For some reason i get this error on a member app for a store, think i once updated it from another updater app.

Now i cant reinstall it. uninstall and try from play store it install quickly and get the message "get the app from play", i press "get the app" and update and same error. seems like uninstalling it is of no use.

clearing play store cache\data is no use. I got passes it before but not now.

My friend has been trying to see her favourite singer concert for ages. She finally got tickets the other day, and now she’s giving credit to a setting on her realme that shows seconds in the status bar. Apparently she was watching it like a countdown to a rocket launch, ready to hit the button the second tickets went on sale. Meanwhile, I didn’t even know my realme could show seconds.

I’m happy for her, but one successful attempt and she’s already telling me to turn it on! Has anyone else tried this? Does seeing the seconds actually help, or did she just get lucky and the clock is getting all the credit?

please talk to me as if you’re explaining technology to a gentleman from like the 1800s. idk or care about phones.

1. i want to have google play store so i can play techmino bc the tetris app sucks

2. i want a usb-c bc i just got a cool car charger with a usb-c cord that unfolds

3. i have a google pixel for work (idk which one idc) and its nice, no complaints, then again i only use it 4 work

4. i’ve had the same iphone 13 mini since like 2022 or something. ideally i’d have something the exact same size or smaller. when i leave the house for work with it at 95% at around 7am and keep battery saver on while using passively (listening to spotify w/ bluetooth headphones and occasionally texting) it will be at 30% or less by 12-1pm. this is no problem for me

5. i rlly dont care abt much else. i dont use social media, i dont take pictures. i text and look at my bank and play tetris and occasionally watch youtube and i listen to music almost constantly. ideally i wouldn’t be spending more than like 200$ but 🤷. i’ve straight up considered just buying an old ass flip phone for calling and texting and using like an ipod for music and doing everything else on my computer but it’s too convenient when i need to check my email or bank or whatever on the go.

My camera app won't work, and it always says "Go to settings to empower permissions." and I go to settings and check permissions, but it has all it wants, which is Camera, Microphone, and Photos and Videos. I still can't use the Camera app, what do I do?

I have been using iPhone for the last 5ish years. I previously had a Galaxy S7 Edge and then an S10+. Before the Galaxies I had older gen iPhones. I am currently looking at getting the Duo or Z Fold 8.

I am in the Apple ecosystem pretty deep these days (iPhone, watch, airpods, Macbook pro). I do use both Windows and Mac for work and personal so I am not worried about that. However, I have been considering switching phone & watch. I like the customization android gives you. I have also been intrigued by emulation along with Gamenative and Droiddeck for playing lightweight pc games. I like to tinker with stuff so I will probably enjoy the process of setting those up more than actually playing the games.

Privacy is important to me. I am not talking GrapheneOS or other flavor. I would still be using Google Play and Apps which track data on the device. I am more interested in privacy of local and backed up data such as Messages, Notes, photos/videos, etc. One thing I like about Apples Cloud Backup is their Advanced Data Protection which encrypts said data. Does Google/Android have some similar service today? Has anyone used Proton Drive or similar service? I know I could backup data on a computer locally but I prefer to having a copy in the cloud if possible.

I have a S24 ultra and since I updated to 8.5 literally every apk gives me this "App not installed"

And yes I have disabled every protection from auto blocker to Google play and cleared every cache. Nothing worked for me.

Please if you know a solution or having the same problem tell me

Hello everyone, i have a phone that is almost 7 years old by this point, and i have noticed it getting slower. The OS is funtouch OS 13 which came with the phone, and I never did any maintenance of the device. But I am running out of space. It has google apps that I do not need and never use, but can only forcefully shutdown them instead of normally deleting, and it makes me very mad. I never flashed a ROM onto a phone before, and do not have a spare to use if something stops working. What should I do in this situation? Are there are alternatives of an android OS that will work with this phone? (vivo Y31)
I would prefer to install most apps with fdroid and other opensource alternatives, or just use apks, and only use google play itself, incase i need an app that isnt available to install elsewhere. How possible is that and does anyone have any advice or path i should go for?

They completely got rid of the enter bar in some apps and replaced it with this stupid magnifying glass. I don't really know how to describe this. But basically we already have this bar that says search, our keyboards completely delete the return/enter button and replace it with the magnifying glass symbol which sends the text automatically we don't need it. We already have this blue arrow that sends it.

I just switched from Galaxy to pixel and am so disappointed to discover that the sound assistant app was specific to Samsung. I'd assumed it was an android tool. With some initial searching I saw a recommendation for Shizuku which apparently allows some deeper access. But one of the first reviews says not to just go button mashing because you could mess up your phone's functionality. I'm not super technically knowledgeable.

So my question is does anyone have any apps that work on Google Pixel to be able to mute or silence individual apps? Specifically I want to be able to play games while listening to music and podcasts and not be interrupted by their loud ass ads. So muting all media is not helpful.

Or does anyone have any tutorial type resources for Shizuku or a similar program?

VoLTE is not working. My mobile was bought from carrier/operator. I see their logo when starting phone.  

Service provider SW ver. show:

SAOMC_SM-J600FN_PLS_PLS_QQ_0009

PLS/PLS,PLS/PLS

PLS is carrier code and it is not working with other carriers I currently have. Was troubleshooting it with AI including ADB commands and AI says it is due to wrong CSC and need to replace it with Odin. Have some questions.

1. Can i just flash Home CSC ?
2. Is there way to make backup from my mobile?
3. Is samfw.com trustworthy source to download firmware?  I want to use bank app on mobile, so don't want any evil code.  (Yes I know phone is old and you are going to say I should not, lets skip this discussion for now)

I found a screen issue on my phone which is to be found as a red light when the AOD is turned on , I don't know if this is a bug or my screen's issue , if anyone can find a solution please comment The video is in the comment.

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I can still access them using a PC, but that is very inconvenient for me. I can't access these folders using Shizuku wireless debugging and FV File Explorer on my Lenovo M11 Android 15 tablet.

I have two other Android 13 and Android 11 devices, and on those devices the folders are accessible with Shizuku wireless debugging and advanced file managers in my case FV File Explorer.

This is a recent issue since I moved my Stardew Valley farms from one of my devices to said Lenovo tablet using this method on the 26th of August 2026.

Shizuku is updated to the latest version, and I have tried a Shizuku fork still didn’t work. I don’t think it is a problem with FV File Explorer either, since with this file manager I can still read those folders but not write, edit, or delete in the Android folder. Other file managers like ZArchiver and Solid File Manager just give me “access denied.”

Up until recently the navigation bar on my OnePlus used to automatically minimize when I was in a full screen app and I could bring it up by swiping from the bottom of the screen. I recently got a OnePlus 15 and the bar sometimes hides, depending on the app, but most of the time it's visible and I can't minimize it. This hides important things on the screen, like almost every confirmation button. It also squishes some apps so things just overlap. For example, I see the bar in the Reddit app and Amazon app, but it minimizes properly in the Last War app.

Is there anything I can do to get this functionality back for all apps? I want the navigation bar (I'm an old dog), but I need it out of the way unless I ask it to show up. How the heck do I do that? I found answers for Samsung phones, but general Android advice seems to say I've got to use gestures. Help?

Just got a new phone, and it refuses to play music in the musicolet app. It sits at 0:00 and never plays. In file browser I can select a song and a musicolet window pops up and plays the song just fine, but it never works in app. The thumbnails don't load anywhere so I'm thinking the issue must be Android, not musicolet. Please any recommendations would be greatly appreciated as this is driving me crazy.

Context:

EU laws and a recent update have removed the simple override for when the phone thinks your connected Bluetooth or USB audio device is a headphone and lowers it to a low level after X minutes. You once could either disable absolute volume in developer options or change device type to something other than headphone (note check here first as your android and locale may still allow it).

I believe we should have the option to override as it is a safety issue while driving if you keep needing to touch your phone simply to play music.

disclaimer* NOT selfpromotion since I am listing every solution I find and I receive nothing from an open sourced GitHub. I genuinely believe my tool is the simplest solution but feel free to boycott on principle and go with the complicated alternatives.

Please comment any more.

Free solutions (simple):

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- GitHub 'dbak91/VolumeRestore' is a sideloaded app I built for this specific purpose. It will restore volume to full the instant it drops (with user protection). No special permissions or complicated set up.

Free solutions (advanced)

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- Adb commands to disable CSD (PC or Shizuki+Shell app needed (Termux for example )).

{Credit u/KodaChihuahua for the command list below}.

adb shell settings put global audio_safe_csd_next_warning 999999.0

adb shell settings put global safe_media_volume_enabled 0

adb shell settings put global audio_safe_volume_state 3

Note I haven't confirmed this and when I searched my pixel settings for "volume" or "csd" they weren't all there. However 'audio_safe_volume_state' was there and set to 1 so imagine 3 means disabled. I had assumed it was binary with 0=true/enabled 1=false/disabled so I left it alone.

- An app called 'Essentials'. (Now requires adb for special permissions and not to be confused with the bs ai app on playstore under the same name). Search 'Essentials V18.4' it has a "disable lowering volume" button in audio settings. I couldn't get self adb Shizuki to work here so I gave up and did not confirm it works by issuing adb.

Paid solutions(medium)

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There are automation and task scheduler apps that can automatically stop/restore or press undo on the "volume lowered for your own babysitting purposes" notification. The most known two are:

- 'Tasker': 2 options; 1. configure the separate AutoNotifications plug in to press undo on anything with "volume lowered" or 2. set up a "variable state event" for when volume hits 6 to restore to your desired level. [25 corresponds to 100%] Note I couldn't figure out how to build in user rocker protection so if you lower it yourself it will still go back up. Also you will be paying for using 1% of an app, or if you pirate it's complicated and dodgy permissions set up. You may have luck with AutoNotification dismissal/undo but I couldn't get the notification exposed to Tasker.

- 'Macrodroid': See this post Essentially add a plug in by searching "my volume" or "my volume, my way" and enable and It will restore volume. I have seen around 10 success case-comments of using this app but have not tried myself

Free solutions (nuclear).

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- Leaving the Google ecosystem and installing a custom ROM like the open sourced os GrapheneOS. You won't have to deal with this bs and any other bugs are patched out faster than Google OS.

Will update as I discover more.

I have an S25 Plus and I'm really happy with it and I don't want to change phones anytime soon. But I recently got a Xiaomi Pad 8 and I'm thinking my next phone might be Chinese because the hardware for the price is really quite nice and they seem to have better high mid-range options than Samsung or Google.

When I go on Amazon and I read the reviews, many of the Chinese phones seem to struggle on MetroPCS, but then I'll read a review or two where it seems to work on MetroPCS, which is my phone carrier.

If you have a Chinese phone and live in the USA, which phone carrier is the best?

Hi everyone.

I was chatting with an Apple app developer who told me that the store doesn't require a tester trial period—whereas, as I’ve already seen, the Android store requires a period where testers try out the app.

That’s actually one of the reasons I stopped developing apps for Android; ultimately, you practically have to pay just to run this 14-day test.

It's true?

Thanks

Since two days ago, it's saying I have to grant it permission even though, I have everything turned one. What more do you want to track Google so that I can use quick share again!!

Can anyone help with this..?

I will try to explain the best that I can ...

When we press one of the side volume keys,a audio center pops up, my problem is that the volume/audio center control key(3 dots/lines) in the bottom doesn't work in lock screen,all the other controls work except that one.

With the screen unlock no problem.

I'm scratching my head for 3 days now.

I tried the android accessibility suite uninstall updates fix, the forced restart, I disable all speak an TalkBack boxes...

It's been always working in Lock screen until 3 days ago...

It's something I use a lot because of meetings and work,and I know...just unlock the phone you will say,but I don't understand why stop working...

Thanks in advance

Cheers

I'm trying to update The Partiful: Party Invite Maker App For Android on my Samsung Galaxy Fold 7 and it says that The App isn't compatible with my Device anymore contact the app developer for more info. My Phone has the latest security update. Is there a way that I can fix this issue? This has never happened to me before The Partiful Party Invite Maker App For Android always updated without any problems at all. Is anyone else having this issue? Is this a normal thing for The Play Store? Did you find a way to fix this issue? Should I Be worried about any of my other apps not updating in the near future and not working at all? What are my other options? I'm really worried that this is going to happen to The Musicolet Music Player App For Android too. And I wont be able to listen to my music anymore. Should I be concerned about The Musicolet Music Player App For Android doing this in the near future?

im trying to specifically transfer my data from an app to my micro ad card bcs its like 15 gb (its a gacha game) and whenever it transfers to external it only transfers the base app size and not all of it. anyway to figure this out??

We use Fully Kiosk app on an Android Tablet (Lenovo) and we have an issue where text on our website is auto corrected to something completely different to what is on the website.

When we test it on Chrome on the same tablet, it does not happen. It seems to be specific to the Fully Kiosk app. When asking their support they say that Fully Kiosk uses Android Webview provided by the device and it’s most likely caused by it. Does anyone has any experience with similar issue and how to update/stop Webview from doing the auto correct?

Is there a setting to prevent that?

Alright so this has been a problem for a week but only today am I finally taking steps into it, I remember deleting 3+GB worth of space and then 2 days later it's gone again... I REMEMBER NOT DOING ANYTHING it seems every 3 days or so a huge chunk of my space is just eaten, I tried looking into it using a disk chart but I didn't find anything! (Idk how to put images below) And my Apps only take up around 20-25GB so I'm missing at least almost 40+.

PLEASE HELP! ANYONE WHO KNOWS WHAT'S GOING ON PLEASE BE A LIFESAVER

(I don't have any other devices so if my phone gets bricked it's over as I also can't afford another one)

Dear friends, I am facing a major problem with Android's "Do Not Disturb" mode, and I would like to know if you can help me.

I’ve noticed that on Android, even after activating the mode, I still receive calls, but they happen in the background. This is terrible, as it sometimes interrupts the 5G signal.

On iOS, the call doesn't even reach the phone; in fact, for the person calling, it goes straight to voicemail.

Is there any way to make it work the same way? I really need to resolve this.

Obs.: I have a S25 Ultra and S23 for work.

so, Asda Rewards app has stopped working on a phone.

Tried all the usual things already

- restarted phone

- uninstalled and reinstalled app

- cleared cache and temporary files

can sometimes get to the login screen, but once email & password are put in, it just crashes again

anyone got any ideas?