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LG V20 (LG H918)

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Blue Dragon said:
Hi,

I would like to know the best, safest, but free way to root an Android device. I know there is software such as "OneClickRoot" but that costs a lot of money to use. Is there an easy, but free and safe way of doing it?

Thanks!
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Also I'd like to say that unless root seems impossible, never pay for software. Always check XDA for any development and if twrp, custom roms, and root are so important to you, check XDA before purchasing. Luckly enough XDA has everything we need for the V20 (not bashing androidforums, just saying always check development websites first)
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google chrome lost my passwords

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I can to my main google account where should be everything saved, but I had autofill in the browser google chrome and now there are no saved usernames and passwords like before the sync, it seems like the chrome doesnt remember it after the sync (it was everything deleted by the sync beside my main account).
Maybe it should be in some cache from the past, right? But I dont know how to get back the previous data on the browser.
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Storage space running out

Hadron
Does the S8 even allow you to format an SD card as internal? I didn't think Samsung included that option in their flagships.

Has it really been moved to the removable card, as opposed to moving to /sdcard (which is actually internal storage - a confusing botch to allow badly-coded old apps to run, and one of Google's great mistakes)?
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TROUBLE CLEARING MISCELLANEOUS DATA

Hadron
"Miscellaneous data" isn't a folder. What it is is that your phone tells you your storage usage in a small number of categories, and calls everything else "miscellaneous".

I suggest looking at your apps and sorting by size (many, but not all, versions of Android allow you to do this in Settings > Apps, otherwise you can do it in the Play Store > Installed apps list). This will show you which apps are using the most storage. You may find browsers, social media apps amongst the big users. Select those apps in Settings > Apps and click on the "storage" information, and you'll have the option to clear their caches (which are just temporary files) or their data (so with care, as that will remove all of your settings, preferences, history, messages, etc for that app). My guess, from the way this has filled up, is that it's caches that are your problem - by their nature these will fill constantly.
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Hikey960 - i2s read write Fail on Tinyplay

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We are working with Audio codec interface with Hikey960 . We are facing some issue while we run i2s read and write operation. We are using tinyplay for testing i2s read and write operation .

Issue is that when we run the command tinyplay sine1hz.wav -d 1 on hikey960
It prints following details.

Playing sample: 2 ch, 48000 hz, 16 bit 1920000 bytes

But after 10 seconds we are getting error message as below,

Error playing sample and the application stops .

We run the ‘strace’ command over the same function . It has been noticed
at line 581: mmap failure.
at line 591: IOCTL Failure.

Is it related to any kernel version issue ? Any body have idea on this.
Is there any other method for testing i2s read and write operation from audio codec ?
Can any body help me to fix this issue .
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Stop the Galaxy S8 from auto 'sleeping' your apps

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Thanks for the great article! I have TeamViewer on my Samsung Galaxy S10+ which I want to keep active so that I can remotely access that phone. However, the TeamViewer goes inactive after only a few minutes. If I touch the phone, I see that there is a yellow dot that changes to green. However, I want to be able to "wake up" the TeamViewer on the phone without being able to access it.

How can I do this? Is it related to the auto-sleeping? I tried that already? Or is there some setting I can put on TeamViewer?

Thank you!
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Help Can't put picture to a contact...

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The only way to add picture to your contacts in Android 9 is:

1.Transfer all your contacts from SIM to Phone.

2.Open a contact to which you want to add picture.

3.Push “Edit”, on top of the screen, left you will get 2 choices – Phone and Sim.

4.Chose “Phone” and push the colored circle under it with camera picture.

5.From the screen that will open, chose “Gallery”, chose a picture from the “Gallery” that you want to add.

6.Resize the picture or chose “Done”.

7.Than, on the new screen that will open, chose “Save”.
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Files Organization

marcelindierickx
svim said:
Needs to be noted that if you do go through the process of rooting your device, it then becomes much easier for a user to mess things up. By deleting files/folders without knowing why they exist can render an app to just fail if you're lucky, or brick your device if you're not. Typically once you delete an app's working folder it will just rebuild/restore it when starting up the app (as you've already noted.) If the app is in use while you delete its working folder, it might just fail so you just restart the app (and maybe lose any saved data in process). If you're deleting system-level directories however, that might be more hazardous. So just go into this venture knowing that wiping folders on a whim might not be what you want to do.
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Yeah I know it's risky to go deep in root, that's why I'm waiting to do it. I think I'll just try something like locking SD and Internal memory so the folders don't install anymore, for DCIM maybe see an informatician for renaming the folder. And of course, saving everything and having something to begin phone to 'factory version' before doing anything.
Well I need more knowledge before doing anything.
Thank you :)
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