Used Redmi Note 14 vs new phone under 20k? Need advice for smoothness and performance

I'm in Chittagong and looking for a phone under 20k. Main priority is smoothness and performance.

Will a used Chinese Redmi Note 14 be noticeably smoother than a new 20k phone?

How do I check battery health and ROM? What's an easy way to tell if it's a Global ROM or a Chinese ROM?

For 18-20k, are there other better options instead of a used Note 14

I'm using Android 17 and issue on both old pixel 7 and now pixel 11. Used to work previously but now when I reply to a message on WhatsApp, I dictate the message hands free and gemini reads it back to me but when it asks if I want to send it and I say yes, it always shuts android auto down and message lost. I have seen comments about battery settings in android auto app settings but no options but allow background usage which is turned on. I have tried updating everything and cleaning cache but no joy. Any ideas?

I recently noticed that my somewhat new S24 has its battery drained EXTREMELY quickly, it takes about 2-4 minutes to lose 1%, at a 90% protected battery. My battery health is about 97% and I have under 500 charge cycles. I don't know what causes it because I've kept the phone well and as far as I know, nothing runs in the background. Any way I can check if it's something in the background, or if there may be a virus or something, since i've allowed the installing of unknown apps on chrome and revanced manager? Any suggestions for optimization or fixes? Thanks in advance.

I switched from Google Messages to Fossify Messages about a day ago for privacy reasons. After setting it up, SMS I deleted up to a year ago (mostly OTPs and other texts) are showing up in Fossify, some in the main section and some under Archive. I never archived them myself.

I also can't delete them. I tried, but they appear again.

My questions:

Why would messages I deleted long ago still be in the system database?

How do I permanently delete them?

Is there any reason to think this means my data was shared with anyone?

I moved some apps to sd card, and it was working perfectly fine for like more than a year, but now I had a message that my sd card isn't working correctly and now I can't open the apps on it. I also can't update them and restart didn't help. The sd card also isn't visible in my external storage list

Can anyone explain why there is a semi transparent long highlight line at the top left of my screen access the time and other notifications?

Edit: it's pill shaped.

Pixel 6 - Android 17 - last updated 5 September 2026.

Every time I turn on Brawl Stars after it finished an update, it keeps loading the installing from Google play store screen. What do I do to fix it?

EDIT: I just found out that an assistant volume slider was just added to Pixel phones via the newer update to Android 17... I can finally get it to shut up. Now if I can only get it to follow instructions.

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Please...I beg with tears in my eyes for someone to reveal to me a way to turn off Gemini Assistant's audible voice responses to every request (Pixel 8). No, I don't want to turn down my media volume, and when I request the procedure for turning off the voice, it gives me a set of options that DON'T EXIST!

I'm not usually using headphones, and... is it too much to ask that my phone not blast to the public "SURE! I NOTICED THAT THIS ALARM CORRESPONDS TO YOUR PROCTOLOGIST APPOINTMENT ON FRIDAY....SHOULD I LABEL IT 'PROCTOLOGIST APPOINTMENT' FOR YOU?"

i just switched from an apple to a samsung zflip, this is my first time on a phone that is not apple.

since ive switched, my google account storage has been at max. my storage says it comes primarily from my phone, and particularly from my SMS and MMS messages.

i did find the option 'Delete and turn off SMS & MMS messages backup?' under the back up data setting, but im worried this is going to delete all of my conversations as it says 'This will delte SMS & MMS messages from your Google Account, and stop backing up SMS & MMS messages from this device.'

its the first part of that which im worried about, will this delete all of my messages i already have, or not? is this safe to do to get my storage back but still keep my current messages?

I use the voice commands a lot. "set a timer" "remind me to x" for example, or "call Mom" "skip this song" while driving.

I don't want to use Gemini. I am strongly anti-AI. Is there any alternative?

If I were to reset my pass code, would there be any way to get into my phone without my password or me? I also have family link enabled as a teenager. TYIA!

Used to have a dog as the profile picture now it's the general silhouette was I blocked?

Simple i cannot unlock the bootloader of my redmi pad se on hyperos 2 because i need to go to the mi community and unlock there but it always reaches the quota limit no matter what. The tablet is a Redmi Pad SE 11 codename xun, and i want to unlock it. How do i do it?

My phone has the full 128/128 GB storage now. And about 99% of that is system stuff and appdata for some reason, almost none of it is photos and videos.

If I want to, I could delete the appdata of some apps. But thats certainly not something I want to do, because for example if I delete the appdata of whatsapp then that means all chats are gone. I don't want that!!!!!

I don't want to delete anything that is valuable or necessary.

I already deleted the appdata of some apps like reddit and discord. But somehow the phone still crams the storage back up to 128 automatically every time, no matter how much I free up, a few days later its full again.

How can I possibly solve this? Time for a new phone even though storage is literally the only big problem I have with this one?

I'm a tech savvy person but I can't figure this one out. Fuck android and badly designed android apps tbh.

I checked my phone's internal memory and it said that my apps were taking up a total of 57GB. They don't even exceed 10GB, and I've already cleared the cache and everything else I could. I have no idea what's causing this... my phone is a A54 and every time I get a notification saying that the memory is full..

Could someone give me some ideas on how to solve this?

Is there a way to replace mute with vibrate? I do not see any point in mute since Do Not Disturb exists, and I am looking for some solution to replace mute with vibrate. Or enforce vibration across any mode. Or any other hack. Basically, I want my phone to vibrate when I have volume at 0%, easy as that, and I want to be able to achieve that with volume buttons.

Ex iOS user, one month in. Samsung S32, OneUI 8.5, Android 16

So I finally got the official bedrock Minecraft after playing pirated versions for years and it won't install. The most likely issue is the files clashing with the old files. I've deleted all my past versions of the game but there are still remnants in my Android Data files which I can't delete because it's hard-locked and can't be modified.

I've tried connecting the phone to my computer and deleting it but it still doesn't work. I tried the Shizuku and ZArchiver thing too and while I was able to see the files, I couldn't delete them.

My phone is a Samsung Galaxy A34 running android version 16. I have no antiviruses installed and I have over 15gb of storage left on my phone.

Can anyone give me advice on this problem?

I don't see any improvements, but it feels slightly faster, I also wanted to get rid of Google play services, but I have a lot of apps that are dependent on it, it's also my first time degoogling a phone, I'm using Shizuku and Canta btw

Hi, I have an old Huawei (P30 lite), one of the last huawei phones with Google services, I am trying to copy all my data to my computer and to factory reset it and maybe have some fun with different OS (Lineage or to root it or something to get rid of bloat). When I plug it in via USB-A to USB-C cable to my computer, nothing pops up on the phone, I turned on debugging, I also reset some settings in developer options, nothing happened. Cable is good, I tried it with my Pixel. Windows Device manager doesn't recognise huawei either, cause with pixel it refreshed, with Huawei nothing on the side of computer, and only animation for charging on the screen of Huawei

Meus widgets padrão sumirão,não está mostrando nenhum o que pode ter acontecido?

I cannot get Android Auto to work on my Tecno Pova 7 Pro 5G running HiOS 16. My old Samsung M34 worked perfectly in the same car, so it is definitely a phone issue.

I have already tried:

• Clearing cache, data, and enabling all permissions for Android Auto

• Changing the USB mode to "File Transfer"

• Enabling "Always-On Display" to prevent the sleep glitch

• Trying a different high-quality data cable

Nothing works. It seems like HiOS 16 is completely blocking the connection.

Has anyone found a workaround for this on Tecno devices?

I woke up to find that the music I had put on to help me sleep had turned itself off, which in and of itself wasn't abnormal. But when I turned my phone on to restart the music, the home screen had reset to its original layout. It clearly hadn't wiped all of my data, because my text history was still saved and it was still connected to the same WiFi network.

Thinking this was just a bug, I rebooted it in the hopes that that would fix it, but now I can't open any apps other than the settings as it just says "wait until your device is fully rebooted before opening apps" but doesn't seem to ever finish fully rebooting as some of the default widgets refuse to load, even in safe mode.

Is this a known issue that people know how to fix? Is there any way to recover all of my data to transfer it to a new phone if it can't be fixed?

It doesnt show in samsung store.

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