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You must know about this SMS App for Android by Microsoft

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The default messaging application available with the Android devices is not pretty much impressive and if you would like to try something new and interesting then the messaging application from Microsoft can be your best selection. It has some brilliant and useful features that you must know.

The Android app from Microsoft is SMS Organizer. It is available in the Google play store to download for free for the Android users. It is a pure messaging application with tons of features in its list.

  • This messaging application has the OTP detection feature which allows the users the convenience that they don’t have to copy and paste the OTP while shopping or paying online, it detects automatically
  • It by default takes the messages backup into Google drive. You can set the settings to update the backup manually or even set to backup every day, every week
  • This intelligent messaging application sorts the messages you receive in different categories which makes your task simple
  • Like the mail app settings, this application even allows the users to filter the messages so that they will automatically be sorted by the next time
  • If you get some messages with dates like due dates and any particular dates, then the Android app will actually work as a reminder for you and reminds you of that particular task
  • Another interesting thing to know is that this application allows each user to send up to 30 free messages a month.

All these features make the SMS Organizer app very much worth it.

An android app to get better battery life in your Android phone

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Every Android user definitely wishes to have a huge battery life on their device. But managing to get the best out of your battery is definitely a difficult task.

There are a number of Android applications available in the Google play store that can help the users to get the most out their battery and you may also have tried number of apps, but here we are presenting you an application which used to work only on rooted devices earlier, but now it has been made available for all the devices running Android Marshmallow or later versions.

This Android app can help you in extending your device’s battery life.

You can download the Naptime application from the Google Play store for free.

Android introduced a feature that helps in getting an extended battery life with its Marshmallow update and subsequently refined the feature in its following operating system updates Nougat and Oreo. And that feature is called Doze. This feature cuts the power consumption when the device is not in use and thus increases the life of the battery.

Naptime offers the users Super Doze feature. The application sets the Doze mode to gets activated 5 seconds after you turn the device’s screen off. The application even comes with a lot of configuration options where the users can whitelist certain application that they don’t wish run in the background.

Here are the few steps you are required to follow up this application on your device that is not rooted

  • It requires users to activate a few settings through the ADB, get the SDK Tool for Windows  unzip the folder
  • You must have the Developer options enabled on your device, if not enabled just tap the build number in your about phone seven times to enable it
  • Then connect your device to your computer and open SDK tools folder you downloaded
  • Shift + Right-click inside the folder and choose the option open command window there
  • Type adb -d shell pm grant com.franco.doze android.permission.DUMP and hit enter
  • Then type adb -d shell pm grant com.franco.doze android.permission.WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS and hit enter
  • You are now done and can launch the naptime application

Try this Android app and find the difference.

Be a power Nova launcher user with these useful tips

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Nova launcher has been undoubtedly the best launcher that has been the go-to option for the Android users.Nova has been a hit among the users just because of the features that it has in store for its users and it has been consistently releasing new features in the recent updates to the Android app for attracting its users.

As every one of us is familiar with this wonderful launcher, let us now in this piece of article learn some useful tips that help us to be the power user of this launcher.

  • Many people hesitate to use the Nova launcher as they are used to the Google now page, well, for all those you can actually integrate the Google now page in nova launcher. You need to sideload the  Nova Google companion that allows you to have the Google now page
  • The users can customize swipe gestures with the help of this launcher. They can set the double tap, swipe up, two finger swipe gestures with their custom actions in Nova settings>Gestures and inputs
  • Users can even create custom tabs in their app drawer menu which lets them to categorize their apps in a neat way. To do this make sure the tab bar option in the App and widget drawers option undfer Nova settings is enabled. Then you can have the drawer groups option where you can add your custom tabs
  • The launcher has a secret privacy feature to hide folder and this can be enabled tapping an dholding the folder and then clickin on edit folder option, then enable the option swipe to open folder
  • Users can also create quick shortcuts for app actions, this is pretty simple and you can just simply tap and hold the app and then tap on the swipe action section
  • This launcher even brings the users the Oreo like notification badges for the applications they use, this can be enabled by going to Nova settings>notifacations badges> here select dots option
  • Users can quickly access the search box by just tapping on the home button
  • Tap an dhold the application shortcuts to find the Nougat’s app shortcut features

Hope these useful tips make the Android app even more usefu to you.

Converting WhatsApp voice messages into text

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If anybody asks you what is the most popular messaging application, then comes the answer WhatsApp without any doubt. It offers text, voice and video calling features for the users to communicate with their loved ones. It keeps on updating the application with the latest and interestingly useful features for the users.

There will be sometimes, when we will be somewhere in a public place and we receive a voice message from some of our loved ones, but will not be in a position to listen to it but would like to know what is in it. Then the only solution for it can be being able to convert those voice messages into text messages, let us now learn how to do that

  • In the first step, just download and install the Transcriber for WhatsApp  Android app from the Google play store
  • Now launch the application and it will show you some welcome cards, just swipe them and finally tap on Done
  • Then select with Transcriber settings according to your choice
  • Now open the WhatsApp chat where you have that voice message which you would like to convert into text, tap and hold it to select it and tap on share icon and then select Transcriber
  • That is it the Transcribe for WhatsApp will now covert the audio message to text and show up on your screen

This Android app as now doesn’t support regional languages, so audio messages in English can only be converted as of now.

How to use auto tools with Tasker on your android device

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Tasker is one of the most popular automation tools available in the Google playstore for the Android users. It is a bit difficult to use, but it can offer the users with a lot of customizations if used properly.  The app itself is a very powerful one, but there are also some plugins which make it even more powerful. Auto tools is one such a very powerful plugin which adds a lot of functionalities to tasker. Let us now see the process of adding the auto tools to the tasker android app.

  • First of all, to begin with, the process, you must be having the Tasker application installed on your smartphone. It will have a 7-day trial and after that , ou need to pay for to use it
  • Then download and install the Auto Tools  application
  • Now launch the Tasker app on your device and head to the ‘Tasks’ tab. Tap on the plus icon which you can find on the bottom right corner of your device’s screen and give it a name
  • Then you need to choose an action for this task, to do that tap on the plus icon at the bottom right corner and then select ‘choose plugin’ option
  • Then it will show up the menu of all the plugins you have installed on your device, choose Auto Tools, and then it will show you the list of multiple actions you can do with the plugin that you have chosen

You have just completed adding the plugin and you can try a lot of customizations and you can set a lot of actions for swipes, or create app launchers which you can easily explore navigating through the app.