testing of bluetooth and WiFi apps for android

i was trying to develop an app for android which by which i can create a MANET of phones using bluetooth and/or WIFI as communication medium. but as emulator doesn't support bluetooth there is no way for me to emulateor simulate it. is there any way other than using an actual device?

Furthermore, i want to test connection between devices, is there a way to simulate a environment like NS-2 in which i can put android as nodes and test the connection and other things between 2 or more devices?

Best way to back-up settings and apps for a new rom?

Guys I know I'm stupid. But I know all the basics of flashing, rooting, recovery, etc... But I never cared about backing up my settings and apps, I always started fresh. But now since I flash a lot more I'm starting to get annoyed. :silly: I want to start backing up, but is it possible to do so and keep all my settings, my apps, and the settings of my apps? I know Titanium Backup can backup setting and apps but can it backup system settings as well? I would prefer to use what you guys think is the best option, thanks again. I do not care about backing up the whole ROM itself with all the apps and settings via TWRP or any other custom recovery, the whole point of this post is to have a fresh ROM then restore it with all the apps and settings I previously had on the ROM before.

How long does it take to set Apps to "Inactive"

Ive been running Android 6.0 now since a while on my Nexuses and all apps are still marked as active (Developer Options -> Inactive Apps). However im pretty sure i didnt use all of my apps in the recent time.

Little ram saving trick for RamHog™ apps. Maybe it'll help. :)

on a phone that only has three gigs of RAM, (I got the 16 GB version, sue me) I knew there would be a little bit of tweaking involved.
Both chrome and Firefox, are highly functional, with social network sites like twitter, and facebook.
I realized my applications, were eating up nearly a gigabyte of RAM.
My simple tweak is this.
I deleted Facebook messenger, the Facebook app itself, and the twitter apps
I used chrome to go to Facebook, and sign in, and then saved it as a desktop button. (setting are the three dots, top right, selected "add to home screen")
One click and I'm back in Facebook. No app needed, and no RAM suck
Did the same thing with Twitter, and when I was done, I had nearly a gigabyte of free RAM on the phone, and the phone was seriously faster.

Hope it helps someone. I know there are people who get used to the UI of the apps, over the desktop sites, especially on mobile devices, but I barely noticed it.
It is basically using one app (your browser) instead of several apps. with previous versions of android, I got mixed results with this, but it seems to work really smoothly now

Thanks!

Fire TV / Stick - Awesome setup and Must have apps

This is the Best Setup & Top apps for power users on a none rooted Fire TV :D

Here is the video ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoQHoIaFhsw

1- FireStarter
2- Play Muisc Android TV
3- YouTube Android TV
4- Dolphin Browser
5- Es File Explorer
6- Play Movies Android TV
7- VLC Android TV
8- Splashtop
9- CCleaner
10- 1Mobile

Note:
This setup was done on the New Fire TV 2015 running Fire OS 5, but most of the apps should work jute fine on Fire OS 4.

HBO Go, Showtime Anytime and WatchESPN FireTV apps on Android TV

Hello all,

So with some trial and error, I was able to get my hands on the apks for the Fire TV Versions of HBO Go, Showtime Anytime and WatchESPN. These are all apps we desperately need on our Android Tvs.

The biggest problem right now is that when you sideload these onto your device, they bring up one of three errors.

If you don't have the Amazon Appstore or Amazon Underground installed at all, it will prompt you to install it, then force quit itself.

If you have the Amazon Appstore or Amazon Underground installed, but you are not logged in, the error will prompt you to login and will take you straight to the login page.

If you have the Amazon Appstore or the Amazon Underground, and you are logged in, the error will claim that you do not own the app in question and either show you details or force-quit you.

Now, it seems to me (a humble peasant compared to many people here) that we're approaching this all wrong. So far, it seems like we've been trying to hoodwink the apps into thinking we're running them on Fire TV devices by modifying our build.prop. I have yet to hear this work. Instead I would propose this: what if we stopped the error message from closing our apps after the prompt? So say, in the first scenario, it prompts me to install the Amazon Appstore, I click ok... and nothing happens, leaving me free to use the app normally.

This Youtuber was able to get the HBO Now (not Go) app for Fire TV working somehow using this method
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2h59156pHE

If a brave soul of the XDA community wants to try this and gift us with modified APKs that will run on our systems, that would be fantastic. I can attach the APKs if you need them

Can apps detect if there's a custom recovery installed?

Title.

Selecting Apps On Edge Panels Not Working

I've had my Note Edge for a few weeks and have throughly enjoyed it - until today.

I went to select an app from one of the Edeg panels and nothing - did not open anything. Tried all panels and this was the same.

I turned it off then on. Still not working.

I cleared the cache. Still not working.

Did a search on this issue and couldn't find anything.

Appreciate a solution to this issue !

Thank you !

Which apps are installed in CM 12 by default?

I didn't find a complete list of apps that are installed by default in CyanogenMod 12. The reason I ask is if it still possible to go without gapps. In older CM versions there used to be a calendar, file manager, keyboard and other apps which you need daily. But it seems that all these apps are now "google-ified" and only available in the play store

Can you tell me which apps are installed by default?

Can't download apps through the playstore on CM 12.1

Is this something that other people are experiencing? I can't use the playstore to download apps. They get to a certain percentage of download and then stop. I've tried with quite a few different things. The only one that worked was hangouts. I've tried and tried, reset a lot but to no avail. I've had to load the APKs onto the device and do it that way.

PS I would post in the 12.1 thread but I'm too new. :p

KitKat to Marshmallow update diary, kept apps and settings, rooted

I managed to upgrade my Nexus 7 2013 LTE from KitKat to Marshmallow using factory images yesterday and took some notes. All apps and settings kept (or at least I haven't noticed any issues other than no Xposed) and rooted. I figured someone might find this useful.

So, short version: upgrading directly from 4.4.4 to 6.0 with factory images didn't work without wiping data and where's the fun in that? So I took a longer route and went 4.4.4->5.02->5.1.1->6.0.0. It's possible I could've gone from 5.0.2 to 6.0 or 4.4.4 to 5.1.1 directly but I'm not going to try and see if that's the case. Enjoying Marshmallow now.

Basically, I did the same thing for all three update steps:

1. Unpacked factory image, rebooted to bootloader, flashed bootloader, radio, system.img, boot.img, cache.img. I rebooted to bootloader after flashing bootloader and again after flashing radio, same thing the flashall.bat does. Don't know if it matters.


2. Booted to TWRP recovery, flashed supersu zip and renamed /system/recovery-from-boot.p to keep TWRP.


3. Booted system and grew some gray hairs while the boot animation went on and on until it finally got to the long "optimizing apps" phase.

For 6.0 I flashed a modified kernel and supersu beta 2.52.

So, enjoying Marshmallow now. No issues so far. Root cloak detectors seem to be becoming a plague and I've only used an Xposed module for that.

Pure MRA58K - Play Store doesn't list installed Apps

I have several brand new 16gb 2013 Nexus 7s that I need to set up for a project at work. I created a new Google account and updated both to Marshmallow according to the instructions here:
https://developers.google.com/androi...s/images?hl=en

I've done two so far and both are exhibiting the same strange behavior. The Play Store isn't listing the installed apps or automatically updating them. Under My Apps, both INSTALLED and ALL are completely empty.

Things I've tried:

• Clearing Storage On Play Store


• Reboot


• Factory Wipe


• I searched for gmail and found that it needed an update. I manually installed the update and now it's in the list.


• Made a second new Google Account

I added new user and set up my personal Google Account in the device and it recognized all of the system and immediately started updating them.

I don't want to have to install my personal account on all of these tablets. Do anyone have any idea what could be wrong with my new Google accounts and how I could fix them?

apps crash, phone reboots

I had been using rooted kitat for sometime. Everything was great. Then I installed a 5.0.2 Russian stock ROM and that ran fine too. But after a few weeks, I have been getting this problem. It seems the phone doesnt load apps and/or they keep crashing. The phone eventually hangs and reboots..I have tried flashing alternative rom through odin but the problem persists...What else can I do?

Core freq controll apps, none works!?

As I'm the typical user that underclocks because I don?t use games or heavy apps I'm used to use some apps to do this, but, they are very outdated (setCPU, our dead friend) or they are incompatible... francokernel, trickster mod, kernel adiutor... you can lock freqs but the CPU doesn't give a duck about those apps...

Why? and... is there any way to underclock?

I can live with hotpluged cores limited to 1200mhz and a gpu to 4450mhz... I think we would improve the battery a lot but... we can't limit the cpu-gpu..

if i put android rom, will harmony remote work - left , right , enter open apps.

are there any disadvantages?

[Q&A] How do I change the apps listed in Extended Power Saver mode?

Hi all,

As the title says, I'm looking to change the apps available from the Extended Power Saver mode screen. This came about as I use a different SMS app rather than the HTC default. My prefrence would be to be able to change the app name/icon and where the tile points to - however I will accept if I can point the "Messages" tile with the HTC icon to a different program.

Any help appreciated!

Fingerprint apps

Hello, does anyone know any apps that make use of the fingerprint reader? Doing a search brings up many fake apps. Paypal has it activated but only for Samsung phones

Mirroring Apps

I am not even sure if it can be done or not. I have two phones that I switch between and what I would like to be able to do, perhaps with an app is to mirror all my apps and app data between the two phones. That way all I have to do is basically take my sim out of one phone and into the other, and my apps and app data will be updated and the same.
Is this possible?

Stock 5.1.1 killing apps that should be persistent

Updated to stock 5.1.1 on my note 4 n910u variant last week, and I noticed that it kills apps that are suppose to stay in memory,like Adguard or pintasking. This was not an issue on 5.0.1 and I'd like to know if anyone has observed this.

I'm not running any task killing apps or Xposed modules.

Sent from my SM-N910U using Tapatalk

Getting notifications from 3rd party apps on Gear S2

Hi,

I am using Note 4 DE and I have 4 Exchange accounts set on 3 different applications: Nine Exchange, Touchdown Exchange for Smartphones and built-in email app in addition to two GMAIL accounts, all of them with different colored light and notification sound thanks to Light Flow. I am wondering if the Gear S2 will display all notifications coming from all the apps previously mentioned? Is there a setting that allow us to select which notifications to be sent to smartwatch or it is capturing only standard apps like Gmail, Hangouts and Messaging?
Thanks.