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My wife just got a Samsung Z Fold 2 (old phone died, limited choices), which I love and she is ... adjusting to. The one real problem she's having is that while using an app (Samsung's email app, for instance) with the screen unfolded, the 3 buttons at the bottom right (the standard Android...

I have a Samsung Note 8 running Android 9. I have an analog clock widget on my home screen that I want to run constantly. It uses battery. I don't care. Recently (maybe after a system update), I started getting notices throughout the day that the app has high background battery usage, and...

In case this helps anyone else, when my Note8 updated to Android Pie and OneUI, I couldn't find the Pin to Screen function after using Smart Select with the S Pen Air Commands. I finally found out that it was there, I just hadn't thought to look in the right place. You now have to tap Smart...

My Note8 recently updated to Android 9 Pie and Samsung's OneUI. The new horizontal look and way of using Recent Apps wouldn't have been my choice; I understand that it's intended to emphasize one-handed use, but that seems odd on a phone with a phenomenal stylus. Whatever; I can deal with it...

I got the N915VVRU2CQF2 update last week, and it immediately caused my Fitbit Flex to be unable to sync over Bluetooth. I am not alone: dozens of Fitbit users with various Samsung devices are reporting this sync problem...

My Verizon Note 4 Edge finally got the Marshmallow update a few days ago. I posted some questions about a variety of features that seem different from what it's supposed to be here. But I also have a problem about scrollbars, which show up as thick gray lines on the right side of the screen in...

My Verizon Note 4 Edge finally got the Marshmallow update a few days ago. I've been looking around in it, and looking at some online reviews of Marshmallow (such as this one). I've got a number of questions about Samsung's implementation of this version of Android, all boiling down to, "Did...

Quick and easy question, I hope: on the Note Edge I have an app called Calendar, which I took to be the stock Android Calendar app. However, I've seen lots of references to the Samsung S Planner app, and screenshots of it look pretty much just like this "Calendar" app. And I don't have an app on...

I have a Verizon Note Edge running Android 5 Lollipop. I don't subscribe to VZW's Visual Voicemail and I don't want to. On my previous Verizon phones, when I had voicemail activity, I would get a notification from the regular, nonvisual voicemail that I could tap on and it would automatically...

I just bought a Note Edge from Verizon, and I love, love, love it. It upgraded to Android 5 Lollipop right after I got it. I'd had Lollipop on my S4, so I was aware that there are a few little quirks. So far the most annoying has to do with the stock Calendar app. I never use it, preferring to...

Just out of curiosity, I turned on Developer Mode by going into Settings > More > About device and tapping Build number 7 times. Didn't see anything there I really wanted or needed to do, so I would like to turn it off. I turned off the options as such by using the slider at the top of the...

Before the 4.3 update, my wife and I were traveling in California and made much use of Google Maps Navigation. The female voice, while entertainingly incompetent at pronouncing some place names (especially Spanish ones), was at least not unpleasant to listen to. Back home and after the 4.3...

In Settings > More > Location services, since the Android 4.3 update there is now a single setting to enable GPS & Verizon location services. It used to be possible to enable GPS without Verizon location services, whether from the Notification settings or this Settings menu, but that is no...

On the S4, there are certain Samsung apps, including the new Optical Reader that comes with the VRUDMI1 update, that require a Samsung account in order to use. I'm telling myself that I'm not ready to give yet another tech company access to my life. But I really want to try the Optical Reader...

Encouraged by EvilMonkey's very fine Ambassador Guide to Google Now, I set up Google Now on my phone today. I unchecked a lot of the possible card alerts it could show (TV shows, movies, albums, etc.). I did leave Next appointment checked, but I'm a little puzzled about how it works. It should...

I've used the stock Clock app on my S4 (and previously on a different phone with an earlier version of Android) for alarms, timers, and a stopwatch. I only just discovered (because it's scrolled off to the right in portrait mode) that it has a desk clock feature as well, and I wanted to posted...

I've just spent some time successfully organizing my apps neatly into folders. I was looking into organizing widgets as well, but that doesn't seem to be an option. I do notice an option to uninstall widgets. I'm not talking about removing a widget from a home screen, but in the S4 app drawer...

There is an HP Print Service plugin pre-installed on the S4. There is approximately 0.0 help for it on the phone or in the user manual. Based on raw experimentation, I've found that is apparently functions in certain apps when the phone is on a WiFi network along with a compatible HP printer...

Ambassador Evil Monkey has posted a guide to Google Now that is very helpful: http://forums.androidcentral.com/ambassador-guides-tips-how-tos/300182-guide-google-now.html. I'm slowly giving it a look. The voice actions, at first glance, seem useful and not very creepy. I easily got it to text...

I'd like to be able to view this forum without seeing the space-hogging list of sub-forums at the top of the screen. I've looked around at the forum settings, but I don't see one for that. Is there any way to do it?