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In house server with Android clicker for quizzing

There are a number of websites now that allow people to host quizzes. Many of them have an app that can be installed on a smart phone - the student presses a "button" on the phone to answer the question. I am hoping to find an app to put on a computer that is in the classroom rather than having to tether to the internet. Does anyone know what words I should use to search for this?

Help Strange behavior: Calling by using "recent calls" list calls random numbers.

Hello
Hoping someone can figure out what is going on. Yesterday I called my wife by pressing her contact in the "recent calls" list, however the number called is not hers, but some random number. Her contact on my phone has not changed. Even more weirdly my mother-in-law came to me with the same problem (she has a Doro phone for elderly people). We have so far only problems with my wife's number.

When I looked at my call history more closely I noticed that these calls were registered to/from my wife but her name is spelled without spaces. It is spelled with spaces in my contacts. The contact without spaces does not exist in my contacts.

Is this some kind of of virus?

Amlogic MXQ-Pro TV box - HDMI off

Have a problem of HDMI not restoring when I turn monitor back on.
During music play, (or long pause during video play) I need to power off monitor because waste precious solar battery power.
Is there a system config file that has line I can modify to eg: disable HDMI off when monitor power down.
or
A way to turn HDMI back on easily, (only way at present is to power down). I suspect it changes over to composite output when monitor off.
I have used RFObasic in the past to make small apps, maybe could do something to respond to remote key press if I knew what to set.

Thanks

Running Ttl budget app

I am looking for a budgeting / checkbook app that will do the following.
• Allow recurring payments and recurring bi-weely income.
• allow me to look at future dates (up to 8 weeks balances) if I have any future times when I will have a negative balance based on recurring bills.
• allow me to set up loan payment showing debt left after monthly payment.
• prefer off-line and free. But am flexible.

Help Delete metadata

Hello World

I think I messed up. I tried to move my camera pictures from my Samsung Galaxy S6 to my computer. I tried several ways, in the end I found an app called SSHelper. This app lets me connect to my phone with a normal ssh connection. Like this I downloaded all my pictures and was happy - for a moment. Now I have the following file, that is 11.5 GB in total:
DCIM/.metadata/HighLight.meta

I can't delete this file, since I don't have the permission to do so. I found an app that would let me delete the thumbnails.

BatikRecovery for Orbic Wonder

batik-recovery.png

Still waiting for that kernel source, so we found some more recoveries to at least do in that time. I know it's nothing new and exciting yet, and as much as I like bringing cool stuff like this I'm just as bored with recoveries as you guys probably are. Hope it satisfies your needs for content until Orbic finally decides it wants to release the kernel source for this thing like it's legally obligated to do. Believe me, I REALLY want to stop doing just dirty ports for this thing and get down to business with some real source, but I'm kinda screwed out of that now since they refuse to release it

This is BatikRecovery. It's an Indonesian fork of TWRP with a pretty sweet theme actually. Check out more about them on their GitHub page HERE

WHAT WORKS/DOESNT WORK:
  • Gonna be the same as all the other ones probably... phone shows up as a Redmi 3s because of the nature of dirty ports, and oem/vendor won't mount but everything else should (if data doesn't you need to flash the disable-verity zip and factory reset)
  • This recovery was supposed to come with a bunch of tools as it came in a flashable zip that contained the image and the tools to all be installed at once. However, because of how dirty ports work, unfortunately the tools are left out. There's not much I can do about this until we get the proper source to build our own stuff with
DOWNLOADS:
  • LINK TO BATIK RECOVERY DIRECTLY
  • LINK TO THE REST OF THE REPO TO SEE ALL OUR OTHER STUFF
  • Again I can't give source code for anything unfortunately because we're working with dirty ports here (because we ourselves have no source code for the phone or we'd be doing this the right way) but please feel free to use any and all of my images on the repo above for anything you want. It's a community effort here to get this phone pulled away from the dark side of the force
THANKS TO:
  • Team Orbic as usual
  • Team Batik for that sweet banner image I'm using, that's not mine that I made that's the official one that came from their GitHub page. Pretty cool!
  • XDA user zhantech for making Batik for the Redmi 3s which we ported it from. Check out the original thread for it HERE
  • Carliv Image Kitchen for letting me do all these gnarly dirty ports

Huawei Honor 6 Stuck on installing update

hi, i have huawei honor 6 and just update it to android 6.0

I then decided to factory reset it and delete cache. After that, the phone just got stuck at loading screen. I tried everything, did a factory reset again, let it load for some time, but it didn't help. Then i saw in one of the forums that i should press all keys together while having a charger connected, which i did and it brought me to an update page.

The problem is, update is stuck at 5%; it just says: "Installing update... 5%"

I don't know what to do at this point. I can't even access phone's storage because it doesn't show up in my pc.

Any help would be appreciated.

Best language to develop Android app

Hi!

I would like to develop an Android app and I would like to know which are the best tools and languages to start with, at the present moment.

I've some knowledge of Java, and some time ago I have done some basic things with Android Studio but since this area is changing so fast and since there is a myriad of technologies/languages involved in app development (Node.js, Javascript, Angular, React, and so on) I'm somehow lost on where to start?

Can someone tell me what to look first?

Thank you.

Playlist files keep coming back

Hi everyone,

I recently went into my phone's "Playlists" directory and deleted all the files (the files have the PlaylistName.pla format, all of them with 0 B size). I was doing a clean wipe of all songs (in Music) and playlists in order to do a fresh sync of my music with my phone.

Anyway, I noticed that when I reconnect my phone to my laptop (usb, file transfer mode) all the old playlist files are back in the directory. It happens instantly as soon as I plug in the usb cable.

These playlists do not show-up in the "Play Music" app unless I sync that particular playlist to my phone, so this phenomenon doesn't really have any adverse affect, it's just strange, and a little annoying.

Some of the playlists haven't been on my laptop (I use the MusicBee player) or my phone (in "Play Music") for months.

Things I have tried (all to no avail):
  • I have deleted the files from my laptop with explorer
  • I have deleted with Samsung's "My Files" (internal storage, dir Playlists)
  • Attempted deleting the playlists from "Play Music" vs the files themselves
  • I have attached the phone to several PCs, and the playlist files show up as soon as connected
  • I have cleared data and cache from storage for both the phone and the app
Any thoughts? Anyone else experience this?

Help Problems with apps after reset

Good Afternoon,

New on here, so I apologize if its in the wrong area or anything. So I've had the phone for a bit and recently had it sent off for repair as the charging port went a bit iffy. All is alright now and got it back, but as they have done a reset on my phone, for some reason YouTube is not working. YouTube (and also YT Music) loads for around 2-3 seconds then just closes with no error messages or anything.

I have tried the following:

*Data clear (app)
*Cache clear (app)
*Uninstall then reinstall (app)
*Reinstall Google play services
*Another factory reset

The video shows where I had the YouTube app without the updates but just want to confirm I get the same issue with both the factory and latest software.

I have attached a link for a video of what is happening.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/UHXQp5FGGDvTUjef7

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