Samsung Galaxy the Complete Manual 14th Edition

Settings – Personalisation The apps

it’s really much more about vibration – as is full vibration, of course,
which you can use for an alert if you want to turn the ringtone
volume off. You can even make changes to that in order to make it
stronger or weaker in diff erent circumstances (Fig 2).

Customise the display
Personalising the look of your Galaxy
device is a great way to make it truly
yours, and there are lots of features that
enable you to do this. For example, if
you tap Settings and go to Display, you
will see lots of choices. You can change
the display font and alter how the LED
indicator is used – by setting it to fl ash
red if the battery gets low, for instance.
You can also use the Smart Stay function
whereby the front camera is used to
keep the screen on if you are looking
at the device, which instantly eradicates any frustration when the
screen dims and locks when you leave it idle for a few seconds.

Adjust the screen settings
The screen is the most power-hungry part of your device, so you’ll
want to ensure it works to a suffi ciently high standard but, at the
same time, doesn’t consume power at an unnecessarily fast rate.
There are some key options to help you get the best out of your
device, and you’ll fi nd them in the Display part of the Settings app.
Here, you can manually alter the screen brightness or set it to
automatically adapt. Moreover, you can set the screen to time out
after a period of inactivity – on the Galaxy S7 this ranges between
15 seconds and ten minutes. You can also use Smart Stay to keep
the screen on while you are looking at it.

You can alter the screen

brightness, choosing to

adjust it either manually

or automatically

1 Go to settings Tap S et tin gs an d

then Sound to get to the sound

settings area.

Set ringtones and alerts

2 Select a ringtone Tap D ev i ce

ringtone, then tap the tones to

test them and hit OK to set one.

3 Alerts Tap Default Notifications

to go to the notifications area,

tap to test and hit OK to select.

4 Vibrate when ringing If you

want your Galaxy device to

vibrate, just tick the box.