Recent content by chachma

I contacted Google and got it straightened out. The data in that file was the videos that had been saved in Google Drive, then marked Offline for viewing when not connected to the Internet. That loaded them back into my phone into this file in the Google Drive app. The fix, deleting the...

I don't sync. No files are off-line or open. All I've done is take pictures and videos (here and abroad) and download them to Drive to save them, 8.94 GB worth. I'd go ahead and Clear Data but can't bring myself to do it "just to see what happens". If it helps, the app data file size is...

This data file is eating up my phone's tiny storage. What's in it? Will Clear Data affect my Google Drive files?

I got a lemon? If so, it would be nice if Samsung would do the right thing and replace it. That $500+ I'm out can also cost them a lot of ill will if I set my mind to it.

A bad charging regulator seems plausible. On Thursday my typical usage drained the battery from 100% charge to 26% over 14 hrs. Overnight it recharged to only 98%. Then yesterday, still typical usage took it from that 98% down to only 86% over 13 hrs. I might start a log on this, but I'm not...

It's been a little under two weeks since I got the N10 back and screen flicker is becoming a nuisance as the rate of battery drain increases. When I got it back I was getting 44 hrs of normal use between full charges. By this morning, it's down 25%in just three hrs. Looks like I'll have to...

I've got a Nexus 4 arriving probably today. We'll see how that goes. I bought this 10 because my wife wanted it but she's shown little interest in it. I really like it, when it's working. Gesture typing with a stylus is almost as quick and smooth as typing with a full keyboard.

Update #2: It's been five days now and there may be trouble a-brewing. After my first full charge the battery seems to be draining more rapidly than it has in the past, and twice this morning when I aroused it from sleep I got a faint gray screen and had to turn it off and on to wake it up.

Just now, with 45 hrs on the battery (which was returned to me with a 95%charge), I'm alerted that it's down to 14% and should be charged. The only thing I've noticed so far that concerns me is that occasionally between switching tabs I'll get a black screen momentarily. It was doing that...

Got the tablet back today. They also included a new charging unit with cable but no explanation. I'll start using it. When I fired it up and got connected it needed to do a software update and rebooted. Hope it's fixed this time.

Samsung has notified me that they have completed the second repair. They describe it as the rather vague: SOLUTION: Replaced Component - S/W Updated. As long as it works as advertised...

I'm hoping for the best. When I used to repair airplanes, the repair order had four parts: 1) the originating complaint, 2) what we found when we tried to duplicate the complaint, 3) what we diagnosed the problem(s) we found to be, and 4) what was done to repair it. As long as they are...

They described my original complaint as Issues/Battery Low Talk/Stand By Time. Since I had described it has having lost all power while turned off, that sounded close. I quoted the repair action in a post above. The second complaint, the screen freezing up, the difficulty in turning it back...

Thanx. This is a new experience for me. I've never had anything I've bought turn out to be defective and have to go through this process. I am disappointed in this product, though. It was supposed to be top-of-the-line. The tablet is now going to black screen about every hour while I'm...

As I was preparing to send it off, I realized that I was unable to set it back to factory default and all my settings were still in the tablet. I decided to take your advice and hold down the ON/OFF button until something happened. After about 20 seconds, it fired up. The battery had been at...