Recent content by Andie708

One more thought about Omni Swipe... to make it as unobtrusive as possible I disabled several of its "features" (SMS and GMail notifications, floating window, tap assist, low memory "cleaner," battery "booster," omni lock screen) and set it to pop up only if the stock launcher's desktop is in...

Here's a "solution" (was Re: Apps on SD card disappear after reboot, ...) I found a useful workaround that "solves" the problem: I installed Omni Swipe and set its "favorites" to the apps that I'd moved to the sdcard. Omni Swipe remembered them after I restarted the phone, so problem "solved."...

[An update since my previous post.] 1. Three days ago I spoke with ZTE tech support about the "software enhancement update" listed in my Obsidian phone's notification screen. I wanted more information before I installed it, because T-Mobile's support page doesn't list any updates more recent...

Although your battery level % decreases rapidly, that doesn't necessarily imply the battery is actually draining fast, because the % is estimated by the phone and can be wildly inaccurate. On my ZTE Obsidian phone (Android 5.1, build 29 update) the % can jump 80% or more simply by powering the...

I've attached a screenshot from the Settings/Battery screen of my android phone that shows the battery level can be wildly inaccurate. In the image, each of the three huge jumps in the battery level corresponds to having powered the phone off then on. (The phone was not connected to a charger...

I've learned from my phone's behavior that you can't rely on the phone's battery information. The 1650 mAh battery of my ZTE Obsidian Z820 phone appears to drain very fast, but its level "magically" jumps when I power the phone off and on. For example, I saw the phone show the battery was down...

The original battery in my ZTE Obsidian Z820 is rated 1650 mAh, but when I google for Obsidian specs I find that the battery is 1800 mAh. I presume this means ZTE changed from 1650 to 1800 (probably after reviews that complained the phone's runtime was too short). The question for owners of...

@JoeMule: It's been three months since your post. Which battery did you end up buying? Has it worked well? Does the phone's charging circuit properly handle a battery that isn't 1650 mAh like the original battery? Is there a way to be fairly certain the "new" battery isn't really a...

I'm just commenting to correct what was written here a few years ago about the MX Player app. MX Player can in fact be used as an audio player, and it understands the WMA audio format (and many other formats). Note that there's a checkbox labeled "Audio player - Use as an audio player" in MX...

Today I tried uninstalling the device driver associated with Z2, but it didn't help. (After I uninstalled Z2's driver, I uninstalled Z1's driver, and then re-installed Z1's driver. But the files in Z1's sdcard remain hidden from Windows, when Z1 is connected to the pc via USB port.) Then I...

Can you provide more information about Windows.zip? Its webpage at Dropbox doesn't say what it does or how to use it or who posted it, and the zip file contains no documentation. For security reasons, I think it would be unwise to trust it without a lot more information.

Ah... and Microsoft's "extended support" means the only updates will be fixes of security flaws. I presume this Zinger bug is unlikely to be a security flaw, so I hope I'm right that the bug probably isn't in Windows Vista. The main task now is to get Z1 to work with my pc again by undoing...

I should have also said that Microsoft does still support Vista, and I install the occasional updates. Windows XP is the version that Microsoft most recently stopped supporting.

No, that's a good idea but I don't know of a Windows 7 or 8 pc where I could test the phones. I would guess that if the problem is in my pc, it's most likely due to a bug in the device drivers that the Zingers installed on the pc, rather than a bug in Vista. Perhaps if I borrow Z2 back from my...

I have two identical ZTE Zinger phones (which run Android 4.4 KitKat). Let's abbreviate them as Z1 and Z2. Z2 has no problem when connected to a USB port of my Windows Vista pc. Z1 used to have no problem, but now my pc can no longer see any files on Z1's external sd card when Z1 is connected...