Recent content by bobinyelm

I did what you suggested to ALL remaining APPs except those from Samsung or AT&T. Unfortunately, the problem remains and is getting worse (MORE APP ads, plus game boards appearing on my screen (I have NO games on my phone), and the pop-ups now sometimes appear DURING other operations now rather...

Wen I go to App Manager I see a list of "All Apps" on my phone. If I click one one, I appear to be given only 2 choices: 1) "Uninstall," or on ones I evidently cannot Uninstall, "Disable" 2) "Force Stop" Below I can view Storage used Data Usage Permissions Notifications Set as Default Battery...

Thanks for being tolerant of my dumb questions, but I learned a lot. Next time I get a full page "App-come-on" trying to get me to download apps I will do what you suggest. I deleted a BUNCH of Apps I rarely used so maybe I killed the naughty one already (I hope). Thanks, Bob

You said: Recent apps. Some apps/ads leave a record on your recent apps overview, so right after getting an ad hit the recent apps/multitasking button (better before closing the ad) and search for a card with this ad on it. If you find it, long press the small icon top left on that card, tap...

AND I just went through my APPs and UNINSTALLED every APP I don't tend to use, DISABLED all or forced stop on almost everything else. I still have the "Built In" apps it won't let me uninstall (a bunch), the Google ones I didn't Disable Chrome, but disabled/Force Stopped all other Google...

OK. Here is the Screen shot that I took, and sent it to my computer and kept the "name" it downloaded as: Is this what you meant? Or something else? The file name assigned was : "Screenshot_2020-16-17-52-33.png" I started reading your post on how-to in the linked guide, though the last...

Thanks- No no new APPs installed. The LAST APP I installed was at LEAST month or more ago, if then. My phone is a replacement for my last S5 that started glitching a couple of months ago so got a new one and transferred everything via "Smart Switch". The APP I DID install on this phone (the...

My AT&T Galaxy S5 is suddenly getting full-screen Advertisements for all sorts of Applications from The Google Play Store I am not interested in every time I open my phone screen. I NEVER go a single such barrage for the years I've used AT&T zand the S5. My wife has the SAME phone type on the...

Hmmm... Many of my recipients ARE iPhone users

I have no idea what an APN is but I will try to figure out what it is and how to set it from your link. I just click "Messages" and type and hit send. What the phone does inside is a mystery. I was a physicist, an attorney and Air Force/airline pilot in my former life before I retired, but am a...

My wife and I both have Samsung Galaxy S5 phones. In fact, this is my third (First had a bad mic jack, second got REALLY slow, third is great) and we've had them for several years combined. We live in a bad cell reception area, so first we got an AT&T MiniCell that works with our router. A $200...

To summarize what you are saying, (so you can see if I understand you), Ah, so even though the advertisement said this is a Samsung S5 Galaxy Model G900V capable of CDMA/GSM, iand it mentioned Verizon, Sprint, AT&T and T-Mobile) it does not mean that it is as capable of being as good or...

Yes, I did a Google Search and found that before posting, but hoped there was a simpler or more direct way to do it. Perhaps I should take advantage of their no-question returns policy and find a dedicated AT&T phone for $30 more? It sounded like the flexibility of having a CDMA/GSM phone...

I just purchased a new G900V CDMA/GSM Unlocked Samsung Galaxy S5 to replace my current Samsung G900A S5 that freezes and has slowed down. This is my 3rd S5. The first had a bad mic connection and even though I had a receipt from an AT&T store, Samsung would not honor it, and the second now is...

Did it, and it's better... BUT Sometimes even with Google Text it runs away, typing text like mad when I am silent! Seems like less often "text runaway" but it did it this morning. Yesterday my Samsung Tab A Tablet did the same as I was voice-typing an email. It just kept generating text...