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The least you can ask of a program, that it does what it claims to do. You take a picture inside Telegram, send it and immediately delete it. However it was not deleted at all. A copy of the picture always remains in the folder of the phone: Android/media/org.telegram.messenger/Telegram/Telegram ...

Everyday I set digital wellbeing timers to zero(0) and increase then by 5 minutes everytime I need access to an app, this is how I'm coping with my phone addiction. Sometimes if I extend an app timer to 30mins someday it remains the same and I will use the app for 30mins everyday until I realise ...

Biometric (fingerprint) authentication can always be bypassed by a PIN. Thieves are asking for the PIN when robbing you, with a gun pointed to your head. How to make Android secure in this case? Biometric only access is the only way to prevent such problems

I bought a Motorola Moto Tag. I can pair the tag, I can see it in the companion Moto Tag app. Here, I can let the Moto Tag ring. Yet if I follow the button to find my device on the map, I see Google's Find My Device, yet my Moto Tag is not listed. If lookup my Moto Tag via the bluetooth settings,...

What dimensions should an image file have so that it will not be scaled when set as a wallpaper for the lockscreen or homescreen? This question is NOT the same as What is the default resolution of a wallpaper that fits the homescreen exactly in an Android phone?. I only have a single home screen....

As a normal android end user, am I supposed to regularly delete old texts? I've noticed my text messaging app (Textra) is getting slower and slower as time goes by, and is now nearly unusable. If this is a normal android maintenance process, what is the correct method for deleting texts? I've tri...

I tried in many ways to prevent phone calls from being accepted with the screen locked on my Samsung, but there was no such thing. Why? Well, WhatsApp SMS codes can be received through phone calls, and many other 2FA services as well support phone calls.

Linked with Why can't my Android phone play a sound on a nearby Apple AirTag? but not a duplicate. Can an Android phone: show that an AirTag (that I own) is nearby? make it ring? This article seems to show that the answer is yes, but the limitations make it totally unusable! Apple Tracker Dete...

My relative has an Android phone that was broken so got a new one, but I backed up her WhatsApp to my Mac. Now I cannot find how to move the WhatsApp chat to her WhatsApp on her mobile. Is it possible to use the QR scan to link devices from mobile to PC, but in reverse?

I'm trying to unlock the bootloader of a MediaTek-based phone using mtkclient. Does it work with a VirtualBox virtual machine (Linux guest on Windows host)? Connecting to the host using USB cable, and enabling USB passthrough by selecting the device, didn't work for me. It seems that the device i...

I like to use Waze on Android Auto. I have these issues Even though I have Waze as the first app and Maps as the last app, Google Maps invariably shows up in the first few apps. I use Waze all the time, saying "Hey Google, take me somewhere" works most of the time. Sometimes it launches Maps i...

Occasionally when I'm out for a walk I take my phone out of my pocket to look something up. As soon as I touch my finger to the fingerprint icon, the screen goes black. It'll stay black for several minutes, though the phone vibrates when I touch the screen. This happens maybe 10% of the time. ...

I'm using a Google Pixel 8 Pro with Android 14 and WhatsApp v2.24.16.76. After the last app update, when I share anything from WhatsApp to another app (such as Signal, Gmail, Google Messages, etc.), WhatsApp adds the caption: Shared from WhatsApp https://whatsapp.com/dl/source=sfw I can manuall...

I have a Nokia 7.1 that had some existing photos, videos and other misc files. I added a micro SDXC card and accepted the option to use it as internal storage, with the option of migrating the existing data. The phone completed the process and still works, however the photos and videos etc. are u...

Does Android support WiFi calling using cellular data of 2nd SIM? When I travel I don't want to use the pricey roaming for my home SIM card (first), but I would like to make and receive call with my home number. I usually get a local sim card (second) and use it as data SIM card. It would be perf...

Happens on a Pixel 6a and 8 Pro The MP3s are in the Internal Storage > Music folder. I created a VLC playlist and selected these tracks. The playlist looks fine. However, everytime I play the playlist, only about 3 or 4 out of about 16 tracks will play before I have to reclick the cast icon and s...

I’m trying filter all DNS traffic using dnsmasq on Android (LineageOS). Here is what I did (thanks to the help of @IrfanLatif): I installed it using termux: pkg i root-repo && pkg up && pkg i dnsmasq Then: cp /data/data/com.termux/files/usr/bin/dnsmasq /system/bin/ On Linux it's possible to div...

How can I extract individual files from a backup created with TWRP? I’ve come across this answer, which is about extracting an APK from the system partition. However, I want to extract files from /data, which gets split across several files in the backup.

These are the files that I know go into verifying a user's password: /data/system/gatekeeper.password.key /data/system/gatekeeper.pattern.key /data/system/locksettings.db /data/system/locksettings.db-shm /data/system/locksettings.db-wal I know that this is where the files used construct the FB...

Every time I open a programming site on my Samsung Zflip 4 (both Chrome and Firefox browsers), I am seeing something like this: while iOs users are enjoying the luxury of this: Another example, and basically any site with monospaced fonts. Is there a way to fix other than istalling a bunch of r...

I am experiencing weird problem related to charging my Android phone. Most of the time I have phone connected to laptop and use it as 4G/5G modem. I noticed that compared with older phones it draws more power from wall. Unfortunately USB ports on laptop provide only small power. I haven't measure...

I use instruction here to format my SD card as internal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOZIVbeNrxw After I did it, I got an option if I want to move files to my SD card. I press yes and I go to files directory and I don't know what to do after that. I check https://play.google.com/store/apps/de...

I am running Android 12 on a Realme 8 5G phone. I am new to Voice Access. I have been following the tutorial to try and set it up, so that I can operate my phone and the user interface that it and its various apps provide entirely via voice. However, a language update was necessary to use it offl...

I have a Moto g8 with Android 10. I use default gmail app to read my phone's gmail account as well as my two work emails (both MS Exchange/Outlook). I do not use the Outlook app for the latter. I have all accounts on manual sync, by choice: they sync only when I open the app and push emails (swip...

I need an automatic brute-force method for unrooted Android devices to kill selected apps that keep restarting in the background, i.e. an appropriate "automatic task killer". Ideally, such method entails a kill command running inside an indefinite loop. Two illustrative examples: In Windows, you...

I am using Moto G72 which comes with Android 12. I was happy with Android 12. I am using the Greenify application to force stop unwanted applications. Whenever we click the icons of the unwanted applications, then only the applications wake up from sleep. Recently I got an Android 13 update. Afte...

I have a full blown Android 13 car head unit - EX-ALS215 (Snapdragon 662). Audio is output from a 3.5mm jack socket on the unit's harness (audio-out socket). I have then connected a Cyrus Soundkey DAC/AMP to one of the USB sockets of the head unit. All audio is now output via the DAC except phone...

I have an Android device without a camera and I run Whatsapp on that device. I want to activate Whatsapp Web from this device. Unfortunately, the only way to do this is to scan a QR-code, and I can't do that as I have no camera. So, if I just could emulate camera input, that means use an image ...

After buying an Android Head unit with a screen higher resolution than my previous stereo, I found that it didn't offer any options to change the font or icon size in it's accessibility options, so text is too small at arms length, where the screen is. Since there are no after market ROMs for thi...

so I have Microsoft InTune and this makes two categories of apps - managed (work) apps and personal apps. In MS Teams for example I have a problem that there is only default Samsung keyboard and I can't switch it to GBoard which I use normally. I tried to find GBoard in the managed play store, bu...

Let us assume I am working/living in a potentially hostile environment and want to minimize the risk that somebody can access the data stored on my Android phone. The recommended way is to force-lock the phone to ensure that it cannot be accessed without the password, but this does not fully prot...

My Pixel 5 audio is working while on WiFi at home. When I'm not on WiFi and using 4G, any video on Facebook or YouTube has no audio. On Facebook I can turn the audio off and on for each video, doing so makes no difference. I can't see volume controls anywhere in the YouTube app, either on each vi...

I have a Philips 58PUS8505/62 4K LED Android TV. Normally, I want to power off the TV by switching off the power outlet the TV is connected. However, the TV or its remote does not provide a menu or key combination (that I know of) to shut down the operating system and power off the TV before I cu...

I was recently trying Microsoft's Arrow launcher and it was then I saw that the default launcher on my phone is called 'Launcher3'. Its icon resembles 16-bit icon. From what I read, it is the name of default Google launcher. Is it? Does my phone why virus or this is the default launcher from...

I am trying to understand the exact details of how Android extracts the entries from an APK during the installation process. First some background info: The installation may occur either through Play Store or directly using for example adb using a command like adb install example.apk. Should be ...

I have OnePlus 8T (KB2005), OxygenOS 13.1.0.581 (KB2005_13.1.0.581 (EX01)). Rooted with Magisk (26300), Zygisk enabled. When an app attempts to bring up a file opening dialogue, it either crashes or fails for some reason. For instance, I can't attach files in the Gmail app or open a ROM in My Boy...

Looking for a way to autonomously play podcasts in the order they were recorded using Google Podcast Application. But, irritatingly, Google Podcast always plays the latest (newest) episodes. Even if it was already played (specifically, Google Podcast always plays the last few minutes of the late...

I have Motorola G play with Internet & mobile providers: Xfinity & Xfinity Mobile; my Mobile data in Network settings is turned off; also have option "use WiFi when Mobile network is not available" being set to "on". When I am away of my WiFi router I connect to available not password protected W...

This was posted on MSE originally. Please note that my only training in programming of any kind is in the context of mathematics, specifically group theory. Thus, please use minimal technical language. The Problem: I'm trying to get GAP on my Android phone. (I'm using a ZTE Blade V8. I doubt th...

Goal: Follow this tutorial, to run a shell script on boot. Despite following the tutorial and trying various solutions, I am still unable to authorise the ADB connection. I'd greatly appreciate any help in resolving this issue. Linux: (base) me@laptop:~$ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are availabl...

How can I get programmatically when the phone was manufactured? Is there any framework, instrumentation or toolset like Windows WMIC that allows unequivocally get hardware parameters of the device? I found this question but it is old, related to Motorola and has no answers, that is why I decided ...

There are situations I require to save a "complete" web page for offline reading. I can easily do that on Windows by saving the web page, but not on Android. I am using Chrome on Android and I don't see a "save" option. Instead, I see "Save link" which, I believe, saves "only" the "pure HTML" ve...

The keyboard lets handwrite something but it digitizes it before sending it. Many apps allow direct sending of an image or gif. How can I quickly prevent digitizing and send the handwritten text or drawn image like an image file?

There are 2 functions in Google Maps that are quite suitable for a task of mine, but they would need to be combined, and after searching the internet and this site, I'm not sure if it is possible or not. I would appreciate confirmation about this question: If/how this is possible. 1: In Google Ma...

Oneplus 6 (8gb/128gb) worked perfectly fine from July 2018 to Nov 2022. Now, problems start appearing. There are 2 separate problems - SIM & Wifi disappear & Phone reboot at random frequency. I am not sure whether the problems are linked or not. Important point - Using original DASH charger sinc...

I have my Google Mail account set up in Outlook on both Android and Windows. On Android there is an Archive folder, on Windows there is not; the Android one appears to be local (though it is not in any way labelled as such). I have created an ArchivedItems folder in my Google Mail account, and I ...

I downloaded a file from Chrome. It shows the download URL in Chrome downloads mv-downloads.s3.eu-west-1.… However, this is only the domain and I'd like to see the full URL. Samsung Files shows a different URL: From: app.themetavoice.xyz Are there logs or some way to see the full URL? Both ...

For a long while I have been using GoldenDict on different devices to utilize ".dz" and ".index" files. Now with the upgrade to Android 13, GoldenDict keeps crashing on my devices. Could you introduce a solution to the crash or an alternative app which opens the forementioned files on Android 13?

Android long ago implemented support for the privacy extensions of IPv6 networking. It was in 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich). The RFC for the privacy extensions doesn't specify (or even recommend) a TTL for temporary addresses, but typically they have a lifetime of 24 hours. My question is how is the...

This is very annoying that gbwhatsapp users are able to get toast notification when I come online from official WhatsApp App account(I am not using gbWhatsApp) I am talking about getting instant notification/toast message of online in gbWhatsapp NOT showing "online" inside my window/profile. Also...