Rough guess, OP has one of those Chinese knock-off imitation phones that looks like an iPhone but actually runs Android android.stackexchange.com/questions/62707 still no idea what an IMEI problem would be though!
I've got an HTC One that I've rooted and flashed with GPE 4.4. A couple of apps now won't install, eg Beautiful Widgets and Swiftkey. They fail with "Couldn't install to USB or SD card".
An extensive search of the web suggests that you should either unmount the SD card (not possible on HTC One) ...
I've a variety of devices and I always root and run ROMS. then I use someone running stock's device and I always, always end up thinking "ooo that's much nicer"
@RossC: heh, the reason I rooted my phone and replaced the rom/kernel on my old one was ... it froze when I was picking up the phone a few times, and randomly had DNS issues.
I kinda got fed up ;p
(on the other hand, rooted, its a glorious pmp)
I'd really wish they'd have a rom with nearly no additional software, throw on google play, a random assortment of APKs, and you have exactly the phone you need
Yep, that would suit me. There is now a 'debloater' app for one of the S4 ROMs and this might be a way to go. Increasingly the system apps are being moved to /data too so you can at least get rid of them. I'd prefer the old fashioned choose what you want as you install (AROMA installer style). Mind you the stock ROM for the S4 is 1.6 GB... I have no idea how they managed that.
Lol I better not guess. Last time I made predictions about Android (about 60% were wrong afaik) I got an email asking why I was releasing company secrets!
I got 'it's not called Key Lime Pie' and 'there will be a new runtime' and 'Google Play will take over the OS to help fragmentation' correct
and a whole bunch of stuff wrong! I do NOT work for Google. They turned me down years ago, very unpleasantly
oh and they sent me the internal email about my application by mistake!
I love Nokia's new thing: The functionality of Android, with the UX of Windows 8
shudder
That's like "the loyalty of a cat and the hygeine of a dog!"
Things which work on small screens shouldn't simply be "upscaled". Google made this experience already with "apps for tablets". Did they stop thinking at 10"? Hey, I neither have a 10" display at my PC...
@JourneymanGeek It's the website I'm talking about. I no longer use it since the relaunch, it's hardly usable.
@JourneymanGeek shudder Last Windows I used was labled "for playgroups" (or something like that). That was back in the early 1990s.
@Flow It would be (good) news if I could actually rate an app there without a G+ account (which I don't have and won't create). As that's not the case, I cannot tell.
They changed that about a year ago, that you can only leave comments in Playstore using your G+ account. Before that, you could use the normal Google account. Since then, I never left a single comment there.
@JourneymanGeek "In some ways" I am, too. They have great services. But they give a shit on privacy, sorry for being that direct. I prefer "privacy by default", and decide actively what I want to share. Not "Opt-Out", it should be "Opt-In".
And lately, everything gets "Opt-Out".
You have to find your way to the menus and settings to tick the box with "I don't want this".
Like with the latest "we are using your G+ +1 etc. for advertisements. But of course, you can opt-out".
Opt-Out creates mistrust.
Especially when the place to opt-out is that well hidden, and spread across multiple locations.
Give users an Opt-In instead, and I'm pretty sure they freely share even more data :)
Because they get the feeling it's something they want. Not something forced upon them.
</rant> :)
Oh, PS: App-Ops belong to the same category. Something Android should have had years ago already.
"Making root obsolete" is not "making it impossible to use", but giving the exact same features in a different way – so nobody would feel the need to root a device.
Or all the great "security features". Like an app no longer can switch Airplane mode on/off. You're only able to use location data when sharing your own, "to improve service quality" (we all know about that: the guy next door having moved here from 500 miles away with his WiFi router still makes Google think I'm 500 miles away)...
@JourneymanGeek Don't tell me they're wrong? Isn't Google right per definitionem? #D
@Izzy Could you try to rate an app without an G+ account?
@Izzy I don't see the difference between reviewing with a non G+ account and a G+ account. The only visible difference is that the realname is displayed. And the direction google is heading with play store reviews is clear: Reviews from you G+ circles have a higher impact for you as the ones from other people
@Flow I can try, but I doubt it will work. Remember that this can be done using a G+ account only, as this was enforced about a year ago? I never rated since then.
But maybe they took back that enforcement? I recently wondered about the "From a Google User" comments which were made quite recently.
You can't no. I had to reactivate my Google+ account for this reason (and youtube and so on)
I really resent this tbh, the whole Youtube 'copyright' malarky on top of it is a mess.
Well as of a week ago when I last tried to review an app this was true anyway
If I update an old review it is still from "A Google User"
@GAThrawn cheers for the comment there, totally wrong wording on my part! Someone behind me in office talking about some buyout or other! Must have slipped in to my answer! Good thing I wasnt' arguing with girlfriend when writing the post I guess! :)
"Bluestacks is sorry dear, sorry, it was all my fault"
Don't know if it's the font or what, but there's something not quite right with how the user card is displayed on questions. As you can see, there's no space between "asked" and the date.
This doesn't happen with the user card on answers.
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@RossC But now when people Google it they might get a nice clear answer, instead of a page covered in adverts that regurgitates an official press release!
@RossC According to Murphy, a backup is something you either need when you don't have it, have when you don't need it, or have when you need it but its most important part got unreadable
Trying to find the easiest method of getting home videos (up to 3 minutes long) taken on my Nexus 5 (Android) phone and sending it over the internet to the family to save to their iOS (iPhone/iPad) camera roll. Needs to be quite idiot proof on the receiving end (for the family)
Ideally it will c...
To me this sounds like more of a problem on the receiving end, ie the question is really something like "How can someone send me a video that I can save to my iOS camera roll?" Once that's known you can work out how to use that method from Android. Or is that just my anti-iOS bias?
In other words, if doesn't really matter if the video is coming from Android/Windows/Blackberry it's the receiving end that has the problem?
It's annoying that OP has deleted this question, as he seems to be having a real problem that 2 step auth isn't working on his device, i's just a pity he posted it as a rant instead of posting his problem, as I've definitely used proper 2 step auth on all my 4.x devices android.stackexchange.com/questions/62727
Don't know if it's the font or what, but there's something not quite right with how the user card is displayed on questions. As you can see, there's no space between "asked" and the date.
This doesn't happen with the user card on answers.
Google Chrome 32.0.1700.102 m (release channel) on Win...
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