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Recent content by Dave Estam

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    FastNote question please....

    Have a small app "FastNote" which I have copied off the files to my pc from an older S4 which are all .txt based. My newer phone J7 has a newer version of FastNote and for the life of me I can't find any mention of fastnote or the txt files anywhere. I only have 3 small files on my J7 and would...
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    second user facebook question

    How can my wife run her own facebook on my phone? I am running mine, is there a procedure to install another user? Many thanks,
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    Virus checker suggestions

    J3 really slow and when visiting a news site told be I have been infected. Can anyone suggest a good free virus cleaner. Many thanks...
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    3g being phased out

    Hi all, wonder if someone can set me straight with what is happening. I have a S4 mini (SPH-L520) Android ver 4.4.2.and has selected for my network mode LTE/CDMA/EVDO Reading about the S4 mini says it's 4g complaint and sprint/t-mobile is explaining 3g will be discontinued at year end and is...
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    Marketplace not loading

    Hi all, Samsung J3 and today when going to Facebook's marketplace it will load the first item I touch but when going back and selecting a second it doesn't respond to my touch and nothing happens. Just marketplace, all other facebook selections work fine. Closing facebook and reopening I get to...
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    home WiFi Turned Off

    S4 mini going from Connected to Turned Off every few minutes. Restarted, still doing same. Selected "Forget" and re-setup connection and still same problems. Signal strength:Very Good and seems to be scanning all the time. Any suggestions please....
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    WiFi online status

    Samsung Galaxy S4 mini doesn't stay connected to home wifi. My wife's phone operates perfectly so so home wifi is operating fine. So I recently installed a vpn that I used for 4 months but decided to uninstall due to a few banking sites (e.g.bank of america) dont work well with vpn's. This is...
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    unfortunately

    Read hundreds of posts regarding "unfortunately Touchwiz has stopped working". It's unfortunate alright. My wife's Samsung J3, I had removed a weather and was going to replace it with another and now this I had the same problem with mine and after reading for hours by unchecking Motions and...
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    Weather Channel App question

    I have a loud ring tone for receiving sms which is perfect for my use. Recently downloaded weather channel app to find by ticking off all the do not receive notifications still when it wants to tell you something it sounds my ring tone, like 3 am.. Any suggestions, can I change the ring tone?
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    Help Sprint Connection Optimizer

    Samsung S3 mini. Every few days I use to get a message from Sprint to use this Optimizer and accidentally pressed ok a while back and now half the time it keeps disconnecting me from my home wifi, message says "Turned Off" beside my home wifi. It's really annoying, tried deleting and stopping...
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    Accessing files on an LG K20

    A non-functioning screen on a LG K20, except for a few glimmers of light it's dead. What drivers do I need to access the files that contain my old pictures etc. Plugging the phone into my pc does nothing so I must be missing something! Any suggestions will be really appreciated.
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    Need help with Notepad

    I have Fast Notepad downloaded and having problems starting a new sentence. I remember at one time I had a notepad what would respond to "down line" or something like that but I cant get this version of Notepad to start a new line. Any help please or suggestions of a different Notepad? Thanks...
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    Backed up and resetting

    Just backed up my phone and while resetting it wants to verify my google account and it's trying to phone the phone I'm resetting with the code. Any suggestions please Samsung S4 mini
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    Copying over pictures to PC

    Actually I have two questions, I seem to be missing pictures I took some time ago and wondering if there is a limit to can take before there auto deleted? Second is how do I copy over the pictures to my PC. I'm using Gallery which I think came with the phone. Any help please....
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    Help Start over

    Happened before where battery was lasting maybe 5 hours from a full charge where normally all day at normal usage for me would still be 35% at bedtime. I ran cm security together with a few other apps that it recommended and deleted all sorts of stuff, then I deleted them all and restarted and...