Questions tagged [bugs]
A bug is a problem or unexpected behavior that needs fixing.
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I need help with this workaround from and Android bug without a reset [closed]
My LGEV521 [LG G Pad X 8.0+] has bugged out due to an old android bug and I don't want to reset it. I have saved game data, automate flows, stardew valley data, tuns of other apps and appdata, etc. ...
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Weird symbols in some apps
In two or three of my phone apps, some buttons have really weird symbols.
Examples:
In a chess game app, the "+" symbol to start a game, is a V. Other buttons like the ones for resign (I forgot what ...
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Facebook app appears twice in “Open With”
I was trying to open a link to a Facebook post sent in Facebook Messenger recently, and I got an unexpected "Open With" dialog, asking whether I wanted to open it with...
Facebook
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Battery problem. “Charges” while unplugged
I could not found any post with the exact same problem as me. So, here's the deal:
For some odd and unknown reason, my battery percentage increases as if it is constantly charging.
Let's say drain ...
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Is it a Kernel or a ROM that provides power_supply battery files?
Long story short I was installing custom ROMs to my Android device and one thing that stays in place regardless of ROM I use is a wrong battery stats monitoring. The device always behaves like it's ...
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“Waxl dyne untherhouze” bug
Every time I start my device a Cleaner window appears. And in the window these words appear: "Waxl dyne untherhouze".
What does that mean? Is there a bug involved?
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How to get past the Google Assistant screen on languages that are unsupported?
The buttons on the setup wizard screen for Google Assistant (the screen after fingerprint unlocking) do not respond when using Finnish language for the setup.
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Whole phone unfortunately stopped
I factory reset my phone and after the reset completes a too many errors topup saying YouTube,playservices,Google app,user wizard,etc has unfortunately stopped even the launcher is not working nothing ...
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Mobile video player in Chrome doesn't work on certain site
I have a problem with build-in video player in Chrome.
For such sites, as m.youtube.com it's work correctly and looks like this:
It worked for site yummyanime.club as too.
But some days ago video ...
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Having trouble with Google apps on Nubia Z17 Lite
I bought this Nubia Z17 lite online and I got it with the global version and Google apps preinstalled. Everything worked but I wanted the new Nubia UI 6.0 and so I installed it from the Chinese ...
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GPS Rollover on Android Smartphones
Regarding the GPS weeks rollover which took place on April 06th 2019. all the websites are talking about the phenomenon but they are not explaining what are the side effects on end users devices if ...
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PC reading Android phone shows directory in it's PREVIOUS location prior to being moved [duplicate]
MTP (Miserable Transfer Protocol) failed once again.
After moving a directory to a different path, it is still on the same path as before according to MTP.
I already tried re-plugging the USB port ...
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Microphone Permssion in Pie not listing all apps
I have a Pixel phone. Recently I checked App permissions →Microphone permissions, and it shows 5 of 24 apps allowed.
But when I open the microphone permissions, it lists only 4 apps. Is this ...
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Locking the Android UI
I'm running Android Nougat. I would like to know whether there is a way to lock the device while watching a YouTube video or doing some other critical operation so that you don't accidentally kick ...
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Screen offset when running some Android apps on PC (not Chromebook)
I installed Android onto my laptop so that I could play a game called Psych with my brother.When I launch it, the screen is shifted to the right and the mouse is limited to the area of portrait ...
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Problems in Local Terminal in Android's Developer Menu
I am currently having a problem in my Android 9's local terminal from the developer menu, where keys such as $ are turned into their counterpart in the QWERTY keyboard without pressing shift (for ...
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How to disable keyboard icon when typing on the other side of the back button, Android Nougat
I'm running Android 7 Nougat.
When I type in gboard there is a small keyboard icon in the lower right corner below the keyboard. But it gets in the way when I type, bringing up the change keyboard ...
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Disable notification drawer when toddler uses smartphone [duplicate]
When my toddler uses the phone to play games my toddler repeatedly pills out the notification drawer making the game unplayable. Is there a way to temporarily disable it? Is there a special toddler ...
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Moto G6 audio sending through wrong audio channel
My unrooted, basically stock android decided to stop sending audio through any channels except call audio today. I have not installed any new or unstable apps recently. Symptoms include:
the lower ...
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Problem displaying apostrophes (')
I'm currently experiencing a strange bug on my device: Whenever an apostrophe (') would be displayed, it shows an ampersand (&) instead, and the rest of the text that would be after the apostrophe ...
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How to log/record system events or phone vibrations - Problem with Huawei Mate 20 Pro
I have a Huawei Mate 20 Pro. Awesome phone, I love it.
I live in Canada, and have the model LYA-L0C.
My phone is set to vibrate, so anytime I get a text or a FB message or messages from other apps ...
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Why is Firefox for Android shown as “offered by” Google Commerce Ltd?
If you look at the page for Firefox for Android on Google Play, and it 'Read more' then scroll all the way down, you will see the following. The question is simple, why is it shows an offered by ...
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“Offline dictionaries” app keeps losing installed dictionary
I'm using Offline Dictionaries app on Android 8.1.0, in a Redmi 6 smartphone (global version). I have installed only one dictionary, "English (Wiktionary)", which is installed on /storage/emulated/0/...
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Only image files are showing up in my folder when I view my phone's files on the computer
I need to transfer some sound recordings from my Samsung Android phone to my computer, however when I view the phone's files on my computer, only image files (.jpg, .png, .bmp, etc.) are visible.
No ....
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Workaround with root for inability to set file timestamps
A bug or unfortunate design choice in Android since forever ago prevents non-root users from setting file timestamps to times other than the present.
Apparently this issue has been fixed and the fix ...
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com.qualcomm.embms keeps popping up every few minutes
In Lenovo Phab, a message : "Unfortunately, com.qualcomm.embms has stopped." keeps popping up exactly twice every few minutes, to which I've to click 'OK' every time.
I've tried force stopping it ...
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Solved a known bug, users option disappeared from settings
I have a Asus zenfone 2 running official android m. I had the same problem as the guy in this thread:
Home Screen and Recent Apps buttons don't work
Before I could fix it, I tried the guest mode ...
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Two of my contacts are internally being mixed up
Recently I've stumbled upon a very weird and cumbersome bug. Android mistakes one of my contacts for another. As far as I know it happens to exactly one pair of contacts on my phone (let's call them A ...
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Update failure for Redmi Note 4
We have two Redmi note 4 phones. In both of them the official update for miui 9 also android nougut (same package total of 1.3 GB) came. In one of the phone it updated smoothly but in the other phone ...
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Need help. Touchscreen not working LG G3
Here's the deal, folks.
I've been having trouble with my LGG3. I initially had blue screen of death but I solved it by putting the motherboard in oven for 10 min.(Amazingly worked)
Had to do it often ...
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YouTube age-restriction bug
I am asking this question on this site as I have a problem with the YouTube app: So, I happen to be a teenager under 18 and have a Gmail id that I use with YouTube. Now everything was fine until ...
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How does “virus been detected” on android pop up on chrome when visiting some sites?
What is the cause of this chrome bug on android? The last site I went to was www.destructoid.com and all of a sudden it gets redirected to the following url. This happened previously awhile back, but ...
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To report Youtube security bug [closed]
I found security vulnerability/bug on YouTube. I want to report. How can I report it? Is there a quick way?
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LineageOS - bug when text is copied
I upgrade my phone to LineageOS 14. When I try copy text (long press) or if i copy text to clipboard by button and try paste him - any application is crashed.
Drawable cannot be cast to ...
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Boot animation upside down after new ROM
I have a Wileyfox Spark, for lovers of it, you surely know it comes with CyanogenMod13 OS as it's stock. But you know very well how one might want a more decent Nougat or Oreo based CM14 or CM15 or ...
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Dark spots suddenly appear on the screen then phone reboots. Bug or virus?
I have been experiencing this problem since I bought this phone, which is an Infinix HOT 4 Lite. I thought it was a virus because I installed a lot of applications then, so I did a Factory Reset. The ...
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Google Play Store Hangs at Every Step
This week, the Google Play Store is behaving very strangely. It can download or update a single app but not both without being killed!
There was an update for Chrome this morning, so I went to Google ...
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SD Card problems
I am having an issue with my alcatel a30 tablet (9024w) and the problem is that when i format an sdcard as internal storage then remove it and insert it, i get a device missing warning telling me to ...
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My phone is going silent every day at 08.00 PM. Can't disable
I have Android 4.4.4 and once (or maybe after playing with settings) it started to go silent at 08.00 PM every day. And morning it is going back (usually I am doing it manually earlier). In settings ...
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Recent apps list repopulates on Samsung S7 (Nougat)
I've got a question for the experts here. I've recently begun clearing my recently used apps list before bed. When I awake, I check it to find that a bunch of apps that have popped into the list - ...
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Two clocks, different times
The clock in the lockscreen shows the right time, but the one on the right corner of the status bar gets stuck. It shows the right time when I turn the mobile on, but then at some point it stops and ...
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Android wear 2.0 install bug?
I recently updated my Moto 360 2nd generation to Android Wear 2.0. Due to the fact that I didn't get a notification for it, I forced the installation by spamming the green tick saying that there isn't ...
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How do I understand the text file of a bugreport?
My phone crashed for no reason. A bugreport was created and I sent it to my own email-address. It is titled titan_retaildsds-user 6.0 MPB24.65-34-3 3 release-keys and contains a zip file with a text ...
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Are my Android issues and this repeating debug log related?
I've been having many issues on my Pixel:
takes 10+ seconds to wake up
answering / making a call will freeze the phone app, or cause the phone to reset
cannot train "ok google" voice model
When I ...
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Android wifi says “Connected, no internet” but internet works just fine
This is a strange thing that started happening with the wifi network at my work. Android devices connected to the network say "Connected, no internet" however the internet works perfectly well. This ...
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Lock screen notifications rearrange themselves for seemingly no reason
Ok, I'm going to try and describe this and I hope it makes sense.
When I turn on my screen (while my phone is locked), I see all my notifications. For example, I will have some gmail notifications, ...
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Mobile data on but not working (Resurrection Remix)
I am using the official Resurrection Remix 5.8.0 on my unlocked Moto X Play. I am experiencing an issue with mobile data; every so often the data won't connect when I enable it. The icon in the quick ...
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How to stop android using roaming data when it's disabled?
There is a well documented phenomena of Android users getting charged for data roaming abroad when data roaming is explicitly disabled on their phone. `So-called ghost-roaming (Geister-Roaming).
In ...
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Sorry, [almost everything] has stopped unexpectedly
when starting one of my rooted Z740 AT&T phones, it, after about 30 seconds, starts by stopping Google play services, then after about 5 consecutive of those most apps start crashing and the only ...
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Turn off accessibility service
I have rooted my phone with KingRoot app, and suddenly "Ok Google" stopped working.
After a bit of searching I've found out that some accessibility services could been blocking it. And the only one ...
