Recent content by David Pool

Battery charge meter and the attempt to "re-calibrate" Recently, Motorola replaced (without fuss) my Droid MAXX and, in the course of getting the re-furb replacement all set up the way I like, I noticed that the battery charge meter jumped from 95% to 100% in a flash (spare me the lectures...

In case anyone else facing my exact situation with media downloaded from Google Play, here is the answer! I received this assistance from someone in the Verizon Wireless community...and it has much more to do with Settings in the "Play Movies and TV" app than it does with using any file...

dpham00, there is so much that I don't yet grasp about downloading (files, not apps) to an Android phone and, now, to an Android tablet....but my "read" of the image you provided is that we're looking at the file directory of that very external SD card that you said you couldn't move the movie...

So here we are, something like two years since the OP's question...and I find I'm in the same boat. However, my download did not come via a browser...it was from access to the Google Play app on the tablet. Here's the story: I'm not new to Android (had 4 phones with that OS) but I am new to...

B. Diddy, as little as I know about LWPs, I *have* read that what you say is true...that many of them are not written well and are huge resource users. Considering that the one LWP I wanted to use (and be assured of) is Nexus Triangles LWP, they claim in their Google Play description that it...

Two nights later and I can tell you what the results were: Night 1: Live wallpaper in place. Phone charged to 100%, all apps closed except for the Warmly alarm. Phone unplugged from charger. Sat idle for 7 hours exactly. Battery charge at the end of the night: 94 Night 2: Static wallpaper in...

Whether or not it's "mute" [sic], the question stands. I'm happy with "there's not much difference" in terms of deciding whether or not to use a live wallpaper...but I'd still like to know if there's a background drain.

That was part of my question, Ealevenish...is that carnival under way even when I'm not using the phone?

I know the conventional wisdom is that animated wallpapers are, by their very nature, a drain on your battery. And I can even accept the apparent logic of this. However, I've also read many times that users just don't see that much difference. In fact, my own back-to-back comparisons between...

Thanks for those tips...I installed WLD and by the end of the day yesterday I could tell that the main culprit was K-9 Mail. However, that's not a new app for me. I've had that installed since Day 1 even on my *previous* phone. So I would think its behavior would have been apparent by now. I've...

I have an LG Lucid (had it for about a year) that's been upgraded to Android 4. Occasionally, while on the charger, the back of the phone will get much warmer than usual. The battery condition app will still describe it as "healthy" and, from what I've read about the range of normal operating...