Motorola MILESTONE 3 XT861 User Manual page 32

Tips & tricks
a few handy hints
General tips
• Touch Search in the home screen to
across your apps, contacts, web, and maps—or just
enter the address for a place or a web page.
Touch 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
> >
30 Tips & tricks
search
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 high speed, with a touch
display. Depending on what you use, that can take a lot
of power. So, if you want to save battery life between
charges, you could reduce:
• recording or watching videos, listening to music, or
taking pictures.
Music
,
• widgets that stream information to your home screen,
like news or weather.
• Bluetooth™ use: touch Menu
Wireless & networks
New
• use: touch Menu
networks
• GPS use: touch Menu
security
recent
• network searching: if you are out of coverage, to keep
your phone from looking for networks, press and hold
Power/Lock Key
• display brightness: touch Menu
Display
• display timeout delay: touch Menu
Display
>
Bluetooth
>
Settings
>
Wi-Fi
> (turn off).
Settings
>
Use GPS satellites
> (deselect).
Airplane mode
>
Brightness
> > (dimmer setting).
Screen timeout
> > (shorter setting).
Settings
>
>
(turn off).
Wireless &
>
Location &
>
.
Settings
> >
Settings
> >