It may be that your LG G Watch is in a so-called Demo mode. In this mode, an overview of the operating system Android Wear is mediated to the user by providing information and functions presented in a loop. In order to use the LG G Watch you must disable the demo mode. Therefore a few steps are required, which we would like to explain step by step in this guide.

At first you'll need a sharp object such as a paper clip or a toothpick. With this you can now press a small reset button on the back of the LG G Watch, which is located above the pins to charge the battery. The reset button must now be pressed for about two seconds and then released.

On your LG G Watch a blue button will now appear on the display with which the SmartWatch can be turned off. Do not press the button, but wipe on the next pages to navigate to the settings. Here you will now find a menu item with "Reset". Tap on this and your clock will stop the demo mode. After a reboot the LG G Watch can be used without the Demo Mode.

The Google Play Store is one of the best app markets that exist for Android smartphones. No wonder, this market is already pre-installed on any smart phone with Android OS. Now it may be that the following error appears on the screen of your smartphone while you download an app via the Google Play Store:

"Error: Could not be downloaded due to an error (497)"

The number in parentheses indicates error code, in this case the 497. Unfortunately it is not precisely specified, what this error code means. However, we can help you with this error and by applying the following trick on your Android smartphone:

For this trick you have to navigate with your smatphone from the home screen into this submenu:

Menu -> Settings -> Application Manager

Change here to the tab "All" and then search for "Google Play store". When you found the entry, tap on it to view the information about the app. Now, type on the buttons in the following sequence:

     - Clear the cache
     - Delete data
     - Uninstall updates

Then switch off your smartphone and restart it again. If you now open the Google Play Store, the error 497 should no longer appear when you download an app. 

If you own a Samsung Galaxy S5, Galaxy S4 or Galaxy Note 3, then you have the app S-Health automatically installed, which allows you to monitor and train your fitness. A function that is integrated into S-Health on the Samsung Galaxy smartphones, is the so-called pedometer. This pedometer uses a sensor of the smartphone, which detects vibrations. Based on the sequence of shocks the app recognise a walk and then declared these as steps. The pedometer is thus one of the most important and interessting features that are available in S-Health.

Now it may be that S-Health on your Samsung Galaxy smartphone does not count steps anymore. If so, we would like to show you a way how to get the pedometer working again.

For this you have to navigate to the system Settings of Android and open here the application manager. Change within the manager on the tab "All", then search for the app S-Health. When you found it tap on it to show the app information.

Next, tap on the button "Force Stop" and then "Uninstall Updates". This will reset the app S-Health to factory condition, but without deleting data that is saved in the app. (It is always worth to do a backup of your data). After the updates of S-Health are uninstalled, open S-Health as usual. The new update is now reloaded, and then S-Health should again count  the steps that you went with your Samsung Galaxy Smartphone.

If you notice that the autofocus of the iPhone camera does no longer focus, then this is not a defective camera hardware but a setting that is called "AE / AF lock". This message will appear to you on your iPhone in yellow at the top of the screen and means that the autofocus has been disabled.

To reverse this setting again, you must proceed as follows on your iPhone:

Type anywhere on the screen to turn off the Autofocus lock.

The autofocus lock on the iPhone was enabled as follows:

If you tap on the display long, the focus selection begins to pulsate two times  and then the autofocus is locked on your iPhone camera

You know now why the autofocus of your iPhone's has stopped working properly and how to disable or enable the auto-lock for the autofocus.

A really very practical gesture at the Samsung Galaxy S5 is the silent mode by turning the device when you receive a call. Unfortunately, the "Turn Over" function to mute the Samsung Galaxy S5 is not activated at the factory. So at first you have to enable this function in the settings if you want to use it.

This works as follows:

Open the menu on your Samsung Galaxy S5 and then tap on:

Settings -> Motions and gestures --> Mute/ pause

You will now find a checkbox with "Turning the device over". Set a mark in the checkbox to activate the function. In addition, ensure that the slider in this sub-menu in the top right corner is switched to "active". When this option is enabled you can mute the ringtone from an incoming call, at the Samsung Galaxy S5, by turning the device over.

When you select Samsung Kies to create a backup of your Samsung Galaxy S5 Galaxy Note 3, etc. on the computer then you possibly ask the question where the backup is stored. We want to show you in this article, where you can find the backup which was made by Samsung Kies on the PC.

The location of the backup is not, as one might think in the install folder of Samsung Kies, but in the folder “My files”. More specifically, under the following directory:

My documents (your name) -> My Documents -> Samsung -> Kies3 -> backup -> your smartphone model number

An  example of a directory-path for a backup created with the Samsung Galaxy S5:

C: \ Users \ ** YourName ** \ Documents \ samsung \ Kies3 \ backup \ SM-G900F \ SM-G900F_ \ SM-G900F

It is important to know that the call logs and contacts are stored in a separate file within the backup.

     For contacts the file is named: Contacts.spb
     For the call log: Calllog.scl

You know now where you can find the backup of your smartphone that was created with Samsung Kies.

Everyone has experienced this before. you see a situation that you would like to record on video with the Samsung Galaxy S5. Unfortunately you hold your smartphone vertical, so the video is recorded in vertical mode. The result is that the video can not be viewed in landscape mode on the smartphone.
The solution is to rotate the video. The rotating or aligning a recorded video is fortunately possible with board funds on the Samsung Galaxy S5. The steps for rotating a video are as follows:

Open the Gallery app on the Samsung Galaxy S5 and then open the folder or album where the video is stored. Within that folder tap on the three-point symbol in the top right corner. Then select "studio"  in the menu. If the overview page of the studio is opened, select "Video Trimmer". Now you can select a video and then enter into the edit mode.

Here you will find a button with "Align". Tap on this and the video is rotated 90 ° every time you tap on this button. Once you have found the correct orientation, tap on "Ok" to save the new orientation of the video on the Samsung Galaxy S5.

You now know how to re-align a vertically taken video on the Samsung Galaxy S 5 a video with the Studio app, so it can be viewed in landscape mode.

If you have performed a firmware update on the Samsung Galaxy S5, then you might have noticed that the image quality of the main camera is not as good as usual. Surely you are now wondering whether the firmware update has harmed the image quality of the camera. We can, however, reassure, a firmware update is not the reason of the poorer image quality:

After a newly installed firmware on the Samsung Galaxy S5, the setting for the resolution is automatically set to eight megapixels within the camera firmware. We do not know what the reason of this change is, but usually you notice it too late, which means that you have shot a lot of pictures in the eight-megapixel resolution.Therefore always check immediately aftera new firmware update is installed on your Samsung Galaxy S5 whether the resolution setting for photos has been changed.

You can check the setting of the resolution within the camera app. Open the camera app on the Samsung Galaxy S5 and then tap at the gear icon. Next step: Tap the tile with "Image Size" and select 16 megapixels to shoot pictures with the best resolution of your Samsung Galaxy S5 camera.

Sometimes it can be useful to take pictures and videos without having to hear the camera or shutter sound. As soon as you press the shutter button on the Samsung Galaxy S5 you will hear a sound. The purpose of this sound ist that we and our friends are informed that the photo was taken. In a quiet environment, such as a piano concert or something like this it is disadvantageous when you hear this camera sound when taking pictures with the Samsung Galaxy S5. That's why we want you to give a hint on how to disable the camera sound or shutter sound for photos taken by the Samsung Galaxy S5.

At First: Unfortunately there is no option in the camera app of the Samsung Galaxy S5 to disable the shutter sound. Therefore you have to use the following trick.
When you press the shutter button of the camera and you want it silent, you have to switch to the vibration or silent mode. The fastes way to switch between these modes is the status bar. Pull down the bar and then tap on the speaker icon.

Have you activated one of the two modes as described above you will from now on no longer hear a camera sound when taking photos with the Samsung Galaxy S5 .

You can use the Home Button of your Samsung Galaxy S5 for answering incoming calls. This is much more comfortable than to accept calls via the display slider, where you have to wipe the green phone with your finger. However, you only have to activate the option "Pressing the Home Key"" in the settings. We show you now where you can enable this option in the system settings of the Samsung Galaxy S5:

Open the phone app on your Samsung Galaxy S5. If it is open, type in the top right at the three vertically arranged dots to unfold a small menu. Select "Settings". Navigate now to:

Call -->Answering and ending calls

In this submenu, you will now find a setting called "Pressing the Home Key." Select here "Press the Home key". By posting a hook in the corresponding check-box the option will be activated. That's it. Now, if you receive a incoming call on the Samsung Galaxy S5, you'll just have to press the home button and the call is answered.