Smart phone to the rescue
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Elmer J Fudd
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Transfering cell phone contacts to new smart phone?
Comments (6)I believe both do have bluetooth but I never learned to use it. I will check it out. owbist; I always forget about youtube. However, I didn't see anything useful in your list. Remember, I had essentially succeeded in making a sim card transfe, but the data was not complete. The one on point post from your list also indicated incomplete data fields. I actually found that my transfer was worse than I originally thought. It only transferred the contact name and lost both the fact that the next contact was identical and thus a subset, but also lost any indication of the type of phone (work, home etc) and listed ALL entries as 'mobile'....See MoreFlashlight app on your smart phone? Read this
Comments (7)Well, yes & no. See the Carnegie Mellon study below. The flashlight app in question certainly did/does cop your data, so the guy isn't completely wrong. Whether that data got sold to foreign parties, who knows. Google has strengthen their app screening recently -- because there was a need for it. And mobile malware is on the rise. It all points to being mindful of what you're downloading on your phone, checking to see what permissions the app is asking for. These looked like good tips from Hackread.com Deactivating GPS and turn it on only while traveling or facing an emergency Deactivating Near Field Communications (or iBeacon for iOS devices) forever Deactivating Bluetooth and turn it on only to make hands-free calls while driving When not in use, cover the microphone and/or webcam with tape [if you're really paranoid!] Here is a link that might be useful: Carnegie Mellon study about snooping apps...See Morekinda off topic..smart phone/router related
Comments (9)Other things that can interfere are microwave sources on the same frequency - microwave ovens and the like - although I'm sure you don't have one of those running all the time. Also, wireless signals don't like metal in the path, or anything wet, like wet lumber or trees. You didn't plant a forest in the middle of your house did you ? Other thoughts . . . Do you have any idea if the signal strength for the router has declined in general ? Like, does your tablet show the same signal strength as before ? Routers can go bad, but they'd then be bad for all connecting devices. Did you by any chance reorient your Netgear router ? Antennas have transmission patterns, meaning the signal strength will be different depending on whether you are horizontal to it, or above it, or some combination of the two. They have polarity as well, meaning your signal strength can change depending on whether your receiving antenna is parallel to the transmitting antenna, or otherwise. You have to play around with the variables sometimes to see which one is relevant. Also, is there any chance you updated your phone, and that update actually worsened it's wireless performance ? Or did you drop your phone recently, which might have damaged the antenna connection ?...See Morei need help with my smart phone
Comments (12)I don't think keeping an auto-connect on is a good choice. Leaving a smartphone's Wifi "on" when you leave the place where it was used will SIGNIFICANTLY (and needlessly) run down your battery. As you walk or drive down the street, it will attempt to connect to each signal you pass. The transceiver power gets boosted (and sucks battery power) for weak signals, so it boosts as you approach and again when you move past each signal source. It's a better practice to keep Wifi off when not in use. For Wifi broadcasts where the password is on the signal (WEP or WPA), the password will only need to be entered once. The device will remember the entry and will automatically offer it the next time it senses a previously connected-to Wifi signal. For systems where the signal is open but there's a password on the network connection (entered via a username and password on a browser page), the password usually needs to be re-entered with every session. An exception is at some hotels that use a system like this but where your unique identifier allows the system to remember your log on for a few days. In my experience, this seems to be the case about half the time and not the case about half the time....See MoreFun2BHere
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