How To Droid tips, tricks, and easter eggs

[DroidRX]

So now that the Droid is finally out, please share any neat and useful tips and tricks (shortcuts, etc.) that you find on the phone. I'll be sure to once I play with the phone enough and hopefully find some.

Goodbuy Storm, hello Droid

 

[shivers316]

Good thread idea. I'm gonna sticky it for ya.

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[dep]

If someone sends you a phone # or email address in an SMS, you can click and hold on the email or phone # to get options like "add to contacts," "email", "sms" etc etc.

Nice little feature.

 

[dep]

If someone sends you a phone # or email address in an SMS, you can click and hold on the email or phone # to get options like "add to contacts," "email", "sms" etc etc.

Nice little feature.

Also holding down on the home button for a second shows a "quick launch" menu of some sort. Not sure how to customize that.

 

[DroidRX]

Thanks shivers, yeah this phone will definitely take some time getting used to so hopefully this will speed things up.

dep, thanks for that find. That is actually very useful.

 

[CombatChuck103]

Also holding down on the home button for a second shows a "quick launch" menu of some sort. Not sure how to customize that.

That is the multitasking menu. List of your 6 most recent apps.

 

[justinlindh]

Being new to Android, it took me a while to figure out how to mount the USB drive in Windows/other OS's: You need to pull down the notification menu, select the USB Storage option, and select "Mount". Hope that saves someone some time.

 

[mattparmely]

Being new to Android, it took me a while to figure out how to mount the USB drive in Windows/other OS's: You need to pull down the notification menu, select the USB Storage option, and select "Mount". Hope that saves someone some time.

what does this do?

 

[justinlindh]

what does this do?

Lets you upload music/pics/anything from your PC to the phone's SD card. Mounts the SD card as a disk drive in Windows. Before you select the Mount option in the Android OS, the drive will show up in "My Computer" but it won't let you see anything inside of it.

 

[joscon]

Also holding down on the home button for a second shows a "quick launch" menu of some sort. Not sure how to customize that.

That actually shows running apps

 

[justinlindh]

Alright, I figured out where it will find music media... drop them in <disk_drive_of_mounted_droid>\Music

If the folder doesn't exist, create it first. It'll recursively scan directories and read the id3 tags of MP3's/etc. Works perfectly for me!

 

[MrShneeblie]

Try this for transferring music to your Droid (from iTunes):

Motorola Media Link - Motorola USA

Let us know if it works.

 

[atlbuc]

Not sure, especially about iTunes (I don't use iTunes for anything aside my iPod Touch). You might run into some problems with the DRM on some of the iTunes tracks, and I'm unsure whether Droid can play the un-DRM'd ones. Someone else should know better than I.

I'm trying to figure out where the Droid will search for media files on the SD card.

Goto Sync, Play & Send to BlackBerry, PSP, iPod, iPhone with doubleTwist and download the app. This will allow you to sync your music from iTunes. You can syn your entire playlist or make a Droid playlist and sync it.

 

[MrShneeblie]

Goto Sync, Play & Send to BlackBerry, PSP, iPod, iPhone with doubleTwist and download the app. This will allow you to sync your music from iTunes. You can syn your entire playlist or make a Droid playlist and sync it.

Has anyone tried this on a PC - this post says it's only MAC right now:

Motorola Droid - New device requests and support - doubleTwist Community

Thx,

Mr.Shneeblie

 

[atlbuc]

Has anyone tried this on a PC - this post says it's only MAC right now:

Motorola Droid - New device requests and support - doubleTwist Community

Thx,

Mr.Shneeblie

It works on a PC, they are talking about the Amazon integration is only on MAC right now. It works very well

 

[mattparmely]

It works on a PC, they are talking about the Amazon integration is only on MAC right now. It works very well

yep. just downloaded it. I just cant get my droid to show up on the program! it says i need to make it have mass storage or whatever i cant figure it out.

 

[atlbuc]

When u connect the Droid, pull down the notification shade and mount the usb. Give Doubletwist a min and it will find it.

 

[androidnewby]

Another thing to note...I was having issues with the touchscreen after I place the screen protector on it...It took a couple hours for the protector to "set" And now I don't have issues. But...here is a question. Does anyone know how to set the touch sensitivity on this thing?? I can't find it in settings ANYWHERE...

 

[ZPrime]

Please!

Need to change that camera button to a voice search!

Just push and HOLD the spyglass face button. If you have haptic enabled it will vibrate once on first push, and then a second time after you hold for a bit.

This launches voice search directly, no need for another key.

 

[bluenik25]

Being new to Android, it took me a while to figure out how to mount the USB drive in Windows/other OS's: You need to pull down the notification menu, select the USB Storage option, and select "Mount". Hope that saves someone some time.

You are the man!!!! Just spent a couple minutes searching for this.

 

[kev83202]

what are the settings for handbrake? need to update my movies for my moto droid

The screen is 16:9 so most movies will work perfect, just pick the iphone setting on the side and let er rip. I've already got 6 movies on the card they look great.

 

[SurgiclPrcision]

Try this for transferring music to your Droid (from iTunes):

Motorola Media Link - Motorola USA

Let us know if it works.

Actually i tried using MML but all it did was pull media from my phone to my PC. i couldnt find a way to actually sync my PC library to the phone, which was the main purpose of the program for me.

I can do drag and drop just fine though. Not a big deal for me.

By the way i am on Windows 7 x64. Some people mentioned it doesn't install on Win7, but all one has to do is run as administrator. After a reboot and some really slow driver installation, i was up and running.

 

[syntrix]

tip for GV:
Make sure your contacts and pad dialing is in the format 1(555)555-1212 or just the numbers.

If you omit the "1", or the area code, even for local calls, GV won't work! This is not android, it's how GV works!

 

[EyeOfYourMind84]

I just learned that there already is a task killer built in to 2.0! Go to Home Screen>Settings>Applications>Running services.

From there you can stop any app/task.

 

[Bince82]

I found it annoying that you had to go through the settings in order to change your ringer from loud/vibrate/silent. I downloaded this great free widget called Ringer Toggle Widget which can sit on your home page and switches between loud/vibrate/silent with a hit of a button.