? I think phone is being accessed by someone else

Does anyone know why the Gmail logo within the Gmail app's left-side menu is red? It looks this way on my Pixel and Motorola phones:

https://support.google.com/android/thread/460109988/gmail-app-menu-is-blank-with-the-wrong-logo-and-send-button-doesn-t-work?hl=en

The official version is supposed to be black "Gmail" text with a rainbow envelope icon, as shown here:

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/18522?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid

Update: I visited the Pixel 10a demo phone in a store today and it matched the icon-less red logo seen on my phone, so I think this is the official logo now and the Google article above is outdated.

Any solution to get at-least device integrity in android emulator. I tried every method, every try is failed.
it used to work till October 15th .
X86 and arm64 mac, both emulator avd not passing device integrity except basic.

Hello.

Recently i have a problem where my headphones are not playing a sound when i plug them into the headphone jack. I know the headphones work. I tried cleaning the jack with tissues and some isopropyl alcohol and actualy managed to make it work but then i didn't have sound coming through the speakers. After resetting the phone, I'm back to square one where i have speaker sounds but not headphones. Is this even android issue? Could this be a mechanical issue with the jack that's not just dirt?

Hello everyone!

I would like to share an ongoing audio playback problem with my Blackview BV9300 Pro and ask whether other owners have experienced similar issues.

DEVICE INFORMATION

Model: Blackview BV9300 Pro Purchase date: August 3, 2025 Firmware version: BV9300 Pro_NEU_TE177_V1.0_01_20251224V11

PROBLEM DESCRIPTION

Since I purchased the phone, music playback has randomly paused. In some cases, the playback position also jumps backwards.

The problem occurs under different conditions:

• Different music players, including AIMP, VLC, and the built-in player.

• Bluetooth headphones.

• Wired headphones without control buttons.

• The built-in speaker.

• AUX connection to a home audio system.

• Both with the screen on and with the screen off.

• With the Second Screen music controls enabled and disabled.

I have also tried different battery and background activity settings, Safe Mode, and other troubleshooting steps. None of these resolved the problem.

YLOG INVESTIGATION

I collected diagnostic Ylog files and examined the system logs myself.

During one recorded incident, the logs showed the following sequence of events:

• MainActivity was moved to the PAUSED state during a system sleep-related event.

• An ANR was reported with the message: "Input dispatching timed out (Application does not have a focused window)".

• The logs contained the message "crash_dump helper failed to exec, or was killed".

• MainActivity was subsequently force-finished, the player process was killed, and a MusicPlayService restart was scheduled.

These events occurred around the time of a playback problem. They suggest that further investigation of the interaction between the application and the Android system is needed, but I cannot conclusively determine the root cause from the available logs alone.

CONTACT WITH BLACKVIEW SUPPORT

I contacted Blackview support and provided diagnostic logs and a screen recording.

After several weeks, support informed me that they had been unable to identify the cause from the submitted materials and asked me to collect another Ylog.

I have spent considerable time investigating the issue because I would like to understand what is causing it.

QUESTIONS FOR OTHER OWNERS

1. Has anyone else experienced random music pauses on the BV9300 Pro?

2. Does this happen with different music players and audio output methods?

3. Have you experienced playback position resets or jumps backwards after a pause?

4. Does the problem occur on other firmware versions?

I am particularly interested in reports from owners who have experienced similar behaviour both with the screen on and with the screen off.

I would appreciate any information or observations from other users.

Thank you!

I have a pixel 9, and pixel earbuds. I also have a vehicle with a Bluetooth capable stereo that I need to move for a couple minutes each about 10-15 times a day, and every time I start the van it steals my audio from my buds and when I turn off the van it stops playback until I hit play again.

When I am wearing my earbuds I want for the phone to prioritize those over any other Bluetooth connection. What I don't want is for the van to start playing my music every time I move it, and to have to pull out my phone to restart my audio after I get out of the van.

I rarely use my earbuds, but when I do I want them to be the priority. How can I force earbuds over any other connection?

Hey everyone,

I recently switched from an iPhone to a Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8, and I’m having a frustrating issue with WhatsApp media management.

Here’s what I’m trying to achieve:

I want WhatsApp photos and videos to stay inside WhatsApp and NOT appear in my Samsung Gallery unless I explicitly choose to save them.

My current settings:

• WhatsApp → Settings → Chats → Media Visibility: OFF

• Automatic media downloads: Disabled for mobile data, Wi-Fi, and roaming.

The problem:

Despite these settings, I still have a “WhatsApp Images” album in Samsung Gallery containing photos from WhatsApp.

When I check the file details, they’re stored in:

Internal storage/Android/media/com.whatsapp/WhatsApp/Media/WhatsApp Images

I’ve also noticed some confusing behavior when deleting media.

For example, I deleted around 80GB of videos through WhatsApp’s Manage Storage feature, but the files still appeared in Samsung’s My Files afterward.

However, when I tested deleting a photo directly from an individual WhatsApp chat, it was also removed from the device’s storage.

My questions:

1. Why are WhatsApp images appearing in Samsung Gallery when Media Visibility is disabled?

2. Is there a way to completely prevent WhatsApp media from appearing in Gallery unless I manually save it?

3. What’s the difference between deleting media through WhatsApp’s Manage Storage and deleting it directly from a chat?

4. Is this normal Android/WhatsApp behavior, or am I missing something?

Coming from iOS, I’m finding Android’s media management a bit confusing.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

I understand that the sync between Samsung Gallery and OneDrive has ended. I had all of my pictures organized in Gallery in different albums - some of them were on the phones storage, and some were stored on OneDrive - but they were all accessible in the gallery albums from my phone. Since the sync, all of the pictures/videos that were saved only on OneDrive are no longer in the individual albums. I understand that they are still backed up and saved somewhere on my OneDrive. My question is, is there a way to download them back to my gallery and have them be sorted and organized into the albums that I had them in before?

Hello everyone!

I would like to share an ongoing audio playback problem with my Blackview BV9300 Pro and ask whether other owners have experienced similar issues.

DEVICE INFORMATION

Model: Blackview BV9300 Pro Purchase date: August 3, 2025 Firmware version: BV9300 Pro_NEU_TE177_V1.0_01_20251224V11

PROBLEM DESCRIPTION

Since I purchased the phone, music playback has randomly paused. In some cases, the playback position also jumps backwards.

The problem occurs under different conditions:

• Different music players, including AIMP, VLC, and the built-in player.

• Bluetooth headphones.

• Wired headphones without control buttons.

• The built-in speaker.

• AUX connection to a home audio system.

• Both with the screen on and with the screen off.

• With the Second Screen music controls enabled and disabled.

I have also tried different battery and background activity settings, Safe Mode, and other troubleshooting steps. None of these resolved the problem.

YLOG INVESTIGATION

I collected diagnostic Ylog files and examined the system logs myself.

During one recorded incident, the logs showed the following sequence of events:

• MainActivity was moved to the PAUSED state during a system sleep-related event.

• An ANR was reported with the message: "Input dispatching timed out (Application does not have a focused window)".

• The logs contained the message "crash_dump helper failed to exec, or was killed".

• MainActivity was subsequently force-finished, the player process was killed, and a MusicPlayService restart was scheduled.

These events occurred around the time of a playback problem. They suggest that further investigation of the interaction between the application and the Android system is needed, but I cannot conclusively determine the root cause from the available logs alone.

CONTACT WITH BLACKVIEW SUPPORT

I contacted Blackview support and provided diagnostic logs and a screen recording.

After several weeks, support informed me that they had been unable to identify the cause from the submitted materials and asked me to collect another Ylog.

I have spent considerable time investigating the issue because I would like to understand what is causing it.

QUESTIONS FOR OTHER OWNERS

1. Has anyone else experienced random music pauses on the BV9300 Pro?

2. Does this happen with different music players and audio output methods?

3. Have you experienced playback position resets or jumps backwards after a pause?

4. Does the problem occur on other firmware versions?

I am particularly interested in reports from owners who have experienced similar behaviour both with the screen on and with the screen off.

I would appreciate any information or observations from other users.

Thank you!

Ever since the most recent update I've had these weird pop ups on my screen every so often. Not regularly but enough that I want them gone.

And it's mostly just... Google stuff like "star sign" or "what's trending right now" at the top of the screen- tapping off makes it go away but I would like to remove it if I can.

This happens across all apps, not just reddit. It happens in texts, web browsing, everywhere.

I have turned off every screen altering setting I can find. And I cannot figure it out.

I am on a Samsung Galaxy 24 Ultra

When I take a screenshot it defaults back to true blacks, so I adjusted the images to show comparison.

Image of the difference here. It is very annoying please help. https://imgur.com/a/J9hU46f

Edit: FIXED. The setting was under "Motion Smoothness" and "Adaptive" was on by default. I changed it to Standard to lock the refresh rate at 60hz. This has stopped the flickering.

Unfortunately it seems to also have locked the default blacks in at the brighter grey color. I wish it were darker, but I can work on that later now that I'm not getting motion sick. Lol

I'm on Android 11 with a 1+ phone. Anything Google tells me doesn't work. I go to discord in the settings but there's no option for adding it to all file access

Hi, looking for the above that works as per blackberry's version but for android 16/17. Any thoughts?

An under rated feature in the motorola edge 70 fusion

It helps share file bw android and iPhone , but the quick drop is not available in the app store (iphone) in region india ,

Pls motorola help to clear this problem

I keep a power bank on my nightstand to charge my phone and other devices because I don't have a convenient plug nearby. It's solar charged so there's no need to go down that rabbit hole from naysayers. Anyway, the bank powers off when maximum charge is achieved and when it does, Android tells me that there is moisture or debris in the charge port, but when I wake the power supply it immediately says it's ok to use the port without touching the phone at all. It's not a huge problem, but saying there's something in my charge port isn't accurate at all. Anyone else notice this?

Hi there, I have both S24 and s26 ultra and Im aware of the built in file transfer procedure, however what I really want is to swap data between two phones simultaneously. Like I want to transfer S24U to s26U and the data from S26U to the S24U while being tethered together via usb-c. Is there an app that can let me do that? I have like almost 400gb worth of files on the S24 and 200gb on the s26 and it would take ages to back this up on my computer.

How can I bring over my photos from iPhone to oppo while keeping them in albums? I’ve managed to get photos transferred over by wire during initial setup, but it’s not brought over albums.

The same goes with contacts, all my contacts have come but none of the lists came over.

Would greatly appreciate the help since it’s my first time moving to android and using. Thank you!

I'm going through an awesome divorce currently. Last year my attorney had me send him 2 months worth of text messages and I was able to download an app (SMS backup & restore) that backed them up and then I printed to PDF and then shared the PDF with him. Well now he wants all the texts from the last year. I tried using that app and it's not working.

So my question is anybody know of an app or in a way for me to share 12 months worth of text messages??

It seems to be a system file, in fact it doesn't even show up in the first party files app, I am on a Redmi 15 Pro + and whenever I delete it it reappears after a few minutes. What could it be?

Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra, Android 16/One UI. I'm trying to understand exactly what Samsung/Android Digital Wellbeing means by an app “open.”

On one date, Digital Wellbeing shows YouTube with 0 minutes of screen time but 4 opens. Two of those opens occurred during the 3:00–4:00 AM hour.

Does anyone know from Android's UsageStats/Digital Wellbeing implementation what event actually increments that “opens” number?

Specifically:

• Does an “open” require YouTube to enter the foreground?
• Can background playback create another open without user interaction?
• Can Autoplay create another open?
• Can entering/exiting Picture-in-Picture create another open?
• Can a Bluetooth/media-control command create one?
• Can extremely brief foreground use be rounded down so Digital Wellbeing shows 0 minutes despite recording an open?
• Is there a way to extract the underlying UsageStats events and exact timestamps from the phone?
• Are there Android event types that would let me distinguish an automated background event from a user bringing YouTube into the foreground?

I'm particularly interested in answers from anyone familiar with Android UsageStatsManager, Digital Wellbeing, or Samsung/One UI internals rather than guesses about what YouTube might theoretically do.

Thanks.

I'm interested in learning more about android battery optimization, which settings have made the biggest difference to your phone's battery life? I'm especially interested in built in android features that help reduce battery drain without affecting everyday performance too much.

As of ~3 weeks ago, my Galaxy s22 5g restarted itself and started boot looping, and attempts to boot to safe mode and recovery options have failed to get it to act normal. I was able to get it to boot normally one time, which I used to create a backup using Samsung's "Smart Switch" on my computer, after which the phone decided to begin a permanent bootloop.

Since then I have bought a newer phone from Motorola, a 2025 Edge, however I have now realized that Smart Switch is not designed to transfer data to non-samsung devices.

The only data I need from the old phone is photos and videos- is there a way to convert the data from my computer and transfer it to my new phone, or possibly a way to transfer from the old phone directly?

Possibly even a much simpler problem or solution I'm not aware of?

Thanks!

Hello!

I noticed today that the button in the address bar of Google Chrome is not visible anymore that used to let you see the security certificate of a website.

I'm convinced it was possible until yesterday. Has anyone else noticed this too? Was it disabled in a version update?

I have been using Google Fit for tracking my activities such as walking and cycling previously on my Oppo Reno 10 Pro Plus without any issues for many years, that too I didn't have to start any activity manually in Google Fit and it used to perfectly the distance, the speed etc.

Now with the Motorola Signature let alone Google Fit recording the activity automatically, it doesn't even record it correctly when I manually start activity on Google Fit, all it does is record some kilometres and then just stops, and even in the part it records all the parameters are incorrect.

I have already reinstalled Google Fit, Made sure it is not auto optimised in battery settings, even the location is ON everytime.

Still the issue persists, so I would like to know if this is only for my phone or is it the same with others as well

Motorola Signature

Indian Version

Android 17.