Questions tagged [screen]
Everything around your display and screen not covered by more specialized tags (see full tag wiki for hints)
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How do you add an app icon to the home screen (without long press)?
I used to be able to search for an app, long press it, then drag it to the home screen.
Now, long press doesn't seem to exist anymore. Searching for that online says that you don't need long press ...
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How to enable landscape mode for lockscreen in LineageOS 20 on Samsung Tab S6 Lite?
LineageOS has been a huge improvement in terms of responsiveness and customization compared to Samsung OneUI. However on Samsung Tab S6 Lite (which mostly is set horizontally on table) the lockscreen ...
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Why does my Nokia 2.2 screen light keep coming on even in my pocket?
I have Nokia 2.2 updated to Android 11. Why does its screen light keep coming on even in my pocket?
I have turned off "tap to wake" and it comes on when I even touch the phone.
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How to identify possible causes for screen not working?
My Google Pixel 5a's screen has stopped working. When connected via scrcpy, the display is transmitted. Before ordering a new screen, I want to ask a couple of questions:
Could the problem be related ...
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Samsung Galaxy A51 freezing and restarting after update
I updated my Samsung Galaxy A51 to Android 13 (One UI 5.1). My phone screen keeps freezing, going black, and restarting on its own. It happens every couple of minutes.
I did almost every possible way ...
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Screen is entirely black. How do I diagnose what is wrong?
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Pixel 5a. Purchased April 2022. The display glass shattered in Jan 2023, and I got it replaced through a 3rd party repair. Only the glass was repaired, not the display unit. The phone ...
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Smaller floating windows of smaller sizes
I am running Android 12 on a Realme 8 5G phone.
While using Android I was able to create a smaller floating (on top) window, in one of two sizes, for one app (in my case, the WhatsApp app), as shown ...
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Automate inserting 2FA code when screen is locked
I use a service for which I'm forced to use two-factor authentication whenever I log in. It's pretty inconvenient and unnecessary, so I would like to automate accepting the authentication request when ...
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Kaspersky Who Calls app keeps the phone screen on
There's an app called Anti-spam: Kaspersky Who Calls.
The problem with this app is that when someone calls you the app shows the caller information in a popup and if you don't dismiss the said popup, ...
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Forgot screen lock pin and airplane mode on
Hi i have a Samsung Galaxy A30S.
I added a screen lock pin code and can't remember it.
The airplane mode is activated and I cannot turn it off, cause it's asking for pin number.
I don't want to do a ...
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Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra flickering screen caused by small drop
About a month ago, I dropped my Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra about 10 cm above my sink, and it got a small dead pixel on the left edge near the top. The problem is that it has affected the whole area ...
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Resize screen to avoid dead zone - problem with adb
Asking a question because it seems that nobody has got the same problem after resizing it's screen using adb because of a dead zone on my phone over the status bar. I've basically followed the steps ...
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Temporarily use a Samsung A40 screen with a Samsung A30
A friend of mine broke her screen (samsung A40), and she would like to recover her photos (not saved on google photo, debug mode not enabled). We struggle to unlock the screen blindly, so I was ...
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How to force Android to tell the browser about real physical resolution?
Samsung Flow allows users of Samsung phones to use the external display, eg. laptop as larger display and also with physical keyboard.
However, the browser is still in mobile mode (big UI and big font ...
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Disable "Smart Rotate" feature in Android
I have been trying to find a way to disable the "smart rotate" feature in my Android tablet with adb commands without any luck.
I hope someone can help me with this.
The smart rotate feature ...
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What is this transparent text on my screen [duplicate]
I have some strange keyboard silhouettes on my screen which is present all the time. Look at the screenshot closely:
It's very hard to see on the photo, but if you look beneath the arrow you will see ...
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Samsung Wallet PIN keyboard not working after replacing screen
I've replaced the screen of my Samsung Galaxy S20 FE and did a factory reset of it. Afterward, I cannot set up Samsung Wallet anymore because I simply cannot tap on the PIN keyboard. I would guess ...
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How to find how many hours an Android phone has been used in total (regardless of factory reset)? [duplicate]
I want to know if there is a method or application that can tell me how many hours an Android phone has been used. Just like we have cheat codes that we used for Nokia phones; they tell us the hours (...
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Double tap to wake on Amazon Fire tablet
In most Samsung Galaxy phones, it is possible to wake the phone by tapping the screen twice which is a very convenient feature.
I tried the same thing on the Amazon Fire HD tablet (2021 edition) and ...
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Displayed weather on lock screens
I am wondering how exactly do I get the weather to show up on my lock screen on my Nokia 400 5G
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Get Android Emulator To Display/Render On A Dedicated Display
I have a phone sized external HDMI touch screen display.
Instead of the android emulator in a window on the desktop. I want to be able to display directly to that touch screen display.
A quick look ...
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Detecting screen content changes and simulating touch commands accordingly
Say there is an app that shows a red color rectangle. If the app is kept open, the color of the rectangle changes to yellow after some time. When this happens, I want to detect that a color change ...
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Android on a stretched display (1920x480)?
I'm trying to run the unofficial android os on Raspberry Pi on a screen similar to this one.
Before buying I wanted to know that if the android (in tablet mode) will adapt to the screen ratios? And if ...
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Android voice navigation support for limb impaired users and rainy weather
I was wondering whether there is any support or whether Android had any plans to support using Android under the rain (for instance, also in situations where an umbrella may not be enough because of ...
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Get location on screen of pop-up box
In an automated test I'm trying to perform against a Nexus 5X, this pop-up prompt (in this case, Magisk asking about granting superuser permission) will show up periodically throughout the test. To ...
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Disable proximity sensor on WhatsApp
My Xiaomi phone proximity sensor was broken, it is giving false result, most of the time it think it is blocked when it was not, and its value keeps changing. This affect phone call because the screen ...
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Using Miracast / Smart View between Samsung S10+ and LG OLED TV
I just played with Smart View (an implementation of the Miracast standard) on my Samsung S10+ (Android 12), 'mirroring' to my LG OLED TV (2022 vintage). It works surprisingly well. Not only could I '...
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Why sAMOLED+ is not turning complete black?
I am using Samsung Galaxy M51 for the last two years now but never faced any screen related issues but recently during this winter I am seeing my screen is not turning black. The screen is flickering ...
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Double Tap to Wake-up not working on Oppo A71k
I have been using this feature every day and It suddenly became impossible for me to double-tap the phone to wake it up.
It's running Android 7.1.1 and ColorOS v3.2.
Still, I have Gesture & Motion ...
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Is there any chance I could get my phone touchscreen working again?
I have a Pixel 4a smartphone and some water mixed with disinfectant fell on it yesterday. I turned off the phone and wipe it within 30 seconds and let it off for about 30 minutes.
Now the middle part ...
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Can't screen record on android tablet, Samsung Galaxy Tab A7
Can't screen record on android tablet, Samsung Galaxy Tab A, I am using AZ Screen Recorder,
It runs Android 10, whenever I try to screen record, the video does not play or it will show a black screen.
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"pop-up message" obstructing for 120 seconds, was 2s [duplicate]
I have a new Motorola phone (moto g pure XT2163DL, Android 12), and it's giving me trouble.
For multiple apps, the "mini-notification" or "quick status message" that they display ...
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How to keep clock on at night on charger
I keep my phone on a wireless charger beside my bed. Until recently, the clock would show on there very dimly with a black background, plus some other notifications and stuff. Recently, it changed to ...
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Faint backdrop of another app always present in the phone
For some reason, I always have a backdrop of chess app on my phone. It isn't just chess but a few other buttons (back, toggle etc) from the OS a long time ago. This happened after I updated to a beta ...
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Xiaomi screen turns black when under the sun
I have a Xiaomi Redmi Note 9S which has the following behaviour: it works normally until the moment it goes under the sun, then (apparently only) the backlight of the screen is turned off and never ...
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Any android devices on the market with a perfectly square display? [closed]
Are there any android based devices on the market with a perfectly square display? If not is there any particular reason why not and would it create any problems when switching between portrait and ...
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What is causing Android device to turn its screen on at seemingly random times?
A friend has an LG phone running Android 6.0 (Marshmallow). Many, many times during each day (and night) the device's screen apparently turns itself on. This is causing much battery drain, and ...
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Lock screen removal protection
Is there any way to protect my phone from removing screen lock using lock screen removal and USB connection? If I lost my phone, I wouldn't like someone to get into it without factory reset to see my ...
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Moving Screen Position Entirely
My phone screen broke (I dropped the phone) - I wanted to repair it, but it costs a lot.
The company where I bought fixed the screen for me, but it doesn't work properly still - at least not 100%.
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Gray link pop-up on my Android device screen
Why my Android device keep gray link on the screen? When it's get rotated it will show bunch of gray link, I don't know how to make it's disappear.
I just use mouse and keyboard on my Android and the ...
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Screen fading and battery icon outlined in red
I've got a new Doogee S40 running Android 9.0.
A problem started when the battery level went down to 20%. The battery icon started to be outlined in red and the screen started dimming after around 5 ...
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How can I fix the phone bricked?
My phone has just bricked after I do something using ADB and now I can't do anything to it. I can't hard reset, The volume part is broken off and does not respond only power button, The touch screen ...
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How can I disable "Simulate Secondary Display" when the simulated secondary display prevents me from reaching the button?
My Question will get more information over time.
I got a smartwatch (h1-c-aladeng) on my birthday, I very love it but I make a serious problem that I can't fix.
Its specification:
Screen resolution ...
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What does virtual display do with Image pixels when smaller display dimensions are set than the grabbed ones?
I dont undestand what happens with pixels in Virtual Display in Android when output dimensions are reduced compared to the input ones ?
When I have for example input = size of my Display = 1920x960 ...
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Google Assistant: Search screen is not offered anymore
Until a few days back, whenever I opened Google Assistant as "overlay" while having open another app, the assistant always offered something saying "What's on my screen?".
When ...
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How to change aspect ratio of screen
I am trying to change the aspect ratio of my phone's screen, presumably by changing the resolution, to achieve the result shown in the image.
I am not trying to just change the resolution without ...
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Will a monitor connected to a usb-hub show image from Android?
I'd like to connect a VGA monitor to an Android device. I'm thinking to connect a usb-hub to the device, then plug USB to VGA adapter into the hub. Also a mouse and a keyboard are going to be ...
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Does Android Always-on-Display enable deep sleep or doze mode?
It seems to me as waste of resources if CPU still needs to be turned on while only the display is active for Always-on-display. Or do the new phones have any special provisions for AOD that only GPU ...
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What is the difference between "Corning Gorilla Glass Victus" and "Corning Gorilla Glass Victus Plus"?
What is the difference between "Gorilla Glass Victus" and "Gorilla Glass Victus+"?
Samsung claims their S22 and S22+ and S22U phones have something called
Corning® Gorilla® Glass ...
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How to use only part of the screen?
I am working on a blackberry-style keyboard attachment for any Android phone (https://github.com/Dakkaron/Fairberry).
For the next revision, I'd like the keyboard to be able to slide over the screen, ...
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