Android Smartphones For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/tech))

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by  Jerome DiMarzio

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Android
Smartphones
by J.F. DiMarzio
Android® Smartphones For Dummies®
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Contents at a Glance
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Part 1: The Unboxing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
CHAPTER 1: Introducing All Things Android . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
CHAPTER 2: Checking Out and Charging What’s in the Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
CHAPTER 3: Deciding on Carrier Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
CHAPTER 4: Setting Up Your Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
CHAPTER 5: Tapping and Swiping Your Way around the Phone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Part 2: The Grand Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53
CHAPTER 6: Unlocking the Secrets of the Screens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
CHAPTER 7: G-Whiz: The Google Experience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67
CHAPTER 8: Investigating Apps for Everything . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
CHAPTER 9: Finding Widgets for Your Gadget . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
CHAPTER 10: Enjoying Quick Access Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
CHAPTER 11: Staying in the Know with Notifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
CHAPTER 12: Customizing Your Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 .35
Part 3: Communicating Anytime, Anywhere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
CHAPTER 13: Texting to Keep in Touch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
CHAPTER 14: Using the Phone as a . . . Phone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
CHAPTER 15: Browsing the Internet and Maintaining Your Privacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
CHAPTER 16: Keeping It Social . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
CHAPTER 17: Smile! Using the Camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Part 4: Personalizing Just the Way You Like It . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
CHAPTER 18: Customizing Your Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
CHAPTER 19: Saying ‘Hey’ to Google . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Part 5: The Part of Tens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
CHAPTER 20: Ten Cool Tips and Tricks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
CHAPTER 21: Ten Settings to Enable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
CHAPTER 22: Ten Settings to Disable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 .59
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
About This Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Foolish Assumptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Icons Used in This Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Beyond the Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Where to Go from Here . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
PART 1: THE UNBOXING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
CHAPTER 1: Introducing All Things Android . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
What Are Android Devices? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Samsung . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Google Pixel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Other hot brands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Looking at the Different Flavors of Android . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Samsung’s version of Android . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Google Pixel’s ‘pure Android’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Transitioning from an iPhone to an Android: It’s Possible! . . . . . . . . . . 10
CHAPTER 2: Checking Out and Charging What’s in the Box . . . . . 11
Your Contents May Vary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Hello, handset! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
You’re not doing anything without the power cord . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Accessories may be included, but maybe not . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
What Should You Keep (and What You Can Discard) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Installing the SIM Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
A Quick Tour of Your Device’s Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Not all Android smartphones look the same . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Sometimes the differences are in the inside . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Keeping Your Device Charged and Current . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Caring for Your Smartphone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Cleaning your device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Storing your device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
CHAPTER 3: Deciding on Carrier Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25
What Are Locked and Unlocked Smartphones? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Big Box Carriers: No, They Aren’t Used for Moving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Checking Out Alternative Carriers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
What Can You Do Without Service? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
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CHAPTER 4: Setting Up Your Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Activating Your Phone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Parlez-Vous Français? Android Is Multilingual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Customizing Your Vision Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Accessing Wi-Fi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Adding a Gmail Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Setting Up Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
How About a Couple of Extras? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Setting Up Multiple Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Tapping and Swiping Your Way around
CHAPTER 5:
the Phone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Starting with Standard Navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
The touch interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
The tap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
The double tap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
The hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Swiping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Searching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Moving on to Advanced Navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Using gestures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Pinch to zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Waving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
PART 2: THE GRAND TOUR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
CHAPTER 6: Unlocking the Secrets of the Screens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
The Lock Screen versus the Home Screen(s) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
What you can do on the lock screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
What you can do on the home screen(s) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Securing Access to the Phone with the Lock Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Changing your password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Setting up facial recognition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
CHAPTER 7: G-Whiz: The Google Experience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Keeping Tabs on Your Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Clock/Alarm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Emailing and Sending Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Gmail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Capturing Special Moments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
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Figuring Out the Functional Side of Google . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Chrome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
GPay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .86
CHAPTER 8: Investigating Apps for Everything . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Exploring the Preinstalled Apps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
The apps on every new Android phone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Carrier-installed apps and why you can’t remove them . . . . . . . . . 94
Installing New Apps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Finding the perfect app for what you need . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Interpreting Google Play listings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Choosing an install location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Viewing App Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Moving and Organizing Apps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Moving apps to your home screen(s) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100
Creating app folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Adding more home screens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .102
Sideloading Apps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
The dangers of sideloading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
How to find legitimate apps outside of the Play Store . . . . . . . . . .103
CHAPTER 9: Finding Widgets for Your Gadget . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
What Is a Widget? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Selecting, Placing, and Sizing Widgets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Removing Widgets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
CHAPTER 10: Enjoying Quick Access Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Settings That Help You Use Your Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Adjusting the backlight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Setting the auto-rotation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Accessing the flashlight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Settings That Help You Use Other Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Turning Wi-Fi on or off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Using Bluetooth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Setting up a mobile hotspot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .118
Sharing content with ScreenCast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Settings That Help Apps Help You . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Paying with GPay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .121
Turning on Location Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .122
Putting your phone into airplane mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Editing the Quick Access Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
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CHAPTER 11: Staying in the Know with Notifications . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Receiving Notifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .125
Using the Notification Drawer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Swiping for More Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Configuring Notifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Setting Do Not Disturb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
CHAPTER 12: Customizing Your Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Resting Your Eyes with Night Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Where Did My Memory Go? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .138
The Storage setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Clear Storage and Clear Cache buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Free Up Space button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Developer options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Keeping Your Life in Balance with Digital Wellbeing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
App timer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Focus mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Bedtime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .147
Understanding the Volume Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Locating the volume buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
It’s all about context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Sometimes you need to be quiet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
PART 3: COMMUNICATING ANYTIME, ANYWHERE . . . . . . . 153
CHAPTER 13: Texting to Keep in Touch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Exploring Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Tap, Tap, Typing and Other Ways to Enter Your Message . . . . . . . . . .157
Using the keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .157
Swipe typing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .162
Voice-to-text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Copying, Pasting, and Deleting Texts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Group Texting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Using Third-Party Texting Apps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
CHAPTER 14: Using the Phone as a . . . Phone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Seeing Who’s Who in Your Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Entering contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Viewing contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Setting up favorites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .173
Making Contact with Your Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Calling a contact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .174
Calling without a contact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
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