On 10/06/2018 11:37, Max Demian wrote:
On 10/06/2018 08:35, Adrian Brentnall wrote:
On 10/06/2018 07:06, alan_m wrote:
On 09/06/2018 21:48, Adrian Brentnall wrote:
On 09/06/2018 20:59, Max Demian wrote:

There's the Alcatel U5 3G for around £70 which works OK with some
limitations (camera no autofocus; limited built-in memory).

Interested to see this discussion - I'm looking to upgrade from a
Huawei Y330 - which seems to have a fairly unresponsive/inaccurate
touch-screen, and is refusing to allow me to download apps - even
though it's got a large, empty sd-card plugged in...

On some (all?) phones the apps download to internal memory and then
you have to manually tell the phone to move app in turn to the memory
card. Some of the apps (perhaps the manufactured installed apps) may
be locked to the phone's internal memory.

Thanks. That seems to be the problem with this particular phone (based
on my experience and some Googling). Many apps have a button for 'move
to sd-card', but it's greyed out.

Aha! - rummaging around in the 'storage' section discovered a bunch of
enormous log-files - which (after checking onlineg) I deleted.
There's now a lot more memory available.....
...and I've been able to download a couple of VNC Viewer programs -
which is a start.

Can't get them to talk to the RPi yet ("Server did not offer supported
security type")- but that'll be a setting somewhere - so a small step
forwards!


I don;t use the mobile that often, but it'd be handy to be able to
take half-decent photos (the Huawei complains that it's got no room
to store them),

Again, the destination for phone's photos has to be configured for sd
card. The phone will default to saving them on the internal memory.


I'll have to look into that... at least there's now some 'elbow-room'
on this phone. The touch-keyboard is still dreadful though - makes
life interesting if you're trying to enter passwords and you may or
may not be selecting the adjacent key - even using one of those
'rubbery-pointer' things..

Settings-Storage-Default write disk: Set to the SD card.

I have Android 7.0 on my Alcatel.

Some applications have an individual write destination (on their
Settings menus) of you don't want everything to go on the SD card.


Thanks - I found a little (large!) pile of old log files and nuked them.
This freed up an amount of space, and I was able to download & install
the VNC Viewer - which was happy enough to install the the SD-card.

Things like 'Google' don't want to have anything to do with the SD
card... but at least I've got the VNC bit working.
Still on the lookout for a better phone, though!
Thanks
Adrian