Guides, tips and tricks, related to Google’s mobile OS – Android. Here we list articles about configuring features, customizing apps and solving problems that are common for all Android devices, regardless of skin (UI, software overlay) or manufacturer.
Interruptions is a very useful feature on Android. It allows you to restrict notifications such as calls, messages and reminders. You can specify which events will bother you and which ones will be muted.
The most useful thing is to learn how to set up priority interruptions only in silent mode. In other words allow vibration notifications from your most important (or priority) contacts only.
This works for Android 7 Nougat, Android 6 Marshmallow as well as for CyanogenMod 12 and 13.
My Samsung Galaxy S5 freezes from time to time and only battery removal could bring it back to working condition. When I open the Gallery it crashes and the phone reboots by itself. When it booted up again it worked extremely slow!
I opened the gallery and saw the damaged video file with a black thumbnail. I tried to delete it but the deletion failed: the gallery app crashed and the phone rebooted again.
You can enter the Recovery mode by pressing Home, Volume and Power buttons in different combinations for different smartphones.
But you can also reboot to Recovery Mode without pressing the combination of buttons on CyanogenMod. It can be quite useful, for instance, if you have a button broken or you don’t know the combination for your particular model or if it is simply unhandy to press those three buttons simultaneously. Here is how to reboot into Recovery in CM12 / CM13. This method can also work for some versions of stock Android 5 and 6.
I don’t know about all Galaxy models, but Galaxy S-series (flagship devices) and A-series (mid-range phones) are known to support audio recording in stereo that makes your recording sound much better.
On some devices it is called Interview mode. Of course, it works only on models equipped with two hardware microphones. Here is how to switch the built-in voice recorder app to stereo mode on Samsung Galaxy devices.
SplenDO is a perfect to do list app for Android developed by Splend Apps. It is very convenient for managing all your tasks: you can create separate task lists and set up reminders for each task. The great advantage is that you can customize a lot of settings to your taste.
You may want to share the link from Android to PC or backwards if you find something interesting on the Internet. In this article we will talk about the ways to quickly and easily send URL from your phone to your computer.