Recent content by johnb41

I updated the Google Voice app the other day, and now the app is totally broken. I open the app, and it asks to "set me up". I do the steps, I choose my email from a choice. So good so far. Then it says it has to "verify my phone number" by sending me a text. When it tries, I get this...

I'm curious... once the Note 2 comes out on AT&T, will someone be able to make a ROM from it for use on the Note 1?

The internal phone memory really isn't that much, and I often get close to running out of space. The 2gb internal fills up super quick, so I "move to SD" which actually isn't an SD, but is the rest of the internal storage space. How confusing is that?! Anyway, I have an actual 16gb external...

Note: I'm running CM10 nightly, I'm not sure if I had this issue before getting this. See this image... it says my 10GB partition is running low (729mb) yet if you add up all the bits taking up space there should be much more. Also the bar graph shows I should have about 70% available...

I was a bit surprised today about how good the call quality is on the Note. I'm talking about the richness of the sound for the call. After using the Note for calls for months, this morning I had to answer my wife's iPhone 4, and I was shocked at how "tinny" it sounded. It sounded like a cheap...

It's ridiculous that iPhone users all get their updates as soon as it's available, while Android users "may" get an update many months after it's released. We all know that frustration... ... I know it must be a lot of work for, say, AT&T to roll out updates for all their many Android phones...

I'm on the AT&T version of the note, so it's not yet available for me. But I'm curious to those international users who finally have ICS... is it any good? Does it speed up the note, and/or make it smoother and snappier? Is it a worthy upgrade from Gingerbread?

I was a loyal GoLauncher PRO user for a long time, and then for fun decided to use Launcher 7 for about a month. Then i was having phone problems, so I did a factory reset. When building back up the phone, I decided to go back to my old flame... GoLauncher PRO. In the month or so since I've...

I did a factory reset last night, and now am trying to restore my phone's apps. What's the best way to do this? All the apps are listed in my account on Google Play. So right now i'm just going through all the apps and clicking "download" one by one. It's very time consuming. Is there a better way?

I was having an issue with my phone, so I decided to to a factory reset. I was concerned that all my settings, and progress in all games would be lost since i'm not rooted and don't have/use Titanium Backup. But I notice a setting in Settings -> Privacy -> Automatic Restore. The description for...

I was listening to the This Week in Tech (TWiT) podcast, and one of the panelists of the show says he knows why iOS always feels silky smooth when swiping through homescreens, menus, etc. And it's a really simple reason: in iOS you're actually swiping through full screen "images" of icons. So...

I've never used Google Calendar before, but now I'm going to start using it to keep more organized. But I can't find the Google Calendar "app" on this phone. It's not in the "all apps" screen. I can do a general phone search, and it shows up as "Calendar" and I can access it that way. But how...

Does anyone have a problem with the Dolphin broswer, where if you launch the browser, and if there is already a tab open on a web page, the browser will crash and force close? It's really annoying. It did this for me on my previous phone also. I really want to keep using this browser, but it's...

I like the stock camera on the Note, but I'm looking for something with more bells and whistles. There are many apps out there, but so far they are missing a REQUIREMENT: manual focus (tap on area of focus) So basically, I'm looking for a camera app that has manual focus, plus some other great...

Having owned an iPhone in the past, and even still owning an iPad v1, I find a big difference is the "smoothness" of the operating system of IOS vs Android. Like flicking around a web page, or scrolling up and down in a long menu screen. Just really a minor complaint because still I prefer...