10 Tips for your Dr0id!

[J-Buck]

#8 vibrator lmao.

 

[silverx10]

The tip about Voice isn't completely true. All of my contacts are in the (xxx)xxx-xxxx format (no preceeding "1"), and Voice dials all of them without issue.

 

[supadroid]

2) To mount the USB drive in Windows, pull down the notification menu, choose “USB Storage”, and then choose “Mount”. This allows you to place the SD card in your phone as a drive in your computer, making it easy to transfer files from your PC to your Motorola Droid and vice versa.

Works on a mac too, in case anyone was wondering.

 

[craigcap]

Here are 10 tips to help you work your new Motorola Droid

1) Hold down the home button and a “quick launch” menu will appear. This will list your most recent 6 apps used so you can find your apps quicker.

2) To mount the USB drive in Windows, pull down the notification menu, choose “USB Storage”, and then choose “Mount”. This allows you to place the SD card in your phone as a drive in your computer, making it easy to transfer files from your PC to your Motorola Droid and vice versa.

3) For GV, ensure that your contacts and pad dialing are set to the format 1(555)555-1234. If you omit the 1 or the area code on local calls, GV won’t work.

4) When using the onscreen touch keypad on your Motorola Droid, hid them by flicking them down from the top and simply tap the field again to get them to return.

5) Be careful when using a pouch holster for your new Motorola Droid. If it contains magnetics, it may turn your Motorola Droid on “car mode.” This will eat up your battery life quicker than you think.

6) To set an mp3 song as your ringtone, upload the song on to your Motorola Droid. While the song is playing choose “menu” then “set as ring tone.” Do this for every song you would like to use as a ringtone. Set different ringtones for your contacts by going in to your address book and selecting a ringtone from the list you created.

7) One of the best Motorola Droid tips includes the copy/paste function. Hold down on any text field, and the “edit text” menu will appear. Select “Copy and Paste” functions as needed.

8) Need a vibrator on your phone? Go to settings-sound display and check the phone vibrate box if your phone is toggling between complete silence and ringing.

9) Like a picture on your web browser? Save it to your Motorola Droid! Tap and hold the picture, and then select “save”

10) If you like a certain Web site, you can add a shortcut to that Web site to your Motorola Droid’s home screen. Bookmark the site, tap anywhere on the home screen and hold down. The menu that will guide you to adding a shortcut will pop up.








(Thank you MegC!)

Thank you for the tips. I had figuered out most of them but Tip #7 was something I wanted to do but thought it couldn't be done on the Droid. Now I'm using the cut/paste all the time. Thanks!

I really don't get the copy/paste thing...perhaps this is from people who have never had the option in the past and think anything is better than nothing; or, I'm missing something.
Yes, I can copy/paste (not precise, hokie IMO), in SOME apps, but not the ones I need typically. For example, if I open a previously opened email in my inbox, I cannot copy anything. Sure, if it's fresh text I'm typing, yeah you can copy that, but who would need that? Wouldn't you need to check an old email, and copy data from it, like somones signature to add to contacts, or a phone number, or something to paste INTO your new fresh text?

Please tell me I'm missing something here - otherwise the copy/paste sucks (I come from Bberry).
Hopefully it's user error! Thx!

 

[zcar.300]

lol^
also regarding the copy and paste, one of the coolest features i figured out is that when your using the physical keyboard, you can hit the menu button (the one on the keypad) and it works as a ctrl type key. ie hitting menu and v will paste, c will copy and x will cut.
The only thing i have trouble with is accurately selecting text with the touch screen, anyone figure out an easy way to do that?

If in a text entry box, hold shift and use the d-pad to highlight text.

For web text, zoom in,hold shift and swipe over text. Don't worry about being super accurate w the copy as you can remove extra text after you paste


Also -

- Long press a link, and you can open in a new window.
- In browser options you can configure new windows to open behind current window.
- use dpad to get to tiny links (long press center of dpad for link options)

Wow thank you. I was getting kinda upset. I gave the Iphone so much sh!t for not being able to cut and paste and then could figure out how to on this phone lol.