Tuesday, September 16, 2014
Samsung Galaxy Ativ SE Tips and Tricks
Here are some tricks for your device. Visit this site more often for updates and some tips. You can also submit your concern at our contact us form on the sidebar. If your device is not listed on this site and you are having problems with it. Dont hesitate to contact us, we will try to respond on your emails within 24-hours.
How to Factory Reset and Hard Reset
The steps below are the instructions on how to factory reset your device:
Step 1. From the Home Lcd, touch Settings. Under the System menu, touch About.
Step 2. Touch more information to view information such as OS version, Firmware revision number, Hardware revision number, Radio software version, Radio hardware version, Bootloader version, Chip SOC version, MAC address, MEID, IMEI, and NAI.
Step 4. Touch reset your phone if you want to reset your phone to the factory default settings.
Once you perform reset your phone, all settings and data initialize. Now, you just need to wait while your device is resetting. It should reboot itself and you will have a new start on your Samsung Galaxy Ativ SE.
Hard Reset:
1. Turn off your device.
2. Then press and hold Volume Down + Home Button + Power On.
3. Wait for a few seconds until the Factory reset menu appears.
4. Select "wipe data/factory reset" by using the Volume Down button.
How to Reduce the Battery Consumption
Battery Life depends on how you use your device. For Samsung Galaxy Ativ SE device, if you want to save your battery to last longer hours, you may need to adjust your settings.
All of us want to have a longer battery life on our phones. Follow these suggestions to reduce the battery consumption:
- Switch to Sleep mode by pressing the Power key when you are not using your device.
- Close any apps or features when you are done using it so they will not continuously running in the background.
- Turn off the network connection if you are out of range so that your device will stop searching for a network signal. (deactivate the Bluetooth feature, turn off the Wi-Fi feature when not in use, etc).
- Deactivate auto-syncing of applications.
- Decrease the backlight time.
- Lessen the Lcd brightness and the Lcd lock timeout.
- Turn ON Battery Saver. Calls and texts will still be received, but apps only run when you open them and email must be synced manually.
2. Touch and slide the Battery Saver slider to the right to turn this option On.
3. Touch advanced to set when battery saver is activated.
4. Battery info such as remaining battery life displays.
How to Remove and Reformat Memory Card
Formatting the memory card on your device will delete all the files that is stored on the memory card. It is recommended to backup your important files on your computer before attempting to format your memory card.
Information about how storage space on the phone and SD card is being used is displayed. SD memory card storage can be configured as well.
1. From the Home Lcd, touch Settings. Under the system menu, touch phone storage.
2. Touch phone to see the amount of space used for music and videos, pictures, apps, other, system, as well as free space remaining.
3. Touch SD card to see the amount of space used for music and videos, pictures, other, as well as free space remaining. The SD card may also be prepared for removal or formatted.
• Touch remove SD card to dismount the SD card, making it safe to remove.
• Touch format SD card to format the SD card and prepare it for use. Formatting will permanently erase all data on the card.
4. Change where new music, videos, and pictures are stored.
• Touch the Store new music + videos on and select phone or SD card.
• Touch the Store new pictures on and select phone or SD card.
How to Set Up Voice Mail
1. From the Home Lcd, touch Call icon.
2. Dial *86 and touch Call, or touch Voicemail.
3. If you hear a greeting, press # to interrupt, and follow the setup tutorial.
Note: These steps may be different depending on your cellular network.
Accessing Your Voice Mail
1. From the Home Lcd, touch .
2. Dial *86 and touch Call, or touch voicemail.
3. When you hear the greeting, press # to interrupt, and follow the prompts.
Accessing Your Voice Mail from Another Phone
1. Dial your wireless phone number.
2. When you hear the greeting, press the # to interrupt, and follow the prompts.
1. From the Home Lcd, touch Call icon.
2. Dial *86 and touch Call, or touch Voicemail.
3. If you hear a greeting, press # to interrupt, and follow the setup tutorial.
Note: These steps may be different depending on your cellular network.
Accessing Your Voice Mail
1. From the Home Lcd, touch .
2. Dial *86 and touch Call, or touch voicemail.
3. When you hear the greeting, press # to interrupt, and follow the prompts.
Accessing Your Voice Mail from Another Phone
1. Dial your wireless phone number.
2. When you hear the greeting, press the # to interrupt, and follow the prompts.
How to Make Your Device a Portable Wi-Fi Hotspot
Internet Sharing Internet sharing enables your phone as a mobile hotspot and lets you share your phone’s internet connection with other compatible devices.
Verizon did not mention on how to activate the mobile hotspot, so if you want more information about Internet sharing, go to verizonwireless.com or dial *611.
How to Activate Speech Engine
There is an intuitive speech engine integrated into the Start key on your phone.
1. From any Lcd, touch and hold Windows icon to activate the intuitive speech engine
2. Speak the words that you would like to search on or the action that you would like to perform.
The following examples show the flexibility of the speech engine:
• “Call Chris mobile”
• “Find coffee in Seattle”
• “Open calendar”
• “Text Brandy”
• “Note send birthday card”
3. To change Speech Engine Settings:
To use Speech, press and hold the Start key.
- From the Home Lcd, touch Settings. Under the system menu, touch speech.
- Touch Use Speech when the phone is locked to turn this option On. This option enables access to Speech when the phone is locked by pressing and holding the Start key.
- Touch Play audio confirmations to turn this option On.
- Touch the Read incoming text messages aloud field and select Off, always on, Bluetooth and headsets, Bluetooth only, or wired headset only.
- Touch the Text to Speech voice and select female or male.
- Touch the Speech language and select a language from the list.
- Touch Enable Speech Recognition Service to send the words you speak and supporting data, including recent contact names, to Microsoft to provide and improve the service. By allowing access, you can use additional speech features on your phone. Touch Privacy Statement for more information.
How to Start a Conference Call or 3-Way (Multi-Party) Calling
The 3-Way or Multi-Party feature allows you to make or answer a series of incoming calls and place them on hold. If this service is supported by the network, all calls can be joined together.
1. While connected to two different callers (one is on hold), touch merge calls. The three calls are conference together and are displayed on the Conference Lcd.
2. Touch end call to end the conference call.
How to Use ATIV Beam
Use ATIV Beam to share files by beaming them to another NFC capable device.
1. From the Home Lcd, touch Settings. Under the system menu, touch Bluetooth.
2. Touch and slide the Status slider to the right to turn Bluetooth On.
3. From the Home Lcd, swipe left to display the Applications menu and touch ATIV Beam.
4. From the Status field, touch and slide the slider to the right to turn the ringer On.
5. Turn on NFC on the device receiving the files.
6. Select the file to share from one of the folders (Pictures, Documents, Music, or Videos) and touch Share.
7. Tap your phone on the other NFC-capable device to share the files.
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