There can be a whole host of reasons why you might want to perform a factory reset on your device. Perhaps you’ve just bought a second-hand device, or maybe you want to start building a collection of apps from scratch. Whaterver the reason, follow this tutorial as we show you how to perform a factory reset on your Android 4.0 phone.

Open up the settings on your Android phone and scroll down to the Backup & Reset menu before opening it. Factory reset

This page will list all the settings which can be changed and modified to help you backup your device. In this instance, open up the Factory Data Reset button to continue. Are you sure?

Make sure to read the instructions that now appear on your screen. If you still want to perform a factory reset on your Android phone, press the Reset Phone option at the bottom of the screen.

Shot Control is designed more specifically towards serious photographers; aiming to help them take the perfect shot. You can adjust the white balance of shots, as well as mess around with the flash, exposure and colour levels of each shot. The app is getting updated frequently, so you’ll always have the latest features onboard.

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Want to try hacking your Android phone but don’t know where to begin? These 10 quick hacks are the perfect place to start, and can be done by everyone!

Spare Parts is fast becoming a standard install tool that appears in many custom roms. It provides access to a number of Android settings that would normally be kept hidden away. Using the app it’s possible to tweak windows animations, the wi-fi sleep policy, the screen brightness and plenty more besides. It’s also possible to track what apps are using the most power, essential for pin-pointing a new download that is suddenly draining your battery.

Have you ever found an interesting article that you wanted to be able to save to your phone, and take a look at some other time? Then, Read It Later might just be for you. Read It Later lets you save any article, video or web page directly to your phone, and creates a mini library of various web pages and articles that you’ve discovered.

As well as saving them on to your Android device, the app can sync your queue of saved items to your desktop browser; especially useful for commuting and traveling. You may struggle to read certain articles or web pages that you’ve saved; luckily, Read It Later comes with plenty of customisable options for you. You edit the font, adjust the alignment of text – or edit the text altogether.

If you’re interested in being able to save articles and web pages for future reference, then follow this tutorial.

Using the internet on a smartphone has come one leaps and bounds in recent times, and with the Ice Cream Sandwich update being rolled out to numerous Android phones, the experience of visiting websites and media content is better than ever. Browsers are increasingly becoming faster, and the rendering and buffering of media images is quicker than it has ever been. With the size of smartphones also increasing, viewing media and reading text has become a lot easier, making mobile browsing an extremely enjoyable experience.

The stock browser that comes as standard in Android devices has all the basic functions that you’d expect from any browser you use, and will be the chosen browser for this tutorial. There are plenty of other alternatives, however, and users can expect to find around six or seven world class browsers available to download from Google Play. Browsers such as Opera Mini and Dolphin Browser HD offer a browsing experience similar to what you’d expect from a desktop computer, but on your Android device. With an Ice Cream Sandwich enabled device, users could also try out Google Chrome; a well-established browser that is exclusive to Android 4.0 users and can be synced between multiple devices and platforms.

In this tutorial we will show you how to get started with the internet on your Android device. We’ll show you how to first find the browser on your phone, open up a website and then how access your browser’s settings.

If you think back a few years most peoples mobile phones were fairly simple affairs, even with the advent of camera phones. Now our mobile devices are more akin to portable computers in our pocket that are also useful at making voice calls and sending texts.

With this increased complexity has also come the need for features to be put in place in case something goes wrong.

Most Android devices come with a fairly simple recovery mode thats can be used to fastboot the device , recover , wipe the device and find other info about the phone or tablet. As with a lot of things with Android , even the recovery mode can usually be customized to do more things.