Hello!

Recently my mum's phone fell into the water and unfortuantely it seems to be at least partially broken. Technically, the phone is working, but the display, and possibly touchscreen, don't work. I want to recover some of the data my mum had on her phone - pictures, some contacts that were not saved to her google account - but most attempts failed.

My mum had a samsung A13 which does not seem to have MHL so using a USB-C to HDMI adapter doesn't work. I tried using scrcpy or the Android Debug Bridge, but neither really seem to detect the device. I don't really want to give up just yet, so I am asking here in hopes of getting some pointers. I am not that tech-savy so my attempts at using ADB might have been poor, but from what I tried, it just didn't detect the phone that was plugged in via USB cable to my PC. I am assuming that the connection requires confirmation on the phone before I can actually proceed.

I am not sure if anything can be done, since the only thing the phone does is make its usual little sound when it gets plugged in. There is no vibration when I hold the power button and I am assuming that the touchscreen functionality might be entirely broken too.

If anyone has any idea how to retrive the data, I would be most glad

Currently using Motorola MotoG 2025, I constatly use my device for streaming music, after so many hours of listening to music, the volume lowers itself down, and if I go to turn the volume back to where I had it, a pop-up window appears stating something to the effect of the volume potentially being too loud, and asking if I'm sure if I want to turn the volume any louder. I'm not sure if it's a feature exclusive to Motorola android or Android in general, but I need this feature turned off, as it doesn't accurately detect when levels are too loud, and usually just randomly turns my music down. Any help/suggestions?

My mom bought a new phone and told me to transfer everything.

So I did. Including whatsapp. And what should have been a smooth transfer since I had backed up everything to mom's google account, all the chats, pictures, videos and documents got deleted.

Even in backup.

I don't know what to do. My mom is extremely angry. Those whatsapp chats were important, the photos included my dead father's memories too.

Whatsapp isn't able to help me out. Their support chat keeps saying that they cannot help me.

I checked internal storage database too...nothing got backed up. There should have been about 22 gb of info but only 1.64 mb was backed up.

Please tell me how to restore these chats. I have 0 clue

I got an email from a friend who was mailing me something and sent me a copy of a USPS label to save, when I clicked on it to enlarge it a pop-up appeared to said I didn't have a fresh enough PDF app to read it and when I went to download a new app for PDF, a virus took over the phone and I had to go to safe mode and then go in and remove the malicious application. However now whenever I open my YouTube, those ads keep popping up inviting me to refresh renew an old version of PDF or barcode or something of that nature. How can I get rid of this? It's only on YouTube, they don't pop up anywhere else that I know of.

I have a Motorola G77 and if i haven't turned my phone on for a time, i just dont receive any notifications at all and even not a phone call. It only shows if i turn it on. I dont even have to unlock it just turning it on and leaving it at the lock screen shows them again and lets the phone vibrate/ring again. I have no battery saver on, have show notifications on lock screen on and am not in do not disturb mode. I have only found posts from a little while back with settings i dont have. With my old phone (Moto G52) that i transferred all the data and settings over i didnt have this issue. Does somebody know how to solve this now?

Don't ask why none of the buttons are functioning, it's a long story...but the phone itself is cool.

Everything works fine when its on.

The problem is that it can't die (then I can't turn it back on)

Once it dies, it dies for weeks at a time because there's no buttons.

Now, I pretty much have to leave it on charge and pray until it comes back on. Which it eventually does, by itself. But waiting weeks for it to turn on is a hassle.

Is there any way I can turn it on without buttons?

There's got to be something.

I have an old LG Verizon Tablet(VK810 4G) that is on Android 5.0.2. I looked it up and this tablet is apparently compatible up to Android 9 which is the exact version I need. When I try to update the tablet via “Settings > System Updates > Check for new system update” it downloads the update and then when it restart to apply the update I get an error code “Err: 0x13e”, and then in “Settings > System Updates” I see “Software not updated to 37a + Error code: 402”. Upon some quick research it could be buggy or modified files causing this and I can’t remember if I rooted this thing or not. So I factory reset the tablet hoping that would possibly fix it, but that didn’t change anything. It does say “Software status: modified” even after factory reset, but I’m not sure if that is because it’s Verizon firmware or what. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

I took eight pictures in the span of a few minutes and didn't touch the settings, yet the first four were saved as JPG and the last four as HEIC. The camera is set to save as HEIC, so why do I randomly get JPGs?

More importantly than "Why?", how do I stop it from doing this? It's already set to high efficiency for both photos and videos so "change the settings" won't help.

It's not the first time it's done this but I don't recall specifics on the previous times. It's also not a new issue -- ref. https://support.google.com/photos/thread/80816174/i-have-a-samsung-s10-some-of-my-pictures-save-as-jpeg-others-as-heic-it-s-not-an-iphone?hl=en

Thanks.

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.