Your Tips and Tricks for using your ANDROID cell phone (disable, capable)
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Thought I'd make a thread for us to share any tips you have using a ANDROID Smart Phone.
Some tricks that most are not aware of.
To help each other out here
I have a Moto X
Make it work better
Special features
Task Killing
Etc
Etc
Etc
And I will start....
None to share
That's why I made this thread
I know there is more to my phone that I can utilize
Rule #1, don't use task killers, memory managers, etc. All they do is decrease battery life. Android is more than capable of managing it's own resources.
Tip#1: Thoroughly go through the settings. Every single one. Click on everything. There is a lot of stuff you can change in there. You can't "break it". Don't be afraid to experiment and change stuff.
Guy I work with was taking about getting new glasses. Time for readers because he was tired of always looking under his glasses to see his phone well.
"Did you try setting the font to LARGE or HUGE?"
"You can do that?"
"Sure can"
He never got the readers and is enjoying his HUGE font.
Rule #1, don't use task killers, memory managers, etc. All they do is decrease battery life. Android is more than capable of managing it's own resources.
I'm glad you mentioned that.
I was wondering about that.
Although, I go in manually from time to time and force close out the ones that seem to frequently turn back on automatically and eat away at my data usage.
Such as Maps, Play store, gmail,
I'm glad you mentioned that.
I was wondering about that.
Although, I go in manually from time to time and force close out the ones that seem to frequently turn back on automatically and eat away at my data usage.
Such as Maps, Play store, gmail,
Any other way around that?
Even doing that is pointless as the process will have to start on it's own again, which is where the reduced battery life comes in. Stopping a service that will just have to restart gains nothing. If you don't use the apps at all you can permanently disable them.
Even doing that is pointless as the process will have to start on it's own again, which is where the reduced battery life comes in. Stopping a service that will just have to restart gains nothing. If you don't use the apps at all you can permanently disable them.
I'd like to know if there's an easier way to make a dang phone call?! Having to go into the phone app, then hit buttons in different spots on the phone, at least four times every time, is ridiculous! LOL
I'd like to know if there's an easier way to make a dang phone call?! Having to go into the phone app, then hit buttons in different spots on the phone, at least four times every time, is ridiculous! LOL
well if you're being serious, you could add shortcuts to frequent contacts on one of your home screens, then you just tap their icon and call them that way. You could also use google now "hey google, call X person"
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Samsung Galaxy s5
well if you're being serious, you could add shortcuts to frequent contacts on one of your home screens, then you just tap their icon and call them that way. You could also use google now "hey google, call X person"
