Recent content by oldtimer114

Several of our customers and contacts insist on using Facebook as their primary communications path. But I do not want to "pollute" any of my daily use devices by allowing Facebook access. Personally I hold Facebook, along with Microsoft & Alphabet/Google to be the great evils in the cyberworld...

I had to actually call Motorola and speak to a live person. But she confirmed that this phone is not locked to Consumer Cellular, or anyone else. I thought I had purchased it separately but was not sure. She said I can simply put anyone's sim card in and it will work. I don't really care if it...

I just found a phone I thought I had lost a few years ago. It's a Motorola Moto G8 Power (2021) with Android 11 installed. I believe I bought it unlocked but I used it on Consumer Cellular with their sim card. When I lost it 3+ years ago, I replaced it with a flip phone and then quit C. Cellular...

I'm afraid you have run into the Win 11 wall. Microsoft has been warning everyone that a lot of older equipment would not run Win 11. I think your machine qualifies. However, all is not lost. There is a free and reasonable easy fix. Try switching operating systems. I think you will find Linux...

That's because they are a disease. Just like smartphones. Anything that replaces your ability to perform a function, any function, that you capable of doing yourself reduces you by that much. Pretty soon you completely lose the ability to do that. And then whatever that tool was that you were...

All of the audio notifications are off. Which doesn't seem to affect the call ring tone or the incoming text msg ding. Matter of fact this bizarre spurious ding sounds exactly like the ding I get when I get a text massage. But there's no new message.

No. there is no pattern that I can figure out. It's just a single, loud ding. The same ding that it makes when I get a new text. But in this case there's no text. It happens very irregularly. Might go a month without it happening. Then it happens 3 times in one week. Although it does happen...

I have a Moto G Power 5G running T-Mobile's version of Android 15. And occasionally it puts out a single loud Ding for no apparent reason. No new calls or texts. No software updates. I have alerts turned off. Battery has plenty of charge. I don't have a Google account and have never signed up...

Funny thing. My Roku box came with 2 remotes. One with the voice function and 1 without. The one with voice died about a month after installing. I didn't use that function anyway. But the remote without voice has been great. It would even turn on my new TV. Although there was no OFF function on...

Well the whole issue is mote now as my trusty old Emerson decided to die on me. A friend gave me a 2 year old, 43 inch, 1080P, Hisense Roku Smart TV. I do not have it connected to my home wireless network. Rather I have it hooked to my rooftop antenna and to a Roku box via the HDMI port. I turn...

I would like to get a larger screen TV. I'm been using an old Emerson 32 inch 1st Gen flat screen for over 15 years now. I would really like to get a larger screen. But I do not want a Smart TV. I'm a privacy and security freak and although I have been told you can turn off the two way...

I would have thought the repacking & NexGen changes would have already been implemented by now as they have been in place for a number of years. Or does part of the NextGen rollout require constant changes forever? In researching this further, I find the several of the TV stations in my area...

My TV systems are pretty basic. My 1st gen flat screen Emerson TV (made before Smart TV's were available) is hooked to a digital antenna on the roof and to a Roku box. I watch only the free Roku programing. I don't have any premium TV services at all. But one thing has bothered me since the...

I'm new to the forum but have been a Tomsguide reader for quite some time. I am new to smartphones. But I've been doing computers and networking since WAY before the Internet. Back when most computer terminals were teletype machines. And I am a major digital security freak. Almost all of my...