like WiFi QR Share first to convert that networks settings into a QR code, then print out this generated QR code. Store it in a safe place (e.g. laminate it, cut it down to credit-card size, and put it in your briefcase). Now delete this WiFi networks configuration -- it will no longer auto-connect.
If you want to connect it manually, that does not mean to enter all the configuration again: Simply open your QR Code reader (Barcode Scanner should do fine), scan the QR, and connect. Don't forget to delete the configuration again afterwards.
Unfortunately, there's no way to mark a network "manual only", so this seems the easiest way to me.

@Izzzy taht link is 404 now. Do you have an aleternative? I have a single network to which I never want to connect - not auto, not manual.

If I'd be forced to keep all my 10-year-old answers up-to-date, I must stop answering :D But luckily, meanwhile there's my Android website which didn't yet exist back then. There might be some alternatives [on this page](WLAN Automatiken), I'd start with the "WiFi Priority" section. (note: that link hopefully won't go 404 anytime soon :))

Thanks, Izzy, That made me laugh. And helped me

Great – both goals achieved :D

If you are a programmer, check out this site: WifiManager Documentation - disableNetwork.
The disabled network is saved in your phone, but you have to manually choose it from your WiFi list to connect to it.
If you have already rooted your phone, find wpa_supplicant.conf in the folder /data/misc/wifi, find the network with the WiFi name, and add this code disabled=1 in this particular network. I think this will solve your problem.

This won't work on Android.

This seems to be built into Android 9.0+. Some manufacturers added it earlier.
On my Sony, the setting is in:
System Settings -> Network and Internet -> WiFi -> WiFi Preferences (at the bottom of the list of possible access points) -> Advanced -> Auto-Connect.
In there is a list of all your saved access points and a check box to mark whether each can auto connect.
Other manufacturers put the auto connect setting directly in the access point preferences (the same place you set password and IP settings).
Here's some screenshots from my Sony

Lucky you - I also have Android 9 (OnePlus 5) but do not have that exact setting. At least it's good to know it's the fault of OnePlus in my case. This feature has been for a while even in fruit company's phones but surprisingly it's still not a standard in Android. Shame.

The fragmentation on Android is really frustrating.

You can use the Locale app to disable your wifi whenever that SSID is in range.  You will need the wifi plugin for this to work.  Reenabling the wifi can be triggered by different events.  I chose to use the Movement condition to determine when I am leaving.  You could also use location or time events to turn on the wifi.

This is not solution but workaround. Every network has a priority parameter. If I don't want to connect to this network I setup lowest possible priority for that network. Greater value is greater priority. This will be work when network that you wan't to connect automatically coexist in same place with other network that has greater priority.

If you have root access you can try to create a widget with Tasker that will manipulate the text file where the wifi passwords are stored. Then all you have to do is tap that widget (or run the task in tasker manually) and toggle to be (dis)connected to that network.
The approach: find out where your wifi password are saved on your device using a Root browser. Most of the times it's in /data/misc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf.
Make two copies of this file and name it with_network.txt and without_network.txt. In the without_network.txt remove the SSID corresponding to your preferred network.
Now you can make a task in Tasker or any other automatisation app to rename the with_network.txt to wpa_supplicant.conf and when clicked/run again to reverse it back to with_network.txt and rename without_network.txt to wpa_supplicant.conf on command.

Inside every saved Network there is option to connect automatically. Disable the option. Tested in commute networks I do not want to use wifi as it is slow

This app "WiFi connection manager" can do it if you use it to manage your WiFi connections, you just tap the connection and then choose "Disable this connection", I'm positive other similar apps must be able to do it as well:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.roamingsoft.manager

As of Android 10, this feature is not supported natively (on a Pixel 3). I filed the following issue
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/160453528


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How to Use Camera in ICS to store images on internal memory?
The SD card slot on my HTC Dezire Z is broken and a replacement is not available. How can I use my camera without an SD Card? I am using ICS.

You need a device with both internal and external memory. If your device have two different mounting points, then you have internal memory. One is for your (now damaged) SD slot, and the other is for the internal memory. Folder names shoul be /mnt/sdcard and /mnt/extsd (actual names may vary depending on the device).
You have two options:

Change the default storage for your pics. On Android 4.0, open your camera app, click on the "options" icon, there are 3 options, exposure / balance / settings, the first setting is "local storage", turn it on
Use a new camera app with options on where to save the photos you take. I love camera360 because of its amazing filters, and you can shoose where to save the photos

Thanks for the reply but my phone doesnt have these two.. it only has /mnt/sdcard.
I downloaded Camera 360 but it also cant help. The default location for my fone is /mnt/sdcard/DCIM/Camera. Can i change this?
When I try to edit the path it only goes to /sdcard folder and not outside. :(

@dmk Even if you have no SD card connected, can you access your /mnt/sdcard folder and there are any files there? If so, then you are already viewing your intenal memory.

Is your device rooted? If so, you could simply create the /mnt/sdcard/DCIM/Camera folder. As ruda correctly states, this would then be in internal memory. Though without a sd card inserted, the /mnt/sdcard folder might not even exist (the system might create it "on-demand"), so you've had to create it yourself and set the appropriate permissions for your apps to access it.

Another potential solution is to go external... There was recently a successful social funding campaign for MicroSD card readers that connect to the microUSB port of Android phones. http://www.meenova.com/


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How to change the display refresh rate of an android device
I am creating a custom ROM for my android device (MT6577 + ICS 4.0.4).The base ROM I'm using is the stock ROM of the device. My device's display refresh rate is pre-configured at 30Hz. Now, I want to change the screen refresh rate to 60Hz (I'm sure my device supports 60Hz) in my custom ROM.
I've searched around the net and found that may be passing the display parameters as command-line arguments would do the trick, but I'm not very familiar with android kernel.
Requesting you to please guide me towards right direction... any website, any thread or your own answer.
FYI:

I have kernel code for the device with me.
My custom ROM is working fine at 30Hz(no issues)

Thanks!

ICS and above is enabled to run at 60fps (under the graphics subsystem, within the bowels of EGL layer) unlike GB and earlier versions which gave the impression that re-drawing was slow. BTW, you cannot explicitly tell it to run at a certain frequency i.e Hertz for refreshes as that is non-existant! The graphics subsystem was re-designed to take advantage of the newer EGL drivers thus appears very slick and smooth when drawing on screen...


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Is continuous focus a 4.0-only feature?
The http://www.android.com/about/ice-cream-sandwich/ page details that Android 4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich" introduced two interesting features for Camera: “continuous focus” and “zero shutter lag exposure”.
Have both of these features been removed or disabled post 4.0?  My Galaxy Nexus seems to have neither since the 4.1 and 4.2 over-the-air upgrades.
Holding a 4.2 Galaxy Nexus still and taking a picture with auto settings and without flash in a relatively-very-well-lit nightclub takes about 3 seconds, and taking another picture right away takes another 3 seconds, seemingly indicating that both features are completely absent in stock 4.2.

I wonder if that lag is due to the new HDR feature.

There is no HDR on Galaxy Nexus (dual-core 1.2GHz and 1GB RAM are not enough for HDR these days?), and the lag seems to be a carry-on from 4.1.

I have CM11 running on an OnePlus One and the CyanogenMod Camera has the option to use continuius focus. You could try it from the Play Store http://goo.gl/2k7qm8 or installing the apk-file http://goo.gl/q02TdC

In low light(or in very bright light) scenario, 'Zero shutter lag' feature won't work  because the camera module and the software together will do some heavy work to capture picture really good. Try taking picture in good lighting condition(during daytime) to test Zero shutter lag functionality.
In some phones, Continuous focus makes use of accelerometer sensor to detect the movement of the phones to refocus the camera. This may not work when there is very slight movement. You can also check this during good lightning conditions

This is an invalid advice, because the feature clearly used to work, and then stopped with the "upgrade"; they've even removed all mentions of this feature ever being there in the device, clearly trying to cover up the fact that they've messed it up in the subsequent software "upgrades"; the best picture would be if it'd just use infinity by default in low light, instead of being so slow with the stupid and needless (re)focus as for the subjects of the photo to be gone for good.


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Problem after updating Galaxy S3 to Android 4.1.1
After updating my Galaxy S3 to Android 4.1.1, I started to experience some problems.
For instance, while listening music or 'surfing' in the phone, suddenly phone starts to 'nearly' freeze for a 1 second and turns to normal life.
If I am listening to music, naturally music stops for 1 second and then continues. I do not know if this is a performance issue, or another thing.
Can someone help? Thanks!

Most probably it looks like a OS issue, might be firmware related, might be kernel related. Have you tried a factory reset? Or sometimes even a reboot might clear things up. If 4.1 is not working well for you, you can always downgrade by flashing an older firmware via ODIN. Get you firmwares from http://samfirmware.com. You will need to register in order to download files from there.


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Accidentally hit PIT during Odin update now phone is stuck
I was attempting to flash a handset using Odin, and accidentally clicked on the button marked PIT, and now the Odin is saying similar to this message - 'connecting phone ------ pc'.
Also, the handset cannot be rebooted nor put into downloading mode.
Please advise?

mind sharing your phone model?

Well, you seem to have 2 options:

If under warranty, send it to service center, your Main board (PBA) should be replaced.
You probably will need a JTag repair!

AFAIK, there is nothing you can do at the moment, by yourself to get the phone working, apart from the options mentioned above!


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Restart camera service
I have a smartphone which the camera doesn't work very well with CyanogenMod.
Sometimes (and very often), after taking some picture the camera stops working until I restart the phone.
When I try to open it, it just says "Cannot connect to camera".
I'd like to know if there are some way to "restart" the camera service, or something like that, because it's very annoying to be obligated to restart the phone everytime it stops working.
If that's somehow useful, I have a modified version of CyanogenMod 7 installed.

What is your device?

It's ZTE Racer. The problem is that the camera was modified by the carrier that sold it.

Might be best to check over on Modaco's ZTE Racer Forum Very likely the kernel has got a unstable driver for camera capture... head over there and you might find the answer :)

@DielsonSales Have you managed to find a solution to this problem in the end ?

No, the only way to get the camera to work properly was coming back to the original version of Android.

If the problem is in the kernel driver, as t0mm13b suggests, then only resetting the kernel driver will help. There might be a hacky way to achieve this with rmmod from the command line, if the device is rooted and that driver was built as a module in that ROM. I wouldn't recommend it. Restarting the phone is probably the only way to reset the driver.


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How do I root my Samsung Galaxy Ace?
I want to root my Galaxy Ace but don't want to install Custom ROM or CWM!
Just only root so that, I can run some apps which requires root.

Try one click root or you can easily find root guide on xda forums..

It would help if we knew what Android version it is running, and also if you have managed to root it in the month that this question has been up?

@LiamW : I have the same phone, Its running android 2.3.6 Gingerbread with kernel version 2.6.38.6

Everything you need to know about rooting and installing custom ROM on your phone.
a. Rooting for 2.2.1:
Turn on your phone
Enable Debugging at Apliccations>Programming
Connect your phone into PC via cable
Launch Super One Click 2.3.3
Click "Root"
Wait until the program will root your phone
When the process is complete turn off SOC and unplug your phone
Reboot
Now you have root!

Db. Rooting for 2.3.x (NEW METHOD!):
Download file called universal_gb_root_v25.zip and copy it to your sdcard
Turn off your phone
Press POWER+HOME BUTTON
Select update from sdcard, select the file universal_gb_root_v25.zip
After the update completed - reboot
Now you have rooted S5830

OPTIONAL Unrooting for 2.3.x:
Download file called universal_gb_unroot_v9.zip and copy it to your sdcard
Turn off your phone
Press POWER+HOME BUTTON
Select update from sdcard, select the file universal_gb_unroot_v9.zip
After the update completed - reboot
Now you have unrooted S5830[/QUOTE]

ps: its best you read the first link.

Could you give some excerpt of the linked article? We don't favor "link-only" answers, as when the link dies those answers get useless.

Added. But it's best if OP reads the whole link. Threads on XDA are hardly ever moved and there permalink is more or less same :)

I don't argue against reading the original article (I rather agree). But it's this site's policy to not use link-only answers, and I agree with that as well :) Thank you!

No problem. added it and will add excerpts in future answers as well :)


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Samsung Galaxy GT-S5300B dead / bricked (?)
I own a Samsung Galaxy Pocket (GT-S5300B) and, last week, I mistakenly erased a partition issuing the command:
cat /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 > /dev/zero

(It was either that or /proc/mmcblk0p1, I can't remember o.O)
Now, my phone is dead. It doesn't turn on at all, in either download, recovery or any other mode (PS: It has no fastboot mode, as it appears - it's a cheaper Samsung smartphone). I've tried using a "USB Jig", kind of outta nowhere, just to see what happened, but it remains dead :/ If I plug it to a power source, either usb data cable or the charger, it does get warm, like the battery was charging, but it won't turn on by clicking the turn on/off button, no way... :S
Does anybody know how to fix such thing? I run Linux Mint 13 (but it's the same in other Linux distros or Windows) and lsusb will return:
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 04f2:b044 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd Acer CrystalEye Webcam
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 046d:c517 Logitech, Inc. LX710 Cordless Desktop Laser
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 045e:0745 Microsoft Corp. Nano Transceiver v1.0 for Bluetooth

No Samsung ..., like there was before, or anything at all =/ The webcam, logitech and the ms transceiver are connected to my comp, so neither one of those is the phone hehe.
I have this on /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules:
# Samsung
SUBSYSTEM==”usb”, SYSFS{idVendor}==”04e8″, MODE=”0666″

Does anybody know if cracking the phone open will be any good to do anything? I don't have a RIFF Box or that kind of stuff, but I really don't want to send it to Samsung repair service unecessarily...
Thanks for you time already! If anyone has an idea, I'm most ready listening!

Have you tried getting into Odin mode?  Most Samsung devices don't use Fastboot.  See http://android.stackexchange.com/a/15370/1465

It doesn't look good I'm afraid.  You would need to be able to see 'something' relating to the phone from a 'lsusb' command to be able to use odin to recover your device without cracking it open.
You've probably already seen this, but it looks like the JTagBox is your best bet.
Good luck!

Thanks man I was afraid that (JTag way) was the only option, but at this point I'm glad there IS an option, hehe. I've actually just sent my device to Samsung's repair service in town today, but I guess that's what they'll do over there (I'll see if I can find out in a week or so and I'll write the details underneath my post if I can). Thanks a lot!


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How does the Android OS estimate remaining battery time?
Is it known how the Android OS estimates time to failure / remaining battery charge?
I am doing a school project about battery estimation on mobile devices but have not been able to find any information about which techniques are used in the industry.
Several people have written articles about how time to failure can be estimated on an Android device, but I have not been able to locate any official information about how it is actual done.
The optimal answer I would like is a link to a scientific article or tech-spec that describe it.

Where does Android report a time to failure? I've never seen it before.

Do you mean the time the device can run on the remaining battery charge, rather than the time to failure?

Yes that it what I mean. I had the understanding that it was the proper technical word to use.

Have you looked at the source code yet?

time to failure = time left on remaining battery charge

@MichaelHampton no I havent looked at the code, it seems a bit overwhelming to dive into the source just for that. But I'll try to get my question answered at the Androud Developer forum link

Your question applies to more than just Android batteries. Calculation methods depend on the battery type (currently mostly Li-ion in phone devices). If you really want to dive into the nitty-gritty details browse around on Battery university

In the API it is described that the battery percentage is calculated by dividing the current level with the maximum level.
This can be seen in the quote below.
This leads me to believe that BatteryManager.EXTRA_LEVEL is either measured in Milli amps Hour (mAh) or a value between 0-100. This is a simple approach and not the answer that I hoped to find but it is an answer never the less. Now I just need a official source that states the answer. :)

Determine the Current Battery Level
In some cases it's also useful to
determine the current battery level. You may choose to reduce the rate
of your background updates if the battery charge is below a certain
level.
You can find the current battery charge by extracting the current
battery level and scale from the battery status intent as shown here:
int level = batteryStatus.getIntExtra(BatteryManager.EXTRA_LEVEL, -1);
int scale = batteryStatus.getIntExtra(BatteryManager.EXTRA_SCALE, -1);
float batteryPct = level / (float)scale;


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If I charge Nexus 4 with a wireless charger will it charge considering red LED error
I've had a red LED error in my Nexus 4 for a week and it won't turn on or charge. I've tried everything, pressing the power button for 60 seconds, etc. I even opened it up and removed the battery and plugged it back in. It just won't help. I think it's due to very low power levels in the phone and it won't even charge. I was thinking that if I charge with a wireless charger will it charge or not?
Also if I charge it with an iPad charger the LED becomes stable red otherwise it's blinking using LG's original charger. So what's the issue and how can I resolve it?

If you have the red LED and the device won't charge from the wall, using the original charger, then it's faulty. Send it back for a replacement.

I live In pakistan , and I can't get it replaced from here. Any other solution?

Isn't there any LG service center? Go to one of them and try.


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Unlocked phone, GPS active
What does it mean when I unlock my phone and the GPS icon shows active when I'm not running any apps that use GPS? After a second or two, it goes away.

I means you're on an security reset[ed] phone. If you forgot the pin / pattern / etc and you had to reset it with alternative access ways, like login with the google account email and password, then after every unlocking your phone sends your gps coordinates to the google account and the location settings will always reset to high precision, no matter what.
Offtopic, I'm on 4.4.1 and have no idea how to turn it off. Most suggestions are for smart lock but 4.4.1 doesn't have it or I can't find it.


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Instagram LED Notifications
I have a custom ROM on my S3, but that shouldn't really be the issue here. I am on JB 4.2.2.
With my custom ROM I am able to set up different colors of the LED notification for each app that I want. However, this works for every single app I get notifications for except for Instagram. I still get the notifications for Instagram, the LED just doesn't light up when I receive them or they are still sitting in my tray. For Twitter I had to change the settings in the app itself to allow the LED to work, but for every other app, it has been default once I added the settings in my custom ROM. Instagram seems to be handling notifications a little bit differently from the other applications, because it doesn't wake up my phone when I get a notification either. But, I have a desktop application that shows me a pop-up on my computer when I receive notifications on my phone, and it notifies me for every notification, even Instagram.
I want to know if there is anything that I can do within Instagram or maybe somewhere in the phones settings to enable the LED to light up when I receive a new notification from Instagram.
Thanks.

What rom are you using?

@Nick it's a custom AOKP by Task650. Doesn't really have a name but all the settings are the same as plain AOKP.

Have you tried using Light Flow? It does the what the same thing as the custom rom does and Instagram is on their list of support apps for their Pro version.

I really don't want to have to pay just to receive notification from Instagram, but if I don't figure anything else out, thanks for the option.


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Disable or sign out of Google Talk?
I have a Sony Xperia X10 Mini. It keeps annoying me with Google Talk notifications, although I already went to "running services" under Settings/Applications and cancelled them. How do I get it to stop?

The easiest way:
If you'd rather not receive notifications, you can disable some or all of them.Here's how:

Click 'Settings' at the top of your Friends list.
Highlight 'Notifications' along the left side of the Settings
window.
Uncheck the boxes next to the notifications you don't wish to
receive, or check the box next to 'Disable all notifications.'
Click 'OK.'

Source: https://support.google.com/talk/answer/24742?hl=en
Alternative methods:

If you're running Jelly Bean, you can go to the app details, disable the app and uncheck the option to show notifications. Click here to see how.

If not, you can do one of the following things:
Root:
Root your phone and install Titanium Backup. You can uninstall Google Talk so it won't bother you again.
Non-Root:
Delete the app by running an update script which removes the app. Click here to view how exactly. You should only delete the /system/app/Talk.APK.


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How to change language in Skype
I installed Skype on my Samsung Galaxy Tab, and need change default English language.
How to change Skype Tablet interface language from English to other (French, for example)?

Skype for Android uses your tablet's default language. From their support site:

Skype for Android is currently available in [32 different] languages (based on your phone’s or tablet’s language setting).

What language is your tablet set to? To check (or to change it) go to Settings > Language & input. It does not look possible to change the language used by Skype without changing it for the whole tablet.

there is actually a way to do so, make sure that the source file your downloaded sourcefile is in the language you requested, ie downloading Skype_3.1.0.6458 in your case

This is about an Android app, not downloading the Skype app for Windows.

Does not exist yet the only way is to decompile the application
Then change each line written in .apk/res/
The folders i found in resources of skype app
anim   drawable       drawable-hdpi-v11  drawable-land       drawable-land-ldpi
drawable-ldpi     drawable-mdpi      drawable-mdpi-v9  drawable-port       drawable-
port-ldpi  drawable-xhdpi      drawable-xhdpi-v9  layout-land  menu      raw
color  drawable-hdpi  drawable-hdpi-v9   drawable-land-hdpi  drawable-land-mdpi  drawable-
ldpi-v9  drawable-mdpi-v11  drawable-nodpi    drawable-port-hdpi  drawable-port-mdpi
drawable-xhdpi-v11  layout             layout-port  menu-v11  xml
or try sending them an email at: skypeuploader@googlemail.com


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Force close message for every single application on Easypad Junior
I have an Easypad Junior and have the following problem with it: When I start it and unlock it i get this error:

The application <..., it does that for every single one> has stopped
  unexpectedly

The only thing I can do is to press Force close and then I enter a loop of pressing that. That leads nowhere. In safe mode, the same story.
Can you please help me?

Hi and welcome to Android Enthusiasts. Please try to improve the
quality of your question. Some good hints how to ask questions can be
found on here. This
will also increase your chances to get a good answer.

Sounds like a so-called "force-close-loop". Have you checked with the force-close tag-wiki? It's described there, and some first-aid pointed out (you always reach the corresponding wiki for a tag by clicking the tag, and selecting the "info" tab, by the way, and it quite often holds some first-aid information). But as in your case the problem persists even in safe-mode, you might need to factory-reset the device :(

But the question is .. how do i enter recovery mode to do the factory reset? I can't find anything online about that..

It may be because of permission issue.
If you are rooted and installed Custom Recovery(CWM recovery,TWRP Recovery) there is an option in advanced.
1: Boot into recovery
2: Advanced (CWM Recovery)
3: Fix permissions
It will fix permissions for all apps installed.
try it.. or else provide more details like ROM,Root status,recovery etc.

It's not rooted.. and i can't manage to enter recovery mode. I can't find anywhere the combination of keys i have to press.. and in safe mode i get the same error.. But thanks for your answer


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How do I set up a VPN from Android 2.3 to my home Ubuntu desktop?
I want to configure a VPN from my Nexus S (2.3.4) to my home Ubuntu desktop.
Has anyone tried this yet?
I would deeply appreciate tips on which VPN server to use (e.g., is openVPN support native on Android Gingerbread?) and pitfalls to avoid.

What would you use the vpn for?
I don't know the answer because I'd just use an sh shell to connect to my ubuntu pc at home and I can't imagine what kind of use a vpn could have but I'm interested...

@pitto I would like to use VPN for the usual purposes. Secure communication from my phone to the internet, not trusting the free wifi at the cafe, for example.

Mmmmhh...
So when you get to the internet cafè you would log to their network, then log to your vpn and then surf the net?

Yes. That is what I want to do.

Browsing internet through vpn wouldn't be easy. When you connect to internet through wi-fi, the cafe router will advertize itself as default gateway. This gateway will be used to bring up the vpn connection. After the vpn connection is established the gateway will be the same one which was set when the phone connected to wi-fi. And by default there can be only one default gateway. So browsing wouldn't happen over the secure vpn channel. The only solution for this is using a proxy which exists on your vpn connected network. And official Android ROM has no option to be set up as a proxy client.

@nixnotwin: What's the point of being able to set up a VPN if things aren't tunneled through it?  Is it possible to set up the proxy with Cyanogenmod?

http://android.stackexchange.com/questions/7566/how-do-i-set-up-openvpn-on-cyanogenmod

http://android.stackexchange.com/questions/2689/if-i-set-up-a-vpn-does-everything-go-over-it

The way I did it was to install dd-wrt on my home router and enable PPTP VPN.  Then I just put in the user name and password in the VPN settings in Gingerbread.

OpenVPN would seem to be another good solution if you cannot install dd-wrt on your router.  There is a client app for it (http://www.appbrain.com/app/openvpn-settings/de.schaeuffelhut.android.openvpn) but you need to have rooted your phone to use it.


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Words are not clear on my Samsung Galaxy Y phone?
I recently bought a Samsung Galaxy Y phone and I noticed that text is a little blurry in the phone. I compared it with my Samsung Galaxy Ace phone and the difference is quite clear. The displayed text on the Y is ugly.
I have also attached an image of the phone below.

Why is text displayed blurry on the screen of my Samsung Galaxy Y phone?

The Samsung Galaxy Y is a low spec phone and most importantly this can be observed with its display.
Some common models in comparison (by resolution, pixel per inch, screen size, price):

Galaxy Y: 240x320, 132 PPI, 3.0in, 110EUR
Galaxy Ace: 320x480, 165 PPI, 3.5in, 190EUR
Galaxy Nexus: 720x1280, 316 PPI, 4.65in, 410EUR

The text is blurry because there are much less pixels per inch to allow it to display text beautifully. You most probably can see individual pixels without a magnifying glass in comparison to "HD" displays like the Galaxy Nexus' and such.

Yes. The text is blurry in Samsung Galaxy Phone. If the text is not eligible in any apps you can use zoom option. Or you can buy other costlier smartphones mentioned above.


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Cyanogenmod: Profile redundancy?
I use Cyanogenmod profiles (on a Galaxy S2).
I've created a couple of custom profiles, "Silent" and "Totally Silent", and I switch to them by doing a long press on the power button. But I've noticed something disturbing: At the bottom of the dialog, there are 3 icons: A speaker with a cross over it, a vibrating phone, and a speaker. These look suspiciously like my profiles. When I switch to "Totally Silent", the icon gets switched to a vibrating phone. But when I switch back to default, it doesn't switch back to the speaker!
What's going on? Are there 2 separate profile selections? I want to have just one place where I set the profile, not two.

Profiles are just a way to change a bunch of settings at once. By long-pressing the power button and tapping ring/vibrate/silent (below airplane mode) you change a single setting however: The ringing behaviour.
The profiles work slightly different to what you expect.
You most probably forgot to enable some switches of the standard profile, most of them are on/off settings for which a profile has 3 actions:

activate
deactivate
modify / do-not-modify

This is for example very handy for a car mode that you activate to just switch off a security lock screen (+ enable GPS and leave all else as is).
The standard profile has a lot of those unset do-not-modify checkboxes (the checkboxes to the right), so unless you check them the profile doesn't actually change those settings.
Tick the checkbox and try again!


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Why does GPS not work in a train?
GPS signal strength is Zero while I'm in a (electric) train.
Why is does my device not get a GPS fix in a train?

In some trains you sit like inside an Faraday cage, as they even metallized the windows -- thus no signal can get through. That's also why you have special "mobile phone" zones in some trains: Here they placed something like a little "repeater" inside this section of the train, capturing the signal from outside the cabin (and transmitting it back the same way, of course). However, they don't do that for GPS.

And, AFAICT, they even couldn't, as that would affect the signal run time.

Even if they could, that would somehow defeat the purpose: you wouldn't get your position, but the position of their GPS antenna – where you cannot tell how far from your place it is and it which of two directions (towards front or rear of the train). Still, it would be sufficient in many cases, as for the speed of the train direction and distance to the antenna might be quite irrelevant :)


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How to exit fullscreen in android chrome?
I've added one of my regular news websites to my homescreen in android chrome (android 4.4, phone). This works great, it now even opens the site fullscreen to give an 'app experience'.
How can I exit this fullscreen mode? For instance so I get access to the menu so I can share articles.
The 'add to home screen' feature is described here

Is this on a tablet (and not a phone)?

This is on a phone (nexus 5)

I'm not very familiar with the fullscreen mode. But I've played around around with Chrome on my S4, and it goes into fullscreen mode if I scroll to the bottom of page (the address bar disappears). If I scroll to the top, it shows the address bar again. To exit, I just quit as usual, by pressing the back button key on my phone. Is this what you are talking about?

I've made the title more clear so it reflects the question. It is about exiting full screen, not exiting the app.

The fullscreen is just a matter of scrolling to top or to bottom. This is the way Chrome for Android implements "fullscreen". Have you observed the behavior?

The behavior is different when starting a site from a link from the homescreen, the scrolling up doesn't show anything, the browser actually starts in a different mode or something.

http://android.stackexchange.com/questions/55659/how-do-i-disable-full-screen-mode-in-chrome-for-android

I don't think you can. The site is supporting the mobile-web-app-capable view which means Chrome displays it like an app, hides the address bar and it integrates into the recent apps menu as though it was a 'normal' app.
I don't believe there is a way to exit fullscreen when using a bookmark to a site like this.
For those who are unsure what the OP is referring to, http://weight.aerotwist.com/ is a site that supports this 'app' mode. If you browse to the site in Chrome and chose the menu option "Add to home screen" this adds a 'bookmark' to your home screen which when used launches the site in Chrome in app mode.
See here for more details.


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No 3G connection in HTC Desire 500
I am not able to receive 3G network (the area has excellent 3g coverage) on my HTC desire 500. I have activated 3g on my carrier. It receives only EDGE 'E' Symbol but when I select WCDMA only the symbol changes to G for few seconds and entire network is lost, I tried with two different carriers. Should I need to add more details like my carrier name , APN settings for this question ?

ok seems like folks share there carrier name mine is TATA DOCOMO , I tried with Airtel too but same issue. Phone was brought in India and not in US.

You select WCDMA only and in network operator try changing manual and also simultaneously search in another 3g enabled phone. Check whether you able to see your mobile operator name.

@above no doesn't work

what doesn't work? Can you able to see the operator name in your phone? What about the other? Is both phones showing the same operator name


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Use a bluetooth headset for media audio on a Nexus 7 running Android 4.2
I have a Jawbone Bluetooth headset paired to my new Nexus 7 tablet. In the paired Bluetooth devices section, it show that it is paired under the Phone Audio profile. I just want all the audio to go through the Jawbone earpiece, when it is connected. So far even though it is connected I can't get any sound out of the ear piece and the tablet still uses it's built in microphone.
So is there a way to change the Jawbone's Bluetooth profile from Phone Audio to all, or media, etc? I don't know how to change this, and I'm not even sure what the Phone Audio profile is for, since I'm new to Android and this isn't really a phone.

There is an app called Mono for Bluetooth that allows you route the devices sound via mono bluetooth headset. I'm sure there are other apps, but this is the first one I found and it seems to work fine. It also does the following:

sound indication when routing is switched on
restores sound volume after switching off the routing
indication when routing is on in status bar
restores bluetooth routing after phone call

Supports Android 2.2 and higher.


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Push notifications for Google Hangouts unreliable on WiFi
I just got a Moto E and am attempting to use Hangouts as both my chat client and my SMS client. This works well except for the fact that it is unreliable about receiving push notifications. The notifications for Twitter, Zoho, Slack generally work fine.
I am running Android 5.0.2. I have not rooted the phone though it is unlocked.
I made sure I had every possible setting I could find turned on.

In Settings -> Sound & Notification -> App notifications -> Hangouts I have its notifications set to priority.
I have Messages turned on as an allowed interruption in Settings -> Sound & Notification -> Interruptions.
In Settings -> Apps -> Hangouts I have "Show Notifications" checked.
In Hangouts -> Settings -> SMS I have SMS enabled. I also have Auto retrive MMS checked, though not Roaming auto-retrieve because that seemed unnecessary.
In my account settings in Hangouts, I have hangout notifications turned on.
In Settings -> Account -> Google Account -> Sync I have everything checked except "Google Play Movies & TV" though I do not see one specifically for Hangouts (could that be a problem?). Also, when I do a "Sync Now", that does not seem to sync Hangouts.

Most recently, I installed Push Notification Fixer (PNF No-Root) and set the WiFi heartbeat to 1 minute. After a reboot I did receive one notification but I am not yet confident that it is working consistently.
My WiFi during work hours is coming through Connectify on my laptop. Sometimes my phone randomly disconnects by I reconnect it as soon as I see it.
I have seen people trying everything under the sun for this but before I just start randomly trying something I would like to have some reasonable confidence that it may be effective. Anyone know what might be causing this?

I had to change my router settings to enable IPv6 in order to get push notifications to work again. Some networks without IPv6 have been unreliable.

I've found even without IPv6, replacing the router is a factor for this. My home network wouldn't receive any push notifications to my Android devices. I eventually traced it to the fact that my router couldn't handle torrent traffic AND Google's push services at the same time. I replaced the router, which definitely supported IPv6, and boom, I was set.

It looks like GCM Push Notifications don't work with IPv6. I disabled IPv6 entirely in my router and now everything is fine. Though IPv6 was enabled for the past two years and I didn't have any kind of issue. Let's hope a Play Services update fixes it.
here is where i got the answer : Push Notifications not working over WiFi on Google Devices
On rooted devices, you can install this app to fix the problem :  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.lennartschoch.disableipv6

I've had a Galaxy Note 3 for some time. Used to work great, but I haven't gotten a push notification from Hangouts since the Lollipop update. I removed my account, added it again, and checked all my settings. No luck.
Looks like it may be a known issue with the Lollipop update, only on wi-fi. Here's what I found elsewhere on the web: http://www.reddit.com/r/LGG3/comments/32l4xj/verizon_is_aware_of_the_wifi_notification_bug_in/
Try to see if you still get notifications when using mobile data.


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Wifi access point with USB-OTG ethernet?
I want my phone to act as a ethernet capable wifi access point (WAN via ethernet).
When I use USB-OTG with an ethernet USB adapter attached to my Galaxy Nexus (non-rooted stock Jelly Bean) I get regular internet access just fine. Only thing I'm wondering about is the fact that 3G is shown in the status bar although mobile data connection is disabled. The connection goes over ethernet.
My Problem appears when I want to share this connection via wifi (hotspot). The hotspot is enabled and the other device (or whatever) is connected but it doesn´t get internet access...
Is this a known problem? Any ideas how to get this working?
Edit: It's not about 3G tethering, thats works fine. The problem is tethering while the phone is connected with the LAN over an RJ45-Ethernet adapter.

What adapter are you using? I tried to get internet over Ethernet with the Nexus, but it didn't work.

Just my thought:-While enabling inbuilt WiFi tethering the hotspot interface would have binded with 3G baseband interface normally..In your case you may want to bind your internet providing ethernet interface with hotspot interface.Any private app could help.

@Rilwan do you any app which can help with this?

How to make Ethernet work on Android over OTG?

Some carriers disable 3G tethering in order to make more money, so if your carrier has installed software on your phone before hand to stop tethering the only way to make it work is to root your device and install an application that will allow you to do that.
The reason why it only connects is maybe because creating a hotspot to share files/resources over a LAN is allowed but to access the internet isn't. Right now, the FCC is forcing Verizon in particular to allow users to be able to share their phone's 3G internet.

in general it´s not about 3g tethering, thats works fine. the problem is tethering while the phone is connected with the LAN over an RJ45-Ethernet adapter.

I've finally found a solution, however it's quite complicated to set up and you need to configure the wifi clients (i.e. Chromecast won't work with that). I still hope to find a better solution.

Connect ethernet, start hotspot as usual
Install any HTTP Proxy Server app from Google Play. "Servers Ultimate" does among many others also contain a http proxy.
Start the server on a port of your choosing (default HTTP ports are not available without root), usually leave everything else as it is.
On your wifi client that is connected with your phone's hotspot, go into the proxy settings (Windows: Control panel -> Internet -> Internet options -> Connections -> LAN Settings -> Use Proxy Server; Android: Wifi Settings -> Long press on name -> Change network -> Advanced -> Manual Proxy)
Set the proxy you've just created. The IP adress will be the local ip of your phone which acts as a gateway within your wifi hotspot. It is shown in the "Info" section of the Proxy Server app at the bottom (last IPv4 entry!).
You've finally got internet on your wifi clients!

So I am wondering if it is possible to share phone's internet via usb-ethernet adapter with a PC?

@cpz I've successfully tried that once. If I recall correctly, you can use precisely the setup I described, yet instead of the wifi clients you need to point the ethernet client (the PC) to the proxy server you've set up on your phone. I've actually found an even better & more complicated solution where the clients are configured automatically (proxy script); if you're interested, I'll post it somewhere. However, this still doesn't work with Chromecast (or the like?), as it does not support proxy scripts, alas.


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Can I lock android phone to one network if it is unlocked?
Can I lock android phone to one network? If can be unlocked if I have both lock and unlock code?
I want to lock my android phone to use only one network.

This question seems a little unclear to me. What do you want to achieve / what is the specific problem you want to solve? Can you add some use case and more information?

Hummm... +1 to ce4's comment - you have this question tagged as both sim-unlocking and bootloader-lock - which is it?

I can only presume that the OP wants to send in their phone for technical support and doesn't want to make it apparent that they've unlocked their phone.

something like that :)

@leki: Would you edit your question to better reflect your problem? Without knowing which model you actually have: Not possible (without enumerating all models). Some unlock attempts are reversible (Google line up), most are not (Sony, HTC,...) or at least are rather unfeasible... Search xda for this.

If you're talking about sim unlock, it is possible to re-lock it back to the network as was often the case with old nokia dumb-phones. However, I have not seen this in practice with most phones now-a-days. Usually, once it is unlocked from the network, any sim card can go in place and use it.
However, if you're talking about locking the boot-loader - then that's a different thing altogether, hence my comment above to ask for clarification. In this case, you can re-lock the boot-loader, depending on the manufacturer and the procedure used originally.


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type "adb shell su" in terminal (cmd in win or console in Linux ) let the terminal hang
I just want to input more shell commands after typing adb shell su, but the terminal just return an "#".
It appears to be unresponsive to further commands.
How can I solve this problem? Recompile the su binary? Any other suggestions?
Other information: I use ddmlib to communication with Android phone,
if I use device.executeShellCommand("su", receiver), an exception occurs(com.taobao.wireless.testlab.ddmlib.ShellCommandUnresponsiveException).

Is this a programming related question?

typing a command, such as su, after adb shell only executes that command and returns. What you probably want to do is type adb shell, then once in shell type su. You will probably need to allow super user permissions, depending on certain boot.img/kernel configurations.

Do you have Superuser.apk installed? su is probably waiting for response from Superuser to prompt the user if the root access is granted.


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Cannot create list in evernote
Android 2.3.4 and official Evernote app.
While writing a note I want to add a multiple list (simple, numbered, checked) so I click the corresponding button.
The indicator of the list is displayed (dot, number or checkbox) and I enter the text I want.
At this point, there is no clear way of how to add another item in the same list. If I hit enter it goes to the next line, in the same item of the list. There is no way to add a second item but to fool it by changing list type back and forth (type1->type2). By only doing this trick I am able to see the second list indicator and continue my note.
Example of what I see after enter:

Text here...
and next here...

Example of what I want:

Text here..
And here...

I am not sure whether I am doing something wrong, if it is a bug (?) or if I have something mis-configured in my keyboard (default international keyboard).

Have you checked with the evernote forum (http://discussion.evernote.com/) and ask there to see if there's a solution, unless someone here who is already using it, please report here for the benefit of others :)

I'm using Evernote v4.2.1 and the multiple list functionality works correctly, whether i'm using numbers or boxes or hyphens.
The result is:

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Can't install AIR on Galaxy Android device
I'm doing some AIR for Android development. When I try and launch my app, I am told I need to install Adobe AIR. After being taken to the Google Play site, I get the message that "Your device isn't compatible with this version."
I updated my OS on my Galaxy Tab 10.1 to Android 4.04, but I still get this message. How can I get Adobe AIR installed?

From the system requirements for Adobe Air 3:

ARMv7 processor with vector FPU, minimum 550MHz, OpenGL ES 2.0, H.264 and AAC HW decoders
Android™ 2.2, 2.3, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, or 4.0
256MB of RAM
Android web browser

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Xperia V heats up very much near the camera
So I purchased this new Xperia V today, updated to last firmware 9.1.A.1.140, but when I do stuff on the phone even when not too CPU demanding, it heats up very much, and I mean really heated up, near the camera flash... What could be wrong?

That is most likely where the battery is located. I don't know what your definition of "not too CPU demanding" but i know when i use my Galaxy nexus for extended lengths of time it heats up noticeably over where the battery is. Even when the screen is not actually on and i am not interacting with it, it can heat up due to processes and services going on in the background such as email sync or music playback or social site syncing. This could be part of what is going on with you. Also, when I charge it it heats up. There probably is not anything "wrong" with it, just a lot of stuff running. If it makes you feel better, when it starts to heat up, turn it off and take out the battery until it cools down, then put it back in.

No, its not the battery, its around the camera, and even in the front side where the SONY logo is, and I mean I just pick the phone from my desk, its cold, and after I download (just plai download) 2-3 apps from google play (even dont launch them) it starts to heat up

Try system updates (if available).
Usually company fixes these kind of problems in them.
Else close all the unwanted apps n restrict them from starting up again

Switch off your phone when you are not using.
Lock your phone when it's not working.
Don't run too many apps in same time.
Don't use the phone while it's charging.
Don't play games or watch videos when it's getting overheated.
And I have to tell you something... I have an Xperia V.