Recent content by imarek3

We have been using a Google Home and Google Home Hub for about 2 years and have lights and plugs from Geeni, TP Link (Kasa) and Phillips Hue. Overall, we have been happy with our Google Home experience until recently. Our problem has gotten progressively worse over the past few weeks. For...

Don't get me wrong, I really like the Pixel 3A XL which I've had for about 6 months. I came from a Samsung Galaxy S8+ and decided on getting a new phone when my battery started going south, I find it hard to pay the outrageous prices that are being charged for flagship phones and decided that I...

just got the update on mine and my wife's S8 pluses.

Looking online, I see Alps phones that are clones of samsung phones. Looks like these phones can be purchased for around $100 or so. The processor on your phone is a MediaTek processors like what is used inn medium to low end devices. You probably don't really have 64GB of memory, it has...

I have the paid versions of both Action & Nova launcher and I keep coming back to Touchwiz. Google Now integration is not as good with Action or Nova launchers.

it is about time!!!

Not that I know of. Swipping down on the home screen brings up the app tray. Up can goto Settings > Advanced Features > Finger Sensor Gestures Ann's set a swipe down on the finger sensor to betting down the notification bar. I use it and it works good.

can't disable. Bixby says it's up to date but is only at version 1.9.46.2. can't wait to disable.

I have been living with Nougat for about 2 weeks now on my AT&T Note 5. After I received the Nougat update, I backed up my phone with Samsung's Smart Switch app, did a factory data reset and then restored my phone, which actually went pretty smoothly. So, here are some of the things that I...

I agree that a factory reset helps and Smart Switch takes most of the pain out of it (not all).

I found the using Smart Switch from Samsung on your PC works pretty good.

The procedure to clear your cache partition needs to start with turning off your phone before you do any of these steps.

I like the update. It does give the phone interface a good look and feel. I don't like the white squircle around the icons. I switched to a dark theme and that took care of that. I wish that I could change the background on the notifications in the notification tray to a white on black as...

Do you keep services like GPS on all the time? That was what was causing mine to drain 10-15% per hour because it could not get a fix at some poinr.

Called AT&T and they were really of no help and their ultimate solution was to do a Factory Data Reset, which really did not help. I figured out what the problem was, at least in my case. I was leaving on the GPS so I would get Google Rewards Surveys. Before the update this did not seem to...