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How to change the modified date of a file without root?
SHORT ANSWER:
You can simply touch the file or provide any time and date in past or future:
~$ touch /sdcard/test_file
~# debugfs -R 'stat media/0/test_file' /dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/userdata | ...
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How to see at what time an SMS was sent?
Download and install the application Android Messages made by Google LLC.
This app replaces the standard Message app. To see the time an SMS/message was sent, just push and hold a finger on the ...
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How can I set my device to display time in UTC?
Now Select time zone has a sideways ... that you can select Select by UTC offset; this is an alternate way you can select UTC GMT +00:00 without selecting a region. (Android 10, 2022-02 patch.)
I ...
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What does "network time" mean on a WiFi-only device?
Network time means Android will get the time from a NTP server.
By default Android uses to my knowledge the server time.android.com (see here) but different manufacturer may change this in their ...
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Android TV/box, wrong date time, and no internet access
A correct date or at least a date not too far away from reality is important for every internet device in these days.
The reason is that internet connections are mostly HTTPS (HTTP over SSL/TLS) ...
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Android files and folder is showing wrong time and date
This is pretty much by design. The last modified isn't meant to change simply from renaming it. The folder modified timestamp only changes if the contents is modified such as adding, removing or ...
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How to change the date format within WhatsApp messages?
WhatsApp doesn't read the date format settings from Android's date format settings, but rather it adjusts the date format depending on the language set for the Android interface.
Solution:
If you ...
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Change default behaviour of date picker
Just click on the year (showing on the top eg - 2001) then you can change the year It will show list of years like this:
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Time zone keeps changing wildly
Just did a quick search on the Issue Tracker - you might want to follow these threads and/or contribute a bug report for them:
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/120241605 Android Pie - Clock ...
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How to show date in status bar in Android 7?
Change your display size to small (in settings --> display).
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Android phone has SMS messages not sorted chronologically by date
Finally, after long research, I found a solution for my issue: I haven't paid attention to one detail of the messages that were out of order. All these messages have a blue mark at the top right ...
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Custom Timezones in Android
Not without using/creating a Custom ROM
So the link you provided is for Android app developers who need to create custom timezone for their usage within Android Apps. Other apps wouldn't be affected ...
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How can I set my device to display time in UTC?
Set your device to the Iceland region. Iceland has a single time zone with a UTC offset of +0, and they do not use DST. Other time zones that may work are listed here.
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Delete Files from Directory that are Older Than a Given Time
Have you tried using a regular file manager and choosing to sort the items on their modified date? I would recommend using Solid Explorer because I know with it you can long press a file, then scroll ...
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Google Calendar, shortcut to get you to the current day while scrolling
From Google Calendar Help - View your day, week, or month,
Go to a specific day
[...]
Get back to today: At the top right corner, tap Jump to today .
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How can I set my device to display time in UTC?
On Android 13, I managed to do this as follows:
Download a location spoofer/fake GPS location app, enable developer options, enable Mock Locations, and set your app as the location source.
Set your ...
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How can I change the time and date for an app without changing my phone settings?
Here's the methods you can use to set custom time for specific apps:
Xposed Hook - You can use Xposed modules that hook into date time functions inside the app. Everytime the app requests date time ...
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Should Android kernel version date match the release date?
To create the kernel for your phone, Sony downloaded Linux 3.18.35 (released June 2016), modified it to include your device’s drivers and built¹ it on the 15th of September. The date you are seeing in ...
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Remove additional date from notification and lock screen
I found out that it's not something that can be changed via settings - it come's like that out of the box when the device is meant to be sold in a different market.
In my case, every time I insert a ...
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Oreo 8.1: Day of the week not displaying in notification drawer
You can use Date in Status Bar. It will display the day of the week in short format above the date. However, the month and year are not shown (I have not seen them when testing). When you expand the ...
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How to change the modified date of a file without root?
Total Commander - file system - mark one or more files - long touch - properties - change the displayed date to what you need (there is also a "Now" button) - Save - voila !
BTW Total ...
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What do these screen mean black background yellow or blue with date and time?
Believe it is the flip cover, due to faulty hall sensor. Disable in settings (after reboot) seems to be the answer. According to this post, the setting can be disabled by going
Settings
Connected ...
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Apk Security on Automatic date and time
It's possible on a rooted device with Xposed module Per app hacking
Allow set a fake time to fake an app to a specific time just like time machine. Time format is YYYY-MM-DD HH:MI
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How to see at what time an SMS was sent?
There's a messaging app called Textra SMS. It allows you to see the time the message was sent. All you have to do is tap on a message (tap, not long press) and press the 'info' icon, and it will give ...
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How to get tomorrow's date and next week's number for use in Tasker
Given a variable %mytimestamp set to an epoch timestamp you can use this in your shell action:
date -d @%mytimestamp +%Y%m%d
Note the @ before %mytimestamp
$ adb shell
$ date --version
toybox 0.7.4-...
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How to get tomorrow's date and next week's number for use in Tasker
I've figured it out, I had to learn to use Tasker a bit, the solution is a little awkward but it probably should be done this way in Tasker.
The most important variable for such datetime ...
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Does migration of whatsapp images and videos from google drive preserve file modification date?
Whilst the file system modification date is updated to the current date somehow whatsapp whether through the EXIF date picture taken tag or database it keeps the original date thus preserving sort ...
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How to use Network Time Protocol (NTP) on Android?
ClockSync accepts any given NTP server you input and syncs your device time with it. The app itself is not new but works fairly well to this day.
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How to force a time/date update in my phone?
Just set the time wrongly (manually), then turn on automatic date and time and go back to ...internet. I just tried it (now)
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