Samsung Tab3 being naughty again

[Bealman]

As many of you know, my Tab3 has had it's moments in the past, but the good folk on here have always worked it out.

Well here's a new one for you, which has me baffled.

No connection problems this time - emails coming in fine, I can do a Google Search, get a list of websites, but that's where it stops.

Click on a site, tab comes up saying loading, blank screen, and that's it. 24 hours later, and it's still the same - and that includes this forum and every bookmark on the thing. In the meantime, emails are coming in fine.

Anyone got any ideas?

George

[railsquid]

Have you tried turning it off and back on again (serious question)?

We have a somewhat elderly Nexus tablet which increasingly hangs up after a while and needs a complete reboot.

[Bealman]

Will give it a shot! May as well reboot the router too, I guess!

[Bealman]

Just did what you suggested when I got home.

Mate, worked straight away!

Didn't need to reboot the router. 

Looking forward to my visit in May and really hope we meet! 

George

[railsquid]

It's almost as if I work in IT... 

Not an expert on mobile devices but unlike ye olde Nokias etc. of yesteryear which run for decades on a single charge, these smartphonetablet thingies are darn complex whatchamightcallits not all that different from proper PCs and all these apps and websites lead to the build-up of crud (to use the technical term) in memory and after a while they can get all "oh where was I we don't have summers like there used to be and you could go all the way to the end of the tramline on a ha'penny groat" and a reboot is the only way of dragging them back into the 21st century.