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Place chrome’s address bar to bottom of screen

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On your android mobiles, you can move chrome browser’s address bar to the bottom of the screen, which helps to type the url addresses easily as bottom of screen is close to your hand, there’s feedback about the performance of this, so the first step you need to do is to update the full phone or computer device, and you might want to add a turbo booster for it to be smoother and faster, you can learn more here.

After you do the updates you can check the rest, for some this may not be much beneficial, but still you can experiment or give a try with chrome flags

  • Open Chrome browser on android
  • Click on the address bar and type

chrome://flags/#enable-chrome-home

and select “Enabled”


  • Restart your chrome browser, boom!!!

You will see your address bar at bottom of the screen

Looking online for remedies or alternatives is now much easier, you can just click here and get all the information you need.

Mobile data usage tips on android devices

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When we are on mobile data (4G / LTE / VOLTE), we can manage data usage or can efficiently use mobile data.

Data usage is how much data your device uploads or downloads in a period using mobile data.

Here we will discuss certain options we can use to reduce data usage in your android handset

  • Restrict background data

Some apps transfer data in the background. This means that an app may download data when you’re not using it. To reduce your data usage, you can restrict background data usage.

Android provides an option to restrict background data for all apps or selectively

Navigate to Image result for setting icon  > Data usage > More > Restrict background data

Individually, you can tap any app [see the data usage] on the screen and toggle Restrict background data ON

NOTE: if you restrict background data, you will not get any updates or notifications for the apps that is not foreground on screen [i.e background apps]

 

  • Turn auto-sync Off

By default most of the accounts [Facebook, google, Twitter, Whatsapp etc] have auto-sync ON, which draws more data

When auto-sync is on, apps automatically refresh data, and your device gets notifications about updates.

Navigate to Image result for setting icon > Accounts > tap on any account and auto-sync off

You can use less data by turning off auto-sync. If you do this, you’ll need to sync your apps manually.

 

  • Turn Auto-update apps Off

You can either update the apps manually or automatically, better to turn off auto update when you are on mobile data

Navigate to Related image > Menu > Settings > Auto-update apps > Auto-update apps over wifi only

You can even manually update the apps anytime by Related image > Menu > My apps & games

Note: Turn app update notification ON, to know which apps got latest version to update

Related image > Menu > Settings > App update available ON

 

  • Turn ON chrome browser’s Data Saver

Most android users prefer to use chrome browser as it comes default and is quite faster.

When you use Data Saver, most of your web traffic goes through Google servers before being downloaded to your device. Less data gets downloaded to your device, because Google servers will compress it.

Navigate to Image result for chrome browser > More> Settings > Data Saver

Data Saver won’t work if you’re on secure pages (addresses that start with https://) or private with Incognito mode.

 

  • Facebook auto play video Off

Facebook’s new feature to play videos as you scroll and pass through the videos on news feed, which draws most of your mobile data

Navigate to Image result for facebook > Menu > Settings > App settings > Auto-play [on wi-fi only] ON

 

  • Whatsapp media auto-download Off

Navigate to Image result for whatsapp icon > More > Settings > Data usage > Media auto-download, turn all options to “No media”

Manually you can download or play media from chat screen.

Interesting whatsapp features / tips so far

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With increasing whatsapp popularity among smartphone users [of any platform like android or iOS], whatsapp keep on adding new features, so let’s discuss some interesting features or can say tips for efficient use of whatsapp…

Formatted text

Change the format of text or message you want to send

Make Bold – *yourText*

Make Italic – _yourText_

Strike out – ~yourText~

Different font – “`yourText“`

Open any whatsapp group

long press on message[s], you can see options appear on top as listed with numbers

  1. Reply to the message
  2. Keep as favorite, so you can view later [Click on group name at top | starred messages]
    WhatsAppfeatures.jpg option [3]
  3. Read by whom
  4. Delete the message [this will be deleted from your device not from a group]
  5. Copy the message
  6. Forward to any individual contact or in a group

If it’s a photo / video and you do long press, you will get less options like

  1. Reply
  2. Keep as favorite
    4. Delete

Stop appearing whatsapp images to gallery or camera roll



on Android Connect your mobile to PC, open WhatsApp folder | Media and create a folder .nomedia [that’s it]

On device itself, install esFile explorer, open sdcard / internal | WhatsApp | Media and create a folder .nomedia

on iOS

Go to Settings | Privacy | Photos | make WhatsApp ‘OFF’

Open a group, click on group name at top

WhatsAppfeatures.jpg

Mute a contact or a group [1]

Stop notifications of new messages, but you will get the messages as usual.

Customize notification for a group or contact [2]

  • Change notification tone
  • Popup notification or light

Sharing files

  1. Attach files [PDFs, documents, slideshows, sheets etc] of size up to 100MB
  2. Attach photos / videos [either take a snap or from gallery]

Use WhatsApp on desktop

Navigate to https://web.whatsapp.com/

  • Open whatsapp on smartphone
  • Click on 3 vertical dots | WhatsApp Web
  • Scan the QR code to continue to chat on desktop

WhatsApp broadcast

Send our message to multiple contacts at once

  • Open whatsapp on smartphone
  • click on 3 vertical dots | New Broadcast
  • Select contact[s] and click on tick
  • Type message and send

WhatsApp status (temporary status)

You can post images or text as temporary status and will be available for 24 hours, there after vanishes.

Even you can see who viewed your temporary status by clicking the eye icon

To update temporary image status, click on the status tab and tap on “My Status” and chose any of your fav pic to upload.

To update temporary text status, click on the small pencil icon on Status tab and write your favorite line and even you can chose background color (predefined)…

Mobile tricks – android settings | developer options

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In our one of previous post, we have seen how to enable Developer options

This post will list out some tricks on improving efficiency of your mobile use

Select USB Configuration

  • Some times, when you connect your mobile to computer, it might not be charging, then select “Charging” by navigating

Settings | Developer options | Select USB Configuration

  •  For transferring files, select MTP

Stay awake

Turn ON this option to keep your screen awake, even when your mobile is charging.

USB debugging

Turn ON this option to connect mobile to computer via USB cable, for development of android apps with the help of Android SDK.

This even helps you to run ADB commands to get certain information of your mobile and helps to control your mobile to certain level.

This option even enables use of certain 3rd party library or tools to automate android apps from your computer.

Cellular data always active

Turn ON this option to keep your mobile / cellular data always active, even when wifi is ON, this will help fast network switching when you move from wifi to mobile data.

Show touches

Turn ON this option to see touch spots on screen.

Animation scale

There are mostly 3 animation scales which we can increase / decrease duration of animations while navigating on mobile screen

Window animation scale

Transition animation scale

Animator duration scale

keep Animator scale to .5x for quick navigations.

Force 4x MSAA

To play 3D games and high end games to look realistic, turn ON this option

MSAA – multi-sample anti-aliasing, used in computer graphics for better visibility.

Background process limit

Select options from this, to allow number of processes that can run in background at once, normally keep it to standard limit unless required to change.

NOTE: When you enable or customize developer options and do not know how to undo, just turn OFF settings | developer options and turn ON again.

 

How to turn on developer option on mobiles

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Let’s enable developer options on your android mobiles or tablets

  • On your android device, navigate to Image result for setting icon[Settings] -> ‘About’ or ‘About phone’.
  • Scroll down and on option ‘Build number’,tap around 7 times.
  • Confirmation popup comes with text “Developer mode has been enabled” or “You are now a developer”
  • Now come back to Settings, and scroll to see a new item added ‘Developer options‘,
  • Tap on ‘Developer options‘, and turn ON.

Now connect mobile / tablet to the computer, you will see device shows “USB debugging connected”