LucienJ

Tinkerer

I know, what I want to say is that the complete DCIM directory in internal storage is (well, looks) empty. No sub dirs, no pictures, nothing. Only the DCIM directory on the microSD card has subdirectories with the pictures. I now recall (after having performed a factory reset) that somewhere along the line of setting up…

Thanks, I did perform a factory reset and that fixed the issue.

I checked it, but it looks good. Note that the problem isn't sound or vibrations, the problem is it doesn't receive information/content when in standby, and I truly believe that it did receive them when I just got the phone.

Thanks, did that and that works nicely. I connected my smartphone to the PC again, and this time it showed the pictures in the DCIM directory of the SD card. However, still no pictures shown in the DCIM dir of the internal storage. That's weird, isn't it. I used the file manager to copy the 'old' photographs from internal…

I did unlock my phone, otherwise it wasn't possible to see anything at all via the Windows Explorer. What I noticed was an empty DCIM dir although I'd already taken some a dozen pics or so. In the meanwhile I took a spare SD card an put that into my phone. Then I also got the idea from my son to use the phone's own file…

Thanks for your suggestion, definitely worth a shot. However, I still think Acer should fix the problem.

I also used the stock e-mail app and it drained the battery big time (standby time approx 20 hrs). Marshmallow, e-mail app version 6.0-1470915973, using POP3 and SMTP. Even when I chose to never sync! When I removed the accompanying e-mail account the battery drain stopped _immediately_. As said, this app obviously has a…