Originally Posted By DDMAN26 That is if you have one. I seem to have an issue with the internet connectivity on my Android today. Nothing is working and I checked the settings and nothing has changed there. I'll assume it's just down.
Originally Posted By Autopia Deb I often have problems with my BlackBerry, but there's nothing particularly wrong today (yet). Of course Android is a completely different species of smart phone, so what affects one may not affect the other.
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORDDU: It's got to do with solar flares, from what my sisters and I have been hearing. They say that a lot of those modern contraptions you ducklings rely on so much are vulnerable to whatever the solar flares are doing this week.
Originally Posted By Longhorn12 Yeah the Witches are probably right. We are at the solar peak (every 13-15 years) which means a lot more solar flares are being sent out. This causes problems for cell service, wifi, gps, etc.
Originally Posted By DDMAN26 I guess it was nothing that shutting off and restarting the phone couldn't fix.
Originally Posted By x Pirate_Princess x I saw on the news that the solar flares are pointing away from the earth, and it shouldn't affect cell phones. Have you tried taking the battery out and restarting the phone? Much like a computer, smart phones need to be powered down and restarted once in a while. Also, your service provider may have had issues with towers and connections.
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORDDU: At one point the solar flares were pointing toward the earth. But of course things change on a daily basis so the flares could be pointing elsewhere by now.
Originally Posted By JenniBarra >>It's got to do with solar flares, from what my sisters and I have been hearing.<< I had heard it would mess with GPS but not other smartphone functions. I would agree with what others have said about rebooting/pulling out the battery. When I was using my original Droid (now have a Droid 3), sometimes I would lose 'net connectivity and that was often all it took to get back in business again.
Originally Posted By WDWdreamin I had horrible problems a couple days ago, and I heard that it was related to Facebook. I was getting a lot of messages about people posting in a new group. And all of my battery got used up in a few hours. Overall, it was just SO slow, and if I tried to go to FB it crashed. Mine is better now, I hope yours is too.
