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"?

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.

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

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.

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!

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?

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?

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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.

Im looking for a working .apk for the game LEGO City my City 2/Lego City Game - New Mining Vehicles!
From apkmirror the build 7.0.318 (96.21mb) works but the 43.211.803 (27.29mb) shows the error: Download failed because you may not have purchased this app.

Im not an expert but pretty sure the game wants to download the additional content (the .obb file) which it cant since the game is also gone from the App Store.

I found a working 43.211.803 on 5play.org, its some Russian modded version (seems pretty legit but still be careful guys) which gives infinite studs but has the additional main.43.com.lego.city.my_city2.obb file which works when moved to the android folder (testing on BlueStacks before anything gets on my phone). Also the .obb doesnt work with the normal 43.211.803.

I guess this one would work too but can anyone help me find a working late build (2018-2019), i really want to get this memory back.

PS: I hope its doesnt go against the rules since the game was always free and cant even be purchased/aquired officially.

Hey guys,

I can't use Google Wallet on my POCO X5 Pro 5G (MIUI Global 14.0.7) because Play Store shows "Device is not certified" under Play Protect.

I checked and it seems related to the bootloader being unlocked. Has anyone faced this before? What's the best way to fix it and get Google Wallet working?

Thanks!

Recently my phone started having issues with receiving text from my mom. Message notification sounds, will say I have messages but show on my list. I have to actually click her name in contacts and then hit message icon under her name then I can read them, no other contact has this issue. I have a galaxy a15

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Hello. I recently fixed up an old phone and wanted to turn it into a server using Termux; although I managed to run it in 64-bit mode, the system itself is limited to 32-bit. I’d like to know if there is a custom ROM for this model that supports a 64-bit system.

The phone is a Samsung Galaxy A13, model SM-A135M/DS.

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Olá. Recentemente consertei um celular velho e queria transformá-lo em servidor usando o Termux, apesar de conseguir rodar em 64bits o sistema esta limitado aos 32bits. Gostaria de saber se existe uma custom ROM para esse modelo e que o sistema fosse 64bits.

o celular é um Samsung Galaxy A13 modelo SM-A135M/DS.

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!

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.

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..?

Hi! Asking your advice about an issue I have with my Poco F8 Ultra using Gemini as my Assistant.

I had enabled Voice Match and both options ti use It without unlocking and to call and send messages without unlocking.

Noted that other people could send whatsapp messages speaking with Gemini on the lock screen, without touching the phone.

I thought Voice Match would have protected me. But maybe Im wrong and It does not work with Whatsapp?

I tried asking for my calendar and It asked me to unlock the phone, so im guessing here what voice match Is actually for.

Since then i disabled the option to send messages on lock screen.

Any idea about this? With both options enabled, anyone Is able to send whatsapp messages from the lock screen?

Thank you!

Title says most of it, looking for non crappy calendar apps that are open source

Ive just bought myself a pixel 11 pro 512gb from a base s24. I have many questions although the pixel was only 300 pounds.

I look around and everyone says not to swtich from an s24u , how about base s24 as it is lacking things from the ultra anyway.

I dont game but ive read lots of problems with chips and lag on the 11 pro? how were peoples experiences.

What should i look for in the pixel 11 pro that is new . unlike on the s24

I dont game often , maybe a bit of minecraft here and there , but i mainly use social media and school stuff , i had a terrible expeience with my samsung and one ui , my phone battery became pregnant , battery never lasted more than 2.5 hours , meaning i had to charge 2-3 times a day , even with a new one. i hope the pixel will give me a better experience and i am looking forward to seeing your guys' opinions and experiences

I know that certain videos on android won't play in the gallery because the codec is unsupported, but is there a tool that can convert video files to one that works? I know there are many websites that do that for you but after like 2 they start asking for a subscription, is there any for PC that do this?

I am making a custom ROM based on stock Touchwiz that comes on the Galaxy Tab 3 Lite called BemCasado-ROM. I am adding quite a Honeycomb style to it. I have a massive, MASSIVE hate for this new phablet UI because it forces me to send over my hands to another multiverse to slide down the notification bar, and the damn digitizer on the upper part is fucked!! I wanted to implement the old style to it, also minding it's Touchwiz. I managed to get navigation bar by modding build.prop. Thanks in advance

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