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Help No external storage error

LyveWyreK
I installed a new SD card, and formatted it for my phone, and the phone is showing that it's reading the card. I even moved some of my apps from the phone to the card and all are working fine. However, tho I have room on both the phone and the sd card, I am unable to download or update any apps, can't use the camera, can't save screenshots or pictures from social media or the internet, and can't access the sd card from the File Manager! I have tried reformatting the card again, unmounting and remounting it, rebooting the phone with and without the card mounted, cleaning everything including the cache on the entire phone, and been thru the settings over and over, but i can't figure out why it's causing the problems or how to fix it! Any suggestions, other than a complete reset, which I will do if there's no other ideas that may work! Just hard to do a backup first without the sd card, so I am hoping for a simpler solution! Thanks!
Kristin
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Pixel Wireless Charging

lunatic59
A few weeks ago I noticed the battery on my Pixel 4XL was almost dead even though the phone had been sitting in the wireless charging cradle overnight. (Anker, not the stupid Google one ;) ) After repositioning it a few times and failing to get it to charge, I assumed the battery had begun it's death spiral.

While googling replacement batteries, I ran across a lot of information about how the March security update screwed up wireless charging on Pixel 3 or later phones. It was the usual chatter in Google support forums ... "Google sux, Pixel sux ... EVERYTHING sux and i'm getting an iPhone."

And the responses from Google were typically non-committal and dismissive.

"Thank you for contacting Google support. We know we effed up your super expensive phone, but you'll never catch us admitting it, so perform these 37 diagnostic steps to prove they are ineffective -- that is if you don't catch on that step 21 will loop you back to step 2 indefinitely. We appreciate your gullibility patience."

Anyway ... I pop in every now and then to see if there is any movement on the issue and i come across people claiming that the June update fixed the issue. Of course there were also others who had the June update but still had the problem. I was one of them. :(

I also saw some claiming that it had to be software/firmware related because if they shut the phone off they could charge it wirelessly, but when on it didn't work.

I powered off my phone and left it on the charger. This morning it was still fully charged. And, when I turned the phone on, it continued to hold the charge, so I think it might be fixed for me.

Any other Pixel owners having the same problem?
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HELP Video Player App, play the next video at the end

A
HI, I would like to play the next video in the folder after the first one is finished but I don't know how to do it. I know that I must put something in the OnCompletion() but I don't know how to create the link with the VideoFolder class. I managed to play again the video, like a loop, but I wanna make a loop of the whole folder and idk how to do. If someone can help me...
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HELP How to adapat screen size of a Relative Layout videoView

A
Hi, for an app that is a Video Player, I want to create a button that stretches the video to the edges of the screen. I have made a RelativeLayout :

Java: 
<VideoView
        android:id="@+id/video_view"
        android:keepScreenOn="true"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"

        android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
        android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent"/>

and the code for the button :

Java: 
case R.id.videoView_track:

            DisplayMetrics metrics1 = new DisplayMetrics();
            getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay().getMetrics(metrics1);
            android.widget.RelativeLayout.LayoutParams initialParams = (android.widget.RelativeLayout.LayoutParams) videoView.getLayoutParams();

            if (clickCount==1){
                initialParams.alignWithParent = true;
                videoView.setLayoutParams(initialParams);
                clickCount=0;
            }
            else if (clickCount==0){
                DisplayMetrics metrics = new DisplayMetrics();
                getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay().getMetrics(metrics);
                android.widget.RelativeLayout.LayoutParams params = (android.widget.RelativeLayout.LayoutParams) videoView2.getLayoutParams();
                params.width = metrics.widthPixels;
                params.height = metrics.heightPixels;
                params.leftMargin = 0;
                params.addRule(RelativeLayout.CENTER_IN_PARENT, RelativeLayout.TRUE);

                videoView.setLayoutParams(params);
                clickCount=1;
            }
            break;
    }

The "else" part works, the video is first stretched and when i click the button it adapts to the screen size without stretching but I don't know how to do the contrary (the "if part"), how to kind of reset the params...

Thanks for your help
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Is it possible to programmatically measure methods CPU time? (not execution time)

K
I have an application that uses OpenCV to process images from the camera in real-time. The processing consists of several steps, wrapped in separate methods like filtering, thresholding, etc. I would like to have an estimate of CPU time used by each of the methods to make an estimate of their energy consumption. I know that I could do something like

Java: 
public long filter(Mat input) {
   long time = System.elapsedRealtime();
  
   ...

   return System.elapsedRealtime() - time;
}


to get the execution time of each method call but I think since I'd like to correlate it with energy consumption it would not be precise enough. Is there some way to maybe get the total CPU time of the current process? (I know in Android Studio's Energy Profiler I could trace CPU time of methods but I wanted to know if this is achievable at runtime programmatically)
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How to decrypt microSD after factory reset? I have all the family memories in the Camera folder!

M
Hello

I made a fatal mistake

I encrypted my mobile SD four years ago.
The phone had a problem a few days ago and I did a factory reset without decoding. The decryption key is no longer active in the settings!
My camera folder contains over 5,000 photos and videos up to 40 GB in size. These are family memories. I recorded all the moments of my son growing up with this mobile phone.
Now I see the files, they are the right size, but because they are encrypted, they no longer run on my phone and laptop.

My phone is Samsung Note 8 and I encrypted the memory with the same phone.

what's the solution?

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Android Front Camera Replacement

L
Hello everyone -- I'm wondering if anyone has any experience replacing a built-in front-facing camera on any android device with a UVC/USB webcam. What I want to do is build a custom app that works on a regular android phone where I can use the camera1 or camera2 apis to get access to camera data from a USB webcam I have. I of course know that on this site there are many guides for replacing cameras on various android devices using manufactured replacements (sometimes non-OEM), but I am trying to figure out if there is any android device and some sort of adapter where I could plug into the front-facing cameras MIPI/CSI port but have it be able to plug into some kind of webcam/uvc/usb signal. It would be pretty sweet if you could plug in "arbtrary" webcams that support UVC and have an Android phone read this as a normal camera signal that could be processed with the Android Camera APIs!
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Galaxy S7 Unresponsive

J
How do you unscramble eggs? So...woke up to my GS7 unresponsive. Only thing seemingly active was the notifications blue light in the upper left hand corner. Without getting into too much detail, at this point I haven't a clue... After reading this, that, the other, and trying one, two, three, and four button combinations of all shapes and sizes, somehow my phone said I have somehow switched to "custom settings," at least the screen said that and has an unlocked lock icon. Something, something, something "warning," if I remember correctly, that the boot has been blocked by security. And, actually, at this point, upon pressing any button, combination or not, the screen is just black with that blue light still showing. So, HELP!!! Oh, and upon plugging into a computer, nothing happens. Any of that help? Oh, and, HELP!!! Thanks!
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Help Samsung Tablet wifi and Ethernet

S
Hi All
I've been struggling with the default network settings on a Samsung tablet device as i guess im trying that it not obvious. I am trying to use it with wifi and Ethernet at the same time. The static address is for use from an internal network where i will be using somethign like VNC to connect to it, the WiFi connecting is to be dynamic so it can connect to wireless networks for remote demonstration.

I don't(often can't) use the same connection for internet and the remote connection as the tested internet connections can be slow or intermittent and i need to be able to switch between access points. This is a pretty standard config on desktop OS's, but i'm starting to think it's not possible on android, so checking to see if anyone has worked around this before?

Wifi : DHCP
Ethernet: Static with no gateway i.e. 192.168.1.101/24, GW: Blank DNS: Blank

Two issues im having so far, first is that when i connect ethernet it seems to disable wifi, and the second is that it wil not let me create and static address without adding a gateway

Galaxy Tab A7 (Android 11).
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Help Suspected spyware app

Hello, my Motorola G8 Power smartphone is behaving weird and is sometimes really slow. I also heard someone interfering in my phone call as I was speaking. I have ESET Nod32 Premium and Malwarebytes installed. I scanned with both and the scans came out clean. Any idea on how to resolve this issue?
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Phone acting haunted in the night

G
Last night I was woken up by my phone randomly launching Spotify and skipping forwards and backwards on a playlist. I went to unlock it and I was locked out for 7 minutes. This got me worried about viruses/hackers. I've changed my unlock pin just in case but I'm really curious as to how this has happened. Should I assume malware and fo a factory reset or wait and see if it happens again?
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Help - predictive text

W
My Samsung Galaxy s20 Fe has such a crappy predictive text option that I often want to take the phone and smash it up against the wall and then stomp on it. I literally lose focus on my text before it's composed because about complicated and distracting it is the formulator the text when this function is acting up. And it doesn't do it all the time just randomly. Powering it down sometimes work sometimes doesn't turning certain things off doesn't seem to trigger it. . It's just arbitrary. And this is probably my 5th smartphone since my Kyocera slider. . I believe it was a HTC Evo and then it was a Samsung Galaxy maybe three then I went to a Note 4 then to this Samsung Galaxy s20 Fan Edition. Nothing short of a relearning. how to text is all I can come up with. Turn the phone sideways doesn't help because my fingers are fat and the keyboard is small it takes two hands. I've read a lot about phones and people having problems with them but never did I fully understand what they were going through until currently experiencing the problem I have now. I still owe like 400 bucks on the phone I can't just get another one I rocked out my Note 4 for literally 3 years I can't go back to that the process is so slow and wore out. I was smart enough I would just root the phone but I'm not I know there's a fix I just have been looking in the right places. hey if any of u phone guru geniuses out there care and or have the time to help i PROMISE I will pay it forward five-fold.
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Android app - zone dependent

C
On MOto G6 in Vancouver, Canada I was not able to reinstall home security app. It appears that my cell phone is setup for USA and this app can be install only in Canada. I was trying to change the country from USA to Canada in Google Play Store settings and was not able to do it. Please let me know, thanks in advance CwrChris
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