Recent content by bbtkd

Just look at a video of the Blue Coral Note 7's. The Blue Coral S7 Edge is a bit smaller, and no flames.

Are you rapid charging using the factory charger that came with it? If so, STOP THAT! Rapid charging is a bad idea, it will cause more heat which will shorten battery life, and can occasionally melt your phone and battery. Many falsely assume that since the manufacturer makes it then it must...

Anytime I'm traveling I expect at least double the normal battery usage. Still, you could clear system cache - perhaps a recent update made it worse.

If a battery is in a phone, and water hits anything electrical such as circuit boards, wiring, charging jack, etc then the phone is history - even if it might work OK or partially OK for a while. Get your files copied off while you can, then wait for it to fail and then replace it. Forget...

It should switch back. I have noted on mine that I'll leave the Wifi but 4G doesn't come back and rebooting restores data service. I rarely use voice so not sure if is the same thing you're seeing.

I strongly recommend not using the fast charge option for any phone. When it works, it works great. But - there are too many reports of melted and burnt phones. What's your hurry? I'd suggest wireless charging though - don't risk loosening up your USB jack. With wireless chargers at home...

Well you pretty much set yourself up for that one. There are a lot of us sarcastic types around, and you weren't really looking for a technical answer, more like empathy. Worse than your situation are those that buy a shiny new phone without insurance or case, drop and wreck it, then come here...

By planner, do you mean calendar? Until recently, I had no Wifi access at work and we have almost no cell coverage in the building. If I added an appointment to my calendar when there was no coverage, the next time it tried to sync it back to Google it would fail, and then the appointment...

If electronics hits water while power is applied then it is shot, dead man walking. No way around this. It does not even need to be turned on - will be ruined even if turned off with the battery connected. You can try all the drying techniques including rice, but your only hope is that you...

Frequent releases, often multiple times in a day, can be an indication of insufficient testing due to laziness or ineptitude, though it can be very difficult supporting software that must run on thousands of permutations of hundreds of device models running dozens of operating system versions...

Love how folks so quickly advise factory reset, not noting that you will lose all of your data and settings, and should be the last resort. Before resorting to a system reset, clear system cache per one of these sites; https://www.androidpit.com/how-to-clear-the-cache-on-the-galaxy-s6...

Re: Unathorized Voice recording Samsung S6 Don't get out your tinfoil hats just yet, this is likely a bug. I just got an update to the voice recorder app in the last few days, perhaps they are attempting to fix it. Conspiracy theorists will insist that they are trying to hide it. I've not...

Wireless charging adds heat from the charging coil to the heat of the charging battery. Still less heat than rapid wall charging, but more than normal charging. Perhaps heat had previously peaked in the last 5%, which might have prematurely registered as a full charge. Can't be that they were...

I had this happen a couple of years ago, and I noted that it happened only while at home and connected to my Wifi. I tracked further on the phone (a Samsung S4) and noted that it was trying repeatedly to sync my gallery pictures, but failing. I got thinking what had changed on my network, and...

Never heard of a reinstall that didn't wipe everything, doesn't mean it doesn't exist though. No way to know if a mistake or intentional, but really doesn't matter. If a bug then we have to wait for a fix, if a feature then there won't be a fix. It's not widespread since probably well under a...