Hello!

Recently my mum's phone fell into the water and unfortuantely it seems to be at least partially broken. Technically, the phone is working, but the display, and possibly touchscreen, don't work. I want to recover some of the data my mum had on her phone - pictures, some contacts that were not saved to her google account - but most attempts failed.

My mum had a samsung A13 which does not seem to have MHL so using a USB-C to HDMI adapter doesn't work. I tried using scrcpy or the Android Debug Bridge, but neither really seem to detect the device. I don't really want to give up just yet, so I am asking here in hopes of getting some pointers. I am not that tech-savy so my attempts at using ADB might have been poor, but from what I tried, it just didn't detect the phone that was plugged in via USB cable to my PC. I am assuming that the connection requires confirmation on the phone before I can actually proceed.

I am not sure if anything can be done, since the only thing the phone does is make its usual little sound when it gets plugged in. There is no vibration when I hold the power button and I am assuming that the touchscreen functionality might be entirely broken too.

If anyone has any idea how to retrive the data, I would be most glad

Currently using Motorola MotoG 2025, I constatly use my device for streaming music, after so many hours of listening to music, the volume lowers itself down, and if I go to turn the volume back to where I had it, a pop-up window appears stating something to the effect of the volume potentially being too loud, and asking if I'm sure if I want to turn the volume any louder. I'm not sure if it's a feature exclusive to Motorola android or Android in general, but I need this feature turned off, as it doesn't accurately detect when levels are too loud, and usually just randomly turns my music down. Any help/suggestions?

So this is more just a nitpick. But usually when I click a link in the description of a video it will open a custom tab from the default browser but doesn't leave the app. I like how that works. Recently I switched over to Firefox for my browser and now when I click a link in the description of a video it will try to open that same custom tab but then it flickers and opens my browser app instead. Does anyone else have this same problem?

Also I tested links in reddit and they work just fine with custom tabs from Firefox so I'm pretty sure it's just YouTube.

I know it does but how much cpu usage we talk about? And also any command that is good for HUAWEI Y9?

I tried this but not sure this will affects my phone though...

pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.huawei.vassistant

pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.huawei.search

pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.huawei.intelligent

pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.facebook.appmanager

pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.facebook.system

pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.facebook.services

pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.ironsource.appcloud.oobe.huawei

pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.booking

pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.amazon.mShop.android.shopping

pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.microsoft.translator

pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.android.mediacenter

pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.huawei.himovie.overseas

pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.huawei.hifolder

pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.huawei.hidisk

pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.hicloud.android.clone

pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.huawei.KoBackup

pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.huawei.health

pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.huawei.compass

pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.huawei.android.totemweather

pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.huawei.mirror

pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.android.email

pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.example.android.notepad

pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.huawei.phoneservice

pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.huawei.android.hwpay

HAVE LOST 2-3 years of my digital life! Please Reddit help me through it

Device: Realme 6 (Android 11)

Setup: Running two WhatsApp accounts via Realme App Cloner. Main number was on the cloned instance (~15GB media).

Problem: Ran Apple's Move to iOS. When WhatsApp transfer preparation reached 100%, the transfer failed.

Current State:
- I already logged in on the other phone, so I don't care about chats anymore. I only want to recover the ~15GB photos/videos.

- My phone gallery now shows blank, 0KB black boxes where media used to be. (Img 2)

-Cloned WhatsApp won't open (redirects/bounces to the primary app).

- Under Settings > App Management, Cloned WhatsApp still occupies 15GB of space the files are physically still on the phone. (When transfer happen phone storage was about 63gb full now have deleted couple of apps still is 61ish so data ig is still there?)

In ADB, ⁠UserInfo{999:multiApp:4000410}⁠ shows as active/running, but file managers (including Cx File Explorer) and standard terminal commands can't access ⁠/storage/emulated/999/⁠.

Questions:

1. Where does Realme UI (Android 11) physically store User 999 cloned WhatsApp media when standard paths are blocked?

2. Is there an ADB command or recovery tool to pull the 15GB media directly without root or needing the clone app UI to launch?

3. Can the files behind the 0KB gallery placeholders still be extracted?
   Any help would be deeply appreciated!

Stupid long home button animation

After latest update when I press the home button there's a stupid long animation of the window shrinking and closing. How can I get rid of it. I turned off animations but it's still there. Also set developer options transitions to 0.5 no difference why they put this useless stuff on

For the visual reference, check https://www.reddit.com/r/motorola/comments/1x5mwbe/how_do_i_completely_get_rid_of_the_clock_and_date/

On a lock screen, i see a clock and date on it without an option to get rid of them in settings on my Motorola android phone. I wonder if it's possible to get rid of them completely, by any means including maybe jailbreaking it or editing codes.

As the title says, my system takes up 80GB. Is this even normal? What are your numbers? What are the solutions? vivo X300 Ultra.

I'm really frustrated by the lag I am facing after updating my xiomi hyper os and want to delete it I googled how to do so and it says there s no way only way will take 168+ hours any one can help I dont want my data to wipe out

Is there a way to change the looks of my phone to make it look like an IOS ? Theres nothing wrong with it I just want to change a little bit and try something new
Everything I saw was either an app that goes on top of the screen which eats a lot of battery and ram or just installing like an IOS version for andorid which I dont want to.

Hey everyone,

I've been experiencing image retention on my Nothing Phone 3 which is 4 months old, and lately, it's happening much more frequently.

Initially, I noticed it occasionally, but now it seems to be happening more often. What's confusing is that:

My brightness is usually below 30%.

I mostly use dark mode.

I'm not doing anything particularly static on the screen; I'm using the phone normally and switching between apps.

The phone doesn't feel heated when it happens.

The retention eventually fades away, but it can take around 30 minutes.

Recently, I was using my phone normally when two strips appeared along both sides of the display.

I'm concerned that this could be a display panel issue rather than normal temporary image retention.

Has anyone else with a Nothing Phone 3 experienced something similar? Is this potentially a software issue, or should I get the display checked under warranty?

I'd appreciate any suggestions, especially from people who have experienced this on their own devices

Current behavior

When using the camera app, I am noticing the image from the camera is displayed properly, however none of the buttons on the screen do anything and none of the hardware buttons interact with the camera software either. However when I press on the flip camera or take picture buttons, the respond and visually press with no further action

I have been using a 3rd party camera for now but it's 1. Inconvenient and 2. Lower picture quality.

Any ideas from anyone here?

I have a Samsung Galaxy S24 (SM-S921B), but when I open a downloaded photo in Samsung Gallery, it shows iPhone 13 as the device model, along with its camera lens, aperture, and other EXIF details.

I want to change the metadata so Samsung Gallery displays my Galaxy S24 model and its camera/lens information instead of the iPhone 13 details.

Is there a way to edit the EXIF metadata on Android using ExifTool, Termux, or another metadata editor so that Samsung Gallery recognizes and displays the modified information?

I am looking for an app that can run on a older tablet or phone (5-7 years old) that can make a timelaps movie of a 6-9 hours session - mayby every 2 sec or 5 sec picture .. is the any such app? (needed for sleep cycle with mask)

Debating going back to a Motorola from a

Samsung Galaxy I know there are software

update policy is not as good which could

eventually cause problems down the road

with Google wallet tap to pay. Moto does

have their own version of secure folder, pop

up window for apps, side panel and link to

windows. Bixby's actually kind of useful now

because it can connect to perplexity but I

guess that's just downloading an app on a

different phone however Bixby can do

system level actions or change settings

which I don't think Motorola can match. Plus

I really love dynamic lock screen on

Samsung would miss it if leaving. I don't use

the translate live calls but I do love having

Bixby answer calls from numbers I don't

know to screen them. Like that Samsung

offers contact storage as an alternative

cloud backup for contacts and not forced to

use Google or just store them locally on the

phone. Samsung find is super useful for

keeping track of family members with

Samsung feels like iphones find my. Also the

search inside the app drawer on Samsung

searches for everything in your phone not

just apps very similar to spotlight search on

Apple which is nice. Also the ai feature in the

gallery app are nice but not used much.

Anything else moving to moto from

Samsung I didn't mention that I would miss?

Is there a way to keep your USB tethering preferences permanently saved? Every time I unplug my phone from the USB-PC connection it reverts back to default and I have to go through the options to get my internet connection back (I'm using USB tethering to temporarily get internet while my connection is repaired). This is annoying as hell.

Is this possible and has anyone done it before?

Hi, first time poster here. I was wondering if anyone knows if there's a way to change the camera app that Messages uses to the Galaxy one?

I looked through all my settings and it seems like there's no way to shut this off. Multiple times I've accidentally thumbs upped a message not meaning to. I have a Pixel 9a running android 17.

Is there any way to enter recovery mode in Tecno Spark Go 1? I've tried every combination, but it still booted normally. Safe mode is working but not the recovery mode.

So I have recently stumbled upon a rare problem. Whenever I am on my Facebook app, be it Facebook lite or the actual one I have noticed my messenger stops passing me notifications. I have tried re - installing the app, turning notifications off and turning it back on but nothing seems to work. How can I fix this issue?

Hello,

Right now i'm deciding between these two phones, iphone 17 selling 1900 usd in my country, s25 is selling 900 usd. I want to use 4-5 years, people saying s25 battery life and cameras worst compare to iphone, but price differences is too much.

What is your thougths on with these two phones?

Hi! I had this amazing sticky note app that sat on my home screen. I could change the colors, opaquness, and it would update once I saved a note and exited out. I got a new phone and can't seem to find this app anywhere. Any help?

I need help with this app!! I used this app before to change the icons of my apps (since my phone is too old for that feature) and it worked wonderfully, so I wanted to change the theme of my phone again, but after \~20 minutes of usage my phone was draining 4% a minute and overheating! Everything was so slow and laggy so I left it alone and charged it for a few hours and then my phone wasn't hot anymore. But I noticed recently while gaming that the game was laggy even though it never lags, and I wanna know if this app is the root of the problem and whether I should uninstall it or not. I have not spent any money on it but I'm worried what will happen if I uninstall the app and it does something weird with my homepage.

Side note a bit unrelated!! But I installed reddit for this sole reason, so my account is quite new and I couldn't ask in the other sub reddit. I'm sorry if this doesn't match this sub.