callerid - Phone number shown as unknown. Always says sender is invalid

I have a Samsung Galaxy S SHW-M1105 and it displays my phone number as unknown. Is there a way to change it? And one more when I try to reply a message it says the sender is invalid. Someone please help

external sd - I want to split one MicroSD card into two parts: part adoptable storage, and part normal storage. How can I do this?

I don't want all my storage as adopted storage, so I was wondering how I can split it into 1 part adopted storage and 1 part normal file storage (what Android calls "portable storage").

Answer

You don't need to root your device but the device i done this with is rooted

1. You need to enabled Developer Options.


2. Enable the USB Debugging option.


3. Make sure your SD card is formatted as portable, then get the adb executable (see our adb tag-wiki for details).


4. Connect your device to your PC and run the adb devices command. If your device is connected correctly you will see your device listed in the output.


5. Run adb shell sm list-disks adoptable. This will show you the list of disks that can be used for what we want.



6. For my device it showed me disk:179,128 so i ran adb shell sm partition disk:179,128 mixed 80 on my 32 GB AS card. It gave me 5 GB as adoptable storage and the rest for other uses. (This will format your SD card.)

call history - Changing default behaviour of the Phone app in Oreo

Each time when I open the Phone app, I see Favourites tab (first one) as default.

This is completely useless for me, because Google uses its weird logic to tell me which contacts are my so called favourites and this logic produces completely wrong results -- i.e. I see "favourite" contacts which aren't truly my favourite ones.

This tab is also useless, if your contacts have more than one phone number, because instead of showing a list in this case and letting you pick the number, it always calls the default number. This isn't working in my case, because I have a lot of contacts which I contact both privately (i.e. during weekends and evenings; using private phone number) and on business grounds (using company phone number). So using the default phone number and Favourites tab is pointless in my case.

For the above reasons, I am not using Favourites tab at all and I am always forced to switch manually to recent phones / call history tab.

Is there any way to make that tab displayed as default each time I open up the Phone app.

My stack:

• Motorola Moto Z2 Play,


• Android 8.0 Oreo.

I am using the default, system Phone app. No 3rd party solution.

Answer

A possible solution is to automate the process of clicking the Call history tab when the phone app is opening. It is not elegant but may help you.

Using Automatem create the following flow:

1. In the Apps section, select App start. Click it, in the Package option select the Phone app from the list. Click Done.


2. In the Interface section, select Interact. Click it, set the Proceed option to When UI element appear, then click Record Interactions. A small widget will appear. Open the Phone app, then click on the call history. Click the check mark on the widget. It will take you back to Automate, and many parameters of the Interact block will be filled for you. Click Done.


3. In the Flow section, select Flow stop.


4. Click the Flow beginning block, give the title a name; then click on "Install home screen shortcut".


5. Link the blocks as seen on the image, then save and give the flow a name.


6. Give the required permissions when asked.

On your home screen, there will be a shortcut created with the label (title) you inserted in step 4. Clicking it will open the Phone app, then show the call history,

It is not elegant because for a fraction of a second, you will see the Favorites tab before the call history is shown.

Error downloading apps in Google Play Store with Samsung Galaxy S3: "Package file invalid"

Whenever I try to download an app in the Google Play Store on my Samsung Galaxy S3, it keeps saying "package file invalid" and won't let me download anything. The message also has a triangle with a ! inside it.

crashes - New LG G3 randomly crash

I have bought a new LG G3 (D855, 16GB Flash, 2GB RAM), and rooted and flashed CM12.1 on it.

The phone works great (somewhat), but sometimes the screen turns itself off and the phone gets stuck in this state. Holding the power button neither turns the phone on nor off, and I have to remove and reinsert the battery to turn it on.

It has happened 7 times since Sunday.

I thought it might be due to overheating (a hunch), but could not find anything to confirm this.

How can I solve this problem?

rom flashing - How do I install the custom ROM with boot.img inside?

I have found a custom ROM in Chinese forums for mY HTC ONE SU (t528w) model.

The ROM is zipped and the folders look like below image

I have no idea to install this ROM. Could anybody please guide me to install this. I dont know how and where to place the boot.img. I have successfully unlocked my bootloader and mobile is rooted too.

Thanks

Answer

Please check the place where you downloaded the ROM from, it usually contains installation instructions. In most cases, these ROMs use the update.zip mechanism of the recovery mode, as Matthew mentioned. You might need a custom recovery (see clockworkmod and twrp and their tag-wikis, clockworkmod resp. twrp, for examples).

The process then usually is as follows:

1. copy the .zip to your SDCard


2. boot into recovery-mode


3. select to "apply update from SDCard"


4. navigate to and select your .zip


5. let it flash


6. go back to the main menu and select to "reboot device"

custom roms - Will flashing re-lock my unlocked phone

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Closed 6 years ago.

I bought an unlocked android phone at Amazon and it works perfectly. This phone in particular doesn't have any OS updates I could do (Motorola Defy), so basically I am stock with Froyo unless I flash it with a custom ROM with an newer android version. The phone used to be locked to T-Mobile's network, so my question is: since my phone is currently "network unlocked" if I flash it will it re-lock again?

I appreciate any help and guidance. Thank you.

Answer

No, flashing a ROM on your unlocked phone will not re-lock your device. I have several unlocked phones which I flash ROMs on to without any issues. The SIM code which operators use to limit what SIM cards will work in your device has nothing to do with the software running on that device.