Recent content by PatTheTerrible

So I found Ara Winton's (sp?) article on using a custom mp3 ringtone on my brand new Pixel 4 with Android 10 and none of the instructions have the remotest resemblance to what I'm seeing when I try to use them. And that article is only 2 months old. The downloaded mp3 is in my Download folder in...

Things must have changed since this post went up. I got a short code from Verizon which was incomplete and so basically useless and I have fed that back to them. In the meantime I found this site for that exact code which says there is a way to stop the code by texting to that number...

Nexus 5x under Nougat: Start Messenger Hit + for new message You get a To: line Hit All Contacts. It may give you a keyboard but swiping above the keyboard should get rid of that so you can see the entire list. Find the first one you want and tap Mobile at the right If it sends you to the...

Thank you so much; I never thought of looking under Sound.

There was just a blurb on the radio news about emergency alerts to wireless phones which include terrorism alerts. The last thread on this that I found on the entire site was 2012 or something. Is this automatically activated in Nougat or just for some Nexus or just from some wireless services...

Yuck, replying to my own post. All right. On the Verizon Wireless side, I got HD Voice. Easy peasy. On my Nexus 5x I seem to have LTE activated. Ran a test with a relative. The incoming voice mail did NOT generate the NM text. However when I deleted that voice mail, I still got the MBU...

According to this, I should not have been put on Basic Visual or the $2.99 Visual, the latter being discontinued...

The guy at the Verizon store activated the SIM before installing it in the 5X. I didn't have to dial *228 -- maybe he did that when I didn't know what I was looking at. We ran a test before I left the store so we would both know it was working at that point and there would be no finger-pointing.

There's so much great info on this thread and yours is one more example. Actually, I'm glad I just left this blocked as proof that blocking it didn't interfere with voice mail. Thanks!

Got my niece to help me run a test. The NM text is for a New voicemail; the MBU is either you listened or you deleted it. Not sure which. Still don't know how to make them stop, I blocked them. Now tell the truth, how could you possibly NOT know you got a call, even on vibrate? And if you...

I'm getting these gibberish messages too and I even got that exact one. I'm impressed that you found the pattern. I don't know how to stop them. I didn't find a way to stop the midnight messages about going paperless -- which I already was -- and VW ignored the feedback message I sent...

Thanks for this question and the answers. I'm looking forward now that I'm getting fit to shooting photos around the lake park with my Nexus 5X -- birds, bunnies, kiddos, dogs, deer, flowers, autumn leaves... I'm a butterfingers and it will be nice to have a holder.