Recent content by Eaton Scrapple

Got mine, but you know, if you power off, Marshmallow seems to take forever to boot. Cool new boot graphic, though. Those Google guys really know what counts in the kind of features people clamor for! </sarcasm>. Otherwise it works pretty good. Some apps have incompatible icons in the...

Oh wait, the disk is probably encrypted. Perhaps the device still boots? Even if the screen is messed up? Maybe it will still attach as a USB device to a PC. LOL aren't you thankful for all the security baked into this thing? If they wanted you to be able to get your data off a hard drive...

I've never been inside a Nexus but I'm willing to bet that, if the "hard drive" can be unplugged, there is a USB adapter for it. There's only so many standard kinds of plugs for solid state drives. You might also be able to fix up a Raspberry Pi breadboard to recover the files.

I actually found a solution (?) I had used a USB extension cable, 6ft, between the charger and the short charging cable. Apparently the USB cable is not just a straight through power circuit. I got a 6ft long micro USB charging cable instead, and that seems to be working now. I guess you...

Nope, no overheating. It's almost that when the battery saver kicks in because the charge goes below 10%, when you hook it back up to either the wire or wireless charger, it consumes more power trying to charge than it has left, so stops charging. It's really annoying! The battery graph even...

A lot of times my N7 2013 will fail to charge on the wireless charger. Last night it stopped charging while hard wired to the charger. It's like a gremlin steps in and stops it from charging. I suppose the battery in it is on its way out? Anybody else with a similar affliction?

Have you ever considered a Microsoft Surface ($$$$) or a Dell Venue 8-inch Windows 8.1 tablet ($$). They make tablets galore now that run Windows 8.1 as the native operating system. Some include Office for free as well. They work like a mini laptop. You can have as many apps open as you like...

Google PICTURES vs. GALLERY Since going to 5.1.1 and blowing all the cache away on my Nexus 7 2013, the only available system app for looking at my extensive collection of pictures on the device is PICTURES, which I hate. However it just refuses to find any pictures taken prior to me...

Since 5.1, my battery life is very poor. And another symptom. I have a Qi charger cradle for the thing. Wireless charging. I put the Nexus 7 2013 of mine on the cradle, the light lights steady, indicating it is charging fine. An hour or so later, the light starts blinking, indicating the...

So far...after my N7 2013 updated...it is a bit faster BUT...the battery life is halved...it spends most of its day AWAKE with the screen off! It may be the Amazon store app. SECOND PROBLEM: I use wifi N here in the house on devices which can tolerate it. So far the stupid tablet's...

Short of rooting the Nexus, is there any way so that when you select "share" from stuff like news apps and pictures, you don't get all those ridiculous apps listed? I mean, to find Facebook it's practically on the third page of options sometimes. Is there any way to remove things like NFC and...

And I'm having BLUETOOTH problems. A rock steady connection under 5.0.1 to a bluetooth FM clock radio suddenly goes awry. I think it has something to do with the new 'smart lock' BS. If the Nexus (wifi 2013) is connected locally to some trusted device, it doesn't make you enter the PIN to...

There's a new symbol up where the battery and wifi status is...a white star...what does that mean?

Upgraded to 5.0, trained it in Settings to recognize my face, but it doesn't unlock and insists on the PIN every time. What am I missing here? I hate having to enter a PIN every time. Used to work two Android updates ago!

I can't seem to get face recognition unlock to work in any way shape or form. I put my face in a couple of times but it won't recognize me. SECOND PROBLEM: Stupid camera icon lower right corner of lock screen. If you swipe to unlock ANYWHERE NEAR there, it launches the camera. How stupid...