User 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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Managing notifications
Notification icons report the arrival of new messages, calendar events, and alarms, as
well as ongoing events, such as when call forwarding is on or the current call status.
When you receive a notification, its icon appears in the Status bar, along with a
summary that appears only briefly. For a table of notification icons, see “Notification
icons” on page 28.
If your phone uses a trackball light for notifications, the light pulses once or repeatedly
when you receive a new notification. Depending on your settings and the model of
your phone, you may also hear a notification sound, the phone may vibrate, and LEDs
may blink. These settings and adjusting sound volume and other general notification
settings is described in “Sound settings” on page 362.
You can open the Notifications panel to view a list of all your notifications.
Applications whose activities produce notifications, such as Gmail and Google Talk,
have their own settings, which you can use to configure whether and how they send
notifications, whether they sound a ringtone, vibrate, and so on. See the
documentation for those applications for details.
Open the Notifications panel
S Drag the Status bar down from the top of the screen.
On the Home screen, you can also press Menu and touch Notifications.
The Notifications panel displays your wireless provider and a list of your current
notifications. Notifications about ongoing activities are listed first, followed by
Notifications about events, such as new mail notifications or Calendar reminders.
Touch a notification to open it in its
application.