Android Phones For Dummies PDF
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Table of Contents Introduction About This Book How to Use This Book Foolish Assumptions How This Book Is Organized Part I: Your Own Android Part II: The Phone Part Part III: Stay Connected Part IV: Amazing Phone Feats Part V: Nuts and Bolts Part VI: The Part of Tens Icons Used in This Book Where to Go from Here Part I: Your Own Android Chapter 1: Have a Little Android Liberation and Setup Phone Assembly Opening the phone Installing the battery Removing the battery Installing the SIM card Understanding the microSD card Installing the microSD card Removing the microSD card Closing the phone Charge the Battery Android Phone Orientation Finding things on your phone Using earphones Adding accessories A Home for Your Phone Toting your Android phone Storing the phone Chapter 2: Initial Android Duties Hello, Phone Turning on your phone for the first time Turning on the phone Unlocking the phone Unlocking and running an app Account Setup Obtaining a Google account Adding accounts to your phone Goodbye, Phone Locking the phone Controlling the lock timeout Turning off the phone Chapter 3: The Android Tour Basic Operations Manipulating the touchscreen Exploring the navigation icons Setting the volume “Silence your phone!” Changing the orientation Home Screen Chores Exploring the Home screen Accessing multiple Home screens Reviewing notifications Accessing quick actions Using the Car Home screen The World of Apps Starting an app Quitting an app Finding an app in the apps drawer Switching apps Understanding Android apps Using common icons Chapter 4: Text to Type, Text to Edit Keyboard Mania Accessing the onscreen keyboard Working the built-in keyboard Choosing another keyboard The Ol’ Hunt-and-Peck Typing one character at a time Accessing special characters Typing quickly by using predictive text Adding gesture typing Google Voice Typing Activating voice input Dictating text Uttering s**** words Text Editing Moving the cursor Selecting text Cutting, copying, and pasting text Part II: The Phone Part Chapter 5: It’s a Telephone Reach Out and Touch Someone Making a phone call Dialing a contact Calling a favorite It’s the Phone! Receiving a call Dispensing with an incoming call Rejecting a call with a text message Dealing with a missed call Who Called Who When? Chapter 6: More Telephone Things Super Dialing Tricks Assigning numbers to speed dial Adding pauses when dialing a number Multiple Call Mania Putting someone on hold Receiving a new call when you’re on the phone Juggling two calls Making a conference call Forward Calls Elsewhere Forwarding phone calls Sending a contact directly to voicemail Fun with Ringtones Choosing the phone’s ringtone Setting a contact’s ringtone Chapter 7: Leave Your Message at the Tone Boring Carrier Voicemail Setting up carrier voicemail Retrieving your messages The Wonders of Google Voice Configuring Google Voice Adding a second line to Google Voice Using the Google Voice app Part III: Stay Connected Chapter 8: The Address Book The People You Know Accessing the address book Sorting the address book Searching contacts Make New Friends Adding a contact from the call log Creating a new contact from scratch Importing contacts from your computer Bringing in social networking contacts Building a new contact from a location Address Book Management Making basic changes Adding a contact picture Making a favorite Joining identical contacts Separating contacts Removing a contact Chapter 9: Text Messaging Mania Msg 4U Choosing a texting app Composing a text message Receiving a text message Forwarding a text message Multimedia Messages Attaching media to a text message Receiving a multimedia message Text Message Management Removing messages Setting the text message ringtone Chapter 10: E-Mail This and That E-Mail on Your Android Phone Setting up an Email account Adding more e-mail accounts You’ve Got Mail Getting a new message Checking the inbox Reading e-mail Make Your Own E-Mail Writing a new electronic message Sending e-mail to a contact Message Attachments Dealing with an attachment Sending an attachment E-Mail Configuration Creating a signature Configuring the server delete option Chapter 11: Out on the Web Behold the Web Using the web browser app Surfing the web on your phone Visiting a web page Browsing back and forth Working with bookmarks Managing multiple web pages in tabs Searching the web Finding text on a web page Sharing a web page The Perils and Joys of Downloading Grabbing an image from a web page Downloading a file Reviewing your downloads Web Controls and Settings Setting a home page Changing the way the web looks Setting privacy and security options Chapter 12: Your Digital Social Life In Your Facebook Setting up your Facebook account Getting the Facebook app Running Facebook on your phone Setting your status Uploading a picture to Facebook Configuring the Facebook app Tweet Suite Setting up Twitter Tweeting Even More Social Networking Chapter 13: Text, Voice, and Video Chat Let’s Hang Out Using Hangouts Typing at your friends Talking and video chat Skype the World Getting Skype Chatting with another Skype user Seeing on Skype (video call) Part IV: Amazing Phone Feats Chapter 14: There’s a Map for That Basic Map Using the Maps app Adding layers It Knows Where You Are Finding out where you are Helping others find your location Find Things Looking for a specific address Finding a business, restaurant, or point of interest Searching for favorite or recent places Locating a contact
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