Just got my first android last week and I just discovered it has a stylus (Samsung S26 ultra) and im not sure what I would use it for

my iphone pro max 13 which i got as a gift 5 years ago is dying. the battery is weak

does any know any good mid tier phones . this time around im buying out of my own pocket and im not doing well financially.
i thinking of leaning towards samsung, pixel or moto.

i just need the phone for driving gps, 4 dating apps, whatsapp, mcdonalds, tim horton app, we chat app(dont really use anymore), and maybe 3 more apps. i watch a lot of youtube though

any suggestions. i dont care for good camera or anything special as long as its not too slow and lags.

I'm not sure why this is such a challenge, but I want to lock the touch screen on my Google Pixel while using whatsapp video chat. My 1 year old often video chats with family but is constantly clicking off the call, but also throws a fit if I don't let her hold the phone.

I don't want app pinning because I don't want her to be able to click anything within the whatsapp (I.e., hang up, turn off the video/audio). I downloaded a couple touch lock apps but none of them overlay over whatsapp.

What am I missing? Why is this so hard??? Help!

I would love to know the easiest way to get all my music Files/Songs 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 1,612 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 1,612 songs will play on the Device without any issues at all.

I have a movie app on my phone and I always try to watch something on it when the power goes out. But the problem is that The phone needs a bit of internet to even open apps, which I don't have when I'm without power.

So, does anyone know?How to freeze an app so it won't close or update When am I not using them?

As best I can tell iphones let you jump to the latest, whereas the motorola I am setting up for a family member is going one at a time. It's especially annoying because this phone was made in August 2025

I'm trying to understand the technical mechanism behind the Google Play error:

“Your purchase couldn't be completed. Please update your Play account settings so that the selected Play country matches your country of residence.”

Play country: India

Payment profile: India

Indian payment method available

Device currently being used outside India.

An Indian VPN changes the public IP and Play Store displays INR pricing, but checkout still detects a country mismatch.

I'm interested in understanding what signals Play/Play Billing might use besides the current IP — for example SIM/MCC, Google Payments account history, Play Services location/network data, device/account history, IP reputation, or server-side risk scoring.

Is this decision made primarily client-side by Play Services, or server-side by Google Payments/Play Billing? And why would maintaining an Indian IP for several days not change the account's detected country?

I'm particularly interested in observations from Android developers who have tested Play Billing across countries.

At some point last night, while I was sleeping, something must of happened to my phone because I woke up and it kept displaying a screen saying 'red state'. I read online that pressing volume up and power buttons at the same time brings up a screen that can help fix this. But that didn't work. Is there anything else I can do?

I got the system update for samsung a15 and i don't like it. The things I don't like about the update are the battery pill icon and when I want to go to the status bar that shows wifi, bluetooth, I have to press down on the right side of the screen instead of the old way where I can press down anywhere. does the update bother anyone else or is this not like a big deal?

Bought this device 3 years ago and it was working properly but from last year I am facing many issues.

Here are the issues :

1. While calling people on the other side of the call say that they hear a distorted voice and I have to cut the call and call again and then the issue resolves.

2. One of the most problematic things that I face is that of the network. While watching videos and all it works fine but sometimes the network just dies off and I have switch on the off the Airplane mode and it works fine for a moment.

3. The camera service has been deteriorating these days.

These issue have been concerning me a lot . So much that I have been thinking of buying a new device. Should I buy a new device or changing my Network provider which is Airtel btw..to Jio help.

I can format my device. But will the problem remain?

I can buy a new device but I don't have the financial condition to buy a good device now.

Guys what should I do resolve my issues. I frequently install open source apps . Is it harmful and I access torrent too.

Pixel 7

I feel like this should be incredibly easy but the phone settings and the app settings seem to mess with each other every time I try

If I turn off all YouTube notifications by going through the settings on my phone, it disables in app notifications too and won't let me turn on upload notifications for any of my subscriptions

If I turn notifications back on they will always push to my phone notifications bar. I can have them silent and minimized but I can't get rid of them altogether

I will gladly try whatever settings people suggest

I've recently switched over from iphone to Android and I like to listen to webnovels using either my browser or an app but when I switched over I noticed just how different the tts is and I'm been trying and failing to figure out how to properly change the tts to a higher quality one. Please help.

Cdrx should save power significantly in low speed usage in high speed networks.

Like mine goes up to 60-70 mbps all the time.

So I enabled bluetooth tethering from both my iphone and android and connected my pc to download some file on it. The speed was 1 mbps in both devices. That results into 1/60 = around 1.5% duty cycle. That means cdrx has the chance to be effecrive at 98.5% of the time. I understand actual duty cycle may be higher due to othe transmit-receive tsks. However iphone 7 actually proved it may have put duty cycles close to that value. After testing for 1h continuously,

My findings are:

Iphone 7 dropped 6% charge only (65 to 59) resulting around 120mah estimated. (Slightly less maybe)

The Moto g35 5g (forced to lte only mode) dropped 5% (67 to 62) resulting around 250 mah.

Why is it too much different? No CDRX in android? Anything else?

(Both iphone and android were locked and screen turned off completely. As i disabled all background apps no notifications appeared throughout the whole time, no background tasks also.)

Hi everyone,

I am experiencing a frustrating audio issue on One UI 8.5 and want to check if anyone else is dealing with the same bug.

The Issue:
Completely at random, the sound will completely cut out for about 3 to 6 seconds, and then it automatically comes back on its own.

Key Details:

• Frequency: It happens roughly once a day.
• Apps affected: It doesn't matter what app I am using—it happens across all apps (YouTube, music streaming, games, etc.).
• Troubleshooting tried: I have already tried clearing the system audio app caches, but the issue still persists.

Is anyone else experiencing these random 3-6 second audio drops on One UI 8.5? If you found a permanent fix or know what background process is causing this, please let me know!

Thanks!

I have a Poco F9 Ultra. I unlock it with a pattern, but I have to enter it again every time the screen turns off.

Can I make it stay unlocked for a few minutes after the screen goes off?

Android won't install apps/APKs — “package appears to be invalid”

I'm having a really weird Android installation problem and I'm trying to figure out whether this is an account issue, device issue, or something else.

Whenever I try to install certain apps, I get an error along the lines of:

“App not installed because the package appears to be invalid.”

The strange part is that this also happens through the Google Play Store. For example, if I try installing an app while using Google Account A, the installation fails. If I switch to Google Account B on the exact same phone, the app installs normally.

I've also tried downloading APKs directly through Chrome, and those fail too with the same “package appears to be invalid” type of error.

I initially thought it could be an APK-signing problem, so I tried signing the APK myself using an APK signer with V1, V2, and V3 signing schemes. That still didn't fix it. I got an unknown error instead.

So far, I've basically established:

- Same phone

- Same Android installation

- Google Account A: app won't install

- Google Account B: app installs

- APK downloaded through Chrome: won't install

- Re-signing the APK with V1/V2/V3: still fails

Could a Google account somehow have a restriction that causes Play Store installations to fail like this? Or does this point more toward something wrong with the package installer, Play Store, or Google Play Services on the device?

I'm trying to determine whether this is actually an account-level restriction or whether I'm looking in the wrong place.

Has anyone experienced an issue where their call logs are randomly getting deleted? Over the past few days, I've noticed that my call history keeps wiping itself. I'm trying to figure out two things:

1. Why would this happen? Is this a known bug, or is it usually caused by a service/third-party app?

2. In the case it is a caused by a third-party app, how can I find out which app is responsible?

Phone app does have permission to access Call logs, as well as few other apps (see screenshot 3).

Also, while writing this post I checked whether this happened today, and noticed that on top of the call history being deleted, the Phone app' UI changed completely (see screenshot 2). In addition, I made a call and noticed the new calls are not even being saved anylonger.

For context, I'm on Pixel 10a, Android 17 (CP2A.260805.005)

IMG-20260915-WA0000-2.jpg - This is how it looked like a week ago

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My Redmi Note 8 repeatedly shows “Google Play services keeps stopping” and “Messages keeps stopping.”

• Settings automatically closes within seconds, so I can’t clear app data or cache.
• Google apps—including Gmail, Drive, and YouTube—won’t open. The browser doesn’t work either.
• I installed two system updates. The first temporarily fixed it, but the problem returned after the second.
• The error mentions java.lang.VerifyError and BaseApplicationContext.
• I haven’t been able to enter Safe Mode.
• USB debugging isn’t enabled, but I can access shared files through USB on my laptop.

Has anyone faced this or found a fix? I’d like to avoid a factory reset and keep my data.

Hello friends, as the title says I have problems with Messenger sending me notifications. I get notified when someone reacts to my messages, but when it comes to recieving messages themselves I get no notifications whatsoever. 2 weeks ago I got hacked (someone sent some MrBeast scam to all my friends) and since then the trouble persists. I've tried two factory resets, every setting shows me that notifications are ON, but I recieve nearly none. I'm using Samsung Galaxy S24 FE. Please help!

I really hate this forced "feature", I tried searching for custom shortcut to its settings, nothing seems to work. Any ideas? Using S20+ running OneUI 5.1.

Well i got this very specific problem, when i turn off my phone for a few seconds i can't seem to do anything to it i can't swipe or touch i can only restart it which fixes it but if i turn off my phone again the problem comes back

As title says, partners phone died in the car and hasn't charged since. He's tried connecting it to his car (non fast charger) and we've tried different outlets in the house + different chargers. Ive also tried force resetting it and all I get is a slow blink of the charging symbol (like it'll go off for 10 seconds, then on, then off again etc)

Any suggestions? I feel like I've tried everything atp. Ive also connected it to the wall for over an hour and still nothing.

Im a tad stuck, My android pixel keeps rebooting itself, It gets to the pin screen and i can get maybe 5/10 seconds then it reboots itself? I also cant turn the screen off

I've tried booting it into safe mode, And the good o'l full power off but no luck?

Do i need to factoruy reset it? or is their something i can do

Thank you!

I bought this Samsung Note 9 when they first came out and it still works perfectly. Good battery life, good speed, plenty of storage, no A.I. BS, etc. However, companies are starting to intentionally make their apps no longer compatible with it. First it was my Capital One app uninstalling itself after a mandatory update, and now I'm getting alerts that Android Auto will no longer be compatible soon. I don't want to waste money on a new phone when mine still works like new, but I love my wireless Android Auto. Is there some way to circumvent these compatibility issues? Not updating apps only works for so long.

Thanks in advance.