My sister has a Google cloud storage plan. She first got it free as part of the promotion for purchasing a Samsung Android smartphone. I believe it was 50GB or 100GB. At that time, we thought it was a lot. She has children and likes to take a lot, I…
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Apple iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad; Google Android; RIM Blackberry; Palm Pilot, HandSpring Visor
As a Gen X’er, I started life without Internet and mobile phones (oh my gawd!) and was already an adult when social media took off. As a result, I am not smartphone dependent and will not be constantly checking my phone. I only check my phone when I need to…
Leave a CommentMy brother recently switched from a Motorola Android phone to an Apple iPhone 13 Pro. He wanted to keep the “Hello Moto” ringtone, which was not available on the iPhone. I checked the ringtones available on the App Store and they were all remixed audios with male voices. The original…
Leave a CommentWindows 10 supports Android, but I think the support is very lacking. Supposedly, if you attach your Android smartphone to the Windows Phone app, you can then run Android apps on Windows 10 using the Phone app. You would have to have the latest version of the Phone app though.…
Leave a CommentSeveral years ago, I purchased a used iPad 2. After I got home, I did a reset on it. When it booted up and tried to activate the iPad, it stated that the iPad was managed and asked me for a username and password as part of “Remote Management”. This…
1 CommentTwo months ago, Google Maps stopped telling me directions when navigating on my Apple iPhone 6s. I could still navigate without the voice prompts though. Two week ago, my current location would only update once per minute. I couldn’t navigate at all. Sometimes, after 5-10 minutes, the GPS location updates…
Leave a CommentUnder Windows 7, whenever I connected my iPhone, I would see a device drive appear in the File Explorer, which allowed me to manually copy photos from the iPhone to my computer. Under Windows 10, the device drive no longer appeared. I found the solution to this problem at iPhone…
1 CommentI needed to re-image a Google Nexus 5 Android GSM smartphone with its stock factory image. Because I haven’t done this in a long while, I thought I would document what I did. The instructions below should also work for the Google Pixel phone. I did the re-image using my…
Leave a CommentI purchased a used Nexus 5 recently. When I used the built-in Settings app to upgrade it to the latest Android version, it got stuck at the bootloader screen on reboot. The previous owner had rooted the Nexus with a custom bootloader which broke the stock upgrade process. Because I…
Leave a CommentRecently, my niece’s iPhone 4S died. We got her a replacement phone, but all the data on her old phone was gone. Unfortunately, even though she had a Gmail account configured, her iPhone did not sync its addresses to Google Contacts. I checked my own Google Contacts account and found…
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