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Enjoy Smartphones More With These Tricks!

By Bridget
28 July 2016   |   11:05 am
There are some tech hacks which are necessary for our everyday use of smartphones or even computers. They serve as ways we can bypass or use a part of some technologies that we weren’t aware existed. A couple of these interesting tech hacks exists and we thought to share. Enjoy sounds equally while sharing your…

There are some tech hacks which are necessary for our everyday use of smartphones or even computers. They serve as ways we can bypass or use a part of some technologies that we weren’t aware existed. A couple of these interesting tech hacks exists and we thought to share.
  1. Enjoy sounds equally while sharing your earpiece with a friend with Mono Audio:

Mono audio is an accessibility feature that ensures you never miss a word, note, or sound when listening to your iPhone or iPad with a headset on; even if you’re hard of hearing or deaf in one ear. The typical stereo audio includes distinct left and right channels, ensuring both ears get sound equally.

Enjoy Smartphones More With These Tricks!

The hack, when you share your earbuds with someone, the quality of sound you receive deteriorates because you have unplugged one earpiece, turn on the Mono audio or adjust the volume independently for either ear making it easy for both you and your friend to enjoy sound seamlessly.

Enjoy Smartphones More With These Tricks!

How do you get this feature working on your system? (1) Launch the Setting app on your phone or IPad, (2) Tap on General, (3) Tap on accessibility, (4) Under the Hearing section, turn on the option for Mono Audio.

  1. Smartphone Sound Booster:

Put your smartphone in an empty bowl or cup and it will increase the volume of your phone. You can also plug your earpiece on your phone and place two cups the earpiece as shown below to amplify the volume:

Enjoy Smartphones More With These Tricks!

Check out this video to see how it works:

  1. Drain that pool in your phone using a sack of rice:

A couple of persons have actually had scenarios such as this, where their phones mistakenly dropped into water, they’ve obviously heard of this hack, so they tried it out-and it worked! I mean they could swear it. So there you go, if you ever have that incident with your phone where it drowned in water and all, put your phone in a bag of rice immediately and leave it overnight. The rice will soak up most of the moisture from your phone. It should work the next day.

Enjoy Smartphones More With These Tricks!

  1. Call the alarm

If your neighbour’s incessant alarm doesn’t stop ringing and the owner has refused to get up and put it off, you can call your neighbour’s phone number to turn off the alarm.

  1. Use the Airplane mode to your advantage

Are you a game lover but you worry the ads coming in doesn’t just give you the most pleasurable experience? The best way to stop ads is to play the game in Airplane Mode. This way, you won’t have internet access for the ads to come in.

Credit: pintriedit.com, imore.com, lifehacker.com.

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