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Question from Melvin: I need help with a glitch that’s affecting my phone.
All of a sudden it started rotating the Home screen every time I rotate the phone (the same way pictures rotate).
I can deal with the pictures rotating but I hate it when the Home screen rotates. It just looks really weird.
Why is this happening and how can I put a stop to it? [Read more…]
Even premium smartphones have their limitations. As soon as the memory and space on the smartphone runs out, it will begin appear unstable, start to lag, or even freeze up or turn off.
The problem isn’t necessarily the smartphone memory, but you can easily check to see if RAM and/or storage space usage on your smartphone could be causing the issues. [Read more…]
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Question from Laurie: My daughter lost her phone and she had to wait till she got paid before she could buy a new phone, so I let her borrow mine for a couple of days.
After she bought herself a new phone she gave mine back to me.
I just discovered that she added her own Google account to my phone (she said she wanted to download an app she needed to use without me having to pay for it).
How can I remove my daughter’s Google account from my phone? [Read more…]
Question from Deidra: I have grounded my 13 year old daughter for a month for getting into some pretty serious trouble at school.
Part of her “grounding” is a total ban on cell phone and Internet use of any kind.
To enforce that, I’ve had her iPhone shut off and I’ve also turned off the Wi-Fi on our router.
The problem is she’s still finding a way to get on Facebook and talk to her friends because I can see her “liking” stuff and leaving comments. How is that possible? [Read more…]
Smartphones are everywhere these days. In fact, I’m guessing that you don’t personally know all that many people who don’t own one.
Thanks to the massive library of apps that are available, modern smartphones have literally hundreds of uses besides simply placing telephone calls and sending SMS text messages.
One of their most common uses is playing multimedia files such as streaming videos, audio tracks and watching online movies.
But what if you want to save your favorite media files directly onto your smartphone so you can enjoy them while you’re stuck in a traffic jam somewhere out in the boondocks? [Read more…]