{"id":1566,"date":"2021-04-24T11:30:50","date_gmt":"2021-04-24T18:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/?p=1566"},"modified":"2021-05-03T16:35:04","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T23:35:04","slug":"samsung-galaxy-s21-customization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/2021\/04\/24\/samsung-galaxy-s21-customization\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung Galaxy S21 customization"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve never owned a Samsung smartphone. Their phones are really popular, yes. Lots of models. Lots of deals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I finished reading the book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/537977\/samsung-rising-by-geoffrey-cain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Samsung Rising<\/a> in March. Really interesting. Quite a saga to get to its success, like with the latest S21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve been satisfied with a Pixel 2. Late last year a Google Store fulfillment failure for a Pixel 5, however, has left me with no refund still, a useless smartphone case, and doubt that I&#8217;ll even want another Pixel. Maybe even go back to an iPhone. Or something less expensive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, this year, reviews of Samsung smartphones has caught my attention more. In particular, the latest Galaxy S21 phones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This article (below) discusses some customization \u2013 to do these things:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Fix the Side Key<\/li><li>Google Discover on the home screen<\/li><li>Lift to wake<\/li><li>Video call effects<\/li><li>Adjust background limits<\/li><li>Dual Messenger<\/li><li>Customize smart home devices<\/li><li>Bixby Routines<\/li><li>Install Good Lock<\/li><li>S Pen support (S21 Ultra only)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 PC World > &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/3614190\/samsung-galaxy-s21-first-things-to-do-with-your-new-phone.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Samsung Galaxy S21: The first 10 things to do with your new phone<\/a>&#8221; by Ryan Whitwam (Apr 23, 2021) \u2013 Your new phone does a lot of cool things, but good luck finding it all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other articles that I&#8217;ve found interesting discuss how to customize Samsung (and other Android) phones to be more like stock Android, that is, without manufacturers&#8217; &#8220;value added&#8221; app&#8217;s or so-called user interface enhancements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never owned a Samsung smartphone. Their phones are really popular, yes. Lots of models. Lots of deals. I finished reading the book Samsung Rising in March. Really interesting. Quite a saga to get to its success, like with the latest S21. I&#8217;ve been satisfied with a Pixel 2. Late last year a Google Store [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,123],"tags":[155,154,153,67],"class_list":["post-1566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-phone","tag-customization","tag-galaxy-s21","tag-samsung","tag-smartphone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1567,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566\/revisions\/1567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digivideoplus.com\/dv_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}