Recent content by geoclooney

A couple of unexpected things happened. One was the USB drivers--my note 2 didn't connect exactly right the first time. I ended up having to delete USB drivers and windows and reinstalling. That wasn't necessarily scary since I wasn't really messing with my phone at that point. The other had to...

I'm in the same boat as Dave, and I went ahead and took the plunge and rooted. I then used ES File Explorer and renamed FWupgrade.apk to FWupgrade.bak and SDM.apk to SDM.bak. However, even after renaming them and clicking OK the file names didn't change. FWupgrade.apk still says apk and SDM.apk...

So now what? Is there hope that the 3rd party apps will be updated so it works with 4.3? How long could that take? Obviously, I should have deferred the 4.3 OTA update until this was figured out, but it's too late now. I've never investigated rooting, but I'll give it a shot now. This isn't...

This. Does anyone else have this fear? Given how hard it's been to get updates on this phone, I'm suspicious that this new OTA pops up on my screen every few minutes. I've been clicking "install later" due to my paranoia. If they are working so hard to give us this update it makes me a little...

Re: SImple GPS Fix -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Have you guys tried this: http://forums.androidcentral.com/ver...ml#post1254812 Worked like a charm for me! Well, I'm not rooted, so I can't really try that. As I read someone say in another...

I have a question about GPS Test and GPS Status...I've used them both and they're really cool. However, one thing I've never understood through all of the GPS issues that have been discussed--do these apps (and others like them) actually DO anything to help GPS get a fix? I'm aware that these...

Does anyone else send Gmail notifications to their Charge? Anyone been able to get the phone to make a contact out of the sender?

I've been poking around with this and unfortunately haven't got it to work. I was able to create a contact on my Charge that had "johndoe+caf_=0123456789=vtext.com@gmail.com" as the phone number (by creating the contact online in Gmail then syncing to my phone). However, that didn't do it--new...

Thanks for the response. The Gmail app solution didn't quite work for me. It did indeed add a contact after I received the next text notification from Gmail. I opened the contact to edit it (to change the contact name to "New Email" and there were only 3 fields in the contact. Name (it only said...

I have set up Gmail to forward emails as a text message to my Charge. Obviously the entire email doesn't come through, but there's enough there to let me know whether or not I need to open my email and read it right away. The process works well, except for one annoying thing. The messages are...