Recent content by Big Rich

I agree with everything you wrote about. I did go in and deny a very long list of Google notifications and I always deny apps that want to backup my data. On my PC, I deny the Microsoft backup and it relentlessly asks every so often if I want to enable backups. When I need to use an app on my...

I don't know where to start. I bought my phones direct from Samsung, unlocked. Verizon activated them and I transferred the apps, contacts and photos from my previous phones when I got home. One from my old Samsung 22+ and one from my old Pixel 2XL. In this case I believe Google has been...

Thanks again. I need to take some time to figure all this out. I can say that I am very frugal when it comes to authorizing permissions but I must have missed some things with this new phone. I never had these issues before. I’m more prone to believe one of the large company apps (Google...

Thank you all. I "stumbled" upon the "Notification history" which was not where the youtube videos showed it should be. As spARTacus mentioned, it was under "Notifications", then under "Advanced settings", then "Notification history". The nuisance notification in this case was Google taking...

I have a new Android phone (Samsung S25+) and I have been getting notification beeps. Most are normal and the associated app shows up with a notification bubble and a icon pops up in the top left hand corner of the home screen. But lately, the notification beep occurs and there is no icon or app...

The phone was brand new when I ran into this concern. These phones have so many settings that I try not to set anything until I am more familiar with the way the OS and its million settings work. All I did was use a picture from my photos for a lock screen background. This issue showed up...

Sorry, I have no idea what you mean?

Thank you for the welcome. My S25 is a US version. I took a short (23MB MP4 video, 15 seconds long). I uploaded it to YouTube.

I had a Samsung Galaxy 22+ for 3 years and never experienced this issue. I recently bought a Samsung Galaxy 25+ and every once in a while I tap the blank screen to wake it up and log in and instead of coming up with the bright lock screen picture, it comes up with the lock screen picture dimly...