T R I C K S
Samsung Secret Codes
*#0*#
*#*#4636#*#*
Dial this for loads of tests:
Phone information
Battery information
Usage statistics
Wifi information
Factory Reset
Factory Reset (Optional)
There are three ways to reset the phone, through Dialer, Settings or Recovery mode.
- Dialer, enter *2767*3855#
- Settings, Privacy, Factory data reset.
- Recovery mode. Power off the phone, press and hold Vol Up + Home + Power.
Use the Vol keys to navigate the menus and Home to action.
Taking Screenshots
Hidden Zombie Art image
Go to settings > about phone > and tap "android version" more than 5 times for a secret picture
Quick Reboot
If your device locks up, rather than having to remove the battery,
press and hold the power button for 8-10 seconds. The device will then reboot automatically.
Rebooting in Safe Mode
If you are having lots of problems with Force Closes and cant get to any menus because of it.
You can reboot in safe mode and then tackle the problem.
Power off the phone. Power on the phone and when you see the Splash screen (SGS2 Logo)
hit menu fast repeatedly until you get to the home screen. If it worked you will see safe mode in the bottom left corner.
To exit safe mode just reboot normally.
Quick search
Hold down the menu key (not the home button, the capacitive key to the left) to enable quick searching.
Works on the home screens to search google, will allow for searching in the marketplace, youtube, messaging etc.
This works on all Samsung Android handsets without a dedicated search key.
Quick Mute
If you have forgotten to put your phone on silent, and it starts making a noise at the worst possible moment,
don't fumble for a suitable key sequence to turn off sound,
simply place a finger over the external speaker slots which you will find if you turn the phone over,
at the bottom right corner. Roughly behind the virtual "menu" button when viewed from the front.
Of course, just flipping it onto its face often does the trick too (if it's an incoming call for example),
but it's useful to have a backup trick that can be executed quickly in a tight spot.
Brightness Adjustment Shortcut
On the Homescreen, long hold on the Notification Bar,
then slide left or right motion to adjust the brightness.
* SAVING BATTERY *
Settings > wireless & networks > Mobile Networks > Use 2G Networks Only
Disable Packet Data Connection
Go to Settings > Wireless and Networks > Mobile Networks > and toggle Use Packet Data to off
Disable Background data,
Settings > Accounts and Sync > deselect the checkmark for Background Data.
Settings > Display > Set auto brighness to OFF.
And just push the brightness slider right down.
Stop using Live Wallpapers, and use BLACK BACKGROUND on all of your Homscreens.
because how brighter and more colorfull the more pixels are used, this then affects battery life.
Applications > Task Mangaer > Close All applications
WiFi Sleep Policy
You can save on wifi eating up your battery by specifying a Sleep Mode policy.
Menu > Settings > Wireless and network > WiFi settings > Menu > Advanced > WiFi Sleep policy
Here you can select when to turn off wifi temporarily:
1. When screen turns off
2. Never when plugged in
3. Never
For me, I will just turn it on, when needed.
Learn to charge properly!
There is no need to always top off the battery to a full charge whenever you get a chance,
rather use the battery to its fullest as in draining it from your usage then charging it back up several times.
This is more of a maintenance thing for your battery to establish itself sort of and it’ll do better for your Galaxy S2 in the long run
* MENU & HOMESCREEN *
Changing the Dock Widgets
Tap Applications > Menu > Edit > Drag or create folder
click Menu > Save
On both the homescreen and the apps menu you will see a row of dots indicating which page you are on.
hold the dot and scroll left or right. The pages will quickly scroll until you see the page you want.
Looks cool too!
Rearranging Apps
Also folders can be made there too.
Expanding a Widget
If you long hold a widget you can expand it. It all depends on the widget, some don't let you, some do.
Bookmarks, for example, can be shrunk down. When you hold the widget you get a yellow box that can be expanded or shrunk.
If there is no box, then you can't re-size it.
Different wallpapers on each Homescreens
Download and install the Multipicture Live Wallpaper from the Market.
Long hold on the wallpaper that you have now.
Select Live Wallpaper
Choose Multipicture Live Wallpaper from among your phone's list of live wallpapers.
Click Settings, then start configuring how you want it to look!
Pinching Homescreen & Application drawer
If you pinch out on the TouchWiz app drawer, it'll zoom out.
A bit like it does when you pinch out on the homescreens, where you could edit them all.
[App drawer is the applications page (wat opens when u press Applications on ur homescreen)]
Pinch on homescreen to get homescreens overview,
from there you can either skip to a particular homscreen
or bin ones you don't need, that way you will have less homescreen dot markers.
Changing Lockscreen Wallpaper
* CALLS & CONTACTS *
Swiping Contacts
If you swipe a contact towards the left, your phone will start a text to them
If you swipe them right, your phone will begin to call them.
Name dialling
When you press "phone" rather than dialing the number, you can dial the name..
i.e. for "Silver" I would type... "745837"
End call using Power button
you can set the power button to end calls if this is easier, go to:
MENU, SETTINGS, CALL, CALL ANSWERING/ENDING, power key ends calls,
much easier if you hold with your right hand!
Incall volume default adjustment
If found the incall volume to be a little low.
When you max out the volume using the volume button it actually only goes to a default setting of 87 out of 100.
If you would like to change the default settings here is what you need to do.
call this number *#*#197328640#*#*
This will open the service mode menu.
choose option [5] AUDIO
choose option [1] (VOICE CALL)
choose option [1] HANDSET
choose option [1] Volume
choose option [1] SRC Speech RX Volume
choose option [5] 5_lvl : 87
press the menu button (left side)
choose Key Input
enter a value between 0 and 100, I choose 100 the loudest setting.
press ok
now press the menu button and select back this should save
(don't use the right side back key you normally use to navigate the phone or you will quit out of the settings)
keep hitting the menu and back until you leave the service mode menu.
You will also note you can change volume settings for other things like bluetooth, head sets, video call etc.
Note: this is not permanent, if you turn off the phone it resets back to the default levels .
* M E S S A G I N G *
Speech bubbles Options
When you have sent a text message to people,
if you click on the speech bubbles you get the following options pop up:
Delete Message
Copy Message text
Lock message
Forward
Copy to SIM
View Message Details
* B R O W S E R *
Desktop browser view
In the browser type about:useragent into the address bar, hit enter, it will come up with a list of user agents -
choose desktop to have the browser stop defaulting to mobile versions of websites.
Default Browser Tips
Long press over text to pop up a text magnifier.
Long press your back key to pop up a whole load of browsin history options.
* V I D E O *
Video lock
When watching a video, tap the power button once to lock the touchscreen.
No more pressing a button by mistake
Pausing Video
You can put your phone FACE DOWN to pause the playing video.
* C A M E R A *
Disabling the Shutter sound
you can appearntly disable the shutter sound (If you are rooted)
rename the shutter sound ogg file in /system/media/audio/ui. Rename it to .ogg.bak and it should stop the noise.
You can also turn off the shutter sound by turning off the system sound in
Settings>Sounds>Volume>System
* N A V I G A T I O N (GPS) *
Boosting GPS lock & connection
Settings > Location and security > ensure the the 3 boxes under My location are ticked.
Now download and install, free from the Market, GPS Status.
Remove the sim card from your phone and reboot it.
Open GPS Status (preferably outdoors with a clear view of the sky) and select Menu > Tools > Manage A-GPS state > Reset
Now select Menu > Tools > Manage A-GPS state > Download
Now just leave it for as long as it takes to get a solid lock on at least 6 Sat's (preferably more... 9->11 would be good).
This can take 20 min's or more but be patient,
When you have achieved this then select GPS Status Menu > Settings > GPS & Sensors > Auto-download AGPS data >
choose how often you would like the data to be updated (1 hour -> 3 days... I have mine set for 6 hours) >
tick the 3 boxes (GPS required/Lock to GPS speed/Filter the GPS speed, if required) and choose your Sensor filtering.
Now power off your phone and replace Sim card and reboot.
Please ensure you have no Task Managers or anything that will close or interfere with this app.
Once rebooted you should find an improvement in accuracy and speed of your GPS.
Update:
GpsFix, free from the Market, can decrease your time to fix by increasing the time that GPS/AGPS receiver is turned on.
* VOICE COMMAND *
Voice Command shortcut
Double press the home button while the screen is not locked will auto open voice commands,
for first setup go to apps and voice commands and do the tutorial and to change/setup voice commands go to settings-voice input and output
Changing the default intro voice: "What would you like to do?"
You can change the intro that the lady says when you activate the VOICE TALK,
Goto: Settings/Voice Input and output settings/Voice reg. settings/Voicetalk/ Voice Talk Settings/Customise main prompt
You can CHANGE the LANGUAGE as well by changing the voice talk language.
* M E M O R Y *
There's 16GB of internal storage, of which approx 11.5GB is available for user data such as music, video, file storage etc.
There's also 2GB of system memory, which is the default installation location for apps.
So on a new handset you'll have approx 13.5GB total storage available, plus the option of adding up to 64GB via the microSD memory card slot.
* A P P L I C A T I O N S *
Clearing Cache
For problems with a specific app on the phone, try clearing the cache:
Go to menu > settings > applications > > clear cache.
Then turn off the phone, pull the battery, put it back in and then turn the phone back on.
It seems that occasionally the cache/data stored by apps can get corrupted and cause problems
Spare parts plus+.apk
Go to the market and get an app called 'Spare parts plus+'.
This is a huge enhancement of your settings!
You can change transition/window animation speed, wifi sleep policy to save battery and much more.
Noled.apk
Get an app called 'noled'. With this you can get low power notifications on your screen when the phone is locked.
The SGSII has an AMOLED screen which means that Black things use no battery at all
so this app displays a tiny colored dot on your black screen when you get an email or text or whatever you set it to.
You can customize for them to be different colors.
This is a replacement for the LED notification light that many phones have but the SGSII lacks.
Android System Info.apk
System info? download this in the market it will tell you everything
Any Cut.apk
It lets u create any shortcut you want for most of your phones functions.
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