I have an Android (Google) phone. I was eating lunch today and the restaurant had free wifi....Nice time to check Drudge Report or CNBC I thought...I clicked the power button to bring the screen back to life, just like I have done thousands of times before.
I don't know what I did different but I looked down at the screen and there was a white box telling me I was resetting to factory settings. No, I did not want to do that. A second after I saw it, the screen changed over to a little green Android man who was not so cute today.
The green man said I was ERASING. I tried swiping to the right, left, up and down. I tried cutting the power off and I tried squeezing the volume buttons. I tried yelling at it under my breath. I did not want to be rude in public. No matter how many times I squeezed the power button, it would not shut off. And to add insult to injury, it took about 5 minutes to erase. It was like death by a thousand cuts, seeing the erase function and not being able to do anything about it.
It reset to factory settings and l lost all my APPS, my phone log and all my personal settings on the phone.
I got home and reset the phone and the most popular phone numbers I could recall.
I breathed a sigh of relief and returned to my laptop. I decided to clear the history which I had not done for 2,3 days.
At the top, it said I was logged in to my cell phone. I know that can be done, I was doing it before. But I don't like that much connectivity in my life and I don't think it is safe. If someone finds my cell phone then they can see my browsing history for my laptop and potentially see any open windows, personal information etc... I deleted it before. I wanted to do it again.
I went online and tried to find out how to do it because working independently was not working for me. But...........everything was still working.......which will make sense in a few lines.
I found instructions for removing the sync between my cell phone and laptop. It must have been for a different Windows version or Google Chrome version because I followed the instructions and I lost everything. I lost all my bookmarks ( about 100) the way my home page was set up, my ad blockers and popup blockers, I had to reset chrome as my search engine and retab yahoo. It was like resetting a new computer.
I tried to import my bookmarks but nothing was there. I eventually figured out how to remove the sync with my cell phone. All I had to do was go to settings and log out of google.......
.........I figured that out when I was setting the laptop back up.
It's been a rough day and it was not Monday or Friday the 13th.
But......is there anything I can do to get back my bookmarks?
I don't know what I did different but I looked down at the screen and there was a white box telling me I was resetting to factory settings. No, I did not want to do that. A second after I saw it, the screen changed over to a little green Android man who was not so cute today.
The green man said I was ERASING. I tried swiping to the right, left, up and down. I tried cutting the power off and I tried squeezing the volume buttons. I tried yelling at it under my breath. I did not want to be rude in public. No matter how many times I squeezed the power button, it would not shut off. And to add insult to injury, it took about 5 minutes to erase. It was like death by a thousand cuts, seeing the erase function and not being able to do anything about it.
It reset to factory settings and l lost all my APPS, my phone log and all my personal settings on the phone.
I got home and reset the phone and the most popular phone numbers I could recall.
I breathed a sigh of relief and returned to my laptop. I decided to clear the history which I had not done for 2,3 days.
At the top, it said I was logged in to my cell phone. I know that can be done, I was doing it before. But I don't like that much connectivity in my life and I don't think it is safe. If someone finds my cell phone then they can see my browsing history for my laptop and potentially see any open windows, personal information etc... I deleted it before. I wanted to do it again.
I went online and tried to find out how to do it because working independently was not working for me. But...........everything was still working.......which will make sense in a few lines.
I found instructions for removing the sync between my cell phone and laptop. It must have been for a different Windows version or Google Chrome version because I followed the instructions and I lost everything. I lost all my bookmarks ( about 100) the way my home page was set up, my ad blockers and popup blockers, I had to reset chrome as my search engine and retab yahoo. It was like resetting a new computer.
I tried to import my bookmarks but nothing was there. I eventually figured out how to remove the sync with my cell phone. All I had to do was go to settings and log out of google.......
.........I figured that out when I was setting the laptop back up.It's been a rough day and it was not Monday or Friday the 13th.
But......is there anything I can do to get back my bookmarks?
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