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Turn off Android 16's easter egg
How do I turn off the spacecraft game in Android 16? It starts automatically when I put the phone on charge and gives me hundreds of notifications that can't be muted.
How do I turn off the spacecraft game in Android 16?
It starts automatically when I put the phone on charge and gives me hundreds of notifications that can't be muted.
Jack
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Apr 29, 2025, 06:28 AM
• Last activity: Apr 29, 2025, 01:09 PM
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How to "undo" Android cats easter egg and remove cat power controls on MIUI 12
I have enabled Android 11 easter egg by dialing 3 times and unlocking "11" now I have cat controls enabled when I slide down settings shortcut menu on my Poco F2 Pro (MIUI 12 - 12.2.4), and I do not know how to disable this. I honestly don't mind having these controls there, but my UI became very la...
I have enabled Android 11 easter egg by dialing 3 times and unlocking "11" now I have cat controls enabled when I slide down settings shortcut menu on my Poco F2 Pro (MIUI 12 - 12.2.4), and I do not know how to disable this. I honestly don't mind having these controls there, but my UI became very laggy since I've done this (there were no POCO launcher updates or any updates for that matter hence, "cats" are the main suspect). Anyone knows how to disable them?
kaktus_car
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Mar 16, 2021, 02:01 PM
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How do I remove Android 11 Cat easter egg when I have Android 12?
After updating my Samsung phone to Android 12 I wanted to remove the Android 11 easter egg, but since I have Android 12 now I can't do it. Does anyone know how to fix this (apart from factory reset)?
After updating my Samsung phone to Android 12 I wanted to remove the Android 11 easter egg, but since I have Android 12 now I can't do it. Does anyone know how to fix this (apart from factory reset)?
Ihsaan
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Jan 31, 2022, 01:20 AM
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How does the Android 7.0 Nougat Easter Egg work?
I just installed the newest version of Android (Nougat) for my Sony Xperia Z5 and I know that in each version of this OS there is an easter egg in the options menu, so I tried to activate it by tapping on the right menu items, it shows the Nougat logo but after that nothing happens. Does anyone know...
I just installed the newest version of Android (Nougat) for my Sony Xperia Z5 and I know that in each version of this OS there is an easter egg in the options menu, so I tried to activate it by tapping on the right menu items, it shows the Nougat logo but after that nothing happens.
Does anyone know how it works?
Willy
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May 17, 2017, 05:22 PM
• Last activity: Apr 17, 2021, 11:32 AM
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What is the Android 11 Easter Egg?
What is the Android 11 Easter Egg? If so how do you find it? Does Android 11 even have a Easter Egg?
What is the Android 11 Easter Egg? If so how do you find it? Does Android 11 even have a Easter Egg?
Joshua
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Mar 31, 2021, 12:43 PM
• Last activity: Mar 31, 2021, 06:33 PM
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Effects of hourglass button in Android P easter egg
In the Android P easter egg, PAINT.APK, there is a button in the toolbar that looks like an hourglass. Clicking it rotates it, but it appears to have no effect. What effects do the hourglass button in the Android P easter egg have? 
In the Android P easter egg, PAINT.APK, there is a button in the toolbar that looks like an hourglass. Clicking it rotates it, but it appears to have no effect. What effects do the hourglass button in the Android P easter egg have?

GamerGirl73
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Jan 12, 2019, 08:17 PM
• Last activity: May 7, 2019, 11:29 AM
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Does LineageOS disable the Android Easter Eggs?
I'm currently running LinageOS 14.1 (Android 7.1), I found a task in Magisk named `com.android.egg`. It's described as being "Android Easter Egg". Researching it, I found out how to [trigger it here](https://www.pocket-lint.com/apps/news/google/138312-how-to-access-android-easter-egg), > **Android N...
I'm currently running LinageOS 14.1 (Android 7.1), I found a task in Magisk named
com.android.egg
. It's described as being "Android Easter Egg". Researching it, I found out how to [trigger it here](https://www.pocket-lint.com/apps/news/google/138312-how-to-access-android-easter-egg) ,
> **Android N "Nougat" easter egg** You can get to the Nougat easter egg in
> much the same as as Oreo, but the actual game is much more involved.
> Activate the easter as normal by going into your Settings > About
> Phone > Android version. Repeatedly tap on the Android Version tab
> until the "N" appears on screen.
>
> Swipe down from the top of the screen to reveal your quick settings
> toggles and hit "edit". You should now see a cat face icon with the
> label, "???? Android Easter egg". Drag and drop this icon to to the
> main quick settings options and place it where you want it. Now, the
> fun can begin.
>
> Hit your home button and then drag down the quick settings shade from
> the top of the screen again. This time you should see an "empty plate"
> option. Tap it and you'll see an overlay with four food choices: Bits,
> Fish, Chicken and Treat. Select one, then continue using your phone as
> normal, and wait.
>
> Eventually, you'll get a notification telling you that a cat has
> snagged one of the treats. But it doesn't always work, which is kind
> of the point of the game. You have to keep trying, using different
> treats to bait a cat.
>
> When it does work, you'll get a notification saying "a cat is here"
> with the number of the cat listed underneath. Tapping on the
> notification reveals a new screen with a cat icon which you tap once
> to rename, or long-press to reveal sharing options. You can save a
> full resolution version of the cat's picture to your device, or share
> it to all your social media accounts like every other crazy cat owner.
However, that doesn't work for me. It seems as if on LineageOS the edit option for the drop-down is done by clicking on the pencil at the top. There is no **Edit** text anywhere on the menu. I would still expect that button to work for the purposes of the easter egg?
Does LineageOS disable these Android Easter Eggs? Is it possible to trigger this Easter Egg in LineageOS?
Evan Carroll
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Dec 5, 2018, 05:38 AM
• Last activity: Dec 5, 2018, 08:09 PM
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Android 4.4: How to get the Easter Egg and unlock the Dessert Case daydream?
Similar to [Android 4.2/4.3 easter eggs][1], does 4.4 KitKat have similar or other ones? [1]: https://android.stackexchange.com/q/34697/38289
Similar to Android 4.2/4.3 easter eggs , does 4.4 KitKat have similar or other ones?
gertvdijk
(887 rep)
Nov 16, 2013, 12:34 PM
• Last activity: Sep 1, 2017, 11:18 AM
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Lollipop Easter Egg (AKA Flappy bird) is unplayable when using Arabic language
I have LG G2 on CyanogenMod 5.0, and I set it to Arabic language. When I tried to play the hidden easter egg (Flappy bird), the flying robot is not shown when using Arabic language. How to solve this issue?
I have LG G2 on CyanogenMod 5.0, and I set it to Arabic language. When I tried to play the hidden easter egg (Flappy bird), the flying robot is not shown when using Arabic language.
How to solve this issue?
M. A.
(840 rep)
Apr 12, 2015, 08:38 PM
• Last activity: Jan 31, 2016, 07:41 AM
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Is Snowden snowing us with his "Smurfs Suite" interview?
I hope this is not too off-topic. This morning when I read news it was full of articles quoting Snowden in his most recent interviews. Apparently the UK's GCHQ and the USA's NSA can (1) turn your phone on and off at will (2) turn your mic on and off at will, listening (3) take pics at will, watching...
I hope this is not too off-topic. This morning when I read news it was full of articles quoting Snowden in his most recent interviews. Apparently the UK's GCHQ and the USA's NSA can
(1) turn your phone on and off at will
(2) turn your mic on and off at will, listening
(3) take pics at will, watching
etc. all by sending an encrypted text which we will never actually see.
Check me if I'm wrong, but this seems hopelessly conspiracy-theorish when I consider it from a technical perspective.
(1) When my phone is off, what signal exactly are they going to send to wake it up? When my phone is off my battery goes for months with a barely perceptible drain - is the idea that this barely perceptible drain is intentional and being used by the security agencies? Or that they have a special battery in each and every handset ever made which somehow (magically) has never been discovered in any of the thousands of tear-downs that have been done?!
(2) I have tried some of the apps that are out there to work with my phone remotely. Inevitably they work great on the phone that the developer used in his original testing and they work like crap on most other phones. Are we saying that the NSA/GCHQ has developers dedicated to this on every single platform available? And they do it in advance of every single release so it can be part of the ROM? And they do this regardless of what country the handset maker is in?!
(3) And isn't android open source after all? Doesn't that basically completely rule out the possibility of some huge gaping hole like this?! Surely some 13-year-old would have run across it and once it's discovered how can it not be publicized with internet 2.0 the way it is today?!
I've got friends who were already convinced they needed to take their battery out of their phone when having a conversation (like the NSA cares who won the latest football match?!) - this is just going to throw gas on that fire. I'd like some technical responses to this question...
(No need to just quote the articles or tell us how much Snowden knows - I'm interested in the technical side of things as to whether something like this is remotely feasible.)
To make the question more focused: Is it technically possible that someone could turn on your phone remotely when it was completely turned off (but with battery still in)? Is it possible that spyware could be of sufficient quality to be useful (listen/pic and then send somewhere, presumably) and still buried so deeply that nobody was aware of it? So the question is strictly limited to the technical viability - could it theoretically be done?
Peter Bowers
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Oct 6, 2015, 05:50 AM
• Last activity: Oct 6, 2015, 03:54 PM
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Android 4.2: How to get the Easter Egg, a new daydream, and Developer options?
1. How can I get the *Easter Egg* hidden in Android Jelly Bean? 2. How could I use that *Easter Egg* to enable a **hidden daydream** in Android 4.2? 3. How can I enable the **Developer options**, hidden by default in Android 4.2?
1. How can I get the *Easter Egg* hidden in Android Jelly Bean?
2. How could I use that *Easter Egg* to enable a **hidden daydream** in Android 4.2?
3. How can I enable the **Developer options**, hidden by default in Android 4.2?
Francisco Alvarado
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Dec 4, 2012, 08:31 AM
• Last activity: Aug 26, 2014, 03:10 PM
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How do I get the hidden achievement in the new Google Play Games app?
I've heard that there's a secret "easter egg" achievement in the new [Google Play Games][1] app, how can I get that achievement? [1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.play.games
I've heard that there's a secret "easter egg" achievement in the new Google Play Games app, how can I get that achievement?
GAThrawn
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Jul 31, 2013, 07:42 PM
• Last activity: Jul 31, 2013, 07:44 PM
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Press android version thrice took me to another screen which shows big Jellybean logo!
When i pressed *settings*> *About phone* >*Android version* thrice quickly, it took me to another screen which displays *Android version with Red Logo*. I wonder this behavior is common in all Android Flavors. I have galaxy Nexus with Jellybean 4.2.2
When i pressed *settings*> *About phone* >*Android version* thrice quickly, it took me to another screen which displays *Android version with Red Logo*. I wonder this behavior is common in all Android Flavors. I have galaxy Nexus with Jellybean 4.2.2
Rilwan
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Mar 11, 2013, 10:47 AM
• Last activity: Mar 11, 2013, 01:10 PM
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What are the Android 4.0.x Ice Cream Sandwich Easter Eggs?
I heard that there are some Easter eggs hidden in ice cream sandwich version. How can I view the Easter eggs hidden in my android device and how can I view them? I'm using Android 4 ICS.
I heard that there are some Easter eggs hidden in ice cream sandwich version.
How can I view the Easter eggs hidden in my android device and how can I view them? I'm using Android 4 ICS.
Sid
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Dec 16, 2012, 12:59 PM
• Last activity: Dec 16, 2012, 06:47 PM
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