I am looking for an app or a way to ensure specific apps are always running in the background/foreground all the time. The apps in question do run as a foreground service. If they are stopped for any reason, they will be started again by the app or process. Does the app called "Tasker" have a capability like this?

I'm trying to root Samsung Galaxy A03s (Tracfone, SM-S134DL) with Magisk and can't get it to work without the OEM on in the developers option. How do I turn on OEM?

When the device tries to connect to an access point or router, it has to sign in on the captive portal page with the message saying > "Sign in to Wi-Fi network". How does the access point/router identify that a sign in is required for the device and what is the process behind it?

With TWRP, on almost every operation I get > Failed to mount '/preload' (Invalid argument) My device currently can not boot, and this may have something to do with it, /preload is currently in /etc/fstab, I can see the entry here with /dev/block/mmcblk0p16 /preload ext4 rw 0 0 When I try to mount it, I get mount preload/ mount: mounting /dev/block/mmcblk0p16 on /preload failed: Invalid argument Is there anyway to fix this problem? From my recovery.log, I have /preload | /dev/block/mmcblk0p16 | Size: 0MB Used: 0MB Free: 0MB Backup Size: 0MB Flags: Can_Be_Mounted Can_Be_Wiped IsPresent Primary_Block_Device: /dev/block/mmcblk0p16 Display_Name: preload Storage_Name: preload Backup_Path: /preload Backup_Name: preload Backup_Display_Name: preload Storage_Path: /preload Current_File_System: ext4 Fstab_File_System: ext4 Backup_Method: files I'm trying to flash LineageOS, but I'm really just curious about resolving this error message.

I have a file on my phone, I think it's an audio file if that matters, that gives me a pop-up 'You don't have any apps that can open this type of file. Search Play Store.' I've tried a large number of apps trying to get this open and haven't managed to open it yet. Can anyone please direct me on how to go about opening it by any chance?

I’ve recently separated with my husband and I found two phones that I didn’t know about one as a Samsung one is an Apple iPhone. Both both are dead. Is it possible when they are charged to achieve any information? If I don’t know the passcode?

I work in a facility where my boss asked me to see if I can locate a specific number in 2 identical locked Motorola phones because they are now deceased and there was a computer left behind. We know with almost 99% certainty that it is who they say they are but we would like to cororbererate the number of the individual in question with the # in his or her phone. And as I said before both phone owners are now deceased and there is a pin lock on each phone. Is there any suggested free forensic software available out there or another way possibly to extract the data without loss? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I am moving into a new Android 7.0 device (a Nexus 6P). On my Mac computer, I have an .htm file with a dozen bookmarks. How can i import these bookmarks into the stock Chrome-for-Android browser? I am aware that Google will sync bookmarks between Chrome on a desktop and Chrome on Android via my Google account. I do **not** want to do that, because I want to avoid leaving that digital trail. I see a number of apps on the Google Play app store, but none seems to be doing just import and nothing else.

I went to the Play store to search for a text to speech app. To my surprise, it said I already had one: Google Text To Speech, and that it was probably already on. Sure enough, in settings, there it was. But not a word - zero - about how to use it, or point it to any arbitrary text, and have it start reading. I found this [post](https://www.google.com/amp/s/drfone.wondershare.com/amp-arc/android/text-to-speech.html) which lauded what this app can do - but using it, controlling it? No joy. Then I read in this article about Read Aloud, a Chrome extension. Apparently, Google TTS, despite the name, is NOT used to read text?! I guess it doesn't matter if there is no way to control it. So I got Read Aloud, after checking that it works on mobile and not just desktop. Supposedly, you can control it from an icon. But after clicking the button, did I see an icon? No, of course not. People, what am I missing here? I just want to use my phone to read arbitrary text. How do I make that happen? Thank.

How can you set Chrome to sync passwords to Google Account - but not any other data? Chrome is designed to send full browser history to Google, for ad-tracking purposes. What's the full list of things to make sure are turned off, after signing in to Chrome with my Google Account? --- I'm setting up a new device (Pixel 9 with Android 16). It comes with Google Password Manager. Sadly, Chrome uses its own autofill code. When Chrome offers to save something in Google Password Manager, it does _not_ look the same as in any other app. => If I _don't_ sign in to Chrome, I will have two separate password managers: 1. System-level autofill with Google Password Manager - which can only save passwords in your Google Account. 2. If you don't sign in to Chrome using your Google account, then Chrome can only save passwords "on this device". I use Firefox as my web browser. But I'm used to keeping the original browser as a backup (or keeping Chrome on Linux). I need to be able to check whether a website has decided to hate Firefox, or whether it's broken for everyone. It might sound picky, but I don't want my backup browser to use a separate "on my device" section in Google Password Manager. It's too much confusion. I want to have a good setup, that I can recommend to other people.

After the latest software update on my Google Pixel 9, I can no longer see the Home button or "..." menu (Settings) on the Google Chrome browser. I did a lot of troubleshooting with the app, related apps, other settings, and finally factory reset the phone. The issue persists! I called Pixel support and confirmed that this is not intentional. I tried the URLs: chrome://settings, chrome://history, etc. but they didn't work. I am out tricks - and Google Support is useless. How does one get to the home page or settings? Could this be malware? I did just experience a serious hack (related to bitcoin) on the phone. Any thoughts?

I recently decided to enhance my online security by changing all my passwords and activating Two-Factor authentication for most of the services I use. I updated my passwords in Google Password Manager and enabled on-device encryption. After updating my Google Account password, I was automatically logged out of all my devices. However, when I tried to access my passwords in Google Password Manager, I received a message saying that I couldn't access my encrypted data on the device I was using. The message suggested that I should try using a device that I recently used to sign in to my Google account: > for security, you can no longer access your encrypted data on this device. try again using a device that you’ve recently used to sign in to your google account. What I have tried: 1. Checked the Web & App Activities settings on your Google Account and turned it Off and then On again. 2. Checked the cookies settings on your browser. 3. Confirmed that Sync is not paused in Google Chrome. 4. Cleared data in Google Chrome and turned Sync off, signed back in, and turned Sync on again. 5. Checked the Device Activity page on your Google Account and confirmed that Sync is On and not paused on the devices you recently signed out of. 6. Restarted my device and waited for bookmarks and passwords to load. Despite trying these steps,I still cannot access my encrypted data on the device I am using, and I am looking for further help.

I was trying to do some fastboot commands on my Galaxy devices (Galaxy S4, 9515, 4Tab4). I started with fastboot devices and I am getting nothing (after adb reboot bootloader). Is there any problem with fastboot on Samsung devices?

Getting the following error when I try to active my new One Plus 7 Pro, > **The Google Assistant isn't available for this account** > > The Google Assistant needs Activity controls that your device administrator has limited on this account. Check with your administrator or switch accounts and try again

I have tried to access the voice command on the Talkback menu. I have tried to use adb/fastboot. All o no avail Outlast 5g

I am trying to root my Samsung Galaxy Ch@t GT-B5330 (4.1.2) following this guide. I have reached the point when I am intended to use the recovery mode menu (that is reached by holding volume-up when turning the phone on) but here am I stuck: whatever I choose gives me the error icon I am still able to boot the phone the normal way (though it has became a little bit slower than it was before flashing and starts Firefox on itself occasionally). How do I finish the rooting process?

Waydroid, bliss os, pheonix os doesn't work, everytime i used cloning apps like dual space, super clone etc, the apps will crash,

Looking for an ADB copypasta to jack my bluetooth call audio all the way up to maximum on my Galaxy ao2s. Android 12. When my media audio is high enough to cave in my head, I can barely hear my calls. All the settings are stock and all the way up, recent factory data reset. Samsung techsupport, of course, had "limited success" is helping me. I've gone through every setting in the UI and the developer options to no avail. The odd thing is that the call volume is perfectly adequate over speaker or without a headset, but plug in a BT headset - ANY BT headset - and the problem resurfaces. Crystal clear media, straining to hear my son who can help lost ships find their way to shore.

I have a Google Pixel 6a (bluejay) phone. On this phone camera makes shutter sound when I take a photo. I have looked up the phone by IMEI by going to https://store.google.com/us/device-authenticity?id=[IMEI] URL and it shows "Intended region: IN,JP". I have previously installed LineageOS and rooted it to remove the files /product/media/audio/ui/camera_click.ogg /product/media/audio/ui/camera_focus.ogg, /product/media/audio/ui/VideoStop.ogg and /product/media/audio/ui/VideoRecord.ogg. This removed the sound, but because of the root banking applications complained, so I reinstalled the system to CalyxOS without wiping. Now I want to remove the same .ogg files without rooting the phone. I have downloaded https://release.calyxinstitute.org/bluejay-factory-25608200.zip file linked from the page https://calyxos.org/install/devices/bluejay/linux/ . It is an archive with all partition images. Inside an archive there is another archive bluejay-bp1a.250505.005/image-bluejay-bp1a.250505.005.zip which I unpacked. This archive in turn contains product.img file. I unpacked product.img by running unzip image-bluejay-bp1a.250505.005.zip product.img. I confirmed that product.img contains the files media/audio/ui/camera_click.ogg and similar. I tried to mount the image and got this error:

# mount -o loop product.img /mnt/
mount: /mnt: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0, missing codepage or helper program, or other error.
       dmesg(1) may have more information after failed mount system call.
# dmesg | tail -1
[360861.911279] EXT4-fs (loop0): couldn't mount RDWR because of unsupported optional features (4000)

I ran e2fsck -E unshare_blocks product.img and then tried to mount again: Then the image mounted successfully with mount -o loop product.img /mnt/. I then modified the image:

cd /mnt/media/audio/ui
mv camera_click.ogg camera_click.bak.ogg
mv camera_focus.ogg camera_focus.bak.ogg
mv VideoStop.ogg VideoStop.bak.ogg
mv VideoRecord.ogg VideoRecord.bak.ogg
cd /
umount /mnt

Then I rebooted the phone to fastboot with adb reboot fastboot and flashed the modified product.img to both slots:

# fastboot flash --slot=all product product.img
Resizing 'product_a'                               OKAY [  0.019s]
Sending sparse 'product_a' 1/7 (262112 KB)         OKAY [  6.272s]
Writing 'product_a'                                OKAY [  1.279s]
Sending sparse 'product_a' 2/7 (262128 KB)         OKAY [  6.243s]
Writing 'product_a'                                OKAY [  1.227s]
Sending sparse 'product_a' 3/7 (262120 KB)         OKAY [  5.996s]
Writing 'product_a'                                OKAY [  1.313s]
Sending sparse 'product_a' 4/7 (262120 KB)         OKAY [  5.941s]
Writing 'product_a'                                OKAY [  1.199s]
Sending sparse 'product_a' 5/7 (262124 KB)         OKAY [  5.985s]
Writing 'product_a'                                OKAY [  1.262s]
Sending sparse 'product_a' 6/7 (262104 KB)         OKAY [  5.968s]
Writing 'product_a'                                OKAY [  1.318s]
Sending sparse 'product_a' 7/7 (161293 KB)         OKAY [  3.752s]
Writing 'product_a'                                OKAY [  0.967s]
Resizing 'product_b'                               OKAY [  0.014s]
Sending sparse 'product_b' 1/7 (262112 KB)         OKAY [  5.982s]
Writing 'product_b'                                OKAY [  1.258s]
Sending sparse 'product_b' 2/7 (262128 KB)         OKAY [  5.930s]
Writing 'product_b'                                OKAY [  1.256s]
Sending sparse 'product_b' 3/7 (262120 KB)         OKAY [  5.992s]
Writing 'product_b'                                OKAY [  1.274s]
Sending sparse 'product_b' 4/7 (262120 KB)         OKAY [  5.932s]
Writing 'product_b'                                OKAY [  1.247s]
Sending sparse 'product_b' 5/7 (262124 KB)         OKAY [  6.002s]
Writing 'product_b'                                OKAY [  1.252s]
Sending sparse 'product_b' 6/7 (262104 KB)         OKAY [  6.221s]
Writing 'product_b'                                OKAY [  1.293s]
Sending sparse 'product_b' 7/7 (161293 KB)         OKAY [  4.136s]
Writing 'product_b'                                OKAY [  0.917s]
Finished. Total time: 100.988s

However, after rebooting the phone, the camera still clicks. The files are also still there:

$ adb shell
bluejay:/ $ ls /product/media/audio/ui/camera_click.ogg
/product/media/audio/ui/camera_click.ogg

/system/product is a symlink to /product. Why the files were not modified? How can I still remove these files?

Google [announced in December 2022](https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/01/google-announces-official-android-support-for-risc-v/) that Android would support RISC-V devices. More recently, [Qualcomm have announced](https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/10/qualcomm-announces-first-ever-mass-market-risc-v-android-soc/) that they're working on a RISC-V chipset for Wear OS with Google. When will we be able to buy RISC-V Android devices?