The Samsung Galaxy S5 is a highly advanced Android phone, with a tons of helpful features that make it easy and secure to multitask, share files, take photos and more. However, some of the most important features may be turned off by 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 extreme prejudice.
Disable Touch and Unlock Sounds
When you first turn on the Galaxy S5 and start navigating through its UI and clicking icons, you’ll keep hearing a “bloop” noise. Unlock the phone and you’ll probably hear water rippling. While these sounds are cute the first few times you hear them, they quickly become annoying, particularly when you’re trying to check your phone discretely.
To disable the Galaxy S5’s annoying touch and unlock sounds:
1. Select Sound from the Settings menu.
2. Toggle “Touch sounds” to off if it is checked
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3. Toggle “Screen lock sound” to off if it is checked.
4. Uncheck “Dialing keypad tone” if you don’t want the Galaxy S5 to make noises while you’re entering a phone number to call.
Enable Personalized Predictions on Keyboard
The Samsung Galaxy S5 comes with one of the best virtual keyboards available on any phone, but to take full advantage of this powerful input tool, you need to tweak a few settings. The keyboard suggests words as you type, but it works much better if you allow the software to analyze your word patterns from emails and posts in Gmail, Facebook,” it will suggest “Thrones” as the next word because you’ve used that phrase before in one of your accounts.“Game of and Twitter. With this function enabled, next time you type the words
By default, your Galaxy S5 also probably comes with keyboard vibrations turned on. It provides good tactile feedback, but it’s a bit too weak. You can turn the intensity of these vibrations up and make sure the keyboard improves its next-word prediction ability by learning from things you’ve already written.
To tweak your Galaxy S5 keyboard:
1. Select Sound from the settings menu.
2. Tap “Vibration intensity.”
3. Slide the “Haptic feedback” slider all the way to the right and tap OK.
4. Toggle “Vibrate when tapped” to on under “Samsung Keyboard” if it is off.
5. Navigate to Language and Input in the settings menu.
6. 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 Accept to give the keyboard permission to learn from your Gmail.
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 you type.
Enable Remote Control on Your Lock Screen, Notification Drawer
Thanks to a built-in infrared port and helpful Smart Remote app, the Samsung Galaxy S5 doubles as a universal remote control you can use to change channels on your TV, control your set top box or jog tracks on your home stereo. Considering how often most of us reach for the remote control, you don’t want to have to open a separate app every time you want to raise the volume on your home theater. Fortunately, if you enable the right settings, you can put a miniature version of the on-screen remote in the app drawer and on the lock screen, where the volume, channel and power buttons are always a swipe or button press away.
To place the Galaxy S5 remote on your notification drawer and lock screen:
1. Launch Smart Remote. You can find it in the app drawer.
2. Set up Smart Remote if you haven’t already. You’ll be asked to select your cable provider.
3. Add remote control devices if you haven’t already. You add a device by tapping the remote icon in the upper right corner of the screen and selecting your TV and set-top box providers.
4. Select Settings from the menu in the upper right corner of the screen.
5. Check “Show remote control on notification panel.”
6. Check “Auto display remote control on lock screen.”
Increase Screen Timeout, Disable Smart Stay
By default, the Galaxy S5’s screen turns off way too quickly. If you’re reading a web page or an email and not actively touching the screen, your device can go to sleep (and lock) before you want it to. Samsung has an optional feature called Smart Stay, which uses the webcam to see if you’re looking at the screen. However, this feature wastes system resources by looking at you through the webcam. Instead, just change the display timeout to 3 minutes (or more).
To change the display timeout:
1. Select Display from the Settings menu.
2. Uncheck “Smart stay” if it is enabled.
3. Tap “Screen timeout.”
4. Select a time of 3 minutes.
Enable Multi Window Mode
The Galaxy S5’s 5.1-inch, 1080p display is big and sharp enough to let you do more than one thing at a time, provided that you have multi window mode turned on. With multi window mode, you can see two different apps on screen at once and even transfer data between them. Just imagine dragging an image from the gallery into an open email message or watching YouTube on the right side of your screen while you read text messages from the boss on the left.
To enable Multi Window mode:
1. Select Multi window from the settings menu.
2. Toggle Multi window to on.
3. Check “Open in multi window view.” Enabling this setting will cause email attachments to open in a separate window by default, allowing you to keep reading your message while viewing that cute baby picture or spreadsheet that came with it.
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