u/Yard-Overall

Is anyone else quietly buying used Portals….? 😅

I have tried so hard to get through this with AI help, but we are both failing and while they don't get frustrated, I am VERY frustrated and rage-quit yesterday after about three hours of repeated efforts failing.

I have a lot of Portals.... I know, it's a problem. I am trying to start with a 1st gen 10-inch Portal.

When I go to DEBUG, it says "Developer Settings - ADB Enabled - Turn on to allow USB connection." When I tapped that line, it requested my passcode; I inputted it, and now it still says the same thing, "Turn on to allow USB connection" seemingly saying it isn't turned on, but when I tap the line now, nothing happens. I have tried this part on two additional Portals - Portal Plus and Portal Go and it's the same - it says the same thing, requests the passcode, then not tappable after I do it.

Yesterday, after multiple attempts and various small steps of progress, my AI led me to installing ADB drivers on my PC, but we really couldn't get much further than that.

When the C cable is connected from Portal to PC, I can see "Portal" in my device manager, but I don't know what to do beyond this. I hate being unable to figure it out, but I have already waited several weeks while we were on a driving trip and I couldn't play with this, now I really want to get Immortal and Portal Hub set up, for starters!!!

MS, please catch up!!!

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I’m wondering if anyone else has experienced cording that was going away but flared up its ugly little head after starting radiation. I had complete lymph node removal which caused cording. Physical therapy helped and it’s been calming down very nicely and then I started radiation this week.

I can barely keep my right arm still during the treatments - it literally is screaming at me by the end to “move - move me - please move me!!”