Hello this is Brandon with Android Advice & Tutorials, here we are going to do a quick review of the iOttie Easy Flex wireless car charger. The car charger when you first get it will come with this main unit, suction cup is kind of built on to it and a plug here that will plug into your car to give it power. You will also notice there is two little clips that you can use to actually route this cable around to wherever you want to put it in your car, it will come with two of those clips. OK, first thing you are gonna want to know is that the bottom is a very sticky rubbery kind of bottom, its almost like a suction cup but its more like a sticky pad like a 3M tape kind of thing. What you are going to do is your gonna place that where you wherever you want this to sit and then your going to take this plastic piece and push it down to tighten the suction. We have had this installed and it does just sit there and you can’t rip it off if you wanted to, you would break the front off of this before you could rip this off the dash. This particular dash is kind of like a leather and its textured so most suction cups just fall right off but this sticky bottom sticks really well which is a feature that we really love on this. What your going to want to do it find the spot you are going to want it, set it in place, and right there before you even push down on the lock its in place pretty well. So we will go ahead and lock it down by pushing that tab that we showed you earlier. And then once this is plugged into the car you will notice that this light here will turn orange, that means that it is ready. So now we have a Galaxy S5 and we have put a Qi wireless charging adapter behind the battery so that it wirelessly charges. So this is what we are going to test it with today. There is a section here. you’ll see this piece here, you can push the button on top and move this back and forth to fit with or without a case. Here we go, all you do, you’ll see a button here, when that button pushes it locks in place on your phone which is really nice. So its one hand operation although for the sake of the video i’m gonna use two hands so its clean and I don’t get in the way. You see there Wirelessly charging, it gives you that notification there as well as the battery here will show the lightning bolt within the battery showing that it is charging. So for the S5 it charges great instantly. We did test it a little while and it does charge about 70% as fast as say plugging it in directly although not having to plug it in is very nice and obviously why you are buying this particular mount over just a standard mount. Its a very strong mount, it swivels about thirty degrees in either direction so you can show it to passenger and driver. It will go up and down as well, there is like a ball kind of section on the back that swivels around. Then you have this main part that actually spins along the actual unit itself and you can spin it all the way around any direction you want. Perfect for GPS, perfect for putting up-right if you taking phone calls and you want to do it that way. Very great mount and one thing we wanted to test is testing it with a larger case. The largest case we could find is an Otterbox Defender case being the one with the largest back to it just to see how it charges with that, so lets put this in the case real fast. OK now that we have the case on the device you’ll see that its huge now and the back is a lot thicker than it was before. One thing you might need to adjust is this at the bottom here so we will set it in place and see what it does … not enough to the back … Oh! there it goes, it may just be off a little bit here but as you can tell it is charging and it is charging wirelessly with the thickest case we could possibly find, it adds a good bit to the back. Really this will work with any case you have, we do not have with us right now the Note 3 but it charges great, and a Nexus 5 charges flawlessly of course its built into that. Definatly recommend this mount. We had a chance to see it at CES and play with it there this year. The best wireless charging car mount that we have seen so far so definatly recommend it. We will have a written article in the description of this video as well as where you can get the charging pad adapter for the S5 and the iOttie Easy Flex mount as well. Thanks for watching.

Hi this is Brandon at Android Advice & Tutorials, here we are going to show you the Toolbox feature on the Galaxy S5. Cool little feature to help you quickly get to things on your device without having to find it on a specific screen. To get to the Toolbox settings what you are going to want to do is pull your notification bar down and tap the settings icon. Then scroll down until you get to Sound and Display, at the bottom of Sound and Display you will see Toolbox. So lets go ahead and tap that. Now within the Toolbox screen you see you can turn it on and off, right now it is off and you don’t see the little icon on any of the screens. So what we will want to do first is go ahead and turn it on and you will see that Toolbox icon pop up right here. From there you can look down and see the applications that you want in your toolbox. Lets go ahead and edit this and here you can see all of the applications on your device that may like to have show up within that toolbar. There are certain things that you may want, lets say you want maps. You can only have a certain number in the Toolbox so you will have to turn one off to turn maps on. I believe five is the limit. Lets say you dont really use your … calculator, camera seem to be good, internet generally use the browser often, maps are used pretty regularly. Voice recorder you may not use so lets go ahead and scroll up and see … you want to use music. So now from here now that you have done this up at the top you will see “save” or “cancel”, we want to save that and you will see within the screen its now all of the icons that you would like to use and they are all listed here. From there we can go ahead and exit out of here and you will see that icon up here stays there and from any screen we can tap it and it brings up that list within our toolbox. Then if we want to get to it quickly we can just tap it there, do what we need to do and if we want something else, say camera you get to that camera quickly. So you have your toolbox within most things, if you open up an app that icon will not show up in the foreground of most apps, some standard apps on the device it will. So lets say you get tired of it getting in the way and there are things up in the corner that you don’t want covered or are having issues with you can remove it or actually move it on the screen somewhere else that you may not touch as often. Lets say here, nothing usually shows there on your screens themselves widget wise, so you can set it anywhere you want and it will actually show the icons. Thats how to use it and if you decide you don’t want to use it anymore again you can grab it and remove it that way (like a widget) and turn it off. If you decide you want it again you can go back to settings but you can also come back to settings where you originally turned it on and turn it off there. So thats that, hope that helps, the Toolbox is a really handy feature. If you have any questions about it or anything I missed that you want to bring up and want more detail on just let us know at Android Advice & Tutorials or you can leave a comment in the description of this video. Thanks for watching.

Hi this is Brandon with Android Advice & Tutorials here we are going to do a quick review on how to use the Galaxy S5 with the Otterbox Defender case. The Otterbox Defender case is a very very protective case. Now after using it for a while we do not recommend it unless you just work in an environment or are in an environment where your phone is going to take a beating because it does bulk up the phone quite a bit. So here it goes, we have our Galaxy S5, very thin device that feels great in your hand. So lets go ahead and put this into the case itself and see how this all works. Basically what you are going to want to do is grab the hard outer back shell and set your device in that first. And then the second piece is a screen protector that clips to the back part. You will notice there are clips on the side here that will hold it in place. So, you are going to want to set that in on one side and then push down all the way around, there will be one clip on the top, two clips on either side, and there is two clips on the bottom. And when you squeeze all that together you will hear it pop in place. Just look all the way around to make sure it is in there good and snug. And then you have your outer rubber shell that kind of takes the impact. Basically what you are going to do with it is slide in the top first because it has got this flap and then go all the way around it and slide it up, slide it around. Then you will see that it doesn’t go around the bevel here, you have to push it and roll it over the bevel and it actually clips in place. The rubber on the inside has a part that goes down and it will seal it off and hook it all together so its good and clean. So now it is completely covered and you will notice this case makes this device huge. Do not like that because it takes the look and feel of the phone and completely removes it but like I said its very protective. The phone weighs a little over twice what it did without the case. Wireless charging if you have the pad … the adapter in it, there is a charging receiver that you can get will work through this case. You want to make sure that you use a charging pad that isn’t one of those cheap ones you can order anywhere under twenty different names. The case itself is nice other than the bulk, it has all the cutouts you need so you can use your IR blaster, access your headphone jack easily, and adds a little more protection with the water as well. The water proof feature of the S5, perfect cutout around the camera being raised enough that you can set it almost anywhere without having to worry about scratching up your camera. Perfect cutout for the speaker as well as a large cutout at the bottom so you can open the flap when you are charging via USB it opens all the way without getting in the way. So overall the power button clicks pretty easily, its separate from the rubber so, there is rubber over it but the plastic piece on the inside does not touch the power button so it allows the rubber piece click very easily. Same thing volume buttons, volume up, volume down you can hear it click. Openings for the from camera and sensors are all clean as well as the bottom area. The raised bevel is a very raised bevel so you can set it face down just about anywhere and not have to worry about it. For protection this is probably the best case that we have ever used for any device although for keeping that stylish look and feel, you lose it with this case. Hope that helps when you are looking to purchase it or even installing it as we’ve had a few people ask us about that. Removal is very easy, for removal you are going to want to grab the headphone cover first and go ahead and pull that up and out and that makes removal easy. You can grab it anywhere and yank to try and get it off but this is the easiest way to do it and you can just peel this off, put your fingernails under the clips and pull it off. Its a relatively easy process but it is time consuming. Hope that helps when your looking at purchasing a case and we will have other case reviews here soon and we probably give this case away here shortly as well. Thanks for watching.

Hi this is Brandon at Android Advice & Tutorials and here I am going to show you how to factory restore your Galaxy S5. There is two different methods, one of them is if you cannot boot all the way into Android and the other one is from within the Android operating system. So lets start with the first method which would be the recovery mode. How you get into recovery mode is with the phone off you will want to hold down the power button, volume up button and home button at the same time. So we hold them all down until the device powers on and you will see text up here and you can let go as soon as you see that saying recovery. Ok, we are now in recovery mode and now you will see options. Your options are to reboot, update from ADB, this that and the other. What you will want to do is wipe the cache partition first, you will use your volume buttons to navigate so arrow down to “wipe cache partition” and hit power to select. Wiped, it shouldn’t take very long and then select “wipe data/factory reset” power button to select it and then its going to make you confirm so arrow all the way down to “yes, delete all user data” and power button again to confirm. Then you will see it actually do the process, devices that don’t have much on it will be faster like that (this is just a test device). Then select reboot system now by hitting the power button to select that and we will go ahead and boot up into the OS. And there we are as if we turned it on for the very first time. So lets run through here so you can see how we do this without and just run through setup real fast. (This is an AT&T device so thats where some screens are coming from you may not actually see) Now from within the Android operating system what you will want to do is go into settings by pulling down your notification bar and tapping settings. Now scroll all the way down until you get to “User and Backup” and tap “Backup and Reset”. If you want to back everything up you can, just check that. It is only certain things that it backs up being just your basic settings, your contacts and things like that. Now tap “Factory Data Reset” and then “Reset Device”. You will get one final confirmation that says its going to delete everything and you cannot get anything back. Next it will ask you to create a password, this is not entering a password its just creating a new one. Then the device will reset and do the factory reset. Now if you want more detailed backup instructions just let us know and we will walk you through what you specifically want to backup but for the sake of this video since its just a factory data reset we are skipping that. And there you go, once again back to factory settings. Basically if you are going to sell the device or giving it to someone else or you just want to wipe it out to start over those are the two methods. Hope this helps, if you have any questions come see us over at Android Advice & Tutorials and let us know, or ask on Google Plus as we will likely respond a little faster there. Thats it, thanks for watching.