Android Lollipop 5.0 brings many new features which some smartphone users will definitely like. We have listed for you in this changelog the most interesting and important features of the new Android Lollipop 5.0 operating system.

Android Lollipop 5.0 Changelog:

- Material Design: The surface is optically flat and held more clearly structured, so that apps and applications can be better recognized
- SMS and WhatsApp messages can be read and answered directly from the lock screen
- If the Android Lollipop 5.0 Smartphone is charged, then the remaining time is displayed until it is fully charged
- Time until the phone runs out of battery power
- Multi-user mode, which is possible by a Google cloud. Advantage: You will be able to log in from any smartphone with Android Lollipop 5.0 in your personal profile.
- The Runtime ART, which is already known from the Samsung Galaxy S5 and Note 4, is standard. This will improve the performance
- OK Google voice command can now also be activated in the standby

Of course, Android Lollipop 5.0 has yet many more features and gimmicks. Hopefully you will receive this update as soon as possible for your smartphone.

If you have installed an app on the Samsung Galaxy S5 and this causes problems during uninstalling, then we here show you a trick on how to fix this problem. In general, there is a serious problem with the app, if it can not be deleted from the Samsung Galaxy S5. So you have to boot the smartphone in the so-called  "Safe Mode". In this mode the app can be uninstalled from the Samsung Galaxy S5 very simple. How to boot the Samsung Galaxy S5 in Safe Mode we want to show you here in our article:

Power off the Samsung Galaxy S5 completely. Then keep the power button pressed to boot the smartphone. Once the screen is activated and displays the start logo, immediately hold the volume quieter button. Keep it pressed until the sim-pin is queried. At the bottom left you should now find a field with "Safe Mode". Now type your pin as usual and then tap in the next window at "Touch-Wiz-start" and "Always".

In safe mode, only system applications are loaded at your Samsung Galaxy S5. All other apps will not be loaded and executed by Android. So it is now possible to uninstall the app of the the Samsung Galaxy S5, which can not be erased. Navigates now to:

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

Search for the App you want to uninstall from your smartphone and tap on it to open the App-Information-Card. You can see now a button with "Uninstall". Tap on it to delete the app from your device.

Tur turn off Safe-Mode, reboot your Samsung Galaxy S5 now.

It is possible that the following error appears in the Google Play Store of your Android smartphone or tablet:

"Error while retrieving information from server: [DF-SA-01]"

If you get this error message in the Google Play Store of your Android smartphone / tablet, then you can try the following troubleshooting that solve this problem in general.

Perform the following steps at your android device:

Step 1: Clear data and cache of the Google Play Store

Navigate with your device into the settings, and then click "Application Manager". Then switch to the "All" tab and search for "Google Play Store". Tap the entry to open the app information. You now see several buttons. Push them in the following order:

     - Force stop
     - Clear cache
     - Clear data

After you've tapped the three buttons, you can close the app information and proceed to the next step:

Step 2: Reset the app preferences

You still find yourself now in the Application Manager on the tab "All". Tap now at the top right on the three-point icon and select "Reset app preferences" . A warning message appears. This can be confirmed with the Button "Reset apps".

Done! If you now open the Google Play Store on your Android smartphone, the message "Error while retrieving information from server: [DF-SA-01]" should no longer appear.

If that did not work, you can still try the following:

Step 3 : Uninstall updates of the Google Play Store

Navigate again to Settings --> Application Manager --> tab "All" -> Google Play Store

Tap this time at the button "uninstall updates". Then reboot the phone. The Google Play store should now be opened without the error DF-SA-01.

If you take the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 for the first time in operation, then you notice a N icon in the status bar. The status bar is at the top and shows notifications and information symbols. The symbol in the form of an N has the following meaning:

The N stands for NFC - Near Field Communication

With NFC hardware, data can be exchanged over very short distances. In the future this technology will be used to make cashless payments with your smartphone. So your Samsung Galaxy Note 4 is well equipped with NFC for the future. At the moment, however, you do not need NFC most of the time. Which is why we recommend to disable this feature on the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 :

To do this, drag the status bar with two fingers from the top to the bottom. You will see now different tiles. One of them is "NFC" and is marked in green. Green means active. Tap the tile once and NFC will be disabled automatically. The symbol in the form of an N disappears from the status bar. Finish!

You now know what the N-symbol in the status bar of Samsung Galaxy Note 4 means and how you can disable the NFC function in android.

If you you are on the home screen of your Samsung Galaxy S5 and there scrolling through the pages all the way to the left, then it may be that suddenly the app "My Magazine" opens. My Magazine is an app in which you can get information on various topics. This can be determined in advance. The app My Magazine on the home screen of the Samsung Galaxy S5 stops the rotate between the home screens. If you want to scroll to the last page of the Home Screen, you have to wipe to the far right and not once to the left . Therefore you would like to disable My magazine on the home screen of the Samsung Galaxy S5. How to do this, we want to tell you in our article:

Open the "Home Screen Settings" of your Samsung Galaxy S5 from the home screen. For that tap long on the left Soft-key when you are at the home screen. After the small menu appears tap on the Button with "Home Screen Settings". You can now disable "My Magazine" at the Home screen of the Samsung Galaxy S5 via a Checkbox . Unmark the hook in the in the checkbox.

You know now how to disable My Magazine on the home screen of the the Samsung Galaxy S5. Yo can now again switch between the homescreen pages forward and backward.

The Nexus 6 smartphone with the new Android 5.0 Lollipop pre-installed, provides a visually appealing design combined with high quality technology. This smartphone is for many smartphone users worth to buy. That's why we want to answer the important question:

"Which Sim card size needs the Nexus 6 smartphone from Google?"

The Nexus 6 requires a Nano Sim card!

Why is this question important? At the moment there are three different SIM card sizes on the market. Unfortunately, these are incompatible with each other, since you have a different size. That's why it makes sense in advance to consider what Sim card the new Nexus 6 has. So a corresponding Sim card can be pre-ordered from your mobile carrier.

You know now which Sim card size the Nexus 6 smartphone from Google needs.

The Samsung Galaxy Note 4 offers the possibility to take Selfie photos using the integrated heart rate sensor. This function should enable users to easily record Selfies of themselves and their environment by using the sensor as a shutter. Selfies are images that you record by yourself with the front camera of the Samsung Galaxy Note 4.

We show you now how to take pictures on the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 using the heart rate sensor in the camera app as shutter.

Open the camera app first which is installed by default in Android. Then tap on the little icon that represents the camera switch, so as to move from the main camera to the front camera of your smartphone.

Now put your finger on the sensor for heart rate on the back of the smartphone. If you now remove your finger again, the photo is automatically taken from you. That's it.

You now know how to record Selfies of you using the heart rate sensor of the Samsung Galaxy Note 4.

The Samsung Galaxy Note 4 provides with the app "voice recorder" a so-called meeting mode. The meeting mode can record different people at a table at the same timer, if they sit in a circle. Later you can fade out the speaking of selected people to understand easier who spoke. The meeting mode uses the three microphones of the Samsung Galaxy Note 4.

So if you want to use the meeting mode of the Samsung Galaxy Note 4, this must be activated first. And that works as follows:

Open from the Home Screen the menu and then the app "voice recorder". In overview window of the voirce rcorder you will find a small icon at the bottom right with a microphone and a gear. This symbol stands for the recording mode. Tap on it and you can choose from the following modes:

     - normal
     - interview
     - meeting
     - voice memo

Select "meeting" to use the function mentioned above.

Have you recorded a meeting with this function, you can later hear the result on the voice recorder app. When you open the app, tap at the top right icon with the three dots and then select your recorded file of the meeting. This opens a screen where you can now hide and show the speaking of the recorded people.
You now know how to take a voice memo in the meeting mode and how to use the player of the memo. Have fun and success with this useful function.

The Samsung Galaxy Note 4 has for the first time the possibility to create a so-called Screenshot note. A screenshot note consists of two components:

   -  a screenshot
   -  a handwritten note with the S-Pen

This feature is especially useful when you save an additional information, idea or suggestion on a screenshot. With the S-Pen a handwritten note can be added directly on the screenshot. We show you now, how the Screen-Write function can be used at the Samsung Galaxy Note 4.

Navigate to the location where you would like to take the screenshot note. If the corresponding image is displayed on the screen, take the S-Pen and press the button on it to open the S-Pen command field. Now tap:

      - Screen Write

The screenshot will be performed at your Samsung Galaxy Note 4 and then the edit mode will open. You can now add a note to the screenshot with the S-Pen. You can choose different pens or even use a eraser on the editing toolbar.

You know now how to create and edit a screenshot note on the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 with the Screen Write function.

If you open the status bar of your Samsung Galaxy Note 4 you will se a slider. With this you can quickly and easily adjust the brightness of the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 display. If you dont want the control for the brightness to get displayed in the status bar you can disable this of course.

In this tutorial we show you how you can disable or enable the brightness control in the status bar of your Samsung Galaxy Note 4.


Simply open from the Home Screen the menu and then the Settings. Search here for "Notification panel" and tap on the entry when you have found it. In the next screen, you can now remove the hook in the checkbox with  "Brightness adjustment" . This will now deactivate the regulator for the brightness in the status bar of the Samsung Galaxy Note 4.


You now know how to turn off or hide the brightness slider in the status bar on the Samsung Galaxy Note 4. Of course, you can avtivate it the same way again.