Category: Mobile Devices

Issue Cannot listen to some of the iPhone visual voicemail messages as the “Play” button is greyed out.

A while ago while introducing new Lumia handsets Nokia touted about its “Super Sensitive Touch” feature that allows to use a touch screen phone while wearing gloves (basically without directly touching the screen with your fingers). Many people don’t know this, but Samsung Galaxy devices also have option to increase screen sensitivity to make the screen work…

I’m not a  heavy Facebook user, but tend to check it on average few times a week. Facebook normally sends a push notification to your phone when somebody posts on your wall, comments on a photo you uploaded, or does something similar concerning yourself. This is all well and good and if I visit Facebook at…

When you long press the headphone button your Samsung Galaxy device, Samsung S-Voice launches. I find Google Now much more useful than Samsung S-Voice and it’s really easy to replace S-Voice with Google Now.

Issue When Samsung Galaxy S4 is connected to a Windows PC, DCIM\Camera folder appears to be empty. But when browsing on the actual phone with an Android File Manager (or via Gallery app) you can see that there are hundreds of images in that folder.

I own a TomTom Go 500 SatNav that automatically pairs with my Samsung Galaxy Note 3 over a Bluetooth for live traffic updates. For this to work, you must have Bluetooth and Bluetooth tethering options enabled on the phone.

A little while ago I was looking for a 10” – 12” digital photo frame. Just couldn’t find what I wanted. Even most expensive frames were old models with low quality, low resolution screens. I suppose not many people buy these things anymore so manufacturers just stopped bothering with them… Then I had an idea…

Following message regularly appears in Samsung Galaxy Notifications: FacebookLog in to sync Facebook with your other applications When you tap on the message it opens a page with Facebook logo asking you to login into Facebook or create a new account. This is rather misleading as this message and page has nothing to do with…

Samsung Galaxy Note 3 with Android 4.3. Occasionally following message appears in Notifications: Prevention informationAn application has been forced to stop for an unauthorized attempt to access system in your device. It may be safe to delete an application obtained from an unauthorized route

A user managed to hit O2 1GB data usage limit on iPhone 5 in two days! He was normally using under 100MB per month and could swear that he hadn’t done anything unusual in these 2 days. After checking that backups and updates over cellular were disabled and there were no suspicious apps running, I…

iPhone stuck in an infinite reboot cycle: starts, gets to the screen with Apple logo and spinning circle, then after a few minutes reboots again. Phone was fixed by putting it into a recovery mode and doing a restore via iTunes. Be aware that this resets the phone to factory defaults which deletes all apps…

After upgrading iPhone 4S to iOS 6 noticed that there is no more Flag email option in Gmail account. The only option is Mark as Unread. Gmail account was set up as Exchange rather than default IMAP account. After checking account settings I found that there is nothing in Domain field. Adding google as a domain…