Huawei Honor 6 Tips and Tricks
Factory OS: Android 4.4 (Kit Kat)
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If you call someone regularly this can be useful as you will have a shortcut to them handily placed on your homescreen.
To bookmark a Contact on your Home Screen, then first go into your Contacts App.
Find the Contact you want to add to the Home Screen. Then press and hold on the name. Select Add shortcut to home from the options.
Then go to your Home Screens, find the Contact. You can press, hold and drag to another position.
To lock your screen while you are watching videos, simply press the power button.
This will disable the touchscreen buttons while the video is playing, but it won’t turn the screen off like the lock key normally does.
Note, this will only work on video files that you are playing that are stored on your phone. It won’t work for videos played within websites, such as YouTube videos.
There are a number of ways to get your IMEI number.
First, you can go to Settings – More – About device – Status. Scroll down and you should see IMEI listed on the screen.
Secondly, often the box that your device came in will have the IMEI printed on the label of the box or on the invoice.
Thirdly, if your device has a removable battery then open the cover and remove the battery. Your IMEI should be on a serial number plate and your IMEI number should be shown there.
Lastly, from the Dialler, enter *#06# and it should be displayed on the screen. This won’t work on all phones and all networks however.
You can speed up the page load speed on your browser by disabling JavaScript.
To do this, open your Browser, then Menu – Settings – Content Settings. Scroll down and untick Enable JavaScript
Please note that this may affect the functionality of some sites.
If you want to check how much RAM you have available, go to Settings – More – Application Manager. Then swipe from right to left so you see the Running Apps. At the bottom it should say how much is used and how much is free.
From the Contact list or the Messaging list, swipe from Left to Right to call a Contact.
This might not work on all models.
The Play store contains thousands of great Apps, but there are time that you want to restrict access to these Apps for whatever reasons. This can easily be done.
First, open the Play Store App and press the Menu icon in the top left of the App. Then select Settings and Content Filtering.
From here you can chose settings for Low/Medium/High maturity levels. Great for preventing access for young people.
To add a widget, simply long press on a blank part of one of your homescreens. Then select Widget. Scroll through the list of available widgets and choose one. It will be placed on your homescreen and you can move it around as you desire.
If you have decided to ditch your iPhone in favour of Android, then there is a simple way to take your iTunes music, playlists and album art with you.
Simply go the Android Marketplace and download a Free App called Easy Phone Tunes. You will also need the computer version of the software, so go to http://easyphonetunes.com and download it from there.
Then, when that is done, turn your phone into a USB storage device (this will vary from device to device, but instructions are on the website).
Once your device is connected to your computer, open the computer version of the software and select your device from the Easy Phone Tunes list. Then follow the instructions to Sync your media.
To show the Browser History, open your Android stock browser (the default browser). Then press the Menu key and select History.
To clear history, press the Menu key again and select Clear History.


