Had a problem on an oldish laptop where whenever we clicked on an image in Google or Bing image search, the display driver stopped responding.
To fix it I did this.
Open Chrome and open Settings -> Advanced Settings
Down near the bottom I disabled Use Hardware Acceleration if available.
I hope it works for you ...
Monday 13 March 2017
Reset Gallery Thumbnails on Android
Go to the directory:
/data/data/com.androids.providers.media/databases/
and delete the file external.db. Don't touch internal.db.
To be safe you can just rename it so you can restore the file later.
Reboot and the thumbnails are all deleted. Android will recreate them after a little while, depending on how many images you have.
This worked for me on Galaxy S2 with custom ROM.
/data/data/com.androids.providers.media/databases/
and delete the file external.db. Don't touch internal.db.
To be safe you can just rename it so you can restore the file later.
Reboot and the thumbnails are all deleted. Android will recreate them after a little while, depending on how many images you have.
This worked for me on Galaxy S2 with custom ROM.
Thursday 1 January 2015
Samsung Galaxy S2 running out of space - FIX
As I don't have the stock dialer on my S2 the *#9900# code does not work.
Instead, with root permission go to /data/log and delete delete all log files that you find inside the folder. This is the same command that the dialer does.
Instead, with root permission go to /data/log and delete delete all log files that you find inside the folder. This is the same command that the dialer does.
Reset thumbnail cache on Android Gallery
Go to the directory:
/data/data/com.androids.providers.media/databases/
and delete the file external.db. Don't touch internal.db.
To be safe you can just rename it so you can restore the file later.
Reboot and the thumbnails are all deleted. Android will recreate them after a little while, depending on how many images you have.
This worked for me on Galaxy S2 with custom ROM.
/data/data/com.androids.providers.media/databases/
and delete the file external.db. Don't touch internal.db.
To be safe you can just rename it so you can restore the file later.
Reboot and the thumbnails are all deleted. Android will recreate them after a little while, depending on how many images you have.
This worked for me on Galaxy S2 with custom ROM.
Saturday 2 November 2013
Install missing contacts (or People) on Android Tablet
We had an Android 4 tablet which did not have Contacts or People on it. This is what I did to sync the contacts with the Google account.
It appears that often the manufacturers of tablets don't install People because it's heavily linked with the Dialer app so it just gets missed. Even though you can choose to sync contacts under Account settings, there is no way to access them. After much searching, this is what I did to get it syncing and have all the contacts back on the Tablet:
Go to Google Play Store, search for True Contacts App, by Ondřej Pšenčík install it and Voilà, all your contacts sycnchronised with your Google account.
It appears that often the manufacturers of tablets don't install People because it's heavily linked with the Dialer app so it just gets missed. Even though you can choose to sync contacts under Account settings, there is no way to access them. After much searching, this is what I did to get it syncing and have all the contacts back on the Tablet:
Go to Google Play Store, search for True Contacts App, by Ondřej Pšenčík install it and Voilà, all your contacts sycnchronised with your Google account.
Tuesday 29 October 2013
Recover missing SIM toolkit icon on Android if it has disappeared
My SIM toolkit suddenly disappeared and after try a number of options, this is what worked for me on an SGII, Android 4.2.2
Enable SIM lock - (make sure you know the default SIM lock code before you do this, check with your operator)
Reboot phone.
That's it.
Apparently on some phones it can reappear by enabling flight mode and disabling it but that didn't work for me.
Hope it helps. Let me know if you found any other ways of getting it back.
Enable SIM lock - (make sure you know the default SIM lock code before you do this, check with your operator)
Reboot phone.
That's it.
Apparently on some phones it can reappear by enabling flight mode and disabling it but that didn't work for me.
Hope it helps. Let me know if you found any other ways of getting it back.
Friday 8 February 2013
Corrupt files on USB - incorrectly sized USB stick
If you're like me, at some point you've probably been duped and bought a USB stick pertaining to be a certain size, only to find out it isn't. They frig the size thats reported and sell it as a higher capacity drive. GRRR!
Anyway, if you can't get your money back (or can't be bothered), you can still make the drive useful using these commands which overwrite everything on the drive and allow it to be writeable. (I did this on a cheap mp3 player as well and it fixed the problem of not being able to play certain files.)
Open a command prompt and type the following commands. (Make sure you select the correct disk number !)
If you're not sure which is the correct disk, check the size or use Disk Management (Right click My Computer > Manage > Storage > Disk Management)
diskpart
list disk
select disk #
clean
create partition primary
select partition 1
active
format quick fs=fat32
assign
exit
I've reposted this from here which was about fixing this issue with a USB stick that had been formatted by an Xbox because as my problem had a different origin.
http://www.ardamis.com/2012/03/03/windows-7-usbdvd-download-tool-unable-to-copy-files/
Anyway, if you can't get your money back (or can't be bothered), you can still make the drive useful using these commands which overwrite everything on the drive and allow it to be writeable. (I did this on a cheap mp3 player as well and it fixed the problem of not being able to play certain files.)
Open a command prompt and type the following commands. (Make sure you select the correct disk number !)
If you're not sure which is the correct disk, check the size or use Disk Management (Right click My Computer > Manage > Storage > Disk Management)
diskpart
list disk
select disk #
clean
create partition primary
select partition 1
active
format quick fs=fat32
assign
exit
I've reposted this from here which was about fixing this issue with a USB stick that had been formatted by an Xbox because as my problem had a different origin.
http://www.ardamis.com/2012/03/03/windows-7-usbdvd-download-tool-unable-to-copy-files/
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