I ask because my S9 constantly asks me if I want to use Samsung Pass to save my logins to apps and Web sites. Every time I say yes, it requires me to access my mail and approve the new attempt to save a new password.

Thing is, after I've done that, nothing seems to have changed.

I feel like I'm missing something.

How to you use Samsung Pass, and has it actually improved your experience?

I feel like either it doesn't work, or I'm not getting some key part of why and how it works?

I'll start. I've squooshed 6 days into 5 days of work a couple of weeks ago, so my Monday through Friday work schedule is busier, now. For this week, I've squished 5 days of work into 4 in order to take off Thursday the 4th. I'm looking forward to that, but I have to say working extremely long days is brutal, but worth it once in a while.

Having said all that, for the 4th we will be going to a pool party at wife's aunt. Looking forward to it! Anyone else care to join in?

I run Boinc (scientific distributed computing) on my Android phone (version 12). A few months ago, it suddenly makes Boinc run half speed (Boinc's own reporting system). I'm running one program on each core, and each one is showing 50% usage, used to be 100%. The phone is cool. It used to be warm. So it's not overheating, and is clearly doing less work. Any ideas what might cause this? I know the OS tends to interfere if you're "overloading" the system. The phone has no problems running anything else like games. If I tell Boinc to use 4 cores out of 8, they are fully used. But I used to be able to run 8.

How to add a signature on here?

On my moto edge, I can figure out duration when I do always do the Drops app and after that, it seems so stupid to have it make the [] button on the main screen not function,
anyway how to clean it up and have it just prompt up as a funcitonal little button?

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.