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joneee said:
How to add facebook birthdays onto your Droid

3. Log into your google calendar account and under settings, import your facebook birthday calendar. Save it and go back to your google calendar. You should now see all your friend's birthdays there. (I made a new tag called facebook and placed all the birthdays in there)

5. Yay you're done! :cool:
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Hoping you can explain this further?.. One the FB calendar is in Google and I bring up its settings and save, on the main calendar settings, there is import... but it's asking for a file from my cpu... I cant seem to get MY calendar to "import" the FB export file..

Sure I'm overlooking something... but I can't seem to find a way to link MY calendar w/ the FB export calendar. Help>
 
addyct said:
This is wrong.
If you download and save the file, as you say, any friends you make in the future will need to be manually added.

Subscribe to it instead of saving it. It will not show up at first, but give it time. It took my calendar overnight to sync to it, but it now is.
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I followed these steps. the birthday calendar tab shows up in my gcal but none of the actual birthday s are there yet. its been twelve hours. how long did it take you?

Oh and by the way, this is the second time i tried it. the first time i got an error message after about 5 minutes saying something along the lines of "unable to import..."
 
I suggest reading the notes of apps when updating.

I just synced my gmail tasks using the gtasks app. It erased some of my recent notes. When I went on Market to find the developer to tell them about it, I saw "sync BEFORE update!". So, I assume that caused the problem - I updated without reading the update notes and performing a sync first (I can't confirm that it was in the notes, but this is my best guess).
 
blank said:
i seen that. The facebook app automatically added all my facebook friends to my contacts, but for some reason wont let me update that contact listing with their cell numbers. kinda annoying.
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there is an option to use only phone contacts with phone numbers on there.
 
jbg25 said:
I apologize in advance if this is common knowledge. But I have read several people say that something has disabled the ability to have the home page rotate to landscape mode.

This is just a setting, so if yours will not rotate check the following...

I have OpenHome, but I assume this is standard. check Sound & Display ->Display Settings->Orientation
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If you have PandaHome as your homescreen it will rotate when you turn the phone, get that at the android market.
 
BBKing said:
So I was messing around on the Facebook site on my Droid and thought Id see what the full site looked like so I clicked the link and all of a sudden a chat popped up and I was like Wtf so I opened the window to see who was online and started chatting. I could not believe this actually works right from the phone IDK if anyone else has seen that yet but I thought it was sweet!!!
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Can you give more detail which facebook app are you using, how did you get to chat I can't seem to replicate, I get the bottom row bar but no chat there and I can't seem to open anything on it. Thanks for help this would be great if I can get it to work :)
 
I was tired of leaving my cord at home and noticed that the Droid charges significantly faster when plugged into the wall socket so I picked up

Belkin Mini Surge Protector Dual USB Charger and an extra http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/r...=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B002V11Q3QUSB Data Charge Sync Cable for Motorola Droid The fit of the USB cable is a little wonky but what can you expect for two cents. I see that they have nicer ones for 8.99 now too though I am not sure it is worth the extra $$.

Hope this helps.
 
I got an eris, so I get to laugh at the debate comparing DXTop vs Openhome vs Pandahome vs GDE etc. Sense tops all. I am also on my first smartphone, but am keeping my iPod touch because it as of yet still maintains its lead in games. That said, Android + Sense tramps iPhone OS in every possible way.
 
Open Messaging. Tilt droid at a 45 degree angle. Open a thread with a droid icon.

That droid icon is orientated "upright", ie, it's not straight like normal.
 
droideris said:
I got an eris, so I get to laugh at the debate comparing DXTop vs Openhome vs Pandahome vs GDE etc. Sense tops all. I am also on my first smartphone, but am keeping my iPod touch because it as of yet still maintains its lead in games. That said, Android + Sense tramps iPhone OS in every possible way.
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i cant seem to find sense in the market? what should i search for?
 
brettlewis said:
Is it me, or is there no question mark on the keyboard? I keep trying to type question style messages and they look silly with a period instead of a question mark

EDIT. found it. i was looking for a gold shift button. didnt know it had its own. ha
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lol Im blind. I was looking for the shifted version also.
 
cadGweep said:
You can save yourself some time and button pushes by storing your voicemail password along with the voicemail number. Then when you press the voicemail shortcut in the Phone Dialer, it will go straight through. :)

Go under Menu > Settings > Call Settings > Voicemail Settings, and set the number to: *86,,XXXX#
where each "," represents a pause
XXXX = your pin code

I sorta winged it since on my last phone I used "P" for pause, but Android won't allow me to enter letters no matter what I try. So I could be wrong about using "," but I tried it and it works!
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,, didnt work for me. I used two p's. thanks for the tip
 
When you enter your password, the keyboard that comes up has a 'pause' button on it. I used that 2x (and it actually just entered commas anyway), and it worked great for me. Good tip!
 
AZDroid said:
The sense UI comes on some HTC devices like the Eris, you can't download it to your Droid from the Market.
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Check out beautiful widgets. they have one that resembles the HTC weather/clock widget. I downloaded it and it looks almost identical to my wife's HTC eris. I think it was like 99 cents for it. It came with some other widgets as well like a gps button, and bluetooth button. I seen they have more but, i just wanted the clock thing. so if anyone trys the others let us know.
 
Sorry if repost but

A) I highly recommend the app dolphin browser. It's awesome... plus pinch and zoom
B)holding down the back button initiates an exit menu
 
gotwillk said:
too bad pinch and zoom doesn't work on the droid.
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It certainly does. Pinch to Zoom functionality is built into Android 2.0. For 1 reason or another, VZW/Motorola decided not to put it on the Droid. The Droid's twin, the Milestone (for Europe) has Pinch to Zoom. In addition, any app created can make this work on the Droid as well. Unfortunately, it is no where near as "refined" as pinch to zoom on the Eris/Iphone. I'm sure the developers of Dolphin will continue to refine it. Perhaps one day, VZW/Moto will enable it in the stock browser. There is a rumor that is is due to some legal/handshake agreement between VZW/Moto/Apple that they would not use it on the Droid, but that is unconfirmed...
 
ah sorry. I dl the browser last time and it didn't work, I think it was cuz I used it on an mobile page instead of an actual full page. and I know the droid has multitouch capability, I should've said the browser didn't. but it does.

I teseted the browser and its ok. the pinch and zoom doesn't really add to the experience for me and its kinda laggy. the gestures are also a bit laggy. only thing I like is the tabs at the top when I have multiple pages open. that's really useful. but overall though I think id stick with the default browser cuz its faster and I don't really need all those extra features.

now if someone made a multitouch keyboard for the droid, I would be all over that like white on rice.
 
AbeFrohman said:
For those that don't like the slider thing every time you want to wake the phone, get this APP. Set it to "awake stay" mode, and just like that......slider gone. I love this feature cause it's annoying to me that I have to press the lock button AND the slider to unlock the home screen.

When you want to lock the screen again, just hit the top button.
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This program would be great if it ONLY woke the screen when the power button was pressed, but it wakes it when ANY button is pressed, meaning that my phone would probably eat its battery in my pocket every time I moved around and it pressed the camera key in slightly.
 
Kev50027 said:
This program would be great if it ONLY woke the screen when the power button was pressed, but it wakes it when ANY button is pressed, meaning that my phone would probably eat its battery in my pocket every time I moved around and it pressed the camera key in slightly.
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it's no more likely that you'll accidentally hit the camera key versus the power key in your pocket, and it's simply more convenient when it's outside your pocket because you have more options.

just my 2 cents
 
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