Samsung Galaxy S5: How to Save Webpages for Offline Reading in Internet App in Android 4.4.2 Kitkat

Internet app, which is the stock browser app in the Samsung Galaxy S5, provides various features to help the users have a better experience while browsing the webpages, one of which is a feature that will let you save an article of a webpage while online to read it later offline. This feature basically is almost similar with bookmarks since both these features will help you easily reload bookmarked/saved webpages anytime you want. The difference is bookmarked webpages require an internet connection when you want to load it again, while saved pages don't. First, you have to load the required webpage while you're connected with the internet and then you can open/load the saved webpage offline later.

How to save a webpage?
You can save a webpage while you're connected to the internet so that it can be used for offline reading later by using the following steps:

1. Open Internet app.
2. Tap the address bar and then enter the required address of a webpage and then tap Go.
3. When the webpage has been fully loaded, tap or long press the Recent apps key to open up the additional options and then select Save page.
4. The webpage has been saved.

How to open a saved webpage?
When a webpage has been saved, you can then open it easily even when you don't have an internet connection. See the following steps to do so:

1. Open Internet app.
2. Tap the Saved pages icon located at the bottom of the screen to view all saved webpages. The newest item will be displayed on top.
3. Tap the required webpage.
4. The webpage will be loaded and let you read it offline.

I personally often use this feature to save interesting articles that I found while browsing webpages so that I can re-read it later even when I'm in a situation where I have to deal with the lack of an internet connection problem. So, how about you? Do you like this feature?

Samsung Galaxy S5: How to Use Bookmarks in Internet App in Android 4.4.2 Kitkat

When you have an internet connection in your Samsung Galaxy S5, either by connecting to a Wi-Fi network or by using mobile data connection, browsing webpages using the stock Browser app is an activity that you can do. While you're browsing webpages, you will probably find an interesting webpage or two and want to access the webpage again later. Instead of wasting your time seeking the webpage manually, you can make it easier by adding that webpage to your bookmark so that you can easily reload that webpage anytime you want from your bookmark without having to throw yourself into the problem of forgetting the webpage address.

How to bookmark a webpage?
You can add a webpage to bookmark by using the following steps:

1. Open Internet app.
2. Tap the address bar and then enter the address of the desired webpage and then tap Go.
3. When the website has been fully loaded, tap the Add bookmark icon in the left side of the webpage address you have just entered.
4. If necessary, you can edit the name of the bookmark and then tap Save button.
5. The webpage has been bookmarked. FYI, when a webpage has been bookmarked, the Add bookmark icon will turn yellow .

How to open a bookmarked webpage?
If you have added a webpage to your bookmark, then you can easily access the webpage by using the following steps:

1. Open Internet app.
2. Tap the Bookmark icon located at the bottom right corner of the screen. All bookmarked webpages will be displayed here.
3. Tap the required bookmark.
4. The webpage of the selected bookmark will be loaded.

FYI, since bookmark only marks the webpages to make you easily re-access them thus you need to stay connected to the internet when you want to reload a webpage from bookmark.

Samsung Galaxy S5: How to Delete Messages in Android 4.4.2 Kitkat

In some cases, you probably need to delete some of messages in your Messaging app, for instance when there are to many old or unimportant messages and you have to delete some of them to clean up the app, or when your internal storage starts having low space and you have to delete some of messages to free up some space. Deleting messages will be more important to be done especially if you're the one who like to send messages with others almost every time. Luckily, you can delete the messages in the Messaging app with ease, either delete the messages manually or automatically.

How to delete text or multimedia messages manually?
You can either delete conversations or individual messages within a conversation manually by using the following steps:

1. Open Messaging app.
2. Deleting conversations:
• Tap or long press the Recent apps key to open up the additional options and then select Delete.
• Select the required conversations you want to delete.
• Tap Done button.
• Tap OK button.
• The selected conversations will be deleted.
3. Deleting individual messages within a conversation:
• Tap the required conversation.
• Tap and then select the required messages within the conversation you want to delete.
• Tap Delete.
• Tap OK button.
• The selected individual messages will be deleted.

How to delete text or multimedia messages automatically?
You can set the phone to automatically delete old individual messages within a conversation when the specified limit is reached by using the following steps:

1. Open Messaging app.
2. Tap or long press the Recent apps key to open up the additional options and then select Settings.
3. Tap Delete old messages.
4. If Delete old messages is off, tap the ON/OFF switch to enable it.
5. Tap Text message limit to adjust the limit to the desired one and then tap OK button. FYI, when the numbers of individual text messages within a conversation reach the limit, then the old text messages within that conversation will be deleted automatically.
6. Tap Multimedia message limit to adjust the limit to the desired one and then tap OK button. FYI, when the numbers of individual multimedia messages within a conversation reach the limit, then the old multimedia messages within that conversation will be deleted automatically.

If for any reason you have to delete some of your messages but you don't want to lost them, then it'd better if you backup your messages periodically using Kies or other backup apps so that you won't lost any message even though they have been deleted by you or the phone.

Samsung Galaxy S5: How to Forward a Text Message in Android 4.4.2 Kitkat

In certain case, you probably want to send a text message that you have received from particular contact to the different contacts, for instance when you want to re-send a text message about a good news you have received to some of your friends. Instead of copying the message manually, you can forward the message so that the body of the message will be copied automatically in the create new message screen and then let you to send it to any contact you want. As same as when you create a new message, you can forward a text message to a single or multiple contacts at once.

How to forward a text message?
You can do so by using the following steps;

1. Open Messaging app.
2. Tap a conversation.
3. Long tap the required message until a pop up menu is displayed and then select Forward.
4. Enter the first letter of the recipient's name in the enter recipients field, all matching contacts will be displayed which you can select the required one (repeat it to add multiple recipients), or tap to select contacts from the Contacts app.
5. Tap to send the message.

Unfortunately, the stock Messaging app can only forward the body of the message without including the original message detail(the sender, date and time, etc) that you may have seen when you forwarded an email message from particular contact to the another ones.

Samsung Galaxy S5: How to Reply a New Text Message in Android 4.4.2 Kitkat

When you have an incoming text message, you can do some actions, one of which is by replying the message to the original sender. The step to reply a message is almost similar as when you read the message since when you want to reply a text message you usually need to read the latest message from particular contact and then send your message.


How to reply a new text message?
You can easily reply text messages by using 4 different methods. Each of the methods has their own advantage. You can use the one that best suit your need.

Method #1: From the Messaging app
It's the basic method that can be used to reply a text message. See the following steps to do so:

1. Open the Messaging app.
2. Tap the required conversation. FYI, the latest message will be displayed at the very bottom of the conversation.
3. Write your message in the enter message field.
4. If necessary, you can insert emoji into your message by tapping and then select the required emoji.
5. Once done, tap to send the message.

Method #2: From the notification panel
When you have enabled text message preview on status bar, you'll be notified with a short preview of the message as well as a Reply button in the notification panel which you can use to reply the message. See the following steps to do so:

1. On any screen, swipe down the top of the screen to open up the notification panel.
2. On the text preview of the new message, tap .
3. Write your message in the enter message field.
4. If necessary, you can insert emoji into your message by tapping and then select the required emoji.
5. Once done, tap to send the message.

Method #3: From the lock screen
By default, when a text message is received, you'll be notified with a notification or text preview (if you have enabled text message preview) on the lock screen. You can reply a text message from the notification by using the following steps:

1. Tap the notification of a new message on lock screen.
2. Do your screen lock method (It all depends on your current lock screen settings. As the example, if you use PIN, you have to enter the PIN and then tap OK button) to open up the message in the Messaging app.
3. Write your message in the enter message field.
4. If necessary, you can insert emoji into your message by tapping and then select the required emoji.
5. Once done, tap to send the message.

Method #4: From the pop-up display
When you have enabled message pop-up display, you can easily reply a text message directly from the pop-up when a new text message is received. See the following steps to do so:

1. When a text message is received, it'll be displayed as pop up while the screen is not locked.
2. Tap and you'll see the enter message field below the message preview.
3. Write your message in the enter message field.
4. If necessary, you can insert emoticon by long pressing the key in the left side of the space bar and then select Now, select the required emoticon you want to insert into you message.
5. Once done, tap to send the message.

Since I enable pop-up display, I like replying a new text message from the pop-up because it lets me easily do so once the message is received no matter what I'm doing with the phone so that I won't miss to reply any important message.

Samsung Galaxy S5: How to Read New Text Messages in Android 4.4.2 Kitkat

As same as with other messaging apps, the stock Messaging app also lets you do two-ways communication via messages. With this app, you can easily send or receive messages, either text or multimedia messages. This app has been equipped with various useful features, some of them will provide you with several ways to read the incoming messages. Each of them has the advantage that can be used based on your need.


How to read a new text message?
In this post, we'll learn 4 different ways to read a new text message. You can choose the one that best suit your need.

Method #1: From the Messaging app
This is the basic method to read a new message. See the following steps to do so:

1. Open the Messaging app.
2. The conversation with the latest message will be displayed at the top of the list and it'll be labelled with a number of unread messages. 
3. Tap the required conversation.
4. Read the message. The latest message will be displayed at the very bottom of the conversation.

Method #2: From the lock screen
By default, when a new text message is received, you'll be notified with a notification in the lock screen. If you have enabled text message preview on lock screen, you'll be provided with a short preview of the message. Tap the notification or text preview in the lock screen and then do your screen lock method(e.g: swipe the screen, draw the pattern, enter the PIN, etc. It all depends on your current lock screen settings) to open up the new message in the Messaging app.

Method #3: From the notification panel
By default, when a new text message is received, you'll be notified on the status bar and in the notification panel. If you have enabled text message preview on the status bar, you'll be provided with a short preview of the message on the status bar and in the notification panel. On any screen, swipe down the top of the screen to open up the notification panel and then tap the notification or text preview of the new message to open up the new message in the Messaging app.

Method #4: From the pop-up display
When you have enabled message pop up display, a new message will be displayed as pop up when the screen is not locked. It'll remain be displayed at the top on any screen until you take an action on it or close it manually. You can either scroll down or up the message on the pop up to read the whole message or tap on the pop up display to read the whole message with more conveniently in the Messaging app.


I personally like using the last method because I often forget or accidentally ignore the new messages. The pop-up display intensely tells me when I have a new message no matter what the screen or app that is being used and it forces me to pay attention on it so that I won't miss any important message anymore. So, how about you? Which method do you like best to read new messages?

Samsung Galaxy S5: How to Display New Text Messages as Pop-ups in Android 4.4.2 Kitkat

Pop-up display is a new feature that can be found in the stock Messaging app in Samsung Galaxy S5. Basically, this feature has the same function with the text message preview since these two features will let you easily know who's the sender and what's the content of the message without having to open the Messaging app first. The difference is the text message preview will display a short preview of a message on the lock screen and the status bar, while the pop up display will display the whole message on pop up window that will keep displayed at the top on any screen(when the screen is not locked).

How to enable or disable text message pop-up display?
You can do so by using the following steps:

1. Open Messaging app.
2. Tap or long press the Recent apps key to open up the additional options and then select Settings.
3. Scroll down to the Notifications and then tap it.
4. If Notifications is off, tap the ON/OFF switch to enable it.
5. Depending on your current settings, tap the Pop-up display to enable or disable it. When the checkbox next to this option is checked means the pop-up display is enabled and a new text message will be displayed as pop-up.

How to use text message pop-up display?
When this feature is enabled, you can use it to read/reply the message or call the sender with ease. See the following steps as the example how to use this feature:

1. When a new text message is received, you'll see the message is displayed on pop up window at the top of the screen. FYI, when you receive multiple text messages, the pop-up display will display the latest message.
2. Read the message.
   When you receive a long text message, you can read the whole message by scrolling up or down the message on the pop-up display.
3. Call the sender.
   If necessary, you can quickly call the sender of the message by tapping
4. Reply the message.
   You can easily reply the message from the pop-up display by using the following steps:
• Tap and you'll see the enter-message field is displayed below the message on the pop-up display that can be used to write your message.
• Write your message.
• Tap to send the message.
5. View the message in the Messaging app.
   If necessary, you can view the whole message with more conveniently in the Messaging app by tapping .
6. Close the pop-up display.
   If you think that you don't need to take any action, you can close the pop-up display manually by tapping located at the top right corner of the pop-up display.

FYI, since the message pop-up display will remain be displayed on top regardless what the screen/app that is being opened and it won't be closed unless you take an action(view/reply the message or call the sender) or close it manually, then this feature will be able to intensely remind you if you have a new text message and force you to pay attention on it or take an action if needed.