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Galaxy S10 Stops Playing Music on Screen Lock – Fix Spotify and Radio Playback

2020-09-142019-03-30 by Adam Swift

The Problem

The problem looks like the following: Spotify, Google Play Music, Radio or any other music player app stops playing in about 2 minutes after Samsung Galaxy S10 (S9, S8), Note 10 gets locked. Here’s how to fix on Android 9 Pie.

There is an aggressive mechanism of power saving on Android 9 Pie and Android 10 Q. The operating system tries to put every other app to sleep to prevent the battery drain.

But when it comes to audio players (and Spotify in particular) such extreme power saving behavior can turn out to be excessive and stop music playback after a few minutes (automatic screen lock by timeout) or even after a few seconds (if you lock your screen by pressing the Power button).

How to Stop Apps From Draining the Battery on Galaxy S20, S10, Note

2020-09-132019-03-19 by Adam Swift

Here are multiple effective solutions to prevent apps from draining the battery of your Samsung Galaxy phone. First you should try to turn off notifications from specific apps to get rid of sounds, vibrations and screen wakes. Then, you can restrict specific apps from working in the background. If this is not enough, turn off or even uninstall some of them.

Get Rid of Opera Mini News and Ads on Android Lockscreen

2020-09-132019-03-05 by Adam Swift

get rid of lock screen news by opera mini

Opera Mini browser is a nice app that can help easily and safely change IP to another country to visit a blocked website and save your mobile data when in roaming using its unique page compression feature. But as any freeware app it has a backside – annoying ads and news.

Often people cannot understand where those ads on the lock screen came from. Yeah, Opera Mini is able to show you annoying unwanted content and you can be surprised greatly when you are unlocking your phone or tablet.

Here is how to disable news option in Opera Mini app settings to get rid of ads and news on Android lock screen and start page within the browser itself.

How to Register Another Fingerprint on Galaxy S20, S10, Note 10

2020-09-132019-03-04 by Adam Swift

Many users successfully initialize the fingerprint sensor during the initial setup but they don’t understand how to add another fingerprint later.

But it is very important to know how to register another one because many of Galaxy phone owners will surely want to be able to unlock their phone with thumbs of both hands.

Moreover, in some cases you may also need to allow you wife (or husband) to use the same smartphone and be able to quickly unlock it.

In this step-by-step guide I will explain how to add another fingerprint on Galaxy S10 / S10 +/ S10e running Android 9 Pie.

How to Enter the Recovery Mode on Galaxy S10/S10+/S10e

2020-09-142019-02-25 by Adam Swift

In this guide you will learn to reboot your Samsung Galaxy S10, S10+ or S10e into recovery mode and wipe cache or factory reset your phone.

Based on my experience I can say that you should reset your Galaxy once a year to get rid of glitches and also after you upgrade Android OS to the latest version if you don’t want to face the battery drain issue on Android 9 Pie with One UI 1.1.

I advise you to remember the key combination to boot your Galaxy S10 into Recovery Mode because you might not be able to use Google in case if your Android phone is bricked or faced a bootloop.

How to Enable Three-Finger Gesture to Take Screenshot on Huawei

2020-09-142019-02-15 by Adam Swift

I enjoy Huawei’s EMui skin very much! One of my favorite features in this UI is gestures. In particular, it is very handy to take a screenshots using three-finger gesture instead of pressing and holding some key combination.

And when your phone has 6-inch screen it is especially important. In this guide I will show how to enable the feature on Huawei phones like P20/Pro/Lite, Mate 20/Pro/Lite, Nova 3/3i, Honor View series, etc.