Genes: I watched the video and see that the two Tim 6A firmware files are in an App Installers folder. This is not how the files on my SD card are structured. These are the files on my SD card: .android_secure LOST.DIR firmware2 firmware-discovery SDFormatter setup They are all in the root of the SD card (i.e. not in a folder). As I've mentioned previously, I'm an Android novice, so I followed the directions on the Apad forum. I DL'ed SD Formatter and Tim 6A onto the PC. Then I extracted both (SD Formatter first) onto the SD card. Since your SD card now has some files on it, I suggest you use SD Formatter again and select the Full Overwrite option; this will include erasing the files currently on the card. Then DL Tim 6A from Tim's thread (link below). Further suggestions from the gurus is to have your FT battery at least 70% charged and also plug the FT into an electric circuit before beginning the update. Then with the FT turned off, insert the prepared SD card. Turn on the FT and, hopefully, you'll see the Tim 6A DL begin. It's also been mentioned to be sure you feel the SD card "click" into place. My card seems to sit deep in the slot and I use a fingernail to push it just enough to seat it properly and hear that faint "click". Here is a link that might be useful: Tim 6A link

I'm going to try Bugspop1's suggestions. I have Xfinity1 and ATT routers, so it may be perilous and require calling them again for help. Also both routers have been replaced in the past 2 weeks because of other problems: The ATT router suddenly and mysteriously stopped allowing any telephone caller ID and calling features...the technician who replaced the router said he didn't know why this happened or what caused it. ATT provides 3 mbps speed, which is (from my experience) not fast enough for Amazon video, so we use ATT mainly when Xfinity isn't working. We have just one phone connected to ATT. The Xfinity/Comcast router was replaced last week because of tv issues. I got fed up with the poor service on the last cable boxes. All channels not HD were stretched to fit the format of our HD tvs. So all the people on tv look like they weigh 500 lbs. Comcast refused for months to provide info to change this in the setup menu of the cable box. So after hours on the phone to them and several trips to their store, we now have tv that shows HD and SD in the proper formats. I also had to accept yet another phone line from Comcast, their bundle, to save money. Their internet/tv bill was $270. The new bill including phone is now supposed to be $190. The stupid downside to this is the Comcast rep said I have to call Comcast on the phone number they provide, otherwise they won't provide any support. I already have 4 phone numbers so this is very annoying to me. After the cable boxes were replaced the internet router was reset by Comcast when they set up the cable boxes. That evening I logged in to the xfinity web site and saw that some videos would play and others wouldn't. CNN wouldn't play anything at all (though accessing the site outside of the xfinity portal allows some videos to play). So I called up Xfinity support who weren't helpful at all. They actually said they don't support video playback help issues on their own site! So their support is less than adequate imho. I tried the suggestions about changing video quality...Amazon works ok in SD. In HD videos start off in very poor quality and gradually get better. I don't use amazon streaming when I'm out of town because the site only streams in HD and would quickly use up my data allowance. Windows Defender is up to date. Nvidia has automatically updated it's drivers several times since I got the MSI laptop. The MSI also did the update where it installed a new version of Win10 (It took about 17 hours). There isn't any software in common on the two laptops. I tried a system restore on the MSI. It didn't help, but it didn't hurt. I uninstalled and reinstalled Adobe flash several times. If I can get inside the router setup menus is it easy to figure out if the routers are allowing adobe flash video? I'll keep working on this....

I assume you tried rebooting phone and computer. Maybe the refurbished phone is defective. I would let apple deal with it. Google photos doesn't generate any posting codes that I can see as I use the app on my phone and I don't think imgur does either. If they do some one please explain how you do it. That's the problem most are charging now for 3rd party hosting. Photobucket has changed their prices and the cheapest I think is $4 a month now for 3rd party hosting. Try picture trail as I believe they still have free 3rd party hosting. I am using imgbb. Can't store all my photos there but it does allow me to upload one at a time and generates posting codes. Some are also using funkyimg but again can upload one at a time and not store them. Flickr was bought out by smugnug I think so imagine they will be charging for 3rd party hosting soon. Bad thing about Flickr is the app doesn't generate posting codes like the photobucket app does. I may end up getting the cheapest plan since I used to use the app on my phone a lot for posting. It was so easy and convenient and generated the codes. Mary

I have a desktop Windows-based pc, as well as an iPad and iPhone. I can transfer photos from the iPad and iPhone to my computer simply by connecting the iPad and/or iPhone to the computer with a USB cord. Well, to clarify, the end that goes into the iPad and iPhone has a Lightning connector, and the end that connects to the computer has a regular USB connector. Once the device is connected, I get a popup window on my pc saying that a new device has been detected, and asking me what I want to do. I click on the choice to explore files on the device. Then I navigate to the folders with the photos, and do the copy/paste thing (there are several different ways to do that, but you should be familiar with them). I don't do "move" because if anything hiccups (such as a power outage, etc.), I don't want to lose the photos. Once they've been copied to the desired destination, I can delete them from the iPad/iPhone. Easy peasy.