Recent content by Sphex 2 Point 0

New to the smartphone world and not interested in rooting my Moto G4 Play. Just trying to confirm: Android security patches can or cannot be manually applied -- ? Everything I've read so far indicates that all OS updating is vendor/mfg push only, and that if you don't receive such updates...

You know what? Maybe. But nothing that I've changed in months or longer. The only New Thing is using the phone app for mail. If that alone is the cause of the change I'm just gonna learn to live with it, because it's on Gmail's end, since none of the other services have been affected in any way...

No, at least not that I'm aware. To test things I composed an email sent to each of the three accounts included on the phone (1 Gmail, 1 Hotmail, 1 Yahoo) from a fourth unrelated account. Then I opened Gmail on the phone and manually synced; the test message in the Hotmail and Yahoo boxes was...

I have cleared the cache several times, no change. I have set all mail apps to manual sync only (I don't use the phone often at all, and less for email) and thinking that might have something to do with it tried re-enabling background sync. If you selected "didn't help" here you win. Not using...

Newbie to smartphones, using a Moto G Play wth Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow. The native Gmail app has suddenly stopped bolding new/unread emails. Instead the arrow left of the subject is colored yellow, where it's not colored (white) for read mail. This is just too hard to see and doesn't match the...