Recent content by SpikeHouston

Sharp.

I had kitkat on my G2 for over a year and routinely got 30 to 40 hours on a charge. With lollipop, I get maybe 20. No games, no music, but I do read books and news apps a lot. It takes about 25% longer to charge, too. The biggest issue, however, is that the phone drops wifi connections now...

I mentioned this in another post, probably off topic there, but here it fits: make sure Google Location Services is off. For me before KK, I could leave it on and see no real difference; but since the update, leaving it on drained my battery way faster than turning it off. With it off, my...

Try turning off Google Location Service when not in use. After the upgrade to Kit Kat, I noticed a faster battery drain, especially when the phone was idle. That was unusual. Google's location service seems to have been the culprit.

Just be careful that you clear data from Google's contact app and not Verizon's. I actually did this a while back and managed to erase all my phone contacts. I never did recover them. Pretty dumb, I know.

I've seen the same thing on mine for a few months--just the exclamation point and the message that my contacts haven't synced since 31 Dec. But that really isn't the case. They do, in fact, sync. I added a contact on my phone and changed a few others, and they showed up in Google contacts on...

What works for me is to rearrange mobile bookmarks within the chrome browser on my computer. I just go through bookmark manager or my bookmarks extension (Minimal Bookmarks Tree) by dragging and dropping the bookmark where I want it. The new position then syncs to my mobile bookmarks on my...