Getting Started with Android - Tips and Tricks

[saint satin stain]

Hi, my name is Jennifer! I am so excited to finally have an awesome phone! Ijust got the HTC EVO Design 4g for Boost mobile! I want to know everything there is to get the most out of my phone! Thanks!!

Calm down, go to search and see if someone(s) discussed your phone; also read about the android operating system here. Just browse the articles and read ones pertinent to you.

 

[tjloa69]

Hi thanks for the great info. Post number 2 gonna do 3 more to see links thanks.

Number 3 and 2 more to go

Number 4 and 1 more to go

Number 5 and I'm done for the moment. Thanks again for all your help and time.

 

[larrysample]

I am new to android. Have been a blackberry guy for years so I am just learning android. I figured this would be a great place to get answers to any questions I might have. I have a Casio commando for about 2 weeks. I worked in IT for 40 years so learning operating systems is not exactly foreign to me.

 

[meljessie2002]

I need help with a Samsung Stratosphere error. My daughter was trying to root her phone, got that successfully done, but now has an error. When you try to reboot, you get IFS done open fail. She thinks its stuck in a recovery loop. Help?

 

[michaelhdoc]

galaxy nexus phone

I have a galaxy nexus phone through Verizon. Woke up this morning and found all my photos and videos in my gallery were gone. Talk to tech support This morning, the girl there told me she had a similar call before me. I talked to another friend of mine who also has a galaxy nexus. About three weeks ago He accused his wife of snooping on his phone and deleting all his photos which was not the case. Anybody have any information on this. I believe this could be a big deal and needs to be identified. I just learned today that I can send those photos and videos automatically to my G/mail, its little bit late now though. This is all new technology for me and I'm kind of old-school Thanks mike

 

[miroma]

Great stuff for beginners!

 

[DONLOVEY]

Gday wel li gues yo realie i am a new user annd dont know toomuch so here goes my tablet hs been locked up for nearly 2 weeksvand i aving been trying tounlock it. Tonight after doing hat i have been doing all week i put y password i annd nowit is looking at me waiting for me to do something what doi do t..hanks..

 

[02360jgiamo]

Glad To Be On Board

 

[a_budh]

hi guys..i'm android noob..n have china brand hh. it's hisense e910. hope find something useful here..

 

[Beverly Martinez]

I havean Android phone and yesterday bought the tablet but when I go to download something only the phone will show up to download the app and it doesn't give me a choice to pick the tablet. The tablet will not show up anywhere. What am I doing wrong?

 

[Cellmeister]

I havean Android phone and yesterday bought the tablet but when I go to download something only the phone will show up to download the app and it doesn't give me a choice to pick the tablet. The tablet will not show up anywhere. What am I doing wrong?

Try updating any APP directly from the market using your tab, there may also be an updated Google Play main app which should come up automatically when you go to the play store via the tab, that sounds like the reason it is not appearing.

I assume your using your same gmail user name / acct as well for both devices (which would make your account associated to it).

Also some APPS are not compatible with Tabs so if it's not compatibility with the device it should tell you as well, hence try the above 1st.

Try that & get back to us.

 

[kyn520]

Grateful to have found this site because I'm completely new to all smartphones.

 

[jerryc05]

Hi everyone good to be here. New to android tablets and forms. I'll do my best to live up to everybody standers. Jerryc05

 

[mikebodin409]

Hey IM new Androidcentral, and trying to downloAd Android lost, could someone help please

 

[Ezeliz]

Hi.... I'm new here. I just want to ask on how to deactivate car mode on my Samsung note... I was charging my phone last night it was beeping and beeping saying charge your phone and the screen kept on changing and changing until there was an icon on top like car mode.. How to fix this problem? Thanks

 

[skiman447]

I'd like to add a couple of issues I've had with my S3 and see if anyone else had encountered them or has solutions.
1) When attaching photos to text messages, I randomly but frequently get the error message that the file type is not recognized (even though the picture was taken with this phone) and the photo will not attach. I have to reboot the phone after which it usually works but very annoying.
2) I tried to pay my car registration over the phone the other day which required going through multiple branches of a phone tree (press 1 for this, 5 for that, etc.) and ultimately led to entering my CC#. When I got to the step of entering the expiration date it was as if I had somehow "overloaded" the phone's capacity to accept further keypad inputs. It wouldn't accept any more numeric inputs and the screen would go instantly black everytime I tried to enter something. I thought it might be a problem at the other end so I tried again with exactly the same result at exactly the same point in the process. I did it again on my landline phone with no problem.

Anxious to hear thoughts from the forum.
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[oldracer]

hi everybody
new to the android world, sort of

my daughter gave me a used superpad3 and i really liked the way it works,
so my wife gave me a flytouch8 superpad8 for fathers day.

now on the new machine i have a problem with mounting a usb keyboard and a usb stick

enable media scanning on sd + usb is ticked

in this new one only 1 will work at a time,
even though there are 2 usb ports, as well as a micro sd

how do i mound usb keyboard and usb data stick at the same time?
in the old flytouch3 there are no problems with this
they happily work together.
i prefer to keep my data on the usb stick sdo that i can access it when at home on the desktop pc with ease

my device is a 10.2" multi function tablet

tablet pc

allwinner A10 1.5ghz A10 mali 400 cpu

model number: BC1003
android version: 4.0.4
baseband version: 1.5rc4
kernel version: 3.0.8

jackie@ubuntu#2
mon aug 6 cst 2012

built number
crane_bc1003-eng 4.0.4 IMM76D

thank you for your time
ron

 

[xcaliberdad]

Seems I'm lost. Had my Atrix 2 for almost a year and thought I knew it pretty well. Here's my problem. When texting (fb,reg text), I've always had the suggestion words below what I was typing. If I typed something the phone didn't recognize it'd ask if I wanted it added to the dictionary. Now it seems my phone has a dumb bug, almost anything I type, it ask if I want it added. Simple words like "went" or even "I". I check to see if the Word Suggestion box was checked, and yes it was. Am I missing a setting?

 

[sree3040]

how to move phone memory pics to memory card in samsung galaxy advance.

 

[dyo212]

Yeah I just joined