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Android Apps Solutions

How to Remove Picasa Albums from Gallery (and stop Sign In requests) – Android

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Update: This solution also removes the annoying sign in request from Picasa that is seen on some android devices.

When you first start using an Android phone it will request you to sign in to a Google account. Doing so automatically triggers a process that syncs your data and photos from your phone to your Google account and vice versa. This synchronization also downloads all your old Picasa web albums to your phone.

While this is a useful feature at times, it tends to be a problem when you really don’t want those pictures on your phone or need to save the space on your phone.  Then it makes sense to disable this feature. Here is how to do it:

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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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Android Solutions

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 🙂