Recent content by Dave-in-Decatur

I'm on an older S23 Ultra, no recent updates since the Android 15/One UI 3 weeks ago. Trying to emulate your misfortune ;), I Googled Atlanta Braves, but nothing. All I can do is wait for randomness to favor me.

@SpookDroid , you nailed this. From the AI overview of a Google search for "sports teams I follow not on galaxy now bar": "Several users have reported similar issues, and there are a few troubleshooting steps you can try. [...The usual blah blah....] If the issue persists, try restarting your...

Fortunately we were finally able to give enough acceptable information that Google would send us a reset link (after a 48-hour delay), and we got back into her account. Fortunately there's no evidence anyone's been using the account, such as sending Gmails. Unfortunately, Google's Find my device...

Thanks, that's actually an idea. We're in a big enough metro area I imagine we could rent one from somewhere. We have checked with the desk a couple of times. I take a tiny bit of comfort from the fact that I lost something that showed up there a couple of months later. So maybe the phone will...

My wife's Samsung Z-fold is lost, and is either turned off or the battery is dead. We live in a tiny apartment and have searched everywhere. I've tried calling it several times but it goes straight to voice mail. We know she used it yesterday around 4:30 pm, and probably later on in the evening...

Well, wrong again. :-\ Or rather, right the first time. It isn't the whole screen that becomes unresponsive after all, just the Recent, Home, and Back buttons. But it seems to happen pretty consistently when the device is opened full-flat. It sounds like a hardware issue to me, something with...

Thanks. Also crud. It's a big process for her to set this thing up, which is why a factory reset was not appealing. She may need to take it to the Verizon store and see what they say.

Deep apologies for not keeping up with this. What seems to happen, as she's used the phone more, is that when the screen is unfolded completely flat, the entire screen becomes unresponsive, not just those buttons at bottom. Folding it up slightly restores its responsiveness. This is somewhat...

Thanks for the suggestions. (Apologies for not replying sooner.) There were numerous updates in the days after she bought the phone, so there could be something there. Will look into it.

My wife just got a Samsung Z Fold 2 (old phone died, limited choices), which I love and she is ... adjusting to. The one real problem she's having is that while using an app (Samsung's email app, for instance) with the screen unfolded, the 3 buttons at the bottom right (the standard Android...

Whitelisting does sound like a good idea. AFAIK, though, we can only either have notifications or not have them, globally. Of course AFAIK isn't all that far!

Brilliant! Device care > Battery > Settings > App power management tab, Notifications: Get notified about apps using power in the background. I turned that off, so hopefully that fixes it. I have no idea how it got turned on in the first place. I've had widgets like this forever and not gotten...

I have a Samsung Note 8 running Android 9. I have an analog clock widget on my home screen that I want to run constantly. It uses battery. I don't care. Recently (maybe after a system update), I started getting notices throughout the day that the app has high background battery usage, and...

Replying to my own post.... I think now that my issue is a different one. I do find that when I restart, I get the list of recent apps that I had before the restart. My problem is the resetting of the list overnight.

Ugh. And there are no view settings either--the list of albums is just a series of big, blobby squares.