Android is a new operating system for the modern smartphone, for newcomers is a bit confusing and complex.
Search Google for making everyone feel at home by providing a multi-layered display options and hundreds of tweakable settings can leave people a little lost, plus there's your widgets to worry, the Home screen layout and much more hidden beneath Google's green hat.
So here, to make things a little easier for newcomers to Android, and those who seek power some more tips, we present Android 50 important facts and techniques.
These tips are mostly for version 2.1 of Android, which is by far the most common form of OS out there today - but many suggestions will also work on older versions and varieties of new boutiques and they skinned by some hardware makers.
1. Set a custom ring tone dialing
Or, if you want to talk to people, the same screen allows you to allocate specific custom ringtone for each caller is stored in your Contacts directory.
2. Enable Power Strip Android
The most important feature in Android 2.1 is the built-in power strip widget. Here, you can quickly remove all the phones battery-destroying features, like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and a GPS Batter Killer Great. Long-tap on the screen and install it through the widget category.
3. Android call screening
If you are paranoid call-screener, Android is for you. Opens Contacts at this time you are recording people avoid, then select Menu> Options. From here you can ping to all incoming calls from these people directly to voicemail. Give people off with Android.
4. Add your alarm clock for your task
A classic mistake, this. We constantly talked about the importance of (arguably) from using the task manager to maximize battery Android, and if you want to go down that route you are accepted. However, when you kill all the tasks to save battery life, remember that your alarm clock is the task yourself - kill it and you'll wake up with panic at 10:15 tomorrow morning.
5. Organize things into folders
While Steve Jobs may be recent enough to make a big deal about letting users IOS set things into folders, Android has been doing it for ages. Fancy Home screen quick shortcut to star in your favorite contacts? Long-press the Home screen and make it so.
6. Change the folder name Android
And, once you do that, to adjust things to perfection is possible to change the name of the folder. Simply open the folder, then long-press on the name on the top bar to open the field to change the name of Top Secret.
7. Check the date
Perhaps one of the smallest feature is the facility documented the date of inspection. Press Notices bar at the left of the screen. It tells you what that date. Come on, try. It will.
8. Mount your SD card
Notice also be accessed through the field is "mount" option. Many a newcomer Android has failed in this obstacle, as your phone's SD card mounting an awkward step that needs to be taken before it will appear as an external drive to copy data. Install, mount it, then copy.
9. Adjust your keyboard shortcuts
One of the reasons why many people still love them is the inclusion of a QWERTY keyboard Google's system for reliable keyboard shortcuts on the Android old. This phone has a collection of shortcuts fully customizable application launcher, which is found under the Application Settings>> Hurry
10. Download wallpaper Android
One thing that makes Android 2.1 swish and a little more interesting than the previous version is a bit boring for Wallpaper Live support - which animates the image format that takes you to the Home screen life. There are batteries hit neglected to do so, but in return you get a phone that looks cool. That's what life is all about, right? Android Market for Live Search Wallpaper - there are many.
11. Easily zoom
A tiny little feature, this, but one that is super useful if you use a fifth of your Home screen - or a custom user interface that offers more. Tapping the points next to the dock at the bottom of the screen displays a list of mini thumbnails of all the Home screen, allowing you to get from Screen 1 to Screen 5 without wearing grooves into the surface of your screen.
12. Add a shortcut Android Navigation
Android 2.1 allows local users to set up cutting short the satnav app Navigation Maps. As long as you have one of the latest Google Maps update, you can choose one of your route and Navigation attach directly to a shortcut on the Home screen - creating a one-hit launcher for your favorite trip.
13. Set your double-tap zoom levels
On phones that do not support multi-touch zoom, you can take more control of your web browsing through a page zoom browser settings. Change your display to "Close" if you want the pages to fly right into extreme close when you double-tap the screen, or left to the "Remote" if you like planting in the text just a little closer when you double-tap.
14. Change font size Android browser
From the same menu you can also select the font size for your browser. Your personal settings are ideal will vary depending on screen size, resolution and eyesight, but a few minutes to get it set up so that the page be read directly will save you many hours of cumulative resizing for years to come.
15. Find web pages
Menu>> More Find on page lets you search term specific text on a web page, if you can not be bothered to read it correctly as the author intended.
16. Practice your voice robot
Android 2.1 features the voice-input to each column of text. Which is good, although the delay to "processing" - and often little left of the field - meaning it's usually faster to just bite the bullet and things kind. Remember to say "comma" to tell it to insert a comma. Full stop.
17. Adding words to the dictionary Android
This is a useful feature that should be screaming about the sticker on the phone when you are removing from the box. If you have worked through living with family names that are difficult-to-spell, type all text into the field of Android phone - then long-press on in the field of suggested words. This added to the dictionary, so you'll never have to type more than a few characters of the name fool you again.
18. Sign up for an account Picasa
Google's online picture-sharing tool may have failed to capture the public imagination in the same way as Flickr, but there is one good reason to register one yourself - Android 2.1 's 3D galleries to auto-sync your photos with Picasa account you. Photo sharing works both ways, so you should disable synchronization if you do not want all your web galleries appear on your phone.
19. Web download images
If you ever see one of the funny pictures on the internet, long-pressing it allows you to download to your phone - and it will pop up on your gallery for easy sharing.
20. Manage your call log Android
It's very easy to remove any item from the log Android on the make and receive calls - a long-tap the item and delete it. Then sleep more easily.
21. Up and photos
If you combine with the official Android Android app up, perhaps to automatically pull in photos for your contacts through Facebook. You can also create folders up a specific phone book on the Home page, keep the internet and friends are completely separate.
22. Browser shortkeys
Android 2.1 web browser has a smart multi-function button next to the address bar. While the page is loading was changed to "X" to cancel the loading, but once the page is finished it turned into one of adding historical markers and management tools. It is always there for you.
23. Android web history
Also, more speed up browsing by pressing the Back button - this is your shortcut to your internet history. Ideal for complex navigation browsing session - and also saves reloading unnecessary.
24. Use the browser tab
Android browser offers tabbed browsing standards, it did not do a very good job of advertising it. Long-pressing the URL lets you open a web link in new tab - you then switch tabs by pressing the Menu and select the Windows option. Not a user-friendly system, but it works. Just remember that the stop at the desktop automatically may close all tabs in the middle-weight sessions.
25. Some Gmail accounts in Android
Android 2.1 adds support for multiple Gmail accounts. Add a new Internet identity to your phone by going to the Gmail application, then press Menu> Accounts> Add Account. Then remember who you're pretending.
26. disable / turn off auto-Google
If you phone a bit on the side of the entry-level case, a search Google will be accelerated significantly by turning off the feature suggestion web. After Google's constantly guessing what will you type is nice, but can bring an old cell phone rattling stopped. Disabling this feature with postal mail to Settings> Search> Google Search Settings.
27. Add hotline to the Home screen Android
If there is one person you tend to call more than most - his wife, board members or parole officer - make it easier on yourself by adding a shortcut dial directly to the Home screen. Long-press in the background, then select Direct Dial Shortcuts then - to add the modern equivalent of a big red phone to the Home page of you who immediately called the number one without messing around with Dialer or Contact page.
28. Add a hotline to Techradar
You can do the above with a Web page, too. Quite long-press on the web when the browser's bookmarks, and you'll be given the option to "Add Shortcut to the Future" - which indeed will drop the icon into your Home screen that directly launch the browser and start loading your favorite sites.
29. Shortcut music playlist
If you've setup your music playlist, it is also possible to add a shortcut to that on the Home screen in the same way. Beats tweaking the music player.
30. Bypass opens Android slide
You do not need to slide the screen locker to bring your phone out of standby. A press the Menu button twice the phone will wake you up, as long as a manufacturer you have not removed that feature from the skin.
31. Confirmed deletion
Pressing the Menu while in the Gallery allows you to turn off the delete confirmation dialog, which can shave seconds still distant time management of your photo.
32. Alternative text fields
If you are a little grammar fetishist, stock keyboard Android can help. Hold the key to display the floating text field alternative to the letter, with all the special characters needed to accurately transmit an SMS message to the people of France and Germany appear.
33. Android emoticions
The upper end of the keyboard also works with the selection of Android on a smiling face, with a long press-on smiley attract more. Although there is still not quite sad / depressed to like us.
34. "What I meant was ..."
And if you're too old to know what all this really means a smiley face, press Menu and then Insert Smiley while at the keyboard Android - the sense that they all are well described for the grandfather.
35. Changes in auto-correct Android
If you experience problems with the keyboard auto-correction or Android does not like the words of complete and utilize its own, the choice can be changed in the Settings> Language and Keyboard> Keyboard Android.
36. Install the Android file manager
Lack of how to properly manage the files on Android 2.1 is quite strange. Sure, you can delete photos and music from within their application, but you must be one of many file managers Android Market to remove the mass in the comfort, style PCs. Astro is one, good to start with free.
37. Android you manage battery
Tracking a rogue app occasionally important when it comes to making sure you have enough battery for events weird when you really may need to make phone calls. Data collected by your phone and saved under Settings> About Phone> using battery will let you know if one of your applications live and hammering your battery, letting you do things human and delete it.
38. Set the keyboard, the keyboard
Other features that are somewhat vague, this. Long-pressing 123 on the standard keyboard keyboard Android display settings page, where you can switch the keyboard (if you have a question installed) and fiddle with the settings quickly.
39. STOP
Also, more speed up typing by pressing the space bar twice - it automatically insert the stop-full.
40. "Never heard of him"
If you need to remove all mention the ex-partner from your phone, the dictionary can be edited - go to Settings> Language and Keyboard> User Dictionary for cleaning history you type.
41. Talk Queen of England
If you are tired of the strange accent sounds Navigation Maps, there is a variant of English - go to Menu> Settings> Text to Speech> and check the box to use their own settings. Now you can have English accents. Far better to navigation M25.
42. Remove Android apps
If you run out of internal memory space, your application can be sorted by size - large and binned to make room. Head to the Application Settings> Manage> Applications and press menu to refine them by using the memory.
43. Activate the speakerphone
This is not a special user-friendly should press the Menu button while making a call, but you if you do you can choose the speakerphone option - plus other features call.
44. Delete the entire thread
If you have an SMS conversation nights you'd rather forget, long-pressing on the thread from the front screen messaging app that allows you to delete the entire thing in one go. It will be like it never happened.
45. Create your own wallpaper
You do not have to stick with the default collection Android from the 1990's the company's image - any image can be used as your desktop picture. And you're even allowed to plant it, so that the roll well with the desktop. Quite a long-tap on the Home screen and select then Wallpaper Pictures for using the pic taken before you.
46. Android apps are the latest list
Hitting the Home button displays the Android equivalent of the most recently used list of your application. It beats paging through the phone, if you just stop something by mistake.
47. Loss of luxury items is not important
Your phone calls and save a tiny amount of battery life with animated Binning luxury. You can change it back again when you have to impress users of the iPhone. Find toggles under Settings> Sound and Display> Animation.
48. Built-in duty Android killer
Android killer features its own small task, but very, very well hidden. Close the application manually by opening the Application Settings>> Manage Applications and then press the Menu - and filter the results by running the application. If you can be bothered with all that, you can force close everything running.
49. Lock your phone
Setting the pattern of opening to add a small additional security layer to your phone - just remember to wipe the finger-pap tell the story of the screen.
50. The screen stays on when charging
It is often useful to have the screen stay on all the time, especially if you tend to charge your phone overnight, and use one application that luxury turns your phone into a nice radio and 1980's clock. Go to the Application Settings>> Developing and send the screen to remain on while charging. But do not tell your friends burn your environment through the power like this.
Search Google for making everyone feel at home by providing a multi-layered display options and hundreds of tweakable settings can leave people a little lost, plus there's your widgets to worry, the Home screen layout and much more hidden beneath Google's green hat.
So here, to make things a little easier for newcomers to Android, and those who seek power some more tips, we present Android 50 important facts and techniques.
These tips are mostly for version 2.1 of Android, which is by far the most common form of OS out there today - but many suggestions will also work on older versions and varieties of new boutiques and they skinned by some hardware makers.
1. Set a custom ring tone dialing
Or, if you want to talk to people, the same screen allows you to allocate specific custom ringtone for each caller is stored in your Contacts directory.
2. Enable Power Strip Android
The most important feature in Android 2.1 is the built-in power strip widget. Here, you can quickly remove all the phones battery-destroying features, like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and a GPS Batter Killer Great. Long-tap on the screen and install it through the widget category.
3. Android call screening
If you are paranoid call-screener, Android is for you. Opens Contacts at this time you are recording people avoid, then select Menu> Options. From here you can ping to all incoming calls from these people directly to voicemail. Give people off with Android.
4. Add your alarm clock for your task
A classic mistake, this. We constantly talked about the importance of (arguably) from using the task manager to maximize battery Android, and if you want to go down that route you are accepted. However, when you kill all the tasks to save battery life, remember that your alarm clock is the task yourself - kill it and you'll wake up with panic at 10:15 tomorrow morning.
5. Organize things into folders
While Steve Jobs may be recent enough to make a big deal about letting users IOS set things into folders, Android has been doing it for ages. Fancy Home screen quick shortcut to star in your favorite contacts? Long-press the Home screen and make it so.
6. Change the folder name Android
And, once you do that, to adjust things to perfection is possible to change the name of the folder. Simply open the folder, then long-press on the name on the top bar to open the field to change the name of Top Secret.
7. Check the date
Perhaps one of the smallest feature is the facility documented the date of inspection. Press Notices bar at the left of the screen. It tells you what that date. Come on, try. It will.
8. Mount your SD card
Notice also be accessed through the field is "mount" option. Many a newcomer Android has failed in this obstacle, as your phone's SD card mounting an awkward step that needs to be taken before it will appear as an external drive to copy data. Install, mount it, then copy.
9. Adjust your keyboard shortcuts
One of the reasons why many people still love them is the inclusion of a QWERTY keyboard Google's system for reliable keyboard shortcuts on the Android old. This phone has a collection of shortcuts fully customizable application launcher, which is found under the Application Settings>> Hurry
10. Download wallpaper Android
One thing that makes Android 2.1 swish and a little more interesting than the previous version is a bit boring for Wallpaper Live support - which animates the image format that takes you to the Home screen life. There are batteries hit neglected to do so, but in return you get a phone that looks cool. That's what life is all about, right? Android Market for Live Search Wallpaper - there are many.
11. Easily zoom
A tiny little feature, this, but one that is super useful if you use a fifth of your Home screen - or a custom user interface that offers more. Tapping the points next to the dock at the bottom of the screen displays a list of mini thumbnails of all the Home screen, allowing you to get from Screen 1 to Screen 5 without wearing grooves into the surface of your screen.
12. Add a shortcut Android Navigation
Android 2.1 allows local users to set up cutting short the satnav app Navigation Maps. As long as you have one of the latest Google Maps update, you can choose one of your route and Navigation attach directly to a shortcut on the Home screen - creating a one-hit launcher for your favorite trip.
13. Set your double-tap zoom levels
On phones that do not support multi-touch zoom, you can take more control of your web browsing through a page zoom browser settings. Change your display to "Close" if you want the pages to fly right into extreme close when you double-tap the screen, or left to the "Remote" if you like planting in the text just a little closer when you double-tap.
14. Change font size Android browser
From the same menu you can also select the font size for your browser. Your personal settings are ideal will vary depending on screen size, resolution and eyesight, but a few minutes to get it set up so that the page be read directly will save you many hours of cumulative resizing for years to come.
15. Find web pages
Menu>> More Find on page lets you search term specific text on a web page, if you can not be bothered to read it correctly as the author intended.
16. Practice your voice robot
Android 2.1 features the voice-input to each column of text. Which is good, although the delay to "processing" - and often little left of the field - meaning it's usually faster to just bite the bullet and things kind. Remember to say "comma" to tell it to insert a comma. Full stop.
17. Adding words to the dictionary Android
This is a useful feature that should be screaming about the sticker on the phone when you are removing from the box. If you have worked through living with family names that are difficult-to-spell, type all text into the field of Android phone - then long-press on in the field of suggested words. This added to the dictionary, so you'll never have to type more than a few characters of the name fool you again.
18. Sign up for an account Picasa
Google's online picture-sharing tool may have failed to capture the public imagination in the same way as Flickr, but there is one good reason to register one yourself - Android 2.1 's 3D galleries to auto-sync your photos with Picasa account you. Photo sharing works both ways, so you should disable synchronization if you do not want all your web galleries appear on your phone.
19. Web download images
If you ever see one of the funny pictures on the internet, long-pressing it allows you to download to your phone - and it will pop up on your gallery for easy sharing.
20. Manage your call log Android
It's very easy to remove any item from the log Android on the make and receive calls - a long-tap the item and delete it. Then sleep more easily.
21. Up and photos
If you combine with the official Android Android app up, perhaps to automatically pull in photos for your contacts through Facebook. You can also create folders up a specific phone book on the Home page, keep the internet and friends are completely separate.
22. Browser shortkeys
Android 2.1 web browser has a smart multi-function button next to the address bar. While the page is loading was changed to "X" to cancel the loading, but once the page is finished it turned into one of adding historical markers and management tools. It is always there for you.
23. Android web history
Also, more speed up browsing by pressing the Back button - this is your shortcut to your internet history. Ideal for complex navigation browsing session - and also saves reloading unnecessary.
24. Use the browser tab
Android browser offers tabbed browsing standards, it did not do a very good job of advertising it. Long-pressing the URL lets you open a web link in new tab - you then switch tabs by pressing the Menu and select the Windows option. Not a user-friendly system, but it works. Just remember that the stop at the desktop automatically may close all tabs in the middle-weight sessions.
25. Some Gmail accounts in Android
Android 2.1 adds support for multiple Gmail accounts. Add a new Internet identity to your phone by going to the Gmail application, then press Menu> Accounts> Add Account. Then remember who you're pretending.
26. disable / turn off auto-Google
If you phone a bit on the side of the entry-level case, a search Google will be accelerated significantly by turning off the feature suggestion web. After Google's constantly guessing what will you type is nice, but can bring an old cell phone rattling stopped. Disabling this feature with postal mail to Settings> Search> Google Search Settings.
27. Add hotline to the Home screen Android
If there is one person you tend to call more than most - his wife, board members or parole officer - make it easier on yourself by adding a shortcut dial directly to the Home screen. Long-press in the background, then select Direct Dial Shortcuts then - to add the modern equivalent of a big red phone to the Home page of you who immediately called the number one without messing around with Dialer or Contact page.
28. Add a hotline to Techradar
You can do the above with a Web page, too. Quite long-press on the web when the browser's bookmarks, and you'll be given the option to "Add Shortcut to the Future" - which indeed will drop the icon into your Home screen that directly launch the browser and start loading your favorite sites.
29. Shortcut music playlist
If you've setup your music playlist, it is also possible to add a shortcut to that on the Home screen in the same way. Beats tweaking the music player.
30. Bypass opens Android slide
You do not need to slide the screen locker to bring your phone out of standby. A press the Menu button twice the phone will wake you up, as long as a manufacturer you have not removed that feature from the skin.
31. Confirmed deletion
Pressing the Menu while in the Gallery allows you to turn off the delete confirmation dialog, which can shave seconds still distant time management of your photo.
32. Alternative text fields
If you are a little grammar fetishist, stock keyboard Android can help. Hold the key to display the floating text field alternative to the letter, with all the special characters needed to accurately transmit an SMS message to the people of France and Germany appear.
33. Android emoticions
The upper end of the keyboard also works with the selection of Android on a smiling face, with a long press-on smiley attract more. Although there is still not quite sad / depressed to like us.
34. "What I meant was ..."
And if you're too old to know what all this really means a smiley face, press Menu and then Insert Smiley while at the keyboard Android - the sense that they all are well described for the grandfather.
35. Changes in auto-correct Android
If you experience problems with the keyboard auto-correction or Android does not like the words of complete and utilize its own, the choice can be changed in the Settings> Language and Keyboard> Keyboard Android.
36. Install the Android file manager
Lack of how to properly manage the files on Android 2.1 is quite strange. Sure, you can delete photos and music from within their application, but you must be one of many file managers Android Market to remove the mass in the comfort, style PCs. Astro is one, good to start with free.
37. Android you manage battery
Tracking a rogue app occasionally important when it comes to making sure you have enough battery for events weird when you really may need to make phone calls. Data collected by your phone and saved under Settings> About Phone> using battery will let you know if one of your applications live and hammering your battery, letting you do things human and delete it.
38. Set the keyboard, the keyboard
Other features that are somewhat vague, this. Long-pressing 123 on the standard keyboard keyboard Android display settings page, where you can switch the keyboard (if you have a question installed) and fiddle with the settings quickly.
39. STOP
Also, more speed up typing by pressing the space bar twice - it automatically insert the stop-full.
40. "Never heard of him"
If you need to remove all mention the ex-partner from your phone, the dictionary can be edited - go to Settings> Language and Keyboard> User Dictionary for cleaning history you type.
41. Talk Queen of England
If you are tired of the strange accent sounds Navigation Maps, there is a variant of English - go to Menu> Settings> Text to Speech> and check the box to use their own settings. Now you can have English accents. Far better to navigation M25.
42. Remove Android apps
If you run out of internal memory space, your application can be sorted by size - large and binned to make room. Head to the Application Settings> Manage> Applications and press menu to refine them by using the memory.
43. Activate the speakerphone
This is not a special user-friendly should press the Menu button while making a call, but you if you do you can choose the speakerphone option - plus other features call.
44. Delete the entire thread
If you have an SMS conversation nights you'd rather forget, long-pressing on the thread from the front screen messaging app that allows you to delete the entire thing in one go. It will be like it never happened.
45. Create your own wallpaper
You do not have to stick with the default collection Android from the 1990's the company's image - any image can be used as your desktop picture. And you're even allowed to plant it, so that the roll well with the desktop. Quite a long-tap on the Home screen and select then Wallpaper Pictures for using the pic taken before you.
46. Android apps are the latest list
Hitting the Home button displays the Android equivalent of the most recently used list of your application. It beats paging through the phone, if you just stop something by mistake.
47. Loss of luxury items is not important
Your phone calls and save a tiny amount of battery life with animated Binning luxury. You can change it back again when you have to impress users of the iPhone. Find toggles under Settings> Sound and Display> Animation.
48. Built-in duty Android killer
Android killer features its own small task, but very, very well hidden. Close the application manually by opening the Application Settings>> Manage Applications and then press the Menu - and filter the results by running the application. If you can be bothered with all that, you can force close everything running.
49. Lock your phone
Setting the pattern of opening to add a small additional security layer to your phone - just remember to wipe the finger-pap tell the story of the screen.
50. The screen stays on when charging
It is often useful to have the screen stay on all the time, especially if you tend to charge your phone overnight, and use one application that luxury turns your phone into a nice radio and 1980's clock. Go to the Application Settings>> Developing and send the screen to remain on while charging. But do not tell your friends burn your environment through the power like this.
