Recent content by Don Albertson

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    Corporate Calendar not syncing from phone to Outlook

    My LG phone hasn't synced properly with anything (not Google Calendar, not Exchange/Outlook) since the upgrade to 2.3.4. What I have discovered is that if I power down, wait a few seconds, and then power up, it will sync right then. So I have developed the habit of powering down 2 or 3 times a day.
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    Android Page Down Button

    I have one App (Guardian Anywhere) which has mapped the volume controls as page up and page down. It is so intuitive that I find myself trying to do it other places.
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    Firmware Update on the Phenoix released

    Settings | Applications now has the Unknown Sources option enabled. I've been able to browse to android market but the only thing I tried to download said it wasn't compatible with this device.
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    Force 2g/EDGE on LG Phoenix?

    Mine switches automagically. At my house there is only EDGE and where I work there is 3G service. Somewhere between here and there it switches over. I've tried to discover where the switch takes place and have it narrowed down to within a road segment about 0.5 km. long. When I start at home...
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    Facebook updating

    There are more setting inside the Facebook widget that you can access via the menu key. I got there by viewing the current item then menu then internal Facebook home which has News Feed, Profile, etc. Press the menu key there and go to settings and you have several choices about what sort of...
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    How to install Device Driver for LG Thrive?

    I'm not sure that this is what you need but I kept seeing references to the LG Android 2 Platform Driver in the user guide so I contacted LG customer service and received this link: Drivers & Resources - LG Forum It has sections by provider one of which is ATT and specific to Phoenix. I...
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    So this is the 20th century.

    The forum was insistent about introductions so here's how I found myself here. Despite working as a C/C++/Java developer for 20+ years, I've never been big on phone technology. My first wireless was from Qualcom and it did what I needed it to do -- made phone calls. Then we moved out of the...