Gents, this has been a long time coming but tonight I got so frustrated with my old warhorse Samsung Tab 4 7.0 tablet I decided to give an enema. The complete reset job. Of course I first made sure I had moved photos, videos, e-books, etc. But I didn't give a howl in hell about the apps or their data. This is a consumption device for me. And for the most part, I use it for online forum reading, email, and reading books. Time for the doctor to perform the procedure.
It went alright and tried to untick as many of Google's ridiculous 'help' check boxes as I could on the reboot. In typical fashion they ignored most of it and enabled location and auto updating anyway. So I sit here now waiting for the updates to finish.
A couple of questions regarding storage, Google apps, and mobile browsers. I will start in reverse order since the latter is one of the things that has driven nearly over the edge the last few weeks.
Browser. I had been happily using Dolphin for a few years now but after an updated version was released it has been nothing short of flaky. Losing saved passwords, loads of crashes, etc. Time to try something else. As of now only Chrome is installed and is that as good as it gets? Google is just so darned intrusive with browsing history and constant advertisements and all that I wondered if there is something else I should look at? If not, are there some tweaks to Chrome I should look at?
Google apps. I don't use 99% of them and is there any way to actually delete some of this stuff? I also realise some of this is customising by Samsung and may have dependencies baked into the cake that are not removable.
Micro SD card. I have a nice 32Gb Samsung card. I had set most things to auto save there but want to get it right from the start. Other than going app by app is there a better way to tell apps and multimedia files to store or install to the memory card?
Thanks loads chaps. I know there are plenty of tech savvy guys around here.
It went alright and tried to untick as many of Google's ridiculous 'help' check boxes as I could on the reboot. In typical fashion they ignored most of it and enabled location and auto updating anyway. So I sit here now waiting for the updates to finish.
A couple of questions regarding storage, Google apps, and mobile browsers. I will start in reverse order since the latter is one of the things that has driven nearly over the edge the last few weeks.
Browser. I had been happily using Dolphin for a few years now but after an updated version was released it has been nothing short of flaky. Losing saved passwords, loads of crashes, etc. Time to try something else. As of now only Chrome is installed and is that as good as it gets? Google is just so darned intrusive with browsing history and constant advertisements and all that I wondered if there is something else I should look at? If not, are there some tweaks to Chrome I should look at?
Google apps. I don't use 99% of them and is there any way to actually delete some of this stuff? I also realise some of this is customising by Samsung and may have dependencies baked into the cake that are not removable.
Micro SD card. I have a nice 32Gb Samsung card. I had set most things to auto save there but want to get it right from the start. Other than going app by app is there a better way to tell apps and multimedia files to store or install to the memory card?
Thanks loads chaps. I know there are plenty of tech savvy guys around here.
