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[Tutorial] Internal Testing of Phone

The easiest way to check a phone about its various functions or failure of such function is to use its own embedded testing .apk
How to access them is not normally Known to many
All you have to do is
1) Long Press your Desktop
2) Touch shortcuts
3) Touch Activities
4) And you can select activity of any application on your phone ( which has its own pulled down menu to chose from)
By selecting one you will have a shortcut of it placed in your desktop
so all you have to do is now touch that shortcut and its appropriate menu will open for you to test or select from
see screen-shots below
Assuming you have problems with USB connections, Blue tooth, WIFI, Network settings, whatever your phone is supposed to do, can be checked this way including running a ping test etc
This post is linked to Pit Stop
Check this out!You , YES! you are an " Android ". Not your phone but U.
You Must watch this documentary concerning your privacy Terms & Conditions we had agreed to, by using a PC or Smartphone
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Direct shortcuts to activities can be quite useful. One of my main uses is to get access to the fullscreen feeds and updates widget (there is also an activity that allows you to select a few themes for it).
You do however need a launcher such as Launcherpro or Apex launcher installed to get this in the shortcut menu.

Thankyou so much for this insight, I spent 2 years wondering what this option was for and it never crossed my mind to actually try it

slaphead20 said:
Thankyou so much for this insight, I spent 2 years wondering what this option was for and it never crossed my mind to actually try it
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You are welcome, seems so simple and right in-front of us to get into the phone, yet little known or used

xsenman said:
You are welcome, seems so simple and right in-front of us to get into the phone, yet little known or used
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I was of course teasing you

(Tool)(Mobogenie) - Manage Your Android From Your Computer

Hi XDAians,
This thread is all about an amazing tool which lets you manage your android phone via computer in a different way!
(Mobogenie) - Manage Your Android From Your Computer
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Instructions
>>Root Required<<
>>Download and Install Mobogenie Tool in computer
>>For (Your Android* Phone) Go to Settings > Developer Options > Active (USB Debugging)
>>Connect your phone via USB Cable​
Features:
Apps downloaded,like never before
As if it doesn't take a lifetime to download an 80-MB app, the cost of downloading it makes it even worse. That's where Mobogenie bails you out!
Select free apps and games from the store and install them on to your phone... at no data charges at all! Sounds like magic? It is!​Manage and edit contacts easily
If it's difficult to edit hundreds of your contacts on the phone, get Mobogenie to do the task.
From adding new numbers to editing existing data to simply deleting unnecessary contacts...
Mobogenie helps make it as easy as pie!​Download the best videos,music and photos on the web
You've had the same old videos and music for ages, and now it's time you treated yourself to something new. Choose from the best and the latest and download them to your Android device, all to be enjoyed on the go!​Desktop manager for your inbox
We know how the texts pile up, dotted with ads, notifications and what not. Tidy up your inbox using Mobogenie's managerial skills.
You can also use it to send texts to not one but several people at one go. It couldn't get more awesome than that!​Back up and restore with one click
Put away that constant worry of losing your Android phone or fear of switching to another. Simply entrust Mobogenie to back up your data with a single click! And if you want to restore this data to your phone or to another Android device, breathe easy.
Restoring data is a click away for Mobogenie!​For Download Link Visit Original Thread
Note: I have no contribution in this project. I have just shared this here because I found it amazing and want more people to know about this amazing tool.
Original Credits goes to proseray
For FAQ visit Mobogenie Website and Support​

[FREE][APP] Perfect Shopping List

Perfect Shopping List v1.6.0
Price: Free (and without any ads)
Requirements: Android OS 2.2 and up
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Overview:
Perfect Shopping List is a powerful shopping list manager free and without any ads.
Perfect Shopping List led you manage shopping list easy and quickly. The interaction focuses on the practice, and is based on the building of a list of items, which can be individually marked as “necessary”. Once you are in the store, as the needed products are picked up, they can be unmarked in the application. The items can be reused as many times as you need.
Perfect Shopping List can also store the target stock for each item. Before go shopping, you can enter the current stock and Perfect Shopping List will calculate the necessary amount to reach the target stock.
There are two main views: items and shopping. In the item list you will be able to add, delete and modify items, in addition to mark and unmark them. The shopping list only shows the items marked as “necessary”. When an item is unmarked it will be removed from this list, so you only see what is pending to buy.
Features:
Completely free and without advertisements
Multi-store support
Optional download of initial data packs
Management of items, categories and units
Optional specification of target and current stocks, in order to know the quantity to buy for each item
Quick search with optional voice recognition
Multilanguage support. Human translations available: English and Spanish. Automatic translations available: French, German, Portuguese and Italian
Use of permission explained:
Internet Access: download initial data pack (no ads at all)
External storage access: read and write database backups
This app has no advertisements
Available on Google Play:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.perfectSys.psl
Alternate Download:
https://mega.co.nz/#!PJ8gUSoA!6hcfAUGI1fDs-XkdiZhBZY2Tu4EaEo-6LDiUf9zz17I

[Guide][NST] Parental control over web browser

Hi there!
Today I have a guide that will be very useful for anyone who has a small-to-medium aged child that they do not want using the Nook Touch's well-known hidden web browser (accessible by going into Settings > Social > Link to Facebook, Twitter and Google > Need help? > Google Home). I have come across a way to disable access to the entire Social settings menu, as well as 99% of the Shop settings menu. The best part is, you can do it without root access! :good:
The steps are very simple, but just for clarification, I have included screenshots in [hide][/hide] tags.
DISCLAIMER - I am sorry about the fact that I have edited my framework-res.apk, and therefore the user interface in the screenshots looks different than yours will. :|
Steps:
1. Go into the Settings menu by pressing the "n" button and hitting "Settings".
2. Tap on "Screen".
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3. While in the "Screen" settings menu, hold down the top right hardware button (a.k.a page turn button) and tap on the little "Screen" header at the top of the window.
4. A new setting will appear underneath the "Screen" settings, which is labelled "Demo Mode". There will be a small, unchecked box on the far right of that new setting. Tap on that box - a check mark will appear in it.
5. That's all there is to it! As seen in the screenshots below, the "Social" option in the main Settings screen is completely grayed-out and inaccessible, as well as 4 out of 5 of the options in the "Shop" settings menu being grayed-out and disabled, too.
To re-enable these functions, all you have to do is go back into the "Screen" settings menu, hold the top right hardware button, tap on the "Screen" header, and uncheck the little box.
I hope this helps all of you people who want to prevent their little ones from accessing the Internet, as well as change the Shop settings.
Have a nice day,
thenookieforlife3

Carrier Location Access permission request after update?

Hello everyone. I recently updated my OP7TPM T-Mobile edition (unlocked bootloader, with the help of the reserve.img fixer package to allow OTA updates again) from 10.0.16 > 10.0.34 . The update appears to have completed successfully, but I got a strange pop-up afterward that was apparently an app (or perhaps an Android component itself, from the icon ) called "Carrier Location Access". It had a couple short paragraphs of text about the possible uses of this feature (something about VoWi-Fi among other things) and that even if it was denied your carrier can still track you via receiving and text message and other such discussion.
At the bottom was a single button about setting permissions - when pressed, it gives the typical choice about "Allow" , "Allow only when app is open", or "Deny". Initially I picked the only-when-open item, concerned that it could have some bearing on feature use, but recalling the various reports about carriers selling user location data among other items, I decided to change that! Pressing the button on the app again (I used the shuffle-through-open-apps function to get back to it) , it had a slightly different dialog, asking to either Allow globally, maintain as is at Allow When Open, or Allow When Open + don't ask me again. Not seeing the deny option, I thought I'd check elsewhere. When I went to the "permissions" sub-menu within Settings, I found it named "Carrier Location Access" currently under the only-when-app-is-open section, and changed it to Deny.
Thinking all was well at least for the moment, I wanted to double check that I could go back and find it again if I found some reason to turn it on. However, I was surprised to find that the whole permission disappeared! It no longer is listed under the "Deny" category (or any of the other categories for that matter) in the Permissions menu! I'm a little concerned that it cannot be called up again. Does anyone know about this "Carrier Location Access" feature ? Is it something specific to OnePlus's implementation,, a common Android 10 feature, or something new? Any other information about it and, perhaps most importantly of all, why it has hidden and/or how to find it again!
Thanks!

I've been wondering what to do about this too. I haven't done anything yet but for anyone who wants to access the setting I have a screenshot with instructions on how to change it.
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