Recent content by EnzoS

I think you answered my question but I want to make sure I worded it correctly so as not to cause any confusion. I hesitate to go to the Play Store for the AccuWeather app as I wouldn't welcome pop-up ads. Obviously, the one that is currently on the J7 is simple and ad-free. I've been using...

We bought 2 Samsung Android devices recently: Samsung Galaxy J7-v (Verizon) and Samsung Galaxy Tab A 10.1 w/S-pen tablet. Both came with Nougat 7.0 OS's. The tablet's first OTA update was forced down our throats shortly after we started using it. No updates have been mandated for the...

Hi again and thank you for responding to my query so quickly. The device in question is the wife's little Virgin Mobile Samsung Galaxy Ring. I've been told that its' the same as the Galaxy S3 Mini. I will definitely give your recommendation a try. I have the phone with me right now and I...

I wouldn't expect that updating the Samsung account would cause any problems but actually, I'd like to remove the Samsung account from our Note 8.0. In order to do that, we have to log into the account then go through the steps to remove the account. This, of course, requires wi-fi connectivity...

Keep getting a popup warning every morning when we turn on our Note 8.0 then start the wi-fi that says: "An update is required to access Samsung services". So far we've answered "No" each time the warning is displayed until I find out what they want to update and just how much extra data will be...

Been noticing lately that when the S-Pen is used to select the tab's "back" button, it leaves a souvenir on the screen near where the pen was last hovering. The little blue circle pointer icon remains visible on the screen when the pen is no longer within usable range. Occasionally, the "back"...

The Android Gallery app data (Settings/Device Storage/Applications/Gallery/Data) in our GN8 keeps growing. It gets about 50Mb larger each time the tab is turned on or restarted. It doesn't grow while the tablet or Gallery application is in use and overall data usage doesn't increase either...

The 4.2.2 OTA update changed the way the stock browser's bookmarks look and how the sidebar (frame) on the left side of the screen works. Prior to the update, used to be able to drag the frame off the left side of the screen and it would stay there. Now, it reappears every time the bookmarks...

In advance of performing a factory reset, I'd like to backup as much non-OS as I can to a flash drive or external SD card instead of some OTA, cloud service. This sounds like a simple process but I'd like to hear from the "experts" before attempting anything myself. Yes...I have a micro USB OTG...

Over the past month, my wife's Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0's storage folder seems to be filling up with 10-digit (numeric) folders that all contain the same files. The path for these folders is: Android\data\com.android.email\serial\ then the mysterious 10-digit (numeric) folders. Each folder...

You're right; don't want to go through that exercise YET. I've given serious consideration to down-grading the thing back to 4.1.2 as we were very, very happy with the way it looked and performed before the update. As a newby to Android stuff, I take all the blame for letting the OS be...

Since the wife's Galaxy Note 8.0 was auto-updated from Android 4.1.2 to 4.2.2 lots of strange/undesireable things have been going on. I've gotten around most of them but there's one that continues to plague us. The battery usage chart (settings/battery) has been inconsistent at best. We usually...

I haven't really tested it thoroughly enough to comment on increased battery usage but I'm beginning to think that may be the case. I'll know more as time goes on. All these alleged "improvements" are beginning to take a toll on me to the extent that I'm seriously beginning to consider buying...

Got the 4.2.2 update forced upon us a couple days ago (OTA) and am seriously bummed. Although almost everything seems to work as it used to (despite complaints of others of a variety of standard features being somehow disabled), most of the changes/improvements (to features we actually use) are...