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By default, the Accuweather widget on your home screen displays a picture in the background and it will change based on the current weather forecast. However, if you don't like the background picture, you can adjust the widget transparency in the widget settings menu so that the background picture of the widget will be invisible.


How to make the Accuweather widget becomes transparent?
You can do so by using the following steps:
Tap the Accuweather widget on your home screen.Tap or long press the Recent apps key to open up the additional options and then select Settings.Tap Widget transparency. By default, the widget transparency is set to 0%.Drag the widget transparency adjustment bar to the rightmost, or in other words, you have to adjust the widget transparency up to 100%. You'll get the preview when adjusting the widget transparency so that you'll get an idea how it might look like when the transparency has been adjusted.Press the Home key to go to your home screen and …

Instead of manually enable or disable Wi-Fi connection in your phone, you can set your phone to auto-connect to or auto-disconnect from Wi-Fi networks at the times you want. You can do so by setting the Wi-Fi timer so that your phone will automatically enable or disable Wi-Fi at the scheduled times.


How to set Wi-Fi timer?
You can do so by using the following steps:
On any screen, swipe down the top of the screen to open the notification panel and then tap to go to the settings menu.With the settings menu is displayed in grid view, scroll down to the Network connection section and then tap Wi-Fi.If Wi-Fi is off, tap the ON/OFF switch to turn it on.Tap or long press the Recent apps key to open up the additional options and then select Advanced.Tap Wi-Fi timer.Set a starting time:Check the box next to Set start time.Tap the Wi-Fi timer (hour and minute) to adjust the starting time when your phone has to enable Wi-Fi.Set an ending time:Check the box next to Set end time.Tap the Wi-Fi ti…

Face tag is a Facebook-like feature that can be found in the stock Gallery app. This is a neat feature that will let your phone scans your photos using facial recognition to detect faces within the photos. When a face has been detected, a white frame will be appeared around the face to let you tag a contact or name to the face. But, as same as other features, this feature is loved by some but hated by other. Thus, if you're distracted with the white frames around the faces when viewing your photos then you can easily get rid those frames from your photos by disabling the face tag feature in the stock Gallery app.


How to turn off the face tag feature in the stock Gallery app?
You can do so by using the following steps:
Open the stock Gallery app.Tap or long press the Recent apps key to open up the additional options and then select Settings.Scroll the screen to the very bottom.Clear the checkbox next to the Face tag to disable it.The face tag feature has been disabled and the white …

If you often make a call to a contact whose phone number has extensions, instead of entering the extensions number manually each time you call him, you can make it simpler by setting your phone to automatically call the extensions. All you have to do is by adding a pause or a comma(,) after the regular phone number and then add the extensions number. By doing this, once the call is answered, your phone will wait for 2 seconds before dialing the next set of the extensions number after the pause or comma(,).


How to add a pause into a contact for auto dialing extensions?
As the example, say that you're going to call your friend at his company. Your friend's company phone number is 1234567899 and the extensions is 231. You can set your phone to automatically call the extensions by adding a pause and the extensions number after the regular phone number by using the following steps:
Open Contacts app.If needed, tap the Contacts tab to view your contacts list.Tap the required contact.…

The stock Contacts app lets you display contacts from other sources or accounts, e.g: Google account, Facebook account, etc. Some of contacts from those accounts sometimes don't have phone number inside or only contain with email address. For any reason, if you don't want the Contacts app displays contacts without phone numbers then you have to set this app to only show contacts with phone numbers and hide other contacts.


How to show only contacts with phone numbers?
You can do so by using the following steps:
Open Contacts app.Tap or long press the Recent apps key to open up the additional options and then select Settings.Tap Contacts.Check the box next to Only contacts with phones to enable this option so that only contacts with phone numbers which will be shown.Press the Back key twice to go back to your contacts list.The Contacts app will display only contacts with phone numbers and hide other contacts.

The name listed in the device name option will be displayed in other devices to represent your device when you need to connect your phone to transfer files using Bluetooth or Wi-Fi direct, or when you need to connect your phone to share media file using the nearby devices feature. Since Samsung Galaxy S5 uses its name as the default device name which is too general then you may need to change the device name to a more personal or unique so that others can easily recognize your device from its name. Using a unique name can also prevent the other devices from accidentally sending files or share media files to the wrong device.


How to change the device name?
You can use the following steps to change the name for Bluetooth, Wi-Fi direct and the nearby devices at once:
On any screen, swipe down the top of the screen to open up the notification panel and then tap to go to the settings menu.With the settings menu is displayed in grid view, scroll down to then System section and then tap About…