The Complete Guide to Motorola Droid: Tips and Tricks
By Brady on Nov 09, 2009 with 32
Welcome to 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 Menu Key:
The Notification Panel/Window Shade (the area outlined in red)
How to transfer music/video files between the Verizon Motorola Droid and PC:
1. Connect the device to the computer with the USB cable
2. From the home screen, pull down the window shade (Notification bar, located at the top of the screen
- You can also press the Menu Key on the front of your Droid, then select Notifications
3. Select USB Connected
4. Select Mount
5. From File Explorer/Finder on the computer create a music/video folder in Removable Disk (Removable Disk is the 16GBÂ SD card in your phone )
- For any accompanying artwork in JPEG format, rename the art file albumart.jpg and compy in the same fold as the music files.
7. To further organize files, create a subfolder in the newly created music folder and copy desired music files into it.
8. Touch Turn Off USB Storage
9. Touch Turn Off
10. Disconnect the USB cable from the computer
How to change the browser home/start page on the Motorola Droid:
1. From the home screen, touch the applications tab (located at the bottom of the screen)
2. Touch Browser
3. Touch Menu
4. Touch More
5. Touch Settings
6. Touch Set Home Page
7. Enter the desired home page address then touch OK
Enabling / disabling Bluetooth – Motorola Droid:
1. From the home screen, touch the applications tab (located on the bottom of the screen).
2. Touch Settings.
3. Touch Wireless & networks.
4. Touch Bluetooth settings.
5. Touch Bluetooth.
-Bluetooth is enabled if a green check mark is present.
Setting ringtones – Motorola Droid:
1. From the home screen, touch the applications tab (located on the bottom of the screen).
2. Touch Settings.
3. Touch Sound & display.
4. Touch Phone ringtone.
5. Touch the desired ringtone then touch OK.
How to lock a text message:
1. From the home screen, touch messaging.
2. Open the thread (contacts name) that you want to lock.
3. Press and hold the message.
4. Select Lock message (a lock will appear next to the message if its locked).
5. To unlock a message press and hold on the locked message (lock will disappear).
See the other parts of the Tips and Tricks:
Complete Guide to Motorola Droid: Tips and Tricks Part 2
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Thanks so much! Just got my Droid and you helped me load up my music! I’ll keep checkin’ back here as I get deeper into it.
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I am still having trouble with adding music on my droid…I cannot add a music/vid folder onto my removable disc…I mounted my sd card and it won’t read on my laptop for that matter. If you have anymore suggestions I would really appreciate it thank you.
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I cannot receive text messages on my Motorola Droid. I was able to until last Saturday. I had changed settings on my WiFi so I could log on to my home WiFi and ever since then cannot receive texts. I have tried a factory reset and have tried to delete the static information from the WiFi Advanced page to no avail…Help
SD card needs to be formatted before it works
How do I read my IM’s?
I need to know how to forward texts to one or more contacts.
I have two email accounts set up on my Droid. One of them has a check mark to the right of the account name. What does it represent and how did it get there?
A friend was playing with my phone, and now there is a (shortcut??) bar at the bottom of my screen that I want to get rid of. (It updates WiFi, bluetooth, adjusts setting etc) Any help?
New at this! so I mounted the Droid to my box and made and Music folder and copied Train into that folder . Unplugged the phone and turned it off. Turned it back on. Touched the Music apt. and it was blank. So I guess I did not put the folder in the right place?
How do you delete contacts from the home screen I put some on that I didnt want
just hold the shortcut for a while and than yu can move it and on the bottom where there is the application bar will appear a little garbage can and just drag it there and it will be gone.
Does this work for games as well?
check out 2guys1droid.blogspot.com just found it from another forum i was on and its pretty helpful JSF12 it tells you how to remove things from the homescreen if you need help with that still and just some other helpful things
I want to know how to or if I can save a picture I have received into my gallery and how to print a picture from my phone from gallery or from a message.
How do I change a phone number on my droid?
Go to the phone contact / then menu on the buttons and edit // touch the number and back it out // type in your new number
How do I get rid of my deleted e-mail on mt Motorola Droid. I have over 2000 on two accounts.
Jack L
just got a droid 2 global and i am trying to zync it to my PC and that function is not working – any suggestions as to a step-by-step process i should follow? thanks
how do I get my favorites and pictures of my favorites back up on background?
I didn’t knew about how to lock text message on my Motorola Droid, but now able to do so with your precious guidance.
how do you not automacilly lock screen
hold the contact down for 2 or 3 sec and drag it to the trash can
i accidently blocked my brother from texting me how do i fix that
how do you change the storage of the phone? all the apps that i have downloaded has been save on the phone, how do i change it to save on my sd card becuase my phone is running out of storage..
when you are in the message hold down on the message part until a screen pops up that allows you to forward the message CLICK FORWARD, then at the top of the screen is a little plus buttton with a person next to it this will allow you into your contacts to check the ones you want and press done
I’ve had to exchange 5 Motorola Droid 2 and 3 Motorola Droid 3 Globals. Problems are no signal, dropped calls, no ring tone and going to voicemail automatically. Screen zap outs, battery dead after 3 hrs without running any unnecessary apps whatsoever. And Verizon has the audacity to say, “…this is the last time we will be exchanging your phones.”
I had a Droid one n didn’t have this prob I now have a Droid 2 I setup my google account and facebook account to syncs w/ the phone the 1st prob is the facebook does not sync when people change theirpics etc it does not change on my phone nor does it give the option to sync the FB account…. 2nd is w/ my google/gmail it syncs w/ mail contacts, and colander but now picasa album as it did w/ the Droid one how do I syncs n update my FB and how do I add my picasa album under my google account
I had a Droid one n didn’t have this prob I now have a Droid 2 I setup my google account and facebook account to syncs w/ the phone the 1st prob is the facebook does not sync when people change theirpics etc it does not change on my phone nor does it give the option to sync the FB account…. 2nd is w/ my google/gmail it syncs w/ mail contacts, and colander but now picasa album as it did w/ the Droid one how do I syncs n update my FB and how do I add my picasa album under my google account