Samsung Galaxy S3: How to Use Pop Up Play and Any Options Available Inside

Currently, multitasking is a feature that should be on every new smartphone, given the busy lives today that sometimes forces us to be able to do multiple things at the same time. Thanks to Samsung who has deliver us with great phone, the Samsung Galaxy SIII that allows us to do multitasking with ease.

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One feature that can optimize multitasking on this phone is a Pop up play. It's easy and able to provide a new experience to us about how to multitask video with fun.


What is Pop up play?
According to site androidcentral.com, Pop up play is the ability to watch videos or even HD video at the same time when you send messages, write emails, browsing, or whatever you do with your Samsung Galaxy SIII.

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Pop up play allows you to put the video you play to stay at the top, which means you can still see the video while you use other features available on your phone. Below is a video about the pop up play, let's check it out:




How to use pop up play?
Well, now is the time to us to learn about how to use the pop up play to play the video, but you should know that pop up play only works for videos that you have stored in your phone, and it can not work for a video from youtube or video streaming from other services. To do so, follow the steps below:

1. Go to Video App.
2. Start to play any video you want to watch.
3. Touch pop up play icon, the icon usually located in the lower right hand corner in the video play screen.
4. Now, pop up play is activated, and you can see the video playing on a small screen.

Very easy, right? Now you can do anything on your phone without having to leave the video you play.


What are the options available in the pop up play?

1. Move the video screen to any part of your phone's screen
   Other fun things you can do with pop pup play is that you can move the video screen wherever you want. It's easy, simply drag the video by using your finger to any position on the screen of your phone. This is very useful for you, for example, when you are writing an email and need to access the keyboard, then you can just move it out away.
2. Using another app as usual
   The second is that you can still access and use the other app as usual. Obviously you can change the position of the video easily so your other activities are not disrupted.
3. Wacth it in full screen
   You could easily go back to full screen mode by tap the video.
4. Close it with ease
   When you have finished with your video, you can easily close it, just press and hold the video and then touch on the red (-) icon. And now your video will instantly closes.

It sounds very fun to use pop up play in our phones. Although you have to pay for it with more battery, but it's worth it, right? So, have you tried to use pop up play on your Galaxy SIII? If so, I'll happy to find your experience in the comments below :)

Samsung Galaxy S3: How to Multitask and Remove All Running Apps Easily

Samsung Galaxy SIII was first launched by using the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and it's a great phone that comes with a set of useful features. Android 4.0 is able to provide this phone capability to do multitasking well, that means you will be easy to jump between appp, as easy as when you are using a personal computer.

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This month Samsung Galaxy SIII get updated operating system, Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, of course this will increasingly make this phone work with the maximum, including when used for multitasking.

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How to multitask?
So, let's try to multitask with this phone uses very easy way as quoted by the site thefullsignal.com, to do so follow the steps bellow:

1. When your phone is working with several applications open, do tap and hold the home button for 2 minutes.
2. The first step you've done will bring you to a list of windows that contain all the applications that are currently open. You can see the list by scrolling to find which app you want to switch.
3. To open the app, tap the app you want from the list.
4. But, if you want to close your recent app then tap and hold the home button and swipe away the windows.
5. Press the home buttpon to return to the home screen.
6. Done, now you have successfully learned to do multitask on your phone.

How to remove all running apps?
When you find your phone is having lag, although this is very rare, one solution that you can do is free up your phone's memory to remove all running apps. It's easy, press and hold the home button then touch remove all in the lower right hand corner. Press the home button to return to the home screen.


How to use task manager?
Yes, there are other ways that you can use to remove app is using task manager or another task killer app, but it is not recommended to be done on a regular basis because it will make your phone is having problems and running slower than usual.

See also: How to Make the Samsung Galaxy SIII Feel Faster with Five Simple Tweaks

But, if you are desperate to use it, then below is a way to use the task manager as written by androidcentral.com:

1. Press and hold the Home button.
2. Touch the Task manager in the lower left hand corner.
3. It will display all running apps.
4. Touch End to close any one app you want.
5. If you want to close them all touch End all.

Well, it's easy to do multitask and remove the app on the Galaxy SIII, right? You just need a little direction to be able to do it correctly. So, have you tried the tips above? If so, you can share your experiences by write them through the comment below :)

Samsung Galaxy S3: How to Create New Folder in Home Screen and Move the App Shortcut in It

Yes, from the beginning we did agree that the Samsung Galaxy SIII is a great phone and has a number of capabilities that sometimes we have never thought of before. The number of capabilities and experience offered by this phone makes us keep trying to do new things with the existing features on this phone or with the applications that we can get easily through Google Play Store. Sometimes curiosity and high spirits make us fill out our phones with a myriad of applications, as a result the phone becomes slower because it have to load so many things and the home screen phones become so crowded and messy because so many shortcut out there.

See also: How to Make the Samsung Galaxy SIII Feel Faster with Five Simple Tweaks

When you find your homescreen full of shortcut, then the solution you can do is to create a folder on your home screen and then classify existing shortcuts applications according to the category you want. Suppose you create a game folder for your favorite games or working folder for the app that you use in your work, etc.. This certainly bring benefits to you, you can easily access the app you want and your home screen will look more tidy and spacious.

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How to create folders on the home screen
With the features of the Galaxy SIII, now you can do many things very easily as written on the site andoidfact.com, including to create a folder on the home screen of your phone. To do this follow the steps below:

1. First of all you must be on your home screen. If you are not sure that you are in the home screen, you can press the home button which is located in the middle of the bottom of the phone. By pressing this button you will be taken to the home screen.
2. Touch the menu button.
3. Select "create folder" in the dialog box that appears.
4. Now, you have a new folder on the home screen.
5. Name the folder as you wish by press the folder.

How to move and organize application shortcuts into the new folder?
After you were successfully create a new folder on your home screen, now you can start to move and organize application shortcuts in your home screen into folders that you want. Follow the steps below to do so:

1. Press and hold down the app you want to move until the screen vibrates.
2. Move the app into the folder you want and the app will disappear from your home screen.
3. To be able to access the app, go to the folder and you will find it there.
4. You can do the same thing for another app you want to move to the folder you want.

See also: Samsung Galaxy S3 Home Screen Setup: How to Delete, Add, Arrange, Change It Easily

Well, it's so easy to create a new folder on the home screen and organize your app. Now your home screen will be more tidy and spacious, this course will make it more pleasant to look at. So, do you have tried it on your phone? If so, you can share your experiences through the comment below :)

Samsung Galaxy S3: How to Enable S Beam, NFC and Use It to Transfer File

As we all know that Samsung's flagship smartphone, the Samsung Galaxy SIII comes with a set of useful features such as smart stay, face unlock, S Beam etc.. Well, this time we will learn about S Beam, one of very interesting feature, in my opinion :)

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S Beam feature works by utilizing a combination of NFC and Wi-Fi Direct that you can use to transfer files between two Galaxy SIII. This combination also allows you to transfer files with larger sizes such as image, video, music etc.. NFC will initiate the transfer, while Wi-Fi direct charge for the actual file transfer, which means by using the S Beam you can get transfer speeds up to 300Mbps.

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How to enable S Beam?
As written by cnet.co.uk, before you can transfer files between two phones, first you need to enable this feature. It's easy, simply by following the steps bellow:

1. Go to Settings
2. Select More Settings
3. Select S Beam
4. Turn on S Beam.

How to enable NFC?
Besides activating S Beam, to be able to transfer you also have to enable the NFC on your mobile phone. Here is how to enable the NFC:

1. Go to Settings
2. Select More Settings
3. Tap on NFC, it will enable the feature and will allow you to exchange the data betwen two phones.

How to transfer files with S Beam?
After you successfully enable the S Beam and NFC, so now you can start the file transfer between two phones. It's easy, follow the steps below:

1. Navigate image, photo or video that you want to transfer.
2. Hold back your phone with the back another phone.
3. Tap to beam to start the file transfer.

You should know that because of file transfer using Wi-Fi direct, then you can take your phone away from another phone without having to worry transfer will be interrupted. You also do not have to connect to the same network to be able to do this.

S Beam Currently only available for the Samsung Galaxy SIII, but if Samsung later released the device using Android 4.0 or higher, then you can also do S Beam with this device.

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Well, it's interesting, isn't it? This great phone is often allow us to do things that previously have been unthinkable. So, do you have your own experience using S Beam? If so, you can share them through the comment bellow :)

Samsung Galaxy S3 Lock Screen: How to Customize It Easily

We may all agree that the Samsung Galaxy SIII is a great phone. Many things that were previously unthinkable, now we can do with this phone. One is that we now able to customize lock screen on this phone, including changing the content and background of the image, as written by site androidfact.com.

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How to change lock screen background image?
Let's start with the first thing that is fun: change background image on your phone's lockscreen. It's easy, simply by follow the steps below:

1. Go to any home screen with no shortcuts.
2. Press and hold down until a pop-up screen.
3. Select "Lockscreen" from an existing list.
4. Select the "gallery" if you want a custom image from your gallery, or you can select "Wallpaper" if you want a custom image from the image that has been provided by Samsung in this phone.
5. Select the image you want.
6. If the image you want to have a size that does not fit or you just want to take part, then in this section you can crop to adjust the image. Once you have finished touch "done" button which is usually located in the upper right corner.
7. Finish, now your lock screen background image has changed.

How to unlock lock screen?
In addition you can customize the background image on the lockscreen, you can also unlock the lock screen with a variety of different ways. Each way has its own function, they are:

1. Swipe
   This is the basic way that you can use to unloack lock screen on your phone. When you touch lock screen with your finger it will arise ripple effect. And if you swipe your finger then your device will unlock. The advantages to using this method is that you can also get a lot of options to customize the look and feel of your lokcscreen. You can start this by go to settings-> scroll down until you find the Security tab-> Select Lock screen option.
2. Motion
   This is almost similar to the swipe. You can unlock your phone by putting your finger on the screen and tilt it forward. This method also has the same advantage that belongs to the swipe method. And you can get it in the same way as well.
3. Face unlock
   You can simply unlock your phone by putting your face in front of the camera.
4. Face and voice
   This is almost the same as face unlock, the difference is in addition you need to show the face in front of the camera, you also have to say a word to unlock your phone.
5. Pattern
   You can unlock lock screen on your phone by drawing the pattern that you specify before.
6. PIN
   You can also use a PIN that you specify before to unlock your phone's lockscreen.
7. Password
   Just as the PIN, you can unlock your phone using password that you specify before.
8. None
   If you use this option, it means your phone will unlock when you hit the power button.

How to change lock screen shortcut?
You can change your lock screen shortcuts by following the below steps:

1. Press down on your screen.
2. Now, you are on the screen that you can use to remove or add a shortcut by press the icon you want to remove then drag it to the trash.
3. After successfully removed, it will appear sign (+) on the shortcut which is previously removed, which means you can add new shortcuts available by pressing this button.
4. Turn of the screen by tapping the power button when you have completed all.
5. Now, your new lock screen will appear with a new shortcut when you press the power button again.

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You can try to use it by putting your finger on the one that you want to access. Then swipe it up on the screen and it will unlock your phone and you'll instantly on one that you have previously selected. So interesting, isn't it? Do you have your own experience with Samsung Galaxy SIII lock screen? If so, you can share them through comments below :)

Samsung Galaxy S3 Home Screen Setup: How to Delete, Add, Arrange, Change It Easily

As we know that the Samsung Galaxy is the flagship smartphone from Samsung that comes with powerful hardware, software and set of useful features. There are many things we can do with this phone by utilizing existing features, both visible and hidden in the settings.

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One of the nice things we can do with this phone is that we can customize the home screen with our desires, as we know this phone has a 7 homes screen, then even we can delete then add a new one on it, or we can arrange one by one existing homes screen in order really to our liking as written by site androidcentral.com. Interesting, isn't it?

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Well, first we have to do to be able to customize the home screen on the Galaxy SIII is by first getting to the home screen edit screen. It's easy. You can start it by go to any home screen-> Touch and hold the screen -> Select the Add to home screen -> Touch the Page tab. Now, all of your home screen has been displayed and you can customize to your liking, including delete and add new ones.


How to delete home screen?
Yes, you can posiblly do this thing now. It's very easy to delete the home screen, simply by select one of the seven homes screens displayed then drag it to the trash icon. The screen will be deleted after you confirm delete on the next page.



How to Add new home screen?
Once you successfully deleted one, place of previous screen has been deleted will be a sign (+), it means that now you can add a new screen in this place by touch the sign (+). After that will come the home screen editing screen that you can use to add the app icons and widgets you want into your new screen.



How to rearrange the home screen?
In addition to deleting and adding a new screen, you can also rearrange the existing seven home screen in the order you want. By default, the phone will use the middle screen as the default home screen, while the screen on the left and the right is a screen you can swipe to the left or on right of the default screen. However, if you want to change the position of the left and right of the screen to your liking, then follow the steps below:

1. Select the screen you want to change its position by touch and hold it.
2. Determine the new position you want to this screen with drag it to the new place. You could put it next to the default screen or wherever you want.
3. Exit from editing mode and swipe through home screen to confirm changes to the placement of the new screen.

How to change the default screen?
Perhaps in addition to rearrange the position of the left and right screen, you may also want to change the default screen to screen you wish to be. Usually the default screen has a Clock / Weather widget on the top. Well, if you want to change the default screen, it is very easy, simply by follow the steps below:

1. Note any house icon on the upper right in seventh existing screen.
2. Touch the house icon on the screen that you want to be the default screen.
3. House icon on the screen that you choose will turn blue.
4. A notification will appear to inform you that the default screen has changed.

With all of the things mentiond above, you can make your phone truly as you wish. So, do you have your own tips and tricks about home screen on Galaxy SIII? If so, I am very happy if you willing to share them via the comment below :)

Common Problems with Samsung Galaxy SIII and How to Fix It | Part II

This time I will fulfill my promise to continue the previous article about the common problems experienced by the Samsung Galaxy SIII part one that took from site digitaltrends.com. So, let's check them out:


5. Overheating
The problem often reported experienced by its users is the phone was overheating that sometimes make their phone experience freezing or crashing.

Samsung delivers big screen, big battery and a set of powerful components in the Galaxy SIII which is very thin, it makes the phone faster heat when you use it, especially for gaming in a long time or other activities that graphically intensive. The part of this phone that is usually the fastest heat was rear its head. However, if your phone is overheating when not in use with intensive, then maybe you have a problem with the hardware.

Well, below are some thing that you do if this problems are experienced by your phone:

• Take a break and let your phone cool down for a few minutes. Usually the phone will heat up when you use it in a long time.
• If this problem occurs when the phone is in standby or unintensive usage, then you should contact the seller or the carrier and ask to check your phone to see if there is faulty hardware. If so, then you should be able to get a replacement.

6. Wi-Fi dropping or not detecting
This problem was also reported by many users of Galaxy SIII. Phone connection have no problems, but then the connection had dropped and broken.

If you experience this problem there are several things you can do to fix it:

• Restart your phone. This is only a temporary solution.
• Go to Settings-> Wi-Fi-> Keep Wi-Fi on during sleep is set to always.
•  Do over-the-air update.
• Try Wifi Analyzer app if the problem is your router.

7. Lag
Of course you do not want to experience lag when using your Galaxy SIII for navigating arround. But if you have a delay time when you hit the home button or the app down to your settings when you close it, so as much as possible do not use a task killer apps and do a regular reboot on your phone to clear memory.

Things you can do to overcome the lag problems experienced by your phone are:

• Switch off power saving by doing drag down the navigation bar at the top.
• If there is lag associated with the home button, this may be caused by S Voice. Samsung has been set by default when you double tap to home button automatically opens S Voice. This is what causes lag on your mobile phone. To fix it double tap the home button to launch S Voice then go to settings through the menu and uncheck the option Open via the home key.
• Go to Settings-> Developer option-> change window animation scale and transition animation scale to 5X or you can turn it off so that your phone can work faster without having to load any animation.

8. Vibrating to the music or audio
Perhaps you are wondering why your phone vibrate when you play music or audio app. Well, if you are bothered by this, then you can handle it very easily, simply by go to Settings-> Sound-> uncheck Auto haptic.


9. Copy and paste is not working
There are some reports suggest that the copy and paste features in this phone does not work. Some do not find the option to paste aftr copied something and some even experiencing crashes when trying to paste the copied text.

This problem has actually been realized by Samsung. But until now there is no fix for this. Temporary solution to this problem is to factory reset the phone or root your phone then clear the data from your clipboard. But this solution is not ideal and does not guarantee that this problem will not come again in the future.


10. Smart stay feature does not work properly
Smart stay is a great features that was pinned by Samsung in Galaxy SIII. With this feature, your phone will be able to keep the screen stays on as long as you see it and it will automatically dim and turn off when you do not see it. When this feature is set on in your phone, then there will be occasionallly eye icon po up on the notification bar and your phone will use the front facing camera to check if you still see the screen. If so, then the screen stays on and vice versa. Screen timeout setting on your phone that will determine how often these checks done. From some reports, user find this feature does not work at all on their phone.

Things you can do to fix this problem is to make sure that your face is bright enough so that the camera can see. This feature is very cool, but still not perfect. Sometimes when you are in the dark or shadow the camera can not see your face and it will make the screen turned off. In addition, you may be able to change your screen timeout to be longer so that the screen is not going off quickly.

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Well, that's a common problem experienced by the Samsung Galaxy SIII, as quoted by the site digitaltrends.com. Hopefully you do not have serious problems with your phone which will lead to lower your productivity. And if you experience any of the problems mentioned above, maybe this article can help you to fix it. So many problems out there and not all listed here, so I am very happy if you willing to share them here by write them via the comments below :)