Nokia Lumia 525 Tips and Tricks
Factory OS: Windows Phone 8
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To rate your applications to help other users, go to the Applications list. Then Press and Hold on the app. Select Rate and review and give it a rating out of five
If you want to change the text (or font) on your phone, then go to Settings – Ease of Access.
From here you can move a horizontal bar to change the font size. You will also see some other accessibility options like high contrast and TTY/TDD.
To put your phone in flight mode, or offline mode, go to Start – Applications list – Settings. Then press Flight mode.
Simply Press and Hold on a text message and choose Delete
To turn off the camera shutter sound follow these steps:
Go to Start – Applications list – Settings – Ringtones + sounds. Then press Camera shutter to turn it off.
This can be useful if you are taking photos in a quiet place, so that you do not disturb others.
This option might not be available in all regions however.
If you are listening to the radio and like a song, but don’t know the name or artist, your phone can help you. This is similar to the Shazam music service.
Simply open the Bing App and press the Music button. The phone will then search for the song and provide you the song, artist, album cover and a link to purchase the track (or album) from the Zune marketplace.
While viewing a website, press the 3 dots at the bottom of the screen. Then click on Find on page. Then search for the word you want to find
To disable the mobile version of websites, go to Settings – Applications – Internet Explorer and change it there.
This is useful if you get annoyed by websites automatically serving you mobile versions of their site. By following the steps above, you can tell the phone browser to act as a standard browser for each website that you browse.
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.
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
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