If you connect your PC with the Samsung Galaxy S5 via a USB 3.0 cable, then it may happen that the following information message appears on the screen:

"USB 3.0 This device can perform faster - This USB Mass Storage Device can transfer information faster if you connect it to a Super-Speed USB 3.0 port "

Now you will surely be surprised because the Samsung Galaxy S5 is already connected with a USB 3.0 cable to the USB 3.0 port on your computer (check again ;-)).
The reason is a setting on your Samsung Galaxy S5 which triggers this message to your Windows PC. That is why we show you now how the Samsung Galaxy S5 works as USB 3.0 media device. This is quite simply:

Connect your Samsung Galaxy S5 normally with your Windows PC via USB 3.0 cable. Once connected, pull down the status bar on your Samsung Galaxy S5 and tap on "When connected as media device - More Options". It will now appear the following settings menu:
 
By default, the entry "MTP media device" is activated if your Samsung Galaxy S5 connects to the Windows PC. This triggers the message that you saw at the beginning of the article. Now to connect the Samsung Galaxy S5 via USB 3.0 media device to the PC, you must set "(3.0 USB) media device". This allows you to transfer media files in Windows via USB 3.0 Super-Speed.

You know now how you enable on your Samsung Galaxy S5 the correct setting for data to be transferred quickly over your USB 3.0 connection to a Windows PC.

It can happen to you on your Samsung Galaxy S5 that the status bar can no longer be see while browsing with the Android browser. This is a function of the browser, which should make it possible to display a web page in full screen. If you interfere with that and you prefer to have the status bar again in the Android browser on your Samsung Galaxy S5, then you have to do the following:

Open on your Samsung Galaxy S5 the Android browser. Tap now at the top right on the three-point icon and then in the pop-up menu, click "Settings". Here you will find already in the next sub-menu the "status bar" option. Set a check mark in the check box to display the status bar always within the Android browser. Finished!

The status bar is from now on always visible on your Samsung Galaxy S5 in the status bar.

Who installed on the Samsung Galaxy S5, the new firmware update Android Lollipop, has now the comfortable ability to manage application notifications. Application Notifications are messages that are displayed by an application on the screen or in the status bar of the Samsung Galaxy S5. The most apps give out such notifications. Runtastic for example reminds you of workouts and fitness plans.

The management of the application notifications in Android lollipop on the Samsung Galaxy S5 can easily be handled.

We show you now there in Android lollipop these settings can be made on the Samsung Galaxy S5.

For this open the following submenu:

Home Screen --> App Menu --> Settings --> Sounds & Notifications --> Application Notifications

Here you can see all apps, where you can enable or disable the notifications on the Samsung Galaxy S5. Just tap on an app and remove the "Show Notifications" hook to not to display them. Otherwise to activate the notification, the hook must of course be set in the checkbox to activate the function.

You know now how to activate on the Samsung Galaxy S5 convenient and comfortable notifications of apps.

Once you have upgraded your Samsung Galaxy S5 to the new operating system Android lollipop 5.0, you may have noticed that in the camera app the following setting is missing:

• Image stabilizer for photos

Unfortunately, this option was removed with the update to Android lollipop on the Samsung Galaxy S5. The background for this is unclear, but one reason could be that the image stabilizer is now fused with the "Automatic night detection". Because the image stabilizer of the Samsung Galaxy S5, which is digital, not optical, is usually used only in low light situations.

In any case, the digital image stabilizer does not come back on the Samsung Galaxy S5 with Android Lollipop. Our recommendation:

Enable “Auto Night detection” on your Samsung Galaxy S5 within the camera app.

After you have updated your Samsung Galaxy S5 to the new Android Lollipop 5.0 firmware, you can experience the following if you wish to activate the "Car mode" via the status bar:
Within the status bar the icon with the steering wheel for the car mode appears as usual, but it is blind coded and not lighted. However, it cannot be activated as usual.
If you have also this issue on your Samsung Galaxy S5, then this has nothing to do with a malfunction, but with a setting. We now want to show you which setting it is and how to use the Car mode on the Samsung Galaxy S5 with Android lollipop 5.0 as usual.

The setting, which causes this problem is the so-called priority mode, also called Interrupt mode, which can be activated via the status bar. This mode can be used, for example, to switch the Samsung Galaxy S5 completely silent.

But unfortunately the car mode works only if the interrupt mode is set to "All". If the interrupt mode is set to "priority" or "None", then the car mode cannot be used and is blind highlighted. In both the car mode button is blind coded and cannot be activated. Only at "all" the car mode can be activated.

You know now how to activate on the Samsung Galaxy S5 car mode.

If you own a Samsung Galaxy S5 and another smartphone from Samsung, which has NFC, then you can use the remote function of the camera. This feature allows to control the camera of the Samsung Galaxy S5 via another smartphone from Samsung. The video image via Wi-Fi can be transmitted, which is ideal to use it for taking pictures or videos with a camera drone like Quadrocopter or Octocopter.

We want now explain to  you how to use the Samsung Galaxy S5 as a remote camera. What you need to:

• Samsung Galaxy S5
• Samsung smartphone with NFC function and at least Android KitKat (For example the Galaxy S4)

Here we go: Open on your Samsung Galaxy S5 the Camera app. Tap on the gear icon and then click the tile with "remote viewfinder". The following message appears on the display:
"Remote Viewfinder - Remote Viewfinder allows you to take pictures using the viewfinder of a connected device. Wi-Fi Direct connection is required"

Enable now on your second smartphone the NFC function. Tap on the LCD display of the Samsung Galaxy S5 the button "Simple connection via NFC." It appears after a vibration and a sound "Touch to send". Now tap on the screen of the Samsung Galaxy S5. The camera remote connection is established. Finished!

Once the connection has come into being, you can see on both screens the camera image of the Samsung Galaxy S5. You can now easily use the Samsung Galaxy S5, for example to take pictures or videos with a Quadrocopter or Octocopter. The image can be seen via the second device.

Since the connection via Wi-Fi comes to pass, you have a very good range of the camera image. Have fun with the useful Remote Viewfinder function for the camera of your Samsung Galaxy S5 in conjunction with Quadrocopter.

If you have installed on your Samsung Galaxy S5, the new Android Lollipop update, then it may be that you no longer have the Swype function on the keyboard.
This is because the Swype function is deactivated by the firmware update first. If you would like to use the function of Swype again, which allows inputs of letters and words by wiping over the keyboard, then you must do the following:

Opens on your Samsung Galaxy S5, the following submenu:

Menu --> Settings --> Language & input

Then tap on "Samsung Keyboard" and scroll down in the next window to the option "Keyboard swipe". Tap on the option and you can now select the following methods:

• Continuous Input - Enter a text by sliding your finger across the keyboard.
• Cursor Control - Let the fingers glide over the keyboard to move the text cursor

The Swype keyboard function corresponds to the "Continous input option". Bookmark this option and you can now write text on your Samsung Galaxy S5 by sliding over the letters. The optimization is performed by the intelligent keyboard.

The Samsung Galaxy S5 offers the option under "data usage" to monitor data usage of mobile data. So you can always check which app has consumed much data volume of your mobile internet traffic. This function is especially useful if you have a carrier-contract with a limited amount of data. However it is most of the time fact that your contract usually does not run from the first day of a month, but somewhere in the middle.

No problem, you can even change the data usage cycle. Now, however, the following problem can occur:

The mobile data cycle cannot be changed on your Samsung Galaxy S5. If you have this problem, then we would like to show you a trick on how to change the cycle of the mobile data consumption in Android. The function has been implemented somewhat cumbersome.  How to change Data usage cycle on the Samsung Galaxy S5:

Open on your Samsung Galaxy S5 the menu and then the settings. Select here the button "data usage". You can now tap the date or the small arrow. There is no change possible. Now the trick:
(Wi-Fi must be disabled first) Set a mark for "Mobile data connection". If you see the sign for the mobile data connection in the status bar, tap once on the Back button so that you find yourself back in the settings. Tap again on the button "data usage" and then again on the date. Here it is: a new box will appear with "cycle change".

You can now change the data usage cycle on your Samsung Galaxy S5.

We hope that you can now change the data usage cycle for the mobile data on your Samsung Galaxy S5 with these instructions.

To measure the performance of a smartphone like the Samsung Galaxy S5, so-called benchmarks are performed. A benchmark tests the smartphone under hard conditions and then it is checked how much peeformance the device scored on a scale. An important indicator is the ratio FPS, frames per second. The more images per second rendered through your smartphone in high resolution, the better is the performance.

Such a benchmark is offered through the Google Play Store:

• 3DMark Benachmark
• Antutu Benchmark

Now it can happen to you, however, that the results of your benchmark vary on the Samsung Galaxy S5 from time to time. If you let the benchmark run multiple times shortly one after another, every result is little bit lower than it was previously the case. Now you may wonder:

Why do I always get worse results in the benchmark for my Samsung Galaxy S5 after several runs?

We want to answer this question here. The reason has to do with heat. Because the CPU or GPU is placing enormous pressure through such a benchmark, which means that more current flows in the same time through the components. This leads to heat. Since the Samsung Galaxy S5 is passively cooled,it has no fan, the heat can be poorly deflagrate. And here's the reason why your benchmark result is always worse after several runs.

In order that the Samsung Galaxy S5 does not overheat and your CPU fades away, the built-in hardware automatically regulates the performance down. On the basis of a temperature sensor the temperature is controlled by reducing power as long downward until a stable temperature for operation prevails by the processor itself.
What does this mean for my benchmark results?

Thus, you will gain the highest possible score with your Samsung Galaxy S5 in a cool environment. So you can trick the passive automatic cooling power reduction. You know now why the results of your benchmark tests on the Samsung Galaxy S5 always be worse, the more often you run this test.

With Android Lollipop you can move app data on your Samsung Galaxy S5 to the memory card to gain space on the internal memory. This works very easily using the built-in application manager. We show you how to move Apps or their data on the Samsung Galaxy S5 with Android Lollipop to the inserted SD memory card.
For this purpose, please open the following submenu:

Menu --> Settings --> Application Manager --> tab "Installed Apps".

Now tap on an app that you have installed on your Samsung Galaxy S5. The app-info opens in which the following button can be found:

"Move to SD card"

Unfortunately, the data can be stored only on the memory card when the font of the button is dark. If this is not the case, this function is not available for this app.
Do you have an app touched, which can be moved to the SD card, then tap on the button. It appears "Move ...". This may take a while. When the process is finished, the following text is visible on the button "Move to device storage".

The app data is now saved on your SD memory card. In the info table above you can check in the section "SD card app" how many MB the outsourced data on the memory card needs. Finished!
Do this procedure for each app that you want to outsource from the internal memory of the Samsung Galaxy S5 on the memory card. Thus, you can free a lot of space on the internal memory of the Samsung Galaxy S5.