Owner manual
Table Of Contents
- About this guide
- Android basics
- Starting Android for the first time
- Getting to know the Home screen
- Using the touchscreen
- Using the phone’s buttons
- Using a trackball
- Working with menus
- Monitoring your phone’s status
- Managing notifications
- Using the onscreen keyboard
- Entering text by speaking
- Editing text
- Opening and switching applications
- Locking your screen
- Customizing the Home screen
- Connecting quickly with your contacts
- Optimizing battery life
- Managing how applications use memory
- Managing downloads
- Connecting to networks and devices
- Placing and receiving calls
- Searching by text and voice
- Contacts
- Accounts
- Gmail
- Gmail version and availability
- Gmail is different
- Opening Gmail and your Inbox
- Reading your messages
- Composing and sending a message
- Replying to or forwarding a message
- Working with Priority Inbox
- Working with conversations in batches
- Starring a message
- Labeling a conversation
- Viewing conversations by label
- Synchronizing your conversations by label
- Reporting spam
- Searching for messages
- Archiving conversations
- Appending a signature to your messages
- Using keyboard shortcuts
- Changing Gmail settings
- Calendar
- Viewing your calendar and events
- Working in Agenda view
- Working in Day view
- Working in Week view
- Working in Month view
- Viewing event details
- Creating an event
- Editing an event
- Deleting an event
- Setting an event reminder
- Responding to an event reminder
- Synchronizing and displaying calendars
- Changing Calendar settings
- Google Voice
- Google Talk
- Messaging
- Browser
- Maps, Navigation, Places, and Latitude
- Opening Maps
- Viewing My Location and location services
- Searching, exploring, and starring places
- Using the Places feature in the Launcher
- Changing map layers
- Getting directions
- Navigating with Google Maps Navigation (Beta)
- Previewing and changing views of your route
- Finding your friends with Google Latitude
- Camera
- Gallery
- YouTube
- Music
- News & Weather
- Clock
- Car Home
- Calculator
- Tags
- Market
- Opening Android Market and finding applications
- Downloading and installing applications
- Managing your downloads
- View your downloaded applications
- Set whether an application is updated automatically
- Respond to a notification that application updates are available
- Set whether you’re notified about updated applications
- Uninstall an application
- Request a refund for an application
- Rate or comment on an application
- Flag inappropriate applications
- Settings
- Opening Settings
- Wireless & networks
- Call settings
- Sound settings
- Display settings
- Location & security settings
- Use wireless networks
- Use GPS satellites
- Set up screen lock
- Set unlock pattern
- Change unlock pattern
- Use visible pattern
- Use tactile feedback
- Set unlock PIN
- Change unlock PIN
- Set unlock password
- Change unlock password
- Turn off screen lock
- Set up SIM card lock
- Visible passwords
- Select device administrators
- Use secure credentials
- Install from SD card
- Install from USB storage
- Set password
- Clear storage
- Applications settings
- Accounts & sync settings
- Privacy settings
- Storage settings
- Language & keyboard settings
- Voice input & output settings
- Accessibility settings
- Dock settings
- Date & time settings
- About phone
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AUG-2.3-103 Android User’s Guide
About this guide
This guide describes how to use release 2.3 of the Android™ mobile technology
platform, including updates to Android applications that have been released on the
Android Market™ downloadable applications service.
This guide does not describe the physical features of your phone (its parts and
accessories, how to replace its battery, turn it on , and so on) or its specifications; for
that information, refer to your phone’s owner’s guide.
Chapter Describes
“Android basics” on
page 15
Starting Android the first time, signing into your Google™ Accounts so
you can take full advantage of Google Apps™, and performing basic
Android tasks.
“Connecting to net-
works and devices” on
page 57
Configuring how your phone connects to mobile and Wi-Fi™ net-
works, to Bluetooth™ devices, and to a computer, and it describes how
to share your phone’s mobile data connection via USB or as a portable
Wi-Fi hotspot. This chapter also describes how to secure your con-
nections to virtual private networks (VPNs) and other networks.
“Placing and receiving
calls” on page 77
Using your phone to place, receive, and manage multiple calls.
“Searching by text and
voice” on page 93
Using Google Search to search your phone and the web by typing or
speaking.
“Contacts” on page 109 Organizing and finding contact information for the people you know.
“Accounts” on page 127 Adding and synchronizing email and other accounts, including Google
Accounts and Microsoft™ Exchange ActiveSync™ accounts.
“Gmail” on page 135 Sending and receiving messages using Gmail™ webmail service.
“Calendar” on page 165 Viewing and creating events on your calendar and synchronizing them
with the Google Calendar™ calendaring service on the web.
“Google Voice” on
page 181
Checking your voicemail and placing calls with Google Voice.