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The overlay turned solid black today and the phone was unusable. I finally realized it was cold from being outside, so I warmed it with a hand dryer. It went back to semi-transparent, but didn't go away. I factory reset my phone, then installed every update. The overlay came back. I'm...

*#0*#? Nothing happened. Website says some carriers disable the feature. I'm on verizon.

New symptom, as of today: a shaking "ghost image" of what's on the top left appears at the top right. Doesn't show in screenshots. Disapears if I wait until the screen dims, just before going to sleep, then touch the screen to keep it awake. If it comes back, I'll try to take a pic with another...

Glad to help! Sadly, one of the drawbacks of having a Samsung is that my headphone button alternates between being ignored and opening irrelevant apps. I get a dialog asking which app I want to use. One of the choices is google assistant. (Wish I could still get decent quality headphones with...

Correct. If I keep the phone active, whatever I do just appears "under" the overlay. The shutdown warning is seperate. It just happens that clearing the warning also clears the overlay.

The overlay appears randomly, but when the phone is active. If I don't touch it until I get the shutdown warning, and then touch the screen to avoid shutdown, the warning and the overlay go away at the same time.

It's happened three more times now. The first time, I shut off mobile data. (I've tried that twice now.) The next time, I disabled DNS66. The last time, I didn't change anything. Every time, the same behavior, the overlay remains until the screen dims before standby. I tap to keep it awake, the...

I've had one opportunity so far to try turning off mobile data in the presence of the overlay. It hung around for two minutes until my screen dimmed. (Times out at two minutes.) I tapped the screen to keep it awake. When the brightness returned, the overlay was gone. Doesn't seem conclusive to...

Have you considered Media Monkey? It lets you create your own playlists with your own tracks. It says it syncs with your PC. (Though I haven't used it that way.) It has a feature called level volume. The description of it is a bit ambiguous, but it could be the normalization you're looking for...

I usually see this happen at least once per day. When it happens again, I'll try this and report back. I also use DNS66, an ad blocking VPN. I used it for sometime before this behavior started, but I may try disabling it as well. (On a seperate occasion, so I don't muddy the results of turning...

The "greater than" symbol in the lower left? That opens taskbar.

I have an a semi-transparent overlay that comes and goes, seemingly at random. It covers most of my screen. It seems to show over any apps, as well as my home screen. It doesn't show in screenshots, so my wife took a picture of it. (I'm not the only one, see a better description here...