User's Manual

31Tips & tricks
Tips & tricks
a few handy hints
General tips
• Touch Search in the home screen to search
across your apps, contacts, web, and maps—or just
enter the address for a place or a web page. Touch
Search in
Market, Messaging, Music, and other
apps to search within the app.
• Use folders to organize shortcuts and contacts on
your home screen.
Touch and hold a blank spot on your home screen,
then touch
Folders. To move shortcuts into a New
folder
, touch and hold a shortcut, then drag it to the
folder icon.
• Touch and hold Home to show your most recent
apps.
• Touch and hold the status bar at the top of your phone
to show the date.
• To change which location information your phone
uses, touch Menu >
Settings > Location &
security
.
• To back up your app data, passwords, and other
settings to Google servers, touch Menu >
Settings > Privacy > Back up my data.
Battery tips
Your phone is like a small computer, giving you a lot of
information and apps, at 3G speed, with a touch display!
Depending on what you use, that can take a lot of
power.
To start getting the most out of your battery,
touch Menu >
Settings > Battery Manager >
Battery mode. Choose Performance mode for constant
data transfer and battery use,
Maximum battery saver
when your battery is low, or
Nighttime saver if you want
to limit your data and wireless connections during
off-peak hours.
To save even more battery life between charges, you
could reduce:
• recording or watching videos, listening to music, or
taking pictures.
• widgets that stream information to your home screen,
like news or weather.
• Bluetooth™ use: touch Menu >
Settings >
Wireless & networks > Bluetooth (turn off).
• Wi-Fi use: touch Menu >
Settings > Wireless &
networks
> Wi-Fi (turn off).
• GPS use: touch Menu >
Settings > Location &
security
> Use GPS satellites (deselect).
Jan. 17. 2012