Android 2.3 Tips and Tricks

To set an MP3 as a ringtone, try one of the following. It may depend which version of Android you are using however:

Using the default Music player App, find a song you would like to set as the ringtone. Then while the song is playing, press and hold on the track and select Use as phone ringtone.

Or, find a specific Contact. press Menu – Edit. Scroll down to Additional Info. Press the triangle. Then scroll to Call Handling and set a ringtone from there.

Here are some simple gestures for the Note:

Press the Pen’s Button + Double Tap – brings up the S memo feature
Press the Pen’s Button + Stroke up – brings up the menu button
Press the Pen’s Button + Swiping left – cancel your last task

To take a screenshot of the current screen you are viewing, get your S Pen and press the button whole holding down the pen on the screen.

This will capture the screen and puts the phone in Edit mode allowing you to do many things with the image.

Open your Contact list. Find the contact you want to divert. Press to open the contact. Towards the bottom of the page, you will see ‘Send to voicemail’. Press this and choose OK to enable the feature.

To add items to your home screen, simply find a black space, press down and hold. Then select a Scene, Wallpaper, Widget etc

The Note has a feature built into where you can write comments on top of a photo, then share the photo using various services.

First, choose the photo you want to comment on. Then press and hold on the photo. Then with your Stylus, write your message on top of the photo. Then press Share via and select Facebook, Twitter, Gmail or other service.

Simple press and hold on the bar at the top and drag it downward

While in the standard Music Player, press on the song title of the music and a menu will appear.

From here you search Youtube by the Title (song), Biography (artist) or Discography (album).

Either
Go to Menu – Settings – Running Services, or
Menu – Settings – Manage Applications

If you want to quicky add an appointment like ‘Meeting with Roger tomorrow at 4pm’, then simply go to your S Planner and press the + symbol in the top left corner. Then press Quick add.

Then you can simply type in ‘Meeting with Roger tomorrow at 4pm’ and the S Planner App will automatically create a time and date for the meeting in your Calendar.

Alternatively, you can open the S Memo App and write the meeting (as above) in your own handwriting. Then press the Menu key, then More, then Link to S Planner and select New event. And finally, press Save. This will automatically create the calendar entry via S Memo.