[Galaxy S II General] titanic_fanatic:
Tips & Tricks

Tips & Tricks

The following list of tips & tricks should help you setup your new SlimBean ROM for daily use.

Network Setup - Wi-Fi

1) Go to System Settings -> Wireless & Network -> Wireless -> Settings -> Advanced

2) Turn off "Network notification" (Helps save battery)

3) Set "Keep Wi-Fi on during sleep" to "Never" (Helps save battery, but uses more data)

4) Turn on "Avoid poor connections" (Helps save battery by not constantly trying to connect to a network with poor signal strenth)

5) Go back to System Settings -> Wireless & Network -> More

6) Disable NFC unless you have the required battery case to make it work.

7) Click on "Mobile Networks".

8) Select "Network Mode" and choose "LTE/GSM/WCDMA"

9) Click on "Access Point Names"

10) Choose "Bell Flex"

Automatic Backlight Settings

XDA Senior member rukusx7 has graciously contributed his custom automatic backlight values and they have been built into the ROM. To use them, follow the steps below:

1) Go to System Settings -> ROM -> Interface -> Display -> Automatic Backlight

2) Check "Enabled"

Voicemail Settings

Bell provides us with a national voicemail number which is a free call from anywhere in Canada. This is great if you are travelling and would like to check your voicemail. Follow the steps below to set the national voicemail for speed dial #1:

1) Go to Phone app -> Menu -> Settings -> Other Call Settings -> Voicemail -> Setup -> Voicemail Number

2) Set the voicemail number to the following: +16473832355

3) Go back to Call Settings -> Other Call Settings -> Additional Settings -> My Phone Number

4) Set your number to +1xxxxxxxxxx... Remember to precede your number with +1.

Youtube/Video Overlays

You may notice that the video controls do not display on top of the video in youtube and other related players. To fix this, just go to System Settings -> Developer Options, enable Developer Options, and check "Disable HW overlays". This setting needs to be enabled every time the phone reboots.

Media Scanner

Media scanner is an app that runs in the background everytime the phone boots up. It looks for changes and updates to your media files (audio, video and picture). You should let the media scanner run for at least 30 mins to an hour after a fresh ROM install depending on how much media you have on your internal/external sdcard. After this is done once, it's not really necessary for it to run all the time if your media rarely changes. Allowing media scanner to run only consumes your battery. You can, however, control the behaviour of the media scanner and stop it from scanning. You would use an app from the market called "Rescan Media". This small app has two functions, disable media scanner and enable media scanner. To disable your media scanner, just open the app and press disable and the media scanner will be disabled until next boot. Yes, you must do this everytime you boot your phone.

Saving Battery

There are a couple of other tricks that can be used to save battery.

1) Google Play Services is notorious as a consumer of your battery. To stop him from consuming all your battery power, open the Google Play app then go to Settings and disable "Notifications" and "Automatic Updates". This will stop the Play Store app from "checking in" and will help to conserve battery. Remember that you will no longer get notifications of updates to your apps, so you will need to remember to look for these updates yourself by opening the Play Store app then press Menu -> My Apps.

2) Social Media apps are huge consumers of battery as they are constantly checking for updates to your account. This behaviour can usually be changed to suit your needs on a per app basis, but in the case of Facebook, I recommend disabling notifications entirely as it is one of the worst consumers of battery. Disabling Facebook notifications will surely increase your battery by a few percentage points.