Recent content by sfsf99

Thanks for your response, Rukbat. After I submitted my question, I googled "Why are Android phones still being sold with old operating systems" and received a number of interesting hits. The most frightening was this article from a couple of years ago...

I suppose it all comes down to selling more phones and keeping the premium prices on expensive phones. With computers, we get the same Windows 10 operating system on a $400 special from HSN or QVC as we get on a $2000 computer, and Microsoft will send updates to all of them once a month. The...

I never had this happen with my previous Alcatel or LG phones that I mentioned in my first post. They always kept a high and steady charge over the year each was my Trackfone backup phone and turned off most of the time. Both are inactive now, but I charged them both several weeks ago to 100%...

Phone mostly off means phone is totally, completely, shut off 99.99% of the day. Only powered on every few hours to check battery charge, and then shut completely down again. I can do this because this is only a backup phone that I don't need to use. Reported charge drops 1% every few...