Recent content by trwrt

Take out the battery and put it back in, if your phone allows it.

Step by step we push outward the boundaries of human knowledge. Science! :-)

Sure. 2A is the max that the charger can supply, but it will only output as much current as the device draws.

I saw somewhere that disabling hardware acceleration in Settings->Advanced Settings helped. I think it was on a Mac but worth a shot since it's easy to change. BTW, that's some hellish connection you've got there, I'm getting by on a 3 (really about 2.4) Mbit DSL line here. I'm such a...

From another thread here it sounds like the tab mirroring involves a round-trip through Google. If that's the case, then interactive stuff like browsing is going to depend heavily on the latency of your connection to Google, much more so than on the speed of the connection. On the other hand...

How big are the chips, and do they need to be filled in order to restore function of the touch screen? I would probably just put a screen protector over it. Maybe you could cut some pieces to fit out of some scrap clear plastic and then put the protector over that? I'd be worried about...

From the title I thought this thread was going to involve you hitting your wife in the head with your phone. Now I don't know whether to be disappointed or relieved.

Does the tab mirroring use a lot of CPU? I'm wondering if I'll be able to do it from my Thinkpad X301 and its puny 1.4 GHz dual-core CULV SU9400 when mine gets here.

I don't know what nightmode is, not having a Samsung, but with HDR you will definitely have blur if objects move because the camera takes multiple shots with differing exposure settings and combines them together. That could be why you saw something different in the camera compared to the...

By that argument Verizon already supports GSM phones, because LTE-enabled CDMA phones can use LTE. The point is you won't be able to buy any old unlocked phone and stick your SIM into it. It will need to be LTE and support VoLTE which means that no existing phones will work.

The article says they are going to release LTE-only phones. There's nothing in there about GSM.

Here's another trick for the people who wanted the "free driving" mode. Start Maps and tap the little crosshair thing in the bottom right to move to your current location, then tap it one more time. This will put Maps into "compass mode", so that "up" on the screen is always the direction...

The "navigate to ..." voice search is hit-or-miss for me, sometimes it starts navigation and sometimes it just does a google search. But, within the maps app I can tap the search bar, then tap the microphone and do the voice search there so it's not a big deal. For all the people asking...

Just launch Maps, set up your route, and you'll see the little blue triangle there that lets you launch Navigation from within Maps. That's how it works after the update, everything is within Maps instead of under two separate icons.

This is from the Maps update that happened yesterday. Navigation is now built into Maps instead of being a separate icon, just launch Maps and set up a route and you'll see what I mean.