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"I have an Anker 13000 battery pack charger. It charges my Galaxy S5 fine but when I plug it into my Tab S it will not charge the tablet. I swapped the cable I use with the S5 for the cable I use to charge the tablet from the wall charger, but still no charging? I then tried various...

I have an Anker 13000 battery pack charger. It charges my Galaxy S5 fine but when I plug it into my Tab S it will not charge the tablet. I swapped the cable I use with the S5 for the cable I use to charge the tablet from the wall charger, but still no charging? I then tried various combinations...

On my friends Note 10.1, O S 4.1.2, the stock browser seems to be tbe default. I cannot find this browser in Application Manager. So how can I can force it to close so that I can use Chrome ad the default browser?

On my S5, 6.01, I have used for some time its "Memo" app. Very simple and ideal for my needs. I like to use the same app, where possible, across devices. However my Tab S, 6.01, does not have that app and I cannot find it in Play Store. Can anyone please tell me where I can find the app; I...

Now my Tab S is updated to Marshmellow 6.01 I am having trouble with bluetooth. Before i.e. Lollipop, I could BT to my S5 phone. When I try now I get messages on both devices saying is passkey correct? The only option on both machines is cancel or ok; no way to enter a passkey. Although both...

I have taken a short 4G, at least it seems to be that quality, video on my S5 and now want to grab a high quality frame for it. Any advice please on how to get such an image?

My wife has a J5 phone and uses her gmail account to run it. However I keep our contacts list under my gmail account? Can we put my gmail account on her phone only to keep the contacts in sync between us; texts, emails, chrome favourites and other data must be running off her gmail account.

My tablet has some problems mainly with Chrome browser running slowly or not even showing the web page I request - the downing circle stops but the page is blank, a re-request brings the data down. I wonder if memory shortage is the problem? In investigating I notice that I have a large Misc...

Not found this vunerabiilty:- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37005226 But phone is an S5; from 02 (UK). However Quadrooter Scanner found these:- CVE-206-2059 CVE-206-2504 CVE-206-2503 CVE-206-5340 Should I get patches? Phone is now 6.0.1 and G9000FXX1CPC5

My wife has a monthly 300mb mobile contract. I want to set the data usage limit to 290mb however the J5 will only allow setting down to 2gb. How do I set the data limit to the required amount?

I have another problem " S5 mp4 jerky in Win 10General" But I now need to see the MP4 on my S5 but My Files and my Win PC cannot see the mp4 in Storage/card/DCIM/Camera Gallery can? jpg in same folder show file. Any advice please?

I had to record a few short videos on my Marshmellow S5. I don't shoot videos; I did these to video some friends dog training. I just pressed thd video button on the S5 camera and got a series of vidoes. Later I transferred these to a Dell Win. 10 laptop. The videos run smoothly on my S5 but...

I now have a spare Tab 2 10.1 and would like to connect it to a camera to streaming only i.e. only show current view no recording (this will be used on a hidden track area of my model railway to check track occupation) What camera (?USB) would work and what software. Physically the tablet will...

I have the following notification on my S5 G900F Lollipop:- see attached I cannot find this exact brush icon in Play Store and note 156.31 MB Junks found! Junks???

I keep getting a popup asking to sync Gallery with Picassa. I do not want to use Picassa. How do I stop this popup request? OS 5.0.2