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 […]

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 […]

Getting more life out of a single battery charge is a struggle for many smartphone owners. The acts of simply using your phone can cause the battery to drain, and users that have their phone turned on a lot may find that they aren’t able to get through an entire day on one complete battery […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The Camera app on most modern smartphones is capable of producing some high quality images. In fact, many more pictures are taken with phone camera every day than traditional cameras. But if you are someone that likes to have control over certain elements of your photographs, then the simplified nature of the default Camera app […]