Android 9 (Pie) Tips and Tricks
With the recent versions of Android you can now take photos while recording video by simply pressing the screen.
This will save that particular frame to the gallery while continuing to record video.
Sometimes you will want to prevent your device fro, displaying or indexing folders on your Phone storage or USB storage.
To do this, simply rename the folder and place a . (full top / period) before the file or folder name.
This can be done through the Files App or by plugging your device in to your computer and renaming it there.?
At the bottom of each homescreen is your favourites tray, which consists of 5 icons.
You can customise it by adding icons to the tray. If it’s full however, then press and drag an App from the homescreen and move it over the top of an App it will create folder containing the existing App and the new app, so no need to remove some from the tray.
To remove an icon, simply press and hold an icon. Then drag it to your desktop.
Then to add a new one, simply drag an icon from your homescreen to the favourites tray.?
If you want to setup new email accounts, like Yahoo or Hotmail, go to your list of Apps.
Find the Email icon and press on it. A setup wizard will then be launched.
Enter you email address and password into the fields. You can also change the settings after this step.
Once you’re happy with the settings, give your account a Name and you’re done.
You can speed up the page load speed on your browser by disabling JavaScript.
To do this, open your Browser, then press the Menu or More button and then Settings – Advanced. Then select Site setting and change the Enable JavaScript option.
Please note that this may affect the functionality of some sites.
Follow this guide if you want to check the data and WiFi usage on your Operating System Android 9 Pie.
In this day and age, staying connected is essential. However, whether we like it or not, most mobile data plans put a limit on our data usage each month.
Browsing through Social Media may be fine, but downloading and streaming content can easily eat up on your monthly data allocation.
Reaching your data cap means that you cannot stay online for the rest of the month. Worse, you may be allowed to go online but it also means a huge bill by month’s end.
- Go to Settings → Connections → Data Usage
- From there, you can set a limit or data cap for a certain time period or billing cycle (a week, month, etc).
- You may also press the Menu option and tap “Restrict Background Data Usage.” This option will help you manage your data usage, especially for apps that run in the background (such as Instagram and Messenger). However, this also means that the apps may stop working properly.
To check WiFi usage on the Operating System Android 9 Pie, follow these steps:
- Go to Settings → Connections → Data Usage
- From there, tap on the Menu button (3 vertical dots on the upper-right corner of the screen).
- Tap on “Show WiFi” then “Wi-Fi data usage.”
Alternatively, some Android handsets may need to follow these steps below:
- Go to Settings → WiFi & Internet → Data Usage
- Tap WiFi Data Usage to view WiFi stats.
- From this menu, you can also view data/WiFi usage per app.
The methods above generally work for most Android phone devices. Some handsets may have slight variations, you should just look for something similar Connections, Networks, or Data Usage menus.
Huawei users however have to follow a different process. Below is a short guide to check data and WiFi usage for Huawei phone users:
- Go to Optimizer → Data Usage
- From there, you can view your data usage for the month.
- You also have a Smart Data Saver feature. You may turn that on if you want to.
- You can also tap on the apps which are shown to be big data consumers and adjust their usage/consumption accordingly.
- You may also set a limit by tapping “More Data Settings” then “Monthly Data Limit.”
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.
Sometimes while typing long text or SMS messages you will get a message saying Converting to multimedia message. This won’t normally cause a problem, however some users do not want to send a MMS message.
There are a number of different settings to deal with this, however there isn’t really a way to prevent the phone from converting to an MMS. The reason for this is that any message over 480 characters cannot be sent as an SMS message. They must be sent as an MMS. The is a restriction of SMS messages in general, similar to the original limit of 160 characters. ?
What you can do however is ensure you get alerted when you have reached 480 characters. Then you can decide to send the message as an SMS and continue your conversation on a second message.
To check this setting is on, open your Message App and press More – Settings and More Settings – Multimedia messages. Then select Set restrictions and choose Warning. You will now be told when your message is being converted to MMS.
You can also change the settings for Creation mode which lets you restrict messages that go over a certain size. If you select Warning or Restricted, you should get further warnings when your message is really large and may not be handled by the network.
Note: This availability of this feature depends on your device.
To see notifications on your Lock screen, the best option is to download an App called NoLed from the Play Store. This will show notifications such as text messages, emails and missed calls as bright icons on your homescreen.
You can choose between very small squares or small icons and these can assigned by coloured.
Recent Android versions use a special mode that hides all Android related visuals. The mode is called immersive mode and it essentially means certain Apps have the whole screen available.
Sometimes this can be annoying however and you want to see the time, signal strength or batter indicator.
To temporarily leave immersive mode, simply drag down your notifications screen and the phone will exit immersive mode so you can see other features.
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