Vivo V5 Plus Guides and How Tos

Vivo, one of the fastest growing mobile brand in India, has launched the Vivo V5 Plus in India. Vivo has a very strong retail presence and they have managed to setup a very strong Infrastructure within a short span of 2 years. The newly launched V5 Plus is a aimed at the selfie crowd. It has dual front facing camera setup with 20mp and 8mp lens and a single LED flash. The single LED flash is what Vivo calls “Moonlight flash”. The V5 Plus is a mobile that is centered around photography and music. It has a dedicated DAC chip for music. But we are not going to talk about how good the phone is. For that, you can read our review. In this guide, we are going to give you a list of guides that make it easier for you to setup or use FunTouch OS that runs on Vivo V5 Plus. Also, do not miss our “Recommended Smartphones”  list that contains best smartphones for every budget.

 

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. Vivo V5 Plus comes with lot of options to customize battery life and setting up Bluelight filter is also very easy.

Vivo V5 Plus : Settings that benefit at night

Themes is one of the most popular applications that come bundled on Android phones. Unlike iOS where you only get to use rows and rows of icons and folders, Android lets you customize every part of the OS. Thanks to iThemes, the Vivo V5 Plus lets you use themes. In this post, we show you how to use Themes on Vivo V5 Plus.

Vivo V5 Plus : How To Change Themes

One of the very useful features of FunTouch OS is Smart Motion. 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. Other gestures include smart wake, air operation, smart on/off, smart call etc.

Vivo V5 Plus : how to use gestures to speed up usage

The built in manual and guides are so vast that you do not have to run around geeks and experts to get help to find settings or setup something on the Vivo V5 Plus. In this post, we guide you to find manual section and how to access manual etc.

Vivo V5 Plus : How to access built in guide and manual

Its a headache to find the list of service centers. Sometimes, internet would be slow, sometimes, its hard to find the right website to find the list of service centers. What if you are not connected to internet and you need to find service center? Vivo V5 Plus comes with built in list of service centers that can be used to find service center in your region. Also, Vivo V5 Plus comes with e-Warranty card so that you do not have to carry a warranty proof (unless the phone does not turn on).

Vivo V5 Plus : How to find service center location from your phone without connecting to internet

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.

Vivo V5 Plus : How to share internet from your phone

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.

Vivo V5 Plus : How to block application from using cellular data

Most of the phones coming out of China come without application drawer. Similar to iOS, all the applications are stored on home screens. This creates lot of clutter as you do not want apps like ‘SwiftKey’ ‘truecaller’ visible all the type as these apps are like ‘setup and forget’.

Vivo V5 Plus : How to hide unwanted icons on home screen

This is one of the best features of Funtouch OS where you can create a demo by recording screen along with your voice so that if you want to help someone setup application or setting, you can record a demo. Other options include long screenshot, pattern screenshot etc. If you only want to take a simple screenshot of whats there on the screen, press Vol-Down and home key at same time and the screenshot is stored.

Learn how to make great screenshots and screen recording with Vivo V5 Plus

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.

Vivo V5 Plus : How to change default application

One of the irritating things with these OSes is that by default most touch sound and noifications 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.

Vivo V5 Plus : How to enable or disable touch sounds and other notification sounds