Category — Mobile Phones & Android

If you have installed Avast and the Avast anti theft application on your Android and decide you no longer need it, you may find it difficult to remove. It is protected so you first need to remove th protection. Here’s how to remove it.
Goto Settings >> Security >> Select Device Administrators – you can then remove the tick alongside the app and it will be uninstalled

I am using an HTC Wildfire with various Android applications. I have the Go SMS Pro application installed along with the stock message application. I have been getting all SMS text messages duplicated in both applications which can cause unnecessary viewing of the same messages to remove the notification of the new message more than once. I unticked the notifications box in the stock message application but was still getting duplicates.

I have since managed to stop the duplicates by opening the stock message app and unticking the box ‘Auto-Retrieve’ to not ‘Automatically retrieve messages’. Go SMS and the stock application both now allow me to view the messages correctly.

The synchronising software HTC Sync for the HTC Wildfire mobile phone is temperamental to say the least. After purchasing a new HTC Wildfire Android smartphone I have had a mammoth task to get the calendar and contacts to sync with Outlook 2007.

HTC Sync just would not work for me with a regular error when trying to connect with USB. The adb.exe file and driver kept crashing. I tried the HTC technical helpline and lots of configurations and combinations of installs on both Windows Vista 32 bit and Windows 7 64 bit. The HTC Sync software also does not offer many options for controlling the synchronisation. I eventually gave up on it and looked for alternative sync software applications.

The main two free options tried both used PC software with a client installed on the mobile phone..

Android Manager looked promising at first however it did not prove to be stable for me and offered too few options. Android Manager only offers connections using wi-fi. I have two calendar options in my phone and could only get the sync to work writing PC calendar items into the Google Calendar on the phone.

MyPhoneExplorer however has many more options for synchronisation including being able to connect by wi-fi, Bluetooth and USB. MyPhoneExplorer is now syncing for me over wi-fi (yet to try the other options) and with the PC Sync calendar on the smart phone. For this I have only one calendar PC Sync selected in the phone and this is what Outlook is writing to.