Secret tricks and tips for the Samsung Wave

Whilst having a recent play about with a Samsung Wave I wanted to test out various tricks and tips, I'm a guy and we can't help but play about with things and learn the secrets. Sadly I learnt some of them after having had to use other methods for things to work though for everyone else they will certainly find some of these useful.

This is one of the most useful features for those wanting to take photographs of what's on screen. To do this you simply need to press the centre button and the lock key on the side of the phone. I wish I'd known these a few days ago when I was taking photographs of the screen with a separate phone as the clarity of these is much better than the ones I was taking. The images taken this way can be found in a folder called “Screen capture” which is found in the “Images” sub-folder of “Files”. This is a great little secret which is sadly too secret! All the pictures taken in this article were done with this secret.

The image to the right shows both the "Screen capture" folder and the brilliant quality of these images which much better than you will get of trying to take a photograph of it.

Usually to find the task manager you need to go through a number of screens including a menu screen and the about screen. In fact it actually takes quite a while to get there before you even know which applications you need to close. If however you just hold the key in the middle of the phone, you zoom straight there saving you the time and effort of going through all the menu screens.

The phone has a number of secret codes to test various settings and such things. Rather than going into and explaining them all (many of which I don't actually understand) I'll just give you codes to some of the more useful ones. To access them click keypad and enter the code using the keypad.
Factory rest (completely resets the phone to how it was when it left the Samsung factory)
*2767*3855#
LCD test that allows you to test a number of things including the vibration, the touch screen and the accelerometer
*#0*#

Most people won't be aware that the phone actually has 4 different methods to enter texts messages. One is the now standard on-screen QWERTY keyboard, though you can also open up an on screen “keypad” showing the the old style keys from buttoned phones (1-9 keys) which some people still prefer to use. You can also try “writing” the messages with your finger writing the letters though this seems more hassle than it's worth. When you go to text someone you will see a key with “EN” on it, hold it and you can select predictive text and the choice of which writing method you want to use.

Hopefully you can make the most of these tricks and get the most from your phone. Which although not the most up to date handset is still a pretty decent phone and has plemty of depth to it.