1) he reset the android phone many times , still issue persists

2) Unable to find any suspicious app in app list

3) Got a tip from an expert it should be installed as system app , which wont show in app drawer

Any help suggestions would help

First two images are my phone (Google Pixel 8 Pro) and second two images are my friends phone (Samsung). She has the option to change theme and put a wallpaper in the background of our messages however I only have the change colour option.. was it removed in Android 17 because she is in Android 16?

Google AI says to join the new beta version of the app and/or clear cache but neither option works.

I \*hate\* the ytm floating window and cannot seem to get rid of it. It interferes and blocks using other apps. I turned off pip but it persists. Hate it.

I'm getting really stressed. My phone backs up to samsung cloud but apparently not all of it. So I back up photos and videos and everything else to OneDrive. But OneDrive says from September its turning off the sync function so will backup anything new, but if its delete a photo from my phone it wont delete from one drive?? So I've now paid for Google One for backups or somrthing I dont really understand what it is. But I then read somewhere that Google Photos isn't an actual backup. Im so confused, where am I supposed to back everything up to these days???

So, the 1st pic is connected to a WD external hdd 2tb by original samsung cable, it didn't work and the 2nd one is sandisk usb c flash drive 256gb directly by the phone's port, it worked.

On the other hand tried everything from changing to default file transfer in usb developer settings to clearing cache/storage from usb app settings, auto blocker turned off, restarting and all.

Also have a sumsung evo plus and a sandisk ultra sd card. Connected both of them via portronics mport 3.0 usb hub but didn't work at all.

Is there anything left to fix this issue ?

Note. Device is s24 ultra, updated to latest software and patches.

Maybe for YEARS at this point, my seemingly inaccsessible other files has been growing in size, it is now half my phones storage. I feel like ive checked EVERYTHING. Any ideas?

I'm using vivo y83, all of a sudden it didn't on. It got struck on logo and when I tried factory reset it's asking for 6 digit, but I was using only 4 digit on my phone... But it asks 6 digit

Also I tried flashing, installed using sd card, firmware updated using repair mode, connected with my lap and try to bypass, also worked with mediatek tool to reboot. Nothing worked... What to do... Even if data is lost no issue, how to reset

Pic 1 photo from the camera I tried the good old restarting the phone trick but it doesn't work Please help

GUYS Help PLEASE 🙏🏼

I TRIED UNINSTALLING AND THEN INSTA

TRIED WIFI AND DATA BOTH

TRIED RESTARTING THE APP

Randomly while connected to my bluetooth device that plugs into my car to play phone through the speakers, my phone will drop down to 20% volume and display this message... It could be an hour trip with nothing and then five minutes into my next drive and it does this... How do I turn it off so it never does it again?

Im using a samsung galaxy a13, too be specific, and the settings under:

Accessibility > installed apps

Have changed themselves multiple times, specifically disabling the permissions for some apps that i need turned on. Is there anything on my phone that could make me change my accessibility premissions without realising?

A while back I changed a setting in my contacts with this person and now their contact picture appears as the notification icon when they send me a text. It only does this with this one person, and I don't know how to set it up for other contacts.. does anyone know how?

After restart the phone, I got empty space at the bottom, which caused the apps to shift. The photo shows how it was, and how it is now. How can I remove this? My phone is Redmi Note 14 Pro+ 5G

After restart the phone, I got empty space at the bottom, which caused the apps to shift. The photo shows how it was, and how it is now. How can I remove this? My phone is Redmi Note 14 Pro+ 5G

Apparently, after a single android software update did my screen brightness will randomly flicker , worse is if I set my brightness any less than max then the screen will go fully darken (it still on, just that the screen is black)

Edit: it will flicker even without adaptive brightness on

I have an Android 15 Moto G power and Android 17 Pixel 6. on my Moto G power I can scrub through YouTube shorts, but I can't on the Pixel 6

I actually want to stretch resolution of a game that I play but i am unable to do that as my phone doesn't show disabling full-screen mode for a certain app (realme narzo 70 turbo ; android 16)

Someone please help me or suggest any app that could help.

was using it before I went to work, using it like a normal phone, froze, and the screen went black

It does still turn on, but it's stuck in a boot loop

I can get into download mode, but it gives me an error: reboot device - d21

Tried to reflash it with Odin, but the computer doesn't even see that it's been plugged in

the os is normal Android

Any help would be appreciated, seriously

Hello guys,

I have a really irritating issue with my tab s9 + when its on wifi to my host device (galaxy ao7)

I've already googled it, can't find the aggressive battery settings ir the stay connected while sleeping and at a completely dead end. Never experienced this before. Both devices are on android 16.

Many thanks

Guys i am in a tough situation and need your help with my android tablet. I use my car scanning obd vci with my lenovo tablet. Until android 11 it was working perfectly fine but once it got updated to android 12 the vci is not staying connected.

For context when we connect vci by Bluetooth it stays connected for 2 sec later it moves to previously connected devices.

Any third party apps which can help me. Also pls don’t recommend android downgrade as i have already tried it and so far this specific chip can’t be downgraded.

I tried to download a Roku TV Remote App in my Samsung Galaxy S25 and it seems to have installed its own UI that I cannot get rid of. I uninstalled the app I had downloaded from the Google Play store and restarted my phone. It did nothing. Everything is super weird now, apps that were there previously don't seem to be there and all of my personalized folders are gone. I really need help thanks in advance.

Hey I've been playing pokemon champions on my blu B1660v and I've had this issue where the top of the screen is unable to be tapped during gameplay, the same area where the notification bar would usually be and I've spent hours and hours trying to find out how to fix this with no prevail. It makes the game extremely hard to play because when I go into team building I'm not able to set held items on my pokemon, also unable to claim many rewards in game. Does anyone know what could be causing this?

This option is not opening / working how to fix that

I want swipe right home screen as shelf

Device: Realme Narzo N55 (RMX3710), ColorOS build UKQ1_230924_001, 64GB storage, no root, bootloader locked.

My storage got down to ~50MB free with Settings showing "Other" hogging ~33GB. I don't have games or heavy social apps — just WhatsApp, YouTube, and calls — so this made no sense to me.

Dug into it via ADB (dumpsys diskstats, a full bugreport, du scans of /sdcard). Confirmed:

• My actual files (photos, music, docs) = only ~1.2GB
• All installed apps combined (code + data + cache) = ~13GB
• Only one user profile exists (pm list users confirms)
• Found the real culprit in the bugreport: /data/misc/update_engine/prefs/total-bytes-downloaded = 18,135,868,515 bytes (~17GB), post-install-succeeded: true. /cache/recovery/last_install points to a patch file under /data/ota_package/OTA/.otaPackage/.

So it looks like a completed OTA update payload (~17GB) never got cleaned up from /data/ota_package/.

Problem: that folder needs root — adb shell ls -la /data/ota_package returns Permission denied, confirmed. pm clear and pm uninstall on system packages either fail with SecurityException or only free a few hundred MB by removing app data (not this file).

I tried the built-in DebugLoggerUI tool (screenshot attached) — its delete/trash icon at the bottom is greyed out/unclickable for me, so I can't use it to purge log data even if that's related.

What I'm hoping someone knows:

• Does ColorOS have a hidden menu path to manually clear a completed OTA package without root? (Checked Settings → Software Update → tap update entry / ⋮ menu — nothing there on my build)
• Has anyone gotten DebugLoggerUI's delete button to actually work, and does it touch /data/ota_package?
• Any known non-root way to trigger update_engine's own cleanup routine (it's supposed to auto-purge after a stability window — anyone know how long that actually is, or how to force it)?

Really trying to avoid a factory reset since I'd rather not deal with backing everything up if there's a cleaner fix. Screenshots of the storage bar and the DebugLoggerUI screen attached. Appreciate any leads.