Recent content by 1Achas

I'm leary about touching either "Later" or "OK, got it" for several reasons. "Welcome to an Intelligent Lock Screen..." this is bad English, this is UNwanted. Think about it - it makes no sense. Buttons could be labeled as anything and actually lead to gawd knows where. So I can't disable Peel -...

I dumped AT&T after 22 years. They seem to be more interested in price gouging than retaining customers. I've had pretty good luck with Cricket so far. I contacted customer service twice and it's kind of scary. Their English is VERY bad. No help whatsoever. I tried to register online for an...

Cell phone going ballistic I have a AT&T Samsung Galaxy S2. The battery was reading 28 % so I plugged it in. Then it wouldn't charge and I couldn't even turn it on. So I took the battery out for 5 minutes, put it back in and plugged it in again. "Downloading. Do not turn of target!!" What's...

I have a Samsung GSII i777. Been all over the internet trying to figure out how to do this. I can connect phone with pc via usb cable and can transfer pictures, ringtones, music, but don't see anything remotely having to do with phone contacts. How can I do this?

I got a Software Update Available text a few times the past month for my Samsung Galaxy SII. After reading the horrendous reviews on the AT&T forums of it causing crashes, freezes, and general havoc, I did NOT want that 'update'. This morning, when I had some critical work to do and the battery...

Just about all of my phone contacts now have duplicate entries. One with an earmarked page lookin thing with a yellow thingamajig doohicky deelymabob. What's the deal with this?

Device management Software update appears on the notification area of my SGS 2. With no clue as to what this is.

Interestingly, I had her hard reset it - which I thought would clear the browser cache etc. Only when I told her to go to Settings/Apps/Browser and clear data and cache did it start working.

I downloaded some epub files to my SGSII and "No applications can perform this action". I'm surprised, even low-end tablets I work with have a native ereader. How can I get one on here; any one better than another on this phone?

I took some videos on SGII. They show up sideways on pc in mp4 format. It looks like I can change the orientation in Windows Movie maker, but when I try to save it as mp4 - it says "invalid format". It has it's own format to save it in and doesn't appear to have any other options. Any other way...

Burp. That was good, but it coulda been better. After I upgraded my handy dandy Samsung Galaxy S II to ICS, Kies starts up on boot on my pc every time. I went into msconfig/start folder and unchecked everything that had the word Kies in it. It's still starting at boot. And if I do bring it up...

It actually went pretty smoothly once I figured it out. You don't have to update kies on your phone - just your computer. Once ics is on phone - the last kies is there too.

Thanks! With strawdog's hint, I downloaded current version of kies. Upgraded to ICS. During the whole time - DeviceManager.exe has stopped working came up about three times - not sure what that's about.

Thanks! There's no popup about firmware version or prompt to get a newer one. How could I check on this?

I got a message on my SGSII that it's available. The online directions say to backup via kies. I got it connceted, pc definitely sees all that on the phone , but it says to hit the "Backup/Restore button". There is no such thing - anywhere on the pc or phone. Howdoyadothis? Wish I had all day...