Questions tagged [samsung-galaxy-s-5]
Use this tag if your issue is truly specific to the 'Samsung Galaxy S5' (SM-G900*) device.
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'sideways' Android app crashing on rooted Samsung Galaxy S5 on Android 6.0.1
I have a rooted Samsung Galaxy S5 on Android 6.0.1 and am trying to open the sideways app (package name: com.bolito2.rallygo). When opening the app, the message "Unfortunately, sideways has ...
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Pixel 6a cellular connectivity problems - calls to some phone models (older) won't go through
I just bought a new Google Pixel 6a (recently priced lower than pixel 5a) and after a few days of use I am starting to wonder if there is a fundamental system (either hardware or firmware) flaw with ...
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How to add special permission to application?
I removed too much system apps last time and I reinstalled Google Play Services (GmsService) from .apk file from backup.
However, its component com.google.android.gms.persistent needs permission ...
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Trying to back up my phone data using ADB but having a lot of problems
I want to back up the data on my Samsung Galaxy 5 (particularly SMSs and Memo text documents). I'm trying to do it with Android Debug Bridge. I followed some online "help" pages but ran into ...
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Is there a way to transfer SMS mesages from a Samsung Galaxy S5) to an Ubuntu PC, in a form in which I can view the SMS messages on my PC?
I want to transfer the SMS messages on my Samsung Galaxy S5 smartphone to my PC (with Linux Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS), in a form in which I can open and view the messages on my PC as I do on my smartphone.
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Recover Draft Emails from Deleted Account
I have a Samsung Galaxy S5 phone and use the native, built-in email app for two corporate/ActiveSync accounts. Recently something went wrong with the settings of one of the accounts, which caused my ...
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Help with ultra power saving mode bug
I have a Samsung Galaxy S5 with a major problem. One night while turning the phone to Ultra Power Saving Mode the phone immediately shut down. I left the phone o charge and the next morning I woke up ...
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I want to restore my contacts from a broken and black screen android device [duplicate]
I have a Samsung galaxy s5. Its screen has gotten smashed and now it displays nothing (black).
I can turn on the phone, and also I can enter recovery mode (by pressing home+power+volume up).
I have ...
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LineageOS/OpenGApps refuse to install on SM-G901F
Very annoying.
I'm trying to install LineageOS on Samsung Galaxy S5 Plus (SM-G901F), which used to run with stock OS before.
I successfully installed TWRP
I backed up my partitions and wiped them
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Does google contact sync also sync the sim card or does it just sync the contacts stored on the phone?
So I have this old Galaxy S5 phone that that I'm upgrading to a samsung a51, and I'm also getting a new SIM card that keeps the phone number but doesn't keep the contacts. Do i need to do something ...
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Samsung Photosphere orientations.txt data
Samsung (and perhaps other vendors) photosphere source files include the photographs and 2 text data files.
sessions.meta - contents are self explanatory, labelled metadata info about the sphere.
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Can't boot into recovery mode after flashing TWRP on Samsung Galaxy S5
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I can not boot my Samsung Galaxy S5 into recovery mode after flashing TWRP.
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I am trying to install LineageOS on my Samsung Galaxy S5.
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I followed the install ...
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Where do I find the Samsung S5 private folder in adb?
So my dear old Samsung S5 has died in a bootloop. But before I either wipe it or trash it I wanted to recover my old photos. I've managed to pull most of them by going into their folders and then pull ...
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Samsung Galaxy S5 not connecting PC
I've been unable to connect my samsung galaxy s5 to pc despite having tried for a couple of hours.
I was able to connect to the same pc with a different s5 a few days ago and have tried connecting it ...
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Acidentally uninstalled Google app on Android phone
I accidentally joined the beta program for the Google search app on android, in ordered to leave the program I had to uninstall the app and re-install it. When I did this, everything seemed to be ...
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Unable to modify file permissions.xml, get error Read-only file system
I have a rooted Galaxy S5 SM-G900V, lineage_klte, ARMv7 Processor rev 1 (v71), Kernel: 3.4.113-lineageos #1 SMP, Oreo 8.1 that a friend asked me to modify.
I need to modify the platform.xml file to ...
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Install Lineage OS on Samsung Galaxy S4 and S5, heimdall problems
I'm trying to install Lineage OS onto my Samsung Galaxy S4 and S5, following the instructions on https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/jfltexx/install
I've successfully installed Lineage to an S4 before,...
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Importing the Telegram contacts into the phone book - Android
I have a fairly serious problem. I lost all the numbers in the phone book, breaking the SIM card, but luckily I saw that most of them are stored on telegram. I tried with telegram desktop to export ...
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Failed to mount /cache (Invalid argument)
I have a Samsung Galaxy S5 G900H.
It had the stock ROM, and is quite old and slow, so I was asked to put something newer on it, and I got LineageOS.
As my previous experiences with Samsung phones, ...
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FLAC files getting corrupted on microSD card
Whenever I put a FLAC album on my phone, after a few days some of the tracks get corrupted. They show errors when I bring them onto my PC and use the command line function flac -t *.flac. While most ...
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What do these screen mean black background yellow or blue with date and time?
Some times my phone gets stuck at this screen. I can take a screen shot but it is otherwise unresponsive. What does this screen mean. It's usually yellow or blue with the time.
I want to think if I ...
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Getting rid of Samsung's Gallery app notifications? (or even the entire app)
I'm currently using a Galaxy S5 mini with Android 5.1.1 and one thing that I find particularly irritating is Samsung's Gallery app that keeps giving notifications. For some reason I can't seem to turn ...
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How can I access the contents of the main disk on my Android device, for data recovery purposes?
I'm trying my best to determine a method of recovering some deleted data on my Samsung S5.
I've used tools such as Recuva in the past to recover files on flash drives and devices of that nature. ...
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How to run TWRP recovery headless?
I have samsung s5 having damaged screen. Its screen is blank and touch is not working. I have checked USB debugging by connecting to tv via hdmi to enable adb and flashed twrp ecovery twrp-3.2.1-0-...
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How do I stop voice typing from muting/pausing other playing media?
I sometimes want voice typing to transcribe voice audio that is playing on my device. However, whenever voice typing is started, it stops all audio coming from my phone.
I have the xposed module app ...
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Android phone animations have stop working
As title suggests it is a very strange problem I am facing. My phone has stopped showing usual animations instead it just gives jerk effects, or freezes,
1) for example the traditional google play ...
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Some apps (SD card ones?) not restored after factory reset of S5. What have I lost? Help!
After a factory reset of my Galaxy S5(same accounts and sim etc), some apps did not restore. I suspect it was the large ones I had moved to the SD card a while back for space reasons (I took my SD ...
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Contact avatar colors
What do the different color contact avatars mean? My Samsung automatically generates avatars for new contacts. I'm wondering what the different colors mean. I can't figure out the pattern.
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Galaxy S5 charging slowly despite 'AC' and 2A charger
I have replaced the battery in my Galaxy S5 with a genuine Samsung (or at least, a very, very good fake!). It's now becoming quite noticeable how slow it charges - when plugged into a Nexus 7 2A ...
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HDR camera and stabilized video on Galaxy S5 neo
I have a rooted Samsung Galaxy S5 neo (SM-G903F). The phone runs original Android 5.1 (only rooted). The camera app does support neither HDR photos nor stabilized video recording.
Is there a way how ...
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Samsung S5 Graphics Error under Lineage [duplicate]
I just got a refurbished S5 and installed the latest Lineage OS (lineage-14.1-20171123-nightly-klte-signed on it. Most of the time everything works normal. Sometimes, however, the graphics gets really ...
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Will flashing a custom ROM relock me with SIM carrier?
I got a Samsung Galaxy S5 (SM-G900P, Sprint) running stock Android 6.0.1. As it comes, it's a CDMA phone, but I got it unlocked at a phone repair shop to use GSM and it has been working fine, but it ...
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How to unbrick a samsung galaxy S5 (Softbricked no hardware keys)?
So the phone is a S5 SM-G900P, it is stuck in the Sprint logo when booting and the volume keys are broken (power and home keys work).
Developer mode and adb weren't activated in the phone previously
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Samsung galaxy S5 display and touch not working
my samsung galaxy S5 android 6.0.1 not starting. only task manager touch key light keeps always on. but touch not working. and display not working. can anyone suggest me a solution for this issue.
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Galaxy S5 SM-G900F soft-bricked & stuck on Samsung logo screen
Hi may can someone to help here. Today i restart my phone don know why will stuck on SAMSUNG screen like the picture. I see a lot tutorial say have to factory reset. Is that anyway I can make backup ...
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Restore messages from old whatsapp file
i need to restore old messages from a year and a half ago that i have the files of but everytime i load it onto the phone it does not load those messages, can anyone help me? it is also no longer the ...
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Encrypted SD card failed after S5 restart
As I can't get my Samsung S5 connected to my Debian 9.1 with KDE machine over MTP I had to use KDE Connect to copy over files.
I then had to move the files from my internal storage to the SD card.
I ...
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Unwanted outgoing phone calls
Occasionally, when I flip the lid of my phone and put it on the table, the phone calls the primary number of the contact with which I communicated last (by phone or text message).
I suspect that some ...
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Give app resource priority?
I have a couple apps I use regularly that take a lot of resources, the biggest hog is Vainglory which being essentially a desktop-class game uses most of the ram, CPU power and network bandwidth my ...
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How do I assign an action to long pressing the home button?
I want to fix it so the home button long press kills a particular app. I can't see the option for home long press in Tasker or Macrodroid.
Galaxy S5, rooted, CM Marshmallow, Xposed installed.
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Unlock Samsung S5(SM-G900W8) bootloader without rooting
I am performing some tests on android devices, to properly do this I need to first unlock the device bootloader and run my tests on the device after which I then root the device and perform the tests ...
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I have something called mdnsd draining my battery, but I don't have firefox, I just use the basic browser what other apps cause this issue?
My battery has been getting drained lately, when I look, something called mdnsd is draining a good chunk of power, about 10% of the power draw second only to the screen in power draw. I've looked ...
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How to force sleep after a timeout regardless of app?
I'm letting my little kid use an old Android phone (Galaxy S5) as a camera. I've got the camera app pinned so he can't do anything except take pics. He hits Home to wake it up and then can tap the ...
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galaxy s5 recovery
I have a galaxy S5, which yesterday (cracked screen) decided to go black. I can still get it to call, take pictures in the blind.
What things can I try to recover the data on here...I figured out ...
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Does putting an unlocked phone on a no-contract plan lock the phone in any way?
I bought a factory unlocked Samsung Galaxy S5 from eBay recently, and signed up with Ting.
(Was on Virgin Mobile with a different phone, switched carriers and phones at the same time)
When you're ...
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How to debug bootloop? [closed]
I built custom Cyanogenmod 13.0 for Galaxy S5 Exynos (G900H), however after I flash my ROM, the phone is stuck on bootloop with the Samsung logo turning off and on in a loop.
since CM and LineageOS ...
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Broken screen Galaxy s5, cannot unlock pattern
My s5 has a screen damaged such that it displays properly, but does not respond to touch. How do I release the pattern lock to transfer my data to something else?
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How to download everything off broken Samsung when screen won't turn on?
Last week I dropped and broke my Samsung galaxy s5. The screen won't turn on, but it vibrates/rings whenever I get a call or message, so I know the phone still works. All I want is to download my ...
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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 ...
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I'm with Virgin Mobile; should I buy Unlocked or Sprint-locked?
I'm looking around at buying a Samsung Galaxy S5, and learning quite a bit about what GSM and CDMA are while I'm at it. In that respect though, I have no idea what Virgin Mobile is, though I know ...
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