Modern Combat 5 Android Game Error! No Internet connection available. please make sure your device is connected

Summary: 

Just downloaded "Modern Combat 5" on to my android phone but i ran into this snag
"Error! No internet connection available. Please make sure your device is connected to the internet."

Modern Combat 5

Problem or Goal:

This Game was designed to only load over a WiFi connection and can't load when you use your standard mobile connection (3G or 4G). By all means you have to have a WiFi connection.

Cause:

The internet data usage for this phone is very high especially when you have just downloaded it. all the new missions are loaded from the cloud and this is very rich graphical and media content, this make it's data usage very high, so to minimize the "phone bill shock" at the end of the month for those on postpaid data plans, the designers intended for this game to only load on WiFi since in most cases WiFI connections are billed on flat rates and often cheaper. some countries even have free WiFI. 

Solution:

Connect to a WiFi hotspot, that's the simple option.
if you have two Phones, you can turn one of them into a WiFi hotspot.

The other trick is to install a dummy WiFi connection on your phone, with this setup you will use your standard 3G/4G mobile data plan to load the game.
The turn-off is this setup is not straight forward + you have to root your android device. i wouldn't recommend this because if you are not careful you will likely brick your device.

Problem Solved?

Yes - Just load the game when connected to a WiFi hotspot

Please allow storage permissions in order to play FIFA 16 UT - Redmi Note 3 MIUI Version

Summary: 

After successfully downloading and installing FIFA 16 UT on my Redmi Note 3, i get this error:
"Please allow storage permissions in order to play FIFA 16 UT."

Problem or Goal:

Error while trying to load a new game/app installed on my android phone.

Please allow storage permissions in order to play FIFA 16 UT.

Cause:

Looks like a file permissions issue

Solution: 

Follow the pictorial "how to?" below to allow the FIFA app access to your device's storage before you it can successfully launch. 

1. There is a "Security" App on the Redmi Note 3, open it

Open the security app on your phone

2. Select Permissions

Go to the permissions menu

3. Open the permissions options

open permissions options

4. Go to storage

go to storage

5. Allow FIFA app to access the storage by enabling the button

enable FIFA 

Problem Solved?

Yes, try to launch the game/app again

FIFA now launches fine

Please install "BT Notice" app in remote device

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Just got a smart watch, I think it's the "China" type because I can't seem to establish the brand. When I try to launch the camera, it gives me that error message "please install BT Notice app in remote device". Am yet to find an app that works with this watch. If you know any please reply via the comments section below.

I think i have figured it out:

1. Go to menu on the smart watch

2. Select "Settings"

3. Select "APK"

4. Select "SWatch (Google)"

5. A QR code will be displayed on your smart watch, scan this QR code using a QR scanner on your phone (You will have to  first install a "QRC" Quick Response Code scanner on your phone).

6. The QRC scan will display a link to Google Play store where you will download the App. Open that link.

7. The Link will open in Google Play Store; The App is called "SmileNotification" by smilemi, install the App.

I have tested it on my phone, yes it can launch the camera and take the picture although it's not saving the pictures in my phone gallery!

My Android Phone Keeps loosing the network connection

Problem:

My android device keeps loosing network connection and every time i have to reboot it or manually search for network operator before it can reconnect again.

Solved:

Lock the phone to 2G only.
This bug is common with network operators who have both 2G and 3G networks operational.
if you phone is set to "Auto" latch onto 2G/3G, it will tend to loose the network sometimes.
You will realize that if you transfer the SIM card to a 2G only phone, the situation will be normal.

once i realized that, i decided to set my phone "network mode" to 2G only and it has been stable ever since:

Go to Settings

Click More ...

Go to Mobile Networks

Network Mode

Choose 2G only

Move android apps from phone internal memory to SD card without rooting your device - Alcatel one touch 918

Before i share my experience, here are the details of the phone i was dealing with although this trick can pretty much work on most android devices.

Alcatel one touch 918

firmware version 2.3.6

baseband version 6573

kernel version 2.6.35.7

build number: Gingerbread

Please refer to this "How to manual? by bongizmo" it's the same manual i followed to work on my device and i appreciate bongizmo for taking the time to document this stuff, all am going to do is share my personal experience when i worked on the Alcatel one touch 918.

Alcatel one touch 918

This particular phone has a small internal memory (about 160MB and i think that's why it's cheap!!!) and is loaded with so many useless inbuilt Apps some of which i never use, and the annoying part is that i couldn't even uninstall these inbuilt Apps to free up some space.

so the challenge was, i couldn't move apps to the SD or later alone uninstall them from the device without rooting it. so i hit Google for answers and most of them where recommending to root the device and install a default Android OS to the phone (another way of getting ride of the useless Alcatel inbuilt Apps.), until i landed on bongizmo's article of how i can actually just move some Apps to the SD without necessarily rooting my device.

(Please read bongizmo's article before proceeding, here am going to just share my personally experience)

1. Things you will need; Laptop/PC, Internet, USB cable, Your Phone + SD card

2. Download Google's Android Stand-alone SDK Tools and follow their steps to successfully install it and launch it on your computer.

3.  You will also need the Google USB Driver to be able to connect your device to the PC in debug mode. But for my particular case, the Google USB driver didn't work for me, i had to search and install the Alcatel Android ADB Interface driver.

Alcatel Android ADB Interface driver

4. Connect the phone using USB cable and do not enable USB storage mode. 

Go to Settings -> Applications -> Development and enable USB debugging.

5. Go to the command prompt on your computer.

6. Change directory to the Android SDK folder - Under the Platform-tools (make sure the Android SDK Platform-tools package was also installed).

Android SDK Platform-tools

Mine was installed under: C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools and this directory contains the "adb" executable file.

C:\>cd C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools

C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>

7. Run the following command to list the connected devices:

C:\Program Files(x86)\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>adb devices

List of devices attached

C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>

Mine returned an empty list and i realized i had a problem with my device USB drivers so i updated my device USB driver, see my driver details below:

Alcatel Android ADB Interface

8. Once the drive updated successfully, running the command is step 7 gives:

C:\Program Files(x86)\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>adb devices

List of devices attached

0123456789ABCDEF        device

C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>

9. Next you start the adb shell

C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>adb shell

$

10. It's time to change the default Android install location to option 2 ( i.e the SD card)

$ pm setInstallLocation 2

pm setInstallLocation 2

$

11. Exit

$ exit

exit

12. Now on your phone go to:

 Settings->Applications->Manage Applications.

13. Tap the App you wish to move to the SD card, for me only WhatsApp and Google Play Services where able to be moved to SD which pretty much solved my space issue because the main problem was updating WhatsApp.

14. I hope this was helpful, leave a comment if you have any questions and i will be happy to help.

How to manually configure packet data (GPRS/EDGE/3G/4G) on your android phone?

Most of the time, your telecommunication service provider will run an application that can automatically push packet data settings (APNs, Proxy IP and Port, username, password, MCC, MNC, Authentication type, APN type) to your phone and this application is smart enough to know when you have changed your SIM card to a new phone and will send you new settings. But what if this doesn't happen? Well, configuring packet data on your android phone is not rocket science! And this is what you have to do:

1. Menu
2. Settings
   

   

   Settings

3. Wireless and Networks
4. Scroll down to “Mobile networks” (set options for roaming, networks, APNs).
   

   

   Select Mobile networks

5. Tick “Use packet data”
6. Select “Access Point Names”
   

   

   Select "Access Point Names"

7. Click the "Options"  button on your phone and Select “New APN”
   

   

   Android Options Button

   * Name: can be anything (for example your service provider's name! I will call mine “mtn internet”.)
   * APN: you need to know your service provider's APN (Access Point Names). You can search your service provider's website or call the customer care. Mine is “yellopix.mtn.co.ug” and I got it by searching the mtn website.
   * Proxy: usually smart phones don't need to send their traffic through proxies (WAP Proxies) so you can leave this blank.
   * Port: it's for the WAP proxy above, so leave this blank as well.
   * Username: leave this blank (most telecos don't implement authentication by this method)
   * Password: leave this blank.
   * Server: blank
   * MMSC: we don't need this for internet! It's necessary if you intend to use this APN for sending Multimedia Messages (Picture Messages from your phone.)
   * MMS Proxy: not required for internet!
   * MMS port: blank
   * MCC: This will already be automatically filled and the phone learns it from your SIM card.
   * MNC: This is also automatically filled and is learnt from your SIM card.
   * Authentication type: none
   * APN type: internet
   
   
8. Click the "Options"  button again and hit “Save”.
   

   

   Save your APN settings

9. Your new APN will appear in the APNs list with the name that you choose in bullet 7 (above).
10. Select your new APN using the radio button next to it.
    

    
11. That's it, navigate to your phone browse and test your connection.

Have fun and leave a comment if you have any questions!