Recent content by Peter Brown1

Re: S5 SIM card style? I got the wrong one too... but if you move it to the right, and only push it in until the edge of the card is flush with the end of the socket, a 'nano' card will work in a 'micro' slot. The actual contacts are the same only the size of the plastic is different.

Re: Desk Cradle I don't think that was ever an App in the Play Store; it was something Samsung built into their ROM. You could try the "Bedside" app, it sounds similar and has good reviews.

I did delete the update.zip file from my laptop. I am wanting to know if there are any extraneous files left on my Nexus as part of the install that are just taking up space and no longer necessary? Do I dump the cache from Recovery Mode? Or are the files found by browsing the device?

Re: How to get pics off my Nexus 5 So when you connect your Nexus to your laptop via USB, you are not seeing "Nexus 5" in Start>Computer under "Portable Devices"? If this is so, then you may be connecting the phone to the laptop as a Camera device (PTP) and not as a Media Device (MTP). With...

After several fits and starts with my recalcitrant new Nexus 5 that apparently just loved 4.4.4, I got 5.0 sideloaded successfully (main culprit: USB driver issues). SO - now that's done, I'm curious about the update.zip file that installed on my phone. It was a 1.4GB download and I assume...

Thanks, it was Lux. I uninstalled it and things appear well now.

This morning i suddenly get a red tint on part of my screen right above where the buttons are.... It's not hardware, it's fine on the boot screens. Any ideas? TIA