My friend has been getting calls from a mysterious number. Since he's even worse at this stuff than I am, he asked me to find out who it was. I tried a number of "free" lookup sites, but they all a. couldn't find it, b. wanted to charge, or c. both. Is there a REALLY free way to do this?

My daughter is using an old Samsung SM-G925V (no phone number, just wifi) and I have google family link installed so I can monitor her usage and app installs. (I don't have the phone in hand or I would include more info, ie kernel, OS version, etc... sorry!)

I was on my (parent) end of the Family Link app and scrolled through her apps. At the very bottom, I saw this:



First of all, WTF is that? No name, just a symbol... I clicked on "View on Google Play" and it said the app cannot be found. I can't attempt to uninstall it until I have the phone in my hand, but I was able to block it..

I'd like to know what it is and how she got it... And what else to look for... I figured I would ask the place where I would find people with a vast amount of knowledge of these things.

Any info on this app would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!!

Hi all,
Over the past 2 weeks I has an unwanted overlay appearing on my screen each time I plug my phone for charging (or unplug it after charging). I attach a screenshot.
It's quite bothersome, especially when someone calls you when your phone is charging, you unplug the phone and this overlay lock screen appears, preventing you from picking up the call.

I had a look all around the Settings menu (apps / notifications / battery / etc) but couldn't find where / how to disable this feature. Had a look around the web also on various forums and websites, but still no luck.

Would anyone have a solution or recommendation please?
Ev

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My galaxy note 5 is black screened I'm assuming i put it in the download mode. It also vibrates when i touch around shown areas. What mode vibrates when you touch the screen?

this app keeps popping up on my S8. what is this and how do I disable it?

I don't know if I was hacked or it's an app but when charging, the brightness will go up to about 50% all on it's own. When it does this, the battery goes down one percent each time. I'll turn the brightness back down but within a minute, it goes up again. I unplug it but then the battery goes down too fast (I think maybe it's normal) I try putting it in power save more but it doesn't really help if it does anything, it probably drains it faster. I just use Wi-Fi and one or two apps.
I at least want to fix the brightness. I have a tablet so everything I've seen doesn't work. There are no adaptive brightness settings or anything like that.
Thanks for reading

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I am working on Android 7. I want to add the Open source license in Android BSP. If anyone experience in this please let me know.

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I built a video game and it works perfectly on my pixel 3 phone but if I put it on any other phone such as my SamSung Galaxy S7 it crashes. I compile it at min sdk 14 and target sdk 29. I suspect its a hardware issue but I've never seen anything like it here is my gradle configuration. Can anybody spot the issue or help me make it compatible more than just my pixel 3 phone?

My s5 battery dies v quickly needing 2 charges in 24 hours. I've done all the suggested cures without success even buying a new battery in case the original was time expired.
There is a battery available with twice the 2880 mah of the original. Does any one have experience of this? Is it worth buying. It is double thickness and needs a new back panel (supplied)

Hi, i am using an app called "Ticket swap" to buy second hand tickets for events.
I am looking for an automated rule that automatically clicks on a notification which would open the app and once inside the app click on 1 specific place on the screen to ad the ticket to my purchase basket.

How can i do that ? i already have Tasker installer and Notification listener

Thx, Arnaud

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I've recently encountered a nasty problem and I'm wondering if anyone has any thoughts to share on this . . .

BACKGROUND / EXPLANATION · · · · · sorry 'bout the length of this section . . .

• While the phone was off, I inserted a 256GB microSD card into my phone which was already running at over 90% of Internal Storage capacity.
• Having done a little research, I had already decided to not integrate the SD card into Internal Storage space and so, I performed no formatting operation at all.
• I simply turned the phone back on (now, with the SD card inserted) and then used a file management app (ES File Manager Pro) to move a few {directories} of my own creation, from Internal Storage onto the microSD card:
— {$·Data}
— {$·Media} ... note: `{,}´ are not part of the actual directory names
— {zz·Bkup}

• I also moved a system-created directory, {Download} onto the SD card. Note: this might have been a mistake — and one that has contributed to my ensuing problems (see "…KICKER" below). Also, I renamed it to {z·Download}.
• Next, I examined the contents of the newly inserted SD card and found that in addition to the four directories I had moved, there were two additional ones that were copied — not by any intentional action on my part — onto the SD card: {Android} and {misc}. You can see a listing of these folders and their contents HERE.

Two things may be worth noting: (1) None of the SD card directories contained any actual files — just empty subdirectories; (2) the SD card subdirectories listed under {Android/data} are a small subset of those from the analogous location within Internal Storage.

HERE'S THE KICKER !! – Yup... this is the exciting part . . . but not in a good way . . .

Just about immediately, Google Play Store stopped working — followed thereafter by various other applications failing to run; they'd start but then immediately crash. Fork!!! (ref: "The Good Place" )

I've given some thought to what might be involved in getting my phone back to normal and have considered that it might require a factory reset, etc. And this may still happen (as a way to have a workable backup phone at the ready). But for now, I've decided to go ahead and get a new phone, since I've maxed out the Internal Storage on my htc·10. Later today, I'll take delivery of an htc·U11, into which I plan to put that same 256GB microSD card.

So, you see, it seems like a good idea to get some kind of handle on what happened, so as to prevent it from happening to my new U11.

Anyway, thanks for reading this and if you have any hypotheses regarding what went wrong, I'll be all ears ... er, rather, "all eyes" and of course, I'll be most appreciative.

Thanks again,
—Thri

I recently bought a S8 Plus from China.
However this version does not include google play store, apps and It's in android 8.0
I wish to update this to android 9.0 and to the hong kong version however it's not letting me
it keeps saying security check failed: pit when I try to flash it. I even tried to flash the original firmware that was on the S8 Plus but it still doesn't work.

I am working on Android 7 for video recording. After done Video record the file is saved in SATA partition. If I check the details of recorded file shows some wrong date and time (01-01-1970, 00:00).

Please give the fix.

Should an Android One phone use less memory since it's only using stock Android and there are no manufacturer bloatware? How come the Nokia 6.1, and Android One phone, uses a huge chunk of system memory , 14GB out of 32GB, straight out of the box?

So for those of you that know me from XDA, you'll probably know that I failed miserably at delivering content for the original 1st gen Revvl and Revvl Plus. I think I let a lot of people down in that small community. But after my recent successes with the Vortex Synq and Orbic Wonder, I want to give this another try with the new knowledge I've obtained since then

I've got a few tricks up my sleeve I didn't have before, and I want to have a Round 2 against this Revvl lineup. I don't own this phone because I don't have Tmobile, but if anyone's willing to take the risk that owns one of these phones and wants to potentially make some cool stuff for it, let me know and we can work together to try and get something happening. Obviously I can't guarantee anything, but it's worth a try... hey, even if all we can get is root or TWRP, that's still a whole lot better than nothing

I'm working on a project that communicates with a web API. I have a localhost I've been working with so far, and I have the base url defined in a configs.xml resource file:
The website has a test. and beta. subdomain, so a live test would need
What I'm wondering is: how do I make this something I can easily configure for different builds, other than manually changing this value for each build?

I found out a former student, who was only 31 committed suicide. I'm devastated. Just horrified. Grief.

When I get an alert from Discover and press the notification, nothing happens. It should fire up the Discover app, and then [after logging in] take me to whatever the alert was about.

I've deleted its cache--nothing, then cache and data--nothing, then uninstalled and reinstalled--still nothing.

I didn't have this issue on the identical phone this one replaced.

Moto Z² Force Edition, Oreo 8.0.0

Okay unless I am watching music videos or a movie, I keep my phone on portrait mode.
Over the last week or so I will turn off the auto rotation after I am done watching what ever but then a few minutes I will go to use my phone and it's back in landscape mode.
I will check and make sure the auto rotation off.
So far restarting the device has solve the issue.
Unfortunately while it seemed to be occurring sporadically
The last few days it's been occurring more frequently and to complicate matters my device has begun to freeze up each time this has happened over the last day or so.
Not sure what is causing the problem

Hi all,

When pressing the Home Key or Power Key to wake up the phone, whether after PIN input or not, it defaults to the phone dial pad screen. Is it possible to nominate the Home Screen direct and save a keystroke?

Thanks,

Ian

my phone is 7 days old and I have had to reload the contacts twice be cause they disappeared. Any ideas?
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Hello, I'm trying to troubleshoot an issue with a app provider providing second phone line services. When I use their "carrier" option (uses Verizon to make and receive calls instead of over Wifi/data), my own number shows on called ID instead of the caller's information. When I switch to Wifi/data options, things work fine. But I would prefer to use carrier option.

The provider says I need to "whitelist" the app:

"Click Device Settings >> Battery >> Top right choose “Battery Optimization”. Toggle from “Not Optimized” to “All Apps”. Scroll to app and then choose “Don’t Optimize” and click “Done”."

... and also to "enable all notifications":

"Notifications: Settings >> Apps (OR Apps & Notifications OR Application Manager) >> Scroll to app >> Enable all notifications."

However, neither of these options are available to me on my version of Android (5.0.2). Does anyone know how to perform these actions on my version?

Hi, new Galaxy S7 user, got used one and am happy with it. Question: Say phone sitting on table for minutes and screen went black, so I know can get Home screen by pressing home button or pressing power button once. But is there any other way?

What I wanted to do is get Home screen from "sleeping" phone via the touch screen, perhaps by drawing a pattern on the touch screen and not by depressing any button. Is there a way? Using Android ver 8 it says. Thanks.