I often forget to mute my Galaxy S4 and people glare at me when it rings. Not so good when I have a gf who likes to call every 30 minutes! Is there a way I can set my Android smartphone to just vibrate on incoming calls?
I love my Android phone, but I’m bothered by the fact that it keeps telling the network where I am. Even photos aren’t safe, they’re getting geolocation tags from the GPS and each identifies exactly where it was taken. How do I disable all of this privacy nightmare on my Galaxy S4?
I can’t figure out how to add icons for my favorite apps onto the home screen of my Galaxy S 5. So frustrating! How do I pin the app icons onto the home screen on my Android smartphone?
I see that in your posts you know exactly what version of Android you’re running on your phone. How do you figure that out?
I switched from an iPhone to an Android phone and am having a hard time figuring things out. The first one: how do I change the wallpaper image?
My husband got me an Android based tablet computer, which is great, but it seems like most of the movies and TV shows I want to watch on it came from the iTunes Store. Which means that it’s tied to iTunes and I can’t play it, even if I copy the original m4v files. Solution?
Ever wanted to buy a phone that wasn’t tied to a particular carrier so you could just drop in the SIM card of your choice and go? There’s a market for unlocked smartphones and one company that has a surprisingly robust lineup is San Diego-based Infosonics / verykool.
To learn more, I tried out the s505 “Spark”, a phone with almost exactly the same specs and dimensions as the Samsung Galaxy S5…
I’m giving my Android phone to my Mom and want to wipe all the data off of it first, so she can start from ground zero. What’s the easy way to reformat and wipe the data clean?
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