Say I want to use my Samsung S23 Ultra as the source of my music and would like to use two JBL Flip 7 speakers to output my audio in stereo. I would like to be able to do this with one speaker playing "left audio" and the other playing "right audio". Is this a possibility on Android? The JBL Flip 7 is capable of playing audio over USB while connected to a phone over USB-C. I just don't know if it is possible to connect two to a hub in order to be able to do what I mentioned above.

I am using Android 7.0 and I have multiple accounts and by default, the administrator of the device is the first user. Now, some of the privileges are reserved for the first user, like creating a hotspot and others. I want to do that from the second user account as well, is it possible? How can I change the administrator on my Android device?

I need to run an IoT control Android app with network access that also insists to have permission to access local media files, or its a no-go. I don't fully trust this app and I don't want to grant it such permission. Is there a way to run it inside a container of some sort, where it will just see "empty" local storage. The phone is Pixel 5 with all the latest updates.

I have a Reliance LYF mobile phone and want to enable the developer mode. I looked for all options in the settings but haven't found anything to enable developer mode. Is the developer mode option available on it?

I tried downloading apps from Google Play Store via WiFi, but I got error 495. I tried all the steps like: - Clear cache data from the Play Store app - Delete Google account and recreate it - Factory reset - Rebooting device. I assure you that the problem is not with the device. It has lots of memory space, so it's not [tag:insufficient-memory] error. And apps can be downloaded in mobile data. I followed the steps which are provided on the troubleshooting page for "495". But no luck. Anyone gives me a clear idea of why the apps are not able to download via WiFi only?

Every single time I try to clear my Google Chrome history, a message pops up: Also delete Data on this webpage: This webpage seems to be important to you: sakana.ai ...even though I never actually visited the site. Yet it pops up over and over, no matter what I do. Why is this happening? **Edit:** it seems to only happen on a specific Google profile.

My mother had a shopping app on her old smartphone which runs Android v6. Recently I noticed that the app on her phone was no longer supported. I've seen such things happen on old phones generally with many apps. I just wanted to know, why do companies drop their support to older OS versions after few years? Does it cost them a lot to continue the support to older OS versions as well? Does it require a whole team to be hired to just keep managing the support for older OS? Just being curious about this.

I recently bought a (currently discontinued) Polaroid Cube+ off eBay and I want to be able to use all its features. The instruction manual and other places mention there is an app (package name com.polaroid.cube), but it seems to have been removed some years ago. (Latest version I can find is from 2017, v2.3.8.) I want to install the Polaroid Cube app onto my OnePlus 12 with Android 14, but when trying to install (by running the APK or via adb install --bypass-low-target-sdk-block) it says that it is not compatible with my device. It seems that the architectures don't match (armeabi-v7a, armeabi vs arm64; the specific error from adb is INSTALL_FAILED_NO_MATCHING_ABIS). **Is there a way of installing this app onto my OnePlus 12?** Ideally it should *not* involve rooting, as I have some work-related 2FA associated to my phone that need it to be unrooted. In addition, I don't have any older phones to install the app onto; the goal is to install this ancient app onto my modern Android phone.

Working on Ubuntu 20.04. I want to root my device to uninstall some apps (.apk) and possibly also install Ubuntu Touch. I want to uninstall almost all Google apps because I don't have a Google account and I don't want to. Without a Google account, you cannot use most Google applications (Gmail, YouTube, Drive...). A few months ago when I bought the device, I unlocked the bootloader, but I didn't have time to root it. Now I want to root it. I followed these TWRP for Xiaomi Mi A3 instructions and cannot flash or boot the TWRP.img. 1. I downloaded: twrp-installer-3.4.0-0-laurel_sprout.zip and twrp-3.4.0-0-laurel_sprout.img renamed it to **twrp.img** and **twrp-installer.zip**. 2. I copied the files to the device in **/sdcard** ---- adb devices adb push ~/Downloads/twrp.img /sdcard adb push ~/Downloads/twrp-installer.zip /sdcard adb reboot-bootloader ---- fastboot devices ---- fastboot flashing unlock ... FAILED (remote: Device already : unlocked!) finished. total time: 0.000s ---- fastboot flashing unlock_critical ... OKAY [ 0.026s] finished. total time: 0.026s ---- fastboot flashing get_unlock_ability ... (bootloader) get_unlock_ability: 1 OKAY [ 0.000s] finished. total time: 0.000s ---- fastboot boot twrp.img downloading 'boot.img'... OKAY [ 1.174s] booting... FAILED (remote: unknown command) finished. total time: 1.175s ---- fastboot flash recovery twrp.img target reported max download size of 804261888 bytes sending 'recovery' (39892 KB)... OKAY [ 1.172s] writing 'recovery'... FAILED (remote: (recovery_a) No such partition) finished. total time: 1.174s ---- Did I do something wrong? How can I root the device? To recover the device follow this instructions: https://c.mi.com/oc/miuidownload/detail?guide=2
--EDIT-- fastboot getvar current-slot current-slot: a finished. total time: 0.002s ---- fastboot --set-active=b Setting current slot to 'b'... OKAY [ 0.039s] finished. total time: 0.039s ---- fastboot flash boot twrp.img target reported max download size of 804261888 bytes sending 'boot_b' (39892 KB)... OKAY [ 1.181s] writing 'boot_b'... OKAY [ 0.207s] finished. total time: 1.388s Press and hold **volume up button** on device and enter the command **fastboot reboot**
Back in Fastboot ---- fastboot --set-active=a Setting current slot to 'a'... OKAY [ 0.039s] finished. total time: 0.039s Press and hold **volume up button** on device and enter the command **fastboot reboot** Do not press any key boots in Android-OS

While driving using **Android Auto**, I often want to take notes. I would like to just message myself - but the pseudo-AI gets highly confused. So, I just say

Take a Note

And I dictate it. It saves it. But I haven't a clue how I can access those notes again, when I get home. Any ideas ? **Note** - It doesn't open another app. Because I invoked Google, I am sure it is saved somewhere in Google space. - I have been doing this on and off for years, as I couldn't take my hands off the wheel. But not knowing how to retrieve them. So, I don't think its the Samsung AI. - "Hey Google" is within Android Auto, so its unlikely to be Samsung.

Under Settings → Wireless and networks, USB internet **will not** highlight nor will it let me activate it. Therefore, I can't connect my smartphone to the PC. Is there an alternate way to check **why** this is occurring and fix it?

I am trying to install latest Lineageos for mata on Essential ph-1. It is stuck at fastboot flash boot boot.img with the warning about avb, boot partition size of 0. Boot image size: 33673216 and fastboot getvar partition-size:boot returns partition-size:boot: 0201d000. The boot image is larger than the partition. The boot image (33673216 bytes) is larger than the reported boot partition size (33671168 bytes, which appears as '0' in the fastboot warning due to an error). How do I fix this and get lineage OS installed on Essential ph-1?

I have installed BlueStack on my Windows 10 notebook. I wanted to set up the status of my WhatsApp account. However, I couldn't find any option to navigate through and add a video file. I could set up the status of my WhatsApp account by taking a new photo using my camera, but I want to add an already downloaded video file to my status.

Got a new phone recently and noticed this incredibly annoying feature. Every notification in the notifications list has a little button on the right. It is very easy to accidentally click this button, which then opens the app in a small, draggable pop up window. I hate this window. I searched through android settings, and was able to find an option to toggle this setting off. However, when I did this, the buttons on the notifications still stayed, and when I clicked them by accident, I would get *another* notification prompting me to re-enable pop-up window functionality. I searched the apps list to disable notifications for this app, but could not find it. So I spun up adb, and searched the list of installed packages for "pop", "popup", or "window" and couldn't find anything. I want to know how to remove this annoying functionality from my phone.

If someone sends a Teams meeting invitation to my private email address, the email content looks like this

Microsoft Teams Need help?

Join the meeting now

Meeting ID: 999 999 999 9

Passcode: XXXXXX

For organizers: Meeting options

For some reason, the email body doesn't contain the date and time of the meeting. How can I find out when it is? There are other threads on the Web describing the same problem .

Let us assume I am working/living in a potentially hostile environment and want to minimize the risk that somebody can access the data stored on my Android phone. The recommended way is to force-lock the phone to ensure that it cannot be accessed without the password, but this does not fully protect against data extractions applied directly on the phone. And going through the multi-step approach of resetting the phone via Settings is obviously not feasible under pressure. So I am looking for ways to quickly factory reset on an Android phone. Something like "press one icon, confirm with one button = reset Android phone to factory settings".. with no passwords, no PINs... just quick wipe. How can I accomplish this? PS: I am aware that this may also lead to unexpected data loss in case the function is triggered by mistake. That is a risk I am willing to take.

> ### Turn "Better ads & Google services" on or off > > This setting lets your phone number to be used across Google services to show you ads more relevant to you. If you don’t want personalized ads, turn off the setting ... > > \- [Google Account Help](https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3463280?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid&oco=1#zippy=%2Cturn-better-ads-google-services-on-or-off) Google created this phone number setting to make money. It must get turned on some other way, that doesn't involve you digging into Google settings. I want to find how this happens. When I use a computer to add a phone number to Gmail / Google account, it leaves this ad-tracking turned off. Do Android phones ask you to turn on this "Better ads" setting?

I would like to disable calls for some contacts, in WhatsApp. I still want to interact with them via messaging. How can I do this? I have two accounts. As an alternative, disabling calls for one account will also work. - Blocking contact in non Whatsapp part of the contact, has no effect.

On Ice Cream Sandwich, I used to use an app called DS Super App2SD but it doesn't work on Android 4.3 Jelly Bean. I'm using Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 running on Cyanogenmod 10.2 nightly (Android 4.3.1) I already tried the adb shell pm set-install-location to SD card location. It made everything worst by thinking my empty 32GB micro SD was full. So I set it back to 0.

I can add photos to normal contacts fine. But WhatsApp, by default, uses the photo the the contact has allocated. Is there a way to allocate a photo to a WhatsApp contact?