Android Tips&Trick-Part 6

This tips and tricks is mainly for Android users which have OS V4.0 and above

26.Customise your favourites tray At the bottom of each homescreen is your favourites tray, which consists of 5 icons. You can customise it by adding icons to the tray. If it's full however, you will first need to remove some. To remove an icon, simply press and hold an icon. Then drag it to your desktop.  Then to add a new one, simply drag an icon from your homescreen to the favourites tray.

27.Enable / disable vibrate / haptic feedback when you type To disable / enable vibrate (also called haptic feedback) when you type or press the screen, go to Settings - Language & input - Settings.  Then uncheck Vibrate on keypress.

28.Enable sideload of Apps If you want to install Apps outside of the Android Market (called sideloading), then go to Settings - Security - Unknown sources.

 Note: use at your own risk.

29.Forgotten Unlock Pattern If you have forgotten your custom unlock pattern, then don't panic.  After 5 unsuccessful tries a button should appear saying 'Forgot pattern'.

Press this and you will be asked to enter your Gmail username/password.  The phone will then ask for a new unlock pattern.

If you don't have a Gmail account, then you might have to either call your carrier or factory reset your phone.

30.Hide folders or files If you want to hide folders or files from being index or displayed, simple put a . (full stop / period) before the file or folder name.