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 373
AUG-2.3-103 Android User’s Guide
Auto-capitalization Check to have the onscreen keyboard automatically
capitalize the first letter of the first word after a period, the first word in a text field, and
each word in name fields.
Show settings key Opens a dialog where you can set whether you want the
keyboard to decide automatically whether to include the Settings key on the keyboard
(it does this only if you have more than one keyboard or other input method installed),
or whether you want always to show the Settings key or always to hide it.
Voice input Opens a dialog where you can turn voice input off or set on which
onscreen keyboard you want the voice-input Microphone key . See “Entering text
by speaking” on page 35.
Input languages Opens the Input Languages screen, where you can check the
languages you want to have available when using the onscreen keyboard. Changing
the keyboard language is described in “Using the onscreen keyboard” on page 31.
Quick fixes Check to automatically correct some common misspellings as you
type.
Show suggestions Check to show suggested words in a strip above the
onscreen keyboard as you type. See “Using the onscreen keyboard” on page 31.
Auto-complete Check to automatically enter a suggested word, highlighted in the
strip above the keyboard, when you enter a space or punctuation. See “Using the
onscreen keyboard” on page 31.
Device Keyboard settings screen
This settings screen is available only if your phone has a physical keyboard.
Auto-replace Check to correct misspelled words as you type.
Auto-cap Check to capitalize the first letter of the first word in sentences.
Auto-punctuate Check to insert a period ( . ) when you press the Space key twice
in a row.