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I have a Galaxy S7 running Android 6.01. The default clock app has an alarm clock feature and I can't figure out how to delete an alarm. The alarm display has an alarm clock icon on the left, the time in the middle, then the date, and a little "x" in the upper-right corner. Tapping any part...

The S7 Camera has lots of modes, including "Pro Mode" and "Slow Motion". But they seem to be mutually exclusive. Pro Mode gives you lots of ways of adjusting the exposure, including a +/- 2 EV slider, a manual ISO setting, and others. But nothing I do in Pro Mode seems to affect the...

I just got an S7 and I'm adding a SanDisk 2ooG micro SD card to put my music collection on - about 140G. I'm looking for an app to sync the iTunes library on my PC with music on my phone (on the SD card). All of my music is MP3's - none of it is DRM'ed. I'm assuming it will be over USB, not...

I have a Galaxy S3 phone from Verizon running Android 4.3. It's not rooted and I haven't installed any Emoji app on it. My gf likes to send text messages with emoticons from her iPhone and they display on my S3 just fine. And these are really elaborate ones, not just smiley faces. For...

Lenovo Thinkstation, Win 7 Pro. Android 4.1.2. Kies 2.5.3.13052_10 with the latest updates. USB debugging is turned OFF (I'm just trying to transfer files) When I connect the USB cable to the PC the S3 dings and the charging lightning bolt comes on but nothing happens on the PC side...

How do I clear the default browser navigation history? I'm referring to where you go when you tap the browser's "back" button. As far as i can tell, if I hit the back button enough I can go back to every website I've ever visited! Here's what I've tried: 1. (menu) Settings > Privacy and...

My phone: Verizon, Samsung Galaxy S3, Android 4.04, not rooted. When I get voicemail the little number appears on the Phone icon telling me that I have voicemail. So I dial *86, listen to my mail and delete it. If I dial *86 again it says I have no voicemail messages. But the number...

When I hold my GS3 phone up to the side of my head to talk various things on the screen get pressed and I either lose the call, put it into speaker-phone mode or end up with some other problem. OK, so I turned on the proximity detector to fix that, which it does by turning off the display when...

I just got a Samsung Galaxy S3 and I want to find out what my backup options are. On my prior Android Phone - an HTC Incredible - I used backup Assistant and was able to recover stuff like contacts and calendar when it crashed the other day. Google Market/Play was able to recover all the...

I rooted my Galaxy Tab 10.1 (Android 3.2) to get rid of all those apps that pop up when you press the up-arrow on the System Bar. My company uses these tablets for a dedicated industrial app and anything else is just a distraction. I was able to find and remove the .APK's for all the...

The dropdown in the browser navigation bar shows every site that I've been to . How do I clear it? I Menu>more>History>Clear History says my history is cleared but when I go back to my browser and tap the navigation field it's all still there - every site I've visited for days! Ditto if I...

As an experiment I set all my internet apps - backup assistant, gmail, people, calendar, news, weather, amazon, stocks, facebook, etc, etc, ETC, to not automatically update, sync, refresh or do anything on the internet without my say-so. I then turned off my phone, put a full charge on it and...

I'm early in the 30 day evaluation period for my Droid Incredible and tonight I was looking for a way to take notes - a text editor. Even my ancient LG8300 dumb-phone has one but I couldn't find one on the Incredible. Is there one? If not, what's a good free or cheap one? I'd settle for...

Most of the documentation I've seen says that wallpaper images for the Incredible should be 960 (w) x 800 (h). So I made some wallpaper images that were all exactly 960 x 800 and loaded them onto the phone. But when I went to Personalize -> Home Wallpaper and selected any of them from the...

I just bought a Droid Incredible and it includes all sorts of junk apps, like Teeter. They clutter up my app page when I'm looking for ones I care about. When I try to uninstall them the Uninstall is grayed-out. I'm just trying to cut down on the visual clutter of wading through zillions of...