Craig James Johnston
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My Motorola Atrix™ 4G Copyright © 2012 by Pearson Education, Inc.
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Contents at a Glance Prologue
Getting to Know Your Motorola Atrix 4G . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Chapter 1
Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Chapter 2
Using the Phone and Google Voice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Chapter 3
Audio and Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Chapter 4
Connecting to Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and VPNs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Chapter 5
Emailing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Chapter 6
Browsing the Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Chapter 7
Text and Multimedia Messaging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Chapter 8
Working with Date, Time, and Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Chapter 9
Taking, Storing, and Viewing Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Chapter 10
Working with Android Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Chapter 11
Customizing Your Motorola Atrix 4G . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Chapter 12
Motorola Atrix 4G Lapdock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Chapter 13
Maintaining Motorola Atrix 4G and Solving Problems . . . 291 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
Table of Contents Prologue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1
Getting to Know Your Motorola Atrix 4G . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Your Motorola Atrix 4G’s External Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 Fundamentals of Android . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 The Unlock Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 The Home Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9 Using Your Motorola Atrix 4G’s Touchscreen Using Your Motorola Atrix 4G’s Keyboard
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Starting and Switching Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18 Menus
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Installing Synchronization Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21 First-Time Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24
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Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Getting to Know the Contacts Application
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Adding Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30 Adding and Managing Contacts
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40
Communicating with Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49
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Using the Phone and Google Voice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Getting to Know the Phone Application
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Receiving a Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57 Placing a Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59 Dialing Using Your Voice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61 Configuring the Phone Application Google Voice
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Setting Up Google Voice
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Using Google Voice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .77
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Audio and Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 The Music Application—Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .83 Managing Playlists
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Playing and Sharing Videos with the Gallery Application . .93 Recording Videos with the Camera Application YouTube
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Using doubleTwist to Synchronize Audio and Video . . . . . . .110
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Connecting to Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and VPNs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Connecting to Bluetooth Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .117 Pairing with a New Bluetooth Device
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Wi-Fi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .121 Cellular Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .127 Virtual Private Networks (VPN)
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Adding a VPN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .129 Sharing Your 4G Connection over Wi-Fi for Others to Use
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Share Your Media Files with Televisions and Other Devices .134
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Emailing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 Gmail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .141 Setting Up the Email Application
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Adding a New Corporate Account
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All Emails in One Place
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Adding a New POP3 or IMAP Account
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Browsing the Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 Navigating with the Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .171 Using Bookmarks, Most Viewed, and History Using GPS Location
Managing Multiple Windows Page Options
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Customizing Browser Settings Downloading Files
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Text and Multimedia Messaging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187 Text Messaging Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .187
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Working with Date, Time, and Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197 Setting the Date and Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .198 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .199
The Alarm & Timer Application
Managing Alarms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .200 The HD Multimedia Docks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .202 Using the Calendar Application
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Responding to a Meeting Request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .208
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Taking, Storing, and Viewing Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 Using the Camera Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .213 Viewing and Managing Your Photos
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Synchronizing Photos with Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .224 Working with Pictures Manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .224 Working with doubleTwist
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Working with Android Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233 Google Checkout Android Market
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Deleting Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .240 Deleting an Application Using Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .240
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Customizing Your Motorola Atrix 4G . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247 Change Your Wallpaper
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .247
Change Your Keyboard
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The Swype Keyboard
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Region and Language
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Accessibility Settings
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Display Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .259 Using Your Fingerprint to Unlock Your Atrix
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Motorola Atrix 4G Lapdock. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267 Getting to Know the Lapdock Using the Lapdock
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Overview of the Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .270 Lapdock Settings
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File Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .286 Adding an App Tray Shortcut
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Maintaining Motorola Atrix 4G and Solving Problems . . 291 Updating Android
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Optimizing the Battery Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .293 Looking After the Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .293 Caring for Motorola Atrix’s Exterior
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Getting Help with Your Motorola Atrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .298
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
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About the Author
About the Author Craig James Johnston has been involved with technology since his high school days at Glenwood High in Durban, South Africa, when his school was given some Apple Europluses. From that moment technology captivated him, and he has owned, supported, evangelized, and written about it. Craig has been involved in designing and supporting large-scale enterprise networks with integrated email and directory services since 1989. Craig has held many different IT-related positions in his career ranging from sales support engineer to mobile architect for a 40,000-smartphone infrastructure at a large bank. In addition to designing and supporting mobile computing environments, Craig writes about it for Smartphone Essentials and CrackBerry.com, a leading BlackBerry blog. Craig also co-hosts the CrackBerry.com podcast and multiple BYTE.com podcasts, including BYTE Wireless Radio. You can see Craig’s previously published work in his books Professional BlackBerry, My BlackBerry Curve, My Palm Pre, My Nexus One, My Droid, My BlackBerry PlayBook, and My BlackBerry Torch. Craig also enjoys high-horsepower, high-speed vehicles and tries very hard to keep to the speed limits while driving them. Originally from Durban, South Africa, Craig has lived in the United Kingdom, the San Francisco Bay Area, and New Jersey where he now lives with his wife, Karen, and a couple of cats. Craig would love to hear from you. Feel free to contact Craig about your experiences with My Motorola Atrix 4G at www.CraigsBooks.info. All comments, suggestions, and feedback are welcome, including positive and negative.
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Dedication I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. —Douglas Adams
Acknowledgments I would like to express my deepest gratitude to the following people on the My Motorola Atrix 4G team who all worked extremely hard on this book. Michelle Newcomb, my acquisitions editor who worked with me to give this project an edge, as well as technical editor John Wargo, development editor Charlotte Kughen, project editor Lori Lyons, proofreader Sarah Kearns, indexer Erika Millen, and compositor Tricia Bronkella.
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Motorola Atrix
Motorola Lapdock
Prologue In this chapter, you learn about the external features of the Motorola Atrix 4G and the basics of getting started with it. Topics include the following: B Your Motorola Atrix 4G’s external features B Fundamentals of Android B Installing synchronization software
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Getting to Know Your Motorola Atrix 4G Let’s start by getting to know more about your Motorola Atrix 4G. We cover the external features, device features, and go over how the Android operating system works.
Your Motorola Atrix 4G’s External Features The outside of your Motorola Atrix 4G was designed to be beautiful and functional. It has a large screen, fingerprint reader, and physical and virtual buttons. Let’s take a look.
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Proximity and light sensors Status light
Front-facing camera
Earpiece Volume up/down buttons
Touchscreen
Microphone
Menu Home Back Search button button button button
Proximity and light sensors The proximity sensor detects when you place your Motorola Atrix 4G against your ear to talk, at which point it turns off the screen to avoid any ear button pushing. The light sensor is used to adjust the brightness of your Motorola Atrix 4G’s screen based on the brightness of the ambient light. Volume up/down buttons video, and phone calls.
Enables you to control the volume of audio,
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Status light Indicates the state of your Motorola Atrix 4G’s battery and shows when new messages arrive. Green means your Motorola Atrix 4G is fully charged when you have it connected to a charger. Amber means that your Motorola Atrix 4G is charging. Flashing red means your Motorola Atrix 4G’s battery is low. Flashing green means that you have a new message waiting. Touchscreen The Motorola Atrix 4G has a four-inch 540 × 960 pixel TFT LCD (Thin Film Transistor Liquid Crystal Display) screen with capacitive touch. Because the screen uses capacitive touch, you do not need to press hard. Back button Touching the Back button takes you back one screen when using an application or menu. This soft button doesn’t actually press in. When you touch it, your Motorola Atrix 4G vibrates briefly to let you know it has detected the touch. Menu button Displays a menu of choices. The menu differs based on what screen you are looking at and what application you are using. Home button Touch this button to go to the Home screen. The application that you are using continues to run in the background. Search button Touch this button to type or speak a search term. Your Motorola Atrix 4G searches on your phone and on the Internet for content that matches the search term. Front-facing camera This camera, which is a low-resolution VGA (640 × 480) webcam, can be used for recording video or taking pictures. It can also be used for video chat. Microphone This microphone picks up your voice when you are on the phone. Your Motorola Atrix 4G uses the audio from this microphone and the noise cancelation microphone on the back to ensure your voice is not drowned out by background noise.
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Headphone jack
Power button/ fingerprint reader
5 megapixel camera
Noise cancelation microphone
LED camera flash Back cover
Speaker
5 megapixel camera with autofocus Uses mechanical autofocus so you can take clear pictures close-up or far away. LED (Light Emitting Diode) camera flash Helps to illuminate the surroundings when taking pictures in low light. Speaker Audio is produced when speakerphone is in use. Keep your Motorola Atrix 4G on a hard surface for the best audio reflection. Noise cancelation microphone With this microphone, which picks up ambient noise, and the main microphone, your Motorola Atrix 4G can more accurately determine how to enhance your voice and reduce background noise while you are on the phone. Back cover Pull the cover off from the bottom when you need to swap the battery, Micro-SD card, or your SIM card.
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Power button/fingerprint reader Press once to wake up your Motorola Atrix 4G. Press and hold for one second to reveal a menu of choices. The choices enable you to put your Motorola Atrix 4G into silent mode, airplane mode, or power it off completely. Swipe your finger across the button to have your fingerprint read. We discuss this more in Chapter 11,“Customizing the Motorola Atrix 4G.” 3.5 mm headphone jack Plug in your Motorola Atrix 4G or third-party headsets to enjoy music and talk on the phone.
MicroUSB port
MicroHDMI port
MicroHDMI port Use the included MicroHDMI to HDMI cable to connect your Atrix to a television to play movies on the big screen. MicroUSB port Plug the supplied USB cable into this port and either connect it to your desktop computer to synchronize data, or to a charger to charge.
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Fundamentals of Android Your Motorola Atrix 4G is run by an operating system called Android. Android was created by Google to run on smartphones, and there are quite a few that run on Android today. Android works pretty much the same on all smartphones, with small differences based on the version of Android installed and the interface tweaks that each manufacturer makes.
The Unlock Screen If you haven’t used your Motorola Atrix 4G for a while, the screen goes blank to conserve battery power. To unlock your Motorola Atrix 4G, do the following:
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Slide the green padlock button to the right. This unlocks your Motorola Atrix 4G.
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Silence Your Motorola Atrix 4G On the unlock screen, there is a second button. This button enables you to silence your Motorola Atrix 4G without having to first unlock it. Simply slide the yellow button to the left to toggle between silent mode and audio alert mode.
The Home Screen After you unlock your Motorola Atrix 4G, you are presented with the Home screen. The Home screen contains application icons, a Launcher icon, status bar, and widgets.
Status bar
Widgets
Application icon Launcher Phone
Contacts
Widgets Widgets are applications that run right on the Home screen. They are specially designed to provide functionality and real-time information to the Home screen. An example of a widget is one that shows the current weather or provides a search capability. Application icon These are application icons that have been dragged to the Home screen from the Launcher. When you touch one, it launches the associated application. Launcher Touch the Launcher icon to show application icons for all applications that you have installed on your Motorola Atrix 4G.
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Touch the Phone icon to make a phone call.
Contacts
Touch the Contacts icon to see your contacts.
Status bar Shows the time, signal strength, battery level, and which type of network you are connected to: Wi-Fi or cellular. Also shows any notification icons such as new mail.
Drag the Status Bar You can drag the status bar down to see more notifications or more details on the notifications. After the status bar has been pulled down, touch a notification to be taken to the appropriate application.
Your Motorola Atrix 4G’s Home screen is actually comprised of seven parts, or seven screens. To see the other screens, swipe your finger left or right on the screen to slide to the screens to the left and right of the Home screen. To see what is on all seven of the screens at once, touch and hold the Launcher icon. After a few seconds, you see a thumbnail of each of the seven screens. To jump directly to one of them, just touch that screen.
Touch a thumbnail to jump to that screen
Touch and hold to reveal thumbnails of each screen
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Using Your Motorola Atrix 4G’s Touchscreen Interacting with your Motorola Atrix 4G is done mostly by touching the screen, known as making gestures on the screen.You can touch, swipe, pinch, doubletap, and type. Touch To start an application, touch its icon. Touch a menu item to select it. Touch the letters of the onscreen keyboard to type.
Touch and hold Touch and hold to interact with an object. For example, if you touch and hold a blank area of the Home screen, a menu pops up. If you touch and hold an icon, you can reposition it with your finger.
Drag Dragging always starts with a touch and hold. For example, if you touch the status bar, you can drag it down to read all of the status messages.
Swipe or slide Swipe or slide the screen to scroll quickly. To swipe or slide, move your finger across the screen quickly. Be careful not to touch and hold before your swipe, or you will reposition something.
Double-touch Double-touching is like double-clicking a mouse on a desktop computer. Tap the screen twice in quick succession. You can doubletouch a web page to zoom in to part of that page. Double-touching also works in the camera application to zoom the camera.
Pinch To zoom in and out of images and pages, place your thumb and forefinger on the screen. Pinch them together to zoom out or spread them apart to zoom in (unpinching). Applications like Browser, Gallery, and Maps currently support pinching.
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Rotate the screen If you rotate your Motorola Atrix 4G from an upright position to being on its left side, the screen switches from portrait view to landscape view. Most applications honor the screen orientation. The Home screen does not.
Using Your Motorola Atrix 4G’s Keyboard Your Motorola Atrix 4G has a virtual, or onscreen keyboard for those times when you need to enter text. You might be a little wary of a keyboard that has no physical keys, but you will be pleasantly surprised at how well it works. Let’s go through the main points of the keyboard. Some applications automatically show the keyboard when you need to enter text. If the keyboard does not appear, touch the area where you want to type and the keyboard slides up ready for use.
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As you type, your Motorola Atrix 4G makes word suggestions. Think of this as similar to the spell checker you would see in a word processor. Your Motorola Atrix 4G uses a dictionary of words to guess what you are typing. If the word you want to type is highlighted in orange, touch space or period to select it. If you can see the word in the list but it is not highlighted in orange, touch the word to select it. To make the next letter you type a capital letter, touch the Shift key. To make all letters capitals (or CAPS), touch and hold or double-tap the Shift key to engage CAPS Lock. Touch Shift again to disengage CAPS Lock. To backspace or delete what you have typed, touch the DEL key. To type numbers or symbols, touch the Symbols key.
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Touch and hold to engage CAPS lock Touch to capitalize the next letter
Touch to backspace or delete
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Add Your Word If you want to save a suggested word to your dictionary, touch and hold the word. You see a pop-up that shows the word and the Saved option next to it.
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When on the Number and Symbols screen, touch the ALT key to see extra symbols. Touch the ABC key to return to the regular keyboard. From the extra symbols keyboard, touch ALT to return to the numeric keyboard or ABC to see the regular keyboard.
Touch to see extra symbols Touch to return to letters
Touch and hold to engage ALT lock Touch to return to letters
Quick Access to Symbols If you want to type commonly used symbols, touch and hold the period key. A small window opens with those common symbols. Press the X to return to the regular keys.
To enter an accented character, touch and hold any vowel or C, N, or S keys. A small window opens, enabling you to select an accented or alternative character. Touch the X to close the window.
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To reveal other alternative characters, touch and hold any other letter, number, or symbol.
Touch any letter or number to reveal alternative characters
Want a Larger Keyboard? Rotate your Motorola Atrix 4G sideways to switch to a landscape keyboard. The landscape keyboard has larger keys and is easier to type on.
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Speak Instead of Typing Your Motorola Atrix 4G can turn your voice into words. It uses Vlingo’s speech recognition service, which means that you must have a connection to the cellular network or a Wi-Fi network to use it. 1.
While the onscreen keyboard is visible, touch the microphone key. Alternatively, you can swipe your finger across the keyboard from left to right.
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Editing Text After you enter text, you can edit it by cutting, copying, or pasting the text. In this example, we are going to Copy and Paste some text. 1.
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Starting and Switching Applications We cover applications for your Motorola Atrix 4G in a later chapter, but to get you started, here is how to start an application and switch between them. Each application has an associated icon. Those icons can be on the Home screen or in the Launcher. The Launcher displays every application you have installed.
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Touch the Home button to close the Launcher and return to the Home screen.
Switch Between Applications You can quickly switch between recently used applications by touching and holding the Home button. A small window pops up, revealing the most recently used applications. Touch an icon to switch to that application.
Menus Your Motorola Atrix 4G has two types of menus: Options menus and Context menus. Let’s go over what each one does. Most applications have Options menus. These enable you to make changes or take actions within that application. Sometimes the Options menu has a More item that enables you to see more options.
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A Context menu applies to an item on the screen. If you touch and hold something on the screen (for this example, I touched a link on a web page), a Context menu appears. The items on the Context menu differ based on the type of object you touched.
Installing Synchronization Software Your Motorola Atrix 4G is designed to work in a disconnected fashion without the need to connect it to your desktop computer. However, you still might want to synchronize some content from your computer to your Motorola Atrix 4G. One of the most common uses for this software is to synchronize music and photos. In this book, we use an application called doubleTwist. Other applications also provide synchronization for your Motorola Atrix 4G, such as Missing Sync from Mark/Space, but I’ve used doubleTwist because it is free. Before we begin, download the version you need (Windows or Mac OS X) from www.doubletwist.com.
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Installing doubleTwist on Windows 1.
Double-click on the doubleTwist install file. On the first screen, click Install.
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Creating a doubleTwist Account The first time you run doubleTwist, it asks you to log in using your doubleTwist account. You probably don’t have one, so let’s go through how to create a free doubleTwist account. The steps and screens are the same for the Windows and Mac versions of doubleTwist. We cover doubleTwist more in Chapter 3 and 9. 1.
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First-Time Setup When you first turn on your Motorola Atrix 4G, you are asked to create a MotoBlur account. MotoBlur is extra software that combines information about all of your online accounts and keeps them all organized. It also backs up your account information to the Motorola servers (called the cloud) so that if you lose your phone or upgrade to a new one, all of your accounts are restored automatically. You cannot complete your Atrix’s setup without creating a MotoBlur account.
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You can manually change your contact picture on your Atrix, but you might want to let it automatically update based on what profile picture you choose on Facebook and other services. As your mood changes and you update your profile picture on Facebook, for example, why not let that mood also be reflected on your Atrix?
ACCESS MOTOBLUR FROM YOUR DESKTOP COMPUTER If you want to access and configure MotoBlur from your desktop computer, visit https://portal-blur.svcmot.com/blur-web-portal/.
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Contacts On any Smartphone, including your Motorola Atrix 4G, the Contacts application is the most important. It is the central hub for many activities such as calling, sending texts (SMS), multimedia files (MMS), and email. You can also synchronize your contacts from many online sites such as Facebook and Gmail, so as your friends change their Facebook profile pictures, their picture on your Motorola Atrix 4G changes too. Let’s open Contacts and look around.
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Getting to Know the Contacts Application Before we look around the Contacts application, let’s open it. To do this, touch the Contacts icon on the Home screen.
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If you have never used the Contacts application, you are prompted to add an account. If you have, you see a list of contacts. Before we jump into how to use Contacts, let’s add at least one account. If you have already added one or more accounts, you can skip this section.
Adding Accounts Your Motorola Atrix 4G can synchronize contact information with different online services including Facebook, Google (Gmail), and even your work Microsoft Exchange account. Let’s go through how to add a Facebook and Microsoft Exchange account.
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Adding a Facebook Account If you have a Facebook account, you can synchronize your Facebook friends’ contact information to your Motorola Atrix 4G. If they update their Facebook profile picture, their contact picture updates on your Motorola Atrix 4G. Here is how to add a Facebook account. 1.
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Adding a Microsoft Exchange Account Your Motorola Atrix 4G can synchronize your contacts from your work email account as long as your company uses Microsoft Exchange. It might be useful to be able to keep your work and personal contacts on one mobile device instead of carrying two phones around all day. 1.
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Remove an Account To remove an account, from the main Contacts screen, touch the Menu button and touch Manage Accounts. Touch the account you want to remove. At the bottom of the screen, touch Remove Account.
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From the main Contacts screen, touch the Menu button and touch Display Group.
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Contact Settings Another way that you can reduce the number of contacts displayed in the Contacts application is to show only contacts with phone numbers. You can also control what happens when you add new contacts on your Atrix. 1.
From the main Contacts screen, touch the Menu button and touch More.
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Adding and Managing Contacts As you add contacts to your work email account or Google account, those contacts are synchronized to your Motorola Atrix 4G automatically. When you reply to or forward emails on your Motorola Atrix 4G to an email address that is not in your Contacts, those email addresses are automatically added to the contact list and duplicates are eliminated by merging information for the same name. You can also add contacts to your Motorola Atrix 4G directly.
Adding Contacts from an Email Here is how to manually add a contact from an email. First, you need to open the email client (either email or Gmail) and open an email. Please see Chapter 5,“Emailing,” for more on how to work with email. 1.
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Choose an IM Account Type When you add a new IM account, touch the label to the left of the entry field to change the type of IM to AIM, Windows Live, Yahoo!, and many other types of IM accounts.
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Linking and Unlinking Contacts As contacts are added to your Motorola Atrix 4G, they are automatically merged if the new contact name matches a name that’s already stored. Sometimes you need to manually join contacts or separate them if your Motorola Atrix 4G has joined them in error.
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Open Contacts, then scroll to and touch the contact that you want to join a contact to. (In this example, I’m joining the two Craig Johnston contacts so that all information about Craig Johnston is under one contact profile.)
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Separating Contacts Your Motorola Atrix 4G tries to join similar contacts to avoid duplication. Sometimes you want someone to be listed more than once in your contacts, or you need to separate contacts that have been joined accidentally. Here is how. 1.
Open Contacts, then scroll to and touch the contact that you want to separate. In this example we see Ford Prefect’s picture, but it’s labeled James Kirk.
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Touch the name of the contact that you want to keep. In this example, we choose Ford Prefect because we want to unlink James Kirk from this contact profile.
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Organizing and Sharing Your Contacts After you have all your contacts on your Motorola Atrix 4G, you might need to organize them or share them with others. You can mark some contacts as favorites, move some contacts to your Home screen, and email your contacts’ vCards.
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Open Contacts, then scroll to and touch the contact that you want to mark as a favorite.
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Adding a Contact to Your Home Screen If you communicate with some contacts so much that you are constantly opening and closing the Contacts application, a quicker solution might be to add a shortcut to the contacts on the Home screen. 1.
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Share a Contact If someone asks you for your information or one of your contacts’ information, instead of retyping it, why not send the vCard right from your Motorola Atrix 4G? 1.
Touch the contact you want to share, touch the Menu, and touch Share Name Card.
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Communicating with Contacts You can call your contacts, send them email, IM, text messages (SMS), or multimedia messages (MMS), and even write something on their Facebook walls.
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Touch the contact’s picture to reveal the Quick Contact bar. The bar shows any status updates from Facebook or IM, and a row of icons that allow quick access to Facebook, and Messaging (IM, SMS, and MMS).
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Importing, Exporting Contacts Normally you allow your contacts to synchronize wirelessly over the air, but there might be a time where you want to import or export contacts with a desktop computer. This might provide you with a way to create a second backup.
Import Contacts from Your SIM Card If you have just upgraded from a regular (or dumb) phone to your new Motorola Atrix 4G, you might have contacts stored on your SIM card. Here is how to import contacts from your SIM card to your Motorola Atrix 4G’s Contacts application. 1.
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In this chapter, you learn about your Motorola Atrix 4G’s Phone application. You learn how to place and receive calls, manage them, and use Google Voice as your voicemail. Topics include the following: B B B B
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Using the Phone and Google Voice As with any good smartphone, your Motorola Atrix 4G has a great phone that allows for making and receiving calls, voicemail, three-way calling, and many other features. However, your Motorola Atrix 4G can also use Google Voice to save you money on calls and to transcribe your voicemail if you want it to. We cover your Motorola Atrix 4G’s phone in detail and go over how to set up and use Google Voice.
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Touch the Phone icon on the Home screen. The phone application launches and displays the familiar phone keypad.
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PAUSES AND WAITS When storing phone numbers, to add a two-second pause (symbolized by a “,”) or a wait (symbolized by a “;”) into your phone number, touch the Menu button, and touch the appropriate icon. When you touch Add Wait, your Motorola Atrix 4G dials the number up to the point of the wait, and then waits until it hears a response from the other side. You can insert multiple two-second pauses if you need to. Pauses and waits can be useful when using calling cards or doing phone banking.
Touch to insert a two-second pause
Touch to insert a wait
International Numbers Normally when you dial international numbers, you have to use some kind of code before the country code. With your Motorola Atrix 4G, you don’t need to know that special code; just type a plus sign, then the country code, then the rest of the number, dropping any zeros before the area code.
Receiving a Call When you receive a call, you have two choices for handling it. 1.
Slide the green phone icon to the right to answer the call.
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Receiving a Call While You’re Working on the Phone If you are working on your Atrix or playing a game when you receive an incoming call, your application or game is interrupted and the caller’s information is displayed. You are able to take the same actions as shown in Steps 1 and 2 to answer the call or to send it straight to voicemail. Applications you are busy with when the call comes in continue to work in the background. Games, music, and videos are paused until you switch back to them.
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If you miss a call, the missed call icon displays in the status bar.
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Touch Send Text Message to send a text message (SMS) to the caller.
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Dialing from a Contact Entry 1.
Touch the Contacts application on the Home screen.
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Touch the name of the person you want to call.
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Touch the Contacts application on the Home screen.
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Touch the contact picture of the person you want to call (even if that picture is blank).
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Touch the check box before you touch a number so that your Motorola Atrix 4G remembers which number to dial when you call this contact.
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Dialing Using Vlingo 1.
Touch and hold the Search button until the Speak Now box appears.
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Vlingo displays a confirmation box to let you know it’s waiting for your voice command. Say “Call” and the person’s name—for example,“Call Arthur Dent.”Your Motorola Atrix 4G finds that person in your Contacts and displays the phone numbers on the screen.
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Set a Default Number To set a default number for a contact, open the contact entry. Touch and hold the phone number you want to set as the default, and touch Make Default Number.
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Touch the Add Call icon.
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A second dialpad appears. Either type in the number for the person to call, or choose numbers from the Recent, Contacts, or Favorites tabs.
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Touch Switch Calls to switch between the two calls. The active call is illuminated and the inactive call is grayed out.
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Touch the Merge button to merge the two calls together onto one call. At this point, you have a three-party conference call.
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Touch one of the calls to split them from the conference call. That call remains active but is on hold and is no longer part of the conference all.
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Touch the red End Call icon next to one of the calls to hang up on that call but keep the other calls going.
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Configuring the Phone Application You can control how the Phone application works in many ways, including whether to display your Caller ID information, how to handle call forwarding and call waiting, and changing your voicemail settings.
Phone Sounds and Alerts 1.
From the Home screen, touch the Menu button and touch Settings.
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Touch Sound.
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Touch Vibrate to set when your Atrix vibrates. Your choices are Always, Never, Only in Silent Mode, and Only When Not in Silent Mode.
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Touch Volume to change the volume of ringtones as well as volumes for media and alarms.
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Touch Phone Ringtone to select the default ringtone to be played when you receive calls.
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Touch Notification Ringtone to change the ringtone that plays for notifications such as if you miss a call or receive a new voicemail.
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Touch Fixed Dialing Number to limit the numbers called from your Motorola Atrix 4G to a list stored on your SIM card, which is useful if you lend your phone to someone and you want to restrict who he can call.
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Selecting Your Voicemail Service There are two reasons that you might want to change your voicemail service (or where calls are sent if unanswered): if you want to keep one voicemail box for all of your phones, or if you want to use Google Voice. Please see how to set up Google Voice, which is a free service, in the next section. If you selected your carrier for voicemail, you see the voicemail number that is dialed when you touch the voicemail icon in the Phone application. If you need to change it, type in the new number and touch OK. If you selected Google Voice for voicemail, you see the Google Voice voicemail number.
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Why Select an Operator? If you are traveling, you might want to select an operator that has a better or cheaper roaming agreement with your carrier, or simply has better coverage where you are. If you have an AT&T Atrix, the phone is SIM locked to AT&T and this option is dimmed when you’re traveling within the U.S. It is available when you travel outside of the U.S.
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Touch Link SIM Contacts to allow your Atrix to automatically link contacts on your SIM card with contacts in the Contacts application. This helps prevent duplicate names in Contacts when you have the same person in Contacts and on the SIM card.
15. Touch Call Forwarding to enable call forwarding and to change what number calls are forwarded to. 16.
Touch Additional Settings for additional settings (described in Steps 17 and 18).
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Touch Caller ID to select whether your Caller ID information is sent when you make calls.
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Touch Call Waiting to select whether calls should be routed to voice mail when you’re on another call. Your Atrix will signal that a call is waiting.
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You Need Cellular Coverage To modify Call Forwarding and Additional Settings, you must have cellular coverage because these settings are stored at your carrier and not on the phone.
Google Voice Regular Google Voice, if set up on your Motorola Atrix 4G, enables you to save money on international calls and have your voicemails transcribed into text. If you upgrade Google Voice, which is free, you have some extra features, such as choosing your own personalized phone number or setting up simultaneous ringing.
Setting Up Google Voice If you want to start using the Google Voice features on your Motorola Atrix 4G, you need to go through some setup steps first. If Google Voice is not installed on your Atrix, find it in the Android Market and install it. See Chapter 10,“Working with Android Applications,”for more information on installing applications.
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Select the account to use for Google Voice if you synchronize to multiple Google Accounts.
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Touch Next. An SMS is sent to your Atrix to verify the number.
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Touch Skip if you don’t want to set up voicemail because you prefer for voicemails to go to your carrier’s voicemail box.
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Using Google Voice Google Voice has many features, including the ability to transcribe your voicemails, make calls, and send and receive SMS or text messages.
Listening to Voicemail If you chose to use the Google Voice voicemail system, when you receive new voicemails, follow these steps to play them back and manage them. 1.
Pull down the notification bar to see the Google Voice Voicemail notification.
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The Google Voice Inbox If you open the Google Voice Inbox, you can manage your voicemails and send or receive SMS messages. 1.
Touch to launch Google Voice.
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Touch Compose to create a new SMS or text message.
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Touch Refresh to update the Google Voice Inbox.
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Your Google Voice Balance When you start using Google Voice to make phone calls, those calls are not free. You must carry a Google Voice balance. When you sign up for Google Voice, you get $0.10; but you’ll use that up pretty quickly. When you touch the Balance icon, you are only able to see your balance; you are not able to add to it. To add to your account, you must log in to Google Voice (http://voice.google.com) using your desktop computer.
Google Voice Settings After you have been using Google Voice for a while, you might want to change some of the settings. 1.
Touch the Menu button and touch More to see more options.
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Touch Settings to change Google Voice Settings.
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Touch to enable Do Not disturb. When you enable Do Not Disturb, all incoming calls are sent to voicemail.
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The Music application for audio and music
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Audio and Video Your Motorola Atrix 4G is a strong multimedia smartphone with the ability play back many different audio and video formats. The large screen enables you to turn your Motorola Atrix 4G sideways to enjoy a video in its original 16:9 ratio. You can also use your Motorola Atrix 4G to search YouTube, watch videos, and even upload videos to YouTube right from your phone. You can also connect your Atrix to a television using the supplied HDMI cable, or the optional HD Multimedia Dock.
The Music Application—Audio Let’s take a look at how the Music application works and how to enjoy hours of music while you work.
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Touch the Music icon on the Home screen. The Music application presents you with any music and audio files that you have copied to your Motorola Atrix 4G.
2. Touch the Artists tab to filter the view by artist. Touch an artist’s name to reveal songs by that artist and then touch a song to play it. 3.
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Touch the Songs tab to filter the view by song title. This shows all songs by all artists. Touch a song to play it.
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Touch the Playlists tab to show any music playlists that you have synchronized to your Motorola Atrix 4G. (I cover how to do that later in the chapter.)
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SCROLL BY LETTER In any view, you can scroll through your albums, artists, or songs quickly by touching the scroll box that pops out on the right of the screen. Move it up and down to jump to items beginning with the letter of the alphabet that shows in the large box. For example, to jump to artists that begin with the letter D, scroll until you see the letter D appear in the large box, and then release the scroll box.
Controlling Playback While your music is playing, you have some control over how it plays and the selection of music that plays. 1.
Touch to jump to the previous song in the album, playlist, or shuffle. Touch and hold to rewind the song.
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Touch to jump to the next song in the album, playlist, or shuffle. Touch and hold to fast forward the song.
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Touch to pause the song. The button turns into the play button when a song is paused. Touch again to resume playing a paused song.
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Touch to open the current playlist. If the song is not in a playlist, the list of all songs displays.
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Touch to enable repeating. Touch once to repeat all songs, touch again to repeat the current song only (a little 1 is visible on the button), touch again to disable repeating.
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Touch Library to see your entire music library.
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Your Motorola Atrix 4G Is the Party DJ When you enable Party Shuffle, your Motorola Atrix 4G creates an on-the-fly playlist and chooses 12 random tracks for it. As it nears the end of the playlist, it adds another 12 random tracks. It keeps doing this until your turn off Party Shuffle.
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Working and Listening to Music While your music is playing, you can continue using your Motorola Atrix 4G without interrupting the music. 1.
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Music Widget There is a music widget preloaded on your Atrix. You can find it on the second screen to the right of the Home screen. This widget displays the currently playing song along with buttons to pause, play the song, and jump to the next song. Touching the song name opens the full Music application and shows that song playing.
What If I Get a Call? If someone calls you while you are listening to music, your Motorola Atrix 4G pauses the music and displays the regular incoming call screen. After you hang up, the music continues playing.
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Managing Playlists Playlists enable you to group songs together. Here is how to create them and use them.
Creating a New Playlist on Your Motorola Atrix 4G To create a new playlist, you must already know the first song you want to add to it. 1.
Touch and hold a song.
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Playing and Sharing Videos with the Gallery Application The Gallery application enables you to view pictures and video, and share pictures and video with people via MMS, Bluetooth, YouTube, and email. I cover viewing and sharing videos in this chapter and cover pictures in Chapter 9,“Taking, Storing, and Viewing Photos.”
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Touch the Menu button while playing a video.
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Touch Yes to resize the video or make it shorter.
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While the file is transferring, you see an icon in the notification bar indicating the transfer is in progress.
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Bluetooth Sharing Might Fail Many phones do not accept incoming Bluetooth files, but devices like computers do. Even on computers, the recipient must configure her Bluetooth configuration to accept incoming files.
Sharing Video Using Email or Gmail Share a video using email or Gmail by completing the steps in the “Sharing Videos” section and then completing the following steps. 1.
Address the email.
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More Details About Your Video To see more details about a specific video, touch More and then touch Details while the video is selected. The application displays the title, the type of video (for example, 3GPP, MP4), the date the video was created, the album it is in, and the GPS location (if this is available).
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Recording Videos with the Camera Application The Camera application enables you to take pictures, record video, and upload video straight to YouTube. We cover the video recording and upload features of the Camera application in this chapter. Using the Camera application to take pictures is covered in Chapter 9.
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The Camera application should be on the Home screen. Touch to launch it.
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Changing Video Settings Before you record a video, you can change some settings that can alter how the video is recorded. 1.
Touch anywhere on the screen to reveal the menu.
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Touch to select the Scene mode. Your choices of scenes are Everyday, Outdoors, and Concert.
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Touch to select if any video effects are added as you record. Your choices for effects are Normal, Black and White, Negative, Sepia, and Solarize.
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Editing Video After recording your video, you might want to edit it or even add a title to the beginning before sharing it with friends. 1.
Touch and hold on the video you just recorded in the Gallery application.
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Touch Edit.
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Slide the left slider to adjust the point where the video should start.
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Extracting a Frame from the Video You might find a frame of video that would be great to keep as a picture. You can extract any frame of video as a picture. 1.
While editing the video, find a frame in the video that you want to save as a picture by playing the video and pausing it on the frame.
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Enter the title of your video and touch OK.
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Touch to change the size of the text. Your choices are Small, Medium, and Large.
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YouTube Your Motorola Atrix 4G comes with a YouTube application that enables you to find and watch videos, rate them, add them to your favorites, and share links to YouTube videos. The YouTube application even enables you to upload new videos.
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Touch the YouTube icon on the Home screen to launch the application.
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Touch to play a video.
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Playing a Video While playing a YouTube video, you can rate the video, read video comments, and share the video with someone. 1.
Touch the thumbs-up icon to indicate that you like the video.
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Touch the thumbs-down icon to indicate that you do not like the video.
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Touch the Info tab to see information about the video.
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Filtering Videos When you first open the YouTube application, you are presented with the Featured videos. You can view videos from a specific category and also filter videos within a category by how recently they were posted. 1.
Touch the Menu button, and touch Browse.
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Touch a category of videos that you would like to see, such as Science & Technology.
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Changing YouTube Settings If you want to clear your YouTube search history or change the caption font size, you can do this in the YouTube application’s settings screen. 1.
Touch the Menu button while looking at the main YouTube screen, and then touch Settings.
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Touch High Quality on Mobile to start YouTube videos in high quality. Because high-quality videos are bigger, it might take longer to start playing them, but the quality is worth it.
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Touch Caption Font Size to change the font size of video captions. Your choices are Small, Medium, Large, and Extra Large.
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What Is Inappropriate Content? When you enable SafeSearch Filtering, you are not able to view videos or video comments that contain nudity, violence, narcotics, and pornography.
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Using doubleTwist to Synchronize Audio and Video You might already have a large music collection on your computer and maybe some movies and videos you want to copy over to your Motorola Atrix 4G. You can use a free program called doubleTwist to do this. We went through the steps of installing and setting up this application in the Prologue. If you haven’t installed it yet, skip back to the Prologue and follow the instructions.
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Synchronizing Music by Dragging It After your Motorola Atrix 4G is visible in doubleTwist, you can drag music to it. 1.
Click Music in doubleTwist to see all the music on your computer.
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Click and drag it down to your Motorola Atrix 4G (it might show as MB860) under DEVICES. You should see a green plus icon when your mouse is hovering over your Motorola Atrix 4G. When you drop the song on your Motorola Atrix 4G, doubleTwist copies it over.
Synchronizing Existing Playlists If you have iTunes installed, you might have already created playlists of music. You can use doubleTwist to synchronize those playlists. 1.
Click your Motorola Atrix 4G under DEVICES. It might show as MB860.
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On the right of the screen, you see any existing playlists. Put a check mark next to Sync Music to Device.
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Sync All Music You can choose to synchronize all music, but if your music collection is large, it might not fit on your Motorola Atrix 4G. Remember that all music and video is copied to the Micro-SD card you insert under the battery cover, so the more music you want to synchronize, the larger that memory card needs to be. The maximum Micro-SD card supported by your Atrix is 48GB.
Creating Playlists in doubleTwist If you are using iTunes to synchronize playlists, you can create new playlists in iTunes and use doubleTwist to synchronize the music. However, if you don’t use iTunes, or you want to create playlists outside of iTunes, you can create them in doubleTwist. 1.
Click the new playlist button in doubleTwist.
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Type the name of your new playlist.
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Find music on your computer in the Music section of doubleTwist.
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Drag that music to your newly created playlist. When you’ve added songs to the playlist, repeat the steps in the “Synchronize Existing Playlists” section to move the playlist to your Motorola Atrix 4G.
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Using doubleTwist with the Amazon MP3 Music Store You can use doubleTwist to purchase music from the Amazon MP3 music store. You first need to register with Amazon.com and set up a method of payment. 1.
Click on Music Store under the DOUBLETWIST heading and then click Sign In.
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The first time you try to use doubleTwist to purchase music from Amazon, you see a warning telling you to sign in to your Amazon account using a web browser. Click Go to Amazon.com to continue.
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Copying Video Normally you need to manually convert your video to work on mobile devices. This involves figuring out the screen size and CODECs to use. doubleTwist has a great feature that automatically converts the video for you as you drag it onto your Motorola Atrix 4G. 1.
Click Movies under DOUBLETWIST. Find the video or movie you want to copy to your Motorola Atrix 4G.
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Drag the video to your Motorola Atrix 4G or to an existing playlist. If the video is in your iTunes archive, even if it has no DRM, you won’t be able to drag and drop it.
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In this chapter, you learn about your Motorola Atrix’s connectivity capabilities, including Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, VPN, and sharing media via DLNA. Topics include the following: B B B B B
Pairing with Bluetooth devices Connecting to Wi-Fi networks Sharing your 3G connection with other devices Sharing media with televisions via DLNA
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Connecting to Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and VPNs Your Motorola Atrix can connect to Bluetooth devices such as headsets, computers, and car in-dash systems, as well as to Wi-Fi networks, and 2G and 3G cellular networks. It has all the connectivity you should expect on a great smartphone.Your Motorola Atrix can also connect to virtual private networks (VPN) for access to secure networks, and share its 3G connection with as many as five devices.
Connecting to Bluetooth Devices Bluetooth is a great personal area network (PAN) technology that allows for short distance wireless access to all sorts of devices such as headsets, other phones, computers, and even car in-dash systems for hands-free calling.The following tasks walk you through pairing your Motorola Atrix to your device and configuring options.
Pairing with a New Bluetooth Device Before you can take advantage of Bluetooth, you need to connect your Motorola Atrix with that device, which is called pairing. After you pair your Motorola Atrix with a Bluetooth device, they can connect to each other automatically in the future.
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General Flow for Pairing Two Bluetooth Devices Together If you want to pair your Atrix with a device, you follow this sequence: 1. Scan for devices. 2. Touch the device you want to pair with. 3. Enter or accept a passkey (if needed). If you want someone else’s Bluetooth device to pair with your Atrix, follow this sequence. 1. Make your Atrix discoverable. 2. Ask the other person to scan for your Atrix. 3. Enter or accept the passkey.
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Touch Device Name to change the name that your Motorola Atrix uses when it broadcasts on the Bluetooth network.
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Bluetooth Passkey If you are pairing with a device that requires a passkey, such as a car in-dash system or a computer, the screen shows a passkey. Make sure the passkey is the same on your Motorola Atrix and on the device you are pairing with.Touch Pair on your Motorola Atrix, and confirm the passkey on the device you are pairing with.
All Zeros If you are pairing with an older Bluetooth headset, you might be prompted to enter the passkey. Try using four zeros as the passkey. It normally works. If the zeros don’t work, refer to the headset’s manual.
Changing Bluetooth Options After a Bluetooth device is paired, you can change a few options for some devices. The number of options depends on the Bluetooth device you are connecting to. Some have more features than others.
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Bluetooth Profiles Each Bluetooth device can have one or more Bluetooth profiles. Each Bluetooth profile describes certain features of the device. This tells your Motorola Atrix what it can do when connected to it. A Bluetooth headset normally only has one profile such as Phone Audio. This tells your Motorola Atrix that it can only use the device for phone call audio. Some devices might have this profile, but provide other features such as Phone Book Access profile, which would allow it to synchronize your Motorola Atrix’s address book. The latter is typical for car in-dash Bluetooth systems.
Quick Disconnect To quickly disconnect from a Bluetooth device, touch the device on the Bluetooth Settings screen and then touch OK.
Wi-Fi Wi-Fi (Wireless Fidelity) networks are wireless networks that run within free radio bands around the world. Your local coffee shop probably has free Wi-Fi, and so do many other places, such as airports, train stations, malls, and other public areas. Your Motorola Atrix can connect to any Wi-Fi network and provide you with higher Internet access speeds than the cellular network.
Automatic AT&T Hotspot Connection If you live in the U.S. and purchased your Motorola Atrix 4G from AT&T, when you roam into an area where there are AT&T Wi-Fi Hotspots, your Atrix automatically connects to them. AT&T Hotspots are free for AT&T customers, and they help increase battery life, provide higher speeds, and help reduce load on the cellular network.
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Touch the Wi-Fi symbol on the connections widget, which should be on the right-side Home screen. This turns on the Wi-Fi radio.
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Can’t Connect to Wi-Fi? If all does not go well, you might be typing the password or encryption key incorrectly. Verify this with the person who owns the Wi-Fi network. Sometimes there is a lot of radio interference that causes problems. Ask the person who owns the Wi-Fi network to change the channel it operates on and try again.
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Wi-Fi Networks That Are Not Really Open Many times when you scan for Wi-Fi networks, you find open networks that do not require passwords to connect. However, when you connect to them, you find that your applications stop working correctly.This is because although they are open to connect to, they require a second step before you can use them.This second step usually involves logging in to a website and providing your credit card or hotel room number to gain access. In these cases, open the web browser (discussed later in this chapter) and browse to any website.The WiFi network you are connecting to automatically redirects you to its login page. If you don’t want to log in, remember to forget (see the next section for instructions on forgetting a network) the Wi-Fi network so that your applications start working correctly again.
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Touch a Wi-Fi network to reveal a pop-up that shows information about your connection to that network.
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Advanced Wi-Fi Options Your Motorola Atrix enables you to configure a few advanced Wi-Fi settings that can actually help preserve your battery life. 1.
Touch the Menu button while on the Wi-Fi Settings screen and touch Advanced.
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Touch Wi-Fi Sleep Policy to change when your Atrix puts Wi-Fi to sleep to conserve battery.The choices are When Screen Turns Off, Never When Plugged In, and Never.
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Explaining IP Addresses, DCHP, and Auto IP If you are unfamiliar with these terms, here is a quick explanation. An IP (or Internet Protocol) address is an address that identifies you on a network running IP (which is all networks these days).Think of an IP address as a street address. If a computer needs to send something to you, it uses your IP address. DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) is a method used by networks, in conjunction with your device, to automatically assign you a new IP address when you join the network. The computer (or, in most cases, the Wi-Fi router) that uses DHCP to assign IP addresses keeps track of them to make sure that two devices never have the same IP address. IP addresses are assigned and given a lease time. If your Atrix has not renewed its lease on the IP address before the lease expires, the computer in control assigns it to another device. Auto IP is a technique of assigning yourself an IP address. Your Atrix tries to figure out what addresses are taken and assign itself one.
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Believe it or not,Wi-Fi is more efficient than a 3G cellular network.The more time you can keep the Wi-Fi radio on, and connected to a Wi-Fi network, the longer your battery lasts. If you have a valid data connection via Wi-Fi, your Motorola Atrix actually stops using the cellular 3G network. So, while at home, why not set the Wi-Fi sleep policy to Never?
WHY USE A STATIC IP OR MAC? What are an IP address and a MAC address? A MAC address is a number burned into your Motorola Atrix that identifies its Wi-Fi adapter. This is called the physical layer because it is a physical adapter. An IP address is a secondary way to identify your Motorola Atrix. Unlike a Physical Layer address or MAC address, the IP address can be changed anytime. Modern networks use the IP address when they need to deliver some data to you. Typically when you connect to a network, a device on the network assigns you a new IP address. On home networks, this is typically your Wi-Fi router. In rare circumstances, the Wi-Fi network you connect to might not assign your Motorola Atrix an IP address. In these circumstances, you need to ask the network administrator to give you a static IP address.
Some network administrators use a security feature to limit who can connect to their Wi-Fi network. They set up their network to only allow connections from Wi-Fi devices with specific MAC addresses. If you are trying to connect to such a network, you have to give the network administrator your MAC address so that he can add it to the allowed list.
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Cellular Networks Your Motorola Atrix 4G can connect to 2G (GPRS), 2.5G (EDGE), and 3G (UMTS/HSDPA) cellular networks.
Where Is the 4G? Your Motorola Atrix does not use 4G technology (which is called LTE); however, it does use a faster version of the 3G technology HSPA called HSPA+. This enables it to get close to speeds that are possible when using LTE. You could say that it is 3.9G, but not true 4G. This does not mean that your Atrix won’t be very fast on the cellular network, because it will.
Changing Mobile Settings Your Motorola Atrix has a few options when it comes to how it connects to cellular (or mobile) networks. 1.
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4. Touch Select Network to select the 2G or 3G network.This option is grayed out on the AT&T Atrix MB860, so you cannot change it.The benefit of choosing 2G over 3G is longer battery life; however, it also means much slower data speeds.
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Touch Access Point Names to view and add APNs.
What Is an APN? APN stands for Access Point Name and is a gateway into and out of the cellular network. You normally don’t have to make changes to APNs, but sometimes you need to enter them manually to access certain features or services. For example, if you or your company has a private connection into the cellular network, they would be using an APN. You would then be given instructions on adding a new APN here.
Control Data Roaming When you travel outside your home cellular (or mobile) network—for example, to another country—you might or might not want your Atrix to continue to use the data connection provided by your mobile network provider because roaming charges on some networks can be very expensive. Here is how to enable or disable this.
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What Is a VPN? A Virtual Private Network (VPN) is a method of creating a secure, encrypted connection between your Motorola Atrix and a company’s internal network. After the connection (or tunnel, as it is sometimes called) is established, you are able to access sensitive resources behind a company’s firewall.This includes accessing internal company websites or enabling applications you have installed on your Atrix so you can access databases and other repositories safely and securely.
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Sharing Your 4G Connection over Wi-Fi for Others to Use Your Motorola Atrix can become a mobile hotspot, enabling you to share your 4G cellular connection with up to five devices over Wi-Fi. Before you use this feature, you must add the appropriate feature to your account. On AT&T, for example, it is called a Tethering plan.
Turning Your Atrix into a Wi-Fi Hotspot Your Atrix can become a Wi-Fi hotspot for up to five other devices anywhere, even while you are on the move. 1.
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What Is a Data Cap? When you choose features for your cellular (mobile) account, you have to choose a data plan.Typically those data plans allow a certain amount of data to be used each month.The more data you need in the data plan, the more expensive the data plan is. If you reach the allotted amount of data in the plan, it is said that you have reached the cap. If you continue to use data past the data cap, you are normally charged a lot of extra money, so be careful. 5.
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Share Your Media Files with Televisions and Other Devices Your Atrix uses technology called DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance), which enables you to access media on other devices that support DLNA and let other devices access the media on your Atrix. For example, you can share your media with a television and show your pictures or movies on it straight from your Atrix over Wi-Fi.
Enable DLNA Before your TV can access your pictures, videos, and music, you need to enable DLNA. 1.
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Share Your Media Using DLNA After you have enabled DLNA, you can share the media on your Atrix so that it is accessible on other DLNA devices like televisions. 1.
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Viewing Your Media on Other Devices The exact screens shown differ depending on the device used, but this is an example of the steps taken to watch media on your Atrix using a DirecTV HR20 receiver. 1.
Press the menu button on the remote control and select Music, Photos & More.
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Viewing Media from Other DLNA Devices You can see media from other DLNA devices on your Atrix. Here is how. 1.
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Your corporate email
In this chapter, you learn about your Motorola Atrix’s email applications for Gmail and other email accounts such as POP3, IMAP, and even Microsoft Exchange. Topics include the following: B B B B
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Gmail When you first set up your Motorola Atrix, you might have set up a Gmail account. The Gmail application enables you to have multiple Gmail accounts, which is useful if you have a business account and a personal account. Here is how to add a Google Gmail account.
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16. Read the Google Terms of Service and touch I Agree, Next. 17. Type in the characters that match the distorted image. 18. Touch Next.
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Composing Gmail Email Now that you have at least one Gmail account set up, you can start sending and receiving email using one of them. 1.
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Reading Gmail Email It seems obvious enough, but this section covers how to handle attachments and a few other tricks. 1.
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Stars and Labels In Gmail, you use stars and labels to help organize your email. In most email clients, you can create folders in your Inbox to help you organize your emails. For example, you might create a folder called “emails from the boss” and move any emails you receive from your boss to that folder. Gmail doesn’t use the term folders; it uses the term labels instead. You can create labels in Gmail and choose an email to label. When you do this, it actually moves it to a folder with that label, but to you, the email has a label distinguishing it from other emails. Email that you mark with a star is actually simply getting a label called “starred.” But when viewing your Gmail, you see the yellow star next to an email. People normally add a star to an email as a reminder of something important.
What Happens to Your Spam? When you mark an email in Gmail as spam, two things happen. First, it gets a label called Spam. Second, a copy of that email is sent to Gmail’s spam servers so they are now aware of a possible new spam email that is circulating around the Internet. Based on what the servers see for all Gmail users, they block that spam email from reaching other Gmail users. So the bottom line is, always mark spam emails as spam because it helps all of us.
Gmail Settings You can customize the way Gmail accounts work on your Motorola Atrix by changing the email signature and choosing which labels synchronize. 1.
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Email Signature An email signature is a bit of text that is automatically added to the bottom of any emails you send from your Motorola Atrix. It is added when you compose a new email, reply to an email, or forward an email. A typical use for a signature is to automatically add your name and maybe some contact information at the end of your emails. Email signatures are sometimes referred to as email footers.
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6. Touch Auto-Advance to select which screen is displayed after you either delete or archive a conversation.Your choices are Newer Conversation (or newer email), Older Conversation (or older email), and Conversation List (or the Inbox). 7.
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In addition to the Gmail application that works only with Gmail, there is a second email application that handles Microsoft Exchange or corporate email accounts. If your company has Microsoft Exchange, you might want to synchronize your work email, calendar, and contacts with your Motorola Atrix.
WHAT IF YOU USE LOTUS NOTES OR NOVELL GROUPWISE? Your Motorola Atrix supports a synchronization protocol called ActiveSync. This is native to Microsoft Exchange but there are ways to get it supported if your company uses Lotus Notes or GroupWise. If your company uses Lotus Notes, your company can use the Lotus Traveler product that provides ActiveSync support. If your company uses Novell GroupWise, your company can use the Novell GroupWise Mobile Server.
It’s Not All Good NO TASKS If you use Tasks at work, unfortunately they cannot be synchronized to your Atrix.
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Adding a New Corporate Account If you use your Motorola Atrix as your only phone, you might want to have both personal and corporate email on it. Here is how to accomplish this. 1.
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Guess at the Server Name When you press Next in Step 8, your Atrix should complete the Corporate Sync setup; however, it might not be able to figure out your company’s ActiveSync server name. If that happens, you are asked to enter it manually. If you don’t know what it is, you can normally guess it. For example, if your email address is [email protected], then it is very probable that your incoming mail server name is webmail.AllHitRadio.com. Most companies use a secure connection, so also make sure that Use Secure Connection is checked. Touch Next to continue.
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What If You Don’t Have a Signal? If you are composing an email and you do not have a cellular or Wi-Fi connection, the name lookup does not work because there is no way for your Atrix to contact your company’s address book. If this happens, type in the recipient’s full email address. Most companies use a pattern for email addresses, such as first initial plus [email protected] or firstname.middle [email protected]. Learn what your company uses so that you can figure out someone’s email address in a pinch. 4.
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What Files Can You Attach? When you choose to attach a file to your corporate email, you have quite a few choices.You can record a quick video or take a picture using your camera; you can browse the entire file system of your Atrix, including shared network volumes (if your Atrix can access them over Wi-Fi); you can select pictures and video from the Gallery application; you can select music from the Music application; and you can even record some audio using the Sound Recorder. Because the Atrix has an application called Quickoffice preinstalled, you can also browse for Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel files that you have created using Quickoffice and attach those.
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Email Application Settings In addition to the Corporate Sync account settings that we saw earlier, the Email application has its own settings that enable you to change how you are notified for new corporate email and how attachments are handled. You can even set your out of office message right from your Atrix. 1.
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Choosing a Non-Corporate Sync Account In Step 5, you can choose which Corporate Sync account you want to use as your default. This is useful if you have set up more than one Corporate Sync account—for example, if you see your boss’s email in addition to your own. However, if you add a POP3 or IMAP account in the Accounts application (see “Adding a New POP3 or IMAP Account” later in this chapter), you can choose to make that the default here. The problem with doing that is this: Although you can read, reply, and forward emails, you cannot create new POP3 or IMAP emails from the Email application. That functionality has been disabled. So, it is probably not a good idea to select a POP3 or IMAP account at Step 5. Instead, use the Messaging application that is covered later in this chapter.
What Is Smart Forwarding? Smart Forwarding is a feature of Microsoft Exchange 2007 and newer versions that allows for much more efficient handling of attachments. When you receive an email on your Atrix that has an attachment, if you forward that email to someone, the attachment is not first downloaded to your Atrix and forwarded along with the email. What happens is that there is only a pointer to the attachment file in the email that is sent to your Atrix; when you forward the email, the Exchange server knows to include the attachment, but to get it from your Inbox instead of getting it from your Atrix. This saves on data usage, which ultimately saves your company money.
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Set Your Corporate Email Signature Using the Email application, you can set your corporate email signature. In addition, you can set the default font to use when you compose new emails. 1.
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Does the Email Font and Signature Synchronize to My Corporate Email? No, the email font you select and the email signature you type on your Atrix are used only for emails you write on your Atrix. Your desktop email program continues to use its original settings.
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Set Your Out of Office Message Using the Email application, you can set your message. Unlike the email font and signature settings described earlier, your out-of-office settings are synchronized between your Atrix and your Inbox at the office, which enables you to set it or make changes while you’re on the road.
Does This Work on Exchange 2003? No, Out Of Office only works if your company is using Exchange 2007 or later.
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All Emails in One Place Although you can continue to use the Gmail and Email applications separately, your Atrix has a third application called Messaging. This provides a universal Inbox for all your email and text messages.
Adding a New POP3 or IMAP Account Before getting into how to use the Messaging application, let’s show how to add a POP3 or IMAP account. These are typically used by hosted email systems such as Yahoo! or Hotmail. 1.
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Where Can I Find This Information? If you need to manually set up your email account, you must have a few pieces of information. Always check your ISP’s, or email service provider’s, website and look for instructions on how to set up your email on a computer or smartphone. This is normally under the support section of the website.
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Working with the Messaging Application The Messaging application provides a universal inbox to show all email and text messaging accounts in one place. The only email account that is not integrated is Gmail, although you can launch Gmail from the Messaging app. 1.
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Using the Universal Inbox If you touch the Universal Inbox, you see all of your messages in one place with the exception of Gmail. From there, you can read, reply, forward, and compose messages. 1.
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Choosing Which Accounts to Display in the Universal Inbox By default, all of your accounts (with the exception of Gmail) are displayed in the Universal Inbox view. You can, however, specify which ones should be displayed. 1.
Touch the Menu button while on the main screen of the Messaging application, and touch Edit Universal Inbox.
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In this chapter, you learn about browsing the World Wide Web and using the browser capabilities of your Motorola Atrix 4G. Topics include the following: B B B B
Bookmarking websites Sharing websites with your friends Keeping track of sites you have visited Using GPS and browsing together
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Browsing the Web Your Motorola Atrix 4G has a fully featured web browser for a smartphone. In fact, the experience using the Motorola Atrix 4G’s browser is similar to using a desktop browser, just with a smaller screen. You can bookmark sites, hold your Motorola Atrix 4G sideways to fit more onto the screen, and even share your GPS location with sites.
Navigating with the Browser Let’s dive right in and cover how to run the browser and use all of its features. Your Motorola Atrix 4G’s browser is customizable, shares your GPS location, enables you to bookmark sites, and keeps your browsing history.
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Using Bookmarks, Most Viewed, and History When you touch the star icon to the right of the address bar, you have access to your Browser’s bookmarks, a list of the most visited websites, and your browser history (which shows every page you have recently visited).
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Using GPS Location Your Motorola Atrix 4G has a built-in GPS radio that enables it to tell exactly where it is on planet Earth. If you allow websites to see this information, they can become even more useful by showing you restaurants close to you or providing local results first when you search.
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Managing Multiple Windows Your Motorola Atrix 4G can have multiple web pages open at one time, each in a different window. Here is how to open and work with multiple windows.
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Page Options While you are viewing a page, you can perform a number of tasks, including selecting and copying text, and finding text on the page. To see the options, touch the Menu button while viewing a web page.
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Touch Save Page to save the web page and all its associated images to your Atrix. This enables you to open the web page without any wireless coverage.
How Do I View Saved Pages? After you have saved one page, this menu item changes from Save Page to Saved Pages.Touch Saved Pages to see previously saved pages and to save the current page.Touch a saved page to view it.
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Touch Select Text to select text on the web page by dragging over it and having it copied to the clipboard. You can then paste it elsewhere, like in an email.
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Customizing Browser Settings Your Motorola Atrix 4G’s browser is customizable. Here are the different settings you can adjust.
Customizing Browser Settings
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Web Page Images If you set the browser so that it does not load images, it’s an all or nothing setting. There is no way to selectively load images on certain web pages.You need to go back to this setting and enable image loading to see images on web pages.
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Touch Clear History to clear your Browser history. This clears the history of websites you have visited on your Motorola Atrix 4G.
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Touch Accept Cookies to enable or disable accepting cookies. Browser cookies are used by websites to personalize your visit by storing information specific to you.
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Touch Clear All Cookie Data to clear all cookie data. This wipes out all locally stored cookies.
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Touch Remember Form Data to enable or disable remembering form data. Form data is information you enter into forms on web pages, such as your name, phone number, or email address. When you enable this feature, you can automatically fill in fields on forms.
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Touch Clear Form Data to clear all previously entered web form data.
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Touch Enable Location to enable or disable the ability for websites to access your GPS information.
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Touch to clear any passwords you have previously entered while on websites.
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Creating text and multimedia messages Attaching files to multimedia messages Saving received multimedia attachments Working with text messages on your SIM card
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Text and Multimedia Messaging Short Message Service (SMS), also known as text messages, have been around for a long time and are still used today as the primary form of communication for many younger phone users. Multimedia Message Service (MMS) is a newer form of text messaging that can contain pictures, audio, and video. Your Motorola Atrix is at the top of its game when it comes to SMS and MMS.
Text Messaging Application The Text Messaging application is what you use to work with SMS and MMS. This application has all the features you need to compose, send, receive, and manage these messages. Let’s take a look at the main screen.
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Touch Text Messaging on the Home screen. The main screen of the Text Messaging application shows a list of message threads. Touch the Menu button to reveal more choices.
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Messaging Application Settings You manage how your SMS and MMS messages are handled through the settings of the Messaging application. Before we actually start working with SMS and MMS, let’s take a look at the settings. 1.
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Touch Message Limit to change the maximum number of messages per message thread. The maximum number you can select is 999.
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Composing Messages When you compose a new message, you do not need to make a conscious decision whether it will be an SMS (text message) or MMS (multimedia message). As soon as you attach a file to your message, your Motorola Atrix automatically treats the message as an MMS. Here is how to compose and send messages. 1.
Touch the green plus sign to compose a new message.
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Typing Smiley Faces (Emoticons) While you are typing your message, you can easily include smiley faces. To include just a smile smiley face, touch the key to the right of the period. If you want to include other smiley faces, touch and hold the key and a selection of emoticons displays. Touch one to insert it into your message.
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Attaching Files If you want to send a picture, audio file, or video along with your text message, all you need to do is attach the file. Attaching a file turns your SMS message into an MMS message.
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Receiving Messages When you receive a new SMS or MMS, you are notified with a ringtone. A notification also displays in the status bar.You can read the message, view attachments, and even save the attachments onto your Motorola Atrix.
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Individual Messages Versus Whole Threads Using Delete Message in the Message Options only deletes the current message, not the entire message thread.
Working with Useable Content Your Motorola Atrix is designed to identify phone numbers, web links, and email addresses within messages you create. When it finds them, it makes them useable. 1.
Touch a message in which there are blue, underlined phone numbers or web links.
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Setting the Date and Time Before you start working with the Alarm & Timer, HD Multimedia Dock, and Calendar applications, you need to make sure that your Motorola Atrix has the correct date and time. 1.
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The Alarm & Timer Application The Alarm & Timer application is designed to be used as a simple bedside alarm clock.
Navigating the Alarm & Timer Application The Alarm & Timer application provides a simple clock face, alarm feature, and timer function. 1.
Touch the Alarm & Timer icon.
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Managing Alarms The Alarm & Timer application enables you to set multiple alarms. These can be one-time alarms or recurring alarms. Even if you exit the application, the alarms you set still trigger.
Overall Alarm Settings The Alarm & Timer settings enables you to control how all alarms are handled. 1.
Touch the Menu button and touch Settings.
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Adding and Editing an Alarm Whether you are adding a new alarm or editing an existing one, the steps are the same. 1.
Touch Add Alarm or touch a specific alarm to make changes.
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The HD Multimedia Docks The HD Multimedia Dock is an optional accessory for your Motorola Atrix. When your Atrix is in this dock, a hidden application launches that acts more like a bedside clock than the Alarm & Timer application.
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Control the Night Mode Screen Brightness To control the screen brightness used when you place your Atrix into Night Mode, touch the Menu button and touch Settings. Then use the slider to set the screen brightness and touch OK.
Using the Calendar Application The Calendar application enables you to synchronize your corporate calendar and all your Google Calendars under your primary Google account to your Motorola Atrix. You can accept appointments and create and modify appointments right on your phone. Any changes are automatically synchronized wirelessly back to your corporate calendar or Google.
The Calendar Main Screen The main screen of the calendar shows either a one-day, one-week, or onemonth view of your appointments. 1.
Launch the Calendar application.
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It’s Not All Good Recurring Events Are Not Flexible Unfortunately, when you choose to make an event repeat, or recur, the choices you are given are not flexible. For example, if you want to set up an event that repeats every Thursday, you cannot do this unless you create the event on a Thursday. Let’s hope that this is addressed in a future release of Android. 1
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Deleting a Meeting Automatically Declines or Cancels It When you successfully delete a meeting, the Calendar application sends a meeting decline notice to the meeting organizer. So, you don’t have to first decline the meeting before deleting it because this is all taken care of automatically. If you created the meeting, a meeting cancellation notice is sent to the invited attendees.
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Calendar Settings You can adjust how the Calendar application behaves and select which calendars you want to synchronize to your Motorola Atrix. 1.
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Taking, Storing, and Viewing Pictures Your Motorola Atrix has a decent 5 megapixel camera with mechanical auto-focus. This means it can take really good pictures. After you take those great pictures, you can share them with friends. You can also synchronize the pictures to your computer to possibly print them out.
Using the Camera Application Let’s start by looking at the Camera application itself before discussing sharing pictures with friends or synchronizing them with your computer. Your Atrix actually has two cameras, and the Camera application enables you to use either one.
How Much Memory Should I Buy? A 5 megapixel picture is about 1 megabyte in size, on average. Your Motorola Atrix comes with 10 Gigabytes of usable internal memory. That means you can store up to 10,000 pictures. Of course, you will be using that memory for documents, music, video, and pictures, so you might want to supplement the internal memory with some extra memory in the form of a Micro-SD card.
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10. Touch Flash to change the flash mode from Always On to Always Off or Automatic. 11. Touch Front to switch between the front and back cameras. 12. Touch Switch To to record video instead of taking still photos. Touch again to take pictures. Read more about recording video in Chapter 3,“Audio and Video.”
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What Is the GPS Indicator? GPS stands for Global Positioning System. Your Motorola Atrix has a built-in Assisted GPS (A-GPS) chip that calculates where you are on planet earth. The GPS indicator shows if it has locked onto the GPS satellites and has your longitude and latitude coordinates. If it has, when you take a picture your Motorola Atrix embeds the GPS coordinates in the picture. So if you use an Apple Mac with iPhoto, you can see where you were when you took the picture. Some photo websites such as Flickr offer the same feature.
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Camera Settings You have some control over how the camera works. For example, you can set the resolution of your pictures, the review time after you take a picture, and more. 1.
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Does My Atrix Have Additional Memory? Strangely, your Atrix ships with no external memory in the form of an SD Card. Your Atrix has quite a lot of internal memory, but you still might want to purchase an additional 4GB MicroSD card or larger and save your pictures there.
How Many Megapixels? Remember that the lower the megapixels, the more pictures you can store on your Motorola Atrix; the downside is the pictures lose quality the smaller you make them.
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Reviewing Pictures After you have taken one or more pictures, you can review them, edit them, and share them. 1.
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Viewing and Managing Your Photos No matter if you have snapped pictures using your Motorola Atrix or have synchronized photos from a computer, you can use the Gallery application to manage, edit, and share your photos.
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Managing, Editing and Sharing Photos After you open a photo album, you can manage the photos in it, edit them, and share them. 1.
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Editing a Picture Your Motorola Atrix enables you to edit a picture and save a modified copy of it. You can add effects to the picture, rotate it, crop it, and resize it. Start by opening a picture as described in the “Working with a Picture” section. 1.
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Gallery Application Settings You can control the Gallery applications settings including establishing the Quick Upload album and slideshow settings. 1.
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Synchronizing Photos with Your Computer When you connect your Motorola Atrix to a computer, you can move pictures back and forth manually, or you can move them by using software such as The Missing Sync or doubleTwist. This section covers how to synchronize manually and how to do it using doubleTwist. If you have not yet installed doubleTwist, follow the installation steps in the “Prologue.”
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Moving Pictures (Mac OSX) After your Motorola Atrix is connected to your Mac and mounted, you can browse the Motorola Atrix just like any other drive on your computer. 1.
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What Are the Names of the Drives? When you connect your Atrix to your computer and enable USB Mass Storage, you see your Atrix’s main memory displayed as a new volume called MB860. “MB860” is actually the model number of the phone;“Atrix” is the marketing name. If you have added extra memory by inserting a Micro-SD card, that external memory is displayed as a new volume called NO NAME.
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Moving Pictures (Windows) After your Motorola Atrix is connected to your Windows computer and mounted, you can browse the Motorola Atrix just like any other drive on your computer. 1.
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What Are the Names of the Drives? When you connect your Atrix to your computer and enable USB Mass Storage, you see your Atrix’s main memory displayed as a new volume called MB860.“MB860” is actually the model number of the phone;“Atrix” is the marketing name. If you have added extra memory by inserting a Micro-SD card, that external memory is displayed as a new volume called NO NAME.
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Creating Photo Albums There is currently no way to create photo albums on your Motorola Atrix or in doubleTwist. To manually create photo albums, browse your Motorola Atrix after it is connected to a computer. Create a new folder called Images, if it doesn’t already exist. Under the folder Images, create a new folder for each new photo album you want to create. The name of the folder becomes the name of the photo album. Copy photos to your new folders. After you eject the Motorola Atrix, your new photo albums are visible in the Gallery application.
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Automated Picture Importing (Mac OSX) When you mount your Motorola Atrix as a drive on a Mac, iPhoto normally launches.This is because iPhoto sees the Motorola Atrix as a digital camera.
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Working with doubleTwist doubleTwist is a free download that enables you to synchronize media to and from your Motorola Atrix. If you have not yet installed doubleTwist, follow the instructions in the “Prologue.”The steps described here are the same for Windows and Mac OSX.
It’s Not All Good doubleTwist Does Not Recognize Your Atrix Correctly
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As of the writing of this book, doubleTwist did not recognize the Motorola Atrix correctly and caused two issues.The first issue is that doubleTwist sees the Atrix as a regular flash memory stick called MB860 instead of an Android smartphone. Second, if you have added extra memory to your Atrix, doubleTwist shows two devices called MB860, which can be confusing because it is not clear which device is your Atrix and which is the Atrix’s external memory.
SYNCHRONIZE WITHOUT CONNECTING If you want to synchronize your media between your PC or Mac without connecting your Motorola Atrix to it, install the doubleTwist Player and doubleTwist AirSync applications on your Atrix. You can find both in the Android Market. See more about how to find and install applications from the Android Market in the next chapter.
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Find an app Featured apps
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Google Checkout Before you start buying applications in the Android Marketplace, you first must sign up for a Google Checkout account. If you plan to only download free applications, or your carrier allows you to bill applications to your account, you do not need a Google Checkout account.
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Android Market Android is the operating system that runs your Motorola Atrix, so any applications that are made for your Motorola Atrix need to run on Android. The Android Market is a place where you can search for and buy Android applications.
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Browsing by Category If you know the type of application you want to buy or download, but don’t know specifically which app you want, you can browse by category. The following steps work the same when you’re browsing for Games or other applications. 1.
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Downloading Free Applications You don’t have to spend money to get quality applications. Some of the best applications are actually free. 1.
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Buying Applications If an application is not free, the price is displayed next to the application icon. If you want to buy the application, remember that you need to already have a Google Checkout account or be able to charge your carrier account. Please see the “Google Checkout” section earlier in the chapter for more information. 1.
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Deleting Applications If you no longer have a need for a specific application, you can delete it from your Motorola Atrix. There are actually two ways of doing this.
Deleting an Application Using Settings One way you can delete applications is to use the Manage Apps menu. Using this method, you can delete any application regardless of whether it was downloaded via the Market application or preinstalled on your Motorola Atrix.
Should I Remove Preinstalled Applications? Some of the preinstalled applications, such as Quick Office, are on your Atrix to add extra functionality that the device normally does not have. If you remove some of these preinstalled applications, you could be crippling your Atrix, so remove applications with caution.
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Customizing Your Motorola Atrix 4G Your Motorola Atrix arrives preconfigured to appeal to most buyers; however, you might want to change the way some of the features work, or even personalize it to fit your mood or lifestyle. Luckily, your Motorola Atrix is customizable.
Change Your Wallpaper Your Motorola Atrix comes preloaded with a cool live wallpaper that animates. You can install other live wallpapers, use static wallpapers, and even use pictures in the Gallery application as your wallpaper.
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Static Wallpapers Static wallpapers are simply pictures that can be used as the backdrop for your Home screen. 1.
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Wallpaper from Gallery Pictures Instead of using specific wallpaper images, you can choose pictures from your Gallery to use as your Motorola Atrix’s wallpaper. 1.
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Use the cropping box to adjust the way the picture is cropped before you use it as a wallpaper. Remember to expand the cropping box to the full picture size if you want to use the whole picture.
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Change Your Keyboard Your Motorola Atrix has the standard multitouch keyboard and an extra keyboard called the Swype keyboard. If you don’t like either, you can download and install other keyboards from the Android Market.
The Swype Keyboard The Swype keyboard is a revolutionary keyboard that enables you to swipe your finger over the keyboard to type as opposed to touching each key individually. Theoretically, this enables you to type more quickly. Regardless of whether you can type more quickly with it, it is just cool. The Swype keyboard is preinstalled on your Motorola Atrix. 1.
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BASICS OF SWYPE There is a full tutorial on how to use Swype on the Motorola Atrix, but to get you going, here are the basics. • Type a word by swiping your finger across all the keys that make up the word and then lift your finger. In the figure, I am typing the word test.
• To type a double letter, circle the letter. In the figure, I am typing the word pool.
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• To type an uppercase letter, swipe off the keyboard after swiping over the letter and then swipe over the remaining letters in the word. In the figure, I am typing Cold.
• Sometimes you type a word that is too similar to another word or you don’t swipe over the keys in a clear path. At that point, the Swype keyboard displays a choices of possibilities. Touch the word you want to use.
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Download and Use Other Keyboards If you don’t like the Swype keyboard or the standard multitouch keyboard, you can download and install other keyboards. Here is how to do that. 1.
Launch Android Market and search for, purchase, or download a free keyboard replacement application, such as Better Keyboard.
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Accessibility Settings The Motorola Atrix includes built-in settings to assist people who might otherwise have difficulty using some features of the device. The Motorola Atrix has the ability to provide alternative feedback such as vibration, sound, and even speaking of menus. If you have limited or no vision, these accessibility options might be able to help.
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Can I Install Extra Accessibility Applications? Yes, you can. If you search the Android Market, you can find many accessibility applications. After you’ve installed them, they appear on the Accessibility screen. In this example, I can touch TalkBack, which is an application I previously installed, to enable it.
Display Settings You can control screen brightness, screen timeout, and even if the notification LED blinks.
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Using Your Fingerprint to Unlock Your Atrix Your Motorola Atrix has a fingerprint reader on the back of the device that enables you to secure your device so that your fingerprint can be used to unlock it. Here is how to set that up.
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Swipe your right index finger over the fingerprint reader. Your Atrix asks you to repeat this until it is confident it knows what your fingerprint looks like.
10. Touch Next to move on to your left index finger after you have completed enough good swipes. 11. Swipe your left index finger over the fingerprint reader. Your Atrix asks you to repeat this until it is confident it knows what your fingerprint looks like.
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External Lapdock features Navigating the Lapdock interface Using the full desktop web browser Working with your Atrix while it’s docked
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Getting to Know the Lapdock Before you see how to use the Lapdock, take a look at the external features of this accessory.
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Charging Your Atrix from the Lapdock Even if your Lapdock is not plugged in, if there is enough charge in the Lapdock’s battery when you plug in your Atrix, the Atrix is charged through the Lapdock.
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Using the Lapdock Now that you are familiar with the external features of the Lapdock, let’s see how to use it.
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Data Tethering Plan Needed While you are in Wi-Fi coverage, you can use your Motorola Atrix in either the Lapdock or HD Multimedia Dock. However, if you want to use your Atrix and the Lapdock or HD Multimedia Dock outside of Wi-Fi coverage, you need to add a tethering plan to your cellular account. Remember that everything you do while using the Lapdock is sent over the network using the network connections available to your Atrix; so, your Atrix must be able to send and receive data. The Lapdock does not have its own cellular or Wi-Fi radios.
Overview of the Interface After the Webtop application starts up, you see it on the Lapdock screen along with an image of your Atrix’s screen.
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What Is Webtop? When you plug your Atrix into the lapdock or HD Multimedia dock, an application called Webtop starts. It is responsible for everything you see and do while your Atrix is connected to the dock, including what you see on the screen, the applications you run (including the full desktop version of Firefox), and allowing you to interact with your Atrix while it is docked. In fact, the Lapdock and HD Multimedia docks do not have any intelligence of their own; all they do is provide a screen, keyboard, mouse, ports, and speakers.
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Lapdock Settings While your Atrix is docked in the Lapdock, you can control the Lapdock and Atrix settings from the icons in the top right of the screen. Using these icons, you can pair with external keyboards, mice, and printers, connect to a VPN, and even customize the Lapdock’s wallpaper and screensaver.
Connecting to a VPN While your Atrix is docked in the Lapdock, you can connect to a VPN without having to use the screens on the Atrix. You can read more about VPNs in Chapter 4,“Connecting to Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and VPNs.” 1.
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Screen Saver Screen savers are used to protect the screen from burn-in, where a static images is “burned” into the screen. They are also cool to look at. Here is how to change the screen saver. 1.
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Keyboard Settings You can adjust the keyboard settings for the Lapdock keyboard or any external keyboards you might have plugged into the USB ports or paired with via Bluetooth. Settings include the model of the keyboard being used, and even how fast the cursor blinks on the screen. 1.
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Mouse Settings You can adjust the trackpad settings for the Lapdock keyboard or any external mouse you might have plugged into the USB ports or paired with via Bluetooth. Settings include which button is the primary button, pointer speed, and double-clicking speed. 1.
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What Is a Location? When you first set up the proxy settings on your Atrix, you see only two locations: Cellular and Default. If you typically use your Atrix in multiple locations that have different proxy needs, you can click the Location field and choose New Location. This enables you to create a location name for different places you visit, such as Work, Home, Coffee Shop, and so on. Each location can have a different proxy setup. For example, while at home, you might not have any proxy settings and that location has Direct Internet Connection selected. At work, you might choose Automatic Proxy Configuration. Having multiple locations enables you to quickly switch between locations without having to retype your settings each time.
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Other Settings The rest of the settings icons allow for quick access to settings screens on your Atrix, which you then continue to interact with using the Mobile View. 1.
Click to select an available Wi-Fi network or launch the Wi-Fi Settings screen on your Atrix. Continue to work on the Wi-Fi Settings screen using the Mobile View. Read more about Wi-Fi settings in Chapter 4.
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Click to control Bluetooth, pair with a Bluetooth device, or launch the Bluetooth Settings screen on your Atrix. Continue to work on the Bluetooth Settings screen using the Mobile View. Read more about Bluetooth settings in Chapter 4.
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Click to turn GPS on or off, or launch the Location Settings screen on your Atrix. Continue to work on the Location Settings screen using the Mobile View. Read more about Location settings in Chapter 6,“Browsing the Web.”
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Answer/Make a Call While Using the Lapdock While your Motorola Atrix is docked in the Lapdock, you can make calls, answer incoming calls, and use your Atrix’s phone functions normally. 1.
Click to answer the incoming call.
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Click to ignore the call and send it to voicemail.
Working with a Call While on a phone call, your Motorola Atrix automatically activates the speakerphone so you can speak normally. There are also some extra onscreen buttons that you can use. 1.
Click Mute to mute your audio.
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Click End to end the call.
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Click More to show more phone options on your Atrix’s screen.
In-Call Audio If you have a Bluetooth headset or other Bluetooth phone audio device and have it paired and active while your Atrix is docked in the Lapdock, when you make and receive calls the call audio goes to the Bluetooth device. If you do not have a Bluetooth device paired and connected, your Atrix automatically activates the speakerphone. You do not need to lower the screen to talk as your Atrix picks up your audio just fine.
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A duplicate of the status bar that’s on the Home screen of the phone. Click icons on the duplicate status bar to interact with the alerts.
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Application tabs help you quickly switch between applications that are running on your Atrix.
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Click to press the Menu button on your Atrix.
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Click to press the Home button on your Atrix.
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Click to press the Back button on your Atrix.
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Click the Media Center icon.
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Incoming Call During Playback If you receive an incoming call while Media Center is running, your Atrix exits Media Center and shows the incoming call. When the call is complete, Media Center does not start again on its own. You must relaunch it.
File Manager Using the File Manager, you can access files stored anywhere on your Atrix, including files stored on external memory you might have added, or any memory plugged into the USB ports on your Lapdock.
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Click to switch between a list view and an icon view.
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Click to see internal phone storage.
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Click to see external phone storage (such as an extra Micro-SD card you inserted or a memory stick you inserted into the Lapdock’s USB port).
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Click to see only videos stored in the phone memory.
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Click to see only music stored in the phone memory.
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Click to see only pictures stored in the phone memory.
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Click to eject memory.
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Adding an App Tray Shortcut While you are using the Firefox web browser, you can add shortcuts to web pages or web applications so that they are just one click away next time.
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Click Bookmarks.
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CITRIX RECEIVER If you want to really see the power of the Motorola Atrix Lapdock, you should take a look at the demo of Citrix Receiver. It enables you to connect to your company’s Citrix server and use/control a remote desktop session running on the Citrix server. This enables you to work on a desktop computer, or with specific applications that your administrator lets you, right from your Lapdock. The experience of using Citrix Receiver is the same as if you were sitting directly at a computer logged in with your corporate username and password.
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Maintaining Motorola Atrix 4G and Solving Problems Every so often, Google releases new versions of Android that have bug fixes and new features. In this chapter, you learn how to upgrade your Motorola Atrix to a new version of Android and how to tackle common problem-solving issues and general maintenance of your Motorola Atrix.
Updating Android New releases of Android are always exciting because they add new features, fix bugs, and tweak the user interface. Here is how to update your Motorola Atrix.
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Update Information Updates to Android are on no set schedule. Complicating matters is the fact that there are different phones running Android, so your friend who has a different Android phone might get an update before you see the update message on your Motorola Atrix. The update message appears as you turn on your Motorola Atrix, and it remains in the status bar until you install the update. If you touch Install Later, your Motorola Atrix reminds you every 30 minutes that there’s an update. Sometimes people like to wait to see if there are any bugs that need to be worked out before they update, so when you update is up to you.
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If you receive a notification that there is a system update, touch Download.
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Optimizing the Battery Life The battery in your Motorola Atrix is a lithium ion battery that provides good battery life when you take care of it. Changing the way you use your Motorola Atrix helps prolong the battery’s life, which gives you more hours in a day to use your phone.
Looking After the Battery There are specific steps you can take to correctly care for the battery in your Motorola Atrix. Caring for your battery enables it to last longer. 1.
Try to avoid discharging the battery completely. Fully discharging the battery too frequently harms the battery. Instead, try to keep it partially charged at all times (except as described in the next step).
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To avoid a false battery level indication on your Motorola Atrix, let the battery fully discharge about every 30 charges. Lithium-ion batteries do not have “memory” like older battery technologies; however, the battery meter is the problem.
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Do not leave your Motorola Atrix in a hot car as this can damage the battery and make it lose charge quickly.
Extending Battery Life: Tasks In addition to the tips mentioned in the preceding section, here are some things you can do while using your Motorola Atrix to help prolong battery life using the Task Manager application. 1.
Touch Task Manager.
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Extending Battery Life: Radios and Display 1.
Turn off radios that you are not using. For example, if you are not using a Bluetooth headset, turn off the Bluetooth radio. Use the widget Home screen to do this quickly.
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If you don’t really need your corporate email in real-time, you can set your Atrix to synchronize at set intervals. This can save battery life. 1.
Touch the Menu button while on the Home screen and touch Settings.
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Touch Background Data to enable and disable background data. When this is disabled, no data synchronizes unless you have that particular application open.
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10. Touch Data Push to enable or disable synchronizing your corporate data in real-time (also known as using push). 11. Touch Fetch Schedule to set the synchronization schedule if you disable data push. 12. Touch Sync Over Wi-Fi Only to select which corporate accounts you want to synchronize only while on Wi-Fi.
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Battery Manager Your Motorola Atrix has a battery manager feature that enables you to choose from three different profiles or to make your own. These battery profiles provide different levels of battery management by turning off radios and stopping data synchronization during certain times. 1.
Touch the Menu button and touch Settings.
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Touch Battery Manager.
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Touch the battery icon to see how the core Android applications are using battery and data.
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Touch Battery Mode to change your battery mode.
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Caring for Motorola Atrix’s Exterior Because you need to touch your Motorola Atrix’s screen to use it, it picks up oils and other residue from your hands. You also might get dirt on other parts of the phone. Here is how to clean your Motorola Atrix. 1.
Wipe the screen with a microfiber cloth. You can purchase these in most electronic stores, or you can use the one that came with your sunglasses.
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To clean dirt off other parts of your phone, wipe it with a damp cloth. Never use soap or chemicals on your Motorola Atrix as they can damage it.
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When inserting the Micro-USB connector, try not to force it in the wrong way. If you damage the pins inside your Motorola Atrix, you will not be able to charge it unless you have the dock.
Getting Help with Your Motorola Atrix There are many resources on the Internet where you can get help with your Motorola Atrix. 1.
Visit the Official Google website at http://www.google.com/phone.
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Index Numbers 3.5 mm headphone jack, 7 4G technology, 127 5 megapixel camera with autofocus, 6
A A-GPS (Assisted GPS), 215 accented characters, typing, 14 Access Point Name (APN), 128 accessibility settings, 258-259 accessing MotoBlur from desktop computer, 27 symbols, 14 accounts Contacts application adding, 30-35 deleting, 35 doubleTwist, creating, 23 Gmail adding, 142-146 deleting, 151
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Google Checkout, creating, 233-234 IM account type, selecting, 42 MotoBlur, creating, 24-27 ActiveSync, 152
adding accounts to Contacts application, 30-35 alarms, 201 app tray shortcuts, 288 bookmarks, 173-174 callers to conference calls, 66 contacts, 40 from email, 40-41 to Home screen, 46-47 manually, 41-42 corporate email account, 153-154 events in Calendar application, 205-206 Gmail accounts, 142-146 to Google Voice balance, 79 network printers, 277-278 pauses/waits to phone numbers, 57 to playlists, 90 POP3/IMAP accounts, 163-165 titles to videos, 104-105
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VPNs, 129-131 widgets to HD Multimedia Dock, 202 addresses (email), finding, 157 addressing for Wi-Fi networks, 126 agenda view (Calendar application), 204
downloading free, 237-238 finding with QR codes, 244 browsing by category, 236 answering phone calls in Lapdock, 284 APN (Access Point Name), 128
Alarm & Timer application, 199 app tray shortcuts, alarms adding, 288 adding/editing, 201 application icons, 9 deleting, 201 settings, 200 applications in Android Market, 235 alarms browsing by adding/editing, 201 category, 236 deleting, 201 buying, 238-239 HD Multimedia Dock as, downloading free, 202-203 237-238 alerts in Phone application, deleting configuring, 67 with Android Market, alternative picture source, 242-243 setting, 27 with Manage Apps Amazon MP3 music store, menu, 240-241 doubleTwist and, 113 ending, 294 finding with QR Android, 8 codes, 244 applications starting, 18 starting, 18 switching between, 20 switching between, 20 updating, 243-244 Home screen, 9-10 keyboard, 12-18 appointments (Calendar menus, 20-21 application) touchscreen gestures, adding, 205-206 11-12 editing, 207-208 Unlock screen, 8 recurring, 207 updating, 291-292 Assisted GPS (A-GPS), 215 Android Market, 235 AT&T Hotspots, 121 applications buying, 238-239 deleting, 242-243
attaching files to corporate email messages, 158 in Text Messaging application, 191-192 attachments, downloading in Gmail, 148 audio alert mode, toggling, 9 audio track, removing from videos, 104 auto IP addressing, 126
B Back button, 5 Escape button as, 286 back cover, 6 balance in Google Voice, viewing/adding to, 79 battery charging, 293 via Lapdock, 269 extending life of Battery Manager, 297 radio and display settings, 294 synchronization settings, 295-296 Task Manager, 293-294 Battery Manager, 297 Bluetooth devices changing options, 120-121 disconnecting, 121 pairing with, 117-120 profiles, 121 sharing videos via, 97-98 switching calls to, 64 bookmarks, adding, 173-174
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brightness in Night Mode, 203 Browser application, 172-173 bookmarks, adding, 173-174 browser history, 176 customizing, 180-184 files, downloading, 184 GPS location in, 177 most visited websites, 175 multiple windows in, 178 page options, 179-180 browser history, 176 browsing in Android Market by category, 236 buying applications in Android Market, 238-239
C Calendar application, 203-204 events adding, 205-206 editing, 207-208 recurring, 207 meeting requests, responding to, 208-210 settings, 211 views in, 204 call forwarding, enabling, 70 call settings in Phone application, configuring, 68-71 call waiting, enabling, 70 caller ID, enabling, 69-70
options during, 64 placing, 59 from contacts, 60-61 from Google Search, 63-64 from Vlingo, 61-62 putting on hold, 65 receiving, 57-59 during Media Center playback, 286 Recent Calls list, clearing, 59 switching to Bluetooth headset, 64 camera 5-megapixel camera with autofocus, 6 front-facing camera, 5, 101 Camera application, 213-215. See also picutures configuring, 101, 216 GPS indicator, 215 pictures, viewing, 217-218 video adding title to, 104-105 editing, 102 extracting frames from, 103 focusing, 101 recording, 100 removing audio track from, 104 resizing, 103 saving edited, 105 canceling Bluetooth file transfers, 97
calls. See also Google Voice; categories, browsing in Phone application Android Market, 236 answering in Lapdock, 284 cellular connection, sharing conference calling, 65-66 as Wi-Fi hotspot, 132-133 muting, 64
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cellular networks, 127 4G technology, 127 changing settings, 127-128 data roaming, enabling/ disabling, 128-129 Wi-Fi networks versus, 126 certificate verification, disabling, 156 changing. See also customizing Bluetooth device names, 119 Bluetooth options, 120-121 mobile settings, 127-128 passwords in corporate email accounts, 155 screen savers, 274 Wi-Fi network options, 124-125 charging the battery, 293 via Lapdock, 269 choosing contact groups, 37-38 display accounts in Messaging application, 169 IM account types, 42 operators, 70 PINs, 261 voicemail service, 69 Citrix Receiver, 289 cleaning Motorola Atrix 4G, 298 clearing Recent Calls list, 59 clock, HD Multimedia Dock as, 202-203 communication methods with contacts, 50
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composing messages corporate email messages, 156-158 Gmail email messages, 146-147 in Messaging application, 168 in Text Messaging application, 190-191 conference calling, 65-66 configuration settings on Lapdock, 282-283 configuring Alarm & Timer application, 200 Calendar application settings, 211 camera settings, 216 corporate email account settings, 154-156, 159-160 display settings in Lapdock, 273 Gallery application settings, 223 Gmail settings, 149-151 Google Voice, 71-76, 79-80 keyboard settings in Lapdock, 275 mouse settings in Lapdock, 276 network proxy preferences in Lapdock, 278-279 Phone application call settings, 68-71 sounds and alerts, 67 Text Messaging application, 189 video settings, 101 voicemail, 69 YouTube settings, 109
connections Bluetooth devices changing options, 120-121 disconnecting, 121 pairing with, 117-120 profiles, 121 cellular networks, 127 4G technology, 127 changing settings, 127-128 data roaming, enabling/disabling, 128-129 DLNA, sharing media files via, 134-138 VPNs adding, 129-131 connecting to, 131-132 via Lapdock, 272 Wi-Fi networks, 121 addressing, 126 AT&T Hotspots, 121 cellular networks versus, 126 changing options, 124-125 creating connections, 122-124 creating Wi-Fi hotspots, 132-133 contact groups creating, 36-37 selecting, 37-38 contacts adding, 40 from email, 40-41 to Home screen, 46-47 manually, 41-42 communication methods, 50 dialing phone calls from, 60-61
importing from SIM card, 51-52 linking between Contacts application and SIM card, 70 manually, 43 marking as favorites, 45 with phone numbers, viewing, 39 Quick Contact bar, 49 repeated names in, 44 setting default number, 50, 62 sharing, 47-48 unlinking manually, 44 Contacts application accounts adding, 30-35 removing, 35 contact groups creating, 36-37 selecting, 37-38 contacts adding, 40-42 adding to Home screen, 46-47 communication methods, 50 dialing phone calls from, 60-61 importing, 51-52 linking, 43, 70 marking as favorites, 45 Quick Contact bar, 49 setting default number, 50, 62 sharing, 47-48 unlinking, 44 opening, 30 settings, 39 Contacts icon, 10 Context menus, 20-21
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converting videos with doubleTwist, 114 copying videos with doubleTwist, 114 corporate email account adding, 153-154 to Contacts application, 34-35 attaching files to messages, 158 configuring settings, 154-156, 159-160 email signature, 161 out of office message, 162 sending messages, 156-158 Corporate Sync meeting requests, responding to, 209-210 current song actions on, 87 searching based on, 86 customizing. See also changing Browser application, 180-184 Motorola Atrix 4G accessibility settings, 258-259 display settings, 259 downloading and installing keyboards, 255-256 fingerprint reader, 260-264 Gallery wallpapers, 249-250 language, 256-257 live wallpaper, 250-251 static wallpapers, 248 Swype keyboard, 252-254
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disk space, defined, 280
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default phone number for contacts, setting, 50, 62 deleting accounts from Contacts application, 35 alarms, 201 applications with Android Market, 242-243 with Manage Apps menu, 240-241 audio track from videos, 104 events in Calendar application, 207-208 Gmail accounts, 151 messages in Text Messaging application, 194 playlists, 92 preinstalled applications, 240 videos, 99
display accounts, selecting in Messaging application, 169 display settings, 259 extending battery life, 294 in Lapdock, 273 DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance), sharing media files via, 134, 136-138
dock HD Multimedia Dock, 270 as clock, 202-203 Lapdock, 267 answering phone calls, 284 app tray shortcuts, adding, 288 Atrix interactions in, 285 battery charging via, 269 Citrix Receiver, 289 configuration settings, 282-283 data tethering desktop computer, accessing plans, 270 MotoBlur from, 27 Disk Space Manager, 280-281 device names, changing, 119 display settings, 273 DHCP (Dynamic Host external features, Configuration Protocol), 126 268-269 dialing phone calls, 59 File Manager, 286-287 from contacts, 60-61 Firefox safe mode, 281 from Google Search, interface, 270-271 63-64 keyboard settings, 275 from Vlingo, 61-62
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E edited videos, saving, 105 editing alarms, 201 events, 207-208 pictures, 222 text, 17-18 video, 102
email adding contacts from, double-touching, 11, 258 40-41 doubleTwist, 21-23 addresses, finding, 157 Amazon MP3 music store corporate email account and, 113 adding, 153-154 copying video, 114 attaching files to creating playlists, 112 messages, 158 mounting Motorola configuring settings, Atrix 4G, 110 154-156, 159-160 synchronizing sending messages, music, 111 156-158 pictures, 229-230 setting email playlists, 111-112 signature, 161 setting out of office downloading message, 162 attachments in Gmail, 148 Gmail account files in Browser adding, 142-146 application, 184 deleting, 151 free applications in downloading Android Market, attachments, 148 237-238 organizing keyboards, 255-256 messages, 149 dragging, 11 reading messages, 148 status bar, 10 sending messages, drive, mounting Motorola 146-147 Atrix as, 224 settings, 149-151 drive names, 225-226 spam, 149 Messaging application, Dynamic Host Configuration 163, 166-167 Protocol (DHCP), 126 choosing display accounts, 169 sending email messages, 168
POP3/IMAP accounts, adding, 163-165 sharing videos via, 98 Email application, 152. See also corporate email accounts email signatures, 150, 161 emoticons in text messages, 191 enabling call forwarding, 70 call waiting, 70 caller ID, 69-70 data roaming, 128-129 DLNA, 134 FDN (Fixed Dialing Number), 68-69 Party Shuffle, 87 speaker phone, 64 TTY mode, 69 ending applications, 294 Escape button, as Back button, 286 events in Calendar application adding, 205-206 editing, 207-208 recurring, 207 Exchange, 152. See also Email application adding accounts to Contacts application, 34-35 extending battery life Battery Manager, 297 radio and display settings, 294 synchronization settings, 295-296 Task Manager, 293-294
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external features, 3 of Lapdock, 268-269 list of, 4-7 external memory, 216 extracting video frames, 103
F Facebook accounts, adding to Contacts application, 31-33 favorites, marking contacts as, 45 FDN (Fixed Dialing Number), 68-69 File Manager in Lapdock, 286-287 files attaching to messages corporate email messages, 158 in Text Messaging application, 191-192 downloading in Browser application, 184 filtering videos in YouTube, 108 views in Music application, 84-85 finding applications with QR codes, 244 email addresses, 157 fingerprint reader, 7, 260-264 Firefox safe mode, 281 first-time setup, 24-27 Fixed Dialing Number (FDN), 68-69 focusing video, 101
folders for pictures, 225-226. See also labels form data, 183 forwarding email messages, 160 frames, extracting from video, 103 free applications, downloading in Android Market, 237-238
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Gmail accounts adding, 142-146 deleting, 151 integration with Messaging application, 169 settings, 149-151 Google Calendars meeting requests, responding to, 208-209
front-facing camera, 5, 101
Google Checkout accounts, creating, 233-234
full screen, playing YouTube videos, 107
Google Search, dialing phone calls from, 63-64
G Gallery application, 93-94 configuring settings, 223 pictures editing, 222 sharing, 221 viewing, 218-220 videos deleting, 99 resizing, 95-96 sharing, 94-99 viewing details, 100 wallpaper from, 249-250 gestures, list of, 11-12 Gmail accounts adding, 142-146 deleting, 151 Gmail application, 141 email downloading attachments, 148 organizing, 149 reading, 148 sending, 146-147 spam, 149
Google Voice balance, viewing/adding to, 79 configuring, 71-76, 79-80 Inbox management, 78 listening to voicemail, 77-78 GPS indicator, 215 GPS information for websites, 177 with YouTube videos, 99 groups (of contacts) creating, 36-37 selecting, 37-38 GroupWise, 152
H hardware, 3 HD Multimedia Dock, 202-203, 270 Lapdock external features, 268-269 list of external features, 4-7 HD Multimedia Dock, 270 as clock, 202-203
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headphone jack, 7 History tab (Browser application), 176 Home button, 5 Home screen, 9-10 adding contacts to, 46-47 hotspots. See Wi-Fi networks
I IM account types, selecting, 42 images, loading on web pages, 182. See also pictures IMAP accounts adding, 163-165 synchronizing in Email application, 160
J–K joining contacts between Contacts application and SIM card, 70 manually, 43
network proxy preferences, 278-279 screen saver, changing, 274 starting, 270 VPN connections, 272 Launcher icon, 9
keyboards, 12-18 downloading and installing, 255-256 settings in Lapdock, 275 Swype keyboard, 252-254
L labels in Gmail, 148-149 language, changing, 256-257
Lapdock, 267 answering phone calls, 284 importing contacts from app tray shortcuts, SIM card, 51-52. See also adding, 288 synchronizing Atrix interactions in, 285 inappropriate content, battery charging via, 269 defined, 109 Citrix Receiver, 289 Inbox management in configuration settings, Google Voice, 78 282-283 data tethering plans, 270 incoming calls during Media Disk Space Manager, Center playback, 286 280-281 installing display settings, 273 doubleTwist, 22 external features, 268-269 keyboards, 255-256 File Manager, 286-287 synchronization software, Firefox safe mode, 281 21-23 interface, 270-271 interface of Lapdock, 270-271 keyboard settings, 275 international phone Media Center in, 286 numbers, 57 Memory Manager, 280 mouse settings, 276 IP addresses, 126 network printers, adding, 277-278
LED camera flash, 6 light sensor, 4 linking contacts between Contacts application and SIM card, 70 manually, 43 listening to music, working while, 88 to voicemail in Google Voice, 77-78 live wallpaper, 250-251 loading images on web pages, 182 location information for websites, 177 with YouTube videos, 99 locations in network proxy preferences, 278 locking/unlocking with fingerprint reader, 260-264 Lotus Notes, 152
M MAC addresses, 126 Mac OS X installing doubleTwist, 22 synchronizing pictures automatically, 228 manually, 225
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messages email Manage Apps menu, deleting adding contacts from, applications, 240-241 40-41 manually adding contacts, corporate email, 41-42 153-162 manually linking contacts, 43 Gmail, 142-151 manually unlinking in Messaging contacts, 44 application, 163, 166-168 Market, 235 sharing videos via, 98 applications text buying, 238-239 attaching files, 191-192 deleting, 242-243 composing, 190-191 downloading free, deleting, 194 237-238 receiving, 193 finding with sharing videos via, QR codes, 244 95-96 browsing by size limits, 190 category, 236 smiley faces in, 191 Mean Objective Score (MOS) useable content, 194 settings, 70 Media Center in Lapdock, 286 Messaging application, 187. See also text messages media files, sharing via DLNA, choosing display 134-138 accounts, 169 meeting requests, respondconfiguring, 189 ing to. See also events email in, 163, 166-168 Corporate Sync requests, MicroHDMI port, 7 209-210 microphone, 5-6 Google Calendars requests, 208-209 megapixels, 216 memory disk space, 280 external memory, 216 requirements, for pictures, 213 USB memory in Lapdock, 287 Memory Manager, 280
Microsoft Exchange, 152. See also Email application adding accounts to Contacts application, 34-35 MicroUSB port, 7 MMS (Multimedia Message Service), 187. See also text messages
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mobile settings, changing, 127-128 month view (Calendar application), 204 MOS (Mean Objective Score) settings, 70 most visited websites, 175 MotoBlur accessing from desktop computer, 27 creating accounts, 24-27 Motorola Atrix 4G battery Battery Manager, 297 charging, 269, 293 radio and display settings, 294 synchronization settings, 295-296 Task Manager, 293-294 cleaning, 298 customizing accessibility settings, 258-259 display settings, 259 downloading and installing keyboards, 255-256 fingerprint reader, 260-264 Gallery wallpapers, 249-250 language, 256-257 live wallpaper, 250-251 static wallpapers, 248 Swype keyboard, 252-254 external features, 3-7 first-time setup, 24-27 Lapdock interactions with, 285
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mounting in doubleTwist, 110 as drive, 224 renaming, 136 resources for information, 298 updating Android, 291-292 Motorola HD Multimedia Dock, 270 as clock, 202-203 mounting Motorola Atrix 4G in doubleTwist, 110 as drive, 224 mouse settings in Lapdock, 276 moving. See synchronizing multimedia files, sharing via DLNA, 134-138 Multimedia Message Service (MMS), 187. See also text messages multiple Gmail accounts, 146 multiple names in contacts, 44 multiple windows, opening in Browser application, 178 multitasking working and listening to music, 88 music Amazon MP3 music store, doubleTwist and, 113 synchronizing in doubleTwist, 111 Music application actions on current song, 87 filtering views in, 84-85 playback controls, 85-86
operators, selecting, 70 playlists adding to, 90 options. See also customizing creating, 89-90 for Bluetooth devices, deleting, 92 changing, 120-121 rearranging songs in, 91 in Contacts application, 39 renaming, 92 during phone calls, 64 searching based on for Wi-Fi networks, current song, 86 changing, 124-125 working while Options menus, 20-21 listening, 88 organizing Gmail email, 149 music widget, 88 out of office message, muting calls, 64 setting, 162
N names of Bluetooth devices, changing, 119 of drives, 225-226 network printers, adding, 277-278
P page options in Browser application, 179-180 pairing with Bluetooth devices, 117-120 parental controls, defining inappropriate content, 109
network proxy preferences in Party Shuffle, enabling, 87 Lapdock, 278-279 passkey for Bluetooth networks. See connections devices, 120 Night Mode, screen brightness controls in, 203 passwords changing on corporate noise cancellation email accounts, 155 microphone, 6 strong passwords, 144 noise suppression, pauses, adding to phone adjusting, 69 numbers, 57 notifications, dragging status Phone application, 56 bar, 10 calls Novell GroupWise, 152 clearing Recent Calls list, 59 conference calling, 65-66 on-hold calls, 65 options during, 64 placing, 59-64 opening receiving, 57-59 Contacts application, 30 multiple windows in Browser application, 178
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QuickOffice, zooming in/out
configuring call settings, 68-71 sounds and alerts, 67 international phone numbers, 57 operators selecting, 70 phone numbers adding pauses/ waits to, 57 voicemail service selecting, 69 phone calls. See also Google Voice; Phone application answering in Lapdock, 284 conference calling, 65-66 muting, 64 options during, 64 placing, 59 from contacts, 60-61 from Google Search, 63-64 from Vlingo, 61-62 putting on hold, 65 receiving, 57-59 during Media Center playback, 286 Recent Calls list, clearing, 59 switching to Bluetooth headset, 64 Phone icon, 10 phone numbers adding pauses/ waits to, 57 international phone numbers, 57 setting default for contacts, 50 viewing contacts with, 39 photo albums, creating, 227
pictures. See also Camera application alternative picture source, setting, 27 editing in Gallery application, 222 folder location, 225-226 importing, 228 megapixels, 216 memory requirements, 213 photo albums, creating, 227 sharing in Gallery application, 221 Quick Upload albums, 223 synchronizing, 224 automatically in Mac OS X, 228 automatically in Windows, 228 with doubleTwist, 229-230 manually in Mac OS X, 225 manually in Windows, 226-227 tagging, 215 viewing in Camera application, 217-218 in Gallery application, 218-220 on television, 134-138 as wallpaper, 249-250 pinch gesture, 11 PINs, selecting, 261 placing phone calls, 59 from contacts, 60-61 from Google Search, 63-64 from Vlingo, 61-62
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playback controls in Music application, 85-86 playing videos via YouTube, 107 playlists adding to, 90 creating, 89-90 in doubleTwist, 112 deleting, 92 rearranging songs in, 91 renaming, 92 synchronizing in doubleTwist, 111-112 POP3 accounts adding, 163-165 synchronizing in Email application, 160 ports, 7 power button, 7 preinstalled applications, deleting, 240 printers, adding network printers, 277-278 profiles in Battery Manager, 297 for Bluetooth devices, 121 proximity sensor, 4 proxy preferences in Lapdock, 278-279
Q QR codes, finding applications, 244 Quick Contact bar, 49 Quick Upload albums, 223 QuickOffice, zooming in/out, 285
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radios, extending battery life
R radios, extending battery life, 294 reading Gmail email, 148 rearranging songs in playlists, 91 receiving messages in Text Messaging application, 193 phone calls, 57-59 during Media Center playback, 286 Recent Calls list, clearing, 59 recording video, 100 recurring events in Calendar application, 207 region, changing, 256-257 removing accounts from Contacts application, 35 alarms, 201 applications with Android Market, 242-243 with Manage Apps menu, 240-241 audio track from videos, 104 events in Calendar application, 207-208 Gmail accounts, 151 messages in Text Messaging application, 194 playlists, 92 preinstalled applications, 240 videos, 99 renaming Motorola Atrix 4G, 136 playlists, 92
repeated names in contacts, 44
Search button, 5 in Music application, 84
resizing videos, 95-96, 103
searching in Music application based on current song, 86
resources for information, 298 responding to meeting requests Corporate Sync requests, 209-210 Google Calendars requests, 208-209 reviewing pictures in Camera application, 217-218 in Gallery application, 218-220 on television, 134-138 roaming, enabling/disabling, 128-129 rotating screen, 12
S safe mode, starting Firefox in, 281 SafeSearch Filtering, defining inappropriate content, 109 saved pages, viewing in Browser application, 179 saving edited videos, 105 words to dictionary, 13 screen, rotating, 12 screen brightness in Night Mode, 203 screen savers, changing, 274 scrolling in Music application, 85 SD Cards, 216
security fingerprint reader, setting up, 260-264 passkey for Bluetooth devices, 120 passwords changing on corporate email accounts, 155 strong passwords, 144 selecting contact groups, 37-38 display accounts in Messaging application, 169 IM account types, 42 operators, 70 PINs, 261 voicemail service, 69 sending messages corporate email messages, 156-158 Gmail email messages, 146-147 in Text Messaging application, 168, 190-191 separating contacts manually, 44 server name for corporate email, 154 Service Dialing Numbers, 38 setting. See also changing; customizing; options date and time, 198 default phone number for contacts, 50, 62 setup (first-time), 24-27
telephone calls
sharing cellular connection as Wi-Fi hotspot, 132-133 contacts, 47-48 media files via DLNA, 134-138 pictures in Gallery application, 221 Quick Upload albums, 223 videos, 94-95 via Bluetooth, 97-98 via email, 98 via text messaging, 95-96 via YouTube, 98-99
sounds in Phone application, configuring, 67 spam in Gmail, 149 speaker, 6 speaker phone, enabling, 64 speech recognition, 16 stars in Gmail, 149 starting applications, 18 Firefox in safe mode, 281 Lapdock, 270 static wallpapers, 248 status bar, 10 status light, 5
signatures (email), 150, 161
storage disk space, 280 memory requirements external memory, 216 for pictures, 213
silent mode, toggling, 9
strong passwords, 144
SIM card importing contacts from, 51-52 linking contacts with Contacts application, 70
swipe gesture, 11
Short Message Service (SMS), 187 shortcuts, adding, 288
switching between applications, 20 calls to Bluetooth headset, 64
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pictures, 224 automatically in Mac OS X, 228 automatically in Windows, 228 with doubleTwist, 229-230 manually in Mac OS X, 225 manually in Windows, 226-227 playlists in doubleTwist, 111-112 POP3/IMAP accounts in Email application, 160
T tagging pictures, 215 Task Manager, extending battery life, 293-294 Tasks in Microsoft Exchange, 152 technical support, resources for information, 298
telephone calls. See also Google Voice; Phone application size limits for text Swype keyboard, 252-254 answering in messages, 190 symbols, accessing, 14 Lapdock, 284 slide gesture, 11 synchronization settings, conference calling, 65-66 Smart Forwarding, 160 extending battery life, muting, 64 295-296 options during, 64 smiley faces in text placing, 59 messages, 191 synchronization software, from contacts, 60-61 installing, 21-23 SMS (Short Message Service), from Google Search, 187. See also text messages synchronizing 63-64 with Calendar songs. See also Music from Vlingo, 61-62 application, 211 application putting on hold, 65 corporate email. See corAmazon MP3 music store, receiving, 57-59 porate email accounts doubleTwist and, 113 during Media Center music in doubleTwist, 111 synchronizing in playback, 286 doubleTwist, 111
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telephone calls
Recent Calls list, clearing, 59 switching to Bluetooth headset, 64 television, viewing pictures/video on, 134-138 text editing, 17-18 typing, 13-15 text messages attaching files to, 191-192 composing, 190-191 deleting, 194 receiving, 193 sharing videos via, 95-96 size limits, 190 smiley faces in, 191 useable content in, 194 Text Messaging application, 187-188. See also text messages choosing display accounts, 169 configuring, 189 email in, 163, 166-168 time and date, setting, 198 timers, Alarm & Timer application, 199 alarms adding/editing, 201 deleting, 201 settings, 200 titles, adding to videos, 104-105 toggling silent and audio alert modes, 9 touch and hold gesture, 11 touch gesture, 11 touchscreen, 5 gestures, 11-12
troubleshooting corporate email addresses, 157 doubleTwist, 110 with Firefox safe mode, 281 Wi-Fi connections, 123-124 TTY mode, enabling, 69 typing text, 13-15
U undoing picture edits, 222 uninstalling applications with Android Market, 242-243 with Manage Apps menu, 240-241 preinstalled applications, 240 universal Inbox. See Messaging application unlinking contacts manually, 44 Unlock screen, 8 unlocking/locking with fingerprint reader, 260-264 updating Android, 291-292 applications, 243-244 uploading media files via DLNA, 134-138 pictures in Gallery application, 221 Quick Upload albums, 223
videos, 94-95 via Bluetooth, 97-98 via email, 98 via text messaging, 95-96 via YouTube, 98-99 USB memory in Lapdock, 287 useable content in messages in Text Messaging application, 194 user interface of Lapdock, 270-271
V vCards, sharing contacts as, 47-48 videos. See also Gallery application adding titles to, 104-105 configuring settings, 101 copying with doubleTwist, 114 deleting, 99 editing, 102 extracting frames from, 103 filtering in YouTube, 108 focusing, 101 playing via YouTube, 107 recording, 100 removing audio track from, 104 resizing, 95-96, 103 saving edited, 105 sharing, 94-95 via Bluetooth, 97-98 via email, 98 via text messaging, 95-96 via YouTube, 98-99 viewing details, 100 on television, 134-138
zooming
viewing contacts with phone numbers, 39 Google Voice balance, 79 pictures in Camera application, 217-218 in Gallery application, 218-220 on television, 134-138 saved pages in Browser application, 179 video details, 100
W waits, adding to phone numbers, 57 wallpaper, changing Gallery wallpapers, 249-250 live wallpaper, 250-251 static wallpapers, 248
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widgets, 9 adding to HD Multimedia Dock, 202 Windows installing doubleTwist, 22 synchronizing pictures automatically, 228 manually, 226-227 windows, opening multiple in Browser application, 178
web browsing with Browser application, 172-173 words, saving to bookmarks, adding, dictionary, 13 173-174 writing messages views browser history, 176 corporate email in Calendar customizing, 180-184 messages, 156-158 application, 204 files, downloading, 184 Gmail email messages, filtering in Music GPS location in, 177 146-147 application, 84-85 most visited websites, 175 in Text Messaging virtual keyboard, 12-18 multiple windows in, 178 application, 168, page options, 179-180 virtual private networks (VPNs) 190-191 adding, 129-131 websites connecting to, browser history, 176 131-132, 272 GPS location and, 177 loading images, 182 Vlingo, dialing phone calls YouTube most visited websites, 175 from, 61-62 configuring settings, 109 page options in Browser main screen, 106 voice recognition, 16 application, 179-180 videos voice-dialing filtering, 108 Webtop, 271 from Google Search, playing, 107 week view (Calendar 63-64 sharing via, 98-99 application), 204 from Vlingo, 61-62
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voicemail configuring, 69 listening to in Google Voice, 77-78 selecting service, 69 volume buttons, 4 VPNs (virtual private networks) adding, 129-131 connecting to, 131-132, 272
Wi-Fi networks, 121 addresses, 126 AT&T Hotspots, 121 cellular networks versus, 126 changing options, 124-125 connecting to, 122-124 creating Wi-Fi hotspots, 132-133
zooming with pinch gesture, 11 in QuickOffice, 285
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