Showing posts with label Android. Show all posts
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Saturday, April 7, 2018

What is OTG? 15 Smart and Mind Blowing use of OTG

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What is OTG? 15 Smart and Mind Blowing use of OTG
Many of us know about OTG, but also many do not know. But for those who still do not know about OTG, this post is for them. So let's know details about OTG.

In today's post, you can find out about:
➥ What is OTG?
➥ How to use OTG?
➥ What you can do using OTG?

The full meaning of OTG is "USB On The Go". This allows USB devices to be connected to other USB devices as hosts. USB on the go or OTG means that you can your OTG supported device as a USB host and connect several USB devices with it. You can do a lot of things by connecting two OTG supported devices with one another. As like we use our PC (Personal Computer) as a USB host and connect to various flash drives (e.g. hard disk, pen drive, card reader, modem etc). Similarly, you can connect to different Flash Drives through OTG on Android phones.

The number of OTG-supported Android devices is currently on the rise. As a result, a lot of work is done without the PC (Personal Computer). For example, because of OTG support, you can easily print your camera pictures without a PC by using only a Android phone. Besides this pendrive, harddisk, keybord, mouse, and other USB sticks are can easily use with Android smartphone. Since this OTG has a lot of benefits, so when purchasing the phone, you should make sure that the device is OTG supported.

How to understand if your phone is OTG supported?


At present, almost all new smartphones have the facility of OTG. If you do not know whether your phone has OTG facility in this case, you can check the box of your phone which you have got with your phone when your purchased it. You can also check the manual of your phone which was provided inside the mobile box during purchase.  If you do not have a phone box, then you can search your phone model on google and know whether your phone supports OTG. You can collect the otg compatible smartphones list from google. There is an another way. You can also easily download the 'USB OTG Checker' app from the Play Store and find out if your phone has OTG facility. If your phone is OTG enabled, you will need an OTG Cable to get the utility benefits of OTG. You can buy it from any mobile store at a very small price.

Now let's know, about the wonderful things you can do with your phone's OTG facility.

1. You can charge your Android by connecting with another OTG supported phone

charging a phone with another phone


This is a strategy that Android users would like to use because it allows you to charge a smartphone using another. The OTG supported phone will work as a host which automatically charges another device. It may be a helpful strategy to charge your phone for urgent need.
2. Connect the portable hard drive
 
otg portable hard drive


You can connect portable hard drives or external storage device with your Smartphone via an OTG cable. For this you only need to connect your smartphone and an external storage with OTG cable. With this you can easily access external storage devices. Also you can transfer files from phone to external storage or vice-versa by the help of OTG cable.
3. Connect a game controller

otg game controller


If you think that playing Fast Person Shooting Game on Android devices is very annoying then you can try connecting a game controller with your Android device via OTG cable. Nowadays many Android games support external gamepad, and you can easily connect an external game controller to your device using an OTG cable.
4. Connect the USB lights

otg USB lights

Have you ever imagined that your phone can light an LED lamp? Of course not, you will say! You can attach USB based LED lights to your Android phone using OTG cable. If you do not have a flash feature on your phone, you can use LED lights to take pictures at night.
5. Connect a LAN cable
 
otg lan cable


You just have to buy a LAN to USB controller and connect it to your Android device, As shown in the image above. With this help you can enjoy broadband internet access directly on your mobile.
6. Share numbers and messages between two phones

With the help of Samsung's SmartSwitch application, you can transfer messages, call logs, numbers and also more with the help of OTG cable on your Android device. It is very useful and costs less battery.
7. Connect keyboard and mouse
 
otg keyboard and mouse


If you do not want to navigate your Android device! If you use lots of messaging apps like WhatsApp and Facebook, you must choose to type messages with keyboards and mouse. You can connect your USB mouse and keyboard using OTG cables on your Android device and can use smoothly with your smartphone.
8.  Connect your Camera

otg cable camera


If you like photography than you must want to use a Camera. After capturing photo you need to connect your camera with a computer to review the captured image. But now you can do the same task in your Android phone just by connecting your camera via OTG cable. You can also delete image from your mobile by using this feature.
9. Directly print any document from Android phone

usb otg printer with android


You can use the PrintShare application, Android automatically downloads drivers for USB printers on your Android smartphone. To print a document directly, simply connect your printer to the Android device with the help of OTG cable.
10. Connect a USB fan

otg usb fan


USB fan works with the help of electric charge. However, you've probably seen that the laptop cooling pad is usually connected with USB. You can connect a USB fan to your Android device using OTG cable.
11. Make music at Android

OTG Music keyboard


Almost all modern musical instruments like the keyboard, gitar can be connected to the PC through the MIDI standard. In this case, with USB OTG, you can connect all the devices with your Android devices. So that you can easily make your own music in your Smartphone.
12. Connect Ethernet

You know, you can use strange Internet that is commonly known as Ethernet, with the help of OTG cable on your Android device. If you are not getting access to WiFi or cellular data, then the ethernet connection is considered to be very useful with the help of OTG cable.
13. Record Audio with external microphone

otg external microphone


It is quite useful for YouTube users. You can use an external microphone to record your voice in your Android phone. It is possible to record voice using an external microphone connected with android using OTG cable.
14.  Connect Card Reader

otg card reader


If you are using an Android smartphone which does not support MicroSD card, don't worry. With the help of OTG cable you can attach card reader to your phone. You only need an OTG cable and card reader. It will help the user to connect the microSD card with any Android device.
15. Use your android in Smart TV

With the help of OTG cable, you can mirror your Android screen on your home TV. For this, the user will only need a HDMI cable  and OTG cable to connect the Android phone with a TV. You can watch movie in large screen from your Android phone by using this system.
In today's post, we tried to tell you about some unknown use of otg cable. Hope you like the post. If you also know some other strange use of otg cable, please let us know in the comment. Do not forget to let us know your comments or suggestions regarding today's post. In the next phase, we will try to learn new things. Good Bye.
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Thursday, June 15, 2017

7 Awesome Sensor of Smartphone and wonderful use of Smartphone sensor

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7 Awesome Sensor of Smartphone and wonderful use of Smartphone sensor

Once upon a time when a mobile phone was only treated as a communication device. But the thinking is now almost changed. The term mobile phone is now converted to Smartphone. Now smartphone is not only a communication device it can do a lot of things more. Beside calling and internet browsing now we can use our smartphone in many other purposes. This is possible by the use of multi sensor in our smartphone. Now a days we noticed that there are several sensor is using in our smartphone. By the upgrading of smartphone there is including new sensors and we get more facilities in our smartphone. Today we will discuss about how many sensor is used in Smartphone what is the actual use of this sensor. Let’s read the full article.

7 Awesome Sensor of Smartphone and wonderful use of Smartphone sensor



You can also like this Article: 8 Powerful Tips To Save Data When Using Mobile Hotspot


Accelerometer: 

At first we will discuss about the well known and famous sensor accelerometer. It is included almost every kind of Smartphone we use. From it’s name the use of this sensor can be understand. The sensor can measure the acceleration. The sensor is also used to determine the orientation of our Smartphone as giving the value of 3 axis. Now a days all mobile game is using the facilities of this sensor to make the game more realistic.



Gyroscope: 

The sensor is as like as accelerometer. But it has some greater facilities. It can also read the orientation of our device.
Proximity Sensor: This is a very interesting sensor for Smartphone. It is made by an Infrared Led and an Infrared Light Detector. The sensor is usually set beside the earpiece of our smartphone. The main purpose of this sensor is to exhibits the accidental touch by our ear during a call. When we place the smartphone up to our ear the sensor can determine it and turn the screen of to avoid any accidental touch.

Light Sensor: 

The light sensor is also a important sensor for smartphone user. It helps us to adjust the brightness of our smartphone automatically. The sensor is not included in all smartphone but most of the smartphone has the sensor. This sensor can measure the light of environment and adjust the brightness of smartphone. It helps our eyes from unexpected light of smartphone. Now some advanced smartphone also have included the color sensor with it. Which can individually measure the amount of every color. Auto Brightness helps to increase the battery life of our smartphone. If you want to learn more about this then read  8 Powerful tips to increase the battery life of Smartphone?




Magnetometer: 

The sensor is now included to almost every smartphone. Now a days everyone use the compass app in their smartphone. The Compass app is run depending on this sensor. The sensor can identify the magnetic field around our smartphone. The main purpose of this sensor is to use it as compass.


Barometer: 

The latest edition of advanced smartphone is now using barometer. The sensor can measure the atmospheric pressure. The sensor is mainly use to measure how high the device from sea level. The sensor is very helpful for climber, air driver and survival fighter.
Temperature Sensor: Now some smartphone is producing with including temperature sensor. The sensor can measure the temperature of our device and the environment. The sensor is helpful to maintain the temperature of our device.



Pedometer:

The sensor is used to measure how many steps the user taken. This can be done by the accelerometer. But this sensor is more accuracy than accelerometer. Now a days a lot app found which can measure the how many distance we walk. This is performed by this sensor.



Fingerprint Sensor:

Now a days the new smartphone has the fingerprint sensor. This sensor can detect the fingerprint. By using this we can lock and unlock our smartphone using our fingerprint. And without the user of the smartphone any other people can not be able to unlock this phone.

There are also more sensor. But we have discussed about the popular sensor which is included in almost every smartphone.

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Saturday, April 15, 2017

8 Powerful Tips To Save Data When Using Mobile Hotspot

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8 Powerful Tips To Save Data When Using Mobile Hotspot

Tethering means that, sharing of a mobile device's internet connection with other computers, other smart phones or smart devices via wireless connection. It is also known as mobile hotspot. This is likely why you can now connect your hotspot to your other smart devices or computer for browsing.

Some people were determined to carry on unobservant, who using hotspot or tethering, their mobile data lose very quickly. So they are depressed from using tethering or hotspot which is not supposed to be. If this problem happens with you, you should follow these tips which would help you.



1
TURN OFF AUTO UPDATE


Auto update of Apps and Software's may cause much data losses. Whenever you are using mobile hotspot, always turn off automatic update. Default setting provided auto update over Wi-Fi. It may have been long to your computer or smart device was updated. So when you are connected with hotspot it will begin to update. This will cause too much data consumed.



auto update apps
2

HOLD OFF OLD DOWNLOADS
Suppose, you were downloading something on public Wi-Fi and you are unable to finished or disconnected. Later connect to your mobile hotspot, the old downloads will continue. Hold off old downloads to reduce data consumption.

3
OPTIMIZE WI-FI SETTING


Its better to configure hotspot for shorter, low power Wi-Fi. It will route for a little area. Its requires to connected devices or which device would be connected closer to router in short range. Though it used to closer, it extends the routing time. It will helps data to be less consumed while using mobile hotspot.



android hotspot wifi optimization



4
MONITOR DATA USAGE


This is fact that, you have enough data on your phone, but you should not ignore it when you tethered your mobile hotspot with other devices. When you using mobile hotspot dedicated to providing data, you still take care of how much data limits are. You should monitor the data usage always. So that you will be conscious about your data scale. Its let you know how to use hotspot carefully. It is always better to err on the side of caution with Personal Hotspot to avoid an overage fee. You should keep mind that, overages could be expensive to you.

5
LESS USE OF MULTIMEDIA


More data is required for streaming videos or music. There is huge bandwidth required for streaming videos or content. Its rather than reading text in a page or composing a email. If you want to save data over mobile hotspot, try to save the activities that eat up a lot of data avoid "streaming videos", "streaming music", "Watching HD Videos or Movies" etc. Limit the uses of multimedia content to save data consumption.

6
AVOID APPS UPDATE


Do not update Apps over Wi-Fi or Cellular connectivity when you can do it on your computer. And synchronize the updates to your smartphone via a USB cable or Bluetooth. This will also save you on battery life, as well.



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7
STOP UNNECESSARY BACKGROUND APPS


Smartphones, Tabs and Notebooks has apps running in background. Even device not active in foreground. Some background apps use internet data in background function optimally. Those apps may cause to consumed much data. You should modify the system setting to which apps are allowed to running in the background. So, you should stop unnecessary background apps before connect to personal hotspot.

8
KNOW ABOUT CELLULAR COVERAGE


Somewhere you will be visited. Ensure that, there's sufficient cellular coverage. Some areas won't have a good cellular coverage, so that you might be facing problems. Suppose, you want to turn on your mobile hotspot in those area, you will be stuck with slow internet speed.



[N.B: After you back on regular network you must remember that change to your default setting. Re enable all the features while u disabled with using mobile hotspot. Otherwise you could miss out important security updates.]
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Monday, April 10, 2017

How to Increase Your Android Phone Battery Life 8 Powerful Tips

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How to Increase Your Android Phone Battery Life 8 Powerful Tips
Now a days, almost everyone have a Smartphone in their hand. We can not pass a day of our life without having a smartphone. Smartphone make our life more easier and quick. But almost everyone now suffer for the battery life of their smartphone mostly the android phone. Today I will give you some special tips to save the android phone battery life.

Tips to Increase Android Phone Battery Life
how to increase android battery life


It is not a better idea to stop using your android phone to save the android battery life. You need to abide by some rule to extend the battery life of android phone. Ok Let’s see some simple tips which will play an important role in increasing the battery life of your smartphone.


Tips – 1: Be careful on charging

A  lot of people don’t follow the rule of charging a android phone in right way. They charge it when they need. But it can damage the battery life of your phone. Because android phone use lithium ion battery which is very sensitive in charging. Experts always said that don’t charge it to 100%. You should charge your smartphone when the charge come to about 20%. And charge it to about 80%. It is a better range to make your battery healthy.
how to increase android battery life


Tips – 2: Use Black Wallpaper

A lot of people don’t know that about maximum charge of our android phone is lost by using bright wallpaper in our phone. Bright wallpaper uses more light to display than a black wallpaper. So it is a good idea to use black wallpaper. Expert think that it is a very important tips to save android phone battery life.

Tips – 3: Restrict Background Data Browsing

After browsing internet we don’t turn off our mobile data. These loss a lot of power from our battery. Because now a days in every android phone there are a lot of application which use data to update them self. It may done automatically in background. So, when you remain on your mobile data and don’t work on your android phone you should not think that your mobile is stop. No, it is using data in background. So, Turn off your mobile data after internet browsing. You can also use Restrict Background Data Mode in Android Phone.

Tips – 4: Turn off Google Location

Google location is a smart feature in every android phone which helps the user to show the position of the phone in google map. But you will be surprised by knowing that if you turn on google location service for one hour your battery life will be decrease almost 50%. Yes, Google Location use a lot of power to connect with GPS. So, do not make this always turn on. After using Map you should turn off this. Turning Off Google Location will help you to boost battery life of android phone.
turn off google location service to increase battery life


Tips – 5: Turn off Bluetooth Connection

After using Bluetooth connection turn off your Bluetooth connection. It will help you to save the battery life of your android phone. Because Bluetooth can also make losses of your valuable battery power.


Tips – 6: Stop Vibration

Do you know that for making vibration in our phone there have a small motor inside our phone. When phone needs to vibrate the motor rotate in a high speed which makes the vibration. It also cause the battery life of your android. So, try to use phone without vibration.

Tips – 7: Use Battery Saving Mode

Almost in every Smartphone have a feature name Battery Saving Mode. Try to make this feature always on. It will help you to save your battery life using some internal setting.

Tips – 8: Don’t Use Auto Brightness Setting

If your brightness setting in auto mode then change it to manually. Because auto brightness setting use more battery power. Always use manual brightness setting and try to use low brightness. So you will get a long time battery life.
There are also have a lot of ways to save android phone battery life. If you follow the above tricks I hope you will get long time battery life then before.

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