Are You Getting the Most Out of Your Android Phone?

Android based phones are the most popular smartphones on the market today. Android is easily outselling the iPhone and is available on all major mobile carriers. New users often struggle to really get the most out of their Android phone. A common criticism of Android will probably evaporate if more users knew how to maximize the benefit of their Android phone. Here are some applications, tips and tricks that I found really boost the performance of my android phone.

Manage your battery life
Criticism that I hear often that Android phones have a very weak battery. It is certainly true with the earliest models, and it still may be true with newer devices. Fortunately, there are a number of tools to manage batteries that will help you squeeze the most out of your Android phone battery.

Some of the features of Android is not required at the time. It includes Bluetooth, WiFi and GPS. These features can quickly drain the battery if the phone is continuous. Luckily, the Android version 1.6 added some tools to make it easier to transfer these items in order to increase battery life. There is a widget you can add it to your phone desktop that allows you to switch this feature on and off with just one touch. Many applications have the ability to switch these off, and so if the program should be one of these options can be activated.

Another frustrating aspect of battery life on Android is that the default battery meter only shows colors: green, yellow and red to indicate how much battery life remains. This can be done more difficult to assess if the program draws on the battery faster than normal. Battery Meter Lite is a free program that includes the remaining battery notification. When this notification is made ​​possible by the battery icon with percentage of remaining battery life will appear in your notification area. This makes it much easier to manage your battery, because you know exactly how much battery life remains.

Task Management
Sometimes you want to know what tasks are running and how to stop a running task. This is especially true if you have an older Android phone with a slow processor. System Panel Lite is a great application for it. If you have ever used the Unix operating system or Linux, System Panel Lite will remind you of the top applications. It provides a list of running processes active and inactive, but saved the process. It also gives you a handy map of the current CPU usage and memory. Click to run applications, you can see individual applications processor and memory, and you can kill the process. By default, the system processes are hidden from view, but there is an option in the settings, see the android system processes, as well.

Start Over Messaging
When I first got my android phone, I hated the default messaging application. I quickly discovered Handcent SMS, free software application that replaces the default message. Handcent has a threaded interface allows you to see visually back and forth talk you through SMS. It also allows you to send pictures via MMS and save MMS attachments. You can set Handcent as the default messaging application on Android. Handcent will also provide alerts for new SMS messages. Notification can be adjusted a bit, including what color is your phone LED should flash when you have new messages. When you switch to Handcent, you'll go to the default messaging program and shut down his information. Otherwise, you will receive two notifications whenever you receive a message.

Ditch Your iPod
Let's face it - carries a phone and music player is a pain. Fortunately, you can easily replace your iPod with the default android telefon.Igrač music that comes with Android is nice nothing to write home about. The interface is very easy and frankly, pretty boring. However, you can easily replace it with Cubed Media Player Android Market.

Cubed is a free media player with some unique user interface. Album appears in 3-dimensional cube. By turning the cube up or down, you can browse through the albums in a fashion similar to the iPod's Cover Flow. The rotating cube to the left or right to you in alphabetical order to flip through your collection. This is a great application for turning your Android phone into a fully equipped media player.

Of course, playing media on the phone is only half the equation. One advantage is that the iPod syncs with iTunes. iTunes also makes it easy to organize libraries and add tags and album of the media library. Media Monkey is a program that is available as a free and premium verzije.Slobodan version has a number of options. Media Monkey organize your media library and allows you to edit tags and add album. When I started using Media Monkey, I discovered that it is able to find artwork for a series of albums that iTunes did not have the advantage of art djela.Najveća Media Monkey for Android users, although that can sync media with any Android telefon.Kombinacija Media Monkey Cubed and makes any android phone real competitor for the iPod.

is a very capable Android mobile platform, but it can be overwhelming for new users at first mjestu.Nekoliko simple applications can greatly improve how useful your Android phone and allow you to get much more than that. Have a favorite program or find settings that allows you to get more from your Android phone? Comment and tell us about it!

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