9 Useful Tricks for the Android Most People Don't Know

Android system is complicated yet powerful, to believe or not, most people even don't know some hidden features of Android despite of years of using. It may be a reason for why many smartphone users complain about Android OS, then this article will introduce some tricks on Android phone, if you have other findings on it, welcome to add them on the comment.

1. Check information on locked screen
You don’t have to unlock phone screen to check your information. What you need to do is slide down from the top of screen to the bottom, then tap on whatever application you’re going to open.

2. Take a video as taking a photo of it
This is a pretty easy one, only with a tap on the screen, then a picture of the video will be saved in your phone. However, this kind of feature has not been applied in all Android phones yet. Luckily most new types of Android phone can achieve this function.

3. Make a shortcut for your frequent contacts on phone home screen
You can also bookmark your favorite contacts directly on the home screen so you can dial or text them with just a tap.

4. Take a screenshot
Android phones offer a great feature by which we can take a screenshot without using any 3rd party application. However the procedure of taking screenshot varies from one android version to another version. There are three ways to take a screenshot in Huawei Mate 8: 1)Tap the screenshot shortcuts; 2) press volume down button as well as power button at the same time, 3) draw a circle to take a screenshot of whatever part you like. Samsung Galaxy S3 and HTC One: hit the Back button and power button together. For most of Android devices, you can simply press volume down button and power button together.

5. Factory Reset
Android phone can be formatted via factory reset, your phone is being formatted to factory level. Means all the settings will go by default and all the internal data will be deleted.

Read this: How to recover lost data from android after factory reset?

6. Root with Cautions
Some users are crazy about making a difference on their phone as well as gaining some authorities to do what common users can’t do. For those who are familiar with root, then it will be a pretty good way for users to play around with phone, while for those rookie, “root” is definitely not your road to Rome.

7. Background Procedures
Most users are accustomed to directly returning to phone home screen for logging in next app without exiting from an app. Actually, the app you didn’t exit from will continue running behind. In this way, your mobile phone will in a high power consumption. When you don’t want to perform the app anymore, please do remember to exit or close all the background programs for power saving.

8.Animation Scale
For the allocation of low-use mobile phones, you might as well turn off the Animation scale under “Developer options” of “Setting”, in which way can you speed up the mobile running. Of course, if you want to polish the using experience without navigating to “Setting”, you are suggested buy a new phone with high configuration.
Some Android phone manufactures like Huawei, doesn’t show “Developer options” if you get them out of hidden area-- “About Phone”> “Build number”. You should tap “Build number” about seven times in rapid succession which ends in a pop-up of  “you’re now a developer!” , then go back , you will find “Developer options” at the bottom list of “Setting”. Lastly, Go to “Developer option” and toggle off the Animation.

9. Hereby a Tip
When your mobile phone has dropped into water, please do remember not to do anything on the phone, especially pressing the power button (Once you press this button, water will flow along circuit board). Opening the phone cover immediately to take out the battery is exactly the next step you must follow, which can keep motherboard from invasion. This is a really important tip for mobile phone users to protect their phone, if possible, I hope you could share this with your friends.

If you are unfortunately drop your Android phone in water, against data loss, you are suggested to recover data from Android phone without hesitation.

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1. How to Connect Android Phone or Tablet to PC?
2. Phone Broken with Smashed Screen-- Simply Fix it by Yourself

How to Permanently Delete Data on Internal Memory?

“Could I permanently delete data on her mobile phone, because I want to sell my phone to a stranger for a good deal?” Asked by Katy on a forum. The first solution comes up one’s mind should be performed a factory reset on the device, nevertheless, whether this kind of way can remove your phone data for good or not? With the advanced technology, a growing number of software have appeared to help us recover data from a mobile phone, which is supposed to be a piece of good news but otherwise to be terribly evil. Dangerous lurks in our personal information such as password, account, and contacts. Some treacherous people use this software to steal this private information for their personal interests. We have to defend ourselves against such illegal behavior so as to avoid belonging loss.

Why Phone data can be recovered?

The theory for Mobile phone data recovery is the same as that works for a personal computer. Even if the data on the phone or computer was simply deleted, they were still stored on the hard disk because they have been written in it. Thus, as long as people use a data recovery tool, then these data will be retrieved, which leads to a risk of information leaking.

Could we permanently get our data off mobile phones?

Put a mask on your actual phone data. Phone data can be continuously overwritten, data recovery tools can only recover the newest data that covered the old data. Thus, data recovery tool cannot restore the old data from cell phone. Namely, you ought to fill your memory full with useless information, then empty it. Repeat that procedure as much as you can. This will overwrite new data onto your old data which will decrease the chance for someone else to recover your important private data. For further information security, I would like to recommend encrypting your device before you are getting ready to wipe it. The encryption process will scramble the data on your device and, even if the wipe doesn't fully delete the data, a special key will be required to unscramble it.

To encrypt your device on stock Android, enter settings, click on Security, and select Encrypt phone. The feature may be located under different options on other devices. The next step is to perform a factory data reset. Then it would already be kind of done. If you are still concerned about security, you can repeat the two steps above. 

If you want to check if you have deleted your personal phone data, you can download Gihosoft free data recovery software for Android for Windows (Another version of Android data recovery for Mac )to see if the software can restore them. 

Have a look at this tutorial:

1. Launch the software on your computer.

2. Connect mobile phone to PC via USB cable and enable debugging mode on.

3. Scan files that you selected to recover on your Android device. 

4. Preview and recover data from Android. 

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How to retrieve data from a broken Android phone?

How to fix your cracked screen by yourself?

How to recover deleted contacts from Android phone?

Phone Broken with Smashed Screen-- Simply Fix It by Yourself!

Things happen any time! No one can predict what’s gonna happen next second. What if your mobile phone accidentally dropped down to the ground, you can’t turn back time prevent the things happened. What can you do with a cracked phone screen? Generally, people will ask specialized techs to fix the screen with a replaceable new screen, but it will cost you a lot which probably reaches to the half pay of a new cell phone. It’s obviously not worth doing like this way. Thanks to the so-called black technology of Gerhard Regener company from Germany-- Glass Glue, people can agglutinate the broken screen with this adhesive.

Useful tip: How to Access and Unlock Android Phone with Broken Screen

What you need:

one Glass Glue, UV light & one scraper

Tutorial:

Firstly, put glue on the cracked parts of the phone screen.

Secondly, evenly spread glue with the scraper.

Finally, put the phone on the US light exposure so as to dry up the glue.

More amazingly, the fixed screen seems more strong than the original one.

Theory: It is a UV glue, one-component UV curing acrylic resin adhesive, which is able to achieve adhesion under ultraviolet irradiation

Despite of the powerful adhesion of the UV glue, it cannot fix with the devastatingly smashed screen. If you are unluckily getting into such an awful situation, you may collapse into maudlin mood. However, no time for you to mourn about it, the very fist thing you need to do is to recover your phone data avoiding to get all them lost. This article will take Android phone as an example to offer you an idea to retrieve data from broken Android phone.  

Gihosoft Android data recovery software is for free, to get your data off from your phone to PC. Is it a good news for you? “Yes” for sure. You don’t even need to pay a cent for your broken phone data recovery. The following is the tutorial for Android broken screen data recovery, you may check it out.

Step 1: First above all, install the software and launch it on your desktop, the interface below will pop up right after clicking it for twice.

Step 2: Connect your Android phone to PC and make sure your phone USB debugging mode was toggled on; then click “Next”.

Step 3: With your Android phone recognized, please click “Start” to scan your files that you want to get back.

Step 4: Preview the files, then click “Recover” to retrieve data from broken Android phone.

Or you can also watch this to know more：

Finally it recovers your phone data to a file on PC, you can check them out after completing the recovery.

If you need to transfer phone data, you may need this: transfer data from iPhone to Android or Android to Android.