How to use "Auto-full stop" with the default Samsung Galaxy S2 keyboard

 One of the better hidden features of the Samsung Galaxy's default keyboard is it has an "Auto-full stop"   mode. When this is accessed it helps to speed the use of punctuation in texts and instead of needing to press "full stop" and "space" you instead double tap space and a full stop will be automatically entered for you. This may not seem like a big feature but it's a nice time saving technique that some may want to enable.

The method shown in this guide starts at the text screen (see right) as that is likely to be
where you'll be when you want to use this trick. Make sure you are using the "Samsung" keyboard as well as it seems to be the only one with this little secret. When on the keyboard click on the "settings" icon (it's the cog near the full stop) to open the keyboard settings menu (see left screen shot).

When in this menu you will need to scroll down until you see the option "Auto-full stop"
which comes with a small tick box. When you find this option make sure to tick the box (like in the screen capture to the right) and you'll have activated the function.

A similar thing can also be done on a number of Blackberry's by just pressing space so if you've come from a Blackberry and have been missing that feature you may just feel a little bit more at home now knowing how to use it on the Samsung.

Sadly for users of Swype and most other keyboards there doesn't appear to be a way to replicate this small but hand trick on your keyboards, though if someone can find a way feel free to let me know.

Copying texts on a Samsung Galaxy S2

 Recently we looked at copying text from a website, though lets be honest you may want to actually just copy a text message you've been sent by a friend. Whether you just want a to store it in the phone or use it in an e-mail or a forum post it's something that is surprisingly simple.

To start this guide we begin at a text conversation such as the one on the right hand side here.and fine a text we wish to copy. In this case we will be using the rather mundane "What's a boxing bag? hah xxx" text as our text. You need to hold on the
selected text for a second or two and a contextual menu will appear entitled "Message options" (see screen shot on the left). The second option down is the one we want to use, so select "Copy message text". This will automatically put it on the phones clipboard allowing you to put it wherever you want.

For the rest of this we are going to pretend we want to e-mail it to someone so we've opened up a blank e-mail using the Gmail app. and have helped down on the text input
screen to open up the menu on the screen to allow us to "Paste" the selected text from the message. and as you can see in the image below, the message has been compied from the text from "Bee" into an E-mail! Viola!

 Of course you can copy things such a cheat for a game, or something poetic someone has said (and something a little bit more spectacular than we've used in this example.

How do I copy and paste text from the web with a Samsung Galaxy S2?

 A lot of people on the internet have been asking how to copy bits of text from websites on to their Samsung Galaxy S2 cell phone. The funny thing is that the in-built browsers makes copying much more difficult than using the (much better) alternative Opera Mini browser.

If you wish to use the default browser you need to hold the screen where a word is. You will notice that you get a magnifying glass type of thing over the screen, if you release whilst on the word you'll get an option like there is shown on the screen shot to the right. If you stretch the marks apart you can copy more text though this method is somewhat slow as it seems to take longer than it should to drag for multiple words.

 Using opera mini you start with the same concept, press and hold on the screen and when you get a menu screen like the one shown on the image to the left you need to choose the "Select Text" option. From here you can select whole pages by dragging your finger along the text and this will highlight it blue. As soon as you release your
finger from the screen you will get a new menu come up with an option to "Copy". You can then do plenty with what you've copied, whether you want to use it to post on a website forums or an e-mail or even a text.

To paste your copied text you need to hold your finger in a "message box" such as the box you would enter a text message or an e-mail in. When you hold your finger on the screen you will see a pop up menu (see the screen capture to the left) with the option to paste. As soon as you select paste you will notice all the text you selected appears in the box.

To the right here you can see an excerpt that was copied into a text message using the Opera mini browser to copy and the default messaging app to paste. The actual amount of text you can copy and paste in this method does seem to be incredibly large and I've yet to stumble on the limit, though it would be fair to assume that if you wanted to copy and paste a huge amount the Samsung Galaxy S2 may have it's limits or take a moment to copy.

This is one of the many times that using Opera Mini is an advantage over using the default browser which has a number of limitations and I'd advise downloading either Opera mini or Skyfire for a number of reasons not just this one.

Edit:
Thanks to a comment by Material girl I've been playing about with this and realised that if you drag the little "quote marks" when using the default browser you can use that to highlight more than just a single world.
Thank you to Material Girl for pointing this out.

The text from the copied screen capture is from:
The Samsung Galaxy S2 review on Helium.com