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Saturday, December 3, 2022

Google Messaging Problems On Your Android Device?

It seems like messaging has a lot of issues. Here are some ideas to make it less of a problem. Also if you know someone who has problems receiving your messages send them to this article.

SMS = Short Message/Messaging Service, commonly abbreviated as SMS ~ Wikipedia
MMS = Multimedia Messaging Service ~ Wikipedia

Here is a great article for changing settings on your Android device. Click Here

MMS can have problems mostly due to WIFI carriers not supporting it. Here is an article on what to do to fix MMS problems. Click Here

Still having problems? Sometimes using Facebook's Messenger instead of Google's Messages will work better. Not a Facebook member? Try the WhatsApp messaging app.

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Friday, June 17, 2022

Wireless Charging and a Warning!

 I'm not going to reinvent the wheel here. This is a link to about as good a description as your going to find of the circuits and electronics function of wireless charging. >> Click Here <<

What I do want to share here is a warning. Wireless charging is done using a process called induction. Two coils close together. One sending out waves that the other coil takes and converts into energy inside your device.

Induction is a word familiar to the electronics world (Technicians, Engineers, Scientists). It's used a lot in circuits transferring signals and energy.

You may be more familiar with the term involved with a way to cook. Induction can heat certain metals very quickly. You've probably seen the ads promoting that the cooking surface doesn't get hot itself but can rapidly get your pan to cooking temperature.

I recently discovered this same heating effect on my phone case. My case has a metal ring with iron in it to attach the phone to a magnet on my cars dash. Iron really responds to induction. So when I picked up my phone from the charger I noticed it was really hot. Luckily no harm was done to my phone or the case. Still I considered the amount of heat  a threat to the case, the phone, and the charger. If you are not sure just check after 10 seconds on the charger. Remember induction works fast. Just feel the phone or case. You will be able to tell. You might prefer to plug in your phone.

I hope this saves someone from damaging their devices.



Sunday, April 10, 2022

Find Your Phone - Control or Erase It

 If you can't find your phone goto  https://www.google.com/android/find

From there you can locate it. Stolen? Secure it and it is locked but still locatable. Get the police to go get it. Can't get it? Erase it so no one can access your info or data. I hope you never need it but if you do here it is.