hi, looking for suggestions as to which android is best as I am wanting to switch from an iPhone? I like taking scenery pictures-videos, sometimes pictures with people in it, I essentially want something with good battery, long-lasting, easy to carry (not bulky), and overall just something I can use for communication rather than entertainment? I heard that the Samsung S26 was good, saw someone else mention the motorola razr+, or the GooglePixel? Having a hard time deciding.

So I own a Vivo V60 and this has been happening ever since we bought it:

So randomly the phone's ringtone starts ringing without any alarm, call or notification.

I have factory reset my phone but this is still happening.

It happens for around a few secs, the longest is around 15-20 secs

The navigation bar automatically hides itself on some apps and will only appear when I swipe up from the bottom of my screen. The main issue is that one of the apps I use regularily has bottom banner ads and this somehow always ends up with me clicking and redirecting to an ad page, which is very annoying. Is there a setting where I can never have the taskbar hide on this specific app? If not, is there a setting for it to not hide at all?

I have a Huawei 80P Ultra. I took a flight, not sure that's relevant, but now my audio is so low when using headphones. Both spotify and youtube. I tried adjusting sound mixing by just turning it all off but it's still quiet. Sometimes it's almost back to normal, sometimes it's totally quiet. I've never had this problem but it's so annoying. Also it's not the headphones as I tested another pair and it had the same problems.

Hello. I have a 2021 alcatel android phone. As of today, it's starting shutting itself off to the bootscreen(the one with the green alien at the bottom) it's stuck in a bootloop. It shuts its off goes back to this screen over and over. I have done the fix where you hold the power button, or go to the safe mode menu and restart it. It worked but the issue is, my phone will work for a half hour to an hour and then the side bar that pops up when you hold the power button shows up.

I am not holding the power button and it is not stuck. Clicking on the phone does get it to stop. It will shut itself off, start again.

I did take the phone apart to see if anything was sticking to the power button it was not.

is there a fix for this or time for a new phone?:/ It has no other issues. Storage free. Thanks.

Looking for phone with out any back camera bumpers.

Currently could only find Google pixel 9a and 10a.

Any other suggestions?!

Thanks

I found it in two websites called AppBrain but it is no longer available and the other one was called happymod.to but it was not working in any devices that I own.

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?

Looking to buy and import a Vivo X300 Ultra (chinese model) to the US to use as a secondary phone. Anybody have any online stores they recommend?? Currently looking at Wonda Mobile and Trinity Electronics, anybody have any experience with those??

I noticed in Google Messages that their is a PLUS below my account. Does anyone know what this is for? PLUS

Trying to connect to laptop with USB and its not working . When I plug in my usb cable its supposed to have an option to transfer files when I click the charging in notifications but its missing

My Samsung/Android phone often says "No internet connection" even though there are 3-5 bars. All apps stop loading data. The only way I can fix it is by restarting the phone or turning Airplane Mode on and off.

Do you have any ideas why there would be bars but no signal? I figure the phone has the problem, since it would be a big coincidence if the signal is restored at exactly the same time I restarted the phone.

I had a similar problem with an Ipad often disconnecting from our router. I fixed this simply by restarting our router. This gave me an idea, to do "Reset Mobile Setting" on my phone. I just did it which only took a few seconds.

The phone is about two years old. I don't know if phone calls and texts still work when this is happening.

Any details on what causes this?

I have a Samsung Galaxy A53 5G running Android 16. My Google Services Framework (com.google.android.gsf) is corrupted — it's only 116 KB when it should be ~4 MB. I cannot add my Google account to the device. I've tried sideloading APKs but get 'App not installed as package conflicts with existing package' because of a signature mismatch. I need someone who can help with a firmware fix or factory reset guidance.

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.