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Android Phones For Dummies
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Table of Contents
Introduction
About This Book
How to Use This Book
Foolish Assumptions
How This Book Is Organized
Part I: Have a Little Android
Part II: The Phone Part
Part III: Mobile Communications
Part IV: Amazing Android Phone Feats
Part V: Nuts and Bolts
Part VI: The Part of Tens
Icons Used in This Book
Where to Go from Here
Part I: Have a Little Android
1: That Phone You Own
ration and Setup
Phone Assembly
Opening the phone
Installing the battery
Removing the battery
Installing the SIM card
Installing the MicroSD card
Closing the phone
Charge the Battery
Generic Android Phone Orientation
Recognizing things on your phone
Using earphones
Adding accessories
A Home for Your Phone
Toting your Android phone
Storing the phone
2: Setup and Configuration
Hello, Phone
Turning on your phone for the first time
Turning on the phone
Waking the phone
Google Account Setup
Creating a Google account
Setting up a Google account on your phone
Goodbye, Phone
Snoozing the phone
Controlling snooze options
Hibernating the phone
Turning off the phone
3: The Android Tour
c Operations
Using the soft buttons
Manipulating the touchscreen
Setting the volume
“Silence your phone!”
Changing the orientation
Behold the Home Screen
Looking at the Home screen
Viewing all Home screen panels
Using the Car Home
Home Screen Operations
Reviewing notifications
Starting an app
Using a widget
The App Menu
Starting an app from the Apps screen
Reviewing recently used apps
4: Text to Type,Text to Edit
Keyboard Mania
Displaying the onscreen keyboard
Choosing other keyboard variations
Using the built-in keyboard
The Hunt-and-Peck
Typing on your phone
Accessing special characters
Choosing a word as you type
Text Editing
Moving the cursor
Selecting text
Cutting, copying, and pasting text
Voice Input
Dictating to your phone
Controlling the phone with your voice
Uttering f*** words
Part II: The Phone Part
5: It’s a Telephone
Reach Out and Touch Someone
Making a phone call
Dialing a contact
Phoning someone you call often
It’s the Phone!
Receiving a call
Setting incoming call volume
Who Called Who When?
Dealing with a missed call
Reviewing recent calls
6: More Telephone Things
Speed Dial
Multiple Call Mania
Putting someone on hold
Receiving a new call when you’re on the phone
Juggling two calls
Making a conference call
Send a Call Elsewhere
Forwarding phone calls
Sending a contact directly to voice mail
Fun with Ringtones
Choosing the phone’s ringtone
Setting a contact’s ringtone
Using music as a ringtone
Creating your own ringtones
7: Leave Your Message at the Tone
Boring Carrier Voice Mail
Setting up carrier voice mail
Retrieving your messages
The Wonders of Google Voice
Configuring Google Voice
Adding your phone to Google Voice
Getting your Google Voice messages
8: The Address Book
People You Know
Accessing the address book
Viewing a contact’s information
Sorting the address book
Searching contacts
Making New Friends
Adding a contact from the call log
Creating a new contact from scratch
Importing contacts from your computer
Building up contacts from your social networking sites
Finding a new contact using its location
Address Book Management
Making basic changes
Adding a picture to a contact
Making a favorite
Removing a contact
Part III: Mobile Communications
9: When Your Thumbs Speak
4U
Composing a new text message to a contact
Sending a text message to a phone number
Receiving a text message
Forwarding a text message
Multimedia Messages
Attaching media to a text message
Receiving a multimedia message
Text Message Management
Removing messages
Setting the text message ringtone
10: E-Mail This and That
E-Mail on Your Android Phone
Setting up a web-based e-mail account
Setting up an ISP e-mail account
You’ve Got Mail
Getting a new message
Checking the inbox
Visiting the universal inbox
Reading an e-mail message
Make Your Own E-Mail
Composing a new electronic message
Sending a new message to a contact
Message Attachments
E-Mail Configuration
Creating a signature
Configuring the manual delete option
11: Out on the Web
Behold the Web
Surfing the web on your phone
Visiting a web page
Browsing back and forth
Using bookmarks
Managing multiple web page windows
Searching the web
The Perils and Joys of Downloading
Grabbing an image from a web page
Downloading a file
Reviewing your downloads
Web Controls and Settings
Setting a home page
Changing the way the web looks
Setting privacy and security options
12: Social Networking
Your Android Phone Gets Social
Setting up social networking
Adding social networking accounts
Your Digital Social Life
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