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    Spoofing your battery level to avoid Ubers scummy upcharges Android Help

    Spoofing your battery level to avoid Ubers scummy upcharges Android Help


    Spoofing your battery level to avoid Ubers scummy upcharges

    Posted: 02 Feb 2020 12:54 PM PST

    Since Uber supposedly makes its prices purposefully higher if your battery level is low, I've been wondering if there's a way to spoof/fake your battery level so you can avoid this. Anyone figured this out?

    https://metro.co.uk/2019/09/27/uber-charge-battery-lower-10778303/

    submitted by /u/RagingRope
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    Haven't tweaked an android since a long time. What custom ROMs would you suggest to a Samsung device?

    Posted: 02 Feb 2020 03:00 PM PST

    Remote viewing file my desktop files on my phone (Galaxy S9)

    Posted: 02 Feb 2020 07:59 PM PST

    I used to have ES file explorer that can connect to my desktop and view the files, but now it doesn't have the feature, what are the other ways? Just having a connection so I can view files on my phone that are in my desktop.

    submitted by /u/Chimiku
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    How to activate media scrubber on lockscreen with Android 10?

    Posted: 02 Feb 2020 07:47 PM PST

    I've seen multiple articles and screenshots saying the lock screen media scrubber was reintroduced with Android 10, but for the life of me I can't figure out how to activate it? Whatever app I'm using, I just have skip back/forward and pause. Long pressing the forward and back buttons doesn't do anything. Thanks!

    Phone - A51 on Android 10.

    submitted by /u/CaptDefias
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    Samsung A50 with Broken Screen - How can I get data off the internal memory?

    Posted: 02 Feb 2020 07:38 PM PST

    A family member recently purchased and then broke their A50. The unit will power on but the screen won't show anything. They have some data they wanted to retrieve from the internal phone memory (not the SD card) and plugging it in to a PC gets me nothing because I can't access the screen to unlock the phone or set up the USB option to file transfer. Is there a clever way to get around this?

    These screens seem very fragile. We went from having never broken a cellphone to destroying three A50 screens in short order. At $180 a fix... well, ouch.

    submitted by /u/FalsettoChild
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    Galaxy G6 makes strange beeping noise immediately after every sound

    Posted: 02 Feb 2020 08:37 PM PST

    OK, I was wondering if anyone here can help me with these bizarre problem. Last Friday, I was messing around with a podcast app when my Galaxy G6 started making these loud, intermittent beeps. I was able to figure out that this loud sound came immediately after the phone made any sound at all. After a notification sound, it beeps. When I stop or pause a song or video, it beeps. After I send a message on Telegram, it beeps after the very soft 'message delivered' sound. I have no idea of what's causing this. I'm hoping someone here has some idea of what might be causing it so I don't have to send it for repairs.

    Some other facts that may help:

    • I'd say this is a software problem, because the beeping sound will stop if something else starts to make a sound. For instance, if I receive two messages in a row, it'll make the message notification, start to beep, then cut off the beep as the second message notification starts (then it beeps again).
    • I can reliably force the phone to beep by going to the sound settings and previewing a notification sound.
    • Almost all beeps came after a sound, except for a couple of times when I was surfing the internet and once when I tried to load a game. In both cases there may have been a very soft sound I didn't hear.
    • It doesn't make any noise when it's set to vibrate or it's silent, unless I'm using an app (that's how the two beeps it made while I was surfing the net).
    • The beep is about a second long and changing volumes does not change the beep's volume.
    • It seems that using headphones stops the beeping completely.
    • Searching the web for similar problems brought me to some pages about a strange beep causing by certain Galaxy S models' NFC detecting cards. As far as I can tell, my model doesn't have this "feature", and I don't have anything that would trigger it anyway.
    • I tried booting up the phone in safe mode, and the beeping continued.
    • I looked through all accessibility options to check if I had turned something on by accident, but if I did I couldn't find it.
    • The day after it happened, I realized a lot of my sound settings for my apps appear to have changed.
    • The phone is a year and a few months old.
    • Yes, many people have told me that, since it's a Samsung, that means it is about to blow up.

    Has anyone seen such a thing? Can anyone help?

    submitted by /u/April_March
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    Possible malicious content

    Posted: 02 Feb 2020 07:43 PM PST

    As of today I started getting full screen pop up ads that are under the app name "settings" but with a much darker cog wheel than the legitimate one. The only thing I recently installed was Robin Hood but I hadn't done anything with it yet and uninstalled to try to fix the problem. I haven't visited any sketchy sites or downloaded anything else but Reddit pics. I ran Malwarebytes but it came up clean. Can't find anything new otherwise or with perms to do this. It pops up about once every 10 but can be more or less.

    submitted by /u/Nitsuj504
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    How to get NFC on non NFC compatible phone?

    Posted: 02 Feb 2020 10:21 AM PST

    Hi there. I was wondering if there's an adapter that gives a phone NFC support that would show up in the settings like it's built in. Thanks!

    submitted by /u/scat234
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    Xperia arc s lt18i doesn't have an OS installed but twrp says unable to mount /sdcard any ideas how to fix?

    Posted: 02 Feb 2020 10:34 PM PST

    Installing Custom Rom

    Posted: 02 Feb 2020 10:32 PM PST

    Can I root and install Custom Rom on my device, if its Volume down button isn't working.hence, recovery mode is not accessible

    submitted by /u/__RSoul
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    Fire stick vs Chromecast for screen mirroring

    Posted: 02 Feb 2020 09:37 PM PST

    Was wondering which is better picture quality wise. When mirroring my chromecast it looks like crap. I know the Apple tv is a lot better. How about the amazon fire stick ?

    Thanks.

    submitted by /u/babygorilla90
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    Having trouble transferring files from S8 memory card

    Posted: 02 Feb 2020 01:57 PM PST

    TL;DR: Trying to transfer 13GB of pictures/videos from a Micro SD card to external hard drive.

    I have about 13 GB of pictures/videos taken over the course of three years that I would like to transfer from a Micro SD card to my external hard drive. Each time I try to move them, I hit a wall. Here's what I've tried and how it failed:

    • Plugging the Micro SD into an adapter, which went into an SD slot on a Samsung computer. Tried to transfer all files from that straight to an external hard drive connected via USB. Only about 30 files transferred before it quit and progress moved to 0 kb/sec.
    • Plugging the Micro SD straight into a slot in a newer Dell computer. Tried to transfer all files straight to an external hard drive connected via USB. Only about 30 files transferred before it quit and progress moved to 0 kb/sec.
    • Plugging the Micro SD into an adapter, which went into an SD slot on a Samsung computer. Tried to transfer only 1 GB of the files to the computer first, with the intention to then move from the computer to the external hard drive. Only about 30 files transferred before it quit and gave me a "data supplied is of wrong type" error.
    • Putting the Micro SD back in to my Samsung Galaxy S8 where they were taken, then attaching the phone to my Samsung PC via USB. Tried to transfer only 1 GB of the files to the computer first, with the intention to then move from the computer to the external hard drive. Only about 30 files transferred before it quit and gave me a "data supplied is of wrong type" error.

    I also own a Mac that is more powerful, but the external hard drive is formatted for Windows, not Mac.

    Here's a catch: A recent software update on my Samsung Galaxy S8 made my phone not recognize the memory card. So that limits what I can do with transferring from the phone.

    Thoughts? I'm running out of ideas. Is there some sort of software that could help?

    I could keep trying different combinations of tricks and computers, but I'm becoming skeptical these methods will work.

    submitted by /u/ethanmay4
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    Why is migrating Android app data to new devices *still* so difficult? Am I missing something?

    Posted: 02 Feb 2020 05:24 AM PST

    This is mostly a rant, but also a legit criticism.

    This feels insane to me that there is no good solution for this. I don't think i have unreasonable expectations here. I trying to move from a non-rooted Pixel 3A to a rooted/flashed Xiaomi 9T Pro with Lineage 17 and bring some app data with me. I'd prefer to just "take everything" but I'll settle for picking and choosing some apps.

    I've tried the Google drive backup. One account only shows a handful of apps, the account with all the data I want says "no backup found" despite being able to see it in gDrive. I don't think it's android version related because the secondary account backup was found fine.

    I've tried titanium (paid) and oandbackup but they both need root. I didn't root when I got the pixel because I didn't need it, and rooting now would wipe my data. Plus I don't feel moving services should require it.

    I've tried Helium (paid) but it seems broken. Can't even make a local backup. Cloud backup has unhelpful errors about no accounts.

    Why is this hard? Why isn't there an easy way to move active app data?

    submitted by /u/goorpy
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    Please help! UMX Virgin Assurance phone

    Posted: 02 Feb 2020 08:50 PM PST

    My father has this phone. He had it in his pocket, took it out and it was on a screen I had never seen before. I hit the power button thinking it would turn it off. It didn't. It went to a screen of Chinese letters. But it looks like some english words are over lapping other words. It's odd looking. You can scroll it and tap random spots to send you to other pages with Chinese letters. But the phone won't turn off. Press and hold the power button only restarts it back to the same page. I have no idea what is going on.

    submitted by /u/1KBushFan
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    When I clear my cached data, it says that I have cleared 200mb, but when I check it's only 9mb cleared, why?

    Posted: 02 Feb 2020 12:53 AM PST

    No SIM card after update

    Posted: 02 Feb 2020 04:43 AM PST

    I got a message on my Galaxy s8+ thant an update was available, the usual blah blah this will take several minutes during which time you won't be able to make any calls etc. I started the update process ant went to bed. This morning I look at my phone and it doesn't seem to think that there's a SIM card in it. How should I fix this?

    submitted by /u/kpaddler
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    Use IOS emojis on Android without rooting?

    Posted: 02 Feb 2020 01:01 PM PST

    Hi there. My question is: Is it possible to change the main emoji theme that is inside the Android OS to be the same like IOS? I know for sure this is possible if you root the phone. Another way could be if you simply download some emoji apps(with alots of ADs) and then change it, but the new emojis would still only appear on that specific keyboard, and not get changed on the system

    Anyone?

    submitted by /u/raxor2k
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    When I try to launch a website from Lastpass Chrome says "Cleartext not permitted". How do I fix this?

    Posted: 02 Feb 2020 06:53 PM PST

    Hundreds of Random Files In Storage. Why?

    Posted: 02 Feb 2020 06:36 PM PST

    https://ibb.co/9T0kwzt

    Please check the link. This is the first time I'm seeing these files. Yesterday I was moving a KeePass file into documents and all of these were not there.

    Should I be worried?

    Can I safely delete them all?

    EDIT: A few file names I recognized (like Angry Birds) but they're not any apps I've ever downloaded, on any device.

    submitted by /u/Jalaliozz128
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    Phone's DAC broken

    Posted: 02 Feb 2020 02:07 PM PST

    I have a Samsung A5 2016, i've been using it a lot as an audio source for some electronics projects like radio transmitters. The phone's DAC eventually broke for some reason. The audio output is near-silent no mather what I did, I even tried wiping and installing different ROMs.

    But I still want to use the phone as an audio source (without Bluetooth). It has micro USB port. I found some micro USB to 3.5mm dongles online, but I'm not sure if there's a DAC inside them or if they will use the phones broken DAC?

    Maybe I can use the very popular Type C to 3.5mm dongle with a Type C to Micro USB it might work?

    submitted by /u/uE4W5qDzWC9t
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    Can't use the Galaxy Store.

    Posted: 02 Feb 2020 05:37 PM PST

    I've been having problem with connecting to the store sonce everytime i try to open an app page this problem happens.

    Any help on how to fix it? Its been happening since yesterday.

    My android isn't updated to the latest avaliable version and my Phone is a S10e.

    submitted by /u/RavenAxel
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    is it possible to retrieve photos from my phone with a broken display?

    Posted: 02 Feb 2020 05:11 PM PST

    The display on my motorola x play has completely died, phone still works i hear the notifications. Is there any way to retrieve photos?

    submitted by /u/IraqiGawad
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    Green Grid Glitch

    Posted: 02 Feb 2020 05:03 PM PST

    Hello, my phone suddenly started having a series of green cubes glowing in the background (screenshot below). When I screenshot and send the photo to someone the green cubes aren't there, hence the off screen photo. because it doesn't show up in the screenshot it makes me think it's a hardware issue?

    Has anyone had this issue before? Any fixes? Phone is the note 9.

    Screenshot: https://photos.app.goo.gl/EX2UGxhp2Fh2WDoe9

    submitted by /u/krimz
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    Is factory reset enough ?

    Posted: 02 Feb 2020 01:05 PM PST

    I had to return my note 10+ because it had dust in the camera. I made sure to do a factory reset first. When i went in to the store i was told that's not enough. He said Android has made some changes to increase their security and this is one of them.

    So is this true ? Any other steps i should be taking when selling or returning a phone ?

    Thanks.

    submitted by /u/babygorilla90
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    FRP BYPASS SAMSUNG S8

    Posted: 02 Feb 2020 04:04 PM PST

    Hi guys,

    I have been given a samsung s8 from a friend as my phone broke but I'm struggling to bypass the frp. My friend didn't originally own the phone (it was found at his bar and they keep it for 6 months if noone comes to claim it) so I am unable to get the google information i need.

    Anyone know an easy way or atleast an APK that I could trust?

    Thank you in advance

    submitted by /u/nothingisgold
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