Recent content by Android Optimizer

I have a Google Pxiel Slate that should be arriving Friday (hopefully I'll be home to sign for it, and won't have to wait another day for them to deliver it). This will be my first Chrome OS device as well as my first pure Google device. Are there any tips for setup and use? For example is there...

What are everyone's favorite digital watch faces for the Ticwatches, and is anyone using (or able to use) a messaging app other than Google's default one when connected to a Ticwatch for text notifications? For many years I have used a Asus Zenwatch 2 watch. Due to shortening battery life...

I have a Asus Zenwatch 2, and I recently switched phones (from a S7 Edge with the dreaded pink line down the right side to a Note 9). Like the usual annoyance that it takes to re-pair an Android Wear/ Wear OS smart watch it required me to reset/wipe/format/re-image the watch to make it pair...

It depends on both the watch model and the settings. Some watches have speakers to play sound and some do not. I have a ZenWatch 2 and I can set it to vibrate, or to play sound (or both). With my watch if I swipe from up to down from the main screen it pulls up a screen with a white sprocket at...

What are some tips you'd give for preparing and setting up a new Note 9 phone? I'm a former Note 7 user (really loved using the Note 7 - both versions - before being forced to return both due to the forced recall). After the forced recall of the Note 7 I switched to an S7 edge. I haven't...

Where did you hear/read that? I've read that people who exchanged a Note7 for an S7 or S7Edge will be given a discount if they choose to upgrade to an S8 or N8 when they are released, but even that isn't from any official statement by Samsung Corporate nor any of their legitimate websites...

What are you doing that makes it that you have to recharge three times in one day? On both my original Note7 and replacement Note7 I could go four days without needing to charge...

The Note 7 had a higher maximum nits that it could reach, so it could get brighter. That being said the S7 edge and Note 7 could both get brighter than their nit listed stats if you use them in the auto brightness setting. (Max brightness in auto is higher than max brightness with the slider at...

The Samsung Galaxy phones have a number of different display settings that can be adjusted including the color. Tests have shown that the "basic" setting for color on the Galaxy phones gave perfect color reproduction. (See DisplayMate's website for details). Does the Pxiels have display...

The leather holster I linked works with phones that have have any type of screen protector (they are so thin that they don't effect the fit). The holster works with naked phones as well as ones with cases. With no case its not so loose that it notably shifts around, and with a case its not so...

Interesting. Filtering on Amazon's website by "brand" there is no Samsung option, so 1) they haven't added the Samsung one to the brand area, 2) the one you were told about isn't really Samsung's...

Hopefully its not another battery issue. There are more reports of S7 Edge batteries apparently bursting. I don't buy it. I think the people reporting the new safe Note7 as catching on fire were looking to make a buck off Samsung, and I will not forgive them for making all of us Note7 users...

Are you looking for a case and belt clip that are separate (where you pull it off the belt clip/holster and it still has a case on it or one where the phone is naked after you take it out of the holster? Just before the second Note 7 recall happened I had ordered myself a black leather belt...

How is a less sensitive screen a good thing?

Here is instructions on how to enable adoptable storage on Samsung phones: How to set the memory card as internal 'adoptable' storage on Galaxy S7 and S7 edge (no root)