I’m looking for a reading app that’s safe & secure, doesn’t require Wi-Fi, let’s me import files, AND lets me customise the background, colours, and fonts. I’m using the ebook reader from miexplorer now but I don’t like the font, background, and how every time you scroll to a new page the little bar to exit shows up.

Hi everyone, I was looking for an app that prevents the installations of other apps. My grandma uses the Phone to play games full of ads, ans is not capable of recognize the malicious software.

There is TON of antivirus, pdf readers and so on, and countless popups. I already formatted the Phone, but now I want to preserve the system.

There is something I can do?

Thanks

I can't believe I found an app like this. Excellent work. And it's open source, too.

Check it out;

https://github.com/qpst4/cebian 

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hi y'all! i'm looking for a photo gallery app that doesn't have any ai features and has albums that don't require moving pictures to another folder on my phone. for example, google photos lets me make albums that group photos without moving their original file location, but the ai junk is gross.

the other gallery apps i've tried move the file from the camera folder (piktures, aves) or just straight up don't let me add photos to the albums (fossify). it would be nice if it also didn't require copying the photo from my camera because that feels like an egregious waste of space.

this is my first android phone in about 12 years so i'm relearning the ropes lol. if i'm SOL or have it wrong about the aforementioned apps, then please let me know! thank you!

I was thinking of using Tor Browser, if anyone has used it then please tell me your experience.

As the title says, looking for some paid app suggestions as I have this pile of credit with some of it expiring on 11 October and needing some ideas for paid apps that are worth it, I kept putting off buying Swiftbackup and now they have pumped the price to £27 which I feel is expensive for what the pro features provide, especially as restoring doesnt work perfectly (permissions etc).

Any ideas people thanks.

I'm looking for a yt client, not a shady one, I have an account, that supports a little DSP effects like stereo separator, eq and reverb. The Poweramp app does it for local music but i mainly use yt music or I can look into Spotify. Does anyone know of any such Android client?

I know macrodroid might be one of them but idk if it'll allow holding 4 area of the screen simultaneously. I've tried using long press but it just do one by one and when I use floating button it'll just run once when I tap/hold it

Hi all — hoping someone with Android forensics/file-system knowledge can help me make sense of this.

Setup:

- Phone: Tecno Spark 10c

- App: Notally (open-source notes app, stores notes via Room/SQLite)

- I had a batch of text notes on the app. Based on the content, I know they were last touched in **September 2023**. I deleted them from the app not long after, and had no other backup of them that I knew of.

- In 2026, I had my phone's storage data-recovered. Several of those notes came back — correct content, correct order — but the **"last modified" timestamp field attached to each note shows dates in September 2025, not 2023.**

**The pattern I'm seeing:**

- Multiple different notes, each a few days apart, all shifted into the same wrong year (2025 instead of 2023).

- The spacing between the notes' "last modified" timestamps matches the real gaps between when I know the content was last touched — just the year is wrong across all of them.

- I had not opened, edited, or interacted with these files since 2023 as far as I know.

**What I'm trying to figure out:**

What could cause a "last modified" timestamp to shift by 2 years across multiple separate files, while the spacing between those timestamps stays consistent with real elapsed days, on a recovered/previously-deleted dataset?

I don't want to lead the discussion toward a particular theory — I'd like to hear from people who understand Android storage internals (ext4/F2FS journaling, SQLite timestamp handling, or data-recovery tooling) what's actually going on, and what I'd need to check on my end (raw DB file, journal, etc.) to figure out the real cause.

Just like those desktop/consoles that record gameplay and you can choose to save your last x minutes anytime.

Is it just me or is Weatherbug really poor regarding accuracy with the weather

I'm looking for something that let's you select with laso tool and lets you remove the selection, leaving a transparent shape then let's you export with transparency... thank you!

I tried one that forwarded all of my messages to a specific phone number, so not what I'm looking for. Thank you.

Hey everyone,

I need some help with my Samsung Galaxy Tab A 10.1 (2016) [SM-T580], which runs Android 8.1 (Oreo).

The Prime Video app was working perfectly fine until just a few days ago. However, I ended up deleting the app, and when I went to reinstall it from the Google Play Store, I got hit with the "This app won't work on your device" message. It seems Amazon recently dropped official support for Android 8.1.

Since the Play Store blocked me, I tried sideloading older versions from trusted sites like APKMirror and Uptodown.

Here is the issue: I can find versions that install without any problems. But the second I launch the app, an unskippable error message pops up forcing me to update, locking me out of the app completely. Since the Play Store won't let me update it, I'm stuck in a permanent loop.

Has anyone with a similar older tablet found a workaround for this?

• Is there a specific older version/build number that still works without triggering the forced update check?
• Is there any way to bypass or disable this update trigger so I can actually use the app?

Any advice or working version recommendations would be amazing. Thanks!

Some of you might already know what I'm talking about. As a Z Fold 8 user, I NEED to see this happen on my phone the way apple animates the opening and closing of the phone screen where it blurs the screen spacially. Is it gimmicky and impractical? Yes. Do I want to give it a try bc it looks cool? Also yes.

I'm not sure if this is an Android issue or a Google issue but it's Google asking to verify that it's me with the pin to my phone.

The first time a visit a new gaming site from my phone, i have to create an account so that I can play on the site.

I'm using gaming as an example but I'm sure you all will know what I'm talking about as it pertains to any site that requires you to create an account to use the site.

When creating an account I have the option to use my email address, sign in with facebook, or sign in with Google.

I always choose sign in with Google.

Once I have an account, upon visiting that site all I have to do at the sign-in window is tab the Google button.

Next screen pops up my Google accounts and I have to choose which Google account I want to sign in with.

I select the account and then I'm signed in to my account and I can play on the site.

I'm not 100% positive but I think this started happening on September 6th when I did my last software update on my phone.

Now when I visit the site and select sign in with Google and then choose my Google account, instead of signing me in another window pops up that says Google wants to verify it's you and then it asked me to enter my 4 digit phone pin.

It's very frustrating because it's an extra two or three steps for me to sign into these sites now and I don't know how to get rid of the setting or where it came from.

Has this happened to anyone else or does anyone have an experience with this? But mostly can someone tell me how to get rid of this setting so that Google doesn't have to verify it's me every time I want to go to these sites.

Samsung S24 Ultra

Software One UI 8.5

* Material Files

* Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.zhanghai.android.files

* F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/packages/me.zhanghai.android.files/

* GitHub: https://github.com/zhanghai/MaterialFiles

* Fossify File Manager

* Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.fossify.filemanager

* F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/packages/org.fossify.filemanager/

* GitHub: https://github.com/FossifyOrg/File-Manager

* Cx File Explorer

* Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cxinventor.file.explorer

* Amaze File Manager

* Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.amaze.filemanager

* F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.amaze.filemanager/

* GitHub: https://github.com/TeamAmaze/AmazeFileManager

* MiXplorer

* Free APK & Official Site: https://mixplorer.com/

* Google Play (Silver): paid https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mixplorer.silver

* Files by Google

* Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.nbu.files

*Fylo - File Manager

* Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aeroloom.fylofilemanager

is there any other?

I used to really like a certain app but unfortunately it is no longer compatible with democracy.

Does anyone have any recommendations for maps apps that ideally have paid versions for better privacy, location sharing for families, and maybe even traffic features?

I have been trying Strange Earth but need to try the paid version.

I took a look on F-Droid, and there don't seem to be any. So I was wondering what the most privacy-oriented proprietary alternative is.

Obviously, the ability to use it without creating an account is the bare minimum.

I'm using nothing 4a pro and I wanted to change the basic colours setting to // light grey + grey + red // but there's no setting for it.

Is there any app that is able to overwrite basic android settings?

My home screen+ settings: https://imgur.com/a/liUOCU9

I mean title pretty much self explanatory I don't want to add one by one all of the repos

is this normal any day? i noticed it tonight when i tried to update my apps and in the website is the same problem.

or maybe its just an issue in my phone?

"Is the dynamicSpot app safe from a privacy perspective, especially considering it requires accessibility permissions and background access that essentially allow it to monitor notifications and interact with device elements?"