Owner 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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AUG-2.3-103 Android User’s Guide
Gmail is different
Gmail is web-based Your messages are stored on Google servers, but you read,
write, and organize messages with the Gmail application on your phone or in a web
browser. Because your mail is stored on Google servers, you can search your entire
message history, backed by the speed and power of Google search.
Actions that you take in one place are reflected everywhere. For example, if you read a
message in Gmail on your phone, it’s marked as read in a web browser. And a message
that you send using a browser, or even a draft of a message, is visible in Gmail on the
phone.
Gmail is conversation-based Each message and all replies to it are grouped in
your Inbox as a single conversation. In other email applications, replies to messages
are spread across your Inbox, typically by date received, so a message and the replies
to it are separated by other messages. Gmail makes it easy to follow the thread of a
conversation.
Gmail is organized by labels, not by folders By tagging messages with
labels, you can organize your conversations in many different ways. In other email
applications, each message can live in only one folder. For example, with Gmail you
can label a conversation with your mother about your brother’s birthday present with
both “Mom” and “Dave.” Later, you can look for the message under either label. Using
folders, you’d have to store the message in the “Mom” folder or the “Dave” folder, not
both.
Gmail for the phone is optimized for mobile: for advanced tasks, use a
web browser
The best place to organize and learn about Gmail and your Google
Account is the web. For example, you can’t use the Gmail application on the phone to
create the labels and filters that you use to organize your messages, but you can label
a message on the phone. Gmail on the web offers complete information about the
service, so it’s the best place to learn about all of the features of Gmail.
Gmail is for Gmail Of course you can use Gmail to send email to any email
address, and anyone can send email to you at your Gmail address. But if you want to
read messages from another email service provider (using your AOL, Yahoo!, or other
email account), you use the Email application. See “Email” on page 207.