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    Tips for Android

    Here are a few things I learned today while trawling the net as well as working.
    Originally Posted by androidcentralforums
    Most of them by user Snaz:

    ---When typing on the virtual keyboard you can swipe down to make the keyboard go away.

    ---from your home screen, press menu, then settings, then go to 'About phone'
    --> Status: i like that it shows you how much battery life you have left in percentage
    --> Battery use: Cool way to keep track of what is killing your battery

    ---Settings >> Applications >> Development >> Stay Awake (keeps screen on while charging)

    ---The search/home buttons have separate "long press" functions.
    long press on Home gives you a list of running (or recently running) apps, and long press on Search brings up your voice search (if you have it).

    ---Android doesn't have a speed dial list. Instead it has a favorites list. To add a contact to the favorites list:
    Go to contacts and touch the star in the upper right hand corner. When it is lit up, the contact is now part of your favorites list.

    ---If you want to add custom notification ringtones for your emails, sms/mms, ect., plug your phone into your computer, access the SD card, create a new folder on the card called "notifications", and drop the ringtones you want to use into the folder. When the phone is unplugged from the computer, the phone will be able to use the new tones.

    ---To watch youtube videos in High Quality, start the video, press settings, and click on "watch in high quality

    ---you can also add the contact on your home screen by touching on the home screen and hold then a menu will pop up click shortcuts then pick a contact from there works great

    ---While on the web, if you wanna save a picture (for wallpaper purposes or whatever). You have to hold your finger over the picture and the "save picture" message will come up.

    ---On the virtual keyboards if you long press any button with "..." next to the letter or number it will bring up another list of options.

    ---Save album art images for music as folder.jpg or albumart.jpg to keep them from showing up in your gallery. also store mp3 ringtones in: /sdcard/media/ringtones to keep them from showing up in your music database.

    ---You can use the barcode app to share contacts, bookmarks, etc...
    open Barcode, press menu button, select share

    ---To forward a text message press and hold the screen on the text message to bring up options lock message, forward, delete, copy, or call contact.


    Physical Keyboards Only:

    ---Keyboard shortcuts:
    go to Settings > Applications > Quick Launch to view and set keyboard shortcuts.
    helpful to me, i don't know whether is useful to you or not?
    hope good to you.
    Last edited by robinsonwang; 24-Nov-10 at 05:22 AM.

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    Some of those I knew already ... but it's always good to have them explained to you again

    Anyhow, kudos for the post!
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    BTW, there's a nice easy way of sharing your contacts to and from Outlook (or whatever, e.g. Thunderbird) to your Android (without having to go through GMail).

    To import from Outlook (or whatever mail client you have): Save your contacts to vCard/VCF files. Connect the phone to your PC, make sure it's in "Memory card access" mode, copy them to a folder named Contacts on your phone's SD card. Disconnect the phone so it can again read its own SD card. Open the contacts, select: Menu --> Import / Export --> Import from SD Card. When asked select either Import All / Multiple (so you can pick each).

    To import into Outlook, simply use the Contacts: Menu --> Import / Export --> Export ot SD card. Connect to the PC and import the VCF file in your email program (nearly all of them can handle VCF).

    For older Androids without Import/Export contacts:
    Get hold of this APP: http://www.waxworlds.org/edam/softwa...mport-contacts

    If your email program can't save to one single VCF, use the following in a batch file. Copy into Notepad and save-as with a file extension of CMD:
    Code:
    @ECHO OFF
    DEL /F /Q Contacts.VCF
    FOR /F "tokens=*" %%f IN ('dir /b *.VCF') DO (
      TYPE %%f >> Contacts.VCF
    )
    Double click and it merges all the VCF's into one Contacts.VCF file.
    Last edited by irneb; 25-Nov-10 at 12:17 PM.
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    Oh, and if you want to do the same for calendars:
    http://www.androidpit.com/en/android...-Import-Export
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    Great post .... looking to get an Android all i have is a jailbroken iPhone 3Gs

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