ZTE Grand S Tips and Tricks
Factory OS: Android 4.1.1 (Jellybean)
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If you find the vibration of your phone a little too much, this can easily be reduced.
From the homescreen press Menu – Settings – Sounds. Then under Feedback, press Vibration intensity. Then slide the bar left or right to change the intensity.
You can also turn off Haptic feedback if you really don’t want any feedback.
While typing emails or notes, you can simply tap the space key twice and the phone will insert a full stop / period
To share or upload a video to services like Facebook or Youtube, start from your Gallery App and long press on a video.
From here you will be given options to share the video with various services.
While in the Camera App you can view all current settings by pressing and holding the little Gear icon in the top right corner of the app.
Open your music and play a song. Then press Menu – Sound Effects. You will then be presented with an equalizer including presets.
In the Calendar App there is no Year view along the top of the App. You can however use pinch to zoom gestures to zoom in and out of Month and Year view however.
This is useful if you want to quickly jump backwards or forwards through a few months at a time.
If you are running low on phone memory, you can look for your largest applications to uninstall. Go to Settings – Applications – Manage Applications and press Menu. This will then filter your apps by memory use
If you use the Face Unlock feature but you’re in a dark room or wearing a hat and scarf, you can bypass the unlock just once.
Simply press the Lock icon on your screen and you can then enter your PIN instead.
Go into Settings – Location and security. Then under Screen unlock settings press Change screen lock. Then chose None.
If you want to setup new email accounts, like Yahoo or Hotmail, go to All Apps and press the Email icon. A setup wizard will then be launched.
Enter you email address and password into the fields. You can also change the settings after this step.
Once you’re happy with the settings, give your account a Name and you’re done.
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