Category: Mobile Devices

Apple in watchOS10 removed the ability to quickly swipe between watch faces on the home screen. For some, it’s an improvement (as it was very easy to accidentally change faces), for others it’s a massive issue (if you were intentionally swapping between watch faces all the time, i.e. to access different complications). You can still…

Issue After a ride, Garmin Edge 530 doesn’t allow end and save the ride. Activity Start / Stop button beeps on pressing, but doesn’t actually do anything. Pressing the power button brings the following message: Connect IQ app is openClose the app before putting the device to sleep or powering off.

I use Garmin Edge 530 Cycling Computer and there were few occasions when I needed to download a course from Garmin Connect (running on iPhone XR) while on the road with an activity running on the Edge 530. Normally, when you send a course from the Garmin Connect app to Garmin Edge you need to…

Apple made changes to their image and video formats in iOS 11. For photos, instead of JPG they now use High Efficiency Image File Format (HEIF). For videos, instead of H.264 they now use High Efficiency Video Codec (HEVC). As a result, Vegas (Sony) Movie Studio no longer recognises .mov files created by iPhones and iPads running iOS11 (or imports…

If you want to create an Apple ID for a child under 13 years old you have to do it on your own Apple device in Family Sharing. One disadvantage in doing it this way is that you are forced to create a new @icloud.com email address and use it as an Apple ID / iCloud ID…

I used below instructions to flash LineageOS on a stock Samsung Galaxy S7 (herolte, arm64, exynos 8890). no rooting was required. If you intend to follow these instructions, do this at your own risk – this will surely delete all data on your phone and void manufacturer’s warranty. Also, there is always a risk of bricking your device.…

After rebooting an Android phone that has encrypted SD card, you may get following notification: SD card encryptionSD card encrypted

Issue Cannot enable full phone encryption on LG G4 (Android 6.0). After enabling encryption in Settings > General > Security > Encrypt Phone, the smartphone restarts, but encryption remains disabled. Resolution

Before starting, make sure you have working adb (Android Development Bridge) tool on your PC. adb.exe is part of Android SDK, so if you have Android Studio, you should already have adb. If not, you can download Android Studio (or SDK only) from developer.android.com. Warning: following instructions below will wipe all data on your tablet. Step…

Issue Trying to root Samsung Galaxy Note 3 using Kingo Root failed. The phone doesn’t boot and only displays following message when turned on: Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again. Recovery attempt in Samsung Kies failed. Re-flash full Samsung firmware via Odin also failed.

Issue Trying to install a custom recovery on Samsung Galaxy Note 3 using Odin fails with following output: <ID:0/003> Firmware update start..<ID:0/003> recovery.img<ID:0/003> NAND Write Start!! <ID:0/003> cache.img.ext4<ID:0/003> Complete(Write) operation failed.<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)

One of the coolest new Google Photos features is “Group similar faces“, which automatically detects faces in photos and groups them in “people” albums. Unfortunately, this option at the moment is only available in the US. The good news is that there is quite simple workaround that lets you to enable “Group similar faces” wherever you…