Recent content by Eternal Newbie

Re: Can't add "home" as a trusted place on my new S22+ My apologies for leaving this hanging! Oddly, I ended up following a similar thread and not this one. No accounting for Ditzy Brain Syndrome. I did find a workaround in that other thread. I deleted my Home address from Google Maps. Added...

Well, this is embarrassing. I'm the topic starter, didn't get any pings that anyone had answered, so I didn't check back! Thanks for all the input. Security is a nightmare on this phone. I'll try the solutions suggested above. In the meantime, I can't for the life of me get any of three...

The phone is right-of-the-shelf new, with all systems up to date. I'm trying to add my home to my list of trusted places. Actually, if I get this to work, home will be my *only* trusted place. When I drill down to the "add trusted places" screen, my home address is already there. It's greyed...

I understand from the folks who make NoPhoneSpam that wildcard call blocking is native to the s7. I've tried to use the feature to block calls spoofing my area code and prefix., but I keep getting them - as many as three a day. My first mistake, I've learned from poking around various forums...

My Galaxy S6 has just resumed calling people by itself. This is a couple weeks after a new system tweak downloaded. Before that the problem had disappeared for a few months. I've had the problem off and on for about a year. This time - minutes ago - I was in a phone conference and my phone...

I've had Android/Plantronics combos for years now. Back when I had the S2, the Plantronics voice prompts were the default. Moving to the S6, I lost that, because (apparently) the baked-in Google prompts took over. For example: the Plantronics' opening prompt was "What would you like to do?"...

Figured it out! There's a tiny preference settings gear almost lost down on the bottom left of the page. Clicked that and discovered that the default setting is my Downloads folder, and lo and behold - there they were! I hope this helps somebody else. Thanks!

I somehow missed your response! I'm sorry to have left it hanging there. I'm running El Capitan, 10.11.1. I've plowed through many sites and pages on the internet, but have been unable to find out whether the drive is supposed to appear on the desktop or not. Since I asked this question I ended...

Re: Help with Airdroid please Thanks. I'm using Dropbox as a backup but lordy, is that slow! Just painfully slow. Airdroid was so fast! But I still can't figure out how to get the photos out of the app into Photos. They're useless to me until I can do that. Frustrating, because there they sit...

Re: Is there any informatio re Smart Switch? Smart Switch has to be downloaded to your Android and your pc/Mac. I tried it; it kept refusing to recognize my Galaxy. Reading through the forums here and elsewhere I've seen a lot of complaints and a handful of kudos. One recurrent problem seems...

Help with Airdroid please After reading many questions and answers here about moving photos from the Galaxy s6 to a Mac laptop - and three hours on the phone with various tech lines - I gave it up and downloaded Airdroid on my Mac and the S6. It was magically fast moving about 100 photos over...

lucianus, sorry so long getting back to you. That wasn't the case the night I was assigning ringtones. When I selected a ringtone, it blared out and the rocker had no effect. Since I haven't had that task to do since then, it hasn't been a problem. But it sure was that night!

Addendum: I've been on the phone with both t-mobile and Samsung. T-mobile had me try downloading a driver. Turns out they don't have a driver for Mac. Samsung's "advanced tech support" (one level up from the first layer) had no idea why it's been working all along with the Mac - he said it...

My old S2 had the same volume controls - up-and-down rocker on the left side - as my new S6. On the S2 the rocker raised or lowered the volume on any noise coming out of the phone - music, ringtone, speakerphone, whatever. It seems the s6 defaults to controlling ringtone volume only. After...

Thank you! But I'd like to troubleshoot the wired connection first, see if I can make that work. What I need to find out is if the Galaxy S6 shows up as a drive on my Mac desktop, or if the fact that it doesn't means something is wrong.