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Monday, July 18, 2016

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.

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

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