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Keyboard combinations and shorcuts

73N5H1

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May 5, 2010
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I could be wrong, but I don't think I've seen a thread with a comprehensive list of keyboard combinations and shortcuts anywhere for the Motorala Droid, so I thought I'd share the ones I know of and if anyone has anymore, feel free to add to this thread.

Here's a list of the ones I know:

Holding Up on the d-pad while rebooting:
goes to the bootloader screen

Holding X while rebooting:
brings up the recover menu

Holding X while rebooting, then Vol up+camera on recovery screen:

hard reset

Left Alt+Shift+Del:
soft reboot

Space key twice when typing a message:
inserts a period

Shift key twice:
shift lock

Alt key twice:
Alt lock

Spacekey:
Pg down

Shift+Spacekey:
Pg up

Alt+Spacekey:
special character selector

Shift+Del:
delete character to the right of your cursor

Alt+Del:
delete entire line

Alt+d-pad down:
jump to the end of a list

Alt+d-pad up:
jump to the beginning of a list

Alt+d-pad left:
jump to the beginning of a line

Alt+d-pad right:

jump to the end of a line

Shift+d-pad left/right:
highlight text

Menu key+x:
cut

Menu key+v:
paste

Menu key+c:
copy

Menu key+z:
undo

Menu key+a:
select all

Alt+q:
Tab

Menu key+i in browser:
zoom in

Menu key+o in browser:

zoom out

Menu key+r in browser:
refresh

Menu key+j in browser:
back a page

Menu key+k in browser:
forward a page

Menu key+f in browser:
find

Menu key+h in browser:
history

Menu Key+return key in browser:

home page

Menu Key+s in browser:
Go to

Menu Key+b in browser:
bookmarks

Menu Key+p in browser:
browser settings

Menu Key+t in browser:

show all open windows

Menu Key+w in browser:
close current window

Search Key+b:
open browser

Search Key+m:
open maps

Search Key+y:

open youtube

Search Key+c:

open contacts

Search Key+e:

open e-mail

Search Key+g:

open google mail

Search Key+l:

open calendar

Search Key+p:

music

Search Key+s:
open text messaging(SMS)

F within a gmail message:

forward

R within a gmail message:
reply

A within a gmail message:
reply all

Y in gmail within a message or in inbox list:

archivemessage

Menu+u in gmail:
refresh inbox

Menu+c in gmail:
compose a new message

Dial ##PROGRAM on the call screen and send, then enter code 000000:

Programming menu

Dial *#*#INFO#*#* on the call screen:
Field test mode
 

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