No matter what you do in Android, there are five settings that everyone should know. These vital features range from limiting your use of cellular data to a cloud backup setting that preserves your data in case of bad things on your handset.
Enable Data Saver
Unless you have enrolled in one of these expensive unlimited data plans, you are probably monitoring your use of mobile data. Unfortunately, Android applications are notorious for engulfing more than their fair share of data, especially when they are in the background.
Once you have enabled the Android data backup feature, you can choose applications (such as Gmail) that can continue to use cellular data in the background.
This is why you must immediately activate the data backup feature of Android. With Data Saver enabled, your Android handset will restrict the background usage of cellular data, saving you unpleasant surprises on your monthly mobile bill.
Simply tap Settings> Data Usage> Data Saver, and then switch to the switch.
Blocking cellular data in the background has its disadvantages. For example, Data Saver will prevent Gmail from retrieving new messages, Twitter will not notify you of mentions unless you manually reload your feed and your favorite news app will not refresh its items until you bring it to the foreground .
Fortunately, you can choose applications that can continue to use mobile data in the background, while Data Saver is enabled. On the Data Saver Settings screen, tap Unrestricted Data Access, and then restart the switches next to the applications that you want Data Saver to skip while blocking the use of mobile data in the background.
Bonus Tip:
You will need to disable data saving before using your Android phone as a mobile access point. This in itself does not matter, but remember to re-enable data backup after you have disabled the access point of your handset. I made this mistake myself, and I have the data overflow charges to prove it.
Disable data roaming
Even if you have money for an unlimited data plan, you could still end up with unexpected data charges if you activated this particular setting.
If you do not like the unpleasant surprises on your monthly wireless bill, make sure to disable the Android data roaming setting.
The data roaming feature of Android allows your phone to use cellular data when you are "roaming" on another network (usually because you are outside the coverage area of your carrier). This is useful if constant access to cellular data is your top priority, but it could also result in heavy data loads if you are not careful.
To make sure that Data Roaming is disabled, touch Settings> Data usage, press the three-point button in the upper right corner of the screen, tap Cellular Network, and then clear the Data Roaming setting.
Disable Unknown Sources
One of the beauties of Android is that you are not restricted to the Google Play Store when it comes to applications. You can download and install apps from a third-party app store or website, from the Amazon App, and DownloadAtoZ up to Mobango and SlideMe without having to stop your device.
When Unknown Sources is disabled, you will block all non- Google Play applications that try to install on your Android phone.
The problem with third-party application stores, however, is that they do not necessarily go to lengths that Google makes to ensure that their applications are free of malware. Even worse, you might end up on a dubious website that tries to install a nasty malware on your phone without asking first.
This is why you want to make sure that the Android Unknown Sources setting is disabled or at least almost always turned off.
When enabled, Unknown Sources opens the door to all third-party applications that want to install - guest or not - on your handset. Turn on unknown sources and your Android phone will block the installation of any app that does not come from the Google Play store.
I recommend keeping unknown sources pretty much all the time unless you download applications from a trusted third-party source. Once you have completed the installation, be sure to disable the unknown sources again.
To enable or disable the Unknown sources setting, tap Settings> Security. You can find the Unknown sources parameter halfway up the list of security settings.
Set the battery saver to turn on automatically
Even though Android phones are becoming more powerful, the lifetime of the battery seems to decrease.
You can set the Android battery saver function to turn on when the battery life of your phone begins to decrease.
That's why Battery Saver is a must-have Android device. Once activated, Battery Save will change your device in low power mode (among other things), dimming the screen, turning off most of the application's basic activities and location services, and turning off other bells and whistles, while trying to squeeze each last drop of juice from the battery that fades from your phone.
The beauty of the battery saver mode is that you do not need to turn it on manually. Instead, you can set your handset to activate Battery Saver once the battery level of your phone drops below a certain level. Once your device is recharged, Battery Saver will turn off until it is needed again.
Faucet Settings> Battery> Battery Saver> Turn on automatically, then select the battery level at which the function will trigger: either 5 percent or 15 percent.
Keep your Android data backed up
Last but not least, you want to make sure that all data and application settings on your Android device are backed up to the cloud. Just switch a switch, and Android will periodically download snapshots of the current status of your mobile phone on Google Drive. If you already need to delete or even replace your phone, you can restore most of your data and settings to where you left off.
Enable the "Back up my data" setting to keep your phone's settings and app data preserved in Google Drive.
Tap Settings> Backup and Reset> Backup my data, and then switch to the switch. On the Backup and Reset main screen, you can specify which of your Google accounts (assuming you have more than one) that you want to use as a backup account, while Auto-restore guess) automatically restores any backup settings or data for an application that you have decided to reinstall.
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