Recent content by carlarogers

A spill is an emergency situation so hopefully you were fortunate to have had your phone receive an immediate emergency rescue. There are two ways. The best thing to do is to make sure the phone is turned on while continuously testing everything to monitor which parts of your phone remain to...

Based on feedback reports submitted to Google, millions of people have reported a bug not verified or denied by Google, where the phone cannot add files to My Sounds. It is a permission issue where the phone owners do not have a way to change the permissions There is no app with the power to...

Without rooting, is there a practical way to search the file system on an Android 11 phone (Pixel 2 XL) to find file and directory names deep in the paths tree™?

Thank you for taking time to tell me what works. The solution I have landed with amounts to fixing Android File Transfer, so it works normally again. For example, I just copied 166 files with a total of 1.9G from Android to a hard disk drive. It took ~2 minutes.Same copy to ssd took the same...

This is a request for a sanity check. I cannot believe this really is a problem that Android users have to deal with. For years, Android File Transfer by Google worked great with my computer, a 2012 cheese grater MacPro. Now, it works no more. I could understand this being an issue, if I...