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Quickly Take a Screenshot on an Android Mobile Phone or Tablet

efriend — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 11:05:04 +0000

If you want to capture your screenshot on mobile phone, what should do you do? In an Android phone or tablet, to take a screenshot is to press and hold the Power button and the Volume Down button simultaneously. A sound will confirm the screenshot was taken, and a preview will often appear in the corner of the screen. You can then tap the preview to edit the image.

Use the physical buttons
The universal Android method to capture the screenshot is to simultaneously press and release the Volume Down button and the Power button. To capture the screenshot first open the screen or page that you want to capture. Find the Power button and the Volume Down button on your device. Press and hold the two buttons at the same time, until you hear a shutter sound, then release the buttons.

After you take a screenshot, you’ll usually see a small preview or notification appear on top of the screen. Tapping this preview allows you to edit, crop, or share the screenshot before saving it. If you couldn’t spot the preview image, the screenshot is naturally saved to your phone’s photo gallery, typically in a folder named ‘Screenshots’.

Voice command
You can say “Hey Google, take a screenshot” to your device to capture the screen hands-free.

Hand Gestures
Some Android devices allow you to take a screenshot with a three-finger swipe down, a palm swipe, or a double-tap on the back of the phone. Check your device’s settings under Gestures to see if these options are available and enabled.

How to Record a Phone Call on Your Smart Phone

efriend — Thu, 05 Nov 2020 18:04:24 +0000

Do you want to record your phone calls on your smartphone? Afraid of missing some important conversations? The mobile OS doesn’t have a built-in phone rerecording application. There are several ways to record phone calls, using third party apps is easier to record calls. These call recording apps allow you to replay the recorded call automatically as long as you need it. These phone recording apps can record all your incoming and outgoing calls in high quality and stores it on your phone as audio files. But there are some legal consequences in recording phone calls, you should aware of it.

Digital voice recorder
There are a number of voice recording devices are available in the market. Most of the devices have settings to eliminate background noise. In the Sony voice recorder, switching on the Auto Voice Recording automatically optimize audio capture settings for vocal frequencies. The result is a purer recording with less background noise and a reduced chance of audio loss caused by unsuitable microphone settings.

Use another smartphone
You can record calls using another phone, as all the smartphone has at least one built-in voice recorder app. But the recording may get some unwanted noise if the recording environment is noisy.

Third-party Apps
Automatic Call Recorder
(Apps in Google Play store)
Record any phone call you want using call recorder apps. You can choose which calls you to want to save, you can set which calls are recorded and which are ignored. In Google play store you can find a huge number of phone recording apps. All apps having a free version and a paid version. The paid version has more features than the free version like HD sound quality, password protection, cloud storage, etc.

Make Wi-Fi Calls on Your Smartphone

efriend — Tue, 24 Dec 2019 11:54:54 +0000

Wi-Fi calling is a feature found on Android for many years, but most of us don’t know such a feature exists on your phone. Some people may notice a Wi-Fi calling option in the notification bar of their Android phone.

What is Wi-Fi Calling?
Wi-Fi calling uses Wi-Fi networks to make and receive calls anywhere, without connecting to a mobile network. Worried of weak signal, with Wi-Fi calling you can make calls and send messages over a Wi-Fi connection. But to use this feature your phone must be connected to a Wi-Fi network and have an active SIM card inserted on your phone.

Wi-Fi calling on Android
To turn on Wi-Fi calling in your Android phone, swipe down to view the instant notification screen, turn on Wi-Fi calling. You can also enable it from Settings>Connections>Wi-Fi calling, slide the switch to the right to turn on. When making calls you may need to provide any one of the options like Wi-Fi preferred or Cellular network preferred.

Wi-Fi calling on iPhone
You can make or receive a phone call with a Wi-Fi connection using Wi-Fi calling. If there is no cellular coverage and you have a good Wi-Fi connection you can make a voice calls using Wi-Fi calling. To use it you need an iPhone 5c or later and a supported carrier. First, turn on Wi-Fi calling in Settings>Phone>Wi-Fi Calling. If Wi-Fi calling is available, you can see W-Fi after your carrier name in the status bar. Now your calls will use Wi-Fi calling. On your iPhone, go to Settings>Phone>Wi-Fi calling. Turn on Add Wi-Fi calling for other devices. Then go back to the previous screen, then tap Calls on other devices. Turn on Allow calls on Other Devices. A list of Wi-Fi call ready devices appears under Allow Calls On. Turn on each device that you want to use with Wi-Fi calling. You can see the setup instruction to make a call with Wi-Fi calling in the Apple support site.

Applications like Whatsapp, Messenger, Skype, Viber, etc. use a similar service called VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) through Wi-Fi or data connection. But, Wi-Fi calling is directly integrated into the Phone’s dialer, so you don’t need an external app to use this feature. You can also set this as the default way of making a call when your phone didn’t get the cellular signal.

Transfer Everything from Old Phone to New Phone

efriend — Fri, 20 Dec 2019 03:54:39 +0000

With the advent of technology, new phones with a lot of features and with more powerful hardware came day by day. Manufacturers are coming up with new models with more advanced features that tempt the users to upgrade their old devices to new ones. If you have any enough budget in your hand buying a new phone is an easy task but transferring all files, photos, videos, and contacts to the new phone becomes tedious to most users. Many users consider moving contacts from one phone to another is a daunting task. Through this article, you will learn the methods to transfer your files, photo, videos, and contacts to your new phone effortlessly.

Nowadays almost all smartphone is signed with a cloud account to sync and backup all your files to the cloud. In the Samsung Android phones, the phone is signed to your Google account. In your Android phone, go to Settings. Find Accounts and Backup. In Accounts, you can see the account(s) that auto-sync your data with your phone. In Accounts and backup, you can see various backup restore options. Depends on your phone manufacturer, you may have several options to backup and restore your data. In the case of a Samsung smartphone, Samsung Cloud, and Smart switch is there to back up your data. In Oppo phone, in Settings>Additional settings you can see the Backup and restore option. Under Google backup, the backup account for the Google backup will be displayed. The Backup and restore option is situated in Settings in your Android phone, but the backup and restore location may be placed in different locations in Settings and it depends on the phone manufacturer. Find Backup and restore in Settings, if you couldn’t find in settings, search for Backup in Settings. The backup and restore option will be displayed. Check the best selling phones of top manufacturers in Amazon.

Increase Storage Space of Your Mobile Phone

efriend — Sun, 21 Jul 2019 14:43:56 +0000

Nowadays mobile phone comes with more and more memory storage to store files, data, videos, and images. But the new high-resolution mobile phone cameras, 4K high-resolution video recording capability, and more graphics-rich games consume much of the storage space. The result, you always get insufficient storage warning! How to overcome such a difficulty by expanding your phone storage limit to unlimited storage space. There are several ways to expand the storage capacity of your mobile phone. Before I begin, I will expand some technical terms for your knowledge. Storage means the space in your phone to keep photos, videos, music, and other files. The memory means the space where the Apps and Android system programs were running.

Free up space by deleting unwanted Apps
To free up storage space on your phone, open the Settings in your Android phone. In Device care, tap Storage, there you can see the amount of space that can be saved using the clean functionality. Click Clean now to clean the storage space. If you want to free up memory space to speed up your phones performance, tap Storage, then Memory, the amount of memory that can be saved by closing the background app is displayed here. Click Clean now to free up the memory space on your mobile phone.

In Apple phone, the IOS has some features to offload unused apps from the phone. In Settings, go to General, then About, you can see the amount of space used for IOS Applications. If you want to offload an app that you don’t use much, go to Settings, then General, then to iPhone Storage. In iPhone Storage, you can see the apps installed and space used by each app. You can see the last time you used the app and the space it occupied on your phone. On clicking the app you can see the Offload App option. It will free up storage used by the app but keep its documents and data. Reinstalling the app will place back your data if the app is still available in the App store. If you are deleting the app by pressing the Delete App, it will delete the app and all related data from the iPhone. But this action can’t be undone, all data will be deleted forever. After the offloading, the option becomes Reinstall App. If you want to use the app again, tap the Reinstall App.

Add additional Memory cards
Almost all new mobile phones have slots for memory cards. You can increase the storage by inserting an SD card. Before going to purchase an SD card, confirm your device supports additional SD card and maximum storage capacity that you can add to your device. After getting your SD card, turn off the phone first, then remove the SD card tray or back cover (depends on your phone model-check the Phone’s manual). Place the SD card into the slot. Put back the SD card tray safely or fix the back cover. If you get a notification after inserting the SD card, tap Set up. Tap the kind of storage that you want.

Use USB drive
You can transfer files to your portable USB thumb drives by connecting a USB OTG cable to your phones micro USB connector. You need to obtain a USB OTG cable to connect to your MicroUSB port of the phone. After connecting the USB device, you can see a notification, then tap USB drive to transfer media files in the notification bar. The micro USB OTG to USB connector cable helps to connect most USB flash drive, mouse, keyboard and some digital cameras. Thanks to technology, there are a number of OTG dual-drive pen drives are available from different manufacturers, to backup photos, videos, and contacts from your phone. Some USB drives have micro-USB and USB dual connectors. With a micro-USB connector on one end and a USB connector on the other, the drive lets you move content easily between your devices from your mobile phone or tablet to your laptop or PC.

Use cloud storage
You can easily store your photos, videos, and data to the cloud hosting solution using the dedicated apps. You can extend the phone storage space to unlimited storage space by adding a cloud storage account to your phone. You don’t want to buy or add any hardware to your phone, only you need a fast internet connection (home or office) to back up everything to the cloud storage. Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft One Drive, Amazon Drive, Box are some reputed cloud storage solutions.

Internal Memory to SD Card
You can free up the internal memory by moving the photos, videos, and downloads from your device to SD card. You can use Files to SD card apps to quickly transfer files to SD card.

You can also free up the internal storage by periodically transferring the photos, videos, and downloaded data to your computer or laptop by connecting your phone to the computer or laptop with the suitable cable supplied by the mobile phone manufacturer. After connecting the phone, you may get a notification on your screen for getting permission to access the data from your phone. Allow to give permission, then in the Notification bar, in Android system, tap Transferring files to transfer the files between the Mobile phone and computer. In most device, by default, it is set as Charging phone only, you need to tap it to change to Transferring files to view the files on your phone.