How to Enable and Use S Beam on Androids (Share More)

There are many ways to share files between to mobile phone at this current technologies. Android 4.1 Jelly Bean lets you share photos and videos between phones with a tap, but that’s only over a slower Bluetooth connection. Samsung kicks things up a notch with S Beam on the Galaxy S III. It takes the same concept of using NFC for establishing a connection between two devices with a tap, but then leverages Wi-Fi Direct instead of Bluetooth after than initial handshake to make transfers lightning fast.

Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Direct are two of today’s most popular means to share files and data between two mobile devices. The downside to these methods, however, is that they require some setting up before you can use them.

But, with the help of Near Field Communication (NFC) technology, you can skip the setting up part and, in its place, will only need tapping devices against each other.

NFC and Android Beam work hand in hand to share data to other NFC-capable devices over a Bluetooth connection. These could be contact information, map directions, web page URLs, Google Play Store pages for app downloads, and more. Unfortunately, Bluetooth transfers at lower speeds and works better with small files. This means that larger files, such as images and videos, may take a long time to beam.

Samsung adopted NFC’s hassle-free system in its S Beam feature, available on certain high-end Samsung Android devices like the Galaxy S3 and Galaxy Note 2. The feature uses NFC in tandem with Wi-Fi Direct rather than Bluetooth, allowing users to beam large files to other S Beam-capable devices within seconds.

In this guide, learn how to use S Beam on your Samsung device. 

Enabling S Beam

Before you can beam files through S Beam, you must first activate S Beam on your Samsung device:

• Go to the Settings page.
• Under Wireless & Networks, tap on More Settings.
• Tap on S Beam to turn it on. NFC will also be automatically enabled. If NFC is not active, S Beam won’t work.
• S Beaming content

Or follow this step:

1. Pull down the Notification Shade and select the Settings icon in the top right corner.

2. Select More Settings.

3. Select S Beam.

4. Turn it ON.

5. Bring up the content you want to share on the screen (i.e. a picture from the gallery).

6. Hold the back of your Galaxy S III up to the back of another Galaxy S III and it will prompt you to “Tap to Send”.

7. Tap the item and then your S III will ask you to pull the devices apart.

8. The content should soon appear on the screen of the other device.

To successfully share files and content through S Beam, take note of the following:

Both the sender and receiver devices must have the S Beam feature and it must be active. NFC must also be active on both devices.
Neither of the devices should be asleep or locked. The receiver device must preferably be on the Home screen.
The phones will make a sound and vibrate slightly when they detect each other.
Only separate your devices when you are prompted to. Separating them before beaming may prevent the transfer from starting.
S Beam only sends locally saved files. Files saved in your Picasa account, for example, cannot be beamed.
General way to beam content

S Beam works just like Android Beam. The general steps for sending content from a device to the other is as follows:

• Open the file/content to be shared on the sender device.
• Place the backs of both devices against each other. The devices will beep and vibrate slightly (if supported) to confirm that they are within beaming range.
• On the sender device, you’ll see “Touch to beam” on the screen.
• Tap on the sender device’s screen to start sending the content.
• When prompted to do so, separate the devices to begin beaming.
• Upon completion, the content will be opened by the appropriate handler app on the receiver device.

Beaming photos or images

To beam images, just follow the standard way for S Beaming content. Open a photo or image from the Gallery and beam away. The receiver device’s Gallery app will show the image after transfer is completed.


Beaming music

Beaming music tracks follows the same standard procedure for S Beam. Just play the music track in the sender device’s Music Player app and beam away. When beaming completes, the receiver device automatically plays the received track.


Beaming videos

To beam local videos, just play the video on the sender device’s Video Player app and beam away. The receiver device automatically opens and plays the received video after beaming completes.


Beaming contacts

You don’t need to manually copy contact information from one device to another anymore. With S Beam, you can easily share contacts. Just open the contact’s info page on the sender device, then beam away in the usual way. When beaming completes, the receiver device will ask where to save the beamed contact to.


Beaming apps

Just like with Android Beam, you can also share Android apps via S Beam. This procedure doesn’t send the app’s files to the other device, though. Instead, it will send the app’s Google Play Store URL to the other device. To share an app, just launch the app to be beamed, then beam it in the usual way. The receiver device opens the app’s page on the Google Play Store. An Internet connection is needed to access the Google Play Store.


Beaming webpages

When you S Beam a webpage, the sender device doesn’t beam the page itself. Instead, only the URL is sent and the receiver device opens it in its native browser app. To beam a webpage, just open the page in the sender device’s browser app, and beam away as usual. An Internet connection is needed to open webpages, of course.


Beaming YouTube videos

Want to share the YouTube video that you’re watching? Go ahead. Just open the YouTube video page on the sender device, beam in the usual way, and the receiver device automatically opens it in the YouTube app upon beam completion. Both devices need to be connected to the Internet, of course; otherwise, YouTube won’t open.

Beaming other content

You can also beam many other types of mobile content, such as Google Maps data and Google Search results, between supported Samsung devices.

So, Let's share what we have to our friends...

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How to Setup Google Now on Android Phones

Many thanks to Androidauthority that always develop and show good tutorial on the site related to Android phones. However, now we have something new to show you about how to setup, configure, and using the Google Now on Android Phones especially on Jelly Beans phones, but we may use it also on other ICS phones with some rooting tutorial.

There’s some confusion out there in the Android world. Google Now is not Android’s “Siri killer”, that’s Voice Search (which you can get to and use from within Google Now). Google Now is much, much more than an application that listens to queries and spits out answers. I’m not even sure we can call Google Now a virtual assistant either. Google Now is about automating your life and in return, making your life easier. Google Now does that by providing a vast amount of information, pertinent to you, at your fingertips. There’s just one catch though. Those of your that often go full tin foil hat mode really won’t be able to fully enjoy Google Now to its’ full potential. So take off your head gear and let’s get started.

[Google Now] tells you today’s weather before you start your day, how much traffic to expect before you leave for work, when the next train will arrive as you’re standing on the platform, or your favorite team’s score while they’re playing. And the best part? All of this happens automatically. Cards appear throughout the day at the moment you need them.

How to setup Google Now

1. Launch Google Now from either your lock screen by swiping up towards the ‘Google’ icon or by swiping up from any of your soft keys. You can press in and swipe up from the back arrow, home key, and recents key.

Note: If you haven’t launched Google Now until…now… you’ll need to tap through the welcome screen setup.

2. Go ahead and scroll down the to very bottom and tap the 3 dots (menu button) in the bottom right corner. This will launch the Google Now / Voice Search settings. Tap Google Now to customize your Google Now cards.

Note: You can also view Sample Cards and configure them from the Google Now home screen. Scroll all the way down to the bottom and tap “Show sample cards”.

3. Most of you will probably need to leave these settings set to default until you get a better feel for Google Now and what information you wish to have at your fingertips, without having to dig through your phone.  

Now that you have your cards setup, you need to populate them with some data. You can do that by using Voice Search. You can tap the microphone icon and search for your favorite sports team, weather, restaurant, flight numbers, or anything related to the sample cards provided for you.

For example: “What’s the weather today?” “Do the Yankee’s play today?” “I’m hungry for Chinese food”. You get the idea.


To fully get the most of of Google Now, you’ll need to setup a few more tasks revolving around your location. Location settings :

1. Head back into the Google Now settings and tap Privacy accounts. By default, all of these settings should be enabled.

2. Tap Manage location settings. This will take you into Maps settings. For best results, you’ll want location history enabled.

3. After Google Now can identify your home and work address correctly (instead of your favorite place to hangout) launch Maps. Now select Location history. From here you’ll have the option to configure your home and work locations. (Yes, I work more than 21 hours a week on average. My building at work doesn’t provide the greatest GPS window.)

Now you have Google Now setup and ready to show you some cards. You should start seeing cards immediately for weather, distance to work / home, and possibly other locations. If you’re near a bus station you may see that data populate right away as well. As mentioned earlier, you’ll want to start using Voice Search and searching for other card related items to let Google Now know you’re interested. After you start putting information into Google Now, you’ll start to see cards show up in your notifications. Just tap on them to view them or at anytime you can swipe up from your soft keys or home screen.

Tips and Tricks

Once you close or swipe away a card in Google Now or from your notifications, it isn’t gone, don’t worry. It will come back the next time data for that card changes. For example: if you swipe away your weather, it won’t come back until your location changes or your weather information changes.

You can force cards to reappear by tapping the menu icon at the bottom of Google Now and tapping the refresh button. If you’re still having problems, you can always go into Google Now settings, flip the toggle switch off, reboot, and then re-enable Google Now. You shouldn’t have to do this though.

Add locations to your Calendar events. Google Now will then give you a notification when you need to leave to arrive on time.

If you’ve used Latitude to Check-in to many businesses in your area, you may start to see those show up in Google Now. If you just swipe those away, they’ll keep coming back. When these cards are shown, you have the option to no longer track those places by tapping the settings.

Enabling Web History drastically improves the functionality of Google Now. You can control these settings at www.google.com/dashboard.

Lastly, the more you use Google Now, the better it becomes. Enjoy!


Thanks to androidauthority

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Tips and Tricks to Save iPhone Battery Life much Longer

It is not surprise when we use our iPhone much longer the battrey also last faster. When we use our iPhone for gaming, web browsing, or playing music it consumes the battrey life and what we do when we run out our battrey on outdoor and we forgot to bring the charger? here the tips and trick to save your battrey life on iPhone to be much longer so you need not worry when you are outside home.

Tips and Tricks to Save iPhone Battery Life much Longer

1. Turn on Auto-Brightness (Settings app -> Brightness -> Auto-Brightness On)

The iPhone has an ambient light sensor that adjusts the brightness of the screen based on the light around it (when there's more ambient light, the screen needs less power to be visible). Turn Auto-Brightness on and you’ll save battery because your screen will need to use less power in bright places.

2. Reduce Screen Brightness (Settings -> Brightness)

You can control the default brightness of your iPhone screen with this slider. Needless to say, the brighter the default setting for the screen, the more battery it requires. Keep the screen dimmer to conserve more of your battery.

3. Turn Bluetooth Off (Settings -> General -> Bluetooth -> Move Slider to Off)

Bluetooth wireless networking is especially useful for cell phone users with wireless headsets or earpieces. But transmitting data wirelessly takes battery and leaving Bluetooth on to accept incoming data at all times requires even more juice. Turn off Bluetooth except when you’re using it to squeeze more juice from your battery.

4. Turn Off 3G (Settings -> General -> Network -> Slide Enable 3g to Off)

The iPhone 3G and later models can take advantage the speedy 3G cellular phone network. Not surprisingly, using 3G requires more battery life to get the quicker data speeds and higher-quality calls. It’s tough to go slower, but if you need more battery, turn off 3G and just use the older, slower EDGE network. Your battery will last longer (though you’ll need it when you’re downloading websites more slowly!).

5. Keep Wi-Fi Off (Settings -> WiFi -> Slide to Off)

The other kind of high-speed network that the iPhone can connect to is Wi-Fi. Wi-Fi is even faster than 3G, though it’s only available where there’s a hotspot (not virtually everywhere like 3G). Keeping Wi-Fi turned on at all times in hopes that an open hotspot will appear is a sure way to drain your battery life. So, unless you’re using it right this second, keep Wi-Fi turned off.

6. Turn Off Location Services (Settings -> General -> Location Services -> Slide to Off)

One of the coolest features of the iPhone is its built-in GPS. This allows your phone to know where you are and give you exact driving directions, give that information to apps that help you find restaurants, and more. But, like any service that sends data over a network, it needs battery power to work. If you’re not using Location Services, and don’t plan to right away, turn them off and save some power.

7. Turn Data Push Off (Settings -> Mail, Contacts, Calendar -> Fetch New Data -> Slide to Off)

The iPhone can be set to automatically suck email and other data down to it or, for some kinds of accounts, have data pushed out to it whenever new data becomes available. You’re probably realized by now that accessing wireless networks costs you battery life, so turning data push off, and thus reducing the number of times your phone connects to the network, will extend your battery’s life. With push off, you’ll need to set your email to check periodically or do it manually (see the next tip for more on this).

8. Fetch Email Less Often (Settings -> Mail, Contacts, Calendar -> Fetch New Data -> Select Your Preference)

The less often your phone accesses a network, the less battery it uses. Save battery life by setting your phone to check your email accounts less often. Try checking every hour or, if you’re really serious about saving battery, manually. Manual checks means you’ll never have email waiting for you on your phone, but you’ll also stave off the red battery icon.

9. Auto-Lock Sooner (Settings -> General -> Auto-Lock -> Tap your Preference)

You can set your iPhone to automatically go to sleep – a feature known as Auto-Lock - after a certain amount of time. The sooner it sleeps, the less power is used to run the screen or other services. Try setting Auto-Lock to 1 or 2 minutes.

10. Turn off Equalizer (Settings -> iPod -> EQ -> Tap off)

The iPod app on the iPhone has an Equalizer feature that can adjust music to increase bass, decrease treble, etc. Because these adjustments are made on the fly, they require extra battery. Turn the equalizer off to conserve battery. This means you'll have a slightly modified listening experience - the battery savings might not be worht it to true audiophiles - but for those hoarding battery power, it's a good deal.

11. Do Less-Battery-Intensive Things

Not all ways to save battery life involve settings. Some of them involve the way you use the phone. Things that require the phone be on for long periods of time, or use a lot of system resources, suck the most battery. These things include movies, games, and browsing the web. If you need to conserve battery, limit your use of battery-intensive apps.

12. Sleep and Wake Less

Constantly putting your phone to sleep and waking it up will drain battery life. Of course these functions are common parts of using the phone, but you can also be judicious in your turning on and off of the phone and save battery life at the same time.

13. Buy an Extended Life Battery

If all else fails, just get more battery. A few accessory makers like mophie and Kensington offer extended life batteries for the iPhone. If you need so much battery life that none of these tips help you enough, an extended life battery is your best bet. With one, you’ll get days more standby time and many hours more use.

14. iPhone 4S & iOS 5: Turn Off Other Location Settings (Settings -> Location Services -> System Services -> Turn off Diagnostics & Usage, Location-Based iAds, and Setting Time Zone)

Use this tip if your iPhone 4S or devices upgraded to iOS 5 are burning through battery life too quickly. It's probably a software bug, so Apple may fix it and this tip may go away, but in the meantime, here it is.

A number of additional location services introduced in iOS 5 seem to be draining battery too quickly. Turn them off and you should regain some battery life.

So, after doing these tips your iPhone battrey life must longer than before. But we have to know that the more we use our iPhone the faster the battrey runs out. 

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Tips and Tricks to Fix your Wet Devices

Sometimes people just do what they want to do on their daily life. While bringing their devices to do such thing, no one wants to make their devices, such as iPhone, mobile phones, or any other dievice to get wet. But, here are some tips to fix when your mobile phone or other devices got on water.

How to Fix when your Devices Got on Water

Fisrt of all never turn it on. If your phone/device is wet, never try to turn it on. If it’s already on, turn it off/use the hold button as quickly as possible.

Secondly, shake the water out. Depending on how wet it got, you may be able see water in your phone’s headphone jack, dock connector, or other areas. Shake the water out as much as possible and dry off the phone/devices.

Third, put it in a warm place. The best place to put is rice. Immediately put you wet phone/device on the rice for a while may be one or two or more hours. You may also put it on  on the top of a TV, where the heat from the TV will help to dry the inside of the device, but choose whatever tactic you like.

Fourth, use a hair dryer – If you want to try a more immediate approach, try blowing a hair dryer, on low power, on the wet phone/ device about a day after it got wet. Don’t use anything more intense than low, though.

Fifth, take it apart – You better know what you’re doing to do this, because you can ruin your phone and will void your warranty, but if you’re handy with electronics, consider taking your phone/device apart to dry out the wet parts. In this situation, some people use the hair dryer, others like to separate the parts and leave them in bags of dry rice for a day or two and then re-assemble the device.

Sixth, try a repair company – If none of these tactics work, there are phone/device repair companies that specialize in saving wet phone/device. A little time at your favorite search engine can put you in touch with a number of good vendors.

So, while hoping your device to back to normal again, just be careful to bring such devices near to water around us.

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Tips to Clean LCD, LED, or Plasma TV Screen

Do you have LCD, LED, or Plasma TV ? If you do then you have to be carefull to clean the screen. When it came to a lot of cost buying one of them, the way to keep it clean also need more care from the owners. There are many ways to clean the screen of LCD, LED, or Plasma TV around the blog on the net. But here are the most important things to do in order to avoid any mistake when cleaning the screen.

Actually cleaning the screen is quite easy after you know the things to get to clean. Usually cleaning one screen take about five minutes or more.

Here are the steps you must know:

1. Avoid using paper towels, toilet paper, tissue paper, or something like your shirt to wipe the screen. These non-ultrasoft materials can scratch the display.

2. Avoid cleaning products that contain ammonia, ethyl alcohol, acetone, toluene, ethyl acid, or methyl chloride. These chemicals can react with the materials that the flat screen is made of which could yellow the screen or cause other kinds of damage.

3. Never spray liquid directly on an LED, LCD, or plasma screen. It could run inside the monitor and cause damage.

Follow the steps below carefully:

1. First of all you need to turn off the monitor. It will be easier to see the areas that are dirty or oily when the screen is dark.

2. Use a dry, soft cloth and very gently wipe the screen. A great choice would be the microfiber type of cloth used to clean eyeglasses.

3. If the dry cloth did not completely remove the dirt or oil, do not press harder in an attempt to scrub it off. Because pushing directly on the screen can often cause pixels to burn out.

4. Dampen the cloth If necessary with distilled water or with an equal ratio of distilled water to white vinegar. Considering many companies also sell small spray bottles of special cleaner for flat screen monitors but the vinegar mixture is usually just as effective.

5. The plastic edge that surrounds the screen can be cleaned with any multipurpose cleaner but take care to avoid contact with the screen itself.

So after taking these steps your screen must be clean as just like the new. Please leave a comment below when you have any question or feedback.

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