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Control Android with broken screen from PC
Looks like these days the best solution for controlling an Android phone from a PC is scrcpy. It is being actively maintained, has very high performance (framerate, latency), is available cross-...
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Control Android with broken screen from PC
adbcontrol can do this. It opens a window containing the phone screen on your computer, so you can use it when the phone screen is broken, and you can click and type in the window to control the phone....
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Control Android with broken screen from PC
One word: Vysor
Using the vysor to control my Xperia Z2. See the state of my phone, but Vysor came to the rescue.
*if phone reboots and won't connect after plugging in, try removing the micro sd ...
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How to disable unread group notifications in Whatsapp?
ShutApp
ShutApp is an Android app I developed for rooted devices that will automatically mark your muted WhatsApp chats as read and prevent them from jumping to the top of the chat list, so that you ...
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Control Android with broken screen from PC
You could try to use AndroidScreenCast for you purposes - it's maintainable version of original androidscreencast.
It requires only Java and ADB, no phone client, so just run it and use it.
I've just ...
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How to display the on screen keyboard when Bluetooth keyboard is connected
I am with an Android 9 tablet, and find the option as: Settings / System (languages, time ...) / Language & input / Physical keyboard ==> There is an option that reads "Show virtual ...
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SMTP auth server settings
Probably a bit late to the party, but I'm recording this here for posterity. My wife's Xperia Z5 Compact (Android 5.?), as well as my own Samsung S3 (4.3) suffer from this same problem. I've pulled ...
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Enable software menu without virtual keys
LMT Launcher
Requires root access.
I won't go into the details, but know that it doesn't replace your home launcher but gives you PIE navigation among other things, which comes down to this:
(...
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Why will a video game from the google play store be asking me for root/super users permissions?
It shouldn't be... There is no viable reason I can think of for a game to request or need root permissions.
If this game is from an official channel like Play Store, Amazon App Store, or F-Droid, do ...
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Where can I find my device product ID using ADB shell commands?
I found this link after hours of searching and trying to unbrick my phone. Just type here https://imei24.com/ your IMEI number and it will show you all the info, hope it helps :)
BR!
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How to disable autofocus and set focus to infinity?
It appears that Open Camera (net.sourceforge.opencamera) does contain a feature where the focus could be manually set to auto, infinity, macro, manual (locked-on-touch) and continuous.
It does appear ...
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Why were some of my contacts automatically merged without notice?
If you want to keep your Whatsapp and Gmail contacts separated.
Go to settings accounts take off auto sync. Make sure Google or Whatsapp is NOT running in the background (very important)Delete Google ...
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Mount external SD-card for the secondary user
Some people wrote in 2013 that this is impossible, or at least was impossible back then. Here is what I found on a SonyMobile forum:
"Each user gets their own [internal] space and only the owner has ...
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How to stop fallback from H+ to 3G data
The best thing to do and it worked for me is download the HSPA+ Tweaker from google play store.
I dont know for sure but i think it works by sending extra data packages to trick the provider into ...
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Seeing the full text of a long notification
You can expand it by touching the notification and dragging down. The touch part of the gesture is very brief, so it feels like a single, quick gesture. This works on Android 7.1, I can't confirm for ...
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How to add timezone to world clock when you don't know the city?
It's incredibly annoying that Google doesn't care about those things. If your phone is rooted, fire up a terminal or "adb shell" from a computer. Get a root shell by typing "su" and then:
setprop ...
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How to change android version Jellybean 4.2.2 to the newest update?
You can't just automatically "change" your version to Lollipop or Kitkat. Either Samsung needs to send an update to your phone, or your carrier (eg. Verizon, Sprint) needs to send the update to your ...
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Android automatically corrects my volume
Possible reasons to why the problem occurs;
Power saving feature (both inherent or acquired from third-party applications.
Some users suggest that this can be attributed to a power saving feature in ...
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Android automatically corrects my volume
Revised earlier solution , optimizing it and reducing it to a single macro - keep it simple (instead of two). This works fine - shouldn't take you more than 20 minutes to set up for test (even if you ...
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How to avoid roaming question on dual-sim calls?
In my Android 4.2.1, I have to set Settings → SIM Management → Roaming → Show roaming reminder → Never.
Alternatively, use adb to disable the notification for a particular SIM.
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Remove persistent notification of an app without disabling all of its notifications
In the case of Pushbullet, if you don't want to use SMS sync, you can turn off it from Pushbullet settings and the notification will disappear.
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Remove persistent notification of an app without disabling all of its notifications
Disabling persistent notification would affect the functionality of app, as confirmed by app's developer in reply to my query.
My query:
If I disable persistent notification does it affect the ...
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The game that was previously working says 'it is not compatible with my device' after factory reset
Simply find .apk file of that game on google, and then install it.
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Crash report: Enter key makes newline. How to send input?
Ah, found it at last:
Turns out the "send" button is the hardly visible white triangle in the top right...
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Cant download apps on my new huawei
I too had the same issue and i have gone through several forums for the help.All have suggested the same .
Clear cache and clear data of the playstore.
Force stop the playstore.
Remove and add ...
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How to make a reminder on the lock screen
Owner Info is a possible workaround.
Settings > Security > Owner Info
It shows an arbitrary string on the lock screen.
Downsides:
not super visible
newlines don't render as newlines, only ...
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Jellybean 4.2 Auto-Download and Display file
To do it myself I would sure put what you need for rsync or scp in a shell file and put the command in cron:
Shell : crontab -e
Write : */5 * * * * /home/bly/get_newest_stuff.sh
You didn't mention ...
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Dual SIM: Disable telephony features on second SIM
You can achieve this by applying call barring on the SIM.
Although I know this is a different Andriod version, I am sure you will find something similar to this on my OnePlus 2.
Phone app > ...
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What/How quick reboot works?
This is a different quick boot compared to the other answers.
Qualcomm and MediaTek devices have this feature and it basically another name for Hibernation mode. When enabled, powering off the ...
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android 4.2.2 out of space
(from an Android 4.4.4 user)
I began to have this problem after installing the Xposed module "XInstaller". I uninstalled that module and everything went back to normal.
Important: It can get easy to ...
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