Samsung Galaxy S5 Dual Sim G900fd

Features to Enable and Disable

The Samsung Galaxy S5 is a highly advanced Android telephone, with a slew of helpful features that make it easier to multitask, share files, take photos and more. However, some of the nearly important features may be turned off past default while other useless capabilities come toggled on out of the box. These are 5 features you should enable on the Galaxy S5 and 5 you should disable with farthermost prejudice. —Avram Piltch

Disable Bear on and Unlock Sounds

When yous first turn on the Galaxy S5 and starting time navigating through its UI and clicking icons, you'll go along hearing a "bloop" racket. Unlock the phone and yous'll probably hear water rippling. While these sounds are cute the start few times you hear them, they chop-chop become abrasive, particularly when you're trying to check your telephone discretely.

To disable the Galaxy S5's annoying touch and unlock sounds:

1.Select Sound from the Settings bill of fare.

2. Toggle "Bear upon sounds" to off if it is checked

3. Toggle "Screen lock sound" to off if information technology is checked.

4.Uncheck "Dialing keypad tone" if you don't want the Milky way S5 to make noises while y'all're entering a phone number to telephone call.

Enable Personalized Predictions on Keyboard

The Samsung Milky way S5 comes with ane of the best virtual keyboards available on any phone, just to have full advantage of this powerful input tool, you lot need to tweak a few settings. The keyboard suggests words as you type, just it works much ameliorate if y'all allow the software to analyze your word patterns from emails and posts in Gmail, Facebook and Twitter. With this function enabled, next time y'all type the words "Game of," information technology will suggest "Thrones" every bit the next discussion because you've used that phrase before in one of your accounts.

By default, your Galaxy S5 also probably comes with keyboard vibrations turned on. Information technology provides good tactile feedback, but it'south a bit too weak. Yous tin can turn the intensity of these vibrations upward and make certain the keyboard improves its adjacent-discussion prediction ability by learning from things you've already written.

To tweak your Galaxy S5 keyboard:

1. Select Sound from the settings carte du jour.

2. Tap "Vibration intensity."

three. Slide the "Haptic feedback" slider all the manner to the rightand tap OK.

4. Toggle "Vibrate when tapped" to on nether "Samsung Keyboard" if it is off.

5. Navigate to Linguistic communication and Input in the settings bill of fare.

vi. Tap the gear icon to the right of "Samsung keyboard."

7. Tap "Predictive Text."

8. Toggle "Personalized data" to on if it is off.

9. Select "Learn from Gmail."

10. Log into your Gmail account if necessary.

11. Tap Take to requite the keyboard permission to learn from your Gmails.

12. Repeat steps 9 through 11 for Facebook, Twitter and other accounts. The Samsung keyboard will use your previous posts and emails to learn about which words and phrases you use and make more accurate next-word predictions when yous type.

Disable Bloatware

Your phone carrier has likely packed your phone with a slew of apps you neither need nor desire. Some of these apps provide pricey carrier services, including paid navigation services that are not as good as the costless Google Maps app, and others just aren't particularly useful. Many of these bloatware apps run in the background and waste valuable system resources, even when you lot're not using them.

All of these apps pollute your app drawer, making it harder to find and tap on the ones you want to run. Fortunately, Samsung makes information technology easy to "disable" unwanted apps. Technically, the apps themselves are not erased from your storage, but they are subconscious and prevented from using system resources.

To disable bloatware on the Galaxy S5:

1. Navigate to the app drawer.

ii. Select "Uninstall/disable apps" from the menu. Minus signs appear on superlative of all of the app icons.

three. Tap on an app yous desire to remove.

4. Tap Disable to ostend.

5. Echo this process for all apps you desire to disable.

Enable Remote Control on Your Lock Screen, Notification Drawer

Cheers to a born infrared port and helpful Smart Remote app, the Samsung Galaxy S5 doubles every bit a universal remote control you lot tin can apply to change channels on your Tv set, control your set top box or jog tracks on your home stereo. Because how oftentimes about of united states reach for the remote command, yous don't want to have to open a dissever app every time yous want to raise the volume on your home theater. Fortunately, if you enable the right settings, you lot can put a miniature version of the on-screen remote in the app drawer and on the lock screen, where the volume, aqueduct and power buttons are ever a swipe or push press abroad.

To identify the Galaxy S5 remote on your notification drawer and lock screen:

ane. Launch Smart Remote. You lot can detect it in the app drawer.

ii. Set Smart Remote if you haven't already. You'll be asked to select your cablevision provider.

3.Add remote control devices if yous haven't already. Yous add a device by tapping the remote icon in the upper right corner of the screen and selecting your TV and set-acme box providers.

4.Select Settings from the menu in the upper right corner of the screen.

5.Cheque "Prove remote control on notification panel."

6. Check "Auto brandish remote control on lock screen."

Increase Screen Timeout, Disable Smart Stay

By default, the Galaxy S5'south screen turns off way too speedily. If you're reading a web page or an e-mail and not actively touching the screen, your device can go to sleep (and lock) before yous want information technology to. Samsung has an optional feature chosen Smart Stay, which uses the webcam to see if you're looking at the screen. Nevertheless, this feature wastes system resources by looking at y'all through the webcam. Instead, but change the display timeout to three minutes (or more than).

To modify the display timeout:

one.Select Displayfrom the Settings menu.

ii. Uncheck "Smart stay" if it is enabled.

3. Tap "Screen timeout."

4. Select a time of three minutes.

Enable Multi Window Mode

The Galaxy S5's v.one-inch, 1080p display is big and sharp plenty to allow you practise more than than one thing at a time, provided that you lot take multi window manner turned on. With multi window mode, y'all tin see 2 different apps on screen at one time and fifty-fifty transfer data between them. Only imagine dragging an image from the gallery into an open electronic mail bulletin or watching YouTube on the correct side of your screen while you read text messages from the boss on the left.

To enable Multi Window mode:

one. Select Multi window from the settings card.

2. Toggle Multi window to on.

3. Check "Open up in multi window view." Enabling this setting volition cause e-mail attachments to open up in a separate window by default, allowing you to go along reading your bulletin while viewing that cute infant moving-picture show or spreadsheet that came with information technology.

Disable Animations

By default, every time you unlock the lock screen, the Galaxy S5 shows a special effect that looks like a ripple or popping colors or some other cute affair. Every time you open an app or return to the habitation screen, there'south a small animation that makes information technology look the app is popping open up or closed. These animations may wait pretty, but they brand you wait longer to switch tasks.

To disable the lock screen animation:

i.Select Lock screenfrom the settings bill of fare.

2.Tap "Unlock consequence."

3. Select None.

To disable animations on the home screens and app drawer:

1. Long-press on a bare area of the home screen then select Home screen settings.You lot can also select Domicile screen from the Settings menu if information technology is listed in that location. Some versions of the Galaxy S5 omit this icon from the settings carte du jour.

2. Tap "Transition effect."

iii. Select None.

To disable app open animations:

i. Select About device from the settings menu.

2. Tap the Build number 7 times. You will become a message saying that "Programmer mode has been turned on." A developer options icon volition at present appear in the settings bill of fare.

3. Select Developer options from Settings.

four. Tap "Window blitheness calibration."

5. Select "Blitheness is off."

6. Repeat steps four and 5 for "Transition animation scale." and "Animator duration calibration."

Enable NFC

Like every other modern Android phone, the Galaxy S5 comes with an NFC (Almost Field Communications) chip that allows users to brand mobile payments, pair with accessories or transfer files between phones with just a single tap. Y'all can even purchase a lock for your house that opens via NFC. Despite these obvious advantages, some Galaxy S5 phones come with NFC turned off by default.

To make sure NFC is enabled:

1. Select NFC from the settings carte du jour.

2. Toggle NFC to On if it is off.

3. Fix Android Beam and Due south Beam to On if they are disabled. These features volition allow you lot transfer files, URLs, contacts or other information by borer the back of your phone confronting another Android handset.

Disable the Home Fundamental'south Ability to Launch S Voice

Out of the box, the Galaxy S5's domicile key volition launch Samsung'southward S Voice assistant if you double tap it. Fifty-fifty if you've never used this shortcut, the phone imposes a pocket-size filibuster every time you striking the home button, just to run across if you are going to double tap.

To disable the S Voice launch shortcut:

1. Launch S Vox.You lot tin can find information technology in the app drawer.

2. Set up S Vox if you lot haven't already done and so.

3. Select Settings from the menuin the upper right corner of the screen.

4. Uncheck "Open via home fundamental."

Enable Air View

Like the Galaxy S4 earlier it, the Samsung Milky way S5 has a helpful feature called Air View, which shows additional data about certain objects when you hover over the screen with your finger. With Air View, when you hover over messages in your email inbox, you go to see a preview of the message body floating higher up each entry. Hovering over a 24-hour interval in the calendar app shows appointments for that mean solar day while hovering over image thumbnails in the gallery app blows them upward. Sadly, Air View may not be enabled by default on your Galaxy S5.

To enable Air View:

i. Select Air View from the settings menu.

two. Toggle Air View to on if information technology is off.

Credits

This guide is the collective endeavour of Avram Piltch, Cherlynn Depression, Dan Howley, Anna Attkisson, Mark Spoonauer, David Cogen, Kenneth Butler and Jeremy Lips. Become to know u.s. hither.