Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Episode 36: How To Set Better Lock Screen Widgets With Better Functionality?

*Note 3 Tips & Tricks Table of Contents: http://tinyurl.com/mqftosk

The Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Comes with a nice lockscreen widget provided by Samsung. But one nagging thing about the lock screen is that it does not display the weather until you expand it. And who really wants to do that every time when it can easily be part of the main lock screen? The good news is that lockscreen widgets are very configurable, and you can set a better looking one with more functionality that is free in the Google Play store. I recommend either Chronus or DashClock widget.

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hello everyone Michael here once again
with the daily note 2 and 3 YouTube
channel and yesterday I showed you how
to do this you could
from the lock screen swipe left where the clock is
and it'll open up your camera app and you can
start taking pictures right away
well i wanna talk about everything else
about the lock screen for example
for the longest time I thought this page
itself couldn't be customized but
actually could change this home widget
this is just a widget here
this is the widget that
samsung provides and you can configure
it
by going to settings device
lockscreen and your configuring that
home widget by setting the clock widget
options
the personal message and the owner
information
however you don't necessarily need to
use that lock screen for example what
I don't like about that default lock
screen that Samsung provide it is
although it is beautiful I like the font
he need to pull down to see the weather
and I thought that it was an
unnecessary gesture just to see the
weather now most the you probably
already have done this you could swipe
to the left and then P just and a widget
for example let's at the music widget here
and in order to move this around you need
to first have it expanded so first expand it
by dragging from the Middle downwards
and then you could long tap on it like
you would do any widget
and you can move it in place you could even
make it your new home screen widget for
example
if you just power on the device now
your home screen
is that music widget and once again
what i really don't like about this
widget is that I cannot see
weather on their maybe if you live in a
city where the weather system is pretty
consistent and predictable
maybe you wouldn't be much of an issue
for you but for me I always need to look
at the weather before heading outside
yes it does have big variations in it so
there are many lock screen widgets that
are available in the Google Play Store
Dr a little bit hard to find
this when you type widget it tries to find these for you and
they are different types a widget's it
is widgets that are specifically made
for Android 4.2 and higher
so there are many which is the here that
you can download
the two that I recommend is called
chronus
you could see that i have it installed and the
other one
is called the dashclock widget dash clock being one word
you can see that i have that installed
as well so let me show you what those two
look like
so after have them installed go to
your lock screen
and swipe ro rhw right and just
that plus button so this is chronus and let's just
say okay to that and then let's add
another one
the dashclock
and you that I customized this
widget a little you could
and extension and you could add all
these elements in here so I really like
that
so let's put the check mark on that
and now let's turn the screen on again
and you can see that this widget
that samsung provides is there but we
had these additional two widgets
so I liked this one because it is very
stylish has a nice gaphic
in there a however this one has more features in there it has
the temperature and you can add stuff
like your Gmail in there
so I think that is nice and if you like
one of these and you would rather have one
of these as
your homescreen just do a long tap
when it is expanded and just set that as
your home screen
so now you could have that
and obviously it doesn't really have
to be about time and the weather
could have your walking mRW has your
home screen for example maybe
you're that pedometer a lot and the first you want to see is maybe
is that pedometer so anyway those are just a couple widgets that i found that
could run on the Galaxy Note 3 as your
lock screen widget
and if you happen to find a cool one out
there definitely make sure you leave a
comment on how to get that widget that you found
so that's the end of today's video and for
more videos on the Galaxy Note 2 and
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videos
once again thank you for watching.