Mobile phones, cells – Android, Samsung, LG, Apple, iPhone, Blackberry, Windows Phone 7 (and 8) BES, and BIS news and how tos
Are you confused by all the different codes on an SD Card? All SD memory cards are not created equal. They can only write data at a particular transfer rate and they all have speed rating (aka SD Card Speed Classes) The simple table below will explains SD Card names Read more…
We recently received a question about the diamond shaped kite with “S “in the middle if it. That is the E911 Map icon which lets you know that your cell is configured to send location information to emergency services based on some clever mathematical guesswork. For instance, if your cell Read more…
To avoid accidental power downs, Samsung has changed the functionality of the power button on their newer phones like the Samsung S22 and S21. Now the power button will power up your Samsung Galaxy, but not power it down. Obviously you will need to power it down from time to Read more…
We recently had a question from a reader named James who had looked at out Complete List of Android Icons and not found an icon on his phones home screen, so we went to work! What is Android Extra Dim? Samsung Extra Dim is a configuration option new to Android Read more…
If you have a Samsung Galaxy S9 you already know it was (is?) likely the best cell phone ever made but it just became unsupported and so millions of people will be forced to upgrade. The question is, what is the best replacement for a Samsung S9? The answer is Read more…
If you live in the modern world, you are going to need to access QR codes, boarding passes and other screenshots and pictures, all the time. Fumbling through apps and digging through folders is a time consuming, frustrating pain. Fortunately, there is an easy way to add a shortcut to Read more…
Last year we collected all of the Android icons we could find and documented them in The Complete Guide To Icons on Android Devices. We also added an explanation of how to figure out what the icons were in the top right corner of your Android mobile. Since then readers Read more…
In case you were not already aware Shaw BlueCurve and Rogers Ignite in Canada and Cox Contour and Charter in the United States have licensed Comcast’s X1 platform used for on-demand viewing including the the mobile / browser app. As such their troubleshooting steps are all the same. While the instructions below Read more…
In the first half of 2021 Apple announced they would begin checking photos on Apple devices for child pornography and many privacy advocates became concerned that Apple was overreaching. On August 5th Apple explained the details in highly technical terms that most people can’t understand. So we decided to simplify Read more…
In recent builds of Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft has added a MOST RECENT SIGN IN feature and that is very helpful if you think someone else may have been checking your email. To see the last time someone logged into your email, just click FILE and look at the INFO section Read more…
We often need the SMTP email configuration for different services and are tired of searching all over the internet for them. Here is a list of email server configurations from services you might use (in alphabetic order) APPLE MAIL SERVER SETTINGS Incoming Server: imap.mail.me.com Incoming Port: IMAP 993 Outgoing Server: Read more…
About a year ago we started a list of Android Icons and their meaning which we have expanded several times as people like you report new icons. However we recently had a few we could not figure out so we think they are app related and not part of the Read more…
We explain Googles new RCS (Rich Communication System) and Samsung Link Sharing, both of which will save your mobile phones data plan because they transfer their data through WiFi when it is available. We explain how to turn off link sharing on Samsung phones and we also demonstrate how to Read more…
Over the years we have created several articles explaining how to figure out what is causing your inbound calls to go directly to voicemail. I have seen these problems on Apple iPhone but most of our experience is with Android devices as that is our standard. We have seen LG, Read more…
If you are using communication services from Shaw you might not want the free voice mail service they offer. Here is how you turn off Shaw Voicemail: How To Disable Shaw Mobile VoiceMail on You Cell: To disable voicemail on your Shaw Mobile account, you have to either: use a Read more…
If you don’t have a mobile phone, or like in my case, you need your cell for something else (like shooting a video) at the same time you need to send a text, you are in luck. There are 3 simply ways to send a text without using a cell Read more…