It may happen to you that the Samsung Galaxy S8 suddenly no longer finds satellites when using the GPS. This means that, for example, your exact position can no longer be determined in Google Maps. The solution is relatively simple.

The reason for this is faulty A-GPS data. These must be brought up to date. How this works, we explain in the following article:

A-GPS data on the Samsung Galaxy S8

1. Download the free app "GPS Test" from the Google Play Store.

2. If you have installed GPS Test, please open it and switch the GPS of your Samsung Galaxy S8 to "on" if you have not already done so.

3. In the GPS Test app, open the menu by tapping the three points in the upper right corner. Select "AGPS". You will now see the settings for the app.

4. There are three buttons:

• Clear and Update AGPS
• Clear only
• Update only

5. We recommend you to select "Clear and Update"

This should now bring the AGPS data of your Samsung Galaxy S8 back up to date and thus bring the GPS back to work. The best thing is to restart your smartphone once you have updated the AGPS data and then go outside. This gives you the fastest GPS fix.

You now know how to proceed when the GPS of the Samsung Galaxy S8 is no longer able to position you correctly, or if you cannot find satellites anymore.

If you have a Samsung Galaxy smartphone with the quick charge battery support and have recently installed the new Android Nougat operating system, then you might wonder where this function suddenly disappeared.

In fact, it has become more complicated under Android Nougat to activate the quick load.

But follow the instructions to describe the location of the option:

Activate fast charging within Android Nougat on a Samsung Galaxy smartphone:

1. Open the Android settings
2. Scroll down to "Device Maintenance" and select the entry
3. Tap "Battery" and then click the three-point icon in the upper right corner. In the menu, tap "Advanced Settings"
4. Under the "Charge" section, you can now activate "Quick charge via cable"

This will charge your Samsung Galaxy Smartphone quickly via the charger and your battery will be soon again ready for use.

If you set up the Amazon Echo Dot by using your smartphone, the app may stop responding and stop the setup process at the end of the setup. Here you should not despair. This is due to the Alexa app, which really does not work very well.

Therefore we would like to give you the following tip if you have problems with the registration of your Amazon Echo Dot in the W-Lan home network.

Do not use the Amazon Alexa app on the smartphone but your PC or your laptop.

Amazon Echo Dot with the PC set up

1. Open an Internet browser and the following address:

• https://alexa.amazon.de/spa/index.html

2. Select "Settings" and then "Set up a new device"
3. After you have selected the menu item, an assistant will be started, which will lead you through the setup process from now on. This is almost identical to that of the Alexa app, with the difference that the setup can be completed without problems.

You should then be able to use your Amazon Echo Dot. Have fun with it!

If you have installed a game app on the Samsung Galaxy S8, you might have played the game after some time. But the game has been so much fun that you might ask the question: How can I delete my score and start the game again? We would like to answer this question:

 To do this, first open the following submenu of the Android operating system on your smartphone:

Homescreen --> Settings --> Apps

Now search for the app where you would like to delete the game. If you found the app in the list, tap it to display its app information.

In this, select "Storage". You will now see a button with "Delete data". Select it. This deletes the game stats in the app. If you open the app now, you will be able to start the game from the beginning.

We hope you enjoy the game again on the Samsung Galaxy S8 ;-)

If you open a PDF file on the Samsung Galaxy S8, you may not be able to open Acrobat Reader or any other application suitable for PDF's, but the Dropbox. If this is the case, then the dropbox is the default application for PDF files.

But no problem, our article shows you how you can undo this. Please proceed as follows:

1. First open the settings and then "Apps"

2. Search for "Dropbox" in the list and select the entry to display the app info

3. In this info, scroll down to "Set as default"

4. Select the "Delete default values" button

Next, please open a PDF file on your Samsung Galaxy S8. You are now offered with which app the file should be displayed. Now select the required app, for example Acrobat Reader.

You now know how to delete the default values ​​of an app on the Samsung Galaxy S8.

If you are considering buying a Samsung Galaxy A3 (2017), you might also want to know if this model has a so-called Notification LED installed. This is a LED light on the front of the smartphone, mostly to the left of the earpiece. Via such an LED the user can be informed about different new notifications.

The answer to the question of whether the Samsung Galaxy A3 (2017) has such an LED is unfortunately "No".

Instead Samsung has integrated an Always On Display to the Samsung Galaxy A3 (2017). New notifications are also displayed to the user. The only drawback here is that the Always On Display needs more battery power than it is the case with a simple LED light.

You now know that the Samsung Galaxy A3 (2017) has no notification LED.

If you want to restart the iPhone 7 quickly and easily because there are problems with an app or the operating system and the smartphone no longer reacts, then you have to proceed as follows:

Press and hold the following buttons simultaneously for at least 10 seconds:

• Power On / Off
• Volume down key

After 10 seconds, the iPhone 7 will restart immediately and then reload iOS. The smartphone should then work as usual and there will be no problems with a black screen, no reaction or hot surfaces of the device.

You now know the procedure to restart the iPhone 7 quickly and especially uncomplicated, if nothing else works.

If you receive a call on the iPhone 7 or make a phone call, then the audio output may not sound via the loudspeaker in the earpiece, but via the main loudspeaker. This means that each call is set to "Hands free".

If you do not want to, then you just have to deactivate the following setting on your iPhone 7: "Call Audio Output"

Where you can find this setting under iOs exactly, the following article will explain to you:

To do this, open the following submenu on the iPhone 7:

• Settings --> General --> Accessibility --> Interaction --> Calling Audio Output

Here you can see three different options that can be activated:

• Automatically
• Headphone
• Speaker

Ses the "Speaker" setting to "Automatic". Finished!

If you now make a call on the iPhone 7, the speaker will not be activated automatically for hands-free calling.

On the Samsung Galaxy S8, you may receive the following error message when you try to download a firmware update manually: "Download failed - software could not be updated, network or server error occurred, try again later."

If you receive this error message, please check the following:

1. Test if your Internet connection is working properly.

2. Charge your Samsung Galaxy S8 - If the load is below 25% it can be that a manual update cannot be performed

3. Restart your smartphone and run the firmware update again

If these simple tips first helped nothing, then we recommend you to connect the Samsung Galaxy S8 with the PC and the software "Smart Switch". A firmware update can also be carried out here (if available). This method is usually better if the OTA update on the Samsung Galaxy S8 does not work.

If this also does not help, then you have to wait a little, because then very probably a mistake with the Samsung server, on which the new firmware is located, is not accessible or overloaded.

Which tip helped you? Tell us in the comments below.

Sometimes you get with your Huawei P10 in an area, which is only poorly furnished by mobile radio antennas and therefore the reception quality in part rapidly suffers. Just then you can usually make a better connection by activating the GSM mode. The GSM network is the best developed network so far.

By switching to the GSM network, the performance is often better than a weak UMTS or LTE network. Often, however, the Huawei P10 nevertheless remains in these networks, which can then lead to bad connection quality in general (Internet / telephone).

To manually enable the GSM mode on the Huawei P10, follow these steps within the Android operating system:

1. From the Smartphone start screen, open the settings
2. Tap “More”, then click Mobile Networks.
3. Select "Preferred Networks" and the following options will appear:

• LTE / 3G / 2G (automatically connect)
• 3G / 2G (automatically connect)
• Only 3G
• Only 2G

4. Select "2G only". Finished!

From now on you are permanently in the GSM network. The connection speed of the mobile Internet is thereby less, the voice quality with a telephone call however should now be a lot better. You now know the procedure to change the network mode on the Huawei P10.