1. Tips and Trick For Multiple Gmail accounts in Android
Android 2.1 added support for multiple Gmail accounts. Add a new internet identity to your phone by opening the Gmail app, then pressing Menu > Accounts > Add Accounts. Then remember who you’re pretending to be.
2. Tips and Trick For Turn off Google auto-suggest
If you’re phone’s a bit on the entry level side of things, your Google searching will be speeded up quite significantly by turning off the web suggestions feature. Having Google constantly guessing what you’re about to type is nice, but can bring older phones crunching to a halt. Deactivate this feature by heading to Settings > Search > Google Search Settings.
3. Tips and Trick Add a hotline to the Android Home screen
If there’s one person you tend to call more than most – wife, councillor or parole officer – make it easy on yourself by adding a Direct Dial shortcut to the Home screen. Long-press on the background, then select Shortcuts then Direct Dial – to add the modern equivalent of a big red telephone to your Home page that instantly dials the one number without messing around with the Dialer or Contacts pages.
4. Tips and Trick Add a hotline to Techradar
You can do the above with web site pages, too. Simply long-press on a web bookmark when in the browser, and you’ll be given the option to “Add Shortcut to Home” – which will indeed drop an icon onto your Home screen that instantly launches the browser and starts loading your favourite site.
5. Shortcut to music playlists
If you’ve setup a playlist for your music, it’s also possible to add a shortcut to that on the Home screen in a similar fashion. Beats fiddling with the music player.
6. Tips and Trick Bypass Android slide unlock
You don’t have to slide the screen locker to bring your phone out of standby. A double press of your phone’s Menu button will also wake it up, as long as your manufacturer hasn’t removed that feature from its skin.
7. Tips and Trick Unconfirmed deletions
Pressing Menu while in the Gallery lets you switch off the deletion confirmation dialogue, which could shave many seconds off your photo management times.
8. Tips and Trick Alternate text fields
If you’re a bit of a grammar fetishist, the Android stock keyboard can help. Holding down a key brings up a floating alternate text field for that letter, with all the special characters needed for accurately sending SMS messages to French and German people popping up.
9. Tips and Trick More Android emoticions
The above tip also works with the Android keyboard’s selection of smiley faces, with a long-press on the smiley pulling up loads more. Although there still aren’t enough sad/depressed ones for our liking.
10. Tips and Trick “What I meant was…”
And if you’re too old to know what all these smiley faces actually mean, press Menu then Insert Smiley while on the Android keyboard – then the meaning of them all is nicely explained for granddad.
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