How To Get Samsung Galaxy S4 Lock Screen On Any Android Phone

So many Android devices are being made but only few stand out in terms of UI and aesthetics. One of such standout devices is the Samsung Galaxy S4, with its inspiring "Life companion" lock screen.

If you are a fan of the Galaxy S4 lock screen, then you are in luck as one of the members over at XDA developers have made this little feature available to any Android device running Android 4.0 and above. 

Furthermore, you don't need root access before you can apply this lock screen feature.

This lock screen is nice and you get all same features as you would get on  the usual S4, like the ripple effect, colours etc with options to customize as you wish.

Click here to download this little nice feature  on your Android device.

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How to Use Samsung S4 As a TV Remote controller

Samsung Galaxy S4 is a beastly device, carrying so much functionality that you would rather not need all. In fact the specifications are enough to contend with upcoming smartphones till 2014.

One of the features embedded in the S4 is the ability top use the device as a TV remote control aside from the Tectile 2 functionality it is embedded with that allows you to control cars, doors and other NFC controllable devices. 
Just by tapping your S4 with a Tectile card, you can control any device you have assigned to the Tectile card. The card comes in five packs and sold for about $20. However, not many people know how to use this device as a remote control for cars, doors let alone a TV. Hence the need for this guide. 
This guide shows you how to use S4 as a TV remote controller

Requirements

• Samsung Galaxy S4

Procedures
1. Open the WatchON app and select your country

2. Enter your zip code and select your content provider.

3. If you want to personalize your TV selection, tap Personalize. If not, select Skip. 

 4. If you chose personalize, select the genres of TV shows and movies you watch and press Next. 

 

5. Choose the Sports you are interested in and press Next

 6. Set your age and gender, if you want, and tap the Done button at the top of the screen.

 

7. Open the WatchOn app and tap the remote icon in the top right corner of the screen and press the Set Up Now button.

 8. Select your television brand from the provided list.

 9. Press the onscreen Power button to test whether the remote code works for your TV. If it works, press the Yes, This Code Works button. If not, press the No, Test Next Code button

10. Select the source you receive channels from, either your set-top box or TV.

11. If you use your set-top box, choose the source from the provided list. Note, you may have to configure your set-top box to receive RF signals.

 12. Tap the channel button to see if the WatchOn code works with your set-top box. 

13. If the code works, press the Yes, This Code Works button. If it doesn’t press No, Test Next Code. You can now use your S4 to control both your TV and set-top box. 

To control TV
14. Press the remote icon in the top right corner of the screen. 

15. press the TV tab at the top of the screen. Swipe up from the bottom of the screen to bring up a list of additional controls. 

I hope this guide helps in setting up your Galaxy S4 as a TV remote controller. A post on controlling your car with Tectiles 2 is coming soon. Stay tuned

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Samsung Galaxy S4: Features and Specs

UPDATE

Samsung Galaxy S3 is barely 6 months old and that's a long time in the technology industry. You can't begin to count the amount of phones that have been released within these last 6 months.

Samsung is set to release there next generation of S series phone tagged the Galaxy S4. Even though the S2 and S3 are still strong contender in the market, rumor has it that Samsung will be releasing an S4 to the market in April.

According to various reports, Galaxy S4 will have a 5 inch screen display and better resolution than the predecessor which will exceed the iPhone 5's display.

Also, the processor will be increased to 2.0GHz and will feature the more recent Android OS Jelly bean 4.2.1.

Furthermore, from the image above which is the first leaked design, it is possible that the Galaxy S4 will not have a physical home button like the predecessor GS3 and GS2. However, with more recent images (below) that looks even more plausible it  suggests a powerful device is coming to battle with the Blackberry Z10 and iPhone 5 even more.

 

There is a possibility of the phone bagging a 13 mega pixel camera also. This won't be an issue since some phones have been unveiled with 13 mega pixel camera at the just concluded CES 2013.

Definitely, Samsung wouldn't want to release a device that will find it difficult to compete when other manufacturers like Apple, HTC, Nokia etc releases theirs. Therefore, Samsung would put in the best possible configuration on the GS4.

For what we know, the following are the specifications of the yet to be released Galaxy S4

OS:                               Android Jelly bean 4.2
Display:                   5 inches 1920×1080 pixel
Camera:                  13mp rear and 3 mp front camera
RAM:                         2GB of LPDDR3 RAM
Processor:             2.0GHz - 2.4GHz Snapdragon SoC and or Exynos-powered model

Storage:                   16, 32 and 64GB models.

By March 14th 2013,we will know if this is what would be released finally or not. Till then all we can do is speculate.

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