Samsung Galaxy Fame Tips and Tricks
Factory OS: Android 4.1.1 (Jellybean)
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Android manages your applications so if the phone is running low on memory, it will close the oldest running App.
If you do need to manually close an application go to Settings – Applications – Manage Applications – Running. Choose the application you want to stop and select Force Stop.
The brightness of the browser is set separately to the phone’s main brightness. If you find the screen dims or brightens when you go into your browser, then you can change this by opening the browser, pressing the Menu key and scrolling down until you see Brightness and colour. You can adjust it from here.
To adjust the phone’s main brightness, go to the Homescreen, press Menu – Settings – Display – Brightness.
An alternative is to use a third party browser like Dolphin, Firefox, Opera and so on. These all use the phone’s main brightness setting.
Lastly, sometimes Power Saving Mode affects the screen brightness. Go to Settings – Power Saving Mode and change the Background Colour Only mode in there. Power Saving Mode can be found by in the Notifications bar by swiping down from the top of the screen too.
To share or upload a video to services like Facebook or Youtube, start from your Gallery App and long press on a video.
From here you will be given options to share the video with various services.
While your notification bar can be handy to inform you of updates, downloads and other useful information, sometimes it can get cluttered.
There is now a way to turn this off for each application.
Go to Settings – Applications – Manage Applications. Then find Info and un-tick the box labelled Show Notifications.
When you pull down your notifications bar, they will appear expanding or contracted, depending on how many you have.
If you want to toggle between states, you can pinch out to expand a notification and pinch in to contact it.
The phone has the ability to send quick response text messages if your phone is ringing but you can’t answer it.
To change these, go to your Dialer App – Settings – Quick responses. You can only have 4 of them and you may need to edit existing ones.
If you want to remove the Google Search bar, then go to Settings – Apps – All – Google search bar – Disable.
To change your default font, you need to download a third-party app because Android does not have a built-in way of changing fonts
There are two good Apps that allow you to change fonts:
Font Changer – There is a free version and a paid version. The paid version allows you to change the screen density and allows you to preview the font. You can also change a few other options.
Type Fresh – With this App you can load any TrueType font and also backup your default fonts to your SDCard. Be aware that you might need to reboot your phone after installing Type Fresh.
Also, if you use GoLauncher, then try downloading GoLauncher Fonts.
Note: most, if not all, font changing Apps require you to Root your device
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