Operation Manual

140 Chapter 9 : Photos, videos, and music
1 Connect your smartphone and your computer using the USB cable.
2 On your smartphone, tap USB Drive. If prompted, tap OK. On your
computer, your smartphone appears as a removable drive.
3 On a Windows computer, if the Found New Hardware wizard opens,
click Cancel to close the wizard.
4 Open My Computer (Windows XP), Computer (Windows Vista/
Windows 7), or the Finder (Mac), and double-click the drive
representing your smartphone.
5 To create an album, use your computer’s controls for creating a new
folder. To be sure the Photos application can find the album, create it at
the root level of the drive representing your smartphone, not as a
subfolder of another folder.
6 Assign pictures to albums using your computer’s controls to copy or
move items. It is easiest to find the pictures you want by displaying
them as thumbnails.
7 End the connection safely. If you do not eject your smartphone safely,
your smartphone resets when you disconnect the USB cable:
• On a Windows computer, right-click the drive representing your
smartphone and click Eject.
• On a Mac computer, from your desktop, drag the drive representing
your smartphone to the Tras h . The Trash icon changes to Eject.
8 Disconnect the USB cable from the computer and from the
smartphone when the USB Drive screen no longer appears on your
smartphone.
• To de l e te a n a l bu m : Connect your smartphone to your computer and
tap USB Drive. From your computer, open the drive representing your
smartphone and delete the folder representing the album.
Look at photos in a slideshow
You can view the photos in any album as a slideshow.
1 Open Photos .
2 Tap the album you want to view as a slideshow.
3 Do one of the following:
• To start with the first photo in the album: Open the application
menu and tap Play Slideshow.
• To select a different starting point: Tap the photo you want the
slideshow to start at and tap .
4 To exit the slideshow, tap a photo.
Add a picture to a contact
You can add a picture to a contact using the Photos application.
1 Tap a picture thumbnail to view it full-screen.
TIP Besides using USB Drive mode to copy your photos, videos, and DRM-free
music from your computer to your smartphone, you can also use solutions
available from third-party software developers (sold separately) that facilitate the
transfer of media files to your smartphone. For more information, open the
browser on your computer and go to palm.com/sync-solutions.
TIP You can also add a picture to a contact in the Contacts application (see Add a
photo to a contact).