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Are there any disadvantages in downloading a Custom OS?

I was downloading my custom O Swhen my sister saw. She asked me what I was downloading, and I breifly explained to her the process. She mumbled something about, 'You shouldn't be downloading those files. That's why you have viruses.'
I just wanted to know the truth? I only know that a custom OS is basically a factory reset, but having a few features change and nothing more.

Charging noncharging phone's battery in good phone

Since the "new" S5 apparently won't charge any battery, would it be ok to switch batteries in the "old" phone and thereby (I hope) keep them all charged? I would prefer to be able to use both phones as there are different things in them, including the sd cards. Ultimately I hope to figure out why the "new" S5 isn't charging and do something about that. Otherwise it seems not to be damaged.

frozen android recovery

friends samsung s7 edge has stopped working and now its showing the android recovery screen but that screen has now frozen and it will not allow you to go up or down.

when you eventually get to go to the wipe data option and you press the power button nothing happens and again the screen freezes, any ideas??

also the phone seems to be stuck in a boot loop

Apps Gamedev. Unstable FPS when you don’t touch the screen

Hello friends!
Previously sorry for my bad english.

This is the second time i try to make a game. The first time i abandoned.
I spent a lot of time to get a stable animation/rendering of my game. I tried to use canvas with SurfaceView, i tried to use gles 2.0 with GLSurfaceView, different game loops. the animation was always not very stable. I tried many things until i noticed, that everything gets very good and smooth only when i actively touch the screen. As I understand, if you don't touch the screen, OS start reduces performance. If you remove your finger for a second from the screen, app starting something like "frame drop", and its not beautiful.

How can i fix it, and get always good performance?
Please, help me.
I can't take it anymore =)))

P.S:
I don't want to use any engines / frameworks

Update:
If i run new separate Thread wich contains for example endless cycles with useless calculations - my app looks more stable. But it is not good solution.

Help Apps downloads from play store take ages to start

Hello, since some times I can't download apps from the play store, when I click download it goes like this: https://imgur.com/a/XI5fkas and stay stuck for a random time, usually around 30 minutes and then the download start and install. I have a Oneplus 5T in 9.0.4 and I'm in France, my carrier is Free. I already tried to clean the data and the cache of both play store and the google play services and even for the download manager. I disabled and enabled these 3 too but nothing worked.

Samsung galaxy a5 2017 charging problem

My Samsung Galaxy A5 2017 is not Fast Charging any more. My phone used to take between 2-2.5 hours to fully charge. Now it takes about 9 hours. I always charge using an official Samsung Charger and charge using a wall socket not using USB. samsung ringtones free
My phone's settings are definitely set to Fast Charge. However, when I have done texts, the phone charges the same slow speed with the phone set to Fast or not Fast Charge. The phone never used to do this and started do this a few days ago for no reason.
free ringtones
Please can someone advise. Thanks

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Hello -

I haven't posted in the forums for a long time, as I've been through some health changes; yet, I'm doing better now.

In the quest of saving money, I came to the end of my contract with the phone carrier that I'd been using, and decided that a 4G Lifeline phone with unlimited data, texts and calls at $35 month was the best deal I could find.

The phone that I received was the Poblano VLE5 Hot Pepper, a Google GO-based, Oreo OS smartphone with minimal bells and whistles. It does the job, and it came with the ubiquitous bloatware that plague most phones.

It was refreshing to be able to uninstall the majority of the bloatware apps, including Facebook.

IMHO, Facebook and many other social networking sites have have joined Corporate Big Brother in data collection/sharing schemes that have become mind-blowing, and an encroachment on personal liberties; I won't digress into my first AF rant in 2 years, so let's go back to my original quest for knowledge.

I've installed an 64 gB SD card, and it seems to work SLOWLY in this phone, though it has class 10 spec.

Will root/Superuser help this phone by way of custom ROMS, to provide access to non-GO apps, and a less-sludgy app experience? Jump in to this thread, as there are many like me who are on fixed income that need a smartphone that will work as efficiently as the lower-end Samsung/LG et al.

Thank you for reading.

Huawei P10

Huawei P10
Smashed a screen.
Didn’t backup password protected gallery.
If anyone could point me to what to do to retrieve images off the phone or in where I could look for some clues.
I would like either to get access to the phones screen or to get into the folder with photos somehow.
Thanks for any tip.

Umidigi z2 crashing apps

Hello. I bought umidigi z2. A device with a pretty good data and good reviews but it seems to me that I fell on a specific device that is not something.
Apps are collapsing all the time. I get constantly pop-up and every time something else stops.
This is mainly Google's built-in applications but not only. Restart helps for a few hours at most. The factory restore also helps but not for long.
Can anyone think of a proper solution?
Android 8.0.1
Thanks in advance.

Fail to install chrome and other apps

Hi,

I have this very strange problem installing some apps, like chrome, android system webview and almost quicklyrics (in the end that worked) on my xiaomi redmi note 3 hennessy (mediatek).

Since the march updates, those apps stuck on "installing" for a while then give me an error (or keep going until reboot). Both from play store and apk package installer. I've tried more than deleting the cache: I've done complete factory resets, and even changing rom.

I tried like 7 different roms, all with the same problem (all lollipop5 miui7/8/9 though, the others don't have fingerprints support). Now I'm using epicrom.

There is a way to find out what exactly is the problem? Sometimes it gave me error 500, others 400 now just "can't install". Is there a way to force install these apps?

Edit: other than february version of chrome, last version of chrome dev seems to work... Does this make any sense?

2Real4U

Noni wasn't they hacked my S3 Galaxy first and encrypted it before i could and took over my VPN key store and fried my sd card. Now they are somehow preventing me from getting my codes by blocking me with the notification bar. They even take away my keybord and touchwiz.

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