How To Find A Missing Phone On Silent

7 hidden tricks for your Android smartphone

Updated: 30 Jan 2016, 01:51 PM IST

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vii hidden tricks for your Android smartphone

Text: Karan Bajaj & Hitesh Raj Bhagat, ET Bureau

You lot don't always find everything you lot need to know in the user transmission plus, who reads that thing anyhow?

If y'all desire to find out more than most some subconscious tips and tricks for your Android smartphone/tablet device, read this non-exhaustive list.

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Rapidly admission notification settings

As well many notifications tin can go irritating after some time. Tap and hold on a notification in the drop downward notification bar.

This will show you a Setting icon next to the notification -- tap on the icon to open upwardly the Notification settings of that particular app.

From here, you tin adjust them or plough them off completely.

Reading text on a smartphone screen can exist be difficult for people with weak vision. Oftentimes, lite grey text tends to merge with the background making information technology hard to read.

An easy way to solve this issue is by enabling high contrast text from Settings > Accessibility. Once enabled, you can instantly see the text appear crisper and like shooting fish in a barrel to read.

For security reasons, everyone should gear up a lockscreen password on their smartphone. But it gets tedious to enter it each fourth dimension. With the smart lock office, you tin accept the phone unlocked when its safe with you in your dwelling.

Go to security > Smart Lock and add your abode location to trusted places. You can also add together a Bluetooth de vice (like a speaker or trusted device.)

Once you lot do this, your telephone volition not inquire for a lock password when information technology detects that y'all are at home or if you are connected to 1 of the trusted devices.

Did you switch off your telephone ringer and misplace the phone?

Since its on silent, even calling it from another number might not help. The simple fashion out is to head to www.google.com/android/devicemanager and login with the same Google ID as the phone.

Here, you can view the location of your telephone and send a signal to band loudly -even with the ringer off.

Become to Settings > Phone or open up the dialer and access the telephone settings. In the menu, you will encounter a Pass up with SMS choice.

In this setting, you can remove or edit any or all of the pre-fix messages to exist sent when you turn down an incoming call.

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Increase interface speed

Head to settings > About Telephone and tap seven times on the 'Build Number' carte.

This volition enable Programmer Options in settings. Hither, scroll downward to settings for Window and Transition Blitheness scale.

By default, the value of animation is set up to 1x. Reduce it to 0.5x to improve the speed. Yous tin can also turn the animations off to further ameliorate the speed.