I had to restore an Android contacts file. The restore copy had been made by syncios. I am not sure what version of syncios or android acted as the source, but the target was Android 5.2.2.
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Washer/Dryer
The time has come, here’s my washing machine manual.
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New Calendars in Google Calendar are not easily pushed out to the calendar app on Android. Here’s how for v6.0.1.
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Land Rover Freelander
I am considering buying a Land Rover Freelander 1, late issue with the TD4 engine. Need to do some research; here are my notes and links
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Raspberry Pi, Remote Control (Deprecated)
I want a raspberry pi in the living room to stream content on the TV. How to control it without moving my arse; this is a major design goal. A mistake, the Pi’s at that time weren’t powerful enough. …
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Hotpoint Fridge Freezer HMB312AAI
Our fridge freezer is a Hotpoint HMB 312I or maybe an HMB312AAI. I need some spare parts. I no longer own this fridge and some of the links have gone away; I have replaced them with web archive copies. I hope this is useful to someone!
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Moving Contacts from a Tocco to Galaxy 6
I now have a Samsung Galaxy 6 and need to move forward from a Samsung Tocco. Fortunately, I have only the phone contacts to move forward, I used Kies to get them off to my laptop, make .vcf copies, then copy the .vcf files to a folder in the ./Downloads folder on the Galaxy device,…
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Changing the Clock on the Oven
I have a Bosch Series 4 HBS534BB0B Built In Electric Single Oven – Black – A Rated Oven. I replaced a Baumatic in 2025. Here’s its manual location.
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Android’s Master Sync switch
I have installed one of the power managers on my Android phones, and when it reaches a v. low level of battery it offers me the option of entering “super saver” state. This turns off a number of rather useful services, most importantly the master sync service
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Swiss Railway Watch
also known as Mondaine. In my case, the Mondaine Swiss watch with time zone indicator/display. Here’s mine, it has a third time hand to display the time in a second time time zone.
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Nokia Phones
This was written in 2011, it seems. I write about my Nokia x5800 and how to configure it. At some time I merged it with my notes on the E71, but most of this content is now useless, at some time I will adopt a content retirement strategy but not today.
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Video Format Conversion for SONY formats
I took a lot of Video on the DE HQ Reunion Barge trip on a Sony Handycam and want to create a single video show for the holiday. I have done this before using the Sony Cybershot and the Mac’s slide show software to create a video of images. To include the Sony Videos, I’ll need…
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Blackberry
I finally succumbed. I have blogged about why I succumbed here, and about Yahoo dropping it here. And eight years later, most of this is now history, rather than useful.
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Ipod Touch
I brought this page across from my old blog in June 2013. Much of the content is out of date and relates to my early use. This changed over time and became irrelevant, and so I deleted much of the content in June 2013. I have finally bought an Ipod Touch. Oct 2008. Since I…
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Sony v600i
Basically almost back to where I was with my previous Nokia, so now its time to try and make progress.
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