Recent content by melman11

I know Android 8 is old. But it has call blocking with "Digit filter - Block calls based on the starting or ending digits in their number". I get a lot of spam calls from area code 520. I put "520" and "1520" in my digit filter list. But I still get calls from that area code. Am I...

Evidently this was posted in the wrong place. It was discussed and answered here: https://forums.androidcentral.com/android-8-0-oreo/960591-android-os-uses-data-when-phones-data-off.html

Yes, under the graph it says "Data usage is measured by your phone. Your carrier may account for usage differently. Set the dates to match the period on your bill." I don't see where anything is being reported back to Google. The number I'm seeing is a measurement or tracking of data usage...

Well I use Tracfone, my service is prepaid, I don't get a bill. I can look at my data balance on their site and it's stayed on the same number for 10 days, since I turned off my master data control. On my Settings menu, there's a banner at the top "Mobile data is off". I have activated all the...

swannlake, I reset my "billing cycle" in the phone (the date that is used for the "Mobile data" usage collection) 11 days ago. At that time, data was on. On the first day, with background data supposedly turned off for all apps, Outlook gobbled almost a MB of foreground data and I-Heart Radio...

(I posted this last week, I think it went into "Ask A Question", where it disappeared and/or there was no reply. Hoping for a better result here.) New phone, LG Rebel 4 (LML212VL), Android version 8.1.0, Security patch level March 1, 2019. I use very little data and have a low-data plan...

Whoops, I posted this without being logged in? Now I'm logged in and I can't edit. Anyway, just wanted to add that the Oreo 8.1 phone is a LG Rebel 4 (LML212VL), Android version 8.1.0, Security patch level March 1, 2019. If any of that matters.

Smart Lock was working on my new Oreo 8.1 phone, then I added my corporate Exchange account into Gmail and gave it the required administrator access. Smart Lock hasn't worked since. Even after I deleted the Exchange account from the phone. Is it possible that deleting the account didn't...

Did you ever get an answer to this? I used to be able to download podcasts from an I-heart station through the site spreaker.com which I think is the service that I-heart uses for storage. The station changed "something" (nobody will tell me what) and new shows don't show up on spreaker any...

I can't tell if that is specific to your version of Android, or to Samsung, or to your specific phone, or to your carrier. But I can't find any setting like that, either in the "Android Messages" app or in my System Settings, for my LG Ultimate 2 running Android 4.4.2 provided by Tracfone. The...

I saw that in another thread, it must apply to other Androids and/or other text apps, it doesn't work for me

My phone is Android 4.4.2 and came with the "Messaging" app. It allowed pinch-and-zoom to adjust the displayed font size. The latest and greatest "Messages" does not seem to have this capability. I'm not wanting to change the system font size, just the size used for displaying texts. Is this...

Holy crap, the volume setting for these sounds is the "Touch feedback and system" volume level, which I had set to zero because I thought it was the volume for keypresses and etc. The sounds in question are internally generated and I assumed they would be controlled by the "Notifications"...

Thanks for the suggestions. I didn't know about Safe Mode, I tried it - still no boot up sound and no "battery charged" sound. It's like the sound files are corrupted. (Which is what I thought awhile back when the "battery charged" sound went away the first time... but it did return. Makes...

Yes I have rebooted, and yes other sounds are working. That's what makes this so baffling. It's almost like the sound files do not exist in the place that the OS expects them to be, or they are not readable or etc. edited: The Android boot-up sound doesn't play either. edited again: The...