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Help Moving photos..

Milo Willamson
Onto facebook, it will only allow me to select one at a time, not have the option to select multipule off the bat, tried downloading from my cloud around 90 one time but only one got uploaded.

Funny on IG I can move like around 500 pieces of art and upload them no problem.
This is such a condundrum. Anyone know anything that I can do, to have permission on this ?
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VPNROOT connecting problem

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Hello,

I have a problem with VpnRoot, sometimes it connects, but sometimes it wont. My device is rooted. Here is logcat:

/AudioPolicyManager( 154): setOutputDevice() prevDevice 0002
D/audio_hw_default( 154): start_output_stream: devices= 2, port= 0
E/audio_hw_default( 154): headphone_on is 0
E/audio_hw_default( 154): speaker_on is 2
E/audio_hw_default( 154): select_output_device: playback route is on speaker
V/WindowManager( 497): not Base app: Adding window Window{291070ab u0 com.did.vpnroot/com.did.vpnroot.VpnRootActivity} at 3 of 7
I/System.out( 6066): we connect to server 1
W/audio_hw_default( 154): select_output_device 451
E/AudioPolicyManager( 154): getNewOutputDevice 4391 to hdmi
W/AudioPolicyManager( 154): setOutputDevice() prevDevice 0002
I/art ( 6066): Background sticky concurrent mark sweep GC freed 4795(1864KB) AllocSpace objects, 138(2MB) LOS objects, 59% free, 2MB/6MB, paused 7.648ms total 48.127ms
I/art ( 6066): Background partial concurrent mark sweep GC freed 7012(2022KB) AllocSpace objects, 139(2MB) LOS objects, 62% free, 2MB/6MB, paused 6.746ms total 59.078ms
I/art ( 6066): Background partial concurrent mark sweep GC freed 7444(2015KB) AllocSpace objects, 142(2MB) LOS objects, 61% free, 2MB/6MB, paused 6.324ms total 66.087ms
D/audio_hw_default( 154): out_standby!!
I/art ( 6066): Background partial concurrent mark sweep GC freed 8255(1865KB) AllocSpace objects, 128(2MB) LOS objects, 60% free, 2MB/6MB, paused 6.193ms total 66.886ms
I/art ( 6066): Background partial concurrent mark sweep GC freed 6750(2006KB) AllocSpace objects, 143(2MB) LOS objects, 60% free, 2MB/6MB, paused 5.839ms total 67.357ms
E/WifiStateMachine( 497): WifiStateMachine CMD_START_SCAN source -2 txSuccessRate=0.00 rxSuccessRate=3.85 targetRoamBSSID=ac:84:c6:a3:8c:74 RSSI=-65
E/WifiStateMachine( 497): WifiStateMachine starting scan for "Hans "WPA_PSK with 2472,5180
D/VpnRoot ( 6066): mtpd is down, disconnecting time=1557308040819
I/art ( 6066): Background partial concurrent mark sweep GC freed 5416(2MB) AllocSpace objects, 173(2MB) LOS objects, 57% free, 2MB/6MB, paused 2.934ms total 118.465ms
D/VpnRoot ( 6066): mtpd is down, disconnecting time=1557308040527
W/InputMethodManagerService( 497): Window already focused, ignoring focus gain of: com.android.internal.view.IInputMethodClient$Stub$Proxy@5e064c6 attribute=null, token = android.os.BinderProxy@17f2cf54
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Viciously virulent virus caught through SD card in New York

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My wife has had a Samsung Galaxy J7, and one fine day we were visiting New York City, where, to make more photos, we went into a pretty solid looking phone store and bought what seemed like a genuine SanDisk SD card. It was not some cheap crap from a sidewalk sales scam. Once she inserted that card, it gave problems, never worked well, some fraudulent fake. But worse yet, it infected her phone with a viciously virulent virus which we could never again get removed. Brought it to several technicians already, but they were unable to fix it. Factory reset, of course, several times, and every time the virus is there. I am almost certain that these technicians tried to flash the firmware also, yet the virus crap keeps coming back.

What could this be? I am flabbergasted. Is there really some corner of memory that is completely unreachable by factory reset and flashing the firmware? Could be that it somehow hooks itself into the thing that is used to lock the phone onto a specific provider, that too doesn't go away by flushing firmware. So, what is the approach to get rid of this virus, or is it that one must write off that phone as a total loss?

IMO this is a reason not to buy mainstream brands of phones. I bet with my Xiaomi phone this could never have happened. Right?
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Picture Transfer Dilemma

K
I need help and Advice.

Today, I went to transfer my pictures off my phone to my computer. Something I have done hundreds of times. My SD card was out of storage, so I copied and pasted my photos from my phone to my file folder on my desktop (I sort them and put them on an external). Well.. I accidently cut and pasted the photos to start. Then I went to open them once the transfer was complete.. and NOTHING!!! My photos have sorta transferred and wont open. Each picture is 48.2GB and with all the pictures and videos its says its 148TB.

Im not a genius, but I know this is so so wrong. How can I fix this?
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Progress Bar won't show

23tony
I am unable to get a progress bar to show up dynamically on my activity.

If I set it to VISIBLE at the beginning, it shows. But if I change the visibility in any way, I can't get it to show up programmatically.

I have tried making the initial setting INVISIBLE and GONE, and I have tried making the initial setting VISIBLE and then changing it in onCreate, but when I try to get it to show up, it won't. Pretty much all other manipulations I'm doing on the screen are working as expected.

I am using a constraint layout. The progressbar is centered on the parent. I have tried placing it first and last in the XML, none of this changes the behavior.

Here is the relevant parts of the code:
Code: 
public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
    // var declarations
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        mTextBox = findViewById(R.id.textBox);

        mLoadButton = findViewById(R.id.loadButton);
        mLoadButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View view) {
                loadHtml();
            }
        });
        mProgressBar = findViewById(R.id.progressBar);
        mProgressBar.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE); // Also tried setting INVISIBLE and GONE in XML
    }

    private void loadHtml() {
        mProgressBar.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
        try {
            Thread.sleep(2000);
        }
        catch (java.lang.InterruptedException interruptedException) {
            // handle the exception
        }
        RequestQueue queue = Volley.newRequestQueue(this);
        String url = "http://10.0.2.2";

        StringRequest stringRequest = new StringRequest(Request.Method.GET, url,
                new Response.Listener<String>() {
                    @Override
                    public void onResponse(String response) {
                        mTextBox.setText(response);
                        mProgressBar.setVisibility(View.GONE);
                    }
                }, new Response.ErrorListener() {
                    @Override
                    public void onErrorResponse(VolleyError error) {
                        String err = error.toString();
                        mTextBox.setText(err);
                        mProgressBar.setVisibility(View.GONE);
                    }
        });
        queue.add(stringRequest);
    }
}

So as I was writing this, I tried something, and got an interesting result: I removed the lines mProgressBar.setVisibility(View.GONE); - and the progress bar showed up after the value for mTextBox was updated. So it looks like it has something to do with an interaction with the Volley request - but I'm not quite sure what, nor how to get past it.

Appreciate any feedback, and if I figure it out on my own I'll post back what I learn.
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VIP Mail

J
Hi- I'm new to the Android world after finally shelving my MSFT phone. I use Office 365 at work and Exchange for all our business email communications. I was hoping VIP mail notifications were available for use with the Outlook client. But I don't see any way to set it up. In the office, we use rules to help prioritize the email recieved. I'm looking for something simlar and secure for my Galaxy S10+. Does anyone have any suggestions?
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Media player playlist issue

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My son for Christmas gave me a newer version of the Android head unit he installed in his car that he loves. I am fairly new to android. Windows PC, home and work, and iPhone.

I am having some problems that even my, cybersecurity student, son cannot figure out. One of the reasons he got this set up for me is I have a huge music collection and my mp3 player that I had in the car died. I copied all of my music (24,000 songs) and playlists from my laptop on to a 128gb microSD card formatted on the android first. Most playlists have into the multiple thousands of songs, one up to 9000 songs. The problem is, I have installed VLC, MediaMonkey and Blackplayer none of them see the playlists. Not cannot play them, cannot even SEE them. I have told each player to make its library using the external card, they find the music not the playlists. Open the playlist option in each player menu and it says “no playlists found”. If I search using ES file explorer, I can navigate right to the play list and see them, thinking like the windows person I am I double tap it but nothing happens. All the music is in a folder called "music" on the SD card. A folder “playlists” is in the “music” folder. The playlists are in m3u format. Created using playlist creator 3.6.2 in relative form, they have all forward slashes not windows back slashes. He formatted the SD card as external. The options for formatting said if formatted as internal (which I think would be better) the card could not be read by any other computer. Begs the question how to transfer the music to it then since it cannot be plugged in like a phone? Why are all 3 of these media players not seeing my playlists. I have found conflicting reports about VLC. One says with the way I have done everything and formatted the playlist VLC should play it another says that VLC playlists for android are exclusive to that machine and installation and will not even work if you uninstall and reinstall VLC. Given the size of these playlists recreating them on the unit will be next to impossible or take weeks, on a computer it takes hours to make the 9000 song list. I have searched and searched the internet tried everything I have found which isn’t much to no avail. Any one have any ideas as to why they are not seeing the playlists? I have other issues with playback on each player but will head the specific forums for those. Given it happens with all 3 and even the built in player I figure it has to be an issue with in the android software.
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OnePlus 6 & 6T Android Q is HERE!

ironass
Android Q Beta (Developer Preview) for OnePlus 6/6T

"As the name suggests, this build of Android Q is best suited for developers and early adopters. As it is still in an early stage of development. That said, we do not recommend flashing this ROM if you have little to no experience in software development or flashing custom ROMs. Proceed at your own RISK!

Known Issues
  • Camera, portrait mode does not work
  • Ambient Display is not working
  • System stability issues
  • Encryption will change in the next preview build
  • Some apps may not function as expected when running on this Developer preview release
Caution: You should understand the risk of BRICKING your phone, read the instructions carefully and be 100% sure of what you are doing, and please always backup your important data before flashing.

Please note: This instruction is only for OnePlus 6/6T, and please make sure the battery level is above 30% and minimum 3GB of available storage space."


(N.B. Android Developer Preview Q Beta is not available for the T-Mobile carrier minority variant)


ironass motto... "Flash in haste... repent at leisure!" ;)

More info to follow
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RedWolf Recovery for Orbic Wonder

For a little while there I had an Orbic of my own, but that caused mass-hysteria on Verizon's part because you aren't supposed to try and put a post paid SIM in a pre paid phone or it won't work. However it doesn't just "not work", it totally f***s up your account big time to the point where no one knows how to fix it. It turns your postpaid SIM into a prepaid one and locks you out, among some other things too that generally turn your smile into a frown. Long story short I was without service for 5 days straight and ended up having to return my Orbic and get an X4 from Best Buy (so I guess there's a happy ending to it). Lesson learned, won't be trying that again. Hopefully this message can prevent someone else from making the same mistake as well

Anyway, during that very short time I had the Orbic I managed to make a dirty port of something called RedWolf Recovery. I had this sitting around on my computer and almost forgot about it entirely. Think TWRP but it has different branding and much more features, like more partitions it can back up and a theme engine that's supposedly much better than TWRP's

WHAT WORKS:
  • Everything except what's listed below
WHAT DOESN'T WORK:
  • Basically the same stuff as my dirty port of normal TWRP, check that out HERE
  • If you find anything else let us know. I might not be able to fix it entirely since I don't have proper source code to work from (all these images are pre-compiled dirty ports) but at least everyone else can be aware to stay away from certain things if they break something
DOWNLOAD:
  • LINK TO THE IMAGE ITSELF
  • To install it just flash it in fastboot like you would the normal TWRP image
  • I can't exactly provide any "source code" either since all of my stuff are dirty ports. However all of the images I use I will link to so you can still have access to everything I did to work with
SCREENSHOTS:

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THANKS TO:
  • Team RedWolf for that bangin' recovery I could pull from
  • XDA user Devil7DK for making the Redmi 3S port of RedWolf, that has the same chipset as the Orbic so that's what I used to dirty port. Check out his original thread HERE
  • Team Orbic for the usual help they'd always provide before
  • Carliv Image Kitchen for letting me do all those dirty ports and mods of images that I did
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Invalid destination address

crarellano03
My wife, son, and daughter have iPhone's and I prefer the Samsung. When trying to send a picture to my sons phone it gives me an error that reads Invalid destination address. I have this problem only with his contact. Also I noticed that in my contact list his contact is blue...?
What seems to be the issue?
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WIZT Home Productivity app is looking for beta testers!

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Hi everyone, we have just launched our new app, WIZT, a home inventory app that allows one to record, search, and locate their items fast without the hassle. Users can customize their floor plan to the layout of their house, add a digital AR sticker to know the exact location of the item, and share the information with friends, family and roommates (with subscription plan). Create unlimited tags for your labels to know what is in the storage location recorded.


Beta Test Links:

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wizt
Apple Testflight: https://apple.co/2GTb8ub

More information on our main page: https://helios-eos.com


We are celebrating our launch with a competition till 10th May 2019 with the prize being USD500. Find out more about WIZT and our competition on our facebook page www.facebook.com/TidyingwithWizt now :)



Thank you for testing and hope you will enjoy it
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Update 27.91-150-5-1

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I'm currently on 27.91-150-5 on metro Moto E5 play. Face unlock is still sometimes crashing when the phone is unlocked via the pattern swipe.

Has anyone installed last night's 27.91-150-5-1 patch? Here are the release notes for it which are quoted below:
https://support.motorola.com/us/en/solution/MS139438

ENHANCEMENTS

This update introduces changes including the following:

Stability improvements: Includes changes that fix bugs and improve the stability of your phone.
Metro Play App: Delivers tailored news feed in minus one screen
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This is my first Motorola phone, so I'm not sure if they attempt to remove/block rooting with subsequent updates.
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App Inventor Gradle DSL method not found: 'implementation()'

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Hello i have this problem.

ERROR: Gradle DSL method not found: 'implementation()'
Possible causes:
The project 'android' may be using a version of the Android Gradle plug-in that does not contain the method (e.g. 'testCompile' was added in 1.1.0).
Upgrade plugin to version 3.4.0 and sync project

The project 'android' may be using a version of Gradle that does not contain the method.
Open Gradle wrapper file

The build file may be missing a Gradle plugin.
Apply Gradle plugin

I don't know how to fix it, i already have a newset gradle version and plugins. But this error pops again.

I have
compileSdkVersion 28
buildToolsVersion "28.0.3"
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