The process to change (or set) your email signature on an Android 4 Samsung Galaxy S3 S4 or S5 is quite easy: Open your email Click the MENU button (hidden button to the left of the physical HOME bar below the screen) Click SETTINGS Click on your account name Click […]
If you need the MAC address from your cell phone, you are on the right page: Android 4.4 MAC Address – Samsung Galaxy S3 Get into your SETTINGS: From any screen swipe down from the top of the screen to expose the “notices page” and then tap the white “settings” cog in the […]
To be short… not easily. Most modern smartphones, including the S2 S3 and S4 output HDMI which is both digital and encrypted (by standard) but your Ford Sync (like nearly all cars) only accepts RCA (round red white and yellow jacks) which is unencrypted analog. To get this to work […]
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Ok… this was weird. If you make an outbound call on your Samsung S3 (running Android 4.0.3 or newer) and after about 1 ring, your S3’s voice mail picks up AND this behavior does NOT happen from other land lines or cell phones you likely have accidentally enabled CALL REJECTION […]
Put simply Samsung Knox is a program that runs on newer models of Samsung Android devices (like the Galaxy S3 and S4) which provides a secure environment that is separate from the less secure Android operating system. When you start KNOX you will see a new desktop, secure email, secured […]
If you have upgraded your Android device (in my case a Samsung S3) to Android 4.3 you likely have found that the camera flash goes off randomly. Well, it is not so random after all; I found that on the 4 Galaxy S3’s that I experienced this problem, the camera […]
Unlock your Samsung Galaxy S3, Note 2 and Ruby. Free. No Rooting. No Hacking. You MUST have Android 4.1.1 for this to work, otherwize the last step NW LOCK NV… will be missing. Just dial the following keys *#197328640# Main Menu [1] UMTS [1] Debug Screen [8] Phone Control [6] […]
QUALCOMM (apparently) accidently released a 2013 product roadmap showing Android 5 (code named Key Lime Pie) being released sometime between April through June of 2013. The Samsung Galaxy S4 is supposed to be released in March of 2013 and I just can’t imaging the S4 not being capable of running the […]
The Samsung Galaxy S4 will have the following hardware spec according the image I received (see below): Android 4.2 Jelly Bean with TouchWiz 5″ 1080p Super AMOLED+ Screen 2.0 A15 Exynos 5450 Quad Core CPU – I wonder if like the S3, there will only be a dual core in Canada and […]
A BLOCKING MODE icon on the Samsung Galaxy S3 Notification Screen has replaced the DRIVING MODE icon and so you may wonder what BLOCKING MODE is and what happened to DRIVING MODE. DRIVING MODE is still available on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean but it has been buried under SETTINGS > LANGUAGE AND INPUT > […]
A BLOCKING MODE icon on the Samsung Galaxy S3 Notification screens toolbar has replaced the DRIVING MODE icon and so you may wonder what BLOCKING MODE is and what happened to DRIVING MODE. DRIVING MODE is still available on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean but it has been buried see urtech.ca/2012/08/solved-samsung-galaxy-s3-driving-mode-google-maps-notification-volumes/ BLOCKING MODE turns out […]
ANSER: The week of November 20th! Late yesterday Telus told me “off the record” that the update will be released the week of November 20th. This morning I received an official notice from Samsung business support. Jelly Bean ver. 4.1.x being released by all carriers commencing sometime during the second half […]
Just a few clicks to Joy: Power down the S3 Hold the Volume UP button (top left) Hold the HOME button (bottom middle) Keep holding those while pressing the POWER button Keep holding all three buttons until the Samsung S3 vibrates or you see the Android Logo, then release all […]
After much work and about an hour with Microsoft I determined that the nut of the problem was the automatic setup on the Galaxy S3… don’t use it, click MANUAL SETUP. But first… make sure your phone is patched to the current build as Samsung had a few issues prior to […]
The original version of the S3’s firmware had this setting was off by default but since the newer firmware has been installed, text messages now automatically appear in the Inbox of your Samsung Galaxy S3 (and likely other Android 4 devices). Start you email Click the MENU button (left of the large physical […]