Huawei P9 Tips and Tricks

To add an email or phone number to your contacts from a text message, you can long-press on the email / phone number. Then select Copy text.

Once that has been copied to your clipboard, go to your Contacts App and select the Create New Icon.

Enter the contact details, then select either email or phone and long press on the field. Then select Paste to paste the info from the original text message.

To fix touchscreen sensitivity issues, follow these:

1. On your dialer, dial *#2663#. This will bring up a menu.

2. Bring up dialer and dial *#2663# to bring up a menu

3. On that menu, tap the button that says ?TSP FW update (general)?

4. Once you press that, a pop-up will appear saying ?Updating, do not turn off.? Just wait for it to finish updating.

5. A message saying ?update complete: pass? should appear once update is complete.

6. Exit the menu by pressing the back button and try out your device. It should be fixed now.

If you find the vibration of your phone a little too much, this can easily be reduced.

Go to Settings. Then select System – Language and input.

Then select the keyboard you’re using.

From here you can change the vibration settings.

To silence the phone when ringing there are two methods:

Either press the Volume Down (or Up) button or if the phone is on a surface facing up, simply flip it over so it is facing down.

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.

Android now comes with some great battery management built into the OS.

Pull down your notifications screen and select Settings.

Then go to Battery and you will see some useful stats such as the time remaining.

There are also two other options:
– Power saving mode and
– Ultra power saving mode

Select one of these to really make your phone last the distance.

Be warned that these can limit your device quite considerably as certain features will be disabled in order to conserve battery life.

To copy files between your phone and PC, go to the Android Play Market and search for one of the following top rates Apps:

Air Droid
Shareit
Xender
Superbeam

These are all useful Apps which allow you to connect your phone to your PC wirelessly, allowing you to move files and many other things.

Alternatively if you just want to copy using USB then simply plug the standard micro USB cable into your phone and it should appear as another drive on your PC.

An almost essential setting is the ability to lock your screen by pressing the power key once. It will save plenty of time in the long run.

If this isn’t enabled, then go to Settings – Personal – Accessibility – Answering and ending calls. Then select Pressing the power key.

Android cleverly uses Picasa to sync photos between your account and your phone. Sometimes however, this means that you will get duplicates appearing in your Gallery when they’re not actually on your phone.

To stop this from happening, and so you only see photos on the Phone or SD card, then follow these steps:

Drag down your notification menu from the top and click on the Gear icon to bring up your Settings. Then select Accounts and Google. Then select your Gmail account.

You should see a list of options that are ticked. Scroll down to the one that refers to Picasa and untick that.

Now that’s done we want to remove the thumbnails from your Gallery, so we need to refresh the Gallery. To do that, swipe down and go to Settings again. Then select More – Application Manager. Swipe across to show ALL Apps. Then find the Gallery App and press Clear Data.

This will erase the thumbnails in your Gallery, so don’t panic that your photos have disappeared. Just wait for the Gallery to re-build its index which could take awhile.

But the good news is that your Picasa Albums shouldn’t be there anymore.

To quickly close Apps, press the Multitask key.

On most devices, this is the bottom right button, but may vary.

This will display your currently running Apps.

From here you can simply swipe the Apps off the screen by dragging your finger left or right.

This is a very quick way to free up some memory.