Sony Xperia S Tips and Tricks
Factory OS: Android 2.3
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To find out information about Signal Strength, Network Information, Remaining Battery Time and Battery Usage (by Application), go to your Homescreen – Menu – Settings – About Phone.
To change the backlight screen timeout, go to Menu – Settings – Display – Screen Time Out.
Then chose the screen time out duration.
You can use the volume buttons to put the phone in silent mode.
Keep pressing the Down volume until it reaches 0%.
If you have ‘Vibration in Silent mode’ turned on, it will also put the phone into Vibrate mode. To change this, go to your homescreen. Press Menu – Settings – Sound – Vibration.
To bookmark a contact on your homescreen, long press on the home screen background and select Shortcuts. Then select Direct dial.
If you call someone regularly this can be useful as you will have a shortcut to them handily placed on your homescreen.
To disable / enable vibrate, start from the Homescreen and press Menu – Settings – Sound.
Then under Feedback you can adjust certain features like Audible touch tones, Haptic feedback and so on.
To mute your phone from the standby menu, drag the screen unlock bar from the right to the left (instead of left to right to unlock). This will mute the phone. Do it again to unmute
To auto focus the camera when taking photos or videos, tap the screen where you want to focus on.
The phone will automatically adjust the settings to improve the image or video.
While in the Camera app you can view all current settings by pressing and holding the little Gear icon in the top right corner of the app.
To show the Browser History, press the Star in the top right corner of the browser. Then press History.
This will only work in the standard Android browser.
To turn off predictive text, go to Settings – Language and Keyboard – Touch Input – Text Input – Prediction.
Then select On or Off