Even with the battery improvements on modern Android smartphones, many people still need to make some adjustments to get through an entire day on one battery charge. This could involve being more conscious of the apps you use, keeping the screen low, or turning off various background tasks and settings. Our tutorial will show you … Read more
Your phone can try its best to save data so that you still have some left at the end of each month. There is even a setting in Android called Data Saver that applies a bunch of these settings at once. But if it’s preventing you from doing the things that you want or need … Read more
Your Android Marshmallow phone can use a number of different tools to determine your location. By combining all of the available options that your phone offers, that location information can become quite accurate. So if you find that your phone is often wrong about your location, then you might be looking for a way to … Read more
The pictures that you take with the camera on your Android Marshmallow phone can have a fairly high resolution. The exact resolution options will vary depending on your phone’s camera, but they are typically higher resolutions than the HD resolutions you get on a 1080p TV, and some may even be able to take pictures … Read more
The traditional way to end a call on your Android smartphone is to press a button on the screen. Typically this is a perfectly acceptable way to complete that action, and it’s likely that a significant majority of people that use smartphones would ever consider an alternate method for ending a call. But this method … Read more
The default notification sound that you hear when you receive a notification on your Android Marshmallow phone is something that you might not even think about. Eventually after we have used a phone for a while, we become conditioned to hearing certain sounds and expecting certain actions to occur. The default notification sound is something … Read more
If you have ever had to use the calculator on your Marshmallow phone for school, or for more advanced mathematical purposes, then the lack of buttons may have caused some problems. Perhaps you went out and bought a calculator, or maybe you downloaded a third-party app. But the calculator in Android Marshmallow actually has some … Read more
The contacts that you have on your phone can come from your SIM card or any of many types of accounts that you add to the device. Typically these contacts are all grouped together in the Contacts app, and sorted in a particular way. Often the default method for sorting contacts in Android Marshmallow is … Read more
The alarm feature on my smartphone is something that I use almost every day. I can set an alarm for the same time every weekday morning by making a few changes in my Clock app, and this functionality has allowed me to replace a dedicated alarm clock, while also making it easy for me to … Read more
Many of the tools and features that you need out of a smartphone are included in the default apps. One of these tools is the alarm clock, which can be found within Marshmallow’s default Clock app. Setting an alarm in the Clock app requires a few short steps that will have you set up with … Read more