judith!

I thought you no longer had a landline, Draclvr ??

(Love the "cake" emergency calls 😉)

Mad, that's what I USED to get before I got so disgusted that I had it disconnected.

Ahhh. Well using the "present tense" was confusing, Draclvr

Yeah, should have specified, Mad! I thought since I had said several posts back that this was happening before we got rid of it a few years ago, it would carry through!

Sorry but

HATE, HATE, HATE, HATE, HATE THIS STUFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Are you totally SURE you hate it oldbroad ?? 😝😝😝

Anything we can help you with? I hate it too, but have figured most of it out!

To be fair it was not the cell phone so much as my ISP and ALL things digital that set me off. I have an email address with them that I only use for my second Big Fish account so I only access it when I purchase from BF. I bought some BF games Sunday so I went to that email to get my receipt. It was asking me for my cell phone number so they could send me a code. I have NEVER put the cell phone number in there and there was not any other option, like I couldn't say I don't have a cell phone or anything. If I truly did not have one I just would not have been able to access my email account - period! I guess I would have had to call them or something. I did not want to put the number in but since I was already unable to get to the emails I figured what the heck? If I was not able to reply to the code it wouldn't make any difference. (I should say that I thought I would have to put the code into the phone somehow and I wouldn't have known how to do that.)

Well, after I put the number in I waited for my phone to do something, which it didn't, so I went searching and clicked on the text icon and saw it and saw that I was supposed to enter the code in my computer. So, I entered the 5 digit code but it was telling me to make sure I put a 6 digit code in and I got frustrated because I only saw a 5 digit code, so I clicked for them to send another code. Nothing showed up on my phone. I finally figured out that I had to open the text to get the code (and both were under that one text). I guess the 5 digit code was their identifier number or whatever it might be called. While clicking around in there I then found a text sent to me a week prior from my friend's cousin (who had called me with bad news and then sent me some info via text - mentioned in a prior post when I first discovered the text stuff). That second text from her was hidden within the first text from her and only appeared when I clicked on the old text.

I have finally calmed down - for now

Well that all sounded horribly frustrating !! But glad to hear you are feeling more calm, now, oldbroad

Finally got the time set right on my phone. It was 7 minutes fast for a very long time. Also, I've learned to use speaker phone. It used to turn on by accident but now I use it every time I talk because all kinds of weird stuff happens if I hold the phone up to my ear. This way I set it down in front of me and it's all good.

Most excellent OldBroad!

Hubby uses his speaker phone all the time. I just can't because the sound is all strange for me!

I do not like when people have me on speaker phone but...

Since I fixed the time though, now it keeps telling me to finish "set-up" and that a bunch of apps were installed???

On a fairly regular basis, you phone's operating system will install a security update... which you should make sure you do. I would go ahead and tap on the finish set-up and see what it wants you to do. Sometimes mine will think I want some games and all I have to do is uncheck them.

Help needed please!

There is some kind of "group chat" in my text messages. It will not let me delete it. It says to go to the group chat to delete it. I don't have any idea what that is or how to find it. Android phone OnePlus Nord N100.

EDIT. Believe it or not, I figured it out with the help of the annoying assistant. The information it gave me was not quite accurate but I did manage to delete it. How does this happen though? How can I be in a group chat that I have not even looked at?

Group chats can be started with anyone having your cell #. They just add people together. They are a nightmare and I remove myself all the time too if someone does it. Glad you figured it out!

It put me in a panic that somebody might hear a conversation I might have or I'd click something I shouldn't, or who knows what. I hope it doesn't happen again because I can not remember from one time to another how to work things. Every now and then my phone internet goes out (?) and it tells me to connect to wi-fi. It takes me 20 minutes every time to find the right place to connect the internet again.

I agree with Ana - Group chats can be really annoying. Yes, I know it's so much easier to send just one text when letting everyone know about Aunt Ruth's funeral arrangements, but then I get all the answers from other people I don't even know. I also remove myself from them as soon as I read them. So happy you figured out how to get rid of it.

To reconnect to WiFi, simply click on Settings - the gear icon - and then Connections. From there, you can connect to your WiFi. I am not very good with cell phones, but I would be happy to walk you through anything. I've become pretty good at that as I have to do it on my husband's phone all the time!

This was not a text from anybody I know. They all know not to text me. This was a scam text from "USPS".

I don't want to connect to wi-fi. When that happens I'm trying to get my regular connection back so I can actually use the phone, but I always have to re-learn how to get to the right place to do that. Can't remember it from one time to the next. It shuts itself off or something. Anyway, thanks for the offer of help. As you see, I do keep posting here when I have a problem that I want to try to tackle.

I just got one of those stupid USPS texts this morning. I first blocked the number and then deleted it. Dang scammers. The link in that text is malicious.

You must be connected to your WiFi in order to be connected to the internet on your phone. Especially if you have "phone internet" like you say. I keep my phone connected to WiFi all the time, but that's because that's how I monitor my security cameras on the phone app.

I one time put my wi-fi number in the phone but I turned that off. I don't even know why I did that - just to test how to do it I think. My brother is not connected to any wi-fi and has internet on his phone. He uses his phone to watch movies and programs all the time. When it shuts off, I cannot get to movies if I wanted to.

I don't seem to have a way to block texts. I can block numbers of incoming calls very easily (except when my click opens the number and makes it start ringing instead) but there is no "block" option in my text messages area. ???

Then your brother is using his cell phone service's cellular data plan to connect to the internet. I use my phone for those things too using my cellular data plan - I have T-Mobile. So, when you said you have "phone internet," you must have meant that you have a cell phone data plan. That's different and it uses what's called LTE wireless data transmission which comes from cell phone towers. It stands for Long-term-evolution which makes no sense to me! But it is a different standard for wireless communication than WiFi. I have two connection icons in the upper right - the bars are for my cellular data connection and the WiFi icon for connection to my home network.

I have never been able to figure out why I can block some numbers and can't block others. I have always figured it was some way the scammers are trying to get around us blocking them.

Yes, T-Mobile data plans. When the phone shuts off it speaks to me and tells me that I lost my "internet" connection and that I should connect to wi-fi. Its word, not mine. I am just trying to use the regular cell phone data also, not wi-fi. I have no idea what the icons are so cannot tell you what my phone shows.

You will have the same icons as I do. The WiFi icon is the same one you have on the lower right on your computer and the cell data will be the bars. The phone will want you to connect to your WiFi also, so once you do that, you should connect automatically the next time.