Windows 10 supports Android, but I think the support is very lacking. Supposedly, if you attach your Android smartphone to the Windows Phone app, you can then run Android apps on Windows 10 using the Phone app. You would have to have the latest version of the Phone app though.…
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Apple iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad; Google Android; RIM Blackberry; Palm Pilot, HandSpring Visor
Several years ago, I purchased a used iPad 2. After I got home, I did a reset on it. When it booted up and tried to activate the iPad, it stated that the iPad was managed and asked me for a username and password as part of “Remote Management”. This…
1 CommentTwo months ago, Google Maps stopped telling me directions when navigating on my Apple iPhone 6s. I could still navigate without the voice prompts though. Two week ago, my current location would only update once per minute. I couldn’t navigate at all. Sometimes, after 5-10 minutes, the GPS location updates…
Leave a CommentUnder Windows 7, whenever I connected my iPhone, I would see a device drive appear in the File Explorer, which allowed me to manually copy photos from the iPhone to my computer. Under Windows 10, the device drive no longer appeared. I found the solution to this problem at iPhone…
1 CommentI needed to re-image a Google Nexus 5 Android GSM smartphone with its stock factory image. Because I haven’t done this in a long while, I thought I would document what I did. The instructions below should also work for the Google Pixel phone. I did the re-image using my…
Leave a CommentI purchased a used Nexus 5 recently. When I used the built-in Settings app to upgrade it to the latest Android version, it got stuck at the bootloader screen on reboot. The previous owner had rooted the Nexus with a custom bootloader which broke the stock upgrade process. Because I…
Leave a CommentRecently, my niece’s iPhone 4S died. We got her a replacement phone, but all the data on her old phone was gone. Unfortunately, even though she had a Gmail account configured, her iPhone did not sync its addresses to Google Contacts. I checked my own Google Contacts account and found…
2 CommentsI purchased a T-Mobile iPhone 5s for a great price on Craigslist. The seller seemed like a nice young man. The phone worked without any issues. Coming from a Blackberry Pearl, the iPhone was a wonderful treat. Three months later, I couldn’t make or receive phone calls or text messages.…
3 CommentsI needed to move music from my sister’s old iPod Mini to her new iPod Nano. At first, I thought I needed to install special software to do the music transfer; however, it turns out that there is a method that doesn’t require extra software. I found it in the…
Leave a CommentI finally broke down (after years of defending “real” books) and recently got a Kindle 4 Wifi. It is very convenient (I can adjust the font size and carry a lot of books on trips) and I wondered why it took me so long to get one. To help you…
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