I've got my M500 just recently. Ofcourse I'm playing wit it very hard. Installing, uninstalling, hard-reseting. I'd like to know whether there is some way to store my preferences (clear type, turn-off periods, etc.) and recall them later or not. I will appreciate any hint/comment.
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This is a tricky one for me to explain, considering I hadn't noticed the problem until last week. I've never monitored my data usage over wifi with the built in ICS data monitor, however, when I did a clean install on Friday I thought I'd activate it.
Just for reference, I've checked this on a number of ROMs, including stock 4.0.3 and 4.0.4.
My problem is this, I let the phone update etc and the following day I noticed that "Dictionary Provider" had downloaded 400mb worth of something. I tried different ROMs, clearing all of the relevant apps' data and caches, rebooting, etc. Nothing seemed to work, except to take Adamg's keyboard included in Oxygen and push that to system/app.
That way I don't have to download the dictionaries, which I never use either. I have noticed that since I did that my battery life has gone up by at least an hour's worth of screen on time. The "DP" doesn't keep the phone awake, so no excessive drain, but it's constantly downloading whenever the screen is on.
When I go to "Language and Inputs" and select "Available Dictionaries" (I think that's what the option is, I don't have it installed anymore) it would just display that there are no available dictionaries, and the displayed text would flash, as if it's trying to refresh.
Anyone else seen this? Or did I inadvertently bork my phone?
Hi mods,
Figured out the problem was with my ISP. Ugh, please close/delete this thread.
Cheers
R
Since upgrading to lollipop I'd noticed a couple of small niggles with me Galaxy S5. As I've not had to rebuild my phone since purchasing it, I decided a factory reset wouldn't do any harm. Since resetting, Google play services keeps waking my GPS and searching for my location, this happens every few minutes unless I turn the GPS off. I've got all the usual Google stalking features turned off (Google now, location history, location reporting) but I've still got the same issue. I've even reset again and unticked the box to restore my user data... But still Google want to know where I am.
Any ideas how to resolve this one? It's a pain if I have to keep turning my GPS off when I'm not using it, especially when I had no issue prior to factory resetting.
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Since upgrading to lollipop I'd noticed a couple of small niggles with me Galaxy S5. As I've not had to rebuild my phone since purchasing it, I decided a factory reset wouldn't do any harm. Since resetting, Google play services keeps waking my GPS and searching for my location, this happens every few minutes unless I turn the GPS off. I've got all the usual Google stalking features turned off (Google now, location history, location reporting) but I've still got the same issue. I've even reset again and unticked the box to restore my user data... But still Google want to know where I am.
Any ideas how to resolve this one? It's a pain if I have to keep turning my GPS off when I'm not using it, especially when I had no issue prior to factory resetting.
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It's more likely one or several of the myriad of apps/services on your phone. Do you have a weather app on your phone? Well, how's it going to know how the weather is, if it doesn't know where you are? Facebook by default wants to know where you are so when you post or send a message, it tells everybody where you are. Even apps like music streamers want to know where you are so they can tell you where you were when you heard something. Lots of apps that you wouldn't expect to use GPS in fact do. The vast majority of this data collection is completely innocuous and harmless, but you always have the option to disallow it. Or not use the app(s) as well; remember, it was you that granted the app GPS permissions when you installed it.
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It's more likely one or several of the myriad of apps/services on your phone. Do you have a weather app on your phone? Well, how's it going to know how the weather is, if it doesn't know where you are? Facebook by default wants to know where you are so when you post or send a message, it tells everybody where you are. Even apps like music streamers want to know where you are so they can tell you where you were when you heard something. Lots of apps that you wouldn't expect to use GPS in fact do. The vast majority of this data collection is completely innocuous and harmless, but you always have the option to disallow it. Or not use the app(s) as well; remember, it was you that granted the app GPS permissions when you installed it.
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Thanks for your suggestion, I don't think it is another app though. Prior to resetting my phone the 2nd and 3rd time I uninstalled any suspect apps one by one to see which one was the culprit. In the end I just went through the entire apps list and uninstalled/disabled everything I could, it made the phone really unstable and practically unusable but still didn't stop Google Play Services using my GPS every few minutes.
Any other ideas?
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Thanks for your suggestion, I don't think it is another app though. Prior to resetting my phone the 2nd and 3rd time I uninstalled any suspect apps one by one to see which one was the culprit. In the end I just went through the entire apps list and uninstalled/disabled everything I could, it made the phone really unstable and practically unusable but still didn't stop Google Play Services using my GPS every few minutes.
Any other ideas?
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Try this:
http://androidforums.com/threads/is-there-an-app-to-track-which-app-uses-gps.732746/
how about "Android Device Manager " .. is that disabled?
There are a lot of guides about how to fix this. It isn't always the same service that is an issue...but you can try and disable some of the ones that are known to be problematic. For example see post #3 in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2785128
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OK, my HTC M8s (stock ROM, no recent flashing mods) has been playing up lately, seemingly just battery issues.
Today however it rebooted, and it's just lost its sh*t. Apps that were moved to the SD card are now lost/not showing up, my call history is blank (but contacts, photo's and other data are OK), and apps that were seemingly all up to date have suddenly decided they need updating again - these are not new apps either, they're like old HTC apps that were not even in use, and I doubt have all suddenly been updated.
It looks to me like some "cache" or storage area on the phone has been zapped, and reset to like a new phone. But my data seems (mostly) to be there, and apps that I installed (to main memory) are OK too, although their settings seem to have gone too (eg: one banking app is asking to re-verify setup info)
I just re-downloaded an app that was missing, to get it back again. The app installed OK. Upon checking the app settings however, it had located it again on the SD card (I did not do this, it somehow "remembered" where it supposed to be from earlier), but the settings and data of the app were not restored/visible.
Google settings too, like Play Store preferences (don't put apps on home screen) have also been lost and app permissions seem to have also been reset (eg: mail needed me to allow access to this and that again)
Anyone else had this?! Any ways to fix it? Seems very freaky and worrying...
Hey guys,
I recently bought a Chinese Android car head unit from a pretty random AliExpress seller. The unit is based on a chip that doesn’t have a lot of info about it on the web: AC8257 (Probably some sort of a MediaTek). I know those Chinese units and ROMs can be pretty funky, but this one actually works pretty well, both on the car side and the Android/Google apps side. However, I do have one small, yet very annoying problem that I can’t seem to solve on my own: Google app (Which includes the assistant) did not come preinstalled with the device. I’ve manually installed it from the app store, and until my first reboot, everything seemed to work fine. The assistant could be called both by a key-press and by “OK/Hello Google”. So far so good. The problem first appeared upon restarting the machine. When I tried calling the assistant, I got a message saying that Google assistant is not set as my default assistant (See attached photo). I went to the settings, and guess what, it seemed to be set as the default (See attached photo - No other option other than “None” were available anyway). I chose it again anyway, and indeed, it started working properly again. However, 30 minutes later, even without a reboot, it happened again. And again… You get the idea.
I did some googling (Both for the AC8257 and the assistant problem itself, contacted the seller and searched wherever I can, but the results were dull). I tried solving it by doing the following:
Using adb and root rights (Through ADB, not a permanent root), I installed the apk in priv-app, didn’t work. I then tried moving the Play store installation the priv-app, also did not work. I also tried disabling something called DuraSpeed, which, as far as I understand, is a performance enhancing tool by MediaTek that can sometimes cause this kind of thing, but that ,sadly, also did not help. In addition, I also tried resetting the device completely, to no avail. The only thing I didn’t try is installing a clean ROM and then installing OpenGapps, but that’s not possible right now (Couldn’t find any ROM for this device and CPU).
I know this might be a problem that is specifically related to my device/ROM, but as I can’t find a lot of info about it pretty much anywhere, I thought it might not be such a bad idea to ask this question in a more general forum.
Many thanks to you all,
Noam.
I have the same problem.
If you solve, tell us. Thanks!
Try to figure out what event took place at the 30 minute mark. Try to see what apk pops up in the cache when it crashes.
You can try clearing the system cache then the data of the apks used if that doesn't get it.
Try resetting network settings if communicating with bluetooth.
Eventually you'll find it if you keep playing with it... Androids wuv being played with.
Hello all, I hope this message finds you well.
Recently I bought a new pair of TWS earbuds, BlitzWolf BW-FPE1 and I'm having trouble connecting and playing sound in both of them at the very same time.
Actually when I connect both of them in the smartphone, I can see them connected at the bluetooth screen and I can also see both of them as available options to play audio from the Android sound settings. But as this is a pair of TWS earbuds, both should be connected together and play stereo audio.
What is actually happening is that this Android version (and I presume this is the reason) does not allow me to select them both at the same time. I can only use one of them at time: the audio will either play in the left OR in the right side. In addicion, I receive both left and right side of the audio in just one part of the earbuds.
And just to make sure the earbuds are working perfectly, I've tested it on a Samsung M51 running Android 11 and the latest One UI version (can't recall the version right now) and in the Android audio settings there were on screen a radiobutton to select both of the buds at the same time.
Can someone really confirm that this is a limitation in Android 11 stock version or if there is any kind of workaround to make the earbuds work together?
Thanks in advance!
Try clearing the system cache.
Try a network reset.
A cheap trick that fixes a lot of issues.
If that doesn't work try reinstalling their app, try clearing the data first. Reboot.
Check connectivity setting in settings.
Check bt settings in Developer options as well.
Any other 3rd party sound apps? Try in safe mode. Any you uninstalled*?
Try a hard reboot (simulates pulling battery).
Do not do a factory reset unless you did a major firmware upgrade without doing a reset.
Find the root cause, otherwise it's likely to reoccur.
Play with it... you will find the cause.
Google search for same issue on that brand of device (Motorola), include other OS's/device models in those searches. More than likely you're not the first.
*if an app changed hidden user settings, a factory reset may be needed. This is rare but can happen. Poorly coded ones sometimes will not toggle back hidden settings to their default value.
Sometimes reinstalling the app can allow you to change that value in the app's settings, then uninstall that app again
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Try clearing the system cache.
Try a network reset.
A cheap trick that fixes a lot of issues.
If that doesn't work try reinstalling their app, try clearing the data first. Reboot.
Check connectivity setting in settings.
Check bt settings in Developer options as well.
Any other 3rd party sound apps? Try in safe mode. Any you uninstalled*?
Try a hard reboot (simulates pulling battery).
Do not do a factory reset unless you did a major firmware upgrade without doing a reset.
Find the root cause, otherwise it's likely to reoccur.
Play with it... you will find the cause.
Google search for same issue on that brand of device (Motorola), include other OS's/device models in those searches. More than likely you're not the first.
*if an app changed hidden user settings, a factory reset may be needed. This is rare but can happen. Poorly coded ones sometimes will not toggle back hidden settings to their default value.
Sometimes reinstalling the app can allow you to change that value in the app's settings, then uninstall that app again
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First of all, thanks for replying!
Well, these earbuds do not have any particular app for configuration or use (and I as long as I looked in the user's guide and Playstore, there is no particular app for them).
I've already checked settings regarding to Bluetooth on Developer options and changed some of them after sometime researching on Google, restarting the smartphone afterwards but no one solved the problem.
I'll take another look into system cache and network reset, hoping this will really solve my problem. Otherwise, the only explanation would be a limitation on the stock version of Android v11.
Many times a network reset is all that's needed.
Clear system cache.
I hate Android 11 but haven't seen this as being one of its known issues.
I have the same situation. the online manual solve it for me
Recover to Default SettingWhen Bluetooth is not connected and in a single headset state, press the touch key 5 times to clear all pairing information, the red and blue lights flash 3 times at the same time, put the earphones in the charging box, then you can pick up the left and right headsets from the charging box for -MS pairing.
Read more: https://manuals.plus/blitzwolf/bw-f...3mm-large-dynamic-driver-manual#ixzz7VlDifBZd