OnePlus 3: Tips and tricks for the best smartphone under 400 euros

OnePlus 3: Tips and tricks for the best smartphone under 400 euros

The OnePlus 3 is without doubt a powerful smartphone at an attractive price. Fortunately, OnePlus with the launch of this top Smartphones has decided to abolish the unloved invite system. So that you can get the maximum out of your Smartphone, we have collected the best tips and tricks for the OnePlus 3 in this article.

OnePlus 3 in the test
From a professional point of view: The camera of the OnePlus 3 in focus
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Dark themes and night mode
Configure alert slider
Capacitive buttons disable
Configure buttons
Inactivity display enable and disable
Close all programs
Shelf to configure or disable
Configure notification LED
Configure status bar
Configure gestures
OnePlus 3 tips and tricks: dark themes and night mode enable
At first glance, you might think that the dark themes and the night mode is one and the same function. But it isn't.

Night mode reduces the blue component of the display and overall color temperature in a warmer scale moves. That should ensure especially at night when reading messages for a geruhsameres and relaxed sleep. To eyes are spared due to the reduction of the blue component and less stressed. You can easily activate the night mode, because to the must enable you only activate the corresponding button in the Quick Launch bar. To customize the night mode to your own standards, can you adjust this in the settings under display via slider.

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Night mode protects the eyes. / © AndroidPIT
The dark theme or even dark theme called - is not to the eye protection and peaceful sleep, but intended to improve especially the battery life. Instead of bright white areas, black areas appear on the display. Such areas consume less power when AMOLED screens and can actually extend the life. To activate the dark themes, you must go in the adjustments settings and select the mode of dark. In addition, you can customize here then are the accent colors for switch and menu entries.

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The dark theme helps save electricity. / © ANDROIDPIT
OnePlus 3 tips and tricks: configure alert slider
A special feature of the OnePlus 3, which has inherited from its predecessor of OnePlus 2, is the slide switch on the left side of the housing. The three position switch by OnePlus called alert slider is configurable in the settings. In the lower position, you will receive all Android notifications, in the Middle just who will inform the OnePlus 3 you as important classified and in the top of any notifications. The switch is especially handy if you are sitting in meetings and will not be distracted by notifications.

In the settings-> alert slider-> priority settings you yourselves can define which notifications your OnePlus should report 3, if the switch is in the middle position stays. Alarm clock function, multimedia sound, reminders, messages or calls from specific contacts can be set as priority notifications. In the silent position, you can take out the alarm clock and multimedia-sound of the rule.

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The alarm switch can be configured very finely. / © ANDROIDPIT
OnePlus 3 tips and tricks: disable capacitive buttons
The OnePlus 3 has two capacitive buttons left and right next to the home button. For some applications like for example games, this can become a problem, because a little touch and it is out of the hunt after high scores out.

Luckily OnePlus has provided the option in the settings-> keys to disable the capacitive buttons and switch on an OnScreen navigation bar.

OnePlus 3 tips and tricks: Configuring keys
If you prefer using the capacitive buttons of the OnePlus 3 instead of the above described OnScreen buttons, you can prove this with extra features. Both buttons and the home key can be triple. The normal short keystroke, a long press and double tapping can trigger different actions.

You can define the actions for the pressing and even the double tap on settings-> keys.

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Practical function: can be assigned three buttons. / © ANDROIDPIT
OnePlus 3 tips and tricks: inactivity display enable and disable
The oxygen of OS installed on the OnePlus 3 has a feature that is very similar to Motorola's active display. OnePlus strange calls this feature "Inactivity display". It is here meant that upon receipt of notification the display turns on and displays the message below the clock. It therefore saves the annoying switching on the Smartphone.

The function can be activated in the settings-> display-> inactivity display switch. More options are available for this feature is otherwise not available.

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Notifications can independently activate the display of the OnePlus 3. / © ANDROIDPIT
OnePlus 3 tips and tricks: close all programs
See lollipop and marshmallow in the stock version there is by default unable to close all applications in the Task Manager on a strike. Only with Android, Nougat will implement this feature. Who owns a OnePlus 3 with oxygen OS, which can use the feature but today.

To stop all running apps with a tap, you must wipe in the Multitaskansicht upwards until you have come to the end of the list. There, see the three staggered bar below your right and you can delete all apps with a tap.

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Delete all apps at once going OS under oxygen. / © ANDROIDPIT
OnePlus 3 tips and tricks: shelf to configure or disable
The OS of the OnePlus 3 oxygen have on Google now, but to reach them only through a long pressing the home button. Left next to the homescreen, the oxygen of OS has integrated name shelf feature. There, you can display the current weather, your most used apps you and drop various app widgets.

Shelf to configure and add new widgets you need click in view only the plus sign is shown in the lower left corner. Affiliated the selection is frequently used contacts, and widgets to choose from.

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The "shelf" can fill you with widgets, contacts, and weather information. / © ANDROIDPIT
If your shelf wear and want to completely disable it, then this is also possible. Keep this on your home screen long on an empty area, customize then selects and then your shelf can turn off completely.

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No fancy shelf? No problem, because it can also switch themselves off. / © ANDROIDPIT
OnePlus 3 tips and tricks: Configure notification LED
On the sense and nonsense of a notification LED can be notoriously fight. Love the Visual Notification, others hate it. The OnePlus 3 has such a LED that preferences even adaptable. See Customizing-> LED notifications, you can customize the LED color according to your taste. Also can this configuration menu each app to assign, if the LED or not light up when a notification.

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Practical: the notification LED of the OnePlus 3 can be individually adjusted. / © ANDROIDPIT
OnePlus 3 tips and tricks: Configure the status bar
Also see Settings-> customize the status menu you can configure. Here, you can choose what information to display you in the top bar of the screen. By default, all information are active, but not everyone needs all the information in the status bar.

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The status bar can see oxygen simply configure OS and OnePlus 3. / © ANDROIDPIT
OnePlus 3 tips and tricks: Configure gestures
Gestures are very popular for Smartphones from China. Oppo uses such smartphones and OnePlus since the last year's OnePlus 2 also. So it is not surprising that the OS of the OnePlus 3 oxygen also uses gestures for fast start functions and apps.

Under settings-> gestures, you can activate them and individually enable the four gestures laid down in the system, or also disable. The wake-up of Smartph available

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