Various Q&A

[mooshu47]

is there copy/paste on the droid?

Yes, hold your finger down on any text field and you'll see the 'Edit text' menu with copy/paste functions.

 

[yurnotsoeviltwin]

Or when you turn the phone on instead of swiping to the right to unlock swipe to the left and it will goto vibrate.

Mine doesn't go into vibrate mode, tghe home screen swipe toggles between ringer and total silence, which isn't useful at all. Is there a way to change this behavior?

 

[Holland]

Mine doesn't go into vibrate mode, tghe home screen swipe toggles between ringer and total silence, which isn't useful at all. Is there a way to change this behavior?

Go to settings-sound and display, check the phone vibrate box

 

[tolas]

Mine doesn't go into vibrate mode, tghe home screen swipe toggles between ringer and total silence, which isn't useful at all. Is there a way to change this behavior?

I just use the side volume keys to adjust ringer volume. It hits vibrate right before silent.

 

[yurnotsoeviltwin]

Go to settings-sound and display, check the phone vibrate box

It's checked, but once I hit the lock screen toggle it unchecked itself.

 

[geezman]

OK, dumb question, but when I play music it is not playing out of the speaker phone speaker. How do I get the music to play out of the speaker phone speaker?

Anyone? This is driving me insane. The sound is only coming out of the small ear speaker and not the main speaker. I can't for the life of me get the music to play out of the louder speaker.

Nevermind, I powered down and powered back up and now the speaker is working. Weird.

 

[kg6epf]

is there copy/paste on the droid?

Yes, but depends on the App. Gmail lets you copy, but haven't figured out how to paste yet.

To copy, open keyboard and hold down shift key. Drag your finger across the text you want to copy.

You can paste it into the browser, but I can't find a way to paste into a new mail yet. Probably needs an update for that to happen.

 

[mattparmely]

I posted these as threads but i should have just posted here.. i know better!! haha.

anyways a few questions:

How do you take a picture from the browser and save it to your pictures or your background like you can on a PC?

How do you take a website (ie these forums) page & set it as a widget on your home screen? So when I want to go here I dont need to go to browser, favorites, ect. I can just hit the icon and poof.

god, i love this phone.

 

[sohc sti]

I posted these as threads but i should have just posted here.. i know better!! haha.

anyways a few questions:

How do you take a picture from the browser and save it to your pictures or your background like you can on a PC?

How do you take a website (ie these forums) page & set it as a widget on your home screen? So when I want to go here I dont need to go to browser, favorites, ect. I can just hit the icon and poof.

god, i love this phone.

+1

 

[mattparmely]

+1

im guessing you need answers to these too? ha, or you love this phone too?

or both

 

[sohc sti]

im guessing you need answers to these too? ha, or you love this phone too?

or both

all of the above.

 

[rphman]

how do you assign different sounds to notifications...i have a couple of ringtones that i like to use for text messages and emails..

i see it mp3 in my list of ringtones but can not use it as a notification for email or txt...

thanks
Wade

 

[caitlion]

I posted these as threads but i should have just posted here.. i know better!! haha.

anyways a few questions:

How do you take a picture from the browser and save it to your pictures or your background like you can on a PC?

How do you take a website (ie these forums) page & set it as a widget on your home screen? So when I want to go here I dont need to go to browser, favorites, ect. I can just hit the icon and poof.

god, i love this phone.

if you tap and hold on the picture you want, a menu will pop up with an option to save it.

you can put a shortcut on the home screen for a website.. just bookmark it. tap and hold anywhere on the home screen (where there isn't an icon already) and the menu to put shortcuts/widgets/folders/wallpapers will pop up.

 

[caitlion]

when i try to connect to my pc, i get an error message: "windows could not load the installer for volume. contact your hardware vendor for assistance". i have downloaded the drivers from motorola.com, i'm guessing this is a windows issue?

does anyone know how to fix this? also, is it possible to transfer files via wifi? or to save mp3's from gmail? i e-mailed one to myself to try, but it only gave me the option to preview, not download.

 

[Amu]

One quick question, does the audio jack also work as tv-out? Haven't seen or heard of the droid being able to do that, but I was just wondering if anyone has tried using the audio jack for tv-out.

 

[mobileT83]

From the home screen, hold down anywhere and then select shortcuts.
Then select settings
Then Running Services

That doesn't have everything Advanced Task Killer would have... and advanced task killer lives up in the top bar with 3G and battery.

T

 

[asilver]

after downloading pandora, it would not play, I already have it online so I know my user / pass.....turned out after doing a battery pull, it started immediately and started playing......if anyone else gets hung up on this hope it helps.


Now my one question is why don't the 3 home screens go to landscape mode when you turn the phone, EVERYTHING else changes to landscape mode....and the home screens work in landscape if the keyboard is slid out or or if it is in car mode or on the media station.

why can't the home screens just got to landscape...ugh...annoyed.

 

[brettlewis]

I got the vibrate setting one, and finally found out how to vibrate for messages, but is there any way to also turn of the APP noises. I want my phone to be silent/vibrate only, don't need all the bells and whistles.

 

[mobileT83]

separate sound profiles would be great.. such as night, work, loud, etc. I may have looked over them, but I always like this feature on my BBs

 

[DrDude]

separate sound profiles would be great.. such as night, work, loud, etc. I may have looked over them, but I always like this feature on my BBs

Agree. Does anyone know if one can set up differnet notification profiles with the Droid?

 

[Redflea]

OK, dumb question, but when I play music it is not playing out of the speaker phone speaker. How do I get the music to play out of the speaker phone speaker?

Anyone? This is driving me insane. The sound is only coming out of the small ear speaker and not the main speaker. I can't for the life of me get the music to play out of the louder speaker.

Nevermind, I powered down and powered back up and now the speaker is working. Weird.

That happened to me once as well - clearly some sort of bug related to that...

 

[nastybynature]

How do I get the Gmail messages that are fowarded to me to show pictures?

 

[mattparmely]

hmmm i downloaded it but have not time to play with it cause I have to leave for work. I don't fully get it. When im at work do I need to do the gps thing? does it automatically determine when im at work or home or whatever? I almost don't want to rely on that. I would rather just be able to set "work" or "home" and it will go to vibrate all for work, and regular for home. or such things.

 

[kmfdmk]

That actually shows running apps

That happened to me once as well - clearly some sort of bug related to that...

Yeah my Voice Guided GPS Nav & Audio Playback is ONLY coming from speakers. Resetting now, will edit this post momentarily to update whether a hard reset/battery pull is required.

 

[xAwesome.Austinx]

These are very helpful hints! Im a Rep at verizon, and have been drooling over this phone for quite some time now! I will be getting mine on monday! SO pumped! I've wrote most of these down for general info for customers but also for my knowledge! Cant wait to ditch my blackberry for this phone. Doesnt even compare.

New to this forum but if anyone has questions with vzw stuff i can help!! lol Feel free to PM me or ask!