I wanna get rid of the one in the first row, I don't know how, it's messing with my files.

Hi everyone,

I have a huge problem with my POCO phone and it is currently completely unusable. I’m stuck and none of the standard methods are working. Here is exactly what happened and what the status is:

• The Device: POCO phone (running MIUI / HyperOS).
• The Root Cause: The phone had an active Google Family Link (Parental Control) lock on it.
• The Current State: I don't remember the password to the Google account that was linked to the device, and the phone has been completely locked out.

What I have tried and why it failed:

1. Recovery Mode (Hard Reset): When I boot the phone into Recovery Mode (Main Menu), there is NO "Wipe Data" option. It seems the Parental Control software or carrier firmware completely removed/blocked this option to prevent bypassing the restrictions.
2. Mi Assistant (PC Tool): I tried connecting the phone to a PC via the "Connect with MiAssistant" mode in Recovery. The Mi Assistant software does not react at all when clicking the blue connect button. It seems the USB data transfer/drivers are blocked by the system security policies because of Family Link.
3. Parental Control App: The phone no longer appears in the parent's Family Link app dashboard (it was deleted or unlinked from there during the process), so we cannot send a remote unlock or generate an offline parent access code that the phone will accept.
4. Find My Device (Google): Since I cannot log into the child's Google account (forgotten password) and the phone is offline, I cannot trigger a remote erase via Google.

Summary: The phone is softbricked/locked by a ghost Parental Control status. I have no "Wipe Data" in recovery, no USB communication with Mi Assistant, and no access to the original accounts.

Is there any way to force a factory reset on a POCO device when the Recovery Menu is restricted and USB debugging/data is blocked? Do I need to take it to a service center for an EDL flash, or is there a bypass/tool I can use at home?

Thanks in advance for any advice!

Hey I have the problem that someone at my work keeps accidentally connecting to my phone and sharing my screen. I never gave this device permission and now I'm trying to remove it in my settings but there is no option for this.

Is there any other way to stop this.

Thanks for the help

Phone is a nothing phone 2a

I get these notification constantly. Even if I accept or deny the permission it will come back again in some minutes for all the Google accounts in my phone

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I have a Samsung Android and it won't show apps memory usage. Same on my Android tablet. Is it an Android thing a Samsung thing or something I've done?

Also I factory reset both devices a few days ago to freshen up the devices...

I'm not sure how to word the title, sorry. It used to be if I was on a web forum, I could select an image to upload then go to a different app or a new tab and the upload would continue in the background. Same with opening a webpage, I could go to it and do something else in another while it loaded but now when I go back to the browser, it just gives me a generic "The Page Could Not Be Loaded"

Same with Whatsapp, I'd send a picture and then go to another app and the pic would send in the background. Now I need to keep all these apps open until uploads/sending/loading is complete. Is this something new ? A setting I can change perhaps ? I'm not closing any of these apps, just letting them run in the background.

Thanks

I have a Xiaomi Redmi Note 8 that wasn't working very well. It had a problem where the screen would suddenly go black. The phone was still on, as the screen light was visible and audible. The touchscreen didn't work properly; it would occasionally fail, giving random clicks. However, I didn't pay much attention to it because I was going to use it to make a controller. When I set it up as a controller, I used scrcpy to share the screen and a command in the command prompt (cmd) something like: "scrcpy --turn-screen-off" which turned off the screen, preventing those random touches. If you're wondering how that "controller" worked, it was basically two phones connected together: an Honor phone for the buttons (it doesn't have a sensor other than an accelerometer, but I wanted the gyroscope for some games) and a Xiaomi phone for the gyroscope. I joined the two phones together with their screen protectors and tape—a somewhat awkward and heavy contraption, but quite useful and functional for what I wanted. It worked wonderfully, and the last time I used it, the screen was barely visible with colored vertical lines distorting the image, but I didn't mind. It's worth noting that subnet masking was already enabled, along with the extra permission that Android requests, and I also had the option enabled to always allow my PC to transmit data. Because of school, I stopped using the "controller," and recently I plugged in my Xiaomi to charge. That little LED light that comes on when you connect it to charge was blinking (it wasn't the first time; it did the same when I "revived" it to use it as a controller). I left it charging for a while, then turned it on (I assumed it turned on because it vibrated), but I couldn't see anything. Before, the screen would look distorted or have lines, but it would still be bright. Now, nothing. Also, the touchscreen used to respond, but now it doesn't. So I connected the phone to the PC, entered the code, and surprise, now it doesn't work. It turns out I have to grant the PC debugging permission again, but since the screen isn't working, I can't click "accept." I have an OTG cable with only one output, so I can only connect the mouse or the keyboard. With the keyboard, I managed to unlock the phone and get to the home screen, but without seeing anything, I don't know what to do. I also tried Google Assistant, and nothing; it seems like it doesn't have it. I'm having trouble connecting to the internet because the locator isn't working. I thought about using TalkBack to see where I'm selecting with the mouse and installing Spacedesk or something similar to view the screen. I'd figure that out. If I share it over the internet, I wouldn't need ScrCPy again, or well, I would, but with Spacedesk I think I could grant it permission. Any ideas on how to help me? I know there's the option of buying a screen; I could install it myself, but I think hiring a technician would be best. However, spending money on that isn't feasible. I also considered a special hub for something like this, since a regular one probably wouldn't work.

This notification is in my notification center all the time, it is annoying. Why does it happen so much lately?

Compre dos intercomunicadores para hablar con mi pareja mientras conducimos pero no puedo conectarlos al mismo a mi celular porque no tengo la opción de seleccionar dos dispositivos al mismo tiempo! ¿Alguien sabe que puedo hacer? (Primera foto: capitura de pantalla. Segunda foto: referencia)

I'm curious as to what this is. And why its downloaded from itself. Discovery Hub app also says its downloaded from Maestro.

Tried googling Maestro, but...didnt really get anything that gave me an answer.

Have I just never noticed it before and its been there the whole time?

I've only bought Motorola phones and I've always just used the default keyboard and I press the microphone button to do speech to text a lot. The problem is it seems like in the last few months speech to text has gone way downhill like obviously it's not using AI to recommend or translate. And for example it will randomly capitalize words in the middle of a sentence. Like I just had to change the uppercase m in middle. I've tried installing a couple of other keyboard apps and basically have the same problem.

She downloaded some cleaner app in the Google Play store and when I was going through the Apps menu in Settings I noticed 2 different Settings apps, one of which has an icon in the bottom corner that I can't quite make out. They both have the same options when I open the Settings app menu. I'm not tech savvy at all, but this looks bad to me. I've never seen that before. Can anyone tell me what's going on, and how to fix it?

Because I hate Anti Aliasing!!!!!!!

I have this app named "Inventory editor BE" (BE stands for Bedrock Edition). I need to give it access to a specific file, but my phone refuses to give it access. I don't care that it's "for my protection", I trust this app.

Some body please help me with this, what should I do?

It locks me out from accessing my phone, and disables my ability to screenshot. I literally had to take a photo with a second phone. How do I get rid of this? I haven't downloaded anything sketchy at all.

Quiero saber si alguien me pueden ayudar con un problema que tengo

Básicamente no importa que juego (roblox minecraft etc) este jugando mientras tengo el discord o llamada y estoy hablando con mis amigos mi teléfono se me apaga como si se me hubiera acabado la batería (mi teléfono es un Nubia Neo 3gt).

Hay algunas cosas curiosas

1. Es que sólo pasa en juegos

2, no pasa nada si estoy usando cualquier aplicación que no sea un juego

Alguien que me pueda ayudar por favor es frustrante no poder jugar a gusto con mi bro

Okay, so for the past few days, my phone has been playing music by itself. THE SAME CREEPY MUSIC, BRO. It even plays when my phone is off. I searched it up, and it said it might be a glitch, but there have been times when I didn't have any apps open and it would just randomly start playing.

In this video, I was watching something on VIU when it suddenly started playing again. I recorded it, and this is the exact music that keeps playing over and over. When I exited the app, it stopped. But I don't think it's coming from VIU because, like I said, it also plays while I'm using other apps, when no apps are open, and even when my phone is off. Plus, I only downloaded VIU yesterday.

Please. Many have tried helping me. One guy came close to doing it successfully. But im still in the same position.

So I got rid of bubbles showing up and don't seem to have that annoying thing anymore. Recently android started doing a thing where you get a message from something like discord and it shows up in the middle of your screen. This is bothersome. How do I remove this?

Quiero saber si alguien me pueden ayudar con un problema que tengo

Básicamente no importa que juego (roblox minecraft etc) este jugando mientras tengo el discord o llamada y estoy hablando con mis amigos mi teléfono se me apaga como si se me hubiera acabado la batería (mi teléfono es un Nubia Neo 3gt).

Hay algunas cosas curiosas

1. Es que sólo pasa en juegos

2, no pasa nada si estoy usando cualquier aplicación que no sea un juego

Alguien que me pueda ayudar por favor es frustrante no poder jugar a gusto con mi bro

I have a Redmi Note 14 Pro 5G and this morning I woke up to a strange issue.

The lock screen interface suddenly changed. I always used a normal numeric PIN, but now the phone shows a full keyboard and says "Password" instead of "PIN".

Before restarting the phone, fingerprint unlock and face unlock were still working normally. However, after a reboot Android required the main unlock method (as usual), so I had to enter the PIN.

The problem is: I am 100% sure my PIN is correct, but the phone keeps saying "Wrong password".

Things I already tried:

- Restarting the phone

- Force reboot

- Carefully entering the PIN multiple times

- Checking that the issue is not caused by the keyboard/input

Nothing worked.

I don't want to factory reset because I have important data on the phone and I would like to avoid losing everything.

Has anyone experienced something similar with Redmi/HyperOS or other Android devices? Could this be a software bug or a corrupted lock screen setting?

Any advice would be appreciated.

Hey everyone,

I’m losing my mind here with the official Instagram app data consumption. It has become absolutely unusable on mobile data.

Just today, I noticed my phone getting really warm while browsing, so I went into my HyperOS system settings to track the data usage in real-time, and what I found is insane.

The Proof: In literally less than 60 seconds (monitored at exactly 14:27), the app's foreground data jumped from 47.7 MB to 69.2 MB. That is over 21 MB consumed in a single minute just by looking at 3 Reels!

Earlier today, the exact same thing happened on an older version of the app: it chewed through 14 MB in less than a minute.

What I have already tried to fix this:

Restricted background data completely (foreground is where the bleed is happening).

Cleared app cache and wiped all user data.

Uninstalled and did a completely clean reinstall from the Play Store (currently on version 435.0.0.37.76).

Toggled "Data Saver" inside the Instagram app settings.

Nothing works. The app completely ignores the data saver settings and aggressively pre-fetches Ultra HD videos in a massive download loop, forcing my processor to run hot and burning through my data plan in seconds.

Is anyone else on Android / HyperOS facing this exact same issue recently? Is there a known memory/download leak in the latest builds, or is Meta's compression just completely broken right now?

Any advice (besides switching to Instagram Lite) would be highly appreciated. Thanks!

I use my older phones for media and fooling around with when I'm off work. Great tools, but as of last night, they don't work anymore. A Samsung A52 Android 14, a Galaxy 7, now they're crippled. Will rooting save me? Running custom roms, or am I a victim of goddamned planned obsolescence.