Recent content by punstress

Sorry, MTP from what pulldown? I don't have anything called MTP when I pull down from the status bar. I know I can access files when not tethering, but I have always been able to do both at the same time, except sometimes I was unable due to some setting, which I would change and then all was...

It's been a while since I posted this and I want to report that soon after this exchange took place, a system update occurred and it completely solved my problem. Now I almost always am able to bring the notifications down. I would like to think the Android people read this and changed things...

Samsung Galaxy J7 Star, Android 9 I used to be able to work with files from my phone from my Windows 10 laptop, but now when I turn USB tethering on, the file explorer window shuts immediately. If I untether then replug the cord in, the files are visible again, but when I turn tethering on...

Well it worked once. Not working now. Rrrrrr.

If by "older" you mean less than 1 year, I guess it is older. I bought right around last Christmas. I have a physical button that goes to the home page. No fingerprint scanner. I don't see another function, not sure what to look for? I just tried swiping down in one complete motion all the way...

I do not have a down arrow! That would be exactly what I need. I wonder why I don't have it!?!

I am OP. But I have monkeyfingers. Usually it either does nothing or causes the screen to go into edit mode, you know when you want to add a new home page or move stuff around. If nothing happens, I lift my (monkey) finger to try again and finally it opens, but too late, I can't pull it down...