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Top 5 Features in the Official Samsung Galaxy S IV User Instruction Manual

The Samsung Galaxy S IV is one of the most feature-rich smartphones ever released. The manual is over 140 pages long, and consists mostly of basic instructions for first time owners. Things like the icon guide will be great for first time users: For more advanced users, or for those of you who have previously [...]

Read the full article → May 2, 2013 How To

Protect your Galaxy S II, S III and other Exynos devices from Kernel Exploits

In their everlasting quest to root and dissect every single Android device, the XDA community has uncovered a serious exploit on one of Samsung’s most popular devices. While playing around with his Samsung Galaxy S III, XDA member alephzain discovered that he could obtain root without flashing with ODIN. Alephzain apparently discovered a serious exploit in the Exynos kernel that grants read/write access [...]

Read the full article → December 17, 2012 How To

How To: Take Panoramic Photos with the Galaxy S III Camera

I remember the first time I saw the Samsung E715–it was absolutely marvelous. A flip phone with not only an LED flash + camera combo, but an OLED front facing display. There has been plenty of hardware progression, but engineers on the software side of things have done some marvelous things in their own domain. Most notably [...]

Read the full article → October 15, 2012 How To

How To: Use the Samsung Galaxy S III’s S Beam and WiFi direct to transfer files

It’s amazing how many new features each generation of smartphones receives. From GPS, to front-facing cameras, and now innovative new connectivity methods such as NFC and WiFi direct, it never ceases to amaze me how engineers keep cramming in all of this great stuff! Now that it’s in our phones, it’s up to us to [...]

Read the full article → October 11, 2012 How To

How To: Manually install flash on your Samsung Android Device

One of the big selling points of Android devices was their Adobe Flash compatibility. Now that flash is being phased out of convention, you won’t be able to download flash from the Play Market. That however doesn’t mean that you can’t get it. Disclaimer: We at CareAce take no responsibility for the results of the [...]

Read the full article → October 3, 2012 How To

How To: Create your own custom vibration notifications on your Samsung Galaxy S III

One of the most interesting features I was able to find in my new Galaxy S III was the ability to create your own custom vibration notification. I’ve been used to making custom ringtones and notification sounds, but this is my first time creating a custom vibration–if it’s yours too, here’s a step-by-step guide: 1. Hit [...]

Read the full article → October 2, 2012 How To

How To: Change or add lock screen shortcuts on the Samsung Galaxy S III

One of my favorite features of the Galaxy S III is the new and improved lock screen. With the latest version of TouchWiz, Samsung has not only included some key shortcut spots on the lock screen, they have also given you the ability to customize them and add your own selection of app shortcuts. First–if you haven’t [...]

Read the full article → September 28, 2012 How To

How To: Hide and remove bloatware applications from your Galaxy S III

Bloatware has been filling the app drawers of our Galaxy devices ever since the venerable line landed stateside. Finally after 3 generations of devices, we have a default option to remove all this nonsense. No rooting or hacking about to get this working now. Although you can’t technically uninstall them, you can hide any application from your [...]

Read the full article → September 26, 2012 How To

Tip: Decrease the Galaxy S III’s home button activation lag/latency

In addition to taking you to your homescreen, the Galaxy S III’s physical home button is used to activate Samsung’s S Voice feature By default, double clicking the home button will automatically bring up S Voice. However, in order to recognize a double click, the Galaxy S III must add a few milliseconds of delay [...]

Read the full article → September 7, 2012 How To

Tip: View the notification bar on the Galaxy S III while playing a game or full screen app

Ever gotten a notification alert while playing a game or using a fullscreen app, but been to lazy to exit out of the game to go check what it was? Well now you can save yourself the curiosity and trouble with Samsung’s built in notification bar gesture command. To activate this notification bar while using [...]

Read the full article → September 6, 2012 How To

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