Android Kindle (Tablet) Tips and Tricks

If you want to type non-English letters (eg those with an accent), long-press on the relevant letter. A list of options will appear for you to select

If you want a different keyboard from the default one, go to the Android Market (you may have to enable this first) and install one you would like to use.

Then open the Applications Launcher. Press Settings – Language and keyboard – Input method. Then select the keyboard you would like to use

By default, your Browser will show a list of default bookmarks that Amazon has chosen for you. If you want to change this screen, then press and hold on a bookmark and choose Delete to remove one. If you want to add a new one, then navigate to a website. Then press the Bookmark icon (at the bottom of the screen), then press the box with the + (plus) in it.

Android has a feature allowing you to update Applications automatically. This is turned off by default, but you can turn it on.

Open the Android market, then Menu – My Apps.

Then you need to open up each installed App and tick Allow Automatic Updating at the bottom. Unfortunately you do need to do this for each App.

To copy and paste text, follow these steps:

To copy:
Press and hold on top of some text you want to copy. This will display two little sliders. Move the sliders to highlight the word/s you want to copy. Then press on the selected text and a message should say that your text was copied.

To paste:
Go to where you want to paste the text. You will need to be somewhere where you can type text, like a form field or website URL. Then long press on the location and select Paste.

Go to Menu – Settings – Display – Screen Time Out.

Then chose the screen time out duration.

Simply press the top-left corner of the screen

In your Newsstand App you will usually only see the most recent issues of a publication.

To show all back issues, simply press and hold on a publication and select Show back issues.

It is best to avoid task killers such as Advanced Task Killer. Android is designed to automatically pre-load certain applications, even if you don’t load them yourself. If it starts to run low on memory, it will smartly unload the oldest running apps automatically.

Manually killing tasks will only mean they get loaded in memory again. Task killers can make the phone slow, laggy, or drain battery life more quickly.

Clearing your browser’s cache every now and then is a good idea to keep the browser running fast and smooth. There are two ways:

Simply turn your device off and then turn it back on again. This clears your cache.

Or download a free App called History Eraser from the Amazon Market. This will allow you to clear your cache without restarting.