If you like to have your contacts saved on the sim card in addition to the internal memory of the Samsung Galaxy S5, then this is possible in Android OS. Because you can easily export contacts to the SIM card with the Android contacts app. How this works exactly, we now want to explain to you in this article:

Open the Contacts app from the home screen. If you find yourself in the contact list, tap in the top right corner on the symbol with the three points. A small pop-up menu opens in which the entry "Settings" must be selected. Then tap "Contacts" and in the next submenu "Import / Export". A small window will now open on your Samsung Galaxy S5. Select the entry "Export to SIM Card". You can either select individual or all the contacts you want to export to the sim card.

Once you have made your selection, then please tap at the top right on "Done". The following message will now appear on the display: "Some information might be lost. Continue?"

This is because the Sim card has only limited storage space available. This means that only the name and the telephone number of the contact are saved to the sim card with the export. When other information like e-Mail Adress is stored in a contact on the phone, then they are not transferred to the sim card!

You now know how to export the contacts from the device memory of the Samsung Galaxy S5 on the Sim card.

If you have problems to connect the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 with your Windows PC as mass storage, then it may help to solve this problem by activating the USB debugging. If you enable on your Samsung Galaxy Note 4 the USB Debugging, then it may be, that your PC is better recognized by the phone as a mass storage device.
However, the USB debugging mode is very well hidden in the Android settings on the Samsung Galaxy Note 4. Therefore, we now show you here in this post, where you can unlock and enable the USB Debugging mode on the Samsung Galaxy Note 4.

Open the following submenu from the home screen: Menu --> Settings --> Device Information

In this submenu you can see various information about your Samsung Galaxy Note 4. An entry is called "build number". If you tap several times fast on this entry the “developers options“ unlock in which the USB debugging mode is hidden. After the seventh time tapping, the developer options on your Samsung Galaxy Note 4 are unlocked. These are now also available in the settings. Now tap the button "Developer Options" and you will receive a list of different settings. In the section "Debugging" you find will findthe "USB debugging" option. Set a tick in the checkbox to enable this feature on your Samsung Galaxy Note 4.

This mode starts automatically once if your smartphone is connected to the computer via USB cable. You know now how to activate on the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 the USB debug mode and thus the phone can be connected via USB cable to the PC as mass storage device.

The Samsung Galaxy Note 4 has a pen on board, called the S Pen. With this pen you can create handwritten memos, drawings, etc. more precise than with your fingers. For this, the S Pen must be removed from the case. This fact implies that it is quite possible to forget the S Pen. Since losing the S Pen is not only annoying but also expensive, there is a warning or reminder, if you forget you pen and walk away with the Samsung Galaxy Note 4.

This warning must, however be activated first, so that it enters into force. We show you now how to enable the S Pen warning on the Samsung Galaxy Note 4:

For that open from the home screen the menu and then the Android settings. Scroll down to "S Pen" and tap the entry. Make a small tick in the checkbox "S Pen warnings".
Thereby in the future, your Samsung Galaxy Note 4 will give a warning tone and a message when you go away with your device without having the S Pen attached. Please keep in mind that this warning only works when the display of the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 is off.

You know now how to be alerted on the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 when you forget your S pen stylus.

If you remove your Samsung Galaxy Note 4 "S Pen" from the device, then the S Pen commands are automatically opened. They are mostly not required, so you close the commands again. If it bothers you that the commands are automatically opened after removing the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 S Pen, then you can turn off this feature as follows.

Open on your Samsung Galaxy Note 4 the following submenu:

Menu --> Settings -> Section "Device" --> S Pen --> removal options --> "Remove pen"

The following actions are available for selection.

• None
• Aktionsmemo
• S Pen commands

To disable the S Pen commands when removing the pin from the Samsung Galaxy Note 4, set the mark to "None". Finished!
Now, if you take out the pen, no S Pen menu will appear on the display of the Samsung Galaxy Note 4.

If you are installing an app from the Google Play Store on the Samsung Galaxy Note 4, then you may notice that an app icon is automatically placed on the home screen. The automatic adding of icons to the home screen after installing an app from the Google Play Store can of course be deactivated, so that your homescreen does not get placarded.
How you can turn off the automatic adding of new apps icons at your Samsung Galaxy Note 4 we explain to you now in our article.

Opens on the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 the Google Play Store, and then the menu by wiping from the left to center of the screen. That will open a side menu. In it select "Settings". You can see here in the next menu the option "Add icon to home screen for new apps".

Remove the tick in the checkbox to disable this option on your Samsung Galaxy Note 4 for new apps from the Google Play Store. As of now, no icon is automatically placed on your home screen after you have downloaded an app from the Google Play Store.

On the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 the market Google Play Store is installed, in which you can download apps and applications for your smartphone. Within the Google Play store a search is integrated, with which you can search for apps, films, magazines and a lot more. All search terms that you enter in this search are stored in a so-called search history. If you want to delete this search history on your Samsung Galaxy Note 4, then proceed as follows:

Open the Google Play Store on the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 and then drag from the left edge of the display the menu into the screen (Wipe from the left to the middle of the screen). Please press the menu item "Settings" in this side-menu. In the next sub-menu you can see the option "Clear Local Search History".

Tap the menu item and your search history will be automatically deleted. Finished! You now know how to delete on your Samsung Galaxy Note 4 the search history of the Google Play Store.

It can happen to you on the Samsung Galaxy S5 that incoming calls are automatically answered when your headset is plugged in. This is especially annoying if you are just not able to call or if you do not want to speak to the caller for any other reason. The automatic answer of incomings calls when your headset is plugged in, is a function within the Android OS, which is usually not activated. However, this feature can be very useful if you are traveling by car.

Would you like to disable the automatic call answer, then you will find the appropriate option in the sub-menu of the Android settings. To change the setting, proceed as follows:

Open from the home screen the menu and then the settings. Scroll all the way down to the section "Applications". There you can tap on the button "Call". In the next menu tap on "Call Accessories". Here you will see at the beginning the option "Automatic answering". Remove the tick in the checkbox to disable this function while a headset is connected to the Samsung Galaxy S5.
Immediately calls are not automatically accepted by your Samsung Galaxy S5, if you have this connected to a headset.

The Samsung Galaxy S5 has the calendar S Planner installed from factory, which allows you to manage your tasks and appointments. The S Planner app remembers you of new appointments or tasks. Thus is guaranteed that you will not miss any of your appointments. Because the reminding alarm sound cannot always be heard, it is also possible to activate a vibration. How you can activate on the Samsung Galaxy S5 vibration for memorization of new appointments and tasks in the S Planner app, we would like to explain to you in more detail now.

For this purpose, please open on your Samsung Galaxy S5, the app "S Planner". If it has opened, you can see at the top right a three-point symbol. Tap on this to open a small menu. Select the entry "Settings". In the next submenu scroll down until you can see the section "Event Notification". Within this section you'll find the "Vibration" option.

Set a tick in the checkbox to enable this feature. From now on you will be informed always about new upcoming appointments and tasks with vibration and sound.

If you shoot photos with the integrated camera of your Samsung Galaxy Note 4, these are automatically saved to the internal memory of the smartphone. This setting is set at the factory to the Samsung Galaxy Note 4. But if you have now inserted a micro SD memory card into your smartphone, then you want surely that your photos are saved directly on this, so as to keep the device memory free.

If you do not know how you can change the storage location for photos taken with the integrated camera of the Samsung Galaxy Note 4, then we would like to explain this in more detail here. For this purpose, please open as first thing the camera app on your smartphone.

Within the camera app, you can now tap the icon in the form of a gear. A small menu will appear where you now need to tap on the icon with the three points. You will see different tiles on the screen. Each tile represents an adjustment of the camera software. Scroll down a little bit until until you can see "location". Tap the tile and you have the following options:

    - device
    - SD card

In order to switch the location for new photos on your Samsung Galaxy Note 4 to "memory card", you only need to select the entry. The setting is effective immediately for all newly shot photos.

You now know how to change the storage location from internal device memory to memory card on the Samsung Galaxy Note 4.

If you drag the status bar at your Samsung Galaxy S5 from the top of the screen, you will see different notification fields. This notification fields, also called shortcuts can be customized. How you can customize the notification fields of the status bar on the Samsung Galaxy S5, we show you now.

Open on your Samsung Galaxy S5 the menu and then the submenu "Notification panel". If you are within this menu, scroll down a bit, then you see two areas:

    - active buttons
    - available buttons

The active buttons represent the key shortcuts, which are displayed to you in the notification bar. The available keys are the shortcuts that you can move into your active keys. To restructure the arrangement of shortcuts or the active keys, you must do the following:

Press and hold a shortcut until this hovers and can be moved. You can now either reorder the new shortcut, or move them to the available buttons. All in all 10 Shortcuts can be stored in the status bar. There are currently 22 different shortcuts available in Android.

You now know how to customize the Notifications panel on the status bar of the Samsung Galaxy S5.