Recent content by dpbsmith

I have an old Samsung phone running Android 4.3. I want to make a present of some music and podcasts to an 11-year-old by putting them on the phone and giving it to him. I can transfer .mp3 files from my Mac with Android File Exchange, which works beautifully, and play them with the Music app...

I, too, am having the exact same problem, exactly as dolomite93 described it--so much so that when I read the posting I thought for a second that I'd posted about it and forgotten my post. I have not been able to solve it. Some things that didn't work: restart phone; reseat SD card; move all...

Perhaps I should be happy at not having to deal with OS updates, but it seems odd to me that I've never received any OS updates for my Kindle Fire (original), purchased June 2012. a) Is 6.3.1 current? b) The actual full version number shown in Settings, Device is 6.3.1_user_ and then seven...

How can I put my Kindle Fire into a totally silent mode? My Kindle Fire (original) plays a notification sound whenever someone playing Words with Friends with me makes a new move. As I write this, in the main settings, Volume is turned down all the way, extreme left. More, Sounds, Notification...

Again, I have a Kindle Fire and don't know if I'm asking a Kindle question or an Android question. There is obviously a mechanism for selecting, cutting, pasting, and generally editing text in text fields. Little pointer widgets appear under text from time to time. In general, I can't figure...

I have "Sound on keypress" turned on in my Kindle Fire, system version 6.3.1. However, it is uniformly true across all applications that when I type text into an empty field, the first character I type is silent. The second, third, fourth, etc. make a keyclick noise. Is this peculiar to the...