Samsung Galaxy SIII has the feature called group cast which will facilitate you to share document in real time easily with another Samsung Android device with AllShare play capability. Make sure you already have a Samsung account and connected at the same Wi-Fi network to be able to use this option.
In addition to share document with another Samsung Android device, you can also print document or picture directly through your phone to the Samsung printer using Wi-Fi connection.
How to print document or picture to the Samsung printer via Wi-Fi?
To do so kindly follow the steps listed below:
By knowing the steps mentioned above of course will useful to help you to print the document or photo directly from your Samsung Galaxy SIII to the Samsung printer that connected at the same Wi-Fi network.
In addition to share document with another Samsung Android device, you can also print document or picture directly through your phone to the Samsung printer using Wi-Fi connection.
How to print document or picture to the Samsung printer via Wi-Fi?
To do so kindly follow the steps listed below:
- Turn on the Wi-Fi then connecting your phone with the same Wi-Fi network where the Samsung printer is also connected.
- Open the required document or picture on your phone that you wish to print.
- Tap the Menu key then select Print.
- Tap OK button on the notification window that inform you that you can only print on Samsung printer.
- Tap the required Samsung printer.
- Tap Settings (gear ) icon at the top area of the screen to adjust paper size and other settings required.
- Tap Print icon located at the top right corner of the screen to print the document or picture.
By knowing the steps mentioned above of course will useful to help you to print the document or photo directly from your Samsung Galaxy SIII to the Samsung printer that connected at the same Wi-Fi network.
How to See Android 4.1 Jelly Bean Easter Egg Animation
In addition comes with 'real useful' features, the Samsung Galaxy SIII also comes with some fun features, such as you can hear and see the ripple effect or drop water sound effect whenever you unlock the phone or touching the screen.
Another fun features that you can find after upgrading your phone to the latest Android 4.1 Jelly Bean is an Easter egg animation. This of course has no real function, but it will be a fun little thing to play from time to time.
How to see Android 4.1 Jelly Bean Easter egg animation?
To do so kindly follow the simple steps listed below:
It's so fun to play with, right? So, have you ever tried this Easter egg animation on your beloved Samsung Galaxy SIII with the Android Jelly Bean inside?
Another fun features that you can find after upgrading your phone to the latest Android 4.1 Jelly Bean is an Easter egg animation. This of course has no real function, but it will be a fun little thing to play from time to time.
How to see Android 4.1 Jelly Bean Easter egg animation?
To do so kindly follow the simple steps listed below:
- Go to Settings.
- Scroll to About Phone, then tap it.
- Scroll to Android version, then tap it rapidly until you see the picture of the Android 4.1 Jelly bean and the big bean on the screen.
- Long tap in the middle of the screen to fill the screen with more Jelly Beans which you can throw them around using your finger.
It's so fun to play with, right? So, have you ever tried this Easter egg animation on your beloved Samsung Galaxy SIII with the Android Jelly Bean inside?
How to Customize Power Saving Settings
To prevent your Samsung Galaxy SIII encountering poor battery life issue or quickly drained, then enabling power saving mode is one way to save a battery a little better.
Once you've enabled this option, then your phone will do some adjustments in order to consume less battery, such as by decreasing the brightness of the display, limit some system resource usage, decrease the brightness of the background colour when using Email and Internet and disable haptic feedback. You can customize all of them through the options available under power saving menu.
How to customize power saving options?
Below are the steps to find options under power saving that you can customize according to your needs to save more battery:
All the options that you have seen under power settings menu is designed to help your phone to consume less power which means enabling the option will be able to prolong your battery life and avoid it to face poor battery life issue in the near future. But, this will also prevent the phone to deliver a best performance due to the phone using the power under the standard level.
Once you've enabled this option, then your phone will do some adjustments in order to consume less battery, such as by decreasing the brightness of the display, limit some system resource usage, decrease the brightness of the background colour when using Email and Internet and disable haptic feedback. You can customize all of them through the options available under power saving menu.
How to customize power saving options?
Below are the steps to find options under power saving that you can customize according to your needs to save more battery:
- Go to Settings.
- Make sure you've enabled Power saving menu to make you be able accessing the power saving options.
- Tap Power saving.
- Now you'll see five options available, they are:
- CPU power saving: Enable this option to limit the maximum CPU performance.
- Screen power saving: Enable this option to make your phone using low power level for the screen.
- Background colour: Enable this option to change the background color when using Email and Internet to save the power as much as possible.
- Turn off haptic feedback: Enable this option to prevent the phone vibrating when the Menu key, Back key is touched and when you press and hold the Power key or the Home key in order to conserve more battery consumption.
- Learn about power saving: Tap this option to view information for saving battery power.
- Enable the option that you wants. When the checkbox next the option is ticked means the option is turned on.
- Tap Home button to return to the standby mode.
All the options that you have seen under power settings menu is designed to help your phone to consume less power which means enabling the option will be able to prolong your battery life and avoid it to face poor battery life issue in the near future. But, this will also prevent the phone to deliver a best performance due to the phone using the power under the standard level.
How to Enable or Disable Power Saving
Big screen and a bunch of features owned by Samsung Galaxy SIII sometimes end up you to face the problem with the poor battery life. Well, in order to prevent it and to prolong your battery life, there are some tips and tricks to do, such as altering your display's colour profile by using the different screen mode available to save a battery a little better.
Another thing that you can do to prolong your battery life is by using power saving mode. This mode will make the phone to use low power lever for the screen, limit the maximum CPU performance, change the background color in Email and Internet to be able saving the power as much as possible and also turn off haptic feedback.
How to turn on or off power saving mode?
To do so, kindly do as follows:
By default, this option is turned off due to enabling this option may decreasing your experience while using this phone. Some of users also said that they were encountering some problems when they're enabling this option. So, if saving the battery is your main issue then may it worth for you to try, but if you feels this option start giving you some troubles then you can leave it by default to stay turned off.
Another thing that you can do to prolong your battery life is by using power saving mode. This mode will make the phone to use low power lever for the screen, limit the maximum CPU performance, change the background color in Email and Internet to be able saving the power as much as possible and also turn off haptic feedback.
How to turn on or off power saving mode?
To do so, kindly do as follows:
- Go to Apps through Home screen
- Scroll to Settings, then tap it.
- Depending on your current settings, slide the slider next to Power saving option to enable or disable this option. When the slider is in the right side or shows green means this option is turned on.
- Tap Home button to return to the standby mode.
By default, this option is turned off due to enabling this option may decreasing your experience while using this phone. Some of users also said that they were encountering some problems when they're enabling this option. So, if saving the battery is your main issue then may it worth for you to try, but if you feels this option start giving you some troubles then you can leave it by default to stay turned off.
Samsung Galaxy S3: How to Use Calculator Application
Still with the pre-loaded apps, calculator apps is also one of them. You can use it to perform calculation as when you do with the regular calculator.
How to use calculator apps?
To do some calculation using this apps, kindly do as follows:
- Go to Apps through Home screen.
- Tap Calculator.
- Hold your phone in the portrait view to use this apps performing the basic calculation, or rotate the phone to the landscape view to use this apps as scientific calculator. But, if you want to use it as scientific calculator only, no matter how you viewing this phone, then tap the Menu key then select Scientific calculator.
- Tap the arrow down icon above the virtual keyboard to expand the screen and viewing your calculation history.
- Tap Home button to return to the standby mode.
Calculator apps is one of the common application that available in almost all the smartphones. This apps will be able to substitute the regular calculator and of course will also be able to facilitate your calculating activity.
How to Show Desk Home Screen Without Using Dock
Samsung Galaxy SIII has come with a removable battery that will allow you to replace it with other when it's broken or start giving you some troubles.
In order to make your phone always ready for use, you should regularly charged the battery even it's not already completely flat. While you're charging the battery, there is an option inside this phone which will allow you to display desk Home screen. By using this option, the phone will display a calendar, clock, local weather and some of multimedia shortcuts.
How to display desk Home screen sans dock?
To display desk Home screen while charging or when the phone is placed in the third-party smartphone stand with a separate charger, then kindly follow the steps listed below:
When you have the screen saver enabled on your phone, usually in a minute or so it will come and replace the desk Home screen. If you want your phone to display the desk Home screen again, then just tap the Back button.
In order to make your phone always ready for use, you should regularly charged the battery even it's not already completely flat. While you're charging the battery, there is an option inside this phone which will allow you to display desk Home screen. By using this option, the phone will display a calendar, clock, local weather and some of multimedia shortcuts.
How to display desk Home screen sans dock?
To display desk Home screen while charging or when the phone is placed in the third-party smartphone stand with a separate charger, then kindly follow the steps listed below:
- Go to Apps through Home screen.
- Tap Clock.
- Swipe the screen to the left, then tap Desk clock tab.
- Tap the full screen icon located at the top right corner of the screen to view the desk Home screen in full screen.
When you have the screen saver enabled on your phone, usually in a minute or so it will come and replace the desk Home screen. If you want your phone to display the desk Home screen again, then just tap the Back button.
How to Enable or Disable Auto-Punctuate
As we all know that the virtual keyboard on Samsung Galaxy SIII has equipped with some options, such as character preview to make your phone displays a big char bubble whenever you touch a key on the virtual keyboard.
Another options available on this keyboard is auto-punctuate. By enabling this option, you'll set the phone to automatically insert a full stop by tapping the space bar twice.
How to turn on or off auto punctuation?
If you want to enable or disable this option, then kindly do as follows:
- Go to Settings.
- Tap Language and input.
- Ensure the Samsung keyboard is enabled, then tap gear icon next to Samsung keyboard option to enter the settings screen.
- Tap Advanced.
- Depending on your current settings, tap Auto-punctuate to enable or disable this option. When the checkbox next to this option is ticked means the option is turned on.
- Tap Home button to return to the standby mode.
Basically, all the options available in the virtual keyboard on this phone has designed to facilitate your typing activity, including with the auto punctuation option. So, you can use some or all of them to make you more easier while using the virtual keyboard.
How to Customize Video Player Settings
You can watching your favourite videos directly through your Samsung Galaxy SIII by using the stock video player application available inside this phone. You can also utilizing some options available while you're watching the video, such as rewind, pause, stop, etc.
As another apps, you can also customizing this apps through the options available under its settings, such as adjust the brightness or set to auto play the next video, etc.
How to customize video player settings?
Below are the steps to do to customize available options under video player application settings:
By knowing the options available under video player settings and what's the function on each of them, now you can customizing this apps according to your need and desires.
As another apps, you can also customizing this apps through the options available under its settings, such as adjust the brightness or set to auto play the next video, etc.
How to customize video player settings?
Below are the steps to do to customize available options under video player application settings:
- Go to Apps through the Home screen.
- Scroll to Video player, then tap it.
- Select the required video you want to watch.
- To access the settings, tap the Menu key then select Settings.
- Now you'll see some options available there, such as:
- Video brightness: use this option to adjust the brightness of the display while you're watching the video.
- Auto play next: use this option to set the video player to auto play the next video.
- Play speed: use this option to change the playback speed.
- SoundAlive: use this option to select a sound effect.
- Subtitles: use this option to customize the settings for a subtitle file.
- Colour tone: use this option to select a color tone.
- Outdoor visibility: use this option to improve the display's contrast to better use under a bright sunlight.
- Tap Back button to return to the video player screen.
- Tap Home button to return to the standby mode.
By knowing the options available under video player settings and what's the function on each of them, now you can customizing this apps according to your need and desires.
Samsung Galaxy S3: How to Use Video Player Applications
You can use Samsung Galaxy SIII not only to make a call or text a message, but also you can use this phone to play a music as you can do with another music player. Moreover, this phone also comes with the stock music player that you can use to listen to the music whenever you want.
In addition to listen to the music using music player apps, you can also use this phone to watch the video by using the stock video player apps available inside this phone. But, you should remember that some file formats are not supported depending on the device's software.
How to use video player apps?
To play video files using video player apps, kindly follow the steps listed below:
Watching video directly through the phone is one of fun thing that you can do with this phone. You can use it to watch your favourite videos or even just to kill the time while you're in a boring situations.
In addition to listen to the music using music player apps, you can also use this phone to watch the video by using the stock video player apps available inside this phone. But, you should remember that some file formats are not supported depending on the device's software.
How to use video player apps?
To play video files using video player apps, kindly follow the steps listed below:
- Go to Apps through Home screen.
- Scroll to Video player, then tap it.
- Select the required video you wish to watch.
- While you're watching the video, you can control playback by utilizing some options available, such as:
- Tap on upper or lower part of the Volume key to adjust volume.
- Tap on the indicator located at the bottom of the display then slide it to the right to forward or slide it to the left to rewind the video.
- Watching the video on full screen by tap the full screen icon located in the bottom left corner of the screen.
- Tap Arrow left icon to go to the previous video.
- Tap Pause/Play icon to pause and play the video.
- Tap Arrow right icon to go to the next video.
- Tap Home button to return to the standby mode.
Watching video directly through the phone is one of fun thing that you can do with this phone. You can use it to watch your favourite videos or even just to kill the time while you're in a boring situations.
How to Show Dual Clock of Different Cities on Home Screen
While you customizing your Samsung Galaxy SIII lock screen, then you can find an option which will allow you to show dual clock when you're on abroad. This of course will helps you to know the time on your Home and your current location.
As in the lock screen, you can also displaying dual clock on your Home screen by adding world/dual clock widget to your Home screen.
How to add dual clock widget to the Home screen?
To display time of two different locations, then kindly follow the steps listed below:
This widget basically has the same function with the dual clock on your lock screen to show time of two different locations, but the difference is if you use this widget you don't have to go abroad to see the dual clock and you can manually choose which the city you like to show the time.
As in the lock screen, you can also displaying dual clock on your Home screen by adding world/dual clock widget to your Home screen.
How to add dual clock widget to the Home screen?
To display time of two different locations, then kindly follow the steps listed below:
- Go to Apps through Home screen.
- Tap Widget tab.
- Swipe the screen to the right or to the left to find the Dual clock widgets. There are two dual clock widgets available, analog and digital. You can choose the one that you like best.
- Tap and hold the dual clock widget then drag it to the Home screen.
- Release to placed it.
- Tap the first clock to select the city.
- Now tap the second clock to add the city, you can use the search box to find the required city.
- Finish. Now you have managed to show times of two different cities on your Home screen.
This widget basically has the same function with the dual clock on your lock screen to show time of two different locations, but the difference is if you use this widget you don't have to go abroad to see the dual clock and you can manually choose which the city you like to show the time.
Samsung Galaxy S3: How to Add and View Bookmarks
Samsung Galaxy SIII comes with Internet application as one of its pre-installed apps. You can use this apps to browse the web you like. Even you can use this apps to offline reading means while you're connected with the Internet you can saved the required website then read them later without having to use Internet connection.
This apps also has an option which will allow you to add your favourite web page to the bookmarks. This of course will make you more easier to access them without having to remember and entering the URL in the address bar each time you want to visit them.
How to bookmark website?
If you want to add certain website to bookmarks then kindly follow the steps listed below:
How to view bookmarked website?
Once you've finished bookmarking a website, then you can access them easily by following the steps below:
Bookmarking your favourite website of course will help you to access them more easier and faster. It also means you can save your time by using this option because you don't have to enter the URL whenever you want to access them.
This apps also has an option which will allow you to add your favourite web page to the bookmarks. This of course will make you more easier to access them without having to remember and entering the URL in the address bar each time you want to visit them.
How to bookmark website?
If you want to add certain website to bookmarks then kindly follow the steps listed below:
- Go to Apps through Home screen.
- Tap Internet.
- Navigate to the required website by entering the URL in the address bar then press Go.
- Once the website is completely loaded, tap the Menu key then select Add bookmark.
- Give the name of the bookmarked website as you like.
- Tap Save button.
- Finish. Now you have managed to bookmark a website.
How to view bookmarked website?
Once you've finished bookmarking a website, then you can access them easily by following the steps below:
- While you're on the Internet apps page, tap the Bookmarks icon
. - Tap Bookmarks tab.
- Now you'll see all thumbnails of the bookmarked websites.
- Tap the required bookmarked website you wish to view.
- Now the browser will load the website.
Bookmarking your favourite website of course will help you to access them more easier and faster. It also means you can save your time by using this option because you don't have to enter the URL whenever you want to access them.
How to Enable or Disable Character Preview
The virtual keyboard in Samsung Galaxy SIII will make you more easier when you want to type a message or email. This keyboard also has some options to facilitate your typing activity, such as auto capitalization. This option will help you to type properly by automatically capitalize the first letter of the sentence.
Another option available on this keyboard is character preview. By enabling this option, whenever you touch the key on the virtual keyboard then you'll see a big character bubble appear above the keyboard.
How to turn on or off character preview?
To do so kindly follow the steps listed below:
Once you've enabled this option, a big bubble with key will appear whenever you touch the key on the virtual keyboard. So, you can enable this option to help you ensure that you touch the right key as you want.
Another option available on this keyboard is character preview. By enabling this option, whenever you touch the key on the virtual keyboard then you'll see a big character bubble appear above the keyboard.
How to turn on or off character preview?
To do so kindly follow the steps listed below:
- Go to Apps through Home screen.
- Scroll to Settings, then tap on it.
- Tap Language and input.
- Ensure the Samsung keyboard is turned on.
- Tap gear icon next to Samsung keyboard option to enter the settings.
- Tap Advanced.
- Depending on your current settings, tap Character preview to enable or disable this option. When the checkbox next to this option is ticked means this option is turned on.
- Tap Home button to return to the standby mode.
Once you've enabled this option, a big bubble with key will appear whenever you touch the key on the virtual keyboard. So, you can enable this option to help you ensure that you touch the right key as you want.
How to Print Document or Photo to Any Type of Printer
If at the previous post has been said that you can print the document or picture directly through your Samsung Galaxy SIII to the Samsung printer that connected at the same Wi-Fi network without having to use another third-party application.
But, what if the printer you already have is not the Samsung printer? Absolutely you don't have to worry because there's still a way that will allow you to print document or photo from your phone to any printer using the third-party apps called Cloud print.
How to print files to any printer using Cloud Print applications?
Below are the steps to do so:
- Download install Cloud print apps through the Google Play Store.
- Configure the printer by going to http://www.google.com/cloudprint through your PC or laptop.
- Once you've finished installing the apps and configuring the printer, now you can start to print the required document or photo from your phone to the printer that you already configured.
After you have known how to print files using Cloud print, now you can print the files you want directly from your phone to the configured printer, even though the printer is not the Samsung printer.
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