Android 2.3 Tips and Tricks
There are two ways to do this:
1) Press and hold on a blank spot on your home screen. Select Add to Home screen. Then choose the Wallpapers option. Then choose from one of the options, depending on where the wallpapers are
2) Open the Applications launcher. Select Settings – Personalize – Home wallpaper. Then continue choose from the options provided
If you want to capture the things that go bump in the night, then you can turn on the Flashlight app. Then leave the film on film record. If you’re lucky you might spot a hedgehog
When looking at the call log multiple calls to or from the same number are grouped together. If you press on one of these numbers it will list all the calls made or received
To create a shortcut to websites on your homescreen, you need to open your browser and open your list of bookmarks.
Then long press on a bookmark and select Add shortcut to Home.
To add an email or phone number to your contacts from a text message, you can long-press on the email / phone number. Then select Add to contacts.
The quickest way is to pull down your Notifications bar at the top. Bluetooth and WiFi should be available there.
Alternatively, from your homescreen, press Menu – Settings – Wireless & networks. Then press WiFi settings or Bluetooth settings to enable or disable these
To prevent ringtones from showing up in your list of music, then create a folder called ‘ringtones” so it is in this location: /sdcard/media/ringtones.
Your music player won’t index music files in this folder
Warning: This will remove ALL data on the phone. There are two ways to do this:
1) On the Main Home screen, press Menu – Settings – Privacy – Factory data reset – Reset phone. It may ask for a password. Then press Erase everything
2) If you phone has completely frozen and you want to hard reset it, turn the Power off or pull the battery out and put it back in. Then hold down the Volume Down key. Then press and hold the Power key. The phone will turn itself on. When you are presented with a menu, choose Clear Storage by pressing the Volume Down key. Press and release the Power button. To confirm, press Volume Up for Yes or Volume Down for No
To install ringtones on your phone you will need to copy some MP3s on to your phone.
To do this, connect your Phone to a computer with the USB cable. It should mount automatically and appear as a drive letter on your computer. If it doesn’t, then drag the notification bar (the bar at the top) down and press USB Connected and select Mount.
Once that is done, go to the Phone’s drive letter on your computer. Create a folder called “ringtones”. Then copy your MP3’s from into this folder.
Once that is done, go to the Phone’s home screen, press Menu – Settings – Sound – Phone ringtone. Scroll down until you find the ringtone you want
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