A few days ago we told how to change the startup message of the Samsung Galaxy S4 at our convenience. It was a simple task, and at that moment we would refer to a future occasion in which we would complete the possibility of leaving the screens as personalized as possible. Well, the time has come and we are going to make the Samsung Galaxy S4 look as close to our liking. To do this, we will have to take into account that we can modify both the lock screen and the desktop. So let's go in parts.
Let's get down to the desktop first. Once we unlock the terminal, we access the main screen, where we can define various aspects. If we slide a couple of fingers as if pinching the surface of the panel, we will verify that all the desktop screens are displayed in an overview.
With this, we can move the different sections of the main view at will, in addition to adding or removing screens according to the needs we require. Once this is done, from any of the desktop screens, we leave our finger pressed until a pop-up menu appears that shows us two commands: "Define wallpaper" and "Add to home screen", within which we find three options additional ("Applications and widgets", "Folder" and "Page"). Click on the first aa that we have alluded to and a new menu appears with three other possibilities: "Start screen", "Lock screen" and "Start and lock screens". The first defines a dynamic background that expands across all sections of the main desktop,while the second refers to the one that appears when we wake up the equipment after a period of inactivity or rest. The third option, of course, attributes the same image to both screens.
When we choose one of these possibilities, we will access a panel that allows us to choose between animated backgrounds and static backgrounds preloaded on the Samsung Galaxy S4, as well as the gallery where we will find images captured with the device's camera or downloaded from the Internet or some application of Messenger service. We would only have to go to the file source that interests us the most to select the one we want and incorporate it into any of the screens we want.
Let's go back and remember that we could also add widgets "" that is, floating windows "", applications, folders and pages. Although the contextual menu to which we alluded before allows us to include these resources on the home screen, in practice it is faster to go to the applications menu and, by pressing and holding the finger on the icon of the app that we want to anchor on the main screen, let it crawl towards it so that we can choose the place that we consider most appropriate so that we have it closer to hand. With widgets you can do the same. From the applications menu, click on the tab on the right that we will see in the upper margin of the interface and access the library of floating windows. Again,holding down the widget that we want to install on the main screen we can drag it to it to anchor it.
For the creation of pages we have already given a hint previously when we talked about the gesture command that pinched the screen, although from the aforementioned pop-up menu they can also be added, adding to the sides immediately closer to the one we have defined with the small icon of the House. As for the folders, they allow us to group shortcuts to applications according to the criteria that interest us the most, being able to title them as we see fit.
All these operations can also be done from the settings menu "" accessible from the capacitive button that is to the left of the start key or, by displaying the notification window, by clicking on the gear icon that we see at the top right " ”. Once inside the menu, we select the second tab in the upper area ("My device") and enter "Screen", where we will locate the "Backgrounds" options to which we have alluded, as well as a large number of additional parameters. After that, let's go back to the overview of "My device" and enter "Lock screen". Here we could define the installation of widgets that are anchored in said screen, as well as shortcuts to applications, so that it is not necessary to unlock the Samsung Galaxy S4to start certain terminal functions. We could also change the effect that occurs when we touch the screen or bring our finger close to it.
Finally, and taking advantage of the fact that we are in the "My device" section, we are going to take the trouble of entering the "Home screen mode" section. Here we will see two options to choose from: "Standard Mode" and "Simple Mode". The first shows a view referring to everything that we have been commenting on so far, while the other simplifies the presence of icons and floating windows, showing more voluminous and easy-to-use content, in the face of users with little experience with the use of smartphones.
