Recent content by mikew99

Yesterday was a rough day: I was under a mandatory evacuation order due to flooding here in California, and my less than two-year-old (but out-of-warranty) LG G3 gave me a blue screen and died. Nothing I tried could revive it. Today is a better day: My house is (for the moment) still dry...

Whenever I get a new SD card, I run H2testw on it right away. Give that program a try and see what it reports.

I occasionally switch memory cards (usually to upgrade to a larger size), and I use a disk imaging program (such as Acronis True Image) to make an image backup the contents of the old card and then restore that image to the new card (while resizing if necessary). That way, the format of the new...

Unlike other USB devices that I have owned, the charging speed on the s4 is dependent on several factors: 1) the charger itself (the Samsung AC charger puts out almost 2A); 2) the specific port on the charger (some multi-port chargers output different current levels on different ports); and 3)...

I did a google search on "top apps of the day" pop-up and got a few hits about this problem. This thread from xda recommends installing the Airpush Finder app to locate the culprit. (Airpush is an ad framework.) Take a look to see if any of the solutions mentioned in the above threads work...

Android automatically tries to reconnect to known (previously connected) networks, regardless of whether that network requires sign-in. In doing so, it can interrupt a perfectly good mobile data connection in favor of a WiFi connection that won't work without manual intervention. I run into...

The Samsung Galaxy S4 is the first device I've owned that is sensitive to both the charging current as well as the cable used. I found this out when a USB AC adapter/retractable cable combo that worked fine on my Atrix failed to charge my S4. After trying all the USB AC adapters and micro USB...

My recommendation would be to throw some money at the problem and get a microSD card that's big enough to hold all your photos without conversion. Then, you can use a Dropbox account to automatically sync them to your phone with an app such as Dropsync or FolderSync.