Recent content by smudgeyjoe

Yes, before I say anything, how stupid could I be? The answer is: Infinitally! Well, cutting edge leaper that I am, I excitedly upgraded to Gingerbread the same day it came out. I then suffered from all the standard Gingerbread issues, most notably, the interminably constant loading screens...

I am a 63 year old technologically diverse retired old guy. I cut my PC teeth on Windows 3.1 and spent years teaching in a poor school district with even poorer PC's. Last year I got an iPad, then an iMac, then iPad 2. Natural progression would lead me to an iPhone, but I have never been...

I just wanted to check in and see what the latest is. My Shift was getting worse and worse, and more bizarre. Out of the blue, it would go into Airplane mode, or turn off my Bluetooth, in addition to all the other problems. I purchased my phone from Best Buy, and have the Black Tie service. I...

Gingerbread bricked my phone, but fortunately, Best Buy Black Tie gave me a newly refurbished Shift Pre-Gingerbread. That's great, but I have a serious app issue. I had 50 plus apps on my phone before it bit the dust. When it bit the dust, I lost the G-Mail account those apps were related to...

As many have also experienced, I have had a terrible time with Gingerbread. I went to the Sprint Repair Center by my house, and they told me to save my contacts to my SD card and reset my Shift to Factory settings. Ignoring the Gingerbread issue, my reset did something bad for me that I hope...

I just purchased a Kenwood DDX418 unit for my car, replacing the Parrot mKi9200 I used to use. The Parrot had wonderful voice recognition software, almost never missed, but many other faults, so I scuttled it and got this Kenwood unit to interface with my EVO Shift. The Kenwood's VRS was...

Is the default calendar on my EVO Shift the Google calendar? What I am trying to find is a good Android To Do List software that interfaces with a calendar. I have the Check Mark Pro To Do List software on my phone, and they have a compatible calendar program, but when I went to the...

I appreciate very much the way my calendar interfaces with social links like Facebook, but I would like to know if it is possible to make those tabs in the right hand corner of days different colors so I can easily differentiate between Facebook birthdays and other things. Right now, everything...

I have the Shift and love it. One of the reasons I got it was to use it as a mobile hot spot for my iPad. I am a newbie in "rooting" and want some advice. Should I try one of those semi-permanent fixes I have read about here or wait until Unrevoked has a version out for the Shift? I...

I am a retired teacher without much of a life. Excitement for me has been getting the most out of my iMac and my iPad. I am excited when I look on apps and see there is an update. I am only a week old in the Android universe and I want my phone to be as cool and fun as I can make it. I would...

When I got the phone, I was really looking for it to be a mobile hot spot for my iPad. That's why I got the Shift instead of it's Daddy. That being said, just two days with it has been enough to see it is wonderful in it's own right. One of the employees at the Sprint store at my mall told me...

Is it possible to remove apps that came installed on the phone but are ones I probably will never use? Also, I was going to download Pandora, but it warned me about data use and I stopped. I have the Sprint 130$ All everything plan. Is that still an issue? Should I steer clear of Pandora?

I just got my phone yesterday, so I am a newbie of newbies. I know that personalization is one of the cool things about the EVO\EVO Shift. Can anyone tell me if there are tutorials, YouTube videos, or even books about personalizing and adequately utilizing the assets of my EVO?

I just wanted to let prospective buyers know about a new program that Best Buy is offering. Because technology is changing so rapidly, BB is assuming that there are prospective buyers just sitting still not knowing what to do. I bought my EVO Shift from BB for $149.00. The Buy Back Plan for...