How to reset Samsung Galaxy s4

this is the htc one, on its home screen and one of the first things that we can notice is if we swipe to our left side effectively, if we swipe from the left to the right we bring up our blinkfeed. and this is basically our newsfeed as i mentioned earlier. it rounds up data and information from a variety of different sources facebook and so on and it creates us really a live feed of what's going on in our lives and around the world. blinkfeed, it works pretty well, certainly what we're seeing see here so far feels so much

more fluid and inviting than the previous blinkfeed. you know? colours aside, it being nice android green itdoes feel quite a bit better than the previous blinkfeed. not onlysmoother and faster but generally pulling in from google+ now as well which is nice. but generally speaking it just feels quite a bit more user-friendly than the previous editions which could attimes, well be a bit clunky would be my feeling. so

let's move on to the rest of the system if you've used the previous versions of sense everything here looks pretty much thesame. your icons certainly don't appear to have been given a massive makeover, including the camera icon that looks very reminiscent of last year. we have all of the usual android 4.4 features here. this is kitkat remember. so things like thetransparent bars up at the top and the way some of our settings work and so on, everything there is android 4.4. down here we have our dock and this is where we can get hold of

all of our apps which google has very helpfully pre-installed, even the stuff i didn't want it to. which is handy. it's taken everything frommy nexus 5 and dropped it across. useful in some respects but not necessarily when we're trying to do a first test on a device, but never mind. so that takes us into our home area, into our dock and from therewe've got various features that allow us to kind of rearrange these apps, show and hide apps as well, change our grid size and manage them. manage apps allows us to remove apps that we've downloaded as well as seeing how much space we've got. now this is actually the 16 gig model

that we've got here. we can also see what's on the sd card which is a bit of a misnomer because actually the sd card isinternal storage in this particular scenario with the wayandroid works at the moment. so we can see there that i've used up about 7.65 gig, it's still installing stuff in the background, we've got about half the space left over but actually i think this device probably going to be about 6gig. i'll have to give it a wipe later and just get the final, you know free space at install count for you but

somehow i've actually managed to get flappy bird on here as well. but anyway. so let's move on. when we actually look at our home screens. there we go, these are our widgets.so you can pinch anywhere to bring up your widgets and adjustyour home screens and new panels etcetera. works very nicely, really nice and fluid. very similar to the galaxy s4 and pretty much any other android launcher you've ever used. we've got the weather widget up at the top which iswell and truly loved by all, well, pretty much everybody. but anyway, let's move on now and take a look

around the rest of the system. one of the key areas to always take a look at is our settings area. so when we actually come intohere, this is our notification tray and this is where all of our notifications live,sometimes known as the notification shade by some and what we have here, we can dismiss using that icon. or if we click on this one it brings up our kind of quick launch options here for brightness control, turningbluetooth and wifi on or off. here's our extreme power mode option, we'll have a play with that in a bit, turn your mobile data, do not disturb and a few other

bits and bobs in there as well. but actually what we want is we want to go into our settings. so, if you've ever used a htc device before hey welcome to htc's way of doing settings. it tends to be a great big long list and you have to go through. again we have some of our kind of quick settings here which are more expandable or quick and easy to access. so we tap onthe airplane mode and it will turn any of our wifi signals 3g or 4g signals off. if we turn on wifi we can go and pick from a wifi networks. bluetooth we're allowed to turn bluetooth on

and set up our bluetooth devices. mobile data pretty obvious one, turns our mobile data on and off but also in there you have your ability to set your roving information access points, your network mode and so on. all of those very important if you happen to have, you know a sim card you're just dropping in, you need your apn settings. you will find more in there to change. your media output... now in previous editions this is effectively like a mirrorcast kind of thing. it allows you to stream data fromyour device videos, pictures, music to a receiver and usually these are dlna based receivers

digital living network alliance for those that like acronyms. if we go into more. this is where we have yet more features related to the memory usage etcetera. i noticed that it's saying htc mini-plus in here which is quite interesting. that's obviously for a completely different device. presumably that's something that's left over from hmm, interesting. we'll look into that in more detail but i noticed that dotted around the interface in a few places making these references to htc mini-plus.i honestly haven't seen what that's exactly about. i assume it's a device

but very strange. if you happen to knowwhat this information here is, the htc mini-plusdo let me know - could be a fitness band maybe, or maybe it's a leftover piece of another phone that they haven't quite removed yet. our vpn settings if you're a network-based kind of person wanting to connect to corporate networks. mobile network sharing this is your tethering basically, so wifi hotspot, usb or bluetooth tethers. very useful. glad we're still seeing that in there and it hasn't been forcibly removed by the networks. you can with android 4.4, this is 4.4 feature change who

or what your default sms app is going to be. very, very useful for those people that like to use things, you know don't really like the built-in sms app or want to use hangouts for instance, you can use that just change it in there. and here's your nfc toggle as well which is a little bit buried. i would prefer to have seen it kind of more central here rather than just being buried away there i'm someone who likes turning nfc on and off when i actually need it rather then leave it running in the background. personalisation - here is where we get tochange the look and feel of our lovely new

device. we've got our home screen, our wallpapers,apps and widgets, the lock screen ping, ringtones, notification, everything in also notification sound should i say which is lotus. let's listen to some of these. i think these are very much similar to ones we have had previously from htc. nothing particularly new there i don't think, lets just leave it on willow. so in here we can make adjustments to well so far in home screen just blinkfeed, no other option and apparently it just throws us straight back out.

i think that's probably where our launcherswill get collected up so if you have a few launchers you will be able to switch between them. that's another piece of i think it's android 4.4but it might have been in a previous edition, like 4.22 can't quite remember or maybe in 4.3. so other things in personalisation, changingthe wallpaper wow there is a fair few different options there so htc's built-in wallpapers, your live wallpapers, gallery, computer photos and astro file manager. astro file manager is appearing there because i have just installed that in the background,

apps and widgets actually brings us back to our pinch contextuality there so effectively just keeping that functionality exactly the same. in some respects i actually prefer that to the way samsung do it where kind of end up having two or three different metaphors for doing exactly the same action. htc there just saying to people well actually guys you can just use a pinch to zoom there and just dropping people straight into it. i quite like that actually. your home screen pages again that's bringing it,

we've seen this kind of functionality before, this is very standard way of altering home screens adding new panelsmoving things around etcetera. it does mean i have to keep coming back into here. the theme is reasonable. let's change that and let's just see if it makes any major changes to our icons. no. it's pretty much just a wallpaper really. oh, but it's also updated this to a purple taking on a kind of hue from here so it's effectively skinning bits of htc's system as it were but it's not making major changes to the icons.

bit of a shame. it would have been nice if they kind of embraced that a little bit more maybe. yes, it's changed these up to purple as well. that's kind of cool. but i think we are a little bit reliant there on htc to provide these new themes and colour ways as opposed to having that flexibility built-in natively. that would be lovely maybe we will see that for a future update. accounts and sync. this is pretty standardstuff. if you've ever used an android device this iswhere you will find your syncing settings and this is where you can turn your auto sync on, add new accounts etcetera, picking from

a wide variety of different things. some of these will already be installed purely because the apps have installed in the background from google others will be built-in by default. apologies, i can't quite tell you which onesare which at this point. google obviously and htc are definite,anything else in there may very well be because of my background installs kicked in, worst luck. we then have location. now this isobviously an important one from a battery saving point of view. if you're concerned about your battery lifeat all then you may very well want to come in and make some changes

on this. you can see its mode is battery saving by default. you might want just device only or you mightwant higher accuracy bearing in mind these options drain your battery. you really do want to kind of keep an eye on that and just make sure if you are losing quite a lot of battery life it could well be something in here that's querying your location quite a lot. you can go and pop it on low battery or disable that particular app from using the gps and your locationinformation. now security is always an area people are very very interested in.

everything here is going to be pretty muchthe standard kind of affair. you have your long list of options. they're getting longerevery year it seems but effectively in here we have screen lock which gives us a few different options. you've got no screen lock, face unlock which is standard stuff these days. it would look at your face and if it sees it is you, it will let you in. apattern you can draw a pattern on the screen, if the pattern matches your log in pin then enter a pin number just like your bank cardand a password lock as it might sound, enter a password and it will let you in.

enable lock screen widgets, this is a feature from android 4.3 if memory serves, this allows any of your widgets to also live on your lock screen, so without you having to actually go in and unlock your device you can access information. be aware from asecurity point of view if you have things like gmail, or your smsmessages or even your camera as a widget on your lock screen you are leaving yourself open to a potential security issue. you have kid mode this has become very popular with a lot of the main manufacturers now. the idea there is that you can set-up your device with a cut down

series of apps that only your kids can useand other options for instance like locking out in-app purchases and so on. these work in combination with some of google's newer features within the play store. we then have notification settings sowhich notifications will appear on the lock screen. it's a little bit limited as you can see. itvery much is only basic functionality of the smartphone device. this is pretty normal though i'm, so you can have your emails, your calendar again security with things like this. so unlock for music automatically, you can bypass the security screen whenlaunching music.

that's let's hope it only lets you into the music app and there's not some way you can then trick it to go straight into theactual desktop itself. we will check for that. incoming phone calls very very useful so hide private contact names and photos on the security lock so if you get a call coming in it won't display that information. it will just say there's a call coming in, very handy. make your passwords visible? no! effectively that means when when you're typing a password on the system it will show you the characters you've been typing in.

personally, never, ever ever allow that onany device ever anywhere. essentially it's muchbetter to find that you've accidentally put in the wrong password and be asked to put it inagain than run the risk of somebody being able tosee exactly what you've keyed in. more important than ever when we're starting to use smartphones now as authenticating devices. so if you want to access your google account for instance, you can have google send a token or a text message down to your smartphone that allows you to authenticate. you can imagine that if you got thatpassword visible there you're adding a security risk in for your self.

just a tip from me basically. deviceadministrators. this allows you to really set thirdparties, maybe it's your boss's it guy or whoever to administer the device remotely and this also ties into things like google's android device administation system which allows you to find your phone remotely as well as lock it, wipe it and so on. unknown sources this is used again this can be a bigsecurity issue. it's very much a kind of power user option. ifthere is an app you want to install that

isn't on the google market, googleplay market and you kind of want to get it onto your phone, you can side load using this and that basically means you drop the app onto your device and then you install itmanually. we'll go through that in more detail in a video later in the week. but that's one of those options whichis there for power users it is not something i would recommend for 99.99%of people. leave that unchecked. verifying apps, really important. you do wantto leave this on. what it will do double check against google's database of bad apps that might have viruses or malware

or be stealing. personal information if it sees a matching app it won't let you install it. it's kind of like the uber firewall for your phone effectively for your apps and again if you have unknown sources turned onbut you do have that ticked it will double check anyway to see if there's a problem with the app. so it can be quite useful as an extra safety net there. notification access. apps cannot readnotifications. you can turn those things on if you want and that means that if you have notifications there apps canquery that and do additional

things basically. your storage tab is this is basically your credentials so this is useful for corporates and government installations that need toknow that this is a trusted device with security on board etcetera and that's really giving you that. it's really something that for most people is going to be of no use whatsoever. but it's really there for those corporates for those people trying to transition away from blackberry. and you can also set up your sim cardlock in here as well. why you would want to in this day and ageis beyond me buy you've got that option there.

now let's move on to the next area. ok, so next up is accessibility that is always quite important for awide range of people because not everybody is 100% able-bodied and so weneed smartphones that can kind of tune themselves a little bit more to what we as individuals are actuallycapable of and so we have some of these features here. the talkback willallow you to get a auditory cue from the system to helpblind and low vision users. so describe what you've touched andselect and activated. this is the first time

i've really seen this on a smartphone and we're going to be testing it out and i think this is just a great little feature. accessibility is something i believe in, you know 100%. to date technology has amazing abilitiesbut it still keeps leaving people behind. this is an opportunity to kind of redress that a little bit. you can change your font size and a reallyimportant thing, captions in video, magnification power button to end the calls, making it easier for people to manipulate the phone without having to kind of reach around and so on which might not work

for their particular disability. autorotation,speaking passwords, security point of view and so on. you've also got a text to speech output here which can actually change what voice is going to be used whatspeed rates and so on. and all of this is working so that you know you've got united kingdom there but if you're from a different country it may come as default on a differentlanguage etcetera but that's where you can change everythingin there. speech rate is probably one of the most important aspect

if you're going to be using that functionality. it doesn't need to be garbled, if it's too quick you're not going to be able to understand it but likewise if it's too slow then it actually becomes like a drawn out arrgh noise. so again that is where those functions are. do have a play with them. i know a lot of people who don't havedisabilities that still find these features really useful in aiding them using their smartphone making things just a little bit quicker sosomething worth exploring. your back-up and reset this is your standard stuff on every android device we've ever seen. with an extra twist that we've got the htc back-up option in there.

now what this really means for us morethan anything else is this is where we can either back up our smartphone to the cloud we can download our backup history if we need to i believe in there. once we've got some but more importantly this is where we can reset all of the data on the device as well. so if you're passing the device on to somebody else and you need to blank it, you can reset your phone in here and everything will wipe back to factory, they'll have to pop in their details again. we've got an option there to get content fromanother phone. this is part of this kind of transition migration process that a lot of smartphones are now using.

it allows you to bring your data from backberry, samsungs, iphones etcetera onto your new device. displays and gestures. this is going to be an interesting one we're going to have to go through in a bit more detail but what they've done here is kind of roundedup some of the features that would normally appear in displays and you've got this gestures option as well. so what we have here is we've got our font controls, our screen brightness how longthe timeout it will last, daydream - i've never used daydream yet on any android device. it feels like it wassomething they added and it's just never turned

into anything useful. but essentially what that allows you to do,when it's docked, it's idle it'll show pictures on the screen like a photo frame. woo. just never felt that important to me. it's certainly isn't a stand out feature of anything in android. your notification lightyou can change how that's going to be operating what things it's going to be working with. asit stands it's a pretty slimmed down list. you may want to get an app called light flow which will allow youto kind of tweak those how you would

like. we've also got our motion sensing motionlaunch gestures in here and we're going to be going through this in more detail but essentially it allows you when the device is off without having to actually go into the lock screen and everything like that double tap on the screen swipe and thenhave actions performed for you, so double tapping pick up the phone in portrait orientation and double tap to wake. instead of me haven't to actually press a button i can just double tap. we'll show you how well that works later on after we've gone through all of this. you can see there, there's a fair few different options

in there that we can be making use of. we've also got the gyro sensorcalibration in there if you actually need it, very rare you do. then we also have sound calls, apps storageand so on. let's just have a quick flick through some of these. sound, it's going to be pretty much the muchness if you've ever used an android device before. pocket mode is useful. if it detects it's in your pocket it will ring louder. brilliant, especially whenyou've got such huge speakers. we can go in here and we've got lots of things we can touch. how nice is it to see they've disabled that by

default? samsung could learn a thing ortwo from that. one of the most annoying things with samsung devices when you reset them is having the touch sounds constantly going peep peep peep until we turn them off. htc decided they weren't going to annoy anybody straight out of the box. leave that one for people to turn on their own. i thank you htc for that one small mercy. you've got various options there to turn off your vibrate on touch, pull to refresh etcetera. it's all there for you to customise.

how calls are going to be handled actually is greyed out at the moment. i've got no sim in there, we'll go back and we'll take a look at that at another time. apps. we've seen thisbefore this is where all of our apps are being stored and effectively we can go in and uninstall them manipulate them however we want to, so for instance if i want to come into here, i've then got the ability to uninstall theapp disable the app, force it into gpu rendering if you really really need to and you can see how much space it's using up as well. another option there is clearing the cache if you need to, something useful if you have a particularly troublesome app that's crashing a lot.

storage this really should be very similar to apps in many respects but it shows you a breakdown of what is using up information rounded upso your apps are using 2.5gig, music 87meg, photos and video 75meg so actually this other 5.24 this is ourbase operating system so htc are only using 5.2 gig. now you contrast that to someone likesamsung who've been getting nearly 9-10 gig

snatched from the device before you can install thing into it. this is a pretty slimmed down device from a software stack point of view there's not an awful lot of software kind ofbloating things out. wonderful. really like to see things likethat. power this is where things should get moderatelyinteresting for us. optimise the battery life you can turn that on. extreme power saving mode we turn that onand it will give us a run down of what that's going to do. consider the cpu usage, reduce screenbrightness, turn off vibration feedback, turn off data connection allowing only essential apps to run and turning off

pedometer. now essentially what that does is it puts the entire device into the lowest power mode it can. it's still alivebut only just. the idea there is to really eke out as muchbattery as possible so you drop that on at night. you don't need your device sat there cranking through even at kind of low power. you want it really to have very very very little power going toanything unless it actually needs that power. that's veryunlikely at night. so it gives that nice halfway house between turning your device off completely and potentially missing an urgent call

and actually having a device availablefor you. so a very useful thing i think and it's going to bereally interesting to see how that actually plays out in increasing battery life. some folks have said that it's increasing battery life into the hundreds of hours mark. that's going to be a really interesting thing to see. if it's true and if also samsung'stechnology stacks up the same way it's going to be something of a watershed moment for smartphones really, something we should certainly expect to see other manufacturers copy. our language and keyboard is where we can change our keyboard funnily enough but also our text to speech input as well

and if you happen to install a third partykeyboard like swipe in here you can find the kind of app settings there to manipulate if you need to. funnily enough that allows us to set our dates and time as well as setting up things like automatic time zone and automatic updates from the network. usefulif you happen to be roaming and you're concerned about the time zone changes, you can change that in there. and a feature that's been added of late is printing and cloud printing services and that basically works with google's cloud print so that you can print directlyfrom your smartphone to a printer

across the internet. and that printer could beon the other side of the world for all the smartphone cares. it willjust happily print where it's been set up in your account. so that's all of our core settings. yes now go and take a good look at some of htc's software they've added, things like the camera. thanks for watching, we hope you enjoyed this video. do pleaseremember to like and comment and if you'd like to, please subscribe. you can also visit our website and download our android app. if you dosubscribe you'll be getting a daily dose of the latest tech news,

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