Kickstart your shiny new android phone including the Droid family, Evo 4G, Galaxy S or other Motorola, Samsung and HTC android phones.
For the best experience, open this page on your android phone, so you install the apps just by clicking on them.
Bookmark/Follow Android Tips via Email/Twitter to receive infrequent, but only the best tips. … read tip.
Now that you added more screens to your phone, fill them up with these top android widgets:
Settings Manage ApplicationsMenu button Filter by “Running.” Select application Force stop
You could also try the Advanced Task Killer to manage running apps more easily.
Yep, its that easy!
Try this one too on older phones: Settings -> Call settings -> Blacklist
Interested in more setup tips? Top 10 android setup tasks. … read tip.
Don’t forget to bookmark this page, this is a long one!
If you want to create your own shortcuts: Settings Application settings Quick launch
Open applications:
Browser SEARCH + b
Contacts SEARCH + c
E-Mail SEARCH + e
Google Mail SEARCH + g
Calendar SEARCH + l
Maps SEARCH + m
Music SEARCH + p
Messaging SEARCH + s
YouTube SEARCH + y
You can add/change these here: Settings Application settings Quick launch
Scrolling tips:
Page down SPACEBAR
Page up … read tip.
Locate music dir on the SD card (create it if not found)
Create three directories, ringtone, notification, alarms in it.
Any music files placed in these directories will appear in their respective menus.
May have to reboot the phone so they can be seen and picked.
You can also long press on a song in the songs list in the music player to add it to the ringtones.
Use Ringdroid to cut a song and use it as a ringtone. … read tip.
Export contacts from Outlook or Outlook Express (or any other application) to csv format and then import to gmail. That should do it for most users.
If you have your contacts on an old GSM phone, you could export them on to the SIM card and then import them to your new phone.
While you are there, try the “find duplicates” functionality. You can also add contacts into groups. The groups show up on your phone too … read tip.
Reset your phone to increase storage space and speed it up:
The easy way:
Settings SDCard Format
Settings Privacy Factory Reset
The hard way:
Do a hard reset and format your phones. You will have to re-download your apps and settings.
1. HOLD power button and shut down the phone.
2. Hold HOME and RED POWER down for 25 seconds until you see a triangle with an exclamation mark in it. Keep holding it down even though the G1 logo … read tip.
