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Can you restart the launcher apart from restarting the phone?
10 years later...
The first step is to find the name of your current launcher a.k.a. "Home app". Unless you switched away from the one provided by default, you probably don't know that. The ...
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Micro USB cables that only charge but no data, no mounting etc (Samsung Galaxy S)
Sorry to disagree with the other answers, but those assumptions are simply wrong:
To be compliant with Battery Charging Spec. or any other comparable charging mechanism, the data lines require ...
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How to flash a custom recovery with heimdall (without touching the main system)?
One effective way with Heimdall is to just run
sudo heimdall flash --RECOVERY twrp.img
Worked for me on an S3 AT&T
Then when phone reboots, go into recovery via
adb reboot recovery
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Get full log of a whole day from Android
Android does not create persistent logs. I assume because at the time Android was developed flash memory was small, expensive and the problem of flash were out because of too many writes lead to the ...
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How to set custom text notification sounds with a Samsung Galaxy S22?
Turns out what I was missing is that the format of the file must be MP3. Mine were .wav files which worked on the older OS but not in the newer OS.
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Cannot use WhatsApp in Gingerbread anymore
Yes, officially they said they won't support android 2.1 and 2.2, but since the last update only devices with Android 4.0 and above are supported.
Try installing 2.16.259 over 2.16.225:
Download ...
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Is it possible to temporarily disable the screen timeout?
LineageOS features a preinstalled FOSS app Caffeine (that can also be installed to any other Android), that will present you a way to turn off the timeout for some time or indefinitely with a button ...
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How to disable startup and shutdown sound on Samsung Galaxy S?
In this post at Android Central, the suggestion is:
Open a root explorer, go to /system/media/audio/ui
Rename PowerOn.ogg to PowerOn.ogg.disabled, PowerOff.ogg to PowerOff.ogg.disabled
This requires ...
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If I flash a custom recovery img, will I be able to boot the normal old system?
I just tried this, going from TWRP and LineageOS flashing the Replicant Bootloader.
First of all you will have to flash it using the command from the replicant guides: https://redmine.replicant.us/...
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Samsung s5 mini - delock cable mouse / keyboard not working
OTG needs to be supported at the kernel level and you device does not appear to have that with stock kernel as you can see from cursory Google search.
Samsung S5 mini supports Gamepad through OTG? ...
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How to access the Emoji keybaord on a new Samsung Galaxy S22+?
It is pretty hidden, but this is the solution:
When the keyboard is open, press long on the comma (',') button to the left of the space bar. Then, you'll have the option to choose different keys, one ...
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How to go through initial setup of Samsung Galaxy S23 without using Wi-Fi or SIM card with data
Well, if it's not letting you, then you probably can not.
As part of the initialisation, it
does updates and
disables features on your phone that are not allowed in your country.
There may be other ...
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Exclamation mark in red box on top of the screen with white lines on both sides
Your 'Switch-Access' in accessibility is activated. Go into settings and deactivate it & the red box with an exclamation mark will go away. I dont know off hand exactly where in settings they are ...
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Unable to activate Developer Options on Samsung
I found the reason it was for me: I use an internet filter called NetSpark (https://www.netsparkmobile.com/en/) which disables Developer Options as a security measure to prevent workarounds or ...
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Why am I getting an SSL error on my captive portal?
After a ton of digging, I finally figured it out.
First - a quick recap: The captive portal's job is to intercept any requests to the internet, and redirect it to the captive portal's login page. ...
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How to copy Unity Game (SpaceFlight Simulator) from Galaxy S6 Edge to S9?
Summarizing from the comments on the question:
Helium does do the job if the actions are performed correctly:
Backing up the app on the source device
on the target device, copy the folder to the ...
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How can i fix the pop up spam of Unfortunately,GPS speed has stopped working
These kind of malwares are sticky! You can remove them in 2 ways.
First by flashing the phone ROM and secondly by manually removing them from the phone memory.
The first method requires you to ...
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Can anyone tell me what this icon is?
This is a notification icon from Boom Beach game from SuperCell
You can pull down the notification bar to see what the game is saying to you.
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Are there guidelines on how much free RAM a phone should have - specifically Samsung Galaxy S?
How does RAM on Android work?
First, we need to understand a bit about how RAM works on Android. If you are familiar with Windows computers, you will understand that more and more RAM is usually ...
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Is the wifi hotspot feature available on newer android phones?
Almost all phones support this fundamental feature nowadays, so much that it's no longer on marketing materials. I use the feature exclusively on some of my phones - I have data SIMs in them and carry ...
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will i lose my photos, voice recordings, videos and notes if i reset my samsung galaxy s1
Depends if you have used memory card and saved it there, in which case they are safe and won't be deleted. it could be the reason why Ramzy Shah didn't lose his data, if he had external memory to save ...
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How to flash a custom recovery with heimdall (without touching the main system)?
You never touched neither the SYSTEM, nor the RECOVERY partition. You flashed the CWM image to the KERNEL partition.
The kernel partition (also named boot) is where the core program that manages your ...
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