If you are one of the people who has sensitivity to light, surely you have configured your smartphone in the following way: turning on the “dark mode”, activating the “sight saver” and using the brightness from 0% to 5%, however , if you think you need less light on the screen of your smartphone with operating system Android, there is another function that most do not know, we are talking about black and white mode, a tool that will convert everything to grayscale, do you want to know how to enable it? It is something that from Depor we will teach you immediately.
Although the option was named “Achromatopsia” by Android, most know it as the “black and white” mode, what does it do? It is necessary to clarify that the tool in question was developed with people who suffer from color blindness, nystagmus, photophobia and visual acuity in mind, but it is also very useful to prevent your mobile device from emitting too much light in dimly lit places.
How to activate black and white mode on your Android phone
- First, enter the “Settings” of your cell phone Androidyou locate it with the icon of a cogwheel or gear.
- Now, scroll down and click on the “About phone” > “Software information” sections.
- The next step is to press several times on the “Build number” section until the warning appears: “developer mode has been activated”.
- It is necessary to clarify that the name of the options varies slightly depending on the brand and model of the phone.
- Go back to Settings” and scroll towards the end, you will see that the “developer mode” section will already be enabled, touch it.
- Here go to the group called “Hardware Accelerated Rendering” or “Hardware Accelerated Rendering” and click on “Simulate Color Space”.
- Finally, five options will be displayed, choose the one that says “Achromatopsia” and everything will be in black and white.
- To revert this mode, go back to the previous step and select “Disabled”.
Why don’t modern phones have a removable battery anymore?
- Waterproof: suddenly it’s one of the main reasons that today’s mobile phones do not have a removable battery or back cover, therefore, there is less risk of liquid entering the most important electronic components of your device, since one one of the most delicate to water is the betería.
- Location and security: some mobiles have a function so that criminals do not turn off your equipment when you are the victim of a robbery, the only way to do it, if they do not know the password or unlock pattern, is to remove the battery, something very difficult to do when they are escaping from the area of the assault. In this way you will have time to locate or track the location of your cell phone.
- unsupported battery: all batteries have a useful life, which is approximately between 300 to 500 charge cycles, which means that if you have charged your cell phone from 0% to 100% more than 300 times, the battery probably no longer works or your energy runs out immediately. When this happens, users decide to buy a non-original battery to save money and continue using their mobile, which is very damaging to the phone.
- thinner phones: Equipment with a removable battery was an obstacle for manufacturers to develop a slimmer device.