Thursday, December 10, 2015

5 Hidden Tricks For Your Android Smartphone


Almost everyone uses a smartphone these days. The number of Android smartphone users is much higher as compared to iOS and Windows Phone. Although it is a very user friendly operating system, you can’t always find everything in the user manual. There are many hidden features in Android. .





1. Quick Access Notification Settings

Notifications can sometime be annoying. Sometimes you don’t want to see notifications from some particular apps. Android has solution for this problem. You can customize the notifications settings. Simply tap and hold on any notification in the drop down notification bar. Tap on the Setting icon next to the notification, it will take you to Notification Setting. You can adjust them or even turn them off.

2. High Contrast Text

People with weak vision can have a problem with reading the text on a smartphone display. You can make the text look more crisper and easy to read by turning on High Contrast. Simply head to Settings > Accessibility and you will find High Contrast Text option here.

3. Smart Lock

Google has introduced a new feature called Smart Lock in latest version of Android. Entering a security pattern or PIN to unlock the phone everytime becomes tedious job. Google has addressed to this exact issue by introducing Smart Lock options. You can set Smart Lock to keep the device unlocked at your trusted locations or even add a Bluetooth device as a trusted device to unlock it. Once you do this, your phone will not ask for a lock password when it detects the location or bluetooth device.

4. Custom Reject SMS

When you get a call during in an important meeting, you have to reject it. If the call was important, you send SMS to the person. Android by default shows a list of predefined messages to send while rejecting a call. You can remove or edit any of these pre-set messages. Go to Setting > Phone or open the dialer and access Phone settings. You will find ‘Reject with SMS’ option in this menu.

5. Increase Interface Speed

You need developer access to increase the interface speed of your device. Go to Setting > About Phone and tap 7 times on ‘Build Number’, this will enable Developer Option for your device. Now head to Developer Options and look for Window and Transition Animation scale. It is set to 1x by default, you can reduce it t 0.5x to improve the speed. You can even turn off the animation effects to further improve interface speed. 

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