Got a new phone recently and noticed this incredibly annoying feature. Every notification in the notifications list has a little button on the right. It is very easy to accidentally click this button, which then opens the app in a small, draggable pop up window. I hate this window. I searched through android settings, and was able to find an option to toggle this setting off. However, when I did this, the buttons on the notifications still stayed, and when I clicked them by accident, I would get *another* notification prompting me to re-enable pop-up window functionality. I searched the apps list to disable notifications for this app, but could not find it. So I spun up adb, and searched the list of installed packages for "pop", "popup", or "window" and couldn't find anything. I want to know how to remove this annoying functionality from my phone.

I am using a Sony Xperia L (C2104) with Android 4.2.2 (Build number 15.3.A.1.17). I can only find one setting that would turn on Wi-Fi automatically, and it is the "Location-based Wi-Fi" setting in the Power Management settings category. Of course, I have disabled this option, but I frequently find my Wi-Fi on. How can I fix this?

Is in Android there is an available database set for limits display frame rate? If they’re available, is using ADB/Root (Terminal), or how, or even it can't? I've been searching this for years, and not get an answer yet. Actually, this is for tweaking to trigger any benefits. This like my other phone embedded feature is Xperia STAMINA mode which is it can set the display frame rate (to 2x lower from 30 fps) for battery saving. But... I mean is not only for that. Many others too that can benefit. So, is this can available on a pure Android system? Or this only self-made for manufacture's hardware so that not possible available on others except Xperia devices? If there are other threads that I don't know. Please let me know. I'll understand it, and try if it makes sense.

Can I flash Sony Xperia 1 V US modem firmware onto Sony Xperia 5 V (XQ-DE54) to get all US bands?

I had a rooted phone, in which I misclicked an apk and installed it. Almost immediately I uninstalled it and disabled the network (I also had afwall and netguard enabled). However it was too late. I got a ~100's of 0kb system apps without icons. I re-flashed the phone with fresh stock firmware and factory reset it, however the broken system apps (and likely the malware) are still there. Does anyone have suggestions on what can be done to fix this? Or any knowledge of similar malware? Some antivirus I could use, or maybe something stronger than a system flash? Thanks in advance. Picture after factory reset and flash.

For my Sony Xperia xz2 compact I used the LOS builds for years. At June 28th, the GSM stopped working caused by missing sim. 1. I went back to *lineage-21.0-20240621-nightly-xz2c* 2. I ordered a new SIM card from my provider -> not detected 3. I took another xz2c device -> same phenomenon 4. I tried *lineage-21.0-20240706-nightly-xz2c* and *lineage-21.0-20240712-nightly-xz2c* -> still SIM not detected 5. SONY Xperia z3c (with outdated LOS) and iPhone 11 -> SIM detected 6. Installed /e/OS on xz2c -> SIM not detected To sum up: SIM seems to be okay. Two devices of the same type with different Android-bases OSs cannot detect (more than one) SIM Card. I doubt an identical hardware crash in two independent devices at the same time. Any ideas for further investigations? Any chance that there is a systematic bug in the current android-based builds? Any similar experiences with xz2c?

In order to root a Sony Xperia XA phone I followed the steps described here , until the step to reboot the device in recovery mode. Using an Ubuntu computer and the phone connected by USB, I ran the following command: sudo adb reboot recovery after I copied the recovery image to the phone as described on the page linked above. However, the phone rebooted normally and not in recovery mode. There was no option to load the root file to flash the device. Is there any other way to reboot the device in recovery mode?

On a Lollipop powered Sony Xperia M4 Aqua, no notifications are being shown for new SMS arrivals in the notification bar nor the ringtone that was set is being played.

As per title, I am trying to unlock the bootloader on my Sony Xperia 5 III. I have the global variant (XQ-BQ52) and confirmed it is unlockable. I am on W10 Ryzen based desktop system. I tried to follow Sony's "How to unlock bootloader" , I got code as per Sony's "Unlock your device" . I would like to say I have unlocked bootloaders and installed custom ROMS before - somehow this was quite different. In first try, I didn't realise I was in "fastbootd". I rebooted to "fastboot" and had to reinstall the drivers. This time, I had to browse for a driver with the Window's choose-a-driver-GUI instead of choosing the folder downloaded with Google USB drivers - this was a bit weird to me. Nonetheless, it seemed it worked since I got proper respond to fastboot devices. So, for the unlocking part; admittedly, I was confused regarding the command fastboot oem unlock 0x stating on Sony's guide. I might be stupid, but did not understand where to put in the code. First, I did the exact command and of course got nothing. Then I replaced 0x with my code, and then Terminal just hang forever. After a few minutes, I decided to kill the command with CTRL + C. I might have screwed up big time. Now, when for instance trying fastboot reboot I get

Rebooting                                          FAILED (Write to device failed (no link))
fastboot: error: Command failed

I can still "ping" my device and get proper response with fastboot devices, but I must say I am kind of scared to proceed from here. Found this link but I am unsure whether this applies to my case. I made a post on XDA's forums as well, and now it seems I indeed messed up with the unlock code input. But still, don't know if I made things worse with killing the command or perhaps even installing wrong drivers. My phone is still in fastboot mode (with blue LED), and I am afraid to disconnect and potentially mess even more up. I hope I provided enough details. THANKS in advance. ### UPDATE: Left the phone over night and decided to give it another try. I just tried to fastboot reboot and BEHOLD: the phone rebooted, showed the "cannot check for corruption [..] screen", wiped the data and booted into the stock ROM. I mean: what?! Futhermore, it shows unlocked under developer settings and:

C:\Users\user>fastboot getvar unlocked
unlocked: yes
Finished. Total time: 0.001s

Although, this is curious to me:

C:\Users\user>fastboot oem device-info
FAILED (remote: 'unknown command')
fastboot: error: Command failed

Perhaps it is just how Sony phones work? Nonetheless; I do **not** know what happened - perhaps just reconnected to the PC due to sleep mode? I think it did succeed in unlocking the bootloader after all. Is there any commands I should run before trying to flash the ROM I would like to install? Thanks again!

Xperia 5 II. No root. No bootloader is open. Debug mode is enabled, but ADB requires authorization. Situation: There was an error and my phone's theme has changed. I changed the theme back and rebooted the device. I had a password with non-English characters. Now my keyboard does not have these characters, only English. So I know the password, but I can't enter it. Any suggestions on how to change the locale on the keyboard or enter the password there? UPD: I don't want to factory reset, because i don't want to lose all photos of my deceased dog :(

I've just got an Xperia 1 IV and I've noticed that it's not roaming between the access points in my house, which is an absolute nightmare. I've looked, and I can't seem to find this setting anywhere. Could someone please point me in the right direction?

I just bought a Sony Xperia Z4 Tablet. (Amazing BTW) It has a keyboard and touchpad. Can I add a wireless mouse to it? What kind can I purchase that would work with Android/Sony's system? I imagine it would be a bluetooth mouse, but I want to know even if I could connect the bluetooth device whether it would correctly drive the cursor on the tablet. Example vendors/products would be appreciated.

This question is essentially the same as https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/27083/google-play-error-downloading-app-insufficient-space , but I want to fix it without rooting my phone. Clearing Cache, uninstalling Google Play updates and using cache cleaner apps do nothing. Any suggestions? # Background My Sony Xperia T has over 10GB of free internal space and so does my SD card. Also, I have about 280MB of available RAM at any given point in the day. Despite this, every time I try to download another app of anything larger than about 24MB, the following error message appears, > ERROR, Error downloading. There is insufficient space on the device. Although this message appears, I can go into Settings > Storage and see that I still have over 10GB of internal storage available on the device. The picture below shows my Internal storage. Please note the available space: One solution I have found is https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/27127/something-is-secretly-eating-up-my-acer-iconia-a500-internal-memory-and-i-need-h/27130#27130 , but unfortunately this specifically applies to someone who has 379MB remaining and can't find why there is not more. This is not the case with me because my phone clearly states I have 10GB of available internal storage. I have already looked through [insufficient-memory tag](https://android.stackexchange.com/tags/insufficient-memory/info) , which simply explains that I should either delete apps or move them onto my SD card. As you can see, neither of these suggestions apply to my problem because I already have over 10GB of available internal storage and over 10GB of available SD card storage space. I have also looked through questions such as https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/23010/insufficient-storage-when-trying-to-install-new-app . The best answer given here is to clear data on Google Play. I have done this. It still doesn't help.

I have a Sony Xperia 10 III open device and I have build an AOSP android 12 and flashed the build to the phone which has booted successfully. Since the AOSP is not having any google apps prebuilt, I tried flashing the Gapps through ADB sideload by downloading the .zip file of the Gappa from NikGapps, BiTGapps etc. While trying to flash the .zip file from the ADB in recovery mode, the flashing was not successful and the following error occured: I have a Sony Xperia 10 III open device and I have build an AOSP android 12 and flashed the build to the phone which has booted successfully. Since the AOSP is not having any google apps prebuilt, I tried flashing the Gapps through ADB sideload by downloading the .zip file of the Gappa from NikGapps, BiTGapps etc. While trying to flash the .zip file from the ADB in recovery mode, the flashing was not successful and the following error occured: E : Failed to find META-INF/com/android/metadata E : Failed to parse metadata in the zip file. It was found that the directory tree of the downloaded .zip file was META-INF/com/google/android/metadata, but the search was done in the tree mentioned in the first error. I pulled the 'android' directory outside the 'google' directory. After this change, there is a signature verification error that arose E: footer is wrong E: Signature verification failed E: error: 21 Since the recovery is stock, there is no option to disable signature verification. I am also unable to flash third party recoveries like TWRP and ClockWorkMod on Sony Xperia 10 III. Is there any other method where we can flash Gapps to Sony Xperia 10 III? Kindly reply.

The Album app on my phone fails to detect some of the pictures I have after I moved them. I tried clearing the Album app's data but it didn't do anything. After looking around the internet, I found that one way to refresh media apps is to find the Media Storage system app on the Settings and then clear it's data. After I did that, I noticed my notifications on some messaging apps stopped having sound. When I tried to select a new notification tone for it, I found out that all the default ringtones and notification sounds are missing. Is there a way to get this resolved like maybe there's a directory where these tones are placed in the system, or am I SOL? EDIT: After digging around, I found my notifications, ringtones, and alarm sounds are still in /system/media/audio/ but for some reason the ringtone selection dialog doesn't detect them. They don't have a .nomedia on the folder so it can't be that. Is there a way to force them to be rediscovered?

I flashed Pixel Expirience GSI with TWRP by pushing it to the storage and flashing it as system img(with TWRP).\ The problem, it’s now stuck in a Google animation which came after the Sony logo.\ I would like to shut it down.\ I already tried adb reboot but error: device unauthorized And pressed the power off button 1 min and nothing happened.\ EDIT:\ I tried to install some GSIs, but they were stuck at the costum Romes Loading animation. 1. I installed the Firmware with Emma 2. Locked it to update to Android 11 and unlocked it again 3. Installed TWRP and booted into it 4. Wiped system and userdata 5. Pushed to system.img file from the custom rom to my device into /sideload/ 6. In TWRP install-System Image—> Pressed on the folder and on the system.img 7. It installed successfully 8. Rebooted 9. Stuck in Loading animation\ (PixelExpirience == A Google G with loading bar, LineageOs == The blue line with the bubble)\ No crashes or so what, it just hangs in there for ~20 min and than I turn the device off with volume(+) and Power button.\ I know Sony Xperia 1 is not officially supported for project treble, but since this thread(https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/mars_soms-v220313-pixel-expierence-android-12-gsi-patches.4097433/) requires Pixel Experience GSI I thought it should be possible to run GSI on Sony Xperia 1.\ Any idea what I might have donne wrong or are there other GSI roms I could try.\ *PixelEX = PixelExperience_Plus_arm64-ab-12.1-20220613-UNOFFICIAL.img 3.7 GB\ LineageOS = lineage-19.1-20220613-UNOFFICIAL-arm64_bvS.img 2.0 GB*

I'm getting rid of my Sony XZ2 Compact. I just flashed the original firmware using Emma and now I'm trying to relock the bootloader. I've tried running fastboot oem lock and fastboot flashing lock both as a normal user and root with no avail. I always get the following error: >> fastboot oem lock ... FAILED (remote: unknown command) finished. total time: 0.000s When I run fastboot devices I can see my phone listed. USB-Debugging is active in the developer options. How can I lock the bootloader so that I don't get the screen with "*Your device software can't be checked for corruption. Please lock the bootloader.*" when booting the phone?

I'm using Xperia M and I have installed ADB and turned on USB debugging, turned off my mobile, then hold the volume up button and connected the USB. I typed fastboot devices in cmd where I have my fastboot.exe, but it didn't type anything. No "(waiting for device)", no error, just nothing. The light on my mobile is blue like it has to be but it just not typing anything. How to use fastboot on Xperia M?

So basically I have a Stock Sony Xperia Z3 Docomo variant (if I recall correctly it was D6653) that I used all the way from 2017, until I had to store it on my desk cabinet for two years because the screen was broken (although before the screen went completely messed up, I managed to enable USB debugging in order to mirror the screen on my laptop with scrcpy so I can use it). Until finally I got a chance to replace the screen earlier this weekend Problem is, I already forgot the pattern to unlock it. Not even my brother (who used it sometimes to game back then) remember the pattern. Worse part is some of the SIM card, even when it does have data plan (I just simply put the SIM from my other phone), the phone is just going to show as full bar Roaming (R) and no internet at all so this phone completely have no network (although I do also have suspicion that data connection is probably disabled), and obviously that means I can't use google account to unlock it Wanted to use TWRP or Aroma File Manager to delete the pattern lock file, but then I realized I have to flash recovery first, and even if I do now understand how to do it on Z3 model because I already read various guide from various forum since Saturday, the problem is that OEM unlock isn't even enabled simply because at the time it was still a bit functional, I don't see it as something I need, as I don't root or flash a custom ROM on any phone that I use. And as additional note, as time goes on obviously all of the laptop at home had gone many clean reinstall, which means no ADB key backup, and I can't authorize because pattern lock Is there hope left, or this phone is completely locked? (TLDR: Phone locked because I forgot lock pattern, no Internet, data stuck at R, no connection so I can't recover with google account, USB Debugging on but not OEM unlock)

I have a Sony Xperia C2305 with Android version 4.2.2. I was trying to free up internal space using Titanium Backup Pro by moving applications over to the SD Card. I converted Chrome to a user application and then moved it tot he SD Card. When I run it i now get the following error: "Critical functionality required to run Chrome is missing; either your Chrome installation is incomplete or not compatible with this version of android". I attempted to do the following: - Moved back to Internal Memory and Converted to System Application - Same Error - Rebooted - Same Error - Converted to User Application & Uninstalled - Downloaded from Play Store - Same Error - Converted Downloaded & Installed Chrome to System Application - Same Error **How can i get a working version of chrome back on my phone?**