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Tips n Tricks thread.

I just tried TV Catchup through the Dolphin browser and it works reasonably well over wifi, not tried 3g yet. You just need an account, it's free though.
 
bruce10 said:
If you swipe a contact towards the left, your phone will begin to call them. If you swipe them right, your phone will start a text to them. My friend's nexsus S couldn't do this.
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When I read this I had to try it:)

But on my phone it's the other way round; If I swipe left = text, and to the right = call.

Anyway, very cool short-cut. Thanks!
 
Hello guys and gals...

New here, and to android (Been with Nokias for over 10yrs!) so hello all :D

Thought I'd share some tips with you... Top 3 (as a lot has already been covered)

1. When you add a "picture frame" widget to your android it will, by default, load in portrait mode. Press and hold the picture and yellow lines will show around the screen. At the bottom right of your pic, you'll see a grey tab. Hold and move the tab to change the size of the picture frame widget.

2. When watching a video, tap the power button once to lock the touchscreen. No more pressing a button by mistake :)

3. Google easter egg for you guys and gals ;)

Go to settings > about phone > and tap "android version" 5 times for a secret picture ;)

SilverDroid
 
SilverDroid said:
Hello guys and gals...

New here, and to android (Been with Nokias for over 10yrs!) so hello all :D

Thought I'd share some tips with you... Top 3 (as a lot has already been covered)

1. When you add a "picture frame" widget to your android it will, by default, load in portrait mode. Press and hold the picture and yellow lines will show around the screen. At the bottom right of your pic, you'll see a grey tab. Hold and move the tab to change the size of the picture frame widget.

2. When watching a video, tap the power button once to lock the touchscreen. No more pressing a button by mistake :)

3. Google easter egg for you guys and gals ;)

Go to settings > about phone > and tap "android version" 5 times for a secret picture ;)

SilverDroid
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Your second point! Didn't know that. Shall be using that next time I'm watching something.
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and OMG it actually works!!!!!! (although I did just start spamming/rapidly tapping) because 5 taps didn't work for me!! :eek::eek: Zombie Art by Jack Larson. :eek:
 
Here is an amazing tip, only just realised you could do this on the sg2, if you press the phone icon you can actually phone people, yeah i know, amazing is'nt it, had this phone a week now and not phoned anyone yet, too busy watching films and playing with all the cool apps, forgot it was an actual phone :)
 
SilverDroid said:
Here's another one for you guys and gals...

When you press "phone" rather than dialing the number, you can dial the name..

i.e. for "Silver" I would type... "745837" though I wouldnt call myself obviously lol.

SilverDroid
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My god, i can use the phone function even posher now :)
 
thesludge said:
When you have sent a text message to people, if you click on the speech bubbles you get the following options pop up

Delete Message
Copy Message text
Lock message
Forward
Copy to SIM
View Message Details
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Hi this may be a stupid questions, but I am really curious as to what the Lock message does, it does not password protect the message, that I checked. So what exactly is its function ?
 
True though it still gives you the option to delete locked messages.

Though say you had a long convo history with a particular person but needed to keep certain messages... you could lock them individually.. then delete the thread without the "delete locked messages" being enabled.. I.e. dont tick it. And you wont have to scroll through hundreds of messages to get to the "important" ones. I doubt most use this feature anyway?
 
Saw someone had asked this is another thread so thought I would post it here...

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Add a picture frame "widget" to the handset, and when it asks you to choose a picture, choose several of them and hit save at the top. The images will now rotate ;)
 
Not sure if this has been mentioned yet or not, but there's a way to take screenshots on a non-rooted S2. Simply hold the home key and the power key down for a few seconds, let go and the screen capture will save to your gallery. It's a bit tricky at first. You'll know it worked because a little message will come up at the bottom of the screen and you'll feel your phone vibrate a little.
 
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