Hello

I'm writing here because I hope someone could help me. My mom sadly passed away at the end of june and I have her phone with me. The Problem is I don't know her pin and she didn't write it down anywhere. I looked through every piece of paper I could find.

Is there any way to get around it? I'd really like to recover some of her photos and messages.

I already went to a tech shop but they told me they couldn't do anything. Would be sad to just leave it laying around with potential memories on it.

Thank y'all in advance!

I want to buy a used S26 ultra but the fact that the microphone has been serviced is bothering me but at the same price I can buy a brand new s25 ultra. So what should I do now. Can u guys help me out

I used to help my grandma delete her wrongly sent messages when I visited her. Sometimes it was my cousins' certificates sent to the wrong group chats or something similar. You know what I mean, they’re private files that shouldn't be seen by the public. I used to delete those wrongly sent files from 2018 to 2025 by using these old tricks that never fail:

- Turn on Airplane Mode on your phone immediately to cut off internet and Wi-Fi.

- Go to your phone's Settings and find Date & Time.

- Turn off Set Automatically and manually change the clock back to the exact date and time the old message was originally sent.

- Force-close and reopen WhatsApp, then go to the specific chat.

- Tap and hold the old message, select Delete, and tap Delete for Everyone.

- Turn off Airplane Mode and restore your correct phone settings.

There's even a YouTube video explaining the methods needed for this: https://youtu.be/FtQQDturAfM?si=D9I18Kw6gvJ8Qd9j

So today, here's the problem. My grandma made the same mistake again, and I can't even delete the file anymore because this time, in 2026, WhatsApp automatically tells the account that the date and time are not correct and stops working. This prevents me from deleting the file from a month ago when I wasn't there to unsend it immediately.

My grandma definitely knew how to unsend a file because I taught her how to do it, but she thought the month before that she wanted to send the files. However, she recently changed her mind, so I couldn't help her like the usual times when I come to visit.

Any help or explanation is very much appreciated.

Dear Grandma, if you read this, I didn't write it to make fun of you or anything. I just wanted to find some help from the internet. I love you so much, Grandma. I wish you a long, blessed, and happy life. Amen.

So when I use my discord app on Android today I experienced fps/frame drops whenever I scroll through my server list or through the channel list on a server. I don't experience this on my other apps and I already tried clearing cache, restarting my phone, and switcing internet to no avail. Anyone else had experienced this?

Just this morning my pin suddenly no longer works, it wont accept the 4 digit pin I've always had.

I tried a forced restart multiple times, powering it off for minutes to hours, tried the pin in multiple different ways 1025, 10252525, 10251025, tried all the same number like 11111111 till 0 but nothing worked.

Has anyone experienced the same thing before and were you able to fix it? or a factory reset is my old option?

I want to mute my phone at 8am and unmute it at 4pm. I've gotten tired of doing that manually. I can't find a setting for that and all the apps i tried using changed the do not disturb feature not mute feature.

On previous OneUI versions I could have popups for apps and the notification on the drag down menu display, but hide the content of that message. For example, my one time authentication message recieved via text would display I have a new text, but not display the content of that text and therefore the authentication code.

I cant seem to turn this off now in 9?

I haven't upgraded to android since 2019 and I recently just got a new android phone and I really don't like the modern android sounds they're quite obnoxious and irritating.

Anyway to physically change them?

Please suggest a good and secure gallery app

I hate google photos for some reason I just can't merge albums or clutter pictures to one place in ts same with google gallery (pretty much not used to it)

Though I got to know bout aves , flossify and liquid gallery

Which one should I go for

Also please let me know that if the data would be secure in these or not (obvi I'll use one of them) and won't be co shared to any db server

Please help me man

let me start this off by stating I'm broke. which one should I get to last me at least the next 2 years as my one and only phone for work and life? the google pixel 9 pro fold, or the samsung galaxy Z fold3 5g for about half the price of the other?

ps: additionally I'm getting increasingly tired of samsung's oneUI shenanigans.

So basically, I currently have a Google Pixel 9, base model, and my phone has started to have issues with its charging port not fully connecting, but besides that, between me and my family, I'm the next person due for a new phone because of our plan or whatever, and so I'm trying to figure out what I should get.

I have about the same budget as my current phone to search for, so around $450, I can probably negotiate more or less or pitch in to get it.

Here are the my personal main requirements:

-Storage: 256gb storage (or more, currently at 128 and somehow is always full, I have all photos and videos on a 2TB Google cloud storage my family has, so it's not that, but having the next bump up should be great)

-Camera quality: I'm not sure why, but I feel like my friend with a Motorola Edge Plus 2023 has a better camera than my phone by far, as far as color goes, maybe image quality too, so something like that if that is possible

-Processor power: about the same as Google pixel 9, less or more, I don't mind too much, but if possible to not have it AI focused like my current chip, the Google Tensor 4 chip, then I think I could get a lot better one

-Outer shell/chassis: don't really care, but if it has unique features that would be cool

-Ram: I don't think I care too much about the ram, but like at least 8gb, 12gb would be better if course

Overall my top 2 that I currently am liking:

-Samsung S23 Ultra: 256gb storage, 8gb ram, really good camera, better processor overall excluding AI, which my current chip excels at but don't need

-Nothing 4a: I was looking into Nothing before my current phone, but the 4a with 256gb comes in at ~$550, so I would need to help in the purchase. However, it has 12gb ram, has the cool 'matrix' lights on the back for notifications, better screen and refresh rate, although the processor is slightly worse than mine and worse than the S23 Ultra.

If anybody else has recommendations, I will be open to anything within that price range. The main thing is having the 256gb storage, and a somewhat good processor with a relatively good camera.

I've always wondered about it. I searched for apps, but the missed call duration apk available is not fitting for my phone.

I have a 2023 Kia Rio and got an email that Google Assistant will be disabled tomorrow in favor of Gemini. I hate AI and I have heard only bad things about it for Android Auto. But I enjoy using voice commands to listen to/reply to texts and maps and such. How can I do this?

I have Sony headset with mic and pause and answer call button on the headset line, I use it biking, i think I sweated in the mic thingy to much, in the last couple months it randomly turns the volume down to random levels stops randomly, this was happening very infrequently. now recently it's happen like every few minutes.

How can i disable the headset from controlling the volume?

And how can i stop the automatic lowering of volume at random times till you give it the ok for safety?

Thank you.

The reason I stick with Apple is its premium feel. The latest from Samsung or Poco are far superior in performance and the stuff it offers; but android looks have always felt a bit scattered compared to the cleanliness and orderly ways of Apple’s iOS. Don’t get me wrong, I hate how inefficient Apple can be. I’m not going to ignore that, nor the various bugs Apple just ignores, bugs on my keyboard that have been around for years.

I’d love the Poco F9 or the latest Samsung that can do all sorts of things….

But it’s the look of Apple, the way the apps look, the way the iCloud works, and just how it feels.

Recently I sold my asus rog for a MacBook Pro M1, and instantly it felt more premium.

I’m looking for a powerful phone outside of Apple, with the amazing performance of the poco F9 or the cool features of the latest Samsung, but with the os that is as clean and premium feeling of Apple.

Is there an android os like Apple that can be installed on the poco F9?

I received an Samsung S23 ultra.

Since then, it has never updated and whenever I try to update it does not update. It's in a 2025 version I don't know why. It appears "Your Current Software Version Isn't Supported. Visit a service centre"

Also the screen sometimes turns yellow out of nowhere and the side buttons do not work very well... I went to a normal technical assistance store, not from Samsung and they think the phone is fake... but they are not sure of that

Should I go to an official Samsung store?

It was a family member who gave me this phone, he bought it on a site called CDiscount.

If it was was like 2019 as well I think USA got scared of Huawei basically destroying apple and Samsung in market share

I installed a Infinity X GSI on my Galaxy A05s and I have some trouble with the notch space in some apps and echo in voice calls, it does support project treble but, I still have a lot of trouble with echo and the notch space, can I get some help please?

The cell phone was given to me why I like to have old cell phones but this one has the app of nuovo and the person who gave me no living or living with her, I wanted to know if there is a way to delete it is a payjoy-type app, they are installed when buying in an agency, it is clearly easier to take it to unlock these workshops but I wanted to know if there is a way to do it, I have a pc if it is q for the process. Please

Is there any way under rooted Android 11 and Android 13 to get the latest version of Termux [ 0.119.0-beta.3 (1022) ] to *permanently* set up and remember the running of "termux-setup-storage", in the following manner? ...

Step 1: install Termux

Step 2: launch the Termux app

Step 3: run "termux-setup-storage" (and whatever else might be necessary)

Step 4: exit from the Termux app

Step 5: reboot the Android device

Step 6: from that point forward, run anything in /data/data/com.termux/files/usr/bin via the command line in an adb session without ever needing to run "termux-setup-storage" again in order to have full access to /sdcard, and without ever needing to launch the Termux app again in order to accomplish this.

Samsung S24. Since installing the most recent update yesterday, Google play services has been pinging my location constantly. I searched and this seems to have been an issue a few years ago, but none of the fixes worked for me so far.

Most notable I turned off Google location sharing and location accuracy, but that was not the issue.

Any other suggestions would be appreciated.

My oppo A5x has a wifi issue.

So there are some wifi networks that just dont appear but they visible to else's devices like on my phone that specific network doesnt exist. I tried factory reseting my phone, scanning qr of wifi, sending the network through quick share to my phone, i tried every possible mac address. And sometimes my phone miraculously connects to that network so unexpectedly a few hours ago i was playing a game with my bro and that network suddenly went off we both got disconnected but he connected it back and my phone literally FORGOT its existence and once i came back from school and the network was unexistent to my phone so i survivived the whole day without my phone and it miraculously connected back to it in the toilet like nothing happenned

About a week ago the call volume on my Android shot up out of nowhere and the minimum volume is V-E-R-Y loud. I am not aware of any setting that will lower the call volume even further and I can’t seem to find a 3^rd party app that achieves that end. This, as far as I can remember, didn’t coincide with any software update. Restarting my phone didn't do anything. What to do?

Android 16, moto g - 2025

For my whole life I've used the play store function for Backup and Restore, but now I've started using Fdroid and GitHub for Open source apps.

There are some obscure apps I've been using and now I'm afraid that if I lose my phone or it breaks down I won't be able to find them again.

So I am looking for any app that can create a list of my installed apps and back them up to my GDrive weekly.

If anyone's got some suggestions I would appreciate it.

Thanks.

Does anyone have any kind of guidance to avoid this? How can I make android aware of the need to have options? All of the info I can find about this is outdated. I have buttdialed emergency services at least 4 times in the past month and am at my wits end trying to figure out a solution. I walk around a lot at work. I walk briskly and somehow evidently am tapping the lock button 5 times in a row. Old solutions are not solving this. This is all on an S21.

We can no longer disable emergency SOS. I would prefer I could do this. Swipe to confirm does not seem to work. I have set my emergency contact to my own phone number, and while it no longer seems to dial 911, it still seems to place a call to my local police department. I do not want to waste their time anymore. A new phone might solve the issue, but I don't know if this is going to be an issue with any android device I might get. Maybe a case with more resistance on the button would be good?