Recent content by Hans2004

But that's almost like buying an iPad. "Nearly universal sharing and backup" does not work anymore, by design. The type of MicroSD has nothing to do with this problem whatsoever. Even the makers of btSync, and the makers of the Synology NAS are complaining that they have absolutely no way to...

I have been using Android since the HTC dream, and always loved it. Kitkat took all the fun out of it. It now feels as if some kind of evil S.Jobs clone sticks his arms out of the screen to choke me every time I turn on the device. I could understand if Android restricts this behavior on the...

If this is a security issue, why are apps still able to read/write to folders that are on the actual phone? It is just the behavior on the SD card that has changed. I have no wish to back up to the cloud or any membership service I have to pay for when I run out of space. I want things to be...

Ok, to be more clear about my extreme annoyance with KitKat: Yes, I can save pictures to the SD card. Yes, I can save pdf's to the SD card. But the ONLY apps that can access them are the programs that created them! If I want to backup a folder with pictures to a NAS for example, I would have to...

I used to be a great fan of Android, and I have been using it since the first phones came out with it. I used to love the extra freedom it used to give me, compared to iPhone. My newest phone is a Samsung Galaxy S5 (bought today). And I just found out that the recent versions of Android have...