How To Droid tips, tricks, and easter eggs

cvhovey · Feb 9, 2010

scottlaw99@yahoo.com said:
I just picked up a Motorola Multimedia Station (docking station) for my Droid and the light is extremely bright. There is a brightness setting that allows you to dim the light, but it's still too light. Does anyone know a way to dim this light even more?

Have you checked out Brighteriffic, available free in the Market? I downloaded it recently and have only briefly checked it out so far, but it gives you the option to set a low and a regular brightness setting (as long as you are not using the Droid's automatic brightness setting), then put a widget on your home screen allowing you to switch between the two. Not sure if the low setting is low enough, but you could check it out.

I've been using their Timeriffic to control settings at night....you can set it to turn on airplane mode at a set time and on again at a set time, etc.

mayhem18_03 · Feb 10, 2010

here is a link for a dock a friend made. its great if you want a dock with speakers all for a low price all you need is a dremmel tool and a soldering iron.

www.goz.us/Droid_Dock/

sexyangel6884 · Feb 10, 2010

ZPrime said:
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.

that is awesome thank you, i never wouldve learned that on my own

raviandsonia · Feb 11, 2010

Can anyone PLEASE help me to link my business email with the "Email" function on Moto Droid. My business website / email is through yahoo and accessible through normal yahoo email online. But when I try linking it to my Moto Droid using normal Yahoo email linking instructions, I get a message saying, "Bizmail is not available". PLEASE HELP. PLEASEEEE !!

Thank You

raviandsonia · Feb 11, 2010

cadGweep said:
You can save yourself some time and button pushes by storing your voicemail password along with the voicemail number. Then when you press the voicemail shortcut in the Phone Dialer, it will go straight through.

IT WORKS -- I did it on my droid. THANKS.

GailD · Feb 21, 2010

eraser said:
There's a free app called Locale that can do this.

Based on your GPS position, time of day, etc, it makes the phone behave differently (silent, loud, vibrate, etc.)

I downloaded it but I can't get it to get a lock on the GPS, never finds my location. Which is weird because Google maps/nav has no problems.

I looked it up for my Droid. It's not free (or isn't any more). They want $9.99. Is there another option?

cvhovey · Feb 22, 2010

GailD said:
I looked it up for my Droid. It's not free (or isn't any more). They want $9.99. Is there another option?

I've been using Timeriffic (free) to turn certain features off at night and then back on in the morning. Or it can be used to mute the phone and turn on vibrate during work hours, then switch back to ringtone after work hours.

czm2000 · Feb 22, 2010

GailD said:
I looked it up for my Droid. It's not free (or isn't any more). They want $9.99. Is there another option?

I use "Setting Profiles" (it's the one with the hammer and anvil icon). It's the best I've used and I've tried them all from Night Ringer to Quick Profiles, to Locale, and several others. Setting Profiles lets me tweek everything and you can switch by profiles like work or home (how ever you choose to name it) using the home screen widget. Or you can have it switch by time or even location. It even lets you set additional rules. So say you wanted your phone silent but wanted to let a certain person on your contact list ring through, you can set it to let them. Oh yeah, and you can backup all your settings.

There's a free version and a $2.99 version. I downloaded the free version, but as soon as I realized it was the perfect profiles app I uninstalled and and downloaded the $2.99 version. Well worth the 3 bucks in my opinion.

Hope this helps. Good luck!

GailD · Feb 22, 2010

Now here is an oddity - with both the normal process of turning off Notifications, and with Quick Profiles, no matter what the first message (email or text) still makes sound. After that, it's silent!

czm2000 · Feb 23, 2010

GailD said:
Now here is an oddity - with both the normal process of turning off Notifications, and with Quick Profiles, no matter what the first message (email or text) still makes sound. After that, it's silent!

That is odd. I used Quick Profiles for a couple months (up until recently when I found the app Setting Profiles) and it never did that to me. Always worked flawless on my Droid.

Jerry-rigged · Feb 25, 2010

Don't know if it has been coverd, but when you are texting with the virtual keyboard, hold down the

in the lower right, and it pops up more smilies... even better, they are little green android smilies.

Bags · Feb 25, 2010

raviandsonia said:
Can anyone PLEASE help me to link my business email with the "Email" function on Moto Droid. My business website / email is through yahoo and accessible through normal yahoo email online. But when I try linking it to my Moto Droid using normal Yahoo email linking instructions, I get a message saying, "Bizmail is not available". PLEASE HELP. PLEASEEEE !!

Thank You

K-9 Mail via the apps market, the only one I could find that does work with bizmail. Its free and have been using for about 2 months now. It is officially my defaul client for all email except gmail. Good luck

23skidoo · Apr 3, 2010

omgSQUIRREL said:
had to requote this, i hated the third party apps for this. Thanks!

Yeah, but that widget takes up some serious real estate. I prefer the single-function, single-space one-touch widgets. Because all I care about toggling is Bluetooth and WiFi.

Here's another 2.1 speech-to-text tip: Instead of hunting-and-punching the little microphone, you can swipe the virtual keyboard from left to right to bring up the voice prompt.

ccphilly1984 · Apr 6, 2010

how to tether your droid in linux for free

jsmuli2 · Apr 20, 2010

burbankfun4u said:
Swype is my latest Droid toy that I love.

It's cut my texting time in half. The word recognition is crazy cool and good. Auto spaces after each word.

I also enjoy the voice text of handcent, but swype gives me another option when I'm somewhere that I don't want to speak text.

How To Install The Swype Keyboard For Your Motorola Droid | Cell Phone How To, Cell Phone Reviews, New Cell Phones

Can't get it to work for me, I installed it, even followed the tutorial, but no words are appearing. I am swyping as instructed, but nothing appears.

Any Help?

jsmuli2 · Apr 20, 2010

l0v3mydr01d said:
For those of you who want to use your mp3 files as ringtones or notifications...I have a solution! First upload the Sharetones app. Its a great app that allows you to share, creat, and save your mp3 files to use for ringtones, notifications,and alarms. You will be able to save multiple ringtones, create your own, and save them. You won't be limited to just the one you assign through your music and you can assign them to your contacts as well.

Once you have the app, I synced my mp3s from my computer. When you run the app it will show you all of your songs and all ringtones others have already made. You also have the option of making your own from any part of the song you want! Save it and it will ask what you want to use it as; alarm, notification, ringtone... also gives you the option of assigning to a contact. Your songs will be in the list with the preinstalled sounds fof you to use at any time.

I have no affiliation with this app, I just bought a Droid n found a solution to my own problem! I haven't had any problems and it works just as it said!

Or you can go into the music player for the droid, select a song, and hit menu button and select "Use as Ringtone"
Done and doner

pil0t · Apr 22, 2010

jsmuli2 said:
Or you can go into the music player for the droid, select a song, and hit menu button and select "Use as Ringtone"
Done and doner

Is it possible to do similar for the text messages?

What about alarm clock, etc.?

jsmuli2 · Apr 27, 2010

Not sure about Text Messages, but it works for Alarm Clock.

Alarm Clock pulls from the same list as ringtones, but Notifcations/txts, you have to play around with that. That's how I found out about the ringtones. Just messed around.

burbankfun4u · Apr 29, 2010

jsmuli2 said:
Can't get it to work for me, I installed it, even followed the tutorial, but no words are appearing. I am swyping as instructed, but nothing appears.

Any Help?

It turns out SWYPE was just a beta test. Auto shut-down set in about a month ago. I keep looking for it to show up on the market.

roothorick · May 5, 2010

Not sure if this has been mentioned yet, but:

Icons on your home screen don't need to be just apps. Long press on a blank space and select "Shortcuts". I'll let you explore...

-E- Just found something else. Go into Music player, start a song, and at the "Now Playing" screen, press Q/W/E/R/T/Y/U/I/O/P. Each one skips to a specific percentage of the song. Really cool.

Douglas Hughes · May 28, 2010

I have been using the Swype keyboard on my droid and think that it is the best. You write by dragging your finger through the letters wrather than pusing each letter. You do not need to be as accurate and it is easy to do in rough situations like being a passenger in a car on a bumpy road.

overcaffein8d · Jun 7, 2010

I came across something that is really cool/useful here.

To go into a diagnostic-type thing in android, go into Phone and type *#*#4636#*#* (4636=info on the dialpad) and it will take you to a page called "testing." There you can screw with all kinds of settings and battery stuff. Root is not required.

If you find yourself going there quite often, you might also want to know that you can create a shortcut to testing with anycut.

jwade39227 · Jun 7, 2010

[ let's say "In n out"

Yes lets say "In n Out"!!! Those are good burgers!!!!

feebles86 · Jun 29, 2010

I've been reading a lot of the posts and although most of them are very helpful, I haven't seen anything regarding Contacts. Is there a way to set up my contacts into groups/folders so I can easily send 10-15 friends an e-mail without scrolling through my contact list and attach them?

mjwest · Jul 10, 2010

My Droid just died. Started recycling power over and over. Did ti 4 times during the 3-4 minutes I was online with Verizon support. Had to get it completely replaced. Hope it doesn't happen to you. Not happy.

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