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dachillfx

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I thought it would be interesting, now that we've all gotten to know our Thunderbolts or so we think, to start a did you know type thing, just to share new discoveries. It may even teach the (as they say newbies) a thing or two and the not so tech and or android savvy consumer as well. Here is something I found out just today. Some of you may already know, here we go. I've had my device since 3/17/2011, you can say the retail birth date of the Thunderbolt. I just found out that you can save battery by putting on airplane mode when you have weak and or no cell phone reception or signal. Of course that is common knowledge but at the same time you can still use all data capabilities, listen to music, watch videos and or movies, and send and or receive emails via Wi-Fi. Meaning that you can run your wi-fi and airplane mode simultaneously and save tremendous battery more so when you have bad cell signal. Just as searching for 3g and or 4g wears on the battery so does searching for an actual cell tower signal. Could explain why I've read people say they wake up and their battery is either dead or dying. As far as texts and calls- no- not in airplane mode. Once switching off if u have signal, any call or text made or sent to you should be waiting in Notifications. Calls perhaps in a Voice mail. Rather long but hopefully helpful. Please share your discoveries using this device, which just barely turned 4months old.
 
xkingofgodzx said:
You can also turn the data off.
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U R absolutely correct which is the biggest battery saver. However I was speaking more so if U have weak to no cell signal. Thus searching for signal kills battery even while using data. I was just pointing out that airplane mode can run simultaneously with wi-fi. You could still have data capabilities and play games,music,videos, movies,email, etc..and save a little battery. Feel me?
 
I found out while I was listening 2 music & got a call that you can use any headphones & actually talk on the phone. I guess It's because of the dual mics. Found this out about a month ago. Maybe I'm late but it was pretty cool when I found out.
 
Tfleezee said:
I found out while I was listening 2 music & got a call that you can use any headphones & actually talk on the phone. I guess It's because of the dual mics. Found this out about a month ago. Maybe I'm late but it was pretty cool when I found out.
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Now thatz what I am talking about. I never knew this. Every I have my Dre beats on without the the black cord that can talk with, I always unplug. I will try this out with the red cord. Explain how did that work. How were or are you able to use regular headphones and still answer, listen, and respond during calls?
 
Like I said I'm guessing It's because of the 2 mics on the phone. If you're holding it in your hand or It's close 2 your mouth the mics should pic it up. I do it all the time now. As far answering just answer normally.
 
I was just on Android Central so I can't take any credit for this, but apparently when you are using the front facing camera to take a picture of yourself, letters and wording (like on a t-shirt) will be in reverse. It's because the front camera is in "Mirror" mode. To undo this, switch your camera the front camera, press the menu button, scroll down to the "mirror" option and uncheck it. After doing this you have to turn your phone to landscape in order to take a normal picture otherwise the image will be upside down if in portrait mode. For more info, see below.

Front camera. - Android Forums
 
SeekerOfTheWay said:
Did you know that when typing you can long press the predictive word bar and move it out of the way? That one took me a while to find out.

Did you know you can have navigation running, along with Slacker radio! This was awesome on my lastest road trip!
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The text bar, I did not know! Good to know though :)

The navigation I do a lot with Pandora, but not with VZ Navigator. I know on mine, when I had that going with my Bluetooth speakerphone, that it toyed with what speakers outputted sound on em. Gave up on that lol. (I was using the free trial on the VZ Nav at the time - I wouldn't really pay for it monthly lol)
 
If you're using one of the SwiftKey variants, a long-press on a word in the suggestions bar allows you to delete that suggestion. Good in the off case a password or a misspelling's gotten into the list.
 
If you posted a thread speculating about when the TB was arriving at Best Buy, you were automatically vilified by the forum members?
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SeekerOfTheWay said:
Did you know that when typing you can long press the predictive word bar and move it out of the way? That one took me a while to find out.

Did you know you can have navigation running, along with Slacker radio! This was awesome on my lastest road trip!
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I believe this only works on the factory keyboard. I tried to do this on the swiftkey X and it only gave me the option to remove one word.
 
I found out today, that if you've previously used your Mobile Hotspot feature to connect to a Windows Vista laptop and had it password protected, and then you remove the password on the phone, you'll be scratching your head when your laptop tells you "something ain't right." Turned out that since I had turned off the password on the phone, but because my laptop had the settings saved, I had to go into the security settings for that particular connection, and remove the saved settings in the laptop to "match" to the phone.

(ok, so I'm bored at work.. lol)
 
In sticking with the Mobile Hotspot theme, you can actually network a wireless printer to the phone and print/scan with any computer that's connected to your phone. I'm sure this is an obvious feature to many of you, but with my old Windows phone, my wireless printer did not recognize my Windows mobile hotspot and thus I couldn't connect to my laptop. With the Thunderbolt, the wireless printer finds it flawlessly.
 
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