Samsung Galaxy S5: How to Get Back Kids Mode Installer in Home Screen in Android 4.4.2 Kitkat

Some insiders have sent me emails and said that they had accidentally removed the kids mode installer icon from their home screens which made them couldn't install the kids mode app. FYI, since the kids mode installer is one of default widgets on the Samsung Galaxy S5 then you can easily get the kids mode installer icon back to your home screen simply by finding the kids mode widget from the widgets list and then add it to your home screen. Once done, you can use the kids mode installer icon that you have added to the home screen to install and configure the kids mode app.

How to add the kids mode widget to home screen?
Before doing this steps, make sure you have a free space on your home screen. Well, kindly use the following steps to re-add the kids mode widget to home screen:
1. While you're on home screen, long press the Recent apps key or long tap on a blank area of the home screen to go to the home screen edit page.
2. Tap Widgets icon at the bottom of the screen. It'll quickly bring you to the widgets list.
3. Find the Kids Mode 1x1 widget.
4. Tap and hold the widget and then drag it to the home screen.
5. Release the widget to place it.
6. Once done, tap the widget to install the kids mode. You can see the detail steps to install and configure the kids mode app here.

Samsung Galaxy S5: How to Add or Remove a City in Accuweather Widget in Android 4.4.2 Kitkat

If you add your current city to the Accuweather widget, it'll help you to know the latest weather conditions in your city with ease. FYI, since this widget can handle more than one city, if needed you can also add another cities into the widget so that you can easily know the weather conditions in other cities directly from your home screen.

How to add a new city to the Accuweather widget?
You can do so by using the following steps:

1. Tap the Accuweather widget in your home screen.
2. Tap to add a new city.
3. Key in the city name in the search field and then tap to start searching.
4. Tap the required city from the search result list.
5. The selected city has been added to your Accuweather widget.
6. Press the Home key to go to your home screen.
7. To see the weather conditions in other cities you have added to the widget, swipe the Accuweather widget up or down.

How to remove a city from the Accuweather widget?
You can do so by using the following steps:

1. Tap the Accuweather widget in your home screen.
2. Tap to see all of cities you have added to this widget.
3. Tap or long press the Recent apps key to open up the additional options and then select Delete.
4.  Select the required city you want to delete.
5. Tap Done button.
6. Tap OK button to confirm.
7. The selected city has been deleted from the Accuweather widget.

Samsung Galaxy S5: How to Make Accuweather Widget Becomes Transparent in Android 4.4.2 Kitkat

By default, the Accuweather widget on your home screen displays a picture in the background and it will change based on the current weather forecast. However, if you don't like the background picture, you can adjust the widget transparency in the widget settings menu so that the background picture of the widget will be invisible.

How to make the Accuweather widget becomes transparent?
You can do so by using the following steps:

1. Tap the Accuweather widget on your home screen.
2. Tap or long press the Recent apps key to open up the additional options and then select Settings.
3. Tap Widget transparency. By default, the widget transparency is set to 0%.
4. Drag the widget transparency adjustment bar to the rightmost, or in other words, you have to adjust the widget transparency up to 100%. You'll get the preview when adjusting the widget transparency so that you'll get an idea how it might look like when the transparency has been adjusted.
5. Press the Home key to go to your home screen and you'll see the Accuweather widget becomes transparent.

Samsung Galaxy S5: How to Change Temperature Unit in the Accuweather Widget in Android 4.4.2 Kitkat

The current temperature is one of information that you can get from the Accuweather widget. This widget is is available in your home screen by default, but if you have accidentally removed it, you can get it back simply by adding the Accuweather widget from the the widgets list to your home screen. To fit the widget with your need, you can do some customizations to this widget, one of which is by changing the temperature unit from Celsius to Fahrenheit or from Fahrenheit to Celsius.

How to change the temperature unit in the Accuweather widget?
You can do so by using the following steps:

1. Tap the Accuweather widget on your home screen.
2. Tap or long press the Recent apps key to open up the additional options and then select Settings.
3. Tap Unit and then select from the following options:
• °C: select this option if you want the Accuweather widget displays the current temperature in Celsius degree.
• °F: select this option if you want the Accuweather widget displays the current temperature in Fahrenheit degree.
4. Press the Home key to go to your home screen and you'll see the Accuweather widget displays the current temperature with the selected temperature unit.

Samsung Galaxy S5: How to Get Back Accuweather Widget to Home Screen in Android 4.4.2 Kitkat

This week, more than two insiders sent me emails and said that they had accidentally removed the Accuweather widgets from their home screens and they wanted to get it back. FYI, since the Accuweather widget is a default widget in Samsung Galaxy S5, you can get it back to the home screen simply by finding the Accuweather widget from your widgets list and then add it to your home screen, as you used to do when adding a widget to home screen.

How to add the Accuweather widget to home screen?
Before doing the following steps, make sure you have a free space in your home screen. Do the following steps to add a weather widget to home screen:

1. While you're on home screen, long press the Recent apps key or long tap on a blank area of the home screen to go to the home screen edit page.
2. Tap Widgets icon at the bottom of the screen. It'll bring you to the widgets list.
3. Find the Weather 4x2 widget.
4. Tap and hold the widget and then drag it to the required space in home screen.
5. Release the widget to place it in home screen.
6. If you'd like to display your current city in the Accuweather widget, do as follows:
• Tap the weather widget.
• If your GPS is off, you need to turn it on by tapping the Settings button in a pop up window that appears in your screen. It'll quickly bring you to the Location menu.
• Tap the ON/OFF switch to turn on the location services.
• Press the Back key.
• Your current location will be displayed on the screen.
• Tap the current location to display it on the Accuweather widget in home screen.

Samsung Galaxy S5: How to Change Home Screen Transition Effect in Android 4.4.2 Kitkat

Samsung Galaxy S5 lets you have multiple home screens so that you can place more apps or widgets on there and can access them with more quickly. You can move between home screens by swiping home screen to the left or to the right. To make it more playful, you can enable a home screen transition effect so that your phone will play the effect when you're moving between home screens.

How to change home screen transition effect?
You can do so by using the following steps:

1. While you're on home screen, long press the Recent apps key or long tap on the blank space of the home screen to go to the home screen edit page.
2. Tap Home screen settings icon at the bottom of the screen.
3. Tap Transition effect and then select from the following options:
• None: select this option if you don't want your phone plays any effect when you're moving from one home screen to another, in other words, select this option to turn off the home screen transition effect.
• Card stack: select this option if you want your phone plays the card stack effect when you're moving from one home screen to another.
• 3D rotation: select this option if you want your phone plays the 3D rotation effect when you're moving from one home screen to another.
4. Press the Home key to go back to your home screen.
5. To see the transition effect when moving between home screens, swipe the home screen to the left or to the right.

Samsung Galaxy S5: How to Automatically Turn On or Off Wi-Fi in Android 4.4.2 Kitkat

Instead of manually enable or disable Wi-Fi connection in your phone, you can set your phone to auto-connect to or auto-disconnect from Wi-Fi networks at the times you want. You can do so by setting the Wi-Fi timer so that your phone will automatically enable or disable Wi-Fi at the scheduled times.

How to set Wi-Fi timer?
You can do so by using the following steps:

1. On any screen, swipe down the top of the screen to open the notification panel and then tap to go to the settings menu.
2. With the settings menu is displayed in grid view, scroll down to the Network connection section and then tap Wi-Fi .
3. If Wi-Fi is off, tap the ON/OFF switch to turn it on.
4. Tap or long press the Recent apps key to open up the additional options and then select Advanced.
5. Tap Wi-Fi timer.
6. Set a starting time:
• Check the box next to Set start time.
• Tap the Wi-Fi timer (hour and minute) to adjust the starting time when your phone has to enable Wi-Fi.
7. Set an ending time:
• Check the box next to Set end time.
• Tap the Wi-Fi timer (hour and minute) to adjust the ending time when your phone has to disable Wi-Fi.
8. Tap Done button.
9. The Wi-Fi timer has been set and Wi-Fi in your phone will automatically turn on and off at the scheduled times. FYI, when the Wi-Fi has been turned off according to the Wi-Fi timer, you can still enable Wi-Fi manually if you wish to continue using your Wi-Fi connection to use Internet.