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    KNOX, Sandbox and Excessive Permissions

    There seems to a general creep of permissions with several apps now requiring permissions that clearly have nothing to do with their core function. It occurred to me that one solution may to be run such applications in a sandbox such that they don't have access to the data on the rest of the...
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    Lollipop, Launcher and S-Planner Widget

    So, I have upgraded my GN3 to Lollipop. On previous releases I found the "TouchWiz Home" launcher makes poor use of screen space with big gaps between things such that I could get no more on the screen of this large phone than on smaller ones so I installed Nova. Nothing seems to have changed...
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    Help Unresponsive buttons

    In the last couple of days I have had several instances of the buttons on my new Galaxy Note 3 being unresponsive. This is the hardware buttons. The first thing I usually notice is that clicking the "Home" button does not switch from the current App back to the home screen. At that point...
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    Help Size of Twitter Widget

    On my older Galaxy Nexus I have a twitter Widget in a 4x1 size as shown here: The insurance replacement for a second Galaxy Nexus arrived today and, after going through the various upgrades I tried to get my screens back to the same state and I can't get a twitter widget to go that small. In...
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    Children, Tablets and Parental Control

    Every since we got a couple of Nexus 7 tablets our young children have shown a keen interest in them from practising phonics for reading, doodling on a couple of paint programs to watching "In the Night Garden" on YouTube. Unfortunately they also seem to stumble into Google Play and Gmail...
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    Help Phone says update available, PC Companion says not

    My Xperia X10 phone says that an update is available and refers me to Sony Ericsson - Sony Ericsson which says Android 2.3 is available and to use PC companion to install it. If I run PC companion and attach the phone it recognises the phone but going into the tool to update the phone it...
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    Help Contacts - Google, Facebook, Messages and Pictures

    I am having an interesting time with contacts at the moment. Yesterday I tried calling my g/f and the network would not accept the call. On further inspection I noticed the number being dialed started 44796 which calling from the UK is not valid. It could be dialed as either +44796...
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    Accessories Car holder

    Has anyone found a decent car holder for the Desire-Z? I have one for the Hero which attaches to the windscreen with a sucker and has a goose neck to a custom clip which the Hero fits into and therefore allows me to use the Hero as a car satnav. I can't see anything similar for the Desire-Z...
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