User manual
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- About this guide
- Your phone and accessories
- Android basics
- Starting Android for the first time
- Getting to know the Home screen
- Using the touchscreen
- Using the phone’s buttons
- Using the trackball
- Using the onscreen keyboard
- Entering text by speaking
- Editing text
- Opening and switching applications
- Working with menus
- Monitoring your phone’s status
- Managing notifications
- Searching your phone and the web
- Locking your screen
- Customizing the Home screen
- Connecting quickly with your contacts
- Optimizing battery life
- Connecting to networks and devices
- Placing and receiving calls
- Contacts
- Accounts
- Gmail
- Gmail is different
- Opening Gmail and your Inbox
- Reading your messages
- Composing and sending a message
- Replying to or forwarding a message
- Working with conversations in batches
- Labeling a conversation
- Starring a message
- Viewing conversations by label
- Reporting spam
- Searching for messages
- Archiving conversations
- Synchronizing your messages
- Appending a signature to your messages
- 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 or deleting an event
- Setting an event reminder
- Responding to an event reminder
- Displaying and synchronizing calendars
- Changing Calendar settings
- Google Voice
- Google Talk
- Messaging
- Browser
- Maps
- Opening Maps and viewing your location
- Obtaining details about a location
- Starring a location
- Changing map layers
- Searching for locations and places
- Getting directions
- Navigating with spoken, turn-by-turn directions
- To navigate with turn-by-turn directions
- To view turn-by-turn directions in a list
- To return to Navigation View
- To change views of your route
- To search for locations along your route
- To preview your route
- To view traffic conditions on your route
- To get an alternate route to your destination
- To exit navigation
- Finding your friends with Google Latitude
- Camera
- Gallery
- Goggles
- YouTube
- Music
- News & Weather
- Clock
- Car Home
- Calculator
- Market
- Settings
- Opening Settings
- Wireless & networks
- Call settings
- Sound & display settings
- Location & security settings
- Applications settings
- Accounts & sync settings
- Privacy settings
- SD card & phone storage settings
- Search settings
- Language & keyboard settings
- Accessibility settings
- Text-to-speech settings
- Date & time settings
- About phone
- Specifications
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Opening and switching applications
The Launcher, which you open from the Home screen, holds icons for all of the
applications on your phone, including any applications that you downloaded and
installed from Android Market or other sources.
When you open an application, the other applications you’ve been using don’t stop;
they keep on running: playing music, rendering webpages, and so on. You can quickly
switch among your applications, to work with several at once. The Android operating
system and applications work together to ensure that applications you aren’t using
don’t consume resources unnecessarily, stopping and starting them as needed. For
this reason, there’s no need or facility for quitting applications.
See “Market” on page 297 to learn how to discover and install additional applications
and games on your phone.
To open and close the Launcher
S On the Home screen, touch the Launcher icon to open it.
If you have more applications than can fit on the Launcher in one view, you can
slide the Launcher up or down to view more.
Slide the Launcher up or down to bring
more icons into view.
Touch to close the
Launcher.
Touch an application to open it