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Old 24-12-2014, 04:04   #1
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Can anyone tell me what Widgets are on my phone.

I am bored and can't sleep so playing with my phone. There's loads of Samsung and Play apps that I haven't got a clue what they do. Then when I was looking at apps it had a tab marked Widgets.
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Old 24-12-2014, 07:48   #2
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They are mainly just different versions of some of your apps.
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Old 24-12-2014, 09:47   #3
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widgets are apps that sit on your home screens. the clock for example, or weather app, those are widgets.
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Old 24-12-2014, 10:07   #4
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widgets are apps that sit on your home screens. the clock for example, or weather app, those are widgets.
Ohh cheers Clivvy, hmm that seems like a recipe to slow my little Samsung down even further.

Does anyone use them or for that matter all the apps that Samsung insist you have such as chat on, flipboard, music hub and the rest.
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Old 24-12-2014, 10:19   #5
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only one I use is the analogue clock thingie on my lumina
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I use 2 Samsung's, and they both come loaded with c##p you can't remove.........

I have not noticed an appreciable slowing down, as you cannot tell anyway......I keep a 16gb card in each with my music ( I don't own an iPod), they work just fine. Put Android assistant set to aggressive on it, a battery monitor, and avast free on it.....
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Old 24-12-2014, 11:46   #7
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Mines really slow, removed apps such Farcebook and messenger and few others but still slow. Slow as in 3 or 4 seconds before i can dial a number as an example. I Factory reset it earlier this year but hasnt really made much difference.
I got AVG on mine, its just done an update on AVG and now seems to come up with silly adverts associated with AVG.

Whats Android Assistant?
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Old 24-12-2014, 11:52   #8
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I hate AVG, slowed all my machines nearly to a standstill, and I fear could be the real reason for your slow machine. Mine is loaded, and I have just experimented, and can start up a call from scratch immediately (S3 + S3mini) Android assistant is an automatic cleaner of ram and space, very useful.
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Old 24-12-2014, 12:03   #9
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ideally you should root the phone, then you can remove all the Samsung crap apps and speed it up a bit OR root it and put a custom firmware on, that will improve things no end.

What Samsung is it?>
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[QUOTE=johnb5177;279248]I use 2 Samsung's, and they both come loaded with c##p you can't remove.........

I have not noticed an appreciable slowing down, as you cannot tell anyway......I keep a 16gb card in each with my music ( I don't own an iPod), they work just fine. Put Android assistant set to aggressive on it, a battery monitor, and avast free on it.....[/QUOTE
I got a Galaxy ace from E Leclerc ,and it was ok just a few bits and bobs on it but that whent in the washing machine so I got another from the orange shop and that was full of c**p, but I ran over that one with the car
So now I have a Nokia windows phone and I cant belie how fast it is compared to the Samsung
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