Honor 8 Pro Guides and How Tos
The Honor 8 is a beautiful mobile and it was a perfect balance between aesthetics and performance. The Honor 8 Lite is a toned down variant of the Honor 8 and now we have the Honor 8 Pro. Honor 8 Pro is like Honor 8 on steroids. Honor 8 brings a whole bunch of new features and it is packed with a powerful hardware spec. Here are a few guides that will help you a lot in customizing your Honor 8 Pro smartphone. Also, do not miss our “Recommended Smartphones” list that contains best smartphones for every budget. But first, lets get to the list of Honor 8 Pro Guides.
Honor 8 Pro : How to Restrict data usage of apps
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 the cellular network. It is a good practice to block these apps from using cellular data as even 10MB saved is data saved. In this guide, we help you restrict certain apps from using data or from using data while running background.
Honor 8 Pro : Settings that benefit at night
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 the blue light emission of smartphones at night. Honor 8 Pro comes with a lot of options to customise battery life and setting up Bluelight filter is also very easy. In this guide, we help you create settings that help you at night, to get peaceful and sound sleep.
Honor 8 Pro : Change notification sounds
One of the irritating things with these OSes is that by default most touch sound and notifications sounds are enabled. These include sound for unlock/lock the phone, sound when a photo is taken, sound when you click on the screen, sound when you are typing. It is very easy to disable/enable these sounds. In this guide, we help you modify notification sounds, setup notification light and more.
Honor 8 Pro : Reduce screen or keyboard size for one hand use
It is very hard to reach top edges of a phone with one hand when the display size is bigger than 4.5″. Most operating systems come with ‘one hand ui’ mode that shrinks the size of display or keyboard so that we can click on top corners. From this guide, you will learn how to activate and use one hand display mode and how to reduce the size of the keyboard.
Honor 8 Pro : How to OTG update your phone
Some prefer that their phone is udpated often while other prefer not to get updates as they fear that updates may slow down the phone or cause bugs that are hard to live with. In this guide, we help you setup whether your phone should be updates or not, how to search for updates etc in EMUI 5.0.
Honor 8 Pro : Emergency Features
This is one of the best features of EMUI 5.0. Emergency services lets you setup alarms and triggers that can activate alarm, send automated sms/call to emergency contacts with location detail. In this guide, we help you setup simple emergency services options.
Honor 8 Pro : Manage Default Apps
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 help you setup default applications of your choice in EMUI 5.0.
Honor 8 Pro : How to block calls and messages
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 won’t 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. EMUI’s blocklist/blacklist feature is very powerful and can be heavily customized. In this post, we show you how to effectively customize block lists.
Honor 8 Pro : Lock Apps on Mobile
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 in EMUI 5 lets you unlock all or specific applications so that when the app is opened, you have to enter a password.
Honor 8 Pro : How to disable application from having complete access to data
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 the cellular network. It is a good practice to block these apps from using cellular data as even 10MB saved is data saved. In this guide, we help you setup application data usage in such a way that only few applications will have unrestricted access to cellular data in EMUI 5.0.
Honor 8 Pro : Check warranty and Find Service Center
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? Honor 8 Pro comes with built in list of service centers that can be used to find service center in your region. In this guide, we help you get used to the HiCare application that contains all details w.r.t service and warranty.