Recent content by gf1701

The latest update for my Samsung S23+ brought me to Android 15 and the latest version of Samsung’s UI. The first thing I noticed was that I can no longer read the battery percentage in the status area (is that what it’s called) without using reading glasses. I was able to read it in the old...

Great suggestion (from both of you)! Yes, I was able to install the app and the results are far better than when using the Camera app. But the results with my old scanner are a bit better, so I will use them for the rest of my photos. But Photo Scan will come in handy at other times.

I’ve been using an old scanner to scan my photos to jpeg, and while the scanner still works, the scans are not sharp. I mentioned this to a friend who has an iPhone, and she told me that she uses her phone to scan prints, and it does a great job. She showed me some examples. Indeed, they were...

Thanks. It looks like it only costs $5.00 (one-time?) for the paid version, so that is an option. But ideally, I would like to copy the messages to an easily-readible format, not XML. And I don't know if the XML backup that SMSBackupRestore would create would be small enough in size for a...

I have a very very long text message thread, having never deleted any texts with this person. It’s out of hand. I want to delete them and start afresh, but I want to keep the old threads (I can do without the photos in them). I can’t find information on how best to do this. When I switched...

That did the trick. Thanks!

Just tried it; no effect. Should I try clearing data too before forcing stop, or will that erase some unrecoverable information?

Thanks. Do you actually use this app? I went to the Google Play page for the app and read a lot of reviews. There were a number of people who stated that the app was a huge battery drain itself! Have you experienced this? I also saw one comment that reminded me why I quickly removed the Battery...

Each time, I left it open long enough to know that the issue was neither with my network or my impatience. And the result is the same when I use the cellular network to connect to the Google Play store instead of wi-fi. I don't know what the problem is, but it has nothing to do with my network.

According to what I read in their description, and from comments in reviews, Accubattery does not issue an alert when the battery is low. It is only capable of alerting you when you have reached your specified charge level (for example, 85%). That's not what I need.

I looked into Bixby, and don't want to use it. I've never had a reason to activate it before, and I don't think doing so for this single function is a good reason for me to do so.

I have a Samsung S23+, running Android 14. I needed to look up the name of an app that I had installed, then uninstalled, a couple of months ago, and found out that this information is available through the Google Play Store. So I went to Manage Apps & Device in Google Play, then to Manage...

I used to use an app called battery Notifier BT Free, which did just that—the only thing I wanted--and not much else. Unfortunately, the app was discontinued and the last version no longer works on Android 14, which is what I’m running on my Samsung S23+ phone. A couple of months ago, I tried...

Today, I had something extremely weird happen while texting with my Samsung S23+ phone, something I’d never seen or heard about before. I was using the voice-to-text feature, as I often do. The feature is set to use Google’s voice-to-text, not Samsung’s. I spoke one sentence, Google entered the...

I stumbled across the solution. Was looking at my list of apps, for some reason, and noticed that there are two named Calendar. No idea which is which, but one of them had notification permission (the other was the one I had turned off). I turned it ff.