How to Add or Remove Widget in Home Screen in Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge

How to Add or Remove Widget in Home Screen in Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge

 

 Widgets are small apps that can be used to easily launch a specific app function to provide you information and convenient access from your phone's home screen, for instance: the music widget that will let you easily control the music playback from the home screen, the weather widget that will let you easily know the weather information from the home screen, etc.

How to add a widget to the home screen?
Before you can use a widget, you have to add it first to your home screen. As the example, we'll try adding the music widget to the home screen by using the following steps:

1. While you're in a home screen, pinch the screen using two fingers or long tap on an empty area.
2. Tap the Widgets icon at the bottom of the screen to view the widgets list.
3. Swipe the screen to the left or right to find the Music 4x1 widget, or you can use the search function to find this widget with more quickly by using these steps:
• Tap More at the top right and then select Search widgets.
• Type music in the search field. All music widgets will be displayed on your screen.
4. Tap and hold the Music 4x1 widget and then drag it to an empty area on a home screen. Release to place the widget.
5. The Music 4x1 widget has been added to the home screen. As a note, some widgets may ask you to do some configurations, if that so, you just need to follow the on-screen instructions to complete the configuration.

How to remove a widget from the home screen?
When needed, you can easily remove unused or unwanted widgets from your home screen. As the example, we'll try removing the music widget from the home screen by using the following steps:

1. Go to the home screen where the music widget is placed in.
2. Tap and hold the music widget and then drag it to the Remove icon located at the top of the screen. Release to delete the widget.
3. The music widget has been removed from the home screen.

Samsung Galaxy S5: How to Use Magnifier in Android 5.0.1 Lollipop

Samsung Galaxy S5 comes with set of default widgets, one of which is the magnifier widget. This widget works by utilizing the rear camera to help you magnify text or objects. Before you can use the magnifier widget, you have to add it to your home screen first.

How to add the magnifier widget to the home screen
You can do so by using the following steps:

1. While you're in home screen, long press the Recent apps key or long tap on a blank area of the home screen.
2. Tap the Widgets button at the bottom of the screen. It'll quickly bring you to the widgets list.
3. Find the Magnifier 1x1 widget .
4. Tap and hold the widget and then drag it to the home screen.
5. Release the widget to place it in home screen.
6. The magnifier widget has been added to home screen.

How to use the magnifier widget?
See the following steps as the example of using the magnifier widget:

1. Tap the magnifier widget icon in your home screen to open it.
2. Aim the camera to the desired text or objects.
3. Adjusting the magnification:
• Tap at the bottom of the screen to increase the magnification.
• Tap at the bottom of the screen to decrease the magnification.
4. Adjusting the focus:
• Tap at the top right to focus in the center of the screen.
• To change the focus manually, tap where you want to focus.
5. Using the flashlight:
   While you're viewing text or objects in dark or low light condition, you can tap at the top of the screen to turn on the flash.
6. Taking a photo of text or objects:
• Tap at the top left.
• If needed, you can adjust the magnification by tapping or at the bottom of the screen before saving the image.
• Tap at the top right to save the image.

Samsung Galaxy S5: How to Use Torch Light in Android 4.4.2 Kitkat

Samsung Galaxy S5 has a default widget named Torch which will let you use your phone as a flashlight to improve your visibility. This widget works by utilizing the LED flash below the rear camera to project a flashlight beam. You need to add the torch widget to your home screen first before you can use this widget to turn on or off the LED flash.

How to add the torch widget to home screen?
See the following steps to do so:

1. While you're in home screen, long press the Recent apps key or long tap on a blank area of the home screen to go to the home screen edit page.
2. Tap the Widgets icon at the bottom of the screen. It'll quickly bring you to the widgets list.
3. Find the Torch 1x1 widget.
4. Tap and hold the widget and then drag it to the home screen.
5. Release the widget to place it in home screen.
6. The torch widget has been added to home screen.

 

How to use the torch widget?
When you have added the torch widget in your home screen, you can use this widget to turn the LED flash on or off to improve your visibility. See the following steps as the example to use this widget:

1. Turn on the flashlight
   Tap the torch widget icon in home screen to turn on the flashlight. The torch widget turns green and the white light icon appears on the status bar as a sign that the flashlight is on.
2. Turn off the flashlight
   FYI, since this widget can't turn off automatically then you need to turn it off manually otherwise it will stay on even when the screen is locked or off. You can use one of the two following ways to turn off the flashlight:
• From home screen
  Tap the torch widget icon in home screen to turn off the flashlight. The torch widget icon turns gray and the white light icon disappear from the status bar as a sign that the flashlight is off.
• From the notification panel
  Swipe down the top of the screen to open up the notification panel and then tap the torch notification to turn off the flashlight.

 How to Get Back Kids Mode Installer in Home Screen in Samsung Galaxy S5

How to Add or Remove a City in Accuweather Widget in Samsung Galaxy S5

 If you add your current city to the Accuweather widget, it'll help you to know the latest weather conditions in your city with ease. FYI, since this widget can handle more than one city, if needed you can also add another cities into the widget so that you can easily know the weather conditions in other cities directly from your home screen.

How to add a new city to the Accuweather widget?

 
You can do so by using the following steps:

1. Tap the Accuweather widget in your home screen.
2. Tap to add a new city.
3. Key in the city name in the search field and then tap to start searching.
4. Tap the required city from the search result list.
5. The selected city has been added to your Accuweather widget.
6. Press the Home key to go to your home screen.
7. To see the weather conditions in other cities you have added to the widget, swipe the Accuweather widget up or down.

How to remove a city from the Accuweather widget?
You can do so by using the following steps:

1. Tap the Accuweather widget in your home screen.
2. Tap to see all of cities you have added to this widget.
3. Tap or long press the Recent apps key to open up the additional options and then select Delete.
4.  Select the required city you want to delete.
5. Tap Done button.
6. Tap OK button to confirm.
7. The selected city has been deleted from the Accuweather widget.

How to Make Accuweather Widget Becomes Transparent in Samsung Galaxy S5

By default, the Accuweather widget on your home screen displays a picture in the background and it will change based on the current weather forecast. However, if you don't like the background picture, you can adjust the widget transparency in the widget settings menu so that the background picture of the widget will be invisible.

How to make the Accuweather widget becomes transparent?
You can do so by using the following steps:

1. Tap the Accuweather widget on your home screen.
2. Tap or long press the Recent apps key to open up the additional options and then select Settings.
3. Tap Widget transparency. By default, the widget transparency is set to 0%.
4. Drag the widget transparency adjustment bar to the rightmost, or in other words, you have to adjust the widget transparency up to 100%. You'll get the preview when adjusting the widget transparency so that you'll get an idea how it might look like when the transparency has been adjusted.
5. Press the Home key to go to your home screen and you'll see the Accuweather widget becomes transparent.

The current temperature is one of information that you can get from the Accuweather widget. This widget is is available in your home screen by default, but if you have accidentally removed it, you can get it back simply by adding the Accuweather widget from the the widgets list to your home screen. To fit the widget with your need, you can do some customizations to this widget, one of which is by changing the temperature unit from Celsius to Fahrenheit or from Fahrenheit to Celsius.

How to change the temperature unit in the Accuweather widget?
You can do so by using the following steps:

1. Tap the Accuweather widget on your home screen.
2. Tap or long press the Recent apps key to open up the additional options and then select Settings.
3. Tap Unit and then select from the following options:
• °C: select this option if you want the Accuweather widget displays the current temperature in Celsius degree.
• °F: select this option if you want the Accuweather widget displays the current temperature in Fahrenheit degree.
4. Press the Home key to go to your home screen and you'll see the Accuweather widget displays the current temperature with the selected temperature unit.

  How to Get Back Accuweather Widget to Home Screen Samsung Galaxy S5

This week, more than two insiders sent me emails and said that they had accidentally removed the Accuweather widgets from their home screens and they wanted to get it back. FYI, since the Accuweather widget is a default widget in Samsung Galaxy S5, you can get it back to the home screen simply by finding the Accuweather widget from your widgets list and then add it to your home screen, as you used to do when adding a widget to home screen.

How to add the Accuweather widget to home screen?
Before doing the following steps, make sure you have a free space in your home screen. Do the following steps to add a weather widget to home screen:

1. While you're on home screen, long press the Recent apps key or long tap on a blank area of the home screen to go to the home screen edit page.
2. Tap Widgets icon at the bottom of the screen. It'll bring you to the widgets list.
3. Find the Weather 4x2 widget.
4. Tap and hold the widget and then drag it to the required space in home screen.
5. Release the widget to place it in home screen.
6. If you'd like to display your current city in the Accuweather widget, do as follows:
• Tap the weather widget.
• If your GPS is off, you need to turn it on by tapping the Settings button in a pop up window that appears in your screen. It'll quickly bring you to the Location menu.
• Tap the ON/OFF switch to turn on the location services.
• Press the Back key.
• Your current location will be displayed on the screen.
• Tap the current location to display it on the Accuweather widget in home screen.

 How to Enable or Disable Mobile Data From Home Screen in Samsung Galaxy S5

 A couple weeks back, an insider named Chantal sent me an email and asked me a way to add mobile data button to her Samsung Galaxy S5 home screen. However, since Samsung Galaxy S5 doesn't have the default option or widget to let you turn on or off mobile data from home screen, then you need to install a third-party mobile data widget app from the Play Store to do so. To make it clearer, as the example, we'll use the mobile enabler widget app to let you turn on or off the mobile data from home screen.

 How to turn on or off mobile data from home screen by utilizing data enabler widget?

Before doing this steps, make sure you have an empty space in your home screen. See the following steps to install the data enabler widget and then add it to home screen so that you can use it to quickly enable or disable your mobile data connection:

• Open Play Store app.
• Find the Data Enabler Widget app and then install it into your phone.
• Once the installation is completed, the data enabler will be added to your widgets list.
• Press the Home key to go to your home screen.
• Long press the Recent apps key or long tap in a blank area of the home screen and then tap Widgets .
• Find the Data Enabler 1x1 widget.
• Click and hold the widget and then drag it to the home screen.
• Release the widget to place it on home screen.
• Now, you can quickly turn on or off your mobile data connection simply by single tapping the data enabler widget on home screen. The arrow icon within the widget turns white when it's enabled.

 How to Install, Configure and Use Kids Mode in Samsung Galaxy S5

If you're like me, then surely your kids ever borrow your phone and play with it. But, in some cases, the kids' curiosity sometimes make them accessing a thing that you don't want to be accessed by them. Luckily, Samsung Galaxy S5 provides the users with a widget called Kids mode that you can find in the Home screen. Kids mode allows you to restrict children's access to certain apps or contents stored in your phone so that you can provide your kids a fun and safe environment while using your phone. Since this widget is not installed by default, then you have to download it first and then install it in your phone manually. Once done, you can configure kids mode according to your need.

How to install Kids mode?
Before using this widget in your phone, you have to download and install it first by using the following steps:

• Find the Kids mode widgets icon in the Home screen, and then tap it.
• Click OK button in the Install application screen.
• Click Install button. Your phone will download the widget and then install it.
• Once installation is completed, you'll be asked to set your PIN. You can do so by tapping Set PIN button.
• Enter your PIN twice.
• Enter your alternative password (it'll be used if you forget your PIN) and then tap Continue button
• Re-enter your alternative password and then tap OK button
• In the Kid's profile screen, you can create a kid profile:

• If necessary, you can change the photo profile by tapping the picture box and then select the picture source (Select image to select picture from Gallery app, Take picture to take picture using the phone camera and then use the result as the photo profile or Select clip art to select picture from clip art) and then select the required picture.
• Enter your kid name.
• Tap the Date of birth field and then adjust to the required date and then tap Set button.
• Tap Next button.

• Click Accept button in the Disclaimer screen.
• In the Add applications screen, select apps you're allowed by checking the box in the left side of the desired apps and then tap Next button.
• ClickFinish button.
• Now, the Kids mode has been installed in your phone.

How to configure Kids mode?
Once the installation and first configuration are completed, now you can configure Kids mode by using the following steps:

1. Click Kids mode icon in Home screen or in the Apps menu.
2. Click to enter the parental control screen.
3. Enter your PIN.
4. Click to view all kids parental control menu.
5. Change the kid's profile:
• Tap the kid's profile name.
• Click to edit the profile. Here you can change the photo profile, name and date of birth.
• Click Save button.
6. See the kid's activities:
• Click Activity.
• Click Last 7 days tab to see total playtime and most frequently used apps in the last 7 days.
• Click Last 30 days tab to see total playtime and most frequently used apps in the last 30 days.
7. Change the daily playtime limit:
• Click Daily playtime limit.
• Slide the ON/OFF switch located at the top right corner of the screen to the right to enable this option.
• Click the Circle time icon in the middle of the screen to adjust the limit.
• Here you can increase or decrease the daily playtime. The maximum daily playtime is 180 minutes or 3 hours.
• Click Set button.
8. Allow or restrict apps:
• Click Applications. Here you'll see all allowed apps.
• Click and then select the required apps you want to add to the allowed apps list.
• Click and then select the required apps you want to remove from the allowed apps list.
9. Allow or restrict contents:
• Click Media.
• Click and then select media (picture and video) you want to add to the allowed media list.
• Click and then select the required media you want to remove from the allowed media list.
10. Adjust the Kids mode settings:
• Click General.
• If necessary, you can enable 3D tilting effect on the Kids mode home screen by checking the box next to 3D tilting effect.
• If necessary, you can disable the Back key in Kids mode by checking the box next to Block key.
• If required, you can change your PIN by tapping Change parental PIN. You'll be asked to enter your current PIN and then enter your alternative password twice.
• If required, tap Reset and then enter your PIN to revert back the settings to the default.
11. Install kid's apps to the Kids mode Home screen:
• Click Kids store.
• Click OK button in the Disclaimer screen.
• Now you can see kid's apps grouped into some categories (Special, For kids, Learning, Play, Story and Other). As a note, you should have a Samsung account in your phone to be able installing apps from the kids store. If you have not added a Samsung account, you'll be asked to either sign up a new Samsung account or sign in with your existing Samsung account.
• Select the desired apps you want to install. I'll write further more about it in another post.
• The newly installed app will be added to the allowed apps list automatically

How to use Kids mode home screen?
Once you configure the settings of the Kids mode, now your kid can use your phone to play safely. Here are the complete steps to use kids mode:

• Click Kids mode icon in Home screen or in the Apps menu.
• The Kids mode home screen is now enable. Here you can see some default apps (Kids Gallery, Kids Camera, Kids Drawing, Kids Voice Recorder and Kids Media) and additional apps that you have installed before from the Kids store. 
• Now, your kid can play all allowed apps and contents in Kids mode safely.
• As a note, unless you exit from this mode, this mode will remain active even when the screen is locked. And, when the daily playtime limit is over, the Kids mode will be locked and can't be used unless you extend the limit.
• To exit or disable Kids mode, tap and then enter your PIN.

Please note that while Kids mode home screen is being used, all notifications sound will be turned off and the notifications panel can't be accessed. Well, given to the feature and how this mode works, now you can lend your phone to be played by your kid in peace without worrying they will access or use unwanted apps or contents.