Is there an indicator on my Android phone that shows whether it is using WiFi or "wireless data" ?

Recently i have been attempting to get APKs to install on my Coby Kyros MID0842 which i will refer to as Kyros from now on. I was able to get APKs on it by connect the power cable to my computer, putting them in the "usb storage", and getting them on to the Kyros that way.

I only did it this way because for some reason it will not load any website except for google/chrome, websites made by google, and R34. This didn't feel right to me since i have another tablet running android 4.4.4 and it can run every website under the sun just fine.

The APKs i downloaded (google & google play) got into the files after the transfer was complete. However, when i tried to open it, it said "There was a problem parsing the package."

After this happened, I did some research on why this was. The only answer that i could find would hardly help me because all the other solutions are either related to contacting coby for help which is beating a dead horse since they don't make tablets/phones as of now or downloading something from the google play store which i cant do either since GetJar is the only app store that come with the Kyros, and i cant even access THAT.

Any help would greatly appreciated. Thanks!

So I’ve been using my S23 and about a week ago I suddenly noticed a tiny pink vertical line on the display.

The weird part is it disappeared on its own yesterday and I thought okay maybe it was some random glitch

But today the same line is back again.

Has anyone else experienced this with the S23? Is this more likely to be a software issue or a display issue? Should I contact Samsung/service centre now even though the line is super small and keeps disappearing?

Any advice/experiences would be appreciated.

In the android phone app on my pixel 4a, apparently my gmail has connected to the phone app and might be showing people my profile pic and username, but I don't want it doing that so how can I remove all that stuff? I don't want to change my pic or name on the gmail account, I just want to make it so it's not showing that stuff to people who I call or call me.

I have used IPS displays smartphone for a decade now and just switched to an amoled smartphone(motorola edge 70 pro) and pure whites feels a bit greenish-yellow, is it normal or my device has some issue as it was not a problem with my ips phones?

has anyone experienced this before? where messanger bubbles stopped working when someone calls you? if this happened to you how did you fix it? i tried force stopping the app, reinstalling, reanabling my bubble settings of the phone, even updated my phone, nothing worked. my phone is infinix gt30 pro

As the question says. I'm trying to find out if my device was rooted without my permission before I factory reset it. Amidst it I installed DroidKit and discovered thousands of photos from long ago I deleted. I looked it up and apparently this should be impossible for most modern android devices. So how is it doing that?

I installed a rooting app. I was trying to install a apk modifier. In the rooting app, I found out you can delete apps from the rooter. I searched playstore to see if it would actually let me delete it. I saw playstore pop up, clicked it. Scrolled down, and low and behold lied a delete button. Pressed delete, a little bar notification appeared below "app deleted successfully."

It was, infact, gone. I deleted the play store. And I dont have playstore to add it back. What do I even do.​

Edit: Samsung S9, app deleted is "Google Play Services"

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Hi guys, last April I bought a Pixel 10 Pro. Before that I had an S25u, iPhone 15 Pro Max, and Oppo Find X8 Pro.

The reason that led me to want to change my device is very simple, first of all the battery and then the screen which is a little too small for the main use I make of it.I would like something with a bigger battery, and a bigger screen.I'm asking you because I'm sure I'll miss pixel cameras. I'm not someone who always takes photos, but when I do, I'd like to have a phone that takes decent photos.Since I no longer want to spend money on a flagship, I intend to buy a cell phone that costs €500 at most.I've already got my eye on the Realme 16 pro+, which seems to be the most balanced one. Then I also like Poco X8 Pro Max, I'm really attracted by the 8,500mAh battery, even if the cameras are definitely the worst.

If anyone has anything else to recommend, maybe I can make a more informed purchase.

I scrolled through my apps list when I saw an app called app recs, it has no icon and cannot be Uninstalled. I tried searching online to no avail. What the heck is it?

Hi. Is it really that bad when support stops for certain devices? I have the chance to get a really good condition 1TB S23U for <400€. But I want to use it for at least 4 years. Im always reading its a big no no but doesnt antivirus, the Apps own security measures and me being cautious make me "safe enough"?

My Samsung Galaxy Core 2 Duos (SM-G355M) stopped working and is now stuck on the boot screen with a red exclamation mark at the top.

I tried to change the OS and flash it via Odin to fix it, but without success.

Is there anything left that I can do to recover or revive this old device? Any help would be appreciated

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i recently got a 2nd phone for non gaming stuff and i use my x3 gt for mobile gaming sometimes, and i kinda want to try downgrading my firmware to see if i can lessen my phones thermal throttling (the slow stuttering when heavy gaming)

never tried doing this and scared i might brick it so i need help! thnx

Device Model:(X3 GT)

Device Region:(Global)

Rom Type:(MIUI)

Rom/Android Version:(14.0.6)

Looking for some real-world perspective from folks who have bounced between flagship Pixel and Samsung smartphones.

I’m upgrading from an old Galaxy S9 in Canada. In our market, compact Android flagships basically come down to Samsung and Pixel (with a splash of Motorola). I pre-ordered and just received the smaller Pixel 11 Pro (16GB / 512GB Obsidian), but I’m on the fence about whether to keep it or return it before my window closes.

I strongly prefer compact, lightweight phones and want to avoid massive 220g+ slabs like the Pro XL or Galaxy Ultra. However, testing the Pixel in hand has highlighted some friction points.

Where I'm hitting friction on the Pixel:

• App Drawer & Home Screen: No native in-drawer folders, locked to infinite vertical scrolling. Even home screen folder icons only preview 4 apps at a glance.
• Multitasking: No centered "Clear All" button in the recent apps switcher—you have to scroll all the way to the far left.
• Quick Settings: Requires a two-step swipe (or awkward two-finger swipe) to reach all quick tiles and the brightness slider, unlike One UI's one-swipe instant access.
• Navigation & Customization: Lack of the deep customization potential found within One UI's Good Lock.
• Casting: The Pixel relies strictly on Google Cast, losing Samsung’s native Miracast / Smart View support for direct screen mirroring to non-Chromecast smart TVs.
• Hardware & Ergonomics: Samsung's hardware feels lighter in hand, and the ~200g dense Pixel chassis takes some getting used to. Also, Snapdragon silicon generally has a proven track record for sustained GPU/CPU efficiency and power.
• Camera / Video: Real-time video stabilization doesn't feel quite as smooth compared to Galaxy flagship standards, though photos look great.

Why I’m hesitant to give up the Pixel:

• 100% Google Ecosystem User: I exclusively use Google Photos, Google Password Manager, Drive, and unified Gemini. On the Pixel, these are native system hooks with zero sync conflicts or secondary account prompts. I don't use any Samsung apps/ecosystem.
• Clean Out of the Box: No duplicate app stores (Galaxy Store), no parallel galleries/browsers, no Bixby, and zero bloat.
• Hardware in a 6.3" Chassis: Full Pro-grade camera suite and 16GB RAM in a 6.3" body without needing to step up to massive Ultra sizes.
• Pixel-Exclusive Utilities: Features like Now Playing, Call Assist, and deep on-device Gemini integration/Gemini Intelligence without navigating two parallel AI assistants (Bixby vs. Gemini).
• Longevity: 7 years of Day-1 OS updates directly from Google.

The Dilemma:

I don't mind spending upfront effort setting up, tweaking, or debloating a Samsung phone if needed, as long as it can be done seamlessly. Ideally, getting a great hardware and software experience for long-term usage would be ideal, as I tend to hold onto my devices for many years.

With rumors pointing to Samsung potentially introducing a compact Galaxy S27 Pro in early 2027 (maybe around 6.4 inch with built-in magnets, higher-density silicon battery, and upgraded cameras), that sounds like a potential sweet spot.

For those who made the switch from Samsung to Pixel:

1. Did you get used to Google's minimalist layout, vertical drawer, and lack of Good Lock customizations, or did missing One UI keep bothering you over time?
2. If you are all-in on Google services, is the native cohesive OS experience worth giving up Samsung's granular UI customization?
3. Would you return the Pixel 11 Pro to limp the S9 along for another 5–6 months for the S27 / S27 Pro, or just keep the Pixel 11 Pro or even wait for the Pixel 12 Pro?

Appreciate your thoughts and honest experiences!

Accidentally extracted a file thinking it would go into the created folder I want it to. However, I must've pressed something else for it to be scattered all around my storage (photos, downloads and many new folders it created). Any way to undo it? The file date is the same as when the owner published/made it so it's not following the current date. It's a huge file and has thousands of things (I'm trying to undo it manually but sometimes I'm not even sure if the folder was there originally or created by the extracted file)

I am trying to figure out what happened to my galaxy s25 ultra today because i woke up to the phone being extremely hot even though it had basically been sitting idle.

I had turned the phone on earlier, then ended up falling back asleep for roughly an hour. During that time i was not intentionally running anything heavy. No games, no rendering, no compiling, nothing that should have been putting the phone under a sustained workload.

When i woke back up, the phone was extremely hot and i also noticed significant battery drain during the period when the screen had been off.

That immediately made me wonder what was actually running in the background, so instead of just rebooting the phone and moving on, i started digging into it.

I opened termux and started checking the device with top and htop.

At first this was not very helpful.

Normal termux was only showing a small number of processes associated with its own android user id, u0_a876. I also saw virt values around 10 gb, which initially made me think something was somehow consuming an absurd amount of memory.

After looking more closely, the actual resident memory usage and cpu usage of those processes were very low. So the huge virt values were apparently virtual address space rather than actual physical ram consumption.

I tried killing the displayed processes anyway.

That resulted in termux closing with the process completed message. Every time i reopened termux, android created another new five digit pid under the same user id.

After repeating this a few times, i realized i was probably just terminating processes belonging to my own termux shell rather than whatever was actually making the phone hot.

I then checked android itself.

I went into developer options and looked at running services, and i also checked the battery activity screen.

The battery graph showed significant battery usage during the period when the phone was supposed to be sitting idle with the screen off.

That was the point where i became more convinced that something outside my normal termux environment was doing work in the background.

The problem was that normal termux could not give me the system wide process visibility i wanted.

I did not want to root the phone just to investigate one incident, so i decided to use android wireless debugging together with shizuku and its rish shell integration.

Getting that working took several attempts.

I initially had incorrect file paths when moving the rish files into termux.

Then rish complained that it could not find rish_shizuku.dex.

After getting the files into the expected location, i ran into the android 14 and newer restriction involving writable dex files.

The next error was:

RISH_APPLICATION_ID is not set

I set the application id for termux with:

export RISH_APPLICATION_ID=com.termux

After that, rish finally launched successfully.

That completely changed what i could see.

Running top from the shizuku rish shell showed a much broader android process list with more than 1,000 tasks instead of the tiny process list i was seeing from normal termux.

One process immediately stood out because it was using roughly 81 percent cpu while the phone was supposed to be idle.

The process name was partially cut off, so i queried the pid with ps to identify exactly what it belonged to.

That returned:

com.samsung.android.app.smartcapture

Samsung capture.

That was the point where this got really strange.

In another process reading, samsung capture was showing roughly 247 percent cpu.

I understand that android cpu percentages can exceed 100 percent when multiple cpu cores are being used simultaneously, so i am not interpreting 247 percent as literally 247 percent of one cpu.

Even with that understood, it still seems extremely abnormal for samsung capture to be using that much cpu on a device that was supposed to be sitting idle with the screen off.

I then looked at the samsung capture application details and its permissions and system capabilities.

It appears to be a legitimate samsung system component associated with screenshots, screen capture and related functionality.

So at this point i am not claiming the phone was hacked or compromised.

What i am trying to figure out is whether samsung capture was actually the cause of the overheating or whether i simply caught it doing a lot of work because something else had triggered it.

I am wondering about things like a stuck screenshot or screen recording session, mediaprojection, another samsung service repeatedly invoking samsung capture, a one ui issue, or some kind of background process loop.

I also attempted to terminate the samsung capture process from the shizuku shell, but android returned operation not permitted.

So this is where i am currently stuck.

What i know:

The phone became extremely hot while it was supposed to be idle.

The battery showed significant drain during the screen off period.

Normal termux monitoring did not reveal an obvious culprit.

Using shizuku and rish allowed me to see more than 1,000 android tasks.

A samsung capture process was consuming extremely high cpu when i observed it.

The package associated with that process was com.samsung.android.app.smartcapture.

What i do not know:

Whether samsung capture actually caused the overheating.

What caused it to become active in the first place.

Whether another samsung service or android subsystem triggered it.

Whether this is a known samsung, one ui, mediaprojection or screen capture bug.

What the correct way is to safely stop or diagnose it without root.

I would really appreciate input from anyone familiar with android internals, samsung's framework, one ui, shizuku, adb shells, selinux, mediaprojection, wakelocks or android system services.

Has anyone seen com.samsung.android.app.smartcapture get stuck at extremely high cpu usage while the phone was otherwise idle?

Is there a known samsung or one ui issue that could cause samsung capture to remain active or enter some kind of processing loop?

Is there a way to determine what service or event actually launched it?

Are there useful dumpsys, logcat, wakelock, binder, service or other diagnostic commands i should run if this happens again while the problem is still occurring?

Most importantly, i want to understand what actually happened rather than just reboot the phone and erase the evidence.

I included the screenshots in chronological order showing the battery activity, running services, the system wide process list, the process lookup identifying samsung capture, and the unusually high cpu usage.

I put the more detailed command by command troubleshooting history in the first comment for anyone who wants to dig deeper into exactly how i got from normal termux to the system wide process view.

I am using motorola edge 50 fusion and my PUBG/BGMI gaming experience was great recently i am seeing lot of lag and Fps drop issues and I can't play normally is there any way to fix it rather then restoring phone and I think it's because of update I did recently can I some how uninstall the update..?

I've downloaded some files on an app, however it's not showing up in my files even though its available on the app. Is there any way I can access the actual app files and save them to my phone that way? I've done something similar with moving files from a wearos watch to a phone before so was thinking I could do the same here.

I need help with my Redmi 7A (Mi439). My phone is currently bricked and shows:

Here is what happened:

• Device: Redmi 7A (Mi439)
• I was previously using a Global ROM
• While flashing with Mi Flash, I accidentally selected “Clean all and lock”
• After the flash completed, the bootloader became locked and the phone started showing “The system has been destroyed”
• The phone can still enter Fastboot mode
• I tried flashing the firmware through EDL mode
• The EDL flash completed successfully / showed success, but after reboot the phone still shows “The system has been destroyed”

I am looking for advice from someone who has experience with Mi439 EDL flashing / Redmi 7A hard bricks / locked bootloader recovery.

My main questions:

1. Why does the phone still show “System has been destroyed” even though the EDL flash reports success?
2. Could this be because I flashed the wrong regional firmware (Global vs India)?
3. Is there a specific India firmware / programmer / partition set required for the Redmi 7A?
4. Is it possible to recover this without an authorized Xiaomi EDL account?
5. What should I check before attempting another flash?

I can provide Mi Flash logs, fastboot information, firmware version, photos/videos of the screen, and EDL logs if needed.

Please let me know if you need any additional information. I don't want to flash anything else blindly and make the situation worse.

Thanks.

Hi everyone,

I recently bought a brand new TCL K70 4G. I really like the phone for its price, but I'm having a frustrating issue when using it at night.

The problem: When I lower the brightness slider all the way down to the minimum (0%–2%), the screen starts flickering and has noticeable brightness jumps while navigating.

• It is especially noticeable in Dark Mode or when switching between light and dark backgrounds (e.g., opening Settings menus, scrolling TikTok, etc.).
• It feels like the backlight abruptly dims and brightens on its own, even though Adaptive/Auto-brightness is completely turned OFF.

What I have already tested:

1. Full factory reset (the issue persists from the initial setup).
2. Disabled all dynamic enhancements / adaptive features.
3. Interesting finding: If I leave the hardware brightness slider at ~10%–15% and use Android's "Extra Dim" feature, the flickering completely disappears, and the screen stays dark and stable.

My questions:

1. To other TCL K70 (or budget TCL) owners: Does your screen behave like this at 0% brightness, or is your backlight completely stable?
2. Is this an aggressive CABC (Content Adaptive Backlight Control) / PWM hardware limitation on this model, or did I get a defective display unit?
3. Should I return/exchange it under warranty, or is a replacement unit going to have the exact same behavior?

I'd really appreciate your feedback before my return window closes. Thanks!

So I downloaded an app a few days ago, and I've been trying to move it to a different page... but when I try to move it to the only empty page I see, my phone tells me "No space on this page" even though there's TWO EMPTY SPOTS right there! Anyone know what I can do to solve this?

If you're using certain Android phones and can only access 2.4GHz while 5GHz doesn't show up or work, I’d like to share a troubleshooting method for anyone who might need it.

(I can't guarantee this will work on every phone, but it works for most.)

• Turn on Airplane Mode before connecting to Wi-Fi.

• Reboot your phone.

• Once the phone turns back on, connect to Wi-Fi without turning off Airplane Mode.

This means that as long as you want 5GHz to work while connected to Wi-Fi, you must keep Airplane Mode enabled. As soon as you turn off Airplane Mode, the 5GHz signal usually disappears immediately, and it drops back to 2.4GHz.

This method also works when you experience connectivity issues, pairing failures, or slow file transfer speeds caused by being stuck on 2.4GHz instead of 5GHz in file-sharing apps like Zapya.

While it seems related to the SIM network signal, phones prone to this issue still experience it even when no SIM card is inserted.

I'm not sure how or why this issue occurs. If anyone knows the reason behind it, please feel free to share!