Samsung Galaxy A15 LTE review. Review of the camera, hardware, software, battery, design, screen, and charging speed of Galaxy A15 LTE phone.
Review of Samsung Galaxy A15 LTE
phone, price and specifications
Introduction
Another day, another Galaxy review, and it’s still not the S24 Ultra you’d expect. We’d love to get our hands on the S24 series sooner rather than later, but Samsung just couldn’t arrange the devices to arrive on time—at least not to our office. So, like it or not, the Galaxy A25 and Galaxy A15 are the first new Galaxy devices we’ll get to enjoy in 2024.
Today we have the 4G version of the Galaxy A15, Samsung’s first entry-level phone to feature a Super AMOLED display, a screen with a high refresh rate!
In fact, the Galaxy A15 is what one would normally think of as a budget smartphone with entry-level specs, an ideal device for enterprise phones or introducing a newcomer to the smartphone world.
The Galaxy A15 now comes with a 6.5-inch Super AMOLED display with Full HD resolution and a 90Hz refresh rate. The device is powered by the Helio G99 chipset and the base model starts with 128GB of storage.
Even better, the Galaxy has a triple camera setup on the back with a 50-megapixel primary camera, a 5-megapixel ultra-wide camera, and a 2-megapixel macro shooter. There is also a 13-megapixel selfie camera inside the U-shaped display notch.
The phone has a large 5000mAh battery and now supports 25W fast charging. In fact, even the A05 phones now offer 25W charging, so we can declare Samsung’s 15W chargers retired!
Finally, the phone boots Android 14 with One UI 6. And while you won’t find support for DeX or an always-on display, this isn’t the One UI Core version.
Samsung Galaxy A15 specifications at a glance:
Body: 160.1 x 76.8 x 8.4mm, 200g; Glass front, plastic back, plastic frame.
Display: 6.50 inch Super AMOLED, 90 Hz, 800 nits (HBM), resolution 1080 x 2340 pixels, aspect ratio 19.5:9, 396ppi.
Video recording: rear camera: 1080p@30fps; Front camera: 1080p@30fps.
Battery: 5000 mAh; 25 watts wired
Connectivity: LTE; hybrid of two SIM cards; Wi-Fi 5; BT 5.3; NFC; 3.5 mm jack, FM radio.
Other features: Fingerprint reader (mounted on the side). Space proximity sensor.
Unboxing Galaxy A15
The Galaxy A15 comes inside one of Samsung’s slim cases, which contains the phone itself and a USB-C cable.
The A15 now supports 25W fast charging, and if you don’t have a compatible power adapter, you’ll need to purchase one.
Design and build quality
The Galaxy A15 is a Samsung smartphone – with flat panels, flat bezels, and no big camera housing. Considering the thickness, weight, and most importantly – the screen bezels and old notch, you can tell that this is a budget phone.
The phone has a tempered glass to keep the screen safe, while the back panel is made of plastic. We have the Blue Black model, which is exactly what the description says – dark blue, almost black for the glass and frame. There are also yellow and blue versions available throughout the EU market.
The case has a matte finish and provides some grip when handling the phone. The phone has an unusual port on the right side that houses the volume and power/lock keys. We are not sure if this was done to make the design attractive or if it has a functional explanation as well.
The Galaxy A15 has its own fingerprint scanner on the surface of the power key, and it’s very fast, accurate, and overall – very reliable.
The phone has a variety of fan-favorite features such as a microSD expansion slot, audio jack, FM radio, and even NFC. Quite a rare combination these days. There are no stereo speakers though.
Sides of the phone
We have no complaints about the Galaxy A15 in terms of time spent working and using it. But if you get our blue-black model, you should know that it’s quite a stain magnet.
Display screen
The new 6.5-inch Super AMOLED display is the most notable upgrade for the entire Galaxy A1x series so far. The new panel has a resolution of 2340 x 1080 pixels or a pixel density of 396ppi and supports a refresh rate of up to 90 Hz.
We welcome the new AMOLED screen, and it feels like a decent upgrade over the LCD panels of yesteryear. It has a small teardrop notch for the selfie camera, thick bezels, and an even thicker bottom bar. There is no information about the construction of the protective glass.
We have completed our display test and the measurements are all correct. The new OLED panel offers a maximum brightness of 372 nits to the right of the brightness scrubber – not exactly super bright, but not too dim either. The automatic brightness increase is significant – up to 808 nits!
The minimum brightness at the white point was 1.8nit.
We would like to point out that while the screen has no color modes to choose from, the presentation is completely natural with no blue, red, yellow, or other tints. Good!
refresh rate
The AMOLED screen of the Galaxy A15 supports a refresh rate of 90 Hz. There are two Motion Smoothness modes – High and Standard. Both offer a fixed refresh rate of 90Hz and 60Hz.
There is no refresh rate drop when using 90Hz mode, even for a static image. The only time we saw a 60Hz change was when the camera and Google Maps, among other HRR apps, were inconsistent.
Battery Life
The Galaxy A15 has a large battery with a capacity of 5000 mAh and an energy-efficient chipset. So, we’re hoping for pretty good battery life here.
The Galaxy A15 achieved an excellent active user score of 15 hours and 28 minutes. It aced all of our tests when it came to web browsing and gaming time.
Charging Speed
The Samsung Galaxy A15 supports wired fast charging up to 25W, which is a nice upgrade for the entry-level series. As usual, it is sent without a charger. You can use any 25W PD+PPS charger, as it reaches the maximum charging power supported by the phone.
We did our charging test with Samsung’s own 25W PD/PPS charger.
It charged 25% of the Galaxy A15’s battery in 15 minutes, while another 15 minutes will get you to 47%. A full charge takes 81 minutes. These numbers match the Galaxy A25.
Speaker
The Galaxy A15 has a single speaker that works at the bottom. It scores very well in our loudness test and is loud enough outside of our tech lab.
Sound quality is lower – bass is minimal and high frequencies are good, but nothing remarkable.
Android 14 and One UI 6 on top of Helio G99
The Galaxy A15 boots Android 14 with the latest One UI version 6.0. The phone is eligible for three major Android updates and one year of security patches through firmware upgrades.
Some of the notable innovations of One UI 6 include the fast-designed panel, better notification visualization, improved and simplified camera app, and more powerful editing and gallery tools, etc.
The One UI 6 version on the Galaxy A15 is not the Core version and has almost all the functions, but supports always-on display and DeX. The studio video editor is also not present.
Everything else is a normal UI – lock screen, home screen, widgets and icons, theme management, multitasking (available in both popup and split-screen modes), and default apps.
The Galaxy A15 supports FM radio and has a dedicated app as well. As usual, it needs a 3.5mm headphone jack to use as an antenna.
The entire interface and system programs are robust enough and run well.
The Helio G99 chipset is what we consider a decent-performing chipset for everyday tasks. It’s a 6nm chip from MediaTek with a 2+6 CPU configuration (2×2.2GHz Cortex-A76 and 2×2.0GHz Cortex-A55) and Mali-G57 MC2 GPU.
The base version has 4GB of LPDDR4X RAM and 128GB of UFS 2.2 storage. There are also two other 128GB versions with 6GB of RAM and 8GB of RAM and one with 256GB of storage and 8GB of RAM.
It’s interesting to see that the Helio G99 uses the same cores and GPU as the Dimensity 6100+ chipset. It’s just the modem that’s different for the 5G connection.
The Helio G99 chip is the same as last year’s Galaxy A24. In fact, we’d be remiss if we didn’t mention that the Galaxy A15 is a 99 percent copycat of the Galaxy A24.
The Helio G99 chipset is on par with most other hardware platforms in this price segment. It’s only bested by the Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 as part of the Redmi Note 13 Pro – but that’s a higher-end SoC in a higher-end phone.
When it comes to graphics, the story is a little different. Its dual-core Galaxy A15 and Mali-G57 are fine, but no match for the Mali-G68 in the Galaxy A25 and the Adreno 710 in the Redmi Note 13.
Finally, AnTuTu tests put the Galaxy A15 at the bottom of the table. Poco M6 Pro, Galaxy A24, A25, and Redmi Note 13 Pro are clearly not behind the competition.
Of course, we didn’t forget the CPU and GPU stability tests, and the Galaxy A15 4G delivered. Scored 90% for CPU and 99% for GPU which is great.
Overall, the Galaxy A15 has a good chipset that performs fairly well and can provide a good experience when it comes to casual gaming. Multitasking on the phone is quick and easy, and overall, the interface is smooth and responsive, even if it’s not the fastest and shouldn’t be. The Galaxy A15 never overheated during our stress tests, just barely warmed up, and never throttled as we established.
Three cameras on the back, one on the front
The Samsung Galaxy A15’s camera is similar to most of Samsung’s camera kit on its other budget phones. It has a triple camera setup with a 50-megapixel primary camera, a 5-megapixel ultra-wide camera, and a 2-megapixel macro camera. The selfie camera is 13 megapixels.
The camera app is what you find on every Samsung phone these days. You only get Pro mode and Night Mode on the main camera.
Photo Quality
The main camera stores good 12.5MP photos. They offer vivid color rendering, wide dynamic range, excellent noise reduction, and a pleasing overall appearance. However, they are average in detail and a little too sharp.
Main camera
There’s a 2x zoom key, but it only offers digital zoom, and photos are very soft and poorly detailed.
Main camera, 2x zoom
The main camera’s low-light photos are quite adequate – colors are sufficiently saturated, the dynamic range is wider than expected, and noise is tolerable and even low. The resolved detail is below average, and over-sharpening can still be seen in some cases.
The low light main camera
The main camera is the only camera that offers night mode and is worth using! Photos taken with this mode provide more detail, less noise, and a wider dynamic range.
Night mode, main camera
The 5MP ultra-wide photos are good – plenty of detail, with good colors, wide dynamic range, and low noise.
Ultra-wide camera
Ultra-wide shots are hard to use in low light – they’re soft, and noisy, with desaturated colors and spotty details.
Ultra-wide camera with low light
The macro camera mostly takes poor photos with little detail, narrow dynamic range, and average color rendition. And that’s if you manage to get a photo in focus.
Macro camera
Selfies are excellent – offering resolvable detail, tolerable noise, natural sharpness, good color rendition, and good dynamic range. Not class-leading but still quite solid.
Selfie photos
Video Quality
The Galaxy A15 4G captures 1080p@30fps videos with its main, ultra-wide, and selfie cameras. There is no support for electronic stabilization.
The video bitrate is a generous 17Mbps at 1080p resolution. Audio is recorded at a stereo 256kbps bitrate, and sound is good in all videos.
Videos from the main camera are excellent, both at 1x and 2x levels. They have plenty of detail, good colors, a wide dynamic range, and overall a lovely display.
The film looks a bit washed out in low light, but it’s still solid as it has saturated colors and low noise.
The ultra-wide camera actually offers a very wide field of view, and the clip has lovely colors, a wide enough dynamic range, and good contrast. The resolved detail is average and some noise is visible.
Low-light videos from the ultra-wide camera are very poor – dark, noisy, and lacking in detail.
The selfie clip offers a well-exposed and detailed subject, even if the colors are slightly saturated. Dynamic range is sufficient for selfie video purposes. However the lack of stabilization makes them difficult to use in most cases.
Check Competitors
The first market to receive the Galaxy A15 4G is Switzerland, and the price of the model starts at €190, which is quite affordable. A15 has many attractive features such as a 1080p 90Hz OLED display, 128 GB of basic storage, a triple camera, large battery with fast charging.
The first suggestion that comes to mind is the 5G version of this phone, which has the same specifications but adds a 5G modem. It is about 35 euros more expensive, but having a 5G connection can increase your online productivity in certain cases.
The Redmi Note 13 4G is another affordable smartphone priced at around 190 euros. It offers IP54 ingress protection, a larger and smoother 120Hz OLED, a 108MP OIS main camera, stereo speakers, and faster charging, and a power adapter is part of the retail package. The only downside is that Xiaomi is limited when it comes to the number of updates for this phone.
Or you might want to consider the Poco M6 Pro, which uses the same chipset but offers a 120Hz OLED, better cameras with basic OIS, stereo speakers, and 67W fast charging. The price is around 200 euros.
The Tecno Pova 5 Pro, if available in your market, could be an interesting alternative to the Galaxy A15. First, it uses the same hardware but with a 5G modem. Then comes the smoother 120Hz screen, even if it’s LCD. And then – it will impress you with stereo speakers and 68W fast charging. Oh, and let’s not forget the notification LEDs on the back.
Honor Play 8T • Xiaomi Redmi Note 13 4G • Xiaomi Poco M6 Pro • Tecno Pova 5 Pro
Summary
The Galaxy A15 4G is a great deal for its €190 price tag. It has a bright and smooth 1080p AMOLED display, a good chipset, a camera that does the job, and great battery life. This phone runs on the latest version of Android and One UI and will receive 3 major Android updates.
The Galaxy A15 is hardly the best phone, that’s for sure. There is no intrusion protection, the speaker is very good, the GPU performance is average and the cameras are not good at night. But even as it is – the Galaxy A15 makes perfect sense.
We made it relatively easy with the Galaxy A15 – it’s a good phone for the price, and we’d recommend it if it fits your budget. However, we suggest checking out the 5G version first.
Why should we buy the Galaxy A15 phone?
Solid and no-nonsense design.
Bright 90Hz OLED, pleasant colors.
Great battery life, and fast charging.
Android 14, One UI 6, 3 major Android updates received.
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Have you ever come across a font that looks great for your next project but can’t figure out what type it is?
How to recognize the name of the font from its picture?
For people who always deal with graphic images, photos or advertising banners, knowing how to recognize text fonts from photos is a useful and practical trick. Sometimes you are looking for a font that can attract the attention of viewers for an advertising banner or a special ad, and you prefer to use a font that you have seen before on a certain photo, so that your image looks just as attractive and spectacular; but you don’t know. How to find that particular font type.
If a particular font has caught your eye recently, you will see in this article that you can easily find the fonts on the images and use them for your purposes. If you need a specific font for personal use or if you need to identify it at the request of a customer, you will need the following methods.
Before starting, keep in mind that the software, websites and solutions that we introduce in this article do not have the ability to recognize Persian fonts and can only be used to recognize English fonts and so on.
Table of contents
Font recognition from photos online
FontSquirrel
Fontspring
MyFonts
The best artificial intelligence tool to find fonts from photos
Recognizing the text font from the photo on the computer and laptop
The best font recognition programs for photos
WhatTheFont
Find my Font
Is it possible to find the Persian font from the photo?
Font recognition from photos online
Online font detection sites are the best way to find a font from a photo, and almost all of them work the same way. To use these sites, it is enough to enter one of these sites using your phone and upload your photo so that it recognizes the font used in the image in a short time. In the following, we introduce some of the best online sites for recognizing fonts from photos:
FontSquirrel
FontSquirrel is one of the best online font recognition sites that, in addition to font recognition, allows you to download different fonts and chat with other people in the FontTalk section.
Working with the FontSquirrel website is easier than you might think. You just need to enter the site, upload the desired photo, and give the site a few seconds to display the photo font and other similar fonts for you. To upload a photo on this site, you can drag and drop the photo or tap on the Upload option and select the photo from your image gallery.
After uploading the photo on the FontSquirrel site, you will be asked to specify the part of the text that you want the font program to recognize, and finally, click on the Matcherate it button to provide you with the fonts that match the image.
The great thing about FontSquirrel is that it also allows you to purchase the provided fonts, and if you’re lucky, you might be able to download some of them for free.
Fontspring
Fontspring works just like other free online font recognition tools; But with 900,000 different fonts, it can increase your chances of finding the font you’re looking for.
By entering the macerator section of this site, you will see a page similar to the image above. Tap on Upload Image and upload the image you have in mind. In the next step, if necessary, you can crop the photo or change its direction. Finally, select the text on the photo and click on Matcherate. After a few seconds, all matching fonts will appear.
MyFonts
If the previous sites failed to help you find the font you want, you can visit MyFonts. This site offers many professional fonts for different projects and currently provides users with access to more than 230,000 fonts.
The great thing about the MyFonts website is that once you upload a photo, it automatically identifies the text on the photo; So you will spend less time compared to other tools. Tap on the highlighted text and then tap the Identify option. Finally, if you find the desired font, you can buy or download it directly from the site.
The best artificial intelligence tool to find fonts from photos
These days, when the fever of artificial intelligence is hot everywhere in the world, the use of artificial intelligence to recognize fonts from photos is one of the most important concerns of many people in the world. If you are one of these people, we recommend that you visit the WhatFontIs website. This website has two web versions, free and pro, and using artificial intelligence and 840,000 commercial and free fonts, it displays more than 60 types of similar fonts for every image you upload.
Try to have the photo you upload as high quality as possible; Because sometimes the low quality of the photo makes WhatFontIs unable to identify the corresponding font. Also, after uploading the image, the website tries to separate the letters automatically; However, if you want to identify broken fonts, you need to separate each letter with an advanced image editor.
Recognizing the text font from the photo on the computer and laptop
In addition to the online tools that you are not limited to using on your phone and computer, there is a lesser-known feature in Photoshop that can recognize fonts from photos for you. To use this font recognition tool, open the desired image in Adobe Photoshop and then select the text on the photo with the Rectangular marquee tool. Finally, click on Type in the toolbar and press Match Font.
Photoshop will show you similar and alternative fonts that match the text in the selected image. If after trying different methods, you have not managed to find the font you want, this tool can help you to some extent.
The best font recognition programs for photos
A number of programs also allow you to recognize the font on your phone; Thus, even if you do not have access to the Internet, you will always have font recognition software with you to use when necessary. In the following, you will get to know some of the best programs for finding fonts from photos:
WhatTheFont
If you don’t want to use online tools, WhatTheFont will do the font recognition process for you. After specifying the font that you want WhatTheFont to recognize, this program will provide you with a list of similar fonts and you can find the option you want.
WhatTheFont is a popular app for designers, crafters, and typography enthusiasts to get ideas and inspiration for their projects. This program has a smooth and simple user interface and helps you identify fonts in an instant.
In addition to software, WhatTheFont has a free web version that you can use to recognize fonts from photos without occupying your phone’s memory.
If you are looking for a program to recognize Latin fonts, Find My Font is a very good choice for you. This program is an ideal software for graphic designers, web designers, and all creative people who don’t want to waste time looking for fonts. You can take a photo of a particular font through the app’s camera or upload an image from your phone’s gallery and let the app find the font in just a few seconds.
Find My Font includes more than 150,000 different fonts; But besides the good features it offers, it is not possible to download fonts from it and you can only use it to identify fonts. Among other features of this program, we can mention the possibility of rotating images and identifying disconnected letters.
It should be noted that the desktop version of Find My Font, which is available for Windows and Mac operating systems, also has the ability to identify non-Latin fonts. This software detects fonts in a short time and in addition to finding the font from the photo, it also displays similar fonts.
Is it possible to find the Persian font from the photo?
Most of the sites that we have introduced in this article are active in the field of selling and providing different fonts, and in addition to this work, they also provide users with an online tool for recognizing text fonts from photos.
Unfortunately, most Iranian sites do not have a font recognition tool from the photo and are only considered as a reference for buying all kinds of Iranian fonts; fortunately, the Font Yab website provides its users with the option of finding a font from a photo. If you are looking for a Persian font finder from a photo, be sure to visit this site.
The need to find a font from a photo is something that most of us have probably experienced at least once. Do you have experience using any of the methods introduced in this article? Do you think the best way to recognize a font from a photo is to use websites or programs designed for this purpose?
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If you are tired of the high RAM consumption of Chrome, you can use some tricks to give your system RAM a breath of fresh air.
How to reduce the use of Chrome
Chrome browser has always been considered one of the most popular browsers and the main RAM killer of computers since its release until now. It doesn’t matter if the RAM capacity of your system is 4 GB or even 32 GB and more; In any case, by opening Chrome, you will dedicate most of the RAM capacity to Chrome.
Although Google has always been trying to optimize the use of Chrome and periodically improves the stability and consumption of hardware resources of this browser with frequent updates, RAM consumption is still one of the biggest problems for users when using Chrome.
This issue becomes more pronounced when you connect your Google account to Chrome to sync information, extensions, and history, and at this time you will see that at least half of the RAM capacity is easily allocated to this browser.
In general, it is inevitable that a large part of the system resources will be used to use this browser, but with solutions, this effect can be greatly reduced, especially in the case of RAM consumption.
Table of contents
Enable Memory Saver in Chrome
Prevent tabs from being disabled for a specific site in Chrome
Close unused and high-use tabs
Remove or disable unused plugins
Disable Preload Pages
Close Chrome completely and disable background activities
Enable Memory Saver in Chrome
Nearly two years ago, Google introduced the Memory Saver feature to reduce Chrome’s RAM consumption. This feature intelligently disables tabs, add-ons, and other processes that remain unused for a while and do not refer to them, deletes their data from the RAM, and has a significant impact on the RAM consumption of this browser. To enable this feature:
Enter Settings from the three-dot option at the top of the screen.
Search for a Memory saver in the search bar above.
By activating the RAM saver, three levels, Moderate, Balanced, and Maximum, will be displayed, and by choosing each, you can determine the period of time for the tabs to be disabled. By selecting Balanced, the tabs will be disabled after a normal amount of time of inactivity. If you select Moderate, the tabs will be disabled for a longer time, and with Maximum, they will be disabled for a very short time after leaving.
If your RAM fills up quickly and slows down the system, use the Maximum option; However, closing unused tabs is a more logical solution.
If your RAM is not affected much by Chrome, we recommend leaving the setting on Balanced so that when the tab returns and activates, less time is spent on reloading the page and refreshing the cache, thus reducing the processing load.
Prevent tabs from being disabled for a specific site in Chrome
If you have opened an important site that has certain information or is involved in a process that is lost if the tab is disabled, you can prevent it from being disabled by adding the address of this site to the list of exceptions and keeping it open all the time.
In Chrome settings, from the top search bar, search for inactive.
Click on the Add option in the Always keep these sites active section.
You can choose your desired site from the open tabs or enter the desired website address manually from the Add Sites section.
Close unused and high-use tabs
Perhaps Chrome is always accused of high RAM consumption, but the user himself can also be guilty in this case; Therefore, it is better to manage your open tabs and if you are one of those people like me who thinks you should keep tabs open to refer to them every hour or day, you will never see the empty half of the device’s RAM.
For more convenient RAM management, Chrome allows you to see the RAM consumption of each tab by hovering the mouse over the tabs, and thus you can make an easier decision by closing the tabs that are consuming the most RAM.
If you don’t see the RAM usage information by hovering over each tab:
Open Settings and enter Appearance from the left bar.
Activate the Show tab memory usage option from the Tab hover preview card section.
Remove or disable unused plugins
Chrome is not just a browser and provides a platform for running various applications and extensions so that as a multi-purpose software, various tools and facilities can be used. This browser has a lot of codes and many complications, part of this complexity is due to the existence of many features and facilities, and most importantly, the infrastructure of the ChromeOS operating system is based on Chromium.
Chrome extensions are so wide and diverse, and among them, there are useful tools that there is rarely a situation where the user of this browser does not install an extension; But sometimes the number of installed add-ons becomes so large that the user loses track of the number and does not notice the increase of add-ons that may have been used only once.
Therefore, if you are one of the people who have many extensions in Chrome, it is better to fix this section and help increase the speed of Chrome and thus reduce its RAM consumption. For this:
First, through Chrome’s Task Manager, check which extensions occupy the most RAM; To do this, press Shift+Esc.
Click the Memory footprint tab a few times until an upside-down triangle icon appears next to it.
Tabs, processes, and add-ons will be shown in order of RAM consumption, and in this way, you can identify the most consuming add-ons.
Click on the three dots option from the top menu and click on manage extensions from the Extensions section.
On the add-ons page, turn off frequently used or underused items or remove them completely from Chrome by clicking Remove.
Disable Preload Pages
Chrome has a feature that preloads some sites and pages before the user requests to speed up the page-loading process when the user wants to enter a site.
This feature will be useful for people who have weak internet and it even reduces the processing load of the processor to a great extent, but it will lead to an increase in RAM consumption another way to prevent this is to turn off the mentioned feature:
In the Chrome settings, search for Preload from the top toolbar and turn off the Preload Pages option.
You can also balance the level of preloading pages by Chrome and enable Standard Preloading instead of Extended Preloading.
Close Chrome completely and disable background activities
Sometimes, by closing the Chrome window, the processes of this browser do not stop completely and Chrome remains open in the background so that it can be opened faster in the next execution of Chrome. Of course, some extensions and applications that do not deal with tabs and operate independently of Chrome can lead to Chrome’s activity in the background and, as a result, increase RAM consumption.
If you don’t want this app to keep running in the background when you’re not using Chrome:
Open the settings and enter System from the left menu.
Turn off the Continue running background apps when Google Chrome is closed option.
In this article, we explained the most important tricks to reduce Chrome consumption; However, with some initiatives, it is possible to reduce Chrome’s RAM consumption even more. If you know or have tried a specific method or trick that has been fruitful and effective for you, share it with us in the comments section.
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By following a few simple steps, you can hide your favorite files and directories in Linux.
How to hide a file or directory in Linux?
Most of us have files on our computer or laptop that we don’t want other people to see. If your system uses a Mac or Windows operating system, you can use various tools to hide different files and folders or even encrypt your favorite files to better protect your privacy. In this article, we will talk about how to hide a file or directory in Linux.
In Linux computers and laptops, like Windows and Mac, you can hide your favorite files and directories from the view of others both through the terminal of the operating system and by using some tools that are very easy to use. In the following, we will introduce some efficient methods to hide files and directories in Linux.
Hide files and directories through the terminal
The easiest way to hide various files and directories in Linux is to use the Linux terminal or the Linux graphical environment (GUI).
Open a Linux terminal window by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T.
In the terminal, type the following command:
$ ls $ mv sync.ffs_db .sync.ffs_db $ ls
Note: instead of sync.ffs_db, you must enter the name of the file you want and then type the file name again with a dot (.) at the beginning.
To hide the file through the graphical environment (GUI) of Linux, proceed as follows:
First, right-click on the desired file and click on the Rename option.
Put a dot (.) at the beginning of the file name.
Open and close the file once to apply the changes and hide the file.
Hide files in an image
Although hiding the file and directory in Linux by changing the file name seems to be a simple and fast method, but equally, it becomes easy for people who are a little familiar with the Linux environment to access this file. Therefore, we suggest that you go for a better method.
Data encryption or steganography is a method of hiding information in a normal image file, which, like the first method, has almost simple steps, but unlike it, it really hides the files you want from anyone’s view, and you can even hide them after hiding them. Delete the original file in the image irretrievably. In the following, we will teach the steps to hide the file and directory in an image file using the Linux terminal.
Open the Linux terminal and create a new folder (directory) using the following command.
mkdir newdir
Note: instead of newdir, enter your desired name for the new directory.
Copy or move the image file (PNG or JPG) you want to use to hide your desired file into the new folder you created.
Important note: sometimes, depending on the size of the files or the number of files you want to hide in an image, you may need to use a large image so that you have enough space to store the files inside the image.
If you want to hide multiple files, it is better to compress them into one zip file. To compress files in Linux, you must first create a new folder.
To create a new folder inside the folder you have already created, enter the following command in the Linux terminal:
mkdir /tmp/newdir
Note: instead of tmp, you must type the name of the folder you created in the previous step and enter your desired name for the new folder instead of newdir.
In this tutorial, we created a main folder named Images, which contains an image named MainImage.png and a subfolder named FileToHide. This subfolder contains all the files we want to hide.
To compress your files into a zip file, run the following command in the Linux terminal:
/zip -r secret.zip FilesToHide
Note: The r- code in the above command includes all the subfolders in the specified folder in the compressed file. In this command, instead of secret.zip, replace the desired name; You should also enter the name of the folder where you have saved all the files you want to hide instead of FileToHide.
To hide the zipped file in your desired image, run the following command in the Linux terminal:
cat MainImage.png secret.zip > secret.png
Note: In this command, MainImage.png is our main image file and secret.zip is the name of the zip file that contains all the files we want to hide. In fact, we redirected these two files to a new image file called secret.png. Be careful that the names of MainImage and secret (in both files with PNG and zip extensions) should be replaced with the names you want.
After running this command, if you want to see a list of all the files in the folder, use the ls command. In this directory, you will see the file name of the new image you created.
To access files hidden in an image file, use the following command to extract the zip file from within the image:
unzip secret.png
Note: replace secret.png with the name you chose for the image file containing the secret files .
When you run the ls command , the root folder containing the files you zipped will be displayed.
In this case, if you want to see the original files, enter the following command in the terminal:
Delete the original file after hiding it in the image
Sometimes you may want to delete the original version of the file after hiding the sample files you want in an image file. You can use the shred command to do this. This command replaces the file value with a specific value when the file is deleted. For example, we can set the file value to zero when deleting a file.
For this purpose, after opening the Linux window, run the following command:
By default, these files are overwritten three times (meaning rewriting new information, without the ability to recover previous information). This amount is usually enough, but if you want to overwrite the file more often, you only need to enter the command as follows and replace N with the number of times you want the files to be overwritten.
In this command, the z-code replaces the value of the file with the value zero. Also, the remove- code removes files; Of course, this is done through the shred command itself, but without entering remove- in the shred command, the file removal operation will not be done completely.
What method do you use to hide your files in Linux? We will be happy if you share your experiences in this field with us and other Zomit users.