There’s more to your Nexus 7 than meets the eye. The tablet has dozens of secret hacks buried within its menus. In this Workshop, we show you how to find the most useful of these hidden treasures: organising your home screen and Favorites Tray; controlling individual app preferences; enabling built-in dictionaries and keyboards; taking screenshots; switching to safe mode; and encrypting everything on your device. Many of these tricks are new to Android 41 (Jelly Bean) and require a long press’ - pressing and holding an icon, button or notification for two seconds to open a new menu.
There are also two notification shades’: scroll down from the top left to see regular notifications; scroll down from the right to change Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, brightness and battery settings, along with the rotation lock, which stops the screen switching automatically between portrait and landscape. To check which version of Android your Nexus 7 is running, go to Settings and ‘About tableta. Click System updates’ to update to the latest version.
1. You can move up to six apps from your home screen onto the Favorites Tray. Long press the app’s icon and drag it on or off the tray. Drag and drop the apps along the tray to change their positions.
2. You can create app folders on the home screen and the Favorites Tray. Drag and drop an icon on top of another to create a folder. Tap the folder to open it. Press ‘Unnamed folder’ to rename it. Drag apps out of the folder to remove them.
3. To turn off individual app notifications, open Settings and go to Apps. Select an app from the list. untick ‘Show notifications’ and press OK. To undo all changes and restore apps to their default settings, tap the top-right menu button and choose ‘Reset app
4. Certain notifications in the left-hand shade, including emails and screenshots, can be expanded or contracted by pinching and zooming, This method can be used to show or hide more information, including subject lines, the content of an email and picture previews.
5. Unticking ‘Touch sounds’ in Settings, Sound disables key-press sounds when the tablet is on silent. but you’ll still hear them when the volume is up. To turn these sounds off completely, go to Settings, ‘Language & input’ and press the sliders on your default dictionary to open ‘Android keyboard settings’. In ‘Advanced settings’ change the key-press sound volume to zero
6. To add new dictionaries in ‘Android keyboard settings’, including the Emoji dictionary (which is a keyboard made up of emoticons), press ‘Add-on dictionaries’, choose a dictionary and install it. The Android keyboard comes with gesture typing built in. This lets you swipe over letters to create words. Disable this by unticking ‘Enable gesture typing’.
7. To enable the newly installed dictionaries and keyboards, go to ‘Language & input’ and tick the relevant boxes under Keyboard & Input Methods. To switch to a new keyboard or input method when typing, including Google voice,long-press the space bar on the Android keyboard.
8. Take screenshots of what’s being displayed on your tablet by pressing and holding the power button the volume down button at the same time. The screen will flash. The image will be shown in the left-hand notification shade. To edit the picture, open it in the built-in Gallery app and click the circles icon.
9. The Nexus 7 comes with a built-in music equaliser. Open a song in the Android music player, tap the menu button, go to Settings and choose Equaliser. Change the bass and 3D effects using the sliders or select a preset.
10. If you install a dodgy app or your tablet gets infected with malware, you can reboot it in safe mode. Hold down the power button and long-press the ‘Power off’ option. Tap OK when prompted. To reboot in Normal mode, turn the tablet off and on again.
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