Recent content by barryman99

Yes, it's the same SIM card. However, as I wrote above, I have managed to authenticate my Google account via a different device (my tablet). My problem now is that my Windows file explorer does not fully recognise my phone when attached by data cable. It shows the phone in the Explorer list but...

Help - I'm desperate. I've been having trouble with my Motorola E6 phone. Via the Motorola UK website I have performed what looks like a kind of factory reset. I have lost all my apps and settings and I urgently need to restore my last backup. Problem is that using my existing Moto phone I can't...

OK - I'll not do anything more with this tablet. Consider this question fully answered. Thanx again

Thanks for your helpful advice. I guess I'll have to rely on my own backup using the app "SMScontacts backup" although the full Google backup would have been more efficient if I buy a new tablet. Actually, that poses another question if you don't mind. As an alternative to buying a new tablet...

I have run some of the "fake specs" apps - a couple of them state that I have Android 5x as opposed to the Android 6 stated. There is also a discrepancy with some showing my tablet has 32gb RAM while a couple of apps say 12gb although they say there might be "simulated SD memory.... All very...

I have a generic Chinese made tablet - a Mediatek TYD-108H running Android 6.0 . I have been looking at the automatic backups and something puzzles me. The tablet backs up overnight automatically OK but, when I check the backup on Google Drive it shows only 10 apps have been backed up. Given...

I have a peculiar problem just happened with the microphone on my Android phone (a Doogee N10) running Android v.8). It is not picking up my voice. If I use a sound recording app and I speak, nothing happens. But if I then blow into the mic then the sound registers and I can hear the blowing...

Is it possible to do a "system image" of and Android phone, the same as a Windows 10 system image. I have got all my apps backed up so I could always use those but I would prefer to have a backup image of the OS including all settings etc, stored on my PC or an external drive, just in case of a...

I have some annoying glitches on my Android phone - like Notification sounds not always sounding when phone puts itself to sleep and also sometimes phone not becoming silent when I use a Silence timed app. So I am going to do a Factory Reset to try and sort things out. After doing a reset (and...

Thanks everyone - I think I have solved this by a) updating BBC Media Player, b) unplugging my router, leaving it disconnected for 10 minutes, then booting up again. I also noticed I had two frequencies set on it so I disconnected the higher one. I don't know what exactly fixed things but, hey...

I am in the UK and am having a puzzling problem with access to BBC iPlayer. I recently had to do a complete factory reset and then reinstalled all my apps. Now I cannot access the BBC iPlayer app from my tablet (a generic one running Android 6) although it was running perfectly before the reset...

Looks like that's fixed it - seems to be OK so far. (I disabled High Contrast (don't know how it ever got enabled in the first place!) Thanx again for helpful advice

I am suddenly getting "drop shadows" appearing on some parts of my tablet's screen. It only seems to appear in some "tabs" or "headers/search boxes" (See photos attached). I uninstalled the previous 3 apps I had installed in case it was one of those but it's made no difference. I am running OS...

Further to above question I have checked on my phone backups on Drive and all the apps are there in the backup. So, on my tablet where I am having the problem of only about 10 apps appearing in backup, are there any local settings on the tablet I could change which might be stopping the fuller...

Yes, I've already been on Google's help pages and I do not have any problems in my tablet doing the backup. It's the content that is my query - why only 12 apps showing and what's happened to all the third party apps I've installed from Google Play ?????