Recent content by Steve Waring

I might have found the answer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSSnsCO1xKw This video also explains why this is so tricky.

smvim As I said, a normal powered hub is no use because it provides power to the keyboard and NOT to the phone, which is what my question was asking ( What I would like to be able to do is to charge my phone (with a samsung charger) and have the non powered keypad connected at the same time.)...

I've founds one. It's called Poweramp. It took me not time at all to have Tasker able to skip the play forward or back a number of seconds. If anyone wants to see the tasker code, I posted it here...

Listening to my language lessons, I would love to be able to press the command button of my Samsung Galaxy Buds and say Skip Back five seconds. The Tasker code to intercept this is easy, but I can't find a music player that has both a Tasker plugin (or an Android Intent that can be used) and the...

The case stops working as soon as you upgrade, and it does not even turn the screen off/on when you close/open the case. It's been reported to Samsung many times, it's reproducible (take the case off and put it on an Oreo phone and it starts working, reinstall Oreo and the case starts working)...

There used to be an option to remove frames round application icons on the home page. This seems to have gone and now my S9+ looks very ugly. Is there anyway to remove the frames?

bxActions is another way of totally removing Bixby. This app also lets you remap the Bixby button (and others) giving you 8 different options, Single Press, Double Press, Long Press, Long Press and hold, for normal screen and the same four options on lock screen. What's more, among the many...

No, it does not show up on the Playstore for Oreo. You must have downloaded it, before it was pulled for Oreo onwards. If yours is still working, don't uninstall it, because you won't be able to get it back.

Thanks, UdiBerry, that's the answer. Press the power button to bring up the controls. You would not believe the number of review videos I watched where they did not show that.

I have a new S9+. Sidesync does not work on S9, it has been replaced by Samsung Flow. But on the PC Samsung Flow requires Windows 10 and I have Windows 7 (which I much prefer). Are there any decent third party apps that do the same? Besides the screen sharing, in order of preference, other...

I have Galaxy S9+ with the Samsung S9 LED cover. The cover correctly shows LEDs for incoming calls, batery charging etc. It also shows the graphic equalizer LED sequence when the cover is closed and music is playing. However I do not get the Play/Pause Skip LED indicators to control music. I...

In the latest SideSync, in the PC SideSync controller window (not the screen mirror window): If you click on MORE/Settings/General/Keyboard & Mouse shortcut SET, you can define actions. By default, right mouse key is Back, and mouse wheel is Home. A click on the mouse wheel brings up the home...

Ok, as promised, here is the Tasker code. Install Tasker from the PlayStore From the Tasker menu, select Preferences. Under the UI tab, uncheck Beginner Mode Under the Monitor tab, I unchecked all the options like Accelerometer, and Use motion detection, etc, as they are not needed. Save this...

I've spent half a day learning Tasker, and now have a fully working solution. BTW, not shown in Gallery, Whatsapp also stores a copy of every file you have sent, you can find these using file manager. This is particularly pernicious, because you will be chewing up storage without realising it...

I get this with the Samsung flip case (wallet case) I bought for my S5. The Samsung flip case is brilliant, it sleeps the phone when you flip it shut and wakes it up when you filp it open.