Recent content by Mike Rivers

I wish it was that simple, but when I open that page, there's nothing showing for my devices, not new ones, not old ones, nothing. It appears that this "no devices" message started appearing when I updated to Android 9. Previously, I could search the Google Play store for apps, and when I...

There's a column of icons on the camera screen. When in the still photo mode, what does the one that looks like a video camera do? It seems to be related to HDR mode since when it's off (I guess - with the \ through it) the HDR icon appears, and when it's on (no \) the HDR icon disappears...

I'm getting more and more annoyed with my present e-mail client app. I have a BLU Studio XL phone, Android 6 OS, and I'm using the e-mail app that was pre-installed, the one with the icon of an envelope with an @ on it. I was using the same app on my previous phone, a ZTE running Android 4.2...

I bought a Bu Vivo XL back in October. It's on its third trip back to Florida now, and the're going to replace it with a Studio Max rather than trying to repair it. I think that I've been without it for about six weeks over the past 4 months. They aren't very fast with turn-arounds. However...

In the great dogpile of "office" apps, there must be one that doesn't **** me off and that I un-install within minutes. I'm used to Microsoft Office on my real computers and lately have been using Open Office as I move out older computers. I don't expect to be able to do everything on the phone...

Well, I finally found a phone that supports OTG hosting and supports audio devices, at leat the two that I have handy, so I bought it. It's a BLU Vivo XL, $140. Interestingly, the nice lady at BLU that I spoke to told me that if I wanted the OTG host feature, I'd have to get a 2016 model (which...

Well, I finally found a phone that supports OTG hosting and supports audio devices, at leat the two that I have handy, so I bought it. It's a BLU Vivo XL, $140. Interestingly, the nice lady at BLU that I spoke to told me that if I wanted the OTG host feature, I'd have to get a 2016 model (which...

Well, maybe I can make this easier - - or harder. As a reminder, the job is to take a picture of a page of printed text and end up with a file of the text that can be editied with a normal text editor. I had a phone conversation with a reasonbly knowledgable support person at BLU who...

After a little fumblilng around, I figured out how to move and remove (some) icons from the screen pages but I'm looking for a couple of more things. First off, the "grid" icon that displays all of the apps whether they have shortcut icons isn't present in this OS version. In searching for help...

New BLU user here so you'll probably see a few dumb questions from me here for a while. BTW, I chose this phone because it looked like the best bang-for-the-buck phone that supports audio devices with USB-OTG (boy, this is something that's really hard to find out about unless you're looking at...

As I posted in another thread, nobody publishes "Supports USB-OTG" in their spec sheets, and contrary to what the USB Organization web site says, not every phone offers this feature. To find out what you might not want to know, first determine whether your phone supports it. Go to the Google...

No sympathy, eh? Of course I can use a mic with the headset jack, but gimme a break. I'm an audio engineer.. I know I can do better than that, and besides, since I never text and hardly every make phone calls, I like to play with gadgets. The question you probalby can't answer is why does this...

It seems that it's nearly impossible to determine whether a phone provides OTG hosting without having the phone in hand. How does one choose one to purchase? I've been on the phone with Samsung's "tech" support several time and it seems that they don't have a clue (and they have more OTG phones...