Help HELP..Got my MOMENT today a few questions please..

shrike126 said:

1 - When exiting applications if you'd like, you can use an application from the Android Market that can auto end applications like I use "Automatic Task Killer" which when the phone goes to sleep will end any applications running that I don't add an exception to (i.e. leave these programs running but kill anything else).

2 - You can use mp3 files from your desktop PC and move them over to your phone's SD card by mounting it through the USB cable. You cannot buy ringtones via the Sprint Digital Lounge, since the Moment uses the Android Market and not Sprint's premium services (i.e. ringtones) though Call Tones will work as it's a network feature.

3 - Go to the website, tap MENU > Bookmarks > "Add bookmark..."

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shrike126 said:

1 - Yeah you just go into the Android Market to buy and download apps directly to the phone. The large majority of the apps are free but any apps you do end up having to pay a fee for, those purchases go through the Google Checkout process, which is entirely separate from Sprint.

2 - When you mount the phone you plug it in, tap on the Notifications bar on your Moment then choose "Mount" to get the phone to show up on the desktop PC as a removable hard disk. Then you can simply copy/paste any files you want to use as a ringtone. On mine I have a folder on the Moment called "music" with a few subfolders called "ringtones" "alarms" "notifications" and when putting mp3 files in these they're available as selections when I go to personalize my ringers assigned to contacts.

Hope that helps! Don't worry about "ignorance" we all start somewhere...

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shrike126 said:

I've seen that a couple times. Sometimes I'll try to download a different app and it will suddenly work. Sometimes I'll power cycle the phone or put the phone into then out of Airplane mode. I think it's just a fun "undocumented feature" of the Android OS. Kinda like a fun download puzzle to figure out prior to getting your prize, the app itself.

Doesn't happen often though and make sure you've got CL14 on your phone.

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shrike126 said:

CL14 is an update that currently is only available at the stores. On your phone if you go to Settings > About Phone and scroll down, where it says "Broadband version" look for S:M900.8.05.CL14 (the last part might have something else if your phone isn't updated yet.

If it's not, I wouldn't worry too much the update did address some battery life issues but it's still pretty good without it. If it's not something that's just ruining your day you can always wait for the update to be available over-the-air and just update your phone then. Right now the update is only available over-the-wire at the store (or via enterprising self updating but I wouldn't recommend it for you).

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dbpaddler said:

Also check out Quark ringtones in the market for downloading music for ringtones. The couple I've downloaded sounded as good as if I ripped the music myself.

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adicken1 said:

I would strongly suggest listening to Agent0014 about the task killers and killing apps in general. I started out using them until I read a thread in this forum that said it would probably do more harm than good. That was about 2 months ago and I haven't used one since. The phone works so much smoother. I do use task manager to monitor what's open sometimes, and if I ever need to kill an app I use that. Right now, my manager shows I'm running 18 programs. (Keep in mind that they're all not actually "running".)

For ringtones, try IMusic and ringdroid. Killer combo.

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