Gmail app update for Android

Use Gmail on Android phone often? If so, then look out for some pretty good updates that Google have released for the Android Gmail app. This update to the existing Android Gmail app includes the addition of new features like the option of saving the attachments to Google Drive directly from the mail and improved support for RTL (right-to-left) languages and few more. These features are explained in the list below:

• Save to Drive:

  If any of the mail received in the Gmail has an attachment, then instead of downloading the attachment to view it, it can be saved to Google Drive directly from the mail. This can help in reducing the space consumptions that the downloaded attachments make.
  To save an attachment in a mail to Google drive, tap on  more options (the dots) beside the attachment and select “Save to Drive”

• Explanations to Spam mails:

  If any email ends up in the spam folder of our Gmail, wondering why it was considered spam was the only option left to us. But now, Gmail cares to explain why a mail entered the spam folder of the Gmail’s inbox.
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How to transfer contacts from iPhone to Android phone

The most important among the many things in a phone are the contacts. In this post, transferring contacts from iPhone to Android phone will be explained. Luckily, transferring contacts from iPhone to Android phone can be done in a very straight forward manner.

Although there are apps available to do this contacts transfer from iPhone to Android, the very basic method which is going to be explained in this post requires nothing more than a computer and an internet connection to it. The old iPhone with contacts and the new Android phone are also needed, of course!

To transfer contacts from iPhone to Android phone:

As Android uses the user’s Gmail account to store all the contacts from the phone, in the same way, the contacts from the iPhone are stored into the iCloud.
1. So, first in the computer’s web browser, go to  www.icloud.com
2. Log in into the website using the Apple ID and password.
3. Click on contacts. Then in the bottom left corner of the browser’s window, click on settings (the gear icon).
4.  Click on “Export vCard” option.
This vCard file consists of the contacts of the iPhone.
The computer will ask where to save the vCard file. select appropriate location in the computer that is easy to remember. Because, this file is needed to copy the contacts into the Android phone.

5. Now, head on to www.gmail.com in the web browser. In the top left side of the screen, “Gmail” with a drop down arrow will be present . Click on that arrow and in the drop down that appears, select “Contacts” (refer the picture given).

6. when the contacts page opens, click on “More” and select “import contacts”.

 

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Hard reset Android

Performing hard reset on a phone clears the entire phone’s data and so taking backup of all the data in the phone like pictures,videos, music, documents, contacts etc is very important. Read the following articles to know how to back up the data of an Android phone before performing a hard rest:
How to backup Android phone data into computer or Google Drive
How to backup Android phone contacts to Gmail
How to save Android phone contacts into SIM card or memory card

After making sure that back up of all the data of the Android phone is taken, the user can proceed to perform hard rest of the phone.

Hard rest of any Android phone can be done in any one of the following three ways:

1. Press Home key -> Menu key, then go to  Settings -> Privacy -> Factory Data Reset.

A warning that says to back up the data appears on the screen....
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Hard rest on a phone can also be done by pressing a combination of keys (usually the power button, volume buttons and home button keys) and these combinations depend on the model of the phone. These will be given in the later posts.

Saving Android phone’s data into the memory card will be discussed in the next post.

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How to save contacts from Android

This article continues on the methods to save contacts from Android phone. How to backup contacts from Android phone to Gmail is given here: How to backup contacts from Android

Steps on how to backup data from Android phone have been given here: How to backup Android phone
In this post, how to save contacts from Android phone to SIM card and memory card will be discussed.

Save Android phone contacts to SIM card:

A SIM card (Subscriber Identity Module) can usually store up to 250 contact details. The details it stores include only the contact name and their number. It does not store the contact photo, email address etc.
So when transferring contacts to SIM, sometimes the message “some information will be lost” appears. This message implies this same thing that it will save only the contact name and number.Nothing more and nothing less.
To backup contacts from Android phone to the SIM card:
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Steps on how to perform a hard reset on Android phone is given here: Hard reset Android
How to save all the Android phone data into the memory card will be given in the later posts.
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How to backup contacts from Android

 

Before performing a hard rest on Android phone, steps to take backup of the data in the phone have been given in the previous post: How to backup Android phone.
Steps on how to perform hard rest of Android phone are given here: Hard reset Android
In this post, methods of saving contacts from the Android phone are discussed.

Backup of contacts from the Android phone to Gmail:

• In Android phones, it is an advantage to have the user’s Gmail account in sync with the phone so that it helps in saving contacts of the phone.

• On the Android phone, go to Settings->Accounts. Under Accounts, it will  show the list of accounts that have been sync to the device.

• In that list, look for the Gmail account that is used to sync to the phone.

 If the user has not added any Gmail account to the phone before, the following steps tell how to add Gmail account to an Android device:
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Saving Android phone contacts to the SIM card or to the memory card are given here: How to save Android contacts to SIM or SD card
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