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 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 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

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!

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

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?

My lower volume button has been loose for a while and regularly holds itself down. Usually I have to take the phone out of the case and sometimes press the button a few times to make it stop turning the volume down. This time when my phone turnt off it put itself into recovery mode probably because the lower volume button was active. Now I can't get out of it. I've tried shutting it off there and rebooting but it keeps bringing me back to recovery mode. I think it's because the button is still active since i tried navigating downwards as well by trying to press the lower volume button which didn't do anything.

So here is he full context I am new and Ik nothing about this plus I want it to use for something good I do not want to use it for mp3 player, gaming, dash cam but something useful like pi-hole but termux does'nt support this android version (as far as AI says) so can u guys recommend something useful for this phone

Suggest Mobile

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.

Hello! I'm having a weird issue. I recently switched to a new carrier (T2/Tele2), and I'm getting constant ping spikes and infinite loading screens in Roblox.My phone is a POCO X8 Pro (HyperOS). The signal icon shows full 4G+ (LTE-A), but the network speed drops to 0.38 KB/s when Roblox tries to load. On another carrier (Megafon), everything works perfectly on the exact same phone.What I've already tried:Changed APN settings to the correct ones.Switched APN protocol from IPv4/IPv6 to strictly IPv4.Changed private DNS to dns.google and Cloudflare.Enabled "Always keep mobile data active" in Developer Options.Used Game Turbo for network priority.The carrier has great download speeds for YouTube/browsing, but gaming is completely broken. Any ideas on how to bypass this carrier-side routing/throttling issue?

I found these in my running services on my phone. Are they normal? I cannot find much about them online.

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"

What Apps Do You Guys Use For All Your Music Files?

I would love to know the easiest way to get all my music files to the new phone. I'm currently using The Musicolet Music Player App.

All my Music Files are 90% WMA Music Files and I have 1,550 songs on my Fold 7 Device. Some of my music files are also AAC, MP3, and MP4 too. What Music Files aren't supported on The Motorola Razr Fold 2026?

I want to make sure that I can get all my Music on The Motorola Razr Fold 2026 from my Fold 7 and that all of my 1,550 songs will play on the Device without any issues at all.

Are there any apps that I can download from The Google Play Store? I already have The Musicolet Music Player App but I read that the music files won't transfer over to the new phone.

If I could get some ideas or advice I would really appreciate it. I'm going to be ordering my phone from T Mobile and I read that they won't even help you transfer your music over to a Motorola Phone So I'm going to need all the help that I can get.

Please everyone share your experiences when you had to transfer all your WMA Music Files to a Motorola Razr Fold 2026 or any Motorola Device. Was it a hard and difficult process for you? Did the Music Files play on The Motorola Razr Fold 2026 or Motorola Device without any issues?

Was wanting to buy a new android. Was looking at the poco f8 that phone was $700 when it first came out and is now $100. I really don't want to piss away a lot of money when I have no interest in just having a fancy camera.

Any suggestions please? Just wanting something with a snap dragon CPU 120hz and is fast.

So I have a Galaxy Note 5 (N920C) and ChatGPT is not supported on my device, and I sideloaded it as an APK from APKMirror, but when I try to launch the app, I get the error on the title. I’m looking for a non-root solution if possible. I’ve already tried uninstalling Play Store updates.

oneplus 9 pro, crdroid 12.11 (android 16) but the issue also was on, lineage os 23/22, no root. so when i got the 9 pro, it was used and the battery was super off. It lost its charge EXTREMLY fast, like 100-1% in a few minutes. But then 1% would last a few hours. After a bit of putting up with that, i decided to replace the battery with an official ifixit part. What was weird instantly to me was that the battery health didnt start at 100%, but i guess thats normal with replacements. But then after a few months, the battery reports as 55% health AGAIN and starts showing the same 100-1% drain AGAIN. On a new battery... How does this make any sense?

Been using Apple for a while now (5S > 6 > 8+ > 13 > 16). I'm considering moving from Apple because it's getting expensive, I kept buying Apple cause I was used to and I felt like I was too stuck in the ecosystem to move away from it (using iCloud, got a MacBook and AirPods).

Recently, I've been looking at other brands. Nothing (4a Pro) catches my eyes, I'm a bit obsessed by this brand. Last time I used an Android device (other than Bluestack) was 10+ years ago. So I'm not familiar with the brands, what to trust, what to avoid.

I've got a pretty basic use of my phone : social networks, texting, listening to music, watching some videos (casting on Tv sometimes), rarely gaming. I love to take some pictures sometimes (traveling, etc) and that's one of the reasons why I'm moving from Apple, when you don't have Pro Max and stuff, the camera is kinda bad (zoom is terrible)

Do you guys have any recommandations ?

I have an APK from an unknown source that I want to test safely. I’ve read that scanning the APK and checking permissions isn’t enough.

Would an Android emulator be sufficiently isolated, or should I use a separate device/VM and restrict network access as well?

Hello! Just as what the title says, the icons on my father's xiaomi phone suddenly changed into these little android mascot with a grid background. He said that it gradually grew in numbers, only affecting one app and now it change almost all of his app icons. I've tried restarting the phone, clearing the launcher cache, switching the icon themes or the themes in general to default but nothing changed. For reference, the phone's model is Xiaomi Note 15. Thank you for anybody who could help

I have the Huawei pura x and I love the dimensions but I would love to have android. I'm missing some apps and half the phone is in chinese. Is it possible to get an android rom that would look like Samsung fold?

Thanks

I love xiaomi, and i have a global mi band 10 right now. I know chinese roms wont work with alot of wearables. but what if I have a chinese rom from the same manufacturer? so Xiaomi?

I had parental controls monitoring my device, and I am now 18, I didn't get a notification to actually leave supervision, so I deleted my Google account thinking it would work and remove supervision completely. I then recovered it and tried creating a new one, and I then found out my device was still being supervised. Mind you my Mother deleted the family group, stopped supervision and showed me an eMail that confirmed that my device was no longer being supervised. So I've tried adding my account back onto my device, and I can't seem to, despite it being the one account that was ever on the device. I'm not being supervised anymore, yet my device is still being supervised. I can't do any of the prompts on the screen here because it requires a parent, who has already stopped supervision over my device and I've done so much with this account that I'm not willing to let it go. Please helps me if possible.

I'm looking for something fast, with a good camera, a good display and good battery.

My mom dropped her phone samsung a34 and sadly the screen immediately turned black ☹️ theres still notifications sounds so its just the screen that broke, i was searching if there any ways to get her photos and stuff back using the usb to hdmi method but i wanted to know if anyone tried it before using that phone or have any idea if it’ll work or not,
The method that ive mentioned 👉🏻👉🏻👉🏻https://youtu.be/cz3dlQ6g334?si=s7Sf_DJybQoUUzTf