[Galaxy S II I9100G Android Development] Kingspp:
Tips and Tricks

Tips and Tricks

Lockscreen:

1. Double click on the lock image (the area marked in the first picture below) can switch between music player and lockscreen.

2. Long press on Back key in lockscreen mode (without a password) can enter camera. You can find this function in Complete Settings——Buttons & keys.

3. Long press on Home button in lockscreen mode can turn on the flashlight. Press for three seconds until the phone vibrates, and the screen will turn black and the flashlight will remain on. To turn it off, just press anywhere on the screen.

4. Press volume up key and back key together can unlock the phone (without a password).

Call and Messaging:

1. You may have some important message in your SMS inbox, and want them to be the first ones you see when entering SMS. That indeed can be done. Just check the messages you need, and press Pin.

2. There're messages you don't want others to see? Add them to Private Message! Keep pulling the SMS page down and you'll enter the Private Message page.

3. When others ask you for another person's contact information, you may have to memorize it or take note of it and then tell them. But with MIUI, you don't have to go through all these trouble.

4. When sending group messages, we used to have to address all the receivers by the same name, and it sometimes seem to be a little impersonal. But with MIUI, those times have come to an end.

5. With MiCloud service, you can send messages from the computer. Just log into http://i.xiaomi.com

6. When there's an incoming call, the ringtone will automatically increase if you don't answer it in 30 seconds.

7. I beleive most of you have the experience of getting annoying sales calls. But when there's an unknown number calling, you have to answer in case it's something important. With MIUI, you can easily tell whether you should answer a call or not.

8. If two people both use the MIUI system, they can send free messages and pictures via the Internet.

9. If a call is important, you can record it or take notes of important contents.

10. Sometimes you forgot to switch your phone mode to Vibrate or Silence in a meeting or during an important conversation. If someone calls you and your phone rings, you may feel embaressed fumbling to turn the sound off. With MIUI, you can make your phone silent in a flip.

11. Some of you, especially boys, like to put your phone in your pocket. And if there's an incoming call, you may misoperate when taking the phone out. Here's a way to avoid this risk.

Comeplete settings—Display—Prevent misoperation

12. After you've changed your phone, all the contacts information can be imported to your new phone in a minute. Press Menu button in the Contacts page, choose Import/export, and then choose Import from other phone.

13. You may find your contacts have no avatars or location information, that's because you've turned on Simple mode. Solution? Turn it off. :)

14. What do you do when there're duplicate contacts in your phone? Delete one of them by yourself? Well, that's unnecessary if you use MIUI.

15. A quick way to add someone into blacklist.

At call or message page, press the avatar of the one you want to add to blacklist—select Add to blacklist—Save. And it's done.

System Operation:

1. How cool would it be if you can put whatever you want to say on the lockscreen page? Follow the steps below, and it will be done.

Settings ---- Security & Privacy ---- Screen Security ---- Owner info.

2. Long press on any icon in Toggles to enter its setting page. This design will actually save us a lot of time.

3. Want to sleep in on weekends but forgot to turn off the alarm clock? You won't have this problem if you use MIUI clock.

4. We all like to sleep a little longer after the alarm clock set off. In this situation, a snooze function is necessary. It's annoying If the snooze duration is too short, and you may start to worry if it's too long. In MIUI, you can set the snooze duration yourself!

5. Slide down on Notes icon to create a new note.

6. In File explorer, you can see how many items a folder contains, and delete the empty ones without mistake

7. Want to let some applications auto start and the others don't? It's your call. (Auto Start).

8. Use more data than your package allows every month? Always forget to check your data usage? Well, then you can choose to put it right in front of you, and you won't have to worry about over usage anymore.

Privacy Protection:

Sometimes your family or friends may want to use your phone, but there're contents you want to keep private. In this situation, you just need to turn on the Guarded mode. Settings ---- Security & Privacy ---- Privacy Protection ---- Guarded Mode.

Updater App:

1.You can download the latest full ROM using the Updater App. [Press Menu inside the app]

2.You can use the updater app as a file flasher application.

3.You can us the app to boot into recovery.

Backup App:

1.You can backup system data, installed apps, and synced contacts to various accounts.

2.You can encrypt backup with MiCloud account password.

You can set time for Automatic Backups.

You can visit this website for more detailed explanation

Not that hard to decide 4.3 or 4.2.2 AOSP .Still many more to come.....;)