Asus Zenfone Max Tips and Tricks
Factory OS: Android 7 (Nougat)
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Android now comes with a sound Equaliser so you can adjust your bass and treble.
Simply open a music file using the Music Player App or just open the App.
Then press More in the top right and choose Settings – SoundAlive and then select Custom.
Then simply move the sliders or dials to adjust the bass and treble.
To set different notifications for each contact on your Android Device, you can use apps like Contact Alert (Free) or Custom SMS Tones (paid).
These apps work alongside the default/stock messenger app.
Make sure to disable the notification tone in your stock messenger app to avoid hearing two alerts.
At the bottom of each home screen is your favourites tray, which consists of 5 icons. You can customise it by adding icons to the tray. If it’s full however, you will first need to remove some.
To remove an icon, simply press and hold an icon. Then drag it to your desktop.
Then to add a new one, simply drag an icon from your home screen to the favourites tray.
Sometimes you will want to prevent your device from displaying or indexing folders on your Phone storage or USB storage.
To do this, simply rename the folder and place a . (full top / period) before the file or folder name.
This can be done through the Files App or by plugging your device in to your computer and renaming it there.
A handy feature of Android is to quickly clear your notifications.
Simply pull down your notifications bar by swiping your finger from the top of your phone downwards.
Then when you see each individual notification, swipe your finger left or right to clear each one. You can do this with your Apps too – press and hold the multitasking button. Then swipe left or right to close Apps.
If you are browsing YouTube videos on your phone and they appear blurry, then this is usually because of your connection speed.
If you are using 3G / 4G and you’re in an area of low signal strength, then YouTube will sometimes automatically reduce the quality of the video. Unfortunately this can make the video very pixelated and of poor quality.
If you are using the standard Android browser, then when the video is in full screen, press the back button. Then press HQ and start playing it again.
If you are using another browser, then press the Settings icon on the bottom right of the YouTube video. Then change the quality.
This may improve the quality, but it may also lead to buffering issues.
Another solution is to use a WiFi connection, if one is available.
To change your default font, go to Settings – Display – Screen zoom and Font.
You can also change the font size here also.
Another option is to install the popular Go Launcher EX App. Then once this is installed, download their GoLauncher Fonts App.
If you see the following errors:
Resting robot
Exclamation point (for rooted phones)
No command
This indicates that your phone is in Android Recovery mode and often appear when you try to recover or reboot.
To fix this, follow these steps:
1. Once any of the three appears, press and hold your phone’s volume up button for 10-15 seconds.
2. Next, without letting go of the volume up button, press and release the power button once. It will display a menu.
3. Navigate around the menu using the volume button.
4. Select Reboot System Now and your phone should be rebooting
Alternatively, you can do the following:
1. When any of the three appears, press and hold the power button for 2-3 seconds.
2. Then, without letting go of the power button, press and release the volume up button, once. It will display the same menu.
3. Select Reboot System Now and your phone should reboot.
If Reboot System Now doesn’t work try updating first.
When entering text into Apps such as your Messaging App, Facebook App and so on, you can tap on the words to start selecting text.
Normally, you would then drag the left and right sliders to select the word, or words you want to highlight.
If you double tap on a word however, it will quickly select that word.
Very handy for quickly copying and one words, name or place.
Type a word that is not in the dictionary. The word will show up in the suggestion box to the left. Long press on the word and it will save to the dictionary.