HTC G1 tips and tricks

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.