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
Settings 372
AUG-2.3-103 Android User’s Guide
Language & keyboard settings
Use the Language & Keyboard settings to select the language for the text on your
phone and for configuring the onscreen keyboard, including words that you’ve added
to its dictionary.
Language & Keyboard screen
Select language Opens the Language screen, where you can select the language
to use for the text on your phone.
User dictionary Opens a list of the words you’ve added to the dictionary, as
described in “Using the onscreen keyboard” on page 31. Touch a word to edit or delete
it. Press Menu and touch
Add to add a word.
Android keyboard See “Android Keyboard settings screen” on page 372.
Android keyboard checkbox For phones with physical keyboards, uncheck to
disable the onscreen keyboard. See “Android Keyboard settings screen” on page 372.
Device keyboard See “Device Keyboard settings screen” on page 373. This
setting is available only if your phone has a physical keyboard.
Android Keyboard settings screen
The Android Keyboard settings apply to the onscreen keyboard that is included with
your phone. The correction and capitalization features affect only the English version
of the keyboard.
Vibrate on keypress Check to have the phone vibrate briefly each time you touch
a key on the onscreen keyboard.
Sound on keypress Check to play a brief sound each time you touch a key on the
onscreen keyboard.
Popup on keypress Uncheck to prevent a larger image of each key from
displaying above the key (out from under your finger) when you touch it.
Touch to correct words Uncheck to turn off the feature that underlines a word
in a text field if you touch the word and the keyboard has suggestions for other words
you may have intended.