Recent content by mikec917

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    Battery life tips and tricks

    Smart actions is a program that is included in the Razr to help complete tasks for you when certain conditions are met. For example, turning off Cell data when connected to wifi. If you look in the app drawer it's there.
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    New phone: Razr, Rezound, or just wait?

    Good, glad to hear you made your decision. Best of luck with it and ICS
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    I Need A Step By Step Guide To Update Galaxy Ace

    To update the actual Android software: 1)From your home screen press the "Menu" button (left hand button on phone below screen) 2)Press "Settings" 3) Scroll to the bottom and press "About phone" 4)Press "System updates" 5)Follow prompts if it finds anything. To update apps, either wait to be...
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    annoying email notifications

    I do know that it will cut off the music for a call, and put up the "incoming call" screen, but depending on how much attention you're paying to your phone, that may not be enough to draw your attention to the phone call. Not entirely sure how to keep the phone call audibly ringing for you.
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    New phone: Razr, Rezound, or just wait?

    I agree with SnyperX if you (and/or mom) aren't in a big hurry, CES does tend to have some good things come out. But I can tell you from experience that I personally love my Razr, I just upgraded from the Droid 2, the larger screen is nice and the 4G plus hardware upgrades (talking speed) are...
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    Question about an app

    Android dev is based heavily on java, with the obvious addition of the Android specific classes and methods. They do have a website devoted to starting you off with developing apps, http://developer.android.com/resources/tutorials/hello-world.html Hopefully you do have some experience in...
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    Controlling Receive Call Notifications

    Unfortunately, the volume buttons on the side of the phone do control all the volume on the device. If you want to change the in-call volume, next time you are in a call, then you can use the volume buttons to change just the in-call volume. If you want to set this up ahead of time you can...
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    annoying email notifications

    The best way to stop all notifications while listening to music (that I have found) is to just set your phone to vibrate before. You'll still get the notifications in the bar on top, and it will vibrate depending on how you have it set, but there will be no audible notifications during playback.
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    Hello

    Hey guys/girls Just writing an intro post as suggested by the site. I'm decently familiar with android OS, but haven't installed any custom ROMs or anything on my device. In my spare time I spend a lot of time building/fixing PCs, and playing Xbox so I'm what some people consider a Geek, and...