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Is there a better app for Android to manage Google Tasks than the Google Tasks app? I’ve started using gTasks to manage Google Tasks on my iPad and my MacBook, and it is turning out to be so much easier to use than the Google tasks apps. The most important difference is that my various lists...

Is there a voice recorder app for Android that adds metadata tags to its recordings? More specifically, I mean one that maybe gives recordings something like an album title to make it easier to browse them in, for instance, a music player app on another device. At the moment I am using...

I've just discovered there's a Google Contacts app in the Play store which does what l need to do.

That's where the contacts icon takes me.

I don't have a profile pic. Here is a screenshot of what I see in the contact app.

How can I send a Gmail to a group on an LG G5 when the Contacts app doesn't have an option to send an email to a group?

After some messing about I have found that I just need to give the jack a very firm push until I hear a loud click. It doesn't feel like other headphone sockets I've used, which is one of the things that confused me. The other is that the earpieces were working even when the microphone wasn't...

I took off the case and tried again, but it seems that half-inserted jacks is not the problem. The LG headset still produces these kind of clicks that seem to have some relation to the rhythm of the speech that I am recording. As for the Sony headset, it looks like the phone just gets confused...

Since I posted I did find an old Sony Ericsson earbud set that works some of the time, but not all the time. I haven't been able to work out why it won't work reliably, and even when it does work, the mic level is very low. But at least it shows that earbuds can work. I'm trying to use Audio...

I can't record through the mic on the earbuds that came with my G5. I had never used them before today because I never had a need to, but now I do. I want to use them for songwriting. Latency makes my Bluetooth headset not an option, and the small size of the hole in my phone's protective case...

Is there a video camera app that gives access to manual settings? I'm thinking particularly of the exposure—auto exposure makes it impossible for me to get good results filming in changing lighting. I already have access to most of the manual settings I need for still photography, since my...

That makes sense. I find the fingerprint so convenient that I may have to do without the shortcuts. It's a silly design decision unfortunately.

When I enable the camera shortcut (two presses on the volume down button) it unlocks not only the camera app but the entire phone, by-passing the fingerprint that I otherwise require to unlock the phone. I can then get from the phone app to the home screen and from there to anywhere I like. This...

Thanks for your replies. I still don't really have an alternative to my front trouser pocket. I used to have a belt pouch a long time ago and I didn't find it very convenient. I prefer having my phone permanently in a shock-proof case, which isn't possible with a belt pouch. However I have found...

Recently my Galaxy S4 which I had had for over two years broke while I was carrying it in the front pocket of my jeans. It had a number of approximately parallel cracks across the screen, which was now mostly black, rendering the phone useless. I suspect the breakage happened when I bent down to...