# Question
Title: Can I Install Stock Android 7 N On Any Device?
I currently own a Redmi Pro running Android Marshmallow with MiUi 8. Is it possible to install Android 7 Nougut on my phone.. I already have root...

# Answer
Not stock, you would have to install a custom ROM that is specifically designed for your device, they are not generic... Check XDA here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/redmi-pro in the *Xiaomi Redmi Pro ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Development* section. Make sure to do your research and understand the implications and process of installing a custom ROM before starting. Reading in the various XDA forums under your device is a good place to start.

In looking in the development area for your device, it seems the only Nougat ROM in active development is LineageOS 14.1, which is still in alpha stages since some things are not working, major things like calls, camera, mobile data, and more, some major hurdles to overcome yet.

So to answer your question regarding your device, yes, you can but you will not have a fully functional device at this time. I would monitor those areas and see if development continues otherwise it appears you are stuck on Marshmallow.

To answer your generic question, "Can I Install Stock Android 7 N On Any Device?", no you cannot... Android ROM's must be built specifically for each device, they are not generic and not even the same for very closely related devices in almost every case. Some devices have Nougat support from their manufacturer, some have it from third party ROMs, and many do not and will never have it.
> 3 votes

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# Question
Title: Removeable battery-like "thing" that provide unlimited power for android phones
Is there this "thing", that have the shape of your android phone's battery, but does not hold any charges, and act as a unlimited power supply for your phone when your phone is plug into a socket?

Yeah, I think it is hard to describe this "thing" but in another words, it is a "thing" that have the shape of your battery for your android phone.

Normally, a phone battery contain charges (e.g. 1600 mAh) but this "thing" does not hold any charges. Basically you just put this "thing" into your phone and plug your phone into a socket outlet and this "thing" will act as a medium to keep your phone running -\> meaning that you have unlimited battery life for your android phone as long as the power socket outlet is not switch off.

Of course, if you are going to somewhere and require portability, you just need to replace this "thing" with your normal phone battery. However, if you are going to be in one place for quite a long time, you just need to replace your normal phone battery with this "thing".

Also, you would not need to care for the battery life anymore as this "thing" act as a medium between the power socket outlet and your phone.

So, is there really such a "thing" right now or coming by the end of this year?

# Answer
> 1 votes
Your question is related to How to use android phone without battery?

IMO, the "thing" you visualise is "not a thing " (couldn't resist the pun) , since

1. Battery is *integral* to Android device (unlike an accessory) and the designed usage of device - both these are discussed in my answer to question linked above
2. Removeable batteries are being phased out , even in lower end devices, so the usage of that "thing" even if it exists, is very limited

Whether such a "thing" is going to come in any time is open ended but unlikely for reasons above

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# Question
Title: EzCast | How to cast to a projector by connecting to it's Wi-Fi Hotspot and still keep internet Wi-Fi connection?
Two days ago, my dad brought a projector that has a weird miracast system that works when something connects to **it's** wifi network and mirrors the screen using an app called EzCast.

The thing is, I want to use it to stream videos on my phone while mirroring my screen. The projector does not connect to normal wifi networks, but instead, it hosts its own network where the device to be mirrored/ cast from is to be connected to. So If I have to watch something on the projector, I lost my internet connection.

* Is it possible to connect to two wifi networks at the same time? Or
* Is there any other way to get the desired result?. (stream videos online to the projector).

Thanks. Please pardon the messy wording. I'm typing this on my phone and am an ESL speaker.

# Answer
I think this works only if the projector is **Wi-Fi Direct™** certified, and also if your android device support such capabilities.

Wi-Fi Direct is a Wi-Fi standard enabling devices to easily connect with each other without requiring a wireless access point. Simultaneous Wi-Fi direct and network Wi-Fi is an optional feature for devices. Some devices allow this and some do not.

References
> 0 votes

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# Question
Title: Tasker: Create calender event if sms contains 'Yes'
Every Wednesday i sent a sms with Tasker to confirm a appointment on Thursday the appointment is always at the same place and time.

Is there a way with Tasker to create a Calendar appointment if the reply sms contains yes?

Thanks, hope you can help!

# Answer
Sure you can

**Task**

* Create a new task "New Task + "
* You can name this Task *CalAppointment* or anything.
* Click "+" to add new Action
* App \>\> Calender Insert \[**In/For**: *the number of minutes from now at which the calendar entry should start. Optionally, For how many minutes the calendar entry should last*); **Calender** (*choose the target calendar app*) **Title**: (Optional): **Description** (optional); **Location** (Optional); **Available** (if not clicked the entry is marked as busy)\]
* Tap back to exit from this task
* Save this task and exit

**Profile (or Trigger)**

Create a Profile which allows triggering received SMS and day:

* Goto Profiles Tab and click the "+"
* Event \>\> Phone \>\> Received Text
* \[Type: SMS; Sender: Choose the number of the sender; Content: \*Yes *
* Tap back to exit from this window
* Long press on first context and choose "Add +"
* Day \>\> Select Week Day (scroll down the on the arrow under Days) and choose Wednesday
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# Question
Title: Why the game is compatible in BlueStacks, but not in Genymotion?
I've tried to install KoA game in Genymotion on Demand on Android 5.1, 6.0 and 7.0 using *Google Play Store* app (by following these steps), but it reads that it's not compatible.

> Your device isn't compatible with this version.

However I was able to install in BlueStacks on Mac. Both Android platforms are x86 compatible.

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### Genymotion

```
root@cloud:/ # getprop | grep -w cpu
[ro.product.cpu.abi]: [x86_64]
[ro.product.cpu.abilist32]: [x86]
[ro.product.cpu.abilist64]: [x86_64]
[ro.product.cpu.abilist]: [x86_64,x86]

```

### BlueStacks

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Where is the compatibility problem? Is it because of Android 4.4.2 vs Android 5.1-7.0, or it's something else?

# Answer
> 5 votes
It sounds like the application is only compatible with ARM CPUs, but not with x86. Genymotion doesn't have an ARM translation libraries installed due to intellectual property reasons where Bluestacks have them installed by default.

Here is the response which I've received from Genymotion support team explaining this in details:

> We do not offer 32-bits AMI images. However, it shouldn't be a problem because 32-bits applications should be compatible with x86-64 CPUs that Genymotion on Demand is using.
>
> It rather seem that this application is only compatible with ARM CPUs. There is an ARM translation tool that can make your application work on Genymotion. This **ARM translation tool is present in Bluestacks and not Genymotion by default**.
>
> We do not provide ARM translation tool by default because it's not our intellectual property.
>
> Genymotion support team

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As per above message, an ARM translation tool needs to be installed on Genymotion in order to make the application work properly.

Normally if you're developer, you only need to add the x86 build target to your current targets.

Otherwise, you need to install ARM to x86 translation libraries, which you can find on the Internet or you can contact the developer of the application to ask for x86 architecture support.

> An ARM application running on Genymotion is less stable and efficient than an x86 application. Therefore, we strongly recommend that you only use x86 applications with Genymotion.

Source: Why does Genymotion return an error message when I try to install an ARM application?

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Suggested steps to install an ARM translation tool for Genymotion:

1. Download an ARM Translation tool (e.g. `Genymotion-ARM-Translation_v1.1.zip`).
2. Drag & drop the ARM Translation tool to the Genymotion Home Screen
3. Once you see ARM Translation flash message, confirm with OK.
4. Restart device if required (e.g. `adb reboot`).

Source: How To Download & Install ARM Translation v1.1.zip for Genymotion.

Related: Genymotion with Google Play Services for ARM at Gist.

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# Question
Title: Allow usage of SID and LSID cookies in Android browser
I have a fresh Android 5.1 phone with two separate Google accounts already configured. I just started up the Android Browser and got a confirmation dialog about whether I want to allow Google to use SID and LSID cookies. The popup also referred some kind of Terms and Services document, but wasn't too specific about it. Didn't do anything about it, just went back to the home screen.

On second browser startup, the original confirm dialog was replaced by a popup showing an hourglass animation, and some status message about Google authentication being in progress.

On third browser startup, it just navigated to the factory default homepage.

Questions:

1. What exact permissions did the browser / Google request on the first startup? What are the pros/cons for accepting / rejecting access? (I don't really know what a SID/LSID cookies are for, so please be verbose.)
2. Is there a way to change my mind later on? Where should I look for this configuration option?
3. Why did the confirmation dialog not show up on the second and third browser startups?

(Note: someone asked question 1. on the AndroidCentral forum 4 years ago, no answers received as of yet...)

# Answer
> 3 votes
From Google Privacy & Terms - Types of cookies used by Google

> **Preferences**
>
> \[...\] Most Google users will have a preferences cookie called ‘NID’ in their browsers. A browser sends this cookie with requests to Google’s sites. The NID cookie contains a unique ID Google uses to remember your preferences and other information, such as your preferred language (e.g. English), how many search results you wish to have shown per page (e.g. 10 or 20), and whether or not you wish to have Google’s SafeSearch filter turned on.
>
> **Security**
>
> We use security cookies to authenticate users, prevent fraudulent use of login credentials, and protect user data from unauthorized parties.
>
> For example, we use cookies called ‘SID’ and ‘HSID’ which contain digitally signed and encrypted records of a user’s Google account ID and most recent sign-in time. The combination of these two cookies allows us to block many types of attack, such as attempts to steal the content of forms that you complete on web pages.

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title: Cant download apps on my new huawei

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# Question
Title: Cant download apps on my new huawei
I just bought my new huawei model H30-U10 I have synchronized my gmail account and whenever I try to download any app, the download bar keeps loading forever and doesn't even throw any error I am not using SD card because its internal memory is 8gb already My time and date are ok I am not using sim card, could this be issue? The google playstore version is 4.6.17 and I am sure its not the latest one and I cant even update playstore through playstore\> settings\> build version\> update

# Answer
I resolved the issue and it was because of the reason that I wasn't using SIM card
> 2 votes

# Answer
I too had the same issue and i have gone through several forums for the help.All have suggested the same .

> Clear cache and clear data of the playstore. Force stop the playstore. Remove and add google account.

I have tried all of the above but not found any good.

But after lot of trail and error i have resolved the issue.

Solution is the same as above but the sequence order is very important.

Please follow the exact order given below.

1). Google Playstore - Go to Settings \>\> Apps\>\> 'All' tab \>\> Select Google Playstore - Now Uninstall all updates \>\>Force stop \>\> Clear Cache\>\> Clear Data. 2). Download Manager - Go to Settings \>\> Apps\>\> 'All' tab \>\> Select Download Manager - Force stop \>\> Clear Cache\>\> Clear Data. 3). Downloads - Go to Settings \>\> Apps\>\> 'All' tab \>\> Select Downloads - Force stop if the button is active. 4). Remove the google account. 5). Restart the device. 6). Add Google account.

(Assuming you have followed the sequence properly)

In case the above steps don't resolve the issue and you are using Mobile data then follow the below steps

1 \> Check your storage space in your phone and ensure required space is available. 2 \> Please go to Settings \>\> Mobile Networks \>\>Access point Names /APN \>\> Go to APN Protocol Change it to IPV6 and APN Roaming Protocol to 'IPV4/Ipv6'.

Thats all !!! - Enjoy , Don't forget to vote for the reply
> 1 votes

# Answer
try downloading the latest apk for the playstore and manually instal it. check apkmirror.com
> 0 votes

# Answer
I found the easiest and faster way. Factory reset your phone and start from scratch. :)
> -1 votes

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# Question
Title: What's the fastest way to transfer files from PC to Android?
I'd like to know which method of transfering offers the highest speeds. It happens once in a while that I lose my data while making ROM updates etc. as my phone is encrypted and that sometimes makes issues.

I'm using a OnePlus One with its fast charging cable. I wonder if I'm faster transfering files using adb push instead of using Windows Explorer. I reckon that I read that somewhere. Or are there WiFi apps that can transfer quicker?

Thanks!

# Answer
> 2 votes
The best answer is

**It depends on the situation.**

Let me explain: Some solution make work better than others for some files than others. For instance, use Bluetooth to send a picture, or Wi-Fi based FTP for small files. For larger files, you may want to use a cable and transfer them manually, or even load these files onto a high-speed SD card and plug that into your PC. It really depends on circumstance. For me, I send files by Wi-Fi to my laptop for anything smaller than 100mb, then cable it for bigger files.

# Answer
> 0 votes
I've actually made an app specifically so I can transfer files to and from my phone at the absolute fastest speeds possible. Here's the link for the app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=info.brandonharris.speedsyncads and here's a YouTube video explaining how to use it https://youtu.be/Qbjg7Hh-pCc

# Answer
> -1 votes
I am using an APP Web PC Suite to wireless transfer files between mobile and PC. It's very easy and fast to share files when your phone and pc are in the same Wi-Fi network. Most importantly, it's totally free.

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# Question
Title: How do I copy text from my Phone's inbox to my PC's text editor?
I am looking for a way to copy text from my Phone's inbox to my PC's text editor, sort of a shared clipboard. ***My PC's text editor has Ctrl key disabled***. So, is there any way to paste the text from phone?

# Answer
You may be able to achieve that using tools like Clipsync, Uniclip etc. to share clipboards over local area connections.

**Using ClipSync**

**Setup**

You need both the client and server. The advantage of Clipsync is that it is very small in size compared to other tools in this category.

You can get the ClipSync Android client from playstore (147K B size) and ClipSync server (desktop) (≈ 900KB size) from the main website.

**Instructions**

* First, you need to install the android app on your mobile device, and a Windows program on your PC.
* After ClipSync is set up, there will be a background service running on all your devices. This background service will automatically keep your clipboards synchronized.

**Copying text from Android to Windows**

Long press any text on your Android device and select **Copy** then paste the text on your PC text editor program with **Right-click → Paste**.

Client:

Screenshot (click image for larger variant)

Server (notification)

Credits: ClipSync: Synchronize your clipboards over LAN
> 1 votes

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# Question
Title: What is an International Version for Samsung devices?
I'm trying to buy a Samsung Galaxy J7 and I'm between two options.

* one is: Samsung Galaxy J5 SM-J500H/DS GSM Factory Unlocked Smartphone, International Version
* other is : Samsung Galaxy J7 SM-J700H/DS GSM Factory Unlocked Smartphone-Android 5.1, 5.5-Inch

I would like to know the differences between both of them (if there is any). Also, I want to know whether the phone is able to function well or not in my country, Ecuador South America.

# Answer
> 0 votes
This is two different models. Look here about: J5 VS J7

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title: Too old to custom-rom?

text:
# Question
Title: Too old to custom-rom?
So I got the notion to install cyanogen mod on my old samsung galaxy tab 2 10.1. To speed it up, get it running nougat, and get back into the swing of dabbling with Android software.

The rooting process was simple, but it doesn't seem like I'm able to find what I need in order to get Lineage OS on my Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 I can't find the proper tools.

Is it possible for a device to simply be too old to flash a custom rom? Or am I missing an important resource?

If anyone could shed some light, I'd appreciate it.

# Answer
XDA is the de facto "standard" for roms, especially on common devices like this, but it seems they are struggling to bring Nougat to this device in reading some of these threads. I would suggest watching them and in the mean time find a stable Marshmallow ROM, there seems to be several for this device at the same link I mentioned earlier.

It's not about being "too old" per se, but more if the binary blobs and drivers available from the manufacturer can be incorporated into a new ROM and specifically it's kernel. After a while they just become incompatible and unsupported and outside of the realm of developers to effectively adjust the base source to work.
> 1 votes

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title: IFTTT custom android notification sound

text:
# Question
Title: IFTTT custom android notification sound
I added a recipe that sends notifications to the IFTTT app on my android device. Right now the notification sound is the same as for an incoming SMS. Is there a way to either change the IFTTT notification sound, all notification sounds, or just the SMS sound (Galaxy S4, Android 5.0.1) ?

# Answer
> 1 votes
No obvious way at this time. This feature has been requested for (literally) years without resolution.

https://twitter.com/ifttt/status/631963245750845440?lang=en

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title: Can adb shell work in binary mode?

text:
# Question
Title: Can adb shell work in binary mode?
`adb shell` sends \r\n instead of \n. Can I tell `adb` to not change the datastream (just like I can with `ssh`)?

# Answer
Yes, but:

The linebreak conversion is **not** done by ADB, but your host system (and its console host), Windows.

This issue has already been discussed on SO, and there are a few posts providing possible solutions. Here are some of them
> 0 votes

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# Question
Title: How do I remove an automatic bug/virus premium messaging/MMS box from popping up and stopping sending texts?
I have a Google Pixel phone and I received a shady message saying something like: "You have been subscribed to such-and-such and are paying such-and-such amount. To unsubscribe text whatever to whatever". Unaware of the the malice I foolishly replied to the text. A box popped up saying "this may cause charges on your mobile account remember my choice" Instantly I knew I made a mistake to I tried to rectify it with my my phone provider. As I tried to text them, the same box popped up. I closed it I tried to contact an alternative number provided by my phone company and the same thing happened. I used a different SMS app from the play store. Same thing. I factory reset my phone, then hard reset it. Same thing. How do I get rid of it? What do I do?

# Answer
> 1 votes
It’s typically not a “virus”, per se. A virus is a program that can infect another program or active content data file (such as a Microsoft Word Document) with itself, as a result of running or opening the infected program or document.

It’s most likely malware or adware, that you’ve unwittingly installed it on your phone, or if not, you may have had your DNS settings in your router hijacked, or you may simply be visiting sites that have JavaScript-based redirectors that trigger after conditions are met.

The process you will need to use depends on how it operates. For a lot of malware or adware, it typically comes in when you install an already infected application from the Internet.

There are a lot of people who intentionally propagate these infections through either third party “App Stores”, or through “sideloading” of applications. Typically, they operate by offering the application for a discounted amount, or for free, when the app typically costs more, or would normally come from a different location. If you use Windows PC, freeware from the Internet may bring such adware or malware.

This is most common in Asia.

The largest contributors to this problem are:

Companies who are pirating applications, and have decided to “make a little money on the side” Government agencies Pirated/redistributed development environments (for example, the most common way Apple iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch applications get infected is a pre-infected copy of Apple’s “XCode”, which downloads very slowly when obtained from official sources in many areas of the world). Region locking/region restriction; this is mostly a copyright and distribution rights issue, which is very annoying if the App you want has not been licensed for distribution in a given region (if it’s this: I suggest you learn to live without the App for now, and contact the manufacturer of the App, asking for it to be made available where you are). The first thing to determine is exactly what’s doing the redirection.

For example, if it’s your router, it’s not even your phone’s fault, and it can usually be fixed by updating your DNS settings in the router, or having the ISP doit for you.

If it’s a JavaScript redirect built into a template page that you’ve downloaded and applied to all of your browser pages, it’s a multistep process; her’s an example for the malware known as ad-type.google.com:

Disable JavaScript in all your browsers Install anti-malware software, such as “Malwarebytes for Android” Run the anti-malware software to remove the store JavaScript copy of the malware Reenable JavaScript in all your browsers If it’s from an App installed from something other than the Google App Store, then you will need to deinstall the application. You are on your own, determining which one(s) brought the infection onto your phone.

In rare cases, there have been infections due to infected software hosted on the Google App Store (not even Google can catch everything!), and if this is the case, updating your Apps relatively frequently, and deinstalling Apps that are no longer listed on the store can also help.

In additon, Resetting you Ad identifier from Google settings -\> Ads (Google settings is an app in your app drawer)

This stops the malicious adscript being targetted to your device based on a previously dropped cookie from a malicious app/site.

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title: Security Patch level old on Moto G5

text:
# Question
Title: Security Patch level old on Moto G5
My Moto G5's System Updates show that my device software is up to date. However the Security patch level shows up as "March 1 2017".

Three months seems like a long time in the security exploits world. On the other hand, I see newer security patches on here:

https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-05-01

Is there a way to bring my phone up to date to the latest patches?

# Answer
> 3 votes
Although the OS of Moto phones bears a resemblance to Google's stock or AOSP, Moto themselves isn't as committed as Google themselves to bring security patches in time - in fact, they explicitly stated that they will NOT guarantee monthly security patches like Google does with its Nexus/Pixel line.

As of now there's nothing you can do if you want to keep your warranty and stay away from custom ROMs.

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# Question
Title: Galaxy S5 device does not receive ip packet
I have the following setup:

Android Galaxy S5 Mini. Android version 5.1.1.

I have 2 network interfaces:

1. Interface1 with ip: **192.168.5.1**
2. Interface2 with ip: **192.168.5.10**

I create a DatagramSocket using Android SDK and bind it to address: 192.168.5.10(Interface 2), port 2525. I put this socket in receive and wait for packets. I use another device to send the packets.

Packets from ip address: **192.168.5.4** is received.

Packets from ip address(different device): **192.168.5.1** (same as the device's Interface1 ip) is never received.

It seams that the network stack rejects packets which have source ip address which exists in the device, regardless of the interface it was received in.

If I modify the ip address for Interface1 to something other than 192.168.5.1 it works fine.

Devices on which it **didn't** happen:

1. Samsung tablet T113 Android 4.4.4 (Stock rom)
2. LG G4 Android 6.0 (Stock rom)
3. LG Nexus 5X Android 7.1.2 (Stock rom)

Devices on which it **did** happen:

1. Galaxy S5 Mini Android 5.1.1 (Stock rom)
2. Galaxy Note 3 Android 6.0.1 (CyanogenMod)
3. One+1 Android 6.0.1 (CyanogenMod)

What is the mechanism which rejects the packet with source IP **192.168.5.1**(same as the device's Interface1 ip)?

# Answer
I found why this happens, but not sure if I can do anything about it without root. There is a system configuration per network interface called **accept\_local**. For example: `net.ipv4.conf.wlan0.accept_local`. When it is set to `0`, it can't receive packets from another local interface. Probably when it works on other devices, this configuration is set to `1`. On Galaxy Note 3 it was set to `0`. Once I did this, everything started working, but root was needed.

**Update**

Found a site which list the system variables values: https://census.tsyrklevich.net/

Specifically:

1. https://census.tsyrklevich.net/sysctls/net.ipv4.conf.wlan0.accept\_local
2. https://census.tsyrklevich.net/sysctls/net.ipv4.conf.wlan0.rp\_filter
> 1 votes

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# Question
Title: How do I get the Android Kindle/nook apps to recognize .MOBI/.EPUB files on my SD card?
I prefer to manage my ebook files manually, so I'm having trouble getting the Android Kindle and nook apps to locate the .MOBI and .EPUB files that I put on my SD card.

Is there any sort of Browse feature in these apps for locating custom ebook files?

For the moment, I'm getting around this issue by using Calibre/FBReader, but I'd rather use plain drag & drop and the official Kindle/nook apps if possible.

# Answer
> 1 votes
Mirrored on gist.

Custom ebook files can be read on Android devices by employing a collection of software, detailed below.

Both Android and iOS devices can simply use iBooks or Stanza, and connect to Calibre.

A more manual method employes Astro for browsing Android files manually. For any ebook file format, if an appropriate app is installed, Astro will be able to open the ebook. See Wikipedia for a table of ereaders vs ebook file formats supported.

Secondary software will be required to actually get the ebook files onto the mobile device:

# SugarSync

# Dropbox

Each ereader app looks for books in a different directory. A good compromise is to store all ebooks in `/mnt/sdcard/Books`, organizing ebooks at will through folder hierarchies, and using Astro to navigate to and open individual ebooks.

# FBReader

* Autorecognition: `/mnt/sdcard/Books`
* Custom browsing: `FBReader library -> File tree`

# Kindle

* Autorecognition: `/mnt/sdcard/Kindle`

# nook

* Autorecognition: `/mnt/sdcard/Nook/MyDocuments`

# Adobe Reader

* Autorecognition: `/mnt/sdcard/Download/Adobe Reader`
* Custom browsing: `Documents -> All PDFs -> Folder View`

# Answer
> 0 votes
On my Samsung Galaxy S5 running v5.0 (Lollipop), the Kindle app refuses to read books you drop into the SD card. There is a folder in the internal memory named "Books" which both the Kindle app and Nook app will read from (including PDFs).

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# Question
Title: How do people use videofiles as a capture source for cameras?
Sometimes you see people streaming videos through apps that are only supposed to use the device camera. My question is, how can you choose a video file to be your capture source for the camera? I'm thinking it may not be possible to achieve on the regular Android phones. In this case, is there a certain program or Android emulator for PC, which you can configure to capture a certain videofile as if it were a camera input? Thanks in advance.

# Answer
Say you want to record yourself playing "Candy Crush". The easiest way to do this is to download an android emulator here: http://www.bluestacks.com/ And then download the game you want to record and a screen recorder. (I recommend OBS studio.)
> 1 votes

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# Question
Title: S8+ stock always on display not showing notifications
I recently got myself an S8+ running Android 7.0.

One of the most (arguably) shallow reasons for getting this nice new phone was for the always on display it offered, where it would show the clock, your battery and the date.

It also promised to show me my notifications, and for about a week or two, that's exactly what it did.

It would show everything, from missed calls, to applications from the store, to weather updates. It showed every notification I had from any application without doubt or question. And I loved it.

Recently however it's just stopped. It doesn't show anything except the time, the battery and the date. No notifications. No missed calls. No new texts. No nothing.

I have my always on display checked as "on", run a default theme that came with the phone (although I have tried others). I have it set to show "Home button and clock or information" (which is the default) and have "Show always" on too.

I'm not that much of a power-user and I haven't tampered with the phone's services or anything, so I don't really know what else I can tell you about the problem. If I'm leaving out some key information please tell me.

How can I go about bringing my notifications back to the always on display?

The only thing that is not an option is resetting the phone.

# Answer
**There are possible reasons why these notifications no longer show:**

1. **Type of Always on Display (AOD) mode you are using** (Clock/Calender)

* It has been noted that if you're using the calendar AOD mode then you won't see any notifications, just the clock, calendar, and battery %.

> I could not get any notifications when using the calender AOD, but I do get messages and missed calls when using just the clock options in AOD. Nothing on emails in either, and I'm using the stock email app for an exchange work account. I could not get any notifications when using the calender AOD, but I do get messages and missed calls when using just the clock options in AOD.

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2. **Email client incompatibility**

* Sometimes there's some incompatibity or bug in the stock email application causing this. Check your email clients and if possible try switching to Gmail client. It somehow worked for one user.

> I switched my email accounts from the Samsung email app to the Gmail app (both email accounts are non-Gmail types). Now my notifications are working fine. I'll assume there is some problem with the Samsung email app regarding notifications going to the Always On Screen.

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3. **New changes introduced in AOD updates**

* It could be that new updates in the AOD features have brought some changes with it, for example the most notable change was the requirement of screen lock option.

> You must use one of the screen lock options for notifications icons to appear when phone is in AOD mode. Before the update this was not necessary.
>
> I picked the Swipe in the lock screen options and my notifications came back. It was working before that last update

**Possible solutions**

In addition to the above you may additionally try the following to resolve the AOD issue:

1. **Clearing app data**

* Do a clear data for Always On Display. Go your device’s Settings \>\> Applications \>\> Application Manager \>\> Always On Display \> Storage \> Clear data
2. **Fine tuning miscellaneous notifications**

* Make sure notifications are allowed for Messages. In the device’s Settings \>\> Notifications, make sure the switch next to Messages is turned on.
3. **Switch to another Always On Display layout**

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**Other workarounds**

* Install alternative Always On AMOLED – BETA from Google Playstore

**References**
> 1 votes

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title: Alarm not working

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# Question
Title: Alarm not working
My Alcatel iPop Tracfone used to ring the alarm when the phone was completely turned off. It doesn't do that anymore. Would like to know why? And how I can make that work again. Thank you, Sandy

# Answer
I did figure out how to make my alarm work again. On an Alcatel iPop phone, you go to the clock app. Click on the alarm. Then click on the settings icon. Check the "Alarm in silent mode" option. This will allow your alarm to work even when your phone is turned totally off.
> 0 votes

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Tags: alarm
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# Question
Title: Factory reset Sony Xperia J with forgotten pattern code
My friend asked me if it's still possible to factory reset his Sony Xperia J phone in any way when the pattern code was entered 20 times and it locked itself. The only way to do it right now is to enter the answer to the question, but he doesn't even remember it. The second one's validating through a Google account, but he doesn't remember his credentials.

I tried the volume up/down/both + power button, didn't seem to work, the menu won't show up. I tried flashing it, but it's locked and when I tried to unlock it, writing the code in the emergency dialer didn't do anything too. Additionally, other codes didn't look like working too. No menus showed up.

Is it possible to factory reset this phone? I don't care about data loss, I've already taken both SIM and SD cards out where all the information was.

# Answer
You can do this:

1. Download an app called "PC Companion" (Link)
2. Install and run it.
3. Select the option "Support Zone New!" then click "Start"
4. Wait for the program to install an add-on
5. Select "Phone / Tablet Software Update" and click "Start"
6. Select "Repair my phone / tablet"
7. Follow the Instruction
8. Chose your phone model
9. Connect your phone to your PC and wait.

DONE!
> 0 votes

# Answer
You can reset the phone without needing your PC or any other software:

1. Turn the phone off
2. Long press **Power up** and **Volume up** keys for a couple of seconds. It should start booting.
3. When booted you should see a menu, use the volume keys to navigate to **Restore factory settings**.
4. Use the **Power** button to select.
5. When it asks you to confirm navigate to yes and press the power button again.
6. The phone should reboot and start formatting.
> 0 votes

# Answer
Use **fastboot** to wipe user data.

Here's how :

1. Enter into fastboot mode by:
    1. first power off your phone.
    2. Press volume down key and while pressing it connect your phone to pc. The blue light will turn on.
2. Now try these commands( I assume you have fastboot files ) :

```
fastboot wipe userdata
fastboot erase userdata  # alternative

```

It should probably work.
3. If it stays on waiting for device, you're probably missing the drivers.
> 0 votes

# Answer
Firstly, Sony Xperia J doesn't have stock recovery. You need to flash a new one. Try TWRP or CWM from the XDA Developers site.

If the phone's rooted, you can try ADB. But for ADB, you should need the ADB debugging option enabled on the phone. Write those commands in the ADB shell of your PC.

```
adb devices
adb shell
cd data/system
su
rm *.key

```

OR

On TWRP, mount the system, use file manager, navigate to `/data/system`, remove all files ending with `.key`.

Done. You got your phone unlocked.
> -1 votes

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Tags: lock-screens, factory-reset, locked-out, pattern-lock, sony-xperia-j
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# Question
Title: How can I turn off Notification Sounds and leave phone sounds on
How can I turn off the annoying Notification sounds but still leave phone ringer on?

# Answer
Not sure what version of android you have, or if this is different between versions, but in the settings there is the option to Not Use Call volume for notifications. If you uncheck that, you get a volume slider for notifications.
> 2 votes

# Answer
Audio Manager lets you control this, it's what I use.
> 1 votes

# Answer
I have Android 5.1 - and after googling/browsing this question, found there is a 'None' setting for default notification sound.

Settings, Sound & notification, Settings icon (Cog symbol right of General Ring), Default notification sound, scroll up to the first, select 'None', OK - job done.
> 1 votes

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Tags: notifications
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# Question
Title: How to stop touchpal providing a daily summary?
I like this keyboard app as it has a lot of flexibility with accessing symbols for markdown that I use on stackexchange as well as its edit screen.

Click image(s) for larger version

But it also 'helpfully'(!) provides a daily summary of what apps you use (creepy?) along with a half-screen advertisement. I really don't want that.

Here's an example:

Click image for larger version

It's not even useful or accurate!

Is there anyway to stop it from doing that? I've not found a setting for this, nor a way to roll back the installed version to before this feature got added.

I'm in lollipop if it matters, with an Xperia Z5 compact. It might be able to upgrade to marshmallow.

How can I disable this feature, preferably without rooting my device?

# Answer
> 4 votes
It seems they recently added an option to disable it:

TouchPal -\> Settings -\> General Settings -\> uncheck Daily Summary

The new interface to disable daily summary (22 Nov 2016):

TouchPal--\> Settings--\> Look & Feel --\> uncheck Daily Summary

# Answer
> 3 votes
In Touchpal 2016, got to settings, looking & feel, and uncheck daily summary towards the bottom of the listing.

# Answer
> 2 votes
Install an old version (eg. 5.7.8.8), you can search for it online. Mind that installing apps from outside the app store could be VERY dangerous. Please be careful.

You may have to uninstall Touchpal first and then install the old version.

Then in the Play Store app, disable automatic updates for all the apps. When you have some updates pending, do a "update all" and quickly open the Touchpal app store entry and cancel the update just for Touchpal.

This is my hand-made solution. I am "stuck" on version 5.7.8.8 and it works well so far. My touchpal has a christmas-themed icon but that's it.

# Answer
> 0 votes
I'm on marshmallow and have disabled TouchPals permission to draw over other apps so I'm presuming this is what will need to be done to fix the issue, I will update this is it works

# Answer
> 0 votes
You click on the hand in the upper left hand corner, scroll to the second page of options and click settings chick on the little square of bars in the upper left hand corner, scroll to settings, scroll to "look and feel" scroll down to "daily summary" and un-check the box. This will stop the annoying daily summary.

# Answer
> 0 votes
you cant delete the floating icon if you are using the latest version. The easiest way is to download older version of touchpal. it will solved your problem instantly.

# Answer
> -2 votes
They will make it an option to have that annoying screen pop up daily. Before the end of February they say there will be an update that fixes this. Saw that info on their Facebook page.

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# Question
Title: what's this symbol mean ( square with 3 curved lines)
The leftmost icon(rectangular) on above screen shot showed up yesterday. I don't know, where or what app it's for but I would like it gone.

# Answer
This symbol is of "Cast screen" found in Android which is used to cast your screen to a television. This symbol in the status bar means that your phone screen is being casted to a television or cast screen is active:

If you want to get rid of it, just go to settings and disable screen casting.

More info: Google Support
> 4 votes

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Tags: notification-icons, screencast
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title: Toggle Lock screen

text:
# Question
Title: Toggle Lock screen
How to easily enable / disable the lock screen on nougat? So that I can remove the lock screen when I frequently use the phone and enable when I leave the phone somewhere.

# Answer
> 0 votes
The lock screen can only be changed in the settings. You can use smart Lock if you have a Bluetooth device, like a smart watch. You could also turn off instant lock, and set it to five minutes or so. That way when you are frequently using your device, you aren't prompted every time.

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Tags: applications, lock-screens
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# Question
Title: how to make swipe elite plus volte phone
I have swipe elite plus and and want to make it volte but problem is there is no update from swipe and there is no custom rom available for swipe elite plus. please help

# Answer
> 0 votes
Make sure your phone supports voLTE, in which case the guide to activate it is found here: How To Enable Jio VoLTE calling on any Android Smartphone.

Alternatively, you can use Jio4GVoice to make HD voice or video calls over 4g. For more information please refer to this website: Make any smartphone to support voLTE (HD voice and video calls with Jio4GVoice

Hope this helps

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Tags: 4g
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title: Rooted Moto E won't start Wi-Fi

text:
# Question
Title: Rooted Moto E won't start Wi-Fi
i did a hard reset on my rooted Moto E android device since the Wi-fi was not somehow turning on. Now it has rebooted, and after entering the preferred language, its got stuck on the second step : Select Wi-Fi, and shows the text "turning Wi-Fi on...". ( the same problem for which I did a hard reset in the first place). Why is the reboot stuck at this point and what can I do about it?

# Answer
> 0 votes
Can u post a pic of Ur WiFi select screen or give some more information. Since u have rooted your phone, u can boot into recovery and try to wipe dalvik cache and factory reset. Hope it solves your WiFi problem if not,then it might be a hardware issue.

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Tags: 4.4-kitkat
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# Question
Title: Android 5.0: Create link in internal storage to SD Card
I have a LG G3 which I have repaired many times (actually by putting it into the furnace xD). Now I'm scared that my phone dies so I do a Titanium and Nandroid Backup every day, but none of these is backing up up my internal storage with my WhatsApp Photos and so on.

Now I had the idea to replace the WhatsApp folder with a link to my SD Card. I have root and tested it with `ln -s /storage/external_SD/test/ /sdcard/test`.
It returned `ln: /sdcard/test: Function not implemented`.

After some research I found out that links are not supported by the file system of the internal storage (I also tried to make a link to the /data/data folder and it worked so it has to be that).

My questions now:

* Is is somehow possible to make a link in the internal storage to the SD Card (e.g. with an Xposed module which emulates a link or something like that)
* Is there a better way of backing up my internal storage?

Thanks

# Answer
There is an app called "Link2SD" on Google play store. Link2SD uses a secondary partition on your SD card and uses it as another segment of internal storage. Link2SD moves apk, dalvik-cache (.dex), lib and internal data files into this partition, which the OS mounts on boot, and creates a symbolic link in the original location. This retains the file structure that the system expects but with the bulk of the data moved to the SD card.

Linking obb and external data folders of apps and games \- root permission -Second partition on SD card is optional, folders can be moved to the 1st or 2nd second partition of the SD card. Hope this works for u :)
> 0 votes

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Tags: 5.0-lollipop, external-sd, lg-g3
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# Question
Title: Blank screen when trying to boot into recovery mode on Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1
I am in the middle of trying to install Cyanogenmod on my Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 according to Wiki instructions and I'm getting stuck when I try to go into recovery mode. I tried to flash it to koush's ClockworkMod Recovery (recovery-clockwork-6.0.2.3-p5110)

I've tried using `Power` \+ `Vol Up` and by using `adb reboot recovery` in the terminal on my PC. It seems to start into recovery mode with a message in blue stating it's entering recovery mode, however, it just goes black and I can't progress passed this point.

I can still boot into the stock and into Download Mode fine.

It's possible there was a problem installing the custom recovery as I never saw a progress bar as described in the wiki. Instead, it seems to stay at the "Don't power off target device" screen, despite the message in my terminal stating that it was finished. If the custom recovery was botched, how can I remedy it?

What can I check to narrow down the problem?

I'm running off a PC using Linux Mint in case that helps.

# Answer
> 0 votes
Me too. Tried flashing "Bump" TWRP 2.8.0.0 for LG D855 (G3) with Flashify and I got the same all black screen. Then after a while, it reboots normally...

# Answer
> 0 votes
Try using CWRP OR PHILZ recovery. It might be the case that your recovery doesn't able o flash the cm image correctly. https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2548257 Here is a link where you'll get the recoveries specified. Good luck:)

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Tags: cyanogenmod, recovery-mode, samsung-galaxy-tab-2-10.1
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# Question
Title: F-Droid keeps downloading apps that were installed from other stores
F-Droid, again and again, downloads updates for an app that is installed via another (namely Play) store. Obviously, it cannot be installed because of different signatures.

How can I get F-Droid to ignore foreign-store apps?

# Answer
> 9 votes
For these common apps- In F-Droid, open the info page of an app in question, click on the 3-pointed menu and select to ignore all updates for this app.

Source

**Edit:** Thanks to input from BubullC this feature is incorporated in the latest version of F-droid. I haven't verified it but adding it for benefit of future vistors

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Tags: application-autoupdate, f-droid
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title: I cant install a application!

text:
# Question
Title: I cant install a application!
I'm trying to install a 1-click root app but just the install button is broken. Cancel works, but not the install button.

Also this is the Android dialog box, not the webpage itself.

EDIT: Now I'm trying to test an app that i made but it wont let me install it... Also I have no filter apps

# Answer
Check if you activate install from other than market, also check can you reinstall any of app. Also you may use other tools like King (Kingo) root.
> 0 votes

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Tags: samsung-galaxy-s7
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# Question
Title: Do all Android phones have a GPS receiver?
That's pretty much it. I am developing an application which is utterly useless without receiving a GPS signal, so I was wondering if there are any phones which do not possess this feature.

Thank you

# Answer
The current Android Compatibility Definition Document says:

> ### 7.3.3. GPS
>
> Device implementations SHOULD include a GPS receiver. If a device implementation does include a GPS receiver, it SHOULD include some form of "assisted GPS" technique to minimize GPS lock-on time.

So "SHOULD" does not mean "MUST". *\[Edited because I messed things up. Apps that require GPS show up in the market regardless of whether the device supports it or not.\]*
> 6 votes

# Answer
I am almost positive that all Android phones will have a GPS receiver in them. Cnet reviewed the first Droid in 2009 so chances are they will all have GPS.
> 1 votes

# Answer
At least one - fly iq 431, and few cheap tablets. here we can see that 93% of (all smartphone) owners use some geolocated stuff. Another fact that sort "having GPS" returns 15218 from 16144 ("having touchscreen") unfortunately there is no reverse filter to see specific models, so this could be caused by not filling needed field by seller
> 0 votes

# Answer
Considering that E911 requires all cell phones to provide location information to emergency services (Wiki Link), nearly every cell phone contains a GPS receiver for E911 services.

Given that information, I'd expect there to be very few cell phones (Android or otherwise) that don't have a GPS receiver built-in. With it already built in, and the OS already having to support it (since the phone system is simply an Android application), it'd be silly to not let other apps take advantage of it (if the user prefers).

One thing to keep in mind: GPS location is a *user-controlled* option in Android, so it may very well be disabled.
> -1 votes

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# Question
Title: New to Andriod - Duplicate contacts issues with WhatsApp and other messengers
I'm new to Android and I must admit it's been frustrating setting up the contacts. I only want local contacts stored, I don't want it to sync anything. When I added my work email it synced 5000 contacts without asking and it was a huge hassle to get rid of them. (Why you wouldn't be able to "select all" from a certain group and delete it the Contacts app, I have no idea). Then after I deleted all the contacts from the work email somehow sync got turned back on by itself.

Anyways, now I deleted them again and hopefully sync won't turn back on. But this is pretty brutal, I've spent hours on this.

So now when I add a local contact if they're on WhatsApp, it creates another entry. If they're on Signal, it creates yet another entry and when I search for the contact I see them 3 times. I'm trying to understand why WhatsApp etc can't just read my contacts from my list, or if it needs to store them can't it do that internally? I don't want to see a separate list for WhatsApp contacts on my phone that just duplicates ones I added.

I know I can merge them, but I'd prefer not to as I don't want to see 10 different call options when I click on someone (Call this person with WhatApp, call them with Signal, call them with your actual phone). I don't use messengers to call people. It also seems like you can only merge them manually every time you add someone which is kind of a pain.

Am I missing something here or is that the only way this works?

Thank you for reading.

Edit: The frustrating thing is when I delete all the WhatsApp contacts it still works fine. When I go to "New Chat" I still see everyone on there that has WhatsApp. So why does it need to create a separate entry for every person listed there

# Answer
Actualy, you cant get rid of that call via (on stock caller, pick any on market, they can help) for avoid doubling you may show only local contacts (they will exist but become hidden). On stock AOSP 4.4 People \> menu (three dots) \> Contacts to display \> pick a phone contact or customise
> 0 votes

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# Question
Title: Why is Android phones' RAM capacity catching up with or even overtaking PCs'?
In the past few years the RAM capacity of Android phones have rised by a lot. A typically average Android phone has 1GB RAM in 2013, but 4GB in 2017. Comparing with PCs, the typical RAM capacity has only rised from 2GB to 4GB. Even 8GB phones start to show up.

This is somewhat unreasonable, at least to me. Because:

* Phones and tablets are rarely used for "intensive productivity" like editing large photos, applying post FX to videos, doing 3D model building and so on.
* Heavy gaming hasn't yet been possible due to other limitations (i.e. CPU & GPU). You want COD: Black Ops III on a phone?
* Dual channel RAM is almost twice as fast as single-channel, but unlike RAID disks, this has nothing to do with capacity.

So why? How is such RAM capacity useful?

# Answer
* It depends on screen size and pixel density - so the minimum for 32 bit is close to 1.5 GB for 32 bit 2GB for 64 bit at the highest end - Section 7.6.1 of android Compatibility Definition This size is only for the OS , radio (modem) is extra, which is not much anyway.
* As discussed in this question 2 GB RAM or 3 GB RAM, does it really matter?, RAM requirements from OS per se are not high but as pointed out by Andy Yan in his answer - apps occupying more RAM with usage and apps with increasing functionalities (WhatsApp for instance ) tend to grow in size

But coming to your question, why in Android and why not in PCs , IMO, factors which are unique to Android

* Multiple apps being open especially social apps in addition to standards mail, messaging , maps etc can lead to some apps being killed as RAM is less (not so on PCs) - *poor user experience*
* *Future platform releases* \- 4GB is *strongly recommended* ( see last section of CDD linked above ) . Compare with Windows minimum requirements - RAM: 1 gigabyte (GB) (32-bit) or 2 GB (64-bit). For Linux it would be far less
* *Selling point*, whether it matters in reality or not (on a 5 inch screen does HD make a difference ? Not to me, at least )
> 1 votes

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# Question
Title: nexus 7: set static IP address for non-wifi
My desktop PC's second NIC is configured to IP address 10.0.0.2, subnet 10.0.0.0/24. Other PCs talk to each other, when I give them similar addresses (10.0.0.3, 10.0.0.4, etc.). All these PCs plug into a NetGear 100base hub.

**How can I add a Nexus 7 tablet running Android 6.0.1 to this network?**

My USB-to-cat5 dongle successfully connects the tablet to the internet via a router. But when I plug it into the NetGear hub instead, I see no way to specify an address like 10.0.0.5. (Were this wifi instead of cat5, then it would be easy.)

If I replace the hub with another router (which would give the tablet a DHCP address), then the host PC gets confused because it has two 192.168 networks at once: https://superuser.com/questions/1101720/if-i-have-two-routers-how-do-computers-choose-which-to-use.

**Edit:** From google play I installed "wifi static" and, through that, set the IP address to 10.0.0.4. But then I still couldn't see it on the 10.0.0.xxx net. Ping from PCs to the tablet failed. The tablet's TeamViewer app (for remote desktop) failed to connect to PCs with "connection error."

# Answer
You can address reserve the tablet by using address reservation on router with the MAC address of the tablet.

MAC address an be found in **About Device** -\> **Status**
> 1 votes

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# Question
Title: What can I do if I forget my passcode to my device (Samsung Galaxy Tab E(2017))?
My brother changed the passcode on his device and it glitched out or something and he has no access to it at all, what can he do?

# Answer
> 0 votes
You need to perform a factory reset that will clear everything stored in the phone memory, unfortunately.

If you previously enabled USB Debugging in the Developer Options, there is a way to remove or reset the lock screen. No data is lost here.

Edit:

On some Samsung device, you can reset the lock code with AT commands when the device on Download mode (Never tried myself though). Some paid softwares can do the job just on one click. **z3x**, **Miracle Box**, etc

# Answer
> 0 votes
If the phone's rooted you can try adb. But for Adb you should need the adb debugging option enabled on the phone. write those commands in adb shell of your pc.

adb devices adb shell cd data/system su rm \*.key

OR On TWRP Mount the system,use file manager,navigate to data/system remove all files ending with .key

Done.You got your phone unlocked.

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Tags: samsung, settings, security
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# Question
Title: Can't use Jio and data on another sim together!
I have Moto Z play. It is a dual sim device.I have inserted Jio and Vodafone sim.

Once I am switching Vodafone for data. It is automatically switched Vodafone sim to 4G.

Is anyway to use data using another sim and JIO sim together?

Please advise.

Thanks

# Answer
> 0 votes
My OnePlus 3T lets me change the data SIM, but the problem is that not both SIM is a phone can be 4G / 3G, if one SIM is 4G / 3G, then the other has to be 2G.

JIO will not stay because Jio is a 4G only network, and it will lose network once other SIM is set as 4G / 3G. You can try using Vodafone's internet in 2G.

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Tags: 6.0-marshmallow, dual-sim
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# Question
Title: I'm unable to remember my old phone's passcode. I've tried just about everything I know of.
I have a Samsung Galaxy Note 4 and it is a typing/word password-my carrier is AT&T. This phone isn't currently activated (as in I'm currently using a different phone, an iPhone to be specific, so my account hasn't been active in a while). I don't think I had the debugging enabled. I also attempted to try "Find my Mobile" and "Android Device Manager", but these require having already downloaded and activated these or require you to be able to have access to your settings which i am unable to do. Is there a way to do a backup with it like this? or is there a way besides paying apps or factory rest to unlock it? I have very important old scripts, photos/videos, and I don't remember if i did a backup so I would truly prefer not to have to do a factory reset. Please help!

# Answer
> 0 votes
On TWRP Mount the system,use file manager,navigate to data/system remove all files ending with .key

Done.You got your phone unlocked.

If you like than you can try xda developers site

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Tags: locked-out, samsung-galaxy-note-4
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# Question
Title: Is it possible for any app to connect to Internet over cellular when the data connection button is off?
I have the following situation on an Android 5.1 phone.

(I don't think this may be a duplicate as the other similar questions I saw were about intentionally allowing or blocking apps from Cellular access.)

Because of an automatic daily-pass (they call it) charge upon any momentary connection to the Internet, I turned off the Data Connection button (from the drop-down quick menu screen) a little before the current day expired as I usually do to avoid an extra day's charge.

I was also at home next to my always-on WiFi. This I mention because supposedly WiFi is always preferred over cellular network, right?

Hours after the button was off, I got an SMS telling me that I have connected to the Internet (cellular), and I will be charged for yet another day. I immediately checked the Data Connection button and it was indeed off as I had left it.

So, I'm curious as to how the connection could have happened.

I want to report the company for fraud. But, I need to be certain.

Is it possible for any application to override my manually selected Data Connection button position and use the Cellular network for data? (And, even more so when I'm on WiFi at the moment? But this is not the main issue.)

Now, if by any chance this is indeed possible, what would be the way to be certain my Cellular data connection is never used until I decide to do so?

Thank you.

# Answer
> 1 votes
After complaining to the phone company, it turns out that the issue is (believe it or not) 4G related.

They refunded my unfairly charged amount, and switched me to a different data plan that excludes this daily-pass automatic connection so this won't happen again.

I have found this answer to another post which is correct for here also.

# Answer
> 0 votes
Which phone is that? On some devices there is that feature called Smart Network Switch (Samsung).

Smart Network Switch is a feature that allows your phone to automatically switch between WiFi and the mobile network. This allows the phone to maintain a high level of internet connectivity if your WiFi connection is too slow to provide a good user experience.

So in your case this may have been enabled and the phone switched to data connection when your WiFi connection was not stable.

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# Question
Title: UDP no longer allowed to send on android 7+?
So I have been running an app on android (Samsung Note 4) with out trouble until the latest phones started coming out with android 7+ (Samsung S8, OnePlus3T). Now I find that UDP is blocked on the phone in the app.

Is there a **new setting that blocks UDP broadcasts**?

I used Evothings app to test that UDP is blocked.

I noticed a change with the way WiFi works on android. If the WiFi connection doesn't have internet, the system seems to behave differently. Does WiFi work differently if there is no internet?

Again, it still works with the older versions of android. If you have come across this problem please share.

# Answer
It turns out that the newer versions require another call to set that you want to multi broadcast over UDP.

I could not find any setting that relates to UDP or how WiFi works without internet connection.
> 0 votes

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title: Adb Tool showing No Devices Found

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# Question
Title: Adb Tool showing No Devices Found
I had flashed v10 stock rom in my coolped note 3 plus, I was done successfully, But after that My device stuck in FastMMI mode, Everyone suggesting me that enable usb ddebugging, but how can i enable it even my devices isn'n starting? May anybody tell me that how to exit from Fastmmi mode?

# Answer
This happens when you flash a Coolpad device using SP Flashtool. The device stick at Fmmi mode.

To get out of this, just open ADB Tool (Minimal ADB and fastboot).

Then type the following:

```
adb devices

adb shell fctest system reboot

```

Your phone should boot normally.
> 0 votes

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Tags: adb, custom-roms
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# Question
Title: Does "Image Privacy" (EXIF remover) app still exist?
Does the "Image Privacy" app exist in some form? It was a very handy method of removing EXIF data from an image expressly for sharing the metadata-free image. You select "Share" -\> "Strip metadata" (the Image Privacy intent) and then the target app.

A screenshot:

image source

# Answer
> 0 votes
You can try Photo Editor for EXIF removal.

See screenshot below

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Tags: applications
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# Question
Title: Why do you sometimes have to press the device rotation tile twice for it to function?
I have a auto rotate quick tile which was originally on stock Android on my Nexus 6p running Android 7.1.2 nougat. I realized that in some cases, after I press the autorotate tile to change from portrait mode to auto-rotate or vice-versa, it doesn't change and instead stays at what it was before (auto rotate or portrait) until I press the tile again. This occurrence seems to be random and at other times the tile works perfectly normally with each press. How do I make it so that this tile works with one press every time?

# Answer
When you tap that button, what is actually happening is a settings file in the phone is updated. If it isn't working on the first tap, it's either caused by lag, or an issue with the quicksetting pane itself. There isn't much you can do as far as a real solution besides a factory reset or using a custom ROM.
> 1 votes

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Tags: stock-android, nexus-6p, auto-rotation, quick-settings
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# Question
Title: How to flash Android O image in Moto G4 Plus
I have Moto G4 Plus device which has Android 7.0 - I want to flash Android O system image in Moto G4 Plus. I see https://developer.android.com/preview/download.html where system images are for Nexus, Pixel etc.

Motorola itself will take time to push updates to their devices so I am looking to push it manually. Does anyone know if there is any system image for Moto G4 Plus ?

# Answer
I'll supplement the answer of @beeshyams: since Android O is still in Dev Preview phase, the source code is still incomplete, and no custom ROM (LineageOS, etc.) could even base their work off it. LineageOS (back in their CyanogenMod days) also stated time and again that they will not touch Dev Preview code.

To reinforce the fact: until Android O is officially released (name confirmed and source code out), there's no way you can taste it on an unsupported device.

P.S. Historically, there had been ports of Android L and M Dev Previews to other devices, based on the image released alone. However, 1) such ports are often conducted between devices of similar SoCs, 2) those ports are nowhere near stable and usable, and 3) they quickly become obsolete once the proper release source code arrives.
> 12 votes

# Answer
Impossible

If Moto themselves did not update your device, there is no way you can obtain an authentic system image. Even when your device is updated, Motorola is very slow to update the latest image on it's website, and you would have to depend on images obtained through unofficial means hosted on sites like XDA

Related Security Patch level old on Moto G5
> 8 votes

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Tags: cyanogenmod, rom-flashing, motorola, lineageos
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title: How to 'move' sygic maps to sd card

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# Question
Title: How to 'move' sygic maps to sd card
I've a new Lollipop smartphone (LG Spirit), i've Sygic Gps, but when i download maps, Android save it to internal memory. I've moved them to sd card (cut and paste), but when i start sygic it asks again which maps i would like to download. Is there an hack i can do to make it work ?

# Answer
> 1 votes
I guess you might have been doing it wrong or maybe the feature to switch to sd card storage was not yet introduced yet in the Sygic version.

According to instructions given on Sygic help, try the the following:

> Depending on your device specifications and settings, Sygic files will install either to your SD card, or in your device's internal memory. If you want the Sygic files to be installed specifically to your SD card, please follow these steps:

1. before installing Sygic on your device, select the option Store new apps on SD card

or

2. If you already have Sygic installed on your device, you can change the storage location at any time, via the settings in the application. Just go to Menu → Settings and tap on "Maps and Data storage" then choose the removable sd card option

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Tags: settings, gps, navigation
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# Question
Title: How to lookup a specific security certificate on my phone?
I have been trying to find out which security ca certificate is which on my phone, when they are all active my phone runs really slow.

Is there a way to find these certificates?

# Answer
> 0 votes
Go to your **Settings** app -\> **Security** -\> **Trusted Certificates** and you'll find all of them. Tap on an item and there's a "Disable" button available.

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Tags: security, certificates
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# Question
Title: Whats the best way to uninstall an app on 7.0 Nought?
When uninstalling apps on 7.0 nougat, is it best to use the App Mgr. or uninstall it directly from the screen dragging it to the uninstall area?

# Answer
AFAIK, using "drag to uninstall" and uninstalling from app manager area is **one and the same thing** \- only the the former is a shortcut to the latter.

Here is why:

Consider an application dragged to be uninstalled:

It still accesses the built in uninstaller from App manager

When directly using the application manager to unistall:

The difference, is when you "drag to remove" or when using a completely different uninstaller from third-party developers.

Hope this helps
> 3 votes

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Tags: 7.0-nougat
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# Question
Title: Recover files of encrypted SD card after factory reset without decrypting the card
I own a Samsung ON 7 phone and I was using a class 10 Sandisk memory card which was encrypted by the device in the lock screen and security menu and with no other third party software. Now I have done factory reset on my phone and accidentally forgot to decrypt the SD card, now SD card is detectable and all the files are there and visible as well. but i can't open any file. What to do, please help !

# Answer
Before you start anything: Did you use the offer of Google Account for storing all your passwords,etc?

If not: Are you a beginner or an Android Crack? If you are a beginner, then it is very, very complicated - get asap to a data recovery firm (very expensive) or get to the National Security Agency :)). As Android Crack I would try ASAP (hope you've rooted the device by a Custom-Bootloader) mirror the whole smartphone (on a phone shell apk with sudo/su then dd if=/dev/mmcblk0 of=/ disk with same mem size of smartphone mem) as well as the SD disk to a PC disk, then try to use a Linux recovery disk with gpart, disktype, testdisk, and e.g. aeskeyfind etc. to recover the data. So far I know the keys are in a certain folder (look on the web/stackoverflow) in the system partition, but if you overwrote the phone with Odin/Heimdall (DO NEVER THAT NOW) then you can forget all data.

The next time after you've rooted/ made a firmware reset and new encryption the first thing you should do is to backup the key stuff on a new Memory card and duplicate the keyfiles as much as you can!

Afterwards everything is hell :)) (Even there are APK which are offering a recovery/decrypting of private encrypted files, I would be very cautious of that - they're mostly fakes/adware and maybe trojans)
> 0 votes

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title: Daily data usage on home screen

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# Question
Title: Daily data usage on home screen
Can I see daily mobile data usage (excluding Wi-Fi) on the home screen using a widget?

# Answer
I think this 3rd party widget will do it. It says that it can be customized.

Data Counter

PS: Sorry for not using the comments field.
> 1 votes

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Tags: mobile-data, app-widgets, data-monitoring
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# Question
Title: How can I view my facebook email address?
How can I view my facebook email address?

I managed to get to this screen

from there I scrolled down, and got this screen

Then I chose account settings

then I get this screen

and none of these options open up.

I just can't see where i'd be able to see my email address.

**added explanations**

Those screenshots are from my Android Phone, in the Facebook App. (not from a web browser, i'm not logged in in any web browser, and as mentioned I don't have the email address)

# Answer
From your last image, click General, it contains your basic information, like name, email, phone number, networks, and inactive account management person.

The full path to this from the Facebook app is press the 3 line hamburger menu, scroll to the bottom section and find Account Settings, then General.

The way to access this information is exactly the same in the mobile web page.

If they are not opening up, refresh the page or try a different browser.

Also, if you have the Facebook app installed, go to Settings, Accounts, then Facebook, the email address associated with your account is right at the top of the page.
> 2 votes

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Tags: facebook
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# Question
Title: Galaxy S5 won't connect to laptop (tried everything I could find)
Alright so I'm sure this is something that people ask a lot, but mine seems to be some sort of super weird case of "heck you I don't wanna mate with your laptop."

My Galaxy just will not connect to my laptop no matter what I do. I'm starting to think maybe it's just an issue with my laptop but idk how it could be.

**The big things I've tried so far**

* Using Developer Mode to enable USB debugging.
* Dialing \*#0808# in order to select MTP
* Connecting my phone to my laptop through Bluetooth

**Some important things to note**

* When I pull down my phone's notification bar, there is no selection for Connect or whatever.
* I have tried to restart my phone after making changes.
* My computer doesn't recognize my phone as a bluetooth or connect device (but can pick up my boyfriend's phone as bluetooth)

I really don't know what to do. I just want to move photos onto my computer but nothing I'm finding online is helping at all. Is there any setting in my computer that I can change in order to fix this? I've tried doing every small and big method I can find online for the past month or so.

Thank you.

# Answer
> 0 votes
If it's not detecting your phone via usb , you should try changing the cable, try that

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Tags: connection-issues, samsung-galaxy-s-5, usb-connection-mode
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title: How Google Play updates itself?

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# Question
Title: How Google Play updates itself?
A few days go I launched my old phone with old version of Google Play. I launched it, but in few seconds application crashed. When I launched it again, a new version (this one that I have on my current phone) was shown infront of my eyes. I'm asking, how? I have a theory that Google Play checking content of server and when detect a new apk, it install it in the background. Am I reasoning it right?

# Answer
When you're connected to Wi-Fi and Google Play Store is running, it will automatically download any updates for Play Store and Play Services. If you have something like a network monitor, you'll occasionally find Google Play Store occupying large bandwidth and stops after tens of MB.

Updates for Play Services will be installed immediately while updates for Play Store will be installed after you quit it (by pressing back multiple times or home). As noted by @`Matthew Read`, apps with system privileges do not require user intervention while installing or updating apps.
> 3 votes

# Answer
Yes, you're correct. Google Play Services checks for and installs new versions when needed. As acejavelin mentions, Google services are privileged apps and do not need user interaction/permission to update.
> 2 votes

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Tags: google-play-store, updates, application-autoupdate
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title: Insufficient SD storage space error!

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# Question
Title: Insufficient SD storage space error!
My SD (memory) card has about 14 GB of free storage space but when I try to open documents saved in my SD card, it says that there isn't sufficient space to open them.

What could be the cause of this and what can I do to fix it? I am using a Samsung Galaxy S4 mini.

# Answer
> 0 votes
Try clearing data of the apps you dont need. It's probably your internal storage that's used up. You can even clear the cache of the apps in Settings\>storage..

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Tags: external-sd, samsung-galaxy-s-4, insufficient-memory
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title: can't go to Recovery Mode

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# Question
Title: can't go to Recovery Mode
i have a oppo neo 7 (android 5.1) that doesn't want to go to recovery mode. when i tried to go to recovery mode, it just goes back to normal restart. So i tried using adb, so i used fast boot mode, but it failed it says : wiping userdata... Creating filesystem with parameters: Size: 838860800 Block size: 4096 Blocks per group: 32768 Inodes per group: 7328 Inode size: 256 Journal blocks: 3200 Label: Blocks: 204800 Block groups: 7 Reserved block group size: 55 Created filesystem with 11/51296 inodes and 6651/204800 blocks target reported max download size of 134217728 bytes wiping cache... Creating filesystem with parameters: Size: 167772160 Block size: 4096 Blocks per group: 32768 Inodes per group: 5120 Inode size: 256 Journal blocks: 1024 Label: Blocks: 40960 Block groups: 2 Reserved block group size: 15 Created filesystem with 11/10240 inodes and 1705/40960 blocks erasing 'userdata'... FAILED (remote: unknown command) finished. total time: 0.002s

# Answer
One easy way to get to the recovery mode would be to press and hold all the buttons on your device. That would take it into recovery mode. Using adb you can get to the recovery mode by the below command.

adb reboot recovery
> 0 votes

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Tags: adb, fastboot
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# Question
Title: Sound in smartphone from headset bluetooth
Is it possible that headset a bluetooth microphone to send audio to phones all the time? I would like to make live YouTube and facebook not using the built-in microphone only from bluetooth headset

# Answer
My Galaxy s4 will record the audio track of a video using a Bluetooth headset.
> 0 votes

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Tags: audio, microphone, headset
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# Question
Title: How do I add a desktop link to a youtube video?
Normally I can add a desktop link from Chrome by using "Add to Home screen". However, when I click on a YouTube video, it automatically opens that video in my YouTube app rather than in Chrome. Thus I no longer have an option to add something to my home screen.

Any ideas?

I am using: Android version 7.0 on a Samsung Galaxy S7

# Answer
> 3 votes
I found a way to do this! (It's a bit fiddly).

* Find your YouTube video
* View the website in Desktop mode
* Shorten the URL (using goo.gl)
* Turn off Wi-Fi (so the shortened URL won't get to youtube.com)
* Enter the shortened URL in your address bar on chrome
* You should get a no internet error
* Add that page to your home screen
* Voila! Now enable Wi-Fi again and the icon will link to YouTube in your browser!

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Tags: chrome-for-android, youtube, home-screen-shortcuts
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# Question
Title: Turn off black notification/clock screen on Samsung Galaxy S4
When I turn on my Samsung Galaxy S4, it often comes with a black clock/notification screen.

How to turn it off?

# Answer
> 0 votes
Sounds like a lockscreen widget, anyway try this:

Drag down the screen from where the message and clock is. Delete text and uncheck clock then press save (just needs to be edited from the lock screen).

You may need to disable your lock security while editing. Then tap save in the top right and your lock screen will be clear

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Tags: samsung, notifications, samsung-galaxy-s-4, clock
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# Question
Title: Connect to local network with OpenVPN . Problem: Local IP address unset but adding route?
# The goal

I do want to connect to some services (e.g. file server, IP camera etc) in my home network from my mobile phone by using VPN. I use Tomato Version 1.28 (shibby) on my Netgear WNR3500L v2 Router and I set up an OpenVPN server following the instructions here.

# The Problem

I then try to connect my OPO with Cyanogenmod 11.0 based on Android 4.4.4 by using the OpenVPN client. The handshake seems to work okay but then I receive the following error message on my phone in the OpenVPM app:

```
[...]
2014-09-25 21:09:07 MANAGEMENT: CMD 'needok 'ROUTE' ok'
2014-09-25 21:09:07 Local IP address unset but adding route?! This broken! Please contact author with log
2014-09-25 21:09:07 Open tun network interface:
2014-09-25 21:09:07 Refusing to open tun device without IP information
2014-09-25 21:09:07 MANAGEMENT: CMD 'needok 'OPENTUN' cancel'
2014-09-25 21:09:07 MANAGEMENT: Client disconnected
2014-09-25 21:09:07 ERROR: Cannot open TUN

```

The server log says:

```
Sep 25 21:28:29 unknown daemon.notice openvpn[3842]: carl/11.22.33.44:7066 TLS: new session incoming connection from [AF_INET]11.22.33.44:7066
Sep 25 21:28:30 unknown daemon.notice openvpn[3842]: carl/11.22.33.44:7066 VERIFY OK: depth=1, C=AU, ST=ACity, L=ACity, O=Private, OU=changeme, CN=ACity.mooo.com, name=changeme, emailAddress=admin@example.org
Sep 25 21:28:30 unknown daemon.notice openvpn[3842]: carl/11.22.33.44:7066 VERIFY OK: depth=0, C=AU, ST=ACity, L=ACity, O=Private, OU=changeme, CN=carl, name=carl, emailAddress=admin@example.org
Sep 25 21:28:30 unknown daemon.notice openvpn[3842]: carl/11.22.33.44:7066 Data Channel Encrypt: Cipher 'BF-CBC' initialized with 128 bit key
Sep 25 21:28:30 unknown daemon.notice openvpn[3842]: carl/11.22.33.44:7066 Data Channel Encrypt: Using 160 bit message hash 'SHA1' for HMAC authentication
Sep 25 21:28:30 unknown daemon.notice openvpn[3842]: carl/11.22.33.44:7066 Data Channel Decrypt: Cipher 'BF-CBC' initialized with 128 bit key
Sep 25 21:28:30 unknown daemon.notice openvpn[3842]: carl/11.22.33.44:7066 Data Channel Decrypt: Using 160 bit message hash 'SHA1' for HMAC authentication
Sep 25 21:28:30 unknown daemon.notice openvpn[3842]: carl/11.22.33.44:7066 TLS: move_session: dest=TM_ACTIVE src=TM_UNTRUSTED reinit_src=1
Sep 25 21:28:30 unknown daemon.notice openvpn[3842]: carl/11.22.33.44:7066 TLS: tls_multi_process: untrusted session promoted to semi-trusted
Sep 25 21:28:30 unknown daemon.notice openvpn[3842]: carl/11.22.33.44:7066 Control Channel: TLSv1, cipher TLSv1/SSLv3 DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA, 1024 bit RSA
Sep 25 21:28:32 unknown daemon.notice openvpn[3842]: carl/11.22.33.44:7066 PUSH: Received control message: 'PUSH_REQUEST'
Sep 25 21:28:32 unknown daemon.notice openvpn[3842]: carl/11.22.33.44:7066 send_push_reply(): safe_cap=940
Sep 25 21:28:32 unknown daemon.notice openvpn[3842]: carl/11.22.33.44:7066 SENT CONTROL [carl]: 'PUSH_REPLY,dhcp-option DNS 192.168.0.1,route-gateway 192.168.0.1,redirect-gateway def1,route-gateway dhcp,ping 15,ping-restart 60' (status=1)

```

# Question

What does this error message mean

```
Local IP address unset but adding route?!

```

What setting am i missing? Why can't I connect to my home network via VPN?

# Answer
I managed to resolve what I think was the same issue as you (I am also using Shibby firmware for OpenVPN and using an Android client).

I believe it comes down to how the routes are pushed to the client and the Android app not liking it (the refusal to open tun interface is an error message belonging to the app).

I'm not sure why the routes aren't pushed successfully, but if you set up your client profile under IP and DNS, disable Pull Settings and set the IPv4 address to be the same network/cidr as whatever bridge your TAP OpenVPN interface is (default is br0 and 192.168.1.0/24).

This also even gives me internet access over the router.

Note I'm using the latest versions of the Android app and Shibby firmware as of writing.
> 0 votes

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Tags: vpn, openvpn
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# Question
Title: Is there a way to get the font on my phone onto my tablet?
I have a Galaxy S5, and it has a built in font called "UDRGothic". I think it's near perfect for mobile use, and so I want to also have it on my Galaxy Tab A 10.1 tablet.

It doesn't seem to be available by default on my tablet, so of course, I Googled it, but all that came up with was a link to some page that describes an associated APK file, but doesn't seem to have a download option. If I try a more nuanced Google search, I get tons of options for various Gothic fonts, but none are the font I'm looking for.

Is this font only for use with my phone, or can I maybe copy it from my phone to my tablet, or get it some other way?

# Answer
A pre-answer note, I'm typing in the mobile Stack Exchange app, so please excuse any spelling errors.

Yes, there is a way, but it requires your tablet to be rooted.

As with most things, go ahead and take a backup of both devices, you never know what could go wrong.

OK, lets begin! In a file manager of your choice, head into `/system/fonts`, on the device that has the font you like. This does not require root, because your are only reading from that file, not writing.

Find out a way to copy the font file to your tablet. I would recommend just emailing the font file to yourself, and downloading it from the email onto the tablet.

Now on the tablet, rename that font file to something memorable, like `goodfont.ttf`. You are going to have to sacrifice the current font, or you can take a backup of the default font file. (If I'm correct I believe it's `Roboto-Regular.ttf`, but it might be different on yours.)

Now copy `goodfont.ttf` into `/system/fonts` (remember, this is on the tablet), and rename it `goodfont.ttf` to `[default font name here].ttf`.

Hope I was helpful!
> 1 votes

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Tags: fonts
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title: Where is data/data?

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# Question
Title: Where is data/data?
I play Minecraft but I don't know where are my files saved (I opt "Application" as my storage). Many people say it's on `data/data` but when I go to root/data, it doesn't have any folder including root/data/data. My phone has only one storage. No SD card.

How to find my app data?

# Answer
Application data is stored under `/data/data` , which cannot be seen by user unless your device is rooted and the file explorer you use has root privileges enabled

Related Where in the file system are applications installed?
> 3 votes

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Tags: applications, internal-storage
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# Question
Title: Inserting Single SIM Card into a Dual SIM Phone
I understand phones having Dual SIM card slots use more battery. However, if we use only one SIM in a dual SIM Phone, will the battery still be drained out quickly? What If i choose not to use/insert the other SIM at all?

Let us have your valuable feedback.

# Answer
> 2 votes
* You can insert only one SIM and work fine . See this In a dual sim phone, must both sims be used?
* By just inserting second SIM battery won't drain extra. If at all there is any battery drain, it would be because of second SIM being active and checking for signal or registering itself on the network.

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Tags: battery-life, dual-sim
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# Question
Title: I just got a samsung galaxy tab 3 and i have not used it in a long time and now i cant remember my password
I need help with my samsung galaxy i got it but forgot th right passwrd is there any way you guys can some how help me get it back?

# Answer
**this method will delete all user data**

Turn off the device. Then, hold the volume up, home button and power button simultaneously until you see the recovery screen. Now, use the volume keys to select Wipe data/factory reset. Scroll down to yes, delete all user data and click confirm. After that, go to "reboot system now"
> 0 votes

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Tags: lock-screens
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title: Installing AROMA File Manager

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# Question
Title: Installing AROMA File Manager
I have to break the pattern on someone's Android phone. I researched on Google and found a way of doing it with AROMA File Manager.

Do I have to install CWM or TWRP or can I use a custom recovery mode to extract AROMA File Manager's file? Does the phone need to be rooted or can it be done without root?

# Answer
Yes,you need a custom recovery. Aroma runs within a custom recovery. A custom recovery such as cwm or twrp can be installed without root on most phones, but you will most likely have to unlock the bootloader first. Exact steps are dependant on what phone model you have. Most phones are well covered on xda developers, google it.
> 1 votes

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Tags: recovery-mode, pattern-lock
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# Question
Title: My Android phone screen is un-usable, how do I transfer all my data to a new phone?
My current phone (Samsung Galaxy POP) running Andoid 2.2 has all its data including contacts and messages stored in the SD card + SIM card. However the touch screen of that phone has been damaged and so the phone is unusable now on it's own. I have purchased a new phone (Xperia SL) online which which runs Android 4.0 and does not have an SD card slot, it only has an internal memory. My question is, how do I transfer all my data including contacts and text messages from my old phone to my new phone. Since my old phone is practically unusable, I'll have to connect it to my PC and prob back up my data and thereafter transfer it to the new phone. Could somebody suggest me some resources which will guide me on how to backup my data between phones by using the PC as a medium. I tried looking up on Google for help and could not find any good solutions for this issue.

# Answer
This is one of the reasons a Smartphone without a SDCard slot is an absolute no-go for me: If you cannot access the device anymore (e.g. the device no longer powers up), and don't want your data "in the cloud" -- you can say Good-bye to your data...

But to your issue:

## SIM card

As you state all your contact data are on the SIM card -- no worries for those. As soon as you stick the SIM card into the new device, those contact data are there. Unless you've used a miniSIM until now and the new device only supports microSIM (or any other reason you cannot simply put the SIM card into the new phone). So in case of that, you can...

* open your contacts app on the old phone
* tap the *menu* key
* select *Export/Import*
* Export all contacts to your SDCard

Then, we handle those data together with the other SDCard stuff.

## Text messages

They are a completely different issue. Here you would need a special backup app to retrieve them. As with the contacts "export", this would also require you to at least be able to use your old phone somehow.

If your PC runs Windows, you might want to take a look at MyPhoneExplorer, which comes with an Android Client (the link points there) and a PC component. Not running Windows myself, I can only report hear-say -- but it should be able to synchronize your Android device with your PC, including contacts, text messages, and more. It even lets you remote-control your device to a degree, according to the comments. A similiarly powerful tool for Windows users is Moborobo, also worth a look (see AddictiveTips for a description).

Not being on Windows, but being able to use your old device's screen at least basically, Message Sync can export your messages on the old and import them on the new device; SMS Backup & Restore would be an alternative choice.

## SDCard

* Take out the SDCard from the old phone, put it into a card reader, and attach it to your PC. Your PC should show this as a new drive.
* Attach your new phone to your computer using a USB cable. It should offer you to select a connection mode. Depending on what's available, chose either *USB Mass Storage* or *MTP*. Again, your PC should now offer this as a new drive.
* Use your favorite file explorer on the PC to copy all the data from the SDCard to your new device
* ***Safely remove*** and disconnect both devices from your PC
* If you had to export your contacts on the old phone via the contacts app, use the same procedure to import them to your new device
> 2 votes

# Answer
I don't know if you have tried it or not, but use Kies、 mobileGo or MobiKin Assistant for Android. I think your phone will be automatically detected; no need for touch screen. Then, backup all the things you want. Then, unplug it and connect the new phone and restore the data.
> 0 votes

# Answer
Or just use an OTG cable and plug in a mouse
> 0 votes

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Tags: 4.0-ice-cream-sandwich, 2.2-froyo, contacts, backup, data-recovery
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# Question
Title: If I change SIM card, will I lose my memos?
I have a Samsung Galaxy Exhilarate. I have accumulated a lot of memos through the Memo app that came with the phone. I am going to Canada and plan to replace my SIM card with a Canadian SIM card and temporarily buy service from a Canadian provider. Will I continue to have access to the data I've accumulated though the Memo app?

# Answer
> 1 votes
SIM card and application data are not related at all. You can change SIM and the only thing you will lose is contacts and messages stored in the SIM card – if you have them stored on SIM. See this for help Backup SIM message and contact without transfer to phone

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Tags: s-memo
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# Question
Title: Cannot format userdata, Fastboot refuses to detect
I have an OpenSUSE Leap 42.2, with adb, fastboot, and heimdall all present. My Android tablet is a Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 (model: SM-T713). I am attempting to flash Lineage OS onto it.

I have already flashed TWRP onto the tablet via heimdall, but TWRP fails to mount /data. It continuously spits out errors along the lines of `E: Can't mount /data (invalid argument)` and `Couldn't mount /data, and cannot find crypto folder.`

After some research, I discovered a solution is to run `fastboot format userdata` to erase the /data partition.

However, `fastboot format userdata` hangs:

```
$ fastboot format userdata
< waiting for device>

```

My tablet is in download mode, and is plugged in to the computer via USB. `lsusb` detects it, but `adb devices` and `fastboot devices` cannot detect it.

**Is there any way to allow Fastboot to format my tablet?**

# Answer
I was using an unofficial release of TWRP, as at the time there was no official release. However, the official release for my device added an "Erase Data" button, which allowed me to succesfully flash Lineage.
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Tags: samsung, fastboot, formatting, lineageos
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title: I Accidentally Deleted the Launcher

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# Question
Title: I Accidentally Deleted the Launcher
I was making some tests on my android phone and I accidentally deleted the launcher from the system partition and I forgot to copy the new one to the system partition again, and the phone doesn't show anything, just the status bar and I can't enter or run anything.

I tryed to send the launcher's apk using bluetooth, but neither other android phone nor windows 8.1 can't send any file to the phone, even if the phone is paired with both devices.

Is there any way to run the Play Store to install the launcher or to install the launcher from the SD card?

Thanks a lot.

# Answer
You can find a launcher on the Google Play Store and remotely install it that way. Then reboot the phone after it installs. Once the phone reboots it should prompt you to pick a launcher and then you can go from there.

So for instance if you want the Google Launcher.

Then click on the Install button and select the device. As long as the device is online and signed into your account, it will install for you automatically.

Edit. Forgot to say this. You can do this from another device, just have to do it through the browser and not the app. Or since you said Windows 8.1 I assume thats a desktop/laptop. You can do it on there as well.

Edit 2. Adding on what @Izzy commented. You can download the apk for google's launcher from here. Then sideload via adb, using the command `adb install </folder/nameof.apk>`.
> 4 votes

# Answer
What type of android are you using? My advice if google play store can still be used, use the keyword launcher to find thelauncher you want, then restart.
> 1 votes

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Tags: 4.4-kitkat, sd-card, boot, launcher
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title: Android 7.0 call block feature

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# Question
Title: Android 7.0 call block feature
I have honor 8 lite with android 7.0 I block a number from default dialer app, It should be blocked now but instead when someone calls me from that number he hears 1 or 2 seconds of my phone ringing, then the call hangs. So that the other party can easily understand that his/her call has been blocked. I want that the call must be blocked silently, without the calling party knowing anything about it. The caller must get message such as -- Not reachable or phone is switched off. I know that this feature may be network dependent but my old feature phone was doing it very smartly but my smart phone fails to do so. Any suggestions on how to block calls with android 7.0 stealthily. Thank you.

# Answer
> 1 votes
I do something very similar on my device running Marshmallow to prevent tele callers and quite successfully so :)

is the preferred option. Many apps are available. I prefer using MacroDroid , since it is free (upto 5 macros) and easy to learn.

## Since I don't have Nougat can't test, but should run fine

In the first macro, it is configured here for non contacts. You can select individually the numbers in your case

The SMS portion of first macro is expanded below - you can configure it to your liking

**Note:** Two macros are strictly not required. You can add action of second macro in first itself - I needed two macros for customisation which is not shown here

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Tags: 7.0-nougat, call-screening, huawei-honor-7
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# Question
Title: How to prevent google to parse my calendar?
I use Android 6.0.1 on a Samsung Galaxy J5.

I have my own mail + contacts + calendar server on a dedicated server.

I noticed that when I put some entrys in my calendar (smartphone) with an address, when I open Waze, I have the choice proposed directly (Appointment) to go to this address.

I don't want google to track my calendar, so any idea to prevent this ?

# Answer
> 0 votes
Solution, install Xprivacy for rooted devices.

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Tags: privacy
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title: What are these small icons next to app?

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# Question
Title: What are these small icons next to app?
I've seen this home screen on internet and I wanted to know what are the small bars and triangles next to the app's icons ?

# Answer
This comes from Action Launcher 3.

Those icons are features of the launcher called *Shutters* and *Covers*. As described here,

> Both Shutters and Covers are indicated by small shapes in the corner of your icons.

See corresponding screenshot:

The equals sign means there's a *widget* associated with the app and you can swipe up on the icon to display its widget in a popup folder window. These are "Shutters"

Another main feature is "Covers" which is similar. It is basically just *folders*, but when you tap the icon it launches the first app instead of opening the folder. To open the folder you swipe up.

Source:

Do you use a launcher other than Nova or Google? Why do you think it is better?

**Update**

Action launcher received a major update sometime ago, and has been renamed just Action Launcher (the 3 dropped).

According to Android Authority,

> Not only does it have a bunch of new features, it also includes a new logo for the app and a new name... The app is dropping the “3” part of its name and it will simply be called Action Launcher from now on.

Additionally you'll notice the shutters and covers have a new polished design with smoother edges, than previously before.
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Tags: applications, app-icons
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