I have a brand new Pixel 3A with the recently updated Android 10 update.  Google Assistant has been activated while in my laptop bag.  I'm assuming this is because of the incessant urgings that Google displays on screen, and of course the new android doesn't swictch the screen off when you hit the power button, it leaves an 'awake' screen that can respond. Well, however it happened, Assistant is enabled and it is causing a number of problems, and I can't switch it off.   The main issues are:   Assistant repeats continuously on the arcane workings of the system. Voice messages like 'Checking WebAPP for updates' 'Downlaoding update' '10% downloaded, etc' Assistant stops the phone Whenever any event status changes Examples of this are 'Home screen 1of 2, double tap to enable' etc., etc., etc totally take over the user interface. The UI is now a triple tap pause system. To do anything, you tap an icon and wait for it to be highlighted (at which point a stream of help instructions are played back) then double tap to activate. This happens for each and every tap including back buttons, home buttons, whatever.The system is now an incredibly slow, novice system. The gesture system is disabled. This is the real killer. Without the gesture system you are locked into only what is visible. You cant get into the app drawer, for instance. And you can't get beyond the displayed items in the settings screens.   My Problem is:  The instructions to switch off assistant are as follows:   Open the google app Tap the compass at the bottom right Tap the profile button top right Tap the Assistant Scroll down to the Assistant devices,Devices section and switch off.  BUT gestures and scrolling are disabled   You can see to the Face Match setting, but connected devices is somewhere way, way down below that. And one can't get there. Not for love nor money.  Under Android 9, I could deactivate with a voice command.  That seems to be gone.  Is my only solution to do a factory re-set?  Anyone out there with a solution for me?
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I accidentally turned on talkback in the Accessibility menu. When I turned it on I got some kind of walk through on how to use it. I couldn't cancel it. So I turned off my phone.   When I turned it back on again it took me 15 minutes to unlock my phone. Apparently I had to touch a button to give it focus and then double tap it to click it.   Now my question is: how do I turn this off? I can't reach the settings because I have don't know how to access a drop down and I can't scroll through all my apps.
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The issue is that I see a high percentage on the "Android OS" item in the Battery Usage, and I want to find out what is causing it. But let me say that I'm interested in diagnostics techniques and tools, rather than increasing the battery life, as you will see in the below figures that the battery isn't drained much faster than expected.  Here's the situation with the phone right now:   Last charged 13 hours ago I restarted the phone after charging it I have switched off everything (such as GPS, WiFi, Data network) I was on a 2G network all the time My only use from the phone during the day was a few minutes of WiFi, receiving two SMS messages, and a call that lasted less than a minute. I have auto-sync turned off   And here's the battery usage stat:   Android OS: 67% Display: 10% Cell standby: 9% Phone idle: 6%   The Android OS shows 1 hour and 30 minutes of CPU time, but the total time that the phone was turned on was less than 30 minutes, and I don't have anything active in the background.  The battery level isn't bad at all (80%), but considering that I haven't done anything with the phone (and that the phone has a 2500 mAh battery) I am curious to find out what is causing the battery usage.  Obviously, this should be caused by some background tasks that aren't listed in the battery usage. I am looking for ways, tools, and methods that enables me to diagnose this further and relate the 67% of the usage to actual applications.  Some additional information:  I have a Galaxy Note, with Gingerbread 2.3.6 installed. I have "Usage Timelines Free" installed (which wasn't running during the day), and it doesn't show any excessive CPU usage by any app that can lead me toward who's consuming the battery.  Related question (helpful, but didn't answer my question) :
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I've read a bunch of forum posts about the Android OS battery drain bug. This is where the 'Android OS' process is showing large percentages in the battery statistics.  For me, I'm running 2.3 Gingerbread. I don't use bluetooth or GPS. I'm on 2G most of the time. Some days I get 40 hours out of a battery. On these days in the battery usage settings, the 'Android OS' process uses about 3% of battery. However other days I get about 8 hours with similar use. On these days the 'Android OS' process uses about 35% of the battery. I really want to find out what causes this.  The fixes suggested so far are:   Reboot (Temporary). Turn off and remove battery for a couple of minutes. Reset battery stats. Change WIFI sleep policy. Use a task manager Flash stuff to the phone. Revert to older versions of the OS (not really a fix).   Does anyone know the definitive cause of this problem and the correct fix? Or is it possible there are multiple issues that cause this so different things will work for different people?  Here are some of the threads:
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I call somebody, or somebody calls me, we are talking. Now, during the call I got SMS and I cannot hear anything because the SMS notification is playing.  So how to disable this notification when call is active? Thank you in advance.  Samsung Galaxy Ace 2, Android 2.3.  Note: I am interested in setting this once and for good. Not something I have to remember to switch off each time I make/get a call.
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I want to disable the lock screen on Gnome 3.14 after the computer is woken up from suspension. I've tried different proposed solutions, like , but they does now work.
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I have a Nexus 5. Even if I enable security passcode or pattern, someone can still switch off my mobile using the power button. How can I prevent it?
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I need to remove the annoying new "locking" screen that shows a giant clock: I can't remove it with just moving the mouse (as with any other desktop environment), the animation is slow, and it isn't asking me for a password!  I managed to disable it, just to discover that now I can't lock my screen on purpose, so I can't go away from the computer.  Just to clarify, I want to:   After some time the screen could go black, but if I move the mouse or press any key then I can use it directly (like a normal screensaver). If I press super-L then it is locked, and I must type the password to unlock (like a normal lock screen).   I found several "solutions", but none seems to work:
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How can I disable password request after suspend in Ubuntu 18.04? I have already turned off the screen lock but that didn't fix it.  I am new Ubuntu user. There seems to be lots of information on how to fix this in older versions.
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Is it possible to disable 'left swipe / gesture' or 'App Switching' in tablet mode on a Surface 3? I am Left Handed and whenever I use the 'Pen' in One note, my palm rests on the left hand edge and opens up the App Switch view constantly. I have disabled tablet mode, disabled the keyboard, disabled Task View, had to move the task bar to the right so I don't hit the start button with my left hand, got 'Left Handed' set up in Device Settings for the pen, disabled Arrange Windows under Multi Tasking - any other left handers got this issue and fixed it? This is only an issue for me in tablet mode when using the pen in One note. Many thanks
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I have a laptop-tablet device and I'm trying to enable onboard on the lock-screen.  Enabling onboard on the login screen is no problem but enabling the option  Show when unlocking the screen   is not giving the desired effect i.e. showing the keyboard on the lock-screen, when you lock your screen in a session.  Several questions exist that asks how to enable onboard on the lock-screen, however I have yet to find any that are actually referring to the lock-screen and not the login screen.  Is there any way to enable onboard on the lock-screen?  Edit:  This same question looks to be adressed here:  , however the options presented here do not give me an on screen keyboard on the lock-screen.
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I think it would be nice if you read an inbox notification on the desktop version of the site, it should dismiss the native Android notification in the system tray. It seems kind of weird when I come back to my phone an hour later, and find a bunch of notifications I thought a dealt with... and come to find out I really did deal with them.
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I just discovered that if I set the alarm clock and then power off the phone (by holding the power button and then selecting "Power Off") the alarm will still go off when the time comes.  Is this expected behavior? It makes me feel like "power off" doesn't actually power off the phone.  I have a Huawei Y530-U051 running android 4.3.
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I'm using two external monitors, and I want to be able to disable the built-in monitor without closing the lid. Option with disabling brightness doesn't fit my requirements because I don't want every time to search my cursor in the black screen. I need the lid to be opened because I'm ofently using touch id sensor.
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Background:  I was looking at the device administrators of my phone in the settings and saw a device administrator called &quot;screen lock service&quot;. It's description is &quot;Activating this administrator will allow the app Google play services to perform the following operations: set password rules&quot;.  A previously unsettled question is found . I searched the net for the apk file of the application but could not find one. So as per suggestions, I ran adb shell dumpsys package  resolvers | sed -n /android.app.action.DEVICE_ADMIN_ENABLED/,/:/p  The output for the above code was:   android.app.action.DEVICE_ADMIN_ENABLED:     438a74 com.motorola.demo/.admin.DemoModeAdminReceiver     2acd3de com.google.android.gms/.auth.managed.admin.DeviceAdminReceiver     36b5d24 ch.deletescape.lawnchair.ci/ch.deletescape.lawnchair.gestures.handlers.SleepMethodDeviceAdmin$SleepDeviceAdmin     42aae3e com.google.android.gms/.tapandpay.admin.TpDeviceAdminReceiver     8efd08d com.google.android.gms/.kids.account.receiver.ProfileOwnerReceiver     9b4f242 com.google.android.gms/.mdm.receivers.MdmDeviceAdminReceiver     a9980b6 com.oasisfeng.greenify/.DeviceAdmin     b5771b7 com.google.android.gm/com.android.email.SecurityPolicy$PolicyAdmin   com.motorola.internal.intent.action.INETCONDITION_REPORT:  The data for the code is quite unsettling for the fact that none seem to correspond to screen lock service.  For reference, I am using Moto G5 Plus (not rooted, stock build with no customizations) Also note that, I own another same device which is rooted and runs Pixel-Experience (Android 10 latest build) and unfortunately it does not have the Screen Lock Service. An insight/breakdown for this application is helpful.
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Windows has a slide-away lock screen, as is common for mobile operating systems designed for a touch interface, to prevent accidental input. On a desktop PC, laptop without a touch screen, or laptop for which accidental touches are unlikely (like a clamshell), this is just an extra unnecessary step before logging in. The option to disable the lock screen will disable the entire lock screen, including the password requirement, which is not always desirable.  While a keypress will dismiss this screen, there is a delay after that keypress before the password box becomes editable, so you can't just type "spacebar[password]" to log in. The first character or so of your password may be lost depending on your typing speed.  Is there a way to disable the swipe away screen, and have Windows wake up directly to the password/login screen?
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I'm trying to get Windows 10 to emulate the new "Digital Wellbeing" feature that Google released alongside Android 9. Basically it changes the screen to grey-scale at night-time to try and incentivize people to get off their phone and go to sleep.  When I learned of Windows 10's "color filter" feature (which also allows you to set the color profile to grey-scale), I thought scripting this might be easy, but I can't seem to find a way to do this in a script directly.  At the moment, I basically have it working by turning on the Win+Ctrl+C toggle hotkey, and have a scheduled task set to run an AutoHotkey script that essentially hits those keys to trigger the shortcut. This works ok, but I'd like to be able to leave the shortcut key disabled so I don't accidentally hit it, or have such an easy way to disable the feature (and weaken the "Digital Wellbeing" effect). Also, the script has no way to know what the state of the setting is. If it runs twice, it undoes itself. Currently I don't have the machine scripted to unset the feature, but if I created a task to do that, and I shut the machine off before the nightly trigger, it might go grey-scale in the morning.  My question is to ask if there is any way I might be able to explicitly set "color filter on", or "color filter off" directly (via PowerShell, Batch, VBS, whatever) that doesn't depend on the shortcut key, and preferably that doesn't toggle?
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Is there any way to disable autostart apps at boot time? I need to disable some of them (not all) like Facebook, etc to get quicker boot time. I'm asking how to do this on Android 9.0.