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I have a broken-screen, non-rooted Xiaomi Redmi Note 6 Pro that looks like this

and I'm experiencing a LOT of ghost touches (and the digitizer's gone).

I am using scrcpy to control it from my PC, so I want to disable the touchscreen because otherwise it interferes with my commands and does what it wants.

I don't want to detach the digitizer physically since I have no tools for opening my mobile and this one has to be opened from the screen, so I could damage it more.

How can I do it (possibly with ADB)?

there is a prominent gallery app that I am using -f-stop . been using it for very long time and never had this issue . gallery app itself seems to be working but when I select more than one picture and invoke system share so I can share those with other apps like WhatsApp... everything crashes. it gives me an option to view the app log crash in an email attachment, that it prepared to send to Google for feedback unfortunately selfish as it may sound, I cannot send that attachment to my email It just directly sends it without even keeping a sent copy in my Gmail. using some kind of a hack I pulled up all that log info and I am putting it in pastebin_with_crash_log_info

The relevant error is:

Caused by: android.content.res.Resources$NotFoundException: Resource ID #0x7f08007a
at android.content.res.ResourcesImpl.getValueForDensity(ResourcesImpl.java:246)
at android.content.res.Resources.getDrawableForDensity(Resources.java:905)
at android.content.res.Resources.getDrawableForDensity(Resources.java:880)
at com.android.internal.app.ResolverActivity$TargetPresentationGetter.loadIconFromResource(ResolverActivity.java:669)

here are the more relevant details

crashing system share app concerned is

com.Android google.com.gms

Source file
ResourcesImpl.java
Source class
android.content.res.ResourcesImpl
Source method
getValueForDensity
Line number
246

os details

magisk rooted Android q project treble ROM

I just purchased a used Samsung Tab S3 which comes with Verizon network capabilities. I don't want to use cell capabilities, just Wifi.

After setup, on the lock screen and in the notification center is a message from "Setup Wizard" that says "Activation Incomplete" and to call Verizon support to activate the device (which I don't want to do).

Is there a way to remove this message without calling Verizon?

My Xiaomi Redmi Note 6 Pro broke and 3/4 screen is completely black, I can't see anything but a little part below

Other than that, the touch doesn't work AND sometimes the screen triggers some random coordinate touch. If that's not enough, Xiaomi devices must be unlocked at least 1 time after startup with pattern, but can't. I usually use biometric unlock such as fingerprint sensor and facial recognition but, again, can't.

I want to still use it anyways as a mobile hotspot. I managed to turn on mobile data on adb but, trying to activate hotspot like suggested in this post, so adb shell service call connectivity 24 i32 0, I receive this output:

Result: Parcel(
0x00000000: fffffffc 00000019 00610063 006c006c '........c.a.l.l.'
0x00000010: 006e0069 00500067 0067006b 00630020 'i.n.g.P.k.g. .c.'
0x00000020: 006e0061 006f006e 00200074 00650062 'a.n.n.o.t. .b.e.'
0x00000030: 006e0020 006c0075 0000006c 00000330 ' .n.u.l.l...0...'
0x00000040: 00000193 00610009 00200074 006f0063 '......a.t. .c.o.'
0x00000050: 002e006d 006e0061 00720064 0069006f 'm...a.n.d.r.o.i.'
0x00000060: 002e0064 006e0069 00650074 006e0072 'd...i.n.t.e.r.n.'
0x00000070: 006c0061 0075002e 00690074 002e006c 'a.l...u.t.i.l...'
0x00000080: 00720050 00630065 006e006f 00690064 'P.r.e.c.o.n.d.i.'
0x00000090: 00690074 006e006f 002e0073 00680063 't.i.o.n.s...c.h.'
0x000000a0: 00630065 004e006b 0074006f 0075004e 'e.c.k.N.o.t.N.u.'
0x000000b0: 006c006c 00500028 00650072 006f0063 'l.l.(.P.r.e.c.o.'
0x000000c0: 0064006e 00740069 006f0069 0073006e 'n.d.i.t.i.o.n.s.'
0x000000d0: 006a002e 00760061 003a0061 00320031 '..j.a.v.a.:.1.2.'
0x000000e0: 00290038 0009000a 00740061 00610020 '8.).....a.t. .a.'
0x000000f0: 0064006e 006f0072 00640069 006e002e 'n.d.r.o.i.d...n.'
0x00000100: 00740065 0043002e 006e006f 0065006e 'e.t...C.o.n.n.e.'
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0x00000340: 00630061 00280074 00690042 0064006e 'a.c.t.(.B.i.n.d.'
0x00000350: 00720065 006a002e 00760061 003a0061 'e.r...j.a.v.a.:.'
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I also wanted to install an application on the phone to control it through the pc, but can't because it needs confirmation from phone itself.

After I tried to use a screen unlocker bash file (through windows ubuntu subsystem) and, finding the coordinates for the points, the screenshots from the phone lock screen are blank so I can't see which coordinates they are.

After that I also tried to use AdbControl (written in Java), which should stream the phone to the pc , but it gives me errors for every single frame.

I tried also Mi Suite with no luck: although I connected my device it shows this:

Any thoughts?

Title says it all, pretty much.

A quick Google search (surprizingly) did not return any pertinent results.

I guess it might boil down to copy-pasting some system folders/files from one Android installation (via USB-C, via a PC) to the other. But I prefer not to be the guinea pig here...

(PS: I'd rather not have to revert to Firefox's "sync"-feature for various reasons... anyway, it's obvious that "sync" would work, but that's not the question here...)

EDIT:

• My phone(s) aren't rooted.
• Neither a 3rd-party app, nor a cloud-based solution is what I'm interested in.

Related link(s):

seems like the transfer-via-USB-route would require a rooted phone :(

• How can I access the folders where Firefox mobile stores its application data
• https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/949785

This question is based on an observation of Android's powerful security features, In my old Android Lollipop third party apps had read access (but no write access) to external SD card, but my Android Pie prevents apps from even reading / writing data to the external SD card? But the preinstalled apps will prompt to aquire these permissions. Is there a way for app developers to circumvent this ?

I'm trying to understand why there is no GUI way or Post-Installation process to accept the android SDK Build Tools license:

Failed to install the following Android SDK packages as some licences have not been accepted.
   build-tools;28.0.3 Android SDK Build-Tools 28.0.3
To build this project, accept the SDK license agreements and install the missing components using the Android Studio SDK Manager.
Alternatively, to transfer the license agreements from one workstation to another, see http://d.android.com/r/studio-ui/export-licenses.html

After searching a lot I found the command for sdkmanager.exe but the directory tools/bin/ does not exist in C:\Users\MyUsername\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk.

Can anyone help me to accept the license to move on? :)

I bought a cheap Chinese Android-based set top box for the bedroom. It came with a few apps preloaded, amongst which YouTube and Netflix.

Unfortunately, the developers of this box seem to have missed a few steps, and the device does not seem to be configured properly as an Android TV device. The result is that the installed YouTube app is the Android TV version, but the installed Netflix app is not. Needless to say, in this situation the Netflix user experience is suboptimal. When I try to install the Android TV version of Netflix, Google tells me that the device is not compatible.

Due to the whole lockdown situation, replacing the device by one that is done properly is complicated right now (courier services are in lockdown as well where I live, and the shop where we bought it is not currently in operation until after the lockdown), so I would like to explore the possibility to override these restrictions somehow. I don't mind hacking the device, as long as it doesn't require rooting the thing, as that might mean Netflix won't work anymore at all, which obviously I wouldn't want.

How do I figure out why the Android TV version of Netflix won't install on my device, and is it possible to override this restriction somehow?

On Gboard, when I long-press the "a" character, for example, I can see some other "a" characters pop up which have different marks or diacritics on them. By using long-press, I am able to easily type the ā and Ā characters, but we don't have such an option for "h" character for instance, as I would like to similarly type the ḥ and Ḥ characters. And similarly, I would like to be able to type some other Unicode characters like ʿ by long-pressing the ' key. These characters are accepted in standard academic Arabic romanizations and copy-pasting these Unicode characters from other applications is very inconvenient.

• Is it possible to be able to add my own characters to the long-press of the current characters on Gboard?
• Or is it possible to create my own keyboard layout and add that to Gboard (like we add new languages and each language has its own key-set)?
• If not, is there a way to hack-edit the language source file (when we download a language in Gboard) and assign my custom keys to them, so that when that language is set in the Gboard, it has my custom keys set in it?
• Or if it is not possible on Gboard, then is there any other keyboard app that allows us to customize its keys like this?
• If it is not possible on Gboard, how to suggest a custom-long-press-key-setting feature to the Gboard team?

Thanks.

I rooted Intex Cloud Cube v08 and installed an xposed module. After restarting the device it says

"unfortunately system UI has stopped"

and after tapping on ok it again shows the same. It is still the same after restarting.

I tried key combinations

volume down + power key -: It is going into safe mode but not recovery mode

volume up + power key -: Just restarting normally

I don't have custom recovery

How to solve this problem and go into the stock recovery mode?

This XDA blog How A/B Partitions and Seamless Updates Affect Custom Development on XDA has some Q&A's, of which :

• My device supports A/B partitions, does that mean I can make use of a Project Treble Generic System Image?

Not necessarily. Project Treble and A/B support are unrelated. The Motorola Moto Z2 Force doesn’t support Project Treble, yet it supports the A/B partition scheme.

• My device supports Project Treble, does that mean I have an A/B partition scheme?

This is not always the case. The Honor 9 Lite is a prime example as it supports Project Treble yet does not have an A/B partition scheme.

(Emphasis added)

I thought Treble and A/B devices are synonymous in the sense having one implied other. That's not the case

Why is this? What are the differences?

As displayed in this image is there a sound control for Android notification/drop down menu?

Alternatively some other mechanism. The volume buttons are broken on my phone.

Ideally well rated app.

I want to root my Tecno Camon 12 Air but nothing works. I got samsung devices rooted within a blink but this one just does not. I have:

• Allow OEM bootloader to be unlocked checked
• Tried different PC softwares like KingoRoot iRoot etc.
• Tried almost all of the apps which said they could root

I have searched everywhere and tried almost everything but could not have the job done. Every time some adb command is rejected by an indefinite printed on the command-line or it just reboots to get back normal. No change. Nor the fastboot commandos work as in fastboot it gets hang on the same thing. Which is a crucial step in ROM patching or bootloader unlocking.

Its running Android 9 Pie and the processor is MTK Helio P22 if that helps.

I have a google account that I want to log into from the Gmail App of and android device. I ONLY want gmail, not hangouts, drive, etc. So I am trying to add the account as a standard email address in gmail.

In my gmail account I have gone to settings>Forwarding POP/IMAP and enabled IMAP. Then following these instructions (https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7126229) I try to add the email in the gmail app on my phone.

I open up Gmail>Menu>Settings>Add Account type in my email address and then click Manual set up>IMAP On the incoming settings, I type my email, password, and "imap.gmail.com"

That works fine... but then on the next step...SMTP... On the incoming settings, I type my email, password, and "smtp.gmail.com"

And is says "username or password is incorrect" And then in my gmail account, I get an email titled "Critical security alert" that says "Someone just used your password to try to sign in to your account from a non-Google app. Google blocked them, but you should check what happened."

How can I get a gmail address added to the gmail account via IMAP instead of having to add my whole google account to the whole phone?

Thanks for your help on this!!

Whatsapp 2.20.108 on Android 9

I try to export a chat with media. I export it either to gmail or gdrive. (please note the difference: You can backup and export to gdrive. I'm interested in the export functionality)

For some chats, it works; but for other chats, only a few media are exported instead of all. Also the chat messages are not always exported properly. For example, for one chat, only messages after June 2018 are exported, but not the older ones.

What's going on here? Can this be changed? I want to save all the chat text and all pictures, videos, audio, documents.

I have various Android devices, rooted, with version ranging from Android 4.1 to Android 6.0. I want to enable 4x MSAA using shell/ADB.

The code below is used to enable Hardware Overlay through a shell script

service call SurfaceFlinger 1008 i32 1

But is there a way to enable 4x MSAA?

I've been using lineageOS 14.1 for a long time on my Galaxy S4 mini (gt-i9195) and recently wanted to try some apps requiring root access. In the developer options I could set root access only to "ADB only". I tried installing su from https://download.lineageos.org/extras via TWRP but the installation failed (probably because I tried installing the arm64 version instead of arm, I'm guessing retrospectively?). Anyway, I decided to upgrade TWRP to 3.3.1-0 (from 3.0.1-0 before I think) following random advice I found online. I started flashing 3.3.1-0 to the recovery partition via TWRP but it got stuck while "Patching system unconditionally". After more than an hour of this I powered off and restarted into recovery mode.

Surprisingly, TWRP now boots as version 3.3.1-0 without any issues. However, whenever I try to boot system into lineageOS I just get the Samsung startup logo and then the screen stays black.

Any idea how I might be able to start up lineageOS again? I would try rolling back to an older version of TWRP maybe, but I couldn't yet figure out how to get the image file onto the phone. I tried installing adb on my desktop and plugging the phone in via USB but adb devices does not find the phone. Might Odin work for this despite not having the standard ROM and without wiping the phone?

Unfortunately I don't have a backup, as I didn't have the storage space for it. But while there's nothing super important on the phone I would still of course prefer not having to wipe everything.

I can't find a way to set a daily limit to my daughter regardless of her devices. I want her to spend 2h max on screen no matter which device she uses on that day.

Yet she's getting 2h on her tablet and 2h on her smartphone.

Am I missing something? Does Family Link only allow to set device-specific limits?

I have published a mobile game in Google Play Store. Apparently it cannot be played in China as China has banned Google. Huawei provides an alternative app store -- Huawei AppGallery. Does it mean that if I upload my game there, players from China will be able to download my game?

Answers to this question Is power consumed from battery to run the phone when charging? explain how charging while phone is in use does both - charging the battery and powering the on going activities.

My question is different — Can I stop charging the battery but use the connected power for ongoing activities?

Why do I want to do this?

• I want to charge the battery within ideal limits (see Ideal charging / discharging percentage for maximum battery life?)

and

• at the same time use the charging power to keep running the phone without any heat stress on battery, thus extending battery life.

• Also the battery is not drained, enabling me to use the phone for longer time without charging

Edit : I am not looking for dedicated cables or hardware that can possibly do this