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    Help Screen Mirroring to car stereo

    Just got a new Kenwood car stereo with all the bells and whistles. It can accept screen mirroring from smartphones using an MHL connection. Unfortunately I was unaware that Samsung stopped supporting MHL on the S6 and S7. So now I bought a top of the line stereo so I could display phone apps on...
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    Help Gameservice needs update

    Two days ago a notification appeared that Gameservice is updated. If I tap it it opens the Galaxy App store and can't connect to network. I don't play games, did nothing to have caused thus and it reappears after every reboot. Any ideas what this is about?
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    GPS accuracy of 3G version?

    Anyone try to use this as a running device? I've recorded numerous runs, walks, hikes. bike rides and the distances are always all over the map. Distances are short by 1 mile over 7, long by 4 over 12, horrible in the woods, better on the road. I tried all three gps settings. They clearly sell...
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    Help Always On brightness changing

    I like the click on the Always On display but the brightness and location of the clock keeps changing. My eyes keep going to the phone thinking some notification has occurred. Any way to keep the brightness dim and clock in one place?
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    Help SD Card - For transferring photos and media...

    Any way to permanently get rid of this notification after every reboot?
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    Help App drawer autosort?

    My S5 autosorted the app drawer alphabetically when installing a new app. The S7 seems to make me pres the A-Z then Save...every time. Am I missing a setting to make it auto sort?
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    Help Music x-fer stalls

    Connected my S5 to my PC via USB3 cable. I open two windows to drag/drop music the the ext SD card. One artists folder is created and zero songs get transferred. I turned USB3 on with no difference. I ended up yanking the SD card and putting it in my PC's card reader. Obviously this worked...
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    Help Voice to Text not working

    Running the Google Keyboard and Textra sms app. The mic button is there but when I touch it it vibrates like any other key press but the recording screen does not appear. The voice record button does work but I want voice-to-text.
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    Help MDNS battery usage

    Never saw this before but all the sudden today I have a service using the most battery % by the name of MDNSD. I've Googled the heck out of it and can't determine what this is for. Anyone else see this or know what it is?
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    Help Vibration turns on LED light

    In the Led Light app settings I unchecked Vibration yet the dang thing continues to turn on with any serious shake of the phone. How do I actually turn this function OFF?
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    Help Verizon 900V firmware OE1 now available OTA

    Installed without issue.
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    Help SMS lock screen preview to unlock screen?

    I use Chomp as my texting app. I have it set to pop up a reply window on the lock screen. When I get a message and I tap on the notification I would like it to unlock the lock screen so I can reply to the message. But instead after I tap the notification I still have to swipe the to unlock the...
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    Help Airplane mode at night?

    I think I've read that 4.3 disabled this ability but I'll ask the experts here. Any way to automatically turn on Airplane mode at night?
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    Help Reboot caused "apps updating"

    Every couple days I reboot my phone for general cleanup. Today upon reboot a black screen with a white window said something like "apps updating" like it does after an OS update. It counted up to the number of apps I have installed then simply completed booting. I'm on Verizon and it updated...
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    Help Lollipop auto-brightness less pleasing

    Verizon S5 updated to Lollipop yesterday. So far I like it, or don't mind most of it. One thing I really do not like is the functionality of auto-brightness. On KitKat I really liked how well it worked. It always seemed to be at the perfect brightness. Now on Lollipop it is always way too...
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