An operating system running on top of the Linux kernel, targeting mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.

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Skype4b Sdk in Android App [on hold]

I am developing an android app using Skype4b Sdk to communicate with linux box now I want to redirect voip stream to Linux box. Is it possible to edit SDP message using Skype4BAPP SDK in Android?
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Will renicing (lower) a process make it faster under memory pressure?

Let's say I want to prioritize a few processes that are running on a device with high memory pressure. These processes are UI processes (Android, specifically) and are running very slowly in this ...
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Connect ZTE Android Phone to Linux (Fedora) for USB debugging and file transfer

I just got a new ZTE Phone and I'm trying to connect it to my PC via USB. I'm running Fedora 24 and mostly need to connect the phone for USB file transfer as well as app development using Android ...
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KDE Connect to Sync Android Device with CentOS 7

What are the KDE Connect process and packages that needed to sync android devices with centOS 7. I want to bridge centOS and android but couldn't find any solution online.
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Error in Remix OS during boot after update, i.e. menu.Ist

1. Installed Remix OS 3.0 With official supported tool i.e., RemixUSBTool. On Hard Drive Partition. What Actually Happened ? 2. After Installing -> Working Normally -> Download Updates -> Reboot ->...
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Mounting as RW a filesystem that is RO - Android [closed]

I'm facing a serious problem with a Sony Xperia LT26w (SO-04D), running Android 4.1.2 that has several malwares. The phone seems to have its filesystem sets to read-only and everything I've attempted ...
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USB tethering: interface not recognized

I try establishing USB tethering between my phone (Android 2.3) and my laptop (Antergos) by following the related article on ArchWiki However, when I use command 'ip link' (as it is mentioned in the ...
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Skype4B Android SDK /Linux Box

I have 2 devices: 1) A small Linux box 2) An Android based room control device (basically an Android tablet running an app). The Android app could be a custom Skype for Business client made using ...
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arm-linux-androideabi-gcc is unable to create an executable file on Windows 10

I am trying to configure ffmpeg for android on windows 10 through bash Ubuntu terminal. I am follow this tutorial But getting error. Error is C:/Users/BIP042.BIPADBBSR/AppData/Local/Android/Sdk/ndk-...
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Android Chroot Networking issues

I am trying to chroot the Ubuntu 16.04 Image Nvidia has for developing on the shield. I placed it on a sdcard mounted it at /mnt/chroots I am not able to get apt-get update to work without failing, ...
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VNC - Too many authentication failures

I've been trying to Google, but all of the issues refers connection from PC to remote VNC server. So. I have an issue with VNC communication from Android to Linux. I have installed a TightVNC Server ...
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Desktop Linux on LG V500 android tablet

I was surfing the net when I found this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqG8ivP0RkQ&feature=youtu.be And I immediately decided to install a desktop Linux on my old tablet. But I just ...
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Mount ext4 formatted mircosd on Nvidia Shield TV

I have a rooted Shield TV but I can't figure out how to mount the microsd card. I see that the file system is supported but I don't see where the device is listed. Usually I would look for mmcblk or ...
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Mount Samsung Galaxy S7 using simple-mtpfs

I would like to mount my Samsung Galaxy S7 to an folder using simple-mtpfs and I cannot do it as I used to (on previous Fedora and older Galaxy S4). If I simply plug S7 to my computer, I can browse ...
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Error during installation of a binutils Canadian Cross-Compile

I am trying to compile binutils for Android using the Android NDK, so I installed the the NDK using the guide found here (specifically "Advanced method") and I proved it working by compiling Lua with ...
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What is the compatibility between Linux Window Managers and Android?

I'm particularly interested in the compatibility between Wayland and Android (although I'm also curious about X and Android). For example: does a Wayland window manager work on Android? Conversely, ...
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Remix OS running in Virtual Box under Ubuntu, how to share files?

I have a Remix OS virtual machine. The host is Ubuntu. How can I share files between the guest and the host? The best thing would be to have a shared folder if it's possible. I have tried Airdroid, ...
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How do I run termux on my laptop?

Termux is wonderful for getting the Unix experience on an Android device, but for development I really would like to have an emulator of Termux running on my GNU/Linux laptop. Maybe using Vagrant/...
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How to get mtp tools to mount my phone?

I've got Debian 8.5 running on top of Chrome OS, I plug in my Galaxy On5 and ChromeOS recognizes it instantly, Debian doesn't. I have mtp tools installed, and when I run mtp-detect I get the following ...
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AOAP Device Identification in Linux

I need to identify if an AOAP device is connected in Linux when it is connected to the port . How do we identify the AOAP device Connection ?
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Cross Compiling PHP For Android ARM

I have been trying to compile PHP for Android ARM devices for the past 2 weeks. I think I'm halfway there to successfully compiling it. Here is what I did : Download Android NDK (android-ndk-r10e) &...
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Cast to Kodi from “YouTube Cast” android application

Android's YouTube application finds my web connected (smart) TV and prompts me to cast a video to it, then the TV opens the YouTube app and plays the video. How can I have the same functionality to ...
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What linux distro & platform and package capabilities is this device using?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrTpWlkupUs Miracast Device, using a compact Linux distro. Thoughts on how to dissect/ figure this out? Maybe Replicate? Is it using a certain Linux Distro in an ...
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Android device unable to connect wifi

Though I have specified, key_mgmt as WPA-PSK, the device reads it as none. Is there any problem in device? if yes how can it be rectified. I also used these commands to give device information about ...
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Are devices with kernels below 3.6 vulnerable to CVE-2016-5696?

Today I was reading about the potential impact of CVE-2016-5696 in Android phones running Linux 3.6+ and though my phone has 3.4 I checked the value of net.ipv4.tcp_challenge_ack_limit and it is also ...
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How install grub on a x64 phone?

Try to mount the boot partition to install grub (from chroot) but could not. In the directory where you mount the boot partition did not appear anything. what do I do? PS: I have the asus zenfone 2 ...
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Can I use a phone as bluetooth adapter?

I run Linux Mint 17 Qiana on an old Toshiba laptop that does not have a Bluetooth adapter. Is it possible to use a phone (coupled through usb) as bluetooth adapter in order to connect to an audio ...
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Hardware accelerated android emulator with AMD GPU

I have come to the depressing realisation that the official driver for my video card: amd R9 208X is no longer supported for my OS: linux mint 18 (based on ubuntu 16.04LTS) My main use for this ...
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How to install Remix OS with Fedora 24 on a local drive

I have a Lenovo Yoga notebook, with a touch screen, but as I am using a Fedora 24 on it, the touch screen became somewhat... untouched (horrible support compared to Windows 10). But instead of ...
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Open source alternative to Google authenticator app

I've set up Google authenticator as 2FA for ssh and it works great, but authenticator app for Android is not open source anymore. Is there a good real open source alternative?
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Android, microSD and SWAP

I have an Android 4.4.4 device (which I can easily root) with a 32 GiB microSD card, which is secured well and will not be disconnected during normal work. Is there a way I could use that card or more ...
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A basic query about Linux partitioning

I'm trying to understand the partition table of my MTK-6572 based android smart-phone (Karbonn-A35). The idea is to enlarge the Internal Storage partition (mounted as /data) and correspondingly shrink ...
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Android SDK on linux with NO GUI

I am working on a cloud based linux server and, sadly, I need to install the android SDK. It seems that the android SDK developers don't really recognize any OS that does not include a gui, as it ...
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Can I VNC directly into my “Linux Deploy” from OS X?

I use Linux Deploy to run desktop Linux distributions on my Android devices. The way it works is the I start the system in the LD app, and then I go to VNC Viewer on the same device to get a GUI. ...
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Fedora Android Studio fonts are all… gone

I am getting this upon trying to install Android Studio... I can't see any characters. I am on Fedora 23
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Why super user is disabled in iOS and Android

I know that both iOS and Android are based on UNIX. Then why is it that super user is disabled in both of them? In iOS we have to jail break and in Android we have to root. On the other hand in OS ...
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After installing Android x86, only tGrub showing when booting

I installed Android x86 5.1 RC1 in a Notebook. It works fine and I also rebooted the machine successfully. Since yesterday it doesn't boot anymore; I even did a reinstall and deleted all partitions. ...
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Meaning IPTables command output for 3g connection

Maybe it's a stupid question but somebody can explain me the meaning of this output of iptables command in Android running 3g connection? Sorry, i forgot Chain INPUT Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT ...
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What prevents a dm-verity mapping from being reset?

On Chrome OS and Android, dm-verity is used to verify the system partition. In Chrome OS, since there is no initial RAM disk, the mapping and the root digest are provided on the kernel command line ...
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Pass fastboot USB device to VirtualBox Windows VM from ArchLinux

I have a Xiaomi android phone and I want to unlock its bootloader. The official way is using a Windows tool, so I booted up my Windows VM and tried to pass the USB device form the devices menu, but it ...
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Linux - couldn't mount RDWR because of unsupported optional features (400)

I try to run Android from SD-card. This card is prepared. There are partitions: boot(FAT32), rootfs(ext4), system(ext4), cache(ext4) and usedata(ext4). Boot partitions has files to run u-boot: MLO, u-...
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Creating F2FS volume with specified size on Android

My smartphone is booted to the TWRP recovery and I'm running the ADB Shell as root on Windows. I have fully unmounted /data with the following command: umount /dev/block/mmcblk0p36 Then checked it'...
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Booting Android with lilo in a PC

After installation of android, I modified lilo.conf to boot it. I just wrote image=/mnt/android-4.4-r2/kernel root=/dev/sda7 label=android read-only because I saw the only filename that looked ...
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can two android devices in different network(3g) comunicate themselves with ssh connection?

I have two rooted android devices with different isp(i use different 3g connection for them) and created a double ssh connection(i can with a public ip server)comunicating both to this server(i have ...
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Why can't I execute Android x86 executables on Linux

I am trying to port Android apps to Linux (don't laugh :) and I have come across a problem. When trying to execute an Android executable (app_process) after adding the executable permission with ./...
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Android-x86_64 installer does not boot in QEMU/KVM - EFI Shell appears instead

I downloaded Android x86_64 5.1-rc1 as bootable img installation image. I want to install it to a virtual machine running on Ubuntu 16.04 64 bit with UEFI using QEMU/KVM and virt-manager as graphical ...
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sed use from android shell

I am getting familiar with sed on the android terminal emulation: the version I am using the sed included in the toybox which is installed on my unrooted Sony device. sed --version (or toybox sed --...
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Bash says file not found when `ls` and `dir` list it

I downloaded the ChromiumOS shell for Linux from here, unpacked it, and attempted to run chrome-wrapper. However, Bash tells me that the file chrome, a shared library according to Thunar, which is ...
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Native Linux installation on Allwinner tablet

I would like to know if it is possible to do a clean install (I mean a native install, just like on a computer) of a Linux distro on an Allwinner a33-based tablet (or more generally speaking on an ...
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use a different socket than /dev/log, system-wide

Is there a way to make a whole Debian (Jessie) installation use a different syslog socket than /dev/log (like, for example, /tmp/my-other-log) ? Reason: I'm running Debian Jessie in a chroot ...