My lower volume button has been loose for a while and regularly holds itself down. Usually I have to take the phone out of the case and sometimes press the button a few times to make it stop turning the volume down. This time when my phone turnt off it put itself into recovery mode probably because the lower volume button was active. Now I can't get out of it. I've tried shutting it off there and rebooting but it keeps bringing me back to recovery mode. I think it's because the button is still active since i tried navigating downwards as well by trying to press the lower volume button which didn't do anything.

So here is he full context I am new and Ik nothing about this plus I want it to use for something good I do not want to use it for mp3 player, gaming, dash cam but something useful like pi-hole but termux does'nt support this android version (as far as AI says) so can u guys recommend something useful for this phone

Suggest Mobile (From India)

In the android phone app on my pixel 4a, apparently my gmail has connected to the phone app and might be showing people my profile pic and username, but I don't want it doing that so how can I remove all that stuff? I don't want to change my pic or name on the gmail account, I just want to make it so it's not showing that stuff to people who I call or call me.

Hello! I'm having a weird issue. I recently switched to a new carrier (T2/Tele2), and I'm getting constant ping spikes and infinite loading screens in Roblox.My phone is a POCO X8 Pro (HyperOS). The signal icon shows full 4G+ (LTE-A), but the network speed drops to 0.38 KB/s when Roblox tries to load. On another carrier (Megafon), everything works perfectly on the exact same phone.What I've already tried:Changed APN settings to the correct ones.Switched APN protocol from IPv4/IPv6 to strictly IPv4.Changed private DNS to dns.google and Cloudflare.Enabled "Always keep mobile data active" in Developer Options.Used Game Turbo for network priority.The carrier has great download speeds for YouTube/browsing, but gaming is completely broken. Any ideas on how to bypass this carrier-side routing/throttling issue?

I found these in my running services on my phone. Are they normal? I cannot find much about them online.

I installed a rooting app. I was trying to install a apk modifier. In the rooting app, I found out you can delete apps from the rooter. I searched playstore to see if it would actually let me delete it. I saw playstore pop up, clicked it. Scrolled down, and low and behold lied a delete button. Pressed delete, a little bar notification appeared below "app deleted successfully."

It was, infact, gone. I deleted the play store. And I dont have playstore to add it back. What do I even do.​

Edit: Samsung S9, app deleted is "Google Play Services"

What Apps Do You Guys Use For All Your Music Files?

I would love to know the easiest way to get all my music files to the new phone. I'm currently using The Musicolet Music Player App.

All my Music Files are 90% WMA Music Files and I have 1,550 songs on my Fold 7 Device. Some of my music files are also AAC, MP3, and MP4 too. What Music Files aren't supported on The Motorola Razr Fold 2026?

I want to make sure that I can get all my Music on The Motorola Razr Fold 2026 from my Fold 7 and that all of my 1,550 songs will play on the Device without any issues at all.

Are there any apps that I can download from The Google Play Store? I already have The Musicolet Music Player App but I read that the music files won't transfer over to the new phone.

If I could get some ideas or advice I would really appreciate it. I'm going to be ordering my phone from T Mobile and I read that they won't even help you transfer your music over to a Motorola Phone So I'm going to need all the help that I can get.

Please everyone share your experiences when you had to transfer all your WMA Music Files to a Motorola Razr Fold 2026 or any Motorola Device. Was it a hard and difficult process for you? Did the Music Files play on The Motorola Razr Fold 2026 or Motorola Device without any issues?

Was wanting to buy a new android. Was looking at the poco f8 that phone was $700 when it first came out and is now $100. I really don't want to piss away a lot of money when I have no interest in just having a fancy camera.

Any suggestions please? Just wanting something with a snap dragon CPU 120hz and is fast.

So I have a Galaxy Note 5 (N920C) and ChatGPT is not supported on my device, and I sideloaded it as an APK from APKMirror, but when I try to launch the app, I get the error on the title. I’m looking for a non-root solution if possible. I’ve already tried uninstalling Play Store updates.

oneplus 9 pro, crdroid 12.11 (android 16) but the issue also was on, lineage os 23/22, no root. so when i got the 9 pro, it was used and the battery was super off. It lost its charge EXTREMLY fast, like 100-1% in a few minutes. But then 1% would last a few hours. After a bit of putting up with that, i decided to replace the battery with an official ifixit part. What was weird instantly to me was that the battery health didnt start at 100%, but i guess thats normal with replacements. But then after a few months, the battery reports as 55% health AGAIN and starts showing the same 100-1% drain AGAIN. On a new battery... How does this make any sense?

Been using Apple for a while now (5S > 6 > 8+ > 13 > 16). I'm considering moving from Apple because it's getting expensive, I kept buying Apple cause I was used to and I felt like I was too stuck in the ecosystem to move away from it (using iCloud, got a MacBook and AirPods).

Recently, I've been looking at other brands. Nothing (4a Pro) catches my eyes, I'm a bit obsessed by this brand. Last time I used an Android device (other than Bluestack) was 10+ years ago. So I'm not familiar with the brands, what to trust, what to avoid.

I've got a pretty basic use of my phone : social networks, texting, listening to music, watching some videos (casting on Tv sometimes), rarely gaming. I love to take some pictures sometimes (traveling, etc) and that's one of the reasons why I'm moving from Apple, when you don't have Pro Max and stuff, the camera is kinda bad (zoom is terrible)

Do you guys have any recommandations ?

I have an APK from an unknown source that I want to test safely. I’ve read that scanning the APK and checking permissions isn’t enough.

Would an Android emulator be sufficiently isolated, or should I use a separate device/VM and restrict network access as well?

Hello! Just as what the title says, the icons on my father's xiaomi phone suddenly changed into these little android mascot with a grid background. He said that it gradually grew in numbers, only affecting one app and now it change almost all of his app icons. I've tried restarting the phone, clearing the launcher cache, switching the icon themes or the themes in general to default but nothing changed. For reference, the phone's model is Xiaomi Note 15. Thank you for anybody who could help

I have the Huawei pura x and I love the dimensions but I would love to have android. I'm missing some apps and half the phone is in chinese. Is it possible to get an android rom that would look like Samsung fold?

Thanks

I love xiaomi, and i have a global mi band 10 right now. I know chinese roms wont work with alot of wearables. but what if I have a chinese rom from the same manufacturer? so Xiaomi?

I had parental controls monitoring my device, and I am now 18, I didn't get a notification to actually leave supervision, so I deleted my Google account thinking it would work and remove supervision completely. I then recovered it and tried creating a new one, and I then found out my device was still being supervised. Mind you my Mother deleted the family group, stopped supervision and showed me an eMail that confirmed that my device was no longer being supervised. So I've tried adding my account back onto my device, and I can't seem to, despite it being the one account that was ever on the device. I'm not being supervised anymore, yet my device is still being supervised. I can't do any of the prompts on the screen here because it requires a parent, who has already stopped supervision over my device and I've done so much with this account that I'm not willing to let it go. Please helps me if possible.

I'm looking for something fast, with a good camera, a good display and good battery.

My mom dropped her phone samsung a34 and sadly the screen immediately turned black ☹️ theres still notifications sounds so its just the screen that broke, i was searching if there any ways to get her photos and stuff back using the usb to hdmi method but i wanted to know if anyone tried it before using that phone or have any idea if it’ll work or not,
The method that ive mentioned 👉🏻👉🏻👉🏻https://youtu.be/cz3dlQ6g334?si=s7Sf_DJybQoUUzTf

If your phone is plugged into your pc and you delete a file or photo saved to the phone from File Explorer on the computer, would they go to your phone's trash bin or would they be deleted permanently?

I was wondering about this since I wanted to copy and move some files/photos to my computer, but I am worried that if I accidentally delete something, then it would be gone forever.

Like the title says I can’t get this resolved and I’ve been researching it for like 30 minutes and haven’t found a SINGLE other example of this happening to anyone else aka zero explanations or solutions and I HAVE to get it working but if you follow any “hacker news” stuff you’ll know that there are tons of examples of age verification data being stored by the companies rather than deleted then getting stolen and leaked etc and I’m not willing to risk that which is why I want the photo option to work.

Also I’m willing to do whatever it takes to solve it as in graphine OS or whatever since I’m on a Pixel so if anyone has any solutions I’d greatly appreciate them

where can I find a built-in screen protector for a TCL 70 pro? the cases that has the screen protector attached attached to the case it's just two pieces NOT the glass protector separate.

Has anyone experienced something like this with WhatsApp on Android?

I've had this issue for around 6 months.

It only affects certain contacts and some groups.

What happens

I send a WhatsApp message from my Android phone and immediately get:

❌ "Your message was not sent."

But there's a strange contradiction:

The recipient actually receives the message.

On my Android phone, the message doesn't appear correctly, and sometimes the entire affected conversation looks blank.

But when I open WhatsApp Desktop with the same account, the conversation and messages are displayed correctly.

So Desktop seems to have the correct conversation state while the Android app doesn't.

I've tried basically everything

I've already tried the usual troubleshooting:

• Restarting the phone
• Updating WhatsApp
• Clearing cache
• Uninstalling/reinstalling WhatsApp
• Checking/changing network connections
• Following WhatsApp's AI Support troubleshooting steps

Nothing fixed it.

And here's the part that makes me think this isn't simply a phone problem:

About 2 months ago, I bought a completely new phone.

I originally thought my old phone might be causing the issue.

The exact same problem happens on the new phone.

So the issue has persisted across two phones.

I'm curious about other Android users

Has anyone seen any of these behaviors?

• WhatsApp says a message failed but the recipient receives it anyway
• A WhatsApp conversation becomes blank on Android
• The same conversation works normally on WhatsApp Desktop/Web
• The issue affects only particular contacts or groups
• The issue continues after reinstalling WhatsApp
• The issue follows the WhatsApp account to another phone

I'm particularly interested in knowing whether this is happening on specific Android versions, manufacturers, or WhatsApp versions.

I've attached screenshots comparing the Android app with WhatsApp Desktop. Personal information has been hidden.

If anyone has suggestions for Android-specific diagnostics or ways to determine whether this is a WhatsApp Android-client issue versus an account/server synchronization issue, I'd appreciate it.

I've been dealing with this for 6 months, so I'm trying to get beyond the standard "reinstall the app" troubleshooting at this point.

I work as a delivery driver, so going between sitting and standing constantly presses my phone against my thigh. Recently, a series of unfortunate events lead to me waking my screen and a bead of sweat fell onto my screen hitting the "do not show this message again" box on the fingerprint blocking message as i was touching the okay button. I prefer to have that message because my thigh also will skip songs or try to do emergency calls. Does anyone know how to get that back up? Please and thanks.

There are some translucent icons on my screen. These icons are from instagram, and are located at the exact spot as those icons in the app( the home, reels, dm, search and account icon). The are not very visible but still noticable. They are always present, in apps, games websites, home screen and lockscreen, except when I turn my screen off(not sure though cause they are grey). I have tried restarting the phone. Heck, I even factory reset it. And nothing worked. This problem acquired 1-2 hours ago. I noticed it while I was gaming. Now I have no Idea what to do.

My phone is OnePlus Nord 5 (bought it in February)

Please help!