LG G Pad 8.3 V500 (tablet) Tips and Tricks
Factory OS: Android 4.2 (Jellybean)
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To share or upload a video to services like Facebook or YouTube, simply go to your Video App and long press on a video.
Then select Share via. From here you will be given options to share the video with various services.
If you tend to run out of battery power quickly, then you can turn on power saving mode.
Pull down the notification screen by swiping your finger from the top of the phone. Then select Power Saving.
To change the settings, go to the Homescreen – Settings – Power saving mode. Then press on that option.
In the Calendar App there is no Year view along the top of the App. You can however use pinch to zoom gestures to zoom in and out of Month and Year view however.
This is useful if you want to quickly jump backwards or forwards through a few months at a time.
To quickly close Apps, press the Home key
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.
To copy files between your phone and PC, go to the Android Play Market and download an app called Air Droid.
This is an extremely useful App that connects your phone to your PC wirelessly, allowing you to move files and many, many other things.
Android manages Apps very well and some Apps do not have the option to close them specifically. Normally the App will stay running in the background and only close when many other Apps have been opened.
If you do want to close or terminate an App, then press and hold the Home key on your phone. Then you can swipe the Apps off the screen to close them.
To speed up your phone, you can turn off screen animations. Go to Settings – Developer options.
Then scroll down to Window animation scale and select that. From here you can choose to turn Animations Off. This will make screen transitions faster.
Note: Developer Options is not enabled by default. To enable, go to Settings – About Device. Then tap on Build number 7 times.
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Depending on how your phone is set up, sometimes you will see lag when swiping between homescreens. There are a number of things you can try to fix this, as follows:
First, try restarting your phone. This will fix many problems.
If that doesn’t work, then remove any Widgets that pull data to the phone, such as Twitter, Weather widgets etc
If you have Live wallpapers turned on, then try turning them off by going to Settings – Wallpapers, then changing to a different Wallpaper.
Go to Settings – Developer Options – Window Animation Scale and Transition Animation Scale. Try changing these to 0.5x (or even 0).
Sometimes the problem can be with the phone or operators skin or launcher, so try going to the Play Store and downloading a third party launcher such as Nova launcher or Go LauncherEx. Note: you will need to re-create your homescreen shortcuts, but they are both great launchers.
Another tip is to always press the Back key instead of the Home key when leaving Apps. The Back key will often close the App properly, while the Home key will leave it running in the background.
To change your default font, go to Settings – Display – Font style. 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.