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Hi everyone,

Recently an issue has begun where my phone will start playing a random video's audio, and the only thing that will stop it is restarting. Even if I close all open apps, press "clear all," the audio won't stop.

It's very, very annoying to have to restart my phone just to stop something from playing. I'm not 100% sure which app it could be, but I'm sure it's audios from my own personal videos based on what I can hear.

I'm also worried that one day, something might play that I don't want people to hear, like where I'm saying something personal, etc. And in general, it's very awkward to just have my phone start emitting sounds out of nowhere in certain situations.

I would greatly appreciate some help🥹

Hi. I'm looking for a way to speed up a game's "simulated speed" to run at 2x or 3x speed. To clarify, I am NOT looking for ways to get better performance or FPS on said game. Performance is not the issue. Think of it like running a video at 2x speed. So the animations, tick rate, game logic, etc would be running faster.

I know it is possible on certain games on PC by using apps such as cheat engine, but is such a thing possible on Android? And if so, does it need root access? Thank you!

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Hey all as the title says I've recently switched back to android from apple (after 8 years) and I've been looking for ways to get my sticker collection that I built over with ios ontoy s26u. I've tried to use photo emoji but every time I attempt to create a new sticker even with a photo downloaded online photo emoji critical errors out. I've tried a cache clear and seeing if there's a forced update anywhere out there but no luck. Any tips or ideas on how to finally nip this in the bud and get my sticker collection over? any help would be amazing.

(I should mention that I have all of the photos that I used for stickers on iOS on my iPhone and I'm more than willing to recreate new ones over here but as stated before I am not able to even get a sticker to be made rn (current version of Gboard) and google messages )

so I noticed my battery is dieing fast and I don't want to do it like to live on charger if I take it off it dies fast I move all the tabs and still does it

battery health says great life 99%

I have been having this frustrating issue for a long time, and I believe, based on my research, so have many other people with pixels or samsungs across different car models (chevys, bmws, minis, lucids..). This makes me think the issue is Android Auto. At least, it needs to be investigated by Google. 

The messages disappear randomly when the phone is connected to Android Auto. These are messages to both ios and android recipients with RCS turned on. I want to believe it happens to recently written or received messages, but it may very well be happening to much older conversations that I don't pay attention.

It is very frustrating; these messages could be related to work, from loved ones, could be time sensitive and important. I tried to progress with google support, however, it seems the support is handled by AI assistants, and they don't go anywhere. I troubleshooted greatly, by disabling messages on Android Auto, disabling message integration with the car's infotainment system, and by turning off notifications. Nothing has helped. 

I am hoping that with more and more people sharing their experiences, Google will start paying attention to exploring this frustrating and important issue.

I just got my Pixel 10 after being an iPhone user for 15+ years. One major aspect of the transition I'm trying to figure out is selecting a new photo app. Hashphotos is something I've been using for the past couple years and has an extremely intuitive UI, with one especially fantastic feature being the private albums. I've been googling to find similar apps and tried Simple Gallery, Fossify Gallery, Slidebox, and A+ Gallery and none of them had a similar layout especially when it came to setting up multiple private albums. Also important to me is that photos can be stored locally.

For anyone who made a similar transition from iOS to Android and used Hashphotos, were you able to find a similar gallery app?

I have A LOT of texts and some from people who unfortunately aren't here anymore so I wanna make sure all my texts get transfered over.

has anyone else made the switch and if so, did everything transfer or were you missing stuff?

I have a file folder that is being altered without my permission and deleting my files once they hit around a month of age. I have good reason to think that this is caused by the Auto-Optimization setting on my phone. However, it is apparently impossible to turn this setting off. Is there a way to tell my phone not to delete items in certain files? This is really annoying.

I saw that i had a google play update avaliable so i clicked restart now and it got to the optimizing apps screen and when it was like at 85% the screen went black and booted up again to the optimizing apps screen and when it reached 100% it restarted again and now is stuck on the powered by android screen (i already the volume down + power button ) and tried the same thing by plugging it to my laptop using a usb cable , the only thing it did was restart again back to the samsung galaxy screen and then back to the powered by android screen and it has been stuck like for the last two hours

I'd like my phone to ring if I get a call from a WhatsApp contact while I have Do Not Disturb enabled.

At the moment I have added the contact to my favorites, WhatsApp to the applications that can send the notification.

so the display turns on but it doesn't vibrate or even make a sound, the only way is to activate the notification sound, but doing so I find myself whatever I'm active .

Do you have any suggestions for getting this to work? I'm also open to installing new apps.

Android 16

Motorola Moto G Power 2025

I'd love to be able to schedule my phone to automatically reboot on a specific schedule. I cannot find anything in settings or an app that allows me to do it.

Is it possible, and if so, how please?

Thanks for reading!

-Z

I use Fine Lock because my phone isn't compatible with Good Lock, And even though I don't use it, I don't have a time with depth or that shape-changing font for wallpapers. thx!!

Currently have a p9p6 & a mmoo6, and Nova is fully functional,I think 🤔. I know now many of the Chinese phones don't play nicely with Nova. I am looking for feedback, Samsung is not an option, too much app duplication😔. How about OnePlus or Nord?

**Disclaimer: The phone is damaged slightly, so its probably soooomehow partially that, but I can't for the life of me think of how that even makes sense so im askin anyway.**

Its been happening for a pretty long time now, so im not sure when exactly it started. Ive just lived with it, but im feelin curious so here I am. I honestly cannot remember if it was a thing before the damage - I only really started using my phone for audio frequently right around that same day.

**The Issue:** When my phone is playing audio of any kind through any output method, it slowly lowers the volume over a long period of time until it goes entirely silent and will keep playing the media even if silent. The volume goes back up to wherever I had set it as soon as I pick the phone up and move it sufficiently.

So if im using a BT speaker while cleanin and set my phone down to charge, ill need to periodically go pick it up and set it down when the music gets too quiet.

Or if I am listening to an audiobook with wired or wireless headphones and folding laundry. The narration will get quieter and quieter until I realize im struggling to hear and then I shake my phone a sec and the volume suddenly snaps back to full and im good for a bit.

Using an aux cable, wired headphones, BT headphones, and BT speakers all produce the same issue. I am unsure about the phone speaker as I damaged it and its not worth using anymore.

It doesn't happen if im walking with the phone in my pocket getting jostled around, and wont happen in a bumpy car ride. It can happen in an especially smooth and bounce free car ride, though. Any time the phone isn't being jostled, the invisible timer begins.

Ive gone alllll over my sound settings and looked for various options and features I found while Googling the issue but all those settings are either off or not on my device.

Ideas? Even if the answer is the physical damage - any guesses as to what kind of damage to what part(s) could cause such an odd issue?

I'm trying to run windows on an android tablet using limbo x86 I have everything except the windows 10.qcow2 file I need to make it work. I'm a dumb ass and have no clue how or where to get it. and no, I don't have a PC. Where and how do I get it?

I have a vivo x7 with a Chinese rom and I need help switching it to a global one. I'm not tech savvy but any help would be appreciated, I got no clue where to go with this so hopefully mods don't take me down

It is extremely annoying. I only use it when I can't type on my phone screen, so it keeps taking screenshots of my home screen and the AI assistant spews slop that is rarely related to what I actually need.

how do I turn the screenshot feature off?

Specs don’t seem to matter as much anymore for everyday use. So what do you personally look for now? Battery, camera, design, software?