Samsung Galaxy S3: How to Enable or Disable Power Saving

Big screen and a bunch of features owned by Samsung Galaxy SIII sometimes end up you to face the problem with the poor battery life. Well, in order to prevent it and to prolong your battery life, there are some tips and tricks to do, such as altering your display's colour profile by using the different screen mode available to save a battery a little better.

See also: How to Change Screen Mode on Samsung Galaxy S3

Another thing that you can do to prolong your battery life is by using power saving mode. This mode will make the phone to use low power lever for the screen, limit the maximum CPU performance, change the background color in Email and Internet to be able saving the power as much as possible and also turn off haptic feedback.


How to turn on or off power saving mode?
To do so, kindly do as follows:

1. Go to Apps through Home screen
2. Scroll to Settings, then tap it.
3. Depending on your current settings, slide the slider next to Power saving option to enable or disable this option. When the slider is in the right side or shows green means this option is turned on.
4. Tap Home button to return to the standby mode.

By default, this option is turned off due to enabling this option may decreasing your experience while using this phone. Some of users also said that they were encountering some problems when they're enabling this option. So, if saving the battery is your main issue then may it worth for you to try, but if you feels this option start giving you some troubles then you can leave it by default to stay turned off.

Samsung Galaxy S3: How to Use Calculator Application

Samsung Galaxy SIII has come with some pre-loaded applications which means you can directly use them without having to install them by yourself. One of pre-loaded apps available in this phone is video player apps which will allow you to play the video files.

See also: How to Use Video Player Application on Samsung Galaxy S3

Still with the pre-loaded apps, calculator apps is also one of them. You can use it to perform calculation as when you do with the regular calculator.


How to use calculator apps?
To do some calculation using this apps, kindly do as follows:

1. Go to Apps through Home screen.
2. Tap Calculator.
3. Hold your phone in the portrait view to use this apps performing the basic calculation, or rotate the phone to the landscape view to use this apps as scientific calculator. But, if you want to use it as scientific calculator only, no matter how you viewing this phone, then tap the Menu key then select Scientific calculator.
4. Tap the arrow down icon above the virtual keyboard to expand the screen and viewing your calculation history.
5. Tap Home button to return to the standby mode.

Calculator apps is one of the common application that available in almost all the smartphones. This apps will be able to substitute the regular calculator and of course will also be able to facilitate your calculating activity.

Samsung Galaxy S3: How to Show Desk Home Screen Without Using Dock

Samsung Galaxy SIII has come with a removable battery that will allow you to replace it with other when it's broken or start giving you some troubles.

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In order to make your phone always ready for use, you should regularly charged the battery even it's not already completely flat. While you're charging the battery, there is an option inside this phone which will allow you to display desk Home screen. By using this option, the phone will display a calendar, clock, local weather and some of multimedia shortcuts.


How to display desk Home screen sans dock?
To display desk Home screen while charging or when the phone is placed in the third-party smartphone stand with a separate charger, then kindly follow the steps listed below:

1. Go to Apps through Home screen.
2. Tap Clock.
3. Swipe the screen to the left, then tap Desk clock tab.
4. Tap the full screen icon located at the top right corner of the screen to view the desk Home screen in full screen.

When you have the screen saver enabled on your phone, usually in a minute or so it will come and replace the desk Home screen. If you want your phone to display the desk Home screen again, then just tap the Back button.

Samsung Galaxy S3 How to Enable or Disable Auto-Punctuate

As we all know that the virtual keyboard on Samsung Galaxy SIII has equipped with some options, such as character preview to make your phone displays a big char bubble whenever you touch a key on the virtual keyboard.

See also: How to Enable or Disable Character Preview on Samsung Galaxy S3

Another options available on this keyboard is auto-punctuate. By enabling this option, you'll set the phone to automatically insert a full stop by tapping the space bar twice.


How to turn on or off auto punctuation?
If you want to enable or disable this option, then kindly do as follows:

1. Go to Settings.
2. Tap Language and input.
3. Ensure the Samsung keyboard is enabled, then tap gear icon next to Samsung keyboard option to enter the settings screen.
4. Tap Advanced.
5. Depending on your current settings, tap Auto-punctuate to enable or disable this option. When the checkbox next to this option is ticked means the option is turned on.
6. Tap Home button to return to the standby mode.

Basically, all the options available in the virtual keyboard on this phone has designed to facilitate your typing activity, including with the auto punctuation option. So, you can use some or all of them to make you more easier while using the virtual keyboard.

Samsung Galaxy S3: How to Customize Video Player Settings

You can watching your favourite videos directly through your Samsung Galaxy SIII by using the stock video player application available inside this phone. You can also utilizing some options available while you're watching the video, such as rewind, pause, stop, etc.

See also: How to Use Video Player Applications on Samsung Galaxy S3

As another apps, you can also customizing this apps through the options available under its settings, such as adjust the brightness or set to auto play the next video, etc.


How to customize video player settings?
Below are the steps to do to customize available options under video player application settings:

1. Go to Apps through the Home screen.
2. Scroll to Video player, then tap it.
3. Select the required video you want to watch.
4. To access the settings, tap the Menu key then select Settings.
5. Now you'll see some options available there, such as:
• Video brightness: use this option to adjust the brightness of the display while you're watching the video.
• Auto play next: use this option to set the video player to auto play the next video.
• Play speed: use this option to change the playback speed.
• SoundAlive: use this option to select a sound effect.
• Subtitles: use this option to customize the settings for a subtitle file.
• Colour tone: use this option to select a color tone.
• Outdoor visibility: use this option to improve the display's contrast to better use under a bright sunlight.
6. Tap Back button to return to the video player screen.
7. Tap Home button to return to the standby mode.

By knowing the options available under video player settings and what's the function on each of them, now you can customizing this apps according to your need and desires.

Samsung Galaxy S3: How to Use Video Player Applications

You can use Samsung Galaxy SIII not only to make a call or text a message, but also you can use this phone to play a music as you can do with another music player. Moreover, this phone also comes with the stock music player that you can use to listen to the music whenever you want.

See also: How to Use Music Player on Samsung Galaxy S3

In addition to listen to the music using music player apps, you can also use this phone to watch the video by using the stock video player apps available inside this phone. But, you should remember that some file formats are not supported depending on the device's software.


How to use video player apps?
To play video files using video player apps, kindly follow the steps listed below:

1. Go to Apps through Home screen.
2. Scroll to Video player, then tap it.
3. Select the required video you wish to watch.
4. While you're watching the video, you can control playback by utilizing some options available, such as:
• Tap on upper or lower part of the Volume key to adjust volume.
• Tap on the indicator located at the bottom of the display then slide it to the right to forward or slide it to the left to rewind the video.
• Watching the video on full screen by tap the full screen icon located in the bottom left corner of the screen.
• Tap Arrow left icon to go to the previous video.
• Tap Pause/Play icon to pause and play the video.
• Tap Arrow right icon to go to the next video.
5. Tap Home button to return to the standby mode.

Watching video directly through the phone is one of fun thing that you can do with this phone. You can use it to watch your favourite videos or even just to kill the time while you're in a boring situations.

Samsung Galaxy S3: How to Show Dual Clock of Different Cities on Home Screen

While you customizing your Samsung Galaxy SIII lock screen, then you can find an option which will allow you to show dual clock when you're on abroad. This of course will helps you to know the time on your Home and your current location.

See also: How to Enable or Disable Dual Clock on Samsung Galaxy S3 Lock Screen

As in the lock screen, you can also displaying dual clock on your Home screen by adding world/dual clock widget to your Home screen.


How to add dual clock widget to the Home screen?
To display time of two different locations, then kindly follow the steps listed below:

1. Go to Apps through Home screen.
2. Tap Widget tab.
3. Swipe the screen to the right or to the left to find the Dual clock widgets. There are two dual clock widgets available, analog and digital. You can choose the one that you like best.
4. Tap and hold the dual clock widget then drag it to the Home screen.
5. Release to placed it.
6. Tap the first clock to select the city.
7. Now tap the second clock to add the city, you can use the search box to find the required city.
8. Finish. Now you have managed to show times of two different cities on your Home screen.

This widget basically has the same function with the dual clock on your lock screen to show time of two different locations, but the difference is if you use this widget you don't have to go abroad to see the dual clock and you can manually choose which the city you like to show the time.