10 Tricks To Get The Most Out Of Your Android Phone

10 Tricks To Get The Most Out Of Your Android Phone

Here are 10 tricks that can make you pro Android user.    Tuesday, October 14, 2014:  Android devices are quite user friendly and hence users' favourite platform. The open source OS has plenty of customisation options and features. Users perform tons of productive tasks using their Android devices. There are few tricks which Android user can follow to keep their phone’s performance up to the notch and yet get all day lasting battery life. Today we have listed 10 tricks that every Android user must know. 1. Third party keyboard Users can change the default Android keyboard on their Android phones. There are plenty of innovative keyboard options available in Google Play Store. Users can use some cool keyboard apps like, Swype for easier way of typing. 2. Power saving mode Users can enable power saving mode to save some extra battery juice. Power saving mode comes with custom UI of manufacturer. Stock vanilla Android doesn't have power saving option. Power saving mode basically hibernates the most battery consuming features such as GPS, Bluetooth. It adjusts the screen on time and brightness all by itself. 3. Google Now Google Now is a personal assistance. Users can customize, add, remove stacks provided by Google. Google now can interact with you and get your most of the activities done using voice commands. 4. Chrome Chrome browser on Android can be synced with your Google account. This can help in synchronizing your bookmarks, saved pages, preferences between Chrome on desktop and Chrome on Android. Users need to sign in their Google account in the Chrome browser for this. 5. Default apps Users can change the default apps by going to Settings - Apps. Users can change the default browser, music player, gallery, messaging etc apps by pressing ‘Clear Defaults’ of particular app in App Settings. 6. Google Authenticator It helps you secure your data on Android device. Users can enable Google authenticator using authenticator app. Google Authenticator enables two-step verification for Google account. When user logs in his Google account from different computer, he can take out phone, open the authenticator app and enter the access code. 7. Apps into folders Users can create folders to organise their apps in different categories. This reduces cluttered app drawer. It helps in finding the right app when needed. To create folder, press and hold an app and drag it to ‘Create Folder’ option in app drawer. In some custom UI, users need to drop an app on another app to create a folder. 8. Third party launcher If you are tired of looking at same interface everyday, you can choose from number of launcher options available in Google Play Store. These launcher and lock screen replacement apps redefines the interface of Android device. 9. Bandwidth management Users can reduce their data usage using bandwidth management option in Chrome. Chrome has an option called “Reduce Data Usage”. It removes whitespaces in webpages and reduces resolution of images in order to reduce data usage. 10. Extra battery No matter what power saving app you use, the battery dies quite often for heavy users. Many Android phones have removable battery. You can always keep extra charged battery with you for emergency usage.