Recent content by Andy Birkett

Me again. Realised that if I unticked things on that 'device management' page, I could then uninstall updates to Play Services it and disable it. Within a few moments, I got a message saying I needed to update Play Services to use Maps, so I clicked it which ran the auto-update of Play Services...

Location settings tried and failed, individually disabled all Google apps (except Google plus and Gmail) but no effect. In App Manager > Play Services, the option to force stop or uninstall updates is greyed out, and if I try to disable, it gives the option to revert to factory version, but then...

Thanks. Disabling Music seemed to help, I also thought I'd download Android Wear, as there shouldn't be any harm in that, but whichever of these actions caused it, a 'Google Play Services has stopped' error keeps popping up around every couple of minutes, even when I'm not using Play, or in fact...

I've just updated my wife's S4 to Lollipop via Samsung Smart Switch. Straight away, as happened when I did mine, an error popped up saying I needed to update Google Play Services. Frustrating, when this should surely update itself like everything else, but expected. I downloaded an up-to-date...

Hi Since I got Kitkat on my S4, UK, on Orange/EE, the weather widget has been behaving strangely. It's set to my location correctly but every so often when I turn on the phone, or just unlock it, the temperature has shot up to 35 to 50 degrees Celsius. The real temperatures the last few days...