Android Phones For Dummies PDF
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™ ® Android Phones For Dummies Visit www.dummies.com/cheatsheet/androidphones to view this book's cheat sheet. Table of Contents Introduction About This Book How to Use This Book Foolish Assumptions How This Book Is Organized Part I: Have a Little Android Part II: The Phone Part Part III: Mobile Communications Part IV: Amazing Android 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: Have a Little Android 1: That Phone You Own ration and Setup Phone Assembly Opening the phone Installing the battery Removing the battery Installing the SIM card Installing the MicroSD card Closing the phone Charge the Battery Generic Android Phone Orientation Recognizing things on your phone Using earphones Adding accessories A Home for Your Phone Toting your Android phone Storing the phone 2: Setup and Configuration Hello, Phone Turning on your phone for the first time Turning on the phone Waking the phone Google Account Setup Creating a Google account Setting up a Google account on your phone Goodbye, Phone Snoozing the phone Controlling snooze options Hibernating the phone Turning off the phone 3: The Android Tour c Operations Using the soft buttons Manipulating the touchscreen Setting the volume “Silence your phone!” Changing the orientation Behold the Home Screen Looking at the Home screen Viewing all Home screen panels Using the Car Home Home Screen Operations Reviewing notifications Starting an app Using a widget The App Menu Starting an app from the Apps screen Reviewing recently used apps 4: Text to Type,Text to Edit Keyboard Mania Displaying the onscreen keyboard Choosing other keyboard variations Using the built-in keyboard The Hunt-and-Peck Typing on your phone Accessing special characters Choosing a word as you type Text Editing Moving the cursor Selecting text Cutting, copying, and pasting text Voice Input Dictating to your phone Controlling the phone with your voice Uttering f*** words Part II: The Phone Part 5: It’s a Telephone Reach Out and Touch Someone Making a phone call Dialing a contact Phoning someone you call often It’s the Phone! Receiving a call Setting incoming call volume Who Called Who When? Dealing with a missed call Reviewing recent calls 6: More Telephone Things Speed Dial Multiple Call Mania Putting someone on hold Receiving a new call when you’re on the phone Juggling two calls Making a conference call Send a Call Elsewhere Forwarding phone calls Sending a contact directly to voice mail Fun with Ringtones Choosing the phone’s ringtone Setting a contact’s ringtone Using music as a ringtone Creating your own ringtones 7: Leave Your Message at the Tone Boring Carrier Voice Mail Setting up carrier voice mail Retrieving your messages The Wonders of Google Voice Configuring Google Voice Adding your phone to Google Voice Getting your Google Voice messages 8: The Address Book People You Know Accessing the address book Viewing a contact’s information Sorting the address book Searching contacts Making New Friends Adding a contact from the call log Creating a new contact from scratch Importing contacts from your computer Building up contacts from your social networking sites Finding a new contact using its location Address Book Management Making basic changes Adding a picture to a contact Making a favorite Removing a contact Part III: Mobile Communications 9: When Your Thumbs Speak 4U Composing a new text message to a contact Sending a text message to a phone number 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 10: E-Mail This and That E-Mail on Your Android Phone Setting up a web-based e-mail account Setting up an ISP e-mail account You’ve Got Mail Getting a new message Checking the inbox Visiting the universal inbox Reading an e-mail message Make Your Own E-Mail Composing a new electronic message Sending a new message to a contact Message Attachments E-Mail Configuration Creating a signature Configuring the manual delete option 11: Out on the Web Behold the Web Surfing the web on your phone Visiting a web page Browsing back and forth Using bookmarks Managing multiple web page windows Searching the web 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 12: Social Networking Your Android Phone Gets Social Setting up social networking Adding social networking accounts Your Digital Social Life
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