How To Change Settings On Samsung Galaxy S5

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Changing System Settings

By changing preferences in Settings, yous can make the phone look and work to match your needs. Although system and app settings are discussed throughout the book, this section points out some that aren't mentioned elsewhere but are important in customizing your phone.

To access system settings, become to the Home screen and tap Apps, Settings. Y'all can also tap a Dwelling house screen Settings shortcut (if y'all've created 1), or y'all can open the Notification panel and tap the Settings icon at the top. (An reward of the latter approach is that you can go to Settings no matter what you're doing without first having to return to the Home screen.)

To access an app'south settings (for those that provide them), launch the app, tap the menu icon, and choose Settings.

Customize the Quick Setting Buttons

At the pinnacle of the Notification console is a horizontally scrolling cord of icons called Quick Setting buttons. By tapping these buttons, you lot can quickly enable or disable organisation features. If you printing and concur most of these buttons, you get directly to that characteristic'due south screen in Settings. Y'all can customize the Quick Setting buttons by selecting unlike settings to display and changing the order in which they're listed.

Open the Notification console by swiping the top of the screen downward.
Tap the Filigree View icon to display the entire array of Quick Setting buttons.
Tap the Edit icon.
The Quick Setting buttons are divided into two sets: Active Buttons (those currently in use in the Notification console) and Available Buttons (other buttons that can be moved into the Active Buttons gear up). You can edit the Quick Setting buttons in these ways:
- Bandy any pair of buttons past long-pressing a push in one set and dragging information technology onto a button in the other set. (The final set of Agile Buttons can contain either nine or ten buttons.)
- Change the order of the Agile Buttons by long-pressing a button and dragging it to a new position. The two buttons swap places.
- Restore the original Quick Setting buttons and their order by tapping Reset.

Customize the Quick Settings

Whenever you open Settings, the first section—regardless of the view yous've gear up (Grid, List, or Tab)—is always Quick Settings. The purpose of the Quick Settings is to make a dozen of your most frequently used settings easily accessible without having to retrieve the Settings department in which each one can otherwise be found.

Open Settings by tapping Apps, Settings (or any other method previously discussed) and choose Edit Quick Settings from the carte.
Quick Settings can comprise only a dozen settings. To change the current settings, tap those you want to eliminate (removing their check marks) and and so tap the settings icons that you want to apply equally replacements.
Tap Save when you're washed making changes.

Motions and Gestures Settings

You can selectively enable Motions and Gestures settings to control telephone features by making special movements with the phone or gestures that are sensed by it. Many of these settings are very helpful; others... well, y'all be the judge.

Open Settings, and tap the Motions and Gestures icon (in the Movement section).
Each of the Motions and Gestures settings operates as an on/off toggle. They piece of work as follows:
- Air Browse. When enabled, you can moving ridge your manus over the sensor at the top of the telephone to instruct information technology to scroll in various apps, such as Gallery, Music, Email, and Internet.
- Direct Call. When viewing a person's contact record, log entry, or bulletin conversation, you tin can move the telephone to your ear to automatically call the person.
- Smart Alert. When y'all selection upward the phone, it vibrates to notify you lot of missed calls or messages.
- Mute/Interruption. When enabled, y'all can specify methods that can be used to intermission media playback and mute alarms or incoming calls. Unlike the ii natural motions for silencing the phone, Smart Pause relies on the forepart photographic camera to detect when you're looking at the screen. If information technology senses yous've looked away, video playback is automatically paused. Information technology restarts again when it detects that yous're looking at the screen.
- Palm Swipe to Capture. When enabled, you can create screen captures by placing the edge of your hand on the screen and dragging across information technology. Captured screens are saved in the Screenshots folder. (Yous tin also create screen captures by simultaneously pressing the Dwelling house key and Power button.)

Air View

When enabled, Air View instructs certain apps to respond when they sense that your finger is hovering slightly above the screen. For instance, Calendar tin pop up an event's details and Phone shows the person and number associated with a speed punch number. To enable or disable Air View, open Settings and tap the Air View icon (in the Motion section).

1-Handed Operation

If you sometimes need to operate the telephone entirely with i hand, you can enable One-Handed Operation. When enabled, the screen is reduced in size and shifted and then information technology's closest to the operating hand. To avert the demand to printing the hardware buttons at the bottom of the telephone and other essential controls, onscreen controls are added to the reduced brandish inside reach of your thumb.

Open Settings and tap the One-Handed Operation icon (in the Sound and Display section).
Enable One-Handed Operation mode past moving the slider to the On position.
Follow the onscreen directions past sliding your thumb from the outer edge to the center and and so back. When successful, the screen will reduce in size.
To configure and apply the reduced screen, you tin do whatsoever of the following:
- Drag the upper-right corner to adjust the display size.
- Tap icons at the bottom of the screen rather than trying to press the keys they stand for.
- Tap icons at the top of the screen to display your favorite contacts or favorite apps on the right edge of the window. With the contacts or apps icon selected (dark), you lot tin tap the Edit icon to change the listed contacts or apps. To hide the favorites, tap the same icon at the top of the screen again.
When you lot're done using I-Handed Operation, repeat Steps i and 2 to disable information technology.

Ringtones

A ringtone is an audible upshot notification, such as a sound consequence or snippet of music. You tin specify default ringtones for incoming calls and text letters, likewise as ready person- or grouping-specific ringtones.

Set the Default Incoming Call Ringtone

Unless overridden past a personal or grouping ringtone, the default ringtone plays to notify you of an incoming telephone call.

Open Settings and tap the Sound icon (in the Sound and Display section).
Tap Ringtones.
The Ringtones dialog box appears, showing a scrolling list of all congenital-in, created, and downloaded ringtones. Tap a ringtone to play it. When you're satisfied with your choice, tap OK. (For an explanation of the Add button, come across the note at the end of the "Assign a Ringtone to a Contact" chore.)

Gear up the Default Notification Ringtone

Unless overridden by a personal or group ringtone, the default notification ringtone plays to signify a new electronic mail, new text message, missed call, waiting voicemail, or upcoming Calendar result. Unlike phone call ringtones, notification ringtones are brief and less intrusive.

Open Settings and tap the Sound icon (in the Sound and Brandish section).
Tap Notifications.
The Notifications dialog box appears, showing a scrolling listing containing all the notification ringtones. Tap an entry to play information technology. When yous're satisfied with your choice, tap OK.

Assign a Ringtone to a Contact

To make information technology piece of cake to apace recognize an incoming telephone call from a person, you tin can acquaintance a distinctive ringtone with his or her record in Contacts.

Open Contacts by tapping its Dwelling screen icon or by tapping Apps, Contacts.
With the Contacts tab selected, discover the person'southward tape by scrolling or searching. Tap the tape to open it.
Tap the Edit icon.
Tap the Ringtone entry.
Select the ringtone that you lot want to use and tap OK. Select Default Ringtone (at the top of the list) if you prefer to use the default ringtone for this contact.
Tap the Save button.
The selected ringtone is associated with and displayed on the person's contact record.

Assign a Ringtone to a Contact Group

You can also assign a distinctive ringtone to all members of a contact group. (To larn about groups, see "Working with Contact Groups" in Chapter 5, "Managing Contacts.")

Open Contacts past borer its Home screen icon or by tapping Apps, Contacts.
Select the Contacts tab, and and then tap the Groups icon to brandish the list of defined groups.
Open a grouping by tapping its name.
Tap the bill of fare icon and choose Edit Group.
Tap Group Ringtone and select a ringtone as described in Steps five–seven of the previous task ("Assign a Ringtone to a Contact").

Assign a Message Notification Audio

In addition to selecting a audio to announce new text and multimedia letters from inside the Messages app, you can prepare one in Sound settings. In this task, y'all learn to use this second approach. The technique tin can also be used to specify a sound or ringtone to announce incoming calls, new email, or calendar events.

Open Settings and tap the Sound icon (in the Audio and Display department).
Curl to the Samsung Applications section of Sound Settings and tap Messages. (Annotation the entries for other apps and features.)
Ensure that Messages is On, and and then tap Notification Sound.
Select a audio from the scrolling list and tap OK. (If you'd rather not have a messaging sound, select Silent.)

Create Ringtones from Songs

Here'southward another method for creating a ringtone from a song.

Launch Music, and select the vocal by pressing and holding its title.
Open the menu and choose Gear up Equally.
Tap From the Beginning or Auto Recommendations to specify the part of the song to use every bit the ringtone.
In the Ready As department, tap Phone Ringtone to apply the song as the default ringtone for incoming calls. Tap Caller Ringtone to play the song whenever yous receive a phone call from a item person. Tap Alarm Tone to use the song every bit the alarm tone for an alarm you lot're about to create in the Clock app.
Tap Done.
If you lot selected Caller Ringtone or Alarm Tone in Step 4, select the person'south record in Contacts or create the alarm to which you want to link the song.

Blocking Mode

If you lot enable Blocking mode, you tin can elect to receive only certain types of notifications while blocking others. Blocking can be set for a period of time (to silence notifications during an important coming together, for example) or permanently enabled for certain features.

Open Settings and tap the Blocking Mode icon (in the Personalization section).
Enable Blocking fashion past dragging its slider to the On position.
In the Features section, check each feature that you desire to block.
In the Set Fourth dimension section, practice i of the following:
- Tap the Always check box to enable blocking of the selected features indefinitely—until information technology's turned off.
- Tap the From and To time settings to prepare a specific flow during which blocking will be active.
In the Allowed Contacts department, specify people you want to treat equally exceptions; that is, those whose notifications will not be blocked. Tap Allowed Contacts and select an option: None (no exceptions), All Contacts (anyone with a Contacts tape), Favorites (whatsoever person saved as a Contacts favorite), or Custom (create a custom list from selected Contacts records).
Blocking will be in—or become into—effect for the designated period, covering the specified features, and with the selected exceptions. When you lot're ready to turn blocking off, perform Steps 1–ii and disable Blocking fashion.

Prophylactic Assistance Settings

When enabled, Prophylactic Assistance settings provide a way for you to secretly summon help in an emergency situation—other than or in addition to placing a 911 call. After specifying i–4 master contacts, you lot quickly printing the Ability button three times to send them a text bulletin that requests assist and includes a URL to Google maps that shows your location. Pictures from both cameras and a sound recording can also exist transmitted. (Note that this feature is best for temporary, brusk-term use due to its high battery consumption.)

Open Settings and tap the Safety Help icon (in the System section).
If you oasis't designated at least i primary contact, tap Manage Primary Contacts; otherwise, go to Step four.
Tap the plus (+) icon. Tap Create New Contact or Select from Contacts and so create or select an emergency contact. If desired, continue creating or specifying contacts up to the maximum of four. Printing the Back fundamental or tap the Back icon to return to the Safety Assistance screen.
When yous recollect you might exist entering or are already in a dangerous situation, tap Ship Help Letters. Drag the slider to the On position, set options, and then printing the Back key or tap the Back icon.
Optional: Enable Emergency mode (a special power-conserving manner) past tapping its text and moving its slider to On.
While Send Help Messages is On, you can request assistance and execute the options selected in Step 4 by rapidly pressing the Ability central 3 times in a row.