If you are using the Facebook app on your Samsung Galaxy S 5, then it can happen suddenly that all birthdays of your Facebook friends are displayed in the Calendar app S Planner. If you have several hundred friends on Facebook and the birthdays will all be displayed in the Calendar app, then this is sometimes annoying. We'll show you now, how you can remove birthdays that were synchronized via the Facebook app on the Samsung Galaxy S5. In addition we show you how to completely disable this automatic synchronization between the calendar and Facebook app.

To do this, please complete the following steps:

1. Disable the synchronisation of Birthdays via the Facebook app

Open on your Samsung Galaxy S5, the Facebook app and within the menu (icon with the three horizontal bars). Scroll down to the section "Help & Settings" and type there on "App Settings". In this submenu scroll down to the bottom and tap "sync contacts". Now mark the entry "Synchronize nothing". The tap on the top right button "Finish" to apply the setting for the Facebook app.

Facebook will now synchronize no more contacts in the calendar app splanner. This is important because otherwise if you delete the Facebook Birthdays, they will be synchronized again automatically.

2. Delete Facebook Birthdays from Android Calendar

Open the calendar app S Planner on your Samsung Galaxy S5 and type within this app on the top-right at the three-point symbol. Then type on "Calendars" and remove here at "Facebook" the hook in the checkbox.

You can now close the app again and restart your Samsung Galaxy S5. After the restart you will have no more birthdays from Facebook in the Calendar app  S Planner displayed.
You know now how to disable the synchronization of Facebook birthdays on the Samsung Galaxy S5.

It may occur the problem on your Samsung Galaxy S5 that the gallery app, which is regular installed in Android, crashes when you try to open it. Usually a error message is displayed with the following message:"The application has stopped unexpectedly." If the Gallery app also crashes on your Samsung Galaxy S5 and the error description reads the same as above, then we would like to explain you here in this guide on how to solve the problem. Please proceed as follows on the Samsung Galaxy S5:

At first, open from the homescreen of your Samsung Galaxy S5 the menu. From there, go to Settings  and then select the entry "Application Manager". It will now open a submenu in which you now have to switch to the tab "all", by wipe through the pages. Now look in the alphabetical list to find the entry "Gallery". When you found the entry, you have to tap it once to open the app  information of the gallery app.

In this information window you can now find various fields. Tap them in this order

1. Force stop
2. Clear Cache
3. Clear Data

If you pressed the buttons  in the order described above, please restart your Samsung Galaxy S5.  If the smartphone is restarted and Android has been loaded, then you should  be able to  open the gallery app on your Samsung Galaxy S5 normally. The app should no longer close suddenly and display error messages. So you can view images as usual on your Samsung Galaxy S5.

It may happen when you install an app from the Google Play store on your Android Smartphone, that the following error message appears:

"Unknown error code 24 during application install"

After the error message appears, the app was not installed and if you retry to install the app on your smartphone the error message will appear again and the download will not start.

What can you do now that the app will be downloaded anyway? We show you now, how you eliminate the error message and how to re-download  and install apps without any problems.

To do this go from the homescreen of your Android smartphone, eg the Samsung Galaxy S5 to the menu and from there into the settings of the system. In the settings, go to "Application Manager" and then on the tab  "All". You will find it to the far right.  Now you will see all the applications and apps in alphabetical order, that are installed on your Android smartphone.

Search for Google Play Store and if you found the entry tap on it to open the app informations. If the app information is open do the following: Press the Buttons in the following order:

Force stop -> Uninstall updates -> Clear data.

Now leave the settings of your Android smartphones and reboot your phone. After your Android smartphone is rebooted open  the Google Play Store as usual and navigate to the app you want to download. Now there shouldnt be no more errors with "Unknown error code 24 during application install" and the apps will be downloaded properly.

The Google Play Store will re-install after a short time the latest version automatically, but actually no more problems shouldnt bepresent. If, despite the unknown error 24 appears again, you have to repeat the process above.

If you have bought the Samsung Galaxy S5 Mini, then in circumstances you notice that not all camera modes, which you might know from other Samsung smartphones are available. The photosphere option, regular known to the most users, is missing. Samsung has "optimized" the camera firmware so that owners now can download the ones they like most.
We tell you now how you can download new camera modes on the Samsung Galaxy S5 Mini into the camera app.

To do this, open the camera app first and then tap at the bottom on the left icon called "mode", which is located left of the trigger.

All available camera modes of the camera firmware will be displayed. Scroll all the way down until you can see "Download" in the modes. Tap on the entry. Now it will open the "Galaxy Apps" where you can now download the following camera modes in addition to your Samsung Galaxy S5 Mini:

• Surround Shot (photosphere)
• Animated Photo
• Sports shot
• Sound & Shot
• Sequence Shot

This can enhance your Samsung Galaxy S5 Mini camera and you can now use the already known modes from your old smartphone.

If you are not sure whether the touchscreen of your Samsung Galaxy S5 is working properly, then you can check this quickly and comfortably with this method. Samsung has introduced for such cases, a so called service or test menu. With this service menu the touchscreen function can be tested very easy. Defects can be identified very quickly. We tell you now how you can find and start the touchscreen test on the Samsung Galaxy S.
Please proceed as follows:

Open the phone app and navigate within this on the keypad. Now enter the following code:

*#0*#

Then you entered the code you will see a screen with a lot of tiles. Every tile represents a test.

Now tap the tile with the inscription "Touch". It will now open a screen on which you can test every possible location of the touch screen of your Samsung Galaxy S5 for functionality. Swipe with your finger at the edges and on the two diagonales to finish the test.

We hope that the touch screen test is positive on your Samsung Galaxy S5 and everything works as desired.

JavaScript is used by many applications on the Internet to display content. The Android browser on your Samsung Galaxy S5 reads the source code of Javascript and then displays it on the visited website . You may prefer to disable Javascript on your Samsung Galaxy S5 under the Android Browser. If so we show you in this post how to disable Javascript in the Android browser on the Samsung Galaxy S5 .

Proceed as follows:

Open the Android Browser on the Samsung Galaxy S5 and then tap on the top right at the three-point symbol. Then select Settings -> content settings. In this sub-menu of the Android browser you will see an "Javascript" option. Remove  the hook in the box behind to disable the function and thus prohibit the execution of Javascript on your Samsung Galaxy S5.

If you now surf the internet with the Android browser on the Samsung Galaxy S5 no more javascript is executed. You have now learned how to disable Javascript within the Android browser.

You may have the "Easy Mode" enabled on your Samsung Galaxy S5, which causes very large icons on the home screen and menu. The symbols are then displayed in only three columns and they only show the most necessary functions and settings.

The Easy Mode is a graphical interface of Touchwiz and shall help users to find their way with Android. Especially for newcomers to the Android world, this feature is very useful. We want you to show how you can shrink the huge symbols of the Easy Mode back to default size and activate the normal mode.

Scrolls on the Homescreen to the next page and tap here on the buttons:

"Simple Mode" -> More Settings -> section "Personalization" -> Simple Mode

Set here the highlight to "standard mode" to return to the usual Touchwiz on the Samsung Galaxy S5. Ready! You know now how to disable the large symbols of the easy mode on the Samsung Galaxy S5 and return to the standard Touchwiz.

If you use the Android browser on your Samsung Galaxy S5 to surf the Internet, then you might also want to know which websites you have visited today, yesterday or the last seven days. For this purpose, the Android browser has a so-called history in which all visited web pages are saved and listed. If you would like to show the browser history within the Android browser, then you can find it as follows:

On your Samsung Galaxy S5 open the Android browser and then tap at the bottom of the screen on the right button for "Favorites". In the menu for the favorites, you can now see, right at the start, a folder icon with "History". Tap on this folder and a list of all the web pages that you have visited within the last seven days will appear.
If you tap on the small arrow next to "Today", the following  areas appear:

• Browser history Yesterday
• Browser history Last seven days

You now know how you can display the browser history with a list of all visited websites on your Samsung Galaxy S5 within the Android browser.

The Samsung Galaxy S5 has the hardware LTE on board, which promises lightning-quick Internet and which is activated from the beginning. Now it may be that you wont use the LTE network with the Samsung Galaxy S5. For example the connection quality in your environment is poor with LTE or for other reasons. Whatever the case is in this paper we want to tell you how to turn off the LTE on your Samsung Galaxy S5 permanently.

For this you must navigate from the home screen of the Samsung Galaxy S5 to the following submenu:

Menu -> Settings -> Section "Network Connections" -> More Settings -> Mobile networks -> Network mode

You will now see a small window which appears in the center of the display and in which you can select the wireless networks your Samsung Galaxy S5 should be connected to. By default "LTE / WCDMA / GSM" is enabled. To change this setting and to disable LTE mark "WCDMA / GSM" to be connected in HSDPA and UMTS network.

LTE is now disabled on your Samsung Galaxy S5 and thus can not also be used. You now know how to disable LTE in Android on your Samsung Galaxy S5.

If you have a Smartwatch with Android Wear, then you receive notifications at your watch from your smartphone indicated by a vibrating alarm.The vibration can be annoying if you get a lot of notifications within a day, for example SMS, E-Mails, WhatsApp Messages. Everytime a notification appears on your Smartphone it wil send it to your smartwatch and a vibration at your wrist happens.

Luckily, there is a possibility in Android Wear to disable the smartwatch notification for selected apps. We now explain you how an app can be deselected for notifications to your SmartWatch in Android Wear.

Open on your smartphone the app "Android Wear", with which you can connect your smartphone with the SmartWatch. When you are connected to the clock open the settings within the app. Among them there is the possibility of using "Mute Apps" to disable the notifications by vibration of the SmartWatch on the wrist for certain apps.

A list will appear with all the apps that can send notifications to the SmartWatch. You can now deselect them, so they wont send any notifications to the SmartWatch.

You will then no longer be alerted by a vibration on the wrist each time a new app notification is received by your smartwatch.