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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want to add more text. You can also select a word or more at a time and copy, cut,
and paste text. See “Editing text” on page 37.
2 Touch the keys on the keyboard to enter text.
What you type appears in the text field and in the strip above the keyboard, in black
text on a white background. When the keyboard has a suggestion for what you
might be typing, the word you’re typing is underlined in the text field and the
suggestions appear in orange in the strip above the keyboard. The boldfaced
suggestion at the left of the strip is the keyboard’s best suggestion. You can drag
the strip to the left to bring any additional suggestions into view.
3 Press space or a punctuation mark to enter the boldfaced suggested word.
If you touch the space key, the suggestion strip offers a series of punctuation
marks you can touch, to replace the space with.
Or touch another suggested word to enter it.
If you touch a word that is not in the system or user dictionary, it’s entered and
you’re prompted to touch the word again if you want to add it to the user
dictionary.
You can view, edit, or delete the words that you add to the dictionary. See
“Language & keyboard settings” on page 372.
4 Use the Delete key to erase characters to the left of the cursor.
5 When you’re finished typing, press Back to close the keyboard.
Some applications add special keys to the keyboard that make it easier to navigate
from one text field to another.
Enter numbers, symbols, and other characters
S Touch & hold one of the top-row keys and then without moving your finger, lift your
finger, to enter the number indicated in black on that key. Keys with alternate
characters display an ellipsis ( ... ) below the character.
S Touch & hold a vowel or the C, N, or S key to open a small window where you can
drag onto the accented vowel or other alternate letter or number you want to enter.