Huawei P9 Lite Tips and Tricks
Factory OS: Android 6.0 (Marshmallow)
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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.
By default, Android will should send you a message when a new version of the firmware is available, however this option may be turned off in the settings.
To manually check and update the firmware at any point, then follow these steps:
Pull down your notifications screen and go to Settings.
Scroll down to About device.
Then click on Download updates manually.
From this screen you can also switch between Download updates automatically or manually.
You can also schedule updates to so that they occur at a certain time of the day (say, overnight). This saves you having to confirm every update yourself.
You can backup your phone contacts either through your Google account or by exporting it as a vCard file. Here’s how:
GOOGLE ACCOUNT
Method 1:
1) Go to your Android phone settings.
2) Click account, and make sure your Google account is already logged in your device.
3) Doing this automatically syncs all your data to Google, including contact numbers.
Method 2:
1) Open the Android Contacts app.
2) Go to Settings.
3) Choose Move device contacts to Google.
To efficiently backup all your contacts, you have to make sure that these are actually saved on your device, and not just on your SIM card.
To check if your contacts are already successfully synced or backed up on your Google account, just go to contacts.google.com, and log-in to your Google account to see if your contacts are already there.
EXPORT CONTACTS AS A VCARD / VCF FILE
1) Go to your phone’s Contacts.
2) Go to Settings and export contacts as a vCard file.
3) Alternaively, in Contacts, go to Settings and select Share. Then select which contacts you want to export. Then choose a method to export to.
4) This will collate all your contacts in one .vcf file which can be saved on your SD card or uploaded into a file storage service like Dropbox.
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