Fixing a Broken Android App - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hello Everyone,
Let me start out by saying if this is the wrong forum please feel free to relocate this post.
I have a general question about fixing a broken Android App. SkyWatcher USA makes an app for Android for the Astronomy buffs. Many of the telescope manufacturers use a controller called SynScan that allows "Go-To" operation of the telescope mount. Many also have either built-in WiFi or sell an adapter that allows you to "tether" your scope to your Android device. This allows many 3rd party planetarium apps to control the scope's computerized mount. SkyWatcher's app is called SynScan Pro.
One of the app's features is getting GPS location data from the device. Since the introduction of Android 12 that feature is broken. I was thinking I've been waiting for months for an update that will restore the ability to use the location sensor in my device but it isn't available yet. Currently if you enable use of the location sensor the app crashes.
My question is how does one with little app building experience find good info on how to fix this broken function and bring the app up to Android 12.
Thanks

FernBch said:
Hello Everyone,
Let me start out by saying if this is the wrong forum please feel free to relocate this post.
I have a general question about fixing a broken Android App. SkyWatcher USA makes an app for Android for the Astronomy buffs. Many of the telescope manufacturers use a controller called SynScan that allows "Go-To" operation of the telescope mount. Many also have either built-in WiFi or sell an adapter that allows you to "tether" your scope to your Android device. This allows many 3rd party planetarium apps to control the scope's computerized mount. SkyWatcher's app is called SynScan Pro.
One of the app's features is getting GPS location data from the device. Since the introduction of Android 12 that feature is broken. I was thinking I've been waiting for months for an update that will restore the ability to use the location sensor in my device but it isn't available yet. Currently if you enable use of the location sensor the app crashes.
My question is how does one with little app building experience find good info on how to fix this broken function and bring the app up to Android 12.
Thanks
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Help with writing Xposed module to bypass audio recording limits.

Hello all,
I am interested in writing an Xposed module to enable all Android audio recording apps to have the ability to record all types of audio regardless of if a given app tries to block it, and including phone calls. Is this the appropriate way to handle the goal here? I believe I have tracked down the function calls in the Android API that need to be spoofed to achieve this, but I am still struggling. If I share what I have so far, would it be appropriate to ask here? I am not even sure if Xposed is the right way to go about this. Perhaps it should be done using Zygisk?
Thank you.
David B. said:
Hello all,
I am interested in writing an Xposed module to enable all Android audio recording apps to have the ability to record all types of audio regardless of if a given app tries to block it, and including phone calls. Is this the appropriate way to handle the goal here? I believe I have tracked down the function calls in the Android API that need to be spoofed to achieve this, but I am still struggling. If I share what I have so far, would it be appropriate to ask here? I am not even sure if Xposed is the right way to go about this. Perhaps it should be done using Zygisk?
Thank you.
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Hello.
I would like this!
Why just audio? What about video too?
What automated recording? I like it for VoIP and videoconferencing.
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I apologize for the error. Even though I have been an XDA member for a while, I'm not one of the most active members, and therefore sometimes still struggle with navigating to the proper forum when asking questions. Thank you for pointing this out and correcting it.
timofonic said:
Hello.
I would like this!
Why just audio? What about video too?
What automated recording? I like it for VoIP and videoconferencing.
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Well, for video, there's really nothing that needs done that isn't already available in other Xposed modules. The only reason video recording would be blocked by an app is if it sets FLAG_SECURE, and there are already several Xposed modules that override it. Here is the one that I use on my phone: https://github.com/VarunS2002/Xposed-Disable-FLAG_SECURE
As for automated recording for VoIP and videoconferencing, that is outside the scope of what I would like to achieve with this module. Ideally, what I want this module to do nothing more than allows audio recording apps to access audio streams that they would not normally have access to. I am not sure if this is feasible though. Currently, all apps that have the ability to intercept audio streams that are not accessible through the Android API are closed source. The community needs an open source solution, and I would like to provide that, but I need help.
So, does anyone have an interest in this? Unfortunately I am kind of at a dead end until this is sorted out.
I'm very interested in this, but I'm not a developer unfortunately.
timofonic said:
I'm very interested in this, but I'm not a developer unfortunately.
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Thanks for your interest! If you know of anyone that is experienced with Xposed module development and would be willing to help me out, please pass this along to them.
Hello all! Is there still nobody with an interest in doing this?
I'm interested in this project as well, for change of that outdated VoIP recorder, but don't have any knowledge about it unfortunately, we have to somehow make more people know about this thread
Zoki88 said:
I'm interested in this project as well, for change of that outdated VoIP recorder, but don't have any knowledge about it unfortunately, we have to somehow make more people know about this thread
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Agreed! I have no idea how to get exposure for this thread though. If you have any ideas, please share!
David B. said:
Agreed! I have no idea how to get exposure for this thread though. If you have any ideas, please share!
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I can only try mentioning this thread with link in my posts i'll put in other threads as will asking people for something else, and also if i make my own thread for asking something, will mention this thread, i don't have other better idea than that
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I can only try mentioning this thread with link in my posts i'll put in other threads as will asking people for something else, and also if i make my own thread for asking something, will mention this thread, i don't have other better idea than that
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I think that would be very useful!
Is there any way to make this thread alive and bring some developers? With new android versions upcoming and new devices, we won't be able to use boldbeast voip recorder anymore, and there's literally not a single alternative app to it, even cube acr isn't that good, can't record discord, skype, zoom etc..
Zoki88 said:
Is there any way to make this thread alive and bring some developers? With new android versions upcoming and new devices, we won't be able to use boldbeast voip recorder anymore, and there's literally not a single alternative app to it, even cube acr isn't that good, can't record discord, skype, zoom etc..
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I'd love to invest time in this again, but unfortunately, my personal life is packed with other things that are limiting my free time to further investigate this at the moment.

Fake location to India for call recording?

Hi All,
My POCO M4 Pro does call recording via the google phone app, but you have to manually hit the record button each time.
The option to 'record all calls' is only available if your location is set to India.
I've tried the following:
Set 'Region' to India.
Spoof GPS location to India via developer options.
Used a VPN location in India
Each time I have cleared cache/all data for the phone app(s) and rebooted but it still doesn't work.
I wondered if I need to use an India based ROM, but I can see the 'record all calls' option for a split second each time I open the relevant settings page, but it is removed almost instantly each time, so I belive it is built into my 'Global' ROM, but is being disabled by my location.
Does anyone know what Google phone is looking at to determine my location?
I've considered changing my google play account to India, or creating a new google profile based in India to see if that fools it...
Does anyone have any ideas?
Many thanks!!
ben73 said:
Does anyone know what Google phone is looking at to determine my location?
I've considered changing my google play account to India, or creating a new google profile based in India to see if that fools it...
Does anyone have any ideas?
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Fake Camera: Having a problem using the fake camera in an app

I have an app #com.taskmo.amazo in this app has a barcode scanner. In the old version of the app, I was able to use a Fake camera like pict2cam or camGellery But now when I click on the bar code scanner no action panel show to choose a camera. Can anyone help me mod it or do something to use Fake Camera on this app.
This app has a custom user login so if you need a login please message me.
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its look like app using cameraX for custom camera setup
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I have an app #com.taskmo.amazo in this app has a barcode scanner. In the old version of the app, I was able to use a Fake camera like pict2cam or camGellery But now when I click on the bar code scanner no action panel show to choose a camera. Can anyone help me mod it or do something to use Fake Camera on this app.
This app has a custom user login so if you need a login please message me.
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Hacking Samsung CSC Code To Enable Call Recording

Hi everyone - new member here, so maybe this has been covered, but thought I would ask anyway.
As we all know, the Samsung dialer enables native call recording from only a handful of countries and uses the phone's CSC code to make that determination. Other than rooting the phone - which trips Knox and potentially causes other problems and is super complicated for newbies, the only solution is to change the CSC code to one of those countries via a utility, which seems to work well from the posts here (p.s. third party recording apps cannot reliably capture the other side of the call).
The problem is that in order to even do that, you have to have a European model "B" or "E" phone - meaning, all lhe US based "U" phones are hopelessly without any solution.
My question is, why is it so difficult to hack the dialer into thinking the phone has the necessary CBC code that enables the recording, especially since it would appear to be a very localized and specific call for one piece of data that could be spoofed. I'm sure there's a very good reason why it can't be done, but thinking more along the lines of using a PC or Mac, it would seem simple enough to load some code at startup that would fool the phone into enabling the call recorder option.
Any thoughts?
Brixster said:
Any thoughts?
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[CLOSED][Question] How to decompile an apk and use it as a template to build another app

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There's this communications app that I like the functionality of. I would like to use the app as a template to make my own. I am more of an artist than a coder though if there was a way to see how the code works in reference to the actual app I think I could do my research and close the gaps in my development knowledge. Can anyone with more experience point me in the direction of a way to import an existing apk and observe how the code works in tandem with the graphics?
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There's this communications app that I like the functionality of. I would like to use the app as a template to make my own. I am more of an artist than a coder though if there was a way to see how the code works in reference to the actual app I think I could do my research and close the gaps in my development knowledge. Can anyone with more experience point me in the direction of a way to import an existing apk and observe how the code works in tandem with the graphics?
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Decompiling an app and editing its graphics and functionality.
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