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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Sound settings
Use the Sound settings to configure how and at what volume the phone rings,
vibrates, or alerts you in other ways when you receive a call, you receive a notification,
or an alarm sounds. You also use these settings to set the volume for music or other
media with audio, and some related settings.
Silent mode Check to silence all sounds (including call and notification ringtones)
except the audio from music, videos, and other media and any alarms you have set.
(You must silence media and alarms in their own applications.)
Vibrate Opens a dialog where you can configure when you want the phone to
vibrate when you receive a phone call or notification: Always, never, only when the
phone is in Silent mode, or only when the phone is not in Silent mode.
Volume Opens a dialog where you can set the volume of ringtones that sound
when you receive a phone call or notification, media (music, videos, an so on), and
alarms. If you uncheck the option to use the same volume for both calls and
notifications, you can set the notification ringtone volume independently.
Phone ringtone Opens a dialog where you can select the ringtone to sound when
you receive a phone call. Touch a ringtone to listen to it. You can use some media
applications to add a song to this list. See “Use a song as a ringtone” on page 311 to
learn how to do that with the Music application.
Phone vibrate Opens a dialog where you can set the phone to vibrate whenever
you receive an incoming call, only when the phone is in Silent mode, or never.
Notification ringtone Opens a dialog where you can select the ringtone to sound
when you receive a notification. Touch a ringtone to listen to it.
Pulse notification light On phones that pulse their Trackball light or other
notification light when you receive a notification, check to pulse the light every few
seconds when you have new notifications. Uncheck to pulse the light just once for
each new notification when it arrives.
Audible touch tones Check to hear tones when you use Phone to dial a number.
Audible selection Check to play a sound when you touch buttons, icons, and
other onscreen items that react to your touch.
Screen lock sounds Check to play a sound when the screen is locked or
unlocked.
Haptic feedback Check to have the phone vibrate briefly when you touch soft
buttons and perform other actions.