Tech Talk at ShieldsGroup

SOLVED!

If you want to set up an audio alert to notify you of new email on your gmail app, open the gmail app and do the following:

1. menu
2. more
3. settings
4. “your account name”
5. labels to notify
6. inbox
7. select a  ringtone

I don’t know why they buried this feature so deeply.

When I first got my Android phone (the Droid 2), I noticed there were some sites that loaded slowly when using the wifi in my home. For example, when I googled Yugster, then clicked on the link to go there, the status bar on the droid browser would pause and often timeout, leaving me on the google page.

This never happened on my Linux machine or on any of the PCs we have.

Due to a power outage, my router needed a hard reset, so I had to set everything back to the DD-WRT factory defaults. Upon doing so, I immediately noted that the Android wifi problems were gone. Pages loaded very quickly.

The a few days later I realized that, I had forgotten to put the OpenDNS servers in the router.  So I put them in and went to bed. For the next two days, I noted the timeouts occurring with the droid again, so today I removed the OpenDNS server specs and the phone  is loading everything without pause.

Any thoughts on why this would happen. I love OpenDNS, but can’t use it if it’s going to do this to my droid.

~Steve

UPDATE: This turned out to be a problem with Dolphin web browser. It appears they have it resolved.

“How do I turn on Wifi for My Verizon on my Droid?”

That was one of the first questions I had when I got my Droid 2 several months ago. The answer was, “You can’t!”

But now Verizon has solved this problem. Today’s upgrade allows me to access the My Verizon app via Wifi. That changed my rating of the app from one star to four.

I haven’t played much with the new app, but if they would allow me to stay logged into it indefinitely, I’d move it to five, I think.