

When plugged into a PC, your Galaxy S5’s storage will just show up as a disk drive. Gmail is one of them.Īlternatively, to transfer a whole bunch of photos at once you’re better of doing so over USB. Go to the Gallery app, tap the icon that looks like the outline of a triangle with three little nodes in it and you’ll see the list of places you can ‘share’ your photo. The Galaxy S5 lets you email your photos pretty easily. Getting photos off your phone is something people seem to do more and more rarely as the years pass, but the Galaxy S5 camera is actually able to capture photos worth printing out – it’s worth considering. If we’re honest, we don’t always do this. The general recommendation is to make sure you have backed-up any valuable data before updating.
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This searches for any new (or downloaded) updates and prompts you to install them. Go to the Galaxy S5’s Settings menu, flick down to About Device and in this menu select the top item – Software Update. These days phones invariably let you know when a software update pops up, and usually nag you about it until you give in and install it.
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How to check you have the latest software update Exactly how this info will be presented depends on the phone you use and how its UI works. Then when you login on the new phone, it’ll all sync over. This will sync all your contacts data with a Google Mail account. In the Contacts/People app of your old phone, go to the Settings menu and look for an option called merge contacts/account. If you have your old phone handy, there is a more refined way, though. If you have accounts, you’ll be asked whether you want to merge contacts data – do this and you’ll get plenty of extra bits. First, if you don’t have your old phone anymore you can download the Facebook and Twitter apps.

There are a few ways to make up for the missing bits. Just put the SIM in, log into your Google account and you’ll invariably find – in our experience – that it hasn’t. The most annoying thing about changing phones is having to make sure all your data has made it over from your old mobile. We’ll start off with the basics, but read on for some real advanced hints. Whether you’re a new Galaxy S5 owner of have been using one for six months, we have the tips, tricks and secret features you need to unlock your phone’s real power. It can do an awful lot of stuff, and most of it is hidden under the surface.

Tens of millions of them are used worldwide.īut we’d bet less than one percent of Galaxy S5 users have got close to really tapping into the full potential of the phone. The Samsung Galaxy S5 has become one of the most successful phones ever.
