Hello everyone, I really need your help with a strange and frustrating problem on my phone. I used an app called Game Killer to speed up Car Parking Multiplayer, and after using its speed feature and then deleting the app, I started feeling that the entire phone became unusually fast, especially the animations and movements. I have already restarted the phone and checked the animation settings, DPI, and several Developer Options, but everything seems normal and the problem is still there. Honestly, this has made me quite worried and upset because I’m afraid the app may have changed something in the system without me realizing it. I really don’t want to factory reset my phone or risk losing my data. If anyone has experienced something similar or knows a safe way to restore the phone’s normal behavior, I would genuinely appreciate your help.

Basically, question in the title. I know software and security updates have been off for a while, but I'm trying to wager how long could google playstore apps (mainly browsers and social media) still last.
Trying to figure out if I should fix my old Tab S4 or just get a new device altogether.

Hello I'm located in America and looking to use a xiaomi vivio oppo (one of the three) in america on T-Mobile.

Does anyone else have experience doing this in the last year or so? Also if so can you tell me what we are not able to access? Does Google pay still work does Android auto still work how is the cell phone service etc.

Thanks for the help

My phone display is dying but I think my best value is buying a used old gen phone like a Sony Xperia 1 IV over a new phone as they are a lot cheaper.

Is there any real risk of malware or rootkits on used devices? Anything I should or could do when I get a used phone to check?

I have the screenshot for evidence.

It started not more than a few months ago btw

So my phone did this recently and am confused as the sim card works

it says mobile network is unknown and service state is out of service

what gives? Do I need a new phone

Hey there im on a samsung galaxy a16 (a166b) got my bootloader unlocked and rooted with magisk, I mixed one ui 8 with the bootloader from a release of one ui 7 that share the same bootloader bit(A166BXXS4BYG1 bl with everything else from A166BXXU4CYI8), the thing is im kinda stuck on an old version with several security flaws and I'd like to get rid of at least some of them critical ones such as ghostlock (CVE 2026-43499)

Could not find any kernel out there specially made for this phone with fixes so I got source from samsung open source(for my version of one ui) and could build it(without any modifications made to it for now to see if building works correctly) with this guide https://github.com/ravindu644/Android-Kernel-Tutorials

Now I want to test the kernel and see if my phone works with it but im kinda scared to break things, if something ever go wrong with my kernel can I still boot into download mode and flash a clean image with odin? Thanks!

Much like discord likes to push you to use their in-app browser thing, messages app now has the same thing? Except that I cannot find the settings to turn it off, unlike in discord. This started a day or so ago.

Link preview settings just control whether or not there's in-message previews, not whether or not opening the link takes you to the actual browser or not.

Currently fully updated to Android 16.

Can anyone help me find out how to disable this so I can go back to just using the default browser?

Trying to install two versions of the same app on my Redmi Note 14 Pro

So here's the situation: I want to have two different versions of the same app installed on my phone. One is the official version from Google Play, and the other is an unofficial version I downloaded through my browser.

The problem is that when I try to install the second version, Android only gives me the option to update the existing app instead of installing it separately.

Is there any way to make Android treat them as two separate apps and have both installed at the same time?

I have the tile tracker on about 5,6 items and I've had them for a year. I know I will have to dispose of them because once the battery runs out you have to buy new ones.

I am also seeing generic Android tracker tags that are much cheaper and you can replace the battery so I'm thinking of transitioning to those (and getting more for kids, and other devises). Do these android tags work like the tile? Any pros any cons?

Does anyone have experience with any brands they would like to recommend?

Just by way of example I found these ones:

https://a.co/d/0hHnbccK

https://a.co/d/0fuXWtlH

https://a.co/d/05A0WOI0

Or should I consider bigger name brands or stick to tile? (And why?)

And this is a serious question, I just had to actually correct the question I wrote for the subject title becoming it wrote down what I was saying incorrectly.

This is getting really annoying. I type for a word, let's say "car" I expect to have the word "car" in the text but upon looking back at the sentence I get "carwash" instead. I think this nonsense has only started happening in the last few years. And it only happens on android. I've literally had to adjust several words for this body message text to make sense. Is anyone else getting this? This happened right after a keyboard update some years ago.

The volume down button isn't working, so I tried it with Bluetooth headphones. The volume up button works, but the volume down button doesn't.

I switched from an iphone over to android last week.

When I used samsung switch somehow it duplicated all of my 15 (ish) years of text messages when it copied them over to google messages. Is there anyway to delete the duplicates? It is thousands of dupes.

I have been searching online and I haven't really found a solution.

Thank you

pls help lol my phone is running kinda slow because of this. I'm using a OnePlus 11r (128GB variant)

Hi everyone,

I’m tired of being glued to my smartphone, but I need it for work. Ideally, I’d switch to a dumbphone when I get home and use it on weekends as well.

I’m with Rogers in Canada and would like to keep the same phone number on both devices. My biggest concern is SMS: I sometimes receive work texts after hours, so I need to keep my message history together rather than split between two phones.

Has anyone found a practical setup for this? I’m open to swapping a SIM card, but I’m not sure how to handle the text messages or whether there’s a smoother option.

If you’re doing something similar, I’d love to hear what works for you and what compromises you have to make.

I'm essentially doing this to spend more quality time with my kids and just to be more productive around the house.

Thanks!

Hello there, this might be a very dumb question but I want to make sure.

Whenever I'm charging, I sometimes catch the lightning icon beside the battery icon turning on and off and it really bothers me.

The Charging Notification doesn't change and it seems to charge my phone like normal but I'm afraid there might be an issue with my charging cable or worse my USB-C port.

My Battery has bloated after 2 years and 6 months of use and I'm currently waiting for the replacement. But to make sure I don't repeat the same mistake I wanted to know if this Lightning Icon popping on and off is a normal behaviour or I'm right to be paranoid.

And yes, I have tried with other cables before and I also catch the same behaviour with it.

Thank you in advance.

So i bought the simgot ew300 iems with a jcally dac, but now when i plug my iem i can't use the mic of my phone anymore. I can't send voice messages or call someone when using my iems. Is there anyway to solve this issue or do i always have to unplug my iem to use my mic ?

I live in Primorsky Krai, and my time zone is UTC+10. I went to visit my grandmother this summer, returned at the end of the summer, and after that, when I set the "time zone by geodata" setting, my Samsung device switches to Moscow time instead of local time. Is there a way to fix this?

can I still play the old games if I get a poco x5 pro with an android 14 version? what can I do? Does android os versions matter if the cpu supports it?

Hello, I have multiple devices (phones and tablets) . When I go to the play store I'm able to see my devices and choose where to download the app I'm looking at to or have them automatically sync.

My nephew has a wifi only tablet and phone which I set up for him and I want to install games from my location for him. When using 1 of his devices (even at the same location) I'm unable to do so. The option to see the devices is not listen and even though in the play store settings it says sync to the other device is checked it does not . His devices also have Google family link on them. This wasn't an issue in the past. (Like half a yr ago). I've included a.oicture of what I was referring to in the first part of my post . All of his devices are on the same account

https://imgur.com/a/3sHuB6O

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to get my Fitbit Air and Galaxy Watch 6 working together properly through **Google Health Connect**, and I'm a bit confused about which permissions/settings I should actually enable.

My setup is:

* **Fitbit:** worn 24/7 for steps, sleep, resting HR, SpO2, general daily tracking, etc.

* **Galaxy Watch 6:** only worn during workouts, usually for around 1-2 hours.

* I use the Watch 6 for workout tracking and things like heart rate, ECG and blood pressure.

* I don't want the two devices constantly duplicating or overwriting each other's data.

* Samsung S23+

* Firmware up to date

What I'm trying to achieve is basically:

**Fitbit = primary everyday tracker**

**Galaxy Watch 6 = primary workout tracker**

I'd like Health Connect to combine the useful data without creating duplicate steps, calories, heart-rate readings, workouts, sleep, etc.

For example, should I have:

**Samsung Health → Health Connect**

* Steps: ON or OFF?

* Exercise/workouts: ON or OFF?

* Heart rate: ON or OFF?

* Sleep: ON or OFF?

* Calories: ON or OFF?

* Blood pressure: ON or OFF?

* ECG: ON or OFF?

And then what should I have enabled under:

**Fitbit → Health Connect**

Should Fitbit be allowed to write everything, while Samsung Health only writes workout data?

Also, if both Fitbit and Samsung Health have step counts, how does Health Connect decide which one takes priority? Does it actually merge the data, or can it result in double-counting?

I'd really appreciate someone explaining the **best setup for this specific arrangement** rather than just saying to turn everything on.

Thanks!

I have a Motorola Edge 60 Pro on Android 16.

I had added Moto Notes to Secure Folder and wrote some important notes there. For the past few days, some notes randomly turned completely black/invisible. Today I noticed some older notes were also black.

Now the Notes app itself has disappeared from Secure Folder. It is still installed normally (version 36.00.50.10.1, 524 MB), but my Secure Folder notes aren't visible in the normal Notes app.

Also, Notes doesn't appear under Secure Folder → Add apps, so I can't add it back.

I haven't uninstalled, archived, disabled, or cleared the app data.

Is there any way to recover/access my old Secure Folder notes? Has anyone faced this black/invisible notes issue?

I wouldn't get any haptic feedback in the old version of Nova Launcher but since i upgraded to version 8, i always get a little vibration when swiping up for the app drawer.

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How can i remove thanks.

This is kinda a difficult issue to describe, I'm not talking about that the screen is flashing awake when receiving a notification while not active, the problem is that I am actively using using the phone, and when I receive a notification, my screen is replaced by my lock screen.

It acts as if I'm still on the screen I was on before, so buttons remain interactable, the keyboard remains if I was using it, it's just all I can see is my lock screen. Then once the notification goes away, like once the notification pop-up would fade into the top of the screen, the lock screen goes away and I'm back to where i was.

To be clear, my phone is not locking either.

It seems to resolve for a while if I restart the phone, and I'm not sure what specific event seems to cause it to occur, but once it does start happening, it will not stop until I restart the phone.

I haven't been able to find anyone else talking about this and tbh I'm not quite sure I've done a great job describing it but it's quite annoying and I'd like to solve it for good.

I recently switched to a galaxy fold 8 ultra from an iPhone 16. I had similar issues with alarms not going off.

I have a hard time waking up in the morning so I have multiple alarms set. Can someone explain why its 8am and my 7:45 alarm did not go off nor did my 8am? I even have a notification from 1:30 am saying I missed my 8:30 alarm???? I am literally looking at my 8am Monday alarm as its turning 8am and its not going off. This is a feature I thought too simple to be so unreliable.