Huawei Mate 20 Tips and Tricks
Sometimes you may get a notification from a particular App and you would like to change the settings of that App.
To do this, pull down your notifications screen. Then long press on the Notification of the App you would like to see the settings for. Then select the gear icon. This will take you straight to the App settings. Now you can change app settings as per your desire.
If you have forgotten your custom unlock pattern, then don’t panic.
After 5 unsuccessful tries a button should appear saying ‘Forgot pattern’. Press this and you will be asked to enter your Gmail username/password.
The phone will then ask for a new unlock pattern. If you don’t have a Gmail account, then you might have to either call your carrier or factory reset your phone.
When taking photos or videos, tap the screen where you want to focus on. The phone will automatically adjust the settings to improve the image or video
To stop the Photo App or the Music player from indexing your files, place a blank text file called .nomedia in the folder containing your photos or music.
The best way to do this is to connect your device to a PC and then navigate to the relevant folder via your PC.
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.
The phone has the ability to send quick response text messages if your phone is ringing but you can’t answer it.
To change these, go to your Dialler App and press the Menu or More button.
Then select Settings – Quick Responses.
From here you can add or edit your reject messages.
Android manages your applications so if the phone is running low on memory, it will close the oldest running App.
If you do need to manually close an application go to Settings – Applications – Application manager. Then swipe the screen from right to left until you are on the Running screen.
Then choose the application you want to stop and select Force Stop.
If you are browsing a website and want to see the HTML source code behind the page, then Android doesn’t offer you the ability to do this by default.
There is however a handy App called View Web Source which can be installed. Whenever you want to view the HTML of a web page, you just press the Menu – Share – View Web Source.
You can then browse the code or copy the content into the clipboard.
There is a hidden Android Easter egg on the phone that Google has built into your device.
Go to Settings. Then scroll down to About device. Then tap on the Android version option 5 times.
Once you see something on the screen, you can then rub the screen with your finger to produce another surprise. If rubbing doesn’t work then try tapping with your finger. A combination of the above should work.
By the way don’t expect to see an actual Easter Egg. That is just the name given to things hidden inside software or operating systems.
Checking Available RAM and CPU utilization on your Huawei Mate 20 is very helpful if you are thinking about removing more Apps.
Looking at which Apps drain your RAM, CPU time, and battery will help you decide which of them should be removed from your phone.
To do this, just follow the simple steps below:
- Go to your phone settings. You can do this by swiping down the home screen to reveal the notification bar. From there, tap on the gear icon to open Settings.
- Look for Device Maintenance → Memory
- Alternately, you can also tap on “Data Usage,” then scroll down to see which apps are taking up CPU power.
- You may also look for “Smart Manager.” You will see the status of your RAM and Storage in this area. If you tap RAM, you will see a list of apps that are taking up much of your RAM.
- For Huawei users, you can look for “Storage” under Settings.
All methods from 2 to 4 can be accessed on the Phone Settings alone. There are certain variations, depending on your phone or unit.
This section should also show what is taking up valuable CPU time. Useful if you think some Apps are draining your battery.
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