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September 10, 2010

How to change the ringtone of an Android phones

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Most Android phones come with many ringtone to pick from. This is how to change the ringtone of your Android phone

Changing ringtone on your Android phone,

Click the Menu

Tap on Settings.
- In Settings, tap on Sound & Display.

- Under Sound & Display, tap on Phone ringtone.

- Now you’ll see a list of ringtones that came with your phone.

- Pick the one you want by tapping on it and then tap on OK.

- Tap the back key twice and you’ll be back at the home screen.

Use Ringdroid to create ringtone

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Verizon Samsung Fascinate tips and Tricks

Samsung Fascinate is not is the market market, here are some tips to get up started with you new phone

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 screenfor 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 phonein 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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Google Nexus One Tips And Tricks

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Google Nexus One Tips And Tricks!

The Nexus is a smartphone that uses Google’s Android open source mobile operating system. This device is manufactured by Taiwan’s HTC Corporation, and became available on January 5, 2010. Phone features include the ability to write sound to text, voice cancel double microphone, and voice instructions when driving. Yesterday we Got our relations a new Google mobile phone so that today there is sharing some tips and trick that will help you to a Google service Nexus One Mobile with ease.

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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How to remove widget from Android home screen

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How to remove widget from Android home screen
When you decide you no longer need a widget, to free space or because you are done using it, removing it is even simpler.

1. Tap the widget you want to remove and hold your finger down. The trashcan icon should appear on the Applications Menu (or “slider”) at the bottom of the screen.

2. Drag the widget to the trash can until both the widget and the trash can turn red.

3. Release your finger and you will drop the widget into the trashcan and remove it from the home screen. Note that this does not actually delete or uninstall the widget. It will be available to you in the list of widgets should you decide you need it again.

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With will work for every Android phone including:
Liquid Stream, A10, Thunder, Zio, M6000, Xperia X8, Sage, Charm Optimus, Chic Optimus One, Intercept (Moment 2), Desire HD , Epic 4G, Vibrant, Captivate, G1, Blaze / Vision Droid 2, MT810, Beam Motosplit i5500 Galaxy 5 LePhone Liquid E M1 Droid X I1 / Opus One Titanium Aria myTouch 3G Slide Garminfone FlipOut Wildfire EVO Aero / Mini 3iX Streak Galaxy S / Fascinate Optimus Q (LG C710 Aloha, LG LU2300) Ally 845(Vodafone) Xperia X10 Mini Galaxy A / Apollo / M100S Droid Incredible GT540 Optimus Pulse Mini (T-Mobile) CLIQ XT(USA)/ Quench beTouch E110 Legend Desire / Passion / Bravo Backflip Devour One Motoroi Nexus One Xperia X10 Archos Phone

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How to add widgets to the Android home screen

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How to add widget to your Android phone home screen

1. Go to the home screen of the Android device (Press the “Home” key).

2. Make sure that there is enough free space on your home screen for the new widget.

3. Choose an empty space for your widget. Tap the space and hold your finger there (long press) until the menu appears. Alternatively, you can press the “Menu” button and then press the “Add” button that should now be available on the screen.

4. Both methods should have resulted in a pop-up menu-window labeled “Add to Home screen”. Tap the menu item labeled “Widgets”.

5. Navigate through the list of installed widgets and select the one you want to place on the home screen. You can scroll through the widgets if the list is too large to fit on the screen in its entirety.

6. Click on the selected widget and you will add it to your home screen.

7. Press the “Home” key. The new widget should appear on the home screen (or wallpaper).

8. To relocate the widget, tap it and hold your finger down. Now you should be able to drag it to the location on the screen that you want.

With will work for every Android phone including:
Liquid Stream, A10, Thunder, Zio, M6000, Xperia X8, Sage, Charm Optimus, Chic Optimus One, Intercept (Moment 2), Desire HD , Epic 4G, Vibrant, Captivate, G1, Blaze / Vision Droid 2, MT810, Beam Motosplit i5500 Galaxy 5 LePhone Liquid E M1 Droid X I1 / Opus One Titanium Aria myTouch 3G Slide Garminfone FlipOut Wildfire EVO Aero / Mini 3iX Streak Galaxy S / Fascinate Optimus Q (LG C710 Aloha, LG LU2300) Ally 845(Vodafone) Xperia X10 Mini Galaxy A / Apollo / M100S Droid Incredible GT540 Optimus Pulse Mini (T-Mobile) CLIQ XT(USA)/ Quench beTouch E110 Legend Desire / Passion / Bravo Backflip Devour One Motoroi Nexus One Xperia X10 Archos Phone

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How to change the wallpaper on the Samsung Epic 4G

Android OS comes with a wealth of wallpapers and live wallpapers. With your Samsung Epic 4G you can enjoy many colorful wallpapers by changing your wallpapers regularly. Here is the easiest way to change your Samsung Epic wallpaper.

From the home screen:

You can actually access your wallpaper image right from the home screen. This is the quickest and easiest way to do it.

  1. Touch and hold the screen somewhere where there are no widgets or app icons
  2. An Add to Home screen pop-up will appear – tap the Wallpapers option
  3. You will then be presented with a Select wallpaper from window – chooseLive wallpapers, Media gallery, Wallpaper gallery or Wallpapers
  4. For Live wallpapers:
    1. Scroll to a live wallpaper that you want to use, and tap it
    2. If you’re satisfied with your selection, tap Set wallpaper
  5. For Media gallery:
    1. Your picture folders will be displayed on the screen – select the folder containing the picture you want to use for your wallpaper
    2. Tap on the image you want to set as your wallpaper
    3. You will be presented with your chosen picture on the screen with a colored cropping square on it
    4. Touch and drag any of the four sides of the square to resize the area of the image to be used for your wallpaper
    5. Once you’re satisfied, tap Save
  6. For Wallpaper Gallery or Wallpapers:
    1. Scroll through the images until you find the image that you want to use
    2. Once you select an image, tap Set wallpaper

From the settings menu:

  1. Tap the applications launcher from the home screen
  2. Tap the Settings icons
  3. Tap Personalize
  4. Tap the Home wallpaper option
  5. Continue from Step 2 of the From the home screen option

It’s that easy! You now have a fresh new wallpaper configured on your Samsung Epic 4G.
How to set wallpapers on Samsung Epic 4G

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September 1, 2010

How to disable TouchWiz on the Epic 4G

Instructions

This process works on TouchWiz 2.5 devices. It will work on the stock Samsung Epic 4G for Sprint or Samsung Fascinate for Verizon, but it will not work on the Samsung Captivate for AT&T or the Samsung Vibrant for T-Mobile.

  1. Head over to the Settings application. (Press “Menu” button, Click “Settings”)
  2. Scroll down and click “Applications”
  3. Click on the “Manage Applications” button
  4. Press the “Menu” button, click “Filter”
  5. Press “All”
  6. Scroll almost all the way down to “TwLauncher” and click it
  7. Under “Launch by default” press “Clear defaults”
  8. Now, click your Home button
  9. Choosing “Home” instead of “TwLauncher” will bring you to the Vanilla Android launcher and homescreens. You can click on “Use by default for this action.”
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August 23, 2010

Samsung Epic 4G Accessories

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Samsung Epic 4G Case

Samsung Epic 4G Car Kit

Samsung Epic 4G Screen Protector

Samsung Epic 4G Accessories

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Samsung Vibrant Accessories

Samsung Vibrant Charger
Samsung Vibrant Skin

Samsung Vibrant Screen Protector
Samsung Vibrant Memory card

Samsung Vibrant Battery

Find more Samsung Vibrant Accessories

samsung vibrant accessories

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Android games

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Best Android Games

Gaming is big on every smartphone. I have compiled a list of article to check for the best Android game apps:
List of Android games
12 Essential Android Games
The Android Market
Top Android games
5 Best Addictive Free Multiplayer Android Games
Android games forums
50 Android games demonstrated in one video — who says Android can’t game?
Top Ten Android Games

100 ANDROID GAMES IN TWO VIDEO

50 ANDROID GAMES IN ONE VIDEO ( Droid version )

Free Android games list

20 best free Android games
Android Freeware directory
Three Android Games You Might Want To Download

iquid Stream, A10, Thunder, Zio, M6000, Xperia X8, Sage, Charm Optimus, Chic Optimus One, Intercept (Moment 2), Desire HD , Epic 4G, Vibrant, Captivate, G1, Blaze / Vision Droid 2, MT810, Beam Motosplit i5500 Galaxy 5 LePhone Liquid E M1 Droid X I1 / Opus One Titanium Aria myTouch 3G Slide Garminfone FlipOut Wildfire EVO Aero / Mini 3iX Streak Galaxy S / Fascinate Optimus Q (LG C710 Aloha, LG LU2300) Ally 845(Vodafone) Xperia X10 Mini Galaxy A / Apollo / M100S Droid Incredible GT540 Optimus Pulse Mini (T-Mobile) CLIQ XT(USA)/ Quench beTouch E110 Legend Desire / Passion / Bravo Backflip Devour One Motoroi Nexus One Xperia X10 Archos Phone

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