Motorola DROID BY Tips And Tricks Manual page 8

PERFORMANCE
Save your battery power
Because you want the best performance from your bat-
tery, here are some ways you can save battery power...
• Turn Bluetooth off when not in use.
• Turn Wi-Fi off when not in use.
• Lower the display brightness.
• Set Get new email to greater than 15 minutes
(default) or Manually.
• Turn off GPS when not in use.
For easy access to these options, add the Power Control
widget to your Home screen. To add the widget:
1 Touch and hold a blank area of your Home
screen, then tap Widgts.
2 Select Power Control.
3 Touch and hold the widget to drag it to the
desired location on your Home screen.
Clear your cache!
If you've been using the browser a lot, the cache can
quickly get big. Here's how to clear your cache.
Tap Settings > Applications > Manage
applications > Browser > Clear cache.
Train your battery
Train the battery by fully charging it and draining the
battery until it shuts off.
1 With the device turned off, fully charge the
battery until the LED no longer flashes and
remains on.
2 Let the battery charge for an additional TWO
hours.
3 Repeat the process again (perform twice in a
row) and you should experience improved
battery life.
Use your phone as a portable hard drive
Your phone supports high capacity microSD cards,
which means you can add up to 32GB of storage to it.
That's as good as carrying a portable hard drive around
with you. To treat your phone as a portable storage de-
vice, you need to turn on mass storage. Here's how.
1 Plug your phone into your computer using a
USB cable.
2 When your phone chimes and/or a notification
USB icon appears on your Notifications bar,
open it.
3 You must tap the USB notification to allow for
files to be copied back and forth between the
phone and your computer.
4 Tap Memory Card Management
Your phone is now available as a disk drive on your
computer.
Keep your phone updated
Software updates may be available for your phone.
Here's how to check right from your phone. Press the
Menu key > Settings > About phone > System up-
datesto see if your phone is up to date. If it isn't, tap Up-
date.
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OK.