I've trying to find a more open source solution that can store the information local instead on the cloud..

Also having the map after a run to see your outline of movement.

hows everybody doing? signal east here, i know things arent going toO well for android but weve had some good times.

more importantly, i have a device designed by a techbro, moto g pure. they made my screen go to the edge and i cant stop touching it. i tried looking online a little for a 'black deadzone border' that ignores taps for a couple pixels around the whole screen. i want this for general use.

i dont even need the screen to adapt to the border, its ok if theres an overlap. surprised i couldnt find an app for this. if i need ADB perms thats fine, maybe i can use a resolution hack that doesnt stretch to the edge.

did this techbro buy a phone like this for his own daily use? he likes the style and isnt bothered by it? dont they know that fingertips are attached to a hand? techbro honestly likely doesnt even use a phone and laughs at us phone-peasants

thank you!

I am trying to take WhatsApp chats backup for my mother's phone. The 15GB Gmail limit is over and the backup seems to be quite a lot (she has many groups, don't ask!). I thought of changing the backup account, since that account is barely 2.8 GB used out of 15 GB.

Has this worked with people? Is there sound logic in doing this, or will I end up accidentally losing all my mom's WhatsApp chats and media?

I've always beta'd.
The only problem I ever had was that one or two of my banking apps wouldn't recognize the OS so wouldn't load. But that was years ago, too. No other problems.

I had a P10P on beta.
Traded it in on a new P10P (free, switched carriers....) and now I'm wondering if it's even fun anymore?

Thoughts?

It used to show the apps in the recent apps, and it made navigation much easier, but I deleted it and reinstalled it today, and it's not showing anymore.

I've also noticed not all appa show when I try to share something in the share menu.

Anyone has a solution?

Recently got the oneplus pad go 2. Everything was going smooth until i opened the apple TV app to watch Slow Horses, and what the fork started happening. Screen brightness jumped automatically to a 100% even before i started playing an episode. Later found out it was due to the HDR content being played on screen. Apparently i cannot help it. That is not even the problem. When an HDR video is playing, EVERYTHING else lags with extreme frame drops. Swiping up to the home screen and opening the quick settings is a sore to the eyes. Suddenly the refresh rate is 1 Hz, not 120. It takes a good two seconds for things to get normal. Same thing happened with the Disney hotstar app. I understand the brightness 'glitch', but this massive lag has to be abnormal. And i can't even turn HDR off anywhere. Is there any workaround for this? Any other android tablets have this issue?

For some reason the huge, bright, screen-burning main clock screensaver has replaced the smaller, dimmer, more appropriate version from the Clock app.

I have tried switching off the main screensaver but can only get the Clock app screensaver on by manually activating it.

I used this as an overnight clock whilst charging overnight. Any ideas?

I have a OnePlus Open. I enabled this feature a while back but can't for the life of me figure out how to disable it. It is so annoying! I've tried searching for it and no one seems to have an answer either. I've tried to disable anything to do with floating windows and it keeps happening!

Thanks in advance, all!

I need help finding a keyboard for my Z Fold 8 Ultra. I've had the phone for a while now, and I switched from an iPhone 16 Pro Max, and I was an iPhone user since the iPhone 6. Prior to that, I was a huge HTC fan before I switched to IOS. On the iPhone, the standard keyboard was fantastic for the features it had, and I didn't realize what a pain it would be to leave it behind.

I frequently use voice-to-text and text replacement/shortcuts, so I gave Samsung's default keyboard a chance to impress me, and I assumed it was on par with or better than iPhone, and I was sorely mistaken. Shortcuts and text replacement work okay, and certain apps don't accept them at all. I can type "ty" and it'll replace it with "thank you". Voice-to-text on IOS is also seamless, and Siri was okay at determining what I was saying and added grammar and punctuation to make the message seem more natural. The Samsung keyboard tries... But falls short often enough that it makes messages look unprofessional. I also make more mistakes on the Samsung keyboard, and half the time the phone won't even make an attempt to autocorrect the mistake.

I did some research and tried Gboard. Gboard also has text replacement that works, but to add punctuation and grammar to voice-to-text, I have to say "period" to add one. I also like the way the typing experience feels. I did more research to find a truly seamless solution, and I found FUTO. I make a LOT of mistakes manually typing with FUTO, but its voice-to-text is perfect and exactly what I'm looking for. It also does not do text replacement at all unless the phrase is common, so "ty" will expand to "thank you" but "otw" won't expand to "on the way". I did try Extenda, but it limits you to 10 shortcuts in the free version, and 15 dollars a week is ridiculous for the paid version.

So then I tried SwiftKey, and its own voice-to-text has the same issue as Gboard, where I have to say "period" to add one. I did try Futo voice with SwiftKey, and that doesn't work because using the microphone button causes Futo to pop up and minimize the keyboard, which stops text from being entered. To get around this, I have to hit the keyboard button in the bottom left to switch to Futo voice, which isn't seamless. SwiftKey also doesn't handle text replacement that well. It works, but it will replace the shortcut exactly how it's typed, regardless of where the shortcut is entered. So if I type "Hey, I'm otw" it will expand to "Hey, I'm On the way," but the O is capitalized, and it shouldn't be. I understand this is very nitpicky, but I just want my messages to seem professional regardless of where I'm typing them.

As a compromise, I have been using the Samsung default keyboard with Futo voice as an alternate keyboard since that seems to be the only way to get text replacements that work some of the time along with a good voice-to-text tool that is somewhat easy to access.

Tldr: I tried Samsung keyboard, Gboard, Futo, and SwiftKey, and each had pros and cons, and I just want a seamless voice-to-text that adds grammar and punctuation and a text replacement/shortcut tool that works as seamlessly as it does on iPhone. I'm willing to make some compromises but I'd prefer as seamless as possible. Any help or insight is appreciated!

I have quite a bit of albums downloaded and scrolling through them can be a bit annoying sometimes since I have so many albums downloaded so I was wondering are there music players out there they have big grid type layouts? I use musicolet and their grid limit is 5 so I'd prefer to find an app that offers more.

Hey everyone, I need help finding a way to flash a clean stock ROM on my HONOR phone.

An update was interrupted, and now my phone keeps restarting and lockscreen issues. I’ve already tried a factory reset, but it didn’t fix the problem. Based on my analysis of the bug report, I suspect that reflashing the ROM might solve the issue.

Since I’m using the Chinese variant, the official service centers in my region won’t support my specific model. So, I want to try reinstalling the software myself.

Does anyone know the proper method to force-flash the stock ROM on an HONOR phone? Is there any tool or workaround that would let me do this without taking it to a repair shop?

Thanks in advance!

I tried Not Boring Weather on my friend's iPhone and I'm obsessed with its UI and animations! 😍

Is there any Android app with a similar look and feel, especially beautiful animations and widgets?

This might be more carrier- or phone-related, but I noticed that my wife's Samsung S24 has not updated the OS since August of 2025. It's still running Android 14 and OneUI 6.something. When I tried to update it, we get the error message "Unable to update the software. A network or server error occurred. Try again later."

Plenty of free space, strong wi-fi, battery over 80%, didn't work in Safe Mode. The phone was bought new as factory unlocked in 2024, used on Total Wireless ever since, which is Verizon. My S25 Ultra was bought new, factory unlocked, is also on the same carrier and gets all the updates.

She noticed that some apps stopped working unless the OS gets updated, and it won't. Any ideas where I should start looking first?

Messages for Web Never Connects, and is stuck on "Trying to Reach Your Phone". Surely I can't be the only one being hit by this.

My issue is accurately described on https://support.google.com/messages/thread/446650595?hl=en&sjid=11520314301540465314-NC . There are now 48 people saying they have the same question on that original thread.

However, an admin has locked it and duplicated it against https://support.google.com/messages/thread/431426988?hl=en which is not at all the same issue.

I am logged in to my google account, I can pair my phone via passing the security image challenge, but messages never loads the messages from my phone.

I am on version messages.android_20261002_00_RC00.phone.dynamic which updated Oct 8 2026. That is about the same time my issue started occurring. It's also about the same time I started using my new pixel watch 5 LTE.

I have tried:

• Unpairing and repairing messages for web. The pairing image challenge succeeds, and then drops to the above screenshot.
• different wifi networks
• different browsers
• clearing cache for the app
• clearing cache for the browser
• clearing history for the browser
• incognito mode on the browser
• validating that all wifi connections work *(also validated by the fact the image handshake functions)
• Restarting my phone
• Phone is a fully up to date Pixel 8 Pro
• Machine is a Ubuntu 26.04 machine with Chrome Version 155.0.8059.79 (Official Build) (x86_64).

Google's support portal won't let me post the above topic because their support portal sucks, and complains about a policy violation, but won't tell me which of the policies the above post is in violation of.

Does anyone here have a fix for this? Am I alone in this?

Hi everyone. I use a Samsung S22 Ultra and want to set up my DnD to allow only phonecalls (I have succeeded in this at least) and WhatsApp calls (where I run into a problem).

I am a light sleeper so I need DnD to silence messages, but I want phonecalls to still be able to wake me. Specifically of concern, my parents live in a different country and can only contact me urgently via whatsapp calls. They're both getting older and I need them to be able to reach me even if I'm asleep.

When I setup my DnD with WhatsApp as an exception, my phone does not vibrate when I receive a whatsapp call, it only vibrates once when the call has dropped. All messages cause my phone to vibrate. Anyone know of a way to set this up? I am forced to just not use DnD so that I am reachable in case of emergency, but I'd love a convenient way to mute notifications other than calls short of manually muting things every night (unless there is an easy way to automate this specifically?)

Thanks in advance!

I have a Motorola Moto 5G Wi-Fi only and have downloaded offline maps for Google maps. For a while this works surprisingly well, giving me turn by turn instructions just like it's supposed to.

I moved from Florida to Mississippi a few months ago and the phone still thinks I live in florida. I live in a metal building now so GPS does not work inside but I have done all kinds of dancing with the phone to try to get it to update my home location. I've cleared cash, clear data, uninstalled and reinstalled the maps application, started it up outside where it can get GPS and tried to get it to update my home setting, all to no avail.

If I go outside and get in my truck and drive all the way up to my gate, I do get GPS signal and the little blue dot shows on the map exactly where my house is. If Google maps is in a good mood, it will talk to me, even announcing the street names as it gives me turn by turn direction, but it's always a crapshoot and not reliable. When it works, it works the entire trip, but when it doesn't, I end up just turning it off and navigating old school.

I got tired of the constant fights with Google maps so I installed organic maps to give it a try. Sure enough, it also thinks I'm in florida and also has no way I've found to manually update the home location. Both of these apps must be pulling some system setting from Android that shows I still live in Florida.

Does anyone have any idea how to update this setting manually? I also have an Android tablet that is Wi-Fi only that does the same thing. It's not as annoying with the tablet because I'm not trying to use it for directions but it's still annoying when I go to look up locations.

Hi everyone,

I need the official stock firmware package or flash file for an OPPO Reno8 T 4G (CPH2481).

Device Details:

• Model: OPPO Reno8 T 4G (CPH2481)
• Chipset: MediaTek Helio G99
• Target OS: Android 14 (ColorOS 14)

I’ve searched everywhere online, but Android 14 files for this model are extremely hard to find, the few options I see are paid download links, and I just don't want to risk paying or installing unverified files from unknown sources.

Does anyone in the community have a direct link to a clean Android 14 full firmware package or backup dump that they can share for free?

Thanks!

My 256gb samsung phone is 99% used up.. and i heard there exists some extensions inside android which can be deleted and free up massive spaces.. these extensions are 200mb+ size and can be easily searched and deleted ..kindly let me know which one u guys know so as to free up space..xoxo

Ps: I tried cache clearing tonnes of times but it doesn't cut the ice..same with .tmp files..

I've been using iPhones for over a decade now, currently daily driving an iPhone 17 pro max. I've had experience with Android phones years back but haven't opted to use one as my daily. Around 6 months ago, I decided to by a refurbished Galaxy z fold 5 to see if I would enjoy the folding format. I do very much enjoy the folding aspect as well as file management and DEX mode. I'm tempted to sell the fold 5 and trade in my iPhone for the galaxy z fold 8 ultra.

I'm curious if any of you could give some feedback on jumping ship from Apple products over to the Samsung side? What did you like the most? What did you struggle with? I have an iPad pro, apple watch ultra 2, and airpods pro 2, so I would essentially be trading the ecosystem for the most part if I switch over

Thanks!

Hi, I have xiaomi pad 5 ( 4 years old ) and xiaomi stylus gen 2 ( 2 years old ) which is also discontinued. I am planning to buy new tablet but without changing stylus , as this stylus is expensive and works with pad 6 and 5

I have fear regarding if I have purchase pad 6 and stylus gets stop working after a while, what should I do??

She’s not able to use her phone right now. Change can be very hard for people in their 80s. Unfortunately, I am trying to help her over the phone while she’s in a full panic. I’m not with her and it doesn’t help that I’m an Apple user. Any help or advice you can give me would be appreciated.

Someone help pls. So I've had this phone for 2 years (android). This afternoon I had a Whatsapp message from a contact, when I clicked it Whatsapp randomly told me about restoring. About 2 months ago this happened and I clicked restore although I lost a few chats from the last 24 hours of that day. 

So this time I skipped restore because I didn't want it to happen again although after skipping my chats went all the way back to 2024 when I last changed my phone and transferred the chats. The backup restore is only showing from 2024, I had my chats backed up weekly to my Google storage although my storage fills up each month and I free a bit up each month. 

When I searched on Google I was told by uninstalling the option would come back to chat restore. I did this and this was when I realized it's only showing a backup from 2024.  But the problem now is that because of uninstalling I don't think the recent chats files are in my internal storage anymore. Whatsapp.com wasn't showing in Android files after uninstalling but it's there now after but there's no backup or restore folder. I know the last time I restored this year it was there. I currently have Whatsapp installed again but I haven't logged in fully or restored anything. Is there any way I can get my chats back?

Suggest a high performance compact android phone other than samsung which have apps that can be downloadable from play store and have 5G support.

I'm currently using ManageEngine MDM. But all I can see are options to stop specific app uninstalls, clearing data and force stopping them. Users can still manage notifications or permissions for the apps, though.

Hello,

I just got a new phone. I found out that the alarm can wake you up, say your name, and go through a 'routine' on the clock app. For SOME reason, though, it calls me Joe Mama. For those who don't know, Joe Mama is not my name.

Is there anything that could be causing this? I don't think any of my Google accounts have Joe Mama as a name and that's the only thing I thought could make an impact.

Please help, I don't want to be Joe Mama.

I'm on a Motorola Razr+ 2024.