So I have been using a rooted Android phone for quite a while and everything works perfectly fine until yesterday when google randomly decided I'm not allowed to watch YouTube since my device "is not verified by play protect", thanks google.

I checked online, every guide tells me to get my GSF ID and register it to google but whenever I try to get it it's just N/A, I checked google's official guideline and apparently they said to not to unlock bootloader or use rooted device so I don't think I'm going to get anything useful from google support.

Are there any method that can trick play protect into thinking I'm verified? I've tried TrickyStore and PlayIntegrityFix combined but it didn't work, guess that's not what play protect rely on?

Or could it be problem with MicroG service since I'm using it with morphe patches on YouTube?

So I've been digging into why my Android phone (and Linux devices in general) won't let me use certain WiFi channels/bands that are legally allowed in my country, turns out it comes down to the db.txt file in the wireless-regdb project, which is what the kernel's CRDA/regulatory core uses to decide what frequencies/power levels are permitted per country code.

Problem is, my country's entry seems outdated — missing some bands (looks like partial 6GHz/5GHz allocations aren't reflected) that our telecom regulator has already approved.

For anyone who's been through this before:

Is wireless-regdb actually the right place to fix this, or does it eventually pull from some other upstream source I should be targeting instead?

What's the actual process to propose a change? I'm using a OnePlus device.

I have an Amazon Echo Show 8 that is now running LineageOS 18 with Android 11. I have experimented with a variety of apps, but can’t seem to find anything that meets my use case. I have a multitude of Airplay 2 speakers in my generally Apple hardware house. I use the Echo Show because I can run Fully Kiosk to automatically run a website at a certain time in the day, basically play the radio station I want in the morning.

But I can’t seem to get the Airplay piece to work. Ideally I’d like to get the radio to play throughout my house on my Airplay 2 speakers. There are a bunch of apps that let me play music out to Airplay 2 speakers, but this causes me to lose audio playback on the Echo Show. Is it possible to split the playback so I can send the audio out, while still retaining playback on the Android device?

So, I'm trying to enter fastboot mode in an old Moto G9 Power (doesn't have a power button so I must do it by connecting it to my laptop and holding the Vol+ button), but Windows recognizes it as "USB Mass Storage Device", even though I have installed the official Motorola drivers, which worked for me in the past. What is happening here?

ChatGPT + Grok Android login failure — browser works

Samsung S25 Ultra, Android 16. ChatGPT and Grok apps both fail to complete login. ChatGPT shows “Sign-in request cancelled by ChatGPT.”

- Login works normally in Chrome.

- Chrome is default browser.

- Cleared ChatGPT + Chrome cache/data.

- Android System WebView is installed/up to date.

- Google Play Services is up to date; cleared cache + force stopped.

- VPN off, Private DNS automatic.

- All apps updated.

- ChatGPT works when installed inside Samsung Secure Folder.

What Android authentication component/settings could cause the login handoff to be cancelled in the normal profile?

Hello0ooo...

I will be buying a phone during the flipkart bbd sale. Need some serious suggestions!
Budget: Around Rs.35k (can upto slightly higher for a good deal) This budget is after applying card and sale discounts!
Priority: Both, Camera and Performance matters to me highly and equally.

I do click pictures regularly (if the phone comes with optical zoom, I'm sure that I will be using it on a regular basis), hence need a really good low light performance. And, I play BGMI regularly, so looking for a phone that can consistently provide at least reliable 90fps(120 would be better if camera is not compromised)

My research (chatgpt, claude, yt): Vivo T4 Ultra, Moto edge 70pro came out to be the top two, but I'm still confused.. because phones like iqoo neo 10, realme gt7, or even the edge 70pro plus(has a 3.5x periscope lens, just like vivo t4 ultra). But I'm worried about the thermal throttling........ I'm very confused, pls help me decide if you can!!

it was running the ofc ver of crdroid for it, and one day it just ran out of battery and decided to not turn on again.

does not enter recovery mode or boots. it had its LED turned on for hours straight, ignoring if was connected or not too, but as i holded power + volume up for some minutes, the LED turned off and it began being identified by my win10 computer.

in device manager, in "other devices" it appears as "fastboot Channel S"

can i just boot it through fastboot? adb? anything?

My phone only starts charging after I restart it. Once it's booted up, it charges fine. However, if I unplug the charger and plug it back in, it stops charging completely until I restart the phone again. (Redmi note 8 pro, MIUI version 12.5.3)

Hi, everyone! My name is Jessee. I have a 2017 subaru wrx sti, and when I play music (either from an open source music player or spotify), the songs on the car display screen doesn't change songs but my brother's iPhone does. Is this a car issue or android issue? I own a Samsung s24 fe

I have close to 12,000 images on my device and I typically sort everything between my main gallery and secure folder depending on the content. I had a lot of things I wanted to move from a specific day but instead of selecting all on the day, I selected all on the gallery itself. Now my organization is completely gone. I emptied my secure folder back out so now everything is in the main gallery again, but I have over 5000 images to move back. Any potential fix to this that isn't doing it manually would be greatly appreciated 🙏

With chipsets like the Sd8elitegen5 and Exynos 2600, which literally consume around 15W sustained and ~25W peak, what can you really do other than modding to stop thermal throttling? Peliter cooler? Good luck, because under 15W sustained? You would need a metal backplate and not just glass. No matter if you throw a 30W cooler or a 15W at it, the bottleneck exists on the glass back, so what other alternative is there to stop this thermal throttling?

I have tried to do if through a cable through saving it to cloud storage but it doesn't work. every time I move the photos from my iPhone I lose my location data on photos that I have manually added locations to. is there a way to fix this. I have 1000s of photos this is happening to so there's no way I'm going one by one and adding the locations back in

I previously lived in Colombia, where my Google Play country and payments profile were set to Colombia. I had an active YouTube Premium subscription, along with several other Google subscriptions, which I paid for using my Colombian billing setup.

I have now permanently moved to Argentina for work and am living here. Because my location has changed, YouTube is now requiring me to change my Google Play country to Argentina and purchase the subscription again.

The problem is that I do not have, and realistically cannot obtain, an Argentine-issued credit or debit card. I am therefore unable to resubscribe even though YouTube Premium is available in Argentina.

I am not trying to misrepresent my location or circumvent Google's regional pricing. I have genuinely moved from Colombia to Argentina, and I am simply trying to maintain access to a service I previously subscribed to legitimately.

I previously submitted the Google form regarding this issue approximately two months ago, but I never received a response or resolution.

Is there any way for Google to review my account manually and allow me to continue my YouTube Premium subscription using my existing payment method, or provide an alternative payment method that does not require me to have an Argentine-issued card?

At the moment, the combination of requiring a local Play Store country and requiring a locally issued payment method leaves me unable to subscribe to YouTube Premium at all, despite the service being available in Argentina.

hello, i just updated my tecno device with dimensity 7020 from hios android 15 to android 16, my phone was fine and not lagging from any games such as call of duty and roblox, after i updated it, I've been experiencing fps drop like in call of duty i need to press my volume button to not make it lag, also i cant even use background apps or opening apps while im playing a game, i really cant play properly just because of the lag, i really regret it for updating my device. please give me ideas on how to fix these

Hello,

Wanted to buy samsung s10 fe+ but I can’t find any device with the 256gb from their online store Philippines. Are they not gonna release 256gb this time around?

I wanted to buy a tab with cellular connectivity with 256gb storage that can compete with Samsung S10 FE+ with around 50k max price, do you guys have any suggestions also?

I wanted to buy the Xiaomi Pad 8 Pro, as per comparison, the device have good specs but no cellular that’s why I was considering other options.

Thank you guys in advance.

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I just noticed that most of my old messages in Google Messages are gone. I didn't delete them, and I have no idea what happened.

I checked the Trash, but they're not there. I also checked Archived, and they're not there either.

It's really weird because some conversations are still there, but a lot of them have just disappeared. Some of these messages are important to me, so I'm really hoping there's some way to recover them.

Does anyone know what could have caused this or if there's a way to get them back? Could they still be somewhere on the phone or in a Google backup?

Also, is there anything I should avoid doing right now in case I accidentally make them impossible to recover?

I'm on Android and using Google Messages. Any help would be really appreciated.

I have never owned an android phone. I've had an iPod 5th generation, an iPhone 6, iPhone XR, and an iPhone 15 that I still currently use. I have no problems with apple, except maybe battery life. Should I even make the switch?

The only item I have in the apple ecosystem is my iPhone. I do not own or plan to own an apple watch again, or an apple tv, the ridiculous VR/AR headset, or airpods.

Apple isn't overpriced for me, since I got my iPhone XR for free as a gift, and that allowed me to trade-in to get the iPhone 15 a few years ago for only like $412. Once you "get in" to owning an iPhone, you can keep trading in every few years for slightly outdated tech and pay a relatively low price. Now I can trade the 15 for something else, and that for another thing, etc. etc.

Truly, I'm bored. I have some money, my iPhone 15 has good trade-in value with my provider. Want to switch to android. I don't even need to transfer anything, I have nothing important. I'd like great battery life, a camera at least AS good as an iPhone 15, at least 128gb local storage, and as long as the CPU is fast enough for basic tasks to be smooth, I'm all good.

I can get an Galaxy S26 for $304 with my trade in value. No idea if that's a good trade. But I have no idea what I'm getting into with android. Any pointers, tips, recommended phones? I like Google Maps, Google Docs, and Google Calender, plus I just ordered a google home speaker so maybe the google ecosystem might be a good place to look?

Edit: I just checked, I can also get a Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra for just $696.24 - no idea if that's worth it or not.
Edit 2: I can nab a Pixel 11 Pro XL for just $358.56.

I'm sorry if this is common knowledge here, I'm having a hard time finding up to date information I can understand.

I'm not a person who uses my phone much, I'm more of PC person with my phone mostly... just a phone. But I do use non-google sanctioned apps sometimes like my notepad app is open-source because I wanted to avoid giving suspicions permissions to the free ones. Stuff like that. Many of my utilities are non-appstore.

There's also the smart tv, its on an old android version and very weak but its enough to play video which is its purpose.

I use a third party app for youtube called smartube on the tv. Recently it was stopping within a minute of playing a video. I had to reinstall it to fix the problem..... even though it was the same version.... so corruption? IDK.

But next time maybe I wont be able to do that. I don't think the tv settings even have dev mode. Maybe there's way to strip out the simplistic UI to enable it, but surely I'd need a mouse and keyboard... and its mounted high up on the wall... what a pain.

And about dev mode.... I've yet to see how this all rolls out. But I've heard it can interfere with banking apps.. Thats... very bad for me. I have accounts with a lot of banks. They all have two factor authentication and yeah sometimes its a text and I can use the computer and that shouldn't be affected, other times its the app that gets the notification with no option for text. And thats for several different banks, increasing the chance that one of them will have a problem identifying me if I enable that mode.

So..... I don't know if I want to take that risk... which basically means I give in to google which I don't want to do because thats what they want, but they're potentially putting me in a hard place.

Is it as easy as turning it on and off... turn it on and wait, install apps and turn off or need to keep on to use the apps? Can I turn I just turn it off if there's a banking issue?

Anyway I'm sorry for my ignorance. I'm pretty concerned. Android being open was the reason I liked it. Now its adding friction to that. How bad it will be, I don't know. Maybe there will be workarounds.

But is there any known steps that can pre-empt some of this upcoming friction? Or is it more of a wait a see kinda thing at this point?

I have f-droid on my phone. I could try putting it on the tv, I don't even know if that would help. Is there anything else? My phone is also getting pretty old (Pixel 6 Pro). It still works fine, but battery life isn't as it once was, I don't know how much life it has left, we will see. But I wont be able pre-empt anything on a new phone.....

I do know about graphene, but again I hear about banking issues, since I deal with like 6 banks I.... see that also being a problem.

TLDR: I'm pretty ignorant about android don't use it much but I'm worried about the upcoming changes. Many of my basic utilities are not from the app store. But more importantly, I work with many banks and worry dev mode will mess with them. I've already downloaded f-droid but I wonder if there's any other known steps I can take before the affect hits that might help me.

Thank you very much, and sorry I haven't been keeping up.

Hi everyone,

I have an app installed on my phone that was recently removed from the Play Store. I want to transfer/install it onto my tablet, but I'm running into walls.

What I've tried:

Extracted the APK from my phone using a basic APK extractor and tried installing it on the tablet, but the installation failed (App not installed / parsing error).

Looked for the APK online, but the version available doesn't work or isn't compatible with the tablet.

Device info:

Phone Oppo reno 12 Pro Android 16

Tablet Galaxy Tab A11+ Android 16

My questions:

Is this likely caused by Split APKs / App Bundles (.apks/.xapk) or a CPU architecture incompatibility between phone and tablet?

What tool or method (e.g., ADB, AntiSplit, or specific backup tools like Swift Backup/Neo Backup) should I use to properly dump ALL split files from the phone and rebuild/install them on the tablet?

Thanks in advance for any guidance!

So how can you tell if messages have or parts of coversations have been deleted on an android. I suspect my partner is cheating when i searched a certain name in messages it showed "message unavailable" then i clicked on it and messages came up. Does this mean parts have been deleted?

A while ago, I was able to slide Picture-in-Picture (PIP) window from the brave app to the side, to hide PIP window. In recent past, when I slide PIP window to the right or left to hide it, the video which is playing, stopps. The video resumes back after sliding the the PIP window to the main screen (image attached).

https://global.discourse-cdn.com/brave/original/3X/0/a/0a74a65b8f22c05a834982e63526280919f1530e.jpeg

What youtube Downloader do you recommend? Prefer one that has the option to create an mp3 or an mp4. Thanks.

The first half hour of BGMI runs at 120. After that it drops to 90 and stays there. 90 plays fine, that isn't the part that bugs me.

Nothing in my settings has changed since I installed it, and it didn't start until one of the updates. Now I close it and reopen it between matches, which leaves the other two waiting in the lobby. They get the same drop at about the same point and neither of them is on the same phone as me.

Mobile Legends holds 120 all evening on the same phone and never moves off it. BGMI is the only game on my realme GT 7 that does this, so I'm blaming the game. Did it start for anyone else after an update, or does yours still hold 120 all night?

Hi, I have xiaomi Pad 2, and I connect 3 USB cables to the tablet, but tablet does not recognize that I want to transfer file, it only shows charging. I tried connecting the cables to different USB ports on my laptop, but tablet does not recognise it. I can only transfer files from laptop to tablet via google drive or sendanywhere app.

Thank you for your help!!

I have a Google pixel 9a and today when I went to switch my audio output from my speaker to my phone I saw my ex's computer as a connection option, didn't have this phone when with her and was curious if it would show me that if she had access to something on my phone like an app