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mikedt
chaimtg said:
So there is no way to flash a regular version of android on this device? Is it locked for good? There is nothing to go around this?
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One thing, there's no such thing as a regular version of Android, as Android must be built to suit a device's exact hardware setup and configuration.

Your device seems have a very restricted and locked build of Android on it, that can only do what it came with. There are other Android media players, like Sony Walkmans, that are more similar to smart-phones, but without the phone part, that can install and remove apps no problems. I think the device you've got there, has more in common with those Jpay prison tablets, i.e. it's a very customised(lobotomised) version of Android on it, that has no way in or go around....
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You get what you see, and that's it.



Android is distributed as the AOSP(Android Open Source Project). The hardware manufacturers take the AOSP code to build and customise it for their devices and requirements, whether they be phones, tablets, media players, smart-TVs, electronic whiteboards, in-flight entertainments, kiosks, etc. etc. There's custom ROMs, but devs can only build those for the devices they have and know about, usually popular phones, like Samsung Galaxy or Google Pixel.
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Persistent drag shadows with mouse

Blortst said:
I recently started using a Logitech Pebble Bluetooth mouse with my Hyundai HyTab Pro 10LA1 tablet, and it's a huge improvement over the touch interface. But there are a few annoyances I'd like to try to eliminate that are coming from the mouse interface in Android 10 itself (not caused by the mouse, although they only occur when using the mouse).

The most annoying thing is the creation of drag shadows, especially when I unintentionally select and start to drag a link by inadvertently moving the mouse a tiny amount while clicking on a link. In many cases, but far from all of them, if I immediately stop moving the mouse when I see the shadow appear, I can make the shadow go away by releasing the mouse key and then clicking on the shadow.

However, the shadow fairly frequently fails to respond to the click and becomes just about permanent on the screen (the only way I've found to get rid of a shadow once it's been created is to restart the tablet). When I say "permanent", I mean it stays there right in the location it was created, and I can't move it or change it in any way. Even if I switch to a different app than I was using when the shadow was created, it's still there in the same relative on-screen position in the other app. It also remains in place if I start a new app or switch to the home screen.

While these drag shadows are partially transparent, they're solid enough to interfere with being able to correctly see what's behind them, and even if they're not in the way of anything important, they're a huge pain in the ass (thank goodness I can click through the shadow to activate the link behind it). I've looked through all the settings on the tablet and have spent quite a bit of time searching with various carefully contrived search queries to absolutely no avail. The only links the searches turn up are to articles regarding how to programmatically control drag shadows when coding an app.

If anybody here is aware of any way to modify drag shadows in the OS itself (without writing a new app to do it), I'd really appreciate hearing about it. Even if I could just set the shadow transparency to near 100%, it would solve my problem.
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Are you talking about the shadow that connects with the mouse cursor? Sometimes Logitech does imput in a little treat for others, I think you can just head over to settings if there is an app for it, and adjust it that way..
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IPC Binder Android

NK Pradhan
I am having doubts with Android IPC binder.

I have two applications which I terms as client and server. Both of them are binded through binder and it's AIDL . Servers pumps data to client through aidl callback each 50ms. There are situation when server stops sending callback and client app hangs.

Can't determine why server stops sending callback and neither i am getting service died. Pid doesn't change for both client and server.

Question is how shall we get notified if callback not received or callback removed??

Can someone please help.
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Help Wi-Fi calling and MMS

svim
Something to keep in mind is when MMS is involved it often requires mobile data (cellular).
MMS is a very dated protocol that came about when phone service was more limited. WiFi Calling uses broadband connectivity, not cellular connectivity, so depending on a complicated mix of T-Mobile (your carrier) and the recipient's carrier, the text messaging app you're using, and your ISP it's not out of the ordinary for MMS messages not being transferred when you have WiFi Calling enabled -- when both WiFi and mobile data enabled, by default your phone uses WiFi connectivity as a priority over mobile data, so when you disable WiFi Calling, even when WiFi is still enabled, that simply changes your text messaging conduit back to cellular connectivity.
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Any Ideas on Factory Resetting Nokia 3.4

C
Hadron said:
Sorry, not looked at this thread for a couple of days.

I installed a fastboot executable years ago just by doing a web search for one: this XDA page turned up in my search just now and seems plausible, but there are plenty of others (I think my own might have come from htcdev.com, as I was using HTC phones back then). As fastboot is a command line utility it should be just a matter of opening a terminal, cd'ing to wherever the thing is installed, then typing "fastboot <command>", e.g. "fastboot reboot recovery" (all this done with the phone connected via USB and in fastboot mode).
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No worries at all! Thank you so much for laying that out for me. I have tried it, everything is installed and working, problem is the phone is just not appearing after using the command line, it's like Nokia have just intentionally made this phone unrecoverable. I think it's time to give up on this one, but thank you for all the help.
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Help Weird Icon on menu

mikedt
nickdalzell said:
I wouldn't know, since all the mobile games I've ever played I saved their original APKs when I used to ROM/Root and I have the classics without IAP, wait timers or ads.
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@nickdalzell I'm like you, I'm very careful about the mobile games I install and play. But on the other hand the OP's Geometry Dash, might have all that, and more.

I see enough geometry, trigonometry, algebra, etc. in our school classrooms, without wanting to have it in a game.
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3D Logo design maker & Creator

Finlandoo
Only your designer is responsible for the workability of the site. You didn't need to check and report him all faulty moments - it's his work. And he couldn't leave you with broken links as it's his task. I had experience with a website design, and https://bambooapps.eu/services didn't force me to redo their work.
So 1 - it's not your problem, but you may test the complete site for work. 2 - find out how he worked (what program he used) and find another designer who has experience with his method (it's not hard to find). 3- search in google free hostings sites.
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allview viva H801 need ROM

mikedt
krakengz said:
i need stock ROM for Allwiev Viva H801 , i couldn't find anywhere i looked.

this is tablet for whom i need stock ROM

I screwed up whole tablet by going into SP Flash Tool, to format all flash , and now it don't even react to anything, so i need stock ROM to revive it.

(It is recognised when i connect via PC (i hear windows connection sound)) but that's all, no disconecting sound , it just stays that way...

So i am able to flash it, but i can't find stock ROM .
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FWIW I completely bricked a cheapo media player device once by doing that. No stock firmware available, and so that was the end of that.
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Cannot find improperly installed app

svim
Is your phone rooted or not?
If it is rooted, don't forget that while rooting gives you more unfettered access to the installed Android operating system on your phone, it also significantly increases the risk to be compromised -- rooting gives you system-level permissions, and just as important it gives some jerk system-level permissions to install something like a remote-code exploit. Especially when you haphazardly side-load APKs.
If it's not rooted, than at least you know that APK you side-loaded is going to be easily accessible in the user data partition. You should be able to just wipe if using a typical file manager app. Or you can also just re-install that same APK file, but this time don't skip past any pop-up messages that occur during the install process.
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Pixel 5a carrying over an SSL cert issue from old phone. Please help

svim
Just to confirm, you don't encounter this problem when using WiFi, it only happens with mobile data (cellular)?

Or do you indeed run into these SSL cert problems when using both WiFi and mobile data?

Also, it's not clear if you're having problems with just a web browser app (which browser app are you using?) or if this is problem is with different apps having the same connectivity issues.

If the problem happens only when using mobile data that indicates a cellular connectivity issue. If the problem happens with both WiFi and mobile data that indicates a general networking issue with your phone. If it's just happening with a web browser app that's likely to be just a problem that app, if with some apps have cert errors but some are OK than it goes back to a mobile data issue.
Please clarify.
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Suggest a easy to root/mod tablet?

nickdalzell
Keep in mind that with modern Android and many third party skins incorporating stuff such as Knox or SafetyNet or carrier locked bootloaders, root is becoming harder and harder as of late.

If I wanted to blow away Sense and go Stock Android (why would I want to do that since I bought the HTC just to enjoy classic Sense!) then I could easily root something as old as my Thunderbolt, but obviously my priorities have shifted a lot since those days and I just like using and enjoying my phone as it is. It's not like the bad old days when my LG Optimus V ran out of space from a Play Store update!
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storage question for the a21

C
thanks but if i get another phone that has 64 or 128 gb of storage i will not have to bother with adopting the sd card. some on either on this forum or on the reedit forum told me about the one plus and the moto g being the closest to the lg phones in there operation. also i was under the impression the lg g7-8 was going offline because of not having the 4g lte feature, but some said lg sent out an update that puts them back into the 4g lte program again. i think that may have been the reason i saw so many on ebay. the sellers must have thought there phones were going away.

so i'm looking again for the g7-g8 and the one plus and moto g phones. soon one will show up. i tired swappa but the ones i asked about do not offer returns so at least with ebay if the phone fails i can send it back.
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