Can cut & copy, cant paste??? - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I feel really really stupid for having to post this, and so I hope it's a difficult solution.
I suddenly cant work out how to paste stuff? I can type a word, hold down on it, select the cut or copy button. But I cant get the Paste option show up. I'm doing the exact same thing I've done for other Android versions. I'm on the SGS3 and I've had the the previous 2 galaxys, it's running 4.0.4 & XXLEF firmware.
What's wrong with me?

FL00DY said:
I feel really really stupid for having to post this, and so I hope it's a difficult solution.
I suddenly cant work out how to paste stuff? I can type a word, hold down on it, select the cut or copy button. But I cant get the Paste option show up. I'm doing the exact same thing I've done for other Android versions. I'm on the SGS3 and I've had the the previous 2 galaxys, it's running 4.0.4 & XXLEF firmware.
What's wrong with me?
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FL00DY said:
I feel really really stupid for having to post this, and so I hope it's a difficult solution.
I suddenly cant work out how to paste stuff? I can type a word, hold down on it, select the cut or copy button. But I cant get the Paste option show up. I'm doing the exact same thing I've done for other Android versions. I'm on the SGS3 and I've had the the previous 2 galaxys, it's running 4.0.4 & XXLEF firmware.
What's wrong with me?
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Probably gonna be a terrible response but I sold one the other day and the customer had a problem with copy and paste on the S3 cuz she had long nails... She could do it just fine on my Nexus, but had trouble on her S3. I however could do either perfectly fine. Maybe it's the angle you're doing it at or even try holding it down longer....
Again, probably not gonna help your situation... but figured id share

atchleya19 said:
Probably gonna be a terrible response but I sold one the other day and the customer had a problem with copy and paste on the S3 cuz she had long nails... She could do it just fine on my Nexus, but had trouble on her S3. I however could do either perfectly fine. Maybe it's the angle you're doing it at or even try holding it down longer....
Again, probably not gonna help your situation... but figured id share
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I just had a look on Renovate 3 4.0.4 ROM HTC OneX of a guy I work with and copy paste function works fine for him... do I need to be asking in the SGS3 forum?
Can I ask what firmware the S3 had? I'm using Swiftkey3 and have tried GO Keyboard and the same problem, copy and paste isn't dependent on which keyboard you use?

I've just tried doing this out of my imo messenger and it crashed it, it's also been crashing Chrome when I tried copying. So this seems to be a Samsung thing... Can I have this moved to the S3 forum Q&A please, thanks...

FL00DY said:
I feel really really stupid for having to post this, and so I hope it's a difficult solution.
I suddenly cant work out how to paste stuff? I can type a word, hold down on it, select the cut or copy button. But I cant get the Paste option show up. I'm doing the exact same thing I've done for other Android versions. I'm on the SGS3 and I've had the the previous 2 galaxys, it's running 4.0.4 & XXLEF firmware.
What's wrong with me?
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In my Galaxy S, first I need to SELECT words. Then, I can cut or copy.

SachinShekhar said:
In my Galaxy S, first I need to SELECT words. Then, I can cut or copy.
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Like I say, when I hold down on a word it selects the word for me :good: Still doesnt fix the paste problem

Install Clipper from Play Store to pin-point the problem. See that texts go to clipboard or not. Or, the problem is with pasting only.

SachinShekhar said:
Install Clipper from Play Store to pin-point the problem. See that texts go to clipboard or not. Or, the problem is with pasting only.
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Nice tip, thanks. There is nothing on the clipboard How can firmware like this be released with such an obvious bug

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Cut and paste

Silly question but does anyone know why cut and paste wouldn't work. I'm able to cut but not paste....
czerdrill said:
Silly question but does anyone know why cut and paste wouldn't work. I'm able to cut but not paste....
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You mean the paste tab won't show up or when you press it it does nothing? Still working for me okay.
demandarin said:
You mean the paste tab won't show up or when you press it it does nothing? Still working for me okay.
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It shows up but when I press nothing happens. I think it may be cross application. Can you cut from say browser and paste into gmail?
When you long press on a word or something you dont get two blue triangles that can be adjusted to include whatever you want
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czerdrill said:
It shows up but when I press nothing happens. I think it may be cross application. Can you cut from say browser and paste into gmail?
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Yes you should be able to, I just tested mine and it's working? Copied out of boat, went to compose email, long press and paste
czerdrill said:
It shows up but when I press nothing happens. I think it may be cross application. Can you cut from say browser and paste into gmail?
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You can i do it all the time
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ilostmypistons said:
When you long press on a word or something you dont get two blue triangles that can be adjusted to include whatever you want
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i do and i can cut ok but can't paste...i realize i can't paste across apps...if i stay within the browser for example it's fine, but if I'm trying to paste something i cut in the browser it doesn't work
is that normal behavior
czerdrill said:
It shows up but when I press nothing happens. I think it may be cross application. Can you cut from say browser and paste into gmail?
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Its working cross application like the other user posted. Try a reboot. Might just be a glitch or bug that occurred. If its still happening, do you have any copy n paste apps like clip it or something installed?
demandarin said:
Its working cross application like the other user posted. Try a reboot. Might just be a glitch or bug that occurred. If its still happening, do you have any copy n paste apps like clip it or something installed?
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just tried a reboot still doesn't work. you guys are rooted or no? i am don't know if that makes a difference and no, no copy paste apps
czerdrill said:
just tried a reboot still doesn't work. you guys are rooted or no? i am don't know if that makes a difference and no, no copy paste apps
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I know mine's fine... Hate to say it, but factory reset?
That's an odd issue there, can't say I've ever seen Android system files get corrupted, just people installing the wrong files...
buxtahuda said:
I know mine's fine... Hate to say it, but factory reset?
That's an odd issue there, can't say I've ever seen Android system files get corrupted, just people installing the wrong files...
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yeah I'll try a reset...thanks guys
Let us know if that fixes it or not. Being rooted or not has no bearing on whether copy n paste functions work or not.
It took me a while to get use to this.
But this is working for me.
CTRL+X and
CTRL+V
I'm doing this right now from the slightly buggy Chrome
Beta that is bugging out as I try to type this.
Just remember that you have to first select over a word with your cursor in a text box window by holding down on it for a second until the double blue arrow appears so you can adjust your selection. Then the cut, copy, or paste keyboard command should work.

ICS 4.0.3 Contacts problem

Hi all
I've encountered a problem on my S2 regarding contacts. When I do a search by entering any letter those persons who have these letter will show on my screen. The functionality in that regard is working fine however it will also show up those persons that I've marked as hidden.
For instance I unmarked for show any contacts from my sim card. However when I do a search it will show any persons with that letter including those from my sim card?
Anyone know this problem and how to fix it?
I believe this either happened when I updated the firmware to the latest. ics 4.0.3 and dunno if its a known problem?
Or it could be related to me rooting my s2.
However I did a stock firmware install but the problem still persists.
I've tried on mine and I get duplicates too. I think the hidden ones only stay hidden in your Contacts menu and not your search function. Either this is a default thing or it can be edited using a script. Either way, I don't have a problem with it, but I can see why it is annoying you. Sorry I can't help much, I'm a bit of a noobie myself.
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aRc. said:
I've tried on mine and I get duplicates too. I think the hidden ones only stay hidden in your Contacts menu and not your search function. Either this is a default thing or it can be edited using a script. Either way, I don't have a problem with it, but I can see why it is annoying you. Sorry I can't help much, I'm a bit of a noobie myself.
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Thank you for replying because I certainly needed a confirmation that it wasnt me that messed up my phone.
Alternative solution would be to simply delete all contacts in my sim card and it would ease my annoyance but still I would say this is not very optimal.
But you did help me by replrying .. thank you.
EDIT:
A friend of mine who also has a s2 but who is still on gingerbread do not have this problem. So I suspect either my phone to be the culprit which seems not to be the case, it would have to be an issue on ICS in general?
See here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=27023617&postcount=14

at&t hotspot apk

on CM, and they took out a lot of bloat which is good
but there was an app on stock at&t rom that would log you in automatically when you get to at&t hotspots(like mcdonalds) etc
anybody have this .apk?
i download my previous rom and opened it up, didnt see anything called that
anybody know the exact name to look for or has the apk ? thanks
SayWhat10 said:
on CM, and they took out a lot of bloat which is good
but there was an app on stock at&t rom that would log you in automatically when you get to at&t hotspots(like mcdonalds) etc
anybody have this .apk?
i download my previous rom and opened it up, didnt see anything called that
anybody know the exact name to look for or has the apk ? thanks
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It's on Play store. Look up: 'AT&T Smart Wi-Fi'
thekrush said:
It's on Play store. Look up: 'AT&T Smart Wi-Fi'
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hmmmm ok, well i saw that but skipped over it
because on all my other roms/including stock, i dont remember it being an app,it would just auto-connect
and it was always a system apk as well
let me go check it out though
It was excluded because CM10 has absolutely nothing to do with ATT. Or any phone for that matter. So unless somebody kangs CM10 and adds in an app, it's going to always be as bare bones Android as you can get.
Essentially, CM10 isn't ever a bloat removed version of any phones stock ROM, because it's build from aosp source, so the bloat was never there to begin with, and likely wouldn't be added in anyways.
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ATT hotspots is a stock rom system app ...
The only way to get it ...is pull the apk from a stock rom ...g
SayWhat10 said:
on CM, and they took out a lot of bloat which is good
but there was an app on stock at&t rom that would log you in automatically when you get to at&t hotspots(like mcdonalds) etc
anybody have this .apk?
i download my previous rom and opened it up, didnt see anything called that
anybody know the exact name to look for or has the apk ? thanks
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I like that app as well. That wsa the only thing I didn't like about my ROM, so I did a nandroid, restored to stock, pulled that system app, and restored my nandroid.
Lucky for you and anyone else that wants it, I just happen to have placed it in my Dropbox.
Make sure to place it in /system/app (Don't install it like a normal APK) and change permissions to rw-r--r--
You will need to manually connect to attwifi the first time if you haven't already.
WISPr_postpaid.apk
I use att smart wifi from the play store, its the same thing
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It connects automatically when you're in range?
AlcoholicDoc said:
I like that app as well. That wsa the only thing I didn't like about my ROM, so I did a nandroid, restored to stock, pulled that system app, and restored my nandroid.
Lucky for you and anyone else that wants it, I just happen to have placed it in my Dropbox.
Make sure to place it in /system/app (Don't install it like a normal APK) and change permissions to rw-r--r--
You will need to manually connect to attwifi the first time if you haven't already.
WISPr_postpaid.apk
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thanks a bunch!!
LittleRedDot said:
I use att smart wifi from the play store, its the same thing
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way different
the system app one is just hotspots,mostly ATnT ones i believe
the one in the market can affect connection to your home wifi and work etc
plus, ones an app you can open, the other isnt
rangercaptain said:
It connects automatically when you're in range?
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the system app one, like if you're at mcndonalds , will connect to it automatically (mcndonalds is one of the stores on ATnT wifi partnerships)
if you didnt have the app, you can still connect(its free wifi no password) but you would have to first open up a browers, read the agreement, and hit accept blah blah, before you can start using the wifi. again the system app skips all that and just connects you
SayWhat10 said:
the system app one, like if you're at mcndonalds , will connect to it automatically (mcndonalds is one of the stores on ATnT wifi partnerships)
if you didnt have the app, you can still connect(its free wifi no password) but you would have to first open up a browers, read the agreement, and hit accept blah blah, before you can start using the wifi. again the system app skips all that and just connects you
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It also skips all the payment info at some places that still charge for WiFi, so long as it's powered by AT&T. I wouldn't mind having this feature back as well, even though I'd rarely ever use it. Honestly, my cell is faster than the WiFi at any Starbucks or McDonalds around here. But I can see a use for it while traveling. Maybe download one of the stock ROM flashable zips and just extract the necessary apk, put it in /system/app and see if it will work that way. I'd try myself, but I'm a tad busy lately and already in trouble for all my downloading this month.
EDIT: Forgot to mention, the one on Play is too bloated. I don't want that junk handling all my WiFi.
Is this what you guys are looking for
SayWhat10 said:
on CM, and they took out a lot of bloat which is good
but there was an app on stock at&t rom that would log you in automatically when you get to at&t hotspots(like mcdonalds) etc
anybody have this .apk?
i download my previous rom and opened it up, didnt see anything called that
anybody know the exact name to look for or has the apk ? thanks
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I just rooted Sony Ericsson Xperia X10a and was going through the cleanup list when I came across this file. I wasn't sure what this file was for until I read this post. I am cleaning it up but here is a copy - in case you can make use of it.
johnus said:
It also skips all the payment info at some places that still charge for WiFi, so long as it's powered by AT&T. I wouldn't mind having this feature back as well, even though I'd rarely ever use it. Honestly, my cell is faster than the WiFi at any Starbucks or McDonalds around here. But I can see a use for it while traveling. Maybe download one of the stock ROM flashable zips and just extract the necessary apk, put it in /system/app and see if it will work that way. I'd try myself, but I'm a tad busy lately and already in trouble for all my downloading this month.
EDIT: Forgot to mention, the one on Play is too bloated. I don't want that junk handling all my WiFi.
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well, I was going to debloat this, but think I will just backup & freeze for now. never know when it might come in handy. :good:
dpprad_20 said:
I just rooted Sony Ericsson Xperia X10a and was going through the cleanup list when I came across this file. I wasn't sure what this file was for until I read this post. I am cleaning it up but here is a copy - in case you can make use of it.
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Don't think I want to download an apk from somebody with 1 post on the forum....
woody1 said:
Don't think I want to download an apk from somebody with 1 post on the forum....
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Good call. He's clearly not as crafty and trustworthy as you, Mr. Replying-to-a-year-old-post. You're really the gold standard in solid membership.
Boom!
Anthony820 said:
Good call. He's clearly not as crafty and trustworthy as you, Mr. Replying-to-a-year-old-post. You're really the gold standard in solid membership.
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Well, Mr. Useless Retort, I was searching for this very apk and was about to download it until I looked at his stats. You see, the fact that a post is a year old doesn't make a lot of difference if it has information you need. You see, Mr Useless, that's why the forum goes back many years.
Note that my reply wasn't intended for him, it was to warn off anybody else who might think about downloading this.
See how that works??
I think you can get this apk from the market, or what I do is google for apks -- especially older ones when the market updates me and the update sucks. I haven't been burned yet.
rangercaptain said:
I think you can get this apk from the market, or what I do is google for apks -- especially older ones when the market updates me and the update sucks. I haven't been burned yet.
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Googling for the apk is what brought me to this thread. I've never been burned with a download, either, but then I've never downloaded one from somebody with a single post.

Reset Simpsons tapped out game save help

Hi guys can you please help me reset my Simpson tapped out game . I can't seem to find how to do it.
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I too can't find the lcoation of it as well.
I haven't found the data files or folder however I did find a working donut & money hack if you guys want it!
Babbled from my Samsung Gnex
I don't think you can reset it. It syncs to a server. Although I could be wrong.
DarkManX4lf said:
I don't think you can reset it. It syncs to a server. Although I could be wrong.
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I think you're right, it's server based as it runs in real time whether you're in the game or not.
I have an issue though.. I have two devices and would love to have the game running on both.. the phone during the day and a tablet in the evening.. does anyone know where the account info is?, if I can copy the account data from my phone to the tablet (or vice versa) I could play from the last saved place each time.
Any thoughts?
I'm actually checking into this as well, as far as I can tell its in the root folder data/data/ea.comsimpsonsblahblahbl I can confirm that the "other" town is the files in save folder because I deleted them and now I force close ONLY when visiting other Springfield.
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Your issue seems like it could be sorted by downloading it to both with same Google account no? Im not entirely sure as I only own phones but if it syncs online you would think right?
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christopherrrg said:
however I did find a working donut & money hack if you guys want it!
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Go on.
christopherrrg said:
I did find a working donut & money hack if you guys want it!
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Yes please!
Search for "Game Killer" its like game CIH and game guardian but actually works, if you need a tutorial you'll have to wait until I'm home from work lol
Babbled from my Samsung Gnex
i'll try that game killer..
Just reset mines last night, you have to wipe everything and reflash your rom. Seem like the file that connect our phone to their server is hidden some where. And for whoever uses GameKiller cheats, before you close the game, make sure you buy the "Homer Buddha" until you get more Donuts.
on my galaxy s3 i just uninstalled and re-installed the game and my data was gone easy
christopherrrg said:
Search for "Game Killer" its like game CIH and game guardian but actually works, if you need a tutorial you'll have to wait until I'm home from work lol
Babbled from my Samsung Gnex
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I had figured out how to work Game killer, but when I went to the alternate universe, my donuts went back down to 2, I thot I had saved the hex addresses to go back to but its not there, any way u know the hex addresses I would need to change the donuts field for?
I actually had the same problem, tried a lot to find it again as well, what did work though was I bought a crap load of land in game and just spam bought dumpsters for 1000$ as they give you exp to lvl up the fastest, lvl up = donuts((to raise search value higher again, I recommend 5 donuts or above.))
Babbled from my Samsung Gnex
Gamekiller download
Hi, can any of you link to the gamekiller apk please? I'm can't find it to download from anywhere I trust!
Also a tutorial on how to use it with the Simpsons tapped out would be great.
Thanks
There is also a modded apk floating around out there, I'm sure if you use Google you can find it.
The real trick is how do you reload your current world after reflashing a rom? I think a hard reset also disconnects you from your current world. The game server must have some way of identifying your phone, the phone name maybe?
That should allow you to play on multiple devices too. If you could figure out what the severs look for to identify your device.
has anybody found out how to put an old simpsons game onto a new phone?
I.e. i have a long gaming going on my old phone but i want to transfer it to my new phone.
My old phone is rooted and i find a file in .android_secure
new phone isnt rooted so cant access that folder to copy into it, if thats the right folder.
Not possible at all - it's linked to your device's hardware.

[Q] Morning/Night everyone

I have a odd question.. my phone is a Samsung galaxy S2 and recently it started have a weird error whenever I am writing text. If I'm typing and I type the word "side" si goes through the rest doesn't , sometimes my keyboard will stop working and for a few mins if my keyboard is working when you hit space it deletes the last word. Anyone got a clue as to what's happening? I tested other parts it's only that letter combination that causes it. Thank you
xHan1 said:
I have a odd question.. my phone is a Samsung galaxy S2 and recently it started have a weird error whenever I am writing text. If I'm typing and I type the word "side" si goes through the rest doesn't , sometimes my keyboard will stop working and for a few mins if my keyboard is working when you hit space it deletes the last word. Anyone got a clue as to what's happening? I tested other parts it's only that letter combination that causes it. Thank you
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You need to include way more information than that.
Are you rooted? What romantic are you on? Are you using a third party keyboard? What have you done to try to solve it?
You can take a look at the thread in my sig for more questions you should answer to get the problem solved
kilometers4 said:
You need to include way more information than that.
Are you rooted? What romantic are you on? Are you using a third party keyboard? What have you done to try to solve it?
You can take a look at the thread in my sig for more questions you should answer to get the problem solved
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Well wasn't sure how to describe it really and to answer your questions.
No. No idea what that is. No. And I haven't done really anything other then locking my phone and unlocking it usually fixes it until i type the word again.
I9100? ROM?
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