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Well, I broke down and bought a smart phone (the old flip phone having broken down to the point of being unusable).
Now I have to figure out how to use the damn thing. It's a Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime (I went up a step from the cheapest/most basic model). I tried Samsung's website ... they'd help me BUY a phone (redundant, since I already had it in my hot little hands), but when I tried to find out how to USE it ... they produced a 24-page PDF that consisted of legal terminology, health and safety warnings, and ... well, not much else.
Right now, it makes a pretty good paperweight.
A lot of stores where you bought the phone (Best Buy, etc.) have classes on how to use it. Your local library might, too.
I'm thinking of hitting YouTube ... in my copious spare time. If I could figure out how to get to the internet from the (current paperweight), I could do it from home.
What service do you have on it, Todd? I'm finding User Guides and Quick Starts that are specific to service providers.
I'm on T-Mobile (yes, probably not the best, but I've been with them for a good long while). I think it's going to be a long process ... I did manage to make a phone call; got a text and responded to it; added a contact (since almost all mine were wiped out).
T-mobile has a link to a User Guid that looks actually useful, if that helps at all [link]
If you can't look at that and have something specific in the setup I could look up for you and copy and paste into here, I'd be happy to do that.
Thanks - I'll take a look.
Not that much time before the free upgrade to Windows 10 expires. One thing that makes me leary is how the "background" download disabled my computer for about a week until it was complete. From what I can see that is the main problem. If there is a way to foreground updates on a fixed schedule that would alleviate a lot of my worries. I'm pretty certain I could have downloaded windows 10 in about six hours if it had been done foreground. It was the background task management that sucked.
In fact, even though I have automatic updates enabled. I make a point of doing "catchup" additional updates once a week to make sure I my computer never downloads large files as a background task.
So upgrade to Windows 10? Or delete the download and recover the disk space, stayping with Windows 7 - at least until MS XPs it.
I'm sticking with Win 7. There are just too many things about Win 10 that make me uneasy.
I caved and downloaded Win 10, but I haven't installed it yet and am still running 7, which I would be happy to use forever. Except for the fact that MS isn't supporting it after March, I think, no updates to software or virus protection, and that does scare me. How do you plan to deal with that, DX, or do you think it's not really a problem? I'm not a computer literate person, remember, and I don't know a lot about maintaining software. I've depended on updates as long as I've had Windows.
