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24-12-2014, 04:04
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Widgets
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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24-12-2014, 07:48
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They are mainly just different versions of some of your apps.
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24-12-2014, 09:47
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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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24-12-2014, 10:07
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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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24-12-2014, 10:19
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only one I use is the analogue clock thingie on my lumina
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24-12-2014, 11:37
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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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24-12-2014, 11:46
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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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24-12-2014, 11:52
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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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24-12-2014, 12:03
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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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24-12-2014, 16:59
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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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