Seven Tips and Tricks for your Nexus 7

 

Seven tips and tricks for your Nexus 7!

Even if you’re a long-time Android user, you most likely stumble over some long “hidden” features that you didn’t know existed from time to time. Just having a look into the settings or playing around with your device will present some kind of new thing that you didn’t know was there before. I continually finding myself browsing through various aspects of my Nexus 7, particularly after the update to Android 4.4, just to see what has changed and what I haven’t noticed before. As such, we’ve included some pretty well known tips and well as a few other hidden gems that most users might not even know about even after using their device for some time.

Enable auto rotation of the display

It may seem a bit counter intuitive, but the rotation of the display is not enabled by default on the Nexus 7. As such, you’re stuck with a fixed display when you get the device and it may seem cumbersome for a device with a much larger screen than just your standard smartphone. There is a very quick way to be able to fix this and be able to freely have your screen adjust to whatever orientation you want to hold your phone, landscape or portrait. Simply swipe down from the top right hand of the screen to bring up your Quick Settings (this might be a tip in itself as many users aren’t even aware of how to get to Quick Settings!) and just tap on the Auto Rotate square to enable or disable this feature. Voila!

Auto-rotation in the Quick Settings.  / © AndroidPIT

Enable screen zoom

There are situations where when you`re looking to pick up a particular piece of content from a website, such as viewing a photo, and you want to be able to pick out more detail or get a zoomed in look. Well, with the screen zoom feature you can have an “imaginary magnifying glass” that hovers around your screen. This can be enabled by heading to Universal Access in your settings and choosing the Magnification Gestures option. When turned on, every time you do a triple tap on the screen, you can enlarge it and then use a pinch-to-zoom gesture to enlarge the screen even further. To get back to a normal screen, just triple tap the screen again to return to normal.

A little closer view of your display with the Magnification Gesture option. / © AndroidPIT

Larger Text

It is not really intuitive to hold your tablet extremely close to your face, such as is the case with most smartphones. Since it makes more sense to hold this larger device further away from you for reading purposes, it is also common to find situations where the text size displayed is often too small to be read at a comfortable distance. You can increase the default text size through your settings to combat this annoyance and make it so default text, such as display by a web browser, is automatically enlarged. To do so, head to your settings and go to Display and Font Size, where you can choose from four sizes for your default font. Similarly, you can get the same results by going to Accessibility in your settings and and choosing the Large Text option.

The options to change the default size of font displayed on your Nexus 7. / © AndroidPIT

Copy and Paste

This may seem extremely trivial, but this is a very important feature when it comes to using tablets that can easily be overlooked just due to not knowing exactly how to do it. To select a portion of text that you want to use, just hold your finger over it for about two seconds. This will then highlight the text and a bunch of options will pop up at the top of your screen, such as copy, paste, cut, and more. If you want to expand or constrict your highlighted portion of text, just use the two marking edges and drag them to the desired length that you want. It is hard to believe that there was a time on smartphones and tablets that this wasn’t even a standard feature.

The options provided after you hold down on a selection of text for two seconds. / © AndroidPIT

Disable WiFi during sleep mode

WiFi is a power hungry beast when it is being used, but did you know that by default that WiFi is still active, even when you’re not using your device or it is the middle of the night? Thankfully, your Nexus 7 has the option to disable using WiFi during these times that you can control. If you head to your WLAN settings and then tap in the top right corner and choose Advanced, you’ll see a slew of options to choose from. By clicking on Keep WiFi on during sleep, you can choose from either having it on all the time, only when the device is plugged in, or never. Keep in mind, this will limit the connectivity of the device so if you rely on WiFi to get messages or push notifications, you won’t receive them again until you physically wake the device up.

Settings for changing if your device connects to WiFi while asleep. / © AndroidPIT

Disable auto sync on your accounts

Google automatically syncs all your Google accounts to your Nexus device, such as Google+, Gmail, and app data. This can be a bit cumbersome if you don’t necessarily want or need all that stuff on your device or just want to keep it separate, due to multiple accounts or whatnot. In your settings, you can head down to the Accounts area and click on whichever one you want to modify. In this case, we chose Google. From there, you can then unclick all the data that you don’t want synced on this device automatically, whether it be Google Calendar items or even Google Photos.

Once you choose a particular account, you can pick and choose what you want synced. / © AndroidPIT

Disable app notifications

Do you have apps in which you constantly receive notifications from, but you really don’t want to see them anymore? If you head to the Apps portion of settings, you can select the offending app from the list of installed apps and then just uncheck the Show Notifications option just at the top of the opened page. That’s all it takes to remove the ability for that app to continue sending you notifications.

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Tips on How to install the Huawei Ascend a new keyboard

The default keyboard for Huawei Ascend comes with a multitouch, but what if you want to change and install a new keyboard. This is a thing unique to Android platforms because there are numerous keyboard options.

First, you need to install some new keyboards.

There are many different options when it comes to Android keyboards. Play around with all of them and see which one fits you best.
Better Keyboard It will allow you to change and fine-tune the keyboard to make it your own.
 
SwiftKey is another option that provides impressive word prediction, including a feature that predicts the next word you havent even begun to type yet.

Its now ready to switch a new keyboard:
1. Tap the applications launcher

2. Scroll over and tap Settings

3. In the settings menu, scroll down and tap Language & keyboard

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If you have a custom keyboard installed, you will see an option to toggle it on and off with a check box. In order to have it appear as a selection, the box next to your myTouchd keyboard must be checked.

4. Tap on Input method

5. Find the name of the keyboard you want to activate, and tap on it.

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6. Press the Home button
 If you want to test it to make sure it is activated, just press the Search key, and your keyboard will pop up like in the image above.

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Android tips and tricks: Tips to avoid trojan attacks, especially for those of you who have Android phone. Android devices are expected to become the most vulnerable to Trojan because it is open source. Symantec Security company has recently recorded a surge of malware that happens on Android phone and spreads through the application.

Here are 5 tips to protect android phone from trojan attacks as quoted from the PC World site:

1. Adjust the settings of applications on the Android operating system to stop the installation of applications that do not originate from the official Android market and guaranteed safe.
2. Test a few testimonials from users of certain applications to determine if the application is completely safe to use.
3. When installing Android applications, check the access provided. If the request is too much, you should stop the installation.
4. Use of mobile device security solution to ensure the security of every application that is downloaded.
5. The application developer must ensure that all devices connected to their networks free of malware.

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10 Best Android Secret Tips and Tricks

Android is the Linux based operating system designed primarily for touch screen mobile phones. Now a days android phones are so much popular that they covered almost 65% of total mobile phones market. Android phones provide great functionality over typical java enabled and Symbian mobile phones. They are rich in functionality as well as user friendly. Many android users don’t know much about the hidden features of android
phones. Today we are sharing an article which will tell you the best secret android tricks and hidden features of android phones. Different versions of android versions support different set of android tricks, so try all the following android tricks. I am not sure which will going to work on your handset.
1) Force reboot: Many times android users face a problem of freezing of mobile phone, In case your android phone is frozen, you can reboot it using an android trick.
Just press Power Button+ Home Key + Volume up button simultaneously.
2) Quick Google Access:
Android phones built primarily for internet, many of android users don’t know that android phones provide a way by which we can access Google search in just a single click. To use this android trick,
Press menu key and hold it for couple of seconds, it will launch the Google search.
3) Reboot Android in safe mode:
As like computers, we can also reboot android phones in safe mode. The latest android jelly bean version provides an option to reboot in safe mode, if something goes wrong.
To reboot your android in safe mode, follow the below given instructions.



*Long press the power button
*Long press on the power off option.Android phone will show a confirmation message about rebooting it in safe mode, if we reboot android phone in safe mode then all the 3^rd party application will be disabled. These applications can again be enabled when we reboot our phone normally. This is a great android utility in case when, one of your 3^rd party application is causing trouble for you and you want to hunt it.
4) Unlock android phones by face detection: This is a cool android trick by which you can unlock your phone by using face detection, In the jelly bean version, android provides a way by which android phone can be unlock using face detection, to make this feature more secure, jelly bean version added another layer of protection in which android phone can be unlocked only when the face is matched as well as we have to blink eyes in order to unlock phone. Blinking eyes tells the android security system that person is live and it’s not an illegal attempt of unlocking using a still image.
To activate this,
Go to Settings > Security > Screen lock > Face unlock.
5) Get detailed information about phone status:
We can get the detailed statistics like phone information, battery information, usage statistics and WiFi information by just dialing *#*#4636#*#*
This is a handy USSD to get the details about battery usage, DNS check, Ping, Application time usage time and so on.
6) Move android apps to SD card: Its good idea to install android apps in SD card, but what if you installed apps on your phone memory. Don’t worry android phones provide a way by which we can move our apps to SD card. To move apps to SD card, follow these steps:
Go to settings > Application settings > Manage application > Select the application, You will see the option “Move to SD card”.
7) Hard Reset and Factory reset your android phone:
This android trick comes handy at the time of selling an android phone. Android phone can be formatted in two ways

• Factory reset
• Hard reset

a) Factory reset: In 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. To factory reset a phone dial *#*#7780#*#*.
b) Hard reset: To hard reset a phone dial *2767*3855#, this will delete all the data (including internal and External SD data) as well as settings of android phone. Don’t try this code for testing purpose, until you are not sure. It will not ask for a confirmation.
8) Context menu in android:long press on the screen, will show you additional options for customizing android phones. This context menu is somewhat similar to the right click menu of most operating systems.
9) Taking screen shots on android phone:
 Android phones offer a great feature by which we can take the screen shot without using any 3^rd party application. However the screen shot android tricks vary from one android version to another version.

• Press the Home button + power button (This trick work on most android phones.)
• For Galaxy Nexus: Power button + volume down button.
• For Galaxy Note 2 and S3: Swipe your palm on the screen to take screen shot.

10) Android Version Animation:
This is another cool android trick to play with your android phone.
To use this android trick, Go to settings > about phone > Tab repeatedly on ‘Android version’.
After sometime, the android version will be animated.

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