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  1. may2700

    screen brightness changing outdoors?

    ok been reading post after post and no one seems to know why this happens so i will bring it up again. i have a new galaxy s3 on verizon. the auto brightness is OFF and so are the power saving modes. went to take a picture with the phone yesterday in a rainy overcast day. the phones screen...
  2. may2700

    returning to honeycomb?

    i have given up with ics, my bionic ran great on Honey Comb. so i was wondering, if i root my bionic and return it to HC, will the phone ever automatically install the ICS update (rendering my efforts useless)? or is there a way for me to prevent the phone from doing that?
  3. may2700

    ICS Alarm titles missing?

    since the ics update and the new alarm app, i have noticed that the alarm title ony shows up for certain alarms. i have about 10 different alarms and some are close together so knowing what the alarm is for is kinda important. am I not doing something right? i set all the alarms up the same way...
  4. may2700

    did beautiful widgets update something?

    i looked at my phone this morning and noticed that beautiful widget super clock skin had changed on its own. i hate the new skin it chose and for some reason i can not change it. i have tried everything from restarting phone to going to skin market and downloading 4 new skins but nothing works...
  5. may2700

    4g lte coing to east end of long island?

    just noticed my phone in 4g LTE for a few minutes today, could this mean that we may be going live in the very near future? anyone else on the east end of long island NY seeing this?:eek:
  6. may2700

    Free WiFi hotspot (no root needed)

    for anyone who is not aware, there is now an app that allows you to turn on your wifi hot spot feature of your phone without rooting your phone. its called FoxFi market link https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.foxfi&hl=en no rooting, no fees, easy to use and works great on my...
  7. may2700

    Help phone runs weird when plugged into computer

    anyone else have this prob? when i plug the phone into the computer, the phone dosent respond to touch screen selections. i can barely unlock the screen and trying to select icons is very difficult, and using the keyboard is next to impossible. i am on my 3rd bionic and have the same prob with...
  8. may2700

    they are auto deleating my insurance!

    just got off the phone with vz tech support. even after the update i am still loosing my data connection every day. this will be my 3rd phone now (for the same problem). after compleating the phone replacment with the tech, she advised me that esperion is AUTO DELETING my insurance due to the...
  9. may2700

    Help has anyone been able to video chat with skype

    just to clarify, i know i can video chat with google talk and have done so. but i have alot of friends on skype and was wondering why the video chat on skype wont work, i am able to audio chat and when i press the video chat, the bionic looks like it wants to go into video chat but it never...
  10. may2700

    Help "my apps" missing from market app

    read all posts for other phones and no one seems to have an answer so figured i would post here too. i got a notification that i had 5 app updates. so i went to the market app, pressed my apps and lo and behold it only had 2 of my apps (have about 30). the only 2 showing up were "maps" and "you...
  11. may2700

    Help can i get hotspot for free if i root?

    just wondering, can i root my bionic and then get the wifi hotspot feature for free with an app?:confused:
  12. may2700

    Help Why cant i put more than 1 gmail account in the gmail app?

    i am only asking this because when the phone was being activated, the Verizon rep told me that under the gmail app on the bionic, you could only put the main gmail account. all other gmail accounts had to go into the email app? i went along with it so i could get my phone but find it hard to...
  13. may2700

    Help update eroor on my apps!

    noticed 3 exlimation points in status bar and found i got 3 error installing updates. so i figured they needed to be manual, nope! even when i try to manual update, i get an "error installing update" any ideas? droid 1 apps are pic say pro, wifi analyzer, and C:Geo i am not rooted, stock...
  14. may2700

    customize the car screen?

    ok, so when i either put my droid in my car mount or i press the "car/home" app, my phone goes into car mode. here i have 2 screens to choose from. the first screen has 6 buttons all with applications in them, the second screen has 6 buttons but only 3 have aplications in them. question is, is...
  15. may2700

    share android calendar with black berry?

    i have a droid and my wife has a Blackberry. i want to be able to share my calender with her. is this possible. she normally uses lotus notes for her calendar but that doesn't have to be the only solution.
  16. may2700

    Root just a quick go to h#$% and a thank you

    i am posting this just so everyone know, not all rooting is easy and no, sometimes it dose'nt go right. well I took the plunge today and rooted my droid, used easy root and followed the directions found on this forum. root was tricky at best as nothing went smoothly. but alas i got it rooted...
  17. may2700

    Root how do i install rsd lite

    well the rooting went well till i installed a theme, now the phone just switches back and forth from the droid to the eye screen, i read how to use rsd lite to redo the phone but i dont know how to install rsd lite? can someone explain to me? thanx
  18. may2700

    root to liquid frozen yogurt

    sorry, just a quick ? when i reboot into recovery to install the new rom, do i have to rename the lfy.zip file to update.zip. this is my first attempt and dont want to screw it up. thanks
  19. may2700

    whats the deal with 2.2 draining the battery

    holy cow, since 2.2, my battery drains in like 4 hours. even in standby. is there some setting i should turn off? whats the deal?
  20. may2700

    camera resolution sux now with 2.2

    what happened to the resolution on the camera with the 2.2 update? my pix suck now. i have looked for a menu that lets me change the resolution but cant find one anymore. is it hidden somewhere? or am i stuck with the new sucky resolution?
  21. may2700

    Is there a way to remove the 2.2 update?

    title says it all. i manually installed froyo and it is so buggy there is definatly a problem, now i am seeing that they may be holding off on releasing the OTA. so i ask... Is there a way to remove the 2.2 update? and go back to my 2.1?
  22. may2700

    froyo running much slower than 2.1

    ok, i couldn't wait for the OTA, so i manually updated from the droid life site. now that i am running 2.2 my phone is so slow its almost impossible to use. whenever i put the phone in standby then start up the phone to do something, it takes approx 10 seconds to repopulate the home screen and...
  23. may2700

    Help what is this icon

    read the manual cover to cover and cant find any explination of what this icon is. anyone have a clue what it is or does?
  24. may2700

    desktop icons and widgets keep dissapearing

    i seem to keep having this problem. everytime i put my droid into the desktop charger and then remove it later, all of my desktop icons and widgets on all 3 screens dissapear. 2 questions, 1. is there a way to stop this from happening 2. if not, is there an easier way to fix it besides...
  25. may2700

    Help deleating a "default" phone number

    ok, i have placed 2 contact shortcuts on my desktop, contact 1 and contact 2, when i click contact 1, a small menu comes up and one option is phone, i select that and then a list of all the phone numbers appears (home, cell, fax) and i can select what number to call for that person, when i click...