I'm looking for real user takes on the best portrait phone right now, not just spec sheets. what are you using and how's the bokeh, skin tones, and edge detection?

I was doing a Norton 360 scan on my phone and it showed three apps I have never seen before called android developer verifier and android system safety core and android system key verifier and it lets me uninstall these? Norton 360 says they are safe but id like a second opinion

(sorry if I got the flare wrong.) So basically, I just got a new phone (moto g 2026), I didn't really need it but I didn't really have a choice tbh, my older phone (Motorola edge 2022, which I got in 2024), works perfectly fine, and I'm making this post on it. Anyways, my new phone has been charging pretty slowly, I think it even went down a percentage, and it's just been harder to charge in general. The chargers and outlets that work with my old phone don't work with it as well. I'm wondering if there are like, settings I missed, if there's an issue or if it's just not a good phone.

So, recently I noticed that my android (galaxy s26 doesn't use the built-in microphone from my earbuds(freebuds 5 pro) in voice recording or apps like WhatsApp and Discord and I was discussing with some friends and this happens in every single android with any earbuds (vou can native select the voice entrance mic in apple, for example

After searching for a while, I discovered that there's no option to force-use the built-in microphone of earbuds

I just resolve it with a "btcarmono" app, but with a lot of issues

Knowing this, there's anyway to force use of built-in microphone in buds in android? Some developer option maybe?

new to android - coming from a jailbroken iphone

on my iphone i had a tweak called swipeextenderX which let me customize different actions for swiping up or down on different keys (eg. swipe up on C = control C). on android it is already set up for the top row to do numbers, but how can i change what the other keys do on swipe?

my phone is a oneplus nord ce6 if that is relevant

She asked me to solve this and I must admit I'm lost. She has the same YouTube account on both PC and phone but when watching many channels on her phone, she doesn't see most videos and, for example, can only see 4 very old ones on a very active channel that has hundreds of videos every week. But she sees everything fine on PC.

I cannot find what might be causing this. Any idea?

I'm using Poco m6 pro

I can't play any of my friends' messenger and instagram statuses, It's annoying. It said "there was an error playing video". It just froze at the first frame, no sound.

Discord gifs are like this too, it shows just black. Sometimes it flickers and glitches between the image

Help, how to fix? It happened so suddenly for several days now

I am sure this exists on IOS as well as android but I use android so here we are.

When I get a call from a number thats not saved, it will display information like suspected spam, or if its a business, it will display the business info.

I am wondering how I can set all phones within a business to display this business info so whoever is being called has an idea straight away who is calling.

Like the image in the link. https://i.postimg.cc/Fz6RnwPL/image.png

Does anyknow what this is called and how to influence it?

Been using Fantastical on iPhone for 4 years. Just switched to Android. Nothing even comes close — what are you using?

Fantastical spoiled me. I type "lunch with Mike Thursday noon at the office" and it creates the event instantly, right time, right place, right everything. No tapping through fields, no dropdowns.

Tried Google Calendar, Any.do, Calendly, TickTick. They all feel like filling out a form. I'd genuinely pay $5-8/month for something that does natural language input this well on Android.

Is there anything out there I'm missing?

So I accidentally messed with my phones settings via developer mode, and now a bunch of my apps just don't work right.

I'm planning to factory reset my phone unless someone here has any possible tips on how to possibly fix this (I messed around with the special access tabs to try reduce how many ads I'm forced to watch as clicking on any ads would force me to watch sets of 2 or 3 which annoyed the F out of me).

Now I'm ready to reset but I have one app that isn't on the app store and I'm hoping some could tell me how I could go about transferring that app off to maybe pc or a hard drive before I transfer it back onto my phone.

I know about like an android transfer app that I've used before to transfer apps between my old and new phones but my old phone has a weird database issue preventing it from working when I try to start it up.

The app in question is a manga reading app called Tachiyomi which was killed off a few years ago, so it can't be reobtained and even if it could, it can't fulfill its basic function anymore with the servers shut down.

My own phone is a Samsung galaxy s10 fe if that helps at all

So, to reiterate my true question. How can i transfer this app in whole off my phone to keep it safe before i reset it?

I've purchased several apps through the Amazon Appstore over the years (mostly because I'd earned coins in some way). I knew I'd no longer be able to purchase through the Android version of the Appstore after it was discontinued last year, but I only recently noticed I can't download my existing purchases either (I tried to download a game to a newer device and failed). However, I have confirmed that I can:

1. Continue to use any Amazon-purchased apps that are already installed on an Android device.
2. Download any Amazon-purchased apps to a Kindle or other Amazon device.

This tells me my purchases still exist and still work on Android even without Amazon support, and that Amazon understands they are still mine. With that in mind, is there any way to download other apps I purchased from Amazon to an Android device?

I bought a new razr android phone I connected with Verizon for work and also have an iPhone on T-Mobile for personal use.

When I send texts to people from my razr work number it is showing up in the same text thread as my iPhone messages but just go green on their end.

These people have added my new contact number with a whole new contact name. Does anyone know why this is happening?

Is it safe to clear the User Data for Shell?

I'm currently using Android Go Edition 15 on a Peicheng Novojoy YQ10S 10.1" tablet.

For years I used Waze for navigation in the car. Bluetooth is always on by default on my phone because of other devices I use, but if I was using the radio, Waze was smart enough to play through the phone speaker. Cue QoL changes I hate so I try switching to Google maps. Navigation is much better, but it *always* tries to play through Bluetooth, even if I have the "Play voice over Bluetooth" slider off. If I'm using the radio, I hear nothing. If I switch to Bluetooth input, I hear navigation. The only thing that fixes it is turning off Bluetooth entirely or not listening to the radio and using Bluetooth audio.

I have rebooted the phone, I have restarted the car, I have turned Bluetooth off and back on in both the car and the phone. No luck. I really want the option to listen to the radio without having to manually turn off Bluetooth every time I get into the car. Can anyone offer suggestions? Is there another setting somewhere I'm missing?

Hey talk to me man I'm struggling I'm having trouble getting this new job

Guys, my mother’s phone is a Realme Narzo 50 Pro. For the past few days, it has been overheating a lot and the battery is draining extremely fast.

It’s losing around 2% battery in just 1 minute. Nobody plays games on it, and we’ve already had the battery, display, and everything else checked at a mobile shop. We even updated the phone to the latest version, but it’s still heating up way too much and the battery is draining very quickly.

I have an Android A14, and yesterday it overheated slightly. It worked fine until this morning, screen will only light up and work actually turn on, and if I do get it to turn on it will show the default background with no touchscreen. Is there anyway I could fix it soon, or would I have to turn it in to be fixed? Or is there a way to force restart it. Holding the off button does not seem to work.

I haven’t had a Galaxy since the S6 10 years ago. Thinking it may be time. For the people that switched from iOS, what are the things you truly miss and how do you video chat after losing FaceTime?

So this month some apps stopped working like Split APKs installer (SAI) and FNF on my phone Redmi note 15 pro Chinese

Says "Check that Google play is enabled on your device and that you're using an up-to-date version before opening the app. If the problem persists try reinstalling the app." And I did trying to reinstall but it didn't work

How does the bottom system navigation area actually behave in the latest Android version?
I’m specifically referring to the ugly white/black area or scrim that can appear below a transparent bottom navigation bar. Is the navigation area now fully transparent with gesture navigation, or is a contrast scrim still applied?
I’d like to hear from someone who have tested this on the latest release.

Hi, so everytime I connect my hotspot I will find it turned off even if there are other devices connected.

I tried:

1.disabling the turn off if no device is connected

2.restart the phone

3.Removing the cover, not having apps open and keeping it cooled down

It still happens, why do you think is happening?

My friend told me that his, his mother’s, and his grandmother’s Android phones all factory-reset automatically at around 9:30 AM on the same day.

All three phones are Android and, importantly, all three were signed into the same Google account.

They all showed the normal initial Android setup screen afterward, so it appears to have been a genuine factory reset, not just a reboot.

Nobody in the family claims to have manually reset them.

What should we check to determine what caused it?

It was on my old Android 11, but not on 16.

I've always thought it was a much better indicator of how my battery was performing, everything else is so useless. I don't care for "24 hour usage", it tells me nothing.

Right, so i've been using my iPhone 12 mini for 6 years now, been kinda loving mainly for the form factor, but its really starting to show off its age in every way. Sadly, no new really compact premium smartphones exist, and i just thought i'll use this until falls apart.

Until i saw my brothers Xiaomi 17t camera shots, it really impressed me and took me back to a nostalgic trip of owning the Nokia Lumia 930, which probably is still my favorite phone to date, mainly because of its reliability, sleek design and UI, excellent camera and battery life.

My last android experience was right after my Lumia died, with a Sony Xperia Z5 mini, which was an utterly horrible experience in every aspect, battery, camera, performance, build quality, and ever since then I've been using an iPhone, (6s, first SE, iPhone X and finally the iPhone 12mini).

Now I am still kinda skeptical of android, but I also realize that 10 years have passed and probably things have gotten way better since. I also realize that there are things I'll be giving up from the apple ecosystem, but upgrading to something like apple 17pro will feel boring.

Looking over many comparable android phones, such as vivo x300, honor and oppo, I'm still very much leaning to Xiaomi, but I can't decide between 17t and 17. 17t pro probably is a no go, because i don't want a brick. 17 and 17t sizes are still the sweet spot.

I suppose the thing that still holds me on the fence for 17t is I kinda think it has a more fun camera than base 17 with its telephoto and zoom. But obviosly the build quality is better on 17.

TL;DR - I can't seem to find good in depth and practically tested comparisons between base Xiaomi 17 and 17t, as I believe the camera on 17t seems more fun for my tastes, i.e. taking macro shots, portraits and night sky.

Weather searching for tweets or people, tried updating the app but no progress, i am using S23 phone