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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Applications settings
You use the Applications settings to view details about the applications installed on
your phone, to manage their data, to force them to stop if they misbehave, and to set
whether you want to permit installation of applications that you obtain from web sites
and email.
Applications settings screen
Unknown sources Check to permit installation of applications that you obtain
from web sites, email, or other locations other than Android Market.
Warning! To protect your phone and personal data, download applications only from trusted
sources, such as Android Market.
Manage applications Opens a list of all the applications and other software
installed on your phone, along with their sizes and tools for managing them. See
“Managing how applications use memory” on page 48.
Running services Opens a list of applications, processes, and services, services
that are currently running or are cached. See “Managing how applications use
memory” on page 48.Storage use
Storage use Opens a list of all applications on your phone with information about
the storage they use. See “Managing how applications use memory” on page 48.
Battery use Opens a list of the applications that have used battery power since
you last charged your phone. See “Optimizing battery life” on page 46.
Development See “Development screen” on page 367.
Development screen
The Development screen contains settings that are useful for developing Android
applications. For full information, including documentation of the Android APIs and
development tools, see the Android developer web site (http://developer.android.com).
USB debugging Check to permit debugging tools on a computer to
communicate with your phone via a USB connection.
Stay awake Check to prevent the screen from dimming and locking when the
phone is connected to a charger or to a USB device that provides power. Don’t use this
setting with a static image on the phone for long periods of time, or the screen may be
marked with that image.