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May 17, 2017 07:15:22   #
jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY
 
Is there a way to move app icons on my Android phone? I know how to move the icons around on the regular, installed Home screens. What I'd like to do is move the other apps, the ones I see when I click on the Apps icon. This shows me ten pages of apps, some of them displayed on the three Home pages. The problem is that some of those ten pages have only a few apps on them, so there are more pages than I need. If I press and hold the icon, it moves to a Home page.

I'd like to move the app icons that are in the main app storage section.

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May 17, 2017 07:54:57   #
Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States
 
If you press & hold an icon, can you not move it to another page? I haven't done that in a while, but I did reorganize them a year or two ago.

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May 17, 2017 08:10:25   #
jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY
 
Longshadow wrote:
If you press & hold an icon, can you not move it to another page? I haven't done that in a while, but I did reorganize them a year or two ago.


Android has apps in two areas: Home page and Apps section. It's easy to move an app around on the Home pages, but when I try to move one in the Apps section, it goes to a Home page. I'd like to reduce my ten pages of apps to five.

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May 17, 2017 08:14:50   #
Bloke Loc: Waynesboro, Pennsylvania
 
Not sure about moving stuff around - I'm pretty new at this smartphone stuff... What I would like is to be able to stop the phone downloading, installing and constantly updating a whole bunch of google aps, which I will never ever use! I don't watch videos on the phone, I don't do youtube on the phone - I just want it to be a *phone*. It won't let me delete them, either, just goes through the motions and the aps stay where they are...

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May 17, 2017 08:17:32   #
jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY
 
Bloke wrote:
Not sure about moving stuff around - I'm pretty new at this smartphone stuff... What I would like is to be able to stop the phone downloading, installing and constantly updating a whole bunch of google aps, which I will never ever use! I don't watch videos on the phone, I don't do youtube on the phone - I just want it to be a *phone*. It won't let me delete them, either, just goes through the motions and the aps stay where they are...


I think there is an option to update automatically - or not.

http://gadgets.ndtv.com/apps/features/how-to-turn-off-automatic-app-updates-in-android-ios-windows-phone-81-windows-81-634685

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May 17, 2017 08:28:02   #
trkcamper Loc: Kalamazoo, MI
 
Longshadow wrote:
If you press & hold an icon, can you not move it to another page? I haven't done that in a while, but I did reorganize them a year or two ago.

I have a TracFone LG33L that has 3 home screens. I can just use my finger and swipe to any of those three. Screen #2 is the "real" home screen on my phone.

I have home screen #1 with mostly Wi-Fi, GPS, network speed test, etc.

I have HOME screen #2 with the apps I use alot, GasBuddy, HERE maps, Michigan Road Conditions, Circle K gas, weather.

I have home screen #3 with some apps I use sort of frequently.

I can move ANY app by holding on it and move it to ANY of the three home screens. To move from HOME to 1st screen, just hold app and move to the left screen edge and it will change to show just that screen. Or to the right screen edge to move app to the 3rd home screen.

I can also move apps on top of each other to create a "folder". I could have moved all my Wi-Fi apps into one folder on the main home page, but I decided not to.

HTH

Mike

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May 17, 2017 08:30:51   #
Bloke Loc: Waynesboro, Pennsylvania
 


Thanks for that. I did have them set to only update with wireless, at least! Is there any way to remove them? I don't think these manufacturers realize that not only teenagers use their devices! Why would I want to watch videos on a phone, when I have a 28-inch monitor on my desk?

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May 17, 2017 09:20:40   #
trkcamper Loc: Kalamazoo, MI
 
Bloke wrote:
Is there any way to remove them?

If the app has google in the name, it is probably better to just make a "POS" folder and move the app into that folder. (POS = Piece of Sheet)

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I don't think these manufacturers realize that not only teenagers use their devices!

Probably just the opposite, kids have $$$, and us old folks are just a very small user base.

Mike

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May 17, 2017 09:37:52   #
Bloke Loc: Waynesboro, Pennsylvania
 
trkcamper wrote:
Probably just the opposite, kids have $$$, and us old folks are just a very small user base.

Mike


It isn't the space on screen which bothers me, though, it's the memory used up by these aps on the card.... I too use tracfone, and can't fault the price, but my last phone actually ran out of memory - and I only had 5 or 6 photos on there, no music, no videos...

Really, I just want a phone with a built-in camera (very useful in traffic accidents!), and the rest is just a waste of space...

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May 17, 2017 09:54:04   #
jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY
 
trkcamper wrote:
I have a TracFone LG33L that has 3 home screens. I can just use my finger and swipe to any of those three. Screen #2 is the "real" home screen on my phone.

I have home screen #1 with mostly Wi-Fi, GPS, network speed test, etc.

I have HOME screen #2 with the apps I use alot, GasBuddy, HERE maps, Michigan Road Conditions, Circle K gas, weather.

I have home screen #3 with some apps I use sort of frequently.

I can move ANY app by holding on it and move it to ANY of the three home screens. To move from HOME to 1st screen, just hold app and move to the left screen edge and it will change to show just that screen. Or to the right screen edge to move app to the 3rd home screen.

I can also move apps on top of each other to create a "folder". I could have moved all my Wi-Fi apps into one folder on the main home page, but I decided not to.

HTH

Mike
I have a TracFone LG33L that has 3 home screens. ... (show quote)


Right. And you also have an Apps icon - a square of dots. That shows all the apps on your phone. I have them spread over ten pages. I want to consolidate them into about five pages.

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May 17, 2017 09:57:18   #
trkcamper Loc: Kalamazoo, MI
 
@Bloke,

OK, understand.

This is the BEST place to get help with TF phones => http://www.howardforums.com/forumdisplay.php/330-Tracfone-Net10

About a year ago, I upgraded us to TF SmartPhones because our old POS TF phones were almost out of time. On the above forum, I discovered I could get a TF SmartPhone for about $85 from HSN (HomeShoppingNetwork), and it came with one year service and 1350 talk minutes, 1350 text msgs, 1.35GB of data. That is cheaper that the $100 one year card from TF. Plus our phone numbers transfer, and all our old 300 minutes transfer as 300 talk, 300 txt, .3GB data.

Our phones have "8 GB (up to 4.14 GB usable memory) - expandable via microSD™ card (sold separately)" and I added a 32GB memory card.
http://www.lg.com/us/cell-phones/lg-L33L-sunset-lte

I know I am not really helping you, but HowardForms has a ba-zillion sub-forums.

Mike

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May 17, 2017 10:31:38   #
Bloke Loc: Waynesboro, Pennsylvania
 
trkcamper wrote:
@Bloke,

OK, understand.

This is the BEST place to get help with TF phones => http://www.howardforums.com/forumdisplay.php/330-Tracfone-Net10

About a year ago, I upgraded us to TF SmartPhones because our old POS TF phones were almost out of time. On the above forum, I discovered I could get a TF SmartPhone for about $85 from HSN (HomeShoppingNetwork), and it came with one year service and 1350 talk minutes, 1350 text msgs, 1.35GB of data. That is cheaper that the $100 one year card from TF. Plus our phone numbers transfer, and all our old 300 minutes transfer as 300 talk, 300 txt, .3GB data.

Our phones have "8 GB (up to 4.14 GB usable memory) - expandable via microSD™ card (sold separately)" and I added a 32GB memory card.
http://www.lg.com/us/cell-phones/lg-L33L-sunset-lte

I know I am not really helping you, but HowardForms has a ba-zillion sub-forums.

Mike
@Bloke, br br OK, understand. br br This is the ... (show quote)


Thanks, I've made a note of the link. Sounds like a similar deal to the one I got, although maybe this one 'only' had 1200 minutes, etc. It's my third tracfone, and costing me about $7 per month.

I did have issues with them over the last one... It stopped working, and after *hours* on hold and talking to tech support, they decided I needed a new sim card. The rep asked me if I wanted the same number, and I said yes, as I have it on business cards and suchlike. When the new card eventually came, turned out that he had issued a new number... To get the old one back, I needed *another* new sim card, and they could not guarantee that it would be available when the time came for me to activate it. Well, it was, *but* there was no record of my minutes, texts or data available, and they said that I would have to purchase more. Having had it for about 6 months, and used *maybe* 100 minutes, about 5 texts and no data, I escalated the call. Eventually managed to speak to a supervisor, who refused to restore my minutes based on the fact that I had not purchased any minutes since buying the phone. She seemed unable to comprehend that, with a phone which comes with 1350 minutes, I *never* expect to have to buy any minutes. She claimed that there was no way she could access any records which showed how many minutes etc., I had used. The only escalation level left was for some other department to call me back once the matter reached them... Needless to say, nobody ever called...

My first inclination was to tell them where to stuff their phone, but research showed that there was no service available at even a comparable price. So, I could pay considerably more, just to "show them", or else bite my tongue and carry on.

Other than that little escapade, I have had no issues with their service, and you can't beat the price!

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May 17, 2017 11:31:41   #
jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY
 
trkcamper wrote:
@Bloke,

OK, understand.

This is the BEST place to get help with TF phones => http://www.howardforums.com/forumdisplay.php/330-Tracfone-Net10

About a year ago, I upgraded us to TF SmartPhones because our old POS TF phones were almost out of time. On the above forum, I discovered I could get a TF SmartPhone for about $85 from HSN (HomeShoppingNetwork), and it came with one year service and 1350 talk minutes, 1350 text msgs, 1.35GB of data. That is cheaper that the $100 one year card from TF. Plus our phone numbers transfer, and all our old 300 minutes transfer as 300 talk, 300 txt, .3GB data.

Our phones have "8 GB (up to 4.14 GB usable memory) - expandable via microSD™ card (sold separately)" and I added a 32GB memory card.
http://www.lg.com/us/cell-phones/lg-L33L-sunset-lte

I know I am not really helping you, but HowardForms has a ba-zillion sub-forums.

Mike
@Bloke, br br OK, understand. br br This is the ... (show quote)


Thanks. We both have TracFones, and they've cut our costs way down. I brought my Samsung S4 from my Verizon days, and my son bought a new LG from TF.

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May 18, 2017 11:12:21   #
Wenonah Loc: Winona, MN
 
jerryc41 wrote:
Android has apps in two areas: Home page and Apps section. It's easy to move an app around on the Home pages, but when I try to move one in the Apps section, it goes to a Home page. I'd like to reduce my ten pages of apps to five.


I don't understand the question. How would you be able to put Apps that take up ten pages into five pages?

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May 18, 2017 15:46:32   #
jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY
 
Wenonah wrote:
I don't understand the question. How would you be able to put Apps that take up ten pages into five pages?


The "storage area" for apps doesn't have all the pages filled. I think only one of the ten is full. The others might have 6, 8, or ten icons. When I move them to a home page, I can arrange them and fill the pages, but I can find no way to move them around in the app storage area.

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