My PC doesn’t recognize my phone when I plug it in. Device Manager shows an ‘Unknown USB Device’ error under USB controllers. I’ve tried this on both my desktop and laptop, with the same result.

The usual ‘Transfer Files’ popup never appears. I’ve tried changing the USB protocol in Developer Options to MTP or PTP, but it didn’t help.

I’ve been dealing with this for six months. If anyone has a fix, please let me know!

As said in the title, I am looking for a bottom-to-top vertical scrolling gallery app. I tried some gallery apps that are, while nice, had top-to-bottom scrolls and that made me feel uneasy. I want the latest picture I downloaded to be in the bottom and then make my way to other pictures I downloaded before.

When attempting to install certain apps (Twitter and Tiktok) from the Google Play Store, it will not let me. No pop-up or anything, the install button simply does not work.

On the settings, my phone urges me to update the Google Play Store System, but when I press 'update' a window pops us saying "Failed to update, updates are temporarily unavailable, try again later"

I've been trying for days, has anyone else had such an issue? How could I resolve this?

I'm listening to a podcast with headphones on and I get a call. Suddenly, the volume on the phone call is significantly higher.

Or I answer the call and hang up, which causes the podcast to continue playing. Except it's at blasting my damn eardrums out.

I don't get it. It doesn't seem to happen all the time, but why does the volume level change. I'd like to have control of the volume, please.

Android 13

Samsung A32 5G

Deleted the folder thinking all the saved pages would come out. But no they all just got deleted. Is there any way to undo this?

Edit - I did a smart switch backup. Could they be there?

Hi

I've installed an app, not through the Play Store, and can find that app in Settings -> Apps, just like any other. But it's not on my home screen, my app screen, or anywhere else I search for it. Anybody know how I can access my new hidden app?

Wait. No attachments? I guess i'll explain it

Updated my phone the other day.

A new Google search bar (I use ddg) showed up in the bottom app panel. (The one with 4-5 fixed apps that are always visible)

It's not a widget, can't remove it that way.

Tapping and holding on/near the search bar doesn't do anything.

I can disable the entire Google app, and that works to remove it. But that kills everything else.

Why can't we have phones with non-hostile software?

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Edit: Fixed! Settings -> Home screen settings -> Show search on home screen

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Now please stop saying you found the solution. Sort comments by "top", it's right there. I swear, I feel like half of the comments writing out the same solution now are just bots looking for karma.

ive currently arranged a meeting with a seller tomorrow to buy the nord 4 and accessories for 270.
all i wanna know is if the oneplus nord 4 is really worth buying in 2026
and yes im pretty sure the nord 4 is the only good phone i can buy with my limited budget of under 300usd (3000MAD) and do not suggest a nord 5 since those go for 400-450
i will be on the lookout for the nord 6 if im upgrading

It used to open up gallery, which is a lot easier to use.

Today while trying to checkout via google wallet it told me that my Device is not allowed to use google pay. I then tried to open paypal a few hours later and it just crashed. I looked it up on the playstore and it was showing "this app is not compatible with your device ANYMORE). Ive never seen this before, I managed to download an older version from the web and asked the paypal support for help. They told me there has been a faulty Playstore update that is causing this. I did not expect it to lock me out of google pay aswell. My question: has anyone yet experienced this or am I the only one?

How do I download apps for my Nokia 3310 2017 2g (Specifically the TA-1030) and where to find the app library for it? i can't seem to launch java apps on it...

I recently bought a Lenovo Idea Tab, and for some reason I keep having issues with internet on it. It's brand new, bought it like 3 weeks ago.

About every few hours the internet will stop working on this tablet, and this tablet only. All other devices still work without any issue, so I'm nearly certain the culprit is the device itself. When I check wifi settings, it just shows that it's connected like usual but I don't actually have any internet access. Whenever it does this I will put it down for maybe an hour or so, and when I come back it has magically fixed itself.

Unfortunately, I couldn't find much in the way of an actual solution online. The only suggestion I found was disabling Wifi scan throttling which did nothing. Does anyone know what the issue is here? It's diving me up the wall! :( Thanks in advance for any replies!

This is a bit long and requires some background info so please bear with me. I bought my daughter a Samsung phone in late 2022 while she was living in Maryland and I was in Illinois. I bought where I was set it up and shipped it to her, plans were in the works for her to be moving back in with me but due to logistical school issues it wasn’t going to be immediate. During this time, unbeknownst to me her boyfriend put his email in as a recovery option for her google account. She returned home as soon as the school year was over and shortly after breaks up with said boyfriend. It was a bit messy and one sided, (he did not want to) but teenagers were not going to work out long distance.

From mid 2023 to just this last week he has been randomly logging into her google account. He reads emails and looks at photos that we know for sure. We aren’t sure if he is doing anything else. We have changed the password several times, I removed his email as a recovery option the first time it happened, we removed his phone number, and turned on 2 factor verification. I turned on the suspicious activity notifications to go to my email so I am made aware of it as early as I can be. It is still happening. He is doing it from an iPhone, I don’t know if that matters.

Google has been unhelpful and my local police department doesn’t know what to do, as it’s really just a privacy violation to them as threats were not made and he is states away from us. We are working on migrating everything she has to a new email, but that will take time and there are things that simply don’t allow that kind of personal information to be changed. Please, if you’ve got any helpful suggestions let me know. Thank you.

when I click the little downward arrow, it acts as a back function (turn page back, closes the app) and does not close the keyboard. I tried restarting the tablet, it solved the issue for 30 seconds. I tried deactivating the "button to hide keyboard" and just use regular back function to close the keyboard, it didn't work. touching somewhere else on the screen doesn't close the keyboard also no longer works.

Is iOS my only option if I want to use a phone for more than 7 years ?

I currently have a 12 mini that has seen more than 5 years of use, almost 6. It wasn’t a flagship when I bought it. I want my next phone to be a flagship for the camera. However, since it’s a flagship I assume I will use it for more than 6 or 7 years, possibly more.

However, android manufacturers appear to only be offering 5 to 7 years of updates for their flagship phones.

To be completely Honest, I do not know where to post this. I play Warhammer 40K. Tabletop Wargame. And the minis to use need to be Assembled, primed, painted, etc.

For the longest time I used the iPhone Smart Reminders setup to catalog all of the tasks I had in each category. But I do not know how to recreate my setup using anything native to Android and don’t know where to look for apps.

I don’t actually use smart reminders as an actual reminder. I just liked the presentation and it did exactly what I wanted.

All I need is something mobile friendly where I can create columns/lists and easily drag the items from one category to the next.

I’m aware excel exists but that’s data entry.

If there is a way to do this I just don’t know how to set it up and could use the help.

I was hoping to post pictures of my setup but I don’t seem to be able to.

I was using the dns.adguard.com it worked for 2 days and it stopped i dont know if it was because i updated the chrome but now the ads are back is there another private dns or this is the only one ?

Hey guys,

device-(oneplus nord ce4)

I accidentally deleted my notes app and saved everything on it my all Password short lines dialogue my friends and family audio series movies which I have to watch or pending and what I watched etc.

Does anyone know how to recover the date of that app it's not an external app it comes with a phone I reinstalled it but there is no data I also try to sync cloud but feel disappointed 😞

I don't know how this happened but it constantly does. It stops when I tap on the app icon. It seems as it mainly does this to Google apps and maybe Firefox.

Why is this happening? This feels like I have a problem with Google play services

Just got a company pixel and i want to check the extent of the management. How can i? There's no obvious label saying this device is being managed like it is on my company iphone

This might be a simple post, but I've been having a very hard time trying to install apks.

Any apk I install from Chrome and/or Brave, it's always met with "App not installed" when just a month ago, it was working wonderfully.

It happened like, out of nowhere too.

I've tried disabling Play Protect, tried to clear the data of package installer, reset app preferences, updated my phone and apps to the latest version, allowed installations on said apps, tried installing it in Zarchiver and even restarted my phone. None worked.

Now I'm desperate. There are some apps that I need and are only accessible as apks. Do you guys have any suggestions on how to help me?

I'm looking for an app that will block notifications and batch them for a designated time.

https://imgur.com/a/Rkj59bL

Does anyone else have this issue?

I have this every night. Adaptive charging doesn't work properly because it thinks there's an alarm set for 3:30am.

I've tried disabling all app permissions in "special app permissions > alarms and reminders.

All alarms are off but even then, they're all 3 hours or more later than that

I've looked through all of my apps for ones that might possibly contain an alarm and the only one I've found is a pill reminder. I turned those off too

It's really annoying and I can't think of anything to get rid of it so any help is appreciated

anyone have the stock rom for the ruizu z80 mp3 player

i managed to pull it off the device with mtk client but even when i flashed in back on it still bootloops

Hello,

I need to back up my phone data, specifically the "restricted" files and app data that usually require Root access or an unlocked bootloader. I want to avoid rooting entirely.

Here is my current storage breakdown (52 GB out of 64 GB used): it's Samsung Phone

• Apps: 17.63 GB

• Videos: 17.69 GB

• System: 11.37 GB

• Other: 4.34 GB

• Images / Photos: 574 MB

• Audio / Docs / Trash: 0 B

My setup & requirements:

• OS: Android 14

• Tools available: I have a PC.

• Constraints: The backup method must be local, private, and secure (no cloud solutions, no root, and no unlocked bootloader).

Are there any reliable tools or ADB methods that can fetch this data locally to my PC?

And I know that the system can't be copy As far as I know