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Jessica dolls work from CNET here with a couple of quick tips to help you customize your brand new Samsung Galaxy s5 just the way you like it now you may recognize a couple of these techniques from previous Samsung phones but if you are brand new to the s5 of course there are the usual moves like reassigning wallpaper with a pre-loaded sample a download or a photo from your gallery I'm also going to guess that you know how to change the lock screen wallpaper in the settings and add in delete widgets did you know however that you can change the phone's font to do this open settings then display then tap font and finally font style to scroll through a short list of options if you want even more pressing download brings you to a collection of options you can buy most of them for about a dollar though some fonts can cost as much as four dollars the small font size is perfect for my eyes but if you'd like it larger you can change that in the settings too you know that row of icons at the bottom of the screen that remains static when you swipe through home pages well in many countries you can customize this area to press and hold an icon to drag it in and around this icon row you can even create a folder around it speaking of folders they've been reshaped on the Samsung Galaxy s5 going from a circle to an icon of a square you make them pretty much the same way you always did but this time you can assign them one of five different colors blue grey maroon brown or green here's another quick little trick for you changing the animation you see when you swipe between the home screens find a blank space on a home screen and press and hold until you see controls appear tap home screen settings and then transition effect it's set to card stack as the default but you can also choose 3d rotation which makes it seem like you're turning a box around an axis or you can choose no transition at all this settings menu is also the place to turn off the my magazine feature that acts like a newsfeed to the left of your home screens back in the display settings is control over another favorite of mine the daydream screensaver it's been around since Android 4.2 but not as many people take advantage of it as they should here you can choose from a soothingly colorful animation to various options that turn your sleeping phone into a photo frame or Flipboard newsstand what's particularly nice about the photo frame and photo table options are that you can rotate images from the editing tool called studio as well as from a folder of favourites or screenshots and here's one final tip having your phone greet you by name in lock screen settings tap owner information and then enter your name or a message like smile Jessica well that's it for now folks for even more tips and tricks on how to root your phone or download third-party apps to liven up your homescreen go to how to see Netcom Christina I'm Jessica Dahl