HTC G1 tips and tricks

November 5th, 2008 Posted in Android OS

General:

  • Holding down the home key will bring up your programs running in the background.
  • Adjusting the volume will adjust volume all the way to muting sound.
  • Clicking down the End key will place your phone in sleep mode.
  • Holding down the End key while bring up the “reset” feature.
  • Turning off the GPS saves battery life to do so go to Menu, Settings, Security and Location.
  • To rename a folder on the homescreen click and hold the dock at the top of the folders name. *AnyCut is needed*
  • Long press the phone key for voice dial.
  • To make ringtones, alerts, and notifications make a folder inside your memory card each one containing there own name such as “ringtones” “alarms” “notifications”
  • To Cut, press Menu and X.
  • To Copy, press Menu and C.
  • To Paste, press Menu and V.
  • To forward picture and text messages: Press and hold the message.
  • When Typing, If you want to delete a word at the time press menu and delete and will erase a word at the time instead of one character at the time…
    Edit/Delete Message

Hard Reset
(THIS WILL REMOVE ALL APPS BUT NOT YOUR PICS AND MUSIC!!)

  • Slide open keyboard
  • Press Alt and L at the same time you will get a screen with some options listed
  • Press Alt and W at the same time to wipe device to factory reset
  • Once it is finished press home and back key at the same time
  • Remove the battery
  • Reinsert the battery

This will wipe your device to factory reset. You will need to log in to your gmail account like you initially did.

Browser:

Saving pictures from the web:

  • Press and hold the image for 3 seconds, a selection will pop-up either to save image or view image. It may contain more selections if the image contains a link.

Faster scrolling in the browser:

  • Hold down ALT key and roll trackball for fast scrolling.
  • Press space bar for a fast scroll down.
  • Shift+Space goes up

Browser General

  • Long press trackball on image to bring up “save image/view image”
  • Long press trackball over url to bring up “open/open in new window/bookmark link/save link/share link/copy link url”
  • Press menu to bring up browser menu (go to url/search/bookmarks/…etc); long-press menu to temporarily flash the shortcuts.
  • To activate the magnify glass on the browser click the trackball twice.

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6 Responses to “HTC G1 tips and tricks”

  1. juan carlos Ayala Says:

    any idea ?

    I cant turn on wifi to log me in google account .
    As other people I cant get complete de steps because
    I cant open configurations to turn on wifi.

    so please any idea ? thanks.



  2. julian Says:

    If possible does anyone know how to hide pictures in the pictures folder rather then an alternate application please message me asap



  3. ROMARIOPEREZ Says:

    why does my g1 keep saying i got low storage when i have a 8gb sd card???



  4. RE: ROMARIOPEREZ Says:

    Because you are saving everything on the internal memory and not on your sd card.



  5. amanda Says:

    How do I store downloads music and pics to my sd card



  6. John Says:

    Downloading/uploading data to your sd is actually quite easy, all you have to do is connect your usb cable from your phone to your computer and “mount it” as a storage device, then in your computer, just find what you want on your phone, click and drag it into your phones storage foler, the when your done, just un mount your sd card and voila. its readilly accessable on your phone



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