My Instinct Was Wrong? Right!

I am so tired of this “birther” issue BS.

The media follows Trump around like a lost puppy dog hoping he’ll toss them a morsel – and when he does, they scramble to get it on the air ASAP.

Today, the President finally released his real birth certificate, and less than an hour later, Trump took credit for it.

I’ve decided that Donald Trump is so full of shit – my God, I can’t even describe my disdain for the man.

The President was right – Trump is just a side show – and the media is the barker (@CNN?) – duped into providing free publicity for Trump.

Paul Ryan is off in la-la land with his goofy budget proposal that will crush Medicare and Medicaid and change this country in ways – bad ways – I don’t even want to imagine. I fear SSI is not next on his list.

As for the coffee cups – Congress is arguing about what kind of coffee cups should be used in the cafeteria – paper or plastic? WTF?

I agree with the President – we have much more important things to worry about.

For the record, I’m not a Democrat – I didn’t vote for Obama – but lately he’s the only one who seems to have any reason about him.

I’ve had my Galaxy Tab about 2 months now and all in all, I am happy with the device. However, on two occasions, it has a mind of its own when it comes to auto rotating the orientation.

When the issue has occurred, it seems the Tab only has one landscape mode – I can rotate it to either portrait, but when I rotate to landscape, it always picks the version that is upside down to the way my case (a RooCase – this is a nice, well built case, but that may be another post) is designed to be used.

After googling around to no avail, I finally stumbled across the issue – and as most things go, it turns out that it helps to actually read/follow the instructions.

Under Settings | Display Settings, there is a choice at the bottom for “Horizontal Calibration”. If/when you do this, be sure and note the instruction at the top to “Place the device on a level surface and tap Calibrate”

The key here is to place it FLAT on a level surface – as in, on it’s back – not standing up in the case. Once I ran the calibrate with it flat on it’s back, my orientation issues vanished. You will note that once you do this properly, that the blue ball will move to the top regardless of what rotation you use.

Bluetooth is a neat technology that I find I am using more and more. Yet, at the same time it is somewhat frustrating. The problem is in the profiles and finding out what profiles are supported by a particular device. There is nothing more frustrating than buying a new Bluetooth headset only to find it doesn’t work with your device. It really puts a damper on impulse buys, lol.

Most people could not tell you what Bluetooth profiles are supported by their phone – and sometimes it’s near impossible to look that information up on the internet (vast as it is). Yesterday, I had to email Samsung to find out what profiles are supported by the Sprint / Samsung Epic Galaxy S class phone.

Side note: for the record, the Epic supports A2DP (Advanced Audio Distribution Profile), AVRCP (Audio/Video Remote Control Profile), HFP (Hands-Free Profile), HSP (Headset Profile), and OPP (Object Push Profile).

Even if you knew what profiles your phone supported, the retail packaging for most headsets is lacking the supported profile information, so you are still in a crapshoot situation. I’m looking at the retail packaging for the Motorola H17txt – no where on the retail packaging is there mention of what profiles are supported.

When I purchased a Bluetooth headset for my Galaxy Tab, it took 3 purchases to find one that worked with that device – mainly because the information needed to make a proper buying decision is not readily available. There are many forum posts on the internet describing similar frustrations.

I implore all manufacturers of anything Bluetooth, to bring the information about supported profiles to the front and center. Having that information readily available would make it easier to choose the correct headset and therefore happier customers.

The amount of mis-information is just as bad – there are several retail sites that claim the Motorola H720 works with the Galaxy Tab – not true. The H720 only supports HSP which is not supported by the Galaxy Tab (it requires A2DP).

And the super retailers like Amazon.com for example are not much better. Most Bluetooth headset listings on Amazon.com make no mention of what profiles are supported – even in the “Technical Details” section.

Bluetooth is controlled by the Bluetooth SIG – a group of very large, powerful corporations. I recommend they add a requirement to the specifications to require any device touting the Bluetooth insignia must also show what profiles are supported by that device directly on the retail packaging.