Recent content by Thana Niveau

I'm still tinkering with all the settings of my new phone and there's one thing I can't seem to figure out. I like text messages to pop up, but not email. Ideally, I'd like Gmail notifications to appear in the status bar at the top, but not pop up on the home screen. (I had already ticked "hide...

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but no amount of online searching has yielded a workable answer. I just upgraded to a Samsung Galaxy S6 and I'm trying to transfer contacts/music/etc from my old HTC Desire 610. I've tried using the Android file transfer programme but it says I have to...

I asked this question on the MacRumours forum and no one could help, so I thought I'd try here. I just upgraded my iMac to OS X El Capitan and the new "Photos" app launches every time you plug in a new device (camera, phone, etc.). When it launches, there's usually a little area at the top of...

Every time I plug my phone in to charge on my computer (Mac), I get the popup for HTC Sync Manager. I use AirDroid for all things sync so I'd like to disable this annoying nag box (and the need to eject the phone from the Mac before unplugging it). I was able to do it with my previous phone...

(It's OK - I found the solution to my issue on another forum. Thanks anyway.) Even if I am, maybe someone with a similar model can help me. I downloaded some notification sounds from Zedge. They show up in my phone's list under "Notification Sound" along with all the other HTC ones. I can...

I've googled this problem and seen that loads of other people seem to have it too - across many different phones. The device in question is an Xperia J. After choosing both a ringtone and notification alert from the ones already in the phone (ie, not custom MP3s), it works and plays both the...

Sorry if this is a dumb question. I've got my phone set up to alert me with a sound ONLY if someone sends me a text (I've also got SMS Pop-Up installed). But last night and this morning both Dropbox and an HTC Sense update bleeped with news. If I go into SETTINGS --> APPS and tick "turn off...

Yesterday my phone worked normally and suddenly this morning I'm getting a funny little notification sound every hour or so. I have my notification sounds set to alert me ONLY if I get a text and this sound isn't my text alert (sci-fi). It's a flutey little quick two-note low-high sound that I...

I was trying to delete all the random synced rubbish from Gmail and Facebook that made its way onto my phone. I succeeded and then did a manual input of the handful of contacts I want in my phone's phonebook (ie, those people I'll actually ring or text). But now when I go to Gmail on my home...

On my old feature phone, if the phone had timed out and someone texted me, the phone would wake up with my message alert tone and a pop-up screen of the person texting me. (It would go back to sleep after 5 seconds or so if I ignored it.) Is there a way of tailoring notifications on the HTC...

OK, so I went crazy in the Google Play store (as we all do when we're playing with our very first smartphone!) :D and I downloaded a few live wallpapers. I shoved them in the "favourites" folder (F) until it got full so I made a new folder for wallpapers (W). I moved the newest shortcuts (that...