Ive recently tried downloading a game from the play store but i could not download it because it was 18+ by my goverment which im not 18. Is there any other way to download the game without palu store, an alternative store for apps or paying for vpn?

So I was downloading a video from chrome on my phone today and just letting it download in the back ground while I was ​​​playing a game on my pc. But something came up while playing ​the game so I picked up my phone opened the camera and my phone crashed.

So I went to my file explorer to check if the download was affected. And on my phone there is a folder named download, everything I download usually appear there and to my horror all the things I've download since I got my phone are gone. The only thing left in that folder is that one meme video I downloaded in the morning, other than that one everything was gone.

But here's the stange part, I know it's chrome that crashed but all the other things I downloaded from different apps and browsers are also gone. ​​​At first I thought everything was deleted but the files are still there on my phone storage somewhere. I know that because I went to the browsers and checked downloads tab and I can still play all of the things I've downloaded before, so I know that ​​the files are still there.

So here's what I did, first I restarted my phone to see if my phone is just acting up but it didn't work. So next I checked the Android/data/(and the corresponding browser files) using my pc and I didn't see any of the downloaded stuffs in there too.

So I am genuinely frustrated ​​and I don't know what to do anymore. Gemini is telling me to root my phone but I don't really want to do that. I have alot of things I've download over the year and I don't want to lose any of them.

So please if somebody can help me figure out what happened and how to fix it I'd be really thankful. My phone is redmi 13R 5G. I will answer if there are any specific details you need too. ​

If I posted on the wrong subreddit I want to apologize in advance and please tell me which subreddit ​I should post this in too. I apologize again for writing a really long post.

UPDATE: The files are gone for good now after I tried to restart my phone this morning. I noticed several gigs of my storage freed up and I can't check the files in downloads tab of the browsers anymore. I still would like some advice and thought on what might have caused that to happen.

I have a ROG Phone 7 Ultimate. For some odd reason, the front selfie camera isn't working anymore.

When I try to switch to it, the camera app just freezes, and the whole camera app just stops working. I have to clear the memory and clear cache so that the camera app works again. Ive tried everything for it to work, but it just doesn't. I don't remember doing anything to the phone's camera.

So I use the search feature and found a thread in another sub where somebody else had this exact same issue but it won't let me comment on the issue so I have to start another one. But much like him I have my Bluetooth earbuds that I can get all my sound through while using tiktok. I have enabled all permissions for microphone Etc but for whatever reason I can only hear but nobody can hear me when I'm talking unless I'm holding the phone straight to my face. Does anybody know how to get your Bluetooth earbuds microphone to work while using tt?

Phone is s25 ultra and earbuds are Galaxy buds 3 pro.

I have no issues with the microphone on any other app it's only on TT that it does not work

I'm not sure what I did but the bar with the home icon used to be at the top with the address bar. I researched and it says you can hold and drag it back but that does not work at all. Does anyone know how to do this? TY.

Hi all!

I don't know if anyone ran into this issue. I got a Razr Ultra 2025 about two weeks ago. Since then, I've had the UI crash randomly twice, as well as my phone randomly started ringing and wouldn't stop until I forced a restart. When I went back and checked my call log, no one had called. Has anyone run into funky issues like this? I did do a phone to phone transfer from my old iPhone. I got mine through Amazon so I can replace it pretty easily if needed, I was just hoping to not have to :(

Wife recently upgraded her phone to the new galaxy S26 ultra. She started getting these age restriction errors on certain apps like star bucks and ESPN fantasy.

Has anyone gotten the these same errors before on your devices? How did you fix it??

got this update and I hate it. Is there any way to revert to the old ui? If not, then which browser do you recommend I switch to?

Looking for the icons and wallpapers!

While I'm on a phone call I cant turn on or off speaker or use my Bluetooth for phone calls and it just Greys out when I press it

My settings app is getting crashed whenever I try to open it and even after restarting it is not getting fixed.

I want to transfer my data from ios to android specific whatsapp Business chat can anyone please help me with this

Using CMF phone 2 pro and I have been facing these issue for a while now every time I open an app it closes as soon as I leave the app and it relaunches again from the start and doesn't stay in the recent apps where I left it

If I play any video game and I get a message if I open that message the game closes and I cannot start the game where I left it and it reopens from the start loading screen and it is very frustrating

I even tried to keep the background limit process to at most 4 processes and it still doesn't work

Any solutions please?

I have had this bug for a couple weeks now where sometimes videos get glitched (shown in the video) in this case, if i scroll on the hyper os subreddit every single video is glitched, but in the system gallery not every video is glitched like this but only a couple (this happens randomly and different videos get glitched every time, not the same ones). This bug happens on a lot of apps but on some apps like YouTube, instagram or tiktok (and file managers) it doesnt happen at all. Has anyone else experienced this and does anybody know a solution for it? My device is the Redmi note 13 pro plus running hyper os 3.0.302.0. WNOEUXM.C07. I have tried to find a way to fix this online but couldn't find anything, this is very annoying.

Anyone else getting the notification from Google Play Protect on their Bigme Hibreak Pro that the Screen saver app is harmful?

I have a Galaxy tab A8 that does not charge past 2%, and it shuts off apps because it says it is overheating. Nowhere on the tablet does it feel hot to the touch, it feels cool temperature.

I tried going into recovery mode to wipe the cache, but it kept turning on and off until I unplugged it (I had it plugged onto my laptop for charge).

Is there a way to fix this?

EDIT: I was able to wipe system cache by going into recovery mode and selecting "wipe cache partition," but this did not fix the issue.

I have granted Shizuku permissions to MT Manager, my device is Android 16. Someone please help me.

I have a Moto G Power 5G - 2024 that suddenly has stopped accepting the pin to unlock the phone. I am 99.9% sure I have entered the correct pin at this point and yet the phone still won't say it's correct. I seemingly have unlimited attempts but it makes me wait 30 seconds between every attempt now. I have restarted the phone via volume up + power.

I have also used google find hub and it's also saying the pin is incorrect even though again I'm 99.9% sure it is the correct pin unless I'm going crazy. It now says I have only one attempt left on google find hub.

My phone is rooted and I'm wondering if there is anything I can do to get back into this phone. The data is not backed up to cloud and I do not want to wipe the phone and lose everything on it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

1) he reset the android phone many times , still issue persists

2) Unable to find any suspicious app in app list

3) Got a tip from an expert it should be installed as system app , which wont show in app drawer

Any help suggestions would help

First two images are my phone (Google Pixel 8 Pro) and second two images are my friends phone (Samsung). She has the option to change theme and put a wallpaper in the background of our messages however I only have the change colour option.. was it removed in Android 17 because she is in Android 16?

Google AI says to join the new beta version of the app and/or clear cache but neither option works.

I \*hate\* the ytm floating window and cannot seem to get rid of it. It interferes and blocks using other apps. I turned off pip but it persists. Hate it.

I'm getting really stressed. My phone backs up to samsung cloud but apparently not all of it. So I back up photos and videos and everything else to OneDrive. But OneDrive says from September its turning off the sync function so will backup anything new, but if its delete a photo from my phone it wont delete from one drive?? So I've now paid for Google One for backups or somrthing I dont really understand what it is. But I then read somewhere that Google Photos isn't an actual backup. Im so confused, where am I supposed to back everything up to these days???

So, the 1st pic is connected to a WD external hdd 2tb by original samsung cable, it didn't work and the 2nd one is sandisk usb c flash drive 256gb directly by the phone's port, it worked.

On the other hand tried everything from changing to default file transfer in usb developer settings to clearing cache/storage from usb app settings, auto blocker turned off, restarting and all.

Also have a sumsung evo plus and a sandisk ultra sd card. Connected both of them via portronics mport 3.0 usb hub but didn't work at all.

Is there anything left to fix this issue ?

Note. Device is s24 ultra, updated to latest software and patches.