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PGB1213 · Jun 17, 2022

Hello All,
I apologize if this landed in the wrong section. I couldn't figure out how to select the section to which it belongs.

My Question Is:
I have a phone using Android 11. On my Mac computer, I use iCloud to store documents. There is no Apple app for iCloud on Android.
If I sign in to iCloud with a browser, the items I can view/download to my phone are limited. They include Notes, Photos, Mail and a phone finder app.

I'd like to be able to download documents that I have on iCloud to the phone. Searching on line shows some 3rd party apps, but I don't know if they are safe or legitimate. Also, skipping the app and simply using the browser is my preference.

Have any of you been able to download to the phone documents (such as a spreadsheet, Letter, etc.) from the iCloud storage?

Thanks For Helping. It's appreciated.
Paul

AndroidJH · Jun 17, 2022

I've made a simple Webview app. I'd like to add a slide-out drawer of some sort that acts as navigation to different web pages. I've been looking at various approaches including android Studio Navigation activity but I cannot understand how to edit this to show web pages.

What would be a good approach for me to take in this?

smasheroO16 · Jun 17, 2022

Hello experts: I shall try to be as brief as possible. When, six years ago, I bought a brand-new Samsung Galaxy S7 for my wife, I had to set it up for her to use, since she has no knowledge whatsoever of digital procedures (I am not much better, but I managed it because I just followed, willy-nilly, what I was directed to do). At some point, the set-up process demanded an email address (this could have been for the Galaxy Play Store, but I can't remember). I created a Gmail account for her on my computer, and entered the address. The phone works fine.

However, my wife has a "thing" about emails being sent from google or anywhere else (I created a user account for her on my computer, since she WILL NOT use the internet on her phone (this is part of her "thing"). I check her emails every few months, while she looks on. Very occasionally, she has had an email security warning (read on the computer) that her gmail account has been accessed, but this is because, every nine months, I need to send a message (to myself), from her Gmail, just to stop the gmail account being closed for lack of use). She really does NOT like having to have a Gmail account. Yet, if I were to close her Gmail account, I am concerned lest various functions on her phone (perhaps updating a downloaded app, or whatever) should fail to work. After all, why was it demanded? On a couple of occasions when she has wanted an app downloading and installing on her phone (WhatsApp, or a third-party Gallery), I have done it for her. So, she will allow Internet use on her phone only when she is forced to.

The strange thing is that, when I bought a second-hand smartphone (S5) for my own use, two years ago, there was no demand for me to provide an email address, to set it up. Yet, I am able to use Google Play Store and get updates. So, why should my wife's phone have demanded one?

My question now is this: if I were to delete my wife's gmail account, would the functions of her phone be limited in any way? Would there be any kind of "penalty" for having deprived her phone of the email address that was demanded originally?

Thanks for your patience in reading this. I hope you will be able to provide informed advice on this matter, My wife gets quite upset about the emails from Google, and I don't know how to ease her mind about it. It would be far better for domestic peace, if they did not come.

Dolos · Jun 17, 2022

The administrator for my Tab has the ability to record audio, record video, and take pics at ANY time. The permisions are definately there in system apps, and Device admin app.

My Question is
Can data upload/download useage or app spefic battery useage be hidden or altered and differ from a nonAdmin View?
Im assuming the folders/files would be easy??

1st time seeing Admin on android

Thanks in advance

raczosak · Jun 17, 2022

Hi everyone,

I have a problem with my Galaxy s9:

1. GPS turns on but the range of my position is very inaccurately
2. Doesn't work tracking system in phone - Maps GPS not working
- in Maps show only the position in which I started the program but does not track despite the movement
- using LTE or WI-FI does not help
3. The phone was reset to factory settings many times and any non-invasive other methods available from Google were also I used
- GPS Test APK does not detect satellites correctly.

Apparently some module / chip has broken. Could someone please write me what I need to replace, please?
Is one element or the entire motherboard?

Thanks!

Jun 17, 2022

Hi what does ‘used.samsung.android.easy setup.com’ mean? I saw it on my google activity page and don’t know what it is, I’ve never seen this before. Thx

Jun 16, 2022

I just got this message about an hour ago, anyone have any sugestions for my moto edge plus?

Babaloogats · Jun 16, 2022

I have an Amazon Fire TV, 2nd generation (a flat square, not a cube like the Amazon Fire Cube).

I installed PBA Bowling app on my Amazon Fire TV and because I kept using the Amazon remote to play the game, the remote doesn't work well. The direction button (the circular one) doesn't react as well. At times, if I press the button to the left or the right, it doesn't respond and I have to press it again, which sometimes causes problems. At other times, pressing the button once results in an action as if I pressed the direction button twice.

I think the solenoids underneath the button were worn out. So I looked at the various options on the Internet and I bought several ones. But most of them do not pair with the Amazon Fire TV and I had to return it.

I would like a replacement remote for the Amazon Fire TV that pairs with the Fire TV, and also has the HOME button ABOVE the circular direction button. This is important because if the HOME button is below the circular direction button, it's confused with the Play button and causes problems when I play games using this kind of remote.

Does anyone have any suggestions for a remote that pairs with Amazon Fire TV *and* has the HOME button above the circular direction button?

xarzu · Jun 16, 2022

What is the best way to build an Android Dev Envoronment on Ubuntu 22.04?

corvairbob · Jun 16, 2022

i have the a21 and the sim tray has the sd card open section and then a sim section closed and then a sin section open. what i would like to find out is if i was to put a double sim tray in this phone would it pick up the 2nd sim and let me use the phone as a dual sim phone?

i have metro pcs and tracfone plans. i had the tracfone plan for 15 years and this past month the wife got a free line from metro pcs so i put that sim into my a21, but that line has been turned off now 4 times in the past month for one reason or another. i found out that if she does anything to her paid line then the free line gets turned off and she has to call metro to get it turned back on, so i would like to get a dual sim phone and keep tracfone for maybe a year to make sure the metro sim does not get turned off again, if it does then i will ust leave it off and go back to tracfone. i do not want to just leave tracfone until i prove out metro will leave the free line up and running.

so if the a21 phone i now have can work with a dual sim tray i will get one and set this phone up for both sims.

louis2008 · Jun 16, 2022

Actually, how can it be done?
I mean, everything, nothing is missed, including the sms message. Is there any one apps or method that would do it? My old android phone is going to fail because the battery is dying......

mangoboy92 · Jun 16, 2022

Hello

I like the rules feature, but it is very limited. I can only set my phone to silent/vibrate/ring or turn on "do not disturb" mode, based on wifi network or location.

What I want to do is, change the directory where photos taken are saved based on my current GPS location. That way I could have a custom directory dedicated for photos taken at work. I take a lot of photos at work and I do not want these to get backed up to Google Photos like the photos I take in my free time.

I hope one of you can provide a smart solution. I would install an additional app if necessary, but I would prefer onboard solutions.

Thank you for your time.

Best regards

slicendice · Jun 15, 2022

Hi

I'm not an Android developer by any stretch of the imagination so please bear with me if I'm a little slow on this, but I'm trying to add an entry to the hosts file in Bluestacks 5 (on Windows 10) and I'm not getting very far.

I've rooted it (confirmed with Root Checker) and have downloaded a terminal emulator, but every time I try and edit the hosts file, it just says "hosts is read-only" when I come to save it.

From looking round online, some suggestions are that the filesystem is mounted in read-only mode and needs to be mounted in read-write mode. I found this post that provides what seems to be a decent set of steps and mentions the use of adb. So I've downloaded platform tools from here and unzipped to the PC on which Bluestacks is running (btw I don't have the full Android Studio installed).

The first thing I ran was:

Code:

adb devices

...and it threw an error:

Code:

adb server version (36) doesn't match this client (41); killing...
* daemon started successfully
List of devices attached

However, if I now run the same command again, it no longer throws this error...so I don't know if that's an issue or not?

I've checked in Bluestacks settings and the "Android Debug Bridge" option is enabled and is on 127.0.0.1:52337.

I then tried to connect to this using:

Code:

adb connect localhost:52337

...and it came back with:

Code:

cannot connect to 127.0.0.1:52337: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (10061)

Can anyone help with this? Or am I totally barking up the wrong tree? And if so, is there a better way of editing the hosts file?

Thanks

louis2008 · Jun 15, 2022

suddenly think of an interesting question.

It's often said a phone could get damaged when dropped from height. Well, what is actual electronic part that would get damaged by strong impact? From my knowledge many parts in the electronic circuits are well mounted or soldered that should not be affected easily by shocking. Or is in most cases the damage is about appearance of the phone e.g. scratches, breaking the glass, rather than the functionality?

xarzu · Jun 15, 2022

Here is the short version:

I was having issues with build commands complaining that a couple of .tar.gz files were not true gzip files. So I download the latest versions of zlib.tar.gz and libicon.tar.gz. That seemed to have issues later on, I suspect because the patch commands in some make files had failures. How is that for people with low reading comprehension skills?

Here is the long version:

I was following the ballantyne.online steps for building an atack dev environment and I the build scripts
stumbled and said that zlib.tar.gz as well ad libicon.tar.gz were not true gzip files.
So I downloaded the latest versions of these files and proceeded. Eventually this might have something to do with a later snag.
Something went wrong when I tried running:
make TARGET=android-arm64-v8a GDAL_USE_KDU=no build_spatialite build_gdal build_commoncommo build_assimp

Things seem to start go to grong when it reaches a 'patch' command in the script:

patch -p0 -d /home/worker/AndroidTacticalAssaultKit-CIV/takthirdparty/builds/android-arm64-v8a-release < /home/worker/AndroidTacticalAssaultKit-CIV/takthirdparty/distfiles/libiconv-pgsc.patch
patching file libiconv/configure

What follows these two lines aare a series of numbered failure statements:

Hunk #1 FAILED at 6299.
Hunk #2 FAILED at 6887.
Hunk #3 succeeded at 8145 with fuzz 2 (offset 740 lines).
Hunk #4 FAILED at 7445.
3 out of 4 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file libiconv/configure.rej

Then the output announces a new patching:

patching file libiconv/libcharset/configure

Then I have a new sets of failure announcements:

Hunk #1 FAILED at 3967.
Hunk #2 FAILED at 4526.
2 out of 2 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file libiconv/libcharset/configure.rej

But then we have something different

can't find file to patch at input line 208

So now I am wondering which imput file they are referring to? Which one is it and should I edit it?

The output continues:

Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|diff -U 10 -r libiconv-pristine/preload/configure libiconv/preload/configure
|--- libiconv-pristine/preload/configure 2017-01-01 18:03:35.000000000 -0500
|+++ libiconv/preload/configure 2018-05-21 23:41:55.838000000 -0400
--------------------------
File to patch:

I do not now what file to enter and so I press the enter key to let the script die.

Skip this patch? [y]
Skipping patch.
1 out of 1 hunk ignored
patching file libiconv/Makefile.in
Hunk #1 succeeded at 44 (offset -1 lines).
make: *** [mk/libiconv-common.mk:16: /home/worker/AndroidTacticalAssaultKit-CIV/takthirdparty/builds/android-arm64-v8a-release/libiconv/.unpacked] Error 1

What do you advise? I have never seen this sort of error before.

rootabaga · Jun 14, 2022

So who got to see it? It was very pretty.

We are traveling and are on the NE coast, where we were treated to a rare “Capsule Supermoon.”

GeoGib · Jun 14, 2022

"Mozart wakes" is a ringtone option for my alarm. I'd like to know the actual title of this music so I can listen to the entire piece. I've tried many searches using google but nothing come up.
Do you know the title of the actual music this is derived from???

cycv5 · Jun 14, 2022

In Android 11, when you open up a contact in freeform window, the top tool bar (with a star, a pen and 3 vertical dots) hides behind the decoration of the freeform window (the title bar with "maximize/restore" & "close" buttons). When you move the window or minimize/maximize again, it shows correctly (see pics).

It is fixed in Android 12, but I would like to make this right on Android 11 for my purpose. Where exactly should I fix that problem in the Android's source code? Thanks in advance!!

bmiller_456 · Jun 14, 2022

I have had my phone for about 6months and it keeps randomly restarting. i called Samsung and they sent someone out to fix it but told me to factory reset the phone before. After they looked at the phone they said that everything seems to be working normally, but can't see what was restarting the phone as the logs were wiped with the factory reset. It has been 5hours since and the phone has already restarted.
all i have done is sign into google, samsung and downloaded bitwarden.
i tried getting the logs myself and i will post the output below:
thanks in advance

Code:

Tue Jun 14 19:50:04 GMT+01:00 2022 DATA OneDSUtils OneDS mitigation checks passed
Tue Jun 14 19:50:05 GMT+01:00 2022 I com.microsoft.crossplaform.interop.h loadStaticLibraries
Tue Jun 14 19:50:05 GMT+01:00 2022 DATA com.microsoft.odsp.o0.d Build model matches: false
Tue Jun 14 19:50:05 GMT+01:00 2022 I com.microsoft.onedrivecore.LogWriterInterface Application is not started (:0)
Tue Jun 14 19:50:05 GMT+01:00 2022 I com.microsoft.onedrivecore.LogWriterInterface Starting application (:0)
Tue Jun 14 19:50:05 GMT+01:00 2022 W com.microsoft.onedrivecore.LogWriterInterface WARNING: QApplication was not created in the main() thread. (:0)
Tue Jun 14 19:50:05 GMT+01:00 2022 I com.microsoft.onedrivecore.LogWriterInterface Opening database  "/data/user/0/com.microsoft.skydrive/files/QTMetadata.db" (:0)
Tue Jun 14 19:50:05 GMT+01:00 2022 V WifiAvailableJob Scheduling a WifiAvailableJob job.
Tue Jun 14 19:50:05 GMT+01:00 2022 I com.microsoft.onedrivecore.LogWriterInterface Current DB version is  146 (:0)
Tue Jun 14 19:50:05 GMT+01:00 2022 I com.microsoft.onedrivecore.LogWriterInterface Log the database file info (:0)
Tue Jun 14 19:50:05 GMT+01:00 2022 I com.microsoft.onedrivecore.LogWriterInterface File: "/data/user/0/com.microsoft.skydrive/files/QTMetadata.db" size: 720896 bytes permission: QFlags(0x200|0x400|0x2000|0x4000) (:0)
Tue Jun 14 19:50:05 GMT+01:00 2022 I com.microsoft.onedrivecore.LogWriterInterface File: "/data/user/0/com.microsoft.skydrive/files/QTMetadata.db-shm" size: 32768 bytes permission: QFlags(0x200|0x400|0x2000|0x4000) (:0)
Tue Jun 14 19:50:05 GMT+01:00 2022 I com.microsoft.onedrivecore.LogWriterInterface File: "/data/user/0/com.microsoft.skydrive/files/QTMetadata.db-wal" size: 0 bytes permission: QFlags(0x200|0x400|0x2000|0x4000) (:0)
Tue Jun 14 19:50:05 GMT+01:00 2022 I com.microsoft.onedrivecore.LogWriterInterface onAppLaunch: updates records:  0 (:0)
Tue Jun 14 19:50:05 GMT+01:00 2022 I com.microsoft.onedrivecore.LogWriterInterface Deleted  0  comments (cLocalStatus = cAddingToServer) on launch. (:0)
Tue Jun 14 19:50:05 GMT+01:00 2022 I com.microsoft.onedrivecore.LogWriterInterface Updated  0  comments (cLocalStatus = cDeletingFromServer or cFailedToDeleteFromServer) on launch. (:0)
Tue Jun 14 19:50:05 GMT+01:00 2022 I com.microsoft.onedrivecore.LogWriterInterface cleanOrphanedCacheAsyncIfNecessary has the settings to run cleanup false (:0)
Tue Jun 14 19:50:06 GMT+01:00 2022 I com.microsoft.authorization.g1.d Build.VERSION.SDK_INT 31
Tue Jun 14 19:50:06 GMT+01:00 2022 DATA SamsungAuthUtils Querying for Samsung migration status took: 12
Tue Jun 14 19:50:06 GMT+01:00 2022 DATA OneDrivePrivacyDelegate (Q) QoS RequiredServiceData null null true
Tue Jun 14 19:50:06 GMT+01:00 2022 DATA SamsungMigrationUpsellJob isMigrationSupported = true, migrationStatus = None
Tue Jun 14 19:50:06 GMT+01:00 2022 DATA SamsungMigrationUpsellJob isEnabled = true, timesShown = 1
Tue Jun 14 19:50:06 GMT+01:00 2022 DATA OneDrivePrivacyDelegate (Q) QoS RequiredServiceData null null true
Tue Jun 14 19:50:06 GMT+01:00 2022 DATA com.microsoft.skydrive.SkyDriveApplication Scheduling Samsung migration upsell job
Tue Jun 14 19:50:06 GMT+01:00 2022 DATA SamsungMigrationUpsellJob There is already a job
Tue Jun 14 19:50:06 GMT+01:00 2022 DATA MeridianActivity isMeridianEnabled: true, isRampEnabled: true, isSamsungDevice: true, mockSamsungPreInstalled: false
Tue Jun 14 19:50:06 GMT+01:00 2022 DATA MeridianUpsellJob There is already a job scheduled
Tue Jun 14 19:50:06 GMT+01:00 2022 DATA com.microsoft.authorization.cloudaccounts.a Read ServiceConnections list from preferences: 0
Tue Jun 14 19:50:06 GMT+01:00 2022 DATA com.microsoft.authorization.cloudaccounts.a Read hidden cloud account IDs list from preferences: 0
Tue Jun 14 19:50:06 GMT+01:00 2022 DATA SamsungMigrationStateBroadcastReceiver Received SA Migration state None
Tue Jun 14 19:50:06 GMT+01:00 2022 DATA SamsungAuthUtils Migration state sync - None
Tue Jun 14 19:50:06 GMT+01:00 2022 DATA SamsungAuthUtils logMigrationStateChangeQos was invoked on a state update, but no QoS logging is performed because state change was None->None
Tue Jun 14 19:50:06 GMT+01:00 2022 DATA OneDrivePrivacyDelegate (Q) QoS RequiredServiceData null null true
Tue Jun 14 19:50:06 GMT+01:00 2022 DATA DeviceAndApplicationInfo Pre: false
Tue Jun 14 19:50:06 GMT+01:00 2022 DATA DeviceAndApplicationInfo Pre: true
Tue Jun 14 19:50:06 GMT+01:00 2022 I FileUploadUtils isSupportedAutoUploadAccountAvailable returned false because no supported account found.
Tue Jun 14 19:50:20 GMT+01:00 2022 I com.microsoft.onedrivecore.LogWriterInterface Merge wal to database. before merge: 0 after merge: 0 first db action on: 1655232605 now: 1655232620 time to merge: 0 (:0)
Tue Jun 14 19:51:04 GMT+01:00 2022 DATA SamsungMigrationStateBroadcastReceiver Received SA Migration state None
Tue Jun 14 19:51:04 GMT+01:00 2022 DATA SamsungAuthUtils Migration state sync - None
Tue Jun 14 19:51:04 GMT+01:00 2022 DATA SamsungAuthUtils logMigrationStateChangeQos was invoked on a state update, but no QoS logging is performed because state change was None->None

Grzegorz Burak · Jun 14, 2022

Hello

I have an Khadas Vim3 single board computer with Android 9 installed on it. I wanted to add to it modem for mobile connection. I got myself Simcom SIM7600 connected through M.2 and extension board (that contains SIM card slot). I have follow the instruction, added following lines to init.rc
#-------------------------------------------------------------------
service ril-daemon /system/bin/rild - l /system/lib/libreference-ril.so
class main
socket rild stream 660 root radio
socket rild - debug stream 660 radio system
#---- gps supported ??? --------------------
socket rild - gps stream 660 radio system
user root
group radio cache inet misc audio sdcard_rw
#-------------------------------------------------------------------

I have also copied /system/lib/libreference-ril.so and /system/lib/libril.so from the driver package for the modem.

Problem is, it seems like device is still behaving like there's no functional modem plugged in.

Please help

nixblicker · Jun 14, 2022

hello my htc m7sprint ul does not boot anymore.
i has installed the twrp and wanted to flash a CROM.
Now the included Memory is not formatted.
So i cant flash with twrp another firmware.
can you help me?

mikemanx2 · Jun 14, 2022

Hello,

I am working on developing an application that requires reading a file from the SD card. I am trying to read from either the downloads or the documents directory. I am getting an error back when attempting to read the file saying "Cannot open file. Permission denied." I have checked the permissions in the settings and it says the application has permissions to media on the SD card. I have a permissions check in the code as well. Anyone else have this issue? I have ran the same code on a different tablet (may be a different version of android I cant remember) without this issue.

I have also tried some code I found on stack overflow. And chosen the directory my file is located. This also did not work.

joshkrupinsky · Jun 14, 2022

When I get a text message or any other notification, I only hear the notification sound but the screen doesn't light up. When I double tap on the screen, I see that it is there. I mean I have all the settings on, like Wake Screen for Notifications and all that, but it just won't work. I mean is that supposed to be that way?

Day Mibaliaka · Jun 14, 2022

Hi all, Need helps please!

I need USB configuration to MIDI on my own S3 gt-i9300 but i have no option of this.(in USB computer connection, there is not choice MIDI except only MTP and PTP ).
Android version:4.3
Thanks in advanced

Rgarner · Jun 14, 2022

I have no idea why the camera of this Samsung Galaxy A02s has a kind of haze. When I go to take a shot of something or make a video, it looks as if an angel's about to land. It would probably be pretty good for a Christmas pageant, but kinda lame most of the time. I sure would like to know how to fix it. By the way, can I make it open on video instead of photo? Can the timeout be changed as it can for how long the screen stays lit?

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