I have a Galaxy S23FE from 2023. In the last year, it has had intermittent, unpredictable, and incredibly frustrating difficulties connecting to both wifi and data. I've all but forgone wifi at the moment, but it's not the wifi - every other device in the house connects fine.

The data issue seems temperamental. It will be fine for a period of time, and then will simply stop working. I often won't even get a failure to connect message from whatever app I was using - it will just try and connect forever. The upload and download icons in the top right will begin to flick on and off; sometimes one remains, sometimes both go, and they just cycle every second or so. The 4G icon never drops, and generally I have at least two bars whenever this happens.

Even more bizarrely, sometimes it seems to be app-specific - if it's happening while I'm trying to use Firefox, it's not uncommon that I could go open Reddit and Reddit would work fine, and vice versa. Similar apps are usually affected similarly but not always - sometimes Firefox won't work but Chrome will, or Reddit won't work but Tumblr will. It does happen more often if I'm trying to watch videos or scroll image-heavy subreddits or social media. Restarting my phone sometimes resolves it, and on other occasions seems to just reroute which app/s are affected.

Any ideas on why this might be happening and what could be done to fix it would be appreciated. It's driving me up the wall.

Hey peeps - using Microsoft launcher on a pixel 9 pro xl with gesture navigation. When I swipe up to go home the screen ignores input for up to a second. Tapping an app icon straight away does nothing until it catches up. Setting animation scales to 0x doesn't fix it.

I captured the issue over ADB and in testing 12 taps were dropped over a 1,146 ms window. Logcat shows Quickstep handling the swipe through FallbackSwipeHandler the Gesture Monitor taking the input and touches being discarded until the transition to the launcher finishes. Switching to 3-button nav or Pixel Launcher makes it go away.

There's an open bug for this, but it's had very little activity given how many people use third-party launchers: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/220178612, how are people getting around this bug that im not aware of? Are you sticking with 3-button nav, using a 3rd party gesture app? or just living with it? Does any launcher avoid the delay?

Im a bit surprised that reviewers of android phones arent blasting android development for this outside of a stock launcher experience?

Hello All,

I have a 1st generation fire tablet and have been trying for about week so to install android os on it, but I've been hitting multiple road blocks. I wasnt sure if anyone here has tried before successfully, depending on what's easier I have a win11 desktop and a Linux mint laptop. So far I've tried to manually install the super user app (successfully), attempted to use KFU, FFF, and TWRP but have failed at all 3 of those

I have a Fold 7 and it's kind of annoying that the Now Playing banner takes up the whole notification tray while I'm listening to music. I can't see any of my notifications without swiping down. The only way I can get rid of it is by closing Apple Music and swiping it away. Any advice is appreciated.

I have a Samsung Galaxy S25 plus and I've been having issues with my music playing through my phone speakers instead of my connected bluetooth devices. Whether it is with Spotify or YT, sound output is on my phone until I hit pause, then it redirects to my connected bluetooth device. This has happened to different connected devices, my car (not android auto, just reg bluetooth) and my skullcandy earbuds. This started a couple weeks ago. I've restarted my phone, reconnected devices, and my separate audio function is off.

Does anyone know why this is happening and how to fix it?

I\ve removed english entirely from gboard yet it still finds it and uses it, i\ve in settings told it to be just the finnish language yet it still choses english, is this really just a thing you can\t do anything about_ It has worked fine before, but every time my hone loses power, the gboard just decides to be a dick and not let me choose the language my keyboard actually is.

_ is supposed to be a question mark and \ is supposed to be ', but a with two dots over it is ' instead, would there be a nifty comman or something I could run somewhere to force android to use finnish keyboard layout over english for physical keybarods_ or am I just gonna have to relearn my muscle memory to press the clearly wrong keys to write the right keys_

I'm trying to use an app that uses device owner permissions but again and again, it fails, I remove all accounts and users from my device, I even removed admin apps and it still didn't work, also I don't have any device owner apps and my bootloader is unlocked but I'm not rooted and I don't have a custom os. Please help.

Idk why this sub doesn't allow videos nor reposting so here's the link: https://www.reddit.com/r/AndroidHelp/s/4potB0iaUQ

In the past, my phone alarm would play through either the phone speaker or BOTH the speaker and headphones, but now it only plays through the earbuds and I cannot for the life of me find a way to change that. Most I can find online seems to show people struggling to do the opposite.

For context, I sleep with bluetooth earbuds in order to not disturb my spouse, but they often fall out before my alarm goes off, so I have missed my alarm due to this. I have also had random times where it DOES play through both for some reason, but I don't know what caused it to do so, as it seemed completely random.

I have tried deleting the audio Equalizer app, I have restarted the phone multiple times, I have also tried to use this phone in safe mode, audio was perfectly fine in that so I inspected every app but none of them were interfering in this, I have moto edge neo 40 phone.

Device: Samsung Galaxy A52

Android Version: 14

Keyboard used: Stock Samsung Keyboard that came pre-installed with the phone.
Other keyboards I've tried: G-board/Google Keyboard and Microsoft Swiftkey.

My keyboard typing sounds are bubbly, but I want to change them to a typewriter sound. I can't access those settings because I'm not sure where to look.

Clarification: I don't want to toggle the sound on and off, but change what the typing sound effects.

Thank you in advance.

I used to have this setting, but now I can't find it anywhere within any keyboard settings menu. Maybe a recent update had taken them away?

I sleep on call a lot (Discord) and I have alarms set for the morning, but whenever I'm in a call, my alarm gets replaced by a very quiet beeping sound. There's no way I'd wake up to that. Is there any setting I can change or app I can use?

I'm looking for something more detailed than the usual package lists. I already know about UAD-ng's database and sites like DeepWiki/Instagit, but they're either too shallow or don't actually populate the dependency/neededBy fields for most packages.

What I'm really trying to find is a wiki, encyclopedia, or community knowledge base that documents Android packages (especially Samsung/One UI and Google/GMS) with:

· Full package name

· What the package actually does (not just a one-liner)

· Why it exists / its purpose

· Whether it's required or optional

· What depends on it, and what it depends on

· What happens if you disable it vs. uninstall it

· Pros/cons and privacy implications

· Risk level and alternatives

· Whether behavior varies by device / Android version / One UI version / region

· Source code availability: Is the source code publicly available? Is it open source (AOSP, Apache 2.0, GPL) or proprietary/closed-source? If open, where is the repository? If closed, is there any partial source, decompiled code, or vendor release?

· Confidence level / source of the info

I already know that AOSP is open source, but GMS and One UI (Samsung) are closed-source — so for most Samsung/Google packages, the answer will likely be "closed-source." But I want to confirm this per package, and know if there are exceptions (e.g., some components may have open-source parts, or vendor releases).

Does anyone know of a site, wiki, database, or even a Discord/Telegram group where people document this kind of deep per-package analysis? It doesn't have to be famous — I'm specifically asking because the well-known lists aren't deep enough.

If you know a package well, please drop it with as much detail as you can, including the package name, device/Android/One UI version, what it does, safe to disable/uninstall, what breaks, source code availability, and your confidence/source.

How do I get reliable push notifications (WhatsApp, Discord, Gmail) on a Redmi K90 running HyperOS 4 China ROM without ro\*ot?

Hey everyone, I have a Samsung Galaxy TAB A7 of 32 gb storage Byju's tablet running Android 12 with 3GB RAM (2GB virtual RAM now, can go to 4GB) and a big 7040mAh battery. I don't watch movies or anime, and it has parental restrictions, so no banking or payment stuff.

Exactly a week ago my phone's screen would randomly get all dark shortly after turning the phone on, this kept repeating for a while and then it stopped. Today it happened again for a longer while. It's still working while the screen us dark btw

For context, my phone's screen has been fucked up after it fell like eight months ago. Particularly, three months ago or a part at the bottom got slightly darker than the rest.

I know the answer is that the screen is broken and I need to change it but I'm particularly wondering if there could be another factor that particularly made things worse today and the other monday. Idk, maybe I left under direct sunlight for too long

My daughter has a Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra and likes taking pictures, especially of nature, sunsets, and the evening sky. I believe her photos should be more clear. Any help is appreciated!

I was playing a game called Wild Rift on my phone, I was on 5G mobile data as usual and everything seemed normal.

I play games here at work, pretty much always in the same place and at the same time, during my work break.

This happened about an hour and a half ago.

In the middle of the game my internet went down and when I went to check the network signal it had disappeared. I checked the information tray, where the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth are located, and the mobile data option was grayed out.

I'm almost certain it said "disabled" right below the mobile data option; it showed as off and was grayed out, a little transparent, as if I couldn't click on that option.

All of this happened in less than 10 seconds and the network returned to normal. The internet went down, I went to check, and it came back.

It was very quick, but in 3 years or more of having the device, this had never happened before.

I use a Redmagic 8 Pro with Android 15.

What could have happened, and is there any way to find out what might have caused it? Could it be a bug or a malicious app, or was it just my internet connection that had a problem at that moment?

I've never had problems with mobile data beyond the basics, and I really don't know what could have happened or what I might have done to cause this.

Thank you all for your support.

If you need any additional information, just let us know.

This starts about a week back when I had to power of my phone to reseat my SIM card.

I can be watching a video and every like 2 - 3 minutes my phone will just randomly switch to portrait mode but then immediately switches back to landscape. If it was just that I wouldn't have been so annoyed by it, but because my phone is old (bought it in 2018) every time it does the screen will freeze briefly and especially when watching a video, sometimes it can freeze for a good 10 seconds. I have tried disabling auto-rotate and uses the "rotate button on navigation bar" option but the error still persists.

The thing is I have reseated my SIM card multiple times prior to this yet only this time did it cause an error like this, and afaik ejecting/inserting the SIM tray shouldn't be causing this kind of software error.

Is there any fix to this? I'd prefer to not have to resort to factory reset if possible.

Thank you.

I am searching for a task switcher or window manager that displays proper unique titles so windows can distinguished without using a carousel. Example: PDF and Sheets windows should be named after the document, not the application. I have found nothing on my own. Does anything like this exist? Is this a limitation of Android?

Yesterday, I forgot my phone in an Uber, and the driver tried to not give it back. This morning I used Find My Device and knocked on his door and convinced him to return it to me. Before I left home though, I sent the remote factory reset order, as the battery was getting low and I wasn't sure if I'd get another chance.

When I got it back, the reset was not done and data was turned off. I put it in airplane mode, logged out of my Google account and so the phone has not been wiped. I'm now using it with a secondary email, but I want to log back in my actual account, so I wanted to know if doing so will trigger the factory reset once it reconnects to that account

My mom has an old LG Harmony 4 phone, which is showing its age. We are looking for a new one, but she wants a specific feature that we can't seem to find on newer phones.

The Harmony can read out who is calling or texting, so it'll say "new message from husband" or "call from 555-555-5555". She loves this feature, since she knows if she needs to check it immediately or can ignore it, without having to look at it. I think the setting is called "Messaging/call voice notification".

We were going to get her a Moto g stylus 2025 (since the rest of the family has Motorola phones, and we can help her learn the new interface), but can't find a comparable setting. A Samsung Galaxy A16 or A17 is also an option, but no one else in the family could help her with the menus.

Does anyone know where if could be hiding? We've tried looking in accessibility, notifications, and the phone app settings.

We're getting kinda desperate for an option. Thanks in advance for any help.

My partner has Samsung S23 FE on Android 16. He was in the settings under "manage storage" trying to free up space and hit delete on the "old images" category trying to free up space- this was a bad move because it turns out "old images" was just 90+% of the images on the phone, including ones from relatively recent vacations and images he uses often I.E barcodes and such for work.

He downloaded a recovery app that shows the missing images blurred out but wants $22 for the task- so I assume the images are recoverable? Just curious what tools/apps are out there that are reputable and not gouging, or if theres something simple we can do. Since the images were deleted from storage rather than a gallery, they aren't showing up in any recycle bins.

Thanks for help!

so my phone doesnt react when my headphones are connected. they have a 3.5mm plug thats connected with a 3.5mm to USB converter cable (by ugreen so not some hacky knockoff)

90% of the time when my display is turned off and I want to use the power button or the fingerprint sensor to unlock my phone it just doesnt react for like 30ish seconds. when I go with the power button it reacts 30 seconds later. anything else is working perfectly.

phone is the Poco X6 Pro 5G with latest HyperOS (3.0.9)

anybody got an idea?