A firmware update usually brings improvements and new features that improve the smartphone. This is why most of you want to update as soon as possible, if a new firmware version is ready the forown smartphone. Now it may be that you have not the opportunity to install a new firmware, though other users have the same cell phone and already installed it. If so, then you may ask:

Why does my smartphone do not get the new firmware update? We answer this question to you.

There are two variants of smartphones:

• Smartphone with branding
• smartphone without branding

Branding means that a mobile operator has designed the firmware and provided it with their own apps and features. This includes, for example, the boot splash screen, which is usually provided with the logo of the provider. Learn more about branding here.

Because customizing the firmware software by the Provider takes time, it usually takes longer and longer until a firmware update is published for a smartphone with branding.

Therefore the "free" Smartphones without branding receive the firmware updates most of the time earlier than the branding devices.

We recommend you therefore always to acquire smartphones, which are available without branding.
You know now why you have not received a new firmware update for your smartphone, although other devices have this installed already.

The Samsung Galaxy S6 has integrated an excellent camera, with which you can create on the road very nice pictures. During the day that it is very easy to take almost nice and sharp images. But if it becomes dark and dim, then it is recommended to adaptthe camera settings of the Samsung Galaxy S6, to get the most of the camera. We give you here are a few tips to receive some beautiful night shotswith the Samsung Galaxy S6.

1.Enable HDR mode

One of the main options for beautiful night shots with the Samsung Galaxy S6 is the HDR mode. This optimizes contrast, saturation and other parameters so that the image looks sharper at the end.The HDR mode can be activated on the bar at the top of the screen within the "Auto Mode" of the camera.


2. Increase ISO to ISO 400

The higher the ISO value, the more light is collected. However, the quality of the photo will be affected. If it is particularly dark the Samsung Galaxy S6automatically adjusts the highest ISO setting. This is ISO 800. We recommend you to put the Iso value manually when shooting at night at 400 so in favor of the image quality. You only can change the ISO in the camera mode "Pro". Here you can now tap "ISO" and set this value via the controller manually. Select here ISO 400.

3. Switch off the flash

At night, the flash of the Samsung Galaxy S6 must be turned off, otherwise the view width of the photos are strongly decreased. The flash can be easily disabled by tapping on the top at the flash icon in the camera app.

4. Use self-timer Timer

If possible use the self-timer of the Samsung Galaxy S6 before you create a night scene, to prevent camera shake by the hand. As a rule, however, this is due to the design of the Samsung Galaxy S6 not so easy to solve. The self-timer can also be activated from Live View screen.

You have now learned four different tips that can help you to take better pictures at night with the Samsung Galaxy S6.

If the location history on the Samsung Galaxy S6 is activated, then your smartphone records all your movements using GPS positioning. So you can see in retrospect on the internet where you have stayed in the past few months. Usually you would not want that feature, which is why we here show you how to disable the Location History on the Samsung Galaxy S6.

Proceed as follows:

Open from the home screen: Menu --> Settings --> Privacy &Safety --> Location --> Google Location History

Uncheck this option with the slider on the top right. Finished!

From now on no locations from you are no longer logged by the Samsung Galaxy S6.

The Samsung Galaxy S6 is equipped with a GPS receiver, which makes it possible to determine one's position exactly. Thus, the positioning works quickly on the Samsung Galaxy S6, you can additionally enable the mobile data network. Here the AGPS data is retrieved. The AGPS data helps the GPS receiver to determine your location more quickly.

Now it may be that your Samsung Galaxy S6 can determine your location via GPS only bad, even though you have the mobile data connection enabled. If that's the case, then you should update your AGPS data manually. Unfortunately, such a feature is not availablein Android, which is why you need to use the following app:

Download GPS Testfrom the Google Play Store

Then you have the app installed, please open it on the Samsung Galaxy S6. Now switch on, if not already done, the GPS of your smartphone. Now open the menu in the app GPS Test. Select "Settings" tab. This takes you to the menu for the settings of the app. There you will find the two buttons.

• Clear AGPS
• Update AGPS

Press them now!

You have now successfully performed a reset of the A-GPS data and downloaded an actual version on your Samsung Galaxy S6. Your Samsung Galaxy S6 should now locate you within a very short time.

Every Samsung Galaxy S6 is equipped with a so-called product code, which also tells from which country the devicecomes or if it is provided with a branding. This information is important because, for example, an unbranded Samsung Galaxy S6 is usually supplied faster with new firmware updates, as smartphones that are branded by a provider. Partially there are delays of new updates up to several months.

We therefore recommend to always choose the unbrandet version of a smartphone. Below we tell you now, how you can check on the Samsung Galaxy S6 which variant you have.

Open the phone app and then the numeric keypad. Type now by using the keypad the following code combination: *#1234#

Now, a small info box, where the product code can be read appears. Under "CSC" you see now your Product code: G925FDBTXXXX

You know now, how you can readout on your Samsung Galaxy S6 the product code to check whether you possess anunbranded or a branded version.

When you open on your Samsung Galaxy S6 an app in which a keyboard must be used, then it may happen that this keyboard will not appear on the display. This is a bug in the software of the Samsung keyboard app. Thus, the keyboard appears, you must try the following tip:

Open on the Samsung Galaxy S6 the menu and then the Settings. Navigate from here to: Applications -> Application Manager

In the Application Manager switch now on the "All" tab and then search for "Samsung keypad". Have you found the entry, tap it once to display more information on this application. Here tap now please on the following buttons:

• Stop force
• Clear the cache
• Delete data (Attention stored word suggestions etc. will be deleted)

Then restart the Samsung Galaxy S6 please so that the changes take effect. Finished! Your Samsung Galaxy S6 should display the keyboard in all the major apps again.

If you want to make on your Android phone a video of your displayed content, then you must use a so-called Screen Recorder. Unfortunately in Android only the function of a screenchot, so a single image of the display content, is included.
To be able to create screen videos, you need to download the following application from the Google Play Store: AZ Screen Recorder - No Root

With this app you can easily record what is shown on your phone screen. Very useful is this feature to document, for example a video game incl. your new high score.

You know now, how to record on an Android smartphone the screen as a video.

Sometimes it may be necessary to readout the CPU temperature of the Samsung Galaxy S6. This is for example the case, when your Samsung Galaxy S6 is too hot to use for the function of the quick-charging. To know exactly how hot the processor of the Samsung Galaxy S6 is, you can download and installthe following app from the Google Play Store: CPU Z

With this app, it is possible to readout the temperature of the processor. Have you installed the app on your Samsung Galaxy S6, open it please. So you see several tabs, all of which are filled with information on your Samsung Galaxy S6 CPU. In order to read the CPU temperature of the Samsung Galaxy S6, change on the tab "thermal".

Here you can now read at "Exynos-Therm" your CPU temperature. In normal operation, this should thus have approximately around 40 °C or 104° F.

You know now how to identify and readout the CPU temperature on the Samsung Galaxy S6.

Your Samsung Galaxy S6 has the unique function of "fast charging" so that it is possible to charge the battery in a very short time. If your hanging your smartphone to the charger and this will load quickly through Rapid Charging, then you realize that on an information in the status bar: "Quick-charging"
If this is not the case and your Samsung Galaxy S6 will not load quickly, then this can have the following backgrounds:

1.The Samsung Galaxy S6 is not charged with the supplied charger

Only the original Samsung charger provides the fast charging of the Samsung Galaxy S6. If you use an older charger, then this cannot build the necessary charging current to enable fast charging.

2. The CPU or the surroundings of your Samsung Galaxy S6 is too hot

Because heat is generated by the rapid charging of the Samsung Galaxy S6 and this may result in connection with a hot CPU or ambient air to technical damage, fast charging is automatically disabled, depending on the situation. Remedy here: switching off the device, move it to a cool place.

If you havementioned the two reasons above corrected them, then your Samsung Galaxy S6 should be quickly loaded without problems. So that your battery is fully charged and in no time ready for use.

Sometimes it may be necessary that the display of the Samsung Galaxy S6 remains permanently lit. If you find yourself in such a situation, then there is no possibility to disable the screen timeout without root privileges. Only one Android function can maybe help you: "stay awake"

With "Stay awake" the Samsung Galaxy S 6 is not set to the stand-by mode. Prerequisite here is that the Samsung Galaxy S6 have to be connected to a charging cable. If this option is useful for you, then we show you now how this can be enabled in Android. For this please proceed as follows:

Open from the Homescreen of the Samsung Galaxy S6 the menu and then the Android settings. Scroll down here to "Device Information" and tap on the entry.So you see various information on the screen. An entry which reads "build number" is visible if you scroll a little bit down.
In order to unlock the developer options you have to tap in rapid succession on the entry type "build number". After the seventh time tapping an information box on the screen will appear with:

“Developer options unlocked"

Now open the developer options on your Samsung Galaxy S6 within the settings. Enable the developer options and then scroll down until you see the entry "stay awake". Put a check in the check box to enable the feature on the Samsung Galaxy S6.

Then, when you connect your smartphone to the charging cable, the smartphone will no longer switch into the stand-by mode and therefore the display will remain permanently illuminated.