Google Nexus One Tips And Tricks!
1. Tap and hold in a text message: if it contains a number you can call it directly, open the address on Google Maps, or you can copy and paste.
2. Search using your voice: click on the search widget mic, says “Navigate to the pizza and Google Maps” to show your route on the nearest pizza place. Smart.
3. Power Control widget allows you to change the battery draining functions like a Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and GPS Sync and go straight from your home screen.
4. Touching and holding the home screen to select from a choice of living wallpaper that includes smoke, Grass and Rain, which mimic the rain that falls on your screen.
5. To use the Nexus One as an external hard drive, connect to your computer via USB, open the notification bar and then click Connect USB Mt.
6. To call the last upp used applications quickly and easily, hold the Home button and you will receive a shortcut to all the applications most frequently used.
7. Press and hold either the application icon in your application list to quickly add a shortcut to the home Nexus One screen for quick access.
8. Slide open the bar on the left side of the handset to switch off the phone. This is a quick and easy way to silence your phone in a meeting or at the cinema.
9. You can add important contacts to your home screen by tapping their icons in the phone book, and then select the shortcut and Contacts.
10. Dictate your message, email, or tweets by generating a virtual keyboard and select the mic icon in the left space bar.
11. Add a shortcut Google Voice your homescreen to easily switch from Google’s voice to call out.
12. Try touching and holding the text in emails and text messages. If it includes a phone number, you can dial it quickly. If that address, you can directly open the map. Or, you can copy and paste the text wherever you like.
13. Shortcut: Go straight from the home screen to voice driving directions using the search. Click the microphone icon on the search widget that says “Navigate to the pizza,” for example, and Google Maps will open and display your route automatically.
14. Sometimes difficult to sort through large collections of photos. Now you can order photos by date and location by Toggling the switch on the top right corner of the screen.
15. Photo gallery now synced to your favorite online services. Try pressing the length of the image to select the image you want to upload. You can send photos to Facebook or Picasa with the Sharebutton.
16. Power user: get the most out of your batteries by adding a widget to your homescreen power control. You can then quickly turn on and off more intensive resources, including phone settings WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, Sync, and the brightness of the screen.
17. Shortcut: Move directly from an email to Tweet, from text into Facebook, from your contacts to Google Talk. Touching the contacts or the status of a bubble image to see the Quick Contacts menu slides in, letting you choose how you want to interact no matter what application you’re currently using. This works with native applications on the phone [such as text messages, emails, Facebook] as well as relevant applications downloaded from the Android Market.
18. New Feature: Speak to the phone and was not typing to you. Now you can dictate into any text field with the virtual keyboard and then on the microphone icon on the left side of the bar. This works better with short sentences, and if you speak at a moderate level.
19. Add wallpaper directly to your home screen: touch and hold a space on the screen, then select from the smoke, grass, transportation, and several other interactive options. Try to set wallpaper to “Water” and touch the screen to make it look like rain. Some even respond to musical wallpaper, so try them while playing music player.
20. Load your Nexus One: To get your music and photos to the Nexus One, plug the phone into your computer, pull down the notification bar, and click the “USB Connected”. Then click on “Mountain,” and your phone will appear on your computer as a normal external hard drive, where you can upload whatever you like.
21. Stay safe: Click the Menu button, then “Settings” and “Location and Security” to set a custom pattern for unlocking your phone.
22. Taking pictures with 5 megapixel camera, with flash, zoom, or even white balance and color effects. Flip the switch and shoot a video, and click “share” with fast upload it to YouTube.
23. Click the dots on the left and right under your homescreen to access all five fully customizable display your Nexus One. Add all the widgets, shortcuts, applications, photos, and photos you want on the extra large screen can be adjusted. Longpress at points to get a visual and quick access to the desired screen.
24. Scan the weather conditions by-the-minute with the Weather widget. Click the “information” bubble on the upper righthand corner to track conditions the day, minute by minute, and plan ahead.
25. Shortcut: quick access to recently used applications by touching and holding the Home button, no matter what you do.
26. Shortcut: Control your music player directly from the screen to add widgets Music. Best tip: add “many” living wallpaper to see visualizers play different music in 3D when you listen to your favorite songs.
27. Shortcut: Longpress on the Search button to activate voice search. Try the “call” for voicedial!
28. Shortcut: Longpress an icon in the list of applications to add it to your homescreen.
29. Shortcut: Slide the bar opens to the left to turn off your phone.
30. Shortcut: Add contacts directly to the homescreen. Longpress homescreen and select Shortcuts-> Contacts. Select your contacts and will be placed on the homescreen. When you click it, everyone knows how to communicate with contacts that will appear.
31. Set audio as a ringtone file/mp3 Open the file you want to set as ringtones on media player – click on the menu – set as a ringtone
32. Watch Youtube Videos in high resolution. When watching the video select Menu> Options> Watch in high quality.
33. Optimize Battery Life. Press the Home> Menu * Select Add> Widgets> Power Control Widget will easily allow you to disable the battery drain services, such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Screen briteness, e-mail and facebook sync, and GPS
34. Copy / Paste
* In any text field – long press
* Edit text will appear
* Cut all and Copy all will be among the choices.
* If you have something on the Paste the clipboard will be a choice
35. Lock a Text Message
* Open Message
* Open conversation
* Longpress individual text messages – an option will appear for Lock message
* Press a long time to open a locked message and select the Enable message.
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