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Remove the back cover. Refer to "Removing the back cover."

3 Locate the SIM card slot at the top of the battery compartment.

4 Insert the SIM card into the slot with its cut-off corner first and its

gold contacts facing down, and then push it in completely into the

slot.

Removing the SIM card

2 If the battery is installed, remove the battery. Refer to "Removing

Remove the back cover. Refer to "Removing the back cover."

3 Slide the SIM card towards the direction of the battery

compartment.

4 Slide the SIM card out from the slot using your thumb.

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If your GSM phone doesn’t have a SIM card installed, you can’t

connect to T-Mobile for voice and data services such as voice calling

and sending SMS/MMS messages. But you can connect to a Wi-Fi

network to sign into your Google Account and to use all other

features of your phone.

Storage card

Store your pictures, music, and applications in the microSD card that

came with your phone.

Inserting the storage card

2 If the battery is installed, remove the battery. Refer to "Removing

Remove the back cover. Refer to "Removing the back cover."

3 Slide down the storage card holder towards the edge of the

battery compartment, and then flip it to open.

4 Insert the storage card with its gold contacts facing the

connectors on the storage card slot, and then slide the storage

card completely into the holder.

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5 Close the storage card holder, and then slide it up to lock it in

place.

Removing the storage card

2 If the battery is installed, remove the battery. Refer to "Removing

Remove the back cover. Refer to "Removing the back cover."

3 Slide down the storage card holder towards the edge of the

battery compartment, and then flip it to open.

4 Pull out the storage card, and then close the storage card holder.

Battery

Your phone uses a rechargeable battery. Please use only original

batteries and accessories that came with your phone or

replacements that we recommend.

How long the battery can last before it needs recharging depends on

how you use your phone. Among these are the phone features and

accessories you use (for example, leaving your Bluetooth connection

always on uses more power). Long phone calls and frequent web

browsing use up much battery. Also, consider your location: poor

signal strength from your mobile network and extreme temperature

make the battery work harder.

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Inserting the battery

2 Insert the contacts side of the battery first and then gently push

the battery into place.

Removing the battery

Remove the back cover. Refer to "Removing the back cover."

2 Lift out the battery from the notch at the top of the battery

compartment.

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Charging the battery

The battery is partially charged when shipped. Before you turn on

and start using your phone, it is recommended that you charge the

battery. Some batteries perform best after several full charge/

discharge cycles.

Connect the smaller plug of the USB cable to the sync connector

on your phone.

2 Connect the other plug of the USB cable to the USB port of the

AC adapter.

3 Plug in the AC adapter to an electrical outlet to start charging the

battery.

As the battery is being charged, the notification LED shows a solid

red light when the battery is being charged. The light turns to solid

green when the phone is fully charged.

When you charge the battery while the phone is on, the charging

battery icon ( ) is displayed in the status bar of the Home screen.

After the battery has been fully charged, a full battery icon (

be displayed in the status bar of the Home screen.

) will

Important

Only the AC adapter and USB sync cable provided with your phone must

be used to charge the battery

Do not remove the battery from the phone while you are charging it using

the AC or car adapter.

As a safety precaution, the battery stops charging when it overheats.

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Turning on your phone

S Press the Power button.

Important When you turn on the phone for the first time, you will be prompted to set

up your phone. For more information on how to set up your phone for the

first time, see "Starting Android for the first time."

Entering your PIN

Your SIM card is preset with a PIN (personal identification number),

you will be prompted to enter the PIN to proceed. Enter the SIM PIN,

then tap OK.

To learn how to enable or disable the SIM PIN, see “Location &

security settings” on page 323.

Important If you enter the wrong PIN three times, the SIM card is blocked. If this hap-

pens, you can unblock it with the PUK (PIN Unblocking Key) obtained from

T-Mobile.

Turning off your phone

If you do not need to use your phone, you can turn the power off to

save battery life.

If the display is off, press the Power button to turn the display

back on.

2 Unlock your phone if the Lock screen is displayed. See “To wake

up the phone” on page 30 to learn how to unlock the screen.

3 Press and hold the Power button for a few seconds.

4 When the Phone options options menu appears, tap Power off.

5 Tap OK when prompted to turn off the phone.

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Starting Android for the first time

The first time you power on your phone (after setting it up, as

described in the previous section), you’re introduced to the latest

features of your phone. Touch Next to proceed.

Your Google Account

You must sign into a Google Account to use Gmail, Google Talk,

Google Calendar, and other Google Apps; to download applications

from Android Market; to back up your settings to Google servers; and

to take advantage of other Google services on your phone.

If you don’t sign into a Google Account during setup, you are

prompted to sign in or to create a Google Account the first time you

start an application that requires one, such as Gmail or Android

Market.

Important If you want to restore your settings to this phone from another phone that

was running Android release 2.0 or later, you must sign into your Google

Account now, during setup. If you wait until after setup is complete, your set-

tings are not restored.

If you don’t have a Google Account, touch Google Account in the

Customize your phone screen, and then tap Next > Sign in.

Touch to open the onscreen

keyboard, to enter your Google

Account username.

Touch to enter your password.

When you’re finished, press the

phone’s Back button to close

the onscreen keyboard, so you

can touch the Sign in button at

the bottom of the screen.

When you sign in, you’re prompted to enter your username and

password, using the onscreen keyboard.

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For information about navigating the touchscreen and entering text,

see “Using the touchscreen” on page 35 and “Using the onscreen

keyboard” on page 44.

If you have an enterprise Gmail account through your company or

other organization, your IT department may have special instructions

on how to sign into that account.

When you sign in, your contacts, Gmail messages, Calendar events,

and other information from these applications and services on the

web are synchronized with your phone.

If you have a Google Account but have forgotten your password, you

must reset it before you can sign in. On your computer, go to http://

www.google.com, click Sign In, click “Can’t access your account?” in

the sign-in box, and then follow the instructions for resetting your

password.

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Customizing your phone

After setting up your Google Account, you can touch Finish setup or

press Back to return to the Customize your phone screen and set

up Google Voice, Quick Keys, or add a POP3/IMAP email account.

Touch Next when you’re done setting these up.

You can then choose whether to take advantage of Google’s location

service, which provides applications with your approximate location

without using GPS, and whether to use your location for Google

search results and other Google services. For information about

changing these settings later, see “Location & security settings” on

page 323 and “Privacy settings” on page 324. Touch Next to proceed.

Touch any of the options and then touch Home to display the Home

screen. You can set these settings and applications later by touching

Setup on the Launcher screen.

Additional accounts and settings

After setup, you can add Google, Facebook, conventional email, and

other kinds of accounts to your phone, and sync some or all of their

data, as described in “Accounts” on page 112. However, only the first

Google Account you sign into is backed up to Google servers. Some

applications that only work with a single account display data only

from the first account that you sign into.

You can choose to back up some of your data, such as your

bookmarks, your user dictionary, your Wi-Fi passwords, and many

other settings, to your Google Account, on Google servers. Some

third-party applications may also take advantage of this feature. That

way, when you need to replace your phone (when you upgrade or

replace a lost phone), your data and settings are restored to your

new phone when you first sign in. For information about changing

this setting later, see “Privacy settings” on page 324.

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Getting to know the Home screen

After setting up Android for the first time, the Home screen opens.

The Home screen is your starting point to access all the features on

your phone. It displays application icons, widgets, shortcuts, and

other features. You can customize the Home screen with different

wallpaper and display the items you want. See “Connecting quickly

with your contacts” on page 62.

The Status bar shows the time,

signal strength, battery status,

and other information. It also

displays notification icons.

Widgets are applications

that you can use directly

on the Home screen.

Touch items on the Home screen to

open them. Touch & hold an empty

spot to add a shortcut to an

application, a widget, and so on.

Touch the Launcher icon to

open the Launcher and view

all your applications.

At the top of the screen, the Status bar displays the time, information

about the status of your phone, and icons for notifications that

you’ve received. To learn more, see “Monitoring your phone’s status”

on page 38 and “Managing notifications” on page 40.

Touch the Launcher icon at the bottom of the screen to view all

installed applications. See “Opening and switching applications” on

page 51.

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To wake up the phone

If you don’t use the phone for a while, the Home screen or other

screen you are viewing, is replaced with the lock screen and then the

screen darkens, to conserve the battery.

Press the Power button.

If you’ve locked your screen, you must draw an unlock pattern or

enter a PIN or password to unlock it. See “Locking your phone” on

page 61.

If you haven’t locked your screen, this lock screen appears.

2 Drag the lock icon to the right.

The last screen you were working on opens.

To return to the Home screen

S Press the Home

button at any time, in any application.

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To view other parts of the Home screen

S Slide your finger left or right across the Home screen.

The six extensions to the Home screen provide more space for

widgets, shortcuts, and other items. For more on sliding, see

“Using the touchscreen” on page 35.

Small dots at the lower left and right indicate which screen you’re

viewing.

S Touch & hold the small dots on the lower left or right of the screen

to view thumbnails of the Home screen and its extensions, which

you can touch to open.

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Customizing the Home screen

You can add application icons, shortcuts, widgets, and other items to

any part of the Home screen. You can also change the wallpaper.

For an introduction to the Home screen, see “Getting to know the

Home screen” on page 29.

To add an item to the Home screen

Open the Home screen where you want to add the item.

For an introduction to working with the Home screen, including

how to switch Home screens, see “Getting to know the Home

screen” on page 29.

2 Press Menu and touch Add.

Or just touch & hold an empty location on the Home screen.

If there are no empty spots on the Home screen, Add is dimmed;

you must delete or move an item before you can add another

item, or switch to another Home screen.

3 In the menu that opens, touch the type of item to add.

You can add the following types of items to the Home screen.

Shortcuts

Add shortcuts to applications, a bookmarked webpage, a favorite

contact, a destination in Maps, a Gmail label, a music playlist, and

many other items. The shortcuts available depend on the

applications you have installed.

Widgets

Add any of a variety of miniature applications (widgets) to your

Home screen, including a clock, a music player, a picture frame, the

Google search bar, a power manager, a calendar that shows

upcoming appointments, and a News & Weather widget. You can

also download widgets from Android Market.

Folders

Add a folder where you can organize Home screen items, or folders

that contain all your contacts, contacts with phone numbers, or

starred contacts. Your folders’ contents are kept up to date

automatically.

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To move an item on the Home screen

Touch & hold the item you want to move, until it vibrates.

Don’t lift your finger.

2 Drag the item to a new location on the screen.

Pause at the edge of the screen to drag the item onto another

Home screen pane.

3 When the item is where you want it, lift your finger.

To remove an item from the Home screen

Touch & hold the item you want to remove, until it vibrates.

Don’t lift your finger.

The Launcher icon changes to a Trash Can icon.

2 Drag the item to the Trash Can icon.

3 When the icon turns red, lift your finger.

To change the Home screen wallpaper

Press Menu and touch Wallpaper.

You can also touch & hold an empty area of the Home screen and

in the menu that opens, touch Wallpapers.

2 Touch Gallery, Live wallpaper, or Wallpapers.

Touch Gallery to use a picture that you have captured using the

camera or copied to your phone as a wallpaper. You can crop the

picture before setting it as a wallpaper. Working with pictures is

described in “Gallery” on page 253.

Touch Live wallpaper to open a scrolling list of animated

wallpapers installed on your phone. Some live wallpapers change

according to the time of day, in response to touching the screen,

tell the time, or offer other information. Some live wallpapers have

a Settings button.

Touch Wallpapers to open a screen where you can sample the

wallpaper images that come with the phone. Slide the miniature

images left and right to view the samples. Touch a sample to view

a larger version.

3 Touch Save or Set wallpaper.

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To rename a folder

Touch the folder to open it.

2 Touch & hold the folder window’s title bar.

3 Enter a new name in the dialog that appears.

4 Touch OK.

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Using the touchscreen

The main way to control Android features is by using your finger to

manipulate icons, buttons, menu items, the onscreen keyboard, and

other items on the touchscreen. You can also change the screen’s

orientation.

Touch

To act on items on the screen, such as application and settings icons,

to type letters and symbols using the onscreen keyboard, or to press

onscreen buttons, you simply touch them with your finger.

Touch & hold

Touch & hold an item on the screen by touching it and not lifting your

finger until an action occurs. For example, to open a menu for

customizing the Home screen, you touch an empty area on the Home

screen until the menu opens.

Drag

Touch & hold an item for a moment and then, without lifting your

finger, move your finger on the screen until you reach the target

position. You drag items on the Home screen to reposition them, as

described in “Connecting quickly with your contacts” on page 62,

and you drag to open the Notifications panel, as described in

“Managing notifications” on page 40.

Swipe or slide

To swipe or slide, you quickly move your finger across the surface of

the screen, without pausing when you first touch it (so you don’t

drag an item instead). For example, you slide the screen up or down

to scroll a list, and in some Calendar views you swipe quickly across

the screen to change the range of time visible.

Double-tap

Tap quickly twice on a webpage, map, or other screen to zoom. For

example, you double-tap a section of a webpage in Browser to zoom

that section to fit the width of the screen. You can also double-tap to

control the Camera zoom, in Maps, and in other applications. Double-

tapping after pinching to zoom in some applications, such as

Browser, reflows a column of text to fit the width of the screen.

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Pinch

In some applications (such as Maps, Browser, and Gallery), you can

zoom in and out by placing two fingers on the screen at once and

pinching them together (to zoom out) or spreading them apart (to

zoom in).

Rotate the screen

On most screens, the orientation of the screen rotates with the

phone as you turn it from upright to its side and back again. You can

turn this feature on and off, as described in “Display settings” on

page 322.

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Using the Trackpad

Some actions are easier using the Trackpad than your finger, such as:

G Opening an event in a crowded calendar

G Selecting a link or form field on a web page

G Selecting text to edit

To use the Trackpad

S Swipe your finger over the Trackpad to select items on the screen.

S Press the Trackpad to select the item.

S Press and hold the Trackpad to open an options menu for the

selected item, if any.

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Monitoring your phone’s status

The Status bar appears at the top of every screen. It displays icons

indicating that you’ve received notifications (on the left) and icons

indicating the phone’s status (on the right), along with the current

time.

Notification icons

Status icons

If you have more notifications than can fit in the status bar, a plus

icon prompts you to open the Notifications panel to view them

all. See “Managing notifications” on page 40.

Status icons

The following icons indicate the status of your phone. To learn more

about the different kinds of mobile networks, see “Connecting to

networks and devices” on page 66.

Connected to GPRS mobile network

GPRS in use

Roaming

No signal

Connected to EDGE mobile network

EDGE in use

No SIM card installed

Vibrate mode

Connected to 3G mobile network

3G in use

Ringer is silenced

Phone microphone is mute

Battery is very low

Battery is low

Mobile network signal strength

Connected to a Wi-Fi network

Bluetooth is on

Battery is partially drained

Battery is full

Connected to a Bluetooth device

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Airplane mode

Battery is charging

GPS is on

Alarm is set

Speakerphone is on

Receiving location data from

GPS

Notification icons

The following icons indicate that you’ve received a notification. See

“Managing notifications” on page 40 for information about

responding to these notifications. In addition to these icons,

applications you install on your phone may use their own notification

icons.

New Gmail message

More notifications not displayed

Call in progress

New text or multimedia message

Problem with text or multimedia

message delivery

Call in progress using a

Bluetooth headset

New Google Talk message

New voicemail

Missed call

Call on hold

Upcoming event

Call forwarding is on

Song is playing

Data is syncing

Problem with sign-in or sync

SD card is full

Uploading data

Downloading data

Download finished

Connected to VPN

Disconnected from VPN

An open Wi-Fi network is available

Phone is connected via USB cable

Application update available

New Google Voice mail or text

message

Carrier data use threshold

approaching or exceeded

System update available

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Managing notifications

Notification icons report the arrival of new messages, calendar

events, and alarms, as well as ongoing events, such as when call

forwarding is on or the current call status.

When you receive a notification, its icon appears in the Status bar,

along with a summary that appears only briefly. For a table of

notification icons, see “Notification icons” on page 39.

Depending on your settings, you may also hear a notification sound,

the phone may vibrate, and the LED may blink. These settings and

adjusting sound volume and other general notifications settings is

described in “Sound settings” on page 320.

You can open the Notifications panel to view a list of all your

notifications.

Applications whose activities produce notifications, such as Gmail

and Google Talk, have their own settings, which you can use to

configure whether and how they send notifications, whether they

sound a ringtone, vibrate, and so on. See the sections on those

applications for details.

To open the Notifications panel

S Drag the Status bar down from the top of the screen.

On the Home screen, you can also press Menu and touch

Notifications.

The Notifications panel displays your wireless provider and a list of

your current notifications. Notifications about ongoing activities

are listed first, followed by Notifications about events, such as new

mail notifications or Calendar reminders.

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Touch a notification to open it in

its application.

To respond to a notification

Open the Notifications panel.

Your current notifications are listed in the panel, each with a brief

description.

2 Touch a notification to respond to it.

The Notifications panel closes. What happens next depends on

the notification. For example, new voicemail notifications dial your

voicemail box, and network disconnect notifications open the list

of configured networks so you can reconnect.

To clear all notifications

Open the Notifications panel.

2 Touch Clear at the top right of the panel.

All event-based notifications are cleared; ongoing notifications

remain in the list.

To close the Notifications panel

S Drag the tab at the bottom of the Notifications panel to the top of

the screen. Or just press the Back button.

The panel also closes when you touch a notification to respond to

it.

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Entering text

Using the hardware QWERTY

Hold your phone sideways, with the control buttons on the right, and

then push the display up to reveal the hardware QWERTY. When you

open the hardware QWERTY your display will always be in landscape

and you will not be able to use the onscreen keyboard.

Warning! The ribbon (flexible printed circuit) above the top left keys of the hardware

QWERTY is sensitive. Please don’t touch it.

Menu key

Instead of pressing the Menu button, press this key to open the avail-

able menu options for the current screen.

ALT key

• Press once to type the character shown in color on some of the

keys. For example, if you need to type the dollar sign ($), press the

ALT key and then press the D key (ALT, D).

• Press twice to lock the ALT key and type a series of characters. The

cursor shape changes while the key is locked:

ALT key by pressing it once again.

. Unlock the

Shift key

• Press once and then press a letter key to type that letter in upper-

case. On number or symbol keys, pressing the Shift key causes the

special character to appear.

• Lock the Shift key to type a series of characters by pressing Shift

twice. The cursor shape changes while the key is locked:

Unlock the Shift key by pressing it once again.

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Quick keys

These are keys that let you quickly open applications, access phone

settings, and other items such as bookmarks. To know how to use

the Quick keys, see "Using the Quick keys."

Press to open the search box and type anything you want to search.

Press the Enter key to begin the search.

Using the Quick keys

Assigning the Quick keys

You can assign the Quick keys to open an application, a phone

setting, or an item on your phone.

Press Home , press Menu, then touch Settings > Quick keys.

2 Touch the Quick key (left, middle, or right) you want, and then do

any of the following:

G Touch an item on the list (such as Direct dial or Music playlist)

and then follow the screen instructions.

G Scroll up the screen, touch Application or Settings, and then

touch the application or setting that you want to open every

time you press the selected Quick key.

3 Open the hardware QWERTY and then press any of the Quick

keys you’ve assigned. The application or item should open.

Changing the Quick key assignment

You can replace or remove the application, setting or item that

you’ve previously assigned to a Quick key.

Press Home , press Menu, then touch Settings > Quick keys.

2 Touch the Quick key that you want to change, and then tap:

Replace assignment to assign the Quick key to another applica-

tion, setting or item. See "Assigning the Quick keys."

Unassign key to remove the application, setting or item

assigned to the Quick key.

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Using the onscreen keyboard

When you close the hardware QWERTY, you can still enter text using

the onscreen keyboard. Some applications open the onscreen

keyboard automatically. In others, you touch a text field where you

want to enter text to open the onscreen keyboard.

You can also enter text by speaking instead of by typing. See “Using

your voice to enter text” on page 47.

Touch the keys to enter text.

Touch once to capitalize the

next letter you type. Touch &

hold for all caps.

To enter text

Touch a text field. The onscreen keyboard opens.

You can also use the Trackpad to select a text field and then press

the Trackpad to open the onscreen keyboard.

2 Touch the keys on the keyboard to type.

3 Touch the Delete key

to erase characters to the left of the

cursor. Tap and hold to erase a word to the left of the cursor.

4 When you’re finished typing, press Back

to close the keyboard.

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To enter numbers, symbols, and other characters

S Touch & hold a vowel or the C, N, or S key to open a small window

where you can touch an accented vowel or other alternate letter.

Touch to enter the accented

character or symbols.

Touch to close the window.

S Press the Symbols key

to switch to the numbers and symbols

keyboard.

Touch & hold a number or

symbol key to open a window

of additional symbols.

Touch to display

additional symbols.

Touch to return to

the letter keyboard.

To enter words using Swype

Instead of tapping the keys on the Swype keyboard, you can use

Swype® to type words. Swype lets you slide your finger on the

onscreen keyboard to enter words.

Touch a text field. The onscreen keyboard opens.

2 Touch the first letter of the word you want to enter, and then slide

your finger to the next letters of the word. When you have finished

sliding to all the letters, lift your finger from the screen.

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For example, if you want to type “The”, put your finger on the “T”

key, and then slide your finger to the “h” and “e” keys.

Learn more about Swype by touching & holding

If you want to change the Swype settings, press Home , press

Menu, and then touch Settings > Language & keyboard > Swype.

To change the onscreen keyboard orientation

Touch a text field. The onscreen keyboard opens.

2 Turn the phone sideways or upright.

The keyboard is redrawn to take best advantage of the new phone

orientation. Many people find the larger horizontal onscreen

keyboard easier to use.

You can control whether the screen changes orientation

automatically when you turn the phone. See “Display settings” on

page 322.

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To change the keyboard language

Touch a text field. The onscreen keyboard opens.

2 Touch & hold the Language key (for example,

if you’re using

the English language keyboard), and then tap the language that

you want to use.

Using your voice to enter text

You can use Voice Actions from Google to enter text by speaking.

Voice Actions from Google is an experimental feature that uses

Google’s speech-recognition service, so you must have a data

connection on a mobile or Wi-Fi network to use it.

To enter text by speaking

You can enter text by speaking, in most places that you can enter

text with the onscreen keyboard.

Touch a text field.

2 Touch the Microphone key

The first time you use voice input, the Voice Actions window

opens to tell you how to use voice actions to search, control, and

communicate.

3 Tap “Speak now,” and then speak what you want to enter.

Text that you enter by speaking.

You can delete it, or you can

continue entering text.

Touch to enter text by speaking.

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When you pause, what you spoke is transcribed by the speech-

recognition service and entered in the text field. You can press the

Delete key

to erase the text.

You can edit the text that you enter by typing or speaking. See

“Editing text” on page 49.

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Editing text

You can edit the text you enter in text fields and use menu

commands to cut, copy, and paste text, within or across applications.

Some applications don’t support editing some or all of the text they

display; others may offer their own way to select text you want to

work with.

To edit text

Touch the text field that contains the text to edit.

2 Use the Trackpad to move the cursor to the location where you

want to add or delete text.

The cursor is a vertical bar that indicates where text you type or

paste will be inserted.

3 Press & hold the Trackpad and then tap what you would like to do

with the text. You can select, cut, or copy text.

To select text

You select text that you want to cut or copy. Selected text is

highlighted in orange.

Touch the text field or other portion of the screen that contains

the text to select.

2 Use the Trackpad to move the cursor to the beginning or end of

the text to select.

You can also touch in the text field to move the cursor in text.

3 Press & hold the Trackpad, or touch & hold the text field.

A menu opens with options for cutting, copying, and performing

other tasks with the text field.

4 Touch Select text.

Or touch Select all to select all the text in the text field.

5 Swipe your finger over the Trackpad to select the text you want.

6 Press & hold the Trackpad again (or touch & hold the text field) to

open a menu you can use to cut or copy your selection, select all

the text, or stop selecting text.

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To cut or copy text

Select the text to cut or copy.

2 Press & hold the Trackpad, or touch & hold the selected text.

3 Touch Cut or Copy in the menu that opens.

If you touch Cut, the selected text is removed from the text field.

In either case, the text is stored in a temporary area on the phone,

so that you can paste it into another text field.

To paste text

Copy the text to paste.

2 Touch the text field where you want to paste the text.

You can paste text that you copied from one application into a

text field in any application.

3 Use the Trackpad to move the cursor to the location where you

want to paste the text.

4 Press & hold the Trackpad, or touch & hold the text field.

5 Touch Paste in the menu that opens.

The text is inserted at the cursor. The text that you pasted also

remains in a temporary area on the phone, so you can paste that

same text in another location.

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Opening and switching applications

The Launcher, which you open from the Home screen, holds icons for

all of the applications on your phone, including any applications that

you downloaded and installed from Android Market or other sources.

When you open an application, the other applications you’ve been

using don’t stop; they keep on running: playing music, rendering

webpages, and so on. You can quickly switch among your

applications, to work with several at once. The Android operating

system and applications work together to ensure that applications

you aren’t using don’t consume resources unnecessarily, stopping

and starting them as needed. For this reason, there’s no need or

facility for quitting applications.

See “Market” on page 301 to learn how to discover and install

additional applications and games on your phone.

To open and close the Launcher

S On the Home screen, touch the Launcher icon

to open it.

If you have more applications than can fit on the Launcher in one

view, you can slide the Launcher up or down to view more.

Touch an application to open it

Slide the Launcher up or down

to bring more icons into view.

Touch to close the Launcher.

You can add an application icon to the Home screen by touching

& holding it on the Launcher until it vibrates and then dragging it

to a location on the Home screen.

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S Touch the Home icon on the Launcher or the Home button

close the Launcher.

The Launcher closes automatically if you touch an icon to open its

application or if you move an icon from the Launcher to the Home

screen.

To open an application

S Touch an application's icon on the Launcher.

S Touch an application’s icon on the Home screen.

To switch to a recently used application

Press & hold the Home button

A small window opens, with icons of applications that you’ve used

recently.

2 Touch an icon to open its application.

Or press Back to return to the current application.

Touch an icon to open an

application you’ve used recently.

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Working with menus

There are two kinds of Android menus: options menus and context

menus.

Options menus

Options menus contain tools that apply to the activities of the

current screen or application, not to any specific item on the screen.

You open options menus by pressing the Menu button. Not all

screens have options menus; if you press Menu on a screen that has

no options menu, nothing happens.

Some screens have more options menu items than can fit in the main

menu; you touch More to open a menu of additional items.

Options menus contain items

that apply to the current screen

or to the application as a whole.

Touch to open more menu items.

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Context menus

Context menus contain tools that apply to a specific item on the

screen. You open a context menu by touching & holding an item on

the screen. Not all items have context menus. If you touch & hold an

item that has no context menu, nothing happens. You can also open

a context menu for an item by selecting it with the Trackpad and

then pressing the Trackpad.

When you touch

& hold some

items on a screen,

a context menu

opens.

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Searching your phone and the web

You can search for information on your phone and on the web using

Google search.

You can search the web by speaking instead of typing, by using

Voice Actions from Google (see “Searching and doing things by

voice” on page 59). You can also dial a phone number and control

your phone in other ways with the Voice Actions from Google, as

described in “Dialing by voice” on page 90.

To search your phone and the web

Press the Home button

to return to the Home screen.

2 Press the Search button

The Google search box opens.

Touch to search by voice.

Touch to change the target of

your search.

Shortcuts to previously chosen

search suggestions.

In applications such as Gmail and Contacts, the application’s own

search box opens when you press the Search button . These

search boxes are identified by the application’s own icon in the

search box. See the sections about those applications for

information about searching in them.

You can also open Google search by touching the Search widget

on the Home screen, if you have added it there. See “Connecting

quickly with your contacts” on page 62.

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Touch to search the web.

As you type, search results from

your phone, previously chosen

search results, and web search

suggestions appear. Touch a

suggestion to open it.

As you type, matching items on your phone and suggestions from

Google web search are added to the list of previously chosen

search results.

You can use the Search preferences to configure some aspects of

Google web search (for example, whether it makes suggestions

below the search box as you type), and what phone features you

want to include in searches. You can also clear the list of recently

chosen searches. See “Search settings” on page 332.

3 If what you’re searching for is in the list of suggestions, phone

search results, or previously chosen search results, touch it in the

list.

The item opens in the appropriate application, such as Contacts or

the Browser.

4 If what you’re searching for is not in the list, touch the arrow icon

in the search box to search the web.

The Browser opens, displaying results of a Google search on the

web. For more information, see “Browser” on page 203.

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To target where you want to search

Initially, the Google search box displays the All icon

that it’s configured to search both the web and to provide

, indicating

suggestions from both the web and your phone. But you can target

your searches to just the web or to just a single application’s

information on your phone.

You can configure what applications and other collections of

information you want to be able to search for on the phone; see “To

change what you can target when searching the phone” on page 58.

Press the Search button

to open Google search.

2 Touch the icon at the left of the Google search box.

A panel opens with icons for All, for Web, and for the applications

you’ve checked in the Searchable items settings (see “To change

what you can target when searching the phone” on page 58).

Touch Web to search only the

web. Or touch an application to

target your search to just that

application’s information.

If the panel of icons does not open, you pressed the

Search button

while working in an application that has its own

search feature (see the documentation for that application to

learn about searching it). To search elsewhere, return to the Home

screen and press the Search button

again.

3 Touch the icon that represents where you want to search.

You can now target your searches to just that application, by

entering text. As you type, only suggestions from that application

are displayed below the search box.

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To change what you can target when searching the phone

Many applications can make some or all of their information

searchable from the Google search box. The applications whose

information is searchable are included in searches targeted at all

information, as suggestions below the box as you type. They also

make their icons available so you can target your searches just to

their information (see “To target where you want to search” on

page 57).

You can change which applications are targetable by Google search.

From the Home screen, press Menu and touch Settings > Search >

Searchable items.

The Searchable Items screen lists the applications you can target

when searching, along with a description of information they

make searchable.

2 Check or uncheck the applications whose information you want to

be able to search.

To add a dedicated Search widget to your Home screen

You can add one or more Search widgets to your Home screen,

dedicated to searching in a particular place: just the web or a specific

application’s information on your phone. When you touch a

dedicated Search widget on your Home screen, it opens Google

search with that location targeted by default.

Touch & hold an empty location on a Home screen.

See “Getting to know the Home screen” on page 29 and

“Connecting quickly with your contacts” on page 62 for more

about your Home screens and adding widgets.

2 Touch Widgets in the Add to Home screen menu.

3 Touch Google Search in the Choose widget menu.

4 Touch the Web icon or the icon for the application you want to

dedicate the widget to targeting.

See “To target where you want to search” on page 57 and “To

change what you can target when searching the phone” on

page 58 for more about targeting searches and making

information on your phone available for searching.

The widget is added to your Home screen.

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Searching and doing things by voice

You can use Voice Actions from Google to search the web by

speaking, instead of by typing (as described in “Searching your

phone and the web” on page 55).

To search the web by voice

Press & hold the Search button

Press the Search button

and touch the Microphone icon

the Google search box.

2 Speak the words that you want to search for.

When you’re finished speaking, Google search by voice analyzes

your speech and displays the results of your search.

If Google search by voice misunderstood you, the search box

presents a list of similar-sounding search terms.

To perform other things by voice

Voice Actions from Google lets you control your phone using your

voice and complete common tasks such as calling contacts and

businesses, sending messages, browsing the web, and listening to

music.

Press & hold the Search button

Press the Search button

and touch the Microphone icon

the Google search box.

2 Speak the words that you want to do. Here are some examples of

voice actions that you can do:

G Call a contact: Say “Call,” followed by a name from your con-

tacts, followed by the kind of phone number (“mobile,” “work,”

and so on)—for example, “Call Mike LeBeau home.” If there is a

single match, the number is dialed automatically. See “Dialing

by voice” on page 90.

G Send a text message: Say "Send text to Mike Wilson, stuck in

traffic, be there soon."

G Send an email: Say "Send email to Dave Smith, subject: meeting

later, message: which restaurant?"

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G Set an alarm: Say "Set alarm for 8:30 am."

G Call a business name: Say "Call Adagio Hotel in San Francisco."

G Send a note to self: Say "Note to self remember the milk."

G Go to a website: Say "Go to wikipedia."

G Get directions to a destination: Say “Directions to,” followed by

an address, name, business name, type of business, or other

destination.

G Get spoken, turn-by-turn directions to a destination:

Say “Navigate to,” followed by an address, name, business

name, type of business, or other destination.

G View a location in Google Maps: Say “Map of,” followed by an

address, name, business name, type of business, or other loca-

tion.

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Locking your phone

You can lock your phone so that only you can unlock it to make calls,

access your data, buy applications, and so on. You may also be

required to lock your phone by a policy set by an email or other

account you add to your phone.

See “Location & security settings” on page 323 for other ways to

protect your phone and privacy.

To lock your phone

On the Home screen, press Menu and touch Settings >

Location & security.

2 Touch Set up screen lock.

If you already have a screen lock configured, touch Change screen

lock to change how you lock your screen or to turn off screen

locking.

3 Touch Pattern, PIN, or Password.

If you touch Pattern, you’re guided to create a pattern you must

draw to unlock the screen. The first time you do this, a short

tutorial about creating an unlock pattern appears. You can press

Menu and touch Help at any time for a refresher. Then you’re

prompted to draw and redraw your own pattern.

If you touch PIN or Password, you’re prompted to set a numeric

PIN or a password you must enter to unlock your screen.

The next time you turn on your phone or wake up the screen, you

must draw your unlock pattern or enter your PIN or password to

unlock the screen.

To remove the pattern, PIN, or password lock

On the Home screen, press Menu and touch Settings >

Location & security.

2 Touch Change screen lock.

3 Draw the correct lock pattern or enter the PIN or password, and

then touch None.

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Connecting quickly with your contacts

As you build up your list of contacts on your phone, you can use

Quick Contact for Android in many applications to quickly start a

chat, email, or text message, to place a call, or to locate your

contacts. Quick Contact for Android is a special icon that you can

touch to open a bubble with options for quickly initiating a

connection to that contact.

S Identify a Quick Contact icon by its frame.

Contacts that you can access with Quick Contact are displayed

differently in different applications, but usually with a picture

frame that looks like this:

S Touch a Quick Contact icon to open a bubble with icons for all the

ways you can communicate with the contact.

If there are more icons than can fit in the bubble, drag them left

and right to view them all.

Touch an icon to start

communicating with the

contact in that application.

S Touch an icon to open its application, where you can start

communicating with your contact right away.

You can also touch an icon to edit the contact’s information in

Contacts, to view the contact’s address in Google Maps, and so

on, depending on which applications and accounts are configured

on your phone.

You can add a shortcut for a contact to your Home screen, which you

can then touch to open Quick Contact for Android for that contact.

For more information about adding shortcuts to the Home screen,

see “Customizing the Home screen” on page 32.

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Optimizing battery life

You can extend your battery’s life between charges by turning off

features that you don’t need. You can also monitor how applications

and system resources consume battery power.

To extend the life of your battery

S Turn off Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, or GPS when you’re not using them via

the Settings. See “Wireless & networks” on page 314 and “Location

& security settings” on page 323. (The GPS receiver is only turned

on when you’re using an application that makes use of it.)

S Turn down screen brightness and set a shorter screen timeout.

See “Display settings” on page 322.

S If you don’t need them, turn off automatic syncing for Gmail,

Calendar, Contacts, and other applications.

See “Configuring account sync and display options” on page 116.

S Use the Power Control widget to check and control the status of

radios, the display brightness, and syncing.

Adding widgets is described in “Connecting quickly with your

contacts” on page 62.

To check the battery charge level

S On the Home screen, press Menu and touch Settings > About

phone > Status.

The battery status (charging, discharging) and level (as a

percentage of fully charged) are displayed at the top of the

screen.

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To monitor and control what uses the battery

The Battery Use screen shows which applications consume the most

battery power. You can also use it to turn off applications that you’ve

downloaded, if they are consuming too much power.

S On the Home screen, press Menu and touch Settings > About

phone > Battery use.

The Battery Use screen lists the applications that have been using

the battery, from greatest to least battery use.

The top of the screen displays the time since you were last

connected to a charger or, if you’re currently connected to one,

how long you were running on battery power before you

connected to a charger.

Then each application or service that used battery power during

that time is displayed, in order of the amount of power they used.

S Touch an application in the Battery Use screen to learn details

about its power consumption.

Different applications offer different kinds of information. Some

applications include buttons that open screens with settings to

adjust power use.

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Performing a hard/factory reset

You can return your phone to its original state, as it was when it left

the factory. This is also called a hard reset. You might want to do this

if you are giving your phone to a friend or relative and you want to

remove all your data first, or if your phone has a persistent problem

that is not solved by powering off the phone and then powering it on

again.

A factory reset is a drastic measure. It permanently erases all your

personal data and customized settings, and also removes any

programs you have installed. Make sure that you have backed up the

information and files you want to keep.

Important If your phone hangs or freezes, we recommend that you do a “soft” reset

instead of a hard/factory reset. To perform a soft reset, remove the battery,

wait for a few seconds, and then re-install it. After re-installing the battery,

turn on the phone.

Performing a factory reset via settings

The most convenient way to do a factory reset is via the phone settings.

Press Home, press Menu, and touch Settings.

2 Scroll down the screen, and then tap Privacy > Factory data reset.

3 On the Factory data reset screen, tap Reset phone, and then tap

Erase everything.

Performing a factory reset using phone buttons

If you cannot turn on your phone or access the phone settings, you can

still perform a factory reset by using the buttons on the phone.

With the phone turned off, press and hold the Volume Down

button, and then briefly press the Power button.

2 When the Android images appear on the screen, release the

Volume Down button.

3 Press Volume Down to select Clear Storage, and then press Power.

4 Press Volume Up to start the factory reset.

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Connecting to networks

and devices

Your phone can connect to a variety of networks and

devices, including mobile networks for voice and data

transmission, Wi-Fi data networks, and Bluetooth

devices, such as headsets. You can also connect your

phone to a computer to transfer files from your phone’s

SD card.

In this section

“Connecting to mobile networks” on page 67

“Connecting to Wi-Fi networks” on page 69

“Connecting to Bluetooth devices” on page 72

“Connecting to a computer via USB” on page 75

“Connecting to virtual private networks” on page 77

“Working with secure certificates” on page 79

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Connecting to mobile networks

Your phone is configured to use the T-Mobile network for voice calls

and for transmitting data. If your phone does not connect to the

network, contact T-Mobile.

Initially, your phone is configured to use the fastest mobile network

available for data. But you can configure your phone to use only a

slower 2G network for data, to extend the life of your battery

between charges. You can also configure your phone to access a

different set of networks entirely, or to behave in special ways when

roaming.

The icons in the Status bar indicate which kind of data network

you’re connected to and the voice and data network signal strength.

Connected to the fastest 3G networks (UMTS or HSDPA)

Connected to the second-fastest network (EDGE)

Connected to a 2G network (GPRS)

The more bars are lit, the stronger the wireless signal

Connected to a T-Mobile partner network (roaming)

When you’re connected to slower networks, you may want to

postpone using your phone for data-intensive tasks until you are

connected to a faster network again, or find a Wi-Fi network to

connect to. See “Connecting to Wi-Fi networks” on page 69.

To know what network you’re using

Press Home , press Menu, and touch Settings.

2 Touch Wireless & networks > Mobile networks > Access Point

Names.

The name of the wireless service provider you’re currently

registered with is selected in the list.

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To disable data when roaming

You can prevent your phone from transmitting data over other

carriers’ mobile networks when you leave an area that is covered by

your carrier’s networks. This is useful for controlling expenses if your

cell plan doesn’t include data roaming.

Press Home , press Menu, and touch Settings.

2 Touch Wireless & networks > Mobile networks and uncheck

Data roaming.

With Data roaming unchecked, you can still transmit data with a

Wi-Fi connection. See “Connecting to Wi-Fi networks” on

page 69.

To limit your data connection to 2G networks

You can extend your battery life by limiting your data connections to

2G networks (GPRS or EDGE). When you are connected to a 2G

network, you may want to postpone activities that transmit a lot of

data, such as sending, uploading, or downloading pictures or video,

until you are connected to a faster mobile or other wireless network.

Press Home , press Menu, and touch Settings.

2 Touch Wireless & networks > Mobile networks and check

Use only 2G networks.

To edit or create a new access point

If T-Mobile needs to change the settings of your current access point

name (APN) or if you need to create a new one, you must obtain the

APN and detailed settings from T-Mobile.

Press Home , press Menu, and touch Settings.

2 Touch Wireless & networks > Mobile networks >

Access Point Names.

3 Touch an existing APN to edit it. Or press Menu and touch

New APN.

Enter the APN settings that you obtained from your wireless

service provider by touching each setting that you need to edit.

4 When you’re finished, press Menu, and touch Save.

5 If you’ve created a new APN, touch it in the APNs screen to

connect to it.

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Connecting to Wi-Fi networks

Wi-Fi is a wireless networking technology that can provide Internet

access at distances of up to 100 meters, depending on the Wi-Fi

router and your surroundings.

To use Wi-Fi on your phone, you access a wireless access point, or

“hotspot.” Some hotspots are open and you can simply connect to

them. Others are hidden or implement other security features, so you

must configure your phone so it can connect to them.

There are numerous systems for securing Wi-Fi connections,

including some that rely on secure certificates or other schemes to

ensure that only authorized users can connect. For information about

installing secure certificates, see “Working with secure certificates”

on page 79.

Turn off Wi-Fi when you’re not using it, to extend the life of your

battery.

The Status bar displays icons that indicate Wi-Fi status.

Connected to a Wi-Fi network (bars indicate connection strength)

Notification that an open Wi-Fi network is in range

To turn Wi-Fi on and connect to a Wi-Fi network

If you’re adding a Wi-Fi network when setting up your phone for the

first time, Wi-Fi is turned on automatically, so you can skip to step 4.

Press Home , press Menu, and touch Settings.

2 Touch Wireless & networks > Wi-Fi settings.

3 Check Wi-Fi to turn it on.

The phone scans for available Wi-Fi networks and displays the

names of those it finds. Secured networks are indicated with a

Lock icon.

If the phone finds a network that you connected to previously, it

connects to it.

4 Touch a network to connect to it.

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5 If the network is open, you are prompted to confirm that you want

to connect to that network by touching Connect.

If the network is secured, you’re prompted to enter a password or

other credentials. (Ask your network administrator for details.)

6 When you’re connected to a network, you can touch its name in

the Wi-Fi settings screen for details about the speed, security,

address, and related settings.

When you connect to a Wi-Fi network, the phone obtains a network

address and other information it needs from the network, using the

DHCP protocol. To configure the phone with a fixed IP address and

other advanced settings, press Menu and touch Advanced. See

“Advanced Wi-Fi settings screen” on page 315.

To receive notifications when open networks are in range

By default, when Wi-Fi is on, you receive notifications in the Status

bar when your phone detects an open Wi-Fi network.

Turn on Wi-Fi, if it’s off.

2 In the Wi-Fi settings screen, check Network notification.

You can uncheck this option to stop receiving notifications.

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To add a Wi-Fi network

You can add a Wi-Fi network so the phone will remember it, along

with any security credentials, and connect to it automatically when it

is in range. You must also add a Wi-Fi network to connect to it, if it

does not broadcast its name (SSID), or to add a Wi-Fi network when

you are out of range of it.

To join a secured network, you need to contact the network’s

administrator to learn what security scheme is deployed on it and to

obtain the password or other required security credentials. For more

information about installing secure certificates, see “Working with

secure certificates” on page 79.

Turn on Wi-Fi, if it’s off.

If you’re adding a Wi-Fi network when first setting up your phone,

Wi-Fi is turned on automatically.

2 In the Wi-Fi settings screen, touch Add Wi-Fi network (at the

bottom of the list of discovered networks).

3 Enter the SSID (name) of the network. If the network is secured,

touch the Security menu and then touch the type of security

deployed on the network.

4 Enter any required security credentials.

5 Touch Save.

The phone connects to the wireless network. Any credentials that

you entered are saved, so you are connected automatically the

next time you come within range of this network.

To forget a Wi-Fi network

You can make the phone forget about the details of a Wi-Fi network

that you added— for example, if you don’t want the phone to

connect to it automatically or if it is a network that you no longer use.

Turn on Wi-Fi, if it’s off.

2 In the Wi-Fi settings screen, touch & hold the name of the

network.

3 Touch Forget network in the dialog that opens.

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Connecting to Bluetooth devices

Bluetooth is a short-range wireless communications technology that

devices can use to exchange information over a distance of about 8

meters. The most common Bluetooth devices are headphones for

making calls or listening to music, hands-free kits for cars, and other

portable devices, including laptops and cell phones.

There are several Bluetooth profiles that define the features and

communication standards for Bluetooth devices. For a list of the

profiles supported by your phone, check the phone specifications in

the web.

To connect to a Bluetooth device, you must turn on your phone’s

Bluetooth radio. The first time you use a new device with your phone,

you must “pair” them, so that they know how to connect securely to

each other. After that, you can simply connect to a paired device.

Turn off Bluetooth when you’re not using it, to extend the life of your

battery between charges. You may also be required to turn Bluetooth

off in some locations. Bluetooth is turned off in Airplane mode.

The Status bar displays icons that indicate Bluetooth status.

Bluetooth is on

Connected to a Bluetooth device

To turn Bluetooth on or off

Press Home , press Menu, and touch Settings.

2 Touch Wireless & networks.

3 Check or uncheck Bluetooth to turn it on or off.

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To change your phone’s Bluetooth name

Your phone has a generic Bluetooth name by default, which is visible

to other devices when you connect them. You can change the name

so that it is more recognizable.

Press Home , press Menu, and touch Settings.

2 Touch Wireless & networks > Bluetooth settings.

The Bluetooth settings screen opens.

3 If Bluetooth is off, check Bluetooth to turn it on.

4 Touch Bluetooth name, enter a name, and touch OK.

To pair your phone with a Bluetooth device

You must pair your phone with a device before you can connect to it.

Once you pair your phone with a device, they stay paired unless you

unpair them.

Press Home , press Menu, and touch Settings.

2 Touch Wireless & networks > Bluetooth settings.

3 If Bluetooth is off, check Bluetooth to turn it on.

Your phone scans for and displays the names of all available

Bluetooth devices in range.

4 If the device you want to pair with isn’t in the list, make it

discoverable.

See the documentation that came with your device to learn how

to make it discoverable by your phone, and for other instructions

for pairing.

5 If your phone stops scanning before you make the other device

discoverable, touch Scan for devices.

6 Touch the name of the other device in the list in Settings to pair

them.

The devices pair with each other. If you’re prompted to enter a

passcode, try entering 0000 or 1234 (the most common

passcodes), or consult the documentation that came with the

device to learn its passcode.

If the pairing is successful, your phone connects to the device.

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To connect to a Bluetooth device

Once paired, you can connect to a Bluetooth device—for example, to

switch devices or to reconnect after the phone and the device come

back into range.

Press Home , press Menu, and touch Settings.

2 Touch Wireless & networks > Bluetooth settings.

3 If Bluetooth isn’t turned on, check Bluetooth to turn it on.

4 In the list of devices, touch a paired but unconnected device in the

list.

If the device you expected isn’t displayed, touch Scan for devices.

When the phone and the device are connected, the device is

displayed as connected in the list.

To configure the Bluetooth features you want to use

Some Bluetooth devices have multiple profiles. Profiles can includes

the ability to transmit your phone conversations, to play music in

stereo, or to transfer files or other data. You can select which profiles

you want to use with your phone.

Touch & hold the device in the Bluetooth settings screen.

2 Touch Options in the menu that opens.

A screen opens with a list of the device’s profiles.

3 Check or uncheck a profile to use it or not.

4 When you’re finished, press Back

To disconnect from a Bluetooth device

Touch the device in the Bluetooth settings screen.

2 Touch OK to confirm that you want to disconnect.

To unpair a Bluetooth device

You can unpair a Bluetooth device to erase all pairing information

about it.

Touch & hold the device in the Bluetooth settings screen.

2 Touch Unpair or Disconnect & unpair in the menu that opens.

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Connecting to a computer via USB

You can connect your phone to a computer with a USB cable, to

transfer music, pictures, and other files between your phone’s SD

card and the computer.

Warning! When connecting your phone to a computer and mounting its SD

card, you must follow your computer’s instructions for connecting

and disconnecting USB devices, to avoid damaging or corrupting the

files on your SD card.

To connect your phone to a computer via USB

Use the USB cable that came with your phone to connect the

phone to a USB port on your computer.

You receive a notification that the USB is connected.

2 Open the Notifications panel and touch USB connected.

For details on working with the Notifications panel, see “Managing

SD card. See “Storage card” on page 21 for details.

3 Touch Turn on USB storage in the screen that opens to confirm

that you want to transfer files.

When the phone is connected as USB storage, the screen

indicates that USB storage is in use and you receive a notification.

Your phone’s SD card is mounted as a drive on your computer.

You can now copy files to and from the SD card. For more

information, see the documentation for your computer.

During this time, you can’t access the SD card from your phone, so

you can’t use applications that rely on the SD card, such as

Camera, Gallery, and Music. You also can’t share your phone’s data

connection with your computer via USB.

To disconnect your phone from the computer

Warning! Carefully follow your computer’s instructions to unmount the SD

card and disconnect USB devices correctly, to avoid losing informa-

tion on the card.

Unmount the SD card on your computer.

2 Open the Notifications panel and touch Turn off USB storage.

3 Touch Turn off USB storage in the screen that opens.

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To format a SD card

If you purchase a new SD card, you may need to format it before you

can use it with your phone. You can also format a SD card to erase its

contents.

Remove the previously-installed SD card, and then install the new

2 Press Home , press Menu, and touch Settings.

3 Touch SD card & phone storage.

4 Touch Unmount SD card. You can format a SD card only when it is

unmounted.

5 Touch Format SD card. On the screen that warns you that

formatting the SD card will erase its contents, touch Format SD

card.

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Connecting to virtual private networks

Virtual private networks (VPNs) allow you to connect to the

resources inside a secured local network, from outside that network.

VPNs are commonly deployed by corporations, schools, and other

institutions so that their users can access local network resources

when not on campus, or when connected to a wireless network.

There are numerous systems for securing VPN connections, including

some that rely on secure certificates or other schemes to ensure that

only authorized users can connect. For information about installing

secure certificates, see “Working with secure certificates” on page 79.

To configure VPN access from your phone, you must obtain the

details from your network administrator.

To add a VPN

Press Home , press Menu, and touch Settings.

2 Touch Wireless & networks > VPN settings.

3 Touch Add VPN.

4 Touch the type of VPN to add.

5 In the screen that opens, follow the instructions from your

network administrator to configure each component of the VPN

settings.

6 Press Menu and touch Save.

The VPN is added to the list on the VPN settings screen.

To connect to a VPN

Press Home , press Menu, and touch Settings.

2 Touch Wireless & networks > VPN settings.

3 Touch the VPN to which you want to connect.

4 In the dialog that opens, enter any requested credentials and

touch Connect.

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When you’re connected to a VPN, you receive an ongoing

notification in the Status bar. If you are disconnected, you receive

a notification that you can use to return to the VPN settings

screen so that you can reconnect to it. See “Managing

“Location & security settings” on page 323.

To disconnect from a VPN

S Open the Notifications panel and touch the ongoing notification

for the VPN connection.

To edit a VPN

Press Home , press Menu, and touch Settings.

2 Touch Wireless & networks > VPN settings.

3 Touch & hold the VPN whose settings you want to edit.

4 In the dialog that opens, touch Edit network.

5 Edit the VPN settings you want.

6 Press Menu and touch Save.

To delete a VPN

Press Home , press Menu, and touch Settings.

2 Touch Wireless & networks > VPN settings.

3 Touch & hold the VPN you want to delete.

4 In the dialog that opens, touch Delete network.

5 Touch OK in the dialog that asks you to confirm you want to delete

the VPN.

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Working with secure certificates

If your organization’s VPN or Wi-Fi networks rely on secure

certificates, you must obtain the certificates (in files that conform to

the PKCS #12 standard) and store them in your phone’s secure

credential storage, before you can configure access to those VPN or

Wi-Fi networks on your phone.

If your network administrator instructs you to download the

certificates from a website, you’re prompted to set a password for

the credential storage when you download the certificates.

For more information about working with credential storage, see

To install a secure certificate from the SD card

Copy the certificate from your computer to the root of the SD

card (that is, not in a folder).

See “Connecting to a computer via USB” on page 75 for

information about connecting your phone to a computer and

copying files to the SD card.

2 On your phone, press Home , press Menu, and touch Settings.

3 Touch Location & security.

4 Touch Install from SD card.

5 Touch the file name of the certificate to install.

Only the names of certificates that you have not already installed

on your phone are displayed.

6 If prompted, enter the certificate’s password and touch OK.

7 Enter a name for the certificate and touch OK.

If you have not already set a password for your phone’s credential

storage, you’re prompted to enter a password for it twice and

then touch OK. For more information about credential storage, see

“Location & security settings” on page 323.

You can now use the certificate that you installed when

connecting to a secure network. For security, the certificate is

deleted from the SD card.

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Placing and receiving calls

You can place a phone call by dialing a phone number.

You can also touch a number in your contacts, on web

pages, and other places. When you're on a call, you can

answer incoming calls or send them to your voicemail

box. You can even set up conference calls with several

participants.

In this section

“Placing and ending calls” on page 81

“Answering or rejecting calls” on page 84

“Working with the Call log” on page 86

“Calling your contacts” on page 88

“Listening to your voicemail” on page 89

“Dialing by voice” on page 90

“Options during a call” on page 91

“Managing multiple calls” on page 93

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Placing and ending calls

You can place calls with the Phone application. You can also place

calls when working in the Call log (see “Working with the Call log” on

page 86) or in Contacts (see “Communicating with your contacts” on

page 106).

To open Phone

S Touch the Phone icon

on the Home screen or the Phone

application icon

in the Launcher or on the Home screen.

S If you’re already working with Contacts or the Call log, touch the

Phone tab.

To place a call by dialing

Open Phone.

Touch & hold to enter +.

Touch to erase a digit. Touch &

hold to erase the entire number.

2 Touch the keys on the Phone tab to enter the phone number.

If you enter a wrong number, touch

one.

to erase digits one by

To erase the entire number, touch & hold

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To dial an international number, touch & hold the 0 key to enter the

plus ( + ) symbol. Then enter the international prefix for the

country, followed by the full phone number.

3 Touch the green phone icon

entered.

to dial the number that you

The duration of the call.

Information from Contacts

about the person you’re calling.

Touch to enter additional

numbers during your call.

You can switch applications during a call—for example, to look up

information by using the Browser. The green phone icon appears

in the Status bar while the call is underway.

Press the Volume Up / Down button to adjust the call volume.

Use the onscreen buttons to place the current call on hold, to add

a caller, and for other options, as described in “Options during a

call” on page 91.

To end a call

S Touch End

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To disable phone calls (Airplane mode)

Some locations may require you to turn off your phone’s mobile,

Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth wireless connections. You can turn off all these

wireless connections at once by placing your phone in Airplane

mode.

Press & hold the Power button

2 Touch Airplane mode.

You can also use the Settings application to turn Airplane mode

on and off and to configure other mobile and network settings.

See “Wireless & networks” on page 314.

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Answering or rejecting calls

When you receive a phone call, the Incoming Call screen opens with

the caller ID and any additional information about the caller that you

have entered in Contacts. See “Contacts” on page 95.

All incoming calls are recorded in the Call log. See “Working with the

Call log” on page 86. If you miss a call, you receive a notification. See

“Managing notifications” on page 40.

To answer a call

S Drag the green phone icon to the right.

If you were already on a call, the first call is placed on hold while

you answer the new call.

To silence the ringer before answering the call, press the Volume

Up or Volume Down button.

Drag the green phone to the

right to answer the call.

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To decline a call and divert it to voicemail

S Drag the red phone button to the left.

The caller is sent directly to your voicemail box to leave a

message.

Drag the red phone to the left to

send the caller directly to your

voicemail box.

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Working with the Call log

The Call log is a list of all the calls you’ve placed, received, or missed.

It offers a convenient way to redial a number, return a call, or add a

number to your Contacts.

To open the Call log

S Touch the Phone icon on the Home screen. Or if you have the

Phone or Contacts tab open, touch the Call log tab.

Calls are listed with the most recent at the top. Calls exchanged

sequentially with the same number are grouped. Scroll to view

earlier entries in the log.

Touch to call back

Missed call

Outgoing call

Touch to open a group of calls

exchanged sequentially with the

same number.

Incoming call

Touch & hold an entry for more

options

To dial a number in the Call log

S Touch the green phone icon

at the right of the entry.

You can also touch & hold the entry to open a menu with options

for communicating with that contact in other ways.

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To add an entry’s number to your Contacts

Touch & hold the entry.

2 Touch Add to contacts in the menu that opens.

3 In the list of contacts that opens, touch Create new contact at the

top, or scroll to find and then touch an existing contact to which

you want to add the number.

For more information about creating and editing contacts, see

“Contacts” on page 95.

To take other actions on a Call log entry

S Touch a Call log entry to open a screen where you can call the

contact again, send the contact a message, add the number to

your Contacts, and learn more about the original call.

S Touch & hold a Call log entry to open a menu where you can call

the contact, view contact information, edit the number before you

redial, and more.

To clear the Call log

S While viewing the Call log, press Menu and touch Clear call log.

You can also touch & hold an entry in the log. In the menu that

opens, touch Remove from call log to remove just that entry from

the log.

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Calling your contacts

Instead of entering the number in the Phone tab, you can touch one

of your contact’s phone numbers to dial it.

You can also quickly call a contact by using Quick Contact. See

“Connecting quickly with your contacts” on page 62.

Adding, editing, and performing other tasks with your contacts is

described in “Contacts” on page 95. If you have contacts on the web,

they’re synchronized with your phone when you first connect to your

Google Account.

To call a contact

Open your contacts.

For example, touch the Contacts icon

touch the Phone icon

in the Launcher. Or

on the Home screen and then touch the

Contacts tab.

2 Touch the contact to call.

You can search for or scroll to find a contact.

3 Touch the phone number to use to call the contact.

See “Communicating with your contacts” on page 106 for more

options.

To call a favorite contact

Touch the Phone icon

Favorites tab.

on the Home screen and then touch the

2 Touch the favorite to call.

3 Touch the phone number to use to call the contact.

The list of your favorite contacts is followed by a list of the numbers

that you call most often.

You can add and remove favorites by touching the star next to their

names, while you’re viewing information about the Contact. See

“Adding a contact to your favorites” on page 101.

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Listening to your voicemail

When you have a new voicemail message, the voicemail icon

appears in the Status bar.

If you have not set up your voicemail number, or if you need to

change it, you can do that with the Call settings. See “Call settings”

on page 318.

You can also use Google Voice to manage your voicemail and to

place calls from your phone, as described in “Google Voice” on

page 157.

To listen to your voicemail

S Open the Notifications panel and touch New voicemail.

Responding to notifications is described in “Managing

Opening Phone is described in “Placing and ending calls” on

S Open Phone and touch the voicemail icon

on the Phone tab.

page 81.

Typically, your carrier’s voicemail system guides you through the

process of listening to and managing your voicemail. The first time

you call your voicemail, it also guides you through the process of

recording greetings, setting a password, and so on.

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Dialing by voice

You can use the Voice Dialer application to place a phone call by

speaking the name of a contact or a phone number.

You can also use Voice Actions from Google to dial a number and

search for information by speaking, as described in “To perform other

things by voice” on page 59.

To place a call by speaking

Touch the Voice Dialer icon

in the Launcher.

The Voice Dialer opens, listening for your spoken instructions, and

displaying some hints for how to use it.

2 Say “Call” followed by the name of the contact to call.

Or follow one of the suggestions for dialing a number or

controlling your phone in other ways.

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Options during a call

When a call is in progress, you can put a call on hold, create a phone

conference, mute your microphone, and more. See “Managing

multiple calls” on page 93.

To place a call on hold

S Touch the Hold icon

The current call screen indicates that you have a call on hold.

A Hold icon appears in the Status bar to remind you that you

have a call on hold. From any other application, you can open the

Notifications panel and touch the entry for the call on hold to

return to the current call screen.

Take the call off hold by touching the Unhold button.

To mute the microphone during a call

S Touch Mute.

The Mute button lights up green to indicate that the microphone

is muted.

The Mute icon appears in the Status bar to remind you that the

microphone is turned off.

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When viewing the current call screen, you can unmute the

microphone by touching the Mute icon again.

The microphone is unmuted automatically when the current call

ends.

To turn the speakerphone on or off

S Touch Speaker.

The Speaker button lights up green to indicate that the

speakerphone is on.

The Speaker icon appears in the Status bar and the sound from

your call is played through the phone’s speaker.

When viewing the current call screen, you can turn the

speakerphone off by touching the Speaker icon again.

The speaker is turned off automatically when your current call

ends.

Warning! To avoid damage to your hearing, do not hold the phone against your

ear when the speakerphone is turned on.

To switch between a Bluetooth headset and the phone

When a Bluetooth headset is paired and connected to your phone,

you can conduct all calls on the headset for hands-free conversation.

S Touch the Bluetooth icon to switch from the headset to the phone

or vice versa.

When using the Bluetooth headset during a call, the current call

screen has a blue border and the Ongoing Call icon turns blue in the

Status bar.

For details about configuring the phone to use a Bluetooth headset,

see “Connecting to Bluetooth devices” on page 72.

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Managing multiple calls

If you accept a new call when you’re already on a call, you can switch

between the two callers or merge the two calls into a single

conference call. You can also set up a conference call with multiple

callers.

To switch between current calls

S Touch the Swap icon

The current call is put on hold and you join the other call.

Touch to swap calls.

The call on hold.

Touch to merge the calls into a

conference call.

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To set up a conference call

Contact T-Mobile to know whether conference calling is part of your

call plan.

Place a call to the first participant.

2 When you’re connected, touch Add call.

The first participant is put on hold and you’re prompted to dial the

second caller.

3 Place the next call, using the Phone tab, the Call log, or your

contacts.

4 When you’re connected, touch Merge calls.

The participant is added to the conference call.

You can add as many callers as your carrier supports.

During a conference call, touch Manage to drop a conference call

participant or to talk privately with one of the participants.

To end a conference call and disconnect all callers

S Touch End.

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Contacts

Contacts gives you quick and easy access to the people

you want to reach. When you first turn on your phone

and sign into your Google Account, any existing Google

contacts are downloaded to your phone. After that,

changes to your contacts are synchronized. Information

about your contacts is shared with other applications,

such a Gmail, Google Talk, Messaging, Gallery (for sharing

photos and videos), and so on.

If you have more than one account with contact

information, Contacts merges duplicate contacts into a

single entry. You can also manage that process manually.

In this section

“Opening your contacts” on page 96

“Adding contacts” on page 98

“Importing, exporting, and sharing contacts” on page 99

“Adding a contact to your favorites” on page 101

“Searching for a contact” on page 102

“Editing contact details” on page 103

“Communicating with your contacts” on page 106

“Changing which contacts are displayed” on page 108

“Joining contacts” on page 110

“Separating contact information” on page 111

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Opening your contacts

Open Contacts to add, view, and communicate with your friends and

acquaintances.

To open your contacts

S Touch the Contacts icon

Launcher.

on the Home screen or in the

You can also open Contacts by using Quick Contact. See

“Connecting quickly with your contacts” on page 62.

All of your contacts are displayed alphabetically in a scrolling list.

Each contact is followed by the default phone number.

If you have a new phone and haven’t added any contacts yet,

Contacts displays a message with hints on how to start adding

contacts to your phone.

Touch to view only your favorite contacts.

Touch a contact to view its details.

Touch an icon to open Quick Contact.

You can drag the list up or down to scroll it, or slide your finger up

or down to scroll quickly. Either way, a tab briefly appears to the

right of the list, which you can drag up and down to scroll very

quickly, while displaying the letter of the alphabet for the contacts

you’re scrolling past.

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To open a list of your favorite contacts

S Open your contacts and touch the Favorites tab.

The Favorites tab lists the contacts you’ve added to the list (see

“Adding a contact to your favorites” on page 101), followed by a

list of your most frequently called contacts.

To view details about a contact

Open your contacts.

2 Touch the contact whose details you want to view.

Entries for communicating with the contact are followed by

details.

Touch to open Quick Contact.

The contact’s status and where it’s from.

Touch a contact method to start

communicating with the contact.

Touch an icon to call, email, text,

chat, map, and so on.

Touch an address to view it on

Google Maps.

Touch a communication method to start dialing, texting, or

emailing the contact by using the listed number, address, and so

on.

Touch an address to view it on Google Maps. See “Maps” on

page 221.

You can also press Menu and touch Edit contact to edit the

contact’s information (see “Editing contact details” on page 103),

or touch Delete contact to delete all information about the

contact.

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Adding contacts

You can add contacts on your phone and synchronize them with the

contacts in your Google Account or other accounts that support

syncing contacts.

When you reply to or forward an email message to an email address

that is not in Contacts, the email address is added as a contact.

To add a new contact

Open your contacts.

2 Press Menu and touch New contact.

3 If you have more than one account with contacts, touch the

account to which you want to add the contact.

4 Enter the contact’s name.

5 Touch a category of contact information, such as phone numbers

and email addresses, to enter that kind of information about your

contact.

Scroll the page to view all categories.

6 Touch a category’s plus button

to add more than one entry for

that category—for example, to add both work and home numbers.

Touch the button to the left of the item of contact information to

open a menu with preset labels, such as Mobile and Work for a

phone number, or touch Custom in the menu to create your own

label.

7 Touch the Picture Frame icon to select a picture to display next to

the name in your lists of contacts and in other applications.

8 When you’re finished, touch Done.

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Importing, exporting, and sharing contacts

If you have contacts stored in on a SD card (in vCard format) or SIM,

you can import them into Contacts on your phone. You can export

contacts in vCard format onto a SD card, to back them up to a

computer or other device. And you can send a contact via email.

To import contacts from your SIM card

Your service provider may store some contacts on your SIM card,

such as customer care and voicemail numbers. You may also have

stored contacts on the SIM card if you’re moving it from another

phone. You can add some or all of these contacts to the Contacts

application.

Open your contacts.

2 Press Menu and touch Import/Export.

3 Touch Import from SIM.

4 If you have more than one account on your phone, touch the

account into which you want to import the contacts.

A list of the contacts on the SIM appears.

5 Touch & hold a contact and touch Import in the menu that opens.

Or press Menu and touch Import all.

To import contacts from your SD card

You can copy individual or group contacts in vCard format onto your

SD card and then import them into one of your accounts on the

phone. See “Connecting to a computer via USB” on page 75 for

details about copying files to a SD card from your computer.

You may also have contacts stored on a SD card from another device.

Open your contacts.

2 Press Menu and touch Import/Export.

3 Touch Import from SD card.

4 If you have more than one account on your phone, touch the

account into which you want to import the contacts.

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5 If you have more than one vCard file on the SD card, touch the

option to import a single contact file, multiple contact files, or all

of the contact files on the SD card.

The contacts are then imported to your phone.

To export contacts to your SD card

You can export all of the contacts on your phone to your SD card, as

a group vCard file. You can then copy this file to a computer or

another device that can work with files in this format, such as an

address book application.

Open your contacts.

2 Press Menu and touch Import/Export.

3 Touch Export to SD card.

4 Touch OK to confirm.

Contacts creates a file with the .vcf extension on your SD card.

This file contains all of your contacts.

To share a contact

You can share a contact with someone by emailing it to them in

vCard format.

Open Contacts.

2 Open the contact you want to share.

3 Press Menu and touch Share.

A Gmail compose message screen opens, with the contact

attached as a vCard (.vcf) file.

Address, write, and send the email, as described in “Composing

and sending a message” on page 126.

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Adding a contact to your favorites

The Favorites tab contains the contacts you’ve starred as favorites

followed by the short list of the contacts you communicate with most

frequently.

To add a contact to your favorites

Open your contacts.

2 Touch a contact to view its details.

3 Touch the star to the right of the contact’s name.

The star turns gold

To remove a contact from your favorites list

Open your contacts and touch the Favorites tab.

2 Touch a contact to view its details.

3 Touch the gold star to the right of the contact’s name.

The star turns gray and the contact is removed from your

favorites.

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Searching for a contact

You can search for a contact by name.

To search for a contact

Open your contacts.

2 Press the Search button

3 Start entering the name of the contact you’re searching for.

As you type, contacts with matching names appear below the

search box.

4 Touch a matching contact in the list to open its Details screen.

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Editing contact details

You can change or add details about your contacts. You can also set

the ringtone for when a specific contact calls, or divert all calls from a

contact to your voicemail.

Some contact entries contain information from multiple sources:

information that you added manually, information that Contacts

joined from multiple accounts to consolidate duplicates, and so on.

When you edit a contact entry, the information from each source is

grouped in its own color-coded, labeled section. If you find duplicate

entries in Contacts, you can join them into a single entry, as

described in “Joining contacts” on page 110. If you that find

information from unrelated contacts was joined in error, you can

separate them, as described in “Separating contact information” on

page 111.

Changes that you make to information from one source do not affect

the information from other sources. For example, if you have

information about a contact from a Google Account and another

account and both are configured to sync contacts, edits to the

information from the Google Account are synced to that account on

the web, but the information from the other account account remains

unchanged.

For more information about working with multiple accounts, see

“Accounts” on page 112.

To edit contact details

Open your contacts or favorites.

2 Touch & hold the contact, and then touch Edit contact.

You can also press Menu and touch Edit contact while viewing a

contact’s details.

3 Edit the contact information.

4 Touch Done.

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To change a contact’s default phone number

The default phone number is used when you initiate a call or send a

text message from the list by touching & holding a contact.

Open your contacts or favorites.

2 Touch the name of a contact in the list to view its details.

3 Touch & hold the phone number to use as the contact’s default

phone number.

4 Touch Make default number in the menu that opens.

The default phone number appears with a checkmark

To divert all of a contact’s calls to your voicemail

Open your contacts or favorites.

2 Touch the name of a contact in the list to view its details.

3 Press Menu and touch Options.

4 Check Incoming calls.

5 Press Back

When this contact calls you, your phone doesn’t ring and the

caller is sent directly to your voicemail.

To set a ringtone for a contact

Open your contacts or favorites.

2 Touch the name of a contact in the list to view its details.

3 Press Menu and touch Options > Ringtone.

4 In the scrolling list of ringtones that opens, touch the one to play

when the contact calls.

The ringtone plays a sample.

5 Touch OK.

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To delete a contact

Open your contacts or favorites.

2 Touch the name of a contact in the list to view its details.

3 Press Menu and touch Delete contact.

If you delete a contact from Google Contacts (or another account

with editable contacts), the contact is also deleted from Contacts

on the web the next time you sync your phone.

You can’t delete contacts from a read-only account, such as

Facebook. Instead, a dialog informs you that the contact will be

hidden. To restore hidden contacts from a read-only account, you

must delete that account from your phone and then add it again.

If the contact contains information from both editable accounts

(such as Contacts) and from a read-only account (such as

Facebook), a dialog informs you that the information from the

read-only account will be hidden, not deleted.

4 Touch OK to confirm that you want to delete the contact.

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Communicating with your contacts

From the Contacts or Favorites tab, you can quickly call or send a

text (SMS) or multimedia message (MMS) to a contact’s default

phone number. You can also open details to view a list of all the ways

you can communicate with that contact.

This section describes ways to initiate communication when viewing

your list of contacts. The Contacts application shares your contacts

with many other applications, such as Gmail (see “Gmail” on

page 119) and Messaging (see “Messaging” on page 195).

To connect by using Quick Contact for Android

Touch a contact’s picture to open Quick Contact for Android.

Touch a contact’s picture.

Then touch the icon for the way

you want to connect

2 Touch the icon for the way you want to connect.

The icons available depend on the information you have for the

contact and the applications and accounts on your phone.

For more information, see “Connecting quickly with your

contacts” on page 62.

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To communicate with a contact

Open your contacts or favorites.

2 Touch the contact with whom you want to communicate.

You can also just touch the Green Phone icon in the list of

favorites or in the Call log to call the displayed number.

3 In the contact’s details screen, touch the way to start

communicating with the contact.

For phone numbers, you switch automatically to the Phone

application as the number is called. For other kinds of

communication, you switch automatically to the appropriate

application, with the contact’s address entered.

To call a contact’s default number

Open your contacts or favorites.

2 Touch & hold the entry for the contact to call.

3 Touch Call in the menu that opens.

The actual menu item depends on the default number you set for

your contact, so it may be Call Mobile, Call Work, and so on.

You switch to the Phone application automatically as the number

is called. For more information about placing phone calls, see

“Placing and receiving calls” on page 80.

To send a text or multimedia message to a contact’s default number

Open your contacts or favorites.

2 Touch & hold the contact to call.

3 Touch Text contact in the menu that opens.

You switch automatically to the Messaging application, with the

contact’s phone number entered in a new message. For more

information about sending text and multimedia messages, see

“Messaging” on page 195.

You can also use Quick Contact to start sending a text or

multimedia message.See “Connecting quickly with your contacts”

on page 62.

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Changing which contacts are displayed

You can hide contacts that don’t have phone numbers. You can also

configure which groups of contacts, for each account, you want to

display in the Contacts list.

To set whether contacts without phone numbers are displayed

If you use your list of contacts only to call people, you can hide any

contacts that don’t have phone numbers.

Open your list of contacts.

2 Press Menu and touch Display options.

3 Check or uncheck Only contacts with phones.

To change what groups are displayed

Open your list of contacts.

2 Press Menu and touch Display options.

3 Touch an account to open its list of groups.

An account’s groups depend on the kind of account.

4 Check or uncheck the groups whose contacts you want to view in

Contacts.

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This action affects only the display of groups of contacts with this

screen. Your sync settings are not affected.

5 Touch Done.

A message appears while your changes are made. If your change

affects many contacts, this can take a short while.

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Joining contacts

When you add an account or add contacts in other ways, such as by

exchanging emails, Contacts attempts to avoid duplication by joining

any new contact information with existing contacts under a single

entry. You can also join contacts manually.

To join contacts

Open your contacts or favorites.

2 Touch the contact entry to which you want to add information.

This is the contact you will see in Contacts after the join.

3 Press Menu and touch Edit contact.

4 Press Menu and touch Join.

Likely contacts are displayed at the top of the screen. You can

touch Show all contacts to pick a contact from your full list of

contacts.

Touch the contact whose

information you want to join.

5 Touch the contact whose information you want to join with the

first contact.

The information from the second contact is added to the first

contact, and the second contact is no longer displayed in the

Contacts list.

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See “Editing contact details” on page 103 for details about how to

view where a contact’s information came from, including

automatic and manually joined information. See “Separating

contact information” on page 111 for information about how to

separate contacts joined in error.

Separating contact information

Each contact on your phone may contain information from a variety

of sources—you may have entered it, Contacts may have joined

information automatically when you added an account, you may

have joined contacts manually, and so on.

If contact information from different sources was joined in error, you

can separate the information back into individual contacts on your

phone.

To separate contact information

Open your contacts or favorites.

2 Touch the contact entry whose information you want to separate.

3 Press Menu and touch Edit contact.

4 Press Menu and touch Separate contact.

5 When you’re asked if you want to separate the contact, touch OK.

The contact information is separated into individual contacts in

the list of contacts.

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You can sync contacts, email, calendar events, and other

information with your phone from multiple Google

Accounts or other kinds of accounts, depending on the

applications installed on your phone.

For example, you could start by adding your personal

Google Account, so your personal email, contacts, and

calendar are always available. Then you could add

another account from work, so you can read your work

email and have your work contacts handy.

In this section

“Adding and removing accounts” on page 113

“Configuring account sync and display options” on page 116

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Adding and removing accounts

You can add multiple Google Accounts and other accounts. You may

also be able to add other kinds of accounts, depending on your

applications. Some you can add in the Accounts & Sync settings, as

described in this section. Others you add using an application that

works with those kinds of accounts; for example, you can add IMAP

and POP3 email accounts with the Email application (see “Adding

and editing email accounts” on page 190).

To add an account

To add some accounts, you may need to obtain details from an IT

support representative about the service to which the account

connects. For example, you may need to know the account’s domain

or server address.

Open the Accounts & sync settings screen.

You can do this in Contacts by pressing Menu and touching

Accounts, or directly from Settings.

The Accounts & sync settings screen displays your current sync

settings and a list of your current accounts.

See “Configuring account sync and display options” on page 116.

2 Touch Add account.

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3 Touch the kind of account to add.

Touch the kind of account to add.

4 Follow the onscreen steps to enter the required and optional

information about the account.

Most accounts require a username and password, but the details

depend on the kind of account and the configuration of the

service you’re connecting to.

For details about adding accounts, see “Adding and editing email

accounts” on page 190 and the detailed tables in “Changing email

account settings” on page 192. These sections also describe how

to add an email account based on IMAP, POP3, or SMTP, using the

Email application.

5 Configure the account.

Depending on the kind of account, you may be asked to configure

what kinds of data you want to sync to the phone, name the

account, and other details.

When you’re finished, the account is added to the list in the

Accounts & Sync Settings screen. Depending on how you

configured the account, email, contacts, and other information

start syncing to your phone.

See “Configuring account sync and display options” on page 116

for details about changing how the account is configured.

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To remove an account

You can remove an account to delete it and all information

associated with it from your phone, including email, contacts,

settings, and so on.

You can’t remove the first Google Account you signed into on the

phone, except by deleting all personal information from your phone.

See “Privacy settings” on page 330 to learn now to do that.

Open the Accounts & sync settings screen.

You can do this in Contacts by pressing Menu and touching

Accounts, or directly from Settings.

The Accounts & sync settings screen displays your current sync

settings and a list of your current accounts.

2 Touch the account to delete.

3 Touch Remove account.

4 Confirm that you want to remove the account.

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Configuring account sync and display

options

You can configure background data use and synchronization options

for all of the applications on your phone. You can also configure what

kinds of data you synchronize for each account. Some applications,

such as Gmail and Calendar, have their own synchronization settings.

Some applications, such as Contacts, Gmail, and Calendar, can sync

data from multiple applications. Others sync data only from the first

Google Account you sign into on your phone, or from an account

associated specifically with that application.

For some accounts, syncing is two-directional; changes that you

make to the information on your phone are made to the copy of that

information on the web. Your Google Account works this way. Other

accounts support only one-way sync; the information on your phone

is read-only.

To configure general sync settings

Open the Accounts & Sync Settings screen.

You can do this in Contacts by pressing Menu and touching

Accounts, or directly from Settings.

The screen displays your current sync settings and a list of your

current accounts.

Touch the account to configure.

Some or all information from this

account is configured to sync

automatically with your phone.

No information from this account syncs

automatically with your phone.

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indicates that some or all of an account’s information is

configured to sync automatically with your phone.

indicates that none of an account’s information is configured

to sync automatically with your phone.

2 Check or uncheck Background data to control whether

applications and services can transmit data when you are not

working with them directly (that is, when they are running in the

background).

If you uncheck this option, Gmail stops receiving new mail,

Calendar stops syncing events, and so on, until you touch the

Refresh menu item or send an email.

3 Check or uncheck Auto-sync to control whether changes you

make to information on the phone or on the web are automatically

synced with each other.

For example, when this option is checked, changes that you make

in Contacts on the phone are automatically made in Google

Contacts on the web.

If you uncheck this option, you may be able to use an application’s

tools to sync data manually. See “To sync information manually”

on page 117.

To sync information manually

Open the Accounts & sync settings screen.

2 Touch the account whose data you want to sync.

3 Press Menu and touch Sync now.

To change an account’s sync settings

Open the Accounts & sync settings screen.

2 Touch the account whose sync settings you want to change.

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The Data & synchronization screen opens, displaying a list of the

kinds of information the account can sync.

Checked items are configured to sync to your phone.

3 Check or uncheck the kinds of information you want to sync to

the phone.

Unchecking an option does not remove the information from your

phone; it simply stops it from being kept in sync with the version

on the web. To remove the information previously synced for the

account, you must remove the account.

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Gmail

Gmail is Google’s web-based email service. When you

first set up your phone, you configured it to use an

existing Gmail account, or you created a new account.

The first time you open the Gmail application on your

phone, your Inbox contains the messages from your

Gmail account on the web.

In this section

“Gmail is different” on page 120

“Opening Gmail and your Inbox” on page 121

“Reading your messages” on page 123

“Composing and sending a message” on page 126

“Replying to or forwarding a message” on page 128

“Working with conversations in batches” on page 130

“Labeling a conversation” on page 131

“Starring a message” on page 132

“Viewing conversations by label” on page 133

“Reporting spam” on page 135

“Searching for messages” on page 136

“Archiving conversations” on page 137

“Synchronizing your messages” on page 138

“Appending a signature to your messages” on page 140

“Changing Gmail settings” on page 141

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Gmail is different

Gmail is web-based

Your messages are stored on Google servers, but you read, write, and

organize messages with the Gmail application on your phone or via a

web browser. Because your mail is stored on Google servers, you can

search your entire message history, backed by the speed and power

of Google search.

Actions that you take in one place are reflected everywhere. For

example, if you read a message in Gmail on your phone, it’s marked as

read in a web browser. And a message that you send using a browser,

or even a draft of a message, is visible in Gmail on the phone.

Gmail is conversation-based

Each message and all replies to it are grouped in your Inbox as a

single conversation. In other email applications, replies to messages

are spread across your Inbox, typically by date received, so a

message and the replies to it are separated by other messages. Gmail

makes it easy to follow the thread of a conversation.

Gmail is organized by labels, not by folders

By tagging messages with labels, you can organize your

conversations in many different ways. In other email applications,

each message can live in only one folder. For example, with Gmail

you can label a conversation with your mother about your brother’s

birthday present with both “Mom” and “Dave.” Later, you can look for

the message under either label. Using folders, you’d have to store the

message in the “Mom” folder or the “Dave” folder, not both.

Gmail for the phone is optimized for mobile: for advanced

tasks, use a web browser

The best place to organize and learn about Gmail is on the web. For

example, you can’t use the Gmail application on the phone to create

the labels and filters that you use to organize your messages, but you

can label a message on the phone. Gmail on the web offers complete

information about the service, so it’s the best place to learn about all

of the features of Gmail.

Gmail is for Gmail

Of course you can use Gmail to send email to any email address, and

anyone can send email to you at your Gmail address. But if you want

to read messages from another email service provider (using your

AOL, Yahoo!, or other email account), you use the Email application.

See “Email” on page 179.

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Opening Gmail and your Inbox

When you open Gmail, your most recent conversations are displayed

in your Inbox. When you return to Gmail after using other

applications, the last screen you were working with is displayed.

To open Gmail

S Touch the Gmail icon

on the Home screen or in the Launcher.

Your Inbox displays those conversations with the newest

messages at the top. All of your conversations are displayed in

your Inbox unless you delete, archive, or filter them.

The current Google Account is displayed at the top right of the

Inbox. If you have more than one account, you touch the current

account to switch accounts, as described in “To switch accounts”

on page 122. Adding and working with accounts is described in

“Accounts” on page 112.

Conversations with new messages have bold subject lines. To read

a message in a conversation, touch its subject. See “Reading your

messages” on page 123.

Your account. Touch to

switch accounts.

The number of unread

messages in your Inbox.

Bold subject lines

indicate conversations

with new (unread)

messages.

Touch a conversation to

open it and read its

There are 2 messages in

this conversation.

indicates messages sent directly to you.

indicates messages that you were CC’d on.

Other messages were sent to you as part of a group.

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To open your Inbox when Gmail is running

S Press Back

until you return to your Inbox.

S When reading a message, press Menu and touch Go to Inbox.

S When viewing a list of labeled conversations, press Menu and

touch More > Go to Inbox.

To switch accounts

Gmail displays conversations, messages, and settings from one

Google Account at a time. If you have more than one account, you

can open the Accounts screen to view how many unread messages

you have in each account and to switch accounts.

Adding and configuring accounts is described in “Accounts” on

page 112.

From your Inbox, touch the current account at the top right of the

screen. Or press Menu and touch Accounts.

The number of unread

messages.

2 Touch the account that contains the email you want to read.

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Reading your messages

When viewing a list of conversations in your Inbox or in any list of

labeled conversations, you can open a conversation to read its

messages.

When you receive a new message, you also receive a notification in

the Status bar, unless you’ve turned off Gmail notifications using

Gmail settings. See “Changing Gmail settings” on page 141. When you

touch a Gmail notification, it opens the Inbox that contains the new

message or, if you have new mail in more than one account, it opens

the Accounts screen.

To read a message

S Touch a conversation that contains the message you want to read.

A conversation opens to the first new (unread) message, or to the

first starred message, if you’ve previously starred a message in the

conversation. See “Starring a message” on page 132.

This conversation has one label.

Touch to view the sender and

the first line of messages that

you’ve already read.

Touch to quickly contact the

sender by Google Talk, by

phone, or in other ways.

You can archive or delete the

entire conversation or open the

next or previous conversation.

To the right of the message, icons indicate whether the message

has an attachment and the sender’s Google Talk online status.

You can touch the message sender’s Quick Contact icon to open a

list of ways you can quickly contact the sender. See “Connecting

quickly with your contacts” on page 62.

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When reading messages in a conversation, you can use the

buttons at the bottom of the screen to archive the entire

conversation (see “Archiving conversations” on page 137) or to

delete it. If you delete a conversation, you can touch Undo in the

yellow bar at the top of the screen to undelete it.

Use the left and right arrow buttons at the bottom of a message

to open the next or previous conversation in the Inbox.

To read a message again

When you open a conversation, messages that you’ve already read

are hidden, in a tab that indicates the number of hidden messages.

Touch the tab that indicates the number of previously read messages.

The tab expands into tabs that list the sender and the first line of

each read message.

2 Touch an expanded tab to read the message again.

Touch the tab that indicates the

number of unread messages to

view their summary tabs.

Touch the tab of a message

you’ve already read to open

it, so you can read it again.

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When reading a message or when its tab is selected, you can press

Menu and touch Mark unread to return a read message to the unread

state—for example, to remind yourself to read it again later.

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Composing and sending a message

You can compose and send a message to one or more people or

groups with Gmail or other email addresses.

To compose and send a message

When viewing the Inbox or other list of conversations, press Menu

and touch Compose.

Touch to change accounts.

Address the message.

Enter a subject.

Touch to remove an attachment

you added.

Enter your message.

Send the message, save it

as a draft or discard it.

2 Set the account you want to send the email from.

The Gmail account you are sending the email from is displayed at

the top of the screen. If you have more than one Gmail account

configured to sync email to the phone, you can send the email

from a different account by touching the account and then

touching the one you want to use.

3 Address the message.

As you enter text, matching addresses are offered from your

Contacts list. See “Contacts” on page 95. You can touch a

suggested address or enter a new one.

4 Press Menu and touch Add Cc/Bcc to address a copy or a blind

copy of the message.

5 Enter a subject for the message.

6 Enter the text of the message.

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For information about entering and editing text, see “Using the

onscreen keyboard” on page 44 and “Editing text” on page 49.

7 Press Menu and touch Attach to send a photo with the message.

Important Do not delete the original of an attachment before the message is com-

pletely sent (that is, it has the Sent label, not the Outbox label), or the attach-

ment will not be sent.

8 Touch Send.

If you’re not ready to send the message, touch Save as draft

instead. You can read your drafts by opening messages with the

Draft label. See “Viewing conversations by label” on page 133.

Touch Discard to abandon the message, including any saved

drafts.

If you aren’t connected to a network—for example, if you’re

working in Airplane mode—the messages that you send are stored

on your phone with the Outbox label until you connect to a

network again.

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Replying to or forwarding a message

You can continue an email conversation by replying to a message or

by forwarding it.

To reply to or forward a message

Scroll to the bottom of a message.

2 Touch Reply, Reply to all, or Forward.

Touch to quickly contact the sender

in other ways, such as via Google

Talk, by phone, and so on.

Touch Reply to reply just to the

sender of the message. Touch Reply

to all to include all recipients of the

message. Touch Forward to send

the conversation to someone new.

Replying to or forwarding messages without changing the subject

adds your reply to the current conversation. Changing the subject

starts a new conversation.

The message opens in a new screen where you can add or remove

addresses, edit the subject, and add or remove text or

attachments, as described in “Composing and sending a message”

on page 126.

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You can add one or more people to an ongoing conversation by

replying to all and then adding the new people’s addresses to the

reply.

All of the messages in the conversation, up to the one you are

replying to or forwarding, are included in the new message; any

messages that follow the message you forward are omitted.

Enter your reply.

Uncheck to send your reply

without including the original

message.

3 Touch Send.

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Working with conversations in batches

You can archive, label, delete, or perform other actions on a batch of

conversations at once, in your Inbox or in another labeled list of

conversations.

In the Inbox or other conversation list, check the conversations

that you want to work with as a batch.

When you check a conversation, the Archives, Labels, and Delete

buttons appear at the bottom of the screen.

Check conversations to add

them to the batch.

Touch a button to act on the

batch, or press Menu to act on

the batch in other ways.

2 Touch Archive, Delete, or Labels. Or press Menu and touch Add

star, Report spam, Mute, Mark read/Mark unread, or Deselect all.

Your action affects the entire batch of messages.

If you delete a batch of conversations, you can touch Undo in the

yellow bar at the top of the screen to undelete them. You can also

use Undo after muting, archiving, and reporting spam.

If you never work with batches of messages, you can hide the

checkboxes to leave more room for the subjects of conversations.

See “Changing Gmail settings” on page 141.

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Labeling a conversation

You organize conversations by labeling them. Gmail has several built-

in labels. You can add your own labels and assign them colors by

using Gmail on the web (custom label colors you create on the web

are not supported in Gmail on the phone).

Viewing labeled conversations is described in “Viewing conversations

by label” on page 133.

To label a conversation

When reading a conversation’s messages, press Menu and touch

Change labels.

2 In the dialog that opens, check the labels to assign to the

conversation.

3 Touch OK.

To label a batch of conversations at once

You can assign or change the labels of one or more conversations at

once.

In your Inbox or other conversation list, check the conversations to

label.

See “Working with conversations in batches” on page 130.

2 Touch the Labels button at the bottom of the screen.

3 In the dialog that opens, check the labels to assign to the

conversation.

4 Touch OK.

To change a conversation’s labels

When reading a conversation’s messages, press Menu and touch

Change labels.

You can also change the labels of a batch of conversations, in the

same way that you label a batch of conversations, by touching the

Labels button.

2 In the dialog that opens, check or uncheck the labels.

3 Touch OK.

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Starring a message

You can star an important message to make it easy to locate again.

Conversations with starred messages display a star in your Inbox and

other conversation lists. To view just conversations with starred

messages, see “Viewing conversations by label” on page 133.

To star a message

S While reading a message, touch the star in its header.

S While viewing a list of messages in a conversation list, touch a

message’s star.

The star turns gold

To unstar a message

S Touch its star again.

To unstar all messages in a conversation

S Touch a star in a conversation list.

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Viewing conversations by label

You can view a list of the conversations that have the same label,

including conversations with starred messages.

You can control how many conversations are kept current on your

phone, by label and by time, as described in “Synchronizing your

messages” on page 138.

See “Labeling a conversation” on page 131 or “Starring a message” on

page 132 for information about assigning labels and stars.

When viewing your Inbox or another conversation list, press Menu

and touch Go to labels.

Your labels are presented in a scrolling list. Label colors are those

Gmail assigns by default, or those you assigned to labels by using

Gmail on the web.

Labels applied to conversations

with unread messages are bold

and have a green bar at left.

The number of conversations

with this label that have unread

messages.

2 Touch a label to view a list of conversations with that label.

The conversation list resembles your Inbox, but the label replaces

“Inbox” at the top left of the list. You work with labeled

conversation lists in the same way that you work with your Inbox.

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Copying text from messages

You can copy text from messages you receive, so you can paste it

into the message you compose or into text fields in other

applications.

When you’re composing a message, you select, cut, copy, and paste

text using basic editing techniques, as described in “Editing text” on

page 49.

To copy text from a message

Open a message and scroll to the beginning of the of text you

want to copy

See “Reading your messages” on page 123.

2 Press Menu and touch and touch More > Select text.

3 Use your finger to drag across the text you want to copy.

Use the Trackpad to move the small arrow to the beginning of the

text you want to copy, and then press the Trackpad. Swipe your

finger over the Trackpad to move the cursor to the end of the text

you want to copy, and then press the Trackpad again.

The text you selected is copied to the clipboard.

You can now use the techniques described in “Editing text” on

page 49 to paste the copied text into a message you compose or

into a text field in another application.

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Reporting spam

The Gmail webmail service is quite effective at preventing spam (junk

mail) from reaching your Inbox. But when spam does make it

through, you can help improve the Gmail service by reporting the

conversation as spam.

To report a conversation as spam

S While reading the conversation's messages, press Menu and touch

More > Report spam.

S Check one or a batch of conversations in your Inbox or other

conversation list, press Menu, and touch Report spam.

See “Working with conversations in batches” on page 130.

When you report a conversation as spam, the conversation and all

its messages are removed from your Inbox. You can view the

messages you’ve marked as spam by viewing messages with the

Spam label. See “Viewing conversations by label” on page 133.

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Searching for messages

You can search for messages that contain one or more words in their

contents or in their addresses, subjects, labels, and so on. When you

search for messages, all of the messages in your Gmail account on

the web are included (except those labeled Trash or Spam), not just

those that you’ve synchronized onto your phone.

You can also use the advanced search options that are described on

the Gmail website.

In the Inbox, press Menu and touch Search.

Or press the Search button

2 Enter the word or words to search for and touch the magnifying

glass icon at the right of the search box. Or touch words you

searched for previously, in the list below the search box.

A conversation list opens, displaying all of the conversations with

messages that contain the words you searched for. The words you

searched for are displayed in the title bar.

You work with the conversations in this list just as you would with

the conversations in your Inbox or any other conversation list.

When you open a conversation in a search result list, the word you

searched for is highlighted wherever it occurs in the

conversation’s messages.

Words you search for are stored by the phone and suggested for

later Gmail searches. You can erase these stored words with Gmail

settings. See “Changing Gmail settings” on page 141.

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Archiving conversations

You can archive conversations, to move them out of your Inbox

without deleting them. Archived conversations are assigned the All

Mail label, and they retain any other labels you’ve assigned to them.

See “Viewing conversations by label” on page 133. They’re also

included in search results. If someone replies to a message that

you’ve archived, its conversation is restored to your Inbox.

S While viewing a list of conversations, touch & hold a conversation

and touch Archive in the menu that opens.

S Check one or more conversations in your Inbox or other

conversation list and touch Archive.

See “Working with conversations in batches” on page 130.

S When reading a message, touch Archive at the bottom of the

screen.

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Synchronizing your messages

The Gmail webmail service has the resources to store all the

messages you’ve ever sent or received; your phone does not. To save

space, Gmail downloads only some of your messages to your phone.

You can set which conversations’ messages are kept current on your

phone, by label, and what portion of those conversations, by time.

You use the Settings application to control how and when

applications synchronize their data. See “Accounts & sync settings”

on page 328.

To select which conversations to synchronize

Open your Inbox.

2 Press Menu and touch More > Settings > Labels.

The Synchronization settings screen opens, displaying a list of

your Gmail labels, for the account listed at the top of the screen.

Below each label is its current synchronization setting: Sync all,

Sync 4 days, or no label (not synchronized).

3 Touch a conversation label whose synchronization settings you

want to change.

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A dialog for that conversation label opens, with three options:

Sync none Don’t download any conversations that have only this

label.

Sync 4 days Download the previous 4 (or number of days you set)

of conversations.

Sync all Download all conversations with this label.

To set how many days of conversations to synchronize

Open your Inbox.

2 Press Menu and touch More > Settings > Labels.

3 Touch Number of days to sync.

4 Enter the number of days and touch OK.

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Appending a signature to your messages

You can append one or a few lines of text to every message you

send, such as your name, contact information, or even “Sent by an

android.”

Open your Inbox or another labeled list of conversations.

2 Press Menu and touch More > Settings > Signature.

Enter a signature to append to

your messages; then touch OK.

3 Enter a signature.

4 Touch OK.

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Changing Gmail settings

You can change a number of settings for Gmail. Each Gmail account

has its own settings, so your changes affect only the current account.

See “To switch accounts” on page 122.

Notification volumes and some synchronization settings are changed

in the Settings application. See “Settings” on page 312.

S To change Gmail settings, open your Inbox, press Menu, and touch

More > Settings.

General Settings

Signature

Opens a dialog where you can enter text to append to every

message you send. See “Appending a signature to your messages”

on page 140.

Confirm actions

Opens a dialog where you can check which actions open a dialog

asking you to confirm that action: archiving, deleting, and sending

messages.

Auto-advance

Opens a dialog where you can set which screen opens when you

delete or archive a conversation whose messages you are viewing:

the messages in the next conversation, the previous conversation, or

the Inbox or other conversation list you’re working with.

Message text size

Opens a dialog where you can select the size of text in the messages

you read.

Batch operations

When checked, adds a check box to the left of each conversation, so

you can add it to a batch. See “Working with conversations in

batches” on page 130.

Clear search history

Touch to remove the history of the words you’ve searched for

previously in Gmail in any account. See “Searching for messages” on

page 136.

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Labels

Opens the Labels screen, where you can manage which

conversations are synchronized. See “Synchronizing your messages”

on page 138.

Notification settings

Email notifications

When checked, you receive a notification when you have new email.

Silent mode, or never. See “Sound settings” on page 320.

Select ringtone

Opens a dialog where you can select the ringtone to sound when you

receive a new email notification, including the phone’s default

ringtone and a silent option.

Vibrate

Opens a dialog where you can configure the phone to vibrate

whenever you receive a Gmail notification, only when the phone is in

Notify once

Check to receive a notification from Gmail only the first time you

have new email since you last read your messages, rather than each

time a new message arrives.

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Calendar

Calendar on the phone works with the web-based Google

Calendar service for creating and managing events,

meetings, and appointments.

Calendar on the phone is optimized for the phone. Some

Calendar features, such as creating Calendars, are only

available in Google Calendar on the web. Visit http://

calendar.google.com to learn about the features of the

web version of Calendar.

In this section

“Viewing your calendar and events” on page 144

“Working in Agenda view” on page 146

“Working in Day view” on page 147

“Working in Week view” on page 148

“Working in Month view” on page 149

“Viewing event details” on page 150

“Creating an event” on page 151

“Editing or deleting an event” on page 152

“Setting an event reminder” on page 153

“Responding to an event reminder” on page 154

“Synchronizing and displaying calendars” on page 155

“Changing Calendar settings” on page 156

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Viewing your calendar and events

Open Calendar to view events you’ve created or that others have

invited you to.

When you first set up your phone, you configured it to use an

existing Google Account, or you created a new account. The first

time you open the Calendar application on your phone, it displays

any existing calendar events from your Google Account on the web.

You can add additional accounts with Google Calendar or other

calendars to your phone, and configure them to display in Calendar.

See “Accounts” on page 112.

When you first set up Calendar to synchronize events on your phone,

it includes events from the previous month through one year in the

future. Subsequently, Calendar keeps a year’s worth of future events

synchronized between your phone and the web, plus any later events

that you add to your calendar using Calendar on your phone.

To open Calendar

S Touch the Calendar icon

in the Launcher.

Events from each account you’ve added to your phone and

configured to synchronize calendars is displayed in Calendar. For

information about adding accounts, see “Accounts” on page 112.

Events from each calendar are displayed in a different color. For

information about which calendars are displayed on your phone,

see “Synchronizing and displaying calendars” on page 155.

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Agenda view

Day view

Week view

Month view

In Agenda, Day, or Week view,

touch an event to view its details.

Touch a day in Month view

to open that day’s events.

To change your calendar view

Touch the Calendar icon

in the Launcher.

2 Press Menu and touch Agenda, Day, Week, or Month.

Each view displays the events in your calendar for the period of

time that you specify. For details, see the next sections.

3 Do any of the following:

G To view more information about an event in Agenda view,

touch the event.

G To view the events of a day in Month view, touch a day.

G Use the Trackpad to quickly select events in Agenda, Day, or

Week view, and to select days in Month view. Press the Track-

pad for more information about the selected event or day.

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Working in Agenda view

Agenda view is a list of your events in chronological order. All-day

and multiday events are listed at the start of each day.

To switch to Agenda view

Touch the Calendar icon

in the Launcher.

2 Press Menu and touch Agenda.

Touch an event to view its details.

Drag up or down to view earlier

or later events.

This event repeats.

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Working in Day view

Day view displays a chart of the events of one day, in a table of one-

hour rows. A red line indicates the current time. All-day and multiday

events are displayed at the top. Part of the title of each event is

displayed in the rows that correspond to when it occurs.

To switch to Day view

Touch the Calendar icon

in the Launcher.

2 Press Menu and touch Day.

Drag left or right to view earlier

or later days.

Touch & hold a time slot or an event

to create a new event at that time.

Touch an event to view its details.

3 Do any of the following:

G Touch an event to view its details. See “Viewing event details”

on page 150.

G Touch & hold an event to open a menu with options for view-

ing, editing, or deleting the event and for creating a new event

at that time.

To add an event in Day view

S Touch & hold an empty spot or an event in the day to open a

menu with the option for creating a new event at that time.

See “Creating an event” on page 151.

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Working in Week view

Week view displays a chart of the events of one week. All-day and

multiday events are displayed at the top.

To switch to Week view

S Press Menu

and touch Week.

An all-day event.

Touch & hold a time slot or an

event to create a new event at

Touch an event to view its

Drag left or right to view earlier

or later days.

In a crowded Week view, it can be easier to select events by using

the Trackpad to select an event and see a preview at the bottom

of the screen. Press the Trackpad to view more information about

the selected event.

To learn more about events in Week view

S Touch an event to view its details.

See “Viewing event details” on page 150.

S Touch & hold an event to open a menu with options for viewing, editing,

or deleting the event, and for creating a new event at that time.

To add an event in Week view

S Touch & hold an empty spot or an event in the week to open a

menu with the option for creating a new event at that time.

See “Creating an event” on page 151.

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Working in Month view

Month view displays a chart of the events of the month. Segments of

each day with scheduled events are blue in the day’s vertical bar.

To switch to Month view

Touch the Calendar icon

in the Launcher.

2 Press Menu and touch Month.

Drag up or down to view earlier

or later months.

Touch a day to view the events

of that day.

To view more information about events in Month view

S Touch a day to view its events in Day view.

See “Working in Day view” on page 147.

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Viewing event details

You can view more information about an event in a number of ways,

depending on the current view.

To view information about an event

S In Agenda, Day, or Week view, touch an event to view its details.

S In Month view, touch a day to switch to Day view. Then touch an

event to view its details.

Touch to set whether you’ll

attend this event.

Other attendees’ status is shown

below yours.

Touch to change when you want

to be reminded about this event.

Touch to delete this reminder.

Touch to add another reminder

for this event.

You can set or change whether you will attend the event by using the

Attending? menu.

Other attendees’ status is displayed below your own.

You change any event reminders or touch the plus

one. See “Setting an event reminder” on page 153.

button to add

If you have permission to change events, you can press Menu to edit

or delete the event, as described in “Editing or deleting an event” on

page 152.

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Creating an event

You can use Calendar on your phone to create events that appear on

your phone and in Google Calendar on the web.

To create an event

In any Calendar view, press Menu and touch New event to open an

Event details screen for a new event.

You can also touch & hold a spot in Day, Week, or Month view. In

the menu that opens, touch New event to open the Event details

screen with that day and time already entered.

2 Add details about the event.

Enter a name, time, and optional additional details about the

event.

If you have more than one calendar, you can choose the calendar

to which to add the event.

Touch the plus

button to add more reminders. See “Setting an

event reminder” on page 153.)

3 Invite guests to the event.

In the Guests field, enter the email addresses of everyone you

want to invite to the event. Separate multiple addresses with

commas ( , ). If the people to whom you send invitations use

Google Calendar, they’ll receive an invitation in Calendar and by

email.

4 Press Menu and touch Show extra options to add details about the

event.

5 Scroll to the bottom of the Event details screen and touch Done.

The event is added to your calendar.

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Editing or deleting an event

You can an edit or delete an event that you created on the phone or

on the web. You can also edit or delete events created by others, if

they have given you permission.

To edit an event

Open the event details.

See “Viewing event details” on page 150.

2 Press Menu and touch Edit event.

The Event Details screen opens. This is the same screen described

in “Creating an event” on page 151.

Press Menu and touch Show extra options to add or edit event

details.

3 Make your changes to the event.

4 Scroll to the bottom of the screen and touch Done.

To delete an event

There are a number of ways to delete an event.

S In Agenda view, touch an event to view its details. Then press

Menu and touch Delete.

S In Day or Week view, touch & hold the event and touch Delete in

the menu that opens.

S When editing an event, scroll to the bottom of the Event Details

screen and touch Delete.

If the event repeats, you’re asked whether you want to delete just

that occurrence, this and all future occurrences, or all past and

future occurrences in your Calendar.

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Setting an event reminder

You can set one or more reminders for an event, whether or not you

created the event or have permission to edit its other details.

To set an event reminder

Open the event details.

See “Viewing event details” on page 150.

2 If you already have a reminder set, touch the Plus button

a reminder.

to add

A new reminder is added, for 10 minutes before the event.

3 Touch the reminder time, and in the dialog that opens touch the

length of time before the event that you want to be reminded of it.

When the time comes, you receive a notification about the event.

See “Responding to an event reminder” on page 154.

You can use Google Calendar on the web to configure additional

reminder settings.

To delete an event reminder

Open the event details.

2 Touch the reminder’s minus button

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Responding to an event reminder

If you set a reminder for an event, the Upcoming Event icon appears

in the Notifications area of the Status bar when the reminder time

arrives. See “Managing notifications” on page 40.

To respond to an event reminder

Drag the Status bar down to open the Notifications panel.

2 Touch the event notification to open the list of Calendar

notifications. If you receive notifications with alerts, the Calendar

notifications list opens, listing all notifications awaiting your

response.

3 Do any of the following:

G Touch an event in the Calendar Notifications list to view more

information about that event.

G Touch Snooze all in the Calendar Notifications list to turn off all

event reminders for 5 minutes.

G Touch Dismiss all in the Calendar Notifications list to delete all

reminders in the list.

4 Press Back

when viewing the Calendar Notifications list to keep

the reminders pending. The icon remains in the Status bar and the

reminders remain in the Notifications panel.

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Synchronizing and displaying calendars

When you add a Google Account or other account to your phone

that includes a calendar service, and you configure that account to

synchronize calendar events to the phone, the events from that

calendar are added and kept up to date in Calendar on the phone.

You control whether an account synchronizes changes to calendar

events between a Google or other calendar service with the Settings

application’s Accounts & Sync Settings screen (see “Accounts & sync

settings” on page 328). You configure which calendars to store on

the phone (for quicker access) and which of those to show or hide on

the phone in Calendar.

To set whether calendars are stored on the phone or visible

Touch the Calendar icon

in the Launcher.

2 Press Menu and touch More > Calendars.

The Calendars screen displays all the calendars you’ve added or

subscribed to for each account that is configured to synchronize

events to your phone, organized by account. (Calendars for

accounts you’ve configured not to synchronize Calendar events

are not included in the list.)

3 Touch the name of an account to show or hide its calendars on

your phone.

An icon to the right of each calendar indicates whether its events

are synchronized (in this context, stored on) the phone and

whether they are visible in Calendar.

Calendar events stored on phone and visible in Calendar

Calendar events stored on phone but not visible in Calendar

Calendar events not synchronized to phone

4 Touch the icon next to a calendar to change whether it is stored

on the phone and visible in Calendar.

You remain subscribed to Calendars that you configure not to

store on the phone and you can still work with them with Google

Calendar on the web, or in other calendaring services.

5 Touch OK.

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Changing Calendar settings

You can change the following settings for how Calendar displays

event and how it notifies you of upcoming events.

Touch the Calendar icon

in the Launcher.

2 Press Menu, and touch More > Settings.

Hide declined events

Check if you don’t want to see events to which you’ve declined

invitations.

Set alerts & notifications

Opens a dialog where you can configure event reminders to open an

alert, send you a notification, or turn off event notifications on your

phone. See “Setting an event reminder” on page 153 and

“Responding to an event reminder” on page 154.

Select ringtone

Opens a dialog where you can select the ringtone to sound when you

receive an event reminder.

Vibrate

Opens a dialog where you can configure the phone to vibrate

whenever you receive an event reminder, only when the phone is in

Silent mode, or never. See “Sound settings” on page 320.

Default reminder time

Opens a dialog where you can select the default time before an event

for event reminders.

Build version

The version of Calendar you are using.

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Google Voice

You can use Google Voice for your voicemail service, in

place of your mobile carrier’s voicemail service. Google

Voice gives you a visual interface to all of your voicemail

messages—you can access your messages in the order

you want, read transcripts of your messages, and listen to

your messages, using a karaoke-style interface that

makes it easy to replay any part.

You can also use Google Voice to make international calls,

in place of your carrier’s long-distance service, to take

advantage of Google Voice’s low international calling

rates.

Google Voice is currently available only in the United

States.

In this section

“Configuring Google Voice” on page 158

“Opening Google Voice and your Inbox” on page 160

“Reading or listening to your voicemail” on page 161

“Exchanging text (SMS) messages” on page 163

“Starring messages” on page 164

“Viewing messages by label” on page 165

“Placing calls with Google Voice” on page 166

“Changing Google Voice settings” on page 167

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Configuring Google Voice

The first time you open Google Voice, a wizard helps you to

configure Google Voice services on your phone. If you sign out, the

wizard reappears the next time you start Google Voice. You can also

change the services to use at any time, by changing the Google

Voice settings. See “Changing Google Voice settings” on page 167.

From your phone, you can sign into your existing Google Voice

account or create a new one.

To configure Google Voice

Touch the Google Voice icon

screen.

in the Launcher or on the Home

The Welcome screen opens, where you start the process of

configuring Google Voice on your phone. The options that the

wizard offers you depend on whether you already have a Google

Voice account and on the features supported by your mobile carrier.

2 Sign into Google Voice.

The account you sign into is the Google Account whose Inbox you

open to read messages. It’s also the Google Account that you use

for any other Google Voice services that you decide to use with

your phone.

Touch Sign in to sign into the primary Google Account on your

phone. Or touch Use a different account to sign in using a different

Google Account.

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3 If requested, touch Next to verify your phone number via SMS.

Google Voice uses this step to ensure that it can communicate

with your phone.

4 If you’re setting up a new Google Voice account, you are asked to

enter your voicemail PIN. This is the code you use to check your

voicemail from the Phone application.

5 Press Back

when you’re done configuring voicemail.

6 Touch Finish in the screen that describes Inbox synchronization.

For more information, see “Sync and notifications settings” on

page 168.

Your Google Voice Inbox opens. See “Opening Google Voice and

your Inbox” on page 160 for more information on getting started with

Google Voice.

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Opening Google Voice and your Inbox

You can check your Google Voice Inbox, exchange messages, and

perform other tasks with Google Voice.

To open Google Voice

S Touch the Google Voice icon

in the Launcher or on the Home

screen.

Your Inbox displays any voicemail (marked with a icon) and text

messages (marked with a icon) you’ve received, along with the

sender, the date the message was sent, and the first few words of

the message.

Touch a voicemail or text

message to open it.

To open your Inbox

You can return to your Inbox from any Google Voice screen.

S Press the Back button until the Inbox screen appears.

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Reading or listening to your voicemail

Your Google Voice inbox contains a list of the voicemail messages

you’ve received. You can also listen to your voicemail with the Phone

application, just as you would listen to voicemail from your mobile

carrier’s voicemail service. See “Listening to your voicemail” on

page 89.

Transcripts of your voicemail are also emailed to you.

To read a transcript of your voicemail

Open Google Voice and your Inbox.

See “Opening Google Voice and your Inbox” on page 160.

Your Inbox displays your messages. For each message, you can

see who sent it, when you received it, and a transcript of the

beginning of the message.

2 Touch a message to read it.

The transcript of the message is displayed in a window that also

contains information about the message, including the name and

number of the person who left it.

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To listen to your voicemail

Open Google Voice and your Inbox.

2 Touch a message to listen to it.

The controls for listening to the voicemail are at the bottom of the

screen.

3 Touch the Play icon to listen to the message.

The message plays through the earpiece or the speaker,

depending on the preference you set. See “Changing Google

Voice settings” on page 167.

Touch the Speaker icon

to play the message through the

phone’s speaker, instead of the earpiece.

You can also pause and resume play, and you can drag the

progress indicator back and forth to listen to different parts of the

message.

To reply to a message

Open a message as you would to read or listen to it.

2 Press Menu and touch Call or SMS.

If you touch Call, the Phone application opens and places a call to

the number of the person who left the message.

If you touch SMS, a Google Voice window opens in which you can

compose a text message, as described in “Exchanging text (SMS)

messages” on page 163.

To delete a message

S Open the message as you would to read or listen to it, press Menu,

touch More, and touch Delete.

S Touch & hold the message in the Inbox or other folder of labeled

messages. In the menu that opens, touch Delete.

You can view your deleted messages by viewing messages with

the Trash label. See “Viewing messages by label” on page 165.

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Exchanging text (SMS) messages

You can use Google Voice to send and receive text (SMS) messages.

To send a text message

Open your Inbox.

2 Press Menu and touch Compose.

3 Enter the phone number to which you want to send the message.

You can also enter the name of a contact with a mobile number.

4 Enter a short text message.

5 Touch Send.

To read and reply to a text message

When someone sends a text message to your Google Voice number,

you receive a notification that it’s in your Google Voice Inbox.

Open the Notifications panel and touch the notification that you

have a message. (See “Managing notifications” on page 40.)

You can also touch any message that’s in your Inbox.

The message, and any previous messages in the conversation, is

displayed.

2 To reply to the message, enter a short message and touch Send.

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Starring messages

You can star voicemail and text messages to make them easy to keep

track of.

To star a message

S While viewing a list of messages in your Inbox or other folder,

touch a message’s star. The star turns gold

To unstar a message

S Touch its star again.

To view your starred messages

You can open a folder that contains just your starred messages.

While viewing your Inbox or another folder of messages, press

Menu and touch Labels.

See “Viewing messages by label” on page 165.

2 Touch Starred.

A folder opens with a list of your starred messages.

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Viewing messages by label

You can view a list of the messages that have the same label, such as

Voicemail, SMS (text messages), Placed, Received, and so on.

While viewing your Inbox or another folder of messages, press

Menu and touch Labels.

Google Voice labels are presented in a scrolling list.

The number of messages with

this label that are unread.

Touch a label to open a folder that

lists messages with this label.

2 Touch a label to view a folder containing the messages with that

label.

The folder resembles your Inbox, but the label replaces “Inbox” in

the title bar. You work with labeled conversation lists in the same

way that you work with your Inbox.

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Placing calls with Google Voice

Placing calls with Google Voice is almost the same as placing calls via

your mobile carrier, depending on whether you have a Google

number and how you have configured Google Voice on the phone.

If you already have a Google Voice account with a Google phone

number, you can configure your phone to place some or all calls via

Google Voice. The people you call will see your Google phone

number instead of your cell phone number as your caller ID.

To learn more about Google Voice, including how to get a Google

Voice number, go to http://www.google.com/voice.

You don’t use the Voice application to place calls—you do that with

the Phone application.

Call a contact just as you would without Google Voice.

2 If you’ve configured Google Voice to ask whether you want to use

it each time you place a call, touch Call with Google Voice in the

dialog.

If you’ve configured Google Voice to use it for all calls, this dialog

doesn’t appear.

Google Voice displays a message, reminding you that you are

placing the call via Google Voice.

If the call is a toll call, Google Voice plays a message with the per-

minute charge and the number of minutes at this rate you have

remaining in your Google Voice account.

3 Continue with the call as you would without Google Voice, as

described in “Placing and receiving calls” on page 80.

To check your account balance

When you first create a Google Voice account, you have a balance of

US$0.10 for toll calls. You must log into your account using a browser

to add to your balance, but you can check your current balance on

the phone.

S In your Google Voice Inbox, press Menu and touch Balance.

A dialog displays your current account balance.

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Changing Google Voice settings

You can change a number of Google Voice settings, including which

services you want to use on your phone and how you want to be

notified of new messages.

S To change all Google Voice settings except which voicemail

service to use, open your Google Voice Inbox, press Menu, and

touch Settings.

S To change which voicemail service to use, use Settings.

For more information, see “Call settings” on page 318.

General Settings

Making calls

Opens a dialog where you can configure whether to use Google

Voice to make some or all phone calls, as described in “Configuring

Google Voice” on page 158.

This phone’s number

Opens a dialog where you change or add your phone’s phone

number to work with Google Voice.

Voicemail playback

Opens a dialog where you can configure your voicemail to play via

your phone’s earpiece or speaker by default.

Sync and notifications

See “Sync and notifications settings” on page 168.

Sign out

Touch to stop using any Google Voice services on your phone and to

resume using your mobile carrier’s voicemail service and your

phone’s number as its caller ID. The next time you start Google Voice,

the wizard prompts you to configure it again. See “Configuring

Google Voice” on page 158.

Legal information

Touch to open a screen where you can read about the Google Voice

legal information.

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My Google Voice number

Displays the Google Voice number you have configured to use for

making and receiving calls on this phone.

Build number

The version of Google Voice installed on your phone.

Sync and notifications settings

Synchronize inbox

Check to receive notifications from Google Voice as soon as new

messages arrive in your Inbox. You must have background data

checked in the Accounts & Sync settings to use this feature (see

“Accounts & sync settings” on page 328).

Background data

Touch to open the Accounts & Sync settings; see “Accounts & sync

settings” on page 328.

Notifications via SMS

Check to receive a notification in the Status bar whenever you

receive a new message in your Google Voice Inbox. (Don’t check

both this feature and the Synchronize Inbox feature, or you will

receive two notifications for each new message.)

Inbox notifications

Check to receive notifications for new messages.

Select ringtone

Select a ringtone to sound when you receive a notification from

Google Voice.

Vibrate

The phone vibrates when you receive a notification from Google

Voice.

Light

The Trackpad flashes when you receive a notification from Google

Voice.

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Google Talk

Google Talk is Google’s instant messaging service. You

can use it to communicate in real time with other people

who also use Google Talk, on a phone, on the web, or with

a desktop application.

In this section

“Signing in and opening your Friends list” on page 170

“Chatting with friends” on page 171

“Changing and monitoring online status” on page 174

“Managing your Friends list” on page 176

“Changing Google Talk settings” on page 178

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Signing in and opening your Friends list

You sign into Google Talk to chat with your friends.

To open Google Talk and sign in

S Touch the Google Talk icon

in the Launcher.

When you first open Google Talk, your Friends list is displayed.

This list includes all of the friends you’ve added by using Google

Talk on the web, on the phone, or with a desktop application.

Your online status.

Touch to open a personal chat

you’re participating in.

Touch to open a group chat

you’re participating in.

Touch a friend to invite them to chat.

Adding friends to this list so you can invite them to chat is

described in “Managing your Friends list” on page 176.

Inviting friends to chat and accepting invitations to chat is

described in “Chatting with friends” on page 171.

You remain signed in, even when you’re using other applications,

until you deliberately sign out.

To sign out of Google Talk

You can sign out of Google Talk—for example, if you want to switch

the focus of all chats and invitations to Google Talk on a computer.

Signing out can also extend your battery life.

S On your Friends list, press Menu and touch Sign out.

You no longer receive chat notifications or see others’ Google Talk

status in other applications, such as Gmail.

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Chatting with friends

To chat with a friend

Touch a friend in your Friends list. The chat screen opens.

2 Enter your message and touch Send.

Who you’re chatting with and

their online status.

Messages you exchange are

interleaved with information

about the chat, such as whether

it’s on the record.

Enter a message and touch Send.

The messages that you exchange are interleaved on the screen

with information about the chat, such as whether it’s on the

record, the time a message was sent if there’s no response after a

short while, and so on.

3 You can enter an emoticon (a “smiley”) on the onscreen keyboard

by touching & holding the Smiley key and then touching an

emoticon. You can also press Menu and touch More > Insert

smiley to open a scrolling list of emoticons.

Your chat session remains open until you end it.

To return to your Friends list

You can return to your Friends list when chatting with a friend, so

that you can invite another friend to chat, add a friend, and so on.

S On a chat screen, press Menu and touch Friends list.

Friends you’re chatting with are displayed at the top of your Friends

list.

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To accept an invitation to chat

When a friend sends you a Google Talk message, you receive a

notification. Their entry in the Friends list jumps to the top and

displays the message.

S Touch the friend in your Friends list.

S Open the Notifications panel and touch the chat notification.

in “Working with pictures” on page 260.

A chat window opens where you can exchange messages with

your friend.

To switch between active chats

If you’re already chatting with someone, you can press Menu and

touch Friends list to invite another friend to chat. If you have more

than one chat going, you can switch between chats.

S In the Friends list, touch the name of the person you want to chat

with.

S On a chat screen or in the Friends list, press Menu and touch

Switch chats, then touch the friend you want to chat with.

S While chatting with a friend, swipe left or right across the screen.

To invite a friend to join a group chat

When you’re chatting, you can invite additional friends to join a

group chat.

On a chat screen, press Menu and touch Add to chat.

2 Touch the name of the friend to invite.

The friend you invited and the current participants receive an

invitation to a group chat. Each one who accepts the invitation

joins the group chat.

In a group chat, everyone can see everyone else’s messages.

Group chats appear at the top of your Friends list, with a group

chat icon.

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To chat on or off the record

Your Google Talk messages are stored, so you can review them later

and even search for them in the Chats folder in Gmail. But if you’d

rather not store the messages in a chat, you can go off the record.

S On a chat screen, press Menu and touch Chat off record.

To resume saving the messages in the chat, press Menu and touch

Chat on record.

To end a chat

When you end a chat, the friend is no longer at the top of your

Friends list and the chat is not displayed in the Switch Chats screen.

The text of the chat is not discarded—if you restart the chat, the

conversation is displayed in the new chat window where you left off.

S In your Friends list, touch & hold the friend you want to stop

chatting with. In the menu that opens, touch End chat.

S While on a chat screen, press Menu and then touch End chat.

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Changing and monitoring online status

Icons in Google Talk, Gmail, Google Maps, and other applications

indicate your and your friends’ Google Talk status.

Available: Signed into Google Talk and available to chat

Away: Signed into Google Talk but not active

Busy: Signed into Google Talk but too busy to chat

Signed out of Google Talk

Invisible: Signed into Google Talk but appear signed out to others

You can change your online status. You can also change the status

message you share with other Google Talk uses and the picture that

others see.

To change your online status

Touch your own entry at the top of your Friends list.

2 In the screen that opens, touch the status menu at the top of the

screen.

Touch to change your picture.

Touch to change your online status.

Enter a status message.

Touch to use a recent status message.

3 Touch a status in the dialog.

4 Touch Done.

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Your status and any message appear in your contact’s Friends lists

and in other locations where your status or status message are

displayed.

To change your status message

Touch your own entry at the top of your Friends list.

2 In the screen that opens, enter a status message or if you already

have one, edit it.

In addition to the standard status settings, you can also select a

message that you’ve entered previously. Or press Menu and touch

Clear custom messages to erase them and start over.

3 Touch Done.

To change your picture

Touch your own entry at the top of your Friends list.

2 In the screen that opens, touch your picture at the top left.

3 In the dialog that opens, touch Change (or touch Remove to

remove your picture and not replace it).

A Gallery screen opens with all the pictures on your SD card,

organized onto groups. Browsing pictures in Gallery is described

4 Open a collection and then touch the picture to use.

5 Crop the picture.

Editing pictures is described in “Working with pictures” on

page 260.

6 Touch Save, and then touch Done.

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Managing your Friends list

Your Google Talk Friends list contains the friends you’ve invited or

accepted invitations from, to become friends in Google Talk. Friends

can invite each other to chat in Google Talk and see each others’

online status in Google Talk and other applications, such as in Gmail

and Maps.

The Google Talk Friends list is sorted by your friends’ online status:

active chats, online, busy, and offline. Within each status group,

friends are listed alphabetically.

To add a friend to your Friends list

You can invite anyone with a Google Account to become your friend

in Google Talk, so you can chat with each other and view each others’

online status.

In the Friends list, press Menu and touch Add friend.

2 Enter your friend’s address and touch Send invitation.

Your friend’s address in Google Talk is a Gmail or other email

address that is configured to connect to Google Talk.

To view and accept an invitation to become a friend

When a contact invites you to become a friend in Google Talk, you

receive a notification in the Status bar and the invitation appears in

your Friends list.

Touch the invitation in the Friends list.

2 Touch Accept in the menu that opens.

Or touch Cancel if you don't want to chat with and share your

Google Talk status with the sender.

To view a list of pending invitations to friends

S In the Friends list, press Menu and touch More > Invites.

All the friends to whom you’ve extended invitations to become

friends on Google Talk appear in the list until they accept or cancel

your invitation.

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To view all friends or only those most popular with you

By default, only the friends that you frequently chat with—the most

popular with you—are shown in the Friends list. But you can view all

friends instead.

S In the Friends list, press Menu and touch All friends.

To switch back to just the friends with whom you chat most

frequently, touch Most popular in the menu.

To make a friend popular

You can set a friend to appear always in your Friends list.

In the Friends list, touch & hold a friend’s name.

If you don’t see the friend’s name, press Menu and touch All

friends.

2 Touch Always show friend in the menu that opens.

To remove a friend from this list, touch & hold the friend’s name in

the Friends list. In the menu that opens, touch Hide friend.

To block a friend

You can block a friend from sending you messages. When blocked,

your friend is also removed from your Friends list.

In the Friends list, touch & hold the friend’s name.

If you don’t see the friend, press Menu and touch All friends.

2 Touch Block friend in the menu that opens.

You can view a list of your blocked friends by opening your

Friends list, pressing Menu, and touching More > Blocked. You can

unblock a friend by touching the friend’s name in the blocked list

and then touching OK in the dialog that opens.

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Changing Google Talk settings

You can configure Google Talk to send you a notification with the

contents of each message that you receive in a chat, and also to

sound a ringtone or vibrate the phone.

You can also configure Google Talk to sign you in automatically when

you turn on your phone, and you can set whether the mobile indicator

is displayed next to your name in other people’s Friends lists.

To configure notifications for new Google Talk messages

In the Friends list, press Menu and touch Settings.

2 Check or uncheck IM notifications to set whether you receive a

notification in the Status bar when a new chat message arrives.

3 Touch Select ringtone to open a list of the ringtones that you can

choose to sound when you receive notification of a new chat.

4 Touch Vibrate to set whether the phone vibrates whenever you

receive notification of a new message, only when the phone is in

Silent mode, or never.

To show or hide the mobile indicator to friends

In the Friends list, press Menu and then touch Settings.

2 Check or uncheck Mobile indicator.

If Mobile indicator is checked, your friends see an outline of an

android next to your name in their Friends list when you’re signed

into Google Talk on the phone.

Your friend is signed into Google

Talk on his phone.

To set whether you sign into Google Talk automatically

In the Friends list, press Menu and then touch Settings.

2 Check or uncheck Automatically sign-in.

When Automatically sign-in is checked, you are signed into Google

Talk when you turn on your phone.

Signing in and out of Google Talk is described in “Signing in and

opening your Friends list” on page 170.

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You use the Email application to read and send email from

services other than Gmail. Email includes a wizard that

makes it easy to configure it for several popular email

service providers.

In this section

“Opening Email and the Accounts screen” on page 180

“Reading your messages” on page 183

“Responding to a message” on page 184

“Starring messages” on page 185

“Working with message in batches” on page 186

“Composing and sending email” on page 187

“Working with account folders” on page 188

“Appending a signature to your messages” on page 189

“Adding and editing email accounts” on page 190

“Changing email account settings” on page 192

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Opening Email and the Accounts screen

You use the Email application to read email from services other than

Gmail.

To open Email

S Touch the Email icon

on the Home screen or in the Launcher.

The first time you open Email, a setup wizard opens to help you add

an email account, as described in “Adding and editing email

accounts” on page 190.

After the initial setup, Email opens to the last screen you were

viewing or, if you have not used Email recently, it displays the

contents of your Inbox (if you have only one account) or the

Accounts screen (if you have multiple accounts).

You can also add a shortcut to your Home screen to an account’s

Inbox, so that you can open it directly from the Home screen. See

“Customizing the Home screen” on page 32 for details about adding

shortcuts.

To open the Accounts screen

The Accounts screen lists your Combined Inbox and each of your

email accounts. If you have starred, draft, or unsent messages in any

of your accounts, the folders for those items from all accounts are

displayed as well.

S From a folder screen, press Menu and touch Accounts.

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Touch to open your Combined

Inbox, with messages sent to all

of your accounts.

Touch to open a list of just your

starred messages.

Touch an account to open its Inbox.

Touch to open a screen listing

the account’s folders.

Each folder and account on the Accounts screen displays the

number of unread messages in green, or the total number of

messages in gray.

You can touch a combination folder, such as the Combined Inbox

folder, to view the messages it contains.

You can also touch an account to view its Inbox, or an account’s

folder icon to view a list of that account’s folders.

The account from which you send email by default is indicated

with a checkmark.

To open your Combined Inbox

If you have configured Email to send and receive email from more

than one account, you can view all messages sent to all accounts in

your Combined Inbox.

Open the Accounts screen.

2 Touch Combined Inbox.

Messages in the Combined Inbox are color coded along their left

sides, by account, using the same colors that are used to color

code your accounts in the Accounts screen.

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An unread message.

A previously read message.

Messages are color coded

according to the account

to which they were sent.

Only some of your account’s recent email is downloaded to your

phone. To download earlier messages in batches for IMAP or POP3

accounts, touch Load more messages at the bottom of the list of

email.

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Reading your messages

You can read messages in your Combined Inbox or in the Inbox or

other folders for individual accounts.

When you receive a new message, you also receive a notification in

the Status bar, unless you’ve turned off Email notifications using the

Email Account settings, where you can also set whether Email

notifications vibrate the phone and pick a ringtone. See “To change

an account’s settings” on page 191. When you touch an Email

notification, it opens the Combined Inbox.

To read a message

Open the Combined Inbox, an account’s Inbox, or another folder

of messages.

2 Touch the message to read.

The message opens in a screen with information about who sent

it, the date it was sent, and related information at the top, followed

by the contents of the message.

Touch an arrow to read the next or

previous message in the folder.

Sender’s Google Talk online status.

Open an attachment.

Touch to reply to or delete the message.

The Google Talk online status is shown next to the name of the

sender of each message. You can touch that status indicator to

open Quick Contact. See “Connecting quickly with your contacts”

on page 62.

You can reply to, forward, delete, or take other actions on a

message, as described in “Responding to a message” on page 184.

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Responding to a message

You can reply to or forward a message that you receive. You can also

delete messages and manage them in other ways.

To reply to or forward a message

S While reading a message, touch Reply or Reply all.

S Press Menu and touch Reply, Reply all, or Forward.

A Compose Message window opens with the addresses (when

replying), subject, and a copy of the message you’re responding to

filled in.

You can send this message as you would a new message, as

described in “Composing and sending email” on page 187.

To mark a message as unread

You can to return a read message to the unread state—for example,

to remind yourself to read it again later. You can also mark a batch of

messages as unread; see “Working with message in batches” on

page 186.

S While reading a message, press Menu and touch Mark as unread.

To delete a message

You can delete a message from its folder. You can also delete a batch

of messages; see “Working with message in batches” on page 186.

S While reading a message, touch Delete.

S Press Menu and touch Delete.

For most kinds of accounts, deleted messages are moved to a Trash

folder, so you can retrieve them if you deleted them in error.

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Starring messages

You can star an important message to make it easy to keep track of.

Once you star a message, a Starred folder is added to the Accounts

screen. You can also star a batch of messages (see “Working with

message in batches” on page 186).

To star a message

S While reading a message, touch the star in its header.

S While viewing a list of messages in a folder, touch a message’s

star. The star turns gold

To unstar a message

S Touch its star again.

To view your starred messages

You can open a folder that contains the starred messages from all of

your accounts.

Open the Accounts screen.

See “Opening Email and the Accounts screen” on page 180.

2 Touch Starred.

A folder opens with a list of your starred messages.

You can also open an account’s individual Starred folder. See

“Working with account folders” on page 188.

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Working with message in batches

You can delete, star, or mark unread a batch of messages at once.

In the Inbox or mailbox, check the messages that you want to

work with as a batch.

When you check one or more messages, the Mark unread,

Add star, and Delete buttons appear at the bottom of the screen.

2 Touch Mark unread, Add star, or Delete.

You can also press Menu and touch Deselect all.

Your action affects the entire batch of messages.

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Composing and sending email

You can send email to your contacts or to other people or groups.

To compose and send a message

Press Menu and touch Compose.

2 Address the message.

As you enter text, matching addresses are offered from your

Contacts. You can touch a suggested address or enter a new one.

Separate multiple addresses with commas.

See “Contacts” on page 95 for more information.

3 Press Menu and touch Add Cc/Bcc to address a copy or blind copy

of the message.

4 Enter a subject for the message.

5 Enter the text of the message.

For information about entering and editing text, see “Using the

onscreen keyboard” on page 44 and “Editing text” on page 49.

6 Press Menu and touch Attach to send a photo with the message.

7 Touch Send.

If you’re not ready to send the message, touch Save as draft to

save it in a Drafts folder. You can open the combined Drafts folder

for all accounts on the Accounts screen or just your account’s

Drafts folder. See “Working with account folders” on page 188.

Touch a draft message in a Drafts folder to resume working on it.

Your message is also saved as a draft if you press Back

before

sending it.

Touch Discard to abandon a message, including any saved drafts.

If you aren’t connected to a network, for example, if you’re

working in airplane mode, the messages that you send are stored

in your Outbox folder until you’re connected to a network again. If

it contains any messages, the Outbox is displayed on the

Accounts screen.

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Working with account folders

Each account has Inbox, Outbox, Sent, and Drafts folders. Depending

on the features supported by your account’s service provider, you

may have additional folders.

To view an account’s folders

Open the Accounts screen.

2 Touch an account’s folder icon.

You can also open an account’s folders while viewing its Inbox or

other folder, by touching Menu and then touching Folders.

The account’s Folders screen opens, with a scrolling list of the

folders in the account. Touch a folder to view a list of the

messages it contains.

The account name.

Green circles indicate the number

of unread messages in the folder.

Touch a folder to open the

messages it contains.

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Appending a signature to your messages

You can append one or a few lines of text to every message you send

from an account, such as your name, contact information, or even

“Sent by an android.”

Open the Accounts screen.

2 Touch & hold the account whose settings you want to change. In

the menu that opens, touch Account settings.

You can also open the settings for an account while you’re viewing

its inbox, by pressing Menu and touching Account settings.

3 Touch Signature.

Enter a signature to append to

your messages; then touch OK.

4 Enter a signature.

5 Touch OK.

6 When you’re finished changing settings, press Back

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Adding and editing email accounts

The first time you open Email, you are prompted to set up an email

account. After that, you can configure Email to send and receive

email from additional accounts. The accounts that you configure are

displayed in the Accounts screen. See “Opening Email and the

Accounts screen” on page 180.

The Email setup wizard helps you set up your account for many

popular email systems, including those based on IMAP and POP3, so

you can read and work with the same email as you do on a computer

in Thunderbird, Mac Mail, in a web browser, or with another email

application. If your service provider requires additional settings, or if

your service provider is unknown to Email, you can enter the

necessary details manually, though you will typically need to contact

your email service provider to determine the right settings for your

account.

To add an email account

Open the Accounts screen.

See “Opening Email and the Accounts screen” on page 180.

2 Press Menu and touch Add account.

3 In the Setup Email screen, enter your email address and password.

If you’re adding a second or subsequent email address, you can

also check the option to use the new account to send all outgoing

messages.

4 Touch Next. Or, if you need to enter email account settings the

wizard can’t configure for you, touch Manual setup.

If you touch Next, Email attempts to communicate with your email

service provider to validate your account for sending and

receiving mail, using just your email address and password. This is

sufficient for most email services.

Depending on the service provider, you may be asked what kind

of email account you have. If you’re not sure, check the settings in

the application you use to send and receive email on your

computer, or ask your email service provider.

If the wizard determines that your service provider requires

additional information, or if you touched Manual setup, you’re

prompted to enter your email account details.

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The details you enter are different, depending on the email service

type. These details are described in “Changing email account

settings” on page 192. Contact your email service provider for the

values required for your account.

5 Enter any other information requested by the type of account

you’re adding and touch Done.

6 Enter a name for the account and touch Done.

Email starts downloading your email messages and you can start

using it to send and receive messages using the new account.

To change an account’s settings

You can change a number of settings for an account, including how

often you check for email, how you’re notified of new mail, and

details about the servers the account uses to send and receive mail.

Open the Accounts screen.

2 Touch & hold the account whose settings you want to change. In

the menu that opens, touch Account settings.

You can also open the settings for an account while you’re viewing

its inbox, by pressing Menu and touching Account settings.

For descriptions of the settings that you can change, see

“Changing email account settings” on page 192.

3 When you’re finished changing settings, press Back

To delete an email account

Open the Accounts screen.

On some Email screens, you can press Menu and touch Accounts.

2 Touch & hold the account to delete.

3 Touch Remove account in the menu that opens.

4 Touch OK in the dialog to confirm that you want to delete the

account.

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Changing email account settings

You can change the following settings for each email account when

you create it or at any later time. See “Adding and editing email

accounts” on page 190.

These settings apply only to the account you’re working with. To

change the settings for another email account, you must switch

accounts; see “Opening Email and the Accounts screen” on page 180.

Account settings

Account name

The name of the account as it appears in the Accounts and Folders

screens.

Your name

Your name as it appears to others when they receive email from you.

Signature

Opens a dialog where you can enter a signature to append to the

messages you send from this account. See “Appending a signature to

your messages” on page 189.

Email checking frequency

Opens a dialog where you can set how often Email checks for new

email sent to this account.

Amount to synchronize

For some accounts, opens a dialog where you can set how many

days or weeks of email to store on the phone.

Default account

Use this account’s outgoing email server for the email you compose

and send when you are not currently viewing or working with email

from a specific account.

Email notifications

Set whether you want to receive notifications when you receive new

email sent to this account.

Select ringtone

Select a ringtone to sound when you receive an email notification for

this account.

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Vibrate

Opens a dialog where you can set the phone to vibrate whenever you

receive an email notification for this account, only when the phone is

in Silent mode. or never.

Incoming settings

Opens a screen where you can configure settings for how you

receive email for this account. See “Incoming server settings” on

page 193.

Outgoing settings

Opens a screen where you can configure settings for how you send

email from this account..

Sync contacts

For accounts that can sync contacts, check to sync contacts from

this account to your phone. See “Configuring account sync and

display options” on page 116.

Sync calendar

For accounts that can sync calendars, check to sync contacts from

this account to your phone. See “Configuring account sync and

display options” on page 116.

Incoming server settings

Your account’s incoming settings are different, depending on the

kind of email service.

Settings for POP3 accounts:

Username

Depending on the requirements of your email service

provider, your full email address or just your username

(that is, the part before @example.com in your email

address).

Password

The password for your email account.

POP3 server

The fully resolved domain name of your email service

provider’s POP3 server, for example, pop3.example.com.

Port

Set the Security type first to enter the typical server port

number in this field automatically. Or enter a different

port number if your email service provider requires it.

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Security type

Select the security type required by your email service

provider. Select the (Accept all certificates) option for

your security type to accept a server certificate from

your POP3 server that is self-signed, out of date, or in

some other way not accepted by the Email application.

Delete email

from server

Use to configure Email to cause your email service pro-

vider to delete from its server any email you delete in

the Email application, or to never delete email from the

server.

Outgoing server settings

If you use an IMAP or POP3 account for receiving email, you typically

use an SMTP server to send email from that account.

SMTP server

The fully resolved domain name of your email service

provider’s SMTP server, for example, smtp.example.com.

Port

Set the Security type first to enter the typical server port

number in this field automatically. Or enter a different

port number if your email service provider requires it.

Security type

Select the security type required by your email service

provider. Select the (Accept all certificates) option for

your security type to accept a server certificate from

your SMTP server that is self-signed, out of date, or in

some other way not accepted by the Email application.

Require sign-in

Username

Check this option to enter a username and password for

your SMTP server, if your email service provider requires

that you enter them to send email.

Your username on the SMTP server (this may not be the

same as your username on the POP3 or IMAP server for

incoming mail). Visible only if Require sign-in is checked.

Password

Your password on the SMTP server (this may not be the

same as your username on the POP3 or IMAP server for

incoming mail). Visible only if Require sign-in is checked.

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Messaging

You can use Messaging to exchange text messages (SMS)

and multimedia messages (MMS) with your friends on

their mobile phones.

In this section

“Opening Messaging” on page 196

“Exchanging messages” on page 197

“Changing Messaging settings” on page 201

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Opening Messaging

To open Messaging

S Touch the Messaging icon

on the Home screen or in the

Launcher.

The Messaging window opens, where you can create a new

message or open an ongoing message thread.

Touch to compose a new text or

multimedia message.

Touch to open an ongoing

message thread.

S Touch New message to start a new text or multimedia message.

S Touch an existing message thread to open it.

Creating and responding to messages is described in “Exchanging

messages” on page 197.

To delete a message thread from the Messaging window

Touch & hold the message thread.

2 Touch Delete thread in the menu that opens.

You can also press Menu and touch Delete threads to delete all

message threads from the window.

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Exchanging messages

You can send text (SMS) messages of up to 160 characters to

another mobile phone. If you keep typing after the limit, your

message is delivered as a series of messages.

Multimedia (MMS) messages can contain text and a picture, a

recorded voice, an audio file, a video, or a picture slideshow.

Messaging automatically converts a message into a multimedia

message if you send it to an email address instead of a phone

number, add a subject, or attach a media file.

To send a text message

On the Messaging screen, touch New message.

2 Enter a mobile phone number in the To field.

As you enter the phone number, matching contacts appear. You

can touch a suggested recipient or continue entering the phone

number.

You can also enter the name of a contact with a mobile number.

3 Touch the composition text box to start entering your message.

Enter a mobile phone number or

the name of a contact with a

mobile number.

Enter your message here.

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As you near the 160-character limit, a counter appears in the top

right corner of the text box to tell you how many characters are

left. If you go over that limit, a new message is created, which is

joined with the previous message when received.

If you press Back

while composing a message, it’s saved as a

draft in your Messaging window. Touch the message to resume

composing it.

4 Touch Send.

The Message window opens, with your message after your name.

Responses appear in the window. As you view and send additional

messages, a message thread is created.

To create and send a multimedia message

On the Messaging screen, touch New message.

2 Enter a mobile phone number or email address in the To field.

As you type, matching contacts appear. You can touch a

suggested contact or continue typing.

You can also enter the name of a contact with a mobile number.

3 Touch the composition text box to start entering your message.

4 Press Menu and touch Add subject to add a message subject.

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5 Press Menu and touch Attach to open a menu where you can

touch the kind of media file to attach to the message.

G If you touch Pictures, you’re prompted to touch a picture to

attach it.

G If you touch Capture picture, Camera opens so you can take a

picture and attach it.

G If you touch Videos, you’re prompted to touch a video to attach

it.

G If you touch Capture video, Camcorder opens so you can shoot

a video and attach it.

G If you touch Audio, you’re prompted to touch a ringtone to

attach it.

G If you touch Record audio, a screen opens where you can

record a spoken message and attach it.

G If you touch Slideshow, a screen opens where you can assemble

photos into a slideshow of up to 10 slides to attach to the mes-

sage.

6 Use the buttons in the Compose Message screen to preview or

remove the media attachment.

7 Touch Send MMS.

To respond to messages you receive

If you’re working in a message window, messages that you receive

are displayed in it.

Otherwise, you receive a new message notification and a new

message icon appears in the Status bar. See “Managing notifications”

on page 40.

When you touch the new message notification, the Message window

opens, where you can reply to the message.

If Auto-retrieve is unchecked, you must touch Download to view the

message. See “Changing Messaging settings” on page 201.

If the message contains a media file, touch Play to view, watch, or

listen to it. Touch & hold the media file to open a menu with an option

for saving the message on your SD card.

S Touch & hold a message to open a menu with number of options

for working with the message and its sender’s information.

Most of these options are described in this section.

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To forward a message

Touch & hold a message in a message window.

2 Touch Forward in the menu that opens.

3 Enter a recipient for the message and edit the content if you want.

4 Touch Send.

To lock a message

You can lock a message so it won’t be deleted if you reach your

storage limits (see “Storage settings” on page 201). If you try to

delete a thread that contains a locked message, you’re asked to

confirm that you want to delete it.

Touch & hold a message in a message window.

2 Touch Lock message in the menu that opens.

A lock icon appears to the right of the message.

Unlock a message by touching & holding it and then touching

Unlock message.

To view details about a message

Touch & hold a message in a message window.

2 Touch View message details in the menu that opens.

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Changing Messaging settings

You can change a number of Messaging settings.

S To change Messaging settings, open Messaging, press Menu, and

touch Settings.

Storage settings

Delete old messages

Check to delete older messages in a thread when the Text message

limit or Multimedia message limit is reached. Uncheck to keep all

messages.

Text message limit

Touch to set the number of messages to save per thread of text

messages. When the limit is reached, older messages are deleted if

Delete old messages is checked.

Multimedia message limit

Touch to set the number of messages to save per thread of

multimedia messages. When the limit is reached, older messages are

deleted if Delete old messages is checked.

Text message (SMS) settings

Delivery reports

Check to receive delivery reports for the messages you send.

Manage SIM card messages

Touch to open a window where you can work with messages stored

on your SIM card—for example, if you used the SIM card in another

kind of phone where you exchanged text messages.

Multimedia message (MMS) settings

Delivery reports

Check to receive a report on the messages you send.

Read reports

Check to receive reports when your messages are read or deleted.

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Auto-retrieve

Uncheck to download only the heading of multimedia messages,

which you can then touch to open a menu to download the whole

message. This is useful for controlling how much data you download,

for example, when connected to a slow data network.

Roaming auto-retrieve

Uncheck to download only the header of multimedia messages when

connected to other carrier’s data networks. This is useful for avoiding

unexpected charges, if your contract has limits on data roaming.

Notification settings

Notifications

Check to receive a notification whenever you receive a new message.

“Opening Browser” on page 204

Select ringtone

Opens a dialog where you can select the ringtone to sound when you

receive new message notifications.

Vibrate

Opens a dialog where you can set the phone to vibrate whenever you

receive a new message notification, only in Silent mode, or never.

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Browser

You use Browser to view webpages and to search for

information on the web.

In this section

“Navigating within a webpage” on page 207

“Navigating among webpages” on page 210

“Working with multiple Browser windows” on page 212

“Downloading files” on page 213

“Working with bookmarks” on page 215

“Changing Browser settings” on page 217

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Opening Browser

Open Browser to surf the web.

Some websites have two versions: full-size for computer-based web

browsers and another for mobile devices. They may also allow you to

switch back and forth. Full-size sites are often harder to navigate on

a mobile browser than sites designed for use on mobile devices.

To open Browser

S Touch the Browser icon

on the Home screen or the Browser

in the Launcher or on Home screen.

application icon

Browser also opens when you touch a web link—for example, in an

email or text message.

When you open Browser, the last webpage you were viewing is

displayed. If you have not used Browser recently, your home page

opens.

The URL of the current page is displayed at the top of the window,

unless a mobile site scrolls the URL bar off the top of the screen (if

so, just drag the page down to bring the URL bar into view).

The address (URL) of the

current page.

Some sites scroll the URL bar off

the top of the screen, but you

can drag the page down or

press Menu to see it again.

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To go to a webpage

Touch the URL box at the top of the Browser screen.

If the URL box isn’t visible, drag the page down until the URL box

comes into view.

2 Enter the address (URL) of the webpage.

As you enter the address, Google web search makes suggestions

of webpages and queries. See “Searching your phone and the

web” on page 55.

Or touch the Microphone icon to search by voice.

3 Touch a suggestion or enter an address and touch the arrow icon

If you touch a suggested page or enter an address and touch the

arrow icon

, that webpage opens.

If you touch a suggested query, Google web search opens with

the results.

To refresh the current page

S Press Menu and touch Refresh.

The webpage is reloaded, updating any content that has changed.

To stop opening a page

If a webpage is taking a long time to open, or if you change your

mind, you can stop it from opening.

S Touch the Cancel icon

to the right of the URL.

S Press Menu and touch Stop.

To get more information about the current page

S Press Menu and touch More > Page info.

A dialog opens with the page’s title and full address (URL).

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To set your home page

Your home page opens when you open a new Browser window, and

when you start Browser after restarting your phone or after not using

it for a while.

Browse to the page you want to set as your home page.

2 Press Menu and touch More > Settings > Set home page.

3 Touch Use current page. Or enter a different page’s address (URL).

4 Touch OK.

If you prefer to open new Browser windows without opening a

webpage by default, leave this field blank. This can make new

Browser windows open more quickly.

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Navigating within a webpage

Webpages that are optimized for mobile devices typically open at a

size appropriate for your phone. Often, you can’t zoom or even scroll

their contents.

Webpages that aren’t designed specifically for mobile devices

typically open in overview mode—the page is zoomed out so you can

get the big picture. You can change how pages open, as described in

“Changing Browser settings” on page 217.

To scroll a webpage

S Slide your finger on the screen.

S Swipe your finger over the Trackpad in any direction.

Swiping over the Trackpad selects items on the page in the

direction you swipe, scrolling selected items into view if necessary.

Pressing the Trackpad has the same effect as touching the

selected item (opening a link, selecting a text field, and so on).

The Trackpad is particularly useful for selecting links and other

items that are close together, such as text fields and controls in

forms.

To zoom in or out on a webpage

You may not be able to zoom in or out on webpages designed for

mobile devices.

Slide your finger slightly on the screen to reveal the Zoom control

2 Touch the plus or minus side of the Zoom control to zoom in or

out.

To quickly zoom into a section of a webpage

You may not be able to zoom in or out on webpages designed for

mobile devices.

S Double-tap on the section of the webpage you want to view.

The webpage zooms in so that you can read all the text in that

section by scrolling up and down.

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If you adjust your zoom level in this view, Browser remembers

your preference while you stay on that page.

S To return to the default zoom level, double-tap the screen again.

S Touch an area with two fingers at once and pinch them together

to zoom out; spread them apart to zoom in. Double-tap after

zooming in this way, to reflow a column of text to fit the screen (if

you have the Auto-fit pages setting checked, as described in

“Page content settings” on page 217).

To find text on a webpage

Press Menu and touch More > Find on page.

2 Enter the text you’re looking for.

As you type, the first word with matching characters is highlighted

on the screen, and subsequent matches are boxed.

Touch to jump to the previous or

next matching word.

3 Touch the left or right arrow to scroll to and highlight the previous

or next matching word.

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To copy text from webpage

Open a webpage and scroll to the beginning of the of text you

want to copy

2 Press Menu and touch and touch More > Select text.

3 Use your finger to drag across the text you want to copy.

Use the Trackpad to move the small arrow to the beginning of the

text you want to copy, and then press the Trackpad. Swipe your

finger over the Trackpad to move the cursor to the end of the text

you want, and then press the Trackpad again.

The text you selected is copied to the clipboard.

You can now use the techniques described in “Editing text” on

page 49 to paste the copied text into a text field in Browser or in

another application.

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Browser

Navigating among webpages

You can open links on a webpage, navigate back and forward, and

review your browsing history, just as in any web browser. You can

also take advantage of some shortcuts for working with links and

other kinds of information.

To open a link

S Touch a link to open it.

Links that you touch are highlighted in orange until the webpage

they refer to opens in the window.

The Trackpad is useful for selecting links that are close together

on the screen. Press the Trackpad to open a selected link.

To go back and forward among the pages you’ve opened

S Press the Back

button.

S Press Menu and touch Forward.

To view your Browser history

As you browse the web, Browser keeps track of the pages you visit,

to help you find your way back later. “Changing Browser settings” on

page 217 describes the setting that clears your history.

Touch the bookmark icon

at the top right of the screen.

2 Touch the History tab.

You can also press & hold the Back

button when viewing a

webpage to open the History tab.

The pages you’ve visited are grouped chronologically.

Bookmarked pages have a gold star. Touch a star to add or

remove that page from your bookmarks.

3 Touch a time period to view the pages you’ve visited.

4 Touch & hold a page in the list to open a menu with options for

opening the page, adding it or removing it form you bookmarks,

sharing page, removing it form your history, and so on.

5 Touch a page in the history to reopen it.

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To view your most frequently visited pages

Touch the bookmarks icon

at the top right of the screen.

2 Touch the Most visited tab.

The pages you’ve visited most frequently are listed in order.

Bookmarked pages have a gold star. Touch a star to add or

remove that page from your bookmarks.

3 Touch & hold a page in the list to open a menu with options for

opening the page, adding it or removing it form you bookmarks,

sharing page, removing it form your history, and so on.

4 Touch a page to open it.

To follow shortcuts for links, phone numbers, and addresses

Browser recognizes links, as well as some phone numbers, addresses,

and similar information, as information that you may want to act on

directly.

S Touch & hold a link to open a menu with shortcuts for opening,

bookmarking, saving, and sending the link via email.

S Touch a phone number to open the Phone application with the

number entered.

See “Placing and ending calls” on page 81.

S Touch a street address to open it in Maps.

For more information, see “Maps” on page 221.

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Working with multiple Browser windows

You can open up to eight Browser windows at once and switch

among them.

To open a new Browser window

S Press Menu and touch New Window.

S Press Menu and touch Windows. In the screen that opens, touch

New window.

New windows open with your home page.

To switch Browser windows

Press Menu and touch Windows.

Your open windows are displayed.

Touch to open a new window.

Touch to open an existing window.

Touch to close a window.

2 Touch a window to open it.

To close a Browser window

Press Menu and touch Windows.

All open windows are displayed in a scrolling list of thumbnails.

2 Touch the Close Box on the window to close it.

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Downloading files

You can download files and even applications from webpages. The

files that you download are stored on your SD card. See “Connecting

to a computer via USB” on page 75 to learn more about SD cards.

To allow installing applications from the web or email

By default, your phone is configured to prevent you from installing

applications that you download from the web or receive with an

email message.

Warning! Applications downloaded from the web can be from unknown sources. To

protect your phone and personal data, download applications only from

trusted sources, such as Android Market.

Press Home , then press Menu and touch Settings >

Applications.

2 Check Unknown sources.

3 Touch OK in the dialog, to confirm you want to allow downloading

applications from sources other than Market.

To download a file

Different webpages offer different mechanisms for downloading

pictures, documents, applications, and other files.

S Touch & hold an image or a link to a file or to another webpage. In

the menu that opens, touch Save.

If the file is in a format supported by an application on the phone, it is

downloaded to your SD card.

To cancel a download

If you change your mind about downloading a file, or start

downloading one by accident, you can cancel the download in

progress.

Press Menu and touch More > Downloads.

2 Touch & hold an item in the list and in the menu that opens, touch

Cancel download. Or press Menu again and touch Cancel all

downloads.

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To view the files you’ve downloaded

S Press Menu and touch More > Downloads.

The files you’ve downloaded are listed in order. Touch a file to

open it.

To delete a file you’ve downloaded

Press Menu and touch More > Downloads.

The files you’ve downloaded are listed in order.

2 Touch & hold the file you want to delete from your SD card.

3 Touch Delete.

4 Touch OK.

The file is permanently deleted from the SD card.

You can also delete and perform other tasks with the files on your

SD card when you connect your phone to a computer using the

USB cable that came with your phone. See “Connecting to a

computer via USB” on page 75.

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Working with bookmarks

You can bookmark webpages so that you can quickly return to them.

To bookmark a webpage

Open the webpage to bookmark.

2 Touch the bookmark icon at the top of the screen (or press

Menu and touch Bookmarks) and at the top of the Bookmarks

screen, touch Add.

You can also press Menu and touch More > Add bookmark.

3 Edit the name and the address if necessary and touch OK.

The bookmark is added to your list of bookmarks.

To open a bookmark

Touch the bookmark icon

Or press Menu and touch Bookmarks.

at the top of the screen.

A window opens with a list of your bookmarks, sorted by how

often you visit them.

Bookmarks are displayed in thumbnail view by default. To see

them as a list, press Menu and touch List view.

2 Touch a bookmark to open it.

The bookmark opens in the current window. If you prefer to open

it in a new window, touch & hold the bookmark and touch Open in

new window in the menu.

To edit a bookmark

Touch the bookmark icon at the top of the screen.

Or press Menu and touch Bookmarks.

2 Touch & hold the bookmark to edit.

3 Touch Edit bookmark in the menu

4 Edit the name or address in the dialog that opens.

5 Touch OK.

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To share a bookmark

Touch the bookmark icon at the top of the screen.

Or press Menu and touch Bookmarks.

2 Touch & hold the bookmark to share.

3 Touch Share link in the menu.

4 Touch the application you want to use to send the bookmark.

The application opens with the bookmark’s address entered.

To add a bookmark shortcut to the Home screen

You can add a shortcut to your phone’s Home screen that you can

touch to open one of your bookmarks in a Browser window.

Touch & hold an empty spot on your phone’s Home screen.

2 Touch Shortcut.

3 Touch Bookmarks.

4 Touch a bookmark to add it.

The bookmark icon is added to the Home screen.

To delete a bookmark

Touch the bookmark icon at the top of the screen.

Or press Menu and touch Bookmarks.

2 Touch & hold a bookmark to delete it.

3 Touch Delete bookmark in the menu.

4 Touch OK.

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Changing Browser settings

You can configure a number of Browser settings, including several

that you can use to manage your privacy.

S To open the Browser settings screen, press Menu and touch

More > Settings.

Page content settings

Text size

Opens a dialog where you can increase or decrease the size of the

text that Browser uses when displaying webpages.

Default zoom

Opens a dialog where you can increase or decrease the

magnification level that Browser uses when first opening a webpage.

Open pages in overview

Uncheck to open webpages displaying their top-left corners at 100%

size. Check to open webpages zoomed out, in an overview.

Text encoding

Opens a dialog where you can change the character-encoding

standard that Browser uses when displaying text on a webpage.

Block pop-up windows

Check to prevent websites from opening windows unless you request

it.

Load images

Uncheck to omit images when Browser displays a webpage. This

speeds webpage display, which can be useful if you have a slow

connection, but many websites make little sense with text alone.

Auto-fit pages

Check to have Browser optimize the presentation of text and other

elements of webpages to fit your phone’s screen. Checking this

option also causes the browser to reflow a column of text to fit the

screen if you double-tap the screen directly after zooming with your

fingers. Uncheck to view pages as designed for a computer screen,

and to cause double-tapping to simply switch between zoomed-in

and default view.

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Landscape-only display

Check to display pages in landscape (horizontal) orientation on your

screen, regardless of how you are holding the phone.

Enable JavaScript

Uncheck to prevent JavaScript from running on webpages. Many

webpages function correctly only if they can run JavaScript features

on your phone.

Enable plug-ins

Uncheck to disable plug-ins from webpages.

Open in background

Check to open new windows in the background when you touch &

hold a link and touch Open in new window. This is useful when you are

working with windows that take a long time to download and display.

Press Menu, touch Windows, and then touch the new window to view

it. Uncheck if you prefer new windows that you open in this way to

open in place of the current window. See “To switch Browser

windows” on page 212.

Set home page

Opens a dialog where you can enter the URL of a page that you want

to open whenever you open a new Browser window. If you prefer to

open new Browser windows more quickly, by not opening any page

by default, leave the dialog blank.

Privacy settings

Clear cache

The browser stores the text and images of the webpages you visit so

that they open more quickly when you revisit them. Touch Clear

cache to delete these temporary files.

Clear history

The browser keeps track of the webpages you visit, so you can

quickly find them and open them again later. (See “To view your

Browser history” on page 210.) Touch Clear history to delete this

record.

Accept cookies

Many webpages store, read, and update files called cookies on your

phone, for your convenience. For example, some password-protected

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sites use cookies so you don’t have to log in each time you visit.

Other sites use cookies to remember your preferences. Uncheck to

prevent webpages from storing cookies on your phone.

Clear all cookie data

Touch to delete all cookies from your phone.

Remember form data

Browser remembers what you enter in some form fields on a site and

helps you reenter that text the next time you use that form. Uncheck

to disable this feature.

Clear form data

Touch to delete all the information the Browser remembers about

what you’ve entered in forms.

Enable location

Check to permit websites with location-specific content to ask

whether you want to share your location, using your phone’s location

information. To provide a website with your location, you must also

have location sharing enabled in the Settings application. See

“Privacy settings” on page 330.

Clear location access

Opens a dialog where you can clear the permissions you’ve granted

to websites in the past, to access your location. If those websites

want permission to access your location again, you must grant it

again.

Security settings

Remember passwords

Browser can remember your passwords for some webpages that

require you to log in, to make it quicker to log into those pages on

repeat visits. Uncheck to prevent Browser from storing passwords.

Clear passwords

Touch to delete any passwords that Browser has stored.

Show security warnings

Uncheck to prevent Browser from warning you about websites with

common security problems, such as outdated or invalid certificates.

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Advanced settings

Website settings

Opens a screen where you can view advanced settings for particular

websites.

Reset to default

Touch to delete all Browser data, including your browsing history,

cookies, passwords, and bookmarks, and to restore all the Browser

settings to their original values.

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Maps

You use Maps to find your current location; to view real-

time traffic conditions; to get detailed directions by foot,

public transportation, bicycle, or car; and to navigate by

using spoken, turn-by-turn driving instructions, using the

Google Maps Navigation (beta) service.

You can search on a street map or a satellite image to

locate an address or a landmark, and you can view some

locations as if you were strolling down the street.

If you join Google Latitude, you can view your friends’

locations on your maps and share your location and other

information with them.

Maps does not have information about every location.

In this section

“Opening Maps and viewing your location” on page 222

“Obtaining details about a location” on page 224

“Starring a location” on page 226

“Changing map layers” on page 228

“Searching for locations and places” on page 230

“Getting directions” on page 231

“Navigating with spoken, turn-by-turn directions” on page 233

“Finding your friends with Google Latitude” on page 241

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Opening Maps and viewing your location

You must turn on location services to use information about your

location when navigating and searching in Maps. Then open Maps to

view your location.

To use location services with Maps

You must have location services turned on to view your location in

Maps and to use your location to find local resources.

Press Home , press Menu, and touch Settings > Location &

security.

2 Check the My Location options that you want to use.

Check Use wireless networks to allow the phone to determine

your approximate location by using Wi-Fi and mobile networks.

Check Use GPS satellites to allow your phone to determine your

location to street-level accuracy. (GPS works best when you have

a clear view of the sky.)

To open Maps and view your location

Touch the Maps icon in the Launcher. Or touch the

Navigation icon to directly open Maps’ navigation feature.

For more information about navigation, see “Navigating with

spoken, turn-by-turn directions” on page 233.

2 Press Menu and touch My location.

The map centers on a blue indicator that tells your location. A blue

circle around the indicator tells that your actual location is within

the circle.

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Drag the map to move in any direction.

Your location.

Zoom in or out.

To move the map

S Drag the map with your finger.

To zoom in and out of a map

S Touch the plus or minus side of the Zoom control

S Double-tap a location on the map with one finger to zoom in to

that location; double-tap with two fingers to zoom out.

S Touch an area with two fingers at once and spread them apart to

zoom in; pinch them together to zoom out.

Not all magnification levels are available for all locations.

To clear the map

After you get directions or search on a map, you can clear the

markers that such activities draw.

S While viewing a map, press Menu and touch More > Clear map.

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Obtaining details about a location

You can obtain the address and other information about an area on a

map. The amount of information depends on the location.

To get the address and additional details about a location

S Touch & hold a location, star, or labeled feature on the map.

A balloon opens over the location, with the address and a

thumbnail from Street View, if available.

Touch & hold a location or other

feature to open a balloon with

its address.

Touch the balloon to open a

screen with tools for learning

more about the location.

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S Touch a balloon to open a screen with tools for learning more

about the location.

The address and other summary

information about the location.

These tools are described in this section and on http://

maps.google.com .

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Starring a location

You can star a location on a map, to make it easy to spot when you’re

signed into Google Maps on your phone or on the web. You can also

open a list of the locations you’ve starred, so you can quickly view

them on a map.

To star or unstar an location

You can star any location or labeled feature on a map.

Touch & hold a location or labeled feature on a map.

2 Touch the balloon that opens.

3 Touch the gray star at the top of the screen to star the location.

(Or touch a gold star to unstar that location.)

The star turns gold and a gold star is added to the map at that

location.

Touch a star for more

information about that location.

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To view a list of starred items

You can open a list of your starred locations, so you can quickly go to

a starred location on the map. The list includes locations you’ve

starred when signed into Maps on the phone or the web.

S While viewing a map, press Menu and touch More > Starred Items.

The list of your starred items and their addresses opens.

Touch a location to view it on a map.

S Touch a location in the list to view it on a map.

S Press Menu and touch Refresh to update the list.

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Changing map layers

Initially, Google Maps opens with a street map. You can also view a

satellite image of a location, check on traffic, and even look at a

location as if you were standing on the street. And you can view

maps that you’ve created in Google Maps on the web. These and

many other layers are available in Google Maps.

To view map, satellite, or traffic layers

S Press Menu, touch Layers, and touch a layer.

Map layer

Satellite layer

Traffic layer

Map layer is the default. It displays a street map with the names of

streets, rivers, lakes, mountains, parks, and other features.

Satellite layer uses the same satellite data as Google Earth.

Satellite images are not real time. Google Earth acquires the best

imagery available, most of which is between 1 and 3 years old.

Traffic layer offers real-time traffic conditions, displayed over

roads as color-coded lines, from green through black.

For information about Latitude, see “Finding your friends with

Google Latitude” on page 241.

For information about the other features of Google Maps, visit

Google Maps on the web.

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Not all locations have information to support all Map layers or all

zoom levels. Visit Google Maps on the web to learn more about

layers.

To open Street View for a location

Street View offers street-level images of a location, which you can

navigate, zoom in to, and so on. Street View is not available for all

areas.

Touch & hold a location on a map to open a balloon with the

address and a Street View thumbnail.

2 Touch the balloon. In the screen that opens, touch the Street view

icon

Touch the view to

display navigation tools.

Touch the arrows to

shift the view up or

down the street.

To navigate in Street View

S Drag the image in any direction to pan up or down or to look in

other directions.

S Zoom in to the direction you’re looking.

S Press Menu and touch Step forward or Step backward to move up

and down the street. Or just touch a navigation arrow in the

image.

S Press Menu and touch Compass mode to use the phone itself to

navigate Street View. Tilt, pan, or turn the phone to change the

view. Touch Compass mode again to end it.

S Press Menu and touch Report image to open a web-based form

for reporting to Google about images with inappropriate content

or privacy concerns.

S Press Menu and touch Go to map to leave Street View.

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Searching for locations and places

You can search for a location and view it on a map. You can also

search for places on the map that you’re viewing.

To search for a location

While viewing a map, press Menu and touch Search. Or press the

Search button

2 In the search box, enter the place you’re looking for. You can enter

an address, a city, or a type of business or establishment—for

example, “museums in San Francisco”.

As you enter information, suggestions from your previous

searches and from popular searches appear in a list below the

search box. You can touch a suggestion to search for it.

Suggestions include items from your search history on the phone

and on the web. To learn more about your search history, including

how to clear it, see the Maps Help on the web: http://

maps.google.com/support

3 Touch the search icon.

Markers with letter labels indicate search matches on the map.

Touch a balloon to open a

screen with more information

about the location.

Touch a marker to open a

balloon with more information.

Touch to open a list of all the

results on the map.

Touch to select the next or

previous marker on the map

and view its label.

You can touch a marker to open a balloon that contains a label.

Touch the balloon to open a screen with more information about

the location, as well as options for obtaining directions.

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Getting directions

Maps can provide directions for travel by foot, public transportation,

bicycle, or car.

You can add a shortcut to a destination to your Home screen, so that

you can simply touch the shortcut to get directions to that location

from wherever you are. For example, a shortcut to your home or

work makes it easy to get directions there from wherever you travel.

For details about adding shortcuts to the Home screen, see

“Connecting quickly with your contacts” on page 62.

To get directions

While viewing a map, press Menu and touch Directions.

Enter a starting point in the first text box and your destination in

the second text box. Or touch to open a Menu with options for

selecting an address from your Contacts or a point that you touch

on a map.

Enter starting and ending locations.

Select a mode of transport.

Touch Go.

To reverse directions, press Menu and touch Reverse start & end.

2 Touch the icon for car, public transit, bicycling, or walking

directions.

3 Touch Go.

The directions to your destination appear in a list.

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You can read the directions or show them on the map.

If you requested driving directions, you can also touch Navigate to

get spoken, turn-by-turn directions from Google Maps Navigation,

as described in “Navigating with spoken, turn-by-turn directions”

on page 233.

4 Press press Menu for options relevant to the directions you

requested, such as reversing directions, routes that avoid freeways

or tolls, or to report a problem with the directions to Google.

When you’re finished, to clear the map, press Menu and touch

More > Clear map.

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Navigating with spoken, turn-by-turn

directions

You can use Google Maps Navigation (beta) to get turn-by-turn

driving directions, both spoken and displayed on your screen. Google

Maps Navigation is currently available only on selected countries.

To navigate with turn-by-turn directions

S Touch the Navigation

icon on the Home screen or in the

Launcher. Then touch the option for how you want to set your

destination or touch a previous destination in the lower part of the

screen.

Touch how you want to set your

destination.

Or touch a previous destination.

S Get directions to a location and then touch Navigate in the

Directions screen.

See “Getting directions” on page 231.

S Press & hold the Search button . When prompted to speak, say

“Navigate to” followed by a location. If prompted, touch a

destination in the list of suggestions.

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A map opens with your route drawn in blue and your next turn

described at the top. As you navigate your route, each direction is

spoken in turn, and the next turn is displayed. Your current

location and direction are shown as a blue arrow on the map,

which follows your location as you navigate your route.

Maps downloads and temporarily stores a copy of the directions

and other information about your route on the phone, so if you

lose your connection to a data network, you can still navigate to

your destination.

A compass indicates north.

Your current location and direction.

You can control the volume of the spoken directions with the

Volume Up / Down button. To turn the spoken directions off,

press Menu and touch Mute.

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To view turn-by-turn directions in a list

You can view each turn in your route as a scrolling list of written

directions.

S Touch the directions icon

A screen opens with a scrolling list of turn-by-turn directions to

your destination.

S Press Back

to return to Navigation View.

To return to Navigation View

If you are navigating to a destination and then use Maps to explore

other areas, you can quickly return to your current location in

Navigation View.

S Open the Notifications panel and touch the navigation ongoing

alert.

See “To change views of your route” on page 236 and “To get an

S Touch the navigation icon

on a map.

You return to Navigation View with your current location and next

direction displayed.

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To change views of your route

You can view your progress on your route as a map with a number of

layers of information. You can zoom in and out of the map and drag it

to view adjacent areas. You can also view your progress in Satellite or

Street View.

S Press Menu and touch Layers to switch to views that show traffic

or a Satellite View, or to show the locations of parking, restaurants,

and other landmarks along your route.

S Press Menu and touch Route Info for a high-level summary view of

your route, with options for picking a new route, traffic

information, and so on.

alternate route to your destination” on page 239.

S Drag on the map to view adjacent areas, or touch the map to see

controls for zooming in and out.

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To search for locations along your route

You can search for businesses, points of interest, and other features

along your route. When you search while navigating, your results

include locations along your route, rather than locations that are near

your current location.

For more information about searching in Maps, see “Searching for

locations and places” on page 230.

S Press Search

and search for locations of interest.

The results are displayed as markers along your route; the first

result is labeled. You can use the left and right arrow buttons to

move from result to result, zoom in and out, or touch a label for

more information about the marker.

S When you’re finished, touch the navigation icon

to return to

Navigation View.

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To preview your route

You can preview each turn in your route in Navigation, Satellite, and

other views.

Touch the direction at the top of the screen.

Left and right arrows appear.

2 Touch a left or right arrow to preview the next or previous leg of

your route.

When previewing a route, touch

of your route. In street-level view, touch

to switch to a street-level view

to switch to Street

View, where you can drag your finger to change the direction

you’re viewing, as described in “To open Street View for a

location” on page 229.

3 When you’re finished previewing, touch the navigation icon

return to your current location and next turn direction.

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To view traffic conditions on your route

At the lower-left corner of navigation View, a traffic light indicates

the overall traffic conditions on your route, next to the estimated

time until you arrive at your destination. You can also view the traffic

conditions on each segment of your route.

S Touch the traffic light at the lower left of the Navigation View.

Your route opens in Traffic View, with color coding to indicate the

traffic along the way.

S Touch the navigation icon

to return to your current location in

Navigation View.

To get an alternate route to your destination

If traffic is slow on your current route, or if you just want to try a

different route, you can request an alternate route from the Google

Maps Navigation service.

Press Menu and touch Route Info.

2 Touch the alternate route icon

An alternate route is drawn on the map.

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To exit navigation

You can exit Navigation View when you reach your destination, or at

any time.

S Press Menu and touch Exit Navigation.

You return to the previous Maps view.

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Finding your friends with Google Latitude

Google Latitude lets you and your friends view each others’ locations

on maps and share status messages with each other. In Latitude you

can also send messages and emails, make phone calls, and get

directions to your friends’ locations.

Your location is not shared automatically. You must join Latitude and

then invite your friends to view your location, or accept invitations

from your friends.

To join Latitude

S While viewing a map, press Menu and touch Join Latitude.

The first time you join Latitude, you’re prompted to accept or

reject the Google privacy policy.

When you’ve joined Latitude, the menu item changes to Latitude.

To open Latitude

After you join Latitude, you can open it to find your friends and view

their updates.

S While viewing a map, press Menu and touch Latitude.

To invite friends to share their locations

After you join Latitude, you can start sharing your location with your

friends. Only friends whom you have explicitly invited or accepted

can see your location.

Open Latitude, press Menu, and touch Add friends.

2 Touch Select from Contacts or Add via email address in the menu

that opens.

If you touched Select from Contacts, a scrolling list of all your

contacts opens. Check al of the contacts you want to invite.

If you touched Add via email address, you can enter one or more

email addresses, separated by commas, for the friends you want

to invite.

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3 Touch Add friends at the bottom of the screen.

If your friends already use Latitude, they receive an email request

and a notification on Latitude. If they have not yet joined Latitude,

they receive an email inviting them to sign into Latitude with their

Google Account.

To respond to an invitation

When a friend invites you to share your location in Latitude, you can

respond in the following ways.

G Accept and share back

You and your friend can see each other’s locations.

G Accept, but hide my location

You can see your friend's location, but they can’t see yours.

G Don’t accept.

No location information is shared between you and your friend.

To view your friends’ locations

You can view your friends’ locations on a map or in a list.

When you open Maps, your friends’ locations are shown. Each friend

is represented by their picture (from Contacts) with an arrow

pointing to their approximate location. If a friend has chosen to share

city-level locations, their picture does not have an arrow and appears

in the middle of the city.

To see a friend’s profile and connect, touch the balloon to open a

screen with details about your friend and many connection options.

When you open Latitude you see a list of your Latitude friends, with a

summary of their last known locations, status, and so on. Touch a

friend in the list to open a screen with details about the friend and

many connection options.

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To connect with and manage connections with your friends

Touch a friend’s contact details balloon in Map view or touch a friend

in List view to open the friend’s profile. In the Profile screen, you can

communicate with your friend and set privacy options.

S Tap

to show your friend’s location on the map.

to get directions to your friend’s location.

to view your friend’s location in Street View.

S Tap your friend’s photo to open Quick contact and view your

friend’s contact details, send your friend an email, chat with your

friend in Google Talk, and more.

S Tap Sharing options, and then select from the following privacy

options:

Share best location available

Share your precise location information.

Share only city level location

Share only the city you are in, not your street-level location. Your

friend sees your picture in the middle of the city you are in.

Hide from this friend

Stop sharing your location with this friend in Latitude, in a list or

on a map. To share your location with this friend again, touch

Unhide from this friend.

S Tap Remove this friend to remove the friend from your list and

stop sharing locations altogether.

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To control what you share

You have control over how and when your friends can find you. Only

the last location sent to Latitude is stored with your Google Account.

If you turn off Latitude or are hiding, no location is stored.

Open Latitude, touch your own name, and touch Edit privacy

settings.

2 Set the following privacy options:

Turn off Latitude

Disable Latitude and stop sharing your location or status. You can

always join Latitude again.

Detect your location

Let Latitude detect and update your location as you move. The

update frequency is determined by several factors, such as your

phone’s battery charge level and how recently your location has

changed.

Set your location

Set the location shared with others as an address you enter; or,

from Contacts, pick a spot on a map, or resume having Latitude

share your actual location.

Hide your location

Hide your location from all your friends.

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Camera

Camera is a combination camera and camcorder that you

use to shoot and share pictures and videos.

Pictures and videos are stored on the phone’s SD card, so

you must install one to use Camera, as described in your

phone’s owners’ guide. You can copy your pictures and

videos from the SD card to a computer, as described in

“Connecting to a computer via USB” on page 75.

You can view your pictures and videos on the phone, edit

them, share them, and so on with Gallery. See “Gallery” on

page 253.

In this section

“Opening Camera and taking pictures” on page 246

“Changing Camera settings” on page 249

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Opening Camera and taking pictures

You take pictures and shoot videos with Camera.

Camera’s many settings are described in “Changing Camera settings”

on page 249.

You can also view your pictures with the Gallery application, as

described in “Gallery” on page 253.

Important Be sure to clean the protective lens cover with a microfiber cloth before tak-

ing pictures. A lens cover with smudges from fingers can cause blurry pic-

tures with a “halo” effect.

To open Camera

S Touch the Camera icon

in the Launcher or on the Home

screen.

See “Opening and switching applications” on page 51 to learn

more about opening and switching applications.

Camera opens in Landscape mode, ready to take a picture or

shoot a video.

Touch to preview your

pictures or videos in

Gallery.

Drag up to shoot videos;

drag down to take

photos.

Touch to take a picture

or shoot a video.

Touch settings to change them.

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To take a picture

If necessary, drag the control to the Camera position.

2 Adjust your exposure, flash, and other settings if you wish. Or

leave them on automatic.

See “Changing Camera settings” on page 249. The preview image

changes as you change the settings.

3 Frame your subject on screen.

You can zoom in or out by touching the Zoom icon 1x and then

touching a zoom level.

4 Touch the Shutter icon on screen or press the Trackpad.

The camera brings the image into focus. When the image is in

focus, the focus indicators in each corner turn green and the

camera takes a picture.

Touch & hold the Shutter icon or press & hold the Trackpad to

focus first, before taking a picture; then lift your finger to take a

focused picture more quickly.

The picture you just took is displayed for a moment, and then is

displayed as a thumbnail at the top right.

5 Touch the thumbnail to view, share, and work with your pictures in

Gallery

See “Gallery” on page 253.

To take pictures with digital zoom

S Touch the onscreen Zoom icon 1x and then touch the amount of

zoom you want.

S Double-tap the screen to zoom all the way in or out.

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Pictures that you take with digital zoom may be smaller (in pixels)

than the size you set with the Picture Size setting. See “Camera

settings” on page 250.

To shoot a video

If necessary, drag the control to the Video position.

2 Adjust the quality, color effect, flash, and other settings if you

wish. Or leave them on automatic.

See “Changing Camera settings” on page 249. The preview image

changes as you change the settings.

3 Point the lens to frame the scene where you want to start.

4 Touch the Start Video

icon or press the Trackpad.

The camcorder starts shooting the video. The time remaining to

shoot counts down at the left; when less than a minute is left, the

countdown turns red.

5 Touch the Stop Video

shooting.

icon or press the Trackpad to stop

An image from your most recent video is displayed as a thumbnail

at the top right.

6 Touch the thumbnail to view, share, and work with your videos in

Gallery

See “Gallery” on page 253.

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Changing Camera settings

Camera has automatic settings that you can use to take quick point-

and-shoot photographs and videos. But Camera also offers a number

of ways to control your exposures, including controlling the focus,

turning the flash on and off, and adjusting the white balance. You can

even shoot negatives and other special effects.

Camera also includes settings for controlling picture and video

quality and video length, whether to store the location where you

take your pictures, and so on.

To change Camera settings

Open the Camera screen for taking pictures or shooting videos

and touch the icon for the settings you want to change.

The settings open over the screen.

2 Touch the setting category you want to control and then touch a

setting.

Camera settings are described in “Camera settings” on page 250.

Camcorder settings are described in “Camcorder settings” on

page 251.

3 Press Back

to close the Settings menus.

Icons on the screen indicate the current settings.

4 Take your pictures using the new settings.

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Camera settings

Many Camera settings are displayed on screen.

Settings

Touch to open a scrolling list of settings:

Focus mode Touch to set Camera to use its Autofocus feature

(Auto), or to more quickly take pictures focused at infinity

(Infinity).

Exposure Touch to adjust the exposure in the range of +2 to -2.

Picture size Touch the size (in pixels) of the pictures you take.

Picture quality Touch the quality of the pictures you take.

Color effect Touch a special effect for your shots, such as mono-

chrome, sepia tone, or negative.

Restore to defaults Touch to restore all of Camera’s settings to

their default values.

Store location

Check to include the location of each picture you take, using the

phone’s GPS.

Location stored with photo

Location not stored with photo

White balance

Touch to select how Camera adjusts colors in different kinds of light,

to achieve the most natural-looking colors for your shots. Or allow

Camera to adjust the white balance automatically.

Automatic

Incandescent

Daylight

Fluorescent

Cloudy

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Flash mode

Touch to set whether Camera relies on its light meter to decide

whether a flash is necessary, or to turn it on or off for all shots.

Automatic

Off

1x Zoom

Touch to zoom from 1x to 2x. See “To take pictures with digital zoom”

on page 247 for other ways to zoom in and out.

Camcorder settings

As in Camera mode, Camcorder settings are displayed on screen.

Settings Touch to open a scrolling list of settings:

Color effect Touch a special effect for your videos, such as mono-

chrome, sepia tone, or negative.

Restore to defaults Touch to restore all of Camera’s settings to

their default values.

White balance

Touch to select how Camera adjusts colors in different kinds of light,

to achieve the most natural-looking colors for your shots. Or allow

Camera to adjust the white balance automatically.

Automatic

Incandescent

Daylight

Fluorescent

Cloudy

Flash mode

Touch to illuminate your video by turning on the flash lamp.

Off

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Video quality

Touch the video quality and maximum length combination

appropriate for viewing on a computer or for sharing with others via

Messaging or YouTube:

High (30m)

Low (30m)

MMS (Low, 30s)

YouTube (High, 10m)

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You use Gallery to view pictures and play videos that

you’ve taken with Camera, downloaded, or copied onto

your SD card. You can also view pictures in a Picasa web

album. You can perform basic editing tasks on pictures

and set them as your wallpaper or contact picture. You

can also share your pictures and videos with friends, via

email or messaging, or by uploading them to the Picasa

and YouTube web sites.

In this section

“Opening Gallery and viewing your albums” on page 254

“Working with albums” on page 256

“Working with pictures” on page 260

“Working with videos” on page 264

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Opening Gallery and viewing your albums

Open Gallery to view albums of your pictures and videos.

To open Gallery and view your albums

S Touch the Gallery icon

in the Launcher or on the Home screen.

S Open Gallery from Camera by touching the thumbnail image at

the top right.

S Open Gallery from Camera by pressing Menu and touching

Gallery.

Gallery presents the pictures and videos on your SD card,

including those you’ve taken with Camera and those you

downloaded from the web or other locations.

If you have a Picasa account associated with a Google Account

that you’ve added to your phone, and if you have configured it to

sync with Picasa, Gallery also presents your Picasa web albums.

See “Configuring account sync and display options” on page 116.

If you have a great many pictures or videos on your SD card or in

Picasa web albums, it may take Gallery a few minutes when you

open it to discover and organize them.

Touch to open Camera.

Touch in any view to return to

the main Gallery screen.

An album of the photos and

videos you took with Camera.

Peek into a stack by touching it

with two fingers and spreading

them apart.

Slide left or right to view more

albums.

A Picasa web album.

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S Touch an album to open it and view its contents.

The pictures and videos in the album are displayed in

chronological order. See “Working with albums” on page 256.

S Peek into an album stack by touching it with two fingers and

spreading them apart.

S Touch a picture or video in an album to view it.

See “Working with pictures” on page 260 and “Working with

videos” on page 264.

S Return to the main Gallery screen at any time by touching its icon

at the top left of the screen.

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Working with albums

Albums are groups of images and videos in folders on your SD card

or in Picasa web albums.

To open an album and view its contents

S Open Gallery and touch the album whose contents you want to

view.

See “Opening Gallery and viewing your albums” on page 254.

Albums open displaying the pictures and videos they contain in a

chronologically ordered grid. The name of the album is shown at

the top of the screen.

You can touch a picture or video to view it, as described in

“Working with pictures” on page 260 and “Working with videos”

on page 264.

Touch to switch from grid to stack view.

The name of the album.

Touch a picture or video to view it.

Touch an arrow to scroll a

screenful at a time. Drag left

or right to scroll rapidly.

S Touch an arrow in the scroll tool at the bottom of the screen to

scroll images a screenful at a time.

S Drag the scroll tool to the left or right to scroll more or less

quickly. The date of the images in view is displayed, so you can

scroll by date.

S You can also scroll through an album by swiping left or right.

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To change how the contents of an album are displayed

You can view the images and videos in your albums in a

chronological grid or in stacks, sorted by the date and the location

where they were taken. You switch album views with the Album View

switch at the top right of the screen.

S Open Gallery and touch the albumyou want to view.

S Drag the Album View switch

to the right to view the

contents of the album in stacks.

Stacks are sorted by the date and

location where you took them.

S Drag the Album View switch to the left to view the album

contents in a chronological grid again.

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To work with batches of pictures or videos

In addition to working with whole albums and with individual

pictures, you can select one or more pictures or videos in an album

to work on them in batches—for example, to send a few pictures

from an album to a friend.

Open the album to view the pictures and videos to work with.

2 Press Menu twice.

3 Check or uncheck the items you want to work with.

You can uncheck all items you’ve checked by touching Deselect All

at the top right of the window.

4 Use the controls at the bottom of the screen to act on the

checked items.

The controls available depend on the mix of items you’ve selected.

For information about sharing and editing pictures and videos,

see “Working with pictures” on page 260 and “Working with

videos” on page 264.

To share an album

You can share the entire contents of one or more albums.

You can also share individual images or videos from an album, as

described in “Working with pictures” on page 260 and “Working with

videos” on page 264.

Open the main Gallery window.

See “Opening Gallery and viewing your albums” on page 254.

2 Press Menu twice.

3 Check or uncheck the albums you want to share.

4 Touch Share at the bottom of the screen. In the menu that opens,

touch the application to use to share the selected albums.

The application that you selected opens with the pictures from

the selected albums or links, attached to a new message. For

information about addressing and sending the message, see the

section on that application.

Important If you are sharing an album via Gmail, do not delete the original of an attach-

ment before the message is completely sent (that is, it has the Sent label, not

the Outbox label), or the attachment will not be sent.

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To get details about an album

Open the main Gallery window.

See “Opening Gallery and viewing your albums” on page 254.

2 Press Menu twice.

3 Check or uncheck the albums you want to want details about.

4 Touch More at the bottom of the screen. In the menu that opens,

touch Details.

To delete an album

You can delete an album and its contents from your SD card.

Open the main Gallery window.

See “Opening Gallery and viewing your albums” on page 254.

2 Press Menu twice.

3 Check or uncheck the albums you want to delete.

4 Touch Delete at the bottom of the screen. In the dialog that opens,

touch Confirm Delete.

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Working with pictures

Use Gallery to view pictures that you’ve taken with Camera,

downloaded, copied onto your SD card, or that are stored in Picasa

web albums. You can also edit the pictures on your SD card and

share them with friends.

To view and browse pictures

S Open a Gallery album and touch a picture.

See “Opening Gallery and viewing your albums” on page 254 and

“Working with albums” on page 256.

Touch the picture to see

the controls.

Drag left or right to see

the next or previous

picture in the album.

Touch to zoom in or out.

S Turn the phone to view the picture in upright (portrait) or

sideways (landscape) orientation.

The picture is displayed (but not saved) in the new orientation.

S Touch the picture to view the Zoom and other controls.

S Touch a Zoom icon, double-tap the screen, or pinch two fingers

together or spread them apart to zoom in or out.

S When the picture is zoomed in, drag the picture to view parts that

are not in view.

S When the picture is zoomed to fit in the window, drag left or right

to view the next or previous picture in the album.

To watch a slideshow of your pictures

S Touch a picture to view the controls and touch Slideshow.

S Touch a picture to end the slideshow.

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To rotate a picture

Touch a picture to view the controls and touch Menu.

2 Touch More.

A menu opens with tools for working with the picture.

3 Touch Rotate left or Rotate right.

The picture is saved with the new orientation.

To use a picture as a contact icon or as Home screen wallpaper

Touch the picture to view the controls and touch Menu.

2 Touch More.

3 Touch Set as.

If you touch Contact icon, you’re prompted to select the contact

to associate with the picture and then crop the picture.

If you touch Wallpaper, you’re prompted to crop the picture.

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To crop a picture

You can save a zoomed-in portion of a picture by cropping it. You

can only crop pictures that are on your SD card (not those, for

example, in a Picasa web album).

Touch a picture to view the controls and touch Menu.

2 Touch More.

3 Touch Crop.

The cropping rectangle appears on top of the picture.

4 Use the crop tool to select the portion of the picture to crop.

Drag from the inside of the crop tool to move it.

Drag an edge of the crop tool to resize it to any proportion.

Drag a corner of the crop tool to resize it with fixed proportions.

Drag from inside the

crop tool to move it.

Drag a corner or edge

to resize the crop tool

and zoom in or out.

When you’re finished,

touch Save.

5 Touch Save to save a copy of the picture as you cropped it.

The original uncropped version remains on your SD card.

To get details about a picture

Touch the picture to view the controls and touch Menu.

2 Touch More.

3 Touch Details.

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To view the location of a picture in Google Maps

If you have configured Camera to save location data with your

pictures (see “Changing Camera settings” on page 249), you can

view the location where you took the picture in Google Maps.

Touch a picture to view the controls and touch Menu.

2 Touch More.

3 Touch Show on map.

Google Maps opens, centered on the location stored in the

picture.

To share a picture

You can share a picture by sending it to friends or posting it in a

Picasa web album.

You can also share albums of images or videos, as described in

“Working with albums” on page 256.

Touch a picture to view the controls and touch More.

2 Touch Share.

3 In the menu that opens, touch the application to use to share the

selected picture.

The application you selected opens with the picture (or a link)

attached to a new message. For information about addressing

and sending the message, see the section about that application.

Important If you are sharing a picture via Gmail, do not delete the original picture

before the message is completely sent (that is, it has the Sent label, not the

Outbox label), or the attached picture will not be sent.

To delete a picture

You can delete a picture from your SD card.

Touch a picture to view the controls and touch Menu.

2 Touch Delete.

3 Touch OK in the dialog that opens.

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Working with videos

Use Gallery to play videos that you’ve taken with Camera and to

share them.

To play videos

S Open a Gallery album and touch a video.

The video plays, with the orientation (portrait or landscape) you

shot it in.

Opening albums is described in “Opening Gallery and viewing

your albums” on page 254.

Touch the video to

view the playback

controls for pausing,

resuming, and skipping

backward and forward.

S Touch the video to view the playback controls.

To share a video

You can share a video by sending it in an email or with a multimedia

(MMS) message. MMS messages have size limits, typically 3MB, or

approximately 1 minute of high-quality video or 2 minutes of low-

quality video. See “Changing Camera settings” on page 249. You can

also share a video by uploading it to the YouTube web site.

While viewing a video album, press Menu twice.

2 Check the videos to share.

3 Touch Share.

4 In the menu that opens, touch the application to use to share the

selected videos.

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The application you selected opens with the video attached to a

new message. If you selected YouTube, you’re prompted to enter

details about the video to upload. For more information, see the

section on that application.

Important If you are sharing one or more videos via Gmail, do not delete the originals

before the message is completely sent (that is, it has the Sent label, not the

Outbox label), or the attached videos will not be sent.

To delete a video

While viewing an album, press Menu twice.

2 Check the videos or pictures to delete.

3 Touch Delete.

4 Touch Confirm Delete.

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Goggles

Use Goggles to search the web by taking pictures,

instead of by typing or speaking.

You can also use Goggles to get information about

businesses and other nearby places.

In this section

“Opening Goggles and searching with pictures” on page 267

“Working with your search history” on page 269

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Opening Goggles and searching with

pictures

You use Goggles to take a picture and search the web for information

about it. You can also use Goggles to learn about nearby businesses

and other local features.

To open Goggles

S Touch the Goggles icon

in the Launcher or on the Home screen.

The first time you open Goggles, you’re asked to accept the Google

mobile terms of service. Then a series of screens introduces you to

Goggle’s features, with illustrations and a short video.

After the tutorial, you’re asked whether you want to enable

Google Goggles search history, along with a link that explains

what the history stores.

To search with pictures

Goggles works better with some kinds of searches than others. Try

taking pictures of books and DVDs, landmarks, logos, contact info,

artwork, businesses, products, barcodes, or text. Currently, it’s not so

good at recognizing animals, plants, cars, furniture, or apparel.

Open Goggles.

2 Frame the object you want to search for in the viewer. Or touch

the crop tool

search for.

to isolate the portion of the view you want to

For best results, turn the phone sideways so the shutter button is

to the right, and fill the screen with as much of the search image

as possible.

3 Touch the on-screen shutter button

If Goggles is confident about identifying the subject of your

picture, a screen opens with search results. You can touch a result

to read more, rate the effectiveness of the search results, view or

share your image, and so on.

If Goggles can’t recognize the image, a screen opens where you

can try a text search instead, or view a selection of images that

Goggles thinks are similar to yours.

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To get information about nearby places

Goggles offers labels for nearby places when you point the phone at

locations Goggles has information about.

Open Goggles.

2 Orient the screen sideways (with the shutter button to the right),

and level the camera at your surroundings.

Goggles uses your phone’s GPS receiver to determine your

location (this works best outdoors). Once it has a lock on your

location, Goggles overlays a pin icon with the number of nearby

places it has information about. As you pan left and right, labels

appear.

3 Touch a label to open a screen with more information. Or touch

the pin to view a list of all nearby places Goggles has information

about.

To learn more about Goggles

S Press Menu and touch Help.

A screen opens with a button you can touch to browse to the

Goggles help center, for detailed information about Goggles and

its features. You can touch other buttons to review the Goggles

tutorial, and so on.

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Working with your search history

If you have the Goggles search history enabled, you can view the

pictures you’ve previously searched for with Goggles and use them

to search again. You can also enable or disable the Goggles search

history.

To review your search history

Press Menu and touch Search history.

2 Scroll to view the pictures you’ve searched for previously.

3 Touch an image to search with it again.

To remove images from your search history

You can remove images you no longer want in your search history.

Press Menu and touch Search history.

2 Touch Remove Items at the top of the screen.

3 Touch Remove under each photo you want to remove.

4 Touch Done at the top of the screen.

To disable or enable Goggles search history

You enabled or disabled Goggles search history when you first

opened Goggles. But you can change that setting at any time.

S When using the viewer or when viewing your search history, press

Menu and touch Disable history.

S When using the viewer, press Menu and touch Enable history.

The Disable Search History or Enable Search History screen

opens, where you can confirm your decision or touch the link to

open a screen with details about this feature.

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YouTube

YouTube is Google’s online video streaming service for

viewing, searching for, and uploading videos.

In this section

“Opening YouTube and watching videos” on page 271

“Changing YouTube settings” on page 274

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Opening YouTube and watching videos

You can browse, search for, view, upload, and rank YouTube videos

on your phone with the YouTube application.

To open YouTube

S Touch the YouTube icon

screen.

in the Launcher or on the Home

See “Opening and switching applications” on page 51 to learn

more about opening and switching applications.

YouTube presents videos grouped into categories, such as Most

Viewed and Top Rated.

You can touch a video to watch it, or touch

about it.

to learn more

Touch to search for a video. You

can even search by voice.

Touch to shoot and share a video.

Touch a video to play it.

Touch to learn more about a video.

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To watch and interact with YouTube videos

S On a YouTube screen, touch a video to play it.

S Touch the video to view the Playback controls.

You can pause, skip forward or backward, or drag the slider to the

point in the video you want to watch.

S Touch the HQ icon to change whether you’re viewing a high or

regular-quality version of the video.

You can set whether videos start in high or normal quality when

you’re connected to mobile data networks with YouTube settings.

See “Changing YouTube settings” on page 274.

S Press Back

to stop playback and return to the videos list.

S Press Menu to turn captions or off and to rank, comment on,

share, flag as inappropriate, and interact with the video in other

ways.

For details about these features, visit the YouTube web site.

To search for videos

At the top of the main YouTube screen, touch the Search icon

2 Enter the text to search for, or touch the Microphone icon to

search by voice.

3 Touch a suggestion below the search box or touch the magnifying

glass icon

4 Scroll through the search results and touch a video to watch it.

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To share your videos on YouTube

You can shoot and share a video by using YouTube. First, you must

create a YouTube account and sign into it on your phone.

You can also share the videos you shoot with the Camera application

by uploading them to YouTube. See “Working with videos” on

page 264.

At the top of the main YouTube screen, touch the Camera icon

2 Point the lens to frame the scene where you want to start.

3 Touch the Shutter button.

The camcorder starts shooting the video. The time remaining to

shoot counts down at the left; when less than a minute is left, the

countdown turns red.

4 Touch the Shutter button again to stop shooting.

The Upload video screen opens.

5 Enter a title for your video.

You can add additional details by touching More details.

6 Touch Upload.

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Changing YouTube settings

S To change YouTube settings, return to the YouTube home screen,

press Menu, and touch Settings.

You can change the following settings for YouTube on your phone.

High quality video on mobile

Check if you prefer to watch videos in high-quality by default when

connected to mobile networks, to reduce startup time and data use.

This setting has no effect if you are connected to a Wi-Fi network,

where videos always open in high-quality.

Captions font size

Opens a dialog where you can set the size of text you prefer when

viewing captions with your videos.

Clear search history

Touch to remove record of the results of video searches you’ve

chosen in the past, so they aren’t presented as suggestions in future

searches for YouTube videos.

SafeSearch filtering

Opens a dialog where you can set whether you want Google

SafeSearch filtering to block some results when you search for

videos: Block no search results (off), only explicit or offensive videos

(moderate), or both explicit or offensive text and videos (strict).

Displays the YouTube terms of service.

Application version

The version of the YouTube application installed on your phone.

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Music

You use Music to organize and listen to music and other

audio files that you transfer to your SD card from your

computer.

In this section

“Transferring music files to your phone” on page 276

“Opening Music and working with your library” on page 277

“Playing music” on page 279

“Working with playlists” on page 282

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Transferring music files to your phone

Music plays audio files that are stored on your phone’s SD card, so

before you open Music, you must copy audio files from your

computer onto the SD card.

Music supports a wide variety of audio file formats, so it can play

music that you purchase from online stores, music that you copy

from your CD collection, and so on.

Music supports audio files in numerous formats, including MP3, M4A

(iTunes application AAC, DRM-free), AMR , MIDI, and OGG Vorbis.

To copy music files onto the phone’s SD card

Connect the phone to your computer with a USB cable and mount

the SD card.

See “Connecting to a computer via USB” on page 75.

2 To organize your audio files, you can use the computer to create a

music folder at the top level of the SD card.

3 Use the computer to copy music and other audio files into the

folder that you created on the SD card.

You can use subfolders on the SD card to organize your music

files. Or you can simply copy the audio files to the top level of the

SD card.

If the music files have accompanying artwork in JPEG format,

rename the art file albumart.jpg and include it in the same folder

as the music files.

4 If you have created any playlists, create a subfolder for them in

your music folder on the SD card and copy the playlists into it.

5 Unmount the SD card from the computer and disconnect the

phone.

Warning! To prevent damage to the files on your SD card, follow your com-

puter’s instructions and the instructions in “Connecting to a com-

puter via USB” on page 75.

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Opening Music and working with your

library

After you’ve copied some music onto your SD card, as described in

“Transferring music files to your phone” on page 276, or downloaded

music from another source, you can open Music and see your library

of music files, sorted in one of four ways.

To open Music and view your music library

S Touch the Music icon

in the Launcher or on the Home screen.

When you copy music to your SD card, Music searches the card

for music files and builds a catalog of your music, based on

information about each file that is stored in the file itself. This can

take from a few seconds to several minutes, depending on how

many files you have copied onto the SD card.

When the catalog is complete, the Music library screen opens,

with tabs that you can touch to view your music library organized

by Artists, Albums, Songs, or Playlists.

Touch a tab to view your library

in one of four ways.

Touch the summary of the

current track to open the

Playback screen.

You can return to the main Library screen from most other

screens in the Music application by pressing Menu and touching

Library.

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To search for music in your library

Open the main Library screen and press the Search button

2 Start typing the name of the artist, album, or track you’re looking

for.

Matching songs are displayed in the list below the search box.

3 Touch a matching song to play it. Or touch a matching album or

artist to view a list of associated songs.

To delete a song from the SD card

You can delete music from the storage card.

S Touch & hold a song in a library list. In the menu that opens, touch

Delete.

S On the Playback screen, press Menu and touch Delete.

When your phone is connected to a computer, you can also delete

music files from the SD card, as described in “Transferring music files

to your phone” on page 276.

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Playing music

You can listen to music by using the phone’s built-in speaker, through

a wired headset, or through a wireless Bluetooth stereo headset that

supports the A2DP profile. See “Connecting to Bluetooth devices” on

page 72.

To play music

S Touch a song in your library to listen to it.

S While viewing a list of tracks in an album, press Menu and touch

Play all.

The Playback screen opens and the song you touched or the first

song in the album or other playlist starts to play. The tracks in the

current playlist play in order until you reach the end of the playlist

(unless you choose a repeat option). Otherwise, playback stops

only if you stop it, even when you switch applications or receive a

phone call.

Touch to open the current playlist.

Touch to shuffle the current playlist.

Touch to repeat the current

playlist; touch again to repeat

the current track.

Touch & hold to search for information.

Skip tracks or pause and resume

playback. Drag the slider to go

directly to a section of a track.

You can return to the Playback screen from most other screens in

the Music application by pressing Menu and touching Playback.

You can return to the Playback screen from any other application

by opening the Notifications panel and touching the ongoing

music notification. See “Managing notifications” on page 40.

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To control playback

The Playback screen contains several icons that you can touch to

control the playback of songs, albums, and playlists:

Touch to pause playback.

Touch to resume playback.

Touch to skip to the next track in the album, playlist, or shuffle.

Touch to skip to the previous track in the album, playlist, or

shuffle.

Touch to open the current playlist.

Touch to play the current playlist in shuffle mode (tracks are

played in random order).

Touch to toggle repeat mode: Don’t repeat, Repeat the playlist,

or Repeat the current track.

To control playback volume

In addition to the techniques for setting media volume described in

“Sound settings” on page 320, you can control the volume of music

in the Music application.

S Press the phone’s Volume Up/Down button.

A panel opens to show the current media volume; the indicator

moves as you adjust the volume.

Some headsets include their own volume controls or ways to

pause and resume playback or to switch tracks.

To play your tracks in a party shuffle

When you turn on Party Shuffle, Music plays tracks from your SD

card in random order, until you turn Party Shuffle off.

S In the Playback or a Library screen, press Menu and touch Party

shuffle.

Music creates a current playlist of a dozen tracks selected

randomly from your SD card and starts playing them. When it

finishes playing the first dozen tracks, it adds another dozen and

keeps playing.

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S View the current playlist that Party Shuffle is playing by touching

the Playlist icon

on the Playback screen.

For more information, see “Working with playlists” on page 282.

S Add a track to the end of the Party Shuffle playlist by touching &

holding the name of a track in your library. In the menu that opens,

touch Add to playlist and then Current playlist.

The track is added to the end of the Party Shuffle playlist.

S Stop Party Shuffle by pressing Menu and touching Party shuffle off.

To use a song as a ringtone

You can use a song as your phone ringtone, in place of one of the

ringtones that come with the phone.

S Touch & hold a song in a library list. In the menu that opens, touch

Use as phone ringtone.

S On the Playback screen, press Menu and touch Use as ringtone.

For details about using the Settings application to view and set the

phone’s ringtone, see “Sound settings” on page 320.

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Working with playlists

You can create playlists to organize your music files into sets of

songs, which you can play in the order you set or in a shuffle.

To create a playlist

When viewing a list of songs in the library, touch & hold the first

song you want to add to the new playlist.

2 Touch Add to playlist.

3 Touch New.

4 Enter a name and touch Save.

The new playlist is added to the Playlist library.

You can also add the song that is playing in the Playback screen

as the first song in a playlist by pressing Menu and touching Add

to playlist. Or touch Save as playlist to save all the songs in an

album that you’re playing as a playlist.

To add a song to a playlist

While viewing a list of tracks in the Library, touch & hold a song to

add it to a playlist.

2 Touch Add to playlist.

3 Touch the name of the playlist to add the song to.

The song is added to the playlist.

You can also add the song that is playing in the Playback screen

to a playlist by pressing Menu and touching Add to playlist.

To rearrange songs in a playlist

Open a playlist by touching it in the Playlist library.

You can also open the currently playing playlist by touching the

Playlist icon in the Playback window.

2 Drag a song up or down to change its order in the playlist.

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To remove a song from a playlist

Open a playlist.

2 Touch & hold a song and then touch Remove from playlist. Or

press Menu and touch Clear playlist to remove all the songs from

the playlist.

The song isn’t deleted from the SD card or other playlists; it’s

removed only from the playlist you’re working with.

To rename or delete a playlist

Open the Playlist library.

2 Touch & hold a playlist. In the menu that opens, touch Rename or

Delete.

You can’t delete or rename the Recently Added playlist.

No songs are deleted when you delete a playlist.

To create playlists on your computer

You can create playlists on your computer to use in Music. Music can

work with playlists in the M3U, WPL, and PLS file formats. You copy

playlists onto your SD card in the same way as you copy music, as

described in “Transferring music files to your phone” on page 276.

The best practice is to create a subfolder within your music folder for

playlists.

If you don’t have a dedicated application on your computer that can

create playlists, you can create a playlist in a text editor, using the

following guidelines:

Enter each music file name to include in the playlist on its own line.

2 Use music file names as displayed on your computer. Music

ignores all but the track names when displaying the playlist.

3 Save the file with the .m3u extension

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News & Weather

You can check the weather and top news stories with

News & Weather, a widget for your desktop that is

backed by a full-featured application.

In this section

“Checking the news and weather” on page 285

“Changing News & Weather settings” on page 288

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Checking the news and weather

News & Weather offers weather forecasts and news stories about

common topics. You can also customize the news topics that are

displayed.

This information is summarized in the News & Weather widget, which

you can place on your Home screen, and is presented in greater

detail in the News & Weather application.

To open News & Weather

S Touch the news or weather section of the News & Weather widget

on your Home screen, or touch its icon in the Launcher.

For information about working with widgets, see “Connecting

quickly with your contacts” on page 62. You can add multiple

News & Weather widgets to your home screen, each configured to

show just news, just weather, or both.

Touch the weather section of

the News & Weather widget to

open the News & Weather

application with a summary of

the weather. Touch the news

section of the widget to open a

list of the top stories in the news.

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To get details about the news and weather

When you open News & Weather, you view a summary of the

weather or headlines.

S Touch a tab in the scrolling list of tabs at the top of the screen to

view the weather or top stories by category. Or just swipe left or

right across the screen to switch news categories.

Scroll to touch the category

of news you’re interested in.

Touch the screen for details.

S Touch the weather summary for a more detailed forecast.

Touch the chart to view a

detailed forecast for a specific

hour of the day.

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Touch a time on the weather graph for a detailed, hour-by-hour

forecast.

S Touch a headline to read the full story.

Touch a headline to read the

full story.

Swipe left or right to change

news categories.

S While viewing the weather or news headlines, press Menu and

touch Refresh to get the latest information.

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Changing News & Weather settings

You can configure a number of settings for News & Weather.

The location and related settings also affect the display of the News

& Weather widget and the Clock application.

S On the News & Weather screen, press Menu and touch Settings.

Weather settings

Use my location

Check to use the phone’s location service to determine your location

when displaying weather information. Uncheck to set the location

manually, using Set location.

Set location

When Use my location is unchecked, touch to specify the location for

weather information by entering a city or postal code.

Use Celsius

Check to use the Celsius temperature scale instead of Fahrenheit.

News settings

Select news topics

Opens a screen where you can select the categories of news to

include in the scrolling list of News & Weather tabs. You can also

touch Custom topic to enter specific topics—for example, “solar

power” or “Olympics”.

Prefetch articles

Check to download news articles so that they open more quickly and

are available when you don’t have a data connection. Prefetching

articles improves performance at the expense of more data use and

decreased battery life between charges.

Prefetch images

Check to prefetch news images in addition to news text, when the

headlines are downloaded. Prefetching images improves

performance at the expense of more data use and decreased battery

life between charges. This setting is only available when Prefetch

articles is checked.

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Display images

Uncheck to omit images from news stories. This setting reduces data

use at the expense of the layout of some stories.

News terms of service

Opens a screen with details about the terms of service for Google

News.

Refresh settings

These settings control how frequently the information on the News &

Weather widget is updated. In addition to using these settings,

adding or removing the News & Weather widget from the Home

screen also turns Auto-refresh on or off. For more about working with

widgets, see “Connecting quickly with your contacts” on page 62.

Auto-refresh

Check to have News & Weather update information automatically, at

the frequency you set with Refresh interval. Uncheck to update the

news and weather only when you press Menu and touch Refresh. For

automatic refresh to work, you must also have Background Data

turned on in the Settings application. See “Accounts & sync settings”

on page 328.

Refresh interval

Opens a dialog where you can set how often to update the news and

weather automatically, if Auto-refresh is checked. More frequent

updates trade the convenience of current information for increased

data use and decreased battery life between charges.

Refresh status

Displays the date and time of the last refresh and the next scheduled

refresh of news and weather.

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Clock

In addition to displaying the date and time, the Clock

application displays information about the weather and

your phone. You can also use Clock to turn your phone

into an alarm clock.

In this section

“Viewing the date, time, and other information” on page 291

“Setting alarms” on page 293

“Changing Clock alarm settings” on page 295

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Viewing the date, time, and other

information

You use Clock to monitor several kinds of information at once, in

addition to the current date and time.

To open the Clock application

S Touch the Clock icon

on the Home screen or in the Launcher.

Clock opens with the date and time displayed on your Home

screen wallpaper, along with your local weather and other useful

information.

Touch to dim the screen.

The time when the next

alarm is set.

The battery charge level and

whether the phone is plugged

into a charger.

Touch an icon to set an alarm,

view a slideshow, listen to music,

or go to the Home screen.

When Clock is running, it switches to screen-saver mode after a

few minutes, moving the date and time display on the phone

screen. Simply touch the screen or a phone button to wake the

phone up again.

To return to the Home screen, touch the Home icon

bottom of the Clock screen.

at the

To play a slideshow

You can play a slideshow of the pictures in your Gallery albums, in

place of the date and time.

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S Touch the Slideshow icon

at the bottom of the Clock screen.

S Press Back to end the show.

To play music

You can play music while the Clock is displayed. You can use the

S Touch the Music icon at the bottom of the Clock screen.

The Music application opens, where you can select music to play.

For more information, see “Music” on page 275. You can return to

Clock or use another application while the music is playing.

To dim the Clock display

S If you want to use your phone as a bedside clock, you can set the

screen brightness very low. Touch the Dimmer icon

clock.

to dim the

S Touch the Dimmer

icon again to restore normal brightness.

If you can’t see the Dimmer icon, press & hold the Home button

and touch the Clock icon to reopen Clock at normal brightness.

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Setting alarms

You can set an alarm by modifying an existing alarm or by adding a

new one.

To set an alarm

Touch the Alarm icon

at the bottom of the Clock screen.

Touch to add an alarm.

Touch to turn an alarm on or off.

Touch to open a screen where

you can set the alarm’s time and

other attributes.

Touch to return to the main

Clock screen.

2 Touch the

icon next to an alarm to turn it on or off.

Alarms that are set are underlined in green.

3 Touch an existing alarm to change its time and other attributes. Or

touch Add alarm to add a new one.

When viewing the main Clock screen, you can also press Menu

and touch Add alarm to add a new alarm.

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4 Touch Time to set the time of the alarm.

In the dialog that opens, you change the time by touching the + or

- buttons and the AM or PM buttons. Or touch a time to type the

time you want.

5 Touch Ringtone to select a ringtone for the alarm.

You can select a ringtone that comes with the phone or one that

you saved as a ringtone by using the Music application. See “To

use a song as a ringtone” on page 281.

The ringtone plays briefly when you select it.

6 Touch Vibrate to have the phone vibrate, in addition to playing the

ringtone.

7 Touch Repeat to set the days when you want the alarm to sound.

If you don’t set a repeat, the alarm sounds only one time.

8 Touch Label to enter a name for the alarm.

9 When you’re finished, touch Done.

At the time you set, the alarm sounds.

10 Press Back

to return to the main Clock screen.

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Changing Clock alarm settings

You can change a number of settings for the alarms you set.

You can also change how times are displayed in Clock in the Settings

applications. See “Date & time settings” on page 339.

S To change Clock alarm settings, touch the Alarm icon

at the

bottom of the Clock screen. In the Alarms screen that opens,

touch Settings.

Alarm in silent mode

Check to play alarms even when the phone is in Silent mode.

Alarm volume

Opens a dialog where you can set the volume of alarms.

Snooze duration

Opens a dialog where you can set how long Clock waits before

playing an alarm again.

Volume and Camera

Opens a dialog where you can set what happens if you press the

Volume Up / Down and Camera button when an alarm sounds. You

can set the button behavior to have no effect, to snooze the alarm, or

to dismiss it.

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Car Home

Car Home makes the applications that are most useful

when you’re driving accessible with the touch of a button.

Car Home is designed to work with a car dock, though

you don’t have to own a dock to use it.

In this section

“Using Car Home” on page 297

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Using Car Home

You can use Car Home whether or not you have a car dock.

S Insert the phone into a car dock.

S Touch the Car Home icon

in the Launcher or on the Home

screen.

Car Home opens with large buttons that you can touch to access

Navigation, Voice Search, Contacts, and other features that are

useful when driving.

Car home also places the phone in Car mode, which means that

pressing the Home button returns you to Car Home, not the Home

screen; use the Exit car mode button to return to access other

applications.

The Navigation button is replaced with a Directions button if you

don’t have Google navigation available in your area, or if your

phone can’t access GPS satellites.

S Touch the small arrow to open Car Home’s second screen.

Touch an icon to access

that application or

service while driving.

Touch to open Car

Home’s second screen.

Touch to exit Car mode.

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For information about Maps, including navigation, see “Maps” on

page 221.

For information about searching by voice, see “Android basics” on

page 13.

For information on working with your Contacts, see “Contacts” on

page 95.

To change Car Home settings

Switch to Car Home’s second screen.

2 Touch Automatic, Night, or Day, to change the backlight setting.

You can cycle through these three modes, depending on whether

you want to set the backlight mode manually or have the phone

use its ambient light sensor to switch automatically.

3 Touch Settings to open the Car Home settings screen.

You can set whether you are greeted with the warning about safe

use of the phone in the car each time you start Car Home.

You can also touch System settings to open the Android Settings

screen (see “Settings” on page 312).

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Calculator

Use Calculator to solve simple arithmetic problems or use

its advanced operators to solve more complex equations.

In this section

“Using the Calculator” on page 300

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Using the Calculator

Use Calculator to solve math problems.

To open and use the Calculator

S Touch the Calculator icon

on the Home screen or in the

Launcher.

Drag to switch

between basic

and advanced

screens.

S Enter numbers and arithmetic operators on the basic screen.

S Drag the basic screen to the left to open the advanced screen.

S Touch & hold the Calculator’s display to open a menu where you

can copy what you’ve entered and access other tools.

S Touch Clear to delete the last number or operator you entered.

Touch & hold Clear to delete everything in the display.

To access your history of operations

S Roll the Trackpad up or down to view your previous operations.

Previous operations are entered in the display, where you can

work with them.

S Clear the history by pressing Menu and touching Clear history.

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Market

Android Market provides direct access to applications

and games to download and install on your phone.

In this section

“Opening Android Market and finding applications” on page 302

“Downloading and installing applications” on page 306

“Managing your downloads” on page 308

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Opening Android Market and finding

applications

Open Android Market to browse and search for free and paid

applications.

To open Android Market

S Touch the Market icon

in the Launcher or on the Home screen.

You can also touch the Market widget on the Google panel of the

Home screen (from the main Home screen, scroll your finger to

the left once).

When you open Android Market for the first time, you must read

and accept the terms of service to continue.

Touch to search Market.

Touch a category to open it. Or

touch Downloads to view a list

of the items you’re already

downloaded from Market.

Touch a featured application to

view details about it.

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To get help with Android Market

The Android Market Help webpages are available from all Android

Market screens.

S Press Menu and touch Help.

The Browser opens to the Android Market Help page, with links to

many help topics. For information about using the Browser, see

“Browser” on page 203.

To browse for applications

You can browse applications by category and sort them in different

ways.

On the Android Market home page, touch a top-level category,

such as Apps or Games.

Touch a subcategory to

view its list of applications.

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2 Scroll to view subcategories and touch the one you want to

explore.

Touch a tab to view top paid,

top free, or recent applications

in this subcategory.

Touch an application to open

its details screen.

3 Touch Top paid, Top free, or Just in to further sort the subcategory.

To open a screen with details about an application

S At any time while browsing Android Market, touch an application

to open a screen with details about it.

Application details screens include a description, ratings, and

related information about the application. The Comments tab

includes comments from people who have tried the application.

You can download and install the application from this screen. See

“Downloading and installing applications” on page 306. You can

also rate, uninstall, and perform other actions; see “Managing your

downloads” on page 308.

To search for applications

Touch the Search icon

Search button

at the top right of the screen or press

again.

2 Enter what you want to search for and press Search

Enter all or part of an application’s name or description, or the

developer’s name you want to search for.

3 Touch a search result to open that application’s details screen.

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The details screen describes the application and contains buttons

for downloading the application and performing other tasks. See

“Downloading and installing applications” on page 306 and

“Managing your downloads” on page 308.

To return to the Android Market home screen

You can return to the Android Market home screen from most other

screens in Android Market.

S Touch the Market icon

at the top left of the screen.

S Press Menu and touch Home.

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Downloading and installing applications

When you find an application you want, you can install it on your

phone.

To download and install an application

Before you can download a paid application, you must set up a billing

arrangement, as described in “To create a Google Checkout account”

on page 307.

Find an application you want and open its details screen.

See “Opening Android Market and finding applications” on

page 302.

In the application’s details screen, you can read more about the

application, including its cost, overall rating, and comments by

users. Scroll down to the About the developer section to view

more applications by this developer, visit the developer’s web site,

or send the developer an email message.

Scroll an application’s details

screen to learn more about the

application, the developer, and

what others think of it.

Touch to download and install the

application. (If it’s a paid application,

the button is labeled Buy.)

2 Press Menu and touch Security to preview the functions and data

the application can access on your phone if you install it.

If you’re not comfortable with the access the application requires,

don’t continue.

3 Touch Install (for free applications) or Buy (for paid applications).

Paid applications are not offered in all areas by all carriers.

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If the application requires access to your data or control of any

functions on your phone, you are asked to review and grant

permission before downloading.

Warning! Read this screen carefully. Be especially cautious with applications that have

access to many functions or to a significant amount of your data. Once you

touch OK on this screen, you are responsible for the results of using this

application on your phone.

4 If you agree to the application’s access requirements, touch OK.

If you selected a paid application, you’re redirected to the Google

Checkout screen to pay for the application before it’s downloaded

to your phone.

If you selected a free application (or after touching Buy now in

Google Checkout), you receive a series of notifications as the

application is downloaded and then installed on your phone.

When the application is installed, you can touch the notification to

open the application, or open it by touching its icon in the

Launcher. See “Opening and switching applications” on page 51.

You have a short while to try out an application and, if you decide

you don’t want it, to uninstall it for a refund. See “To request a

refund for an application” on page 310.

If you have another Android phone, you can download a paid

application to that phone using the same Android Market account,

at no additional charge.

To create a Google Checkout account

You must have a Google Checkout account associated with your

Google Account to purchase items from Android Market.

S On your computer, go to http://checkout.google.com to establish

a Google Checkout account.

S The first time you use your phone to buy an item from Android

Market, you’re prompted to enter your billing information to set up

a Google Checkout account.

Warning! When you’ve used Google Checkout once to purchase an application from

Android Market, the phone remembers your password, so you don’t need to

enter it the next time. For this reason, you should secure your phone to pre-

vent others from using it without your permission. See “Locking your phone”

on page 61.

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Managing your downloads

After you’ve downloaded and installed an application, you can rate it,

view it in a list with your other downloaded applications, and so on.

To view your downloaded applications

You can view a list of the applications you’ve downloaded from

Android Market, and use the list for a number of purposes.

S On the Android Market home screen, press Menu and touch

Downloads.

In the list of the free and paid applications that opens, you can

touch one to rate it, uninstall it, request a refund, and so on.

To set whether an application is updated automatically

Applications you download from Market are not set to update

automatically by default; applications that came with your phone are.

But you can change that setting for either kind of application, to

change what happens when you receive notification that one or

more applications have updates available (see “To respond to a

notification that application updates are available” on page 308).

On the Android Market home screen, press Menu and touch

Downloads.

2 Touch an application.

3 Check or uncheck Allow automatic updating.

To respond to a notification that application updates are available

You receive notification whenever a new version of an application is

available (unless you disable update notifications; see “To set

whether you’re notified about updated applications” on page 309).

Responding to notifications in general is described in “Managing