Samsung Galaxy Grand: Tips, Tricks & Secrets to Use it in its Best Way

After Samsung Galaxy Grand is released, it started to make it place in market and in the heart of the customer with all of its great features.

I am not going to tell about it features and tech specification, however today I am going to tell how to use your galaxy grand in its best way for daily use.

To know about it features and techspec go through below links.

1. Techspec on Samsung Galaxy Grand.
2. Features on Samsung Galaxy Grand.

I am using the phone for last 1 month and here are some of best free app/game which can be installed on the phone by downloading from below link.

1. 100 doors runaway.
2. Air droid.
3. Air penguin.
4. App cachecleaner.
5. CamScanner.
6. Compass.
7. Flashlight.
8. Foursquare.
9. Free2sms. (For India only)
10. My Tracks.
11. Noom walk.
12. OpenSignal.
13. Paper Toss.
14. PerfectPiano.
15. QR droid.
16. Speed Test.
17. Teamviewer.
18. Temple run2.
19. Translate.
20. Unblock me.
21. WhatsApp.

Now let’s move from apps to features provided by Samsung.

Dual Sims:

The dual Sims facility allows to use the phone for both way. Personal and business. One can keep a sim for personal use and other for business use. Or the 2^nd one for data use, as in Grand 3G facility is present. So why to make it a waste?

Go to settings -> Sim card Manger. And choose any option which you want to use.

The selected sim card will come in the notification area as a number. You can switch between Sims to make one as default to call someone anytime by selecting from notification area.

Big Screen:

Some says due to big screen, it is difficult to manage the phone in one hand. But believe me after some days of using, it is fun.

The screen is not as bigger as Samsung’s other notes, however with its 12.7 large screen, it is great to watch movie, videos and photos. Enjoy YouTube in your Wi-Fi with big screen. J

Camera:

The main 8 MP camera allows to take clear and quality pictures with video recording of 1080p resolutions.

The front end camera is of 2 MP, which gives better picture while talking to someone on Skype.

GPS:

Open notification area, keep your finger some time on GPs button. (2^nd from left). The location service will open.

Select use GPS satellites.

When I am lost or went to some new place (Around the city), I opened the Google maps and the GPS auto tracks my exact location and gives me best navigation. It’s really helpful.

Snapshots:

You want take a snapshot of your screen. Share your high score of a game with your friends or anything from your screen which you want to save a picture, then just move your palm across the screen (either left to right or reverse). The screen will be saved as a picture.

To use this function you must first activate the motion sensor. Tap on settings -> motion and then hit "palm swipe to capture”.

The files get auto saved in /storage/sdcardo/Pictures/Screenshots.

Auto rotate Screen:

To enable/disable automatically rotate the screen, whenever you rotate the phone, expand notification area and select/deselect screen rotation option.

Blocking Mode:

Expand notification area and choose blocking mode (7^th from left) to enable it.

There are many features in blocking mode.

Just press and hold blocking mode button to see all the option.

You can choose between disable incoming calls, notifications, and alarms. You can also set time when blocking mode will get auto enabled/disabled.

If you want to either block some specific contact or to allow specific contact, you can do that, by going to blocking mode options and choosing allowed contacts options.

Maps:

Start maps, go to options and select make available offline. Select your local map (max 86 MB) and download it. It will help you to navigate in your area in offline mode.

FM Radio:

Now in FM radio, comes as widgets has many features including recording of radio broadcast. Any show you like, voice you want to listen again and again, just record it.

You can choose to make FM radio auto off after a particular time. I love this feature. While going to sleep, turn on radio or 15 minutes. Listen to music and go to sleep.

S-Voice:

Use S-Voice to set wake up command, set alarm, call someone from contacts and check weather outside.

You can see all the features from S-Voice settings. Press “?” icon to see all options.

See body of message content, while you are driving.

Create new task, navigate to a place, send message just by speaking. No need to press any button or to write anything. 

Home button:

To wake up your phone from sleep mode, either press the middle button from lower three button or press the button present on right side of the phone.

To quickly navigate between your last app, press and hold lower middle button. You will get all your last used apps in chronological order. Select the one, you want to use.

At this time press the circle button on left hand side. You will get an app manager. Kill all unwanted apps, check Ram status and storage.

Apps view mode:

Go to apps, press options button (left lower button) and choose alphabetical order. It helps you to navigate between apps easily by choosing any alphabet from right side option.

Make your own Vibration pattern:

You can set your own customized vibration pattern with your incoming ringtone.

Go to settings -> Sound - > Device Vibration. Touch create button. Here you go. Now tap as per your choice to create vibrations.

Shortcut for call and Message:

Whenever you are going through the contacts either in logs on contact list, just swipe the screen on the contact name across right to make the call and across left to send the message.

Whenever a media file is added to a message, the phone will automatically convert it into MMS.

Mute incoming calls:

If you want to mute any incoming call, just turn over your phone upside down or press the volume keys from left side of your phone or lock/unlock key from right side of your phone.

Shortcut to start Camera:

If you have not set any lock pattern for screen unlock and just swiping deactivates the screen, then just press and hold on the screen and rotate the phone to start eh camera.

To enable this functionality go to settings -> lock screen -> lock screen access -> lock screen options and enable camera quick access.

Shortcuts at front screen in lock mode:

Three apps can be added as shortcuts on the screen, while the screen is in lock mode. To customize it go to settings -> lock screen -> lock screen access -> lock screen options and choose shortcuts.

USB connection:

To connect the device with the PC, kies given by Samsung is the best. Still if you facing the issue with drivers, you can download the drivers from here.

Manage Battery life:

• Switch to sleep mode by pressing the Power key when you are not using your device. 
• Close any apps or features when you are done using it so they will not continuously running in the background.
• Turn off the network connection if you are out of range so that your device will stop searching for a network signal. (Deactivate the Bluetooth feature, turn off the Wi-Fi feature when not in use, etc.).
• Deactivate auto-syncing of applications.
• Decrease the backlight time.
• Lessen the screen brightness and the screen lock timeout.

Disliked by me:

• Multi window and multitasking. I did not like this features as much and never using it.
• I have to restart my phone once in a fortnight to avoid hanging of phone, while playing the games. I tried to clear cache and stopped unwanted apps. It never helped. 
• I do talk more and thus my phone gives 24-30 hours backup due to big screen and more lights.

Any tips/shortcuts I missed? don't forget to comment.

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