The Complete Guide to Motorola Droid: Tips and Tricks – Part 2
By Brady on Nov 10, 2009 with 7
Welcome to Part 2 of the Simply Droid Complete Guide to Motorola Droid: Tips and Tricks.
For the following tips use the pictures below to help you find certain areas of your Droid phone.
The Applications Tab:
The Home Key (button in the red square):
How to bring up the quick launch of the 6 most used applications:
Press and hold the Home button.
How to stop running applications:
1. From the home screen, touch the applications tab (located at the bottom of the screen).
2. Touch Settings.
3. Touch Applications.
4. Touch Running services.
5. Touch the desired service.
6. Touch Stop.
How to Cut/Copy and Paste:
1. To cut or copy text, touch and hold the deisred text field.
–Not all text fields support cut/copy.
2. Touch the desired option: Cut all Cuts all text from the field, Copy all Copies all text from the field.
3. Touch and hold the desired target text field.
4. Touch Paste.
How to adjust the backlight:
1. From the home screen, touch the applications tab (located at the bottom of the screen).
2. Touch Settings.
3. Touch Sound & Display.
4. Touch Brightness.
5. Adjust brightness as desired then touch OK.
–If automatic brightness is desired, ensure Automatic brightness is checked.
How to adjust the date and time settings:
1. From the home screen, touch the applications tab (located at the bottom of the screen).
2. Touch Settings.
3. Touch Date & time.
4. To use network provided date & time values touch Automatic.
–Automatic date & time are enabled if a green check mark is present.
5. Touch Set date.
6. Adjust date as desired then touch Set.
7. Touch Select time zone.
8. Touch the desired time zone.
9. Touch Set time.
10. Adjust time as desired then touch Set
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