You can place on the home screen of the Samsung Galaxy S7 many apps and widgets. However, you will soon realize that after some time there is no more space left, because only a few pages are present.

Fortunately, you can easily add in Android Marshmallow additional home screen pages. If you do not know how to add a new page to the home screen, then we would like to explain it here.

If you are on the home screen of the Samsung Galaxy S7 then tap with your finger long on an empty space (No app, no widget). The home screen becomes smaller now and is reflected in a clearer form, including a small menu. Scroll through the home screen pages way to the right until you see a plus symbol. Tap this plus symbol now to add a new page the home screen of the Samsung Galaxy S7.

Repeat this process until the desired number of pages is added to your home screen or the limit of pages has been reached. You now know how to add on the Samsung Galaxy S7 a new page for apps and Widgets on the home screen.

By reset the Samsung Galaxy S7 to factory settings, all data on your smartphone are deleted from the memory, and then filled with a fresh new the Android system. The factory reset on the Samsung Galaxy S7 is usually used in the following conditions:

• A firmware update with version jump was installed
• Strong problems with the Android Software (machine becomes hot, battery consumption dramatically, no reaction, etc.)
• The Samsung Galaxy S7 is sold

Our guide shows you now, how to perform a factory reset on the Samsung Galaxy S7 and therefore resets the smartphone to factory settings.

First: Please remember to make a backup as all data is erased and otherwise irreparably lost!

Opens from the home screen of the Samsung Galaxy S7 the menu and then the system settings of Android.

1. Navigate there to: Backup and Reset

2. Select "Reset to Factory Settings".

3. Follow the Android Wizard to reset the Samsung Galaxy S7.

At the end of wizard the smartphone is restarted and the necessary actions performed. Once the Samsung Galaxy S7 has been rebooted, you will find this in the factory state, the time of delivery.

You have now successfully did a reset to factory settings on your Samsung Galaxy S7.

The Samsung Galaxy S7 has finally the option to expand the internal memory by a memory card. If you bought the Samsung Galaxy S7 and now ask what memory card is it best suited for your smartphone, then we would like to help with this article:

Since you can never have enough space, we recommend you to get started with a 128GB Micro SD memory card from the following manufacturers:

• 128GB Samsung memory card
• 128GB Transcend memory card
• 128GB SanDisk Ultra memory card

All memory cards are characterized by a high data rate, which is very important for the Samsung Galaxy S7. Especially if you like to take pictures or videos with the phone or install large app applications the recommended memory cards above have a clear advantage.

For which memory card for your Samsung Galaxy S7 have you decided? Tells us in the comments.

A major feature in Android and the Samsung Galaxy S7 is to use widgets on the home screen. Widgets allow you to display information from apps directly on the home screen.

But first you must place such a widget on the home screen of the Samsung Galaxy S7. We tell you here in this article, exactly how it works:

Find yourself a free spot on the home screen of the Samsung Galaxy S7. Now press long with your finger at this vacancy until the menu is somewhat reduced. So you will now see at the bottom small menu in which you can find the entry "widgets".

Tap on widgets to let you view all available widgets on the Samsung Galaxy S7. Scrolls through the widgets until you have found one that is to be placed on the home screen of your Samsung Galaxy S7.

Now press with your finger on the widget until this lifts and can then be placed on the home screen at any point. Let it go to place it at the desired location. Done!

Repeat the process for all the widgets you want to have on your home screen of your Samsung Galaxy S7. You know now how you can place on the Samsung Galaxy S7 widgets and then add them on the Home screen.

By using a code within the Samsung Galaxy S7 you can open a secret menu where you can check different hardware components through their paces. It involves the service menu, which is normally used only by service technicians.

But we show you here how to open the Service menu on the Samsung Galaxy S7:

For this, open from the home screen of the Samsung Galaxy S7 the menu and then the phone app. Change to the Phone app on the keypad, and then enter the following code: *#0*#

This code opens on the Samsung Galaxy S7 the secret service menu. You will now see various gray tiles. Each tile represents a hardware test or stands for more information about the hardware. Most important here is the menu item "Sensor".

About this entry you can easily retrieve the sensor data of the Samsung Galaxy S7 and check it for proper functioning. You now know how to open on the Samsung Galaxy S7 the Service menu and how display information and hardware tests can be showed.

If you want to exit the menu please press twice in succession on the back button (soft key).

If you use a model from earlier days and now want to switch to a smartphone like the Samsung Galaxy S7, then the transfer of the contacts is not so easy.

Our tip: Use your Sim card

Check if the the older smartphone or cell phone has the ability to export contacts to the SIM card. Since the Samsung Galaxy S7 uses a Nano-SIM card and older smartphones usually the standard SIM card or the Micro Sim card, you need a SIM card adapter.

You can get it here: Sim Card Adapter

Plug the Nano Sim card of the Samsung Galaxy S7 into the adapter and then in your old phone. Now run on the old phone the function “export the contacts to the SIM”. Afterwards you can take the Nano Sim card from the adapter and return it to your Samsung Galaxy S7.

1. Now open on the Samsung Galaxy S7 the Contacts app. If you're in the index, then tap in the top right at "More". A small menu appears, in which you can now select the "Settings".

2. In the first section "Manage and Backup contacts" you can find the menu button "Import / Export contacts". Tap on this menu button and it appears the menu for importing contact data. Tap the "Import" button, whereupon a menu opens, in which then "Sim Card" must be selected.

3. Choose now where the contacts will be imported from the SIM card. You can select:

• Device
• Google Account (Our recommendation)
• Samsung Account

4. Have you made your choice, an overview will be displayed with all the contacts that are stored on the SIM card. Now mark the contacts you want to import to the Samsung Galaxy S7.

When you're done with your selection, tap in the top right the button "Done! Now the import of the Sim card contacts is performed on your Samsung Galaxy S7.

Transferring the contacts from an Android smartphone is much easier then to an iPhone because the Samsung Galaxy S7 and your "old" smartphone are using the same operating system. Proceed as follows to move your contacts:

1. Download on both smartphones the app Samsung Smart Switch.

2. After downloading the software from the Google Play Store and installing it on both devices, open on each device the app. Now you can select the data which should to be retransmitted from the old phone to the S7. Select in any case "contacts".

3. Follow the wizard, which guides you through the process. The transfer of the contacts is possible when using the standard "Wi-Fi Direct". Therefore this process should be completed within the shortest possible time.

When you bought the new Samsung Galaxy S7 and want to transfer your contact information from your iPhone, then you might be wondering what options are available for this purpose.

Unfortunately, it is not quite that simple to import contacts from an iPhone to the new Samsung Galaxy S7. Subsequently, we want to present the instructions for this process:

1. First create a Google account. You need this account anyway later for the effective utility of the Samsung Galaxy S7. Create a Google Account

2. Once you have created a Google account connect the iPhone to the PC or Mac and then open the iTunes software. Within this you can click on the "Info" tab. This opens a menu where you now please select contacts (Sync Address Books contacts). Now enter the previously obtained credentials of the Google account in the field “Sync Google contacts” --> Configure.

3. Then your iPhone contacts will sync with the Google Account.

4. Then you need to link the Google account to your Samsung Galaxy S7 and also start the synchronization there. The contacts are then taken from your iPhone.

You now know how to transfer your contacts from the iPhone to the Samsung Galaxy S7 smartphone.

The Developer options on the Samsung Galaxy S7 are not enabled by factory in Android marshmallow, which means that you must activate this option first to use it. If you do not know how to activate the developer mode on the Samsung Galaxy S7, then we would like to explain that more precisely here:

From the home screen of the Samsung Galaxy S7 navigate to:

Menu --> Settings --> device information

In this Android Marshmallow submenu you can now see various information about your Samsung Galaxy S7. In order to enable the developer options, tap several times in rapid succession on the "build number" entry.

After about the seventh time tap, a message appears with "developer options enabled".

The just unlocked developer options can now be found in the settings section of your Samsung Galaxy S7. This new entry can now be opened and activated via the controller. You have now learned how you can activate on the new Samsung Galaxy S7 the Android Marshmallow developer options.

The Samsung Galaxy S7 has implemented a recovery menu from which various actions can be made, mainly the "Wipe cache partition" and the "Wipe date / factory reset". Both functions can be used without the Android system on the Samsung Galaxy S7 is bootd.

In this guide, we show you how you can easily open the Recovery menu on the Samsung Galaxy S7:

1. Turn the Samsung Galaxy S7 completely off

2. Start the instrument with the following key combination (simultaneously press and hold):

• Power On / OFF
• volume up
• home button

3. If the device is started and an Android figure appears on the display release the power on/ off button but keep the other two keys from the key combination pressed. After about 15 seconds the Recovery menu of your Samsung Galaxy S7 will appear.

This is similar to the old DOS. Using the volume buttons you can scroll up or down. With the Power On / Off button (Enter key) perform your actions. You know now how to boot on the new Samsung Galaxy S7 in the Recovery menu and navigate there.