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Help Phone is unusable

Kind of a strange issue: any time I try to open any app on my phone, my phone immediately returns to the first page of my home screen. I can't open the options, make calls or text, or even scroll to the second page of my home screen- it just immediately returns to the first page of home. Interestingly, I can access the drop-down menu, but if I pick any setting and tap on "more settings" or click the gear to access the options I just get immediately sent back to the home screen. Prior to this issue occurring, I had just updated my eset security app, so I have a feeling that it's somehow responsible, but I'm not sure how to test this hypothesis or fix the issue.

Also, when I try to uninstall the eset app, the dialog asking for confirmation immediately closes

Pie Update rendered Menus Unreadable

My phone received the upgrade from Oreo to Pie this week. I am using a Samsung Galaxy J7 and I was also upgraded to One UI 1.1.

Since the update I have an issue where menus and settings are rendered unreadable or nearly so because backgrounds have been changed to black and text to a dark grey making text very difficult to read. Today while trying to add to my calendar I ran into an issue where the background has been rendered white and the text is white so I can't even see to adjust the time etc for my event. My phone has become all but unusable because of this update.

I'm not 100% certain if it the problem lies with Pie or One UI but I'm checking all around because this needs to get fixed ASAP.

I have restarted my phone a couple times since the update, and I confirmed the Default theme is set so I am not on a custom theme or high contrast (switching to a high contrast theme might help a bit, I do realize, but to me that is not an acceptable permanent solution). I checked my display settings and everything looks normal from what I can tell.

Anyone seen this issue? I've scoured the web and can't really find much on this at all. Thanks in advance! I just bought this phone a few months ago, I really need this thing working right!

Change aspect ratio

I dont know if this is tge best place to post but i was wondering if there was a way to change the aspect ratio of a phone (by adding black bars). My phone (oneplus 7 pro) has a 19.5:9 aspect ratio wich alot of apps are not built for. Oxygen os automatically removes the black bars wich works fine for 99% of apps, but some apps stretch when removing the bars. I was wondering if there was a way of adding bars to certain apps.

Jetstream storage corrupted

I've phad a jetstream box for about 2 months and it was working well. It just developed an issue with attached storage where the storage is 0 misc and then whatever extra space saying accessible or available but that space cannot be accessed. This has happened to with a 400gb sandisk microsd, a sandisk 124gb usb stick and a generic 500gb usb drive. It seems to set up the drives like they are partitioned. They show 0 misc space then whatever. I have tried various reformats and windows partition tools. Is this normal. Is the box infected or defective? Thanks in advance

Game debugging

Hi,

There is a mobile application - a network game on android and it has regular crashes due to bugs in network communication.
How can debug be organized so that the logs are saved somewhere and can be obtained later?

How can an android application access the file system and write logs there?
Is there any network monitor for android?

Option with ADB is not suitable.
The debug process must be managed directly on the device.

Any other methods, great!)

Sorry for bad English

Close open app, when locking screen

Hi,
Is there any way to close open app, when I am locking the screen?

For anyone, which will ask why I would like to do this I will describe my use case:

I am playing my game (it work's in horizontal screen and opening it is costfull - takes time). When I am stopping playing I am used to just lock the screen. Now, when I unlocking or what worse someone is trying to call me my phone tries to open last working app, what sometimes making my phone totally stuck for a while and I am even not able to answer the call.

(I am using samsung galaxy j5 2017).

Thanks in advance for any response. If there is also other option, which will solve my issue I will be glad to check it.

Best regards,
Krzysiek

Can't delete image

I was deleting some images and then 1 turned into a image of a white exclamation mark with a white circle surrounding it and the rest of the image was grey. I've tried clearing cache and data, restarting my phone also when searching through my files I couldn't find the image, in the gallery I cannot edit or move this image to another album. So how do I delete is image that my phone doesn't think exists.

[APP][FREE] My first Android app : Space Weather Reporter

Hi,

I released my first Android app a few days ago and I would like to know what you think.

Space Weather Reporter downloads information about coronal mass ejections, solar flares, geomagnetic storms and many other events.

It shows notifications about those events even when the app is not running but you can configure how and when is this information downloaded to minimize battery usage and to keep the Internet usage under control.

The information shown in this app is intended for the scientific community and it's considered 'experimental research information' but I'm a huge NASA fan and this was a perfect opportunity to create an app using the 'Database Of Notifications, Knowledge and Information'.

Space Weather Reporter is free and it has no ads.

This is the Play Store page : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.briskbard.spaceweatherreporter

[FREE][GAME][4.4+] Drive Off Free

Hi,
I wanted to introduce you to our new game Drive Off.
It is a 2D police driving game with physic and shooting, with its main objective is driving.
Set in the night time and featured with 17 vehicles and 6 cities.
Some mission contains action like Protection, Assisting and Defend type of driving. so it's really challenging.

It is a fun project and our first time in android development. and maybe if you have any suggestion or something you can tell us. Thank you and Have Fun...

Now Its available on Google Play Store
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.Metofront.DriveOffFree

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Moved video files from my Huawei are not readable

Hi I copied video files directly from my Huawei from \GabHuawei\Internal storage\DCIM\Camera

these files appeared to be MP4s and I assumed I could just move them like I used to with my Samsung.

But these files are not readable on my Computer. The file sizes show as 42 Gig but the file size on disk shows as a few megs.

I am either trying to use these files or to recover the files on my Phone.

Its a Huawei P20.

Ive tried recovering using fonelab which then wanted me to root it.

I have tried to root it using Kingo root which is also failing-

Please help

thanks

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