Mobile Articles
- Android App Crashing on Start? Clear the Cache An app was crashing every time I tried to launch it. Clearing the cache fixed it without having to uninstall and reinstall, or clear the (extensive) data.
- Android Browser Using Extra Space? Check Gears! Android's web browser stores several types of data: cache, history, cookies and passwords...and Gears, which might use more memory than you'd expect!
- Android Won’t Stop Vibrating Notification options are per-app and per-conversation, so if you change vibration, you need to change it on everything you've already set.
- Cloning a GitHub Repo via Mobile Firefox Even on a tablet with a big enough screen that GitHub looks like it's showing the desktop version, you might have to insist on it to get all the buttons to appear.
- Forgetting Out-of-Range WiFi Networks on a Samsung Galaxy Phone The tedious solution: Rename your own hotspot, remove it from the phone, then rename it back.
- Get Your Phone (or Tablet) a Case! You WILL drop your device. A case will make it a lot less likely for it to break. (Ask me how I know!)
- How to Change the Default Email App on Android It's not in Default Apps, so you need to clear the default preferences for your old app first.
- How to Put a Phone Extension in Your Android Contacts Use a comma for pause just long enough for the remote to pick up, or a semicolon to wait for a greeting first.
- KeePass Password Managers KeePassXC, its browser extension, and KeePass2Android are a nice, clean set of apps to manage your passwords on your OWN desktop and mobile devices, auto-fill websites and apps, and sync over your own server or cloud provider.
- Preventing Notification Overload My approach: figure out which ones are most and least important, then turn off the least and only keep sound for the most important.
- Reformat an SD Card for a New Android Device You can't reformat an encrypted SD card from an old Android device, but you can plug it into a PC and reformat it there.
- Third-Party App Stores Won’t Install on Android? Check Screen Dimmers Android won't react to an Install button if the screen image is filtered by an app like Twilight or Lux. Fortunately it's easy to turn them off temporarily.
- Using Bookmarklets on Android You can't use menus for bookmarklets, but you *can* use auto-complete.