Recent content by Ilfracombe

Decided to wipe data and do a factory reset. It stuck on Formatting /data for 30 minutes, then finally completed wiping data, and I rebooted the system. However, it is now stuck on the yo-yos. I think this is called a boot-loop.

Here is some more info that I've just noticed: At the bottom of the recovery menu page on my phone, there is the message: Supported API: 3 E: failed to mount /cache (Invalid argument)

Thanks, but sorry. Rooted? I have no idea. Reflashing the stock ROM? How would I do that? Again, I suppose I should know, so I would be grateful if you could point me to somewhere that would explain.

Sorry, I don't know what you mean. Backup? Fast boot? TWRP? Rom? Perhaps I should know, so I would be grateful if you could point me to somewhere that would explain.

I was getting the 'process system isn't responding' message more and more often, so I took somebody's advice and went into recovery mode to wipe the cache partition. I followed instructions in this forum. As far as I can tell, I did it correctly. However, after a couple of hours of watching the...

This is also happening to me, but not every time. I've had the phone for two years and I assumed this problem was due to my battery being weak. What happens is that the phone suddenly crashes while I am scrolling or something, even though the battery indicator still says half left (or more)...

Thanks but I don't understand. Why would I want extra thumbnail copies, and why these particular photos/videos? I don't see how transfer an extra image makes anything faster.

When I download my photos to my computer, a few of the photos are accompanied by duplicates, each about 50KB or so. Their names do not begin with IMG, like the other photos, but are just a long string of digits. It happens with both still photos and videos, but not all of them, just about one in...

Thanks. I installed Malwarebytes and then Avast Mobile Security and Antivirus. I'll let you know what happens. But first, doesn't the Avast app also do what Mawarebytes does? Why would I need both?

Last week four strange files appeared in my downloads folder, with titles like szg2Nct_N4Y. They are very small: 4.87KB. This morning, I got a warning message from Mailer-Daemon@gollum.westhost.no, saying that a message sent to columb@yar.ru had been delayed for 48 hours. I have never heard of...

My wallpaper, the image behind the app icons, is fine, and as I chose it. However, whenever the lock screen comes up, there is a strange graphic, which I have discovered is a segment of some artwork for a podcast. I never chose this artwork, and would like it to go away. Why did my phone choose...

It's probably not rooted, because I have no idea what that means.

Ah yes. I have to drag over to the right to get the "ALL" column. Thanks. I wonder why there are two 'Phone' apps, with identical icons. One 744Kb and the other 1.29 MB. Looks to me as if it has been updated but the old version not deleted.

Thanks. I see that I have to go to the app that is being launched by default rather than the app within which I am creating the preference. However, I'm still stuck. Before I made the mistake, my contacts app (Contacts+) always gave me the option to use either Skype or Phone. Now that I have...

Whenever I want to open a link I always get a dialogue box asking me to choose what app to open it with, and also whether that is every time or just once. I usually reply just once, but then I accidentally clicked 'every time'. Now I want to change the app that I use, but now I don't get the...