I've heard you could use your android device as webcam by just plugging in with the USB cable. Even though my Samsung is Android 14, I'm not able to use it as a webcam. Am I missing some update or some hidden setting?

I've already tried Fitbod and Boostcamp cracked apks and they just dont have the premium mode on at all. Not interested in other alternatives, ive already looked into the ones on other threads and they're just obviously lesser quality

After Real Racing 3 getting off the play store, I was searching for alternatives but can't find many.The ones i found weren't as engaging as the actual game. So I was thinking to download its APK file from internet, like upstore or any site like that but I was a little worried about if it's a malicious application that might steal my data. So I was starting to search that is there a way in which I can cut off the internet access from that app. Can you guys suggest me or help me out with this?

I was looking at job listing through Google and decided to click on one of the offers. The offer then has a link/bubble that says "Apply on (website name)"

Since we were still on Google, i wasn't suspicious at all. In fact, I see many helpful links and posting for products or opportunities through basic, initial Google search

But as soon as i accessed the site, it showed me an ad from McAfee or something. It was a video, so I tapped the X or decline button, but then my phone showed me a glitch effect and vibrated a bunch. A bunch of short vibration strung together almost like a phone call or timer/alarm

Did the ad or site themselves glitch or was something injected into my device?

I downloaded MalwareBytes and did a scan and nothing turns up

Definitely the strangest thing I even had happen to me online

I have a Google Pixel

I want to set up separate work and personal phone numbers, without buying a 2nd phone.

I want to be able to set the work number to do not disturb when off the clock. Is this possible?

Also, I would like to be able to set up an automated text response on the second line stating I'm not available and to contact the person who is on the clock.

I would prefer not to use a third party app, unless there's a guarantee it can differentiate between the numbers and only autoreply to the work line.

I've never used the Second Number system and the time I tried to set up an autoreply on my current line I couldn't figure out a way get it to only reply to specific numbers as opposed to everyone. Any insight on these topics would be greatly appreciated.

The title said the issue. It's a bit complicated. I'm using a motorcycle with Bluetooth connectivity and an intercom in my helmet. To be able to use the buttons to answer calls or change music, the phone needs to be connected to my bike. (Svartpilen)

But my intercom also needs to be connected directly to the phone to be able to use voice commands without using the intercom buttons.

So I can't use the bike as a Bluetooth bridge like ; intercom>bike>phone.

I've tried removing call privileges from the bike but when I do that it loses its connectivity and cannot receive any information from the phone.

So when both are connected to the phone and when I take the call the bike takes it, but directs it to the phone (earphone) as it doesn't have a speaker and mic.

I've tried using Bluetooth device type settings. Even if I pick my intercom as a hearing aid (which in my mind should be the one which takes the call no matter what) changes nothing.

Any ideas are welcome. I'll try to test anything.

P.s. it would be great if I can solve this without installing any app.

Thanks 🙏🏻

Edit: I was able to do this with my 2 previous phones ( Poco F1 and Huawei p20 pro) with the same bike and intercom.

A couple days ago i started getting ads on my lock screen, in addition to the pop ups that came with the big update a few months ago which I would also like to turn off. I cant find anything about how to disable them and its driving me crazy lol. I cant find anything in lock screen settings about it but maybe its somewhere else?

Edit: i deleted some sketchy games I havent used in a while and messed around in settings and it got rid of everything!! Not totally sure what i did in settings but im very happy its all gone :)

Over the past year or so I've been working on Ika (イカ, Japanese for squid or cuttlefish), a free and open-source Android emulator. Originally it was developed for Asahi Linux on Apple Silicon, which at the time didn't have an Android emulator with GPU acceleration.

Ika runs LineageOS 23.2 (Android 16), built as a desktop operating system in a Cuttlefish virtual machine, as opposed to QEMU. Imagine GoogleBook OS with less Google, and you've got a decent approiximation of what we're working with.

With much of the hard work already done to get gfxstream working with the Apple Silicon Linux driver, I figured it wouldn't be too much of a leap to get it working on Windows 11 with WSL. That turned out to be a gross underestimation of what needed to be done, but I'm finally pleased to announce that I've got something useable and ready to share with everyone.

Ika's Features:

• Android Desktop or TV mode: Android runs in a virtual desktop console with resizable app windows, or as a big-screen TV interface. Third-party TV launchers work too.

• GPU acceleration: OpenGL ES 3.2 and Vulkan run on your real GPU through gfxstream.

• Native app windows: Android apps can open in their own windows on your desktop, side-by-side with your regular Windows apps. Android apps have Windows 11 decorations, and get their own Start Menu entries.

• Startup options per app: Display density, fullscreen start, keyboard and mouse handling, gamepad emulation and touch simulation are all configurable options.

• Storage visible on your PC: Android's /sdcard appears in Windows Explorer under My PC.

Installing on Windows

The ika-wsl.ps1 script provisions a new WSL instance and installs the standard Ika packages for Debian Linux:

irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DesktopECHO/ika/main/ika-wsl.ps1 -OutFile ika-wsl.ps1

Then run it:

.\ika-wsl.ps1

Windows may refuse to run the saved file because of the execution policy. If it does, start it like this:

powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File .\ika-wsl.ps1

The script:

1. Enables WSL2, sets up nested virtualization and installs any pre-requisites.

2. Installs a minimal Debian 13 distribution named "Ika".

3. Installs the Mesa backports from Debian and the Ika packages.

4. Starts Android on your desktop.

What manner of sourcery gets Direct3D GPU drivers working with Android?

Under WSL2, the only way to reach the GPU is Direct3D 12. Ika ships its own extensively modified build of Mesa's Dozen driver (Vulkan on D3D12).

• Vulkan 1.3: Upstream Dozen stops at Vulkan 1.2 and has received very few updates over the years. Ika's Dozen is updated to support Vulkan 1.3 on GPUs whose D3D12 driver has shader model 6.6 and wave operations. It adds the 1.3 core features, among them the Vulkan memory model, maintenance4, inline uniform blocks, extended dynamic state 1 and 2, image robustness, format feature flags 2, and demote to helper invocation.

• Stability and speed: a pile of fixes and optimizations lets gfxstream, ANGLE and Chrome's renderer run on Dozen reliably. They work around driver crashes, lost devices and GPU resets, and include a shader pipeline disk cache, faster fence waits, and per-thread descriptor staging.

Benchmarks

The chart below shows Android benchmarks run inside Ika 261111 on Windows, with native Linux on the same machines for comparison:

On the Radeon 780M, Windows comes within a few percent of Linux in Steel Nomad Light and Sling Shot Extreme. nVidia GPUs under WSL run well behind native Linux, but I'm working to close that gap and improve Intel GPU compatibility.

Nevertheless, even in these early stages of development, the results deliver a very smooth Android user experience and many games are already playable.

Requirements and limitations:

• An x86-64 PC running Windows 11, and a CPU with nested virtualization support.

• At least 8GB RAM recommended.

• A modern(-ish) DirectX 12 compatible GPU: nVidia RTX series or higher, AMD RDNA3 and newer, or Intel UHD/Xe graphics. Older cards may work to varying degrees, but I have not tested them. Reports of your success or failure on other GPUs are welcome.

• On Windows there's no hardware gamepad or camera support. Gamepad emulation with the keyboard does work.

• Windows on ARM is not supported; It probably could work but I have no hardware to test on.

Additional info:

Outside of WSL, packages exist for Fedora 44, Debian 13, Ubuntu 26.04, and Arch Linux, on both x86-64 and Apple Silicon. Apple Silicon Macs require an Asahi kernel. Other ARM64 hardware has not been tested.

Links: 

GitHub: https://github.com/DesktopECHO/ika · Downloads: DOWNLOAD.md · Graphics details: GRAPHICS.md

Feedback, bug reports, and push requests are all welcome!

Hello! My phone updated and now my custom drawn app icon designs have this white border on them. I dont know how to fix this, or if thats even possible. No update has ever done this before and im upset because I put a lot of my energy into designing and drawing a new look for my apps. I really love the theme of my phone, and I just want it to look how it used to. If anyone has advice, that'd be really great.

This is the most recent One UI 9.0 update.

I used X Icon Changer so that I could change my apps icons. My apps always had a transparent background , but now that has turned to a white background.

I recently started seeing this, only noticed after some of the downloads i left in the background stopped at 100%, started causing me issues.

How do i disable this ? And who thought this was a good idea ?

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I have 2,177 Audio/Music Files on my Fold 7 and I'm thinking about transferring them all to The Google Drive Android App before I get my brand new phone. I've read several posts on Reddit that The Google Drive Android App isn't very reliable and that a lot of files get randomly corrupted/damaged or even deleted too. So that's why I'm really hesitant to do it. What has been everyone's experience with transferring all of their Files to The Google Drive Android App? If anyone has any other suggestions besides The Google Drive Android App I'm open to doing that as well.

My emojis have been replaced with ugly 3rd party ones from 2010 era and I can't stand their look. Can I get rid of them easily?

Here are some of them : https://imgur.com/EbbdqFC

*Xiaomi 17 Ultra, but it seems to be an Android issue

I have oneplus pad 3 and I want to play story games in my bed but taking my laptop to bed is uncomfortable that's why I bought a tablet but not every game is available on Android. So I wanted to mirror my laptop display to my tab then use the controller and play it in bed. And I dont want the video quality to be bad I hope it can be same