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2012/03/26
774
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<issue_start>username_0: Does anyone know if there's a way to get an Android phone to reboot into recovery mode, from the Android command line? Note: I do *NOT* have adb access. I do *NOT* know the magic power-on sequence to do it from the boot loader. I've tried the common things and nothing works. I *DO* have roo...
2012/03/26
1,042
4,077
<issue_start>username_0: What's the wierd looking update that's just turned up on my Samsung Galaxy phone? "MTC Мобильная Почта" by "OJSC Mobile TeleSystems". The review section has lots of one-star comments saying its malware etc, but I'd have thought actual malware would look more like something I'd want to install...
2012/03/27
968
3,798
<issue_start>username_0: I have a Google G2 and for some reason the keyboard has set itself to open apps with almost every letter I push. For instance when I push the letter `e` on my keyboard it opens the email app. How do I turn this off?<issue_comment>username_1: I did some searching due to the other answer and foun...
2012/03/10
187
664
<issue_start>username_0: Is it possible to open a Flash file (.swf) locally on [Lenovo A1 tablet](http://shop.lenovo.com/us/tablets/ideapad/tablet-series/a1)? (Something like open it through the Android browser?) Thanks!<issue_comment>username_1: Your browser should be able to open a swf directly if you have [flash in...
2012/03/27
393
1,350
<issue_start>username_0: I have a Samsung Galaxy S II 9100. I had no problem connecting to wifi while it was running 2.3.4 or 2.3.6 official firmware. 2 days ago I upgraded to official 4.0.3 and now it connects to all other wifi networks except my home wireless. I did a clean flash, wiped data, cache, dalvik cache etc....
2012/03/27
838
2,786
<issue_start>username_0: Hi i just developed an epub format ebook (containing a video and a javascript animation).It is working fine on iphone/ipad (running on ibooks)..I was wondering if I could read the same ebook with an Android phone/tablet ?<issue_comment>username_1: From the description in the Market, take a look...
2012/03/28
2,077
6,793
<issue_start>username_0: For several weeks now my Android (Gingerbread 2.3.6) phone has been losing it's WiFi signal momentarily, typically at about 3 minute intervals (about 3 minutes, 1.5 seconds) and occasionally at some longer interval that always seems to be a multiple of just over 3 minutes. This causes an interr...
2012/03/28
1,515
5,800
<issue_start>username_0: I'm planning to buy a new Android phone and I'd like to be able to transfer the progress I have made at several games to the new device, so I won't have to play all the levels again from scratch. I currently have an HTC Desire and will buy an HTC Evo 3D. There's probably no simple/general sol...
2012/03/28
1,428
5,447
<issue_start>username_0: How can I delete all Winamp playlists from an Android device? I currently have to delete them one file at a time.<issue_comment>username_1: There are two places you should look for, the external memory (SD card or a directory that is used for similar purpose) and the internal memory (the `/data...
2012/03/28
522
2,167
<issue_start>username_0: I am distributing locked down tablets to my employees, ~40. Right now, one application opens a PDF and the user is presented with multiple PDF readers to choose from. This could cause confusion (I know.. I know..). The two solutions I have come up with are: 1. Write a script that assigns a d...
2012/03/28
582
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<issue_start>username_0: I have an HTC Inspire. I have had my 8 GB SD Card for three years...needless to say, it has like 5000 pictures and hundreds of videos on it. It has a lot of music on it too, but I'm not worried about that. I just want my pictures back more than anything. I got a message on my phone that told me...
2012/03/28
1,669
6,032
<issue_start>username_0: The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 comes with a special charger which (I'm assuming) provides a higher current output than the USB standard. Without it, the device can actually die, even if the USB cord is plugged in to a USB port (albeit a little less quickly). I'm looking for other (cheaper) AC and...
2012/03/29
912
4,084
<issue_start>username_0: I am a new user of Android phone. I used to own an iPhone. I don't remember needing an Apple account besides using it to download applications from app store. Now I need a Gmail account to do even some of the basic stuff like finding my location on Google Map. Is Google violating my privacy? Wh...
2012/03/29
468
1,672
<issue_start>username_0: Does Motorola RAZR XT910 support NFC with Gingerbread or Android ICS 4.0? [Engadget says](http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/08/behind-the-glass-a-detailed-tour-inside-the-motorola-droid-razr/) the device has an NFC controller. What does this really mean?<issue_comment>username_1: The RAZR does ha...
2012/03/29
489
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<issue_start>username_0: The other day I woke up, my Android phone was frozen and only removing the battery helped to reset it. It looks like overnight something terribly went wrong as the memory card was not readable anymore and even after formatting it, it got a few bad sectors in the report. I have about 150 applic...
2012/03/29
361
1,279
<issue_start>username_0: I am a not-so-proud owner of an Asus Slider tablet, the one with the slide-out keyboard. I find that whenever I shake the device, open the keyboard, or otherwise move the tablet, it freezes up. I sent it into ASUS for support, but they said they did not find anything wrong with the tablet. I a...
2012/03/29
756
2,872
<issue_start>username_0: This is definitely a noob question, I'm not an engineer but as far as my knowledge goes, the power supply on a phone would be its battery. However, my Nexus One stopped turning on recently, the battery charges fine as the LED indicator shows, but when I try to turn it on I get nothing. *This is...
2012/03/29
336
1,326
<issue_start>username_0: QR codes are a great idea, but often I find that I would be better off reading the content on my PC instead of my phone. What I really would want is an app that would read a QR code and instantly send some kind of notification to the PC where I could access right away. I know I can use the "sha...
2012/03/30
684
2,734
<issue_start>username_0: I have a Samsung Galaxy S I9000, it keeps lagging; freezing and turning on and off by itself. I want to reset it, if I do will I lose all my photos, contacts etc etc..? I can't figure out how to transfer everything on to my SD card.<issue_comment>username_1: If you do a factory reset, your SD c...
2012/03/30
671
2,388
<issue_start>username_0: I have a problem - a half year ago I installed the 4.0.3 on my Nexus S. I installed it by placing the 'update.zip' file in the `\sdcard` folder, restarting phone, holding Power+VolUp buttons, then choosing `recovery` and install. However, now I downloaded the 4.0.4 update, did the same, but t...
2012/03/30
322
1,478
<issue_start>username_0: I recently tried to use the Dolphin browser login to my Trello.com account, which I had created by signing up through a Google Apps account. Since I had not set up a Trello-specific account yet, I had to try to login using Google--which automatically used the primary Google Account on my device...
2012/03/30
264
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<issue_start>username_0: I have an HTC Android running 2.2. The market application was running perfectly before I updated it. It was when the Google changed Market application "Android Market" to "Google Play". As soon as I pressed the "accept and download updates" button it started getting "process com.android.vendin...
2012/03/31
271
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<issue_start>username_0: Is there a website or even Android app that keeps its subscribers updated of any possible promotions/discounts going on at Google Play (previously Android Market)? I hate to miss the train.<issue_comment>username_1: Your best bet would be to follow [Google Play on Google+](https://plus.google.c...
2012/03/31
605
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<issue_start>username_0: My question is similar **[to this one](https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/3072/in-my-samsung-galaxy-s-under-settings-status-phone-number-is-says-unknown)**, however what would be appropriate solution for HTC Desire S device because it does not allow you to change your phone number on S...
2012/03/31
357
1,403
<issue_start>username_0: com.seven.Z7.Social Hub is regularly keeping my phone awake for hours and hours. How do I stop it from doing so? Thank you<issue_comment>username_1: This app is a Russian application erroneously installed as a "system" app (same package name as the Email hub). If you're rooted you can use some...
2012/04/01
574
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<issue_start>username_0: I would have thought that Calendars would be searchable, but opening up the Calendar, and clicking on the search button searches websites via Google web search, but does not search my Calendar. This is on a Motorola Photon 4G Android version 2.3.4 (not rooted). How do I do it on the phone (it...
2012/04/01
403
1,713
<issue_start>username_0: Is there a way to share RAW (Canon) photos over a network and preview them on an android tablet (Kindle Fire)? I want to be able to quickly preview new photos without having to convert them to JPEG and copy to the tablet. One potential possibility I can think of is exposing the photos as an R...
2012/04/01
536
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<issue_start>username_0: I just got the following mail: > > Google Mobile Maps Location Reporting Reminder To protect your privacy > we would like you to know that Google Mobile Maps is running on your > mobile device and reporting your location. This is just a privacy > reminder - if you did not enable this or wa...
2012/04/02
541
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<issue_start>username_0: in my phone i can connect to any wifi but when i start browser or market or any application that requires internet. It shows no network connection. I have tried following things **Tried several different wifi network, forget network and connect again and enter password, restart device...
2012/04/02
484
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<issue_start>username_0: Is there a way to easily use music from Google Play Music as ringtones on my phone?<issue_comment>username_1: Download the song and use something like Audacity to edit it. Save to your ringtones directory on your phone. Nothing else out of the ordinary needs to be done. Upvotes: 3 [selected_ans...
2012/04/02
553
1,988
<issue_start>username_0: I have an Android phone which is connected to a secured Wi-Fi hotspot. How can I find out the password of the hotspot from the phone?<issue_comment>username_1: On my phone, the credentials are stored in `/data/wifi/bcm_supp.conf`. You'll probably need root to see it directly on your phone but y...
2012/04/02
1,110
3,948
<issue_start>username_0: A while ago, I posted [another question here](https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/15666/low-on-space-warning-with-over-50-free) when I had plenty of free internal storage but was getting the following warning: ``` Low on space: Phone storage space is getting low. ``` The problem was ...
2012/04/03
202
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<issue_start>username_0: Has anyone else had problems with their gmail profile pictures only appearing in the gchat message threads, but NOT when sending text messages through the Google Nexus S to other cell phones?? I thought that I had my phone synced up with my gmail account, so I don't know if I've missed a step....
2012/04/03
550
2,280
<issue_start>username_0: Looking at the [responses to this question](https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/16612/does-a-carrier-know-i-am-tethering-via-wifi-hotspot), it seems that a mobile service provider can't automatically detect whether or not a phone user is tethering their phone or not. Though they can inf...
2012/04/03
174
568
<issue_start>username_0: [Gmail Tap](http://gmailblog.blogspot.se/2012/03/introducing-gmail-tap.html), one of Google's April fools, would give the phone a three-keys Morse keyboard. Is there a way to get this functionality for real, preferably for input to any fields?<issue_comment>username_1: Yes, there is: <https://p...
2012/04/03
342
1,463
<issue_start>username_0: Can we add external devices to an Android device? For example, can I add a CD player or a power antenna (to detect wireless from long distances) to my Android device? Des Android let us to create our own drivers for our devices?<issue_comment>username_1: Most Android devices aren't set up for p...
2012/04/03
835
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<issue_start>username_0: I have a rooted Galaxy S 2 (I9100) and was wondering if I can restart the Bluetooth on my phone via the terminal client on my phone.<issue_comment>username_1: The following terminal command should enable Bluetooth via adb shell or Terminal Emulator app: ``` su am start -a android.bluetooth.ada...
2012/04/03
461
1,745
<issue_start>username_0: I have noticed a strange behavior in the Google calendar app. When ever I add an event from my phone on a calendar that is not the default one, and later view it on the computers browser, I see a "person icon" indicating a guest. And when I enter that event I see the name of the selected calend...
2012/04/04
625
1,841
<issue_start>username_0: I'm using a virtual recorder to record voices and it records in the `.pcm` file format. I found an app `freemp3droid` to convert it to `.mp3` but there are some bugs in the app and it has not been updated recently. Is there any other app to convert the file into `.mp3` or, should I look for a n...
2012/04/04
442
1,592
<issue_start>username_0: My Android 2.3 system my PMP3384 tablet somehow crashed so seriously that I cannot even do a factory hard reset, because I cannot get to settings, only the following message appears again and again: "Prestigio Home (process com.prestigio.android.launcher) stopped unexpectedly." Actually this c...
2012/04/04
512
1,989
<issue_start>username_0: Searching an app on the Play Store for new apps results in a failure most of the time. By failure I mean we don't find the desired app although the name matches exactly. Popular examples are *Temple Run* (1st week after release) and *Instagram* (right now too). Searching on Google for terms lik...
2012/04/04
598
2,228
<issue_start>username_0: I have two identical phones. On one of them I've managed to corrupt the system partition and it won't boot. I have fastboot, root (on the one that boots), but I *don't* have ClockworkMod --- my phone isn't supported. Instead I have the world's most unhelpful vendor recovery, which supports upda...
2012/04/04
288
1,172
<issue_start>username_0: My phone (HTC Sensation) has recently been updated updated to Android 4. An app that I already had installed now expands to fill the whole screen but looks very pixelated. Is it possible to disable the auto screen resize for this application? Looking at the SDK docs (http://developer.android.c...
2012/04/04
431
1,695
<issue_start>username_0: I have an unlocked international-version Galaxy Nexus on the German T-Mobile network. It's only about a week old, but more than once in that time I've seen the signal drop completely out, and won't come back until I reboot -- and sometimes not even then. In the same location, my old AT&T Captiv...
2012/04/04
1,109
4,343
<issue_start>username_0: I've been fruitlessly trying to get the new Android OS update for my s2 for quite some time now and I finally thought my troubles were over when I saw an update for Samsung Kies pop up earlier today but now I'm just even more confused. Before there just wasn't an option to update (the update bu...
2012/04/04
302
1,154
<issue_start>username_0: After submitting my DROID RAZR MAXX to the whims of my company's OLA for getting access to work mail, calendar, and contacts, it was encrypted, including the storage. Encryption notified me, before proceeding, that my HD video recording resolution would be downgraded from 1080p to 720. Sure eno...
2012/04/05
556
1,871
<issue_start>username_0: I followed the steps here to add an EXT4 partition on my 8gb sd card: <http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile/properly-partition-sd-card-for-app2sd-android-roms/> Now I have 6.xGB FAT32 as the primary partition, and a 1GB EXT4 logical partition. But my Samsung Galaxy Ace (running on CyanogenMod-7...
2012/04/05
372
1,462
<issue_start>username_0: When I charge my HTC Sensation mobile with the charger supplied by HTC the battery duration is more or less 1 day (depending of the usage). But (here comes my question) when I charge the mobile through usb connected to the PC, or with the cable supplied by Amazon Kindle, the battery duration is...
2012/04/05
343
1,287
<issue_start>username_0: I've just removed GO Launcher and now when I click the home button I get offered a choice of two different Launcher `com.android.launcher` and `launcher.ebproductions.android.launcher` What is the ebproductions one? Do I need it? Can I just remove it?<issue_comment>username_1: No. Since you m...
2012/04/05
546
2,140
<issue_start>username_0: Are all touch-screens on modern devices multitouch capable on hardware level (if software supports it)? If not than how to detect if touchscreen screen by itself is multitouch or not?<issue_comment>username_1: > > Are all touch-screens on modern devices multitouch capable on hardware level (i...
2012/04/05
433
1,817
<issue_start>username_0: My kids often play with my phone which has a pattern lock screen, and it gets locked due to many attempts, then the phone is locked out and requires a password. I use 2-step verification, so in order to unlock the phone, I must get a connected computer, and regenerate a password and reconnect...
2012/04/05
374
1,429
<issue_start>username_0: I recently bought an LG Optimus V (VirginMobile) to replace my current Samsung Intercept. Upon reciept, I rooted it following the procedure at <http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1070018>. The rooting went fine, and I got to step 10 in flashing the CM7 Rom. What I get after the re...
2012/04/05
276
942
<issue_start>username_0: Before the Sonar changes, I could move the gesture button by long-pressing it and dragging it to a different corner. Now long pressing brings up a menu to use a gesture or use Sonar. How can I move the gesture button to a different corner?<issue_comment>username_1: Tap the gesture button to br...
2012/04/05
456
1,656
<issue_start>username_0: I've got a Kindle Fire and I like to plug it in to my Mac to charge up (and also to do some development.) It works fine but it is annoying to have to unmount it every time. Is there any way to prevent it from auto-mounting when you plug it into USB?<issue_comment>username_1: There are some USB...
2012/04/05
751
3,115
<issue_start>username_0: I'm shopping the android market on my tablet (TF Prime) but can't seem to find anywhere if an app/game support tablet size. I don't want to spend money on a game that is zoomed so much that I can count the pixels =) How to tell if an app in the market supports tablet size?<issue_comment>usern...
2012/04/06
620
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<issue_start>username_0: So somewhere along the line Android got a native "backup my data" option but I haven't gotten to use it. I used to use Titanium Backup and it was the main reason I rooted my phone, but I don't have Titanium or Root anymore. Is there any significant difference in what's backed up between the n...
2012/04/06
953
3,852
<issue_start>username_0: I've had my phone for months, loading with several firmware, ROMs and OTAs, without ever running this command. What does it do? What I know is that "fastboot oem unlock" displays the confirmation screen and obliges me to wipe my device data, and that "fastboot oem unlock" is the first step to ...
2012/04/06
1,068
4,302
<issue_start>username_0: I have a Motorola Atrix. My country used to block Facebook, so I decided to add its ip to the `/etc/hosts` file about 3 months ago and it worked in the browser, but the Facebook app did not. Now my country has unblocked Facebook so I would like to clear my hosts file and use Facebook as nor...
2012/04/06
1,163
4,554
<issue_start>username_0: Okay, in spite of the hate being heaped on by iPhone elitists, I have installed Instagram on my Android phone and have started playing with it a bit. **How can I get my Instagram photos to automagically appear in a public album in Google+ Photos?** Felicia Day, for instance, has [a public Ins...
2012/04/06
1,318
5,001
<issue_start>username_0: On the Acer Iconia A200, when you change the orientation of the screen, the function of the volume rocker flips. In landscape mode, with the volume rocker on the right side and at the top, you find that 'down' on the rocker turns down the volume. Now, flip the device 90 degrees left to a port...
2012/04/06
210
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<issue_start>username_0: When in lock-screen, I have to move the middle circle over the "lock" on right hand side. The device vibrates 3x during it - is it possible to disable all the vibrations? (Using ICS)<issue_comment>username_1: No, this is not an option. Actually this seems like a bug as this should be controll...
2012/04/06
610
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<issue_start>username_0: I dropped my phone and broke the LCD. Now I *can* turn the phone on ( I feel the little quick vibrate that happens when you power the phone on ) but I have no display at all. I got a replacement with the insurance plan, but I need to send the broken phone back. How can I wipe my data? Can I ju...
2012/04/07
419
1,440
<issue_start>username_0: I'm unable to switch to the street view when using the Google maps on my android phone. I updated the Google maps to the latest version and also the street view but unable still though. I turned off the `satellite view` and tried but the street view was still disable. I tried to finding informa...
2012/04/07
756
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<issue_start>username_0: I can connect to the school's campus wifi, but when I try to get on Opera, it will not let me connect to any website. Apps that use the internet do not work. I get bars on the wifi. Usually, on the first connect from a new device, it will ask me to register my device. I am guessing that since I...
2012/04/07
696
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<issue_start>username_0: I have VPN connection on my Android tablet (Asus Transformer Prime) and it required me to set up a password protection for my tablet. I don't want to use any dummy passwords to open my tablet, so how can I disable that without deleting the VPN connection?<issue_comment>username_1: Found this, i...
2012/04/07
579
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<issue_start>username_0: I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise server running in our home network. It has VPN functionality installed and fully working. If I connect with a computer, the computer will get right DNS servers. If I connect with Android tablet (Asus Transformer Prime), the tablet will still use Googl...
2012/04/07
592
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<issue_start>username_0: This problem always happens after I restore my apps from Titanium Backup and move them to the SD card, regardless which ROM. However, I noticed that this problem has something to do with the SD card. Since the logcat is too long, I posted it here: * Logcat #1: <http://pastebin.com/5qAEz3n7> * ...
2012/04/07
454
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<issue_start>username_0: I've searched all over the place and couldn't find a solution. I want to send around 30 contacts (names + phone numbers) by email, to someone. Now I can't seem to succeed with the feat! What can I do to send a simple list (or a table) containing the name and phone number of an entire group of ...
2012/04/08
308
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<issue_start>username_0: I have a lot of apps on auto-update and I *really* don't care when most of them update. I almost always have 3 notifications saying some app has successfully updated. Is there any way I can the notifications off? I'm on Android 2.3.5, Motorola Electrify. I *think* I have the latest version of ...
2012/04/08
480
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<issue_start>username_0: I went to a Best Buy store and tried Android tablets but didn't see any Leaderboard for Angry Birds Space edition -- is it because it is not logged in as a game user or does Android have a standardized Leaderboard similar to iOS's GameCenter yet?<issue_comment>username_1: Android as a platform ...
2012/04/08
255
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<issue_start>username_0: I want to show my caller id to everyone in my contact list but be anonymous for new numbers... do you know a method/app?<issue_comment>username_1: One possibility would be to prefix all numbers in your contact list by `*31#` (which turns the callerID on for that call only), while having callerI...
2012/04/08
511
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<issue_start>username_0: My Galaxy S2 has suddenly started reading all homepages out loud, and it is really annoying. Does anyone know how to stop it? I am running the new ICS software. **Update** When the computer voice is reading out loud, it seems that I can turn down the volume of that voice, which mitigates th...
2012/04/08
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<issue_start>username_0: I'm in the UK. My Nexus S received its update to 4.0.4 yesterday, and I now have the following problem. If I have a contact with (say) the number 07123456789 and I receive a text from this contact, it comes up as +447123456789. However the phone no longer seems to recognise that these numbers ...
2012/04/08
519
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<issue_start>username_0: I can see my device in `adb devices`. It shows up as "offline". When it is "ready": ``` $ adb shell $ su # reboot ``` This would reboot my device. The exact problem is that my cellphone has been turning off on its own with no specific reason, so I was wondering if I could check the logcat to...
2012/04/08
364
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<issue_start>username_0: My device is not listed as supported on website [www.cyanogenmod.com/devices](http://www.cyanogenmod.com/devices). I have ZTE Skate, and some other ZTEs are listed, but not mine. Is it possible to install the mod on Skate, and what's the risk? If phone is not listed, does it mean, that it w...
2012/04/08
234
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<issue_start>username_0: Vanilla Android works in so many languages (including mine). What about Cyanogen? Are there language packs? I have not found any on official site, but maybe anything unofficial? And if there is/isn't any, then * Is the translation device-specific? * Will some parts of system, that come from o...
2012/04/08
399
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<issue_start>username_0: It just displays `Connecting...` forever when I plug in the phone (through USB), and nothing else happens. What should I do? I just installed Kies, v2.3.0.12035\_16<issue_comment>username_1: Before ur usb connect with the computer, go.Setting-->Application-->development-->USB debugging(no tick...
2012/04/09
398
1,852
<issue_start>username_0: Now that mobiles are being used for payment systems, I'm more concerned about the security on my Android device. I would rather not be the first to be vulnerable to some malicious code that happened to get slipped into the firmware update that the carrier is installing on my Android mobile. I...
2012/04/09
1,052
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<issue_start>username_0: Some background: My HTC Desire HD has several issues. **The first issue** being that I can not connect to it using a USB cable. So I found that I can tell ADB to work over wifi and I was using this method for some time. I am using VISIONary to temproot the device, then I run a terminal on the...
2012/04/09
354
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<issue_start>username_0: I have read on certain blogs that it is super easy to connect a wired xbox controller to an android tablet. It should basically work right away. I have tried to connect multiple xbox controller to my TF prime, but the apps that are supposed to support them, seem to do nothing. Also, the contro...
2012/04/09
566
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<issue_start>username_0: > > **Possible Duplicate:** > > [How do I add a new language?](https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/15361/how-do-i-add-a-new-language) > > > I bought my HTC Sensation abroad, and I can only choose system languages from the Asian region (English for different regions, as well as ...
2012/04/09
778
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<issue_start>username_0: I got an iView 7" Android tablet about a week ago, and it's been doing fine until today. [This is the product on NewEgg](http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16858683003) In short; it seems my internal storage just won't accept any changes of any kind, which is causing all manne...
2012/04/10
350
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<issue_start>username_0: I get 4.0.4 OTA with my Nexus S today. After downloaded the update package, i click "Reboot to install", but unfortunately the phone did't reboot successfully, so i boot it by myself. I checked the `android version` in the settings, it's still 4.0.3, and the system update never noticed me to u...
2012/04/10
206
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<issue_start>username_0: I recently noticed that in my phone contact list (which is synchronized to the Gmail contacts) there are many contacts that I don't remember adding and that I don't even know. Has anyone else experienced this? Do you know what could be causing it?<issue_comment>username_1: This is often caused...
2012/04/10
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<issue_start>username_0: After updating my UK HTC Sensation to Android 4.0 I was keen to try out Face Unlock. I'm happy to say that it works *reasonably* well, however the setup process has led to me having a query. When setting up face lock, after your face has been captured for the first time and setting up your ba...
2012/04/10
485
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<issue_start>username_0: > > **Possible Duplicate:** > > [How does the GPS work on Android phones?](https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/15383/how-does-the-gps-work-on-android-phones) > > > I have a Galaxy Player 5.0 (A.K.A Samsung Galaxy S WiFi 5.0) which as you're probably aware is not a phone, but an...
2012/04/11
364
1,547
<issue_start>username_0: I have a Sprint HTC EVO 4G running the Fresh Gingerbread ROM. The call quality in my apartment has always been great. However, this week the call quality has been extremely choppy to the point of not being usable, no matter how I hold it. I haven't really done anything to the phone or my apartm...
2012/04/11
262
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<issue_start>username_0: In earlier versions of Android there was an option to toggle data between 2G, 3G preferred and 3G only. After the ICS 4.0.3 update for Nexus S, there is no option for "3G only". Did Google lock down this option or is there a way to force "3G only"? I don't care about connection quality or batt...
2012/04/11
292
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<issue_start>username_0: Can we execute a Windows run command from an Android device? Like for example I want to open a file in PC using my Android device such as `Run>C:\abc.exe`. Or you can say I want to run a batch process (Exe File) placed in PC from my Android device.<issue_comment>username_1: One option would be...
2012/04/11
444
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<issue_start>username_0: My contacts come from 3 sources: 1. Google account 2. Facebook 3. Skype Some of those contacts were automatically linked together so "<NAME>" appears as one contact instead of three. However, some contacts were not linked automatically. Is there a button or some other way to tell Android "go...
2012/04/11
460
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<issue_start>username_0: Contacts on my Android phone come from different sources (Google account, Facebook, Skype, Windows Live etc.) and I can link them manually using the People app or how it's called. The user interface is not too bad but still, if there was a desktop / web application for this I think I would pref...
2012/04/12
365
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<issue_start>username_0: Several months ago, I changed my base font using Font Installer. Now I can't remember the name of the font I changed to. Is there a simple way to find out?<issue_comment>username_1: If you are looking for the name of the font you have changed to, you can use the website [What the Font](http://w...
2012/04/12
320
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<issue_start>username_0: I received a Samsung Galaxy Nexus as a present (in Australia), however I'm not sure where it came from so I'm not sure what mobile frequency bands it supports. Is there a way to check which frequencies it supports so I know which mobile networks I should be looking at?<issue_comment>username_1:...
2012/04/12
495
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<issue_start>username_0: I have a Samsung Galaxy 10.1, running Android 3.2, which I've rooted. When I plug it in by USB to my Ubuntu computer, it looks like this: ![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/vYCAk.png) There's about 24 or so directories, all numbered as shown in the image. As far as I c...
2012/04/12
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<issue_start>username_0: On Samsung Galaxy S2 (not rooted) everytime I accidently double press the home button, the voice command app comes up. How can I disable this?<issue_comment>username_1: I have disabled it using App-Freeze on [Titanium Backup](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.keramidas.Titanium...
2012/04/12
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<issue_start>username_0: I received the official OTA Google update to Android Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0.3 on my HTC Sensation. Every time now when I reboot the device, the system displays a notice stating that it is optimizing the installed apps. This should be just on the first reboot after the update and not every time?...
2012/04/12
345
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<issue_start>username_0: I have a weird problem with my android phone: for some reason, I'm getting a 'Low phone memory' error message, and before getting the message the phone was slow and unresponsive. I have 2 GB internal storage; in the app manager, it says 1.2Gb used, 27Mb free. Where did the rest of the space go...
2012/04/12
635
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<issue_start>username_0: I've been searching and hoping to find an app for Android that syncs up with Google Reader and has one key feature. The feature I'm looking for is the ability to fetch the entire news article that you're reading. Certain websites (CBC News in Canada for example) allow you to "read more", howeve...
2012/04/12
277
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<issue_start>username_0: Today I can't find the gesture button. I had it placed bottom right, showing faint on every page; now I have to go to menu /dolphin to bring it up. When I look at gesture settings all I can do is add extra gestures, but no menu list or other way to restore the 'always there' button. Has quick a...
2012/04/12
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<issue_start>username_0: Is there a way to seamlessly integrate Facebook chat and SMS messaging? I am looking for a method that hides the detail of how a message was sent to a given contact or number as much as possible.<issue_comment>username_1: The gestures icon is now multi purpose. When you click the icon and the d...