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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
  - Use the Trackball
- Working with menus
  - Options menus
  - Context menus
- Monitoring your phone’s status
  - Status icons
  - Notification icons
- Managing notifications
- Using the onscreen keyboard
- Entering text by speaking
  - Turn on voice input
  - Enter text by speaking
- Editing text
- Opening and switching applications
- Locking your screen
  - Lock your screen
- Customizing the Home screen
- Connecting quickly with your contacts
- Optimizing battery life
- Managing how applications use memory
- Managing downloads
  - Open Downloads and manage downloaded files
Connecting to networks and devices
- Connecting to mobile networks
- Connecting to Wi-Fi networks
- Connecting to Bluetooth devices
- Connecting to a computer via USB
- Sharing your phone’s mobile data connection
- Connecting to virtual private networks
- Working with secure certificates
  - Install a secure certificate from your phone’s USB storage or SD card
- Configuring Internet (SIP) calling
Placing and receiving calls
- Placing and ending calls
- Answering or rejecting calls
  - Answer a call
  - Decline a call and divert it to voicemail
- Working with the Call log
- Calling your contacts
  - Call a contact
  - Call a favorite contact
- Placing an Internet (SIP) call
  - Call a contact’s Internet calling address
  - Call a phone number using Internet calling
- Listening to your voicemail
  - Listen to your voicemail
- Dialing by voice
  - Place a call by speaking
- Options during a call
- Managing multiple calls
Searching by text and voice
- Searching your phone and the web
- Using Google Search tips and tricks
- Changing Google Search settings
  - Search settings screen
  - Google Search settings screen
- Using Voice Actions
  - Use Voice Actions to search the web or perform other tasks
  - Complete a Voice Action
- Voice Action commands
Contacts
- Opening your contacts
- Adding contacts
  - Add a new contact
- Importing, exporting, and sharing contacts
- Adding a contact to your favorites
  - Add a contact to your favorites
  - Remove a contact from your favorites list
- Searching for a contact
  - Search for a contact
- Editing contact details
- Communicating with your contacts
- Changing which contacts are displayed
- Joining contacts
  - Join contacts
- Separating contact information
  - Separate contact information
Accounts
- Adding and removing accounts
  - Add an account
  - Remove an account
- Configuring account sync and display options
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
  - Reply to or forward 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
  - Select which labels to synchronize
  - Set how many days to synchronize
- Reporting spam
  - Report a conversation as spam
- Searching for messages
- Archiving conversations
- Appending a signature to your messages
- Using keyboard shortcuts
  - Conversation list shortcuts
  - Message shortcuts
- Changing Gmail settings
  - General Settings
  - Notification settings
Calendar
- Viewing your calendar and events
  - Open Calendar
  - Change your calendar view
- Working in Agenda view
  - Switch to Agenda view
  - Learn more about events in Agenda view
- Working in Day view
- Working in Week view
- Working in Month view
  - Switch to Month view
  - View more information about events in Month view
- Viewing event details
  - View information about an event
- Creating an event
  - Create an event
- Editing an event
  - Edit an event
- Deleting an event
  - Delete an event
- Setting an event reminder
  - Set an event reminder
  - Delete an event reminder
- Responding to an event reminder
  - Respond to an event reminder
- Synchronizing and displaying calendars
  - Set whether calendars are stored on the phone or visible
- Changing Calendar settings
Google Voice
- Opening Google Voice and your Inbox
- Reading or listening to your voicemail
- Exchanging text messages
  - Send a text message
  - Read and reply to a text message
- Starring messages
- Viewing messages by label
- Configuring Google Voice
  - Configure Google Voice
- Placing calls with Google Voice
- Changing Google Voice settings
  - General Settings
  - Sync and notifications settings
Google Talk
- Signing in and opening your Friends list
- Chatting with friends
- Changing and monitoring online status
- Managing your Friends list
- Changing Google Talk settings
Email
- Opening Email and the Accounts screen
- Reading your messages
  - Read a message
- Responding to a message
- Starring messages
- Working with message in batches
- Composing and sending email
  - Compose and send a message
- Working with account folders
  - View an account’s folders
- Appending a signature to your messages
- Adding and editing email accounts
- Changing email account settings
Messaging
- Opening Messaging
  - Open Messaging
  - Delete a message thread from the Messaging window
- Exchanging messages
- Changing Messaging settings
Browser
- Opening Browser
- Navigating within a webpage
- Navigating among webpages
- Working with multiple Browser windows
- Downloading files
- Working with bookmarks
- Changing Browser settings
Maps, Navigation, Places, and Latitude
- Opening Maps
- Viewing My Location and location services
  - Enable location services
  - View your location
- Searching, exploring, and starring places
- Using the Places feature in the Launcher
- Changing map layers
- Getting directions
  - Get directions
- Navigating with Google Maps Navigation (Beta)
- Previewing and changing views of your route
- Finding your friends with Google Latitude
Camera
- Opening Camera and taking pictures or videos
- Changing Camera settings
Gallery
- Opening Gallery and viewing your albums
  - Open Gallery and view your albums
- Working with albums
- Working with pictures
- Working with videos
YouTube
- Opening YouTube and watching videos
- Discovering videos
- Rating and commenting on videos
- Uploading and sharing videos
- Working with playlists
- Working with channels
- Changing YouTube settings
Music
- Transferring music files to your phone
  - Copy music files from your computer
- Opening Music and working with your library
- Playing music
- Working with playlists
News & Weather
- Checking the news and weather
  - Open News & Weather
  - Get details about the news and weather
- Changing News & Weather settings
Clock
- Viewing the date, time, and other information
- Setting alarms
  - Set an alarm
- Changing Clock alarm settings
Car Home
- Opening Car Home
  - Open Car Home
- Customizing Car Home
- Starting Car Home with a Bluetooth Device
  - Configure a Bluetooth device to start Car Home
  - Configure how quickly Car Home exits after disconnecting from a device
- Changing Car Home settings
Calculator
- Using the Calculator
  - Open and use the Calculator
  - Access your history of operations
Tags
- Scanning tags
  - Scan a tag
- Working with tags
Market
- Opening Android Market and finding applications
- Downloading and installing applications
  - Download and install an application
  - Create a Google Checkout account
- Managing your downloads
Settings
- Opening Settings
  - Open Settings
- Wireless & networks
- Call settings
- Sound settings
- Display settings
- Location & security settings
- Applications settings
  - Applications settings screen
  - Development screen
- Accounts & sync settings
  - Accounts & sync settings screen
  - Account screen
- Privacy settings
- Storage settings
- Language & keyboard settings
- Voice input & output settings
  - Google Voice Recognition settings screen
  - Text-to-Speech settings screen
- Accessibility settings
- Dock settings
  - Audio
  - Dock insertion sound
- Date & time settings
- About phone
  - About Phone screen

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Settings

You use the Settings application to configure how your phone looks,

sounds, communicates, protects your privacy, and operates in many

other ways.

Many applications also have their own settings; for details, see the

documentation for those applications.

In this section

“Opening Settings” on page 354

“Wireless & networks” on page 355

“Call settings” on page 360

“Sound settings” on page 362

“Display settings” on page 364

“Location & security settings” on page 365

“Applications settings” on page 367

“Accounts & sync settings” on page 369

“Privacy settings” on page 370

“Storage settings” on page 371

“Language & keyboard settings” on page 372

“Voice input & output settings” on page 374

“Accessibility settings” on page 376

“Dock settings” on page 377

“Date & time settings” on page 378

“About phone” on page 379