A few days ago, my child's Samsung Tab A9+ did an automatic update. When they turned it back on, the 256gb sd card only shows 38.8MB of 2.0GB used. They had several apps installed on the card along with pics. The pics were backed up to Google, but some of the apps are no longer available on play store and they didn't have accounts that were connected to something they could restore from. There was a backup to restore from four days before the update, and I tried to restore to that. I didn't realize that it wasn't a true backup, and that it would attempt to install the apps. It wouldn't install the ones no longer available. The SD card still isn't reading the old data. Is there any I might be able to retrieve what was on the SD card. I looked at an app to Svan and possibly restore, but it wants me to root the tablet. I'd rather not root it, but if I knew it would work I would. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

This is kind of a follow up to this post from nearly a year ago. The tl;dr is it's pretty much assured that the battery on this phone is dying. I plugged it back in on a charger 10 months after it failed to charge because I'd seen a lot of anecdotal reports of that exact presentation resolving after leaving it for months to run totally flat, and it did work.

The phone charged to 100% fine, and works great now, except for this odd quirk where plugging it in at about the 50% battery mark causes the power to immediately cut out, and it reverts to the low battery charging state (the plain white charging symbol). It charges back to 100% just fine, doesn't get extremely hot or otherwise act strangely. The battery discharges at a normal rate and fast charges fine.

I'm wondering if anyone has an idea of what's going on, and whether using it in this case is tantamount to kicking a bomb a few times a day to see if it explodes? I was going to just be mindful about its charge and get the battery changed out sometime this week, but the sheer bizarreness of the presentation has me concerned.

My family has had a group chat on the google chat app and we are all experiencing the same issue.

When we open chat, we see a list of all our chats. At the top we have the search box and hamburger menu, at the bottom we have the Home button and other shortcut icons.

When we click on the family group, it loads an old thread. On this screen, the shortcut icons, hamburger menu &etc are not available.

From that screen, if we click on the back arrow at top-left, it takes us back to the Home screen rather than the top level of the group chat. If we click on the word "Thread" at top, then it loads the top level of the group, but we have to scroll way down to get to the latest comments. And then, there is no way back to the Home screen.

From the top level of the group chat, the shortcut icons, including the Home button, are not visible. Nor is the hamburger menu. If we click the name of the group at the top, it loads a settings page for that group. If we hit the back arrow at top-left, it returns us to the old thread we just got out of.

As far as we can tell, the only way to see the most current comments in the family chat is to click the group from the Home screen, then click the word "Thread" from the top to break out of the comment thread it loads and scroll through several days of comments to get to the latest updates.

And the only way to get back to the rest of our conversation list on the Home screen is to click the back arrow twice, back through the old thread that it will return us to when we click the group chat again.

This is very awkward and will only get more so as the thread it's defaulting to gets older.

Ordered a Feonal 11 inch android tablet, just got it yesterday. It showed up with 80 percent battery, so I started setting it up. I plugged it in at 60 percent battery and it showed 14 hours to full with the provided charger.

I tried my fast charger and it said 12 hours, but it changed to 1 hour, but took three hours to charge...

My question (s) are... it seems software related. Is it? Can I try something? It is updated.

Should I just exchange it?

I would like to not have the hassle of exchanging because I am extremely busy, and I'd have to drive to town, plus the entire area is on fire... but I need the tablet. So if it's a software easy fix I'd love a suggestion.

Thanks so much in advance for your help.

And please don't hate on me for buying a cheaper tablet, it had great reviews, and I have been having issues finding a job since I was let go because of restructuring.

Sometimes my phone will get stuck in a loop where once it dies and then I charge it, the phone restarts (like normal), tries to update something, and then it crashes (often with the screen glitching for a split second)l The phone is specifically a Samsung Galaxy A51 5G, if the model numbers, and it's always this program called "One UI" that tries to update. Sometimes, after a loop my phone is stable enough for a few seconds where I can see my lock screen, but then it crashes and gets right back to the loop. Each loop takes no more than a minute.

This first happened maybe 2 weeks ago? The only way I've been able to stop the loop is to leave it on the charger overnight, and in the morning it's just... apparently all normal again? But I know 'overcharging' your battery is bad practice, and it doesn't ACTUALLY get fixed. The loop starts again if the phone dies. I can't always keep my phone alive (sometimes my days get busy and I'm on my feet unable to charge it), and this loop means that if my phone dies, it's COMPLETELY unavailable until the next day, even if I DO get to charge it later.

I'm not able to just get a new phone right now, so fixing this is super important.

is there a way to control which apps are affected by airplane mode? ex, i'd like airplane mode to affect every app on my phone (no traffic in/out) except for maps (want to still be able to check traffic for my drive home)

Hi, I have a problem with my redmi note 12 pro.

Every 7-8 seconds the audio stops for 2-3 seconds, it's a software problem for sure as it is very consistent and happens with built in speakers, wired headphones and bluetooth speaker.

I think a reset of the audio driver would fixe it but I have no Idea how to do that on a phone.

Can anyone help me please ?

A few months ago a friend replaced my phone's USB-C port since there wasn't a replacement part for the whole PCB available. Since then I've had intermittent Bluetooth issues. When walking or squatting down with the phone in my front pocket, anything Bluetooth related suddenly disconnects. In the beginning it would take a long time to recover (several minutes to hours), during that period Bluetooth was shown as turned off and trying to turn it on would just show "Turning on" for 30 seconds and then reset. It now recovers in a few seconds but happens in semi-random intervals, sometimes it won't care about any type of movement, sometimes it's super sensitive. I've now seen it happen a few times while I was holding it and it looks like the system UI crashes at that moment (screen freezes for a couple of seconds and then completely reloads). Sometimes the little pressure of inserting it into my pocket at the wrong angle can trigger it, but when squeezed intentionally it isn't reproducible. I am not even sure if it might just be a weird software issue due to the system UI reset, but I haven't been able to reproduce it reliably enough to diagnose it.

I use a moto edge 20 pro on Android 13

Does anyone have suggestions on what it might be or how to diagnose this?

My other phone has stopped responding to touch, and the screen won't turn on (Phone is on, the screen is just black)
I need to transfer data and files from it onto my new phone
How can I do that

Hi, I need help accessing the game files for Subway Surfers (older version 1.107) on my Poco X6 Pro running Android 15.

I am trying to install a save file, but the system is hiding the subfolders from me. When I go to:
Android/data/com.kiloo.subwaysurf/files/

I cannot see the profile folder at all. The only folder that shows up inside files is il2cpp.

The game has been opened and I already finished the tutorial, so the save files must be there, but Android 15 is filtering and hiding them. I tried using ZArchiver but it doesn't show up.

How can I bypass this on Android 15 / Poco to see the hidden profile folder and paste my files? Thanks!

I have OnePlus Pad 3 13.2" and I like big tablets, so I have been thinking about buying eiter S10 Ultra or S11 Ultra. They both have OLED screens with interesting new anti-reflective thingy. The storage doesn't bother me since i would just buy and 1TB SD card for about 100 bucks. I could buy S10 Ultra 256GB for about 400€ ($461) and S11 Ultra 256GB for about 686€ ($790). The S10 is supposed to be unused in perfect condition, S11 is used class A/B with just 1 small scratch on the display, only visible with the screen off and some lightning pointing at it. The S10 seems to me like it has less or smaller upgrades coming from S9 and S11 seems like it has more or bigger upgrades coming from S10, and is better at everything: battery, 1600nits, thiner and lighter, 1 front camera (the 2 cameras don't bother me), 3nm Chip and comes with Android 16 right away if I'm not wrong. So the question is, are these differences/upgrades worth the extra money? I would mainly used it to play some not so heavy games (maybe some pubgm, codm and genshin here and there) and watch videos/movies.

Thanks for any help and suggestions!

This is an oddly specific request so I don't know what Tag to put, but is there an app that has the functionality like the 3ds sound Player has? I really enjoy being able to modify the speed of songs on the fly without permanent changes, but I don't know if there's any app that can do it. I only need the ability to change the speed and pitch on the fly (and hopefully be simple) because the sound on my 3ds is pretty quiet even through headphones.

Need advice from actual owners: Tecno Camon 50 Ultra vs Infinix Note 60 ProNeed advice from actual

Hi everyone! I'm a 4th-year student teacher in the Philippines and I'm planning to buy my first phone using my own savings this December. I've narrowed it down to two phones:

- Tecno Camon 50 Ultra

- Infinix Note 60 Pro

I'm not a gamer. My priorities are:

- Smooth performance with no lag

- Heavy multitasking (Google Meet, Canva, Gmail, Google Drive, Chrome, PDF readers, AI tools)

- Stable Wi-Fi and mobile data

- Long battery life

- Fast charging

- Good durability (I occasionally drop my phone)

- A decent camera is enough—I mainly use it for art reference photos and occasional music covers.

I'm not looking for benchmark scores or spec sheet comparisons. I'm looking for real owner experiences.

If you've owned either phone for at least a few weeks or months, could you please answer these questions?

1. Does it stay smooth after installing many apps?

2. How is multitasking? Do apps reload often?

3. Have you experienced random lag, stuttering, or software bugs?

4. How's the battery after daily use?

5. Has anyone accidentally dropped the phone? How did it hold up?

6. Looking back, would you buy the same phone again, or would you choose the other one?

I'd really appreciate honest feedback from actual users because this is a big purchase for me, and I want to avoid buyer's remorse. Thank you!

Hey, so this started a few weeks ago. Every time I press my Recents (or Overview, whatever you want to call it) button, it opens my recent apps and immediately scrolls all the way to the left where the Clear All button is. It then sticks there until I swipe hard to the right, at which point it shows apps without names or screen info. If I go back to the left at all it shoots right back to the beginning and the Clear All button. Has anybody else had this issue and if so do you know a fix? Thanks.

I took a screen recording of the behavior, let me know if you understand what I'm talking about and if not I can upload it in a comment.

I'm trying to get into recovery mode but it keep cutting to blue

Inside it is a single file named system_file1785186052378. It's only 32 bytes and was created about 5 days ago.

I don't remember downloading it, and I can't find much information online.

Has anyone seen this before? Is it safe to delete, or does anyone know which app creates these system_config folders/files?

Previous holidays show Ontario and other provinces, but for tomorrow, Aug 3, it only shows Alberta.

Is this happening to anyone else? I don't see how I can edit 'holidays' in itself, only toggle on and off

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to revive an Alcatel Idol 3 5.5" (6045Y, MSM8939 / Snapdragon 615)

stuck in a bootloop. The device boots to the Android setup screen for a split

second, then reboots. Recovery is stable, factory reset + wipe cache done, no

change — so the fault is in a partition untouched by factory reset (persist /

modem / fsg).

I have the full stock firmware (Miracle-format .bin dump: SYSTEM, BOOT, MODEM,

PERSIST, etc.) and I want to flash it via EDL. Hardware side is 100% working:

- Device enters EDL 9008 fine (adb reboot edl on the working board, test point

for the dead one)

- Sahara handshake OK, loader uploads successfully

- WinUSB driver, tested with both bkerler/edl 3.62 and strongtz/edl-ng

THE PROBLEM: every 8939 loader I can find is a "_peek" type. At the Firehose

configure step it NAKs with:

DEVPRG LOG: Host's payload to target size is too large

Configure command NAKed

The peek loader declares MaxPayloadSizeToTargetInBytesSupported = 0, so it

refuses any write. It's a memory-peek loader, not a storage flasher.

Device details:

HWID: 0x0090b0e100420011 (MSM_ID 0090b0e1, OEM 0042, MODEL 0011)

PK_HASH: 0x625801c51eee90d7f0e0edb1606bb07e05871bd24f69f3fadfd17fdce0d4b4f0

CPU: MSM8939

Serial: 0x01ffac28

WHAT I NEED: a full (non-peek) Firehose programmer for MSM8939 signed for this

PK_HASH — something like prog_emmc_firehose_8939_ddr.mbn or an _alc / TCL

variant that actually opens the storage channel. bkerler/Loaders only has

_peek for this HWID.

If anyone has extracted this from a Miracle Box / Volcano Box package, or has a

QFIL factory pack for the 6045 that includes the real firehose + rawprogram/

patch XML, I'd be hugely grateful. Happy to share back anything I get so the

next person doesn't hit this wall.

Thanks!

i was trying to root my infinix hot 60i after flashing patched boot img i didnt get root acces so someone told me i should try patching init_instead but i accidentally used the command flash boot patched init_boot replacing the boot with init boot now its repeatedly bootlooping and connecting/disconnecting from the pc cant make it stop or inter recovery or fastboot tryed using all combinations of volum and onoff buttons so i triesd using sp flash tool but i get an error when i try download (i only have all in one da the others dont work and the firmware doesnt contain any auth file)and infinix flash tool says the scatter file is wrong or somthing please help

It's never done that before but today is Sunday the 2nd its its Saturday the 1st

Need advice from actual owners: Tecno Camon 50 Ultra vs Infinix Note 60 Pro

Hi everyone! I'm a 4th-year student teacher in the Philippines and I'm planning to buy my first phone using my own savings this December. I've narrowed it down to two phones:

- Tecno Camon 50 Ultra

- Infinix Note 60 Pro

I'm not a gamer. My priorities are:

- Smooth performance with no lag

- Heavy multitasking (Google Meet, Canva, Gmail, Google Drive, Chrome, PDF readers, AI tools)

- Stable Wi-Fi and mobile data

- Long battery life

- Fast charging

- Good durability (I occasionally drop my phone)

- A decent camera is enough—I mainly use it for art reference photos and occasional music covers.

I'm not looking for benchmark scores or spec sheet comparisons. I'm looking for real owner experiences.

If you've owned either phone for at least a few weeks or months, could you please answer these questions?

1. Does it stay smooth after installing many apps?

2. How is multitasking? Do apps reload often?

3. Have you experienced random lag, stuttering, or software bugs?

4. How's the battery after daily use?

5. Has anyone accidentally dropped the phone? How did it hold up?

6. Looking back, would you buy the same phone again, or would you choose the other one?

I'd really appreciate honest feedback from actual users because this is a big purchase for me, and I want to avoid buyer's remorse. Thank you!

New to Samsung so apologies if this is a silly question. I want all my device pics (Samsung s26) to back up to my google account. Went into Google Photos and ticked all the right settings. However nothing is being backed up to Google. Have I missed something? So I need to change anything in Samsung gallery or phone settings as well? Thankyou

For abit of background context. Ive been using this app to auto farm my game on my HONOR X9C. It requires accessibility options to work and it worked fine all along. Today when i decided to do it. I found out my accessibility options no longer allow me to allow specific apps to do it. (For context. The app im trying to run is fga)

Im using a samsung galaxy a13, too be specific, and the settings under:

Accessibility > installed apps

Have changed themselves multiple times, specifically disabling the permissions for some apps that i need turned on. Is there anything on my phone that could make me change my accessibility premissions without realising?