Microsoft Lumia 535 Tips and Tricks
To silence incoming calls while the phone is ringing, you can simply press the Volume button.
If you also want to silence the call AND make the screen blank, then press the Power button.
A handy feature with Mango is the ability to update your Facebook status with your voice.
If you haven’t already done so, you will need to Register a Phone and Activate Text Messaging. To set this up, log in to your Facebook account and go to Account Settings. Then on the left side, click Mobile, then click Add a Phone. You will be asked to enter your password and your phone settings. You will then be asked to send a text to Facebook to confirm your phone. Facebook will then send you a confirmation code to your phone, which you will then need to type into Facebook to complete the setup.
Next you will need to set Facebook up as a Contact on your phone. Go to the People Hub, press the Plus (+) icon, then press New Contact, then enter Facebook for the Contact’s name. Then enter the phone number as 32665. (you may need to check this here http://www.facebook.com/help/?page=217343558285214 if you don’t live in the UK, US or other common countries)
Once that is setup, you just say Text Facebook on your phone. Then speak your message and say Send. This will then send the message to Facebook which will update your status.
Before you can pay for goods, your phone must first support NFC and this should be enabled.
To enable, go to Settings – Tap+Share. You will then need to enter your payment details within the Wallet App. You can do this by pressing the + symbol inside this App. You will also need to do this step if you ever want to pay for an App or Song/
Once they have been setup, then check with the shopkeeper that they support NFC. If they do, then simply swipe the phone over their terminal and your bank or PayPal account will be charged. Great to avoid getting out your credit card and mucking around with PINs.
A neat future of Windows Phone is the Glance settings for your Lock Screen which allows you to setup a number of useful Glance or Peek features when your phone is in Standby. Normally on your lock screen you can Glance at the time, but there are many more options.
To find these options, go to Settings – Glance Screen.
From here you can setup quite a few options, including a timeout if you’re concerned about using your battery when using this feature. You can also set it up so that when you Glance at night, it will show a dark colour rather than a white glare which is hard on the eyes.
Instead of copying and pasting text you see on a website, you can highlight a word. Then press the Search button to search for the word on Bing
To share websites that you are browsing on Facebook or Twitter, you can simply press the More (ƒ?Ý) and then select Share page.
Simply find the application in your apps list. Press and Hold on the application and select Uninstall
If you prefer not to have the ‘Sent from my Windows Phone’ message at the bottom of emails, then here is how to remove it:
Go into Mail and press the 3 dots at the bottom of the screen. Select Settings and change it there
This is useful if you don’t want people to know that emails are being sent from your phone.
Microsoft may still be in denial, but Bing is not the best search engine in the world and most Windows Phone users would prefer to use Google by default.
As you might expect from a Microsoft phone, you can’t disable Bing by default, but you can go to the App Store and download the Google Search App.
Once you have that, then simply Pin this to your Start screen so it’s easily accessible.
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