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What methods can I use to block adult content?
I'm looking for something along the lines of K-9 for my phone. Does such a thing exist?
My goal: to have all adult content blocked.
I would like to know if this is possible and if it is, how to do it.
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Is there a contact book that allows partial access for apps?
In my phone book, I have both personal contacts and work-related contacts, like clients, contractors, etc.
Applications such as 'WhatsApp' are great and easy, but I do not necessarily want to add all contacts to all apps that use the contact…
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Security risks of rooting your android smartphone
Possible Duplicate:
Are there any risks to rooting a device?
What are the security risks specific to rooting your android smartphone? Are there any security exploits available because you have a rooted android that are prevented on non rooted…
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When using "voice typing", how can I capitalize a proper noun?
When I press the speech-to-text button on my keyboard, I can dictate some text. Say I have a pub called the Red Lion that I want to mention. How can I get it to type "Red Lion" instead of "red lion"?
Letting it enter "red lion" and going back and…
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How can I improve the battery life on my device?
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What can I do to increase battery life on my Android device?
My Desire is absolutely great, but with my usage the battery life is really a big problem.
I have a few apps running and polling in the background, obviously the…
sebastiaan
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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, does 4.4 KitKat have similar or other ones?
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“Insufficient storage available”. Ok, but where?
When I upgrade an Android application from Google Play, it gets downloaded, then the upgrade stops with the message “Error: Insufficient storage available.”
Yet none of the partitions seem to be nearly full. The app is about 10MB, and I have about…
Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
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pdf reader which has zoom and width locking?
I have both Adobe Reader and EZPDF. Are are both lacking. I want to lock the width and zoom and everything once I have a pdf open to my preferred settings. I just want to page up or down when sliding/swiping.
In ezpdf the settings menu keeps…
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Is Android 3.0 Honeycomb only for tablets?
It wasn't long time since Android 2.3 Gingerbread was released and so for only a few phones has 2.3. And already a beta version of Android 3.0 Honeycomb is released.
What does this mean, is Android 3.0 only for tablets? If not, I guess that 2.3 will…
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Heimdall errors, "ERROR: Failed to detect compatible download-mode device."
When trying to flash a Galaxy S3 (ATT), I get
ERROR: Failed to detect compatible download-mode device.
below is the log,
$ sudo heimdall flash --RECOVERY recovery.img
Heimdall v1.4.0
Copyright (c) 2010-2013, Benjamin Dobell, Glass…
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Is there a way to trick the Android Market into thinking I'm using a different device do I can download protected apps?
I have an unrooted Archos 70IT with the market add-on app and there's a number of apps that I can find in the Market on my Droid but not on my Archos. They are likely "protected apps" which can only be installed on devices approved by the apps dev.…
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How do I disable the USB Connected notification?
Every time I plug in my phone, I get a notification for USB connected. Is there any way to disable the notification, without disabling USB debugging?
Phone: LG Optimus S
Carrier: Sprint
Android: 2.2, Rooted
user2019
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Drag to change route in Google Maps
In the web version of Google Maps, we can use "drag and drop" to get a custom route:
How can we do this on Google Maps for Android? I tried to drag, but it doesn't work. It provides several alternative routes, but none of them is what I want.
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How to disable cellular when WiFi is present?
I perform all my communication via the internet (Jabber, SIP), so I only need cellular as a backup.
Additionally, coverage at my home is near to nonexistent and as a result, battery drains in a few hours (as opposed to few days when GSM is…
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How can I download Android apps by scanning the barcode?
I see all these apps that can be downloaded by scanning a barcode. The question is, how do I actually do this? What app do I use to scan the barcode and install an app?
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