Secret Tricks You Didn’t Know Your Smartphone Can Do
- Magnification gestures
Did you know that your Android phone include a magnifying glass feature? This can be useful not only to read smaller print but also to zoom in on certain elements in applications that do not support zoom, such as Instagram.
Rendezvous Settings> accessibilté to activate gestures expansion. Once turned fonctionnaité, you can zoom in and out by pressing 3 times on the screen. To pan, slide two or more fingers on the screen. You can pinch two fingers to adjust the zoom level.
- Easter Egg
I am always surprised by the number of people who do not know the existence of a hidden game on their Android phone. Google hides indeed in its Android systems little surprises to discover in versions. To discover the Easter Egg (this is the name of the surprise) on your version of Android, go to Settings> About Phone and then tap the Android version several times.
- paradise for geeks
Most people do not know it but there are a lot of Android secret codes to access information on your device, for development or to perform actions quickly. The most practical code to access information is the * # * # 4636 # * # *.
You will see slightly different information depending on your version of Android, but you should at least enter a few details about your device as your IMEI number, signal strength, network information, application usage statistics and information on WiFi. Lollipop, you can also access statistics on the battery.
- Faster animations
This is the first thing I do with any new phone I get. Disable transitions and animations on your phone allows your fastest smartphone. Of course, there is a simple trick for animations and transitions are not actually run slower your phone.
For faster animations, here's what you do:
Go to the settings of your smartphone, then press the "telephone"
Find your Build number and press seven times over until the developer options are enabled
Go back into the settings and press Options developers
Find Options "window animations Scale" and "transitions animations Scale" and disable them.
- System UI Tuner (only for Android Marshmallow)
Marshmallow offers a new menu called hidden UI System Tuner. This part of the system has the advantage of containing experimental features that could be integration in one of the next versions of Android. For the momment, the menu is quite limited but does it still embarks fairly convenient options like changing the order of the thumbnails in the status bar or display the percentage figure of remaining battery in the status bar.
Here is the procedure to unblock UI System Tuner:
1. Enter and get the status / notification bar down with two fingers, then perform a long press of the mechanical wheel next time up to what vibrates.
2.Once this is done, your Android mobile device is teleported directly in the settings to alert you that the menu has been activated and added to the system settings (but where?)
3.To find it, just go to the bottom of the list where the menu has taken his seat.
