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Solving: insufficient permissions for device: user in plugdev group; are your udev rules wrong

This happens on Ubuntu almost each time I add a new device: Check that your are in plugdev group $ id uid=1000(alex) gid=1000(alex) groups=1000(alex),4(adm),24(cdrom),27(sudo),30(dip),46(plugdev),116(lpadmin),126(sambashare),127(kvm),129(libvirt),134(chrome-remote-desktop) If not (i.e. plugdev not displayed), add it: $ sudo usermod -aG plugdev alex If you get 'insufficient permissions for device: user in plugdev group; are your udev rules wrong' when trying to debug, you'll need to add your device: First i used lsusb to find my vendor id (here I guess google) $ lsusb Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub ... Bus 001 Device 025: ID 18d1:4ee7 Google Inc. .. Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub .. Bus 001 Device 020: ID 05e0:2106 Symbol Technologies USB2.1 Hub As suggested in https://developer.android.com/studio/run/device.html the solution was to sudo gedit /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules Add th

Enable autoplay videos onChrome

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By default now Chrome block all video playback if there was no use interraction. You can change this behavior by going to (need to copy/paste in Chrome Address bar): chrome://flags/#autoplay-policy You then get to the following settings: That you need to change to 'No user gesture is required' and restart Chrome x

Fixing "DerInputStream.getLength(): lengthTag=109, too big" in Android Studio

This happened to me in Android Studio after AndroidX migration and using the new testing framework. Even deleting the existing ~/.android/debug.keystore was failing for me The solution was regenerate it manually (accept all questions as empty and say yes at the last one) $ keytool -genkey -v -keystore debug.keystore -storepass android -alias androiddebugkey -keypass android -keyalg RSA -keysize 2048 -validity 10000 And copy it $ rm ~/.android/debug.keystore $ cp debug.keystore ~/.android/debug.keystore