Questions tagged [stock-android]
The version of Android originally on the device as supplied by the manufacturer or phone network, including any customizations, alternative interfaces and updates.
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Send Airdrop from Android
Is there any way to send files from an Android phone via Apple's Airdrop to an iPhone? I'm not looking for an alternative system, just want to mess with some colleagues who have iPhones. Currently ...
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Samsung galaxy S7 edge from HK soft/firmware
I am a massive novice when it comes to this, please can you help? I bought a S7 edge SM-G9350 from hongkong but it did not GooglePlay etc. I live in the UK and wondered how to get my phone software to ...
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Android Lollipop 5.0.1 apps cache saved in apps data Example:
In Android Lollipop 5.0.1: cache are stored within apps data. Example:
Facebook app had saved 400mb, not as a deletable cache but as app data. When I want to free up space I have to clear data and log ...
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HTC M9 Bricked...
Original issue.
My cousin plugged in his HTC M9; he said it showed a count down from 5 to 1 then shut off. To which he discovered that the charging port had visible signs of burning and smelled as ...
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Nexus 5 boot loop after depleted battery shutdown
Yesterday my phone turned off after the battery had depleted and now, after charging it, both the OS and TWRP are stuck when trying to boot (on boot animation and TWRP boot image respectively).
I'm ...
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How to change messaging and phone app in Oppo R9s?
Is there a way to change messaging and phone call apps without the phone defaulting to stock on an unrooted Oppo R9s?
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Force RTL layout not working
Even though I checked the box of Force RTL layout it seems it don't work properly and due to this many other problems are occurring in my HTC Desire 826 dual SIM, like , my screen is 1080 but YouTube ...
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I am stuck on the verify your account Google on a ZTE TracFone [duplicate]
It is stuck on the Google login screen
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Internet doesn't work when screen loses focus
I have a Samsung Galaxy Note 5 Running on Android Marshmallow 6.0.1 Stock with no Custom roms / or root ( and never done , yet ;)
I have a problem with some apps like skype, dropbox and solid ...
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Copy web-link with title in Android 7
How do I copy and share a link with title text?
For example, when I 'share' a link from chrome it just sends the URI.
I want to also add the title of the page and then the URI link.
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Reprogramming Samsung Earbuds' Buttons
I have a pair of Samsung Earbuds which came with my S6 Edge. They have buttons which pause audio and increase or decrease the volume. The buttons only work when it is connected to an android device. ...
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How can I root my Lava A97 Android 6.0 stock
I have tried all the rooting apps including desktops one but none of them able to root my device.
I also tried to go through adb but not able to get '#' access in order to move files into intended ...
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Stock Android Shortcuts
So I believe the Android keyboard shortcuts vary among version, but what are the stock android shortcuts?
I have not found a complete list anywhere.
I think this should be a community wiki.
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Change headphone left-right balance on Android 7
What is the best way to set the left-right balance on a pair of earphones/headphones? I've looked into it, but I can't seem to find an easy way to do this.
I am on a rooted Nexus 6P on stock android ...
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Differences between fastboot erase and fastboot format
I have an asus zenfone 2 laser with radio problem:it doesn't take the line.I want to format modem partition to see if the problem could be solved.I jave a doubt:what is the difference between fastboot ...
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Reverting from custom rom to stock rom
I am currently on custom rom lineage 14.1 nougat 7.1 and my device is asus ZenFone 2 Z00AD.but i want to come back to stock rom but my stock rom is in lollipop version so, do i need to first downgrade ...
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Why isn't the touchscreen pressure reading being put into use by Android?
Just now I discovered the "Pointer Location" dev app on Android, which tells how much pressure is being applied on the point on the touchscreen. They even have it since Android 1.0.
I know there may ...
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How can I display as many Unicode blocks as possible in Android?
I study linguistics and ancient scripts, and this requires glyphs on high Unicode blocks which most fonts do not support. Unfortunately it seems like most apps in Android will only render the glyphs ...
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What is the difference between versions like 20H or 20A for LG G3?
LG G3 phones are named differently like: F400 is Korean, D855 is international, D850 is for USA AT&T, D851 is for USA T-Mobile etc.
However, ROMs for G3 are named like this: [LG][G3][D855][20V]
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How to find the right ROM to unbrick device
I forgot to enable the OEM unlock while rooting a Galaxy Tab A 280 following the guide at XDA-developers. Now the phone is only displaying a FRP error on boot and shuts down again.
Download mode is ...
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Will Netflix still function properly on my LG K7 if I root it?
I recently got a new phone (LG K7, MetroPCS) and there are some things that I wanted to do, which require root access.
I know how to root, and I know some apps won't work on a rooted device (Android ...
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How to auto-close the Sound Bar Indicator
I have an issue (or at least I perceive it to be since it wasn't like that in the first place) on my Nexus 6p where after I click the volume buttons while my device is on, the sound bar indicator does ...
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Impossible to use the data partition of the user in huawei
Today i have turned on my Huawei g play mini and a screen appeared saying that it's impossible to use the data partition of the user and three options:backup,reboot and wipe.I have tried everything ...
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Is it possible to lock the bootloader without losing data?
Is it possible to lock my phone without losing the system data it has? I had previously unlocked my Nexus 6p to get root access, and have since despised the big yellow warning sign reminding me that ...
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Where i can find my stock rom [duplicate]
Recently I bought a Chinese made android phone. Specifications of the phone is given here. The phone has mediatek mtk6577 processor. I been thinking to install different ROM in my device. But, I can ...
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Create a dead zone on a screen using adb to fix phantom touch
Many a times a very specific area of a screens starts to show phantom touches. In this case a very simple tweak to just remove the touch sensitivity from this very specific area could fix the problem. ...
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Nova launcher new app to homescreen
How do I specify to which home screen I want Nova to add my new apps to, it worked perfectly some time ago, but not anymore. Now it adds new apps to firs homescreen instead of second. Please help
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Trouble installing stock ROM due to multiple '0' folders !HELP!
I am having a lot of trouble restoring my GSM Galaxy Nexus to it's former glory. I installed CM12 and CWM recovery earlier but CM12 suddenly stopped working. My phone started rebooting over and over ...
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am switch-user 0, not root
My phone is not rooted. I want to root it really bad, but it is Verizon branded, so...
I was just playing around with am and decided to run am --help.
I found am switch-user <USER_ID>, and ran ...
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Problems receiving German characters in SMS
I am learning German with a friend of mine, so we send texts in both German and English. I can send an umlaut (a/o/u with two dots above) to him, but when he sends to me it is replaced with a question ...
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Removing Knox and SElinux
I am having problems setting the kernel to permissive (SElinux). I have already tried the setenforce 0 command with terminal but it immediately goes back to enforcing as soon as I set the setenforce 0 ...
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Bootloop problem. Lenovo A600e
I have this cellphone for my CDMA card and also it is my fav cell phone as gifted from my first girlfriend. It went in bootloop. However I got the flash zip file on internet. But couldn't find the ...
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Difference between ADB drivers and MTK drivers?
Flashing a ROM in an android through PC requires drivers along with softwares in order to make the process success ,in case of drivers which drivers are needed and when ,what is relation between ADB ...
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Is there a way to know if the installed Android is official?
I know that if one has access to the firmware files, one can check if the firmware is the official stock firmware or not by looking at the SHA1.
Now, suppose that Android has already been installed ...
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Creating a bootable USB through android
Is there any way to create a bootable USB (not turn your android device into a bootable USB), with an OTG USB stick through android?
I do not have a laptop to do this on, as the one I need (the one i ...
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Tablet space for apps from its own internal USB storage
I have a Tecno tablet with:
1 gb RAM/engine
1 gb Internal Storage/apps installing only.
16 gb "USB Storage" internally built (just named like that but it's not external),media/ files
I do NOT ...
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Messed samsung galaxy note 3
May i ask what solution to my problem in my note 3, i rooted it and try to flash a new rom phronesis ROM using twrp, but no luck i didnt succeed due to md5 issue and signature issue, then after ...
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How do I change the stock firmware in Samsung Galaxy S3 Neo to higher than 4.4 KitKat without rooting?
My Samsung Galaxy S3 Neo has Android Kitkat. Is there a way to upgrade (without rooting the phone) to a newer version?
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Unable to modify build.prop
I'm using a stock Nexus 5X. I tried to edit build.prop the following way:
I unlocked the bootloader and booted into TWRP (not flashed)
I mounted system
I then adb pulled build.prop, edited it, then ...
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Can I install Cynogen OS on my Yu Yuphoria 5010A?
Basically I have multi touch issue on YU yuphoria,I recently googled and found that custom ROM can remove this problem,cyanogen in my case but all the tutorial were for 5010.So I need to know whether ...
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Proxyserver as Home button
I am using Nexus 5 and recently did factory reset. Now I have Proxyserver as Home button in Android settings along with Google launcher and because of that I am able to see annoying Google ads on ...
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Ffmpeg on non-rooted Android?
I've set several places where I can get a ffmpeg binary for Android, but I cannot seem to run it. I use the . command to run shell scripts, but not ffmpeg. Is there any way at all I can run ffmpeg ...
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Moto e - flashed stock firmware but bootloader message says "Software Status: modified"
I have a motoE 2 LTE (XT1514 Surnia) that originally had Android 5.0.2, but it went to motorola for repair and came back with 6.0. Despite the upgrade, the bootloader screen still showed "software ...
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How to revert back to stock Sprint firmware (Galaxy S7) after installing the wrong one?
I tried to root my Galaxy S7 and failed. Not only did I fail but in the process, I also installed the wrong firmware G930A (ATT) and did not take a backup.
I've been trying to revert back to stock ...
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Lollipop/ART - how do I manually optimize APK files?
I've asked this question before. After checking out logcat, it seems that the OS is looking for the odex files. I've checked the odex files of other system apps on my ROM, and it turns out they're ELF ...
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Lollipop and above - How do I install an APK as a system app?
Back in the day, installing an app as a system app was as simple as moving the APK file to /system/app or /system/priv-app. Removing them was as simple as deleting the APK.
Now, while I'm customizing ...
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Is editing build.prop enough to change model name?
I am trying to change the model name on my Android device by editing build.prop.
Code:
ro.product.model=Nexus S
My code:
ro.product.model=Nexus One
Settings still shows Nexus S.
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Android Wear on Samsung Galaxy Gear Live
I want to get a Samsung Galaxy Gear Live,and want to use it on its own gsm network,is this possible? Also,does this watch support data through wifi connection?
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Galaxy s5 bricked
I have a galaxy s5 that goes in bootloop.It doesn't enter in recovery but it goes in download mode.I have available an other s5.Is there something to do to make possible that the galaxy cone to work ...
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Restore nandroid backup on an other phone
I have a nandroid backup of a huawey y600 and I have to restore it in an other huawei y600.Can I do that?If I do that the imei will change on the phone in wich I do the restore?
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