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Tips & tricks
Tips & tricks
a few handy hints
Make it faster and easier to get the most out of your
phone every day.
General tips
•
Touch
Search
in the home screen to search
across your apps, contacts, web, and maps—or just
enter the address for a place or a web page. Touch
Search
in
Market
,
Messaging
,
Music
, and other
apps to search within the app.
•
Use
folders
to organize shortcuts and contacts on
your home screen.
Touch and hold a blank spot on your home screen,
then touch
Folders
. To move shortcuts into a
New
folder
, touch and hold a shortcut, then drag it to the
folder icon.
•
Touch and hold Home
to show your most
recent apps
.
•
Touch and hold the status bar at the top of your
phone to show the
date
. To change your date
format, touch Menu
>
Settings
>
Date & time
>
Select date format
.
•
To change which
location
information your phone
uses, touch Menu
>
Settings
>
Location &
security
.
•
To
back up
your app data, passwords, and other
settings to Google servers, touch Menu
>
Settings
>
Privacy settings
>
Back up my data
.
Battery tips
Your phone is like a small computer, giving you a lot of
information and apps, at 3G speed, with a touch
display! Depending on what you use, that can take a
lot of power. So, if you want to save battery life
between charges, you could reduce:
•
recording or watching videos, listening to music, or
taking pictures.
•
widgets that stream information to your home
screen, like news or weather.
•
Bluetooth™ use: touch Menu
>
Settings
>
Wireless & networks
>
Bluetooth
(turn off).
•
use: touch Menu
>
Settings
>
Wireless &
networks
>
Wi-Fi
(turn off).
•
GPS use: touch Menu
>
Settings
>
Location &
security
>
Use GPS satellites
(deselect).