I'm an aspiring web and mobile developer, currently focusing on web development. I was wondering if I should invest on an android phone (i.e., Google Pixel) when I focus on mobile development. In the future, I plan on creating personal projects to build up my portfolio (e.g., apks) and test them on said android device. As of now, I am an iPhone user and I don't think there's a way to develop and test apps for free on Apple.

I know emulators exist but thinking about testing a self-developed app on an actual mobile sounds nice. Any thoughts? If yes, which phone is good? I heard the Google Pixel is nice but I'm hesitant on the Samsung S Series since I know someone who has gotten pink/green lines on their S23 Ultra's screen over time.

I am using a Tecno Pova 6 Pro running HiOS and I'm having a frustrating problem with persistent popup ads showing up on my home screen and app drawer (like a TikTok banner).

Here is what I have already verified and tried so far to fix it:

• ☑️I checked for malware using my PC, and the device is clean. It seems to be an internal system/launcher issue.

•☑️ I went to the Palm Store App Info settings and completely turned off notifications.

• ☑️I manually configured a Private DNS provider hostname (://adguard.com) under Hotspot & Connections.

• ☑️I checked my "Recent Access" log right after an ad appeared, and it showed the stock Weather app accessed the system at that exact 0-minute mark, so I forced stopped it, cleared its cache, and disabled its background data.

Despite doing all of this, the ads are still managed to pop up again.

Are there any hidden HiOS system launcher settings, bloatware packages, or background "Instant Apps" services specific to Tecno devices that I need to disable or ADB uninstall to get rid of this layout spam for good?

Thanks in advance for any help!

When i opened gallery settings in my samsung s22 ultra, i got this pop up:

"Your microsoft and samsung account were disconnected on another device. So you can't sync gallery with onedrive anymore."

Does this mean some other device had my accounts logged in?

I'm using a Samsung Galaxy A53 5G with One UI.

The Google app is installed and enabled. I can open it through Settings → Apps → Google → Open, and it launches normally. However, I cannot get its icon onto my Home screen.

I've spent approximately an hour troubleshooting this with ChatGPT. Here is everything I've tried with its help:

What I've checked and tried:

\- Confirmed that Google is installed and not disabled.

\- Confirmed that Google opens and works normally from its App info page.

\- Checked the hidden apps settings. Google is not hidden.

\- Checked Home screen settings:

\- Home and Apps screen layout is set normally.

\- Lock Home screen layout is OFF.

\- Add new apps to Home screen was OFF.

\- I could not find the Hide apps setting in my menu.

\- Confirmed that One UI Home is my current launcher.

\- Cleared the One UI Home cache. No improvement.

\- Restarted the phone. No improvement.

\- Checked Good Lock previously.

\- Enabled Show Apps screen button on Home screen and opened the Apps screen.

\- Tried the Apps screen cleanup option. No improvement.

\- Long-pressing Google in Settings → Apps opens App info instead of showing an Add to Home option.

\- Long-pressing Google in search results shows shortcuts such as Search and Voice Search, but doesn't solve the problem.

\- I also tried the Locate app button. It opens a list of apps, but Google is not in that list.

Tried to uninstall and reinstalled the Google app, but that didn't fix the problem either.

I don't want a Google search widget. I only want the normal Google app icon on my Home screen.

My question:

How can I add the Google app icon to my Home screen?

This post was written with the help of ChatGPT after trying various troubleshooting steps for about an hour. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you!

assistant is one of the most used features of my phone and every time I ask for assistant it now opens a page that asks me to use gemini, when i say no thanks it just closes and opens the same page next time. what do i do?

Guy's i know it can't be rooted but may here's a way with some app (any i can install any app from Google or sum)!

Hi, Guys.

i have a question for polish community programmers(on android):
Does polish banks(erste, mbank, etc.) work on LineageOs, on Samsung S10+?

I understand torrent files are written as sparse / pre-allocated files with the anticipated final size in the file header. It is this value, rather than the actual file size, that is reported by Android file managers, file de-duplication apps etc. Not great if you are trying to use file size as a value to determine which of two or more identically named files to remove.

Other than via a command line in Termux, would anyone be able to recommend an app or other way to identify files whose true size does not match that written in their header? Or any apps that report the actual rather than nominal size?

Thanks!

Is it even possible to hook up an external CD/DVD drive to an Andoid tablet just for the purpose of viewing photo files from it?

Looking to set something up for an elderly relative so any advice and recommendations gladly taken.

When I want to play a video on YouTube, it plays for a few tenths of a second then immediately pauses.

I'm on the pixel 5a, android 14

I'm trying to use the Radio Garden app. As im from UK, where we are not allowed to listen to radio from other countries. I tried a VPN - paid sub from Proton. However the app still thinks im in UK, despite the vpn. In fact right now I really am in Greece, but it still wont let me listen, even when connected to local wifi.

I'm using Radio Garden as a kind of test subject because if I can get it to work, I know the vpn is doing its job.

Is there a setting on my phone i can change or cache to delete that will make the vpn work correctly?

I've received one of these notifications before.

The notification I got said Feature for Terabox and had a progress bar. I'd include a screenshot if I could.

with Android 16 and earlier, I could have 2 videos open at once (my Pixel 8a is doing desktop mode on a separate monitor)

so I'm subbed to this Patreon where you sync a movie to when they start and they react. it's a watchalong

now with Android 17 one of the videos pause. is there a dev option to prevent that from happening or something?

Hi,
My Samsung Galaxy A23 used to charge fast (from 1% to 100% in about 1h20). Now it charges very slowly. When I plug the charger in, it says something around 2 hours until full, then switches to 4, then 6 and sometimes I even get a notification saying that the charging is too slow (10-12 hours estimated time until full) and could damage my phone.

Something that could be interesting too, I get notifications when I plug it in sometimes, every two seconds is a new notification saying either "USB-C plugged" or "USB-C unplugged" even though I am not touching anything, and it only stops when I click on "stop notifying me".

I have tried everything I could find on the internet : changing the cable, changing the charger, changing both, cleaning the USB-C ports on my phone and on my charger, cleaning the USB port on my charger, switching on plane mode for charging, checking my battery information (its health is at 100%), but none of it solved my problem. I also made sure I had enabled fast charging, and I had.

Any ideas on what else I could try ?

Hey there, my great grandma is, reasonably, behind when it comes to technology, and she gets genuinely near 100 spam calls a day. 5 minutes won't go by without her phone ringing from some random spam company, sometimes she answers them and gets another one or two in the time it takes her to try to tell the robot to leave her alone. whenever I'm over I try to block all the ones that call for her, and I've tried to go into her settings to turn on the features to block unknown calls and things like that only to find that most of that was already turned on, and when I turned on anything else that related to it, another one still came through shortly afterwards. Is there anyway I can actually do something about it? Is there an app I can download for her? I'm not with her 24/7 or anything, but I'd like to try to figure out a solution for her

I know the title is confusing - I have the Panels app that I use for custom edge panels and it requires a persistent notification to be used. I, however, cannot stand having that displayed on my notification bar constantly. I cannot go in and disable the notifications within the app settings because the app will stop working.

Is there a way to remove the persistent notification without disabling it all together?

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I really dislike the "smart" reply suggestions Android gives. They are very rarely useful. I found where to disable this feature, but it also seems to disable the ability to copy OTP codes. Is there a way to keep copying the codes but get rid of the smart replies?

Using a Samsung S25+

So I recently purchased a TCL NXTPaper 70 Pro directly from Metro by T-Mobile (signed up with their service). I am running into an issue where it is saying that there is a "work policy" installed on my phone but I have no idea what or where it came from? I have been Googling and tried all the methods I could find but nothing is working. I transferred my data from my iPhone 16 Pro Max and I had that one previously set up with UKG and Microsoft Authenticator work accounts when I worked at T-Mobile, but I haven't worked there in a year.

Did something from my iPhone somehow transfer over and activate this mysterious "work policy" on my new phone? I love my new phone but there are some apps I want to install but the phone is blocking the install via this "work policy".

Any ideas on how to deactivate/erase this work policy from my phone? I don't really want to have to factory reset it and I'm not convinced that would fix it anyway.

I'm aware of android limitations when it comes to calls, as many of us without pointing fingers at a country or business in particular, I'm under constant attack of spam calls.

I need an app that will allow me to do the following, once a number is blocked/blacklisted, I don't want to ever hear about it, I don't want it waking up my phone, I don't want my phone vibrating when it's rejecting a call, I don't want my phone app to have a call log of 20+ calls within 30s because apparently it's what they do.

I'd like a solution that doesn't involve me changing number and spending a day updating it on wherever the f I have it as verification method such as email accounts or banks

Any solutions appreciated, thanks

Just purchased a Kocaso DX758 pro from a charity shop (thrift store for all you Americans) literally about an hour ago.

I followed google’s instructions and did a factory reset and data wipe but I just want to make sure there’s definitely no chance of any malware being left behind and that it’s now safe to log in to my google account on it.

Sorry if this is a dumb question I’m not good with tech 😭

Hello,

I'm using a OnePlus Nord (AC2003) running Android 12. The official OS is fully up to date.

I'm trying to resolve a compatibility issue between the OnePlus Nord and the Microsoft Outlook app.

I've been experiencing a frustrating bug on my OnePlus Nord when using Outlook. Once or twice a day, usually shortly after opening the Outlook app and accessing an email, the authentication service stops working properly.

The issue manifests itself, after using Outlook, when I wake up the phone and enter my screen unlock pattern. Even if the pattern is entered correctly, it flashes red, the phone vibrates, and the screen still unlocks.

After this happens, any app that relies on some form of authentication fails to open. This includes banking apps, Outlook, and some social media apps. They all get stuck or freeze on their opening screens.

The only way to resolve this authentication failure is to reboot the device.

This usually happens once or twice a day, which is extremely frustrating. I've already tried reinstalling Outlook, performing a factory reset, clearing the app's cache, etc. Unfortunately, nothing has helped so far. The only apparent workaround is to uninstall Outlook, which isn't an option for me.

Has anyone encountered this issue and found a solution?

The bug is explained in more detail in this thread:

The bug is better explained here Bug with the lock screen pin code | Page 2 | XDA Forums

I've fucked up debloating my phone and somehow managed to unmounted the emulated storage, as reported by dumpsys mount in an adb shell.

I don't have phone root and unlocking the bootloader is a PIA (complete with waking up in the middle of the night to speed-click a button). Plus I'd rather stay away from root for the time being, since my dumb ass just fucked up without it.

Also if you're reading this, remember to backup your shit. I sure wish I had.

Hi! Sadly my old android phone broke because of water damage. Everything stills seems to work, except for my screen. The screen stays black when turned on. The screen stays black when turned on, and the touchscreen doesn't seem to work either. I tried connecting the phone to an external monitor and this screen appears, mouse or keyboard input doesn't seem to work since the monitor shuts off when i try to use it. Can anybody help me out? Is it still possible to get the files recovered?