I'm excited to say I just ordered an S23 FE to replace my S9.

I'm told Smart Switch can or will make it easy to migrate my stuff over, but I have questions:

1. An employee at the T-Mobile store told me I can pick and choose what I want migrated over. For example, if I just want my contacts copied, I can do that, right?

2. I'm kinda worried I might have some contacts stored on my S9's internal memory vs some stored on its SIM card. How do I figure this part out?

3. When it comes to apps, would I be correct in thinking Smart Switch will copy them over with their saved preference files and logins intact?

4. Does Smart Switch simply copy your apps over, or is it "smart" enough to go to the Play Store and download and install on your new phone the same apps you had on your previous phone?

5. Given how old the S9 is, and given how much old and extraneous apps can gunk up your system, my gut instinct is that it might be better to not copy any apps over, and that I should instead go to the Play Store on my own and do fresh, clean installs of every app I want to continue using. Am I correct in thinking this is a better, smarter option?

6. If I do want Smart Switch to copy apps over, does it allow me to pick and choose which ones, or would this be like Apple's Migration Assistant for Macintosh, where it's pretty much all the apps or none?

7. The lady at the T-Mobile store suggested I do this all over Bluetooth. Isn't Bluetooth hella slow, though? She did say I could use a USB cable to accomplish this if I wanted to. Would USB be better and faster?

8. And speaking of T-Mobile, while I am a T-Mobile customer, I ordered this unlocked phone on Amazon, 'cause T-Mobile doesn't sell this model with 256GB of storage. I'm planning to install the T-Mobile Visual Voice Mail app. Are there any other apps or utilities I, as a T-Mobile user, should be installing in order to get the best out of my service?

9. I've never signed up for Samsung or T-Mobile's cloud backup services, but I figure I ought to, since my whole life is on my phone. Whose cloud backup, if any, do y'all recommend?

10. Should I used Smart Switch to migrate over all my old, existing text messages? It's nice to think of not losing them, but I dunno, maybe I'm gumming up the works if I carry over years of old messages? Is it better to just get a clean start?

Thank you for your guidance!

This is getting crazy. First it was Louisiana and the Ten Commandments in schools. Now it's Oklahoma ordering the Bible to be taught in public schools. I hope we go back to the separation of Church and State through the court system, rather than letting The Christian Taliban having their way.

Oklahoma's top education official orders schools to teach the Bible

This guy keeps complaining about getting calls from fake medical stuff, plan b or whatever, and cops and police or somebody pretending, asking for money. I said I would help if I could. Is there a way to get rid of that? I used to see ads for robot killer or something that way.

Hello All,

I have a Samsung A7 tablet and will be on holiday soon. Does this tablet have data facilities? I canfind nothing. Do I need andsd card? What to do please, kindly treat me like an idiot, I'm getting old.
Best
Alan

Normally these events happen in October. Google will introduce the Pixel 9 and Pixel Watch 3 on August 13, 2024

so this is some scary shit!!!!

they want to supplant over 50,000 federal workers with their own people and it will based on your political affiliation. it also has insane plans for the border. it also plans to shut down certain departments like the Department of Education. a lot of trumps policies were based off of what the heritage foundation suggested to him.

here check this video out:

here is the actual plan:

if you have time please read it. it really scares me that this could actually be implemented should trump wins the presidency.

Julian Assange has reached a plea deal that will allow him to return to Australia as a (convicted) free man.

First class U.S. postage is currently 68 cents. It's going up to 73 cents on July 14, 2024

so the 1st debate is coming up this Thursday at 9PM ET. i just wanted to have this thread up so we can discuss it before, during and after the debate. this is the 1st of 2 debates before the elections here in the US.

are you going to watch it? anybody want to give a prediction?

I just had a notification of a OneUI update on my S22. I let it perform the update but it then wouldn't let me back into my phone without going through all the new 'stuff' that's been added. There was no way to bypass it because the Recents and Home buttons were absent. That was mildly annoying but what really infuriated me was that it wouldn't proceed further without me logging in to my Samsung account. The problem was I DIDN'T HAVE ONE!! I've never wanted one so have never set one up. It didn't provide an opportunity on the page to create one so I was locked out of my phone. I had to go into the Samsung webpage on my PC and set one up before I could get back into my phone. To add insult to injury in order to register I was compelled to enter my date of birth. I don't feel that corporations like Samsung should have the right to demand such personal information.

It was lucky I was sitting at my PC. If I'd been away from home I would have been completely locked out because there was no way to bypass the screen so no way I could access my browser to set one up.

I find this behaviour on the part of Samsung - locking me out and forcing me to create an account - totally unacceptable, not to mention unethical, and when the time comes to upgrade my phone it will not be another Samsung. Nor will I purchase any other Samsung products from now on.

LOL! I just had a reminder to fact-check everything on the net. I saw this picture of Dolly Parton without makeup and I believed it. Turns out it wasn't Dolly, but rather Nicollette Sheridan.

Does This Rare Photo Show Dolly Parton Without Signature Makeup?

Don't know if this is on my end or the forum end. I keep getting a 502 Bad Gateway message

I'm trying to get a Telegram account on this phone. I already have one but because of the crazy way they do things I have to get a code sent to another phone and type that into the one where I want it. I borrowed a friend's phone and tried to get it that way. It didn't work and sms didn't either. It also said that if I waited a little while I could ask for an actual phone call. I did that but still no luck. Is there some other way?

Major Supreme Court opinions are coming today 6/20/2024 dealing with

1. Immunity for former Presidents
2. Obstruction charges forJanuary 6 defendants
3. Emergency Abortion care
4. Gun Rights for Domestic Abusers

Hi
I use a "Dock" who the Company are claim the are only for Tablets. Everything works on my Huawei P30 Pro beside the major think... I dont get any calls?! Every call goes strait to the Mailbox even there is Reception. SMS works perfectly. I have NO CLUE what the hell is going on.
Thanks!

Google announced the June 2024 Pixel update would be available starting June 11th. People with T-Mobile and Verizon have not received the update. No reason for the delay has been confirmed, other than people saying the carriers are holding it up.

I did read a thread where a couple of people said the update killed the dark mode on the phone, even when they turned it back on.

I'm now considering buying a Samsung A25.
If I use the 256Gb internal memory, can I copy the contents of my SD card to the internal memory?
Thing like a calendar data backup, folder with mp3s, photos.
I'm hoping the phone comes with a data cable? If so, can I upload from my PC into the phone?

Has anyone who has used or owned a Samsung Z Fold used or bought a Google Pixel Fold? While I loved my Z Fold 4 and now my Z Fold 5, I think that one shortcoming of the Z Fold is the narrow folded size. Someone who uses the phone folded as mostly a phone might not agree. I mostly use my Z Folds as a mini computer. The Pixel is a bit wider folded. I have never had any experience with any Google Pixel.

Danny

Happy father's day to all the dads out there. I was blessed with four children that ultimately made my life worth living. I haven't any big plans for the holiday. I'm smoking out a rack of ribs and just hanging out. I'll probably get a bike ride in early with anticipation of seeing the kids drop by for a bit in the afternoon. Life is good. I hope that you get to spend some quality time with your children tomorrow on your special day.

Hello,

I have a 5GB monthly Internet data plan with my cellphone network provider. I never use it all: January 1608MB, February 760MB, March 750MB, April 3615MB, May 800MB.

But we're only half of June, and I just got a text message warning that I'm over 4GB 😒

In Settings, it says that 3,47GB were downloaded in the Backround.

FWIW, I use USB Tethering daily to sync a personal information manager between the phone and Windows, and always connect to my modem's wifi hotspot at home before downloading updates from Google Play.

Is there a way to investigate if there's a rogue/virus app lurking?

Thanks for any help.

I'm considering getting a flash drive & using it to manually back up my new phone(Pixel8).

I have 2 big questions.

1) Can I have multiple backups on a single flash drive or must I use another flash drive each time that I want to back up my phone?

2) Can I view the files on my Mac without any software or must I install some software in order to view the files?

Hello, experts. I don't think it matters that the smartphone I use is a Motorola — my question is a general one. I use my phone as a router when I am on the computer (it's "tethered" to my phone). I found, recently, that though I did do some downloading recently, the amount of data used for this, and shown on my phone, was far in excess of what I would have thought. After all, when I used "proper" Internet Service providers, there was one provider that allowed only 5GB of downloading before extra charges were incurred and, in the two or three years that I was with them, it was only very occasionally (about twice, in total) when I had to pay for an extra allowance, so normally, my demand was about five GB. In those days, I did much more downloading than I need to do now.

So, to discover that (supposedly), I had used over five GB in ten days, using my phone as a router, came as a shock (also, I was quite sceptical).

It was then that I began to think about turning Data Saver on, on my phone, when I was not using the computer. This was yesterday.

So, my question is: does Data Saver save a great deal of data being used needlessly? I mean, if it is only background traffic that it prevents, that cannot be much, can it? If the answer to that is "No, it can't", I shall have aa need to constantly watch how much data has been used, at the end of every day. When I took out this contract (with 3UK), I thought that my allowance of 30 GB would be far, far in excess of my needs. It would seem that it is not, even though I can't understand why.

With thanks in hopes of a helpful reply (or two, or three).
S.

it says that though the front screen will be bigger, the foldout screen will be the same size as the fold 5. how is that possible? plus i am ok with the corner, but i would still prefer the rounded edges.

and looks like it still has no s-pen slot......booooooo!!!!!!!

Hi all,

These are the specs of my old phone and as you can see it uses a "Mini-SIM" Card

I need to buy a new phone and all of the new phones use a "Nano-SIM" card.

How can I take my old SIM card to the new phone without destroying the SIM card? Is it possible for the data on the old phone's SIM card to be kept intact?

I know e-SIM cards are available but that may not be an option for me. 😢 😢 😢

Thanks for any help!!!