It depends on what the phone is used for? My K3 Note bought in 2016 still runs smoothly (also Marshmallow). I believe your K5 can run for another year easily, even more.

The volume button issue can be overcome by using an app called Volume Control. You can use the app instead of the physical buttons.

here you go:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/samsung-a-series/general/twrp-3-0-0-galaxy-a3-2016-sm-a310-t3316176

always go to xda for anything root related. it is a developers forum mostly.

Joanna Davis said:

Hello everyone!
I need to root my Nova 3 because I can't satisfy my default device. I want to customize my device as my wish but I don't know anything about android rooting. So can anyone tell me is that safe to root my device and is it legal to root an Android device?

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tbh next time if you want to root your device, pick a device that can be rooted. looks like huawei has decided to lock the bootloader and devs are having a hard time unlocking it. i guess in the past huawei used to give out a unlock code, but not any more.

so doing some research for you, i found this thread:
DEV Bootloader unlock development
if you read the thread, which i suggest that you do, you will find that the bootloader is locked and that there is a website that you will have to pay to get your phone unlocked. a few posts says that the website might be shady, but they were able to get their phone unlocked thru the website.

this is the website they were commenting on:
https://ministryofsolutions.com/huawei-bootloader-unlock-paid-service-html

now unlocking the bootloader is just the first step. the next step you will need to do is install either
1. SuperSu APK
or
2. Magisk which is the newer and prefered method to gain root.

normally once you gained root the next step is to get twrp. twrp is a custom recovery and is an essential tool for root users. twrp will allow you to make a nandroid backup (it is like a save point in a video game, it backs everything including your data just in case something goes wrong), flash custom roms among other things.

unfortunately twrp is not made for your device, so you can't back anything up. as you said you wanted to root to customize your device. this most likely means that you plan on deleting things. just be careful of what you delete. if you plan on deleting system apps, some are so tied in that you delete one thing, then it mess up another thing. it could make your phone useless.....and you most likely need to reflash a new firmware which in turn will unroot the device and you will have to start all over and root it again.

so you see there is a lot going on. rooting is not that simple. i really suggest that you do a lot of reading and researching this.

head on over to xda for most of your research. they are the best result for all things root related.
hear is the main forum for your device:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/nova-3

this is the subforum for rooting:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/nova-3/development

any questions feel free to ask.

just one more thing, please read and do your research before doing any of this. main thing is be prepared

I removed and reinstalled Gravity a few hours ago and the fingerprint scanner has worked since.

if you are on cdma network, you might want to try and see if you need to update and prl profiles

if those do not work then you might need to factory reset the phone. sometimes with updates, especially big ones like the pie update, you might get a bad download or a bad install. factory resetting the phone should reset the phone correctly. if you are still having issues then it could be a hardware issue.

it will depend on how the original files were saved as. do you have a copy of it on your computer?

Welp got it to work if anyone reads this in the future this is the link to the code that i used to get mine to work. https://examples.javacodegeeks.com/android/core/activity/android-timertask-example/

RafaVlack said:

Hi, I need help with the camera, not found, I try with magisk root but no found

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Camera does not work on this rom.

HollyJahangiri said:

Did you EVER get an answer to your original question? I read and understood it, and am looking for the same info.

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Grrrrrrrrr said:

Nope, never did. You have to let the phone teach you

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I don't use Gboard, and I don't use voice commands, but I find this absolutely ridiculous! Incredible, really.

It's such an obvious...thing! How can Google just omit it from its documentation? You're really just stuck throwing commands at it and hoping one sticks?

JAy3001 said:

So I was just clearing up what the actual app was.

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Thanks for the info. I have zero experience with Samsung, so when the OP called it "samsung audio player," I took that as the name of an app, a built-in Samsung app.

Thanks. Something I did actually worked all of a sudden but I will remember your advice for next time.

Was it from Amazon themselves or a marketplace seller? Fake cards do sometimes get into legit supply chains, so even if it was sold by Amazon it might still be fake, but marketplace sellers are a higher risk (I've seen marketplace listings for.microsd cards with claimed capacities larger than actually exist - the vetting is not rigourous).

Best bet is to back up any data that are currently on it then test it. Some card verification apps may be able to spot if the brand is not what it should be, but the definitive test is to put it in a card reader, attach that to a PC and use a little app called h2testw: this will fill the whole card to its declared capacity and then check that the data can be read back correctly. If the card claims to have a large capacity this can take a long time, but it's a test that can't be cheated or tricked.

Eric Harper said:

No, it varies by maker and version. It will come down to trading one or the other for added performance or features. Checkout github for your device and find the packages apps and settings platform and click on commits, as you scroll you will see where these things are switched back and forth or changed becuase it did not work the way the DEV intended. Hope that helps

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https://github.com/androidtrackers/certified-android-devices.git 530 something commits in there, you should be able to find commits and changelogs for your phone

For any compilers on google devices that may struggle with local_manifest.xml files for custom rom makers such as Bootleggers, DU etc I have created a repo of my local_manifest files as well as some bash scripts I put together cause im just lazy and would rather not set my build env up cmd by cmd.

git clone https://github.com/Centurion83/local_manifest.xml.git

Hi all!

I'm using the default app and device to go from the phone to HDMI. It's all working as expected.... except....

The Android bar is displaying during the video. I've turned it off accidentally once, but every time I start it up it comes back up and I can't figure out what I did.

Hopefully someone has run into this before.

Here's an image of the bar I'm talking about

Thanks!

Phil

I cannot answer your question, but you can cast your device screen to your TV using a chromecast or other streaming stick that connects to your wifi

I use to have Firefly locker on my old galaxy. a Lockscreen app

Finding out how to clear the cache was not easy, and when I googled it (after searching my phone and Samsung forums), none of the instructions I found corresponded to the selections on my phone. I made the search specific--Samsung Galaxy S7 Android 7.0 Nougat OS. After accessing just about every possible location on my own, I eventually found what I needed under Storage, which showed 0 cache usage for both Facebook and Twitter. I've blocked notifications every way I know how and a few I discovered during this process. The blasted badges are still showing, and I'm done. I removed both apps from my home screen because the badges irritate me to no end. I don't know why they do,, but I swear, I may just uninstall both apps and only look at them on my laptop. Thanks so much for your efforts to help me! I really do appreciate it!

Sounds like a hardware issue, nothing you can do but take it to a repair shop

Welcome to Android Forums, kenyamsmith252!

Why would the Google Assistant show someone else Info

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As @mikedt pointed out, this is a T-Mobile problem, not Google Assistant.

If I were you, I'd take my phone to the nearest T-Mobile store ASAP and show them what you're seeing.

You can try calling their customer service, but I'm willing to bet that would end up in a runaround where they're telling you it's an Android problem. Best thing would be to let them see it for themselves.

Just on a personal note, this would make me EXTREMELY uncomfortable. T-M has clearly screwed up big-time. The fact that you're seeing someone else's account info is a huge privacy breach--and who's seeing YOUR info?

I was wondering if there are any tweaks for fast forward by jumping xx seconds on a song by tapping once on the album cover and fast rewind xx seconds by tapping the album cover twice ? Are there any way to get this? I have a note 10

I fixed it for anyone else that needs to know... attached link is a screenshot of someone else's android that had the same problem, look at what they entered into the APN type and try changing yours to that:
1.Settings
2.>Connections
3.>Mobile networks
4.>Access Point Names
5.>tap your access point name that is activated currently (mine was: "Vodafone Live!")
6.>scroll down to APN type and paste this: default,supl,agps,fota,dun,hipri

It's a health monitor app

Why use the stock theme when you can install a different launcher from the play store, such as Nova launcher, which allows you anything you want