Category: Public Service

Experiencing Screen Overlay Issues? Here is an easy fix.

This fix applies to the Galaxy Note 4, but it may also apply to other phones as well. It is posted as a Public Service with no guarantees. I am just letting you know what worked for me.
Click the following:
1. Settings
2. Apps
3. App Manager
4. PRESS 3 dots in upper right hand corner of your phone
5. Press “Apps that Can Appear on Top”
6. Set all to “OFF”
7. Restart device to ensure settings hold

NOTE:  When you download a new app this action may reset all your apps to “ON”. So If needed  repeat Steps 1 to 7 above. It seems that having all your apps set to “ON” activates the Screen Overlay function which then makes it impossible to operate some of your key apps. Thank you Samsung for putting more obstacles before us mere mortals!!!
Hope this helps.
Andrew Yiannakis, Ph.D.
Research Professor, UNM

Mice Chewing Up Your Car Wiring? A public service message from Andrew Yiannakis

Mice Chewing Up Your Car Wiring?

Folks:

I have found what appears to be a permanent and effective solution to this problem. And it’s a very serious problem because if mice decide to nest in your engine , or anywhere in your car, they will eventually chew through all your car wiring and your car will become inoperable.

I’ve had to spend over $650 to just repair the problem with our two cars!  To cut a long story short the solution I’ve come up with, after talking to a lot of people, is this:

  1. Place about half a dozen mothballs in each of two socks and attach them overnight somewhere under the hood of your car. Remove the stocks before you use your car. Don’t drive with the socks under the hood.
  2. Install an ultrasound device from Amazon (or where you can get a good price) and every night stake it in front of your car about six feet away from the front bumper of your car
  3. Sprinkle a dozen or so loose mothballs on the ground under the engine of your car.

From my experience over two months of use the mothball solution is about 70% to 80% effective and the ultrasound device about 20-30%. These are 0nly estimates.

The problem has disappeared completely. No more mice and no more chewed up wiring.

NOTE: This is the ultrasound devices I bought (for two cars):

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01M2V6NJ4/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o09_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Hope this helps.

Andrew Yiannakis, Albuquerque, New Mexico