Showing posts with label Widget. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Widget. Show all posts

Samsung Galaxy S4: How to Use It as a Flashlight in Android 4.4 Kitkat

I believe that most of you ever hear or know that some phones can act as a flashlight or torch light. In some conditions, this ability will be so helpful for instance when you want to search something in the dark or when you need a portable light for any purpose. Actually, Samsung Galaxy SIV has no default option to let you set the phone as the torch light, but you still can do so by using the assistive light widget. This widget will allow you to instantly turn on or off the camera flashlight with a single tap. It'll be easier than you have to open the Camera app and then turn on the flashlight from there.


How to add the assistive light widget to the Home screen?
Before using the phone as the torch light, you have to add the assistive light widget to the Home screen by using the following steps:
  1. Long tap on any free space in Home screen.
  2. On pop up menu select Apps and widgets.
  3. Tap Widgets tab.
  4. Swipe the screen to the right or to the left until you find Assistive Light 1x1 widget.
  5. Tap and hold the widget to move it to the Home screen.
  6. Release the widget to place it in the Home screen.

How to use the phone as a torch light?
If the assistive light widget has been added to the Home screen, then now you're ready to use the phone as a flashlight by using the following steps:
  1. Turning on the flashlight
    Tap the assistive light widget icon in the Home screen to turn on the camera flashlight. When the flashlight is on, the assistive light icon in Home screen will turn green and the white light icon will be displayed on the status bar.
  2. Turning off the flashlight
    Method #1: Through the Home screen
    • Tap the assistive light widget icon in Home screen to turn off the camera flashlight. The assistive light icon in Home screen will turn grey and the white light icon on the status bar will disappear as a sign that the flashlight is turned off.
    Method #2: Through the notification panel
    • When the screen is unlocked or locked, swipe down the top of the screen to open up the notification panel
    • Tap the assistive light notification to turn off the camera flashlight. The assistive light widget icon in Home screen will turn grey and the white light icon on the status bar will disappear as a sign that the flashlight is turned off.

FYI, since the widget can't be customized and can't be turned on or off automatically, therefore the flashlight will stay on even when the screen is off unless you turn it off manually through the Home screen or the notification panel.

Samsung Galaxy S3: How to Add Shortcut Per Email Account on Home Screen

One of the ability owned by the Samsung Galaxy SIII is handling multiple email accounts, or in other words you can add several email accounts in this phone. You can also set one of them as the default email account that will be use by default to write an email.

See also: How to Set Added Email Account as Default on Samsung Galaxy S3

As with the apps and widget, you can also create the shortcut for each your email account to the Home screen to make you more faster and easier when you want to access them. You can do this by utilizing email account widget.


How to create shortcut for each email account on Home screen?
Before you do this steps, make sure you have space enough on your Home screen that you'll use to add the widget. Well, here are the complete steps to do:
  1. Long tap on your Home screen.
  2. On pop up menu select Add to Home screen.
  3. Tap Widget tab.
  4. Find Email account 1x1 widget by swiping the screen to the left or to the right, then tap and hold to move it to the Home screen.
  5. Now you'll see a list of your email accounts.
  6. Tap the required email account you wish to add the shortcut.
  7. Finish. the shortcut to an email account has been added to the Home screen.
  8. To add more shortcut for another email account, you can repeat from the step #1.

It's easy, right? Adding shortcuts for each email account will of course be able to facilitate you accessing them directly through the Home screen. Also it will save you more time because now you just need to tap the required email account shortcut on Home screen when you want to access them. So, hope this helps :)