Recent content by apwood

Minimise Battery by turning everything off on screen lock I have a chinese mtk tablet running android 4.2.2 (not rooted) I only use it as a satnav and nothing else. I use an external bluetooth gps receiver and might in future decide to use a bluetooth speaker. It has 3g that I use for...

I don't want to get notification for emails in general - since I get hundreds of emails every day, but I do want to get notified when e-mails come in from priority contacts. (I'm using a gmail account and the stock email app (I don't like the gmail app). I'm using UK Samsung Galaxy S4 GT-i9505...

Yet mobile data is working for everything else other than signing into email. I've fixed this by creating a new app password in my gmail account using my PC, and then adding that password to my gmail email account on my phone. No idea though why it failed on mobile data and not wifi.

Not contacted carrier (three mobile UK) - I can't see how it could be a carrier issue?

Yes, its listed, and when I press sync there are no errors. When I tap the google account it shows me that the app data have been synced. I did that over mobile data just now. Google play books didn't sync, but it did over wifi (presumably I've set that somewhere to only sync over wifi). I...

I'm using a an S4, UK model GT-i9505, with all the latest updates from Samsung (ie on Lollipop), it is not rooted. (I shied away from that because it seemed complicated and risky though I have rooted previous devices). I have my e-mail accounts set for manual sync only (gmail and hotmail but...