Top Android 's best Tips and Tricks to make most out of an Android Smartphone or Tab

In our previous posts we talked about How to install Whatsapp in Windows 7/8 PC/MAC, & Now here are the best tips, tricks, features, and shortcuts for your Smartphones. Some are useful, some are geeky, some are just for fun for your Android Smartphones and tablets.

You may be aware of some of these tricks already – but I can say that you don’t know all of them! Did you know that you can search text messages, Kindle books, and tweets all at once? Or that CyanogenMod 7 lets you disable two-thirds of the LEDs in your display, to save battery? Or that you can force websites to show you the full version of their site, even though you’re on a mobile browser? Click on Below Links to find out more.....

Less-Than-Obvious Menus and Screens

• Extra Wi-Fi Settings
• More Camera Options
• Bigger Battery Graph
• Change Default Apps
• Get the Date With a Tap, Anywhere
• Access Your Contacts on the Computer
• Silence the Ringer

Ice Cream Sandwich

• Tweak Your Home Screens
• Enable Near Field Communications
• Monitor Your Data Usage
• Easily Create Folders
• Resize Your Widgets
• Use the Audio Equalizer

Browser

• Change the User Agent
• Alter the Default Zoom
• Quickly Access the Address Bar

Keyboards

• Quickly Switch Keyboard
• Alternative Symbols
• Hide the Keyboard
• Quick Contractions

LED

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• HTC Charging Light
• Get More Control Over the LED

Screenshots

• Samsung Galaxy Phones
• Ice Cream Sandwich

Search

• Search Apps, Texts, and More
• Auto-Complete
• Remove Items From Your Search History
• Assign an App to the Search Button

CyanogenMod 7

• Use Lockscreen Gestures
• Quickly Dismiss Any Single Notification
• Change Number of Recent Apps
• Force-Kill Apps With the Back Button
• Save Power by Going Monochrome
• End a Call With a Button Press
• Change Volume Without Unlocking
• Edit Notification Power Widget Buttons
• Show Battery Charge in Notification Area

Troublesome Ads?

• Discover Which Apps Use AirPush

Google Maps

• Transit Navigation
• Share Your Location
• Enable Labs

Specific Apps

• Fix YouTube Problems
• ADW Dockbar With Infinite Apps
• Go Launcher Ex Tips
• Chrome to Phone Tips

Just for Fun

• View the Easter Egg
• Solve Sudoku With Your Camera

Android Tips & Tricks: CyanogenMod 7 (Android Smartphones and Tablets)

CyanogenMod 7

CyanogenMod 7 is the ROM of choice for most of the Android. Here are some tricks you can use to make most out of your Android (Cynogen Mod 7).

In the previous post we had posted Tricks for Applications & Games on Android Smartphones, and now tricks for Cynogen Mod,

Use Lockscreen Gestures

You can enable lockscreen gestures that let you quickly jump to an app or perform a task directly from the lockscreen. These can be enabled and customized from
Settings > CyanogenMod Settings > Lockscreen.

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Quickly Dismiss Any Single Notification

In the Notifications panel, swipe to the right on a notification to remove it. (This has since been introduced as a stock feature in Ice Cream Sandwich.)

Change Number of Recent Apps

You know in Android 2.x you can long-press the ‘Home’ button on your phone for a list of the recently used apps? In CM7, you can change the number of apps in this list: open Settings > CyanogenMod Settings > Input Settings > Long-press home settings, and change “Number of recent apps”.

Force-Kill Apps With the Back Button

In Settings > Applications > Development, there’s an option called “Stop app via long-press”, which, when checked, allows you to force-kill the current foreground application by long-pressing the back button. Useful if you frequently use an app that’s a bit flaky, but watch out: some apps use a long-press of the back button as a shortcut for another feature (for example, it shows the History in the default browser).

Save Power by Going Monochrome

You can use RenderFX to set a single colour for the display to use – for example, pick red and you’ll eliminate the green and blue pixel usage, thereby saving power. The option is in CyanogenMod Settings > Interface > Render Effect.

End a Call With a Button Press

You can enable an option that let’s you end a call by pressing the Power button, instead of having to tap the screen. The setting can be enabled in Menu > Settings > Accessibility, and is called “Power Button ends call”.

Change Volume Without Unlocking

You can change your ringer volume quickly, while your phone is locked, by tapping Power to turn on the display, then holding Power to open the power menu, and then using the volume keys to adjust the volume.

(This also gives you a quick way to switch to Silent Mode or reboot the phone from the lock screen.)

Edit Notification Power Widget Buttons

Above the notifications, when you swipe down the bar, is a set of icons for toggling Wi-Fi, silent mode, and so on. You can choose what to show in here in Settings > Interface > Notification Power Widget > Widget Buttons.

Long-pressing on some of these icons will load additional options, or open the related app.

Show Battery Charge in Notification Area

You can replace the vague power icon with one that shows the percentage charge inSettings > Interface > Status Bar Tweaks > Battery Percentage.

Android tips and tricks: Apps (Applications and Games)

Specific Apps

In previous post we have talked about Android Tricks and Tips: For Fun :-Or, “the stuff we couldn’t fit in any other section”.

42. Fix YouTube Problems

If you have problems with YouTube freezing during playback or not refreshing the video, go to Settings > Applications > Manage Applications > YouTube, and press Force Stop followed by Clear Cache and
finally Clear Data. This will effectively reset YouTube.

Next time you open the app, just sign in again with your Google credentials and you’ll be good to go. This solves most of the issues with video playback.

43. ADW Dockbar With Infinite Apps

In ADW Launcher, as well as the 1-, 3-, or 5-icon dock, you can enable a “dockbar” that can store as many shortcuts as you like (swipe left and right to scroll through them). Just swipe up from the bottom of the home screen to make it visible and drag any shortcuts onto it. Swipe down to hide it and show the regular dock again.

44. Go Launcher Ex Tips

You can configure an app to be launched when you swipe down on your Home Screen (in Menu > Preferences > Operation Settings > Glide down action). You can configure the slide up action too.

You can also set swipe actions for dock icons. I’ve set the app drawer icon in my dock to open the settings on swipe.

If you don’t like the text labels for homescreen icons cluttering the space, you can disable them in Menu > Preferences > Screen Settings.

45. Chrome to Phone Tips

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This can do more than just remotely open links in a browser: Google Map pages will open in the Maps app, and YouTube videos will open in the YouTube app. Also, if you copy text, it’ll be transferred to the clipboard; phone numbers will be automatically entered in the dialer, ready to call. Find out more in this article.

Also, you can open the actual app on your phone to get a list of all things sent to it in the past, sorted by date.

Download & Run Turbo C, C++ 3.0 For Android

If You Want To install and Run Turbo C on your android phone and tablet

Steps:-

1. Copy Turbo C In your Sdcard

2. Install aDoxBox On Your Device
3.  Open DosBox ,click on options and open on screen keyboard.

In it you’ll find something like

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C:\TC\Bin>Cd tc

4. Now Run TC On Your Droid And Enjoy.

Android Tricks and Tips: For Fun :-)

Just for Fun

Finally, a couple of tips that are useless, but fun.

View the Easter Egg

This works on most Android devices: open Settings > About, then tap “Android version” repeatedly. The result differs depending on the version of Android that you’re running.

Solve Sudoku With Your Camera

The Google Goggles app can solve Sudoku puzzles. Just snap a photo and give it a few seconds.

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Also checkout Tips n Tricks Android: Ice Cream Sandwich

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Tupsu-The Furry Little Monster APK for Android

Description

This game is completely available for free with no ads and IAPs!Guide Tupsu through a series of challenging and fun levels in this beautiful physics based puzzle game.

In Tupsu, you connect your cute furry little monster’s eyes to floating islands that advance him closer to the stars he wants to collect. Levels offer a wide array of difficulty, some even quite challenging even for advance players. Sometimes you have to think way outside the box to clear levels.

Tupsu is based on the same name award winning game that won second place in the Pokki.com 1up Contest in March 2012.

Includes:
*Intuitive interface for touchscreen devices (drag and tap)
*HD mode is included, if your phone have enough memory

*Beautiful hand drawn and procedural graphics
*Mesmerizing music by purpleplanet.com
*30 challenging puzzle levels (no fillers)
*Collectable items
*And very, very sticky eyes

App Screenshots

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Tips n Tricks Android: Ice Cream Sandwich

Ice Cream Sandwich

Android 4.0 (as found on the Galaxy Nexus) is still pretty new, and I’m sure we’ll gather more tips over the next few months, but here’s what we have for now.

8. Tweak Your Home Screens

If you’ve rooted your handset, you can use Trebuchet Launcher to remove the persistent search
bar and adjust the number of homescreens.

Alternatively, you can use Nova Launcher, which doesn’t require root. However, without rooting, you won’t be able to view widgets in the App Drawer.

9. Enable Near Field Communications

Enable NFC by opening Settings > Wireless & Networks > More, then checking NFC. 

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10. Monitor Your Data Usage

Check your data usage by going to Settings > Wireless & Networks > Data Usage. You’ll see a breakdown of all data transfers and you can tap any app to see how much data that specific app is using.

You can also set a 3G limit here; after this point, 3G data will automatically be disabled – useful for anyone on a restricted plan.

11. Easily Create Folders

On any home screen, create a folder by dragging and dropping one app on top of another. To rename the folder, tap it, then tap the name.

12. Resize Your Widgets

For widgets that support resizing, you can long-press the widget on your home screen to make controls appear; drag these to change the width and height.

13. Use the Audio Equalizer

There’s an audio equalizer built in to the stock music player. Just hit Now Playing > Sound Effects to open it.

Android tips and tricks: Menus and Screens

These menus, screens, and settings aren’t exactly hidden, but they’re easy to miss.

1. Extra Wi-Fi Settings

In the Wi-Fi Settings menu, hit Menu > Advanced for extra settings, and to find your MAC and IP addresses. This is also the place where you can change the Wi-Fi sleep policy (the point where it switches back to 3G).

2. More Camera Options

The little kitchen timer icon in the Camera app hides a lot of options: metering mode, ISO, color effects… it’s not just for focus and exposure settings!

3. Bigger Battery Graph

For a detailed analysis of how your phone is losing battery, go to Settings > About Phone > Battery Use and tap the graph at the top of the screen. The screen that appears contains a visual timeline of the phone’s signal strength, Wi-Fi connection, sleep status and charging status since the last time the phone was 100% charged.

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4. Change Default Apps

If you have an application set as the default for some action – for example, a particular browser is the default for opening web pages – you can change that. Find the app in Settings > Manage Applications, then tap Clear Defaults.

This also applies to launchers. If you want to try another one, then remove your current selection as the default; whenever you press Home it’ll let you choose between all the launchers you have installed, until you select a new default.

5. Get the Date With a Tap, Anywhere

You can quickly see the day of the week and month by tapping and holding the notifications bar, without having to pull it down.

6. Access Your Contacts on the Computer

Assuming you’ve linked your phone to a Google account, you can view all your phone contacts (with their numbers, email addresses, and any other info you have about them) at google.com/contacts.

7. Silence the Ringer

When someone calls you, you can mute the incoming call ringer without hanging up or accepting the call by pressing the volume rocker.

On HTC handsets, you can open Settings > Sound and Display and enable “Quiet ring on pickup” to make it fade to silent as soon as you pick it up.