Use Samsung Galaxy S5 As a Baby Monitor

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Pre-Requisites Before Enabling Baby Crying Detector

Use Samsung Galaxy S5 as a "Baby Crying Detector"

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Samsung recognizes the fact that we are living in a very busy world. There are things we need to do to maximize our time. You are at home with your baby - and you want to do some chores while your child is asleep. Samsung Galaxy S5 has a feature to help you monitor your baby, and hear if he/she is crying or in distress. Not intended as a medical device or as substitute for proper care-giving, this feature helps people know if a baby is in need of attention and care by sending a notification to your Galaxy Gear that your child is crying.

Before enabling the baby-crying detector, you need to comply to these requirements:

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   A Galaxy Gear

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   You need to have a Galaxy Gear on you to make use of the feature baby-crying detector. Samsung Galaxy S5 will detect any noise from your baby and if it reaches a point where the noise is more of the crying type, your phone will then send a vibrating alert to your Galaxy Gear notifying you your baby's crying.

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   A connection between Galaxy Gear and Samsung Galaxy S5

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   If you are not familiar with connecting your gear to your phone, you can check out this article on how to Configure or Sync Your Galaxy Gear to Samsung Galaxy S5.

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   The phone must be at least 1 meter from your child

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   This is because your phone needs to be able to pick up the sounds of your baby.

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   The phone must be in a room that is silent with no external noises or the phone will detect these external noises as your baby's cries.

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When enabled, Baby Crying Detector will send a vibration alert to your Galaxy Gear notifying that the baby being monitored is crying. To enable Baby-Crying Detector on your Samsung Galaxy S5, follow these procedures:

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   Go to your S5's Home screen

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   You can press the power button once to get to the Home screen instantly or you can repeatedly press the Back button until it brings you to the Home screen.

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   From your Home screen, tap on the Apps icon located on the lower-right part of your "Favorites Tray".

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   From the list of applications on your Galaxy S5, locate Settings and tap on it to open your phone's settings.

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   From Settings, tap on the My Device tab and go to Accessibility.

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   From the Accessibility option, tap on Hearing options.

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   From the Hearing options page, tap on Baby crying monitor

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   Agree to Samsung's disclaimer

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   As a responsible guardian, you agree that the feature is only intended to assist you monitor your baby's cries. It is not intended as a substitute for care-giving nor in any way should be used as medical equipment. Tap on OK when you have read, understand and agreed to Samsung's terms of use.

   

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   You have now enabled the baby-crying detector on your Samsung Galaxy S5

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   When your baby cries, your phone will detect the noise and will send a notification to your Galaxy Gear to let you know.

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Citations

• How to Use the Samsung Galaxy S5 Fingerprint Scanner. 2014. http://www.tomshardware.com/news/samsung-galaxy-s5-fingerprint-scanner-reader,26135.html (accessed April 03, 2014)
• Samsung Galaxy S5's official features. (accessed April 21, 2017)
• Samsung Galaxy S5's features. (accessed April 21, 2017)
• AT&T's Galaxy S5 gets FCC approval, just like you knew it would. (accessed April 21, 2017)

If you have problems with any of the steps in this article, please ask a question for more help, or post in the comments section below.

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