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Fingerprint Scan

Why not have a sensor on the bottom right screen for unlocking the phone as well? It will make it to where if some one breaks their screen, or if the sensor in the back gets damaged, they can still unlock the phone from the front. It works all around for damages done to phone's just in case people still need to get in and find information, unbind google accounts, transfer information to a new device, etc. I believe it to be a pretty good idea if it's placed near the bottom right of the screwn or even near the top right seeing as there is space for one there as well.

Kiosk Manager

Hello,

two years ago I announced ZigZag React here now I would like to introduce a new, smaller Project called "Kiosk Manager". A game simulating a City Kiosk.

Play Store Link

Youtube Video!



Manage you own small town Kiosk!

Enjoy the experience to manage your own small Kiosk in this exciting brand new game.

You have to watch carefully for the weather and upcoming events so you can sell the right products. Upgrade your Kiosk so more people will be attracted. Manage your stock and set the prices to sell as much Burgers, Coke, Fries and much more. Enjoy watching many different people visiting your Kiosk!

Top features:

  • Buy and sell many different products
  • Uprage your Kisok
  • See everything live in stunning 3D graphics
  • 12 challenging levels
  • Changing weather and great town events
  • Unique Kiosk simulation
Be the top KIOSK MANAGER in town!

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Mods Modify android app to import picture instead of taking it...

Hi to everybody, I have a quite special question today : any of you guys knows how to modify an android app to replace the cam source (= realtime transmission from the phone cam) by a static picture, from gallery, or file explorer by example. And I want to do that even if the photo has normally to be taken directly inside of the app...
I want this app to be modified : N26 bank app. Because we have to verify identity with in-app picture to open an account for a friend, who is in this moment abroad, and he can't do it by himself, because there's no N26 app in his country (= not in play store, and not working when trying to install it from apk...etc.), so I have to photography his identity proofs, and cannot import their picture from gallery for example.
I think I could modify the N26 apk, once I've decompiled it, in Android Studio, or anything like this... but I really don't know how to do this, because I don't code at all. So any of you there could help, teach me how to replace N26 in-app cam to capture our documents by a simple "Complete action using..." interface or something like that..?
Thanks a lot !
Bye

Fb22

Contact Apps

Andoid Ver 8.1.0

Problem: I have two apps called Contacts with almost identical icons (blue person outline). One is Google LLC v.3.5.7.24363481 which I believe is legit. The other one has version 1.7.21, it takes 5.01MB and can not be removed. What is it? I have disabled all permissions of the later application and all works fine, but I am concerned.

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Rescue maybe worth it

I'm considering buying a 256 gb Sandisk sd card from Amazon. They're promoting something called Rescue, a 3 year data recovery plan for flash memory devices. I assume that includes sd cards. The price is $5.99. Should I go for it? It says that if the device fails they'll recover the data and send them on "a new piece of external storage media". If it doesn't work there's that money back guarantee.

Captive portal issues

I have a captive portal Wi-Fi that I am having issues with since the update 2 days ago. When I click on the 'sign in to WiFi' my page gets stuck on the connectivity.gstatic.com. page. normally it would open a login page to sign in. I have tried multiple other browsers. Clearing cache, storage etc., Restarting network connections. Could someone please assist?

Adding an unlisted system language?

My phone currently has a very limited set of languages available(Asiatic ones) in the Language and Input menu and I was looking to change it to Portuguese.

I have tried using apps like Locale & Language or Language Enabler, however they never seem to fully translate the entirety of the phone's menus and whatnot(actually, barely anything gets translated at all...).

I've read that I could flash a European ROM into the phone in order to properly change the system's language to Portuguese, however I was wondering if anyone knows any alternative to this? And also, could there be any conflict in the phone for flashing a different region ROM? I'm uneasy about it as I've never flashed android ROMs before and would rather minimize any risk of messing up.

android.uid.phone high wifi usage

Hello there!

I have a Huawei P20 Pro, and recently - 4 days ago - I noticed that android.uid.phone began to use a massive data on wifi, not on mobile data though. I have been looking around on the internet, however I did not find any solution yet. I tried scanning with anti-virus apps, however nothing was found, tried restarting the phone, and leaving it off for a while, then turning it back on, nothing worked.

Here is a pic about it:
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I hope you can help me!

Thanks in advance!

Biometrics

Hi Guys,

Imagine I want to create an app that will use biometrics from the mobile phone.
I want to use the sensor in the way it registers multiple records in my app. From functional perspective it's like the registry - you log in to app, you have "your team" and you need to register their fingerprints.

Is BiometricPrompt API capable of doing it? Or it only serves to authenticate one user that the device belongs to?

If the answer is not in my favour, do you have any other ideas?

Doesn't turn on

Hello i have a problem with my Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge. My phone doesn't open, i press the power button and it just Samung... in a blue with black screen. After this i try it with Power + Home + Volume down button and switches me to a page WARNING A custon OS can cause problems..... and press Volume Up: Continue or Volume Down: Cancel (restat phone). I try it volume down fist and nothing, i try volume up and switches me to an another page Downloadin (Do not turn off target) but again nothing.
Plese help me, have any way to recover the photos?

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Hello everyone,

I apologize for the text wall.

Background:
I started Android development about six months ago due to C198 @ WGU requiring I create a course scheduling app as a final project for my software development degree. My education has been kind of generalized, so I might be making some very egregious errors in the eyes of many an IT professional.​

Major Problems I Have Experienced:
The first major disaster was that my files somehow changed their encoding and AS did not know what format they had been encoded into. I lost about 3 or 4 months of work because I ended up scrapping all those files.​

The second issue I encountered was with using OneDrive to back up my project. I made the mistake of not closing it out on one of my PCs and I somehow never updated the backup. Also, I was actually storing and opening the project from a OneDrive directory, which was probably not very well thought out.

The third issue I have had is that the virtual devices do not seem to be very stable on my infrastructure. I have had to create new virtual devices due to some eventually failing to start up entirely. Also, I have had issues where my PC crashes due to some sort of memory leak? I'm not sure what else could be causing it.

This last time all my Java files have disappeared from my project folder. I downloaded my project from a repository on Github, as I had pushed the project a few days ago, and half of my files are missing. (settings.gradle, etc.)
Does anyone have any tips on maintaining a complete copy of a project while also avoiding encoding mishaps? So far, the only way I have noticed to reliably save my files is to zip the project and email a copy to myself, but I think I grew complacent in the past month.

I am on Windows 10 x64 on an AMD chipset and am using ASv3.4.

TL;DR - Android is killing me. Please send help.

Sincerely,
Andrew

Screenshot app that actually works

I'm looking for one that really does take screenshots, shows them, shows how to use itself, and doesn't have a bunch of annoying ads and/or intrusive permissions. Smart Touch and Screenshot Easy are apparently not it. If I can't use the off button on the right side of the S5, then I need something else for screenshots. What I've been doing for maybe a day is taking photos of the "old" phone's screen with the "new" one's camera. That doesn't work very well

Screen is amber colored

Help. Please. I was reading something the other night and thought I was turning on the night setting, but it changed the screen to this orangy tanny color that has stayed there. No, my blue light thing isn't on, and I can't find where I did this. I have a Note 9, and don't see anything in the phones settings that would do this. All I want is my normal screen back. Please help, it's driving me nuts!

Amber Alerts on Samsung A5 (2017)

Is there any way to stop Amber Alerts on my phone from signalling again and again and again until I click OK?

I have a Samsung A5 (2017). My area, Ontario in Canada, recently implemented a system of sending Amber alerts to all smart phone owners in Ontario. That's great and I support the initiative. However, I am not completely delighted with the actual implementation, at least as it affects me.

We had an Amber Alert this morning, just after 5am, when I was fast asleep. My phone was a few feet away, charging, and the volume was quite low. I think I managed to sleep through the first message but a few minutes later, the emergency tone sounded again. And then again and again and again, at shortish intervals - a few minutes but I wasn't timing them - and the cycle didn't stop until I got out of bed and clicked OK on the Amber Alert message. I confirmed that only one Amber Alert had come in but the phone kept nagging me about it until I finally clicked OK. In other words, it was acting much like an "automatic snooze button", if I can put it that way, because it kept telling me about this alert until I clicked OK.

A second alert occurred about 40 minutes later (for the same child but this time in English AND French instead of just in English) and this time I got up right away to click the OK and there were no further messages. As you can imagine these alerts were very disruptive to my sleep. I already have issues with not being to fall back asleep when awakened.

I'm wondering if it's a setting on my phone that causes it to re-signal me until I press OK? I realize it may be the way the Amber Alert system is implemented and outside of my control but if I can adjust my phone to only signal me ONCE per Amber Alert, my sleep will be much less disrupted; then I can potentially sleep right through the signal or, at worst, fall back asleep quickly if it does happen without having to get out of bed.

While I'm asking questions, let me ask one more. I know my phone has a motion sensor; I'm betting quite a few phones do now. Would it be possible for the people who administer the Amber Alerts to detect that my phone is stationary and hasn't moved for a while? I want to suggest to them that they check for that and *not* notify people that are a substantial distance from the missing child's presumed path, especially if their phone hasn't moved for a couple of hours, since such people are likely to be sleeping. But I don't want to suggest this if it isn't possible; that would just waste their time.

Sorry for the long-winded post but I wanted to be very clear.

Open Beta 18 & 10 for Oneplus 6 & 6T

OnePlus have just started the Open Beta 18 & 10 OTA roll out for the OnePlus 6 & 6T to test new features and fixes that may or may not, come to future firmware updates. You will only receive this test firmware OTA if you are already on their Open Beta releases.

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Android Security patch is May 2019

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Camera version is still 3.0.37

This is the 10th Open Beta release for the 6T in 135 days = 1 update, on average, every 13.5 days.

(N.B. Open Beta is NOT available for the T-Mobile (USA) carrier minority variant)

Brand new (to me!) device!

Hello everyone!
It's been quite a bit since I logged on here but wanted to check out this forum for the S21 Ultra. (Verizon variant)
I just got my device today and will be retiring my 3 year old LG G7 ThinQ.

I haven't even turned it on yet because once I do, I'll spend hours on end setting it up and tweaking it to my liking and can't afford to be sleepy at work the next day :p

In the meantime, I am watching videos and getting up to snuff on the workings of the S21. :)

I may delve into it this weekend when I have more time.

I see @ironass has quite a bit of info in his threads here, so checking those out too! (Good job my friend!!
Remember me?!) :)

I'll check back here later and may get more involved in this site and re-kindle my Android obsession :D

See you guys!

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