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About This Book |
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How to Use This Book |
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Foolish Assumptions |
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Icons Used in This Book |
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Contacting the Author |
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Beyond the Book |
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Chapter 1 An Out-of-the-Box Experience |
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Peeling off the plastic sheeting |
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Discovering what's what and where |
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Where to Keep Your Digital Pal |
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Taking an Android tablet with you |
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Making a home for the Android |
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Chapter 2 The On-Off Chapter |
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Adding your online accounts |
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Upgrading from an older phone |
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Unlocking and running an app |
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Manipulating the touchscreen |
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Selecting a group of items |
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Exploring the Home screen |
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Switching Home screen pages |
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Accessing the quick settings |
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Finding an app in the apps drawer |
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Switching between running apps |
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Chapter 4 Text to Type, Text to Edit |
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Everybody Was Touchscreen Typing |
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Typing one character at a time |
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Accessing keyboard variations |
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Typing accented characters |
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Using predictive text to type quickly |
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Typing without lifting your finger |
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Cutting, copying, and pasting text |
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Dealing with spelingerrrs |
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Chapter 5 Telephone Stuff |
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Reach Out and Touch Someone |
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Adding pauses when dialing a number |
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Receiving a new call when you're on the phone |
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Chapter 6 Forward Calls, Missed Calls, and Voicemail |
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80 | (1) |
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81 | (1) |
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Setting up carrier voicemail |
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Picking up carrier voicemail messages |
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Using Google Voice for voicemail |
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Chapter 7 The Address Book |
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Accessing the address book |
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Sorting the add ress book |
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Creating a new contact from scratch |
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Adding a contact from the call log |
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100 | (4) |
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Composing a new text message |
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Sending a text to multiple contacts |
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Continuing a text message conversation |
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Typing emojis, stickers, and fancy things |
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Creating a multimedia text message |
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Receiving a multimedia message |
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Setting the text message ringtone |
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Choosing another texting app |
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Chapter 9 You've Got Email |
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Compose a New Email Epistle |
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Sending email to a contact |
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Surfing the web on a mobile device |
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Managing web pages in multiple tabs |
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Grabbing an image from a web page |
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Web Browser Controls and Settings |
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Clearing your web history |
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Changing the web's appearance |
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Setting privacy and security options |
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Chapter 11 Digital Social Life |
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Expose Your Life on Facebook |
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130 | (2) |
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132 | (1) |
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PART 3 AMAZING ANDROID FEATS |
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Chapter 12 There's a Map for That |
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139 | (4) |
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Changing the map view and adding layers |
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143 | (2) |
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Helping others find your location |
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Looking for a specific address |
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Finding a business, restaurant, or point of interest |
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Searching for favorite or recent places |
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Setting your Home and Work locations |
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Chapter 13 Everyone Say "Cheese!" |
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151 | (4) |
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152 | (1) |
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153 | (1) |
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Exploring other shooting modes |
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155 | (1) |
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Camera Settings and Options |
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156 | (1) |
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Setting resolution and quality |
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157 | (1) |
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Checking the location tag feature |
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158 | (3) |
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Chapter 14 Your Digital Photo Album |
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161 | (3) |
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162 | (1) |
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163 | (1) |
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Finding a picture's location |
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164 | (1) |
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164 | (5) |
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165 | (1) |
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Deleting images and videos |
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Set Your Pictures and Videos Free |
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Visiting Google Photos online |
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Posting a video to YouTube |
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Sharing images with other apps |
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170 | (1) |
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Chapter 15 Music, Music, Music |
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The Hits Just Keep on Comin' |
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171 | (5) |
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Browsing your music library |
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172 | (1) |
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173 | (2) |
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175 | (1) |
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Add Some Music to Your Life |
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176 | (3) |
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176 | (1) |
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Getting music into the Google cloud |
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Synchronizing music directly |
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177 | (2) |
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179 | (3) |
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179 | (1) |
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180 | (1) |
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Saving the song queue as a playlist |
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Chapter 16 Various and Sundry Apps |
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183 | (1) |
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188 | (2) |
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Chapter 17 Google Play Shopping |
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193 | (8) |
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194 | (2) |
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196 | (3) |
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199 | (2) |
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Renting or purchasing videos |
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201 | (1) |
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Sharing a Google Play item |
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Keeping media on the device |
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Buying something remotely |
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Chapter 18 It's a Wireless Life |
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Android Wireless Networking |
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Using the mobile-data network |
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208 | (1) |
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209 | (1) |
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Connecting to a Wi-Fi network |
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Connecting to a hidden Wi-Fi network |
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Setting up a metered Wi-Fi connection |
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212 | (1) |
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213 | (1) |
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Creating a mobile hotspot |
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214 | (1) |
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Tethering the Internet connection |
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215 | (1) |
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Pairing with a Bluetooth peripheral |
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217 | (2) |
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Chapter 19 Connect, Share, and Store |
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221 | (20) |
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221 | (7) |
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Configuring the USB connection |
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222 | (2) |
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224 | (1) |
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225 | (1) |
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Using the USB cable to transfer files |
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226 | (1) |
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Disconnecting from a computer |
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227 | (1) |
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Sharing files on the cloud |
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228 | (1) |
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Using the media card to transfer files |
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229 | (1) |
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231 | (2) |
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233 | (4) |
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234 | (1) |
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Formatting microSD storage |
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235 | (1) |
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Unmounting the microSD card |
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Android Storage Mysteries |
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Chapter 20 Apps and Widgets |
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Apps and Widgets on the Home Screen |
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Adding launchers to the Home screen |
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242 | (1) |
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Placing a launcher on the favorites tray |
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Moving launchers and widgets |
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245 | (1) |
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Evicting items from the Home screen |
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247 | (1) |
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248 | (1) |
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249 | (1) |
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Controlling app notifications |
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250 | (1) |
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Selecting an open-by-default app |
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Clearing "Open by default" apps |
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252 | (1) |
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Setting a default app for specific duties |
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253 | (1) |
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Reviewing app permissions |
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254 | (1) |
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Shutting down an app run amok |
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Chapter 21 Customize and Configure |
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Ifs Your Home Screen -- and Lock Screen |
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257 | (4) |
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Accessing Home screen actions |
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257 | (2) |
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Changing Home screen settings |
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259 | (1) |
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Choosing a new style or wallpaper |
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259 | (1) |
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Managing Home screen pages |
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260 | (1) |
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Adding lock screen launchers |
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260 | (1) |
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261 | (3) |
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262 | (1) |
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Adjusting display brightness |
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263 | (1) |
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Setting the screen lock time-out |
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Configuring the always-on touchscreen |
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264 | (1) |
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Customizing the keyboard layout |
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264 | (1) |
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Generating keyboard feedback |
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265 | (1) |
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Ensuring that predictive text is active |
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265 | (1) |
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266 | (1) |
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266 | (1) |
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Chapter 22 Security and Privacy |
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269 | (5) |
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270 | (1) |
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271 | (1) |
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271 | (1) |
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Creating an unlock pattern |
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272 | (1) |
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273 | (1) |
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Unlocking the phone with your face |
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274 | (1) |
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274 | (5) |
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Controlling lock screen notifications |
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274 | (1) |
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275 | (1) |
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276 | (1) |
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277 | (1) |
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Performing a factory data reset |
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278 | (1) |
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279 | (2) |
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Chapter 23 On the Road Again |
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281 | (12) |
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281 | (2) |
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Detecting phone service roaming |
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282 | (1) |
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Stopping MMS when roaming |
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282 | (1) |
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283 | (1) |
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285 | (1) |
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286 | (3) |
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286 | (1) |
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287 | (1) |
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288 | (1) |
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Getting to your destination |
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288 | (1) |
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289 | (4) |
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Calling with your Android phone overseas |
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289 | (1) |
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290 | (1) |
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Accessing Wi-Fi in foreign lands |
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290 | (3) |
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Chapter 24 Maintenance, Troubleshooting, and Help |
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293 | (14) |
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294 | (2) |
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294 | (1) |
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295 | (1) |
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296 | (4) |
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297 | (1) |
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Determining what is drawing power |
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298 | (1) |
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299 | (1) |
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300 | (4) |
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Fixing random and annoying problems |
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300 | (1) |
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301 | (3) |
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"I can't turn the thing on (or off)!" |
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304 | (1) |
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`The touchscreen doesn't work!" |
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304 | (1) |
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`The screen is too dark!" |
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`The battery doesn't charge!" |
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`The gizmo gets so hot that it turns itself off!" |
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`The screen doesn't do Landscape mode!" |
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306 | (1) |
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Chapter 25 Ten Tips, Tricks, and Shortcuts |
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309 | (10) |
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310 | (1) |
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310 | (1) |
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311 | (1) |
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311 | (2) |
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Bring Back the Navigation Buttons! |
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314 | (1) |
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314 | (1) |
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315 | (1) |
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316 | (1) |
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317 | (2) |
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Chapter 26 Ten Things to Set Up on Your New Phone |
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319 | (6) |
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320 | (1) |
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Configure Volume Settings |
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320 | (1) |
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Activate Do Not Disturb Mode |
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320 | (1) |
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321 | (1) |
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321 | (1) |
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322 | (1) |
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Peruse Notification Options |
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322 | (1) |
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323 | (1) |
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324 | (1) |
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Chapter 27 Ten Things to Remember |
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325 | (6) |
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325 | (1) |
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326 | (1) |
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Employ Keyboard Suggestions |
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327 | (1) |
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327 | (1) |
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328 | (1) |
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Locking the phone on a call |
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328 | (1) |
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328 | (1) |
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Use the plus (+) symbol when dialing internationally |
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329 | (1) |
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Snap a Pic of That Contact |
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