The phone Samsung Galaxy S5 It is a terminal that, apart from offering quality hardware -such as its excellent screen or a fairly powerful processor-, also includes interesting tools for users. One of the least known is the Security Assistant, which we will talk about below.
It includes several functionalities that are important in the event that the device needs to be used in an emergency, at which time reliability and speed are essential conditions to provide a correct service. In addition, as can be seen configuration and use of all the options are not very complicated.
By the way, to run the Security Assistant it is not necessary to install any application or root the Samsung Galaxy S5, since everything that we will indicate below is included in the terminal at the same time it is turned on for the first time.
Set up and use the Security Assistant
The first thing to do is manage the assistant itself on the Samsung Galaxy S5, something that can be done on the aSystem item in Settings (the specific name is Security Assistance and it has a red icon).
Four options appear on the screen: Emergency mode; Geographic news; Send help messages; and finally, Manage primary contacts. The first thing that will appear when you first enter this section is that you must include a contact person for the messages, something that must be done (it is possible to establish more in the last section) and that, obviously, has no complications - It is simply to choose the desired ones from the list that you have on the phone. Enter this information now.
If Emergency Mode is activated, what the terminal does is disable some device features so that no more battery is used than is vital, an example is that the screen becomes black and white, as in Power Saving Mode. Also, WiFi and Bluetooth cannot be turned on and the data connection will only be active when the screen is turned on.
But this is not all, apart from getting the device to have an autonomy of up to 10 days, they are left active some functions –Which can be seen on the phone's home screen- that can be of great help if you are in a delicate moment: a flashlight, a sound alarm (very loud), the option to share the location, a reduced browser and, finally, the telephone dialer (in a large button at the bottom is the direct access to the emergency service). By the way, it is possible to exit Emergency Mode on the Samsung Galaxy S5 easily by pressing the specific button at the top right of the home screen.
Geographic News and Help Messages
These are the other two options on the Samsung Galaxy S5. Geographical news what it does is allow to receive information based on location of the user, such as the weather there will be. Importance levels can be set so that notifications are much more obvious if there are any. A good complement.
As for the Help messages, what is achieved when they are activated is that, if they are press the power button three times in a row of the Samsung Galaxy S5, a message is sent to the established primary contact (or contacts) indicating that there is a problem. In this section, if necessary, it is even possible for the terminal's microphone and camera to be activated to make a recording or photograph that will also be sent. Really useful in extreme cases.
Undoubtedly, and as has been proven, the Samsung Galaxy S5 includes some very interesting functions that allow users to solve different problems, even those that can be considered as emergencies.
Source: AndroidCentral
