When we want to make our mobile stand out from the rest, in the event that we share the same model as our friends, doing so through customization of the main screen is especially tempting in order to make it more our own. The Samsung Galaxy S3 is a device that has been sold in enormous quantities "" last March it surpassed the amount of 50 million units in the market "", so it is understandable that its users try to give it a more personal point, something that can be done in many ways. Covering the device with an additional cover or case is very common, but just as we like to make the Samsung Galaxy S3 attractive outside, it is also interesting to do it inside. And for this, what better way than to do it through its flexible home screen. Let's look at five ways to make our Samsung Galaxy S3 look especially personalized in this regard.
Wallpapers
The Samsung Galaxy S3 allows us to place backgrounds on the main screen to our liking. In this case we would have several options. The system itself has several predetermined images, which are designed to be distributed across the seven desktops on which the home screen is distributed. They would be static backgrounds, also having dynamic options, in which some elements of the image move, regardless of whether or not we slide from desktop to desktop.
We could also use our own dynamic backgrounds using images from our private gallery, made up of photos captured with the camera or with files downloaded from the Internet. In this sense, if we choose a homegrown image, at the time of personalization we could cut out the fragment of the photo that we want it to serve so that it extends throughout the different spaces that comprise the displacement of the different desks.
To be able to place a custom background in any of these options, just press on the main screen for a few seconds, so that we can see how a dialog box appears from where we could choose, among other possibilities, to change the background, either static or dynamic. We could also access our gallery to select an image from a download or a capture with the Samsung Galaxy S3 camera.
Floating windows (widgets)
One of the most interesting points of Android in general and of the customization options in the Samsung Galaxy S3 in particular is the possibility of installing floating windows on your home screen. Floating windows allow us, so to speak, to have direct access to certain applications, while making it possible to manage some of their functions without having to open those applications. In this sense, it is very interesting to configure the Samsung Galaxy S3 so that we have in view the last messages received in our Gmail account, we have a small control box of the music player or we include a window with status summaries inTwitter or Facebook.
In order to install one or more of these widgets, we can take two routes. One emulates the one we have already described: we hold down the home screen until a dialog box appears among whose possibilities we see the "widgets" option. Click there and the complete available library will appear before our eyes. This is also available from the applications menu. If we look at the top band of the screen from said menu, we will see that there are two tabs, the second of which puts the aforementioned library of widgets at our fingertips.
Icons and folders
Of course, placed to occupy the grids of each of the desktops on the main screen of the Samsung Galaxy S3, we always have at our disposal the icons that give direct access to our most recurring applications as comfortably as possible. In this sense, we could not only display the different boxes on the panel to our liking, but also organize them by folders. In order to do that, we can choose two ways.
One, the simplest, causes the folder itself to be generated by simply placing one icon over another on the main screen. Once created, we could put the name that interests us the most, something very useful if we want to group applications by category or nature. Another way to generate folders is, as in the previous cases, by clicking on the main screen and selecting the creation of one of these. After this, just drag the icons "" as well as contacts and shortcuts "" on the folder so that they move inside.
Topics
Another means to give a more personal point to the Samsung Galaxy S3 is to resort to predesigned themes that we have in the system memory. With this, you will change the entire look of the main screen by incorporating wallpapers, pre-installed widgets and even different animations for transitions between desktops. In this case, we would have to go to the system settings menu, and in the section where aspects dedicated to the screen, sounds and storage are configured. We will recognize an option entitled "themes", where the different options available are exposed.
Launcher
A last customization option, perhaps close to the previous one but more complete, is to install a launcher on the Samsung Galaxy S3. There are many such customization packages in the Google Play app store. Many of them are free, although it is likely that those that are more interesting to us require a checkout "" for prices of about two or three euros, approximately "".
If we choose this means of customization, as soon as we have it installed the terminal will always ask us what type of launcher we want to start every time we access the main screen, unless we tell it to remember the selected option. However, from the system settings we could switch the launcher every time we want to recover the one that we carry as standard.
