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Android Nexus 5 Solutions

How to Enable Notification Light on Nexus 5

Nexus 5 comes with a beautiful multi color notification light. This can be used to notify events when the screen is off.  This feature is disabled by default and can be enabled from here:

  • Goto Settings -> Display
  • Check the tickbox option next to “Pulse Notification Light”

You might need to configure the color of the light, frequency and other options in the specific application’s settings(like Whatsapp and Gmail), for which you want the notifications.

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Android Solutions

How To Disable Vibration on Touch in Android

Android gives vibration feedback on some touch events like press of back button. This can be useful and also be a pain. Here is how to disable this feature:

  • Go to Home -> Settings -> Sound
  • Uncheck the option “Haptic feedback” or “Vibrate Feedback”

 

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How To Disable Keyboard Touch Vibration in Nexus 5

UPDATE: For Android 6 (Marsh Mallow) use these steps

Google Keyboard is the default keyboard in the Nexus 5. By default, its configured to enable vibration on key press. If you are someone who dislikes this feature, here is a simple way of disabling it:
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  • Go to Home -> Settings -> Language and Keyboard
  • Locate “Google Keyboard” and press the settings button next to it.
  • Uncheck the tick next to “Vibrate on keypress”
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Android Hardware

Calibrate Your Android Device’s Battery For Longer Battery Life

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Here is a simple way to recalibrate your Android Device’s Battery without rooting or installing any third party apps. It takes a little while to get done but is great in giving a good boost to battery life.

  1. With your Phone/Device on and charge it for 8 hours or more.
  2. Disconnect the charger.

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  3. Turn your device off and reconnect your charger to it.  Charge it for one hour.
  4. Disconnect the charger.
  5. Turn on the device and wait 2 minutes.
  6. Turn your device off again and charge it for another hour.
  7. Disconnect the charger, turn the device on and use as normal.

Your battery life should now be a lot better 🙂

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Android Hardware Solutions

Galaxy Ace – Gingerbread Update – Notes

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There are many good tutorials on the web about installing Gingerbread on the Ace (like this one).

Once you have Gingerbread installed what can you expect from your new system?
Other than the already present updates to Android, here are a few notes I made:

  • The Default language at the start is not English. To change, go to Settings -> Locale and Text (recognizable by the keyboard key A as the logo) -> Select Language (Option no. 1 in the list) -> English (or any other language)
  • The battery lasts longer and is estimated more accurately. – The battery info is more detailed too.
  • The Wifi bug that caused the “black screen of death” problem is fixed. Expect more stability while using Wifi
  • The UI is faster and more responsive
  • Fonts are crispier and look great
  • The notification bar is smaller and that really helps screen real estate.
  • Internal memory usage has improved leaps and bounds, expect lesser problems in that area

All in all the upgrade to Gingerbread has been perfect so far.

Note: The version I have installed is XXKPH