If you would like to use the feature speech-to-text on your Samsung Galaxy S6, then we would like to explain with which app this is possible. The dictation of text and automatically converting it into written form by the Samsung Galaxy S6 is a useful feature to quickly note down something.

Except if one has high value on punctuation, this is a little bit difficult. The recognition of punctuation does not always work properly. Nevertheless the recognition of speech is useful to quickly bring thoughts to paper.
This works with the Samsung Galaxy S6 and Android as follows:

Open from the Home Screen the menu and then the app "Voice Recorder". Tap up left on "Standard". This will now open a small menu. The choices are:

• Standard
• Interview
• Voice memo

Now select "Voice" from. To use the function language-to-text function, you must have an active Internet connection. Tap the Record button and then begin slowly to speak the text. The software of the voice recorder app will now convert the spoken text into written text. This works surprisingly well, as you will notice.

Have fun with this useful function to convert speech into text with the Samsung Galaxy S6.

If you're using the Fitbit Fitness Tracker in order to record your sports activities, then you should check from time to time if a new firmware is available. By means of a new firmware your Fitbit Fitness Tracker receives performance improvements and maybe even new functions.

If you do not know how to install a firmware update on the Fitbit Fitness Tracker with an Android smartphone then we would like to explain this here in our article.
To update the firmware of the Fitbit Fitness Tracker via an Android smartphone, proceed as follows:

Downloadthe current FitBit app from the Google Play Store. Download Link of the FitBit App

Now open the just installed FitBit app on your Android smartphone. Tap there on the menu button in the top left and then the button "Device". Now select your Fitbit Fitness Tracker on which you wish to perform the firmware update. Then tap on "Sync now".

Now, if a firmware updateis available for your Fitbit Fitness Tracker, then you can see a button with "update available". Tap on this button to start the process of updating the firmware of the Fitbit Fitness Tracker. Finished!

Then you have updated the latest firmware on your Fitbit Fitness Tracker via an Android smartphone and thus hopefully the latest enhancements.

If you do not longer want to use the lock screen security method "fingerprint" on your Samsung Galaxy S6, then you must disable the fingerprint sensor on the smartphone. How to disable the fingerprint sensor and how to use an alternative locking method like pattern, pin, wipe or lock Direction, we explain to you here in more detail:

Open on your Samsung Galaxy S6 the menu and then the Settings. Tap here now on:

1. Lock screen and security
2. Screen Lock Type

You will be prompted by your Samsung Galaxy S6 to identify yourselfwith your fingerprint. Alternatively, you can also use your "PIN" that you have defined when setting up the fingerprints. Then you are in the menu where you can select an alternative method to unlock the lock screen. The choices are:

• Swipe
• Pattern
• Pin
• Password
• None

Once you have made your selection, the new method to unlock the Samsung Galaxy S6 is used. Congratulations! You just successfully disabled the fingerprint sensor to unlock the smartphone.

With the firmware update to Android Lollipop 5.1.1 the Samsung Galaxy S6 has been added the possibility to take photos in RAW format. Pictures taken in RAW format are not compressed by the software and not stored as JPEG file. Therefore, RAW image files are very well suited for post-production. If you are now looking at the Samsung Galaxy S6 for the possibility to take photos in RAW format, then you won´t find in the camera app an appropriate setting. Because this function is in fact integrated within the operating system, but has not been implemented by Samsung within the camera app.

That's why you have to downloada third-party app, which are already offering this option.

Camera Apps including RAW-format pictures:

• Camera FV-5
• Snap Camera HDR

With these two camera apps, it is possible to create photos in RAW format with the Samsung Galaxy S6. Have fun taking pictures with the Samsung Galaxy S6 camera and the post-production of the RAW photos.

After you have installed the firmware update to Android Lollipop 5.1.1 on the Samsung Galaxy S6 then it may happen to you that the smartphone becomes very hot after a short time.

Even if you barely use Apps on Samsung Galaxy S6 the smartphone is hot, which usually results from a faulty system app. To solve this problem, we recommend you to definitely perform a Wipe Cache partition. With that method, old system components can be removed, which can solve system conflicts.

We tell you here how you can perform a wipe cache partition on the Samsung Galaxy S6 under Android Lollipop 5.1.1. Please proceed as follows:
Turn your Samsung Galaxy S6 completely off. Then you have to press the following keys to turn the Samsung Galaxy S6 back on:

• Power On/ Off
• Volume + key
• Home button

When the Samsung Galaxy S6 vibrates briefly once, release the power on/ off button, but keep the other two keys from the key combination pressed until a small menu appears on the screen of your smartphone. This looks similar to a DOS system on a desktop pc.

Now marks the entry "Wipe Cache partition" with the volume down key. With the Power On/ Off button the entry can be selected and the process of the Wipe cache started. This usually takes only a few seconds. Then the previously displayed menu reappears. Now select the first entry with "Reboot system now" and accept the command again with a press of the power button.
Your Samsung Galaxy S6 will now reboot.

You have just executed a Wipe cache partition on your Samsung Galaxy S6 what should optimize the Android Lollipop OS functions properly. We hope that this tip will also work for your Samsung Galaxy S6.

If the battery life of your Samsung Galaxy S6 becomes worse after the firmware update to AndroidLollipop 5.1.1, then this article should help you to return to the old standard of battery consumption.

We have several tips which shouldusually help to get the problem with increased battery consumption under control.

1. Allow the battery consumption level display to calibrate itself after update

If your Samsung Galaxy S6 was just updatedthen wait a little bit until the battery consumption display has calibrated itself. This may take one to three charging cycles. Turn in any case your Samsung Galaxy S6 completely off and start it then again. Now wait for the charging cycles. If it is not getting better, then use the same tip no. 2

2. Wipe Cache Partition perform

You should always perform after a firmware update a wipe cache partition to completely remove old temporary system files from the cache. (all other files get NOT deleted) How to make a Wipe cache partition you learn in this article: Samsung Galaxy S6 Perform Wipe Cache – manual

3. Locate apps with increased battery consumption

In Android 5.1.1 on the Samsung Galaxy S6, it has become even easier to locate apps with increased battery consumption. Openfrom the Home Screen:

• Menu --> Settings --> Battery --> section "Battery Power Optimization" --> Detail --> tab "Abnormal battery Usage”

Check here which apps are listed and need unusual battery power of your Samsung Galaxy S6. This app should then be uninstalled.By using the new function"Automatic stop"apps will be terminated automatically.

We hope that one of these tips helped you to reduce the battery consumption after the update to AndroidLollipop 5.1.1. If not, then, unfortunately, only a factory reset remains in the final analysis.

With the firmware update to Android Lollipop 5.1.1 it is now possible to adjustwithin the Camera app the Macro mode manually. This feature is certainly interesting for those of you who like work with macro photography.

We show you now, how you can adjust on the Samsung Galaxy S6 the Macro camera mode. Open the camera app first. Tap at the lower left button on "Mode" and then choose the "Pro" mode. You have now various setting options available. One of them is marked with the symbol "mountain and flower". Tap on this icon to adjust the focus of your Samsung Galaxy S6.

Now push the knob on the "Flower" in order to permanently enable the macro mode on the Samsung Galaxy S6.

You can now take pictures with the macro mode without interfering with the automatic focus of your Samsung Galaxy S6 camera.

Usually you get on your Android smartphone more WhatsApp messages as text messages. Therefore, it is perhaps important for one or the other of you to disable the vibration only forincoming WhatsAppmessages.

That is why we tell you here how you can disable only the vibration for incoming WhatsApp messages.

Open on the Android smartphone themessenger "WhatsApp" and tap there in the overview on the top-right three-point symbol. In the pop-up menu, select "Settings". From here navigate on "Notifications" --> "Vibration duration".So you see a window with different options:

• Off
• Standard
• Short
• Long

Select "Off" to completely disable vibration in WhatsApp. Finished!

Immediately your Android smartphone does no longer vibrate with receiving a new WhatsApp message.

In the Phone app on the Samsung Galaxy S6 it is possible to place contacts as favorites. So you can easily call them and do not have to look far within the contacts app.
We want to show you briefly how you can set a contact as a favorite in the Phone appon the Samsung Galaxy S 6.

To do this, open on the Samsung Galaxy S6 the phone app. Change here on the "Favorites" tab. If you have not set a favorite, then a list of the most frequently contacted people appears.

In order to add a favorite, tap "Add“ atthe bar at the top. Now select a contact, and complete the process with "Finish". The just selected contact is now displayed in the phone app under the tab "Favorites".

So you can call this contact quick because it is immediately visible in the phone app.

On your Samsung Galaxy S6 the keyboard from Samsung is installed from the factory, which was programmed in collaboration with SwiftKey. This keyboard has actually all necessary functions on board which a modern smartphone keyboardrequires. Perhaps this keyboard is for one or two of you not fit enough, because, for example, the keys are too small, etc. If so, then we want briefly explain how to install an alternative keyboard on the Samsung Galaxy S6.

This shall be explained by using the example of  “Google Keyboard”.
Download the keyboard app from the Google Play Store to your Samsung Galaxy S6:

• Google Keyboard

If it is installed on your smartphone, open the app via Menu --> GoogleKeyboard

Now a little wizard will guide you through the configuration of the Google Keyboard. The keyboard can then be set as the default keyboard for all apps on the Samsung Galaxy S6.

The settings for Google keyboard can then be configured via Menu --> Settings --> Language & input --> standard keyboard.

You know now how to install and use a different keyboard than the Samsung keyboard on the Samsung Galaxy S6.