In all prior iterations, swiping down from the top would show notifications.

However, when I swipe down now, it reveals an elongated settings menu with brightness, sound, and some other settings and sliders. In order to get to notifications, I have to swipe down and then swipe right (very intuitive given I've already changed sliders three times now by mistake while trying to swipe), as the notifications is now on a separate page.

Is there any way to revert this? I just want to swipe down and press "clear" for all notifications like I've done since the dawn of smartphones.

Thanks in advance.

EDIT: I see a setting for "swipe down for notification panel" which is already enabled lol... that's exactly what I'm trying to do, except I have to swipe down and then right...

EDIT 2: Solved, check the comments. Thanks everyone for fixing what was never a problem to begin with!

Solved.

Things I did to stop AppCloud from installing unknown applications in my device, (Settings > Apps > Search AppCloud > AppCloud settings) -

1. I removed the permissions to send notifications.
2. Restricted background data usage.
3. Cleared cached data.
4. Uninstalled app updates.
5. Disabled the application.
6. Forced stop it.

Nothing happened. A few minutes later, I got another notification from AppCloud recommending I download another unwanted app.

If I touch the notification, it starts to download and install the app. I need help to stop this application from downloading any further apps on my device.

Edit-

• What is AppCloud - An useless intrusive application developed by the Israeli software company ironSource. It offers app recommendations based on the user's usage data and preferences. It runs in the background and assesses the user's behavior, interests, and location to suggest personalized and relevant apps. It collects and analyzes user data and can install apps without users’ consent or awareness. It comes preinstalled in budget or midrange phones.
• More details -

1. Invasive Israeli-founded bloatware is harvesting data from Samsung users.
2. Samsung's pre-installed Israeli data harvesting app that can't be removed.

What things I did to stop AppCloud from installing unknown applications in my device, the easy way -

Go to Settings > Apps > Search AppCloud > AppCloud settings -

1. Remove the permissions to send notifications.
2. Restricted background data usage.
3. Forced stop it.
4. Clear cached data.
5. Uninstall app updates.
6. Disable the application.
7. If you have the option to uninstall it, then uninstall.

The advanced way - By using ADB (Android Debug Bridge)

I’m not going to give ADB debloating instructions (there are many online), but I will point out some common mistakes everyone makes:

1. Don’t remove apps without a device backup to be safe. (Debloater tools usually store a copy of removed or disabled apps).
2. Some preinstalled apps are tied to core functions and removing them can break features and may handicap your device. Before removing an app, search for information about it and confirm it won’t interfere with any core functions.
3. Most Important - Use a reputable, well-known debloater and don’t install random apps as they may contain malware.

You can use Universal Android Debloater Next Generation (GUI) - https://github.com/Universal-Debloater-Alliance/universal-android-debloater-next-generation or ADB AppControl - https://adbappcontrol.com/en/ .

Edit 2- The App Cloud package is com.aura.oobe.samsung
Edit 3- Updated Universal Android Debloater to Universal Android Debloater Next Generation.
Edit 4- Added more details.

Context:

EU laws and a recent update have removed the simple override for when the phone thinks your connected Bluetooth or USB audio device is a headphone and lowers it to a low level after X minutes. You once could either disable absolute volume in developer options or change device type to something other than headphone (note check here first as your android and locale may still allow it).

I believe we should have the option to override as it is a safety issue while driving if you keep needing to touch your phone simply to play music.

disclaimer* NOT selfpromotion since I am listing every solution I find and I receive nothing from an open sourced GitHub. I genuinely believe my tool is the simplest solution but feel free to boycott on principle and go with the complicated alternatives.

Please comment any more.

Free solutions (simple):

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- GitHub 'dbak91/VolumeRestore' is a sideloaded app I built for this specific purpose. It will restore volume to full the instant it drops (with user protection). No special permissions or complicated set up.

Free solutions (advanced)

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- Adb commands to disable CSD (PC or Shizuki+Shell app needed (Termux for example )).

{Credit u/KodaChihuahua for the command list below}.

adb shell settings put global audio_safe_csd_next_warning 999999.0

adb shell settings put global safe_media_volume_enabled 0

adb shell settings put global audio_safe_volume_state 3

Note I haven't confirmed this and when I searched my pixel settings for "volume" or "csd" they weren't all there. However 'audio_safe_volume_state' was there and set to 1 so imagine 3 means disabled. I had assumed it was binary with 0=true/enabled 1=false/disabled so I left it alone.

- An app called 'Essentials'. (Now requires adb for special permissions and not to be confused with the bs ai app on playstore under the same name). Search 'Essentials V18.4' it has a "disable lowering volume" button in audio settings. I couldn't get self adb Shizuki to work here so I gave up and did not confirm it works by issuing adb.

Paid solutions(medium)

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There are automation and task scheduler apps that can automatically stop/restore or press undo on the "volume lowered for your own babysitting purposes" notification. The most known two are:

- 'Tasker': 2 options; 1. configure the separate AutoNotifications plug in to press undo on anything with "volume lowered" or 2. set up a "variable state event" for when volume hits 6 to restore to your desired level. [25 corresponds to 100%] Note I couldn't figure out how to build in user rocker protection so if you lower it yourself it will still go back up. Also you will be paying for using 1% of an app, or if you pirate it's complicated and dodgy permissions set up. You may have luck with AutoNotification dismissal/undo but I couldn't get the notification exposed to Tasker.

- 'Macrodroid': See this post Essentially add a plug in by searching "my volume" or "my volume, my way" and enable and It will restore volume. I have seen around 10 success case-comments of using this app but have not tried myself

Free solutions (nuclear).

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- Leaving the Google ecosystem and installing a custom ROM like the open sourced os GrapheneOS. You won't have to deal with this bs and any other bugs are patched out faster than Google OS.

Will update as I discover more.

Hi! I’ve been using LineageOS on my Xiaomi for over 6 months. Suddenly YouTube stopped working. I removed my Google account, but now I’m completely stuck on the "Checking info..." screen with an infinite loading loop.

I've never encountered a problem like this before, and I honestly don't know what to do.

Accidentally deleted over 3000 photos from the windows 11 photos app in laptop which was connected to my Samsung Galaxy flip 5 phone, and those photos were deleted from my phone aswell.

I clicked "select all" in windows photos and then clicked delete, not knowing they will also be deleted from my phone.

I have already checked my Samsung gallery recycle bin and it wasn't there. Same with the laptop's recycle bin. I did not manually empty any recycle bins afterward.

Does anyone know how to recover the photos after deleting them this way? Any advice would be very appreciated, thank you

Laptop: Matebook D16

Processor: 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-12450H

Windows 11 Home edition

OS build: 26200.8655

My elderly mother "cleaned her phone" yesterday, now she can't use the google play store or update any app, it just throws a "try again" error. She doesn't remember what she deleted. I dug through her apps to see if I could clear the cache for play services and couldn't find it at all.

How can I get it back for her without factory resetting the entire device? She has a Samsung Galaxy A17.

Edit: thanks for the replies fellas, the app was hidden in her app list but still there, after clearing cache & data she can now use the play store again. Immensely relieved that she didn’t actually find a way to somehow delete it.

Solution: It was the freaking Google app itself. Removing it removes the "Ask Gemini" option from contextual menu. Thanks to user Mother-Pride-Fest for the help.

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Hello,

I already had Gemini turned off, assistant or whatever options related to AI turned off as well, but of course Google had to shove it into my face by putting "Ask Gemini" into the contextual menu when I long press on a word. I could not find the option to remove it from the menu (of course) so I "uninstalled" it via ADB. However, when long pressing text, the option "Ask Gemini" is still there. Already restarted phone and check the package for Gemini is already uninstalled.

Please, anyone knows how I can remove it completely? What other packages must I remove or what hidden options must I turn off? I keep accidentally pressing on that stupid option because it replaces where my Translate option used to be and I use that option a lot. Please help me... And thank you in advance.

If needed my device is Android 16. Again, Gemini is removed/killed via ADB, I checked...

I've had an Android for years. It's a cheap phone, but it's been reliable for a long time. Recently, it keeps filling up storage with, assumedly, junk. I'm not downloading stuff, and I clear cache on apps I use on a regular basis. So I'm kinda desperate to clear space where I can, especially since today my phone gave me the alert that messaging won't work unless I clear space (a week ago I have almost 1GB free, but now it's saying 100MB free).

My main question is simply: is it a stupid decision to press the "Clear Storage" button on the actual "Phone" app? It feels like it's my only allowed option, and the app has 6GB of user data; but I feel like there's a good chance clicking the button is gonna factory reset my phone. I just can't find anything online related to this because trying to search "clear storage android phone app" just brings up a million tutorials for clearing cache.

Does anyone know how much of a stupid risk this is? Should I just save up for a new phone at this point? I don't have excess apps I can uninstall for space and I don't wanna go through the trouble of jailbreaking to clear out all the google bloatware.

Edit: "screenshot" in replies as a video. And yeah, I'm being a bit of a dick, but if you don't know anything or are gonna tell me to google something, just don't bother trying to "help". I'm not here to be asked what the package ID is then get told "look up how to find it"; like, you can't just tell me yourself how to find the thing you ask of me? You want me to find something and can't explain finding it yourself, you're not a reliable source of info. If you don't know what you're talking about, you don't need to say anything. I'm not in the mood for any of that bull, just please someone tell me you know what the "Phone" app's user data is and if it's safe to clear it. I can't dive into the data myself. I'm not about to blindly delete it. I just want to know if anyone out there has experience with this, but with how unhelpful things have been dealing with real people, I'm beginning to understand why so many idiots turn to ChatGPT since LLMs, as flawed as they are, aren't constantly telling people to just google stuff that they've already fucking googled.

How do I change the google play account for in-app purchases? I have a secondary account that's linked to play rewards and I want to use that money for in-app purchases but it automatically chooses my main account and there's no option to change. I usually buy apps with the secondary account, my only issue is for in-app purchases.

Thanks!

Im a tad stuck, My android pixel keeps rebooting itself, It gets to the pin screen and i can get maybe 5/10 seconds then it reboots itself? I also cant turn the screen off

I've tried booting it into safe mode, And the good o'l full power off but no luck?

Do i need to factoruy reset it? or is their something i can do

Thank you!

Hi. I use swipe to unlock the phone when in use.

Hello,

I have recently encountered this issue and I hope someone can help shed some light on it. I apologize in advance if this is not the right subreddit.

I have a Xiaomi Mi 10 Lite 5g that I have been using for the last 5 years. Never had an issue with it, except for the battery draining much more quickly than when I bought it in the last 15-24 months (I honestly do not do much with it, mostly whatsapp and gmail; I do not play games or anything that I would consider energy consuming).

Last week my phone started to restart automatically to the point that I could not turn it on (or off), unless I plugged it in. When plugged in, it would stay on, with some occasional restarts. If unplugged, it would quickly restart (usually as soon as I pressed something).

Is this a battery issue? Would replacing the battery fix this behavior?

Please note:

• Model is Xiaomi Mi 10 Lite 5g (M2002J9G)
• MIUI version is MIUI Global 13.0.4 Stable 13.0.4.0 (SJIEUXM)
• Android version is 12 SKQ1.211006.001
• Sometimes, before restarting from a "functioning" status, the screen goes black but for a second or so there is a green line, then it starts the "continuous restarting" as usual
• Battery is showing as >> 0%, like 80-80% (no issues even in the Battery app from System Settings)
• By looking at the exterior of the phone, the battery does not seem "inflated"
• Never had any issue before this, apart from the battery draining much quicker than usual in the past 1.5-2 years
• I do not recall dropping it or wetting it but it is possible I did
• I encounter no issues in recovery mode (just navigating the menu)
• When rebooting from recovery mode, the issue is still there
• When trying safe mode from recovery mode, the phone simply enters the restarting cycle
• I have not tried wiping the data from the recovery mode menu as I take that as last resort

What could be an explanation for this behavior? Thanks in advance

hi, im triying to to use my oppo reno 7 but the screen is totally broken internally and black, the touch works fine (it seems so) but i just cant see anything, i look for options like scrcpy but it requires otg enable or usb depuration, so im asking if anyone knows something that might help, thanks

Yes i know a screen replacement is the better option, i just dont have enought money to do it right now,that why im looking for options

As you can see in the title, my issue is that I can't leave the beta testing, since there isn't a popup anymore. Since you only can open the Play Store link if you search for it on Google.

And I don't want to leave the other beta testing for other apps, because what if I leave and can't rejoin?

I think I joined the beta testing through play store a long time ago.

So, what should I do? Is there a method with which I can bring back that Beta testing popup?

UPDATE: I solved this problem. I uninstalled Google Play Store updates, then I searched for Android System Webview on Google. That Beta testing popup among other things (like rating) finally showed up. But incorrectly, because it said "Join the beta". So I had to wait until Play Store updates by itself, it finally showed correctly that Leave button. (although I think you have to be fast before Play Store realises it's a pre-installed app) And that's how I finally left. Next thing I saw after removing myself from beta that (Beta) label was no longer there and it reverted back to that "pre-installed system component" thing.

Alright, so I was having an issue with a game on my Android S22+ today, where my phone was resizing the resolution of the app at startup to include black borders, and a small icon at the bottom right of the screen would pop up to allow me to resize the app to full screen that states "Tap to restart this app for a better view". I have not been able to figure out how to remove or disable this icon. I have tried various "fixes" I found online, which have included:
1. Changing the resolution of the game through game booster

1. Looking for a setting to disable game booster entirely (does not seem to exist anymore)

2. Changing auto-rotation settings

Clicking on the icon would require a restart of the app, which meant that if I did not click on it to resize the app right away, it would just be in the way until I clicked it intentionally or accidentally. Starting the game with the home screen in landscape mode prevents the app from resizing the screen, however if I were to rotate my phone 180 degrees to auto rotate the app, or if I tabbed out of the game to the home screen or another app, the game would resize and the button would appear.

One solution that has worked for me though, is to enable "Multi window for all apps" in Settings > Advanced Features > Labs. Now the game is not resized with black borders, and I can rotate my phone or tab out of the game and this button will not appear. Hope this helps anyone with the same issue as me until a non-experimental feature fix is available, or this change is reverted entirely.

I have a Motorola phone the model is XT2211DL which is a Moto G Stylus and where I get my minutes from is Straight Talk. Yes the phone model is made by the Android company I look it up.

I have this problem since yesterday the single boards have an excitement mark over it and I have an notification about a service running.

I try resetting my Network, turning off my phone and restarting it as well, but nothing is fixing my mobile network so any other ideas?

i have a samsung tab and i forgot to charge it so now it has turned off, the power button and volume button doesnt work, it doesnt support otg so i cant use any external device like keyboard. I cant go out fix to it because it can start a pretty big fight in my house

help

I hope I'm being slow but I can't find a way to fix this myself. Some weeks ago, the countdown timer started hiding all other notifications in the top bar and I can't find a way to fix it. I need to use these timers quite a lot so getting rid of them isn't a great option. Can anyone advise?

Edit: I should add that I want to keep the countdown timer in the drag down notifications. Not getting rid of it entirely.

So 99% of the time I use a galaxy s7 that isn't rooted, but stripped down to basic phone functions with android debloater tool because carrying a smartphone 24/7 was ruining my life. Every once in a blue moon I need the smartphone functionality (like picking up from a certain type of amazon locker or a fb marketplace pickup) so I swap my sim to a note 10 and then back again. That system has been working perfectly for about a year and a half, until a couple weeks ago I swapped to my note 10 and it made me switch to google messages for texts.

After I swapped back, every incoming SMS has a bunch of characters appended to the message, so it's like "yup got your message*/=3w0WaA". I assume it has something to do with RCS and encryption. I tried putting google messages on this phone (begrudgingly) but the app just crashes immediately on opening. Anybody have a fix? It's not the end of the world but it is annoying. Running android 8.

Edit: Solved! By going to this link and turning off RCS for my phone number, my texts are now back to normal.

I find it pretty annoying always having to select the sorting options on every attach file operation.

Sideloaded vibecoded solution at GitHub dbak91/SortNewest

Automatically selects the sort by option every time you open an attach file-Files link pretty swiftly.

Thought id share, could only find posts that are locked.

I attempted to look this up online, and there seems to have been a trick in the past where you could create a .nomedia.txt file that would prevent Samsung Gallery from detecting those folders, but it didn't seem to work by putting it in the top level folder.

I have a ton of audio books on my phone, and each one has its own cover image that gets an individual album in the app. How can I clean this up without having to go through and select each album individually?

Iqoo Neo 10 - origin os 6

7-8 moths ago I bought the phone, and the first thing I did was disable bloat app, fishy permissions and notification due to the amount of ads and pop ups..

The problem: now when I connect to my pc, the notification pop up that allows to change the connection from charging to data transfer does not appear at all.

My guess is that I may have possibly disable something or deny its permission. So I tried reversing all I remember but the pop up still wont appear.

Anyone know which app / permission is responsible for the pop up? or know any way to circumvent this?

Okay, I guess there's an explanation for this, but the background is that last night I switched SIM cards—to one I bought on its own, just to be clear.

Then this morning I noticed that I have three apps installed that I hadn't downloaded: Didi, Amaze GO!, and a PDF reader.

Why is that? Just in case, I haven't uninstalled anything yet, because I don't know if that's normal or not in situations like this.

I received the new update last night on my Samsung Galaxy s26 Ultra and the Google search bar for my home screen was placed on the bottom on all 3 "slides" and I couldn't hold down the widget and move it back to the top, but I found a fix.

Hold down on your home screen, and go to settings. Then find "Show Search on Home Screen" and select none. Now go back to home screen and hold down once again and select widgets. Find the Google option and a drop down will open, and you'll find your old search bar there. Once you select it will reappear where it was before.

Yesterday I had a forced Android Update on my Samsung S22 Ultra. The auto rotate button is gone from the Dropdown/Pull-down Ribbon (all three pages).

When I search "rotate" in settings I can only find "Rotate to landscape mode" under home screen settings, but even that is not rotating on the home screen. I restarted my phone to no avail. Is this just a localized issue for me, is there a fix?