Recent content by smvim

Instead of trying to push the Gmail app on your phone past its capabilities, try a web browser to log into your iCloud mail service within your Apple account. Look around for any option to allow deleting emails using third-party, non-Apple email clients. Given our current state of privacy and...

You have a lot of misconceptions about basic functionality of a smartphone. You may disagree with what previous postings, but there's established facts and then there's your beliefs. Really, when it involves email your phone does not manage and maintain your email account. That's all done...

If you've been happy with iPhones and have no problems using them within Apple's oversight, I'd suggest you just keep using an iPhone.

Just my opinion but I'd avoid buying a preowned, budget-class or low-end phone. Those are in a class of phone that were only marginally usable even when new, so they're even less functional as time goes by. There are some really good bargains to be bought up with new and newer preowned phones...

Your posting is apparently all focused on your phone as the problem. Syncing as a service is based on a software aspect, and the extensive listing of things you've done to try to address your problem needed to be done just to eliminate them as possibilities. But syncing also requires a stable...

Whether you buy your Samsung phone directly from a carrier or buy an unlocked Samsung on your own from a retailer, all Samsung phone come with a lot of preinstalled, branded apps and services, and a level much more than other manufacturers. Some of that bloat is unique to Samsung, some of it...

When you buy a carrier-locked phone, there's always a lot of babbling legalese and some pertinent, documented verbage included with your purchase. Read through that original contractual info to see what's covered with the phone they sold you. Hopefully Verizon will be responsible for the whole...

https://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_m33-11404.php There are multiple problems with your phone -- several buttons are broken (physical damage) and you're not able to find the long-standing USB Debugging option in Developer Options (software corruption). I realize there's a budget issue but...

that 'bcmdhb' message pertains to the driver necessary to interact with the Broadcom WiFi chip in your phone's logic board. https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/common.git/+/bcmdhd-3.10/drivers/net/wireless/bcmdhd/Kconfig That's an indicator you've been dabbling at a pretty low level of the...

You need to differentiate between the monthly security updates released by Google and app updates that get released by app developers. The monthly security updates pertain to the installed Android operating system on your phone. Those are separate from the various apps you've installed on your...

Try using the Contacts app to edit/manage your contact listing. Start up Contacts, scroll down to that address you want to delete, long press on it to highlight it, and in the upper menu bar tap on the Trash icon to delete it. Different apps, like your email app, texting app, etc. all rely upon...

I agree with B. Diddy, don't worry too much about using that 3a. just keep up being a little cautious. https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/4457705?hl=en#zippy=%2Cpixel-a-xl-earlier%2Cpixel-a-pixel-pixel-pro There's a lot of fear-mongering in the tech news media so when you're reading all the...

Ten year old phone that won't charge? Just guessing but is the actual issue being you're having a problem plugging in a charger into these dated phones? Keep in mind that current Android phones now have USB Type-C ports in them, and previously they all had microUSB (a.k.a. USB - b) ports. USB...

Finding a free app or service that will also be effective in filtering your voicemails is a daunting endeavor. Have you looked into U.S. Cellular's spam filtering service? 4 dollars a month isn't bad. https://www.uscellular.com/support/help/spam-calls

I agree with B. Diddy, it's unlikely that having NFC enabled is a source to your perceived problem. Do note you can easily just disable/enable NFC for when you don't need it or when you do, but otherwise beyond an inch or so it's not going to be detectable. Bluetooth 'might' be an issue is its...