If you are online with your Samsung Galaxy S5 via Wi-Fi or mobile internet, then you usually have the assumption that e-mails etc. are automatically synchronized. Now it may be that your Gmail mailbox will not be updated and therefore does not inform you about new e-mail messages.

This is obviously unfavorable and therefore we show you here what setting must be enabled that e-mails of your Gmail account on the Samsung Galaxy S5 are synchronized.

Navigate from the Home screen on your Samsung Galaxy S5 to:

Menu --> Settings --> Accounts

Tap here now on "Google" and then at your own Gmail email address. There are now several settings displayed to sync your Google Account. Here you will also find the entry "Sync Gmail ". At the check box behind a hook must now be set to enable this setting.

Then your Samsung Galaxy S5 should synchronize your Gmail messages as usual and notify you when a new email is received.

You know now what setting you have to check if Gmail E-mails are not synchronized at your Samsung Galaxy S5.

After updating to Android Lollipop with your Samsung Galaxy S5 you may have noticed that instead of the 3x4 keyboard the normal QWERTY keyboard is enabled again. If so, however, you would prefer to re-use the 3x4 keypad Samsung, then we'll show you now how to re-enable it. This works very simple within the following Android submenu:

Navigate from the home screen of your Samsung Galaxy S5 to:

Menu --> Settings --> Language & input --> Samsung Keyboard

Typing here now on the top entry with "English". This opens a window in which the following options are available:

• QWERTY keyboard
• 3x4 keyboard

In order to use the 3x4 keyboard on the Samsung Galaxy S5, mark it. Finished!
From now on, if you want to write on your Samsung Galaxy S5 anything, the 3x4 keyboard is set as default.

Whenever you write a text with the Samsung keyboard on the Samsung Galaxy S5, then it stores these special words that you use quite often. These include names, Internet addresses, technical terms, own neologisms etc. Now it may be, however, that you want to delete those words that are stored by your keyboard on the Samsung Galaxy S5. If so, then we will tell you here how one has to proceed:

Open on your Samsung Galaxy S5 the menu and then the Android settings. Scroll down to the section "System" and then tap on "Language & input".

Tap in the next sub-menu on "Samsung Keyboard" --> "Predictive text".
Here you now have to scroll down until you see the following two entries:

• Clear Server data
• Clear personal data

Tap at the two entries consecutively and confirm the delete query with "OK". Then all your words, which the keyboard from Samsung on the Samsung Galaxy S5 learned and saved are now deleted.

You now know how to delete personal speech data of your writing style on the Samsung Galaxy S5, which were collected by the keyboard.

It can happen to you that the display of the Samsung Galaxy A5 does no longer stay dark while charging the battery, but will remain lit during the entire charging process. This is not a defect of the display or the charging socket, but a setting within the Android operating system:

So we will now show you how to disable the "stay awake" function on the Samsung Galaxy A5.
For this purpose, please navigate from the home screen in the following submenu:

Home Screen --> Menu --> Settings --> Developer Options

If you cannot find developer options on your Samsung Galaxy A5, then they must first be activated. Here it is explained how this works.

You are now in the developer options. Scroll down until you see the option:

“Stay awake – Screen will never sleep while charging”

Now remove the tick in the checkbox to turn this option off.

Finished! When you now connect the Samsung Galaxy A5 to the charger, the display will go out within the screen timeout.

If you have assigned your contacts to groups on your Samsung Galaxy S5 and want to send a text message to such a group, then this is very easy with the Android messaging app. This app allows to send a single text message to an entire group. Thus, several contacts with an SMS can be achieved. (Attention: For each contact one message is sent).

To send a message on the Samsung Galaxy S5 to a group proceed as follows:

Open the Android messaging app and tap in the summary at the bottom right on the pencil button to write a new SMS. In the bar with “Enter recipients” you see on the right a small standard profile picture. Tap on it and it will open a summary screen. Here you can select on the tab:

  -  Logs

  - Favorites

  - Contacts

  - Groups

Now switch to the tab "Groups" and then select the group to which the SMS should be sent. You can now select the individuals within a group to which the SMS is sent. You can also select all contacts to a group by setting a tick at the upper left checkbox. Up to 20 contacts maximum can be selected per group.

If you have made your selection, then tap at the top right on "Finish". Then you can write the text of the group SMS and send the message.

You now know how to send on the Samsung Galaxy S5, a group SMS.

If you plan to check in at the airport for your flight with your smartphone, then this of course, has many advantages. So you have to print no more boarding pass and if you are traveling with hand luggage only you do not have to visit the check-in counter anymore.

You only have to show the boarding pass on your smartphone at the security check and at the gate. For this, the smartphone must usually be held in front of a reader that reads the QR barcode on the display. The QR Code stands for your boarding card.

So that the reader at the airport can scan the QR code which is displayed on your smartphone screen properly a few preparations must be done on the smartphone:

What preparations these are, we would like to briefly explain in our check-list:

Checklist for your smartphone to check-in at the airport:

- Set the screen brightness to maximum brightness of your smartphone
- Deactivate "Rotate screen" function
- Set the screen timeout at least 2 minutes, 5 minutes or more.

These tips will help in any way that the reader will recognize your boarding pass at the airport on the smartphone. You can also save your boarding pass as a screenshot and then zoom closer to the QR code.

We hope you enjoy these tips which will avoid embarrassing moments at the airport.

The camera of the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 takes beautiful pictures, assuming it works correctly. Unfortunately, it can happen from time to time that the camera of the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 reports an error for no reason or have a black camera image. So it is of course no longer possible to take pictures with the camera. This can have several reasons: Firstly, it may be due to a software error of the camera app or a malfunction of the hardware module itself.

To find this out, we will now show you how to test and check the camera on the Samsung Galaxy Note 4.

Open on your Samsung Galaxy Note 4 the phone app and then switch on the "keypad". Type the following code with the keys, so you get into the secret service menu by Samsung: *#0*#
There will now open a summary screen with various categories in which you can perform tests on the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 hardware. These are controlled via the standard drivers, so you can find  out, if a hardware component is still functioning properly. In our case it is the camera module. Tap the tile  "Mega Cam".

• When you can see a camera image, the camera of the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 works perfectly and it will be a software error in the android camera app.
• However, if you see a black screen and no camera picture, the camera module on your Samsung Galaxy Note 4 is unfortunately defective

If your Samsung Galaxy Note 4 has a broken camera, contact the Samsung support so you can immediately induce the repair of your phone within the warranty period.

If you notice on your Samsung Galaxy S5 that it vibrates when you listen to music or watch a video, then the reason of this is the "Auto haptic” function". This feature is installed in Android to help people with hearing impairment to perceive music better by the vibrating phone. If you interfere with the vibration of the auto haptic feedback on your Samsung Galaxy S5 while listening to music or watching videos, then you can disable this in Android as follows:

Opens the first thing the main menu and then the Android settings.

From here tap on:  Accessibility --> Hearing

Scroll all the way down until you can see the entry "Auto haptic". Remove the tick in the checkbox to disable this function. From now on your Samsung Galaxy S5 will not vibrate when you are listening to music or watching videos.

When you open at the Samsung Galaxy S5 a particular document, URL or file, then you might be asked whether this element is to be opened by default with always the same app. If you have here, tapped on the button "Always", then this element will now always be opened on your Samsung Galaxy S5 with the same application.

Now, however, it may be that you want to make this default application setting reverse. If that's the case, then we would like to show you here how you can undo on the Samsung Galaxy S5 and Android Lollipop the default application for a specific element.

For this proceed as follows:

Menu --> Settings --> Section "Applications" --> Default Applications

You now see a list in which all the default values ​​that were set by you can be found. In order to remove an app that was set as the default from the list, tap once on the "Delete" button. Finished!
You now know how to undo the selection of a default Apps for items such as documents, web addresses or files.

The Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge is since a long time the first smartphone that stands out with an unusual design among the many offered smartphones. The main reason is that the edges of the display are rounded. Of course you can make screenshots of this display. The screenshot, also known by the name of screen printing or hardcopy saves the currently displayed screen image. With that function information can be stored very easily.

The following options are available to create a screenshot on your Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge:

1. Key combination to take a screenshot on the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge

For this purpose the following key combination must be used:

 - Power On/ Off button
 - Home button

This key combination must now be pressed and held for about 2 seconds on the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge. Subsequently, the screenshot is triggered and stored.

2. Screenshot on Samsung Galaxy S6 Edgewith “palm swipe to capture”

To take a screenshot on the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge by palm swipe, activate the option first as follows in Android:

Menu --> Settings -->motions and gestures -->Palm swipe to capture

Activate the option by the controller at the top right. You can take a screenshot with your Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge of the display now by wiping the edge of the hand over the screen.

3. Take a screenshot with the Assistant menu of the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge

Enable this menu first in the following sub-menu of Android on the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge:

Home Screen --> Menu --> Settings --> Accessibility --> Dexterity and Interaction --> Assistant menu

Now enable the assistant tool over the controls at the top right. There will a small gray square appear on the screen. If you tap on this now, various choices appear. One of them is called "screenshot". If you tap this field within the Assistant menu, then a screenshot on your Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge is taken by the currently displayed content on the screen. Finished!

You know now how to get in touch with the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge and different screenshot methods.