Galaxy SIII User Information Session! Part ５.

Personalizing for Galaxy S3

a. Change the display language

1. On the Apps screen, select Settings > Language and input > Language.

2. Select a language.

b. Add additional input languages

1. On the Apps screen, select Settings > Language and input, and then tap the Setting iconnext to Samsung Keyboard.

2. Select the input languages you want by checking the boxes.

If you have more than one input languages, the virtual keypad will have this key  for you to switch between languages.

Also you can tap and hold the  to switch to different input modes: handwriting, voice, keyboard (default) and access the clipboard.

c. Turn on or off the touch tones

Some may find the touch tones (on by default) a bit disturbing. If you’re one of them, here are the simple steps to turn it off

1. On the Apps screen, select Settings > Sound > Touch sounds. You can uncheck if you want to off it.

d. Adjust the device’s volume

1. Press the volume key, located on the left side of your phone, up or down

2. You will see the volume slider appears on screen. Tap settings icon on the right  and drag the sliders to adjust the volume level for each sound.

e. Change your ringtone

1. On the Apps screen, select Settings > Sound > Device ringtone.

2. Select a ringtone and click OK. The default is Over the Horizon. (I quite like this one actually)

f. Change wallpaper for the Home screen

1. On the Apps screen, select Settings > Wallpaper > Home screen.

2. Select either image Gallery, Live wallpapers or Wallpapers folders.

• Gallery – all pictures you’ve taken using the built-in camera.
• Live wallpapers – animated background pictures.
• Wallpapers – still background image.

3. Then select an image.

g. Change the display font

1. On the Apps screen, select Settings > Display > Font style.

2. Select a font, and then click Yes on the pop-up window.

h. Lock your device

Instead of just swipe to unlock your screen, you can actually choose other methods such as PIN or Password. Yes, there are also face and voice recognition to unlock.

Let’s not get too excited with those advance stuff and start with something more common, the PIN security.

1. On the Apps screen, select Settings > Security> Screen lock > PIN.

2. Enter the 4 digits PIN and tap continue.

3. Enter the same 4 digits and click OK to confirm.

i. Change the screen timeout

You can set the length of inactivity time that turns off the device screen.

1. On the Apps screen, select Settings > Display > Screen timeout.

j. To prevent the backlight from turning off while you are looking at the screen

The device can detect your face when you’re looking at the screen with its front camera. WithSmart Stay enabled, the screen will not timeout and turn off.

1. On the Apps screen, select Settings > Display.

2. Check the Smart stay checkbox.

k. To automatically lock the touch screen when the device is near your face for call

To prevent accidental inputs, turn on the proximity sensor to lock the touch screen when it detects the phone is near your face. No more worries of your face might touches the call endbutton.

1. Tap the phone icon to get to the virtual dial pad.

2. Tap the Option key (besides home button) to get a pull-up menu.

3. Tap the call settings option.

4. Check the Auto screen off during calls checkbox to enable the feature.

l. Add or remove a panel from the Home screen

By default, the device comes with 7 panels. You can add, delete or customize the contents of each one.

I personally find them too many for a start.

1. To edit, you can place two fingers on any panel and pinch them together to switch to Edit mode.

2. Tap and hold the panel’s thumbnail, and then drag it to the dustbin.

Besides removing (or adding) a panel, you can customize the panels with widgets and apps (or stuff such as shortcuts and folders), by simply tapping and holding an app or a widget, and then drag to the panel you wish.

All the apps and widgets are accessible via the Apps/Widgets screen.

Below are the examples of my 2nd and 3rd panel which populated with widgets and apps.

Well, there’re definitely more you can do on this highly customizable phone. Again here are just few to start you off the ground.

Galaxy SIII User Information Session! Part 4.

Like any other smartphone, you can use Samsung Galaxy S3 to play your favourite music while on the go.

The Galaxy S3 can play a wide variety of audio and video files:

• Music: mp3, 3ga, aac, m4a, wma
• Sound: wav, mmf, xmf, imy, midi, amr
• Video: 3gp, mp4, avi, wmv, flv, mkv

By default, the Android doesn’t play WMA (Windows Music Audio) files, but Samsung made it possible on their version of Android with the inclusion of codec. And the same goes to WMV (Windows Media Video) files.

How do you transfer music file to your Samsung Galaxy S3?

There are various ways you can transfer video, audio or any other files to your Galaxy S3. According to the Galaxy S3 user manual, below are all the possible ways:

• Download from Internet.
• Transfer from PC.
• Transfer from a PC with Samsung Kies.
• Transfer from a PC with Windows Media Player.
• Receive via Bluetooth.
• Receive via Wi-Fi.
• Copy to your memory card.

In this post, I’m going to talk about the 2 most common methods, which are transferring files directly from PC storage and using Windows Media Player.

Transferring music and video files from PC

1. Connect your Galaxy S3 to your PC using the data cable.
2. A USB icon appears in the top Notification Bar, tap the USB icon area and drag it downwards to open the notifications panel.
3. Tap Connected as a media device and ensure Media device (MTP) checkbox is ticked.  Now, you’re ready to transfer files between your PC and phone.
4. Open up your PC Windows Explorer. Now, you should see your Galaxy S3 shows up as a removable disk.
5. Access the phone storage via Windows Explorer; you should see Videos and Musicfolders.
6. Simply drag/copy-and-paste your music and video files from your computer to these folders. The Galaxy S3 music or video players will automatically recognize the files.
7. Alternatively, you can create a new folder in your phone storage to store these files.

Transferring music and video files using Windows Media Player

1. Connect you Galaxy S3 to your PC using the data cable.
2. Run Windows Media Player on you PC.
3. On the left side of Windows Media Player, you will see a little icon with the model number of Galaxy S3. You can (but not necessary) double click on that icon to expand the list.
4. Now move to the right side and click the Sync Tab.
5. Drag any music files or video files to the Sync list area. You can drag these files from either PC folders or Windows Media Player library.
6. Once you have all the files in the Sync list, click Start sync.
7. Now, move to the left, and click Sync status to verify if those files are successfully copied over to your phone.
8. Start playing those songs on your Galaxy S3.

I hope you will find the above steps simple to follow. As mentioned, there are more than 2 ways you can get all your favourite music files onto your Galaxy S3. And I highly recommend you to try out using the Samsung Kies application too.

Galaxy SIII User Information Session! Part 3.

This is Part 3 of the Galaxy SIII 

I am going to talk about that where you can go get some apps for Galaxy series, and android phones! I am sure if I talk here this you can use any other phone same way. Here is one way to get some apps from your smartphone.
(今回は3回目ということもあるのでやはりギャラクシーのアプリについて話をしていこうと思います。)
First, I am going to talk about where you can go and get apps! That is the basic start up!

Where to Get the Apps?(どこでアプリを手に入れる？)
Running on Android operating system offers you various ways to download and install apps. But the easiest and most popular ways have to be these 2(アンドロイド携帯であれば色々な方法でアプリをスマホにインストールすることが出来ます。まぁ、一番簡単な方法は次の2つになります。):

• Google Play (any devices for android has this store) (グーぐるのプレイストア)
• Samsung Apps (For Samsung devices) (サムソンのアプリストア)

probably your home screen has this Play Store
(ホームスクリーンにPlay Storeが入っているとおもわれます。)

To access Google Play store you need to use the Gmail account.
(グーグルプレイストアへのアクセスはGmailアカウントが必要となります。)Where as Samsung Apps requires you to create a different account.  (サムソンアプリへのアクセスはアカウントの作成が必要になります。)You can create this account on Samsung apps website or on your phone itself.(このサムソンアプリのアカウントはサムソンのウェブサイトで作ることができます。スマホからも作れます。)

How to download an app to you phone?(どうやってアプリをダウンロードするか？)

This one is easy. Here, this is going to quickly run through an app installation process of Play Store.
(これは簡単に出来ます。ここではプレイストアでのアプリのダウンロードについてのやり方の説明をします。)

1. You should login to your Gmail account on the Galaxy S3.
   (もうすでにログインをしている状態になっているスマホという設定でいきます。アカウントがGmailで作られているはずです。)
2. Tap Play Store on your phone.
   (まずはPlay Storeを開きます。)
3. On the Play store, there are various ways to find the app you want, by going to the categories, editor’s choice, staff picks, ranking charts, search and etc.
   (アプリを見つける方法はいろいろとあります。たとえば、カテゴリーでさがす、エディターの推薦でさがす、スタッフのおすすめからさがす、ランキングからほしいものを探す等々)
4. If you know the app’s name, you can do a search in the search box, for example facebook.
   (もしアプリの名前をしっているならそれを上にある検索のマークのところから打って探します。たとえばfacebookのような感じです。)
5. Tap the app from the search result.
   (検索を開始するとアプリの項目に下のように出てきます。)
6. On the facebook app page, tap the Install button.
   (そこでfacebooアプリにいき、インストールのところを触って開始します。)
7. Tap Accept & Download to accept the terms and conditions, and start downloading.
   (ダウンロードの許可と承諾をして次に進みます。ここでは注意事項などが表示されます。ここを押すとダウンロードが開始します。)
8. Once the installation has completed, tap the Open button to launch the app.
   (一旦ダウンロードしたら画面上に開くとアンインストールがでてきます。開くを押してアプリを開きます。)

How to uninstall an app on your phone?
(どうやってアンインストールをするのか？)

1. On the home screen, tap Apps icon to access the application tray.
   (まずはアプリアイコンからアプリの一覧を開きます。)
2. On the Apps screen, press the Option key, and select Uninstall.
   (次にアプリの一覧の画面でホームボタンの左にあるオプションキーを押します。そしてアンインストールの項目を押します。)
3. You should see a little minus sign on all the app icons. Tap on the app icon you would like to uninstall.
   (この操作後、すべてのアプリアイコンの左上に × のマークがでてくると思います。そこでアンインストールしたいアプリのところをおします。)
4. When you’re prompted for a confirmation. Tap OK.
   (アプリを選択したら、本当にアンインストールをしたいかの確認がでます。そこで実行する場合はOKを押します。)

オプションインフォメーション

How to launch and manage multiple applications?

To launch multiple apps, press the Home key while using an application. Then select another application to launch from the Home screen.

To manage multiple applications with the task manager:

1. Press and hold the Home key, and then select Task manager > Active applications. Here you will see a list of active apps running.
2. To switch applications, tap one from the list.
3. To close an application, tap End.
4. To close all active applications, tap End all.

By now, you should have a clear idea of how and where to get the apps for your Galaxy S3.  With such a huge storage on the phone, surely you will have no problem installing all the important apps you need for your daily life.

Galaxy SIII User Information Session! Part 2.

Use Information Session, Part 2.

Previous post, I just had several tips for how to use Galaxy SIII. But I should put really basic part of Galaxy SIII more and more. This is not really necessary to post....? but I am going to write and post anyway! Also, this part 2 post is maybe able to apply for many other android and/or smartphone.
(全開に引き続き、Galaxy SIIIの使いからをやっていこうと思います。今回は全開忘れていた基本の基本機能を紹介します。これは「必要じゃないよ！」と思われる方もいらっしゃるかもしれないのですが、お付き合い下さい。今回のパート２はGalaxy SIIIだけではなく他のスマホにも利用する事ができるのはないかと思います。)
The first thing everyone maybe will do  when you got home with this Samsung Galaxy SIII was trying to configure the Wi-Fi connection.It’s crucial to have a fast Internet connection before doing other tasks such as contact and app downloads.

Configuring the S3 to connect to Wi-Fi is easy. 

Here we go!
1. Tab the Option Key. This located left next to your home bottom 
    (まず最初に、オプションにをだします。オプションはホームボタンの左側にライトアップされるタッチボタンの事です。)

That pointed place is the Option Key

2. You will see a small menu pops up from the bottom, and then tap the Settings option.
    (次に、オプションの表示が出てきます。そこの中で４番目にある設定を選択します。)

Setting is pop up
Touch the Settings

3. On the settings screen, you will see the Wi-Fi being turned on (this should be default setting). 
    Tap on the Wi-Fi.
    (設定の画面で最初にあるのがWi-FIの表示です。既に初期設定でオンになっているなっていると思います。そこをタップして下さい。)

The menu's Top has WiFi and touch the section.

4. You will see a list of detected Wi-Fi networks. You will be able to find your connection of network on this screen. Tap on the one belong to your home and/or your allowed to use one.
    (タップしたら、画面上に利用可能なWi-Fiネットワークが表示されます。そこの中から、自分の自宅やオフィスなど利用ができるものを選択して下さい。)

This is a sample of the WiFi Connection.
Whatever you have connection setting for WiFi name
it should be there and select it Please.

5. If you set up (recommended) password, please enter the password and tap Connect.
  (選択後に出てくるのがWi-Fiのパスワードを入れる表示がでてきます。(設定されてなければ接続するかどうかという表示がでてきます。) その表示に設定してあるパスワードをいれて、接続をしてください。)

   

This will be all of them, you should have a fast/faster Internet connection now.
Let's Open and try your browser, and hopefully not problem to connect to internet.
(これでWi-Fiの設定は終わり早くて快適な環境でのインターネットを使う事ができるようになったのではないかと思います。Wi-Fiが繋がったかを確かめる為にブラウザで自分のお好きなサイトを閲覧してみて下さい！)