Fingerprint scanners, those little round things you see on the back of
every smartphone these days can be quite annoying once in a while when
you try unlocking your phone with them and you get messages like this
"Fingerprint Mismatch, Fingerprint Error, Fingerprint Is Dirty, FingerPrint Not Recognized".
I
know that'll probably leave you staring at you fingers and wonder
what's wrong with your fingerprint, most times I'd just use the Face ID
to bypass it but if you don't have that I'll walk you through on how to
increase the accuracy of your fingerprint scanner.
Depending on your
Android phone model, you may have to look around a little bit to find
the exact name of the fingerprint setting. On Pixel phones, it’s called
Pixel Imprint. On Samsung Galaxy devices, it’s just labeled as
“Fingerprint Scanner. So just head over to your settings and go to
security.
Most smartphones would let you put up to 5 fingers.
The best way to set this up is in an ambidextrous way, don't go wild
and call 4 of your family members and register their fingerprint along
with you.(Of course I'm just teasing) or put all the fingers on your one
hand as a print there. You should register fingers on both hands. This
way, if the hand you usually unlock your phone with is tied up, you can
still unlock your phone easily with the other one. Similarly, it’s
probably a good idea to register multiple fingers on each hand. I
believe we all use our phones in a way that our index finger is the
easiest to unlock it (unless you're an alien) so if you are right-handed
you can try this
a. Right Index Finger
b. Right Middle Finger
c. Left Index Finger
If you are a south-paw just do the exact opposite. Right now we have 2 more finger print slots left.
this
time get your fingers wet and clean it in a way that it isn't totally
dry then register the finger. This will come in handy when you are in
the bathroom or coming out of the rest room and your hands are a bit
damp. so we have
d.Wet Finger
So one more finger is
remaining ay..now the moment of truth you can register your toe print as
the one; anyone of your choice .I know right now you probably think I'm
nuts for saying this, you'd be shocked at what you find.
e. Any of your toes (It works though, if you don't fancy it try something else )
On
a side note - The whorls and ridges on our toes and fingers develop
uniquely in each person and are not genetically determined. There are a
few famous cases in which criminals have been caught by using
toe-prints. The first was at a Scottish bakery in 1952 when a
safe-cracker was identified by the footprints he left in flour.
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