Questions tagged [android]
An operating system running on top of the Linux kernel, targeting mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.
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Support TI WL18xx WiFi/Bluetooth module on iMX7 Running Android 8.0.0
I am using AOSP. I have a task to load Android onto an eSOMiMX7 board, which runs, among other things, an iMX7 processor and a TI wl18xx WiFi/bluetooth module. When I was brought on, the Linux and ...
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Is it possible to make bash support UTF-8 without any locale files installed?
I have installed the bash binary into an Android device (with sh as the filename), using an app that I don't fully trust.
It interprets non-ASCII Unicode characters as random control codes, or has no ...
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What is the bare minimum needed to run an android GUI program on ubuntu?
I have grabbed an android x86 ubuntu "app" that runs android on top of linux. How would I run that from a CLI only install of ubuntu, like ubuntu server? Or what is the bare minimum needed to ...
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Configuring virtio vsock for android (aosp)
I want to use virtio vsock for communication between host machine and vm. My host is running ubuntu. I understand by default virtio vsock module is enabled for ubuntu so I don't need to do any ...
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Genymotion unable to start because of VBoxManage error?
I installed VirtualBox and Genymotion on Ubuntu 18.04
But, when I run Genymotion it starts to boot and it shows me that it's not able to find VirtualBox, but looking at logs this fails:
2019-03-...
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Can the phone storage device of an android phone be shown when connected to Lubuntu?
My Android phone has 1GB Phone space, and 2GB MicroSD card.
When I connect the phone to my computer (Ubuntu) via a USB cable, only the 2GB MicroSD card is shown in sudo parted -l and df -l commands. ...
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Does the Modifications Made In GNU Parted Affect the File System Table File?
My Nexus 7 (2013 WiFi) tablet PC has a corrupted partition table. I would now like to troubleshoot into Linux.
After loading GNU Parted on the tablet and making a new GPT table with 30 partitions ...
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Debugging android kernel goldifish emulator under Mac OS Mojave
I need to debug android kernel goldfish under MacOS Mojave.
So i cloned android-goldfish-3.18 and android-aosp-9.0.0_r22.
I built aosp under macos while the kernel under debian.
Obviously I built ...
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OpenConnect (ocserv) android app has TLS error on client side
I have a centos 7.6 vps as server with public ip address.
Also i have an android phone + windows 7 os as clients with wireless internet.
I installed OpenConnect (ocserv) on server machine & config ...
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X11 can run on ereader via ssh -X, but unable to use the touch-screen as the main display
I have successfully accessed X11 on a nook touch via ssh -X and started lxsession on a debian chroot. I tried being clever by making use of the omapflb driver. My intentions are to be able to use ...
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Inverse of hciattach (got HCI over usb, want HCI over UART)
The previous default Bluetooth stack in Android was Bluedroid, which for some odd reason only supports HCI UART and not HCI USB. I have a BT interface that speaks HCI that I've integrated on the ...
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Why can't I see my mobile device on DevTools while running adb on a Docker container?
I'm trying to debug an app (or simply inspect pages in the Chrome browser) on my mobile device and I'm trying to use docker containers for housing adb. Everything goes well while starting up the adb ...
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How are Linux kernel modules installed into the Android system.img
I have a question relating to building OS images for devboards such as the Hikey960 and Hikey970.
When building a Debian image one has to install the kernel modules built in the kernel into the ...
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Linux Deploy - LMMS and Audacity
I'm using Linux Deploy on an Android phone, here are the installation and device specs:
My device is SM-G900F, LineageOS 15.1, Debian stable, XFCE, installed as folder, using XSDL, chroot container, ...
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unknown value 'cortex-a73.cortex-a53' for -mcpu
Im trying to compile an android kernel. Im using the sourcecode from https://github.com/tytydraco/hex_jasmine . As suggested from the developer i installed a fresh Arch linux box on VmWare 6.5. with ...
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No battery files created. Cannot determine battery state
I'm trying out Phoenix OS (Android port for PC). I really like it. One big problem is, that somehow, I do not have any battery information. In /sys/class/power_supply is see the folder for the adapter ...
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Corrupted SD card is readonly and not mounting
I'm having issues trying to recover a corrupted micro-SD card (not the data, just the card). I think it was formated to be part of the internal storage of an Android phone when that was an option.
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Chrome OS: How to cross reference a process to an active application
Short Question: How can I find the process ID of an app running an open window on my Chrome OS device.
Background: I'm using Android Apps on Chrome OS. An Android adware app is popping up two ...
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Add Prime OS (Android_x86_x64) to grub menu
I have debian dual boot with windows and try to install prime os also,
while install it i didn't install it's grub because i have debian grub,
but after installation i can't found it in grub .
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Confluence Site viewing via Android-Chrome Redirects URL to many times but Desktop Chrome and other Browsers do not
I just posted a URL and tested viewing it I noticed that in Chrome on Android it redirects too many times to the following URL. I tried clearing my cookies and browsing data but it still did the same ...
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Where is the network data is stored on linux system?
is there a way I can find information about my wifi connections? Which networks I was connected to and when? I had tried to look for this information under proc/net but found nothing.
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How to read information about wifi connection from proc - net? [duplicate]
Is there a way I can get information about my current WiFi connection on my android? Information like the name of the WiFi network, connection start time, connection duration etc.?
I looked inside ...
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I cannot enter into an wlan ap created on raspberry with my android phone, but it works on windows
I have a Raspberry PI Zero W with Raspbian on it. I have created with it a WLAN-AP. I can access it with my Windows 10 computer without any problems, with my Android 8.1.0 phone it don't work. The ...
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What is needed to make a busybox init boot to a shell on an arm device/phone?
I compiled busybox with arm-linux-gnueabihf for and Cortex-A/armv7-a arm device/phone. When I run the binary on android it works well. I decided to modify the android boot image. In the boot image ...
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Bash command “reset” — dash (sh) equivalent?
When the fonts get messed up in dash (jackpal.androidterm), how do I reset that one?
When printing contents of binary files, special characters can mess up the terminal character set. How can this be ...
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How to dump stack trace for all processes in Linux?
I am trying to track down a bug on an Android device that involves IPC between several native processes. At a given point in time I would like to dump native stack traces for all threads in some or ...
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Using Android FOTA system on general Linux systems
The Android FOTA API is really great imo, even though I really dislike almost everything else about Android. Here's why it's great:
built-in authentication and integrity checks
inter-OS communication ...
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How to solve error of missing destination file operand after '/sdcard/ngrok/ngrok ' in termux [closed]
I am using termux in my android but I get the following error when I want to copy some data from sdcard to $HOME IN TERMUX the following
error shows up:
missing destination file operand after '/sdcard/...
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Android kernel compiling error
When compiling the kernel, if I choose Ethernet Gadget (with CDC Ethernet support) or Network Control Model (NCM) instead of the Android composite device, I get an error:
drivers/built-in.o:coresight-...
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Moving .android on Linux
Android Studio complains that it can't launch the emulator due to a lack of space.
The folder ~/.android contains (among others) the virtual devices and is therefore quite big. I would like to move it ...
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Android Serial Port is being used for no permission to open
I have a Wandboard IMX 6 with Android OS. I can't read RS232 data. I was wrote an app for this on QtCreator with C++.
I have an issue. When i pressed the connect button i take serial port is being ...
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Does “Linux” require Python? [closed]
One of my friends told me that without Python, Linux cannot get ip, cannot open network stack and can't make "port switching", even he thinks kernel can't boot without Python. Is python really a ...
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How to adjust headphone gain in /sys/kernel/sound_control/headphone_gain?
I want to increase headphone gain. So I have found the file location at /sys/kernel/sound_control/headphone_gain.
cat /sys/kernel/sound_control/headphone_gain
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Output of `ip route show` seems incomplete: no default route, but internet is reachable anyway
On my Android phone, where I have a Debian system running in userspace (apt, GNU tools, and other software runs in a chroot, accessible through ssh), the routing table seems incomplete.
Output of ip ...
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Obtain information on encrypted android card image
For several days now I have tried to recover the key for an encrypted android-container (android_expand, used as internal storage) without success. As all kinds of stuff of the past years is on that ...
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Bluetooth Simple Secure Paring issues
I have a bluetooth capable chip and an android, I am trying to have the two communicate over RFCOMM. I have an android app and a python server on linux that works, the only issue is my pairing ...
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How to mount USB device using jmtpfs on Linux (Debian 9)? [duplicate]
Device Information Settings -> System -> About device
SAMSUNG-SM-G900R4, Android version 6.0.1
Computer System Information (Terminal command: uname -a)
Linux debian 4.9.0-8-amd64 #1 SMP ...
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errors while compiling android kernel
I'm trying to compile the android kernel which I have patched it with some application patch file, which have changed the kernel.
here is the the compilation error:
androtrace/androtrace.c: In ...
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Cannot list contents of directory with 0755 and owned by current user
The platform is a rooted Android 8.1 phone (Magisk) with the Termux Android terminal emulator and Linux environment app installed. I use this as a server on the go.
After connecting a USB smart card ...
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Can't format Samsung SD Card Android-Meta [closed]
I have a Xiaomi A1 with Android on it and I use my Samsung MicroSD Card Evo+ 129 GB, as as an internal storage. For no reason, it's stopped working and asking me to format it. The issue is, the ...
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How does Magisk on Android work as su without setuid and capabilities?
I've read in another answer that on Android the su binaries avoid needing to be setuid by using filesystem capabilities like cap_setuid. But then I tried to check this, and to my surprise, I found no ...
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Serial port ignoring custom divisor
I am trying to run a serial port at 3.25Mb/s by applying a divisor of 2 to a baud base of 6.5Mb/s. I am using an IoT device (Telit HE922-3GR) running android 6 with built in serial ports, the proc/tty/...
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insufficient permissions for device
While using the command adb root
the output I obtained is
adb: unable to connect for root: insufficient permissions for device: verify udev rules.
See [http://developer.android.com/tools/device.html]...
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Bash replace string with command
I have a command (logcat) which outputs a long log like this:
07-27 09:26:22.416 17574 17886 D SurfaceControl: Excessive delay in setPowerMode()
07-27 09:26:22.421 17574 17599 I PowerManagerService: ...
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Android does not boot properly and services can't start due to read only
I have a sabresd based reference board and I have ported android O from official source.
I am facing a problem that none of the service works. All are getting killed.
In my case adb is not present as ...
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Error in mounting rootfs in android
Failed to make and chown /acct/uid_0:
Read-only file system
I have a i.xm6q sabresd reference board and another is a development board based on i.mx6.
I'm trying to port Android O on development ...
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Disappearing android studio from the menu [closed]
I'm new to Linux and using Mint 19 Cinnamon,
I've tried to make a menu shortcut of the android studio by passing this way in the android studio:
Tools → Create desktop entry
after these ...
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How to prevent “Unable to open MTP device” popups from opening?
System: Linux Mint 18.3 Cinnamon 64-bit which is based on Ubuntu 16.04.
Cell phone: Samsung Galaxy S II (Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean (API 16))
Problem: There is an unstoppable amount of popups on one ...
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How can I set up openVPN on Ubuntu 16.04 and which app do I need to connect to it on Android?
I tried this but I was unable to start NetworkManager after setting up the new interface.
How can I set up openVPN on a GUI-less Ubuntu 16.04 and which app do I need to connect to it on Android?
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Install Linux and Android in a x86_64 device with preinstalled android
I have a tablet with a x86-64 intel processor, which is a Chuwi Hi12. This tablet can boot an USB device, so I can boot Linux (ArchLinux) in this tablet. Also, I can install Linux in this device ...
