Recent content by john12971a

I believe I have found a solution. Anyone else who is unable to disable NFC on their Samsung Galaxy S5 might like to try the following steps (I'm not sure exactly which one worked): 1. Turn off phone 2. Remove SD card and SIM 3. Power on phone. Enable Ultra power saving mode 4. Disable Ultra...

I've just done a full factory reset and the NFC icon is still half green and I can't disable it! Nightmare.

Thanks. I have already tried the partition trick. The Sony playmemories didn't turn NFC on - I did. Or at least I tried to. That's when it went from off to kind-of-on. Perhaps there's a bug where you try to enable NFC on a phone that doesn't have an NFC sim card?

I have a weird problem. NFC is killing my battery, but I can't turn it off. I'm using a Samsung Galaxy S5 running Android 5.0.2. It's a UK model on the EE network, SM-G901F. As the screenshots demonstrate, the NFC icon in quick settings is 'half green', and when I go to Settings -> NFC the...

I'm consistently disappointed in my S5's camera for close focus objects. There doesn't appear to be a macro setting - why not? Here's a typical scene, I wanted to focus on these flowers dangling from some twigs. I tapped on the screen to focus on the specific point, yet the S5 was having none...

Hi all, first timer here. I've had my S5 (5.0.1) for a couple of weeks and am really enjoying the upgrade from my last phone. I didn't need the latest and greatest hardware, so the S5 represents really good value for me. I've noticed that battery goes down about 25% overnight. This is a little...