Smartphone Issues - Likely Hardware Problems

I moved 590 megabytes of e-mails to a back-up location and deleted them from where they normally reside.  That means that when my 3rd party smartphone email app polls the sever, that it shouldn't take as long and that should save on power.  Well, it didn't work and considering every other way that I've cleaned it out, this is now probably a hardware problem?

My Samsung Galaxy SM-n900v was on the market in 2013.  So, the model is only 5 years old.  I've probably had this particular one for about 3 years?  As I've been a trail maintainer, it's been outside a lot, including some cold winter temperatures.  It could be possible that it's power circuitry is corroded?  The first step might be to have it examined at the Verizon store and see if they can repair, or replace it?  If they can't, I might be able to purchase a new, or used model.

Buying a new smartphone right now is not much of an option.  You've got people out there that always need to have the "latest and greatest," so they purchase a new smartphone about every year.  Every time I go into the cellular store, it's like they have somebody trying to get you to do that?  I think that's wasteful.  My current smartphone has served me well.

The faster they get, the more expensive they become.  So the cellular providers are offering payment plans for them and tablets.  Payment plans are for something that get for a car, house, or for some of you, your student loans.  My smartphone probably cost about $700 new?  I'd rather pay for it up front if I can.  But if I end up needing a brand new smartphone soon, I'll probably have to do that.

I had payments on my cellular tablet.  At $24 a month for about total of $800, it was rather painless for me.  I got it for the motorhome because the interior is large and the smartphone was harder to reach.  I use multiple navigation apps, internal music and Pandora.  I just needed something bigger for that cab it couldn't wait.

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My e-mail is cleaned up.  I use an IMAP server that allows me to filter my messages into folders.  Between that and having unsubcribed from everything undesirable, it's much more manageable on my smartphone while I'm down trail.  Anyways, the filters have to be set from my laptop or desktop computers only.

Smartphones and library computers can be a asset to multi-day+ hikers particularly because they can send press releases.  There's even a way to use Internet services to send US Mail and facsimiles (faxes).  But here in Ohio, some of the libraries require that get a card with them to use a computer.  If you're a resident of Ohio and this is so, then what I've done was sign up for the card, used the computer and then surrendered it before I walked out.  If your not a resident of Ohio, you might not be able to get a library card in this state.

But most libraries in Ohio that I've been to down trail either don't require anything, or they have you take out what's usually known as a "guest pass."  Neither one requires residency.  Currently at this time, I do not have these card/ residency requiring libraries mapped out.

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When this blog posts, it publishes notifications to Google+ and Facebook accounts.  Every so often, Facebook changes my Post By E-Mail address, which causes me to look up the address that they assign me and alter where the notifications go here in my Blogger settings.  Personally, I think it's rather annoying, but I guess it's what has to be done.