Nokia Lumia 830 Tips and Tricks
To change the colour of your tiles, go to Settings – Lock and wallpaper – Theme.
You can then change the colour of your Applications or third-party apps.
If you do not want to be disturbed for a certain period or between certain hours, then you can enable Quiet Hours.
This allows you to divert calls and/or texts to Cortana which is effectively Microsoft’s personal assistant. Just go to Settings – Quiet Hours.
You can set this to be enabled between two time periods, when you have an event in your calendar which is marked as busy or for a certain period.
You can also setup exceptions, or breakthrough rules, so that certain individuals can still reach you even when Quiet Hours is enabled.
If you are browsing a website and read something that you want to find out more about, simply highly the text. Then press the Search / Hardware button. The phone will then search for that highlighted word on Bing. This is much quicker than having to open a new browser Tab and searching manually.
If you’re on a call, you can record the conversation. While speaking, put the phone on Speakerphone. Then hold down the Camera button to record the call.
Bing Vision is a great tool which works in a similar way to the QR / Barcode scanner on some phones.
Open the Bing Vision App and it will use phone’s camera to take a phone of an object, product, book etc. It will then scan any text on the object and search for relevant information. It can also translate the text into another language.
Any example might be to scan the cover of a book. Vision will search for the book and provide you a price comparison from various book sellers.
To change the homescreen background to white, then start from the homescreen and scroll to the right.
Then choose Settings – Theme.
You can then change the theme from dark/black to light/white.
A very useful feature is the ability to double tap your phone’s screen to wake it up. This may not work on all devices.
To enable this feature, go to Settings – Touch (this should be down the bottom). It could also be called Motion Launch.
Then change the option labelled Wake Up to On. Now when your phone is on standby, you can simply double press the screen to wake it up.
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Unless you are one of the lucky few who has an unlimited data plan, then you will want to avoid going over your monthly data limit. Fortunately there is a Windows Phone feature called Data Sense.
This feature allows you to monitor your data and Wi-Fi usage and also which Apps are using the most data. You can also set a download limit per month so you don’t go over your allowance which includes the ability to prevent background downloading when you are close to your limit.
Data Sense can be found in your App Drawer.
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