by Bernie Goldbach in Clonmel
MY ANDROID PHONE needs a factory reset. It's more than five years old, has a cracked screen and a worn charging port, and its battery is well-worn.
I watch it go from being fully charged to less than 10 per cent power in three hours. It feels very warm to touch. I think I have rogue app that's causing a problem so I'm looking at either a factory reset followed by restoring the phone's services from its saved settings in the cloud. I wouldn't mind losing all the images and videos stored in the phone's memory.
Any ideas?
In addition to recommending I keep the phone connected to mains power during my reset procedure, Redditers suggest I screencap my essential screens so I know how I had things set up. I have a "Start" folder containing my essentials.
My Start Folder
- Gmail
- Chrome
- Enpass (paid)
- LinkedIn (paid)
- Contacts
- OneDrive (paid)
- Instagram (time suck)
- Calendar
- Outlook
- Yahoo Mail
- TippLive (time suck)
- Feedly (deleting paid)
- Flickr (paid)
- Zoho Campaigns (paid)
- Bluesky (must map a domain there)
- Threads
My Front Page
- Theta because I use the Theta V camera in classes
- Zoho CRM because I want to connect with actions
- Messenger because I have its notifications turned off
- Slack because I have its notifications turned off
- Teams because I have its notifications turned off
- Messages
- Readwise for daily reviews
- Phone because sometimes I can't see incoming calls on screen
- Camera to review gallery
- Obsidian because I sync content
- Amplenote--must curate and remove
- Airtable (paid)
- Bing gets better every week
- WhatsApp because I have its notifications turned off
- Notion used in some of my teaching
- Swarm because I want to remain mayor
- Perplexity better than Google search
- Microblog (paid)
- Kindle (paid content)
- Instapaper (paid)
- iA Writer (paid)
- Stoop Inbox (paid)
My Second Page
- 3C Android Tools Battery Manager (paid)
- AZ Screen Recorder (paid)
- Otter (paid)
- Samsung Health (because I want the watch0
- Marco Polo (paid)
- Spreaker (paid)
- Spreaker Studio
- Device Care
[Bernie Goldbach has owned a Note since they stopped catching fire.]
