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Manage phone via PC ?

I am new to ANDROID, and I am trying to find some type of application that I can run on my PC, and manage my apps/settings/desktop ect... on my phone via my PC.
Thanks for any advice.
John
MyTouch 2 - G3 running stock Android. (no root)

try android screencast - maybe there is some function you can find useful...it's hosted on googlecode

Thanks but I think screen cast can only be used on a rooted phone....correct ?
My phone is not rooted.

Websharing might be the closest type of app with ROOT

Mmmm... I have stated twice my phone IS NOT ROOTED.
thanks anyways, I guess there must not be one for non rooted phones.
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[Q] Total Noob in Need of Lots of Help :(

I just got my SNS yesterday and it's my first android phone (was previously using an LG cookie) First thing I did was try to root it, and I seemingly succeeded, or so I thought. It looks like it's rooted and the superuser apps there but I can't install apps using any of the guides I find or even update to 2.3.2 (keep getting and error 7 msg). When I try to install using APKInstaller it tells me it can't find the device, which I think is the problem.
I think the problem is that someway or another windows 7 64 bit stopped recognizing my phone as a Nexus S and now recognizes it as a portable device in device manager (There's also an Android Phone, with an Android Composite ADB interface) I used the SDK to install all the updates available including the google usb driver rev. 4. I tried updating the Portable device driver using the google usb driver but windows keeps it as a WPD Filesystem Volume Driver. Also I noticed when I checked to see if adb gave me a serial number for the phone using the cmd prompt commands in the rooting guides it comes up blank.
I used usbdeview to delete everything seemingly related to Android, but everytime I reconnect the phone it, installs the drivers for the portable device.
I need help to make windows recognize the phone as a nexus s again so I can update and install apps and games etc. If anybody out there can help i'll really appreciate it. Explain the steps to me as if you were talking to a child, leaving nothing out plz. Thanks for any assistance.
I live outside the US (no android market) and would hate to think I messed up and expense phone purchase in just one day

Not quite sure where to start. But my intuition tells me its the Windows 7 64-bit and drivers that's not playing along. You might want to google if other users are having trouble with W7 64-bit with Android drivers. Otherwise, find another computer and repeat the steps. If not, flash a custom ROM to see if that eliminates the problem. You haven't damaged your phone. Don't worry.

just install directly from android market website
Sent from my Nexus S using XDA App

I assume you mean instal the update from the market (which I can't do because I don't have wifi)?
I managed to get the adb to list a device number after I installed java x32 & x64 bit. I still can't install apps or get the update to work, but I'll try unrooting and then rerooting my phone as see how that goes.
Oh, I haven't done the initial sign into gmail thing yet in case that makes any difference
Edit: god I feel stupid. I didn't realize that I had to upgrade from 2.3 to 2.3.1 and then to 2.3.2. I did that an everything upgrade without any problems. Now just got to figure out how to install apk's and I'm golden
Edit 2: Ok, I figured everything out and now i'm up to date with updates and I can install apps and games. Oh Happy Day Thx for all the help

When Android 2.2 isn't really 2.2, and is there any way to fix it?

Hi,
I recently bought a MID Vogue Android 7" tablet machine to experiment with. One of the reasons I bought this particular model was that it was advertised as having Android 2.2 installed, and when I go to About Device it does indeed show that v2.2 is installed (kernel v2.6.25). However, it doesn't operate like a v2.2 machine -- I can't install apps on the SD card, and Android Market won't allow me to download most v2.2-aware apps.
Have I made a newbie mistake and not tweaked my settings properly to use v2.2 features, or do I need to root my machine and do something more in-depth to correct this problem (assuming it can be corrected!)? Any ideas are appreciated.
Thanks very much,
B

[Q] Android Studio Says Device Not Compatible

Hello,
I am trying to be able to use adb to send the app to my phone for development purposes. I have used eclipse and it worked with my phone, but recently I have switched to android studio. When I try to send my app to my phone, it says the phone is "not compatible". It works on my nexus 7. My phone is a note 2 on stock 4.3 verizon rom. I have usb debugging enabled/installer option on. How can I fix this issue. Also, it seems that this is not a common problem, I looked for it for a while and couldn't find anything that pertained to this issue. Thanks for any help.
Brian

I haven't seen that error before myself, but could the app be the problem? Are you sure it's compatible with your phone (min SDK version, required features, etc?)

It seems android studio adds some line of code that is not compatible with 4.3 if you select compile with 4.4. Anyway, I think I will use eclipse, as studio does not run properly with my phone, it runs into an error in when I try to run it. Thanks for your help though!

[Q] Newb using Android SDK/Genymotion

I am interested in buying a new android and would like to run the OS from a few android phones in a virtual machine. Everything is installed, Android SDK, eclipse, Genymotion, as well. After loading one of the VMs that are already available, what interested me was how could I load a particular kernal for a phone that I would like to buy.
For example, I downloaded the rom for the ZTE Open C (firefox OS). How would I go about converting this to a VDI or OVA? Not sure even which I would convert it to. Could somebody even possibly point me to the correct faq, did some searching but not really sure what to search for so only coming up with how to root your phone.
Thank You