For questions about Android apps in general.
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Why do some applications have `Move to SD card` button disabled? [duplicate]
I've just downloaded an app, and I want to move it to SD card. At the application setting, the app has data like this:
Total ... 10.05MB
Application ... 9.97MB
Data ... 80.00KB
Next ...
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Copying applications between phones?
Is it possible to easy copy applications between phones (eg. two HTCs via bluetooth) and get them running fine? Or apps just need to be downloaded from AM each time because of some installation ...
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How can I determine what app put a spam shortcut on my home screen? [duplicate]
Recently, I discovered that some app on my phone had taken it upon itself to place a very nice "Free Games" shortcut on my home screen. I haven't installed any new apps in the recent past, so I would ...
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Can I get apps onto my phone without using internet on the phone? [duplicate]
I have an HTC MyTouch 3g. My plan doesn't have internet and it costs extra if I use the internet. Is there a way to download apps on the computer and transfer them to my phone somehow? I do have a SD ...
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Re-installing Google Play Store
My Google Play store, as well as all of my apps, are messed up. Every one of them has an Android icon and an SD card emblem at the bottom right. I do not know how to get my Play Store back, and I can ...
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Grooveshark app on Android
I realized that they took TinyShark offline recently. I'm looking to see if anyone knew why or what the reason for that was? I've found one alternative, BlueStream, but I don't think that that is a ...
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Galaxy G3 is making unwanted noises and I can't turn them off without silencing my phone
How can I stop my Samsung Galaxy G3 from making sounds when looking for e-mail without turning off all other notifications? At least I think that's what it's doing. Sometimes it makes the sound when I ...
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Is there any sniffer aplication for Android 2.2?
Is there any network sniffer program for Android 2.2 similar to Wireshark for Windows?
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How to turn off Galaxy II speaking time on lock screen?
How to turn off Galaxy II from SPEAKING THE TIME on lock screen??
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How can I hide an application from the app drawer?
I've got Micromax Canvas 2 and have installed one application which is having some confidential data. Now I want to hide that application from menu.
Is there any way / application for that?
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How do I re-enable the stock Gallery on Samsung S2 running ICS?
I accidentally pressed the disable button on the stock gallery instead of the Force stop button. In Settings > Apps, the aplication moved to the end of the list of apps and says it's Disabled. The ...
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How can I run Android applications on my PC with the Android emulator?
Is it possible to run Android applications on PC (with emulator)? I have Android SDK on my PC and I want to run Angry Bird on it. Can any body help to me?
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Accessing my Google Play music
Is there an app to access my Google Play music?
I can only access it via the browser. The connection is horrible, as well as the interface.
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How to Uninstall HTC Applications/Widgets [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to remove pre-installed apps like Peep and Friend Stream from my HTC phone?
How can I uninstall applications that are locked by phone vendor?
I've just treated ...
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I've rooted my tablet, now how do I get rid of this bloatware? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Rooted Phone but still can't uninstall Apps
I just went through the process of rotting my Galaxy Tablet 10.1. I used these instructions, and the process went ...
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1answer
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Disable LiveWare manager
I have rooted my Sony Ericsson Neo V by downgrading to .42 and using Zergrush, without unlocking the boot loader. Now I want to remove the LiveWare service. NoBloat and similar apps don't show it. How ...
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Rhapsody Shortcuts
I am new to this lp shortcuts.
I have been going crazy looking for a .lps file for my rhapsody app.
I want to control my music from my lp dock but I cant find anything to help.
I downloaded ...
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How to use phone's Wifi tethering to demonstrate security vulnerabilities on phones [closed]
I am teaching a course to highschool students about computers, and I wanted to do something different for tomorrow class.
I was thinking to teach them about wifi security vulnerabilities through a ...
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How can I race against a GPX track?
I'm using the Strava app to record segments I ride. It would be very helpful in trying to beat existing KOMs to be able to upload GPX file(s) to my phone and have audible feedback during each segment ...
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1answer
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Samsung Galaxy Ace keeps updating Samsung app store
I recently purchased a Samsung Galaxy Ace and tried to get onto the Samsung application store on the phone.
It said that there was an update for the application so I downloaded it and tried to get ...
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How to migrate applications to other user account without downloading the applications again?
I created a new user in Nexus 7 but it doesn't have any applications already installed in primary user. I don't want to move/share any app data like scores/progress. I want the apps/games to appear as ...
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How to launch the hidden Sound Recorder on Froyo?
I discovered a "Sound Recorder" in the application list on my Froyo handset. Why is it hidden like that with no 'launcher' or app icon to start it?
I'm curious.. also because of this app;
I need to ...
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Choosing apps to load and remove from memory when using Android
I'm not a programmer. And as far as I know, Android uses as much RAM as possible, loading as many apps as possible, so that launching / opening (or returning to them) is smoother.
My question is:
Is ...
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Why are some apps hidden and how to unhide them
For example on my galaxy Tab 7.7 plus sc_01e running ics , the phone app apk is installed but does not show up in my app drawer.
It will actually show up if it is called by a widget but there is no ...
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Where to upload video files? to have online video albums? To share them for WhatsAPP apps
I am having lot of Video files which are my personal to give to my girl friend.
My girl friend personal video files are also to send to me.
Now both together, i want to keep them as Album, Which i ...
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some apps, no problem loading on 2 devices. Not this one - help
I have loaded a free app (imediashare) from Amazon store onto my Kindle Fire. I want to put the same app on my Samsung phone, but when I go to the app store from the phone and try to 'buy' it, I'm ...
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What is the right way to close apps in Android?
I'm new to the Android platform, and this is probably a dumb question, but...
How do you close an app?
When I'm in an app, and I want to get out, I just click on "Home" and move on, but I just ...
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Matlab on Android
I know matlab mobile was just released for android.
Nowadays several mobiles got hardware enough to run some decent calculations...
So question is: Is there a way to run matlab offline on a emulator ...
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2answers
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Converting phone to SIP gateway
Is there an application that can make the phone to be a SIP GSM gateway so I can make and receive cellular calls using SIP phone and/or re-route them through a SIP PBX?
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1answer
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Note taking app with handwriting recognition that includes math typesetting (latex preferably)?
Is there some notetaking app that can recognize math and typeset the result using latex? I recently came across with this website: [1] http://www.reddit.com/tb/p88ty that does recognize equations and ...
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4answers
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Forward SMS messages to http interface [closed]
I am looking for an Android application to use as a SMS forwarding device. The main function of this app would be to take any message the phone receives and send the message to a couchdb database by ...
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1answer
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Free / local voicemail / answering machine
My carrier having pretty high monthly prices for voicemail, I did not take the service. However, when I'm at school, unable to answer, and my busy doctor calls me, knowing I probably won't be able to ...
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Why after installing application from Play Store I did not get the correct version? [closed]
I have just downloaded Datadroid Forms Pro from the Play Store.
After installation it seems to show that I have downloaded the "Lite" version instead of the "Pro" version and I don't understand why ...
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Delete an account from Android without affecting the apps related to it
I have three accounts in my Android phone. I have apps installed in the phone via them.
Now I wanna delete one of the account (NOT primary) but dont wanna loose the apps related to them.
Is there a ...
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What happens when the Home button on Android phone is pressed? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What happens to a running program when “home” button is pressed in Android phone?
My friend raised a concern that pressing the home button is not advisable and it drains ...
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What's a good app for reading “programming ebooks”? [closed]
I use Adobe's PDF reader but that is not good for reading "source codes". If I select the "reflow" option the code gets scattered and becomes hard to read. Can anyone know of a good app for reading ...
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Is it possible to install two instances of a same app? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is it possible to have multiple instances of the same app (logged in to different accounts)?
I have a dual-sim Android device, an Alcatel Onetouch.
As it has two SIM ...
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RE: Android 4.0.4 shows folder count on Galaxy Note (Android 4.0.4) but not on Galaxy Tab 10.1 (Android 4.0.4) [closed]
On my Samsung Galaxy Note (Android 4.0.4) it shows the count of items on the header of each folder. I love this feature. Why cannot I see this on my Galaxy Tab 10.1 (Android 4.0.4)?
Thanks, Timothy
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Where can find older versions of Apps?
Is is possible to download older versions of Android applications?
Is there some kind of online archive for all versions of Android apps? Like how you can find older versions of some Windows app.
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Where can i download the original music and player app for Samsung i9000 to be used with Android 4.1.2?
On the i9000, I have updated the ROM to Android 4.1.2. I would like to re-install the original music player as well as the video player.
How do I do this?
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Install Gingerbread Google Apps (gapps package) over ICS
I have recently flashed a custom ICS rom on my device, and then installed from zip via recovery mode the relevant gapps package for that rom (from here: ...
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How to install same app more than once on same device [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is it possible to have multiple instances of the same app (logged in to different accounts)?
I want to install same app more than once on same device. For example: I ...
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1answer
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Is there a way to clear your Google Play App history? (Not the search history) [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to remove apps from “all downloaded” in Play Store
I'm looking to see if there is a way to clear the actual history of installed apps in Google Play, as ...
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Download apps failure
When I try to download any apps it says I don't have enough storage space and doesn't download.
I even deleted one? or some? of my apps then tried to re-download it again and it just said that there ...
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1answer
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How to solve “application not be installed” error
I am facing an application can not be installed error on my Samsaung Galaxy S Plus whenever I try to install applications. I have already allowed installation from unknown sources, but it didn't work. ...
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launch application by name in android phone
How can I launch some android application by name on android device? Like in Linux, I pressed alt+f2 and typed name of application. May be it is some alternate launcher.
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How can I get a phone app on a tablet?
I have a brand new Galaxy Tab 2 that is apparently not compatible with my bank's tablet app. Someone on another forum mentioned that they just use the phone version on their tablet, but they don't say ...
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How to install extensions on Android's stock browser?
I have JellyTime (R30 - https://code.google.com/p/jellytime/) installed on my HTC Desire HD phone which is running a variance of Jelly Bean 4.1.2.
Is it possible to add some extensions/features to ...
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Running java servlets on android
I have written a couple of servlets in java and I want to be able to run them on the android platform. Is there any way of doing this?
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Unable to locate play store after flashing my android phone to CM7
I flashed my Samsung Galaxy I5510 with CM7. Everything was fine until I found that the Play Store was missing in the app drawer. I am unable to find it anywhere on the device.
I even tried ...
