Samsung Galaxy S3: How to Make the Weather Widget to Auto Update

Accu weather is the stock weather widget that you can find in the primary Home screen on Samsung Galaxy SIII. This widget will provide you information about the temperature and weather forecast on your location. For the personal need, you can change the preferred temperature unit you wish to use, either Celsius or Fahrenheit.

See also: How to Change Weather Widget from Celsius to Fahrenheit on Samsung Galaxy S3

In addition to change the temperature unit, in this widget you can also determine how often the widget to refresh the information. There are several auto refresh option that you can choose which best suit you.


How to change weather widget auto refresh?
Below are the steps you need to do to determine the frequency of the weather widget updating the information:

1. Tap the Weather widget on your Home screen.
2. Tap the Menu key then select Settings.
3. Tap Widgets.
4. Tap Auto refresh.
5. Now you'll see some option available on pop up menu, they are:
   
   • None
   • Every 1 hour: choose this option to make your weather widget refreshing the information for every one hour.
   • Every 3 hours: choose this option to make your weather widget refreshing the information for every 3 hours.
   • Every 6 hours: choose this option to make your weather widget refreshing the information for every 6 hours.
   • Every 12 hours: choose this option to make your weather widget refreshing the information for every 12 hours.
   • Every 24 hours: choose this option to make your weather widget refreshing the information for every 24 hours.
6. Tap the required auto refresh option you wish to use. When the dot indicator next the option shows green means the option is selected.
7. Tap Home button to return to the standby mode.

FYI, you can also manually refresh the weather widget by tapping the auto refresh icon located at the bottom right corner of this widget. Also, you should remember that the frequency of auto refresh weather widget may cost some data plan. In other words, more shorter the auto refresh frequency means more data will be used. So, which auto refresh option do you use?

Samsung Galaxy S3: How to Change Weather Widget from Celsius to Fahrenheit

When you first turn on your Samsung Galaxy SIII, generally you'll find the stock weather widget was installed on your primary Home screen. You can use this widget to obtain the information about temperature and weather forecast on your current location. But, first of all you need to enable location services on your phone to make this widget works.

See also: How to Change Location Services on Samsung Galaxy S3

As another apps and widgets installed in this phone, you can also customize this Accu weather widget to suit your needs, such as change the preferred temperature unit from Celsius to Fahrenheit or vice versa.


How to change weather widget from Celsius to Fahrenheit or Fahrenheit to Celsius?
Below are the complete steps to do:

1. On your primary Home screen, tap Accu weather widget.
2. Tap the Menu key then select Settings.
3. Tap General.
4. Tap Unit.
5. Depending on your current settings, tap Unit to change from Celsius to Fahrenheit or vice versa. When the dot indicator next the option shows green means the option is selected.
6. Tap Home button to return to the standby mode.

Some countries use Celsius to explain the temperature and the other countries use Fahrenheit. So, by knowing how to change the temperature unit from Celsius to Fahrenheit or vice versa then you can set it according to your needs.

Samsung Galaxy S3: How to Remove Password Protection when Purchasing on Google Play Store

Enable password on the Google Play Store settings is one of the way that you can do to prevent unwanted or accidentally purchases because whenever you'll made a purchase you'll be prompted to enter your Google password. This also will avoid unauthorized people purchasing through your device.

See also: How to Password Protect When Purchasing from Google Play Store on Samsung Galaxy S3

However, for some reason you may want to purchase through Play store without having to enter your Google password. If so, you can turn off the password easily from the Play Store settings or when you're purchasing something from there.


How to disable use password for Google Play Store purchases?
You can do this on your Samsung Galaxy SIII by using one of the steps listed below:
I. From the Play Store settings

1. Go to Apps through Home screen.
2. Scroll to Play Store, then tap it.
3. Tap the Menu key, then select Settings.
4. Under User control section, remove the tick on the box next to the Password option to disable it.
5. Enter your Google password associated with your device, then tap OK button to confirm removing password protection.

II. While you're purchasing something on Play Store.
You can remove the password protection by checking the box next to the option "Never ask me again" when you confirm password to purchase something from Play Store.


For the record, you should remember that removing password protection may result in unwanted purchases. So, it's strongly recommended not to remove the password if your device often used by your kids or another people that may purchase something from Play Store while they use the device. But, if you decide to do this, then it means that you assume responsibility for all charges from the purchases made using your account.

Samsung Galaxy S3: How to Password Protect When Purchasing on Google Play Store

Google Play Store is the official market for Android device, including the Samsung Galaxy SIII. Here you can find hundreds of useful apps and games, both free and paid. Once you've activated your Google account on your Android device, then you can accessing the Google Play Store to get applications that suit your needs.

See also: How to Access Google Play Store on Samsung Galaxy S3

Nowadays, the easiness to make purchase in Play store sometimes makes you end up with an accidentally purchased. Fortunately, there is an option in Google Play Store setting which will allow you to set entering password whenever you'll made purchases from play store.


How to enable use password to restrict Google Play Store purchases?
If you wants to enable this option, then kindly follow the steps listed below:

1. Go to Apps through Home screen.
2. Scroll to Play Store, then tap it.
3. Tap the Menu key, then select Settings.
4. Under User control section, tick the check box next to the Password option to enable this option.
5. Now, you'll be prompted to enter your Google password associated with your device.
6. Tap OK button.

By enabling this option, now whenever anyone who will made purchase from Google Play Store through your device will be asked to enter the password. This of course will help you to prevent unwanted purchases, moreover if your device often used by your children or another who potentially made purchases or in-app purchases while they use the device to play the game or do something else.

Samsung Galaxy S3: How to Share Selected Text in the Web Page

Web search is one of the option available when you're selecting text in the web. By using this option you can search whatever the text selected directly from the web, and you will find the search result be displayed in the default search engine page.

See also: How to Search Selected Text on the Web Page on Samsung Galaxy S3

While you selecting text in the web, you can also find another option available called Share. This option will allow you to share the highlighted text in the web to another device through several ways, such as via Bluetooth, Email, Gmail, Messaging or Wi-Fi Direct.


How to Share highlighted text in the web page?
If you wants to share text in the stock Browser apps in Samsung Galaxy SIII to another device by using some options available there, then below are the steps you need to do:

1. Open the stock Browser apps.
2. Navigate to the required web page.
3. Tap and hold the text until the text select is shown. You can adjust the text selected area by tapping and drag one of the anchor points at the selected text. The text selected will be highlighted.
4. Tap Share icon at the top area of the display.
5. Now, you'll see some options available to share, such as:
• Bluetooth: choose this option to share the selected text to another Bluetooth-capable device. Make sure both of the devices to enable the Bluetooth to do so.
• Email: choose this option to share the selected text via Email. This will copying the selected text to a new email message in the Email apps. When you have multiple email accounts, then you will be asked to choose which the account you want to send the email with. But, if you've already set the default email account, then it will automatically use this account to send the email with.
• Gmail: choose this option to share the selected text via Gmail. This will copying the text selected to a new email message in the Gmail apps.
• Messaging: choose this option to share the selected text via messaging. This will copying the text selected to a new text message in the Messaging apps.
• Wi-Fi Direct: choose this option to share the selected text by connecting to another Wi-Fi capable device.
6. Choose the required option you wish to use to share the text.
7. The selected text will be sent to another device by using the selected methods.

By knowing how to share the selected text in the web to another device using some methods, now you can share a useful information in the web easily by using one of the available methods as mentioned above. So, hope this helps :)

Samsung Galaxy S3: How to Search Selected Text on the Web Page

Nowadays, search engine is the main component which is widely use when the people use Internet to search something. By using the search engine, people can find whatever they looking for in the Internet with ease by typing the desired search term in the search engine. Due to its importance, most of browser apps available today provide a feature to automatically search whatever the user typed in the address bar without http or www through the default search engine.

See also: How to Set Default Search Engine in the Browser Apps on Samsung Galaxy S3

In addition to automatically search the search term typed in the address bar, you can also search the highlighted text on the web. This of course will useful if you find some text in the web and you want to use them as the search term on the default search engine.


How to search highlighted text on the web page?
If you wants to search the selected text in the Browser apps on Samsung Galaxy SIII, then kindly follow the steps listed below:

1. Open the stock Browser apps.
2. Navigate to the required web page.
3. Tap and hold the text until the text select is shown. You can adjust the text selected area by tapping and drag one of the anchor points at the selected text. The text selected will be highlighted.
4. To search the highlighted text, tap the Menu key located at the top right corner of the screen or next to share icon, then tap Web search.
5. Now, the result will be displayed in the default search engine. If you set the default to Google search, then the search results will appear in a Google Search page.

This methods of course will also be able to save your time because you can search whatever the highlighted text in the web directly from there, and you don't need to open the search engine page to search for the certain text that you find in the web.

Samsung Galaxy S3: How to Copy Paste Text

Browser apps is one of the stock applications available in Samsung Galaxy SIII that you can use to meet your daily Internet needs, from browsing the webs, read online magazine, download, etc.

See also: How to Use Browser in Samsung Galaxy S3

You can get lot of useful information through the Internet because nowadays people share about almost everything in there. In some cases, you may have found something useful from the Internet and wants to keep it on your memo or note. If so, you can do this easily by copying them from the browser then paste them into your memo.


How to copy text in Browser apps?
Kindly follow the steps listed below to do so:

1. Open Browser apps.
2. Navigate to the web page that contain information you wish to copy.
3. Select the required text by tapping and hold the area contains text until the text select is shown.
4. Tap and drag one of the anchor point at the selected text to adjust the selected text area. The selected text area will be highlighted.
5. Tap Copy icon to copy the selected texts.
6. Tap Home button to return to the standby mode.

How to paste copied text to S Memo apps?
Once you've copied text, now you can paste it to another apps. In this case, we will try to paste copied text from the Browser apps to S Memo apps:

1. Go to Apps through Home screen.
2. Scroll to S Memo, then tap it.
3. Tap Create text memo ( T) button located on the upper right corner.
4. Now you can paste copied text to your memo by using one of the steps listed below:
• Long tap the text field until Paste option is shown, then tap it to paste copied text to your memo.
• Tap Clipboard icon on the keyboard, then select the required copied text you wish to paste.
5. Finish. You have managed to paste copied text from the Browser apps to your memo.

For the record, this methods also can be applied in another apps, such as Messaging apps, S Planner, Email, etc.So, hope this helps :)