MOTOROLA DROID 2 USER GUIDE Congratulations More •Answers: Touch > Help Center

MOTOROLA DROID 2
USER GUIDE

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Answers: Touch

> Help Center.

DROID2 by Motorola

You can also flick your home screen left or right to see the Tips & Tricks widgets.
DROID2 by Motorola gives you a high quality imaging, video, and multimedia experience. Your new phone also syncs , feeds, messages, e-mails, photos, and much more—from sources like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Gmail, your email at work—and serves them all up just the way you want them.

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Updates: Phone updates, PC software, online help and more at motorola.com/mydroid2.

Accessories: Find accessories for your phone at www.motorola.com/products.

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Download BLOCKBUSTER videos, straight to your handset.

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Stream and store multimedia on any DLNA™ Certified device in your home network. No memory cards to swap, no cables to attach.

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DROID2 by Motorola syncs your favorite social networking sites—all your messages, all the latest updates—so you can stay connected, right from your home screen.

Notes:

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All screen shots in this guide are simulated. Actual displays may vary.
Caution: Before assembling, charging or using your phone for the first time, please read the important legal and safety information packaged with your phone. Once your phone is up and running, touch

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Instructions to perform tasks in this guide may change depending on the software version on your phone.

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Unless specified otherwise, all instructions to perform tasks in this guide assume that you are starting from the home screen.
Menu

> Settings > About phone > Safety

information to read the full information.

Congratulations

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Your phone

the important keys & connectors

When you open or turn your phone, the screen adjusts for you.

Power Key
3.5mm
Headset Jack

Press - sleep. Hold - on/off

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LOCK

Micro USB Connector
Volume Keys

See all your apps.

Touch the Launcher icon.

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Charge or connect to PC.

Touchscreen

DEL

LOCK

Home Key

Back Key

Camera Key

Text Messa

Browser

Market

Voicemail

Delete

Return

Shift

Menu Key

Search Key

Alternate

Navigation keys
To type the character at the top of a key,

Microphone
Back Key

press

,

then the key.

Space

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Contents

Let’s go

Let’s go . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Touchscreen & keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Home screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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let’s get you up and running

Assemble & charge

1 MicroSD in (may

already be inserted)

Calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Text entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Tips & tricks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Digital living . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Photos & videos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 YouTube™. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Messaging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Social networking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Personalize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Maps. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Latitude. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Apps for all . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Bluetooth® wireless. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Wi-Fi®. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Memory card & file management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Security. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Safety, Regulatory & Legal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

2 Battery in

3 Cover on

4 Charge up

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Caution: Please read the battery use and safety text in the important legal and safety information packaged with your phone. Tip: To save battery life, see “Battery tips” on page 19.

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Set up & go

Cool content & more

The first time you turn on your phone, a setup wizard guides you through signing in to your Gmail™ account. If you don’t have one, don’t worry, the wizard will help you create one.
Browse and download thousands of the coolest apps on the planet from Android Market™. Your phone comes with a microSD memory card installed—you can load it up with photos, videos, and music from your computer using “Memory card” on page 47.
After you log into Gmail, you can set up social networking, or you can do it later. Note: This phone supports data-intensive apps and services. It is strongly recommended that you purchase a data plan that meets your needs. Contact your service provider for details.

1 Press and hold Power

on

top of your phone to turn it on.

2 Select a language.

3 Follow the setup wizard to create or log in to your Gmail account. Note: If you have an existing Gmail account, your contacts from that account are synced to your phone. Whenever you choose to select all contacts for the one you want, your phone shows every contact, in every groups.

Wi-Fi connect

If you want to use a Wi-Fi computer network for even faster Internet access, touch Menu

> Settings
> Wireless & networks > Wi-Fi settings.

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Let’s go

Drag

Touchscreen & keys

a few essentials

To scroll through a list or move slowly, drag across the touchscreen. Try it: In the home screen,

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Contacts: A-Z

Contacts: All contacts

Touch tips

Arthur Baudo

Here are some tips on how to navigate around your phone. touch

Contacts, then

Barry Smyth

drag your Contacts list

up or down.

Cheyenne Medina Christine Fanning Jim Somers

Touch

To choose an icon or option, touch it.

Tip: When you drag or

flick a list, a scroll bar appears on the right. Drag the scroll bar to move the list to a letter A - Z.

Text Messa

Browser

Market

Voicemail

Kat Bleser Kristin Cullen

Touch & hold

To open special options,

touch and hold an icon

or other item. Try it: In the home screen, touch

Contacts, then

Flick

Contacts: A-Z

Contacts: All contacts

To scroll through a list or move quickly, flick across the touchscreen (drag quickly and release).

Arthur Bando

Tip: When you flick a long list, touch the screen to stop it from scrolling.

Barry Smyth

Arthur Bando

touch and hold a contact to open options.

Cheyenne Medina

View contact

Zoom

Get a closer look at maps or web pages. To zoom in,

double-touch the screen. To zoom out, double touch

the screen again.

Christine Fanning

Call contact Send text message

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You can also zoom in or out by pinching your fingers together or moving them apart on the screen. hold Home then touch an app to open it. to show the last few apps you used,
Touch Search voice search. for text search, or touch and hold for

Pinch to zoom out.

Touch Menu

to open menu options, or touch

Back

to go back.

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To change how long your phone waits before the screen goes to sleep automatically, touch Menu

> Settings > Display > Screen timeout.

Key tips

Menu, home, & back

Tip: To make the screen lock when it goes to sleep, use “Screen lock” on page 51. To unlock the screen, press Power the right.

or open the phone. Then, drag

to

Home Key

Menu Key

Back Key

Search Key

Power key menu

Press and hold Power menu, where you can turn off the phone (Power off),

or turn Airplane mode or Silent mode on or off.

to open the power key

Touch Home

to close any menu or app and return

to the home screen. In the home screen, touch and

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Touchscreen & keys

Adjust volume
To...

Press the volume keys to change the ring volume (in the home screen), or the earpiece volume (during a call).

See item options—Open

an options menu (if available) for an item on the screen.
Touch & hold the item.

Volume Keys

Start again—Go back to

the home screen.
Touch Home

Rotate the screen

When you rotate the phone 90 degrees counterclockwise, the touchscreen can rotate to stay right-side up:

Wake up your phone—Turn on a sleeping

touchscreen.
Press Power open the phone. or

Find it: Menu

> Settings > Display
> Auto-rotate screen

Quick tips

If ever you’re not sure what to do next, try one of these:

To...

Get the details—Open a

text message, see details for a contact, or open items in other lists.
Touch the message, contact, or item.

See screen menu—Open a Touch Menu

menu for the current screen.

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Note: Your home screen might look a little different.

Home screen

quick access to the things you need most

The home screen extends beyond what you see on the screen to give you more room for adding shortcuts, widgets, and more. Flick the home screen left and right to see more panels or to add widgets or shortcuts.

Quick start: Home screen

The home screen gives you all your latest information in one place. It’s what you see when you turn on the phone or touch Home like this: from a menu. It’s basically

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Notifications

Flick this bar down to see details.

Widgets bring the content you want right to your

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Gallery

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Messaging

Contact Se

Favorites

Text Mess

Browser

Market

Voicemail

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Widgets

A widget is small app on the home screen that

Flick left or right to see more screens.

typically displays information such as weather, news, and social networking updates. You can add a widget, such as a clock, music player, or a calendar that shows upcoming appointments. To open a widget, touch it. To add a widget, touch an empty spot on the home

Shortcuts

Text Messa

Browser

Market

Voicemail

screen. (You can also touch Menu

> Add

Touch to open.

> Widgets.) If your home screen is full, you won’t see the add option. You’ll need to move or delete widgets or shortcuts to make room.

Launcher Icon

Open the app menu.

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Home screen

You can change a widget’s size. Just touch and hold the widget. When the widget’s outline turns white, drag one of the corners to make it the size you want.
Flick up and down to see all of your apps. Any new apps that you download (see page “Android Market™” on page 42) are added to the app tray.
Note: If you install apps from Android Market that have widgets, touch and hold the home screen, then select a widget to add to the home screen.

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MP3

3G Mobile Hotspot
Alarm & Timer
Amazon MP3
Backup Assistant

Shortcuts

Blockbuster Browser

Calculator Calendar

To add shortcuts to the home screen, open the app menu, then touch and hold the shortcut you want. It will be added to the home screen. Or, touch Menu

> Add > Shortcuts.

Camcorder

Camera

CarDock

Dialer

Files

City ID

DLNA

Contacts Corporate