It would be a rookie mistake, and would have to be an update that attempted to optimise other performance, or me just making a guess, but I do remember a notification icon flashing on and off and now I am using the companion again I am sure it was that one.The Apps feature lets you instantly access the Android apps installed on your mobile device right on your PC. I've punted the mobile data bug Samsung's way and it never happened when on mobile data before but before, mobile data meant I was not in range of my wifi so possibly that is also a unique condition (wifi off but in range of specified wifi network).Īs far as I am aware Android can still detect wifi network IDs even when Wifi is disabled for connection as it is used for non GPS position detection.Ĭould the bug be that the Samsung side of the software is using Wifi detection rather than Wifi connection to initiate attempted PC communication? I found AirDroid great before this as it is a browser interface and so OS agnostic. Yes, it is pointless if you don't use Windows but kind of handy if you do. It is good to see the interface from the other side of course, but possibly a connected one could have been even more relevant to those curious as to some of the benefits: I was just wondering as to the relevance here as the problem was always on the phone side, not the windows one. I did that for the opening post so I could screenshot with the Windows snipping tool and paste straight in here from clipboard without the faf of file transfers from a phone screenshot.Īye.

Bring up the phone screen on the PC and use your full sized keyboard. Watching a youtube vid on the PC copy the URL on the PC, paste it into Whatsapp on the phone. When I switch to last 7 days AOD is down to 6% and the companion is nowhere to be seen. I wonder if there may be something twitchy with my stats as AOD is now showing nearly 20% since last charge when it has never really gone above 5. It does have an entry in app settings which strangely tells me that it has used 0 battery since last charge even though the percentage is still creeping up in the shot above (33.9% now). Not sure why they backtracked but on the Note 10 it is integral to phone settings (search for pc brings the Link to Windows setting) and not a sepparate store app. Samsung makes the phone software, not MS.

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