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May 5 |
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How do I get play store to stop asking me to auto-update on wifi? I had some updates last night and no recurrance of the issue. The A200 is wi-fi only (which is, I assume, why I don't have a wi-fi only setting), and I'm suspecting that the auto update state got screwed up somehow. Then, when I went into the menus looking for how to turn it off before posting, I ended up forcing it into the true 'do not auto-update' state. |
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May 2 |
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How do I get play store to stop asking me to auto-update on wifi? @w3d - added to the question. |
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Apr 12 |
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How can I stop my phone sending an SMS every time I insert a SIM card? Have you followed the debugging steps used in that post? Install RL Permissions and see what apps ave permission to send SMS, and then which apps can start at boot. The culprit is likely one of the applications that has both permissions. |
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Apr 7 |
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Will rooting my phone improve its battery life? @DanW - with most phones that I've seen, the biggest factors in battery life are how much you use it and how you have the screen brightness set. You can mess around with the cpu clock frequency and and tweak to your heart's content and you'll perhaps gain a percent or three, but unless that's your hobby, it's not worth the bother - it won't get you a meaningful increase in runtime. |
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Apr 2 |
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Will bootloader unlocking provide access to all the apps in the Play Store? One caveat - if you over-ride device restrictions, don't be surprised if the app has problems. There's a lot of reasons a dev might restrict an app to not run on particular devices. If it works for you, great, but don't get upset if it doesn't. |
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Feb 11 |
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How can I use Flash Player now that it's no longer supported? At the moment the highest archived version for Android 2.x & 3.x is 11.1.111.32, not 24. |
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Jan 31 |
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I deleted my only launcher @beth, which would have been obvious had I even LOOKed. Sorry! |
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Jan 31 |
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I deleted my only launcher @TimScarborough - he hasn't got ADB active, and can't open the settings to activate it, so in this case, no. |
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Jan 23 |
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How can I change the behavior of the volume buttons vs. the orientation of the screen I think you've missed the question a bit. You see, on this device they ARE orientation sensitive. I have two buttons - '1' and '2'. When the tablet is in landscape mode with the buttons on top, '2' lowers the volume, and '1' raises it. When the tablet is in portrait mode, with the buttons on the right, '1' lowers the volume and '2' raises it. This orientation sensitivity is a SERIOUS pain in the neck because I have other devices that DON'T posses this feature, making it devilishly hard to change the volume when I switch devices. Also, see my edits about bluetooth keyboards. |
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Dec 28 |
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Gmail for programmers @Flavius - in all likelyhood, they are trying to keep the number of options in the thing to a minimum. In this case I'd actually argue that the option is unnecessary - the client should figure out if it needs HTML to format the message, and send as plain text if it doesn't. Given that the standard android client doesn't actually allow much formatting, I can't see why it would need the option outside of replies. |
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Dec 14 |
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How can I read my epub books in Google Books for Android? Another decent epub reader is Overdrive Media Console. I haven't compared it to others, but it works for me, and it's what my public library uses for some of it's e-book lending. |
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Dec 7 |
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Is there any way to install apps incompatible with Android 4.1.2 (Jelly Bean) Just to be clear here - doing these things will make the app LOAD, but won't necessarily make it WORK. Don't be shocked if it turns out the app doesn't actually work once you do get it on there. It may be that the developer was just not thinking in how they setup the manifest, but it's possible that they've done something that means the app really won't run, or perhaps the app has serious bugs under your version, so they've locked it out. Either way, just don't be surprised if the app doesn't do so well once you've force it to run on your system. |
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Dec 5 |
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pdf reader which has zoom and width locking? Release version (October 14, 2012) in play store works great, but make sure to go into the settings to choose what various taps and presses do. To get it work to my liking, I disabled the zoom buttons, and make the top/bottom taps go page up/down. |
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Dec 1 |
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Can I “clone” my credit card using the Nexus S and Galaxy Nexus's NFC chip? If not, why not? @Midhat - if it's intended for security, then you aren't going to be able to easily clone it (unless the vendor was a complete bunch of morons). Normally devices that are used for security are NOT just 'here's my number' kinds of things - they have some info internally, and when the reader asks, they do something and return an answer, so as to avoid just this problem. That's not to say that it's 100% foolproof, but you're not going to just sit it near your phone and clone it. |
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Oct 4 |
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Dropbox export folder to SD card? I use DropSync to keep a folder on my SD card synced with my Dropbox (it works more or less like the desktop app). The DropBox mobile app is more of a mobile app version of the web site, rather than a real sync tool. |
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Sep 27 |
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Delete network routes Question: why do you want to do this? It seems like an odd thing to want to do on a portable device. Also, if networks come and go (moving in and out of coverage), it will probably re-add the route on you. |
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Sep 20 |
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Thermal receipt printer for Android @t0mm13b - This SO question goes into it a bit. |
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Sep 20 |
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Thermal receipt printer for Android Also, I Googled around a bit and noted that some folks have even been able to use standard serial adapters with a serial terminal program - no rooting required! That could be very useful, because I'd bet that not a few USB receipt printers actually have something like the FTDI serial USB chips embedded in them, rather than anything custom. |
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Sep 20 |
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Thermal receipt printer for Android @AlEverett - according to the docs at USB Host, it's supported in Android 3.1 and up (so, from a software perspective, almost every tablet). Now that doesn't mean all hardware supports it, but since the OP seems to be in the early stages of the project, it would be simple to choose tablets that do have USB support, either with full sized USB connectors, or USB-on-the-go adapters. |
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Sep 19 |
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How is it that Rooting is always possible? @RyanConrad - actually, in some phones exploits are NOT being fixed. For instance, the last DROID3 update I got did NOT patch the hole used to root the phones, so I had no problem (and no wait) after the update to re-root my phone. |
