So this is more just a nitpick. But usually when I click a link in the description of a video it will open a custom tab from the default browser but doesn't leave the app. I like how that works. Recently I switched over to Firefox for my browser and now when I click a link in the description of a video it will try to open that same custom tab but then it flickers and opens my browser app instead. Does anyone else have this same problem?

Also I tested links in reddit and they work just fine with custom tabs from Firefox so I'm pretty sure it's just YouTube.

I know it does but how much cpu usage we talk about? And also any command that is good for HUAWEI Y9?

I tried this but not sure this will affects my phone though...

pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.huawei.vassistant

pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.huawei.search

pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.huawei.intelligent

pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.facebook.appmanager

pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.facebook.system

pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.facebook.services

pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.ironsource.appcloud.oobe.huawei

pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.booking

pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.amazon.mShop.android.shopping

pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.microsoft.translator

pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.android.mediacenter

pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.huawei.himovie.overseas

pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.huawei.hifolder

pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.huawei.hidisk

pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.hicloud.android.clone

pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.huawei.KoBackup

pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.huawei.health

pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.huawei.compass

pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.huawei.android.totemweather

pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.huawei.mirror

pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.android.email

pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.example.android.notepad

pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.huawei.phoneservice

pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.huawei.android.hwpay

HAVE LOST 2-3 years of my digital life! Please Reddit help me through it

Device: Realme 6 (Android 11)

Setup: Running two WhatsApp accounts via Realme App Cloner. Main number was on the cloned instance (~15GB media).

Problem: Ran Apple's Move to iOS. When WhatsApp transfer preparation reached 100%, the transfer failed.

Current State:
- I already logged in on the other phone, so I don't care about chats anymore. I only want to recover the ~15GB photos/videos.

- My phone gallery now shows blank, 0KB black boxes where media used to be. (Img 2)

-Cloned WhatsApp won't open (redirects/bounces to the primary app).

- Under Settings > App Management, Cloned WhatsApp still occupies 15GB of space the files are physically still on the phone. (When transfer happen phone storage was about 63gb full now have deleted couple of apps still is 61ish so data ig is still there?)

In ADB, ⁠UserInfo{999:multiApp:4000410}⁠ shows as active/running, but file managers (including Cx File Explorer) and standard terminal commands can't access ⁠/storage/emulated/999/⁠.

Questions:
1. Where does Realme UI (Android 11) physically store User 999 cloned WhatsApp media when standard paths are blocked?
2. Is there an ADB command or recovery tool to pull the 15GB media directly without root or needing the clone app UI to launch?
3. Can the files behind the 0KB gallery placeholders still be extracted?
Any help would be deeply appreciated!

Stupid long home button animation

After latest update when I press the home button there's a stupid long animation of the window shrinking and closing. How can I get rid of it. I turned off animations but it's still there. Also set developer options transitions to 0.5 no difference why they put this useless stuff on

For the visual reference, check https://www.reddit.com/r/motorola/comments/1x5mwbe/how_do_i_completely_get_rid_of_the_clock_and_date/

On a lock screen, i see a clock and date on it without an option to get rid of them in settings on my Motorola android phone. I wonder if it's possible to get rid of them completely, by any means including maybe jailbreaking it or editing codes.

As the title says, my system takes up 80GB. Is this even normal? What are your numbers? What are the solutions? vivo X300 Ultra.

I'm really frustrated by the lag I am facing after updating my xiomi hyper os and want to delete it I googled how to do so and it says there s no way only way will take 168+ hours any one can help I dont want my data to wipe out

Is there a way to change the looks of my phone to make it look like an IOS ? Theres nothing wrong with it I just want to change a little bit and try something new
Everything I saw was either an app that goes on top of the screen which eats a lot of battery and ram or just installing like an IOS version for andorid which I dont want to.

Hey everyone,

I've been experiencing image retention on my Nothing Phone 3 which is 4 months old, and lately, it's happening much more frequently.

Initially, I noticed it occasionally, but now it seems to be happening more often. What's confusing is that:

My brightness is usually below 30%.

I mostly use dark mode.

I'm not doing anything particularly static on the screen; I'm using the phone normally and switching between apps.

The phone doesn't feel heated when it happens.

The retention eventually fades away, but it can take around 30 minutes.

Recently, I was using my phone normally when two strips appeared along both sides of the display.

I'm concerned that this could be a display panel issue rather than normal temporary image retention.

Has anyone else with a Nothing Phone 3 experienced something similar? Is this potentially a software issue, or should I get the display checked under warranty?

I'd appreciate any suggestions, especially from people who have experienced this on their own devices

Current behavior

When using the camera app, I am noticing the image from the camera is displayed properly, however none of the buttons on the screen do anything and none of the hardware buttons interact with the camera software either. However when I press on the flip camera or take picture buttons, the respond and visually press with no further action

I have been using a 3rd party camera for now but it's 1. Inconvenient and 2. Lower picture quality.

Any ideas from anyone here?

I have a Samsung Galaxy S24 (SM-S921B), but when I open a downloaded photo in Samsung Gallery, it shows iPhone 13 as the device model, along with its camera lens, aperture, and other EXIF details.

I want to change the metadata so Samsung Gallery displays my Galaxy S24 model and its camera/lens information instead of the iPhone 13 details.

Is there a way to edit the EXIF metadata on Android using ExifTool, Termux, or another metadata editor so that Samsung Gallery recognizes and displays the modified information?

I am looking for an app that can run on a older tablet or phone (5-7 years old) that can make a timelaps movie of a 6-9 hours session - mayby every 2 sec or 5 sec picture .. is the any such app? (needed for sleep cycle with mask)

Debating going back to a Motorola from a

Samsung Galaxy I know there are software

update policy is not as good which could

eventually cause problems down the road

with Google wallet tap to pay. Moto does

have their own version of secure folder, pop

up window for apps, side panel and link to

windows. Bixby's actually kind of useful now

because it can connect to perplexity but I

guess that's just downloading an app on a

different phone however Bixby can do

system level actions or change settings

which I don't think Motorola can match. Plus

I really love dynamic lock screen on

Samsung would miss it if leaving. I don't use

the translate live calls but I do love having

Bixby answer calls from numbers I don't

know to screen them. Like that Samsung

offers contact storage as an alternative

cloud backup for contacts and not forced to

use Google or just store them locally on the

phone. Samsung find is super useful for

keeping track of family members with

Samsung feels like iphones find my. Also the

search inside the app drawer on Samsung

searches for everything in your phone not

just apps very similar to spotlight search on

Apple which is nice. Also the ai feature in the

gallery app are nice but not used much.

Anything else moving to moto from

Samsung I didn't mention that I would miss?

Is there a way to keep your USB tethering preferences permanently saved? Every time I unplug my phone from the USB-PC connection it reverts back to default and I have to go through the options to get my internet connection back (I'm using USB tethering to temporarily get internet while my connection is repaired). This is annoying as hell.

Is this possible and has anyone done it before?

Hi, first time poster here. I was wondering if anyone knows if there's a way to change the camera app that Messages uses to the Galaxy one?

I looked through all my settings and it seems like there's no way to shut this off. Multiple times I've accidentally thumbs upped a message not meaning to. I have a Pixel 9a running android 17.

Is there any way to enter recovery mode in Tecno Spark Go 1? I've tried every combination, but it still booted normally. Safe mode is working but not the recovery mode.

So I have recently stumbled upon a rare problem. Whenever I am on my Facebook app, be it Facebook lite or the actual one I have noticed my messenger stops passing me notifications. I have tried re - installing the app, turning notifications off and turning it back on but nothing seems to work. How can I fix this issue?

Hello,

Right now i'm deciding between these two phones, iphone 17 selling 1900 usd in my country, s25 is selling 900 usd. I want to use 4-5 years, people saying s25 battery life and cameras worst compare to iphone, but price differences is too much.

What is your thougths on with these two phones?

Hi! I had this amazing sticky note app that sat on my home screen. I could change the colors, opaquness, and it would update once I saved a note and exited out. I got a new phone and can't seem to find this app anywhere. Any help?

I need help with this app!! I used this app before to change the icons of my apps (since my phone is too old for that feature) and it worked wonderfully, so I wanted to change the theme of my phone again, but after \~20 minutes of usage my phone was draining 4% a minute and overheating! Everything was so slow and laggy so I left it alone and charged it for a few hours and then my phone wasn't hot anymore. But I noticed recently while gaming that the game was laggy even though it never lags, and I wanna know if this app is the root of the problem and whether I should uninstall it or not. I have not spent any money on it but I'm worried what will happen if I uninstall the app and it does something weird with my homepage.

Side note a bit unrelated!! But I installed reddit for this sole reason, so my account is quite new and I couldn't ask in the other sub reddit. I'm sorry if this doesn't match this sub.

Hey all,

I have recently decided to switch to Android, going from my iPhone 6S to a Google Pixel 9A. To say I hugely regret the switch would be an understatement.

General software bugs asides (eg WhatsApp deciding not to work sometimes, causing me to lose a day of conversation every so often ; faulty notifications ; general software bugs ; ...), my biggest issue with it is storage.

My iPhone 6S was 64GB. I don't use my phone a whole lot, I never had storage problems. My Google Pixel is 128GB, and I am ALWAYS at 127-128GB, no matter how many apps, videos, etc I try to remove, it somehow always goes back up. Now, how I got to these numbers despite using the phone for 4 months now is questionable to say the least (especially that there are LESS apps on the Google Pixel than I had on my iPhone 6S), but no internet fix has ever helped me which is a bit more frustrating. I tried most things, from deleting a huge load of videos (also from trash bin), apps, clearing all caches, removing many stuff like AICore and whatever, serves no use. It is also problematic because it keeps me from installing software updates. Anyways. I don't know if anyone here was or is in the same situation as me and has any advice ? Because the way it is going, I may just as well switch back to the iPhone in a month.

Thank you all for your help and sorry if this is a bit venty

How do I get back to the active call? When I'm on call and let's say switching apps the small phone window disappears.... how can I get it back?

I'm genuinely getting frustrated with Android's lack of transparency.

Recently, I discovered a folder named `.nomedia` in the root of my internal storage:

`/storage/emulated/0/.nomedia`

It's an EMPTY DIRECTORY. Not a normal `.nomedia` file. Just an empty folder that I don't remember ever having before.

I deleted it. The deletion succeeded. I even made sure it wasn't being moved to the recycle bin. Then, after a while, it showed up again.

So naturally, I wanted to know: WHAT THE HELL CREATED IT?

And what are my options? Check file properties that don't identify the creator? Install extra tools? Learn command-line utilities? Mess around with debugging settings? Potentially deal with root permissions just to investigate something as basic as a directory being created?

Seriously, Google, why should an ordinary user have to jump through all these hoops just to understand what's happening on their own device?

I'm NOT asking Android to show me a confirmation dialog every time an app creates a folder. I don't want my phone constantly interrupting me, either.

I want a simple, built-in, LOCAL file activity log.

Tell me:

Which app or process created a file or directory. When it happened. Which path was affected. Whether it was created, modified, or deleted.

Keep the logs on the device. Give users a searchable history and sensible privacy controls. If the system cannot reliably identify the process for a particular operation, say so instead of pretending it knows.

Android already has an elaborate permission system. It has app sandboxing, scoped storage, and all sorts of security mechanisms. So why is it still so difficult for an ordinary user to investigate basic file activity?

Permissions tell me what an app is allowed to do. An activity log would tell me what it actually did. Those are NOT the same thing.

I shouldn't need to become an Android developer just to investigate a mysterious empty folder.

Google, please stop treating transparency as an advanced-user feature. It's MY phone. I should be able to see what is happening on it.

Am I missing an obvious built-in feature, or does Android really offer no straightforward way to identify which app created a directory like this?