If you are using on the Samsung Galaxy S6, the Gmail app to retrieve your e-mails from the Internet, then you certainly also use the function of push notifications. Push notification means that your Samsung Galaxy S6 automatically checks in a time interval if you received a new email. If so, you will receive a so-called Gmail push notification.

Now it may be that you suddenly get on your Samsung Galaxy S6 no such push notification or more only if you open the app Gmail manually. If so, then we want to explain in more detail what the cause may be. Check the following tip on your Samsung Galaxy S6:

1. Keep WiFi on during sleep - Enabled?

Start by checking whether the following option is set to active on your Samsung Galaxy S6. To do this navigate in Android to: Menu --> Settings --> Wi-Fi. Tap at the top right on the "More" icon and select in the menu that opens the option "Keep WiFi on during sleep ". Make sure it is set to "Always".

2. Gmail account is synchronized?

To check this, please open on your Samsung Galaxy S6:

Menu --> Settings --> Section "Personal" --> Accounts.

Tap here on "Google" and then click your e-mail account, which does not receive push notifications. You now see a list of options which are synchronized. Here at the option “Gmail” a hook must also be set in the checkbox.

If you have checked the two points above and it still does not work, then use step 3.

3. Remove Google account and re-add

Open from the home screen of the Samsung Galaxy S6 the menu and then the Android settings. Scroll down and tap on "Accounts". You can now see all the accounts that are created on your Samsung Galaxy S6. One of them is the Google account. Tap on this and you navigate deeper in a submenu. Now tap once on your e-mail address, and then in the next submenu on the top "More" icon to the right.

A small pop-up opens, in which now „Remove account“ can be selected. Confirm the deletion of the account by clicking OK. Finish!

Then replace the Google account again on your Samsung Galaxy S6. To do this go to Settings --> Accounts and then "Add Account". Now select "Google Account”. It now opens the wizard to add the Google account. Enter your e-mail address from Gmail and then continue. Your Google account is then added automatically.

Then you should again receive push notifications through the Gmail app on your Samsung Galaxy S6, if you are connected to the Internet.

On the Samsung Galaxy S6, the new feature "Smart Lock" is available through Android Lollipop with which the smartphone does not have to be unlocked by pin, pattern or fingerprint under certain conditions. Such a condition may be, for example:

• Trusted Locations
• Trusted Devices
• On-Body detection

If you would like to make use of Smart Lock on your Samsung Galaxy S6, you can enable the option in Android as follows.

To do this, open from the home screen, the following submenu:

Menu --> Settings --> Lock screen and security --> Secure Lock settings --> Smart Lock

You can now see the menu the item "Smart Lock" . Tap on the entry and you can now select in which situation the Samsung Galaxy S6 does not have to be unlocked.

Our recommendation:

• Trusted Devices - When you connect your phone to the Bluetooth handsfree of your car
• On Body detection - Practical, because you do not have to unlock the Samsung Galaxy S6 while your are walking.

You know now how you can find on the Samsung Galaxy S6 with Android the "Smart Lock" option and how to activate it.

It can happen to your Samsung Galaxy S5 that when opening the messenger WhatsApp the following error message appears on the display:

“The application whatsapp has stopped unexpectedly”

The error message causes that WhatsApp cannot be opened and used. This is of course undesirable because one would like to write and respond to messages. So we want to show you how to fix the error with WhatsApp on the Samsung Galaxy S5.

Open from the Home screen the menu and then the settings. Scroll down to the section "Applications". Here you can see the button with "Application Manager". Tap on the button and you see now different listings. One tab is called "Installed Applications". This list shows all the apps that are installed on your smartphone. Search in the list for WhatsApp. Have you found the entry, tap on it to display the app information.
In the info you can see different buttons. Tap now in the following order on them:

1. Stop Force
2. Clear data
3. Clear cache

Subsequently reboot the Samsung Galaxy S5 so that the changes take effect. Finish!

If you now open WhatsApp on your Samsung Galaxy S5, this should be used without a crash.

If you send a text message with your Samsung Galaxy S5, it may happen that this remains stuck in the Outbox and is not sent. Usually this problem can be fixed with one of the following approaches:

First: Restart your Samsung Galaxy S5 to ensure that all errors are excluded, which are caused by a SystemApp that does not work correctly. In general, the SMS sending works then again as usual.

Second: Verify with your Samsung Galaxy S5 that the correct number is entered in the message center. To check this, please proceed as follows on your Samsung Galaxy S5:

Open from the home screen:

Menu --> Settings --> Section "Applications" --> messages --> text messages

In this menu you can now see the message center. Tap the entry and check whether the number for your provider is correct:

Message center numbers for United Kingdom carrier

T-Mobile: +447958879879

Tesco Mobile: +447802092035

Orange: +447973100973

Vodafone: +447785016005

Message center numbers for USA carrier

Sprint: +17044100000

Verizon: +316540951000

AT&T: +13123149810

T-Mobile: +12063130004

If there is now number defined, then enter the number for the message center as above listed. You should then be able to send text messages with your Samsung Galaxy S5.

If you have the fitness app "Google Fit" installed on your Android phone, you will hear every time a new notification is displayed a notification sound. This notification sound from Google Fit maybe bothers you with time, but we will tell you here now in more detail how you can disable it. Please proceed as follows:

Open the app Google Fit on your Android phone.

If you are in the index, then tap in the top right corner on the three-point symbol. In the pop-up menu, tap "Settings". Scroll all the way down. Now you see the section "Notifications". Disable the "Notification Sounds" by the controller.

From now on you will hear no sound notifications by Google fit on your Android phone.

If you want to connect your Samsung Galaxy S6 to the computer via USB cable, it may happen that the smartphone is not recognized as a media device but only as a camera. So files can not be copied or moved. Only the camera can be accessed. Is that also the case with your Samsung Galaxy S6, please proceed as follows to obtain a USB connection with which you can access the file system:

This requires that the USB debugging on the Samsung Galaxy S6 are activated. This option can be found in the developer options.

As the developer options in Android are not visible at the beginning and have to be activated, we want to show you here how this works on the Samsung Galaxy S6:

With the Developers options you can change on your Samsung Galaxy S6 various options to improve or to optimize the performance of the device. To activate them, open on the Samsung Galaxy S6 the following submenu:

From the home screen navigate to Menu --> Settings --> Device Information

You will find here the entry "Build Number". Now tap several times in quick succession on this entry to enable the developer mode.

After about seven times touching the entry "build number" a message box with "developer mode enabled" will be display at the bottom of the screen.

This developer options can now be used via Menu --> Settings. They are located directly to the left of the "device information". Have you opened it you can see the "USB debugging" option.

Sets a tick in the checkbox to enable this feature on your Samsung Galaxy S6. This mode starts automatically once if your smartphone is connected to the computer via USB cable and is responsible for ensuring that the Samsung Galaxy S6 is recognized as a media device.

You can now access the internal memory of the Galaxy S6 via USB cable and your computer to copy and paste music, videos, photos etc.

You know now how to turn on the USB debugging on your Samsung Galaxy S6.

Whenever the Samsung Galaxy S6 goes into stand-by and you wake the phone up again, you will see the lock screen. The lock screen is usually protected by a security method, such as a pin, a pattern or a fingerprint. On the lock screen a background image is displayed. This picture on the lock screen, you can change individually. How this works on the Samsung Galaxy S6 we would like to explain to you in more detail here.

Open on your Samsung Galaxy S6 the menu and then the settings. In the settings you can now find the button "Wallpaper". Tap on this button and you can then select in a bar, for what the background image is to be established. Select here "lock screen" . You can now choose from various images of Samsung or use a picture from the gallery.

Have you taken and adapted your choice, then you can set the picture for lock screen using the "Save" button.

You have now successfully set a wallpaper for the lock screen on the Samsung Galaxy S6.

Anyone who has purchased the Bluetooth headset from Jabra for his Samsung Galaxy S5 may encounter the problem that the Samsung Galaxy S5 does not recognize this headset in the search for Bluetooth devices in the area.

Following workaround can solve that problem with your Samsung Galaxy S5 and the Jabra headset.

Turn your Samsung Galaxy S5 completely off and wait about three minutes. Then start the Smartphone again.

Proceeds from the home screen to menu and choose settings --> Bluetooth. Enable this connection, if not already done. Start the search for a new Bluetooth device in your area.

Now press on your Jabra Bluetooth headset the multifunction button and keep it pressed. Pressing the multifunction button usually opens the audio menu of the Jabra headsets, but at the same time when the menu was launched your Samsung Galaxy S5 finds the device via Bluetooth.

This simple tip usually works and we hope that the solution works for you as well.

In Android Lollipop on the Samsung Galaxy S4 there is no ultra-energy-saving mode, but you can adjust with a little trick that the screen is only displayed in monochrome colors. Monochrome means that all colors are in shades of gray or black and white. As a result, more energy is saved because the screen no longer needs to display colors. We show you now in this article how you can set the display to monochrome on the Samsung Galaxy S4.

Open from the home screen the menu and then the settings. Now here you have to tap on the tab "Options". Then scroll down a bit until you get the developer options displayed. If this is not the case, then you must activate it first. This works as follows:

Enable developer options in Android lollipop on the Samsung Galaxy S4

Tap "Device Information". There you will find the entry "build number".

In order to unlock the developer options on the Samsung Galaxy S4, you need to tap in quick succession on the "Build Number" entry. After seven times tapping, the developer options are activated, which can be accessed in the Settings -->"Options" tab.

Switch display of the Samsung Galaxy S4 to monochrome colors
 
Open now the developer options. Scroll down to the section "Hardware-accelerated rendering". In this section you can now find "simulate color space". Tap on this option and you can now select in a new window which colors are to be simulated. Select here:

• Monochromacy

The display of your Samsung Galaxy S4 shows now only the colors black and white. This, in conjunction with the "normal" energy saving mode of the Samsung Galaxy S4 saves significantly more battery power.

You know now how to enable the monochrome display colors of the Samsung Galaxy S4.

There are different styling packages for the BMW F30. One of these is the M package which takes styling cues of the BMW M3. This includes in particular the front and rear aprons and the side skirts.

Now you may have the question:

Does the BMW F30 M package is just like the BMW M3 F30 optic?

We want to answers this question here with some comparison-pictures. In comparison, we have the BMW 328i with M package and the BMW M3. Both cars are next to each other, so that a comparison is possible.

 
Left: BMW M3 Ricght: BMW 328i with M package 

BMW 328i M-Package Side View

 
Left: BMW 328i with M package, Right: BMW M3

BMW M3 F30

The pictures show very well what differences exist between the BMW M3 and the BMW 328i with the M package. The BMW M3 looks a bit more aggressive, but also the BMW 328i makes a very good figure.