G1/Anroid Tips and tricks

How to Increase Battery Life
Turn off GPS
Lower screen brightness
Turn off Wi-fi when you are not around any wifi networks
If you are not in a 3g area do the following to save battery life!
Settings--->Wireless Controls--->Mobile Networks and check the box that says "Use Only 2G Networks"

General
Holding down the home key will bring up your programs running in the background.

Adjusting the volume will adjust volume all the way to muting sound.

Clicking down the End key will place your phone in sleep mode.

Holding down the End key while bring up the "reset" feature.

Turning off the GPS saves battery life to do so go to Menu, Settings, Security and Location.

To rename a folder on the homescreen click and hold the dock at the top of the folders name. *AnyCut is needed*

Long press the phone key for voice dial.

Press the menu button once to bring up the menu, then press and hold the menu button down to view the shortcut.

To make ringtones, alerts, and notifications make a folder inside your memory card each one containing there own name such as "ringtones" "alarms" "notifications"

To forward picture and text messages: Press and hold the message.

When Typing, If you want to delete a word at the time press menu and delete and will erase a word at the time instead of one character at the time...
Pressing alt+del it deletes everything

Reboot
Press the Green Call Button + Menu + Off (Red) Key

Hard Reset
(THIS WILL REMOVE ALL APPS BUT NOT YOUR PICS AND MUSIC!!)
Turn the G1 off. If its frozen on, take the battery out and put it back in the unit.
Hold the Home and Power keys down at same time for about 25 seconds. You will see a yellow triangle screen with exclamation point in the middle.
Now to wipe the device clean:
Press Alt+L.
Press Alt+W for a factory reset.
Press the Home and Back keys again for about 25 seconds. Let go of the keys.
The device should then reset again and the hard reset is complete.
This will wipe your device to factory reset. You will need to log in to your gmail account like you initially did.

Browser
To Copy All, press Menu and A or Highlight text, press and hold TRACKBALL, select Select all
To Cut, press Menu and X.
To Copy, press Menu and C.
To Paste, press Menu and V or Press and hold TRACKBALL, select Paste

Saving pictures from the web:
Press and hold the image for 3 seconds, a selection will pop-up either to save image or view image. It may contain more selections if the image contains a link.

Faster scrolling in the browser:
Hold down ALT key and roll trackball for fast scrolling.
Press space bar for a fast scroll down.
Shift+Space goes up

Browser General
Long press trackball on image to bring up "save image/view image"
Long press trackball over url to bring up "open/open in new window/bookmark link/save link/share link/copy link url"
Press menu to bring up browser menu (go to url/search/bookmarks/...etc); long-press menu to temporarily flash the shortcuts.
To activate the magnify glass on the browser click the trackball twice.

Clear your Cache!
If youve been using streetview or the browser alot, the cache can quickly get big. Ive only had the phone for two days and got 20MB back by clearing the cache on these two.
Settings > Applications > Manage Applications > Browser > Clear Data
Settings > Applications > Manage Applications > Streetview > Clear Data

To Make a folder
1. On home screen press and hold
2. when the menu pops up select "shortcur"
3. select the first option "folder"
4. done.

cropping pics for home screen
if u have cropped a picture frame for your home screen and u want to change it so a different one can be in the same spot just double tap and all of your picture will show and just choose the one you want to crop thats all

When Typing--- If you want to delete a word at the time press menu and delete and will erase a word at the time istead of one character at the time...

To transfer outlook or Ipod contact to google contacs use nueva sync here:

Code

http://www.nuevasync.com/

Additional Browser tips

Keep the zoom button pressed to set the display/font size that you are comfortable with.

I use the trackball a lot with the browser set to landscape mode. It allows you to browse with out opening the keyboard. The menu keys proximity to the trackball makes browsing easier.

If opening the keyboad to browse is your thing, you can use alt+scrollball to fast scroll.

Double touch an area on the browser and the page centers to that area.

Click shift button and use the scrollball to select an area starting with the cursor.

Use Menu+X to Cut, Menu+V to Paste in text fields. Oh, Menu+C is copy.

New windows can be set to open in the background so that you dont have to look at loading screens. Long press trackball on a link to see more options for that link, including open in a new window.

Doubleclick on the trackball twice to show the entire page and the magnify too.

Alternative Keys:
A long press of the correlating key brings up options for its foreign counterparts.

Message notification when screen is off:
led flashes green when there is a message.

For additional info, tips and tricks go to:

Code

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=438444

--------- New Post Merged on 27/2/2009 at 02:12:32 --------

Additional quick tips...some may already be covered in the first post, so I added them secondary

Open applications:
Browser SEARCH + b
Contacts SEARCH + c
E-Mail SEARCH + e
Google Mail SEARCH + g
Calendar SEARCH + l
Maps SEARCH + m
Music SEARCH + p
Messaging SEARCH + s
YouTube SEARCH + y

Scrolling tips:
Page down SPACEBAR
Page up SHIFT + SPACEBAR
Jump to end of list ALT + TRACKBALL roll DOWN
Jump to top of list ALT + TRACKBALL roll UP

Typing and text navigation tips:
Insert special character ALT + SPACEBAR opens special character selector
Delete character to left DEL
Delete character to right SHIFT + DEL
Delete entire line ALT + DEL
Persistent CAPS Press SHIFT twice; press SHIFT again to escape
Jump cursor to beginning/end of line ALT + roll TRACKBALL left/right
Create tab character ALT + q
Highlight (select) text SHIFT + roll TRACKBALL
Cut text MENU + x, or Highlight text, press & hold TRACKBALL, select Cut
Copy text to cliwckedoard MENU + c, or Highlight text, press & hold
TRACKBALL, select Copy
Paste text copied to cliwckedoard MENU + v, or Highlight text, press & hold
TRACKBALL, select Paste
Undo change MENU + z
Select all text in field MENU + a, or Highlight text, press & hold
TRACKBALL, select Select all

Browser tips:
Open Go to window MENU + s
Open Bookmarks MENU + b
Open Windows MENU + w
View history MENU + h
Refresh or stop page MENU + r
Go back a page MENU + j
Go forward a page MENU + k
Find on page MENU + f
Go to home page MENU + ENTER
Zoom in MENU + i
Zoom out MENU + o
Go to Settings MENU + p
Page down SPACEBAR
Page up SHIFT + SPACEBAR

Map shortcuts
Directions MENU + d
Select map mode MENU + m
History MENU + h
My Location MENU + 0 (zero)
Go to Settings MENU + p
Zoom in MENU + i
Zoom out MENU + o

--------- New Post Merged on 27/2/2009 at 02:14:33 --------

Additional quick tips...some may already be covered in the first post, so I added them secondary

Open applications:
Browser SEARCH + b
Contacts SEARCH + c
E-Mail SEARCH + e
Google Mail SEARCH + g
Calendar SEARCH + l
Maps SEARCH + m
Music SEARCH + p
Messaging SEARCH + s
YouTube SEARCH + y

Scrolling tips:
Page down SPACEBAR
Page up SHIFT + SPACEBAR
Jump to end of list ALT + TRACKBALL roll DOWN
Jump to top of list ALT + TRACKBALL roll UP

Typing and text navigation tips:
Insert special character ALT + SPACEBAR opens special character selector
Delete character to left DEL
Delete character to right SHIFT + DEL
Delete entire line ALT + DEL
Persistent CAPS Press SHIFT twice; press SHIFT again to escape
Jump cursor to beginning/end of line ALT + roll TRACKBALL left/right
Create tab character ALT + q
Highlight (select) text SHIFT + roll TRACKBALL
Cut text MENU + x, or Highlight text, press & hold TRACKBALL, select Cut
Copy text to cliwckedoard MENU + c, or Highlight text, press & hold
TRACKBALL, select Copy
Paste text copied to cliwckedoard MENU + v, or Highlight text, press & hold
TRACKBALL, select Paste
Undo change MENU + z
Select all text in field MENU + a, or Highlight text, press & hold
TRACKBALL, select Select all

Browser tips:
Open Go to window MENU + s
Open Bookmarks MENU + b
Open Windows MENU + w
View history MENU + h
Refresh or stop page MENU + r
Go back a page MENU + j
Go forward a page MENU + k
Find on page MENU + f
Go to home page MENU + ENTER
Zoom in MENU + i
Zoom out MENU + o
Go to Settings MENU + p
Page down SPACEBAR
Page up SHIFT + SPACEBAR

Map shortcuts
Directions MENU + d
Select map mode MENU + m
History MENU + h
My Location MENU + 0 (zero)
Go to Settings MENU + p
Zoom in MENU + i
Zoom out MENU + o