Honor Holly tips and tricks: fill your bag with these
The Huawei Honor Holly is a budget smartphone with surprisingly good specifications, but are you making the most of what it can do? Discover how to get the best from your device with our collection of Honor Holly tips and tricks.
The Holly is a good budget phone, even if its Android is getting on a bit. / © AndroidPIT
Honor Holly tip: stop the GPS from killing your battery
Of all the features in your phone, GPS is one of the worst offenders when it comes to battery life. If you don’t need super-accurate GPS all day long, go into Settings > Location and then go into Location Mode. You should now see three options: High Accuracy, Battery Saving and Device Only. Plump for Battery Saving, which offers the best trade-off between battery life and accuracy.
Open up the Holly, stick a microSD card in it and voila! More storage! / © AndroidPIT
Honor Holly tip: free up internal storage
The Honor Holly comes with 16 GB of internal storage, and it doesn’t take long before that starts to feel awfully cramped. No worries: stick a microSD card in there and transfer your apps to it. To do that, go into Settings > Apps and tap the first app you want to copy across. You should now see a bunch of options, and the one we want is Move to SD Card. Use this to move your apps to the SD card and free up valuable internal storage.
Honor Holly tip: take smoother selfies
The camera app on the Honor Holly has the usual Instagram-style filters, but if you’re shooting selfies the filter you want to use is Beauty Face. Beauty Face is designed to smooth out skin tones, but one word of warning: make sure if you use it you’re using it in a well-lit place. In poorer lighting conditions it should probably be called Melty Face, with the smoothing overcompensating until you look like something from a cheese-fuelled nightmare. Or maybe that’s just us.
Beauty Face produces interesting results in poor lighting. / © AndroidPIT
Honor Holly tip: use your phone as an internet hotspot
If you’ve got a device that needs Wi-Fi and there’s no hotspot around you can use your Honor to get it connected: if you go into Settings > Wireless and Networks you’ll find the option to create a portable hotspot. This turns your phone into a wireless hotspot, enabling you to share your mobile data connection with other devices via Wi-Fi, but beware: if you’re on a contract or pay as you go plan where there’s a limit to your data transfer or a charge per megabyte, don’t start streaming HD movies or downloading really huge files. It’ll cost you a fortune.
Honor Holly tip: how to enter recovery mode to factory reset your phone
If your phone has started to behave differently, perhaps by crashing a lot or just running slowly, a hard reset might solve your problems: it restores your Honor to factory-fresh condition, which often flushes out misbehaving apps and corrupt data files. Before you do a factory reset, though, make sure you’ve got a backup of anything important - not just photos and files but any logins and other important information. You can usually restore everything via your Google Account but it’s never a bad idea to take precautions.
To perform a factory reset, turn off your phone and then hold down Volume Up, Volume Down and Power simultaneously. Wait until you see the Huawei Honor Holly screen and then let go of the buttons. You should now see the Recovery screen, from which you can reset your device. Use the volume buttons to navigate and the power button to select.
Dimming the display can boost your battery life. / © AndroidPIT
Honor Holly tip: get longer battery life
The Holly’s battery should be more than capable of handling everyday tasks without running out of puff. If it’s discharging too quickly a rogue app is usually the problem. If booting into Safe Mode solves your battery issues then it’s an app, so you can now uninstall recently added apps until you find the one that’s been beating up your battery. Don’t forget the basics, either: dim the screen a bit to reduce its power drain, turn off Location Services you don’t need and keep an eye out for apps that are rather power-hungry: at the time of writing many Android users are finding that the Facebook app is increasing battery drain by around a fifth. That’s a lot of juice for one app.
Honor Holly tip: fix wonky Wi-Fi or bad Bluetooth
Every Android device encounters connectivity problems from time to time, and the solutions are the same for every one: reboot the device, reboot the router, forget Wi-Fi networks and reconnect, delete paired Bluetooth devices and re-pair the one(s) you need. Make sure Power Saving mode isn’t on either, as that has an impact on your device’s connectivity.
Honor Holly tip: stop the GPS from killing your battery
Of all the features in your phone, GPS is one of the worst offenders when it comes to battery life. If you don’t need super-accurate GPS all day long, go into Settings > Location and then go into Location Mode. You should now see three options: High Accuracy, Battery Saving and Device Only. Plump for Battery Saving, which offers the best trade-off between battery life and accuracy.
Open up the Holly, stick a microSD card in it and voila! More storage! / © AndroidPITHonor Holly tip: free up internal storage
The Honor Holly comes with 16 GB of internal storage, and it doesn’t take long before that starts to feel awfully cramped. No worries: stick a microSD card in there and transfer your apps to it. To do that, go into Settings > Apps and tap the first app you want to copy across. You should now see a bunch of options, and the one we want is Move to SD Card. Use this to move your apps to the SD card and free up valuable internal storage.
Honor Holly tip: take smoother selfies
The camera app on the Honor Holly has the usual Instagram-style filters, but if you’re shooting selfies the filter you want to use is Beauty Face. Beauty Face is designed to smooth out skin tones, but one word of warning: make sure if you use it you’re using it in a well-lit place. In poorer lighting conditions it should probably be called Melty Face, with the smoothing overcompensating until you look like something from a cheese-fuelled nightmare. Or maybe that’s just us.
Beauty Face produces interesting results in poor lighting. / © AndroidPITHonor Holly tip: use your phone as an internet hotspot
If you’ve got a device that needs Wi-Fi and there’s no hotspot around you can use your Honor to get it connected: if you go into Settings > Wireless and Networks you’ll find the option to create a portable hotspot. This turns your phone into a wireless hotspot, enabling you to share your mobile data connection with other devices via Wi-Fi, but beware: if you’re on a contract or pay as you go plan where there’s a limit to your data transfer or a charge per megabyte, don’t start streaming HD movies or downloading really huge files. It’ll cost you a fortune.
Honor Holly tip: how to enter recovery mode to factory reset your phone
If your phone has started to behave differently, perhaps by crashing a lot or just running slowly, a hard reset might solve your problems: it restores your Honor to factory-fresh condition, which often flushes out misbehaving apps and corrupt data files. Before you do a factory reset, though, make sure you’ve got a backup of anything important - not just photos and files but any logins and other important information. You can usually restore everything via your Google Account but it’s never a bad idea to take precautions.
To perform a factory reset, turn off your phone and then hold down Volume Up, Volume Down and Power simultaneously. Wait until you see the Huawei Honor Holly screen and then let go of the buttons. You should now see the Recovery screen, from which you can reset your device. Use the volume buttons to navigate and the power button to select.
Dimming the display can boost your battery life. / © AndroidPITHonor Holly tip: get longer battery life
The Holly’s battery should be more than capable of handling everyday tasks without running out of puff. If it’s discharging too quickly a rogue app is usually the problem. If booting into Safe Mode solves your battery issues then it’s an app, so you can now uninstall recently added apps until you find the one that’s been beating up your battery. Don’t forget the basics, either: dim the screen a bit to reduce its power drain, turn off Location Services you don’t need and keep an eye out for apps that are rather power-hungry: at the time of writing many Android users are finding that the Facebook app is increasing battery drain by around a fifth. That’s a lot of juice for one app.
Honor Holly tip: fix wonky Wi-Fi or bad Bluetooth
Every Android device encounters connectivity problems from time to time, and the solutions are the same for every one: reboot the device, reboot the router, forget Wi-Fi networks and reconnect, delete paired Bluetooth devices and re-pair the one(s) you need. Make sure Power Saving mode isn’t on either, as that has an impact on your device’s connectivity.
Honor Holly tips and tricks: fill your bag with these
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