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It has only been hidden since Android 4.2.
Back in Android 2.3, you just need to go to Settings - Applications - Development.
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First, you need to be aware of two facts:
Android uses more than one file system (think of "multiple drives/partitions" when comparing with your computer
while sharing a common base, directory structures might differ between manufacturers
So as starting points, I further recommend the file-system tag-wiki and the partition tag-wiki (you might ...
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At the moment a large number of popular website are dropping support for all SSL/TLS versions below TLS1.2 because of the known vulnerabilities in TLS1.1/TLS1.0 and older.
Your device is very very old and does not support TLS1.2 therefore you can't connect to certain sites like https://wikipedia.org which requires TLS 1.2 according to the test of SSLLabs.
...
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On Android Marshmallow, you can use the hidden System UI Tuner.
Open the quick-setting panel, then press and hold the Settings' cog wheel until it starts spinning. You then get an additional settings entry in System > System UI Tuner > Status bar, where you can hide the alarm.
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According to Google
Google Play services provides you with easy access to Google services and is tightly integrated with the Android OS.
And from the description in the Play Store
Google Play services is used to update Google apps and apps from Google Play.
This component provides core functionality like authentication to your Google services, ...
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Whilst you can uninstall it, it will automatically be re-installed on your device as it is an extension of the Google Play ecosystem and Google automatically updates Google Play services on all supported devices via the Google Play Store to ensure API consistency across devices and versions, and to deliver fixes and new features in a timely fashion.
Some ...
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I ended up manually changing my DNS server to tether Internet from my mobile phone. My phone uses a local DNS server from my mobile carrier which I was able to trace using CompruebaIP.
Any other DNS server is blocked by my mobile carrier (Globe Telecom). I reckon that my phone's DNS service is not properly working. When tethering, the DNS provider should be ...
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Plug in a headset. It's the only answer!
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I am an Android Application developer. I had a requirement to make phone verification. In that case we had to make a telephony call to our server. But we could't achieve that as Android system does not allow us to make a phone call without users interaction. The best we can do is populate the phone number in the default dialer app. In any case user has to ...
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Sometimes the culprit is much easier to solve: If accessing secured websites (https:) via the browser fails as well, make sure your date/time settings are correct -- otherwise certificates will fail. Best explained using an example:
Say, today the date is May 28th 2013 -- but your device's date/time is set to January 1st 2010. Now you visit a secure website,...
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Google Play Services is a library used by other Google and third-party apps. It allows apps to use:
Google Maps layers to show maps in other apps
Google+ sign-on and sharing
the new Google+ gaming functionality for match-making, leaderboards, and to store saved games "in the cloud"
Google Cloud Messaging to sync data from the Internet to your device ...
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It sounds like you want the extremely common
ls -l
For reference, the complete busybox help for ls:
BusyBox v1.21.0-Stericson (2013-01-28 21:49:55 GMT) multi-call binary.
Usage: ls [-1AaCxdLHRFplinsehrSXvctu] [-w WIDTH] [FILE]...
List directory contents
-1 One column output
-a Include entries which start with .
-A ...
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This depends on
the manufacturer of the device
the provider where you bought your device.
The manufacturer pre-installs some applications. Also the provider may pre-install some applications.
So this does not depend on the Android version but on the manufacturer and/or provider.
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I am from India. I think Google play gift card is not available in India till now. I will tell you a method through which you can purchase android apps from Play Store in India without credit card.
The only legal way to buy paid apps from Play Store other than credit card is by creating Virtual Credit Card. Virtual Credit Card is an artificial credit card ...
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Not sure if this helps but I had a problem of an ignored hosts file and it was solved by a guy on this thread - the answer is to put a blank new line at the end of the file.
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In gingerbread 2.3.6, you can turn it off in Call Settings>Additional Settings then uncheck the "Turn on proximity Sensor".
Here is a screenshot:
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After some research, I finally got some details.
Unlocking a bootloader will generally not change the bootloader of a device.
The locked bootloader somehow ensures that the device should boot up with the OS that is shipped originally with the device or updated by the vendor officially.
Locked bootloader puts this as a security measure so that it can ...
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As Manishearth wrote, this might indicate trouble with the card (and very likely does). The boot you describe might have been "too abrupt", not cleanly unmounting the card and thus corrupting its file system; in which case the "good ol' chkdsk" should help (btw, Android ships with fsck for the very same task, which you could execute via a terminal app or adb ...
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I had the same problem and I solved it this way:
Log in here using a web browser .
On Login and Security, at the bottom of the page there's an option "Allow less safe apps" which would be set as disabled. Set it to enable and now you can log-in using your device.
Allow less secure apps: ON
Some non-Google apps and devices use less secure sign-in ...
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Easiest way if rooted:
You can use GravityBox, to hide the Alarm-Clock-Symbol.
Open the app.
Go to "Adapt Status Bar" (I don't know the exact English translation)
Choose "Adapt Clock"
Tick the box next to "Hide Alarm Symbol"
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My suggestion is imeidata.net. I've gotten incorrect data from the sites mentioned in other answers.
For example, for my phone, imei.info gives the wrong data:
Model: Sidekick LX Brand: T-MOBILE
imeidata.net is correct:
IMEI: 3536910674xxxxx
Allocating Body: BABT
Type Allocation Code: 35369106
Serial Number: 749450
Luhn Checksum: 9
Manufacturer: ...
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Yes, tcpdump is an administrator-level application (I highly doubt there will ever be an Android permission level to view all other apps' network traffic). Once rooted, if you have tcpdump binary (compiled for your device's cpu type) on sdcard, try:
su
mount -o remount rw /system/
cd /sdcard
cp ./tcpdump /system/xbin
Now you can use tcpdump command.
...
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Can I update my Saudi Arabian Samsung Galaxy S2 to the latest Android version over the air in India?
OTA update will depend on the CSC of your phone. CSC is Country Sales Code; it tells you which region your phone can be used in and which networks it will work with.
If you are in India (and your phone is connected to an India network), and your phone has CSC for Saudi Arabia, you will not be able to get OTA updates. What you can do is flash a stock ROM for ...
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There are plenty of apps on Play supporting that already. The first coming to my mind is PAW Server, which allows that and many more things (basically, you can remote-administrate your device via WiFi with this app). Other, similar apps might offer the remote-ring as well. Several anti-theft apps for example.
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This is an old post, but this command should wake up any device.
adb shell input keyevent KEYCODE_WAKEUP
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According to the GMail help pages, you should be able to easily export your contacts using a web browser:
Sign in to Gmail.
Click Gmail at the top-left corner of your Gmail page, then choose Contacts.
From the More drop-down menu, select Export....
Choose whether to export all contacts or only one group.
Select the format in which you'd like to export your ...
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Pure AOSP version of Android does not save clipboard data to files; the data is stored only in RAM by the ClipboardService, which runs inside the system_server process.
Samsung, like many other manufacturers, adds their proprietary modifications to the base AOSP code; one of these modifications is the ability to keep the clipboard history, and this history ...
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The files you downloaded from that site are for a Samsung Galaxy Y. Your phone is a Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos. You need to find a ROM suitable for your phone. You're lucky that installing that ROM didn't brick the phone completely.
You can't undo an update: to get back to what you had before, find a stock ROM image for your phone (probably from http://...
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Yes - you can install Cyanogenmod for the i9100 S2.
Get the CyanogenMod (nightly if you feel adventurous or stick with the stable since you're new at this) from http://download.cyanogenmod.org/?device=i9100
Also, you'll need to flash the appropriate gApps package from http://goo.im/gapps
I highly recommend you read through the major posts of this thread ...
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