Oppo A57 – Guides and How Tos
OPPO A57, a new entry-level device that gives users a flagship-level 16 MP front camera, a lightning-fast solid-state fingerprint reader, a long-lasting battery, and OPPO’s meticulous design, all for the incredible price of Rs. 14,990. Here is a full list of guides that will help you get used to the ColorOS on the phone.
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At night we rarely use our smartphone. At home, we usually stick to TV or spend time with family or use tablet PC. Even when we use, it is better to use with reduced blue light emission. In this guide, we explain how to improve battery life and reduce blue light emission of smartphones at night. Oppo A57 comes with lot of options to customize battery life and setting up Bluelight filter is also very easy. In this guide, we help you make use of some hidden features in Oppo A57 that help you at night.
Oppo A57 : Best night time settings
Most of the time during day or night, we do not want to attend to unwanted calls. These days, we get a huge number of spam messages from vendors (sale, offers etc). Even though you add your number of national DND registry, the spam wont stop. Setting up call and message blocking is one ideal way to make sure that only those who you prefer to contact you (call/sms) at any given point of time can reach out to you. Oppo’s blocklist feature helps you to setup a list of numbers that cannot disturb you. In this post, we show you how to effectively customize block lists.
Oppo A57 : How to block calls and SMS for select numbers
Cellular data is at a premium these days, unless you are using Reliance Jio network. Setting up warning and cut off when your monthly data quota is neared is essential to have. In this guide, we guide you to setup data limit on Oppo A57.
Oppo A57 : How to restrict amount of data used per month
Every smartphone these days come with option to share internet connection. This means that you can setup your phone as a wireless router. This helps a lot for those who are always on the go and need to connect their laptop or tablet to internet. With Jio, Airtel etc offering super low price data packs, internet sharing can save money.
Oppo A57 : How to share internet from your phone
One of the very useful features of Zen UI is ZenMotion. I can draw a letter when the display is off and the corresponding app assigned to launch will open up. This way, I do not have to unlock the phone, tap on app to open.
Oppo A57 : How to use gestures to speed up interaction
One of the irritating things with these OSes is that by default most touch sound and notification sounds are enabled. These include sound for unlock/lock phone, sound when a photo is taken, sound when you click on screen, sound when you are typing. It is very easy to disable/enable these sounds.
Oppo A57 : How to enable or disable touch sounds and other notification sounds
There are certain applications in our phones that we do not want others to use. When one has kids at home who love using your phone, it is a safe practice to setup locks for applications as phone lock/unlock pin is not enough. App lock feature in ColorOS lets you unlock all or specific applications so that when the app is opened, you are prompted for unlock password.
Oppo A57 : Lock applications for safety
Time and again, we end up with an application using up too much of cellular data or we may have set of apps that we never use while connected to cellular network. It is a good practice to block these apps from using cellular data as even 10MB saved is data saved.
Oppo A57 : How to block app from using cellular data
Simple Mode provides friendly UI with very simple icon grid layout and basic core functions. The icons will be super large in 3×3 grid with XL size text. The left most home screen is where you add contacts and the remaining screens can be setup to have application shortcuts. Simple Mode is good for those who only need specific functions with text/icons large enough. Without any widgets etc, the UI will be very easy to follow. Even the settings page will have minimal list of settings.
Oppo A57 : How to use Simple Mode
While the default apps that come with the phone are okay to use, there are much better applications out there that provide more functionality. For example, True Caller fans would want True caller’s dialer app to be default Phone app. Some prefer Opera or Firefox to be the default browser application. In this guide, we explain how to setup default applications on your Oppo A57 smartphone.
Oppo A57 : How to change default application
Keep your device unlocked when it is safe with you. Smart Lock can do this by checking certain things like your phone’s current location or what other devices are connected to your phone or who is accessing the phone (face scan etc). This can be very helpful when you are cannot unlock your phone using a PIN or password or fingerprint scan. This post will show you how to configure ‘Smart Lock’ that helps you bypass authentication when necessary.
Oppo A57 : Use Smart Lock to unlock your phone easily