Questions tagged [bugs]
A bug is a problem or unexpected behavior that needs fixing.
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How to detect if an outgoing call is answered in Android 13?
On Motorola Edge 30, the system setting for this is not working. Interestingly, I found a GitHub issue that suggests this might be a bug in Android 13.
Is there a workaround or a reliable way to ...
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Pixel randomly turn on flashlight, shows emergency call screen
This is a very poorly-defined question, because I can't figure out what causes this issue. But on occasion (and not rarely), when I pull my phone out of my pocket, the flashlight is on, bluetooth has ...
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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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No more sound on my Asus Zenfone 5
My Asus Zenfone 5 is beginning to have some malfunctions :
No more sound, which means :
I can't make calls (the phone freezes to black and I can only start it up again by holding the power button)
I ...
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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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What might prevent ADB from writing to a Settings.Secure key?
I am trying to edit the value of a Secure Settings key over ADB with the command:
settings put secure camera_double_twist_to_flip_enabled 1
For some unknown reason, the value of this key is 0 and ...
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Android 12 cellbroadcastreceiver permission denial causing high CPU usage in com.android.phone process?
Every since my Nokia 5.3 was upgraded to Andoid 12 recently, the battery suffers from processes com.android.phone and qcrild using the CPU a fair amount. It is not completely reproducible, but it ...
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Bug in chrome app with notification slider, starts search on page
So I have this bug, I already reported it to OnePlus but didn't get any feedback.
I have a OnePlus 8T, which has a physical notification slider above the lock button on the side of the phone. This ...
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Unable to activate Developer Options on Samsung
A quote from here:
I have tried everything and am unable to activate the developer
options on my Sasmung Galaxy S7 Edge with Android 8.0. Whenever I tap
the build number repeatedly, it says that the ...
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Phone calls rejected automatically from a specific contact
I have a Redmi Note 7 phone, from Xiaomi.
Since some time, one specific contact cannot call me directly. Phone calls are automatically dropped and I only get a notification of a lost call. I can call ...
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Bug when opening pdf with reader on android
When I try to open any pdf file downloaded from my browser (Chrome or Firefox) it does not open successfully in any viewer. For example opening it with Adobe Acrobat Reader (4.5) I get the error:
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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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Android not hanging up when hangup button is pressed
Phone: Galaxy Note 2; I605 (Verizon- Unlocked)
Carrier: T-Mobile
Rooted: Yes
I have this problem with Android Lollipop where when I cancel a call, the hangup button disappears and the phone says "...
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How to get rid of Google Play Store has stopped message
I keep on getting this message: "Google Play Store has stopped." I have tried deleting the Google Play app and could not install it from the web. The next day it reappeared. I keep getting this ...
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Cellular data shutting off when i shut off wifi and vice versa
I bought a motorola moto g gen 3 a few days back and encountered a bug i can't wrap my head around.
First of: this post: Cellular data not working since 5.1 Lollipop flash adresses the same issue ...
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OTG USB devices not detected anymore on Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 but can charge the phone and share files with computer
I noticed that either USB key or the Razer Kishi gamepad where undetected by my device although it did work some time ago. It may be related to an update or a material problem, I don't know. I tried ...
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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).
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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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Icon is stuck behind google search, and appears on all screens (screenshot included)
I was re-arranging my icons when I accidentally dropped an icon "behind" the google search bar up top.
The icon appears on every screen when I swipe left or right, but disappears when I view all apps....
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Wrong earphones/headphones buttons press/tap behavior
I've had this issue for a long time now.
As far as I know there are three button commands while using any music players. One press for pause, double press to go to the next song, and triple press to ...
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Choppy playback of HD video on Jellybean
I run Jellybean on my Galaxy Nexus, and ever since I switched from ICS I've started getting choppy playback of HD video. I used to be able to watch 720p video without any problem in MX Player. If I ...
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Strange behavior on Nexus 4, Android 5.0.1 (issue with Google Play Services?) Apps don't autostart, Google apps don't work, phone freezes [closed]
Update: Resetting only the Google Play Services app as has been suggested didn't work for me unfortunately, because (in addition to what I've written below) the "force stop" and "uninstall updates" ...
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Whatsapp Bug - Voice is not sent outside of local network
I encountered a somehow strange problem, which leaves me in the dark. I have a Samsung S10 connected to my local WLAN. When i call my relatives - whether voice or video call - my voice and video is ...
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Display glitches in certain apps
Device specs
I have so far only noticed this problem in Quora app, and Chrome (some pages). But these are the apps I almost always browse the net with. I did not notice any such issue offline. It ...
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Certain apps lose all internet connectivity until reboot
I have put off asking the question for some time because I know it is vague and terrible to debug so I welcome your help refining the question as well as potential solutions.
A range of certain apps ...
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"File as" not working for Contacts
Many contact management tools (such as Google Contacts or Microsoft People) have a field called "File As", which allows to save a contact using a nickname, while keeping the first and last ...
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Reason of existence of An App named "-5"
I was trying to look at the battery usage of different apps and saw this weird app named "-5" on inspection it takes me to google photos which is weird since why will google photos use its ...
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I no longer receive sms from services (bank, google otp, confirmation throught sms, ...)
I found myself in a really strange problem, I have not received text messages from services for several months, while I continue to receive any other type of text message (e.g. if a friend of mine ...
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Frame stutters appear just when touching/swiping the screen on Android EMUI 8
I have heard about intensive apps causing frame stutters on Android, but this isn't apparently. I'm using a Huawei P10 Lite with Android EMUI 8 (Oreo), and the stutters in this case only happen when I ...
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Can't format SD card as internal storage
Today I installed my first custom ROM (Lineage OS 17.1, official page) on my old Motorola phone (Moto G3 Turbo edition, XT1516). Everything great until I wanted to format my SD card as internal ...
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msa keeps stopping [duplicate]
I have recently this message
"msa keeps stopping"
Can someone help me to repair the problem . My phone is a mimax3
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Help with ultra power saving mode bug
I have a Samsung Galaxy S5 with a major problem. One night while turning the phone to Ultra Power Saving Mode the phone immediately shut down. I left the phone o charge and the next morning I woke up ...
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Android Chrome browser is making a duplicate of every photo downloaded to my external SD card
Every time I download a photo (.jpg or .png file) with the Chrome browser (stable version) to my external SD card, it gets duplicated and stored also in "/storage/emulated/0/Pictures" folder ...
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Newly set PIN doesn't unlock the screen
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There was no screen lock. I tried setting 1234 as a PIN. Now the screen is locked, asking for a 4-digit PIN. 1234 won't unlock it. But it's the right PIN since trying any other PIN multiple ...
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Copy Paste Removes Spaces
Every time I copy and paste text on my android phone white spaces are removed, i.e.:
Copy:
this is a test
Paste:
thisisatest
The behaviour is the same no matter which app I copy/paste text from/...
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Mi Box 3 startup issue from remote
I tried searching on various forums and couldnt found any similar case reported. I received Android 9 update Mi Box 3 last week. Since then i am facing a major issue of remote getting disconnected ...
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Disabling "Notification Bubbles" in Dev Options is Irreversible
I have a Samsung Galaxy S20FE, running Android 10 and One UI 2.5. After enabling "Notification Bubbles" in the developer settings I decided that it wasn't to my taste and toggled it back off....
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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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How to avoid "The file format is not supported." when sending problematic JPGs from WhatsApp upon selection from gallery?
Device description:
Hardware: LenovoPad YOGA Table 2-1050L
Operating System: Android 5.0.1
Application: WhatsApp both 2.20.189 and 2.20.193.10 (newest from web, unavailable through google play)
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Report bug for any app on Google Play
Is there a bug report feature which can be used to report bugs with any app hosted on Google Play?
I'm thinking that most developers will welcome feedback on their apps, so would expect this ...
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Why does MTP show wrong directory location? [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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Internet Access unavailable in browsers and mail. But Youtube and Google Play worrk fine
[EDIT] after further diagnosis I observed that I am unable to access my router via its (local)ip address in chrome but I am able to access my router via edge browser.
Chrome in my android device is ...
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Nubia Red Magic 3 shows negative storage on some apps and it's driving my nuts
Probably a bug but I still want to share exactly what's going on and hopefully find a solution. I can't use a logcat for some reason (Sepolicy issue maybe?) But anyways I own a Red Magic 3 and it's ...
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Arrow keys are shown by some weird characters everywhere
In my Android device, arrow keys are shown by some weird characters everywhere. Example:
I have tried changing system fonts. Also, this is independent of the keyboard because I have changed the ...
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Suddenly phone screens are changed and almost all apps crash
I cannot understand why, after a reboot, my phone screens changed (different app shortcuts and screens organization, etc...) and almost all my apps stopped working (crashing on launch). I also noticed ...
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how do i flash gapps onto aosp android 10 without custom rom, and how do i fix my ussd and call function not working?
i recently managed to flash gsi using fastboot instruction:
fastboot flash system system-quack-arm-aonly-vanilla.img
from
https://github.com/phhusson/treble_experimentations/releases/tag/v213
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Record log before device reboots
I need to record an log even if device restarts cause when I open a specific app my phone restarts so I need to log why.
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Default Music Player randomly playing while headphones are plugged in
This is INCREDIBLY annoying. While listening to music, the headphone will somehow trigger an unplug event (the connection is loose and very bad apparently). The default player will start to play, and ...
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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...
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Bug in Asus Zenfone max pro m2
I've found a serious privacy bug in system app of stock android 9.0 of Asus Zenfone Max pro m2. The problem is I am confused about where to file this bug? Should I go for Report bugs: Android or ...
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