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    Chirping sound when USB is connected or disconnected

    I have a Motorola Moto E 2nd Edition running Android 6.0.1 (Marshmallow) and CyanogenMod 13.0. I get a chirping sound whenever I plug or unplug the USB connector. This behavior started recently, when I was having some problems with my SD card. What setting controls this behavior? If the chirping...
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    Help Moto E 2nd generation camera not as in manual

    I have a Moto E 2nd generation phone. According to the PDF manual and also the online information, going into the camera should bring up choices for panorama mode and activating the flash, possibly after a right swipe. But in camera mode the top of the screen has five icons: Menu, switch...
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    Help Phone reception but no wifi

    I often am in a place where I have phone reception but no wifi. How can I use my phone to access the Net anyway? Does a portable hotspot help? I know that a portable hotspot can provide wifi service to some other device such as a laptop, but how would I use that to provide wifi to the phone...
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    Help Marshmallow quandary: how to move apps to SD card

    I've encountered a quandary in trying to move apps to the SD card under Android 6.0.1 (Marshmallow): If I format the card as Internal, it' s encrypted and so not usable for this purpose; if I format it as Portable, I can't move apps to it. How can I resolve this? Is there a way to remove the...
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    Help Accessing SD card via MTP

    I'm running Android 6.0.1 on my phone and Kubuntu 14.04 on my laptop. I also have a 32GB micro SD card in the phone. I've tried to set that card up as internal storage, and the prompts when I inserted the card seemed to indicate that I was doing just that. But on the phone in Storage and USB...
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    Help Move apps to SD card in Cyanogen Marshmallow

    I have Cyanogen and Android 6.0.1 (Marshmallow) on my Motorola Moto E phone. I want to move some apps to the SD card. I've seen a number of iinstructions on how to do this, but I can't follow any of them because I never see a "Move to SD card" button. For instance, I've gotten to...
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    Help How to utilize a portable hotspot

    I did some more research and discovered that the way to do what I want is with USB tethering with a USB cable from phone to laptop. That's located in the same section of Settings as Portable Hotspot. An alternative is to use Bluetooth instead of the USB cable.
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    Help Name equivalences in the Android world

    One of the confusing aspects of the Android world is that the same thing often goes by different names. For example, Android versions: there's Jellybean, KitKat, Lollipop, etc. and then there's Android 4.1, Android 5.2, etc. So if something is available on, say, Android 5.2, does that mean...
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    Help Installing Google Play on Moto E with Cryanogenmod ROM

    I'm trying to use Google Play on my Moto E with the Cryanogenmod ROM installed. I've gone through the procedures of obtaining the zipfile, entering Recovery mode, and installing the zipfile via TWRP. Everything at that stage appeared to be proceeding successfully, including the installation of...
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    Help Moto E band keeps coming off

    I've had to open up my Moto E several times to replace the SIM, fiddle with the external SD card, etc. Now the band around the perimeter doesn't seem to want to stay on -- when I push it down in one place, it pops up in another. Is there some trick to getting it to stay where it belongs? And...
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    Help Android won't restart after TWRP recovery

    I have a rooted, unlocked Motorola Moto E, 2nd Edition, with TWRP installed. A few days ago I did a TWRP backup (to USB), and I'm now trying to get my device going again. I did a TWRP Restore, which appeared to run perfectly; it took about ten minutes and indicated that the end that something...
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    Help Rejuvenating a Motorola Moto found in the street!!

    I found a Motorola Moto smartphone on a sidewalk. The screen was cracked but readable. It had an expired Sprint SIM. I was able to start it up and charge it, but I couldn't get it to display any icons on the screen. It did detect my wifi network and even displayed alerts for a couple of...
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    Help How to use busybox - naive question

    I've rooted my phone and installed busybox. I also have a PC running Linux with adb and its friends installed and running. So how do I actually use busybox? When I start it up on the phone, I'm given a lot of choices about installing it. But how do I actually get a command prompt somewhere...
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    Perplexing circularity

    I would like to root my Moto E 2nd Edition. The standard advice is to do a nandroid backup first. But it seems that to do such a backup, at least using TWRP, I already need to have a rooted device. So how can I do a Nandroid backup without having rooted my device?
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    Help Removing the orange border (Solved)

    I'm running Android 5.1 on a Moto E. Sometimes I accidentally do something that causes an orange border to appear on the screen. I think it has something to do with magnification. In any case, how can I make it go away?
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    Help Recovering a dimmed screen without changing state

    I'm running Android 5.1 on a Moto E phone. Often the screen dims on its own. Is there a way to brighten it again without otherwise changing the state? In other words, I want the device to look ezactly as it did before it dimmed. And suppose it goes black for its own reasons -- same question.
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    Help Screen blanks while dialing

    I have a Moto E phone running Android 5.1. After dialing a number, I often need to enter additional digits. The problem is that the screen blanks out frequently while I'm entering them. Is there any setting for preventing this behavior? I looked under Display Settings but didn't find anything.
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    Rooting and backup

    I've seen the advice to do a Nandroid backup before rooting my Moto E phone. But all the instructions I've seen so far for doing such a backup assume that the phone is already rooted. How can I do this backup on a unrooted phone?
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    Help Directory appears empty in Android but not when accessed using mtp

    Here's a problem whose resolution requires knowledge of both Android and Ubuntu, but I'm asking it here first rather than in the Ubuntu forums. I have a smartphone (Motorola Moto E) running Android 5.1. I can view its files (on the SD card anyway) using Dolphin. I have encountered some...
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    Help Route from Google Maps where wifi unavailable

    I want to walk (or perhaps drive) from Point A to Point B, using Google Maps to set up the route. I have wifi available as I am setting the route up, but not while I am actually traversing the route. Is there a way to use Google Maps while I am walking? If I make a mistake while walking, can...
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    Help Motorola E camera panorama mode

    I just discovered that the camera on my Motorola E has something called "panorama mode". I've been able to get in and out of it, but I still can't figure out just what it's doing. The Motorola help is of no help. Does anyone explain how it works?
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    Help Where is the Gallery stored?

    I have a Motorola Moto E running Android 5.1 (Lollipop). I want to download the pictures in the Gallery to my computer via a USB cable. If I could find them in the file structure (with ES File Explorer, say) I could do it, but I haven't been able to find them. Where is the Gallery stored? If...
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    Help Turn off speaker when using bluetooth

    I have a Motorola Moto E phone with Andfroid 5.1. I also have a set of Bluetooth headphones. When I'm on a plane I want to send sound from my phone to my headphones, but not have the sound come out of my phone since it annoys the neighbors. Is there a way to do that?
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    Getting old version of Android Google Calendar

    I recently replaced my old LGP705 phone running Android 4.0 (which couldn't be upgraded) with a much newer phone running Android 5.1. The problem is that inexplicably, the version of Google Calendar on my new phone is much inferior to the version on my old phone. For instance, it has no easy...
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    Help Migration blocked by bogus "Insufficient Storage" SOLVED

    I'm trying to migrate my apps from an LG P705 with Android 4.0 to a new Motorola Moto with Android 5.1 using Motorola Migrate. According to the LG phone, I have 1.9 GB free and Motorola Migrate needs only 5.28 MB. Yet I still get the "insufficient storage" complaint. Since I seem to have...
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