Tips & Tricks - Motorola DEFY XT User Manual

Tips & tricks
a few handy hints
General tips
• Touch Search in the home screen to search
across your apps, contacts, web, and maps—or just
enter the address for a place or a web page. Touch
Search in Google
and other apps to search within the app.
• Use folders to organize shortcuts and contacts on
your home screen.
Touch and hold a blank spot on your home screen,
Folders
then touch . To move shortcuts into a
folder
, touch and hold a shortcut, then drag it to the
folder icon.
• Touch and hold Home
apps.
• Touch and hold the status bar at the top of your phone
to show the date.
• To change which location
uses, touch Menu
security
.
• To back up your app data, passwords, and other
settings to Google servers, touch Menu
Settings Privacy
> >
Play Store Messaging
, ,
to show your most
information your phone
Settings Location &
> >
Back up my data
.
Battery tips
Your phone is like a small computer, giving you a lot of
information and apps, at 3G speed, with a touch display!
Depending on what you use, that can take a lot of
power.
To start getting the most out of your battery, touch
Battery Manager
>
Performance mode
Music
,
battery use,
is low, or
and wireless connections during off-peak hours.
To save even more battery life between charges, you
could reduce:
New
• recording or watching videos, listening to music, or
taking pictures.
• widgets that stream information to your home screen,
recent
like news or weather.
• Bluetooth™ use: touch Menu
Wireless & networks
• Wi-Fi use: touch Menu
networks
• GPS use: touch Menu
security
>
Battery mode
>
for constant data transfer and
Maximum battery saver
Nighttime saver
if you want to limit your data
Bluetooth
>
>
Wi-Fi
> (turn off).
Settings
>
Use GPS satellites
> (deselect).
. Choose
when your battery
Settings
> >
(turn off).
Settings Wireless &
>
Location &
>
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