Questions tagged [bugs]
A bug is a problem or unexpected behavior that needs fixing.
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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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repetitive bug message “Google Play Movies & TV has stopped” send bug report to Mi for analysis"
My phone is a Mi Max 2.
First, after searching in Google Play Store, there is no app with this name, only "Google Play Music".
I repported this a more than 100 times, without any changement.
the ...
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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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SMS glitch? Good text sent, garbled text received. (Comes with bonus cat facts!)
Two friends and I were texting in a group message swapping fake cat facts. I sent a message which read
According to the PEW national research institute, feline density since
the 1991 premiere of ...
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Ad popups appearing on my Whatsapp app whenever i open it
I've been receiving random ad popops whenever i open my whatsapp in my android phone 7.0 nougat version. Unfortunately, I've never received such popups or seen it before. I hope i could seek helps ...
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Notifications keeps reporting a “medium level security threat” to Shell Version 4.4.4-5
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I've tried disabling the app but it cannot be disabled and the notification keeps appearing.
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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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SystemUpDate Keeps Closing on Xiaomi mi a1
i'm using android oreo, February Patch. And i had a problems with System Update, every 10 minutes SystemUpDate Keeps closing always show up. Can you help me to fix this? Thanks anyway :D
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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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How to stop videos from randomly pausing?
I can't believe the internet has not come up with a solution in 7 years since these Questions have started popping up.
No, the video is not buffering, it's pausing randomly in intervals of around 5-...
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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 ...
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Why does my phone keep restarting when trying to dial any number?
My Yureka Cyanogen restarts whenever I try to make a call. When I dial a number it restarts but not when I receive it.
What could be the problem and how to solve it?
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Some apps' notifications disappear after half a second
I have an Acer T07 (aka Liquid Zest 4G aka z528) with Android 6.0. I got it for Christmas so I did not have the time to tweak it for now !
Whenever I recieve an SMS, a notification does show up, and ...
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How do I remove an automatic bug/virus premium messaging/MMS box from popping up and stopping sending texts?
I have a Google Pixel phone and I received a shady message saying something like: "You have been subscribed to such-and-such and are paying such-and-such amount. To unsubscribe text whatever to ...
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SMS bug: “@” at the end of messages
I recently started receiving a lot of messages ending with the "@" character. I asked why and they said they weren't doing that. We both use android, both use Textra, and I checked in other SMS apps ...
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Android wear turning off without warning
This is really strange, but i brought my watch a few months back overseas, and while wearing it, it turns off strangely, without warning or the "shutdown' screen appearing. I still have 100-80% ...
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What am I supposed to do with Bug reports captured?
From time to time I get a notification on my phone which says:
Bug report #1 captured
Tap to share your bug report
When I tap, it warns me about the possibility of sensitive information being in the ...
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How do I get my dual clock back?
So I have a relative who's spending some time on the other side of the planet (Japan). To facilitate communication, I had set up dual clock a while back to show both, local and Japanese time on lock ...
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Android system battery drain
My android phone has heavy abnormal battery drains coming from Android system. 2000mAh and above on a single charge! I know for certain this is a software issue and not hardware.
Before I hit the ...
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“Sorry, something went wrong” when trying to “Set up nearby device”
I have a new Google Nexus 5X model LH-H790, that's meant to replace an also new Nexus 5X LG-H791.
When I try to transfer the account from phone to phone ("Set up nearby device") I see the ...
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Link redirects to play store when I want it to open in app
This happens to me a lot, but let's use today's example. I click a soundcloud link in facebook, it redirects me to play store to install soundcloud app. Fair enough. I install and go back to facebook ...
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Outlook Auto-Sync keeps re-enabling — How to ultimately deactivate it?
I've got a weird phenomenon on my Android 6.0 where Outlook Auto-Sync is automatically and silently re-enabled. I haven't figured out yet when exactly this happens but I'm deactivating Auto-Sync and ...
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Is this android vulnerability bug #8219321 fixed?
In 2013, Bluebox Security announced that they had found a bug in Android that could be used to modify the contents of any application package (including ones distributed as part of the system software)...
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1 blue bar, but Google search results don't load
I typed something into the address bar of the builtin browser, Android Browser 4, and it tried to load Google but the browser said, "There was a network error."
Does anyone know why Google searches ...
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Since Nougat, YouTube keeps popping up controls
I enrolled in the the Android preview to get the 7.0 release. Most things seem fine. However, when watching YouTube videos in full-screen mode, every 11 seconds it pauses for a fraction of a second ...
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Apps always autoreload
I bought my Nexus 6P in Canada. Occasionally, I travel to China. Then this weird issue starts happening: for every app, the top activity refreshes itself periodically. For example, when I am reading ...
