Samsung Galaxy Xcover 2 Tips and Tricks
Factory OS: Android 4.1.1 (Jellybean)
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If you regularly visit a website you can add a shortcut to your homescreen. To do this, go into your browser and find the bookmark of the page you want to create a shortcut for. Long press on the bookmark and select Add Shortcut to Home
You can speed up the page load speed on your browser by disabling JavaScript.
To do this, open your Browser, then Menu – More – Settings. Scroll down and untick JavaScript
Please note that this may affect the functionality of some sites.
If you prefer a different voice when listening to the Google Maps voice navigation, you can select another language or accent.
From the Homescreen press Menu – Settings – Voice input and output – Text-to-speech settings. Then under the Default settings section, press Default engine.
To change the language, go through the same process, but instead of Default engine, select Language.
To set your voicemail number which allows your phone to automatically input your voicemail password, then open your Dialer App.
Then choose the Phone tab and go to Settings – Voicemail settings – Voicemail number and enter it there.
Depending on your carrier you may have to enter the series of steps required to go through the voicemail menu, for example: *86,,yourpassword# (a comma inserts a pause).
Here are the top 5 tips to make your phone run faster:
1) Use only essential widgets on your homescreen – each widget consumes memory and processing power which can slow your down your phone.
2) Uninstall apps that you don’t use – after awhile your phone can get cluttered as some Apps are designed to always run in the background. If you rarely use an App, then uninstall it to free up memory and CPU resource.
3) Install Apps to your phone memory – if you have an SDCard, always install Apps to the phone memory, which can be accessed faster. If you have Apps on the SDCard, then move them back to the phone memory with an App called Move2SD available from the Play Market.
4) Use Static rather than Live wallpapers – Live wallpapers consume processing power and memory. Unless you really must have them, uninstall them.
5) Kill tasks occasionally – Some Apps will run in the background indefinitely unless you kill them. Most of them won’t cause a problem, but it pays to check your running tasks from time to time. Hold down your Home key and check the Task Manager.
One last thing: Don’t use Task Killers. Android manages tasks very well and Task Killers just make your phone unstable and can slow it down further.
There are two options to increase the font size on your phone:
The first is to simply install a new font that is larger than the default font. Font Changer and Type Fresh are two Apps that allow you to change Fonts on your phone (they do require Root access though).
The second option is to use dedicate Apps to change the font size, although they will normally only work for SMS and some Google Apps.
To enlarge the SMS font, go to the Android Market and download an App called ChompSMS. Among other things, the App allows you to increase the font size of your SMS messages.
For enlarge SMS and the standard Google Apps fonts, then download an App called SMS/Talk Text Enlarger.
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When is the sunset in
What is the time zone of
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Is it going to rain tomorrow?
Do I need an umbrella?
Do I need a jacket
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Where is
Navigate to
I am hungry (shows all nearby food points on map)
How far is
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What is
Square root of
What is the numerical value of Pi
Convert
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Schedule of
Websites
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YouTube
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Send a text to
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If you want to find your phone’s WiFi MAC address (for improved WiFi security), then from the Home screen, go to Menu – Settings – About Phone – Status.
Then scroll down until you see WiFi MAC Address. The address should be a series of Hex numbers and letters.
To use your phone as a WiFi hotspot, tether it via USB or via Bluetooth, then go to Settings – Tethering And Portable Hotspot.
You can then choose from three options:
1) USB – connect your phone via a USB cable. The phone should automatically configure the correct settings.
2) WiFi Hotspot – To turn your phone into a WiFi hotspot, press Configure WiFi hotspot. You will then be asked to enter a Network SSID (this is your own name for the WiFi hotspot). Then choose Security and lastly, choose a password (this is password for your WiFi hotspot which you will enter on your computer).
3) Bluetooth – With this option, you will need to pair a Bluetooth device with your phone. On the other device, ensure you search for Bluetooth devices and your phone should show up.