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I received three emails yesterday from folks wanting to know how to reset their LG G4 smart phones back to their factory default settings.
I don’t know yet whether there is something going on with the G4, but I thought I should write a post explaining how to reset it just in case. All you have to do is follow the steps detailed below. [Read more…]
Do you make frequent calls to someone at a business where you have to enter an extension number in order to reach that person? If so, you can easily append the extension right to the end of the number so you won’t have to enter it every time you call.
I’ll explain how to do that, but first we need to discuss two common ways that switchboards handle calls to extensions:
1 – Most switchboards will answer your call and give you a list of menu options. If you know the extension number of the person you wish to speak with, you can dial it at any time without waiting for the message/menu to finish “talking”.
2 – Other switchboards require you to listen to the entire recorded message/menu before entering the extension number.
With that preliminary discussion out of the way, here’s how to append an extension number directly to the end of a telephone number on your smart phone: [Read more…]
Sprint, Verizon and the other major cellular service providers are trying their best to move all of their customers from unlimited data plans to metered plans, and it probably won’t be too long before we are all lose our unlimited deals.
If you’re one of the millions of cellular customers who are already on a metered plan, you know how important it is to carefully watch your data usage in order to avoid expensive overages at the end of every month.
Luckily, there is an outstanding app that makes the task of monitoring your data usage very easy. [Read more…]
If you’re one of the millions of iPhone owners who have already installed iOS 9, chances are you are pretty happy with it. But there’s something you might not be aware of…
If you tend to use Wi-Fi a lot because you have a limited data plan, you could be in for a major shock when your next cellular phone bill arrives.
By default, a new iOS 9 feature called “Wi-Fi Assist” automatically switches your phone from Wi-Fi to your carrier’s 4G network whenever it detects a weak Wi-Fi signal. [Read more…]
Do you have an Apple device that’s running iOS 9? If so, Apple has just released a new update that you really need to install.
iOS 9.0.1 isn’t categorized as a critical update, but I believe it’s an important one because it fixes a number of bugs that cause various features and apps on your device(s) to behave in strange ways.
This update also fixes a bug that prevented some users from even being able to update their devices to iOS 9 in the first place.
Follow these steps to install the iOS 9.0.1 update: [Read more…]