With over 1.49 billion users, Facebook is one of the largest social networks in the world, but it takes a lot more effort to explore all the Android Facebook app's best features. Whether you are using your Facebook app on a Samsung device or a Moto range, knowing how to easily sort your news feeds, improve your account security, share status updates or find your favorite content faster can greatly improve your experience. Here is a list of useful Facebook tips and tricks you should try out on your Android phone:1. Use WidgetsA Facebook widget can be really useful. The widget serves as a window where you can navigate through your friends' status updates without having to deal with the annoying adverts found in the full app. 2. Notification management The Facebook app comes with a feature that allows you to enable or disable certain notifications. Go to Facebook App settings then tap the Notification settings to be able to turn on or off alerts for messages, friend requests, wall posts, photo tags, friend confirmations and more. 3. Find Interesting places in your areaThe Facebook app running on your Android phone allows you to take advantage of your location. Tap the Nearby Places option to discover places with a Facebook page around your area.This is an efficient way of finding bars, restaurants and other venues in a place you are not familiar with.4. Share from other appsAndroid gives you the ability to share content between apps, and one of these apps happens to be Facebook. Simply choose the Share option while viewing any content from photos in the gallery, an article in the web browser or a file in your file manager, Facebook will pop up among the options.Whatever you share will appear on your timeline without having to navigate to the Facebook app. 5. Save videos and links to view later If you have a large number of friends, you may find it time consuming to go through all there interesting updates, fortunately the Facebook app has a solution for this. Next to a news feed post for a video or link, there is a drop-down arrow you can tap if you want to save the content to view later.The content is stored under the Saved option in the main app menu, if it isn't visible then tap Apps and select See All. 6. Manage your account security You can check all the places, accounts and devices connected to your Facebook account; On the Facebook app, choose Account Settings >> Security >> Active Sessions. 7. Disable the Messenger chat heads The Facebook app features a separate Messenger app for Android and one of its unique features is the chat heads that can appear at the top of other apps on your handset.This can be useful or a nuisance for some, you can disable this feature. Head to the Messenger app settings, select Chat heads to switch on or off the feature. 8.  Select your favorite friends You can access the list of your Facebook friends by tapping the portrait icon found in the right corner at the top of the Facebook app.Choose the Edit option to add the your favorite friends to the top of the list. This saves you the time of scrolling through your friends list to find them.9. Prioritize a friend's feedYou choose to see someone's feed before everyone else's. Head to their page, tap on Following and select See First, they will always be at the top of your news feeds.10. Disable a friend's feedYou can stop seeing a friend's feed without having to unfriend or block them. For this, navigate to their page, tap Following then choose Unfollow to never see their posts or posts they tagged in, without them ever finding out.

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What's my model number?

There are several ways to locate your model number:

Option 1
On your device, go to Settings, then "About device" and scroll down to "Model number"
Option 2
Often times you can view the model number inside the device, by removing the battery
Option 3
Using Samsung's model/serial number location tool

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