Showing posts with label Cell Phones. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cell Phones. Show all posts
Saturday, October 25, 2014
How to Program a Verizon Cell Phone or Update Roaming on a Verizon Cell Phone
Verizon Wireless is a national cellular phone provider. If you've recently purchased a new Verizon cell phone, you must activate or program the phone before it will work. If you already have a working cell phone, you should update the roaming capabilities of the phone each month to prevent accidental roaming overage charges. You can perform both of these tasks directly from the phone itself by dialing a special number then specifying whether you wish to program or update the phone. Have a question? Get an answer from online tech support now!
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Instructions
- 1Power on your phone. This procedure is different for each phone, but must phones power on when press the "End" button and hold it down for approximately three seconds.
- 2Dial "*228" on the keypad and press "Send," "Dial" or "Call." Listen for a voice recording.
- 3Press the "1" key on your phone to program or activate your phone. If you wish to update roaming capabilities on your phone, skip this step.
- 4Press the "2" key on your phone to update the roaming capability of your phone. If you wish to program or activate your phone, skip this step.
- 5Wait while Verizon activates or updates your phone. Press "OK" if prompted to do so. The phone automatically restar once the process is finished. Note that this can take several minutes to complete.
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Tuesday, October 7, 2014
How to permanently delete unwanted apps: free up space on your device by getting rid of unnecessary apps
How to get rid of stubborn apps that just won't go away
By Adam Shepherd | PC Advisor | 07 October 14
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We’ve all got apps that we’d like to get rid of; whenever we get a new smartphone or tablet, the temptation is always to head straight to the Google Play or App store and download everything in sight, like a kid in a digital candy shop. However, more often than not this leaves us with piles of apps that we’re bored with after five minutes and that can often be difficult to shift from your accounts. So, if you’re having trouble ditching that stubborn Flappy Bird clone, here’s our guide on how to delete unnecessary apps for good.
How to permanently delete unwanted apps on Android
First, go into your device settings. Then, find and open the apps section. By default, it should open onto a list of your downloaded apps. We’d advise staying in this tab in order to minimise the risk of accidentally deleting a crucial system process.
Next, scroll down the list of apps until you find the one you’d like to remove. Tap to open it, select the uninstall button at the top of the page and confirm the deletion. This will remove the app from your phone or tablet.
Even if you delete an app from one device, the Google Play store will still retain it on your list of downloaded apps, should you wish to reacquire it. To delete this record as well, navigate to the Google Play store, open the navigation tab in the top-left hand corner, select the ‘My apps’ option, and swipe left to move from the list of just apps installed on that device to the ‘all’ tab.
This will take you to a master list of all your downloaded apps, where you can simply find the app you wish to delete and click on the cross in the right-hand corner to erase it from the list.
How to permanently delete unwanted apps on iOS
Removing apps from your Apple device is simple: just long-press on the app’s icon until it starts jiggling around, and a little cross appears at the corner. Tap the cross, confirm the deletion, and the app goes bye-bye. Press the home button to restore your app icons to normal, non-jiggly functionality.
Note that this will only work with apps downloaded from the App Store, and not for Apple’s pre-installed software like Newsstand or Safari.
If you sync your device to a Mac or PC on a regular basis, you’ll also have to remove these apps from your iTunes library in order to prevent the deleted apps re-downloading whenever you sync. In order to do this, open iTunes on your Mac or PC and go to the apps section of your library. Find the app you deleted from your device, right-click it, and select delete.
iTunes will, however, still remember that you’ve purchased them, and list them in the 'Purchased’ section of your account. Removing them permanently is less than easy – in fact, it’s currently impossible. If you’re worried about friends or family uncovering embarrassing app downloads, the best solution is the relatively low-tech option of simply signing out of your iTunes account before handing over your device.
Thursday, October 2, 2014
How to use Google Now: get the most out of Google Now cards and commands
Here's our complete guide on everything Google Now on Android and iOS
By Chris Martin | PC Advisor | 01 October 14
Google Now is a feature you might not know you already have on your smartphone or tablet, or even have access to. It's a really handy source of information so here's where we show you how to use Google Now and what it can do.
What is Google Now?
Google Now is a service which provides you with information. By getting to know you and using other information like your location, it will serve up data which it thinks you'll want. The general idea is that it will display things which you are going to search for, therefore saving you the hassle of actually conducting said search.
As Google puts it, "See helpful cards with information that you need throughout your day, before you even ask."
Information is displayed in cards so you will likely see a card for a weather forecast and this might show information for different locations like home and work. The more you use Google Now, the more it can help you out with everything from sports scores, stocks and shares, suggested articles, flight information and more.
The service will also provide notifications: for example, it might tell you of a delay to you daily commute or remind you that you need to leave the office if you're going to arrive on time for a meeting. We'll explain how to get the most out of Google Now below.
What devices can I use Google Now on?
Although Google Now is primarily an Android feature for both smartphones and tablets, the firm has made is available for iOS, too. In the same way in which you can get apps like Google Maps and Gmail for Apple products, Google Now is on the App Store for iPhones and iPads running iOS 7 or later.
On Android, you'll need a smartphone or tablet running Android 4.1 Jelly Bean or later for Google Now to work.
How to open and access Google Now
Google Now is part of the Google Search app which is likely to be installed on your Android device already. However, Google Now won't start showing you cards unless you opt into the service. To do this, tap on the Google search bar which is probably already on your homescreen and follow the instructions.
Once you've opted in, you can open Google Now by swiping upwards from the bottom of the screen and selecting the Google options (some phones have other items in this hidden menu).
Alternatively, you can install the Google Now launcher which is essentially the user interface from the Nexus 5 which puts the service one swipe away from the main homescreen. On iOS you're only option is to simply open the app.
What can Google Now show?
We've already talked about some of the cards which Google Now can show so let's take an in-depth look at everything which is currently on offer. We say currently as Google occasionally adds functionality.
Google splits the available cards into three categories: Daily management, Stay connected and Location. We'll look at all three below.
Daily management
This section makes up core of Google Now and accounts for a large majority of the cards that it will show – although some require access to Gmail, calendar, Google+, web history or location (or a combination) to work.
The most common card is weather which will show you the forecast for current location and work or home depending on where you are. Other core cards include traffic and events.
Here's a full list of the daily management cards which might pop up: Activity summary, next appointment, weather, traffic, flights, hotels, restaurant reservations, events, packages, friend's birthday and your birthday.
Stay connected
This section is about keeping you informed of the things you're interested in and includes sports, shares and research topics (pretty much anything you google). In the settings you can choose which ones you want to see and which teams you follow. If you don't want Google Now to spoil the score then make sure you adjust the settings for the sports cards.
Location-based cards
As we mentioned earlier Google Now can provide you with information specific to where you are. If you switch location services on then you'll get cards detailing places (bars, restaurants etc), nearby attractions and nearby photo spots.
If you're abroad, it will also show you cards for translation, currency and the time back home.
How to use Google Now: Interaction, customisation and voice commands
We already explained how to open and access Google Now. So once you've open it, a vertical list of cards will be displayed which you can scroll though – pull down to refresh the list. Any card which you're done with can be removed by swiping it to either side.
All cards have three dots in the top right corner which you can click to inform Google Now if that card type or subject area is interesting to you. At the very bottom is also three dots which will take you to the main settings menu for Google Now.
However, tap the magic wand icon at the bottom to customise things like your important places, sports teams, stocks and other things. The remaining hand icon on the left is for reminders.
Google Now voice commands
As well as simply viewing the cards, customising them and swiping them away, you can interact with Google Now by voice. There's a search bar at the top which you can type in or hit the microphone icon to start a voice command.
Once you've activated a voice search, you can ask Google anything you like and you'll be given a list of search results in card form. Where appropriate and possible, you'll be shown an information card at the very top.
As well as regular web searches, you can use Google Now as an assistant a bit like Siri on the iPhone. You can ask it to do all kinds of things, most of which you probably didn't know about. Below is a list of things you can say:
• Open (eg. pcadvisor.co.uk, BBC iPlayer app)
• Take a picture/photo
• Record a video
• Set an alarm for…
• Set a timer for…
• Remind me to… (includes times and locations)
• Make a note
• Create a calendar event
• What is my schedule for tomorrow?
• Where's my package?
• Find…
• Call…
• Text…
• Send email to…
• Post to…
• Where is the nearest…?
• Navigate to…
• Directions to…
• Where is…?
• Show me my flight info
• Where's my hotel?
• What are some attractions around here?
• How do you say [hello] in [Japanese]?
• What is [100 pounts] in [dollars]?
• What's the flight status of…?
• Play some music (opens "I'm feeling lucky" radio station in Google Play Music)
• Next Song / Pause Song
• Play/watch/read… (content must be in Google Play library)
• What's this song?
• Do a barrel roll
• Beam me up Scotty (audio response)
• Make me a sandwich (audio response)
• Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right (audio response)
• Who are you? (audio response)
• When am I? (audio response)
• Take a picture/photo
• Record a video
• Set an alarm for…
• Set a timer for…
• Remind me to… (includes times and locations)
• Make a note
• Create a calendar event
• What is my schedule for tomorrow?
• Where's my package?
• Find…
• Call…
• Text…
• Send email to…
• Post to…
• Where is the nearest…?
• Navigate to…
• Directions to…
• Where is…?
• Show me my flight info
• Where's my hotel?
• What are some attractions around here?
• How do you say [hello] in [Japanese]?
• What is [100 pounts] in [dollars]?
• What's the flight status of…?
• Play some music (opens "I'm feeling lucky" radio station in Google Play Music)
• Next Song / Pause Song
• Play/watch/read… (content must be in Google Play library)
• What's this song?
• Do a barrel roll
• Beam me up Scotty (audio response)
• Make me a sandwich (audio response)
• Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right (audio response)
• Who are you? (audio response)
• When am I? (audio response)
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