Recent content by dj54321

Yes that was me. I thought about you when I wrote above that "apparently, Wi-Fi isn't sufficient to receive SMS messages."... as you thought the WhatsApp problem was not having a balance on my phone, despite using Wi-Fi. Yes, that was a problem.... ....but the overriding problem I was having...

My other banks send codes to my email. This particular bank doesn't. I asked if they could -- they said no. But I do need this particular bank regardless. Yes, it's pay as you go. Alternatively I could get a "plan", but Google Voice (and WhatsApp in the future) should fulfill my needs.

B. Diddy -- mystery solved. I tried making a phone call and the time limit for the minutes that came with my chip has expired. I'm still traveling in South America. I was told the expiration of my unlimited minutes was tomorrow. Apparently it was this afternoon. Thus I received an SMS code...

I've only been using my new chip in my cellphone for 10 days. I did receive a SMS text 10 days ago with a OTP from a different business. My old chip expired before I got around to using it. I probably received 15 OTC last week from the bank in my original post above. Everything went very...

I'm using my Android 10 cellphone over Wi-Fi, but I also have prepaid minutes. I tried logging into my bank account on my Android 10 tablet. I received an email saying an SMS code is being sent to my cellphone, but it never came. I tried restarting my cellphone, to no avail. Please note that...

Mustang, I asked an Ecuadorian to call my cellphone number -- my phone didn't ring. Then I found out that if you don't get a phone plan or add minutes ("pay as you go") after a period of time your phone number is assigned to someone else. Accordingly WhatsApp attempts to send an SMS text and...

B.Diddy, I had to reboot my tablet for a different reason this morning. When I had a chance to address this 20 minutes ago, I tried the camera again and it worked. Based on your comment, maybe rebooting was the solution. The image appeared black in the pre installed Photo app and in the...

Thank you for the good ideas. I didn't have a chance to address this until 20 minutes ago. But before I addressed it, I tried taking pictures of the above mentioned documents and the camera worked fine. I rebooted my tablet for another reason this morning -- maybe that's why it worked fine 20...

I've successfully taken photos of documents on my 4 year old Lenovo m8 tablet (Android 10, Google Chrome) back camera to email to myself so that I can throw away the paper copies many times. But this morning when I tried taking a photo of documents the photo under "todays" photos are black...

Mustang, ok I'll do the minutes and let you know.

Mustang, I was told that I don't need minutes to receive the SMS code if I'm using Wi-Fi. But I should do as you wrote since my way isn't working.

I'm trying to set up WhatsApp on my Android 10 tablet and Android 10 cellphone, but I'm not having any luck on either. WhatsApp wouldn't accept my US Google Voice number -- said it's not a valid US number. Probably because it's a Voip number. I used a VPN with a US IP address from Ecuador...

B Diddy... Thank you again for the amazing solution above. I just used my tablet to make another Skype call.

Also, as per my post #21: The alarm volume, at it's highest level in Settings, is still way too low even with the head phones. Approx 5-10% of what it used to be... Ie, a reduction of 90-95%... Which is more drastic than the video volume issue. This also indicates that the tablet is the...

VidJunky post #24 includes "Your statement that, videos that play with good volume always play with good volume, has me baffled. That would put issue with the video and maybe not with the device." ______________ Per my post #13 -- maybe 15% of all videos I access have adequate volume. 85%...