Recent content by metropolitim

I learned that the feature I'm talking about is called Sidetone. Here's the story on Wikipedia, but I can save you a trip. It's been around for around 200 years (not a typo) on landlines, hence being able to hear yourself in the handset. This thread notwithstanding, sidetone is quite standard...

This is kind of a weird one, but I've searched for it every way I can think of, every place I can think of, and getting nowhere, so I'm ending up where I should have started: here. Lol No buds for me, because I can't stand having things poking in my ears, so I'm all headsets all the time. I've...

Back in the dawn of the smartphone era, the thing I hated most about iPhones was their lack of customizability. They were pretty good devices overall, and the company was paying for it, so I didn't jump to Android until the HTC Thunderbolt in early 2011. Customizability out the wazoo, and...

I really wanted an orange Pixel XL, but needed a phone NOW. Rather than take the time to track down the right color, I took the black model that was in stock (not as boring as I'd feared but still), and went for an orange case. There are a bunch of nice ones out there, but I'm giddy with this...

mustang7757, resetting facial recognition made this work for me again, too. Specifically, I had to also reboot after resetting facial recognition, but now it works a charm again.

I do still hate Pie in the Note 8. While I haven't tried the call recorder you mentioned, the other three I'd tried, including the previously bulletproof Cube ACR, all broke under Pie. The workaround I'm using is Google Voice, which is pretty annoying. No outgoing call recording, so people...

So I was looking at the One Plus website thinking of placing an order, when I came across all the optional protection coverage for the screen, dropping, etc. I've previously just rolled this into the phone payments at my carrier (VZW, the only vendor with decent coverage where I am) before, but...

Man, I wish I'd seen this earlier. I hate this update more by the day, and wish I'd never gotten anywhere near it. It really has me wondering if it's time to leave Samsung. I do want to give major kudos to the advice from srvctec in a post just above this, to get Good Lock (note that it's two...

The stuff I hate is more existential. 🤣 Yet another update that adds more iPhone behaviours and styling that go backwards in functionality and ease of use. I've used a number of apps to work around these in the past, and quite a few are broken after the update. I assume they'll catch up, but in...

I lack the skills of most of you, but the point-and-shootness of this thing still amazes me. Unbelievable color, and so smooth! These are in Hawaii, on Oahu, no tweaking whatsoever.

Sammy all the way. My favorite part of the day is cashiers telling me they don't take Apple Pay, me replying that I have a Samsung, them STARTING to say that they don't take Android Pay either, but not even finishing the sentence before Samsung Pay had completed the transaction. LOL It's...

Naaaaayyyyy-kidddddddd. The last time I broke a phone was the HTC Thunderbolt (remember when that was modern? LOL) in May 2011, and insurance took care of it just fine. I briefly had a case in the Note 3 because I thought I should, but no, I can't imagine using one ever again. The S6 edge+ was...

I'm all about Chomp SMS. I love the amount of customization (enough, but not too much LOL), and very reasonable price ($2.69 iirc) to get rid of ads (which aren't too bad if you're committed to free-only). It's done by the same devs as Textra, but I much prefer this. Always the 2nd app on every...

I'd go for it. I DID go for it. LOL To be more specific, I went with the Edge+ as soon as it came out, and couldn't be happier -- and I had truly loved my Note 3. I thought I would be bothered by no SD slot, but most of my very full card in the Note had been taken by music. Between Spotify...

That's the problem. The greeting doesn't live on your phone. It lives on the phone company server. Interesting point, though. You're right, there should be an approach more modern than Bell's available to us. I can imagine why phone companies resist, though. The storage space to store our...