The Galaxy S5 has a heart rate sensor. As expected, that sensor tells you your heart rate in beats per minute. You can track your heart rate over time and monitor changes in your health throughout the days, weeks, months, etc. The Galaxy S5 heart rate sensor’s app, S Health, recently received a software update that judges you based on your perceived stress. Instead of just looking at your heart rate, the new S Health uses heart rate information to make a judgment on your stress. It…
Your Android has a number of physical buttons along the outside case. However, most Android users only use these buttons for a single task. The lock button locks your phone and the volume up and down buttons control volume. However, you can easily change the assignment of these buttons while preserving their original usages. Today, I’m going to show you how to change what your Android’s volume up and down buttons do. The method listed below lets you add new codes to your…
You just got home from work and you’re about to go out to the bar to meet your friends. You usually throw your phone on the charger after you come home but today, you only have a few minutes to boost your battery life. What are you supposed to do? How can you quickly charge your phone and make sure it lasts the entire night? At One Click Root, we have plenty of Android battery tips. Today, we’re going to show you how to charge your Android’s battery to 100% as quickly as…
Android 4.4.3 has been spotted in the wild and is currently being tested by Google employees. New Android updates are usually good news, but it’s been a while since we’ve seen anything substantive come out of Google’s Mountain View headquarters. Android 4.4 was announced about 8 months ago and since then Android users have only received a series of incremental upgrades. Android 4.4.3 will be another incremental upgrade and unfortunately, it could be a bad update for rooted Android…
Last week, we told you that Google was scrapping the Nexus program and preparing something called Android Silver. That headline sounds like an Onion headline, but it was a real news piece. Now, we have further confirmation of the existence of Google Silver. According to recently-released reports from @EVLeaks, Google has officially scrapped the Nexus 6 and replaced it with an LG handset running a Qualcomm MSM8994 processor. LG handset, running a Qualcomm MSM8994, to be among first Silver…
I’m an Android user with lots of friends who use iPhones. Ever since I bought my Android, I’ve noticed that I occasionally do not receive texts from my iPhone-wielding friends – even when those texts appear in our conversation window on the iPhone. Many Android users have experienced this problem and somebody finally decided to figure out why. As it turns out, there was a bug in iMessage that was preventing some texts from being sent to Android devices. iMessage was introduced in…
Net neutrality is the biggest issue affecting the internet today. If you enjoy browsing a free, open, and largely unmonitored internet, then you need to fight for net neutrality. Most people don’t want to get off their computer and go protest in front of a government building. But what if I told you that you can have your opinions heard while hardly moving at all? That’s exactly what you can do with the Congress app. Simply titled ‘Congress’, this app is free to download from…
Today, most flagship smartphones have a full HD resolution screen of 1980x1080p. That’s good enough for most people. It means we have the same number of pixels on an HDTV as we have on our smartphones. However, this year’s Galaxy Note 4 looks to go beyond HD. The latest Note 4 rumors state that the flagship Samsung device will have a ‘QHD’ resolution of 2560x1440 spread across a 5.7-inch display. Rumors also state that the Samsung Galaxy S5 Prime – a premium S5 smartphone –…
Do you use Music Hub? Music Hub is Samsung’s built-in music streaming service available to Samsung Android users. A few months ago, however, Samsung released Milk Music, which appeared to be a direct competitor to Music Hub. Music Hub’s days were indeed numbered. Earlier today, Samsung sent out a message notifying Music Hub users that the service was ending on July 1 and that users are apparently expected to switch to Milk Music: Milk Music is a free service that lets users…
You know what’s better than a million dollars? A billion dollars. Billion dollar acquisitions seem to be the flavor of the year in Silicon Valley. Maybe a large number of tech companies are genuinely worth $1 billion. Or maybe there’s just so much money floating around Silicon Valley that it doesn’t really matter what you pay for it – if you throw enough money at a user base with hundreds of millions of people, you can make that billion back. The latest acquisition rumor in…
