Here is a very common use case I have: I listen to music on Spotify while going through my Facebook feed. Sometimes there's a video that I want to see in full screen. When I tap the video, music playback stops. What I want is to watch the video without any sound and keep my music playing. Is that possible? Phone: Galaxy S8

Recently I found my old Samsung S8 (SM-G950F) with a broken display. I ordered a replacement part, and it turned out to be an LCD screen, which was different from the original OLED display. Upon changing the screen, the phone enabled it. The backlight and touch screen are working, but the display is not showing anything. I can successfully connect to an external display with USB-C -> HDMI adapter, but the new screen is blank. I tried flashing the OS to "LineageOS 20" hoping to resolve potential driver issues but with no luck. Is there any firmware or particular driver that could help? Anyone had a similar issue? The exact LCD model no: AMB577MQ01 REV 7.2 BH1740 2 YX

I had a Samsung Galaxy S8, and I dropped it. By the following day, my entire screen was black. However, just 5 minutes prior, I had turned my Bluetooth on paired and connected a brand new pair of JBL tune 512 BT earbuds. I found out online how to reset them, but first, they need to be unpaired from any other phones. I've tried pulling the screen down, but I can only see an eighth of an inch. I can't turn the Bluetooth off. I can't power it off because anytime I try to power it off, I have to hit okay on the screen before it powers off, which I can't do with a black screen. Any suggestions?

My Samsung Galaxy S8 alerted me that the storage was critically full and may result in data corruption or failure to boot. I immediately deleted some apps to free up 2GB. But I am worried that it may have taken steps without my knowledge, such as clearing / disabling recently deleted (an issue as my screen was bugging and may have deleted by ghost touch without me knowing) or automatic lossy compression (an issue as I require some images to not have any compression artefacts). I am also concerned that the 2GB free may be a result of these optimisations, or whether it is a reasonably consequence of the handful of apps I deleted, plus the alert being given when there was already some storage free. I have two main questions: 1. are either of those issues likely? 2. how can I check whether these optimisations have been implemented?

Most Zoom apps support an "original audio" setting that disables noise filtering. This is very helpful if you want to play music or get music lessons over Zoom, because otherwise zoom filters out the music. I see this option in the Windows, Linux, and Mac clients, but for the life of me I can't find it in the android client. I'm using a Galaxy Tab S8, and I've ensured the app is up to date. In the linux client, this option is located under the More menu. Several online guides also say that it should be located under the manage settings menu. However, no such options exist for me in either location. The official Zoom support docs say it should be available. Is this option simply not supported on android? If it is then where can find it?

Several years ago, a friend of mine was working on a Samsung S8 Active. He was trying to remove most of the apps on it so it was just a basic phone. He had some instructions for a Ponderosa system. He was having trouble with several things so I was helping him. We got a list of all the packages on the phone using ADB and then copied them into a text editor. We removed the name of any package that we didn't want and then saved the file and pushed it back onto the phone using ADB again. I'm not certain but there might have been an app or something on the phone that had something to do with it as well but the end result was that only the apps on the list were left on the phone. I believe that we could put a password in on the phone and the apps came back but I'm not 100% sure. Since then I have lost the papers that had the instructions on them and the place we originally got them from no longer has them either. I have another Samsung S8 Active that needs the same system (or simular) put on it. I know how to get a list of all the app package names using ADB.

shell pm list packages

But does anyone know of a system that would be capable of removing apps by pushing a file to the phone? Is there an app that would work like I described? Any help would be appreciated. Edit: I am working with a Windows 10 computer. I installed xargs but it says

'<' operator is reserved for future use.

when I try to run

-l adb uninstall < pkgs2rm

. Is there a different character to use?

Currently with a Samsung Galaxy S8, but I believe this is common to other devices, I can setup fingerprint unlock which requires a password when the device starts up or if I fail to scan my finger correctly a few times. I would like to add another limitation: allow fingerprint unlock but require a password unlock every x minutes/hours or some other configurable time limit. A somewhat silly scenario to illustrate the need: suppose I fall asleep on the train, I don't want anyone to be able to scan my finger and unlock my phone. I still want the comfort of unlocking the phone with my finger while knowing that after a while it will lock itself and require a password. Is there a setting I'm missing or an app that can do that? Following @beeshyams's answer, here are my current settings.

My phone randomly shows the Download Manager downloading "Google play". I usually cancel this download since it seems fishy to me, and that's what my question (asked below) is about. Since this sounds all too common and like many questions posted here, let me clarify what this is not: - This is not a download within the Google Play store. - All apps are up to date in my play store. - My OS was recently updated to Oreo (Samsung Galaxy S8). - All my Samsung apps are also up to date. - As far as I can tell, I have set all updates to happen only on wifi, not on mobile data connections. - The download is happening via Download Manager. Long-press etc shows me info about the default "download manager" app itself, not about what it is trying to download. This reeks of malware to me, wherein some shady app might have just named itself "Google Play" so that I allow it to be downloaded and run it. A malware scan shows nothing (of course, I aborted the attempted download so that file was not scanned, but there seems to be no trojan trying to download more stuff) My questions are: - Has anyone seen this issue? Is it a regular deal, so that I should just let the phone do what it wants? - If this is "business as usual", how do I set it to happen on wifi and not on mobile data? - If this seems suspicious, what steps could I take to further investigate / remove the problem?

I have a Galaxy 8 phone that I can customise the content of always on display in some limited way. I could not find any option to add the upcoming calender event to it. Is there any way to do that?

Is it possible to set a default app to open on left swipe on Home screen? Currently Bixby app opens on left swipe, I would like to change it to some other app.

I'm unable to pair my **brand new** Sony WF1000-XM4 with my Samsung Galaxy S8. First, Sony's official Headphones app detects the headphone immediately, but fails to register with "Connection failed" error. The Bluetooth method also fails because while my phone detects the headphone immediately, I get "Couldn't connect" error. Resetting the headphone and restarting the phone have no use. Assuming this is some kind of compatibility issue I checked the headphone's specifications and found that AVRCP is common with my phone, and my phone supports v1.4, v1.3, v1.5 and v1.6 and I tried all of them with no luck. Please assist.

I have an Android S8 that is out of memory and will not start completely. I've already switched over to a new phone for daily use. It will start and boot to the main screen for under a minute, then goes into a boot loop. There are text message threads that I need for business and legal reasons, and I need them exactly as they are. When I synced (inexact term) my new S21, I only got the receiver side of the messages, my side was not restored.

I have a galaxy S8 using "default password" meaning no startup password or secure start up. The device is still encrypted by default so all data should not be recoverable after a factory reset as the old encryption key is deleted and a new one is generated on reboot. This is to my limited understanding. Is this right? Now what about data that was "deleted" before the factory reset like photos or unwanted files that were "deleted" and then the device was reset? Is any of that info recoverable?

My PC is an old Sony Vaio SVF model. The last official supported OS is Windows 8.1. The PC has a Broadcom 43142 Bluetooth adapter. From early days of Windows 10 till now, I had issues connecting my Galaxy S8 to my PC. On the other hand, the S8 BT works fine. However, whenever I tried to pair my S8 with the PC: 1. I get the prompt on **both** devices about BT connectivity authorization. 2. I approve it on both devices. 3. PC prompts that S8 is paired **successfully**, and shows it as "connected" for a few seconds. Then it changes to "paired". 4. S8 says "couldn't connect" every time I tap on the PC name in Bluetooth screen. I repeated that a million times. Even tried with the Sony driver for Windows 8.1. I convinced myself that this is either a hardware or driver issue, so I purchased a Bluetooth dongle (Orico BT-409). It is detected by Windows 10 just fine, but even with that, and after removing both from PC and phone and pairing again, the above message (couldn't connect) appears again even though I've turned the PC's internal BT adapter off. Perhaps there's something with the S8 and not my PC after all?

Just got my very first android today, being the S8 and am wondering how to remove any form of wallpaper from the AOD so its just black with the clock, but retain the wallpaper on the home screen.

My friend has a Samsung Galaxy S8 (not S8+) that has a broken screen, but after operating with this broken screen for a while, wouldn't boot past the Samsung logo, and now won't respond to a power connection at all. So to be clear, the phone doesn't do anything when plugged in to power. No partial boot, nothing on the screen. Nothing happens. **What are the options for recovering the data on the device, that's on the onboard memory module (not on the Micro SD card)?** 1. Is it possible to move the memory module to new phone hardware? 1. Could the phone still be partially alive and be able to use a diagnostic mode to download the data via cable? 3. What other troubleshooting steps should I use to diagnose what state the phone is in? (I'm quite technical so feel free to get in to infinite detail.)

I'm trying to get my Galaxy S8 to work with unity for gear VR development but I cannot seem to get ADB to find the phone. I've enabled USB debugging in development options and also have the latest version of Android Studio and the SDK, I've also installed the Android 7.0 package in Android Studio and the windows USB drivers from that, I've also reset both the phone and computer after one suggestion, one person even suggested updating the USB drivers for the phone in device manager on windows to the drivers(Android_winusb) in the SDK folder but it says it cannot find any relevant drivers, also have tried adb kill-server and adb start-server. Nothing I do seems to help at all. Also I really don't want to have to root the phone as that voids any warranty but from everything I've read there's no need to do that in order to get this working.

On my S8 I wanted to install "Blockada" (an app that needs to be sideloaded) but when I click on the .apk to install it says "can't open file". I have "download from unknown sources" chosen in Settings too! What is the cause and how do I fix it?

I use a VPN on my Galaxy S8+ and I am looking for a way to be able to share my ExpressVPN connection via hotspot to be able to connect devices such as Xbox One and a Smart TV. Currently cannot use a PC and my router is trash so my phone is the last resort. What can I do? What are some workarounds?

I have a Samsung Galaxy S8+. I have a few contacts who have not set a profile picture within WhatsApp. Previously, it would automatically substitute their lack of profile picture with whatever picture I had set for them in my Samsung Contacts app. Yesterday, I have wiped my device and upgraded to the latest Android 9.0 Pie Beta (build ZSAI) and I've noticed in WhatsApp, this no longer happens. Despite the contact having a picture in my Contacts app, WhatsApp just shows a white person on a grey background. I've looked through the settings and permissions. I can't see anything obvious, but I expect I'm missing something silly. Any suggestions? - Samsung Galaxy S8+ - SM-G955F - Android 9.0 - Build number PPR1.180610.011.G995FXXU4ZSAI - WhatsApp version 2.19.34 Thanks!