We’ve all been there, you are in your meeting and you need your calculator, you forget where you placed it and you become all red.. 

OR 

When you are at the groceries trying to figure out if you can afford that cookie you have been dreaming off! 

 

Some scary stuff i tell you….the pressure, its unexplainable… 

let me tell you a small trick that will make sure that you get your calculator in a matter of seconds! 

 

1.    Turn your phone on! 

2.    Press the multi-task button 

3.    Then press the second icon from the list (with the arithmetic signs) 

 

There you have it! 

Sometimes it becomes tedious scrolling to the screen you use the most right? 

Let me tell you something..you can make that screen your home screen! saving you those precious seconds and saving your fingers the agony! 

 

I’ll tell you how to do it 

 

1.    Hold down for 2-3 seconds on your screen on any page 

2.    Scroll to the page you want to make your home screen 

3.    Press the little home icon on top 

There you have it, that’s all done for you! 

Make your life easier by customising the settings that you use the most to be a click away! 

Follow my lead! 

 

1.    Swipe down from the top of the phone 

2.    Go into “Quick Settings” 

3.    Press Edit 

 

There you have it, select the settings you wish to have a click away, and better than that you can also order them the way you want too! 

We’ve all been there, trying to save that and every percent of battery we have left on our devices. 

Better than doing a million things all for the same cause, why not just press one simple button and it would do all the job for you! 

 

Follow my lead! 

 

1.    Go into Quick Settings 

2.    Press STAMINA from the settings (make sure you have STAMINA selected in your “Quick Settings list, if not, press edit and select it so it can appear” 

3.    Once selected, STAMINA mode will temporarily disable WI-FI and mobile data when the screen is off and not in use, furthermore most applications will be inactive too. However you will still be able to receive phone calls, SMS/MMS messages and your alarms will still work! Though when the screen is on, the phone will function as normal! 

 

Bare in mind this is different than “Low Battery Mode” 

 

 

1.    Hold down for 2-3 seconds on your screen on any page

2.    Press “Widgets” on the menu items provided

3.    Scroll through the widgets

4.    Hold down and drag the widget you would like to add to a screen and position it wherever you wish

5.    Either that or tap it so it becomes an extra screen of its own

Don’t you sometimes think to yourself that you can’t hear very well whilst on the phone with someone, or the voice is muffled and whatnot? 

 

I can surely help you with that, with a single click 

 

1.    Go to Settings 

2.    Press “Call settings” 

3.    Then press “Speaker Voice Enhancement” 

4.    There we go! 

 

This will provide a richer voice listening experience during calls, that way you don’t need to feel old! 

But if you turn of the notifications and the vibrations then you might forget all about the notifications…

So what do you do?

 

1.    Go into Settings

2.    Then press Display 

3.    Scroll to the bottom or find the tab which says “Notification light”   

 

There you have it, if you have a notification you phone’s LED light will keep on flashing indicating a notification of some sort

 

Quite handy ay! 

Well let me tell you a little secret..

You are actually correct. This is because your phone’s application run updates/background data using the networks.

So you can restrict all your apps from using the network

 

1.    Go into Settings

2.    Enter Data Usage

3.    Press the 3 vertical squares on top of each other on the top right hand corner 

4.    Press “Restrict background data”

 

Though be sure that “If you restrict background mobile data, some apps and services won’t work unless you’re connected to a WI-FI network”

Sometimes we forget to turn of wifi when we finally leave our phones on a table and get to sleep. 

Then in the middle of the night we wake up with a notification with one of our cat videos! 

 

I have a little solution for you! 

Though you need to have a preconfigured “sleep mode” time for you phone 

Anyways…. 

 

To automatically turn of WIFI follow my lead 

 

1.    Enter the WIFI settings on your Android phone 

2.    Tap on the 3 vertical squares on top of each other 

3.    Press Advanced options 

4.    Press “Keep WIFI on during sleep 

5.    There you have it 

6.    You can choose from the following three on the menu 

7.    Either “Always”, “Only when plugged in”, “Never (increases data usage)” 

 

No need to thank me, but make sure you look at all those cat videos in the morning! 

(Bare in mind this will increase data usage, if data is turned on) 

Well rest assured you can do it with a single button on the Sony Xperia. 
 

1.    Just keep holding the power on/off button 

2.    You should see a menu pop up 

3.    Press the 3rd option say “Take a Screenshot” 

4.    Voila! There you have it, you should now see your screenshot in your gallery